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Previously on Michael Hayes. You and Julie Siegel, rumor has it that's

again. Hmm, the rumor's true.

You think that I pled to mile out as a favor to you?

No. He used my office to commit murder and I can't live with it. And Julie

Siegel's a good prosecutor, Michael. Yes, she is. But she may have had her

on something else. You know, there is something you do need to know.

Mm -hmm. We can be together, Michael, and still not agree.

You know what I got?

How about for open as one of your own brethren in bed with the Malatestas?

spring, the cops picked up Rocco Carlotti's son -in -law with a quarter

cocaine in his car. Carlotti, number three in the Malatesta family.

Julie was assigned to the case. She declined to prosecute.

Hey, come on in.

Thanks for coming over.

Thanks for coming over.

You know, don't you? Oh, yes, I know. I am the subject of a federal

investigation. You know, I got friends at the FBI, Michael. I'm really sorry.

Okay, you have to listen to me.

Okay?

Alphonse Novello.

Alphonse Novello. Wait, so this is the investigation? Are you deposing me?

No, of course not. Now listen to me.

Alphonse Novello was a cooperator who's named you. And he claims that you're

connected to the Malatesta family.

Isn't that confidential, Michael?

Okay, I understand that. But by virtue of naming you, it triggers an automatic

investigation. Now, I can't make this go away.

I have to distance myself because of us.

Because of us?

I don't even get this.

DeMaio killed Malatesta. I let him off light. How can anybody think I'm

connected to them?

It's completely illogical. But here's the thinking. The Malatestas want DeMaio

cut loose so they can kill him themselves.

Tell me you believe me, Michael.

Julie.

Julie, wait a minute.

Julie, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute.

Wait a minute. Now, listen to me. Of course I believe you.

Of course, I believe you.

Now, I want you to stay.

Michael, I am the subject of a federal investigation.

I can't stay. Wait a sec.

Wait.

Wait a minute.

I want you to stay.

I want you to stay.

We are going to take care of this.

I just saw another cockroach in the elevator.

Oh, whoops, cockroaches. I've got a theory about this. I know. They come

the takeout containers from walkies across the street and the hot dog

from the stand.

It's not the first time you've complained about it. Why hasn't it been

addressed? Michael, it's New York City.

Can we talk about your schedule, please? Okay.

A 45 staff meeting.

Judge Martin at 10. Oh, and Eddie's organizing a retirement party for Don

Protts. Right. You're shy 50 bucks towards his present. I hear the guy

it. I'm in.

Let's put up a sign.

That says all takeout containers must be discarded carefully.

Has anyone ever accused you of micromanaging? Nobody that still has

Great. Thank you.

Hey, Michael. Yes, sir. He knows Don's last week. He's been an investigator 20

years. Congratulations.

What are you going to do with yourself?

Fish. See, that's what he says, but I've been fishing with him. He don't know a

damn thing about it.

Congratulations. Thanks.

Jonathan Lane.

I see him in there. Jonathan Lane.

Mr. Hayes.

How long has it been? Since last summer when Southern District played Eastern in

softball? Right field? I recall ripping a vicious shot into right field and you

grabbing it. I hope you're still doing that with the bad guys.

When the bad guys are the bad guys. Sit down.

Thank you. In this case, it's an open question.

Preliminary investigation of a highly, highly reputable Manhattan ADA who...

just happens to be sleeping with a U .S. attorney.

I won't say it doesn't make things complicated.

Let me uncomplicate them for you.

I would have investigated Julie Siegel myself, but it would have obviously

created a conflict of interest.

So in order to bring out the truth in its most uncompromised form, I'm going

toss it to you.

Can I start with a compliment, sir? That's a very right -minded call.

I'm not going in with any assumptions.

Granted, she got her mortgage from a bank owned by the Malatesta crime family

after everybody else turned her down.

It could be a coincidence. Who's to say she knew they owned the bank?

And granted, she's the one who's putting Vincent DeMille back on the street,

which is where the Malatestas want him.

And granted, she's the one who let the son -in -law of one of Malatesta's

soldiers off on a coke possession last year. These could all be coincidences,

too.

Right. If you put them all together... They're the appearance that something is

going on. Something like that.

