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It's time, Mackenzie.

It's too late for the news.

CNN doesn't even have local news.

Of course you can read in the paper in the morning.

And it's anticipated that the bill will reach the floor of the House before the

end of the month.

In Pennsylvania tonight, Webster McKenzie was executed by lethal

small group of protesters marched in vain outside the state prison.

McKenzie was convicted of the serial killings of eight women over the last

several years.

Ironically, he was arrested in Eastbridge, New York, when the town's

commissioner responded to the description sent out on McKenzie by the

Behavioral Science Unit.

I was really hoping tonight we'd keep your mind off this.

It's okay.

I'm sure they have plenty of witnesses.

Yeah. And there's just absolutely no reason why you had to be one of them.

Other than they asked me.

Yeah, but we had those opera tickets for months, right?

Yeah, and if I'd wanted to do it, I would have had second thoughts about

no, but I didn't. So I felt guilty for turning them down.

Does that make any sense at all?

Perfectly. Get some sleep.

The alarm clock's going off before we know it.

Look.

Hey, Jimmy.

What?

Anything going on? Not much. The DA was looking for you. I need the files on the

Simmons case updated in his office ASAP. Oh, that was Paulie's case. Tell him

what they need.

Uh, he's not available.

What's not available?

He's being tested.

Tested?

It looks like two people on a dance floor.

Are they enjoying themselves?

Sure. Who doesn't like to dance?

Is that the right answer?

There was no right or wrong, Mr. Pentangeli.

Only whatever you see.

But if there's no right or wrong, then how do I know whether I pass?

Excuse me, but I'm doing an evaluation here. Yeah, I can see that, but I have

kind of an emergency right now, and I need Paulie right away. And who might

be? It's Commissioner Scali. He's the boss.

And you are?

Dr. Helen Mallory.

Well, Doctor, I'm really sorry I interrupted.

I'll be finished with Mr.

Pentangeli in half an hour.

Have you considered the fact that whatever results you get will be

And why might that be?

Because Paulie knows I need him. He'll be distracted.

You're right, Mr. Scali.

We'll finish this another time.

Update the Simmons file and get over to the Marshal's office right away.

Done.

I expect this kind of interruption will be avoided in the future.

I seem to have missed the letter that said you were coming.

There was no letter.

I informed city council that if they wanted evaluations done, it'd be better

I came in unannounced.

We found that officers have a tendency to get sick or go on vacation when they

hear we're on our way.

Oh, really?

We're not doing anything out of the ordinary here, just the usual tasks.

We also plan a certain amount of observation in the workplace.

Are you sure that's a good idea?

Quite sure.

Trust me.

Well, don't you think people will be a little self -conscious with you watching

them working?

I detect a faint note of hostility, Mr. Scali.

No, not at all. Why would I be hostile?

Why, indeed.

We're only doing this to preserve the integrity of your department.

I assume I have your full cooperation?

Oh, absolutely.

You could have given me a little advance notice, Charlie.

Well, every department gets complaints.

It's not like I got a bunch of psycho cops running around here.

She's going to turn my squad room into a goldfish bowl.

Hey, boss, turn on the TV. I'm on the phone.

I understand that, but I'm still filing an official letter of protest.

Turn it on.

You're not going to believe it.

proved to be an extraordinary announcement from death row at the

Prison. We have a tape of the Robert Allardyce News Conference from our

affiliate, WFIA.

Last night, a man named Webster McKenzie was executed in Pennsylvania for the

murders of eight women.

I've called this press conference to announce that he was innocent of those

crimes and that I am guilty.

I am aware that the authorities will doubt the truth of what I'm saying.

You got that right.

This is a map showing the locations of where the eight bodies were found.

If the police will dig here and

here, they will find two additional bodies that were killed in the same way.

I'm making this confession because I can't live with the guilt of knowing

let an innocent man die for crimes that I committed.

I pray that his family will forgive me.

That was Robert Allardyce, due to be executed.

This is going to be trouble for us, boss.

Maybe.

Over here.

The other one's over here.

This is what we got on McKenzie.

Mr. Scali? Yes, I am.

Can I take a moment of your time?

How can I help you, Mr... Benzinger. Carl Benzinger. You were the arresting

officer in the Webster -McKenzie case?

I was. Well, the family has just filed a wrongful death suit, and they've named

you as one of the defendants. Here are the papers.

Thank you.

Hey, Dad.

Hi, honey.

How is everyone?

Fine.

Hey, that's a really pretty picture you got there, Sarah.

Sarah, when you're finished, can Daddy bring that to his office?

Thank you.

Hey, did you start dinner yet?

No. Well, great. I feel like doing the cooking tonight.

Pasta a la Scali.

You won't hear any argument out of me.

Tony, tell me something.

Could that confession be true?

I doubt it.

That it's possible?

Possible, not probable.

Enough for us to start worrying about losing everything we've been saving for?

No need. We're indemnified by the city.

You sure?

Yeah.

Then there's no reason for me to be upset.

None at all.

So how come you are?

What? Upset.

I'm not.

Tony.

You don't ever want to play poker with me.

Look, it's like... It's like you spend your whole life driving your car

understanding that the accelerator speeds you up and the brake slows you

And then one day you step on the brake and the car speeds up instead of

stopping. And you hit a pedestrian.

