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I'm working on something here. Hey, stay here.

We have a female for a patient who looks to be 18 or 19 years old. Two visible

injuries to the back of the skull.

The color marks say very close range.

Put the light here. Give me a glove.

It's a small caliber.

It's an execution.

Can't find any clothes anywhere.

You ready?

Rolling R!

She's a kid. Who the hell would execute a kid?

Genital bruising.

You let her pray, Hugo.

You let her pray while you raped her.

We find this guy.

We find him.

You okay?

Yeah. Who was she?

Just a girl.

You solve it?

Nope.

Who knows why one sticks with you and others don't, huh? Who knows?

Ready?

Dana Tyler, Stephen Clark, Ira Jo Fisher, and Warner Wolf.

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Reputed godfather Richard Corteel sat expressionless as he listened to the

day of testimony of his former underboss, Tony Pascoe. To secure his

the United States Attorney granted Pascoe immunity on 12 mob -related

Killings he personally carried out, he said, at the request of Corteel.

I asked federal prosecutor John Manning what kind of message this was sending to

other mobsters.

I think the message to organized crime is loud and clear.

You want to do business in this city? You can expect to go to jail for the

of your life. Thank you.

Paper's the time for Judge Engel. Far too many.

You're his favorite prosecutor.

And there is a Mrs. Farrell in your office with her lawyer and a half dozen

boxes. Mrs. Farrell of Farrell Paving. Don't gloat. It gives you lines.

Get me Nevins, and get me somebody in here who can add eight -digit figures

without moving their lips.

Michael Hayes, this is the United States Attorney's Office.

Mrs. Farrell, even if your husband's financial records do prove what you're

saying... He steals from me, he steals from the government, and she gets the

beach house in Montauk. And she would be?

She's 21, he's 51. You tell me what else she sees in him.

You see, Mrs. Farrell, even if what you're saying is true, I see this as a

matter for the IRS and not publicly. He's not afraid of the IRS.

He's afraid of you.

All I hear is that son of a bitch Michael Hayes.

Anytime he even heard your name, he couldn't perform for two weeks.

You can see why I'm interested.

Well, I'm afraid I'm still not.

What do I have to do?

There's a rumor, Mrs. Farrell.

That some asphalt companies are bribing city officials to reveal their sealed

bids after bidding closes.

For instance, your husband's company.

Now, it's just a rumor.

But if anyone had proof of bid fixing, I would do everything in my power to

proceed again.

My husband has an office in our basement.

All the best people do.

Anything you bring me, I'll be happy to take a look at.

Mr. Powell.

Sorry.

Elevator is that way.

Take care.

They shoot the fat man nine times, I leave on a sidewalk to die.

Six years later, I find out he got up, took a bus to Florida, leaving all the

way. So somebody bumps into him.

They hardly recognize him. He had to cut out his stomach till it was the size of

a golf ball. He couldn't eat anything.

The guy's now 160 pounds. He looks great. Says he owes it all to me.

So I'm thinking.

Maybe if all this is over, I should go on a diet business. Bing, bing, bing.

That'll be a hundred hours.

We find this guy.

We find him. A great American.

I know you've got a history. Are you okay with this?

How big of a dirt bag does a guy have to be before we don't roll out the red

carpet for him?

It depends on what he's after.

Bing, bing, bing.

Pascoe did your victim, the girl in the field.

He confessed to it as part of his immunity deal. Now he walks.

She was the hooker.

The witness that was there when he killed Joe the Bull.

So he said.

Hey, Dave.

Michael. Hey, haven't forgotten your way back, huh? Not the wife.

Wife's good. Hey.

Hey.

Hey.

You go.

Counselor. You go. I am buying you one, no ifs or buts. Do not hear me

complaining.

You do not hear me complaining. Haven't been in here in six years.

Dave, man. What brings you back? Guilt of conscience?

Simply times.

Yeah.

So, all comes around, huh?

Pascoe confesses, cleans up our case.

This is just you and me celebrating, right?

What was her name?

Alice Yeager.

Yes, we found out that much, huh?

What, do you want to know Mike is still the same guy?

You have that psychology crap on, don't you? If you had just called, I would

have told you you're not. The reason you've been married five times.

