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"I do not suck them through a straw,

I do not crack them with my jaw."

Is daddy making that up?

"I do not pack them in my back

or take them out for a midnight snack."

I want a snack and orange juice. A little later, Theo.

Morning.

How�s it going?

How you doing, Theo?

I�m waiting for my test.

Well, yeah? Hi.

Hi, Danny. Sit down.

"Green eggs and ham,"

I used to read that till I was cross-eyed.

I�d read that to my sisters. Get me a water.

Don�t. He can�t have that.

What�s up after, though, Theo -- ice cream?

They got icicle pops in the bald room.

They�ve got fish, Theo, right?

Anyways, a couple hours now?

Make you come and sit.

Bring you anything, a snack from outside?

Andy: No, thanks.

Well, i�m going to get to work.

How�s -- how�s that other situation?

Feels bad, you know.

Worse?

Like that�s coming.

Anyways, thanks for stopping.

Have a good test, Theo.

God bless.

God bless.

Good to see you.

You too, Danny.

The elevator�s opening. You better hurry.

All right, then.

What�s the matter?

He makes me see Andy Jr.

Did you hear anything from the hospital?

Danny was going to stop

on his way in.

What�s this all about?

I�d like you to talk about your partner�s problem.

Jill?

The partner that when she�s working,

she�s not here anyway,

and half the time she�s not here.

If that�s what you�ve noticed,

I assume something personal.

Guessing. Yeah.

Yeah, okay.

Yeah, well, i�m taking her off the chart.

You know, do you feel that�s necessary?

Absolutely, if her work is unsatisfactory

and her partner is not forthcoming.

Boss, why wouldn�t I be forthcoming?

There you go.

I mean, do you think I wouldn�t want

to be forthcoming?

If you wanted to, Diane, why wouldn�t you be?

Okay? All right?

If she�s in trouble, tell me how.

Would you want that in every single situation,

or can you think of a situation

where you wouldn�t want that told?

The job knows, Diane.

The job knows?

What?

I�m taking it you were forthcoming

and you weren�t concealing or complicit.

That�s how i�m going to write up our talk.

You tell me what the job knows.

Would you want that, Diane,

in every single situation?

Now you need to get out of the way.

Morning, Jill.

Morning. Fingers crossed for Theo.

Yep, fingers crossed.

Hey, Diane.

How�s Theo?

They�re taking some of the little guy�s bone marrow

to make their diagnosis.

When? 11:00, Andy said.

Theo looks good, i�ll tell you that much --

his energy and so forth. He�s pale.

How long does it take?

The procedure? I don�t know.

They put a needle in his hip,

and that gives them what they need.

Hollow needle.

So andy�s going to be with him.

And Katie.

Good.

Yeah, they�ll be right by his side.

Someone should be in the cafeteria

once they do the test,

if Andy needs to walk away a minute.

I got that, absolutely,

till they find out what�s what.

And it�s not a cafeteria, it�s more like a food area.

Why�d he have you in?

The job�s sitting on Don and denby...

And Jill.

Morning.

Hi, Greg.

Hi, Greg.

Were you at the hospital?

Yeah. The little guy looked good.

He was bouncing around.

When are they going to do that test?

11:00 they�re going to do it.

Yeah, Danny said 11:00.

Anyways, I don�t mean to interrupt.

I�ll, have a good thought.

The boss told you the job was moving on them?

Said he was putting it on paper

I wasn�t concealing or complicit

when he asked me about jill�s behavior.

That�s a heads-up to get out of the way.

They�re not on her without Don and denby, too.

How�s it going?

Morning. Morning, Diane.

Hi, Baldwin.

Hey, partner.

Hey, Baldwin, be careful.

That was a pretty open statement.

You don�t want to say nothing in this squad

that someone don�t have to work on

with a secret decoder ring.

You do what the boss said?

Get out of the way? Did Jill have that choice?

I wasn�t there when Don showed up again.

I don�t know how he got over.

And neither of US has kids, do we?

Or what Don said might happen.

Diane, tell me the play, i�m down.

Greg: Son of a bitch!

Door came off its hinges. I fell on my butt!

Leave me alone.

Aah!

"In the dark? Here in the dark.

