Third Watch (1999–2005): Season 5, Episode 9 - A Ticket Grows in Brooklyn - full transcript
Carlos tracks down Kiely's aunt, then finds out more about his own family in his bid to find a donor. Bosco and Monroe deal with a turf war between laundry suppliers.
Previously on "Third Watch.."
Hey, guys!
You here to scare away the new guy?
No.
I am the new guy.
Who's that?
It's the woman who adopted my daughter.
Mrs. Kenny.
It's Kylie.
She's very sick.
- 'Zambrano, right?' - Yes, sir.
Supervisor at 5-5?
Well, I was until you guys
sent Doc back to take over.
Parker?
The brass wanted to do whatever
who was gonna make me happy.
So, here I am.
He's not a supervisor. He was demoted.
Her best bet is a bone-marrow transplant.
From a biological donor.
I'll do it. I'll do anything.
'Any history of cancer in your family?'
I grew up in Foster care.
I don't know who my family is.
Why are you lying all of us?
I'm sorry. You weren't the match for Kylie.
'Alright, here's a ground ball.'
"Health code section 4-3-1-2-2.
Feeding pigeons in public prohibited."
Tickets for birds feeding?
Now, that's real police work.
It's a quality-of-life summons.
All that's gonna do is leave
a bunch of hungry pigeons.
Oh, you wanna save the pigeons, now?
- Meaning? - Saving things is what you do.
I'm just talking about how
our times should be spent.
No, you're talking about rats with wings
getting breadcrumbs.
Is that my boy Zeek over there?
Let's walk. Take in the sights.
I see your boy Zeek good enough from here.
Fine, well, while you're
increasing the city's revenue
Officer Bloomberg, I'll be taking a stroll.
Little advice from someone
who has been a cop longer.
Oh, I can't wait.
Nothing good comes from
walking around out there.
This will only take a few minutes.
Yeah, I'm cool.
What, no lecture on how I should
have found her on my on time..
Wasting city money doing personal stuff?
Where do you get that, huh?
I mean as long as
there's no calls coming in.
I just can't get a handle on you lately.
What do you mean?
- What do I mean? - Yeah, what do you mean?
I mean, you're all over the place.
You're-you're... up, you're down.
- You're hot, you're cold. - Hey..
Yo! Carlos, it's your
daughter. Alright, I'm with you.
Whatever we... got to do
to get back on the street
I'm willing to do.
You know, if Vangie's
sister's not a... match
I don't know what I'm gonna do.
Oh, when was the last time you saw her?
When she dump Kylie on me.
Called her place, roommate
says she's got classes all day.
Then let's just go,
alright? See if she can help.
If? She has to.
Oh, come on officer, that's pretty close.
Cut me a break, man. That's close.
Look, the law does not say, "Pretty close."
It doesn't say "Somewhere
in the neighborhood
of 15 feet from a hydrant."
Yo, we straightening out, dawg.
Alright, then..
Back in business, huh, Zeek?
Yo, Sasha. No, no, no that's my grandmamma.
Hey! How you doing, Grandmamma Dawg?
You still working 'em
two jobs with that bad hip
'cause you're good for nothing
grandson can't get an honest job
instead of stuffing phones
so people can't get their change?
Hello?
Hello?
Oh, man, we might have
killed Grandmamma Dawg.
See? Phone's clear.
Don't waste your potential, Zeek.
Call this guy, drop my name..
He'll hook you up.
Toll collector, huh?
You have experience handling change.
What are you doing?
'What are you gonna do?'
Have a nice day.
Man, this ain't right.
Feels pretty right to me.
Notify Central we're gonna
pick up that disturbance.
What disturbance?
Don't act like you don't hear that.
They need the police they'll call.
5-5 David to Central.
We're picking up a dispute at 149 Waverly.
We're gonna volunteer for jobs now?
Bastards got enough of
my stuff and I'm taking these!
Hey! Hang on a second.
What's going on here?
- Ask him. - No, I'm asking you.
What's going on?
I don't want his service anymore.
Who cares. Do you wanna
press charges for this disturbance?
Look, I don't want no trouble.
The kid's stunad.
They're trying to shut us out.
Who?
Good news, napkin boy.
He won't press charges.
So long as you go right now.
- So, go. - Bosco?
You wanted me involved,
I'm involved. Disturbance over.
I'm not leaving without my stuff.
See this logo? That's us.
That's me and my father.
You rent them out! When
they're on my tables they're mine!
Hey! Hey, hey.
Get out of here! Alright?
This is a civil matter, now. Alright?
Go hire attorneys. Go see Judge Judy.
I don't care. Alright?
Thank you, Officer Boscorelli.
Boscorelli.
Figures.
What did you say?
What, he gonna feed you or clothe you?
Did he just accused us of taking a pay off?
Hey, pal!
You do not wanna be
throwing accusations around.
You hear me?
Did they steal this stuff from
you or are they renting it?
- It's complicated. - Enlighten us.
You know what? Enlightened her.
- I could care less. - And nobody does.
Boo hoo.
If you wanna file a
police report, I'll listen.
What's your hurry, anyway?
That's what you get for
getting out and walking.
I ask you to file a complain
and you choose attempted murder?
I wasn't trying to murder anybody.
Any play that I may have given you..
Went straight through
that window with the truck.
When you're done fondling the raging bull
you're transport's here.
Oh, my goodness.
'What did you do this time, Bosco?'
No, no, no, this was not me.
- He's ready. - Yeah, we'll be awhile.
Monroe's got a mountain
of paper work to do.
I'm not doing paperwork, I'm driving.
No way. This thing is your fault.
My fault?
If you want so busy trying to do
nothing all day long we could've...
Nothing? Tickets are not nothing.
They are when there's
real police work to be done.
Girls, girls, there's no reason to argue.
I'll take him off your hands.
Whole arrest, paperwork included.
Since when are you so generous?
He's billing up overtime for retirement.
- You pulling the pin? - Next summer.
- He's all yours. - Uh, Sully, sorry.
He's my collar. I got to sort this one out.
We watch him drive
the truck into a restaurant
what's to sort out?
Can you put him in the processing cage?
You got it.
You're ignoring me now?
Would that I could.
What the hell does that mean?
Hey, good luck.
I'm gonna need it.
I'm talking to Sasha.
There she is. I won't be long.
Keep your radio on.
Miss Sundstrom.
Haley!
Um... I'm sorry to scare you.
Uh... I know it's been a
while since we talked but..
Carlos Nieto?
- Kylie? - Oh.
Yeah. What's wrong?
Well, you see, she's, um...
I can't take her back. I mean, I..
I-I just can't.
No. Uh, no, no I'm not asking to..
It's not that. She's sick.
She has Aplastic anemia.
- What's that? - Well, it's like Leukemia.
She needs a bone marrow transplant.
Leukemia?
I'm-I'm not a match so I can't donate.
So, I need you to come down and get tested.
She's gonna die
if she doesn't get the transplant.
I can't give it to her.
She's your sister daughter. Come on.
I have hepatitis.
- What? - Hepatitis C.
I got it from a piercing.
A piercing?
Do you have any other family?
Parents, brother, sister anything?
None.
That's why I had to give Kylie up.
Is she really gonna die?
Ma, ma, quit yelling.
I know.
I just lost it.
I'm sorry. I screwed up, ma.
It's all my fault.
I don't hear that much.
Let me get you a tissue.
My pop is on his way.
Is it okay if he gets
the linen out of my truck
so we can finish deliveries?
The truck and everything inside stays put.
Why is he got to be such a hard ass?
Because his mother dropped him..
On propose.
Now, finish telling me
about this Nardo Lenin.
Our customers, like this Damonte. Okay?
They put our dirties out for pickup.
