Two-Nine David, you have You a 10-54... unconscious male ht?
In front of the Bitterman Housing Complex.
Central, show Two-Nine Sergeant responding.
Your Cowboys got crushed last night.
For the love of God, Reagan, don't bring that up.
He's been sulking all day.
I wasn't sulking.
The caller said they found the body in the courtyard?
Looks like the caller didn't stick around.
I think he's still breathing.
Whoa! God!
- Quick, over here. - Get down.
Wayne!
Stay down.
Come on. Stick with me, okay?
Central, Two-Nine Sergeant. 10-13, 10-13.
- I got an EMT shot. - Wayne...
Shots fired at the Bitterman Complex.
Mary's waiting for you.
The kids are waiting for you.
You've got to get home, okay, Wayne?
They're waiting for you at home.
Come on. Stick with me, okay?
Katrina, your shoulder.
- Katrina, you're hit. - Wayne, stick with me.
Wayne, Wayne, we got to get you home, okay?
We're gonna get you home.
ADA Reagan, what's your recommendation
- on a plea to the charge? - Your Honor,
although drug possession is a nonviolent crime,
Mr. Siriani has many priors.
His actions demonstrate that
he is a threat to the community,
and significant jail time is necessary.
The court hears your recommendation, Counselor.
Thank you. But we will be rejecting it.
Your Honor?
This court believes in rehabilitation
over incarceration.
I'm sending this case to drug treatment court,
so Mr. Siriani may have a chance at the former.
- Rehab, Your Honor? - Yes.
But he has assault on his record.
You've already made your argument, ADA Reagan.
Now you have my ruling. That'll be all.
Do you really think rehab is appropriate, Judge Harvey?
You know, I'd forgotten what it was like working with you
for one precious moment.
Well, I haven't, and you never would have let him walk
as an ADA.
I'm not a prosecutor anymore, as you may have noticed.
But if you were, you would have pushed for
a much harsher sentence than I did.
Times have changed.
Addiction is an illness, rehab the appropriate response.
But not with a history of violence.
He'll be locked in a 24-hour clinic.
He should be locked up in jail.
Look, just because we worked together
doesn't mean you get to come in here and strong-arm me.
I'm just trying to understand
how you just let a violent offender walk.
I chose the bench, Erin.
From what I understand, you could have, too,
but you didn't.
What is that supposed to mean?
It means I'm the judge here.
And it's my judgment that matters, not yours.
Now, I'm sorry, but I have more important cases
than this one to attend to.
Jamie.
Hey.
- Hey. - You okay, boss?
Yeah. Yeah, I'm fine.
What are you guys doing here?
We caught a, uh, EMT homicide recently ourselves.
- You think there's a connection? - Same M.O.
There's been a pattern of ambulances
getting baited and hit recently.
- What for? - Narcotics.
- That's an elaborate way to score drugs. - Well, they're not using 'em.
They're selling 'em.
There's a lot of money in the back of them buses.
Well, I got a good look at the guy who was playing dead.
We can sit down with a sketch artist when you're ready.
Okay, I'm ready.
You're ready? You sure?
Yeah, look, I didn't know Wayne that well,
but I've seen him save more than one life.
So whoever did this, I want to get 'em.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Look, we appreciate your help, okay,
but we got it from here.
Look, yeah, I know the lay of the land,
- so I can help. - You could've fooled me.
You just almost got yourself shot.
- Why don't you just fall back? - I'm fine, Danny.
Black, one sugar.
Thank you.
Mr. Mayor.
- Congratulations. - Thank you, Frank.
Sit, sit.
So... it was a nice inauguration.
Very nice.
But just the calm before the storm,
as it turns out.
Hey, it's 44 degrees and sunny outside.
This holiday season, year to year,
hotel occupancies are down seven percent,
and overall tourist revenue is down ten percent.
Well... I'm not really much of a finance guy.
Well, the holidays are supposed to be a time
of joy and cheer... and cash flow.
And optimism.
Especially optimism. Crime rates were down.
Petty crime was up.
Ass-grabbing Elmos in Times Square... up.
Assaults by homeless zombies... up.
And we are proactive, but we can't be everywhere.
Which means, in practice, that you're reactive,
already behind the curve.
It's not a curve, Mr. Mayor.
