Homicide: Life on the Street (1993–1999): Season 4, Episode 16 - Requiem for Adena - full transcript
- Frank, you should think about quittin'.
- Quittin' what?
Come on. With a
child on the way.
You know what smoke
does to a kid's lungs?
My dad had to quit
when I was small.
Why? Cos I used to grab the
butts out of the ashtray and eat them.
My child will have more
sense than to eat butts.
Put somethin' in front of a
child, they'll put it in their mouths.
- What do you know about babies?
- I was a baby once.
- You remember bein' a baby?
- Yes, I do. Not everything.
- Some things.
- Like what?
Looking through the bars of
my crib, thinking how weird it was
that the world was
divided up by wooden slats.
I don't remember bein' a child.
Of course not, you were
already 35 years old.
- Nice boutonnière.
- Thanks.
- What we got?
- A girl, 11, 12. Multiple stab wounds.
- A little girl.
- Who found the body?
Er... Got a message at
9:30 from an Evelyn Praeger.
Said she'd discovered the
body this morning around 7:00.
It took her two and
a half hours to call?
In this neighbourhood,
we're lucky if they call at all.
Talk to me, Scheiner.
Stab wounds to the chest and
abdomen. A serrated-edge blade.
- How long she been dead?
- I got to get her on the table.
She's got the face of an angel.
She looks just like her...
Just like Adena Watson.
You seen the Livinsky file?
- It's Lewis's case.
- That's why I'm lookin' on his desk.
- Maybe he took it with him to Toronto.
- Lewis working on vacation? A laugh!
- Give the guy a break.
- Come on. I give as good as I get.
I'll say!
Who asked you?
Nobody. Nobody asked me.
Who goes on vacation to Toronto?
Detective Kellerman.
Uh-huh? Yeah, right.
Sit on him till I
get there. Thanks.
- This should be fun.
- What have you got?
Domestic dunker. Husband shot
his wife. He's already confessed.
- I'll go with you.
- Why?
You're still the new guy. Don't want you
talking the shooter out of his confession.
Brodie, you come too. The guy's making
a statement of guilt. Get it on videotape.
- She's electric, isn't she?
- Who?
Howard. I think she's hot.
Kay Howard... hot?
- Scheiner?
- Hello, Al.
Open.
I'm gettin' phone
calls from Channel 8,
from the Baltimore Sun, the
bosses are breathing down my neck.
A young girl is stabbed in an alley.
They want details. I want details.
The victim is Janelle Parsons.
The mother says she was dropped
off at a store by her brother last night.
- She never came home.
- Sexual assault?
Vaginal serration. We
sent swabs to the lab.
Age, ten to eleven?
She turned 12 in December.
12... She looks much younger.
Yeah. Er... Gee... This might have
some connection with Adena Watson.
- Whoa! That was four years ago.
- We can't dismiss a connection.
I'm not rulin' it out, or
making conclusions.
I also don't want to run this case
the way the Watson case was run.
What does that means?
No double shifts, no extra
men, no hordes of cadets
trampling through
the scene, no Red Ball.
- What do you want from me?
- The press and bosses off my back.
- I'll see what I can do.
- I want control of this case.
I also want to work alone.
What does that mean?
Alone? No partner?
You can't shove
me out of this case.
I don't have time to tell you how to
work a murder. You guys figure it out.
I gotta go play pattycake
with Gaffney and Barnfather.
She was molested, stabbed and left in
an alley the exact same way Adena was.
We're three hours in and
you're already losin' perspective.
- Do you think this is all in my head?
- If there is any evidence, I'll pursue it.
- Right now, this is a fresh crime.
- With Adena, you challenged me.
You didn't trust me. Now, I
thought we were past that.
I'm not going to get bogged down with it
or let the same mistakes be made twice.
- The mistakes I made?
- The case got away from you.
- It could happen to any detective.
- Not Frank Pembleton.
You never wanted a partner
in the first place, Frank.
You go with God. You always do.
- Hello, Mrs Praeger?
- Yes?
- Detective Pembleton, Homicide.
- I guess you wanna come in?
- Yes, ma'am.
- Anythin' that can get rid of you?
No, ma'am.
When you found Janelle
Parsons' body this morning,
why did you wait so
long to call the police?
- I don't like talkin' to the police.
- Fair enough.
Last month, there was a killin' in this
neighbourhood. Detectives came in.
They tracked mud
all over my carpet.
But I noticed you wiped
your feet when you came in.
For that reason, I'll
answer your questions.
But I still don't like
talkin' to the police.
To be honest, I don't like
talkin' to most of them either.
I went out this morning
to get me some milk.
I cut through the alley on the way
home, saw the little girl layin' there.
- This was about 7:00 this morning?
- Yes.
- See anyone else in the alley?
- Not a soul.
Mrs Praeger, you've lived in
this neighbourhood a long time.
Can you think of anyone
who would do this?
Yes, I can.
Too many.
Her brother brought her in here at
8:30 last night. She was murdered.
You recognise her?
- You saw her yesterday?
- I'm almost certain.
Do you know Janelle
Parsons? Bernie Parsons?
Somebody got a beef
against Bernie Parsons?
- What do you mean, "no Red Ball"?
- He wants to run the case his way.
Think of it as a
one-man Red Ball.
A 12-year-old girl
was brutally murdered.
I'm offering extra manpower,
and you're turning me down?
You know what Frank can do.
Where is he? Any
leads, suspects?
- I don't know.
- You don't know?
At the very least, hold
a press conference.
It can't look like we
don't give a damn.
Give me 48 hours. We
stall the press till then.
No Red Ball? The Department
cannot afford another fiasco.
Another unavenged murdered
child. Weeping relatives on the news.
- I think we all understand that.
- Our clearance rate is up this year.
We're back in the black.
We can afford to let you
indulge your man on this one.
- Thank you for the support.
- I'll give you 48 hours.
If you don't have a suspect in custody
then, I want a full-throttle investigation.
- Where's Pembleton?
- I dunno.
Is this how you
two work things out?
He made it very clear
he doesn't want a partner.
The Adena Watson file?
Maybe somebody I interviewed
then mentioned Janelle Parsons.
- Is there a reason for this carnation?
- That's personal, Gee.
No one tells me
anything any more.
Look, two young girls, same ages,
same race, a serrated-edge knife.
We never found the weapon
in the Adena Watson case.
- There's a connection. I can feel it.
- So why are you at your desk?
- Right...
- Go with your gut, but use your head.
If you hear from
Pembleton, I wanna know.
I'd at least like to pretend to the
bosses I still have control of my squad.
- Baltimore Police Department.
- No!
- Detective Bayliss.
- Hi, I'm sorry to disturb you.
- I need to talk to you about Adena.
- Four years I haven't heard from you.
We never closed the case
and we might have a new lead.
- Come in.
- Thank you, Mrs Watson.
- I don't recognise this girl.
- Janelle Parsons.
- Name doesn't mean anything to you?
- No.
Well... She was found
murdered this morning.
Why aren't you
talkin' to her mother?
- They don't look anything alike.
- The crime was similar, Mrs Watson.
There's a possibility that whoever
killed this girl might've killed Adena.
The Arabber killed her.
- I don't know if he did.
- He did it.
- How can you be positive?
- Because I believed it for four years.
Now you tell me someone
else killed my daughter?
That's what I'm
tryin' to find out.
I spent the past four years
puttin' my pain someplace else,
giving away Adena's
clothes, her books, her toys.