It just makes you rethink the way the car works.

Dad? Mom?

This is Brenda.

Hi there.

You're the police commissioner, right?

I sure am. I was listening to the news on the way over here.

Boy, you really got your butt caught in a ringer, don't you?

Are you going to be poor now? I mean, it's okay. I've got credit cards for

we go out.

Would you like to join us for dinner? Are you going to eat now?

I thought only the Brady Bunch eats this early.

Nice place.

I bet you've got some great plans for redecorating.

She really tells it like it is, doesn't she?

She certainly does.

That is hardly the girl you expect to bring home to your mother.

Well, at least he brought her home.

She looks old enough to be his babysitter.

She's 18.

Yeah? What does she see in him?

He's our son. He's perfect.

I got a pretty good idea what he sees in her.

Oh, really?

Oh.

So you noticed.

Hard not to.

But just in passing, right?

Absolutely.

Maybe I should buy an exocycle.

Mr.

Scatley, I'm Amelia McKenzie. Yes?

Webster's mother.

Oh, Mr. McKenzie, we haven't been able to make any sense of what's happened

What's happened is that my son has been murdered, Mr. Scatley, and I can't make

any sense out of that.

We don't have any proof that the Allardyce confession is true.

He wouldn't lie about something like that. I wouldn't be so sure.

You were sure enough to help send my son to his death.

We had very good cause to arrest your son. You had nothing.

He ran a red light, and you found a few items in his trunk.

There was hardly reason to arrest him. He fit the FBI profile. I'm sure that a

thousand other men could have as well.

Mr. McKenzie, what is it exactly that you want from me?

The same thing that I asked of the prosecutor in Pennsylvania.

I want you to look me in the eye and tell me the truth.

Do you have any doubts about the fact that you might have sent an innocent man

to his death?

Yeah, I do.

So excuse me, I have some work to do.

Pennsylvania is what I'm talking about, McKenzie.

This is New York. Why would you care about what's happening in Pennsylvania?

He was a real cutie pie, wasn't he? Oh, yeah.

I thought we were never going to catch him.

He was so cool, butter wouldn't have melted in his mouth.

Tell me, what's the shovel for?

I do a lot of gardening around the house.

And the nylon rope?

I'm thinking about taking up rock climbing.

Look, I can prove I'm not who you're looking for. If I were... I wouldn't be

carrying these items around in my trunk.

I think I'm stupid.

No, but you must think we are.

Arrogant as hell, huh? They all are. Seems strange that he never confessed,

though. They usually want to brag about it once they're caught.

The only thing I can figure is that he thought he'd get a reprieve at the last

minute. It's time to talk to Robert Allardyce.

You need anything, Commissioner?

I'll be right outside.

I appreciate it.

Sorry, I can't offer you refreshments. They've cut back on the social budget.

I'll manage.

Well, what can I do for you?

You know damn well... You want me to call another press conference.

Say I made a horrible mistake and recant my confession.

I don't think so, Commissioner.

Why not? We both know it's a total lie.

What you know and what you can prove are two different things.

Somewhere along the line, the two of you cross paths. Once I find out where,

this whole story goes up in smoke. I can save you a lot of effort. There's no

connection. We never met, never even corresponded.

Now, you can take that on faith, or you can waste a lot of time.

The problem is, time is one thing I don't have very much of.

Now, I'm going to get right to it, Mr. Scali.

I'm going to tell you something you've probably heard from every man that ever

sat on death row.

I am innocent of the murders that put me here.

You're right. I've heard it before.

But in my case, it happens to be the truth.

Here it is.

You see, that's the attitude I've had to contend with.

Nobody believes me. Not the governor, not the warden, not my own attorneys.

I haven't been able to get them to listen to me.

But I do have your attention, don't I, Commissioner Scali?

For the moment.

Why did you come all the way up here to see me, Commissioner?

Like you said, to get you to take back your confession.

And you reject my claim of innocence.

Like you said, I've heard it before.

So, now you know why you're here?

You say if I clear you of the first murders, you'll admit the rest was a

What I'm saying is that if I'm given a lethal injection in two days, you'll

never be sure about Webster McKenzie's execution.

And that bothers you.

It gnaws at you.

Makes it difficult to sleep. I sleep just fine. We both know better than

Yeah, most men would just write it off. Say it was just part of their jobs.

But I read up on you.

You're not like most men.

You care.

I don't think you sleep well at all.

I don't buy any of it. This isn't the home shopping network. I don't care what

you buy or what you don't buy.

I want you to clear my name.

I'll think about it.

You'd better think fast, because in two days, I'll be asleep forever.

You may never sleep again.

So you can assume that he somehow managed to figure out the location of

bodies. Or I could try to prove this bum is innocent.

I hope that he tells me the truth.

But you have no guarantee.

No.

Some terrific choice.

Well, at least with the second I'm doing something.

Yeah, there's that.

Even though he could be lying to me.

You can't go through the rest of your life with the possibility you might have

helped to send an innocent man to his death.

No, I can't.

then go get him, Commissioner.

Yeah.

It's just what I planned to do.

Good morning, Doctor.