But before we can get 'em
Nardo's crew snatches 'em up
puts a match to them.
'And we keep asking
Damonte to put them out back.'
Even gave him a lock box.
Nardo tells him otherwise.
So why doesn't this Damonte
just rent his stuff from Nardo?
'Taking our customers isn't enough.'
Nardo wants to hurt us.
And you've reported this before?
I must have 15 report numbers.
My father really needs our stuff.
Please.
Give me a second.
- Don't start.
- This is a mom and pop outfit.
They need that linen.
- You know the procedure.
- I also know the system.
They're not gonna get
their stuff back for month.
That's my problem too?
Don't you have any obligation to your own?
- My own? - Tanzi, he's Italian.
Our names end in a vowel and you expect me
to give them special attention?
The guy's not getting any attention.
He's filed 15 reports, Bosco.
You know what?
Detectives follow up all 61s.
It's not my fault if they
don't find this guy's
dirty laundry all that important.
Dirty laundry is what
puts food on our table.
Uh, I'm here to pick up my son.
- Cut the kid loose. - Are you serious?
When am I not?
The father's agreed to pay for the damage
so the complainant dropped the charges.
I'm tired of us getting pushed around.
Next time, you use your head
instead of the gas pedal, okay?
- You can go. - This is America, pop.
Nardo should not have
a lock on the industry.
I'm sorry that my son
wasted your time like this.
I really am. Let's go.
You know the difference between you and me?
- You think there's only one?
- I treat everyone the same.
It don't matter where they're
from or what color they are.
- You really believe that?
- Yeah, I do. It's true.
You wish you knew
yourself that well, Bosco.
Just because my family left The Boot
doesn't mean I got olive oil in my veins.
I could care less about that crap
especially when it comes to doing the job.
You really don't have any
connection to your heritage?
Sure, I do. I love pizza. I like spaghetti.
I like "Goodfellas" and two
out of the three Godfathers.
Past that..
I'm about as Italian as you are.
We got a well-being check on 109.
A w-well-being check. That's
exactly what I need right now.
- Check out some geezer's vent.
- We got a job to do.
- Kylie's gonna die. - You don't know that.
You know that the list is national.
In the whole country,
there's gotta be one match.
Aah!
You know, how could one kid be so unlucky?
She has to be born to a one sibling psycho
and-and a foster care reject
who has no family, huh?
What about your real family?
- What? - Your biological family.
Oh, uh, I spent about as
much time looking for them
as they spent looking for me.
- How do you know that? - Just a guess.
Oh, so you've never checked
your foster care records?
Being rejected once in life is enough.
- Come on with the sob story. - What?
You know, hasn't it occurred
to you that when you gave
Kylie up, it wasn't because
you didn't want her?
These people didn't see me into a good home
and send me birthday
presents every year, Doc.
They dumped me on the Red Cross' doorstep.
Now, the Red Cross, you
know, it may, it may be a lot
of good things but I'm
pretty sure that they're not
gonna be a blood-match for Kylie.
So, you've never checked the records
to see if there was anything there?
- I never cared enough.
- Well, do you care enough now?
Where's your partner?
In the RMP reading his Patrol Guide.
He actually carries that
book around with him?
And the BTL, Administrative
Code and the latest legal bulletin.
He's on some sort of summons mission.
Just when I think when I'm
too old to be surprised anymore.
- Open 61s, lieu? - All yours.
OCCB got any open cases on Nardo Linen?
Why, you know something we don't?
They might be trying to
squeeze out their competition.
Might be.
Don't count on a gold
shield with that jewel.
Nardo Linen's mobbed up.
Old man Nardo's kid took over
the crew a couple of years ago
runs it out of Cafe Roma.
- You working it? - Why?
I just handled a job
with a linen service guy.
Said he's filed a bunch of 61s on Nardo
about him stealing his
merchandise and burning it.
Nardo's a punk. He'll fall
eventually. They always do.
These guys are like cockroaches,
you know, you step on one
a hundred more of them come
out from underneath the sink.
So, we do nothing?
I usually recommend someone
like your napkin guy find
another line of work. These
people don't mess around.
Do I have this right? "Carlos N-I-E-T-O.
Date of birth, 5-11-75?"
- You have something?
- Not what you want, I'm afraid.
That agency's records were lost in a fire
January of '73 through March of '76.
Are you kidding me?
Well, what do you mean that agency?
We're not the same Kittredge Foundation
that assumed custody of Mr. Nieto.
Our agency merely took on the name
after purchasing their contracts in 1983.
So, all my record are just gone?
The fire was one of the reasons
they went out of the business.
There's no paper on you. No
computer files, no microfilm.
There's gotta be some other way.
There's a woman, Harding.
She ran one of the group homes I was in.
Harding, you said.
Middle-aged Black woman.
I lived in a bunch of homes after that
but hers is the first I can remember.
"Lucinda Harding."
- You have her?
- She lives in Hollis, Queens.
Hollis, Queens?
- Come on. - No.
Oh, come on. Espresso's on me.
You don't even drink coffee.
Alright, how about a biscotti, then?
You know what? Wait.
You're gonna start with wise guys now?
- I'm just going to talk.
- They're not gonna talk to you.
Well, then they're gonna listen.
5-5, David to Central.
Put this unit out 385 Broome.
Follow up on an earlier dispute.
Hey, hold up, back there.
Made friends already.
Let me see some ID.
You can't just storm in
here and ask for ID, alright?
You see that mope right there?
He's already copying
down your shield number.
80416.
Officer Boscorelli.
- Allie Nardo. - How are you doing?
May I offer you a drink or something?
We'd much rather talk about Nardo Linen.
- Ah, the partner speaks.
- 'She does more than that.'
Have you ever heard of the
phrase, Restraint of trade?
Oh, this is a business school quiz?
'Cause I gotta warn
you I ain't really studied.
Hey, come on.
Let's-let's have a word
in the back, alright?
- I'll handle this one. - No!
I-I'm not just letting him blow me off.
You can't question this guy
in front of his whole crew.
Alright? Just stay here, and I'll be back.
Your girl's standing over there
giving me the, uh, malocchio.
That's not my girl.
And, uh, I don't really
know what malocchio means.
- Come on, evil eye.
- I only speak English.
- I thought you was Italian. - I'm Italian.
So the boss sticks you
with a moulignon, huh?
Tough break. What?
You know, don't tell me you
don't know moulignon either?
- No, that one I got it. - You got it?
Yeah, and if you're
referring to that New York City
police officer over there,
we got problems, alright?
We all get the urge for a little
chocolate cannoli now and then
but a steady diet of that,
my friend, could kill you.
- So could insulting her again.
- Come on, relax, paesan.
Whoa! I-I'm not your paesan.
- Jack-off. - Man, I could like you.
You been hassling a kid
named Tanzi over napkins?
- I don't hassle nobody.
- And it's becoming my problem.
- That's not good for you.
- It's not good for me?
- No, it's not good for you.
- Not good for me, huh?
Not good at all.
Where are you going? You leaving already?
We just started to connect here.
You just leave the Tanzi family alone.
Hey, enjoy the eggplant.
- Eggplant? - Never mind.
This doesn't look familiar?
I was four, this old lady
could have lived in a giant shoe
and it wouldn't look familiar.
Yes, may I help you?
- Uh.. - Are you Mrs. Harding?
- What can I do for you?
- Mrs. Harding, uh..
My name is, uh, Monte
Parker. This is Carlos Nieto.
We're paramedics with the FDNY, and..
Well, Carlos used to live here.
Come on, step up here, man.
You recognize him?
Forgive me, I've had
as many as 100 children
in and out of here over the years.
Alright, well, this would have
been around 25 years ago, right?
- Carlos? - Um..
