Third Watch (1999–2005): Season 6, Episode 19 - Welcome Home - full transcript

Previously on "Third Watch.."

Danielle?

Get over here.

You take one more step and I will hurt him.

You hear me? I will hurt him.

No.

They're gonna take away my babies.

Your leukemia has progressed.

You're in marrow failure.

If your platelets drop too low

you're gonna bleed out.



Well, what can you give me to make it stop?

Chemotherapy.

I'm not gonna put that stuff in my body.

I want you to meet my family.

You're dangerous out there, Bosco.

No, it was an accidental shooting.

My old partner would've
never missed that shot.

My old partner would've
never questioned me.

- Bosco... - No.

You got anything else to say
to me, talk to the union rep.

You're kind of a one woman show.

I get that.

But don't think you're gonna
face this alone out there.

'Cause you won't.



Monroe was shot.

She gonna be okay?

Yeah.

- What? She's in Mercy...
- No, but, Davis..

She was pregnant.

She was..

'She lost the baby.'

What?

'Is she alive?'

'Barely.'

Looks like meth, doc.

You get high?

- 'Wanna tell me who this is?'
- 'My sister.'

'Sarge.'

'Hey, hey, Sarge.'

They had pastelitos de guayaba

but then, I thought, how fattening they are

so I only got you the coffee.

- Hmm. - Here.

There's nothing like a little cafe cubano

'to get a stake-out started.'

You okay?

Yeah.

Coffee smells good.

Tell me you got some sugar.

Cafe cubano doesn't need any sugar.

And besides, you didn't ask for sugar.

- Manny. - I'll go get some.

- No, forget it.
- It'll only take a second.

- No, I said forget it.
- You sure everything's cool?

Ask me again, okay

I'm gonna pour this on your lap.

Just shut up.

Message received.

CI said the job was gonna happen

anytime between 12:00 and 5:00.

Ah, man, that's like an appointment

with the cable company.

You feeling sick?

Just this cough. I'm cool.

Look, sarge, if you want, me
and Marcus could sit on this.

You're not enjoying my company?

It's not that, I just feel like

if you're feeling sick
maybe you need to go...

I'll tell you what I need, Manny.

I need some sugar.

How much further?

You sound like an eight year old.

There have to be bed and breakfasts

closer than this.

The further from the rat race

the more relaxing the weekend will be.

Relaxing? My ass is already
killing me from the drive.

Enjoy the scenery.

It's dark.

See that cow over there?

I just said it is dark out.
I'm not gonna see a cow.

Alright, that cow, then.

Okay, what about 'em?

She is outstanding in her field.

- Oh! That was.. - You thought I was funny.

- That's stupid. - It was stupid funny.

You know, next time, that
we have a couple of days off

I get to pick the vacation.

Alright, I thought it
would be a nice surprise

but if you're gonna
whine all the way there..

Surprise?

We're gonna visit my folks.

Your parents?

'You know, now they got
these portable game thingy's'

with the old school
games on it like, Pac-Man

Defender and Asteroids.

No kidding.

'Yeah, who needs all that
confusion on games nowadays?'

I mean, with Asteroids
it was all about this

little white triangle shooting
these little white dots.

Pish, pish, pish... pish.

'Had these funny shaped rocks'

'and all on a plain black background.'

Hours of fun, I tell you. Hours of fun.

Man, I wish I had one of
those game thingy's right now.

Can you shut up?

That noise, Manny

'is so not working for me.'

Sorry.

Look, what do you say we pack it in?

It's almost morning already.

You know as soon as we pull away

those jerk-offs are gonna..

Yo, yo, yo, yo, Manny.

Oh, my God.

Manny, come on with the blanket.

Here, here. I got it.

Can you tell me what happened?

Look at me, look at my eyes.

Can you tell me what happened?

Help is on its way. Manny, stay here.

I got it. I got it.

Stay with me, okay? Stay with me.

- What happened? - I don't know for sure.

All I know is she was on fire.

Get back, sarge. Get back.

