East New York (2022–…): Season 1, Episode 14 - Family Tithes - full transcript
When a house party in Ruskin Gardens ends in murder, Morales and Killian turn to Quinlan for insight into her neighbours.
Previously on East New York...
This is Adam Lustig.
Adam's the major developer
in East New York.
Do me a favor,
play Sherlock Holmes
on your own time.
When people suddenly
become uncooperative,
they usually have
something to hide.
I count three. No, please.
Please... One...
Nothing my lawyer
can't handle, Ray.
Nothing my lawyer can't handle.
Alison Cha is
a very important
addition to our team.
We could have dinner together.
As long as it's not al fresco.
It won't be.
What are you doing here?
You can't force your way
onto church property, Chief.
Make a plate for your brother.
What do I always
say? Family first.
Family last.
I went out to the car
to get my phone, and
I stayed out there,
hoping that if anybody
had to get shot,
it wouldn't be me.
What can I do?
Nothing.
Okay.
If you're
training me to be like you,
why don't you let me drive
every once in a while?
Think
fast.
Who's got
it better than us?
What's up, man?
Bentley!
Seven-five indoors.
Now, that
is gonna beat anyone that
you go against on Saturday.
How'd I do?
You did good.
That was... That was incredible.
How do you feel?
I feel good. I could definitely
do another event on
Saturday, though.
You're doing the hundred
and the four-by-one.
That's enough for
one meet, Georgia.
Even though she just killed it
in the hundred-meter hurdle?
No, no,
no. No hurdles.
Tanya's been practicing
her hand-off.
She could definitely run
the third leg in
the four-by-one.
Uh, let us decide who
the top four runners are.
In the meantime,
you girls go hit the showers.
Nice work.
Is she in the top four?
Not even on her best day.
That settles that.
But I'm just so glad that I was
able to convince
you to help coach.
Well, my mom used
to help coach me.
I figured it was
a full circle type
thing, you know?
Hey.
What was my time?
I wasn't timing you.
I was only timing
Georgia, Andre. No. No.
You did good, man.
Thanks
for helping us out.
He single? Sabrina.
What?
Who is it?
It's me.
Did you hear that?
Yeah, I called it in.
What, you had to
come check up on me?
If there's a situation,
there needs to be
two of us responding.
Shots fired at Ruskin
Gardens. Two off-duty members
of the service
wearing rain jackets.
Show us responding.
♪ It's crazy ♪
♪ Are you trying to play me? ♪
♪ You've become afraid of me ♪
♪ Nah, it's crazy... ♪
My man. Yo, Lorenzo.
Hey, what up, big man?
It's 10:30, Cody.
Party time is over.
Okay. Come on, man.
Just come have a
drink or something.
I don't want nothing
to drink, man.
I want to go to sleep.
Hey, I know the dude.
I know the dude just for you.
Somebody get this man a Henny.
Hey, did you guys
hear the gunshots?
You got no consideration, Cody.
You got hard-working
people out here
who can't get to sleep.
You got your
grandmother in the room
with her door closed.
Yo, my grandma is chill, bro.
She sleep through anything.
I'm gonna tell you
this right now, man.
I got to come out my
apartment one more time,
I'm shutting it down myself.
"Shut it down
myself."
Yo, 'Renzo got a real
stick up his ass. For real.
♪ You in the danger zone. ♪
What's going on?
Gun's
registered to his father.
Here you go.
It's been cleared.
Young genius thought
it would be funny
to leave the party and
shoot out a streetlight.
Party central was apartment 1-C.
Let's check to see
if anybody there was involved.
Meantime, run him in.
Who is it that
lives in this apartment?
I do.
And you are?
I'm her grandniece.
I live over in building H.
Who was having the party?
That
would be my cousin.
Cody. He's been living here.
Where is he now?
He's probably around
here somewhere.
He can't be
keeping folks up at night.
I already told him that.
It might be that a police
officer has to tell him that.
There ain't no need for that,
ma'am. Most times,
when I tell him to do
something, he does it.
All right.
We'll let you get back to sleep.
I get you back in
bed, Aunt Lillie?
Well, didn't turn out to
be much of anything, boss.
Sorry to get you over here.
No, no, don't be sorry.
When there are gunshots fired,
and two of my officers
are living there,
I need to know about it, okay?
Mm-hmm. All right.
How're you holding up?
Okay. I soaked in
some Epsom salts.
Well, make sure
you get some rest.
Yeah. She's got me running
with these youngsters
at this track club. Oh.
What do you think about Georgia?
She's fast.
Who's this?
Uh, their top sprinter.
Yeah, she ran an 11.5 hundred
at her last meet.
Just into the wind.
It was... You know...
Oh, my God...
Excuse me, sir.
Please stand back.
Any idea who this is?
It's my cousin. Cody.
Tiffany?
It's all
right, Aunt Lillie.
Who was
that screaming?
Just some girl.
Radio Crime Scene that
we have a homicide.
Seal off the apartment.
Okay.
Yeah?
Ma?
They don't make it
easy to get in here.
let me you know were coming?
I decided last-minute
that what I got to say
is better to say it in person.
Ma, what is it?
Your brother's
church is being sold.
Uh...
Sold? To-to who?
To... I don't know, somebody
who wants the property.
I don't know who.
Yeah, well, there's
a lot of that
happening in East New York, Ma.
That's all you got to say?
"There's a lot of
that happening"?
It's the Brooklyn Diocese,
sometimes they decide
to consolidate...
That church is his whole life.
Uh, I don't think that there's
a lot that I could do, Ma.
You can call your brother
and ask him how he is.
Not for nothing, but
he could call me also.
Okay, you don't call him
and he doesn't call you?
So you're strangers
now?
All right, I will call him.
Good.
Forget about it. Forget
call. Go see him.
All right. I'll go see him.
Okay. Well...
Love you, too.
How do I get out of here?
Okay, come on.
Apparently,
neither Quinlan nor Bentley
had any interactions with Cody.
He lived in a different
building from them.
And he has half a dozen collars.
Possession, disorderly conduct,
plus eight outstanding warrants.
I think we should talk
to the grandmother again.
Her niece said she had
to give her a sedative.
Head over there.
Maybe it's worn off.
Oh. Well, lookee here.
Old Carl Lewis
done pulled a hammy.
No, I did not.
Just preventative
measures, my man.
Who you trying to
impress, Andre?
Nobody.
So you out there running sprints
with our CO just for fun?
I'm out there because she
asked me to be out there,
And you know what? Hmm?
I'm still capable of respectable
times in the hundred.
You're out there
trying to show her
that your head is on straight.
Now, uh, would you kindly
move your capable feet so
I can get to my locker?
Please. Thank you.
So kind of you.
Did your grandson
have an argument with anyone?
Not that I know of.
The music was so loud,
and she was in her room
with the door closed.
She wouldn't have
heard it if he was.
I think I would've heard it.
Okay, Aunt Lillie.
What time did you get
here, Ms. Edwards?
After
the cops arrived.
The sirens woke me up.
I saw the police cars lined
up and down the street, so...
I decided to see
what was going on.
You didn't want to come
over to hang out beforehand?
Cody asked me all the time,
"Come on, cuz. Come
chill with us."
I was dead on my
feet last night.
I wasn't going nowhere.
I had two
doctor's appointments yesterday.
You did.
She takes me.
She waits for me.
All right, Aunt Lillie.
They're not interested in
who takes you to the doctor.
