Street Justice (1991–1993): Season 2, Episode 10 - Remember Me - full transcript
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help me
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hey man
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but i have to eat before the game tio's
okay no no i hate tails let's go to the
grill don't you get tired of that place
i love the grill let's go to the grill
all right the grill
any available unit code 245 the alley
east of first and elm see the man miguel
mendez witness on the scene
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mendez what happened
somebody's beating him up he took off
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what's wrong
what's wrong with you you know
he's my father
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you know maybe i thought you were an
orphan
joe was my foster father i had about a
dozen of them over the years
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he and catherine his wife uh
they were really special people yeah how
long
how long are you with them a couple
years
it's two laps years of my childhood
right up to leanne
that's the first time i ever had my own
room
i really thought they were gonna adopt
me
what happened i don't know
i just woke up one morning just like any
other morning went to school and dad
joe said he was gonna come by and pick
me up afterwards and
and i was showed up
social worker she came by got me instead
took me to another house
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oh and then they never told you why
not a word
you must have cried my eyes out for
about a month afterward
after all these years yeah you ever just
try and look them up
obviously they didn't care about me or
they would have looked me up
dr thomas
i'm dr hunt mr johnson's in my care
i'm detective budreau how is he
suffered a severe beating and he's still
unconscious but his vitals are stable
is he gonna pull through i can't make
any guarantees but i think so
at his age we really just have to wait
and see look it's really
important that i talk to him
i'd appreciate a call uh as soon as he
wakes up
certainly i don't know if they're still
married or
even if she's alive but i need his
current address asap
no no that's johnson ot adam
i'm uh i'm gonna give this one to
rothman and kelsey considering
look i don't have a problem here you
know it's just another case
then it won't make a difference if i
give it to someone else
call me back all right charlie
i was the only officer on the scene i'm
the logical choice
i'm okay detective sergeant pedro
phone call line three
857 franklin
who reported the missing person
i owe you one thanks for the rush
hey why didn't you tell me you were
coming i'm on my way out oh it's cool
i'm not here to see you i gotta
find some witness report or something oh
you know i just got an address on the
victim he lives over near you on
franklin
you ever see him before
and you still can't remember anything on
the perp like told he was or the color
of his hair
sorry man i didn't get a good look at
him come on miguel you must have seen
something
if i seen something i tell you you know
that
i know i'm sorry all right is it true is
he your father
no no
yes mr gristin
yeah what can i do for you i understand
you filed a missing person's report on
joseph johnson
i sure did it's about time you showed up
come on in
is this some sort of apartment house uh
it's what we call a
board and care mr johnson look there
yeah do you have any idea what happened
to him i'm afraid he was attacked just
yesterday not too far from here
well is he okay yeah he probably will be
yeah
he's not able to help with the
investigation yet i'd like to see his
room
oh yeah you sure right right this way
it's really quite sad the
people here have no place else to go but
we take good care of them like my dad
and i
except when he takes off in the middle
of the night to go fishing and leaves me
with all the work for two or three days
this is sort of a foster home for
seniors oh yeah yeah i guess it is
uh watch your head here i feel bad
joe getting hurt like that i should have
kept a closer eye on him
it's just that people here are free to
come and go as they please and you don't
want to interfere with them too much if
you know what i mean
when was the last time you saw mr
johnson oh
a couple of days ago he's uh
not all there he doesn't talk much and
then when he does it really doesn't make
that much sense
he's a nice guy he just has a screw
loose
naturally i was concerned when he didn't
come home
well his room is just through here
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so
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does he live here alone yes he does
did he ever mention a wife and i don't
think so
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did he ever mention him any children
if he did i never heard him
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are you sure don't mention at all
afraid not it's not
much to show for a lifetime huh
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so
what was that
nothing
grady said they called over an hour ago
to tell you joe was awake why aren't you
at the hospital
i'll get there
adam talk to me
come on talk to me
i'm having a lot of trouble handling
this
and i didn't think i would
i don't know how to feel about all this
about him
it's all right to feel bad
it's more than that
