- 5/3/2025
NYPD Blue Season 3 Episode 10 The Backboard Jungle
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00:00Thank you for listening.
00:30See what happened over here?
00:36I was watching the game.
00:37You didn't see anybody with a gun?
00:39Nope.
00:40Look back over there.
00:41There was a lot of people who got shot here.
00:43You sure you didn't see anything?
00:45When they started shooting, everybody started running.
00:47Sergeant, get these people out of my crime scene, all right?
00:51I don't want to see any cameras around here.
00:54This thing was a disaster waiting to happen.
00:56Oh, yeah.
00:57There should have been a police presence here.
00:59The Japs should have known that.
01:02Stand away and wait until I come back.
01:04Come on, clear this area.
01:06This big rush of people came running into the street,
01:11and so I hit the brakes, and we heard gunshots.
01:16And then Eileen started screaming, and I looked over,
01:19and she was bleeding.
01:21Did you see anybody holding a gun?
01:23No, just people running at us like maniacs.
01:30Did you see who shot you?
01:32Shots were going off over the place.
01:33What set this off?
01:35I don't know, man.
01:36What set this off?
01:43Yo, we were into the game.
01:45We don't know what the hell went on.
01:46Hey, do I know you?
01:48What's your name?
01:49Zach Swanson.
01:50Played for North Carolina State between 79 and 83.
01:53I tried out two seasons straight for the Bullets.
01:57Man, that's impressive.
01:58You got some real great talent out here.
02:01Listen, guys, how much you get paid for a game like this?
02:04200 apiece?
02:05Get paid?
02:06Yeah, get paid.
02:08You know, like this drug dealer versus that drug dealer.
02:12Put together a good, strong game,
02:14a nice neighborhood event,
02:16maybe even an opportunity for wagering.
02:19I mean, who's to figure violence will break out, right?
02:22Hey, look, we were just bawling.
02:24I don't know what you're talking about.
02:26You know what?
02:27Why don't we take them down to the station house?
02:30We'll hear more about their college playing careers.
02:33Yeah, let's do that.
02:34Come on.
02:35Is that all right with you guys?
02:36NC State, right?
02:40Let's get back.
02:43How are you guys doing?
02:47Max, you're line the line.
02:53Run it for me.
02:55Got two dead shot at close range,
02:57seven wounded by gunfire,
02:58three more seriously injured
03:00by trampling after the shooting began.
03:03We've got showcases all over the court here
03:05from at least five different shooters.
03:07Any idea how it started?
03:09Somebody missed a layup?
03:11Somebody told us that there were like 200 people here
03:13watching the game.
03:15Most of them were gone by the time we got here.
03:17The ones we talked to said they ain't seen no guns.
03:20It's drug-related in some kind of way.
03:22This scumbag here I arrested myself last year,
03:25he had a shopping bag full of crack.
03:27You find Quasiola, show you?
03:30Nah, you broke it.
03:31Why should he hang around?
03:32All he did was bring the brothers together, right?
03:35You got something useful to add, Andy?
03:37It's just I'm wondering, Lieutenant.
03:39I wasn't privy to any negotiations.
03:41That's right, you were.
03:42But I'm having a hard time seeing how the precinct
03:45gets talked out of policing this.
03:47That decision was made.
03:48We need to focus now on the job at hand.
03:50So, uh, we'll find Quasi.
03:56Yeah.
03:58Find Quasi.
04:01Yeah, let's talk to Quasi.
05:34You really got your hand on the pulse of the streets, Lieutenant.
05:37I want to hear again why we should have stayed away from this game, how police presence might inflame a bad situation.
05:43I turned out wrong.
05:45You know, I know the same recommendation came from a lot of other places, like community relations and so forth.
05:51But, Arthur, you're the one I trusted.
05:54You said this brother, Quasi, had everyone's respect in those projects.
05:59I also named three other public gatherings where he was a go-between.
06:02The department kept his distance and everything went right.
06:05But this one didn't, did it, Arthur?
06:08You know what's waiting for us down at one police plaza?
06:11I got a pretty good idea.
06:13They're looking to hang a bullseye on somebody.
06:16It was my recommendation.
06:19Arthur, with the information at hand, I absolutely understand your thinking.
06:25The game's a memorial to a kid who dies in police custody and a cop's sentiment running high in the neighborhood.
06:31I'll let him know it was me.
06:36Arthur, you take this hit and I'll make it right with you down the line.
06:40You know my words good on that.
06:43We do it now?
06:44Yeah, I think we ought to go.
06:52We got something, Lou.
06:54Inspector?
06:55Good news, detective?
06:57Possibly.
06:59I'll meet you down there.
07:00Yeah, all right.
07:01What's up?
07:02Liquor store owner two blocks from the basketball court recognized a guy running past his place at the time of the shootout.
