Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent (2024) s03e04 Episode Script
Forget Me Not
1
[NARRATOR]: In Toronto's war on crime,
the worst offenders are
pursued by the detectives
of the Specialized Criminal
Investigations Unit.
These are their stories.
[ECHOING GAVEL]
So there I was,
centre field, Exhibition Stadium,
drunk as a skunk, no pants.
Dave Stieb on the mound.
So I says, "Pitch me one, Davie.
I'll end your no-hitter."
[LAUGHING]
Oh, Benny, you are such a liar.
- Don't you believe me, Prim?
- Prim?
Hey, it's Maggie, you dimwit.
I've slept with half the men in here,
so don't you dare call me Prim.
- [CHUCKLING]: Sorry.
- I'll tell you what.
Let me try on that
swanky gold ring of yours
and then I'll call it square.
Easy, Cleopatra.
Mark Anthony here
needs his afternoon nap.
Well, I guess you must be the, uh, asp.
I wouldn't be alive without you.
- Just doing my job.
- I've met other social workers,
Ethan, they judge. You care.
Hmm.
Which is why I got you something.
Kyle, you know I can't accept gifts.
- It's not that kind of gift.
- What is it?
[CITY DIN]
The answer to the question
you keep asking people.
[INTRIGUING MUSIC]
Ethan. What's up? You alright?
You knew.
Didn't you?
All this time?
Hey. W-why don't you get in the car?
[STAMMERING]: We'll talk about
I don't wanna get in your car.
I want the truth.
[PIANO PLAYING] Be sure it's true ♪
When you say ♪
I love you ♪
- [MUSIC CONTINUES IN BACKGROUND]
- We accommodate all religious
days in advance and on Sunday nights,
your mom can sip a cocktail or a boost.
[CHUCKLING] While she enjoys music
she loves. Rose and
Dario come by once a month
to see their friend Benny and entertain.
They're a real hoot.
'Cause these words ♪
Were spoken ♪
I love you ♪
[CROWD COOING] Yes, I do ♪
- [MUSIC CONTINUES IN BACKGROUND]
- Keep it clean, ma.
Someone's gonna have a heart attack.
[LAUGHING] Whoa, ma.
Can you believe a mug like your dad
tickling the ivories like that, Matteo?
Apparently, Liberace used to
roll grissini to get better at piano.
- That true?
- [CHUCKLING]: No, Benny.
When you say, I love you ♪
It's a sin to tell a lie ♪
[MUSIC STOPS]
[SIPPING]
[WHISPERING]: There you go.
[GROANING]
God. You smell good, honey.
[CHUCKLING]
Hmm, I can't get you out of my head.
[WHISPERING]: I know, Benny.
- I know.
- Mm-hmm.
[TENSE MUSIC]
[SHUSHING GENTLY]
There you go.
[SHUSHING GENTLY]
[TENSE MUSIC CONTINUES]
Where are we going?
It's so cold.
[GROANING]: Prim.
How'd we get here, baby?
[THEME MUSIC]
His name's Benny Donahue.
He came to Gracewood a year ago.
- Who found the body?
- One of the staff workers.
In house doctor pronounced him dead.
Was about to wheel him
inside, but I told him
to back away and called you.
Hmm. Poor guy, it was
only minus 12 last night.
Would've taken three, four hours
for the hypothermia to take him.
So the home executive director said that
this was not Benny's
first late night outing.
Apparently, they found him wandering
various parts of the park
over the last month or so.
This wasn't an accident.
Uh, slippers match these
indents in the turf,
but the indents are pointed.
Made with the balls of the feet.
If Benny wheeled himself out,
he'd be digging his heels in
dragging, not pushing.
He didn't do this.
Someone wore his slippers.
Someone brought him out here to die.
That mark on his left pinky finger.
Frostbite starts at the
very end of our extremities
and works backwards. That
mark's above the knuckle.
Hmm, Benny was wearing a ring
and he was allergic to it.
The blue skin, especially
around his mouth
and fingernails, that
could just be the cold,
but it might be
cyanosis. Lack of oxygen.
- Opioid overdose?
- Hmm, it's possible,
it was freezing cold last
night. Look at these sweat marks.
- [POLICE SIRENS CHIMING]
- Low exposure, overdose.
Combination of both.
Now let's call it in.
Who would do such a horrible
thing to a sweet old man?
Excuse me!
Is this going to be much longer?
Well, at least she didn't
snap her fingers at us.
That was a good catch.
[SNORTING]
Hey, Mark, can I ask,
what are you doing here?
[SIGHING]: Am I a suspect?
[CHUCKLING] Sorry,
it's a force of habit.
I was doing what I do
every morning before work.
Visiting my mom.
[TV PLAYING INDISTINCTLY]
[SOMBER MUSIC]
- Hi, Mummy.
- Hi.
How're you doing? It's a
beautiful day out there.
Next of kin as listed
here is Benny's son,
Dr. Sheldon Donahue. Does
he visit? Is he here a lot?
[SIGHING] Don't know.
I've never met him.
Hmm.
Did Benny have a personal care worker?
Yes. Gia Frank, she's off today.
Okay. Well, we're gonna need her number.
Uh, we'd also like, a
a list of all of
Benny's visitors, please.
[TAPPING ON KEYBOARD] [SIGHING]: Okay.
Here it is.
There are no visitors
for an entire year?
- Not even his son?
- That's what the log says.
- You don't find that strange?
- Not at all.
The lives of senior citizens
are lonelier and sadder
than the public cares to know.
Was Benny an opioid addict?
The file here says he had a prescription
for buprenorphine.
Benny has medication
for a chronic back pain.
It was bad. He could barely walk.
Well, either way, I don't
think Benny wheeled himself out
into the dark with a
head full of opioids.
And as I'm sure you're well aware,
any stories of negligence
surrounding a care home,
well, they seem to
snowball in the press,
so, Ms. Malboeuf,
your best look right
now is your complete
and total cooperation
with this investigation.
[INTRIGUING MUSIC]
- G-G-G-Gia!
- [VOICEMAIL BEEPS]
[CHUCKLING]
That's cute. Straight to voicemail.
Hmm. Bateman.
"Remember who you are."
Hmm. An affirmation?
He was reading Moll Flanders.
That's a story about repentance.
Maybe remember who you are
was a sign of a guilty conscience.
Could be a threat from
Benny's killer. [INHALING DEEPLY]
-
- It's, uh, lipstick,
so perhaps it belongs
to the elusive Gia?
Oh, let's get a car on
our, uh, missing care worker
and in the meantime, let's, you and I,
deliver the bad news in person.
Find out why Dr. Andrew
Donahue wasn't visiting his dad.
[ECHOING GAVEL]
Uh, Doctor, excuse me.
I'm Detective Henry Graff,
this is Detective Francesca Bateman,
- Toronto police.
- Hi, how can I help?
Well, Doctor, we've just
come from Gracewood Manor.
I'm so sorry to inform
you that your father,
Benjamin Donahue,
passed away this morning.
You're joking.
My father died nine years ago.
[INTRIGUING MUSIC]
Uh [CLEARING THROAT]
Doctor, do you recognize this man?
Never seen him before in my life.
So, this is not Benjamin Donahue.
No. Wait, or, are you saying
this guy was pretending to be my dad?
It's probably just a clerical error.
We're very sorry to have bothered you.
[SOFT COUNTRY SONG PLAYING ON RADIO]
- That's a nice piece.
- Mm-hmm.
Solid gold. Where'd you get it?
- A friend gave it to me.
- Hmm.
Just gonna go grab my loupe.
Okay.
[MUSIC CONTINUES]
So, uh, how much you want for it?
[CHUCKLING]
You know what? I change my mind.
Actually think I'm gonna keep it.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
- What's your rush?
- [GRUNTING]
Hey! Get back here!
Benny Donahue, John Doe,
whatever his name is,
suffered from NF1, neurofibromatosis.
You can see the telltale cafe
au lait marks on his torso.
I also found a fibroma
growing in his spine.
[SIGHING]: No wonder the
poor guy could barely walk.
I think Benny was a
smoker trying to quit.
Nicotine patch, although
strangely, his lungs were clear.
And, Detective, you were
right, the discolouration
around his pinky finger is most likely
a reaction to the nickel used
to fortify a 24-karat gold ring.
- You have a cause of death?
- Cause of death is hypothermia,
but the massive amount of buprenorphine
in his system didn't help.
Well, that many opioids in his system,
Benny wouldn't have made a peep.
- Also
- Oh, the blue fingernails.
No. Fingerprints. He has none.
They're burned off, chemically.
- What did our victim do for work?
- Well, we were hoping
you could tell us
that, because everything
the retirement home has on him is fake.
Hmm, hunch at the neck, tennis elbow.
Maybe he worked with his hands?
Mm-hmm.
- Who are you, Benny?
- [PHONE DINGING AND BUZZING]
Uh, uniforms have a 20 on Gia.
[ECHOING GAVEL]
- I didn't steal anything.
- No.
Is that because of your religion?
Um, no? Why?
The menorah on your cupboard?
No? Nothing? Rings no bells?
What? The crappy brass candlestick?
