04x16 - Parting Is Such Sweep Sorrow

[bunniefuu]

Phil asked me
if anything happened

To deliver this to you.

He wanted you
to be executor.

Previously on
"hill street blues"...

Among sergeant esterhaus'
effects

Was this letter addressed
to the peace officers

Of the hill street
day shift.

He said
he was gonna k*ll me.

He made me get undressed
and lie on the floor.

Joe, why can't
you just hold me?

Make sex okay for me again.

- Video camera.
- We found it behind
a two-way mirror

In the bedroom.

What?

I'm not a blackmailer,
lieutenant.

This girl is on tape with dozens
of serious people, frank.

I wouldn't sell her any
life insurance, would you?

What do you know
about the legalities

Of spreading ashes
on public property?

- Ashes?
- Phil's remains.

[Henry]
whitney barnes.

One sh*t
in the side of the head.

Very professional.

Anything at all from s.i.d.?

No sign of a struggle.

Esterhaus was the law
up here.

And now that he's dead,

I feel like
everything's gonna unravel.

It's your job and mine
to see that it doesn't.

[Chatter]

Okay, save it!

Let's come to order.

Come on, guys,
it's even money
we can start on time.

All right, I'm happy to announce
there's been a thaw

In the department's freeze
on promotions.

Lucy bates
is now a sergeant.

[Cheering]

Lucy will be commander
of the watch.

She'll be making assignments,
turning out the shift.

You won't have goldblume
to kick around anymore.

[Officers groan]

Sergeant bates.

Okay, memorial ser--

For service
for sergeant esterhaus

In the benedict chapel
of the police academy

At 11:00 this morning.

Assignments, coffey, you're
gonna be with peyser.

Kolzicki is out sick,
so perez is gonna be
with pilsky.

You'll ride together, okay?

Also I'm announcing
a new khaki officer

That'll be under leo's wing.

Her name is natalie deroy.

Natalie spent the last two years
up at division, so...

Slow it down.

I can't understand one
single thing she's saying.

If you find her--
I mean find her,

And welcome her
to the hill, okay?

Item one, what you saw upstairs
and everywhere else.

And that is perps.

Okay, they've been
stashed here

And in every other precinct
holding cell.

They're gonna be here
'til 3:00 pm today

By order of this judge cruz.

He's the guy who declared
the michigan avenue

Unconstitutionally overcrowded
and inhumane.

Okay, the judge had 'em
in juvi hall annex,

But that was
until last night.

And you know
that some of them croaked.

The two
diablo rodriguez brothers.

I'm heartbroken.

Judge cruz says that, uh,

If the city
doesn't come up with a plan

By 3:00 pm today

With a more humane
incarceration,

That he's gonna
let 'em all loose.

[Officers protesting]

Humane society!

[Officers barking]

So everywhere in the station
is gonna be a zoo, all right?

So let's keep all visits
down to a minimum, that's it.

Now, wants and warrants,
here we go.

We got a warrant
on lester mendley.

That's the pimp
for whitney barnes.

That's the call girl

That was in here last night
and got whacked.

We got one
on the zucchini robber.

[Laughter]

And we got one on the false
zucchini robber, okay?

By the way,
the false zucchini robber,

Last night, took our own
lieutenant goldblume

And his companion.

So I want you to check
the board upstairs, everybody.

There's descriptions
on the board, okay, thank you.

Just want to say I'm sorry.

I'm gonna get
a lot better at this.

- I was a little nervous.
- [Woman] that's okay, sarge.

And I want to say
that I think it stinks

That somebody
stole the podium.

[Man]
earn it!

Who said that?

Whoever said that,
I don't have to earn
the damn podium.

I have to earn that you love me
like you did the sarge.

But I don't have to earn
your respect for my position.

So whoever the jerk is
better bring the podium back.

[Laughter]

Was it you, larue?

Hey, easy, sergeant.

Huh?

Come on,
you think you're so tough?

Come on,
you wanna go outside?

[Man]
hey, uh, you know...

Okay, I was gonna say,
"let's roll,

And let's be careful,"

But whoever stole the podium,
I hope you get hit by a truck.

[Radio scanner]
we have a 9-11.

