Quincy M.E. (1976–1983): Season 4, Episode 17 - Dark Angel - full transcript

Officer Tommy Bates, a close friend of Monahan's, is accused of killing a young car thief who goes berserk after crashing into Bate's police car. Although the signs point to the young man being under the influence of PCP, there is no trace of it in his blood. Unfortunately, things take a turn for the worst when Monahan is suspended for roughing up the young man's accomplice prompting a lawsuit by lawyer Charlie Trusdale, the head of a civil rights organization. However, Quincy finds out that the young man was a chronic user of the drug and thinks that he was experiencing a delayed reaction to all the years of abuse of the drug. Quince also suspects that he might have been responsible for the horrific murder of a butcher the morning of the attack.

I scuffled with him.
I grabbed at him.

But I did not use that club!

- You rammed that car!
- They rammed us!

He jumped out of the
car, and he was crazy!

A person on PCP can be
a raging tiger one moment,

and totally calm
and rational the next.

That kid had to have PCP in him.

He had no right to put a
bullet in my boy's head!

I don't want just two cops! I
want the whole police force!

Gentlemen, you
are about to enter

the most fascinating
sphere of police work,



the world of forensic medicine.

Hey, Tommy, If you don't
stop someplace pretty soon,

I'm gonna need a Medivac to
take me somewhere for these burns.

Right up ahead.

The best alley ever
created by the hands of man.

When you've been on the
force as long as I have...

as long as I have, you learn
about places like that, I know.

You got it, kid. You've got it.

I was crazy to let you
drive, you know that.

Who cares, man.

I care. I don't wanna mess with
the cops after what happened.

- Now c'mon, straighten out.
- Don't worry about it.

You don't like the way I drive on
the street, we won't drive on the street.

Cops. Cops. Billy, c'mon,
c'mon, let's get out of here.



I'm gonna kill them. C'mon.

Hey. Hey, look out.

Billy, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon.
We gotta get outta here. C'mon.

What have you been takin',
huh? Are you dusted? Huh?

He was dusted. I know he was.

C'mon, c'mon. You're
out of your mind,

ya know that? You're
really crazy. C'mon, Billy.

C'mon, Billy, c'mon. Wait!

Up! Up!

I think he's dead.

The other kid says his name
is Billy Harris. Age seventeen.

What happened? Monahan told me
on the phone but he wasn't too clear.

Nobody's too clear.

We're getting all
different stories here.

We'll see if we
can straighten it out.

How ya doin', Ed?

Just a couple a more shots
and he's all yours, Quince.

- Brill, where's the kid's hat?
- Over this way.

He's so young.

See those bruises?

Not as quickly as
Monahan said he did.

What would you guess? Some kind
of central nervous system trauma?

I wouldn't give
you odds against it.

Look, Sam, the
blow beneath the ear.

Linear bruise. Looks like he took
a pretty good shot with something.

- Yeah.
- Like maybe a police baton?

Like maybe a police baton.

I don't care what they're
saying. They're lying.

You stole that car, didn't you?

Yeah, we stole
that car. I admit it.

But just because we stole a lousy
car don't mean I'm lying, does it?

I mean, we didn't run into
those cops, they run into us.

Then they jump outta the car
and they start beatin' hell out of us.

Can ya believe that?

All me and Billy was doin'
is we're goin' to a movie

and then they start to
beat the hell out of us.

That old cop over there.
That's the one who did it!

Brill, send them down to the station
and book them. He's turnin' my stomach.

Right.

I seen it, man.

That old cop was really
using his stick on him.

I seen the whole thing.

My son. Billy? Billy?

Why?

- What happened?
- I'm sorry.

Brill.

Mr. Harris, let me
talk to you a moment.

Please try and let
me explain, please.

Me and Waters were eating our
lunch when those guys plowed into us.

It was like they
did it on purpose.

Then this kid, the...
The dead kid, well,

he was like he was
some kind of animal.

Tossed us around
like a couple of dolls.

He was dusted, I know he was.

Now, you sure you didn't, well, you
know, get carried away a little bit?

Look, when I chased him
down out here, I grabbed him,

and I grabbed him pretty hard.

But I didn't do nothing
to kill him. I didn't hit him.

Whatever happened... I
didn't do what they're sayin'.

- Ninety-five, Sam.
- Finished?

For now. And, get
somebody to help you

- put the body in
the back of the wagon.
- Right.

- Take care of my bag?
- Sure.

- Any witnesses?
- Yeah, yeah. We got four.

They're taking their
statements now.

What do they say?

Heh, they said that Bates
did everything to the kid

but perform an appendectomy
with his bare hands.