I just wanted to see if
there was any people inside.

You guys, see if anybody saw anything?

Hey, Finney, clear them out over there.

- I got it. - They took her to Mercy.

I'll never get used to
the smell of burning skin.

You awake?

You can't just spring parents

on somebody like that with no warning.

If I had said, "Hey, let's
drive ten hours into the sticks

so you can meet my parents"

you would have had a complete meltdown.

- No, I wouldn't. - You're having one now.

It's because you kidnapped me.

You're allegedly not a kid.

Well, it's person-napping.

I'm being taken somewhere against my will.

I'm definitely being some kind of napped.

Sylvia Cardenas. That's
what the business license says.

'It's the first time I ever
been in one of these.'

'First time in a botanica?'

'What kind of Latino are you?'

We don't all frequent botanicas, Manny.

'Not even for a candle?'

- Corner market sells candles.
- Not like these.

Look at this beautiful
picture of Santa Barbara.

- Patron saint of prisoners. - Prisoners?

Yeah, there's a patron
saint for everything.

What about, uh..

Santa Claus, huh?

Is he the patron saint of toys?

Hey, easy with that sacrilegious talk.

Don't tell me you're one of those guys

that has to a light a candle
every time something goes wrong.

Not every time.

Yeah, well, that's how my sister was.

Look how she ended up.

Here's the cause of the fire.

Loosely translated, Florida Water.

Agua Florida?

- Forty percent alcohol.
- You know about this?

Yeah, it's used in cleansing rituals.

Our vic was probably
using the water on herself

and got too close to a candle.

Hmm. When whacky rituals go bad.

Thank you, sir.

Whacky?

You seem to know a lot about this.

A lot more than me,
and I-I grew up with it.

Took an intro course at Hunter.
Black and Puerto Rican Studies.

Got an A.

Santeria's an interesting religion.

Religion?

Yeah.

More like hocus-pocus.

No, it's a, it's a West African religion

'brought over by the
slaves to the Caribbean.'

They hid their religion
from the Spaniards by fusing

their ritual with elements
of the Catholic church.

Hence, Santa Barbara
is also known as Chango.

'Africa's greatest king
and the God of thunder'

'and lightning.'

Sounds like a comic book superhero to me.

Oh, you got jokes.

I just.. I don't believe in this stuff.

What do you believe in?

Me.

Whoa. Check this out.

Looks like there was
some kind of struggle here.

And what do we have here?

More Agua Florida.

So, you think someone lit this place up?

Or someone lit our vic up.

Where the hell are we?

They live in a rural area.

How rural?

'Very.'

Ah, tell me they have indoor plumbing.

Where is your sense of adventure?

They don't have indoor plumbing?

Here's the house.

Sweetie.

- Hi, mom. - Oh!

'Oh, sweetie.'

Oh, and you must be Carlos.

- Yes. - Great.

Oh, it's wonderful to finally meet you.

Finally.

Ma'am.

Charles Benjamin.

- 'Call me Chuck.' - 'Carlos Nieto.'

You can... you can call me Carlos.

Hey, Larry.

Yokas. What are you lost?

No, I was, um..

I was in the neighborhood.

Doing what? You need a
passport to get here from the 5-5.

And shots.

So, can I ask you something, Larry?

Oh, so you weren't just
in the neighborhood?

You qualified a few weeks
ago down at the pistol range.

I talked to Vince down there.

Yeah?

So, uh... you got the
lowest scores you ever had.

Yeah, I had a bad day.

You're on the pistol team, Larry.

So I can't miss sometimes?

You barely qualified.

So?

So Bosco was next to you on the line.

So you know what I'm thinking,
Larry, I'm thinking that maybe..

I don't know, maybe you
helped him out a little bit.

Maybe you threw some of your shots his way?

- What is this? - What do you mean?

You got a beef with Bosco or something?

He shot another cop, Larry.

What I hear, a perp pushed
her into the line of fire.

That could happen to any of us.

