02x19 - Fifteen Forever

[bunniefuu]

♪ In the heat of the night ♪

♪ I’ve got troubles
wall to wall ♪

♪ In the heat of the night ♪

♪ Yeah ♪

♪ Must be an ending
to it all ♪

♪ Oh ♪

♪ But hold on ♪

♪ It won’t be long ♪

♪ Just you be strong ♪

♪ And it’ll be all right ♪

♪ In the heat of the night ♪

♪ In the heat of the night ♪

Yeah! Sparta, sparta,
whoo whoo whoo.

Hey, hey.
How about that, bubba?

Tell old sweet
he owes me big ones,

And i’m setting here
waiting for him.

Regional champs.

Hey, virgil!

How are you doing?

All right.

We got some
settling to do

Regarding
a -point spread
and $ .

You do this
every year.

What is it with you
and basketball anyway?

I am basketball.
Didn’t you hear?

I was
the best center
sparta ever had.

You’re kidding.

I’m serious.

Retired cops
were kids once.

I made kareem
look like
a draft reject.

I was good.

O.k., I believe it.

Girls,
you were great.

You didn’t miss
a b*at.

I’m really proud
of you.

Tell my mom buddy won’t
have to take me to gina’s.

I got a ride.

All right.

They’ve
sure got energy.

Try spending
a whole day
with them.

I’d never
make it.

Hi, tom.

How you been?

Where’s the chief
these days?

He’s at the police
chief’s conference.

He missed
a hell of a tournament.

Wasn’t that
something?

Detective, let’s head over
to the police station

And see if several more
of sparta’s finest

Made the same mistake
in judgment that virgil did.

I’m going
to get rich.

Come on.

Boy, am I
in trouble.

Satisfied?

.

All grown up, sergeant.

Prove that to me

By leaving
beer drinking
at home.

Ain’t no law
in mississippi

Says I can’t drink
my beer in my car.

So why don’t you
just bug off?

You just
missed her.

She got a ride
to gina’s.

Oh, sh**t.

Something wrong?

I wanted to tell her
she was terrific.

I’ll catch her later.
Bye.

...
...

...
...

...
...

...
...

.
.

I’m telling you,
they shouldn’t have won.

The center can’t jump.

They have no bench.

Amazing, isn’t it?
After comes...

...
...

...
...

...
...

Turnovers,
rebounds,

And one foul sh**t
over %.

(Telephone rings)

Them -pointers
make up for
lots of weaknesses.

More.

All right. ! !

Boys, never,
never bet against
the home team.

Yes, sir, i’ve got it.
Yes.

Detective.

What, parker, what?

There’s been a car wreck
on browning road,
north of .

This guy called
for ambulances

And says it’s a bad one.

I know where that is.

Bubba and jamison
are in that part of town.

Have them meet me.

Yes, sir.

He says
it was kids
from the game.

Let’s get another stretcher
on the driver’s side.

I got you covered
on that.

Give me a hand.
Can you help me?

She’s gone.

Call her family.

We’ve got base orders

On a "c" spine,
code monitor.

Her arms withdraw
to pain,

But her legs
are flaccid.

Virgil.

I need some help
with this board.

On the count of .

, ,

.

Easy.

Easy now.
Over here.

Thank you, gentlemen.

Let’s get her
out of here.

Virgil, hope you
don’t mind me
coming along.

We need all the help
we can get.

Somebody trapped
in there?

Yeah.
Gina montgomery.

Oh, god.
Is she still alive?

She was until
a few minutes ago.

She kept crying out,

But they couldn’t
free her.

Bubba hasn’t moved
since he first heard her.

Come on, come on.

I don’t see
the other car.

I hope
there is one.

He chose to leave.

It’s got
a real familiar
feeling to it.

What?

I’ll tell you later.

You got
any witnesses?

He said he just drove by
and saw this.

Did he see anything?

No. He called
from the station--

First the ambulances
and then us.

There’s no skid marks.

Our absent driver
didn’t brake at all.

He, um...

Just drove into
their lane.

There’s a few reasons
why he would swerve.

If he had a heart att*ck,
he’d be here.

He didn’t swerve
to miss any animals

Because we found
weaving marks
a quarter-mile back.

I bet the farm
he’s a drunk.

Here you go,
sergeant.

No, don’t stop trying!

