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MARIA: I want you to
go to the hospital.

The doctor will take a pap smear
there and we'll use it for identification

once we catch him.

LADY: You ain't catching him.

Here's my card.

Call me if you change your mind,
and you want to add anything.

Detective Maria Quinn.

If you don't smoke,
don't start now.

I'm Vincent Cusak
your new partner.

Maria Quinn. What happened to Rooney?
I was supposed to meet Rooney here.

Rooney is out on sick leave. Personal
business he's got to take care of.

Captain thinks it's a good idea for
you and me to be partners. Captain said.

- First aggravated rape?
- Yeah.

You got through it
without cracking.

And I see you arranged to be late,
so I would have to interview her alone.

Some kind of test, Cusak?

How did you get
assigned to me, Quinn?

I'm a senior
detective in Mid Manhattan,

arguably the best
dick in New York.

Now that my partner is retired,

how did someone like you
get assigned to me?

- Providence?
- That kind of providence

comes from being well connected.

I'm not sleeping
with the commissioner.

Too bad for the commissioner.

Quinn, lace Irish, right?

Long Island, right?
Forest Hills.

Probably went to one of them
fancy Ivy League schools.

Not Dartmouth, Marymount
or anything like that.

Hey,

get off my car!

Get out of here.
Follow your man.

Look at this.

I'd say that takes
some juice, Maria.

Do you have anything more for
me? Because I have a family dinner.

I'm in favor of families.

PETER: I have to ask you a
good question. DENNIS: Yes, Peter.

You won't believe this,
they're all asleep.

Good.
Good, good, good, good, good.

Dennis, what you teach?

- Drink, drink...
- Oh, yes.

What you professor of?

DENNIS: Well...

PETER:
Here, here, more food, yes.

Where you meet my
beautiful sister?

MARIA: I audited his class.

Audit.

Like a bookkeeper?

She audited me
like a bookkeeper.

I think I'm drunk.

PETER: Good, good, good, good.

This is the game
Peter plays for dad.

Actually, Peter has
an MBA from Columbia.

Hey, hey, stop please.

I married an immigrant.

Maria married a cop.

Papa, what do you think, papa?

(MARIA'S PAGER BEEPS)

Oh. First day on the job. I got
to call my partner. Excuse me.

ALL: Maria...

(READING) "My karma
ran over my dogma?"

What the hell does that mean?

Sorry,
I quit, but I hate quitters.

How's the family? Should be happy,
Dow Jones is up.

Yes, we had money.

Yes, we went to private schools and
had live-in help. And yes, it all went.

And now I live on my salary,
the same as you do.

So request a different partner,
okay, first thing tomorrow or I will.

And tonight just
get off my back, okay?

Easy, easy,
I'm the friendliest guy in my zip code.

I like debutantes, okay?

- Who's in charge here?
- Sergeant is outside.

Line up the witnesses.
Separate them.

Detective Quinn and I will take
their statements, keep them apart.

If they want to use the toilet, take
them downstairs to the deli, understand?

- And accompany them.
- Got you.

Where's the victim?

COP: Upstairs in his bedroom.
The name is Carlos Galanter.

Never get out of the boat
while it's rocking.

The victim will still
be dead in the morning.

You said victim.
This is an OD.

Certain things you
learn as a cop, Quinn.

You learn love
doesn't last forever

and you only get your name in the
paper when you shoot the wrong guy.

And you learn nobody gets
naked just to shoot heroine.

Tie folded neatly at the
foot of the bed there. Huhuh.

You got the jones,
you don't take time to fold you clothes.

No other needle marks.

This is his first hit.

Naked? No?

Somebody wants us to think
it's an OD.

See, unlike other indoor sports, Quinn
you don't got to be naked to shoot heroine.

What do you think of homocide?
Everything you expected?

Some of the guests
are getting hysterical.

Let them. I love to see
hysterical rich people.

Yeah, but there's a doctor
who says he has an emergency.

Has to go to
the hospital he says.

Told him he had to
talk to a detective.

Take him to the kitchen.
Detective Quinn will talk to him.

BRIAN: When I say do not medicate,
I mean do not medicate.

Do not do anything until I
get there. Is that understood?

Thank you very much.

Doctor?

You're who I have
been waiting for?

If you'll wait please...

If I wait? I have a critically ill
patient who is intensive care.

Are you the only
doctor in New York?

At this time,
for this man, yes I am.

Okay.

I'll have one of the officers
escort you through the line.

If you get a chance
while it's fresh in your mind,

write down everything
you remember. Everything.

- No matter how trivial. Doctor...
- Venible.

- What hospital?
- Roosevelt.

Detective Quinn,
Miss O'Hara is getting sick.

I want you to escort
her to the bathroom.

Quick. She's the one
who discovered the body.

Thank you. I hope I never
have to do that or see that.

Want to tell me
about it, Christine?

It's Chrissy.
People call me Chrissy.

Yeah. See,

I went into the bedroom
looking for the John, you know?

I'm always looking for the John,

and he was right... Oh God.

How bad is that
cocaine habit, Chrissy?

What do you what are you going to do?
Arrest me just because I have a runny nose?

