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00:00.
00:30.
01:00.
01:04.
01:05What do you got?
01:06A headache, lower back pain, and bags into my eyes that would qualify as luggage.
01:12I warned you not to join the EME's office.
01:15Well, it's not my work.
01:17It's the divorce, and this is an amicable split.
01:20Well, they say divorce is one of the big three for causing stress.
01:23So is starting a new job.
01:25No, the work's the thing that's keeping my mind off my troubles.
01:28Well, I suppose a corpse will do that.
01:30Ah, Janet Detmeyer.
01:32She lived here alone. She's been dead for about two hours.
01:35Judging by the splatter patterns, I say she saw someone come through that window
01:39and she caught three bullets running for the phone.
01:41All her jewelry's missing. I say it's a robbery gone bad.
01:44So what'd they drag me out of it for? You got this covered.
01:47You want my job, too?
01:49No, but I could go for another cup of coffee. Easy on the sugar this time ago.
01:52Oh.
01:5310-17-01 on sunset.
01:592-1-2-1...
02:00Councilman Watson show up yet?
02:03This early on a Saturday?
02:05He likes big-ticket murders, weekdays nine to five.
02:08No sound bites here.
02:10It's his wife in the body bag.
02:12She ditched him a couple months ago, started calling herself,
02:14missed something or other and wearing a wonder bra.
02:16We've been trying to reach him on the phone. There's no answer.
02:18and there's no answer. We're headed over there now.
02:21Let's go.
02:33Councilman Watson! It's the police!
02:38I'll look around.
02:42How long are we gonna stand around out here making noise?
02:45You got a better idea?
02:47I'm gonna go in without a warrant and without probable cause.
02:50Watson's on the police commission.
02:53I hate to hear one of your bad ideas.
02:55Hey, you wanna see this?
03:03It's blood.
03:05There's more over here on the doorknob.
03:12Maybe we oughta knock louder this time.
03:17Knock, knock.
03:25Knock, knock.
03:26Knock, knock.
03:42Hey! What the hell's going on? Who are you?
03:45Steve Sloan. Homicide.
03:47No wonder he didn't hear anything.
03:51Sleeping pills, huh?
03:54How many of these did you take?
03:56I don't know. Three or four.
03:58What the hell's this all about?
04:01Blood in the sink in the bathtub.
04:03Maybe he had a nosebleed.
04:04I think we better read him his rights.
04:06I think we better read him his rights.
04:07I think we better read him his rights.
04:11The cell lines are a little bit.
04:12I think we better read him his right.
04:13You know, you better read him the description.
04:14You better read him a little bit.
04:15You better read him.
04:17I think we better read him.
04:18I think he better read him the description.
04:19What does he say?
04:20I think that the hell of this is a little bit.
04:21He's probably probably going to be a bit later.
04:22I think that the hell of this is just probably long ago.
04:24Is that you?
04:25Good to know.
04:26Even though, he's probably going to be half a year.
04:27He's probably going to have a little bit.
04:28I'm happy to have a little bit more of this.
05:00Let me just say this. I have the highest regard for Mr. Watson, although I do believe that he is quite capable of doing anything to promote his own personal interest.
05:08Well, some people are going to say that this arrest smells of a personal agenda.
05:14I would say half of those people work for your newspaper, ma'am.
05:18I'm also quite prepared for them to call this a battle over the mayor's office, regardless of the fact that neither Mr. Watson nor myself have announced their intention to run.
05:26So you truly believe that Councilman Watson is guilty?
05:30Well, corruption. Personal and professional?
05:32Yes. I'm trying to destroy everything that real Americans believe in.
05:37I suggest you check his record.
05:39Of murder, Chief. Is he guilty of murdering his wife?
05:45Well, now, that's some question, isn't it?
05:48I, uh, I don't believe it would be appropriate for me to answer that at this time. Do you?
05:56Yes, thank you.
06:01I think we just bought ourselves some commendations.
06:04I hope that's all we bought.
06:06You know me, Mark. Do you honestly believe I could do what they're saying?
06:15You've been my patient for a long time, Matt. But Steve's my son, and he's a good cop.
06:19He's one of the few.
06:22I have to tell you, Matt, he believes you're guilty.
06:24As he should, based on the evidence.
06:26I've had a very public and very bitter separation from Janet, and there was blood all over my house.
06:31But I did not put it there.
06:33Who did?
06:34There could have been 50 people marching through my house, for all I know.
06:38I went to bed at 8 and didn't wake up until I was being arrested, thanks to the tranquilizers you prescribed.
06:44First decent night's sleep I had since the separation.
06:47You know, Steve was right there, Matt.
06:49If he had seen evidence being planted, he would expose it.
06:52If he saw it, the officer who found the blood was Tony Stang.
06:57My commission on police brutality named him one of the 12 worst cops on the force and urged his immediate termination.
07:04Masters ignored the recommendation, of course.
07:07It's just, it's hard for me to believe, Matt, that police officers will let a murderer go and frame an innocent man just to silence a critic.
07:14How about to protect a corrupt power structure from the one man who stands a chance of bringing it down?
07:23Thank you for seeing me, Captain Pike.