Would you happen
to know the names
of some of the
people who were here?
I know Renaldo was here.
Would you happen
to know his last name?
Briggs. Renaldo Briggs.
All right, is there,
um, anyone else?
Probably that boy
Draymon was there.
What's his last name?
I wouldn't know that.
Straw.
Let's get you something
to eat, Aunt Lillie.
You haven't had
anything yet today.
I don't want nothing.
She just needs to eat.
Okay.
Thank you for your time.
Okay, okay.
Okay.
You know what? Huh?
I'll never get used to
these kind of shoes.
Why not? They
look good on you.
But they don't take a shine.
You gonna be wearing
hard-soled shoes
walking a foot post?
I'm not saying that they're
not more comfortable.
What I'm saying is
when you look good,
you do better at your job.
Guys. Hey.
Hey, Brandy.
How you doing? Good.
Are you sore from working out
with the girls'
track club yesterday?
Okay, everybody got jokes today.
I'll see you out
front. All right.
I'm feeling all right.
Good.
You know, this is
the track club that Haywood's
helping out with, right?
Yeah. Yeah, I know.
I know that you're
helping her help out.
Brandy?
Andre?
I ran some sprints.
It actually feels really good.
Great.
Mom told me they're
selling the church.
Looks like it.
They say why?
The land the church
is sitting on
is a lot more
valuable to developers
than it's worth as a place
where a few aging Filipinos
and Puerto Ricans come for Mass.
So, it's a done deal?
Afraid so.
Bishop called me himself.
Wow. Well, I'm sorry, Frank.
Matthew tells us Jesus
entered the temple
and drove out all
who sold and bought
in the temple.
He said "My house
"shall be called
a house of prayer,
but you have made it
a den of thieves."
Why would I imagine
it could be otherwise?
Renaldo, what can you
tell us about Cody's death?
Man, I'm sick about it.
You see him having an
argument with anyone?
That was the thing about
Cody. He was fickle as hell.
What do you mean by that?
What do you mean by that?
If you were his friend,
you were his friend.
You start cracking
the wrong jokes about Cody,
all of a sudden he'd be like,
"That's my liquor
you're drinking,
my weed you're
smoking. Give me $20."
You say you ain't got it,
he get ugly.
And he get ugly last night?
Last night, he was chilled out.
He had his girl.
He was hanging.
Draymon, you know
his girl's name?
Yeah.
Savannah Obie.
Savannah Obie.
Savannah Obie.
It's the police. We'd
like to talk to you.
Savannah Obie?
Savannah Obie?
Police. Stop.
Yo, bros, police after me.
Please, I need your
bike, I need your bike.
Hey, chill!
You're gonna have to wait
on the bike ride, Savannah.
Now stand up.
All right.
Come on, let's go.
What was the relationship
between you and Cody?
He did his thing and I did mine.
If we were both
in the same place
at the same time, we'd hook up,
but I don't know who
else he was into,
and I don't know
what he was into.
Yeah, but you were
with him last night.
Until I left.
Then why'd you leave?
'Cause I was meeting
somebody else, okay?
Who?
I ain't gonna say his name.
This isn't a social
visit, Savannah.
It's a homicide investigation.
That means you're gonna give
us names, times and places,
and we're gonna
have to verify them.
Unless I say I want to talk
to Johnnie Cochran, right?
Johnnie Cochran's dead.
Well, somebody like
Johnnie Cochran.
So you're
not interested in
helping us find who
killed your friend,
is that right?
It wasn't me, I could
tell you that much.
Well, no one's accusing you.
I'd be looking at
that fool Draymon.
Yeah? Why's that?
He was seeing Cody's
cousin, Tiffany,
who Cody couldn't stand.
Cody could have got up
in Draymon's business,
Draymon could have snapped.
That's who I'd be looking at.
You're welcome.
Ah.
Chief. Sorry I'm late.
You know, they told me a
representative of the LLC
buying the church would
be meeting with me.
I had no idea it would be you.
Well, it's always best not to
trumpet your personal identity
in real estate
transactions, Chief.
It just gives the
rabble an opportunity
to score some points,
not to mention to threaten
my personal safety.
I don't know how you managed to
stay out of prison, Mr. Lustig.
That shouldn't
be a surprise to you.
I mean, all that
drama stemmed from
that crazy real estate
broker Brenda Sykes.
What, you think
I'm clumsy enough
to have some Slavic
steroid monster
shoot up a van in
broad daylight?
Or lucky enough to have someone
like Regina Haywood
save your life.
Yeah.
I am forever grateful
to her for that.
So, not only aren't
you in prison,
you're the principal
partner in this LLC.
It is an incredibly
exciting time
to be a real estate
developer in New York.
You're looking to
acquire the land
under St. Abigail's?
St. Abigail's.
Oh, you don't know.
Across from the park
on Knickerbocker.
Oh, right, yes. Absolutely.
60 units, state-of-the-art
environmentally,
which means
green roof, in-unit composting,
geothermal heating and cooling.
Hmm. You set on that location?
Well, it all starts with
the location, Chief.
It's the first rule
of real estate.
I'm just wondering if
there might be, uh,
some other alternatives
around there.
Okay, what,
are you... looking for
a finder's fee from someone?
The church means a lot to
the people in the parish.
Well, there are plenty
of churches in Brooklyn.
People get attached to the ones
they've spent their
lives going to.
You get attached,
you get unattached.
It's the life of
the city, Chief.
I'm in the mood for a burger.
They got good burgers?
It says "Goody's Hotspot."
I could make this into a
fortune, let me tell you.
All right, I'll see you later.
All right,
I'll see you there.
Oh, hey, Andre. How
you doing, Coach?
Good. Oh, can I
just let you know
that the girls really appreciate
you coming to practice?
Oh. Well, I
appreciate them. Mmm.
For one thing, you're
closer to them in age
than me or Regina.
I never
thought about that
but, yeah, I guess you're right.
Hey. Hey.
You heading home?
Yeah, I'm just gonna swing
by the track on the way.
Okay.
I'll see you soon. All right.
I meant to tell you, too,
that you're not a
bad runner yourself.
Thank you. Yeah, I mean,
you've got good form.
You could work on that
breath control, though.
Well, I'll work on my breath
control for next practice, then.
All right. All right.
See you later. I'll see you.
So, I'm gonna go handle
some business, all right?
But you roll in and
you do your thing.
I'm gonna do my thing,
but you just got to
remember to come pick me up.
On time. That was one...
Hey, Coach.
Fool, just
answer the question.
Nobody else seems to
have a problem with it.
If you're not
already on the track,
you two are running late.
Y'all moving like
you want extra laps.
My bad, mama.
Watch your mouth, Georgia.
Sorry, Coach.
Go inside
and get warmed up.
Hey, who is that guy?
I don't know.
Okay, I'll go this way. Hey.
What, you guys get a call
about something else here?
Yeah, we're looking for
this guy, Draymon Straw.
If it's who I think
it is, he's in 1-W.
You doing your own
recon now, Brandy?
Wouldn't you, if you lived here?
I wouldn't live
here, for starters.
Let me just take you to him.
Oh, laundry day.
Oh.
Why?
You got more questions for me?
Just making sure we
didn't miss anything.
Somebody told us
you've been, uh,
going out with Cody's
cousin, Tiffany.
What's that got to
do with anything?
Mmm, a lot.
Like not upsetting Cody
that you were kicking
it with Tiffany.
Cody's my boy.
