09x08 - Love on Ice

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09x08 - Love on Ice

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In new york city's
w*r on crime,

The worst criminal offenders
are pursued

By the detectives
of the major case squad.

These are their story.

- All the way, reynolds.

Moment of truth, reynolds.
- Come on!

Come on, get down
those stairs, reynolds.

- Let's go, buddy!

- It's freezing out here.

- You want to be a hard guy,
you gotta do it.

- Let's move!
Let's move!

- Let's go, let's go,
let's go.

- Whoo!

Nt- yeah, come on!

- Moment of truth, reynolds.

- Look, we all had to do this.
Just get the hell in.

- Come on.
- k*ll this.

And no more excuses.

- Is it the will to live,

Or is science
solely responsible

For what we're able to do?

The heart.

The ancient greeks thought
it was where the soul resides.

Ecce cor.

The essence of all
that we feel.

Does that seem old-fashioned?

Or do we still harbor
some of those beliefs?

-
[cell phone rings]

- The offer sucks.

They know what our cost is.
They'll pay us 100 bucks over.

- What?

What am I gonna do?

I gotta move my inventory.

Why don't I just give them
the frickin' car?

Fine.

[cell phone chimes]

Damn it.

- A year abroad.

Perhaps that would give you
a new perspective.

- Yeah.

My parents can't
afford it.

- The rotary has a fund
for cases like yours.

I'll go to bat for you.

- Oh, that would be amazing.

Thanks, dean silvestri.
[telephone ringing]

Thanks.
- You're welcome.

Dean silvestri.

- Did you, uh,

Did you get another email?

- Yes. It has to end.

- Wait.

- Wait for what?

- Tell me what
you're gonna do.

- Get off my back.

I'm going out.

[door slams]

- I'm sick of this guy.
- We're all sick of it.

- Rat bastard,
we were his friends.

- Well, he's desperate.

Desperate
and very dangerous to us.

- Screw it.
He's 40 minutes late.

I'm not waiting around
any longer.

- Whoa, whoa.
- I'm out of here.

- Come on.
- Greg, calm down.

- If he emails us again,
we just--

[tires screeching]

- Whoa!
- Geez.

- Son of a bitch.

- What?

I'm here.

So now we can talk.

- Greg.

- Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
whoa, hey, hey, come on.

Back off, come on.

Back off!

Come on. Come on.

All right, that's enough.

- Oh, greg, damn it.

- He'd do it to us.

- He's too drunk
to drive home.

- I'll take him.
He's our friend.

- [groans]

[car beeps]

- Bailey, we all got lives.

A lot's at stake.

Don't screw with us.

- I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

Sub BY Adriano_CSI

- Some fishermen
spotted the body.

We pulled I.D.
From his wallet

And en we ca you guys.

By t add- uh-huh.Is license,
he lives pretty close by.

Hey, elizabeth.
What do we got?

- Ll...

A body with multiple
contusions

And lacerations on his face
consistent with

A recent altercation.

- Not from a fall
on these rocks?

- No, most are diffuse
without any dermal tearing.

I'm betting
he w k*lled up there

Or somewhere else
and then tossed down here.

- Right, and look at the bruises
on his knuckles.

- Yeah, so he landed a few.

Maybe get some dna
on the nail clippings.

- Poor k*ller.

- Poor k*ller?

- His nickname,
k*ller o'doyle.

He made the majors.

Hit 48 home runs
his third season,

Came to chicago on a trade,

And they traded him down
to some canadian team.

Then he was gone.

- Let's go see
the widow o'doyle.

[door shuts]

Did he say where he was going?

- Out.
- Did he say where?

- He just said out.
- Uh-huh.

Was he anxious or tense
or distraught?

- No.

- Whdidn't you
report him missing?

- He disappeared for
a day or two before.

He wasn't missing,
he just wasn't home.

- Did he have any enemies?

- None who would
want to killim.

As far as I know.

- Any affairs?

- Uh, who knows?

We haven been--

Hadn't been real close
for a couple of years.

- Did he owe money
to anybody?

- Uh, everyone

He was sucking wind,
officers.

- So these are from his,
uh, biggest games, right?

