07x16 - Sorry Wrong Number

Episode transcripts for the TV show "Hill Street Blues". Aired: January 15, 1981 - May 12, 1987.*
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The show chronicles the lives of the staff of a single police station located on Hill Street in an unnamed large city.
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07x16 - Sorry Wrong Number

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Yes, captain.

One male infant,
two female minors,

About a 30-year old male and
female, and an elderly couple.

They're all in the same room?

They're all over the house.

Hell sh*t out of
the whole place.

Neighbor called it in.

Didn't see any faces,
but he's sure it was gangs.

This is captain furillo.

I wish I had seen
what happened better, captain.

I understand. We appreciate
your calling it in.

This is a terrible thing.

This is a good christian family.

I don't know why those g*ng boys
would bother them.

You're sure it was gangs?

I seen the outfits
they was wearing.

Two of them come in.

That's a family inside.
That's seven lives gone.

You want nightshift
to stay on this, captain?

We'll take care of it.

[Yelling]

What is it? What do you want?

For you to make a mistake
would be nice.

All right, you see this?
This is a search warrant.

We're looking for weapons
or any kind

Of evidence connected
with the crime at 133 timpkins.

Hey, toss the place.

Hey, the drawer's empty.

I said toss the freaking thing!

All right, now we're
going to talk.

Item the last, people,
a cautionary from division.

It seems that some bunko players
have come in to possession

Of the membership rolls
of the policemen's auxiliary,

And they're peddling
bogus discount packets

For hawaiian vacations
lest our spouses be gulled.

And that's it
let's have a safe shift.

Thanks, artie.

Robert.

Sarge, about andy's
and my assignment.

I was wondering
if maybe we could do follow-up

On the
timpkins street sh**t?

I understand the impulse,
robert,

But we're responsible
to the entire precinct.

What's this?

I was trying
to get us re-assigned

To the timpkins street
sh**t.

Yeah, well if, officer,
you don't mind,

I would just as soon do
our own routine patrol.

Sector four?

Yeah, sector four. That's
what you assigned us, right?

We were sitting right there
and you said "sector four"?

That's right.

That's right, okay, let's do it.

S.i.'S 30% completed
on the house.

No usable prints as of yet.

We have one witness.

He saw blood colors. No faces.

Nothing on a warrant search
at blood headquarters

Or a site interrogation
of the g*ng members,

So we're conducting
a door-to-door canvass

For possible further witnesses.

In other words, we're no place.

The m*ssacre of the innocents.

You know, I don't think
that's incendiary, frank.

I think that's
exactly what the public feels.

Henry, don't we have charges
pending against alfred williams?

Who's alfred williams?

I just popped him on a stolen
check beef he's a g*ng kid?

He's 80% out. I've been working
on getting him out.

Suppose we deal down his charges
in order to get his cooperation?

Look, I've got $2,800 left
for witness compensation.

All of it
is available for a bust in this.

I just don't want to spend
the next two weeks watching

Them recycle this headline,
frank.

Give me
a sec with the captain, norm?

All right.

I worked two years
with that kid, frank.

- He's charged with a felony.
- He says he's innocent.

Henry, I have
seven people k*lled

And not that much of a lead.

Maybe williams can give us
some evidence.

Let's let him decide whether or
not he wants to cooperate.

Norman, will you work with henry
on this deal-down?

Sure thing, captain.

You don't trust
me to carry out your orders?

Detective buntz was
the arresting officer

On his stolen check charge.

Okay.

[Siren]

[Theme music plays]

I think delacroce
has only one "l."

All right, let me see if we've
got to re-do the warrant.

Aloha, the island greeting.

Aloha.

Undercover with belker, ha?

Yep.

See how quick
I figured that out?

I'll make detective myself
one day, am I right?

What's up?

Yeah, I know
we can't say anything like that

That we're seeing each other.

But I just wanted you to know,
you know I dig you.

- Patrick.
- Right.

- Cool it.
- No, you're right,
you're right!

Hey, check out the new van
and bake, come on.

Yeah.

What you're looking at
is heat sensitized
and voice activated.

You with me?

Heat sensitized
selects the category.

Just put your hand
on the picture of the food,

As in pastry, sandwich,
fruit whatever.

Your particular selection is
voice activated. As in: donut.

Oh, that's marvelous!