07:25I just talked to Matthew Watson.
07:27And he told you he was being framed.
07:30He makes a strong argument.
07:32Go ahead, doctor.
07:34Follow that thought wherever it takes you.
07:36Well, I just want to rule out the possibility that what Watson's saying is true.
07:40Don't we all?
07:41Well, if you do find anything odd, I'd appreciate it if you'd come to me before the press.
07:47Of course.
07:48There was only one officer at the councilman's home that was also at the crime scene.
07:54And he's going to take the biggest fall.
07:57I know.
08:08You're expecting a siege?
08:10Matter of fact, we are.
08:12Watson says he's framed.
08:14Ten seconds later, your dad's down here trying to prove it.
08:16Boy, I see it.
08:17The crap's going to start hitting us any minute.
08:19You've got nothing to worry about, do you?
08:22My father's Watson's doctor.
08:24Just a courtesy.
08:26Yeah, and my dentist is on the way down here, too.
08:29What chance do we have against a city councilman and his powerful allies?
08:32All my father wants is the truth.
08:36We know what happened out there.
08:37You've got nothing to worry about.
08:39Oh, so the truth is going to protect me.
08:41I feel so much better already.
08:43Don't you, Fred?
08:43I'll feel better after I fire a couple of dozen rounds at the shooting range.
08:52Remind you, old man, who the good guys are.
08:55We're the ones wearing the badges.
08:56Put them on there for about a second.
09:05A second.
09:06Careful, folks, come through.
09:12Wow.
09:13Hey.
09:13I had no idea so many people got killed in L.A.
09:16Well, they're not all murders, Jessie.
09:17Some of them are accidents.
09:19Some of them are deaths by undetermined causes.
09:21Some are current victims or parachutes that didn't open.
09:24Drowning victims, people at sea for days before they wash up on the beach.
09:30Please remind me to never do that again.
09:33Jessie, I'm sure you're not down at my lab for a tour.
09:35What's up?
09:36Actually, Mark sent me here to get the workup on Janet Watson.
09:39No mystery there.
09:40Cause of death was a .38 caliber bullet, which punctured her aorta.
09:43Huh.
09:44What about a tox screen?
09:46Nothing unusual.
09:47Just trace amounts of acetaminophen and pseudoephedrine hydrochloride.
09:51Cold medicine.
09:52Did you find anything that could possibly clear Councilman Watson?
09:56No, but I may have found something that could convict him.
09:59That was definitely Janet Watson's blood all over his house.
10:07It doesn't look too good.
10:09I don't think I've ever seen an exercise bike like this before.
10:12You can ride 7,000 different routes all over the world.
10:16You still in France?
10:17No, no, past the border about three miles back.
10:21Just outside of Gestad now.
10:24Look out!
10:26Oh!
10:27Where you been?
10:28Uh, nowhere as exotic.
10:30I've been, uh, backtracking Janet's movements for the past 24 hours.
10:34She was home all day except for a trip to the drugstore for some cold medicine.
10:37Maybe she was followed by one of those home invasion gods.
10:40And, uh, maybe space aliens came to take her back to the mothership.
10:44No, no, they'd use phasers, not bullets.
10:47My point is, any theory is possible.
10:49Right now, all of our proof points to Councilman Watson.
10:52He's not helping himself by refusing to talk to the police.
10:55Except to say that he's innocent.
10:57Which is somehow less compelling than the fact that his wife's blood was found all over his house.
11:01Let me see that file again.
11:09I think we may have missed something.
11:12A bullet avulsed the inferior branch of the right main pulmonary artery, causing massive internal hemorrhaging.
11:22Death.
11:24And that's it for you, Mr. Fitz.
11:25Who's next?
11:26He's the last one.
11:28There are no more bodies?
11:29What about the five-car pileup?
11:31You've cleared that up before lunch.
11:33Well, let's do them again.
11:33Maybe we missed something.
11:35That's what we did after lunch.
11:37Hmm.
11:38Well, let's fill out the report on that drowning victim.
11:40Done.
11:42I think we've waited long enough to order those supplies.
11:44Let's get down to it.
11:46I got down to it this morning.
11:48My, my, my.
11:49Aren't we efficient?
11:50I have to be to keep up with you, Dr. Bentley.
11:52Um, do you mind if I go?
11:54I've got a date with a guy in radiology.
11:56Oh, no, you go.
11:57You have a good time.
11:58I'm going to stick around here.
11:58I'm going to finish up, you know, stuff.
12:06Dr. Rosen, please dial 884.
12:09Dr. Rosen, please dial 884.
12:14Dr. Amanda Bentley, staff pathologist,
12:16adjunct county medical examiner.
12:17What have you got?
12:18Amanda, I'm sorry to bother you,
12:20but did you do a tox screen on the blood samples
12:22found at Councilman Watson's house?
12:23Sure did.
12:24Came up clean.
12:25No, uh, drugs or preserving ages?
12:27Nothing at all.
12:30Okay.
12:31Thanks, Amanda.
12:32Well, hold on.
12:32I'm happy to do the autopsy over again, if you like.
12:35Well, no, that's, that's not really necessary.
