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thank you

three weeks into the job and the police

commissioner ends up as a floater in

Central Park

as sometimes I wish I weren't chief of

internal affairs I gather this is one of

them got that right

I had real hopes for Charlie Stover yeah

I can't believe he let himself be taken

like that

what was he doing in the park alone

a meat that went bad he still had his

gun in the shield what about his wallet

could have been a mugging

meat that went bad that somebody tried

to make it look like a mugging nah

it doesn't feel right still the

commissioner falls under the

Department's jurisdiction so IA has to

look into it we're on it already Gene's

looking for his driver and uh Aaron went

over to question his secretary and check

out his office good the rookie who found

Stover kept it off the radio or else

we'd have more reporters here than cops

who's covering the homicide in Jerry

himself himself

he thinks Charlie got drunk fell in the

pond

rajiri was never a big fan of

affirmative action let alone Charlie

Stover the only other things we found

were shoes in the suit jacket at the

edge of the pond

no fibers nothing obvious except for

some swelling along the base of the

skull it fell right it could have been

hit from behind I won't know until I get

him on the table

Frank You Know Chief or Jerry oh yeah

Chief how are you

yeah she wants you all downtown on the

double HQ is crawling with reporters

Dan

give it to me

probably happened an hour before

midnight maybe two you think he drowned

Dead when he hit the water severed

cervical you get a hit from behind or

slid backwards they can't feed coping

caught him here well if you slipped he

would have tried to use his arms to

break his fall man

howdy slip his pants lights were rolled

up maybe he's waiting in the pond

slipped on the swam on the bottom or if

his plots just lost his balance

what was he doing in the pond in the

middle of the night I'm in charge of how

why is your department franked

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all right again

Jim Brannigan was it a racial attack

guys guys guys

Chief Drake will make a statement

Charlie just sit tight

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you all know our Consulting psychiatrist

Dr Bromberg

now listen

we got a bad situation here

we need a brief statement that preserves

the Integrity of the commissioner and

respect for the office

that's your department

waiting just let the rumors build I need

to buy us some time without making us

look like idiots it won't fly Mike

they'll smell it the man's pad legs are

rolled up for a waiting party in Central

Park in the middle of the night he was

on a binge and he fell down Nick if it

was an accident like it's not the only

thing could have triggered it he had to

be drunk or on drugs autopsy might

indicate Foul Play you mean a missing

wallet I don't even know he had a wallet

why didn't they take his gun too we're

not going to put out the story that he

was mocked make it look like a city

you're so dangerous it's not even the

police commissioner can go out at night

Chamber of Commerce would kill us what

was he doing out there without his

driving

who was he meeting

why

I only met the commissioner twice but

there are certain things we have to

consider commissioner Stover and a

second wife had a troubling divorce

fairly recently

his appointment was uh less than popular

in some quarters

the pressure of being a high public

official who inherited corruption

scandals in two precincts charges of

police brutality he's saying he flipped

his lid I am just theorizing the

sailboat Pond simply a regression into a

stress-free childhood state

yeah

it's compassionate what's all we've got

for now so do the best you can with the

Jew

I want you all men Nick to do the broad

leg work check out everybody and anybody

who was in the park last night or early

this morning you're liaison with Yannick

well he and a squad guided from the

departmental angle he'll handle the

media relations they like him

any ideas Yannick

I think it was a homicide and I think

you want to tell people another black

man who was given power screwed up face

it Yannick there isn't a white senior

officer would end up in the park like

that but you know as well

start I know a dozen career cops were

lined up for that job face it it wasn't

up to the job he got it because of his

color Charlie and I were rookies in the

six five he fed his family he went to

night school he made law review

he wasn't appointed commissioner because

he was as qualified as a white officer

he was appointed because he was the best

man for the job come on Yannick hard

enough

Jim knock out that stuff keep it General

I'll feed it to the vultures in the hall

all right everybody go to work

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you got a problem

with all due respect Chief race

relations in the city are rotten I think

to tell the Press even a responsible guy

like Walt Payne that the commissioner

was incompetent I think that's dangerous

I think you're just asking for trouble

Yannick wrap it up fast

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no problem

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is secretary work with him for ten years

in his Law Firm came over with him when

he took the new job he had breakfast

with Drake met with the mayor at 11.

nothing in this book for the evening you

go to his desk his files not a thing

right driver said the commissioner

dismissed him at six last night that he

looked

like that he'd been

a day one Dave

go down to records maybe somebody stole

over put a wake-out out recently

somebody would have scored himself you

got it and we had to get to the park

somehow

Fred call Richard's office tell him I

want 20 guys to Canvas the cab companies

and the car services I'm on it anything

else

oh Gene call a chief surgeon also his

personal physician see if he underwent

any uh psychiatric consultation

you think he flipped out do you hey come

on you know anything's possible yeah

well maybe that's what somebody wants us

to think

maybe too much control maybe he was

wrapped too tight hey Gene copy you in

line three

everyone check out the two precincts

that were involved in the corruption

scandals see if there's any link to

Stover even indirectly

good idea

if he wasn't black nobody'd be talking

this garbage I watched him and meetings

of the Brotherhood of black officers he

was a leader special

he had a down Frank

for years everything Charlie Stover does

commands respect

and then maybe just maybe he makes one

dumb mistake

his whole life becomes a joke

we're not ready

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I don't know get out here now

call the police system

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I'm a lieutenant Frank Yannick I'd like

