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Careful with that one.

It's from Japan.

And since I can't go back there, it's irreplaceable.

You can't go back to Japan?

The Tokyo Cropper.

I mean it.

1982.

They invited me to speak.

But you don't speak Japanese.

That was part of the problem.

It was your basic trip all good will.

New York cop sent to show the Japanese force American techniques.

International cooperation between police and all that.

Somehow my brown belt in judo came up and one of the guys asked me if I'd like

to try kendo.

I figured I'll get some exercise, show him a little American sportsmanship, why

not? I got pretty good reflexes. Ninth quickest guy at the academy.

It's a gentlemanly sport.

How bad could this be?

Bad. This man proceeded to beat me like I've never been beaten in my life.

And he was fast.

So fast, that where he's coming on my right, I get hit on my left.

You can't even see him, but I know I've been hit, because here comes the pain.

Finally, he takes a minute to catch his breath and my mind's gone.

I'm a cop, right?

Trained. I've got to create a diversion.

International police community out the window.

Tony, good news.

Oh, got a moratorium on crime today?

One of my guys solved the Lindbergh murder? Your speakerphone had finally

arrived. Oh.

Where? You mean to tell me I can stand in the corner and do my morning

and call someone on the phone all at the same time?

Tony, you don't do morning exercises.

That's because I never had a speakerphone. Oh, Helen, this is great.

Let's try it.

Let's call Bush.

Let's call Gorbachev.

Better yet, let's call Wollaston.

Yeah, what?

Hey, Irv, it's me on my new speakerphone.

Wake yet? Hello?

Hello? Who the hell is this?

Irv, it's Tony. It's me.

I'm guessing this thing's broken.

I'm sorry, Tony.

I'll call Freddy. Oh, no.

Then it'll really be broken. We need professionals.

Call the phone company.

Okay.

Sometimes life is really unfair.

Give it back.

Annabelle, give me the pencil. Thank you.

Did she really say my kids were the best? That's right.

I must say, I had my doubts about you entering six mentally disabled students.

Howard, six students with special needs.

Six students with special needs in the competition, but I'm very proud.

One each.

So tell the kids.

Oh, you should. It was your idea.

But it would mean so much to them, coming from the principal.

Okay, guys, remember the poems you wrote for Mrs. Scali?

Well, the mayor thinks they're the best in the city, and she wants you to read

them out loud at City Hall on Friday.

Mrs. Scali, I can't read out loud. I'll mess it up for everyone.

That can be a problem, Jason.

Well, how about this?

Monica, can you read Jason's poem?

Oh, good.

Now, who can read Monica?

Kevin?

So Kevin can read Monica's.

Marcy, you can read Kevin's.

Brian, you read Marcy's.

Annabelle can read Brian's.

But now who can read Annabelle's poem?

Me?

Good, Jean.

Very good.

Now everybody gets to read.

Get Irv Wallerstein in here.

You wanted me?

Yeah.

I got something in the mail this morning. I know. I am sorry.

An invitation to my wife's diabetes fundraiser. I told her not to send it. I

said you're a busy man. Irv, I'd be happy to attend Irene's dinner.

It's this death threat I'm not so thrilled about.

I got evidence bags.

Relax.

It's not a confidential file.

Not logged as a crime.

Then the press gets involved, and that's exactly what an intimidator like this

wants.

Attention. Looks to me like this intimidator wants you dead. Oh, come on.

not exactly the first death threat I've ever received.

Every jerk I bust wants my butt in a sling.

Look, Tony, you die, our next

commissioner might not let me have two days off at Rosh Hashanah.

Let me protect you.

Threats like this.

Usually come from loonies you knew two, maybe three years ago.

Loonies I knew three years ago?

You want this in alphabetical order or chronologically?

Anthony, this isn't a joke.

Someone took a lot of time with this.

Could have been Rod Patton.

When he came out of the courtroom, he screamed, I'm going to get you, Scali.

I thought he saw too many Cagney movies.

I'll check them out. Who else?

Uh... Norman Fenway and Phil Glass.

And either Fenway or Glass draw.

