Shades of Blue (2016–2018): Season 2, Episode 1 - Unforgiven - full transcript
Harlee covers up the murder of her abusive ex, while Wozniak makes a deal with FBI Agent Stahl to stay out of jail.
- Previously on
"shades of blue"...
I always wanted
to be a good cop,
but there's no
straight line to that.
- There's a rat on my team!
- Wozniak's convinced that
saperstein's the mole.
I got a pretty good
idea how that ends.
If I hadn't agreed to
be an informant...
If I would've just
gone to wozniak
right after you arrested me...
- you'd be in jail... Or dead.
- I really am who
you think I am.
I'm also someone that
you'd swear I'm not.
- Tell me the whole truth,
or I shoot you right here.
- What the hell is
wrong with you?
You know me!
Who is she? - She's an escort.
She says he calls her harlee.
I need some information.
- What do you hope I know?
- Are you offering to
bankroll a fresh start?
- I can get it, but
that has to happen away
from me and cristina.
Miguel is a calculating,
unforgiving monster.
I lied to you about him
being your father,
but I was just trying
to keep you safe.
I always told myself that the
end would justify the means.
- We're really gonna
steal $12 million
of confiscated drug money?
How do you stop the pain?
- What now?
- But now that I'm at the end,
I can't justify anything.
- What's aunt gemma doing here?
- You're gonna be staying
with her for a while.
- What?
- I cut a deal.
I'm turning myself
in for the crew.
- I cut the same deal, harlee.
- You can't do this.
It was me all along.
I was the mole.
It happened so slowly,
I didn't realize.
What, now we're gonna add
breaking and entering
to your rap sheet?
- I was invited, officer.
Got my own key.
- I told you to
stay away from her.
- She's almost a grown woman.
She can decide for herself.
Do you really think you
can pay me to slink away
and wash away your sins...
- I won't let you.
- Ten years!
Ten years you have dictated
how I live my life.
Now I dictate how
you live yours.
I know you.
I'm the only one who
really knows you.
You're gonna take
everything I give you,
and you're gonna act
like you like it,
and you're gonna beg for more.
And I'm not just
gonna punish you.
I'm gonna punish...
That precious little
girl of ours.
No need to cry.
Daddy's home.
Cristina.
Hi, baby.
Hello?
- All right, time to go.
- Detective matt wozniak
delivers himself to the fbi.
- Come on, let's go.
- Yeah, he wears martyrdom
pretty well for a dirty cop.
- I have to remove
your badge now.
- You're light, lieutenant.
You promised me all $12 million
of that stolen dea money.
- Might be missing
a finder's fee.
Sorry, sap.
You're gonna have to cover
for me one more time.
Nypd!
What took you so long?
- Some criminals wear
masks, some wear badges,
and some, in the public trust,
do it with a wave and a smile.
- What is it you want?
- If you can't get
me the mastermind
behind this heist,
I'm looking at
exactly what I want.
- You gonna dress up prostitutes
to look like me too?
You might have a hard time.
I have a very specific look.
- Lieutenant, what hurts
more, being in those chains
or knowing who it was
who put you there?
The chains are temporary.
- Pretty thick case file
that says otherwise.
- Then call the nypd.
Make the announcement.
You have the money.
You have your arrest.
Case closed.
- I could do that... Or...
- or you could recognize that
I usually lead this dance.
I'm not in a holding cell, and
I haven't heard my rights.
So I'm gonna ask you again.
What is it you want?
I could use a dirty cop.
Did you bring the chisel?
- Here you go.
- You don't have
to stay for this.
- Hello? Dad?
- I can't add anything more
to what captain mcmanus said.
The perpetrators of
this armored car heist
are still at large.
- Councilwoman ayres,
do you believe they're
still in the city?
- Mm, $12-million payday...
I'm guessing an
island somewhere.
But that will not stop us
from trying to find them.
- Whoa, hold on. Sorry, folks,
but I haven't worn a badge
in about three years.
- Since when do we
hold press conferences
on cases with no arrests
or suspect information?
- Since julia decided
to run for mayor
as a "tough on crime" candidate.
- She never did have
the best timing.
- Well, just be grateful about
the no suspect information part.
- Councilwoman, is
your presence here
a mayoral campaign appearance
or a favor to the nypd?
- I just like spending quality
time with all you people.
- You don't have to kick.
- The door off the hinges, harlee.
I'm always happy to see you.
- I want to see wozniak now.
- Haven't even had
my coffee yet.
Fix you a cup?
- Where is he?
- You already know the
answer to that one.
- Downtown off-site somewhere?
- He's in federal custody.
- All right, well, get dressed.
Take me to him.
- I can't do that,
and you know that.
Look, you made your choices.
He did too.
Wozniak's on his own now.
- Look, this is a man
with a family and a job.
You can't just bury him
in a hole somewhere
without an explanation.
- Harlee...
This isn't some kind of
black bag operation.
Other than a little
sleep deprivation,
your mentor is completely
safe physically.
Though that, uh, elevated
ego is prohibiting him
from comprehending
his predicament.
Come on.
- What's that?
This your malpractice confession
for the civil war surgery
you did on my shoulder?
- Thought you were on
self-appointed desk duty.
- Sitting gets me
closer to the ground
for when I got to pass out.
- If it's that bad, go home.
You were shot too, you know,
so don't put it all on me.
- Woz wanted me to
make an appearance.
- It'd be nice if he
made an appearance.
Harlee, have you heard from woz?
I tried him three times today.
- He's probably going hard after
donnie and the heist money.
It's almost 4:00.
Is anybody else worried?
- Yeah, for donnie pomp.
I don't care if you're
internal affairs or the pope.
You double-cross woz,
that's a death wish.
- Wozniak. Don't ruin my day.
- that didn't take long.
You comfortable?
- What happened?
- I've been asking myself
the same question.
Let's go.
- Woz. Woz.
Woz, wait.
Where are we going?
- For a ride.
- What happened with stahl?