It was Benny's, wasn't it?
You see, despite his phony Irish name
we know that Benny was
suffering from neurofibromatosis,
a, uh, genetic condition
often seen in Ashkenazi Jews.
He gave it to me. I was good to him.
He wanted to thank
Thank me.
What about the ring,
Gia? Was that a gift, too?
God, I don't have his stupid ring.
Where were you last night
between midnight and four AM?
- Booty call. Chad something.
- Hmm.
- You can check my Bumble.
- Yeah, you seem real beat up
to learn that Benny died.
- Kinda comes with the job.
- Like dementia?
[INTRIGUING MUSIC]
When did you know he had it?
Dementia, that That
wasn't in his chart.
Oh, it wouldn't be, would it?
The symptoms had just started.
That's why he asked to
borrow your lipsticks
so he could write,
"Remember who you are"
on his mirror. And that's why he wore
the nicotine patch, to
stave off memory loss.
Benny wanted to stay lucid.
[SIGHING]: Okay. There
may have been some signs.
- We're getting somewhere.
- Look, some people
lose their memory, other
people lose their filter.
Say things they wouldn't normally say,
it was hard to tell.
Okay, so what kind of
stuff was Benny saying?
He used to always talk
about some girl named Prim.
And how he once pinked
a job from the lucky?
Or some guy George Choofallo, Chuffallo?
George Chuvalo? The boxer?
[SCOFFS] I guess.
Said that's why he lasted
so long against Allah?
Ali. Muhammad Ali. Maple
Leaf Gardens, 1966
Look, I didn't know
if any of it was true,
but he was always very entertaining.
Mm-hmm. Okay, Gia, where's the ring?
I threw it out. Honest.
I tried to sell it at the Sherburn Pawn
and the guy got really weird.
Grabbed me. It was
actually like, really scary,
so bye-bye ring.
What else can you tell
us about this ring?
It was gold, was it
heavy? Any distinguishing
- features, markings?
- Yeah, actually,
it had a carving of a bull on it.
Wasn't like I was gonna wear
it. I'm not even a Taurus.
No, you wouldn't wear that ring.
It would clash with
your new orange jumpsuit.
What?
- [DOOR SHUTTING]
- Pinked a job means
he made a suit with great care.
Hunch on the neck, tennis elbow.
Benny was a tailor.
Yeah, maybe the Lucky was a shop.
[ECHOING GAVEL]
[CITY DIN] Huh, Tom Ford,
- as we live and breathe.
- Who?
Tom Ford. The, uh, tailor? Designer?
I thought he was the guy who made cars.
No, that's me, Henry.
- What's your name?
- Joey.
Joey. Joey, you ever
seen this man before?
- Nah.
- Nah.
We'll we're gonna need
a record of employment
or pay stub, maybe a number
so we can call your boss.
Come on, bro. Some guy hands me cash
- to come in here and like
- And like, you know, what?
Keep the lights on,
don't burn the place down.
Almost sounds like a direct quote.
Okay, cool. That's cool.
[SOFTLY]: Tell me, Joey,
just-just between us,
where in the store are
you not allowed to go?
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[LIGHT SWITCH CLICKS] Backup?
Good talk.
Look at that Judy, the
middle seams on them.
What have we got?
That's a Colt 1911.
It's a beautiful piece.
[SIGHING]
Serial number's filed
off, tape on the grip.
No fingerprints, access
to sports celebrities.
It wasn't a bull on Benny's ring,
it was a cow with horns.
A sign of strength and equilibrium.
You're thinking our Benny's mafia?
I am.
And judging by his [SIGHING]
gun collection, I think our Benny
was a hitman.
Benjamin "Benny" Cohen,
AKA Benny the Gent, AKA the Mensch.
Never married, never had any kids.
Gia said he used to talk
about, uh, a woman named Prim.
Could be an ex-girlfriend,
but so far, we haven't found
- anyone with that name.
- Yup.
First Jewish hitman in the Toronto mob.
I've been hearing stories
about Benny the Gent
since I was a rookie.
Kind of like the Boogie
man of the underworld.
An old commander told me once
that when Benny was 20-something,
a mob boss refused to pay him,
so Benny sneaks into
the mob boss' house,
puts a gun next to his
sleeping son's head,
and pulls the trigger.
Boss comes running in,
Benny looks at him and
says, "That's an extra zero
on the end of what you owe me.
How rich do you wanna make me?"
[STAMMERING]: This is
exactly why it's gonna be hard
to narrow down a suspect.
Benny was a person of interest
in at least 15 murders
over the course of 40 years.
It's a lot of bad blood, a
lot of underworld debt to pay.
But since 2015, we have
nothing on Benny Cohen.
Find out which of our guys has
eyes on the Calabrian Mafia.
And see if they can
narrow down who exactly
would want this man dead.
[ECHOING GAVEL]
I mean, as far as we know,
uh, Benny stopped working
for the mob nine, 10 years ago.
Nobody's hired a hitman in a wheelchair.
Detective Novak,
if you were to take a wild guess,
which one of these guys
would want Benny dead
- after all of these years?
- None of 'em.
That's the thing,
they're all getting older,
moving to Florida. Calabrians have been
very quiet lately.
Well, it's unlike the
mafia to bear a grudge.
Sure. But Benny, Benny's freelance.
He worked for all four
leaders of the Calabrian mafia
in Toronto. You think
your answer's up there?
You have to talk to all those guys.
But, here's a word to the wise,
no one's gonna admit
to even knowing Benny.
[FILE CABINET OPENING]
Let alone employing him.
You want one of the big boys to talk?
You need to prove he had
a solid connection to Benny
and I mean, concrete.
That's not going to be easy.
- This is why criminals love Canada.
-
We are one of the most opaque
jurisdictions in the world
when it comes to identifying
the president of a company,
numbered company owned
by numbered company.
Another title search, another ghost.
All we need is a connection to Benny.
[SIGHING] If-if we can find
any kind of payment, we
can cross reference it
with mob-style killings
at the same time.
Okay, but without a clear paper trail,
I won't be able to tell
which family paid what.
We need to put names to these numbers.
[TAPPING ON KEYBOARD]
Hey.
Look, I just wanted to say, uh
And maybe it's none of my business,
but, um, if you ever
need anything, or you wanted to talk,
I'm here, okay?
You know that right?
[TAPPING ON KEYBOARD]
It's dementia. Early onset.
Oh, God, Mark. I'm so sorry.
You know, it just happened so quickly.
One day, she's living
an independent life,
the next she's stuck
in the middle of the 401
because she can't remember how to drive.
Jesus. Geez
How's she doing now?
She's forgotten most of the basics.
Names, dates, doesn't even
remember me half the time.
My brother and I compete with each other
to try to get her to say our names.
He sings her Abba,
I bring her Baskin
Robbins praline & cream.
Once in a while, she remembers us.
Says, "Thank you, baby,"
or "I love you, Mark."
[DOOR OPENING] Makes
everything worth it.
Hey.
Just got, uh, Benny's
bank records released.
Should be up on the server.
[SIGHING] Okay, now we're talking.
Huh.
$10,000 deposited
monthly going back years.
The last deposit was a week ago.
- Depositor?
- [TAPPING ON KEYBOARD]
Numbered company, surprise,
surprise. No name attached,
but it was briefly set up at
a retail space in Mississauga.
And it was sold by
- agent's name is Matteo Galatti.
-
Galatti.
Son of mob boss Dario Galatti?
AKA Il Macellaio.
The Butcher. His signature dish
was flaying people who betrayed him.
Dario used his numbered
company to keep Benny's
payments off his books.
Why would Dario be
sending monthly payments
if Benny was retired?
Maybe Dario got sick of paying
for a hitman who couldn't hit anymore.
Especially one with an occipital lobe
that was turning him
into a chatty Kathy.
Hey, buddy. You better
get your story straight.
Homicide is sniffing around.
- [ECHOING GAVEL]
-
You put it up like this
with your right hand,
this hand, you turn it toward you.
And with your left hand, you
turn it away from you, alright?
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Detectives, you could've
called, I would've answered.
Ah, we saw that the shop was open.
Took the chance you'd be
here. I'm a little peckish.
So, uh, the murder police
show up unannounced,
while I'm working with my family
with a line down the block.
You know, people could start
thinking the wrong thing.
Oh, what would the wrong thing be?
That a bakery used to be a butcher?
Il macellaio.
Sofia, belleza. Come, my dear.
- So what can I do for you?
- Look, Dario,
we understand your need
for sweet old man act,
but it's not for us. We know who you are
and that ring on your pinky
says it loud and clear.
We just wanna know
where you were the night
that Benny Cohen was murdered.
So you know who I am, huh?
[CHUCKLING]: If that were true,
you'd know that Benny and me,
we were like brothers
Well, Cain and Abel were brothers.
[BATEMAN CHUCKLING]
Well, if Abel saved Cain's life,
then things would've turned
out different for them.
What, so Benny saved your life?
Matter of fact, he did.
10 years ago, I had a home invasion.
These-these two lowlifes
tied up me and my son, Matteo,
and they robbed us. And when
they figured out who I was
They couldn't risk leaving you alive.
