Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001–2011): Season 9, Episode 13 - The Mobster Will See You Now - full transcript
A Health and Human Resources employee trying to shake down the owners of a hospital dies under suspicious circumstances, and the investigation leads to a notorious mobster's son, who is trying to become a legitimate businessman.
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- Physician's world.
- Give me a break.
- What?
We're in the medical business.
- Are we ever.
7% equity in tribeca comm
And a 12% interest
in our investment.
Henry, come here.
Come here.
Mwah. I love this kid.
Where's cubby
with the sausage?
- Right here.
- Good man.
- Henry,
I'll swap you for a beer.
- Mr. Prime time.
How's the reality show?
- Reality?
The producer made me
Rename my sandwiches
after italian painters.
- Cubby, what do they call
the sausage and peppers?
- A "mickel-angelo."
- "michael-angelo."
and I'll take one, henry.
Make me a michelangelo.
- Sausage and peppers, right?
Comes with a side
of a heart attack?
Give him a gardenburger,
henry.
- Listen,
with this hospital thing,
In 18 months,
We're looking at
900k a year each minimum
Off henry's deal.
- Get out.
Get in.
Until some genius comes up
with the cure for death,
Hospitals are gonna be
open for business.
- Whose christmas list
you on, henry?
- Buddy of mine
and his partner
Bought tribeca community
hospital.
Went to dartmouth together.
- And who made you
stay and graduate?
- Oh, you know
what we should do?
Assisted suicides.
- They're illegal, blev.
- On the sly.
By the time the rest of the
country comes to her senses,
We'll be way ahead.
- Those were the old ways.
But we are through
with the old ways.
Right?
How about you, blev?
Are you with me, cubby?
- Oh, yeah, sure.
- Dom, you?
- Yeah, sure.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- I'm about to authorize
a medicare audit
On silver-spring
health systems.
When it's completed,
You and your partner
Will undoubtedly
face criminal charges.
- For what?
- Silver-springs colonoscopies
Are 300% over the norm.
Echocardiograms
are 375% higher
Than they should be.
- Business is good.
Three months ago we acquired
tribeca community hospital.
- Well, the criminal activity
Took place
before that purchase.
I found over 200
up-coding violations.
- Up-coding?
- Simple gastritis
billed as a colonoscopy,
Coding a level-one visit
as a level-four surgery.
- But this
is someone else's mistak
- While the audit's in place,
Your practice
and the new hospital
Receive no medicare
reimbursements.
We're gonna
turn the faucet off.
- What do you want from me,
tarney?
- 3 million.
Cash.
- Oh, holy crap.
What are we gonna do?
- Stall. I'll meet
with that prick, tarney, again.
He'll take less.
- Yeah, well, what if he won't?
We got to tell henry, joel.
- Are you nuts?
No.
- No, he's a friend.
A good friend.
He'll understand.
- Understand what, shelly?
That after he invested
We forgot to tell him
that we cook the books?
You say nothing to him.
You keep your mouth shut
about this.
We'll handle it.
All right?
Shelly?
Not one word.
- Possible m.I.
- Sorry.
He's got a bad heart.
I look,
he's down on the lawn.
Dom,
just breathe easy.
Breathe easy.
- Down there, down there. Bay 4.
- Hi, this is les tarney.
I'm not in.
Leave me a message at the beep.
les, where are you?
I have been calling
and calling.
You're supposed to come
and pick me up.
We're going to dinner.
Hello?
Les? Ugh. Okay, that's it.
I'm coming over.
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Episode:The Mobster Will see you Now
- Les tarney.
The United States department
of health and human resources.
Associate inspector general.
- Not anymore.
Choked to death.
- Yeah.
So the chair is knocked over.
I see. And so maybe he did
the heimlich on himself?
- Yup. Unfortunately,
Works better when someone's
there to do it for you.
- Well, how long has
les tarney been like this?
- About three hours.
Puts t.O.D. Around 8:00 p.M.
This evening.
- So he choked.
Why-why call homicide?
- Woman who found him
lost it.
Told anyone who would listen
That somebody
murdered her fiance.
- The life of a single man.
His, uh, plate's
turned the wrong way.
- Yeah. Well,
I'll wrangle a photographer.
- We planned to get married.
- You said you found
mr. Tarney around 9:00?
- Mm-hmm.
- Oh, this is
detective nichols.
Julia hiken
was engaged to the deceased.
- Well,
engaged to be engaged.
- You arrived at, uh, 9:00.
Was he expecting you?
- I was expecting him.
Les was supposed
to pick me up.
Never showed.
His cell kept kicking
to his answering service.
- So you came here.
- I knocked and knocked,
Finally used the key
under the mat.
- And then did you
do anything to revive him?
- I'm an r.N.
I could see he was dead.
Someone killed him.
- I see.
Well, the problem, julia,
Is that, um, your fiance,
His death looks a lot
like it's accidental.
- No. No.
Uh-uh.
No, we were going out
to dinner.
We were going to celebrate.
Someone did this.
He was working
on something big.
We were gonna live good.
Maybe in europe.
- So did he say
what something big meant?
- I don't have a head
for business.
- Someone's in denial.
- You think les gave julia
the heave-ho?
That's right.
So what did this guy do?
Turns off his cell phone
and sits down to a quiet meal,
Pours himself a nice glass
of the verboten stuff...
- Detectives?
Found this pill in the hall.
We checked. Nothing like it
in the medicine cabinet.
- All right.
So bag up everything
that's on the counter.
That whole dinner,
the steak and the wine,
Everything
that's on the counter.
- Les tarney is dead.
- What?
- Saw it on webmd,
answer-med, healthcentral.
It's all over the internet.
They're saying
he choked on his food.
- Oh, my god.
Well,
somebody likes us, huh?
- It's murder, shelly.
- You said he choked.
- Stop it!
Just-just-just stop it.
- Stop what?
- You talked, didn't you?
I knew it.
- What-wait a minute.
You saying that I told henry
and that he had tarney whacked?
No, joel.
Are you crazy?
- He's magglio depia's son.
- Henry would never do that.
He's nothing like his father.
I didn't talk to him.
I swear.
We just got very lucky.
This was an accident.
A divine accident.
- Substantial piece of meat
Lodged deep in his trachea.
Teeth marks match.
- Uh, nothing
indicating a struggle?
- But for the chair,
not a mark on him.
- Looked like
he didn't eat much steak.
- He didn't eat any.
Stomach was empty.
- All right, so, uh,
What's the first thing you do
when you choke?
- Grab for something to drink.
- Right, but his wine
isn't touched.
Plus chokes on the first bite.
- Well, he might have had
some help with that.
I found heavy traces
Of the beta blocker
inderal in his system.
Common side effect
is difficulty swallowing.
- What about the capsule
csu found in tarney's house?
- That was digoxin.
- Digoxin. Oh, that's
different than inderal.
Digoxin is for
congestive heart failure
When nothing else works.
- Well, you know your meds.
- The house I grew up in
Had a physician's
desk reference in the john.
What about mr. Tarney
and digoxin?
- It's not something
he'd be taking.
His heart was good.
I'm ready to rule accidental.
- It's not gonna make
the fiancee happy.
- And his plate
was turned the wrong way.
- What are you saying?
- Uh, give it till tomorrow?
- What the hell happened?