I could deal with a piece of dirt like that, man. I could never do your job.

Not my case. No disrespect.

I do not envy you. I could never in a million years. Not my case.

Besides, we got courtier out of it, so if it was my case, I probably wouldn't

have done the same thing.

You know what bothers me? What gets me now?

Stupid thing. He called her a hooker.

She was no hooker, Michael. She was a waitress in a diner. People can't do

She worked a 12 -hour shift until the day she died.

You looked at her face, Michael. She was no hooker, and you know that.

Can't believe Manning let anybody tape this confession.

I don't think he knew.

FBI knows how to cover their ass.

Why don't you use a crowbar?

I'll do what it takes.

Can I just ask you one question?

Mm -hmm.

What the hell are you doing, man? This guy confessed to this crime.

What are you gonna do, prove he didn't do it? He's given immunity on all 12

murders based on the fact that they were mob -related, right? He was a witness

to a mob hit. Anyway, it doesn't matter. Immunity is immunity. He's got it. We

gave it to him.

Listen to this.

We shot Joe. We dumped his body under the boardwalk on Coney Island. Then we

hopped on the Bell Parkway.

We did her in the field near the docks on the other side of town. The bodies

found. They're not going to tell no story.

Why the girl?

Joe was supposed to be alone.

He was almost 70 years old. He's got asthma and whatnot.

It was 9 o 'clock on a weeknight. We get to his place. We start to go toward the

window.

It's those windows that have the curtains that cover the bottom, not the

You see a restaurant?

Cafe curtains.

Cafe curtains.

So we're sneaking up toward the window to look in.

and a blonde head pops up.

And it goes down right away.

And it pops up again. Just the top of the head is all you see popping up and

down, up and down.

So we look in, and Jo was banging this hooker.

I mean, she's going up and down like a rubber ball.

So we step back. We figure it'll be over in a couple minutes.

She'll be gone.

No, 45 minutes later, they're still going at it. She hasn't stopped bouncing

a second. I mean, the stamina of youth, I could understand.

But Jo, I mean, he's old, like a grandfather.

We got to do what we got to do.

So Jimmy Stocks, rest his soul, goes in with me.

He pulls the hooker up by the ponytail. I take Joey, toss him both in the trunk.

When we get to Coney Island... I'm sorry.

Picture my face.

We open the trunk, and she's on top of him again.

I felt bad just putting him apart. I mean...

Pretty funny story, huh?

Quite a laugh.

You're making this personal. Don't make this personal, Michael. I looked in her

face, Eddie. She was no prostitute. She was a kid. He's confessing to murder.

Why would he lie about the details? I don't know.

I don't know, but she was no prostitute. And if he's lying about that, he may be

lying about why he killed her.

I'm going to change my shirt before the sun comes up.

You want to hear something funny?

I've been stuck in a laundry room ever since I've been here, trying to get shop

duty for three years.

I remember.

It's clean work, got a view of the river from the workbench.

So finally it comes through, last week, two weeks before I get out.

The funny thing is, you could have picked up the phone any time and made it

happen, but then everybody would have known I was your kid brother.

Danny, everybody does know.

Well, how come you didn't make the call, Mike?

Well, I got you in here.

Could have been Raleway State Penn, right?

What'd I do if I could say thanks?

You called Danny Jr. lately?

Does he know I'm getting out?

Mm -hmm.

Walked in on him making a welcome home poster. I think he's hoping to get a

chance to put it out.

Sounds like you're over there a lot, huh? I'm over there time to time.

How's my wife?

She still hate me?

What she may be saying and how she may be feeling could be two different

but I do think you should call her.

When I get out, I can't go back there.

Okay.

Come stay with me.

Okay. Okay.

Okay.

All right, let me clear out some stuff.

Leave it. I'll hawk it.

because they're there at the house at 9 o 'clock. They waited outside 45

minutes, then they dragged Joe and Alice outside, make it 9 .45.

Puts the two of them still alive into the trunk of his car, drives to Coney

Island, drags Joe out and pops him. How far from Joe's to Coney Island? About

five miles through Brooklyn. Okay, weeknight, make it 10 .15.