You know, when I didn't
hear from you this morning,
I thought...
- You were free of it all?
- I thought maybe...
I really lost you.
That was a brave thing you did.
It was crazy... But brave.
I said good-bye to cristina.
You know, I sent her
to my sister's.
I was turning myself in.
You know that, right?
What did stahl say when you
brought up the prostitute?
That was a great tip, harlee.
He rolled right over.
- Then why did they let you go?
- Who said they let me go?
- What is this place?
- Hand me my kit.
- What did you agree to do?
- Backseat.
- I made a mistake
of not coming to you as soon
as the feds arrested me.
I made a mistake
thinking I could fix
this mess on my own,
that I could string
the feds along
and keep everything in flux
until I could figure a
way out for everyone...
For me, for you, for the
crew, and cristina.
But I couldn't. I...
It only got worse.
Whatever...
This thing is that
you have to handle,
you don't have to
do it by yourself.
We'll figure it out...
Together.
Okay, what's my tell?
What is this thing that I
do that has you so sure
that I'm a fed mole
that you would kill me?
- You push your hair
behind your ear.
- This is a joke, right?
I've been pushing my
hair behind my ear
since kindergarten.
I also lick my lips,
bite my nails.
- Don't! Don't... don't
twist this around.
Don't.
- There's nothing to twist.
What the hell is wrong with you?
You know me.
- You lied to me. You
lied to me again!
- It kills me that somebody's
trying to hurt you.
- you wore a wire.
A wire!
- I didn't know what else to do.
- Dispatch, this is
tango one-zero-one
requesting backup for a 10-34.
Assault in progress
at 952 vermont.
Pursuing suspect.
Victim is down.
- Woz, listen to me.
I'm so sorry. I'm sorry.
Woz!
- What are you doing?
Who is this?
- I don't know.
Someone attacked him and
went through that door.
- And did we see that?
- No. There's blood
on the handle.
- And you're sure you
want to walk through it?
- You made that choice for me.
- Woz, wait.
Just tell me what this is.
- Because nothing is for free.
Hey, police. Out.
A mobster named bianchi
closes the restaurant
every Monday for a
private dinner.
- Michael bianchi?
He's not just some mobster.
He runs brooklyn.
Woz, this is a world
of hurt for all of us.
- I'll hold him. You frisk him.
- Is this what you need?
This will prove my loyalty?
- Your door.
- Nypd!
- Police! Ah, stop right there.
- Hands up!
- Put your hands
where I can 'em.
- Hands up! Get 'em up. Up!
Big boy, get up.
How's the capellini?
- Oh, it's excellent.
Can I help you?
- You're under arrest, michael.
You ought to know what to do.
- Against the wall now.
Now!
- You spilled the giacomo
conterno monfortino.
I have killed people for less.
- Yeah, you must be a big
hit with the waiters.
What's the beef with
the guy outside?
You weren't gonna
call paramedics?
- Come again?
- Shut up!
- Interesting dining utensil.
- Smooth plant, sweetheart.
- Bet you say that
to all the ladies.
Not too late to grab a
beer and play nice.
- Ha-ha.
Your date gets wine. I get beer.
I see where I stand.
- Why'd you come calling?
Little out of your trailer
park, aren't you?
- My dad used to say,
"beat your kid every day.
If you don't know the
reason why, they will."
- so you're settling a score?
- I'm providing a service.
- Wow.
Must be a serious debt,
considering the fuse
you're lighting.
- Everybody's got to pay
up their debt eventually.
Character is how you face it.
- Well, this character
doesn't take a bad charge.
I don't do time for the
deeds I actually do.
A frame job's never gonna stick.
- Consider it a
moment of reflection.
- Oh.
Think of a place where
you feel safe, whole.
Someday that place
will be violated,
and when you're lying on
your back, bleeding out,
you can reflect on why you
chose not to get that beer.
Ooh.
I drink whiskey.
- Isn't your desk down the
hall in the cubicle outside?
- Well, I'm thinking
of trading it in
for something with a view.
- Careful.
Pride comes before the fall.
- Wozniak just took
bianchi into custody.
- Does he know what he's
getting himself into?
- Do we want him to?
- Bianchi's lawyer just
gave me a dissertation
on the fourth amendment
and probable cause.
- We had probable cause.
Follow the blood trail.
- A highly suspicious
blood trail.
- I'm gonna pretend I don't
know what you mean by that.
- We need to notify
the dea's office
before you arrest a
high-profile mafia figure.
We could have coordinated this.
- What can I say?
Bad guys don't keep
bankers' hours.
- Organized crime always brings
jurisdictional issues with the u.S.
Attorney.
- Yeah, feds and lawyers,
two people I'm
desperate to please.
- Was he expecting
a thank-you card?
- Today's full of surprises.
- Yeah, like a must-win
aggravated assault charge.
Perform or perish.
- We perished last time.
A few years ago,
bianchi lost a bet
to one of his soldiers.
- Yeah, instead of paying
up, he beat him to death.
Also beat the charge. I've
heard the bedtime story.
- Did you hear the u.S.
Attorney had him on motive,
opportunity, and
dna on the weapon?
- Then why isn't he
doing life upstate?
- Hurricane sandy.
The weapon was lost
in the flooding.
Grand jury didn't indict.
They haven't been able to
lay a glove on him since.
So tell me, is
this charge solid?
- Barring a natural disaster?
- You know what I'm asking.
- He won't walk
away from this one.
- Uh, speaking of walking away,
I decided not to make
it so easy for you.
- Did you just transition
from murder to romance?
Adeptly, I thought.
Well, points for
degree of difficulty.
- I think I can help with
your miguel problem.
Hey, I know you'd
never ask for help...
- it's not a problem
anymore, all right?
I paid him to leave town.
He's gone.
- Until the money runs out.
- No.
It's done.
Miguel and the money are
both far away right now.
- ¶ Good on my own,
that's the way it was ¶
- ¶ that's the way it was ¶
¶ you was good on the
low for a faded ¶
- what don't you say
we try the cuffs
on you tonight, harlee?