Mr. Scali, I wonder if I might have a moment of your time.

Sure, if you don't mind it on the move.

I've had a chance to talk to a number of your people. And I'm sure they're

feeling better for the experience.

We're still evaluating the results.

But something's come out in conversation that I find noteworthy. I'm sure you're

going to share it with me.

Your personnel are very loyal to you.

Oh, glad to hear it. You shouldn't be.

No? They should have respect for your office.

But we find that personal devotion to an individual can sometimes be a dangerous

thing. I don't think I'd call them devoted.

If your people are conflicted between your policies and departmental

they'll tend to behave to please you rather than following guidelines.

The most extreme example of this, of course, was Nazi Germany.

Oh, well, then I'll have to stop having the goose -stepping drills in the

parking lot. I'm quite serious, Mr. Scali.

Look, Doctor, these people are evaluated under fire every day. I watch them.

Their commanding officers watch them.

We have a pretty good record.

I'd put it up against any town in this country.

Just like I put my people up against any police force in the country.

And their loyalty to me is the reason why I come to work every day.

Which, by the way, I have to get to.

Happy evaluations.

Anything on the connection between the two guys?

Nothing. They were never incarcerated together.

Their business lives never crossed. They never even lived in the same state.

So the only way Allardyce could have known about the murders... Right, is if

killed them himself.

Come on, Tony, don't tell me you're starting to believe that.

It's getting hard to ignore the possibility.

Well, this is what Allardyce was convicted for.

Jeremy Tarbell, Vietnam War hero.

Bible Council member.

And the guy who came up with the idea of building a gambling casino on the

reservation.

Murdered by shotgun blast.

Who's the woman?

Mary Erasmus.

What's the relationship?

Well, it must have been pretty close.

They found a series of love letters he'd written to her.

The murder weapon was Allardyce's.

All right, what about the motive?

Well, it seemed Cedar Lake, that's the town right next to the reservation, was

on the verge of collapse.

Allardyce came up with an investment deal that would bring business back to

town and make him a very wealthy man.

Along comes Todd Bell, builds the casino.

Nobody needs Allardyce anymore.

So what we have here is a well -loved war hero and his girlfriend killed by a

greedy land developer.

You know, he surprises they didn't lynch him on the spot.

Are there any other suspects?

One. A native named Clyde Smoke.

He and Tarbell mixed it up a couple of times in public.

Did anything ever come of it?

No, not here on the record.

They must have released him after they zeroed in on Allardyce.

So if Allardyce didn't off this guy, who did?

Well, let's look at what we got here. A casino going up. Lots of construction.

Lots of trucking.

What does that make you think of?

The mob?

On a reservation?

Why not?

Two great American traditions together again for the first time.

Let's take us a drive out to Cedar Lake.

Hello? Can I help you?

We're looking for the chief.

And who might you be?

I'm Tony Scali. This is Paul Pentangeli. Am I supposed to impress me?

One lives in hope.

We'd really like to see the chief, please.

Well, I'll see if he's busy.

All right, let me get this straight. You gentlemen are asking me to reopen the

Allardyce case.

Not exactly. We just want to look into it.

Well, that case is closed. The only way to look into it is to reopen it.

Well, then I guess that's what we want to do.

There's just one problem with that. Those case files have been misplaced.

Misplaced? Yes.

Recently? Mm -hmm.

Look, Chief, we were hoping you'd extend to us a little...

Professional courtesy?

Just the fact that you're here implies to me that you think I don't know how to

run an investigation. I don't think that's either professional nor

We're not implying you've done anything wrong.

No, it's just that we may have a different take on the killings. Oh.

And what might that take be?

Have you heard any rumors about mob involvement in the development of the

casino?

You're asking me?

You guys waltz in here with names right out of the cast of The Godfather and

you're asking me about mob involvement?

You want to find out about that, why don't you go to your next family picnic?

All right, that's it. Okay, okay.

Here's what it is.

I understand your problem.

If things were reversed, I might feel the same way myself, but you've got to

understand something.

We are going to look around.

I'd like to share the credit with you if we turn something up, but either way,

we're going to look around.

Well, I guess we've made our positions real clear.

I hope so.

You really didn't think he was going to help us? Like you said, one lives in

hope. Think of the guy as added motivation. I already got more of that

need. Well, maybe we'll have better luck at the BIA.

Yeah. Hey, Tony, Tony.

What do those clouds look like to you?

Which ones?

Those.

White and puffy is what they look like. No, no, no. I mean, what do they remind

you of?

I don't know what you mean.

To me, they look like two sumo wrestlers.

Get in the car.

You don't think it looks like two guys with big bellies?

No.

It's really kind of interesting.

You say so.

You don't see it, do you?

No, but what I do see is we picked up an escort.

Now that makes you feel secure, doesn't it?

Safe as a babe in its mother's arms.

Excuse me.

Do you have any idea when the guy from the BIA is due back?

I'm the guy from the BIA.

Betsy Nolan.

And you are?

Police Commissioner Tony Scali. Good to meet you.

Pauly Pentangelo. Hi there.

Hi. Why don't we go inside and get something cold to drink? You guys can

what you need.

Okay.

There was a real sense of relief when Robert Allardyce was sentenced.

