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Report of follow -up interviews regards case number 04 -237 to Captain Rogers,

Fire Department of New York.

I have completed the first round of interviews with employees Carlos Nieto,

Holly Levine, and Kim Zambrano.

Parametric Parker's breakdown left an immeasurable hole in the fabric of life

that firehouse.

Mr. Parker seems to have become a sort of surrogate father for these employees

and apparently helped them through difficulties encountered during and

-11. This role as father almost certainly contributed to his feeling

left to him to rectify what he saw as the closing of the 5 -5 and therefore

destruction of his family.

You're here.

Hey. How you doing? Good.

Sorry I'm late. You're not late at all. Give me your jacket. Go inside.

How you doing?

You all right? Good, yeah.

Good? Yeah. Good.

Good.

Sweetheart, go inside, all right? I got something for you.

What's with the fancy plate?

What? Can't have a dinner party?

I thought it was just going to be... Hey!

Just family.

How's work?

I'm just asking.

We're good, fine.

She starts riding with her old friend Bosco tomorrow.

Fred.

The kids should know you might not be coming back tomorrow night. Fred!

What?

Charlie, Daddy didn't mean that.

I didn't? No, because you couldn't be that stupid.

Shivers running deeper than my soul.

If you saw me, I would have to cry.

The silence of my judgment time. Cause it's right now.

Baby, oh yeah.

Baby, oh yeah.

We're coming up.

Baby, oh yeah.

Maureen, stop. Sorry, Mom.

No. He's clean. I've heard that before.

He's got a job now.

I've heard that, too.

Maureen, please. He just wanted to have a family dinner.

You wanted this?

Yeah. It's part of the program I'm in.

I'm sorry, Mom. No, Maureen, please. Look, all right, that's it.

We're going to sit like normal people and eat lasagna.

Is that too much to ask? You're brothers, for God's sake. Let's go.

Fred, you know why I need to do this. You're doing it because you want to.

come on, Charlie.

I'm not doing it now. No, sit.

I'm finished.

Come

on,

bro.

Oh, no way, man.

Okay.

Are we finished sitting here staring at each other yet?

I would think a man who acted the way you did would find it easy to talk about

it.

Yeah, I have nothing to add to what you already know.

What do I already know?

You interviewed everybody. We all saw the same thing.

You know how this works, Carlos. You spent a lot of time in counseling while

were in the foster system.

Exactly.

You know everything.

You dropped out of pre -med not long ago.

So? Why?

Because I wanted to.

Are you angry that Mr. Parker tried to kill you?

Doc didn't try to kill me.

But you are angry. I never said that. You did. You were close, you and Doc.

I'm not sure what that means.

You spent time together. You became friends.

None of which has anything to do with what he did.

You weren't working on 9 -11.

What? You were off when the attacks occurred.

So I went down there. We all did.

I'm just establishing facts.

What the hell does this have to do with 9 -11?

Doc's statements made to the police officer that brought him out suggest it

be the root of his breakdown.

He was the only real strong one.

Doc Parker is the reason why I dropped out of med school, okay?

I figured if being a paramedic was good enough for someone like him, then...

Hey, so you're riding with Bosco again, huh?

I'm working 5 -5, David.

Right, you're riding with Bosco again. Because Herman Rowe got 30 days without

pay. Yeah, for having our guns stolen.

And they cannot wait to get our money out of our pockets.

And you can't get that knocked down?

I will.

It's hard to get him motivated unless he knows you personally. Yeah, I do know

him personally. He couldn't do anything for me. Yeah, I already got the videos.

Oh, okay.

Careful out there, you two.

You called?

Yeah. I did. He's right over here.

I'm pretty sure he's dead.

Pretty sure, huh?

Is he dead?

Uh, definitely.

5 -5, Crime Sergeant Decentral. We got a confirmed DOA at this location.

Have Patrol Sergeant and Squad respond.

Copy, 5 -5. Sir, excuse me. Would you mind going down there and standing by

car, just waiting down there? Of course, sure.

Yeah, you can just go on down there. No, wait. Okay.

Hey, look.

Two shots?

No, one through the hand and phone into the head.

Through the phone?

Yeah.

Hey, looks like we got some ecstasy here.

Yeah, it's a good area for a rave.

You ever seen a dolphin symbol before?

Uh -uh. We usually get the little monkey heads.

Hey, Sarge? Yeah?

