Original subtitles

(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)

ANDY: What've we got?

FEMALE OFFICER: Burnt-up female. Fire department called it in.

She's pregnant.

MALE OFFICER: Maybe six or seven months.

- Any hunch as to race? - No idea.

ANDY: Looks like one of those necklace things

they do in Haiti with the tire.

MALE OFFICER: Her face is gone completely.

We're not gonna get any fingerprints either.

- It's a God-awful mess. - (INDISTINCT CHATTER)

Morning.

Got any cigarettes?

Nah.

- You guys see anything last night? - Nah, we didn't see nothin'.

Yo! How about you? You see a fire here last night?

- A fire? - Yeah, a fire.

What kind of fire? What do you mean a fire?

Otis, you don't know what you are talking about, man,

- so why don't you just shut up? - Hey, pal, you got somethin' to hide?

- Did you do somethin' up there last night? - No man, I didn't do nothin'.

- What's your name? Otis? - Yeah.

Let me talk to you for a second.

ANDY: You sure you didn't see anything last night?

Ask them. They were here all night.

Now you know somebody set a fire over here last night.

Did you see it?

- Yeah. I was in my sleeping bag there. - ANDY: How about you, you see anything?

So, did you get up and come out and take a look and see what was going on?

- Yeah, I got up. - BOBBY: Yeah?

- Yeah. - BOBBY: What did you see?

It was dark, you know.

Uh, you know the guys left right after the fire started.

- So I didn't see nothin' except the fire. - BOBBY: Otis...

Otis, look, I'm gonna give you five dollars.

How many guys? What did they look like?

Two guys. Uh, I couldn't really see what they looked like.

They were moving some junk around and then they set it on fire

and ran off to the van and took off without putting their lights on.

- So they had a van? - Yeah, one of them kind, you know.

No, I don't know. What kind is that?

One of them outdoorsman kind of Jeep kind of vans. A black one.

- BOBBY: So, did you walk over to the fire? - No. I went back to bed.

You know there was a body in that fire?

No, no, no, I didn't know that. No.

Thanks, Otis.

Okay, man, I'mma run up to the store. All right?

ANDY: Yeah.

Two guys in a sports utility vehicle.

They dumped somethin', set it on fire, and then they split.

You know, there was a radio run last night on a possible hooker abduction

at the stroll on 10th and 1st.

We ought to get over there then.

ANDY: Yeah.

Ah, man.

What am I steppin' in, huh? What is this, a dog run here?

You can hope it was a dog.

I haven't even had my coffee yet.

(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)

(THEME MUSIC ENDS)

(UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING)

WOMAN: Hey, baby!

Hey.

Chill out. I'm not tryin' to roust you.

You see a couple of guys here botherin' one of the girl's last night?

No, I don't remember seein' nothin' like that, but it might have been.

- You sure now, huh? - WOMAN 2: Mm-hmm.

All right. Be careful. Andy?

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

You got anything? Something's comin' down.

- How you doin'? - You the cops?

- Somebody called in a report last night. - About the girl? That was me.

That turn out some kind of crime?

- What they call you? - Fatso.

Fatso, what'd you see?

I knew that there was somethin' wrong. I was sitting up at the window.

Two guys pulled up in one of these things like a four-by-four or whatever.

A beat-up black one. Guy in front and a guy in back.

They said a few words to a Spanish girl that hangs out there,

and she was gonna get in.

Then she was like backing out of the deal.

And the guy got a hold on her, and he pulled her in.

- She pregnant? - Yeah. You find her?

- We found her body. - FATSO: Ah, hell.

Well, I'm... I'm like, the neighborhood watch around here.

I got their asses cold.

Every damn number on their license plate.

- Good for you. - Take it easy, Fats.

- Yes? - Well, hello.

Um, what might your name be?

Did you wanna see someone?

Uh, yeah, there was a pawnshop robbed on 5th Street yesterday.

Who... who'd be handling that case?

Detective Martinez.

Martinez?

(INTERCOM BUZZES)

- DONNA: Detective? - JAMES: Yeah?

There's someone here to see you.

You gonna tell me your name?

- Donna. - Donna?

Steve Richards, Donna. It's a pleasure to meet you.

I'm Detective Martinez. Can I help you?

Yes, Detective. Uh, it's near here, the pawnshop?

- Mm-hmm. - You know what I'm talking about?

Got knocked over yesterday.

You know the one, It was in the one in the paper yesterday?

- Yeah, armed robbery. - Yeah, right.