He's the one who introduced us.
You said you left at what time?
Around, like, 11:30?
And by that point,
had Cody gotten into
a beef with anyone?
I'm not obligated
to answer anything
'cause I did nothing.
Excuse me.
Looks like we're gonna have to
knock on every door in here.
It's gonna be a real drag
when people start asking
why two detectives are
hanging around Ruskin Gardens.
Folks start talking,
one person tells the next
how we got to them.
Not only that,
they play detective themselves.
Ah. They start
tracking who said what
that leads all the way...
Back to 1-W.
It's...
Words get really twisted
when you're not the one
telling the whole
story, Draymon.
All right, all right.
I don't want nobody
to know this was me
who told you this.
All right, we'll try to
keep your name out of it.
There's a guy named
Lorenzo who lives in 1-P.
Big dude.
He was pissed off the
noise woke him up,
told Cody if he
didn't shut it down,
Lorenzo'd come back and
shut it down himself.
Okay.
Thanks.
Took notes? Yeah.
Where's 1-P?
Why you got so many earrings?
Why she always got so
many questions, Georgia?
Okay, break's over.
Hey, Coach. Yo.
That mean you finally gonna
run with us today?
Only if you could keep up.
Yeah, we'll see about that.
Oh, all right, we'll
see about that. Yeah.
For real, though,
who is this guy
over here?
You plan on finding out?
I'm gonna be over here.
Hi. Can I help you?
Just gonna watch my friends
Georgia and Tanya work it out.
This is a closed practice.
Since when?
I want to keep the athletes
focused and not distracted.
Nobody else seems to
have a problem with it.
I didn't catch your name.
'Cause I didn't throw it.
Connect
Four? - Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
How about some
Spades or some bones?
I don't know how to
play either of those.
Then let me teach you.
See, the worst thing you
could have at the table
is a partner who don't know
what the hell they doing.
Hey, Lorenzo. How
you doing, Sandeford?
All good. Lorenzo.
We heard that you
paid Cody Toliver
a visit the other night.
Who are you?
This is Officer Brandy
Quinlan, also from 7-4.
Look, I'm a working man.
Most days, my feet hit the
floor at 5:00 in the morning.
I asked him to
keep the noise down
out of consideration.
Yeah, that's-that's
not too much to ask.
A detective put a business
card under my door,
said they wanted to talk to me.
Well, I live in Ruskin Gardens,
and I don't have
a business card.
I just figured
I'd walk up and
try and catch you.
I didn't kill Cody.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Nobody said you killed nobody,
and I ain't asking you
to snitch on nobody.
But Cody got murdered,
and that ain't going away.
You her boss?
No,
but she's somebody you might
want to take seriously.
A half a dozen people saw me
go back into my apartment.
And if that's not enough,
I was on the phone
with my ex-wife
and I bought a pair
of bedroom slippers for
my mother on Amazon.
Okay.
Any idea who did kill him?
Tiffany did the heavy lifting,
Cody burned through
Grandma's money.
By rights, should've been her.
That was her grandson, though.
You never wanted to kill
anyone in your family?
Have a nice night.
Did you run
that license plate?
Car was registered
to a Dexter Harper,
who was recently
collared for credit card,
Paycheck Protection
Program fraud,
among other things.
But who you probably
saw was Terrence Harper,
that's Dexter's son.
Dexter ain't getting
out for a while.
Terrence was arrested
for car theft
last year.
Thanks, Stan.
Is this something you want
me keep an eye out for?
No, I can handle it. Thank you.
All right.
Rough night of bouncing?
One of the members of some
Korean boy band came in
to the bar with his
whole entourage.
I had to make sure
nobody approached him.
Didn't get out of
there till 2:00 a.m.
You can't keep this
going indefinitely.
You know that, right?
Yeah, well, Corinne
was counting on me
to come up with the money
to keep the lights
on in that joint.
She still has to be
able to count on me.
'Cause that way she'll see
what a big mistake she made
dumping you. Yeah.
Something like that.
What, you gonna
tell me I'm stupid
for wanting that?
No, you're stupid
for a lot of reasons,
and that's why I love
you. Yeah.
Can we get to work now?
Yes, please.
As always, we
start with the finances.
These are the grandmother's
credit card statements...
Wow, $600 sneakers.
Hmm, dinners at Mr. Chow's.
Wow, somebody's living
their best life.
Grandma Toliver didn't strike
me as a sneaker head, either.
Safe to say...
it's not Lillie Toliver.
So, I guess the trade-off was
Cody taking care
of his grandmother.
I'm sorry for interrupting.
Um... could I possibly
give you my take on this?
Go ahead.
So, Cody wasn't
taking care of her.
Her niece Tiffany was.
And according to
this guy Lorenzo,
Tiffany does everything.
Oh, so you're conducting
interviews now?
Well, I've gotten to know people
that live in Ruskin Gardens,
which, I thought that
was the whole idea behind
having members of the
service move in there.
I mean, since I
see them every day
in the elevators,
lobby, laundry room,
my face has become
familiar enough to them,
that they open up to me.
Did Lorenzo share any insight
into who might've
done the murder, then?
He didn't want to
point any fingers.
But...
I have seen Tiffany
get her aunt from a wheelchair
into a taxi cab to go to church,
and I remember thinking that...
this was her whole life.
I think we ought
to talk to Tiffany.
Pastrami on rye
from Gottlieb's.
You interested?
You could twist my arm.
Gottlieb's, huh?
I did not expect that you
would know about Gottlieb's.
Well, being constantly
on the move with politicians
works up quite
an appetite. Mm.
Something I should,
uh, remember, huh?
Have a seat.
Okay.
So, uh,
you met with Adam Lustig.
I did.
Adam needs
frequent reassurance
that he is as important
as he thinks he is,
but he does come through
with campaign contributions
when we need him to.
So, apparently he
told you that I, uh,
reached out to him.
Did he tell you why?
Well, whether or not he did...
you could assume that
I would find out.
I took a shot that
he might be open
to leaving
my brother's church intact.
Well, intact or not,
your brother's problem is with
the Brooklyn Diocese,
not Lustig.
And my brother's problem becomes
my problem, something
I can't ignore.
Do you know Bishop McAllister?
Um... I think we marched
in the St. Paddy's
Day Parade together,
been to a couple
of cop funerals.
I don't really know him, but...
You know that he
is on the shortlist
to make cardinal?
Okay, I did not know that.
If this world is going to make
any kind of sense to you at all,
that is something
you should know.
Bon app tit.
Hey, Georgia.
Can I talk to you a
minute? What's up, Regina?
Hey-yo. You don't
want to talk to me?
No, I don't want to talk to you,
I want you to do
your drills, girl.
Oh, a'ight.
A'ight.
She crazy, isn't she?
Hey, how much do you know
about Terrence Harper?
I know he's Tanya's boyfriend.
Is there something
I should know?
Would it surprise you to know
that he's got a criminal record?
Not really.
We've known lots of guys
with a criminal record.
Yeah.
His father, he's serving
a 15-year sentence
in a federal prison,
so there's that.
How is it you know all this?
Oh, I'm a cop. It's
my business to know.
Okay.
Why you telling me this?
You could run track for
a Division One school.
Get a first-rate
college education
on a full ride.
And you continue
to be disciplined,
you stay focused,
you stay healthy.
Georgia,
you don't want to look back five
or ten years or
15 years from now
with nothing but regret
about what you didn't do.
