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[indistinct radio chatter]

[Crosetti] There's a nine millimeter here.

[Meldrick] Yeah.

Okay, Charles, show it to him.

[Crosetti] Whoa, [indistinct].

- Yeah, that's a hell of an exit wound. - A little bit.

Big time malice in the initial intent of this shoot.

Somebody was really miffed at this guy.

My guess it wasn't about no term paper.

Something strange about this bullet here.

That could be foreign ammo.

[Meldrick] What, bullets from elsewhere?

What happened to "Made in America," huh?

If you're gonna kill here, buy here.

This is funky. Look at this pillowcase on his head.

And look at the bruising around his neck and shoulder.

And look at his fingers. Hold on, Charles.

Look at his fingers. It's broken.

- Every finger's broken. - [Crosetti] Yeah.

Bruising like this. Deliberate. It's measured.

I mean, look at the spacing between the bruising.

Yeah.

Well, I'm willing to call suicide if you are.

- It was a message. - [Meldrick] Hold on.

His name is Lin Chang Wong.

Excuse me? You know this guy?

He was a student here at the university.

- Second year. - Do you know the man, miss?

- And who are you? - Tamryn Chow.

Wait, wait, wait. What's your name again? What?

- Tamryn Chow. - Tamryn Chow.

Lin Chang knew this was going to happen.

He was one of the student leaders at Tiananmen Square.

He escaped and has been hunted ever since.

He knew they would catch up to him.

Wait, wait. Who is "they"? Come on.

Who's "they"?

[sirens wailing]

They are the ones who call you in the middle of the night

and play funeral music over the phone.

They are the ones who send you a list

of all your relatives back in China

and where your relatives live.

They are the ones who are behind you

in the checkout line at the supermarket,

taking notes of every item in your shopping cart.

Now, this may go on in China, but you're here in America now.

You don't believe that the leaders in Beijing,

those old men,

that they would do this here in America?

They wouldn't dare.

[sighs] That's what they'd like you to think.

That's what they're counting on.

[dramatic music playing]

[theme song playing]

[indistinct radio chatter]

[Munch] Hey, DeSilva, what's happening?

Munch, do you always start your day

with a soda pop and a candy bar?

What can I say? Every day is a holiday.

- Every meal is a feast. - [Bolander] What do we got?

So far, no ID on the body, no plates on the van.

- This guy was a farmer. - [Bolander] Farmer?

- How do you know that? - Well, these buds are yellowed.

That's from the run-off of phosphates

from the fertilizers in a farm.

Yeah, this is low-grade, trade-harvested dope

grown in the irrigation ditch of a farm

near a main highway.

- Near a highway, huh? - [Munch] Yeah.

You see the brown speckling near the crown of the bud?

That's from sulfur gas emissions near where it was grown.

Very impressive.

Did you guys know that George Washington

and Thomas Jefferson grew this stuff?

George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew marijuana?

Well, they both had hemp plantations.

Marijuana is a product of hemp.

[Bolander] Wait, hold on, hold on.

We're talking this George Washington?

George Washington, yeah.

How do you think he financed his campaigns?

By chopping down cherry trees and posing for postage stamps?

The very foundation of this country is hemp.

The early flags were sewn from hemp.

The Declaration of Independence is written on hemp.

Take a stroll in the National Archives

and take a whiff.

That's not papyrus you're smelling.

Munch, you know too much about this.

Hey, Munch, is there anything at this time

you wish to admit to statement?

Yes. I really love the way Jimi Hendrix played

the "Star-Spangled Banner" at Woodstock.

[dramatic music playing]

[Howard] You ready?

You come here ten minutes before we go to court

and ask if we're ready?

- [Howard chuckles] - Don't screw this up, okay?

[Danvers] How can I? It came in pre-screwed.

I want to see Idamae avenged.

Sure she was a user and she slept with Johnson,

but she was a good mother and she never hurt anybody but herself.

Well, the evidence we have connecting Pony Johnson

to the murder of Idamae Keene

is sufficient to get a conviction, but not by much.

Since we don't have a murder weapon,

a confession, a motive, a witness.

A witness called William Lyness.

No.

The success of this case rests on your testimony.

Your credibility.

Call Lyness to the stand.

He gave the bullets to Johnson that killed Idamae.

The defense can ask William if he sold cocaine for Johnson.

Yes. Does he own a. 38? Yes.

Is he a viable suspect himself? Yes.

He's a loose cannon, a leaky rowboat.

Rowboats don't have cannons, Danvers.

William Lyness heard his own mother being tortured and killed

in the exact same way by Johnson

on the exact same night that Idamae was tortured and killed.