Armed robbery in progress.

See's surplus store,

Corner of peebles drive,
north 24th street.

♪♪

♪♪

[Bates]
sergeant bates here.

Yeah, what do you need?

- Officer schnitz?
- Uh-huh.

Natalie deroy reporting.

How do you do?

How can I help you?

- Take me to miami?
- I see.

I had a whole tour
planned for you, but--

I don't think now's the time.

Why don't you help me
sign in our new guests?

You got it.

Call me leo.

- Come on!
- Coffey,

Washington and larue
just called in

A homicide,
hotel pershing.

You and peyser
take backup perimeter.

- Got it.
- Hey, I told you
in complete confidence.

I asked you not to tell
anybody else.

- I didn't.
- You didn't?

Baloney.

Everybody knew
about my promotion

Before goldblume
even opened his mouth.

- It wasn't me, lucy.
- No?

No.

Did you just take the podium,

Or did you
stand around laughing?

Look, I'm gonna tell you
on more time,

I don't know anything
about any of that

Except you're acting
like a jerk.

Great.
You got your assignment.

Yeah.

Archie.

- Bobby?
- Yo!

Got a felonious as*ault,
1374 curtis, 4b.

Nothing on
the barnes homicide.

I have nothing
on the barnes homicide!

- [Reporters shouting]
- phil!

Thanks, gentlemen.

Are you official yet?

- Congratulations.
- Thank you.

- Morning, henry.
- Leo, I'm going to the john.

- How'd she do?
- Not great.

Someone put the arm
on the podium.

How do you
want to handle it?

I don't.

Howard, ray.

Can you believe
this judge cruz?

I don't think
what he's really after

Is getting michigan avenue
up to code.

Yeah, meanwhile he inundates
the precincts.

Frank, after phil's service,

I'd like a sh*t at running down
this lester mendley.

We'll see how
the day develops, henry.

- Morning, frank.
- Morning, ray.

You got your tired
and your poor, huh, frank?

Not to mention
the wretched refuse.

What's in the can?

Phil esterhaus.

Would you get the door, ray?

Sure.

- [Frank clearing throat]
- phil requested that, uh,

After the memorial service,
his ashes be scattered

Over the epicenter
of the hill.

An inhabited area.
Is that legal?

It was
his last request, ray.

Good for you, frank.

Well, now someone has to find
the epicenter of the hill.

Oh that should be very easy.

Yeah, once you make
you cartographic assumptions.

I'll use
the precinct map, howard.

[Frank]
uh...

I think our best bet
is to do this at night.

Phil asked that anybody
from the day shift

Who's interested, uh...

Be present.

But this can't
be official, ray.

You're going to have to notify
everybody individually.

All right, what time
should I say?

10:00, 11:00?

Is unaccommodated man
no more than this?

[Shouting]

Wait.

Give her a chance.

[Bates]
take him out of here.

[Police sirens]

[Train rumbling]

You're telling me
you don't know her, huh?

Hey, doc, how you doing?
Welcome to paradise.

That smell's not
from the body either.

Someone really worked out
on her.

Got a description
for you jd.

Says it's one guy.

[Doc]
coming through.

[Washington]
you hear of anything,
you let me know, okay?

Coming through.

[Washington]
remember to call me.

- See you, guys.
- Yeah, all right, doc.
Go ahead.

All right, go ahead now.

Uh, he forced
his way in, um...

'Cause we had the rope,
you know, around the door,

- But there was no lock on it--
- look, son,

If you can complete
the description,
we gotta put it out.

Uh, yeah,
he was white, um...

Average height, um...

Pretty thin, and, uh,
he had short brown hair.

And he had blue eyes.

- Good.
- Now, how long ago?

[Sighs]
um...

About 30 minutes since he ran,
about an hour since he came in.

I ran to call you guys,
you know,

It took me 15 minutes
just to get a dime--

Look, look, we gotta
keep this real fast

So we can put
the description out.

Now, can you remember
his clothes,

What he was wearing,
anything?

Yeah, he had, um, like,
black pants,

And he had on a...

You know, a dungaree jacket.

And, uh, her bracelet
was taken.

Oh, that's a shocker.

Yeah, it was like a...