Sit down.

I saw you in the ward.
Thank you for staying back.

What did you want
to ask me, Sergeant?

Detective. It takes a
long time to be a Sergeant.

I'd like to you to tell me
about Carlos Galanter.

One of the guests screamed.
I ran to the bedroom.

He was dead. I called 911.

Did you know what
was in the syringe?

It's six in the morning,
can't this wait?

The first twenty four hours of the
police investigation are the golden hours.

After that, witnesses forget
evidence and it's lost.

So you do as much as possible
in the first twenty four hours.

That's why I'm here now.

As a professional, do you think
the overdose was self administered?

That's your profession,
not mine.

And as much as I enjoy discussing
forensic medicine with you,

I have to shower. I have
surgery in an hour and a half.

Exactly what did you see
when you went in the bedroom?

I saw the body, exactly.
No pulse, no respiration

Eyes open, pupils dilated. I
administered C.P.R. He was gone.

Haven't I seen you somewhere?

Did you see anyone
enter or leave the bedroom

other than
the woman who found him?

Lincoln Center at concerts. I've
seen you at concerts at Lincoln Center.

Yes, I have season tickets.

Yes, so do I.
See, I am observant.

And no, I didn't see
anyone under the bed.

Did you come to the party alone?

Yes.

And I don't believe it was
self administered.

People don't kill
them themselves that way.

Guys, this is Maria Quinn, my
new partner Maria.

This is Levy,
Washington, Knowles,

Micelli and
Watson from homicide.

They are going to assist us
in following up on witnesses.

Hey, are you going to smoke
that at eight o'clock in the morning?

No,
I'm going to wait until 8:15.

I got them to do
the autopsy last night.

Confirms heart failure due to
overdose of... Get this, guys,

one hundred percent heroine.

Bruises on the victim's chest indicate he
was held down while being administered.

Which means, whoever held him down,
was really strong or really really friendly

if you catch my drift.

What is this?

Jackson Pollack, I think.
Very rare and expensive.

Looks like
somebody threw up on it.

Also,

signs of recent beating,
severe and professional,

so we know the guy had enemies.

I think the first
thing we want to do

is run Carlos and the rest of the
witnesses through the computer.

Here.

Where did you get this?

I have access to
the computer at home.

You have what?

When I worked investigative
analysis they gave me home access.

Carlos Galanter.

Possession, possession
with intent to sell,

assault, aggravated assault,
prostitution, bribery, extortion

a varied and
colorful career, huh?

Okay. Seven names here known
to Narco. NOCU.

Quinn and I will take those seven,
and you guys

divide up the rest. Quinn and
I took statements last night,

but I want a follow-through.

And, guys,

these are rich and
famous and connected,

so insult them only a
little more than necessary.

We should also talk to the
girl who discovered the body.

Here we are.
Christine O'Hara, 201.

Christine said that she went to
Carlos's bedroom to use the bathroom.

You think she went in to
practice heavy breathing a little,

and she said,
"Here try this for a bigger thrill."

And popped main
line with pure smack?

That's what you think?

You got a dirty and suspicious mind,
Quinn. I love that.

Police!

We're supposed to call a judge
and get a warrant.

- Warrants are for sissys.
- You can't just walk in.

You want to play by the rules?
The rules don't work, Quinn.

The rules are not
acceptable here.

Well, as my former partner used to say,
nothing like a little B & E to start the day.

- What are you doing?
- Just thought I would try it.

If that key fits,
you could make me a copy.

I'm just kidding.

She came from Iowa or Indiana
one of those states that begin with an I.

Here's a picture of Chrissy
and Carlos Galanter in Mexico.

No names just initials,

codes, extensions, businesses.

- What the hell is this?
- MARIA: Chrissy?

We're here to ask you some
questions about Carlos Galanter.

What are you doing here?
Do you have a search warrant?

It would take us about five
minutes to get one, Miss O'Hara.

Then you get one.

Get out!

Get out of here!

I'm calling my lawyer
and see what he has to say!

We could arrest you on prostitution,
possession, trafficking.

Call your lawyer, because we're going
to charge you with withholding evidence

lying to a police officer,
and accessory to murder.

What we want to talk about is Carlos
and about Mexico and drug trafficking.

We just went on vacation.

I don't know anything
about drug trafficking.

How long have you been a call
girl, Chrissy?

Long enough.

Talk to me.

I'm calling my lawyer. We'll see what
he has to say about someone busting in.

Hey, hey, that's not
necessary, Christine.

We have all we need to know. If
we need anything else, we'll call you.

Is that all right with you?

VINCENT: You have access?

Nobody gives nobody anything.

Where's your juice, Quinn?

I was married to a cop
who was killed on the job.

The brass gives
me anything I want.

So what do you want? Getting
even for your husband's death?

That is why you became a cop?

C'mon, Quinn,
women like you aren't cops.

Women like you spend their lives

buying antiques, shopping. You
ain't no cop. Look in the mirror.

What's the real story, Quinn?

You're the best cop in Manhattan,
you figure it out.

This is Arty,
my former partner. This is Maria Quinn.

