NYC 22 (2012): Season 1, Episode 1 - Pilot - full transcript
Field Training Officer Daniel "Yoda" Dean supervises six rookie cops as they navigate through their first day at upper Manhattan's 22nd Precinct.
♪
♪ Many years since I was here
♪ On the street
♪ I was passin' my time away
♪ To the left
and to the right ♪
♪ Buildings towering
to the sky ♪
♪ It's outta sight
♪ In the dead of night
♪ Ooh
♪ Here I am
♪ Again in this city
♪ With a fistful of dollars
and, baby ♪
♪ You better believe
I'm back ♪
♪ Back in the New York groove
♪ I'm back
♪ Back in the New York groove
♪ I'm back
♪ Back in the New York groove
♪ I'm back
♪ In the New York groove
♪ In the New York groove
♪ In the back
of my Cadillac ♪
♪ A wicked lady sittin'
by my side ♪
♪ Sayin' where are we
♪ Stop at third
and 43 exit to the night ♪
♪ It's gonna be ecstasy
♪ This place
is made for me ♪
♪ Ooh
♪ It feels so good tonight
♪ Who cares about tomorrow
♪ So, baby,
you better believe... ♪ .
My name is Ahmad Khan...
Upstairs.
What is?
Good morning, sir.
Tonya Sanchez reporting...
Downstairs.
WOMAN:
Yo!
What the hell
you think you're doing?
You lay a hand on my stuff,
I'll snap it off at the wrist.
Hey.
You want to
just use mine for now?
Yeah, thanks.
This is my frickin' bench.
Torres?
Here.
Williams?
Here.
Martini?
Here, yeah.
Lee?
Here.
Moore?
Here.
Perry?
Here.
Elias?
Here. Ramos? Here.
I'm gonna hit that
before the sun goes down.
Six months in the academy
she never even looked your way.
Now all of a sudden you're
gonna nail it on day one?
That's how we roll.
That's how we roll.
On today's menu,
last night at 0200 hours
we had an agg assault
at the Shannon Bar on West 92,
two jibones beefing
over Derek Jeter's salary,
they take it outside,
one keeps stomping the other
while he's out cold,
and as of 0600 this morning,
our agg assault
became a homicide.
The killer.
No name, shaved head,
six-five, six-six,
green flight jacket
romper-stomper boots
with silver clips,
shamrock tat on the throat.
Someone apprehends
this cutie today,
there's an opening
in anti-crime.
No promises, just saying.
Item two, somebody's been
going around to shop owners
the last two weeks or so
and making them buy
aspidistras at 300 a pop,
and they're paying.
Yesterday a bodega worker
tried to kick this
guy out of the store
and he wound up in the hospital
with a broken jaw.
That's the third
hospitalization this week
and we can't even get
a description of him
from the vics 'cause they're
too scared to talk to us.
If you look around the precinct
there's an awful lot
of aspidistras in the windows.
What's an aspidistra?
It's a plant, moron. Right?
Aspidistra Elatior
is a stemless plant up to
one meter in height
with dark green leaves.
We get it, Wikipedia.
All right, all right,
all right, all right.
Uh, Sergeant Howard.
For those of you who don't know,
I'm Sergeant Terry Howard
from Gang Intel
and I need to get the word out
that two of our crews
from the north end,
the Graveyard Dons
on 121st Street
and the Mafia Skull Crackers
on 115 and 8th,
they've been talking smack
on Twitter
and MySpace for the last
three weeks.
Finally last night an MSC,
Travis Lemon,
got stabbed in the leg,
suspect in the wind,
so we're expecting payback
today, tonight,
tomorrow the latest.
We're not talking
drive-bys.
It will be an
old-school rumble,
14-year-olds with
sticks and blades.
Now the battle lane
between the two,
as always, straight up
and down 8th Avenue
between footpost 41 and 42.
Now if there's
anyone in that area...
on your toes.
Hey.
You ever read The Kite Runner?
Screw him.
All right, last business,
rookies; we've got
15 fresh off the farm today.
Let's give them
a round of applause
for making it through
to the 2-2. Welcome.
Really?
All right, dismissed.
Have a safe tour.
(indistinct radio transmission)
My name is Sergeant Daniel Dean.
There are also
some who call me Yoda.
I don't like it.
I'm your field
training officer.
Here are my orders of the day:
Don't get hurt,
don't hurt anyone,
keep your mouth shut
and your eyes open.
In essence, just stand there.
If anything jumps off,
you radio me.
Your posts are two blocks long
contiguous to each other...
contiguous means next to.
You share the post
with your partner
but you're not hanging out,
you're not telling jokes.
You're learning the
lay of the land.
Toney, Perry,
welcome to footpost 41.
Get out.
(music playing nearby)
YODA:
Footpost 42.
♪ Uh
♪ Listen first the Fat Boys
♪ Break up
every day I wake up ♪
♪ Somebody got
something to say ♪
♪ Where's the love
♪ Look scrapper I got
nephews to look after ♪
♪ I'm not lookin' at you dudes
I'm looking past ya' ♪
♪ Ain't no love
♪ In the heart of the city
♪ I said where's the love
♪ Ain't no love
♪ In the heart of town
♪ Holler at me
♪ Ain't no love
♪ In the heart of the city
♪ Where's the love.
TONEY: So I hear that you were
White House color guard, huh?
I was chosen for that.
Yeah.
Color guard, I mean,
like the boy scouts.
I was in Iraq for
two years before that.
Yeah? Doing what?
I was a Marine MP.
An MP...
Yeah, an MP,
but it's Iraq so
went along on convoys
and got our asses shot at
just like everybody else.
What's your problem?
You played basketball...
that's a playground game.
I was a professional athlete.
You played a game.
Besides, weren't you
a little short for the NBA?
(laughs)
See, point guard is about
commanding the troops,
not banging under the boards.
I mean, not that I didn't
do that, too.
Is this your idea
of flirting with me
or something? You want me to
flirt with you, White House?
When you were in the NBA
your nickname was what?
Crackpot?
It was jackpot...
and you know what it was,
sweet thing.
Come meet your constituents.
You'll get further
with "White House."
TERRY: This here is
Travis Lemon's crew.
The Skull Crackers.
Fellas!
What's the matter, no school today?
Nah, it's, uh,
teacher enrichment day.
Check these two bags.
TERRY:
So...
who you stabbed your
boy Travis last night?
Travis?
He got stuck.
Hey, yo, this dude right here
look like the Jayson Toney dude
that played point for
Charlotte, man.
Yeah?
Yeah.
I know you grew up around here, too.
You don't say.
TERRY: This here is Paris Carter.