I've had a lot of people
tell me this before,
mostly people who don't know me.
They think they
do, but they don't.
And what about the people
who do know you? Like Tanya?
She know me.
I'm not talking about Tanya.
No, I know you're not.
She don't count, do she?
I didn't say that.
Look, I don't need nobody
to tell me how to
live my life, Miss.
I'm sure you got all
the best intentions,
but I don't need
nobody to do that.
Come on in.
You have good news for us?
We're actually
kind of stuck right now.
The only
word we have is that
your grandson succumbed to
a stab wound
through the abdomen,
and no murder weapon
has been recovered,
though the ME thinks
it was scissors.
I don't
understand how this
could happen with people around.
No one saw anything?
We don't
understand it, either.
Tiffany,
you mind taking
a ride with us? We
won't keep you long.
You want me?
We were just about to go
pick up a prescription.
No, we'll get it picked up.
I still need to cook dinner.
Well, you can get
something delivered.
She doesn't like take-out,
she's not gonna eat it.
It's all right, honey.
You don't have to worry
about me, I-I'll be fine.
Oh, okay.
Um... I'll be back.
The frescos were salvaged
from a church in Sienna.
The brick work was done by
immigrant Italian masons,
one of them related
to Nicola Sacco.
They used this church
to raise money for his defense.
I don't think she knows who
Nicola Sacco was, Frank.
Sacco and Vanzetti.
Italian anarchists
executed for murder.
You continue to
underestimate me, don't you?
Your Excellency.
Chief.
How are you, Allison?
Been well, Your Excellency.
Frank, because Allison asked me
to look into this
situation personally,
because we've known each
other for a long time,
I wanted to come
and tell you myself
there doesn't
appear to be any way
not to go through with the sale.
Much as we believe in miracles,
we don't necessarily
expect them.
If we could save
the place, we would.
I understand.
Even if we were willing to
spend the million-and-a-half
necessary to
repoint the masonry,
the fact remains that
the Brooklyn Diocese
is in contract to
sell the building.
Has the buyer been approached?
I spoke to their representative
after I got the call from
Allison, and, in that they
made the payment needed
to seal the deal,
they're expecting us to honor
our end of the bargain.
There's no getting
out of it. I...
I'm sorry.
I'll tell the parishioners.
From
everything we've heard,
you take very good
care of your aunt.
I do what has to be done.
You do it.
Yes, I do it. So what?
I imagine that
takes up a lot of your time.
I'm not
complaining, am I?
You have a particularly
close relationship with your aunt.
I don't know if it's
particularly close.
She did stuff with
me when I was little
that my own mother
couldn't or... didn't.
Aunt Lillie took me out
to the botanical gardens,
she took me out on
one of those boats
they have down at
Sheepshead Bay,
even though she was terrified
of getting out on the water.
Which is why you're
so devoted to her now.
There doesn't have
to be a reason.
When I needed her to,
she took care of me.
When she needs me,
I take care of her.
That's what people
do for each other.
Not all people.
Right.
Not all people.
It usually falls on
one person, doesn't it?
Where my
mother was concerned,
that one person was me.
So tell me, how-how
was your cousin as far as
pitching in?
He helped out sometimes.
He was living there, though.
Yeah, he was living there.
Did it get any easier
on you once he moved in?
You run yourself
ragged, and there's...
there's never enough you can do.
Is your mom still with us?
No.
Been two years now.
We know your cousin
was going through
your aunt's money,
Tiffany.
Yeah... he was.
Yeah, running
up her credit card bills,
cashing her Social
Security checks...
In her eyes, he
could do no wrong.
Let me tell you something
about long-term caregivers.
They start thinking
crazy things.
Did you ever
confront your cousin?
I tried to have
calm conversations with him.
What about the
night he was killed?
I asked him if he could
contribute something.
I told him that I wanted to
hire a home health aide
just so I could find a
different job, maybe,
or have a little
bit more of a life.
She's about to go for it.
Did it get physical?
Yeah, now is the
time you set the foundation
for self-defense. Now.
I'm going in there for a second.
You said
it got physical.
Why don't you talk
us through it?
Excuse me. Ms.
Edwards? Captain Yenko.
We don't want to put
words in your mouth,
nor do we want you
to say anything
that isn't 100% truthful.
But if you did
confront your cousin,
and if that confrontation
became violent,
if you were concerned
for your life,
and that caused you
to grab the scissors
out of self-defense,
I think we agree
that now is the time
to say that.
I thought
he was gonna kill me.
I had to defend myself.
Hey. Hey.
Heard they took Tiffany away.
Yeah, I heard they wanted to
ask her a couple questions.
Be a damn shame if
they charge her.
Well, they'll only do
that if there's evidence
that she committed a crime.
It was up to the
people who live here,
they wouldn't do it regardless.
Well, they got to do
what they got to do.
Come to think of it,
you're one of those
people who live here.
Yeah, that's right.
Maybe sometime you'll
tell me just how
that came to pass.
It's actually pretty
straightforward.
I doubt it. No, really, I...
Hey.
Hey. I was looking for you.
I thought we could've
rode back together.
I just... The bus was right
there, so I just hopped on.
You the other cop
that moved in here?
Yeah.
Um, this is Lorenzo.
What's up?
What's up?
Well, I'm gonna take a shower.
Do you want to do dinner?
Not tonight.
I'll see you soon,
Lorenzo. Later.
Nice to meet you, Lorenzo.
Yeah, you, too.
Now, I've extended
you the courtesy
of meeting you in a bar
and coming to your office,
when I generally like
to conduct business
out of my office.
I appreciate.
Yeah, well, you are
a two-star chief,
and word out of Puzzle Palace
has you being
appointed commissioner
if Sharpe gets elected mayor,
so it'd be silly not to
act somewhat deferential.
Having attempted negotiation
with you and the diocese,
I'm left with the
inescapable conclusion
that I need to be a
little more direct.
I want the contract of sale
for St. Abigail's ripped up.
I want that building
to remain a church,
and any repairs that
are necessary...
they're gonna be paid
for by you. Personally.
Okay.
Uh, what, did you dream this up
in fantasy cops
and robbers camp?
Compel the sale of that
church to go forward,
and you're gonna have detectives
from Brooklyn North to Manhattan
watching your every move.
So you can roll the dice,
see if you'll dodge
prison a second time,
but, uh,
Vegas odds,
they aren't in your favor.
All right, Chief.
I'll err on the side of caution.
This time.
Yeah?
Hey, I was just
about to call you.
Georgia reminds me of
Allyson Felix, the way she comes
out of the blocks. Regina...
And also, before I forget,
I also think that
we ought to let her
give hurdling a shot.
I mean, if that's
what she wants,
it might be good for her.
Regina. Yeah?
Georgia quit.
She said she was quitting
or she already quit?
Well, she left me a voice mail
saying that she's
quitting the club.
Well, let me talk to her.
I got personal with her,
and this is her way
of telling me off.
I don't think so.
She wants to crush that meet
on Saturday, Sabrina.
She's not gonna give
up on that so easily.
She asked that neither
one of us contact her.
It's better if we
just leave her alone.
For now.
Look, I got to go,
but we'll talk.
Okay. All right.
♪ Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh,
ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh ♪
♪ There's snakes
in this garden ♪
♪ There's ghosts in every town ♪
♪ But I won't raise
this white flag ♪
♪ When war is all around ♪
♪ This is ♪
♪ War... ♪
♪ This is ♪
♪ War... ♪
♪ In this treacherous game ♪
♪ Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh,
ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh ♪
♪ It's a treacherous game. ♪
Captioning sponsored by CBS
This is Adam Lustig.
