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Doesn't happen every time.

Does so.

When we went out with Arnie and Rose, you broke up a muggy. And at Molly's

rehearsal dinner, you arrested a waiter.

He was one of the four states.

I recognized him from the mug sheets. What'd you want me to do, leave him a

No, just let somebody else fight crime for a couple of hours.

You're probably packing your gun right now.

And this monkey suit, where am I gonna put it? On my cummerbund?

Tonight I'm a civilian, I promise.

It's your big night tonight.

You're going to be teacher of the year.

No, I'm not.

Jim Hollister is going to be teacher of the year, just like he is every year. I

hope not.

It's one of the best times. It's your turn this year.

Back in the gym.

Morning.

I got to move it myself.

Regulations.

Thanks.

What are you doing?

What do you mean?

Where are you going with them ties?

What ties?

Yeah. Why don't you just mind your own business, butthead?

Mr. Butthead.

Call the cops.

Tell them an officer's making an arrest.

How about I put the tires back, We call it even.

How many units are coming anyway?

You okay, boss?

I've got this guy stealing fire.

Book him.

Unless you want a little more backup.

Yeah, well, the call said there was a gunfight.

Honest.

Tony, what happened?

What happened?

What do you mean?

What do I mean? I mean the lights, the sirens, the cars.

What cars?

Randolph just won't take me to the ballet.

He thinks it's unmanly.

The only trouble with the ballet is they don't sing.

You have music, you ought to have singing.

Take the opera, for example. Jim, which do you prefer, the ballet or the opera?

Well, they're both beautiful art forms.

I wouldn't want to choose.

Tony's taking me to the ballet Friday night for my birthday.

It's the Bolshoi's last week in New York.

He didn't forget.

No way I forget your birthday.

Not until we get a softer couch in the living room anyhow.

You were responsible for that awful racket a while back?

Think of it as a little warning.

Rachel doesn't win this evening. You're all under arrest.

I think we're safe.

This is Rachel's year.

Now for the event we've all been waiting for.

The presentation of the Teacher of the Year Award.

This award goes to one teacher each year. It symbolizes the skill and

of all the teachers in our district.

It's my great pleasure to present the Spalding Medal for Excellence in

to Jim Hollister.

Good morning.

Commissioner Scali's office. Sergeant Frawley speaking.

Bill, this is Scali. Where's Helen? I need her.

She's not in yet, boss. I had all the calls transferred down here. Anything I

can help you with?

Nah, it'll keep.

Pretty quiet last night?

Yeah, a couple of DWIs. Oh, and Gino's got knocked over again last night.

Kelly just called it in. I think Gino got roughed up a little bit.

Damn.

Gino, you got hit again, Tony.

I got hit again because I let my guard down. Just for one minute. You got hit

for the same reason you always get hit, Gino. You stay open all night.

Can't do that around here. You ought to know that by now.

Did you get a look at the guy?

I was sort of dozing off.

I heard something.

I seen this guy cleaning the register.

I got a shell off.

Next thing you know, there's this explosion inside my head.

But you'll get the guy no sweat.

All you gotta do is find a guy who owns that hat.

Nice sheet of ventilator for him.

Bag it.

Helen, thank God. Where you been?

Tony, I had a doctor's appointment. I told you about it yesterday, remember?

Everything okay?

Yeah, doctor says I'm healthy.

Good, me too.

If I want to stay that way, I need two tickets to the Bolshoi Friday night.

Best seats you can find.

What'd you do this time, Tony?

Rachel's birthday.

I should have got them weeks ago, but I forgot.

I'd have come clean last night, but there were other people listening.

So you lied.

In Brooklyn, we prefer the term finette.

Find me those tickets.

Yeah, okay, I'll see what I can do.

Tony, Mary Bathman and her mother are in the squad room.

He tied a towel over my face.

But can you remember anything else?

Anything else at all?

That can't be right.

Making her relive that horrible nightmare over and over.

Mrs. Bathman, I know how you must feel.

But whoever did this, I doubt if Mary's his first victim and I doubt if she'll

be his last. Right now, she's the only hope we've got of catching him.

Believe me, if there was any other way... I'm not worried about your

investigation. I'm worried about my daughter.

Her father died three years ago. I'm all she's got.

Say the word and I'll scratch the investigation right now.

There was a smell.

An icky smell.

Icky? In what way, Mary?