- I'm sorry about the desk.
- It's okay.

You got to understand, Maria,
Cusak and Arty are legends.

Always nice to meet a legend.

I'll come by once in a while.
That was my desk for twenty years.

Your husband was Eddie. I was
at the funeral.

I'm sorry I don't remember.

I dropped by your home.
We did task force together.

You want to check Galanter's phone records,
bank accounts,

credit card records,
income tax forms and look for Columbians.

Excuse me,
are you still on the job?

VINCENT:
Maria, Arty and I talk.

We're partners,
like old married couples.

They talk every
night before they sleep.

I'm not trying to
take your job, Maria.

I just get, tired of looking
at the sports channel all day.

I miss the action, you know?

What do Columbians
have to do with it?

The great Seattle
windshield pit epidemic.

See, a few years
ago people in Seattle

thought the windshields
on their cars were being

pitted by some mysterious force.

Cosmic rays, laser beams,
little green men.

Hundreds, hell, thousands of them reporting
mysterious pits in their windshield.

When they investigated,

what they found out was
that as the word spread,

people started
looking at their windshields

instead of through them.

There's probably some
point to this story.

One hundred percent heroine,

Columbians love to trade
cocaine for pure heroine.

It's easier to transport
and more money in it.

A year ago there
was a big rip-off

at the Liberty Motel in Queens.

No, that was...

No,
no. The guy you want to talk to is Tyrone.

- How can I help you?
- I want to apologize for this morning.

When I lose a patient... Well,
I was rude and I'm sorry.

Believe me, that's fine,
doctor. Don't worry about it.

By way of amends, I have two
tickets for the Met tonight, La Boheme.

And I thought you might
like to use the other ticket.

I don't want to sound like...

it promises to be
a really special evening.

And I hate to see the
other ticket go to waste.

Besides, I owe you an apology.

No, you don't, really.

I'm not asking for a date
that's not true.

I am asking for a date.
I'm asking you for a date.

I don't mean to sound
unappreciative, but...

BRIAN: So why don't you just
think it over...

I'll have the ticket with me
and I'll be at the fountain.

You know where that is?

Well, I don't finish here
until at least seven.

That's okay.
I'll leave it at will call.

It will be under my name.
Try to make it, please.

Please?

I'll try.

It's okay. I enjoyed it.

The heaviest
breathing I get nowadays

is when the old lady comes
home from aerobic sclass.

You know, Vinny, you're no t nearly
as amusing as you think you are.

I could be.

(OPERA SOUNDS)

Excuse me.

You look beautiful.

Please.

You do, you look beautiful.

VINCENT: Tyrone hangs
in this ally. There he is!

Watch the car, don't scratch
the paint.

What are you
trying to do, Tyrone,

give me a heart attack?

I didn't recognize you, Mr.
Cusak.

When the man starts
chasing you, you run.

How is your mother, Tyrone?

She's been on a new medicine,
man, but she hurts all the time,

you know what I mean?

Hey, Mr. Cusak
that's your new partner?

Slick.
What happened to Mr. Arty.

Tyrone, shut the hell up.

Okay, okay.

There was a ripoff about a
year ago in Queens Liberty Motel.

Tell me about it.

Heavy Columbians in town for
part of industrial smack, man.

These guys rip them off
and blew them away.

There was brains
all over the place.

What are you looking at?
Get the hell out of here!

Police brutality!
Police brutality!

Get off me, man!

Somebody help me, man!

I don't know, man.
I don't know.

What dudes? Or I'll take you
down to the Met Center, Tyrone,

and test you for you for real.
What dudes?

Lysander O'Hara,
a real righteous maniac.

He's so crazy he would sell you
anything that would make you go crazy.

- I can't breathe, man!
- Get the hell out of here!

Hey, man,
this man will kill people for two dollars.

Where's Lysander?

Uptown on some charge.

Hey, can you get me tickets Mr.

If I catch you again, you're
going in for good.

- I got Yankee tickets.
- Police brutality. Get off me, man.

Yankees suck, man. Hey,
why don't you take care of that knee.

Nice to meet you, ma'am.

Get off me, man!
Let go of my jacket!

You going to pay me?

Lysander is a real heavy dude,

but he's dumb,
you know what I mean?

He's got a wife, blond
hair all over the place.

Whoa.

Blonde?

Lysander O'Hara,
arresting officers?

MARIA: I'm sorry.
Can I put you on hold?

Quinn.

I'm sure I could.

I'll find out.

Vinny, we're not working tonight,
are we, captain?

Yes. Eight o'clock, sure.

Okay. I have someone on hold
so I'll get back to you.

Thank you.

I'm sorry.

What date did they try the case?

Could you fax me
the court records?

Right. Thank you.

Lysander O'Hara. Attempted murder,
assault, assault with intent to kill,

serving time for possession.
Know what drug he sold?

One hundred percent heroine.

Guess who turned state's evidence
and sent Lysander to the joint?

Carlos Galanter.

No wonder you're the best
detective in America.

Want to know what else? That
was Danny I was just talking to,

the assistant warden,
looked up the visitors log

and Christine O'Hara, Mrs. Lysander,
visited him twice a month and guess what?