I can look at her
picture and not cry.
Now you ask me to think
about things I tried to forget,
pick over the details,
remember everything?
Why can't you just let it be?
The Arabber killed Adena.
I cursed him every time
I saw him in the streets.
Now he's dead.
I'd like you to leave.
Mr Vetter, can you tell us what
happened with your wife, Elizabeth?
- 'I shot her.'
- Brodie, do you have to be so close?
Sorry. I'm just tryin' for
a close-up on the guy.
- I'll sit down.
- Can we start again, please?
- Is this gonna take much longer?
- You got someplace to be?
- You're ready?
- Ready. Action.
Did you intend to kill her, or
did you shoot her accidentally?
Sorry, we gotta cut.
- Mr Vetter, can you sit up a bit?
- Can I get a cup of coffee?
- My mouth's kinda dry.
- Mike.
Oh, right, I'm
still the new guy.
- How did my hair look?
- Excuse me.
- Hey, John.
- Did Howard crush Brodie's heart yet?
- What are you talkin' about?
- You don't know?
- What?
- Brodie's got a thing for Howard.
You mean a "thing" thing?
He's in heat, he's in lust,
he may even be in love.
That's what was goin' on in there.
Brodie was more jumpy than usual.
You know, she is pretty hot.
- Kay?
- Yeah, I think it's the hair.
I don't wanna think about
her hair. She's one of us, a cop.
You work around a
woman, you notice her.
She's a sergeant,
for God's sakes!
Susannah Chase, Baltimore
Sun. Can I get a statement?
No comment.
Does this bring
back bad memories?
- I'm not gonna talk to you.
- You have something to hide?
You'll have full statement
when we have a killer in custody.
- How close are you to?
- Get out of my way.
Please.
- What's this? "See me, Munch"?
- It means, see me, Munch.
- Crime lab called.
- You couldn't write that down?
The swabs from Janelle Parsons
came back positive. Seminal fluid.
Raped?
The guy wasn't a secretor. There's not
enough sperm cells to run a DNA test.
Tough luck, Frank.
Jerome Franklin?
- Jerome?
- Yeah.
Detective Bayliss.
Baltimore Homicide.
I talked to you four years
ago about Risley Tucker.
- Yeah, I know who you are.
- Oh...
- You do? Good.
- You don't remember me, though.
- Do you?
- I met a lot of people for that case.
And we all start to
look alike, is that it?
When was the last time that
you spoke to Risley Tucker?
About a week before he died.
And did he say anything
about... Adena Watson?
- No, he didn't.
- Uh-huh.
Did he say anything about regrets of
any kind, anything he was sorry about?
You trying to ease
your conscience?
What?
Risley was never the same
after what you did to him.
That year, his barn burned
down, his horse died.
Then being accused
of a terrible crime...
Something he didn't do. You
always after him, day and night -
questions, accusations.
That's what killed him. It
just took him four years to die.
Do you know for a fact that Risley
Tucker didn't kill Adena Watson?
- Do you have any evidence at all?
- I knew the man for 30 years.
I don't need any more
evidence than that.
OK, thank you for
your time, Mr Franklin.
You know... Any miseries that
Risley Tucker lived and died with,
he brought on himself.
I didn't have anything
to do with that.
So why are you here?
I'm just... doin' my job.
- 32-calibre six with a left twist.
- Does it match the bullet we recovered?
Yeah, it might.
Give me a few moments.
Want me to call you?
- We can wait.
- All right, suit yourself.
Vetter confessed and we
still gotta go through this.
- A lawyer will challenge the confession.
- That's why we videotaped it.
With a jury, even a
videotape is no guarantee. Oh!
That reminds me. I gotta call Brodie.
Danvers said he wanted extra copies.
- Brodie!
- What's so funny?
- Nothing.
- What are you sitting, grinning about?
- You can't tell him I told you.
- What are you talkin' about?
- Brodie's got a crush on you.
- Who put you up to this, Meldrick?
- No, he thinks you're hot. Serious.
- Brodie?
- I swear to God, I'm not making this up.
- Brodie?
- Wanna go out with him?
- I don't wanna go out with him.
You better let him down
gently. He's a sensitive guy.
Thanks for the advice, Mike.
I don't know how much
help I can be here, Tim.
You didn't work on the Adena
Watson case, so you have fresh eyes.
What exactly are you
hopin' to find here?
I've looked over everything, her clothing,
her books, everything, dozens of times.
- Every murder is put down on evidence.
- Evidence. Witnesses.
- If you're real lucky, a confession.
- It's got to be here. I'm not seeing it.
I didn't see it then and
I'm not seeing it now.
- I'm missing somethin'.
- I read the folder. Nothing jumped out.
- I think you were absolutely thorough.
- The Emma Grodsky murder last year.
- Yeah?
- We couldn't make a case.
Then we find two hairs in her
pantyhose six months later?
- OK, it happens.
- OK.
OK, I want to get a trace analysis
again. I want a thorough explanation
of every fingerprint, every hair, every
fibre, every fleck of dirt, every smudge,
because this time we're
gonna find somethin'.
What you readin'?
Lab reports on Adena Watson's
clothes. I had them re-analysed.
Anything I should know about?
If I'd made a connection between Adena
and Janelle, I'd have told you, Frank.
- I know that.
- You gettin' anywhere?
I interviewed everyone near the scene,
who had a relationship with Janelle,
everyone who had a record.
I told Sex Crimes to inform me
about anything involving girls, knives...
- Are you gettin' anywhere?
- No.
- What?
- What do you mean, "what"?
- You got somethin' to say to me, say it.
- I got nothin' to say to you, Frank.
That's ridiculous!
- Another message, Frank.
- More bad news?
Anonymous call. Some guy saw
a woman running out of the alley.
- You get a name?
- Lorena Lester.
Lorena Lester. This is not a
woman's crime. Do me a favour.
- Run it on the computer anyway.
- Sure.
Maybe we'll get lucky,
like she's got priors for rape!
- You're gonna bring her in?
- I'm gonna talk to her.
Get this woman in "The Box". If she's
not a suspect, she could be a witness.
Janelle was in the alley
so there'd be no witnesses.
You get her in "The Box" and
you find out what she knows.
I have one question.
"Why were you in the alley?"
She says, "I don't know what
you're talkin' about." I don't.
So you ask your
question, so what?
Bring someone in with no
ammunition, it toughens them up.
You get nothin', they walk away
confident, if they do know anything,
it makes it much harder
to get it out of them.
You think this is the mistake
we made with the Arabber?
- Maybe.
- Don't hedge, Frank. "Maybe".
- Why don't you tell me what you mean?
- OK. I'm tired. Tired of you.
Wanna hear the latest gossip
about Brodie and Howard?
Er... No, I'm not in the
mood for that, Munch.
I'm just tryin' to cheer you up.
Wanna cheer me up?
Pour me another shot, OK?
- You sure you need another one?
- I am quite sure.
You know somethin'? I keep
seein' her face... everywhere.
Adena Watson.
Adena.
Wanna hear somethin' terrible?
Hmm?
I'm startin' to hate her,
really startin' to hate her.
- I should go home.
- Hi, guys.
Susannah Chase, ace reporter.
- What can I get you?
- Red wine, please.
- I can do that.
- Thanks.
What's up with your
partner, Bayliss?
I'm tryin' to break a story on
this Janelle Parsons murder.
All I got was a
very cold shoulder.
Er... He's a very cold guy.
Unlike me. I'm a very warm guy.