They had them little noses on the horn rims, fake noses?

Groucho glasses.

Right. That's what I'm talking about. Yeah.

Right.

What about it?

- What? - What about it?

They catch the guys there?

- No. - No.

- JAMES: What's your name? Okay. - STEVE: Me? Steve Richards, pleasure.

JAMES: You got information?

I might come across somethin'.

- You got a reward on that? - Mm-hmm.

Last I heard, there was no reward.

- Oh, yeah? - No.

Hmm. What are you gonna do?

Well, we might be able to drum up a few dollars for the right information.

- Really? - Uh-huh.

Well, I could, you know, if there's somethin' in it for me,

sometimes I could come across something. Find somethin' out. So...

What are they, uh, what are they talkin' about for that?

I don't know. Maybe, uh, if your information panned out,

maybe a couple of hundred dollars.

I heard they got over 20,000 dollars.

- That's what I heard. - Yeah. Steve, what you got on this?

I'm... I'm not sure. You know, I'm gonna think about it.

- All right? That's all. - All right.

- Two-hundred? Two-hundred dollars? - Yeah.

I wasn't in no accident. Someone said I was, they're lying.

Just take it easy, Rudy. I got the boss.

Yeah. Come on.

- What's doing, Lieu? - Bobby?

Where are we on that burnt-up body?

Oh, there's no way to make an ID. We only knew it was a woman

because she was six months along.

Okay, notify missing persons.

Maybe you can get something off dental records.

Yeah. This... this guy we just brought in, he owns a Jeep

that was called in last night, involved in a hooker abduction

a couple blocks where the body was.

We'll see if there's anything there.

- Okay. - BOBBY: All right.

We're not talkin' about an accident, Rudy.

You said my car was in an accident?

We think it was used in a crime last night. Maybe a murder.

- Not my car. You... you got the wrong car. - No, we got the right car, Rudy.

And we got a witness who took down your license number

at the scene an abduction.

Black Jeep, corner of 1st and 10th.

Ugh, my stomach is killing me. I got stomach problems.

You got more problems than that.

(GRUNTS) Look, it wasn't me. I didn't even use the car last night.

Well, who had it?

I loaned it to my cousin and his buddy.

Well, you better be able to give up some names and addresses, Rudy,

or this is fallin' right on you.

(SIGHS) Sal Molina, he's my cousin. And Bobby...

Bobby Ruiz. They wouldn't have done nothing like that.

- They just went to see somebody. - We need where Sal and Bobby live.

RUDY: I can give you where they hang.

This better be straight shootin' here, Rudy.

It's straight.

- Am I done? - No. You're gonna stick around.

- My stomach's killin' me. - Well, we'll send you in some Tums.

(EXHALES)

My God, Dan.

- Did you get mugged? - Do you have time to talk?

Take your time, Andy. I got couple of calls to make.

ANDY: What the hell happened?

- We'll get to that. How are you doing? - I'm all right, Dan.

- Yeah, have you got another sponsor? - No.

Have you gone back out?

No, I haven't. Let's talk about me at another time.

I wanna know how you got beat up?

Well, you, uh...

You met my son Danny, didn't you, about four months ago?

I saw him once over at your place.

He didn't do this to you, did he?

I... I didn't want to tell you about Danny.

I felt kind of private about it.

Danny's been in and out of institutions the last nine or ten years.

They say it's a chemical thing in his mind.

He was released again a few weeks ago.

And he's... he's been stayin' with me.

What set him off?

If he takes the medication, he's all right.

He won't take it.

Somethin' gets into him, and he just won't take it.

Then God knows what it's like inside his head.

I... I'm just talkin' to him, and I ask him to turn down the television.

And he beat you up?

He hasn't been back since this happened yesterday.

He's gone back to the Tompkins Square Park.

He's got this area he's kind of settled in down in the Southwest end.

He walks all day long.

I'm going to go pick him up, Dan. I don't want him doin' this to you again.

I guess I just can't think like a father here.

He might hurt somebody else.

He wears a Walkman in his ears all the time.

Don't open the door till you hear from me.

Anybody knocks, don't let 'em in.

I'll talk about you at a subsequent point.

Yeah, okay, Dan.

What happened to that guy?

Listen, uh, you got a minute to help me with somethin'

before we pick up those guys with the Jeep?

- Yeah, absolutely. - All right.

- James, you got a minute? - Sure, Andy.

ANDY: Grab your coat.

(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)

You guys hang back a little. Let me see if I can get him to come easy.