It's eight million-plus citizens who aren't always upstanding.
- Then manage it. - I do manage it.
Within bounds?
Within the law.
Hmm.
I'm changing the vagrancy laws.
Mr. Mayor...
you can't just change the law.
Watch me.
Watch you what?
Vagrancy Enforcement 332.10 stipulates that the police
can forcibly remove a homeless person
from the street when the temperature drops
- below 32 degrees. - For their safety.
The agency that sets that threshold
answers to the mayor.
And the new threshold?
49 degrees.
Seriously?
I'm taking the cuffs off you so you can
take 'em off your men and women.
So it's just a cattle drive.
It's a sweep that every honest taxpayer in this city
is going to applaud you for.
And it starts tomorrow night.
Excuse me, you expect me to mount an operation
of this scale...
Yes. And with all your lights and sirens.
I'd like to see it on the news at 11:00.
Just say it loud.
"There's a new sheriff in town."
Actually, there's a new mayor in town.
The sheriff's been here a while.
I'll take it under consideration.
Consideration?
All due consideration.
Frank, I'm giving you the tools you've always wanted.
All I'm asking in return is that you use them.
Copy that.
And I'd remind you what we agreed to
when we last met.
What you say goes. Copy that, too.
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Captain.
Detective Reagan, my partner Detective Baez.
Reagan? Jamie's brother?
Yeah, that one.
I owe him big-time.
I'll be sure to let him know.
How's she doing?
She's in shock.
But still found it in her to tell me how your brother
saved her life; she's grateful, so am I.
Good. Well, we're just gonna ask her a few questions.
Oh, no, no, no. Not now.
We need to get the story while it's fresh in her head.
Do you mind?
What the hell are you doing?
Imagine one of you saw the other get killed.
Do you think you'd want to relive that
in front of a total stranger right after?
I don't know, but if somebody killed my partner,
I'd be willing to swallow whatever pill I had to
to find the son of a bitch who did it.
I'm pretty sure she'd be willing to do the same for her partner.
With all due respect, would you step aside, please?
And you didn't see anyone else
besides the perp pretending to be dead?
No. Just him.
And then there were gunshots.
And after that, it's all a blur.
Okay. Thank you for your time.
Just one last question.
Why is it that you have your captain guarding the door?
Uh, Captain Higgins is a little overprotective
sometimes.
He's like a father figure.
Sounds like a healthy work relationship.
Or maybe he just didn't want us to see you
for some reason.
What do you mean?
Well, it takes a certain expertise to access
the back of one of those ambulances.
Which means, in all likelihood,
- an EMT was involved. - Higgins?
I mean, he would never...
Then why didn't he want us to talk to you?
He's a good guy.
I mean, he's made mistakes, but...
What mistakes?
I don't know.
Never mind.
Is there something we should know about Captain Higgins
that you're not telling us?
No. Nothing.
And I'm not saying anything else without a lawyer.
Really?
Williamsburg?
Restaurants and hipster shopping.
Tribeca but not Chinatown?
They sweep their own sidewalks. I got to hand it to the mayor.
This is a pretty smart grid if you want to make New York
look like a college campus on parents weekend.
Long Island City. Wow.
A minute ago, there was nothing there but rats and hookers.
Now it's waterfront condos and voting millennials.
You know what's not on here? Our area.
Police headquarters, City Hall.
No one stays, eats or clubs here.
"Goes clubbing here."
- Right. - Hey, guys, guess what.
This is great news.
For who? The Chamber of Commerce?
The I Heart New York chairwoman?
For us. Boss, our guys walking the beat are gonna love this.
I don't know one of 'em, it don't burn their tail
that they got to dance around all those human land mines.
But tomorrow night? What's the big rush?
Ten years we've been waiting for the mayor
to say "take the gloves off."
I would not call that a rush.
But New York isn't the same city it was ten years ago.
Which is exactly why I asked him to let me hold this policy up
against the new landscape.
And he denied you?
More like, if I even considered taking a second glance,
I'd be denying him.
We start this sweep all of a sudden,
it's gonna look like payback.
So make sure it doesn't look like that.
It's not that easy.
You can't handle it?
Of course he can.
This may be at cost to our standing in the community.
What, the hobo community?
No one says hobo anymore.
