12x20 - Moving Day

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NARRATOR: Previously,
on NYPD Blue...

- I know people move around.

I know people retire.

There's just something about
this place and these people.

- What are you going to do?

- Put in for a transfer.

- Here's to you guys

and here's to the guy
who invented this job.

- Here's to you, Greg.
- Here's to you, buddy.

- Commanding this
squad, teaching them,

keeping them out of harm's
way, that's my last job.

I don't want to go
anywhere from there.

- You want this job?
- Yes, sir.

- Okay. Don't
make me regret this.

[♪♪♪]

- Morning. GORDON: Hey.

- What do we got?

- Name's Pamela Wyatt.
Banged up pretty bad.

Looks to be strangled too.

- Doesn't look like a robbery
from what they left behind.

- There's more in
the dressing room.

A bunch of furs in the closet.

- You must know it all.

- Just looked around
when I was waiting.

- How'd the job come in?

- The doorman. Name's
James Fitzgerald.

He's in there.

- James?
- Yeah.

- How'd it happen you
come in the apartment?

- Ms. Wyatt was supposed to
get the windows washed today.

Last time they made a
mess, so I promised her

I'd personally move the
orchids away from the windows,

and put the birds
in a safe place.

That's what I came up to do.

- Well, what do
you know about her?

- Very nice person,
generous, considerate.

I liked her. I liked her a lot.

- Do you know what
she did for a living?

- I guess it doesn't matter
who knows what now, right?

She was a hooker.

- How'd you know that?

- Guys come up to see
her, go up to the apartment,

come back down an hour later.

Different guys every day.

- Anything stand out
about any of them?

- Other than that they
were obviously high rollers?

Not really.

There was one
who was here a lot.

Probably 60.

He'd get driven up
in a black Mercedes.

The driver'd wait out
front while he was up there.

- Can you describe him?

- Gray hair, kind of big.

Could have been a
banker or a lawyer.

Never said but two words to me.

This was a class lady,
being a hooker aside.

- Thanks.

- What do you got?

- Looks to be like a
high priced call girl.

- Yeah, the doorman
called in the job.

Building manager
is on his way in.

- What are you
doing out of uniform?

- Have you talked to
building management,

find out who's paying her rent?

- They're not in yet.

You know, I thought once
we cleared Bale's sh**ting,

you were going to
go back to patrol.

- Tell them already.

- Chief of Detectives
gave me the squad.

- When?

- Last night at
Medavoy's racket.

BALDWIN: And you
didn't say anything there?

- I wanted to make sure that
Duffy didn't change his mind

and I didn't want to take
away from Medavoy's night.

- A message came
through this morning

that it was a done deal.

- Wait, so you're actually
squad commander?

- Yep.
- Congratulations.

- Thanks, Gordon.

- Not sure I can work with you.

- No, huh?

- I'm not sure any of us can.

- Well, that'll
work out good then

'cause, uh, I was planning on

bringing in my own
people anyways.

[♪♪♪]

- I saw the message about you
being made squad commander.

- Oh, yeah?

- I just want to tell you
how happy it makes me.

- Does that mean
you'll be staying?

- If you want me to.

- I do.

- Excuse me.

I'm Ray Quinn.
This is Joe Slovak.

We just got
transferred over here.

I come from Anti Crime.

- I'm from Brooklyn
South, Narcotics.

- Sipowicz, welcome
to the 15th Squad.

- Hey, thank you.
- Hi, I'm Laura Murphy.

- Ray Quinn.

Ray Quinn, nice to meet you.

- That's John Clark.

This big guy here
is Baldwin Jones.

- We've already introduced
ourselves to one another.

- I hope you guys don't mind,

we jumped on that phone
dump that you requested.

- Yeah? What'd you come up with?

RAY: Well, over
the last 24 hours,

the only calls that
came into your DOA,

it came from a number belonging
to a Patrick Wyatt in Wantagh.

- Yeah, that's the father.

- A Rosemary Wyatt
on Eldridge Street

and a Tishiro Nikada
on East 49th Street.

He called three times.

- There's a Johnny Nikada
in her appointment book

from yesterday.

- On the chance we'll get lucky,

why don't you see
if you can find him?

Murphy and Ortiz,

take a ride out and
talk to the parents.

- Who's the boss here?