12:37Are you sure?
12:37I don't mind.
12:38No, I appreciate the offer, Amanda,
12:40but, uh, I got what I need here.
12:42I appreciate the work.
12:43Bye.
12:44Bye.
12:44Bye.
12:50What?
12:51You wanted to see me?
12:54Sit down, detective.
12:56You here to check my hemorrhoids,
12:58or is there something I don't know?
12:58I said sit down.
12:59I never liked you, Stang.
13:07I fight for you because you clear cases.
13:11When Watson's commission called you dirty,
13:13I persuaded them you were just being overenthusiastic,
13:16made sure you kept your job.
13:18I never got around to baking you a batch of cookies.
13:20Shut up, Stang.
13:21Being a cop in this town is a lousy job,
13:24but if you do it right,
13:25I'm not going to make it any worse
13:27by busting you over the small stuff.
13:29That's what makes you such a hero
13:31to all us little guys, Captain.
13:37You have one chance to save your badge here, detective.
13:40You want to take it or you want to mouth off.
13:45As long as you're clean,
13:47no one's going to mess with you while I'm around.
13:50But if you're dirty, nothing is for you.
13:51Who says I'm dirty?
13:54What does he know?
13:57Right now, I just think
13:58that you framed Councilman Watson for murder.
14:01You think?
14:02I don't have to sit here and listen to this crap.
14:05You had a motive.
14:07You hated Matthew Watson.
14:09Look, I admit,
14:10I crossed him off my Christmas list a long time ago.
14:12But you find one cop in this department
14:14who likes that guy.
14:16Go ahead, Pike.
14:18Tell me you voted for him.
14:21You had motive,
14:23and you had opportunity.
14:24You were the one who went out behind the house alone
14:27and found the blood on the steps,
14:29and you found the blood in the bathroom.
14:31Where do you think I got all this blood?
14:34Oh, wait.
14:35Your son must have given me a big dripping swab
14:38from the crime scene
14:39and told me to go paint the place with it.
14:41Well, that's where you made your mistake.
14:43That blood didn't come from the crime scene.
14:46What are you talking about?
14:47Janet Watson was taking cold medication.
14:51There was no sign of it
14:52in the blood at Councilman Watson's house.
14:54It means the blood didn't come from Janet Watson
14:56the day she was killed,
14:58but sometime before.
15:00That's premeditation.
15:01And murder won.
15:05I want to see my PBA rep.
15:08That's the way you want it.
15:09If you want to talk,
15:10I'm willing to make a deal with you,
15:11but it's a limited time offer.
15:13I want your answer when I get back.
15:33There goes my career and my pension.
15:36You didn't frame Watson.
15:37He did.
15:38You think that makes a difference?
15:40I was his partner.
15:41He goes down, so do I.
15:43He goes down, so do I.
15:48Councilman Watson was just released
15:49ten minutes ago,
15:50and he's already scheduled
15:51a news conference outside City Hall
15:52tomorrow morning.
15:53If he really cared about this city,
15:55he'd keep his mouth shut.
15:56Well, his wife was murdered.
15:58His reputation ruined.
15:59You can't blame him
16:00for trying to get it back.
16:01You don't have to hold
16:02a press conference to do it.
16:04The public already mistrusts us.
16:06Exploiting this situation,
16:07he's just making things worse.
16:08He'd get bloody out there.
16:10You're going to be right
16:11in the middle of it.
16:12I made the bus with Stang
16:13and Halloran.
16:14I'm already in the middle of it.
16:16Doesn't help that your father
16:17brought down a fellow policeman.
16:19I'm afraid I made a pariah out of him.
16:21Stang was dirty.
16:23The rest I can live with.
16:27Good job, Tired.
16:28Good job, Tired.
16:29Good job, Tired.
16:30Good job, Tired.
16:31It's locked!
16:32I'll get the door.
16:52He's dead.
17:01He's dead.
17:12You couldn't have known what he'd do.
17:14I shouldn't have left him alone.
17:16He was a cop.
17:17There was no other choice.
17:19Maybe.
17:21Where the hell did he get the gun?
17:23Could have been his throw-down weapon.
17:25He kept it in an ankle holster.
17:28Never know when you might
17:29shoot an unarmed suspect
17:31and need a weapon to plant on him.
17:33Guns have a habit of disappearing
17:35even if they're there.
17:37You've been on the streets.
17:38You know that.
17:39Get Stang's gun down to ballistics.
17:41Spread the word that any officer
17:43in my precinct carrying a second weapon
17:45better lose it today.
17:47Dismissed.
18:01This shocking injustice proves
18:03what I've been saying for years
18:04about this police department.
18:06They don't serve the badge.
18:07They don't serve the community.
18:09They don't serve the law.
18:10They serve chief masters
18:12and his personal agenda.
18:13But we demand...
18:15We demand the chief's
18:18immediate resignation
18:19and an in-depth reinvestigation
18:22of every case
18:23Detective Stang worked
18:24during his long
18:25and deplorable career.
18:27Steve is right
18:29that that kind of rhetoric
18:30can cause war in the streets.
18:32I hate to say it, Mark,
18:33but the councilman has a point
18:34and you helped prove it.
