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No problem.

You had a bad switch, Tony, but you're working beautiful now, man. And I only

asked 35.

The guy where I bought it said it wasn't worth fixing.

That's because he's in the business of selling.

Hey, this country is the best, but there's just too much throwing away what

still can function.

No like back home, huh?

Man, we have no choice back on the island.

After we drive the motor car into the ground... We cut it up and make two

motorbike and a living room couch.

Hey, isn't Grace just about ready to have the baby?

Any day.

That baby grow any bigger, I'm going to jump right out of the womb and go

straight to college.

You already know it's a boy.

Isaac Caldwell Jr., his name come from me.

And if his disposition come from Grace, man, he'll have the best of everything.

As soon as I found she was carrying the child.

That boy is going to have the best birthday gift.

He'll be a citizen of this country.

We have to start him off proper.

That's great, Isaac.

Grace don't know about it yet.

I'm waiting until the baby come.

Thanks. I'll get this.

No, I can handle it. No problem, man.

Thank you.

Yeah, I want to know when Isaac Jr. arrives. I'll tell you first thing.

Okay, I'll see you.

Okay.

What's wrong with you?

You're a long -winded fellow, Isaac.

That you'll never be rid of that customer.

Abraham, take her home.

I'll wait for you. Go with him, girl.

You'll be home shortly.

Isaac, people around here, man, they look up to you.

They follow your example.

But you're not fulfilling your obligations, man.

Nigel, you're bleeding me dry.

Isaac.

Don't be getting so dramatic.

Plenty of juice pumping through your veins.

Pay the money.

Business is done, man.

And we're about to have a baby.

But that's all the more reason to make sure nothing happens to you, man.

I've been paying.

A hundred dollars a week for three years is enough.

I say we need enough.

I think

it

hurts.

My brother got one last year.

He was fine once infection cleared up.

He did it himself in the garage.

But you can forget, though, David.

I mean, your parents, they'll never let you. I can handle them.

It's my ear, isn't it?

We don't live in a dictatorship.

Since when?

I don't know. As far as I'm concerned, no girl's worth that kind of

Not even Carol Bennett?

Total babe, Carol Bennett.

That's right, sports fans.

David, she doesn't even know you're alive.

David!

Hi, Carol.

So you're going to get the earring?

I think you look so incredibly hot.

Thanks.

Show me as soon as you get it done, okay?

Absolutely.

See ya.

Man, you're in.

This is fantastic, David.

She wants you.

I guess she does.

Do you realize how many guys would kill to be in your shoes?

You have to get this earring now, you know.

You owe it to the rest of us, David.

I guess I do.

Goddess.

What are you doing here?

One of my guys had his gallbladder out, and I saw your name on the admitting

list. Well, I picked some crazy time to fall off the ladder.

My inside's bleeding a little, but no problem.

Pretty soon, huh?

A week late.

Can't come too soon.

Hey, Tony, they say I have to rest, so thanks for stopping by, all right?

Uh, look, I got to paint the trim around my bedroom window. You mind if I borrow

that ladder? You don't want it. Then I got to rent the ladder. Well, it's all

messed up, man. A bunch of wrongs missing. According to the paramedics,

whole ladder's missing.

I got friends in high places.

Now, who was using you as a soccer ball?

Come on, you guys are obviously in trouble. I want to help.

Accident prone.

That's all there is to it, all right?

Contangling. Hey, you got your gum shoes on?

Never take them off.

I'll poke around Powell Street, see if anyone knows who beat up Isaac Caldwell.

Paulie?

Powell Street?

Folks over there like to stay mum.

I know.

Muster up all the charm you can.

No easy task.

So what are you, heading home?

Yeah, I got my VCR fixed. I'm going to go watch Casablanca. They're making

movies in color now. Times are changing.

But times are changing.

And this helps.

Time is standing still, and you are not getting an earring. It's my ear.

Until you get married, half of it is mine.

Dad. David, I just said no. I know exactly how you feel.

What do you mean? Rachel, can you give us a second?

Fine.