- Hey, how you
doing there, Chief?

- I can't believe
they gave you squad.

- Go figure, right?

- This is Robert Heilbrenner.

I'm his Director
of Security now.

This is Basle
Greenhouse, his attorney.

I was Andy's sergeant
back in the 2-5.

- What can we do for you guys?

- Mr. Heilbrenner
would like to talk to you

about the homicide
from this morning.

- Sure.

John, why don't you and
Baldwin come in with us?

- We'd like to talk privately.

- These are the guys
that caught the case.

- That's okay.

- Quinn, Slovak, run
down where that guy is.

See if you can talk to him.

- Hey.
- Hi.

- How long you guys
been in the bureau?

- It's the first day
for both of us.

- First day?

I got my gold shield in 1974.

I can remember it
like it was yesterday.

- What rank were
you when you retired?

- Two star chief.

- That's great.

- You've got to love
being a detective.

That's the most important thing.

- Yeah, I don't think we'll
have any problem there.

- How you doing with this case?

- We've got a possible
we're running down.

- Yeah, what are
we talking about?

- Well, I don't think we're
supposed to discuss specifics.

- What's your name?

- That's Quinn. Ray Quinn.

- Ray Quinn. You
mind if I call you Ray?

- Not at all, sir.

- Pamela had been my mistress.

We had been together,
I guess you would say,

off and on for
about eight years.

I had feelings for her.
She had feelings for me.

And without
defending my behavior

or my infidelities
towards my wife,

I'm here to tell you that
the relationship existed.

- Obviously this is said
in strictest confidence.

- When was the last
time you saw her?

- Last week, but my
wife doesn't know that,

and I would appreciate
her not finding out about it.

I had basically put an
end to the relationship.

- [CLEARS THROAT] But?

- But it was her birthday
and I bought her a small,

fairly insignificant gift.

- Did you know if she
was seeing anybody else?

- Well, not to put
too fine a point on it,

but Pamela was a prost*tute.

She was discriminating
to a degree.

She was expensive,

but not withstanding her
periodically proclaiming

her intention to
get out of that life,

that is what she was.

- We have to ask you
this as a formality, sir,

but can you tell us
where you were last night

leading up to about
eight o'clock this morning?

- Last night, my wife and I
had dinner at Le Bernardin

with my friend, Tom
Maxwell and his wife.

Got home around ten.

I watched a little television.

I went to sleep.

- And this morning?

- Car picked me up
a little after seven.

I got to the office by 7:30.

- Mr. Heilbrenner's name
will inevitably come up

during the course
of your investigation,

which is why we're here.

- Appreciate you coming in.

MR. HEILBRENNER:
It may sound funny,

given how different we were,

but her passing leaves
a real hole in my heart.

Whoever did this, I hope
like hell you catch him.

[♪♪♪]

- These are detectives
from the city, Pat.

- We're sorry about
your daughter, Mr. Wyatt.

- What can we help you with?

RITA: Anything you could tell us

about Pamela's friends or
acquaintances would help.

- We didn't know all that
much about them, really.

- No boyfriends you know of?

- She was too busy.

Between the modeling
and the acting,

she said she didn't have time
to get involved with anyone.

I'll show you something.

Right over here.

Now this is her.

- She's very beautiful.

- She bought her father
a bunch of power tools

that he hasn't so much
as taken out of the box yet.

She bought me a TV.

She seemed like she
was doing very well.

- When was the last
time you saw her?

- Oh, when was it, Pat?

- I couldn't tell you.

- Like I said, she was
so busy with career stuff.

- Enough, Janie.
- What, I'm just saying.

- You're just saying nonsense.

You've got a fairytale story
you don't believe yourself

and a box of old pictures
from a hundred years ago.

Talk to her sister, you
wanna find out about her.

All we've got is
a box of old junk.

- If you could give us
her sister's number,

we'll leave you guys.

- I'll get it.

- We'll wait with your wife
so she's not by herself.

[♪♪♪]

- Is there a Johnny Nikada here?

Thanks.

- Mr. Nikada?

- Yeah.

- I wonder if maybe we
could talk to you for a minute.

JOHNNY: Who are you?

- We're the police,
that's who we are.

- What do you want
to talk to me about?

- If maybe you could
step outside with us.

- Hey guy, I'm not stepping
anywhere with anybody.