This case concerns only the murder of Idamae Keene.

We cannot mention Alexandra Lyness.

When you're on the stand, don't.

You are making a big mistake.

And when did you get your law degree?

The medical examiner, is he here yet?

- I think so. - You think so?

What about Maggio from the crime lab?

What about him?

I didn't think you'd get to him today,

so I told him he could go fishing.

No, I need him today.

All right, well, let's give him a call.

- You got his number? - No, please.

Both of you, go.

We just passed Dr. Scheiner and Maggio in the hall.

- Why did you lie to him? - [Felton] I don't know.

- Because I can. - [Howard] Oh. [laughs]

Wow. Beautiful city. Look at this.

All we gotta do is go to the Chinese embassy

to ask what they know about Lin Chang Wong's murder.

Any idea where you're going?

Yes. Will you look at this?

This is the cradle of our nation.

I don't know why I let you talk me into this.

[paper rustling]

Will you stop looking at that? The map is too big anyway.

- Stop looking at the map. - The car is too small.

You missed the Embassy Road cutoff back there.

- I didn't miss the Embassy Road. - It's the White House.

- We're looking for Embassy Road. - We'll find Embassy Road.

[Meldrick] Look at this, man. It's the Washington Monument.

- [Crosetti] Washington Monument. - [Meldrick] See, this is not--

we're not-- this is wrong.

- I know a shortcut. - You know a shortcut?

- Yes, relax. - Relax?

See, this is the problem.

Whenever you tell me to relax,

that's my cue to not relax.

You know, I'm surprised, man.

The traffic is not bad here at all.

I mean, considering that this is midday,

it's Washington DC, it's, like, a big city,

I don't think we're doing bad for timing at all.

[Meldrick] What are you doing? This is not the Chinese embassy.

This is a Chinese restaurant.

What are you doing? Would you get back in the car?

- What are you doing? - Oh, look at this.

- I can't believe I'm here. - [Meldrick] Where?

This is-- Ah.

It's like being purified.

I can smell the electric-- I can smell it.

It smells like a storm is coming on.

It smells like rain is coming.

- It smells like history. - It smells like Chinese food.

Would you get in the car, please?

This is the Surratt House.

This is the house where Mary Surratt lived.

This is the house where Mary Surratt's son

meets with John Wilkes Booth,

and they together conspire

the assassination of President Lincoln.

This is 125 years later.

This is a car from the city of Baltimore,

and we are 45 miles from the city of Baltimore.

Would you get back in the car?

- Would you get back in the car? - Meldrick...

Your Honor, I'd like to call to the stand Dr. Scheiner,

the medical examiner for the city of Baltimore.

I hate not being allowed in the courtroom.

I hate only being allowed in to testify.

[groans] I hate being sequestered.

[Howard sighs]

That's because you don't know how to pack.

Where did you get that from?

It's not just a TV.

It's a VCR. It plays eight millimeter films.

I picked it up at the property division auction

for unclaimed stolen merchandise.

I also got a circular saw,

a gas grill, and a rowing machine.

I'm telling you, the place is a gold mine.

Best deals in town.

[Howard blows raspberry]

[indistinct chatter]

I think Danvers picked Scheiner to put on the stand.

He's the least dynamic coroner in town.

- Want a carrot stick? - No.

[Howard groans]

- Want a juice? - No.

- Celery? - No, thanks, Beau.

- Want to watch Oprah? - Will you stop?

What are you doing this weekend?

I don't know.

What about you?

I'm driving my wife up to her hometown.

Oh, yeah? Where's she from?

Boring.

You're the one who brought it up.

No, no, no, no. Boring's the name of the town.

Boring, Maryland.

Your wife is from a place called Boring?

And you wonder why we're in counseling?

What do Boring people--

I mean, the people of Boring.

What do they do?

Well, they go to the Boring firehouse

where the Boring PTA has Boring bingo every night.

Every June, they have the Boring gas engine show.

[Dr. Scheiner] Thank you.

[Howard] And how's it going in there?

In more detail than really would call for,

I told the jury how much the victim really suffered.

Yeah? How did Johnson react?

He adjusted his crotch and yawned.

That son of a bitch.

Just wait till I get on the stand.

[Crosetti] Is that Chinese for "embassy"?

[Meldrick] Mr. Dengshu?

[speaking in Chinese]

A lot about me you don't know, Corsetti.

Mr. Dengshu, my name is Detective Lewis.

This is Detective Corsetti.

We're with the Baltimore City Police Department.

- Baltimore? - Right.

What would the Baltimore police want here?