Yeah, well, any of us don't have

problems seeing out of our eye

so that we need somebody
else to help us qualify.

You're looking to trick-bag your ex-partner

over an accidental shooting
of some IAB rat bitch?

Did you help him qualify, Larry?

No. Don't ask me again.

Bosco's right, you sure
as hell ain't the same

Faith Yokas you used to be.

Oh, you must be starving.

How was your drive, honey?

Oh, it was long.

Well, then you should move back home.

Uh, honey,

I didn't know whether
to make a late breakfast

or an early lunch, or
an early afternoon snack

so I made a little bit of everything.

And, Carlos, I don't know
what Spanish people eat

so if you need anything, just ask.

Um, actually, I'm-I'm Hawaiian.

A Hawaiian named Carlos.

My first foster family named me.

Carlos because you
look like you're Spanish?

Let's change the subject, mom.

What? I didn't say anything
was wrong with looking Spanish.

'Holly's first husband was a Jew.'

Levine, that's a Jewish name.

So basically..

Uh, you don't have any idea

who you are, do you?

Can we drop this?

Excuse me if I'm looking
out for your gene pool.

Don't worry. Her gene pool's safe.

We're not that serious.

Yet.

Oh.

I mean, we're serious,
we're just not officially serious.

We're more like, uh, casually serious.

Oh, I see. You're just casually
sleeping with my daughter?

- Oh, no, that part's serious. - Oh.

Honey, why don't you take
Carlos and show him around.

Right. That's, uh, it's a great idea.

I'd love to see... around.

You know that cows are
outstanding in their fields?

Yeah, that's a good one.

Oh. Was that a joke?

Mom.

Sarge.

What'd you get me?

Whole lotta "I didn't see anything."

No surprise, there's a
lot of illegal immigrants

'in this neighborhood.'

Anything on Sylvia?

Yeah, turns out she filed
a couple of complaints

against a Jaime Castro.

He's got a business around
here. That's his address.

- Good work, guys. - That's what we do.

Let's go pay, uh, Mr. Jaime Castro a visit.

Do you need us to come with you?

Hey, guys, why don't you wipe

some of that brown stuff
off of your nose, huh?

Hey, Manny..

Sarge, you need to see this.

Looks like somebody was playing doctor.

'Another botanica, huh?'

'Making up for lost time, Miss Latina?'

Yeah. Maybe Jaime Castro
has the Santa Claus candle.

And you still got the damn jokes.

Jaime Castro?

Hello? NYPD.

We'd like to have some words with you.

'Hello?'

Hello. NYPD.

'Sarge.'

He's still breathing, sarge.

- Hey. - Hey, man.

Visit Monroe?

Yeah. I just stopped in for a few minutes.

I'm headed back to work.

I'm on modified duty
for the next couple days.

How's she doing?

She's good. You know, considering.

I got to head back out there.

You know, I've been
trying to catch up with you.

Just, uh..

Listen, that woman went for
her gun, alright? They struggled.

She pushed Monroe in the line of fire.

That's it, alright?
There's nothing I can do.

I was just gonna say you
don't have to avoid me.

I know what kind of cop you
are you say, it wasn't your fault

I believe you, I trust you.

I really got to go.

Carlos, you sit here,
in the place of honor.

Thank you.

And I made you pork roast.
Hawaiians eat pork, don't they?

Merlene, you've been to a luau.

Oh, that's right, they had this big pig

with an apple in his mouth and everything.

I just never eat anything
I've looked in the eye.

I mean, that's just
about my only food rule.

- 'Mom?' - What, honey?

I'm a vegan.

Oh. Come on, you haven't
gotten over that nonsense?

Taking care of my body is nonsense?

Well, honey, what the hell do
you think God made cows for?

Lawn ornaments?

Honey, there's rice for you.

That's it? Rice?

Well, Orientals live on it.

Asians. They prefer to be called Asians.

When did that happen?

I just wish everybody
would make their minds up

on what the hell they want
to be called and stick to it.