Exactly. And if Benny hadn't shown up
exactly when he did
So I have nothing but love for that man.
So much so that I pulled strings
and I paid to put him
in a private care home
when he couldn't walk properly anymore.
Well, you also paid him 10 grand a month
for the last 10 years.
The numbered company that paid Benny
was connected to a
building that your son sold.
My son is a real estate agent.
He has nothing to do with my business.
- Nothing.
- When was the last time
you saw Benny? Did you
ever visit him in his suite?
- I don't remember.
- You don't remember?
Oh, that's an interesting
choice of words,
considering Benny was
suffering from dementia.
- [INTRIGUING MUSIC]
- Benny had dementia?
Yeah, and you know what?
We heard it was starting
to make him a little bit talkative.
I don't know, maybe you
had some secrets with him
that you wouldn't want spilled?
[STAMMERING]: I didn't know
that Benny had dementia.
It's kinda good that
he went the way he did,
it was probably a kindness of God.
It-it would've killed us to
watch him go through that.
Enough to take matters
into your own hands?
The night Benny died,
I was at the Mount Dennis Legion.
Charity poker game.
You know what?
Here.
Enjoy 'em on your way out.
- [BELL RINGING]
- Well, his grief seemed real,
but, uh, I once knew a mob guy
who swore he never beat his wife,
even when I found him
standing over her dead body.
Yeah, well, empty visitor's log
has the mob written all over it.
Still begs the question, though.
Who else was left off?
So you're still saying that Benny had
no visitors for an entire year?
I showed you the visitor's log.
Okay, see, that's the thing about being
married to the mob, Charlotte.
It makes telling the truth
a little harder, doesn't it?
Mob boss shows up with his best friend,
tells you to look after him.
Well, I bet you're
gonna do what he says.
No, we get it. These are scary people.
But you
You run a tight ship, huh?
Look at that. Jealous.
- So what are the names?
- To be clear,
all I did was agree
to keep the log empty.
Okay, so who do we not know about?
A few weeks ago, my
assistant didn't get the memo
about not entering Benny's visitors.
She entered a name into
the log, I arrived and
Deleted it.
What was the name?
I don't remember the last name,
but the first name's Ethan.
So, no Ethans associated
with mob hits in the 90s.
And nothing in the aughts or the teens.
Nothing in Hamilton,
nothing in Montreal.
[SIGHING]
What about civilian murders?
Maybe this wasn't
connected to a mob hit.
[BUZZER RINGING AFAR]
Okay.
[INTRIGUING MUSIC]
Whoa.
Uh, not exactly a civilian,
but narcotics officer,
Vincent O'Hagen, was
murdered on Lake Simcoe.
Uh, case file says that
Benny was briefly a suspect
due to the gun that was
used, but then it got
attributed to a string of B&Es, but
Survived by his wife, Angela O'Hagen,
and son, Ethan O'Hagen.
Okay, Ethan O'Hagen works in
corrections as a social worker.
So we got the son of a,
of a slain police officer,
working with hardened criminals.
His father's death, unsolved.
Maybe Ethan hoped to find
out who killed his father
by working with the only people
in the world who would know.
[INHALING DEEPLY]
Other killers.
Maybe he finally found
the right suspect.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC SWELLING]
So, Ethan, who told you that Benny Cohen
- killed your father?
- Benny who?
Ah, "Benny who". Your father was a cop
and he was murdered at a
fishing cabin on Lake Simcoe.
Wasn't even on the job,
just trying to relax,
catch a few carp. It was
a senseless, awful murder
- and you wanted revenge.
- I said I don't know any Benny.
Well, the staff at Gracewood Manor
said that you visited Benny
in his suite, three weeks ago.
Do you wanna keep playing this game?
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
One thing I've learned on the job,
cellmates talk.
One of them squawked, huh?
You've been doing this
job, what, five years?
That's a lot of
dangerous men you talk to.
Did you ask them all?
[SHAKILY]: Wouldn't you?
If you thought you could find
out who killed your father?
Sure, he was your hero.
It became an obsession.
You wanted justice.
[MUTTERING]: Hero
- Right.
- He was a decorated officer.
- He
- Look.
Everything you're saying is true.
Yes, I wanted to find my father's killer
and yes, I planned to
kill him when I did.
So
Ethan.
Did you?
I couldn't.
I went to see Benny at the home,
I confronted him about everything.
It was so weird.
Benny didn't duck from it.
He admitted to killing my father.
He was regretful.
Atoning, even.
He told me things about
my father I never knew.
Like what?
Like the fact that my dad
was on the mafia payroll.
Excuse me?
Yeah. I, uh
I threw up after Benny told me that one.
[INHALING DEEPLY]
But after I thought about
it, it all made sense.
My dad had been taking
money from the Galatti family
since he graduated from police college.
Ethan, did Benny tell you why
the mob wanted your father dead?
Yeah, I hear some stash house
that got held up back in 2010.
Yeah, James Town towers.
The masked assailant, uh,
took down three Calabrian soldiers
and two innocent bystanders.
One of them, a six-year-old kid.
[SHAKILY]: It was my father.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC CONTINUES]
Apparently, Dad felt he wasn't being
paid enough, so, uh
He decided to get himself
a little cash bonus
before Christmas.
I spent my whole life,
trying to get justice
for a good man that, um
Well, he never existed.
Who was Vincent O'Hagen's
partner who was killed?
Ethan knew we were coming.
Maybe he still has a
partner in the force.
Jesus.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Okay.
God gave him one face,
he gave himself another.
[DOORBELL DINGING]
What can I get you, Detective Novak?
Uh, is your, is your husband here?
- No.
- Oh.
Can I give him a message?
Yeah, sure, I just wanted to say
how sorry I was to hear
about Benny Cohen. Really.
Benny was a good man. Knew
how to keep his mouth shut.
At least until recently.
I heard he was getting
- a little sloppy?
- You want to get to the point?
Sure. If Benny happened
to mention anything
to you or your husband about me,
I suggest you just forget it.
Or at least keep it to yourselves.
There are plenty more
photos where that came from.
[DOORBELL RINGING]
[DOOR SHUTTING]
- [ECHOING GAVEL]
-
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Walsh, come on, you gotta
pass the ball sometime!
I'm open!
- Put it up, put it up!
- Hopkins, it's all you.
Don't let me down.
Detectives, any news on Benny Cohen?
Uh, Ethan O'Hagen, uh,
your former partner,
Vincent, um
Benny killed Vincent,
Ethan found out and wanted revenge.
Ethan? Guys. There is no way.
You and Vincent were partners
for what, eight years?
- Were you close?
- Come on, guys.
Your partner's your family.
So how'd it feel when Ethan told you
Benny had killed your family?
It was 15 years ago.
[STAMMERING] Wounds heal.
Uh, if you guys are done trying to,
trying to shake me down
for Benny Cohen's murder,
I'm just gonna get back to my game.
Wounds heal.
Well, why-why would you
say that wounds heal?
This wasn't about revenge, Bateman.
No, we were wrong.
This is about betrayal.
You knew Benny was the first suspect.
And you also knew your partner
was on the tape, didn't you?
Question is, when did
you find out he was dirty?
Before or after?
- Look, detectives
- If somebody murdered
my partner, it would take 500 years
for my wounds to heal.
But you seem awfully copacetic.
Copacetic with maybe a
little tinge of guilt?
[STAMMERING]: What-what
are you suggesting?
Officially, Vincent
was on sick leave, yeah?
But he was actually
in hiding, wasn't he?
The fishing cabin where
he was killed, Lake Simcoe.
That cabin was owned
by your old captain.
You all had access to it.
Vincent's murder was
attributed to a string of B&Es,
so we stopped looking at the mob
because you made sure that
that happened. Right, Novak?
'Cause you couldn't have anyone asking
how Benny knew where Vincent was
because Vincent didn't tell
anybody, not even his wife.
No. But partners?
Partners always know
more than the wives.
Okay, look, this-this is insane.
Benny Cohen knew your
deepest darkest secret
and we believe you killed
him so he wouldn't share it.
No. No.
For 15 years. For 15 years,
I never touched that guy.
[SOFT TENSE MUSIC]
- I didn't have to.
- What do you mean?
Look, just to be clear,
I'm not saying that I gave
up my partner that night.
Th-This is
- This is all hypothetical, right?
- Sure.
Okay.
Hypothetically,
let's say
someone very frightening
does threaten your wife
and your children, and
all you need to do is
give an address.
A dirty cop goes down.
And your family stays safe.
Right?
Let's say you are terrified.
And let's say that you do it.
It all goes down, you
wake up the next morning
and your wife brings you pancakes.
And then she tells you a funny story
about leaving the key in
the lock overnight again.
And then you realize you
are never gonna be safe.
Not without insurance.
So you got insurance.
You tracked Benny, you followed him,
and you got a secret on him.
What, Novak? It's over. Benny's dead.
You wanna tell us the secret?
I guess it doesn't matter anymore.
Benny Cohen was having an affair.
With Rose Galatti. Dario Galatti's wife.
And I got pictures to prove it.
Rose Galatti and Benny Cohen.
These were Novak's insurance policy.
