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Mom, no.

Michael, what is going on? You never smoked pot, did you? You can't just try

like you did with a judge without some concrete evidence.

Even a judge has to bend an elbow now and then. With a convicted loan shark,

sir. You don't play girl scout with me.

You're going to stand there and tell me you never turned your head before?

I don't know the man a damn thing.

Whatever I got, I got on my own. That's not good enough. Fine, fine. You can

head and bash a few heads in. I did not accuse you of anything. The hell you

didn't. When you grade me on ethics, you're going to flunk me there too?

Thank you.

Steady, hold him in frame.

You sure you're in focus, Mary Beth?

You are not Alfred Hitchcock here, Christine, and I have done this before.

Sorry.

We've been cooped up here a week. I just want to be sure we make this case.

Which is why I'm manning the camera.

A woman.

A person.

Here's another one.

Are you posting on his face?

Okay, this is his third time in this week.

He must be in the Recubian for a bundle.

His plate's registered to his company.

Victor's better casuals. Must be slow and leisure -aware.

That's Carmine Fish, sir. He's a bookie from Greenpoint.

The Recubian serves them all, Lieutenant.

Regardless of race, create a police record.

Who's Mr. Eldorado here?

Not all yet, sir. The DMV hasn't gotten back to us on the plate.

Ruby, it sure gave him a big hello.

Wait a minute. I know that face.

Where from? Time?

Newsweek? Playgirl?

I said face.

Very good work, people.

Very good.

We're getting ready to make our move.

Tomorrow will be too soon, can't it?

We've got two teams off the charts and a backlog of cases already.

I know that, Cagney. Well, we've got visual IDs, video IDs. We've got enough

land it, Lone Shark. That's not enough. It's enough.

Okay, it's enough.

All right, give me the amount of evidence. I'll see what I can do to get

green light.

Thanks, Vincent. You won't regret it. Yeah, we're going to nail this sucker

and clean.

Cagney, since you're so hot to get on other assignments, just so happens I got

one for you.

Performance evaluations.

Standards of assessment are on page three.

When you're through, I want to see a list of detectives ranked numerically,

number one being best.

Lieutenant, if it's all the same to you, I just need to come.

Oh, you're a superior officer, Cagney.

The impartial appraisal of subordinates comes with the turf.

You should welcome this as a test of leadership, of objectivity.

Or how to catch the buck.

I'm kidding.

I wish I were.

Coleman got it from Basil, you got it from Glasgow.

I'm dead, Z -E -A -D.

Don't you think you're overreacting just a little bit? She doesn't like me. She

never has liked me. And that was a chance to show just how much.

Victor, Sergeant Cagney is not vindictive. She tries to be fair.

Most of the time. Oh, it's easy for you to say. He's your partner. You have no

worries. If I were certain people, I wouldn't badmouth certain other people.

Here's my activities report, Sergeant.

A day early? I try to be punctual.

Since when? We better hit the streets. We're not going to thrive on those

just hanging around here.

Come on, Marcus.

Dodge, I want you to meet Andrew Jackson, our sixth president.

We've got seven presidents, and I don't take bribes. Get out of town.

This is the 20 bucks I owe you from the last time we played poker.

Oh, yeah.

From so long ago, I almost forgot.

I never forget a debt.

There goes a man with debt.

Brace yourself for the thing.

I got a feeling this is only the beginning.

You are going to be so gorgeous.

You're going to wake up gorgeous.

Yeah.

You're already pretty good.

Yeah, prettiest girl in Queens.

But no red polish till you're 16. You understand me, Alice?

Hi. Hey.

What are you doing home so soon?

Didn't hear from you yet? No, I filled the bowl in, Allie. What happened?

Do you and Josh have a fight?

No.

Well, are you sick?

Here, let me feel your forehead.

Mom, I'm okay.

All right, suit yourself.

I'll call the Benson's and find out from them how come you didn't stay

overnight. Mom, no.

Michael, what is going on?

Huh?