- [speaks in another language]

- Do you know someone
named Pamela Wyatt?

- Doesn't ring a bell.

- Your name was found
in her address book

and your phone number
was found in her cell phone.

JOE: She lives on Fifth
Avenue, between Ninth and Tenth.

- Don't know anybody
who lives over there.

Can't help you.

- You frequented any
prostit*tes lately, Mr. Nikada?

- Going to arrest me, guy?

- No.
- That's too bad.

I'd like to see your face

when they tell you I
have diplomatic immunity.

It going to be your a*s.

RAY: Nobody's arresting anybody.

- Then turn around and walk
off same way you come in, guy.

I don't like to be bothered
when I'm sitting down to eat.

Right now, you're bothering me.

- We're going to verify
your diplomatic immunity.

Thanks for your help.

[♪♪♪]

- Come on in, we
can talk back here.

- Your father said you might
know more than they did

about people your
sister hung around with.

- That's not hard,

considering they didn't
know anything at all.

- Your sister was a prost*tute?

- And a pill junkie,
and a cry baby,

and a great softball pitcher
when she was in high school.

She was all those things.

- Did you ever meet
any of her clients?

- I met Heilbrenner,

but he wouldn't want
to be called a client.

- What was your impression

of the kind of
relationship they had?

- Sick.

He was into beatings.

He made her do threesomes.

He wanted her to
keep being a prost*tute

and then tell him the details.

I hated him.

- Do you have any idea who they
may have had threesomes with?

- Her name was Ann Marie.
I don't know her last name.

- Any idea where
we can find her?

- No.

I know she's lying low
ever since she got busted.

- What'd she get busted for?

- She propositioned a cop
outside the Mercer Hotel.

[CHUCKLES] It's funny, you know?

Pamela wanted to keep that
part of her life such a secret.

At the same time, she
wanted me to know all about it.

I think when I moved
back into the city,

she realized how much
she wanted to have a sister.

[SOBBING]

Excuse me.

[♪♪♪]

- Thanks.

That was Ortiz.

The sister gave a name of a pros

who used to have threesomes
with the DOA and Heilbrenner.

- He's a regular
rock star, this guy.

- There's no last name, but
the first name is Ann Marie

and she took a collar
in the 5th Precinct

sometime last month.

- Why don't you and
me take a ride out there,

see if we can take a
look at the paperwork?

- My name's Dale St. John.

I'm supposed to see either
a Detective Clark or Jones.

JOHN IRVIN: They just left.

Maybe one of the other
detectives can help you.

- Yeah, I'm Robert
Heilbrenner's driver.

- Why don't you come
back in here with us?

JOE: Right this way.

You drove
Mr. Heilbrenner last night?

- Yeah.
- Where'd you drive him?

- Well, I picked up
Mrs. Heilbrenner

at around a quarter to eight,

drove her to Le Bernardin
on West 51st Street,

waited outside the
restaurant until probably 9:30

and when they both came
out, I drove them back

to their apartment on Fifth
Avenue and 76th Street.

- What time did you pick up
Mr. Heilbrenner this morning?

- Seven, 7:15.

- Let's talk about Pamela Wyatt.

She and Mr. Heilbrenner
get along?

- Yeah.

- No arguments?

- None that I saw.

I mean, I'm not supposed
to pay too close attention

to what's going
on in the back seat,

but from what I could tell,
they were usually holding hands,

whispering to each other.

They were like a
couple on a date.

- Did you ever drive
Pamela by herself?

- A few times.

JOE: She would call you?

- He would.

- Why would he do that?

- When Mr. Heilbrenner
called me to pick her up,

it was because she
was messed up on dope

and he just wanted to make
sure she got home safe.

- Where would you
pick her up from?

- Restaurants, bars.

- Did she ever indicate
when you'd pick her up

where she was
getting the dope from

or who she might have been with?

- She'd just thank me,

curl up under her
coat and go to sleep.

- When did she die?

- Last night sometime.

- How good a friend were you?

- Talk on the phone a
couple times a week,

go to the movies
once in a while.

- You don't seem that upset.

- You get guys off for
money, you take your chances.

- Any idea who she might have
been taking her chances with?

- With all of them.

You remind them of their
mothers, their daughters.

Suddenly you've
got some naked rhino

with his legs around your neck.