- May i?
- Yeah. Of course,

Why they put
a state-of-the-art machine,

In a battle zone like this,

Is something you'll have to ask
my superiors about.

Pearls before swine, or--

All right, now,
I've put my money in

And I've selected
my product area.

- Pastry, right?
- Yeah.

Now just tell it what you want.

Please give me a donut.

No, no
you don't have to be polite.

It only hears the one key word.

Hey, look at that!

Gee, that really is your modern
miracle, irv.

Yeah, and rube goldberg's
got to patent it.

Heat sensitized
and your voice activates.

It's kind of like watching
an elephant pick up a pea.

Yeah, I expect sarcasm from you,
larue.

This thing got twinkies?

Yeah, just put your hand
on the category "pastry."

I've only got two quarters.

Go ahead. It'll make the change.

- Now say what you want.
- Twinkies.

Whoa, jackpot!

Are you guys
seeing what I'm seeing?

Machine's fallen in love.

Yeah, if I didn't know it any
better I'd offer it a cigarette.

Anybody want a twinkie?

Now she'll act like she doesn't
know you from adam.

Okay, okay what's bugging you?

You should've consulted me.

You don't volunteer us for duty
without a consultation.

You're right. You're right.
I apologize.

We do not go looking
for trouble, bobby hill.

And if you don't understand
that on a day

When seven people get k*lled
sleeping in their own beds,

I don't know how to begin
to explain it to you.

Thinking what if it had been
caroline and and the baby?

Yeah. Exactly.

Let's see what's happening
with this methadone clinic.

I hate this job.

[Tires squeal]

Hey! Hey, hey, hey!

Hey, hey, hey, hey!

Big fella, hey, hold it!
The both of you just hold it.

Hey, what
is going on now, what?!

Nothing!

You. You, boy come here.

Why is this big guy
hitting on you?

Because he's a jerk, man!

Because he and the guy
he works for is selfish!

Oh, jeez

Oh, look at this here!

I hope you're
happy with yourself, jason!

You don't pay for it,
you don't use it.

All right let's go, gentlemen,
time to make your deposits.

This got something
to do with the methadone clinic?

It's got something
to do with people being selfish.

And with don't trust other
people from one day to the next!

- Shut up, you.
- Don't touch him!

Hey, you! Yeah, you!

[Indistinct]

- Hey! Hey, you!
- Me?

Yeah you,
up against the alley wall!

- Come on.
- Where we going?

We're going to find out
what's going on here.

What is that in there?

What you want with me, man?
I didn't do nothing?!

Empty your pocket
with your right hand

And let me see
your i.d. Right now.

Get up against the wall right
here and spread them now.

You see?! This is what
you get from being greedy, man.

This is what you get for not
showing a little generousness.

Shut up!

You know,
this is a familiar odor

That I am trying not to place.

Woman: yeah, he's the one.
He did it!

He sells this filthy stuff
I'm sick of it!

Do you know what this is, bobby?

You know what product I think
this merchant is dealing in?

- What?
- You see where he hides it?

He hides it up here, the pig!
And I am sick of it!

Please, ma'am, don't do that.

Oh, cowboy.

I kept telling myself,
"he's street-level.

You've already got
him on multiple sales."

But then he'd start to hit me
again with this success rep.

"I'm on my way up.
We're going to do pounds."

So, I tell myself,
"see where it goes."

Well, you've got to trust that.

Check this out.

Make a million
before you're 40.

He gave you this?

Hi, ronnie.

What is it? What's good?
How you doing? Ronnie.

What's going on?
Check this. Listen to this.

Are you ready to get dragged?

I am not in position.

- Why not?
- My people stalled on me.

I can't get situated until 2:00.

Well, she will tell you, man,
this is not how I want
to do things.

You see, I say acropolis,
coffee, 9:00 a.m.

Ba-bing, I want to show up.

Ba-boom,
you got your package.

I got mine. Ba-bang,
we check it out.
We do our thing

Next case we're back
on the street before 9:01.

- Ronnie.
- You read that book I gave you?

Yes.

Did you read
that chapter with promptness?

Promptness buys credibility.
Credibility buys trust.

- Ronnie.
- Yeah.

Will you have the product
you told her about at 2:00?

- What's your name?
- Mick.

I'm going to be here.
I'm going to be holding,
as advertised.

Good.

You want to know another thing?

You're never going to have
to tell me your name again.

See, because remember names.
Remember faces.

