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Previously on Third Watch.

Detective Monroe, I need to know what happened up in that room.

Sergeant Cruz murdered Donald Mann. You shot a handcuffed prisoner.

I'm not going in on a lie with you. This is prison we're talking about.

Yeah, what about Charlie and Emily? Don't leave with me.

Excuse me? What did you tell me about Captain Penny? We worked together, okay,

on an anti -crime unit a long time ago.

Hey, Bosco.

About Donald Mann. I just want you to know that I took care of that for you.

Sergeant Cruz, you're under arrest for the murder of Donald Mann.

We've got a very tight docket, Counselor. Please keep the nonsense to a

Thank you.

We'll be hearing testimony from the Yocas children, Emily and Charles.

Assuming all parties are present.

Your Honor, my client called from her cell phone. She's on her way. How long,

Counselor? Well, I'd say that she's here.

Sorry.

I'm so sorry, Your Honor.

I just... I, um... I'm sorry, Your Honor. I'm sorry that I'm late. I had a

personal problem at home, but I'm here now.

We're ready, Your Honor. I'm glad to hear it.

Counselor? Still ready, Your Honor.

How many nights a week, on average, is your mother at home by midnight?

I don't know.

I'm always asleep when she gets home.

So what time do you go to sleep?

It depends.

On?

Homework, if I have a test the next day. So, typically, you don't see your

mother at night?

No. But your mother says her new job is going to change all of that.

Yeah, right.

You think she's lying?

Okay, I'll tell you what.

This is difficult enough without your parents sitting ten feet away.

Counselor, I want to see you and the children in my chambers.

You can't put me in there. Captain Finney's orders.

Detective

Jokic,

we need you to come with us.

Who are you?

Detective Barlow and Weller, IAB.

You guys, I'm a little bit...

Probably. Look, the judge will be back any minute. We're just waiting on a

ruling. You don't have to explain that to the judge. Let's go.

I just need like 20 minutes. Please let go of my arm. What the hell's going on?

Can we please go outside and discuss this? There's nothing to discuss. I just

want to see my kid. Don't make me cuff you. Was she under arrest?

I'm not leaving this courtroom.

Will you please do something?

Whatever's going on is just to get outside quickly and quietly. What is

on? You know me.

You asked me how to give crews a medal.

What, having the courage to shoot a guy wearing handcuffs? You losing sleep over

Donald Mann's constitutional rights?

No, but it's hard enough getting the public to trust us without crap like

Morning. Hey.

Hughes always was a hothead. I knew she'd do herself in someday.

I don't understand why Yoko's recovered for her in the first place. If they both

had their story straight, investigation was closed, and what changed?

Yeah, I wonder.

What?

Rat Jr. shows up here, and a month later, one of us is behind bars.

Nah, I'm sure that's just a coincidence.

Thought you did it yourself then.

You picked that up with your supersonic hearing or is my locker bugged? Nah,

nobody means either with your mouth.

It must wear you out keeping up with that intellect all day.

Your Honor, I move for a continuum.

What? Something came up, work -related. My client was called away.

Called away? I believe she's under arrest.

She was arrested? For what?

They didn't mention any charges.

Emily.

Counselor. Emily.

Charlie.

Your Honor, I humbly move for a continuum.

I'll bet.

You couldn't have given me ten minutes to think about it, my kids.

I don't ask questions.

Sit down.

I need to call my lawyer and tell her that I'm not going to be coming back.

Look, we're talking about murder, okay? We're talking 25 to life. You better

hope that happened to postpone your little family court case.

It's the biggest problem you have at the end of the day.

You always do that.

Do what?

You cut the cake sideways, you eat all the icing, and you leave the dry pot for

the rest of us.

You pay that much attention?

And this one eats all the raisins.

And the coffee cake, please.

So, Lou, what do you know about that new guy?

He needs to buy a vowel for his last name. Who is it? Guy Stoosh.

That's a bunch of Zs from Greenpoint.

Last check. I know him.