- He comes by
henry's last night
With a couple
of salmon stea,
And he just-he goes down before
the charcoal even gets hot.
- It's a myocardial infarction.
It's bad.
- He's gonna live, right?
- If he dies,
I'm gonna kill him.
I mean,
we've known each other
Since our first communion.
- Dom, I'm sorry.
I'm so sorry.
- You ready for me?
- Hey, come on in.
A.D.A. Roydell getty.
Bureau chief of trial division.
Detectives stevens
and nichols.
- Another long suffering
cubs fan.
- I roll with the white sox,
actually.
- Smart girl.
Detective nichols,
I met your dad the other night
at the guggenheim.
Nice man.
- Yes, he is.
- Got a call from
health and human resources.
They asked to be informed
As soon as tarney's death
is determined
Accidental or foul play.
- Sure. Sure.
One of their own went down.
- And since the healthcare
reform bill passed,
They've been treated
to death threats,
Bomb scares, hate mail.
- What happened
to writing your congressman?
- 21st century, detective.
We don't do quiet anymore.
- Ain't it the truth.
So h.H.R. Thinks
that somebody's out to get him?
- People are scared
over there.
- Do we have anything
more to go on
Than a half-chewed
piece of steak?
- The only prints
in tarney's house
Are his and his girlfriend's.
- The m.E. Did find
inderal in tarney's system.
We checked
his medical records.
He didn't get it
from a doctor.
- What about a nurse?
The girlfriend,
julia hiken,
Isn't she an r.N.?
- Uh-huh.
- I told you,
when I got there, les was dead.
- Les, or your relationship
with him?
- We had made plans.
We were-
- Engaged to be engaged.
The last refuge
of the commitment challenged.
- I had a future with les.
- But no key to his house.
- Why'd you give him
the beta blockers, julia?
- He wanted them.
They work
like tranquilizers.
Les asked me for them,
Because he said he had
to be totally calm
For a meeting he had
with someone.
- Did he say who?
- No. No.
- But he said something.
What did he say, julia?
What did he say
about that meeting?
- That big deal
that I told you about,
The one that was gonna
set us up,
That was the meeting.
I told him just two pills.
And he-he took three.
- Do you have a prescription
for inderal?
You stole the pills.
- I didn't want to lose les.
Please.
Does my employer have to know?
My job is all I've got left.
- Mr. Tarney cancelled
his morning meetings
And remained in his office.
- Uh-huh. And, uh, no-
no meetings in the afternoon?
- Just one.
At 5:30.
With...
Dr. Joel silverstern.
Tribeca community hospital.
237 canal street.
- That was the last time
you saw him?
- Yeah.
- Mm-hmm.
- Forgive me for saying this,
carla,
But, um, you know,
I mean, everybody grieves
in their own way,
But you don't seem too saddened
by the passing of your boss.
- You know how some people
Have to do mean things
for their job
But they're perfectly nice
otherwise?
- Hmm.
- Les tarney wasn't nice?
- He was a cactus ass
Who made everyone
around him miserable.
And he enjoyed it.
- I know.
Les tarney's death is tragic.
I read it on medweb.
It was a piece of food?
- How does the web find out
everything before we do?
- Dr. Silverstern,
You said
you met mr. Tarney here
Around 5:45?
- We were set for 5:30,
But he hit
that traffic hernia
On west broadway.
- Traffic hernia.
What was the meeting about?
Can I ask?
- Three months ago my partner
and I bought this hospital.
- Ooh.
Well, that's a-
That's a big ticket item,
isn't it?
- Please.
It's not
new york presbyterian.
It's 200 beds,
a small radiology department.
We wanted to go over
merger guidelines with les
Just to make sure we were
on the same page with h.H.R.
Don't want them on your back.
- It's no longer a problem,
is it?
- Sorry, what, uh...
What's no longer a problem?
- Secretariat.
Look at this.
'73 belmont, huh?
He won by 31 lengths.
Big red.
- You play the ponies,
dr. Silverstern?
- No,
my partner shelly used to,
But he just didn't have time
for it anymore.
- Yeah, being a doctor.
All-consuming profession.
- Forensics has something.
So...
What am I looking at?
- Well, the plate's position
on the table is wrong.
Tarney was sitting here.
According to the direction
of the cut marks,
He had to be standing on
the opposite side of the table
To make that cut.
- Or someone else
did the cutting?
- That's right.
- Uh-huh.
- That's right.
So this somebody,
beforehand,
Kills les tarney,
And, if he was
in this position,
He could have
come around here like this,
Like something like that,
Uh, and then made the cut
Obviously from this
side of the ble,
Gotten it from here,
cuts that piece,
And then puts it into
dead les tarney's mouth,
Works his teeth marks on it,
And then shoves it down
into the back of his throat.
- That's fine,
but how do you kill someone
And not leave a mark?
- Guillotine choke.
Martial arts technique.
Guillotine presses
the carotid artery.
Cuts blood supply
to the brain.
- And with that amount of
inderal in tarney's system,
Good night.
- Time to open
a grand jury on the nurse.
- Julia hiken?
- I read the interview.
Hiken admitted the drugs
came from her.
- But tarney hounded her
for the inderal.
- So she claims.
Think she wasn't happy
because tarney wanted out.
It's in your report.
Engaged to be engaged?
- I disagree.
I think
that les tarney's murder
Was related to this meeting
With doctors spring
and silverstern
That, uh,
he was nervous about.
- Silverstern and his partner
recently bought a hospital.
That's a perfectly
legitimate reason
To meet with someone
from h.H.R.
- Yeah,
but there was something
Far from legitimate
about that particular meeting.
- When we'd finished
questioning silverstern,
He looked like
he wandered out of the barrel
Of a smoking gun.
- Plus which
he has on his wall
A big picture
of secretariat,
So there's obviously
gambling in the mix somehow.
- You sure it was secretariat?
- What?
I'm sure that julia hiken
is not a killer.
- Dr. Rogers, um, inderal,
Can it cause difficulty
in swallowing?
- As a side effect.
It's in my report.
- Julia hiken admitted
stealing the drug.
She admitted giving it
to les tarney.
He choked on a piece of meat.
Even if it was accidental.
It's manslaughter.
Captain.
- Pick her up.
- Were the two of you fighting?
- No.
- We talked to les' neighbors.
Seems like the day
before you found him dead
There was a woman shouting.
- Because I fought with les
over the inderal.
He was taking too much.
I warned him. I did.
- Because you loved him?
- Yes.
- His secretary called him
a cactus ass.
- Les had zero people skills,
But he was kind.
He had a good side.
I told you the truth.
I didn't have to.
Why am I going to jail?
I am a nurse.
I help people.
I didn't do this!
- Depiano bugged my office!
- Keep it down, joel.
- Keep it down?
He already heard everything!
He knew tarney was blackmailing
us, and he killed him.
- No. I can't believe
he would ever do that.
- Why? Because you share an
ivy-league handshake with him?
I don't care
what you believe, shelly.
The police are sweating me!
- Hey, stop panicking.
- Yeah?
Check your office, shelly.
- Thank you.
- This morning the doorman from
the building across the street
Told us he saw julia hiken
Leave her place around
8:45 the night tarney died.
- Yeah,
and judging by the way
That guy was looking you
up and down,
He probably got a-
got a good look at julia.
- If he did and he was
right about the time,
Then tarney was already dead
when she left her place.