every time i think about him
oh man i feel like a child
that's because that little boy never had
a chance to heal
unless you take care of him and work
things out with joe he never will heal
did you know he was living here no
i was 10 years old the last time i saw
him
he was going off to work he said i'll be
good i'll take you to a game on saturday
well give him a chance to explain
explain what
why they dumped me why
why why they didn't even try to call me
i don't want him to explain i don't care
anymore i don't want to know
adam my dad was taken from me and i'd do
anything i'd walk from here to the moon
to spend five more minutes with him
now you loved him yes you did you liar
now you've got your second chance don't
blow it
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for years i practiced what i was going
to say to you when i finally saw you in
i can't remember any of it
you used to say to me if someone dug a
hole
deep enough they'd end up in china
my next foster home you wouldn't believe
the whole i dug
and i remember everything you said
who are you
i'm adam
remember me adam bedrock
good you're awake
how are you feeling i've got to get out
of here
he'll find me who'll find
that's you he says we've been delusional
since he woke up
it could be the beating but i think it's
more likely that he was alzheimer's
alzheimer's how bad is he
really need to observe a patient over a
period of time
i saw the whole thing what did you see
he murdered him with a knife i saw the
whole thing
i saw the whole thing that doesn't sound
delusional to me
i saw the whole thing
the clock winds down the crowd is on its
feet
roth rothman five four
three two it's all up at this last
attempt by rothman the whole season
comes down to this one shot by the
league's greatest player
he aims and shoots oh
personal foul we're gonna need a judge's
ruling on this one
uh they told me i could find detective
boudreau here you can
but uh he's in with lieutenant pine is
it urgent
uh no no just tell him frank kirsten
came by to give him this
uh search team came by took everything
out to joe's room but i found this in
the basement i thought it might help the
case
no problemo all right thanks a lot
i believe him he saw a murder and that's
why he was attacked
you're trying to convince me that this
elderly man with pardon me a mind like a
sieve
was attacked because he witnessed the
murder even though you admit there's no
body no weapon no motivation and no
evidence
if it was a simple mugging and why did
the attacker beat you so viciously
if miguel hadn't been that joke be dead
look i know you think my connection to
this case is clouding my judgment but
i'm telling you there was a murder here
okay i'll give you 24 hours to produce
evidence that this was more than a
simple mugging but if you don't
i'm gonna have to take you off the case
over here hard at work oh sorry
uh a frank gersten left this for you so
he found it in the basement
any candy or money
this kid sort of looks like you
it was me i won't tell
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now you look happy here this is one of
the few happy memories of my childhood
must have meant a lot to joe i mean he
kept the picture all this time
visiting hours aren't over yet
go see
so joe
do you remember this
it was taken the day you won little
league coach of the year
we were at the banquet together
we uh we won our first pennant that year
remember
was the first time you'd ever want it
yeah we played the last game of the
season you
coached me to hit my first home run you
remember that
home run
yeah it was my first home run
i'm thirsty
okay
all right
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um
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hmm
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whatever he saw it's made him a target
don't worry
i'll transfer him to general under john
doe i want to take him home
adam needs protection we can post a unit
outside my place look i
just don't want him in a hospital
okay
carter to radiology
hey hey i think uh joe maybe you should
lie down huh yeah i'm just about ready
you go joe you want to lay down
hi got here as soon as i could hey
thanks
i don't expect any trouble but if
there's anything that happens there's a
unit right outside
i'm a cop's daughter i think i know the
drill
i'll be here for a while all right
thanks
where have you been
um at the bar
you know i don't approve of those places
i told you i don't want you hanging
around there
maybe it's the alzheimer's maybe he
thinks you're someone else
who i don't know
if he recognizes you maybe
maybe he'll talk we'll talk about what
battle attacked him if you can't get a
name just
get a description okay
hi joe it's me
can you tell me who hurt you
after sleep now
he has to sleep now
oh let me go
what's happening i need your help hey
we already told you man we never saw
that guy before look
this is off the record all right
something went down that uh
the police don't know about trying to
piece it together any of you guys
hear anything about a dead body somebody
stashing a body somewhere
no what about someone trying to hold up
somewhere with a knife
well you think there's a body somewhere
around here
yeah um espanos
don't listen to him okay this plant is a
ghost house it's supposed to be haunted
man
laugh all you want okay i saw somebody
in there
and he had a shovel you know this place
yeah i know this place