What do you think?

What do I think about what?

Well, didn't ya hear
what Bates said?

Didn't ya hear what the kids told the
reporter, the whole street heard them.

Who's tellin' the truth?

Oh, c'mon, will ya, Monahan. You
know I don't like to talk prematurely.

This means everything to me,
Quincy. Bates is an old friend.

Now just between
you and me. C'mon.

- Off the top of my head?
- Yeah.

I have to go along with the kid.

Really?

Well, I hope you're
wrong this time.

A cop. An unarmed kid.

Four hostile witnesses
and the kid dies.

It don't look good.

- Do me a favor.
- What?

- Give this case a priority,
will ya?
- Sure.

There are several contusions and
abrasions present above the neck area

ranging in size from the smallest
at approximately eight millimeters

to the largest, an elongated
contusion beneath the left ear,

approximately seven centimeters.

There's another linear contusion

on the front of the left shoulder...
Approximately ten centimeters long.

This kid really took a couple
of hard shots out there.

Hmm.

Doesn't that neck bruise appear to
be a little older than the others, Quince.

No, not really.

See, if he got hit in the
alley and then was chased

by the police, his blood
pressure was probably sky-high.

I don't think you're looking at more
than a couple of minutes difference.

Okay. So what killed him?

Well, I'll know that
when I go inside.

Oh, Sam, I took these scrapings
from the bruise on his neck.

Now, I don't know
what it is, maybe just

dirt or grit that he
picked up when he fell.

- Check it out and
make sure, will ya?
- Okay.

And make sure the priority
is given to this tox analysis.

I gotta know whether or
not that boy was on PCP.

Right.

Reflection of the tissue
at the base of the skull

reveals a fracture of the
odontoid process of the axis.

Come here, Sam. I
wanna show you what did it.

I think it was the neck-blow
that caused his death.

When he was hit here,
see, right in there, see that,

the blow fractured the odontoid
bone on the second vertebra.

Then when Bates grabbed
him around the neck,

- he dislocated it.
- Uh-huh.

Look what happened.

It slid into the spinal
cord, partially severing it.

That's what killed him.

Of course, there are a lot
of unanswered questions.

Well, you'd better find the answers
fast, because you're already late

to the press conference
with our statement.

What press conference?

The press conference I told
you about three hours ago.

Now don't tell me
you've forgotten.

You said you needed two
hours. I've given you three hours.

Now there are twenty
reporters down there waiting.

- All right,
I'll be right down.
- You bet you will.

Sam, listen, I want you to make
sure they move on the tox analysis.

I may need it down there.

There he is.

Trusdale.

That figures. A cop-involved
killing and he's there.

Ladies and gentlemen, I want
to apologize again for the delay.

But you will now have your
press conference as I promised

since Doctor Quincy has arrived.

All right, we're ready
for the first question.

Doctor Quincy.

Mitchellson. Daily News.

Is it true the boy was
under the influence of PCP?

We're waiting for the
results of those tests now.

O'Hara. KJBF. What
was the cause of death?

The odontoid bone, the small
bone that the skull rests on

was fractured, then dislocated.

It caused damage to the spinal
cord, which produced death.

How was the bone fractured?

By a blow received
right under the left ear.

Ah, Trusdale. Californians for
Constitutional Rights Newsletter.

I know, Charlie.
How're you doing?

Better than that kid you
have in your morgue, Quincy.

Now, I think you're stalling us.

The fact is that that boy
received a blow to his neck,

and that blow did the damage
which led to his death. Right?

Didn't I just say that?

And that blow occurred while
he was scuffling with the police.

I admire your ability to
see so clearly into the past.

Well, It couldn't have happened
after he was dead, could it?

- I just said it
caused the death.
- Excuse me.

Mr. Trusdale, would you mind
coming to the point, please?

Ah, yes. That's exactly
where I'm getting.

So if it didn't happen after the fight,
and it didn't happen during the fight,

well, the only thing we
got left is before the fight.

Now, could that young man
have sustained a killing blow

before he
encountered the police?

Is that at all possible,
Doctor Quincy?

Anything is possible.

Well, all right,
then, is it probable?

And please don't hedge.

No, I don't think it's probable.

Neither do I and neither
does anyone else in this room,

except maybe Lieutenant Monahan.

So we're back to during
the fight, and that means

just one thing to me:

that cop killed that boy.

Thank you, Sam.

Are those the
results of your tests?

Yes.

Well, tell us what they say.

Was that boy under
the influence of PCP?

No.

There was no PCP
detected in his blood.

What do we have here?

Oh, it's Henry Logan.

Male, Caucasian.
Age: Sixty-two years old.