If I tell you, you'll have to promise me you'll be my mom and not a cop.

Michael, what happened?

Promise me.

Okay, I promise you.

Josh was smoking pot, and he wanted me to smoke it with him.

You cannot expect a 12 -year -old to handle these kinds of things, Mary Beth,

especially when it is adults pushing the drugs. Michael did not say the Bensons

were pushing drugs on him.

A kid smokes dope right under his parents' noses. He offers it to Michael.

else do you call it? Honey, are you going to help me here or not? Don't

the subject. Michael did the right thing.

He said no, he came home, he trusted me.

What the hell are those people thinking?

I mean, it's bad enough it's all over the place, but in their living room, to

feed it to their own kid.

To our kid.

What are you doing?

I'm not going to stand for this.

Where are you going?

To the Bensons. I promised Michael that I would stay out of it. I didn't. I

already told him to steer clear of Josh.

That's not good enough. Fine, fine. You go ahead and bash a few heads in. And

next time when it happens again, you bash heads in there. That'll teach

What happened to you got to trust your kids, Mary Beth? What happened to... You

got to let them learn for themselves. Look at this here.

Another one.

$1 .39 a pop.

A neighbor's house should be a safe place, Mary Beth. If our kid can't be

there.

Boy, I hate what those people are doing.

I know, Harvey.

I hate it, too.

Only the bartender tells me you've been placing bets with him.

Says you're okay.

Me, I'm a little less trusting.

The gamblers have a tendency to forget their obligations, you know what I mean?

My ex -wife reminds me every month, which is why I'm coming to you.

Divorce? A nice Catholic boy like you?

You don't know my ex -wife.

What do you need, kid?

What I'd like is seven, Mr.

Kubian, but what I need is 500.

Benny.

The guy at the end of the bar.

I think I remember that face in uniform.

Later, Pauly.

Okay, kid. I'll go to bike bills.

Now, the Vig is 150 over principal.

Paid weekly.

Being on time counts.

Oh, I got it, Mr. McCooley.

Now,

Manuel C.

Donald DeWitt, right? That's right.

Now you're in the book.

Bank's closed.

You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used

against you in a court of law.

Hey, Paulie, I owe you one.

Of course, you realize I'll be walking by the time you finish your paperwork.

Is that a fact? Yeah. Well, I guess a slap on the wrist while you're still

suffering from writer's cramp.

Hey,

all the more power.

That a man.

Occupant. Your middle name, right? Right.

Hi, Coleman.

How you doing?

Okay.

I don't believe it.

Get used to it, Cagney. Same thing happens when I evaluate the uniform.

It is the worst week of the year.

It's a miserable job. You know, all the fawning and the creaming, and you know

what? It doesn't matter how you rate them, they still end up hating you.

Thanks for making my day, Coleman.

That's what fellow sergeants are for.

Oh, sorry. There's something I got to read to you.

Later. No luck on the number code, Sergeant.

I thought we were onto something with the astrological signs.

The ace of Spanish Harlem strikes again.

Ace, could you say that in English? It's a three -letter month code.

Enter the number of the month and skip ahead that number of letters. You got

Using the month the loan was made? Right.

Manual C Valenzuela becomes QGZ.

Right there.

QGZ. $500.

There you go, partner.

Are we a team or are we a team, huh?

Ah, it's nice to see the two of you going to bed. Oh, come on, Sarge. You

how it is. You do the work. You deserve the Turk.

Some recognition wouldn't hurt either.

Well, maybe we'll call the New York Post.

I'm just thinking of someone closer to home.

Here's the info you requested from the DMV.

I'm not the only one out.

Dear Detective Isbeck, we at Our Lady of the Angels wish to thank you for your

selfless effort in organizing our basketball team.

Your job -like patience and generous spirit... What?

Job -like.

Oh, you... Your job -like patience and generous spirit will serve as

in years to come.

Yours most sincerely, Sister Beecher -Speaker. Very impressive, Victor.

Oh, you know me, Marcus.