- Julia hiken was arraigned
And charged with manslaughter
and felony possession
Of a controlled substance.
She managed to post bail.
She took a cab home.
And 20 minutes ago she jumped
from a tenth-story window.
So...Ahem.
Tactic worked.
We sweated her.
- Silver-spring
ended a partnership
With an l.L.C. Called
lawn chair investment group.
Business address
is listed as 237 canal street,
In the tribeca
community hospital building.
Principal investors are
a dominic fabrigazi jr.,
Anthony blevins,
theodore viviano,
Annalisa gentilo,
and henry depiano.
- What was the last name
on the list?
- Henry depiano.
- That's mag depiano's son.
- Who's mag depiano?
- He has a franchise
of gentleman's clubs,
And owns a lot of heroin
from myanmar.
- So mag's a thug,
And his son buys a hospital.
One of his doctor partners
bets the horses.
Tarney comes poking around,
chokes on a steak.
Maybe mag was the one
who cut tarney's meat for him.
- Doubtful.
He's in rikers.
Serving 18 months for possession
of a concealed weapon.
- The apple falls
not far from the tree?
Henry's an orange.
We haven't spoken
since his mother died of cancer.
- And you have no idea where he
is, what he does for a living?
- Of course I do.
He's my son.
He got a place
out in queens by the water.
He sweet-talked some friends
to invest in a hospital.
- You don't approve?
- I've seen his I.Q.
Henry's a smart boy.
He's wasting
his god-given talent.
- Yeah, he could be serving
18 months
For possession
of a concealed weapon.
- Ticky-tack charge.
- You've had visits
from annie gentilo
And dom fabrigazi.
You talk
to your son's friends?
- They were my friends first.
They wanted my blessing
in that hospital nonsense.
What was I gonna say?
- Nothing worse than hard work
and an honest investment?
- Hard work.
Lot of good it did.
Couple days ago
poor dom collapsed.
- Collapsed?
- He should have
stayed retired.
Henry knew dom
had heart problems.
- Yeah, compared to how your
father's living, this is, uh,
It's such
nice office decoration.
It's kind of-
Kind of a freud
rooms with marcus welby vibe.
Uh, shame about
dom fabrigazi.
He's, what?
One of your business partners?
- Uh, and a close friend.
- Did fabrigazi have
a history of heart problems?
- Does.
But his regular specialist
Is treating him here, so...
- Do you know
if he takes anything?
- Does he take anything?
- Yeah,
you know, medication.
- I'm sure that he does,
But that would really be
a question for his m.D.
- Okay.
What is that?
Look at that.
Wow.
It's a gold st-
Oh, no, it's gold plated.
- It's a gift
from my partners.
- Oh, here we go.
Anything?
- Loud and clear.
Mr. Depiano, did you know
who les tarney was?
- Yeah.
Yeah, I heard about him.
He's the health
and human resources guy
That recently died.
- Few hours before
mr. Tarney's death,
He met with
dr. Joel silverstern.
Were you aware of that?
- No.
Joel never mentioned it.
- All right,
well, uh, goodbye.
- Hang on.
Les tarney died
this last Monday
Between 7:00 and 8:00 p.M.
Can you recall where you were?
- I was at home.
Barbecuing.
- Was there anyone with you
who could verify that?
- I'm trying to go see him.
- Oh, you were with
dom fabrigazi?
- He brought the salmon.
- Mr. Fabrigazi, when your
myocardial infarction began,
Did you have
any medication with you?
- This is not chicken kiev.
Yeah.
I had my digoxin capsules.
- Did you take any of 'em?
- Tried. Why?
- The night
of your heart failure,
A capsule of digoxin
was found in les tarney's home.
And tarney didn't have
heart problems.
We want to know
how it got there.
- Why don't you ask him?
- 'cause he's dead.
You say you tried
to get at your digoxin?
- Yeah, I couldn't get that
childproof cap off, you know?
Next thing I know, I'm face up
in a hospital gurney.
- Henry depiano says
that when your heart failed
You were at his house.
You brought by a couple of
steaks to grill, or-?
- Salmon.
Salmon steaks.
- Did he call an ambulance?
- No,
he piled me in his car,
And he ran every red light
on the way here.
He saved my life,
Not waiting around
for them drag-ass paramedics.
- Oh.
It's a shame
that nobodyhwas there
To save les tarney's life.
Unless there was
somebody there
With the job of killing him.
- I'm retired, detective.
- 'kay.
Well, bona fortuna.
- Oh, hey, you take
a bribe, detective?
I'll give you five grand
for a plate of ossobuco.
- Told you
we weren't gonna be long.
I screwed up, henry.
They're on to me.
- Your heart's screwed up.
Not you.
- I feel like I slid down
the side of a mountain, henry.
- I never should have
gotten you involved in this.
You ought to be
on a beach in miami.
- What, and be like
one of them old farts, huh?
That drives around
with their turn signal
Blinking for miles and miles?
Come on, henry.
If I kick, who's gonna
brag about you to your old man?
Huh?
All right. Okay.
Okay.
- You think I planted these?
- Henry.
- Why would I bug your office,
joel?
- Because you don't trust us.
- Why? Because my last name
ends with an "o"?
Like gambino?
Or maybe you're confusing me
with my father.
- Look, joel, henry just got
a little overzealous.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Maybe you were keeping tabs
on shelly's gambling problem.
I don't know. I don't care.
- Gambling problem?
Told me that was over, shelly.
- It is.
It is.
- These people that
I brought in as my partners,
They're retired.
They live
off of their investments.
- I haven't looked at a racing
form in over two years.
It's the god's honest truth.
- They're my friends, shelly.
I told them that this
is a clean investment.
Nothing illegal.
You gave me your word.
- I know that.
I know that.
- What?
- I've decided
to refocus on the clinic.
- Refocus?
- Shelly's-
shelly's buying me out.
I'm moving on.
- No, you're not.
- I'm set on this, henry.
- Well, get unset.
We have a signed deal
in place.
- With a morals
and disclosures clause,
Which I'll use if I have to.
- Let's get out of here.
- Remember the picture
in my office?
- Yeah, secretariat.
What happened?
Your partner started
to take short odds
On closers at aqueduct again?
- No.
Shelly stayed away.
What he didn't do
was inform me
He'd been claiming
his track losses
On his personal
income filing.
When it came time to secure
a loan for the hospital,
The lending institutions
ran the other way.
- So shelly ran
to henry depiano,
His college pal.
- His pal.
He was bugging our offices.
Don't look at me like that.
I have the devices.
I'll show you.
This was a beat-down
from henry depiano
Because I wanted out.
- You'll testify?
- I want protection.
You have to protect me.
These-these people,
they're-they're animals.
- Henry depiano.
He had joel silverstern
worked over to get him to stay.
- Yeah? Why?
- If silverstern bails,
Henry's investors
might do the same.
The beat-down was a message-
don't leave.
- Yeah, but why
the mixed signals?
What is the point
of taking silverstern's wallet?
Maybe silverstern
really was mugged.
- Well, then why
aren't the muggers
Tooling around in his
$120,000 maserati?
Why take 100 bucks
in cash and credit cards
And not the car?
- The panic button
scared them off.
You're thinking
with your heart, zach.
- No, I'm thinking with
dom fabrigazi's heart.
They found digoxin
at the murder.
Dom has a prescription
for digoxin.
