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[Bruce Springsteen singing "No Surrender"]

♪ Oh ♪

♪ Well we busted out of class ♪

♪ Had to get away from those fools ♪

♪ We learned more from a three-minute record ♪

♪ Baby than we ever learned in school ♪

Are we going to that party tonight?

- Yeah. - Man, forget about the party.

Just keep driving right out of Philly.

What's wrong with Philly?

- May's got her big plans. - Singing, huh?

She's gonna cut some plates of her own in New York City.

Why do you want to go to New York?

You don't know anyone there.

I know everyone here.

I bet she makes it, we won't hear from her ever again

except for on the radio.

My daddy says, you plan big, you'll just disappoint yourself.

Yeah, well, I got plans that involve you.

Me, too. With you.

Aw, crap! Get a room.

♪ And hear your sister's voice calling us home ♪

♪ Across the open yards ♪

♪ Well maybe we could cut some place of our own ♪

♪ With these drums and these guitars ♪

♪ 'Cause we made a promise ♪

♪ We swore we'd always remember ♪

♪ No retreat baby ♪

♪ No surrender ♪

♪ Blood brothers in the stormy night ♪

♪ With a vow to defend ♪♪

[song trailing off]

[sirens wailing]

[crickets chirping]

[indistinct radio transmission]

[instrumental music]

[music continues]

[gulls cawing]

So this chick went AWOL

after a highway shooting in '88?

The guy she was with was killed.

She got winged.

Skipped out of the hospital before cops could interview her.

And now someone dropped the dime?

An old classmate saw her on the boardwalk last week.

Now, what is that?

Rice cake.

Alright.

- May Pierson. - Yeah.

Philadelphia Homicide.

I don't have anything to do with anything.

That's a pretty broad claim.

I've been up all night. I can't be doing this.

Doing what, May? You don't even know what its about.

Or do you?

Clem Garris, shot on the expressway in '88.

- You were there. - Till you fled.

No. That was another girl.

[Vera] 'So you're not May Pierson?'

[Vera] 'That works at this fine establishment.'

And drives this vehicle?

I'm saying that was a lifetime ago.

- And we gotta talk about it. - Forget it. I'm going home.

This ain't a debate, May. We got a warrant.

We do this here or we do it in Philly.

You can't take me there. On what basis?

Obstructing a police investigation, '88.

New York bench warrant, '94.

And irritating two Homicide guys, 2006.

Get in the car.

[instrumental music]

[theme music]

[instrumental music]

Were you in court this morning?

Huh, cat emergency.

Olivia got chomped by a neighbor dog.

Did he get the other eye?

It's not funny.

Rita.

Hi, John.

I almost came by. I didn't want to bother you.

Er, Lilly Rush.

Rita...Hart.

Formerly, Stillman.

Oh, uh, hi.

Um, I'll see you in there, boss.

So, uh, what brings you here?

House got robbed last night.

No kidding.

Yeah. I just reported it.

Was Joe with you?

Joe moved out. A few months ago.

- The drinking? - Yeah.

- Sorry. - It's better.

I'll talk to Major Crimes, have them fast-track it.

Okay.

- Give you a call. - Thanks.

[instrumental music]

Clem Garris, shot and killed, January '88.

- Found on the shoulder of I-76. - But not alone.

No, that's the scandalous part.

He was found with a woman, not his wife.

May Pierson. Was shot in the arm.

Slipped out of the ER

before the cops could get a play-by-play.

But Vera and Valens picked her up this morning.

Got her upstairs.

Leaves the scene and doesn't turn up for 18 years.

- That's a person of interest. - At least.

But Clem told his wife, Sally, he'd be at a local bar

that night, with the guys.

So why's he out on the highway with this gal?

Rough way to find out what your husband's up to.

Unless Sally already knew.

Decided she'd had enough.

Making her person of interest number two.

Between New York and Jersey..

...there's a lot of ink on you, May.

That's from way back.

DUI. Arrests for loitering.

- Solicitation. - I know what I did.

Now you know why I ditched the cops that night.

You didn't want to get jammed up.

Never mind helping find who killed your boyfriend, Clem.

He wasn't my boyfriend.

You're saying you weren't screwing around?

I hadn't seen him in years.