I'll remember you. Mick.

2:00.

What do you think?

I think he gave me a headache.

Thanks, mr. Rollins.

- You amaze me, neal.
- How is that, lover?

They tell us--
"we don't know squat.

We didn't hear
anything last night."

And you still stand there
and you take down their names.

Well, the book says
"take names," lover.

Hey, where
does it day in the book

That we do a house-to-house
over 800 yards from

Where the family got k*lled?

I think the captain's
getting carried away on this.

Well, this is the last one,
lover.

- Police officers?
- Yes, ma'am.

You were at louise leonard's
house a few minutes ago.

She just called me
on the telephone.

Small world.

Well, ma'am,
seven people were k*lled

A few blocks
from here last night.

We were wondering
if you saw or heard anything
around 2:00 a.m.?

- Yes, I did.
- Uh-huh.

- What did you see, ma'am?
- Plenty.

But, before I cooperate,

You have to recover something
very valuable for me.

- What's your name, lady?
- Doris breyfagle.

Well, mrs. Breyfagle,

This ain't exactly
a barter situation.

What was taken, ma'am?

My husband's reindeer sweater.

Oh, for crying out loud.

The thief is not further
than 50 feet away

From where we're standing.

And I know right
where he has got it hidden.

Neal, you see
the coke bottles this old
broad's using for glasses?

She probably looks
in to the mirror then dials
911 to report an intruder.

Ma'am, if we get
you your sweater back,

You going to tell us
what it was you saw?

Absolutely.

Last house, j.d.,
We've got nothing to lose.

He's right over there.

I don't know, neal.
The sinister sweater thief

You think we should call
for backup?

You sure that's him, ma'am?

Yes. The brazen little greaser.

Check out that pompadour.
If worse comes to worst,

We can bust him
for building without a permit.

It's over there.
Right over there you see?

Hey!

What's going on?

Lady says you took her sweater.

Lady's got her head in a wedge.

Hey, look at here,
j.d. Who's the gardener?

Hey, now. Personal use!
A medical necessity.

Now what am I supposed
to do when my cataracts act up?

This is your lucky day, pal.
We got what we were looking for.

You can go back
to melanoma land.

Thank you. I'm so grateful.

Your turn, ma'am.

Excuse me?

It's your turn, ma'am,

To tell us what it was
you saw last night

About those seven people
getting k*lled, remember?

I'm sorry. I fibbed.

I knew it.

I acted like I didn't know it,
but I knew it.

Ma'am, you didn't see anything?

I slept through last night.
I didn't wake up once.

It's really not like me.

I've got
to take an early retirement.

You should never do this, ma'am,
lying to the police.

I think it's terrible what
happened to those poor people.

I'm going
to stay up all night tonight.

I'm going to help you'll see.

Neal, won't you get me
out of here

With what's still left of
my mind?

You can have your lawyer
here if you want.

- It's okay.
- Correct answer number one.

We think the blood were involved
in the killings

On timpkins street this morning.

I don't know anything
about that.

But you're
friends with carl mann.

So what, I keep tabs on him?

So, carl mann
is the head of the blood.

Come on, kid, don't be stupid.

We want you to wear a wire.

Try to get mann
to talk about what happened.

Oh no.
No, no, no, no, no

Hey, hey you are staring
a felony pop here

For that check thing, alfred.

I wouldn't start
shaking my head so soon.

Alfred, how much money
you saved toward art school

In the eight months
you've been out?

Don't save much behind
minimum wage,

Working two jobs or not.

That's your choice.
I'm not telling you what to do.

But you could get a deal-down
on the bad check arrest,

And witness payment--
as much as $2,000.

Get your life started.

You know what happens if carl
figures out what I'm doing?

Hey, nobody pays you two grand
for picking up soap, alfred.

It is your decision.

I didn't steal that check!

This is what being my friend's

All been about--

Setting me up for the snitch.

No.

Hey, kid,
a skip off the bad paper

And dough to go to art school
and stare at naked women.

All you should be asking
is "when's the bus leave?"

- Okay.
- Okay.

I'll do it.

There, and a duck comes down.

- Feeling better this morning?
- Feeling better how?

Remember last night,
when we were talking
about seeing a movie,

And you said
you weren't feeling so hot?

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah
I feel fine today.

Wow, what's the problem,
goldstein?

The piece is
worth at least $200.

Help you, officers?