An i.d. Bracelet, you know,
it had "cathy" written on it.

I'll get this on the radio.

Did real good, son.

Got a good memory.

Well, I'm gonna be
an artist.

Yeah, she was gonna be
a dancer.

- [Gasps]
- men in blue.

What's the problem?
Where's the as*ault?

- Is your name reggie, uh--
- regis.

Uh, regis rossmore,
unemployed nurse,

With an impossible situation
on his hands.

Chop-chop officers.

[Regis]
all right, miss difficult,
help has arrived.

Well, I'm sorry, but I've been
stuck in here for over an hour.

This is with reference
to my explicit instructions,

Lois was not to sit down
in the tub.

She has an undisplaced
pelvic fracture.

Well, why'd you
put her in there,

If she's not supposed
to take a bath?

She was to stay
on all fours--

I'm mortified.

[Regis]
to avoid exactly this situation.

- Plus, she's pruning up.
- Regis,

Will you go
and take the coffee cake

Out of the freezer
and heat it up for me?

Coffee, yes.
Cake... No.

Why didn't you call
the paramedics?

So chastise me later.

Watch it!

I'm sorry ma'am,
I got lost in the terrain.

[Laughs]

I tried
to call the paramedics,

They said we weren't
an emergency.

I shudder to think
if I weren't lois' neighbor.

- So you phonied an as*ault?
- I was at my wit's end.

Well, we are here, robert,
let's go.

- On three.
- [Lois] oh, no.

All right, all right.

- Ready, ma'am?
- Let's go, ma'am.

[Together]
one, two, three.

Help them, lois!

Here she comes,
here she comes!

- Oh!
- Whoa!

- What?
- What is it?

- [Shouting in pain]
- what is it?

- Oh, merciful mother!
- What?

I have done it.
I have done it.

I have strained my milk.

I have herniated myself.

Oh, you poor lamb!

[Police scanner]
officer requesting backups

- One a 616 at 17--
- you hear that, renko?

Hear that?
I hear my maker.

- You going to be okay, folks?
- I'm so grateful.

A thousand thanks.

Okay, okay, we gotta make
another call.

You know what I do
to people like you?

[Gasps]
ooh!

[Bobby]
come on, man, let's go.

Is my pain a source of amusement
to you, robert?

No, andy.

Well, why don't we
go down to the morgue

And really get a belly laugh?

Easy steps, here we go.

- [Renko groaning]
- all right.

Bye there!

[Police sirens]

Junkie fits the hotel pershing
k*ller description.

- We'll take this side.
- Right.

Spread 'em!
Spread 'em.

What's this, "cathy?"

- That's mine.
- Cathy?

- It's mine!
- Aah!

Man, what's wrong with you?

You r*pe a 14-year-old girl?

- Take it easy.
- You k*ll her?

[Bobby]
stop! Stop!

Joe!

You're busted, man.

[Man]
in watching phil
teach our recruits,

I experienced his compassion,
his quiet strength,

His joy of life,

And his deep
sense of responsibility.

Let me read you a poem

Which conveys
these qualities in him.

"I am at ease.
It's end of day.

"My duty has been done.

"The hour calls me far away

"Beyond the setting sun.

"Meet me
by the ocean's rocks

"In the shadows
on the lane.

"Find me in the snowflakes

"As they crowd
against the pane.

"Or beckon me in silence

"Then listen to the breeze.

"And you
will hear me always,

For, at last,
I stand at ease."

Phil's wish that he be cremated
was carried out--

[Clears throat]
earlier this morning.

There'll be
no gravesite service.

God bless you,
and thank you for coming.

That was very moving, sir.

The rock
and the silence and all.

Was that, uh,
simon and garfunkel?

No, that was phil esterhaus.

He wrote a lot of poetry.

- Chief.
- Nice service, eh, frank?

Brief and to the point,
a lot like the man.

Irwin says you told him
not to present a plan

- For michigan avenue.
- Yes, sir.

Well, is corrections
presenting?

Well, technically
it's not their problem--

- Chief.
- Leave it to me, frank.

You're gonna have
your holding cells back
by the end of the day.

It's not gonna help matters

If cruz empties
the holding cells

And puts the criminals
back on my streets.