Opening up the case again isn't going to make you very popular.

I was voted most affable in my high school class.

Well, maybe if you bring your yearbook around, that'll help.

Thank you very much.

You're welcome very much.

Did you help with the development of the casino?

Of course. BAA worked with the National Indian Gaming Commission. Tarbell and I

sweated this whole thing through together.

So if organized crime tried to buy its way in... Organized crime?

Yeah, this is the kind of organization they'd kill to get in on.

No pun intended.

I doubt it.

Justice went over everything with a fine -tooth comb.

Did you ever have any contact with Robert Allardyce?

Not as part of the casino development, no. But you didn't know him?

His wife's a good friend of mine.

Where from?

We both grew up in Cedar Lake, a few years apart.

We worked on a couple of charity projects together.

So how well did you know Allardyce?

Look.

Like I said, Patricia's a friend of mine. I really don't feel comfortable

talking about her husband, okay?

I'm sorry.

I didn't mean to sound so abrupt. It's just that the whole thing hit me pretty

hard.

If you want, I can give you directions over to her place.

Well, we certainly seem to have a way with people.

You just mention Allardyce's name and boom, the door slams shut.

Hey, why don't you head over to the casino?

Look for Mr. Smoke so you can shake up.

While you talk to Mrs. Allardyce? Maybe she's willing to talk about her husband.

Don't bet on it.

Hey, don't lose your shirt.

They asked me if I wanted that shotgun back after the trial.

I told them no.

Won't you come in?

So how did Robert impress you?

He hides his fear very well.

We saw through his front. Not many people can see that.

Can I get you something?

No, thank you.

I thought you might be able to give me a new perspective on the relationship

between your husband and Jeremy Tarbell.

Well, there's some tension between them.

Because of the real estate development?

Yes.

Betsy Nolan is a friend of yours?

Yes, how do you know her?

Oh, we just met. I had some questions I wanted to ask her about the casino.

Oh, I see.

She said that you both grew up here.

Yes, we did.

So you must have known Tarbell?

Yes. Very well?

Well... Well enough, you know, he was a star athlete, the BMOC.

Then he went to Vietnam, came back a big hero.

I guess he's the closest thing to a celebrity this town had.

Everybody just thought the world of him.

And all the girls wanted to date him?

Yes.

Did you date him?

Yes.

Was it serious?

Well, I thought so, he didn't.

Must have been tough when he and your husband got into it.

Well, it was difficult.

Ah.

Mrs. Allardyce, um...

Did you ever

see Jeremy Todd Bell after you married your husband?

You mean in the biblical sense?

Look, your husband's a very busy man. He was away a great deal of the time.

It must have been very lonely for you.

It was.

I ran into Jeremy one night at a restaurant, and one thing just led to

And your husband, did he ever find out?

Jeremy was a very romantic man. He wrote me love letters and Robert found him.

And?

He surprised me.

Only time in our marriage he did that.

He wasn't angry, at least he didn't say he was. He just said that he wanted to

be a better husband and that it was all his fault.

He's practically on the verge of tears.

So he forgave you?

He asked me to forgive him.

Mr. Scali, my husband did not kill Jeremy Tarbell.

Well, I came here. That was hard to believe.

Now it's nearly impossible.

I know, but it's true when you have to believe him.

I don't.

But I do have to prove it.

I thank you for your time. I can show myself out.

double shouldn't press when i'm showing a 10 i feel a roll coming

A short roll.

What's the difference? You got to get all my money in the long run.

If you really believed that, you wouldn't be sitting here.

There's other reasons to be sitting at this table.

Not here, there aren't.

Come on, you going to break my heart?

Afraid so, lover. All I do is steal cards. May I give you a trouble,

Nothing I can't handle.

This really is a sweet operation.

You like to think so?

Native owned, native run.

No Anglos anywhere?

For Graham, you see any?

What about in the back?

I mean, do you handle all the counts yourself?

As far as I know, I don't get back there much.

Taking a survey, mister?

Just making conversation.

It's a casino.

You want conversation, dial a talk radio station.

I'm not looking for any trouble, okay?

Good. Then you can cash in over at that window and take your action to Atlantic

City. And what if I don't feel like doing that?

You will make the acquaintance of her escort, can you?

I think I'd rather be making your acquaintance. That can be arranged.

That's it.

The fight's over.

I'll say it is.

Looks like your man here is disturbing the peace.

It wasn't his fault.

Come on, Shirley.

I saw him take out smoke.

I started it. The man was just making conversation.

You willing to testify to that?

I am.

Well, looks like your lucky day, mister.

Yeah, that's what I've been thinking all along.

However, if I was you, I'd take my luck and get on.

Uh -huh.

That's what I've been thinking, too.

Thanks for your help.

Okay,

all right.

So, that was Clyde Smoke.

Certainly lives up to his billing.

You see the tattoo on the back of his hand?

Yeah, the Latin Lords.

I think I got an imprint of it on my stomach. He must have joined in prison.

There's no way the gang would have let him in on me outside.

No.

But then if he's an ex -con, what's he doing working as a pit boss?

Check it out.

You can count on that.

a big -time game, shall we?

Please, please don't hurt me.

