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Officer Crandall, please report to cell block four.

What is it, Connors?

I think he's going to be okay.

Hey, Evan.

It's your rush.

You got me buzzing through, man.

I just can't wait to get out of here.

You got that right.

You want to try some crack?

Come on, man.

I don't want to.

Don't be such a wimp.

Come on, it's cool. Everybody does it.

It's your right to say no.

No. Say it louder.

No. Like you mean it.

No. I'm out of here.

Good. That was great.

You don't have to let those guys talk you into doing drugs just to be cool.

You're cool when you stand up for yourself.

See you all next week.

Real good.

Budget meeting must have gone pretty bad for you to come down and tell me in

person.

You're still not funding the program?

They know you've been doing it on your own since they cut overtime two months

ago.

They admire your spirit of volunteerism.

They want to nominate you to be one of their thousand points of light.

Yeah, well, did you tell them how much money it's going to save the city in the

long run? I told them. And did you tell them if we teach these kids, we don't

have to put them in jail later? I told them.

You know, when I see these kids, I think of my own.

I've always been there to teach them, but I'm still worried about all the

temptations that are out there.

Now, some of these kids don't have anybody to keep them from making the

wrong turn.

I got you, Phil.

I wish I could find a way to pay you for the overtime.

That's all I can do to fund basic police services.

If you want to drop the program, I'll understand.

Okay.

If I pull out, that means there's only 999 points

of light.

I'll tell you anything.

Give me the keys.

Phil, I thought you should know.

Brett Connors escaped from prison.

He stabbed a guard and stole his car.

Drove to Linwood where he stole another car at night point.

State troopers chased him down Route 30, but they lost him at Fowlerville.

Which way was he headed?

Towards us, but also toward a lot of other places.

I put him away once, Tony.

I'll do it again.

He threatened you at the trial.

He's not afraid to kill.

That girl was defenseless.

But the guard wasn't.

So what do you want me to do, sit here and hide?

Thank you, Mrs. Reed. Oh, please, call me Pam.

Um, is there something wrong?

No, I... I got it covered.

My kids, Alex, Jennifer.

This is my boss, Commissioner Scali.

Hi, guys.

They're supposed to be doing their homework.

We're done.

Well, help your mother with dinner.

Pam broke her arm last week.

An elm tree jumped in front of her car.

You gotta watch out for those elm trees.

Look, I can handle myself against Connors, but if he comes after them, I'm

so much.

We'll put a unit on the house while you're working until Connors is caught.

I appreciate it.

Chances are he's not coming here.

But if he is, we'll catch him. He's a punk.

Nothing to give me greater pleasure.

I'll be in touch.

Commissioner Scali?

Do you really think Connors is, you know, going to come after my dad?

Conn's threatened cops every day. This is just a precaution, but I'm not really

worried about... Then why'd you come here?

I mean, you wouldn't have if you weren't worried, right?

You said that he stabbed someone.

You don't miss much, do you?

We're going to catch him.

In the meantime, I want you to do exactly what your father tells you to.

When he's not around, the other cops will be keeping an eye on you. You'll be

safe.

What about my dad?

I'll tell you what.

We'll take care of him when he's on the job, and you guys look out for him when

he's at home.

Deal?

Okay.

Good. You're on duty as of now.

Hey, Rach, I'm pretty beat. Do you mind if we just order some buffalo wings?

Rachel?

Rachel!

Rachel!

It's Scali.

My house has been burglarized. Send a unit over right away. And the

guys.

Tony?

The door opened.

Tony, don't panic. I've got everything under control.

What's wrong?

What's wrong?

They took all our furniture.

I wanted them to.

I thought that we should make a clean break.

You know, start over with all new furniture.

Tony, we talked about this.

I remember a discussion about a new couch.

I do not remember any mention of a clean break with all of our furniture.

But, honey, none of the contemporary styles went with our old stuff, so I

figured that we could update our entire living room. What about the dining room?

Well, it didn't match the living room.

Rachel! Oh, and Corinne has an idea for the... Corinne?

The decorator. You hired a decorator? Honey, I can't do it all myself.

In case you haven't noticed, I happen to be very, very pregnant, and I'm also

working full -time, and we really should get this taken care of before the baby

arrives.

Skelly again.

Cancel the unit and the fingerprint, guys.

No, we're fine. Thank you.

Oh, honey, come on. Don't worry. Corinne is saving us all kinds of money with

her decorator's discount. Yeah, as long as we buy in bulk.

My chair.

What about my favorite chair?

Tony, you've had that chair since before we got married. It's torn and all the

padding... We could have fixed it.