- Yes, they were.
- Lemme get this straight.
Uh, Vincent O'Hagen
robs a mob stash house,
kills five people.
The mob hires Benny Cohen to retaliate.
Benny threatens Vincent's partner
to find out Vincent's location
and Novak gives it up.
A cop served up to
the mob by his partner?
[SCOFFING]
This is gonna be a garbage fire.
Ah, it's a dirty cop who killed a kid
- at a stash house robbery.
- I can't hear the difference.
I'm just saying, look,
I kinda feel for Novak.
I mean, look, if somebody
threatened my kid
I don't know what I would do.
Uh, but Novak is not
admitting to anything just yet.
But it won't take much
to prove now that we know.
Okay. Leave it with me,
I need to start making some calls.
God, is it gonna be a long night.
Theo, please, if you can stay
and talk this through with me.
Mm-hmm. Of course.
I was thrilled to get
out of that dinner.
We need to find Benny's killer.
Now, I need to be able
to assure my bosses
that no more police were corrupted
- in the making of this movie.
- Well, Dario Galatti,
our suspect number one.
Mafia have a code.
You fool around with
the boss' wife, you die.
And more than that, Dario trusted Benny
as if he was his own
blood. Gave him a ring
that normally would
only go to a made man.
It wasn't just a gift, it was
[INHALING DEEPLY] It
was a show of loyalty,
an act of love.
Now, imagine that outsider,
the one that you've
treated like a brother,
has been sleeping with your
wife for your entire marriage.
Bye-bye Benny.
Do we know where Dario was that night?
Alibi's rock solid, but he's the boss.
They seldom have blood on their hands.
Great we're back to a button man.
Who is the new Benny
in the Calabrian mob?
Yeah, no worry. We're on it.
Good. I want this over.
[DOOR BELL RINGING]
[SIGHING]
[KEYS JINGLING]
Thank you for the ride, my love.
It's fine. I know you
don't like driving.
Hey, Matteo, before Benny died,
did you talk at all?
Did he say anything strange
or out of the ordinary?
- What do you mean?
- I don't know,
I'm just wondering what he was thinking.
The day before, he asked me
to come visit him, but I
I didn't have time.
- I feel bad now.
- Don't feel bad.
Benny wouldn't want that.
[CHUCKLING]
Grazia, amore.
- [BUZZER RINGING AFAR]
- Marco, the Ghost, Moretti.
Luka, Lucky, Ferraro.
Why does these sound so improbable?
Hmm, because it doesn't line up.
- [OFFICE PHONES RINGING]
- Well,
I meant their names, but,
uh, what're you talking about?
Benny's death. [SIGHING]
You know, if we're
right about the motives,
then this was personal.
This wasn't about business
or, uh, rivalry, or greed.
This was betrayal of a
Shakespearean proportion.
You think Dario did it himself?
It was too personal not to.
Maybe, except, uh, Il macellaio,
I mean, pushing an old man out
in the cold to freeze to death?
No, it's a little tame for a man
who was known for flaying people.
[OFFICE PHONES RINGING AFAR]
You know, it almost looks
like the work of a civilian.
[BUZZER RINGING AFAR]
- Like his son, maybe?
- Yeah, but I thought Matteo
wasn't following in
his father's footsteps.
Yeah, except Benny was
sleeping with his mother,
humiliating his father, and
maybe that was enough to
[RASPY VOICE, ACCENTED]:
Bring him back home.
Pull him back in?
As you can see, the old owners
didn't like cheap things.
And there's nothing
cheap about this view.
[DOOR OPENING] Or these floors.
- These babies.
- Blonde maple?
Hand-milled?
- [DOOR SHUTTING]
- That's very good.
- He likes to show off.
- I do.
Especially this little guy.
Do you mind?
Why don't you go check
out the wine cellar?
I'll be down in a second.
[INHALING DEEPLY] Detective.
I'm not sure if you've heard,
but I don't bake.
Maybe not, but, well,
you did assault a man
when you were 15 for
insulting your father, was it?
And on the night that Benny Cohen died,
your car was a block
away from Gracewood Manor.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
Seems Orwell was right.
Big Brother is watching.
Well, he can watch what he likes,
because I was home asleep that night.
So, your car just wandered off?
Benny saved my life. He
was like an uncle to me.
And I've seen that trick
before, you've been playing it
on my family for years. Get a new one.
That photo is real,
so we could get a warrant
for the GPS to corroborate it,
or you could just tell us the truth.
Save everyone a lot of trouble.
[GRUNTING NERVOUSLY]
I was home, I swear to you.
Matteo, wait.
Did Benny tell you
something before he died?
Did he try to pull you aside, maybe?
No? No, why does everyone
keep asking me that?
Who's everyone?
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC SWELLING]
You know what? You wanna keep chatting?
Talk to my lawyer. We're done.
Okay, Graff, what's going on?
Well, kid just showed his hand.
[DOOR BELL RINGING]
We're closed!
Well, we're not here for the crostini,
as delicious as they are.
[MATTEO, FAINTLY]: Ma, you're
almost ready to head home?
If you're looking for Dario, he's not
We're not here for Dario either.
We'd like to talk to you and your son.
And let's hope for all our sakes
that this conversation ends
before your husband arrives.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Ah, there he is.
Prodigal son.
I told you this afternoon,
talk to my lawyer.
We will. We just wanted to
clear a few things up first.
Yeah, I find baking an
interesting choice of front
for organized crime, hmm?
Bread.
Mana.
Food from the gods.
All made possible by a reaction of yeast
feeding on sugar, a fungus
getting rich off the
sweet of the innocent.
Carnage in history created
by something as simple
as mixing flour with water.
[GRUNTING]
[INTRIGUING MUSIC]
You see, baking has a recipe,
and the mafia has a code.
Strict rules of loyalty and retribution.
And if those rules aren't followed
as closely as the recipe, well
- it's mayhem.
- But I can't hope but notice
that brown mark on your hand, Matteo.
- My hand?
- Yeah, you have another one
on your neck, probably have
a few more on your chest,
- might wanna see a doctor.
- I did.
They said they're just birthmarks.
Well, that's because you didn't know
that one of your parents
had neurofibromatosis.
It's passed down from
a parent to a child.
- Detectives please.
- My parents don't have that.
Ma?
Is that what Benny had?
That's why he had trouble walking.
He had a tumour in his spine.
Ma. What are you saying?
I think you know what
she's saying, Matteo.
Maybe you've always known
it, deep down, that Benny
is your biological father.
And you, Prim.
Primrose,
the girl that Benny
could never stop pining for.
You know, when I found out
that Benny had been drugged,
I assumed the killer was just
wanting to keep him quiet,
but it was really an act of
kindness, wasn't it, Matteo?
You knew Benny had to go.
Before Dario found out the truth.
Because loose lips, they sink ships.
But even so, you didn't
want Benny to suffer.
'Cause you loved him, didn't you?
- Like only a son can.
- What? No!
Your car was a block away from Gracewood
the night that Benny was killed.
You can't account for your
whereabouts on that night
and now, look at that, we have a motive.
- No, please
- I think it's about time
- we call your lawyer.
- No! Ma-Matteo wasn't driving
his car that night. I was.
[INTRIGUING MUSIC CONTINUES]
I took it out of the driveway,
he has nothing to do with this.
Matteo, please, go wait
in the front, alright
No, I'm not going anywhere.
Please, someone explain
- to me what is going on?!
- Benny was saying things.
Secret things.
Things that if Dario found out
Dario would have to honour the code
and kill his beloved friend
in the most gruesome way possible.
If Benny knew what he was doing,
betraying the promises
we made to each other,
he would have done it himself.
You don't know that.
You can't know what was
in his mind. No one can.
And dementia or not, these
people are still in there.
They still appreciate kindness.
They still feel love
So what? Let him be butchered?
When you work for my husband,
he puts a card in your
hand and lights it on fire.
And says, as this card burns,
so will you burn alive if you betray me.
And he means it.
So you tell me, what
was I supposed to do?
Let my son be burned alive?
Let him see his mother die?
Let my husband torture Benny to death?
Oh, so you just left him
out in the cold instead?
- It wasn't like that.
- No?
[SHAKILY]: I went by his side.
I played our favourite song.
Poured him his favourite scotch and,
and made it so that
he wouldn't feel pain.
And I held his hand
as long as I could
before
What I did was a mercy.
And maybe so. But it was also murder.
[METALLIC CLINKING]
Please, Detective, let my mother go.
Okay. Take me. We'll say
that it was an argument.
[STAMMERING]: A debt
that Benny couldn't pay.
We'll say that I did it!
If my father finds out
- about this
- If Father finds out what?
What's going on here?
Dad.
[SPEAKING ITALIAN]
Let's let's go outside,
- let them finish up, yeah?
- What's going on here, Rose?
[SHAKILY BREATHING]
[SOMBER MUSIC]
What do you think Dario's gonna do
now that he knows who Matteo really is?
Gonna stick with the
code? Destroy his own son?
Ah, I hope not. Codes, vows, words.
[SIGHING]
There's one thing you learn
on the job, it's that
Everything can be broken.