If you want to get hurt, you should learn to keep your mouth shut instead of

standing up for outsiders. No, I'm sorry. I didn't think... That's right,

didn't think.

But we won't have that problem again, will we? No.

Because you know it will happen if we do.

Yes.

Good.

Then we're done.

Hi, princess.

Hi.

What you doing?

The gallery is closed for this evening, young lady.

Okay.

Night -night time.

Put you to sleeping.

You're going to have beautiful dreams, okay?

Okay.

Is that your belly button?

I love you, sweetheart.

Where's David?

He's at the library.

Some kind of term paper or something?

More like hiding out.

You don't have to wonder anymore about what David sees in that girl.

Yeah?

I didn't know that he was home from school, so I walked into his bedroom

knocking. And?

Let's just say that our little boy...

was on the verge of becoming a man of the world.

No kidding.

It's nothing to celebrate, Tony. No, no, of course not.

Are you sure it wasn't just heavy necking?

Honey, it's been a while since you and I had any alone time together, but I

still remember the difference between heavy necking and what was about to

happen. I... I think you should have a talk with him.

I think it's a little late for the birds and the bees, don't you?

He's young. He's vulnerable.

This is going to give him a false idea of how important she is in his life.

Well, sounds like you have a pretty good fix on what to say.

Now, this is a conversation for a father and a son.

Now, I'm going to go and make us some drinks.

Then you can tell me all about your day.

You had no right to question my wife like that. Rights?

What are you, nuts? You're going to die in two days. You're talking to me about

rights? What happened between them has nothing to do with what you're supposed

to do. No, nothing at all. Except it gives you a hell of a lot better motive

than some screwed up Randy. The affair was over for almost a year when he was

killed. So maybe you thought about it first and then killed him.

Okay.

Tell me something else.

Other people in the community, well, what do they think about the casino?

Like who?

Like Betsy Nolan.

She loved it.

She saw a chance for the tribe to improve their lives.

What about Chief Darrow? What did he think about it?

Totally approved of it.

Even though it might bring in a criminal element?

Well, the criminal element never seemed to concern him very much. How he used to

go out drinking with the meanest characters in town.

Like who?

Guys you wouldn't want to meet in a dark alley.

Like Clyde Smoke? Yeah.

Yeah, he was one of them.

Anything else you can give me?

No, nothing I can think of.

Then there'll be no more surprises, right?

Yeah, right.

Because if you're holding anything else back from me, you're making an

impossible job even harder.

Okay, we got a call.

Grand theft auto, assault with a deadly. Mr. Smoke is one fine citizen. Yeah,

right. So how did he get cleared to work in a casino?

Maybe someone changed the records.

Let's see if Betsy Nolan can give us a hand.

really nice of you to help sell like this. My pleasure. Those records can be

real mess to work through.

Messy records make us feel at home.

This is it.

Are we starting to play special?

No, I don't think we actually labeled anything fast on it today.

I'm afraid it's all trial and error.

I hate to say it, but compared to our office, this is a model of organization.

Compared to our office, the Buffalo Stampede is a model of organization.

Hey, this one says employees.

Boy,

they sure checked out a lot of people. Well, wait, here's the file on Clyde.

got it? Yeah.

What if we clear the building and get yourself out of here?

After you.

Try telling that to the guy who just shot at us.

Who might that be?

I don't know. He took off in a tan sedan.

Did you get a license number? Of course not.

Nobody inside, Chief.

Look, I told you, gentlemen, that you have no jurisdiction here. That also

you will not discharge a firearm.

What are we supposed to do, stand around and let them use us for target

practice? No.

What you're supposed to do is file a complaint and let me handle it.

No offense, but we'll take our chances with the target practice.

That's your call.

But next time you might not be so lucky.

That could be construed as a threat, Chief.

Only if you're paranoid.

Did you get him?

Uh -uh. You came for going back and checking out those files?

Yeah, absolutely.

You're beginning to feel paranoid?

There isn't paranoia when they're really after you.

Darrow. Chief Aaron Darrow. I want to know where he worked, when he worked,

he worked. Any I .A. record on him? Any complaints ever made against him? What

he got for his 10th birthday? I want to know it all.

How long will it take you to run the checks?

Are you kidding me?

All right, well, do your best.

Thanks.

The computers are down.

Are these the only files you have left from the casino?

I hadn't had a chance to get them down to the warehouse.

Any luck?

No, you guys really went over all this, didn't you? A dozen times.

And Tarbell got his money from an Indonesian investment group.

Nobody else would give him the money. They all thought it was a crazy idea,

especially being so close to Atlantic City, you know.

More coffee?

Oh, no, thanks. I'm already two cups over my limit. Run for me.

Anyway, they gave him the 20 million he needed to get the place up and running.

20 million's a lot of running.

Not to build a casino, it's not.

Jeremy paid him back in the first six months.

And the rest of these companies are clean?

As far as we've been able to check. So now what?

There's nothing much left for us to do here. Might as well pack it in and go

home. Listen, if it's all the same to you, I think I'd like to stay over. You

know, maybe I'll hit the casino again and see if I can come up with something.

I mean, that is if it's all the same to you.

Why not?

Something good ought to come out of this mess.

Hey, Betsy. Hmm?