- That ever happen
with Robert Heilbrenner?

- What makes you
think I know him?

- Well, we have information
that you participated

in threesomes with
him and Pamela Wyatt.

- Yeah, well... your
information's wrong.

JOHN: All right,
you need to tell us

what you know
about him, Ann Marie.

- I need to keep myself
alive, that's what I need to do,

and that means not pissing
off anyone who can hurt me.

- You're out on bail.

You make your
living as a prost*tute.

Think what it
means to piss us off.

- [SIGHS]

He liked putting
handcuffs on girls

and whipping them with his belt.

Started out fun and
games, but at a certain point,

you could see
something in him snap.

He got nastier with the
things he was saying

and then he started
whipping us harder,

hard enough so
we started bleeding.

- Was that the only
time you participated?

- Yeah, I didn't want
the money that bad.

- How did Pamela feel about it?

- There was a time when I
think she was in love with him,

or maybe just in
love with the things

that he could provide for her.

She told me that he was
going to leave his wife for her.

I said, "Pamela honey,
he's not the type of guy

that does that," and
she said, "No Amber,

you're wrong, he
doesn't want to lose me,"

and then he dumped her.

- Why was that?

- Because his wife
threatened to divorce him.

- How did she take it?

- Pretty bad.

She said she was
going to get him

to make good on his
promise, no matter what.

- I'm looking for
Sergeant Sipowicz.

- Yeah.

- I'm Inspector Dal
Dell with Intelligence.

This is Agent
Halloway with the FBI,

Christopher Perkins
with the State Department,

and Lieutenant Clifford
also with Intelligence.

Why don't we go
into your office?

- The office is kind of a mess.
Why don't we go down here?

- There's been a development
in the Wyatt homicide.

Mr. Perkins will fill you in.

- The state department
was contacted

by the Japanese
consulate, and informed

that a Tishiro Nikada
has taken responsibility

for the death of Pamela Wyatt.

I have a signed
affidavit from Mr. Nikada

confessing to the m*rder.

- Where is he?

- Because Mr. Nikada
is a credentialed member

of the Japanese Mission
to the United Nations,

he enjoys full
diplomatic immunity.

As we speak, he's on
his way back to Japan.

- We'll leave this with you.

Gentlemen, I'll
meet you outside.

- Boy, parking
tickets are one thing,

but for this guy to
get away with m*rder?

- I know just how you feel.

Oh, 1PP still knows
it was a result of

aggressive police work
by members of your squad.

- I'll pass that along.

- He was interviewed
earlier this morning, right?

- Yeah, a couple of my
guys went down there

and talked to him.

Actually, they're
rookie detectives.

It's their first day
in the bureau.

- Well, you tell those guys
that their shaking the trees

is what brought this about
and they're going to get

a letter of accommodation
from the PC.

- I will.

- Also, not too shabby for your
first day of squad commander.

- Thank you.

- Yeah.

[♪♪♪]

- So what do you guys
think about this confession?

- What do you mean?

- Does it seem legit?

- What'd you think when
you talked to the guy?

- He wouldn't give
us the time of day.

- Well, what bothers me is

I was starting to
like Heilbrenner for it.

- You were?

- He was a sadistic prick.

He's got this whole
bizarre thing going

with the girls turning tricks,
then telling him about it.

- And she's looking
to hold him up.

- And the guy backing
up his alibi works for him.

- Yeah, we probably
need to tell you guys this.

When we were talking
to Angelatti before,

he was pumping
us for information.

- What'd you give him?

- Nikada's name.

RAY: Him being a
retired chief and asking us,

he made it seem like
it wasn't that big a deal.

- Andy, you got a minute?

Andy, I know we
got this confession.

I'm sure everybody's
happy that the case cleared.

But, ah... just a couple
things that make me feel

like maybe we ought to
continue with the investigation.

- Like what?

- Well for one thing,
this Heilbrenner's a hitter.

- That don't make him a k*ller.
- Yeah, that's true,

although he had a pretty
twisted relationship with this girl.

- What else?

- All right, for
this Japanese guy

to completely dummy
up this morning

when the two new guys
went to go talk to him

and then like three hours later,
he gives up a full confession?

Doesn't seem right.

- You saying
Heilbrenner got to him?

- I don't know.

