Street Justice (1991–1993): Season 1, Episode 19 - Eye Witness - full transcript

i have nothing for you yet sir

i told you we should have made a

reservation it doesn't matter

they won't see you here until your

entire party shows up i thought you're

gonna lie to malloy and tell her to be

here 15 minutes early

i did she has a sixth sense okay

no matter what time you tell she knows

the real time she shows up 15 minutes

late



conrad party of two conrad

what about bonjour he said get you when

he could

but what if he doesn't celebrate

his birthday without him no who's going

to pick up the bill

buddha's in show we give the bill to

malay

for her own birthday party yeah we tell

her some gifts of giving

let me check on the waiting list highs

i'll be right with you sir okay

excuse me no problem

bring the one so



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oh frank john

surprised to see me

as a matter of fact yeah

then we're even you surprised me too

what's in the envelope yeah oh it's

just trash yeah i bet it is

who's it for the schiller family tony

kim

no no you wouldn't be switching

loyalties would you

never john you and me were a team i'd

never do anything

well look why don't we get in the car

and talk about it i mean like you said

we're a team we should be able to figure

this out

though i may have to cut down on your

expense allowance

no

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grady what happened are you all right

are you all right we're fine we're fine

there's been a shooting we're fine oh

except it's gonna mess up our dinner

plans no no

there's there's no reason it has

tomorrow we can uh make our statements

to the cops and then maybe

that time pedro will be here okay

i just haven't seen many bodies before

is there a phone in the restaurant i'm

just gonna call the police okay

they're on their way

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you guys see the shooter no they'd

already bolted by the time we hit the

alley

maker model of the car uh just a pair of

taillights

they see anything ah afraid the

commissioner is not gonna be happy to

hear that

i'm sending my apologies what's without

the brass pedro

our honored victim is frank harmon

harmon virtually ran the nardi

organization

drugs gambling everything

officer would you show these two

gentlemen from the area

we've got to get this right we're going

to be reporting to the organized crime

strike force

you mean maxwell's united stand

good evening ladies and gentlemen thank

you for staying around i know it's been

a long

evening now i'll be able to answer a few

of your questions but i have to take

them one at a time just one at a time

please yes

the governor renamed them gave them a

new mandate

it's all part of the campaign to get

maxwell elected attorney general

we solve this and he gets all regret

yeah we don't worry

we blow it let us take all the blame

lieutenant excuse me but i think they've

got something

what newspaper across the street looked

up when the shots went off and he thinks

he saw a woman run out of the alley

he thinks he's 69 years old

what does he think this woman looked

like blonde dressed in bright red

figures she's probably a hooker

okay okay start questioning all the

girls you know now while they're still

on the streets

and if any of the regulars went home

early i want to know why i suspect this

was a mob actually nothing

to talk then promise them what it takes

a new identity witness relocation

anything

if they can pin this on nardi or one of

his rivals

i'll pay the price just get me something

before the strike force convenes

okay there's every indication that this

was a deliberate mob

execution and that proves how much heat

we're making them feel

now i am very confident that we will

find witnesses to this shooting and when

we do

we are going to break the mob in two no

matter what it takes it's maxwell

yes one last question

looks like you can use a coffee a jump

start is more like it

yeah this gets you halfway there because

it tastes like battery acid

i wouldn't if you cleaned out the

machine yes ma'am i was just joking

what's the matter with her i think she's

coming down with a cold

she forgot her coat last night so uh

any luck with the investigation uh

bystander thinks a hooker might have

witnessed the killing

also uh that's where you were last night

you got it not that anybody saw anything

grady didn't i ask you to bring out a

rack of wine glasses

uh yeah but i didn't think it was urgent

well it is so could you do it please so

you can go to the wholesalers

yeah okay no problem

good morning mary sunshine good morning

adam

oh whiskey and honey in a hot lemonade

what granny says he thinks you got a

cold well grady doesn't get paid to play

doctor

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anything i can do yeah you can figure

