Forever Knight (1992) s03e03 Episode Script
Outside the Lines
[ROCK MUSIC PLAYING.]
Hi, George.
Hey, Terri.
[CHATTER.]
[PEOPLE SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY.]
What do you mean? I don't understand you.
MAN: Excuse me.
Excuse me.
Let me get a shooter over here.
Excuse me.
[SNICKERS.]
Cool.
Wonderful.
Another night in hell.
Do we have to stay? We're doing business, Cass.
But J.
T.
, I don't wanna do business.
I wanna do something else.
MAN: Woo-hoo.
MAN 2: Cass.
Ai caramba.
[LAUGHS.]
Looks like the girlie wants it.
Well, Stu.
The girlie's gonna have to come and get it.
We got business to do, Greg.
Huh? Before pleasure? Huh? You wanna watch that thing.
It might end up in your own arm.
Yeah? Don't.
You wanna stay out of it? You stay out of it, J.
T.
[WOMAN SCREAMING.]
Hey, ladies.
Wanna see some real action? Check this out, man.
Come on.
[GRUNTING.]
[SHRIEKING.]
You idiot! Get off me! Help! Help! [SCREAMING.]
[BOTH GRUNTING.]
Yeah, that's good [DISTANT SCREAM.]
Move.
Move! [.]
Oh.
Cass.
[.]
NARRATOR: He was brought across in 1228.
Preyed on humans for their blood.
Now, he wants to be mortal again to repay society for his sins to emerge from his world of darkness from his endless forever night.
[GROWLS.]
[.]
Wow.
I heard about this place.
And you say I never take you anywhere.
Hi.
[POLICE RADIO CHATTER.]
Hey.
There's not a lot of blood.
No.
Most of it was in her blouse.
It was wadded up in the wound.
Ugh.
Was she, uh--? Raped? Yep.
Got a positive in the phosphate test, and there are abrasions.
Bruising around the mouth.
His hand? Well, we couldn't have her crying out and attracting a lot of attention, now, could we? Any ID on the body? No.
Apparently, she was here with friends, and her name is Cass.
Uh, weapon looks to be a sharp knife.
A single cut, no hesitation.
Is, um-- Is that rigor mortis? No, not really.
When people die violently or during a struggle, sometimes the lactic acid can build up in their muscles causing them to seize up.
[.]
So, can you give us a blood type on the killer? No.
Unfortunately, the phosphate test does not give a blood type.
It merely indicates the presence of sperm.
I'll have to go back to the lab, and cross and match for that.
See ya.
You okay? Yeah.
So I guess we should start questioning the witnesses? Uniform cops will have statements.
[SIGHS.]
[CHATTERING.]
Look familiar? Don't touch me, you fricking-- [GROWLS.]
Got a problem? Come on.
Let's go.
MAN: What's going on here? [GRUNTING.]
Go! Okay.
Ease up, buddy.
You're stronger than you look, pal.
Button.
Hey.
[GIGGLES.]
Nice to see you.
You too.
Bruce Spencer, Special Affairs.
Thanks for not blowing my cover out there.
And you're detective--? Knight.
With a K? Yeah.
What are you working on? Drug dealers, tweakers, cocaine, heroin.
Uh, those are the principals out there.
They bring it in, mix it down, deal it to the kids.
What can you tell us about the murdered girl? Well, she's one of them.
Look, I've been tracking them for, uh, seven months.
Uh, their supply route, their dealers.
You guys know the routine.
What about the murder? Um I know who did it.
Uh, J.
T.
J.
T.
Gary.
Look, uh, Cass was no angel, but she wouldn't give him the time of day.
You know.
And he kept after her, he wouldn't leave her alone.
How do you know it was him? Look, it's obvious.
She kept shutting him down and, uh he went after what she wasn't giving him.
VETTER: Now, Bruce, are you sure it was him? Yeah.
Okay.
I'm just asking.
How about some evidence? Do you have any evidence to back this up? Evidence? Take him down to the station, lean on him, he'll fold like a towel.
KNIGHT: Just humor me and give me something that'll hold up in court.
What part don't you understand? None of it.
None of it? Understand this.
You take them, slap them around.
It would take me 30 seconds.
It would take you an hour? Bruce, take it easy.
Smart guy like you.
I w-- I've been on this for 7 months.
And I get a textbook from who? Textbook? Now, listen, I'm talking about law here.
Law book.
Hey, hey.
Guys.
Give it a rest.
Bruce, this is our investigation now.
You got a different job to do.
Fantastic.
Thank you.
We got work to do, Button.
[GROANS.]
MAN: A little over here.
[PHONE RINGING.]
MAN 2: That's it.
I'm standing right here.
[MEN CHATTERING.]
[SAW GRINDING.]
It's the wrong form.
It's a property report.
What was that with Bruce? What? He's a good cop.
I've known him for more than 18 years.
He does things that no other cop could do, and he does them undercover.
Every day he has to live his life knowing that anyone finds out who he is, they'll kill them.
Yep.
Well, you know him better than I do.
Captain? [THUMP.]
Damn! Orthopedic shoes.
Can't keep them tied up.
Close that door, will you? Damn hammering's making me crazy.
I don't know what's wrong with the old walls.
Victim's name is Cass Percell, 23.
She was raped.
Probably while he was killing her.
She ran with a heavy-duty crowd: drug dealers, big time.
They had an undercover cop with them.
Great.
Bruce Spencer.
[SARCASTICALLY.]
Great.
My opinion too.
Bruce Spencer has a great arrest record.
Oh, yeah? Well, things aren't always as they appear.
You didn't hear this from me.
He's been charged with all this? His official record.
Someone's been cleaning up after him.
Commissioner Vetter has been helping Spencer since he was a rookie.
Spencer give you anything on the murder? Oh, yeah.
He told us who it is.
And? No evidence.
He just knows.
[.]
[MEN SPEAKING IN FRENCH.]
[SPEAKING IN FRENCH.]
[GASPS.]
[CLUNK.]
We had no chance at all.
[GRUNTS.]
They cut us down like dogs.
[GASPING.]
All dead.
Alldead.
A trap.
There's a traitor among us.
Cass Percell was pregnant, Oh, no.
Oh, yeah.
And she had a prescription from a gynecologist.
So I called her.
Apparently Cass told her who the father is.
Patient privilege? Not when your patient is murdered, and you give a damn.
Any of you guys run across someone named J.
T.
Gary? [.]
Wow.
You got a nice view up here, huh, J.
T.
? Okay.