to see Marco Stover deputy chief

Branigan public information officer for

the Department went on to say that the

police will also investigate allegations

that the commissioner was under extreme

emotional stress I don't believe it

I just don't believe it

I'm terribly sorry Lieutenant Frank

Yannick I didn't mean to intrude come in

please

homicide internal affairs

I work with Charlie a long time ago I

know this must be very difficult for you

no I am just a little bit overwhelmed uh

would you like some coffee no thank you

thanks please I have a seat uh

Charlie and I were divorced

I am I thought I had finally healed I

I didn't expect to feel like this

how do you feel this is over

I'm hurt

and I'm angry and I'm very confused this

whole thing has caused me to review my

entire relationship with Charlie and

watch those buffoons on television as

they try to imply that he was drunk or

incompetent having a breakdown it's

disgusting sounds like you uh still care

no I always care

it says that Charlie was impossible to

live with I mean I could barely share a

law of practice with that man

but it was tough and he was honest he

wasn't afraid of anything he went a long

way he always used to say go as far as

you can as fast as you can they can't

hit a moving Target

somebody did

yeah

where were you last night Miss Stover

I was at a speaking engagement for a

group of black professional women so

what time

about 11 and then we all went out for

coffee with the cheer lady uh Marietta

Barnes I'm sure she'll confirm that if

you call her

I went home about midnight

did Charlie have a will yes

I'm the executors who are the

beneficiaries

I get 20 percent

Martin

75 that's his son

the rest goes to the United Negro

College Fund how much is involved 100

200 000 Charlie was really about power

much more than he was about equity

do you know what the death benefit is

for a commissioner killed on duty

six hundred thousand dollars

I had no idea

where is this uh son of his Martin

Martin he's um he's probably still in

Montreal

we spoke about two years ago

wasn't very good well you didn't like

him when Charles divorced his first wife

Maxine

Martin thought that he was dumping her

because of me

because I was more presentable more

middle class

you know better for his career were you

Maybe

you see I met Charlie in law school I

was just a kid he was my study partner

he was the most mature person around

why is Martin living in Canada

because he and his father locked horns

about everything

civil rights Vietnam Martin thought that

war was a white man's War

sounds like you had your hands full

Martin blamed his father for everything

and then he just took off

what's he do for a living up there he's

a jazz saxophonist he made one album of

his own Charlie really wanted him to go

to Juilliard he really did because the

kid has talent can you show me Charlie's

office

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jelly had a lot of souvenirs yeah he

really loved being a cop

never tell you why he turned his badge

in no he uh he never really wanted to

talk about it and all I could do was be

there

if you've ever been married you know

about those times when that's all you

can do

I tried it

I got an aide for effort but I failed

the course

occupational hazard

hello

yes

it's for you

yeah Jenny

huh

I'm on my way

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if something's come up

I've got some more questions that need

answers I'll need to talk to you again

I'll be around

you do the right thing by Charlie stove

on it

what's up

unidentified mail about 50 found dead in

his fruit of the lows

how's it tie in I don't know yet lugash

called us we called you said the cause

of death was the same as soldiers

what's the guy doing in the garden in

his underwear it's like the old joke you

know the three worst words

and hero making love darling I'm home so

what are you saying guy panics runs

through his windowsill takes a crash

dive so where's his clothes upstairs in

the closet somewhere ah they'd be gone

before we ever got a warrant exactly

what about the owners of the apartment

Emma and brulow Emma and Bruno Sanders

very athletic little Duo on a chain of

health food stores he was in Boston at a

convention drove home late last night

she was here alone top floors rented by

a ballerina she's at rehearsal you think

Mrs Sanders was fooling around on the

side

only one way to find out

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excuse me Emma and Bruno Sanders

Lieutenant Frank janick Eternal Affairs

Miss Sanders

sir

this Sergeant tells me that you returned

from Boston late last night yeah I kind

of lucked out traffic was light and I

got in around 1am

and did you uh see or hear anything

unusual

no

how come you drove back so late I mean I

have to spending a full day at a

convention like that I was supposed to

stay over but uh I got bored besides

Canada the kind of guy doesn't like to

stay away from his wife too long so you

came home unexpectedly I suppose so I

see where this is going Bruno

the dead man

they wonder if he'd been here with me

doing it

well I wouldn't exactly put it down look

Lieutenant Janet you can put it anywhere

you want

tell him honey

look like this

fool around with that little guy in our

garden hey sometimes little people can

be very

energetic

this one died same time as Stover

similar contusions in the back of the

neck and we don't know who he is uh

sorry fell from a window onto a hard

surface broke his neck when he had

are you telling me the two-man fell and

snapped the next within an hour of each

other

it's a good thing you don't work in

Vegas you'd go broke

and G on the cab company so far I've got

him checking taxi trip sheets it's a

long shot any trouble with Roger he's a

good politician

sweet as a lamb

one of them stole this convictions got

out last week Johnny LuPone what'd he

put him away for narcotic seven and a

half to 15 wonderful guy

check it out I appreciate how you feel

about it thanks for your help

the chief surgeon gave Stover an

extensive checkup two weeks ago said he

had a heart like a 20 year old

what about that corruption thing ancient

history Frank the whole thing happened

before Stova came in

the flanks yeah well we better start

filling some of the men

got a second Frank

oh yeah sure Jim yeah come on in

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rogeri says you're way out of line