When'd they bring him in?

Well, he was logged in
about ten o'clock last night.

- Ten o'clock last night?
- Mm-hmm.

He's been dead a
lot longer than that.

Why'd they take
so long to find him?

Well, it says here that he
ran a small butcher shop.

The body was discovered
hidden behind the trash cans

in the alley behind the shop.

Well, look how most of those
flesh wounds haven't hemorrhaged.

- They're post-mortem.
- Mm-hmm.

Well, he was not only
beaten to death, Sam,

he was beaten ten
minutes after that.

Well, if you think that's
bad, take a look at this.

The whole skull was crushed.

What kind of an animal would
beat an old man like that?

A sick one, Sam.
A very sick one.

I don't think I've ever seen that many
broken bones in a beating death before.

Fractured skull. Both collar
bones. Left arm. His jaw.

Doctor Quincy, it's for you.

Ah, thank you, Nancy. Yeah.

Oh, hi, Brill. What do you need?

Internal affairs is going to
hold an informal interrogation

with Bates and Waters
about the Harris boy's death.

They'd like you to be there with
any more information you can give.

I don't know what more I can
tell them. They have my report.

Monahan asked, Quince.

Special.

I'm on my way.

We didn't run into them, they
ran into us. We were having lunch.

The kid downstairs
said something different.

The kid downstairs says a
lot of things that are different.

Yeah, like how you and
Waters jumped out of your car

and beat the hell out of him.

Hey, what's with you, man?

Why can't you believe
what Bates is tellin' you?

Why don't you go down
there and set that punk free

if he's so lily-white?

Along with the rest of those useful
citizens we got locked up down there.

I'm not concerned if
this kid is lily-white or not.

I'm concerned with the
condition of this department

- and it doesn't look
too good right now.
- Look, for the hundredth time,

that kid was as mean
and as strong as a gorilla.

And I didn't hit
him with my baton.

I scuffled with him.
I grabbed at him.

Maybe I even punched at
him. But I did not use that club.

Look, man, why don't
you change your story.

You're sticking
to it like an oyster.

Maybe it's because
he's telling the truth.

Well, is he? Maybe
you believe it.

Maybe Waters and
Bates believe it, but I don't

and neither does the Department
and neither does Quincy.

Now, wait a minute. I never
said I didn't believe him.

What about everything
in your report?

All the stuff you said at the press
conference yesterday. It's in the papers.

I never said my
findings were conclusive.

Well, the papers neglected to
print it but can you tell me one thing

that will make me
believe this man's story?

Can you show me proof
that that kid was not a maniac,

because the
witness didn't see it.

Can you show me proof that
that kid received that blow earlier?

Can you show me anything?

I can only repeat my findings.

Well, Doctor, your finding has
just sent this man down the sewer.

Let's get outta here.

Monahan.

Just business.

No hard feelings, huh.

Plenty of hard feelings.

Now, c'mon, kid, your friend was
as dusted as home plate, wasn't he?

He was full of PCP, he was nuts.

- Not according
to the doc, there.
- You seem to be well-informed.

C'mon, kid, we'll give you a
break if ya play ball with us.

We've already got you on
assault and grand auto theft.

I already admitted
I stole the car.

We can lay it pretty hard on
ya, kid. Now you remember that.

Well, go ahead, I don't care,

because I tell ya, man, I don't think
Mr. Trusdale's gonna let you get too heavy.

I'm a pretty important witness.

You make me sick, you know that?

Well, maybe you got that shyster
lawyer of yours conned, but not me.

Because I deal with
scum like you every day.

You strut around here because
you think you're being protected

because Trusdale buys your act.

Well, it won't wash,
kid, it won't wash.

A friend of mine is being run
through the ringer because you're lying

and you think you're
gonna get away with it.

Well, you're not. You're
gonna tell me the truth.

- You rammed that car.
- They rammed us.

He jumped outta the
car and he was crazy.

Look, man, I'm telling
ya, the cop attacked us.

You're lying!

You're gonna tell me the truth!

Take your hands off him!

Open that.

You're all the same, aren't you?

All the same. Are you all right?

C'mon, sit down, kid.

This will never happen
again, son. I promise you.

Now, you've been
released into my custody.

You can come home with me. Okay?

Better let me see the
release papers first.

Absolutely, here.

I'll check this out.

You're gonna be all right.

Gentlemen.

You know any case that you
had against that boy, you just blew.

Now what are you gonna say
for yourself, that he attacked you?

That he's on PCP and that's why you
were hitting his head up against the wall?

I don't believe you.