You've got 20 seconds.
What the hell do you want? Fantastic.
Come here.
What? I want you to see something.
What? Come here.
J.
T.
: I don't see nothing.
What? [GRUNTS.]
BRUCE: Dark ground.
You and I are gonna have a little talk, aren't we? Aren't we?! [GRUNTING.]
Why did you kill Cass? I didn't.
I swear! Wrong.
I don't like people getting killed on my time.
What, you're a cop? Oh, man, wrong again.
[GRUNTS.]
So Bruce made a mistake.
So what? A mistake? Look, he said Cass wouldn't even let J.
T.
touch her.
Now it takes a hell of a lot of touching to make someone pregnant.
BRUCE [ECHOING.]
: Why did you kill Cass? J.
T.
: I don't have to tell you squat.
I'm gonna sue your ass for police brutality.
Shut up.
[GRUNTING.]
Nick? What? He's on the roof.
Who-- Who's on the roof? J.
T.
Take the elevator.
I'll take the fire escape.
Go ahead, Spencer.
Hit me some more.
Come on, you sorry bastard.
Scare me all you want.
You'll do more time than I will.
[LAUGHS.]
[J.
T.
YELLING.]
[.]
VETTER: Bruce.
[SIGHS.]
What? Bruce, what's happening? Look.
I cuff him, and he runs.
I cuff him.
And he Oh, my God.
[SIGHS.]
Come here.
No, it's okay.
It's just-- It's me.
Just-- It's me.
BRUCE: I went to J.
T.
's place to talk to him.
I figured I could get some information and pass it to Tracy.
Detective, uh, Vetter.
When I got there, he was ready to split.
I guess he figured he was gonna get nailed for the rape and murder.
So I had to break cover.
I arrested him cuffed him And, uh, as I was reading him his rights he bolted up the stairs.
I gave chase up onto the roof.
Uh.
I tried to save him.
I called out to him.
One second he was there And then he was gone.
There was nothing I could do.
[DOOR OPENS.]
Why are you being so negative about Bruce? How did he let a handcuffed suspect get away from him? And why would J.
T.
go up to the roof? I don't know.
I wasn't there.
And neither were you.
You didn't see the look on his face when I got out there.
He was torn apart.
[SIGHS.]
He's not lying, Nick.
And besides, he's your big brother.
Knight, Vetter, ME wants you down at the morgue.
Mr.
John Thomas Gary, purported father of the baby that Cass Percell was carrying.
And was he? Blood type is right.
Is that it? Your big news? We got the blood typing results back on the sperm sample.
Mr.
John Tomas Gary may have been the father.
He may even have been the killer.
That's your department, detective.
However, he definitely was not the rapist.
The blood types didn't match.
The rapist is AB neg.
John Thomas is B positive.
Not even close.
[SIGHS.]
Well, maybe you made a mistake.
I don't think so.
That is about as close to certain as medicine ever gets.
Bruce was wrong.
It happens.
Anything else? Cass had single cut to the throat, severing the trachea and the right carotid and jugular.
Cause of death was exsanguination.
Blood loss.
And like you said, the murder weapon is very sharp.
Maybe something like a filleting knife.
Or a scalpel or straight razor.
Could be.
Killer is likely left-handed.
The bruising around her mouth indicates that he was holding her like this: Right hand over the mouth, thumb under the chin.
And, as we all know, people almost never hold a knife in their weak-sided hand, which means he's-- Left-handed.
The deepest part of the cut was on the right hand side.
[IMITATES SLICING.]
Nice guy.
Probably got off as much on the murder as he did on the sex.
And I wouldn't be surprised if he had done something like this before.
And is likely to do it again.
I hope you guys have a plan to bring him down, fast.
[.]
[SPEAKING IN FRENCH.]
[SPEAKING IN FRENCH.]
You're right, of course.
De La Salle? No, he hates the Germans more than anyone I've known in all my life.
He would never betray us.
Marie-Claire? Leo was her brother.
Giroux.
Giroux.
Giroux.
I don't know.
Before the war he was always in trouble.
A liar, a thief.
Then there's you.
[SCOFFS.]
How does a man judge himself? A guilty man would have kept the gun.
I was just thinking the same thing about you.
Giroux.
Giroux is a man of no honor.
It can only be him.
Something like this we must be certain.
How would we know? We need a plan.
[FOOTSTEPS ABOVE.]
Okay.
When they get here I will tell them about the trap.
Tell them one lived.
That he knows who betrayed us.
Yes.
A-- And when Giroux tries to run-- He will convict himself.
And he will die.
[GUN COCKS.]
[SPEAKING IN FRENCH.]
They were betrayed.
Nazis were waiting for them.
They were all killed.
All except one.
Leo managed to escape.
He said he overheard the Nazis talking.
Talking about the traitor.
He said he heard the name.
Traitor.
No.
It's not me.
Then why did you pull the gun? Why, you were all looking at me.
I knew what you were thinking.
[GRUNTS.]
Liar.
Tie him.
He's gonna tell us a few things before we avenge Leo's death.
[SIGHS.]
I'm sorry, Marie-Claire.
Here's a possible.
Leather fetish and razor blades.
Glenn Davis.
He's been inside since '91.
REESE: "I don't know.
" "I don't know" is not an answer.
Get this to Fraud Squad, and find out why the hell they haven't made an arrest yet.
WOMAN: Yes, sir.
Counterfeiting hockey cards.
How low can you get? Do you really want to talk about it? Not on your life.
What's up? It's this J.
T.
Gary thing.
I don't like it.
What don't you like about it? Spencer busts a guy for rape and murder, and the suspect escapes, runs up to a roof, and Spencer can't stop the guy from falling? I mean, why does J.
T.
go up to the roof? Uh.
He knew he wasn't the rapist.
So, what are you saying? I'm saying I don't think we should take everything that Spencer says as chapter and verse.
Thank you.
I don't know.
Tracy's statement backs him up.
I know.
Uh, she was first on the scene.
I know that too.
You see something from down there on the street that would make you believe Spencer is lying? No.
Then, what do we think we should do about it? Uh, I don't know.
We can't arrest him.
All we have is a suspicion.
I talked to Commissioner Vetter.
Spencer's hip-deep in a huge drug case.
We'd lose that.
If he did kill J.
T.
, we have to prove it.
And we have to find who killed Cass.
Is he a suspect in that too? The statements from the club didn't clear anybody.
He lied about her, lied about J.
T.
Maybe there's something there.
What does Tracy think? He walks with the angels.
Hey.