What do we have here?

Looks like the dolphins got some beef with the monkeys.

How's your family?

Fine.

Emily good?

Can we not talk about anything personal if we just sort of focus on the job?

Hello, Oscar Raleigh.

Yeah, Mike.

Why? Can't I wait?

All right, all right.

See you.

It's my brother.

He says he's got something I might be interested in.

Professionally. Let's just meet him sometime.

Professionally? That's what he said.

Jelly Grimoire.

Somebody throwing tickets in?

What's up, Jelly?

Could you get more people into my crime scene?

Nobody touched anything they weren't supposed to.

Is that right?

Who decided what could be touched?

Hey, play nice there, Jelly. We secured this area off tightly for you.

Drive -by?

Yeah, looks like it.

Dave found a spent casing over there, not too far away from some tire marks.

Any witnesses?

No.

Do we know who he is yet?

Haven't touched him.

I was waiting for the pros to get here.

Who did this to you, sir?

An uncooperative victim.

45, found 10 feet away.

That's about where I found the casing. Looked like a 45.

I just said that.

Sorry.

Some ecstasy tabs there on the ground underneath the car.

I'm thinking maybe it's a low -level drug dealer.

Dog walker found the body is with the uniforms now, right?

Hey look, uh, I'm gonna getting out of here. If you need anything you just

follow us. Okay, there's something you're not telling me

Hey,

bro That

yours

You're not the only one who likes muscle cars.

That's a 73 Charger, 383 V8. I know what it is. Hey, Faith. How you doing,

Mikey? One day at a time. That's what they say, right? How'd you pay for that?

I'm a laborer a few days a week. A few days a week buys this?

Yeah, well, I got no expenses.

I'm living with the old man right now.

And, hey, he's doing pretty good. He's got a loft in Soho.

He's doing that good? Yeah, he's flush. It's a sublet.

Flush this week.

Hey, people change, Mo.

Not really, Mikey. I'm going to get my six -month coin tonight at the N .A.

going to be in the basement at Sacred Heart on Arthur and 3rd. Mom's going to

come by, and I held it until the midnight meeting, so if you want to come

What do you want to talk to us about?

Finkelstein's silver and diamonds.

Silver and diamonds, I went there about.

What are they about?

Ecstasy.

Those beards are carrying a lot more than diamonds in the fancy false -bottom

casing. This is playing two raves tonight. One in Brooklyn, one in Queens.

Pacific Jews are doing this.

Yeah. Any minute now, couriers are going to start coming and going. They're

going to leave in cars. They're going to leave on bicycles.

Now, the bicycles are for the city clubs.

And you know this because? Because drugs used to be my business.

What's this about, Mike?

I'm helping you guys be a drug boss. Why?

Because I'm clean, Moe.

And I know I've done a lot of bad things in the past, but I figured, hey, look,

maybe I can help you get some nice bucks and you start to think of me

differently. All right.

Whatever.

You know, maybe I just missed you is all.

So you're saying that you saved Captain Steeper?

Oh, those are your words, not mine. Well, maybe I did, but that's not the

I'm saying that it wasn't an accident that I was slower than Carlos going up

stairs. I mean, usually I practically knock him down, passing him. I have,

boundless energy sometimes. I think it's the herbs.

antioxidants, you know. But this particular morning, I was meant to hear

shot and get help.

That's what I do. I help people. That's why I'm here.

And that's why you're here in the fire department?

On Earth. What the fire department does is increase the number of people I can

help.

Did you help Doc?

Well, he's not a murderer, right? I mean, the captain will recover. And

I'm being optimistic, but I think that Doc is going to come through this and be

better. He has a beautiful soul.

I know I'm quirky.

That's not necessarily a problem.

Do you believe in past lives?

Reincarnation.

I wouldn't say I do.

I wouldn't say I don't.

Okay.

Phil's traveling groups.

Doc and I have a history. I felt it the first time I met him.

Did you ever share this with him?

No. Did you know him very well?

Not in this life.

So you think this was destiny?

Destiny.

Fate, kismet, maybe even deja vu.

Doc is a teacher.

He did this for us so we could learn lessons. I'm grateful.

What lesson have you learned?

I'm still working on that.

I can't believe you're sitting here.

Mikey all of a sudden goes narc.

Well, he's had a long time to think about it. We should just write this up

intelligence report and hand it up to Chang. Since when did you start writing

intelligence reports?

