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What smells, Nick? Did you burn the coffee again?

It's not the coffee, it's the smog.

Smog? We're indoors.

It comes through the holes in the wall.

What holes in the wall?

The holes the cockroaches made.

Don't tell me they got cockroaches again?

Not anymore.

The rats ate 'em.

Survival of the fittest.

Oh, man. It's killin' me.

Hey, I tried to run my three miles this morning,

and I could only make 100 yards.

Ah, come on, man, smog does not come from cigarettes.

It helps.

Listen here.

The Indians sucked their pipes all through this neighborhood

before you guys got here.

Wasn't no smog then.

What do you mean, you guys?

I mean the place was already ruined by the time I arrived.

Well, I think it's bad enough today

without you makin' it worse.

Good morning, gentlemen.

Ah. Morning. Morning. Hey, Barn,

don't you think the pollution is bad enough

without having to breathe Harris' smoke?

Look, nobody's forcin' you. Oh, come on.

I think Detective Harris is going to demonstrate

the judgment and consideration

he has always shown in the past

during difficult and uncomfortable situations.

Put it out?

Thank you.

Thanks, Harris.

It probably wouldn't bother you

if you didn't breathe through your mouth all the time.

I only breathe through my mouth when I'm talking.

Mm-hm.

Morning.

Ah, morning, Battista.

Yemana, could you give me a hand with this please? Sure.

Never mind.

Battista,

now, none of us would think any the less of you

if you wrote you name down at the bottom. I did.

But somebody with a sense of humor changed it.

Must have been somebody from the late watch.

That's okay, I can take a joke.

But what I cannot take is filthiness

and obscenity and no respect for women.

Hi there, is this Antoine?

Ah. This is Maria.

Sí. I got your message.

You know, the one in the subway.

The 14th Street Station ladies' room?

Was that a promise or just idle words on tile?

Uh-huh. Of course, the sooner the better.

Where are you, honey?

Uh-huh.

Of course I know where that is, silly.

Okay, see you in 15 minutes.

What was that all about? I'm gonna pick that guy up.

You never read such a filthy proposition in your life.

What'd it say?

Battista, I can understand your being angry,

but unfortunately, graffiti has become a rather common

and accepted form of expression in New York.

What'd it say? Nick.

Okay, you wanna know what it said?

Come on, I'll show you.

I copied it down for evidence. There.

Can you believe that?

Three exclamation points.

No, those are mine.

It was on the wall in the ladies' room.

That means he was in there.

Let me see it.

Oh, just a professional opinion.

Guys going in ladies' rooms, that's illegal.

Why don't you turn it over to Vice?

Oh, come on, captain. I put a lot of time into this one.

Battista, do you realize you've made more busts this week

than all of us put together?

I'm just trying to do my job, sir.

Well, relax, take it easy.

There's a whole world out there waiting to get arrested.

Little by little, you'll get to everybody.

It's too complicated to be obscene.

It's got everything but a plot. Yeah.

Oh, come on, captain, just this once.

Let me go get him.

Okay, but take somebody with you.

Oh, no, no, no.

This is something I can do myself.

I don't think so.

All right, all right, but take a uniform.

Yes, sir.

Hello, Fish.

Morning, Fish.

Fish?

Good morning, Wojo.

You all right? I'll be fine, Barney.

It's just the smog. I swallowed a piece.

Hey, uh, Nick, get some water, will you?

Sure. Anybody see the strainer?

Don't worry, I'll be fine.

You sure you're all right? Yeah, I'll be fine.

All right. Uh, just, uh... Take it easy, take it easy.

Oh, uh, Fish, Bernice called.

What'd she want? Uh, I don't know,

Nick took the message. It's probably on your desk.

Are you sure this is from Bernice?

This smog is tearing me up. I can't even see to type.

That's one good thing about being Oriental.

We don't expose a lot of eye.

They say anything in there about the smog getting better?

Nope, but it could be worse.

Yeah, how?

You hear about the London smog?

No.

In 1952, 4000 people died overnight.

Hey, Harris, did you hear that?

Mouth breathers.

Gentlemen, we are in a full-fledged

first stage smog alert.

