00:09Standby, 10-10, investigate a reported disturbance at Acer Plaza.
00:1210-4 dispatcher, verify address.
00:15That's Acer Plaza, repeat, Acer Plaza.
00:23Shots fired on the rooftop. An assault in progress at Acer Plaza. Repeat, an assault in progress.
00:44It's a flare zone down here. 10-85 dispatcher, need additional units. Additional units now. Officer in danger. Officer in
00:52danger.
00:5310-5, please repeat, 10-5, all units, all units, emergency. Officer in danger, Acer Plaza, repeat, Acer Plaza, all
01:00units...
01:02They were all dead. The final gunshot was an exclamation mark to everything that had led to this point.
01:08I released my finger from the trigger, and then it was over.
01:15To make any kind of sense of it, I need to go back three years. Back to the night the
01:20pain started.
01:32I was still on the force back then. NYPD, Manhattan, Midtown North Precinct, Hell's Kitchen.
01:38So when are you coming to work for me, Detective Payne?
01:41You'd make me work undercover in some hell hole. Sorry, Alex. Michelle and the baby come first.
01:48See? My last smoke. It's bad for the baby.
01:51That's you, Max. A regular boy scout.
01:55See ya, Alex.
01:56Still on for poker Thursday night, right?
01:58Like taking candy from a baby.
02:02It was good. The sun setting on a sweet summer's day. The smell of freshly mowed lawns. The sounds of
02:08children playing.
02:09A house across the river on the Jersey side. A beautiful wife and a baby girl. The American dream come
02:16true.
02:18Honey, I'm home.
02:20But dreams have a nasty habit of going bad when you're not looking.
02:26The sun went down with practiced bravado. Twilight crawled across the sky, laden with foreboding.
02:39Michelle. Honey, anybody home?
02:42I didn't like the way the show started. But they've given me the best seat in the house. Front row
02:47center.
02:52What the hell?
03:03What the hell?
03:06Listen, someone's broken into my house. Call 911.
03:09Is this the Payne residence?
03:11Yes, someone's broken into my house. They're still here. You have to...
03:14Good. I'm afraid I cannot help you.
03:17Who is this? Hello?
03:34Michelle!
03:35No!
03:36No! No!
03:46Michelle!
03:47No! Please!
03:52It's coming.
03:54Freeze! NYPD! Drop it!
03:56It's coming! It's gonna die!
04:01No. No, no. Please, God, no.
04:07The flesh of fallen angels!
04:15No, no, no. God, no. Please, Michelle. Oh, baby.
04:39NO!
04:46That was three years ago. Everything ripped apart in a New York minute.
04:51The killer junkies had been high on a previous designer drug, Valkyr V.
04:56After the funeral, Alex I'd be transferring to the DEA.
05:02It took us three long years to get a break in the Valkyr case.
05:06Then, finally, two months ago, a dime-dropper tipped us off that Jack Lupino,
05:10a mob boss in the Punchinello crime family, was trafficking.
05:14I went undercover. Infiltrated the worst mafia family in New York.
05:18You went to the hospital to take us a while.
05:18I didn't like the doctor and I was just putting a muscle on the other hand.
05:19I was just running up.