i thought you didn't believe in ghosts i
don't whoo
come on man we've lived in every room in
there we haven't found a dead body
right all right let's go
do you see something
maybe somebody's planting bulbs
or a dead body
how long was it in here the coroner says
two maybe three days
we need an id on him as soon as possible
hey pedro there's something else in here
i just can't believe that after all
these years he's here in my house and
i can't get through him why don't you go
dry
i don't want to wake him up adam just go
talk to him
what if i finally get through to him and
he doesn't want to talk to me
i don't think that'll happen of course
you just have to take that chance
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you said to me one time that um
you said i was the best thing that ever
happened to you
i never told you this but
you're the best thing that ever happened
to me
why'd you let me go why
we got an idea on our uh john doe his
name is frank gersten
that's the guy that operates support and
care junior
stiff as frank senior as father when i
visited frank jr he said that he and his
father ran the place
so joe knew frank
it gets worse the prince on the knife
they're joes
i can't be i'm sorry adam but uh
you're gonna have to bring him in i know
joe
he couldn't have killed anyone you're a
kid the last time you saw him
the joe i remember was incapable of
murder he deserted you
now how well could you have known him
listen i hate to be the one to issue the
order but the prosecutor wants him
brought in
joe's sick he's old you really want me
to drag him down here throw him into a
cell he'll go straight to the infirmary
i'll um i'll send rothman to go pick him
up
no i do my own dirty work
ah thank you
it'd be you want a coffee i got trouble
what's going on pine wants me to arrest
joe
for what his fingerprints were found on
the knife at the scene
oh come on he's too weak to have done
something like that
dear doesn't think so this doesn't make
sense all right why aren't they out
there trying to find the real killer
calm down fine
are you just gonna sit there while joe
gets jerked around by the system
if he's not at my place when i get there
then i can't arrest him
why wouldn't he be there he's at your
you know i got an hour to kill if you
get some errands to run
yeah um i'll take my break
all right i'll see you later
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detective i'm sorry about your father
i can't believe it it was so sudden
he was a great father i'm sure he was
do you have any leads on who did this
i can't discuss an ongoing investigation
but i would like to talk to some of the
residents
i understand uh but you're gonna have to
come back
they're all asleep that can't be there
was someone in the window upstairs they
were watching
uh mr smith
mr smith see it's like i told you they
take a nap same time every day
what's all the commotion out here
hello i'm detective pedro
i'm with the police department well now
i think we can assume if you're a
detective
you would be working for the police
department
yeah i'd like to ask a few questions if
i may
you may when was the last time
you saw mr joseph johnson a few days ago
and oh i do hope he comes back soon mr
smith and i are the only ones left now
and there used to be so many people here
do you remember which day you saw mr
johnson last
um yes it was friday no uh
it was saturday i remember because i i
was looking forward to
to hearing the church balance the next
morning and i happened to mention it to
him
and what did he say oh nothing he
he just smiled and went off for his walk
he
loved walking do you remember mr johnson
saying anything about
problems with anyone problems
no when was the last time you saw mr
gersten
i saw him uh no
i'm sorry i i can't recall
you can't remember everything mrs
lambert i'm sorry i'm gonna have to
break this up
we do have rules to follow why don't you
finish your nap
and uh then we'll have a nice cup of tea
all right
okay thank you very much for your time
mrs lambert
you're welcome detective
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could you run an address jack for me
please i need to know how many people
were issued social security checks last
month at 857 franklin avenue
i called the infirmary to check on
johnson's condition they never heard of
him
ah i didn't make the arrest charlie
and i'll send for someone who cares
he won't be there he's on vacation with
grady
is going to be all over me and i won't
be able to protect you you dissipate a
direct order
of joe's not the one you want i think
frank jr's running some kind of scam and
somehow his father was killed because of
it
what kind of a scam i'm not sure yet
but i'm getting close charlie okay even
if he is running a scam how does that
connect him to his father's death
i don't know but i was just over there
and something's not right
just let me stay on this maybe i can
rattle him see what happens
if i don't tie this up by tonight
i'll bring joe in first thing tomorrow
don't you lose your badge over this adam
no no don't hurt me
joe wake up wake up to wake up
wake up he murdered them all of them
who murdered them he tried to kill me
but i got the knife away
i didn't mean to hurt him who did you
hurt joe
frank i killed frank i didn't mean to
i was just trying to get away it's okay
joe it's okay
according to social security 16 people
live at the gersten house and cash the
checks monthly