Manhattan South advises all police officers

are cautioned to restrict their movements.

Smog.

So, um, try to curtail

any excess physical activity, huh?

How about, uh, typing and, uh, filing?

How about it?

Should we slow down?

I don't think that's possible.

All right. Got it.

Uh, Barney, we got a jumper.

Oh, wonderful. Where?

Uh, the Brooklyn Bridge. She's threatening to jump

if anybody comes hear her. Why didn't they call Brooklyn?

She's right in the middle of the bridge.

So why did Dispatch call us?

Well, they said the wind's blowing this way.

Ah. Okay, go ahead, take it. Take, uh...

I'm on with Harris today. Oh, well, uh, Nick can take it.

No. I can do my own job.

Besides, you gotta know how to talk to jumpers.

I tell a pretty good joke.

Fish. Fish, it's really rotten out there today. Take it easy.

What is it? A little talk, a little listening.

They trust me. I find them a reason for living.

It's you I'm concerned about.

Don't worry, I'll find a reason someday.

I'm glad you're going, Fish.

It'll be refreshing to talk to someone

who has a sense of humor and enjoys

a little sophisticated and pungent conversation.

Sure.

Hey.

Who bought brown sugar?

I don't know.

Well, whoever did, brown sugar's a lot healthier

for you than, uh, the refined stuff.

This is brown sugar?

Now it is.

Hiya. Brought up your mail.

Uh, yeah, thanks. Dump it on the desk there.

Sure. Got a woman up here now, I hear. Huh?

A woman detective, right? Uh, what's her name?

Oh, yeah, uh, Battista.

Burns you up, right?

Stickin' you with a woman and passin' over

a lot of good guys because they're too short?

Battista's okay.

But there's nothing we can do about it,

because it's all politics.

It ain't what you are, it's who you know.

Where's the mail?

I'm 5'6" and a quarter.

Yeah, so?

I thought you asked.

No, I asked for the mail.

I already brought it up.

Okay, you, inside.

Look, I didn't mean to hurt anyone.

Everybody does it, and nobody ever gets arrested.

Well, you are going to be famous,

'cause you are going to be first.

Battista, right? That's right.

Puerto Rican?

One hundred percent.

What are you, uh, 4'6 ", 4'7"?

Five feet.

Sure, got the whole world by the tail.

This our author?

Mr. Antoine McCarthy.

Disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.

Resisting arrest?

I didn't know who she was.

I identified myself as a police officer.

I-I thought she was just fooling around,

you know, to break the ice.

Mr. McCarthy, you defaced city property,

and what's more, in a particularly vulgar manner.

It wasn't even clean enough to be vulgar.

Come sit down over here, please.

I wrote down what you wrote down.

Dirty, filthy smut.

I-if you wanna catch a person's eye,

I mean, you're competing with a lot of other stuff.

What were you doing in the lady's washroom?

What do you want me to do, hang around bars?

One of these days the pollution'll get so bad

it won't be fit for human beings.

That was yesterday.

Look, you gotta understand. I'm not an outgoing person.

I don't make friends very easily.

Occupation?

Shipping clerk.

Federal Brassiere Company.

You really like to make things tough on yourself, don't you?

Twelfth Precinct, Wojciehowicz.

Yeah, Harris.

Uh, yeah. J-just a minute.

Barn. Fish talked the jumper down and then he collapsed.

They hauled him away in an ambulance.

Harris, what?

Uh, w-what hospital did they take him to?

All right, uh, bring her in.

Smog. H-he couldn't breathe. He just collapsed.

Uh, call... Call Bellevue.

Uh, Harris thinks that they took him to Bellevue.

Twelfth Precinct, Yemana.

O-o-oh, hi, Bernice.

Uh, no, he's not here yet.

Uh, I guess you keep missing each other.

Uh, give me Emergency.

Uh, no, he'll be back in a few moments.

Uh, I'll have him call you.

She wants to hang on.

Yeah.

No, a Fish. Philip K. Fish.

A-and he would have come in just in the last few minutes.

Tell them it's a respiratory case.

I already told them, Barn.

They got about 150 cases like that in the Emergency Ward.