Murder on the Asian Express

doesn't have a very good ring to it.

- Mom. - Well, honey.

I'm just trying to make conversation.

Now, how long are you two staying?

Maybe I could take Carlos hunting.

Oh, you're not going.
It's cruelty to animals.

Can somebody please tell me
how I ended up with a daughter

who was raised in
Virginia, moved to New York

and became a Californian?

Well, actually, I'd love
to go. It sounds like fun.

It's not fun for the deer.

We'll throw him a little
party before we shoot him.

How about celibacy?
Does that sound like fun?

That's a Catholic word, isn't it?

- Are you Catholic? - No, ma'am.

Doesn't matter if you are.
We like everybody here.

Mom..

I am just trying to make
Carlos comfortable.

Are you comfortable, Carlos?

I'm as comfortable as I can be.

You go behind my back?

It's nice to see you too, Bosco.

You talk to Larry Busante?

I told you to your face
I'm gonna look into this.

What? My word isn't good
enough for you anymore?

Faith... I told you it was an accident.

Larry is an expert marksman, okay?

The day that you go to re-qualify

he gets the lowest scores of his career.

You know, you're some piece of work.

- You know that?
- I'm trying to help you, Bosco.

- You shouldn't be out there.
- You're trying to help me?

How is this gonna help me, huh?

How is this gonna help me?

Because not being able to see

is a good reason not to be on the street.

You know what? Just
stay out of my business!

What was that all about?

Bosco. Bosco.

Drama.

'Sergeant Cruz, he's up.'

I'm gonna talk to him.

- Jaime Castro? - Yes.

Sergeant Cruz, 55th precinct.

- Is my store okay? - 'Your store is fine.'

Mr. Castro?

I'm not going to be pressing
any charges, sergeant.

I know the man who hit me.

We had a disagreement. It turned ugly.

You know about a Sylvia Cardenas?

What about her?

When was the last time you saw her?

A couple of weeks ago.

- Mm-hm. - Why? What has she done now?

Not a whole lot. She died this morning.

Died?

You know anything about this, Mr. Castro?

Because, see, from what I hear, you, uh..

You guys have some problems.

Sylvia is..

Was... a phony. A fake.

I had issues with a lot
of the things she did.

And I'd tell her to her face.

But harm her, never.

That's not who I am.

What kind of issues?

She passed herself off as a Santera.

- Mm-hm. - Spiritual healer.

People would come to
her and she would claim

that she could read
them, you know, spiritually.

She couldn't read anything past the $25 fee

she charged them for the reading.

She took advantage of
people in our community.

Especially the illegal immigrants.

Took advantage of their beliefs.

Isn't that what you do?

I help people.

You help people?

With candles? Florida water?

You don't have to believe
it but at least respect it.

Spiritual healing wasn't the only thing

that Sylvia was doing.

Apparently, she was also a surgeon.

You know something about that, Mr. Castro?

Hey.

Hey.

Got you a plant. I know it's not much.

I just figured the room could use it.

Wish you would have brought
me a Big Mac Supersized.

Come on now. You got your
mashed potatoes. They look edible.

And your, uh, ham or...
steak? What the hell is that?

It's supposed to be chicken and rice.

I can't eat this crap.

How you're feeling?

Better.

What's the doctor saying?

I get to go home in a few days.

Cool.

I'm sorry.

Sorry for the way I treated you and, uh..

All the terrible things
I said to you. I just..

Why?

Why what?

Why now?

I..

Because you come and visit me every day

and you bring me a plant?

Because I'm the same
person that you didn't want

to have anything to do with last week.

And I just want to know
what the difference is.

Because I was pregnant with your child

'and now you feel sorry for me?'

No.

- Why? Because I got shot? - No.

Then why, Ty?

'What's the difference now?'

Me.

Ever since we broke up,
no matter how hard I tried

I couldn't convince
myself that I didn't care

about you anymore. I couldn't do it.

'And I couldn't figure out why.'

And then I heard you got shot.

And, uh..