That's great, you speak beautiful English, sir.

I did graduate studies at Ohio State.

Oh, I sure recognize that Midwestern twang. [laughs]

We're here about the apparent murder

of a Chinese national, a student.

- In Baltimore? - Right. At the university.

Found his body this morning.

A Chinese student at the university?

His name is Lin Chang Wong.

We have reason to believe

that Mr. Wong feared for his life.

I knew Wong.

We once had a conversation in Beijing.

Would that have been in Tiananmen Square, sir?

Yes.

He was at the end of one bullhorn.

I was at the end of another.

A remarkable and articulate young man.

Bullhorns are not very conducive for a conversation,

especially at night when the tanks are rolling.

Right.

Sir, do you have any idea

why someone would want to hurt Lin Chang Wong?

I will offer odds

that someone in Wong's own circle is the murderer.

Let me get this straight.

You're saying that you or your government

have nothing to gain by seeing Mr. Wong hurt?

And everything to lose.

Tiananmen Square is a long time ago.

We are more interested in our favored nation's status

than in one youth.

Uh-huh. All right.

Thank you very much.

- You're welcome. - [speaking in Chinese]

[speaking in Chinese]

So you believe all that?

The only thing I know about Chinese people

is from old Charlie Chan movies.

Yeah, he was played by a white man.

- Have you seen Pembleton? - [Munch] Not today.

I tried beeping him, but he didn't respond.

Gee, on this drug killing, we identified the guy in the van

as one Andros Erban.

He's a middleman for a drug dealer named Elwin Jones,

aka Hendrick Hanson, aka Chuck the Cellist.

Have you got anything on this Charles Ganson guy?

We got an address in Dickeyville and went down there. The guy wasn't home.

Bolander's in Dickeyville now interviewing Dickeyheads.

[dramatic music playing]

[bell ringing]

[knocking on door]

[id] Go away, or I'll call the police.

I am the police, ma'am.

- I don't want to talk to you. - It'll just take a minute.

I am not going to say anything bad about Elwin Jones.

- No, I'm not. - [Bolander] That's fine.

Is that because Elwin Jones was a friend of yours?

That's right.

Wow.

He would...

kind of help you out and carry up the groceries?

You've been watching me.

No, I haven't been watching you.

No, ma'am.

Hmm.

I'm just trying to find out the truth

about something that happened.

I'm afraid the truth is

that your friend Elwin Jones is a dangerous man.

He's not. He's just a child.

A sweet man-child.

Did you hear about the body

that was discovered in Lincoln Park?

Yes.

You know what happened?

I heard some yelling and I looked out the window.

And I saw Elwin...

holding a gun to another man's head.

And then he left.

In the other man's van.

And that is all I know.

[thunder rumbling]

[door clicks closed]

Basic Instinct. The uncut version.

[Danvers] Detective Cullen, is this the knife you recovered

from the crime scene?

[Cullen] Yes, sir, it is.

We found the knife on the bottom of the bed.

[indistinct]

[Danvers] Did the bloodstains on the knife...

[door clicks closed]

Ow!

[grunts]

What do you say, we go back to the Chinese Embassy,

see if we can get somebody higher up the food chain?

Give me six bucks.

- Put it on your gas card. - What?

Put it on your gas card.

I'm not putting it on my gas card.

I'll never get reimbursement from the city.

Put it on your gas card

and I'll verify that you paid the 12 lousy bucks.

Come on, Meldrick, [indistinct], give me the six bucks.

Come on, I pay taxes in the city of Baltimore. I know how it works.

You know, I'm not going to go out on a limb for the whole schmo.

- Give me the six bucks. - The whole schmo?

[car horn honking]

Secret Service, what the hell do they want?

Ah. Just as I expected.

The Federales.

Hey, what's up, fellas?

Somebody want to talk to us

about messing up a Mahjong game or something?

So it's the usual nonsense.

Our office gets a call about two men posing as detectives

harassing the personnel of the Chinese Embassy.

Mr. Gruszynski, we weren't harassing nobody.

It was all very civil, huh?

[Gruszynski] Well, you work this circuit long enough,

you get to know how fickle and hyper

some of these diplomatic corps people are.

It doesn't matter what country.

They all get hair-balled

when people come around on a homicide investigation.

I'm not going to romance you, Detective Lewis,

but there isn't the remotest possibility

that you or your partner here are going to interview

anybody else at the Chinese Embassy.

- So give it up. - What are you saying?

We can't do our job?

I'm saying don't waste your time.

We share reciprocal protection with the Republic of China.

You know something.

Doesn't matter if I do.