I believe a cop should take a sincere interest in the...

Needs of the community.

If it wasn't an all -girls basketball team as Becky.

What's the difference? It's the sensitivity that counts.

Our friend Mr.

El Dorado turned up and the car is registered to a Judy Cagle in Brooklyn

Heights.

Don't put anything on this month's account list.

There's a Judy Cagle who's a law clerk over at Brooklyn Criminal Court.

Do you know who she works for?

I think it was Judge O 'Grady.

My God, of course. I knew I recognized that face. Judge Timothy M .O. Brady,

criminal courts. He's been on the bench since the Stone Age.

T -M -O equals X -Q -S.

X -Q -S.

There it is in the book.

You realize what we got?

Here come the jury.

17 years I've been going to court, I still expect all the judges to be on our

side. You know politicians.

Power leads to temptation.

Can you believe this dirt job Samson's dumped on me?

A test of leadership, my butt.

I would do the extra work for the extra money, Sergeant.

I figured the way to get up for this is to do the easiest one first.

Oh, yeah?

Stability, flexibility.

Ace that one.

Well, that sounded simple.

Police ethics?

Well above standard.

Who ticks me off when I bet there's all the brown -nosing that's going on?

I get these little news clips into my box.

Today there was a puff piece put in there by Carrata about how he kept them

jumping from leaving off the Empire State Building.

Oh, no fooling. How'd I miss that one?

It happened 13 years ago.

Okay.

This is a piece of cake.

Finished.

It's easy to grade a straight -A student.

Chris, you're a good judge of character.

I'm sure you're being fair.

Granted, it may be hard.

Keep an impartial note on the type of work I do.

But I am not worried about this.

I trust your integrity, and I know you're going to do right by everybody.

I'll be right, Mary Beth.

I know Petrie will be pleased with you.

Okay, next.

Cagney, you wouldn't happen to be related with Charlie Cagney, ex -cop,

beat in Chinatown?

My father.

Well, I'll be damned. So you're Charlie's kid.

God, this world gets smaller by the minute.

Your father and I, we go way back together.

In fact, I even sent you a communion gift.

$25 bond, as I recall.

I was at 50.

That's awesome.

Your Honor, how well do you know of Raymond Recubian?

Well as I know anyone I drink with.

Even the judge has to bend an elbow now and then.

With a convicted loan shark, sir.

Look, it wasn't as if he was wearing a sign.

Your initials do appear in Mr. Recubian's account book. Along with the

loan. And no further payment entries.

Ladies, the phone book's full of people with my initials.

All I know is the man buys my brand and picks up the tab.

Is that all he's buying, Your Honor?

Oh, you police, you're all comedians.

Look, I've been downing doubles in that joint since you were a twinkle in your

dad's eye.

My liver may be solid, but my conscience is clean.

Excuse me.

Oh, Grady here.

Hey! Hey, Marty, what do you know? What do you say?

What do you mean?

I told you I wanted those buttons to glow in the dark.

Listen, pal, election time's right around the corner.

No glow, no dough. Get the picture?

Yeah.

Communion can't be whatever it's going on my life.

Like retroactive bribery.

I've never heard of this man from Adam. He's coming across like some family

member. That's a charmer. I'll give him that.

He's charming and evasive and slippery, and we're going to get him.

It'll take more than initials and a book to get him off the bench.

Fine. Whatever it takes, we'll get it. New yellow sheets. Caught off the press.

Thank you.

Thanks, Basil.

Basil, I asked for the yellow sheet on Recubian.

Well, this can be easily rectified.

Neighbors? Oh, trouble in paradise?

A matter of curiosity, that's all.

When did you know him? Rhonda Benson, arrested for possession of marijuana, 2

-16 -69.

Paul Benson, same charge, 7 -4 -69.

So what's the big deal? You got neighbors who choked up in the 60s.

What, they got pot and weed in?

What'd we get on Recubian?

Well, he's had a share of days in court.