18:35The police framed him.
18:37You know, there's too many questions
18:38unanswered to just leave it
18:39at Stang's suicide.
18:40Who killed Janet Watson?
18:42Where did Stang get Janet's blood?
18:45I may have a lead on that.
18:47After Stang's suicide,
18:48I reopened the autopsy
18:49of Janet Watson
18:50and I discovered
18:51a nearly healed puncture
18:53in the crook of her arm
18:54which would be consistent
18:54with someone drawing blood.
18:56So I called a family doctor
18:57and he said
18:58he hadn't seen her in months.
18:59Well, maybe she gave blood.
19:00I can go down
19:01to the local blood bank
19:02and see if she made
19:02a donation recently.
19:04Oh, that is a good idea.
19:05Can you get on it this afternoon?
19:06Yeah, but you know,
19:07there's still one thing
19:08I don't understand.
19:09If Stang murdered her,
19:11why didn't he just use blood
19:12from the scene?
19:15There's only one reason
19:16I can thank her.
19:18That was an illegal substance
19:19on you.
19:22She's talking to the chief, huh?
19:31They offered a course
19:32in lip reading
19:33at the academy.
19:34I never regretted
19:36skipping it until now.
19:38You think they're talking
19:38about your future?
19:40My what?
19:43It's not necessarily
19:44over for you, Fred.
19:46Yeah.
19:47I hear Burger Town
19:48is always looking
19:49for experienced security guards.
19:51and that's the way
19:57I feel about that, Captain.
20:02Lieutenant,
20:03aren't you aware
20:04there's a meeting
20:04going on in here?
20:05Yes, sir.
20:05I'm sorry, but...
20:06I asked Detective Sloan
20:07to bring me the ballistics report
20:09on Stang's gun
20:10as soon as it was ready.
20:11I see.
20:13Yes, sir.
20:14May I?
20:17Have you seen this?
20:18Yes, sir.
20:20It appears that Stang's gun
20:21was the same weapon
20:22used to kill Janet Watson.
20:25I can't believe it.
20:28Who else knows about this?
20:30No one, sir.
20:31The techs didn't know
20:32whose gun they were testing.
20:33Good.
20:34Let's keep it that way.
20:35Are you thinking
20:36of trying to bury this?
20:38If Stang really murdered Janet Watson,
20:41then we have a case.
20:42Captain,
20:43this is an ongoing
20:44police investigation.
20:45We will announce the results
20:46when we have the entire truth.
20:48Word gets out.
20:49It always does.
20:51And then we look
20:52as if we have something to hide.
20:56Lieutenant,
20:58when Officer Stang
21:00entered Councilman Watson's house,
21:02where were you?
21:04Right next to him, sir.
21:05Yes.
21:06And who made the actual arrest?
21:09I did.
21:10And who was in charge
21:11of the ballistics report
21:12on Officer Stang's gun?
21:20Yes.
21:21Well, you see,
21:22it already looks like
21:22we have something to hide now,
21:24doesn't it?
21:24Sir, if you're suggesting
21:25that I get some...
21:25I'm not suggesting anything, Lieutenant.
21:27The press will do that.
21:29And the suggestion
21:30that there's a police conspiracy
21:32to murder Janet Watson
21:33and blame it on her husband
21:35is enough to sink us all.
21:36That's why we should come forth
21:38with everything we know
21:39as soon as possible.
21:44Captain,
21:45I don't think I need to remind you
21:46that it's taken this department
21:48five years
21:48and three police chiefs
21:50to get over the last scandal we had.
21:54I don't believe
21:55we could withstand another one.
21:56You may bury that.
21:58They never learn.
22:06Captain?
22:08It's not the crime
22:09that brings you down.
22:11It's the cover-up.
22:13And we're right in the middle.
22:18But maybe we can get out.
22:20We can't release
22:21the ballistics report.
22:22Not against the chief's
22:24explicit order.
22:26If we can get
22:27independent evidence
22:28confirming our suspicions.
22:32Get us a search warrant
22:33for Stang's apartment.
22:36And, uh, Steve,
22:37do it quietly.
22:45Pike.
22:46Dr. Sloan is where?
22:51Dr. Sloan.
22:53Hi.
22:54What are you doing in here?
22:55Well, yeah, I have found
22:56that if I revisit
22:57the scene of a crime,
22:58sometimes I can get
22:59a fresh perspective on things.
23:01Then shouldn't you be over
23:02at Janet Watson's house?
23:04Well, we pretty well know
23:05what happened over there.
23:06What we don't know
23:07is what happened right here.
23:08Well, Stang jammed the door shut
23:12and blew the back
23:13of his head off.
23:15What if he didn't?
23:18Are you suggesting
23:20he was murdered?
23:21I'm suggesting
23:22the possibility.
23:24Oh.
23:26Well, even if we forget
23:27that he was holding
23:28the gun that killed
23:29Janet Watson
23:30and that his hand
23:32had powder burns,
23:34the door was jammed
23:35shut from the inside,
23:37the windows are barred,
23:39and the mirror wasn't broken
23:40until I threw
23:41a chair through it.
23:42I know.
