02x18 - Sympathy for the Devil

[bunniefuu]

[hip hop music]

♪ I heard you're going to leave me ♪

♪ I've known it for a while

♪ I wasn't naive to the news

♪ My mind just couldn't walk a mile ♪

♪ I only see you with me because I know the things you like ♪

♪ I know all that you believe and all the plans of your life ♪

♪ So take a minute to understand me ♪

♪ To reevaluate your mind ♪

♪ I'm everything you need

♪ And in this world, a good man's hard to find ♪

♪ And I know you'll miss me

♪ When all is said and done

♪ You'll think about this day

♪ And then you realize I was the one ♪

♪ You know that all you need is me ♪

♪ And you know that my love's all right ♪

♪ And baby you know I can't be denied, girl ♪

♪ You know, you know

♪ Gave you all a man can give you ♪

♪ Made sure I found the time to keep it all together ♪

♪ But the way you're treating me ain't right ♪

♪ Can't understand it

♪ Why you doing me the way you do it ♪

♪ Do you enjoy to see our love fade away ♪

♪ Give me a moment with a day, give me a sleep at night ♪

♪ I need you more than I just did ♪

♪ And I'm trying to love you though ♪

♪ You know I'm going to sleep, but you're not my mind ♪

♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

♪ You know I can't be denied, girl ♪

♪ You know, you know

[g*nshots]

♪ You know

[New York Undercover opening theme]

Can you talk? What's your name?

-Michael Carter. -Who did this to you?

-Get out of here now. -You know what they look like?

Four black kids.

Is Peggy close?

Please, she's pregnant.

Is there anything else?

Come on, stay with us.

[knocking on the door]

Police, open this door now.

What do you want?

Ten seconds and we start blasting.

Rubbers got jokes for days.

-What's up? -Yeah, what's up, fool?

-What's up, man? -What do you want?

James, man.

You need to get these old movies a rest, son.

-What, Scarface? -Where's the stuff?

You going to see Luther?

I went to see Luther, but I traded with Willie.

Hey, yo.

You traded our duty to that bass head?

Yeah, well, he's cool, right?

You should have went and saw Luther like we talked about.

No, I went to Luther.

He said he does a cash-only business, and he thanked me

for stopping by.

I told you, you should handle this.

-You didn't trade the locket. -No, man.

I still got the locket.

I mean, Willie just wanted the rings.

We got this.

Come on, man. What about me?

Hey, yo, man. Keep the locket, son.

That's your end.

Yo, Tommy, come on, man.

Don't, don't, don't play me like this.

You played yourself.

Come on.

Over here, I'm open.

What's the matter with you? Why don't you mail him?

Why don't you throw him up against the boards?

-There's a w*r out there. -But he already passed a puck.

I don't care. You finished the check.

You knocked the wing out of him. Do you understand?

-You intimidate him. -Excuse me.

-Excuse me. -What?

Don't you think you're being just a little rough on the kid?

-Dad. -I got this.

Hockey is a game about sportsmanship.

No, hockey is a game about winning.

I don't think you know about winning.

You think I don't know about winning?

I happened to be the coach of this game.

I don't think you know about that either.

You don't think I know about coaching?

I can coach better than you.

I was a semi-pro.

I don't care semi-pro.

Half of a pro. You were half of a pro.

You were a pro? You think you're a pro?

I'll show you.

The team is yours.

Man, did you see Gary's sister at practice?

You think I'm a statue?

But you know she's 15.

That's okay.

I've been looking for a reason to skip a few grades.

But she was looking at me.

No, she was looking at me, G.

You were just standing there.

I don't know about this hockey thing, JC.

What don't you know about it?

What I want Brian playing.

That kid got a game, man. He loves it.

It was an expensive game.

You ain't got to worry about that.

Hockey in Holland is going to pay for all that equipment.

Yeah, well, I don't think he's going to

-get anything out of it. -What?

With me coaching them kids in their natural ability,

you're looking at two little Wayne Gretskies out there, man.

How many brothers you know in the NHL, anyway?

Twenty, to be exact.

Ever since 1958, my man, what's his name?

William Reid played for the Boston Bruins.

Besides, you know, keeps him out of trouble.

-Will it? -Yeah, it did for me.

I'm living proof.

-Yo, Dad, can we get a hot dog? -All right.

--You want one? No, not for me.

-Brian, you hungry? -Yeah, Dad.