- He was very proud
of those bats.

Probably the last thing
of any valuen this house.

- Where were you last night,
mrs. O'doyle?

- Me?

[chuckles]

Right. Of course, me.

I'm not distraught enough
or overcome with grief.

- We'll ask that of everyone
who saw him recently.

- I was here.

I did an hour on the treadmill
while I watched some tv.

Project runway

I used to be a model.

That's me.

- Can anybody verify
that you were home?

- No. Yes.

I spoke to my mother
on the phone.

Look, detectives,
I'm bitter, okay?

Bailey left us
in terrible financial straits.

But he had no insurance
and no money.

What I get from his death
is more grief.

- Any idea where his car
might be?

Mitenal inhe

Nt
- I thought we were gonna meet
at the luncheon.

- Bailey o'doyle is dead.

I--I just heard it
on the car radio.

I-I knew you'd wanna know.

- No, I--

What happened?
He didn't k*ll himself, did he?

- No, he was found beaten
in promontory park.

- Beaten?

So it was a robbery?

- The news didn't say much.

It's been how many years
since we've seen bailey,

Two years?

- A while.

Poor guy.

Well, we have to go.

Your father won't be happy
if we're late.

- Of course.

- So the search went out
on his car?

- Mm-hmm.

- And you checked
the unhappy wife's alibi.

- The luds confirm
the calls

And her mother veries
the conversations

Within the apparent
time frame.

I say we never count on moms.
- [chuckles]

- Now I'm gonna go with
the statistics and say

If this wasn't a robbery,
it was probably family.

- Well,
I doubt it was the wife.

The guy topped 200 pounds.
He was an athlete.

And he had facial bruises

Consistent with
an actual brawl.

- Yeah, also there seems to be
no way that she gained, uh,

From his death financially.

- It's a marriage.

Maybe she just got
sick of him.

- [chuckles]

What goes on in her hoe?

- Whether su1c1de or homicide,

The sport and the city
lost aell-loved

And once-revered hero.

- Ever go to his steak house?

Whatever happened
to that place?

I mean, there was always

Some celebrity
hanging out there.

It was great.

- A real shame.

And now for this
weekend's football--

- [chuckles]

Everybody seems to be making
a nice recovery from grief.

- He did have a friend.

This guy ron robbins,
who stayed in the minors.

- Where did he end up?

- He's, uh, an assistant coach
on a minor league team

In staten island.

- Mm-hmm.
Staten island?

- Enemies?

No.

Um, everybody loved bailey.

I mean, come on.

I mean, he started
e bailey's fund

For the homeless b

He was--

He was a gem.

- Did he mess around?

- Ye, sure.

I mean,
women were all over him.

For a while, anyway.

I mean, but once he hooked up
with lani,

He w pretty solid.

- When was the last time
you were in contact with him?

- Up until last year,
when everything went sour.

Investors pulled out,
he lost the steak house.

- How come you guys
lost touch?

- Honestly?

He started hitting me up
for money.

Seemed pretty desperate.

- You think
denardi k*lled him?

- Chris said he was fine
when he dropped him off.

- Well, who then?

I'm not saying it was
a bad thing.

- Yeah, it was a bad thing,
but it had to stop.

- If chris didn't do it,

And I know I didn't do it--

- Hey, I wasn't with him.

- Greg, listen to me.

No one is angry.

We'll be your alibi.

But we have to know.

- Look, back off.
I didn't k*ll him.

How do we know
you didn't k*ll him?

- Okay, look.

We're all upset.

But we stick together
on this.

They may arrest someone
before it even gets to us.

But if they do come to us,

We need to have
the same story.

Come on.

We've done this before.

Right?

Gotten our story straight.

- Time of death,

Sometime between midnight
and 3:00 a.M.

B.A.C. Was twice the limit.

Stomach contents include
nuts, pretzels.

Bar mix.

- Well, maybe death
was the aftermath

Of a bar fight.

- Maybe a loan shark?
We know he owed money.

- Well, they only k*ll
as a last resort.

I'm, uh--

I'm sticking with
something personal.

- Well, here's
the coup de grace.