23:43But consider this.
23:44Janet Watson gave blood
23:45at a city hall blood drive
23:46three days ago.
23:48Now the bag's disappeared.
23:51But if Stang killed
23:52Janet Watson,
23:53why would he bother
23:54to take a bag of blood
23:55that was drawn
23:55three days before?
23:58Oh, that's why you think
23:59someone else is involved.
24:02Someone afraid
24:03that Stang might talk.
24:05Mm-hmm.
24:05Now let's just assume
24:06for the moment
24:07that that's how
24:07it actually happened.
24:08How could it have been done?
24:12Well, the killer
24:13would come in,
24:14pull his gun,
24:15and off Stang,
24:16put the gun in his hand,
24:18and jam a chair
24:19under the doorknob
24:20with about ten seconds
24:22to get out.
24:24But how?
24:25Look at these iron bars
24:26over here.
24:27They're all rusty.
24:30Even the lock's rusty.
24:32But look closely
24:32at the lock there.
24:34All the rest
24:34has gone right
24:35around the loop.
24:36Means it's been
24:37opened recently.
24:38Mm-hmm.
24:39Damn.
24:41Who are the keys
24:41to that lock kept?
24:43In the desk sergeant's drawer.
24:46We haven't checked
24:46for prints,
24:47but it's probably
24:48a waste of time.
24:49Who knows
24:50about those keys?
24:50Every cop
24:51in the precinct
24:52in case of a fire
24:53or some other emergency.
24:55There's just one
24:56big problem
24:57with your theory.
24:58There was no time
25:00between the sound
25:01of the gunshot
25:01and us breaking
25:02into the room
25:03for the killer
25:03to get away.
25:05We are assuming
25:06that the gunshot
25:07we heard
25:08was the shot
25:08that killed Stang.
25:09What if it wasn't?
25:11What if the killer
25:12used a silencer
25:13to shoot Stang,
25:14put the weapon
25:15in his hand,
25:16escaped through
25:16that barred window,
25:18climbed in a nearby room,
25:19and safely away
25:20from the crime scene,
25:21used another gun
25:22to fire up a blank,
25:23and that's the shot
25:24that we heard?
25:25Well, that makes sense,
25:27but how do you explain
25:28the powder burns
25:29on Stang's hand?
25:31Stang and Hallorane
25:31went to the shooting range
25:33a couple hours
25:34before he was killed.
25:35And there must have been
25:3750 cops there
25:38who saw him
25:39and saw an opportunity.
25:41What happened
25:42to that search warrant
25:43on Stang's place?
25:44Right here, Captain.
25:47Let's go, Lieutenant.
25:49Captain, I've got something.
25:55It's the red cross bag
25:56containing Janet Watson's blood.
25:58Found it out in the trash.
25:59Good work.
26:00What have you got?
26:01Trouble for all of us.
26:04I found it taped
26:05under the drawer.
26:06It's a police intelligence file
26:08on Councilman Watson.
26:11It's from the chief's office.
26:12I want to say this clearly
26:20and without equivocation.
26:22Individuals in this department
26:24have framed Councilman Watson
26:26for murder
26:26and in all probability
26:29were involved
26:30in the killing of his wife.
26:31And it appears
26:34that Detective Stang
26:35planted Janet Watson's blood
26:37on the Councilman's property
26:38and it also appears
26:40that Detective Stang's gun
26:42was the murder weapon.
26:45I share your horror
26:47at this abuse
26:48of the public trust
26:49but I urge you
26:51not to condemn
26:52the entire department
26:53because of a few
26:55corrupt officers.
26:57I promise you
26:59that we will find
27:01the truth
27:02no matter where it leads.
27:05Councilman?
27:06I want to thank
27:07Captain Pike
27:08for her honesty
27:09and courage.
27:11It's good to know
27:11there are still
27:12a few police officers
27:13in this city
27:13we can believe in.
27:14Councilman?
27:15Captain Pike?
27:16The chief masters
27:17behind this plot
27:18against you.
27:18What's the fact
27:19of saying murder?
27:19Is Captain Pike
27:20being considered
27:21to replace the chief?
27:22My office will be releasing
27:24a detailed statement
27:25within the hour.
27:31Are you all right?
27:37I feel terrible.
27:40How long has his arm
27:42been twitching like that?
27:43Oh, about a couple of hours.
27:45It's just nerves.
27:47I don't think so.
27:48You're burning up.
27:51Steve, would you call
27:51an ambulance right away?
27:56Still think I got a future here?
28:05That depends on how much
28:06you knew about what
28:07Stang was doing.
28:08You want to be a help,
28:09grab that box
28:10for some of this crap.
28:10long beach refinery standoff.
28:21I was still in the academy then.
28:23Watch you bringing out
28:24those hostages on TV.
28:25Yeah, I was a big hero
28:27that day.
28:28Great things in my future.
28:29What happened, Fred?
28:33Stang happened.
28:35I guess a dirty partner
28:36doesn't do much
28:37for your reputation.
28:38A suspect gets a couple
28:39of bruises on the way
28:40back to the precinct.
28:41A gun gets dropped
28:42at the shooting scene.