She just doesn't get it.

I'll talk to her.

Would you?

I want to get the earring tomorrow.

So I don't lose momentum with Carol.

I understand.

I had a Carol Bennett of my own when I was your age. I was nuts about her. So

were all the other guys. I'd have done anything for her. Right. I'm in the

same... So I dyed my hair green.

It was the 60s.

She came into school one day with green hair. Kelly Green.

I thought to myself, that's the girl for me.

So I dyed mine to match.

That's so cool.

It was absolutely pointless, David.

Not only did she have no interest in me whatsoever... What, do you say my ear's

gonna fall off?

No, I'm saying what if it doesn't work out with Carol? What if the next girl

hates hearing?

What then?

I have a hole in my ear?

Well, it'll grow back, won't it?

You know, you're right.

Maybe I am sort of rushing into things.

So you don't want me to talk to your mother?

Nah. Thanks anyways.

Artfully done.

Wouldn't have worked if you didn't set it up.

What?

I was just thinking.

We must have looked like idiots with that green hair.

Nigel Rowland, the Prince of Powell Street.

How come we never heard of him before?

Because we're cops.

And we're white.

And what people around here won't say, Nigel's turned his neighborhood into his

own piggy bank.

A little shakedown.

Maybe Isaac didn't want to pay.

Oh, I get the feeling everybody pays. Maybe Isaac wanted to stop.

Beats coupons, huh?

You eat more than three people put together, and you never gain a pound.

you get, a tapeworm?

I call him Guido.

I gotta believe Nigel's our guy. But if Isaac won't come forward... I'll have to

change his mind.

My best to Guido.

Scene one in pursuit of a white Lincoln and blue Mustang at North on Dexter.

He's on third. I'm at Lincoln.

Lincoln's going west on third.

Pull over to the right.

Pull over and stop.

Suspect vehicle stopped at 5th and Van Alden.

Put your hands out of the window where I can see them.

Isaac? I'm sorry, Tony, we just... Who was chasing you, Nigel?

Running's not going to solve the problem.

We can't jeopardize the baby.

Help us put Nigel away. You'll be making things better for the baby and everyone

else. You can't let him get away with what he's done.

We're going down to the precinct to get a swear and a complaint.

Can't do it, man.

Don't be afraid. I'm here to protect you from Nigel.

It's not just Nigel. What is it, then?

Grace and me, we come here without papers.

We're not supposed to be in the country.

Isaac. We go down to the precinct, immigration final. They put us on the

and they send us back.

And the child won't be born here.

Let the child have his future, Tony. I'm begging you, man, for the future of my

child.

But when I see the children begging for scraps, no chance to grow up healthy, no

chance to learn.

For my own child, I want better.

That's why we all came.

In this country, a man work hard, he can beat somebody.

Maybe a big shot, maybe not, but he can be a man.

That's all I want.

And that's all I want for my son, that him have a chance to be a man.

It's nothing but misery on that island, Tony. Don't send us back, man.

What else the man gonna do?

I can't let you just walk away, Isaac.

But there's a guy I know in immigration. I can talk to him. Maybe there's a way

you can legally stay in the country.

Maybe if you come forward about Nigel, maybe... Nigel a wicked man.

We better off back home than messing with him. In a shack with a tin roof?

Better than a coffin.

Look. Nigel was shaking you down, wasn't he? And when you start paying, he beat

you up.

What else can you tell me about him?

There was a fire about a month back. Isaac, this is crazy. Winston Gumm, the

shoemaker, he died in that fire.

I remember.

Nigel had something to do with it?

How do you know?

Everybody know.

Any witnesses?

Nobody see, but everybody know.

Well, did you know Winston well? Did he say something to you that we could use?

Sometime we bring him shoes for fixing.

Ain't seen a man for a long time before the fire.

You're not much help.

Well, at least we can charge him with assaulting you. Maybe if you're willing

testify, maybe the other victims will too.

We'll get you and Grace to a safe place. Round the clock protection.

Isaac! You said you wanted your son to be an American citizen.