You do?

Why don't you? I know him. I know of him.

Interdepartmental basketball. He's our center.

This is great.

Not for me. I was going to play center.

is gray because it means he's ugly. What are you talking about?

Well, excuse me, but some of us are sick and tired of the parade of Joe -Hunky

-Fire dudes who show up just long enough to get the women all worked up, then

slither off into the sunset.

As opposed to someone who just bothers them and won't go away?

I think she meant, why do you think he's ugly just because he plays basketball?

Oh, come on.

It's a large check. Who's tall enough to play basketball?

It's like a deal God made with the universe. If a white guy can play ball,

ugly.

What? Name one good -looking white guy in the NBA.

Jason. John.

Keith Van Horn. Okay, whatever. I'm telling you this guy's gonna be a troll.

tall troll.

I swear to God, the cabbie had a seizure.

If you don't believe me, you can call the dispatcher.

I swear I'm always on time.

You want phone numbers?

Not a problem.

Your lock is upstairs.

What?

You think he's good looking?

Hey.

I know you.

I don't think so.

Yeah, you look familiar.

I'm on the move to make new friends.

Whenever I've seen you, I didn't like you.

Bruce.

Bruce.

Come on, come on.

Speak up. I think a few people in Guam didn't hear you.

Yeah, yeah. I need an extra kid. I don't have one. Cousin? Aunt? I understand

the concept. I don't have one.

Suit yourself.

Cruz?

Sergeant Cruz?

You sent my brother to Rikers.

Whoever he is, I'm sure he sent himself.

Danny Womack, two years ago.

Never heard of him. You're a liar.

If it wasn't her brother, it was somebody else.

Well, that's brilliant.

Are you calling me stupid?

No.

Pissing off a cop who's going to be out of here by 5 o 'clock is genius.

You're a genius.

Well, at least I know how to do some math, bitch.

There's a whole bunch of us and one of you.

Fine.

I'm scared.

I'm gonna be over in the corner trembling.

Bitch.

We'll have to find a manager.

Sorry about that one. We have to. She said she was losing consciousness.

I'm really sorry. I made a mistake.

You don't need to be here.

I don't understand. Did you call us?

I did, but I'm fine now.

I'm fine. So just never mind.

Well, there's paperwork for never mind, so you might as well let it in.

You said something about an accidental overdue?

Yes. I'm so embarrassed for wasting your time, I mean.

Is this your busy season?

Or maybe closer to the holidays?

My name's Holly.

What's your name?

Kathy. Land you there. But you don't really need it.

Well, except you said you did.

L -A -N -G -E -L -I -E -R.

No, you really don't need to do all that. Look, like you said, it's our busy

season, so...

Kathy, what exactly is going on here?

I don't know.

I feel so foolish.

I guess I wanted to, you know, see what it was like to do drugs. So I took a

bunch of pills, but I instantly regretted it, but it was too late.

I called you guys because I didn't know how long I had, and I hate those stories

where the neighbors call the police because they smell a bad odor.

So if I die, I want to make sure someone found me right away.

Okay, what kind of vote did you take?

Hello?

You've got to be kidding me.

I took 10.

What are they?

Antacid tablets.

I don't keep any medicine in the house except those.

I've been taking one a day, you know, for my bones.

Do you have a problem with your bones?

No. But, you know, the commercials.

So, um, let me get this straight. You thought that you were going to die from

eating too many antacid tablets?

That won't kill me.

Maybe if you're eating them when you're walking out into traffic or something.

Um, actually, you shouldn't exceed the recommended dose of any medication

you first consult your physician.

Even if I'm just taking them to get high?

Especially then.

Yeah, you shouldn't abuse medicine for any reason ever. I know. It was so

stupid. But I've learned my lesson. I will never do it again. I swear.

And I'm fine. So?

You can go now.

Works for me.

I'm not quite... Wait a minute, Carlo.

What?

I thought I should take her in. For what? Eating too many antacids?

She's obviously suicidal.

