Hill Street Blues (1981–1987): Season 6, Episode 12 - Say It as It Plays - full transcript

- Oh, Mick.

- Hi.

- You're back.

- I just stopped to say hello.

- What do you mean?

- I'm still working.

They just let me out to say hi.

I'll see you later.

I love you.

All right.

- Okay, can we get
back to work now?



- Yeah, let's get back to work.

- Preliminary search didn't
turn up the perp's weapon.

Evidently, a cop
planted a second gun.

- Then the perp's
weapon turned up.

- Goldblume found
it under a dumpster.

Steger says Garfield
planted the gun.

Garfield says it was Steger.

- If it was Garfield's shoot why
would Steger plant a weapon?

- Good question. I
have the IAD hearing.

- If I were lawyering I think
I'd like to work for Steger.

- Uh-uh.

If you were lawyering you'd
want to be working for Garfield.

He's the underdog.

- Item five is an all
points for the renegade



bride-groom, Michael Belker.

This louse not only left
his fiancé at the altar,

he left yours truly
holding the ring.

Actually, actually,
Mick had to cook on his

PCP operation
earlier than scheduled.

Now, his undercover
closes this morning.

Green date for his and
Robin Tattaglia's nuptials

is 5:30 this afternoon at
the Kubiak La Paloma Room.

- Hey, Sarge.
- What?

- If Belkar takes a powder,

does the head of the
head of the gift committee

get the refrigerator?

- He ain't, he ain't
taking a powder.

- Item, uh,

uh, item six, um,

no perp interviews or IDs

in Interrogation
Room A today, people.

IAD is taking statements
on the Garfield shoot.

Item seven, now our
worst fears with this wildcat

walk out of the drivers of
the City Health Department

have come true.

The, uh, City Health Inspector,
Rula Witz, has declared

an emergency, which means
until this wildcat strike is over,

cops are gonna have to
pick up the John Doe stiffs.

People, I did this
the fairest way I knew.

I put the names in a
hat and I pulled 'em out.

Now the names I call,
along with their partners,

you're gonna be picking
up croakers today.

Frame.

Donaldson.

Hill.

- Okay, that's it.
Let's have a safe shift.

Let's go. They're
getting away out there.

- Not the ones we're gonna
be with 'cause their dead.

- How's it going, Ronnie?

- I'm just waiting to
make my statement.

- SOP, my man. Steger's
driving the desk too.

- Yeah, and after today Steger
will be back on the streets.

Where do you think I'm gonna be?

- Why are you so sure the hands
gonna come out against you?

- Who do you IADs gonna
believe, a 27 year member

of the Fraternal Order
of Police or a black...

- Hey, Ronnie, don't
hang this up on color, man.

They just wanna know
what happened in that alley.

- There's no witnesses.

It's Steger's word against mine.

- And that's why they're
gonna be looking at how

you handle yourself, the
way you say what you say,

and if you cop out on some
self-pitying crap about color

instead of trying like hell
to make 'em understand

what went down out
there, hey, if I was IAD

I'd figure you were guilty.

I figure that you planted the
piece and now you're taking

your best shot at trying
to make the hearing

about somethin' else.

- You really think
they might believe me?

I didn't do it, Detective.

- Then that's what you
got to make them believe.

Are you gonna try, Ronnie?

- Yeah.

- All right.

- Uh, sorry, fellas. Hello, Jim.

- Captain Gleason.
- Barry.

- Hello, Frank.

Do you remember that
long-legged Irish steno, Frank, um...

- Cassidy.
- Cassidy, yeah.

Do you think these recorders
are an improvement?

- I start with Officer
Garfield, okay?

- Well, off the prelims,
we could end with him too.

- No prejudgments, Barry.

Whoever survives this inquiry
is gonna be a cop in my precinct.

- No prejudgments,
Frank. No prejudgments.

- I figured if he took off
he must have warrants

so I know I should
presume he was dangerous.

I saw him turn off Van
Buren into the alley

and I continued pursuit.

I remember thinking I
didn't know this alley.

I've never been
down this alley before.

- What did you
see when you went?

- The suspect had turned and
was facing me with a weapon.

I identified myself and shot.

- You were certain
you were at risk?

- I was certain.

He intended to shoot so I shot.

The impact knocked
him backwards.

When I went to
him I said to myself,

"Please don't let him be dead,"

but I knew from
the way he looked.

There was no movement.
He was just lying there.

He was absolutely
still. There was nothing.

No pulse, God, nothing.

I got up to look for the gun.