Of course not.

Wha-- then are you
presenting a plan?

We're gonna get results.

Sympathies to phil's family.

Did he have family?

[Engine starts]

Tumblers on b-lock are off,

So you have to, sort of,
develop a feel

For it with your wrist.

Uh-huh.

You sure
there's room in there?

He'll squeeze in.

I'm a sociable person.

Keep your clothes on, okay?

- What's that?
- That?

[Leo]
nothing.

Leo, that's
the role-call podium.

They sometimes play pranks
on each other.

Some of them
are funnier than others.

You're not
gonna say anything?

None of our business.

Fellow americans!

I want to test you...

On the subject of rights!

[Man]
okay.

We got human rights!

We got
"inanalienable" rights!

[Laughs]

We got the right
to bear arms!

[Man] we do.

And I got a right

To bare my bald black-ass.

[Laughter, cheers]

I'm beautiful!

I love you, my baby.

Sandy, hi.

- Hi.
- What are you doing here?

Got a message I'm supposed
to pick up my purse.

It was probably
court property,

You know, they used it
as evidence in the hearing.

I think leo
can get that for you.

How you doing?

Not great.

Takes time.

Hey, hold it right there,
chump-face.

Okay, buddy.

Leo, will you help
miss valpariso, please?

- Sure.
- Thank you.

[Bates]
natalie, get some bracelets
for this guy, will you?

He tends to wander.

Hi.

Hi.

Were you looking for me?

Nope, just picking up
my purse.

Look, sandy, maybe we should
talk about last night.

No, joe.

At this point,
I think it's smarter

If I do that with somebody
who understands my situation.

Thank you.

[Howard]
frank!

- Miss davenport.
- Lieutenant.

How was the ceremony?

I'm grateful to you and ray

For holding the fort
for me here, howard.

Well, I'll say
my goodbye's tonight.

I imagine london was something
like this during the blitz.

Captain, miss davenport.

Leo, you have harold baker?

- Waiting for you in lineup.
- Okay, thanks, see you later.

That's, uh, lester mendley,
whitney barnes' panderer.

- Who made the bust?
- Turned himself in.

Interrogation will be ready
in a couple minutes.

- I'd like to sit in, frank.
- Call me.

Mr. Mendley,
lieutenant goldblume.

Lieutenant, I didn't k*ll
whitney barnes.

Let's hit that right away.

If you want to talk to me,
let's talk.

We want to talk all right,
come on.

[Lester]
you want to know about whitney?

In the last two years,
I didn't get her five dates.

God, she was sweet.

But she wasn't stupid.

She knew what had happened.

She knew she was working
a different kind of trick

Which those cats referred
between themselves.

You understand?

She never once brought it up.

We never once
had the conversation.

Maybe we should have
made different arrangements.

Well, that was the kind of
class of woman she was.

What do you know
about the m*rder, lester?

In a minute.

I didn't get to say
what a sad thing this is.

You lived off her,
you filmed what she did

For blackmail,
cut the crap.

Blackmail who?

I didn't blackmail anybody!

What'd you make
the movies for?

Because I knew something
exactly like this could happen.

I didn't k*ll whitney.

One of those fat slobs

Who didn't want
her memoirs told k*lled her.

And now in the papers,
lester mendley this

And lester mendley that.

And now they're coming
after me!

Well, when we're done here,

Mr. Townsend and I
are telling the right story.

The people have got to know

The lester mendley plan
for the future.

- What people?
- The papers.

The lester mendley plan
for the future,

Which is to live in nassau
and don't bother anybody

Unless somebody
tries to k*ll me.

And then my attorney
sells the tapes

To the highest bidder.

Got a slight problem
there lester.

What, you think
you got 'em all?

You don't think
I made copies?

You think
you're going to nassau?

He's material
to a m*rder investigation.

We'll stay domestic, captain.

You'll be apprised
of our whereabouts.

He goes nowhere,
he stays in custody.

[Lester]
wait a minute!

My message
has got to get out!

The people on those tapes
have got to know where I'm at.

I don't mean trouble
for anybody!

[Harold]
I'm a junkie.

If I ain't holdin',
I can be a bad character.