There's a man being
crucified up there, a good cop

who deserves better, who deserves
being defended and here you are,

sticking up for some punk who's
got a record as long as your arm,

two counts of assault and
grand theft against him.

So he has a record!

Does that mean he doesn't
deserve legal counsel?

Is he presumed guilty
because of his past?

That isn't what I'm
saying and you know it.

All you guys try to do is
tie the hands of the cops

who have to go out on the
street and clean them up.

Bates and Waters didn't
have to do what they did.

They could've gotten in their
car and run. But they didn't.

They tried to help people.

And the very people they tried to
help, like you, are turning on them.

If they're guilty, they
deserve being punished.

But at least give them the
same shot as you're givin' this kid.

Like you say, don't assume.

Well, why shouldn't he?

They assumed that my son
was under the influence of PCP.

Well, this time he wasn't.

This time?

You mean your son had
a history of taking PCP?

Well, he did, yes.

He was fighting it. And I was
helping him. And I'm proud of that.

But Billy was never violent.

Even when he came
home so stoned he

couldn't put one foot
in front of the other,

he was never violent.

Look, don't bother yourself
with them. C'mon. Let's go.

That's why we didn't
find PCP in his blood.

- You okay, buddy?
- Yeah.

- You're sure?
- Yeah.

I'll see ya later.

I don't know why on cases like this we
always assume they're first-time users.

It's silly for us to
assume anything.

Procedure, Quince.

Then we just have to
change the procedure.

If Billy Harris had been
a chronic user of PCP,

that could explain why we didn't find
any detectable residue in his blood.

Well, any recent
dose of the drug

would've still been present
in his circulatory system.

Right.

But if he was a chronic user,
using it regularly for months,

that PCP wouldn't
be in his blood.

It would be deposited in the fatty tissues,
the liver, the brain from that usage.

Let's do an extraction on the brain and
liver, test for PCP on a mass spectrometer.

Here it comes.

1-1 phenylcyclohexyl piperidine.

That's it. PCP. And the
kid was loaded with it.

Oh, Monahan's gonna be
glad to hear this piece of news.

Monahan.

We just ran some
additional tests on Billy Harris.

Bates was right. We found
PCP. You can begin to move.

I am.

Well, that's great, Quincy.

That's great, Quince.

I thought you would jump for
joy when you heard that news.

Well, there's not much
I can do about it now.

What are you talking
about? Why not?

Because Trusdale made an
official complaint against me

for what happened to
the kid in the holding tank.

Before the ink was dry on the signature,
the brass paid me a little visit.

Look, Quincy, if ya need me for
anything, call me at home, will ya.

They just gave me two weeks off.

So what have you proven?

Just because he once used PCP
doesn't mean he was under its influence.

I mean, his father already
admitted the boy used the drug.

But never, never showed
a tendency to violence.

He did attack those
two policemen.

Attacked?

A hundred-and-twenty pound boy
attacked two policemen? C'mon.

I mean, he wasn't even armed.

Look, all I'm interested in now is proving
that what Monahan said might be right.

I want you to withdraw
your charges against him.

What you saw wasn't his
style. He's not rough-house.

He's upset, he's nervous,
he's tight as a drum.

Oh, I see.

So I'm supposed to
say, hey, I understand,

slap around whoever you want.

I was there, Quincy. I saw him.

And what Monahan did
is indicative of the attitude

of most of the
cops I've ever met.

It's intuitive.

It goes with the uniform.

I don't believe that. Sure, there are
some bad cops, like there are bad plumbers,

and bad lawyers, and bad
doctors. But I trust most of the police.

I don't.

Hey, Jack, listen, why
don't you take lunch?

Okay.

Tony, too.

Listen, Quincy, what do
you think I'm doing here?

I mean, do you
think this is a joke?

This organization I run,
this little newsletter I publish,

it's all for the purpose of watching
out that cops don't abuse their authority.

How much money do you
think I make here a year?

Under eleven thousand dollars.

Three years ago
I had my own firm.

I made twenty times that much
and I gave it up and you know why.

I know why.

And that cop said my
son had PCP in him, too.

He was proven right, Charlie.

He had no right to put a
bullet in my boy's head.

He wasn't hurting anybody

and Billy Harris
wasn't hurting anybody.

But every time a policeman
kills or brutalizes somebody,

the words PCP
pop out of his mouth.

I mean, they use it
like a license to kill.

Why do you think I'm
doin' what I'm doin'?

I do it so that no other father will
have to go through what I went through.

Me and Mr. Harris.

Charlie, you have to judge each case
on the evidence, not on your son's death.

You think I'm being
emotional, don't ya?

Yes, I do.