I've been through the similar crime files going back eight years.
Rape and blades.
Nothing shows.
The doers are either dead or in prison.
Captain Reese.
Oh, yes, detective.
Uh, I'm done with my statement.
Checked with my captain.
Need anything else before I go? Nope.
Uh [SIGHS.]
I better get going.
Living the fast life's a dirty job, but someone's gotta do it.
[VETTER CHUCKLES.]
Ciao.
[SIREN WAILING.]
[PHONE RINGING.]
Hi, Stu.
Yeah, it's me.
Yeah, I was there.
Yeah, they hauled my ass in for questioning.
Yeah, I told them everything.
No, I didn't tell them squat.
[LAUGHS.]
Look, don't worry.
You know? Everything is going on the way it was.
Business as usual.
We just stay in the pipeline with J.
T.
's work.
Look, don't sweat it.
You startled me.
[SIGHS.]
I was just reassuring my people.
They tend to get a bit nervous.
Yeah, there's a lot of that going around.
People with a guilty conscience they tend to get nervous.
Yeah.
[SIGHS.]
Look.
I'm just, uh, tying up this, uh, drug case.
This bust, um I think I might need some backup.
Maybe Tracy and you want to get in on it.
Hell, it's gonna be a good arrest.
Plenty of credit to go around.
Commendations.
[.]
[CHATTERING.]
WOMAN 1: Where does he get off? WOMAN 2: He's a scummy guy.
Hi there.
Tell me you got something.
Up for some action? No.
So we're gonna have to talk to hookers tomorrow night? Got a problem with that? [SIGHS.]
Some of them thought I was interested in them for you know.
And? And they were saying things.
It was embarrassing.
Welcome to the street, detective.
[SARCASTICALLY.]
Thanks a lot, partner.
Look, about your friend, Bruce I'm sorry.
I grew up with him.
Bruce's first case, right out of the academy, he was, uh, undercover in Vice, busting hookers.
Got a tip from a girl, followed it, and in one night his team took down a white-slavery ring.
Just like Police Gazette.
Bruce made it all happen.
My dad prosecuted the case.
Just blew him away.
And he's been covering for him ever since.
[SCOFFS.]
What "covering"? You never let up, do you? Just because he was wrong about J.
T.
-- about him being the rapist --doesn't mean you question everything that he does.
Everybody makes mistakes.
Even you.
When you were assigned as my partner, I didn't like it.
Well, then-- I didn't want another partner after Schanke.
Now, listen.
Just listen.
You are a good cop.
You've got good instincts.
All I'm asking you to do is to step back.
Your friend, Bruce, look at him not like a friend but like a good cop.
I have.
I am.
About what you said about my dad covering for him Covering what? There have been reports of excessive force.
Oh.
he's not like that.
I've heard him and my dad talking late at night.
I always thought they were comparing notes.
Criminals, cases.
I hate this.
You don't know what it's like to doubt someone you've trusted all your life.
[GRUNTING.]
[.]
Nicholas.
[SPEAKS IN FRENCH.]
[GROANING.]
Nicholas.
[SPEAKING IN FRENCH.]
Nicholas.
I know what you were.
Claude told me.
And what were you before the war, huh? A hero? A champion? I made mistakes, but I am not a traitor.
For the first time here, in the Resistance, I was not Giroux the-- The thief, the liar.
I was Giroux the fighter.
I lost friends in that ambush.
You're the only one who could have betrayed them.
But I didn't.
I swear.
[SPEAKING IN FRENCH.]
[ SIGHS.]
Marie-Claire.
[SPEAKING IN FRENCH.]
[GASPS.]
GIROUX: Stay away.
I swear I'll kill her.
Like you killed the others? I betrayed no one! But you and that other fool will butcher me for nothing.
Traitors die, Giroux.
I am no traitor.
[HISSING.]
What are you doing? [GROWLING.]
Traitors die.
[NECK CRACKS.]
Hey, hey, hey.
[CHUCKLES.]
It's just me.
[ANGRILY.]
What he hell are you doing? I didn't want anybody to see us together.
Look, Button, I need your help.
Don't call me that.
What kind of help? I want you to get Knight off me.
He's trying to set me up for something.
No, he's not.
Look, he might be some kind of hero to you, but to me, he's putting my life in jeopardy.
He's investigating a murder case, that's all.
That has nothing to do with me.
I'm this close to bringing down a whole drug cartel.
Look, you get him off me, and-- And I'll write you into the report.
Your dad would like that.
[SCOFFS.]
If I impress my father, it'll be because of something I've done.
Thank you.
But you will talk to Knight? Yeah.
Thanks, Button.
Nice to have friends.
[DOOR OPENS.]
[.]
[DOOR CLOSES.]
[DOOR CLOSES.]
[SCREAMS.]
Shut up.
Shut up.
Shut up! Or I'll splatter your ass all over that fancy couch.
[GUN COCKS.]
Your name is Vicki, right? Well, Vicki you and I are gonna have a little talk.
Confirm a few things.
This container ship coming in from Quebec City.
Laptop computers.
The guts are ripped out, and inside, little white packages.
Does that sound about right? I don't know anything about any sh-shipment.
Wrong answer, Vicki.
VETTER: Don't even think about it.
You can press charges against him.
I didn't hurt her.
Shut up.
Are you sure? Just get him out of here.
All right.
Give me a call if you change your mind.
Let's go.
Look, she's connected to the importer.
I was just gonna scare her.
Everything they said about you is true.
Your partner's been working overtime turning you against me.
Nick has nothing to do with this.
Oh, yeah? Then why follow me? BecauseI wanted to prove to myself that you weren't what they said.
That everything people say about you is a lie.
What? That I got the best arrest record? That I took down more bad guys than anyone? No.
The part about the violence.
Look, you work on the street.
You know what it is.
[SCOFFS.]
Yeah, I do.
And it's not what you say it is.
This the part where I'm supposed to confess I slapped around street trash? That I've been a bad boy? Look, you gotta be tough.
That's what the trash knows, what they respect.
No, it's not.
It's what they get.
Look, I-- [.]
LAMBERT: We ran a full tox screen on that semen sample from Cass Percell's body.
Your rapist is a sick man.
For that I need a lab report? I don't mean just mentally.
He's physically ill.
The screen turned up strychnine in substantial amounts.
Strychnine.
[KNIGHT SIGHS.]
You okay? Yeah, I guess.
We going somewhere? Natalie found strychnine in the samples from Percell.
Strychnine's a poison.
Some heavy users cut their drugs with it.