How bad do you want that?

I testify.

We can't stay in this country.

I'll do my damnedest.

Yeah, man.

Isaac's some long -winded.

He's gonna be a sorry fella.

It's just a hypothetical question, Jack.

Hypothetical is, how many angels on a pin?

What do you want to know?

Let's say an illegal immigrant witnessed a crime or was victimized.

Would you legalize him if he testified?

What's the crime?

Hypothetically, assault.

We usually don't cut deals for minor offenses.

Where is he? What's his name?

Hypothetically, he's a really terrific guy who we should be happy to have in

this country.

He's a hard worker. He's devoted a lot of his time to keeping neighborhood kids

out of trouble. You want to have him say to call the Pope?

What's his name?

Where is he?

He may be able to help us find the murderer.

I'm not sure that he can, but... When you are.

Call me.

Thanks.

You can't hide this guy forever, Tony.

You swore an oath to uphold the law.

It's a good thing this is all hypothetical.

There's no way around it. We have to get Nigel for murder.

You said that everyone knows that he killed Winston Gump.

Yeah, that's right. Well, if everyone knows it, then someone must have seen

You can find out who they are.

They'll talk to you.

I can't ask them to risk everything for me. Protect them, just like we're doing

with you. I've got an officer here around the clock.

I don't even know if they'll be willing.

Well, you have to try.

Otherwise... You go turn us in.

Look, you have to understand.

This isn't something I want to do, but it's the law. I don't have a choice.

You do.

When am I going to have to think about this hard?

I understand.

Nom, nom. You have some more nom, nom. That's good for you.

Pass the salad. Pass the rope.

Right.

What is it?

Ah, look at all the stuff we got.

I think of people like Isaac and Grace and all they went through to get here.

You know what I mean?

Yeah. My great -grandfather crossed most of Russia and all of Europe on foot

just to get to a port.

Took him six months.

Wow.

Elbowed.

Right.

Let me get right down to it.

I guess my grandmother was an illegal immigrant.

She had some sort of eye disease, and they wouldn't let her in at Ellis

Circuit's not gonna gavel.

Hey, you want another roll?

Sure.

Hey, what'd you do that for?

What'd you do that for?

Well, you guys didn't exactly say I couldn't.

I thought you two came to a meeting of the minds.

But I'm going to the game tonight and she's gonna be there.

I just want her to like me.

She would like you because you are a wonderful person.

Wonderful. And we did sort of agree.

If you want me to take it out, I will.

Look, if you really think it would make that much of a difference... Thanks.

Well, gotta go.

Lord, she's having the baby. It's okay, Mr. Caldwell. Call an ambulance.

No time, Isaac.

He's coming.

Look, I know what to do. Well, then do it.

Okay, okay.

Just try to relax.

All right.

I'll prop you up, okay?

All right. You'll be just fine.

Call 911.

Get a doctor here now.

If he can't make it here right away, I can handle this. Just go.

All right, then I'll go to the front and I'll get more tolls. Great, yeah.

You'll be fine.

It's going to be great.

So you just let him walk out of here?

He was just trying to help me.

People that help them always find trouble.

Where is he, Grace?

He went to find Nigel.

What? I beg him not to. He made me trick the policeman.

Why? What's he trying to do?

He tell you himself.

An acting there.

The police scanner.

He'll be on the air pretty soon now.

I'll rig up the transmitter.

We'll have a little chat with Nigel.

This is Pantangeli. We've got a private citizen broadcasting on 162 .75.

I need a fix on his point of origin, now.

He'll be coming along soon.

Maybe say some things he shouldn't.

About killing Winston in that fire.

Nigel being chill.

We get to stay in America.

I didn't have to risk nobody.

Yeah. Yeah.

Okay, great. Thanks.

You got the water?

This is C1.

All units in post six respond to a possible 10 -34 at the waterfront.

You want to see me, man?

Here I am.

Thanks for coming.

Anything for a friend, man.

Know what you're needing from me?

I want to apologize for paying up like you demanded.