-I got you, man. -I got it.

You get it next time.

Come.

No, I'm taking the view.

I'm so hungry.

You all should be, Brian, meet these hot dogs.

Stand up, turn around, put your hands on the back of the bench.

What's the problem?

Turn around, put your hands on the back of the bench.

Do it.

You got anything that's going to cut me, stick me, or pump me?

-No. -You need needles?

-No, sir. -Where were you this morning?

-What time? -You want to be a smart a*s?



Taking my son to breakfast.

-You're a family man, huh? -That's right.

Break out some ID.

Just want a hot dog, man.

-Mr. Williams. -What?

Hey.

-Hey. -Give me a name check.

Andre Morgan, black male, 12/3/66.

Hey, excuse me, officer. Is there a problem?

Turn around. On the ground.

Turn around and get on the ground.

-Do it, homeboy. -Hey, he's a cop.

Stay back. Stay back.

-Stay back. -Shut up.

Adam Boyer, Central.

Request immediate backup.

Ten, four units responding.

Got anything that cut me, stick me or-

I'm on the job.

Yes, I got my badge and my g*n.

My badge is in my back pocket.

My g*n is in the back of my pants.

It's Detective Williams from the fourth.

You think that badge gives you the right

to treat people like that?

Central to Adam Boyer, Oregon, Andre J.

Armed robbery.

Probed two months ago.

No warrants.

Look, you both fit the physical description of m*rder-

Of what? Any young black man.

You owe this man an apology.

Let's not go overboard, huh, Detective?

I mean, your friend here ain't exactly a Boy Scout.

Hey, J.C., squash it, Man, don't worry about it.

Where's the crime scene anyway?

It's near Bethesda Fountain.

-I'll see you around. -You can count on that.

-You all right, man? -So you're a cop, huh?

Yeah.

You all right?

Well, I guess I owe you on a... Thanks.

You don't owe me anything, man. You okay?

It's all right. It's not the first time, man.

I guess it won't be the last.

Unfortunately not.

Brian, won't you say goodbye to G.

We got to go.

All right. I'll catch you later, man.

All right.

You work on that slapshot, man.

Yo-yo.

What's up?

What's happening?

What are you, breaking in a new partner?

No, I'm just coaching the team.

What do we have here? Somebody want to...

Oh, yeah.

G, why don't you go over there with the officer, all right?

I'll be back for you.

Married couple, g*n down.

Husband caught one in the chest, wife caught one in the head.

DOA at the hospital.

She was seven months pregnant.

Man, did the baby die?

They're trying to save him now.

Yo, I beeped you. Where were you at?

I guess I left my beeper in the car.

Who gave us the script?

Husband did.

Said it was three or four black kids in baggy clothes.

-Black kids in baggy clothes? -Yup.

Did they say he'll survive or what?

Yo, take this. It looks good.

Any other witnesses?

Nope.

So a white couple gets gunned down in Central Park,

jogging, by a couple of Black kids.

Post a love front page in that one.

I didn't know this. What's going on here?

What are we doing?

Giving away free Rangers tickets or what?

We got everybody working on this.

High priority.

This is Christine Wilson, Detectives Williams and Torres.

Ms. Wilson saw three black kids clean the scene around the time

of the sh**ting.

And one of them was carrying a g*n.

When I got home, I saw what happened on the news,

so I came right down.

If you saw these kids again, you think you could identify them?

-Yes, I think I could. -Can you describe the g*n?

Oh, I don't know.

It was a regular g*n.

I'll have her take a look through some

of the books.

Is there any word about the husband and the baby?

The news didn't say.

Husband's going to pull through. There's no word on the baby.

Listen, I'll meet you guys back in to Squad, all right?

Thank you.

Let's go take a look at those books.

[active music]

Let's go. Keep moving.

Are you thinking about what happened in the park today?

Yeah.

I'm really sorry you had to see that.

I'm glad I saw it.

Reminds me of what cops are really like.

What are you saying? I'm a cop.

I'm not talking about you.

Yeah, but you just said that.

White cops are r*cist, Dad.

All white cops, G.

-Now, you know that's not true. -Oh, come on, Dad.

You see it on the news all the time.

White cops stopping a black man for no reason, beating

a black man, sh**ting them.

Yeah, but you can't label a whole group

-of people like that. -Why not?

They do it.

G, if you do the same thing, what's going to make

you different from them?