some corpse in a garden

should call this

and what's the connection same cause of

death

getting a lot of pressure from the black

community

they've got to bury this man with

dignity I think

memorial service is Friday

we have three days to find out what

happened to him

Yannick

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huh

thanks Dan

look Ash he did the autopsy himself he's

making the commissioner a hard side

that the guy from the garden Danny

what's the story sharp Blow by Blood

instrument of the second cervical same

as the commissioner he died within an

hour of each other

and within a ten block radius a little

guy had a lot of wine in him the

commissioner had less than an ounce of

losing him no drugs

we ID the little guy yet Prince aren't

in our files or the fbis yes thanks

Danny my house is your house

because the red DeSoto are you

fundraiser I depends should I call a

lawyer you want to talk here or downtown

charged with parole violation I'm

getting a haircut and talking with my

friend yeah where your friends are known

felons

and stuck here going downtown

to go read a magazine or something Gus

man

go get some there boys

we dropped in to talk about your hot

shot friends Goomba Mr Stover you think

I did them right let's just say the

thought crossed my mind I told you it

was a lot smarter than he looks Dave

but let me make it easy for you

I didn't do it

not because I didn't want to so why

didn't you because Carmine and the rest

of the mustache beats give me the word

touch them you end up like Joey Gallo

not an attractive composition you know

what I mean I know what you mean but I

don't buy it but how about this I got

this from a government every four hours

I got a reporter they bust me I'm a

material witness a little murder thing

upstate

yeah me and khashoggi we rate the

bracelet but I think they had his mate

at Van Cleef in our pills well that's

very attractive

I don't know what I was when your friend

took the Big Splash and you call my

parole officer Nate Robinson the guy

even knows when I go to the bathroom

capiche

it's nice seeing you again Johnny

hope nobody shoots you before the trial

he didn't struck out with the pawn

material witness in a murder he's

wearing a bracelet and what we have to

check him out

what's going to make nuts

hold on

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what's this

let's take a look

great where's the leaks coming from I

don't know I'm gonna have a talk without

Brannigan

check the ballerina the original knows

Health nuts

upholstery

tired

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hi can I help you hi uh I'm detective

Aaron Greenberg

hi Janice Banks oh nice to see you and

they told me the police might want to

talk to me she called to tell me about

it she was pretty upset

could we speak over here yeah sure

how long you've been renting your place

from Bruno Mars two years I was with the

Toronto ballet when they invited me to

join ABT

how could I pass up that one sure these

people are the best

let me ask you this were you home last

night around midnight yes I was at home

reading

you home reading find out hard to

believe let's see your pretty girl like

you must have every guy in town chasing

after her you're very kind it's my

middle name

uh getting back to last night

did you happen to see or hear anything

unusual down in the garden no not a

thing

omsp picked this appointment to you

you're hoping for a clue I got clothes

oh maybe I can make it up in a small way

do you like the ballet I love it

arushnikov right the only thing is with

my line of work the Yao is ETC I just

don't get a chance to go that often

could you go tomorrow night

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I'll arrange a ticket for you at the box

office curtains that eight great I'll be

there thanks a lot I really have to get

going is is there anything else Aaron

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I hope you enjoy it

can't wait

good evening I'm looking for Mr Branigan

all right big man policeman

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please

thank you

hi Jim

how'd you find me here oh your office

told me where you were

join me

no thanks no I'm gonna grab a bite at

the diner and Shine Like The Voice guys

don't grow up by the diner he's got a

loser written all over it

this is social call

no business

look at those so

same stuff they always pull

their job is to sell papers then report

the news

is the second concept sell paper's the

first

where the hell do those leaks come from

I mean I just left

a little hour ago I don't know

we'll issue a statement tomorrow and get

rid of the drug and liquor innuendos we

know Stover was clean yeah I still needs

room for a strange meet in the park

mugging serial killer

still looks bad Johnny I'm in charge of

PR but I can't sew the lips of every

jerk who thinks he's Sherlock Holmes or

who has a crutch against the black man

who made it at the top well you could

try I mean this kind of thing

it makes a mockery of everything that

silver ever stood for blacks in the

department have an organization they

know how to stand up for their own it's

not about black and white

Jim this is about a man's good name

baloney

today thanks

Branigan

what

is the chief on his way

tell him to hold off the press until

we're all there

come on Sonic

your problems are over

here is people

has found a suspect on that homicide in

the garden

they're about to make an arrest

what you heard me

let's step on it Yannick the car is

right over here

thank you

one for soliciting one for possession of

crack with the death to sell get a year

on righteousness

walks into a pine Brokers their Times

Square around five o'clock wearing a

Tweed suit the gold watch should match

the missing persons came over the wire

and pop rock was suspicious seeing the

kid around kid drives the hawk the watch

owner calls us we'll grab the kid

mirandize him absolutely waved his

rights we checked the suit out for dry

cleaning marks called company on the

watch check out Widow just ID the body

Bruce Finkelstein Park Avenue

endocrinologist what you got to do with

Charlie Stoneman kid had the commission

his wallet on when we grabbed him 15

more minutes and we're almost there okay

just tell me the rest it'll be all right

guys I'm not feeling too good look we'll

take care of your son

just tell us the rest what rest

the part about how you killed the

commissioner now you found him standing

in a pond and attacked him

it's true I did it is that what you want

to hear

you came up behind them and you hit him

yeah what did you hit him with

a pipe

open and shut case

yeah

Jim tell the Press I'm ready to make a

statement

thank you Frank Let It Go they got the

purp that's it you just watching the

same interrogation tape I was

that kid was chosen

I mean he would have said he was Hitler

to get some methadone they mirandized

him he waved his rights he copped to it

it's over it stinks it just stinks you

think anybody's really gonna believe

that Charlie Stover was out there in the

park looking for action with a male

Hustler no but you believe that fairy

tale that the kid was sleeping in a

dumpster when somebody just dropped a

watch a new suit and the commissioner's

wallet on him that kid had priors Frank

but not for violent crimes what if the

real killer is still out there and there

are more bodies laying around we're

gonna look like a bunch of incompetent

biggest railroading a black kid

slandering a black leader what do you

want you want to see Harlem and bet

style go up in flames

what do you want I want to continue the

investigation that's what I was afraid

of

Drake and rogeri find out about this

they'll flip their Lids just me and my

people nobody else I've got a kid in

medical school I can't afford to retire

yet come on John

you know what happens you blow this a

beat on the North Pole instant early

retirement

I can hold them off for about 24 hours

and that's it

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all right we got 24 hours oh you're