I ain't demanding nothing.

Look, I don't want to die like Winston.

What you got to do with anything, man?

Winston burned up in a fire.

You know what I'm talking about, Nigel.

No, I don't think I do, man.

Everybody know I don't pay to mess with you, all right?

Man, how is that?

I've been listening to too much gossip.

And everyone know that me and Winston was friends.

Bring flowers to his funeral.

Ask his woman.

Is that why you come here?

Think I killed Winston?

You want revenge, maybe?

Hey!

Isaac!

What you doing, man?

Put that gun away!

You're scaring me!

Don't shoot!

You shot Isaac in cold blood. You're crazy.

All I know is the man waving a gun in my face. He doesn't have a gun. Then what

was that in the man's hand? A snow cone.

That was yours. You planted it on him. You knew he was wearing a wire. I don't

know how you knew, but you knew.

It was self -defense.

You heard it with your own ears.

Tony, come on. We've got nothing.

You're brutalizing an innocent man.

This is my favorite shirt, man.

Go ahead and mash it up.

and everything you can find on Nigel Rawlins, here and on the island. I don't

care if it was three -card Monty games he was scamming on the tourists.

I want to know.

You want a search of Isaac's place?

I tried to tell him, don't play with Nigel.

But Isaac never listened.

He said, we got to let him hear it from Nigel's own lips.

That's the only way they're going to believe us.

Then he looked at me and smiled.

He told me, everything's going to be all right for the baby.

He told me, someday we're going to visit that child in the White House.

blue sky.

What's the best thing about him? He think this country gonna be some

where the child gonna grow up.

Grace.

What difference it make where he grow up now?

He grow up with no father.

I had nothing to say to her.

I wanted to just, I don't know, hold her.

You know, tell her everything is all right.

I'd have felt like a jerk.

What's she going to do?

What can't she do? She's got to go back.

Jack can't help you?

She's here illegally. His hands are tied.

Hi.

The airing's now.

For 14 years, I was the woman in his life.

And what I said mattered.

And he gets a girlfriend.

In five minutes, she's got him jumping through hoops.

And wearing them.

Is it too late for us to get our money back?

I think it makes me look older.

Oh, yeah, by at least three months.

Did Carol like it?

She said I looked hot.

Hot is good, right?

Well, it's maximum.

That's good, too.

So, you guys like an item now?

Almost.

What's the catch?

Well, she said I looked hot with an earring.

But she said I'd look mega hot with a tattoo.

No. Well, just a little starburst on my... No.

No way, no how, no tattoo.

Dad, come on.

We don't live in a dictatorship.

Since when?

What do you got so far?

Receipts are in the cash drawer. They don't look like much, but we're still

going through stuff.

And I've been on the horn to the island about Rollins.

You want to talk about bureaucracy?

These guys are a mess now. This claim check is from Winston's store the day it

was burned down.

So?

You saw Winston the day he died.

It's not so.

This has your name on it. You said you hadn't seen him for a long time.

I make a mistake.

It was no mistake.

I'm going away from all this trouble.

I got a cousin in Philadelphia.

I can't let you go.

I ain't no nothing.

I'll protect you.

You see what happened to Isaac? The same fed waiting for me and the child.

You have a life here that you and Isaac worked so hard for. Don't let that go

now. Don't let go of the dream that he had for you and your son.

I thought I'd end him and burn Winston's door.

After they beat him.

I would have said so before, but Isaac, he wouldn't let me.

Did anyone else see it?

No. Girl, don't lie.

I was with her walking home. We saw everything.

Abraham.

We got to do what's right.

Tell the man all.

I'll personally see to it that you're both protected.

I'll get you legal status from the INS.

She's going to testify.

Come on in.

She'll give detailed testimony, and I have a corroborating witness.

Are they credible?

I've known Grace for five years.

You didn't answer the question.

Yes, they're credible.

These people came to this country like your grandparents and mine.

Don't beat that drum, Tony.

He never took a dime from anyone.

Welfare, unemployment.

They're the kind of people that make a community a better place.