Only once did he ever have a case thrown at a racketeering beat, just due to

lack of evidence.

Would you care to take a wild guess who the judge was?

The not -so -honorable Timothy Amal Grayling.

Or drinking buddy himself.

Hey, Sarge, can I talk to you for a second?

No, not right now, Mr. Peter. I've got to tell you how disgusted I am, how sick

to my stomach it makes me the way everybody's chucking up to me, you know

mean? In fact, I've got to tell you, it's like they have no respect for your

sense of judgment.

I see, but you do.

Oh, sure.

Oh, sure. I mean, come on. Let's face it.

A real sharp sergeant like you doesn't need to get hit over the head in order

top -knock the textures on you.

I want to take these guys. I want to shake them, you know? I want to slap

I want to say, come on.

Blow up, all right?

Cagney's on top of this thing, and no matter how much you guys spawn, okay,

not going to affect this woman's sense of justice. Will you shut up already,

Esposito?

Excuse me, Charlie.

Yeah, Pete's in full.

You see, that's what I respect about her. She don't play favors.

I'll see you then.

Time to get started on homework, young man. Getting late.

The sub didn't give us any.

Mom, you never smoked pot, did you?

I'll tell you the truth, Michael.

Yes, I did. You did? How old were you?

A lot older than you. I was 17.

Did you like it?

I don't wanna.

Josh says it makes him feel good. He was giggling a lot. Did you?

Nah. I gave it up after a few times.

I didn't like the feeling of not knowing what I was doing.

Josh says his mother would rather have him smoking in front of her instead of

sneaking around and smoking it. Well, I don't happen to agree with Josh's

mother. Dope is dangerous, especially for somebody young like you whose body's

still growing.

Josh says his mother said that's why they grow their own, so there isn't

anything weird in it.

Is that so?

Josh sure has a lot to say, doesn't he?

He really gave me a communion gift, son. Oh, yeah.

Timmy and me go all the way back to the old Democratic Club in Ocean Avenue.

Three ball in the corner. I mean, he's a sweetheart.

And generous, too.

Maybe to a fault.

Hey, come on, Chrissy.

Even the best of us make mistakes. We are only human, after all.

Your shot.

He's a judge, Charlie. We expect him to be more than human.

I thought I'm going after him.

Four in the corner.

Hey, hold him. Hold him.

What? Oh, just a minute. Look, I don't really often ask you for a favor, do I?

I'm asking you for one now. Please, would you lay off Tim O 'Grady? I smell

one coming a mile away, Charlie. A mile away.

Marcy, believe me. The guy is a real prince. A cop couldn't have a better

than him. Don't do this to me, Charlie.

I mean, you ought to see the way he leans on these slime balls in court,

out stiff sentences. Yeah, well, the blow shark's a slime ball, too, and he's

got a friend in court. Your friend. Okay, let's talk about my friend. The

who, when the neighborhood needs his stop sign, goes out the back for you.

And a guy that you can count on to holler loud while the boys are turning

park into a parking lot. That's what you're supposed to do, Charlie. That's

job.

Tim, he's got a bump ticker and he's up for re -election.

I mean, you really want to crucify a guy for having one harmless little drink?

You know she asked me to do, Pop?

Oh, come on, will you? Don't play Girl Scout with me.

You're going to stand there and tell me you never turned your head before?

It's your shot.

Your shot!

But listen, let me tell you.

All right.

Maybe he made a little mistake here, huh?

But the bottom line is, when you see a friend in trouble, you want to lend him

hand.

It's the way it works.

Doing favors.

That's what makes the world work.

Come on.

we came up empty today.

We'll turn one of Recubian's customers and we will nail the guy.

He's so damn sure of himself.

Why shouldn't he be?

He's got a judge in his pocket.

Are we on that again?

Some of us never left it, Christine.

What is it to get through to you?

This thing is too big to rush. You can't just hurl accusations at a judge

without some concrete evidence.

Maybe we ought to let the D .A. decide what we've got.