Bull goose Skull Cracker,
always look to see
where he's at.
PARIS:
You don't know my name.
Yes I do, Paris, and that
ain't a good thing.
Right Anthony?
If anything with the
Dons jumps off today,
tonight, this
week, I'm coming back for you
and you, Tyrell,
and you, Monroe.
Monroe's good to go right now,
outstanding bench warrant.
Damn, we set that
got cut, though.
You want pay back?
Tell us who winged your boy,
we'll take it from there.
You guys stay off the
street today...
we're gonna be watching.
TERRY: See, the whole
thing out here is
you got maybe two dozen sets
all hating on each other.
Right now we want to just
stop them from going to war
long enough fro them to forget
about it, start something
with someone else.
Then we do the same thing
with those two. It's called
the mobile scarecrow.
It's called sweeping
leaves on a windy day.
ROLLAND:
Damn, that blonde bitch
is mine!
Can I talk to you for a second?
WHITE HOUSE:
What's your name?
Roland, baby, what's yours?
Listen to me, fuzz nuts.
You treat me with respect
and I won't make your life
a living hell out here.
All right?
Yeah.
Ray Harper, I used to read
your stuff when I was a kid.
Like, no offense
but how old are you?
Like, old enough that
I had to threaten to sue
the academy to get in.
Just call me Lazarus.
But you was a good reporter
why'd you quit for?
I didn't quit, they fired me.
You know, budget cuts.
Newspapers are a dying animal.
But a cop?
Why not? After 14
years on the street
half the time I had better
sources than the detectives
I was writing about. So...
what the hell.
Call you Lazarus.
You wrote about my family once.
No offense, but, uh,
they were some
pretty serious thugs.
Sorry.
Sorry my ass.
That's why I became a police.
Butchie, you want
to be a criminal?
Angel, Rocky, you, too?
Fine, but you can't hang
with me no more
'cause I am NYPD,
and the minute you even think
about jumping bad,
I will lock you up before you
even finish the damn thought.
All right?
(siren chirps)
You two, hop in.
I have a special assignment.
(siren chirps)
So, Kiterunner, I
just want to ask you,
how'd you get here
from Afghanistan?
Walked.
Are you being smart?
We walked to Pakistan, flew
to London a year later.
Few years after that
came to New York.
Huh, wow.
You ever see any Taliban?
More than enough.
How many languages you speak?
A few.
So, they grooming
you for NYPD Intel
or just going
to shoot you right over
to the Joint Terrorism
Task Force?
Guys, he's on foot post
just like everybody else.
Huh.
So, the marines over there...
I'm just curious...
what kind of candy
did they give out?
I wasn't aware of any.
Just do the job.
That's all that matters
right now.
You and me, okay?
Steady as she goes.
(dog barking)
You got to be kidding me.
Mo Bailey.
How you been, man?
Jayson Jackpot Toney.
On the beat.
Had to see this for myself.
Hey, I see you're still partial
to those sunflower seeds.
When Mo and me used to
ball for Bishop Jameson,
the bench used to be
knee-deep in shells,
but the coach didn't care
as long as my man Mo here
was hitting those threes, right?
Mm-hmm.
Back then Mo's mom
used to feed me
more than my own.
She even came to my games
more than my own, too.
You got that right.
But you know something?
Two years ago when you were here
to play the Knicks,
you and your, uh,
"entourage" came by
to the Mercury Lounge.
I go over to say hello
to my old teammate,
and your peoples knocked me
on my ass, man,
right in front of her.
I'm sorry to hear that.
There was a lot
of clowny conduct on my behalf
back then.
Clowny, huh?
You still living in the Towers?
Yeah, well, for some of us
it ended with high school.
Hey, look, man, well, I'm here
now, man, just like you are.
Nah, man, not just like me.
(muffled speaking)
(gasps) Oh, God.
(coughs)
In here.
(garbled radio transmission)
What you got here is your
basic suicious DOA.
I need you two to babysit this
until the M.E. arrives.
What's suspicious?
He's a million years old.
Well, he lived
with his grandson.
Kid never reported it,
now he's nowhere to be found.
Listen, can't we just
wait outside the...?
No.
What did we do?
You graduated the academy this
week, that's what you did.
Give those uniforms
to the dry cleaner tonight.
Only way to get the smell out.
(garbled radio transmission)
MAN: In America
there's something
called a turn
signal, you moron.
I've been here ten years!
How about I kick your
fake Rambo ass?! Hey!
Freeze! Hey, hey, drop
it, drop it right there.
Put it down.
(speaking Urdu)
Come on, Officer,
this guy didn't
even use his turn signal.
Get back in the car.
Come on.
Get back in the car.
Listen, it is either
drive time or overtime,
and I could use the money.
So why don't you haul ass?
KITERUNNER:
Get in.
You let him go first,
then keep your distance.
This I dig.
(engine starts)
YODA:
There was a cop...
Walter Williams... retired
about 20 years ago,
died last winter.
Back in the day
when this whole area
was like hell's hundred acres,
every cop in the house
moving to the suburbs,
this guy raises a family here
'cause he liked the people.
His widow Ginny...
she'll be here
until they carry her out
feet first.
We keep an eye on her,
we help her out.
Today Ginny's got a
little bit of a problem.
Ginny.
Hi-ya, Danny.
Hi, hon.
They're all yours.
Jackpot Toney... I heard
you were coming to the 22.
Me and my husband saw
every game you played
from high school to the pros.
That's nice, thank you.
Can you fix a toilet?
Whoa, uh, you need to
turn the shut-off valve.
The what?
Down.
The other side.
You know what pissed
me off about you?
You could have been
one of the great ones,
but you had to be a jerk.
The other way.
No interest in defense.
You get so much as a runny nose,
you bench yourself.
You miss practice,
you're out of shape...
You need to cover
the outflow drain.
You mean the hole, right?
You want me to take over?
I got it.
...last year
after that heckler?
What were you, 12?
Hey, hey, hey.
Screw this.
Where you going?
I'm going to the store
to buy some incense.
The FTO said to stay put.
Screw him, too.
This is personal.
Yoda.
I once wrote this thing
about this police shooting
up in the Bronx...
involved his nephew.
Y-You think that's
what this is about?
Guy never even said
anything to me.
(door slams)
(elevator bell dings)
Who did that to your face?
Take me to your apartment.
No.
Look,
I just want to make sure
everything is okay.
Yeah, every-everything
is okay.
I just want to talk.
Please, um...
Is he in there?
Uh, could you, could you
just stay out, okay?
Look, honey, it's either
me or the entire precinct.
Who are you?
What did you do?
Sir... did you do this
to her face?
I don't believe this!
You know it was an accident!