Massive skull fracture
and cerebral hemorrhage

From a blunt object.

Something with a smooth,
convex edge.

- You're describing
a baseball bat.

- A poetic ending to a life
writ large with a bat.

- Personal.

Yeah, yeah, yeah,
that's my take on it too.

Jealous husband or boyfriend?

Ballplayers,
they're infamous for--

- But no letters or emails
to indicate romance.

His hard drive is loaded with
visits to online poker sites.

- A degenerate gambler.

- Also, he had unpaid
business loans.

Remember, uh,
bailey o'doyle's steak house?

- Yeah.

My brother-in-law
had a big birthday there.

At one time,
that was the spot.

Maybe there's mob money
in there.

They favor baseball bats.

- I'm checking with
the accountant for investors.

- Okay.

Oh, and I got
the requisite letter

From the chief of ds,

Who happens to be
a baseball fan.

- Oh, suddenly everybody cares,
huh?

- Well, when you're down,

There's nothing like death
for a comeback.

- Here you go.

A list of investors
in bailey o'doyle's steak house.

Three of them invested
$300,000.

Two of those have surnames
of italian origin,

But I don't think there's
a mob connection.

None of the names
are in the oc database.

But all three of them
are all linked to bailey

In another way.

- How is that?

- They all went
to a private school with him,

The silesian brothers
academy.

One of them is now
dean of students

At st. Victor's
in far rockaway.

- And this guy denardi,

He's a doctor
at webster general?

- Mm-hmm.

Head of cardiovascular
surgery.

And--and greg foster
is someone called

The staten island car king.

- Oh. Right, right.

The foster home

♪ for all your auto needs ♪

[phone rings]

Just amazingly bad
tv commercials.

Nichols.

Uh-huh.

Thank you.

Uh, they found his car.

- Ye
,I milytuw thy.

T bu
last night.

- That's so strange
'cause his, uh,

Blood alcohol
was twice the limit.

- I never saw the guy.

And the way he parked,

He probably was drunk
when he arrived.

- Can we look at
the charge slips?

- Yeah, sure.

- At 11:00 p.M.,

You pretty much just have
your regulars.

There were some guys
I didn't know.

A couple at the bar,
some at that back table.

- Can you describe them?

- The guys at the bar
were in work clothes.

Dirty like, uh,
cement workers.

The guys at the table,
just guys.

- Any other patrons
who seemed to know him?

- I didn't seen anything
like that.

- So that's it.

- There's these.

Bailey's bills.
Ious.

But I never hounded him,
I just let him drink.

- You were
a hell of a friend.

Well...

You know,
bailey could have...

Could've had the feeling
that this meeting was trouble

Before he got here,

So to muster his courage,
he--he drank.

First he shows up drunk,

Can't even park.

Then he's met out here.

You know,
never gets inside.

What do you think?

Nina, let's,
let's do tire tracks out here.

- There's been
a lot of traffic.

- Yes. Yes, ma'am.

Just do it.

- Why would he leave
with someone

He knows is gonna muscle him?

- Yeah.

Oh.

Unless it's somebody
he knows and trusts,

Like the staten island
car king.

♪ for all your auto needs ♪

- It's a shock.

Although we hadn't
been close lately,

We were very tight
in high school.

He and I played
varsity baseball.

- Oh, yeah?
Pretty handy with a bat?

Are ya?

- Who, me? No.

I walked a lot.

Small strike zone.

Bailey was a slugger.

I was so happy
when he made the majors.

We went to every game.

He spotted us club seats.

- Club seats.

Hey, no, uh, hot dog girls
and warm beer

For bailey's friends.

- Nope.

And when his career tanked,
it hurt all of us.

So we staked him
in his eating place.

It was good at first.

Then it was clear
we were gonna lose our shirts.

We loved the guy,

But he sucked
as a businessman.

- So there was a falling out.

- No. Not at all.

- How did you hurt your hand,
mr. Foster?

- My hand?
- Mm-hmm.

- Ah.

Pt cruiser with
a faulty hood latch.

- We were supposed
to discuss a new venture

He wanted us to invest in.

He kept us waiting
45 minutes

And showed up drunk.

- What was his new venture?