Oh, come on. If she wanted to kill herself, all she had to do was go in the

kitchen. Would you keep her voice down? She doesn't need instructions.

I'm not going to spend the rest of the day at Bellevue because some whack job

tried to get high on roll eggs.

I'm not.

Kathy?

Do you, uh... Do you know any of your neighbors?

Uh, Mrs. Windham, next door.

Okay, I'm going to go and see if she's at home and maybe she can sit with you

for a while. And I'm going to give you a number that you can call if you feel

depressed again.

Or anything.

I couldn't have called.

I'm fine.

Billy.

How are you?

Detective Yocas? I want to make a phone call.

I would like to apologize.

They took my cell phone, and I want a union lawyer, and I want one now. You

relax. You don't need a lawyer. Are you kidding me?

You send that goon to drag me in here. He gives me a speech about 25 years to

life, and what do you think, I'm going to talk to you without a union lawyer?

Again, I would like to apologize for the way that you were treated.

Listen to me.

I know my rights.

All right, we just have to have a little chat.

about why the physical evidence does not match your story about what happened

that night.

I want my lawyer.

You don't need a lawyer to be a witness.

A witness?

We all know that Sergeant Cruz murdered Donald Mann. I just need you to confirm

this.

Next case.

Docket number 15428, State v.

Marissa Cruz.

Man slaughtered in the second degree on the complaint of Captain Castle Finney,

NYPD.

Counsel, state your names for the record. Stephen Ross for the state, Your

Honor. Albert Rivers of the NYPD Sergeant Benevolent Association.

Our defendant plead.

Not guilty.

I can't hear you speak up.

Not guilty.

A police sergeant charged with murdering a suspect in custody.

State agrees with Your Honor as to the seriousness of the charge and therefore

requests that Ms. Cruz be remanded without bail.

Your Honor, my client has been a member of the NYPD for 10 years. She hasn't

missed a day of work except when injured in the line of duty.

She's not exactly a flight risk. To the contrary, Your Honor, the defendant has

a list of civilian complaints lodged against her the size of the Manhattan

Yellow Pages, and she's been the subject of three internal affairs

investigations. Additionally, she has no living relatives or any other ties to

the community.

If she has a brain cell, she already has a plane ticket in her pocket. That's

blatantly and demonstrably false, Your Honor, that she has a brain cell or a

plane ticket.

Sergeant Cruz, do you or do you not have ties to the community?

Depends on your definition.

Family?

No.

What happened to your faith?

I tripped over my ties to the community.

Motion for bail is denied.

Trial is set for December 9th at 10 a .m.

In the meantime, the defendant will be held at the Rikers Island Detention

Center. You can't be serious.

Next case.

Your Honor, permission to approach.

Next case is in the one after this one.

It's a death sentence and you know it. A death sentence?

Without a trial, who would do something like that?

I'm a big fan of due process.

Next case.

So where is she now?

You ready to talk to me? No, I'm not.

You know...

I'm confused.

I thought that you were worried about getting back to your domestic problems.

You have a judge ready to determine the disposition of your children.

Now, I would think you would be anxious to sign this statement and get back

there. I want to know where Cruz is.

As I understand it, she has a court date in about a month.

Meantime, she's vacationing on an island.

You know what they're going to do to her there? She should have thought of that

before she murdered Donald Mann.

Now, if you're not going to be my witness, I'm going to have to consider

accomplice.

I'm sure they have room out there for you, too.

How was I insensitive?

Oh, I don't know. Certainly not by calling her a whack job.

Oh, you think she was saying?

I think I overestimated you. It's my fault.

I do that. I'm good at recognizing people's potential, but they have to

decision to live up to it, and a lot of people don't.

Squad 55, strong odor of gas in an occupied building. 2 -8 -6 -E, second.

That's her place.

Who? Her, the woman we've been talking about.

So?

This is Adam 553. We just came from there. We're turning around.

