All language subtitles for Hill Street Blues s04e16 Parting is Such Sweep Sorrow

Okay, save it.

Come to order.

Come on, guys. It's even money. We can
start on time.

All right.

I'm happy to announce there's been a
thaw in the department's freeze on

promotions. Lucy Bates is now a
sergeant.

Lucy will be commander of the watch.

She'll be making assignments, turning
out the shift.

We won't have Goldblum to kick around
anymore.

Sergeant Bates.

Okay.

Memorial service for Sergeant Exerhaus
in the Benedict Chapel of the Police

Academy at 11 this morning.

Assignments. Coffee, you're going to be
with Pizer.

Kosicki is out sick, so Perez is going
to be with Pilski. You'll ride together,

okay? Also, I'm announcing a new khaki
officer that will be under Leo's wing.

Her name is Natalie DeRoy.

Natalie spent the last two years up at
Division, so... Slow it down.

I can't understand one single thing
she's saying. If you find her, I mean

her, then welcome her to the hill, okay?

Item one.

What you saw upstairs and everywhere
else.

And that is perps.

Okay? They've been stashed here and in
every other precinct holding cell.

They're going to be here until 3 p .m.
today by order of this Judge Cruz.

He's the guy who declared the Michigan
Avenue unconstitutionally overcrowded

inhumane. Okay, the judge had him in
Juvie Hall Annex, but that was until

night. You know that some of them
croaked the two Diablo Rodriguez films.

I'm heartbroken.

Judge Cruz says that if the city doesn't
come up with a plan by 3 p .m. today

for more humane incarceration, that he's
going to let them all loose.

Humane society.

So everywhere in the station is going to
be a zoo, all right? So let's keep all

visits down to a minimum. That's it.
Now, wants and warrants. Here we go. We

a warrant on Lester Minley.

That's a pimp for Whitney Bars. That's a
call girl that was in here last night

and got whacked.

We got one on the zucchini robber.

and his companion.

So I want you to check the board
upstairs.

Everybody, there's descriptions on the
board, okay? Thank you.

So I want to say I'm sorry.

I'm going to get a lot better at this. I
was a little nervous.

And I want to say that I think it stinks
that somebody stole the podium.

Earn it. Who said that?

Whoever said that, I don't have to earn
the damn podium.

I have to earn that you love me like you
did to Sarge.

But I don't have to earn your respect
for my position.

So whoever the jerk is, better bring the
podium back.

Was it you, LaRue?

Hey, easy, Sergeant.

Huh? Come on, you think you're so tough?
Come on, you want to go outside?

Hey, uh, you know... Okay.

I was going to say, let's roll.

And let's be careful.

Whoever stole the podium, I hope he can
hit by a truck.

Sergeant Bates here.

Yeah, what do you need?

Officer Schmitz, Natalie Duroy
reporting.

How do you do?

How can I help you?

Take me to Miami?

I had a whole tour planned for you. Why
don't you help me sign in our new

getaway? Got it. Call me Leo.

Coffee.

Washington LaRouche is called in a
homicide hotel person.

You and Pines will take backup during
this. Got it. Hey, I told you I'm

confident. I asked you not to tell
anybody else.

I didn't.

You didn't?

Baloney. Everybody knew about my
promotion before Goldblum even opened

mouth. It wasn't me, Lucy. No?

No.

Did you just take the podium or did you
stand around laughing?

Look, I'm going to tell you one more
time.

I don't know anything about any of that.

Except you're acting like a jerk.

Great. You got your assignment.

Yeah.

Archie.

Bobby?

Thelonious assault, 1374 Curtis, 4B.

Nothing on the bar.

It's nothing on the bar.

First of all, you.

Thanks, Danny.

Are you official yet?

Congratulations. Thank you. Well, go to
the job.

Yes, you do.

Not great. Someone put the arm on the
podium.

I don't.

I believe it's Judge Cruz.

I think what he's really up to is
getting Michigan Avenue up to court.

meanwhile, he inundated the precinct.

Frank, after Phil's service, it's not
like a shot at running down this Lester

Minley. We'll see how the day develops,
Henry.

Good morning, Frank.

Morning, Ray. You got your tired and
your poor, huh, Frank? Not to mention

wretched refuse.

What's in the can?