- Is that so?
- Mm-hm. That is so so.
You're workin' the Parsons
case, what do you think?
I think that for a reporter, that
you have got a body that won't quit.
Maybe it is time you go home,
Timmy, what do you think?
Adena Watson, Janelle
Parsons, they're similar murders.
Isn't that connection the
first thing police look for?
You really wanna know?
You know what I want?
- Why don't you tell me?
- I want... this.
Now I'm gonna go home.
You're not drivin',
are you, Timmy?
My car is out front. Why
don't I give you a ride?
- Why not?
- It's on the house.
Thanks.
Bayliss!
Bayliss!
- Where is he?
- What are you asking me for?
Did you know about this? Did you
know he's been talking to the press?
He made a statement
about the Parsons case.
- You have to talk to him.
- What's goin' on?
Bayliss has no business talking
about my investigation. Look at that.
- What do you want me to do?
- Put a muzzle on him.
If the killer reads he's "fugitive of the
decade", he'll stick around Baltimore?
Frank, take it easy.
You'll burst a blood vessel.
You're no good to me in hospital.
- I'll put Bayliss in the hospital.
- Barnfather and Gaffney cornered me.
- What have you got?
- I'm runnin' down all my leads.
A neighbour believes
this is a feud, a revenge.
What about this anonymous
tip about some woman?
Lorena Lester. She's an RN. I ran
her through the computer. No record.
- Plannin' on talking to her?
- She's not a viable suspect.
You got anyone
else? Lorena Lester.
- I'll talk to her right now, all right?
- I ask so little.
If you see Bayliss, tell him
he better stay out of my way.
I'm outta here.
Hey, Howard, I
was lookin' for you.
- You were looking for me?
- I wanna ask you somethin'.
Wait, Brodie, before
you say anything, I just...
I don't think it's a good idea
for people who work together
to see... each other.
It's nothin' personal!
- I think you're great.
- Oh, you do?
Yeah. I know I give you a
hard time, but you do a good job.
Hey, you're not unattractive.
You have a certain quality.
Huh? Er...
I thought I'd say that before you
came out with a big declaration,
asked me out on a
date, or somethin'.
You thought I was gonna
ask you out on a date?
You weren't?
I was gonna ask if you wanted
copies of the Vetter tape on
your desk, or in Danvers' office.
- Yeah, OK. Just put them on my desk.
- On your desk.
Just tell me one thing.
- Who is in on this with you?
- In on what?
This whole you, me,
you-got-a-crush-on-me practical joke.
You think that my havin'
a crush on you is a joke?
- Who are you covering for? Munch?
- Detective Howard, it's no joke.
A bunch of guys, got to stick
together. That's OK, I'm used to it.
- It's no joke.
- Yeah, right.
It's not a joke!
- I appreciate your talking, Miss Lester.
- Is this about the girl who got killed?
Yeah. Did you know
Janelle Parsons?
No, I saw it on the news.
It's so sad when it's a child.
When we get a child DOA at
the ER, we call it the "83 cry".
- "83 cry"?
- You have a good cry on the ride home.
On the expressway, the 83. There's
just no time to do it at night on the job.
- You work the nightshift?
- 8:00 to 8:00.
- The night before last?
- Night before last, I worked a double.
- OK, thank you very much.
- You're very welcome.
- Lorena is not a witness or a suspect?
- She was working a double at the time.
- Sure?
- I checked.
- Why did someone give us her name?
- Colonel Barnfather is on the line.
I can't hold them off
much longer, Frank.
He wants me to put
more men on the case.
Buy me 24 hours, Chief. That's
all I need. I'll get something.
Meanwhile, I'm getting agita.
- Anything I can do?
- How about a little luck?
- I'll get back to you on that.
- Frank Pembleton?
- Yeah.
- Elaine Arata, Sex Crimes.
- We spoke yesterday.
- Got something?
An 11 -year-old girl
was raped last night.
Her assailant held a serrated-edge knife
to her throat and threatened to kill her.
- She make an ID?
- She knows exactly who it was.
A creep named Carver
Dooley. He's datin' her mother.
The mother's name
is Evangeline Cray.
Thanks.
- Carver's not like that!
- Mrs Cray...
Your daughter has
already identified
Carver Dooley as the
man who assaulted her.
Do you think she's lying?
It wasn't my fault. I don't want
anyone to take my daughter away.
Stop protecting your
boyfriend at her expense.
- I'm not tryin' to protect him.
- Do you think he is capable of it?
- Yes...
- OK.
- Did you know Janelle Parsons?
- The girl who got killed?
She and Shawna
used to play together.
- You see Carver and Janelle together?
- She used to come over sometimes.
- Carver might've seen her then.
- OK.
Thank you very much. If I need
more of a statement, I'll be in touch.
By the way, does the name Lorena
Lester, does that ring a bell with you?
Lorena. She's my cousin.
- She's a nurse on Johns Hopkins.
- Your cousin?
- Yeah.
- Does your boyfriend know her?
Yeah. He doesn't
like her much, though.
Why not?
Carver wanted to go out
with her before he met me.
She wouldn't have
anything to do with him.
She thinks he's no good.
Shawna. Go back to your room.
Carver Dooley knew Janelle. Cray's
daughter and Janelle were playmates.
- His record?
- One conviction, sexual assault.
He served six months in '92. One
conviction, attempted rape of a minor.
Four years. Released
two months ago.
So much for the reformative
powers of the State Penitentiary.
As for Lester, we figure that Dooley
made the anonymous call himself.
Lester turned him down for a date,
so to pay her back, he'd implicate her.
- The knife?
- If it's in the house, we'll find it.
Find it. Get this
guy in "The Box".
I want evidence, a
signed confession.
I wanna get rid of this agita.
We're lookin' for a serrated-edged
blade, a hunting knife or a kitchen knife.
- So now you decide to show up, huh?
- I'm your partner.
Why not think about that before
you shoot your mouth to a reporter?
- That has got nothin' to do with you.
- What?! It's my case!
- You must be talking!
- Guys, come on!
- Are you in or out?
- We don't need him!
- You can't order me off, Frank.
- You've jeopardised this case already!
I don't want you here.
Let's do it.
Baltimore City
Police. Break it down.
Carver Dooley, we've a warrant for your
arrest in the murder of Janelle Parsons.
- I don't know what...
- Where's the knife?
- What knife?
- Where is the knife?
- What knife?
- Get him outta here.
Where is it? It's gotta be here.
Look what I found.
If you wanna talk
to me, I'll listen.
You don't wanna, I'll charge you with
murder, you get locked up, I go home.
- What are you talkin' about?
- The knife in your bedroom.
Where do you
think it is right now?
- I don't know.
- Where is it, Carver? Think hard.
- Where is it?
- You guys got it?
Very good, we got it.
Experts are matching the blade to
the cuts on Janelle Parson's body.
That knife, it's got a particular
pattern, a serrated edge.
And they can
match that. Exactly.
'That's not my knife.' 'Why
is it under your mattress? '
'I dunno. Maybe
somebody put it there.'
- 'Somebody put it there? '
- He's the dimmest bulb I've ever seen.
I'm beginnin' to think
maybe he didn't do it.
His prints were on the knife plus
we have an identification from the girl.
- He's guilty.
- 'It's not my knife! '
It's not his knife.
I'm losing patience.
So is Frank. He doesn't know whether
to laugh, or take a swing at the guy.
- Somebody must've put it in my house.
- So why are your fingerprints on it?