Adam's the major developer
in East New York.
Do me a favor,
play Sherlock Holmes
on your own time.
When people suddenly
become uncooperative,
they usually have
something to hide.
I count three. No, please.
Please... One...
Nothing my lawyer
can't handle, Ray.
Nothing my lawyer can't handle.
Alison Cha is
a very important
addition to our team.
We could have dinner together.
As long as it's not al fresco.
It won't be.
What are you doing here?
You can't force your way
onto church property, Chief.
Make a plate for your brother.
What do I always
say? Family first.
Family last.
I went out to the car
to get my phone, and
I stayed out there,
hoping that if anybody
had to get shot,
it wouldn't be me.
What can I do?
Nothing.
Okay.
If you're
training me to be like you,
why don't you let me drive
every once in a while?
Think
fast.
Who's got
it better than us?
What's up, man?
Bentley!
Seven-five indoors.
Now, that
is gonna beat anyone that
you go against on Saturday.
How'd I do?
You did good.
That was... That was incredible.
How do you feel?
I feel good. I could definitely
do another event on
Saturday, though.
You're doing the hundred
and the four-by-one.
That's enough for
one meet, Georgia.
Even though she just killed it
in the hundred-meter hurdle?
No, no,
no. No hurdles.
Tanya's been practicing
her hand-off.
She could definitely run
the third leg in
the four-by-one.
Uh, let us decide who
the top four runners are.
In the meantime,
you girls go hit the showers.
Nice work.
Is she in the top four?
Not even on her best day.
That settles that.
But I'm just so glad that I was
able to convince
you to help coach.
Well, my mom used
to help coach me.
I figured it was
a full circle type
thing, you know?
Hey.
What was my time?
I wasn't timing you.
I was only timing
Georgia, Andre. No. No.
You did good, man.
Thanks
for helping us out.
He single? Sabrina.
What?
Who is it?
It's me.
Did you hear that?
Yeah, I called it in.
What, you had to
come check up on me?
If there's a situation,
there needs to be
two of us responding.
Shots fired at Ruskin
Gardens. Two off-duty members
of the service
wearing rain jackets.
Show us responding.
♪ It's crazy ♪
♪ Are you trying to play me? ♪
♪ You've become afraid of me ♪
♪ Nah, it's crazy... ♪
My man. Yo, Lorenzo.
Hey, what up, big man?
It's 10:30, Cody.
Party time is over.
Okay. Come on, man.
Just come have a
drink or something.
I don't want nothing
to drink, man.
I want to go to sleep.
Hey, I know the dude.
I know the dude just for you.
Somebody get this man a Henny.
Hey, did you guys
hear the gunshots?
You got no consideration, Cody.
You got hard-working
people out here
who can't get to sleep.
You got your
grandmother in the room
with her door closed.
Yo, my grandma is chill, bro.
She sleep through anything.
I'm gonna tell you
this right now, man.
I got to come out my
apartment one more time,
I'm shutting it down myself.
"Shut it down
myself."
Yo, 'Renzo got a real
stick up his ass. For real.
♪ You in the danger zone. ♪
What's going on?
Gun's
registered to his father.
Here you go.
It's been cleared.
Young genius thought
it would be funny
to leave the party and
shoot out a streetlight.
Party central was apartment 1-C.
Let's check to see
if anybody there was involved.
Meantime, run him in.
Who is it that
lives in this apartment?
I do.
And you are?
I'm her grandniece.
I live over in building H.
Who was having the party?
That
would be my cousin.
Cody. He's been living here.
Where is he now?
He's probably around
here somewhere.
He can't be
keeping folks up at night.
I already told him that.
It might be that a police
officer has to tell him that.
There ain't no need for that,
ma'am. Most times,
when I tell him to do
something, he does it.
All right.
We'll let you get back to sleep.
I get you back in
bed, Aunt Lillie?
Well, didn't turn out to
be much of anything, boss.
Sorry to get you over here.
No, no, don't be sorry.
When there are gunshots fired,
and two of my officers
are living there,
I need to know about it, okay?
Mm-hmm. All right.
How're you holding up?
Okay. I soaked in
some Epsom salts.
Well, make sure
you get some rest.
Yeah. She's got me running
with these youngsters
at this track club. Oh.
What do you think about Georgia?
She's fast.
Who's this?
Uh, their top sprinter.
Yeah, she ran an 11.5 hundred
at her last meet.
Just into the wind.
It was... You know...
Oh, my God...
Excuse me, sir.
Please stand back.
Any idea who this is?
It's my cousin. Cody.
Tiffany?
It's all
right, Aunt Lillie.
Who was
that screaming?
Just some girl.
Radio Crime Scene that
we have a homicide.
Seal off the apartment.
Okay.
Yeah?
Ma?
They don't make it
easy to get in here.
let me you know were coming?
I decided last-minute
that what I got to say
is better to say it in person.
Ma, what is it?
Your brother's
church is being sold.
Uh...
Sold? To-to who?
To... I don't know, somebody
who wants the property.
I don't know who.
Yeah, well, there's
a lot of that
happening in East New York, Ma.
That's all you got to say?
"There's a lot of
that happening"?
It's the Brooklyn Diocese,
sometimes they decide
to consolidate...
That church is his whole life.
Uh, I don't think that there's
a lot that I could do, Ma.
You can call your brother
and ask him how he is.
Not for nothing, but
he could call me also.
Okay, you don't call him
and he doesn't call you?
So you're strangers
now?
All right, I will call him.
Good.
Forget about it. Forget
call. Go see him.
All right. I'll go see him.
Okay. Well...
Love you, too.
How do I get out of here?
Okay, come on.
Apparently,
neither Quinlan nor Bentley
had any interactions with Cody.
He lived in a different
building from them.
And he has half a dozen collars.
Possession, disorderly conduct,
plus eight outstanding warrants.
I think we should talk
to the grandmother again.
Her niece said she had
to give her a sedative.
Head over there.
Maybe it's worn off.
Oh. Well, lookee here.
Old Carl Lewis
done pulled a hammy.
No, I did not.
Just preventative
measures, my man.
Who you trying to
impress, Andre?
Nobody.
So you out there running sprints
with our CO just for fun?
I'm out there because she
asked me to be out there,
And you know what? Hmm?
I'm still capable of respectable
times in the hundred.
You're out there
trying to show her
that your head is on straight.
Now, uh, would you kindly
move your capable feet so
I can get to my locker?
Please. Thank you.
So kind of you.
Did your grandson
have an argument with anyone?
Not that I know of.
The music was so loud,
and she was in her room
with the door closed.
She wouldn't have
heard it if he was.
I think I would've heard it.
Okay, Aunt Lillie.
What time did you get
here, Ms. Edwards?
After
the cops arrived.
The sirens woke me up.
I saw the police cars lined
up and down the street, so...
I decided to see
what was going on.
You didn't want to come
over to hang out beforehand?
Cody asked me all the time,
"Come on, cuz. Come
chill with us."
I was dead on my
feet last night.
I wasn't going nowhere.
I had two
doctor's appointments yesterday.
You did.
She takes me.
She waits for me.
All right, Aunt Lillie.
They're not interested in
who takes you to the doctor.
Would you happen
to know the names
of some of the
people who were here?
I know Renaldo was here.
Would you happen
to know his last name?