Uh, yeah, about that, Mrs. Harding.
- You remember me?
- I didn't expect to, but yeah.
Well, come on in then. Maybe
my memory just needs a jump-start.
Come on, man. Get up there.
Here they come.
What's up? You out of marshmallows?
Truck look familiar?
'Oh, no.'
'Under the tarp.'
Be careful, it's out but it's still hot.
Which one is it? The father, or the son?
Maybe you can tell.
Oh, man!
Important enough to you yet?
Always made it a rule
not to get too attached.
Spared me the heartbreak
when the government
moved a child out to another home.
You housed 100 kids?
At least. Sometimes 15 at a time.
I'd get them young, and they'd move on
when they grew, or it got to
be too much, or too crowded.
Now, this... might be you, here.
I remember that little one.
Oh, man, look at that.
Oh, those ears.
'The boys teased him something terrible.'
'They called him Cups'
because they stuck out like that.
Cups.
'Now, that was a brooding
child if I ever saw one.'
Sweet enough, but not so affectionate.
Always off on his own,
and sort of self-involved.
Well, you've come a long way, Cups.
Look, um, Mrs. Harding,
the reason why I, uh..
I was told that the Red
Cross dropped me here.
Yeah, that rings a bell.
'The Red Cross did drop that boy here.'
Boy's father had been killed as I recall.
What?
Give me back that book.
Here you go.
His father?
Least that was what we assumed.
The volunteer that brought the boy here
said that he was holding the
dead man's hand on the street
'when the police found him.'
Now, here it it.
Here it is.
' "Hit and run."'
Hmm. The man had no papers and no ID.
No mother?
I'm sure they put out a search for one
but she never turned up.
Hey, wait a minute. Wait a minute.
Let me have it.
I can do this.
No. Listen, it has to be me.
Come on, please.
Hello?
'Who's there?'
Oh, no.
Mr. Tanzi.
What's he done now?
Did he damage the truck again?
I can't afford any more damages.
Does this belong to your son?
Saint Michael.
Does he wear a chain like this?
Is he arrested again?
Because I will speak to who..
And if he damaged
anything, then I will pay for it.
I'll pay for it.
I will pay for it.
I will pay for it.
I'm sorry.
Wish they would have taken a picture.
What's that?
I was up half the night
staring at that stupid newspaper clipping.
Even dead, I wish they
would have taken a picture
of my father just so I could see him..
'...you know.'
Whatever. It wouldn't
have done Kylie any good.
'What's this?'
We'll see. Hold on.
Come on, let's go.
Carlos Nieto?
- Right there.
- Then you'd be Monte Parker?
Monte Parker.
Doc, who is this?
I'm Ingrid Diaz, with New York One.
We're here to tell your story.
My story?
You told them?
Can't hurt to get the word out.
Now, what I'd love is
to get you standing by
the ambulance with, uh, those kids
playing in the background.
What am I supposed to be doing?
Mr. Parker told us about Kylie's dilemma
and when we heard her birth
father was a member of FDNY..
You want me to talk about Kylie?
Come on, let's get this
over with. It's worth a shot.
And if it's pulls the right strings
affiliates from across the country
will want to run the story too.
Now, how you sell it means everything
with these on-air appeals.
My daughter needs a bone
marrow. I need to sell that?
This is a rare opportunity
to use television
as the ultimate
communication tool that it is.
And who wouldn't want to
do everything in their power
to save your daughter's life?
I called OCCB this morning.
Yeah?
They're gonna be looking
hard at Nardo for the killing.
Looking hard at him, huh?
That's what they said. Hard.
I think I gonna do a little
more than look at him.
They asked that we stay away.
- You think we're gonna do that?
- I hope not.
That greasy punk needs
the smile wiped off his face.
I've been told my father
died in an accident about..
25 years ago..
On the Westside, hit by a car.
That's all I know.
'I have no other family,
no other blood relation'
that I know of.
Uh... so if anyone out there
thinks that they know something
about me or my family..
I need a matching donor
for my daughter... Kylie.
I-I don't want anything else.
She needs help.
Thanks.
If you can help, please call
the number on your screen.
Live with Carlos Nieto, a
paramedic with Squad 55
of the New York City Fire Department.
I'm Ingrid Diaz. Back to you, Chuck.
'No.'
My son gave up a good paying job
to carry bundles on his back
'so I didn't have to.'
I told you it's a tragedy.
Is there a fund that I can contributed to?
Maybe I can give you
some food for the funeral.
You're an animal!
Mr. Tanzi, Mrs. Tanzi, come with
us. We're gonna take you home.
- Come on. - That's a good idea.
Before you say something you might regret.
I'd keep my mouth shut
if I were you, Aloysius.
'You were scared of my son.'
You were scared of the competition.
Scared of a hard day's work.
Hey, come on, sometime today, huh, Bosco?
These two are obviously
a little botz in the head.
More than anything, you're
afraid of honest Italians.
Like my son who wouldn't lay down for you!
I ain't afraid of anybody, old man.
Lower your mouth in
my restaurant over here.
Are you gonna let these couple get you
all worked out, Aloysius, huh?
My name is Allie.
Not according to your sheets, Aloysius.
Escort these people out
of my restaurant, officer.
They're disturbing my customers.
- Alright. Come on, let's go. - Let's go.
That's a good idea. Good idea.
Go back to your one
bedroom tenement apartment
that hard work earned you.
You got a funeral to plan.
You son of a bitch!
Hey! Hey! Hey!
- Hey! Hey! - You're a crazy old man!
- You got it? - I got it.
You crazy old man!
I want him locked up! I'm pressing charges.
- Just take it easy.
- Lock that old bastard up!
- Why did you do that, huh?
- He killed my son.
That's a good timing,
paesan. I owe you one.
- Just get him out of here. - 'Let's go.'
- Finally. - Where the hell have you been?
- Got a job? - What's all this?
You know the news flashes it's
own 800 number on the screen
but it's our phone that
doesn't stop ringing.
- Here. - Is this from today?
'Yeah. No one actually
claiming to be related'
but everybody there wants to help.
Psychics, private investigators
single women.
'A few straight-up crackpots.'
- You wrote them all down?
- 'Well, you never know.'
They must be running the spot wide.
Check out the area codes.
'DC, Florida, Pennsylvania.'
We're gonna have to hire an operator.
Your son told these officer that
you were being pushed around.
Was that Allie Nardo?
What does that matter now?
We need something we can go after him on.
This is how many times my
son went to the police station.
- Civita. - Hmm.
I told him the police don't care about us.
But my boy was stubborn.
You want the people
responsible? You're responsible.
All of you.
Don't let them get away with this.
They already have.
My son's dead.
No, no.
N-no, sir, i-it's not that I don't, um..
No, of... of course, I do.
Of course, I do.
What?
Another one?
Yeah. A lot of these people
seem to think I'm being punished
because I haven't yet accepted
Lord Jesus Christ into my heart.
Are they all like that?
No, some of them say they're gonna go down
and get tested just in case.
I mean, they don't even
know us. It's pretty amazing.
You're gonna keep at this all night?
Well, I just finished the
notes from the firehouse.
I still have all these from the
TV station to go through, so..
Well, you don't want me to stay, right?
No. No, you've done enough, thanks.
See ya.
Squad 55. Hello.
'I'm looking for Carlos Nieto.'
What can I do for you?
'You mean, this is him?'
Yes, this is me, it's the
one you saw on the news
and if you're calling to
tell me to accept Jesus
you're 15 phone calls too late.
'No, uh, I-I don't know
quite how to say this but..'
Ma'am?
'Your eyes, your nose.'
My nose?
'Remember your blanket?
It was your favorite.'
Who is this?