So, you know, there's no Chinese wall. If you discover anything, I want to hear

about it.

Understood? Understood.

Dan,

open up.

Come on, Buffy. We need Buffy.

Come on, Dan.

Come on.

Is that?

Yes.

Come on, Dan. We opened at 9.

You guys know that.

Good morning, Miss Neville.

How are you? You see, Jim, we do all need coffee. Coffee by injection?

Intravenous coffee. Jim, get us to the ER.

Thank you so much for letting us in. Come on, Jim.

As you can see, we mentioned something about having some coffee, yeah? Yes, and

some aspirin, Jim.

Oh, I don't think we can win anymore. I can't handle the celebrating.

Tell me you didn't have a great night. Oh, well. Great night. Bad head, but

great night. Well, we should see the other guy.

Ah, you mean the lawyers for Thomas Heckler, who are lying defeated in the

I mean Heckler himself, who will spend the next seven years in a hole.

Food and lodging, courtesy of the government. Here's to him.

Excellent.

Excuse me, gentlemen.

Certainly.

I don't know how you do it, man, if I party like this every night.

You think I do this every night?

Bloody Marys at dawn at the South Street Pier? Uh -huh. Or else it's some woman

in some club. Let's face it, my friend, you are a legend.

A legend, exactly.

The reality is much cooler.

I'm kidding.

The way you come into Michael's staff meetings late all the time with this,

just been laid to look on your face.

It's a wonder he puts up with you. Thank you, Jimmy.

They say that his evenings are becoming more interesting lately. Some hot little

number from the Manhattan DA's office. Just lay off. That's no joke right now.

Okay.

You know, those stories about me, I just put those out there so that Lindsey

Strauss will be jealous.

Or Jenny Nevins. Jenny?

Oh. Okay, you just hang on there, Casanova. She's a kid. I like her.

What's with the protective tone of voice?

Isn't she a house mascot or something?

Can we just stop working on your legend for a second?

You were great in court yesterday.

You weren't bad yourself.

My boy.

My boy.

Do you know...

what courtroom style like ours is worth in private practice, huh? John, please,

we go against these guys. We whip their tails. They're pulling down a half a

million a year. Oh, three quarters more.

Well, does that make sense to you?

When it stops making sense, I'll change it. Oh, yeah.

Oh, wait a minute.

Staff meeting.

Staff meeting.

Jenny!

Sorry.

Charlie, Burton 10B5, where do we stand? We're in front of the grand jury.

When can we expect an indictment? I'm hoping that we flip Burton before then.

Okay, what do you think our chances are?

I don't know. We'll have an answer next week. Good. You know, it doesn't help

that three months worth of trading records were lost because the building

converted to the network last week. I was discussing this with Jenny Nevins,

she's having similar problems.

Jenny Nevins, yes.

Where is she?

Okay, what I'm going to do is bring in some computer people and remedy that,

okay?

Speaking of bugs, you may have noticed that Joan has posted signs regarding

lunch and dinner containers. We have a minor...

Infestation. And ladies and gentlemen of Rolling Stones, here they are. I'm

celebrating that victory yesterday.

Nice work on United States versus Heckler.

Steve, nice going.

And John, see me about a razor.

Love you.

How much?

To the moon.

And back again?

Hmm.

Rise and shine.

Come on.

Up and at them, Mikey.

What?

Dad and Uncle Mike used to say when they woke up in their bunk beds.

When they were little, of course.

Of course.

Come on.

Five more minutes.

You've got an affidavit, sir.

An affidavit. Miss Nevins was nice enough to write it up for us.

This would be about?

It says we are protesting the fact that whereas we have been unjustly accused of

not doing our said jobs.

Such as not cleaning up right?

Namely the food containers?

That said containers.

May I?

That said containers at takeout.

such like garbage or trash, whereas we're not throwing them away right.

Properly disposing of it in the receptacle drums in the basement

We always use the drums, Mr. Hayes. First day we come to work here, they

you got to be careful with the trash.

Trash got agents' notes, prosecution notes, names of complainants,

stuff important.

So we're always careful.

If you don't mind my saying... saying there's no need to go putting up signs

accusing hard -working people. Oh, the signs.

I got a niece.