Oh, no, we're not. Yes, we are. Turn around. We don't do gas leaks. Carlos,

woman ate a bunch of pills, and now there's a gas leak in her building. Do

see?

I see you're helping on ruining this day.

This should make for some interesting reading if you have time. Where's the

jacket?

That was Donald Mann's biography.

And what? He deserved to be murdered?

Who else deserves to be murdered?

Or is that up to Cruz, or should we let other cops weigh in on it?

What about an entire anti -crime unit?

They deserve to be blown up?

What happened to Officer Boscarelli? Did he deserve that?

Therefore what? That gives Cruz permission to storm around in a rage

anyone she thinks is crooked?

I know who Cruz is.

Yes, you do.

You spent eight months in a wheelchair.

Did you deserve that?

Let me give you a hint. If this woman's alive, don't wait for her to make any

sense. She'll be here all day.

Have you been here?

She injected a bottle of antacids earlier today.

It was Carlos. It was recreational.

Can you get high off antacids?

No. That's the point.

Hey, we got a pretty strong order.

Not as nice.

Get downstairs and shut up the gate.

That's the crew from down there.

How do you know?

All at a hunch.

I was going to boil some water for pasta and then I got busy in the other room

and I forgot all about it. The burner wasn't on, only the gas.

I must have left it in that light position.

Keep the mask on.

Like I said, I can be an airhead and, you know, I've had a rough day, but I'm

fine. Taffy, first you accidentally swallow a bottle of antacid. That wasn't

accident. That was a bad decision.

Okay.

But then you accidentally turned the gas on. Leave it on with all the windows

closed. The person might think you're trying to harm yourself.

I see what you mean, but really, I'm fine.

I don't believe you.

Oh, and I'm insensitive?

Excuse me for a moment.

What? It's not insensitive to call a woman a liar or a fake.

It would be insensitive to pretend to believe her and come back an hour from

to pick up her corpse. She had a perfectly logical explanation.

Logical? She turned the burner on light mode and then just walked away to lie on

the couch. She didn't notice the ticking sound? Well, maybe she couldn't hear it

over all the voices in her head. Didn't you hear yourself?

Would you risk a woman's life to get out of having to spend half a shift at

Bellevue? Girl, I'm not a social worker. They get paid to deal with these

wackos. You know what? I'm glad I'm seeing the side of our relationship.

Did it ever occur to you that I might not want to date you?

You just decided that we were going to be a couple. You didn't even ask me what

I thought of the idea. You shouldn't be allowed to have ideas.

Oh.

Where's the nutcase?

Hey, Roberta, I can't really talk right now.

You're beyond my control.

Did you explain to the judge?

Yeah, I meant it as best you could.

All right.

All right, I'll talk to you later.

The judge continued the case.

She's going to rule later after I explain.

I don't want to lose my kids.

Well, if you really wanted to keep the kids, I wouldn't have been sitting

here all day waiting for you to cooperate.

You don't understand.

I understand you're weighing your own children against protecting that piece

crap, Cruz, who shows me exactly how you feel about your children.

All right.

That's enough.

I'm ready.

For what? To make a statement.

No. No what?

Well, no Circuit City open box special, for starters.

And I want a witness.

A broader witness?

No, I want a witness that doesn't file you under Boss and his Rolodex.

In fact, I want two.

And I want a deal.

You want a deal?

Full immunity.

And you'll tell me everything?

Every detail.

And you'll get immunity?

Full immunity.

Whatever you say.

And I want it in writing.

And I want it signed by a deputy DA.

Been to see him lately?

Been to see who?

Moscow. No.

I don't know. It's too depressing.

Plus, it's not like he knows you're there.

You don't know that.

Is that a woman on that ledge?

Not hell.

Right now.

5 Charlie Central, we got a jumper at 286 East 2nd. What park is that?

Yeah, 2nd and 3rd floor.

I'm Officer Sullivan.

I don't want to talk.

Okay.

I bet you just tell me your name, and we can leave it at that.

Kathy.

I don't want to talk.