Don't you think I had it
processed for fingerprints?
- You think I don't know my job?
- No...
So you tell me,
you explain to me.
It's not your knife. Why are your
fingerprints all over the handle?
- Why are you yellin' at me?
- What? Don't you like to be yelled at?
Huh?
OK, it is my knife.
- But I didn't kill anybody.
- OK.
It's your knife but you
didn't kill anybody?
I let a friend of mine
borrow the knife.
But he didn't tell me what
he was gonna do with it.
- What's this friend's name?
- I can't tell you.
- You can't tell me?
- I'm scared, man! He might hurt me!
Let me get this straight.
This so-called friend of yours
sets you up on a murder charge.
You're locked up.
You're on Death Row.
But you can't help yourself because
you're afraid what this... friend might do?
You don't know this guy, man.
He might kill me, or somethin'.
I gotta get out of here. I'm tired
of breathin' the same air as you.
Hey! Hello?
Hello?
This guy is seriously startin'
to get on my nerves. Shut up!
Shut up! Shut up!
Can I talk to you, man? That
other detective wasn't listenin' to me.
I'll punch your face in for what you did
to that little girl. Try these other guys.
- Hey!
- Shut up or I'll punch your face in.
He could've murdered
Adena Watson.
He was out on parole
when she was killed.
You're gettin' on my nerves too, Tim. If
you think that, go in there and ask him.
All right, I will.
- Hey! I got somethin' to tell you guys.
- What's that?
The name of my friend.
The one that borrowed the knife.
Oh, Frank, Mr Dooley here was about
to tell us who killed Janelle Parsons.
- I'm all ears.
- I dunno his real name.
But everybody calls him Nickels.
- Nickels.
- This guy's your friend?
- Yeah.
- You only know his nickname?
Yeah, he's not a good
friend, or nothin' like that.
Frank, maybe he's
tellin' us the truth.
Maybe he didn't have
anythin' to do with it.
Yeah, see, what he said.
You're probably gettin'
tired of denying things, right?
- Yes.
- So why not talk about somethin' else?
Right. Why don't we talk about your
girlfriend's daughter, Shawna, hmm?
- I didn't hurt her.
- Maybe you didn't, maybe you did.
What we'd like to do is
get your side of the story.
We know that you had
sex with her, Carver.
We got proof about that. But
maybe it wasn't like she said it was.
You're close with this girl.
Your girlfriend's daughter.
Maybe she wanted something
more from you than... a father figure?
- She wanted it.
- Like Janelle?
Yeah. No!
- No!
- You knew her, didn't you?
Janelle. You'd see her
in the neighbourhood.
We talked to your neighbours.
They all say that you knew her.
- I knew her but I didn't kill her!
- But you knew her, right?
- Yeah.
- She remind you of Adena?
- Hmm?
- Who? What?
- What are you talkin' about?
- That girl you killed four years ago.
- Bayliss...
- I don't know what you're talkin' about.
- Bayliss...
- Don't look at him! Look at me!
You look me in the eyes
and tell me that you killed her.
- I don't know what you're on about.
- Come on, say it to me!
- I don't know!
- Say it to me!
- Tell me you did not do it!
- Say that you killed Adena Watson.
- I don't know what you're on about!
- Let me hear the words!
I don't know, man! It's not
my knife! It's not my knife!
Tell me you killed her!
Hey, I'd like to talk
to you outside, huh?
I need a confession. You bring
up Adena, we'll lose this idiot.
He's gone. He's history. I'm
not about to let that happen.
You're not about
to let that happen?
I've lived for this moment
day and night for four years.
To get a suspect in "The
Box", to get another shot.
When the Arabber died,
I thought it's all over.
It was over the moment the
Arabber walked out of "The Box".
We lost our suspect.
The case is over. Please.
- You've got no idea what it's like.
- I've had my share of open cases.
That was my first
case, and he beat me.
The killer beat me. The
Arabber, Dooley, or whoever he is.
He beat me. I hadn't even started
being a Homicide detective yet.
I had lost. Don't
you see, Frank?
I let myself care about
that case, and for what?
I put everything that I had
into that, and it wasn't enough.
If I don't get him in "The Box", if I
don't get a confession outta him,
it all would've
been for nothing.
This is why I wanted
you off the Parsons case.
You wanted me off because you thought
I'd make the same mistakes I did before.
God forbid Frank Pembleton would lose
a case because his partner screwed up.
Frank Pembleton who
didn't want a partner...
I never wanted a partner
because I didn't want this.
I got nothin'. I got a murdered
12-year-old, a brain-dead suspect,
a serrated-edged blade that
could be the murder weapon.
I need a confession, and I got
you interfering with my interrogation.
Justifying your obsession
with a four-year-old case.
Frank, wait a minute, this is nothing
to do with me! This is about Adena!
- It's about avenging Adena's death.
- Not, it's all about you. It always was.
Do you think I don't know you?
This is why I wanted
you off the investigation.
You are a liability because
you are a liability to yourself.
You decide what's right, Frank. I
don't want you worryin' about me.
My God, Tim! What do you want?
You want me to tell you go back
in and ask Dooley about Adena?
Ask all you want, get your
confession, close your case?
Let's forget about Janelle Parsons.
I'll stay out of your way. Is that it?
Huh?
Dooley... murdered
Janelle Parsons.
- Yes.
- Yeah.
Get your confession.
Carver Dooley confessed
to killing Janelle Parsons.
You sleep OK, Bayliss?
What do you mean, last night?
- In general.
- In general, I sleep lousy.
Trouble gettin' to sleep, or
can't sleep through the night?
More like waking up in the
middle of the night. Nightmares.
That's good.
I have nightmares and
you think that's good?
I don't know of anybody who can get a
decent night's sleep, Bayliss. Do you?
Now, that I think
about it... no.
Everybody's got somethin'
that keeps them awake at night.
But when you can't tell the difference
between nightmares and what's real...
that's when you're no good
to yourself or anybody else.
I didn't avenge Adena
Watson's death. Now I never will.
I let her down, Gee.
- We'll never know who killed her.
- You have to make peace with that.
Can I ask you somethin', Gee?
How do you know
when to stop caring?
I've been a cop a long time.
I can tell you how
to gather evidence...
I can tell you how to spot one
good witness in a roomful of liars...
I can tell you how to sweet-talk a
confession out of a stone killer...
side-step politics,
appease the bosses.
I can tell you how
to work a case
until there is nothing left to
be done, but file the paperwork.
But the one thing I can't tell
you is when to stop caring.
- Office report on the Parsons case?
- Mm-hm.
Why are you wearin'
that carnation?
I have been wearing
this for two days.
- You're just asking about it now?
- I've had other things on my mind.
It's...
to hide the smell...
What?
Of death.
- To hide the smell of death.
- To hide the smell of death?
- Yeah, you got a problem with that?
- No.
- No, no problem at all.
- OK.
You got your car, or
you wanna ride home?
- I'm gonna walk home.
- Sure? I'll give you a ride home.
- It's fine. Go ahead. Thanks.
- You're welcome.
Er... Say hello to Mary for me.
Yeah. You know, you're
probably right about the cigarette.
If I taper off now, it'll be easier
to quit once the baby comes.
You'll never be able to quit,
so why not admit to that?
- I can quit any time I want to.
- Yeah.
- Frank, what are you doin'?
- You don't remember bein' a baby?
- What?
- You remember what it was like?
Laying in your crib, watching
the world through wooden slats?
