00:01As far back as I remember, I always wanted to be a cop.
00:06To me, being a cop was better than being president.
00:10Well, I'll tell you something.
00:13It's not.
00:21My name's Jack Boyd.
00:23Last week I turned 60.
00:26Most of those years I spent with Freeburg PD.
00:30At 29, when I was a young detective, I hurt my back chasing a serial killer across the rooftops.
00:37I guess they took pity on me and I got promoted to head of the department.
00:41A little unusual for a kid my age.
00:46Since then it's been mostly paperwork.
00:48But I plunged into it, didn't notice it much, and worked my way up to city chief.
00:55I've held this position for the last dozen years, but it'll all be over in 180 days.
01:02Last week, the big birthday, they hit me with it.
01:07Retirement.
01:08Wouldn't even say it to my face.
01:11Just sent me a memo.
01:14I've always spent more time with work than family, and there's plenty of family to go around.
01:20My wife, Laura, are three boys.
01:23One in community college, the other two will soon follow him.
01:27This past month we played host to my mother-in-law.
01:30She was having trouble getting around, and Laura wouldn't hear another word about the nursing home.
01:36I just couldn't get used to the old woman's screams.
01:40My wife has to give her shots in her rump.
01:43Every night.
01:45So I started spending more nights on the job.
01:49All my life I've been an honest cop.
01:53I might yell at the kids, piss off my wife.
01:56Could even spend a weekend in a bar and get sick on the front lawn.
02:00But when I came into work, I was a professional.
02:04I never took bribes.
02:07Never took the law into my own hands.
02:10Never even lifted a stapler.
02:13I thought this would earn me respect, but I just became the butt of the joke.
02:18After the evening meeting, my staff jump into their expensive cars and drive back to their expensive houses.
02:26No idea where they get the money, but in a city where prostitutes are cheaper than aspirin,
02:32they're finding ways to make ends meet.
02:36On the third or fourth year of marriage, when Laura and I were looking at that stack of bills,
02:41afraid we'd have to put the house up,
02:44I asked her if I'd be her hero if I made a million bucks.
02:49She laughed and said I'd be her hero for half a million.
02:53I haven't got that half a million yet, but I still have 180 days to pull it off.
02:59And right about now, I'm ready for anything.
03:03Anything at all.
03:05To hell with it.
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