Well, we will have to handle the blowback
because we are going to execute this operation,
because it is exactly the kind of promise
that got him elected by a landslide.
In that sense, we are giving the people what they want.
And not for nothing, boss,
the mayor's giving our cops what they want.
That, too.
Hey.
This doesn't make any sense.
I mean, you remember
what Judge Harvey was like as an ADA.
We used to call her the Iron Maiden.
Yeah, she took no prisoners.
She was scary.
She always pushed for the maximum sentence.
Really scary.
Second scariest ADA I ever worked with.
- Maybe she's playing politics? - How?
Changing her tune now that she's a public figure.
No jail time
for any crime that could be spun as petty.
- Doesn't make sense. - I know.
That's what's bothering me. None of this makes sense.
It's so clear that Siriani should be kept off the streets.
Yeah, uh, about that.
What?
Well, he's back on 'em.
Skipped out of rehab last night, uh, he's been M.I.A. since.
He didn't even last a day?
We're gonna find out what happened
and where he might be going next.
Erin, we can't go after every drug user
every time they relapse.
Come on. Let it go.
So, I read online that I get a $500 incentive
'cause I recruited this guy.
Uh, w-we get a $500 incentive, considering all accounts
and credit cards are officially combined.
That's right.
So I'll just print this out for you to sign
and we'll be on our way.
Uh...
How are you ever gonna be able to buy me a secret gift?
Guess I can't.
Oh, no.
I think I need to cancel this.
Or you could just not go digging for it.
We both know that's not an option.
Hey, what, um, what's this other account?
Oh, that's just some old savings account.
I-It's nothing, really.
A hundred grand?
That's not nothing. Why wouldn't you tell me about that?
I-It's not really mine.
Whose is it?
My dad's.
I already gave their descriptions to the police.
Their descriptions?
So it wasn't just Siriani who escaped?
No, he recruited another user. Harris Hicks.
It's a shame, really.
Why? Who's Harris Hicks?
A young patient who was showing signs of recovery.
The courts don't understand.
When you dump a hard-core user like Siriani into the tank,
it pollutes the rest of the water.
You have any idea of where they were headed?
I left that job to the cops.
Little busy here with my own job.
So busy you let him escape on the first day.
We knew Siriani was a flight risk,
but with all the patients we've had thrown at us,
we couldn't keep a close enough eye.
You knew he was a risk from his record?
That, and we were warned.
- By who? - Someone from the courthouse called.
Don't remember who exactly.
Thank you.
Hey.
You were right.
There was an attempted armed robbery at St. Irene's Hospital.
Two perps attempted to steal, uh, drugs at gunpoint.
They both got away empty-handed.
And one of the descriptions
matches Siriani?
Yeah. And they're both still at large.
Captain Higgins.
Not again.
Good to see you, too.
What do you want?
We want to take a look at your personnel logs.
Why?
We're looking for patterns in ambulance deployment.
And the personnel logs? Why would you need those?
Captain, this isn't Twenty Questions.
You think an EMT's involved?
Oh, you two have got a sense of humor.
Actually, we don't have a sense of humor.
Not when a New York City cop almost got killed.
Almost got killed.
It's EMTs who are dying out there, let me remind you.
Yeah, actually, we're gonna need to see your personal files, too.
What, you think I'm involved?
Are you?
Cops aren't the only ones with a sense of loyalty, you know.
We'd never set each other up.
I'd never set up one of my guys.
Good. Then you shouldn't have a problem giving us what we want.
Not a chance.
Sound like obstructing to you?
Sure does.
It's not, unless you got a subpoena.
Oh, actually, now that you mention it, uh... I do.
Got a load of whites in the dryer,
the sheets need changing,
and don't forget to change the duvet.
Oh, that's my least favorite job.
That is everyone's least favorite job.
Sarge, you still interested in working
that, uh, tour Saturday?
Uh, yes. Thank you, Marisol.
You're working weekends now?
Yeah, just the one, for now.
Why? We hardly see each other as it is.
Well, I had a ten-year plan to pay off my student loan debt,
but that's when I was a bachelor.
And now that we might want a family,
I'm gonna cut that in half.
So what, we're not gonna see each other for five years?
No, I'm just taking on a little more,
get us a little closer to that goal.
Well, I can help.