Would you, could you in the dark?"

Theo, let�s go put on some circus pajamas.

Give me a secret ice pop.

After your test, son.

Afterwards, you can have ice pops.

Can I come with Theo till his jammies are on?

You bet.

Let�s go.

Boy.

Come on, daddy.

Okay.

Here I come, too.

Diane,

boss tells you to get out of the way,

he knows who he�s talking to.

He thinks I will give Jill a heads-up?

You do, I don�t think he�d tear his hair,

if he had enough.

I�m going in five minutes to be with Andy.

How about if we talk?

That sounds like i�m a skel, Diane.

Am I a collar?

Yeah. Ho ho ho.

What�s going on?

As far as what, Diane?

As far as what you�re doing

with your life and everybody who cares about you!

Maybe if they minded their own business,

they�d be feeling better!

�cause you never reached out to me, right, Jill?

You never helped me get through when it was bad, right?

Call US even.

You�re going to lose everything.

No, i�ve got what I need.

Everything. It�s about to happen.

Says who?

Never mind who.

What do you mean "now"?

I don�t have any time at all?

Jill.

You brought me in here.

Tell me what you mean.

No time.

No -- no time at all, not even a day.

Okay.

Yeah.

Okay, thanks.

Yeah, sure.

John: Lost time? Yeah.

Anyways, i�m going to the hospital.

Love to Andy.

Best to Andy.

Okay, Greg.

Lost time.

Detective,

could you give this little bear to Theo?

How�s the foot?

I used to keep an open-toed pair of slippers in here

from when Marie and me first separated

and I was living in the crib,

but now, of course, I don�t find them.

You�re not going to make me find a new partner?

To tell you the truth, d.,

sometimes I get so hurt

that that�s not beyond the realm,

from the level of exclusion I periodically feel

from the goings-on of this squad, 100% candid,

that i�ve been experiencing the last several days.

This, the refrigerator door falling on my foot,

that I regard as the appliances

on this floor falling in step

with the people inside,

supposed to be my colleagues.

Present company excepted.

I�m glad you said that.

No one asked, do I want

to drop by the hospital or so forth,

keep company with Andy,

see how the little guy�s doing?

The last couple of days,

people running from desk to desk

like it�s a relay race,

confiding in each other over something involving Jill.

Even that lost time you took the other day

it seemed to me could have

possibly been pertinent to that

where you come back, confide in Russell.

Believe me, Greg, when I came back,

I didn�t know no more about what Diane

sent me out to do than when I left.

I gave Diane a couple of chances to tell me.

So you didn�t get taken inside the inner circle, either.

To tell you the truth,

i�ve had that feeling once or twice

in my life before.

Really?

Really.

Anyways, essentially,

present company excluded, like I said.

Plus, it�s not like I don�t realize

people got other things on their minds

past not stepping on my toes.

If I was other people

and I didn�t want a punch in the face,

I think the next few days i�d be pretty careful

not stepping on that one set of toes.

My right set, yeah.

Hey, if I couldn�t be no help to Jill,

andy�s little guy�s all right,

forget I ever mentioned nothing.

That Nicole --

didn�t work out with her.

I�m confiding that.

All right.

We got our own inner circle going.

Point taken.

Diane: Okay.

Okay, denby.

I will meet you.

Hi, Andy.

How�s our boy doing?

He took it good, the doc said.

Good for Theo.

Going to have discomfort when the anesthetic wears off.

Yeah, I guess that�s to be expected.

Yeah, that�s what she said.

She�s holding his hand there in the recovery room.

The doc�s with him?

No, Katie.

Anything happen?

The job knows.

The boss told Diane, "get out of the way."

Don�t read human nature very good, fancy,

if he thinks diane�s getting out of the way.

Maybe.

Saying he told Diane,

expecting her to give Jill the heads-up?

Diane thinks jill�s going to book.

She don�t run with these assholes.

She don�t jeopardize her kids.

You wouldn�t think so,

unless her and the kids are under duress.

Which is possible?

Suppose a guy needed to disappear

so the world�s a better place.

That�s something completely private.

Absolutely.

Asking about mechanics.

Bodies in dumpsters get recovered.

Bodies in water, any kind of weights,

can still pop up.