She'll come visit after school without warning. She sees one of those signs.

It's like an insult in front of my entire family. I apologize for any hurt

feelings. Whereas you now apologize, Mr. Hayes, as an apology accepted right

away, forthwith.

Forthwith. Yes, forthwith.

Then, Tommy, Louise, where are the cockroaches coming from?

Beats me.

That's her end of the hall.

Is that true, Louise?

Uh, yeah, that's right.

Tommy stops at the copy room. I clean all the way through down to the evidence

cage. The evidence cage?

That's where the cockroaches are coming from. Nobody told you this, Mr. Hayes?

Paperwork, VCRs.

Answering machine.

Baseball bats.

What are they after?

What the hell are cockroaches doing in here?

What do they want?

Heroin.

Cockroaches don't use heroin, do they, Eddie? New York City roaches do.

Manit, 50 % sugar used to cut heroin. Somebody is replacing the heroin with

Manit and then walking off with the heroin.

We've done an inventory, and it appears that 40 bags of heroin and heroin base

are missing.

Lab's got them now. It'll take them about an hour, and they can tell us what

the bags have been replaced.

All? Somebody stole all the dope out of the evidence room? Well, the first three

out of three have had their contents exchanged with Manit.

Who had access?

Well, there's eight people with keys.

Three of those people are in this room right now.

I'm going to have to call the Office of Professional Responsibility.

Can I interview the whole building? Starting with the remaining five key

holders.

What do you think this is?

Suspects.

Forty bags of dope. This is big. It's more than just a user thing.

They could be using as well, though, right? That's possible.

Diaz. Uh -huh.

I'll let him know.

Jonathan Lane in your office. All right. As part of the routine investigation,

we took a look at all of A .D .A. Siegel's active cases and her financial

profile.

Sir.

You don't need to call me, sir.

Any red flags?

A few, mostly circumstantial, like the bank.

She once handled a case for someone who worked for Malatesta's accountant.

Like that, nothing that couldn't be explained.

Anything else?

Well, there's just one thing we're stuck on, but that one thing, it's important.

Malatesta's got an underboss named Rocco Carlotti.

Carlotti's got a son -in -law named Kevin Woods.

Happens Kevin was busted on a cocaine possession and A .D .A. Siegel caught

case. Yeah, she declined to prosecute because she determined the search of his

car was unconstitutional.

Yeah, well, I've been over the arrest records and I talked to the officers

involved. I don't think she had any cause for walking.

Doesn't look good.

Have you given this to your chief of corruption yet?

Not yet, but I'm going to have to on Zoom.

Can you hold off 24 hours?

So, Don, what are you going to do with all your free time?

Just fish.

Well, we're sure going to miss you. Thanks, Johnny.

Manning, my man, my man, Manning, you wanted to see me, my boy. Take care.

Evening, Don.

Judge Engel's clerk called about yesterday's verdict. It seems we

night too soon.

What are you talking about?

The judge had some serious questions regarding the behavior of this office.

Your behavior. And he wants to see us in his chambers Thursday afternoon to

consider whether or not to hold a hearing.

A hearing about what?

Witness tampering.

The least you could have done was warn us that we might have a possible

situation. What situation?

What did I do? You took our primary witness out and you got him drunk and

Whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait, Flanagan?

Okay, okay, he's with me at the Gordian Knot. He met some girl. And he ended up

in bed with her, a girl you introduced him to. Who was it introduced?

We're at a table having a couple beers, yeah, but we're going over his testimony

now. That's the truth, John.

I get up to go to the John, I come back, he's leaving with her. Some girl I had

never even met.

Well, that's not the way Engle heard it.

The defense is alleging grounds for a mistrial.

Engle is inclining to judgment, notwithstanding verdict. This could be a

year's work down the drain. Engle can't stand me. He never could.

He's been trying to bring me one way or another, and now he's got his chance.

And guess what, Johnny boy?

My career is over.

What? Nobody said that. Well, then, fight this with me, John.

Fight back.

Come on, don't whip out on me for once. What do you mean, for once? You're just

not a street fighter, John. You never have been, even in college. You're just

afraid to take anybody on.

Why do you think, when Vaughn got hurt, the bump went to Hayes and not to you,

huh?

