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Previously on Third Watch. Is that her?

My lawyer says you're not supposed to come to my work like this.

Finney? Please have a bitch of a time with that name.

The only other Finney on the job I know is that filthy rat bastard Captain. This

is probationary officer Finney.

Captain Finney's son.

They confess to a murder. What do you need?

Oh, a ticket here, a ticket there, then what? Are you going to start planting

evidence?

I'm not going to have your back on it.

I mean, I understand spreading the kids not being able to come, you know. I'm

just sorry that Bosco wasn't there tonight.

So show me.

What? Show me the gold.

See the devil on the doorstep now, my, oh, my.

Telling everybody on just how to live their life.

Flooding down the information highway.

Buying engines like a bunch of fools.

Time is ticking and we can't go back. My, oh my.

What about the world today?

What about the place that we call home?

We've never been so many and we've never been so alone.

Keep watching, don't you break it fast.

Thank you.

I'll catch up.

Hi.

Hi.

How are you, sweetie?

I'm so sorry that I haven't been around in the last few days.

How's Bosco?

You know, his condition's serious, but, um... You know Bosco, he's strong. He's

gonna pull through.

Uh, can I see him?

Um, when the hospital starts letting, uh, visitors come, I'll give you a call,

okay?

How you doing, Em? I miss you so much. How are things going?

Uh, they're okay.

I don't actually get that, Mom.

Everything sucks right now.

Charlie's upset and Dad's upset.

It really sucks trying to hold it together all the time.

I mean, I know this stuff is rough.

You haven't been around.

I've just been busy these last few days. What's more important, Mom? Your big

promotion ceremony?

Yeah, Emily, that was important to me.

And don't you think that you and Charlie not showing up didn't hurt my feelings?

I mean, you guys could have at least called me.

Don't do this, Mom. Don't do what?

I just can't deal with this anymore.

I don't want to be in the middle of you and Dad.

I don't want to be trying to figure out where I should be at the moment and who

I'm supposed to side with. I'm not asking you to take five, Emily.

I was asking you to share an important night in my life. Do you have any idea

how many times I wanted you to be somewhere for me and even show up?

I gotta go.

Emily.

It sucks looking at an empty chair in the audience, doesn't it, Mom?

Who is it?

Yeah.

Detective Monroe.

You come to my house?

What if no one would have seen you? No one made you sign up for the IAB.

I thought I was looking for corruption. Sergeant Cruz is corruption.

She's a cancer on this department.

I'm trying.

What was your friends at the 5 -5 think if they knew the true nature of your

assignment?

What? Get Yocas to talk to you about what happened that night.

Soon.

Or your jacket's on the internet.

Hey, Jelly.

Use this desk. Phone's there, coffee's there.

One of your jobs is a newbie?

It's to make sure the coffee never runs out.

And never, ever use the Subway Series mug. It's mine. I've never seen you use

anything except styrofoam.

Don't use the mug.

Got it.

Now, most important question.

You know a good breakfast joint?

What? You know a good place for breakfast?

Yeah, I know a place.

Welcome to the squad.

How you doing?

Is your machine not working?

Uh, no, it works fine.

I don't get you.

I think you do.

What the hell do you think you're doing?

Me? It's Yoko's locker.

She's a detective. She's upstairs now. Get your stuff out of it. Look, you got

an issue with my old man. Why don't you grow some balls and take it up with him?

Balls? What your old man knows about them? Let's go. I don't need your

protection, David.

Come on, kick his ass, Telly. I don't give a damn.

Microwave bacon?

You call this breakfast?

Let's get a few things straight.

Detectives eat in restaurants.

Uniforms eat in cars.

I don't eat fast food except for pizza, and that's got to be from John's. And I

never, never eat microwave bacon.

Decent meal break is one of the perks of having a gold shield.

So you've had the shield a long time then?

me that's 3C.

One universal truth of policing, any day that begins with a domestic is not

going to be a good day.

Then we're screwed already.

Hey, I thought you and Finney were going to scratch each other's eyes out in the

locker room.

It's not that big a deal.

Not that big a deal. From where I'm standing, this is a very, this is a very

deal. Please.

Wait, that's just great.

Hi, uh, we didn't call the police.