Phil Lester house.

Could you get the door, Ray?

Sure.

Phil requested that, uh...

After the memorial services, ashes be
scattered over the epicenter of the

An inhabited area.

Is that legal?

It was his last request, Ray.

Good for you, Frank.

Well, now someone has to find the
epicenter of the hill. Oh, that should

easy. Yeah, once you make your
cartographic assumptions.

I'll use the precinct map, Howard.

I think our best bet is to do this at
night.

Phil asked that anybody from the day
shift who's interested be present.

But this can't be official, Ray. You're
going to have to notify everybody

individually. All right. What time
should I say?

Ten, eleven.

Is unaccommodated man no more than this?

Wait.

Give her a chance.

You're telling me you don't know her,
huh?

Hey, Doc, how you doing? Welcome to
paradise.

That smell's not from the body either.

Got a description for you, J .D. Says
it's one guy.

Coming through.

Coming through.

See you guys. Yeah, all right, Doc, go
ahead.

All right, go ahead now. He forced his
way in.

So we had the rope, you know, around the
door, but there was no lock. Look, son,

if you can complete the description,
we've got to put it out.

Yeah, he was white, average height,
pretty thin, and he had short brown

and he had blue eyes.

Good. How long ago?

About 30 minutes since you ran, about an
hour since you came in.

I ran the call, you guys, you know, 15
minutes at a time. Look, we gotta get

this real fast so we can put the
description out. Now, can you remember

clothes, what he was wearing, anything?

Yeah, yeah, and I'm like, black pants,
and he had on a, you know, a dungaree

jacket.

And, uh, a bracelet was taken.

Oh, that's a shocker.

Yeah, it was like a, an ID bracelet, you
know, had, uh, Kathy written on it.

I'll get this on the radio.

Did real good, son.

Got a good memory.

You want me to be an artist? Yeah, she
was going to be a dancer.

Men in blue.

What's your problem? Where's your soul?

Regis. Regis Rossmore.

Unemployed nurse.

With an impossible situation on his
hands.

Chop -chop, officers.

All right, Miss Difficult.

Help has arrived.

Well, I'm sorry, but I've been stuck in
here for over an hour.

This is with reference to my explicit
instructions.

Lois was not to sit down in the tub. She
has an undisplaced pelvic fracture.

Well, why'd you put her in there if
you're not supposed to take a bath?

She was to stay on all fours. I'm
mortified. To avoid exactly this

Plus, she's pruning up. Regis, will you
go and take the coffee cake out of the

freezer and heat it up for me? Coffee,
yes. Cake, no.

Why didn't you call a paramedic? So
chastise me later.

Watch it!

I'm sorry, ma 'am. I got lost in the
terrain.

I tried. I called the paramedics. They
said we were in an emergency.

I shut her to think if I weren't Lois'
neighbor. So you phoned it an assault?

It was at my wit's end. Well, we are
here, Robert. Let's go. On three.

All right, all right.

Help him,

Lois.

What is it?

What is it? I have done it.

I have done it.

I have herniated myself.

Oh, you poor lamb.

You hear that ring call? I hear that. I
hear mine making me okay, folks.

I'm so grateful.

A thousand thanks.

Okay. Okay, we got to make another call.

You know what I do to people like you.

Oh, come on.

Let's go.

Is my pain a source of amusement to you,
Robert? No, Andy. Well, why don't we go

down to the morgue and really get a
belly laugh?

Easy step. Here we go.

All right.

teach our recruits, I experienced his
compassion, his quiet strength, his joy

life, and his deep sense of
responsibility.

Let me read you a poem which conveys
these qualities in him.

I am at ease.

It's end of day.

My duty has been done.

The hour calls me far away beyond the
setting sun.

Meet me by the ocean's rocks.

In the shadows on the lane.

Find me in the snowflakes as they crowd
against the pain.

Or beckon me in silence.

Then listen to the breeze.

And you will hear me always.

For at last, I stand at ease.

Phil's wish that he'd be cremated was
carried out earlier this morning.

There'll be no gravesite service.

God bless you and thank you for coming.

That was very moving, sir. The rock and
the silence and all.

Was that Simon and Garfunkel?

No, that was Phil Esterhaus.

He wrote a lot of poetry.

Chief!