Side Prince can.

Remember him?

Psychotic home invader.

When we caught him, he had sketches of his victims all over his living room.

Major Sickle.

Good artist.

I put him away two years ago. Eight years sentenced at Hollow Ridge.

So Prince is still in jail.

And this letter's got a local postmark.

The guy gets contact visits.

He passes the letter to his sister. She mails it locally.

It's got to be the Prince.

Who else can capture my impish grin?

Okay, multiple choice.

A, you guys thought this was the Museum of Natural History.

B,

one of you guys got a serious Bambi fetish.

Or C, one of you guys can tell me what three of Eastbridge's finest are doing

bringing a deer into my squad room.

I can, sir.

It's evidence.

He shot this deer. Wrong. With this gun. That's a lie. Out of season in a

protected zone.

You saying you didn't commit this crime?

You dress like this to go sunbathing?

He had a sale at the Banana Republic.

Deer's lying in the middle of the road. He rushes up with a warm rifle. Don't

prove a thing.

It's circumstantial.

Oh, is that right?

Well, what if the bullet in that wildlife matches your gun?

You expect me to believe somebody's going to search through 120 pounds of

guts looking for a piece of shrapnel?

You'd have to be crazy.

Am I crazy, Stan?

You bet, boss.

You were right all along.

It is evident.

Tag it.

What, have you got a crusade against hunters?

Hunters follow the rules.

You're not a hunter.

You're a poacher.

Book him.

Go to work!

Said no lights and sirens. They heard about this 12 blocks away. That's how

order went out. It's no good getting people all excited, showing my home on

news. Cops here report to 1209 Beach Street, and it's a knee -jerk reaction.

Some of the boys put on their lights and sirens.

Anyone see anything, like a license plate maybe? Kelly and Mendleton are

house to house.

So far, all the neighbors think you're a fine, upstanding man. They'd vote for

you for mayor.

Great. But they didn't see anything.

Lousy.

You think he could be hiding inside our house?

No, honey, I don't.

Why not?

There's a million places we can't see.

David, if there's one thing your father is good at, it's finding the bad guys.

Don't worry.

Still think it's Cyprance?

If it is, he's not just the cell gangster I thought he was.

No more screaming threats from the inside?

He's either escaped or he's got someone on the outside doing his dirty work.

With your home address?

With someone else altogether.

Norman Fenway has a decent alibi.

We're checking out Patton right now.

I tried calling Hollow Ridge, make arrangements to question Prince, but no

could clear me because it was after hours. Hey, Commissioner, come on. We'd

to get some sleep.

Sorry, folks.

Didn't mean to ruin your evening.

Imagine that, a police commissioner disturbing the peace.

Nightmare, kiddo?

I can't have a nightmare.

I can't fall asleep.

I'll go get you some milk.

Mom, I'm worried.

Honey, come here.

I know what you mean.

I'm worried the Yanks are going to trade Mattingly because of his back.

What if it rains this Saturday?

We're supposed to play ball.

I'm worried about that skull.

Someone was playing a stupid joke.

You sure?

Yeah.

But I'm also sure, just like always, you gotta look out for yourself.

I don't want you hanging around anyone you don't know. Got that?

You ready for some milk?

I can get it.

Hopefully there's no one in the refrigerator I don't know.

Really?

Who turns on the light when you open the door?

Gotcha.

You really believe that?

Nah. You see, there's this little switcher when you open the door. Tony,

really believe that the skull was just a prank?

Walliston wants to put a bodyguard on me.

Me and Caruso or someone.

Two guys, two guns.

So Wollaston doesn't think it's a prank.

Wollaston figures the guy knows where I live.

He's done something.

Proactive. We should be careful.

What do you figure?

I thought it was Cy Prince.

I still do.

I want it to be him.

Even more than a prankster.

Simon's a psycho.

You don't know what he could do, but he's tangible.

Someone I can nail.

Someone I can protect my son from.

Someone in jail.

Yeah, that too.

But even if he has an outside man, I can nail the source.

It's this vagueness that's killing me.

Some alien mist somewhere out there scaring my family.