- Was Officer
Steger there by now?

- Not yet. He arrived
a few seconds later.

- What did Officer Steger say?

- Well, I was looking
for gun and I told him

I couldn't find the gun
and he looked with me

for about ten seconds and
then he told me to go back

to the unit and
call in the shoot.

So I called the shoot in and,
and came back with some

uniform officers from
the prostitution sweep.

Steger met us and he had
a pistol by its trigger guard

and he was yelling
that he had found it.

Naturally, I was real relieved.

- Show me where to indicate
your position in relation

to the perp Gomez when
Officer Steger entered the alley.

- Good color, man.

Bet that stuff kicks
like a mule, too, huh?

- That'll do the job.
- You did great, Mick.

Oh, you cook some great stuff.

You're gonna big
in this business.

- Yeah, Mr. Suarez is
gonna be happy too, mate.

- So our meets at two?
- 2:00 sharp.

Suarez is always on time, Mick.

- Hey, wait a minute,
Mick, what's this now?

- I'll be back before
the meet. What?

Don't you want me there?

- Yeah, we want ya here.

- Chato is saying
where are you going?

- Look, we didn't get
married, right fellas?

I'm going out.

I'm gonna walk
around a little bit

and I'll be back
before the meet.

- You gonna go and see
your woman again, right Mick?

- You got me.
- Fella.

Tonight maybe me, you,
Mick can take our ladies out

to celebrate.
- Yeah.

- We can go to Lotus Club.

You ever been to
Lotus Club, Mick?

- No.
- She'd love it. It's a trip.

- Okay. I'll be
back in a little while.

- All right, you got it.
- Hey, Mick.

Superstar, king of the cookers.

- On the event subsequent
to the shoot, did you speak

with Officer Steger
after Captain Furillo

told you a second
gun had been found?

- Yes, I did.
- What was said?

- I was upset.

I, I told him I couldn't
believe the perp had two guns.

I told him that if the
second gun had been found

in the perp's pocket I'd
buy that, but both pieces

were found in the alley
away from the body

and I knew I'd only seen
one gun in the perp's hand.

- How did Officer
Steger respond?

- He got very upset.

I, I confronted him, asked him
if he planted that gun he found.

- And did he confess?

- He said if somebody
did plant a piece

they sure wouldn't
have done it to hurt you.

- How did you
interpret that statement?

- I took to mean that Steger
had planted a gun to help me

and in turn wanted
me to lie to protect him.

- Did he ask you
specifically to commit perjury?

- What he said was,

"Are you gonna be
stand up on this or what?"

I said, "I don't know."
That's where we left it.

The next thing I
know I get called into

the Captain's office
and Steger's there

lying through his teeth.

- At the time of the
shooting, Officer Garfield,

how long had you
known Officer Steger?

- About two hours.

- Any, uh, mutual friends,
other cops you both knew,

anything like that?

- Not to my knowledge.

Like I said, we'd
only met that morning.

- Mmm. Now let me
see if I got this right.

Um, a 27 year veteran
walks into a shooting scene

and commits a felony
by dropping a weapon

for another cop that he
just met two hours before.

Is that what you're saying?

- Is there anything
else you'd like to say

on your own behalf
at this time, Officer?

- Just that the perp
Gomez, had a gun.

He pointed it at
me and I shot him

and I never dropped any weapons.

- Anything else?
- No.

- That's all.

- Case closed.
The kid dropped it.

- We have a long go
before we say that, Barry.

- Uh, nobody else had motive.

- We have to get
through Steger's testimony

on the shooting before lunch.

- I really think you're
making a mistake here, Luc.

- Yeah, well nobody asked you.

- You know, you don't
exactly have control of

your emotions right now.

All that stuff we talked about,
about you wanting a family

and all and then you
see Fabian's mother

and I know that just
made it all worse.

- Which has nothing
to do with Hopper.

I'm gonna go see him. That's it.

It's right up here on the left.

- Well, do you want
me to hold your coat?

- Why? A major part of my
work is evaluating beauty.

Do you think I'm incompetent?

- Yes, he is and the next
questions gonna be do you think

I'm flirting and yes, he is.

- Give me five minutes, huh?

Lucy, what's the
matter with you?

- I just wanted to take one
minute to tell you the kind

of person I think you are.

I think you use people
and I think you're a coward.

A guy who lies to himself
let alone other people and

I think you must have been
the worst husband in the world.

I think you're cheap
with your emotions.

You're totally joyless

and I think you're
a, a lousy lover.