Oh, mind if I finish
my business, first?

Okay, okay then, sell it, okay?

I know it's worth two yards,
to sell.

Can you prove ownership of this?

I mean, you got a receipt
or something, sir?

Why should I keep a receipt.
It was a gift.

What is this?

We had a 9-1-1 complaint.
Somebody fitting your
description

Selling stolen jewelry
at this store.

Oh, yeah?

Hmm. Okay.

Yeah, I get it
I know what she's doing?

Your three balls, out front.
I hope they rot and fall off!

- Hold on.
- Hey!

Hey, I earned this, okay.

I already put my time
in for this.

Okay, what do you say we figure
this out down at the station?

Straighten it all out.

Put the other nail in, sylvia.

Come on, sylvia, finish me off!

I don't know who sylvia is,
but you better calm down!

- Hey.
- Where you rushing to?

Neal, the captain's going to
tell us to widen the perimeter.

Fix your wonder machine, irv?

Ho, ho, ho.

Just a minor adjustment problem,
sergeant.

The tripwire
for the pastry category

Was too audio sensitive.

Come on, honey

You give up a ham and
cheese sandwich

And tani's going
to be real nice to you.

Would you please curb
your lascivious display, madam?

That machine requires currency.

Ain't what I heard.
I heard you talk dirty

And this here
will turn itself inside out.

Calm yourself, irving.

This place doesn't deserve
a machine like this.

It started with the silver,
then the ming vase,

Now every time I'm gone
20 minutes,

He's taking, he's hocking.

We'll put it
all on a complaint form, ma'am.

You know, it's not the stealing.
I mean it's the insults.

I don't have
to take that from any man.

I mean,
I'm still an attractive girl.

There he is.

There he is.

Do you have to do that,
have him in with criminals?

We charged him with theft,
ma'am. That's a crime.

I'm just wondering
if maybe I did the right thing.

Look at him.

Spanish eyes.

Hair of a poet.

No hips.

You know what it's like
when a man with no hips

- Tells you he loves you?
- Not for anything, ma'am.

That broach you said
was worth a grand?

More.

Well, no hips was letting it go

For a quick deuce
when we picked him up.

- Now it's up to you.
- Sylvia.

My bird of paradise.

- Don't you paradise me.
- Is this the complainant?

She's not sure. She thinks maybe
she won't press charges

- Look look at me.
- On account of his hair--

Look what
they're doing to your peacock.

So what is it?
You gonna charge him?

You treated me
like a piece of bruised fruit.

I was lonely for you.

I was hurt you didn't take me.

You said you didn't want
to go to my sister's.

Ramon mendez?

Miss davenport,
you may not be needed.

Ms. Selsen's deciding whether
she's going to press charges.

No, the stealing
I don't mind, right,

Because mr. Selsen, thank god,
left me with a lot of money.

But he brings other girls
in to the apartment
when I'm not there.

Ma'am, all we really need
to know

Is whether you are going
to press charges.

Darling?

Charge him, for his own good.

You dried up hag.

Shall we, mr. Mendez?

- Neal, j.d.
- Captain.

Nothing on house-to-house
on the timpkins street k*lling,

Wait a second, neal.
We did help that old lady

Get her husband's
reindeer sweater back.

Lieutenant goldblume get
the kid to cooperate?

He'll be wearing a wire
to try to incriminate carl mann.

Seems like our best bet.

You want us
to stay on house-to-house?

- Let's widen the perimeter.
- I'm shocked.

I am something she keeps
in a cage, like a chihuahua,
like a goldfish.

Goldfish don't get charged
with grand larceny, mr. Mendez.

I'm choking.
She's suffocated me.

To me, I deserve anything I can
lay my hands on, no question.

In other words,
you did commit the crime.

Technically, yes, I stole.

I probably can get reduction
to misdemeanor

In exchange for a plea.

See if you can get
me a sit-down with her.

- With mrs. Selsen?
- Yes.

Can you get me a face-to-face?

Yes, there is a santa claus,
ramon.

- She dropped?
- That's right.

She say
if I could keep the broach?

- Captain.
- Howard.

Rank review panel's getting
together materials
for your appeal hearing.

Oh, I see.

Well, I'm submitting my files

But, I thought you might want
to look them over

Before I turn them in.

No. No.

Thank you very much.

You wouldn't take this
as a bad sign, would you, frank?