28:44Doesn't matter which partner
28:45did it.
28:45You're a team.
28:46You could have said something.
28:48Right.
28:49That's not the department
28:51way, is it?
28:53We don't talk.
28:54We take action.
28:56What are you getting at?
28:58Stang didn't kill himself.
29:00Yeah, that didn't seem
29:01much like his style.
29:05Oh, you think I look good
29:06for popping him, huh?
29:08You were the first one
29:08at the interrogation room door.
29:10I had to go to the can.
29:12The door was locked.
29:12I was waiting outside.
29:13As a crack detective,
29:15you must have observed
29:16that the interrogation
29:17is right next door
29:18to the bathroom.
29:19That's your story?
29:20You got motive,
29:21you got opportunity.
29:22Go ahead, cuff me.
29:23What the hell do I care?
29:27That son of a bitch, Stang,
29:29he couldn't be content
29:30just humiliating Watson.
29:31He had to try and destroy him.
29:34Humiliating him?
29:35How?
29:35With his wife, of course.
29:38Stang and Janet Watson?
29:39She got off sleeping
29:41with the one cop
29:42her husband hated the most,
29:44and Stang said
29:44it was the same for him.
29:46And you never thought
29:47to mention that?
29:48Who would it have helped?
29:49Who would it have helped?
29:49her husband Truebald?
29:59Who would it have helped?
30:00No.
30:00Come on.
30:03Come on.
30:03Come on.
30:03Come on.
30:04I see the bike tour's been treating you well.
30:14Haddling the green hills of Africa.
30:16Try the steep hills of Spain.
30:18I'd like to. Think I can get a flight today?
30:21Well, I came by to see how you were doing, now I know.
30:23Staying thing's getting to you.
30:25Oh, no, I love being despised by everyone I work with.
30:28You remember back in college,
30:30you found out the quarterback was getting the test questions early?
30:32And I let you convince me to go to the administration.
30:35You took a lot of heat back then. You came out all right.
30:38I got cut from the squad.
30:40My car got torched in the parking lot,
30:41and I couldn't get a date my entire junior year.
30:45Well, yeah, but, I mean, you saw a wrong, and you made a right.
30:48I mean, that's what's important.
30:50Especially if you ignore the fact that the quarterback got drafted by the pros,
30:53the coach re-upped with a huge raise,
30:56and they expelled some poor grad student who got blamed for the whole thing.
31:00Well, I could have sworn there was a life's lesson in there somewhere.
31:04The guilty were rewarded, the innocent were punished, and I got shafted.
31:07Okay, the football story's a bad example.
31:10No, I think it's pretty much dead on.
31:12You know, I hate myself for even thinking this,
31:14but in a way, everybody would have been better off
31:16if you'd never proven the blood was planted.
31:19Well, except for Matthew Watson,
31:21who'd be facing a death penalty for a crime he did.
31:23And what a loss that would be.
31:26I told you I hated myself.
31:28We're talking about bringing down the chief of police here.
31:30You know it's the right thing to do.
31:33So is exposing the quarterback.
31:35So why is he making $14 million a year,
31:37and I'm checking to see if my car's on fire yet?
31:40You remember back in high school when you got caught cheating on exams?
31:43Mm-hmm.
31:44I got away with that, Dad.
31:45You never told me that.
31:47Hey, I thought your shift ended hours ago.
31:57Oh, it did.
31:58I just have a lot of work to do, Jesse.
32:00I'm sure it's nothing that can't wait.
32:01They're dead.
32:03They'll be dead tomorrow.
32:04And you want to go home and see C.J. before he goes to bed?
32:07C.J.'s with Colin this week.
32:09There's only a big, empty house waiting for me.
32:13Well, I tell you, my shift is over after I see this next patient.
32:15Maybe we can go see that new movie, Jack Blood, Action Fist.
32:18Huh?
32:18It's going to be good.
32:19Drives a monster truck with these rocket launchers.
32:22Thanks, Jesse, really.
32:23But I want to finish my work.
32:26Okay.
32:27I know what you're doing.
32:29And I did the same thing when my parents got divorced.
32:32You removed a liver?
32:33I joined every club.
32:35I tried out for every team.
32:36I volunteered for every charity.
32:38I even hung around after school
32:41to help clean rooms with the custodians.
32:43I mean, I would do anything
32:46except go home and face that pain.
32:48But I tell you, it catches up with you.
32:52Okay.
32:53I'm fine, Jesse.
32:55I just want to finish my work.
32:57Okay.
33:02Hey, but I'll still save a seat for you at Action Fist.
33:08Thanks.
33:09Thanks.
33:13Oh, doctor, this will teach me to eat fish tacos off a roach coach.
33:19Well, that's a good rule to keep in mind,
33:21but your condition actually has nothing to do with food poisoning.
33:24What, then?
33:26I'm looking at the files that your doctor sent over,
33:28and there's no record of a tetanus shot in the past 10 years.
33:32We've started aggressive treatment,
33:33and I think that we caught it early enough
33:35that with a little luck,
33:36you'll be out of here in a day or two.
33:37What if I'm not lucky, doctor?
33:41Let's not worry about that until we have to, okay?