Well, then, how the heck do you end up

on that highway with him, May?

I ran into Clem in Atlantic City that night.

Told his wife he was at a Philly bar.

I can't account for that.

So, you run into him..

We're talking about old times.

We're both heading back to Philly. He offers me a ride.

And?

And we're almost there.

Get bumped from behind.

He pulls over, gets out..

Gets shot. Just like that.

Clem talk about being in trouble, anything like that?

I don't know what his life was like.

We'd said our goodbyes years earlier when we were just kids.

♪ Two three four ♪

[Bruce Springsteen singing "Bobby Jean"]

[crowdcheering]

♪ Well I came by your house the other day ♪

♪ Your mother said you went away ♪

♪ She said there was nothing.. ♪

May Pierson shows up.

Worked one last shift.

You really going, huh?

Philly to New York, 8:00 a.m.

Not gonna wait for Petey to come get you?

Petey's a big college football star.

He's never coming back.

[crowd cheering]

You gonna marry Sally?

That's the plan.

[crowd hooting]

♪ Now you've hung with me ♪

♪ When all the others turned away ♪

What if you came with me, instead?

Come with you?

Remember that day we ditched?

Drove around, playing"Born To Run"till the tape broke?

Yeah. We ran out of gas.

We could spend every day like that.

I'm not like you, May.

I'm not a big dream kind of person.

But you are.

I gotta stay.

♪ In some motel room there'll be a radio playing ♪

Well, she sure is pretty.

♪ Well if you do you'll know I'm thinking of you ♪

♪ And all the miles in between ♪

♪ And I'm just calling ♪

♪ One last time not to change your mind ♪

Bye, Mayflower.

♪ But just to say I miss you baby ♪

♪ Good luck goodbye Bobby Jean ♪♪

That's how I like to remember Clem.

'Cause when I saw him that night in Atlantic City

he'd turned into just another..

...disappointed working guy.

It happens.

That's what I know.

Now, can I get back to Jersey?

[instrumental music]

So May Pierson gave us new details.

- About your husband's murder. - Like?

He was in Atlantic City that night.

Not in Philly, like he told you.

Look, I know everyone thought..

...Clem must've been seeing her behind my back.

But he wasn't.

- How do you know? - Clem wasn't perfect.

But he was more good than bad.

And when he was in something...he was in.

[bell tinkles]

When I was 19, I took off with a guy

two weeks into knowing him.

The heart wants what it wants.

Yeah, he was a biker.

A drinker. But I thought

"This is it."

"Roll out the carpet. We're going down the aisle."

And you didn't go through with it?

Kinda came close. We were road tripping.

Went to a courthouse in Knoxville, but, uh..

...we just sat out there on his bike.

Neither one of us could get off.

Well, Clem and I never had any doubts.

No?

Getting married was the happiest day of our lives.

Anyone unhappy that day?

[sighing]

One person.

[Bruce Springsteen singing "Brilliant Disguise"]

♪ I hold you in my arms ♪

♪ As the band plays ♪

♪ What are those words whispered baby ♪

♪ Just as you turn away ♪

- Are you sorry? - No. Come on.

I didn't want this to be the way.

We were going to have babies, anyway.

♪ I want to read your mind and know ♪

♪ Just what I've got in this new thing I've found ♪

We're doing the right thing, Sal.

I'm going to make you happy every day.

What a freakin' joke.

Petey, we didn't think you were coming.

You two aren't fooling anyone.

Ah, you drinking this early?

You're just marrying her because she's knocked up, okay?

- And everyone knows it. - Keep it down.

Pete, you're acting real embarrassing--

Oh, oh, I'm embarrassing, huh?

I know who you really want to be with.

It's my girl. May.

- No. - What the hell happened to you?

♪ Underneath your pillow ♪

♪ Well I tried so hard baby ♪

Well, what-what happened?

I-I got my ass kicked out and I'm washed up and

my girl's long gone. So you get everything and I get nothing.

Start up my car.

Me and my bride are pulling out of here.

♪ When I look in your eyes ♪

♪ Is that you baby ♪

♪ Or just a brilliant disguise ♪

♪ Now look at me baby ♪

♪ Struggling to do everything right ♪

♪ And then it all falls apart.. ♪♪

[Rush] 'Petey hit some kind of wall?'