[SOMBER MUSIC CONTINUES]
[THEME SONG]
[NARRATOR]: In Toronto's war on crime,
the worst offenders are
pursued by the detectives
of the Specialized Criminal
Investigations Unit.
These are their stories.
[ECHOING GAVEL]
So there I was,
centre field, Exhibition Stadium,
drunk as a skunk, no pants.
Dave Stieb on the mound.
So I says, "Pitch me one, Davie.
I'll end your no-hitter."
[LAUGHING]
Oh, Benny, you are such a liar.
- Don't you believe me, Prim?
- Prim?
Hey, it's Maggie, you dimwit.
I've slept with half the men in here,
so don't you dare call me Prim.
- [CHUCKLING]: Sorry.
- I'll tell you what.
Let me try on that
swanky gold ring of yours
and then I'll call it square.
Easy, Cleopatra.
Mark Anthony here
needs his afternoon nap.
Well, I guess you must be the, uh, asp.
I wouldn't be alive without you.
- Just doing my job.
- I've met other social workers,
Ethan, they judge. You care.
Hmm.
Which is why I got you something.
Kyle, you know I can't accept gifts.
- It's not that kind of gift.
- What is it?
[CITY DIN]
The answer to the question
you keep asking people.
[INTRIGUING MUSIC]
Ethan. What's up? You alright?
You knew.
Didn't you?
All this time?
Hey. W-why don't you get in the car?
[STAMMERING]: We'll talk about
I don't wanna get in your car.
I want the truth.
[PIANO PLAYING] Be sure it's true ♪
When you say ♪
I love you ♪
- [MUSIC CONTINUES IN BACKGROUND]
- We accommodate all religious
days in advance and on Sunday nights,
your mom can sip a cocktail or a boost.
[CHUCKLING] While she enjoys music
she loves. Rose and
Dario come by once a month
to see their friend Benny and entertain.
They're a real hoot.
'Cause these words ♪
Were spoken ♪
I love you ♪
[CROWD COOING] Yes, I do ♪
- [MUSIC CONTINUES IN BACKGROUND]
- Keep it clean, ma.
Someone's gonna have a heart attack.
[LAUGHING] Whoa, ma.
Can you believe a mug like your dad
tickling the ivories like that, Matteo?
Apparently, Liberace used to
roll grissini to get better at piano.
- That true?
- [CHUCKLING]: No, Benny.
When you say, I love you ♪
It's a sin to tell a lie ♪
[MUSIC STOPS]
[SIPPING]
[WHISPERING]: There you go.
[GROANING]
God. You smell good, honey.
[CHUCKLING]
Hmm, I can't get you out of my head.
[WHISPERING]: I know, Benny.
- I know.
- Mm-hmm.
[TENSE MUSIC]
[SHUSHING GENTLY]
There you go.
[SHUSHING GENTLY]
[TENSE MUSIC CONTINUES]
Where are we going?
It's so cold.
[GROANING]: Prim.
How'd we get here, baby?
[THEME MUSIC]
His name's Benny Donahue.
He came to Gracewood a year ago.
- Who found the body?
- One of the staff workers.
In house doctor pronounced him dead.
Was about to wheel him
inside, but I told him
to back away and called you.
Hmm. Poor guy, it was
only minus 12 last night.
Would've taken three, four hours
for the hypothermia to take him.
So the home executive director said that
this was not Benny's
first late night outing.
Apparently, they found him wandering
various parts of the park
over the last month or so.
This wasn't an accident.
Uh, slippers match these
indents in the turf,
but the indents are pointed.
Made with the balls of the feet.
If Benny wheeled himself out,
he'd be digging his heels in
dragging, not pushing.
He didn't do this.
Someone wore his slippers.
Someone brought him out here to die.
That mark on his left pinky finger.
Frostbite starts at the
very end of our extremities
and works backwards. That
mark's above the knuckle.
Hmm, Benny was wearing a ring
and he was allergic to it.
The blue skin, especially
around his mouth
and fingernails, that
could just be the cold,
but it might be
cyanosis. Lack of oxygen.
- Opioid overdose?
- Hmm, it's possible,
it was freezing cold last
night. Look at these sweat marks.
- [POLICE SIRENS CHIMING]
- Low exposure, overdose.
Combination of both.
Now let's call it in.
Who would do such a horrible
thing to a sweet old man?
Excuse me!
Is this going to be much longer?
Well, at least she didn't
snap her fingers at us.
That was a good catch.
[SNORTING]
Hey, Mark, can I ask,
what are you doing here?
[SIGHING]: Am I a suspect?
[CHUCKLING] Sorry,
it's a force of habit.
I was doing what I do
every morning before work.
Visiting my mom.
[TV PLAYING INDISTINCTLY]
[SOMBER MUSIC]
- Hi, Mummy.
- Hi.
How're you doing? It's a
beautiful day out there.
Next of kin as listed
here is Benny's son,
Dr. Sheldon Donahue. Does
he visit? Is he here a lot?
[SIGHING] Don't know.
I've never met him.
Hmm.
Did Benny have a personal care worker?
Yes. Gia Frank, she's off today.
Okay. Well, we're gonna need her number.
Uh, we'd also like, a
a list of all of
Benny's visitors, please.
[TAPPING ON KEYBOARD] [SIGHING]: Okay.
Here it is.
There are no visitors
for an entire year?
- Not even his son?
- That's what the log says.
- You don't find that strange?
- Not at all.
The lives of senior citizens
are lonelier and sadder
than the public cares to know.
Was Benny an opioid addict?
The file here says he had a prescription
for buprenorphine.
Benny has medication
for a chronic back pain.
It was bad. He could barely walk.
Well, either way, I don't
think Benny wheeled himself out
into the dark with a
head full of opioids.
And as I'm sure you're well aware,
any stories of negligence
surrounding a care home,
well, they seem to
snowball in the press,
so, Ms. Malboeuf,
your best look right
now is your complete
and total cooperation
with this investigation.
[INTRIGUING MUSIC]
- G-G-G-Gia!
- [VOICEMAIL BEEPS]
[CHUCKLING]
That's cute. Straight to voicemail.
Hmm. Bateman.
"Remember who you are."
Hmm. An affirmation?
He was reading Moll Flanders.
That's a story about repentance.
Maybe remember who you are
was a sign of a guilty conscience.
Could be a threat from
Benny's killer. [INHALING DEEPLY]
-
- It's, uh, lipstick,
so perhaps it belongs
to the elusive Gia?
Oh, let's get a car on
our, uh, missing care worker
and in the meantime, let's, you and I,
deliver the bad news in person.
Find out why Dr. Andrew
Donahue wasn't visiting his dad.
[ECHOING GAVEL]
Uh, Doctor, excuse me.
I'm Detective Henry Graff,
this is Detective Francesca Bateman,
- Toronto police.
- Hi, how can I help?
Well, Doctor, we've just
come from Gracewood Manor.
I'm so sorry to inform
you that your father,
Benjamin Donahue,
passed away this morning.
You're joking.
My father died nine years ago.
[INTRIGUING MUSIC]
Uh [CLEARING THROAT]
Doctor, do you recognize this man?
Never seen him before in my life.
So, this is not Benjamin Donahue.
No. Wait, or, are you saying
this guy was pretending to be my dad?
It's probably just a clerical error.
We're very sorry to have bothered you.
[SOFT COUNTRY SONG PLAYING ON RADIO]
- That's a nice piece.
- Mm-hmm.
Solid gold. Where'd you get it?
- A friend gave it to me.
- Hmm.
Just gonna go grab my loupe.
Okay.
[MUSIC CONTINUES]
So, uh, how much you want for it?
[CHUCKLING]
You know what? I change my mind.
Actually think I'm gonna keep it.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
- What's your rush?
- [GRUNTING]
Hey! Get back here!
Benny Donahue, John Doe,
whatever his name is,
suffered from NF1, neurofibromatosis.
You can see the telltale cafe
au lait marks on his torso.
I also found a fibroma
growing in his spine.
[SIGHING]: No wonder the
poor guy could barely walk.
I think Benny was a
smoker trying to quit.
Nicotine patch, although
strangely, his lungs were clear.
And, Detective, you were
right, the discolouration
around his pinky finger is most likely
a reaction to the nickel used
to fortify a 24-karat gold ring.
- You have a cause of death?
- Cause of death is hypothermia,
but the massive amount of buprenorphine
in his system didn't help.
Well, that many opioids in his system,
Benny wouldn't have made a peep.
- Also
- Oh, the blue fingernails.
No. Fingerprints. He has none.
They're burned off, chemically.
- What did our victim do for work?
- Well, we were hoping
you could tell us
that, because everything
the retirement home has on him is fake.
Hmm, hunch at the neck, tennis elbow.
Maybe he worked with his hands?
Mm-hmm.
- Who are you, Benny?
- [PHONE DINGING AND BUZZING]
Uh, uniforms have a 20 on Gia.
[ECHOING GAVEL]
- I didn't steal anything.
- No.
Is that because of your religion?
Um, no? Why?
The menorah on your cupboard?
No? Nothing? Rings no bells?
What? The crappy brass candlestick?
It was Benny's, wasn't it?