If we can keep this from happening to someone else, I suppose it's worth it.

I didn't want to go with him.

Let's rest for a minute.

Okay, hon?

We just wake up.

Same stuff.

He was big. He smelled icky.

She couldn't see anything because of that towel.

Anyone looks big to a scared kid.

Try a few smells. See if she recognizes anything.

Cigarette butts.

Aftershave, maybe.

We're also running a check on the known pervs in your jurisdiction.

So far, none of them look likely.

Keep pushing.

I don't want to put this kid through one minute more than we absolutely have to.

Got a minute?

We picked up a guy for drunk driving last night. Says he's a friend of yours.

Who is he?

Jim Holland.

I always thought it was a little too good to be true.

Still, anyone can make a mistake.

Ronnie was inventorying the guy's car. I came across that.

Hockey season in review, so?

So Ronnie likes hockey. He was watching it.

You know better than that, Ronnie.

It's against regs. It's an invasion of privacy. Show him.

You want to see an invasion of privacy?

Watch this.

Come on, sweetheart.

You want to play with the pretty dolly?

Yeah. Hey, isn't she pretty? Look at this son of a bitch.

These little girls can't be more than six or seven.

You found that in Jim Hollister's car?

You had no idea what was in the middle of that hockey tape.

Of course not.

I wouldn't be caught dead with garbage like this.

I got it a few weeks ago in a grocery store for ten bucks.

Never looked at it. Never even took it out of the car.

I know how this looks.

But this kind of filth is against everything my life's about.

How come the wrapper was off if you never took the tape out of the car?

It was in a big bin with 50 other tapes.

I don't even think it had a wrapper.

Where were you three nights ago about 7 o 'clock?

I was home grading papers.

Garbage like this lying around in the supermarket?

A kid could buy it, for God's sake. It's terrible.

Believe me, if I'd had the slightest idea that... Forget about it.

It could happen to anyone.

Listen, Jim, you wouldn't mind helping me with something else, would you?

I'd be glad to.

Terrific.

Irv, could you give it a second?

Sure, your colleague believed me about the tape. He seemed suspicious.

That's why I pay him.

It's a lucky thing I was around.

Listen, this drunk driving thing, it won't have to be in the papers, will it?

won't even get out of the station.

This thing I need your help with.

A few nights ago, a little girl was assaulted.

Pretty bad deal.

We'll get the guy.

He tied a towel around her face, but it came off.

I think she'll be able to recognize him, but I still need a few details.

You're good with kids.

Would you mind meeting this little girl?

Maybe you could help us out.

This kind of thing makes me so angry, I probably wouldn't be much use.

I understand.

Tell me something.

What kind of guy do you think we should be looking for?

It's hard to generalize.

For instance, I've read that a lot of these guys were molested themselves when

they were kids.

I believe that's true, yeah.

Almost makes you feel sorry for them.

Like it's really not their fault.

Some of them have good jobs, too, don't they?

Yet they have this terrible secret.

Almost like they're living a double life.

Exactly.

Maybe they can even be helped if there was only someone that... someone that

wouldn't pass judgment.

Someone who would try to understand them a little.

It sounds like the man you're talking about has gone too far for that.

He had to pay for what he did.

But then he'd have the rest of his life ahead of him.

It's not too late.

If he really wanted to try.

Maybe he wants to, but can't.

Yeah? Tone, I found two tickets, but they're for Wednesday night.

Friday. No, Wednesday, 10th row.

I need them for Friday. I'll talk to you in a minute.

You need to get back to work, so do I. Sorry I couldn't be more help.

Maybe we can talk again some other time.

It's not a topic I know very much about.

Honey, don't burn the sausage again.

It looks like they're done already.

Nah, you can still tell they're sausage.

Excited about Friday night.

Oh, I can hardly wait.

Yeah, I've been thinking about it, too.

Honey, did you let me see the tickets?

See the tickets?

Why on earth would you want to see the tickets?

I don't know. I know it's silly.

But I just want to hold them in my hands.

You know.

It's bad luck to see a birthday present before your birthday.

Since when?

I'm Sicilian. I know about these things. Believe me, it'll be bad luck for both

of us.

Rachel, there's something I gotta tell you.

You're not gonna like it.

Looks like Jim Hollister might be connected with the attack on that little

I don't believe it.

We busted him on a DWI last night. Found a tape in his car with some child porn

on it.