What I do know is
that this Angelatti guy

was working those guys

when we were in the room here
with Heilbrenner and his lawyer.

- They gave him Nikada's name?

- Andy, I wouldn't go too
hard on them, you know.

They're new guys,
he's a retired chief.

- Keep it open.

- Yeah?
- It's your case.

You want to continue
with the investigation,

continue with the investigation.

- It might piss
off a few people.

- Let me worry about that.

- Excuse me, miss?

- Yes?

- You were having lunch
with Johnny Nikada today.

- Okay.

- We'd like to talk to you.

- What do you need
to talk to me about?

- About Johnny.

- Johnny's the
Japanese consulate.

He has full immunity, okay?

- Do you?

- No.

- I think you should
get in the car.

Come on.

- It's right over here.

How long have you known him?

- Two years.

- Were you dating?

WOMAN: What's the difference?

- A girl was k*lled.

- I don't know
anything about this girl.

- No one's saying you do.

- Because we're
investigating her k*lling,

we need to know some things
about the people involved.

- I wasn't involved.

- Johnny was though.

- Yeah, okay?

- Did you know Johnny
went to prostit*tes?

- No, I didn't know that.

You think I would have
been with him if I knew that?

- Was he ever violent?

- Never, not one time.

- It must have come as a shock

to find out he
strangled this girl.

- You spend time
together, you sleep together,

then you find this thing out.

It was like he was
a total stranger.

You could say that's a shock.

- Was he a drug
user? A heavy drinker?

- No.

- Was he a gambler?

- I don't have anything
bad to say about him, okay?

You want to find out
about him, talk to his family.

- He has family in this country?

- He has an uncle.

Maybe he knows
something I don't know.

- Can I offer you something?
Coffee? Cup of tea?

- Nothing for me,
Mrs. Heilbrenner.

- I'm good.

- Thank you, Maggie.

I'm not sure I know
why you're here.

- Were you with your
husband last night?

- I was.

We had dinner together
and then we came home.

- What time was that?

- I met him at the
restaurant at eight,

I'd say we were home by ten.

- And he didn't
go out after that?

- Not until this morning
when he left for work.

- Does the name Pamela
Wyatt mean anything to you?

- The Pamela Wyatt that
was my husband's mistress?

- Right.

- He told me she was
found m*rder*d this morning.

I assume these questions

are part of your
investigation into that.

- How did you find out

about your husband's
relationship with her?

- There was a Chanel
trunk show at Bergdorf's,

which at first I
wasn't going to attend,

and then at the last minute,

I changed my mind
and decided to.

As I walked in, I saw
Robert dropping her off.

She kissed him and
then proceeded to spend

about $20,000 of our
money on outfits for herself.

- Did you confront him?
- I did.

I told him either he broke
off all relations with her

or I would divorce him.

- What was his response?

- At first, he broke
down and cried,

told me how worthless he felt,
how much he was afraid of dying.

He was hoping I'd say,
"It's all right, Robert,

you can have your
Pamela, I'll be fine."

- You didn't do that?

- Would you?

- No, ma'am.

MRS. HEILBRENNER: I
told him I had lined up a lawyer

and a forensic accountant
and was prepared to

start going over the books
the next morning at 9 AM.

- So he promised
to get rid of her?

- Right.

LAURA: Did he make good on that?

- I believe he did.

- Because he said so?

- Because I watched the money.

A girl like this
doesn't hang around

to be thrown $1,000
now and then.

The kind of money she cost,

I'd know if he were
coming up with it.

- Did he ever hit you?

- Never.
- Did he ever get rough with you

as a means to stimulate
himself sexually?

- My God, no.

I would never be party to
such behavior, number one.

Number two, it's not something

that would serve as
stimulation for him.

He'd abhor it.

- That's not necessarily the
information we've been getting.

- I suggest you check carefully

the sources of that information.

My husband is a very wealthy man

who a great many people
would like to take advantage of.

I promise you I
will not stand idly by

while his name is sullied.

- Sipowicz.

- Yes, sir, Chief?

- In your office.

- Why don't we
just go down here?

The office is still
in the process

of getting moved into.

- Fine.

What the hell are you doing?

- What do you mean?

- You got a confession
on this homicide.

Why are your detectives
still working the case?

- I think they felt there
were some questions

about the legitimacy
of the confession.