kidding then what they shut us down

that's nuts they're Railroad in some

pathetic junkie we all know didn't do it

but we all have personal feelings about

this what are you talking about Gene you

think I'm making all this noise because

I'm black no this is not about race

relations it's about what's right now we

got 24 hours to fix it so let's get back

to work

Gene I want you and Aaron to talk to the

pink scene Widow find out everything you

can my car yeah and YouTube guys take

Martin Stover Martin Stover Charlie's

son last known whereabouts Canada so get

in touch with the Canadian authorities

and U.S immigration see if we can find

out what side of the Border he's on and

if he's got a record on either side and

then talk to the people in Selective

Service the draft board

yeah Martin left for Canada after he had

a fight with his father over Vietnam so

how does he fit in he stands to inherit

a half a million bucks in my book that

makes him a very strong suspect

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we had a wonderful marriage

um

I worked as an RN to help them through

medical school

we were Partners in every sense of the

word

uh Mrs Finkelstein do you have any idea

how we ended up in that Garden it's so

embarrassing but what are people going

to say

why didn't you report him missing until

this morning

well he was he went out and I went to

bed early I had a headache do you know

where he went

went to the hospital to make his runs

you see Bruce felt that we were very

fortunate

and so

he donated his time to Memorial

sometimes if he had a patient in crisis

he would even spend the night there

did he drive downtown the Bruce Drive no

we don't even own a car

he uh

he probably took a cab did your husband

know or treat Police Commissioner

Charles stober no he would have told me

he always told me about it his celebrity

patients did he have many of those

yes my husband is one of the

was one of the

best

in his food

hi there I'm sorry I'm late it was worth

the wait

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hey

hey some place Charlie out here

not what I expected at all

this is very nice

very good taste it should be I paid for

it I brought Charlie out of our old

apartment and the furniture

he drove a hard bargain but you know we

lawyers we love a deal well my wife left

the house and the furniture and I didn't

get any money she felt she was entitled

a special compensation Yannick uh were

you fooling around on the side I have a

thing about Fidelity Charlie didn't it

seems the more successful he became the

more he had to prove it to himself

Charlie wanted a student and that's what

I was for a while

I guess I was looking for a father

figure

anyway when I decided I wanted to be

treated as an equal he just could not

handle that

so I went from the apple of his eye to

the bane of his existence

I just had to get up

somebody react to that oh the same as he

always did he said anything that makes

you happy sweetheart then he started

packing and you fought

what we did battle so how can we get

your law practice together

well we didn't really I mean we just

wanted people to think that we were

being civilized besides we shared the

overhead some overhead at office U.S

Charlie took that commissioner's

appointment that must have hurt you

financially it did but I'll manage

can I take this

I'm just the cover I don't need the

record sure

this is Nadine Cooper

Charlie with total devotion

well if Charlie Stover was going to

whisper the innermost secrets of his

soul he certainly whispered them into

those pretty little ears

the ballet the ballet

the only culture you've ever been

interested in is frozen yogurt who cares

about culture she's young and gorgeous

maybe Too Young Too Young what are you

kidding there's no such thing as too

young

Too Tall maybe nothing young

well doctor would you say that Dr

Finkelstein spent one or two nights here

a week on the average that is I really

can't be sure well could you take a

good place not really

informal thing

that's Dr Finkelstein here at all last

night

I don't want to have to subpoena you

truth that's what we usually like to

hear

he was never here

I signed him in and I signed him out

why'd you do that because he was my boss

because a guy like Finkelstein if he

liked you could be very good for

referrals to somebody that's just

starting out in private practice besides

he said it was a personal matter of the

heart

I'd say it was a little lower than that

word is he was having an affair with one

of the nurses you know who

he never told me

she didn't work in this department at

least I don't think she did Doctor why

didn't you come forward with this

information when you heard that Dr

finkstein was killed I don't know I

guess I was thinking of Mrs Finkelstein

I didn't want to put her through anymore

after everything she's been through did

anyone from the nursing staff Call an

absent today from your department I have

no idea

look I've told you everything I know

they're both our sakes doctor I hope you

did

this fabulous collection

together

hey excuse me

thank you I want to ask you a couple of

questions but this looks like a real bad

time I could come back later no no it's

okay it's about Charlie isn't it yeah

it's about Charlie I just want to know

how long

how long you've been seeing him before

his uh before his death a couple months

I met him at an NAACP meeting I was

crazy about him

excuse me for saying this but wasn't he

a little old for you well Charlotte was

nervous about that but I said to him

Charlie I was old when I was 16. I may

be 20 years older than you

listen um would you feel more

comfortable if we went over there

yeah I would you sure it's all right

yeah it's okay I have a few minutes

I've always gone out with more mature

men

I miss him

Charlie's last night did you see him

yeah he came to my place after work

you remember what time that was eight or

nine

what'd you talk about

a couple things he was very distracted

he said he couldn't stay he had a

meeting later

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he said your past always comes back to