Hops on the belt, parkway, drives to the docks in Red Hook. Okay, 10 .45, 11.

Kills Alice, so either rapes her and then kills her.

Fluids decompose, we could not prove it. By then it's 11 .30, 11 .40, drives

from there to his club in Williamsburg.

Surveillance photo picks him up into him right after midnight.

Cortill's defense team went over every syllable.

Found nothing to contradict his statement.

Hopped on the belt park, Ray. What? What you got?

Hopped on the belt park.

Okay. I used to go to law school, St. John's, okay? And I would go to school

from the precinct after the dog shit, and I never... Took the belt parkway.

not? Is there an entrance there? There's an entrance two blocks from the

boardwalk. I never took it.

Brooklyn? Who the hell knows Brooklyn, anyway?

I do.

Check. Funnily, it was open, because my bet is that the ramp was not open until

after I graduated, which would be two and a half years later, which means the

funny man is a liar.

Give me highway department.

Thank you, Madam Attorney General. I'll pass it on.

Goodbye, ma 'am.

And I hate that they can reach you everywhere.

Sounded like a nice call, though.

And from Washington, you don't get those often.

In fact, you get them about, well, never.

I've already ordered my steak. What are you having? I won't eat.

Well, they're reading our reports, they're watching CNN, and they are very

with how the Cortile case is going. As they should be.

Manning tells me he stole his files.

Sir, I'd like to think we're all on the same team. I'd like to think there's

going to be peace on Earth.

What, are you doing everybody's job now, Michael?

There are inconsistencies in the Pascoe testimony that I find troubling. The

deal is based on the fact that Corteel ordered all 12 murders. I believe Pascoe

is lying about one of them.

So, nine years ago, you were a homicide cop investigating a murder.

Now that murder just happened to develop troubling inconsistencies.

What are you saying, Michael?

He didn't kill this girl? No, sir. He killed the girl. I just don't think it

mob related. I think he knew it would surface, so he put it into the pot.

He also claimed that she was a prostitute.

She was a 19 -year -old girl bouncing up and down on the lap of a 65 -year -old

guy. He further claimed to have taken an exit ramp on the Bell Parkway that did

not exist at the time. Well, you want to take away his immunity deal because he

took the wrong ramp?

This is what's troubling you?

I asked you here to say two words to you.

Richard. If you want to volunteer for his defense team, do it on weekends.

I better get back.

Michael, don't be a pain in the ass.

Hey, I hear Bond pinned your ears back.

You got too many spies, my friend.

Lindsay Strauss?

Two floors up. Thanks.

So where do we go?

I want to re -interview everybody connected to the Alice Yang case. You

to talk to everybody you talked to nine years ago? That's right. Dig them up.

See what we missed. What do you mean you never missed anything? Obviously, I

did. You spent how many years on it? Many, many, and I should never have

stopped. And what makes you think I have better luck than you? Because you're a

better investigator than I am. Are you saying that I'm better than you? That's

what I'm saying. Call Hugo. He'll help you.

Huh.

Sorry. I'm Lindsay Strauss.

Oh.

Sorry. I'm Michael Hayes. You're chief of public corruption. You don't need to

introduce yourself. You must have really pissed somebody off.

Okay.

Meaning what?

No, just meaning that they stick you up in a shoebox. I don't... Anyway,

considering your reputation is what I mean.

And by reputation, you mean...

By your reputation, I mean that if there's a legal Gordian knot to untie

can't find the ends of the rope, you seek out Lindsey Strauss.

Oh.

Okay, so... How can I help you?

You're familiar with the Pascoe case?

Yes.

I want to pop out one of the murders from his immunity agreement.

The agreement?

Our boss' U .S. attorney gave him.

Yeah, he's scheduled to do four years in Ellenwood. I want him to do life in a

place where they're not going to put a mint on his pillow.

And this would be after Pascoe has kept his end of the bargain?

That's correct.

Are you looking for space on my floor? Because, you know, what there is, I

jealously.

Let's say that he's lying about the details of one of the murders.

Then, in theory, the deal is invalid.

It can be prosecuted on all counts for 12 murders.

Everything is said, his entire testimony can be used against him.

Can you prove he lied?