Maybe we should take David to your sister's.

How can we do that?

We just told him there's nothing to worry about.

Damn.

Rachel.

Do me a favor.

Tomorrow morning, take a different route to school.

Taking a trip?

Yeah, well, you know, I've been here a while, and I thought it might be time to

visit Carol.

Kind of sudden.

It wouldn't be that you're concerned about last night, would it?

As a matter of fact, yes.

Yes, I am concerned.

About liability.

I mean, look, let's say something does happen.

Your insurance company might give you a hard time with a third of bills in the

house. Arnie. No, it's true. Trust me, I know insurance. Rachel, he's absolutely

right. You're not. That's ridiculous.

The man sold insurance for three weeks. He knows his business.

Want me to drop you at the bus station?

No, thanks.

Look, Rachel, like I said last night, there's nothing to worry about. But, you

know, just to keep things simple, I called a cab. He's waiting outside.

Black.

Black.

Human blood on the commissioner's porch. I swear to God, and a skull and

crossbones.

Wow, South Titanic to me.

I know, it could be like, you know, one of those disciples.

Caruso?

Boss.

Today is to be a day exactly like all the others.

But you already knew that, because it's 8 a .m., and you're still hanging out at

the station.

Goodbye.

Simon Prince is out of jail.

He escaped?

Parole discretion.

They released him.

Parole discretion?

Who's his parole officer?

He'll know where he is.

Information's on its way. Meanwhile, I'm putting everyone on it. And I want you

riding with the second man. No!

I'm not going to spend the taxpayer's money on a cop protecting me from a guy

who draws pictures and knows how to find the plastic skull section of that Bear

Schwartz. I'm not going to do it.

Just protect my family.

Just stop.

Commissioner, I can't find nothing wrong with your speakerphone. It's working

fine.

You got ID?

Operator?

Hello? Anybody there?

Hello?

Operator, it's Police Commissioner Scali.

Just testing.

All right, now I want all of you to take your seats.

We've got some very, very important things to do today.

Now, kids, I want you to meet the mayor.

Now, today we're going to practice reading our poems out loud to her so

tomorrow we won't be scared.

Where's Jason?

At home.

Well, why? Is he sick?

Jason's mom said a bad person wants to hurt you.

She says it's dangerous to be in your class.

Jason's mom misunderstood.

It's very important for Jason to be in school today so that he can practice his

reading. Who's going to read my poem for the mayor?

I don't know, Annabelle.

I was really hoping that Jason would.

Is he licensed and registered?

Mrs. Scali.

I'm Officer Fagan.

Do you know how fast you were going?

Yes, officer.

I was speeding.

I'm glad you stopped me. I wanted you to stop me.

I was being followed.

Somebody, I don't know who, was following me.

It's my lunch break, and I just took five minutes to go to the dry cleaner.

Well, do you remember the make of the car?

It was gray.

License plate number AQW592.

I'll do a plate check.

Mrs. Scali, you know, I bet you that was Sergeant Frawley.

Sergeant Frawley?

Yeah, he was assigned to keep watch on you during roll call today.

Do you remember if it was a 87 Ford?

Yeah.

Would you like me to call your husband?

No, that won't be necessary.

And should I follow you back to school?

No.

Well, what would you like, Mrs. Scully?

Meeting ticket.

Okay.

Twist the head to the right and pull up his knee.

He's got four knees.

Left rear.

His rear or my rear?

Watch out.

Breaking antler.

Sir, you can smell rotting deer flesh three floors down.

If we leave him out again tonight, we're going to have to evacuate.

It's all right. I'll take care of it.

You booked a poacher? Yeah, but he posted bail already. Guy wants to play

hardball. Still got his gun, right? Sure.

Upstairs. This would be a lot easier if the guy killed pigeons.

About for the pigeons.

Rachel? Hi, Howard.

I know.

Jason Woodruff's parents are worried.

It's the worst possible day for him to miss school. Am I slowing down a second?

You can.

You know how these kids get when I'm late.

Rachel. Look, I bought this tape recorder for Jason.