haunt you it was weird

anything else happen yeah we had a fight

over the trouble I've been having with

Paul

Paul

Mars he's an ex-boyfriend who didn't

want to stay ex he kept pestering me

I didn't want Charlie to find out what

kind of company I'd been keeping before

I met him what kind of company is that

well he owns a club Uptown the moon glow

he has one or two other occupations

anyway Charlie found out he was

bothering me and he hit the roof he said

he knew how to deal with that kind of

trash could he have gone up to see him

later that night

he thought that Charlie was getting in

the way

you think that this Marsden is capable

of killing him

crazy enough

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I think the thing was cheating on his

wife the nurses and Personnel trying to

find out who they're lucky what about

immigration not a trace of Martin Stova

entering the country he was a long shot

if he drove across the border they would

never write it anything from the

authorities in Quebec no record there

none here

Aaron why don't we looking on Mr Marsden

in his Moon Glover well let me make some

copies of stores out show it around in

my stitches what's going on look at this

time a hall we're inside angry black

community leaders are demonstrating

their displeasure with the arraignment

and some say erroneous charging of a

young black street person Macho

Rodriguez with the murders of Dr Bruce

Finkelstein a West Side doctor and

police commissioner Charles Stover with

us Rodriguez's well-known attorney Mr

Joshua Johnson well how do you feel

about all this Mr Johnson please

demonstration in Corona

if my client were white this would not

be happening It just fits the city

leadership

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you wouldn't liked it anyway she got me

a house each or no I wasn't there

just want to apologize take me a sec so

go ahead Romeo

hi it's me this is for you I'm sorry I

missed your show tonight I was going to

give that to you after your performance

but we got jammed up again as usual

I hope I didn't hurt your feelings after

all the trouble you went through

thank you Aaron you're welcome

and I was thinking maybe we could do it

some other night maybe I could just take

you to dinner with something kind of

make up for tonight Erin I don't tell

you the truth I was worried about you

you know after that thing in the garden

and

I'm sorry I didn't mean to intrude

my mistake

excuse me

thank you

something wrong

why do I do this to myself Frank

every single time

have you seen this man

sure

well well

I haven't seen you in a long time when

you get out

check this out

have you seen this guy he played sacks

around just got into town seems to me if

someone was to ask me did I see some man

and that man was a brother named a man

who asked me was a brother want to know

just so he could put some brother in

jail then I wouldn't say nothing to them

if I was shooting and I had a friend

that was slightly confused and like to

stick his nose in other people's

business I would tell that friend to

keep his opinions to himself and then

I'm just doing my job and I ain't

looking to put nobody in jail

unless that's where they belong

project guitar look

um I've been thinking about what you

said this afternoon about the subpoena

and all and

I really don't need that kind of trouble

at this point in my career

wise decision doctor so um anyway I did

a little digging around and I think I've

got the information that you want

her name is Annabelle humit

she is a nurse here

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out of it

oh my gosh

okay

will it be oh Marsden here

you want to know name okay

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good

there's a regular Dale Carnegie

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Paul Marsden detective city of New York

I'd like to ask you a few questions

you got a warrant oh we don't need a

warrant got plenty of code violations in

here

so what's this about

you selling raffle tickets for the PBA

2018 Cooper and commissioner Stover

bring any bells I don't know what you're

talking about I don't think he likes us

Frank

you know I think your nose is running

hey what is this relax folks I want you

to put your hands against the wall and

spread

now before I blow your brains out

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ain't that cute I think he's got a

permit for it doubt it it's already got

a conviction for aggravated assault

that's a rotten collar

my my my my

best possession my friend

Gotham

should have just said no to drugs Pablo

thank you

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thank you

here we are 2012. let's go

maybe she wasn't home when I called

like somebody's home now

no point ringing a bell there's nobody

home there's a light been on for two

days

do you think that's odd well now you

mentioned it it was a little strange

Annabelle always tells me when she's

going away so I can take up the mail

I've seen the Banky either who's the

baby her dog the named after the heart

surgery you cops

she does something wrong no it's just

routine we're gonna take a look

thank you

door's not locked

anybody home

Ms Hammett

now what let's go in

please anybody home

I always feel like a criminal in

situations like this

Annabelle

okay you go upstairs

let's check down here

all right

foreign

those animals

Dave

Dave come down here

is home after all

you feeling better all right

when I saw her

I was like seeing myself lying dead on

the floor

maybe I've been doing this for too long

I can just take it easy

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long time no c-stand oh detective Gene