Not yet.

Here's why you're risking. The jury hears he lied about this, they're not

to believe a word he said about anything else.

What if I want both?

What if I want Pascoe and a conviction on Cotillo?

Well, with the information coming out this late, I'd say that the odds on that

happening are nil.

Is that why I brought it to you?

Think about it.

Uncle Mike, why is it in Sal's basement? It's in Sal's basement because Sal

taught me how to fish in the same way I'm going to teach you.

What if we don't get it? Danny.

Here's the deal.

You don't have to go to sleep until you have in your possession one genuine spin

master Titan body.

So if you don't get it, I can stay up for a week.

A month.

Cool.

Danny, go do your math.

Yes.

Do a good job. Okay.

See you later.

Yes, ma 'am?

He'll have good manners even if I can't give him anything else.

Sal is checking out a job for Danny.

No, I'm sorry.

I'm picturing Danny with a lunchbox.

Danny punching a time clock.

He deserves a chance.

You know what? I want him to have every chance.

What if?

I guess I don't hear you mentioning you and Danny.

You know, um, he never opened his mouth without lying, and he stole from me, and

he stole from his son.

How do I take him back, huh?

You give him time.

Caitlin, people change.

Danny can change.

Michael, you know, even you have a hard time believing that.

You're deep in love.

Michael, check it out. What do we got?

Remember the Chinese guy on the store, Mr. Chan? Mr. Chan, he was real helpful.

Excuse me, Mr. Chan. Mr. Hayes here is a very busy man now.

He's an assistant United States attorney.

Chan.

Mr. Chan, you said you saw the girl the night of the murder.

Yeah, Alice. Yes, sometime after that. I don't remember when. But you told us

nine years ago you never talked to her.

That's right.

Well, you have nothing new to tell me.

No, nothing new.

What am I doing here?

Mr. Chan, listen. Now, you said that was the first time she was here, right?

Yes. Now, how did you know her name was Alice?

Like I told you five minutes ago, it was written here.

Like a name tag.

Yeah, a name tag.

Wait, Mr. Chan.

Nine years ago, you told me she was wearing a yellow dress.

A yellow dress with the name here.

A uniform.

She was wearing a uniform.

Thank you.

Hugo, how long does she work at the diner? Six weeks. She's been in town for

months. Diner's open 24 hours. What shift do they give to the new girls?

Nights. She was on her way to work.

Not on a date with Jill DePook.

And she was wearing a uniform.

Corner Thor is located halfway between her apartment and the diner she worked

at. Now, my witness claimed she was in her uniform, which suggests to me...

Maybe she changed her mind. Maybe she got halfway to work, changed her mind,

went for a drink, ended up in bed with Joe.

In her uniform.

Really? So maybe Joe has got a kinky thing for uniforms.

Maybe she had nothing else to wear.

I can give you a hundred scenarios here, Michael. You can't even put a time to

this. Her shift began at 11 o 'clock, which puts her on the way to work

10 and 11, which is the time Pascoe claims he had her in the trunk of his

No, your witness said after dark. It gets dark at 5 o 'clock that time of

Now, maybe she wanted to go straight to work from Joe's. You ever think of that?

No, you've got nothing that contradicts Pascoe's statement. There are enough

inconsistencies in this that suggest that it did not happen the way your

testified. I have got two people dead.

I have got a man who has confessed to those two killings, and he has a very

credible and detailed account of how that occurred.

I have a very expensive, very skilled opposing counsel that hasn't been able

make a dent in it. And with all that testimony, I have built a case against

biggest mob boss left in this city.

Bill, don't lie.

What have you got, Hayes?

No, Pascoe's line, you tell me how it happened.

What do you have against me, Hayes?

Michael, John's right.

You don't have anything to contradict Pascoe's testimony.

None of it is Brady.

There is nothing for us to turn over to the defense.

Pascoe still stands.

Goes to the jury by the weekend, sir. Then he walks.

You're not a cop anymore, Michael.

You're a U .S. attorney.

Gentlemen, I think we're being lazy.

I think we can get them both.

Well, I'm not willing to risk it.

Hey. I'm sorry. I don't mean to bother you. Come on in. Sit down.

Okay.