You see, despite his phony Irish name
we know that Benny was
suffering from neurofibromatosis,
a, uh, genetic condition
often seen in Ashkenazi Jews.
He gave it to me. I was good to him.
He wanted to thank
Thank me.
What about the ring,
Gia? Was that a gift, too?
God, I don't have his stupid ring.
Where were you last night
between midnight and four AM?
- Booty call. Chad something.
- Hmm.
- You can check my Bumble.
- Yeah, you seem real beat up
to learn that Benny died.
- Kinda comes with the job.
- Like dementia?
[INTRIGUING MUSIC]
When did you know he had it?
Dementia, that That
wasn't in his chart.
Oh, it wouldn't be, would it?
The symptoms had just started.
That's why he asked to
borrow your lipsticks
so he could write,
"Remember who you are"
on his mirror. And that's why he wore
the nicotine patch, to
stave off memory loss.
Benny wanted to stay lucid.
[SIGHING]: Okay. There
may have been some signs.
- We're getting somewhere.
- Look, some people
lose their memory, other
people lose their filter.
Say things they wouldn't normally say,
it was hard to tell.
Okay, so what kind of
stuff was Benny saying?
He used to always talk
about some girl named Prim.
And how he once pinked
a job from the lucky?
Or some guy George Choofallo, Chuffallo?
George Chuvalo? The boxer?
[SCOFFS] I guess.
Said that's why he lasted
so long against Allah?
Ali. Muhammad Ali. Maple
Leaf Gardens, 1966
Look, I didn't know
if any of it was true,
but he was always very entertaining.
Mm-hmm. Okay, Gia, where's the ring?
I threw it out. Honest.
I tried to sell it at the Sherburn Pawn
and the guy got really weird.
Grabbed me. It was
actually like, really scary,
so bye-bye ring.
What else can you tell
us about this ring?
It was gold, was it
heavy? Any distinguishing
- features, markings?
- Yeah, actually,
it had a carving of a bull on it.
Wasn't like I was gonna wear
it. I'm not even a Taurus.
No, you wouldn't wear that ring.
It would clash with
your new orange jumpsuit.
What?
- [DOOR SHUTTING]
- Pinked a job means
he made a suit with great care.
Hunch on the neck, tennis elbow.
Benny was a tailor.
Yeah, maybe the Lucky was a shop.
[ECHOING GAVEL]
[CITY DIN] Huh, Tom Ford,
- as we live and breathe.
- Who?
Tom Ford. The, uh, tailor? Designer?
I thought he was the guy who made cars.
No, that's me, Henry.
- What's your name?
- Joey.
Joey. Joey, you ever
seen this man before?
- Nah.
- Nah.
We'll we're gonna need
a record of employment
or pay stub, maybe a number
so we can call your boss.
Come on, bro. Some guy hands me cash
- to come in here and like
- And like, you know, what?
Keep the lights on,
don't burn the place down.
Almost sounds like a direct quote.
Okay, cool. That's cool.
[SOFTLY]: Tell me, Joey,
just-just between us,
where in the store are
you not allowed to go?
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[LIGHT SWITCH CLICKS] Backup?
Good talk.
Look at that Judy, the
middle seams on them.
What have we got?
That's a Colt 1911.
It's a beautiful piece.
[SIGHING]
Serial number's filed
off, tape on the grip.
No fingerprints, access
to sports celebrities.
It wasn't a bull on Benny's ring,
it was a cow with horns.
A sign of strength and equilibrium.
You're thinking our Benny's mafia?
I am.
And judging by his [SIGHING]
gun collection, I think our Benny
was a hitman.
Benjamin "Benny" Cohen,
AKA Benny the Gent, AKA the Mensch.
Never married, never had any kids.
Gia said he used to talk
about, uh, a woman named Prim.
Could be an ex-girlfriend,
but so far, we haven't found
- anyone with that name.
- Yup.
First Jewish hitman in the Toronto mob.
I've been hearing stories
about Benny the Gent
since I was a rookie.
Kind of like the Boogie
man of the underworld.
An old commander told me once
that when Benny was 20-something,
a mob boss refused to pay him,
so Benny sneaks into
the mob boss' house,
puts a gun next to his
sleeping son's head,
and pulls the trigger.
Boss comes running in,
Benny looks at him and
says, "That's an extra zero
on the end of what you owe me.
How rich do you wanna make me?"
[STAMMERING]: This is
exactly why it's gonna be hard
to narrow down a suspect.
Benny was a person of interest
in at least 15 murders
over the course of 40 years.
It's a lot of bad blood, a
lot of underworld debt to pay.
But since 2015, we have
nothing on Benny Cohen.
Find out which of our guys has
eyes on the Calabrian Mafia.
And see if they can
narrow down who exactly
would want this man dead.
[ECHOING GAVEL]
I mean, as far as we know,
uh, Benny stopped working
for the mob nine, 10 years ago.
Nobody's hired a hitman in a wheelchair.
Detective Novak,
if you were to take a wild guess,
which one of these guys
would want Benny dead
- after all of these years?
- None of 'em.
That's the thing,
they're all getting older,
moving to Florida. Calabrians have been
very quiet lately.
Well, it's unlike the
mafia to bear a grudge.
Sure. But Benny, Benny's freelance.
He worked for all four
leaders of the Calabrian mafia
in Toronto. You think
your answer's up there?
You have to talk to all those guys.
But, here's a word to the wise,
no one's gonna admit
to even knowing Benny.
[FILE CABINET OPENING]
Let alone employing him.
You want one of the big boys to talk?
You need to prove he had
a solid connection to Benny
and I mean, concrete.
That's not going to be easy.
- This is why criminals love Canada.
-
We are one of the most opaque
jurisdictions in the world
when it comes to identifying
the president of a company,
numbered company owned
by numbered company.
Another title search, another ghost.
All we need is a connection to Benny.
[SIGHING] If-if we can find
any kind of payment, we
can cross reference it
with mob-style killings
at the same time.
Okay, but without a clear paper trail,
I won't be able to tell
which family paid what.
We need to put names to these numbers.
[TAPPING ON KEYBOARD]
Hey.
Look, I just wanted to say, uh
And maybe it's none of my business,
but, um, if you ever
need anything, or you wanted to talk,
I'm here, okay?
You know that right?
[TAPPING ON KEYBOARD]
It's dementia. Early onset.
Oh, God, Mark. I'm so sorry.
You know, it just happened so quickly.
One day, she's living
an independent life,
the next she's stuck
in the middle of the 401
because she can't remember how to drive.
Jesus. Geez
How's she doing now?
She's forgotten most of the basics.
Names, dates, doesn't even
remember me half the time.
My brother and I compete with each other
to try to get her to say our names.
He sings her Abba,
I bring her Baskin
Robbins praline & cream.
Once in a while, she remembers us.
Says, "Thank you, baby,"
or "I love you, Mark."
[DOOR OPENING] Makes
everything worth it.
Hey.
Just got, uh, Benny's
bank records released.
Should be up on the server.
[SIGHING] Okay, now we're talking.
Huh.
$10,000 deposited
monthly going back years.
The last deposit was a week ago.
- Depositor?
- [TAPPING ON KEYBOARD]
Numbered company, surprise,
surprise. No name attached,
but it was briefly set up at
a retail space in Mississauga.
And it was sold by
- agent's name is Matteo Galatti.
-
Galatti.
Son of mob boss Dario Galatti?
AKA Il Macellaio.
The Butcher. His signature dish
was flaying people who betrayed him.
Dario used his numbered
company to keep Benny's
payments off his books.
Why would Dario be
sending monthly payments
if Benny was retired?
Maybe Dario got sick of paying
for a hitman who couldn't hit anymore.
Especially one with an occipital lobe
that was turning him
into a chatty Kathy.
Hey, buddy. You better
get your story straight.
Homicide is sniffing around.
- [ECHOING GAVEL]
-
You put it up like this
with your right hand,
this hand, you turn it toward you.
And with your left hand, you
turn it away from you, alright?
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Detectives, you could've
called, I would've answered.
Ah, we saw that the shop was open.
Took the chance you'd be
here. I'm a little peckish.
So, uh, the murder police
show up unannounced,
while I'm working with my family
with a line down the block.
You know, people could start
thinking the wrong thing.
Oh, what would the wrong thing be?
That a bakery used to be a butcher?
Il macellaio.
Sofia, belleza. Come, my dear.
- So what can I do for you?
- Look, Dario,
we understand your need
for sweet old man act,
but it's not for us. We know who you are
and that ring on your pinky
says it loud and clear.
We just wanna know
where you were the night
that Benny Cohen was murdered.
So you know who I am, huh?
[CHUCKLING]: If that were true,
you'd know that Benny and me,
we were like brothers
Well, Cain and Abel were brothers.
[BATEMAN CHUCKLING]
Well, if Abel saved Cain's life,
then things would've turned
out different for them.
What, so Benny saved your life?
Matter of fact, he did.
10 years ago, I had a home invasion.
These-these two lowlifes
tied up me and my son, Matteo,
and they robbed us. And when
they figured out who I was
They couldn't risk leaving you alive.