- Yeah, along with
the other half million
People in manhattan
who have heart disease.
You know,
I want to get this guy too,
But you got to give me
something to go on here.
- Fabrigazi suffers a coronary
The same time les tarney
Bites on a single piece
of steak and chokes to death?
- Juries don't convict
on coincidence.
- Yeah.
What if killing tarney
Was a strain
on fabrigazi's heart?
Suppose he felt sick,
Took a pill,
inadvertently dropped one?
- Okay.
Fabrigazi's prints on file
Didn't match the prints
found on the capsule.
- Like there's not
a silicon valley geek out there,
Unemployed, who, you know,
For the sake
of covering his mortgage
Couldn't be talked
into hacking into the system
And falsifying
a set of prints?
- There's a complete absence
of probable cause here.
A tea-party judge
wouldn't grant you permission
To fingerprint
dominic fabrigazi.
You want to play what if?
What if silverstern's
lying his ass off?
Huh?
What if he's lying his ass off?
He comes crying to the police
About his head being put
in a vise, and you believe him.
Of course.
Because
it's the garlic eaters.
The guys with the shiny ties.
The wise guys from...
- Hey, hey, hold on.
Hold on.
Neither of these detectives
is remotely bigoted.
- Hear, hear. Some of my
best collars have been italian.
- Not funny, zach.
- It's okay, captain.
I know he's joking.
I get a little nuts about
the way italian-americans
Are portrayed in this city.
But I can't ask for a warrant
based on hearsay.
- Can't or won't?
- How could your dad
be such a good guy
And you're such a hard-ass?
- Roy, those people in h.H.R.,
Are they sleeping better now
That an innocent woman
has jumped to her death?
- Hey! Hey! Hey!
- Whoa. It's got
to be done right, zach.
You should know that.
- Get him out of here.
Go!
- Stop.
Brought you a decaf.
- Gee, this father thing
keeps bugging me.
- Honestly?
Dell getty's a real boil,
But you should let go of it.
- No, I meant henry's father.
The whole thing just, uh...
Somehow feels familiar.
Here we go.
A key witness in the state's
murder-extortion case
Against alleged crime boss
Magglio depiano was found dead
early Sunday evening.
An anonymous source
revealed to the ledger
That darius prefontaine
Accidentally choked
on a fish bone.
- Well, no wonder
it sounds familiar.
They murdered the witness,
Made it look like
an accidental choking.
Well, that's it.
Dom cleaned up henry's mess
by killing tarney,
And why use anything
but tried-and-true methods?
- Let's go talk to henry.
- Well, hang on.
This is all
terrifically revealing,
But it still doesn't move us
off of square one.
- Talking about dom's prints?
- Without those, we get more
of the same from dell getty.
- I think I got
the print thing down.
- You were lucky to catch me.
Just about to go home.
- Hey, how's, uh...
How's dominic?
- They did
a double angioplasty.
Thank god they didn't need
to crack him open.
He's gonna be okay.
- Good, good.
You know, he's going to prison.
We got him, henry.
- For what?
- Well, les tarney
was blackmailing your partners.
He had the offices tapped.
We found his fingerprints
on the bugs.
- So you had dom murder tarney
And stage it
to look like an accident.
Well, nevertheless,
hey, how about those doctors?
Jeez. Did they
screw the pooch or what?
- Screwed the pooch?
- Yeah, you know, up-coding.
- I had no knowledge
of any criminal activities
Or any billing improprieties.
- "I had no knowledge
of any criminal activities
Or any billing improprieties."
Jeez,
you work so hard at it.
My golly. You're so afraid
that you're gonna be seen
As a thug and a leg-breaker,
You're gonna be looked upon
As the lawless brute that
your old man turned out to be.
- I really have no idea
what you are talking about.
- Okay, henry.
- Here. The duty nurse
routinely changes these
When they become too soiled.
Forensics can compare
the prints on this
To the prints
on a digoxin capsule
Found at the murder scene.
- Unfortunately, we can't prove
that you ordered the hit,
And dom won't give you up.
He's, uh, old school.
Red sauce. Omerta.
Like your father?
- Dom is nothing
like my father.
- Because you hate mag depiano?
- What would you know about it?
- Oh,
I know a little something
About what it's like to have
a father who's hard to love.
But as much
as I might resent mine,
He helps people.
Yours is a crime boss
and a killer,
And you would do anything
not to be him?
- You are damn right.
I swore to my mother
that that would never happen.
- So you let a college buddy
Snow you into
making a bad investment
In return for an image
of legitimacy.
- Uh, it's not an image.
I am legitimate.
- Sure. Because dom fabrigazi
did all the dirty work.
- Don't do that.
Dom stuck his neck out
for you.
Mag depiano wouldn't do that
for his own mother.
You're right.
Dom is nothing
like your father.
- Neither am I.
- Because this
brooks brothers suit
And this inane gold
stethoscope give you respect?
Is that what you think?
Like you're principled now?
You think you've broken
the linkage?
Really?
- Yeah.
- Enough to satisfy your mom?
- My mother is dead.
- It's a shame
she didn't live long enough
To boast about her son
owning a hospital.
- Well, that would have
made her happy.
- She could have used
a little joy.
She worried
most of her life about you.
Wondering when you'd walk
in your father's footsteps.
- She didn't have
to worry about that.
- Maybe it's just as well
She died before
she could see her son
Become magglio depiano.
- No.
No, I-I hate him.
Remember that.
- You've hated him for making
your mother sick with worry.
She kept secrets,
looked the other way,
Buried her suspicions
while he buried bodies,
And it ate her up inside.
And you've hated him
for her cancer,
But not for who he is.
'cause that's who you are,
henry.
At least...
That's who you've been.
You know, if your father
knew what you did this last week
And how you could
get away with it,
You'd be the apple of his eye.
- Dom doesn't do time.
I'll tell you
what happened with tarney,
But dom doesn't do time.
I want your word.
- It's no good.
We don't have the authority.
- I want your word.
- You have it.
How'd you find out
about the blackmailing?
- Shelly.
- So you paid a visit
to tarney's.
- I went to scare him
out of squeezing us.
He was sitting down to eat
when we got there.
- We?
You and dominic fabrigazi?
- I took dom along for show.
And tarney
wouldn't listen to us.
I asked him
to knock down the price,
And he laughed at us.
And I snapped.
Tarney went to open the wine.
I grabbed him from behind.
Dom, he tried to stop me.
He started panting,
stumbling.
Uh, and I screamed at him,
"get back into the car."
- While you finished off tarney.
- Yeah.
- Then what?
- Went back in
and cleaned it up.
I made it look
like tarney had choked.
- Where'd you learn
that trick, henry?
- From magglio depiano.
My father.
- You think they teach
choke holds at dartmouth?
- The guillotine.
- So henry lied
about the whole thing.
You're okay with that?
- Somebody had to answer
for the murder of a blackmailer.
Who?
A mobster with a bad heart
but a capacity for good,
Or a kid who'd never known
the meaning of the word "good"?
- Until now.
- How'd you get
to henry depiano?
- Misled him into believing
That we had dominic fabrigazi's
fingerprints.
- Perfectly
within the guidelines.
- And I promised henry
that dom wouldn't do time.
- You did?
Who died and made you
district attorney?
- Julia hiken.
- Depiano.
We just got a call
from the hospital.