Nice service, eh, Frank? Brief and to
the point, a lot like the man. Irwin

you told him not to present a plan for
Michigan Avenue.

Yes, sir.

Well, is corrections presenting?

Well, technically it's not their
problem. It's cheap.

Leave it to me, Frank.

You're going to have your holding cells
back by the end of the day.

It's not going to help matters if Cruz
empties the holding cells and puts the

criminals back on my streets. Of course
not.

Well, are you presenting a plan?

We're going to get results.

Sympathies to Phil's family.

Did he have family?

The B -locks are off, so you have to
sort of develop a feel for it with your

wrist. Uh -huh.

You sure there's room in there?

He'll squeeze in. I'm a sort of a
person. Keep your clothes on, okay?

What's that doing?

That's nothing.

Leo, that's the roll call podium.

They sometimes play pranks on each
other. Some of them are funnier than

You're not going to say anything?

None of our business.

South America!

I want to test you on the subject of
rights.

We got human rights.

We got inalienable rights.

We got the right to bear arms.

property and they used it as evidence in
the hearing.

I think Leo can get that for you. How
you doing?

Not great.

Takes time.

Hey, hold it right there, chumpface.

Okay, buddy.

Leo, will you help Ms.

Valparaiso, please? Sure.

Natalie, get some bracelets for this
guy, will you?

Anybody who understands my situation.

Frank!

Is that important?

How was the ceremony?

I'm grateful to you and Ray for holding
the fort for me here, Howard.

Well, I'll say my goodbyes tonight.

I imagine London was something like this
during the Blitz.

Captain.

Is that... Leah, you're Harold Baker?

Waiting for you in line. Okay, thanks.
See you later.

That's Lester Minley, Whitney Barnes'
panther.

Who made the bust?

Turned himself in.

Interrogation will be ready in a couple
of minutes. I'd like to sit in, Frank.

Call me.

Lester Minley?

Lieutenant Goldblum.

Lieutenant, I didn't kill Whitney
Barnes.

Let's hit that right away.

You want to talk to me?

Let's talk.

You want to talk, all right. Come on.

About Whitney?

In the last two years, I didn't get her
five dates.

God, she was sweet.

But she wasn't stupid.

She knew what had happened.

She knew she was working a different
kind of trick.

Which those cats referred between
themselves.

You understand?

She never once brought it up.

We never once had the conversation.

Maybe we should have made different
arrangements.

Well, that was the kind of class of
woman she was.

What do you know about the murder,
Lester?

In a minute.

I didn't get to say what a sad thing
this is.

You lived off her. You filmed what she
did for blackmail. Cut the crap.

Blackmail who?

I didn't blackmail anybody.

What'd you make the movies for?

Because I knew something exactly like
this could happen. I didn't kill

One of those fat slobs who didn't want
her memoirs told killed her.

And now in the papers, Lester Minley
this and Lester Minley that.

And now they're coming after me.

Well, when we're done here, Mr. Townsend
and I are telling the right story.

The people have got to know the Lester
Minley plan for the future.

What people?

The papers.

The Lester Minley plan for the future,
which is to live in Nassau and don't

bother anybody unless somebody tries to
kill me.

And then my attorney sells the tapes to
the highest bidder.

Got a slight problem there, Lester.

But you think you got them all?

You don't think I made copies?

You think you're going to Nassau?

He's material to a murder investigation.

Well, stay domestic, Captain.

You'll be apprised of our whereabouts.
He goes nowhere. He stays in custody.

Wait a minute.

My message has got to get out.

The people on those tapes have got to
know where I'm at.

I don't mean trouble for anybody.

I'm a junkie.

If I ain't holding, I can be a bad
character. I know that. I got a sheet.

But I was holding. I don't do violence
when I'm holding.

You had her bracelet?

I found it. I told him it was on the
window and I picked it up.

Why did you assault the officer when he
tried to take it away from you?

I was defending myself. He come to me.

Harold, if you're saying he started it,
there are witnesses who say otherwise.

Lady, you got to understand what I am.

If I see something laying in the street,
something that might give me a lift, I

pick it up. It's mine.

Somebody tries to take it from me, I
fight them.

I gotta keep it going, that's all, you
see?

That's all I can think about.

Hi.

Hi.