Jackie. What?

Keeler called for you again. I'm telling him I moved the graffiti.

Mary Beth, these judges are part of the old boy network. We crossed one of them.

You know the flack we're going to take?

So what you're saying is you want to end this thing against O 'Grady? No, damn

it. That isn't what I'm saying. I'm saying we have to have some proof before

move. For all we know, the man could have been having a harmless drink with

Rakubi. He could be clean.

Who's talking here? You or Charlie?

Excuse me. What in the hell? You were looking for the Emmys report on the

shooting? You couldn't leave it on my desk?

I thought you might want to act on this right away.

Oh, yeah. I thought you were looking for points. The lieutenant asked me to give

it to you. I don't need to impress you, Sergeant.

Are you accusing me of turning my head because Charlie and I'm radio friends? I

did not accuse you of anything. No, you didn't.

Conference, Christine.

What I am saying is I understand

what it's like to be pushed into something against your better judgment.

is pushing me into anything, including you.

I'm doing what I think is right. It is our responsibility to get that lousy

crook off the bench, Christine.

Mary Beth, following orders is not your strong suit.

Oh.

I get the drift, Sergeant.

I was not talking about the evaluations.

When you grade me on ethics, you gonna flunk me there, too?

Cagney? What's up, Lieutenant?

I was about to wrinkle in the recubian case.

The evaluations?

It couldn't have come at a worse time, Lieutenant.

A little bit of officer wisdom, Cagney.

You do the job, and tomorrow comes anyway.

Some coffee?

Sure.

You've become a philosopher, Lieutenant.

Every day, just about this time, all squad commanders

become philosophers.

Are we having the same coffee?

Yours is older. You have earned the good stuff.

Thank you.

The job.

God love it.

What the hell is this?

Must have mixed them up.

I beg your pardon?

The tea was for me.

Yeah, you do me a favor, will you?

You just keep this between us, okay?

Oh.

Hmm.

Good job.

We move all the way out here, and Michael, he isn't thinking about tree

All he wants to ask about is getting high.

The Bensons did this, Mary Beth, and it stinks.

Are you listening to me?

I've been listening to you all night, Harvey.

Those people are breaking the law, and you could do something about it. I am

going to play cop in my own neighborhood.

This is my home. I'm off duty here.

I thought cops were never off duty.

How come you lug that damn gun around with you all the time? You want to fight

about that now, too? I am trying to make a point here. What do you want from me?

Next week, you're going to send me out to give tickets for double parking and

disturbing the peace. Hey, you're in outer space now. We are trying to do

something for our son.

Michael did all right for himself.

Okay, where did it stop, huh?

When they start giving dope to every kid in the neighborhood?

What happens when six kids get together? You think Michael will come running

home then?

I trust our son.

So do I. It's the Bensons I don't trust. One of us has got to do something.

I'm the one that made the promise, Harvey. If anybody breaks, it's going to

me. So?

So what?

So what are you going to do?

I'm going to finish hanging these drapes.

We have got a problem here.

gentlemen. I'll just pass it on. Fine, keep passing. See, like I said, she's a

great disciplinarian.

Esposito. And firm, very firm.

Peggy, what gives with the evaluations? The lieutenant wants to know. Coleman, I

am working on them. I only have a few left. Well, let's not take forever here.

mean, I've got people clamoring for the results. Thank you, Coleman.

I bet they were thinking about yesterday.

I've been thinking about it, too.

Okay, well, I wanted to tell you. No, let me tell you first.

Yesterday, I gave you a hard time about Judge O 'Brady, and I was wrong.

That's not so cut and dried, especially if you know it can hurt somebody that

you love. I bet. But whatever you decide to do, I'm not going to do any

sporking. I say we go nail this other judge.

Mr. Strickland, the man was seen publicly hoisting drinks with a loan

very same loan shark was Casey threw out on a practically invisible

technicality. Ladies, from what you're telling me, at worst, at very worst,

guilty of poor judgment in drinking companions.