Oh, we're here because we care.

The neighbor's called.

You want to come out of this, sir?

I said we're fine.

Now?

I told you to stop screaming, didn't I, you

stupid bitch?

Hey, I was stupid when I believed I was gaining weight. You said that's why all

my Victoria's Secret rules stretched out. Sir, can you please step over here?

All those extra large teddies.

You said you bought them big because they were on clearance. Ma 'am, calm

please. Calm down?

I come home early from work to find out that I'm married to a queer. Hey, I am

not... Hey! Where are you going?

Look. Right here.

Will you please tell her that just because I like to wear women's clothes

not mean that I'm gay.

It's called cross -dressing. There's a difference, you moron.

Moron, now.

Which one of the two of us is standing here in front of the cops dressed like

Ellie Mae Clamp? Quiet!

Did he hit you?

No. Sir, did she hit you?

No. Your neighbors have called to complain because of the yelling. If you

us to leave, you're going to have to quiet down.

One of you needs to step outside and take a break.

I'll take a walk.

No, no, no, not in my Dolce & Gabbana's. You don't have to. Fine.

All your shoes are too big for me anyway, clubfoot. You bastard.

Hey, can I go and change?

Please.

Whoa, whoa, hold on.

Sir, you cut?

I don't think so.

Sully.

Police, open up!

Looks like he taped his own suicide.

Whatever happened to a good old -fashioned note?

Bitch. Whore.

Nice guy.

Must have been a maid's day off.

55 Charlie to Central. Have EMS respond to a possible DOA this location.

We're in apartment 4C.

And notify Lieutenant and squad.

Possible DOA? That guy is dead.

You want to babysit a stinker?

And have 5 -5 David roll by too, Central. What do I need them for?

Let that little bastard see what being a real cop is.

So how are you two doing?

What? You and Holly.

No, there is no me and Holly.

Oh, that's not what she said.

Why? What? What did she say? She's out of her mind, you know, completely loony.

Carlos and Holly, sitting in a chair. That's real mature.

Super cop buddy can't even handle domestic on his own?

Got somebody down?

Inside.

Got something for your partner.

What's that smell?

It's your first stinker.

This isn't our job. It is now. We got a job downstairs in 3C.

Suicide, 340 years old.

Whoa, possible DOA? I thought I saw him move.

It's already started to decompose.

Pronouncing at 1537 hours, EMS 24276. Nice try.

Whoa. Let me guess.

DOA. I've seen few people more DOA.

Vouchering property from a suicide is a good learning tool for our young officer

here.

Sure is.

Handle it, Vinnie. This isn't our job.

Handle it.

And I bet you signed up for the glitz and glamour.

I can smell a jaguar from down here.

Thanks, Ellie and Tasha.

Hey, y 'all can look at you out of uniform. How's it feel?

Weird. If you need anything really disgusting done, make sure and use the

kid. My dad told me that.

What's with him?

Smells getting to him.

You should go stand outside for a minute. My father told me the only way

used to the stinker smell is to stay in it.

Your nose is lazy.

Yeah? Who's your father?

Mr. Science?

He said I... That looks like we got a suicide here, guys.

You know, women do this right.

Bottle of pills, head in the oven, never make a mess.

Yeah, that's because we always have to clean everything up. Know anything about

him? No, we haven't canvassed yet.

He sure ain't carrying a wallet in his boxes.

Aaron Gordon, driver's license,

birth certificate, social security card.

It's like he wanted us to find him. Should have left a way to find him

started to stink.

There's nothing here about next of kin. All the tapes right there are labeled

and dated.

It's going back a couple months.

Looks like there's still a tape in the camera, too. Yeah, we're thinking he

probably taped his own foot with that. You a detective?

No, sir.

Then don't think.

Come on. Where I'm going can't be worse than here, right?

At least I won't be hot anymore.

It's in the top drawer on my desk.

Okay, so whoever finds me, I'm sorry about the mess.

I left money for the cleaning bill and the end tape by the door.

lucky lady.

How's that?

First job, ground ball.

Clear -cut suicide.

Let's go get a real meal.

Shouldn't we wait for the M .E.? We don't have to do that.

You guys sit on our body till the M .E. office gets here.

