The Wide World of Mystery (1973–…): Season 0, Episode 0 - Nightmare at 43 Hillcrest - full transcript
Police looking for drug dealers mistakenly raid the house of a typical suburban family. However, rather than admit their mistake and jeopardize their careers, several of the police officers decide to plant heroin in the family's house, and change the records of the raid to make it look like the family was the target of their investigation all along. Based on a true story.
[CRICKETS CHIRPING]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
- Freeze!
Move and you're dead.
- My God.
- All right, get up.
Out!
- Do as he says.
Look, I got 40
bucks in my wallet--
[SCREAMING]
- Shut up!
- It's in the bureau.
- Let me go!
- What are they
doing to our Nancy?!
- Don't let them hurt her.
She's only a kid!
- Come on.
Out in the hallway, move it.
Come on.
Move it!
Move it.
- Oh, sorry.
- Come on.
Come on.
Let's go.
Move it.
Move it.
Let's go.
Linwood, take the bedrooms.
- There's no money hidden.
You don't have to do this.
- I have some money,
some household money.
It's over there in the desk.
- I said, shut up.
You know what we're after.
- Who are you?
What do you want?
- Keep your mouth shut, lady.
Davis, get these
two out of my hair.
- For God's sake,
what do you want?
- Don't play games with me.
Where is it?
- What?
Where is what?
- Are you going to
tell me where it is?
[SCREAM]
- Leave him alone.
- Davis, get her the
hell away from here.
- Damn it!
Let go of her.
- Look, you creep.
I've about had it with you.
I want those drugs.
- Drugs?
What drugs?
- Heroin!
Do I have to spell
it out for you?
You're under arrest
for possession and sale
of narcotics.
- Oh, my God!
- Oh, listen.
You got to listen to me.
There's been a terrible mistake.
- You're damn right there's
been a mistake, buddy,
and you made it!
Now I'm gonna work you over.
And this is just the beginning.
Get up.
- Hey, Clare, I got
to tell you something.
- Get up.
Not now, Sandy.
- It's important, Clare.
- I said, not now!
- Look.
I'm a salesman.
My card is in the desk.
- You creep.
- My wife is a nurse
at Saint Luke's.
You can call the hospital.
My daughter is in
Kirkwood High School.
- Is she a pusher, too?
- I don't use drugs.
- Why don't you believe us?
We don't know what
you're talking about.
- Clare, now.
- Joe.
All right, Sandy, what is it?
- He's right.
We've made a mistake.
- What?
- We've hit the
wrong house, Clare.
We've hit the wrong house.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
- Now, what in the hell
are you talking about?
- We're in the wrong house.
- That's impossible.
- That may be impossible,
but take a look.
I'm gonna get the guys out.
- Wait a minute.
Let me think.
- What's there to think about?
- If this gets out,
we're in big trouble.
- Don't you think I know that?
- Well, I can't let this happen.
- What are you talking about?
- I'm arresting these people.
- You're what?!
- You heard me.
I can't afford to blow 20
years over a little mistake.
- Little mistake?
Clare, I can't
believe you said that.
- Can't you?
Well, you think about it.
There are some heroin
packets in the car.
Plant 'em.
- Clare, these
people are innocent.
- You want to go back
to walking a beat?
- What if it gets out?
- Shut up!
Do what I tell you.
All right, you're
all under arrest.
You have the right to
remain silent and refuse
to answer questions.
Do you understand?
- I want to talk to my lawyer.
- Do you understand?
Anything you say can be used
against you in a court of law.
Do you understand that?
You have the right to consult
an attorney before speaking
to the police and
to have an attorney
present during any questioning
now or in the future.
If you do not have an
attorney available,
you have the right
to remain silent
until you've had an opportunity
to consult with one.
Do you understand?
All right, where's the stuff?
- There is no stuff.
I demand to talk to my lawyer.
- God, I just can't
believe this is happening.
- What are they gonna do to us?
- Nothing, honey.
They won't do anything.
I'll call Dick
Esterbrook and he'll
straighten everything else.
- Greg, what about
the drugs they said
that they found in the house?
What are we gonna do about--
- Next.
Name?
- How was that?
- OK.
Was it a big one, Clare?
- Oh, it's the biggest,
Mel, the biggest.
- How did you tag 'em?
- Come on, Harry,
I can't tell you.
You know the rules.
- Informers?
- Maybe.
- They look pretty straight.
- Well, that's the
trend nowadays.
How about a picture
with Captain Bates here?
- Relax.
- All right, thanks a lot.
- Are you sure?
- I'm sure.
I've shredded every piece
of paper on the case.
Now we just have to build
another one on the Leydens.
You fill out your forms.
Make sure you get
the spelling right.
- Yeah, uh, uh, L-E-Y-D-E-N,
Gregory, Esther, Nancy.
- OK, here's the info on Nancy.
- Clare, do you think
it's gonna work?
- Of course, it'll work.
You fill out your
stuff, and I'll
revise the memos in my files.
By the time we get
through with these people,
it'll look like we've been
on them for a long time.
- But-- but-- but, Clare,
supposing it doesn't work?
- Start typing, Sandy.
We've only got four hours.
- Hi, Dick.
- Hi.
- Thanks for coming so soon.
How are Esther and Nancy?
- Fine, I just saw them.
- Good.
- How are you?
- Oh, I'm fine.
Don't worry about me.
Well, what do we do?
- Organize our facts.
- Well, I can tell you
everything that happened.
- Let's get it together
and hope for the best.
- Hope?
What do you mean, hope?
- They found eight bags
of heroin in your house
last night.
- I know that, Dick.
That's what's driving me crazy.
- What's the explanation?
- I don't know.
It's a nightmare.
- Greg, what about Nancy?
- What about Nancy?
- Well, it's pretty
tough to ask,
but sometimes people
do deceive themselves.
- About what?
- About their children.
- Wait a minute, Dick, I--
- Greg, most of the drugs
were found in Nancy's room.
- Oh, forget that.
- I can't.
I know how you feel, but
teenagers these days do--
- Nancy does not use drugs.
- I know my daughter.
- Are you with her
24 hours a day?
- Dick, they found
heroin in my closet, too.
I don't know how it got there.
Does that make me an addict?
- Of course not, but
the stuff was there
and it didn't just walk in.
What's the matter?
- Maybe it did.
- What are you trying to say?
- Maybe it did just
walk in with the cops.
- Well, for what reason?
These guys don't just
stick pins in a phone book
and come out with names.
This raid was led
by Clarence Hartog.
He's a very big
man in this town,
with a long record of arrests
that have all held up in court.
You think he needs to beef up
his record with a phony bust?
You think he'd
even take a chance
on a dumb idea like that?
- No, no, no, no, I
guess you're right.
But, Dick, there's got
to be an explanation.
And it has nothing
to do with my family.
- Then what is it?
- Well, that's what
you've got to find out.
- Gentlemen,
apprehending the Leydens
was an important achievement,
not for me and my staff,
but for the young
people of this city who
were their primary victims.
And I'm sure that Mike
Doran, our district attorney,
and Sharon Reischauer,
his assistant,
will see to it that these
people are tried and convicted
without delay so that they
won't be out on the streets
anymore, able to
hurt our young kids.
Do you have any questions?
- Mr. Hartog, uh, what
led you on to the Leydens?
- It was a tip, but I'm sorry
I can't reveal the source.
I'm sure you can
understand that.
- How long did it take
you to solve the case?
- Uh, we had them
under surveillance
for a couple of months.
Two-man teams were
working around the clock.
- Everything here, Clare?
- Yeah, sure, I checked
it myself, Mike.
It's an open and shut case.
- It's incredible.
Just look at this guy.
Gregory Leyden, age 43,
works at the Apex Machinery.
- That's in the daytime.
- Yeah, served not only in
Korea, but in the Berlin
call up.
Esther Leyden, 38,
pediatric nurse, San--
San Mateo Hospital, hmm.
Daughter, Nancy...
There's, uh, there's no age.
- Uh, my girl must
have left that out.
- She's 16.
- Then I'll put that in.
Good student.
I don't know.
You'd think they were just
a family down the street.
- Yeah, well, if you'd have
heard them on the raid, Mike,
you'd have heard a
lot different slant.
- I can imagine.
- There don't seem to be
any holes here, Clare.
This should make it
comparatively easy
for us to get a conviction.
- Thank you, Sharon.
- You know, you keep pushing
the pushers out of town
like this, Clare, who knows?
You might wind up in the
commissioner's chair.
- Oh, come on.
That political
stuff turns me off.
- Mom.
- My God.
Honey, what is this?
- Get inside.
- Who could do such
a terrible thing?
- Oh, take it easy.
It's-- it's probably
just a bunch of kids.
Listen.
At least we're out of that
rotten, old jail cell.
It's good to be home.
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
- Oh, no.
[ANGRY SHOUT]
- Esther, let's start
cleaning up, huh?
Hey, come on, Nancy.
You pitch in, too.
[PHONE RINGING]
- Hello?
Yes, this is the Leydens.
What?
That's a lie!
- Who was that?
- A man.
- What did he want?
- Don't ask me to repeat it.
- Come on, Nance.
Come on.
Got a lot of work to do, honey.
[PHONE RINGING]
Hello.
Listen, you.
You call again, and I'll
try trace this line.
And when I find you--
hello?
Hello?
Hello?!
Come here.
Come here.
Look, we'd better face
this thing right now.
We're probably going to get
a lot of those crank calls.
You know, they
don't mean anything.
They're just a bunch of nuts.
- Greg, when we drove up in the
cab, Mrs. Donner was watching
and when she saw it was me,
she just slammed the door.
- Well, she's always been
a little sour anyway.
Esther, we know these people.
They're our neighbors.
All we got to do
is talk to them.
- I hope so.
- Daddy?
- Yeah?
- What do I do about tomorrow?
Do I go to school
when I'm out on bail?
- Oh, Nancy, you are innocent.
You've done nothing
to be ashamed of.
Nothing.
Oh, yes.
[PHONE RINGING]
Yes, you go to school.
- Greg, don't answer it.
- Listen, you--
Hi, Dick.
No, no, no, we're fine.
We're fine.
The-- the place is a
little upside down,
but we'll, uh, we'll
get it fixed up, yeah.
What?
I see.
No, no, no, that's--
all right.
We'll be-- we'll be OK for
money, for a while anyway.
Yeah, thanks.
- What?
- Esterbrook, my office called
right after the story broke.
The firm has
decided I'm surplus.
Nothing personal,
of course, but who
needs a pusher on the premises?
- No, they can't do that.
- Oh, yes, they can.
- I thought we were innocent
until they prove we're guilty.
- I'm going to go out
and get some food.
- Daddy, aren't we?
- No.
- Mom.
- Joey, Joey, wait a minute.
- Yeah, Frank.
What's up?
- Listen.
You know that bust we made the
other night, out at that house?
- Yeah.
- I've been thinking.
Anything seem a
little off to you?
- What are you
talking about, off?
It was clean, by the book.
- Yeah, I don't know.
I just thought--
- Ah, Frank, Frank, let it lie.
It was a good bust.
Believe me.
- Yeah, I guess so.
Come on.
I'll buy ya a beer.
- You read my mind.
- Nancy, they made a mistake.
Oh, darling, listen
to me, please.
Now, when they
find out the truth,
everything is going to be
exactly the way it was before.
Darling, it is all
going to be over soon.
Please, believe me.