I'm sorry.
Where are you going?
Listen to me. I'm so sorry.
Eric, oh, my God!
I gave her everything she wanted
for ten years, I get fired
for doing the right thing,
and now she is leaving me?!
Eric. What do I do? Eric.
What do I do, what do I do,
what do I do, what do I do?
So I am top
pharmaceutical salesman
in my division for seven years,
but I plow my money back
into deferred stock
because there is this new
cholesterol pill that we are
developing that is going
to blast Lipitor
right off the market.
We just got to hang in there
for FDA approval,
but the FDA turns us down.
Do you know why?
It caused baldness.
So the stock goes
through the floor, and I have
$3½ million
in deferred commissions
turn into $30,000 overnight,
and then I find out
that half of my bosses sold off
their holdings two months
before the FDA made
its announcement.
Three days later I am fired...
no reason given.
(sighs)
And what does she say?
What does my loving wife say?
"I'm leaving you""
Eric, that all happened
two years ago.
It has been
two years living like this,
and I ca-can't
take it any more.
Okay, you won't let this go.
You have...
Don't even think it.
(all grumbling)
Aw, man, here come
the po-po again.
Yo, man, don't be touching
me like that, man.
Chill, man,
don't touch me like that.
Why y'all here, why y'all here?
Yo, man, this is
racial profiling.
Shut your mouth.
All right, listen up,
y'all need to be gone
for the next 48 hours.
I come back here, I see you
guys grouping up like this,
you're looking at
unlawful congregation,
public menacing...
Yo, this our block.
You can't tell us nothing
'cause we didn't do nothing.
You got a big mouth
for a midget.
Open it again, please,
just one more crack,
see what happens to you.
Officer, Officer,
he didn't mean no disrespect.
We just moved here
from the Bronx,
an-and he's
a little agitated,
but I will most definitely talk to him.
Who are you?
My name is Michelle Terry,
I'm T's sister.
Once again
I apologize for him.
He's just new to these streets,
you know,
much like some of you all.
Well, you all want a free pass
on all this,
this racial profiling?
Bury the hatchet
with them boys up the block
and give us the name
of whoever cut Travis Lemon.
(chuckles)
Not all at once, now.
Let's go!
What is wrong with you?
Better take it
a little easy there, hoss.
So you think
they're gonna jump off or not?
God, I hope not.
I got three other
face-offs around here
ready to blow any time.
These kids are tooling up.
You two be my eyes, okay?
I don't see
how pouring more water
into a stopped up bowl
is gonna help.
It can create suction
in the drain pipe.
Just do it.
How do you know this?
My father was the super
of an apartment complex.
Walked away from 35 minutes
guaranteed playing time.
Nate Robinson,
little Nate Robinson.
12 points, one steal,
three assists in an average
of 24 minutes played per game.
It's not working;
We're gonna need a snake.
A what?
24. You jackass.
Lady, with all due respect,
I'm a heartbeat away
of stuffing your head
down your own toilet.
Step away.
You don't get off my back!
That blown-out knee,
that's God's way
of telling you
you didn't deserve it.
WHITE HOUSE: I need a wire
hanger; you have a wire hanger?
(electronic doorbell chimes)
Hey, how you doing?
Can, uh, can I ask you,
what kind of plant is this?
You bought it but you don't know
what kind it is?
The guy that came
in here with it,
do you know him?
What guy?
No.
Was he just here?
No.
Yes.
Did he threaten you?
No.
Yes.
What did he look like?
Was he white, black, Hispanic?
Yes.
Like you.
Like me?
Lighter than me, darker than me?
Like you.
Look, if you don't
want to help...
(indistinct radio transmissions)
(Eric and Tonya arguing)
ERIC:
Shut up, bitch! Shut up!
TONYA: Eric, I'm just
trying to help you.
Police! Open up!
Come on in.
You can't just walk out on me
'cause some old lady's
breaking your balls.
That's nothing.
I had them broke
by professionals.
You can't just bail on me
and not say where you're going.
I'm sorry.
Just thought I saw something.
Yeah, and so?
I said I'm sorry.
Did you fix the toilet?
Yeah.
Forgot to mention she dropped
a hairbrush down there.
Now where you going?
Talk to my man.
(sighs)
Let me ask you something.
You got a job?
(laughs)
What? Do I have a job?
Uh, let me think.
Oh, yeah.
Well, you see, I was
working security
at some big box
up in Westchester.
Stopped a guy from walking out
with an un-paid-for microwave.
Take a swing at me,
so I break his jaw.
(chuckles)
He get $300,000 in settlement.
And me, see, I get locked up.
I get a record.
So, uh...
nah, brother, I
ain't got no job.
So now you're robbing people.
Beating people up?
The hell you talking about?
What happened to you, man?
Look, I already asked you, what
the hell are you talking about?
Where'd you get the plants, Mo?
(chuckles)
Little basketball prince, huh?
Do you know how many
people around here
were rooting for you?
Let the whole
neighborhood down.
I'm gonna give you
till 6:00, Mo,
to walk over to that precinct
and turn yourself in.
And after that...
Look, better go back
to your post, hotshot.
Your girlfriend looks scared.
Mo, I think it'd be
better for you
if you take a lawyer
in with you.
Everyone says get a lawyer,
but I have no money.
So I am all day,
every day in the library,
reading and preparing.
For two years, I can't even
get in front of a judge!
Eric...
It's Eric, right?
Listen to me.
You play this the right way,
you put your gun down,
your story comes out,
you're gonna have
lawyers lining up,
lining up
for the publicity alone.
You're gonna get
your day in court.
You play this the wrong way,
that's a whole nether
kind of story cycle, man.
Come on.
Come on.
You're leaving me.
I'm not going anywhere.
Just last night!
I swear...
"Oh, Mary,
I can't take it any more.
I got to come to Seattle, and
you got to put us both up "".
Stop it. Just stop it!
Please, can I just get up?
I have a really bad back.
Hey, help us,
help us, help us help you.
You want to help me?
Yes. Yes.
What are you doing?
Lock and load!
Put your gun down!
I kill her and you kill me!
Suicide by cop, right?
(baby crying)
You kill her, we kill you;
Who gets the baby?
Eric, please.
Wait. Let me
go to her.
Please.
Who would bring a baby
into a world like this?
Eric, look at me.
All I've ever done
is work as hard as I know how.
Hey, hey! Listen to me.
Look at me, all right?
Look at me.
I'm putting the gun down.
I understand.
I understand.
I busted my ass
for 14 years, man.
14 years, all right?
I walk into work one day,
and my stuff
is packed into a little box
on the desk, right?