Makes the heart race, gives them a bigger, faster rush.
Sounds like our rapist did tweakers cut with strychnine while he was having sex.
Okay.
So he's got a history of drug abuse, as well as violence during sex.
[CLEARS THROAT.]
Which means he sees a special kind of girl.
[ROCK MUSIC PLAYING.]
WOMAN: Hi.
I got two strong arms And this weight On my back I got freedom Girl I got I didn't say a word.
Nobody said you did.
You can't bust me if I didn't say anything.
You're right.
Hey, are you looking for something, cop? Or are you just looking? Hi, there, ladies.
I'd like to ask you just a couple of quest-- You come across anyone who's into sharps? Well, if they like leather, they tend to like sharps.
Well, that's why we're talking.
I thought you'd love me for myself.
Let's take this one step further.
Ooh.
An adventurer.
BRUCE: Hey, Button.
He's also into strychnine.
Oh, he likes to up the kinks, huh? Sound familiar? [SCOFFS.]
Hey, do I look nuts, honey? No, but maybe some of your associates aren't so cautious.
Yeah, yeah.
There are a couple of girls into the heavy stuff.
Who? Anne.
And Lisa.
Where can I find them? [SIGHS.]
I've been thinking about what you were saying.
Maybe you're right.
Maybe I've been using a little too much muscle to open doors and-- And to talk to people I wouldn't otherwise be able to, but-- You don't have to do it.
I just didn't like the way you were looking at me this morning.
So I'm gonna try it your way, all right? It's the right way.
I don't know, maybe.
[BOTH CHUCKLE.]
Look, I'm just gonna be glad when this is over.
The bust coming down soon, J.
T.
, Cass-- Hey, look.
The ME found out that the killer is a heavy user.
And he's cutting his drugs with strychnine.
Look, I gotta go.
Um good luck with your case, though.
[PEOPLE CHATTERING.]
Anything? Yeah.
There are a couple ladies we can check out over at the Pink Towers.
Let's just hope it leads to the right guy this time.
MAN: Left, right.
Left, right.
Left, right.
Left.
Left, right.
Left, right.
Left, right.
Left.
[SPEAKING IN FRENCH.]
Claude [SPEAKING IN FRENCH.]
No, I understand.
I would have killed him myself.
And now, for a while, we are safe again, my friend.
As safe as we can ever be.
[HISSING, GROWLING.]
[SCREAMING.]
This is not your fight, Lacroix.
I do not need your help.
That much is obvious.
You certainly didn't need my help with that other poor man Giroux.
I've been watching you.
You really should be more cautious, Nicholas.
You nearly tore that fool in half.
What if they'd discovered who and what you really are? Give her to me.
She is the traitor.
Oh? Oh, but that means you choked the life from an innocent man.
Don't you find it troublesome, Nicholas? This double standard you've adopted about killing and not killing, and playing at omniscience? Well, what are you waiting for? "Traitors die," don't they? [GROWLING.]
At least you'll be killing the right one this time.
Our cause is a just one.
[GROWLS.]
[ROARS.]
[GROWLING.]
And no more innocent people will die on account of her.
That is true.
And yet one can't help wondering what an effective strategy it is to work to destroy your enemy by providing him with his every wish.
Say, the granting of sexual favors to elicit trust in your enemy.
To learn his secret.
[GASPS.]
[SPEAKING IN FRENCH.]
[WHOOSH.]
[KNOCK ON DOOR.]
Lisa Kischner? Police.
We can come back.
Anne Kypreos is in 1605.
All right.
[.]
ANNE: You've been a bad little boy.
Mm-hm.
And you know what Mommy has to do to bad little boys, huh? [CHUCKLES.]
That's right.
You have been a bad little boy.
Mommy's gotta hang up now.
[CHUCKLES.]
Look, if you don't hang up Mommy's never gonna spank you again.
Office hours are 8 to 4.
Get the hell outta here, Spencer.
You just crashed my best customer.
What, 20 bucks a minute? What do you care? [SCOFFS.]
Hey! Where is he? I don't know.
You don't know? Mm-mm.
You don't know? Mm-mm.
Don't play games.
[SCOFFS.]
Honey, you couldn't afford my games.
You got a warrant? [GUN COCKS.]
Yeah.
Now, where is he? I told you I don't know.
What are you gonna do, beat it out of me? [CHUCKLES SNIDELY.]
Son of a bitch.
You know this guy? Yeah, he's a cop.
Man! You killed Cass, and now you're gonna die.
No, no, no, wait, wait.
Hold up! It was an accident, man.
Okay? She started to fight with me.
I just-- I didn't know what the hell else to do! I couldn't help it! Mm.
Baby! Yeah! You're getting soft, Bruce.
Bad news for an undercover cop.
At least he used to be.
What the hell you gonna do to him? Just what he deserves.
Stu Stu, wait! No, don't-- Shh.
Stu Stu, for God's sake, please don't kill me.
Do-- Stu! Stu, please don't! Don't.
[DOOR SMASHES OPEN.]
Drop the gun! Drop it! All right.
You want me to cut blondie here a little happy face, you keep coming, cowboy.
Come on! No.
No one's gonna die here.
Yeah? Just put the knife away.
[GRUNTING.]
You okay? Yeah.
[PANTING.]
Don't shoot! [GUN COCKS.]
You just gonna let him shoot me? Are you gonna do something? Bruce.
Do something! Bruce don't do it.
We'll take it from here.
[EXHALES.]
[QUIETLY.]
No.
[GRUNTS.]
[UNCOCKS.]
[STU SIGHS.]
Get up.
You're under arrest for the murder of Cass Percell.
[PHONES RINGING, CHATTER.]
[SIGHS.]
I'm sorry about this.
So am I.
But it's the only way it can work.
Yeah.
Hi.
Your, uh, importer's girlfriend, Vicki, gave us the final piece of the puzzle.
Raid was perfect.
Took everybody down, all the way to the top.
Good.
They're gonna charge you with the murder of J.
T.
Gary.
Figured that.
I'm sorry.
Me too.
You were wrong.
What? You were wrong.
I should've killed Stu when I had the chance.
Sometimes, you have to dance heavy use a little force.
[SIGHS.]
Instead I play it your way.
You almost got killed.
Nick was there.
Yeah, Nick's always there.
Lookthe bad guys won tonight.
I'm in here.
They're still out there.
You and Nick play by the rules, you get eaten up.
Maybe what I do is outside the law, but [CHUCKLES.]
justice.
No, it's murder.
