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You need a vacation.

Vacations work wonders.

What are you doing here?

I thought I'd pick up my messages, my mail. I want to hit the ground running

the morning. Open it.

You know that weird thing where you just want to check to be sure if you still

have a job?

You still have a job, Mary Beth, but not until tomorrow.

Potholder.

Oh, thank you.

Oh, gosh.

Why do I think you forgot for dinner?

Oh, Christina, I can't eat another restaurant meal. There's more.

Now, Harvey discovered this Amish buffet right next to the motel.

All you can eat for $12 .99.

Well, so don't eat.

You can tell me all about exotic Eastern Pennsylvania.

I'm in the mood to listen.

I'll capitalize it for you.

Alice is not too great in a car.

Come over. Have supper with us.

No.

No, nothing comfortable and domestic tonight.

What?

Oh, it's what?

It's stupid.

It's really stupid.

I had a bank CD that matured today.

And it was the last one that we held jointly.

You know, married jointly.

And, uh... I told you it was stupid.

No, hey.

It's the little stuff that always clobbers you.

And I know it's for the best.

Besides the damn thing that you make for it, huh?

Oh.

Oh.

Thanks.

Love is in the air.

Are they still at it out there?

Better out there than upstairs. I share a wall with that girl. Her taste in mood

music is Tom Waits. You don't do it to Tom Waits. You do it to Whitney or Anita

Baker. You know, John, I'm sure there was a time when tenants knew absolutely

nothing about their doorman's love life.

Besides, everybody does it to Johnny Mathis. You're the boss, Miss Cagney.

Thank you.

You got him.

This is a witness, John. This is Tran.

Would you take him inside, please?

Thank you. Now go on right inside. Thank you very much.

I'm all right. I'm okay. I know you are. Get him up. I told John to get him up.

I can't do that.

He can't breathe like that.

Get him up.

Get a look at who did it.

Some possible gangbang. This neighborhood?

Bastards. Gabriel isn't in a gang. Help him!

Honey, listen to me.

We can't move him. All right?

We just can't move him. It'll just make things worse. Now, the ambulance will be

here any minute.

Oh, God.

Sorry.

Shh.

We'll wait for the ambulance together, huh?

And you tell me about Gabriel.

He's a med student.

He's got exams, so we called it an early night.

We just met him last month.

I don't see anything on her chart. I'm looking through it

now, but I don't see anything reported.

Who's telling you? I'm telling you. She isn't a minor, sir. You don't have

standing.

Detective Moyer. Hi, Lieutenant.

I was hoping to see Darcy.

So was I.

This is her father.

Oh, Mr. Wiley, how is she? She was almost killed last night.

She's traumatized. I spoke with the doctor. She was in shock.

But now she's stable and alert.

I'm about to interview her.

Mr. Wiley, could I buy you some coffee? You must have been up all night.

From Connecticut.

Are you with the police?

Yes, but I'm really... A neighbor of Dorothy's. That's the reason I'm here.

this your case?

No. Then stay out of it.

Why don't we both stay out of it, Mr. Wiley, and let Detective Moyer do his

I won't be long.

He'll be okay.

You don't know that.

Don't talk about things you don't know.

about the shooting on the news, I try to call and I get nothing but machines. I

dropped by the hospital. Well, you could return a message right there in front

of your own building. I'm fine.

That much luck, I could have nailed the bastard.

I guess we're late with toll.

They got any kind of leads?

Well, I saw him ditch the weapon, so they've got that, plus a half -good

physical description, plus a perfect impression of the sole of his left shoe.

Where was that?

It's the excrement.

Excrement?

Dog excrement?

God, I hope so.

Well,

we're not getting specific with our strategy.

Let it play out in court.

That's our case.

Yeah? Yeah.

The guy is Jan Kaplowitz. He's the defendant's new attorney. I don't know

the woman is. I'm Raymond's aunt.

I've known her since before he was born.

See? She's Raymond's aunt.

Raymond Balder is the accused.

We

don't

have your resources at the district attorney's office.

We have to do what we can.

Well, that explains the white trash defense then.

Trash? Trash, you're the trash. Don't scoot to their level, Grace.

Nobody's going to call me trash.

I've got a nine -year -old control of my mouth better.

Well, it's their first chance in the spotlight, you know.

I'm talking about you, Christine.

No,

they cropped it wrong. This is wrong.

Come in, ladies.

Good morning, sir.

This is my first look at the visuals. You've got to excuse the distractions.

Yeah, just go on to the next one, Tam. I think they're out of sequence.

Has Cagney offered our standard apology for pulling you off whatever you were

working on?

Yeah, of course she's been very gracious.

Of course, it's not every day you get to work on the first capital murder case

to be tried in a city in a generation.

Nothing like the death penalty to open up the coffers. Right, wrong.

Wrong, wrong. We want to see the head from the perspective of the thing. What

thing? The thing, the passenger side.

I remember this. Those delivery guys that got robbed?

Harvey's cousins in the dairy business were scared out of their heads. All

delivery guys carry cash.

This was Lester Purchase, age 57, shot in the head while delivering produce.

This was Mike Foy's case.

Still is. I think that's what we're doing here.

Oh, Kaplowitz was outside just now with the defendant's aunt, beating the

reverse racism drum pretty loud. Right, that's the kind of argument that flies

everywhere but in a courtroom.

Species. Species.

How do you like the people's case, sir? Is this right?

Huh?

No, all right. No, that's fine.

All right, just keep going, Tam. Let's go with the case. No, I feel good. I

good. It's a good case.