And I don't like your pots.

- Lorna, she made
many a man happy.

- That woman was a hooker?
- Died on the job.

Actually, she was the
queen of phone sex.

Could Lorna talk?

I swear, you'd listen
to her, you'd close eyes,

you'd think it was a
20 year old starlet with

a middle aged
woman's dirty mind.

- Sounds like
you're pretty familiar

with the services here, pal.

- Well, sometimes I bring up
her meals, might hang around

a little bit. That's
no crime, is it?

- I can't seem to
get this phone...

- Would, would, would
ya just... Yeah, please.

- Should I just leave it?
- Yeah, just take it out.

Come on, Renko.

- Okay, on three.
One, two, three.

- Okay, okay, okay.
Now hey, hey, wait.

Lie her down.

- Wouldn't figure you'd
have any trouble doing that.

- Okay, maybe, now.

- Renko, rigor mortis.

- We just gotta take
her down like she is.

- What is that?

- Heavy as she was, Lorna
liked phones all over the room.

That must be a customer.

- I don't care.
I'm not even here.

I'm up in the mountains
somewhere fishing.

I don't care one
thing about this.

Get through the door.
Get through the door.

Get it through the door.

- All right, go again.

- Uh, I was going
as hard I could.

No way I was gonna catch 'em.

They were pulling a pretty
good lead and I didn't lose 'em

'till Garfield, uh, followed
the perp into the alley

and a second after
that I heard the shot.

- How much time passed
between when you heard the shot

and you're next
to Officer Garfield?

- Uh, 10, 15 seconds.

Like I say, they
were pretty far ahead.

- What did you see when
you went to the alley?

- Well, I saw the kid
over near the dumpster.

My first thought was,
boy, am I relieved.

You know, the guy is down
and my partners on his feet.

Uh, and then Garfield sees me.

That's when the curtain goes up.

- Pardon?

- That's when he
starts his performance.

- Just state what
you saw, Officer.

- I say, "Uh,
Ronnie, is he dead?"

"He's dead," the
kid yell. "I shot him.

Oh, my God. Where's his gun?"

I said, "it's okay. Calm down.

We'll find it."

But anyway, um, the kids
throwing things around

and saying "it's gotta be here."

I figure he's just gonna
queer the search site

so I sent him off,
uh, to call it in.

Then I start a
methodical search.

I find the weapon
right where Garfield...

No editorializing.

- Coroner Nigel.
- Be with you in a second.

- We ain't got a second.
Where do you want this stiff?

- Well, diva's choice fellas.

Main performers
ain't particular.

- Over there, Renko.

- Stiffened up on 'em a
little bit, did you sweetheart?

You got no problem, Teasdale.

- The woman was
pretty upset, Mr. Nydorf.

- Shoot her through
the grease a little.

Uh, this the mother?

- Uh, daughter OD'd.

- Uh, uh, Mr. so and so,
strange as it may seem to you.

We at Night Ark Brothers
Mortuary consider

the common agate marble
the best implant following

cornea donation, keeps the
natural contour of the face,

and what a generous gesture
for your daughter to have made.

- I'm just raising
the flag, Mr. Nydorf.

Uh, she said she was suing us.

- I'm back in public
service, Teasdale.

This is something you outta
be able to take care of yourself

and will you, for God's sake,
stop at Hopkinson Supply

and pick up a bunch
of ball implants.

- Uh, I did that on
my way down here.

- Thank you, Teasdale,
you're a great American.

Waste of good marbles.
You fellas are too delicate.

You guys are
from the Hill, right?

Told your captain three
years ago when I had

my little difficulty
that the city morgue

hadn't seen the
last of Wally Nydorf.

- Wouldn't calling logging
them bodies 'til the strike's settled

exactly coming
back in honor, Wally.

- Yeah, listen, Coroner
Fukimoto's an honorable man.

Fukimoto won't
cross the picket line.

Wally Nydorfs got his foot
in the door and who knows

once that extremity's
inside what other body parts

may follow.

- All right, can we just
get out of here now?

- Oh, listen, would you
hold on just a minute?

- Now what?
- Lunchtime.

As long as you fellas are
here, maybe you can walk old

Wally through the
pickets out there.

- I hate being on the same
side as you, Mr. Nydorf.

- I appreciate your sentiments
because you expressed them

reasonably, whereas
those fellas are fanatics.

- You weren't dreaming.

No, I had to those
dealers drive me over.

Listen, I got a couple
things at the precinct,

then I'll come by and change.