33:44Just get some rest.
33:45Why don't you continue IVD-5W, half normal, safe...
33:48Mike, what the hell are you thinking?
33:50Sir, this really isn't a good time.
33:52Yes.
33:53Let me remind you who the chief of police is here,
33:55and it's not you.
33:56And by the way, I will decide what goes public.
33:59No one else.
33:59You understand that?
34:00I don't let suspects in a homicide
34:03dictate how I handle an investigation.
34:06Oh, so, uh, we're playing politics, are we?
34:08Let me ask you a question.
34:11What kind of an arrangement did you make with Mr. Watson?
34:14You wanted the ballistics report on Stang's gun suppressed.
34:18Steve and I found an intelligence file on Watson
34:21from your office at Stang's place.
34:24You add it up.
34:25You don't see how you're being played by this bastard, do you?
34:35You don't see that all you're doing
34:36is tearing down the police department
34:37so he can become mayor?
34:40I'm doing my job.
34:44Yes, I can see that.
34:47Oh.
34:50And Lieutenant Sloan may have either
34:51first to congratulate you.
34:53You see, win or...
34:55if
34:55Miss Pike becomes chief,
34:59what's that gonna make you?
35:10Tell me you've got good news.
35:12You tell me.
35:15Stang's phone records.
35:17Look at that number.
35:19It appears more than 30 times.
35:21That's the chief's private line.
35:37Chief?
35:38We have to talk.
35:39I'm taking over the Watson investigation while Captain Pike is in the hospital.
35:56I don't think that's a good idea, sir.
36:00Well, I thank you for your opinion, but give me everything you have on the case.
36:04I can't do that, sir.
36:08Lieutenant.
36:10As long as you're wearing that badge, you'll do exactly what I tell you to do.
36:13Is that what you told Stang?
36:17Give me your files and your notes right now.
36:20They don't share the details of an ongoing investigation with a suspect.
36:25And like it or not, chief, you're a suspect.
36:28I am still the same police officer I was when I walked a beat in South Central Los Angeles.
36:34Lieutenant, don't ever forget that.
36:37And I don't break the law.
36:38I enforce it.
36:40Then you know why it has to be this way.
36:44If you have a problem with that,
36:46fire me.
36:58You had better hope this turns out the way you think it's going to.
37:07Because when it's all over with, I'll be standing to question is will you.
37:10If you have a problem with that, it's going to be a problem with that.
37:40Get that thing away from me.
37:45You look like you could lose a little pick-me-up.
37:48Well, you know, that's what I said to myself, the last 600 cups that I've worn.
37:51You know, I'm sure you could use some time off.
37:53Why don't you go away somewhere for a while?
37:55Mark, I can't do that.
37:56I have too much work.
37:58Besides, I have six autopsies waiting for me.
38:00Thanks for reminding me.
38:01I'll sell that protection to buy me.
38:04Oh, Melissa!
38:04I'll sell that protection to buy me.
38:09She's working too hard.
38:10She's running.
38:13Hi, Dad.
38:14Hi.
38:14What'd you find out?
38:15I checked with the department's janitorial service.
38:17They cleaned the restroom the night before Stang's death.
38:20What about the observation room mirror?
38:21They did every room on the floor, including all windows and mirrors.
38:25God, that was what I was afraid of.
38:27Dad, this seems like an odd time to be concerned with the sanitary conditions in my workplace.
38:32What's going on?
38:32Well, unfortunately, it proves that Stang was murdered by Cynthia Pike.
38:37Oh, that can't be right.
38:41You remember how Captain Pike got into the interrogation room?
38:44Yeah, she shattered the mirror and climbed through.
38:46Cut herself pretty badly doing it.
38:47What if she cut herself deliberately?
38:50Why?
38:51To hide the fact that she had already cut herself on those rusty iron bars.
38:56And what she didn't know that she had already infected herself with tetanus when she did.
39:00Which you can't get from a clean mirror.
39:02Why would she do it?
39:06Well, I don't know.
39:07I have an idea, but I don't think we'll know until we bring down the leader of this conspiracy.
39:13Pike and Stang were in this together?
39:16I didn't want to believe it myself at first.
39:18No, I still don't.
39:20Pike killed your wife, Stang, planet the blood.
39:23I just told the city she had my complete trust, for God's sake.
39:26That's exactly what she wanted you to do.
39:29Everything was going just as she planned, along with Chief Masters, of course.
39:32But why?
39:33All the things you thought before.
39:35To ruin you, and to give Masters a clear shot at the mayor's seat.
39:38And he'd make her the first female chief of police in L.A. history.
39:42But when Dad figured out you were being framed,
39:44Pike decided to make Stang the fall guy and save herself.
39:47Pike killed Stang and tried to make it look like a suicide,
39:50but she made a couple of mistakes.
39:51One, fatal.
39:53She contracted tetanus, and she's not responding to treatment.
39:56Well, if she dies, we'll never be able to prove Masters was behind this.
39:59There might be a way.
40:00Offer the chief a deal.
40:03Tell him you know about the intelligence file at Stang's,
40:05and you'll exonerate him if he drops out of the race and endorses you for mayor.