- Hmm, that could cost ya extra.
- Come on.
Show me how special I am to you.
- ¶ Don't get it twisted ¶
¶ you was just another
on the hit list ¶
¶ trying to fix your inner
issues with a bad ¶
¶ didn't they tell you
that I was selfish ¶
- don't you want
to frisk me first?
- ¶ Bet you never
could imagine ¶
¶ never thought you
could have it ¶
¶ you need me ¶
¶ ooh, ooh ¶
¶ you need me ¶
- you like being interrogated?
- Yes, please.
I don't want to go to jail.
I'll do whatever you ask.
- Tell me about the other
cop that interrogated you.
You talked to the nypd about
me, didn't you, gina?
- No.
- It's okay. I'm not
upset about it.
Not yet.
But I, uh...
I don't care for liars.
I handle liars for a living.
- He threatened me
in a hotel lobby.
- Speak up, gina.
I can't hear you.
- He knew your name,
that you were a client.
- And you provided details?
You shared with him what
we do here together?
- How much you pay me.
- Mm-hmm.
And?
- The wig.
That you call me harlee.
That's it.
- Did you sign anything?
Did you make an
official statement?
- No, I swear.
- Gina.
- I swear.
- All right.
Appreciate your candor.
Unfortunately, this dirty
cop is trying to play me,
so I'm gonna need
you to disappear.
- Not like that, gina.
I mean from the city.
A new adventure.
Amtrak voucher, enough
cash to resettle.
Go to your basement
apartment in the bronx,
pack your things,
and you start over.
A new beginning. Agreed?
I need verbal
confirmation, gina.
- Yes, yes. Agreed.
- Okay, good.
Now let's get started.
What's your name?
- Harlee.
- All right, well, try
gail baker's office.
Tell her that harlee santos needs
to speak to her right now.
- You can direct any of
your immediate concerns
to our community
relations department.
- This is a public safety issue.
- Call the nypd.
- I am the nypd.
- We got a stalker, ben?
She miss being handled?
- What are you, a sadist?
- Girls usually get the hint
after their first six
unanswered messages.
- You played wozniak
a copy of my wire?
You handed him a
recording of it?
- It's not yet
available on itunes.
- You promised to protect me.
- I did when you were my asset.
But you graduated, didn't you?
Congratulations.
- Oh, so this is spite?
- No, this is a high-level
conspiracy case,
and you played your part.
Take a bow. Go home.
- I can't go home,
not with you putting me
in wozniak's crosshairs.
- You'd rather see him in jail?
- He had forgiven me.
- Every asset profiles
differently...
Different triggers,
different weaknesses.
- So what, I'm
collateral damage?
- I am simply managing
my new asset.
- No. You're
dragging me back in.
- Oh, yeah, 'cause
it was such a blast
the first time around.
- So if it's not
about me, then why?
Why do you need wozniak?
You arrested me to get wozniak
to plant evidence for you.
I could've done that myself
without tearing us apart.
- Harlee, if I only
needed a dirty cop,
I'd put a doughnut on a hook.
What I need is an insider,
a personal connection.
- The mafia isn't your target.
- Gold star, detective.
- Then who is?
- Well, that's not fair.
- Hey!
- The bad guys never
stop for paperwork.
- Well, it's no fun if I
don't give 'em a head start.
- Mm, like the, uh, head
start you gave the crew
to my press conference?
I'm touched by the support, woz.
- I didn't want to
steal your spotlight
with my rugged good looks.
- Oh. Very nice.
12 years of making me look good,
and I'm wedged behind the desk.
- If you poll above 20%,
I'll put your poster up.
- Yeah? Get ready to
bust out some tacks.
- If you ever get tired
of kissing babies,
I might be willing
to take you back.
- Really?
Same lopsided desk
and everything?
- We had fun on that desk.
- But city hall has
better coffee.
- Yeah, but I got better booze.
- Hence the fun on the desk.
- Seriously...
I could use someone I can trust.
- I didn't need wozniak to
shake down the mafia, harlee.
What I need him for is
to give me the person
allowing them to operate.
Wozniak agreed to give
me whomever intervenes
on bianchi's behalf.
- Does he know who
this person is?
- I don't know; It's a big city,
and he didn't think to
carve out exclusions.
- Wozniak will plant
evidence on a criminal,
but he won't inform
on a stranger,
much less someone
he cares about.
- Why not? You did.
- God, I do miss that
feeling, though...
Right before you kick in a door,
not sure what's on
the other side.
- Nothing like it.
- Yep.
- So what's the occasion?
You here for another
photo op by the cage?
- A favor... The
off-the-books kind.
Have you signed the
file on bianchi?
- I haven't gotten
through the "a" s yet.
- Maybe you could skip ahead?
- Assault and battery.
The weapon was found
at the scene.
There's blood. There's prints.
- Woz, you really
ought to give me
a heads-up about this stuff.
- Jump on the scanner.
- You know, one of the
things you taught me
was to pick my battles.
So now let me help
you pick yours.
- No, the crew's immunity
was a condition of
wozniak's surrender.
- New deal, new conditions.
Don't worry, though. You're
still clear for now.
- How close is he
to this person?
- Close enough that
they'll never suspect.
- This was your plan all along?
- You're holding
pandora's box, woz,
and I am trying to
keep it closed.
- Is that the one
with the three bears?
- If you were to
drop the charges...
- Jules, it's done.
- I thought you
were on the "a" s.
- My hands are more
tied than his.
Trust me.
- It's... it's been
less than 24 hours.
He... he hasn't been transferred
to central booking...
- jules, listen to me.
I can't do it.
- Okay.
It's no problem.
I, um... I better
get going and, uh,
find some babies to
kiss or something.
Home safe.
- Safe tomorrow.
Son of a bitch.
- I know I made you worry.
I didn't mean to scare you.
- You were scared too, mom,
like I've... like I've
never seen you before.