We can drive to
the Kubiak together.

Just a couple things.

Honey, some loose
ends off my desk.

I gotta go. I love you. Bye.

- Coffee, Stan?

- No, it's bad for my ticker.

- Uh, come on, come on.

- How did things go with IAD?

- Uh, still going.
We're on a break.

Hey, I'm telling it how it was.

- Oh, I hope it works out.

- Stan, gonna hate to see it.
I worked with him for years.

The going gets rough,

all of them runs scared.

- All of who?
- Colored.

- I don't buy that.
- Right, I know.

- No, I mean it.
- Sure.

- No, Jack, I really mean that.

- Hey, I believe ya.

- Run it for me, Mick, I have
to get back into the hearing.

- Well, I'm going back there
after we talk and Suarez,

their buyer, picks up
the stuff I made at 2:00,

give me a couple of
minutes to establish intent

then you make the pop.

- I'm trying to think of a way
to get you out beforehand.

- That's no good, Captain.

- We're getting you
married today, Mick.

- They need me there to show
the Dominicans they got a chemist.

If I'm there, it's
gonna get hinky.

- Uh, look, uh, we
bust 'em at 2:00,

kids don't get
married 'till 5:30.

It lays out okay to me.

- Okay.
- Okay. See ya at 2:00.

- Who's with you?

- LaRue, Washington,
four uniforms.

- Take six.

- What communication,
if any, did you have with

Officer Garfield subsequent to
the discovery of the second gun?

- Uh, most of us were
out looking for that heart.

I came back to the stationhouse,
kid was waiting for me.

- Garfield?
- Uh, right.

I'm not making a racial joke.

Um, the kid looked about as
pale as he was ever gonna.

Uh, he, uh, took me aside
and said we gotta talk.

We went into interrogation

and, uh, he said they found,
uh, another gun at my shoot.

I said, "You mean the
perp had two guns?"

And suddenly he started
pounded his fists on the walls

and he says, "I wish to
hell I'd of thought to say that.

I, I wish I'd a
thought to say that."

And I'm getting
sick at my stomach.

I said, "Kid, you mean
you planted a piece

and set me up to find
it? You made me a patsy."

He said, "I began doubting
what I thought I'd seen.

I knew you were coming."

And now he's
bawling his eyes out.

He said the Captain
gave me a way out.

He asked me.

He said, "Did the
perp have two guns?

And I didn't think to say yes."

- I'm going call Kubiak.

- Hey, Ronnie. How'd it go, man?

- I couldn't tell about
Furillo or the IAD guy,

but the outside Captain...
- Gleason?

- He didn't believe word one.

Steger's in with him now lying.

What do you think?

I mean if I offered a
polygraph, if Steger would too?

- Why would Steger do
something that could only jam him?

Why would you? Ronnie,
do yourself a favor.

- What's that?
- Go home.

You can't do nothing
for yourself here.

- I just keep thinking
about what he's saying.

- Then go home, Ronnie.
Wait to hear, okay?

- I know, I know, I know.

You got a lodge to run,
but that's not the point.

The point is the weddings
at 5:00 and all you can think

about is the fridge is blocking
the way to your men's room.

Leon, Leon, it's only four
more hours, have a heart.

- Leon.

- Real sentimental guy, huh?
- How's your boy?

- Freaked.

- Maybe you got your
dough on the wrong horse.

- Uh-uh. I don't think so, babe.

- You know, I just couldn't
help but feel bad for him.

I, I told him, I said,
uh, you didn't say

there were two guns
because you didn't see guns.

Stop it here. Go to the Captain.

Tell him what happened.

He said, "I don't think
I can." I said, "Do it.

You're not cut out to
play it the other way."

- Officer Steger, by your
account Officer Garfield

stated his actions were
motivated by his fear.

- By panic.
- Right.

- You also said you were
about here when you heard

the shot fired?
- Uh, yes, right. Mm-hmm.

- What would you estimate
was the maximum amount of time

it took you to
arrive at the scene?

- I was running pretty hard.
I, I don't know, I don't know.

- Less than a minute?
- Way less, yeah.

- Thirty seconds?

I mean the distance
is less than 30 yards.

- I guess 20 seconds.

- And Garfield knew
you were this close?

- Uh, wait a second.

I'm not sure what you're saying.

- Okay. So we're, we're
back at the scene of the crime.

Now Garfield is so
panicked that he plants a gun

in the mistaken belief that
the perp had no weapon.

- Right. Now how many times
are we gonna go over this stuff?

