01x04 - The Little Baby Hand Pinky Grip

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Ron: Hello.
I'm Ron Shapiro.

And you are
Mr. Charles Gogolak's

significant other?

I'm his partner, yes.
Terrence Smith.

Well, let me put his
x-rays up,

and I'll inform you about
what he's facing, exactly.

I'm sorry to have to share
this news with you.

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[ Cash register dings ]

Shop Owner: Thank you.
Come again.

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[ Door bell jingles ]

Street Hustler Boy: Chuck,
I talked to Dr. Shapiro.

Yeah?
He said...

34th Street Chuck,

he said it's too late
for a lung transplant.

But he said
there's a way.

There's a way you can be okay
even without okay lungs.

He said it's too late
for a lung transplant,

but he said it's not too late
for a neck reduction.

He can make your neck shorter,
34th Street Chuck,

which lessens the distance

oxygen travels
from your lungs to your brain.

Buys you 10 years.

I put you on
the neck reduction list,

and, well...

now we just need to come up
with $107,000.

Okay. Well...

Well, now
we have a goal.

And that's...
You know, that's good.

[ Coughs ]

Yeah, that's good,
Chuck.

Sure.

Street Hustler Boy:
Hey, any of you guys

want to rob a bank
with me tomorrow?

No.
Yeah.

No.
No.

Yeah.[ Harmonica plays ]

No.
Yeah.

Cool.

That's enough guys.[ Toilet flushes ]

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*ULTRA CITY SMITHS*
Season 01 Episode 04

Episode Title:
"The Little Baby Hand Pinky Grip"

Aired on:
August 05, 2021.

Narrator: Welcome back.
How you been?

Us? Well, we're struggling
along here.

These two, though...

They're getting closer
to solving a crime

this city's darker forces
may wish to keep a mystery.

Careful, boys.
Careful.

Hey, Captain, the new kid and
I traced the shell casing

to the g*n that k*lled
the Carpenter Smith.

Yeah, we're
connecting the dots, Captain.

Captain, this guy's
[bleep] awesome.

Yeah.
Nice job.

Oh, sh*t.
They're connecting dots.

[ Door bell jingles ]

Hey!
I'm getting married!

Man, that's not good.

How's that?

That's the sensualist.

What's the big deal?

Can you not be sensual
with a spouse?

No. You can't.

So he's not
a sensualist anymore.

Damn. He's gonna be
a damn good cop, now.

Well, we're gonna have to
do something about that.

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Donella: Sorry, yeah,
I was just kidding.

I-I am leaving him.

She's cool.

Yeah, I'll probably
marry her.

Chris Pecker: My wife, uh, has
a different opinion,

I-I see, about my interest
in artistic nudes.

[ Camera shutters clicking ]

Reporter:
You mean your d*ck pics?

Whoa, whoa. Hey, man.

That is not
what that was, guy.

What was it?

It was an artistic nude.

[ Laughter ]

No, you got it all wrong.

You... Let me tell you
a little something

about the history
of artistic nudes, guys.

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Rad development.

Yeah, we might get a gentler
Ultra City after all.

Oh [bleep]

[ Water splashes ]

[ Ethereal music plays ]

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I know you're in
the Nixons.

You know, when you
lose somebody,

both people have to
let go.

What do you mean?

I could hold you,
even if you didn't want me to,

and keep you with me,
even if you don't hold me back.

To lose you for real,
I have to let go, too.

But I don't know
how I did.

I don't know
when I did.

Is it the job?

Honey, there have been
some changes this week.

I lost the grade I made
in Homicide.

I'm gonna have to
put my head down

and put in the hours
to get it back.

Things are gonna get harder,
not easier.

So we're gonna have to
get better, honey,

at being our family.

We both have to hold on
just now.

How many g*ns rest at
the bottom of our river here

in Ultra City,

put to foul use
and thrown here

to float down
and rest on top of each other?

Many.

It's a riverbed of g*ns
here in Ultra City.

Not much use, really,

if they've been down there
for a while...

Unless you're gonna rob a bank

with a g*ng of old
male prostit*tes,

so you can hang on to your
lover for a while longer

and you don't want
to hurt anybody.

My name was
Donella Pecker,

but my name's not
Pecker anymore... thank God.

My name's Smith.

And I asked you here to announce
that, as of this morning,

I'm a candidate,
as my father was, for mayor.

[ Cheers and applause
]For a gentler Ultra City,

dear Lord, please, too.

Homey found a snack.

Pecker's running
for mayor.

Good.
He's a buffoon.

Not him...
The wife.

She's smart.

Yeah. She's a Smith,
turns out.

Well, that's going to shake
things up around here.

Also, Turnip Truck
and Sensual...

Yes. Yes.

They're connecting
dots.

Well, we'll have to do something
about that, won't we?

Both: Whatcha
gonna do about that?

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Hello, boys.

Dark here.

Down our corridors,
around our corners.

So dark sometimes,
you can't even see

the turning of the evening
and the morning.

We want to screen
my vest cam footage by 3:00 p.m.

We're gonna interview
the actress.

Want me to call her?

No. I want to
catch her off guard.

[ Birds chirping ]

Ms. McSapphire?

We'd like to ask you
some questions.

Well, I'm on my way
to a breakfast,

at Delmonico's
with my sister.

It won't take long, ma'am.
We can sit in the park.

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Did you get hurt
last night?

In the sweatshop match?

I won.
I'm moving on.

It's round robin,
winner take all.

Guess the prize.

I didn't ask you that.
I asked if you got hurt.

No.

And the prize is $43,000...
Everything you owe.

Has my dad ever paid
our child support?

Let's not talk about
your dad.