Dominic fabrigazi's
been released,
And I will personally make sure
he's brought up on charges.
war on crime,
The worst criminal
offenders are pursued
By the detectives of the
major case squad.
These are their stories.
- Physician's world.
- Give me a break.
- What?
We're in the medical business.
- Are we ever.
7% equity in tribeca comm
And a 12% interest
in our investment.
Henry, come here.
Come here.
Mwah. I love this kid.
Where's cubby
with the sausage?
- Right here.
- Good man.
- Henry,
I'll swap you for a beer.
- Mr. Prime time.
How's the reality show?
- Reality?
The producer made me
Rename my sandwiches
after italian painters.
- Cubby, what do they call
the sausage and peppers?
- A "mickel-angelo."
- "michael-angelo."
and I'll take one, henry.
Make me a michelangelo.
- Sausage and peppers, right?
Comes with a side
of a heart attack?
Give him a gardenburger,
henry.
- Listen,
with this hospital thing,
In 18 months,
We're looking at
900k a year each minimum
Off henry's deal.
- Get out.
Get in.
Until some genius comes up
with the cure for death,
Hospitals are gonna be
open for business.
- Whose christmas list
you on, henry?
- Buddy of mine
and his partner
Bought tribeca community
hospital.
Went to dartmouth together.
- And who made you
stay and graduate?
- Oh, you know
what we should do?
Assisted suicides.
- They're illegal, blev.
- On the sly.
By the time the rest of the
country comes to her senses,
We'll be way ahead.
- Those were the old ways.
But we are through
with the old ways.
Right?
How about you, blev?
Are you with me, cubby?
- Oh, yeah, sure.
- Dom, you?
- Yeah, sure.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- I'm about to authorize
a medicare audit
On silver-spring
health systems.
When it's completed,
You and your partner
Will undoubtedly
face criminal charges.
- For what?
- Silver-springs colonoscopies
Are 300% over the norm.
Echocardiograms
are 375% higher
Than they should be.
- Business is good.
Three months ago we acquired
tribeca community hospital.
- Well, the criminal activity
Took place
before that purchase.
I found over 200
up-coding violations.
- Up-coding?
- Simple gastritis
billed as a colonoscopy,
Coding a level-one visit
as a level-four surgery.
- But this
is someone else's mistak
- While the audit's in place,
Your practice
and the new hospital
Receive no medicare
reimbursements.
We're gonna
turn the faucet off.
- What do you want from me,
tarney?
- 3 million.
Cash.
- Oh, holy crap.
What are we gonna do?
- Stall. I'll meet
with that prick, tarney, again.
He'll take less.
- Yeah, well, what if he won't?
We got to tell henry, joel.
- Are you nuts?
No.
- No, he's a friend.
A good friend.
He'll understand.
- Understand what, shelly?
That after he invested
We forgot to tell him
that we cook the books?
You say nothing to him.
You keep your mouth shut
about this.
We'll handle it.
All right?
Shelly?
Not one word.
- Possible m.I.
- Sorry.
He's got a bad heart.
I look,
he's down on the lawn.
Dom,
just breathe easy.
Breathe easy.
- Down there, down there. Bay 4.
- Hi, this is les tarney.
I'm not in.
Leave me a message at the beep.
les, where are you?
I have been calling
and calling.
You're supposed to come
and pick me up.
We're going to dinner.
Hello?
Les? Ugh. Okay, that's it.
I'm coming over.
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Episode:The Mobster Will see you Now
- Les tarney.
The United States department
of health and human resources.
Associate inspector general.
- Not anymore.
Choked to death.
- Yeah.
So the chair is knocked over.
I see. And so maybe he did
the heimlich on himself?
- Yup. Unfortunately,
Works better when someone's
there to do it for you.
- Well, how long has
les tarney been like this?
- About three hours.
Puts t.O.D. Around 8:00 p.M.
This evening.
- So he choked.
Why-why call homicide?
- Woman who found him
lost it.
Told anyone who would listen
That somebody
murdered her fiance.
- The life of a single man.
His, uh, plate's
turned the wrong way.
- Yeah. Well,
I'll wrangle a photographer.
- We planned to get married.
- You said you found
mr. Tarney around 9:00?
- Mm-hmm.
- Oh, this is
detective nichols.
Julia hiken
was engaged to the deceased.
- Well,
engaged to be engaged.
- You arrived at, uh, 9:00.
Was he expecting you?
- I was expecting him.
Les was supposed
to pick me up.
Never showed.
His cell kept kicking
to his answering service.
- So you came here.
- I knocked and knocked,
Finally used the key
under the mat.
- And then did you
do anything to revive him?
- I'm an r.N.
I could see he was dead.
Someone killed him.
- I see.
Well, the problem, julia,
Is that, um, your fiance,
His death looks a lot
like it's accidental.
- No. No.
Uh-uh.
No, we were going out
to dinner.
We were going to celebrate.
Someone did this.
He was working
on something big.
We were gonna live good.
Maybe in europe.
- So did he say
what something big meant?
- I don't have a head
for business.
- Someone's in denial.
- You think les gave julia
the heave-ho?
That's right.
So what did this guy do?
Turns off his cell phone
and sits down to a quiet meal,
Pours himself a nice glass
of the verboten stuff...
- Detectives?
Found this pill in the hall.
We checked. Nothing like it
in the medicine cabinet.
- All right.
So bag up everything
that's on the counter.
That whole dinner,
the steak and the wine,
Everything
that's on the counter.
- Les tarney is dead.
- What?
- Saw it on webmd,
answer-med, healthcentral.
It's all over the internet.
They're saying
he choked on his food.
- Oh, my god.
Well,
somebody likes us, huh?
- It's murder, shelly.
- You said he choked.
- Stop it!
Just-just-just stop it.
- Stop what?
- You talked, didn't you?
I knew it.
- What-wait a minute.
You saying that I told henry
and that he had tarney whacked?
No, joel.
Are you crazy?
- He's magglio depia's son.
- Henry would never do that.
He's nothing like his father.
I didn't talk to him.
I swear.
We just got very lucky.
This was an accident.
A divine accident.
- Substantial piece of meat
Lodged deep in his trachea.
Teeth marks match.
- Uh, nothing
indicating a struggle?
- But for the chair,
not a mark on him.
- Looked like
he didn't eat much steak.
- He didn't eat any.
Stomach was empty.
- All right, so, uh,
What's the first thing you do
when you choke?
- Grab for something to drink.
- Right, but his wine
isn't touched.
Plus chokes on the first bite.
- Well, he might have had
some help with that.
I found heavy traces
Of the beta blocker
inderal in his system.
Common side effect
is difficulty swallowing.
- What about the capsule
csu found in tarney's house?
- That was digoxin.
- Digoxin. Oh, that's
different than inderal.
Digoxin is for
congestive heart failure
When nothing else works.
- Well, you know your meds.
- The house I grew up in
Had a physician's
desk reference in the john.
What about mr. Tarney
and digoxin?
- It's not something
he'd be taking.
His heart was good.
I'm ready to rule accidental.
- It's not gonna make
the fiancee happy.
- And his plate
was turned the wrong way.
- What are you saying?
- Uh, give it till tomorrow?
- What the hell happened?
- He comes by
henry's last night
With a couple
of salmon stea,
And he just-he goes down before
the charcoal even gets hot.
- It's a myocardial infarction.