Oh.
[RUSTLING]
Honey, where have you been?
I was petrified.
You've been gone for hours.
- Well, I went to
Lindenhurst for some food.
- That far?
Why?
- Honey, I wouldn't shop around
here for a while if I were you.
It-- it won't be very pleasant.
How's Nancy?
- Oh, she's-- she's
very upset, Greg.
It's the school.
They've suspended her.
- They what?
- They kicked her out.
- Well, that's the dumbest
thing I ever heard.
- They got so many
calls from parents.
The newspaper said
most of the stuff
was found in Nancy's room.
- Where is she?
- She's lying down.
- Uh, just us, please.
Nancy?
Baby?
Look at me, honey.
[SOBBING]
- Oh, Dad, I can't stand it.
Nobody believes me.
- Nancy, I want you
to listen to me.
- Did you hear what
the principal said?
- I know.
I know.
Nancy, you've always been
truthful with me before,
and I want you to
be truthful now.
- About what?
- How many kids in
school use drugs?
- A lot.
- Do you know any of them?
- I guess so.
- Do you know them well?
- Some of them.
- Who are they, Nancy?
Who are they?
- That's personal.
- Personal?!
The kind of trouble we're in,
and you talk about something
being personal?
[SOBBING]
Nancy...
Look, honey, it's just
that sometimes kids
influence other kids.
- What are you trying to say?
- I'm not trying to accuse you.
- Oh, yes, you are.
- Oh, Nancy, please,
understand, honey.
- Try to understand what?
That my father
thinks I'm a junkie?
You think I'm an addict?
- Nancy, please,
I have to ask you.
- If you don't believe me, what
is everybody else gonna think?
[GLASS BREAKING]
- Greg!
- Filth.
[DOORBELL RINGING]
- Greg, don't answer it.
Don't answer it.
- You two stay here.
Who's there?
- Mr. Leyden.
- Get out of here or
I'll call the police.
- This is the police.
Franklin.
- You're one of the cops who
was here the other night.
- That's right.
- What do you want?
- I think I can help you.
Mr. Leyden, I realize this
is a little irregular.
And believe me, I could get
myself in a lot of hot water
if this gets out.
- Mm-hmm, well, I'm
gonna call my lawyer.
- If you do that,
Mr. Leyden, I'll
have to deny I've
ever been here.
- All right, then
what do you want?
- Just the two of you, please.
- Nancy, go to
your room, darling.
- Well, let-- let--
let's hear it.
- Well, I got to thinking
about what went down here
the other night.
Some of it, it
just doesn't wash.
- Well, that's pretty--
that's pretty funny,
coming from you.
You come in here, you
terrorize my family,
you bust up my house.
You tell me it doesn't wash?
Well, I'll tell you
something, Mr. Linwood.
I already knew that.
- Mr. Leyden, I don't blame
you for feeling the way you do.
You got to be
thinking I'm a plant
and that I'm here to nail you.
If I were you, I'd feel
the same way myself.
But it's not true.
I-- I'm here because I want to
help you, but I need your help,
too.
Come on.
What do you got to lose?
How much can it hurt?
- Esther.
Wait a minute.
- This is ridiculous.
We can't trust him.
He's one of them.
- I know, but he might
be telling the truth.
Maybe he can help.
- I just don't like it, Greg.
It's just too convenient.
- But he's right.
What do we have to lose?
Linwood, I can't figure you out.
Why are you doing this?
Why do you want to help us?
- Mr. Leyden, all
my life, I wanted
to be a cop, ever
since I was a kid.
See, we used to have
a cop on our beat.
Everybody knew him.
People felt safe
when he was around.
They felt he was
there to help them.
I always wanted to be that guy.
Now, the whole department
gets bad mouthed.
All you hear about is bad cops.
Cops on the take,
police brutality.
Well, sir, there are good cops.
Mr. Leyden, it's
as simple as that.
- Come here, honey.
[SIGH]
All right.
All right, why don't
you start by telling us
just what the hell is going on.
- I can't yet.
There are some things
I have to check first.
All I can tell you
now is to sit tight.
But remember, I'm putting myself
on the line for you so you
cannot tell anyone
I've been here.
- All right, all right.
What do you want us to do?
- Right now, nothing.
I'll tell you, I'd like to
take a look around first,
get a few things
straight in my head.
OK?
Fine.
- Good.
- Do you know what
plea bargaining is?
- Yeah, generally.
It's where you plead
guilty to a reduced charge.
It saves the DA the trouble of
a trial and you're treated well.
- Mm-hmm.
- So what about it?
- That's what I think
you ought to do.
- Plead guilty?
- Oh, I don't believe you, Dick.
You've got to be
out of your mind.
Plead guilty?
No way.
- Why should we
plead guilty, Dick?
We're innocent.
- Because the DA has eight
bags of heroin that say
you're guilty.
- Oh, no, it doesn't.
- Can you prove that?
- Well, no, that's what
you're supposed to do.
- I can't, Greg, and you can't.
Now be realistic.
- Be real-- what does that mean?
Let everybody think
we are pushers
and face that for the
rest of our lives?
Do you realize what
you're telling us to do?
- A lot of very important
people have copped pleas.
- All right, I'll
say it again: no way.
- Then you're finished, Greg.
You're dead.
- Linwood didn't think so.
- Who's Linwood?
- One of the cops
who was on the raid.
He came to see us today.
- He thinks he might
be able to help us.
- Be able to help you how?
- Well, he thinks there's
something fishy going on
and he wanted to check it out.
- Well, what did he say?
What does he think is going on?
- That's all he had to say.
- I want to talk to him.
- You can't.
- Why not?
- Because he said he could
get in a lot of trouble
if anybody finds out.
- Well, how can I help you
if I don't have the facts?
- I don't know, Dick, but I
can't let you talk to him.
- You're a great help, Greg.
You find a guy--
- I can't let you.
- He says he can help--
- I can't!
[SIGH]
- Well, this is
going nowhere anyway.
I mean, the man's a patrolman.
What can he do?
Do you think he can take
on a deputy commissioner
like Hartog?
Well, do you?
- I don't know.
But I'll tell you one thing,
I am not pleading guilty.
- We hit here, 43 Hillcrest.
But on the other
side of the park,
you see, Hillcrest,
it keeps going.
It's North Hillcrest here.
- Mm-hmm.
- Right about there,
43 North Hillcrest.
- So?
- It's just possible that
the real target was 43 North,
but somebody screwed up,
wrote down the wrong number,
and we hit the Leydens instead.
- Don't you think that's a
little off the wall, Linwood?
- Uh, Linwood, how much
preparation do you think
went into this Leyden raid?
- The usual.
They do their homework.
The report I got
was highly detailed.
- Well, I'm sure it was, sir.
- Yet you think that everybody
in the raid was wrong
and that you're right?
- That's correct, ma'am.
There are just too
many things that
don't make any sense to me.
- Do you know who
Clarence Hartog is?
- Yes.
- One of the most decorated
officers in the department.
- Yes, sir.
- And you're suggesting that
he not only hit the wrong house
but knows he hit the wrong
house and is prosecuting
these people?
- That's about it, sir.
- In other words, Clarence
Hartog framed that family?
- Yes, ma'am,
that's what I think.
- Why?
- Hartog's next in line
for commissioner, isn't he?
- Yes.
- That's his reason.
He made a mistake and
he's covering it up.
He hit the wrong house.
If he admits it, he
blows his career.
- Linwood, you're
sticking your neck
out awful far in this and Hartog
is just the guy to cut it off.
[CLEARING THROAT]
- Now, you, uh, you say
that you became suspicious
because you were
told that the target
house would have a basement?
- Right.
The house we hit didn't.
- What about the
one at 43 North?
- It has one.
- Well, that's hardly
earth-shaking, is it?
What else do you got?
- The Leydens, the
way they acted,
they didn't know what the
heck Hartog was talking about.
- Linwood, they had eight
bags of heroin in their house.
- That's my whole point.
I don't think the heroin was
in the house when we broke in.
- What?
- Right!
- Linwood, I'm gonna
be honest with you.
All I've heard up to now is a
lot of circumstantial evidence
that adds up to a
great, big zero.
- Mr. Duran, you come
down to the house with me.
I'll show you a lot more.
- I'm not going down to
that house on a hunch.
- I've been a cop
for nine years.
I've been in clothes
the last five.
I've gone on 100
raids with this crew.
I'm telling you,
this one stinks!
- Unless you've got something
more pertinent that you
want to tell me,
I think we ought
to wrap this whole thing up.
- You come down to
the house with me,
I'll show you where Hartog's
story has holes big enough
to blow a truck through.
- I'm not going to listen
to any more of this.
- You don't want to listen?
- No.
- Maybe the papers will.
- The papers?
Let me tell you something.
You're either a fool
or a very brave man.
I prefer to think the former.
- Those people are innocent.
- And you're willing to take on
Clarence Hartog in that belief?
- Yes, I am.
- All right, Daily Record's
numbers is 555-0840.
The city editor's
name is Donald Ross.
- Donald Ross, please.
[SIGH]
- Sharon, go out to that house
and see if Don Quixote here
knows what he's talking about.
- All right, now, this
is the way it was.
Most of the guys, they came
through the front door.
- Where were you?
- Looking for a basement
that didn't exist.
- And when you
couldn't find one?
- I came through the front.
All right, now we started with
the obvious places-- drawers,
closets.
- Go on.
Go on.
- Didn't find anything.
- Well, the report said you did.
- If we found drugs
in obvious places,
why tear the place apart?
- Well, I don't mean
to insult you, Linwood,
but sometimes you guys--
- Yeah, I know, honey,
but this wasn't the case.
All right, then we
went to the bedrooms.
- Would you mind waiting here?
- You got the
picture I gave you?
- Yes.
- All right, take a look.
Now, the picture shows Keen
displaying a bag of heroin,
pointing to this
particular desk.
Now, I talked to Keen.
He says that's
where he found it.
- Are you saying it isn't?
- I'm saying I got
there before Keen.
- And?
- I didn't find anything.
- Maybe you just missed it.
- No, no.
I took this desk apart.
If there were drugs there,
I would have found them.
- Well, then how do you
explain Keen's finding them?
- It was Bates.
- Captain Bates?
- Yeah, Hartog assigned
him to the front door.
Handle the press,
stuff like that.
- Well, what about it?
- Stayed there at the beginning.
All of a sudden, he's
all over the place.
- Maybe he got new orders.
- Yeah, I think he got
new orders, all right.
- Can you prove that, Linwood?
- Look, when Bates first
came into the house,
the only thing he
had was a clipboard.
Later on, he had a little
bag, a canvas, zippered bag.
- Are you telling me that
Captain Bates brought the drugs
into this house?
- I'm telling you someone did.
Bates is the best bet.
- Bates...?
- Look, he's making
us guys check things
we've already checked.
Come on.
Now, I had already
checked this closet.
No drugs.
Then Bates asked
me to recheck it.
Guess what I found?
- Linwood, are you sure?
- If I wasn't, I
wouldn't be here now.
- Mr. Leyden?
- Yes?
- Would you recognize
Bates if you saw him?
- Uh, I think so, if it's
the guy they called Sandy.
- That's the one.
Did he do anything unusual?
- I don't know what
you mean by unusual.
- Act strange, anything?
- Well, he went out of the
house for a few minutes.
- Then what?
- Then, uh, uh, Hartog
came back without Bates.