Now we eat.

I'm not hungry.

Really? Suit yourself.

I drop you off at the house and you start working on the 61s.

What are you doing? I'm going to take him.

I'll look at him, find out who he is.

Was. And who cares?

Well, there might be something on here about his family or somebody we can

notify. If a guy had family, they didn't visit very often. I'll voucher them

then. The evidence, right?

Evidence is only important in a court case.

You know what?

Voucher away.

Hell, catalog everything.

I got a date with a boss of a zoo.

You guys stay here. The crime scene will be by to take some pictures.

Call Yorkers when they're done.

Thank you, Joey.

Sorry, guys.

It's not your job anymore, Faith.

Can you believe they tried to lay a thinker off on us? What, I'm not going

notice the guy's decomposing? I got stupid stamps on my forehead?

You ever see that guy before?

The dead guy?

No, the cop.

The one with the blue eyes.

Blue eyes? Are you kidding me?

Hey, you got a girlfriend?

Can I look for that someone special?

I do not have a girlfriend.

My name's Aaron, two A's, Gordon, and this is the story of my life.

I'm 25 years old, and I've lived in New York City since I'm a kid.

Everyone can be famous for a couple minutes if it's on video in America,

Hey, you did a good job in there, man.

And once I got past almost peeping on my shoes?

We've all been there.

Tell your friend Sullivan I did all right.

I don't know what's up with that. He never seemed so worked up about someone.

My father said they all used to work together, but I didn't know they hated

other that much.

Who used to work together?

My father, Sullivan, your dad.

Really? What, he never told you that?

No.

We're all finished here.

Thank you.

It said that everyone had someone out there. A soulmate? I found mine.

God, she was beautiful.

Beautiful!

My knees got tingly when I saw her. Actually tingly.

She had on this pretty dress.

Little flowers. They looked so good under her red hair. Like they

each other, you know? Like the dress was made to perfectly go with her hair.

Heat wave in NYC.

I put the AC on, but my mom always said the fluorocarbons can hurt you. I don't

know what those are exactly, but they sound bad.

But none of that matters because I saw her again today.

She had on another dress, no flowers, but it was still beautiful.

I can tell you how it ends. She makes my heart hurt, you know? I wouldn't want

to spoil it for you.

He's talking about some girl he met, so there might be someone to notify.

Good for you. Want to get some dinner?

Didn't you just eat?

That was hours ago.

I think I'm just going to keep going through these, and maybe he'll give me

name. You don't eat much, huh?

I eat enough.

Good.

Same time, same place.

Just like always.

I can't believe it.

She didn't see me, but I saw her. I saw her.

I saw her.

Some guy.

Some whore.

Some son of a bitch. A kid.

Right in front of her kids, too.

You know what that feels like?

Terrence, when you...

You know, it doesn't matter that I'm a good guy.

I just wanted someone who would tell me that how I look didn't matter, that they

loved me anyway.

Just like my mom.

I thought Cindy was like her.

I just, I just, I just wanted to make her happy. You know, love her, hold her,

make her feel safe.

You know what?

I pulled citywide missing persons,

unidentified DOAs.

Open homicide. I came up with nothing so far.

Because you said someone had to die?

What am I going to do, wait for a body to show up?

Got a name for her?

Cindy. He didn't give a last name yet, but she's got red hair.

Cindy with red hair.

Are you hearing yourself?

I don't know what else you could do but wait.

Listen, if you would just listen to him talk about her. You don't even know if

she's real. Will you just watch this?

with her kids.

You can tell she cares for them the way she treats them.

Me and my mom always said you get out of kids what you put into them, so you can

really tell they love her the way they look at her.

I mean, there's nothing phony about this woman at all.

She's just pure goodness.

She's delicious.

Now I can see her all the time right here in the apartment.

She's real, all right.

Is that what she looks like? She ought to stand out in the crowd.

What does she weigh, around nine pounds?

That's not funny.

He's a nut job. Yeah, agreed.

Does he say on the tape she actually did it? There's a tape missing. He records

through 10 -7, and then it ends.

Maybe he took some time off.

He didn't take time off.

He was getting ready to off himself.

That guy is meticulous. He recorded something every day.