out a way for us to afford more help

no i just got up on the wrong side of

bed this morning okay

okay standing out in the coal looking

down at a corpse wasn't the way i

planned on celebrating my birthday

look tonight we can go out and we can do

everything

properly nah not necessary i'll get over

this soon enough

her car last night was she got upset nah

i didn't walk her to her car i think she

took a taxi

this killing is probably the first shot

in a war among the major crime

families in this city the nardi family

kim's group maybe even schiller's family

and we know we have a witness so we just

have to find her any questions

yes i think it was wise to tell the

press so much about the woman you're

looking for

why not maybe the heat will flush her

out or get her killed

not if she comes to us first we'll put a

platoon of state troopers on her

then after the trial is over we'll move

her a thousand miles away from here

we'll give her a new car a new condo a

new birth certificate

hell she can even lie about her age if

she wants to

the question is

why aren't you making progress we've

interviewed every working girl in the

area

they'll come up with the same answer

well we've developed a theory about that

tell him we reinterviewed the news

vendor

and he's not sure she was a hooker who

else would be in the alley

we talked to the restaurant owner this

morning he says his people use the back

door

all the time so it could have been a

patron you checked the reservation book

didn't pan out but we do have something

to narrow it down

just after our witness ran a shopkeeper

around the corner saw a car

bang into a fire hydrant while trying to

pull away

the driver was blonde and in a panic you

get a make on the car

a small red convertible where running

cars would fit that description

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i'm surprised you remembered it i didn't

until grady mentioned how cold you were

last night

why am i

a new protected witness once did i

did i ever tell you

she'd be moved about 2 000 miles

dad was in charge of her cover story and

i had to meet her so that

i could sound convincing when employers

called to see if she'd really worked

here before

and she was afraid to meet me

because the more people who knew who she

really was

the more likely she'd be to die

she lost everything

her friends

her home

her name

so i had to run i really

had to and then i had to

sneak back so that she wouldn't

wonder where i was

and figure out what i'd done

sweetheart easy

that's okay it's okay

you guys tell me what you see

john nardi and he shot the man himself

but i saw him

and no matter how hard i try it just

can't seem to make it go

away it's okay

you're not gonna let her go in she

witnessed a murder greedy

i have a duty to testify you have a duty

to stay alive and you

to help her this is not that easy

look this is my case i can't just turn

my back on it

is that your problem man you worried

about doing your job and putting nardi

away

okay

let's do it he works out of a warehouse

on the vision street we go down there we

do the job ourselves

you are out of your mind am i no

defendant

no trial no trial no need to hunt down

the witness

okay we know he's guilty and what that

gives us the right to kill him ourselves

you know sometimes i don't think i got

through to you at all

b maybe he's half right no he's all

wrong will you just listen

you let her go forward and she's gonna

die and even if she doesn't man

we are never going to see her again

thank you

thank you for your succinct analysis of

the problem adam

why don't we just do a run on him we've

done it before

now what are you trying to say i'm

saying you're with maxwell right

you're part of the team so you see them

develop a lead toward malloy or we need

tracks away from her

survival and invasion just like man man

nobody dies we testifies

yeah right right we just conveniently

forget that i'm a cop

you're the one who said it loyalty is to

the squad not

the generals besides even if they put

nadia away

chances are he'd walk anyway

what about you you have something you

want to add to this yes

if i knew what to do i'd be doing it and

when i

figure it out i will

where are you going to work

maybe i can find an answer there

just remember you got some choices

no we're not gonna solve this by murder

and we're not gonna sabotage this

investigation

somehow we're gonna find an answer that

we can all live with

now do i have your word you won't make a

move until i get back here

do i

i got some errands to run wanna give me

a hand

i thought you'd never ask

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i hear you've been asking about me i