Has he?

He hasn't, honey.

Well, that's 12 years.

I bet that's $43,000, too.

I'm gonna go see him
and get it.

I don't want you
to see your dad.

And I'm fine.

Hey, guess who
my sister is.

Trish McSapphire.

Mills: Had you spoken to
Carpenter Smith

before the night
of his m*rder?

No.

Nico: What was the nature
of your conversation that night?

He pulled alongside.

Then he shared that
he was my natural father.

He said the day had come
to make this clear.

And then
he was driven off.

And that's all?

Yes.

What was his demeanor like
during your conversation?

He seemed very sad.

Did that seem unusual?

Well, no.

He was discussing
abandoning a child.

I'm sure you've heard the news
about Police Station Baby.

We're here about
another matter, ma'am.

Well,
it's tremendously...

you know...

In order to lose someone,

both people have to let go,
really.

Ma'am?

Do you know the little baby
hand-pinky-grip thing...

The way an infant holds on
to a parent,

grasping all they can
that way?

Yeah. I do.

My son held me that way
that morning.

And when I left him,
finally, at the station...

Well, when I walked away
from him, finally...

I had to pull my hand away
hard enough

so he could no longer
hold it.

I had to move away enough
so that hehad to let go.

So...

sad?

Yes.

Carpenter Smith
was sad.

And no, that didn't seem unusual
that night,

given our
subject matter.

[ Children laughing
in distance ]

Respect.

Respect.

Hey. Guess who
my sister is.

Will we be
much longer?

I'm due to meet my sister
for a breakfast.

Just a little
while yet, ma'am.

[ Indistinct conversations ]

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Whoa.

They're just river g*ns.

Why do you need these river
g*ns, Street Hustler Boy?

Gonna rob a bank
with some of the boys.

I can bounce you a week
of flops... you and the boys.

You don't need to...

It's for Chuck, Sister.

We got to get to work
on that neck.

It needs whittling down.

So I need $100,000
to keep him around.

I can't lose my man.
He's my fam.

You just be careful.

You boys. Go on up.

I'll collect these
wet paper scraps

that used to be
your pants.

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I'm afraid
you missed her, ma'am.

She was here,
but she's since left.

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They're gonna patch
my vest cam onto the inboard.

Good work, brother.

Thanks, brother.

There.
What?

That's the
Motherless Three.

Yeah?
An uptown g*ng.

They're two blocks from the body
30 seconds after the call.

Let's pay 'em a visit,
brother.

[ Tires screech ]

Street Hustler Boy:
I put a river g*n

under each of your mattresses.

I don't want to
do it anymore.

Oh. Okay.

I actually want
to do it now.

Okay, well,
I'm gonna take the river g*n

from under
Little Italy Gary's mattress,

and I'm gonna put it under
Chinatown Devin's mattress,

and then we're gonna be ready
to go on this thing...

On this bank robbery.

How long have you been
in Robbery?

Three years.

What, um, t-trimester
are you in?

I'm in a quadmester.

Quad?

I'm in my 12th month.

Is that, um...
D-Does that happen?

Donella Pecker...

I know that's not
her name anymore,

but come on,
I'm gonna keep saying it...

Announced her bid for mayor
this morning.

That's gonna shake things up
around here.

She just doesn't want
to come out.

Between you and me,

I don't think I'm ready to be
a mom...'cause it's gross.

I think she can
feel that somehow,

and she doesn't want
to come out.

You're never ready.

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Stop up at that
poor person, please.

Pardon me.

Hi.

You look like
you've had a hard life.

Oh, yeah.

I imagine you sometimes
can't afford

the traditional forms
of entertainment...

Say, Ice Capades
or Broadway.

Ice Ca-what?

Right. Well, it seems
my sister participates

in an earthy form
of wrestling.

Oh, the Underground Sweatshop
Ring of Texas Fire.

That's in the Garment District,
1200 block of 3rd.

I'm sorry to bother you,
a-and thank you.

No bother.

Just going on
my health walk.

Each morning, I walk as far as
my health will allow.

Want to come along?

Well... sure.

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Take care.

Well, take care.

September, I could still
reach the post box.

Such is life.

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Well, I hope you make it
back to the post box, um...

34th Street Chuck.

Well, I-I hope so,
34th Street.

A good man's
working on it.

Very good.

N-Neck reduction.

Oh.
Well...

Fingers crossed.

Fingers crossed.

It costs a whole dollar.

What does?

The sweatshop
underground wrestling.

Oh.

So make sure you have
a whole dollar.

Okay.
Thank you.

I loved you
in "The Midnight Ferry."

So long.
[ Coughing ]

So long,
34th Street.

Everyone have bank robbery
getaway bus fare?

Yeah.Yeah.

No.

We talked about that,
Chris the Junkie.

Yeah, I just...
I didn't realize we were

taking the bus
to the bank.

I have enough money to flee
from the bank on the bus,

but I don't have enough
to take the bus there,

then flee on
the bus again.

Same here.

[ Harmonica plays ]

Okay. Well, I guess
we're gonna walk there,

then flee, after,
on the bus.

How far
is the bank?

Just across
the whole town.

[ Harmonica plays ]

Nico: The Motherless Three,
they're on the 31st floor.

I'll kick in the back,
you go around front

in case they bolt
out the front.

Mills: You got it,
brother.

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[ Silenced g*nsh*t ]

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Nico!
Noooooooooo!

[ "Bound" plays ]

♪ I wake with a locomotion

♪ Like the break
of a row of waves ♪

♪ On a rolling ocean

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♪ I'm bound
hour upon hour, man ♪

♪ Then and now and after, I am

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♪ Bound