We've got two witnesses who can put him at the scene. He's got the eye with the

sleep and bed alibi. Plus, we've got physical evidence and trace them out, so

feel good. I feel good. Of course, you know, you don't want to go into a trial

feeling too confident, particularly in the first capital murder case to be

in this city in a generation.

Oh, boy.

He was shot on his wife's birthday?

When Mike Foy went over to give her the news, she ran out into the street in

front of a car. Oh, no.

Real opera, huh?

Was she killed?

No. She wanted to die, but she's still here.

The car didn't hit her.

Anyway, our job is to troubleshoot Kaplowitz's witness list and to chicken

soup our own. Train is nervous.

We also have another very unofficial job, which I was going to tell you about

before.

Agni?

Yes?

Thanks, Bill.

Anyway, I think Doug Train wants as many bodies put between him and Detective

Foy as he can.

Mike Foy?

What's not to like about Mike Foy?

Well, he's in the building coming to see us. You can be reminded.

Attaboy, Mike. Don't bother knocking.

Look who's here. As I live and breathe.

It's been a dog day. Oh, you're a sight for sore eyes.

So you gonna help us fry this little bat?

Nobody fries anything anymore, detective.

It's lethal injection.

How's Maureen?

Oh, good, good. She's doing the craft show circuit.

Kid's all grown up.

Sure. Half the year I come home to an empty house.

So, Mike.

What do you know about Bowser's aunt? Her name is Grace Pound.

Lacey's been going through the murder book. We're working on it.

Until today, we didn't know how close she was to the kid.

You look great, Mary Beth.

You always did know when to lay down a compliment.

Thanks.

Hi, John.

Hi, Miss Cagney.

What a world, huh?

I wanted to tell you how much I appreciate your cool head last night.

She's back, you know.

Dorothy? Her folks brought her here this afternoon.

And they weren't gone ten minutes when she had one of her weirdo visitors.

Oh, she feels like company. That's not a bad thing, huh? To see her and gone

like that.

Thanks.

Did you get a look at her parents?

A look was about it. Coming and going, not one word.

Not even to each other.

You got off lucky.

What homicide are you and all these people working on?

Um... It's people versus Walter.

It's, um... I saw the news.

I know what it is.

Well, that explains you and Chris working full -time on this.

It's always going to be money when the politics are right.

I have absolutely no qualms whatsoever about working on a capital case.

Want to talk about this? We could talk about it.

Honey, we don't have to talk about it.

If you don't have qualms.

I don't.

Then better you than me.

My board downstairs says 9G.

Open up, please!

Dorothy!

Open up!

There's no smoke.

Get everyone off the floor. Call the fire department.

Dorothy! Yeah, fine.

Dorothy! I've already called it in waitress.

Dorothy, why are you...

John, when I tell you, kick the door right down here, all right?

You ready?

Now!

Again!

Darcy?

Anybody home?

Darcy?

Darcy?

Darcy?

What is it?

Don't come in. Call an ambulance, please.

Why? What do you want? Just do it, John.

You're going to have to navigate this morning, okay? I haven't a clue where

going. I'm fine.

But I thought you knew this witness. We're going to see him at his work.

It's a new address to me.

Well, you're fine.

We're not even across.

We're fine.

Toxicology's in on my neighbor.

Yeah?

Heroin overdose.

No.

Hereditary, the junkie.

No accident loading.

In conclusion,

I think they killed herself.

Well, maybe it wasn't really suicide.

They're junkies.

How do they know how pure the stuff they're shooting is?

Well, it was pure enough to put up her nose.

Ah.

Well, that's handier. No, it's not.

On the old days before AIDS, you had to slam that poison in your veins. You

needed all that annoying paraphernalia.

Now be safe.

Nod it right up. No mess, no track marks, no fear of infection.

Just burn your brains and die.

Her parents had her right there in the hospital. They had a shot of helping

You know, straightening her out.

No, not their darling daughter.

Hotbed for a kid is heartbreaking.

John, you know, God bless him. John, my doorman, he calls about the funeral.

He's going to take a sick day. You know, go.

No service.

Some kind of religious thing.

Irregardless what kind of people they are, Christine, it still is pretty much

a rotten shame.

But, you know, I mean some effort. Oh, come on, Christine. Well, I don't mean I

could have made a big change with them. Oh, wait.

That was prospect.

I'm sorry.

You're talking to the defense.

They're entitled.

The lawyers wrote him downtown in a Benz, bought him lunch, and Kaepernick

with him for an hour and a half.

Ronnie!

Ron!

DA's here.

You guys should have told him this was a death penalty deal, you know?

That's not a secret.

I'm just telling you, he didn't know.

Kaepernick must have laid out pretty... Hey, Ron!

How's it going?

Hey, how's it going?

Good. This is Investigator Lacey, Mary Beth. Hi, Ron.

Hi.

Just wanted to keep in touch. Let you know how the Balzer case is going.

There's been another delay.

Surprise, surprise.

But I think we can expect opening arguments before the end of the month.

And then your testimony should come, oh, one or two days after that.

Okay?

You're going to do great. I know it.

They're going to bring up my prior.

Only if the judge allows it.

Everybody's going to hear about something that happened when I was a

No, not necessarily. The judge is going to decide if it's even relevant.

Besides, the jury will hear that you're working now, you're going to school.

It'll all even itself out.

My church don't believe in executions.

What church is that?

If you kill her, that's wrong.

You know, if I kill you, that's wrong.

But if the state of New York kills someone, I'm wrong if I don't help them?

I mean, what kind of sense is that?

Did you bother to point out to him his obligation to testify?

I didn't want to lean on him.

All right, I'm not going to micromanage how you handle him as long as we're

clear about the mission.