Lysander was paroled last month.

So, what case do we
solve after lunch?

After lunch?
We go visit Chrissy again.

Want to try
the deli down the street?

Sorry I've got something
to do. Thanks anyway.

Could we have another
mineral water please?

- White wine please.
- White wine, what?

Why not?
Want a refund on your taxes.

No, no, just asking.

Bad day at work, dear?

You might say so.

Haven't you ever had a bad day teaching
and had to answer stupid questions?

On second thought, I'll have a
glass of wine too.

Could you make that
two glasses of wine?

So, what did you
want to talk about?

Talk about?

Yes. Yesterday you
said you wanted to talk.

Something people often do
when they're having lunch together.

Talk about us.

You and me.

Yes, you and me. That's us.

I think that we
should take a break.

Take a break?

This hasn't exactly been
a high speed express.

Taking a break

is like jumping train
without having to run.

Then I guess there's no problem.

I guess a relationship is what happens
when you're waiting for something better.

You're a good friend.

What is friendship basically?

No, it isn't basically.

Arty used to say the three
best things in the world

are martinis before
and a nap after it.

So, Vinny, if Arthur loved the job so much,
why did he retire?

They retired him.

Best cop in New York City,
now he stays home all day and watches

lawn bowling on cable.

She must have left
right after we did.

The place looks the same.

Where the hell is she?

- Something is bothering me.
- What?

When we interviewed Chrissy at Carlos's,
she was wearing a designer gown

that cost several
thousand dollars.

Had on a Cartier bracelet,
five figures,

none of those things are here.

Nothing dressy in the closet.

The makeup in on
the dresser is minimal.

Borrowed?

Don't you get it?

Get what? I get very testy
when someone accuses me

of not getting something
the rest of the world gets.

Look, her things are here
because this is where she lives,

but she works someplace else.

Lots of call girls
use an apartment.

Fine. We will search all the apartments
in midtown for a Cartier bracelet; okay?

We got to get a bulletin out
on Lysander and Chrissy.

Then we will cross reference
these numbers in this book

with the party list.

That might narrow down the
suspects to three or four thousand.

That's what I'll be doing tonight,
protecting and serving.

You, I presume will be staying
home watching public television.

Am I wrong? Am I wrong?

Am I wrong?

BRIAN: In the 19th century
before anesthesia

Speed was
the most important thing.

A doctor could amputate a leg
in two minutes flat.

As a matter of fact,
in one story,

he amputated on patients
in under two minutes.

Of course the patient died
afterwards from gangreen,

they usually did in those days.

In fact,
during that same operation

the doctor listed

amputated
the fingers of his assistant,

who also died of gangreen
poisoning later on.

He was so animated with his
scalpel and slashed the coattails

of a very
distinguished spectator,

who was so terrified,
that he dropped dead from fright.

It was the only operation in history
with a three hundred percent mortality.

MARIA: Tennis lessons,
dance lessons, piano lessons,

the right schools,

the right people, the right clothes.
I was the princess on a pedestal,

but I wanted more out of life.

Thank you.

So I quit school and went to New York
and I auditioned for a Broadway show

and guess what?
I made the chorus line.

And I was nineteen and I
was working on Broadway.

I was real naive at that time.

What about after that?

Then I broke my ankle and I couldn't
dance. And I met a boy who was a cop.

- And you married him?
- Yeah, I married him.

What happened to him?

He was killed.

You live here alone?

No, the Harvard football team
spends the night.

Well, I don't mean now.

No, just the marching band.

Well, then play
something romantic here.

I'm sorry.

Maria...

Can I borrow one of your shirts?

- What?
- One of your shirts.

Sure.
Right there in the amoire.

Why do you want a shirt for?
Are you going somewhere?

I'm shy.

VENIBLE'S VOICE: You look
beautiful. You do, you look beautiful.

I'm not asking you for a date that's
not true. I am asking you for a date.

I'm asking you for a date,
you are who I've been waiting for...

VINCENT'S VOICE: Answer your phone,
Quinn. What? You think you deserve a life?

Meet me at 126
Jones Street off Third.

Now I know why no one has
heard from Chrissy O'Hara.

- Detective Quinn.
- COP: What happened to Arty?

Up the stairs and
through the tunnel.

VINCENT: Raped?

CORONOR: Well,
preliminary inspection shows no semen

Bruising not
consistent from rape.

She was moved. Folded over
probably in the trunk of a car.

What do you think? Two hours?

It doesn't bother so
much after a while.

Not that you don't care
or you get used to it ever,

but it doesn't
bother you so much later.

Here's the xerox
of her phone book.

There are five names here from
her phone book to match the party list.

I'm having task force do that,

but this one here, see B.R.

B.R. Mario's pizza
parlor on Mott Street.

She likes pizza.

I know Mario's pizza parlor.

Every cop in the organized crime
unit knows Mario's pizza parlor.

Most importantly,
my ex-partner knows it very well.

VINCENT:
So we'll stop at Mario's,

get some calzone
and maybe some answers.

A ride in a New York cab can
get your spine realigned for free.