A body 6 feet down,

no animal gets the scent.

In Brooklyn,

off flatlands and Pennsylvania avenues,

used to be a landfill.

They turned it into a wildlife refuge now.

Got real Sandy soil,

no roots or rocks.

Easy digging.

The hole would get dug without the body around

so when the body got there,

it�s just a few minutes to fill the hole.

And then the leaves and twigs would need to get scattered,

cover the digging.

And a decent person who did all that,

his life would never be the same.

I don�t want it to happen, Andy.

I�m trying to steer away from it.

You don�t want your pants down if it does.

Any idea when you�ll hear?

No, they said a few hours.

They said never rush a pathologist.

All right.

I�m developing my leisure skills.

You find this rendezvous brazen

given the possibility we�re being watched?

Not for you.

I bought this checker set

from this African-American gentleman

who says it�s been in his family for 20 years.

How easily we put the past up for bid.

Tell me, denby.

All the qualities i�d want in a friend,

you exhibit -- steadfast, loyal to the point

of personal and professional risk.

Referring to you

reaching out to your partner

who reaches out in turn.

So here�s the picture --

fugitives in flight.

Not funky fugitives, Diane.

Affluent, fleeing in comfort.

It must have some appeal

or why give your partner the push?

I didn�t see you or Don in the picture, denby.

I thought she might grab her kids and go.

Perhaps you had some deeper intention.

Perhaps you were employing a self-motivation technique

with which I am personally familiar --

I.e., painting yourself in a corner.

Do you know what half smart means, denby?

Diane, cornered, I find

that what i�ve never considered before

is not only possible, but intriguingly,

what i�ve wanted to do all along.

So that�s how a scumbag turns into a skel?

Diane, all this putting yourself in harm�s way,

are we being 100% honest with ourselves?

I ask in this hurried fashion because i�m planning a trip,

and i�m now convinced you�d like to come.

Denby, are you trying to turn me out,

or do you want me to pull you back?

Little late for that, Diane.

Getting saved has to wait for my next time at the plate.

If you want to hurry that along,

i�d like it fast and from the back,

and i�d like to be surprised, and if you do it,

I bequeath all these checkers to you.

Ready, aim...

So, she�s got his results.

Theo�s bone marrow study showed what�s called

a red-cell maturation arrest.

Come on, now.

The red cells he�s making aren�t fully formed.

Why is that happening?

We don�t know. He�s also not making enough platelets,

which is called thrombocytopenia.

What�s his disease?

When multiple elements of the marrow are compromised,

we begin to worry about leukemia.

No.

I know that�s a frightening word,

and it�s my responsibility to say it to you,

but I also want you to understand

there�s just as much likelihood

that theo�s problems are being caused

by something else.

Is there more likelihood?

I wouldn�t weigh the likelihoods

in one direction or the other.

God.

Theo�s white count is almost normal. That�s good.

It�s not normal?

It�s a little low, but not dramatically.

We need to follow Theo, monitor his blood values.

He�ll have to stay here?

No, you�ll bring him in once a week.

And when are we going to know what�s happening?

I can�t tell you that for sure.

Theo may be having what�s called

an idiopathic reaction to medicine he took.

His marrow may have been knocked out by a virus.

He�s been sick.

I know. You told me he had a cold.

So this could be from that?

If it is,

as suddenly as his marrow stopped functioning,

it may start up again.

I wish I had definitive answers for you.

I promise whatever turns out to be causing this,

we�ll have ways to help Theo.

Don�t say you can cure him no matter what.

Don�t lie and then take that back.

Some diseases have no cure, Mr. Sipowicz,

but many do,

and in every case, we�re able to help.

Here they go with double talk now.

Why don�t you take Theo home

a little later on?

I�m sure he�ll be a lot happier there.

All right, thank you.

Yeah, thanks.

Now, the pathologist is backed up.

They won�t hear for a couple of hours.

How�s Theo?

He stood it like a champ,

them taking the bone marrow.

So that began frank, you, and Jill.

I hoped she�d tell me she was trapped,

ask for help.

She reached out to Don instead.

How do you know that?

Denby showed up to tell me.

They�re -- they�re getting ready to go.