All right, look, this is what you do.

You take each man as they come, and that's how you get through-

come on, watch it.

That's how you get through the day.

All right?

Yo, yo, Moreno.

What's going on, dude?

The park sh**ting.

Unis were told to bring in anyone in that area

that fits the suspect profile.

Wait over by my desk.

I'll be right back to you.

They both worked at Columbia.

He's a biology professor. She was in administration.

Your witness is looking at mugs now?

She's downstairs with Moreno.

Still touch and go with the baby.

Detective?

Lou, what's going here?

What are you rounding up every black man

in Harlem hoping somebody raises their hand and says

they're the sh**ter?

Do I really have to explain to you

how this works again, Williams?

It's the mayor to the chief, the chief to the borough commander,

the borough commander to me.

But I don't recognize any in their faces.

Do any of them even have priors?

We have a suspect profile, three or four black teenagers

in baggy clothes. That's it.

Really narrows it down, doesn't it?

I am not any happier about this than you are.

Lieutenant, I had a g*n put to my head because some uni

thought I fit the description.

Now, this posse approach is going to get some kid

k*lled going into his pocket for his apartment keys.

Have a seat, wise guy.

Hey, little man, what did they get you for?

Damn, you know you can at least make one phone call, right?

I'm not under arrest. It's my father's desk.

-Detective Williams, your pops? -Mm-hmm.

Damn, boy, you better never, ever get in trouble.

Be curtains for your blind. Hey, yo, hold up.

What happened, man?

We all got stopped by a uni telling me that me and this

other guy fit the description.

So he put a g*n to your head?

Yeah, that son of a b*tch took me down in front

of my son, calling me homeboy.

They got a general description and pressure from the borough.

The guy probably just lost his head.

Well, he's got no business being a cop.

So where's your pop's at?

Cool.

Well, if it isn't Batman and Robin.

So what's up, Willie? What happened?

-You got caught in the fish net? -No.

What's up, Willie? What do you want?

Just to say it's more of a private nature.

Two minutes.

-Let's go. -Only going to need one.

Met your son, Detective.

Good-looking, healthy rocket scientist

you got yourself there.

Yeah, you know that means a lot coming from you, Willie.

All right, man. Let's hear it.

Come on.

I have this friend, and well, without getting into

the specifics, works in, shall we say, recreational pleasures.

So this is a colleague of yours?

Oh, no, no, no, no, close associate.

Anyways, this friend has certain knowledge that

may be beneficial to your NYPD.

You want to get to the punch line, Willie?

Sometimes people don't have the cash to buy what

this friend of mine sells.

So they do like the old West, and they barter.

So this dope bartering close associate of yours

is something we might want, he wants to be paid for it.

-Is that right? -Yeah, in a nutshell.

I might point out that this info was related to that park thing

all over the news.

You know, that white couple.

Are you talking about the name of the sh**ter, Willie?

My friend wants a thousand.

You know what?

If everything works out and we get the sh**ter,

we can probably get him 500.

Well, I can accept that as his advocate, of course.

Now I got something to show you.

[banging the door] Police, open up!

Right.

Freeze, don't you move.

Don't you move.

Oh, this looks like

it belongs to you.

Yo, now I'm saying, come on now.

I ain't sh**ting nobody.

Come on, come on.

Hey, we got a positive ID.

Wilson put your suspect at the scene.

Thank you.

We got him, kid.

Yeah, we're still going to need the other two names, though.

Here we are.

Check out his rec sheet yet?

Yeah, a couple of possession charges.

-No big deal. -You been in the records yet?

No.

What?

This is a step up for him.

All right, so this is where we're at.

There was a sh**ting in the park.

Two victims, a husband and a wife, a white couple.

She was pregnant, and now she's dead.

We got a witness who puts your face at the scene.

I ain't sh**ting anybody, all right?

That's funny.

We found a locket that belonged to the victim

-in your possession. -We own you.

And you're looking at 25 years unless you cooperate with us.

Which is exactly seven years longer

than you've been breathing.

You're looking at a one-time situation to help yourself.

Now, give us the names of your other two friends.

Look, man, you all can't put this on me.

I wasn't there.

I didn't sh**t nobody, man.

I'm an innocent man, huh?

Well, lawyer up, James.

Hope the system works for you.

Hey, look.

They was bleeding already when we got there.

I thought you said you wasn't there.