No. Come on. Dinner's ready.
OK. I'm comin'.
- Quittin' what?
Come on. With a
child on the way.
You know what smoke
does to a kid's lungs?
My dad had to quit
when I was small.
Why? Cos I used to grab the
butts out of the ashtray and eat them.
My child will have more
sense than to eat butts.
Put somethin' in front of a
child, they'll put it in their mouths.
- What do you know about babies?
- I was a baby once.
- You remember bein' a baby?
- Yes, I do. Not everything.
- Some things.
- Like what?
Looking through the bars of
my crib, thinking how weird it was
that the world was
divided up by wooden slats.
I don't remember bein' a child.
Of course not, you were
already 35 years old.
- Nice boutonnière.
- Thanks.
- What we got?
- A girl, 11, 12. Multiple stab wounds.
- A little girl.
- Who found the body?
Er... Got a message at
9:30 from an Evelyn Praeger.
Said she'd discovered the
body this morning around 7:00.
It took her two and
a half hours to call?
In this neighbourhood,
we're lucky if they call at all.
Talk to me, Scheiner.
Stab wounds to the chest and
abdomen. A serrated-edge blade.
- How long she been dead?
- I got to get her on the table.
She's got the face of an angel.
She looks just like her...
Just like Adena Watson.
You seen the Livinsky file?
- It's Lewis's case.
- That's why I'm lookin' on his desk.
- Maybe he took it with him to Toronto.
- Lewis working on vacation? A laugh!
- Give the guy a break.
- Come on. I give as good as I get.
I'll say!
Who asked you?
Nobody. Nobody asked me.
Who goes on vacation to Toronto?
Detective Kellerman.
Uh-huh? Yeah, right.
Sit on him till I
get there. Thanks.
- This should be fun.
- What have you got?
Domestic dunker. Husband shot
his wife. He's already confessed.
- I'll go with you.
- Why?
You're still the new guy. Don't want you
talking the shooter out of his confession.
Brodie, you come too. The guy's making
a statement of guilt. Get it on videotape.
- She's electric, isn't she?
- Who?
Howard. I think she's hot.
Kay Howard... hot?
- Scheiner?
- Hello, Al.
Open.
I'm gettin' phone
calls from Channel 8,
from the Baltimore Sun, the
bosses are breathing down my neck.
A young girl is stabbed in an alley.
They want details. I want details.
The victim is Janelle Parsons.
The mother says she was dropped
off at a store by her brother last night.
- She never came home.
- Sexual assault?
Vaginal serration. We
sent swabs to the lab.
Age, ten to eleven?
She turned 12 in December.
12... She looks much younger.
Yeah. Er... Gee... This might have
some connection with Adena Watson.
- Whoa! That was four years ago.
- We can't dismiss a connection.
I'm not rulin' it out, or
making conclusions.
I also don't want to run this case
the way the Watson case was run.
What does that means?
No double shifts, no extra
men, no hordes of cadets
trampling through
the scene, no Red Ball.
- What do you want from me?
- The press and bosses off my back.
- I'll see what I can do.
- I want control of this case.
I also want to work alone.
What does that mean?
Alone? No partner?
You can't shove
me out of this case.
I don't have time to tell you how to
work a murder. You guys figure it out.
I gotta go play pattycake
with Gaffney and Barnfather.
She was molested, stabbed and left in
an alley the exact same way Adena was.
We're three hours in and
you're already losin' perspective.
- Do you think this is all in my head?
- If there is any evidence, I'll pursue it.
- Right now, this is a fresh crime.
- With Adena, you challenged me.
You didn't trust me. Now, I
thought we were past that.
I'm not going to get bogged down with it
or let the same mistakes be made twice.
- The mistakes I made?
- The case got away from you.
- It could happen to any detective.
- Not Frank Pembleton.
You never wanted a partner
in the first place, Frank.
You go with God. You always do.
- Hello, Mrs Praeger?
- Yes?
- Detective Pembleton, Homicide.
- I guess you wanna come in?
- Yes, ma'am.
- Anythin' that can get rid of you?
No, ma'am.
When you found Janelle
Parsons' body this morning,
why did you wait so
long to call the police?
- I don't like talkin' to the police.
- Fair enough.
Last month, there was a killin' in this
neighbourhood. Detectives came in.
They tracked mud
all over my carpet.
But I noticed you wiped
your feet when you came in.
For that reason, I'll
answer your questions.
But I still don't like
talkin' to the police.
To be honest, I don't like
talkin' to most of them either.
I went out this morning
to get me some milk.
I cut through the alley on the way
home, saw the little girl layin' there.
- This was about 7:00 this morning?
- Yes.
- See anyone else in the alley?
- Not a soul.
Mrs Praeger, you've lived in
this neighbourhood a long time.
Can you think of anyone
who would do this?
Yes, I can.
Too many.
Her brother brought her in here at
8:30 last night. She was murdered.
You recognise her?
- You saw her yesterday?
- I'm almost certain.
Do you know Janelle
Parsons? Bernie Parsons?
Somebody got a beef
against Bernie Parsons?
- What do you mean, "no Red Ball"?
- He wants to run the case his way.
Think of it as a
one-man Red Ball.
A 12-year-old girl
was brutally murdered.
I'm offering extra manpower,
and you're turning me down?
You know what Frank can do.
Where is he? Any
leads, suspects?
- I don't know.
- You don't know?
At the very least, hold
a press conference.
It can't look like we
don't give a damn.
Give me 48 hours. We
stall the press till then.
No Red Ball? The Department
cannot afford another fiasco.
Another unavenged murdered
child. Weeping relatives on the news.
- I think we all understand that.
- Our clearance rate is up this year.
We're back in the black.
We can afford to let you
indulge your man on this one.
- Thank you for the support.
- I'll give you 48 hours.
If you don't have a suspect in custody
then, I want a full-throttle investigation.
- Where's Pembleton?
- I dunno.
Is this how you
two work things out?
He made it very clear
he doesn't want a partner.
The Adena Watson file?
Maybe somebody I interviewed
then mentioned Janelle Parsons.
- Is there a reason for this carnation?
- That's personal, Gee.
No one tells me
anything any more.
Look, two young girls, same ages,
same race, a serrated-edge knife.
We never found the weapon
in the Adena Watson case.
- There's a connection. I can feel it.
- So why are you at your desk?
- Right...
- Go with your gut, but use your head.
If you hear from
Pembleton, I wanna know.
I'd at least like to pretend to the
bosses I still have control of my squad.
- Baltimore Police Department.
- No!
- Detective Bayliss.
- Hi, I'm sorry to disturb you.
- I need to talk to you about Adena.
- Four years I haven't heard from you.
We never closed the case
and we might have a new lead.
- Come in.
- Thank you, Mrs Watson.
- I don't recognise this girl.
- Janelle Parsons.
- Name doesn't mean anything to you?
- No.
Well... She was found
murdered this morning.
Why aren't you
talkin' to her mother?
- They don't look anything alike.
- The crime was similar, Mrs Watson.
There's a possibility that whoever
killed this girl might've killed Adena.
The Arabber killed her.
- I don't know if he did.
- He did it.
- How can you be positive?
- Because I believed it for four years.
Now you tell me someone
else killed my daughter?
That's what I'm
tryin' to find out.
I spent the past four years
puttin' my pain someplace else,
giving away Adena's
clothes, her books, her toys.
I can look at her
picture and not cry.
Now you ask me to think
about things I tried to forget,
pick over the details,
remember everything?