Okay. Sir, may I remind you of the Judicial Conduct Code, Article 13B,

one cause for the removal of a jurist is delinquency affecting general character

and fitness for office, unquote.

Look. Judge O 'Grady has a long and solid record. You know what I'm saying?

Now, are you people really willing to destroy his career over this?

Hmm?

Well, then we'll just have to put this one on file, won't we? Aw, gee.

The lieutenant is so touchy about this type of thing. He's probably going to

want us to forward our findings to the department's legal division.

Mm -hmm. And knowing those headhunters, they're going to be asking all kinds of

questions, like why we didn't give this evidence to the DA in the first place.

All right.

Lady? Yes?

May I?

Please.

Personally, I think there's a lot of smoke but no fire.

Seeing as how you're so insistent, I'll forward this to the Judiciary Fitness

Committee. You are a champion of jurisprudence, Mr. Strickland.

I love it when they're underwhelmed.

That's a start, Christine. We dig deeper, that's all.

Thank you.

Circumstantial mind -butt. You think everybody's going to believe he was

impartial when he dismissed his drinking buddy?

Let's go for ironclad, Chris. I think we can turn recluse in.

I don't want Charlie to tell me.

Of course you do.

Hey, Chrissy.

Hi, Chief.

What's the reason that I came?

What the hell's he doing here?

What do you mean, what the hell's he doing here? He's my friend.

He came invited.

Oh, excuse me, Charlie. I didn't mean to impose.

I came by to tell you something, but it seems that his honor's already gotten to

you first.

Strickland sure didn't waste any time spreading the word to you, did he? You

no call to talk like that.

God, Charlie, your pal.

Back off, Chrissy.

And of course, the greatest gesture of friendship of all is that he's pushed

off the wagon. Knock it off. That's enough.

It's okay, Charlie.

Rosary should be over.

I've got to pick up Maureen.

Be careful, Your Honor.

Drinking and driving is dangerous.

For the record, young lady, your father is my friend.

Anyone pushed him off the wagon?

It was you.

Yeah.

Hi. Let's see it, Timmy.

I gave that man my word of honor that everything would be taken care of.

You can't count your own flesh and blood. Who can you count on?

You didn't make any promises, Charlie.

It never occurred to me what this might mean to me.

It was nailing Tim O 'Grady too big a notch in your belt to resist.

You may have forgotten, Charlie, but I do have responsibilities.

Yeah, well, to hell with them.

Your family and your friends come first.

He's your friend, no friend of mine.

I mean, Christine, he is your friend. You don't even realize it.

You know, sometimes getting a detective's shield doesn't depend on

Sometimes you need a little influence, a little push and shove.

Go on, Charlie.

The man made a few phone calls.

Next thing you know, you and Lacey got your promotion.

You figure it out.

I mean, you did have to rape pretty high to even be in the running.

Doesn't hurt to have a friend in your corner. You asked him to do that and you

didn't tell me?

I didn't ask him to do anything, Chrissy.

He did it because he wanted to do it.

That's the biggest crock I ever heard in my life.

Freight.

Mrs. Benson?

I'm Rhonda Benson.

I'm Mary Beth Lacey.

Michael's mother.

Oh, I'm glad to meet you. Won't you come in? I don't think so. I'm also

Detective Lacey, ma 'am. 14th Precinct, Manhattan.

Oh, I didn't know you were a police officer.

I'm here to tell you that you are never to offer marijuana to my son again.

Are you arresting me, Detective Lacey? No, ma 'am. I'm here because I'm

Michael's mother.

I'm doing you a favor. This is not an official visit.

But you better clean up your act, lady, and get rid of that crap you're growing.

Or my next visit here will be very official.

We're getting late.

You hear me knocking?

I heard.

Everybody that's out there, they're ready.

I'm not going to school.

Oh, yes, you are, young man.

Here.

Here's your favorite gray striped shirt and your not -so -favorite gray pants.

Let's get to it. I said I'm not going.

Michael, I apologize.