Ron Talley has to get on the stand, put his hand on the Bible, and identify

Raymond Balzer as the person he saw running from the scene.

All right?

See you in court. All right.

I shouldn't have challenged the guy on his religion. They never call somebody

what they believe.

What are you talking about?

I said, what church is that?

No, put him off.

Well, you didn't say, what church is that?

I mean, you did it fine.

It's just a nervous kind of case you're picking up on.

Now, we're going to go see Mrs. Sagan, our darling prize witness, and we'll

feel a lot better.

Mrs. Sagan?

Mrs. Sagan?

Mr. Sagan?

Oh, hi there, Mr.

Sagan.

I remembered to bring my empty fruit juice can.

I was just telling Mary... Oh, this is my colleague, Mary Beth.

How do you do? Oh, don't get up, sir.

I was just telling Mary Beth you should see all the things that Mr. Sagan can do

with an empty 32 -ounce fruit juice can.

Why he grows... tomatoes out on the fire escape, and he can keep roaches out of

his cat food, and, well, all kinds of things.

I can't remember them all.

Oh, lots of things.

I'm glad you come.

Well, actually, we came to see Mrs. Sagan, but you know you're my guy.

Is she in the store?

She's got the flu.

I'm so sorry, sir.

Do you think we might say hi?

Well, she's no good, but sure, you can go in.

Have any of the defense team been here to see you?

Yeah, they came. I told them, go to hell.

Good for you.

May I?

Sure.

You know, every time I go in, she's lying crooked in the bed.

A coma?

The hospital said diabetic coma.

Do people recover from diabetic comas? We shouldn't count on it. We can't even

do a conditional on videotape, right? I mean, she's unconscious.

Right. It's hard to believe.

We just stepped on a landmine, I guess.

Oh, boy, does this case need a break?

Tell him we'll stay in touch with the hospital.

We'll call you back as soon as we know. Do that.

Well, we did some real damage today, didn't we?

Don't kid.

I stick my big toe in this case, it heads south.

I'm going to go see if Lee Moyer is still at his precinct.

About your shooting?

Well, it's not my shooting, but I'm going to check in.

It feels like a hit to me.

But the victim, Gabriel Ramos, was exactly what Darcy Wiley said he was.

A med student.

And they met online at the movies.

Families from Rhode Island.

Good kid.

Nothing.

What about Darcy?

She's the more logical target of a hit with her drug history.

Did you guys talk to my doorman after Darcy died, John O'Meara?

I spoke to him myself after the shooting.

I know you did, but after you talked to him, Darcy was released from the

hospital, and John said she'd had a visitor.

Weirdo was the word he used.

Male or female?

I think male.

And I got the impression he'd seen him before.

I'll talk to O'Meara.

Thanks. Hey, Mike.

Mary Beth, there's somebody I want you to meet.

Dolores Purchase, Inspector Lacey.

Miss Purchase, I'm Lester's widow.

Detective Foy has been keeping me informed about all the goings on.

Well, it's quite a case.

We're doing all we can to get a conviction.

I am, too.

Mrs. Purchase is a very big believer in the power of prayer.

No matter how good a case is, we always need every single prayer.

Good to meet you.

What are you doing?

You think it's funny scaring people in the damn dark?

Mr.

Wiley. Mr.

Wiley.

Isn't it high? Your Darcy's dead.

The lights are too bright.

Yeah.

The Darcy's?

I'm cleaning out her apartment.

Look, I've got a washer and a dryer.

Come on, we'll just take these things and we can come back and get the rest of

this stuff out of the machine later.

This really is the basement from hell.

I think it's done.

Some of this stuff really does melt.

Would you like a drink? I don't keep any in the house, but I'd be happy to go.

I'm fine.

Okay.

Then you eat.

Oh, no, thank you.

Then keep me company.

Did you tell me your first name?

Matthew. Matt.

I'm Christine.

How do you do? Hi.

Listen, Matt, I don't know where you're from, but... Connecticut.

Stonington.

Well, this is New York.

And here in New York, we send out for everything.

There are people who can do that laundry for you.

And we've got cleaning crews who will take toothbrushes to the grout if they

have to.

And we have movers who will pack everything up for you in acid -free

tissue.

All you have to do is say the word and sign the check.

So why don't you just get a good night's rest, huh?

And tomorrow...

You can just call and send out for anything you want and be back in...

Stonington. Stonington by lunch.

No, I... No.

I understand.

It's a lot to do so soon, so... It's fine.

Well, let me give you a hand.

Christine, right?

Christine, this is not your... This isn't your problem.

It's mine.

Thanks anyway.

Judge doesn't want to wait.

Kaplowitz's petition for another 30 days.

Do you think Bryce is going to grant it?

It's my guess.

Motion denied.

Any other business?

Okay, we're done. Court is adjourned until Monday morning, 8 .30.

Maybe you ought to consider adjusting his medication, Counselor.

I always thought the ability to sleep soundly was proof of a clear conscience.

Yeah? What do you think now, Lieutenant?

What'd you find out? Grace Pound lives with a boyfriend in Staten Island.

They got an address?

Wait a second, Lee. There's more.

These neighbors say that in the past year... Young kid matching Raymond

description. Seems to have been living at the place. Get a search warrant.

Thank you.

Andrew!

Andrew! What's up, Andrew?

Put your hands down.

Marijuana in the closet.

You got anything?

This one's full of crayon.

All right, where do you want them?

I'll go through here on the bed.

Takes me back to my time in Canada.

We have another watch.

And...

I've

got a ring.

It's gold.

For a man.

Is it faceted?

Does it have a lot of little diamond shapes all over it?

What else?

Inscription.

Your husband's wedding ring.