That Hotel Pershing suspect was pretty
badly beaten, Frank.

Oh? Apart from the fact I think he's
probably innocent.

Court's not till this afternoon, Custer.
I fully intend to explore my client's

legal remedies.

I'm suggesting that girl's attacker may
still be on the street.

God, will they be able to get Judge Cruz
a plan by three? Well, Daniel's all sly

winks and vague promises, and he's told
Bernstein not to submit a plan. Maybe

Daniel's had something going with the
governor. Maybe it's a fast shovel.

Frank, I realize this dream you've all
been under.

You want to hear about Joe Coffey's last
three weeks, starting with when he was

shot? Rule of law is most important when
things are most unraveled, Pete Smith.

Just what you needed.

What I need is you in a hotel room

tonight.

I'll make a reservation.

A witness from the Hotel Pershing and
Armstrong.

I saw him kill Kathy.

Line up for 20 minutes. All right, hey,
you make yourself comfortable.

Hey.

What are you doing? They just told me
that I could go. Now you're arresting

What is it with you guys anyway, huh?

Let's do it.

9 or 7, the first three digits.

All right, descriptions to the FBI and
the State Patrol. Deploy at the airport.

Come on, move it, move it.

Give us the rope.

Come on.

Nine people making a cop.

No badge number, no insignia. It was a
professional hit, Captain. The guy goes

into a party store. He cops a uniform.
Get savings, J .D.

him and do the paperwork here.

Couldn't you have told me that at the
memorial service?

Lineup's ready, Lieutenant.

I am very sorry to say I just completely
slipped my mind. Look, we're a little

bit jammed up here. Henry, Henry, Henry,
I know it's a madhouse, but all I need

is two minutes. I think we ought to
talk. I'll call you later, okay?

I'll see him.

Number three, step forward, please.

No, that's not him.

I know that ain't him.

Number four, step forward.

No, no, he didn't look anything like
that.

It's not him. The guy's not up there.
I'm positive.

You're reheating?

No, we're charging. Narcotics possession
and assault.

We'll cross -complain, false arrest and
brutality.

No ID on that Hotel Pershing murder
suspect. Wrong guy.

Then let's get people back to that area.
Ray, we found a stolen sedan, 116th and

Frederick, and the police uniform's
stuffed a little sick.

I want to hit them. Mr. Switchcars, any
description?

Any witness of the switch?

I don't know a canvas.

Sergeant, the mainly shooter abandoned a
car, 116th and Frederick.

Okay, I'll put it up. And put any
available uniforms back on the Hotel

perimeter. We don't have anybody left
for the tenant. I'll have to call a

on my car radio.

You got to give him off to Bureau of
Plumbing, Frank.

Go after the guy in a police station in
broad daylight.

Everything under control?

Nothing's under control.

I have to know what your plan is.

What proposal you're going to make to
Judge Cruz?

Frank, I asked you to trust me on this
one. Aren't you going to make any

proposal at all? Are you going to wander
in there around three o 'clock, Heming

Hall, about not having enough time and
let Judge Cruz open up all the cells?

Frank? Put Michigan Avenue right, that's
a $5 million job.

Bernstein's got a million in chains. Now
I'm going to get the money to fix that

place once and for all. How? By letting
perpetrators roam the streets so you can

dramatize a fiscal shortfall in blood?
Do you want a riot? Frank, you have got

to mobilize the public's willingness to
address a problem.

Please, trust me.

Candy?

Esther House.

We're all always in the same boat,
Frank.

Get me Erwin Bernstein.

Joe.

Is there some place where we could talk?

I thought you wanted to talk to somebody
who understands your problem.

I have.

That's what I want to talk to you about.

I was just at the rape clinic.

Yeah? Yeah.

I'm going to be going there for a while.

That's good.

The lady I've been seeing there really
knows her stuff.

And she told me that sometimes what
happened to you last night, some men

that way.

Look, I feel like enough of a jerk
already. You don't have to tell the

world.

Joe, she's my therapist.

Look, what I'm trying to say is if we're
going to... I feel that

maybe I was... I feel maybe I wasn't
being fair.

And if we're going to work this out
between us, we've got to work it out

together.

Sandy, I'm not sure how I felt last
night is going to change that easily.