Something went real wrong at Penn State.

And he dropped out. Came home damaged goods.

Brought some strong feelings home with him.

If it's true Clem was in Atlantic City that night..

Yeah?

Petey spent a lot of time there.

So he could've run into Clem and May and reacted badly.

I can't put it past him.

He's in jail now.

Made a spectacle of yourself at that wedding, Petey.

Yeah, what a jerk.

Pretty bitter about things going so good for Clem?

I was in a real bad way then.

I'd just lost my free ride to Penn State.

I played ball, too.

Yeah?

What went wrong?

First game, I choked.

Froze up on the field, did it all year.

- Got cut. - Oh.

Couldn't have been easy coming home after that.

It wasn't.

People look at you like you're crap.

- Including Clem? - No.

He was cool.

I apologized for the wedding thing.

We moved on.

Started hanging out again.

Were you surprised to hear that he was

with May the night he died?

Yeah.

Everyone was.

- Bother you at all? - How do you mean?

She was your old girl, right?

I went with her in high school.

So maybe you wanted to get back to that time

when you were a football star

and had your girl, May.

Not denying those were better times but

eight years later, I wasn't thinking about May.

No?

I was thinking about someone else.

[crowd chattering]

[Bruce Springsteen singing "Glory Days"]

♪ Whoo ♪

Nine seconds left and Crazy Rich tosses me that screen pass.

Yeah, I, I remember. Me and Sal were on the field

getting ready to do the homecoming thing.

Caught that baby, turned on the jets.

- That was something. - Crazy times. Crazy times.

♪ On by you make you look like a fool ♪

Never been a prettier homecoming queen, Sal.

You in that white dress.

You remember that, huh?

Are you kidding me? Everybody noticed.

Clem got the best catch in school.

♪ Had a few drinks ♪

I sure did.

♪ Glory days ♪

Who's that?

A guy, I do favors for, make some cash.

I better get back to the baby.

Well, I'll be home soon.

Why's she so down?

Er..

...things been kind of iffy at home.

♪ Sometimes on a Friday I'll stop by and have ♪

You know, truthfully, man..

...I don't know if me and Sal were ready for all this.

So young..

It's probably just tough times right now.

Yeah.

No, man.

It is more than that.

You think she's sorry?

I think she wishes she didn't cry every night.

♪ In the wink of a young girl's eye ♪

♪ Glory days ♪♪

So Clem and Sally were on the outs.

Win or lose..

I'll lay it out for you.

Things between..

...me and Sally..

...kind of grew.

[Stillman] 'So Sally and Petey started up.'

It kind of kills her claim her marriage was so great.

And gives her motive if she wanted out for good.

What were these favors that Petey was doing for money?

Breaking legs, stealing cars.

- Thug stuff. - Clem ever get in on it?

Petey says he offered but Clem wouldn't go for it.

Guy walked the line.

Uh, anyway, guys..

...night.

What's he nervous about?

Her.

So they found who did the robberies?

Yeah, Bobby Greene.

Lived up the street. He used to throw mud balls at our windows.

That little kid?

He's grown up.

Criminal now.

Oh, God.

He hit two other houses on the block but

he got picked up this morning.

That's sad.

So why didn't you come to me about this in the first place?

I knew you'd be busy.

Well, I'm trying to be less busy.

You are who you are.

I would like to think I've learned some things.

- Anyway, I-- - Would you..

Ever want to have dinner?

Go to Irina's?

Really?

Yeah. I'm free Friday.

- Me, too. - Seven?

- Okay. - Okay.

- Alright, I'll see you. - Okay.

- Seven. - Yeah.

[instrumental music]

Clem made you happy every day.

- Right, Sally? - Right.

Don't want to revise that statement?

Why would I?

How about because you were banging Petey?

That was wrong.

But it happened.

And you not telling that, gets our wheels turning.

Maybe you felt trapped.

Well, things between you and Clem died out

but he wouldn't give up.

'Cause when he was in something, he wasin.

Look..

...I never had that kind of love again.

So maybe, I want to remember things a certain way.

[Valens] 'But we don't live in that land, Sal.'

We got a real-life murder to solve.