I think asking
for the file's pretty standard.

Well, I hope these people
understand that they're

Dealing with people's lives
here.

I mean,
I'm not some puppet on a string

To have hopes jerked back
and forth like pinocchio.

I think they understand that.

Well, first they said that
they would hear my appeal,
and then--

Howard, they have
to ask for the files.

They have to know what
the case is about.

I suppose.

What's the date of the hearing?

23Rd, a week from monday.

I know how hard this is, but try
and put it out of your mind.

Oh no, that's the way
I'm doing it.

Nice and easy does it.

The only area that I've been
feeling some strain

Is in the equatorial regions.

Sorry?

For the past week or so
I've been somewhat irregular.

Usually, you can set your watch
by my peristaltic process

But, not to worry, I'm going
to start pushing fibers.

I thank you for the one-on-one.

Any time, howard.

Well, I've had
everything else happen to me.

I suppose it's only a matter
of time

Before I had a bottle
of urine dumped on my head.

Shirt's clean.

Yeah, I put 50 cents
in the washing machine

And watched the clothes
go around 500 times.

Look at this.

I lost a button, too.

Get out of the street, lady.

[Speaking spanish]

What's the matter?
Where is he, ma'am?

Where ma'am?

[Speaking spanish]

Show us, come on!

Okay, roll him over, renko!

Smells like he drank
himself to death.

He's not breathing,
but he's got a pulse.

Ma'am, was he eating?
Did he have anything to eat?

[Speaking spanish]

I think he's
got his air passage blocked.

Now, ma'am,
what we're doing here

Is called a heimlich maneuver.

[Coughs]

Okay.

[Speaking spanish]

What are you talking about?!

She said take off your shirt.
She'll wash it for you.

What did my shirt do
to deserve something like this?

Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay!

Ma'am, all right!
How far along are you?

Ay!

Renko, do you know
what's going to happen, renko?

No, I do not!

Ay!

Do you think this woman is
about to have her baby now?

How strong was your case
against williams

On that stolen check charge,
norm?

Pretty strong.

Any chance he was telling
the truth?

He found the check
in the hallway?

Kid didn't seem too worked up
about missing his day in court.

Man [through wire]:
what's going on?

Heard about what happened
this morning.

What's that?

Heard a whole family
got took down.

Wasn't any of us, was it?

Say, what?

Wasn't any of the blood?

Man, I ain't got rings
in anybody's noses.

I don't know
everything people do.

[Indistinct]

You see me behind the door
in your room when you're
doing your drawing.

Right, I got you.

What are you asking
me about that for?

I ain't asking. I'm saying.

It wasn't any
of the bloods involved.

What are you looking
at me like that for?

How's that bad check thing
going, freddy?

Didn't get to court yet.

Trying to get some help?

You trying
to take something to the police?

He's in trouble.

Chill out, carl. I don't know
what you're talking about.

Carl: man, I got to go.

Where you going?

Just back off me, freddy.

I'm going, and you don't want
to know where.

Ah, come on. Damn.

What?

What? He made him.
Carl mann made williams.

No, he's thinking about it.

You don't know what he made.

People I was supposed to cop
from let me down.

You don't know
the scrambling I had to do.

Ronnie, do you have
what you were supposed to bring?

Mick, did I say I would have it?

This isn't echo canyon, ronnie.

The answer's yes. Do you have
what you were supposed to bring?

Yes.

Then everything is everything.

Could I take a little peak?

I was about to ask
you the same thing.

It was all worth it,
wasn't it?

The trust.
The give and the take.

The going the extra yard?

Ronnie, you're under arrest.

If this is a joke,
it's in horrible taste.

- It's not a joke.
- It's not a joke?

It's not a joke.
You're under arrest!

I know you're saying it's not,

But I'm saying, if it was...

I'm sick.

I'm going to pass out.

Let's go, ronnie.

22 Degrees and I'm completely
soaked through.

Look at this.

Okay, okay,
I'm dealing with the now.

I'm dealing with the present

I got something to trade.
I got plenty.

- At the station house.
- You think I'm jiving?

Believe me: I'm going
to turn this thing around.

[Speaking spanish]

[Speaking spanish]

- They're afraid.
- Why?

What does that mean?

No green card.
They'll be deported.

No such thing
is going to happen to her.

Tell her that we are not
immigration.

But we're not doctors either.

Aah!