Ever notice how that tree kind of looks like a pitchfork?

A time like the present.

I thought you'd say that.

Hey, what do you say we take a little walk?

A walk?

We don't take walks.

How are we going to start?

Right now.

How's everything at school?

Good.

Band practice?

It's okay.

Still planning on trying out for the swim team?

Maybe.

Look, your mother told me about yesterday.

I figured.

She still mad?

Well, I don't know that she was ever mad, really.

Surprised is more like it.

Not as surprised as we were.

I assume you were planning on taking precautions.

Come on, Dad.

I'm not a total fool.

No.

No, you're not.

You like Brenda, don't you?

Yeah, a lot.

Good. That's good.

The first girl you're with is very special. She'll always be special.

And it's important that, you know, some feelings are attached.

But it's important that you realize that Brenda is exactly that, the first girl,

and there's going to be a lot more.

Hey, are you saying I can't see her anymore?

No, not at all. I'm just saying you're still both teenagers and feelings

I'm not planning on changing my feelings about her.

Okay, but she might. No way.

She really likes me, too.

If not, she wouldn't have, you know. I know.

I'm just saying it's good to be aware of what might happen.

It's like taking a drive out in the mountains with your top down.

You want to enjoy the scenery, how great the air feels.

But you better keep one eye on the road, just for safety's sake.

Just to make sure you don't get hurt. Do you understand me?

Okay.

One eye on the road.

Ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten.

Ten.

Oh, thank you.

We love you.

One more time.

Come on, baby.

Ten. Keep it alive.

Keep it alive.

Come on, baby. One more time. Send me home. Send me home. No more bets. Hands

up, please. Take me home.

Take me home.

Lions win.

Hey, you can't win them all, huh?

Come on, let's go get a drink.

Get a beer.

Here we go. Ma 'am, you're next. The ice is yours.

But tell me, how does someone end up working for the Bureau of Indian

I guess for the same reasons you became a cop.

Am I driving around in a car eating donuts?

I grew up here.

Had a lot of native friends, and I wanted to help make their lives better.

It was BIA or teaching, and this way I get to spend a lot of time outdoors.

I had enough of being outdoors walking a beat in New York.

Now all I want is heat in the winter and air conditioning in the summer.

Is that really all you want?

Not quite.

Excuse me.

I'll be right back.

You stay here, okay? Don't leave.

Under penalty of death.

All right.

There is no more risk than when we started. Then why are the guys from

Eastbridge hanging around? Because they think they're going to turn something

up, but they're wrong. That's what you think. You've made it this far. I'll be

damned if you go get me now.

Get out of here.

Would you say goodnight?

Probably.

Everybody safely tucked in?

Absolutely.

So, uh, how'd it go?

Okay, I guess. This type of thing was never in any of the baby manuals.

I just don't want to see him get hurt.

Neither do I, but the only way to guarantee that is to never let him out

house.

Hey, what's this?

Oh, Brenda brought over a pizza.

Really? What kind?

Some awful combination.

Mushroom and anchovy, I think.

Oh.

Tony, you know what anchovies do to your stomach?

Well, what's one little piece of pizza gonna do?

No point sticking around here, then.

None that I can see.

Want to buy you a beer?

I'd never ask.

I know how you did it.

Excuse me?

I knew where the bodies were.

Mr. Scali, in less than 15 hours, the state is going to send me into hell and

you into a life of uncertainty.

I think you better spend your time trying to figure out how to stop that

happening. See, the thing that didn't add up was that Webster never confessed.

Guys like that, they always confess.

See, their egos demand that they show how smart they are.

So he had to have left some sort of signature on what he did. That's

that I didn't do it. You didn't do it, Allardyce.

See, that was the key word, signature.

Then it just hit me.

All I had to do was connect the dots.

W .M.

Webster McKenzie.

That's how you knew where the bodies were.

I was desperate.

Still doesn't get you off the hook.

So you're finished with me now?

Uh -uh.

I'm not off the hook either.

But you have no reason now.

Wrong.

You pulled me into this by telling me an innocent man had been executed.

Well, now I'm starting to think you're innocent.

You found something.

I haven't found anything.

But someone's sure gone through a lot of trouble to make sure I don't.

And I don't want to find out later that an innocent man did die.

In addition to the Minnesota Multiphysic Personality Test, I think we should

also run the Millen Clinical Multiaxial.

I'm also detecting various forms of erotic behavior and tremendous paranoia

this department.

Calm down, ma 'am. I need to get your address.

We have Officer McGimley on the telephone.

Lady, I can't understand what you're saying.

Lady, you have to slow down.

I detect a certain amount of hostility from Officer McKinley.

I'm detecting various forms of neurotic behavior.

Uh, I'm sorry, could you repeat that?

Of course I'm paying attention.

Just that sometimes the connection goes bad.

Hey,

Donnie. Yeah, it's Tony.

What do you got in the impound lot?

Yeah, I'm looking for a change in lifestyle.

That's all you heard?

That's when the lights went out.

I'm sorry.

Yeah, after about ten minutes, I got worried. I went outside and found him in

the parking lot and took him over to the emergency hospital.

Did you stay overnight?

No. I slept here.

I didn't think it was a good idea for him to stay in a motel.