That's true.

- Things faded. - And?

And it's true Clem wasn't one to give up.

But he did...finally.

[Bruce Springsteen singing "I'm On Fire"]

♪ Hey little girl is your daddy home ♪

♪ Did he go and leave you all alone? ♪

♪ I got a bad desire ♪

♪ Oh oh oh I'm on fire ♪

[Clem] 'Oh, man, it's..'

Valentine's Day.

Baby, I'm sorry.

I was gonna get flowers and candy..

It doesn't matter.

♪ Oh oh oh I'm on fire ♪

[sighs]

Let's go to bed, huh?

No.

♪ Sometimes it's like someone took a knife baby ♪

We ain't making it, are we, Sal?

[sighs]

Why can't we fix it?

I don't know.

It's just gone.

But it was right.

It was fun and easy and right.

It was.

♪ Oh I'm on fire ♪

I don't wanna be a divorced person.

Yeah, but do you want to be..

...this married person?

♪ Ooh hoo hoo ♪

♪ Ooh hoo ♪

♪ Ooh hoo hoo ♪

[sobbing]

♪ Ooh hoo hoo.. ♪♪

That's when Petey came into the picture?

It wasn't love.

But he wanted to be with me.

And Clem wanted to be somewhere else.

By the time May came back to town..

...he knew he could go see her.

And May came back?

When her mother died, I went to the funeral.

I told you, I haven't seen Clem since high school.

Oh, I know what you told me.

His wife says he was at the funeral.

[sighs] Look, I didn't kill him.

Then why lie to my face?

What are you hiding?

Me and Clem did a stupid, desperate thing.

Tried to get back something we could never have again.

I need to hear about that.

I saw him at the funeral.

And?

Everything rushed back.

[Bruce Springsteen singing "Drive All Night"]

♪ When I lost you honey ♪

♪ Sometimes I think I lost my guts too ♪

♪ Yeah I wish God would send me a word ♪

♪ Send me something I'm afraid to lose ♪

♪ Lying in the heat of the night ♪

♪ Like prisoners all our lives ♪

♪ Yeah I get shivers down my spine girl ♪

♪ And all I want to do is hold you tight ♪

Clem Garris shows up.

♪ Baby baby baby ♪

Hey, Mayflower.

♪ I swear I'd travel all night again ♪

♪ Just to buy you some shoes ♪

♪ And to taste your tender charms ♪

♪ And I just want to sleep tonight ♪

I should get to the reception.

♪ In your arms ♪

Hmm. Let me drive you.

♪ Oh yeah oh yeah ♪

♪ Tonight there's fallen angels ♪

♪ And they're waiting for us down the street ♪

♪ And tonight there's calling strangers ♪

♪ Hear them crying in defeat.. ♪

How did New York go?

Not too good.

How is that possible?

You're the best singer I ever heard.

Turns out a lot of people can sing.

♪ Do their dances of the dead ♪

♪ Let 'em go right ahead girl ♪

♪ You just dry your eyes ♪

You wanna go to that reception?

No.

Just keep driving.

♪ Oh baby baby baby baby ♪

♪ I swear I'd drive all night.. ♪

[Clem] 'You got a guy there in New York?'

[May] 'No. Mostly, I just got debts.'

[Clem] 'How you been getting by?'

I don't wanna talk about it.

Okay.

I just haven't been living right.

♪ But I'll be back again in your arms ♪

♪ Oh yeah oh yeah ♪

What if we started over?

You and me?

How?

Get out of here.

Just drive away.

Like we should have done years ago.

I loved you so much.

Maybe it's still in you someplace.

I know it's in me.

I owe this guy--

There's a job I can do in Atlantic City.

Get you money.

♪ Through the wind through the rain.. ♪

And then clear out of here?

Yeah, you and me. Finally.

♪ You've got my my love ♪

♪ Oh girl you've got my love ♪

♪ You've got you've got my love ♪

♪ Oh girl you've got my love ♪

♪ You've got you've got my love ♪

♪ Oh girl you've got my love ♪

♪ Heart ♪

♪ And soul ♪

♪ Heart.. ♪♪

We thought we could pick up

where we left things all those years ago.

But you can't go back.

Learned that the hard way.