- And having crouched
down at the body

to put the perp's prints on
the weapon and knowing

that you're about to come
around the corner at any instant,

instead of leaving the
gun in the perp's hand,

after he had planted it there
and saying there's his gun,

there's the piece,
when you arrived.

Instead of doing
that he risks your

coming around the
corner and seeing it.

He prolongs his time at
risk by removing the gun

from the perp's hand and
throwing it under a dumpster.

- Right.

- Then he has the further
calculation, at a time,

when according
to your testimony,

he's totally
panicked, to pretend

he can't find the weapon.

- You asked me what
happened. I told you what I saw.

I told you what the kid told me.

- Thank you.

- Do you have anything
further to add to your testimony,

Officer Steger?

- What do you mean? No.

I mean, uh, what are you saying?

Are you accusing me?

- I don't have any
more questions.

- The, the kid planted a
piece. He set me up to find it.

I mean, uh, what
does he got to lose?

If I, if I don't find it
he's gonna find it later.

- That's a good point.

Thanks for your
testimony, Officer.

- No problem.

- I don't understand
what this is about, Jimmy.

- So why don't you
explain it to me, Filo, huh?

- We're closed, man.

- What is this? What's going on?

- This your cooker?
- No way.

- Hey, I'm here buying...
- You're lying, man.

Think I don't inventory.

Think I don't see you guys
shaping to make a move.

You're gonna move
with Suarez, ain't ya?

When's he gonna show up?

- I don't know why you're
talking like this, Jimmy.

- He watched this
place last night.

You guys cooked here.
This guy is your cooker.

- You see this, Jimmy?
You stopped being careful.

You got to be too
much of a big shot.

- You just made a bad mistake.
- You make the mistake. You did.

Now we out ourselves
an ace cooker here.

Are we gonna make our move now?

- You gonna me out, Chato?

You think you'd take me out,
no one's gonna be after you?

You think Suarez
is gonna trust you

after you take out
your own boss?

- It's a big country, man.
Come on, man, come on.

Move.
- Come on where?

- You're coming
with us. Move it.

- Hey, you wanna cook?

You stay here and cook with me.

- Mick, you stand with us.
- Wait a minute.

- What you doing?

- Don't worry about him.
I know where to do it.

He'll be okay.

- All right. Lie down,
Jimmy. Lay down.

And you lie down.

- Hey, don't kill us, man.

- We ain't gonna kill you,
man. We got it in the car?

- Yeah, everything's
in there. Let's go, man.

- Stay down.

- Doesn't make any sense, Barry.

A panicky Garfield just
does not do all the things

Steger says he did
in that amount of time.

- Supposing Steger didn't
get to the site as quickly

as he said he did, Captain.

- Yeah. It's human
nature, Frank.

Steger's pushing what,
50? He's overweight.

So he fibs about how
quick he got to the shoot.

Instead of 15 or
20 seconds it's 40.

- If it's 40 seconds do you buy
Garfield stashing the weapon?

- Still don't buy it.
- Joseph and Mary...

- Barry, it's too risky and
elaborate a set of judgments

for Garfield to have made.

If he's going to plant a gun
and he knows Steger is coming,

he plants the gun in the
perp's hand and backs off fast.

- All right, then you gotta
answer me one, Frank.

Why?
- Why what?

- Well, off what you're
saying it's gotta be Steger,

planted the piece
when he sent Garfield

out of the alley, right?

- Which is Garfield's position.

- And I wanna know why?

- Wrong-headed idea about
standing up for another cop.

- Now look, I don't want
anybody taking this wrong, okay?

We're talking about
a colored rookie here,

a kid that Steger has never met.

Now Steger's not
gonna put his life

on the line for this kid, Frank.

- I believe the Captains
saying that Steger

wasn't doing it for Garfield.

He thinks Steger did out
of some misguided loyalty

to another cop, rookie,
black, first day partner or not.

- Meaning he sold you, huh?
- I'm not sure.

- Steger is a career patrolman.

Maybe he feels he's
been passed up unfairly.

Maybe he has a, a,
a victim's complex.

- Uh, come on, the ice is
getting pretty thin here now.

- Barry, neither
was in that alley.

I'm just trying to support a gut
reaction here same as you are.

I don't believe Steger's story.

- And I don't
believe Garfield's.

- Truck drivers next.

- I was leaning
out, looking back,

checking my clearance
when I seen this guy come

running into the alley and
a cops running, chasing.

I figured I better
get out of there

when I seen him
in the rear view.