'When your father and me broke up'
'I never meant to hurt you.'
My father?
'The minute I saw you'
'I think, I-I knew, I just knew it.'
Knew what?
'Carlos, baby..'
'...this is your mother.'
There he is, guys. Right there.
There he is. Boscorelli!
The copper di tutti copper.
What the hell are you doing here?
I brought a gift for the guy
that saved my life.
Chocolate cannoli. Your favorite.
Right on cue.
You got some nerve coming down here.
- It's a public building. - Get out!
Is it true that old man
Tanzi is already back home?
DA didn't think we
needed to keep an old man
on a simple weapons possession.
What about attempted
murder? He tried to kill me.
We must have forgot to put that in report.
You know, that's not
right, Officer Boscorelli.
If that old man so much
as nicks himself shaving
I'll be putting you away forever.
That cuts me deep paesan, really.
You know what? I'm
gonna leave these right here.
And that's the tip of
the iceberg, believe me.
Allie Nardo knows how to return a favor.
If you're not here on official
police business, leave.
You know where to find
me. Take care, sweetheart.
Yeah, we'll take to you later.
Oh, yeah.
I had an idea last night.
- Really? - Let's go talk to Swersky.
Thanks for covering me, Levine.
Oh, how can I say no?
I still can't believe it.
- Oh. - What? What? Do I look okay?
- 'I haven't slept.' - Very handsome.
When's her flight?
- She gets in at 7:00 at JFK.
Seven? Oh.
That's three hours.
Why don't you, uh, why
don't you go lay down?
Oh, no, I can't, I..
I should, I should go
home and... maybe a suit.
Your clothes look fine.
Just-just relax, breathe.
You know, this is, this is way
more than I ever expected.
Yeah, it's, uh, you know, it's kinda..
It's like a miracle.
It is, isn't it?
So, what did she say? I
mean, where has she been?
She know about your father?
Well, there's a lot she didn't know, um..
Well, she was young, stuff happened
it got complicated.
It was weird, but it was like I knew her.
I felt it, you know?
The minute that I heard her voice.
The way that she was crying,
begging me to forgive her.
I just... knew it was her.
She knew it too.
Enough to hop right on the plane.
She was gonna catch the bus,
can you believe that? From LA.
She sounded kinda broke.
I'm happy for you, Carlos.
Thanks for everything, doc.
'Boy 5-5-3, difficulty breathing.'
'One-Oh-four and
Henry in the fruit market.'
Ten-four, let's go, doc.
Time to save a life.
Hey, you have fun. Don't forget to breathe.
- Thanks again, Levine. - Go meet your mom.
My mom.
You think that will work?
Look at his sheet, boss.
It would be enough to violate the parole.
If we get enough people involved.
I think it's perfect.
- How many agencies?
- Let's start with all of 'em.
Ah, this is an everybody win situation?
Downtown, Compstat.
We're not stepping on
anything OCCB has going.
We need you to make the calls, boss.
You got it. You guys go get your ammo.
Thanks.
'The white loading zone
is for immediate loading'
'and unloading of passengers only.'
'No unattended vehicles shall
be parked on the curb at any time.'
'Unattended vehicles will
be cited and towed away.'
There you go, Joey.
Hey, Batman and Blackbird.
Looking for refills on the cannoli?
Look at this guy, looks
like he owns this place.
Hey, you two, over here.
Hey, whoa! We got customers here.
Well, then, you better put on an apron.
How old are you?
- Fourteen. - Thirteen.
Call you parents and tell
them to come pick you up.
What the hell is going on here, ha?
Allie Nardo, you're in violation
of state and federal labor laws.
Children under the age of
16 working past sundown.
Can't do that.
That's the best you can do?
Got to start somewhere, you know?
'Flight nine-oh-four from Los Angeles'
'now arriving at gate 58'
'Flight nine-oh-four from Los Angeles'
'has now arrived at gate 58.'
'Ladies, and gentlemen, for your
safety and the safety of others'
'please do not sit, stand, ride, or play'
'on any of the baggage-claim devices.'
'Thank you for your cooperation.'
Is there an Aloysius Nardo here?
Hey, my name is Allie.
Hey, don't lose your temper, Aloysius.
I'm Lieutenant Doherty, FDNY.
Seems you've deferred
your last fire inspection.
I was outta town.
Saved you a phone call.
D.K., uh, sprinklers and extinguishers.
- Alright? - Got it, boss.
Walsh, you got smoke detectors, fire exit.
I'm on it.
'Rest of you guys, uh..'
why don't you check the
kitchen's exhaust system.
Let's just make sure everything's
up to code, alright?
You got time for this?
- Slow night. - Just not for you, Allie.
Think you're cute, Boscorelli.
Comin' in here and embarrassing
me in front of our people here?
"Our people." These
mutts are your people, Allie.
My people are the kind you've
been squeezing outta business.
Yeah, I don't know nothing about that.
- Yeah, we'll see about that.
- Yeah, we will see about that.
Go ahead, go on. Rip up the place.
You think I care? Oh, I was
planning renovations anyway.
And tomorrow when you're
nursing the blisters on your fingers
I'll be in South Beach soaking up the rays.
I don't know about that, Aloysius.
Yeah, me either, I don't know about that.
Sub-standard refrigeration.
'Courtesy of the New York
City health department.'
You two are real proud of yourselves, huh?
We will be in about what, ten
seconds? Assume the position.
- Yeah. - For what?
- Get over there. - Come on.
Tickets? Come on.
Some of which are A misdemeanors, yeah?
Oh, and I guess somebody
ran the plate numbers
of your clientele.
Passed them on to
the US attorney's office..
Socializing with convicted felons
that's a violation of, uh, federal parole.
Right?
You little son of a
bitch. This ain't over yet.
Yeah, if not, I'm gonna be
in your life a lot, paesan, a lot.
We're gonna be like, you
know, goombah buddies.
Yeah, yeah.
'This is the final boarding announcement'
'for flight 62 to Orlando.'
'This is the final boarding announcement'
'for flight 62 to Orlando.'
- Hey. - Hey.
- Shift's over? - Yeah.
I was calling your cell,
but you weren't answer...
You know what? The signal is hit or miss.
I-I go out every now and then
and check on messages, you know?
I didn't leave any. She miss her flight?
Yeah, must have, there's another flight
coming in from LA in an hour.
We can check the
counter, see if she's on it.
- Oh, she is. - You asked?
Yeah, she has to be.
'...please meet your partner'
'in baggage carousel C.'
'Mr. Garza, please meet your partner'
'in baggage carousel C.'
You say she sounded broke?
Yeah.
Did you charge the ticket?
With my limit..
Last-second ticket, coast to coast?
How'd you buy it then?
Uh, I wired her some money.
Uh-huh.
Thousand bucks.
Last minute airfares aren't cheap.
I know.
Maybe she really did
miss it. She's on this flight.
Maybe.
Yeah.
'Nice job.'
I wonder how long they're
gonna be able to keep him.
Yeah, well, taking a guy
like Nardo off the street
for one minute's better than nothin'.
That's doing right by my people.
So now, they're your people?
Look, I'm proud of my heritage.
When my grandfather
got off the boat from Ponza
they handed him a broom
and they said start sweeping.
And he turned that into a life for himself.
For his family, an honest life.
That was your father's dad.
Yeah, but then, it was guys like
my dad who went and spoiled it.
You know, the wannabe wise guys.
"Always playing big shot."
You know, the arrogant, cocky, bigmouth.
Hmm.
Look, I spent my whole life
trying to separate myself from that crap.
'And if your Italian, everyone
thinks you're one step away'
from having mob ties.
And the TV, the movies,
they all glorify guys like Nardo.
You know, he's a tough
guy. He's a gangster.