Well, let me tell you
something, Quincy,

I have enough evidence here

to convict those guys fifty times
over. And that's just what I'm gonna do.

Don't paint yourself into a corner,
Charlie. All the evidence isn't in yet.

I'm gonna call a
coroner's inquest.

Oh, well, then you
just do that, please.

Call an inquest,

because I been tryin' to talk
Mr. Harris into forcing one

and all he's interested
in is a civil suit.

I'm interested in
more than that.

Now, if you'll excuse
me, I got to go to lunch.

I don't want just two cops! I
want the whole police force!

Do you know what kind of position
you've put the police department in?

Mister, I was prayin' that
he wouldn't ask for an inquest

and you had to go
and do it for him.

- Why do you
assume they're guilty?
- Because I read your report.

These type of cases have
given us enough bad publicity

without you adding fuel to the
fire with this making us look worse.

From what I've seen
of Internal Affairs,

your department
couldn't look much worse.

You're not
interested in the men.

You're only interested
in public relations.

You are looking at two officers.

I am looking at seven thousand.

And I'm looking at how the public
will respond to them, treat them.

Because unless we retain
what little dignity we have left,

what little respect,
we're powerless

and you have taken
that away from us.

If these two men had
been fired or suspended,

we would have
cleaned our own house.

But we can't do that anymore.

Mister, you have taken away
our right to clear ourselves.

Because now, no
matter what happens,

people will think that we
acted because you made us act.

Well, maybe, just maybe,
we won't lose. I'll be prepared.

I'll get expert witnesses.

I'll line up the best
case you ever saw.

I sincerely hope
so. For all our sakes.

After all, my department and yours depend
on each other for cooperation quite a lot.

Don't they, Doctor Asten.

Yes, sir, Mr. Commissioner.

I see no reason why in the future that
cooperation shouldn't continue to grow.

Everybody else was doing it.

They all were doin' it. They
wanted me to do it. I said okay.

I started with my friends
and it was during the summer.

It was kinda the summer
thing to do. Sometimes...

Among seventy per cent
of our acute admissions

among teenagers
is related to PCP.

It's the fastest rising drug in
terms of popularity on the street

and it's probably
the most dangerous.

Our old enemy peer-group
pressure really takes its toll, doesn't it.

That it does.

I go... I go to... I
go to the concerts

when I'm, when I'm dusted.

And...

It's like the band, the band,
you know plays through me,

- like, um...
- You notice
the hesitation here.

Trouble in grasping his words.

Classic disassociation.

I have a friend...

Sometimes I think he's a demon

and he's putting evil spirits
on me and evil commands.

I feel really alienated,
when I come down,

I feel like I don't have
any confidence any more.

The alienation, is that
the result of chronic use?

Yeah, yeah, and in some cases, it's so
advanced that user actually becomes lost.

It's sad, Quince, very sad.

Here, you wanted an
example of strength.

Here's a typical reaction.

We had the camera on him for
twenty-four hours, unmonitored.

That's the only
reason we got the film,

otherwise we'd have
tried to subdue him.

Wow, he showed
enormous strength.

Yeah, he did.

But he had to
pay a price for it.

Now, as you know, if you or I tried
to lift a three hundred pound weight,

it wouldn't be lack of
strength that would stop us.

It would be pain.

But his threshold of pain was
so high, he didn't have any.

Now, when we examined
him in the morning,

we found that he had torn ligaments in
both arms at the elbows and the shoulders

and dislocated the humerus in the
left shoulder blade in the process.

Now, the force he generated
in breaking those straps

caused a compound fracture of the
radius and the ulna in the right arm.

Wow.

Now, look at this.

Both tibia?

Now, what's incredible is he
didn't feel any of these injuries.

Not a thing.

I want you to see what he
looked like when he first came in.

Can you look over here?

Look at me. Look over here.

What's your name?

Easy, easy.

Okay, there.

Now, if you noticed the jerky movement
of the eyes when he looked to the side,

we call that nystagmus. That's
typical in PCP intoxication.

As is that stare that
you see right now.

Sometimes I wonder what they're
seeing when they look like that.

So a person on PCP can
be a raging tiger one moment

and totally calm
and rational the next?

Yeah. You just saw it.

And one of the most
frightening aspects of the drug is

that the calm and rational person
doesn't remember what the raging tiger did.

There's a total amnesia effect.

Could this same raging tiger,

even if he was a hundred and twenty
pound teenager, take on two cops and win?

He could do more than that.

Let me show you something.

Here. Take a look
at those handcuffs.

- The chain is snapped.
- That's right.

And handcuffs are made
out of tempered steel.