That's what we're supposed to do. What are you going to do, hand this over to

Cruz? Cruz? You know who reads those reports. What are you talking about?

Why don't you just call her over?

Come on. I'm not giving Cruz any heads, okay?

We got a tip.

We're going to follow it.

Sergeant Marita Cruz.

How you doing, Slim and Daniel?

Every once in a while, it's good to get out of the tower.

When your call came in, I thought I'd come by personally and take a look at

new X. Oh, I didn't know. I've never seen dolphins before.

I ran it by the feds.

They got nothing.

Sergeant. Oh, off to date. Meet Sergeant Wynn. She's from Narcotics at 1PP.

Dave, I hear you're good. Thank you.

Our uniforms definitely broke up a party in that area last night, a block away

from the drive -by.

Where this X came from?

Yeah, we also found this. Painted a dolphin right over the monkey.

That's a big dip.

They're not going to like this. This crew can be bad news. Yeah? Bad news to

shoot the competition?

For starters.

How long was he inside? Like two minutes?

Not even.

Long enough to pick up a package.

Maybe we should call the desk and get a warrant on this. I don't think we have

enough. We got a CI. We got suspicious activity.

Suspicious to you and me, to a judge. This guy's just looking at engagement

rings. Look.

They sell bicycles?

He doesn't look like the diamond buying type.

Hey, Jerry?

What do you want, Cruz? My stiff's not even at the log yet.

You see the symbol on the pills?

Dolphins. I showed a photo to Laura Wynn in Narcotics, and she said that it's a

new brand.

Photo?

Yeah, I took a couple pictures when I was waiting on you. I asked you if there

was anything you weren't telling me. Well, I'm telling you now. Next time,

me first.

I didn't mean anything by it.

What else does Laura Wynn say?

She said the area would normally be serviced by a crew that would be selling

tabs with monkey faces on it.

Monkey faces and dolphins.

I gotta retire.

So we're probably looking at a turf thing?

Exactly.

Well, why are you including me?

It's your case.

Don't yank me. What do you want?

The guy we shot through his phone.

You saw the same thing I saw. So we got a guy standing outside between two

trucks down the street from a rave, violent ecstasy in one hand, on the

with the other. Who was you talking to? Thank you.

I'm already running that down.

You let me know. This is my investigation.

Stop banana jelly, okay?

You're interested in clearing your murder.

I'm interested in the dope.

I'll let you know as soon as I do.

You do that.

Nice tie.

You ran two stop signs.

What?

Oh, see, bicycles are subject to the same traffic laws that cars are subject

Seriously?

You got a driver's license?

Driver's license?

You're annoying me.

You're answering every question with another question.

I got a license.

Good looking bike there.

Yeah.

It's all right.

What did it cost you?

It was a lot.

Give me a neighborhood. Actually, my folks got a formula for Christmas. Right

under the tree Christmas morning, huh? Yeah.

Awesome. I have some unfortunate news, Stephen.

Apparently, there's some warrants for you for the delivery of a controlled

substance. Oh, I already took care of those.

But thank you for asking, but it's... Yeah, see, that's a damn shame because

computer is saying that you didn't.

It's probably wrong.

It probably is.

Well, why don't we go to the station and sort it all out?

The station?

Shouldn't take too long. I mean, you took care of the warrants, right? Yeah,

let's go to the station. I think we should all go to the station.

Throw this in the trunk.

I took care of those warrants like seven months ago.

What can I tell you?

What are you doing on my bike?

I'm admiring it.

Can't you leave it alone? It's not that hard.

Can I call my folks? They probably saw the paperwork from the judge.

Oh, well, you have to bring that to court when you answer on this.

I gotta go to court again?

Yeah, well, a judge issues a warrant, and only a judge can defend it.

What are you doing?

Really nice.

Yeah, great. I'm glad you like it. But I don't like people messing with it.

So even if my folks bring their receipts, I still got to go to court.

I've never seen these before.

Well, leave it alone.

Well, it's loose.

They come loose. It's how it's made. No, no.

Loose.

Oh, Steven.

You got a receipt for that, Steven?

That's loose, too.

That's not my bike, actually.

What you doing?

Did you think Mr. Parker would let Captain Stieper die?

You should know I really don't want to be here.

No one's happy with the circumstances.

It's not the circumstances.

It's the requirement that I talk to you about it.