- Do you remember how
long Bates was gone?
- No, I'm afraid I wasn't
paying any attention to that.
- I do.
He was just gone a few minutes.
- Mrs. Leyden, try to remember.
Was Bates carrying
anything when he came back?
- Yes, a-- a little bag.
- You didn't tell me that.
- Well, I'm sorry, honey.
I didn't think it was important.
- That's how he did it.
That's how he set us up.
- Mr. Leyden, what you've
heard here is off the record.
Please, don't destroy your
chances by making any of it
public.
- Fine, fine.
What-- what can we do to help?
- Nothing for now,
just stay put.
We'll be in touch with you.
Goodbye.
Thanks for your cooperation.
- Bye.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Thank you.
- Well, look.
I think we should start
by dusting for prints
wherever this stuff was found.
I got a feeling
we'll be spending
most of our time looking
at Sandy Bates's pinky.
- OK.
First, let's spend some
time at 43 North Hillcrest.
3:00 AM.
That's eight cars in
and out since midnight.
- Yeah, and look what's
been driving them.
- Well, there's no law
against being a bum, Linwood.
- Yeah, right, Sharon, but
when eight bums get together,
it's usually not for the opera.
- Right.
Let's run a check on the host.
- OK.
- Mike, the house at
43 North Hillcrest
is occupied by a
man and a woman.
No kids.
- When Hartog briefed
us on the raid,
he didn't mention any kids.
The Leydens have a daughter.
- Did you run a make
on these people?
- Yeah, the guy's
been arrested once
for armed robbery,
three times for assault,
and she's a real honey, too,
busted twice for soliciting.
- Well, maybe, uh,
maybe you got something.
- I want to know why that
broad is questioning our boys.
- She's a woman.
She likes little details.
- It's the little
details that can hurt us.
- The guys have got
nothing to hide.
Whatever they say will
sound more legitimate.
- I wish I knew what the
hell they were up to.
- Clare, do you think
they're on to something?
- I don't know, but there's
one way to find out.
- Davis said Bates told him to
check a closet he had already
checked and he found the
drugs on the second try, just
like Linwood.
- I assume that's unusual?
- Davis said it's the first
time it's ever happened.
Soznow told me he saw
Bates go to his car.
And one other thing, Mike--
no drugs were found
in the living room.
That's the only
place in the house
Bates could never be alone.
- There's no problem with this?
- No, Joe, there
are no problems.
Believe me.
Reischauer said we gave
them a very good case.
Now, say hello to Helen
and the kids for me, huh?
- Right.
- OK, Bates.
That nosy broad.
She's digging for something
and I'd love to know why.
- Clare, Joe told her he
saw me leave the house.
- So what?
He didn't see where you went
and he didn't see you come back.
- Maybe we forgot something.
- Forgot what?
We shredded everything
but the toilet paper.
- But we can't just do nothing.
I mean, we ought to find out
what they're going to do.
- Shut up, will you?
I don't need you
going to pieces on me.
They got nothing on
you so stop worrying.
- Mike, fingerprint reports
are in on the Leyden house.
- And?
- The guy in the lab spent
most of his time looking
at Sanford Bates' pinky.
[CHUCKLING]
- Sorry I'm late.
- It's all right.
- Got a wounded man
in the hospital.
I'd like to get back
as soon as possible.
- This won't take long.
- Good.
Uh, something serious?
- No, not necessarily.
Uh, you won't object if we
make a record, will you?
- No, I don't object.
- All right, sit down.
Uh, now, as I, uh, told you,
this is about the Leyden thing.
- Yeah, I was wondering, Mike.
Where are the indictments?
- Well, that's what
we're gonna talk about.
- You know, my guys
would like to see it.
We worked very
hard on this thing.
- We know.
- Um, if you want my advice,
I'd go for the limit.
- Clare, there are questions.
- Questions?
- Mm-hmm.
- About what?
- About the raid, about
the guilt of the Leydens.
[CHUCKLING]
- Am I hearing you right?
How can there be questions?
I submitted a report,
a very detailed report.
- I know.
- We're, um, we're
operating on a tip, Clare.
- What kind of a tip?
- A good one.
- From who?
- We can't say who, but we're
investigating a complaint.
- A complaint.
About what?
- Clare, I want
some information.
- Well, I'll give you what
I got but this is stupid.
[PHONE RINGING]
Questions, tips.
[CHUCKLING]
- Yes?
Oh, I'll, uh, I'll take
it in the other office.
I have to go down
the hall a minute.
Sharon, will you, uh,
take care of this?
- Her?
- Yes.
- I, uh, have never been
questioned by a lady before.
- No?
I'll try to make it as
painless as possible.
Clare, how did you learn that
the Leydens were pushers?
- Why?
- I think you'd better
take this seriously.
- OK.
It's your office.
We had informants.
Do you mind?
I was up all night
working on a case.
- What did your
informants tell you?
- That drugs could be
bought at their house.
- Was the family described?
- Yes.
- And you passed
this on to your guys?
- Well, naturally.
- Did you mention anything
about the daughter?
- I may have.
- Well, isn't it usual
to include everybody?
- Yes.
- But you can't recall
mentioning the daughter?
- No.
Uh, are these the
important questions
you called me in about?
- We've learned you didn't
mention anything about kids.
- Well, there you are.
I left something out.
Sharon, I don't like
what's happening.
I'm up to here with your little
innuendos and veiled threats.
Are you through?
- Clare, I have to
ask these questions.
If I don't, Mike will.
So let's get on with it.
[CHUCKLING]
Now, did all of your men
enter the house the same way?
- No, a couple of guys came
through the front door.
Somebody went through a window.
- What about the basement door?
- Linwood used that.
- The Leydens don't
have a basement.
[CHUCKLING]
- So he came through
the front door.
Maybe he came down the
chimney like Santa Claus.
I don't know.
- Well, didn't it strike
you odd that this Linwood
came in the front door?
- Uh, this is the
first I heard it.
Uh, I wasn't standing there
taking tickets, you know?
- You told your men the
house had a basement.
- Sharon, you have to
understand one thing.
The guys who tip us
off, they're not what
you'd call professional spies.
- Oh.
Oh, I see.
You mean they could
have made a mistake.
- They could've.
- Could they have made a
mistake on the address, too?
- Are you kidding?
- No.
- They didn't make a mistake.
- How do you know?
- How do I know?
- That was the question, yes.
- I know because it's
my business to know.
Because when I plan
a raid, every detail
is checked and double checked.
That's how I know.
- Well, specifically
how did you make
sure the address was right?
- Well, we have
several safeguards.
You know, surveillance reports
are checked and compared.
You know, things like that.
- I see.
Things like that.
- That's right.
- Clare, why did your
men do so much damage?
- What?
I didn't get that?
- Why did your men
do so much damage?
- Because they were looking
for drugs, that's why.
- But the drugs were
found in open places,
in drawers and in closets.
I mean, why go
through the walls?
- There could have been more.
- There weren't.
- Listen, I know this business
a little better than you.
- Were there any
weapons in the house?
- No.
- Isn't that odd?
- It's possible.
- But it's odd.
- You know, I see
a lot that's odd.
- What was Bates' assignment?
- I'd have to look it up.
- Wasn't he posted at the door?
- No.
- Oh, you didn't tell
him to stay there?
- I, uh, gave him that
assignment at the briefing.
- I thought you had
to look that up.
- You reminded me.
You said he was
assigned at the door.
- You changed that?
- Yes, I did.
I ordered him to stay with me.
- Did he?
- Yes, he did.
I can account for
every move he made.
- Why would you want to do that?
[SIGH]
- I'm anticipating
your next question.
- Did Sandy search for drugs?
- No, the other men did that.
- He didn't search for any?
- I just told you, no.
- Then how come his
fingerprints were
found every place in the
house the drugs were found?
- Look, Reischauer, I've
about had it with you.
- Well, how are
you two getting on?
- Terrific.
- Good.
Don't let me
interrupt you, Sharon.
- Thank you.
How come Bates' fingerprints
showed up all over, Clare?
- I don't know.
Why don't you ask him?
- He left the house
during the raid, Clare.
Why?
- I told him to.
He was checking on the
arrival of the press.
- Clarence, I want to put
this very, very carefully now.
It's been charged that, uh,
drugs suddenly appeared.
- Now, just what is
that supposed to mean?
- In places that had
already been searched.
- Oh, I see where this is going.
You want to bust the cops,
not the criminals, huh?
That's the way it is these days.
Michael Doran, the
friend of the accused.
This will put you in good
with all the law-school types,
won't it?
- I don't work that way.
- I know the way you work.
You sit behind
that desk of yours,
giving lectures on the law,
while I'm out on the street,
putting my life up for grabs
every time I make a raid.
You've got a hell of a
lot of gall, both of you,
asking me these kind of
questions and I resent it.
- No further questions.
[SIGH]
Please call Bates.
That was the mayor
on the phone before.
He was a little hot
under the collar.
I think I Hartog got to him.
- Why?
- Oh, he wants indictments
on the Leyden family.
Fast.
Did you ever suspect
that the Leyden house
was the wrong target?
- Never.
- Do you think so now?
- Of course not.
- Sandy, was there
anything about that raid
that disturbed you?
- Not that I can think of.
- What about the family?
- What about the family?
- They seem like the kind
of people who'd be pushers?
- Well, as an
officer, I've always
been interested in
what makes people tick.
- Did you and Hartog have
a talk outside the house
during the raid?
- Uh, uh, let me see.
Uh, uh, yeah, I remember.
- And what, uh,
did you talk about?
- The operation.
- So just police talk?
- Well, we didn't talk
about the weather.
- Was anything said that,
uh, that could upset you?
- No.
Oh, I think one of our guys,
uh, may have roughed up
the husband a little.
Nothing serious.
- Well, what was your
assignment on the raid?
- Well, first, it was to
stay, uh, at the door.
Then later, that was changed.
- To what?
- To staying with Clarence.
- Did you go to your car?
- Um, I don't remember.
I don't think so.
- We have a witness
that says you did.
- Well, I might have.
- What did you get
from the car, Sandy?
- Look, I just said I don't
remember going to the car.
- Well, wasn't it
a, uh, little bag?
- I'm afraid I'm
not, uh, with you.
- Uh, Bates, did--
did you search for drugs?
- In the house?
- Yes, in the house.
- For a minute, but the guys
took care of most of that.
- Your fingerprints
were all over.
Why?
[SCOFF]
- You can search a lot
of house in a minute.
- Sandy, do you think
your men are thorough?
- Yes.
- When they search a
place, does it usually
have to be searched again?
- Not usually.
- Then why were drugs found
in places already covered?
- Well, nobody's perfect.
In all that commotion, the guys
thought they searched an area.
- Doesn't wash.
- It does to me.
- Bates, did you
plant any drugs?
- I find that
question offensive.
- Will you please answer it?
- The answer is no.
- It didn't take me too long to
figure out it was you, Linwood.
You were the only one who would
care about that basement door.
You think you're pretty
smart, don't you?
Well, you're not, fink.
You're the lowest
vermin I can think of.
- Hartog, I don't really give
a damn what you think about me.
But I'm not going
to sit still and let
you kill those people
just to cover yourself.
- Why, you little--
- Hey, Clare, come on.
Take it easy.
Come on.
Come on, you guys.
- Linwood, I'm reassigning you.
From now on, you're back in
uniform on the South Side,
writing parking tickets.