I should have talked to you beforehand.

I should have told you that I was going to have to break that promise.

You said you would never do that again.

Yes, I said that.

I'm sorry that I broke the promise, but I'm not sorry I did what I did.

It was like you didn't trust me.

I do.

I do.

I said you did the right thing to come to me.

I'm proud of you for that.

I can't trust you anymore.

Michael, you can trust me. Look at me.

You can trust me to protect you until you're old enough to protect yourself.

I should never have made that promise, Michael, but you should not have asked

me. I did what I did because I love you.

Mrs. Benson is a very nice person.

She may be, but she allows dope in her house, and I can't approve of that.

No matter how you slice it, that's against the law.

I don't like it that you're a cop.

I would feel the same about this even if I wasn't a cop.

But you are.

Yeah.

And I'm your mother.

How about if... If Josh can come over here even if I can't let you go over

there? He doesn't want to be my friend anymore.

Well, that's a shame.

That's his loss.

Sorry, sweetheart.

Who am I going to have lunch with now?

There's other kids.

There's kids that don't do dope.

You'll see.

Come on.

Now, here we go. Come on.

Oh, come on.

Come on.

All right, so who's going to be number two? I want to be in the top five. Want

to wager?

What makes you so sure Lacey will get first place? Come on. How can you do in

the ratings? What's she going to do, flunker? Marcus, if you were evaluating,

I'd end up number one. Am I right?

What kind of ads are you getting, man? Who do you want? It's in the cards. You

want to bet against fate?

Marcus, am I right?

You want who? You or Lacey? Either way, it's a shoe -in. I'll take a piece of

you. Like taking candy from a baby.

It's all right. I'll still take your money.

Marcus, I know I'd reach you number one.

Thanks, Victor.

You're back.

You should come down to the gym with me, Coleman.

I can help you.

Why? Nothing to do with me. I'm in perfect shape.

Your doing is built on natural.

Morning, Candy.

Oh, Lieutenant.

Lieutenant.

Here they are.

The fabled evaluations, huh? I was meaning one if they never get here. I'm

sorry, Lieutenant. It wasn't quite the breeze you said it was going to be.

Well, there are breezes and there are breezes.

So my ex -wife, she reads my tarot cards. She sees me ranking in the top

That is not proof.

Don't you believe in tarot cards? I am not paying you diddly -squat till we

for sure. The only way we're going to know for sure is if the evaluator

tells us. Don't drop it, Esposito.

Sarge, we need a little help settling the bet. I haven't finished filling

out yet.

Is she beautiful or what?

Morning. Morning.

You're late.

I realized that, Christine. I was trying to take care of some family business.

As long as everything's all right at the Lacey house.

David Keeler, call again.

Nice shot, Mary Beth. What's wrong with you?

What's wrong with you?

Detective Lacey, 14th.

Yes?

Yes.

And what was this?

What hospital?

Yes.

Thank you.

Thank you.

It's a uniform over at St.

Vincent's. One of Recubian's goons did a job on a customer.

Messed him up pretty bad, enough so he's ready to roll over on Recubian.

That's good.

Good? We're talking about debt to rights. Next stop, Judge Timothy M. O

Come on, what's it take to brighten your day, Sergeant?

Conference, Mary Beth.

I'm listening.

According to Charlie...

O 'Grady made some calls and peddled his influence to push through our gold

shields.

Oh, no, it's already very bad.

For what?

If he made a few phone calls, for what?

For years we have broken our tails to get where we are, proving ourselves over

and over again just to find out from my father that somebody else did it.

What are you talking about?

We got our promotions because we earned them.

Yeah. And because O 'Grady used his judicial clout.

Sure, yeah, that's what he told your father.

Anything to get the credit, Christine. The man's a politician.

I hate that bastard.

He's putting the screws to Charlie to pay off some lousy favor.

And he's driving a wedge between my father and me, which I'll tell you we

need right now.

I never asked for O 'Grady's help. Hell, I didn't need it.