We're not pursuing an investigation.

[Meldrick] No, you know who did it, don't you?

- Bayless, where's Pembleton? - [Bayless] I don't know, Chief.

Don't say "I don't know." He's your partner.

You should know his every move [indistinct].

Like a lover, he should be never far from your thoughts.

- And you thought I was poetic. - I'm in no mood for sarcasm.

Captain Barnfather and Colonel Granger wanna see him.

Okay.

How does it look

that I don't know where one of my men is?

How does it look to the bosses

when Pembleton doesn't check in with me?

I'll tell you. It reflects badly on my authority as Shift Commander.

Yeah, why do the bosses want to talk to Pembleton, Chief?

[Munch] The bosses are up to something.

Definitely, they're up to something.

Munch, I don't care.

All I want to do--

all I want you to do, is to find Pembleton.

And I will.

They put a pillow around his head

like he was some kind of animal.

That's what a friend of his told us.

- Yeah, Tam Chow? - It's Tamryn Chow.

Tamryn Chow.

Tamryn Chow does not exist.

What are you talking about she doesn't exist?

We talked to her. She was at the crime scene.

That was our main interview.

[Gruszynski] We know you talked to a woman.

But our records don't list any Tamryn Chow.

We know that whoever she was,

boarded a plane from Montreal

ten minutes after being interviewed by you guys.

Once in Montreal, she got on an Air France flight,

which is now somewhere over the Arctic,

on its way to Beijing, China.

[Meldrick] You're saying this woman is the one who shot Wong?

[Gruszynski] I don't know, but it seems kind of strange

she left the country so quickly, doesn't it?

So you're saying it wasn't anybody

from the Chinese embassy here in DC, right?

[sighs] I don't know.

- You don't know? - [Crosetti] You don't know.

All right, so this woman,

she knows we're going to find out eventually,

that she's not who she says she is.

- [Gruszynski] Yes. - All right.

Let's hope-- All right, let's--

all right, say--

say I want to contact you tomorrow.

- Say I wanna call Gr-- Cr-- - [Gruszynski] Gruszynski.

Gruszynski. I call here.

I call here and I say,

"I'd like to speak to Agent Gruszynski."

Is there going to be an Agent Gruszynski tomorrow?

I hope so.

Whether it's me or not,

who can tell?

I'm kidding, I'll be here tomorrow.

Now, is there some place you'd especially like to go

while you're here visiting the capital?

Great, now he's going to be our tour guide.

- You serious? - [Gruszynski] Yeah.

There's a place I'd like to see.

Let's do it.

[Howard] My partner and I arrived

to find Mrs. Keene lying on her back.

She'd been pronounced dead at 4:40.

Was there a sign of forced entry?

No, as a matter of fact,

the burglar alarm had been turned off.

- Which tells you? - She knew her attacker.

[Russom] Objection. Calls for speculation.

Judge Madden, Detective Howard

is a decorated homicide investigator.

She's been the primary on 50 cases,

involved in 100 others.

Her powers of speculation are a little more than valid here.

Overruled.

What else makes you think

that Mrs. Keene knew the attacker?

Her clothes were in a neat pile,

as if she had undressed while standing.

Undressed?

- For her lover? - [Howard] Yes.

Mrs. Keene was first attacked while lying on her back in bed.

There's knife scratches on the headboard that prove it.

Your Honor, can we let the jury determine what proves what here?

Yes.

Detective, stop swerving in your lane.

[Howard] Sorry.

[Danvers] No further questions.

However, I do wish to recall the detective later.

Mr. Russom, cross-examination.

The--

the victim was stabbed how many times?

Several dozen.

You don't know the number exactly?

Several dozen.

- The victim was also shot once. - [Howard] Yes.

Well, at least you're sure about that, huh?

Was the apartment tidy?

[Howard] Yes, very well kept.

[Russom] A laboratory technician discovered human hair

in the sheets on the bed.

Were they ever checked to see if they belonged to someone else?

You can't tell from a hair who it belonged to.

Well, can you at least determine

if they come from a Black person or a white person?

Yes, but you can't go much farther.

So the hairs that were recovered

were never compared to anyone else's?

That doesn't sound very thorough.

- Objection. - [Judge Madden] Sustained.

Was the victim a smoker?

I don't know.

- You don't know. - [Howard clears throat]

These cigarettes that were recovered at the scene,

did it occur to you to find out if the victim was a smoker?

Or if Mr. Johnson smoked?

Or perhaps the cigarettes belonged

to someone else entirely, like the real murderer?

- Objection. - [Judge Madden] Sustained.