Danny!

Danny!

Hey! Danny.

I don't know you.

ANDY: My name's Andy.

I'm a friend of your dad's.

Uh, hey.

That's all right, uh,

why don't you take those headphones off a little bit, huh?

Turn down the music a minute, all right?.

All right.

- You had it up kind of loud, right? - That way I don't have to listen.

You have to go someplace with me Danny. We...

Why?

Uh, rules and regulations. I gotta talk to you.

I eat by myself.

Well, we'll go have a bowl... Danny, hey...

You killed that baby didn't you. You killed a baby.

You shouldn't... you shouldn't have killed that baby!

ANDY: Come on. Settle down.

Now we're gonna go to the station house... (GRUNTS)

- Hey! Hey! - Hey!

- DANNY: You killed it! - Hey, Danny, take it easy.

- Somebody help me. I'm being killed. - Come on, Danny, take it easy.

Somebody help me. I'm being killed.

- Somebody... somebody... - Take it easy, Danny.

- You're gonna hurt yourself. - Somebody's gonna hurt me.

Just relax. Just relax. Nobody wants to hurt you, Danny.

- Help me. Help me. - ANDY: Hey, hey, hey!

- I'm being killed. I'm being killed. - Settle down.

- Settle down, Danny. - I'm being killed.

ANDY: We're just trying to help you, Danny.

DANNY: Then stop trying to kill me, you bastard.

- ANDY: Nobody's trying to kill you. - Murderers! Murderers! Murderers!

- Bastard murderers! Bastard murderers! - (GRUNTS)

- ANDY: James! - BOBBY: Take it easy!

ANDY: Danny! Danny!

DANNY: Dad! Dad! Help me!

Dad, help me! (GRUNTS)

- BOBBY: Cuff him, James. - Hey, he bites!

Dad! Dad!

(GRUNTS)

- ANDY: Calm down. - BOBBY: You got him cuffed?

JAMES: Okay, I got him.

Okay, let's go. Let's go.

- Take it easy, Danny. - Settle down.

- (GRUNTS) Dad, help me! Dad! - BOBBY: Take it easy.

- Dad, help me! - Take it easy.

Hey, buddy, you takin' him back to the house?

No. Let's just take him straight to Bellevue.

ANDY: We'll discuss what it's about up here.

Is this about those parking violations, that got paid, okay?

BOBBY: Just shut up. You'll find out what it's about.

All I know is we didn't do nothin', right, Bobby?

- BOBBY: That's right. - We tight and we right.

- He told you to be quiet, didn't we? - I know this guy since we were kids.

Well, good. So you've talked to each other for a long time. Now shut up.

- Just cut this nonsense. - BOBBY: Thanks, James.

No problem.

Hey, you're not at home.

(EXHALES) So what's up with that ring in your face, Sal?

It's just jewelry.

Nice touch, man. Sit down.

(SAL GRUNTING)

So, Sal, I wanna know what you and Bobby were doin' last night

after you borrowed Rudy's four-by-four.

(CHUCKLES) That's what this is all about?

We brought the damn car back.

- How come Rudy turned us in? - He just told us you had it.

You got turned in by some guy on 1st and 10th

that told us he saw you drag a woman into that car.

Wait, wait. A woman?

- We... we didn't pull no woman. - A hooker.

A hooker? (CHUCKLES) Hey, I don't want no hookers.

Look, Sal, I'm not a vice cop.

I don't care how you have your fun. Or what you're into.

I don't care if you were ballin' a hooker.

Hey, do I look like a guy that has to pay for it?

Come on, man. Check this face out.

(CHUCKLES CONFIDENTLY) I can get all the tail I can handle.

Hey, even some movie stars pay for it.

- Yeah? Well, I ain't no movie star. - Well, maybe someday.

- Hey, why not? I'll take it. - Okay, so you didn't pick up a hooker?

But our witness says that you did.

And he wrote the license plate number of the four-by-four.

So, think about this, Sal.

A dead woman's body was burned up last night in a vacant lot.

If you did pick up a hooker and you're lyin' to me,

I gotta figure maybe she's the dead woman. Otherwise, why are you lying?

See what I mean? You must be coverin' somethin' up.

But if you admit that you got yourselves a hooker,

So what, I just figure it's a couple of guys out there screwin' around.

- Man, your brain's working overtime. - I told you, we didn't pick up no hookers.

- So what did you guys do last night? - Just drove around looking.

- BOBBY: For what? - Just looking.