Who? What, jill�s taking her kids?

I don�t know, Danny. That�s what it sounds like.

Yeah, all right.

All right, let me see where the rat squad is,

if we�d have an audience, whatever we need to do.

You want to talk in here?

You want US to?

Yeah, Sorenson, I was in here overnight

hooking up your microphones to our tape recorders.

Humor me.

Look, we aren�t going to argue.

If a house is up, innocent people get hurt.

And?

And this house is up.

And when is it going to be over?

Refresh me why you�re in that loop?

I�d never say innocent should get me there.

Yeah, that would be childish.

Let me go with I can�t work worrying

that my phones are monitored

and my movements are being watched.

You don�t get day and date when this is over, Sorenson.

How about a month?

Well, junior,

you won�t feel pressured like this next month.

Tomorrow?

Tomorrow --

i�d still be avoiding gray-area phone calls

or shacking up with some other guy�s wife.

But it shouldn�t go much longer than that?

No.

That�s one in your bank.

You�re not my banker.

Medavoy, Baldwin.

So, first, could someone get hurt career-wise?

Definitely.

Physically hurt could happen, too.

What�s going on?

Yeah, how can we help?

Say a situation developed, a street situation,

a cop and a skel are trying to book.

Grabbing the cop up would be on you guys.

The skel�s on you.

Correct. Where�s the cop wind up?

He don�t make you do different, at the house.

Is he a collar? If the son of a bitch

makes it to the house, call the rat squad.

The cop�s not in the squad?

The cop�s not,

but a cop in the squad might be with him.

With him and the skel.

Who�s going to take care of that cop?

Well, either someone will be with US

to take care of that cop,

or otherwise, we leave her on the street.

I�ll tell you when.

15th squad.

Where are you?

Yeah.

This makes a lot of sense.

This makes a lot of sense.

What I said before about the burial

and so forth,

that�s on me.

That�s on me.

I�m sick of asking.

I�m sick of asking.

I�m telling you what he don�t deserve...

And he don�t deserve to be sick.

You prick.

None of them deserved any of that.

You prick.

If it�s me, put it on me,

or don�t you got the balls?

Do what you want.

Do what you want.

This idiot isn�t going to notice.

Don�t let him be sick.

Please, don�t let him be sick.

I�ll do whatever you want.

Just tell me and i�ll do it.

I�ll stop Sorenson if you want.

Please, take care of my boy.

I don�t want you to think i�m a criminal,

at least not the way you think I am now.

I�d see him in the crummy basement place he had,

like I could separate what he was from loving him

and being with him from the rest of what I was.

They killed a guy who was guarding the drug stash

for the people Donny worked for.

That�s who denby showed me in the dumpster.

Don and denby have been selling drugs out of town.

I wouldn�t take drugs with him.

He kept trying to make me, and I wouldn�t do it.

Once I saw in his eyes how much he hated me

and wanted to hurt me, and he saw me see it.

The next day Kyle told me

that frank had gone to the mountains with Don,

and I haven�t seen frank since.

My god.

Don�s taking me to see frank tonight.

He promised.

He said he had to do it

to keep me from trying to stop him...

Jill --

and when he does, i�m going to kill him.

Jill, suppose don�s lying.

If he�s hurt frank,

don�t you think i�m going to kill him?

If he�s hurt frank,

don�t you think he�s going to try to kill you?

Jill, where is his place?

I�m meeting him at 5:00.

I�m picking up Kyle, and i�m meeting him there,

and don�s going to take me to see frank.

Okay.

Okay.

You can�t do anything.

You can�t do anything, or he�ll hurt frank.

This is going to be okay.

How does it feel?

Tape it up, i�ll be able to move pretty good on it.

Cop you and me are going to be grabbing up,

I think that�s a narcotics task force detective

named Harry denby.

Denby�s who Diane had me follow the other day.

I see.

Must be Diane Danny meant might be with US

dealing with the cop that isn�t denby,

which means the other cop has got to be Jill.

D., much as I am Mr. Sensitivity

when I am out of the information loop,

certain situations i�ve learned

i�m better working need-to-know.

It�s just US talking, Greg.