Do I hear a John Philip Sousa march coming on? It's the way I feel.

Maybe I do, too, except for one thing.

Our grandparents came through the door legally.

I have as much respect for the law as you do.

And I'm not saying that we shouldn't have control over who comes in and who

doesn't. But these people... These people. I got a stack of files taller

you of these people.

They come from every corner of the world, and every one of them has a story

that'll break your heart.

But they can't all day.

But if Grace Caldwell testifies, she can, right?

If... The testimony's substantial and truthful.

Deal.

Okay, Mr. Sousa.

Great.

After the fire erupted, I seen Nigel and others

run away.

Were you alone at that time?

Abraham Wilkerson was with me.

But Nigel and his men, they never see us.

You're in this country illegally, aren't you?

Yes, but... And you were promised legal status if you came forward to testify.

Yes, but I'm telling the truth.

All of us here to tell the truth.

If telling the truth is so important, why did it take you so long to do it?

I was afraid.

He an evil man.

He killed my husband.

Move that that be stricken from the record. That's an unfounded allegation.

Strike it. The fact of the matter is that your husband tried to kill Nigel

Rawlins. That's not so.

We have it on tape. No.

Mr. Rawlins was defending himself against a premeditated attack. What you

Mrs. Caldwell.

The only reason you're here today is so you can get revenge.

What I want.

I want you just dead.

No further questions.

You may step down.

At this time, the state calls Abraham Wilkerson to the stand.

Do you promise to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?

can't believe anything you're going to say.

Mr. Wilkerson, do you remember where you were the night Winston Gunn's door

burned down?

I do.

Would you tell us?

Abraham's niece from back home.

Mr. Wilkerson?

I was home.

All alone.

You signed a statement under oath saying you were with Mrs. Caldwell when you

saw Nigel Rawls set the fire at the store.

I signed the paper so the policemen stopped vexing me.

Your Honor, this man is being intimidated.

His niece is there.

Once one of the defendants thought... What, Doug?

He's my cousin, Ronnie.

You've sworn to tell the truth.

If you or your niece need protection, the state will provide it.

Now, where were you on the night in question?

I was home, all alone.

Your Honor, I have affidavits from a Mr.

and Mrs. Terrence Cooper who are present today and who are prepared to testify

that they were with Mrs. Caldwell at a movie theater in Morgan Heights,

precisely at the time of the fire in Mr. Gumm's shoe store. She could not

possibly have been a witness to it.

Mrs. Caldwell, it appears you've been less than truthful with the court.

I'm telling the truth, I swear to God.

Your Honor, all of these witnesses are being coerced.

I can see no evidence of that.

Does the prosecution have any witnesses who can support Mrs. Caldwell's story?

No, Your Honor.

Then as far as I can determine, there are no grounds in which to bind Mr.

Rollins over for trial.

Case dismissed.

Great I

You're

going to send her back The deal I made with immigration was based on her

truthful testimony

She looks like a liar now. If Nigel be making the threat on me, telling the

truth would be no problem.

There'd be nothing left for me to live for.

But my niece, Nigel, kill her if I talk against him.

You know it's the truth.

What could I do?

I know what you should have done.

You should have ignored me and run off to Philadelphia.

At least your son would have been born here in the States.

I just kept picturing Isaac's face when he talked about the baby and how he

wanted to give him a life here.

I just... Isaac always said you're possessing a good heart.

I thought that was just his way.

I believe it now.

Jack Murphy's going to be here any minute.

I told him you weren't lying, but they're issuing the deportation order

We're doing everything we can to get Nigel.

But time running out.

And there's nothing left to be done.

Not unless you're having contractions.

Back home, we got a woman can make the babies come.

If she was here.

We have ways of inducing labor here, too.

If you're willing.

That's right. Let the pain go.

Breathe.

Brenda, call Dr. Friedman.

Let's get Mrs. Caldwell in to delivery room one.

Grace, the baby's coming.

It's okay.

Breathe.

What's going on here?

Hello, Jack.