If you could bring it over to his house after school, I'll get him to practice

reading the poem into it, and then he can play it back for me over the

telephone. No, it's not just Jason's parents. I got three calls from the

board. They're worried about you teaching their kids.

We can't ignore what happened last night.

Were they worried about me teaching their kids last year when I got four of

to read a book for the first time alone?

This has got nothing to do with your teaching abilities.

If a threat comes to your home and you come here, they're afraid.

Well, you tell them not to be.

We can't teach these kids to just bolt and run every time there's a little bump

in the road.

If there's more than a little bump.

It isn't.

Howard, you know that if I thought there was any danger to these kids, I

wouldn't be here.

My husband is the police commissioner.

He got some threats. It happens.

That doesn't mean that there's any risk to me.

Obviously, your husband disagrees.

I spoke to that officer.

He said that the commissioner put him there for your safety.

Stay home a while.

I can't. I got this tape recorder. Rachel, it's not a suggestion.

Hunt criminals, not deer. Put the killer in jail.

Hunt criminals, not deer.

Put the killer in jail.

Wonderful, the police department has finally included forensic science in

orientation.

Consider.

Unattended death.

Identification is of primary importance.

Until then, the victim falls into the rather unenviable category of John Doe.

You put a dead deer in my morgue. I couldn't leave him in the evidence room.

smell would have killed him. So it was your clever idea to throw it in a drawer

labeled John Doe?

That's his name.

I don't want to confuse you. I'm not confused. It's a deer.

Look, Marty, I'm sorry.

I was in a bind. I got these demonstrators outside and a very

out on bail.

Next time, ask.

Okay, I'm asking. I need you to autopsy him. Are you crazy?

Autopsy a deer?

The bullet in his gut is a very crucial piece of evidence.

You want these hands inside that animal?

I'm a professional.

Four years of medical school and a highly specialized forensic residency

to dissect antlers and hooves.

John's a mammal, just like us. Two eyes, a nose. You want a deer, Topsy?

Get a vet.

Sorry, Doc.

Can't pass this buck.

I want that bullet.

Get it.

Simon Prince does not have a parole officer.

What? No one ever assigned Prince an officer.

Is that possible?

Don't answer that.

Don't worry.

True, there's no parole officer to hand us the current address, but Lopez and

Hibbs are checking out all his old hangouts.

I'm on my way to track down some of his old friends. I'm going with you. I'm not

picking the guy up, Tony.

Just interviewing his drinking buddies.

I want to personally question any friend of the slime that's doing this to my

family. What would you say to a cop who had that vigilante look in his eye?

You'd say, go home.

Spend some time with your wife.

A surgeon doesn't operate on his own brother, Tony.

It's two o 'clock.

My wife's still at school.

Not according to this message.

I'm fired.

What? She called five minutes ago. She sounded pretty upset.

Damn it.

You need me, I'm at home. Let Caruso drive you.

I don't want you traveling alone.

All units in the vicinity. Mission package at 1209 Beach Street. I repeat,

Beach Street. Bomb unit is on the way. What, that's your house, isn't it?

God save Stefan!

Drive this car!

Hang on, sir.

Go! Go! Hurry up! We gotta go! We gotta go!

Watch! Watch! Watch!

Hurry up, for real, so!

We are dead, Gil!

Rachel! Where's David? He's still in school.

It's going to be all right.

Dominic! What do you got?

Something metallic.

No wires.

I don't think it's explosive, but I can't tell until I get inside.

You better take a look at that.

They're gun barrels I ordered last week.

Why did you have gun barrels delivered to our home? Those are weapons.

They belong in the precinct. All of it belongs in the precinct. Not in my home.

Not in my school. I know. I'm sorry.

You don't know, Tony.

Because if you knew for even one minute how I felt, you wouldn't have had that

guard put on me, too. I had to protect you. I am not a child.

You know, you can play games with everybody else in the world and get them

to do what you think is right. But be straight with me.

I shouldn't have sent Frawley over till we spoke.

Until we discussed it and made a decision.

Together. You got me fired. Not fired.