That chair was so comfortable.

It was contoured to my shape. It was me.

I mean, Corinne has found you a new chair that's much more you. It's got

lines and a masculine design. You're gonna love it. I loved my old chair.

Oh, come on, honey. Give it a chance.

Put the buffalo... Yeah.

Yeah, I'm on the way.

They found Phil Reed's car abandoned on the highway.

I gotta go.

I thought it was some kids, you know, making out.

Then I thought there was nobody in it, so I ran the plates.

Did you call the lab? Yeah, they're on their way.

I called Phil's house to see if he was there, and the car was just stolen.

His wife answered, said he wasn't home.

I, uh, I didn't tell her.

I will.

Who's watching his family?

I don't think anyone is.

Someone's supposed to be sitting on the house whenever Phil's not there.

We sent Papa Doc as soon as we found out Phil was gone.

Damn it, we're supposed to protect them.

Any word on Connors? State police just found the green Volkswagen abandoned in

Fowlerville. No sign of Connors. He just fell off the face of the earth.

Call the prison.

Have them send a sample of Connors' clothes.

Get the state police back on the phone. Have them send a couple of their dogs.

Tell them Brett Connors might have...

crawled back on the face of the earth here in Eastbridge.

Boss, I just started a grid search in the woods just in case Connors is still

around or in case Phil.

Just in case.

Hi, boss.

I thought Buddy could help.

She's a really great hunting dog.

Good. I can use all the help you can get. All right, Gordy, you want to take

sector five? All right, all right. Let's get to it.

Open that trunk.

I promised the kids we'd take care of him.

I promised her.

I didn't even know that he was going out. Pam.

If I'd known, I wouldn't have let him. Pam.

Not with that maniac.

We'll find him.

We'll find him.

Until we have solid evidence to the contrary that it's a missing person

Missing person.

We've got an APB out on Phil in the tri -state area.

Most of our guys have volunteered their off -duty time to help look for him.

What about Connors?

We're looking for him, too.

What do you mean, looking? I mean, he's here, right? He has to be. We don't know

that for sure.

I'd like to assign an officer to stay with you.

Why? If you don't have any objections, Officer Pagan will stay with you

You think comms might come here?

After the children... It's just a precaution.

Phil asked me to make sure that you and the kids would be safe.

He said that you were going to protect him, too.

Brett Connors' case from prison.

Steals clothes in a car in Linwood. His last scene outside of Fowlerville.

Five hours later...

We find Phil's car here in Eastbridge.

Well, if he did come after Phil, he sure got here pretty fast.

What do you mean, if?

This is the guy who kills people who get in his way.

I mean, is he going to go out of his way to come after Phil Reed?

Phil Reed did get in his way.

He put Connors in prison.

A guy like Phil works hard, has a great family, nice little home. It's not

the Rockefellers, but it's...

His little piece of the American dream.

East Bridge PD, Officer Kelly speaking.

I'm sorry, Sergeant Reed is not in right now.

Who's calling?

Oh.

Listen, maybe you'd better call back later.

Look, I don't care how many times you've called before.

Household mortgage company.

What do they want with Phil? She's all bent about how many messages she's left,

and we're trying to... Stan, take it easy.

Have you called the hospitals?

Yeah, none of them report an accident victim or a DB matching Phil's

description.

Gracias.

Sorry about Stan.

He lost a little when a buddy of his was killed a year ago, but he got himself

together. It's not Stan.

It's Phil.

If he's been having financial problems... Wait a minute. Household

company called a bunch of times. Maybe Phil's behind on his payment.

Maybe he's looking to refinance.

Maybe, but let's look on the dark side.

His disappearance could have nothing to do with Connors. He could have

engineered it to avoid his creditors.

He wouldn't take off just because he couldn't make a mortgage payment.

The mortgage is the only thing we've heard about.

Who knows what other bills have been left unpaid?

Look, I know he's one of your guys and you're feeling protective.

All I'm saying is we shouldn't overlook all the possibilities.

You check the mortgage company. I'm going to the bank.

Until we find something concrete, keep this between you and me.

It's just part of an internal investigation.

How much was the Reed's average balance?

300. It dipped below that on occasion.

Three overdraws in the last quarter.

And Phil hasn't made any large withdrawals in the last few days?

No large withdrawals to make.

No unusual activity in that account in the past several months.

Thanks for your time.

Commissioner Scali.

Oh, hi, Pam.

Did you get the message? Why were you asking questions about our bank account?

It's a standard part of it. If you had any questions, you could have called me.