How you doing?
Good to see you, Maria.

Oh, Vinny, you look like hell.

I got something to show you.
Look at this.

B.R. Mario's pizza parlor.

Benny Rosen is scum,
but he ain't no killer.

Vinny, what are you doing?
Growing a beard?

You look like a narc.

Shall we?

- Sit down, sit down.
- I am just having a pizza here.

What do you want?

Carlos Galanter.

Lysander O'Hara.

And Christine O'Hara.

I can answer that one.

The back of
a Chevy down by the bay.

C'mon - you spilled all
over my suit.

Stop jerking around or are we
going to have to dance on your neck.

Hey, hey, come on.

- What do you want?
- I'll tell you what I want.

Tell me about Lysander O'Hara.

The guy is a flat-out killer.

He used to muscle
for Galanter; all right?

This guy is on mean
street for anybody.

I'm telling you, he's crazy.
He enjoys killing.

C'mon,
you didn't hear it from me.

Word is he iced a couple of
Columbians at Liberty Motel.

Now, do yourself and the city a favor,
if you see him,

plant six into him real quick
and good day.

ARTY: Sit down.

Christine O'Hara.

- His wife, I think.
- Yeah?

Chisling little whore,

snow bird, put fist fulls up
her head like it had a leak.

What a set of
blond hair on this kid

not bleached I might add.

I carried her
a while on the books.

You carried her a little while
on the books?

You wouldn't even carry your mother
on the books. Who are you kidding?

This is different. See,

she paid the best
way she knew how.

I'm only human.

You're slime, you're scum.

Get him out of here!

Get him out of here!

Brotherly love.

MARIA: Benny, talk to me.

BENNY: Sure, just take him
for a walk or something.

Talk to me.

Yeah, sure.

Why are you guys busting
my chops for

some ripoff artist, some whacked out
crack hit, and some chiseling little whore.

How much was Chrissy in for?

Ten grand. It's all paid up.

How? When?

Three months ago,
some paluka helped her,

she paid up the principal
the whole shebang and all.

What was his name?

C'mon, I don't take names.
What do you take me for city bank?

One guy ruins my suit,

the other one plays king kong on my face,
now you're asking me for receipts.

You're going to drive me legit.

Ever see this guy?

No, I never met him.
I just dealt with her.

She paid me in cash. I always used to
meet her at Gate's at the Embassy Hotel.

We're all set for 6:30

Proprietor please.

Lady, this is a private club.
It's males only.

It's not a chauvinistic thing.

It's also a high class whorehouse.
I'm with vice busting unit.

Give me the proprietor, please.

Christine O'Hara.

You're not in vice.
I know everybody in vice.

Christine O'Hara.

There's no one out by the pool,
why don't we go out there and talk?

Yes, Chrissy. Chrissy
wasn't a fulltime girl.

Worked weekends, parties.

Could have been very successful,
but the life really wasn't for her.

A talented amateur.

When was the last
time you saw Chrissy?

She met some guy right after
she got busted and quit.

Got straight,
I haven't seen her since.

When did she get busted?

- September, August.
- Here?

No, no,

it was an outcall job.

What name was
she arrested under?

You got me, but I might be able
to help you with that. Come here.

Let me just look at this.

Let's see.

Chrissy? Thereare her working
names. Maybe that will help you.

This address on Seventy
first Street. How current is it?

It was good in August. I called her
in August, and she turned me down.

Tell me, do you have any idea who this
someone was who got Chrissy straight?

Some trick with
a missionary complex,

saving hookers is
their advocation.

Why is it always
on the top floor?

Wait a minute.

You carry that around with you?

A hunch.

Good hunch.

She was standing here.

He held the gun here like that.

Put her on the bed.

An execution.

What are you doing?

There's a hair here.
We can put it through DNA.

What will it prove?
The girl was a hooker.

She had more traffic than the
Holland Tunnel. Use your head

He would have had to wash up.

Detective Quinn.

- The doctor will see you in a minute.
- I'm not a patient.

- Sit down, please.
- I need to see Dr. Venible now.

- Have a seat, please.
- It's okay. Come in, please.

Would you please tell Mr. Collins
I'll be with him in five minutes?

Boy, am I glad to see you.

Was Christine O'Hara
one of your patients?

Why do you ask?

- Doctor-patient privilege.
- With me?

- With everyone.
- What else have you withheld?

Is this an investigation, officer? Should
I be calling my lawyer on the phone?

Doctor-patient confidentiality
is privileged information

It's a breach of
my oath to break it.

Only medical information,
not the fact that she was your patient.

Yes, she is my patient.

And I'm very sorry,
if you want any more information,

Miss O'Hara will
have to offer it.

She can't offer anything.

She's dead.

Oh no.

How?

She was murdered, shot.

Oh no. No. No. No.

It's an emergency. He'll
have to go to the hospital.

He won't be able to see you now.

My wife's birthday.

Anyway,
what are you doing here this time of night?

Going through records.

Main computer shutdown again,
so it's the old fashioned way.

What records?

N.Y.P.D. arrest reports.

Month of August.

Pandering, prostitution,
soliciting, immoral conduct.