No, this is not your debt, Eddie. It's mine.
- What's yours is mine now. - Yeah, but not this.
I mean, you didn't go to three years of law school
to not make a lawyer's salary.
Well, if you'd become a lawyer, you never would've met me.
Harvard education: $300,000.
A lifetime with you: priceless.
$300,000?
I got about a third of it left, yeah.
We could, we could use the money from my dad.
No, Eddie...
W-We don't know that it's dirty.
Based on the fact that you haven't used it,
I think that you think it is.
Okay, I admit I don't trust my dad.
And certainly not his money.
But this is our future we're talking about here.
Okay, but what about the future of those people whose lives
were affected by your father's schemes?
I mean, maybe that money belongs to them.
Oh, I'm sure they've been taken care of.
Really? Did the government claw back money for their reparations?
Claw back? I-I don't know.
Look, I've got this under control.
Don't worry about it, okay?
A homeless man died in custody last night
during the sweep in Williamsburg.
Okay.
Cause of death?
M.E. ruled it a heart attack.
Any evidence
that our guys were rough with him?
No, but it doesn't matter.
The fact that they were forcing him to a shelter is enough.
But he was clearly in bad health to begin with.
But he was also a beloved fixture
on Bedford Street for years.
They're gonna say the NYPD caused his death.
Yes, I can handle the fallout.
How?
If you put it out there that we're just making good
on one of the mayor's campaign promises,
that's not handling it, that's passing the buck.
You're good.
No, I've just known you for a long time.
Well, how, then?
Well, I-I'm sure some of our guys got scuffed up,
maybe stuck with needles.
Concede there were injuries on both sides.
I don't have that information.
Well, Sid does. Where's Sid?
He's out checking on some of the precincts
that carried out the operation.
I'm sure he'll be back soon.
Okay, when he gets back, download his war stories
from the sweep and use it to shore up our side.
Why are you so certain he's gonna have war stories?
It's Sid. He's gonna have stories
that make our cops look like heroes.
Are they gonna be true?
I hope so.
So you didn't recognize anybody in the lineup?
I think I'd remember the guy who tried to lure me to my death.
Fair enough. All right, well, thanks for coming down.
Well, can I help you with something else?
No. I appreciate all you've done so far. It's good.
Sure? Seems like you could use the help.
What is that supposed to mean?
Well, that lineup was kind of a Hail Mary.
Well, we have other avenues we're pursuing, you know.
You still looking at the EMTs?
- Who told you that? - Higgins.
He called me, thanked me and cursed you in the same breath.
Higgins, huh? Okay, good.
Well, now, he just shot up to the top of my list of suspects.
Always guilty until proven innocent in your book.
What, you don't find it suspicious that Higgins
is trying to derail my investigation?
He said he was gonna comply with the subpoena.
We'll see about that.
I just don't think he's capable of something like this.
And I didn't ask you what you think.
Now, thanks for coming down.
Hey, Danny, come on. I was there.
I know the players.
Mm-hmm. I think you know the players a little too good.
Maybe you're getting a little close to this, huh?
When's that ever stopped you?
Well, since when do you want to be like me?
Would you stop trying to protect me and let me help.
Come on.
Excuse me.
- I'm looking for Mr. Wallace. - Who's asking?
- You know, it'll just be a sec. - Excuse me.
You can give your case to Elaine out front.
Oh, I don't have a case.
What now, Officer?
I'm just here to talk to you.
We got everything in order, as usual.
This is a personal matter.
Mm-hmm.
You represented my dad,
Armin Janko.
You're Armin's daughter?
I am.
Oh, wow.
It is great to meet you, kid.
I have heard so much about you.
- You have? - Course.
Do you know how many hours I spent
- with your old man? - I'm gonna go with a lot,
considering how many lawsuits he had against him.
I could hardly get a word in
when he was bragging about his little girl.
He didn't care about wasting billable hours.
Really?
Please sit down. What can I do for you, sweetheart?
Well, um... he left me this trust.
I know. Good man.
Well, I was wondering if it would be possible
to go through the files you have on him.
You want to know if it's clean.
Yeah.
- Piece of advice? - Sure.
Don't go looking for things you don't want to find.
Judge Harvey.
ADA Reagan, I'd love to chat, but I have a hearing to get to.