- Not always. Come on. - 'Oh, yeah?'
You name me one famous Italian cop.
Columbo.
- Later. - Chow.
Well, that's what you get.
Hey, guys!
You here to scare away the new guy?
No.
I am the new guy.
Who's that?
It's the woman who adopted my daughter.
Mrs. Kenny.
It's Kylie.
She's very sick.
- 'Zambrano, right?' - Yes, sir.
Supervisor at 5-5?
Well, I was until you guys
sent Doc back to take over.
Parker?
The brass wanted to do whatever
who was gonna make me happy.
So, here I am.
He's not a supervisor. He was demoted.
Her best bet is a bone-marrow transplant.
From a biological donor.
I'll do it. I'll do anything.
'Any history of cancer in your family?'
I grew up in Foster care.
I don't know who my family is.
Why are you lying all of us?
I'm sorry. You weren't the match for Kylie.
'Alright, here's a ground ball.'
"Health code section 4-3-1-2-2.
Feeding pigeons in public prohibited."
Tickets for birds feeding?
Now, that's real police work.
It's a quality-of-life summons.
All that's gonna do is leave
a bunch of hungry pigeons.
Oh, you wanna save the pigeons, now?
- Meaning? - Saving things is what you do.
I'm just talking about how
our times should be spent.
No, you're talking about rats with wings
getting breadcrumbs.
Is that my boy Zeek over there?
Let's walk. Take in the sights.
I see your boy Zeek good enough from here.
Fine, well, while you're
increasing the city's revenue
Officer Bloomberg, I'll be taking a stroll.
Little advice from someone
who has been a cop longer.
Oh, I can't wait.
Nothing good comes from
walking around out there.
This will only take a few minutes.
Yeah, I'm cool.
What, no lecture on how I should
have found her on my on time..
Wasting city money doing personal stuff?
Where do you get that, huh?
I mean as long as
there's no calls coming in.
I just can't get a handle on you lately.
What do you mean?
- What do I mean? - Yeah, what do you mean?
I mean, you're all over the place.
You're-you're... up, you're down.
- You're hot, you're cold. - Hey..
Yo! Carlos, it's your
daughter. Alright, I'm with you.
Whatever we... got to do
to get back on the street
I'm willing to do.
You know, if Vangie's
sister's not a... match
I don't know what I'm gonna do.
Oh, when was the last time you saw her?
When she dump Kylie on me.
Called her place, roommate
says she's got classes all day.
Then let's just go,
alright? See if she can help.
If? She has to.
Oh, come on officer, that's pretty close.
Cut me a break, man. That's close.
Look, the law does not say, "Pretty close."
It doesn't say "Somewhere
in the neighborhood
of 15 feet from a hydrant."
Yo, we straightening out, dawg.
Alright, then..
Back in business, huh, Zeek?
Yo, Sasha. No, no, no that's my grandmamma.
Hey! How you doing, Grandmamma Dawg?
You still working 'em
two jobs with that bad hip
'cause you're good for nothing
grandson can't get an honest job
instead of stuffing phones
so people can't get their change?
Hello?
Hello?
Oh, man, we might have
killed Grandmamma Dawg.
See? Phone's clear.
Don't waste your potential, Zeek.
Call this guy, drop my name..
He'll hook you up.
Toll collector, huh?
You have experience handling change.
What are you doing?
'What are you gonna do?'
Have a nice day.
Man, this ain't right.
Feels pretty right to me.
Notify Central we're gonna
pick up that disturbance.
What disturbance?
Don't act like you don't hear that.
They need the police they'll call.
5-5 David to Central.
We're picking up a dispute at 149 Waverly.
We're gonna volunteer for jobs now?
Bastards got enough of
my stuff and I'm taking these!
Hey! Hang on a second.
What's going on here?
- Ask him. - No, I'm asking you.
What's going on?
I don't want his service anymore.
Who cares. Do you wanna
press charges for this disturbance?
Look, I don't want no trouble.
The kid's stunad.
They're trying to shut us out.
Who?
Good news, napkin boy.
He won't press charges.
So long as you go right now.
- So, go. - Bosco?
You wanted me involved,
I'm involved. Disturbance over.
I'm not leaving without my stuff.
See this logo? That's us.
That's me and my father.
You rent them out! When
they're on my tables they're mine!
Hey! Hey, hey.
Get out of here! Alright?
This is a civil matter, now. Alright?
Go hire attorneys. Go see Judge Judy.
I don't care. Alright?
Thank you, Officer Boscorelli.
Boscorelli.
Figures.
What did you say?
What, he gonna feed you or clothe you?
Did he just accused us of taking a pay off?
Hey, pal!
You do not wanna be
throwing accusations around.
You hear me?
Did they steal this stuff from
you or are they renting it?
- It's complicated. - Enlighten us.
You know what? Enlightened her.
- I could care less. - And nobody does.
Boo hoo.
If you wanna file a
police report, I'll listen.
What's your hurry, anyway?
That's what you get for
getting out and walking.
I ask you to file a complain
and you choose attempted murder?
I wasn't trying to murder anybody.
Any play that I may have given you..
Went straight through
that window with the truck.
When you're done fondling the raging bull
you're transport's here.
Oh, my goodness.
'What did you do this time, Bosco?'
No, no, no, this was not me.
- He's ready. - Yeah, we'll be awhile.
Monroe's got a mountain
of paper work to do.
I'm not doing paperwork, I'm driving.
No way. This thing is your fault.
My fault?
If you want so busy trying to do
nothing all day long we could've...
Nothing? Tickets are not nothing.
They are when there's
real police work to be done.
Girls, girls, there's no reason to argue.
I'll take him off your hands.
Whole arrest, paperwork included.
Since when are you so generous?
He's billing up overtime for retirement.
- You pulling the pin? - Next summer.
- He's all yours. - Uh, Sully, sorry.
He's my collar. I got to sort this one out.
We watch him drive
the truck into a restaurant
what's to sort out?
Can you put him in the processing cage?
You got it.
You're ignoring me now?
Would that I could.
What the hell does that mean?
Hey, good luck.
I'm gonna need it.
I'm talking to Sasha.
There she is. I won't be long.
Keep your radio on.
Miss Sundstrom.
Haley!
Um... I'm sorry to scare you.
Uh... I know it's been a
while since we talked but..
Carlos Nieto?
- Kylie? - Oh.
Yeah. What's wrong?
Well, you see, she's, um...
I can't take her back. I mean, I..
I-I just can't.
No. Uh, no, no I'm not asking to..
It's not that. She's sick.
She has Aplastic anemia.
- What's that? - Well, it's like Leukemia.
She needs a bone marrow transplant.
Leukemia?
I'm-I'm not a match so I can't donate.
So, I need you to come down and get tested.
She's gonna die
if she doesn't get the transplant.
I can't give it to her.
She's your sister daughter. Come on.
I have hepatitis.
- What? - Hepatitis C.
I got it from a piercing.
A piercing?
Do you have any other family?
Parents, brother, sister anything?
None.
That's why I had to give Kylie up.
Is she really gonna die?
Ma, ma, quit yelling.
I know.
I just lost it.
I'm sorry. I screwed up, ma.
It's all my fault.
I don't hear that much.
Let me get you a tissue.
My pop is on his way.
Is it okay if he gets
the linen out of my truck
so we can finish deliveries?
The truck and everything inside stays put.
Why is he got to be such a hard ass?
Because his mother dropped him..
On propose.
Now, finish telling me
about this Nardo Lenin.
Our customers, like this Damonte. Okay?
They put our dirties out for pickup.
But before we can get 'em
Nardo's crew snatches 'em up
puts a match to them.
'And we keep asking
Damonte to put them out back.'
Even gave him a lock box.