The department feels that simply making counseling available after a traumatic

incident may not be enough.

So they force us to take it.

Did you think that Mr.

Parker would let Captain Stieper die?

I didn't have to.

I was watching it happen.

How did you feel?

Numb.

Mr. Steeper had asked that the paramedics not use the firehouse during

Yes.

Did that upset you as much as it did Mr.

Parker?

It's the way the other houses work.

But did it upset you?

I don't think it upset Mr.

Parker as much as it made him feel that they were going to close the house.

But what about you?

I didn't pay too much attention.

To Steeper?

To Doc.

What do you mean?

It's a nightmare.

You've been through a lot.

I've been through a lot.

I understand you were attacked a few weeks ago. I thought this was about Doc.

I'm interested in you, too.

Where is he?

At Bellevue, under suicide watch.

Have you spoken with him?

He won't talk to anyone.

Did you feel he respected you?

What difference does that make?

I need to get a sense of what you were thinking, Kim.

He had this look in his eyes and...

I kept thinking, please.

Please don't kill yourself not here.

I can't be witness to this man killing himself.

He had nobody except us.

And we let him down.

700, Steven. That's about $15 ,000 street value.

That's no Mr. Meaner.

Is my lawyer here yet?

No, but ours is.

We got the warrant.

We're up to 700.

You want to help yourself?

He's all lawyered up.

I wonder if the people he's throwing this for will be that loyal. When can we

move on this?

Narcotics is getting ready now.

Nice work, guys.

Can I see you a moment, boss?

Yeah.

I went in on this raid.

It's a narcotics operation.

This is our collar.

What about Yoko? Does she want to be in on the raid, too?

Yes, she does.

I was going to say yes. I know you were. And don't think you're going to tell me

that it's too dangerous. All right.

We're going to have a tech meeting in the roll call room in 25 minutes.

Be careful.

Both of them.

Probably a bunch of lost up air.

Now.

Officer Hearn here is going to get buzzed in.

And as soon as he gets the doors open, we do this fast and dirty. Let's

overwhelm it. Hopefully avoid anything but a quick surrender.

Questions?

All right. Saddle up. We move out at 1715. Where do you want us, Sarge? Right

front. We don't want anyone inside mistaking this for a robbery.

Bring on the arm, please.

Nice collar, officer. Thanks.

What the hell is going on?

You don't know?

Well, nobody told me anything.

Oh, um...

Well, this was our collar, and it turned into a raid.

Why would we be telling you anyway? We're anti -crime.

I'm working on an ecstasy case myself.

Oh, okay. Yeah. Well, you're welcome to look at the seizure as long as you don't

touch anything.

The platoon commander wanted these two precinct officers on the raid.

I don't know why you weren't included. You just weren't. We got to roll.

We got to roll.

You ready?

Barry.

Listen. If you tell me to be careful, I'll hurt you.

Taylor.

700 tabs of monkey face.

I asked for my attorney.

You ever seen that before?

Do you know anything about that?

Let me see your hand. Let me see your hand.

There you go, fella.

Get them out of here.

Where are the bags at?

Bingo. There won't be muttons on the street anymore, that's for sure.

Swim with the dolphins, baby.

Thought you guys would want to know the total.

Approximately 11 ,000 tabs.

That's a street value of just under a quarter of a million dollars.

Good work.

Thanks.

Mikey sure came through, huh?

Yeah.

I didn't believe he went straight.

Long history.

Good night.

I have to

say before I...

I wish that I could take it all away and be

the one who catches the

Nice to see you come tonight, sweetheart.

Six months.

Isn't small.

No, it's not.

Hey, Dad.

Long time.

You could say that.

Congratulations. Thanks, bro.

Papi is going to take me for a steak.

Yeah?

Good. Good for you.

You deserve a good steak.

Me, I'm just gonna head home. I had a really big day today. Is that right?

Really big.

Right, man. What'd I tell you?

What is this?

It's, uh, it's nothing. Me and Mo, we just had a little thing going on.

Thanks, Mike.

Not a problem.

So... See you later.

Boris.

Yeah? Why don't you come and have a steak with us?

You know you like to steak at Minetti's.

They do make a good steak.

All right.

You ever tell you how I managed to stay happy in my career?

By staying out of the drama.

Look at you.

All I want is a simple clearance.

Just do my job and put a murder down.

What? This one's going to be full of drama.

It already makes my ulcer hurt.