Which one of you guys was driving?

(SIGHS) Me.

Seems to me you grabbed that hooker to rob her.

Hey, we didn't rob no hooker.

You know, maybe you oughta get a hooker, man.

- That's all you seem to think about. - Why? You think I have to pay for it?

Uh, could be.

You sit still, Sal.

Look, we might've picked a hooker up,

but we just did our thing with her and let her out.

You picked her up at the stroll on 1st and 10th?

Yeah. Could've been there, yeah.

What does that mean, Bobby? "Could've been there."

Is that where it was? You pick her up at 1st and 10th?

Yeah, I think that was it.

- And who was driving? - I was driving.

Well, you know, first Rudy drove us to this guy's place

that Sal wanted to borrow some money from,

but he wasn't home. So then Rudy drove home and I drove after that.

ANDY: (OVER INTERCOM) Why'd Rudy go home?

RUIZ: (OVER INTERCOM) He just wanted to go home.

ANDY: And that was before you picked up the hooker?

RUIZ: Yeah.

You use drugs, Bobby?

No, no, no. I got nothing to do with drugs.

You know I take care of myself.

I... I'm going back to school and take care of myself.

- Well, those are fine ideals. - Well, I want to better myself.

Sure. So after you got done bettering yourself banging

that hooker last night, what did you do then?

I just let her out a couple blocks away.

You know, we wanted to go to a club, you know,

do some dancing, buy some drinks, you know, just have some fun.

So we drove around, you know.

But we were broke, so we just drove around.

You didn't wind up at the Manhattan Bridge, did you, Bobby?

No. Uh-uh.

Okay, here's where you stand.

The streetwalker who got into the Jeep, our witness said she was dragged in.

We figure that's a robbery. We know she was pregnant,

and we know somebody dumped a pregnant woman's body

under that bridge last night and burned it up.

We got nothing to do with the robbery and nothing else.

Bobby, we're gonna get dental X-rays off that body.

We'll identify her, we'll show her picture to the witness

who saw you drag the hooker into the car,

and that's going to be it for you.

Now, you can do all the whinin' and all the explaining you want after that,

and I'll just laugh in your face.

I don't know anything about any dead woman.

Talk to me now, let me know that you were only driving.

And maybe you can do yourself some good.

I don't know anything about it.

Okay, get up. You're going in the cage.

Hey, look, I'm innocent, man. Come on, help me out.

You're too dumb to help. Come on. Get in.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

Any good?

How about we trade Rudy a walk

for admitting these two guys went out to rob a whore?

- They're taking your guy out. - Who?

That... that Rudy Salinas. They're taking him to the hospital.

He's all doubled over in pain.

BOBBY: Hey, what's going on, Rudy?

My stomach I told you I got bleeding ulcers.

We could straighten everything out here for you, Rudy. Real quick.

Oh, my God!

- (GROANS) - I'll take a ride with him.

I'll check back with missing persons.

Come on, guys. Better not be in your mind, Rudy.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

I want to report an assault. Martinez, assault. Look at me.

- What happened? - You should see the other guy.

Who hit you, Steve? Come in.

I know who knocked over the pawnshop.

- They post that reward yet? - JAMES: No.

(CLEARS THROAT) What a world. Screwed everywhere you turn.

- There's still 200 in it? - Yeah, tell me what you got. Sit down.

All right.

(GRUNTS)

I know who did Cafferty's Pawnshop, okay? You want his name? You got it.

Slime like that shouldn't be walking around

- amongst, you know, decent people. - Sit down.

- What's his name? - STEVE: Weldon Small.

Got out of Elmira a few weeks ago, you know. I knew him from up there.

You in on the pawnshop?

- No, I was not in on it. - How do you know this guy Small did it?

I planned it. I planned the whole damn thing.

That's how I know. That pawnshop? I'm from that neighborhood.

Two guy's wearing Groucho glasses, right?

You get those things on and off in a second.

Not like some dumb Halloween mask. It was all my concept. Me.

See, I got out of the joint first, okay?

Then I come down sick. Uh, pancreatitis.

I didn't even know I had one.

I'm in the hospital, sick like a dog, then I'm recuperating.

There it is in the paper.

Couldn't wait. And then this, right?

- I find out where he's at, I go over. - Mm-hmm.

Won't give me a dime. Come on! Not a dime!

Then he gets ugly, he punches me out. Mm-mm.

Nobody does that to this dude. Nobody.

I don't have my strength back right now,

he'd be gumming cream of wheat, let me tell you.