I stay drunk for a year
I wake up one day,
I got no wife, I got no kid,
I got no job, I got nothing!
I got nothing.
But I pulled it together, okay?
I pulled it together,
and the world came back, man.
I swear to you, it came back.
The world comes back.
It just does.
Did your wife come back?
Yes.
Yeah, she did, she did.
(sirens wailing)
They were told to disperse.
Let's run them off.
They're just there.
I want to check them out
a little.
Man, how do you keep so calm?
My family's been wearing blue
since before I was born.
I know the drill.
You think you're the only one
with something to prove?
My great-grandfather
locked up Willie Sutton,
I got a great-uncle who
arrested Crazy Joey Gallo,
and my father was part of the
team who busted Son of Sam.
I don't know
any of those people.
Were they terrorists?
You're kidding me, right?
Then they're just criminals.
Want some coffee?
Tea, no milk,
two sugars.
I got it.
(doorbell ringing)
(doorbell rings)
How you doing?
I didn't do nothing.
Alls I said was,
"How you doing?"
What are you so jumpy about?
The drama's over
for today, right?
Nobody getting busy.
It's a good thing, too.
You ever see somebody catch
a lead pipe across the face?
Arm get broke by a bat?
Last year I heard
a set-test went down
between Neck Snappaz Crew
and Chilla Hill.
The Chilla threw a light bulb
at a Neck Snappa
from about two feet away.
The kid wound up
with an inch-long piece of glass
coming straight
out the middle of his eye.
Now, if some nitwit's
stupid enough to bring a piece,
a bullet can go anywhere, right?
What's your name again?
(cell phones ringing)
MICHELLE:
T!
T!
T!
T!
T!
T!
This thing is going down.
Yo, give me that! Yo!
(indistinct chatter)
Yeah, let's go!
Let's go get 'em!
Hey. Hey, hey,
hey, hey, hey, hey!
Hey!
We better call for backup.
Let's go!
Go get 'em!
Let's go!
(grunting and groaning)
(horn honking, tires screeching)
Stop!
Hey!
Freeze!
Get down!
(grunting)
Hey, stop!
Back off!
Hey, get down!
Hey, hey, hey!
Get down now!
Freeze!
Get down now!
Get down!
T!
(distant siren wailing)
Hey! Stop!
(grunting and groaning)
Oh! Yo, Five-O!
Let's go!
(siren wailing)
Come on! Let's go!
If you're going to do it, do it!
Eric, look at me!
You are never going to stop drinking!
And you are never going to stop
fighting them, and I can't
live like this any more!
You kill me, you kill yourself,
and you let my sister
take the baby.
Eric!
Cover me.
Do it! Do it!
What?
Do it, Eric! Do it!
Eric! Eric! Eric!
Eric, look at me!
Come back! Come back!
What are you doing?
Hey! What are you...?
Hey! Hey!
What are you doing?
You look at me!
Look at me! Eric!
What's going on in there?
TONYA: Call an ambulance.
The baby stopped breathing!
What?!
You stay. You stay. You stay.
Come here!
(baby fussing)
Give me the cuffs!
Give me the cuffs!
I'm not pressing charges.
I'm not pressing charges.
Listen to me.
Listen to me!
He's been in hell. Listen.
Listen to me.
I'm not pressing charges.
Listen to me.
I would never hurt you.
I would never hurt you.
Guess what.
Huh?
It's not loaded.
I just wanted to end it.
We got a 10-85.
760 Morningside Terrace.
(garbled radio transmission)
I didn't need your help.
Just looking out
for my partner.
This was not a good start.
You four, you're out there
like Little Big Horn
in the middle
of a banger war.
Were you sick the day
they taught you
how to use your radios?
Because not one of
you called it in.
Not one of you
called for backup.
And you two, you're like
the Bickersons out there.
You got no focus
except for each other.
You better get it together,
or you're looking for transfers
to separate boroughs.
You, you got way too big of
a chip on your shoulder.
Unless you start to cool out,
you're not going to make
it on this job at all.
And you, you let
your partner wander off,
and then you disobey
a direct order by
wandering off yourself.
But you...
you're the biggest screw-up
in the room.
Not only do you disobey
a direct order,
but you walked
into a domestic on your own,
one of the most dangerous
mistakes in the book.
You put your own life at risk,
you put your partner's
life at risk,
and you put
that woman's life at risk.
Hey, I wasn't the one
with the shotgun.
You know,
I'm one heartbeat away
from telling you
to clear out your locker.
Not a good start at all.
KENNY:
Boss, can I just ask...
How'd the other rookies
do today?
Worse.
Rough day, huh?
I've seen worse.
Okay, then.
See you.
MICHELLE:
Excuse me.
Excuse me.
I'm Michelle Terry.
Yeah, I know.
Kenny McLaren.
I wanted to meet you to say
thank you for what you did.
What I did?
You saved my brother
from God knows
what kind of injury.
He took off like a
rabbit. He's okay?
Yeah. Are you?
Me?
(chuckles) Yeah, I'll live.
(siren whooping)
(sighs)
Look, I need you
to know that T,
he's a pretty good kid.
You know, he's just got to show
heart out there, especially
'cause he's a newcomer.
So I was thinking,
maybe you could kind of keep
an eye on him for me.
He's just a child.
Well, they'll probably
move us around a lot,
but I'll see what I can do.
What you did today
was brave and stupid.
That's a deadly combination.
Does everyone
get the second lecture,
or is it just me?
You know, we kind of met
five years ago.
I was one of four cops
sent to your apartment
to arrest
your brother, Roberto.
And by the time your mother
and your other brothers
got in the act, uh,
we collared
almost the whole family.
And I remember you
sitting at the dinette table
like a frozen deer
through the whole bloody thing
and me thinking,
"That poor kid."
You know, young cops
with your background...
they can either keep
transcending themselves
and go all the way,
or they can wash out in a week.
And I've seen both happen.
Got it.
If you don't make it
on this job,
that's what I would call
a crying shame.
Have a good night.
("The Passenger"
by Iggy Pop playing)
♪ I am the passenger
♪ And I ride and I ride
♪ I ride
through the city's backsides ♪
♪ I see the stars
come out of the sky ♪
♪ Yeah, the bright
and hollow sky ♪
♪ You know, it looks
so good tonight... ♪
(lock clicks)
(toilet flushes,
stall door opens)
♪ Singin' la, la, la, la,
la-la-la-la ♪
♪ La, la, la, la, la-la-la-la.
(door opens)
MO:
Who?
Open up.
So you here to arrest me?
Like I told you before,
it'll be better for you
if you turned yourself in.
You want me to keep you company
on the walk over?
I'd appreciate that.