actually know

we've been asking about frank carman and

jenae mckeep coming up

hey he's dead that's all i know and it's

all i want to know

that's not what we're here yeah i don't

care what you hear

what's with him he's one of those

martial arts guys

looks like he got kicked in the head one

time too many

actually not too far off he used to

break bricks with his forehead lots of

bricks

now he just don't talk much well that's

something him and me have in common

what the hell is he doing look he's

relieving tension you're making him

nervous

what what am i doing you're not

answering my questions

what do you want to know

adam just got a call about frank harmon

seems he was making nightly visits

downtown always wanted the same address

caller leave a name didn't want us to

know where he was either

had so much cloth on the phone i had to

get him to repeat the address

check this out uh

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descriptions

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foreign

hey come here

police give up now

somebody gets hurt

give up now because you want to or later

because i have to

who are you as soon as how i'm the guy

with the badge

let's turn that around who are you i'm

i'm terry harmon i'm frank's brother

and he was keeping you down there

because you're an addict him and a guy

named sandusky were trying to clean me

up

and i was making it to it i really was

and

then they killed frank oh

come on tell me terry well you know it

tore frank up inside to see me go down

especially when he found out i was

buying coke from nadi's dealer

it turned him completely around man he

started talking

that's why they iced him he was talking

to someone inside the police

where you going i'll be fine no

boudreau can figure it out so can nerdy

well i can't just nail my door shut and

call it a day

nobody's asking you to just just ask you

to lay low for a couple weeks this thing

goes over

what makes you think it will you know i

haven't decided i'm not going to testify

i'm just trying to work through the

implications implications

okay try this one on this isn't your

fight are you sure

my father was a policeman and he never

backed down from anything

i'll be all right i'll see in an hour

okay

like hell you will if you're gonna go

we're gonna go too

they're on the move let's roll

oh what a great day we got fresh air

birds first in the sky

a couple guys dressed like workmen

following us about a block back

where that was something you wouldn't

say that why

because there's two more in front of us

all right malloy take the next left and

head for fong's loading dog

okay what are you gonna do please do it

it'll be a lot safer for everybody

i think

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keep walking go go go

let me go

oh

wow

you want to help us out here please draw

your weapon now

okay organize your crime strike force

you're under arrest

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me too man you're coming with us

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any reasonable explanation

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will you please tell me what the hell is

going on here those people ambushed my

men without any provocation they say

they were minding their own business

you want to tell me what that was going

on that particular question has already

been asked

why'd you bring them in here they put

two of my tails in the hospital why were

they being tailed in the first place

that's none of your concern

look you made it my concern okay

boudreaux you want to know why

because you were the first officer on

the scene and you haven't found any

witnesses

you've been spending 20 hours a day on

the street and you haven't filed any

field reports

and now your friends are starting act

damn kinky

because they were being followed is that

it

or are they working as messengers for

you

what's that supposed to mean didn't arty

get to you

you got to be kidding me it's happened

plenty of times before boutrow

i've traced six cops at least onto his

payroll

dead end maxwell believe me okay

let's try another track maybe you are

trying to bite off some of the glory for

yourself huh boutrow

you're trying to find a witness behind

my back and spring her to the press

yourself

you know your mind is truly an amazing

thing that's a non-answer

the answer is no well then where is my

witness

believe me if i had a witness that was

ready to testify

i'd bring them in here you know maybe if

your men start working the streets

instead of following my officer's

friends around

they'd find one for you themselves

just a thought

no either you're gonna charge them or

you're gonna let me get them the hell

out of here before the press starts

wondering if they really do know

something about this

and thanks just take care of yourself

okay

and next time anything suspicious please

call the police

i appreciate you backing me up don't

thank me

i figured i owed one to malloy's father

what's that got to do with this

molloy's blonde and she owns a red

convertible

yeah we'll show you a lot of other women

in the city and this morning we found a

witness who can place her in the alley

that night

before the shooting no but it makes me

wonder

particularly since you never mentioned

her at all

adam if you've got a plan i'd better

work fast

i need a few more days on this and i

can't give them to you

i'm telling maxwell tomorrow morning at

8 a.m for your sick as well as mine

before you do you got to help me out

here charlie

name it i'll try i need to see frank

harmon's informant file

i beg your pardon come on you know

everything he passed to the department

documents photos interview reports what

are you talking about

i've seen everything we've got on this

case harman never talked to the police

the other night i was late i knew that

miguel and grady would be waiting for me

so

i ran a yellow light i always stopped

for them

but that night i just couldn't stand the

idea of being another minute late so i

barreled right through

one lousy minute my whole life has

changed forever

don't worry we'll get it back to normal

but i hate this

fence setting

i know what i should do

but i just can't bring myself to do it

no need to not just yet anyway

adam i'm sick of watching you risk your

badge for me

patrol here hey girls

great i'll be right over

stay here until i get back okay i think

i may have found a way out of this

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you sure you're locked up positive

i got ourselves an intruder

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you're really gonna have to tell your