I know that,
I got a sheet.

But I was holding.

I don't do v*olence
when I'm holding.

You had her bracelet.

I found it.

I told him it was on the window
when I picked it up.

Why did you
as*ault the officer

When he tried
to take it away from you?

I was defending myself.
He come at me.

Harold, if you're saying
he started it,

There are witnesses
who say otherwise.

Lady, you gotta understand
what I am.

If I see something
laying in the street,

Something that might
give me a lift,

I pick it up, it's mine.

Somebody tries
to take it from me,

I fight 'em.

I gotta keep it going,
that's all, you see?

That's all I can think about.

How could I r*pe somebody?

I ain't even thought
about a woman in years.

[Sobbing]

- Hi.
- Hi.

That hotel pershing suspect
was pretty badly beaten, frank.

Oh?

Apart from the fact I think
he's probably innocent.

Of course, not 'til this
afternoon counselor.

I fully intend to explore
my client's legal remedies.

I'm suggesting
that girl's attacker

May still be on the street.

God, will they be able to get
judge cruz a plan by 3:00?

Well, uh, daniels' all
sly winks and vague promises

And he's told bernstein
not to submit a plan.

Maybe daniels has something
going with the governor.

Yeah, maybe
it's a fast shovel.

Frank, I realize the strain
you've all been under.

You want to hear about
joe coffey's last three weeks,

Starting with
when he was sh*t?

Rule of law is most important

When things are most unraveled,
pizza man.

Ah.

Just what you needed.

What I need
is you in a hotel room...

Tonight.

I'll make a reservation.

Hey, leo.

The witness on
the hotel pershing homicide.

I saw him, uh, k*ll cathy.

Lineup's in 20 minutes.

All right, hey, you make
yourself comfortable, okay?

- This way.
- What the hell are you doing?

They just told me
that I could go,

Now you're arresting me.

What is it
with you guys anyway, huh?

- Lester?
- Yeah.

- [g*nshots]
- aah!

Don't sh**t me!

Where's the damn key?

Seal the building.

Nobody gets outta here
until we have statements.

[Police sirens]

Frank.

Frank, witness has him
in a cream-colored sedan

Heading west on decker.

Ray, ray.

- A.p.b., Any plates?
- Only partial.

- What was it?
- Alpha, niner, seven

Are the first three digits.

All right, descriptions
to the fbi and the state patrol.

- Deploy at the airport--
- gurney, coming through,
look out!

[Belker]
come on, move it, move it!

[Bates]
give us some room.

[Howard]
come on, I'll give it to you.

[Bates]
clear it up, please!

Nine people make it a cop.

No badge number,
no insignia.

It was a professional hit,
captain.

The guy goes into a party store,
he cops a uniform--

Get statements, jd.

[Bates]
clear in here, please!

[Fay gasps]
oh, my god!

It's all right.

Henry, I went all the way
back to the heights

To file the robbery complaint,
but they said you never came in.

I told them I'd
do the paperwork here.

Couldn't you have told me that
at the memorial service?

- Lineup's ready, lieutenant.
- I am very sorry, fay.

It just completely
slipped my mind.

Look, we're a little bit
jammed up, here.

Henry, henry, I know
it's a madhouse,

But all I need is two minutes,
I think we oughta talk.

Yeah, yeah, I'll call
you later, okay?

[Sighs]

I don't see him.

[Henry]
number three,
step forward please.

No, that's not him.

Take your time.

I know that ain't him.

Number four, step forward.

No, no, he didn't
look anything like that.

It's not him.

The guy's not up there,
I'm positive.

[Ms. Davenport]
you release?

No, we're charging,

Narcotics possession
and as*ault.

We'll cross-complain,
false arrest, and brutality.

No i.d. On that hotel pershing
m*rder suspect, wrong guy.

Then let's get people
back to that area.

Ray, we found the stolen sedan,
116th and frederick

With a police uniform
stuffed under the seat.

- Our hit man.
- Must have switched cars.

Any description?
Any witness at the switch?

No, we're canvassing.

Sergeant, the mendley sh**t

Abandoned the car
at 116th and frederick.

Okay, I'll put it up.

And put any
available uniforms

Back on
the hotel pershing perimeter.