(siren chirps)
OFFICER: Sir, good news... just
want to let you know we found him.
Everything's going
to be all right.
Thank you so much.
♪ Many years since I was here
♪ On the street
♪ I was passin' my time away
♪ To the left
and to the right ♪
♪ Buildings towering
to the sky ♪
♪ It's outta sight
♪ In the dead of night
♪ Ooh
♪ Here I am
♪ Again in this city
♪ With a fistful of dollars
and, baby ♪
♪ You better believe
I'm back ♪
♪ Back in the New York groove
♪ I'm back
♪ Back in the New York groove
♪ I'm back
♪ Back in the New York groove
♪ I'm back
♪ In the New York groove
♪ In the New York groove
♪ In the back
of my Cadillac ♪
♪ A wicked lady sittin'
by my side ♪
♪ Sayin' where are we
♪ Stop at third
and 43 exit to the night ♪
♪ It's gonna be ecstasy
♪ This place
is made for me ♪
♪ Ooh
♪ It feels so good tonight
♪ Who cares about tomorrow
♪ So, baby,
you better believe... ♪ .
My name is Ahmad Khan...
Upstairs.
What is?
Good morning, sir.
Tonya Sanchez reporting...
Downstairs.
WOMAN:
Yo!
What the hell
you think you're doing?
You lay a hand on my stuff,
I'll snap it off at the wrist.
Hey.
You want to
just use mine for now?
Yeah, thanks.
This is my frickin' bench.
Torres?
Here.
Williams?
Here.
Martini?
Here, yeah.
Lee?
Here.
Moore?
Here.
Perry?
Here.
Elias?
Here. Ramos? Here.
I'm gonna hit that
before the sun goes down.
Six months in the academy
she never even looked your way.
Now all of a sudden you're
gonna nail it on day one?
That's how we roll.
That's how we roll.
On today's menu,
last night at 0200 hours
we had an agg assault
at the Shannon Bar on West 92,
two jibones beefing
over Derek Jeter's salary,
they take it outside,
one keeps stomping the other
while he's out cold,
and as of 0600 this morning,
our agg assault
became a homicide.
The killer.
No name, shaved head,
six-five, six-six,
green flight jacket
romper-stomper boots
with silver clips,
shamrock tat on the throat.
Someone apprehends
this cutie today,
there's an opening
in anti-crime.
No promises, just saying.
Item two, somebody's been
going around to shop owners
the last two weeks or so
and making them buy
aspidistras at 300 a pop,
and they're paying.
Yesterday a bodega worker
tried to kick this
guy out of the store
and he wound up in the hospital
with a broken jaw.
That's the third
hospitalization this week
and we can't even get
a description of him
from the vics 'cause they're
too scared to talk to us.
If you look around the precinct
there's an awful lot
of aspidistras in the windows.
What's an aspidistra?
It's a plant, moron. Right?
Aspidistra Elatior
is a stemless plant up to
one meter in height
with dark green leaves.
We get it, Wikipedia.
All right, all right,
all right, all right.
Uh, Sergeant Howard.
For those of you who don't know,
I'm Sergeant Terry Howard
from Gang Intel
and I need to get the word out
that two of our crews
from the north end,
the Graveyard Dons
on 121st Street
and the Mafia Skull Crackers
on 115 and 8th,
they've been talking smack
on Twitter
and MySpace for the last
three weeks.
Finally last night an MSC,
Travis Lemon,
got stabbed in the leg,
suspect in the wind,
so we're expecting payback
today, tonight,
tomorrow the latest.
We're not talking
drive-bys.
It will be an
old-school rumble,
14-year-olds with
sticks and blades.
Now the battle lane
between the two,
as always, straight up
and down 8th Avenue
between footpost 41 and 42.
Now if there's
anyone in that area...
on your toes.
Hey.
You ever read The Kite Runner?
Screw him.
All right, last business,
rookies; we've got
15 fresh off the farm today.
Let's give them
a round of applause
for making it through
to the 2-2. Welcome.
Really?
All right, dismissed.
Have a safe tour.
(indistinct radio transmission)
My name is Sergeant Daniel Dean.
There are also
some who call me Yoda.
I don't like it.
I'm your field
training officer.
Here are my orders of the day:
Don't get hurt,
don't hurt anyone,
keep your mouth shut
and your eyes open.
In essence, just stand there.
If anything jumps off,
you radio me.
Your posts are two blocks long
contiguous to each other...
contiguous means next to.
You share the post
with your partner
but you're not hanging out,
you're not telling jokes.
You're learning the
lay of the land.
Toney, Perry,
welcome to footpost 41.
Get out.
(music playing nearby)
YODA:
Footpost 42.
♪ Uh
♪ Listen first the Fat Boys
♪ Break up
every day I wake up ♪
♪ Somebody got
something to say ♪
♪ Where's the love
♪ Look scrapper I got
nephews to look after ♪
♪ I'm not lookin' at you dudes
I'm looking past ya' ♪
♪ Ain't no love
♪ In the heart of the city
♪ I said where's the love
♪ Ain't no love
♪ In the heart of town
♪ Holler at me
♪ Ain't no love
♪ In the heart of the city
♪ Where's the love.
TONEY: So I hear that you were
White House color guard, huh?
I was chosen for that.
Yeah.
Color guard, I mean,
like the boy scouts.
I was in Iraq for
two years before that.
Yeah? Doing what?
I was a Marine MP.
An MP...
Yeah, an MP,
but it's Iraq so
went along on convoys
and got our asses shot at
just like everybody else.
What's your problem?
You played basketball...
that's a playground game.
I was a professional athlete.
You played a game.
Besides, weren't you
a little short for the NBA?
(laughs)
See, point guard is about
commanding the troops,
not banging under the boards.
I mean, not that I didn't
do that, too.
Is this your idea
of flirting with me
or something? You want me to
flirt with you, White House?
When you were in the NBA
your nickname was what?
Crackpot?
It was jackpot...
and you know what it was,
sweet thing.
Come meet your constituents.
You'll get further
with "White House."
TERRY: This here is
Travis Lemon's crew.
The Skull Crackers.
Fellas!
What's the matter, no school today?
Nah, it's, uh,
teacher enrichment day.
Check these two bags.
TERRY:
So...
who you stabbed your
boy Travis last night?
Travis?
He got stuck.
Hey, yo, this dude right here
look like the Jayson Toney dude
that played point for
Charlotte, man.
Yeah?
Yeah.
I know you grew up around here, too.
You don't say.
TERRY: This here is Paris Carter.
Bull goose Skull Cracker,
always look to see
where he's at.
PARIS:
You don't know my name.
Yes I do, Paris, and that
ain't a good thing.