- Are you kidding me? It's done.

The perp was a
client of the DOA.

You were looking at
him before he confessed.

Now you've got a statement

with all kinds of
details that he did it.

- But because he's
got diplomatic immunity,

the consequences of a
false confession are a lot less.

- Sergeant, that's
not your business.

You had an inspector
from police intelligence

and an FBI agent go
over that confession.

They were satisfied
it was legitimate.

Now you're telling me
because you got a hard on

to lock somebody up,
you've got people out there

bothering Robert
Heilbrenner's wife?

- We just want to be sure
we've got the right guy.

- We've got the right
guy. You heard it from me.

Now this investigation is
over. Is that understood?

- Understood.

- Good.

[♪♪♪]

JOHN: Well, we appreciate
you coming in, Mr. Nikada.

- We want to talk to
you about your nephew.

- What is there to talk about?

- Were you close to him?

- He was my family.

- Were you aware of his
frequenting prostit*tes?

- No.

- Were you aware of his
ever having behaved violently

towards women?
- No.

- What about gambling?

- My nephew was an
outstanding student in Japan.

He received a graduate degree
from London School of Economics.

He had a trusted position
with the Japanese Mission

to the United Nations.

He's always been a considerate
and respectful nephew.

- Did he gamble?

- He has confessed to m*rder.

What does it matter
if he gambled?

- It may have something to
do with why he confessed.

JOHN: We're not convinced

he actually did what
he confessed to doing.

- Why would he
have confessed then?

Why would he have brought
this kind of shame on his family?

- Mr. Nikada, did your
nephew have gambling debts?

- That's not something
he would discuss with me.

Not after the last time.

- The last time for what?

- He owed a man money
from having bet on horse races.

He was afraid if
he did not pay him,

that he would get hurt,

that the man would cause
him embarrassment at work.

Thirty-five thousand
dollars, I paid.

- Who was the man?

- I only knew him as Mr. Siegel.

- Howard Siegel, takes book
in the back of a dry cleaners?

- Yes.

- I used to have a foot post
where that dry cleaners is.

- Does the name
Robert Heilbrenner

mean anything to you?

- My nephew introduced me
to him at a restaurant one time.

- What'd he tell you about him?

- He told me that he was a
powerful and influential man,

that he might one day take
his diplomatic experience

and go to work for him.

- Hey, stranger.

- How you doing, John?

- Great.
- Hey, Greg.

- I was just showing an
apartment in the neighborhood.

I thought I'd stop by.

- Wow, you didn't waste any time

getting started with
the new job, did you?

- No, I didn't.
- Hey Medavoy, how's it going?

- Aren't you going
back downstairs?

- Andy's the new
squad commander.

- That's great,
Andy. Well deserved.

- Thanks.
- Hey, look who's here.

- Hey, buddy.

- Hey, partner.

- Hey, it turns out
Nikada has a history

of going in the hole
for betting opponents.

ANDY: Who was he betting with?

- Howard Siegel, the bookie
his uncle bailed him out

with the last time.

But he also told us that
Nikada knew Heilbrenner.

- Go talk to
Heilbrenner's driver again.

See how committed
he is to that alibi.

And why don't you guys
go talk to the bookie,

find out if the
marker's been paid.

- You guys just transferred in?

- Yeah.

- Yeah, well,
stick with this guy,

he'll tell you everything
you need to know.

- Hey, it was good
to see you, buddy.

I'm sorry, I've got to run.

All right, I'll
talk to you later.

- Yeah.

Squad commander.

- Yeah. Guys, run
Heilbrenner through DMV.

Get the plate numbers off
to any cars registered to him

or members of his family.

Medavoy, I've got
to run downstairs.

- Yeah, go ahead. Go ahead.

Boy, when you're
gone, you're gone.

[PHONE RINGS]
- 15th Squad.

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LAURA: How's it going, Howard?

- Do I know you ladies?

- We're detectives.

- What can you tell us about
Johnny Nikada, Howard?

- What makes you think
I can tell you anything?

LAURA: Did you take
any action from him?

- I'm retired from all that.

- You know why
we're here, Howard?

- Trying to find this
Johnny something.

LAURA: We're
investigating a homicide.

We don't care about
the bookmaking.

- Except that if you're
going to lie to us,

we'll be all over you.