-Didn't he say he wasn't there? -That's what you just said.

You just said you weren't.

Now you're saying you were there?

All right, look, what happened.

They was capped already, all right?

And we got there, and we took the jewelry, and we bounced.

-And that's- -Who's we?

-Come on, man. -How are you go-?

Enjoy your night, my man.

All right, wait. Come on, man.

Wait, wait, wait.

Hold on.

It was me, Ronald Taylor

and Tommy Reid, all right?

We robbed that couple.

That's it.

Willie turned me in, didn't he?

♪ It's really real when I feel the way that I do right now ♪

♪ I see all my brothers underground pushing up daisies ♪

♪ man, it amazes me

♪ that you can't see where you're going to be ♪

♪ a statistic, everybody's gone call ballistic ♪

♪ If you had a good day, damn, I must have missed it because ♪

♪ you're mad at the universe

♪ Go to hell with everybody else because you want ♪

♪ your own first

♪ I got the urge to let you in on a little secret ♪

♪ because you keep dying if you keep it ♪

♪ all the k*lling that you're feeling is from within ♪

♪ both of them will check the color of your skin ♪

♪ why lie? I couldn't try even if I had to ♪

♪ I couldn't born with the b*llet-proof vest ♪

♪ when I had you

♪ A black woman trying to get slew to a few ♪

♪ so you can lead the next group ♪

♪ Five o'clock in the morning, where you going to be? ♪

♪ Outside on the corner

♪ Better get yourself together while you're wasting all your ♪

♪ time right along with your mind ♪

♪ 5 o'clock in the morning. Where you gonna be? ♪

♪ Outside on the corner

♪ You better get yourself together ♪

♪ While you're wasting all your time ♪

♪ Right along with your mind

All right, so, we just need you to relax and take

your time here, Ms. Wilson.

Number three.

Number three, step forward.

That's him. He had the g*n.

-You are positive? -Yes.

All right, move it out. Bring in the next group.

Hey, yo, won't you come out from behind that glass?

Let's go. Come on, man.

So we're just going to go through this again, all right?

Same thing.

Number five, I'm sure.

Number five, step forward.

-Yes. -All right.

Thank you very much for your help, Ms. Wilson.

Okay, take them out.

Michael Carter got out of surgery.

First thing tomorrow morning, I want you to go up there

with a photo lineup, see if you can put a bow

on this for us, all right?

Any word on the baby?

Yeah, he's hanging in there.

♪ I gave it half a chance

♪ and learn the ways of love

♪ my baby

♪ and all that it has to offer

♪ And all that I have I'll give my love to you ♪

♪ All this love is waiting for you ♪

♪ All this love is waiting for you ♪

How do you m*rder a pregnant woman?

You got to be some kind of animal.

You know, if this baby lives, someday his father's going to

have to tell him what happened. Can you imagine?

I don't know what I would do if that was my baby.

Do you ever...

Do you ever think about having another kid?

Sometimes.

-I have a lot to do, you know? -Yeah, yeah.

I mean, I wasn't talking about right now.

I love this song.

♪ All this love is waiting for you ♪

♪ All this love is waiting for you ♪

Okay, I see you then.

-All right. -Who are you talking to?

-One of your little girls? -Brian.

Yeah, you guys are going to get together?

Yeah, I'm going to his house after school tomorrow.

Really?

Don't you think you should ask me first, sir.

Why? I never did before.

Unless I was going to spend the night.

Well, things are just a little different now.

How?

Brian's father's a convicted felon.

Dad, I'm going to play with Brian, not his father.

Hey, I don't know who's going to be over there.

Before it just happened, you and his dad were okay.

Hey, I didn't have all the information yet.

You're treating him just like that cop in the park did.

Let me tell you something, G.

The only thing that cop in the park knew was that

-Brian's father's black, right? -But what do you know about it?

Don't be smart. I'm not.

But the only thing you know is that his father did time.

That's all I need to know.

And what about Brian?

He didn't do anything, and he's being punished.

Look, I tell you what, you have Brian come over here

tomorrow and you all can play, all right?

Now, turn that TV off and help me fix this food.

This isn't right.

Can I help you?

I'm Detective Torres.

This is my partner, Detective Williams.

And you are? I'm Gabe Green.

I'm Professor Carter's research assistant.

How's he doing?

Well, the b*llet almost hit an artery.