Exactly. And if Benny hadn't shown up
exactly when he did
So I have nothing but love for that man.
So much so that I pulled strings
and I paid to put him
in a private care home
when he couldn't walk properly anymore.
Well, you also paid him 10 grand a month
for the last 10 years.
The numbered company that paid Benny
was connected to a
building that your son sold.
My son is a real estate agent.
He has nothing to do with my business.
- Nothing.
- When was the last time
you saw Benny? Did you
ever visit him in his suite?
- I don't remember.
- You don't remember?
Oh, that's an interesting
choice of words,
considering Benny was
suffering from dementia.
- [INTRIGUING MUSIC]
- Benny had dementia?
Yeah, and you know what?
We heard it was starting
to make him a little bit talkative.
I don't know, maybe you
had some secrets with him
that you wouldn't want spilled?
[STAMMERING]: I didn't know
that Benny had dementia.
It's kinda good that
he went the way he did,
it was probably a kindness of God.
It-it would've killed us to
watch him go through that.
Enough to take matters
into your own hands?
The night Benny died,
I was at the Mount Dennis Legion.
Charity poker game.
You know what?
Here.
Enjoy 'em on your way out.
- [BELL RINGING]
- Well, his grief seemed real,
but, uh, I once knew a mob guy
who swore he never beat his wife,
even when I found him
standing over her dead body.
Yeah, well, empty visitor's log
has the mob written all over it.
Still begs the question, though.
Who else was left off?
So you're still saying that Benny had
no visitors for an entire year?
I showed you the visitor's log.
Okay, see, that's the thing about being
married to the mob, Charlotte.
It makes telling the truth
a little harder, doesn't it?
Mob boss shows up with his best friend,
tells you to look after him.
Well, I bet you're
gonna do what he says.
No, we get it. These are scary people.
But you
You run a tight ship, huh?
Look at that. Jealous.
- So what are the names?
- To be clear,
all I did was agree
to keep the log empty.
Okay, so who do we not know about?
A few weeks ago, my
assistant didn't get the memo
about not entering Benny's visitors.
She entered a name into
the log, I arrived and
Deleted it.
What was the name?
I don't remember the last name,
but the first name's Ethan.
So, no Ethans associated
with mob hits in the 90s.
And nothing in the aughts or the teens.
Nothing in Hamilton,
nothing in Montreal.
[SIGHING]
What about civilian murders?
Maybe this wasn't
connected to a mob hit.
[BUZZER RINGING AFAR]
Okay.
[INTRIGUING MUSIC]
Whoa.
Uh, not exactly a civilian,
but narcotics officer,
Vincent O'Hagen, was
murdered on Lake Simcoe.
Uh, case file says that
Benny was briefly a suspect
due to the gun that was
used, but then it got
attributed to a string of B&Es, but
Survived by his wife, Angela O'Hagen,
and son, Ethan O'Hagen.
Okay, Ethan O'Hagen works in
corrections as a social worker.
So we got the son of a,
of a slain police officer,
working with hardened criminals.
His father's death, unsolved.
Maybe Ethan hoped to find
out who killed his father
by working with the only people
in the world who would know.
[INHALING DEEPLY]
Other killers.
Maybe he finally found
the right suspect.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC SWELLING]
So, Ethan, who told you that Benny Cohen
- killed your father?
- Benny who?
Ah, "Benny who". Your father was a cop
and he was murdered at a
fishing cabin on Lake Simcoe.
Wasn't even on the job,
just trying to relax,
catch a few carp. It was
a senseless, awful murder
- and you wanted revenge.
- I said I don't know any Benny.
Well, the staff at Gracewood Manor
said that you visited Benny
in his suite, three weeks ago.
Do you wanna keep playing this game?
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
One thing I've learned on the job,
cellmates talk.
One of them squawked, huh?
You've been doing this
job, what, five years?
That's a lot of
dangerous men you talk to.
Did you ask them all?
[SHAKILY]: Wouldn't you?
If you thought you could find
out who killed your father?
Sure, he was your hero.
It became an obsession.
You wanted justice.
[MUTTERING]: Hero
- Right.
- He was a decorated officer.
- He
- Look.
Everything you're saying is true.
Yes, I wanted to find my father's killer
and yes, I planned to
kill him when I did.
So
Ethan.
Did you?
I couldn't.
I went to see Benny at the home,
I confronted him about everything.
It was so weird.
Benny didn't duck from it.
He admitted to killing my father.
He was regretful.
Atoning, even.
He told me things about
my father I never knew.
Like what?
Like the fact that my dad
was on the mafia payroll.
Excuse me?
Yeah. I, uh
I threw up after Benny told me that one.
[INHALING DEEPLY]
But after I thought about
it, it all made sense.
My dad had been taking
money from the Galatti family
since he graduated from police college.
Ethan, did Benny tell you why
the mob wanted your father dead?
Yeah, I hear some stash house
that got held up back in 2010.
Yeah, James Town towers.
The masked assailant, uh,
took down three Calabrian soldiers
and two innocent bystanders.
One of them, a six-year-old kid.
[SHAKILY]: It was my father.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC CONTINUES]
Apparently, Dad felt he wasn't being
paid enough, so, uh
He decided to get himself
a little cash bonus
before Christmas.
I spent my whole life,
trying to get justice
for a good man that, um
Well, he never existed.
Who was Vincent O'Hagen's
partner who was killed?
Ethan knew we were coming.
Maybe he still has a
partner in the force.
Jesus.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Okay.
God gave him one face,
he gave himself another.
[DOORBELL DINGING]
What can I get you, Detective Novak?
Uh, is your, is your husband here?
- No.
- Oh.
Can I give him a message?
Yeah, sure, I just wanted to say
how sorry I was to hear
about Benny Cohen. Really.
Benny was a good man. Knew
how to keep his mouth shut.
At least until recently.
I heard he was getting
- a little sloppy?
- You want to get to the point?
Sure. If Benny happened
to mention anything
to you or your husband about me,
I suggest you just forget it.
Or at least keep it to yourselves.
There are plenty more
photos where that came from.
[DOORBELL RINGING]
[DOOR SHUTTING]
- [ECHOING GAVEL]
-
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Walsh, come on, you gotta
pass the ball sometime!
I'm open!
- Put it up, put it up!
- Hopkins, it's all you.
Don't let me down.
Detectives, any news on Benny Cohen?
Uh, Ethan O'Hagen, uh,
your former partner,
Vincent, um
Benny killed Vincent,
Ethan found out and wanted revenge.
Ethan? Guys. There is no way.
You and Vincent were partners
for what, eight years?
- Were you close?
- Come on, guys.
Your partner's your family.
So how'd it feel when Ethan told you
Benny had killed your family?
It was 15 years ago.
[STAMMERING] Wounds heal.
Uh, if you guys are done trying to,
trying to shake me down
for Benny Cohen's murder,
I'm just gonna get back to my game.
Wounds heal.
Well, why-why would you
say that wounds heal?
This wasn't about revenge, Bateman.
No, we were wrong.
This is about betrayal.
You knew Benny was the first suspect.
And you also knew your partner
was on the tape, didn't you?
Question is, when did
you find out he was dirty?
Before or after?
- Look, detectives
- If somebody murdered
my partner, it would take 500 years
for my wounds to heal.
But you seem awfully copacetic.
Copacetic with maybe a
little tinge of guilt?
[STAMMERING]: What-what
are you suggesting?
Officially, Vincent
was on sick leave, yeah?
But he was actually
in hiding, wasn't he?
The fishing cabin where
he was killed, Lake Simcoe.
That cabin was owned
by your old captain.
You all had access to it.
Vincent's murder was
attributed to a string of B&Es,
so we stopped looking at the mob
because you made sure that
that happened. Right, Novak?
'Cause you couldn't have anyone asking
how Benny knew where Vincent was
because Vincent didn't tell
anybody, not even his wife.
No. But partners?
Partners always know
more than the wives.
Okay, look, this-this is insane.
Benny Cohen knew your
deepest darkest secret
and we believe you killed
him so he wouldn't share it.
No. No.
For 15 years. For 15 years,
I never touched that guy.
[SOFT TENSE MUSIC]
- I didn't have to.
- What do you mean?
Look, just to be clear,
I'm not saying that I gave
up my partner that night.
Th-This is
- This is all hypothetical, right?
- Sure.
Okay.
Hypothetically,
let's say
someone very frightening
does threaten your wife
and your children, and
all you need to do is
give an address.
A dirty cop goes down.
And your family stays safe.
Right?
Let's say you are terrified.
And let's say that you do it.
It all goes down, you
wake up the next morning
and your wife brings you pancakes.
And then she tells you a funny story
about leaving the key in
the lock overnight again.
And then you realize you
are never gonna be safe.
Not without insurance.
So you got insurance.
You tracked Benny, you followed him,
and you got a secret on him.
What, Novak? It's over. Benny's dead.
You wanna tell us the secret?
I guess it doesn't matter anymore.
Benny Cohen was having an affair.
With Rose Galatti. Dario Galatti's wife.
And I got pictures to prove it.
Rose Galatti and Benny Cohen.
These were Novak's insurance policy.
- Yes, they were.
- Lemme get this straight.