and you can verify how many residents
three including joe
so they were running a scam
something doesn't fit a mortuary
requires a death certificate which is
reported to the government
so then the checks would stop which
means that either gersten has a partner
inside one of the government
agencies or at a mortuary or or they
aren't using a mortuary
b can i talk to you a minute if it has
any bearing on this case
i want to hear it
joe just told me that he killed gersten
he says it was in self-defense
fine yeah
i'll be right there
they just found more bodies in the house
we found three more inside that takes
the body count to five
two of them have knife wounds
if joe and i find in self-defense and
rand and who buried frank
frank jr and to keep him quiet junior
would have to kill him
right and he'd have to kill anybody else
that might know something
i don't know what's gotten into frank
lately
he knows you can't eat that unless it's
cutting quarters
this won't do where's that fruit life
now i remember the last time
i saw frank senior was saturday morning
joe had just left for his blog and i had
peeled myself an
apple and frank senior came in took the
knife
and then he hurried out after joe
maybe frank's senior knows where joe is
hello mrs lambert
frank do you have the telephone number
of that detective
you see i can answer his questions now
you're not calling anyone
come with me please yes where are we
going
frank mrs lambert shut up
oh but frank i don't understand
come on mrs lambert get down there or do
you want to bounce down
face first there you go
mr smith please follow mrs lambert
thank you that's right
you're doing fine
why are you doing this frankie
i'm just doing a little house cleaning
mrs lambert
i think he's already split i hope not
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what
excuse me
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well that was a mistake
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you okay mrs lambert mr smith
thanks guys
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hi
how is he no doctor came by and said
he's doing fine
we can start looking for a nursing home
in the morning uh look
i'd like a few minutes to load more than
you mind not at all
i'll be in the coffee shop
you're the policeman who helped me
yes sir you have to help me find someone
my son
i have a son he's 10 years old
they took him away because my wife left
me
they said i couldn't take care of him
myself but i can
i love him he's all i got you
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it's just they won't tell me where they
put him
they won't tell me help me find him
he's all i got
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help me fight we'll find him
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i promise we will find him
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you
help me
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hey man
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but i have to eat before the game tio's
okay no no i hate tails let's go to the
grill don't you get tired of that place
i love the grill let's go to the grill
all right the grill
any available unit code 245 the alley
east of first and elm see the man miguel
mendez witness on the scene
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mendez what happened
somebody's beating him up he took off
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what's wrong
what's wrong with you you know
he's my father
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you know maybe i thought you were an
orphan
joe was my foster father i had about a
dozen of them over the years
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he and catherine his wife uh
they were really special people yeah how
long
how long are you with them a couple
years
it's two laps years of my childhood
right up to leanne
that's the first time i ever had my own
room
i really thought they were gonna adopt
me
what happened i don't know
i just woke up one morning just like any
other morning went to school and dad
joe said he was gonna come by and pick
me up afterwards and
and i was showed up
social worker she came by got me instead
took me to another house
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oh and then they never told you why
not a word
you must have cried my eyes out for
about a month afterward
after all these years yeah you ever just
try and look them up
obviously they didn't care about me or
they would have looked me up
dr thomas
i'm dr hunt mr johnson's in my care
i'm detective budreau how is he
suffered a severe beating and he's still
unconscious but his vitals are stable
is he gonna pull through i can't make
any guarantees but i think so
at his age we really just have to wait
and see look it's really
important that i talk to him
i'd appreciate a call uh as soon as he
wakes up
certainly i don't know if they're still
married or
even if she's alive but i need his
current address asap
no no that's johnson ot adam
i'm uh i'm gonna give this one to
rothman and kelsey considering
look i don't have a problem here you
know it's just another case
then it won't make a difference if i
give it to someone else
call me back all right charlie
i was the only officer on the scene i'm
the logical choice
i'm okay detective sergeant pedro
phone call line three
857 franklin
who reported the missing person
i owe you one thanks for the rush