Pretty ugly.

What did he say?

Claimed he bought it at a grocery store.

Had no idea what it was.

Well, that's possible.

Besides, it doesn't mean that he would rape a little girl.

Honey, Jim lives for children. He spends every minute with them.

Youth leagues and summer camps.

There's a point where that stops being noble and starts being weird.

Do you remember the Hayden's little girl?

Everybody thought that she was retarded.

Well, it was Jim who realized she was dyslexic. Is that weird?

Believe me, if you could have seen the expression on his face... You cannot

accuse him of something like this because of an expression on his face.

I've been reading people's faces for 20 years, Rach.

Well, you were reading this one wrong.

And if you're not careful...

You are going to destroy an innocent man.

Rachel.

The bread lines in Russia are a mile long.

They got 10 -year waiting lists for a TV set.

The Bolshoi had to stay home and entertain their own people for a little

instead of coming here and making trouble for me.

She suspects, Helen.

She knows me too well.

Let me see the tickets, Tony.

She's tilling with me.

Like a cobra with a rat.

Tony, I called every ticket agency in the state. I called the box office

directly three times. I checked the classifieds.

Corporations get season tickets to the ballet, to operas, to ball games, all

sorts of things.

Maybe you can scare up a couple that way.

All right, it's worth a try.

Hey, boss, you got a second?

I think I just collared the guy who knocked over Gino's.

Now, all four of these creeps have done time for gas station robberies, okay?

And they all had lousy alibis.

I'm going to interrogate them one by one until somebody cracks.

That could take a while.

Yeah, I get the rest of their lives.

Why don't you give them a dose of the old Brooklyn Interrogation?

It's Brooklyn Interrogation. Yeah.

Yeah.

What do I do?

Nothing. Just leave him there.

Don't let anyone out, don't let anyone in.

I'll be back in a while.

The icky smell was alcohol, like you figured.

And then there's Sheba.

Mrs. Duffy's cat.

Mrs. Duffy lives next door to the teacher of the year.

I knew there had to be a connection. You're a trained investigator.

Night of the attack, seeing Sheba didn't make it home for dinner.

Mrs. Duffy waited up late, you know, real worried.

Fortunately for her, Sheba finally wandered home sometime after midnight.

Unfortunately for Jim Hollister, Mrs. Duffy was still awake when he drove up a

few minutes later.

I guess he wasn't home grading papers after all.

But legally, we still got nothing because the whole thing was triggered by

tape. Ronnie never should have watched it.

Case will be thrown out of court in five minutes.

Well, if he hadn't watched it, we wouldn't even have a case.

It's gonna take a confession and a waiver of rights.

Any last -minute advice?

Yeah.

Don't screw it up with the guy walks.

Well, we narrowed it down to three, anyhow.

What do you mean?

Maddox is sleeping like a baby. The other guys... Maddox is the guy,

That's the whole point.

You bring a guy in, you charge him with something he didn't do, he's mad as hell

or worried or both.

Like these three guys, see?

The guy who did it, he's got nothing to lose.

He doesn't even have to worry anymore about getting caught.

So what's he do? He grabs a little sleep.

I get it. Yeah.

Brooklyn interrogation never fails.

That's the guy.

Now get out there and prove it.

Can I come in for a second?

Thanks for trying to help us out the other day.

I appreciate it.

I thought I'd drop by and bring you up to date.

Fun.

What a brave kid.

Traumatized as she was, it's incredible the details she remembers.

Smells, what the car seats felt like.

It's only a matter of time before we got this guy cold.

Tony, I'm right in the middle of preparing a lesson plan and... I think

help.

And I think you know it.

I have no idea what you're talking about.

Some people think child molesting is the lowest crime there is.

Worse than murder.

They'll throw the book at you.

No parole.

No time off, no mercy.

I really am very busy.

That's the easy part.

You know what happens to pedophiles in jail?

Do you have any idea what they'll do to you every day of your life?

I think you should leave.

Jim, I understand the torment you must be going through.

I know you've done some good along the way.

I've seen you win awards.

I've seen people cheering for you.

The judge, the jury, they haven't seen that.

They won't understand.

You turn yourself in now, maybe I can help. Otherwise, I can't.

Get out.

It's got to be exhausting, living this lie day after day.

We team up on this thing.

We can beat it.

Alone, you got no chance.

Jim, I know you didn't want to do what you did.