Why can't you just let it be?
The Arabber killed Adena.
I cursed him every time
I saw him in the streets.
Now he's dead.
I'd like you to leave.
Mr Vetter, can you tell us what
happened with your wife, Elizabeth?
- 'I shot her.'
- Brodie, do you have to be so close?
Sorry. I'm just tryin' for
a close-up on the guy.
- I'll sit down.
- Can we start again, please?
- Is this gonna take much longer?
- You got someplace to be?
- You're ready?
- Ready. Action.
Did you intend to kill her, or
did you shoot her accidentally?
Sorry, we gotta cut.
- Mr Vetter, can you sit up a bit?
- Can I get a cup of coffee?
- My mouth's kinda dry.
- Mike.
Oh, right, I'm
still the new guy.
- How did my hair look?
- Excuse me.
- Hey, John.
- Did Howard crush Brodie's heart yet?
- What are you talkin' about?
- You don't know?
- What?
- Brodie's got a thing for Howard.
You mean a "thing" thing?
He's in heat, he's in lust,
he may even be in love.
That's what was goin' on in there.
Brodie was more jumpy than usual.
You know, she is pretty hot.
- Kay?
- Yeah, I think it's the hair.
I don't wanna think about
her hair. She's one of us, a cop.
You work around a
woman, you notice her.
She's a sergeant,
for God's sakes!
Susannah Chase, Baltimore
Sun. Can I get a statement?
No comment.
Does this bring
back bad memories?
- I'm not gonna talk to you.
- You have something to hide?
You'll have full statement
when we have a killer in custody.
- How close are you to?
- Get out of my way.
Please.
- What's this? "See me, Munch"?
- It means, see me, Munch.
- Crime lab called.
- You couldn't write that down?
The swabs from Janelle Parsons
came back positive. Seminal fluid.
Raped?
The guy wasn't a secretor. There's not
enough sperm cells to run a DNA test.
Tough luck, Frank.
Jerome Franklin?
- Jerome?
- Yeah.
Detective Bayliss.
Baltimore Homicide.
I talked to you four years
ago about Risley Tucker.
- Yeah, I know who you are.
- Oh...
- You do? Good.
- You don't remember me, though.
- Do you?
- I met a lot of people for that case.
And we all start to
look alike, is that it?
When was the last time that
you spoke to Risley Tucker?
About a week before he died.
And did he say anything
about... Adena Watson?
- No, he didn't.
- Uh-huh.
Did he say anything about regrets of
any kind, anything he was sorry about?
You trying to ease
your conscience?
What?
Risley was never the same
after what you did to him.
That year, his barn burned
down, his horse died.
Then being accused
of a terrible crime...
Something he didn't do. You
always after him, day and night -
questions, accusations.
That's what killed him. It
just took him four years to die.
Do you know for a fact that Risley
Tucker didn't kill Adena Watson?
- Do you have any evidence at all?
- I knew the man for 30 years.
I don't need any more
evidence than that.
OK, thank you for
your time, Mr Franklin.
You know... Any miseries that
Risley Tucker lived and died with,
he brought on himself.
I didn't have anything
to do with that.
So why are you here?
I'm just... doin' my job.
- 32-calibre six with a left twist.
- Does it match the bullet we recovered?
Yeah, it might.
Give me a few moments.
Want me to call you?
- We can wait.
- All right, suit yourself.
Vetter confessed and we
still gotta go through this.
- A lawyer will challenge the confession.
- That's why we videotaped it.
With a jury, even a
videotape is no guarantee. Oh!
That reminds me. I gotta call Brodie.
Danvers said he wanted extra copies.
- Brodie!
- What's so funny?
- Nothing.
- What are you sitting, grinning about?
- You can't tell him I told you.
- What are you talkin' about?
- Brodie's got a crush on you.
- Who put you up to this, Meldrick?
- No, he thinks you're hot. Serious.
- Brodie?
- I swear to God, I'm not making this up.
- Brodie?
- Wanna go out with him?
- I don't wanna go out with him.
You better let him down
gently. He's a sensitive guy.
Thanks for the advice, Mike.
I don't know how much
help I can be here, Tim.
You didn't work on the Adena
Watson case, so you have fresh eyes.
What exactly are you
hopin' to find here?
I've looked over everything, her clothing,
her books, everything, dozens of times.
- Every murder is put down on evidence.
- Evidence. Witnesses.
- If you're real lucky, a confession.
- It's got to be here. I'm not seeing it.
I didn't see it then and
I'm not seeing it now.
- I'm missing somethin'.
- I read the folder. Nothing jumped out.
- I think you were absolutely thorough.
- The Emma Grodsky murder last year.
- Yeah?
- We couldn't make a case.
Then we find two hairs in her
pantyhose six months later?
- OK, it happens.
- OK.
OK, I want to get a trace analysis
again. I want a thorough explanation
of every fingerprint, every hair, every
fibre, every fleck of dirt, every smudge,
because this time we're
gonna find somethin'.
What you readin'?
Lab reports on Adena Watson's
clothes. I had them re-analysed.
Anything I should know about?
If I'd made a connection between Adena
and Janelle, I'd have told you, Frank.
- I know that.
- You gettin' anywhere?
I interviewed everyone near the scene,
who had a relationship with Janelle,
everyone who had a record.
I told Sex Crimes to inform me
about anything involving girls, knives...
- Are you gettin' anywhere?
- No.
- What?
- What do you mean, "what"?
- You got somethin' to say to me, say it.
- I got nothin' to say to you, Frank.
That's ridiculous!
- Another message, Frank.
- More bad news?
Anonymous call. Some guy saw
a woman running out of the alley.
- You get a name?
- Lorena Lester.
Lorena Lester. This is not a
woman's crime. Do me a favour.
- Run it on the computer anyway.
- Sure.
Maybe we'll get lucky,
like she's got priors for rape!
- You're gonna bring her in?
- I'm gonna talk to her.
Get this woman in "The Box". If she's
not a suspect, she could be a witness.
Janelle was in the alley
so there'd be no witnesses.
You get her in "The Box" and
you find out what she knows.
I have one question.
"Why were you in the alley?"
She says, "I don't know what
you're talkin' about." I don't.
So you ask your
question, so what?
Bring someone in with no
ammunition, it toughens them up.
You get nothin', they walk away
confident, if they do know anything,
it makes it much harder
to get it out of them.
You think this is the mistake
we made with the Arabber?
- Maybe.
- Don't hedge, Frank. "Maybe".
- Why don't you tell me what you mean?
- OK. I'm tired. Tired of you.
Wanna hear the latest gossip
about Brodie and Howard?
Er... No, I'm not in the
mood for that, Munch.
I'm just tryin' to cheer you up.
Wanna cheer me up?
Pour me another shot, OK?
- You sure you need another one?
- I am quite sure.
You know somethin'? I keep
seein' her face... everywhere.
Adena Watson.
Adena.
Wanna hear somethin' terrible?
Hmm?
I'm startin' to hate her,
really startin' to hate her.
- I should go home.
- Hi, guys.
Susannah Chase, ace reporter.
- What can I get you?
- Red wine, please.
- I can do that.
- Thanks.
What's up with your
partner, Bayliss?
I'm tryin' to break a story on
this Janelle Parsons murder.
All I got was a
very cold shoulder.
Er... He's a very cold guy.
Unlike me. I'm a very warm guy.
- Is that so?
- Mm-hm. That is so so.