Right Anthony?
If anything with the
Dons jumps off today,
tonight, this
week, I'm coming back for you
and you, Tyrell,
and you, Monroe.
Monroe's good to go right now,
outstanding bench warrant.
Damn, we set that
got cut, though.
You want pay back?
Tell us who winged your boy,
we'll take it from there.
You guys stay off the
street today...
we're gonna be watching.
TERRY: See, the whole
thing out here is
you got maybe two dozen sets
all hating on each other.
Right now we want to just
stop them from going to war
long enough fro them to forget
about it, start something
with someone else.
Then we do the same thing
with those two. It's called
the mobile scarecrow.
It's called sweeping
leaves on a windy day.
ROLLAND:
Damn, that blonde bitch
is mine!
Can I talk to you for a second?
WHITE HOUSE:
What's your name?
Roland, baby, what's yours?
Listen to me, fuzz nuts.
You treat me with respect
and I won't make your life
a living hell out here.
All right?
Yeah.
Ray Harper, I used to read
your stuff when I was a kid.
Like, no offense
but how old are you?
Like, old enough that
I had to threaten to sue
the academy to get in.
Just call me Lazarus.
But you was a good reporter
why'd you quit for?
I didn't quit, they fired me.
You know, budget cuts.
Newspapers are a dying animal.
But a cop?
Why not? After 14
years on the street
half the time I had better
sources than the detectives
I was writing about. So...
what the hell.
Call you Lazarus.
You wrote about my family once.
No offense, but, uh,
they were some
pretty serious thugs.
Sorry.
Sorry my ass.
That's why I became a police.
Butchie, you want
to be a criminal?
Angel, Rocky, you, too?
Fine, but you can't hang
with me no more
'cause I am NYPD,
and the minute you even think
about jumping bad,
I will lock you up before you
even finish the damn thought.
All right?
(siren chirps)
You two, hop in.
I have a special assignment.
(siren chirps)
So, Kiterunner, I
just want to ask you,
how'd you get here
from Afghanistan?
Walked.
Are you being smart?
We walked to Pakistan, flew
to London a year later.
Few years after that
came to New York.
Huh, wow.
You ever see any Taliban?
More than enough.
How many languages you speak?
A few.
So, they grooming
you for NYPD Intel
or just going
to shoot you right over
to the Joint Terrorism
Task Force?
Guys, he's on foot post
just like everybody else.
Huh.
So, the marines over there...
I'm just curious...
what kind of candy
did they give out?
I wasn't aware of any.
Just do the job.
That's all that matters
right now.
You and me, okay?
Steady as she goes.
(dog barking)
You got to be kidding me.
Mo Bailey.
How you been, man?
Jayson Jackpot Toney.
On the beat.
Had to see this for myself.
Hey, I see you're still partial
to those sunflower seeds.
When Mo and me used to
ball for Bishop Jameson,
the bench used to be
knee-deep in shells,
but the coach didn't care
as long as my man Mo here
was hitting those threes, right?
Mm-hmm.
Back then Mo's mom
used to feed me
more than my own.
She even came to my games
more than my own, too.
You got that right.
But you know something?
Two years ago when you were here
to play the Knicks,
you and your, uh,
"entourage" came by
to the Mercury Lounge.
I go over to say hello
to my old teammate,
and your peoples knocked me
on my ass, man,
right in front of her.
I'm sorry to hear that.
There was a lot
of clowny conduct on my behalf
back then.
Clowny, huh?
You still living in the Towers?
Yeah, well, for some of us
it ended with high school.
Hey, look, man, well, I'm here
now, man, just like you are.
Nah, man, not just like me.
(muffled speaking)
(gasps) Oh, God.
(coughs)
In here.
(garbled radio transmission)
What you got here is your
basic suicious DOA.
I need you two to babysit this
until the M.E. arrives.
What's suspicious?
He's a million years old.
Well, he lived
with his grandson.
Kid never reported it,
now he's nowhere to be found.
Listen, can't we just
wait outside the...?
No.
What did we do?
You graduated the academy this
week, that's what you did.
Give those uniforms
to the dry cleaner tonight.
Only way to get the smell out.
(garbled radio transmission)
MAN: In America
there's something
called a turn
signal, you moron.
I've been here ten years!
How about I kick your
fake Rambo ass?! Hey!
Freeze! Hey, hey, drop
it, drop it right there.
Put it down.
(speaking Urdu)
Come on, Officer,
this guy didn't
even use his turn signal.
Get back in the car.
Come on.
Get back in the car.
Listen, it is either
drive time or overtime,
and I could use the money.
So why don't you haul ass?
KITERUNNER:
Get in.
You let him go first,
then keep your distance.
This I dig.
(engine starts)
YODA:
There was a cop...
Walter Williams... retired
about 20 years ago,
died last winter.
Back in the day
when this whole area
was like hell's hundred acres,
every cop in the house
moving to the suburbs,
this guy raises a family here
'cause he liked the people.
His widow Ginny...
she'll be here
until they carry her out
feet first.
We keep an eye on her,
we help her out.
Today Ginny's got a
little bit of a problem.
Ginny.
Hi-ya, Danny.
Hi, hon.
They're all yours.
Jackpot Toney... I heard
you were coming to the 22.
Me and my husband saw
every game you played
from high school to the pros.
That's nice, thank you.
Can you fix a toilet?
Whoa, uh, you need to
turn the shut-off valve.
The what?
Down.
The other side.
You know what pissed
me off about you?
You could have been
one of the great ones,
but you had to be a jerk.
The other way.
No interest in defense.
You get so much as a runny nose,
you bench yourself.
You miss practice,
you're out of shape...
You need to cover
the outflow drain.
You mean the hole, right?
You want me to take over?
I got it.
...last year
after that heckler?
What were you, 12?
Hey, hey, hey.
Screw this.
Where you going?
I'm going to the store
to buy some incense.
The FTO said to stay put.
Screw him, too.
This is personal.
Yoda.
I once wrote this thing
about this police shooting
up in the Bronx...
involved his nephew.
Y-You think that's
what this is about?
Guy never even said
anything to me.
(door slams)
(elevator bell dings)
Who did that to your face?
Take me to your apartment.
No.
Look,
I just want to make sure
everything is okay.
Yeah, every-everything
is okay.
I just want to talk.
Please, um...
Is he in there?
Uh, could you, could you
just stay out, okay?
Look, honey, it's either
me or the entire precinct.
Who are you?
What did you do?
Sir... did you do this
to her face?
I don't believe this!
You know it was an accident!
I'm sorry.
Where are you going?
Listen to me. I'm so sorry.
Eric, oh, my God!