hey why didn't you tell me you were
coming i'm on my way out oh it's cool
i'm not here to see you i gotta
find some witness report or something oh
you know i just got an address on the
victim he lives over near you on
franklin
you ever see him before
and you still can't remember anything on
the perp like told he was or the color
of his hair
sorry man i didn't get a good look at
him come on miguel you must have seen
something
if i seen something i tell you you know
that
i know i'm sorry all right is it true is
he your father
no no
yes mr gristin
yeah what can i do for you i understand
you filed a missing person's report on
joseph johnson
i sure did it's about time you showed up
come on in
is this some sort of apartment house uh
it's what we call a
board and care mr johnson look there
yeah do you have any idea what happened
to him i'm afraid he was attacked just
yesterday not too far from here
well is he okay yeah he probably will be
yeah
he's not able to help with the
investigation yet i'd like to see his
room
oh yeah you sure right right this way
it's really quite sad the
people here have no place else to go but
we take good care of them like my dad
and i
except when he takes off in the middle
of the night to go fishing and leaves me
with all the work for two or three days
this is sort of a foster home for
seniors oh yeah yeah i guess it is
uh watch your head here i feel bad
joe getting hurt like that i should have
kept a closer eye on him
it's just that people here are free to
come and go as they please and you don't
want to interfere with them too much if
you know what i mean
when was the last time you saw mr
johnson oh
a couple of days ago he's uh
not all there he doesn't talk much and
then when he does it really doesn't make
that much sense
he's a nice guy he just has a screw
loose
naturally i was concerned when he didn't
come home
well his room is just through here
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does he live here alone yes he does
did he ever mention a wife and i don't
think so
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did he ever mention him any children
if he did i never heard him
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are you sure don't mention at all
afraid not it's not
much to show for a lifetime huh
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so
what was that
nothing
grady said they called over an hour ago
to tell you joe was awake why aren't you
at the hospital
i'll get there
adam talk to me
come on talk to me
i'm having a lot of trouble handling
this
and i didn't think i would
i don't know how to feel about all this
about him
it's all right to feel bad
it's more than that
every time i think about him
oh man i feel like a child
that's because that little boy never had
a chance to heal
unless you take care of him and work
things out with joe he never will heal
did you know he was living here no
i was 10 years old the last time i saw
him
he was going off to work he said i'll be
good i'll take you to a game on saturday
well give him a chance to explain
explain what
why they dumped me why
why why they didn't even try to call me
i don't want him to explain i don't care
anymore i don't want to know
adam my dad was taken from me and i'd do
anything i'd walk from here to the moon
to spend five more minutes with him
now you loved him yes you did you liar
now you've got your second chance don't
blow it
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for years i practiced what i was going
to say to you when i finally saw you in
i can't remember any of it
you used to say to me if someone dug a
hole
deep enough they'd end up in china
my next foster home you wouldn't believe
the whole i dug
and i remember everything you said
who are you
i'm adam
remember me adam bedrock
good you're awake
how are you feeling i've got to get out
of here
he'll find me who'll find
that's you he says we've been delusional
since he woke up
it could be the beating but i think it's
more likely that he was alzheimer's
alzheimer's how bad is he
really need to observe a patient over a
period of time
i saw the whole thing what did you see
he murdered him with a knife i saw the
whole thing
i saw the whole thing that doesn't sound
delusional to me
i saw the whole thing
the clock winds down the crowd is on its
feet
roth rothman five four
three two it's all up at this last
attempt by rothman the whole season
comes down to this one shot by the
league's greatest player
he aims and shoots oh
personal foul we're gonna need a judge's
ruling on this one
uh they told me i could find detective
boudreau here you can
but uh he's in with lieutenant pine is
it urgent
uh no no just tell him frank kirsten
came by to give him this
uh search team came by took everything
out to joe's room but i found this in
the basement i thought it might help the
case
no problemo all right thanks a lot
i believe him he saw a murder and that's
why he was attacked
you're trying to convince me that this
elderly man with pardon me a mind like a
sieve
was attacked because he witnessed the
murder even though you admit there's no
body no weapon no motivation and no
evidence
if it was a simple mugging and why did
the attacker beat you so viciously
if miguel hadn't been that joke be dead
look i know you think my connection to
this case is clouding my judgment but
i'm telling you there was a murder here
okay i'll give you 24 hours to produce