We lost a couple
of cops down there.
You get my drift?
Now you get the
hell out of here.
- Got news for you, Hartog.
You could send me to Siberia.
It wouldn't do you any good.
- I want to nail him.
Go to work on it.
- Right.
What now?
[SIGH]
- It's time we made a move.
- Walking a beat.
That's where your
friend Linwood is.
He's also under
investigation for accepting
gifts while on duty.
From now on, he's
protecting himself, not you.
I'm telling you, Greg,
it's time to make a deal.
- But the DA was here.
- The assistant DA.
- The assistant DA.
Doesn't she count for anything?
- No, not stacked
up against Hartog.
Face it, Greg, the
man is a public hero.
Time is getting short.
I've got no case.
If we go into court now,
you're gonna get hammered.
So will Esther and Nancy.
Take the plea bargaining.
- Why should we, Dick?
We're innocent.
- Innocent, guilty,
it doesn't matter now.
- The hell it doesn't!
Right from the start, you
wanted us to cop a plea,
to make a deal.
You can't win so you want
us to throw in the towel?
Well, I'm fighting because
I'm innocent and so are they.
I'm not buying any more of
your bargain-basement justice.
- Call it what you will, Greg,
but if you don't cop a plea
now, I can't be responsible.
- You don't have to, Dick.
You're fired.
- It's your funeral.
- How you doing?
- Oh, that's cute.
[CHUCKLING]
- Do you like it?
- How you doing?
- Oh, terrific.
Wrote 24 parking tickets
today, a new precinct record.
[SIGH]
Well, what's with
the Leyden case?
- Oh, it's coming along.
That Hartog is a tough nut
to crack, I'll tell you.
Meanwhile, the mayor is pressing
Mike to bring indictments
against the Leydens.
- Well, would he do that?
- Well, he'll hold
out as long as he can.
Hey, Frank, we're trying.
- I know.
Can you imagine what that
family is going through?
I only hope this hasn't
all gone for naught.
If we don't make it, I can
kiss my career goodbye.
- Well, you're not the only one.
Listen, we're going all
the way with this thing.
I really think we can make it.
So hang in there, OK?
- Right now, what else can I do?
Um, listen, uh, you
got time for a drink?
- Oh, yeah, I'd like that.
FRANK: Swell.
- Greg, God, I'm so scared.
- Honey, we're
gonna be all right.
- But what if we're not?
- There's no point in
thinking like that.
- Greg, what's
gonna happen to us?
And Nancy?
You know what kind of a place
they're going to send her to.
God, I just can't bear the
thought of her being at a place
like that.
[DOORBELL RINGING]
Who's that?
- Who's there?
- Clarence Hartog.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
May I sit down?
I hear you people have been
having a pretty rough time
with your neighbors.
- Why should you
care about that?
[CHUCKLE]
- You think I'm a
complete heel, don't you?
- What are you here for
this time time, Hartog?
- Your futures.
You know, I have my case against
you all lined up, ready to go,
but something keeps
nagging at me.
The check we ran
on your background
comes up clean,
absolutely lily white.
Not even a traffic ticket.
Who got you into
this fix, Leyden?
- What are you
trying to pull off?
- I'm not pulling anything.
Get that clear.
The stuff was here.
But obviously, this
is your first offense.
Now, I don't know how
you got into this mess.
Maybe you had money problems.
But I have a feeling you
got yourself into a lot more
than you realized you would.
- Come on.
What are you getting at?
- I don't enjoy putting
people like you away.
I don't.
And I think you might
have learned your lesson.
But the law can be
tough, very tough,
and you can't get
a second chance.
Now, your lawyer tells me
you won't let him help you.
- So that's it.
- Mr. Leyden, I'm trying
to make it easy for you.
Listen to your lawyer.
Plead guilty.
And with a few choice
words in the right places,
I think I might be able to
get you off, uh, short term,
in a minimum-security prison.
And under the circumstances,
your daughter Nancy--
that's her name, isn't it?
- Yes.
- Nancy could probably
stay out altogether.
- Why are you doing this for us?
What's in it for you?
- There's nothing in it for me.
Of course, I don't expect
you to believe that.
You see, I know what a
full conviction can get you
into: a hellhole.
Prison can be a
terrifying place.
Fights, riots, killings.
And the women's
joint is no better.
In some ways, it's a lot worse.
- It won't work, Hartog.
Get out of here.
- Mrs. Leyden, I have
a daughter of my own.
And those reform
schools for kids,
I wouldn't want to see
your Nancy in one of those
any more than my own girl.
- You're trying to scare us.
I said it won't work.
- I'm trying to educate you.
- What went wrong
with your case, huh?
Must be something
pretty bad to bring you
all the way over here.
- Mr. Leyden, you're an idiot.
You want to fool around
with Linwood and Doran?
Go ahead.
Do it.
You'll see how much
they'll do for you.
Your friend Linwood is finished.
And Doran is chasing rainbows.
What's he got?
Nothing.
Nothing but a lot of
suspicions and coincidences,
and that doesn't go very
far with a grand jury.
You have absolutely no
chance of getting off.
- I don't believe that.
[SIGH]
- Mrs. Leyden, talk
to your husband,
see if you can't get
some sense into him.
Goodnight.
Oh, uh, by the way, don't--
don't talk to
anybody about this.
A lot of my boys aren't
as understanding as I am.
And sometimes, I-- I
just can't control them.
- Who are you calling?
- Frank Linwood.
[PHONE RINGING]
- Yeah?
- Officer Linwood?
- Yeah.
- This is Greg Leyden.
- What's the matter?
- Clarence Hartog was just here
and he wants me to cop a plea.
[PHONE RINGING]
- Yes?
- Sharon, it's Frank Linwood.
- Oh, yes, hi, Frank.
- Look.
I just got a call
from Greg Leyden.
- Clarence, what were you doing
in the Leydens' neighborhood
last night?
- Who says I was there?
- Sources.
- Well, they're wrong.
I didn't go out last night.
- This your license?
- Anybody could
have written that.
- Well, anybody didn't.
- I told you I didn't
go out last night.
- The Leydens will swear that
you offered them a bribe.
- Well, you'd swear, too, if you
were in their kind of trouble.
You're going to take
their word against mine?
- Why, uh, why was, uh, Linwood
reassigned to traffic detail?
- I like to move my men around.
- He was the only man
moved in six months.
You move your men
in slow motion?
- I move them when I see fit.
- All right, let's try it again.
What were you doing in the
Leydens' house last night?
- I told you I didn't
go out last night.
- You were tailed, Clare.
- They photographed your car.
- This has been a
bummer from the start.
I should have said no
right there in the house.
- Don't bleed on me, Sandy.
It's too late for that now.
- Yeah, well, it was your idea.
- You try to lay this off on
me and I'll come down on you
so hard you won't
know what hit you.
- Hey, I'm on your side, Clare.
- Don't Clare me, Sandy.
You're in this thing
as deep as I am.
And if I go under,
you're coming with me.
- Well, what are we gonna
do, stand around and wait
for them to nail us?
- I've still got a
name in this town.
I'm gonna hit them
before they hit me.
Uh, gentlemen, I'm gonna
make a brief statement
and then I'll take
your questions.
As a police officer
for more than 23 years,
I'm shocked at the inexcusable
and dangerous delay in seeking
indictments in the Leyden case.
Now, Mike Doran, a
district attorney,
has seen fit to stall this case
through trivial and wasteful
questioning of my men.
Now, that makes no
contribution to a safer city.
In fact, it takes needed
officers off the street.
Now, it's time the
people of this city
told the DA, bluntly
if necessary,
that they want action.
They want it now.
- What's this going to do to us?
- And they want it
without compromise.
- Well, it may
start a bandwagon.
Then I'll have the
mayor on my back again.
- We better wrap
this up fast, Mike,
or we're going to be
forced into an indictment
against the Leydens.
- --encourages lawlessness
and disrespect--
- I just wish I had a
stronger case against Hartog.
- Clarence, what do you
think Doran's after?
- Maybe he wants to send me
to jail and make Leyden a cop,
huh?
- That grin, Lee.
It's like we never
even questioned him.
- Uh, well, I'm
having my office--
- He certainly isn't
running scared.
- I don't know actually
what lawfully I can do.
- But maybe somebody else is.
- --that Doran
will expedite this.
- Did you see our
press conference?
- Yes, good performance.
- Coffee?
- Yeah.
Well, I didn't want to
see you get hurt, Mike.
- Now isn't that odd?
I was thinking the
same thing about you.
- What's gonna hurt me?
- Oh, obstruction of
justice, perjury charges.
- You're obviously
talking to the wrong man.
- Are we?
- We're gonna give you
another chance, Sandy.
Why don't you come clean?
- I don't know what
you're talking about.
- Don't you?
And I thought you were smart.
- Smart enough.
- Not smart enough to
know when you've had it.
- We want the truth, Sandy.
- You've got the police report.
- The truth!
- That raid was a fake.
- Oh, come on, Mike.
You're just fishing.
- Am I?
I'm dropping all charges
against the Leydens.
- You're what?
Well, now, how do you figure
to get away with that?
- We have evidence the
whole thing was a cover-up.
- You're bluffing.
- Hmm.
Sandy, only a fool goes
down with a sinking ship.
- After all, it was
Hartog who was in charge.
He gave the orders, right?
- We know that Hartog
was the instigator.
- Maybe you just didn't
have time to think.
- Sure, all you did
was follow orders.
- You regret it now,
though, don't you, Sandy?
Why should you have
to front for Hartog?
He wouldn't do the same for you.
- Cut it out.
- Now, I'm going to give
you one last chance.
You come clean with
me and I'll see
that you get partial immunity.
- I'm not being prosecuted!
- How long do you
think it's gonna
take me to bust this
case wide open up, huh?
Two days, maybe three.
- Then after that, who
needs your confession?
- You and Hartog rigged that
cover-up awfully quickly.
You must have
forgotten something.
- What do you think
you forgot, Sandy?
- Look, this is going nowhere.
May I leave?
- If you wish.
Bates, you walk through
that door and my offer
of partial immunity is dropped.
- It wasn't my idea.
[SIGH]
- Ladies and gentlemen, I've
called you here today to, um,
pay justifiable tribute
to a courageous family
and to a highly
dedicated police officer,
and also to announce
to you the indictment
of the following named
persons by the grand jury.
Clarence Francis Hartog.
Mr. Hartog is currently deputy--
- Hey, Hartog, is it true?
- It's a pack of lies.
It's ridiculous.
That's what it is, a mistake.
- What about Bates's confession?
- I got no comment.
- Welcome home!
- Ooh.
- It's time!
[SCREAMING]
[LAUGHTER]
- Don't remind me.
- Hey, what is this?
- Well, tonight calls
for a little celebration.
- Good.
Great idea.
Too bad you're not 21.
We'll celebrate for you, though.
- Here we are.
OK, here's to us.
- I'll drink to that.
- Hey, Nancy, you want to
go out for dinner night?
- Can we afford it?
- Can we afford it?
Tonight we can afford anything.
- I got a better idea.
Why don't we hold off and
have a really big dinner?
You know, for Officer
Linwood and everybody
at the DA's office?
- We don't have to hold off.
I'll call Frank right now.
- Who do you want to have?
- Gosh, Mom.
- All your friends.
All your friends!
Everybody that you haven't seen
since all the terrible things
happened.
- I can't wait.