[Speaking spanish]

Bobby, I'm afraid that
that is academic right now.

- Well, go to plan b.
- Ma'am!

Ma'am, look at me, look at me.
Mira.

Now, call me dr. Renko,
and when I say "push,"

I want you to push!

Okay?

Mr. Delacroce has been given
his miranda rights.

Specifically, he has declined
the right to counsel.

Correct.

It is understood
that if the information

Mr. Delacroce provides
is substantive and productive,

The district attorney's office

Will give consideration
in pursuit of outstanding
charges against mr. Delacroce.

Go ahead.

Two kids: shaky and dumas,

They're moving me
an eighth of a key.

I was supposed to pick it up
about 4:30 this morning.

I go there 4:30,
they're not in position.

Okay? Someone took them off.

They say, come back at 8:00.
They know who did it.

They're going out
to get it back.

8:00: I go back there.

They're crying.

They're all covered with blood.

They went to the wrong place.

When they went
to get their stuff back,

The address they had was wrong,
and they kept going,

From room to room,

Because they thought they'd find
the kids that took them off.

But, it was the wrong house.

Shaky and dumas--
they're blood?

g*ng kids, right.

Any other g*ng members involved?

These kids were freelancing.
They're looking to step up.

Where do they live?

They got a room together--
180 foreman.

But you'll probably find them
at the g*ng headquarters.

Believe me. I was sick
when I heard what they did.

[Door closes]

Is that good enough?

Is your office
going to give consideration?

You'll be the first to know,
mr. Delacroce.

The bargain--fair exchange
of value on both sides.

She asked for us by name?

Yeah, maybe she's looking you
over as a replacement
for ramon, ha?

That's funny real funny.

[Knocking at door]
- mrs. Selsen!

Open up. It's the police!

[Lock turns]

Mrs. Selsen?

Me and ramon,

Trouble in paradise.

Mrs. Selsen,
you want him arrested?

The peacock?
He can drop dead.

No, I don't want him arrested.

Then why did you call us?

Well, I'm a practical girl.

I mean, god gave me
a tush and no brains.

So I found mr. Selsen--

God rest his soul--

And I gave him three good years

Before he passed away
on that couch.

And then ramon came,
and he took from me,

And he used me.

But he can't do that anymore

Because I'm still
a good-looking girl.

Are you okay?

I hate that ninny creep.

Sarge, look.

Yeah, did you take this,
mrs. Selsen, all of it?

I hate him!

Come on, let's keep you
on your feet. Keep walking.

This is officer flaherty.
We need an ambulance.

1804 Hancock. Penthouse,
immediately.

It's your choice, alfred.
You can call it off.

You don't have
to talk to him again.

Yeah, and if you do, kid,

The next thing you ought
to think about

Is when's your trial date
on that stolen check beef.

Hey.

Do you think he made me?

Not sure, but that's possible.

It's a judgment call, kid.

One thing I do know--

He'll learn every time we're
bad on something like this.

Next time you talk to him,

You're moves have got
to be a lot better.

What's going on?

What's going on?

Okay, shaky,
you're busted, come on!

Okay, there's dumas there!

All right,
all right, all right, all right.

Don't even think about it.

Do you recognize them?

One of them's tony sohms...

Shaky.

I can't make out the other.

Oh, it looks like dumas,

But I'm not sure
of his last name.

- Is that the precinct?
- Yeah.

And they're busting two kids
on the timpkins street murders.

I thought you said it was carl.

What about carl mann?

No, hunter said
it was just them two.

Come on, let's go.

How's it feel to be
yesterday's news, kid?

This is a treatment area, sir.

All right, don't worry about it.

[Over p.a.]: Dr. Cole.
Dr. Joshua cole

To intensive care unit
number nine.

Look who's here.

Worried about your meal ticket,
ramon?

What happened?

She took sleeping pills.

I knew it. I knew it. Stupid!

Ask me what's stupid--

Worrying about a drip like you.

That's because you don't know
my good side.

Is she okay?

I'm admitting her.
She's got some kidney problems.

I want to follow her overnight.

- Sylvia.
- Let it be, ramon.

Look who's here,

Julio iglesias.

I love you.

Don't leave me.

Talk to my kidneys.

I love you. Te amo.

You think I don't love her.

I could be over to her apartment
right now.

I could be cleaning
that place out.

Let's go.

Yeah, you go. You go.