It's bad.
- He's gonna live, right?
- If he dies,
I'm gonna kill him.
I mean,
we've known each other
Since our first communion.
- Dom, I'm sorry.
I'm so sorry.
- You ready for me?
- Hey, come on in.
A.D.A. Roydell getty.
Bureau chief of trial division.
Detectives stevens
and nichols.
- Another long suffering
cubs fan.
- I roll with the white sox,
actually.
- Smart girl.
Detective nichols,
I met your dad the other night
at the guggenheim.
Nice man.
- Yes, he is.
- Got a call from
health and human resources.
They asked to be informed
As soon as tarney's death
is determined
Accidental or foul play.
- Sure. Sure.
One of their own went down.
- And since the healthcare
reform bill passed,
They've been treated
to death threats,
Bomb scares, hate mail.
- What happened
to writing your congressman?
- 21st century, detective.
We don't do quiet anymore.
- Ain't it the truth.
So h.H.R. Thinks
that somebody's out to get him?
- People are scared
over there.
- Do we have anything
more to go on
Than a half-chewed
piece of steak?
- The only prints
in tarney's house
Are his and his girlfriend's.
- The m.E. Did find
inderal in tarney's system.
We checked
his medical records.
He didn't get it
from a doctor.
- What about a nurse?
The girlfriend,
julia hiken,
Isn't she an r.N.?
- Uh-huh.
- I told you,
when I got there, les was dead.
- Les, or your relationship
with him?
- We had made plans.
We were-
- Engaged to be engaged.
The last refuge
of the commitment challenged.
- I had a future with les.
- But no key to his house.
- Why'd you give him
the beta blockers, julia?
- He wanted them.
They work
like tranquilizers.
Les asked me for them,
Because he said he had
to be totally calm
For a meeting he had
with someone.
- Did he say who?
- No. No.
- But he said something.
What did he say, julia?
What did he say
about that meeting?
- That big deal
that I told you about,
The one that was gonna
set us up,
That was the meeting.
I told him just two pills.
And he-he took three.
- Do you have a prescription
for inderal?
You stole the pills.
- I didn't want to lose les.
Please.
Does my employer have to know?
My job is all I've got left.
- Mr. Tarney cancelled
his morning meetings
And remained in his office.
- Uh-huh. And, uh, no-
no meetings in the afternoon?
- Just one.
At 5:30.
With...
Dr. Joel silverstern.
Tribeca community hospital.
237 canal street.
- That was the last time
you saw him?
- Yeah.
- Mm-hmm.
- Forgive me for saying this,
carla,
But, um, you know,
I mean, everybody grieves
in their own way,
But you don't seem too saddened
by the passing of your boss.
- You know how some people
Have to do mean things
for their job
But they're perfectly nice
otherwise?
- Hmm.
- Les tarney wasn't nice?
- He was a cactus ass
Who made everyone
around him miserable.
And he enjoyed it.
- I know.
Les tarney's death is tragic.
I read it on medweb.
It was a piece of food?
- How does the web find out
everything before we do?
- Dr. Silverstern,
You said
you met mr. Tarney here
Around 5:45?
- We were set for 5:30,
But he hit
that traffic hernia
On west broadway.
- Traffic hernia.
What was the meeting about?
Can I ask?
- Three months ago my partner
and I bought this hospital.
- Ooh.
Well, that's a-
That's a big ticket item,
isn't it?
- Please.
It's not
new york presbyterian.
It's 200 beds,
a small radiology department.
We wanted to go over
merger guidelines with les
Just to make sure we were
on the same page with h.H.R.
Don't want them on your back.
- It's no longer a problem,
is it?
- Sorry, what, uh...
What's no longer a problem?
- Secretariat.
Look at this.
'73 belmont, huh?
He won by 31 lengths.
Big red.
- You play the ponies,
dr. Silverstern?
- No,
my partner shelly used to,
But he just didn't have time
for it anymore.
- Yeah, being a doctor.
All-consuming profession.
- Forensics has something.
So...
What am I looking at?
- Well, the plate's position
on the table is wrong.
Tarney was sitting here.
According to the direction
of the cut marks,
He had to be standing on
the opposite side of the table
To make that cut.
- Or someone else
did the cutting?
- That's right.
- Uh-huh.
- That's right.
So this somebody,
beforehand,
Kills les tarney,
And, if he was
in this position,
He could have
come around here like this,
Like something like that,
Uh, and then made the cut
Obviously from this
side of the ble,
Gotten it from here,
cuts that piece,
And then puts it into
dead les tarney's mouth,
Works his teeth marks on it,
And then shoves it down
into the back of his throat.
- That's fine,
but how do you kill someone
And not leave a mark?
- Guillotine choke.
Martial arts technique.
Guillotine presses
the carotid artery.
Cuts blood supply
to the brain.
- And with that amount of
inderal in tarney's system,
Good night.
- Time to open
a grand jury on the nurse.
- Julia hiken?
- I read the interview.
Hiken admitted the drugs
came from her.
- But tarney hounded her
for the inderal.
- So she claims.
Think she wasn't happy
because tarney wanted out.
It's in your report.
Engaged to be engaged?
- I disagree.
I think
that les tarney's murder
Was related to this meeting
With doctors spring
and silverstern
That, uh,
he was nervous about.
- Silverstern and his partner
recently bought a hospital.
That's a perfectly
legitimate reason
To meet with someone
from h.H.R.
- Yeah,
but there was something
Far from legitimate
about that particular meeting.
- When we'd finished
questioning silverstern,
He looked like
he wandered out of the barrel
Of a smoking gun.
- Plus which
he has on his wall
A big picture
of secretariat,
So there's obviously
gambling in the mix somehow.
- You sure it was secretariat?
- What?
I'm sure that julia hiken
is not a killer.
- Dr. Rogers, um, inderal,
Can it cause difficulty
in swallowing?
- As a side effect.
It's in my report.
- Julia hiken admitted
stealing the drug.
She admitted giving it
to les tarney.
He choked on a piece of meat.
Even if it was accidental.
It's manslaughter.
Captain.
- Pick her up.
- Were the two of you fighting?
- No.
- We talked to les' neighbors.
Seems like the day
before you found him dead
There was a woman shouting.
- Because I fought with les
over the inderal.
He was taking too much.
I warned him. I did.
- Because you loved him?
- Yes.
- His secretary called him
a cactus ass.
- Les had zero people skills,
But he was kind.
He had a good side.
I told you the truth.
I didn't have to.
Why am I going to jail?
I am a nurse.
I help people.
I didn't do this!
- Depiano bugged my office!
- Keep it down, joel.
- Keep it down?
He already heard everything!
He knew tarney was blackmailing
us, and he killed him.
- No. I can't believe
he would ever do that.
- Why? Because you share an
ivy-league handshake with him?
I don't care
what you believe, shelly.
The police are sweating me!
- Hey, stop panicking.
- Yeah?
Check your office, shelly.
- Thank you.
- This morning the doorman from
the building across the street
Told us he saw julia hiken
Leave her place around
8:45 the night tarney died.
- Yeah,
and judging by the way
That guy was looking you
up and down,
He probably got a-
got a good look at julia.
- If he did and he was
right about the time,
Then tarney was already dead
when she left her place.
- Julia hiken was arraigned
And charged with manslaughter
and felony possession
Of a controlled substance.