Those were broken
by someone on PCP.

Yeah, it doesn't
seem possible, does it?

The transformation
that PCP allows is

as close as I hope we ever come
to Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

So somebody in that
agitated, pumped-up state

can actually be functioning
normally, or at least appear to be,

when a normal person would
be completely incapacitated?

Yeah, yeah, sure.
If he's that far gone.

This could be it.

This could be
exactly what I need.

If I could prove that that
boy was in such a state

that he was strong enough
to survive that original blow

and do everything
that Bates said he did.

Well, one of the psychological
side effects of the drug

is a severe state of paranoia.
You saw that on the film.

There's hallucinations
and nightmares.

Now, if you could prove that he had
any of these, you might have a case.

See, I've seen it many
times myself where

something in reality will suddenly
push a user over the edge,

actually force him
into a nightmare world.

And trigger an act of violence

and then he'll strike out at
something he thought he saw.

Right, it's possible. See, Quince,
that's what I'm trying to get at.

Anything is possible on PCP.

It's a totally
unpredictable drug.

I don't care whether you've tried it
for the first time or the thousandth,

you still have a bad,
uncontrollable reaction.

And you know what's the most
frightening aspect of the drug?

What?

The National Institute
for Drug Abuse estimates

that seven million
Americans have tried it.

And the average age for
first use among teenagers is

fourteen and a half years old.

Fourteen.

Why should I help you?

So you can try to clear the
man who murdered my son.

Look, I have already told you
that Billy was never, never violent.

Mr. Harris, I'm not
trying to clear anybody.

I'm just trying
to find the truth.

As it stands now, it's possible

that Officer Bates is
telling it just the way it was.

Now, how could that be?

You said that there was no way
that Billy could possibly have gotten

that injury before he
fought those policemen.

That was before I found out how strong
an anesthetic effect that drug can have.

It can totally separate
the mind from the body.

Now, if your son
was in that state, it's

possible that he
received the injury earlier.

But you said you couldn't possibly figure
out what state he was in from your autopsy?

I couldn't.

But there are certain signs, certain
patterns that you might have noticed.

Mr. Harris, I don't want
to see a guilty man go free

any more than you want to
see an innocent man punished.

All right.

How can I help you?

Did your son ever show
any signs of paranoia?

Was he scared? Was he
frightened of anything in particular?

No, no, not that I know about.

Billy was never
scared of anything.

What about dreams,
hallucinations?

Well, yes, there were.

When Billy was at the height
of indulging in the drugs,

why he used to have
a recurring nightmare.

Had it most of the time.

Do you know what the
nightmares were about?

Billy said he was always
being chased by something.

Demons that were after him.

Yes, that, that was it.

Giant, blue and black demons.

He wake up in the
middle of the night, crying,

sometimes screaming.

I'd hold him. For hours.

God, I wish I'd
held him tighter.

Well, you know they used
to make better television

twenty years ago
than they do today.

Hey, do you remember
The Untouchables?

- That was a cop show, huh.
- They were feds.

Well, fed's ain't cops?

Not always.

Hey, remember, what was
it, fifteen, twenty years ago.

You and I were on stake-out
together on that big robbery case?

Yeah, the Parker job.

Yeah,

that was when
we had the bandits.

They were cornered in a
warehouse that was built like a fort.

Yeah, and we must have
stood there for at least ten hours,

afraid to move because we
thought they were gonna get away.

That's it.

Until this long black car
pulls up, the fed hops out

and he says that he's gonna
get those bandits out of there

and me and you say,
"Sure, go ahead, go ahead."

And he does.

He drives up there In the car,
those bandits get in and they drive off.

And he was no fed at all.

He was part of the gang.

I thought I'd never
live it down. Never.

Yeah.

Ah, Frank, I'm in some

kinda trouble now, sure.

But that's no reason for you
to throw away your career.

Oh, now, c'mon. Forget
about it. I know what I'm doing.

No, you don't. No, you don't.

You don't know what you're doing.
You have no idea what you're doing.

Look, if they kick me off the
force, I got my six grandkids,

I got my woodworking. Maybe
I'll even open up a little shop.

What I'm saying is, I got
a life. And it won't be bad.

Frank, there's just you
and Patty. That's all you got.

That's all you got, Frank.

The force is your whole life.

Ah, no, it's not like
what it used to be.

There never was a "used
to be" and you know it.

The force has always
gone through change.

It started the first day we
joined up and it's still changing.

Frank, don't throw it away
because of me. It's not worth it.

The worth...

The value is in people, in
friendship, in you and me.

If a man can't stand up for that,
then he's not worth anything at all.

Honey, will you bring
us a couple of beers?