- Autographs.

- Autographs?

- A web thing.
Selling autographs online.

I-chat with a player
or celebrity

As they autograph
a picture, a jersey, a ball.

Not a bad idea, actually,

But bailey was not the guy
to pull it off.

- Well,
these are not autographed.

All these boys.

Couldn't all be your children.

- My wife and I were unable
to have children,

And so, in a way,
I suppose they are ours.

They're past winners
of the silesian brothers

Academy thomas reynolds prize.

Established by
my wife's father.

- All good-looking boys.

- I think so too.

- Yep. I was in surgery.
What's going on?

- Got it.
- Go. Let's go.

- Next they'll be
at my house talking to my wife,

And they'll talk
to you after that.

- Well, before that happens,
I'm gonna speak to a lawyer.

- No. We can't do that.

None of us can.

A lawyer will encourage
the one who hires him

To cut a deal and give up
the other two.

- Look,
I know I didn't k*ll him.

- I know I didn't.

But any of us
could be accused.

We must stick together.

Now I told them bailey
wanted us to...

Invest in online autographs.

Got it?
Online autographs.

- Online autographs,
got it.

- You sure?

- Yes. It sounds legit.
Online autographs.

I got it.

- Hang in there.

These are not
rocket scientists.

You are far smarter
than they are.

- It's a risk when you invest
in any restaurant or bar,

But we went in
eyes wide open.

- Did bailey still
owe you money?

- To misquote
our former president, uh,

"depends on what the definition
of the word 'owe' is."

All the stuff that was sold,

Uh, glasses, dishes,

Liquor taps, stools,
et cetera.

What he told us it was sold
for seemed less than

What we believed
it was sold for.

He was pissed
when we questioned him.

- And so how did you leave it?

- We got in our cars
and went home.

What?

- So you saw bailey
drive off?

- No, actually.
I, uh...

I left before he did.

For all I know,
he went back in for a drink.

- You've never been married,
have you, doctor?

- No, why?

- Those are the kinds of details
a married man gets straight

Before he goes home
and lies to his wife.

- Look at that--he's putting
a ball in the grave.

- One player's homage
to another.

- Check 'em out.

These guys do everything
as a group.

- Check out the wife.

- Which one, the widow?

- No, silvestri's.

She seems more upset
than anyone.

- That's interesting.

You know, uh,

That could have been
bailey's type. Huh.

[chatting quietly]

- That thing you did
with the ball,

You know,
that was a nice touch.

- Yeah, that was his first ball
he ever hit over the fence.

Seems only a few of us
really cared about those things.

You know lani,
she almost buried him

Without his number 48 bat

That he made his homer with.

- Good thing
you reminded her.

- At the funeral home,
she had him in this cheap suit.

And I told her, "you know what,
you dress him right.

Cap and everything."

Then I checked to make sure
she did it.

- That's what friends
are for.

- Yeah.

You take care now.

- Hmm.

You see
how mrs. Silvestri's grieving?

You know what
that tells me?

That she might
want to share.

I'll buttonhole the dean.

- So you were close
to bailey.

- Yeah, thank you,
years ago.

In fact, all of us
were once very close.

So it was a lot like
a funeral we all attended

22 years ago;
it's kind of gotten to me.

- How did you all meet?

- In high school.

Uh, my brother
was friends with john,

Greg, chris, and of course
poor bailey.

They had this--
this silly club,

The hard guys, and--

- Excuse me,
but we should be going.

This has been
a very emotional day for us.

- That's why
I'd like to talk with your wife.

- This is a tragedy.

You have a m*rder to solve.

Go solve it.

- That went well.
- Mm.

- Did you get anything?

- They all belonged
to the same club

And this was like a funeral
they all attended

22 years ago.

- Whose funeral?

- That's when mr. Congeniality
came to the rescue.

- 22 years ago.

They would have been, what,
15?

- 16, 17.

- High school.

A funeral,
high school buddies.

I wonder who d*ed.

- I hated high school.

- Yeah, not me.

Upper west side,
the park, movies.

At that time,
life was good.

- Well, I went to
four different schools

In three separate countries.

I was always the new kid
in class.