That was very thoughtful.

BIA is a full -service operation.

Paulie's a very lucky man.

You have no idea.

Oh, I just mean I could have spent the night with some nurse who wouldn't have

shown me the same kind of compassion.

All you're doing is making the hole deeper.

Good. Another foot and I can just push him right in there. His other foot's

already in his mouth.

Look, you guys, I think I'm ready to go back to work. No way.

You stay here and rest.

Okay. What are you going to do?

I'm going to find a man in a tan car.

Pick you up in 20 minutes.

Hey, what are you doing in here?

Nice one.

Oh!

You hold it, Dumbo.

FBI?

So somebody dropped a dime on their big mob involvement in the casino.

Dropped a dime? You guys really talk like that?

You gotta give us a break. We've been listening to mob tapes for two months.

Messes up your vocabulary.

It's like you guys almost messed up our investigation.

Hey, if you guys ever announced yourselves, we might know enough not to

after you. My bad luck, you know how to ride a horse.

Let me tell you something.

That was my first time on a horse, and my last.

They said my bad luck.

So when did you get the call about the mob?

I'm sorry, that's classified.

Whatever happened to you showing me yours, I'll show you mine.

They don't play that anymore since Hoover left.

I don't know what you guys think you're going to turn up. We know the funding

for the place was legitimate.

There's no point in skimming.

Tribal -owned casinos don't pay federal taxes.

You're right about that. We checked the books. The account from the money room

matches the money taken in at the cages.

So, where's the mob involved?

You want to give us a break here? We've been on this thing, what, a day and a

half?

Uh, excuse me, doctor, we're having a meeting here.

Fine. Don't let me interrupt.

I'm just here to observe.

Observe? Yeah. We're being evaluated.

Man, they pull that crap on us all the time.

Look, you're interfering with an FBI investigation?

I don't think you understand.

I'm authorized by the city council to monitor any and all personnel connected

with the Eastbridge Police Department.

Well, you're not authorized to monitor us.

Maybe you can come back a little later on.

No. This is exactly the kind of situation which is most revealing.

Yeah, well, I got a couple of things I'd like to reveal to you.

Think that with the FBI in its current state of disrepute, that you gentlemen

would want to project the most positive of images.

That's it.

That's all.

You tell the city council I won't have you hanging around my people anymore.

If they have a problem with that, they can take me to court, for which they can

stand in line.

Shut up. You're beautiful when you're angry.

I know, I know. Okay.

We can't find any mob involvement.

Let me tell you what we could find.

We have an ex -con who's working somewhere he shouldn't be and a chief of

who's somehow tied into him. I say we forget about the mob and see where those

two lead us.

Hey, did you get that?

Yeah, I sure did.

What are you paying him off for?

That doesn't strike me as the kind of pace for anything.

Uh -oh.

Go, go, go, go, go, go, go.

Let's go, let's go, let's go. I'm going, I'm going, I'm going.

So what's the next move?

We follow Smoke to see what he's going to do with the money.

Does anyone see Smoke

doing something?

I just talked to a couple of women I wouldn't mind meeting.

I didn't think feds got to do things like that. He told you things have

a little bit since Hoover.

Look, every second we spend here, Allardyce is one step closer to

Why don't we put a couple of electrical wires on this? Where's he going?

No, wait, there he is, Tony.

Where is that?

It's the counting room.

They run a count every few hours.

These wires are starting to look better and better. Wait.

He switched it.

What do you want to bet that money's phony?

You're under arrest.

You have the right to remain silent.

Anything you say, Ken, and we'll be used against you.

Tell me what you want, Tony.

Here's the funny money.

Turn around.

You sure? Oh, yeah. This stuff's crisper than my ex -wife's meatloaf. Let's go.

Get him out of here.

What are you talking about?

Surprise.

Counterfeiting, conspiracy to commit fraud, embezzlement.

Not to mention the murder of Jeremy Tarbell.

The what?

You heard me.

He probably found out what you and Smoke were doing, so you killed him.

Uh -uh. You're not nailing me with that.

Come on, we got you cold. Cold is the right word if you'd bother to check. Bo

Spencer and I were in Nevada at a convention the night that Tarbell was

Big deal. Let's still leave Smoke here to do the job.

He was with us.

Now, you guys can talk to my attorney about those first three counts, but

out of luck on the murder.

All right.

All right.

So he had a boring bed.

That was number four that counted.

Are you sure there's nothing else he can think of?

Do you think they could have hired someone to do the killing?

Well, that's possible. Anything's possible. I just can't prove it in time.

Well, you tried.

Great. That'll really help me sleep tonight.

Well, I could say I was lying when I said I was innocent.

I wouldn't buy that any more than I bought your confession.

You're really sure about things, aren't you?

Some things.

I believe in my family.

I believe in the system.

What happens when it executes an innocent man?

Well, then I guess I won't believe in it quite as much.

And I don't like that. I don't like that a lot.

Here's my... signed admission that I lied about the other thing, make it

official.

You know, the damnedest thing about this whole deal, after I found out about

the affair, things got really good with me and Patricia.

It's strange, but I even felt Like I owed Tarble for what he'd done, because

end result was that she and I were closer than we'd ever been.