Oh.

- Oh, Quincy.
- Patty, how are ya?

- What a surprise.
- Oh, nice to see you.

- You look terrific.
- Thank you.

Do you need him for the dishes or
can I borrow him for a few minutes?

Well, I think I
can arrange that.

- Honey, get Quincy a beer?
- Oh, no, thanks, darling...

- Getting too fat.
- Oh.

- Brill told me Bates was here.
- Yeah, he is. C'mon in.

- How ya doing, doc?
- Nice to see ya.

Listen...

I called a coroner's inquest.

That means I'm gonna put
my department on the line.

I'm gonna put me on the line. And
I'm gonna put you two guys on the line.

I've got some information
from a PCP expert.

Also from the boy's father.

I think I can build a pretty good
case. But it is not conclusive.

There is a risk.

So, Bates, you gotta
give it to me straight.

He just gave it to ya straight.

Will you answer
the phone, please.

It's not too late to back out.

There's no need to back
off, doc. I didn't hit that boy.

- What with the confusion
and the excitement.
- I did not hit that boy.

Okay.

We go to a coroner's inquest.

You can forget about
your inquest, Quincy.

Why?

Because Ed Waters
just confessed.

He hit the kid
with his billy club.

Look, I wasn't
trying to hurt Tommy.

I just never thought they'd
treat a veteran cop like that.

After I heard about the
way they were crucifying him

and that the doc was
gonna bring an inquest,

I just thought I'd come forward.

You shoulda thought
about that a long time ago.

You've made him look
bad, you made me look bad,

you make the whole department
look like a bunch of liars.

Ah, c'mon, you forget when you
were a kid? You were scared, too.

We both were.

Eddie here probably didn't
even remember what happened.

No, no, I knew.

It was the way
the kid came at us.

It was crazy.

It happened so fast, I swung out
my arm with the baton and I hit him.

But I didn't think
I'd hit him that hard.

Well, you hit him
more than once.

- No, I didn't.
- Yes, you did.

We found two large bruises on him.
One on his neck and one on his shoulder.

The blow to the neck
was the one that killed him.

Look, doc, maybe
you made a mistake.

I hit the kid. But I
only hit him once.

Well, if you hit him
once, why did you stop?

Why didn't you hit
him twice, three times?

He ran away.

Look, I admitted
that I hit the kid.

I killed him.

I'm ready to accept whatever kind
of punishment they want to give.

But Tommy Bates
had nothin' to do with it.

Where'd you hit him?

I swung blind.

I don't know where it
landed. It just landed.

And you only hit him once?

Yeah.

Where ya goin'?

Back to square one...

So, I won't be needing your
coroner's inquest, but thanks anyway.

Well, not if that rookie
Waters confessed.

Now, listen, this may not be
the solution you were expecting,

but at least it's a solution,
and it's a truthful one.

Yeah, but he said he
only hit the kid once.

So?

So, I found two contusions.

One on the shoulder
and one on the neck.

I mean, I don't know
what to believe anymore.

- You better double-check it.
- I will. Don't worry about that.

Quince,

lab reports on those scrapings you took
from the Harris boy's neck just came back.

- Road grit, huh?
- No.

It's rust.

- Rust?
- Yeah.

- You sure?
- Yup.

From an iron vanadium alloy. I
checked it on the electron microscope.

If you think that's something,
here's what's really odd.

Marc found nucleated red
blood cells mixed with the rust.

Right. Like some
kinda bird blood.

Thanks, Marc.

Bird blood...

Sam, bird blood...
Chicken blood.

That Logan Case. The old
man that was beaten to death.

- Wasn't he a butcher?
- Yeah, that's right.

- Do we still have his body?
- Yes, in cold storage.

Let's take a look at it. C'mon.

We should find the same rust on the
old man that we found on Billy's neck.

But where? We examined
the body pretty closely before.

The rust particles were probably
washed away when we cleaned the body.

It'll still be there.
Here he is, Sam.

I noticed it but didn't
pay any attention to it.

Here it is, Sam. Right on
the palm of his hand. See it?

Minute particles. They're
almost hidden in the blood.

Yeah,

I want you to see if this blood matches
the blood on the apron he was wearing.

I'll see ya later.

- Where're you going?
- I'm gonna play out
the rest of my hunch.

Hi ya, fella.

- Hi ya, Quince.
- I thought you had time off.

He does.

And he's still here
from this morning?

I'm hanging around with
my friends, do you mind?

Gin.

To tell the truth,
I miss it here.

I just don't want to sit around
all day and watch soap operas.

Fellas, I don't think
Waters killed that boy.