Okay, Kathy.

You can call me Sully, just in case you change your mind about talking.

David, we need a unit at 2860 seconds to shut down all lanes.

All right.

We don't want to do anything to scare us. If anyone can just... Hey.

No, no, no, no. What are you doing?

Can I be honest with you about something?

You're making me a nervous wreck out on that ledge.

Can we not talk back in your living room?

You're in so much trouble.

You're trying to trick me.

No, no. If I was trying to trick you, then I would have said something else

I was trying to get you to come back into your apartment.

Kathy, don't get startled, but there's a moron coming to save you.

Why don't you slide over toward me?

Nice and easy.

Don't move. Don't move.

Vinnie, will you go away? I don't need you.

Go back down there.

Oh, ma 'am.

That ruined my whole hero routine. Vinnie, get out of here.

Hey, back up.

Everybody back up.

No way.

I'm doing fine.

At least I got enough stuff to be out of here. At least I got enough sense to be

in here.

Hey, I'm sure you didn't mean it like that, ma 'am.

Come here. Just slide over this way.

Slide over this way, Kathy. Come on.

Come here. Just slide over here. Slide this way.

Kathy, just reach out and take my hand.

Just reach over and grab my hand.

Great.

Terrific.

What's your plan now, genius? Just don't let your mouth close. I got a free

hand.

Well, you didn't tell me she's just watching the window.

I never said she was staying. I think crazy is not her job.

Captain, try to get a hand around to me.

Get out of here, partner. We got it.

Well, I see someone's doing their job.

Go on, man.

Let me get you away from this.

You guys don't mind?

I would rather be saved by him.

Kathy, we're going to need you to lay down on the ground.

Not necessarily.

I'm fine.

You are definitely not fine.

I had a lot of trouble today.

This interview is being conducted relative to the open homicide

Donald Mann, case number 107 -04.

Present are Captain Capofini, Sergeant English, and Detective Barlow, all of

IAB. Detective Yocas has agreed to provide a statement in exchange for

will be granted immunity.

Full immunity.

Full immunity from any charges relative to the aforementioned homicide.

The bruises in the photos of Donald Mann's wrists were caused by handcuffs.

Sergeant Cruz had handcuffed Donald Mann before I arrived at the scene.

She'd taken him into custody and was on her way out with him, down to the car to

bring him in, to book him.

And that's when I shot him.

You mean that's when she shot him?

No, I shot him.

You think you're going to play me? You wanted to know what happened. I want the

truth. I told you the truth. I want the truth. You're a liar. I want the truth,

and I want it now.

No, you don't. You want Cruz.

I am telling you the truth. I shot Donald Mann. I did it because I thought

killed Bosco.

I didn't care what happened to me. Cruz was trying to protect me.

I read this book about people's near -death experiences.

Didn't turn out so well for the people who tried to kill themselves.

It's none of my business, but you might want to look into that or talk to a

professional. Besides, between you and me, you're really not very good at it.

It can't be that bad. Whatever it is, I'm sure something can solve it.

I'm just so tired.

Take a nap.

Look, you gotta hang in there and see how things are gonna turn out.

Because you can miss out on something great just because you gave up on it

before you gave it a chance.

That'll give things a chance.

Yeah, it's no big deal. It's part of the job.

What,

no ticker tape?

You gotta give him an A for effort.

How about Esther? Stupid.

You were making a lot of progress talking to her.

Vinny, I've been doing this since you were a careless knight waiting to

Stu, you show up every day. Who cares?

I've talked down more jumpers than you'll ever see, Vinny.

And the last thing I needed up there was your stupid stunt.

Look, man, if I hadn't clumbed up there, she would have jumped. And you'd have

been running your mouth.

For nothing, like you always do. All right, that's enough. Listen, junior

I know you think your ass is special because your old man's a honcho.

But your old man is a thug, a thief, and a murderer.

And nothing you ever do on this job is going to change that.

Everybody hold it up right there.

See that girl over there?

She's my cousin.