I got Grace Colo's deportation order. The woman's got to get on a plane.

The woman's in labor.

Didn't she pull the same stunt to bring her husband out of that hotel? Tony,

they're taking her in. She's going to have the baby.

What? You did it, didn't you?

You had labor induced?

You gave her a shot of whatever it is that Jack asked me.

It's the stress of what happened in court that triggered it.

Stress can do that.

Let me know when the baby comes.

Tony, get this.

I'm going over records with the cops back on the island.

According to them, Nigel Rollins has been buried in St. John's Cemetery for

last six years.

He's dead?

I hope so.

So our Nigel Rollins is really someone else?

Yeah, problem is who?

He's carrying false papers. There's no way to get a positive ID.

Is this a private thing, Tank, or can anyone jump in? You know, I was very

to Nigel the other night.

What? I spoke harshly, I pushed him against the car, and in so doing,

the city to a potential lawsuit.

You're upset about Isaac.

No excuses.

I acted unprofessionally.

I lost control of my emotions, and I hope that you'll accept my very sincere

apology. Oh, don't demand thumbs.

If you'll just sign this.

It says you weren't injured when I so wrongly and roughly pushed you against

car. And that you waive your rights to sue the department.

On this takeaway, the most fundamental right in the country.

We must be doing brainage.

By when the police gonna learn their lesson about brutalizing innocent

I have learned, Mr. Rollins, believe me.

Please, I could lose my job.

Man, I don't care about your job.

I'm going to call the liar and tell him to bring the lawsuit against you right

away. Because I've been in pain ever since you threw me up against that car.

Ain't that right?

This lawsuit is going to make me a wealthy man.

What's that?

It's an acknowledgment of your refusal to find the waiver to sue.

required to present it to you, but we don't find it. Why not?

Man, without this, I can't bring the lot.

Please, don't sign it.

I got a family. My whole career's on the line. Man, give me the pen.

What you waiting for?

Maybe they keep you on at the precinct, huh? You know, maybe picking up rubbish.

Oh,

Tony,

you should see the baby.

Grace had him already?

Yeah, she pushed three times and he was out.

Oh, he's so beautiful.

How's she doing?

She's exhausted.

She's really worried about what's gonna happen.

Well, until we get something on Nigel, I gotta keep Murphy from finding out

about... She had the baby.

I've got a man at the hospital.

Grace will be deported as soon as she's well enough to travel.

Rachel, I'll call you back.

See you later.

Yeah.

Look, you can't deport her now.

Tony, she perjured herself.

But the child's an American citizen. You expect her to leave him here?

She can take him with her if she wants.

Or she can have a guardian appointed and come visit him. Come on, Jack. Put

yourself in her place.

You're going to be ruining two lives here. I don't know about you, but I'm

to have a hell of a hard time sleeping with that.

There's nothing else I can do, Tony.

I wish there was.

I know something you don't know. Boom. We got the idea on Nigel. The gendarmes

down on the island match his fingerprints from your pen.

Named Dennis Morgan. And he's been wanted for the last six years for

real Nigel Rawlins.

Let's go.

I want every available unit chasing down Nigel.

He's not going anywhere.

Okay,

now.

whatever you're saying. No need to be hurting anybody.

Please. Oh, don't demand so sweet.

Thank you.

You'll be making a case against Nigel?

Yeah.

Then my niece be safe.

Grace still needs your help, though.

You'll testify that she was telling the truth?

It don't be too late, eh?

I think it's just what the doctor ordered.

He's so adorable.

He really is.

I know Isaac would be very proud.

Nigel's being extradited back to the island.

He's going to stand trial for murder.

They tell me it's a sure conviction. He's going to spend the rest of his life

prison.

What about the rest of our lives?

That's up to you, Grace.

But your son's an American.

You made Isaac's dream come true.

They're going to send me back?

Abraham's talking to the judge. Once they straighten that out, immigration

give you legal status.

You and the baby can stay.

Thank you is not enough.

Isaac Caldwell, Junior.

Your father wanted you to have this.

He loved you very much.