Sure, it's just a bigger version of mine. Marcy, mine?

Yes.

What's the date of this?

It's on the tape. It was right after the homicide. It hangs up on the joint

there.

See the inscription?

I can, but I can't read it. It's the date of our wedding.

12 -28 -59.

I should have been the one to find it.

What are you so happy about, Mrs. Lacey?

I think I'm off to Schneid.

And you, Detective?

We've been leaving for the day. The train is still working.

See you tomorrow. Good night.

It's been good working with you, Mary Beth.

You certainly have mellowed, Michael.

At least about me.

Only about you.

Come right up to Harvey.

Dorman was a big help.

Yeah, good.

I'll be sure and tell him.

So what'd you find out?

Looked like the weirdo that visited Darcy after she left the hospital.

An old boyfriend.

You know anything about him?

Enough to make him our prime suspect.

Really? He's a Costa Rican rich boy.

whose family doesn't want him in Costa Rica anymore.

So he spends his time collecting art and supplying heroin to addicts with money

enough to have it delivered.

This is going on in my building, delivering heroin?

Derman said he hadn't seen him in several months.

Do you think Darcy could have been clean then?

Probably.

The hospital drew blood the night of the shooting, and when they analyzed it

after her death, proved she'd been clean.

The guy kept pursuing her. Every week he'd send her birds of paradise.

You know what they are?

Oh.

It's a big tropical flower, very dramatic.

I thought they were a bird.

Anyway,

he sent her dozens of them at a time.

We tracked them down through the forest.

So the theory is that the jail was boyfriend.

That's right.

He didn't want to see her with anyone else.

Do you think Darcy knew that's why Gabriel was killed?

So she kills herself because she feels responsible?

That's what it looks like today.

Kids.

You didn't come back for your laundry. Oh, no, I didn't, did I?

Thank you. You're welcome.

I'm on the phone.

Would you come in?

Oh, no, I don't want to bother you. Please, please.

Come on in.

I'm sorry, Juliet. Someone was at the door.

Now, I don't know what to tell you. Perhaps your teacher... How is Ted?

Uh -huh.

Uh, tell your mother that, um, I'm sorry I missed her and everything's fine and

I'll call tomorrow.

All right.

Okay.

Dandy, bye -bye.

Want a drink?

No, thanks. I see you've gone native.

Huh?

Sending out.

Oh.

Looks like you've made some headway.

Well, mostly I pick something up and I move it to another corner.

The family doing okay?

Hard to tell.

This stuff can wait, Matt. Go home.

Oh, no.

Why not?

I can't.

No? Oh, I can't be a father right now.

I can't be a husband.

So I guess I just need a second wind.

Time.

Yeah.

You should stay here and take care of Dorothy's business.

But I'm gonna check on you. Do you mind?

Not at all.

If you stop seeing people, I'll be forced to send out for one of our New

shrinks.

He won't know what, Heather.

studio with defense attorney Jan Kaplowitz.

The guy is a genius.

What?

Kaplowitz, the twisted genius with this race thing.

You know, race is the hidden agenda in this case, and he knows it.

You know it as well as I do.

Raymond Walther was accused of first -degree murder in the commission of

robbery under the new law.

That is a capital crime. There's no race in that.

You know who we have to thank for this?

At whose feet we can dump the festering problem of race in America?

Richard M. Nixon.

Watergate. We lost our faith in government with Watergate. No.

Vietnam. The secret bombing of Cambodia.

No, although fundamentally I agree that was an act of racism as much as it was

military strategy.

Come on, Mary Beth. Think.

Ouch, a hiss.

Think.

Helen Cahagan, don't. No. B .B. Raposo.

Racism, honey.

Those weird white and gold uniforms that he put on the White House courts. What?

He ended the draft.

He makes an ended military conscription. What a...

In an army with conscripted forces, everybody's got one thing in common,

Beth. I don't care where they're from, what they look like, what race they are,

they all want to get out. And Nixon replaced it with an army of the poor and

black to defend the interests of the rich and the white.

Oh, which, by the way, where the Kaplovichs of the world are wrong. The

isn't really race. The issue is poverty.

It always has been, and it always will be.

You're making tea or hot chocolate.

I'm making whatever you like. Hot chocolate.

And that's my problem as far as you're concerned, Harry Best.

The day a rich person is executed is the day I'm willing to put capital

punishment on the table for discussion.

But until that day, those executions are only an indication of the complete

failure of the system. I work in that system, Harvey. Take it easy.

Honey, your hands are clean and your motives are pure.

But the people you're working for are political jackals.

I think we've talked enough about this. I'm telling the truth, Mary, better than

you know it.

I'm sorry, but I... What's the matter?

I slipped.

I conked my head. I think it's still bleeding. Well, come in. Come in.

Let's see.

Well, yes, it's bleeding.

Of course it's bleeding. Come on.

Have you been working all night?

I don't know. I guess.

No wonder you're walking into walls. You're not sleeping.

You really are a mess.

I know you don't want to talk about Dorothy, but could you at least admit

are a mess?

Sure, I'm a mess.

Thank you.

Let me sting just for a minute.

Oh. I know.

Christine. What?

It wasn't just the drugs, you know. It was the lies.

Darcy lied. I let her.

My other kids lied, too.

Lies were everywhere.

They were all over the house.

We lied to each other. We lied to ourselves.

I'm sorry.

No, no, don't, please.

What?

I've made coffee.

Not for me, thanks.

Well, I set out three different kinds of cereal, and I've got yogurt in the

fridge.

Oh, thanks. I'm fine.

Sorry,

I'm afraid I have to go, and I'm sorry. I have a lot of things to do, too.

Oh, I know you do. It's just that...