I got my sheet back from my DOA cell phone.

And it says he was talking to someone named Michael Bascarelli.

Why can't I get a hot cup of coffee?

Michael Pasquarelli.

Kim Zambrano actually returned to work from her own mental collapse on

11. She pushed aside her own pain and answered the city's call for help.

This is a theme which, as you know, runs through most of the city's emergency

employees.

Carlos Nieto acted selflessly during the hostage incident at the firehouse and

most certainly saved Captain Stever's life.

However, as do many of the survivors of 9 -11, he clearly does not feel heroic.

Despite their hesitance to speak openly with me, if they do not locate an

avenue for such a discussion, they may never adequately recover from this

trauma.

Come in.

Are you out of your mind?

What do you want? Where's your brother?

What? Your brother.

My brother? Yeah.

What do you want?

Where did you get that information about the jewelry store?

You're right.

The jewelry store, Bosco.

I see.

I had a confidential informant. Oh, really?

Who's that?

That would be the confidential part.

Well, you never brought me here.

What do you want?

Well, I want to tell you a little story.

Your brother, Michael, he's got this new brand of ecstasy tab he wants out on

the market.

Good stuff.

Sure.

Probably made all the good spots already taken by this already established ring

out of the Finkelson Brothers on Grant.

So what's it do?

My brother gave up that place because he went clean, all right? He went

straight. Really?

Yeah.

You're sure about that?

I was at his meeting last night. He got that six -month coin or whatever.

You did? Well, that's interesting because, see, I got 17 of those from my

over the years before she died.

17. How much are those worth now? I don't need to explain myself to you, all

right? He's clean. I can see it in his eyes. There was a homicide yesterday,

Bosco. So what? XTC dealer on the phone shot while trying to make a deal. Guess

who he was on the phone with? I don't care. And it wasn't just that call.

This Vic made $39.

phone calls to a cell phone registered to your brother in the last week. In

fact, that number was the only one that cell phone ever called.

Talk to you about that?

So where is he?

Okay, well, if you see him, why don't you tell him that Sergeant Cruz wants to

talk to him? Bye.

You can go lay in the bed now. No, I'm awake.

I want to talk. I don't.

You won't listen to me anyway.

Hey, look who's here.

What's wrong?

Mike?

Where's his room?

Tell me what the hell's going on.

How do you two afford this place?

We don't. I do.

On what?

Tips? What, cab driving doing that good these days?

You know, I don't have to explain myself.

Right.

The tips?

I think you'd better leave. Where's his room?

Where's he stay, Dad? Where are you going?

Come on, you gotta go. That's his room?

What are you doing? I'm not going anywhere until I go through the son of a

bitch's stuff. For what?

Play me, Dad.

Come on.

Don't do that. Come on. Leave him alone.

Please, don't touch him.

I said leave him alone!

He had the whole family there to see him get that six -month coin.

And the whole time...

The whole time, he's dealing ecstasy.

Ecstasy, come on. He's a drug dealer, Dad.

That's past ten.

Are you kidding me?

You know what really pisses me off?

That I was stupid enough to fall for the whole damn I change thing. Nobody

changes. People don't change, do they, Dad?

We can go out.

We can go have all those steak dinners we want.

But it don't make us a family.

I'm my own family.

I'd like to go to Central Booking now.

You have an absolute right to an attorney, okay? And I can no longer ask

single question about anything that could incriminate you.

So I'm going to ask you some questions about someone else's crime.

I don't know anything about anyone else.

You know this, don't you?

No.

No.

You know how you were caught?

A confidential informant told one of our officers.

About your business.

We didn't even know it was there.

The person that sells this brand of ecstasy.

Your competition.

Why are you telling me this?

Thought you might like to return the favor.

I'm not interested in revenge.

Have you seen the news today, Mr. Finkelstein?

These people brought shame to your community.

Brian. Ladies, ladies.

It's popular.

Yeah, dope will do that.

That's a lady though, right?

So. What the fuck is going on, folks?

Okay, here he comes.

And he's stopping.

I love it, boys. Moving on.

1973 Charger.

I think I've seen most of his cars.

Want to stop him?

These guys got balls.

Let's go meet Mr. Michael Boccarelli with people.

Put your window down. Turn the car off, man. Hey, Dave, why don't you back off?

Hey, you want to turn the car off for me, man? Dave, just back off. I'm not...