He stops and he pulls
a gun out of his pants.

Well, that's when I take off.

And when I make my turn
out of the alley I hear a gunshot.

Then I saw this lady cop.

- Would you indicate where
you first saw the officer?

- Yeah, right here, with a
hooker she was arresting.

I stopped.

I tell her there's a
shooting in the alley.

She starts running
towards the alley,

shouts back to me
to tell this other cop.

- Which you did?

- I did while she
was still running.

- Did you observe the name
tag of the female officer?

- Yeah, it was, uh, Willy,
Wiley, something like that.

- Officer Wiley.
- Wiley, right.

- So from what you're
saying she must have a view

of the alley before
her partner did.

- Right. He was
still running when

she was already looking around

the corner to see where
the shot came from.

Of course, this was after
shooting you understand.

I mean she wouldn't
have seen the shooting.

- Thank you, Mr. Kaiser.

- What is he doing here?
- Who?

- Him.
- Who?

- It's Tom Hoffman, the potter.
- He looks like a wimp.

- I'm sorry, you
can't file a complaint.

- Well, then who
should I speak to?

- Hey, what's the problem?

- I wanna file a complaint
against an Officer Bates.

- Ah, I'm the man
you wanna talk to.

Now what's the problem?

- Well, I previously
knew Officer Bates

on a personal basis

which gives her no excuse
for behaving like a thug.

She comes into a
ceramic studio I operate,

terrifies the students,
breaks things.

- What you mean
terrifying students?

What, what does that mean?

- I just said her
behavior was disruptive.

- Well, did she
take out her gun?

Was she arresting people? What?

- Look I get the feeling
you're not the person

I should be talking to.
- No.

I get the feeling that Lucy
didn't come to see you as a cop.

She came to you
for personal reasons

and you aren't man enough
to talk to her face to face

so you come in here
with all this whiny crap,

trying to embarrass
her at her job,

thinking that maybe
that'll keep her

from coming to see you again.

- Look I'm not gonna
be intimidated by you.

- Hey, I'm not trying
to intimidate you.

You still wanna file a
complaint or did you,

uh, accomplish what
you came here for?

- I don't want a repeat of
what happened this morning.

If I'm getting the message
that you don't think

it'll be repeated then a
complaint isn't necessary.

- Well, that's the message.
- Thanks very much.

- You're welcome, Duke.

- Stan, Health Department
drivers just settled.

- Hallelujah. I'll
notify our people.

- Thanks.

- Stan, would you raise
Officer Wiley for me, please?

We want to talk to her.

I'd also like a copy
of her statement

about the Garfield case.

- Got it.

- What was that about?

- Um, they wanna, they
wanna talk to Officer Wiley.

- Wiley, huh?

- Uh, your wife called
while you were downstairs.

- That's all I needed.

- She just wanted to
know how things are going.

- No, she's just been climbing
all over me about this thing.

- Uh, it's going
to be over soon.

- I'll tell you what's over,
my shot at a promotion

before I get my benefits.

Twenty-seven years I'll be going
out on a patrolmen's pension.

- Well, if they clear ya
how's this thing going

to affect your promotion?

- Stan, believe me.

I've been a guy who never,
never played the game

and I've always wound
up on the short end.

This is the kind of thing
they've been using for 27 years.

- Jack, do you mind if I tell
you something as a friend?

- Shoot.
- Self-pity stinks.

- What's that supposed to mean?

- It means maybe, uh,
there are other reasons

why you didn't get
any promotions.

- Uh, you don't believe that.

- And, and that's
something else.

Don't think you always know
what somebody else is thinking.

- Oh, Stan.
- Oh, uh, uh, Officer Wiley.

Yes. Excuse me.

Uh, uh, Officer Wiley, um,
could you come with me

for a second?

IAD wants to talk to you
about the Garfield shooting.

- Hill Street, Goldblume.
Hi, Robin. How are you?

No, you missed him. He
just went out on the bust.

Oh, well, uh, maybe he
didn't go out on the bust.

Maybe, uh, look, I'll tell
him you called, okay?

Right.

Oops.

- We've heard testimony
that you proceeded to the site

of a reported shooting
without waiting for your partner.

You are aware that's
improper procedure.

- Yes, sir.

- In fact, you arrived
at the mouth of the alley

a good 15 or 20 seconds
before Officer Trapido,

didn't you?
- Yes, Captain.

- This fact was either
omitted or misstated

in your Form 319
Report, correct?