evidence that this was more than a
simple mugging but if you don't
i'm gonna have to take you off the case
over here hard at work oh sorry
uh a frank gersten left this for you so
he found it in the basement
any candy or money
this kid sort of looks like you
it was me i won't tell
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now you look happy here this is one of
the few happy memories of my childhood
must have meant a lot to joe i mean he
kept the picture all this time
visiting hours aren't over yet
go see
so joe
do you remember this
it was taken the day you won little
league coach of the year
we were at the banquet together
we uh we won our first pennant that year
remember
was the first time you'd ever want it
yeah we played the last game of the
season you
coached me to hit my first home run you
remember that
home run
yeah it was my first home run
i'm thirsty
okay
all right
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whatever he saw it's made him a target
don't worry
i'll transfer him to general under john
doe i want to take him home
adam needs protection we can post a unit
outside my place look i
just don't want him in a hospital
okay
carter to radiology
hey hey i think uh joe maybe you should
lie down huh yeah i'm just about ready
you go joe you want to lay down
hi got here as soon as i could hey
thanks
i don't expect any trouble but if
there's anything that happens there's a
unit right outside
i'm a cop's daughter i think i know the
drill
i'll be here for a while all right
thanks
where have you been
um at the bar
you know i don't approve of those places
i told you i don't want you hanging
around there
maybe it's the alzheimer's maybe he
thinks you're someone else
who i don't know
if he recognizes you maybe
maybe he'll talk we'll talk about what
battle attacked him if you can't get a
name just
get a description okay
hi joe it's me
can you tell me who hurt you
after sleep now
he has to sleep now
oh let me go
what's happening i need your help hey
we already told you man we never saw
that guy before look
this is off the record all right
something went down that uh
the police don't know about trying to
piece it together any of you guys
hear anything about a dead body somebody
stashing a body somewhere
no what about someone trying to hold up
somewhere with a knife
well you think there's a body somewhere
around here
yeah um espanos
don't listen to him okay this plant is a
ghost house it's supposed to be haunted
man
laugh all you want okay i saw somebody
in there
and he had a shovel you know this place
yeah i know this place
i thought you didn't believe in ghosts i
don't whoo
come on man we've lived in every room in
there we haven't found a dead body
right all right let's go
do you see something
maybe somebody's planting bulbs
or a dead body
how long was it in here the coroner says
two maybe three days
we need an id on him as soon as possible
hey pedro there's something else in here
i just can't believe that after all
these years he's here in my house and
i can't get through him why don't you go
dry
i don't want to wake him up adam just go
talk to him
what if i finally get through to him and
he doesn't want to talk to me
i don't think that'll happen of course
you just have to take that chance
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you said to me one time that um
you said i was the best thing that ever
happened to you
i never told you this but
you're the best thing that ever happened
to me
why'd you let me go why
we got an idea on our uh john doe his
name is frank gersten
that's the guy that operates support and
care junior
stiff as frank senior as father when i
visited frank jr he said that he and his
father ran the place
so joe knew frank
it gets worse the prince on the knife
they're joes
i can't be i'm sorry adam but uh
you're gonna have to bring him in i know
joe
he couldn't have killed anyone you're a
kid the last time you saw him
the joe i remember was incapable of
murder he deserted you
now how well could you have known him
listen i hate to be the one to issue the
order but the prosecutor wants him
brought in
joe's sick he's old you really want me
to drag him down here throw him into a
cell he'll go straight to the infirmary
i'll um i'll send rothman to go pick him
up
no i do my own dirty work
ah thank you
it'd be you want a coffee i got trouble
what's going on pine wants me to arrest
joe
for what his fingerprints were found on
the knife at the scene
oh come on he's too weak to have done
something like that
dear doesn't think so this doesn't make
sense all right why aren't they out
there trying to find the real killer
calm down fine
are you just gonna sit there while joe
gets jerked around by the system
if he's not at my place when i get there
then i can't arrest him
why wouldn't he be there he's at your
you know i got an hour to kill if you
get some errands to run
yeah um i'll take my break
all right i'll see you later
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detective i'm sorry about your father
i can't believe it it was so sudden
he was a great father i'm sure he was
do you have any leads on who did this
i can't discuss an ongoing investigation
but i would like to talk to some of the
residents
i understand uh but you're gonna have to
come back
they're all asleep that can't be there
was someone in the window upstairs they
were watching
uh mr smith
mr smith see it's like i told you they
take a nap same time every day