You're just staying home until this is over. I think that's good. Oh, you think

it's good? It's good that kids who've never been able to trust anyone finally

have a little bit of confidence in their teacher and she walks out the door?

Do you know what this is going to do to them?

When it comes right down to it, Rachel, there's only one kid I care about.

And if you're not worried about putting yourself in danger, think about him.

David needs you. David needs you, too, but I don't see you staying home and

giving up your career.

I see you putting yourself smack in the middle of the... I do that to support my

family. You do it because you love it. Is there something wrong with that? No.

I want it too.

Teaching is what I do.

It's my contribution.

It makes me feel like I've got a reason.

How can your job take my job away from me? I don't know.

Maybe it's part of being a cop's wife.

No. You cannot brush it off like that, Tony.

I didn't just marry a cop.

I married you.

Someone who believed in us. In a partnership.

I can live with all of the dangers of being a cop's wife.

But I will not live with being totally and completely shut out by you.

Hunt criminals, not deer.

Put the killer in jail.

I know where he lives.

Cy Prince?

According to his wife's employment records.

I'm going.

Tony, what the... Earth, I don't give a damn if your brother -in -law, the

surgeon, didn't operate on his own sister's gallbladder. This time, I'm

We got trouble.

What, Stan? It's Friday. All John Does are buried in Potter's Field on Friday.

You want time to attend?

Our dear was named John Doe.

No. Yes.

He was buried this morning. No autopsy was ever done. All our evidence is six

feet under.

Dr. Deathbedder was out of his hands. He said, you named him John Doe. He said

you didn't put a hold on him.

Didn't anyone notice something strange?

I mean, how often do you see antlers sticking out of a coffin?

Great. Now what are we going to do? We got nothing to hang this guy on.

Wrong.

You got the poacher's mugshot.

It's marked with a crime.

Yeah.

Throw it in the garbage.

Outside.

And Stan, if your hook shot's not all it used to be, and you toss the photo such

that it misses the bin and lands on the pavement near the demonstrators, no

littering fine.

And get me that poacher here in an hour, in my office.

Bring him in the back way.

Half the police force is out looking for side prints, and he lives three blocks

from the precinct.

Mrs. Cy Prince?

Yeah, that's right. I'm Police Commissioner Scali.

I know who you are.

I was wondering if I could speak with your husband for a moment.

My husband's dead.

A month ago, the doctor's estate pen found cancer.

They let him out so they wouldn't have to pay for his funeral.

Mrs. Prince, I wasn't aware.

He sent an innocent man to prison.

The stress kills him.

I didn't know.

I'm sorry, Alex.

How'd you know my name?

Your dad talked about you a lot.

Whatever it is this time, Commissioner, you can't pin it on Simon.

Well, then I won't waste any more of your time.

Look, buddy.

The way I see it... There's two ways we can do this.

Number one, we do an autopsy on the deer. We match the bullet to the rifling

your weapon.

You lose your gun, you lose your hunting license, you lose your freedom for up

to one year.

Way number two, you plead to a violation.

Confess. You feel good because you've cleared your conscience, and this

Winchester's in its case within six months.

I don't like either way.

Forget it.

Okay.

Okay?

I'll show you how.

What, no more interrogation?

No more dragging me up here in the middle of the day?

You're a free man.

Hunt criminals, not deer!

Put the killer in jail!

Hunt criminals, not deer!

Put the killer in jail! That's him!

Hunt the guy!

the picture.

That's the deer hunter.

Oh, man.

It's a good thing I locked that door.

They want to kill you. How do they know who I am?

Link in the department?

I'll go check it out.

You got to get me out of here. Through the back. Can't. Through a window.

Regulations. Give me a police escort, something.

Only allowed to give police escorts to criminals and victims.

Not on a victim.

Yes.

Hey, I'm a criminal.

What?

I killed a deer.

Come again?

I killed a deer.

Oh, you're not getting away with that old lie.

No, no, I swear.

The past three days you've been telling me you're innocent.

I don't want a purging confession.

That's real trouble.

I did it. I'll sign a paper saying that. I promise.

Come on. Ready now.

Please.