She managed to post bail.
She took a cab home.
And 20 minutes ago she jumped
from a tenth-story window.
So...Ahem.
Tactic worked.
We sweated her.
- Silver-spring
ended a partnership
With an l.L.C. Called
lawn chair investment group.
Business address
is listed as 237 canal street,
In the tribeca
community hospital building.
Principal investors are
a dominic fabrigazi jr.,
Anthony blevins,
theodore viviano,
Annalisa gentilo,
and henry depiano.
- What was the last name
on the list?
- Henry depiano.
- That's mag depiano's son.
- Who's mag depiano?
- He has a franchise
of gentleman's clubs,
And owns a lot of heroin
from myanmar.
- So mag's a thug,
And his son buys a hospital.
One of his doctor partners
bets the horses.
Tarney comes poking around,
chokes on a steak.
Maybe mag was the one
who cut tarney's meat for him.
- Doubtful.
He's in rikers.
Serving 18 months for possession
of a concealed weapon.
- The apple falls
not far from the tree?
Henry's an orange.
We haven't spoken
since his mother died of cancer.
- And you have no idea where he
is, what he does for a living?
- Of course I do.
He's my son.
He got a place
out in queens by the water.
He sweet-talked some friends
to invest in a hospital.
- You don't approve?
- I've seen his I.Q.
Henry's a smart boy.
He's wasting
his god-given talent.
- Yeah, he could be serving
18 months
For possession
of a concealed weapon.
- Ticky-tack charge.
- You've had visits
from annie gentilo
And dom fabrigazi.
You talk
to your son's friends?
- They were my friends first.
They wanted my blessing
in that hospital nonsense.
What was I gonna say?
- Nothing worse than hard work
and an honest investment?
- Hard work.
Lot of good it did.
Couple days ago
poor dom collapsed.
- Collapsed?
- He should have
stayed retired.
Henry knew dom
had heart problems.
- Yeah, compared to how your
father's living, this is, uh,
It's such
nice office decoration.
It's kind of-
Kind of a freud
rooms with marcus welby vibe.
Uh, shame about
dom fabrigazi.
He's, what?
One of your business partners?
- Uh, and a close friend.
- Did fabrigazi have
a history of heart problems?
- Does.
But his regular specialist
Is treating him here, so...
- Do you know
if he takes anything?
- Does he take anything?
- Yeah,
you know, medication.
- I'm sure that he does,
But that would really be
a question for his m.D.
- Okay.
What is that?
Look at that.
Wow.
It's a gold st-
Oh, no, it's gold plated.
- It's a gift
from my partners.
- Oh, here we go.
Anything?
- Loud and clear.
Mr. Depiano, did you know
who les tarney was?
- Yeah.
Yeah, I heard about him.
He's the health
and human resources guy
That recently died.
- Few hours before
mr. Tarney's death,
He met with
dr. Joel silverstern.
Were you aware of that?
- No.
Joel never mentioned it.
- All right,
well, uh, goodbye.
- Hang on.
Les tarney died
this last Monday
Between 7:00 and 8:00 p.M.
Can you recall where you were?
- I was at home.
Barbecuing.
- Was there anyone with you
who could verify that?
- I'm trying to go see him.
- Oh, you were with
dom fabrigazi?
- He brought the salmon.
- Mr. Fabrigazi, when your
myocardial infarction began,
Did you have
any medication with you?
- This is not chicken kiev.
Yeah.
I had my digoxin capsules.
- Did you take any of 'em?
- Tried. Why?
- The night
of your heart failure,
A capsule of digoxin
was found in les tarney's home.
And tarney didn't have
heart problems.
We want to know
how it got there.
- Why don't you ask him?
- 'cause he's dead.
You say you tried
to get at your digoxin?
- Yeah, I couldn't get that
childproof cap off, you know?
Next thing I know, I'm face up
in a hospital gurney.
- Henry depiano says
that when your heart failed
You were at his house.
You brought by a couple of
steaks to grill, or-?
- Salmon.
Salmon steaks.
- Did he call an ambulance?
- No,
he piled me in his car,
And he ran every red light
on the way here.
He saved my life,
Not waiting around
for them drag-ass paramedics.
- Oh.
It's a shame
that nobodyhwas there
To save les tarney's life.
Unless there was
somebody there
With the job of killing him.
- I'm retired, detective.
- 'kay.
Well, bona fortuna.
- Oh, hey, you take
a bribe, detective?
I'll give you five grand
for a plate of ossobuco.
- Told you
we weren't gonna be long.
I screwed up, henry.
They're on to me.
- Your heart's screwed up.
Not you.
- I feel like I slid down
the side of a mountain, henry.
- I never should have
gotten you involved in this.
You ought to be
on a beach in miami.
- What, and be like
one of them old farts, huh?
That drives around
with their turn signal
Blinking for miles and miles?
Come on, henry.
If I kick, who's gonna
brag about you to your old man?
Huh?
All right. Okay.
Okay.
- You think I planted these?
- Henry.
- Why would I bug your office,
joel?
- Because you don't trust us.
- Why? Because my last name
ends with an "o"?
Like gambino?
Or maybe you're confusing me
with my father.
- Look, joel, henry just got
a little overzealous.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Maybe you were keeping tabs
on shelly's gambling problem.
I don't know. I don't care.
- Gambling problem?
Told me that was over, shelly.
- It is.
It is.
- These people that
I brought in as my partners,
They're retired.
They live
off of their investments.
- I haven't looked at a racing
form in over two years.
It's the god's honest truth.
- They're my friends, shelly.
I told them that this
is a clean investment.
Nothing illegal.
You gave me your word.
- I know that.
I know that.
- What?
- I've decided
to refocus on the clinic.
- Refocus?
- Shelly's-
shelly's buying me out.
I'm moving on.
- No, you're not.
- I'm set on this, henry.
- Well, get unset.
We have a signed deal
in place.
- With a morals
and disclosures clause,
Which I'll use if I have to.
- Let's get out of here.
- Remember the picture
in my office?
- Yeah, secretariat.
What happened?
Your partner started
to take short odds
On closers at aqueduct again?
- No.
Shelly stayed away.
What he didn't do
was inform me
He'd been claiming
his track losses
On his personal
income filing.
When it came time to secure
a loan for the hospital,
The lending institutions
ran the other way.
- So shelly ran
to henry depiano,
His college pal.
- His pal.
He was bugging our offices.
Don't look at me like that.
I have the devices.
I'll show you.
This was a beat-down
from henry depiano
Because I wanted out.
- You'll testify?
- I want protection.
You have to protect me.
These-these people,
they're-they're animals.
- Henry depiano.
He had joel silverstern
worked over to get him to stay.
- Yeah? Why?
- If silverstern bails,
Henry's investors
might do the same.
The beat-down was a message-
don't leave.
- Yeah, but why
the mixed signals?
What is the point
of taking silverstern's wallet?
Maybe silverstern
really was mugged.
- Well, then why
aren't the muggers
Tooling around in his
$120,000 maserati?
Why take 100 bucks
in cash and credit cards
And not the car?
- The panic button
scared them off.
You're thinking
with your heart, zach.
- No, I'm thinking with
dom fabrigazi's heart.
They found digoxin
at the murder.
Dom has a prescription
for digoxin.
- Yeah, along with
the other half million
People in manhattan
who have heart disease.