- Hello, Frank?
This is Greg Leyden.
How would you like to go
out for dinner tonight?
Huh?
No, tonight!
Yeah.
No, no, no, no.
This time, we'll pick you up.
[LAUGHTER]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
- Freeze!
Move and you're dead.
- My God.
- All right, get up.
Out!
- Do as he says.
Look, I got 40
bucks in my wallet--
[SCREAMING]
- Shut up!
- It's in the bureau.
- Let me go!
- What are they
doing to our Nancy?!
- Don't let them hurt her.
She's only a kid!
- Come on.
Out in the hallway, move it.
Come on.
Move it!
Move it.
- Oh, sorry.
- Come on.
Come on.
Let's go.
Move it.
Move it.
Let's go.
Linwood, take the bedrooms.
- There's no money hidden.
You don't have to do this.
- I have some money,
some household money.
It's over there in the desk.
- I said, shut up.
You know what we're after.
- Who are you?
What do you want?
- Keep your mouth shut, lady.
Davis, get these
two out of my hair.
- For God's sake,
what do you want?
- Don't play games with me.
Where is it?
- What?
Where is what?
- Are you going to
tell me where it is?
[SCREAM]
- Leave him alone.
- Davis, get her the
hell away from here.
- Damn it!
Let go of her.
- Look, you creep.
I've about had it with you.
I want those drugs.
- Drugs?
What drugs?
- Heroin!
Do I have to spell
it out for you?
You're under arrest
for possession and sale
of narcotics.
- Oh, my God!
- Oh, listen.
You got to listen to me.
There's been a terrible mistake.
- You're damn right there's
been a mistake, buddy,
and you made it!
Now I'm gonna work you over.
And this is just the beginning.
Get up.
- Hey, Clare, I got
to tell you something.
- Get up.
Not now, Sandy.
- It's important, Clare.
- I said, not now!
- Look.
I'm a salesman.
My card is in the desk.
- You creep.
- My wife is a nurse
at Saint Luke's.
You can call the hospital.
My daughter is in
Kirkwood High School.
- Is she a pusher, too?
- I don't use drugs.
- Why don't you believe us?
We don't know what
you're talking about.
- Clare, now.
- Joe.
All right, Sandy, what is it?
- He's right.
We've made a mistake.
- What?
- We've hit the
wrong house, Clare.
We've hit the wrong house.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
- Now, what in the hell
are you talking about?
- We're in the wrong house.
- That's impossible.
- That may be impossible,
but take a look.
I'm gonna get the guys out.
- Wait a minute.
Let me think.
- What's there to think about?
- If this gets out,
we're in big trouble.
- Don't you think I know that?
- Well, I can't let this happen.
- What are you talking about?
- I'm arresting these people.
- You're what?!
- You heard me.
I can't afford to blow 20
years over a little mistake.
- Little mistake?
Clare, I can't
believe you said that.
- Can't you?
Well, you think about it.
There are some heroin
packets in the car.
Plant 'em.
- Clare, these
people are innocent.
- You want to go back
to walking a beat?
- What if it gets out?
- Shut up!
Do what I tell you.
All right, you're
all under arrest.
You have the right to
remain silent and refuse
to answer questions.
Do you understand?
- I want to talk to my lawyer.
- Do you understand?
Anything you say can be used
against you in a court of law.
Do you understand that?
You have the right to consult
an attorney before speaking
to the police and
to have an attorney
present during any questioning
now or in the future.
If you do not have an
attorney available,
you have the right
to remain silent
until you've had an opportunity
to consult with one.
Do you understand?
All right, where's the stuff?
- There is no stuff.
I demand to talk to my lawyer.
- God, I just can't
believe this is happening.
- What are they gonna do to us?
- Nothing, honey.
They won't do anything.
I'll call Dick
Esterbrook and he'll
straighten everything else.
- Greg, what about
the drugs they said
that they found in the house?
What are we gonna do about--
- Next.
Name?
- How was that?
- OK.
Was it a big one, Clare?
- Oh, it's the biggest,
Mel, the biggest.
- How did you tag 'em?
- Come on, Harry,
I can't tell you.
You know the rules.
- Informers?
- Maybe.
- They look pretty straight.
- Well, that's the
trend nowadays.
How about a picture
with Captain Bates here?
- Relax.
- All right, thanks a lot.
- Are you sure?
- I'm sure.
I've shredded every piece
of paper on the case.
Now we just have to build
another one on the Leydens.
You fill out your forms.
Make sure you get
the spelling right.
- Yeah, uh, uh, L-E-Y-D-E-N,
Gregory, Esther, Nancy.
- OK, here's the info on Nancy.
- Clare, do you think
it's gonna work?
- Of course, it'll work.
You fill out your
stuff, and I'll
revise the memos in my files.
By the time we get
through with these people,
it'll look like we've been
on them for a long time.
- But-- but-- but, Clare,
supposing it doesn't work?
- Start typing, Sandy.
We've only got four hours.
- Hi, Dick.
- Hi.
- Thanks for coming so soon.
How are Esther and Nancy?
- Fine, I just saw them.
- Good.
- How are you?
- Oh, I'm fine.
Don't worry about me.
Well, what do we do?
- Organize our facts.
- Well, I can tell you
everything that happened.
- Let's get it together
and hope for the best.
- Hope?
What do you mean, hope?
- They found eight bags
of heroin in your house
last night.
- I know that, Dick.
That's what's driving me crazy.
- What's the explanation?
- I don't know.
It's a nightmare.
- Greg, what about Nancy?
- What about Nancy?
- Well, it's pretty
tough to ask,
but sometimes people
do deceive themselves.
- About what?
- About their children.
- Wait a minute, Dick, I--
- Greg, most of the drugs
were found in Nancy's room.
- Oh, forget that.
- I can't.
I know how you feel, but
teenagers these days do--
- Nancy does not use drugs.
- I know my daughter.
- Are you with her
24 hours a day?
- Dick, they found
heroin in my closet, too.
I don't know how it got there.
Does that make me an addict?
- Of course not, but
the stuff was there
and it didn't just walk in.
What's the matter?
- Maybe it did.
- What are you trying to say?
- Maybe it did just
walk in with the cops.
- Well, for what reason?
These guys don't just
stick pins in a phone book
and come out with names.
This raid was led
by Clarence Hartog.
He's a very big
man in this town,
with a long record of arrests
that have all held up in court.
You think he needs to beef up
his record with a phony bust?
You think he'd
even take a chance
on a dumb idea like that?
- No, no, no, no, I
guess you're right.
But, Dick, there's got
to be an explanation.
And it has nothing
to do with my family.
- Then what is it?
- Well, that's what
you've got to find out.
- Gentlemen,
apprehending the Leydens
was an important achievement,
not for me and my staff,
but for the young
people of this city who
were their primary victims.
And I'm sure that Mike
Doran, our district attorney,
and Sharon Reischauer,
his assistant,
will see to it that these
people are tried and convicted
without delay so that they
won't be out on the streets
anymore, able to
hurt our young kids.
Do you have any questions?
- Mr. Hartog, uh, what
led you on to the Leydens?
- It was a tip, but I'm sorry
I can't reveal the source.
I'm sure you can
understand that.
- How long did it take
you to solve the case?
- Uh, we had them
under surveillance
for a couple of months.
Two-man teams were
working around the clock.
- Everything here, Clare?
- Yeah, sure, I checked
it myself, Mike.
It's an open and shut case.
- It's incredible.
Just look at this guy.
Gregory Leyden, age 43,
works at the Apex Machinery.
- That's in the daytime.
- Yeah, served not only in
Korea, but in the Berlin
call up.
Esther Leyden, 38,
pediatric nurse, San--
San Mateo Hospital, hmm.
Daughter, Nancy...
There's, uh, there's no age.
- Uh, my girl must
have left that out.
- She's 16.
- Then I'll put that in.
Good student.
I don't know.
You'd think they were just
a family down the street.
- Yeah, well, if you'd have
heard them on the raid, Mike,
you'd have heard a
lot different slant.
- I can imagine.
- There don't seem to be
any holes here, Clare.
This should make it
comparatively easy
for us to get a conviction.
- Thank you, Sharon.
- You know, you keep pushing
the pushers out of town
like this, Clare, who knows?
You might wind up in the
commissioner's chair.
- Oh, come on.
That political
stuff turns me off.
- Mom.
- My God.
Honey, what is this?
- Get inside.
- Who could do such
a terrible thing?
- Oh, take it easy.
It's-- it's probably
just a bunch of kids.
Listen.
At least we're out of that
rotten, old jail cell.
It's good to be home.
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
- Oh, no.
[ANGRY SHOUT]
- Esther, let's start
cleaning up, huh?
Hey, come on, Nancy.
You pitch in, too.
[PHONE RINGING]
- Hello?
Yes, this is the Leydens.
What?
That's a lie!
- Who was that?
- A man.
- What did he want?
- Don't ask me to repeat it.
- Come on, Nance.
Come on.
Got a lot of work to do, honey.
[PHONE RINGING]
Hello.
Listen, you.
You call again, and I'll
try trace this line.
And when I find you--
hello?
Hello?
Hello?!
Come here.
Come here.
Look, we'd better face
this thing right now.
We're probably going to get
a lot of those crank calls.
You know, they
don't mean anything.
They're just a bunch of nuts.
- Greg, when we drove up in the
cab, Mrs. Donner was watching
and when she saw it was me,
she just slammed the door.
- Well, she's always been
a little sour anyway.
Esther, we know these people.
They're our neighbors.
All we got to do
is talk to them.
- I hope so.
- Daddy?
- Yeah?
- What do I do about tomorrow?
Do I go to school
when I'm out on bail?
- Oh, Nancy, you are innocent.
You've done nothing
to be ashamed of.
Nothing.
Oh, yes.
[PHONE RINGING]
Yes, you go to school.
- Greg, don't answer it.
- Listen, you--
Hi, Dick.
No, no, no, we're fine.
We're fine.
The-- the place is a
little upside down,
but we'll, uh, we'll
get it fixed up, yeah.
What?
I see.
No, no, no, that's--
all right.
We'll be-- we'll be OK for
money, for a while anyway.
Yeah, thanks.
- What?
- Esterbrook, my office called
right after the story broke.
The firm has
decided I'm surplus.
Nothing personal,
of course, but who
needs a pusher on the premises?
- No, they can't do that.
- Oh, yes, they can.
- I thought we were innocent
until they prove we're guilty.
- I'm going to go out
and get some food.
- Daddy, aren't we?
- No.
- Mom.
- Joey, Joey, wait a minute.
- Yeah, Frank.
What's up?
- Listen.
You know that bust we made the
other night, out at that house?
- Yeah.
- I've been thinking.
Anything seem a
little off to you?
- What are you
talking about, off?
It was clean, by the book.
- Yeah, I don't know.
I just thought--
- Ah, Frank, Frank, let it lie.
It was a good bust.
Believe me.
- Yeah, I guess so.
Come on.
I'll buy ya a beer.
- You read my mind.
- Nancy, they made a mistake.
Oh, darling, listen
to me, please.
Now, when they
find out the truth,
everything is going to be
exactly the way it was before.
Darling, it is all
going to be over soon.
Please, believe me.
Oh.
[RUSTLING]
Honey, where have you been?
I was petrified.
You've been gone for hours.
- Well, I went to
Lindenhurst for some food.
- That far?
Why?
- Honey, I wouldn't shop around
here for a while if I were you.