Nardo tells him otherwise.
So why doesn't this Damonte
just rent his stuff from Nardo?
'Taking our customers isn't enough.'
Nardo wants to hurt us.
And you've reported this before?
I must have 15 report numbers.
My father really needs our stuff.
Please.
Give me a second.
- Don't start.
- This is a mom and pop outfit.
They need that linen.
- You know the procedure.
- I also know the system.
They're not gonna get
their stuff back for month.
That's my problem too?
Don't you have any obligation to your own?
- My own? - Tanzi, he's Italian.
Our names end in a vowel and you expect me
to give them special attention?
The guy's not getting any attention.
He's filed 15 reports, Bosco.
You know what?
Detectives follow up all 61s.
It's not my fault if they
don't find this guy's
dirty laundry all that important.
Dirty laundry is what
puts food on our table.
Uh, I'm here to pick up my son.
- Cut the kid loose. - Are you serious?
When am I not?
The father's agreed to pay for the damage
so the complainant dropped the charges.
I'm tired of us getting pushed around.
Next time, you use your head
instead of the gas pedal, okay?
- You can go. - This is America, pop.
Nardo should not have
a lock on the industry.
I'm sorry that my son
wasted your time like this.
I really am. Let's go.
You know the difference between you and me?
- You think there's only one?
- I treat everyone the same.
It don't matter where they're
from or what color they are.
- You really believe that?
- Yeah, I do. It's true.
You wish you knew
yourself that well, Bosco.
Just because my family left The Boot
doesn't mean I got olive oil in my veins.
I could care less about that crap
especially when it comes to doing the job.
You really don't have any
connection to your heritage?
Sure, I do. I love pizza. I like spaghetti.
I like "Goodfellas" and two
out of the three Godfathers.
Past that..
I'm about as Italian as you are.
We got a well-being check on 109.
A w-well-being check. That's
exactly what I need right now.
- Check out some geezer's vent.
- We got a job to do.
- Kylie's gonna die. - You don't know that.
You know that the list is national.
In the whole country,
there's gotta be one match.
Aah!
You know, how could one kid be so unlucky?
She has to be born to a one sibling psycho
and-and a foster care reject
who has no family, huh?
What about your real family?
- What? - Your biological family.
Oh, uh, I spent about as
much time looking for them
as they spent looking for me.
- How do you know that? - Just a guess.
Oh, so you've never checked
your foster care records?
Being rejected once in life is enough.
- Come on with the sob story. - What?
You know, hasn't it occurred
to you that when you gave
Kylie up, it wasn't because
you didn't want her?
These people didn't see me into a good home
and send me birthday
presents every year, Doc.
They dumped me on the Red Cross' doorstep.
Now, the Red Cross, you
know, it may, it may be a lot
of good things but I'm
pretty sure that they're not
gonna be a blood-match for Kylie.
So, you've never checked the records
to see if there was anything there?
- I never cared enough.
- Well, do you care enough now?
Where's your partner?
In the RMP reading his Patrol Guide.
He actually carries that
book around with him?
And the BTL, Administrative
Code and the latest legal bulletin.
He's on some sort of summons mission.
Just when I think when I'm
too old to be surprised anymore.
- Open 61s, lieu? - All yours.
OCCB got any open cases on Nardo Linen?
Why, you know something we don't?
They might be trying to
squeeze out their competition.
Might be.
Don't count on a gold
shield with that jewel.
Nardo Linen's mobbed up.
Old man Nardo's kid took over
the crew a couple of years ago
runs it out of Cafe Roma.
- You working it? - Why?
I just handled a job
with a linen service guy.
Said he's filed a bunch of 61s on Nardo
about him stealing his
merchandise and burning it.
Nardo's a punk. He'll fall
eventually. They always do.
These guys are like cockroaches,
you know, you step on one
a hundred more of them come
out from underneath the sink.
So, we do nothing?
I usually recommend someone
like your napkin guy find
another line of work. These
people don't mess around.
Do I have this right? "Carlos N-I-E-T-O.
Date of birth, 5-11-75?"
- You have something?
- Not what you want, I'm afraid.
That agency's records were lost in a fire
January of '73 through March of '76.
Are you kidding me?
Well, what do you mean that agency?
We're not the same Kittredge Foundation
that assumed custody of Mr. Nieto.
Our agency merely took on the name
after purchasing their contracts in 1983.
So, all my record are just gone?
The fire was one of the reasons
they went out of the business.
There's no paper on you. No
computer files, no microfilm.
There's gotta be some other way.
There's a woman, Harding.
She ran one of the group homes I was in.
Harding, you said.
Middle-aged Black woman.
I lived in a bunch of homes after that
but hers is the first I can remember.
"Lucinda Harding."
- You have her?
- She lives in Hollis, Queens.
Hollis, Queens?
- Come on. - No.
Oh, come on. Espresso's on me.
You don't even drink coffee.
Alright, how about a biscotti, then?
You know what? Wait.
You're gonna start with wise guys now?
- I'm just going to talk.
- They're not gonna talk to you.
Well, then they're gonna listen.
5-5, David to Central.
Put this unit out 385 Broome.
Follow up on an earlier dispute.
Hey, hold up, back there.
Made friends already.
Let me see some ID.
You can't just storm in
here and ask for ID, alright?
You see that mope right there?
He's already copying
down your shield number.
80416.
Officer Boscorelli.
- Allie Nardo. - How are you doing?
May I offer you a drink or something?
We'd much rather talk about Nardo Linen.
- Ah, the partner speaks.
- 'She does more than that.'
Have you ever heard of the
phrase, Restraint of trade?
Oh, this is a business school quiz?
'Cause I gotta warn
you I ain't really studied.
Hey, come on.
Let's-let's have a word
in the back, alright?
- I'll handle this one. - No!
I-I'm not just letting him blow me off.
You can't question this guy
in front of his whole crew.
Alright? Just stay here, and I'll be back.
Your girl's standing over there
giving me the, uh, malocchio.
That's not my girl.
And, uh, I don't really
know what malocchio means.
- Come on, evil eye.
- I only speak English.
- I thought you was Italian. - I'm Italian.
So the boss sticks you
with a moulignon, huh?
Tough break. What?
You know, don't tell me you
don't know moulignon either?
- No, that one I got it. - You got it?
Yeah, and if you're
referring to that New York City
police officer over there,
we got problems, alright?
We all get the urge for a little
chocolate cannoli now and then
but a steady diet of that,
my friend, could kill you.
- So could insulting her again.
- Come on, relax, paesan.
Whoa! I-I'm not your paesan.
- Jack-off. - Man, I could like you.
You been hassling a kid
named Tanzi over napkins?
- I don't hassle nobody.
- And it's becoming my problem.
- That's not good for you.
- It's not good for me?
- No, it's not good for you.
- Not good for me, huh?
Not good at all.
Where are you going? You leaving already?
We just started to connect here.
You just leave the Tanzi family alone.
Hey, enjoy the eggplant.
- Eggplant? - Never mind.
This doesn't look familiar?
I was four, this old lady
could have lived in a giant shoe
and it wouldn't look familiar.
Yes, may I help you?
- Uh.. - Are you Mrs. Harding?
- What can I do for you?
- Mrs. Harding, uh..
My name is, uh, Monte
Parker. This is Carlos Nieto.
We're paramedics with the FDNY, and..
Well, Carlos used to live here.
Come on, step up here, man.
You recognize him?
Forgive me, I've had
as many as 100 children
in and out of here over the years.
Alright, well, this would have
been around 25 years ago, right?
- Carlos? - Um..
Uh, yeah, about that, Mrs. Harding.
- You remember me?
- I didn't expect to, but yeah.
Well, come on in then. Maybe
my memory just needs a jump-start.