I'll stay right here.

I'll stay right here

Until she's out of the woods.

Okay, you've got to push.

[Indistinct]

Take it easy now okay now.

[Crosstalk]

Okay now, push. Push now.

Right now,
just you're almost home.

You're coming around home,
now take it easy.

[Crosstalk]

Bobby, I can see the head.

If I pull her around,
I can get the shoulders.

Need some help?

[Crosstalk]

Push!

Aah!

Oh, my god.

[Baby cries]

Oh, look at that. Oh, man.

Way to go, doc.

S.i.d. Reports three usable
prints at the m*rder house,
frank,

And those two gentlemen
are going away.

Frank!

Where are your people?

Belker, russo.

Arrests within 14 hours.

That's the kind of police work
we're capable of.

Same day service, eh people--
damn fine job.

Thank you.

Officer russo, I understand you
baited the original operation?

She was the bait.

I made the original buys, yes.

Perp probably never knew
what hit him, eh?

And this guy ramrodded for you,
am I right, frank?

It was lieutenant buntz.

Could I talk to you
for a minute in my office?

Haven't got time right now,
compadre.

I'll tell you the truth.
When I came in this morning,

I wanted to give my tv guide
a sh*t in the chops.

We are staring
at unsolved multiple homicides

And he books me on hot seat.

But you people got me
off the hook. You did me proud.

See you later, frank,
keep up the good work.

I want witness compensation
for alfred williams.

You hear me?

Henry, this bust came off
belker and russo's turning
a drug dealer.

That's not
alfred williams' fault.

It isn't his fault,

But the fact is his cooperation
didn't buy this bust,

Which is how compensation
gets decided.

This is great.
That kid's walking around
with a target on his back

You sure he was made?

I was there.
I monitored the conversation.

Rather than asking
for compensation,

I think I'd have
a better chance--

I don't give a damn
what bureaucratic cubby hole
it comes from--

Look!

Let me see if I can get him
some money.

I'll let you know.

- Okay, what?
- Sylvia.

What about her?

The look in her eyes
when the doctor said
she was going to make it,

Like she was disappointed.

But you know she's going
to be back with ramon
in no time flat.

Well, you know something--
ramon is her jones.

I mean, as your idol
mr. Sinatra might say,

"Whatever gets you
through the night."

Patrick,

What are you getting
that feeling

Like you had last night
you got a headache?

A headache, no.

Good, because nobody was going
to ask you to go to the movies,

Or nothing drastic like that.

Look, lucy--

You look yourself
I want to be your friend.

And I think I am your friend.

So when I say, "are you okay.
Does your head hurt?"

It just means "are you okay?"

It's no come-on.

It's no
dance of the seven veils,
all right?

All right.

So, are you okay?

I'm okay, yeah.

- You're okay.
- Thanks.

Okay.

Thank you, lucy.

[Beeping]

Chicken noodle soup.

Oh man!

She k*lled it, lover.

At least it d*ed happy.

What do you want?

We have to talk.

This is great.

This is perfect.
Did you knock all the doors?

Did you show everyone
your badge?

You've got some nerve
coming in here

After what you did to me.

- No argument.
- Of course.

You're a cop, right?

You can do anything you want.

I wouldn't really expect
you to feel any different.

But what you think about me
really doesn't matter anymore,
alfred.

The only thing that matters is
that you not let this

Ruin the rest of your life.

I think you all
did a pretty good job of that.

Do you know what carl mann's
going to think happened?

Hell, everybody in the g*ng
going to think

I gave up shaky and dumas,
and even gave up carl!

Here's $200.

And I'll send you more
when I can.

I want you to get out of town.

What you talking about, man?

You must be illing.

Maybe the department
doing this to you

Can be a blessing in disguise.

Maybe it can be
a way to make a fresh start.

Man, you make me laugh.

Want me to get out of town.

Go to art school somewhere.

Listen to me, man,
just listen to me.

When I got in to warren design

I sat outside that damn school
nine straight days.

I rode the bus downtown
and I sat there,

And then turned around,

Rolled back up here
until I got the nerve

To fill out
that damn application.

I'm a street kid, mr. Cop!

And you come here,
and you talk about pick up

And move somewhere
and go to some school

Some place I ain't never been!

Don't do
anything stupid out there.

- I know what--
- don't do anything stupid

That will finish
your chances for sure!