- At this point, Officer, I must
inform you that your statements,

both written and oral,
can be used in evidence

in any future
internal affairs review

of your conduct in this matter.

- Which, I would add,
is not our intention now.

We just want you to
tell us what you saw

in that alley before
Officer Trapido got there.

Was this omitted from
your 319 Report in order

to cover the fact that you
got there before your partner?

- I didn't go down the
alley 'till Jim went with me.

- We understand you didn't
go in, but did you look down it?

- Yes.
- What did you see?

- If I thought it was anything
I would have written it.

- Officer Wiley, we're
not out to get you.

You just tell us what you saw
and we'll judge its importance.

- Okay.

- Lieutenant, over here, sir.

- Somebody went down
right here, Lieutenant.

- Here, take this
coat over to lab.

Have it typed, ASAP.

- At least we
know it ain't Belker.

- Not unless he bought
that coat last night.

He was wearing
the black cashmere.

- Lieutenant, company coming.

- It's Suarez.

- Hold it.

- Intercept suspect,
gold Lincoln

heading towards the rear gate.

- Freeze.

Come on, back
around the car here.

Come on, come on, don't
make me come to you.

- Come on. Wow, look
what we got here, huh?

- Hey, man, I was just
on the way to the bank.

- Gee, you missed it,
Suarez. It's already after 3:00.

- My, my, my, did you
win the lottery, huh?

- That's my money.
- Really? You hear that.

He says all this money is his.

- IRS will be real glad to know

how good your
newsstands are doing.

Put your hands behind your back.

- What's the beef,
man? I ain't done nothing.

- Speed limit in here is
10 miles per hour, palsy.

You were doing 50. Come on.

- I'll call an APB for Belker.

Uh-huh, a great big

to you Wally.

- I know.
- Strike's over, buddy.

- I know. Don't rub it in.

- Last deposit, Wally.
Uh, 830 pounds?

- Five foot 4 1/2 of
it. Where to, bud?

- 5B. Hard to believe
anybody would wanna work

in a place like
this, isn't it fellas?

Private mortuaries are
dead. There's no action.

- Well, Wally, if you would
have kept a tighter ship,

maybe you could
have kept your job.

- Oh, hell, I was
perfect for this place.

This is the kind of
place where you come

when you don't need any records.

This is the place where
you wind up when die on X.

- Oh, no, no.

- What's the matter, son?

You know the man?
- It's his daddy.

- Oh, I'll wait outside.

Uh, sorry for your loss.

Oh, Nydorf brother's card.

- We had our two
prisoners to secure,

which is what delayed
Officer Trapido.

I reached the other end of
the alley pretty adrenalated.

I had my weapon out,
but then I was relieved

because I could see there was
a cop there and he was all right.

- The cop was Officer Steger?
- That's correct.

Then he bent over the body.

I was blocked for a few
seconds, but then he turned

so I could see that he'd
found a pistol in the perp's hand

and was removing it.

- Try not to draw
conclusions, Officer.

- Right, okay. I saw him take.

He took the pistol out of
the perp's hand and stood up.

Then my partner came
yelling, "what's going on"

and the next time I looked
down the alley Steger

was holding up the
piece for Garfield

and the other cops
who were just coming in.

Captain, I'm sure
this last part Jimmy

and I had on our statement
because he was there by then.

- Are you absolutely
certain that Officer Steger

was removing a weapon
from the victim's hand?

- Yes, sir.

- Officer Steger claims
he found the weapon

approximately four
feet from the body.

- That's not true.

- I can't believe it.

I've always been
able to reach her.

Stan.

- What?

- Stan, I got a feeling
something terrible

is gonna happen. I
gotta talk to Suzanne.

- You sure you're okay?

- Still busy.

My wife, the realtor,
probably selling a house.

- Officer Steger, I'm
arresting you for preparing

false evidence and
subornation of perjury.

You have the right
to remain silent.

You have the
right to an attorney.

Anything you say can and
will be used against you

in a court of law.

- Hey, Robin. J.D. LaRue.

Uh, look, uh, Mick's
still out on the operation.

Yeah, yeah. I guess
he did foul up again.

- Lieutenant, we
got an all points out

for the vehicle
they got Belkar in.

- Let's divert units. Link 'em
to the Heights and Fulton.

- Yeah, okay, fine.
Uh, Bates, Coffey.

Uh, Renko, you and
Hill wanna go on overtime

to track down Belker?

- Bobby's father dead.
- What?

- Bobby Hill's father's dead.

We find him a lying on
a slab in the city morgue.

- Well, I thought I
was having problems.