She can't wait to meet you.

No, you don't know how strong I am.

You're bad.

No, I'm going to get in there. Bad, bad.

I'm going to tear you up.

So, how was your first day?

Oh, you know.

Had its ups and downs.

That's funny.

So, um, I was just wondering if, uh, you know, I mean, you know, are you, like,

you, like, seeing anyone?

Am I?

Oh.

No. Uh, I mean, yeah, I am, uh, sorry, you threw me there.

Trick question.

Oh, I know, but, uh, sometimes I can be dense.

Right. You know, it's funny if someone were to ask me to guess when you got a

thought with gay, uh, you would have been my last choice.

I mean, it's never the obvious one. Oh, no, I'm not. I didn't mean that.

It's all good, Doc.

I'm cool with it.

Yeah, but, um, I'm not, um...

You wanted to see me, sir?

She murdered Donald Mann.

Not Cruz, but your good friend, Yocas.

And if you didn't know that, then what the hell good are you to me?

How was I supposed to know that? Your assignment was to find out what happened

up on that roof.

And you did not do that.

I told you that I needed more time.

You were the one who said all you needed was the knife.

I wanted you to slow down so that I could keep working. Are you criticizing

No, I'm not criticizing you. Yocas may have played me for immunity, but if she

thinks that's going to keep Cruz out of jail, she's got another thing coming.

Cruz covered up a murder.

Sir, with all due respect, think about what you're saying.

We're going to let the murderer who the department meritoriously promoted for

her actions on the roof walk and prosecute the one who covered it up? If

think this department looks bad now, just wait until Cruz's attorneys get a

of this.

Get out.

Get out!

I am sorry, sir.

I want to beat up a CO, especially one who came to tell you that you're out of

here.

Go.

Night, Davis.

I'll see you tomorrow.

All right, so what was that?

What was what?

You said, Finney, the jumper.

That was just me running my big mouth.

Forget it.

I don't think so.

It's between me and him. He's my partner now, and you're all up in his face, so

it's between me and you. All right, I'll back off, okay?

You're one of my best friends. If it's gonna stay that way, I need to know

whatever it is you're not telling me.

Close that door.

I'm gonna tell you this story one time.

I'm going to tell you the C -spot run version.

And when I'm done telling you, we're done with it.

It was a long time ago.

It was a bunch of dirty cops that were taking payoff money from drug dealers.

About a dozen or so of them.

Some you never heard of.

Your father.

And C .T. Finney.

When it became clear that the House of Cards was going to cave in, the rest of

the gang had a brainstorm.

They'd pin it on the black guy, because that would be an easy thing to do.

Your father saw it coming.

Decided to head him off at the pass.

C .T. Finney got wind of it.

You know the rest.

What are you saying? What?

Captain Finney killed my father?

Your father was going to IAB the next day.

We got a bogus call.

Your father ended up dead.

A month later, C .T. Finney's in a nice corner office downtown.

You can draw your own conclusions.

I'm gonna let you down.

I know then I'll make you cry. I know I will.

Why should you believe I would never leave?

Or that I love you?

So I told him, I said, so let's just waste the time and money. You know how

good that did me, right?

I put a potted amaryllis on Mikey's grave today.

You know, I thought it would look pretty for the holidays.

I had to get the plastic because the silk was $34 .99 on sale. You can

that.

Plus,

you don't want to get anything too... Alright.

Cruz, I can't figure this.

Why the hell would you go through all that to protect me?

I don't know.

Look,

we're not friends.

I don't even like you.

You know what?

I spent the entire day with a bunch of people telling me how much they don't

like me. So you want to fight? Let's go. Let's go. Let's just get over it.

I told you that night I didn't want you to be involved.

I was already involved.

He was my prisoner. And I told you.

That I would face my punishment. This isn't about you.

I don't rat on cops. It makes no difference who they are or whether I

or not. I don't rat on cops.

I don't owe you anything, Cruz. I didn't want you to do this.

Fair enough?