He's lost a lot of blood, but they say

he's going to make it. And the baby?

Waiting to hear. Here he comes.

-Doctor, is there any word on- -Baby died 20 minutes ago.

-Sorry. -Yeah.

Did everything we could.

Just he went without oxygen for almost 30 minutes.

He fought, he just wasn't strong enough.

Excuse me.

Mr. Carter, I'm sorry.

We did everything we could.

No.

No.

You know you don't have to do this right now.

No, I want to get it over with.

I don't know.

I'm not sure.

I didn't get a good look.

Just take your time, okay?

How about these?

No.

I don't know. Maybe.

I'm sorry.

I just don't remember any of these people.

It all happened so fast.

There was a pop like a fire cr*cker.

And then Marilyn just...

Fell down.

There was blood everywhere.

And there was a hole in her head.

My wife and son.

I just understand. It's okay.

You can't possibly understand.

Oh, trust me, I do.

I hope they fry the kids that did this.

In a case like this, they just might.

Michael was just getting back on his feet.

He and Marilyn were back together.

-He was happy. -Are you saying they split up?

Yes, she was seeing someone else for a while, someone on campus.

Did Michael know this/

Yeah, everybody knew.

How long had Michael and Marilyn been back together?

I don't know.

Since before Marilyn got pregnant.

Those kids on the news, they say why they did this.

Was it just a robbery?

I'm sorry, I can't comment on that.

I understand.

I just like five minutes in a room with each.

James gave us up.

Willie gave James up.

James gave us up.

It don't take no genius to see that, son.

I don't know how I let you talk me in to hang

with that fool.

What are we going to do, Tommy?

No way to know what he told them.

But if it goes to trial, it's our word against his.

You think you told them we shot those people?

I told you I don't know what he said.

But if they ask me, I'm going to tell them the way it was.

You just going to give it up.

James shot him.

What?

He shot that man, and then he shot that man's wife.

Shot that pregnant woman right in the head.

Why we got to say all that?

Why we got to say we was even there?

Son, you think that lineup was to remind James

what we look like?

They got a witness.

They got us.

Now, we got to cut a deal.

Or it's 25 to life.

[suspenseful music]

-It's Ronald, right? -Yeah.

Ronald.

Ronald.

We know that you were in the park when

that couple was k*lled.

We have a witness that places you at the scene.

You robbed them, and then you m*rder*d them.

That's a lie.

You know what acting in concert means?

It means that we can put you in a cage for 25 years,

even if you didn't pull the trigger.

We're giving you an opportunity here, man.

Now, do you want this opportunity?

You get one shot.

You're going to lay it all out for us,

right here and right now.

We saw the couple jogging.

Guy had a walkman. We thought maybe some cash.

And you figured you'd take whatever they had.

Yeah.

We stopped them. We told them, give it up now.

We was going to cap them.

They gave us the walkman and two rings.

The lady had a necklace and dude had like $9.

Who had the g*n?

James had the g*n.

Not Tommy?

No, it was James.

So James is the one that pulled the trigger?

Say who's about to jet?

And dude said something, and I heard a shot,

so I turned around.

And the guy was on the ground bleeding.

So James just turned around and shot the woman.

Is that right?

I mean, we were screaming at James.

This woman's crying all loud.

And it was blood, you know.

I mean, a whole lot of blood.

James just capped her, yo.

You're lying.

Your boy James didn't have that g*n, did he?

Your boy Tommy did, right?

It was James.

He has something to prove.

Do you believe him, man?

-No. -And neither do I.

You know what?

If we don't believe you, there is no deal.

I'm saying Tommy ain't doing no m*rder.

It was James.

You lied to me, James. No, I'm not.

I told you the truth, okay?

Oh, you just forgot about the part about pulling the trigger.

I don't even own a g*n, man. We had a deal.

Look, what are you trying to pull here, man?

What are you doing?

Tommy and Ronald are ready to swear in court

that you're the one that k*lled those people, huh?

I didn't sh**t anybody.

Look, that woman was pregnant.

What do you think I am, some animal?

-We had a deal, man. -Who pulled the trigger?

They was capped already when we got there.

I didn't sh**t nobody, okay?

Look, you lie to us again, and the deal is off.

I'm telling you, they was kept already, okay?

We know Tommy had a g*n.

Why don't you tell us what really happened, huh?

We'll talk to the DA.

We'll get you court consideration.