You can hear 'em cough and wheezing.

Damn it.

Barney. Bernice is hanging on.

Oh, my God. Uh...

Tell her... Tell her he's busy. Can't talk to her now.

Tell her he's got some very important business

he's gotta take care of.

Bernice, he's in the bathroom.

He'll get back to you.

Okay, Miss Pettit, here we are.

I don't care where we are.

Would you like some coffee?

No, thank you. Tea?

I don't want any coffee or tea

or friendship or flowers or love or children or a man.

I don't want any of that garbage.

How about a chair?

This our jumper?

Uh, this is Miss Renee Pettit, Barney.

Uh, this is Captain Miller.

What's the news on Fish?

We're still trying to locate him.

But I thought he went to Bellevue?

They must have rerouted him to another hospital.

They're very crowded over there.

Oh. H-he'll be all right, he'll be all right.

You'd better make arrangements for, uh...

It'll be a long time

before they get here. Okay, Barney.

What time is it?

What difference does it make?

I like to keep track of the day as it goes along. Do you mind?

It's 11:15.

Thank you very much, I appreciate it.

Eleven-fifteen.

I never thought I'd see 11:15 again.

I thought I'd be dead by 10, 10:30 at the latest.

Miss Pettit, anybody ever point out to you

that suicide, aside from being very stupid,

happens to be against the law in this state?

I'm sorry about your friend.

I should be dead, and he should be alive.

He is alive.

You didn't see the way he fell over and hit the ground.

He fainted. When a person faints he has to get to the ground

some way or another... Don't trouble yourself over it.

I was only trying to be nice.

Barn, they lost Fish.

He's dead?

I don't know. They don't know where he is.

Oh, for God's sakes, Wojo,

will you choose your words more carefully?!

I'm... I'm sorry, Barn.

I... I meant

that, uh, they don't know where he is at Bellevue,

they don't know which ambulance. I-I couldn't get information...

Okay, try another hospital, try Metropolitan

or... Or Beekman Downtown or St. Vincent's. Right.

A man's gotta be somewhere, you don't lose an entire policeman.

Right.

Uh, Barney, the people at Bellevue said

they're not gonna be able to take Miss Pettit right away.

All right, write her up,

and make her as comfortable as possible.

Okay, Barney.

Uh, would you mind having a seat over here?

We need a little information.

Do you have any aspirin? Sure.

The wind on the bridge gave me a headache.

Not only am I flat-chested, I've also got sinus trouble.

Uh, the, uh, fountain is right there, ma'am.

You got the time?

No.

Got a pen?

No.

Okay, step right over here, Miss Pettit.

Miss Pettit?

Any news on Fish, captain?

No, we're still trying to locate him.

McCarthy don't got no priors.

Fine.

They're probably gonna go easy on him.

Probably.

It's a good bust though, huh?

Yeah, from a technical viewpoint.

Ah, he's probably gonna get off clean.

Well, not exactly clean.

I mean, he's already been humiliated and embarrassed.

You want me to let him go?

It's your collar, Battista. It's your decision.

That's right.

However, a misdemeanor citation,

a lecture on respect for women...

Is that my decision?

It's up to you.

It's not bad. Don't worry about it

he's not gonna write on any more walls.

Nearest relative?

I guess that'd be my husband.

You're married, Miss Pettit?

It was sort of a handshake.

And his name?

Frankie something.

We'll come back to that one.

Your address, please.

He promised me a kid.

I think I'd be good with kids.

Oh, I'm sure you would,

but, uh, right now, I need an address.

He kept on saying we were gonna have a baby,

but nothing ever happened.

He lied to me.

You live in this area here?

He had himself fixed, you know what I mean?

I've heard of it.

Can you imagine somebody doing that to another person?

I can't imagine somebody doing that to another person.

Uh, your address, please?

Miss Pettit, your address?

He's not at the Wadsworth Hospital either.

Not at the University Heights.

Nothing?

I've checked every damn hospital in Manhattan.

Look, why...? Why don't we check Brooklyn?

That's a good idea.

Maybe Brooklyn. Try Brooklyn.

Barn. Yeah?