- There's a bunch
of young cops in vice,

get paid for 40 hours a week,

they'll make your life
miserable for the next five years.

- This stays between us.

- As long as you had nothing
to do with the homicide.

- What do you want
to know about him?

- Did he put down
for a bet or two?

- The Japanese
bet bicycle races.

They bet motorboat races.

Forget about it when they get
their noses open with horses.

This guy was
crazy, even for them.

- What was he into you for?

- $110,000.

Six months ago, he hit
the trifecta in Arlington,

paid 27-1.

He walked away with
$40,000 and believe me,

I was only too happy to pay him.

- Because then
he started to lose.

- And this after having to
get bailed out by his uncle

the first time.

- How hard did you lean on him?

- What am I going to
do? It's not a student loan.

I told him it's a
serious number,

and he has to make restitution.

- Did he?
- Just today.

He came in with $110,000
cash just before noon.

- Thanks, Oscar.
- Anytime.

- Hey, where you going?

- What?

- I want to talk to you.

- Where are the other guys?
- Oh, they're tied up.

- Well, they already
talked to me though.

- Yeah, we've just got to
straighten out a couple details.

- I'm working now, guys.

- Oh why, is he coming down now?

- No, I've just got to get the
car washed, got to get gas.

Mr. Heilbrenner needs
me back here at 6:30.

He and his wife have
a formal affair to attend.

- Oh, we'll have
you back by then.

- I've got a choice?
- No, not really.

- Want me to follow you?

- Well, how about you
let me chauffeur you?

Get in.

I like this.

DALE: Yeah, I bet you do.

- Ever know Heilbrenner
to go at girls a little hard,

smack them around a little bit?

- Hey, I'm his driver.

I didn't double
date with the guy.

- We know that he did.

- Different strokes for
different folks, right?

- He used to whip
Pamela with his belt.

DALE: Well, like I
told those other guys,

the two of them seemed
to be into each other,

so whatever he did,

he couldn't have been
hurting her too bad.

- Mrs. Heilbrenner
found out about Pamela.

- I don't know
anything about that.

- She and her husband
never had it out in the car?

- Well, like I told
the other guys,

I try not to pay attention

to what's going
on in the back seat.

- See Dale, here's the thing.

Heilbrenner pays
you a good salary,

probably takes
care of your family,

and you want to be a
loyal employee to him,

and that's fine.

But the problem is we
think that he k*lled this girl

and you're helping
him cover it up.

- And that takes it way beyond
being a loyal employee, Dale.

That puts it under the heading
"accessory after the fact."

- I don't know what you
guys are talking about.

- You know what accessory
after the fact means, Dale?

- That means you go
to prison along with him.

- Now the decision
you have to make is

whether or not you're going
to get taken down with him.

- No, I don't need this.

I mean, I've got a
wife. I've got a kid.

I've got another one on the
way, and I don't need this.

- Tell us what happened.

- I got a phone call around
four o'clock in the morning.

He was at her apartment.

He told me to be downstairs
as fast as I could get there.

When he came
out of the building,

I could see right away
that something was wrong.

- Why?

- Because he was
white and shaking.

He told me to take
him to his office,

and go upstairs and get
him a change of clothes

while he waited in the car.

- Why'd he need a
change of clothes?

- I could see in the mirror
that he had blood on them.

- And he told you what to say
when you were questioned?

- He said he was going
to take care of me for life,

me and my family.

I told him I didn't know what
happened in the apartment,

but it bothered
me to lie like that.

He said what happened
in the apartment

was an accident.

- Why didn't he say
it was an accident?

- I asked him that.

He said people
wouldn't understand.

- We're going to need to
take a statement from you.

- Whatever you've got to do.

I keep seeing that girl's face
every time I close my eyes.

I don't want to see it no more.

- What's going on?

- Mr. Heilbrenner, we're
placing you under arrest

for the m*rder of Pamela Wyatt.

- You must be kidding.

- We're not.
- What is it?

Someone down at the department
has a vendetta against me

that I don't know
anything about?

- If you cooperate with us,
we'll put the handcuffs in front

so you can cover
them with your coat.

- You are not cuffing
me anywhere, dear.

RITA: Yeah, we are.

This time the handcuffs
are going on you.

- I am going to have
my lawyer down here

in about 30 seconds flat.