You're workin' the Parsons
case, what do you think?
I think that for a reporter, that
you have got a body that won't quit.
Maybe it is time you go home,
Timmy, what do you think?
Adena Watson, Janelle
Parsons, they're similar murders.
Isn't that connection the
first thing police look for?
You really wanna know?
You know what I want?
- Why don't you tell me?
- I want... this.
Now I'm gonna go home.
You're not drivin',
are you, Timmy?
My car is out front. Why
don't I give you a ride?
- Why not?
- It's on the house.
Thanks.
Bayliss!
Bayliss!
- Where is he?
- What are you asking me for?
Did you know about this? Did you
know he's been talking to the press?
He made a statement
about the Parsons case.
- You have to talk to him.
- What's goin' on?
Bayliss has no business talking
about my investigation. Look at that.
- What do you want me to do?
- Put a muzzle on him.
If the killer reads he's "fugitive of the
decade", he'll stick around Baltimore?
Frank, take it easy.
You'll burst a blood vessel.
You're no good to me in hospital.
- I'll put Bayliss in the hospital.
- Barnfather and Gaffney cornered me.
- What have you got?
- I'm runnin' down all my leads.
A neighbour believes
this is a feud, a revenge.
What about this anonymous
tip about some woman?
Lorena Lester. She's an RN. I ran
her through the computer. No record.
- Plannin' on talking to her?
- She's not a viable suspect.
You got anyone
else? Lorena Lester.
- I'll talk to her right now, all right?
- I ask so little.
If you see Bayliss, tell him
he better stay out of my way.
I'm outta here.
Hey, Howard, I
was lookin' for you.
- You were looking for me?
- I wanna ask you somethin'.
Wait, Brodie, before
you say anything, I just...
I don't think it's a good idea
for people who work together
to see... each other.
It's nothin' personal!
- I think you're great.
- Oh, you do?
Yeah. I know I give you a
hard time, but you do a good job.
Hey, you're not unattractive.
You have a certain quality.
Huh? Er...
I thought I'd say that before you
came out with a big declaration,
asked me out on a
date, or somethin'.
You thought I was gonna
ask you out on a date?
You weren't?
I was gonna ask if you wanted
copies of the Vetter tape on
your desk, or in Danvers' office.
- Yeah, OK. Just put them on my desk.
- On your desk.
Just tell me one thing.
- Who is in on this with you?
- In on what?
This whole you, me,
you-got-a-crush-on-me practical joke.
You think that my havin'
a crush on you is a joke?
- Who are you covering for? Munch?
- Detective Howard, it's no joke.
A bunch of guys, got to stick
together. That's OK, I'm used to it.
- It's no joke.
- Yeah, right.
It's not a joke!
- I appreciate your talking, Miss Lester.
- Is this about the girl who got killed?
Yeah. Did you know
Janelle Parsons?
No, I saw it on the news.
It's so sad when it's a child.
When we get a child DOA at
the ER, we call it the "83 cry".
- "83 cry"?
- You have a good cry on the ride home.
On the expressway, the 83. There's
just no time to do it at night on the job.
- You work the nightshift?
- 8:00 to 8:00.
- The night before last?
- Night before last, I worked a double.
- OK, thank you very much.
- You're very welcome.
- Lorena is not a witness or a suspect?
- She was working a double at the time.
- Sure?
- I checked.
- Why did someone give us her name?
- Colonel Barnfather is on the line.
I can't hold them off
much longer, Frank.
He wants me to put
more men on the case.
Buy me 24 hours, Chief. That's
all I need. I'll get something.
Meanwhile, I'm getting agita.
- Anything I can do?
- How about a little luck?
- I'll get back to you on that.
- Frank Pembleton?
- Yeah.
- Elaine Arata, Sex Crimes.
- We spoke yesterday.
- Got something?
An 11 -year-old girl
was raped last night.
Her assailant held a serrated-edge knife
to her throat and threatened to kill her.
- She make an ID?
- She knows exactly who it was.
A creep named Carver
Dooley. He's datin' her mother.
The mother's name
is Evangeline Cray.
Thanks.
- Carver's not like that!
- Mrs Cray...
Your daughter has
already identified
Carver Dooley as the
man who assaulted her.
Do you think she's lying?
It wasn't my fault. I don't want
anyone to take my daughter away.
Stop protecting your
boyfriend at her expense.
- I'm not tryin' to protect him.
- Do you think he is capable of it?
- Yes...
- OK.
- Did you know Janelle Parsons?
- The girl who got killed?
She and Shawna
used to play together.
- You see Carver and Janelle together?
- She used to come over sometimes.
- Carver might've seen her then.
- OK.
Thank you very much. If I need
more of a statement, I'll be in touch.
By the way, does the name Lorena
Lester, does that ring a bell with you?
Lorena. She's my cousin.
- She's a nurse on Johns Hopkins.
- Your cousin?
- Yeah.
- Does your boyfriend know her?
Yeah. He doesn't
like her much, though.
Why not?
Carver wanted to go out
with her before he met me.
She wouldn't have
anything to do with him.
She thinks he's no good.
Shawna. Go back to your room.
Carver Dooley knew Janelle. Cray's
daughter and Janelle were playmates.
- His record?
- One conviction, sexual assault.
He served six months in '92. One
conviction, attempted rape of a minor.
Four years. Released
two months ago.
So much for the reformative
powers of the State Penitentiary.
As for Lester, we figure that Dooley
made the anonymous call himself.
Lester turned him down for a date,
so to pay her back, he'd implicate her.
- The knife?
- If it's in the house, we'll find it.
Find it. Get this
guy in "The Box".
I want evidence, a
signed confession.
I wanna get rid of this agita.
We're lookin' for a serrated-edged
blade, a hunting knife or a kitchen knife.
- So now you decide to show up, huh?
- I'm your partner.
Why not think about that before
you shoot your mouth to a reporter?
- That has got nothin' to do with you.
- What?! It's my case!
- You must be talking!
- Guys, come on!
- Are you in or out?
- We don't need him!
- You can't order me off, Frank.
- You've jeopardised this case already!
I don't want you here.
Let's do it.
Baltimore City
Police. Break it down.
Carver Dooley, we've a warrant for your
arrest in the murder of Janelle Parsons.
- I don't know what...
- Where's the knife?
- What knife?
- Where is the knife?
- What knife?
- Get him outta here.
Where is it? It's gotta be here.
Look what I found.
If you wanna talk
to me, I'll listen.
You don't wanna, I'll charge you with
murder, you get locked up, I go home.
- What are you talkin' about?
- The knife in your bedroom.
Where do you
think it is right now?
- I don't know.
- Where is it, Carver? Think hard.
- Where is it?
- You guys got it?
Very good, we got it.
Experts are matching the blade to
the cuts on Janelle Parson's body.
That knife, it's got a particular
pattern, a serrated edge.
And they can
match that. Exactly.
'That's not my knife.' 'Why
is it under your mattress? '
'I dunno. Maybe
somebody put it there.'
- 'Somebody put it there? '
- He's the dimmest bulb I've ever seen.
I'm beginnin' to think
maybe he didn't do it.
His prints were on the knife plus
we have an identification from the girl.
- He's guilty.
- 'It's not my knife! '
It's not his knife.
I'm losing patience.
So is Frank. He doesn't know whether
to laugh, or take a swing at the guy.
- Somebody must've put it in my house.
- So why are your fingerprints on it?
Don't you think I had it
processed for fingerprints?