Look, Tommy, he ain't had no g*n, okay?

Why are you trying to protect two people

-who are trying to bury you? -I'm not trust.

What?

Look, I didn't sh**t nobody.

Look, the lady was caped already

when we got there, all right?

And I said, We got to call 911, Tommy.

He was like, No, we can't call I was like, we got to call 911.

-How did you do that? -Stop lying!

The woman was shot already. She was in the dead.

It passed out, and the dude was lying on the floor.

He stopped on his back, and we just took that jewelry,

and we just ran.

That's it.

I'm telling you the truth.

I want more time with this case.

I want to go back to the crime scene.

I want to talk to that witness again.

Wait a minute. You believe this kid's story?

Why didn't he just say that it was Ronald or Tommy?

Why did he say that they were shot already?

He's trying to protect his friends.

Even after they're trying to nail him, I don't buy that.

He was there.

He watched Tommy pull the trigger and sh**t that couple.

Don't tell me you believe him, too.

Yeah, I think I do.

James says there was no g*n.

Wilson saw Tommy with the g*n. How do you explain that?

She's wrong. That's how I explain that one.

So at the fourth, we listened to our perps

and not our witnesses.

That kid will say anything to save his a*s.

And maybe even the truth.

Look, he's told the same story every single time

we came at him, even when his deal was on the line.

Yeah, well, he's had enough time to rehearse it

and polish it real nice.

What if he's telling the truth, Nina?

What if those kids just didn't do it?

Ms. Wilson, we need to go over your statement again.

Is there a problem?

Just want to go over it.

You said you were about 50 feet away from the kids

when you first saw them?

It's by the entrance to the park.

I saw the three of them running.

-And one of them had a g*n. -Yes, that's right.

But when you get back to your apartment,

you don't call the police.

I hadn't seen a crime committed.

Well, I guess I just didn't want to get involved

like I told you before.

Why are you asking me this all again?

Because you could send these kids away for 25 years.

That's why.

Well, I know what I saw.

So let's get this right.

You saw three black kids running.

You go home, you're in the news that

there was a sh**ting in the park.

So you figured, I saw three black kids.

They must have had a g*n, right?

No.

There was no g*n, was there?

-Yes, there was. -What did it look like?

Like a g*n.

I mean, I don't know that much about them.

Was it big, small? What?

Big.

Wrong.

It was small.

Do you know if you falsify your statement,

you're looking at a felony?

And if we send away innocent kids, whoever did this

will still be out there.

Christine, did you really see the g*n?

A year ago, in the park,

I was r*ped by three black kids.

They put a g*n to my head, and then they each took their turn.

Why didn't you report it?

It took me six months to even admit that it happened.

Those kids took everything from me.

But why lie about what you saw in this case?

When I saw that man on the news,

and he lost his wife and child,

I wanted to help him.

Those kids were there.

They must have done it,

didn't they?

So we're back to square one.

No witnesses, no g*n.

-Great. -It's my fault.

I should have seen the cracks.

She looked totally legit.

There's no way you could have known.

We can't use anything that Tommy or Ronald says because

that's all uncorroborated accomplice testimony.

Yeah, but what about the wife's ex-lover?

He got dumped, gets jealous. Maybe he k*lled them.

Look, if we're back to square one, why don't

we take a look at Michael?

Oh, he kills his wife and then shoots himself.

That's your new theory, detective.

Spouse is always a suspect.

Number one rule in homicide.

Don't talk to me about number one rules, all right?

The man was seriously wounded.

His child was k*lled.

I don't like him for the sh**ter,

and I'm not ready to let these kids go with suspects.

Marilyn's spouse certainly had a motive.

What did he really give us anyway?

A couple of black kids in baggy clothes?

We don't have any evidence against Michael Carter, Torres?

We haven't exactly been looking for any.

Amen.

[intriguing music]

All right.

Well, if Marilyn broke it off, then her lover

does have a motive.

So let's start there.

Michael Carter is not going anywhere.

All right.

Marilyn broke it off.

She said that Michael had found out about the affair.

When was this?

Almost eight months ago.

That's about the same time she got pregnant, right?

Yeah.

Where were you Saturday morning?



You couldn't possibly think that I had anything to do with this.

We don't think anything.

-That's why we're asking. -I loved Marilyn.

I couldn't have hurt her.

I thought you guys had the kids who did this.

This is an ongoing investigation.