For the record, Mr. Johnson does not smoke.

One last question, Detective.

The victim was pronounced at 4:40.

What is the estimated time of death?

Rigor mortis was fully set.

The blood underneath the victim's head

was dry, coagulated.

It seemed to me she'd been dead for at least 24 hours.

- No, I-- No, not. No. - 24 hours?

So, in your expert opinion, the murder took place...

- I'm sorry, I take that back. - ...at 5:00 p.m. the previous day.

- I'm sorry. - Not around midnight.

I got confused.

I meant to say less than-- at least 12 hours.

You get confused a lot, don't you, miss?

No further questions.

[gavel thudding]

[Judge Madden] Court will recess for one hour.

[dramatic music playing]

Kay, you made one little slip about the time of death,

but you corrected immediately.

Stop beating yourself up about it.

You heard Danvers this morning.

The entire case rests on the jury

being able to believe our word over Johnson's.

- Hey, Ed, listen, I am so sorry. - It's okay.

- No, it's not okay. - It's okay.

- It's not okay. - It's okay, Kay.

- Are you stuttering? - Just stay out of this.

Look, the damage is fixable.

Russom's clearly going to go

for the "shoddy police work" defense.

I'm going to call LaToya Kennedy to the stand after lunch.

Try to poke some holes in Johnson's alibi.

But you'll put me back on the stand, right?

- Maybe. - Maybe.

- Got a gun? - Always.

Put me out of my misery, would you?

[mimics gunshot]

[Bayliss] Hey, Gee, look who popped up.

There you are.

I'm sorry my esteemed lieutenant.

I was out working on the Lilly case.

I don't care.

Go up to Colonel Granger's office.

Now.

Yes, sir.

Trials and tribulations of the civilized world.

Hey, Gee, you want this last cruller?

[Giardello] Yes.

You want the whole cruller?

- I'll split it with you. - All right.

- Hey. - [Bayliss] Oh, Munch.

I always knew you were a closet smokehound.

You know, I'm going to change my hair or something,

get a bigger badge, maybe a tattoo.

What's the matter?

[Munch] Because I don't think I'm projecting the proper cop aura.

I was parking my car.

No offense, but I was parking my car,

this 20-year-old guy comes running by,

looks at me, and throws me his dope.

And then, like, a few seconds later,

a squad car comes by chasing him.

You know, this guy just, like, scoped me up,

thought I was John Q. Moron, and he tosses me his dope.

Why don't you tell me why that kid tossed you

a bag of dope?

I don't know. Maybe I don't look like a cop.

Maybe I got the kind of face he could trust.

- No, you don't. - [laughter]

- You catch the kid? - He's dead.

He pulled out a. 38 and my partner had to shoot him.

[Munch] Well, that's great. Another homicide.

Half the killings in this city are from drugs

and drug-related murders.

You know, if you cut out that, if you legalized drugs,

the killings would stop overnight.

You legalize drugs,

this city will drown, pal.

Yeah, like prohibition really worked.

This war on drugs should take a hint from the past.

The war on drugs? Come on, give me a break, huh?

It's more like a pea shoot.

We spent $61 billion kicking Saddam out of Kuwait.

We spent $11 million fighting drugs.

[Munch] I don't know, if coke and heroin were a tax,

maybe we could pay off the national debt.

[laughs] Oh, yeah.

Yeah, why let the mafia make all the money, huh?

Why don't we get the government involved, too?

Get them into extortion and loan sharking.

You mean you're not now?

Well, what if we took the revenue from sales

and we created rehab clinics, educational programs?

The government can't even deliver the mail.

You know that as well as I do.

Now you want them doling out grams and joints

- with some kind of integrity? - I'll tell you something.

There's more deaths from a year of legalized smoking

than from ten years of illegal drugs.

Oh, man. That is my point exactly.

Tobacco and alcohol are legal.

They're drugs, and when they're abused, they kill.

Yeah, well, we don't get a whole lot of street killings

over a Marlboro Light.

I mean, it happens, but it's very rare.

You're gonna drive yourself crazy.

- No, I'm not. - You're gonna drive me crazy.

I just want to know what's going on in there.

He's had LaToya Kennedy on the stand for over an hour.

It's hard, working a case.

And when it goes to trial, we get sent to the showers.

Yeah, well, I haven't lost a case yet

that went to jury trial,

and I sure as hell don't want to lose this one.

Don't worry about it. Danvers will get Pony.

Danvers is the best State Attorney in--

in the state.

Danvers never listens to my advice.

He listens, he evaluates,

and then he argues the case his way.

Yeah, he's fair, I guess.