[DOOR OPENS, CLOSES.]
[.]
Hi, George.
Hey, Terri.
[CHATTER.]
[PEOPLE SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY.]
What do you mean? I don't understand you.
MAN: Excuse me.
Excuse me.
Let me get a shooter over here.
Excuse me.
[SNICKERS.]
Cool.
Wonderful.
Another night in hell.
Do we have to stay? We're doing business, Cass.
But J.
T.
, I don't wanna do business.
I wanna do something else.
MAN: Woo-hoo.
MAN 2: Cass.
Ai caramba.
[LAUGHS.]
Looks like the girlie wants it.
Well, Stu.
The girlie's gonna have to come and get it.
We got business to do, Greg.
Huh? Before pleasure? Huh? You wanna watch that thing.
It might end up in your own arm.
Yeah? Don't.
You wanna stay out of it? You stay out of it, J.
T.
[WOMAN SCREAMING.]
Hey, ladies.
Wanna see some real action? Check this out, man.
Come on.
[GRUNTING.]
[SHRIEKING.]
You idiot! Get off me! Help! Help! [SCREAMING.]
[BOTH GRUNTING.]
Yeah, that's good [DISTANT SCREAM.]
Move.
Move! [.]
Oh.
Cass.
[.]
NARRATOR: He was brought across in 1228.
Preyed on humans for their blood.
Now, he wants to be mortal again to repay society for his sins to emerge from his world of darkness from his endless forever night.
[GROWLS.]
[.]
Wow.
I heard about this place.
And you say I never take you anywhere.
Hi.
[POLICE RADIO CHATTER.]
Hey.
There's not a lot of blood.
No.
Most of it was in her blouse.
It was wadded up in the wound.
Ugh.
Was she, uh--? Raped? Yep.
Got a positive in the phosphate test, and there are abrasions.
Bruising around the mouth.
His hand? Well, we couldn't have her crying out and attracting a lot of attention, now, could we? Any ID on the body? No.
Apparently, she was here with friends, and her name is Cass.
Uh, weapon looks to be a sharp knife.
A single cut, no hesitation.
Is, um-- Is that rigor mortis? No, not really.
When people die violently or during a struggle, sometimes the lactic acid can build up in their muscles causing them to seize up.
[.]
So, can you give us a blood type on the killer? No.
Unfortunately, the phosphate test does not give a blood type.
It merely indicates the presence of sperm.
I'll have to go back to the lab, and cross and match for that.
See ya.
You okay? Yeah.
So I guess we should start questioning the witnesses? Uniform cops will have statements.
[SIGHS.]
[CHATTERING.]
Look familiar? Don't touch me, you fricking-- [GROWLS.]
Got a problem? Come on.
Let's go.
MAN: What's going on here? [GRUNTING.]
Go! Okay.
Ease up, buddy.
You're stronger than you look, pal.
Button.
Hey.
[GIGGLES.]
Nice to see you.
You too.
Bruce Spencer, Special Affairs.
Thanks for not blowing my cover out there.
And you're detective--? Knight.
With a K? Yeah.
What are you working on? Drug dealers, tweakers, cocaine, heroin.
Uh, those are the principals out there.
They bring it in, mix it down, deal it to the kids.
What can you tell us about the murdered girl? Well, she's one of them.
Look, I've been tracking them for, uh, seven months.
Uh, their supply route, their dealers.
You guys know the routine.
What about the murder? Um I know who did it.
Uh, J.
T.
J.
T.
Gary.
Look, uh, Cass was no angel, but she wouldn't give him the time of day.
You know.
And he kept after her, he wouldn't leave her alone.
How do you know it was him? Look, it's obvious.
She kept shutting him down and, uh he went after what she wasn't giving him.
VETTER: Now, Bruce, are you sure it was him? Yeah.
Okay.
I'm just asking.
How about some evidence? Do you have any evidence to back this up? Evidence? Take him down to the station, lean on him, he'll fold like a towel.
KNIGHT: Just humor me and give me something that'll hold up in court.
What part don't you understand? None of it.
None of it? Understand this.
You take them, slap them around.
It would take me 30 seconds.
It would take you an hour? Bruce, take it easy.
Smart guy like you.
I w-- I've been on this for 7 months.
And I get a textbook from who? Textbook? Now, listen, I'm talking about law here.
Law book.
Hey, hey.
Guys.
Give it a rest.
Bruce, this is our investigation now.
You got a different job to do.
Fantastic.
Thank you.
We got work to do, Button.
[GROANS.]
MAN: A little over here.
[PHONE RINGING.]
MAN 2: That's it.
I'm standing right here.
[MEN CHATTERING.]
[SAW GRINDING.]
It's the wrong form.
It's a property report.
What was that with Bruce? What? He's a good cop.
I've known him for more than 18 years.
He does things that no other cop could do, and he does them undercover.
Every day he has to live his life knowing that anyone finds out who he is, they'll kill them.
Yep.
Well, you know him better than I do.
Captain? [THUMP.]
Damn! Orthopedic shoes.
Can't keep them tied up.
Close that door, will you? Damn hammering's making me crazy.
I don't know what's wrong with the old walls.
Victim's name is Cass Percell, 23.
She was raped.
Probably while he was killing her.
She ran with a heavy-duty crowd: drug dealers, big time.
They had an undercover cop with them.
Great.
Bruce Spencer.
[SARCASTICALLY.]
Great.
My opinion too.
Bruce Spencer has a great arrest record.
Oh, yeah? Well, things aren't always as they appear.
You didn't hear this from me.
He's been charged with all this? His official record.
Someone's been cleaning up after him.
Commissioner Vetter has been helping Spencer since he was a rookie.
Spencer give you anything on the murder? Oh, yeah.
He told us who it is.
And? No evidence.
He just knows.
[.]
[MEN SPEAKING IN FRENCH.]
[SPEAKING IN FRENCH.]
[GASPS.]
[CLUNK.]
We had no chance at all.
[GRUNTS.]
They cut us down like dogs.
[GASPING.]
All dead.
Alldead.
A trap.
There's a traitor among us.
Cass Percell was pregnant, Oh, no.
Oh, yeah.
And she had a prescription from a gynecologist.
So I called her.
Apparently Cass told her who the father is.
Patient privilege? Not when your patient is murdered, and you give a damn.
Any of you guys run across someone named J.
T.
Gary? [.]
Wow.
You got a nice view up here, huh, J.
T.
? Okay.
You've got 20 seconds.
What the hell do you want? Fantastic.