Briggs. Renaldo Briggs.
All right, is there,
um, anyone else?
Probably that boy
Draymon was there.
What's his last name?
I wouldn't know that.
Straw.
Let's get you something
to eat, Aunt Lillie.
You haven't had
anything yet today.
I don't want nothing.
She just needs to eat.
Okay.
Thank you for your time.
Okay, okay.
Okay.
You know what? Huh?
I'll never get used to
these kind of shoes.
Why not? They
look good on you.
But they don't take a shine.
You gonna be wearing
hard-soled shoes
walking a foot post?
I'm not saying that they're
not more comfortable.
What I'm saying is
when you look good,
you do better at your job.
Guys. Hey.
Hey, Brandy.
How you doing? Good.
Are you sore from working out
with the girls'
track club yesterday?
Okay, everybody got jokes today.
I'll see you out
front. All right.
I'm feeling all right.
Good.
You know, this is
the track club that Haywood's
helping out with, right?
Yeah. Yeah, I know.
I know that you're
helping her help out.
Brandy?
Andre?
I ran some sprints.
It actually feels really good.
Great.
Mom told me they're
selling the church.
Looks like it.
They say why?
The land the church
is sitting on
is a lot more
valuable to developers
than it's worth as a place
where a few aging Filipinos
and Puerto Ricans come for Mass.
So, it's a done deal?
Afraid so.
Bishop called me himself.
Wow. Well, I'm sorry, Frank.
Matthew tells us Jesus
entered the temple
and drove out all
who sold and bought
in the temple.
He said "My house
"shall be called
a house of prayer,
but you have made it
a den of thieves."
Why would I imagine
it could be otherwise?
Renaldo, what can you
tell us about Cody's death?
Man, I'm sick about it.
You see him having an
argument with anyone?
That was the thing about
Cody. He was fickle as hell.
What do you mean by that?
What do you mean by that?
If you were his friend,
you were his friend.
You start cracking
the wrong jokes about Cody,
all of a sudden he'd be like,
"That's my liquor
you're drinking,
my weed you're
smoking. Give me $20."
You say you ain't got it,
he get ugly.
And he get ugly last night?
Last night, he was chilled out.
He had his girl.
He was hanging.
Draymon, you know
his girl's name?
Yeah.
Savannah Obie.
Savannah Obie.
Savannah Obie.
It's the police. We'd
like to talk to you.
Savannah Obie?
Savannah Obie?
Police. Stop.
Yo, bros, police after me.
Please, I need your
bike, I need your bike.
Hey, chill!
You're gonna have to wait
on the bike ride, Savannah.
Now stand up.
All right.
Come on, let's go.
What was the relationship
between you and Cody?
He did his thing and I did mine.
If we were both
in the same place
at the same time, we'd hook up,
but I don't know who
else he was into,
and I don't know
what he was into.
Yeah, but you were
with him last night.
Until I left.
Then why'd you leave?
'Cause I was meeting
somebody else, okay?
Who?
I ain't gonna say his name.
This isn't a social
visit, Savannah.
It's a homicide investigation.
That means you're gonna give
us names, times and places,
and we're gonna
have to verify them.
Unless I say I want to talk
to Johnnie Cochran, right?
Johnnie Cochran's dead.
Well, somebody like
Johnnie Cochran.
So you're
not interested in
helping us find who
killed your friend,
is that right?
It wasn't me, I could
tell you that much.
Well, no one's accusing you.
I'd be looking at
that fool Draymon.
Yeah? Why's that?
He was seeing Cody's
cousin, Tiffany,
who Cody couldn't stand.
Cody could have got up
in Draymon's business,
Draymon could have snapped.
That's who I'd be looking at.
You're welcome.
Ah.
Chief. Sorry I'm late.
You know, they told me a
representative of the LLC
buying the church would
be meeting with me.
I had no idea it would be you.
Well, it's always best not to
trumpet your personal identity
in real estate
transactions, Chief.
It just gives the
rabble an opportunity
to score some points,
not to mention to threaten
my personal safety.
I don't know how you managed to
stay out of prison, Mr. Lustig.
That shouldn't
be a surprise to you.
I mean, all that
drama stemmed from
that crazy real estate
broker Brenda Sykes.
What, you think
I'm clumsy enough
to have some Slavic
steroid monster
shoot up a van in
broad daylight?
Or lucky enough to have someone
like Regina Haywood
save your life.
Yeah.
I am forever grateful
to her for that.
So, not only aren't
you in prison,
you're the principal
partner in this LLC.
It is an incredibly
exciting time
to be a real estate
developer in New York.
You're looking to
acquire the land
under St. Abigail's?
St. Abigail's.
Oh, you don't know.
Across from the park
on Knickerbocker.
Oh, right, yes. Absolutely.
60 units, state-of-the-art
environmentally,
which means
green roof, in-unit composting,
geothermal heating and cooling.
Hmm. You set on that location?
Well, it all starts with
the location, Chief.
It's the first rule
of real estate.
I'm just wondering if
there might be, uh,
some other alternatives
around there.
Okay, what,
are you... looking for
a finder's fee from someone?
The church means a lot to
the people in the parish.
Well, there are plenty
of churches in Brooklyn.
People get attached to the ones
they've spent their
lives going to.
You get attached,
you get unattached.
It's the life of
the city, Chief.
I'm in the mood for a burger.
They got good burgers?
It says "Goody's Hotspot."
I could make this into a
fortune, let me tell you.
All right, I'll see you later.
All right,
I'll see you there.
Oh, hey, Andre. How
you doing, Coach?
Good. Oh, can I
just let you know
that the girls really appreciate
you coming to practice?
Oh. Well, I
appreciate them. Mmm.
For one thing, you're
closer to them in age
than me or Regina.
I never
thought about that
but, yeah, I guess you're right.
Hey. Hey.
You heading home?
Yeah, I'm just gonna swing
by the track on the way.
Okay.
I'll see you soon. All right.
I meant to tell you, too,
that you're not a
bad runner yourself.
Thank you. Yeah, I mean,
you've got good form.
You could work on that
breath control, though.
Well, I'll work on my breath
control for next practice, then.
All right. All right.
See you later. I'll see you.
So, I'm gonna go handle
some business, all right?
But you roll in and
you do your thing.
I'm gonna do my thing,
but you just got to
remember to come pick me up.
On time. That was one...
Hey, Coach.
Fool, just
answer the question.
Nobody else seems to
have a problem with it.
If you're not
already on the track,
you two are running late.
Y'all moving like
you want extra laps.
My bad, mama.
Watch your mouth, Georgia.
Sorry, Coach.
Go inside
and get warmed up.
Hey, who is that guy?
I don't know.
Okay, I'll go this way. Hey.
What, you guys get a call
about something else here?
Yeah, we're looking for
this guy, Draymon Straw.
If it's who I think
it is, he's in 1-W.
You doing your own
recon now, Brandy?
Wouldn't you, if you lived here?
I wouldn't live
here, for starters.
Let me just take you to him.
Oh, laundry day.
Oh.
Why?
You got more questions for me?
Just making sure we
didn't miss anything.
Somebody told us
you've been, uh,
going out with Cody's
cousin, Tiffany.
What's that got to
do with anything?
Mmm, a lot.
Like not upsetting Cody
that you were kicking
it with Tiffany.
Cody's my boy.
He's the one who introduced us.
You said you left at what time?
Around, like, 11:30?