Don’t stop!

Oh, my baby!

Please.

My baby!

My baby!

Althea,
where is she?

Nora,
she’s alive.

She’s alive.

Where is she?

Calm down.

Amanda’s been
critically
injured.

Let me see her.

I can’t. We’re
stabilizing her.

Then we’ll do a ct.

If she regains
consciousness...

What do you mean?

She has a thoracic
spine fracture.

The ct will determine
if there’s any surgically
correctable injury,

But for now,
she’s in a coma.

You stinking liar!

Don’t say that!
Damn you!

A drunk driver
k*lled your wife.

I didn’t know.

She was the best.

I mean, absolutely
the best.

"Wife" doesn’t even
start to say it.

She was my partner,
my sweetheart.

Am I too big
and too old
to say sweetheart?

I hope not.

I still say it
to my wife.

We did all
the usual stuff
married people did.

We bought things,
paid bills,
and caught colds.

One morning she
kissed me good-bye.

I grumbled something

About her not
finding somebody

To fix
the water heater.

An hour later,
she’s dead.

Some
worthless drunk...

Ran a red light

Going .

Just four blocks
from my home.

You sure you want
to work with me
on this case?

Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Then, you’d be
doing me a favor,

But if it brings up
painful memories...

You’d be doing me
a favor.

Hi, virgil.

Tom, I saw
your truck outside.

It’s not a night
for sleeping.

Every house
has a light on.

We talked tom
into coming out
of retirement--

At least long enough
to catch our man.

Oh...

Hey, tom,
that’s great.

Glad to help out.
What’s that?

Ribbons.

We’ve been staring
at that all day.

Yeah.
That’s the point.

What point?

I got back
from jackson.

What’s in jackson?

Mothers against
drunk driving.

Every thanksgiving

They get everybody
to tie these ribbons

On everything that moves

Until after
new year’s eve

To get people’s attention.

So, you thought we
could do that here now.

Yeah, just, um...

Leave them tied
on everything,

Everything.

Until
the drunken bastard

Who slaughtered this town’s
children is caught.

And the enemy
shall arise
out to the city,

Out of itself, to slay
those of the city.

Slay, as drunken thieves
commit acts

Unto their own assembled.

And the bereaved
shall know no comfort.

This is a time
when we all ask why.

We hear folks say,

"It’s god’s will,"

Or, "it’s
some divine plan."

Well, i’m a minister,

And I don’t understand
how a plan that is divine

Can hurt so much.

And I can’t explain

Why god would permit
these girls to be k*lled

And why another lays silent
and in pain.

What I do know

Is that the very stuff
that holds us all together

Is some kind of faith.

A belief that
there’s a bigger thing--

A supreme something...

Intelligence,

Healer,

Love.

Most certainly
these are the times

When our faith
is stretched to its maximum.

I believe, oh, lord.

Help thou my disbelief.

I guess i’m saying

It’s natural to doubt
right now.

And that’s all right.

Yes, it is.

God won’t go away

Just because
you don’t believe he’s there.

And slowly, we together,

We will rebuild our lives
and rebuild...

Our faith.

...that pushed gina’s head
through the windshield,

Forcing her body
under the dash.

Gaylee was thrown out
of the back seat.

Here.

That tree impact
sent the car

Into a clockwise spin
around the tree,

Opening the back driver’s
side passenger door

Where amanda was thrown
against this tree...

Breaking her back,
her spine.

The car then winds up
in an : ,

Facing a down
: position.

Now, the drunk,
after he hits the girls,

Overcompensates,

Swerves all the way
off the road, and stops.

He probably looked back,

Saw bodies
flying everywhere,

But we know

That he didn’t even
get out of the car.

There were
no shoe imprints

On the soft shoulder.

He turned hard left,
ground deep,

Sped back
onto the pavement here,

Where he went off
and out of the picture.

Even on paper
it doesn’t get
any easier.

There was no evidence
of alcohol or dr*gs

In any of the girls.

They still d*ed
of alcohol.

He was
out of it.

Didn’t brake.
Just plowed
into them.

I spoke to the lab.

That gray paint
transfer contained
a chemical

That’s only
been used in cars

For the last
two years.

Our k*ller
drives
a new car.

That, plus
the grill imprint

It left in suzanne’s
front fender...