Right at that moment, I
mean, before I even heard

about the baby, right at that moment

I realized that I love you.

I do. I love you.

'And I never told you that.'

His name's Ernesto. He came
to see me a couple of days ago.

His wife was pregnant.
They wanted to get rid of it.

I told him he should get
her into a hospital, or a clinic.

But they're here illegally from Mexico.

So he took her to Sylvia's botanica?

I don't know.

Then what did you two disagree about?

We didn't.

He stormed into my store, kept saying

over and over about how it was my fault.

I had no idea what he was talking about.

He kept getting more and more irrational.

I told him to leave my store.
And that's when he did it.

He hit me in the head, knocked me out.

Where can I find Ernesto?

1801 1/2, 3rd Avenue.

Thank you.

I, uh, guess you do help people.

Sergeant, don't ever
be afraid to ask for it.

- Hmm? - Help.

She's dead.

Should I call it in?

No, not yet.

Look, sarge, I don't
want to front or anything

but this whole setup is creeping me out.

Well, don't get too creeped out

because we're gonna sit
here and we're gonna wait.

- What? - Yeah.

We're gonna sit and wait
until Ernesto comes back.

- This is Holly's cousin, Diane.
- Oh, yeah?

And these are her little
twins, Philip and Andrew.

Oh! Look.

Her husband has a great job.
He works for the government.

- He's a mailman. - That's the government.

And look. This is my niece, Sally.

- 'Isn't she cute?' - 'Oh!'

'She's so intelligent. You know,
she's a doctor. A real doctor.'

- Mother. - What?

You mean a real doctor
as opposed to a paramedic.

Holly's so sensitive
about her underachieving.

Um, Holly's a great paramedic.

Oh, I'm sure she is.

And what do you do, Carlos?

I'm a paramedic too.
We... we work together.

- Oh, that's sweet. - Yeah.

And good for you. You
know, it's a noble profession.

When I do it, I'm underachieving
but when he does it, it's noble?

- Honey, he's a minority. - He's Hawaiian.

How many Hawaiians did you
have in your graduating class?

That's a minority.

Enough with this minority thing, okay?

- It's offensive!
- Are you offended, Carlos?

He's not gonna say yes! He's being polite!

- Are you being polite? - 'Yes, Mom!'

He's being polite!

Carlos.

Come see my dogs.

Thanks for the rescue, Chuck.

I should have warned you. She does that.

It's just the way she's wired.

- Excuse me? - Oh, you know.

The way Merlene was
putting the moves on you.

Oh, no. She was just showing
me the family scrapbook.

Sure she was.

No, really.

Look, you don't have to
apologize, I'm used to it.

I don't even mind.

Makes me feel better about
my own occasional indiscretions.

Yeah.

I mean, no..

I mean, I know what you
mean about you, not me..

Not that I think that I'm better than you.

Look, sir, I think that your
daughter deserves total loyalty.

Not that your wife doesn't.
Those are some nice dogs.

Ooh!

She looks empty.

What?

Dead people.

They just look like
they're missing something.

They are. Their soul.

You ever think of dying?

No.

Are you afraid?

All I know for sure is I don't want to.

I'll fight to stay alive.

But if I needed some kind
of operation or something..

I'd take the risk.

But what if the treatment
was gonna make you

sicker than you already were and even then

there was no guarantee
that it was gonna really work?

There's no guarantee you're gonna live

through a shift on this job

But you keep coming back.

'He's running.'

'Five Crime Sergeant, I'm in pursuit'

'of a male Hispanic running west'

on 1-16 toward Lex.'
'He's wearing a gray coat.'

- You guys, hear that? - Yeah, let's go.

- You want to take a ride? - Hell, yeah!

- What's going on? - Foot chase.

Where are you going?

- You're on modified duty. - So?

So, Bosco, you can't
go back out on the street.

Are you kidding me? Get out of my way.

This isn't about you anymore.

You either go to Swersky or I will.

Do what you got to do. Now,
get the hell out of my way.