Siriani cut out of rehab yesterday
with a young patient he recruited.
They're the leading suspects in an attempted armed robbery.
You come all this way to say, "I told you so"?
No. For help on where Siriani might go next.
Why would I be able to help with that?
'Cause you grew up together.
You were neighbors.
Closer,
almost like siblings.
Has he hurt anyone?
- Not yet. - He won't.
He's a good person, Erin.
He's an unstable person with a drug problem and a gun.
A gun? No, no, no. That doesn't make any sense.
It does to me. He's got a history of violence.
Assault in a bar and armed robbery aren't exactly the same...
Come on, Cheryl, you keep covering for this guy
and someone's gonna end up dead.
It's-it's not like he told me where he shot up.
Okay, what about St. Irene's?
I mean, a hospital isn't the first place
an addict looks to score.
A hospital is where he got hooked in the first place.
How?
He was a nurse.
Practiced at St. Irene's and a few others.
A few others?
I'm gonna need a list,
starting with the ones closest to St. Irene's.
And another thing,
I'll need a warrant.
That Higgins is a real hothead.
And you're so calm and cool?
Like the other side of the pillow.
Right.
Can't believe he actually complied with the subpoena
and sent all this stuff over here.
Well, I get why he wouldn't want to.
Cheated OT hours, the number of saves his team made.
I don't see anything that suggests
he was involved in the robberies, though.
No, but take a look at this.
Something seems off with Wayne and Katrina's
inventory, like it's been doctored.
They were stealing drugs
from their own bus?
But they were the ones who were shot at.
- Wayne's our victim, remember? - Yeah.
And Katrina's also been keeping secrets from us the entire time.
I'm just saying,
maybe we got to step it up with her,
get her down here without a lawyer.
How you gonna do that?
Could do it by tapping the person who just saved her life.
- You better do it quick. - Why?
Another bus just got hit.
- Hey. - Hey.
Big case?
My dad's case.
Eddie...
Hear me out, some of these investments are real.
The money wasn't necessarily "clawed back,"
although I'm not totally sure what that even means.
It's a legal term for forcing money away from...
But it looks like this particular money
wasn't taken back because it was part of a tech investment
that went really big.
Okay, well, where'd the initial seed money come from?
I'm not exactly sure, but my point is,
we know more than we don't know.
Hey, look, I know it must be hard for you
with your dad being...
Being what?
- You know. - No, tell me.
I just mean that,
you know, you're not like your father.
Would it be so bad if I was?
No, of course not. I'm just saying, you know,
you don't have to live with his mistakes.
Was he perfect? No,
but nobody is as perfect as your family.
I didn't say that.
He worked really hard. He gave me a good life,
even though it wasn't always inside the lines.
Eddie, we don't need to take that money.
I'll figure it out.
Fine.
If you turn the page, you'll see your...
CCRB has called an emergency meeting concerning the sweep.
What, so? They call everything an emergency.
You know what CCRB stands for?
Civilian's Complaint Review Board.
Cranky Crybabies Review Board. What's their beef this time?
That we're just moving the homeless
from the commercial districts to the residential neighborhoods.
Which is, in fact, true.
When the shelters fill up, there will always be spillover.
I need Sid.
He's unavailable.
How can he be unavailable when I need him?
He told me to tell you that he has
some housekeeping to attend to.
Housekeeping?
That's what he said, sir.
You know what I think?
I think you know something I don't know.
He's in his office.
Ten-hut.
As you were.
- Wait your turn. - Carry on.
Sorry, boss, I wasn't expecting you.
Clearly.
Uh, if you could give us a minute, Captains.
No, I didn't mean to interrupt.
Well, I just don't want to bother you with this.
Isn't that what I do for a living?
We're just going over our recon from the other night.
And how's that going?
It's going good, boss, good.
Going good. So you got the commanders
of five different precincts here for what, a retirement party?
No, boss.
Then don't tell me "good."
It's just that it all happened so fast.
That's what the victim always says.
Are our cops victims in this?
No, sir.
Then what?
May I speak freely, sir?
You better.
The guys are saying next sweep
they want hazmat suits and golden overtime.
These people don't want to be moved, sir,
and they make it real difficult on our guys.
15 minutes, I want everyone
where they should've been in the first place, my conference room.