We can identify it
if we can find the car.

When we find the car.

Every body shop
in town came up empty.

Hell, he could be
in florida by now.

Then we go get him.

Finley over at
the auto parts store

Says this broken lens
came off a gm car.

Luxury model.
And he’s positive.

O.k., We’re
gaining on it.

Late model gm car,
probably gray.

Bubba, see if you...

No, no.
Trust this man.

He usually knows
what he’s doing.

Sweet,
make that list up
of local gm dealers.

Go ahead.

Yes, sir.

Paint transfers,
broken lenses,

Tire treads...

All fine and dandy,
but--

What we need
is a witness.

Somebody
who saw a face.

Awful hard
to prosecute a car.

Buddy.

How you doing,
kiddo?

Need some company?

No.

I have to be going.

He’s taking it
really hard.

He can’t deal with
something like this.

His father d*ed
a couple of years ago.

Now this.

That’s a heavy load,
for him and for nora.

Virgil told me
about your wife.

I’m really sorry.

Thank you.
I appreciate it.

How’s amanda?
Can she talk yet?

It’s her back.

She’ll never be able
to walk again.

They’re bringing in
a neurosurgeon,

A specialist
from chicago,

But the longer amanda
stays unconscious,

She could have some
neurological damage,

Even brain damage.

Good.
Squeeze harder.

Come on, honey.

Look.

She can hear me.
Watch.

Amanda,

Try harder, sweetheart.

Tighter.

Nora, i’m so sorry.

Mrs. Tibbs told me
about amanda’s legs,

About the paralysis.

But she’s alive.

My god,
I can’t believe

I’m saying it
like that,

Like it’s o.k.
That she’ll be
in a wheelchair,

But I am so grateful.

Isn’t that awful?

I looked at all
those other parents

At the funeral,

And I just couldn’t
face them,

Because I knew
that they would see

What I was thinking.

Thank god
it’s your daughter
in that box

And not mine.

My baby’s alive,
and i’m glad.

Nora, I can
understand that.

And then by tomorrow
and the next day

She’ll be awake.

Soon she’ll be able
to come home

And get strong again.

Look!
Did you see that?

See what?

She blinked.

You didn’t see it?

She can hear us,
you know.

This morning when
I washed her face...

She twitched her nose.

She knows i’m here.

Well,
look who’s come
to call.

Open the door, boy.

What for?

I want to look
at your gray buick.

Which gray buick
do you mean?

I have so many.

The one you
and your friends use

As a traveling saloon.

Go to hell.

Listen,
you open up that door

Or i’ll open up
your empty head.

Hey!

What are you doing
to my kid?

Not half of what
he deserves.

You’re
on private property.

What’s the matter,
boys?

Something wrong
with that k*lling machine?

Maybe some
scuffed paint.

Ain’t nothing
but some beer stains
on the seats.

Ain’t nothing
illegal about that.

Get out of here

Before I run your butt in
for harassment.

Move!

Oh, look at that.

You boys had me
so intimidated

That I slipped it
into drive by mistake.

I’m sorry about that.

See? Not
a scratch on it.

That door’s coming out
of your paycheck.

I’ll get it, too.

You won’t even be able
to pay attention, moron!

Why dutton,
of all lawyers?

He won’t
find the guy.

They just want
to talk to him.

Dutton is a pompous
pain in the ass

Who loves making everyone
on the force miserable.

He’s the
district attorney.

Which is the last person
we need right now.

He’s what
the parents need.

No. He’ll
make us miserable.

Damn it, virgil,
listen to me!

Is it my turn
to talk?

Yeah.

These poor girls’ parents
need to do something.

They need
to feel a part

Of some sort
of resolution.

Dutton is a local
prosecuting attorney.

He’s the one they see

Who may be able
to punish...avenge.

We only want
to talk to him.

They won’t like
what they hear.

Maybe they’ll get mad.

That’s when
the healing begins.

You of all people

Should be able
to understand that.

You know,

You may be
the toughest court

That dutton has ever
had to face.

Althea, baby,

I keep seeing
those little girls.

And, oh,

I just want
to call you

Times a day
and say...

"Baby, are you
all right?

"I love you...

And please
drive carefully."

Assuming the perpetrator
can be found,

We must prove that he
was driving the car

And that he was drinking.

If we prove that,
then what?