So then you met in Atlantic City?

He did this job and we went.

Then the shooting happened.

What kind of job?

He just said it was a favor for a guy.

Looked into the dude Petey was doing those favors for.

A low life named Henry Mack.

Probably who Clem got mixed up with.

What's this Mack's line of work?

He had a ring of guys stealing cars at airports, casinos.

Bringing them back to his chop shop in Philly.

So maybe Clem's doing some runs for him that night.

And maybe Petey knows more about that night than he's letting on.

Hey, you find this Mack?

Yeah, six feet under in Trenton.

- Tough interview. - But there's a story to that.

The guy was murdered. Shot in a casino parking lot.

That connected to Clem somehow?

I'm guessing, 'cause Mack was killed

the very same night Clem was.

[instrumental music]

I know Clem usually walked the line.

Didn't get mixed up with the kind of favors you did.

He kept his nose clean.

Except maybe just one time

when he really needed the money?

- For May? - Maybe.

But that one time you two worked for Mack

Clem gets shot.

- So does Mack. - Uh-huh.

It's kind of hard to miss what those murders have in common.

- 'You.' - I was a thief, not a killer.

You and Clem were stealing those cars

maybe get ambitious?

Decide to double-cross Mack?

- No. - But Clem was desperate.

Maybe having a running buddy made you bold.

And Henry Mack probably deserved a pop in the head.

I don't know how Mack died.

Then, after you two waste him

you panic, worried Clem's gonna fold.

'Cause he don't got a criminal nature.

He walks the line.

Clem was the one guy who was nice

to me when I came home a mess.

Everyone else kept away.

[sighs]

He stayed my friend.

So be a friend to him, Petey.

You say what happened that night.

He didn't wanna be dirty.

But it was his only ticket out.

[Bruce Springsteen singing "Stolen Car"]

[engine revving]

♪ Well I found me a little girl and I settled down ♪

♪ In a pretty little house in a pretty little town ♪

♪ We got married and promised never to part ♪

♪ Then little by little we drifted ♪

♪ From each other's hearts ♪

♪ Now I'm drivin' a stolen car ♪

♪ On a pitch-black night ♪

♪ And I'm doing my best to make it through ♪

♪ Well, I'm just sitting down here at the Stanton light ♪

♪ I wanna get caught but I never do ♪

♪ At first I thought it was just restlessness ♪

♪ That would fade as time went by ♪

♪ And our love grew deep ♪

♪ But in the end it was something more I guess ♪

♪ That tore us apart and made us weep ♪

♪ And I'm driving a stolen car ♪

♪ Waiting on that little red light ♪

♪ I keep telling myself ♪

♪ Everything's gonna be alright ♪

♪ But I ride by night and I travel in fear ♪

♪ That in this darkness I might just disappear ♪

♪ She asked if I remembered the letters I wrote ♪

♪ When our love was young and we were bold ♪

♪ She said last night she read those letters ♪

♪ And they made her feel a hundred years old ♪

♪ There's a river runs by that little town ♪

♪ Down into the sea ♪

♪ It was there in the shade I lay my body down.. ♪

[sighs] I'm out, Petey.

No, you want to get paid, we got to go to Philly.

I'm taking the car.

- What? - Forget the money.

Well, that-that's no good, Clem.

Mack won't go for that.

Mack's not gonna find me. Be good to her.

♪ I can see those party lights shine ♪

♪ Maybe she's there ♪

♪ Maybe she's looking for me ♪

♪ Last night I dreamed I made the call ♪

♪ I swore to return and stay forevermore.. ♪

He went off to get May.

That's it.

The '69 Chevy, huh?

[chuckles]

It was a beauty.

Yeah.

I've seen it.

[Vera] 'You're still driving the same car'

'you and Clem took out of Atlantic City.'

And the only person who knew

where Clem was going that night..

...Petey.

It wasn't Petey.

- Who, then? - A-a guy.

Clem called him Mack.

There had to be two people, May.

Someone drove that second car away.

And somehow, the Chevy ended up back with you.

You would have given us Mack right off.

Unless he was with someone you wanna protect.

Maybe you and Petey need to talk.

[instrumental music]

[indistinct chatter]

Hey.

Mayflower.

Hi, Petey boy.