It-- it won't be very pleasant.
How's Nancy?
- Oh, she's-- she's
very upset, Greg.
It's the school.
They've suspended her.
- They what?
- They kicked her out.
- Well, that's the dumbest
thing I ever heard.
- They got so many
calls from parents.
The newspaper said
most of the stuff
was found in Nancy's room.
- Where is she?
- She's lying down.
- Uh, just us, please.
Nancy?
Baby?
Look at me, honey.
[SOBBING]
- Oh, Dad, I can't stand it.
Nobody believes me.
- Nancy, I want you
to listen to me.
- Did you hear what
the principal said?
- I know.
I know.
Nancy, you've always been
truthful with me before,
and I want you to
be truthful now.
- About what?
- How many kids in
school use drugs?
- A lot.
- Do you know any of them?
- I guess so.
- Do you know them well?
- Some of them.
- Who are they, Nancy?
Who are they?
- That's personal.
- Personal?!
The kind of trouble we're in,
and you talk about something
being personal?
[SOBBING]
Nancy...
Look, honey, it's just
that sometimes kids
influence other kids.
- What are you trying to say?
- I'm not trying to accuse you.
- Oh, yes, you are.
- Oh, Nancy, please,
understand, honey.
- Try to understand what?
That my father
thinks I'm a junkie?
You think I'm an addict?
- Nancy, please,
I have to ask you.
- If you don't believe me, what
is everybody else gonna think?
[GLASS BREAKING]
- Greg!
- Filth.
[DOORBELL RINGING]
- Greg, don't answer it.
Don't answer it.
- You two stay here.
Who's there?
- Mr. Leyden.
- Get out of here or
I'll call the police.
- This is the police.
Franklin.
- You're one of the cops who
was here the other night.
- That's right.
- What do you want?
- I think I can help you.
Mr. Leyden, I realize this
is a little irregular.
And believe me, I could get
myself in a lot of hot water
if this gets out.
- Mm-hmm, well, I'm
gonna call my lawyer.
- If you do that,
Mr. Leyden, I'll
have to deny I've
ever been here.
- All right, then
what do you want?
- Just the two of you, please.
- Nancy, go to
your room, darling.
- Well, let-- let--
let's hear it.
- Well, I got to thinking
about what went down here
the other night.
Some of it, it
just doesn't wash.
- Well, that's pretty--
that's pretty funny,
coming from you.
You come in here, you
terrorize my family,
you bust up my house.
You tell me it doesn't wash?
Well, I'll tell you
something, Mr. Linwood.
I already knew that.
- Mr. Leyden, I don't blame
you for feeling the way you do.
You got to be
thinking I'm a plant
and that I'm here to nail you.
If I were you, I'd feel
the same way myself.
But it's not true.
I-- I'm here because I want to
help you, but I need your help,
too.
Come on.
What do you got to lose?
How much can it hurt?
- Esther.
Wait a minute.
- This is ridiculous.
We can't trust him.
He's one of them.
- I know, but he might
be telling the truth.
Maybe he can help.
- I just don't like it, Greg.
It's just too convenient.
- But he's right.
What do we have to lose?
Linwood, I can't figure you out.
Why are you doing this?
Why do you want to help us?
- Mr. Leyden, all
my life, I wanted
to be a cop, ever
since I was a kid.
See, we used to have
a cop on our beat.
Everybody knew him.
People felt safe
when he was around.
They felt he was
there to help them.
I always wanted to be that guy.
Now, the whole department
gets bad mouthed.
All you hear about is bad cops.
Cops on the take,
police brutality.
Well, sir, there are good cops.
Mr. Leyden, it's
as simple as that.
- Come here, honey.
[SIGH]
All right.
All right, why don't
you start by telling us
just what the hell is going on.
- I can't yet.
There are some things
I have to check first.
All I can tell you
now is to sit tight.
But remember, I'm putting myself
on the line for you so you
cannot tell anyone
I've been here.
- All right, all right.
What do you want us to do?
- Right now, nothing.
I'll tell you, I'd like to
take a look around first,
get a few things
straight in my head.
OK?
Fine.
- Good.
- Do you know what
plea bargaining is?
- Yeah, generally.
It's where you plead
guilty to a reduced charge.
It saves the DA the trouble of
a trial and you're treated well.
- Mm-hmm.
- So what about it?
- That's what I think
you ought to do.
- Plead guilty?
- Oh, I don't believe you, Dick.
You've got to be
out of your mind.
Plead guilty?
No way.
- Why should we
plead guilty, Dick?
We're innocent.
- Because the DA has eight
bags of heroin that say
you're guilty.
- Oh, no, it doesn't.
- Can you prove that?
- Well, no, that's what
you're supposed to do.
- I can't, Greg, and you can't.
Now be realistic.
- Be real-- what does that mean?
Let everybody think
we are pushers
and face that for the
rest of our lives?
Do you realize what
you're telling us to do?
- A lot of very important
people have copped pleas.
- All right, I'll
say it again: no way.
- Then you're finished, Greg.
You're dead.
- Linwood didn't think so.
- Who's Linwood?
- One of the cops
who was on the raid.
He came to see us today.
- He thinks he might
be able to help us.
- Be able to help you how?
- Well, he thinks there's
something fishy going on
and he wanted to check it out.
- Well, what did he say?
What does he think is going on?
- That's all he had to say.
- I want to talk to him.
- You can't.
- Why not?
- Because he said he could
get in a lot of trouble
if anybody finds out.
- Well, how can I help you
if I don't have the facts?
- I don't know, Dick, but I
can't let you talk to him.
- You're a great help, Greg.
You find a guy--
- I can't let you.
- He says he can help--
- I can't!
[SIGH]
- Well, this is
going nowhere anyway.
I mean, the man's a patrolman.
What can he do?
Do you think he can take
on a deputy commissioner
like Hartog?
Well, do you?
- I don't know.
But I'll tell you one thing,
I am not pleading guilty.
- We hit here, 43 Hillcrest.
But on the other
side of the park,
you see, Hillcrest,
it keeps going.
It's North Hillcrest here.
- Mm-hmm.
- Right about there,
43 North Hillcrest.
- So?
- It's just possible that
the real target was 43 North,
but somebody screwed up,
wrote down the wrong number,
and we hit the Leydens instead.
- Don't you think that's a
little off the wall, Linwood?
- Uh, Linwood, how much
preparation do you think
went into this Leyden raid?
- The usual.
They do their homework.
The report I got
was highly detailed.
- Well, I'm sure it was, sir.
- Yet you think that everybody
in the raid was wrong
and that you're right?
- That's correct, ma'am.
There are just too
many things that
don't make any sense to me.
- Do you know who
Clarence Hartog is?
- Yes.
- One of the most decorated
officers in the department.
- Yes, sir.
- And you're suggesting that
he not only hit the wrong house
but knows he hit the wrong
house and is prosecuting
these people?
- That's about it, sir.
- In other words, Clarence
Hartog framed that family?
- Yes, ma'am,
that's what I think.
- Why?
- Hartog's next in line
for commissioner, isn't he?
- Yes.
- That's his reason.
He made a mistake and
he's covering it up.
He hit the wrong house.
If he admits it, he
blows his career.
- Linwood, you're
sticking your neck
out awful far in this and Hartog
is just the guy to cut it off.
[CLEARING THROAT]
- Now, you, uh, you say
that you became suspicious
because you were
told that the target
house would have a basement?
- Right.
The house we hit didn't.
- What about the
one at 43 North?
- It has one.
- Well, that's hardly
earth-shaking, is it?
What else do you got?
- The Leydens, the
way they acted,
they didn't know what the
heck Hartog was talking about.
- Linwood, they had eight
bags of heroin in their house.
- That's my whole point.
I don't think the heroin was
in the house when we broke in.
- What?
- Right!
- Linwood, I'm gonna
be honest with you.
All I've heard up to now is a
lot of circumstantial evidence
that adds up to a
great, big zero.
- Mr. Duran, you come
down to the house with me.
I'll show you a lot more.
- I'm not going down to
that house on a hunch.
- I've been a cop
for nine years.
I've been in clothes
the last five.
I've gone on 100
raids with this crew.
I'm telling you,
this one stinks!
- Unless you've got something
more pertinent that you
want to tell me,
I think we ought
to wrap this whole thing up.
- You come down to
the house with me,
I'll show you where Hartog's
story has holes big enough
to blow a truck through.
- I'm not going to listen
to any more of this.
- You don't want to listen?
- No.
- Maybe the papers will.
- The papers?
Let me tell you something.
You're either a fool
or a very brave man.
I prefer to think the former.
- Those people are innocent.
- And you're willing to take on
Clarence Hartog in that belief?
- Yes, I am.
- All right, Daily Record's
numbers is 555-0840.
The city editor's
name is Donald Ross.
- Donald Ross, please.
[SIGH]
- Sharon, go out to that house
and see if Don Quixote here
knows what he's talking about.
- All right, now, this
is the way it was.
Most of the guys, they came
through the front door.
- Where were you?
- Looking for a basement
that didn't exist.
- And when you
couldn't find one?
- I came through the front.
All right, now we started with
the obvious places-- drawers,
closets.
- Go on.
Go on.
- Didn't find anything.
- Well, the report said you did.
- If we found drugs
in obvious places,
why tear the place apart?
- Well, I don't mean
to insult you, Linwood,
but sometimes you guys--
- Yeah, I know, honey,
but this wasn't the case.
All right, then we
went to the bedrooms.
- Would you mind waiting here?
- You got the
picture I gave you?
- Yes.
- All right, take a look.
Now, the picture shows Keen
displaying a bag of heroin,
pointing to this
particular desk.
Now, I talked to Keen.
He says that's
where he found it.
- Are you saying it isn't?
- I'm saying I got
there before Keen.
- And?
- I didn't find anything.
- Maybe you just missed it.
- No, no.
I took this desk apart.
If there were drugs there,
I would have found them.
- Well, then how do you
explain Keen's finding them?
- It was Bates.
- Captain Bates?
- Yeah, Hartog assigned
him to the front door.
Handle the press,
stuff like that.
- Well, what about it?
- Stayed there at the beginning.
All of a sudden, he's
all over the place.
- Maybe he got new orders.
- Yeah, I think he got
new orders, all right.
- Can you prove that, Linwood?
- Look, when Bates first
came into the house,
the only thing he
had was a clipboard.
Later on, he had a little
bag, a canvas, zippered bag.
- Are you telling me that
Captain Bates brought the drugs
into this house?
- I'm telling you someone did.
Bates is the best bet.
- Bates...?
- Look, he's making
us guys check things
we've already checked.
Come on.
Now, I had already
checked this closet.
No drugs.
Then Bates asked
me to recheck it.
Guess what I found?
- Linwood, are you sure?
- If I wasn't, I
wouldn't be here now.
- Mr. Leyden?
- Yes?
- Would you recognize
Bates if you saw him?
- Uh, I think so, if it's
the guy they called Sandy.
- That's the one.
Did he do anything unusual?
- I don't know what
you mean by unusual.
- Act strange, anything?
- Well, he went out of the
house for a few minutes.
- Then what?
- Then, uh, uh, Hartog
came back without Bates.
- Do you remember how
long Bates was gone?
- No, I'm afraid I wasn't
paying any attention to that.
- I do.
He was just gone a few minutes.
- Mrs. Leyden, try to remember.