Timing is really screwy, and I feel like I shouldn't leave.

I'll be fine.

Oh, I know you will.

Oh, yes, I really am late, though.

I really do have to go.

Sorry.

But you'll be all right.

Anyway...

Of course.

Take care.

You have 232 messages that have not been heard.

Hi. Did you get my message?

No. We have a problem.

I don't need this.

I left your message an hour ago. There was a fire on the D train.

You're kidding.

Oh, no, no terrorism. No lunatic pouring gasoline on himself. Just a plain

little stinky electrical fire. Smell my hair.

I can smell it from here.

Well, what is the problem?

Attorney Kaplowitz got on News 1 this morning. I got that from Sharon at the

desk. I personally did not see it.

Ha!

Kaplowitz! Goes on television. He does his normal rant about this being a white

bias case. And then he solicits phone calls from his viewers who agree with

But he didn't give his number.

He gave the DA's.

And everybody's voicemail is an overload.

What's yours? Six, five, four, four? Yeah.

You have 232 messages that have not been heard.

Seems to be the magic cutoff number. I have 232 on mine.

Isn't that obstruction of justice?

Our regular messages are in there. He should be cited.

Citing is too good for him.

Here.

Get started.

Go away.

It's Sharon.

You have more messages. Do not come in.

Your daughter's school called and said that they've been trying your husband

morning. Office working in Jersey. What'd they say? It's the nurse.

Somebody brought a knife to school. The nurse called?

Excuse me. Go, go.

Go, go.

These games.

Kaplowitz is playing games. Her daughter could be... Who knows?

Mary Beth is waiting through public opinion calls and the school can't reach

her? What is important here?

What the hell is important? Certainly not this.

I don't even know his number.

I'm going to do something that matters.

I shouldn't have left.

I know that.

She's okay.

She's okay, sweetheart.

She just cut her hand a little bit. She's waiting out on the playground. Oh,

babe, I'm so glad you're here. What was she cut with? A box cutter.

A box cutter?

You mean that thing with the razor blade?

Uh -huh.

Some little punk kid comes to school with a weapon, and that's what it is,

Harvey. It's a weapon. And the school lets that happen? Did you confront Mrs.

Choi with this? Because I would love to hear her explain it. Alice brought the

box cutter.

What? Yeah, she started waving it around like a martial arts type of thing, and

she cut herself.

I'm sorry, too.

Can I still go to Brittany's birthday party? Next year.

Do you like what you do?

What do I what?

I honestly don't know many police officers.

Do you like it?

Oh.

Actually,

I don't even think about it that way anymore.

I do it very well.

And I've been doing it for so long that it stopped being about, well, do I like

it? It's what I am.

There's something to be said for... Not that it's always comfortable, because

that wouldn't describe it, but... When I'm working, it's my world.

It's home base.

And I think that means more than just do you like it or not.

Maybe.

Now, that's not to say that...

Once or twice a year, I don't start saying, oh, I pissed it all away, and

just a beat cop who became a lieutenant and stalled right there.

But that's just the blues.

More incredible insight.

I don't even know what you do.

Well, I started importing exotic hardwoods.

The most beautiful wood in the world.

Really? But I don't do that anymore.

My business grew, and I got an offer that was irresistible. So I sold my

important business, and I invested in a small telecommunications company, which

did very well.

And the years have passed, and now I'm an investor.

Do you like it?

I'm good at it.

You're a very successful man.

Yes, I am, aren't I?

I'm a very successful man.

I'm not saying it's not important, Mary Beth. I'm saying there's no reason to

keep her away from a birthday party.

Can't it wait, please? Even for a minute?

Maybe it goes on, please.

This is just what my folks did.

Kid screws up and suddenly the whole household's in punishment mode.

Events get canceled, traffic stopped.

No, Harv, we're not getting off into what happened to you. I'm saying that my

parents were wrong, Mary Beth.

No, Harvey.

Ordinary and normal are over in this house for a minute. I want this kid

cold by this.

Don't you think the cut on the hand is a pretty good lesson and not to play with

knives? That's not the lesson I want her to learn. Oh?

I want her to learn that you can't prove you're a big girl by intimidating other

children. There's an element of bullying in it. Bullying? And I'm going to put a

stop to it now. Well, I couldn't possibly disagree with you more.

I'm right about this. No way. This is just a case of forbidden fruit. She

couldn't resist.

So she's suffering the consequences.

Nine -year -old's learning this stuff every day. Well, this nine -year -old is

going to miss out on Brittany's birthday. And she's going to lose her

for two weeks. And there's no TV for a month.

That is nuts.

And bedtime is 7 .30 until further notice.

God help you, Alice. Your mother's learned to taste for the hard line.

What did you say? I say keep the capital punishment in the courtroom, Mary Beth.

Save it for Raymond Balzer.

Oh, I'm taking Alice to the birthday party tomorrow.

Oh, I hate... Oh.

I love these pictures.

Every single one of them.

She never got around to putting them on the walls.

They're Dorothy?

Did she shoot these?

She was good.

Very.

Do you know how she matters, this one?

Everyone looks so natural. Nobody's posed.

How did you do it? Well, there are cameras with a lens at a 90 -degree

you're pointing this way, but you're actually shooting that way.

Oh, so the subject never knows.

She still had a couple of the cameras I gave her, and I was surprised because

Bettina and I, we tried rewarding Darcy for staying clean and sober, so I gave

her every camera I had.

I filled the refrigerator with foam.

And we never saw any more pictures.

Well, it sounds like you were very good to her.

You paid for this place, too, didn't you?

Yes, I did.

However, we warned Darcy that if she didn't obey our rules, she'd have to

her own way in the world without our help.