Officers,
ADA Reagan. Can I have a word with Siriani?
So, where'd you ditch the gun?
What gun?
The gun you used on the other hospital that you tried to rob.
No, that wasn't my idea. I didn't even know he had a gun.
You're gonna tell me that
you didn't orchestrate this whole thing?
I didn't, I swear.
Then why are we standing
at another hospital you worked for?
Because he made me bring him.
Who? Harris Hicks?
He figured a way to escape the facility,
and he said he'd get me out, too, if, if I helped him score.
Then why isn't he here?
Well, he saw the cops and he took off.
I-I shouldn't have said anything.
Wait, did you give him another target?
Shouldn't have said anything. I shouldn't have...
- Mark, where is he going? - Other than the hospitals,
I don't know where to score drugs,
but I knew where we could get money for 'em.
- Mark, where did you send him? - I...
She only ever tried to help me.
- Who? - I'm sorry.
I'm so sorry.
- I'm so sorry. - Guys!
- Get a hold of her? - No, she's not picking up.
You got here fast.
Well, I knew if I didn't, uh,
you'd be the first one through the door.
Wait here.
Police!
Put the gun down, Judge.
Cheryl, you okay?
- He just came at me, I just... - Okay.
All right, okay, okay.
Give me your weapon.
Officer.
- Description matches Hicks. - Who?
Siriani's accomplice from the clinic.
He gave Hicks your address.
No, but I-I was just trying to help.
- Why... - I know, I know, I know.
It's okay, it's okay.
This way.
I really don't think this is a good idea.
We need your help, Katrina,
so that nobody else ends up like Wayne.
I've already told you everything I know.
Like how you were stealing drugs
from your own ambulance?
We saw your doctored logs.
That's why you told
Higgins to keep us out of the hospital, right?
No, I just wanted privacy.
I mean, to move on from all this. Please.
I know, Katrina. I want to move on, too.
But none of us can move on
until we know who the hell did this.
God, he's got a wife and kids.
Don't you think they'd want to know
more than anyone else who did this?
- If they ever found out... - Found out what, Katrina?
Hmm?
Did Wayne have something to do with these robberies?
Yeah.
Wayne got involved with some bad people.
Helped them set up ambulances and...
gave them the technical expertise to rob them.
In exchange for a profit?
Yes.
And you were innocent in all of this?
No, I tried to get him to stop,
but he kept saying just one more...
Until somebody got killed.
It was an accident.
After that other EMT died,
Wayne wanted out, but...
he knew too much.
It made him a loose end, and...
- I... Oh, God... - Now what?
You're afraid that you're a loose end, too?
They saw me.
They know I was his partner.
Nothing's gonna happen to you.
But you need to tell us how these buses are getting hit.
Now.
Katrina said the call would come in before rush hour.
You got somewhere you're supposed to be?
Yeah, I was gonna try to catch Eddie.
- Talk to her for a sec. - Mm.
Trouble in paradise?
- It's fine. - Mm-hmm.
Apologize.
- You don't even know what happened. - Doesn't matter.
- Apologize. - He's right.
See?
There's a head injury at 3100 Graham Avenue.
Female, approximately 75 years of age.
So, Wayne...
patched into the dispatch?
Yeah, sent the fattest lambs to the slaughter.
And taught these thugs how to use it, too.
I, uh...
I appreciate you getting to the bottom of this.
We appreciate your help, too.
There is an unconscious male,
side of Bedford housing projects,
approximately 21 years of age, lying on the pavement.
Caller states male does not appear to be breathing.
- Got it? - Yeah.
It's go time.
Police! Don't move!
Oh.
Hands up!
Keep 'em up. Keep 'em up.
You set us up.
Yeah. You know what they call that?
Taste of your own medicine.
You're damn right.
And... one other thing
before we...
Kick the elephant further down the road?
If you are unhappy
or uncomfortable with any of your security detail,
please come to me directly.
In terms of?
Any private activity you enjoy
that you might enjoy less with cops around.
It's been a while since I got high.
And if I were to partake, it would be an edible.
But thank you.
Hey, just making the offer.
What else did your research on me turn up?
That you believe one of the keys to your success
is understanding how delivery systems need to work,
and...
you misread our homeless problem that way.
How so?