Ah, here's john silvestri.

- Drama class.

Who's that kid on the end?

Looks like
a young tom cruise.

- "thomas reynolds
and his sister anne,

"and john silvestri
sailed the seas

In h.M.S. Pinafore."

- Tom reynolds.

Tom reynolds prize.

I was just reading
this yearbook,

Which is for the year
following that one.

Yeah. Look to whom
it's dedicated.

- "in memoriam,
thomas reynolds."

I'm guessing his was the funeral
anne silvestri mentioned

That they all attended;
her brother.

- Tom reynolds dies,

Then silvestri marries
the sister.

Let me see that book again.

Looks like thomas reynolds
and john silvestri

Were inseparable buddies.

- Well,
since we have the date,

Let's find out how he d*ed.

[typing on keyboard]

- Tom reynolds drowns
in a lake,

And a local newspaper
calls his death

"a tragedy emblematic
of the destructive force

Of alcohol on today's youth."

- Yeah, his tox screen
had him over the legal limit.

But...

The real story is probably
in his witness statements.

- Statements from greg foster,

Chris denardi,
john silvestri,

And the recently m*rder*d
bailey o'doyle.

- I imagine a tragedy like that
can have a bonding effect.

- Yeah.

And it's a major problem
if the bond ever falls apart.

- So you think
they might have drowned this kid

And lied about it.

- How often do we see
three witness statements

So neatly in sync?

- Like these same guys
describing that last night

With bailey o'doyle.

- They're lying now.
They probably lied back then.

- I wanna bring them in.
Together.

- Well, how's that gonna work?

They've already locked down
their story.

What are you gonna do,
mix them up

And see who cracks?

- That's right.

Every group has a dynamic,
there's always the leader.

He's gonna be
the least remorseful,

Have less guilt
than the others.

- Whoever that figure was
in high school

Is probably
in the same position now.

- It's gotta be silvestri.

And the weakest is whoever feels
the most remorse and fear.

- What?

- Greg, I don't know
what to do.

- What do you mean?

- At the funeral,
they were harassing anne.

- But you never told her
anything about this

Or about--
- of course not.

But the gist is
they're definitely

Building a case
against you.

Somehow they've got you
with bailey

At the time of the m*rder.

- How could they have that?

- I don't know,
but it's what they told anne.

The cuts on your hands
from fighting with him,

That must be how
they got your dna.

- Look, I may need
a top attorney.

I don't have the money
for that.

- But I can't help you.
- But you're not going broke.

You married money.

Tom's death worked out
for you.

- I'm just stating
a simple fact.

To get through this,
we can't be involved--

- Wait, when you said
we're in this together,

That we'd stick together--

- Greg, we know you did it.

- Like hell.
Nobody's said that.

- The others won't be
as frank as I'm being.

But you know you did it.

Just like with tom.

- Reynolds?

- You pushed him.

You pushed him in the river.

- That's crazy.
We all pushed him.

- That's not how
I remember it.

Or how denardi remembers it.

You b*at bailey and then
followed him home.

- So you and denardi decided
that I go under the bus.

- We would have to testify

That you've always
had anger issues.

- I'm not going down for this,
you bastard.

[sniffling]

Deirdre.

Hold my calls.

- Yes, sir.

- No sign of struggle.

No reason to believe
it wasn't self-inflicted.

- Who found him?

Secretary.

Heard the sh*t, ran in,
and passed out.

- And no one went
in or out before the sh**ting.

- From the secretary's desk,

No one could enter
without being seen.

- I'd still like
the remaining members

Of the hard guys brought in.

We'd start with denardi,
thweakest remaining link.

With the right push
he'll fold,

Or at least look like
he's folded.

- And then silvestri comes in
and sees him

D doesn't know
what's been said.

Good.

- And then there were two.

- I don't follow.

- 22 years ago,
there were five of you.

Three days ago,
there were four,

Yesterday three.

I'd be a little nervous.

- Poor greg was clearly
your man

For the death
of bailey o'doyle.

In the interest of decency,
the case should be closed.

- But wouldn't something
that might have driven greg

To m*rder equally
compel you to m*rder?