Preps hard.

His closing arguments are very persuasive,

sometimes even moving.

Sure, he bitches and moans, but he's a fighter, you know?

He hates to lose.

You know, it's more than that, though.

He... [chuckles]

...doesn't like to see a guilty man go free.

- You are smitten. - What?

With Danvers.

No, no, no, it's a classic syndrome.

[Howard groans]

You both hiss at each other,

but underneath, you're both fighting intense sexual desires.

Will you stop?

Look at how dressed up you got today.

Yeah, I wanted to make a good impression.

- On Danvers. - On the jury.

Kay, you're gonna have to learn to face your inner passions.

- I am not in love with Ed Danvers. - [door clicks closed]

Oh, man.

Uh, I'm gonna call you again in about ten minutes.

Oh, so, and then I'll be finished.

I can sit in the courtroom, right?

Yeah. Oh, listen.

Remember, you can't mention Alexandra Lyness

unless Russom leads you to it, so be careful.

And when you take the stand,

watch out for the blood on the floor.

Blood?

LaToya Kennedy, the girlfriend.

I killed her. I destroyed her.

I shoved her head first with a high-speed blender of justice,

pureed Johnson's alibi.

Sometimes you're good, sometimes you're lucky.

Today, damn it, I was both.

What?

[laughs]

[Granger] Detective Pembleton, welcome.

- Sit down. - Thank you, sir.

Can we get you a beverage, coffee?

No, thank you, sir.

If I may speak frankly, I feel as though

I'm about to be disciplined or perhaps fired.

- [both chuckling] - [Granger] No, no, not at all.

Frank, we've called you here

on a matter of the utmost importance.

And delicacy.

Don't discuss what we're about to say with anyone,

especially Lieutenant Giardello.

Why especially the lieutenant?

We understand that we're putting you

in a potentially awkward situation,

but necessity demands.

- Just trust us, okay? - [Pembleton] Okay.

As you know, we're in the process

of reorganizing the Homicide Unit

in order to increase efficiency, credibility.

- Morale. - Yes, morale.

- Are you with us? - Sure.

- Morale's been down lately. - [Barnfather] Mm-hmm.

And the recent retirement of Jim Scinta

as the commander of the other shift

gives us an opportunity to shake the second floor up.

[Granger] Ever since you joined the unit,

your performance evaluations have been exemplary.

Your investigative work has been consistently outstanding.

Well, I don't know.

My last case was Jake the Bleachdog.

I wouldn't call that "outstanding."

More like pathetic.

[Granger] Your swift capture of his killer, though,

saved this department much embarrassment.

[Barnfather] Which is why we'd like to place your name

on a very short list of people to replace Scinta.

What?

[Barnfather] We want you to work alongside Giardello

as the other Commander of Homicide.

- Well... - Think about it.

Oh, yes. Yes, thank you, sir.

Yes.

We have established that the defendant

got the wadcutter bullets

from William Lyness the night of the murder.

The car Mr. Johnson drives matches the one

seen outside of Mrs. Keene's apartment that night.

And in the trunk of that car

were the same wadcutter bullets used to kill her.

[Danvers] Thank you, Detective Howard.

Detective, given the fact that two very different weapons,

a gun and a knife, were used to kill the victim,

isn't it probable that she was killed by two different people?

- [Howard] No. - Oh, come on, Detective.

Have you ever had a case where a victim was killed

by a knife wound and a gun wound

and there was only one perpetrator?

- [Howard] Yes. - [Russom] How many cases?

Name one. Name it.

We have indications in the death of Alexandra Lyness

that there was only one murderer.

Your Honor, I should ask for a mistrial.

The Lyness case is off-limits here.

You're the one who asked the question.

Yeah, well, I wasn't expecting that answer.

A good attorney never asks a question

he doesn't know the answer to.

Now, what's your request?

What do you want me to do?

Yeah, well, I don't know.

No further questions.

[Judge Madden] You may step down, Detective.

Hey, Gee.

So?

So what?

So what did Barnfather and Granger

need to speak to you about?

Oh, they're gonna start

another recruitment program for minorities.

They wanted me to look at some posters, brochures.

I guess they consider me a [indistinct]

given I'm such a hip cat, you know?

- That's it? - Yeah.

- And that's all? - Yeah.

There was no other reason.

You don't want to take me in the box and interrogate me?

Not yet.

First I gotta figure out why you're lying to me.

[Pembleton chuckles]

[door creaks open]

The jury's coming back.

That was fast.

Is that good or bad? I can't remember.

Of course it's good. We can go eat dinner soon.