Uh, Vincent O'Hagen
robs a mob stash house,
kills five people.
The mob hires Benny Cohen to retaliate.
Benny threatens Vincent's partner
to find out Vincent's location
and Novak gives it up.
A cop served up to
the mob by his partner?
[SCOFFING]
This is gonna be a garbage fire.
Ah, it's a dirty cop who killed a kid
- at a stash house robbery.
- I can't hear the difference.
I'm just saying, look,
I kinda feel for Novak.
I mean, look, if somebody
threatened my kid
I don't know what I would do.
Uh, but Novak is not
admitting to anything just yet.
But it won't take much
to prove now that we know.
Okay. Leave it with me,
I need to start making some calls.
God, is it gonna be a long night.
Theo, please, if you can stay
and talk this through with me.
Mm-hmm. Of course.
I was thrilled to get
out of that dinner.
We need to find Benny's killer.
Now, I need to be able
to assure my bosses
that no more police were corrupted
- in the making of this movie.
- Well, Dario Galatti,
our suspect number one.
Mafia have a code.
You fool around with
the boss' wife, you die.
And more than that, Dario trusted Benny
as if he was his own
blood. Gave him a ring
that normally would
only go to a made man.
It wasn't just a gift, it was
[INHALING DEEPLY] It
was a show of loyalty,
an act of love.
Now, imagine that outsider,
the one that you've
treated like a brother,
has been sleeping with your
wife for your entire marriage.
Bye-bye Benny.
Do we know where Dario was that night?
Alibi's rock solid, but he's the boss.
They seldom have blood on their hands.
Great we're back to a button man.
Who is the new Benny
in the Calabrian mob?
Yeah, no worry. We're on it.
Good. I want this over.
[DOOR BELL RINGING]
[SIGHING]
[KEYS JINGLING]
Thank you for the ride, my love.
It's fine. I know you
don't like driving.
Hey, Matteo, before Benny died,
did you talk at all?
Did he say anything strange
or out of the ordinary?
- What do you mean?
- I don't know,
I'm just wondering what he was thinking.
The day before, he asked me
to come visit him, but I
I didn't have time.
- I feel bad now.
- Don't feel bad.
Benny wouldn't want that.
[CHUCKLING]
Grazia, amore.
- [BUZZER RINGING AFAR]
- Marco, the Ghost, Moretti.
Luka, Lucky, Ferraro.
Why does these sound so improbable?
Hmm, because it doesn't line up.
- [OFFICE PHONES RINGING]
- Well,
I meant their names, but,
uh, what're you talking about?
Benny's death. [SIGHING]
You know, if we're
right about the motives,
then this was personal.
This wasn't about business
or, uh, rivalry, or greed.
This was betrayal of a
Shakespearean proportion.
You think Dario did it himself?
It was too personal not to.
Maybe, except, uh, Il macellaio,
I mean, pushing an old man out
in the cold to freeze to death?
No, it's a little tame for a man
who was known for flaying people.
[OFFICE PHONES RINGING AFAR]
You know, it almost looks
like the work of a civilian.
[BUZZER RINGING AFAR]
- Like his son, maybe?
- Yeah, but I thought Matteo
wasn't following in
his father's footsteps.
Yeah, except Benny was
sleeping with his mother,
humiliating his father, and
maybe that was enough to
[RASPY VOICE, ACCENTED]:
Bring him back home.
Pull him back in?
As you can see, the old owners
didn't like cheap things.
And there's nothing
cheap about this view.
[DOOR OPENING] Or these floors.
- These babies.
- Blonde maple?
Hand-milled?
- [DOOR SHUTTING]
- That's very good.
- He likes to show off.
- I do.
Especially this little guy.
Do you mind?
Why don't you go check
out the wine cellar?
I'll be down in a second.
[INHALING DEEPLY] Detective.
I'm not sure if you've heard,
but I don't bake.
Maybe not, but, well,
you did assault a man
when you were 15 for
insulting your father, was it?
And on the night that Benny Cohen died,
your car was a block
away from Gracewood Manor.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
Seems Orwell was right.
Big Brother is watching.
Well, he can watch what he likes,
because I was home asleep that night.
So, your car just wandered off?
Benny saved my life. He
was like an uncle to me.
And I've seen that trick
before, you've been playing it
on my family for years. Get a new one.
That photo is real,
so we could get a warrant
for the GPS to corroborate it,
or you could just tell us the truth.
Save everyone a lot of trouble.
[GRUNTING NERVOUSLY]
I was home, I swear to you.
Matteo, wait.
Did Benny tell you
something before he died?
Did he try to pull you aside, maybe?
No? No, why does everyone
keep asking me that?
Who's everyone?
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC SWELLING]
You know what? You wanna keep chatting?
Talk to my lawyer. We're done.
Okay, Graff, what's going on?
Well, kid just showed his hand.
[DOOR BELL RINGING]
We're closed!
Well, we're not here for the crostini,
as delicious as they are.
[MATTEO, FAINTLY]: Ma, you're
almost ready to head home?
If you're looking for Dario, he's not
We're not here for Dario either.
We'd like to talk to you and your son.
And let's hope for all our sakes
that this conversation ends
before your husband arrives.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Ah, there he is.
Prodigal son.
I told you this afternoon,
talk to my lawyer.
We will. We just wanted to
clear a few things up first.
Yeah, I find baking an
interesting choice of front
for organized crime, hmm?
Bread.
Mana.
Food from the gods.
All made possible by a reaction of yeast
feeding on sugar, a fungus
getting rich off the
sweet of the innocent.
Carnage in history created
by something as simple
as mixing flour with water.
[GRUNTING]
[INTRIGUING MUSIC]
You see, baking has a recipe,
and the mafia has a code.
Strict rules of loyalty and retribution.
And if those rules aren't followed
as closely as the recipe, well
- it's mayhem.
- But I can't hope but notice
that brown mark on your hand, Matteo.
- My hand?
- Yeah, you have another one
on your neck, probably have
a few more on your chest,
- might wanna see a doctor.
- I did.
They said they're just birthmarks.
Well, that's because you didn't know
that one of your parents
had neurofibromatosis.
It's passed down from
a parent to a child.
- Detectives please.
- My parents don't have that.
Ma?
Is that what Benny had?
That's why he had trouble walking.
He had a tumour in his spine.
Ma. What are you saying?
I think you know what
she's saying, Matteo.
Maybe you've always known
it, deep down, that Benny
is your biological father.
And you, Prim.
Primrose,
the girl that Benny
could never stop pining for.
You know, when I found out
that Benny had been drugged,
I assumed the killer was just
wanting to keep him quiet,
but it was really an act of
kindness, wasn't it, Matteo?
You knew Benny had to go.
Before Dario found out the truth.
Because loose lips, they sink ships.
But even so, you didn't
want Benny to suffer.
'Cause you loved him, didn't you?
- Like only a son can.
- What? No!
Your car was a block away from Gracewood
the night that Benny was killed.
You can't account for your
whereabouts on that night
and now, look at that, we have a motive.
- No, please
- I think it's about time
- we call your lawyer.
- No! Ma-Matteo wasn't driving
his car that night. I was.
[INTRIGUING MUSIC CONTINUES]
I took it out of the driveway,
he has nothing to do with this.
Matteo, please, go wait
in the front, alright
No, I'm not going anywhere.
Please, someone explain
- to me what is going on?!
- Benny was saying things.
Secret things.
Things that if Dario found out
Dario would have to honour the code
and kill his beloved friend
in the most gruesome way possible.
If Benny knew what he was doing,
betraying the promises
we made to each other,
he would have done it himself.
You don't know that.
You can't know what was
in his mind. No one can.
And dementia or not, these
people are still in there.
They still appreciate kindness.
They still feel love
So what? Let him be butchered?
When you work for my husband,
he puts a card in your
hand and lights it on fire.
And says, as this card burns,
so will you burn alive if you betray me.
And he means it.
So you tell me, what
was I supposed to do?
Let my son be burned alive?
Let him see his mother die?
Let my husband torture Benny to death?
Oh, so you just left him
out in the cold instead?
- It wasn't like that.
- No?
[SHAKILY]: I went by his side.
I played our favourite song.
Poured him his favourite scotch and,
and made it so that
he wouldn't feel pain.
And I held his hand
as long as I could
before
What I did was a mercy.
And maybe so. But it was also murder.
[METALLIC CLINKING]
Please, Detective, let my mother go.
Okay. Take me. We'll say
that it was an argument.
[STAMMERING]: A debt
that Benny couldn't pay.
We'll say that I did it!
If my father finds out
- about this
- If Father finds out what?
What's going on here?
Dad.
[SPEAKING ITALIAN]
Let's let's go outside,
- let them finish up, yeah?
- What's going on here, Rose?
[SHAKILY BREATHING]
[SOMBER MUSIC]
What do you think Dario's gonna do
now that he knows who Matteo really is?
Gonna stick with the
code? Destroy his own son?
Ah, I hope not. Codes, vows, words.
[SIGHING]
There's one thing you learn
on the job, it's that
Everything can be broken.
[SOMBER MUSIC CONTINUES]
[THEME SONG]