Come here.
What? I want you to see something.
What? Come here.
J.
T.
: I don't see nothing.
What? [GRUNTS.]
BRUCE: Dark ground.
You and I are gonna have a little talk, aren't we? Aren't we?! [GRUNTING.]
Why did you kill Cass? I didn't.
I swear! Wrong.
I don't like people getting killed on my time.
What, you're a cop? Oh, man, wrong again.
[GRUNTS.]
So Bruce made a mistake.
So what? A mistake? Look, he said Cass wouldn't even let J.
T.
touch her.
Now it takes a hell of a lot of touching to make someone pregnant.
BRUCE [ECHOING.]
: Why did you kill Cass? J.
T.
: I don't have to tell you squat.
I'm gonna sue your ass for police brutality.
Shut up.
[GRUNTING.]
Nick? What? He's on the roof.
Who-- Who's on the roof? J.
T.
Take the elevator.
I'll take the fire escape.
Go ahead, Spencer.
Hit me some more.
Come on, you sorry bastard.
Scare me all you want.
You'll do more time than I will.
[LAUGHS.]
[J.
T.
YELLING.]
[.]
VETTER: Bruce.
[SIGHS.]
What? Bruce, what's happening? Look.
I cuff him, and he runs.
I cuff him.
And he Oh, my God.
[SIGHS.]
Come here.
No, it's okay.
It's just-- It's me.
Just-- It's me.
BRUCE: I went to J.
T.
's place to talk to him.
I figured I could get some information and pass it to Tracy.
Detective, uh, Vetter.
When I got there, he was ready to split.
I guess he figured he was gonna get nailed for the rape and murder.
So I had to break cover.
I arrested him cuffed him And, uh, as I was reading him his rights he bolted up the stairs.
I gave chase up onto the roof.
Uh.
I tried to save him.
I called out to him.
One second he was there And then he was gone.
There was nothing I could do.
[DOOR OPENS.]
Why are you being so negative about Bruce? How did he let a handcuffed suspect get away from him? And why would J.
T.
go up to the roof? I don't know.
I wasn't there.
And neither were you.
You didn't see the look on his face when I got out there.
He was torn apart.
[SIGHS.]
He's not lying, Nick.
And besides, he's your big brother.
Knight, Vetter, ME wants you down at the morgue.
Mr.
John Thomas Gary, purported father of the baby that Cass Percell was carrying.
And was he? Blood type is right.
Is that it? Your big news? We got the blood typing results back on the sperm sample.
Mr.
John Tomas Gary may have been the father.
He may even have been the killer.
That's your department, detective.
However, he definitely was not the rapist.
The blood types didn't match.
The rapist is AB neg.
John Thomas is B positive.
Not even close.
[SIGHS.]
Well, maybe you made a mistake.
I don't think so.
That is about as close to certain as medicine ever gets.
Bruce was wrong.
It happens.
Anything else? Cass had single cut to the throat, severing the trachea and the right carotid and jugular.
Cause of death was exsanguination.
Blood loss.
And like you said, the murder weapon is very sharp.
Maybe something like a filleting knife.
Or a scalpel or straight razor.
Could be.
Killer is likely left-handed.
The bruising around her mouth indicates that he was holding her like this: Right hand over the mouth, thumb under the chin.
And, as we all know, people almost never hold a knife in their weak-sided hand, which means he's-- Left-handed.
The deepest part of the cut was on the right hand side.
[IMITATES SLICING.]
Nice guy.
Probably got off as much on the murder as he did on the sex.
And I wouldn't be surprised if he had done something like this before.
And is likely to do it again.
I hope you guys have a plan to bring him down, fast.
[.]
[SPEAKING IN FRENCH.]
[SPEAKING IN FRENCH.]
You're right, of course.
De La Salle? No, he hates the Germans more than anyone I've known in all my life.
He would never betray us.
Marie-Claire? Leo was her brother.
Giroux.
Giroux.
Giroux.
I don't know.
Before the war he was always in trouble.
A liar, a thief.
Then there's you.
[SCOFFS.]
How does a man judge himself? A guilty man would have kept the gun.
I was just thinking the same thing about you.
Giroux.
Giroux is a man of no honor.
It can only be him.
Something like this we must be certain.
How would we know? We need a plan.
[FOOTSTEPS ABOVE.]
Okay.
When they get here I will tell them about the trap.
Tell them one lived.
That he knows who betrayed us.
Yes.
A-- And when Giroux tries to run-- He will convict himself.
And he will die.
[GUN COCKS.]
[SPEAKING IN FRENCH.]
They were betrayed.
Nazis were waiting for them.
They were all killed.
All except one.
Leo managed to escape.
He said he overheard the Nazis talking.
Talking about the traitor.
He said he heard the name.
Traitor.
No.
It's not me.
Then why did you pull the gun? Why, you were all looking at me.
I knew what you were thinking.
[GRUNTS.]
Liar.
Tie him.
He's gonna tell us a few things before we avenge Leo's death.
[SIGHS.]
I'm sorry, Marie-Claire.
Here's a possible.
Leather fetish and razor blades.
Glenn Davis.
He's been inside since '91.
REESE: "I don't know.
" "I don't know" is not an answer.
Get this to Fraud Squad, and find out why the hell they haven't made an arrest yet.
WOMAN: Yes, sir.
Counterfeiting hockey cards.
How low can you get? Do you really want to talk about it? Not on your life.
What's up? It's this J.
T.
Gary thing.
I don't like it.
What don't you like about it? Spencer busts a guy for rape and murder, and the suspect escapes, runs up to a roof, and Spencer can't stop the guy from falling? I mean, why does J.
T.
go up to the roof? Uh.
He knew he wasn't the rapist.
So, what are you saying? I'm saying I don't think we should take everything that Spencer says as chapter and verse.
Thank you.
I don't know.
Tracy's statement backs him up.
I know.
Uh, she was first on the scene.
I know that too.
You see something from down there on the street that would make you believe Spencer is lying? No.
Then, what do we think we should do about it? Uh, I don't know.
We can't arrest him.
All we have is a suspicion.
I talked to Commissioner Vetter.
Spencer's hip-deep in a huge drug case.
We'd lose that.
If he did kill J.
T.
, we have to prove it.
And we have to find who killed Cass.
Is he a suspect in that too? The statements from the club didn't clear anybody.
He lied about her, lied about J.
T.
Maybe there's something there.
What does Tracy think? He walks with the angels.
Hey.
I've been through the similar crime files going back eight years.
Rape and blades.