Joe, I don't want to be with a man who
feels like I'm damaged goods either.

But I think that can change, and I'm
willing to chance it.

Are you?

Yeah.

So, uh, Joey, I thought maybe we could
see each other a little later tonight.

What?

What if I, uh, you know, still can't?

Don't you worry.

It'll happen when it happens.

And what if it doesn't?

We'll worry about it then.

Is that you talking or your therapist?

That part's all me.

I really care for you, Joe.

I want us to try.

If you don't want to try, just tell me,
I'll go.

No, no, don't.

I mean, I want to. I want to see you
tonight.

I think we got a shot, Joe.

At least we've got that much.

Slow down, pal. You don't want to miss
any of these potholes.

I think you'd better call Daryl Ann and
tell her it'd be a good night to have a

headache. Thanks a lot, Bob.

I'm standing on death's door with my
finger on the bell, and you're casting

aspersions on my manhood.

What's that?

Oh, come on. There's a killer on the
loose. You don't want to be writing no

traffic violations. Looks like a room.

Please, please, please watch the brakes.
Please.

Watch the brakes.

This is awful.

I've never had an accident before.

I've got all the papers that are
necessary. I'll give you my name and

No, I don't need your address. Are you
sure? I'm sure. Can I have both your

license and registration, please?

Officer, that won't be necessary. The
woman and I can work it out between

ourselves. This is a rental car. The
company requires a police report.

Also, let me have... All right.

I'll get the papers out of the glove
compartment.

Officer, it's my fault. Is that your
current address, ma 'am? Yes, it is.

Hey! I know the rent -a -car is... Hey!

The 2202 in pursuit of possible stolen
vehicle, beige in color, westbound on

Polk and 115th Street.

Thank you.

We can't keep prisoners more than a
month in an armory. I don't care how

port -a -potties we bring in. Judge, the
armory's only step A. They give us a

leg up on step B. Which is the Michigan
Avenue renovation.

Correct. Which you don't yet have
funding for. We've got $1 ,100 ,000. For

million job.

Please, Judge, we are making a good
faith effort. And I am too, Mr.

Only I happen to take seriously the
proposition that people are innocent

proven guilty.

So when I tour a desperately overcrowded
and understaffed Michigan Avenue, I see

hundreds of men... Who have been
arrested for crimes.

But who are... I get convicted of
anything, sir.

Except maybe being too poor to make
bail. And when I see the physical

the unsanitary and indecent conditions
brought about by this overcrowding

captain, may I ask you what life was
like in your station house this morning?

Intolerable. That's what the men in the
Michigan Avenue complex have been living

like every day.

Judge, would you rather incarcerate the
entire citizenry of my precinct?

No. Well, the people living on the hill
are every bit as trapped by poverty as

those men you're talking about.

and to have them endangered in the
conduct of their normal lives. I mean,

turn my precinct into one big bloated
jail in which the innocent are entrapped

along with the lawless. That clearly was
not my intention. But that's the

result. My homicides and rapes have
doubled. This morning, a 14 -year -old

was murdered in one of those street
kids' flophouses that was literally

inundated by parolees. I mean, not to
mention the hitman who was able to

a murder right inside our own station
house. I love this. I love this

Cruz finds inhumane conditions, so Cruz
is a big softie. The minority softie.

Don't just blame the releases on Cruz.

Blame the overcrowding, too. Blame some
hitman on Cruz.

Because Cruz happens to remember the U
.S. constitutional prohibition against

cruel and unusual punishments. Judge,
I'm not questioning your record.

And I understand your need to protect
the prisons.

But please know that your victory on
Michigan Avenue is my defeat on the

Chief?

In coming days, can I expect your good
faith support and advocacy for Michigan

Avenue funding?

Of course, Judge.

If I stay my order to release, there
will be no subsiding in your effort to

raise this remaining 3 .9.

None whatever.

Well, I'm certainly not opposed to
compromise.

Shall we go through Section B again,
gentlemen? On the assumption, say, of a

-week grace period with the Jetson Army
pressed into use?

Congratulations, man.

Pulled a little fast one on me, did you,
Frank?

All oars in the same boat, Chief. All
pulling in the same direction.

Speaking of which, let me lighten your
load some. Take that Minley thing off

your hands.

Admittedly, I have a special interest in
the case.