And you were looking
at me like...
Like it really might be the
last time you saw my face.
- Sweetheart...
- It felt like good-bye.
And not the "see you
tomorrow" kind.
What happened?
- I thought I might
be in trouble...
The worst kind.
And I wanted you with gemma
because I needed to know
that you were safe.
- You're a cop.
What could you
have possibly done
that would get you arrested?
- It was about money.
Me, woz, and the crew,
we come across a lot
of it every day...
Money criminals made doing
bad things to good people.
- what, you stole some?
- Yes, I did.
I mean we did.
It was for miguel.
I knew that if I'd pay
him, he'd go away.
So I took money from bad people
to get a bad person
out of our lives.
- miguel? Mi'jo? Are you home?
Miguel?
Corazуn?
Hello?
Hello?
Hello!
- You paid him to go away?
- I did it for us...
For you.
- And you knew he'd take it.
- I know who he is...
Who he really is.
- he didn't even care
enough to say good-bye.
- This is on me, baby, okay?
I need you safe... Always.
And you deserved
a better father.
You know, that's my
fault, my choices.
And I'm sorry.
I mean, you deserve
somebody better than me.
- Mom, no.
- Yes.
- No.
- I don't even know how
two people like us
even made someone as
wonderful as you.
You're a miracle.
- Look, I am who I
am because of you.
You have to know that. - No.
What I know is that
I let you down,
that every time I
had a real choice,
I chose wrong.
And not because I
didn't know any better
but because I didn't trust
where the right
road would take us.
But from now on, I'm
taking the right road,
no matter how hard it is,
no matter where it takes us.
- Didn't have time to think.
The new stylist
talked me into it.
I haven't worn my hair. - this
short since I was your age.
- It looks great, linda.
Gives your face a
whole new feel.
Woz will love it, I'm sure.
- he won't even notice.
I just felt like it was
time for a change.
- Hey, cristina,
where's your mom?
- Well, you're her boss.
- You know harlee. She
likes to make an entrance.
- She wasn't home when you left?
- I don't know.
She just reminded me
about Friday dinner.
I came straight from practice.
- Did she mention where
she'd be coming from?
- Matt, this has to simmer
for at least a half hour.
I'm sure she'll be fine.
- Are you okay?
You don't seem as
chipper as usual.
- I'm just tired, I guess.
- ¶ There's always a
little bit of wrong ¶
¶ on the other side of right ¶
¶ we become blinded and drawn ¶
¶ like a moth to a light ¶
¶ it's a desert of aces ¶
¶ a shadowbox fight ¶
¶ there's always a
little bit of wrong ¶
¶ on the other side of right ¶
¶ no ¶
¶ it's not what it seems ¶
¶ no ¶
¶ this demon's down deep ¶
¶ there is a dark side ¶
¶ there is a dark side ¶
¶ there is a dark side ¶
¶ a dark side of paradise ¶
- is that your mom, hon?
- ¶ Dark side of paradise ¶
¶ there is a dark side ¶
¶ a dark side of paradise ¶
- trying to get out
of setting the table?
Woz...
Come inside.
- Where were you?
- I was stuck in
traffic on bushwick.
There was, uh,
construction on myrtle.
- On myrtle. Yeah, I heard.
Traffic... Too obvious
a lie to be a lie.
At least that's what I assume.
- It's the truth.
- People who have affairs
get stuck in traffic.
Late for school, late for work...
There's always traffic.
- It's new york.
I'm not lying.
- Well, here's a chance to
keep your streak alive.
- Why aren't you looking at me?
- Did you know?
- Know what?
- Less convincing.
I'll ask again.
Did you know?
- You can ask as many
times as you want.
If I don't know what
the question is,
I can't answer it.
- Stahl's real target.
It's julia.
- Julia who?
- Our julia.
Julia ayres.
I swear to god, harlee,
if you know and you're not...
- I-I didn't know.
It...
Are you sure? Julia?
- I thought you were
holding the nypd's leash.
- Wozniak isn't the
taking-orders type.
- So this is what, a shakedown?
Are these two cops of
yours entrepreneurs?
- I'd call it a mistake.
- This deal you made,
does it include the
crew's immunity?
Are they on the hook for this?
- Do you two think
you can play me?
- I didn't know
anything about julia.
- Do you think I could
ever be a rat like you?
- I am not in league with stahl.
He... he ruined my life.
I hate him.
- You hate him like
you love me...
When it's convenient.
- Woz... Please.
You have to believe me.
- That night at the pier,
where did you hide it?
The wire, where did you hide it?
- My daughter's inside.
- Harlee, where was it?
- This is not the
time or the place.
- God! Tell me.
Where was it?
- On my back.
- You're a smart girl.
You undress. You shame me.
You make me doubt
what I knew I knew.
- They said they would take
cristina away from me.
They said they would
put me in jail.
- You let me push
saperstein off a building.
- No, I tried to stop you!
- I killed him!
I killed him to protect you!
- Stop twisting things around.
You killed saperstein
because you were out of
control and paranoid.
I did what I did to
protect my daughter.
- Harlee... We
could've found a way.
- I can make your
troubles go away,
just like I did last time.
- Last time, I was guilty.
- Should be easier,
then, shouldn't it?
- I prefer it never happened.
- Wozniak and I go way back.
He stepped over a line,
and I can make him step
in the other direction.
- Every smile,
every conversation,
you looked me in the eyes
while you were twisting
the knife in my back.
You're a liar, you're a coward,
and you're a rat.
- You shook my hand,
and you promised me you
would handle the department
if I supported your ambitions.
In my world, that
kind of negligence
is just not tolerated.
- Now, him, he allowed
two corrupt cops
to walk right up to me
and plant a weapon.
- Is that meant to impress me?
- I just need to know...
That I have your attention.
- This is exactly why stahl
gave you the recording...
To divide us.
Don't let him.
If we just stick
together in this...
- I will never trust you again...
ever.
I'll do anything for julia.
I will not let her go down.