You know how this works. Phil didn't make any withdrawals. I could have told

that. I mean, why would you even think that he... You think

Phil took all our money and disappeared on his own?

No, I don't.

It's just a routine procedure. Routine?

What is happening here is not routine. Phil does not routinely walk out on me

and the kids. We're the most important things in the world to him. I know, Pam.

If you only knew how hard he always tries to give us everything.

He always tries.

I know, Pam.

It's all right, Pam.

What do you think, hon?

It is the state of the art in home space engineering.

It's part of an overall plan specifically designed to meet our needs.

And remember, babies respond to black and white before other colors, so we're

actually helping to stimulate little Sarah's visual development.

And look, once these walls are finished, you're going to... The walls?

We never discussed changing the walls.

Well, the old wallpaper didn't match, so Corinne did a color test, and she came

up with an optimum blend for our design.

And you always complained about that flowered wallpaper, so I figured you'd

a more masculine design.

Well, it's definitely not flowered.

That's your new chair.

Try it.

Honey, you just have to trust.

Oh, it's supposed to be very, very comfortable.

Supposed to be.

Well, I didn't get a chance to actually try it out myself because I'm pregnant.

I wouldn't be able to get up out of there.

So what do you think?

Black.

Doesn't show dirt.

Very practical.

You like it?

Sure.

Yeah, yeah, I really like this.

Good choice, honey.

I hate it.

Corinne told me that there was no possible way that I could go wrong with

and white.

But this is just so stark and so cold and so... Ugly?

You think so?

Definitely. I hate to tell you this, Rach, but it's got to go.

Thank you.

One stab wound in the upper chest.

Marty says he thinks it penetrated the heart, but he'll know for sure later.

Looks like Connors may get on his threat.

A few hours ago, I was trying to come up with evidence that...

Phil abandoned his family.

Pam told me they were the most important thing in the world to him.

I guess she was right.

Notify the state police, the FBI, and the NCIC.

Tell them Connors is no longer just an escaped prisoner.

He's a cop killer.

I'll help him and the kids.

Let her go.

Oh, my God! Get out of here!

Carmella! Round back!

Are you all right?

Yeah. What about them?

He went after Jennifer, but she's all right.

Did you get a look at him?

It's Connors, boss.

It was Connors.

I want checkpoints on every road out of Eastbridge.

Put one or two units on the major routes. Make them think that's where

looking. But Connors knows Eastbridge, so I want a car on every secondary

street.

Do we got guys on the bus and train stations?

Yeah, Port Authority's covering the airport. He's not getting out of town.

All right. I want a chopper.

As soon as possible.

Yeah, get back to me on it.

He's not coming back. We'll make sure of that.

Is there anyone I can call for you?

A neighbor?

A neighbor?

Officer Pagan will drive you to a hotel.

I'll go get the car.

Boss? Yeah?

I'm going to need their prints.

Why?

We dusted the windowsill. I thought we were going to need yours and the kids

compared to the prints we found.

What happened?

I fell off a step ladder.

Bill said you had a car accident.

Well, I did.

The same morning that I fell off the ladder.

You must have misunderstood.

Let's go! Let's go!

MC1 headed southbound on Mather Road toward the Route 1 on -ramp. Did you get

visual ID?

Yeah, boss. It's Connors. Did you spot the tail?

No, we're hanging back until he gets to the checkpoint on Route 1. He won't be

able to get past that. I don't want to get into a chase situation here.

Take a left here.

B -1, I'm on low -headed E.

Connors is coming right at you, boss.

Block him off at 6th Street.

What? Form a roadblock at 6th Street.

Yeah, Bill.

Tony Scali here.

Leave a message for Marty.

I want Phil Reed's autopsy by 8 in the morning.

Thanks.

Oh, I'm sorry, hon. I didn't mean to wake you.

Honey,

it's after 3 o 'clock in the morning.

You know, you don't have to rush into the office first thing tomorrow.

I do.

Why? Why is it dead?

You can never go after that family again.

Just get yourself some sleep and go in at 10 o 'clock.

That autopsy will still be there. I need to see it.

Honey, the case is over.

I'm not sure it is.

Hey, boss. Congratulations.

What? For getting the guy who killed Phil. I wish we could have taken him

No, man, he didn't deserve it.

Phil's autopsy.

Oh.

Did you read the report on Connor's escape?

No. When he stabbed the guard, he shifted gears.

What? He moved the knife around, made sure he got all the vital organs.

Nice.

Phil was stabbed once through the heart.

So, Connor's varied his method.

Look at this.

Traces of benzodiazepines in Phil's system.

Maybe he was on a prescription.

Check the local pharmacies.

Tony.