Does Michael know about this?

Not yet.

Good.

Sorry. We'll go to Engel's office tomorrow. We'll put on a show. We'll eat

dirt. We'll make the whole thing go away.

Stephen, man, I cannot keep up with you.

A second ago, your career was over, and now you're putting on a show in Engel's

office? That's because we can lick this.

How did Engel even know about Frida anyway?

So you know this conversation is unofficial and off the record you're not

trouble in any way. I never have been except for the one time.

May of 96, you were busted for a felony weight possession.

Which was in my car and not on my person, which I didn't put there.

drugs come from?

I'm here because you said I could help Ms. Julie Siegel, the district attorney.

And maybe you can.

Then I'll do it.

She believed me about where that coke came from. Nobody else believed it

or since.

Try me.

Let me remind you that anything you tell me stays in this building.

Kevin, I know who your father -in -law is.

Good.

Don't kill me.

Kill as in death. Tell me about the coke.

My father -in -law, Rocco Carlotti, had the coke put there.

Why would he do that?

Because he didn't trust me. He never did.

Never wanted me to marry Lori.

Because I was a feminine.

You know, feminine?

A woman. I know what it is. Too straight, too clean. I know what it is.

He wanted to send you away?

Yeah. Him and all the Malatestas figured that some time in the system would be

good for me.

Make a soldier out of me.

So the Malatestas set you up and they used the police department to do it?

That's right.

I taught the third grade.

Of course, after the arrest, convict or not, that was over.

And you told this to Miss Siegel? I told the cops, I told my wife, everybody.

Because it was the truth.

The difference is, Miss Siegel listened.

She listened with her heart.

Thanks for your help.

Are you still at it?

Michael's right. The computers are all screwed up. Oh, Michael's always right.

Says that in Latin right over the door.

So, all the work we did on the Heckler case.

Oh, if you say I went down the drain, I'll know you've been talking to

Well, he told me what was going on.

Did he tell you we're going to go into Engel's office and calm him down?

All I did was have a few beers with a witness.

Manning said the verdict could be thrown out.

That's what we used to call them in college.

All right, Jenny.

I'm sorry.

But I will fix it.

I promise.

Do you know anything about computers?

Uh -huh.

See, I've got like 18 million files stored in there, and I cannot find one

them. And if I can, it's all so jumbled up that... You're not looking at the

screen.

You know, the nice part about working the Heckler trial over is that we would

get to spend all that time together again.

What?

It was a pretty exciting case, wasn't it?

Mm -hmm. A case, yeah.

Mm -hmm.

Next time we should work even closer together.

Oh, go ahead.

Make a path at me. I will hit you with something.

You're very funny.

Oh, I'm funny?

Mm -hmm. Try it.

Here. Are you nuts? Come on. We were so close to doing that so many times. We

were never so close to doing... Why am I arguing with you? You get out of my

office. Out.

Get out.

Okay.

You want this. Faster.

You cannot play with me like that.

Fine, okay.

I can't believe this happened.

I don't even exactly understand what happened.

What's to understand? Pierce behaved like an ape.

Look, I know you're his friend, okay? It's irrelevant.

I feel like I don't even know him anymore.

Okay, uh...

The book says we go to Michael with this.

I already have.

John, you are with us every single night working until about three o 'clock in

the morning. So I need to know if I gave Steve any, any sign. No, no, Jenny,

don't listen to me.

No.

Okay?

Okay.

Jonathan Lane, Michael Hayes.

Hey, listen, I've had a little breakthrough with Kevin Woods, and I

a meeting for about 3 o 'clock this afternoon with Siegel's boss, Ben

yourself. Come on in.

Uh, you and me.

Can you make it?

3 o 'clock.

Great.

Jenny?

She's okay. She wants to keep things in -house.

I'm gonna have a little talk with Pierce.

Will you say it or shall I?

Go ahead.

I think Pierce stole the heroin.

I mean, let me check a few things out first before we, uh...

Turn him over to the OPR, but... Okay.

Eddie is our liaison. Bring him up to speed.

John, if you want me to kick this to somebody else, I'd be happy to.

No, it almost feels better if it's me.

Okay.

Take your time, Louise.