harp this is Lieutenant Stan pindo

Queen's homicide you got a hell of a

nerve you didn't notify our people

you're on our turf why is not obligated

to notify and you've got the Manhattan

medical examiner here this isn't even

your Borough what's wrong with you guys

in Queens don't you believe in Finders

Keepers just don't get wise with me

trying to stay the hell up of our case

run my case

I'm on the PC homicide I got city-wide

jurisdiction

Memorial getting crunked in a kitchen

got to do with the commissioner's murder

I learned some manners and maybe I'll

have some time to explain huh

foreign

what about the blood on the living room

floor the woman didn't bleed no she did

I want that tested also check the blood

we found around the dog's mouth and Dan

you're not going to tell me she

accidentally slipped and broke her neck

here in the kitchen no she was killed

and within hours of the others

you think all of them were killed by the

same person odds are

you may just make it in Vegas then

what's the connection between helmet and

the doctor and the commissioner I

know how is your job Dan why is mine

remember

I did what they did together

don't you think that's a little rude

memes because they go out to dinner

where they went they see friends they

kept out of the Limelight did you ever

meet him

no they were playing real low-key

I just caught one glimpse of them would

you mind looking at some pictures

no no no

this is supposed to be the doctor

that is a doctor Annabelle's friend

he's not the one I saw Thursday

Annabelle are you sure miss Tony I mean

you said you saw him just that once just

a quick Glimpse right when he left her

house two nights ago Mr only you never

said it was the night she died you

didn't ask

what's the difference she's dead it

makes a big difference Mr Olney try to

remember everything you can well it was

late

which is why I went to the window when I

heard that car start up down the block

it had to be Annabelle's doctor

I guess he's just trying to be discreet

people who live here work for a living

everybody's been in bed a long time at

that hour what time was it all around

two I was watching Wings on the

television you know that old one Gary

Cooper boy they don't make them like

that anymore and you got a good look at

this man

no sir not that good look my eyes may be

fading but this Fella's balding and he's

fat Annabelle's doctor is a big

strapping fellow with a full head of

hair that is Annabelle's doctor and he

doesn't own a car so the man you saw

just maybe Annabelle's killer

now try to remember everything you can

you describe his car I wasn't interested

in his car he was a middle-aged man with

a head of hair

six feet at least and brawny mostly I

remember he was too old for her

well that's it I'm sorry I couldn't help

more now you hope

who is it

Martin Martin

The Prodigal Son of a Terence

but I just drove in

can I come up do you know the police are

looking for you you think I did it

just buzzed me in were you we have to

talk

um

just give me a minute

so Marsden called his lawyer says he was

at his Club the night the commissioner

got killed says he's got witnesses well

that doesn't mean that somebody knows

didn't do them a favor exactly you know

well Donnie at the DA's office owes this

one so see if they can't keep my eyes

for one more day while we check his

known associates

thing

Janet this is Marco Martin Stover is

downstairs in the lobby of my building

what do you want me to do try installing

keep him there but don't let him in can

you do that I'll try

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foreign

my goal

it's late and I'm tired come on let me

in Martin how did you get in I didn't

buzz you in

Margo

Margo come on come on

Stover

Lieutenant Janet NYPD

hold it back there got the bags the

other one

get your hands up

Just Give Me A Reason pal

he's playing Frank

hey Martin stove right I might go stick

the cops on me huh

your father's been murdered

she knew we were trying to locate you I

was in Montreal until this morning

I heard about it late last night can you

prove you were there until then can you

prove I wasn't

playing a game until 2am

plenty of people saw me you're so

innocent pal how come you ran

there's something else isn't it huh

something has to do with why you live in

Canada

you guys obviously know about it right

and I always been a little one for draft

division Marco Tipsy right

as a matter of fact she never mentioned

it

so why didn't you come back here under

honesty you know you stand when heard

one hell of a lot of money I had nothing

to come back for

my home is there

are you busting me I'm NYPD we're not

federal all I'm interested in is what

happened to Charlie Stover what do you

want from me

I haven't seen my father in 17 years and

didn't see him for a long time before

that

I don't know anything about him or his

life except when I read in the paper

and I don't want any of his money

no personal contact with a father and

his son

I called Margo every couple of years to

make sure they were still alive

he told me they got divorced a couple of

years ago didn't surprise me he lost

interest in everything after a while

just like he lost interest in me and my

mother and but she never talked to him

just Margo

I had nothing to say to him

what happened between you and your

father

when I was a little boy

my father was like a god

tall and strong so sure about what was

right and with a badge and gold Brave to

prove it man he was something

gone

when I was 15. oh that changed

by that time I I had a mouth on me

I didn't yes him all the time

I started standing up to him when he

didn't like my opinions about you know

the black man's problems he he wanted to

make it in the white men's World and I

was full of burn baby burn

we fought about everything

and then one day

everything was different

I found out that he he quit the cops

and he wasn't feeling good about it

well it made him quit did he tell you

yeah he told me all right

only he never knew he did

190

got Juiced out of his mind they ranted

and raved about a black man and then

beaten to death by a white cop

he was hushed up all the cops closed

ranks

and my father wanted to get ahead so he

he went along I'm always saying yes

conscience got to him so he couldn't

stand a job anymore was it uh

so he quit the cops

he quit my mother and started a whole

new life married mother you know the

rest of it

yeah and you quit him

my mother died and I left

oh I know he didn't kill her

I didn't want to know him anymore

he was a tyrant and a cow and I hated

everything he stood for

I realize now that it was

our war that I was running away from as

much as Vietnam but to me it was all the

same

you're gonna take me downtown

um

I think you killed your father

sounds to me like you still love him

I've been on the road 12. 14 I was

thinking about that

I realize now I

wanted all these years

something to work out between us

some magic that would

bring us back together

but it didn't happen

and he's gone

are you done with me

for now if I need a statement I can find

you

foreign

no I bothered that lady enough for one

night

I'm gonna find a hotel and go to sleep

it's been a long day

later

yeah

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you're letting them go

hey you'll stick around he didn't do it

he didn't do it fine let's go home wait

a minute I know it's late

but I want you to run out of Records I

want you to go back through Stover's

files now you're now Frank that Building

closed hours ago you'll find a way I'll

[ __ ] what am I slide Danny so what am I

looking for names and dates just before

Stover left the apartment there was a

case involved an excessive force

black man died was covered up see what

you can find out and who was involved

okay

come on I'll drop you off now I'll grab

a cab I got some things to ask Mrs

stoker huh fine

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foreign

you wouldn't know about anything like

that all that took place before we got

together

Charlie was probably trying to forget

all about it

do you really think it's true I think it

might be

well thanks for your help if you think

of anything of course

Janet why don't I make some coffee or

maybe a bite to eat oh no thanks not

much later I should be gone please I'd

like to have some company besides I'm

gonna make something for myself anyway

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okay

sure as long as you let me help you're

on let's see what we have here we have

some cheese and we have spinach we have

eggs how would you like a spinach omelet

made with cheese oh sounds great I'll do

the chocolate that's one of my talents

it's fun

it's kind of like marriage without the

bad parts

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you want to tell me about it