We don't have
anybody left, lieutenant,

I'll have to
call the heights.

- [Whistles]
- I picked up the call
on my car radio.

You gotta give him marks
for virile plumbing, frank.

Go after the guy
in a police station

In broad daylight!

- Everything under control?
- Nothing's under control!

I have to know
what your plan is.

What proposal you're gonna make
to judge cruz,

Frank, I asked you
to trust me on this one.

Or aren't you gonna make
any proposal at all?

You gonna wander in there
around 3:00,

Hem and haw about
not having enough time,

And let judge cruz
open up all the cells?

Frank,
put michigan avenue right,

That's a $5 million job.

Bernstein's got
a million and change.

Now, I'm gonna get the money
to fix that place

- Once and for all.
- How?

By letting perpetrators
roam the streets

So you can dramatize
a fiscal shortfall in blood?

Do you want a riot?

Frank you have got
to mobilize

The public's willingness
to address the problem.

Please, trust me.

- Candy?
- Esterhaus.

We're all oars
in the same boat, frank.

Get me irwin bernstein.

Joe.

Is there some place
where we could talk?

I thought you wanted
to talk to somebody

Who understands your problem.

I have.

That's what I want
to talk to you about.

I was just
at the r*pe clinic.

- Yeah?
- Yeah.

I'm going to be
going there for a while.

That's good.

The lady I've been seeing there
really knows her stuff.

And she told me
that sometimes

What happened to you
last night

Some men react that way.

Look, I feel like
enough of a jerk already,

You don't have to tell
the whole world.

Joe, she's my therapist.

[Scoffs]

Look, what I'm trying
to say is

If we're gonna...

I feel that maybe I was--

I feel maybe
I wasn't being fair.

And if we're gonna
work this out between us,

We've got
to work it out together.

Sandy, I'm not sure
how I felt last night

Is gonna change that easily.

Joe, I don't want
to be with a man

Who feels like
I'm damaged goods either.

But I think that can change,

And I' willing to chance it.

Are you?

Yeah.

So, uh, joey,
I thought maybe

We could see each other
a little later tonight?

What?

What if i, uh, you know,
still can't?

Don't you worry.

It'll happen
when it happens.

And what if it doesn't?

We'll worry about it then.

Is that you talking
or your therapist?

That part's all me.

I really care for you, joe.

I want us to try.

If you don't want to try,
you just tell me, I'll go.

No, no, don't.

I mean, I want to.
I want to see you tonight.

I think we got a sh*t, joe.

At least
we've got that much.

Slow down, pal,
you don't want to miss

Any of these potholes.

I think you better
call daryl ann,

Tell her it'd be a good night
to have a headache.

Thanks a lot, bob.

I'm standing on death's door
with my finger on the bell

And you're casting dispersions
on my manhood.

Ah.

What's that?

Oh, come on, there's a k*ller
on the loose,

You don't want to be writing
no traffic violations.

Looks like a rental.

Please, please, please
watch the brakes, please.

- [Tires screech]
- watch the brakes.

[Woman]
this is awful.

I've never
had an accident before.

Listen, I've got all the papers
that are necessary.

- Give you my name and address.
- [Man] that's all right.

No, no, I don't need
your address.

- Well, are you sure?
- I'm sure, the car's fine.

Why don't we just
leave it at that?

Can I have both your license
and registration please?

Officer, that won't
be necessary.

The woman and I can work it out
between ourselves.

- Here you are.
- This is a rental car, sir.

The company requires
a police report.

- Also, let me have--
- oh, all right.

I'll get the papers
out of the glove compartment.

Officer, it's my fault.

- Current address, ma'am?
- Yes, it is.

- [Renko] hey!
- I know the rental car's--

Hey, bud!
Hey, stop!

♪♪

[Woman]
boy, he was in a hurry!

This is 2202 in pursuit
of a possible stolen vehicle.

Beige in color,

Westbound on cope
and 115th street.

[Police scanner]
2202, we copy.

[Radio chatter]

Roger, 1503.

[Renko]
go, get on his back, man.

Whoa, man.
This is hurting me, pal.

[Renko moaning]

God bless you, man.

Slide, man!