I think maybe we're calling the wrong place.

What? What do you mean?

Well, I think, uh, we should be calling,

you know, the coroner's office.

Oh, come on, man.

Well, he ain't anyplace else, is he?

If... We would have been notified if he had been taken

to the, uh... To there.

Well, maybe, uh... Maybe Manhattan South

hasn't gotten around to calling us yet.

I mean, maybe... Maybe they don't know

how to break the news to us.

Headquarters has never shown us any consideration before,

why should they start now?

It's purely a matter of communications.

He's all right. He's all right.

Okay.

Sure wish I'd been nicer to him.

Uh-uh, look, we'll hear from them. Don't worry.

Everybody's got some work to do. Right?

Is Miss Pettit taken care of?

Bellevue's on its way.

Fine. Uh, Wojo?

Yeah?

Find something to do.

Give me the coroner's office.

I got a desk appearance ticket for a McCarthy, Antoine.

What kind of a name is that?

Hey, Levitt, over here.

Oh, your bust, eh?

Is that the ticket?

So, what did he do, spit on the sidewalk?

Give me the ticket. Homicide? Burglary?

Ave María. Give me the ticket.

He writes on the bathroom walls.

What?

Okay, McCarthy, out of the cage.

You're being released.

What's the rush? This ticket requires you

to appear in court on the date specified on the ticket.

Look, I don't mind waiting here.

Look, I'm trying to be nice to you.

Come on, don't cause me trouble.

Move it out.

Writes on bathroom walls?

I do that. Eh.

Okay, Mr. McCarthy. Goodbye.

McCARTHY: Listen, thanks for everything.

You're welcome.

It was nice to have met you.

Likewise, I'm sure.

Sit down, Miss Pettit, please.

I don't wanna sit down. I wanna leave.

Miss Pettit, please.

No, I really have to go.

I know what you're thinking.

I just wanna go home and get, uh, organized.

The windows are open in my apartment.

The smog will rot my curtains.

Just wait right in here, and you'll be very happy.

I give you my word, no more bridges.

Hee-hee! It was all a joke, don't you understand?

For God's sakes, doesn't anybody here have a sense of humor?

It's a shame.

You're not kidding.

I'd be detective right now if I was a woman.

You know, I understand things like that can be arranged.

What are you, kidding?

I wouldn't go through something like that.

Weird doctors, cut you up.

Making guys into broads.

You don't come out any taller.

Fish. YEMANA: Oh, Fish.

Barney, Fish is here.

Fish, my God, are you all right?

Yeah, sure.

I just gotta wear this mask, uh,

for a few days when I go outside.

Where the hell were you?

We called every hospital in the city.

I didn't go to a hospital. I had a little oxygen

in the ambulance, and I felt okay,

so I asked them to let me out.

What are you talking about?

No ambulance would let you out in the street.

The gun helped.

Then I took a subway.

It's good to see you, Fish.

Why, w-what did you do?

Nothing. Heh. Nothing. Heh-heh!

Look, uh, why don't you just, uh, sit down,

relax and, uh, take it easy the rest of the day?

Would you do me a favor and call Bernice? She's been trying

to get you all day. Yeah, yeah, sure, okay.

How about coffee?

Thanks.

It's not as fresh as it should be, but sorry.

Yeah, it's okay.

You can drink it through the mask.

Yeah, she's all ready. Okay.

Miss Pettit?

Yeah? Hello.

Uh, let's go.

I'm gonna take you downstairs.

Yeah, sure.

Triple-5-9-9-7-0, Triple-5-9-9-7-0...

Evening, Captain Miller.

Ah. Good evening there, uh, Levitt.

Battista, huh?

Think she's gonna make it?

Well, she's a hard worker.

Uh, yeah, it makes sense if, uh, you can get somewhere.

I mean, you don't mind breaking your neck

if somebody upstairs takes notice of you once in a while

and pats you on the shoulders and says to you,

"Nice job, well done, hang in there, Levitt."

But if you knock yourself out and nobody knows you're alive,

you might as well go to Maine and become a fisherman.

Ah. Forget it, captain. It don't matter.

Goodnight, Levitt.

Hang in there.