[gavel thudding]

[Judge Madden] Will the defendant

please rise and face the jury?

Mr. Foreman, please stand.

How do you find the defendant, Aloysius Johnson,

not guilty or guilty?

Guilty.

[indistinct chatter]

[Howard chuckles]

So they carry Lincoln's body out here,

and they bring him to that-- Whoa!

You actually got the clout

to get in these places whenever you want, huh?

Yeah, I can get into museums.

But I can't fix a traffic ticket to save my life.

Hey, you know, I heard about, uh...

There's a stage door where John Wilkes Booth runs out of.

Where's the stage door?

You know, originally, the Secret Service was in charge

of hunting down counterfeiters.

When Lincoln died, everything changed.

Yeah, well, Booth was gonna shoot Lincoln

whether the Secret Service was invented yet or not.

The Secret Service is the best at what it does,

better than any other agency in any other country.

I got one word for you.

Dallas.

We had warned the local cops

about the parade route and the threats.

Sorry, you know, I'm wondering,

do they cordon off the area to find--

I mean, have you read about what happened?

What happened at the...

You guys must think I'm crazy.

I'm sorry, I'm excited I'm here, you know?

Why don't I buy you dinner?

Take it over to the White House Mess.

Nah, we gotta get back.

What are you talking about? I'm hungry.

I'd like to go to the White House.

Yeah, take advantage of being out of Baltimore.

- What's that supposed to mean? - Washington's a beautiful city.

Washington has the highest capital murder rate

in the country.

Well, Baltimore leads the country in cancer deaths.

- We got the National Aquarium. - We got the Kennedy Center.

Lincoln Memorial. Smithsonian.

- And we got the Orioles. - We have the Redskins.

- I rest my case. - Gentlemen, gentlemen.

Yours is a good city. Yours is a good city.

Let's call a truce.

Detective Lewis, in Baltimore,

murder is wrong, the bad guys get punished.

But none of the prevailing rules of law and decency

pertain to Washington.

The stakes are too high.

Well, if I can just quote the man who got shot

in that building right there,

it's supposed to be, "Of, by, and for the people,"

not for some of the people.

The myth of being a Secret Service agent

is that we die for the people, but we don't.

If we take a bullet, it's for the institution.

No politician's worth my life.

If I'm gonna die, it's for my country,

not for those bastards.

You know, Gruszynski, you're more full of crap

than a stadium toilet.

Wong was flat-out murdered.

Somebody put a bag over his head,

somebody shot him in the back of the head,

and somebody held him down while they did it.

Now, if you don't see the wrong in that,

maybe you're dying for the wrong country.

I guess

we're not gonna be having dinner at the White House.

Thanks.

I can see you buying me several malt beverages and a steak.

I can hear, "Yes, it's gloating.

It's definitely trash talk time."

Beer and beef maybe,

but I'm not patting myself on the back tonight.

Detective Howard.

Kay.

I was wondering if I could buy you dinner tonight.

Oh, that's sweet of you, Ed,

but Beau and I already made plans.

Oh, no, no, no, no, no. You guys go ahead.

I need my sleep tonight.

I'm going to visit the in-laws tomorrow.

Takes a lot of energy to get to Boring.

Well, great. How's Hampton's then?

Oh, no, I'm not dressed for Hampton's.

You look terrific.

Listen, I'll go up to my office,

I'll see you in the lobby in ten minutes, all right?

All right.

Careful, Howie, you may want to strip off his legal briefs.

Would you stop?

Ready for the ceremonial eye screw?

He was no fun.

Got a date with Ed?

"I'm not in love with Ed Danvers."

I'm not in love with Ed Danvers.

I'm having dinner with Ed Danvers.

You're stuck in there, huh? Like, you're stuck on Danvers.

All right, [indistinct].

- Mary? - Hmm?

- Mary? - Yeah?

We can't afford this place.

We can, on special occasions.

This is a special occasion.

And if you take this promotion,

we could have a lot more special occasions.

Well, I have to admit, the bump in salary would be nice.

Mm, it'd be nice to get the roof fixed.

So what are you going to have?

Oh, I guess that means we're not going to talk about it anymore.

Cold water lobster tails stuffed with imperial crab.

Frank.

What?

Don't take the job because of the money.

Take the job because of the job.

This is an enormous honor that's been offered to you.

A detective, as young as you are, a man of color.

Think of the good you could do getting things done your way.

Mary, you and I,

we'd be together even less than we are now.

We'll make it work.

The question is, do you want this job?

[Munch] No, this is great.

The murder's finally in the house,

and we got to wait for backup.

[Bolander] I'm worried about you, Munch.