And by that point,
had Cody gotten into
a beef with anyone?
I'm not obligated
to answer anything
'cause I did nothing.
Excuse me.
Looks like we're gonna have to
knock on every door in here.
It's gonna be a real drag
when people start asking
why two detectives are
hanging around Ruskin Gardens.
Folks start talking,
one person tells the next
how we got to them.
Not only that,
they play detective themselves.
Ah. They start
tracking who said what
that leads all the way...
Back to 1-W.
It's...
Words get really twisted
when you're not the one
telling the whole
story, Draymon.
All right, all right.
I don't want nobody
to know this was me
who told you this.
All right, we'll try to
keep your name out of it.
There's a guy named
Lorenzo who lives in 1-P.
Big dude.
He was pissed off the
noise woke him up,
told Cody if he
didn't shut it down,
Lorenzo'd come back and
shut it down himself.
Okay.
Thanks.
Took notes? Yeah.
Where's 1-P?
Why you got so many earrings?
Why she always got so
many questions, Georgia?
Okay, break's over.
Hey, Coach. Yo.
That mean you finally gonna
run with us today?
Only if you could keep up.
Yeah, we'll see about that.
Oh, all right, we'll
see about that. Yeah.
For real, though,
who is this guy
over here?
You plan on finding out?
I'm gonna be over here.
Hi. Can I help you?
Just gonna watch my friends
Georgia and Tanya work it out.
This is a closed practice.
Since when?
I want to keep the athletes
focused and not distracted.
Nobody else seems to
have a problem with it.
I didn't catch your name.
'Cause I didn't throw it.
Connect
Four? - Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
How about some
Spades or some bones?
I don't know how to
play either of those.
Then let me teach you.
See, the worst thing you
could have at the table
is a partner who don't know
what the hell they doing.
Hey, Lorenzo. How
you doing, Sandeford?
All good. Lorenzo.
We heard that you
paid Cody Toliver
a visit the other night.
Who are you?
This is Officer Brandy
Quinlan, also from 7-4.
Look, I'm a working man.
Most days, my feet hit the
floor at 5:00 in the morning.
I asked him to
keep the noise down
out of consideration.
Yeah, that's-that's
not too much to ask.
A detective put a business
card under my door,
said they wanted to talk to me.
Well, I live in Ruskin Gardens,
and I don't have
a business card.
I just figured
I'd walk up and
try and catch you.
I didn't kill Cody.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Nobody said you killed nobody,
and I ain't asking you
to snitch on nobody.
But Cody got murdered,
and that ain't going away.
You her boss?
No,
but she's somebody you might
want to take seriously.
A half a dozen people saw me
go back into my apartment.
And if that's not enough,
I was on the phone
with my ex-wife
and I bought a pair
of bedroom slippers for
my mother on Amazon.
Okay.
Any idea who did kill him?
Tiffany did the heavy lifting,
Cody burned through
Grandma's money.
By rights, should've been her.
That was her grandson, though.
You never wanted to kill
anyone in your family?
Have a nice night.
Did you run
that license plate?
Car was registered
to a Dexter Harper,
who was recently
collared for credit card,
Paycheck Protection
Program fraud,
among other things.
But who you probably
saw was Terrence Harper,
that's Dexter's son.
Dexter ain't getting
out for a while.
Terrence was arrested
for car theft
last year.
Thanks, Stan.
Is this something you want
me keep an eye out for?
No, I can handle it. Thank you.
All right.
Rough night of bouncing?
One of the members of some
Korean boy band came in
to the bar with his
whole entourage.
I had to make sure
nobody approached him.
Didn't get out of
there till 2:00 a.m.
You can't keep this
going indefinitely.
You know that, right?
Yeah, well, Corinne
was counting on me
to come up with the money
to keep the lights
on in that joint.
She still has to be
able to count on me.
'Cause that way she'll see
what a big mistake she made
dumping you. Yeah.
Something like that.
What, you gonna
tell me I'm stupid
for wanting that?
No, you're stupid
for a lot of reasons,
and that's why I love
you. Yeah.
Can we get to work now?
Yes, please.
As always, we
start with the finances.
These are the grandmother's
credit card statements...
Wow, $600 sneakers.
Hmm, dinners at Mr. Chow's.
Wow, somebody's living
their best life.
Grandma Toliver didn't strike
me as a sneaker head, either.
Safe to say...
it's not Lillie Toliver.
So, I guess the trade-off was
Cody taking care
of his grandmother.
I'm sorry for interrupting.
Um... could I possibly
give you my take on this?
Go ahead.
So, Cody wasn't
taking care of her.
Her niece Tiffany was.
And according to
this guy Lorenzo,
Tiffany does everything.
Oh, so you're conducting
interviews now?
Well, I've gotten to know people
that live in Ruskin Gardens,
which, I thought that
was the whole idea behind
having members of the
service move in there.
I mean, since I
see them every day
in the elevators,
lobby, laundry room,
my face has become
familiar enough to them,
that they open up to me.
Did Lorenzo share any insight
into who might've
done the murder, then?
He didn't want to
point any fingers.
But...
I have seen Tiffany
get her aunt from a wheelchair
into a taxi cab to go to church,
and I remember thinking that...
this was her whole life.
I think we ought
to talk to Tiffany.
Pastrami on rye
from Gottlieb's.
You interested?
You could twist my arm.
Gottlieb's, huh?
I did not expect that you
would know about Gottlieb's.
Well, being constantly
on the move with politicians
works up quite
an appetite. Mm.
Something I should,
uh, remember, huh?
Have a seat.
Okay.
So, uh,
you met with Adam Lustig.
I did.
Adam needs
frequent reassurance
that he is as important
as he thinks he is,
but he does come through
with campaign contributions
when we need him to.
So, apparently he
told you that I, uh,
reached out to him.
Did he tell you why?
Well, whether or not he did...
you could assume that
I would find out.
I took a shot that
he might be open
to leaving
my brother's church intact.
Well, intact or not,
your brother's problem is with
the Brooklyn Diocese,
not Lustig.
And my brother's problem becomes
my problem, something
I can't ignore.
Do you know Bishop McAllister?
Um... I think we marched
in the St. Paddy's
Day Parade together,
been to a couple
of cop funerals.
I don't really know him, but...
You know that he
is on the shortlist
to make cardinal?
Okay, I did not know that.
If this world is going to make
any kind of sense to you at all,
that is something
you should know.
Bon app tit.
Hey, Georgia.
Can I talk to you a
minute? What's up, Regina?
Hey-yo. You don't
want to talk to me?
No, I don't want to talk to you,
I want you to do
your drills, girl.
Oh, a'ight.
A'ight.
She crazy, isn't she?
Hey, how much do you know
about Terrence Harper?
I know he's Tanya's boyfriend.
Is there something
I should know?
Would it surprise you to know
that he's got a criminal record?
Not really.
We've known lots of guys
with a criminal record.
Yeah.
His father, he's serving
a 15-year sentence
in a federal prison,
so there's that.
How is it you know all this?
Oh, I'm a cop. It's
my business to know.
Okay.
Why you telling me this?
You could run track for
a Division One school.
Get a first-rate
college education
on a full ride.
And you continue
to be disciplined,
you stay focused,
you stay healthy.
Georgia,
you don't want to look back five
or ten years or
15 years from now
with nothing but regret
about what you didn't do.
I've had a lot of people
tell me this before,
mostly people who don't know me.
They think they
do, but they don't.
And what about the people
who do know you? Like Tanya?