No, you finished my chances,
mr. Cop!

I've got to do something
about saving my life!

- Alfred--
- no!

Look.

Just get out of here,
all right.

Do I still have that much say,

That I can ask you

To get out of my house?

I apologize.

Yeah?

You know
I didn't even have lunch

And and the shift
is almost over?

Your shirt okay?

My shirt shrunk.

Did you see her look at me,
when she came out?

Did you see it?

Yeah, I saw it.

Did you see the look
on her face?

They all look like peter laurie,
don't they?

Yes.

Excuse me

I'm rosita's husband,
hector esposito.

Oh, yeah,
hector, please join us.

Congratulations, amigo,

You've got
a beautiful little girl.

Thank you.
I saw your car.

I'm glad you found us.

This is for you.

Gracias. Thank you.

Por nada.

Look at this. Look at this.

Whoa!

For when my father-in-law
did to your shirts.

Food! Burritos!

That's perfect!

My wife, she thanks you also.

She wishes to know your name?

Um, andrew j. Renko.

Why?

She wishes
to name our baby girl after you.

She wants to name the baby
andrew?

You could name her andrea.

- Andrea?
- Yeah.

Andrea esposito.

We will never forget you.
Gracias, senor.

Thank you, andrew.

Andrea!

Andrea esposito!

Now, you still hate the job?

You're putting me on.

No.

You offered the kid $200?

That's right.

You want me to leave town
somewhere, lieutenant?

Leave it alone, norm.

Okay, so the problem is

Maybe alfred's g*ng pals
are going to hurt him,

Now that he's a known snitch,
right?

So, a couple days from now
we grab alfred,

We kick him
around a little bit in public,

Rehabilitate his reputation
with the street creeps.

What could be simpler, right,
norm?

To cover our butts,

We take a kid who almost made it
to the straight side,

Drive him back in to the street.

Lieutenant, the kid was hanging
bad paper last week.

Let's not put him up there
with mother theresa.

- Henry.
- Norm.

What's doing, captain?

I went to daniels.

He'll give alfred williams
$250 relocation money.

Won't be needed.

I don't think
the kid's leaving town, captain.

Alfred doesn't want
to leave anymore.

Doesn't want
to go to art school.

He wants to stay here and work
things out with carl mann.

And that's good for us,
right, frank?

He's back on the street.

We can bust him, turn him,

Toss him back,
turn him around again,

He's ours!

Why save a kid
when we can use him?!

Henry

Take it easy, lieutenant,
work's over.

When did you become
a bottom-liner, frank?

When did you stop caring about
the lives that got chewed up?

I'm going to the can.

Not necessary, norm,
we're through.

I'm not through.

Well, I'm through listening,
henry,

And I'm tired
of your moral finger-pointing.

If this precinct doesn't run
the way you want it to,

Why don't you find
one that does?

There was a time when something
happened in the precinct,

My first instinct was to get
henry's judgment.

Now I find myself hoping
he won't be primary cop

So I won't have
to get him involved in the case.

Do you think he feels that?

Probably.

Chicken and the egg.

It's not just professional
disagreement.

I don't know how we let
ourselves get so far apart.

Fella don't have
that many friends, furillo.

I mean, I don't think I was
wrong, necessarily.

But I don't think it was
necessarily frank's fault.

He was probably doing
what he needed to make the case.

But, you know,
I can get up there.

I can get up on my high horse.

Why don't you call him?

Who, frank?

Mm-hmm.

Maybe later.

This lady, today,
she's keeping this guy,

And every time she walks
out the front door,

This guy hocks everything
that isn't nailed down.

Me and bates popped him,

And he's dead to rights.

But she decides she doesn't want
to press charges.

This afternoon she takes
a whole bunch of pills.

Belker and me had
a wiggy guy today, too.

- What's wrong?
- Nothing.

Did I miss something?

Yeah, I was trying to tell you

That this lady
couldn't keep her self-respect.

I'm sorry I missed the point.

You know, it's okay.

Never mind.

Come on,
let's just do it again, okay?

All right?

- What happened here?
- Someone sh*t carl mann.

Two eyewitnesses, captain.

First time I ever heard
g*ng kids ready to make an i.d.

Alfred williams, man!

He called carl out,
then he sh*t him.

- Put out a warrant.
- Right.

The description's on file.

I'm sorry it turned
out this way, henry.

So am i.
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