Listen, we're talking about the woman I loved and our child.

Wait a minute.

Your child?

The baby that Marilyn was carrying.

The baby that died yesterday was mine.

My son.

-How do you know that? -She told me.

It was my son.

We were back together.

We were going to tell Michael and my wife next week.

That you were having an affair?

That we were in love, that we were going to get married.

Are you sure she was going to leave him?

Even if I wasn't in the picture, she would have left him.

Michael was a*usive.

He treated her like she was nothing.

He wasn't the man people on campus thought he was.

This is 911 emergency.

Please help me.

Someone shot me and my wife, and I'm hurt bad.

That's it.

There's not much to go by.

We still got people searching the park?

Yeah, a few unis.

You dragged the water yet?

I didn't find anything.

All right, I just got off the phone with the lab.

Michael is not the father of the baby, so I'm on a verge

to get a blood test, now.

I'll give him a call.

All right, where are we here?

Just walking through the scene again.

If Michael Carter did sh**t himself, the g*n would be close

to the crime scene, right?

And he'd be losing blood, he'd be in pain.

What time did you make the call?

-7:44 from payphone 1447. -Okay.

So he makes a call from phone-

Wait a minute.

-What? -Wait a minute.

There are five working phone booths in this area.

Michael calls from this one. So he calls from that one?

What?

So the crime scene is here, and there's a phone here, 1442.

Your pregnant wife has just been shot.

You've been shot. Seconds mean everything.

And this guy passes

four pay phones, 120 feet in front of him in clear view.

He dumped that g*n.

We found the g*n.

Here, gloves, too.

[phone ringing]

Torres.

The serial number was burned off, but we got a partial.

Your g*n belongs to John Carter, and Ballistic says it matches.

John Carter is his father.

Looked up the name for notification.

He's been dead two years.

Looks like you left his son all his earthly possessions.

[siren wailing]

There you go.

Detectives.

Has there been a new development?

Michael Carter, you're under arrest for the m*rder

of Marilyn Carter.

You have the right to remain silent.

How do you think I could do this to my wife, my son?

Because she was leaving you for Martin Birch.

It was his son.

You knew that, so you k*lled them.

-You tried to play us, folks. -You don't have any evidence.

We have motive, we have opportunity,

and we have your blood.

I don't understand this complaint.

Maybe you should have somebody read it for you.

What's your beef with me?

If you have to ask.

I I wasn't doing anything you haven't done

a thousand times, Detective.

That description of three young black men in baggy clothes

did not give you the right to stick a g*n in my face.

I was doing what I was told to do.

I was doing my job.

You were not told to stick your g*n in every black man's

face that you saw.

That's not what I was doing.

So you mean to tell me that if the description

was three white men in suits on Wall Street, you

would have pulled that crap?

Race has got nothing to do with this, Detective.

I am not a r*cist.

My complaint stands.

If I ever hear you do anything even remotely close to that,

I will have your badge.

I just had a great idea.

I know this restaurant where we can have some dinner,

take a midnight stroll, and then see where that leads us.

This is starting the border on sexual harassment.

You got to arrest me then.

I would, but I'm busy.

-Busy with who? -Why? Are you jealous?

Yeah. Definitely.

My class at City College, remember?

-That's tonight? -Mm-hmm.

How about this?

How about after class, you come by my place

for a little private tutoring?

Tutoring?

-Yeah. -Maybe.

Maybe?

That's it?

No, I don't want to wake you up.

Okay.

You wouldn't have to wake me if you had a key.

You're giving me your key?

Yeah.

See you later.

So,

you're going to be charged with grand larceny

and possession of stolen property.

You're off the hook for the m*rder.

We know that you didn't pull the trigger.

-Who did? -The husband, believe it or not.

He shot his own wife.

Yeah.

James, do you realize

that you almost went away

for the rest of your life?

Yeah.

I mean, I should have called for help.

I should had that help for that woman and her baby?

No, you should have never been there in the first place.

I got to deal with that for the rest of my life.

There's no future the way you're going now, brother.

You're going to end up dead.

No, not me, man.

I'm changing.

Count on that.

Yeah, well, your boys Ronald and Tommy will be out at

the same time as you.

You have any relatives out of town?

Yeah.

Well, I suggest you pay them a visit.

Detective Williams?

Yes.

Thank you.

For what?

For believing me.

Watch your back in Rikers.

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