I checked aliases, AKA's,
other burroughs, referenced hotels.

She was arrested in
August or September

at the Hilton,
but there's no record.

She's probably a niche snitch.
The D.A. will expunge the record.

It's midnight. Go home.

You're probably right.

- What are you doing here?
- I want you to get in please.

Please get in.

What I did was to protect Chrissy,
not to deceive you.

Would you please get in?

Maybe I presumed
more than you intended.

If that's the case,
I apologize. I was not casual about us,

and I thought that
you weren't either.

I'm investigating a case in
which you are a prime witness...

That's not what I'm talking
about. Why don't you just say it?

I wasn't casual about it either.

Onions,
mushrooms, and shallots okay?

I'm really not hungry.

Oh. How would you like to go
to the Hampton's this weekend?

I've got a great little beach
house there, my mother and I.

I have to work this weekend.

What about Wednesday? My
schedule is clear on Wednesday.

If you'll excuse
me for a moment.

Oh no.

I like the romance of all of this, but
couldn't we just meet in the squad room?

I'm removing
myself from the case.

Here here's
a sample of Venible's hair.

You can cross match DNA with
the hair from Chrissy's.

Also, this is
a key from his drawer.

I'm pretty sure it's the key
from Chrissy's apartment.

This is from her
medicine cabinet.

I found it today when I was
searching her apartment.

What the hell are you doing?

First, you supress evidence,

then you collect hair from a
suspect without Mirandizing him.

Where's your head?

And you don't get
to remove yourself.

What the hell is this? Are we partners
here or are we independent contractors?

Partners are supposed to
support each other...

Hey, am I bothering you?

Then get the hell out of here.

You can't quit. No matter what,
I won't let you.

That was Davidson.
They located Lysander O'Hara.

What do we have here?

What we got eight car unit,
four emergency servicemen.

The man is located on the
third floor barricaded,

heavily armed
and flat out crazy.

Okay. You, you on the roof.

Get your guys in the alley.
Cover the fire escape.

Lysander! Police!

Lysander... Drop it.

Lysander, stop!

I'm okay.
I'm okay. Did I get him?

You got him.

All we do is a job,
Maria, not a crusade.

You're not required
to betray yourself.

Don't do that.

Look, I tried to explain.
I am your partner.

I am not going to let you make
a disaster from your life.

You find yourself someone to love,
and if it's good and real,

don't flush it down the toilet for
a drug dealer and a dead hooker.

Another whiskey
and soda, double.

- Give me one for her too.
- No.

You're an innocent, Maria.

You know nothing.

There are a hundred guys
with keys to that apartment,

at least a hundred
hairs on her bed.

We got ourselves the killer and he's
on his way to the morgue right now.

It's over.

No, it isn't not for me.

Fred aren't you some kind
of hand writing expert?

Yeah, it's a hobby.

What do you think of this?

Loony tune.

Brian?

Brian, what's happened?

Come now.

Brian, Brian, are you there?

Brian, I'll be right there.

- Do you know what he took?
- No.

- You don't know what he took?
- No, I don't know.

Don't look at me.
Don't look at me.

You can go now.

I'm not leaving.

- Give me your arm. Give me your arm.
- No, no.

There, you see sometimes you
just have to throw the switch.

The current is still floating.

Not easy loving
a crazy person, is it?

To continue
loving a crazy person.

I need to know if Brian
has ever been violent.

He's waking up.

I asked if he's ever violent.

What do you want? Thrills?

Do you expect money
like the last one?

Last one?
Was that Christine O'Hara?

All right, so I come here for the
corn beef and knishes not the service.

Art and I used to
come here a lot.

Brian Venible's hand writing.

Analysis says schizophrenic.

Maybe Chrissy knew about it.

Maybe she was blackmailing him.

Lysander O'Hara killed
Chrissy and Carlos too.

The case is closed.

We got a backlog
of cases a foot high

and the department is cutting
down on personnelle and overtime,

and we're not spending
any time on this. Capish?

No, sell, Vinny.

Okay. We reopen the case.

Detective Quinn,
I'm Consuelo Venible.

Thank you for seeing me Mrs.
Venible.

What is it you want, Miss Quinn?

I want to know if
Brian is ever violent.

I want to know if he's ever tried to harm
himself or others during his episodes.

Episodes?
Is that what you call it?

I'm investigating two homicides.

I need to know if Brian Venible
has any history of violence.

Schizophrenics are not necessarily violent,
Miss Quinn.

They see and hear
things the rest of us do not.

My son is... Come.

I don't understand how Brian can practice
medicine, the hours and the stress.

Think of it as
an air conditioner.

You turn it on,
you hear the noise.

Then after a while,
you don't hear the noise anymore.

It's there below the surface.

Like Brian's voices.

Voices?

Auditory and visual hallucinations
are symptomatic of schizophrenia,

didn't you know that?

These voices, do they
tell him to do things?

Stop wasting the city's money.

It's no longer up to me, Mrs.
Venible,

the district attorney has
taken up an investigation.

You got the other half of this
ticket with the time stamped on it?

Yeah, in the back office.

Get it for me, will you?