It's also a practical fact that you
can't put the horses that Division can

this sort of investigation.

True.

I'll have property transfer those tapes
downtown.

Yeah, well, there's probably no truth to
those threats you made, haven't there?

Who? Minley.

He probably doesn't really have copies
of those tapes. Copy?

Probably just blowing smoke.

Hill and Riker were in a shootout.

Are they all right? Guy's dead. They've
ID'd him as the Minley shooter. Pro out

of Rochester.

I'm cross -checking Whitney's lists.

Seems maybe she had a John from upstate
New York. I know, Henry.

We're off this one. What? The chief
wants Division to handle it. He'll bury

It's not possible.

Too much media coverage.

Besides, do we have six detectives to
quote on two homicides?

Of course not.

Look, Henry, Whitney Barnes is dead,
Lester Manley is dead, the guy who

them both is dead.

Whatever happens, this case doesn't make
on the Hill.

Yeah.

But I... But?

I'd like to... Whitney?

I'd like to see us get up to speed on
this hotel Pershing homicide case.

Nothing when we resume the perimeter
search.

I found the girl's name on a runaway's
list.

I don't think that one's going to make
it on the hill either.

Lieutenant. Hi.

Everyone's talking about you down at the
PD's office, Ferillo. Oh, anything

worth repeating?

They think you're okay.

Me too.

To what?

Hotel Warwick.

I'll have to meet you there.

Ferillo. We have ester houses
scattering.

What time?

11 o 'clock?

What I had in mind won't take that long.

Joe, I owe you an apology.

Which one?

Well, I found out that this memo came
out of division this morning. It's about

my promotion. 6 a .m. it came out.

Anybody could have seen it and just
passed the word along.

So?

So I'm sorry. I acted like a jerk.

Forget it.

How do you like it so far?

Can't get enough of it.

The fish was terrific, thank you.

So... Really taking karate lessons, huh?

Well, I've been mugged twice in the last
two years.

What's wrong with wanting to defend
yourself?

Maybe not trying to save your life.

Or maybe next time I won't be so lucky.

You know, at least with the karate, I'll
have the option.

Besides, I kind of like it, you know,
and it makes me feel sexy.

Great, you can crunch a brick in bed.

That sounds like something you'd say
five years into a bad marriage.

Sorry.

Just so I feel like ever since we've
been together, you've been trying to

me into something.

I'm not.

I don't like it.

I'm not trying to change you.

But the fact is, and you know this,
every time we start to make love,

in your head goes click, and suddenly
you're a million miles away.

You know, sometimes I feel like I'm
alone in the bed.

You kidding? There's you, there's me,
there's Rachel, Frank, four kids.

I mean, it's a complex negotiation just
trying to find a place to go to bed

together. And then when we do do it, we
never seem to get to it.

I mean, after getting past kids knocking
on the door and looking for a glass of

water or babies needing to be fed, I
feel sick, I feel angry and tired, and

last thing I feel is sexy.

Henry, we are adults.

We bring adult baggage to our
relationship.

Do not lecture me, Faye.

All I'm trying to tell you is that after
a lot of years of being a good guy, a

good friend, a good husband, always
trying to...

To find out what the other person needs,
I'm beginning to get a little bit more

selfish about what I need.

And what I need is for things to be a
lot easier.

You want easy?

Try a prostitute.

Oh, boy.

You really fixated on that.

Didn't you?

I mean, if you want real life, I'm your
girl. But if you want a fantasy... Come

on, Faye.

It's not that easy, and you know it.

I have my baggage.

I have my stretch marks.

I am too old to start apologizing for
what I can't change.

What do we do now?

I don't know.

Maybe we ought to.

Not see each other for a while.

Sounds right to me.

If it's so right, why do I feel so
lousy?

We have large aggregate particles here,
Frank, with a high adhesion factor. We

may have a problem getting a uniform
distribution.

What's he talking about?

His barge is a little gritty.

Oh. Putting him in the street like this,
I don't know.

This city, the cop belongs in this
street.

It's home.

Goodbye, Phil, my good friend.

I don't know, Phil.

Keep in touch.

Leo? No, no.

Home is a sailor home from the sea,
Phil.

And the hunter, home from the hill.

So long, Sarge.

Bill?