Something inside, something you couldn't help, made you do it, like a disease.

If you want help before it's too late, now's the time. If I walk out that door,

you're on your own forever.

Wait.

Girl.

She be all right?

She... Recover it.

She's getting all the help we can give to her.

I'm so sorry.

I'm so sorry.

I never thought I'd give in.

I've had thoughts and dreams.

All my life.

Thoughts.

Lately, when I drink, I see him.

See who?

My father.

When I

was six.

He told me if I loved him, I wouldn't tell.

Then he'd bring his friends into the house and give them money.

He was my father.

He was my own father.

I hate my father.

I felt sorry for him, but then when I thought of what he did to the girl, I

wanted to tear him limb from limb. He signed a waiver.

A good lawyer could still make a fight of it.

But two things are going to happen first.

One, Hollister's got to ask for a lawyer, and last night he showed no

in that. Two, the lawyer's got to be pretty sharp. There's only one in the

office I'd be worried about, and that's Brenda Peterson.

Tony, the PD's office just called. Brenda Peterson wants a meeting with

Your conduct in this case has been shocking. I'm appalled at your callous

disregard for my client's constitutional rights.

In other words, nice try, Commissioner. Close, but no cigar.

Mr. Hollister signed a waiver, Brenda.

He signed it under duress.

That's crap. He wasn't even in custody at the time.

You were way out of line going to his house in the first place.

Do you have any idea what that little girl looked like when we found her?

I'll send you the photos. You can hang them next to your diploma.

I resent that.

Good.

The point is that everything traces back to the tape.

Without that, you'd never have suspected Mr. Hollister at all.

Therefore, his so -called confession is inadmissible in court, and you have no

case. Period.

Is that what you want?

Is it?

What about last night?

I'm so sorry. Help me.

I didn't know what I was saying.

Jim, pay the price for what you did. Get help.

Look at me.

Look at me!

Oh, and one more thing.

If, knowing that you have no case, you file charges anyway, or if you let one

hint of this slip into the media...

Mr. Hollister will sue both of you personally, not to mention the city of

Eastbridge, for $10 million.

Is that clear?

Good day, gentlemen.

File charges anyhow.

At least the truth will get out.

Let them sue us. Who cares?

The city council, for one. I doubt if a $10 million lawsuit is in their budget.

Dammit, this is not about money. You know what these cases are like, Tony.

He's the Sir Galahad of the school district. Half the people wouldn't

even if we could prove it in court. And since we can't, forget it. We either get

him by the rules or we don't get him.

You heard what I said.

We either get him by the rules or we don't get him.

I'm sick and tired of hearing about how dirtbags like this have rights.

You gotta remember, this guy is only human. Why do we gotta remember that?

Because that's the only way we're gonna catch ya!

Guys like Hollister, they act under compulsion.

What the shrinks call an irresistible urge. And when they're under stress,

urge gets even stronger.

What kind of stress do you think Hollister's under?

Lots. Yeah.

To use the technical term, lots.

Which means that sometime soon he's going to try to make another snatch.

And knowing this, they turn him loose.

Sure.

Because he's got his rights. Just like we got our rights.

We got the right to put him under 24 -hour surveillance.

And we got the right to watch him so close that if he buys pizza, we're

the anchovies.

And if he tries to make another snatch...

we got the right to bust them and put them away for as long as the law will

allow. Now you get out there and start exercising our rights.

He poked at her.

Any sign that Hollis is starting to cruise, I want to know.

Give this priority on tack three.

They bought it, thanks.

How's it going?

Hi, boss.

Brooklyn interrogation? It was right on the nose.

He's the guy. I know it. He paid some hooker to say he was with her, but I

they're lying.

What about the hat?

I checked all the stores. There's no way to trace it. I mean, it's been out of

fashion longer than leisure suits.

You sure to him yet?

I just figured, you know, he'd say he's never seen it before.

Get him back here about noon tomorrow.

Sure, okay. Bring the hat.

We'll need one more thing, and I'll bring that.

What's that?

Me.

Well?

Well, I called Red for an aviation. I called Kensatron.

I called GM and Industries.

No tickets.

Oh, now I know what it's like to be on death row, waiting for the reprieve that

never comes.

On the other hand, I just got off the phone with a guy from Consolidated

Seems the company bought a block of front row seats for Friday night.

And there might be a couple of them available to the right buyer.