Got his bank statements.

And I got the telephone records.

Now we can take our weekend off.

Brian, sorry I'm late.

It will ne very easy.

All they want to do is ask you
very simple questions

and you give very brief answers.

This is the assistant district
attorney and detective.

The date is Tuesday the eighth.

Time is 3:50 P. M.

Place is office of Arthur Golden,
assistant district attorney of Manhattan.

Present are assistant district attorney
Cynthia Clark and Arthur Golden.

Speaking.

(OVER TV) Mr. Venible you have
the right to remain silent...

I would like to know...

Anything you say can and will be
used against you in a court of law.

You have the right to be
represented by an attorney.

If you can't afford one, an attorney
one will be appointed to you by the court.

You may have him with you
during questioning if you so desire.

Do you understand these rights
as I have explained them to you,

and with these in mind,
do you still want to speak to us?

I thought this was merely an
examination...

Yes, I understand them.

When was last time you
saw Christine O'Hara?

On the night that she died.

What was
the occasion of that meeting?

She called me because she said
she had been threatened.

She asked me to
come to her apartment.

She was very, very frightened.

What did she want you to do?

I suppose she
wanted me to protect her.

What was the nature of these
threats and who made them?

I don't know.

There was a voice on her
answering machine that said,

"You'll never get away
with this. I'll kill you first.

"Not one cent,
you chiseling little whore."

Would you repeat that please?

BRIAN: The machine said, "Not once cent,
you chiseling little whore."

Can you describe the voice?

It was a man's voice.
It was deep.

It was rough, a New York accent.

What did you do after she
played you these threats?

I advised her to
call the police.

She said she couldn't.

I offered her
money to leave town.

She refused.

I told her she could
stay at my apartment

and she wouldn't do that.

She wouldn't let me
do anything for her.

Did you sleep with
her at this time?

I don't want this camera going.

BRIAN: Yes. And on another occasion,
we had been intimate.

ARTHUR: You just left
when her life was in danger?

What time was this.

8:00, 8:15.

I have a parking ticket here
from a garage on Sixty first street

which is one block from
Chrissy's apartment,

it has your license
plate number on it.

It's time stamped from 7:00
until 11:25 that evening.

LAWYER: That's it's. That's it. If
you're going to charge my client,

do it now.

I want a file a complaint.
I want a hearing.

Save the moral outrage.

That's it.
I can't take anymore of this.

I cannot take anymore of it.

LAWYER: I'm
instructing you not to answer.

I have here a canceled check

to Christine O'Hara for
twenty thousand dollars.

So what was that money for?

For drug rehabilitation.

Did she go into drug rehab?

- No, she did not.
- That money was for blackmail, wasn't it?

- For what?
- Blackmail.

Wasn't Christine
blackmailing you?

Because she knew
you were mentally ill,

and she asked you for money and more money,
and more until you couldn't take it.

Until you shot her!

Dr. Venible, we can establish
your car in the vicinity,

the key to Chrissy's apartment
and your canceled check.

We have no choice but
to place you under arrest.

We will set the time and place
for the bail as soon as possible.

It's her!
She's the one! Let me go!

He said
"chiseling little whore."

Benny Rosen said
chiseling little whore.

I told you Lysander killed her.

But you had to
investigate Venible.

Now what? You want to
investigate Benny Rosen?

Stop it,
Maria, the case is closed.

But he said,
"chiseling little whore."

You wanted off the case.
You are off the case now.

You are taking the rest of the day
off and you're calling in sick tomorrow.

Or I swear I will go to I. A.
About you and Venible.

Just forget it.

There he is, lady.

Brian,

I have to ask
you some questions.

No guns, no guns.

No guns.

You said the voice
on the answering machine

said the words,
"Chiseling little whore."

Can you recognize this?

Not one cent you
chiseling little whore.

She paid the only
way she knew how.

I'm only human, sweetheart.

Can you recognize
this voice that you hear?

She paid me
the best way she knew how.

I'm only human, sweetheart.

What?

Can you recognize
this voice, Brian?

The other one.

What? Which one?

"Flush down the sewer."

Flush down the sewer.

Hi there, come on in.

Nice to see you.

This place is not so nice, huh.

Have a seat.

I have a problem I
want to discuss with you.

I have two murders.

First, by lethal injection of
one hundred percent heroine,

not easy to acquire unless, of course, you
have access to the N.Y.P.D. evidence locker.

- You want coffee? All I got is instant?
- No.

A drink? I mix a hell
of a Manhattan. No?

I'll have some coffee.
You keep on talking.

I can hear in the kitchen.

The lethal injection is
supposed to look like an OD,

but suppose,

just suppose a cop does it
while he's on duty.

He can answer the call and
investigate his own crime, clever.

But if he goes to
all this trouble,

why does he undress the victim
and give away the murder?

Maybe it's a mistake.

Maybe deep down he
wants to be found out.

(SIGHS) Yeah. Maybe.

Maybe you don't know
what you're talking about.

What else?

What else is the second murder.

A call girl arrested in a vice
bust at the Hilton last fall.

Guess what? There's
no record of her arrest.