'Needle in a haystack.'

'5-5 Crime Sergeant to Central.'

'Suspect has entered a marketplace'

'at 116th at Lexington.'

Go around the back.

Got it. Got it.

Secure all exits.

'Excuse me.'

Rear entrance secure.

Take that way.

Finney, back here. Back here. Excuse me.

He's headed out the front.

Good job, Bosco.

- Uh, ma'am? - Yes?

- Relax, Carlos. - I'm sorry.

Did he accuse me of
putting the moves on you?

- Oh, no, ma'am. No. - Oh, yes, he did.

He's just trying to get under your skin.

Why?

We live out here in the country.
What else do we have to do?

Alright. Where's Holly?

She's, uh, packing.

She is?

You're leaving.

'I went to the hospital today.'

You were supposed to stay for observation.

I'm fine.

Is Ernesto gonna be okay?

How... how did you know that we caught him?

I'll light a candle for
him. What did you want?

I'm sorry.

Well, you said you went to the
hospital earlier looking for me.

Yeah, I went to tell you
that we caught Ernesto

and to see how you were feeling.

That's thoughtful.

Goodnight.

But what is it that you really want?

Being a cop, you realize pretty
early on that, lighting a candle

isn't gonna make a junkie
not rob and kill an old man

or a little girl not be
raped by her father.

Lighting a candle is only
supposed to ask the spirits

for someone like you
to come along and help.

Spirits didn't make me become a cop.

I grew up in a neighborhood

where I was constantly
seeing women being victims

and I didn't wanna be like
that. I didn't wanna be a victim.

Do you think any of those
victims ever lit a candle

ever prayed for someone like
you to come and save them?

Everyone has to have
something to believe in.

I believe in me.

Well, you don't have to be alone, sergeant.

They weren't that bad.

- They weren't.
- Would you stop being nice?

I'm not that nice.

Look, I didn't grow up in a family.

- I thought it was interesting.
- Interesting?

I've only seen that kind of
dysfunction in the movies.

Oh, you wanna come
up with some other jokes?

- I'm sorry.
- That's all my life's good for.

You know what. A... punch line.

Your parents are crazy. So what?

They're not crazy!

They have trouble expressing affection.

And your dad kisses his dogs in the mouth

and your mother gushes
over pictures of your cousin.

They have trouble
expressing affection to you.

- Thanks a lot. - You're nothing like them.

How can you say that? Look at them.

'No wonder I am how I am.'

I told them..

That I had this great life in New York

that I had a nice
apartment, and a great job

and an amazing boyfriend.

And somehow I walk away
from the whole situation

feeling like it's not true.

You said I was amazing?

I don't know why I let them do this to me.

Then don't.

So, what? I'm-I'm like your trophy guy?

So why did we leave? I
thought I was doing pretty good.

- My mother. - What?

She... asked me how bad the
situation was in New York that

I would actually consider you amazing.

Well, I gotta say that's,
that's a good question.

No, it's not. You're
sweet and you're loving...

Then it doesn't matter what they think.

But they're my parents, Carlos.

What matters is what you think.

I wouldn't blame you if you
wanted to run away from me now.

Are you kidding?

You taught me something
today that no one ever has.

I did?

You made me appreciate being an orphan.

Do you have family?

Someone to come home to?

No but... that's because I work a lot.

No! That's why you work a lot.

I don't think you came
back tonight to tell me

Ernesto got arrested.

I think you came back
because you're afraid.

I've been having... these dreams.

My sister... in white.

Your sister's passed.

Two years ago.

And your sick.

How did you know that?

A visit from loved one is
a very powerful symbol.

I have leukemia.

Santeria can't fight leukemia.

That's going to take doctors and medicine.

But for what's in here..

Oh, it can help.

And for what's up there..

Definitely.

Can't heal the body
if your spirit's broken.

And you're gonna help me?

Come with me.

Hey, Lieu.

Can I talk to you for a minute?

Sure, Faith.

What can I do for you?

It's about Bosco.

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