Well, you were asking my cops,
who were trained to uphold the law,
to go around the law and round up innocent civilians.
49 degrees.
Is a loophole you snapped your fingers and got.
One that worked.
Only at a glance.
Look, people got the homeless off the street,
but then the shelters backed up,
and they got the homeless on other streets.
We're working on that.
Well, good. But until there's a plan in place,
the cart is still before the horse.
At least there's a cart and a horse out there now.
Look, Mr. Mayor, people didn't vote
to have vagrants on their block shipped off to their neighbors.
Maybe some restaurateurs did,
but we got a whole lot more regular folk
than we do restaurateurs.
You about done?
No. I'm not done.
There is one more important aspect to consider.
We've trained a couple of generations of cops now
in the importance of community policing.
Mass roundups without valid charges
goes against that training.
All this because one poor homeless guy had a heart attack?
Oh, come on, Mr. Mayor.
- What? - If you found rodent droppings
in one of your markets, would you think
you only had one rodent?
Then how come...?
Well...
Deputy Commissioner Moore is very adept
at moving incidents and timelines around
to make them look isolated and disconnected.
He likes 18-year-old Finnerty's,
if you're in a thankful mood.
How bad?
Well, could've been worse.
Let's avoid worse.
I can't let these streets turn into a flophouse after dark.
Nobody wants that.
I don't want that.
Let us give you a plan.
Why now? You've been top cop for years.
With bosses who've always pushed back.
You hear "no" enough, eventually you save your breath.
But...
Mr. Mayor, this feels different.
And...
I've taken up enough of your time.
Whatever plan you've got, I need it yesterday.
Okay.
And, Frank...
don't do a little jig in the elevator.
I know what a massage feels like.
Copy that, boss.
Thanks for getting the groceries.
Yup.
I shouldn't have said that stuff about your dad.
You mean calling him a crook?
I didn't say that exactly.
But that's what you meant.
And it's true.
But I'm the only one that's allowed to say that.
Of course.
I'm sorry.
Good.
And I do need your help.
You saying you're gonna take the money?
I guess I am.
St. Jamie taking dirty money.
Potentially dirty.
- Hmm. - But the thing is,
I already gave half of it away.
What? To who?
Found a family, the Parkers, they lost a big chunk
of their savings when your dad...
Stole it from them.
Yeah.
I haven't given it to 'em yet, but...
I thought if we agreed...
Their oldest is starting college,
and I thought we could make a discreet scholarship.
Claw the money back ourselves.
You got it.
We use the other half?
Call it a compromise?
One condition.
What's that?
I'm working Saturdays, too.
Okay.
Mm.
Joint accounts? Really?
Yeah, really.
What's up with the "really"?
I just never got that.
Especially if both spouses are working.
- Linda and I never had a joint account. - Well, that just sounds
like a lot of extra paperwork.
Yeah, and it saves a lot of extra headaches
when you have to constantly ask the other spouse,
"Do you mind if I splurge on this, honey?"
- To each his own. - Right.
Blink if you're being manipulated.
Hey.
Hey, it was a mutual decision, all right?
Not sharing your bank account with your wife?
I never even considered that an option.
Me, either.
Well, plenty of people don't.
Most divorce lawyers will tell you that joint finances
is better for the marriage.
Keeps everyone honest.
Yeah, but then you can't hide
all your extracurricular activities.
You're a real Cupid these days, aren't you?
- Just being a realist. - Venmo,
PayPal, Apple Pay...
those are the new checking accounts.
Why would you want to juggle a bunch
of old bank statements on top of that?
- Because... cash. - Yeah.
On its way out. Sorry.
Eventually someone
says that about everything.
I don't buy it.
People rarely
carry cash anymore.
- I do. - Me, too.
Me, three. I love cash.
I love the numbers in my savings account.
Gee. Even I don't have one of those anymore.
Well, I do,
and I still have the statements from when I first opened it.
- What? - It's like a timeline
of my life in bucks.
You know, truth be told, cash was an effective weapon
when I was a cop.
Amen to that.
How was cash a weapon?
Well, not to leave this table, but back in the day,
if you needed some information from someone,
you could pull out your shield,
or you could pull out your nightstick,
or maybe even your weapon on occasion,
but most effective... you pulled out your $20 bill.
And you can take that to the bank.
Exactly.