- Wozniak didn't do this alone.
Something or someone
gave him good reason.
That's the threat you
need to eliminate.
"shades of blue"...
I always wanted
to be a good cop,
but there's no
straight line to that.
- There's a rat on my team!
- Wozniak's convinced that
saperstein's the mole.
I got a pretty good
idea how that ends.
If I hadn't agreed to
be an informant...
If I would've just
gone to wozniak
right after you arrested me...
- you'd be in jail... Or dead.
- I really am who
you think I am.
I'm also someone that
you'd swear I'm not.
- Tell me the whole truth,
or I shoot you right here.
- What the hell is
wrong with you?
You know me!
Who is she? - She's an escort.
She says he calls her harlee.
I need some information.
- What do you hope I know?
- Are you offering to
bankroll a fresh start?
- I can get it, but
that has to happen away
from me and cristina.
Miguel is a calculating,
unforgiving monster.
I lied to you about him
being your father,
but I was just trying
to keep you safe.
I always told myself that the
end would justify the means.
- We're really gonna
steal $12 million
of confiscated drug money?
How do you stop the pain?
- What now?
- But now that I'm at the end,
I can't justify anything.
- What's aunt gemma doing here?
- You're gonna be staying
with her for a while.
- What?
- I cut a deal.
I'm turning myself
in for the crew.
- I cut the same deal, harlee.
- You can't do this.
It was me all along.
I was the mole.
It happened so slowly,
I didn't realize.
What, now we're gonna add
breaking and entering
to your rap sheet?
- I was invited, officer.
Got my own key.
- I told you to
stay away from her.
- She's almost a grown woman.
She can decide for herself.
Do you really think you
can pay me to slink away
and wash away your sins...
- I won't let you.
- Ten years!
Ten years you have dictated
how I live my life.
Now I dictate how
you live yours.
I know you.
I'm the only one who
really knows you.
You're gonna take
everything I give you,
and you're gonna act
like you like it,
and you're gonna beg for more.
And I'm not just
gonna punish you.
I'm gonna punish...
That precious little
girl of ours.
No need to cry.
Daddy's home.
Cristina.
Hi, baby.
Hello?
- All right, time to go.
- Detective matt wozniak
delivers himself to the fbi.
- Come on, let's go.
- Yeah, he wears martyrdom
pretty well for a dirty cop.
- I have to remove
your badge now.
- You're light, lieutenant.
You promised me all $12 million
of that stolen dea money.
- Might be missing
a finder's fee.
Sorry, sap.
You're gonna have to cover
for me one more time.
Nypd!
What took you so long?
- Some criminals wear
masks, some wear badges,
and some, in the public trust,
do it with a wave and a smile.
- What is it you want?
- If you can't get
me the mastermind
behind this heist,
I'm looking at
exactly what I want.
- You gonna dress up prostitutes
to look like me too?
You might have a hard time.
I have a very specific look.
- Lieutenant, what hurts
more, being in those chains
or knowing who it was
who put you there?
The chains are temporary.
- Pretty thick case file
that says otherwise.
- Then call the nypd.
Make the announcement.
You have the money.
You have your arrest.
Case closed.
- I could do that... Or...
- or you could recognize that
I usually lead this dance.
I'm not in a holding cell, and
I haven't heard my rights.
So I'm gonna ask you again.
What is it you want?
I could use a dirty cop.
Did you bring the chisel?
- Here you go.
- You don't have
to stay for this.
- Hello? Dad?
- I can't add anything more
to what captain mcmanus said.
The perpetrators of
this armored car heist
are still at large.
- Councilwoman ayres,
do you believe they're
still in the city?
- Mm, $12-million payday...
I'm guessing an
island somewhere.
But that will not stop us
from trying to find them.
- Whoa, hold on. Sorry, folks,
but I haven't worn a badge
in about three years.
- Since when do we
hold press conferences
on cases with no arrests
or suspect information?
- Since julia decided
to run for mayor
as a "tough on crime" candidate.
- She never did have
the best timing.
- Well, just be grateful about
the no suspect information part.
- Councilwoman, is
your presence here
a mayoral campaign appearance
or a favor to the nypd?
- I just like spending quality
time with all you people.
- You don't have to kick.
- The door off the hinges, harlee.
I'm always happy to see you.
- I want to see wozniak now.
- Haven't even had
my coffee yet.
Fix you a cup?
- Where is he?
- You already know the
answer to that one.
- Downtown off-site somewhere?
- He's in federal custody.
- All right, well, get dressed.
Take me to him.
- I can't do that,
and you know that.
Look, you made your choices.
He did too.
Wozniak's on his own now.
- Look, this is a man
with a family and a job.
You can't just bury him
in a hole somewhere
without an explanation.
- Harlee...
This isn't some kind of
black bag operation.
Other than a little
sleep deprivation,
your mentor is completely
safe physically.
Though that, uh, elevated
ego is prohibiting him
from comprehending
his predicament.
Come on.
- What's that?
This your malpractice confession
for the civil war surgery
you did on my shoulder?
- Thought you were on
self-appointed desk duty.
- Sitting gets me
closer to the ground
for when I got to pass out.
- If it's that bad, go home.
You were shot too, you know,
so don't put it all on me.
- Woz wanted me to
make an appearance.
- It'd be nice if he
made an appearance.
Harlee, have you heard from woz?
I tried him three times today.
- He's probably going hard after
donnie and the heist money.
It's almost 4:00.
Is anybody else worried?
- Yeah, for donnie pomp.
I don't care if you're
internal affairs or the pope.
You double-cross woz,
that's a death wish.
- Wozniak. Don't ruin my day.
- that didn't take long.
You comfortable?
- What happened?
- I've been asking myself
the same question.
Let's go.
- Woz. Woz.
Woz, wait.
Where are we going?
- For a ride.
- What happened with stahl?
You know, when I didn't
hear from you this morning,
I thought...
- You were free of it all?
- I thought maybe...
I really lost you.