So show him.

I don't owe the man a damn thing. Whatever I got, I got on my own with my

sweat. He's got no piece of me. How about you?

If we don't bring him in now, he's gonna own us.

You got a lot of nuts and bolts dragging me down here like this. Sit down.

Forget the slap on the wrist. We're gonna have you tried as a persistent

offender. Minimum 15 to life.

Get out of here. You got nothing on me.

Well, the DA doesn't take too well with the loan sharks who beat up their

customers. Hey, I never even touched a guy. Look at this word against mine.

is still America, isn't it? It sure is, Buster.

And juries are very sympathetic to victims with broken faces.

Get the picture, Recubian.

Look, lady, I've been on a ledge before. I got friends. I always land on my

feet. Well, you can forget that because your friend in court is in pretty

serious trouble. As a matter of fact, his robes are about to be up for grabs.

Do yourself a favor, Mr. Recubian.

We're the only friends you've got now.

A man like you isn't exactly built to do hard time.

You know what I mean?

What can I do for you, ladies?

We have a gift for you. Add it to Judiciary Fitness Committee.

Ah, more gossip on Judge O 'Grady, huh?

Read it at your leisure.

Our old friend McCoovian spilled his guts on the judge.

It's amazing, actually. Once he started, we couldn't get him to stop.

Seems that he and the good judge have been trading favors for years.

Well, I suppose it's worth looking into.

We think so.

Well, I'm sorry about the copies. We had the original delivered upstairs to your

boss. He said something about wanting us all to have a meeting on this as soon

as you were...

Prepared. We thought Wednesday'd be nice.

You got any coffee?

Tell you, chocolate isn't chocolate anymore.

You know, it's the same thing with a challah. You can't get a challah

There's no tradition.

Come on, I've been looking for the two of you since you got back.

How did it go?

Well, uh, Strickland seems to be experiencing a rush of fresh enthusiasm,

Lieutenant. As a matter of fact, I believe he's going to be filing the

personally. Some words are sweeter than others, sir.

Good work.

You've been mouthed tough, sir.

Hey, Lacey, you're becoming a lunchman.

Sign of doctor.

Oh, Candy, you'd better prepare yourself. There's a reception committee

awaiting your arrival.

What's the occasion?

The evaluations.

By the way, Sergeant, nice job.

Thank you. Someone inflexible?

Since when do I have an inflexible attitude?

I'm a walking rubber band.

Come on, guys, give me a break. Maybe I have a problem with communication. I'm

the strong, silent type.

What, citing me for appearance?

Honey, you better get your eyes checked. Come on, Victor, you remember the

fishnet shirt?

Oh, look who's defending her, yeah. Mr. Top -rated cop himself.

Oh, grow up, Victor. Hey, she's got the hots for me. She just likes you better.

You guys got a problem with your prerogative to appear. Tag me.

You were right.

And I want you to take your time and sleep on it.

Payment time, Esposito. Oh, get out of town. All bets are off, pending the

outcome of my appeal.

Give me the sawbuck, you welter.

I tried like hell to be fair. Believe me, I did.

You had decisions to make. I am sure you made them.

as honestly and objectively as you possibly could.

So you all right with it?

Yes. You sure?

Oh, sure, I'm sure.

You probably weren't too happy with the part about being rigid in your approach.

You were the sergeant.

You call him like you see him.

Look, it is good to have opinions, and your opinions are good.

And when push comes to shove, you always follow orders.

Most of the time.

Uh -huh.

And the part about being indecisive, maybe I was a little hard on you there.

Maybe I was a little hard on you through the whole thing.

Maybe I didn't want people to think I was doing favors.

Hey,

it is not the most important thing in the world.

I'll live, okay?

Okay. Don't worry about it, all right? All right.

Anyway, he came in third.

See? It's not like being the bottom of the barrel.

May we drop this?

Sure.

I'm not perfect yet in my job.

And there's nobody anywhere I'd rather have as a partner.

Me either.

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