So she takes up with a man who makes his living selling drugs.

Costa Rican.

And in the first month, he broke her arm.

Yeah.

And I went crazy.

Sight unseen, I hire a completely unscrupulous private investigator named

We had long phone conversations, Mr. Yep and I, cooking up every scheme in the

book.

In a way, it was wonderful talking to a guy who would do anything if the price

was right, so... You're right, that is crazy.

Yeah. You never even met this man?

Right.

So... We agreed to kidnap Darcy.

We called it an intervention.

So he snatches her and... We put her in a watch hill for treatment and...

My wife Bettina never forgave me for that.

And what we had... just collapsed...

under the weight of Darcy's troubles.

Was that the end of Mr. Yap?

Oh, no.

Of course not.

He called now and then to offer follow -up services.

He even swore...

that Darcy was seeing the drug dealer again.

Now, Darcy swore, with every gesture possible, that it wasn't true.

Please, Daddy, believe me.

Please.

And I had to choose between the word of a gross, greedy...

Unprincipled.

Stranger.

And the word of my own daughter.

And I believed him.

And for the rest of my life, I'm going to have to live with that.

You've been burned before. It's understandable.

You can afford to be generous.

You didn't make the choice.

I killed her.

Matt, somebody's got to cut you some slack.

And it's obviously not going to be you.

So, I vote for me.

So you're working Saturdays too, huh?

Hey, trying to make a dent in my messages. You?

Get me a great bite to eat.

You want to come?

No, I brought mine.

Come on.

I'll bring you back.

So you shouldn't eat alone.

Just a beautiful little girl.

And now this beautiful child.

Takes a weapon to school.

Harvey says I'm making too much of it, but to me, it's like we're watching her

innocence die in front of our eyes.

Well, you see more than him.

Well, Harvey's very perceptive. No, no, don't get me wrong. I'm saying because

you were a cop, you've seen more than him.

You've seen evil, you've smelled evil. You know evil exists.

I go through the same thing with Maureen.

I'll go through the same thing with the lawyers.

Yeah.

I don't care how many crime scenes a guy like Doug Trane visits.

It's not the same. It's not the same.

They don't know.

No, I don't think you're crazy for wanting your kid to stay decent, Mary

I think it's the world that's crazy.

No, I collected cameras for years.

My grandfather, he was an architect, and right after he died, I started

photographing his buildings.

Of course, I tried to get Darcy interested in it, but no, no.

She only wanted to take pictures of people.

Well, I'm with her.

What do you think of that building?

What, you like those buildings?

Oh, yeah.

Well, then get out of the way. Oh.

There we go.

I'm surprised the gumball doesn't jump out of that thing.

Oh, you wait and see.

This makes beautiful pictures.

Do you want buildings? Listen, this city is loud with these buildings. Come with

me.

Oh, watch out.

Oh, excuse me.

Sorry.

How was your weekend?

My weekend was productive.

I came in Saturday and went through the messages.

Ma 'am, try again, please.

I know why you're happy.

Swore I wouldn't let on.

You can tell? I was talking about the Yankees taking two out of three in

What are you talking about?

You won't like it.

You're wrong, but you'll disapprove.

A guy.

A drinker. Doesn't seem to be.

Married.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, this is a capital case.

First generation. How married is he?

We will show you the scene of the murder.

You will see how the accused waited in a car borrowed from a friend and how he

followed Lester Purchase from his delivery at the Chadwell Market on the

block of Queens Parkway South to the Zucco Brothers Market on the 1800 block.

You will hear scientific testimony of a fatal shot to the head which the accused

delivered to Mr. Purchase.

And after he had stolen $513 in cash,

and after he had taken the life of

this hardworking man, this good man, Raymond Balzer took a single

gold wedding ring from the third finger of the victim's left hand.

Now, ladies and gentlemen, that ring,

It was missing for a long time.

But it was found in the home of the aunt of the accused.

A woman who says she's never seen that ring before. A woman who never knew

Lester Purchase.

There is only one link between Lester Purchase and the aunt of

Raymond Balzer.

And ladies and gentlemen, that is...

Raymond Balzer.

I've got it.

Thank you, ma 'am.

You're being used. You better believe it. Used and youthful. Yes.

This is not some knee -jerk moral thing. I'm thinking about what he's doing to

you. Hello?

Mr. Oaks.

Mr. Oaks, please.

Am I happy? Let me be happy.

It's investigating Lacey with the district attorney's office.

Thank you.

You come to me when it's over. Tell me how happy you are.

Cagney. Oh, yeah, Lee. Hi, what's up?

Sure.

Sure, yeah.

Right away.

Okay, thanks.

What's up?

There won't be a guy who could be my shooter. I'm going to go take a look at

him. Great. Would that be a kick in the head?

Beat me if you need me. Go.

Mr. Oaks, it's investigative... Nice to meet you, too, sir.

You called last week about the balls, the cases.

Sure.

No, no, sure, it matters.

Where is your store?

I'll take a look.

Mr. Rogue?

Oh, you with the DA?

Investigated Lacey.

I've been getting called by someone working for Ball's lawyer every day.

They don't let up.

I've been putting them off because, you know, I wanted to talk to you guys

first. I don't want to say or do nothing, you know, to screw things up.

appreciate that, sir.

What was it you wanted us to know?

Well, it's a little thing, but I'm sure you guys got it wrong.

What?

I played cards with Lester Purchase. I know him maybe, I don't know, 15 years.

I see him delivering here twice a week.

And on Tuesday nights, we played cards.

He never wore a ring.

You can't remember Mr. Purchase wearing a ring?