That was a brave thing you did.
It was crazy... But brave.
I said good-bye to cristina.
You know, I sent her
to my sister's.
I was turning myself in.
You know that, right?
What did stahl say when you
brought up the prostitute?
That was a great tip, harlee.
He rolled right over.
- Then why did they let you go?
- Who said they let me go?
- What is this place?
- Hand me my kit.
- What did you agree to do?
- Backseat.
- I made a mistake
of not coming to you as soon
as the feds arrested me.
I made a mistake
thinking I could fix
this mess on my own,
that I could string
the feds along
and keep everything in flux
until I could figure a
way out for everyone...
For me, for you, for the
crew, and cristina.
But I couldn't. I...
It only got worse.
Whatever...
This thing is that
you have to handle,
you don't have to
do it by yourself.
We'll figure it out...
Together.
Okay, what's my tell?
What is this thing that I
do that has you so sure
that I'm a fed mole
that you would kill me?
- You push your hair
behind your ear.
- This is a joke, right?
I've been pushing my
hair behind my ear
since kindergarten.
I also lick my lips,
bite my nails.
- Don't! Don't... don't
twist this around.
Don't.
- There's nothing to twist.
What the hell is wrong with you?
You know me.
- You lied to me. You
lied to me again!
- It kills me that somebody's
trying to hurt you.
- you wore a wire.
A wire!
- I didn't know what else to do.
- Dispatch, this is
tango one-zero-one
requesting backup for a 10-34.
Assault in progress
at 952 vermont.
Pursuing suspect.
Victim is down.
- Woz, listen to me.
I'm so sorry. I'm sorry.
Woz!
- What are you doing?
Who is this?
- I don't know.
Someone attacked him and
went through that door.
- And did we see that?
- No. There's blood
on the handle.
- And you're sure you
want to walk through it?
- You made that choice for me.
- Woz, wait.
Just tell me what this is.
- Because nothing is for free.
Hey, police. Out.
A mobster named bianchi
closes the restaurant
every Monday for a
private dinner.
- Michael bianchi?
He's not just some mobster.
He runs brooklyn.
Woz, this is a world
of hurt for all of us.
- I'll hold him. You frisk him.
- Is this what you need?
This will prove my loyalty?
- Your door.
- Nypd!
- Police! Ah, stop right there.
- Hands up!
- Put your hands
where I can 'em.
- Hands up! Get 'em up. Up!
Big boy, get up.
How's the capellini?
- Oh, it's excellent.
Can I help you?
- You're under arrest, michael.
You ought to know what to do.
- Against the wall now.
Now!
- You spilled the giacomo
conterno monfortino.
I have killed people for less.
- Yeah, you must be a big
hit with the waiters.
What's the beef with
the guy outside?
You weren't gonna
call paramedics?
- Come again?
- Shut up!
- Interesting dining utensil.
- Smooth plant, sweetheart.
- Bet you say that
to all the ladies.
Not too late to grab a
beer and play nice.
- Ha-ha.
Your date gets wine. I get beer.
I see where I stand.
- Why'd you come calling?
Little out of your trailer
park, aren't you?
- My dad used to say,
"beat your kid every day.
If you don't know the
reason why, they will."
- so you're settling a score?
- I'm providing a service.
- Wow.
Must be a serious debt,
considering the fuse
you're lighting.
- Everybody's got to pay
up their debt eventually.
Character is how you face it.
- Well, this character
doesn't take a bad charge.
I don't do time for the
deeds I actually do.
A frame job's never gonna stick.
- Consider it a
moment of reflection.
- Oh.
Think of a place where
you feel safe, whole.
Someday that place
will be violated,
and when you're lying on
your back, bleeding out,
you can reflect on why you
chose not to get that beer.
Ooh.
I drink whiskey.
- Isn't your desk down the
hall in the cubicle outside?
- Well, I'm thinking
of trading it in
for something with a view.
- Careful.
Pride comes before the fall.
- Wozniak just took
bianchi into custody.
- Does he know what he's
getting himself into?
- Do we want him to?
- Bianchi's lawyer just
gave me a dissertation
on the fourth amendment
and probable cause.
- We had probable cause.
Follow the blood trail.
- A highly suspicious
blood trail.
- I'm gonna pretend I don't
know what you mean by that.
- We need to notify
the dea's office
before you arrest a
high-profile mafia figure.
We could have coordinated this.
- What can I say?
Bad guys don't keep
bankers' hours.
- Organized crime always brings
jurisdictional issues with the u.S.
Attorney.
- Yeah, feds and lawyers,
two people I'm
desperate to please.
- Was he expecting
a thank-you card?
- Today's full of surprises.
- Yeah, like a must-win
aggravated assault charge.
Perform or perish.
- We perished last time.
A few years ago,
bianchi lost a bet
to one of his soldiers.
- Yeah, instead of paying
up, he beat him to death.
Also beat the charge. I've
heard the bedtime story.
- Did you hear the u.S.
Attorney had him on motive,
opportunity, and
dna on the weapon?
- Then why isn't he
doing life upstate?
- Hurricane sandy.
The weapon was lost
in the flooding.
Grand jury didn't indict.
They haven't been able to
lay a glove on him since.
So tell me, is
this charge solid?
- Barring a natural disaster?
- You know what I'm asking.
- He won't walk
away from this one.
- Uh, speaking of walking away,
I decided not to make
it so easy for you.
- Did you just transition
from murder to romance?
Adeptly, I thought.
Well, points for
degree of difficulty.
- I think I can help with
your miguel problem.
Hey, I know you'd
never ask for help...
- it's not a problem
anymore, all right?
I paid him to leave town.
He's gone.
- Until the money runs out.
- No.
It's done.
Miguel and the money are
both far away right now.
- ¶ Good on my own,
that's the way it was ¶
- ¶ that's the way it was ¶
¶ you was good on the
low for a faded ¶
- what don't you say
we try the cuffs
on you tonight, harlee?
- Hmm, that could cost ya extra.