I never really cared about the real estate deal going sour.

There was kind of an unstated trade there.

He got the casino, but I got my wife back.

I felt that I'd got the best of the bargain.

Robert, I wish this more for Donna.

You did your best.

Like you said, there's a little consolation in that.

Well, there should be.

what to say.

It's good of you to come to see you.

We'll get back to you though.

If there's anything you're going to need.

He's right, you know.

You did everything you could.

And it wasn't enough.

You know, I went over there to try to make him feel better, and he's the one

ends up consoling me.

And you're sure he didn't do it?

Pretty much, yeah.

You know, when Allardyce confessed three days ago, it made me nuts.

I went over every step of McKenzie's arrest.

I reread the transcripts. I just couldn't get used to the idea that I'd

been responsible for the death of an innocent man.

And?

And after rereading everything, I was sure that no one had made a mistake.

That McKenzie was guilty as sin.

And that meant that the system hadn't failed anyone.

And now I'm just as sure that it's failing Robert Allardyce because he did

kill Jeremy Tarbell.

Tony, just for the sake of argument,

What if you're wrong?

No, no, come on. Just hear me out for a minute.

Now, we went chasing around after Darrow because we thought he was dirty. And as

it turns out, he was.

But not for the murders.

So what if everybody was right all along?

And Allardyce just never got over the jealousy of that affair.

Jealousy is a very powerful emotion, Tony.

Yeah, it is.

And you and I are too bright.

I'll go along with your half of that.

We've been looking at this all wrong.

Hi.

Why don't we come in?

Uh, please.

to the honor of your company.

Well, we need your help, Betsy.

Name it.

Right now they're preparing to execute Robert Allardyce. Yes. For a crime he

didn't commit.

You know that for a fact?

Yes, we do.

Then why haven't you called the authorities?

Because there's still a few loose ends.

So, we need your help.

I've told you everything I know.

No, you haven't.

See, when we were first introduced, I had the feeling that I'd seen you

somewhere before. I just couldn't place it. No, we've never met.

It was a photograph with Jeremy Tarbell in front of the new casino.

Yeah, right. I remember we were with the elders.

We went back and looked at it.

You weren't looking at the camera.

You were staring up at Tarbell.

I told you I admired what he had done. This look was more than admiring.

What are you saying?

The FBI got a phone call about possible mob involvement in the casino.

They got that call right after we showed up in town. The same day we mentioned

the possibility to you. That was your theory? Uh -huh.

We were wrong.

So, what does that have to do with me?

This is the tape of the FBI phone call.

Your voice is on it, Betsy.

who obviously sounds like me. It's you. We can make a voice print.

You were the one who mentioned a mob.

But you were the one who kept everyone believing it. What possible reason could

I have?

To keep us from finding out about your relationship with Tarbell.

There was no relationship. Oh, come on. You were together all the time, day and

night. And he liked women. A lot of women.

What's that supposed to mean?

Before you, before Mary Erasmus, he had an affair with Patricia Allardyce.

He would have told me.

No. The relationship was too special for her to share it with anyone.

The same way it was special to Tarbell.

See, he cared about her.

And he cared about Mary Erasmus. We're just someone to fill up a few evenings.

Mary Erasmus meant nothing to him! Then how come he wrote love letters to her

and to Patricia?

That doesn't sound like nothing. But the time you spent with him didn't mean any

more to him than the time we spent meant to you, right?

You're right. Last night meant nothing.

Tarbell did mean something to you.

And it must have made you crazy to find out he didn't feel the same way.

He cared?

No way.

You were just a convenience store. One -stop shopping.

Like nothing to you?

He loved me.

He wrote it over and over again.

And then he left you?

Yes.

So you stole Allardyce's gun and made sure Todd Bell would never leave you

again? Yes.

Morning report.

Nothing urgent.

Good.

I really appreciate you being there last night. Ah, I forgot.

I know it wasn't easy for you.

No. You really didn't need to be there.

Yes, I did.

Right.

I got some track record with women, huh?

Didn't anyone ever tell you about knocking?

You are hardly the one to talk about manners.

All right, Doctor, what can I do for you?

I've just come from a meeting with three members of the City Council.

I told them about the cavalier way in which I've been treated, and they

expressed outrage at your behavior.

That isn't exactly a first.

Neither they nor I have any intention of standing still and allowing our mandate

to be ignored.

So, I plan to extend my stay for another week.

Dr. Mallory.

What do you want?

They told me I could find you down here.

I'm Jenkins. I'm from the IRS, and I'm here to audit your returns for the last

five years.

Scali. So did Jenkins show up yet?

Just now.

Told you we owed you one.

He's a friend of yours?

Uh -huh. We call him the Pit Bull.

Well, uh, I can see that you have much more pressing matters to address than

I assume you've held on to your receipt.

Brenda broke up with me.

I'm sorry.

How'd you know?

How do you think?

Somebody dropped you.

Pretty odd to believe, huh?

My father once told me there are three kinds of people in the world.

The dumb ones who don't learn from their own mistakes.

The smart ones who do learn from their own mistakes and the wise ones.

They learn from other people's mistakes.

I was just trying to help you to be wise.

Guess I'll have to settle for smart.

There are worse things in the world.