Connors killed him.

Then why would he risk getting caught going back to Phil's house 24 hours

he killed him?

To get Pam and the kids.

If he wanted Phil to suffer, he'd have killed the family first so Phil could

it. That doesn't make sense.

Well, he was a psychopath.

We shouldn't overlook all the possibilities, Sid. You said so

Phil said Pam broke her arm in a car accident.

Last night she told Burke she fell off a stepladder.

Maybe she was embarrassed.

You know, she didn't want to admit she cracked up the car.

I saw the car. It wasn't cracked up.

They got it fixed.

Get the computer list of their checks. See if they wrote one out to the body

shop.

What are you getting at? Other possibilities.

Possibilities that Connors provided without even realizing it.

The Rees were having financial problems.

Maybe Pam got tired of the struggle.

Tony, come on.

Well, you checked with the mortgage company. What did they say?

Oh, Phil was behind on a couple of payments, but that's not unusual these

Hear me out.

Pam could have drugged Phil's food, then stabbed him to make it look like

Connors did it, assuming she's the beneficiary. Yesterday, you thought she

loving wife. Today, she's Lady Macbeth.

Just looking on the dark side.

I'll go through their checks.

Kelly, line two.

Hey, Bill.

I thought... I know you were close to Phil, and I thought you'd want to be one

of his pallbearers.

Thanks, boss.

Um, how long were you two guys partners?

We rode together for six years.

You talk much about money, how they were getting along?

No, not really.

Talk about the kids, his marriage?

Oh, he loved the kids.

Loved them.

Pam's a great lady.

That's what I hear.

You don't know her?

I never met her.

No, wait a minute. We all went to a Mets game once.

I thought she was pretty icy.

What do you mean?

I guess she was trying to keep it all in.

The kids, too.

But the three of them, they'd walk around the house like zombies.

In my house growing up, there was kids yelling, the TV and radio going.

Phil's house was like silent.

They don't even have a TV.

I wish my house was like that.

I don't know.

It's kind of unnatural.

The Reeds didn't write any checks to auto repair shops, so either Phil was

or he was making a bad crack about women drivers.

But here's the thing.

Over the last four months, they've written checks to six different

and there were no insurance claims filed.

They paid all the bills themselves?

Why? I don't know.

You sure they were for actual treatments?

There's only one way to find out.

I'll get a subpoena.

Please, they must have treated over 100 people in the last week.

You expect me to remember... Pam Reed.

5 '8", a little on the thin side, dark blonde hair, broke her arm.

Claimed it was an accident, fell off a stepladder.

You say that like you doubt it.

The question is, did you doubt it?

On your diagnosis, you wrote that her explanation wasn't consistent with the

injury. You should remember her. Your nurse told us she came back here today,

tried to remove her records from the hospital.

What's this about?

It's about the murder of one of my cops.

I want to know how you think Pam Reed broke her arm.

She had a fracture of the proximal humerus, the upper part of her right

Now, this could have been caused by a fall like she described.

But she also complained of sore ribs, so I took a chest x -ray.

Now, we did find fractured ribs, but on the left side.

If the fractures were from the fall, they would have been on the same side as

the broken arm.

So you're saying she could have been the victim of abuse?

It's a possibility.

Why didn't you report it? You're required by law to... Wait, wait, wait.

There was no proof of abuse.

We've been to three other hospitals.

Here.

Statement of patient on admission.

Walked into a door.

Diagnosis, area of contusion consistent with being struck by a circular object,

like a fist.

How much more proof do you guys need? What do you want from me?

She insisted it was an accident.

But you knew otherwise. I didn't know.

And what if I reported it and I was wrong?

I could ruin a man's life and destroy his family.

Now, you're busting my ass because I'm not a clairvoyant. Her husband was one

your cops. Why didn't you know he was beating his wife?

Pam tried to take those hospital records so we wouldn't be able to point to a

motive. She wasn't tired of the money problems.

She was tired of getting beat up.

I just can't believe Phil would... Paulie thought he was Phil's best

didn't know.

You know, you can't be father planning into every guy in the department.

I know.

Even if Phil did beat her up, you know, it doesn't mean she killed him.

That's why we're here.

As bad as I feel about all this, I'd feel a little better if we could prove

it was Connors who killed him.

Hey, Mike? Yeah?

Were you able to salvage anything from the car?

Well, maps in the glove box, empties in the back seat, everything's over there.

Find the knife?

Nah. He must have dropped it when he ran from Phil's house or maybe threw it out

the window during a chase.

Thanks. Okay.

What are we looking for?