- Come on.
Show me how special I am to you.
- ¶ Don't get it twisted ¶
¶ you was just another
on the hit list ¶
¶ trying to fix your inner
issues with a bad ¶
¶ didn't they tell you
that I was selfish ¶
- don't you want
to frisk me first?
- ¶ Bet you never
could imagine ¶
¶ never thought you
could have it ¶
¶ you need me ¶
¶ ooh, ooh ¶
¶ you need me ¶
- you like being interrogated?
- Yes, please.
I don't want to go to jail.
I'll do whatever you ask.
- Tell me about the other
cop that interrogated you.
You talked to the nypd about
me, didn't you, gina?
- No.
- It's okay. I'm not
upset about it.
Not yet.
But I, uh...
I don't care for liars.
I handle liars for a living.
- He threatened me
in a hotel lobby.
- Speak up, gina.
I can't hear you.
- He knew your name,
that you were a client.
- And you provided details?
You shared with him what
we do here together?
- How much you pay me.
- Mm-hmm.
And?
- The wig.
That you call me harlee.
That's it.
- Did you sign anything?
Did you make an
official statement?
- No, I swear.
- Gina.
- I swear.
- All right.
Appreciate your candor.
Unfortunately, this dirty
cop is trying to play me,
so I'm gonna need
you to disappear.
- Not like that, gina.
I mean from the city.
A new adventure.
Amtrak voucher, enough
cash to resettle.
Go to your basement
apartment in the bronx,
pack your things,
and you start over.
A new beginning. Agreed?
I need verbal
confirmation, gina.
- Yes, yes. Agreed.
- Okay, good.
Now let's get started.
What's your name?
- Harlee.
- All right, well, try
gail baker's office.
Tell her that harlee santos needs
to speak to her right now.
- You can direct any of
your immediate concerns
to our community
relations department.
- This is a public safety issue.
- Call the nypd.
- I am the nypd.
- We got a stalker, ben?
She miss being handled?
- What are you, a sadist?
- Girls usually get the hint
after their first six
unanswered messages.
- You played wozniak
a copy of my wire?
You handed him a
recording of it?
- It's not yet
available on itunes.
- You promised to protect me.
- I did when you were my asset.
But you graduated, didn't you?
Congratulations.
- Oh, so this is spite?
- No, this is a high-level
conspiracy case,
and you played your part.
Take a bow. Go home.
- I can't go home,
not with you putting me
in wozniak's crosshairs.
- You'd rather see him in jail?
- He had forgiven me.
- Every asset profiles
differently...
Different triggers,
different weaknesses.
- So what, I'm
collateral damage?
- I am simply managing
my new asset.
- No. You're
dragging me back in.
- Oh, yeah, 'cause
it was such a blast
the first time around.
- So if it's not
about me, then why?
Why do you need wozniak?
You arrested me to get wozniak
to plant evidence for you.
I could've done that myself
without tearing us apart.
- Harlee, if I only
needed a dirty cop,
I'd put a doughnut on a hook.
What I need is an insider,
a personal connection.
- The mafia isn't your target.
- Gold star, detective.
- Then who is?
- Well, that's not fair.
- Hey!
- The bad guys never
stop for paperwork.
- Well, it's no fun if I
don't give 'em a head start.
- Mm, like the, uh, head
start you gave the crew
to my press conference?
I'm touched by the support, woz.
- I didn't want to
steal your spotlight
with my rugged good looks.
- Oh. Very nice.
12 years of making me look good,
and I'm wedged behind the desk.
- If you poll above 20%,
I'll put your poster up.
- Yeah? Get ready to
bust out some tacks.
- If you ever get tired
of kissing babies,
I might be willing
to take you back.
- Really?
Same lopsided desk
and everything?
- We had fun on that desk.
- But city hall has
better coffee.
- Yeah, but I got better booze.
- Hence the fun on the desk.
- Seriously...
I could use someone I can trust.
- I didn't need wozniak to
shake down the mafia, harlee.
What I need him for is
to give me the person
allowing them to operate.
Wozniak agreed to give
me whomever intervenes
on bianchi's behalf.
- Does he know who
this person is?
- I don't know; It's a big city,
and he didn't think to
carve out exclusions.
- Wozniak will plant
evidence on a criminal,
but he won't inform
on a stranger,
much less someone
he cares about.
- Why not? You did.
- God, I do miss that
feeling, though...
Right before you kick in a door,
not sure what's on
the other side.
- Nothing like it.
- Yep.
- So what's the occasion?
You here for another
photo op by the cage?
- A favor... The
off-the-books kind.
Have you signed the
file on bianchi?
- I haven't gotten
through the "a" s yet.
- Maybe you could skip ahead?
- Assault and battery.
The weapon was found
at the scene.
There's blood. There's prints.
- Woz, you really
ought to give me
a heads-up about this stuff.
- Jump on the scanner.
- You know, one of the
things you taught me
was to pick my battles.
So now let me help
you pick yours.
- No, the crew's immunity
was a condition of
wozniak's surrender.
- New deal, new conditions.
Don't worry, though. You're
still clear for now.
- How close is he
to this person?
- Close enough that
they'll never suspect.
- This was your plan all along?
- You're holding
pandora's box, woz,
and I am trying to
keep it closed.
- Is that the one
with the three bears?
- If you were to
drop the charges...
- Jules, it's done.
- I thought you
were on the "a" s.
- My hands are more
tied than his.
Trust me.
- It's... it's been
less than 24 hours.
He... he hasn't been transferred
to central booking...
- jules, listen to me.
I can't do it.
- Okay.
It's no problem.
I, um... I better
get going and, uh,
find some babies to
kiss or something.
Home safe.
- Safe tomorrow.
Son of a bitch.
- I know I made you worry.
I didn't mean to scare you.
- You were scared too, mom,
like I've... like I've
never seen you before.
And you were looking
at me like...
Like it really might be the
last time you saw my face.
- Sweetheart...
- It felt like good-bye.