Look, Jolly, if we go back in that apartment, I think we're going to find

missing tape somewhere.

This could be him getting his jollies, and he didn't kill anybody.

What if it's not?

You know what? I could do this myself, but, you know, you're the best detective

that I ever saw, and I could really use the help.

Are you playing me?

Absolutely.

Hey.

Where's your little jag off?

That's getting old, man.

Sweet on?

Well, I'm willing to give him a shot.

I want you back.

Yeah, whatever.

Can I talk to you about something?

Yeah.

His father used to work with you and my dad?

I don't work together.

What would you say?

We knew each other.

How? We were on the same watch.

You never told me that.

Why would I?

Because every time Captain Finney's name is mentioned, you go off for like 20

minutes. I don't think the fact that you actually worked together would have

come up.

You ready, Davis?

Yeah.

Yeah, we'll talk later.

Yeah.

The opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifferent.

Well, I must be in love, because I sure as hell don't feel indifferent.

I'm pissed off, and I will not be ignored.

I haven't been enough time for the smell of clear -out.

What, are you going to get sick?

Who are you?

Nut job.

All the tapes I looked at.

There's a date and time in the corner. He turns the machine off the same time

every day. 2 .45, turns it back on 3 .15, right after he's seen her.

So the whole trip takes less than a half an hour.

Does he actually know her? I don't know. At first I thought he did. Now I don't

think so.

But he knows how to get to her. He can hurt her. That's the most important

thing. Nothing in the cabin.

Isn't it kind of weird that he freaked out about seeing her kiss someone?

What do you mean?

If she's got kids, pretty much throws Virgil out of the picture.

Looks like he exists on fast food and takeout. Yeah, so does half of New York.

Nothing interesting over here.

Why would he hide that one tape, huh?

He left everything else out for us to see, nice and easy.

Possibly because he's frigging out of his mind?

No. That tape is here somewhere.

This ain't that big of a place.

Look, if the tape had something incriminating on it, maybe he just

I don't think so.

We're going to need more than a female institution.

Intuition. Whatever.

Jelly, this is not just a feeling. The guy was recording his biography. Why the

hell would he leave out the most important chapter?

Plus, he knew he was going to kill himself. What does he care if there was

something incriminating on the tape?

Jelly.

How far did I rewind that tape?

What? Yesterday.

Suicide tape.

It was all the way at the end.

These are like two hours long.

This is an instantaneous detonator I'm using.

It'll activate as soon as she pulls the lid off.

Boom.

No more high and mighty press.

Maybe it'll even blow the flowers right off her dress.

Maybe that son of a bitch who was kissing will be standing next to her

does.

Did she get this?

Everyone will know who I was.

package. I'm priority mailing the bitch right into the year after.

Priority mail?

Joey, that stuff's already been done a few days.

See you in the next life, baby.

We know very little about the victim, except that she's a redhead. Her name is

Cindy, and she has kids.

The perp's been stalking her for several weeks, and we believe that she is

somewhere within a half -an -hour round -trip walk from his apartment, which is

here. This was suicide from yesterday?

Yeah. He's the perp.

We got a flyer circulating in the area to all the businesses where children

would frequent, parks and schools, et cetera. There's also a picture of Aaron

Gordon in there. So, canvas your sectors.

I have the task force coming in to assist in the search.

Talk about a needle in a haystack.

How come we didn't go to the press with this? A redhead with kids?

DCPI didn't think it was worth the panic it might cause.

Too busy with bogus terrorist alerts.

Well, we're hoping that somebody may recognize him and that can somehow lead

in a direction to her. And that's all we have to go on right now.

The bomb is in a brown paper -wrapped box and it's set to explode when the lid

is taken off.

All right, that's it. Take your post.

Good job, guys.

Thanks. Thanks, Lou.

You know, you think I'm sick in the head, but I'm not.

I'm just a muck.

Like Romeo, right?

You've been staring at that forever.

He's seen her like 45 times in the last few months and it's always at the same

time of day.

So she has a schedule to keep. Yeah, but what do the days have in common?

All right, look.

When I get stumped, I like to turn it upside down and inside out.

So turn this inside out.

You've been looking at when he saw her.

Maybe we should look at when he couldn't see her.