Then comes
the arraignment.

That means he’s taken
into court

And formally charged.

How long
will he get?

Now, that is very
difficult to say.

We have to take this
one step at a time.

How long
will he get?

There would have
to be a trial

After the case
has been prepared.

And where is he

While the case
is being prepared?

Again, that depends
on several things.

Like what?

Well,

For one, the bail,
the bail that is set.

Are you telling me
he could pay bail
and be out,

Just walking around,
driving around,
drinking?

We still have
due process

In this country,
but i--

Get to the bottom line.

What’s going
to happen to the guy?

Well...

We could never
prove intent.

That leaves out
manslaughter.

Now, for
vehicular homicide,

The maximum fine
is $ , .

And the minimum?

I wouldn’t
think about that
at this point.

Be assured,
our office is committed

To prosecuting this case
to its limit.

I suppose he’d have
a right to appeal,

Wouldn’t he?

I understand
your disappointment.

But I intend to work
with the police department

Very closely on this.

My daughter
didn’t get an appeal.

How much longer
till she’s better?

You’re not hearing
what he’s saying.

The damage
to amanda’s thoracic
spine is extensive,

But what’s
even more worrisome

Is her
closed head injury.

Well, just tell me,
can I take her home?

As soon as she
wakes up, I mean.

I’m saying
we don’t know when
that will be.

Her eeg tells us
that her brain stem
is intact,

Meaning her heart beats
and she can breathe.

When can I
take her home?

She has a higher
cortical brain injury.

Tomorrow?

She might be
in this coma for--

A couple of days?
A week?

She may improve,
but more probably,

Amanda will remain
in this condition
for--

A month? Oh, please.

A month?

Two months?
Please.

Nora, listen.

You’ve got to face
the probability

That amanda
will not get better.

She will remain
just like this

As long as she lives.

No!

No!

How could someone
drive away?

I mean,
not even care?

The kind of person

Who would drive
after drinking

Doesn’t care much
about other people

To begin with.

You know what
my mom did?

After the funeral
she was so upset,

She went down
to the alibi lounge

And got loaded.

Feelings. It’s hard.

Expressing them
when you’re full of pain

Can be scary.

When we miss somebody--

Dave and gina
had been going steady

Since last summer.

I share a locker
with gina.

No one’s come
to clear it out.

I can’t.

It’s o.k.

What’s important
for us right now

Is to understand
what we’re feeling.

It’s called grief.

Grief is anger,
fear, depression.

We need to talk,
vent it,

Cry...

Hit something.

b*at the hell
out of a mattress, a sofa,

Whatever it takes.

Then k*ll the person
that’s responsible
for their deaths.

k*ll him real slow.

(Door closes)

What are you doing?

Just picking up in here.

I’m taking some things
to the hospital--

Her comforter,
some pictures...

No, don’t do that.

Why do you keep
picking up after her?

She’ll never learn
to put her things away.

Make her clean her room
once in a while.

You leave
her stuff alone.

Make her do it
when she gets home.

Buddy.

(Door slams)

I want to know
what you’re doing
about this accident.

Drunk driving’s not
an accident.

That’s hardly
the point.

Do you know
who did it?

Not yet.

What do you know,

Aside from
your pretty pictures?

Your yelling at me
is not helping one bit.

I know that.

I have to tell
those parents

That we can solve
this case,

Give them some hope.

Hope!

Are we talking
about hope,

Or are we talking
about another prosecution

For your political resume?

That is completely
uncalled for.

Oh, is it?

I don’t want to fight.

My office wants to get
behind you on this.

When we asked for
an open-container ordinance,

I don’t recall your
two-martini lunch buddies

Getting behind us.

You can’t find this man.
That’s the problem.

The problem
isn’t the police
can’t find drunks.

You lawyers won’t
prosecute drunks.

All right,
prime example--
elmer foley.

He’s this town’s leading
white-collar drunk.

He’s got more duis
than he’s got
birthdays.

He has yet to serve
one day in jail

Because
his father-in-law
is the judge.

Right?

Yeah. Yeah.

You know, mr. Tibbs,

Your investigation
might go a lot faster

If you employed
educated officers

Instead of puffed-up
rednecks.

Ooh, hey, dutton,

This here’s for all
you educated fellows

Down at the courthouse.