We got 200 AUSAs.

About that many paralegals, secretaries, and the cleaning staff.

Cleaning staff's not allowed in the evidence cage. Only the attorneys and

guys. She means us investigators.

Marshals, FBI.

They in this book, too?

No, I got them over here.

How you doing on the eight keys, dears? All accounted for. Nothing suspicious.

Well, somebody got in there somehow.

Is she the only person regularly in that hallway after midnight?

She is for goats.

Didn't your mother teach you any manners? And, uh, yeah, I'm down there

sometimes.

Somebody comes down, I see them answer or I see them leave.

I'm actually on my way out.

Okay.

Sorry for not calling.

Okay.

Still haven't heard anything.

Guess we'll just be the KGB in the middle of the night.

Actually, that's why I'm here.

I just came from a meeting with your boss and Lane, and Kevin Woods was

Okay. To cut to the chase, the investigation is over. You've been

It's obvious why you let Malatesta's son -in -law walk, and in no way have you

compromised yourself.

It's a clean bill of health.

Clean bill of health.

Well, where do we go from here?

We go forward, don't we?

Michael, you can't be so naive.

This is impossible between us.

I think I might be in love with you. I think you might be the one man in the

whole world I could love.

and admire most, but you are the U .S. Attorney.

And this investigation has cast doubt on my character. Whether I'm cleared or

not, we cannot be together.

Wait a minute.

Wait a minute.

Wait a minute.

Julie.

You think you know me?

Do you think you know who I am? You don't.

You know my brother Danny, who was a wanted felon.

Now, he recently evaded arrest. Do you know who helped him get away?

Are you telling me this? Do you know what that makes me?

I am telling you because we are not different.

No, we're different. You're braver than me. You don't care what people think or

what they see or know, but I'm telling you they'll be judging you. They'll be

judging me.

Okay. You've got to be clean, Michael. I don't care about the politics of this.

Well, then I'll just have to care about it for both of us.

Nobody's going to be a better U .S. attorney. I won't let you risk this. Not

me. For anything, I'm right about this.

It's not negotiable.

Ah, my boy. My boy.

Been looking for you?

I'm so damn easy to find.

I'd ask you to join me, Father Manning, but you look like you'd be a drag.

You know what your problem is?

You've confused recklessness with bravery.

Well, if you're going to talk that way, then have a seat.

All right.

Do you remember?

Do you remember up in New Haven when we found Kellogg up in that tree?

Stark naked was old Kellogg.

But he spoke completely coherent.

We must have talked all night. He was on some Heidegger jag.

Or maybe it was Charlie Parker. He was big on Bert.

You never know, he was zoomed in on pills.

Completely out of his mind. And that's where you are.

You stand up in Ingalls Court, you're good, going on brilliant, but you are a

mess, Steve. You are scrambled, and I think you just screwed up real bad.

And people ask me why I prefer the company of medium -IQed women. Shut up.

I am leading the charge against you, my friend. I am going to walk you right to

the prison door.

Prison?

I could tell right off the bat.

that Jenny had talked to you. But if you're talking about prison, Johnny,

you better tell me exactly what she said.

You know this has nothing to do with Jenny.

What?

I know about the heroin.

The heroin?

No. Not with me.

Okay.

But... But it's not heroin, John.

It's cocaine.

I'm not saying I can afford it, not on what we make.

Please, not that anybody could afford the amount I've been tooting lately.

What?

You're going to tell me now that I need to get help with my habit?

Or maybe you're going to say that you're taking this to Michael, or maybe he

already knows. What is it?

Hey.

I'm stupid what I did.

And there's no point in my running away. The cops are just going to catch up to

me anyway.

Yeah, they are.

And these mutts I did the job with, they gotta be thinking I'm gonna rat them

out.

I don't want to spend the rest of my life looking over my shoulder.

What are you gonna do?

I'm throwing myself into you.

To you.

I'm tired, Michael.

Appreciate you coming by so late, Bill.

Yeah, like I was sleeping.

What do you want to do?

I'll tell you what I'm going to do.

Accessory to grand theft, violating his parole.

I mean, those are just starters. Bill, I am not looking for any special

treatment here, but if this was anybody else, we'd be talking about a deal, and

you know it.

