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00:00Don't let Mr. Ehrmantrout's dancing eyes and bubbly, bon vivant personality fool you.
00:06He's actually, believe it or not, somewhat taciturn.
00:09Shall I fan you gently so you don't go into shock?
00:13Let's start at the beginning, okay?
00:15We're talking Book of Genesis.
00:17Okay, Mr. McGill.
00:18As you probably gathered, we, Detective Sanders and I,
00:21work for the Philadelphia Police Department,
00:23as did Mr. Ehrmantrout for nearly 30 years.
00:26Philadelphia? Go Eagles.
00:27Mr. Ehrmantrout had a son, Matt.
00:30He, too, was with Philly PD.
00:33He was a rookie officer with about two years on the job.
00:35He was a good cop.
00:37Yes, he was.
00:39About nine months ago, he responded to a shots-fired call
00:41in some west side rat trap.
00:44Matt went in with his partner, Officer Troy Hoffman.
00:46They had Sergeant Jack Fenske backing them up.
00:50Unfortunately, things got out of hand.
00:52The three of them were ambushed, and Matt didn't make it out.
00:55Hoffman and Fenske returned fire, but the shooter got away.
00:59We chased a few leads, shook up the usual suspects, came up short.
01:05I'm very sorry to hear it.
01:08Anyways, we kept eating the bushes, kept coming up dry,
01:11until three months ago.
01:12That's when Hoffman and Fenske both turned up dead in a vacant lot out in Nicetown.
01:17Again, an ambush of some kind, it looks like.
01:19And with whoever killed Matt out there in the wind, we're thinking,
01:22well, it's our operating theory that Hoffman and Fenske were mixed up in something.
01:26Some bad business.
01:29And maybe that got Matt killed.
01:30Yeah, sorry, I gotta do my lawyer thing here.
01:33What does my client have to do with any of this?
01:35Uh, Mike, this is a Hail Mary.
01:39Beyond that, if we had any hard evidence of leads, we wouldn't be out here.
01:44Now, is there anything you can tell us about what Hoffman and Fenske were into?
01:48Yeah, help us out, Mike.
01:50Help us catch the bastard who killed Matty.
01:51I don't know much about Hoffman and Fenske.
01:58They were Matt's people.
01:59I'd see them around sometimes.
02:01I saw them in a bar the night they died.
02:03It was McClure's, maybe the Red Dog, probably McClure's.
02:08Were they drinking with anyone?
02:10It was a cop bar.
02:11They were drinking with everyone.
02:13Yeah, but did you see them with anyone in particular?
02:15I couldn't tell you.
02:16I was...
02:17You know how I was.
02:19How you doing these days?
02:22Feeling like I crawled out from the bottom of a bottle and working hard to stay there.
02:27Although, I've got to say, it doesn't help much dredging up the past like this.
02:33Let me ask you, uh, when did you come out of here to Albuquerque?
02:37It couldn't have been, uh, too much later.
02:40I think it was the very next day.
02:42Yeah?
02:43The day after Hoffman and Fenske died, huh?
02:44You didn't think to, uh, stick around once you heard the news?
02:49I don't think I heard the news until I was west of Kansas City.
02:53Still, you, uh, you didn't come back for the funerals, correct?
02:56Even though Hoffman was Matt's partner?
02:58Uh, do you remember anything about that night at the bar?
03:01Uh, did you talk to Hoffman or Fenske at all?
03:03Um, sorry, I got nothing.
03:06They weren't my people.
03:08I'm sorry you guys took a flyer on me.
03:10I wish it had paid off.
03:12That it?
03:13Are we done here?
03:15We're done here, yeah.
03:18That wasn't so hard, huh?
03:20Thanks, Mike.
03:21Listen, we were probably going to kick around for another couple days in case you think of
03:24something, huh?
03:25I've never been out west before.
03:29Oh, hey.
03:30Oh, shit.
03:32Oh, jeez, sorry, sorry.
03:34I can get it.
03:35You know what, hey, I got it.
03:36I got it, thank you.
03:58Oh, for the love of it.
03:59You gotta do that right here, right in front of me?
04:02What's so important in there that we had to pull that third-rate Marx Brothers routine?
04:08You really want to know?
04:10And risk getting a piece of an obstruction rap?
04:13No thank you.
04:15Anything else you want to ask?
04:20How'd you know?
04:22Know what?
04:23That I would do that, that I would, uh, spill that coffee?
04:36What the hell's that?
04:38What's supposed to mean, huh?
04:40Okay, great, you're the strong silent type.
04:45Hooray for you.
04:47But in case you missed it, your friends from Philly back there, they think you killed two
04:51cops.
04:54Yep.
04:55You know.
04:56What the hell?
05:01What the hell?
05:03Like, what?
05:08Fuck.
05:08Fuck.
05:13I-
05:13Woo.
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