I tried to talk to you yesterday about the asphalt kickback, but I know how

you've been, and so I thought I would take some initiative, but I'm afraid

I may have overstepped, and I don't want you to get the impression that I'm some

sort of a loose cannon that just sort of goes off whenever... Jenny, just tell

me what you did.

Okay. Mrs. Farrell came back with some stubs from one of her husband's

checkbooks. It turns out that they have been paying almost... $10 ,000 a year on

pool maintenance.

Sounds like they were getting ripped off.

Well, yeah, especially when you consider they don't even have a pool.

You trade the company?

Yeah. Owned by a beach rent who turns out to be the wife of a Vince Bitterman.

The commissioner of purchase.

Responsible for awarding the city's asphalt contracts.

Good work.

Thanks.

I haven't gotten to the overstepping part yet.

Oh. Yeah.

I called Mr. Farrell into my office, and I confronted him with the stubs and

informed him that we have him on three felony counts of bribery.

He's agreed to wear wire.

You flipped him?

Mm -hmm.

You flipped Mr. Farrell?

Yes. What are you offering?

Nothing, really. Look, I know that I have overstepped my bounds here in a big

way, and then the fact that I wanted to keep it off your plate while you were

busy with it was absolutely no excuse for not seeking your approval first

Yes, sir.

Where is he?

He's in my office, actually.

He's absolutely aware that you have to approve everything.

This is my supervisor, Michael Hayes, chief of the public corruption unit.

Give us a minute, will you, Jenny?

Mr. Farrell, it's my understanding that you've agreed to cooperate.

You need to understand that in no way does this limit any criminal charges

we may bring against you, and there is no deal on the table. Yeah, fine, fine,

fine. You'll put in a good word for me. That depends on what you bring us, but

you will do time.

Fine, fine. Just keep that blonde bitch away from me. Can you do that? We will

take care of your wife. No, not my wife.

That bitch out there!

I'll do my best.

Okay.

Good work, ma 'am.

Thank you, sir.

Hey.

I've been looking for you. You got a second?

Sure. I need a pair of fresh eyes on this.

I'm spinning here, man.

Spinning.

Now, we know she was seen at the corner store on her way to work.

10 .30ish, but she never made it to work at 11 o 'clock. So if we're right,

Pascoe had to snatch her off the street somewhere between 10 .30 and 11.

After he killed Joe, the book, and dumped him. So he just riding along, he

grabbed some girl off the street?

Why would he have to do that? You've seen the surveillance photos. Women are

over this guy. It doesn't make any sense, Michael.

What else do we know?

Let's rework the route.

Okay.

Figure, he grabbed Joe, the book, when he says he does. He kills him, dumps the

body here in Coney Island.

Then he says he jumps on the belt parkway and drives the girl, takes her

up here to where you found the body.

Which we don't buy.

So he kills Joe to book and he dumps him in Coney. Where does he go next?

To his club, to his paisan to show off.

Club?

It's up here.

Nowhere near Chan's or the diner. Okay, how about home?

Again, nothing.

Show me the club.

Every day.

We'd take the same route.

There in the morning, back at night.

Well, there.

Same route, same route. Right there. Every day.

And he would pass the diner.

He knew her.

Well, Mr. Silver, you're... My husband doesn't work anymore.

Well, my husband says don't make too much sense no more. Don't get old. Nine

years ago, I asked him if Alice was having any trouble. If anybody was

him, he said no.

Then it must be no.

Nine years ago, his mind was clear as a bell. She was supposed to show up to

work that night. She never did.

Look, she was a beautiful girl. You know it's a shame.

A man confessed to the crime, Mrs. Hammond.

So you caught the bastard.

What do you mean for me?

I need you to take a look at this picture and tell me if this guy has ever

in here. Mrs. Silver.

Mrs. Silver, take a look at this picture.

Take a look.

Your husband was frightened of this guy.

That's why he lied to me. You know this guy.

You know him.

He was in here that night.

So was Alice. Mrs. Silver, take a look at it.

We've been robbed so many times.

I got shot.

That's why.

Fifteen years ago, he goes to Tony Pascoe and tells him

about it.

And we don't get robbed no more.

There's no way.