I gave her everything she wanted
for ten years, I get fired
for doing the right thing,
and now she is leaving me?!
Eric. What do I do? Eric.
What do I do, what do I do,
what do I do, what do I do?
So I am top
pharmaceutical salesman
in my division for seven years,
but I plow my money back
into deferred stock
because there is this new
cholesterol pill that we are
developing that is going
to blast Lipitor
right off the market.
We just got to hang in there
for FDA approval,
but the FDA turns us down.
Do you know why?
It caused baldness.
So the stock goes
through the floor, and I have
$3½ million
in deferred commissions
turn into $30,000 overnight,
and then I find out
that half of my bosses sold off
their holdings two months
before the FDA made
its announcement.
Three days later I am fired...
no reason given.
(sighs)
And what does she say?
What does my loving wife say?
"I'm leaving you""
Eric, that all happened
two years ago.
It has been
two years living like this,
and I ca-can't
take it any more.
Okay, you won't let this go.
You have...
Don't even think it.
(all grumbling)
Aw, man, here come
the po-po again.
Yo, man, don't be touching
me like that, man.
Chill, man,
don't touch me like that.
Why y'all here, why y'all here?
Yo, man, this is
racial profiling.
Shut your mouth.
All right, listen up,
y'all need to be gone
for the next 48 hours.
I come back here, I see you
guys grouping up like this,
you're looking at
unlawful congregation,
public menacing...
Yo, this our block.
You can't tell us nothing
'cause we didn't do nothing.
You got a big mouth
for a midget.
Open it again, please,
just one more crack,
see what happens to you.
Officer, Officer,
he didn't mean no disrespect.
We just moved here
from the Bronx,
an-and he's
a little agitated,
but I will most definitely talk to him.
Who are you?
My name is Michelle Terry,
I'm T's sister.
Once again
I apologize for him.
He's just new to these streets,
you know,
much like some of you all.
Well, you all want a free pass
on all this,
this racial profiling?
Bury the hatchet
with them boys up the block
and give us the name
of whoever cut Travis Lemon.
(chuckles)
Not all at once, now.
Let's go!
What is wrong with you?
Better take it
a little easy there, hoss.
So you think
they're gonna jump off or not?
God, I hope not.
I got three other
face-offs around here
ready to blow any time.
These kids are tooling up.
You two be my eyes, okay?
I don't see
how pouring more water
into a stopped up bowl
is gonna help.
It can create suction
in the drain pipe.
Just do it.
How do you know this?
My father was the super
of an apartment complex.
Walked away from 35 minutes
guaranteed playing time.
Nate Robinson,
little Nate Robinson.
12 points, one steal,
three assists in an average
of 24 minutes played per game.
It's not working;
We're gonna need a snake.
A what?
24. You jackass.
Lady, with all due respect,
I'm a heartbeat away
of stuffing your head
down your own toilet.
Step away.
You don't get off my back!
That blown-out knee,
that's God's way
of telling you
you didn't deserve it.
WHITE HOUSE: I need a wire
hanger; you have a wire hanger?
(electronic doorbell chimes)
Hey, how you doing?
Can, uh, can I ask you,
what kind of plant is this?
You bought it but you don't know
what kind it is?
The guy that came
in here with it,
do you know him?
What guy?
No.
Was he just here?
No.
Yes.
Did he threaten you?
No.
Yes.
What did he look like?
Was he white, black, Hispanic?
Yes.
Like you.
Like me?
Lighter than me, darker than me?
Like you.
Look, if you don't
want to help...
(indistinct radio transmissions)
(Eric and Tonya arguing)
ERIC:
Shut up, bitch! Shut up!
TONYA: Eric, I'm just
trying to help you.
Police! Open up!
Come on in.
You can't just walk out on me
'cause some old lady's
breaking your balls.
That's nothing.
I had them broke
by professionals.
You can't just bail on me
and not say where you're going.
I'm sorry.
Just thought I saw something.
Yeah, and so?
I said I'm sorry.
Did you fix the toilet?
Yeah.
Forgot to mention she dropped
a hairbrush down there.
Now where you going?
Talk to my man.
(sighs)
Let me ask you something.
You got a job?
(laughs)
What? Do I have a job?
Uh, let me think.
Oh, yeah.
Well, you see, I was
working security
at some big box
up in Westchester.
Stopped a guy from walking out
with an un-paid-for microwave.
Take a swing at me,
so I break his jaw.
(chuckles)
He get $300,000 in settlement.
And me, see, I get locked up.
I get a record.
So, uh...
nah, brother, I
ain't got no job.
So now you're robbing people.
Beating people up?
The hell you talking about?
What happened to you, man?
Look, I already asked you, what
the hell are you talking about?
Where'd you get the plants, Mo?
(chuckles)
Little basketball prince, huh?
Do you know how many
people around here
were rooting for you?
Let the whole
neighborhood down.
I'm gonna give you
till 6:00, Mo,
to walk over to that precinct
and turn yourself in.
And after that...
Look, better go back
to your post, hotshot.
Your girlfriend looks scared.
Mo, I think it'd be
better for you
if you take a lawyer
in with you.
Everyone says get a lawyer,
but I have no money.
So I am all day,
every day in the library,
reading and preparing.
For two years, I can't even
get in front of a judge!
Eric...
It's Eric, right?
Listen to me.
You play this the right way,
you put your gun down,
your story comes out,
you're gonna have
lawyers lining up,
lining up
for the publicity alone.
You're gonna get
your day in court.
You play this the wrong way,
that's a whole nether
kind of story cycle, man.
Come on.
Come on.
You're leaving me.
I'm not going anywhere.
Just last night!
I swear...
"Oh, Mary,
I can't take it any more.
I got to come to Seattle, and
you got to put us both up "".
Stop it. Just stop it!
Please, can I just get up?
I have a really bad back.
Hey, help us,
help us, help us help you.
You want to help me?
Yes. Yes.
What are you doing?
Lock and load!
Put your gun down!
I kill her and you kill me!
Suicide by cop, right?
(baby crying)
You kill her, we kill you;
Who gets the baby?
Eric, please.
Wait. Let me
go to her.
Please.
Who would bring a baby
into a world like this?
Eric, look at me.
All I've ever done
is work as hard as I know how.
Hey, hey! Listen to me.
Look at me, all right?
Look at me.
I'm putting the gun down.
I understand.
I understand.
I busted my ass
for 14 years, man.
14 years, all right?
I walk into work one day,
and my stuff
is packed into a little box
on the desk, right?
I stay drunk for a year
I wake up one day,
I got no wife, I got no kid,
I got no job, I got nothing!
I got nothing.
But I pulled it together, okay?