Here. That's the place he lives at.

- He's got the pawnshop stuff there? - I don't know.

JAMES: I want you to sit here a minute while I run this past my lieutenant.

- All right? Just sit. - Yeah.

(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)

Donna, what's a girl like you doing with this crowd here, hmm?

It's a good place to work.

I don't get it.

I mean what's the product you're turning out here?

Ever think about that? Jailbirds?

That what life's about for a beautiful girl like you?

Hey, sorry. Oh, I didn't mean that. I'm sorry.

- Steve. - Huh? How'd we come out?

We're gonna ask you to do something for us with Weldon.

- Is that so? - JAMES: Mm-hmm.

- Imagine that. - Hello, Martinez.

How's it going, Mr. Breen?

You were in on that business pick my son up?

- Yeah I did. - I appreciate that.

No trouble. Glad to help.

Steve, come here.

Okay. Forget about it. I'll call back later.

I'll tell you how this works.

- STEVE: I get paid for this? - How you doing, Dan?

I just came from Bellevue.

They, uh, they got him calmed down.

Sit down.

I hope none of your boys got hurt bringing him in.

- Is he charged? - No.

Dan, I'm gonna be straight with you. You gotta change your situation.

What do you mean?

The D.A.'s not gonna find Danny competent to face the assault charges.

And once he's medicated, he's gonna be released.

I'm afraid for your safety.

You gotta move out of your place, go to Queens, Hoboken,

find another apartment, and don't tell Danny where.

You mean never see him again?

- He's my son. - I didn't say never.

Give it six months or a year.

See if he stays on the medication.

Uh, you know when... when he's on the medication, he's okay.

He... he can clean up around the house, he can go to the store.

An... and talking, you know... you know, he's got real insights.

(SIGHS)

M... maybe I could... could move out and keep up the rent a while,

- and then he could be there by himself. - If you can afford that, that's great.

The main thing is, don't expose yourself to any more violence.

Yeah, it's... it's... it's the right thing.

D... Danny has to learn that there are consequences to what he does.

He's a grown man.

He has to follow the rules like... like everybody else.

Once you move out... get the keys over to me.

I'll pick him up and I'll take him over there.

You don't think I should be there?

If you want to be there to say goodbye and I'll be there with you,

but you should definitely have another place to go to.

Uh, you know that way I can give him instructions, explain what's what.

But you can't tell him where you're going.

And I... I understand.

I... I... I can do it. I... I'll just grab some place.

I don't have to be choosy.

Queens. I... I like the idea of Queens.

That... that way I can get in every day for my meetings.

Maybe it'll be good for him in the long run.

Maybe.

I'll... I'll get my stuff together,

and, uh, I'll contact you, and you can bring him over.

Any help I can give you with the move...

No, I don't have much stuff.

(UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING)

STEVE: (OVER RADIO) I'm going up the stairs.

Man, what a dump.

Man, I don't have my strength back yet. Should be in the Bahamas by now

on the beach, getting oil rubbed on me by a 100-dollar hooker.

- Or maybe Donna, you know. - Donna?

STEVE: That would be nice.

- What's he talking about? - STEVE: What you going to do, right?

But that's life.

- James, what's he talking about? - I don't know. I don't know.

STEVE: Okay, I made it up the stairs.

Weldon, it's me. Open the door. I want to talk to you.

WELDON: Who the hell's me?

- STEVE: Steve. - WELDON: (OVER RADIO) What do you want?

STEVE: I just wanna talk to you. Open the door.

- WELDON: You alone? - STEVE: Yeah, yeah.

WELDON: You got a gun?

STEVE: What I'd bring a gun for? I'm not mad at you.

I hope he's smart enough not to let this guy search him.

(DOOR OPENING OVER RADIO)

I don't wanna hear no more about that pawnshop.

STEVE: Maybe I was out of line saying some of those things.

But you know we were supposed to be together on that job.

And I keep on saying that pawnshop wasn't me.

This is Steve Richards you're talking to.

Look me in the eye and say you didn't rob Cafferty's Pawnshop

using my Groucho glasses disguise and the entire rest of my concept.

- Go ahead. say it. - I didn't do it.

You know... you know something?

You wouldn't even have thought of that place without me.

Not even thought of it.

Easy, wasn't it? Hmm? Huh?

- Twenty-thousand dollars, you got. - Uh...

Paper said 20,000 dollars.

- I'm gonna do something here. - Go ahead.