You know how
to tie one on, don’t you?

What you got,
bubba?

The boys
at the impound

Said this didn’t
come off the girls’ car.

What did it
come off of?

’ Seville.

If I had a fancy
new car like that,

I wouldn’t
drive it without
my outside mirror.

I’d replace it.

Wouldn’t you, bubba?

Yes, sir, I would.

We’ve already made
a list of the dealers.

Well, get on it.

Virgil says
you usually know
what you’re doing,

For a puffed-up
redneck.

Yeah.

Yeah. Oh, oh, bubba.

Uh-huh?

Mr. Reeves called,

Said something
about a garage door.

I told the gentleman
that you fellas here

Would take care
of whatever it was,

Right?

Oh, yeah. We’ll
get right on that.

Right away.

Sorry I couldn’t help,

But we got no orders
for any mirror like that.

This got
something to do

With that drunk
hit-and-run business?

Could be.

That guy
ought to be sh*t.

Think he’s from
around here?

We’re trying
to find out.

Oh, darn you, wrencher.
Get out of there.

(Meow)

(Meow)

Your cat’s name’s
wrencher?

Yeah. She’s too slow
to be a mouser.

She sees a mouse,
waves it on by.

Now, when a mechanic
tosses down a wrench,

This cat is ready.

Will not let it go

Till that wrench lays
down in defeat, motionless.

Isn’t that dumb,
or what?

Awful scrawny.

Fed her,
she’d never leave.

She’s not your cat?

Don’t even
think about it.

Nope. She showed up
sleeping in a convertible.

Want her?

Boy, she sure could
use some love
and attention.

Parker.

Bet she hasn’t
had her sh*ts
or nothing.

Parker.

Want to come home
with parker?

Yeah, sure you do.

Hey, thanks.

All right.

You already got
fuzz face and old man.

You don’t need
another cat.

You got a problem
with cats?

You have a problem with cats.

I don’t
have a problem.

I just got
three of them now.

You sure can
get huffy sometimes.

Ahh.

Whoo! How about it?

You know what I got
at home, wrencher?

A whole set of tools.
I got sea wrenches,
allen wrenches,

Every kind of wrench
there is for you
to wrestle with.

Here you go sweet.

It’s a beautiful day
out, honey.

Nice breeze.

You want this
raggedy old thing, huh?

There you go.

You know,
I believe I saw

Some goods
real close to this

Over at dextroe’s.

Wouldn’t take more
than a yard or two

To make a nice pillowcase
or sham.

Probably should wash it
two or three times first,

Fade it out a little
to match.

You’re going to need
a shampoo soon, kiddo.

I used that dry shampoo
stuff once.

It was awful.

Don’t worry,
we’ll figure it out.

You got
some more cards today

And a letter from
my aunt millie.

I don’t think you ever
met her, did you?

I’ll read them to you
in a minute.

♪ Hush, little baby ♪

♪ Don’t say a word ♪

♪ Mama’s gonna buy you
a mockingbird ♪

♪ And if that mockingbird
don’t sing ♪

♪ Mama’s gonna buy you
a diamond ring ♪

Like I said,
the inventory number
would be listed.

We get them in a day
or two by order.

Those are
expensive mirrors.

Yeah, right, and
you’re sure nobody
ordered one, huh?

No. I’m telling
you again,

Nobody ordered one.

Could somebody
have ordered one,

His name didn’t get
on your order form?

Is that possible?

Would we know
who to send it to

If his name wasn’t
on the order form?

Who are you?

I’m buck spivey.

I’m sales manager
here.

Let me show you
around my place.

Feel free to
ask me anything,

All right?
Anything at all.

What’s this
about a mirror?

Found one
at the scene
of the accident.

Not a car in the lot

Doesn’t have
a side-view mirror.

I’ll show you
our shop.

No, that’s
all right.

What you got
out back there?

Oh, that. Uh...

That’s the old shop.

It’s obsolete. We don’t
even use it anymore.

We rented it
to this guy
who collects cars.

Antique cars.

Now, let’s see, uh...

Where did that old boy
say he was from?

Monroe. He said he was
from monroe.

Mind if I look?

I’ll have to figure out
where I put the key.

I haven’t seen that
old boy in a year.

He’s not a dependable
old boy, is he?

Oh, he’s very dependable.