what's all the commotion out here
hello i'm detective pedro
i'm with the police department well now
i think we can assume if you're a
detective
you would be working for the police
department
yeah i'd like to ask a few questions if
i may
you may when was the last time
you saw mr joseph johnson a few days ago
and oh i do hope he comes back soon mr
smith and i are the only ones left now
and there used to be so many people here
do you remember which day you saw mr
johnson last
um yes it was friday no uh
it was saturday i remember because i i
was looking forward to
to hearing the church balance the next
morning and i happened to mention it to
him
and what did he say oh nothing he
he just smiled and went off for his walk
he
loved walking do you remember mr johnson
saying anything about
problems with anyone problems
no when was the last time you saw mr
gersten
i saw him uh no
i'm sorry i i can't recall
you can't remember everything mrs
lambert i'm sorry i'm gonna have to
break this up
we do have rules to follow why don't you
finish your nap
and uh then we'll have a nice cup of tea
all right
okay thank you very much for your time
mrs lambert
you're welcome detective
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could you run an address jack for me
please i need to know how many people
were issued social security checks last
month at 857 franklin avenue
i called the infirmary to check on
johnson's condition they never heard of
him
ah i didn't make the arrest charlie
and i'll send for someone who cares
he won't be there he's on vacation with
grady
is going to be all over me and i won't
be able to protect you you dissipate a
direct order
of joe's not the one you want i think
frank jr's running some kind of scam and
somehow his father was killed because of
it
what kind of a scam i'm not sure yet
but i'm getting close charlie okay even
if he is running a scam how does that
connect him to his father's death
i don't know but i was just over there
and something's not right
just let me stay on this maybe i can
rattle him see what happens
if i don't tie this up by tonight
i'll bring joe in first thing tomorrow
don't you lose your badge over this adam
no no don't hurt me
joe wake up wake up to wake up
wake up he murdered them all of them
who murdered them he tried to kill me
but i got the knife away
i didn't mean to hurt him who did you
hurt joe
frank i killed frank i didn't mean to
i was just trying to get away it's okay
joe it's okay
according to social security 16 people
live at the gersten house and cash the
checks monthly
and you can verify how many residents
three including joe
so they were running a scam
something doesn't fit a mortuary
requires a death certificate which is
reported to the government
so then the checks would stop which
means that either gersten has a partner
inside one of the government
agencies or at a mortuary or or they
aren't using a mortuary
b can i talk to you a minute if it has
any bearing on this case
i want to hear it
joe just told me that he killed gersten
he says it was in self-defense
fine yeah
i'll be right there
they just found more bodies in the house
we found three more inside that takes
the body count to five
two of them have knife wounds
if joe and i find in self-defense and
rand and who buried frank
frank jr and to keep him quiet junior
would have to kill him
right and he'd have to kill anybody else
that might know something
i don't know what's gotten into frank
lately
he knows you can't eat that unless it's
cutting quarters
this won't do where's that fruit life
now i remember the last time
i saw frank senior was saturday morning
joe had just left for his blog and i had
peeled myself an
apple and frank senior came in took the
knife
and then he hurried out after joe
maybe frank's senior knows where joe is
hello mrs lambert
frank do you have the telephone number
of that detective
you see i can answer his questions now
you're not calling anyone
come with me please yes where are we
going
frank mrs lambert shut up
oh but frank i don't understand
come on mrs lambert get down there or do
you want to bounce down
face first there you go
mr smith please follow mrs lambert
thank you that's right
you're doing fine
why are you doing this frankie
i'm just doing a little house cleaning
mrs lambert
i think he's already split i hope not
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what
excuse me
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well that was a mistake
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you okay mrs lambert mr smith
thanks guys
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hi
how is he no doctor came by and said
he's doing fine
we can start looking for a nursing home
in the morning uh look
i'd like a few minutes to load more than
you mind not at all
i'll be in the coffee shop
you're the policeman who helped me
yes sir you have to help me find someone
my son
i have a son he's 10 years old
they took him away because my wife left
me
they said i couldn't take care of him
myself but i can
i love him he's all i got you
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it's just they won't tell me where they
put him
they won't tell me help me find him
he's all i got
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help me fight we'll find him
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i promise we will find him
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