Was Bates carrying
anything when he came back?
- Yes, a-- a little bag.
- You didn't tell me that.
- Well, I'm sorry, honey.
I didn't think it was important.
- That's how he did it.
That's how he set us up.
- Mr. Leyden, what you've
heard here is off the record.
Please, don't destroy your
chances by making any of it
public.
- Fine, fine.
What-- what can we do to help?
- Nothing for now,
just stay put.
We'll be in touch with you.
Goodbye.
Thanks for your cooperation.
- Bye.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Thank you.
- Well, look.
I think we should start
by dusting for prints
wherever this stuff was found.
I got a feeling
we'll be spending
most of our time looking
at Sandy Bates's pinky.
- OK.
First, let's spend some
time at 43 North Hillcrest.
3:00 AM.
That's eight cars in
and out since midnight.
- Yeah, and look what's
been driving them.
- Well, there's no law
against being a bum, Linwood.
- Yeah, right, Sharon, but
when eight bums get together,
it's usually not for the opera.
- Right.
Let's run a check on the host.
- OK.
- Mike, the house at
43 North Hillcrest
is occupied by a
man and a woman.
No kids.
- When Hartog briefed
us on the raid,
he didn't mention any kids.
The Leydens have a daughter.
- Did you run a make
on these people?
- Yeah, the guy's
been arrested once
for armed robbery,
three times for assault,
and she's a real honey, too,
busted twice for soliciting.
- Well, maybe, uh,
maybe you got something.
- I want to know why that
broad is questioning our boys.
- She's a woman.
She likes little details.
- It's the little
details that can hurt us.
- The guys have got
nothing to hide.
Whatever they say will
sound more legitimate.
- I wish I knew what the
hell they were up to.
- Clare, do you think
they're on to something?
- I don't know, but there's
one way to find out.
- Davis said Bates told him to
check a closet he had already
checked and he found the
drugs on the second try, just
like Linwood.
- I assume that's unusual?
- Davis said it's the first
time it's ever happened.
Soznow told me he saw
Bates go to his car.
And one other thing, Mike--
no drugs were found
in the living room.
That's the only
place in the house
Bates could never be alone.
- There's no problem with this?
- No, Joe, there
are no problems.
Believe me.
Reischauer said we gave
them a very good case.
Now, say hello to Helen
and the kids for me, huh?
- Right.
- OK, Bates.
That nosy broad.
She's digging for something
and I'd love to know why.
- Clare, Joe told her he
saw me leave the house.
- So what?
He didn't see where you went
and he didn't see you come back.
- Maybe we forgot something.
- Forgot what?
We shredded everything
but the toilet paper.
- But we can't just do nothing.
I mean, we ought to find out
what they're going to do.
- Shut up, will you?
I don't need you
going to pieces on me.
They got nothing on
you so stop worrying.
- Mike, fingerprint reports
are in on the Leyden house.
- And?
- The guy in the lab spent
most of his time looking
at Sanford Bates' pinky.
[CHUCKLING]
- Sorry I'm late.
- It's all right.
- Got a wounded man
in the hospital.
I'd like to get back
as soon as possible.
- This won't take long.
- Good.
Uh, something serious?
- No, not necessarily.
Uh, you won't object if we
make a record, will you?
- No, I don't object.
- All right, sit down.
Uh, now, as I, uh, told you,
this is about the Leyden thing.
- Yeah, I was wondering, Mike.
Where are the indictments?
- Well, that's what
we're gonna talk about.
- You know, my guys
would like to see it.
We worked very
hard on this thing.
- We know.
- Um, if you want my advice,
I'd go for the limit.
- Clare, there are questions.
- Questions?
- Mm-hmm.
- About what?
- About the raid, about
the guilt of the Leydens.
[CHUCKLING]
- Am I hearing you right?
How can there be questions?
I submitted a report,
a very detailed report.
- I know.
- We're, um, we're
operating on a tip, Clare.
- What kind of a tip?
- A good one.
- From who?
- We can't say who, but we're
investigating a complaint.
- A complaint.
About what?
- Clare, I want
some information.
- Well, I'll give you what
I got but this is stupid.
[PHONE RINGING]
Questions, tips.
[CHUCKLING]
- Yes?
Oh, I'll, uh, I'll take
it in the other office.
I have to go down
the hall a minute.
Sharon, will you, uh,
take care of this?
- Her?
- Yes.
- I, uh, have never been
questioned by a lady before.
- No?
I'll try to make it as
painless as possible.
Clare, how did you learn that
the Leydens were pushers?
- Why?
- I think you'd better
take this seriously.
- OK.
It's your office.
We had informants.
Do you mind?
I was up all night
working on a case.
- What did your
informants tell you?
- That drugs could be
bought at their house.
- Was the family described?
- Yes.
- And you passed
this on to your guys?
- Well, naturally.
- Did you mention anything
about the daughter?
- I may have.
- Well, isn't it usual
to include everybody?
- Yes.
- But you can't recall
mentioning the daughter?
- No.
Uh, are these the
important questions
you called me in about?
- We've learned you didn't
mention anything about kids.
- Well, there you are.
I left something out.
Sharon, I don't like
what's happening.
I'm up to here with your little
innuendos and veiled threats.
Are you through?
- Clare, I have to
ask these questions.
If I don't, Mike will.
So let's get on with it.
[CHUCKLING]
Now, did all of your men
enter the house the same way?
- No, a couple of guys came
through the front door.
Somebody went through a window.
- What about the basement door?
- Linwood used that.
- The Leydens don't
have a basement.
[CHUCKLING]
- So he came through
the front door.
Maybe he came down the
chimney like Santa Claus.
I don't know.
- Well, didn't it strike
you odd that this Linwood
came in the front door?
- Uh, this is the
first I heard it.
Uh, I wasn't standing there
taking tickets, you know?
- You told your men the
house had a basement.
- Sharon, you have to
understand one thing.
The guys who tip us
off, they're not what
you'd call professional spies.
- Oh.
Oh, I see.
You mean they could
have made a mistake.
- They could've.
- Could they have made a
mistake on the address, too?
- Are you kidding?
- No.
- They didn't make a mistake.
- How do you know?
- How do I know?
- That was the question, yes.
- I know because it's
my business to know.
Because when I plan
a raid, every detail
is checked and double checked.
That's how I know.
- Well, specifically
how did you make
sure the address was right?
- Well, we have
several safeguards.
You know, surveillance reports
are checked and compared.
You know, things like that.
- I see.
Things like that.
- That's right.
- Clare, why did your
men do so much damage?
- What?
I didn't get that?
- Why did your men
do so much damage?
- Because they were looking
for drugs, that's why.
- But the drugs were
found in open places,
in drawers and in closets.
I mean, why go
through the walls?
- There could have been more.
- There weren't.
- Listen, I know this business
a little better than you.
- Were there any
weapons in the house?
- No.
- Isn't that odd?
- It's possible.
- But it's odd.
- You know, I see
a lot that's odd.
- What was Bates' assignment?
- I'd have to look it up.
- Wasn't he posted at the door?
- No.
- Oh, you didn't tell
him to stay there?
- I, uh, gave him that
assignment at the briefing.
- I thought you had
to look that up.
- You reminded me.
You said he was
assigned at the door.
- You changed that?
- Yes, I did.
I ordered him to stay with me.
- Did he?
- Yes, he did.
I can account for
every move he made.
- Why would you want to do that?
[SIGH]
- I'm anticipating
your next question.
- Did Sandy search for drugs?
- No, the other men did that.
- He didn't search for any?
- I just told you, no.
- Then how come his
fingerprints were
found every place in the
house the drugs were found?
- Look, Reischauer, I've
about had it with you.
- Well, how are
you two getting on?
- Terrific.
- Good.
Don't let me
interrupt you, Sharon.
- Thank you.
How come Bates' fingerprints
showed up all over, Clare?
- I don't know.
Why don't you ask him?
- He left the house
during the raid, Clare.
Why?
- I told him to.
He was checking on the
arrival of the press.
- Clarence, I want to put
this very, very carefully now.
It's been charged that, uh,
drugs suddenly appeared.
- Now, just what is
that supposed to mean?
- In places that had
already been searched.
- Oh, I see where this is going.
You want to bust the cops,
not the criminals, huh?
That's the way it is these days.
Michael Doran, the
friend of the accused.
This will put you in good
with all the law-school types,
won't it?
- I don't work that way.
- I know the way you work.
You sit behind
that desk of yours,
giving lectures on the law,
while I'm out on the street,
putting my life up for grabs
every time I make a raid.
You've got a hell of a
lot of gall, both of you,
asking me these kind of
questions and I resent it.
- No further questions.
[SIGH]
Please call Bates.
That was the mayor
on the phone before.
He was a little hot
under the collar.
I think I Hartog got to him.
- Why?
- Oh, he wants indictments
on the Leyden family.
Fast.
Did you ever suspect
that the Leyden house
was the wrong target?
- Never.
- Do you think so now?
- Of course not.
- Sandy, was there
anything about that raid
that disturbed you?
- Not that I can think of.
- What about the family?
- What about the family?
- They seem like the kind
of people who'd be pushers?
- Well, as an
officer, I've always
been interested in
what makes people tick.
- Did you and Hartog have
a talk outside the house
during the raid?
- Uh, uh, let me see.
Uh, uh, yeah, I remember.
- And what, uh,
did you talk about?
- The operation.
- So just police talk?
- Well, we didn't talk
about the weather.
- Was anything said that,
uh, that could upset you?
- No.
Oh, I think one of our guys,
uh, may have roughed up
the husband a little.
Nothing serious.
- Well, what was your
assignment on the raid?
- Well, first, it was to
stay, uh, at the door.
Then later, that was changed.
- To what?
- To staying with Clarence.
- Did you go to your car?
- Um, I don't remember.
I don't think so.
- We have a witness
that says you did.
- Well, I might have.
- What did you get
from the car, Sandy?
- Look, I just said I don't
remember going to the car.
- Well, wasn't it
a, uh, little bag?
- I'm afraid I'm
not, uh, with you.
- Uh, Bates, did--
did you search for drugs?
- In the house?
- Yes, in the house.
- For a minute, but the guys
took care of most of that.
- Your fingerprints
were all over.
Why?
[SCOFF]
- You can search a lot
of house in a minute.
- Sandy, do you think
your men are thorough?
- Yes.
- When they search a
place, does it usually
have to be searched again?
- Not usually.
- Then why were drugs found
in places already covered?
- Well, nobody's perfect.
In all that commotion, the guys
thought they searched an area.
- Doesn't wash.
- It does to me.
- Bates, did you
plant any drugs?
- I find that
question offensive.
- Will you please answer it?
- The answer is no.
- It didn't take me too long to
figure out it was you, Linwood.
You were the only one who would
care about that basement door.
You think you're pretty
smart, don't you?
Well, you're not, fink.
You're the lowest
vermin I can think of.
- Hartog, I don't really give
a damn what you think about me.
But I'm not going
to sit still and let
you kill those people
just to cover yourself.
- Why, you little--
- Hey, Clare, come on.
Take it easy.
Come on.
Come on, you guys.
- Linwood, I'm reassigning you.
From now on, you're back in
uniform on the South Side,
writing parking tickets.
We lost a couple
of cops down there.
You get my drift?
Now you get the
hell out of here.
- Got news for you, Hartog.
You could send me to Siberia.
It wouldn't do you any good.
- I want to nail him.