[chuckles]

May ID'd Henry Mack from a photo spread as the shooter.

So, we know he was one of our guys

at the scene, but we still got

the matter of who was with him.

And who killed him... later that night.

You ever make it in singing?

[chuckles]

I'm just a cocktail waitress.

So May says you two made a promise back when Clem died.

Yeah.

I'll keep it, Petey.

I'm not scared.

[sighs]

It's over for me.

But you can still have a good life.

What happens...after Clem takes off in that Chevy?

He finds trouble.

All 'cause of me.

[sighs]

We both had our part in it.

♪ Well they blew up a chicken man in Philly last night ♪

♪ Now they blew up his house too ♪

♪ Down on the boardwalk they're getting ready for a fight ♪

♪ Gonna see what them racket boys can do ♪

♪ Now there's trouble busting in from out of state ♪

♪ And the DA can't get no relief ♪

♪ Gonna be a rumble out on the Promenade ♪

♪ And the Gambling Commission's hanging on ♪

♪ By the skin of its teeth ♪

♪ Well now everything dies baby that's a fact ♪

♪ Maybe everything that dies someday comes back ♪

♪ Put your makeup on fix your hair up pretty ♪

♪ And meet me tonight in Atlantic City ♪

♪ Well I got a job I'm trying to put my money away ♪

♪ But I got debts that no honest man can pay ♪

♪ So I drew what I had from the Central Trust ♪

♪ And I bought us two tickets on that coast city bus ♪

♪ Now baby everything dies honey that's a fact ♪

♪ But maybe everything that dies someday comes back ♪

♪ Put your makeup on fix your hair up pretty ♪

♪ And meet me tonight in Atlantic City ♪

[intense music]

- Think you can steal fromme? - Mack..

[gunshot]

[groaning]

Take their car and meet me back there.

You gave him up?

He was-he was gonna kill me.

Get in the car and drive!

Okay, okay.

[sobbing]

♪ Someday comes back ♪

♪ So fix your hair up nice and your makeup pretty ♪

♪ Meet me tonight in Atlantic City ♪

♪ Meet me tonight in Atlantic City ♪

♪ Meet me tonight in Atlantic City ♪

♪ Meet me tonight in Atlantic City ♪

♪ Meet me tonight in Atlantic City ♪

♪ Meet me tonight in Atlantic City ♪

♪ Whoo Meet me tonight in Atlantic City ♪

♪ Whoo Meet me tonight in Atlantic City ♪♪

[intense music]

[gunshot]

[music continues]

[Bruce Springsteen singing "One Step Up"]

♪ Woke up this morning the house was cold ♪

♪ Checked the furnace she wasn't burning ♪

♪ Went out and hopped in my old Ford ♪

♪ Hit the engine buddy she ain't turning ♪

♪ Giving each other some hard lessons lately ♪

♪ But we ain't learnin' ♪

♪ Same sad story that's a fact ♪

♪ One step up and two steps back ♪

♪ Bird on a wire outside my motel room ♪

♪ But he ain't singin' ♪

♪ Girl in white outside a church in June ♪

♪ But the church bells they ain't ringing ♪

♪ Sitting here in this bar tonight ♪

♪ But all I'm thinking ♪

♪ I'm the same old story same old act ♪

♪ One step up and two steps back ♪

♪ It's the same thing night on night ♪

♪ Who's wrong baby who's right ♪

♪ Another fight and I slam the door ♪

♪ On another battle in our dirty little war ♪

♪ When I look at myself I don't see ♪

♪ The man I wanted to be ♪

♪ Somewhere along the line I slipped off track ♪

♪ I'm caught movin' one step up and two steps back ♪

♪ There's a girl across the bar ♪

♪ I get the message she's sending ♪

♪ Hmm she ain't looking too married ♪

♪ And me honey I'm pretending ♪

♪ Last night I dreamed I held you in my arms ♪

♪ The music was never-ending ♪

♪ We danced as the evening sky faded to black ♪

♪ One step up and two steps back ♪

♪One step up and two steps back♪

♪ One step up and two steps back ♪

♪One step up and two steps back♪

♪ One step up and two steps back ♪♪

[Rush] Stay tuned for scenes from our next episode.

[theme music]