There's no way to untie your Gordian knot.

You're not going to put Path to away without seriously jeopardizing the

case. I'm sorry.

What you're really telling me is you're not as good as everybody said you were.

The real reason I'm in this office.

Alexander the Great used the sword.

Did he?

Gordius of Phrygia tied a knot that was impossibly implicit.

An oracle said that whoever could untie it would rule Asia.

Alexander pulls out a sword and he cuts it in two.

Well, you got a last name like great, you got to live up to it, right?

If you can't untie the knot, you got to have the guts to cut it.

I'm listening.

Okay. Ten o 'clock, as soon as the judge walks in, Manning's got to go in

screaming that Pascoe lied. He's got to get him back on the stand. He's got to

tear his skin off and get him to admit to it.

Use a sword before they do.

And then trust the jury can tell one life from another.

And pray.

Because if this goes the wrong way, no one's going to remember that you got

Pascoe. But you're always going to be the guy that gave away Cortile.

Not lost on me.

Okay.

All right.

Thank you. Michael.

Yeah. You look in the mirror.

Uh, no.

Don't.

Okay.

Ah, here.

I got it.

Yeah. Yeah, right.

There you go.

Nobody can find anything down here but me.

Thanks. You want to thank me, get something I can eat?

In the East River South.

New York water, best water in the world. You can tell who you work for.

Why does the kid you in so much?

He works nights.

You should get some sleep.

Can I try it outside?

Sure. Be careful with the hook, though, right?

Okay. There you go.

Careful with the hook.

You okay?

Yeah. You talking to your friend? The blading company?

It's a done deal. Your brother starts to work first day after he gets out.

Appreciate it. Then answer my question. Are you okay?

I'm fine.

I'm just tired.

Uncle Mike!

Help!

Uh -oh.

Uh -oh. Emergency, Sal. Here, here, here. Come here, come here. Let me help.

Come on over here.

Oh, God. This used to happen to your uncle every day.

Right up until he was... 21.

21?

Oh, still.

There we go. Wait a minute. I got it. I got it. Just one second. Just let me

wrap it.

All right. Wait a minute. Very easy.

I got it. Got it. There you go.

We have no choice.

Let's bring him in.

This is nonsense.

My client cooperated, he confessed to the crime, and you, you gave him

If we can prove your client lied, his deal is out the window. Now he has two

choices. Come clean on the Alice Jaeger murder and do 25 to life, or fight it,

face all counts, and end up facing the needle.

Why don't you go to hell?

I got immunity.

And we got a two -way mirror.

That's him, sitting on the table.

That's a positive.

Want to go for a lineup?

I got the husband downstairs drinking coffee right now.

You know him, right, Mr. Pascoe? He used to go to his diner all the time.

Mr. Pascoe used to go to the diner, and he liked to tease the waitresses, didn't

you? Used to give them a ride in the car every once in a while, but not Alice

Yeager. Alice Yeager wouldn't go for a ride with you, would she?

You know, I don't know what this guy is talking about.

He didn't like being turned down by a waitress, did you? So the night...

That you killed Joe the book you were feeling pretty good about yourself. So

went to the diner and she was there.

And you said to yourself, tonight is the night that I get a piece of this.

Nothing to do with mob business.

This was all you.

All you.

You gotta be in court, John.

This deal is good until I stand up.

All right.

Now it's your turn.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, A witness has lied to you.

Now, there's a legal principle that's known as falsus anonymus, and that says

a person has lied to you once, you may disbelieve him in all things.

Now, the decision and the responsibility are yours.

Will the defendant please rise?

Will the poor person please read the verdict?

We, the jury, in the case of U .S. v.

Richard Corteel, find the defendant guilty on count one, guilty on count

guilty on count three, and guilty on count four.

Keep it up.

Excuse me, detective.

Detective, excuse me.

You are the policeman, aren't you?

I'm Mr. J. I know who you are.

I don't... I wish that, uh...

I just wanted to thank you.

You told me that you wouldn't give up and you didn't.

I don't know about your hope, but I know Alice will.

Thank you.

He confessed he's going away.

Ought to mean something.

Get on him.

What are we standing out here for?

I'll be in the car.