But he confessed.

You don't make any sense.

You know that butcher that was
beaten to death the other day? Logan?

Yeah. What about him?

I'd like to see the
murder weapon.

Yeah, sure. Go
get it for him, Brill.

I don't understand,
Quincy. What does,

what does this have to
do with Waters and the kid?

I think there may be
two weapons involved.

Waters' baton,
and the rusty pipe.

- If there is,
Waters is telling the truth.
- Oh, yeah?

He only hit him once and
it wasn't the lethal blow.

Chief.

Jack of diamonds?

That's gin.

Well, fellas.

You were right, Quince.
We've got the same type of rust

on Mr. Logan as we
found on the Harris boy.

- What about the blood?
- The same.

Mr. Logan had chicken blood
on his hand and all over his apron.

If they match the blood and rust that's
on this pipe, then we're in business.

- Check it out, Sam.
- Right.

Let me see.

Oh, yeah.

There are the nuclei.
The blood matches.

And the rust matches too, Quince,
and like you said, we're in business.

Yeah.

C'mon, Quincy.

Do you know what I can do
to your arguments in court?

Rust?

Chicken blood?

If you want to test my evidence
in court, you can have the chance.

It'll stand up.

But we can settle this whole thing
now if you'll let me see the boy.

No, you can't see him.

Not with these gorillas here.
The boy's been through enough.

C'mon, Charlie, you're acting
like he's your son. He's not.

He could be lying. You don't
know anything about him.

Your man Waters here confessed.

That he hit him. But that's not the
blow that killed him, and I can prove it.

If you like the boy as
much as you say you do,

you better let us get
it out here and now.

I think he's involved
with murder,

and if we have to
prove it in the courtroom,

it's gonna go a
lot harder on him.

What have you got to lose?

Steve. Would you
come out here a minute.

More of this?

That's right. More
of this. C'mon in.

Sit down, son.

Look, it happened just
the way I said before.

I had already admitted
what we did. We stole a car.

And he admitted what he
did. He hit Billy. He killed him.

No, he didn't.

And you did a lot
more than steal a car.

What are you talkin' about?

How about murder?

Oh, oh, man, you guys are
really something, you know that?

Mr. Trusdale, do I
have to listen to this?

Do you have something
to hide, Steve?

Hide? What, are you
kiddin'? I'm tellin' you the truth.

Okay, then I'm
gonna tell a little story.

See if it makes
any sense to you.

About eleven o'clock in the
morning on the day Billy Harris died,

you and he decided you
needed some spending money.

You saw a one-man butcher shop.

You figured it'd be
an easy place to rob.

What are you, crazy?
We didn't rob nobody.

The facts say differently.

But when you asked the old man
behind the counter for his money,

he was a lot tougher than
you thought he would be.

He picked up a rusty pipe
and he hit Billy right on the neck.

That's when the fracture of
the odontoid bone occurred.

But Billy didn't even
feel that terrible blow

because his threshold of pain
was so high caused by the PCP.

He took the pipe away from the man,
and you guys beat him to death with it.

What are you trying to do, huh?

You tryin' to pin some
unsolved case on me?

Man, you're nuts.

Am I?

We found particles
of rust on Billy's neck.

Mixed in with that
rust was blood...

Blood from the chicken that
man was cutting up at the time.

We found exactly the
same things on the pipe.

And exactly the same
things on the palm of his hand

which got there when he
picked up the pipe to hit Billy.

Now we got you six ways
from Sunday on this murder.

It couldn't have
happened any other way.

I can't help you unless
you tell us everything.

I didn't kill that old man,

Billy did.

You were right, you know.

Man, he just went crazy when
the old man hit him with the pipe

just like he went crazy
when he saw the cops.

He killed him.

Man, he just kept
pounding and pounding

and pounding and...

I tried to stop him,
honest to God.

But I couldn't.

I tried, but I couldn't do it.

I couldn't do it.

Nobody could have, son. Nobody.

Gentlemen, before we get started,
I'd like to thank Doctor Asten here

and Doctor Quincy for letting
us use their conference room.

Thank you.

Now, after the picture, Doctor
Carlton here is gonna talk to us

about what's happening
with the kids and PCP.

He's an expert.

Now, this picture you're gonna
see is not a Raquel Welch picture.

It's about what's happening
now, on the streets.

And as police officers, it's
your duty, your responsibility

to learn, to experience

and to act accordingly.

Police training never
stops, never should stop.

So look close, learn.

So, you'll be prepared.

Sam.

Sometimes he is very scary...

When you come down...

Things don't... Things
don't fit together...

I think that PCP is
kinda like, um, like hell...