- I think the ghost
of tom reynolds

Is haunting all of you.

Long-simmering...Guilt.

- We all got drunk,
tom got drunker.

He did something stupid,
we couldn't stop him.

- You didn't
encourage him to swim

In a freezing-cold river?

- All right, look.

We should have jumped on him,
held him down.

It broke our hearts,
but you can't say

We were responsible.

- What's this?

I agreed to be interviewed.

No one ever said
dr. Denardi was here.

- Does it make a difference?

- No, it's fine.

We'll get this over with.

[door shuts]

- We were just talking
about tom reynolds.

- Tom?

- Yeah, and the tragedy
of his death.

Look at that picture.

He looks sensitive
and sweet, gentle.

What was he doing
mixing it up with the--

What did you call yourselves?

- Hard guys.

- I don't see where
any of this is relevant

To bailey's death.

- Hard guys.

I mean,
I know you were just kids,

But you didn't catch
the double entendre?

Hard guys.

- Yes.

We knew the double entendre
and we liked it.

What of it?

- Acting tough sometimes
is a reaction

To feeling the tug
in the opposite direction.

The feelings
that you felt for tom,

Did they ever frighten you,
john?

- Where this is headed,
I don't need to hear this.

I'm out of here.

- You'd really wanna leave us
with dr. Denardi

And continue without y?

- I warned you,
this is how they wk.

We're under no oigation.

We can just leave.

- You and tom,
they've figured it out.

- John's a control freak,
isn't he?

Hasn't he always been?

- Yeah, always wanted to be.

- So tom reynolds dies
in some--

- It was an accident.

- But there's no reason
to fear openness

About an accident.

Unless if tom's death
were something else,

Something very personal
between you and tom.

Then it would weigh
especially heavily on you.

- He married tom's sister.

Was that maybe
an attempt to possess

The last piece
of tom reynolds?

- Or maybe simply
to love him

The female form.

I think that
you all trd to atone

For that night.

You, doctor,
you fix hearts.

T isn't yours
still broken?

We've udied
that old case.

We know it wasn't ke
you told it.

[all talking at once]

- Maybe it's time, john.

We have this ritual,
this--

- Chris.

- This initiation we did
if you wanted to ba hard guy.

- All the way, reynolds.

- Unh!

- Move!

- We all did it.

We stripped and swam
the river and back.

- In October, john.

Not in February when we,
when we made tom do it.

- Come on.
- Move, man.

- Let's go over here.
- Whoo-hoo-hoo!

- So, guys...

I might not make it.

- We all did it.
You'll do it.

- Come on.
- What's going on?

Come on.
What are you waiting for?

- Come on.
- Go!

- Whoo!
- Come on, let's move!

[laughter]

- We did it, all right,
detective?

Uh...

We k*lled tom reynolds.

- Why are you doing this?

- Because I am tired, john.

He told us tom r*ped him

While he was passed out
drunk.

We got drunk,
we chased tom,

We made him swim for it.

- Two choices, reynolds!
- Oh, yeah!

- Come on, let's go!
Come on!

Man up, you wuss, man up!
- Come on, come on!

- Help!
- Yeah, keep going, keep going!

Or
- ai-I gott c
bac comei gok, ple

Co

He
- ai-I gott c
bac coplease!, ple

- He wants to know,
john.

Was it r*pe?

Or was it consensual?

- Under the law,
we committed no offense.

- Get real.

Bailey was about
to reveal the truth

About tom reynolds,

And it threatened
everything you are.

- We all got emails
threatening that, but I swear,

I did not k*ll bailey.

We met in the parking lot.

Bailey shows up drunk,
we had words.

Foster starts b*ating him up,
but I stopped it.

It wasn't right.
He was our buddy.

Bailey was in no condition
to drive,

So I drove him home.

I told him,

"don't screw with us,
bailey."

He looked at me
so sadly.

The last time I saw him,
he was there alone.

- I'm done.

I'm done.

There's nothing
you can prove.

Anne.

Oh, god. Anne.

I'm so sorry
they brought you here.

I just wanted to spare you.

- Spare me from knowing
what I have always felt?

That you never desired me.