Please arrest me.

The truth.

Yeah.

I guess the rest is between you and your conscience.

Thanks.

Thank you.

Hey, that's what I'm here for.

Who's supposed to make four, you know?

Would have all made sense if it was side prints.

He hated me.

And he was an artist.

I swear, if this wasn't drawn by a maniac, I'd send it to Mom.

I can't draw a straight line.

Almost kept me out of law school.

I got a D in art.

Ah, you can't teach that stuff.

Born with it, you either have it or you don't.

What are you doing here?

I came back because of your shirt.

I saw it on you this morning.

You know where I could get one?

Yeah, I got tons.

But they're gonna cost you $6 .50.

An entrepreneur.

You drew them yourself, didn't you?

Could you draw Michael Jordan?

My son would love a shirt with Jordan on it.

Yeah, I can draw anyone.

Even me?

Look.

I didn't do anything.

Funny. When my son says he didn't do anything before I say he's done

usually he did it.

Why'd you send me that picture?

Why'd you put that garbage on my porch?

Because I want you to die.

You killed my father.

My mom says he'd be here if it wasn't for you. Your mom said that to protect

you. No, my mom doesn't lie.

No.

She just didn't want to hurt a little boy.

I'm not a little boy.

Yeah?

Who are you?

A man?

Then act like one.

When I wanted your father, I didn't go after you or your mother.

I found him.

You scared my family. I won't take that.

You want me?

Here I am.

You hate me, right?

I sent your father to jail.

Yeah, yeah, for doing nothing. So hit me.

Hit me for keeping your father from playing ball with you when you were

up. Hit me for making your mother lonely.

For making her struggle to have to pay the bills. Hit me.

Hit me for making him such a selfish, miserable guy that he got sick when he

finally came home. He died!

My

dad's

dead.

Why can't he be here?

Why do you have to go to jail?

Dad messed up some pretty important stuff.

You don't have to.

I just booked the social services.

The kid will be in counseling in the morning.

Good. Something wrong?

How do you know, Irv?

If someone tells you they're going to kill you, if they come to your home, how

do you know when it's the real thing and when it's a lonely 14 -year -old kid?

There's plenty of 14 -year -old murderers out there.

Like the guy fast asleep in the middle of the night.

His wife wakes him up, scared to death.

Noises in the basement.

He looks at her, then he hears the noises himself.

Pound, pound, pound, pound.

He creeps down the stairs, standing in the middle of the living room in his

pajamas with his baseball bat in position, ready to whack the hell out of

intruder. Bang, he whirls around.

And it's a squirrel.

That's how I feel.

Let's order lunch.

This is unbelievable.

Helen!

What?

Tony, they don't believe me. Every time the repair guy's here to fix this thing,

it works fine.

What's the number?

On your desk.

Yeah. This is Commissioner Scali. One of your guys has been to fix my phone

three times, and every time he says there's nothing wrong with it. And he

said... Sorry, I can't understand you.

You can't understand me because it's broken.

Our apologies, Commissioner. We'll have it replaced in the morning.

Thank you, Ted.

I just gotta know how to talk to these people.

I'm going home.

Seasons by Jason Woodruff.

Pitter -patter down the street. Pitter -patter through the street. When I walk,

I hear the sound.

Pitter -patter on the ground. I thought you weren't supposed to be teaching.

The kids were going to perform for the mayor today.

They said they'd rather come here.

They weren't scared?

Yet not.

Even Jason convinced his mom to let him come.

He's reading his own poem.

Summer is better than winter and fall.

They must think you're pretty special.

They're right.

I said I never set you out yesterday like I did.

It's not the way we do things.

It'll never happen again, I promise.

Or I'll try.

I know.

What can I do to make it up?

Be home for dinner every night this week?

You know, if I could, I would. Or every other night.

I'll do my best.

Hey, Tony!

Rachel told me you caught the guy. Congrats!

Oh, and, uh... You're a little more tolerant of your brother -in -law.

Hey, you guys got some money for the tip?

That is absolutely out of the question.

I'll pay you back. Don't worry.

Don't worry.