Something that'll tell us that Connors was in Eastbridge the night that Phil

murdered.

When was this car stolen?

Same day Phil was killed, around 7.

ME estimates time of death between 8 and 10 p .m.

Cooper's plane is over 200 miles away from here.

Well, it's possible Connors stole this car, drove to Eastbridge and killed

If he floored it the whole way, he could have made it by 10, but why would he

stick around today?

Register receipt.

Timestamps.

Looks like Connors bought a six -pack in Elmira at 8 .20, the night that Phil

was killed.

Elmira's at least three hours' drive away from here.

There's no way he could be in two places at the same time.

Which brings us back to Pam.

All she had to do was copy Connors' method.

Even if we caught him alive and he denied it, she knew we'd never believe

I went to the house to tell Phil about Connors.

I gave her the perfect opportunity to kill him.

Carla, tell her we needed to come down to sign a relief form for Phil's body.

What are you going to do?

I'm going to give her the perfect opportunity to cover her tracks.

Commissioner Scali?

Detective Madison.

told me that I should come down to sign for Phil's body.

Oh, Pam, I told him to try and stop you.

We just got the forensics report back on the knife that we found on Connors.

We thought it was the knife he used, but it wasn't.

We're looking for the murder weapon now, but until we find it, we can't release

Phil's body.

But Connors threatened Phil. I know.

We all know he did it.

We just have to prove it.

That knife is the only thing that can inclusively tie Connors to the murder.

We find that knife, we close this case.

What? Excuse me.

I checked all the motels between here and the prison. Finally found what

was saying. A dump called the Kernwood Motel up Route 17, room number 12.

You search it?

That's the problem. The manager won't let us search it without a warrant. It's

in, uh...

It's all up in the colonies, so the courthouses are closed. We can't get a

warrant until tomorrow.

9 o 'clock tomorrow morning, I want that warrant in my hand.

Tell them not to rent that room.

Hang in there.

We're going to find that knife, and we'll be able to put Phil to rest, and

can concentrate on healing.

It was the perfect plan.

We tell Pam we need the knife.

She plants it in what she thinks is Connor's motel room, and we catch her

the murder weapon in hand.

You didn't do anything.

What is it?

Is it your mother?

Covering this up won't help her.

And it will get you into a lot of trouble.

We didn't do anything.

Shut up. Shut up.

I don't want to put you in jail.

So just tell me what happened.

Read them their right.

You have the right to remain silent.

You give up that right, anything you say can and will be used against you.

Stop.

Oh, my God.

He beat you too?

Alex, he beat you too?

We had to stop him.

Last week, he broke my mom's arm.

I just wanted to make him stop.

My husband was a good man, Commissioner Scali. You know he was a good man.

Is that why you tried to remove the records of his abuse from the hospitals?

To protect him?

He... He loved us.

I saw what he did to you.

And to your son.

Alex did what he did to protect you.

Phil, never. He never.

Lost his temper without a reason.

He saw so many kids with problems. He wanted to make sure that the same thing

didn't happen to Alex and Jen. So when they made mistakes, he had to discipline

them.

Kids need discipline.

You're a grown woman. You need discipline?

It was my fault.

He was upset.

This boy had asked Jen to the homecoming dance, and I took her shopping for a

new dress. Oh, we can't afford a new dress, not without Bill's overtime. And

wasn't thinking. It was so stupid.

It wasn't your fault, Pam.

None of this was your fault.

I need Bill's strength.

Don't know how I'm going to make it through this without him.

You have to.

For their sake.

I'm trying to understand how hurt they were.

Emotionally and physically.

I hate what they did to Phil.

I hate what Phil did to them.

And to you.

Times when I thought about leaving him.

For my sake and the kids, but... I couldn't.

For my sake and the kids.

Leave him now.

We can get you help.

You have to let him go.

They'll be tried as adults.

There's nothing I can do about that.

But I can recommend them for an early parole.

The American dream.

Hi, honey.

I thought it was you.

Well?

You... You changed everything.

I fired Corinne.

Good move.

You like it?

I love it.

Oh, Rachel, you're a genius.

Everything's perfect.

Look, I even had your favorite chair reupholstered.

It's not this. It's... This is wonderful.

When Phil was killed, I felt terrible, like I had let him down.

Now that we've arrested his killers, I should feel better, but I feel... I

know how I feel.

I know.

You want to confront him.

And you can't.

You want to make this wrong right, and you can't.

All this stuff, it's pretty and it's comfortable, and

people see it and they think, what a nice house, what a nice

home.

Those homes look nice.

There was a nightmare going on inside it.

Furniture doesn't make a home, Tony.