But if we don't come to some kind of agreement,

- I'm gonna kick your ass instead. - STEVE: What type of agreement?

(STEVE GASPING)

Now, I'm gonna give you 25... Hey!

I'll give you 2,500 dollars.

One word about that pawnshop, you're liable to go out that window.

- We're cut off. - Uh, I bet Steve disconnected the wire.

We got no confession from this guy Weldon, James.

JAMES: Get over here, you little creep!

- STEVE: What'd I do? Hey. - JAMES: Keep your mouth shut.

- Keep your mouth shut. Shut up. - I didn't do nothin'.

WELDON: What do you want now, Steve?

- Police! Get down! Get down! - STEVE: All right. All right.

- For what? What'd we do, huh? - ANDY: Lay down.

Hands behind your back.

WELDON: How'd this happen, Steve?

I'm shocked myself. These guys just grabbed me. I don't know.

- I don't go with no coincidence. - JAMES: Any guns?

No, I got no guns. What do you think this is?

JAMES: Quite a watch collection, huh, Weldon?

(UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING)

- How you doing, Sal? - I want a change of clothes and a shave.

Yeah, well, if you'd just corroborate what Rudy told us, we could take a break.

Why am I gonna corroborate on what's not true?

He didn't want to rob anyone. You guys wanted to.

That's why he made you drop him off.

And I keep telling you he wasn't with us

so I don't know what he thinks he's talking about.

He's sick over what you guys did.

He's in the hospital over it.

You see, we're putting this case together, Sal.

Instead of wasting your time frontin', you ought to do yourself some good.

Bobby says you weren't driving, he says he was driving.

Now that's gonna be important, Sal. The driver may get some slack.

You ought to get in front of that one now.

Yeah, well, as far as that goes,

- Bobby wasn't driving. - And I can prove that.

- How? - 'Cause Bobby was too drunk to drive.

So which one of you guys pulled the hooker into the car?

There wasn't no hooker.

All right? We didn't have no money for a hooker.

BOBBY: You were after her money!

You went out to rape and rob a hooker and use her money to go drinking.

And something happened in that car there,

and that hooker got killed.

There wasn't no hooker.

All right.

I'm going to tell you, Bobby, you do not want to go to bat on this one.

You do not want a jury looking at photos of that woman's body.

Have you got any idea how much heat a burning tire puts out?

You know how we knew she was pregnant?

We could see that fetus.

- Her flesh was all burned away. - (EXHALES)

You listening, Bobby?

You know how that jury's gonna feel looking at those pictures?

Look, we didn't do it.

We balled her and let her go. If someone else did

something to her afterwards, I'm sorry.

I'm very tired.

Well, you count on two things, Bobby. (SLURPING)

You're gonna get a lot more tired.

And before this is over, you're gonna tell me the truth.

(DOOR OPENS)

(EXHALES)

I cannot move this son-of-a-bitch.

The other one won't cop that they picked her up still.

- (EXHALES) - You want to grab an hour?

They're gonna release that kid from Bellevue.

- I'm taking him by to see his dad. - Mm-hmm.

Why don't you give a whack at this asshole?

Nah, I'll give him a couple minutes though.

- Let him think he's getting some sleep. - Yeah.

WELDON: Wait till this gets out, Steve!

STEVE: They must've had you staked out.

- Steve Richards the stool pigeon! - Shut up, Weldon.

- WELDON: A lousy snitch! - GREG: I told you to shut up.

You better hope you never go back to the joint, Steve.

- You'll get shanked the first day. - GREG: Can you shut up?

One and two are in use.

- (EXHALES) - I'll take Weldon to anticrime.

I'll voucher the property and talk to the boss.

- The first day, Steve. - MALE VOICE: Move it, Weldon.

You're lucky I don't kick your ass for pulling that wire, Steve.

- I don't know what you mean? No. - You don't, huh?

You disconnected that wire when the guy offered you 2,500.

You may take a collar for that little trick.

Hey, if that wire didn't work, something technical went wrong,

can't blame me for that, Martinez.

Donna, you don't use a lot of make-up, do you?

Excuse me, I have work to do.

- No problem. No problem. - (KNOCK ON DOOR)

Lieutenant?

Yeah, okay. Just give me a call as soon as something breaks.

- How'd you make out? - We took the guy in.

He had some jewelry from the pawn shop,

but I don't know if the search is gonna hold up.

Did you get probable cause on the tape?

This Steve who wore the wire,

the other guy wouldn't admit he pulled the job,

but he tells Steve he's gonna give him 2,500.