Come on, man. Get up there.
Here they come.
What's up? You out of marshmallows?
Truck look familiar?
'Oh, no.'
'Under the tarp.'
Be careful, it's out but it's still hot.
Which one is it? The father, or the son?
Maybe you can tell.
Oh, man!
Important enough to you yet?
Always made it a rule
not to get too attached.
Spared me the heartbreak
when the government
moved a child out to another home.
You housed 100 kids?
At least. Sometimes 15 at a time.
I'd get them young, and they'd move on
when they grew, or it got to
be too much, or too crowded.
Now, this... might be you, here.
I remember that little one.
Oh, man, look at that.
Oh, those ears.
'The boys teased him something terrible.'
'They called him Cups'
because they stuck out like that.
Cups.
'Now, that was a brooding
child if I ever saw one.'
Sweet enough, but not so affectionate.
Always off on his own,
and sort of self-involved.
Well, you've come a long way, Cups.
Look, um, Mrs. Harding,
the reason why I, uh..
I was told that the Red
Cross dropped me here.
Yeah, that rings a bell.
'The Red Cross did drop that boy here.'
Boy's father had been killed as I recall.
What?
Give me back that book.
Here you go.
His father?
Least that was what we assumed.
The volunteer that brought the boy here
said that he was holding the
dead man's hand on the street
'when the police found him.'
Now, here it it.
Here it is.
' "Hit and run."'
Hmm. The man had no papers and no ID.
No mother?
I'm sure they put out a search for one
but she never turned up.
Hey, wait a minute. Wait a minute.
Let me have it.
I can do this.
No. Listen, it has to be me.
Come on, please.
Hello?
'Who's there?'
Oh, no.
Mr. Tanzi.
What's he done now?
Did he damage the truck again?
I can't afford any more damages.
Does this belong to your son?
Saint Michael.
Does he wear a chain like this?
Is he arrested again?
Because I will speak to who..
And if he damaged
anything, then I will pay for it.
I'll pay for it.
I will pay for it.
I will pay for it.
I'm sorry.
Wish they would have taken a picture.
What's that?
I was up half the night
staring at that stupid newspaper clipping.
Even dead, I wish they
would have taken a picture
of my father just so I could see him..
'...you know.'
Whatever. It wouldn't
have done Kylie any good.
'What's this?'
We'll see. Hold on.
Come on, let's go.
Carlos Nieto?
- Right there.
- Then you'd be Monte Parker?
Monte Parker.
Doc, who is this?
I'm Ingrid Diaz, with New York One.
We're here to tell your story.
My story?
You told them?
Can't hurt to get the word out.
Now, what I'd love is
to get you standing by
the ambulance with, uh, those kids
playing in the background.
What am I supposed to be doing?
Mr. Parker told us about Kylie's dilemma
and when we heard her birth
father was a member of FDNY..
You want me to talk about Kylie?
Come on, let's get this
over with. It's worth a shot.
And if it's pulls the right strings
affiliates from across the country
will want to run the story too.
Now, how you sell it means everything
with these on-air appeals.
My daughter needs a bone
marrow. I need to sell that?
This is a rare opportunity
to use television
as the ultimate
communication tool that it is.
And who wouldn't want to
do everything in their power
to save your daughter's life?
I called OCCB this morning.
Yeah?
They're gonna be looking
hard at Nardo for the killing.
Looking hard at him, huh?
That's what they said. Hard.
I think I gonna do a little
more than look at him.
They asked that we stay away.
- You think we're gonna do that?
- I hope not.
That greasy punk needs
the smile wiped off his face.
I've been told my father
died in an accident about..
25 years ago..
On the Westside, hit by a car.
That's all I know.
'I have no other family,
no other blood relation'
that I know of.
Uh... so if anyone out there
thinks that they know something
about me or my family..
I need a matching donor
for my daughter... Kylie.
I-I don't want anything else.
She needs help.
Thanks.
If you can help, please call
the number on your screen.
Live with Carlos Nieto, a
paramedic with Squad 55
of the New York City Fire Department.
I'm Ingrid Diaz. Back to you, Chuck.
'No.'
My son gave up a good paying job
to carry bundles on his back
'so I didn't have to.'
I told you it's a tragedy.
Is there a fund that I can contributed to?
Maybe I can give you
some food for the funeral.
You're an animal!
Mr. Tanzi, Mrs. Tanzi, come with
us. We're gonna take you home.
- Come on. - That's a good idea.
Before you say something you might regret.
I'd keep my mouth shut
if I were you, Aloysius.
'You were scared of my son.'
You were scared of the competition.
Scared of a hard day's work.
Hey, come on, sometime today, huh, Bosco?
These two are obviously
a little botz in the head.
More than anything, you're
afraid of honest Italians.
Like my son who wouldn't lay down for you!
I ain't afraid of anybody, old man.
Lower your mouth in
my restaurant over here.
Are you gonna let these couple get you
all worked out, Aloysius, huh?
My name is Allie.
Not according to your sheets, Aloysius.
Escort these people out
of my restaurant, officer.
They're disturbing my customers.
- Alright. Come on, let's go. - Let's go.
That's a good idea. Good idea.
Go back to your one
bedroom tenement apartment
that hard work earned you.
You got a funeral to plan.
You son of a bitch!
Hey! Hey! Hey!
- Hey! Hey! - You're a crazy old man!
- You got it? - I got it.
You crazy old man!
I want him locked up! I'm pressing charges.
- Just take it easy.
- Lock that old bastard up!
- Why did you do that, huh?
- He killed my son.
That's a good timing,
paesan. I owe you one.
- Just get him out of here. - 'Let's go.'
- Finally. - Where the hell have you been?
- Got a job? - What's all this?
You know the news flashes it's
own 800 number on the screen
but it's our phone that
doesn't stop ringing.
- Here. - Is this from today?
'Yeah. No one actually
claiming to be related'
but everybody there wants to help.
Psychics, private investigators
single women.
'A few straight-up crackpots.'
- You wrote them all down?
- 'Well, you never know.'
They must be running the spot wide.
Check out the area codes.
'DC, Florida, Pennsylvania.'
We're gonna have to hire an operator.
Your son told these officer that
you were being pushed around.
Was that Allie Nardo?
What does that matter now?
We need something we can go after him on.
This is how many times my
son went to the police station.
- Civita. - Hmm.
I told him the police don't care about us.
But my boy was stubborn.
You want the people
responsible? You're responsible.
All of you.
Don't let them get away with this.
They already have.
My son's dead.
No, no.
N-no, sir, i-it's not that I don't, um..
No, of... of course, I do.
Of course, I do.
What?
Another one?
Yeah. A lot of these people
seem to think I'm being punished
because I haven't yet accepted
Lord Jesus Christ into my heart.
Are they all like that?
No, some of them say they're gonna go down
and get tested just in case.
I mean, they don't even
know us. It's pretty amazing.
You're gonna keep at this all night?
Well, I just finished the
notes from the firehouse.
I still have all these from the
TV station to go through, so..
Well, you don't want me to stay, right?
No. No, you've done enough, thanks.
See ya.
Squad 55. Hello.
'I'm looking for Carlos Nieto.'
What can I do for you?
'You mean, this is him?'
Yes, this is me, it's the
one you saw on the news
and if you're calling to
tell me to accept Jesus
you're 15 phone calls too late.
'No, uh, I-I don't know
quite how to say this but..'
Ma'am?
'Your eyes, your nose.'
My nose?
'Remember your blanket?
It was your favorite.'
Who is this?
'When your father and me broke up'
'I never meant to hurt you.'
My father?
'The minute I saw you'
'I think, I-I knew, I just knew it.'
Knew what?
'Carlos, baby..'