Or from knowing what you did
to tom?

- What happened in there
might bring closure

To a 20-year-old tragedy,
but it doesn't solve our case.

- Well, if one of them
had k*lled bailey,

It would have surfaced
in that room.

- Tom reynolds' death
still drives this.

- But how?

Who's blackmailing whom?

- I'm wanna go
to staten island,

Retrace bailey's
last movements.

[ferry horn blows]

- So you have a hunch that
you're not willing to share.

- Well, it's still in
the formative phase.

- Come on,
I promise not to laugh

Even if it sounds dumb.

- Okay.

For guys bailey's age,

Having a wife who doesn't care
puts him in a big club.

Our captain said that.

- Yes, she did.
I was there. And?

- Her woman's intuition
might border

On the preternatural.

- Still in the formative phase,
right.

So what's the deal
with staten island?

- Manhattan has
the empire state building,

The bronx has yankee stadium,

Brooklyn, the bridge,
queens has the u.S. Open,

Staten island has
a gigantic landfill.

Can't you smell it yet?

- I wondered what that was.

So staten island's
known for its dump?

- So let's see.

I'm bailey.
Why don't I go into the home?

- Your marriage is not
a place of refuge.

- It's night.
She's up there.

Hello, mrs. O'doyle.

Project runway,
I presume?

Yeah, he saw her up there,

But he's down here
in a pool of light.

Why does she say
she didn't see him?

[doorbell rings]

Hello, mrs. O'doyle.

Uh, detective stevens,
detec--

- I remember.
- Yeah.

Uh, mrs. O'doyle.

We were just, uh,
spitballing out here.

Um, if you've been
on your treadmill,

Where you seem
to spend a whole,

Whole lot of time,

That night when
your husband arrived,

You would have seen him
out your window.

- I guess I took a break.

- Oh.

Mind if we, uh,
took a quick look around?

- Why not?

[door closes]

I got some of my old
layouts out of storage.

- Yep, one's missing.

- Got buried with bailey.
His favorite.

- Which one was that?

- Number 48, I think.

- Yes.

- And you looked out
and saw bailey

All defeated and beaten up.

What'd that
make you think, lani?

- If I had seen him,
I might have thought

How I was supposed to be living
in a brownstone

On the upper west side, uh,

How I couldn't stand
one more day

Rotting in this stinking dump.

- Wasn't he supposed to
get money from them?

That was the plan.

- He had no plan.

- He must have told you
about tom reynolds' drowning.

We know about the blackmail.

- Uh, hey, whatever he did,

I never saw
a nickel from it.

- It's gotta be tough
when you marry a winner

And things go sour.

- Yeah.

I was pissed about him
losing again and again.

It's my right to be pissed
about that.

- You saw him,
you knew he'd lost again.

So you followed him
to the park,

And swung for the fences.

- You're crazy.

You can't prove that.

- I think I can.

- He means we can exhume
the bat.

His favorite is still
in the case,

The one he hit
home run number 48 with.

You picked the wrong bat.

- I'm thinking that
when his teammate

Got on you
for ignoring his wish,

You picked the one
that you'd hit him with

And buried him
with the evidence.

- [sobs]

Tom reynolds.

Oh, why did I have to pay
for what happened to him?

- Tom's death
was bailey's baggage.

Made him hard to live with,
right?

- It was why he kept failing.

Guilt.

He thought he deserved
to fail.

I told him, I said,
"just prove you're a man.

Get something back
for all the grief."

- thr*aten to go public,
ruin their lives.

- With all they had,
they could have paid us easy.

But no.

Bailey just didn't have
the balls.

And then I saw him
sitting out there, broken,

And I knew he failed again,
and I just--

I just lost it.

[sniffling]

- You gotta wonder,

Without the ghost of
tom reynolds,

Would they have made it?

- I don't know.

Picture a girl
in a ballpark,

On her feet
in a cheering crowd,

Thrilled when he puts one
over the fence.

A hero, her hero.

Then one day
he's just a guy on the couch

Holding a can of beer

While she sorts
his dirty laundry.

- Moral:
Don't marry a sports hero?

- Or a woman who will k*ll
to get off staten island.
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