Go to work on it.
- Right.
What now?
[SIGH]
- It's time we made a move.
- Walking a beat.
That's where your
friend Linwood is.
He's also under
investigation for accepting
gifts while on duty.
From now on, he's
protecting himself, not you.
I'm telling you, Greg,
it's time to make a deal.
- But the DA was here.
- The assistant DA.
- The assistant DA.
Doesn't she count for anything?
- No, not stacked
up against Hartog.
Face it, Greg, the
man is a public hero.
Time is getting short.
I've got no case.
If we go into court now,
you're gonna get hammered.
So will Esther and Nancy.
Take the plea bargaining.
- Why should we, Dick?
We're innocent.
- Innocent, guilty,
it doesn't matter now.
- The hell it doesn't!
Right from the start, you
wanted us to cop a plea,
to make a deal.
You can't win so you want
us to throw in the towel?
Well, I'm fighting because
I'm innocent and so are they.
I'm not buying any more of
your bargain-basement justice.
- Call it what you will, Greg,
but if you don't cop a plea
now, I can't be responsible.
- You don't have to, Dick.
You're fired.
- It's your funeral.
- How you doing?
- Oh, that's cute.
[CHUCKLING]
- Do you like it?
- How you doing?
- Oh, terrific.
Wrote 24 parking tickets
today, a new precinct record.
[SIGH]
Well, what's with
the Leyden case?
- Oh, it's coming along.
That Hartog is a tough nut
to crack, I'll tell you.
Meanwhile, the mayor is pressing
Mike to bring indictments
against the Leydens.
- Well, would he do that?
- Well, he'll hold
out as long as he can.
Hey, Frank, we're trying.
- I know.
Can you imagine what that
family is going through?
I only hope this hasn't
all gone for naught.
If we don't make it, I can
kiss my career goodbye.
- Well, you're not the only one.
Listen, we're going all
the way with this thing.
I really think we can make it.
So hang in there, OK?
- Right now, what else can I do?
Um, listen, uh, you
got time for a drink?
- Oh, yeah, I'd like that.
FRANK: Swell.
- Greg, God, I'm so scared.
- Honey, we're
gonna be all right.
- But what if we're not?
- There's no point in
thinking like that.
- Greg, what's
gonna happen to us?
And Nancy?
You know what kind of a place
they're going to send her to.
God, I just can't bear the
thought of her being at a place
like that.
[DOORBELL RINGING]
Who's that?
- Who's there?
- Clarence Hartog.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
May I sit down?
I hear you people have been
having a pretty rough time
with your neighbors.
- Why should you
care about that?
[CHUCKLE]
- You think I'm a
complete heel, don't you?
- What are you here for
this time time, Hartog?
- Your futures.
You know, I have my case against
you all lined up, ready to go,
but something keeps
nagging at me.
The check we ran
on your background
comes up clean,
absolutely lily white.
Not even a traffic ticket.
Who got you into
this fix, Leyden?
- What are you
trying to pull off?
- I'm not pulling anything.
Get that clear.
The stuff was here.
But obviously, this
is your first offense.
Now, I don't know how
you got into this mess.
Maybe you had money problems.
But I have a feeling you
got yourself into a lot more
than you realized you would.
- Come on.
What are you getting at?
- I don't enjoy putting
people like you away.
I don't.
And I think you might
have learned your lesson.
But the law can be
tough, very tough,
and you can't get
a second chance.
Now, your lawyer tells me
you won't let him help you.
- So that's it.
- Mr. Leyden, I'm trying
to make it easy for you.
Listen to your lawyer.
Plead guilty.
And with a few choice
words in the right places,
I think I might be able to
get you off, uh, short term,
in a minimum-security prison.
And under the circumstances,
your daughter Nancy--
that's her name, isn't it?
- Yes.
- Nancy could probably
stay out altogether.
- Why are you doing this for us?
What's in it for you?
- There's nothing in it for me.
Of course, I don't expect
you to believe that.
You see, I know what a
full conviction can get you
into: a hellhole.
Prison can be a
terrifying place.
Fights, riots, killings.
And the women's
joint is no better.
In some ways, it's a lot worse.
- It won't work, Hartog.
Get out of here.
- Mrs. Leyden, I have
a daughter of my own.
And those reform
schools for kids,
I wouldn't want to see
your Nancy in one of those
any more than my own girl.
- You're trying to scare us.
I said it won't work.
- I'm trying to educate you.
- What went wrong
with your case, huh?
Must be something
pretty bad to bring you
all the way over here.
- Mr. Leyden, you're an idiot.
You want to fool around
with Linwood and Doran?
Go ahead.
Do it.
You'll see how much
they'll do for you.
Your friend Linwood is finished.
And Doran is chasing rainbows.
What's he got?
Nothing.
Nothing but a lot of
suspicions and coincidences,
and that doesn't go very
far with a grand jury.
You have absolutely no
chance of getting off.
- I don't believe that.
[SIGH]
- Mrs. Leyden, talk
to your husband,
see if you can't get
some sense into him.
Goodnight.
Oh, uh, by the way, don't--
don't talk to
anybody about this.
A lot of my boys aren't
as understanding as I am.
And sometimes, I-- I
just can't control them.
- Who are you calling?
- Frank Linwood.
[PHONE RINGING]
- Yeah?
- Officer Linwood?
- Yeah.
- This is Greg Leyden.
- What's the matter?
- Clarence Hartog was just here
and he wants me to cop a plea.
[PHONE RINGING]
- Yes?
- Sharon, it's Frank Linwood.
- Oh, yes, hi, Frank.
- Look.
I just got a call
from Greg Leyden.
- Clarence, what were you doing
in the Leydens' neighborhood
last night?
- Who says I was there?
- Sources.
- Well, they're wrong.
I didn't go out last night.
- This your license?
- Anybody could
have written that.
- Well, anybody didn't.
- I told you I didn't
go out last night.
- The Leydens will swear that
you offered them a bribe.
- Well, you'd swear, too, if you
were in their kind of trouble.
You're going to take
their word against mine?
- Why, uh, why was, uh, Linwood
reassigned to traffic detail?
- I like to move my men around.
- He was the only man
moved in six months.
You move your men
in slow motion?
- I move them when I see fit.
- All right, let's try it again.
What were you doing in the
Leydens' house last night?
- I told you I didn't
go out last night.
- You were tailed, Clare.
- They photographed your car.
- This has been a
bummer from the start.
I should have said no
right there in the house.
- Don't bleed on me, Sandy.
It's too late for that now.
- Yeah, well, it was your idea.
- You try to lay this off on
me and I'll come down on you
so hard you won't
know what hit you.
- Hey, I'm on your side, Clare.
- Don't Clare me, Sandy.
You're in this thing
as deep as I am.
And if I go under,
you're coming with me.
- Well, what are we gonna
do, stand around and wait
for them to nail us?
- I've still got a
name in this town.
I'm gonna hit them
before they hit me.
Uh, gentlemen, I'm gonna
make a brief statement
and then I'll take
your questions.
As a police officer
for more than 23 years,
I'm shocked at the inexcusable
and dangerous delay in seeking
indictments in the Leyden case.
Now, Mike Doran, a
district attorney,
has seen fit to stall this case
through trivial and wasteful
questioning of my men.
Now, that makes no
contribution to a safer city.
In fact, it takes needed
officers off the street.
Now, it's time the
people of this city
told the DA, bluntly
if necessary,
that they want action.
They want it now.
- What's this going to do to us?
- And they want it
without compromise.
- Well, it may
start a bandwagon.
Then I'll have the
mayor on my back again.
- We better wrap
this up fast, Mike,
or we're going to be
forced into an indictment
against the Leydens.
- --encourages lawlessness
and disrespect--
- I just wish I had a
stronger case against Hartog.
- Clarence, what do you
think Doran's after?
- Maybe he wants to send me
to jail and make Leyden a cop,
huh?
- That grin, Lee.
It's like we never
even questioned him.
- Uh, well, I'm
having my office--
- He certainly isn't
running scared.
- I don't know actually
what lawfully I can do.
- But maybe somebody else is.
- --that Doran
will expedite this.
- Did you see our
press conference?
- Yes, good performance.
- Coffee?
- Yeah.
Well, I didn't want to
see you get hurt, Mike.
- Now isn't that odd?
I was thinking the
same thing about you.
- What's gonna hurt me?
- Oh, obstruction of
justice, perjury charges.
- You're obviously
talking to the wrong man.
- Are we?
- We're gonna give you
another chance, Sandy.
Why don't you come clean?
- I don't know what
you're talking about.
- Don't you?
And I thought you were smart.
- Smart enough.
- Not smart enough to
know when you've had it.
- We want the truth, Sandy.
- You've got the police report.
- The truth!
- That raid was a fake.
- Oh, come on, Mike.
You're just fishing.
- Am I?
I'm dropping all charges
against the Leydens.
- You're what?
Well, now, how do you figure
to get away with that?
- We have evidence the
whole thing was a cover-up.
- You're bluffing.
- Hmm.
Sandy, only a fool goes
down with a sinking ship.
- After all, it was
Hartog who was in charge.
He gave the orders, right?
- We know that Hartog
was the instigator.
- Maybe you just didn't
have time to think.
- Sure, all you did
was follow orders.
- You regret it now,
though, don't you, Sandy?
Why should you have
to front for Hartog?
He wouldn't do the same for you.
- Cut it out.
- Now, I'm going to give
you one last chance.
You come clean with
me and I'll see
that you get partial immunity.
- I'm not being prosecuted!
- How long do you
think it's gonna
take me to bust this
case wide open up, huh?
Two days, maybe three.
- Then after that, who
needs your confession?
- You and Hartog rigged that
cover-up awfully quickly.
You must have
forgotten something.
- What do you think
you forgot, Sandy?
- Look, this is going nowhere.
May I leave?
- If you wish.
Bates, you walk through
that door and my offer
of partial immunity is dropped.
- It wasn't my idea.
[SIGH]
- Ladies and gentlemen, I've
called you here today to, um,
pay justifiable tribute
to a courageous family
and to a highly
dedicated police officer,
and also to announce
to you the indictment
of the following named
persons by the grand jury.
Clarence Francis Hartog.
Mr. Hartog is currently deputy--
- Hey, Hartog, is it true?
- It's a pack of lies.
It's ridiculous.
That's what it is, a mistake.
- What about Bates's confession?
- I got no comment.
- Welcome home!
- Ooh.
- It's time!
[SCREAMING]
[LAUGHTER]
- Don't remind me.
- Hey, what is this?
- Well, tonight calls
for a little celebration.
- Good.
Great idea.
Too bad you're not 21.
We'll celebrate for you, though.
- Here we are.
OK, here's to us.
- I'll drink to that.
- Hey, Nancy, you want to
go out for dinner night?
- Can we afford it?
- Can we afford it?
Tonight we can afford anything.
- I got a better idea.
Why don't we hold off and
have a really big dinner?
You know, for Officer
Linwood and everybody
at the DA's office?
- We don't have to hold off.
I'll call Frank right now.
- Who do you want to have?
- Gosh, Mom.
- All your friends.
All your friends!
Everybody that you haven't seen
since all the terrible things
happened.
- I can't wait.
- Hello, Frank?
This is Greg Leyden.
How would you like to go
out for dinner tonight?
Huh?
No, tonight!
Yeah.
No, no, no, no.
This time, we'll pick you up.
[LAUGHTER]
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