well for one thing she didn't like

spinach

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you're not afraid to get us in here

where did he get the key he said he

called in a favor

I'm taking this pretty hard we're all

taking it hard it's when we're here it's

serious threat to life and limbo

you hear something

keep looking

I think I got it

Frank's gonna love this

hello how are you

she's really a very nice person

she just couldn't take being alone so

much

finally got to the point where she was

convinced I was seeing another woman

the more I denied it all the more she

was convinced

sounds like you've been there I know a

little about that yeah

at my age everyone's been hooked up with

the wrong person at least once

or they're pretending to be happily

married

or dead yeah would you like small coffee

yeah thanks why is it when a man has his

50th birthday that is all he can talk

about

well

I think you're starting to develop a

fine sense of your own mortality

especially uh in my line of work

that's nice we should do this again soon

that way I can make something very

special let's have our coffee in the

other room

yeah you are a great cook

especially for a high-powered career

first

I can get used to this very easily

and not just food

chain

find me

intimidating

some men do

well you're a very smart lady

they probably just don't know if they

can deal with that but you don't have

any problems dealing with it I mean your

mother didn't raise any dummies you know

what you have to know

let me tell you every time I've tried to

turn a friendship into a romantic

involvement

I blow it somehow

and then what do you got

nothing

you know it seems to me it's easier to

find a lover than just to keep a friend

are you right I mean you get burned and

then you back off and you live alone for

a long time and then there's no room in

your life for someone else

depends on who this someone is

that's true

or how important that

someone might become

yeah that's true in my case I think he

would be very unusual I usually

unusual well you would have to be very

mature

so far so good what else

okay

what are you interrogating me

sorry that's what I do

what else

well he'd have to be um

healthy and

solvent of course

comfortable with himself independent

I feel the same way

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you should have your own life

their own interests and we agree on the

major issues so what do you think you

think we can make it

to season veterans like us

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't

attracted to you

I think it's beautiful

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no no you weren't out of line at all

it's all so complicated

rotten timing no your timing is just

perfect I'm feeling a little vulnerable

[Applause]

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well

just friends

let's wait and see hey

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foreign

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thank you

thank you

as Mrs no just a friend

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Holyfield

I got a handful of potholes

you guys want to keep me here for

observation a couple hours you know I

was worried about you Frank I brought

you some flowers ah they're from all of

us

yeah

thank everybody for me for telling me

none digit

what happened

at me for mine

who was it

nobody who thinks we're close to

Breaking the case

just wish I know as much as he thinks I

know

you don't look half bad

but then again you don't look half good

either

he almost a little Force John

what's up excuses

oh Gene thank everybody for the flowers

hi

Macho Rodriguez was released this

morning his lawyers suing the city for

six million bucks the mayor's screaming

for scalps

so we work in a North Pole no they

operate you made rogeri look bad makes

them all look like jerks you're off the

case Frank

somebody trying to kill me last night

until then I was just doing my job now

it's personal you're getting paranoid

Frank the bus driver said it was a

Mugger Brannigan just put out the press

release this morning you've had your 24

hours it's over did the driver actually

see him not really you thought it was

too dark well I'm telling you the guy

with me was no mother we're dead in the

water your boys were caught in records

last night sloppy I'm telling you this

is a big mistake you want to talk

mistakes

what the hell are you doing hanging out

with Charlie Stover's ex-wife

next report said you left there about

four o'clock this morning

report yeah report he read me good over

it besides all the other things you can

be senile this is ridiculous ridiculous

I'm working on a Case don't screw around

John somebody's trying to set me up set

you up we're on the Titanic and there

are no lifeboats left

you're supposed to be getting out of bed

depends on who you ask

what'd they do with my clothes

in the closet

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hey those are my shoes

oh yeah I'm sorry

all right

you okay yeah

you look terrible gotta stop playing

chicken with the number five bus

did you get on it's all hip

damn I get Danny want to get the

commissioner up

what's in the box stove is closed I'm

planning on taking him out for a walk or

even smoking formaldehyde

I think I'll do the one without the tag

I'll do it be my guest

thank you

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loosen the laces and loose

there's like a weird version of

Cinderella

two sizes

this is what I hope for these are not

stove is shoes

whoever killed Charlie Stover left the

wrong pair of shoes at the crime scene

curious sir and curiouser you were right

about the blood samples from the humid

girl's floor in the dog's mouth they

tested out a B positive which is fairly

rare maybe one in a thousand has it

Annabelle Hamid had type O

just as we get the file these two cops

walk in ask us what we're doing there I

thought they were gonna bust us for the

fun of it did you finally think get this

just the arrest and officers report the

rest of the file was missing who is he

Sergeant named Jack Baron he's a captain

now over at the 8-5 let's go see him

I've got nothing to say to you it's all

off the Record forget it Yannick I ain't

saying a word to you guys you don't have

to say a word all I want is a name

it's old nose

better to let sleeping dogs lie these

Sleeping Dogs killed three people

just a name that's all I'm looking for

you I hate guys you're always looking to

drag some poor so beats with a mud I

don't know any names

like I said it all happened a long time

ago

look Captain I don't like this any

better than you do

but this is big

sooner or later you're gonna have to

give it to me

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I tell you what I'll do I'll make a deal