Right, right, right!

Strong left, strong left.

He's got a g*n!

[Machine-g*n fire]

[Officer]
north side of decker and 136th.

We have a suspect down.

We need an ambulance
here immediately.

We can't keep prisoners
more than a month in an armory,

I don't care how many
porta potties we bring in.

Judge, the armory's
only step "a"

To give us a leg up
on step "b."

Which is the michigan avenue
renovation.

[Bernstein]
correct.

[Judge]
which you don't yet
have funding for.

We've got 1,100,000.

For a $5 million job.

Please, judge, we are making
a good-faith effort.

And I am too, mr. Bernstein.

Only I happen to take seriously
the proposition

That people are innocent
'til proven guilty.

So when I tour
a desperately overcrowded

And understaffed michigan avenue
and I see hundreds of men--

Who have been
arrested for crimes.

But who are not yet
convicted of anything, sir.

Except maybe being too poor
to make bail.

And when I see
the physical brutality,

The unsanitary
and indecent conditions

Brought about
by this overcrowding--

Captain, may I ask you
what life was like

In your station house
this morning?

Intolerable.

That's what the men
in the michigan avenue complex

Have been living like
every day.

Judge, would you rather
incarcerate

The entire citizenry
of my precinct?

No.

Well, the people
living on the hill

Are every bit
as trapped by poverty

As those men
you're talking about.

And to have them endangered

In the conduct
of their normal lives,

I mean, to turn my precinct
into one big bloated jail

In which the innocent
are entrapped

Along with the lawless--

That clearly was not
my intention, captain--

But that's the result!

My homicides and r*pes
have doubled.

And this morning,
a 14-year-old girl was m*rder*d

In one of those street kids
flop houses

That was literally inundated
by parolees.

I mean, not to mention
the hit man

Who was able
to commit a m*rder

Right inside
our own station house.

I love this.
I love this criticism.

Cruz finds inhumane conditions,
so cruz is a big softie.

The minority softie.

Don't just blame
the releases on cruz,

Blame the overcrowding too.

Blame some hit man on cruz.

'Cause cruz
happens to remember

The u.s. Constitutional
prohibition

Against cruel
and unusual punishments.

Judge, I'm not questioning
your record,

And I understand your need
to protect the prisons,

But please know
that your victory

On michigan avenue
is my defeat on the hill.

Chief, in the coming days,

Can I expect
your good-faith support

And advocacy
for michigan avenue funding?

Of course, judge.

[Judge]
and if I state
my order to release,

There will be no subsiding
in your effort

To raise this remaining 3.9?

None, whatever.

Well, I'm certainly
not opposed to compromise.

Shall we go through section "b"
again, gentlemen,

On the assumption,
save a two-week grace period

With the jackson armory
pressed into use?

Congratulations, men.

Pulled a little fast one on me,
did you, frank?

All oars
in the same boat, chief.

All pulling
in the same direction.

Speaking of which,
let me lighten your load some.

Take that mendley thing
off your hands.

Admittedly, I have
a special interest in the case.

It's also a practical fact

That you can't put
the horses the division can

On this sort
of investigation.

True.

I'll have property
transfer those tapes downtown.

Yeah, well, uh,
there's probably no truth

To those threats
he made anyway.

- Who?
- [Clears throat]

Mendley.

He probably doesn't really
have copies of those tapes.

Copies?

Probably just blowing smoke.

Hill and renko
were in a sh**t.

- Are they all right?
- The guy's dead.

They've i.d.'D him
as the mendley sh**t.

Pro out of rochester.

I'm crosschecking
whitney's lists.

See if maybe she had a john
from upstate new york.

Uh, no, henry.

- We're off this one.
- What?

Chief wants division
to handle it.

- He'll bury it!
- No, it's not possible.

There's too much
media coverage.

Besides, do we have
six detectives

To put on two homicides?

Of course not.

Look, henry,

Whitney barnes is dead,
lester mendley's dead,

The guy who k*lled them both
is dead.

Whatever happens,
this case doesn't make
on the hill.

Yeah.

- But i...
- But?

I liked her, whitney.

Well, I'd like to see us
get up to speed

On this, uh,
hotel pershing homicide, okay?