I love you, Helen.

Drive a hard bargain, but don't blow it. I gotta have those tickets.

He wants to meet with you personally.

What? Tomorrow, 2 o 'clock, Ranger Park, by the fountain. Why? I don't have time

for that. Can't he just do it over the phone?

Well, Tony, you can't get an arm and a leg over the phone, and that's probably

what he wants for the tickets.

Well, if I can still face Rachel, it'll be worth it.

Confirm for 2 o 'clock.

It's like by not realizing what he was, I feel somehow responsible for it.

No way he could have known, Rachel.

No way anyone could.

Honey, that's what's so scary.

That evil can hide in such unlikely places.

Fantastic teacher, friendly face.

I keep asking myself, how can we hope to protect David?

We can't.

Not totally.

Remember Ben Hawkins?

The treasury agent?

Easier to slip a sunrise past the rooster than a bad bill past Ben

Zero's a millimeter too high.

It's a little too much hair in Andy Jackson's left eyebrow.

Never missed a thing.

One time I asked him, how do you do it? How do you remember all these little

details?

He said, simple.

I just know the real thing so good.

When a fake turns up, I see it right away.

I figure it.

You, me, David.

We're the real thing.

A family full of love.

David gets enough of the real thing.

Maybe when a fake turns up, he'll see it.

And he'll steer clear.

Yeah. We left the house an hour ago. Ronnie spotted him.

I've got a feeling we're going to get him today.

X -ray 1.

Subject turning right on Cypress.

Roger, X -ray 1. This is X -ray 10 accepting handoff.

Hi, honey.

Your mom sent me to pick you up.

Sex rate 10. You made a grab on the corner of Cypress and Millbrae.

Sex rate 1.

Follow subject to two blocks to establish abduction, then close.

Do not take chances with the girl. Repeat.

Take note 10.

Roger. Subject turning south on Millbrae. X -ray 5, can you take the

This is X -ray 5 accepting handoff.

Negative, negative. X -ray 5 will not start. I need backup here. Force quit.

This is X -ray 10. I'm trying to pick him up.

X -ray 10, back on Millbrae. Heading south.

Where's the highway cut through around here?

Two blocks over on Belmont. Step on it. We found Mary Bassman near an overpass.

Sex ray one.

Heading for Belmont overpass.

That's it, Hollister. It's over.

Got the hat?

I'll need one more thing.

Box of tissues.

Box of tissues?

Yeah, white things you blow your nose with. Yeah, I know. Just get me a box.

Excuse me.

Worst cold I ever had in my life.

You must be Mr. Maddox.

You.

Please, sit down.

I'm Officer Scali.

I'll be assisting Officer Kelly.

Yeah, well, I'll be assisting myself out the door in about five minutes, so make

it quick.

Reason we... Reason we... Reason

we called you back here, Mr. Maddox.

And by the way, we really appreciate you cooperating like this.

We want to make sure you were treated fairly by Officer Kelly in our recent

investigation. What?

It's part of our new community relations program.

We care what you think.

You're kidding me, right?

Look at me.

I ought to be home in bed.

I'm dead serious.

Otherwise, I wouldn't even be here.

Yeah, well, it so happens I wasn't treated fairly by Officer Kelly there.

He got in my face.

He called me names.

I was intimidated.

I'm distressed to hear that.

Yeah,

well, that ain't all.

Hey, that's my hat.

Gotcha.

You left it at Geno's.

Oh, man.

That's the dumbest thud I ever saw in my life.

And I fell for it.

Community relations program.

Look at me, I'm laughing.

I'm going to jail and I'm laughing.

How's Susie doing?

As well as can be expected.

I want to tell you how grateful we are that you were there to save her. You're

very welcome.

I promise you we'll make the trial as easy on her as possible.

There's not going to be any trial, Mr. Scali.

That's what we came to tell you.

We're not going to press charges.

What?

Susie has an unusually delicate personality.

I don't want to risk traumatizing her by having her testify.

I spoke to the psychologist this morning. He didn't say there was any

that. I'm her mother, and I'm saying it.

Do you know what could have happened to her?

Of course I do.

But she doesn't. All she knows is a man drove her around, and then the police

came and brought her home. And that's all she's ever going to know. If we

end this here, he'll do it again.

He already raped a little girl no older than Susie. Then let her testify.