- Your lawyer can
meet us at the precinct.

- What's going on?

- These idiots, they think
they're going to arrest me.

- For what?

- Your husband can tell you.

- Like Detective Ortiz said,

we're willing to
put him on the front.

Give us a hard time,
they're going on the back.

- I don't understand
what's going on, Robert.

- You just call Greenhouse.

Tell him to meet me...
Where are we going?

- 15th Precinct.

- I want to know what
you're arresting him for.

- It's for the m*rder
of the girl, Felicia.

- I thought someone
already confessed to that.

- Someone did.

- Hi, Lieutenant.
- John.

- How are you feeling?

- Well enough to
gather up my things.

- Can I help you?
- It's all right.

I'd rather do it myself.

- He's here.

- Hey, Sarge.

- Are you all right, Bob?

- I'm fine, Basle.
Just take care of it.

- I'd like to see
my client alone.

- You going to allow him
to give us a statement?

- You've got to be kidding.

- In that case, you
can meet him in court.

- Hey, you're not going
to give them five minutes?

- Not now.

You want, you
can get it on record

with the desk
officer you were here.

[SIGHS]

- We'll start the fives.
- Yeah.

- You put him in handcuffs
in front of his wife?

- We had no choice.
- No?

How about picking up
the phone and calling me?

What about letting
me bring him in?

- What do I do when
he jumps on the plane

he keeps out at Teterboro
and skips down to Costa Rica?

- You could have
had me as a friend.

Instead, you have
me as an enemy.

And for what? A dead pros?

- Whatever it is you're
going to do to me, Chief,

right now I got work to do.

How you feeling, Lieutenant?

- Not bad. How are you feeling?

- In your office.

- When I was in
here earlier today,

what did I tell you
I wanted done?

ANDY: There were some
loose ends in the investigation

that had to be run down.

CHIEF DUFFY:
Answer the question.

What did I tell you to do?

ANDY: Close the case.

- Did you do it?

ANDY: We were
getting information

I thought was worth pursuing.

CHIEF DUFFY: Did you
call me and let me know that?

ANDY: No, sir. DUFFY:
Did you call the bureau?

ANDY: No, sir.
- Did you call anybody

in the off chance I may
find out what's going on?

- Things were
jumping off pretty fast.

I hadn't gotten to it yet.

- Oh, you hadn't
gotten to it yet.

Letting me know is
the first thing you get to.

- With all due respect, sir,

I told you I thought that
there were questions

about the legitimacy
of the confession.

CHIEF DUFFY: And did
you make your case to me

about what those questions were?

- I tried.
- You tried?

- That's right,

and since I didn't appear
to be getting anywhere,

I decided to continue
the investigation

on my own initiative.

I'm sorry, but I think
my first obligation

was to work the case
according to the evidence

that we were coming up with.

- No, your first obligation is
to make sure I don't find out

what happens in my command
on the six o'clock news.

You get that, Sergeant?

- Yes, sir.

- Now I put you in this
job. Already I regret it.

You embarrass me again,
you're gonna regret it.

- Comp staff files
are on the shelf.

- When are we up for review?

LT. BALE: A week from tomorrow.

Thinking about taking a foot
post to the Midtown Tunnel?

It's a shaky perch
you're on, Sergeant.

You have to answer to
the people above you,

look after the people below you,

and you have to be
able to live with yourself.

- What are my chances?

- As far as the last two
go, I'd say they're decent.

Good luck with the first one.

- Thanks.

- It's all yours.

- We're leaving now, Sarge.

- Okay.

- We're sorry if we
loused anything up.

- Don't worry about it.
Everything came out fine.

- Not exactly thanks to us.

- You're going to make
good detectives, guys.

Give yourselves time.

- Thanks.

- We're real glad to be
working for you, Sarge.

[TAP AT DOOR]
- Good night, Sergeant.

- Good night, John.

- Hey, feel like celebrating?

- Not tonight.
- Yeah, we figured.

- Sometime we should
celebrate though.

- Sure.

- We're proud of you.

- We're going to take
him down to court.

- Yeah, all right.

- Hey, any doubts about
you running the squad, Andy,

well, today, you
put them all to rest.

- How's it feel?

- It'll take some
getting used to.

- Not from where I'm standing.

- Good work today.

- Good night...

Boss.

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