Nothing when we resumed
the perimeter search.

Found the girls name
on a runaways list.

I don't think that one's
gonna make on the hill either.

- Lieutenant.
- Hi.

Everyone's talking about you

Down at the p.d.'S office,
furillo.

Oh, anything
worth repeating?

They think you're okay.

Me too.

- To what?
- Hotel warwick.

I'll have to meet you there.

Furillo...

I-- we have esterhaus'
scattering.

- What time?
- 11:00.

What I had in mind
won't take that long.

Joe, I owe you an apology.

Which one?

Well, I found out
that this memo

Came out of division
this morning.

It's about my promotion.
6:00 A.m. It came out.

Anybody could have seen it
and just passed the word along.

So?

So, I'm sorry,
and I acted like a jerk.

Forget it.

How do you like it so far?

Can't get enough of it.

[Shouting]

Argh!

All right, that's it!

One prisoner at a time
goes out to the bus!

All other prisoners
stay cuffed or in a cell.

Peyser, jackson,
I want more uniforms up here

To help out
the khaki officers.

Book this marone
on obstructing!

- [Leo] get up.
- [Bates] to all prisoners,

If there is any more trouble
here at all,

I'm gonna tack on
an obstructing.

That's 30 days extra
for sure.

That's it.

Yeah.

Hey.

I, um...

I just wanted to tell you
you just did a good job, sarge.

The fish was terrific,
thank you.

So.

Really taking
karate lessons, huh?

Well, I've been mugged twice
in the last two years.

What's wrong with wanting
to defend yourself?

Maybe not trying
saved your life.

Or maybe next time
I won't be so lucky.

You know, at least
with the karate,

I'll have the option.

Besides, i--
I kind of like it, you know?

And it makes me feel sexy.

Great, you can crunch
a brick in bed.

That sounds
like something you'd say

Five years
into a bad marriage.

[Sighs]

Sorry.

It's just that I feel like
ever since we've been together,

You've been
trying to make me

Into something I'm not.

I don't like it.

I'm not trying to change you.

Okay.

But the fact is,
and you know this,

Every time we start
to make love,

Something in your head
goes click,

And suddenly
you're a million miles away.

You know, sometimes I feel
like I'm alone in the bed.

You kidding,
there's you, there's me,

There's rachael,
frank, four kids.

I mean, it's a complex
negotiation

Just trying to find a place
to go to bed together.

And then when we do do it,
we never seem to get to it.

I mean, after-- after getting
past kids knocking on the door

Looking for
a glass of water,

Or babies needing to be fed.

I feel sick, I feel angry
and tired,

And the last thing
I feel is sexy.

Henry, we are adults.

We bring adult baggage
to our relationship.

Do not lecture me, fay.

All I'm trying to tell you

Is that after a lot of years
of being a good guy,

A good fried,
a good husband,

Always trying to find out
what the other person needs,

I'm beginning...

To get a little bit more

Selfish about what I need.

And what I need

Is for things
to be a lot easier.

You want easy?

Try a prost*tute.

Oh, boy.

You're really fixated
on that.

Didn't you?

That was just a fantasy.

I mean, if you want real life,
I'm your girl.

But if you want a fantasy--

Come on, fay.

It's not that easy,
and you know it.

I have my baggage.

I have my stretch marks.

I am too old
to start apologizing

For what I can't change.

What do we do now?

I don't know.

Maybe we ought to...

Not see each other
for a while.

Sounds right to me.

♪♪

If it's so right,

Why do I feel so lousy?

Sorry.

This everyone?

Howard?

We have large aggregate
particles here, frank,

With a high adhesion factor.

We may have a problem
getting a uniform distribution.

[Renko]
what's he talking about?

- Sarge is a little gritty.
- Oh.

Putting him
in the street like this,

I don't know.

In this city, the cop
belongs in the street.

It's his home.

Ray.

Goodbye, phil,

My good friend.

I don't know, phil.

Uh...

Keep in touch.

[Renko]
leo.

- No, no.
- [Coughs]

Home is the sailor,

Home from the sea, phil.

And the hunter...

Home from the hill.

So long, sarge.

[Cars starting]

♪♪

Phil.