He sends a check
about once a month
for the rent.

I’ll tell you what,
sarge.

You come back
tomorrow morning,

I’ll see
I got a key.

Now, how’s that?

Buddy?

You home?

(Crash)

Damn you, mandy!

Why didn’t you
wait for me?

(Breaking glass)

I told you
i’d be there!

I was supposed to
give you a ride home!

You’d still be there
if you had listened.

Damn you!

I would have waited!

You said I could take
you, but you didn’t wait!

Come back.

Come back.

Come back.

Honey, come here.

Come here.

Oh...

It’s going to
be all right.

It’s going to
be all right.

Everything’s going
to be all right.

I can’t figure out
what we’ve missed.

Maybe we haven’t
missed anything.

Hit-and-run drivers
don’t always
get caught.

Good. Well?

Nothing.

Not one shop
had an order for
a mirror like this.

We covered lots
of territory--
at least miles.

That’s good.
Thank you, boys.

Yeah. Thanks.

O.k.

Parker?

There something wrong?

Well, I was
just thinking...

I came on duty
this morning at : .

By the time
I fix supper,

It’ll be : .

And in that time,
just hours,

People will be k*lled

By drunk drivers
in crashes.

Lives, just gone,

In just the time
I worked this one day.

You know, something’s
got to change.

Uh, tom...

Are you all right?

I’m sure parker didn’t
know about your wife.

I’m o.k.

It’s time we went
to the newspapers

With the information
we have.

Somebody may have
seen this car.

Maybe. We have
the tire plaster,

The grill imprint
plaster for comparison.

Yeah. Good idea.

Hey, virgil.

Think I might
be onto something.

Found this warehouse
out back a gm dealer’s lot.

Supposed to have been
locked up over a year.

But...

It’s just a hunch,

But the guy who runs
this place, spivey--

Real oily peckerwood.

Gold bracelets.

He got any record?

I’m running it now.

Uh...was he willing
to let you look
around inside?

Yeah.
I’m welcome anytime.

He needs some time
to find the key,

So if i’ll come back...

Whatever’s in there
ain’t going to
be there.

Right.

We need
a search warrant fast.

Problem is,

This place is the other
side of butler county.

(Picks up phone)

Parker, give me
willard fenchum.

Yeah. Tell him
it’s his old golfing
partner tom dugan.

If he wants
any more mulligans,

He better get his
butt on the phone.

(Horn honks)

Oh, god.

Maybe he already moved
whatever was here.

There never
was antique cars
in this mess.

Why would he
lock up an empty
place like this

And lie about it?

Shine your light
back over here.

What is it?

Bubba, what is it?

Come on.

That’s it.

That’s the one
right there.

And, of course,
no registration.

You ain’t going
to find any license
plates either.

We got
an i.d. Number,

And we got
that son of a bitch.

Excuse me.

Hello,
mr. District attorney.

The car dealer
spivey and dutton
were drinking buddies.

Now, he owed dutton
a few favors, so...

I didn’t think
I could hate,

Not like this.

But I can feel it
in every breath
I take.

It burns--

Hate.

I can feel it
in my skin,
tingling.

My elbows...

And my knees
ache...

With hate,

So much hate.

I’d like to tell you
this will pass,

That it’ll go away,

But i’m not so sure
about those things anymore.

Maybe with time,
buddy’s help...

Buddy left.

He went to hattiesburg
on the afternoon bus.

He’ll stay with my aunt
for a while.

I used to live
in baltimore.

I was very active there
politically.

I marched for peace
in vietnam.

Did you know

That in the years
of the vietnam w*r,

Over , americans
were k*lled...

And in that
same years,

, Americans
were k*lled

By drunk drivers?

And nobody marched.

And nobody will march
for my amanda.

Well, maybe they will...
Someday.

What will dutton get?

Maximum sentence
is five years.

But what will he get?

That depends.

On what?

On how good a case
we can present,

How well-connected
he is,

How long he can
stretch out the appeal,

But the bottom line--

It all boils down
to one thing.

What?

Whether or not
the judge and jury
are drinking people.

♪ Hush, little baby ♪

♪ Don’t say a word ♪

♪ Mama’s gonna buy you
a mockingbird ♪

♪ And if that
mockingbird don’t sing ♪

♪ Mama’s gonna buy you
a diamond ring ♪