people to start identifying themselves

what are you doing in my office i'm not

sure you want to talk about that in

public

these men work for me all the more

reason

guys

all right sergeant explain

i'm here with a search warrant

and just what is it you're looking for

proof that you got frank harmon killed

you're crazy

you know you could save me a lot of time

and effort i'm not saving you anything

your choice what do you think you're

doing

i'm looking for your file on frank

harmon i have no

file on frank harmon no

this brother says he was talking to the

police well then you ought to know

nah see i figure

he skipped right by the local boys we

weren't important enough for him

guy like harmon he won't go right to the

top

i'm giving you one last chance pedro you

leave now or your career is over

not mine pal you're the guy who blew it

i don't know what you mean sure you do

you were so afraid you'd have to share

the glory when harmon came to you

that you kept them all yourself you

didn't even use a cover team to protect

him

no you'll never prove that you wanted to

spring a sensational case during the

election but instead you lost your

chance to take nardi down and you got

harm and killed

didn't you

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get out of here

times and places of mail drops

codenames

and lists the documents you wanted him

to get for you

yeah you want me to leave sure i'll

leave no wait a minute

what are you gonna do with that i'm

gonna try to make sure

that frank harmon didn't die for nothing

and see to her that nobody else does

either

come back here patrol come here patrol

give me lieutenant pine i want to talk

to him now

malloy we've been talking

we got something we want to try on you

if we say it's crazy

we just want you to think about it okay

okay

what if you uh decide

to testify and they put you in one of

those witness programs

when you got settled you could contact

us

and we'd move there move there

like to live there so you wouldn't be

alone

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you guys are great

i i don't think it would be a good

why idea because if nardi really wanted

to find me

he'd just put tails on everybody and you

could end up leading him to my front

door

oh let's be careful yeah

i know you would be

but i'll be safer if you stay put

hello now i haven't seen pedro for a

while kelsey

what

yeah i will i i will

what what happened oh man maxwell's

claiming that pedro broke into his

office and stole

his files on the harmon murder there's

an apb out on him

nerdy what you said he's looking for

another way out if you left maxwell

walking around it can't be maxwell

that's got to be nardi right buddha's

crazier than i am

he's going to try to take nadia down and

he's going to do it alone

miguel you said that nobody works out of

a warehouse on uh division street right

yeah

let's go to division street

so we got a deal huh

you happy four cases the akms

you stand aside south of 10th street you

got it man

take care

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lock it up i'll be in the office

close that door slowly and don't call

out to you men

very nice very nice now move it easy

why officer boudreau

you know who i am of course

you're the first cop in the frank harmon

murder scene

surprised police department has a lot of

files

activity reports uh corner transcripts

so there's usually a leak and if i can't

find one i make one

kind of keeps me up to date on

everything

you think so

read this

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glasses

frank harmon's informant file in case

you're wondering

i left a copy with a friend

how did yeah get this simple i just

pulled up in my sock drawer

it's mine no

no you're too small a fish yeah that was

the problem

i wanted a promotion so i

found frank's little brother you know it

twisted him real good too

that's how i got to frank frank was

making the drop to you

you mean the whole time i was sweating

this thing i was only up against you

you still are there may not be enough in

there

to indict you but there's plenty to make

your life real and convenient

so you want me to put you on the list

pay a big price at least you could do

don't you think

seeing as how you ruined my chances for

my big promotion

well yeah i could put you on the tab

but then like you said there's very

little in that file to convict me and i

didn't take the risk of killing frank

harmon myself

to have you come back and haunt me put

the gun in the basket

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you all right yeah i'm all right check

him stop us bleeding

don't

okay okay you won the lottery

now what do you want a plea to 15 years

without the possibility of parole

what you know i couldn't figure out how

to touch you and then i remember that

maxwell suggested i was a crooked cop

it occurred to me if he could suggest

that i could damn sure make you believe

it

you're wearing a wire

you'd never expect that from a crooked

cop would you

all i wanted was your admission that you

killed frank harmon and i got that

i'd take the plea if i were you mr nardi

because if you go to trial

you're facing 20 to life

adam you're all right did the guys find

you

in the nick of time

what's that in your hand my dad's badge

i brought along for luck

i've been sitting in my car for the past

hour trying to work out the courage to

go in

i know

have you been watching yeah

it took you long enough but you made up

your mind yeah i have

i'm gonna testify just always remember

that it was your decision

don't you try and talk me out of this

i'm not

i just don't think maxwell's going to

want to talk to you

he's too busy planning his press

conference

wait his press conference

yeah seems john nardi took a plea for

the murder of frank harmon

they don't need witnesses malloy there

isn't going to be a trial

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you