All of a sudden the wire goes dead. This Steve kills the wire.

- So then we went in. - So we might lose the search.

Should we bring in the couple, from the, uh, pawn shop,

- the one that got robbed? - Yeah. Yeah, bring 'em in for a lineup.

Okay.

(DOOR OPENS)

Donna. This is Mrs. Santiago. I think she should talk to Detective Simone.

- What's going on, Sarge? - Hey, Detective.

- This is, uh, Valeria Santiago. - BOBBY: How you doing, ma'am?

Mrs. Santiago's came in to report her daughter's missing.

- Talked to me about it a little. - I think maybe she should talk to you.

Come on in, Mrs. Santiago.

Have a seat right here. When did you last see your daughter?

Two days ago I spoke to her. She was supposed to come to see me.

I'm afraid she was in an accident.

I just want to know if something happened to her.

If you give me her name, and we'll run a check on her, okay?

Oh. Carmela Santiago.

She's 22. She was supposed to come two days ago.

Maybe she'll show up today.

Uh, I'm afraid that maybe she's in the hospital or something.

Why would you think that?

Well, she's... she's going to have a baby soon.

Maybe something happened too early.

She doesn't have a husband or anybody that lives with her?

No.

Here, let me have her address. We'll go and see what we can find out.

Um, I don't know her address.

She moves a lot.

Stays with people, her friends.

She have a job?

- VALERIA: She's a waitress. - Where?

I don't know. She never told me.

Mrs. Santiago...

please don't take offense to this.

Could your daughter have been involved in things

- she didn't want you to know about? - What things?

Drugs. Prostitution.

Is she in trouble? Arrested?

Mrs. Santiago, do you know if Carmela... It's Carmela, right?

Did she go to a dentist? Would you know her dentist?

No. She wouldn't take care of her teeth.

Do you know if she ever have had an accident where she broke her leg?

Yes. Um, somebody knocked her down some stairs a couple of years ago.

- She broke her left leg. - Above the knee?

What's happened to my daughter?

It may not be your daughter but a woman was found dead

who fits what you've told me.

She was pregnant. The coroner said her left leg had been fractured.

Where is she? Let me go see.

Mrs. Santiago, this woman was burned in a fire.

You wouldn't be able to recognize her.

So it might not be Carmela.

Ma'am, do you happen to have a recent photo of your daughter?

Yes.

It's, um, from her sister's wedding.

I'm gonna need that. And if you happen to know the hospital

where she was treated for the broken leg.

Um, Lincoln Hospital. This is her picture.

Do we, uh, have your number?

Yes, I gave it to the sergeant at the desk.

Why don't you go home now, Mrs. Santiago?

- Let me look into this, all right? - Yes.

Oh.

That girl that you found... was she Puerto Rican?

Ma'am, we don't know if this is your daughter.

All right.

Maybe that girl was not even Puerto Rican.

Oh...

(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)

(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)

(INDISTINCT CHATTER OVER RADIO)

My partner's got something to show you, Bobby.

What's this, now?

Out. Sit.

Before and after, Bobby. This is Carmela Santiago.

See, now we took this picture to the stroll on 1st and 10th.

And our witness ID'd her as the woman you guys dragged into that four-by-four.

And this burned-up woman,

who you assholes thought we wouldn't be able make an ID on,

she was identified through medical records.

Carmela Santiago.

Same girl dumped out of that same four-by-four

underneath the Manhattan Bridge.

All that's left now, Bobby, is how we're gonna charge you.

If you and Sal intended to do this from the beginning,

maybe you shouldn't say anything at all. But if it was an accident,

or if it was one of you more than the other,

then this is the last chance you got.

It was Sal.

ANDY: Uh, you, uh,

you wanted money to party.

- You decided to mug a hooker? - It was Sal's idea.

You know they were out in the street to pull in the bread,

you know what I'm sayin'?

Sure, like a drive-up teller.

We tried to pick up this other one, man.

She wanted to see some money, so we stopped for this one.

She was getting in back with Sal when she changed her mind.

You know maybe Sal didn't look right. I mean that's why he grabbed her.

She was strong, man, bangin' and yellin' back there, and...

well, he finally got her under control, and when I stopped, see...

There was this baseball bat back there and he had it pressed against her throat.

- That's how he got control over her. - By killin' her.

Look, we didn't know that right away.

We were just tryin' to find a place to stop and leave her, man,

but then we seen she went and died on us.