- The informants pretty
sure that Mick's okay.

- They treat the
chemists like royalty.

- So your mind is made
up. You think I planted a gun.

- Officer, we're
basing our conclusion

on an eye witness account.

- What she saw
tells you what I did.

It doesn't tell you why. That
kid asked me to help him.

- Are you saying
that Officer Garfield

asked you to plant a weapon?

- Asked me? He begged
me to do it for him.

- Why?

- He was afraid of going down
on a bad shoot, that's why.

- That's not my question.

Why would a man who had met
you only two hours before assume

you would commit
a felony to save him?

- You ask me to
think for the kid again.

How do I know? It's the
way I am or something.

People are asking me for favors.

- We're talking about a
lot more than a favor here,

complicity is a crime.

- He was desperate.

For crying out loud, he
didn't have no one else.

Don't you see what I'm saying?

I'm the kind of guy
who would help him.

Ask anyone.

- Jack, is it possible
you planted the piece?

- No.

- Just trying to
help the kid out?

- No.

Oh, this is beautiful.

This is par for the
course all right.

Hey, look...

- Officer, will you
come with me, please?

- I, I can't believe I'm
going down on this.

- Robin Tattaglia's
on line two, Frank.

She'd like to talk to you.

- How is she?
- Holding up.

- Yeah, Robin.

Well, we have two sightings
of them on the interstate and,

and we have their
license number.

Uh, Robin, I'm
sure he's all right.

The last thing they
wanna do is hurt him.

Yes, there was some
blood found at the scene,

but it wasn't Mick's type.

I know how hard this must
be for you, but I don't think

it's gonna be long now.

- No hard feelings though, Mick?

- Right.
- Uh, he'll be okay.

We're all gonna be okay
once we cross that state line.

- We're going to be big
once we get to Nevada, man.

We'll have a big syndicate
and hundreds of dudes

working for us 'cause we got
the brain power you and me Filo.

And the ace chemist in
the whole free world, man.

- Forget about her, Mick.

We are going to make a
star out of you in Nevada.

- But fellas you
don't understand.

- What?
- I'm getting married.

- In Nevada you can get married
as much as you want, Mick.

- Hey, Filo, over there,
that looks like a good one.

- Come on.

Put this on.

Here, it's only a toy.
You just gonna scare 'em.

- Everybody down. On the floor.

One move and I'll kill ya.

- Don't even breathe.
- Open it.

- Anything, okay?
Just don't hurt me.

- All right, get down. If
anyone moves I'll kill 'em.

- It's taking too
long. Let's get going.

- That's enough. I'll
blow your frickin' head off.

- Uh, don't shoot.
I'm a Police Officer.

- You're a what?
- The hell you are!

- Honest to God.

I got a badge in my back pocket.

Don't shoot. Lower the gun.

I'm just going slow into my
back pocket for this badge.

Here.

- I'm glad I didn't buy
anything that spoils otherwise

they'd have ended
up getting married,

if they ever do,
with dead flowers.

- Hey, Ronnie, my man.
Hey, I heard the good news.

I'm glad.

- I just wanna say thanks
for keeping me cool today.

- Hey, no problem.
- How do you figure Steger?

- I don't. Guy
almost ruined my life.

- I'm glad it worked out, Ron.
- Hey, welcome aboard, kid.

- Thanks.

- I expected, you know, a
few tears and a little upset,

but she was totally devastated,
just like they were newlyweds.

- And maybe that's the way
she wants to remember it.

- He'd cat around,
disappear for years at a time,

and she'd still pray to Jesus

that he would one
day see the light.

- Your mama's a
good Christian woman.

God love here.

- Yes, she is. Hey.

But that's not what he needed.

He needed someone to
kick his butt, someone to say

you got a family, you
got responsibilities.

Why don't you act like a man?

- You got any idea what
he was doing around here?

- I don't know,
working on an angle.

- Worst part of it is, Renko,

in spite of it all, I loved him.

Hey, toast.

Reggie Hill a man

who lived solely for
his own pleasures,

a man who didn't give
a damn about anyone.

- I ain't going
to drink to that.

I don't think you
want to either.

- Even if he was here for
me, if he was here, so what?

We never worked
it out between us.

- Listen to me, pal, I think,
I think maybe this time

you outta let yourself
think it might have.

All right, come
on, knock this off.

We gotta pour you
on a train, little brother.

- Who is it?

Who is it?

- It's me.

- Fabian, what are
you doing here?

- You sounded lonely, Lucy.