Nothing shows.
The doers are either dead or in prison.
Captain Reese.
Oh, yes, detective.
Uh, I'm done with my statement.
Checked with my captain.
Need anything else before I go? Nope.
Uh [SIGHS.]
I better get going.
Living the fast life's a dirty job, but someone's gotta do it.
[VETTER CHUCKLES.]
Ciao.
[SIREN WAILING.]
[PHONE RINGING.]
Hi, Stu.
Yeah, it's me.
Yeah, I was there.
Yeah, they hauled my ass in for questioning.
Yeah, I told them everything.
No, I didn't tell them squat.
[LAUGHS.]
Look, don't worry.
You know? Everything is going on the way it was.
Business as usual.
We just stay in the pipeline with J.
T.
's work.
Look, don't sweat it.
You startled me.
[SIGHS.]
I was just reassuring my people.
They tend to get a bit nervous.
Yeah, there's a lot of that going around.
People with a guilty conscience they tend to get nervous.
Yeah.
[SIGHS.]
Look.
I'm just, uh, tying up this, uh, drug case.
This bust, um I think I might need some backup.
Maybe Tracy and you want to get in on it.
Hell, it's gonna be a good arrest.
Plenty of credit to go around.
Commendations.
[.]
[CHATTERING.]
WOMAN 1: Where does he get off? WOMAN 2: He's a scummy guy.
Hi there.
Tell me you got something.
Up for some action? No.
So we're gonna have to talk to hookers tomorrow night? Got a problem with that? [SIGHS.]
Some of them thought I was interested in them for you know.
And? And they were saying things.
It was embarrassing.
Welcome to the street, detective.
[SARCASTICALLY.]
Thanks a lot, partner.
Look, about your friend, Bruce I'm sorry.
I grew up with him.
Bruce's first case, right out of the academy, he was, uh, undercover in Vice, busting hookers.
Got a tip from a girl, followed it, and in one night his team took down a white-slavery ring.
Just like Police Gazette.
Bruce made it all happen.
My dad prosecuted the case.
Just blew him away.
And he's been covering for him ever since.
[SCOFFS.]
What "covering"? You never let up, do you? Just because he was wrong about J.
T.
-- about him being the rapist --doesn't mean you question everything that he does.
Everybody makes mistakes.
Even you.
When you were assigned as my partner, I didn't like it.
Well, then-- I didn't want another partner after Schanke.
Now, listen.
Just listen.
You are a good cop.
You've got good instincts.
All I'm asking you to do is to step back.
Your friend, Bruce, look at him not like a friend but like a good cop.
I have.
I am.
About what you said about my dad covering for him Covering what? There have been reports of excessive force.
Oh.
he's not like that.
I've heard him and my dad talking late at night.
I always thought they were comparing notes.
Criminals, cases.
I hate this.
You don't know what it's like to doubt someone you've trusted all your life.
[GRUNTING.]
[.]
Nicholas.
[SPEAKS IN FRENCH.]
[GROANING.]
Nicholas.
[SPEAKING IN FRENCH.]
Nicholas.
I know what you were.
Claude told me.
And what were you before the war, huh? A hero? A champion? I made mistakes, but I am not a traitor.
For the first time here, in the Resistance, I was not Giroux the-- The thief, the liar.
I was Giroux the fighter.
I lost friends in that ambush.
You're the only one who could have betrayed them.
But I didn't.
I swear.
[SPEAKING IN FRENCH.]
[ SIGHS.]
Marie-Claire.
[SPEAKING IN FRENCH.]
[GASPS.]
GIROUX: Stay away.
I swear I'll kill her.
Like you killed the others? I betrayed no one! But you and that other fool will butcher me for nothing.
Traitors die, Giroux.
I am no traitor.
[HISSING.]
What are you doing? [GROWLING.]
Traitors die.
[NECK CRACKS.]
Hey, hey, hey.
[CHUCKLES.]
It's just me.
[ANGRILY.]
What he hell are you doing? I didn't want anybody to see us together.
Look, Button, I need your help.
Don't call me that.
What kind of help? I want you to get Knight off me.
He's trying to set me up for something.
No, he's not.
Look, he might be some kind of hero to you, but to me, he's putting my life in jeopardy.
He's investigating a murder case, that's all.
That has nothing to do with me.
I'm this close to bringing down a whole drug cartel.
Look, you get him off me, and-- And I'll write you into the report.
Your dad would like that.
[SCOFFS.]
If I impress my father, it'll be because of something I've done.
Thank you.
But you will talk to Knight? Yeah.
Thanks, Button.
Nice to have friends.
[DOOR OPENS.]
[.]
[DOOR CLOSES.]
[DOOR CLOSES.]
[SCREAMS.]
Shut up.
Shut up.
Shut up! Or I'll splatter your ass all over that fancy couch.
[GUN COCKS.]
Your name is Vicki, right? Well, Vicki you and I are gonna have a little talk.
Confirm a few things.
This container ship coming in from Quebec City.
Laptop computers.
The guts are ripped out, and inside, little white packages.
Does that sound about right? I don't know anything about any sh-shipment.
Wrong answer, Vicki.
VETTER: Don't even think about it.
You can press charges against him.
I didn't hurt her.
Shut up.
Are you sure? Just get him out of here.
All right.
Give me a call if you change your mind.
Let's go.
Look, she's connected to the importer.
I was just gonna scare her.
Everything they said about you is true.
Your partner's been working overtime turning you against me.
Nick has nothing to do with this.
Oh, yeah? Then why follow me? BecauseI wanted to prove to myself that you weren't what they said.
That everything people say about you is a lie.
What? That I got the best arrest record? That I took down more bad guys than anyone? No.
The part about the violence.
Look, you work on the street.
You know what it is.
[SCOFFS.]
Yeah, I do.
And it's not what you say it is.
This the part where I'm supposed to confess I slapped around street trash? That I've been a bad boy? Look, you gotta be tough.
That's what the trash knows, what they respect.
No, it's not.
It's what they get.
Look, I-- [.]
LAMBERT: We ran a full tox screen on that semen sample from Cass Percell's body.
Your rapist is a sick man.
For that I need a lab report? I don't mean just mentally.
He's physically ill.
The screen turned up strychnine in substantial amounts.
Strychnine.
[KNIGHT SIGHS.]
You okay? Yeah, I guess.
We going somewhere? Natalie found strychnine in the samples from Percell.
Strychnine's a poison.
Some heavy users cut their drugs with it.
Makes the heart race, gives them a bigger, faster rush.