You know,
I want to get this guy too,
But you got to give me
something to go on here.
- Fabrigazi suffers a coronary
The same time les tarney
Bites on a single piece
of steak and chokes to death?
- Juries don't convict
on coincidence.
- Yeah.
What if killing tarney
Was a strain
on fabrigazi's heart?
Suppose he felt sick,
Took a pill,
inadvertently dropped one?
- Okay.
Fabrigazi's prints on file
Didn't match the prints
found on the capsule.
- Like there's not
a silicon valley geek out there,
Unemployed, who, you know,
For the sake
of covering his mortgage
Couldn't be talked
into hacking into the system
And falsifying
a set of prints?
- There's a complete absence
of probable cause here.
A tea-party judge
wouldn't grant you permission
To fingerprint
dominic fabrigazi.
You want to play what if?
What if silverstern's
lying his ass off?
Huh?
What if he's lying his ass off?
He comes crying to the police
About his head being put
in a vise, and you believe him.
Of course.
Because
it's the garlic eaters.
The guys with the shiny ties.
The wise guys from...
- Hey, hey, hold on.
Hold on.
Neither of these detectives
is remotely bigoted.
- Hear, hear. Some of my
best collars have been italian.
- Not funny, zach.
- It's okay, captain.
I know he's joking.
I get a little nuts about
the way italian-americans
Are portrayed in this city.
But I can't ask for a warrant
based on hearsay.
- Can't or won't?
- How could your dad
be such a good guy
And you're such a hard-ass?
- Roy, those people in h.H.R.,
Are they sleeping better now
That an innocent woman
has jumped to her death?
- Hey! Hey! Hey!
- Whoa. It's got
to be done right, zach.
You should know that.
- Get him out of here.
Go!
- Stop.
Brought you a decaf.
- Gee, this father thing
keeps bugging me.
- Honestly?
Dell getty's a real boil,
But you should let go of it.
- No, I meant henry's father.
The whole thing just, uh...
Somehow feels familiar.
Here we go.
A key witness in the state's
murder-extortion case
Against alleged crime boss
Magglio depiano was found dead
early Sunday evening.
An anonymous source
revealed to the ledger
That darius prefontaine
Accidentally choked
on a fish bone.
- Well, no wonder
it sounds familiar.
They murdered the witness,
Made it look like
an accidental choking.
Well, that's it.
Dom cleaned up henry's mess
by killing tarney,
And why use anything
but tried-and-true methods?
- Let's go talk to henry.
- Well, hang on.
This is all
terrifically revealing,
But it still doesn't move us
off of square one.
- Talking about dom's prints?
- Without those, we get more
of the same from dell getty.
- I think I got
the print thing down.
- You were lucky to catch me.
Just about to go home.
- Hey, how's, uh...
How's dominic?
- They did
a double angioplasty.
Thank god they didn't need
to crack him open.
He's gonna be okay.
- Good, good.
You know, he's going to prison.
We got him, henry.
- For what?
- Well, les tarney
was blackmailing your partners.
He had the offices tapped.
We found his fingerprints
on the bugs.
- So you had dom murder tarney
And stage it
to look like an accident.
Well, nevertheless,
hey, how about those doctors?
Jeez. Did they
screw the pooch or what?
- Screwed the pooch?
- Yeah, you know, up-coding.
- I had no knowledge
of any criminal activities
Or any billing improprieties.
- "I had no knowledge
of any criminal activities
Or any billing improprieties."
Jeez,
you work so hard at it.
My golly. You're so afraid
that you're gonna be seen
As a thug and a leg-breaker,
You're gonna be looked upon
As the lawless brute that
your old man turned out to be.
- I really have no idea
what you are talking about.
- Okay, henry.
- Here. The duty nurse
routinely changes these
When they become too soiled.
Forensics can compare
the prints on this
To the prints
on a digoxin capsule
Found at the murder scene.
- Unfortunately, we can't prove
that you ordered the hit,
And dom won't give you up.
He's, uh, old school.
Red sauce. Omerta.
Like your father?
- Dom is nothing
like my father.
- Because you hate mag depiano?
- What would you know about it?
- Oh,
I know a little something
About what it's like to have
a father who's hard to love.
But as much
as I might resent mine,
He helps people.
Yours is a crime boss
and a killer,
And you would do anything
not to be him?
- You are damn right.
I swore to my mother
that that would never happen.
- So you let a college buddy
Snow you into
making a bad investment
In return for an image
of legitimacy.
- Uh, it's not an image.
I am legitimate.
- Sure. Because dom fabrigazi
did all the dirty work.
- Don't do that.
Dom stuck his neck out
for you.
Mag depiano wouldn't do that
for his own mother.
You're right.
Dom is nothing
like your father.
- Neither am I.
- Because this
brooks brothers suit
And this inane gold
stethoscope give you respect?
Is that what you think?
Like you're principled now?
You think you've broken
the linkage?
Really?
- Yeah.
- Enough to satisfy your mom?
- My mother is dead.
- It's a shame
she didn't live long enough
To boast about her son
owning a hospital.
- Well, that would have
made her happy.
- She could have used
a little joy.
She worried
most of her life about you.
Wondering when you'd walk
in your father's footsteps.
- She didn't have
to worry about that.
- Maybe it's just as well
She died before
she could see her son
Become magglio depiano.
- No.
No, I-I hate him.
Remember that.
- You've hated him for making
your mother sick with worry.
She kept secrets,
looked the other way,
Buried her suspicions
while he buried bodies,
And it ate her up inside.
And you've hated him
for her cancer,
But not for who he is.
'cause that's who you are,
henry.
At least...
That's who you've been.
You know, if your father
knew what you did this last week
And how you could
get away with it,
You'd be the apple of his eye.
- Dom doesn't do time.
I'll tell you
what happened with tarney,
But dom doesn't do time.
I want your word.
- It's no good.
We don't have the authority.
- I want your word.
- You have it.
How'd you find out
about the blackmailing?
- Shelly.
- So you paid a visit
to tarney's.
- I went to scare him
out of squeezing us.
He was sitting down to eat
when we got there.
- We?
You and dominic fabrigazi?
- I took dom along for show.
And tarney
wouldn't listen to us.
I asked him
to knock down the price,
And he laughed at us.
And I snapped.
Tarney went to open the wine.
I grabbed him from behind.
Dom, he tried to stop me.
He started panting,
stumbling.
Uh, and I screamed at him,
"get back into the car."
- While you finished off tarney.
- Yeah.
- Then what?
- Went back in
and cleaned it up.
I made it look
like tarney had choked.
- Where'd you learn
that trick, henry?
- From magglio depiano.
My father.
- You think they teach
choke holds at dartmouth?
- The guillotine.
- So henry lied
about the whole thing.
You're okay with that?
- Somebody had to answer
for the murder of a blackmailer.
Who?
A mobster with a bad heart
but a capacity for good,
Or a kid who'd never known
the meaning of the word "good"?
- Until now.
- How'd you get
to henry depiano?
- Misled him into believing
That we had dominic fabrigazi's
fingerprints.
- Perfectly
within the guidelines.
- And I promised henry
that dom wouldn't do time.
- You did?
Who died and made you
district attorney?
- Julia hiken.
- Depiano.
We just got a call
from the hospital.
Dominic fabrigazi's
been released,
And I will personally make sure
he's brought up on charges.