[Munch] Oh, yeah?

All this pro-drug stuff you've been spewing up.

I mean, what is that?

Theoretical opinions,

or am I hearing a cry for help here?

Stanley, you ever been high?

- Be serious. - I am.

There's a reason it's called "high."

For some people, it lifts them up and out

of whatever low-rent, depraved hopelessness they're stuck in.

It is a short respite from reality,

from the stone-cold reality

that they live in a racist country

run by bigoted old white guys

who won't give them a break on education

and then bitch when they go on welfare

because they can't find a job.

So we're supposed to let them do drugs

because they're feeling depressed?

All I'm saying is, if I had to wake up to that every day,

I'd hang naked from Shot Tower just to spite the tourists.

Yadda, yadda, yadda, yadda. So you get high?

- Do you smoke pot? - I don't have to answer that.

Nurse, can I have a cup over here?

I want to test this man's urine. Here we go.

[engine rumbling]

- Where's the guy from narcotics? - He's out on another call.

You know, this is a dope dealer's house.

There's gonna be a ton of drugs in there.

I don't want to be the one to submit that stuff

- to Evidence Control. - [officer] Why?

Because it's a pain in the paperwork.

Why don't you cut these lights?

I knew this would happen.

Well, narcotics won't be available for an hour or so.

All right, that means one of you two guys

is gonna have to take the stuff

and submit it to Evidence Control, okay?

Let's not find any then.

Munch, we're gonna have to pick it up

because we might need something on this guy, okay?

All right, I'll take the dope.

I got to run by headquarters anyway.

- Which house is it? - That one.

Get to the wall!

Get to the wall, or I'll blow your head off!

Move and your brains are on the floor!

If that bad boy goes off,

we'll be writing reports well into our twilight years.

I'm sure Mr. Jones here wishes to cooperate.

Why don't you cuff him?

[calm music playing]

[Pembleton] That sign.

City Pier Broadway.

I never noticed it before.

I guess I never came out this far before.

[Giardello] This used to be a ballroom.

A big, beautiful ballroom

with a huge chandelier and a full orchestra.

My parents had their wedding reception here.

The city needed the space,

they took the chandeliers down and cut the room into pieces.

They changed it into something else

for the better, I guess.

Sitting in my office late at night...

I think sometimes I hear the orchestra.

Gee.

I lied to you earlier.

Uh-huh.

The bosses offered me acting shift commander.

I know.

How'd you find out?

They told me.

They told me specifically not to tell you.

This is the kind of games they play.

Are you gonna take the job?

You know, Gee, I never see you out on the street

unless it's a red ball or crisis.

You never investigate cases.

You sit behind a desk, shuffling papers,

balancing budgets, fending off the bosses,

playing kindergarten teacher to Felton, Munch, Crosetti--

- You. - Yeah, me too.

You got a crappy job, Gee.

I don't want any part of it.

You know, I can't stand being in this guard room even when I'm supposed to be.

I know.

I'm sorry I lied to you.

Yeah.

Me too.

[Munch] Only in Charm City,

around the corner of Pickwick and Wetheredsville.

What the hell kind of name is that?

- Wetheredsville- - Who thinks up these street names anyway?

It was to honor John Wethered,

who owned a cotton mill in that area.

And he made all this money,

it is said, that by selling communal clothes

to both the Confederates and the Yankees.

- [Munch] Guess what? - What?

That was a rhetorical question.

Hey, you can't touch me because I almost had dinner at the White House, right?

- [Meldrick] That's true. - [Munch] Keyword, "almost."

- Hey, hey, hey. - Hey, guys.

- Mind if I join you? - [indistinct].

Pembleton, you've never come in here before.

You've never even had a drink with us.

Yeah, I know.

- So, get out. - [laughter]

- Come on, cop squad. - I appreciate it.

[Meldrick] Okay, so what's this that I heard

about a certain conversation

about a certain homicide detective

being promoted to shift commander, huh?

Well, fortunately,

I don't believe in rumors and such.

And such?

Pembleton, let me ask you something.

Are you familiar with "The last man in"

theory of the universe?

- The last man in... - Come on, Pembleton.

- Come on. - ...pays!

[all shouting]

Good answer, good answer!

Next round's on you.

I don't know you say something like that.

- Because we're murder police. - We're erudite.

We're the height of subtlety around here.

We are.

- I guess. - Oh, man.

♪ Farewell and adieu to you all, Spanish ladies ♪

♪ Farewell and adieu, To the ladies of Spain ♪

♪ Spain, Spain, Spain ♪

[laughs]

[theme song playing]