Sounds like our rapist did tweakers cut with strychnine while he was having sex.
Okay.
So he's got a history of drug abuse, as well as violence during sex.
[CLEARS THROAT.]
Which means he sees a special kind of girl.
[ROCK MUSIC PLAYING.]
WOMAN: Hi.
I got two strong arms And this weight On my back I got freedom Girl I got I didn't say a word.
Nobody said you did.
You can't bust me if I didn't say anything.
You're right.
Hey, are you looking for something, cop? Or are you just looking? Hi, there, ladies.
I'd like to ask you just a couple of quest-- You come across anyone who's into sharps? Well, if they like leather, they tend to like sharps.
Well, that's why we're talking.
I thought you'd love me for myself.
Let's take this one step further.
Ooh.
An adventurer.
BRUCE: Hey, Button.
He's also into strychnine.
Oh, he likes to up the kinks, huh? Sound familiar? [SCOFFS.]
Hey, do I look nuts, honey? No, but maybe some of your associates aren't so cautious.
Yeah, yeah.
There are a couple of girls into the heavy stuff.
Who? Anne.
And Lisa.
Where can I find them? [SIGHS.]
I've been thinking about what you were saying.
Maybe you're right.
Maybe I've been using a little too much muscle to open doors and-- And to talk to people I wouldn't otherwise be able to, but-- You don't have to do it.
I just didn't like the way you were looking at me this morning.
So I'm gonna try it your way, all right? It's the right way.
I don't know, maybe.
[BOTH CHUCKLE.]
Look, I'm just gonna be glad when this is over.
The bust coming down soon, J.
T.
, Cass-- Hey, look.
The ME found out that the killer is a heavy user.
And he's cutting his drugs with strychnine.
Look, I gotta go.
Um good luck with your case, though.
[PEOPLE CHATTERING.]
Anything? Yeah.
There are a couple ladies we can check out over at the Pink Towers.
Let's just hope it leads to the right guy this time.
MAN: Left, right.
Left, right.
Left, right.
Left.
Left, right.
Left, right.
Left, right.
Left.
[SPEAKING IN FRENCH.]
Claude [SPEAKING IN FRENCH.]
No, I understand.
I would have killed him myself.
And now, for a while, we are safe again, my friend.
As safe as we can ever be.
[HISSING, GROWLING.]
[SCREAMING.]
This is not your fight, Lacroix.
I do not need your help.
That much is obvious.
You certainly didn't need my help with that other poor man Giroux.
I've been watching you.
You really should be more cautious, Nicholas.
You nearly tore that fool in half.
What if they'd discovered who and what you really are? Give her to me.
She is the traitor.
Oh? Oh, but that means you choked the life from an innocent man.
Don't you find it troublesome, Nicholas? This double standard you've adopted about killing and not killing, and playing at omniscience? Well, what are you waiting for? "Traitors die," don't they? [GROWLING.]
At least you'll be killing the right one this time.
Our cause is a just one.
[GROWLS.]
[ROARS.]
[GROWLING.]
And no more innocent people will die on account of her.
That is true.
And yet one can't help wondering what an effective strategy it is to work to destroy your enemy by providing him with his every wish.
Say, the granting of sexual favors to elicit trust in your enemy.
To learn his secret.
[GASPS.]
[SPEAKING IN FRENCH.]
[WHOOSH.]
[KNOCK ON DOOR.]
Lisa Kischner? Police.
We can come back.
Anne Kypreos is in 1605.
All right.
[.]
ANNE: You've been a bad little boy.
Mm-hm.
And you know what Mommy has to do to bad little boys, huh? [CHUCKLES.]
That's right.
You have been a bad little boy.
Mommy's gotta hang up now.
[CHUCKLES.]
Look, if you don't hang up Mommy's never gonna spank you again.
Office hours are 8 to 4.
Get the hell outta here, Spencer.
You just crashed my best customer.
What, 20 bucks a minute? What do you care? [SCOFFS.]
Hey! Where is he? I don't know.
You don't know? Mm-mm.
You don't know? Mm-mm.
Don't play games.
[SCOFFS.]
Honey, you couldn't afford my games.
You got a warrant? [GUN COCKS.]
Yeah.
Now, where is he? I told you I don't know.
What are you gonna do, beat it out of me? [CHUCKLES SNIDELY.]
Son of a bitch.
You know this guy? Yeah, he's a cop.
Man! You killed Cass, and now you're gonna die.
No, no, no, wait, wait.
Hold up! It was an accident, man.
Okay? She started to fight with me.
I just-- I didn't know what the hell else to do! I couldn't help it! Mm.
Baby! Yeah! You're getting soft, Bruce.
Bad news for an undercover cop.
At least he used to be.
What the hell you gonna do to him? Just what he deserves.
Stu Stu, wait! No, don't-- Shh.
Stu Stu, for God's sake, please don't kill me.
Do-- Stu! Stu, please don't! Don't.
[DOOR SMASHES OPEN.]
Drop the gun! Drop it! All right.
You want me to cut blondie here a little happy face, you keep coming, cowboy.
Come on! No.
No one's gonna die here.
Yeah? Just put the knife away.
[GRUNTING.]
You okay? Yeah.
[PANTING.]
Don't shoot! [GUN COCKS.]
You just gonna let him shoot me? Are you gonna do something? Bruce.
Do something! Bruce don't do it.
We'll take it from here.
[EXHALES.]
[QUIETLY.]
No.
[GRUNTS.]
[UNCOCKS.]
[STU SIGHS.]
Get up.
You're under arrest for the murder of Cass Percell.
[PHONES RINGING, CHATTER.]
[SIGHS.]
I'm sorry about this.
So am I.
But it's the only way it can work.
Yeah.
Hi.
Your, uh, importer's girlfriend, Vicki, gave us the final piece of the puzzle.
Raid was perfect.
Took everybody down, all the way to the top.
Good.
They're gonna charge you with the murder of J.
T.
Gary.
Figured that.
I'm sorry.
Me too.
You were wrong.
What? You were wrong.
I should've killed Stu when I had the chance.
Sometimes, you have to dance heavy use a little force.
[SIGHS.]
Instead I play it your way.
You almost got killed.
Nick was there.
Yeah, Nick's always there.
Lookthe bad guys won tonight.
I'm in here.
They're still out there.
You and Nick play by the rules, you get eaten up.
Maybe what I do is outside the law, but [CHUCKLES.]
justice.
No, it's murder.
[DOOR OPENS, CLOSES.]
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