And so you decided to burn her up.

It was Sal's idea, man. Get rid of the evidence.

We were just shook up.

We were just tryin' to drive around, tryin' to think of something.

'Cause this was nothing that was supposed to happen, man.

It took us by surprise. It was bad luck.

Wake up, Sal!

Bobby flipped on you, man. We're booking you for murder.

- You're full of crap, man. - He's gonna testify against you.

He told how you choked that girl with that bat.

Get up.

(HANDCUFFS CLICKING)

So, what, was he lyin'? Hmm?

Was he the one with the bat?

You are all liars, all right? Because there wasn't no hooker!

How could I kill her if she wasn't there?

Yeah, you stick with it, Sal. You ride with it all the way upstate.

Are you feelin' all right now, Mr. Cafferty?

No, no.

He has a headache ever since that robbery,

don't you, Lloyd?

Yes, I have a headache, and I don't feel right.

So where are these suspects?

Uh, I'm gonna ask you to, uh, excuse us

- for a minute, Mrs. Cafferty. - Why?

Well, you didn't actually see the crime being perpetrated.

My husband told me everything after it happened.

But... but see, uh, you could jeopardize the legalities.

Um, if... if you could just have a seat right here?

- Ma'am? - GREG: Thanks.

I'll be right over here, Lloyd.

- FEMALE OFFICER: Come on over here. - This way, sir.

FEMALE OFFICER: Just have a seat right here.

GREG: I'd like you to look through the window.

There are six men in a room.

If you see anybody, recognize, I'd like you to tell me his number

and, uh, and, uh, where is it you recognize him from.

Okay.

This is a one-way mirror, so there's no way they can see you.

- You ready? - Yeah.

Have number two show his teeth.

All right.

Tell them all to smile and show their teeth.

JAMES: Everybody smile and show your teeth.

Smile.

(CHUCKLES) It's number two.

Dumb disguise or not, he's still got that off-colored front tooth.

Uh, tell everyone but number two to leave.

Everybody but two.

OFFICER: All right, let's go.

STEVE: Martinez.

You're outta here, Steve.

Well. How about that money you talked about?

We're givin' you 50 bucks.

- Uh, what happened to 200? - We took 150 off for you gettin' cute.

Oh.

I... Man...

Anything further on the reward angle from the pawnshop people?

No. Why don't you go tell the Caffertys, tell them how you planned the job.

See how much they want to give you. All right?

Here. Thanks for your help.

- Hey. - Hey.

- Cut off my circulation. - You ought to go now, Steve.

Donna, what do you say, you and me, uh,

split a 50-dollar dinner later? How about that?

- That's not gonna happen. - End of a perfect day.

If I had a card, I'd give it to you but you know...

Still here? Me? Um, not anymore.

What was it between you and that guy?

Gregory, he thought he was Don Juan.

- He was muttering your name on that wire. - I can't help what he muttered.

I didn't give him any encouragement whatsoever,

and you're being silly.

Which I find very sweet.

(UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING)

(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

Dan.

- DAN: How you doin', Danny? - Good.

Hey, you see my suitcases over there, Danny?

Yeah.

Are they mine?

Am I going back to the place?

No. No. They're... they're my suitcases, Danny.

I'm... I'm movin' down to Florida for a while.

You could stay here.

So you're leaving me?

No. I... I just wanted to try it down there for a while.

You're afraid of me 'cause I hurt you?

I... I got a list here in reference to the apartment.

- I wanna go over these things with you... - No, that's okay.

It... it's important that you understand this stuff, Danny.

Yeah. Put it over there. I won't forget it.

You've gotta understand this, Danny.

- You're gonna be taking care of yourself. - Yeah, I'm okay. I feel better.

They gave me some medicine.

Anyway, uh...

I just wanted to see you before I left.

I didn't mean to hurt you.

You know that, right?

ANDY: We ought to go, Dan.

Yeah, okay, okay.

- Bye, Danny. - Bye, Daddy.

(EXHALES DEEPLY)

- You gotta do it, Dan. - You heard him. He understands.

He's sorry for what happened.

Yeah, he's sorry now. It doesn't mean it won't happen again.

What's gonna happen to him? I'm runnin' out on him.

- You're savin' your life. - I was never there for him.

- It got bad, I hid in a bottle. - Regret for the past is a waste of spirit.

That sound familiar?

I taught that to you.

I...

Let's go, Dan.

ANDY: I promise I'll come back and look in on him.

(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)

(THEME MUSIC ENDS)