She know me.
I'm not talking about Tanya.
No, I know you're not.
She don't count, do she?
I didn't say that.
Look, I don't need nobody
to tell me how to
live my life, Miss.
I'm sure you got all
the best intentions,
but I don't need
nobody to do that.
Come on in.
You have good news for us?
We're actually
kind of stuck right now.
The only
word we have is that
your grandson succumbed to
a stab wound
through the abdomen,
and no murder weapon
has been recovered,
though the ME thinks
it was scissors.
I don't
understand how this
could happen with people around.
No one saw anything?
We don't
understand it, either.
Tiffany,
you mind taking
a ride with us? We
won't keep you long.
You want me?
We were just about to go
pick up a prescription.
No, we'll get it picked up.
I still need to cook dinner.
Well, you can get
something delivered.
She doesn't like take-out,
she's not gonna eat it.
It's all right, honey.
You don't have to worry
about me, I-I'll be fine.
Oh, okay.
Um... I'll be back.
The frescos were salvaged
from a church in Sienna.
The brick work was done by
immigrant Italian masons,
one of them related
to Nicola Sacco.
They used this church
to raise money for his defense.
I don't think she knows who
Nicola Sacco was, Frank.
Sacco and Vanzetti.
Italian anarchists
executed for murder.
You continue to
underestimate me, don't you?
Your Excellency.
Chief.
How are you, Allison?
Been well, Your Excellency.
Frank, because Allison asked me
to look into this
situation personally,
because we've known each
other for a long time,
I wanted to come
and tell you myself
there doesn't
appear to be any way
not to go through with the sale.
Much as we believe in miracles,
we don't necessarily
expect them.
If we could save
the place, we would.
I understand.
Even if we were willing to
spend the million-and-a-half
necessary to
repoint the masonry,
the fact remains that
the Brooklyn Diocese
is in contract to
sell the building.
Has the buyer been approached?
I spoke to their representative
after I got the call from
Allison, and, in that they
made the payment needed
to seal the deal,
they're expecting us to honor
our end of the bargain.
There's no getting
out of it. I...
I'm sorry.
I'll tell the parishioners.
From
everything we've heard,
you take very good
care of your aunt.
I do what has to be done.
You do it.
Yes, I do it. So what?
I imagine that
takes up a lot of your time.
I'm not
complaining, am I?
You have a particularly
close relationship with your aunt.
I don't know if it's
particularly close.
She did stuff with
me when I was little
that my own mother
couldn't or... didn't.
Aunt Lillie took me out
to the botanical gardens,
she took me out on
one of those boats
they have down at
Sheepshead Bay,
even though she was terrified
of getting out on the water.
Which is why you're
so devoted to her now.
There doesn't have
to be a reason.
When I needed her to,
she took care of me.
When she needs me,
I take care of her.
That's what people
do for each other.
Not all people.
Right.
Not all people.
It usually falls on
one person, doesn't it?
Where my
mother was concerned,
that one person was me.
So tell me, how-how
was your cousin as far as
pitching in?
He helped out sometimes.
He was living there, though.
Yeah, he was living there.
Did it get any easier
on you once he moved in?
You run yourself
ragged, and there's...
there's never enough you can do.
Is your mom still with us?
No.
Been two years now.
We know your cousin
was going through
your aunt's money,
Tiffany.
Yeah... he was.
Yeah, running
up her credit card bills,
cashing her Social
Security checks...
In her eyes, he
could do no wrong.
Let me tell you something
about long-term caregivers.
They start thinking
crazy things.
Did you ever
confront your cousin?
I tried to have
calm conversations with him.
What about the
night he was killed?
I asked him if he could
contribute something.
I told him that I wanted to
hire a home health aide
just so I could find a
different job, maybe,
or have a little
bit more of a life.
She's about to go for it.
Did it get physical?
Yeah, now is the
time you set the foundation
for self-defense. Now.
I'm going in there for a second.
You said
it got physical.
Why don't you talk
us through it?
Excuse me. Ms.
Edwards? Captain Yenko.
We don't want to put
words in your mouth,
nor do we want you
to say anything
that isn't 100% truthful.
But if you did
confront your cousin,
and if that confrontation
became violent,
if you were concerned
for your life,
and that caused you
to grab the scissors
out of self-defense,
I think we agree
that now is the time
to say that.
I thought
he was gonna kill me.
I had to defend myself.
Hey. Hey.
Heard they took Tiffany away.
Yeah, I heard they wanted to
ask her a couple questions.
Be a damn shame if
they charge her.
Well, they'll only do
that if there's evidence
that she committed a crime.
It was up to the
people who live here,
they wouldn't do it regardless.
Well, they got to do
what they got to do.
Come to think of it,
you're one of those
people who live here.
Yeah, that's right.
Maybe sometime you'll
tell me just how
that came to pass.
It's actually pretty
straightforward.
I doubt it. No, really, I...
Hey.
Hey. I was looking for you.
I thought we could've
rode back together.
I just... The bus was right
there, so I just hopped on.
You the other cop
that moved in here?
Yeah.
Um, this is Lorenzo.
What's up?
What's up?
Well, I'm gonna take a shower.
Do you want to do dinner?
Not tonight.
I'll see you soon,
Lorenzo. Later.
Nice to meet you, Lorenzo.
Yeah, you, too.
Now, I've extended
you the courtesy
of meeting you in a bar
and coming to your office,
when I generally like
to conduct business
out of my office.
I appreciate.
Yeah, well, you are
a two-star chief,
and word out of Puzzle Palace
has you being
appointed commissioner
if Sharpe gets elected mayor,
so it'd be silly not to
act somewhat deferential.
Having attempted negotiation
with you and the diocese,
I'm left with the
inescapable conclusion
that I need to be a
little more direct.
I want the contract of sale
for St. Abigail's ripped up.
I want that building
to remain a church,
and any repairs that
are necessary...
they're gonna be paid
for by you. Personally.
Okay.
Uh, what, did you dream this up
in fantasy cops
and robbers camp?
Compel the sale of that
church to go forward,
and you're gonna have detectives
from Brooklyn North to Manhattan
watching your every move.
So you can roll the dice,
see if you'll dodge
prison a second time,
but, uh,
Vegas odds,
they aren't in your favor.
All right, Chief.
I'll err on the side of caution.
This time.
Yeah?
Hey, I was just
about to call you.
Georgia reminds me of
Allyson Felix, the way she comes
out of the blocks. Regina...
And also, before I forget,
I also think that
we ought to let her
give hurdling a shot.
I mean, if that's
what she wants,
it might be good for her.
Regina. Yeah?
Georgia quit.
She said she was quitting
or she already quit?
Well, she left me a voice mail
saying that she's
quitting the club.
Well, let me talk to her.
I got personal with her,
and this is her way
of telling me off.
I don't think so.
She wants to crush that meet
on Saturday, Sabrina.
She's not gonna give
up on that so easily.
She asked that neither
one of us contact her.
It's better if we
just leave her alone.
For now.
Look, I got to go,
but we'll talk.
Okay. All right.
♪ Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh,
ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh ♪
♪ There's snakes
in this garden ♪
♪ There's ghosts in every town ♪
♪ But I won't raise
this white flag ♪
♪ When war is all around ♪
♪ This is ♪
♪ War... ♪
♪ This is ♪
♪ War... ♪
♪ In this treacherous game ♪
♪ Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh,
ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh ♪
♪ It's a treacherous game. ♪
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