40:10And wear this when you do it.
40:11What's the matter?
40:27Couldn't find any good empty warehouses or abandoned amusement parks?
40:33Why am I here?
40:34Because the next time we meet,
40:38I'll be wearing this.
40:42I'll offer to make you a deal, on tape,
40:44that will implicate you and my wife's death in the plot to frame me.
40:49It's your last chance to save yourself.
40:51Councilman Watson,
40:53you may eavesdrop on every one of my conversations till the day I drop dead.
40:57It's not going to do you any good,
40:58because we both know I had nothing to do with this.
41:00It sure looks like you did.
41:02That'll be enough to ruin you.
41:05Unless I help you out.
41:07So tomorrow we can put on an act that'll clear you
41:10and put all the blame on Pike and Stang.
41:13And what do I have to do?
41:14Forget about a couple of your parking tickets?
41:16No, I want you to drop out of the race.
41:18Endorse me and use your resources on my behalf while I'm in office.
41:26And how will you explain what's happened?
41:30We'll say Pike and Stang were lovers,
41:32and she found out he was sleeping with my wife and didn't like it.
41:36So Pike figured out a way to kill her and lay everything on Stang.
41:43And you'll say that Pike planted the blood at your house,
41:45knowing that Dr. Sloan would clear you and go after Stang.
41:50Captain Pike kills Stang,
41:51makes it look like a suicide, end of story.
41:55Now you're getting the hang of it.
41:59Do you think Captain Pike will go along with it?
42:02Pike is dying.
42:04And even if she makes it, who would believe her?
42:07If you and I support each other.
42:13You know, Councilman Watson, it sounds very good.
42:15I'll bet it even sounds better on tape.
42:25You see, it was a good thing one of us was wired.
42:30Watson's story is pretty close to the truth, Chief,
42:33with one crucial difference.
42:35He was the one having an affair with Captain Pike.
42:40He killed his wife
42:41and planted the blood on his own property.
42:44We framed Stang and I killed him.
42:49The only thing Stang was guilty of was bad luck.
42:53Shut up, Cynthia.
42:55You were willing to sacrifice me to save yourself.
42:59One good turn deserves another, honey.
43:02You did it all so Masters would be disgraced,
43:06Watson would become mayor,
43:07and you'd be the new chief of police.
43:14Get him out of here.
43:21Officer Halloran.
43:24I'm very sorry about what's happened to you.
43:25I'll make it right.
43:26Yeah, sure.
43:29Beats Burger Town.
43:31How did you know it was me?
43:34When I realized that Pike killed Stang,
43:37I had to ask myself the question,
43:38well, who benefited from all this?
43:40Not Masters, certainly.
43:42I couldn't have proved one thing
43:44if you hadn't tried one last little manipulation.
43:46I counted on you being a politician
43:48right to the end, and you were.
44:02You wanted to see me, sir?
44:04Yes, Lieutenant, I do.
44:06Come in.
44:07Would you please excuse us for a moment?
44:09Yes, sir.
44:18Captain Blake from North Hollywood
44:20will be taking over here.
44:23He's a good man.
44:25Yes, well, he does his job.
44:26Nothing more, nothing less.
44:28He's too busy thinking about his pension,
44:31not his politics.
44:34Well, then I hope the department saves up
44:35for a nice gold watch for him.
44:37Well, I'm not holding out hope for mine.
44:43Let me tell you something, Lieutenant.
44:45This is my department.
44:47I will not tolerate any type of opposition from within.
44:49I want all my police officers out in the field
44:51closing cases,
44:53not attending to some personal political agenda.
44:59You'll be staying.
45:00But if you ever move against me again,
45:06I will crush you.
45:15Well, Lieutenant.
45:20That was very good police work.
45:22What was so urgent
45:43that I didn't stop here on my way to work?
45:44Amanda, I know it's out of your way,
45:45but this couldn't wait.
45:46I can handle it.
45:47I hate to interrupt your busy schedule,
45:49but this is something that's really important.
45:51I just found out that Dr. Hugo Arbuthnot,
45:54the famed forensic anthropologist,
45:56is giving a demonstration of his new technique
45:58for reconstructing human skulls out of bone charge.
46:01You've got to see it.
46:02That's great.
46:02When, where?
46:03I'll go.
46:04Well, here's the hard part.
46:05It's in Hawaii in seven hours.
46:07Here's your plane ticket.
46:09Here's your reservation.
46:10I am really sorry, Amanda.
46:11Well, it's no problem.
46:12It's a five-hour flight that gives me two hours
46:14to situate C.J. with my mom.
46:16I'm on my way.
46:17Oh, I sure appreciate it.
46:18Thanks.
46:19Okay, see you later.
46:19Bye.
46:23Come on, move it out of my way.
46:25What's that?
46:27You think she'll do when she gets there
46:28and finds out there's no Dr. Arbuthnot?
46:30No demonstration?
46:32I hope she just blasts it off
46:34and finds herself a nice little spot on the beach.
46:36If she doesn't...
46:37We've got seven hours to come up with a plan.
46:39Oh.
46:44Bye.
47:14Bye.
47:14Viacom
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