- You think I don't know my job?
- No...
So you tell me,
you explain to me.
It's not your knife. Why are your
fingerprints all over the handle?
- Why are you yellin' at me?
- What? Don't you like to be yelled at?
Huh?
OK, it is my knife.
- But I didn't kill anybody.
- OK.
It's your knife but you
didn't kill anybody?
I let a friend of mine
borrow the knife.
But he didn't tell me what
he was gonna do with it.
- What's this friend's name?
- I can't tell you.
- You can't tell me?
- I'm scared, man! He might hurt me!
Let me get this straight.
This so-called friend of yours
sets you up on a murder charge.
You're locked up.
You're on Death Row.
But you can't help yourself because
you're afraid what this... friend might do?
You don't know this guy, man.
He might kill me, or somethin'.
I gotta get out of here. I'm tired
of breathin' the same air as you.
Hey! Hello?
Hello?
This guy is seriously startin'
to get on my nerves. Shut up!
Shut up! Shut up!
Can I talk to you, man? That
other detective wasn't listenin' to me.
I'll punch your face in for what you did
to that little girl. Try these other guys.
- Hey!
- Shut up or I'll punch your face in.
He could've murdered
Adena Watson.
He was out on parole
when she was killed.
You're gettin' on my nerves too, Tim. If
you think that, go in there and ask him.
All right, I will.
- Hey! I got somethin' to tell you guys.
- What's that?
The name of my friend.
The one that borrowed the knife.
Oh, Frank, Mr Dooley here was about
to tell us who killed Janelle Parsons.
- I'm all ears.
- I dunno his real name.
But everybody calls him Nickels.
- Nickels.
- This guy's your friend?
- Yeah.
- You only know his nickname?
Yeah, he's not a good
friend, or nothin' like that.
Frank, maybe he's
tellin' us the truth.
Maybe he didn't have
anythin' to do with it.
Yeah, see, what he said.
You're probably gettin'
tired of denying things, right?
- Yes.
- So why not talk about somethin' else?
Right. Why don't we talk about your
girlfriend's daughter, Shawna, hmm?
- I didn't hurt her.
- Maybe you didn't, maybe you did.
What we'd like to do is
get your side of the story.
We know that you had
sex with her, Carver.
We got proof about that. But
maybe it wasn't like she said it was.
You're close with this girl.
Your girlfriend's daughter.
Maybe she wanted something
more from you than... a father figure?
- She wanted it.
- Like Janelle?
Yeah. No!
- No!
- You knew her, didn't you?
Janelle. You'd see her
in the neighbourhood.
We talked to your neighbours.
They all say that you knew her.
- I knew her but I didn't kill her!
- But you knew her, right?
- Yeah.
- She remind you of Adena?
- Hmm?
- Who? What?
- What are you talkin' about?
- That girl you killed four years ago.
- Bayliss...
- I don't know what you're talkin' about.
- Bayliss...
- Don't look at him! Look at me!
You look me in the eyes
and tell me that you killed her.
- I don't know what you're on about.
- Come on, say it to me!
- I don't know!
- Say it to me!
- Tell me you did not do it!
- Say that you killed Adena Watson.
- I don't know what you're on about!
- Let me hear the words!
I don't know, man! It's not
my knife! It's not my knife!
Tell me you killed her!
Hey, I'd like to talk
to you outside, huh?
I need a confession. You bring
up Adena, we'll lose this idiot.
He's gone. He's history. I'm
not about to let that happen.
You're not about
to let that happen?
I've lived for this moment
day and night for four years.
To get a suspect in "The
Box", to get another shot.
When the Arabber died,
I thought it's all over.
It was over the moment the
Arabber walked out of "The Box".
We lost our suspect.
The case is over. Please.
- You've got no idea what it's like.
- I've had my share of open cases.
That was my first
case, and he beat me.
The killer beat me. The
Arabber, Dooley, or whoever he is.
He beat me. I hadn't even started
being a Homicide detective yet.
I had lost. Don't
you see, Frank?
I let myself care about
that case, and for what?
I put everything that I had
into that, and it wasn't enough.
If I don't get him in "The Box", if I
don't get a confession outta him,
it all would've
been for nothing.
This is why I wanted
you off the Parsons case.
You wanted me off because you thought
I'd make the same mistakes I did before.
God forbid Frank Pembleton would lose
a case because his partner screwed up.
Frank Pembleton who
didn't want a partner...
I never wanted a partner
because I didn't want this.
I got nothin'. I got a murdered
12-year-old, a brain-dead suspect,
a serrated-edged blade that
could be the murder weapon.
I need a confession, and I got
you interfering with my interrogation.
Justifying your obsession
with a four-year-old case.
Frank, wait a minute, this is nothing
to do with me! This is about Adena!
- It's about avenging Adena's death.
- Not, it's all about you. It always was.
Do you think I don't know you?
This is why I wanted
you off the investigation.
You are a liability because
you are a liability to yourself.
You decide what's right, Frank. I
don't want you worryin' about me.
My God, Tim! What do you want?
You want me to tell you go back
in and ask Dooley about Adena?
Ask all you want, get your
confession, close your case?
Let's forget about Janelle Parsons.
I'll stay out of your way. Is that it?
Huh?
Dooley... murdered
Janelle Parsons.
- Yes.
- Yeah.
Get your confession.
Carver Dooley confessed
to killing Janelle Parsons.
You sleep OK, Bayliss?
What do you mean, last night?
- In general.
- In general, I sleep lousy.
Trouble gettin' to sleep, or
can't sleep through the night?
More like waking up in the
middle of the night. Nightmares.
That's good.
I have nightmares and
you think that's good?
I don't know of anybody who can get a
decent night's sleep, Bayliss. Do you?
Now, that I think
about it... no.
Everybody's got somethin'
that keeps them awake at night.
But when you can't tell the difference
between nightmares and what's real...
that's when you're no good
to yourself or anybody else.
I didn't avenge Adena
Watson's death. Now I never will.
I let her down, Gee.
- We'll never know who killed her.
- You have to make peace with that.
Can I ask you somethin', Gee?
How do you know
when to stop caring?
I've been a cop a long time.
I can tell you how
to gather evidence...
I can tell you how to spot one
good witness in a roomful of liars...
I can tell you how to sweet-talk a
confession out of a stone killer...
side-step politics,
appease the bosses.
I can tell you how
to work a case
until there is nothing left to
be done, but file the paperwork.
But the one thing I can't tell
you is when to stop caring.
- Office report on the Parsons case?
- Mm-hm.
Why are you wearin'
that carnation?
I have been wearing
this for two days.
- You're just asking about it now?
- I've had other things on my mind.
It's...
to hide the smell...
What?
Of death.
- To hide the smell of death.
- To hide the smell of death?
- Yeah, you got a problem with that?
- No.
- No, no problem at all.
- OK.
You got your car, or
you wanna ride home?
- I'm gonna walk home.
- Sure? I'll give you a ride home.
- It's fine. Go ahead. Thanks.
- You're welcome.
Er... Say hello to Mary for me.
Yeah. You know, you're
probably right about the cigarette.
If I taper off now, it'll be easier
to quit once the baby comes.
You'll never be able to quit,
so why not admit to that?
- I can quit any time I want to.
- Yeah.
- Frank, what are you doin'?
- You don't remember bein' a baby?
- What?
- You remember what it was like?
Laying in your crib, watching
the world through wooden slats?
No. Come on. Dinner's ready.
OK. I'm comin'.