I'll say your name and if it's right you

don't have to say anything

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oh as soon as he comes in I want you to

make certain the area is lit and I mean

everybody

when you're sure that's when you take

positions I got a bad feeling about this

Frank don't rescue he's right Frank it's

my call too dangerous Frank I don't like

you using yourself as bait look it's the

only way this can work

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understood

all right

let's go

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all right hi Jim

oh yeah

how's the head always fine fine if Lucky

hit me where he couldn't hurt me I

didn't know what to order so I just uh

got one of everything is that all right

oh yeah yeah

thanks Frank

uh

listen

what's so important to come discuss over

the phone well I just want to bounce a

few things off you

still list over thing

yeah

I thought you were off that

I'm just following a couple of leads of

my own huh

well I still have a quit the department

it was over an incident involving the

excessive use of force

did you know about that yeah I remember

there were rumors

a black man died as a result of a

beating by cop yeah it was all no hushed

up

Charlie was ambitious so he played along

just like everybody else

but it it bothered Charlie you see it

went against his principles

oh he was ambitious and egotistical but

he was clean at least up to that point

he couldn't Square it with himself so he

quit the force where'd you get this

stuff Frank

I'll pick it up you know bits and pieces

here and there

so after a few years the incident is

forgotten by everybody except Charlie

Stover

and when he becomes commissioner if that

guilty cop is still around he's going to

go after him so you think Stova searches

them out after all these years that's

what I think

and I think he told him he wanted him

off the force very quiet no fuss no must

and by now the guy's got to beat one

your retirement age anyway

but the guy doesn't want to go quietly

and he puts Charlie away

is that it

something like that yeah

between you and me Frank

I like it

I like it a lot better than Macho

Rodriguez

except for one thing

Charlie been on the job for three weeks

his hands were full

wouldn't he wait a while until he had

the job under control before going after

this guy well that makes sense but

there's a good reason it didn't happen

that way

see this guy is not some obscure cop on

a beat somewhere no this guy has to be

somebody that's prominent somebody that

he can run into all the time and every

time he sees this guy it reminds him of

this cover-up he was involved in

uh the guy's got to go now why did he

just follow the guy well he didn't want

to destroy him he just wanted him gone

so they arranged to meet in the park at

night so no one will see them the guy

does Charlie in dumps him in the pond

and fixes it so it looks like Charlie

was wigged out and went waiting

not bad no not bad but that's not what

happened

now Charlie wouldn't go to someplace

dark and secluded private yeah yeah but

with lots of people around

right here

here right here

man I mean you Jim

Frank you're out of your mind

still over met you here instead of his

office to keep the gossip down he

slipped in through the back door said

his peace

and you killed him you want to see a

doctor Frank you took a heart a hit in

the head and you realize then you took

his body out through that same back door

you put it in your car and you drove off

I almost forgot

you picked up his shoes on the way out

why because no matter where the body was

founded had to have shoes and there

aren't many places a guy could get

killed with his shoes off and everyone

knows you spent a lot of time here

and when you're trying to put the shoes

on Stover's feet

wouldn't go on because you grabbed the

wrong pair

ing

collection of straws

foreign

I gotta hand it to you I had to panic

but you improvised brilliantly

you rolled up his pants legs you dumped

his body in the pond you put his jacket

and his shoes and his socks on the

coping

I mean why would anybody try to put

shoes back on a corpse

you finish

how about you weren't at that moment it

occurred to you what about the guy whose

shoes I grabbed by mistake so you race

back here to the restaurant

got a perfect imagination yeah that's

what it used to say on my report card so

you came back here and you found this

little drunk all upset because somebody

had stolen his shoes a doctor

that married doctor and he was having

dinner with his mistress in the Next

Room

well he didn't drive so when she got in

a cab and left you convinced him that he

had to give you her address so your

friend could return his shoes to her

place that way his wife wouldn't find

out

and that was a death warrant for the

doctor

and for Annabelle Ahmed

did I leave anything out you must really

be desperate that's the most

complimentary line of nonsense ever

heard

got that on tape no I'm not worried

you couldn't even get yourself arrested

with that story but it is an interesting

story isn't it

I've got an arrange an appointment for

yourself with Dr Bromberg

well if you are uh

clean

you're clean

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nice try Yannick oh yeah

Annabelle hammett's dog

her dog bit her killer

we ran some tests on the blood we find

around his mouth

there aren't many cops your age with a B

positive blood

of course if you don't have any bite

marks on you anywhere you may just get

away with it

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it's over Jim

give me the gun

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murder

thank you

I have a statement I have a statement

charlescover represented this department

at its finest

never compromising your standards or

integrity and it wasn't pursuit of these

ideals

we gave his life his memory will serve

us all as an objective to strive for we

need men like Charles Stover the world

needs men like him he he made a

difference

and we will miss him

I first met I first met Charles Stover

when we were rookies together and it was

clear even in those early days

save your seat Frank

I want to thank you for believing in my

father even when I didn't

I'm glad it worked out

and he'll write about another thing

it seems I have some family after all

Martin and I had a long talk he's going

to be just fine good what about you you

okay

thank you for coming today I want to pay

my respects

why don't you come by the apartment

after the service just a few friends

I'd like that

foreign

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