Who gets an arrest expunged?

Who has access
to the precinct booking slips

so he can destroy
the arrest report?

- Why does he want to do that?
- I don't know.

She's a snitch. It's a
shake down. Maybe it's love.

Anyway something happens
and it all goes sour

and he calls and makes threats
on her answering machine.

Not playing with a full deck,
wouldn't you say?

Right.

But the recording disappears.

The cop has access
to the crime scene.

He removes
the tape from the machine

when his partner isn't looking.

I guess the partner
is pretty dumb too.

I'd say so.

And then there's
this fall guy, a doctor,

who how lucky can you get?
Turns out to be schizophrenic.

(LAUGHING)

Now we have
a hypothetical killer,

setting up his new
naive partner on the doc

and she sells him out all right,
according to the plan.

The only thing is
she falls in love.

Not looking
through the windshield,

but at it.

You want to get to
a point here, Maria.

I mean there they're going
into a tie breaker here.

This is a very exciting match.

What do I do?

What you do is be a cop.

What you do is
deliver your loyalty.

Come on,
Maria, where's your loyalty?

You got any loyalty?

To who?

To the lieutenant?

The commissioner?

Your partner.

That's where you got
to be loyal, Maria.

So what you do...

you go to the man,

you tell him what you suspect.

You lay it out. You go along.

The blue wall, you don't go
over that to the other side,

not if you got
blood in your veins.

I don't want to
miss this tie breaker.

I don't play
tennis I like to watch.

Are we communicating?

VINCENT'S VOICE: She was
standing here. He held the gun to her.

ARTY'S VOICE: The blue wall. You
don't go over that to the other side,

not if you got
blood in your veins.

BRIAN'S VOICE: There was a
voice on her answering machine

that said I will kill you first,
you chiseling little whore.

VINCENT'S VOICE: You want to
play by the rules? The rules don't work.

ARTY'S VOICE: Tell him
what you suspect. Lay it out.

BRAIN'S VOICE:
Flushed out in the sewer.

The other one.
"Flushed out in the sewer."

"Flushed out in the sewer."

"Flushed out in the sewer."

VINCENT: Come in, Maria.

How did you find me?

I played the Benny Rosen
interview for Brian Venible.

He identified your voice

as the man making threats
on the answering machine.

Well, his elevator doesn't go
to the top floor exactly,

so nobody will believe him.

Why did you do it?
Money? Love?

Love.

Sometimes you fall in love
with the wrong people.

Well, hey,
you ought to know that, huh?

Christine, my God, Christine.

She had you...

you know by the groin and
she squeezed life out of you

and she left pulp.

And how you could get away...

Christine made me feel...

she made me feel.

So you killed her?

I never killed anybody
expect in the line of duty.

I think she double crossed you
in some way,

and you killed Chrissy
and you killed Carlos,

and you used me as your alibi.

You never said one thing to
me that wasn't lies and betrayals.

I never betrayed you.

I never killed anybody.

Only a cop could
expunge her record.

Only a cop could
destroy the booking slips.

Only a cop could lead the
investigation towards Brian Venible.

Only a cop...

Arty?

Yeah.

I wanted to kill Carlos, see?

I wanted to, but I couldn't.

Like Arty used to say,
"that's just not in you, kiddo."

So he did it for me
like any partner would.

Why did you want to kill Carlos?

Because he was scum.

You know I got her in a program.
She was six months clean.

Oh, Maria, you should
have seen her clean.

Oh my God, was she beautiful?

She wanted it... She
wanted to be clean..

I swear to God.

He came around tempting,
offering...

- So you had him murdered?
- No.

I didn't even know who did it
until I talked to Chrissy at the loft.

She saw Arty.

I didn't know anything until then.
I swear to you, I swear to God.

Well, what are we
going to do now, huh?

What do you think?

If he killed Carlos for you,
why did he kill Chrissy?

Chrissy saw him in the loft,

she knew he did it.

She wanted money
from him and from me.

I loved this girl so much,
and she was blackmailing me.

She was a tramp truth be known.

We don't have to
soil his memory, do we?

Oh, Vinny, another betrayal.

We can't.

The whole thing
has been betrayal.

Everybody betraying everybody.

Me included.

I know.

It ends here. You break the rules enough,
you pay.

We're all paying
one way or another.

So what about your
career now, Vinny?

Water in the basket.

What about your conscience?

That concerns me
less than it used to.

I may have to bring
you in, you know that.

It's all a series of questions.

Vinny, you want to go
to the grocer's for me?

Vinny, what will
you do with your life?

Why aren't you ever home
with me and the kids?

Hey, Vinny, what are you going
to do with the rest of your life?

So that's what happens, huh?

I hope I never
wind up like that.

You won't be able to help it.

I must live
a restricted life now.

Do you understand?

Diet, sleep, avoiding stress.

That and my work,
it's all there is room for in my life.

So, it was casual after all?

No. No, it wasn't.

It never was.

I'm sorry.

Yeah.

Me too.

Never get out of the boat
while it's rocking.

First,
get a picture of the scene.

Don't be in a hurry.

The victim will still
be dead in the morning.