Listen, you know, you can believe me or not believe me. Don't play with my

words. I never saw Lester Purchase with a ring.

Yes, sir.

Those are nice.

They sure are. What do you get for those?

Special today.

The DA special, we call it.

Number five.

You want to take another second? It's number five, Lee.

Thank you, ma 'am. You're welcome.

That okay with you, Ms. O 'Neil?

Eat number five in the pen.

You get all the easy cases, don't you?

Oh, no.

This'll get gummed up. Now we have to find out who hired him.

Who hired him? Your obsessed Costa Rican boyfriend.

I called him in, you know.

He claims that when he heard about the shooting, his first thought was, it

should have been me.

What? He says that the shooter mistook Gabriel Ramos for himself.

That he had been threatened to keep away from Darcy Wiley, or else he'd end up

dead.

Nuts. Ah.

He didn't have to say who threatened him.

No, he didn't have a name. Of course he didn't.

But... He offered a detailed description of a giant guy, fat big, not

muscle big, who claimed to be a private investigator.

And he didn't have a name?

No, I bet he didn't have a name, just a description.

He claims that he saw this guy following Darcy a few months ago.

Now, I'm supposed to locate this unnamed PI and find out who hired him to

threaten my prime suspect.

I don't believe in it.

But like you said, this is an easy one. I should relax and enjoy it.

Still, you never know.

Rough day.

The ghosts were really dancing.

The important thing is keep breathing, that's all.

Okay?

You all right?

Did you look good, Ron?

Yeah? Yeah.

Now you just, uh, you wait here a sec while I go see if I can tell how soon

before you call.

All right? Tuck your shirt in.

Sit down.

I'm opening an envelope.

I'm removing a ring.

I'm holding a gold ring, fairly large size, with faceted edges.

and an inscription inside.

Can you read the inscription?

It says 12 -28 -59.

Is this the ring found at the home of Grace Pound? Yes, it is.

Your Honor, entered into evidence as state 59.

No further questions?

You walked out of here yesterday with the key to the file cabinet.

Yes, I did.

Sorry.

Give it to me, please.

Here, hello to you, too.

Thanks.

Christine?

What?

Christine, I believe that the wedding ring I found is planted evidence.

What?

I spoke with a very credible witness.

Lester Purchase didn't wear a ring.

The ring is in evidence.

The autopsy mentions arthritis.

Now look at his hand. See his hand?

Well, his joints are swollen. A lot of people with swollen joints wear rings.

How'd Balder get the ring off?

Oh, I don't know.

Remember the interview with Lester Purchase?

Yeah. I want to play a piece of it.

Excuse me.

Hey, Mary Beth.

On the inside, it says 12 -28 -59.

That's our wedding day.

You have that ring in your possession?

No, sir.

Was your husband wearing that ring the last time you saw him?

Here.

He's strong.

Yes, sir.

Her little prayer?

She's just dreading the news. They're going to tell me they found his ring.

God, make me strong.

Or... Here comes the lie I have to tell.

Dear God, make me strong.

Dear God, make me strong.

Yes, sir.

Mary Beth, you found the evidence.

Mike Foy led me to it.

I think he planned the whole thing.

Hold it.

Hold it.

Did he enter the room before you?

I went first.

Was there ever a time when he was alone with the shoeboxes? I was there the

whole time.

Did you see him drop anything into the box?

No. Well, then cut it out.

Where's the key to the file cabinet?

I gave it to you two seconds ago.

I don't have it.

Check your drawer.

It's not in my drawer. Don't you remember? I gave it to you.

How'd that get in my drawer?

Was there ever a time that I was alone with that drawer?

The jury's already seen the ring.

It's out there.

Are you certain?

That's a moral certainty, sir.

I can't tell you I saw anything I didn't.

Does this boy know what you know?

We haven't said anything.

We thought in the event that he was charged, sir.

Hey, I don't want to hear about it. You're talking about charging the chief

detective in a capital case.

Well... There's nothing to do but drop it.

There's no direct evidence that it was planted.

If Lacey can make her case to you, don't you think that Kaplowitz can find a

half a dozen people who knew the victim never wore a ring?

We're dropping it.

We're going to pay for this big time.

Kaplowitz is way too smart. We're going to pay for this.

When are they putting you on the stand?

Tomorrow.

No, keep going, Alice. That sounded good.

I'm sorry, Mary Beth. You're being used by Foy, by the DA.

You're just part of the politics.

I hate what they're doing to you.

Have you ever seen members of the police department plant evidence?

No, sir. In 20 years as an officer in the New York Police Department, have you

ever seen a fellow officer move or alter or fabricate evidence?

No, sir.

Are you aware of how restrictive the rules of evidence are, Mrs. Lacey?

Objection vague.

Overruled.

I'm aware of the rules of evidence. Are you aware that... Hey, can we let the

witness finish, Your Honor?

I'm aware of the rules of evidence, and I obey them.

Are you aware that most officers consider these rules unfair and

restrictive? Objection foundational.

Sustained.

Well, then, did you witness any officer in this case plant

evidence?

No, sir.

Did you plant a wedding ring at the home of Grace Pound?

No, sir, I did not.

Mrs. Lacey, are you aware of any statements by the district attorney that

first person to be executed in this state under its new capital crimes law

have to be of the white race? Objection. Foundational.

Irrelevant badgering. I withdraw the question.

Did you refer to my strategy in this case as white trash defense?

Objection. When? Where? Foundation. I'll establish foundation, Your Honor.

Proceed.

Have we seen each other before, Mrs. Lacey?

A couple times.

And was one of those occasions inside the courthouse in the presence of Miss

Pound?

Yes, sir. And on that occasion, did you use the term white trash? Trash defense.