'...this is your mother.'
There he is, guys. Right there.
There he is. Boscorelli!
The copper di tutti copper.
What the hell are you doing here?
I brought a gift for the guy
that saved my life.
Chocolate cannoli. Your favorite.
Right on cue.
You got some nerve coming down here.
- It's a public building. - Get out!
Is it true that old man
Tanzi is already back home?
DA didn't think we
needed to keep an old man
on a simple weapons possession.
What about attempted
murder? He tried to kill me.
We must have forgot to put that in report.
You know, that's not
right, Officer Boscorelli.
If that old man so much
as nicks himself shaving
I'll be putting you away forever.
That cuts me deep paesan, really.
You know what? I'm
gonna leave these right here.
And that's the tip of
the iceberg, believe me.
Allie Nardo knows how to return a favor.
If you're not here on official
police business, leave.
You know where to find
me. Take care, sweetheart.
Yeah, we'll take to you later.
Oh, yeah.
I had an idea last night.
- Really? - Let's go talk to Swersky.
Thanks for covering me, Levine.
Oh, how can I say no?
I still can't believe it.
- Oh. - What? What? Do I look okay?
- 'I haven't slept.' - Very handsome.
When's her flight?
- She gets in at 7:00 at JFK.
Seven? Oh.
That's three hours.
Why don't you, uh, why
don't you go lay down?
Oh, no, I can't, I..
I should, I should go
home and... maybe a suit.
Your clothes look fine.
Just-just relax, breathe.
You know, this is, this is way
more than I ever expected.
Yeah, it's, uh, you know, it's kinda..
It's like a miracle.
It is, isn't it?
So, what did she say? I
mean, where has she been?
She know about your father?
Well, there's a lot she didn't know, um..
Well, she was young, stuff happened
it got complicated.
It was weird, but it was like I knew her.
I felt it, you know?
The minute that I heard her voice.
The way that she was crying,
begging me to forgive her.
I just... knew it was her.
She knew it too.
Enough to hop right on the plane.
She was gonna catch the bus,
can you believe that? From LA.
She sounded kinda broke.
I'm happy for you, Carlos.
Thanks for everything, doc.
'Boy 5-5-3, difficulty breathing.'
'One-Oh-four and
Henry in the fruit market.'
Ten-four, let's go, doc.
Time to save a life.
Hey, you have fun. Don't forget to breathe.
- Thanks again, Levine. - Go meet your mom.
My mom.
You think that will work?
Look at his sheet, boss.
It would be enough to violate the parole.
If we get enough people involved.
I think it's perfect.
- How many agencies?
- Let's start with all of 'em.
Ah, this is an everybody win situation?
Downtown, Compstat.
We're not stepping on
anything OCCB has going.
We need you to make the calls, boss.
You got it. You guys go get your ammo.
Thanks.
'The white loading zone
is for immediate loading'
'and unloading of passengers only.'
'No unattended vehicles shall
be parked on the curb at any time.'
'Unattended vehicles will
be cited and towed away.'
There you go, Joey.
Hey, Batman and Blackbird.
Looking for refills on the cannoli?
Look at this guy, looks
like he owns this place.
Hey, you two, over here.
Hey, whoa! We got customers here.
Well, then, you better put on an apron.
How old are you?
- Fourteen. - Thirteen.
Call you parents and tell
them to come pick you up.
What the hell is going on here, ha?
Allie Nardo, you're in violation
of state and federal labor laws.
Children under the age of
16 working past sundown.
Can't do that.
That's the best you can do?
Got to start somewhere, you know?
'Flight nine-oh-four from Los Angeles'
'now arriving at gate 58'
'Flight nine-oh-four from Los Angeles'
'has now arrived at gate 58.'
'Ladies, and gentlemen, for your
safety and the safety of others'
'please do not sit, stand, ride, or play'
'on any of the baggage-claim devices.'
'Thank you for your cooperation.'
Is there an Aloysius Nardo here?
Hey, my name is Allie.
Hey, don't lose your temper, Aloysius.
I'm Lieutenant Doherty, FDNY.
Seems you've deferred
your last fire inspection.
I was outta town.
Saved you a phone call.
D.K., uh, sprinklers and extinguishers.
- Alright? - Got it, boss.
Walsh, you got smoke detectors, fire exit.
I'm on it.
'Rest of you guys, uh..'
why don't you check the
kitchen's exhaust system.
Let's just make sure everything's
up to code, alright?
You got time for this?
- Slow night. - Just not for you, Allie.
Think you're cute, Boscorelli.
Comin' in here and embarrassing
me in front of our people here?
"Our people." These
mutts are your people, Allie.
My people are the kind you've
been squeezing outta business.
Yeah, I don't know nothing about that.
- Yeah, we'll see about that.
- Yeah, we will see about that.
Go ahead, go on. Rip up the place.
You think I care? Oh, I was
planning renovations anyway.
And tomorrow when you're
nursing the blisters on your fingers
I'll be in South Beach soaking up the rays.
I don't know about that, Aloysius.
Yeah, me either, I don't know about that.
Sub-standard refrigeration.
'Courtesy of the New York
City health department.'
You two are real proud of yourselves, huh?
We will be in about what, ten
seconds? Assume the position.
- Yeah. - For what?
- Get over there. - Come on.
Tickets? Come on.
Some of which are A misdemeanors, yeah?
Oh, and I guess somebody
ran the plate numbers
of your clientele.
Passed them on to
the US attorney's office..
Socializing with convicted felons
that's a violation of, uh, federal parole.
Right?
You little son of a
bitch. This ain't over yet.
Yeah, if not, I'm gonna be
in your life a lot, paesan, a lot.
We're gonna be like, you
know, goombah buddies.
Yeah, yeah.
'This is the final boarding announcement'
'for flight 62 to Orlando.'
'This is the final boarding announcement'
'for flight 62 to Orlando.'
- Hey. - Hey.
- Shift's over? - Yeah.
I was calling your cell,
but you weren't answer...
You know what? The signal is hit or miss.
I-I go out every now and then
and check on messages, you know?
I didn't leave any. She miss her flight?
Yeah, must have, there's another flight
coming in from LA in an hour.
We can check the
counter, see if she's on it.
- Oh, she is. - You asked?
Yeah, she has to be.
'...please meet your partner'
'in baggage carousel C.'
'Mr. Garza, please meet your partner'
'in baggage carousel C.'
You say she sounded broke?
Yeah.
Did you charge the ticket?
With my limit..
Last-second ticket, coast to coast?
How'd you buy it then?
Uh, I wired her some money.
Uh-huh.
Thousand bucks.
Last minute airfares aren't cheap.
I know.
Maybe she really did
miss it. She's on this flight.
Maybe.
Yeah.
'Nice job.'
I wonder how long they're
gonna be able to keep him.
Yeah, well, taking a guy
like Nardo off the street
for one minute's better than nothin'.
That's doing right by my people.
So now, they're your people?
Look, I'm proud of my heritage.
When my grandfather
got off the boat from Ponza
they handed him a broom
and they said start sweeping.
And he turned that into a life for himself.
For his family, an honest life.
That was your father's dad.
Yeah, but then, it was guys like
my dad who went and spoiled it.
You know, the wannabe wise guys.
"Always playing big shot."
You know, the arrogant, cocky, bigmouth.
Hmm.
Look, I spent my whole life
trying to separate myself from that crap.
'And if your Italian, everyone
thinks you're one step away'
from having mob ties.
And the TV, the movies,
they all glorify guys like Nardo.
You know, he's a tough
guy. He's a gangster.
- Not always. Come on. - 'Oh, yeah?'
You name me one famous Italian cop.
Columbo.
- Later. - Chow.
Well, that's what you get.