And if we keep talking,

the next subject is going to be

who�s the skel danny�s taking care of

and how is he going to take care of him?

And how danny�s going to take care of that skel --

what good can come of US talking about that?

This works.

Time�s gone on, Baldwin,

i�ve learned to recognize the difference

between believing something and needing to believe it.

Like sometimes

I might need to believe I was part of something

or I ought to be a part of it

or I should do something to prove I was a part of it,

and that�s an important difference.

�cause if i�m stand-up,

i�m going to back what I believe

even if it gets me hurt or jacked up.

That�s how my life makes sense.

But if I get myself hurt or jacked up

just �cause I wanted to believe something,

I wasn�t being stand-up.

I was acting like a kid or a damn fool.

Is that what you think i�m doing?

I don�t know.

I can�t decide that difference for you --

if you believe you�re a part of something

or if you want to believe it.

Yeah, I believe i�m part of something.

Okay.

Then you do what you got to do.

I just wanted someone to hear his voice.

Everything�s great. Everything�s right on time.

Baby, I can�t talk right now.

All right.

All right, baby.

Don�t kill me.

Did I write all this information correct?

It�s all correct.

No, look at it!

It�s all correct.

Please don�t kill me.

Shut up.

Please. I�ll never talk to her again.

See, you believe that because you�re a skel.

That�s why it�s no point in listening

to nothing you got to say.

You will reach out again �cause that�s who you are!

I got him to take a good sip of apple juice.

Is he back to himself?

He�s so groggy.

He took a good sip, though, before he dropped back off.

We�re all part of him.

He won�t give US more than we can bear

if we let him help US with the load.

So then what are you choking for?

Because sometimes it�s hard to remember.

Going along,

let�s help each other to remember.

Thank you, Katie.

Thank you, Andy.

This is crap, you know. This whole story�s crap.

All I know is what they called in.

Out comes Harry denby?

They�re sitting on a drug location

on an old case.

Out comes Harry denby, high and holding drugs.

I�m telling you, that story�s crap.

I shouldn�t have contacted you -- cop under arrest?

Hey, we got him.

Where do you want this guy, boss?

Where do you want him, sergeant?

Put all your department property on the p. A. A.�s desk.

I would need the use of my hands.

Where�s kirkendall?

Kirkendall didn�t go out with US.

Kirkendall took lost time.

Where�s her ex-husband? Ask these guys.

Did Sorenson grab him? Where�s Sorenson?

He didn�t have a radio. I guess he�s on his way in.

I don�t know who you guys think you�re playing with.

I want where Sorenson is

and where this prick�s running buddy is.

People are getting suspended if I don�t find out.

That�s Danny now. He didn�t have a radio -- Danny.

This guy was beating feet around the corner where I was.

He had two spoons in his pocket, no I. D.

That�s Don kirkendall. I talked to him once in jail.

There�s your mystery solved.

I got to make a personal call.

Use my line.

Put him in the cells downstairs.

Okay, sergeant.

This guy was in a position to hurt one of US and didn�t.

Hurt you with a gun?

Yeah, with a gun.

I thought maybe you meant

hurt you telling the truth.

Hello? Yes.

Hi.

And is it even worth discussing that other situation?

Okay.

Thanks so much.

Kyle, things are going to get happier for you real soon,

and your mom�s going to talk to you about all of it.

Okay.

Right now i�m going to need

to talk to your mom by herself.

Okay. I understand.

Okay, honey.

Are you sure frank�s still alive?

He�s upstate in canandaigua,

some girlfriend of denby�s.

He�s fine, Jill.

Danny talked to him.

After you pick frank up,

I don�t know that there�s much sense coming back.

No, I know where i�m going.

Do you need money?

No.

Don�s alive.

Not to me.

Jill, i�m a drunk, and the first thing

I got to know is i�m never cured.

I want you to keep this with you.

Diane, no. That�s bobby�s ring.

And I want you to keep it with you,

and when that prick reaches out from prison,

you hold bobby�s ring and remember.

I�ll remember everything.

You remember everything.

Now go get frank.

Andy: That�s good. That�s much better, Danny.

You, too.

As long as I have you,

for as long as I have you.

I do so like green eggs and ham.

Thank you.

Thank you, Sam I am.