I pulled it together,
and the world came back, man.
I swear to you, it came back.
The world comes back.
It just does.
Did your wife come back?
Yes.
Yeah, she did, she did.
(sirens wailing)
They were told to disperse.
Let's run them off.
They're just there.
I want to check them out
a little.
Man, how do you keep so calm?
My family's been wearing blue
since before I was born.
I know the drill.
You think you're the only one
with something to prove?
My great-grandfather
locked up Willie Sutton,
I got a great-uncle who
arrested Crazy Joey Gallo,
and my father was part of the
team who busted Son of Sam.
I don't know
any of those people.
Were they terrorists?
You're kidding me, right?
Then they're just criminals.
Want some coffee?
Tea, no milk,
two sugars.
I got it.
(doorbell ringing)
(doorbell rings)
How you doing?
I didn't do nothing.
Alls I said was,
"How you doing?"
What are you so jumpy about?
The drama's over
for today, right?
Nobody getting busy.
It's a good thing, too.
You ever see somebody catch
a lead pipe across the face?
Arm get broke by a bat?
Last year I heard
a set-test went down
between Neck Snappaz Crew
and Chilla Hill.
The Chilla threw a light bulb
at a Neck Snappa
from about two feet away.
The kid wound up
with an inch-long piece of glass
coming straight
out the middle of his eye.
Now, if some nitwit's
stupid enough to bring a piece,
a bullet can go anywhere, right?
What's your name again?
(cell phones ringing)
MICHELLE:
T!
T!
T!
T!
T!
T!
This thing is going down.
Yo, give me that! Yo!
(indistinct chatter)
Yeah, let's go!
Let's go get 'em!
Hey. Hey, hey,
hey, hey, hey, hey!
Hey!
We better call for backup.
Let's go!
Go get 'em!
Let's go!
(grunting and groaning)
(horn honking, tires screeching)
Stop!
Hey!
Freeze!
Get down!
(grunting)
Hey, stop!
Back off!
Hey, get down!
Hey, hey, hey!
Get down now!
Freeze!
Get down now!
Get down!
T!
(distant siren wailing)
Hey! Stop!
(grunting and groaning)
Oh! Yo, Five-O!
Let's go!
(siren wailing)
Come on! Let's go!
If you're going to do it, do it!
Eric, look at me!
You are never going to stop drinking!
And you are never going to stop
fighting them, and I can't
live like this any more!
You kill me, you kill yourself,
and you let my sister
take the baby.
Eric!
Cover me.
Do it! Do it!
What?
Do it, Eric! Do it!
Eric! Eric! Eric!
Eric, look at me!
Come back! Come back!
What are you doing?
Hey! What are you...?
Hey! Hey!
What are you doing?
You look at me!
Look at me! Eric!
What's going on in there?
TONYA: Call an ambulance.
The baby stopped breathing!
What?!
You stay. You stay. You stay.
Come here!
(baby fussing)
Give me the cuffs!
Give me the cuffs!
I'm not pressing charges.
I'm not pressing charges.
Listen to me.
Listen to me!
He's been in hell. Listen.
Listen to me.
I'm not pressing charges.
Listen to me.
I would never hurt you.
I would never hurt you.
Guess what.
Huh?
It's not loaded.
I just wanted to end it.
We got a 10-85.
760 Morningside Terrace.
(garbled radio transmission)
I didn't need your help.
Just looking out
for my partner.
This was not a good start.
You four, you're out there
like Little Big Horn
in the middle
of a banger war.
Were you sick the day
they taught you
how to use your radios?
Because not one of
you called it in.
Not one of you
called for backup.
And you two, you're like
the Bickersons out there.
You got no focus
except for each other.
You better get it together,
or you're looking for transfers
to separate boroughs.
You, you got way too big of
a chip on your shoulder.
Unless you start to cool out,
you're not going to make
it on this job at all.
And you, you let
your partner wander off,
and then you disobey
a direct order by
wandering off yourself.
But you...
you're the biggest screw-up
in the room.
Not only do you disobey
a direct order,
but you walked
into a domestic on your own,
one of the most dangerous
mistakes in the book.
You put your own life at risk,
you put your partner's
life at risk,
and you put
that woman's life at risk.
Hey, I wasn't the one
with the shotgun.
You know,
I'm one heartbeat away
from telling you
to clear out your locker.
Not a good start at all.
KENNY:
Boss, can I just ask...
How'd the other rookies
do today?
Worse.
Rough day, huh?
I've seen worse.
Okay, then.
See you.
MICHELLE:
Excuse me.
Excuse me.
I'm Michelle Terry.
Yeah, I know.
Kenny McLaren.
I wanted to meet you to say
thank you for what you did.
What I did?
You saved my brother
from God knows
what kind of injury.
He took off like a
rabbit. He's okay?
Yeah. Are you?
Me?
(chuckles) Yeah, I'll live.
(siren whooping)
(sighs)
Look, I need you
to know that T,
he's a pretty good kid.
You know, he's just got to show
heart out there, especially
'cause he's a newcomer.
So I was thinking,
maybe you could kind of keep
an eye on him for me.
He's just a child.
Well, they'll probably
move us around a lot,
but I'll see what I can do.
What you did today
was brave and stupid.
That's a deadly combination.
Does everyone
get the second lecture,
or is it just me?
You know, we kind of met
five years ago.
I was one of four cops
sent to your apartment
to arrest
your brother, Roberto.
And by the time your mother
and your other brothers
got in the act, uh,
we collared
almost the whole family.
And I remember you
sitting at the dinette table
like a frozen deer
through the whole bloody thing
and me thinking,
"That poor kid."
You know, young cops
with your background...
they can either keep
transcending themselves
and go all the way,
or they can wash out in a week.
And I've seen both happen.
Got it.
If you don't make it
on this job,
that's what I would call
a crying shame.
Have a good night.
("The Passenger"
by Iggy Pop playing)
♪ I am the passenger
♪ And I ride and I ride
♪ I ride
through the city's backsides ♪
♪ I see the stars
come out of the sky ♪
♪ Yeah, the bright
and hollow sky ♪
♪ You know, it looks
so good tonight... ♪
(lock clicks)
(toilet flushes,
stall door opens)
♪ Singin' la, la, la, la,
la-la-la-la ♪
♪ La, la, la, la, la-la-la-la.
(door opens)
MO:
Who?
Open up.
So you here to arrest me?
Like I told you before,
it'll be better for you
if you turned yourself in.
You want me to keep you company
on the walk over?
I'd appreciate that.
(siren chirps)
OFFICER: Sir, good news... just
want to let you know we found him.
Everything's going
to be all right.
Thank you so much.