That wasn't me, sir.

Oh.

But you heard those words.

I'm not sure of the exact words. White trash.

Do you remember those words?

Yes, sir.

Do you remember who said those words?

It was said in a light manner, sir.

Did Miss Pound react to it in a light manner?

No, sir.

Would you like being called white trash?

Objection. Badgering. Sustained.

Who used the words white trash?

Lieutenant Christine Cagney, sir.

a disgrace, Michael. I don't appreciate that. I'm ashamed to work with you. Come

on, you know as well as I do, Trane's case was falling apart.

He's got his thumb up his ass.

Yeah? What if this destroys the case?

You talk Mrs. Purchase into lying. What are you going to tell her to say if they

put her on the stand?

She's not going to testify. They wouldn't take the chance.

Come on, you did just fine there. They took their best shot at you and you got

out alive.

You are a sworn officer of the law. What about your shield?

Did you think about your oath and your shield?

Can't leave it to the lawyers, Mary Beth.

They'll ruin it every time. Wrong, Michael. No.

The only time it ever works is when the police do what they are sworn to do.

Come on.

I'm sorry as hell about what happened on the stand.

Don't you ever apologize to me for telling the truth.

That private investigator you hired, Mr. Yap.

Mm -hmm.

He used the word gross.

He is?

Big. Right.

Fat.

He's gross.

How do you know? You never saw him.

What a memory you have.

Yeah. I suppose.

When we talked on the phone, he told me.

Yeah. I sure will.

Hang on, Lee.

Lee Moyer, he called twice already.

I'm not here.

She's talking to Lee. What can I say?

Um...

I

can't talk to him right now, Mary Beth. I know I have to talk to him, and I

will.

Just can't do it now.

You don't have to talk to anybody, Christine. That's okay.

You're worse than Mike Floyd.

You are not.

He was just trying to hold a cape together that was falling apart.

At least he was on the right side.

I've been withholding information about a suspect in a murder trial.

I've been protecting a suspect.

That's why Moyer wants to see me.

And until I came in here today, I didn't care.

I'll go with you to see Moyer.

But you have got to tell me everything.

I think the father of Darcy Wiley hired a private investigator to have her

boyfriend killed.

And you've been protecting him?

Yeah, I've been protecting him.

I've been sleeping with him.

Did you think you had a future with this man?

No, that isn't why I did it.

No, I don't have a future with that.

You know that what you have done is obstruction of justice.

I didn't care. They care now.

Will you go with me to see Moyer?

We can't go now.

Trane asked to see us before court starts today.

You're right.

I made my opening statement on Monday, the 5th.

I've learned Mr. Oaks called this office last week.

If you had met with him earlier, I could have kept the jury from hearing about

the ring.

I'd like an explanation.

I don't have an explanation.

That's crap.

I don't accept that.

I want to know what you were doing on Friday the 2nd. I apologize, sir. My

daughter had a problem at school.

Four days, Mrs. Lacey.

There were hundreds of messages, sir. Everybody in the building was swamped.

That's right. It was a lot of work.

That's what you're paid to do. A lot of work.

What's your excuse?

We're human beings, sir.

I'm not talking to you. I'm talking to her.

I don't have an excuse.

Don't give me that.

You're posturing. I'm not going to let you pull that.

No, sir. I have serious questions about your professionalism and your

competence.

I do, too. Oh, come on, Christine.

We'll reschedule this meeting. This isn't fair.

What, this isn't fair? No, sir. She has a right to put up a defense. She won't

do it. Come on, Chris.

You understand, sir? Yeah. If Cagney wants to pull herself together, I

have no excuse.

Don't make it all complicated with Lee Moyer. Just tell him what you know and

spare him the love story.

I'm coming with.

No, this is mine.

I know.

I'd like to stand by.

I know Mr. Wiley is in town if you want to talk to him.

Mm -hmm.

You get my phone messages this morning?

I thought he'd come in person.

The shooter talked.

He fingered the old boyfriend as the man that hired him.

The Costa Rican?

You said this case would be dead -bang simple.

And so it was.

Hi. Hi.

My kids called today.

Did you have a nice talk?

Oh, yes.

They said they missed me, and I was glad.

No panic.

You going home?

Well,

that's good.

That was sort of the idea, wasn't it?

Christine. Yeah?

I don't know why you were sent to me, but I know for certain that you

were.

going on.

You have to let me do my job, Huff.

You have to respect that I follow the law, whether that's going to mean that a

person is executed or a rotten cop gets exposed or... Honey, I do.

I do, sweetheart.

There's never been anybody I respect like you.

The kid in the room?

Mm -hmm.

Sophie called, invited her for pancakes. She turned it down without even asking.

She's doing her own version of self -imposed exile, I guess.

And we're way overboard, huh?

No, not really.

What freaked us out was having caused a big fight between us.

Well...

You want to invite her in to see his makeup?

I'd take it back.

Mr. Fagan, on the morning of June 4th, you were waiting for the number 94 bus.

What attracted your attention about the young man?

He was watching the guy taking in the vegetables.

I saw him watching.

And is that young man in the courtroom today?

Yes, sir.

Would you identify him for us, please?

He's a boy at the table in the gray suit.

For the record, the witness has identified Raymond Balzer.

for you.

Oh.

So what do you think? I saw you watching the jury.

I think Mr. Train is not giving an inch.

I'm impressed.

What do you think?

What's that?

It's a camera.

A gift.

There's a picture, too.

You have a building.

Lots of you.

It's a good one.

He never took a picture of me.

I see you.

Damn camera.

Can I read this to you?

Go ahead.

This gift does not compare.

with the gift you gave me.