And not the "see you
tomorrow" kind.
What happened?
- I thought I might
be in trouble...
The worst kind.
And I wanted you with gemma
because I needed to know
that you were safe.
- You're a cop.
What could you
have possibly done
that would get you arrested?
- It was about money.
Me, woz, and the crew,
we come across a lot
of it every day...
Money criminals made doing
bad things to good people.
- what, you stole some?
- Yes, I did.
I mean we did.
It was for miguel.
I knew that if I'd pay
him, he'd go away.
So I took money from bad people
to get a bad person
out of our lives.
- miguel? Mi'jo? Are you home?
Miguel?
Corazуn?
Hello?
Hello?
Hello!
- You paid him to go away?
- I did it for us...
For you.
- And you knew he'd take it.
- I know who he is...
Who he really is.
- he didn't even care
enough to say good-bye.
- This is on me, baby, okay?
I need you safe... Always.
And you deserved
a better father.
You know, that's my
fault, my choices.
And I'm sorry.
I mean, you deserve
somebody better than me.
- Mom, no.
- Yes.
- No.
- I don't even know how
two people like us
even made someone as
wonderful as you.
You're a miracle.
- Look, I am who I
am because of you.
You have to know that. - No.
What I know is that
I let you down,
that every time I
had a real choice,
I chose wrong.
And not because I
didn't know any better
but because I didn't trust
where the right
road would take us.
But from now on, I'm
taking the right road,
no matter how hard it is,
no matter where it takes us.
- Didn't have time to think.
The new stylist
talked me into it.
I haven't worn my hair. - this
short since I was your age.
- It looks great, linda.
Gives your face a
whole new feel.
Woz will love it, I'm sure.
- he won't even notice.
I just felt like it was
time for a change.
- Hey, cristina,
where's your mom?
- Well, you're her boss.
- You know harlee. She
likes to make an entrance.
- She wasn't home when you left?
- I don't know.
She just reminded me
about Friday dinner.
I came straight from practice.
- Did she mention where
she'd be coming from?
- Matt, this has to simmer
for at least a half hour.
I'm sure she'll be fine.
- Are you okay?
You don't seem as
chipper as usual.
- I'm just tired, I guess.
- ¶ There's always a
little bit of wrong ¶
¶ on the other side of right ¶
¶ we become blinded and drawn ¶
¶ like a moth to a light ¶
¶ it's a desert of aces ¶
¶ a shadowbox fight ¶
¶ there's always a
little bit of wrong ¶
¶ on the other side of right ¶
¶ no ¶
¶ it's not what it seems ¶
¶ no ¶
¶ this demon's down deep ¶
¶ there is a dark side ¶
¶ there is a dark side ¶
¶ there is a dark side ¶
¶ a dark side of paradise ¶
- is that your mom, hon?
- ¶ Dark side of paradise ¶
¶ there is a dark side ¶
¶ a dark side of paradise ¶
- trying to get out
of setting the table?
Woz...
Come inside.
- Where were you?
- I was stuck in
traffic on bushwick.
There was, uh,
construction on myrtle.
- On myrtle. Yeah, I heard.
Traffic... Too obvious
a lie to be a lie.
At least that's what I assume.
- It's the truth.
- People who have affairs
get stuck in traffic.
Late for school, late for work...
There's always traffic.
- It's new york.
I'm not lying.
- Well, here's a chance to
keep your streak alive.
- Why aren't you looking at me?
- Did you know?
- Know what?
- Less convincing.
I'll ask again.
Did you know?
- You can ask as many
times as you want.
If I don't know what
the question is,
I can't answer it.
- Stahl's real target.
It's julia.
- Julia who?
- Our julia.
Julia ayres.
I swear to god, harlee,
if you know and you're not...
- I-I didn't know.
It...
Are you sure? Julia?
- I thought you were
holding the nypd's leash.
- Wozniak isn't the
taking-orders type.
- So this is what, a shakedown?
Are these two cops of
yours entrepreneurs?
- I'd call it a mistake.
- This deal you made,
does it include the
crew's immunity?
Are they on the hook for this?
- Do you two think
you can play me?
- I didn't know
anything about julia.
- Do you think I could
ever be a rat like you?
- I am not in league with stahl.
He... he ruined my life.
I hate him.
- You hate him like
you love me...
When it's convenient.
- Woz... Please.
You have to believe me.
- That night at the pier,
where did you hide it?
The wire, where did you hide it?
- My daughter's inside.
- Harlee, where was it?
- This is not the
time or the place.
- God! Tell me.
Where was it?
- On my back.
- You're a smart girl.
You undress. You shame me.
You make me doubt
what I knew I knew.
- They said they would take
cristina away from me.
They said they would
put me in jail.
- You let me push
saperstein off a building.
- No, I tried to stop you!
- I killed him!
I killed him to protect you!
- Stop twisting things around.
You killed saperstein
because you were out of
control and paranoid.
I did what I did to
protect my daughter.
- Harlee... We
could've found a way.
- I can make your
troubles go away,
just like I did last time.
- Last time, I was guilty.
- Should be easier,
then, shouldn't it?
- I prefer it never happened.
- Wozniak and I go way back.
He stepped over a line,
and I can make him step
in the other direction.
- Every smile,
every conversation,
you looked me in the eyes
while you were twisting
the knife in my back.
You're a liar, you're a coward,
and you're a rat.
- You shook my hand,
and you promised me you
would handle the department
if I supported your ambitions.
In my world, that
kind of negligence
is just not tolerated.
- Now, him, he allowed
two corrupt cops
to walk right up to me
and plant a weapon.
- Is that meant to impress me?
- I just need to know...
That I have your attention.
- This is exactly why stahl
gave you the recording...
To divide us.
Don't let him.
If we just stick
together in this...
- I will never trust you again...
ever.
I'll do anything for julia.
I will not let her go down.
- Wozniak didn't do this alone.
Something or someone
gave him good reason.
That's the threat you
need to eliminate.