He doesn't see her on Saturdays and Sundays. So what, she works in the area

Monday through Friday.

Wouldn't be with her kids if she was working, would she?

I don't know. Working and being with your kids doesn't really work out.

He didn't see her on October 11th.

That's a Monday.

That's a bank holiday.

So she works at a bank.

Or a school.

Jelly, that's got to be it. He sees her picking up her kids from school.

That explains why...

He doesn't see her on Saturdays and Sundays and holidays and also explains

the tape is off from 2 .45 to 3 .15 because that's dismissal time.

And he didn't know her when he started the tapes because school wasn't in

session yet.

There's one grammar school in the area.

If we don't get her here, we may not get another chance.

We're going to find her face.

Too many.

Jelly,

what?

It's her.

She's a teacher. She's not a parent.

A student bug.

Oh, my God, Jelly. She has the package.

Cindy?

Cindy?

Um, we need for you to stand still. What's going on?

We need to talk to you privately.

Kids, um, we're going to talk to Miss Cynthia, okay? We need for you to walk

away from her.

I don't understand. Miss Cynthia, I need to have those kids walk away from you

right now. I'll explain it to you when the kids are safe.

Safe?

All right, kids, you all go over by the gate now, okay?

Cynthia needs to talk to the police officer.

If you don't go over by the gate, you'll miss snack time tomorrow.

Cindy, that package that's in your hand, I'm going to... I'm going to walk

towards you and take it away from you. I want to know what's going on. Don't

move.

There may be a pump inside that box.

Box? I'm just going to take the box from you, okay? Jokas.

Jelly.

Jokas, I got a box for a coming. Jelly, this kid's all over the place. I'm going

to take the box.

Just nice and easy, okay?

Just nice and easy. I'm going to take this from you, okay?

You shake the box, okay?

Let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go.

Run,

move back. Come on, kid, move back.

There you go.

You know, detectives don't really do this kind of thing.

It's good to know.

Hey,

you've done good.

Get all the families and the kids you saved.

Go get some ease.

So you can stop both, huh?

Yes, great cop.

I can have anything, man.

Yeah, that was crazy.

You did a good job, man.

See you tomorrow. Yeah.

You know, he really should have Yoko's locker.

No, he shouldn't.

What'd you tell me about Captain Finney?

Nothing to tell.

Was he friends with my dad or what?

It's past history, Davis. Long past.

What's the big deal? What can you do?

We worked together, okay, on an anti -crime unit a long time ago. End of

I thought detectives worked better hours. They've been here for two days

straight.

If we would have handled them my way, you would have been home on time each

night.

And you would have been one dead schoolteacher.

Whatever kids happened to be around when she blew up.

Beginner's luck.

So who is she?

Her name is Cindy O 'Neil. She's a first grader. Not the teacher.

The woman we were watching yesterday.

The one in the Volvo?

What, you didn't think I noticed?

I was married once.

Found out my wife was porking the delivery guy from the deli up the block.

He delivered for them. I guess mostly sausage.

I was gonna go up there and kick his ass, and then I thought, what the hell

mad at him for?

I've been there, Faith.

If you don't let it go, no good will come of it.

Good night.

Hey.

Jerry, Faith Yoka.

Listen, you know that name that I gave you for the full rundown?

Yeah, the one off the license plate.

You do me a favor, give that a toss.

Thanks.

No.

No.

I won't be needing that anymore.

Hey. Hey.

What are you doing?

Just waiting for you.

We can talk.

We'll talk.

Okay.

I just want things to be right again between us.

You know, I've never really had these kind of... I

really like you.

I like...

Just being around you. And when I'm not, I'm thinking about you.

So I appreciate you giving me this job.

Ty, I... Look, I never asked you to lie.

Right. That was all on me.

But the whole thing with the ticket, that put me in a position that I don't

want to be in again.

I got it. I understand.

So if you can't play by the rules, I mean, I can't work with you, and I

definitely can't be with you.

All right.

It won't happen again.

Better not.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

Yeah. For the cold and truth.

I don't care.

I guess.

This means we've got to have makeup sex now, right?

Right?

You know, I need to go throw this out.

Maybe we should go to your place? Let's go to my place.