She can't because of a legal technicality. But she was willing, and

mother. The point is to convict her. The point is, Mr. Scali.

Her mother has to raise her daughter, and I have to raise mine.

Bye.

Thanks again.

I don't believe this.

I don't know how this guy can keep flipping through my fingers.

Look, at least it made the papers this time.

Even teacher of the year can't argue against six undercover cops.

The paper connects him to the Batman case, too, so there's no way he can sue

after yesterday.

He'll never teach again, not here, not anywhere else.

He'll probably have to leave town.

Let's just pass him the problem on to another jurisdiction.

If I'm with him time,

he'll grab another kid.

Tony, you did everything you could.

Wasn't enough.

Hey, they're very good. I eat here often.

You got the tickets?

Mm -hmm.

What's the damage?

Nothing. Not a red cent.

Tell you the truth, it kind of tickled me, you know, that the cop was so hot

the ballet.

The company had a couple of extra tickets, so... Well, it's more for my

but listen.

That's terrific.

There is just one thing.

My brother -in -law, you know, he got himself into a little trouble.

He's being sentenced next week.

I mean, you know, it's not like he's dangerous or anything. He just got

into a little jam and passed a couple of bad checks is all. Now, if you could

put in a good word with the judge.

I can't do that.

Front seats, center section.

He's not a bad guy, you know, and this would mean a lot to me.

Just tell me what you want for the tickets, okay?

I already told you.

Bribing an officer is a crime.

I could bust you right now.

Hey, what are we, a couple of Boy Scouts?

I've been around, pal.

So have you. Now, come on.

I'll give you 100 bucks for them apiece.

I don't believe this.

All I want is a little help from my brother -in -law.

150. That's 300 bucks for two lousy tickets.

Forget it. You can stay home and watch reruns of Lawrence Welk, you dumb,

flatfoot. 200 bucks, that's as high as I go.

210!

Tony?

Tony, do you read me?

I read you, Helen.

Tony, Mrs. Bathman called.

She's talking about revenge.

It sounded terrible.

She must have seen the paper.

Tell her to get a unit over to her place.

Okay, and you'll meet him there?

No, I'm going to go somewhere else just in case.

Wait.

Wait.

Don't let her shoot.

Please don't.

Is that what my daughter said to you that night?

Mrs. Bassman?

First you let him go, now you try to protect him.

It's not right.

He can't do what he did to my little girl and go free.

Okay.

Go ahead.

Shoot.

But first, you've got to help me understand something.

I'm trying to get a picture of what's going to happen afterwards.

He's dead on the floor. I can see that.

Then you go to jail. I can see that, too.

Only thing I can't see is... Where's Mary?

What's gonna happen to her?

At least she'll know I did something.

Yeah.

She'll know you deserted her. Shut up.

She lost her father.

Then she lost the trust in people. Now she's going to lose her mother.

I said shut up. I didn't come here to protect him.

I came here to protect Mary.

Because you're all she's got.

And you've got to decide whether you love her more than you hate him.

someday your luck's gonna run out.

They're gonna catch you, and then they're gonna send you away.

And when that day comes, you're gonna wish she aimed at you.

That little girl still has her mother.

And that really matters.

Maybe after today, Jim will be shocked into getting some help.

I hope so.

I just wish I could be sure that he won't hurt anyone else.

Honey, you know, we really don't have to go tonight.

I doubt that you're in the mood.

I'm not really sure that I am either, to tell you the truth.

You? Not in the mood for the Bolshoi?

Oh, we're together, and that's what counts.

You know...

You know, maybe you could get your money back if you send a messenger down right

away.

Yeah, maybe.

Rach, I can't lie to you.

There aren't any tickets.

I forgot to get them when I should have.

I tried to get them all week, but I couldn't.

Oh, Tony, they are in your wallet.

They're not, honey.

You're gonna skin me alive, but they're not.

Tony, just shut up and go and look in your wallet.

I put them there this morning.

How'd you get them?

It was very easy.

I just ordered them two months ago like you should have done.

I mean, did you really think you could get tickets to the Bolshoi the same week

of the performance?

You're right.

I'm wrong.

I'll never do it again.

I'm lower than a snake's belly.

Forgive me?

On one condition.

Anything.

No beepers, no guns, no mugging, no car thieves, no waiters wanted in poor

states.

Just you and me and a night on the town.

You got it.

You slip into that blue velvet and we get out of here pronto.