If I'm going to do anything, he's got to give me something to work with.

Hey, how about the guys you did the job with?

What? Sammy O 'Brown?

Jake Wachowski?

I mean, come on, Michael. These guys are nobody.

What do you want, then?

I want the guy who runs the crew.

Frankie Kosick. Frankie Kosick is an animal, Bill.

What about it, Danny?

If I make the call, he'll see me.

This is Frankie Kosick we're talking about.

You got a choice?

No.

It's closer for no deal.

I guess you have to all think real hard what to get me.

And I guess we're good out there.

I like the face.

Hey, look, thanks. Thanks a lot.

I'm going to miss every face in this room.

Butch, my pal Larry.

I don't see Eddie.

I'm here.

Thank you all for today, and for all the years.

You know, when my wife Alice died five years ago, you were all pals.

And I'll never forget you for that.

I guess the party's over, right, Eddie?

Yeah.

Thank you. Thanks.

Party's over.

He was in deep.

Gambling? Oh, yeah.

Ponies, fights, and I caught his right leg just like you said.

Guess he lost his compass after his wife died.

Is he going to cooperate?

Yeah. Did you think you know a guy?

Sit down.

Sit down.

Are you having a nervous breakdown?

Listen, Michael. No, you listen to me.

Your drug use ends today. You put yourself in a program and you bring me

first chip they hand you. Number two, you become a Boy Scout for the next six

months. You report to John Manning on a daily basis. And number three, if you

ever bother another woman in this office or any office and I find out about it,

due process aside, I will kick your ass.

Do you understand me?

Michael, Bill Kangelothi's on the phone. He says it's urgent.

Okay.

You hear me?

Bill. Yeah.

No, Bill, no. I will be there in 15 minutes.

Bill, he's not going to back out.

I'll be there in 10 minutes.

Right. Wait for me.

You sure this thing works?

It works fine. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'm sad.

What am I, Jimi Hendrix?

Ben,

it's important you understand that this is not just a one -shot deal.

It's your job to get inside.

If it goes right, you'll be in Kosek's company for a long time, working for us.

Kabish? I got it.

Kabish. All right, I'll see you outside.

Especially a little rag.

Old man will be proud of me.

You're going to be fine.

You're going to be fine.

Daniel!

Hi, Mr. Dozie.

All right, sit down, huh?

Thanks to you.

You hungry? I'll grab the girl.

No, I'm good.

You good, huh?

Yeah.

Welcome home.

You believe I'm more nervous than when I went to see Kozak?

I don't blame you.

She's tougher than Kozak will ever be.

We'll be here when you're done, all right?

All right.

Hey.

I'm really proud of you.

That's something the old man never said.

His loss.

Danny, he's lost.

I'll be.

Hey. Danny, you're sleeping.

I just got something to say and then I'll go.

I'm taking care of something for Michael and then I'm leaving.

Something.

Where are you going?

I don't know. Something warm.

Point is, I'll be out of your hair again.

Guys, go and see him for a minute.

Please.

What time is it? It's late.

How's school going?

Yesterday?

Yesterday, Sister Mary Ellen called me up in front of the room, and she said in

front of everybody that my book report was the best one of the boys.

I love you.

I love you too, Dad.

How much?

So much.

To the moon?

And back again.

Attaboy.

I gotta go away for a while.

But I don't want you to.

But Uncle Michael is gonna take care of everything.

You don't have to worry.

Sure.

No, I can't take that. That's your best thing.

I want you to have it.

Well, I'll take care of it for a little while.

Okay. Okay.

Give me a hug.

I'm gonna miss you.

He told me about his book report.

Yeah, he's a smart kid.

Yeah, I got rocks in my head.

It's the guy with the brains from you. Danny.

Danny! Danny!

Danny!

Danny? Let me see. I didn't give you the body to be.

Now I'm okay.

I'm okay, Michael. Let me see. Call 911. Call an ambulance right now. Do it! Do

it, honey. Please.

Hello?

Breathe, breathe, breathe, breathe.

Danny, Danny, Danny.

Danny! Danny!

Danny!

Danny! Danny!

No! Danny!

No! Take him!

Danny, breathe, Danny, breathe.