07:10Looked like he was holding a gun.
07:12Street name's Bobo.
07:13That's the first witness putting a gun in somebody's hand?
07:16Yeah, I came back and I checked with Narcotics.
07:18The guy works for our PD Green, dealing out of the projects on Avenue D.
07:23Green was one of the game's backers.
07:25Yeah, he sponsored one of the teams and the other dealer, Charlton Moody, backed the other one.
07:30Narcotics gave me Bobo Thomas' address.
07:33Okay, get Bobby and Andy and pick him up.
07:34They're looking for that activist quasi at the hospital.
07:37We got tipped that he was seeing someone there.
07:39Okay, get back up from any crime.
07:42I'll be at one police plaza.
07:43All right, Lieutenant.
07:45Boss is looking to pin this mess on you.
07:48Go get your guy.
07:49Miss Quasi's got some set of balls.
08:07Visits people he put in the hospital.
08:10Guy front some good community programs, Andy.
08:12Off drug money.
08:14You know that for a fact?
08:16I heard it was city grants.
08:17This was a drug dealer's basketball game.
08:19These guys are whacking each other two a day.
08:21They start throwing bullets at the game and wearing a Hoboken because this hunk feels fancy.
08:26Everything will be mellow.
08:28Here's Quasi.
08:29X-ray call 3-3-5-0.
08:32You better deal with this jerk.
08:35Given history, do not rule out the possibility that the first shot came from an agent provocateur.
08:39Welcome for whom?
08:41Who stands to benefit from this?
08:42Quasi on the shoulder and Detective Simone, we better talk to you.
08:45May I please finish my conversation first?
08:47You organized an event where several homicides took place.
08:50Whatever you got to say, you need to be telling us.
08:53I don't need to be telling you anything.
08:55We're hearing that a lot, Quasi.
08:57You telling witnesses not to cooperate?
08:59Black folk do not need me to tell them not to talk to the police.
09:02Believe that.
09:05You a reporter?
09:06Yeah, Dave Bloom, Village View.
09:08What a Village View, huh?
09:09You were at this basketball game?
09:12Yeah, I'm doing a story on it.
09:14What'd you see?
09:16Uh, I'm a reporter, you know.
09:20Yeah, and I'm a detective, and you got somebody else's blood and brain matter on your clothes,
09:25so I'm guessing you were pretty close to the action, and I want to know what you saw.
09:30Do you abolish the First Amendment, detective?
09:32Look, our only purpose here is to find out who shot who.
09:36So you can pin a medal on him.
09:38You shut up.
09:39Instead of the First Amendment, you ought to start worrying how whoever's responsible for that might come looking to hit witnesses.
09:46You people wanted this to happen.
09:48The cops resented this game from the outset, because it was in memory of a young black man murdered by police.
09:53All right, Quasi, come down.
09:54That kid died from some kind of seizure.
09:56He was murdered, and the racist NYPD covered it up.
10:00Let's tell her at the station house.
10:01Hey, don't be flailing your arms around me.
10:04I don't have to go anywhere with you.
10:05You're dealing with that one nigger in a thousand who knows what you can and cannot do.
10:09I'm dealing with a nigger whose big mouth is responsible for this massacre.
10:14You back off.
10:14Now I know you're nuts.
10:16Come on.
10:19Oh, dear.
10:20Go ahead.
10:21Go ahead and cuff me.
10:22That's right.
10:23So you made a bad choice there, Quasi.
10:26But now you are a caller.
10:29Weak.
10:30Typical, typical police move.
10:32Hey, wait up a minute.
10:34You use the word often, detective?
10:36Hold that elevator, please.
10:38Well, do you, detective?
10:41We have got a prisoner on this elevator.
10:43You're not getting on.
10:44No, I'm just curious.
10:44Are you a racist, detective?
10:46Do you use the word nigger?
10:47Off.
10:47Off.
10:48Kiss my ass, you smart-mouthed little punk.
10:51Fool wants to know if your partner's a racist.
10:58When he figures that out, he's gonna work on how babies get here.
11:01All right, shut up, Quasi.
11:02Black people shooting each other, me in handcuffs.
11:06This day just keeps getting better and better for you.
11:08I'm doing my job, Quasi.
11:12Plus, you know a white girl was shot, too.
11:15Her only mistake was being in a car on Houston Street when your low-life homies decide to act their color.
11:21You racist son of a bitch.
11:24I knew you were storm-cold racist the minute I laid eyes on you.
11:28You're gonna make me bust out crying.
11:29You keep calling me that.
11:32Come on, come on.
11:33Let's go, Quasi.
11:34Let's go.
11:34Let's go.
11:35Let's go.
11:37Let's go.
11:51I want to see Arthur Fassie.
12:12Remember we called the head, Quasi?
12:13He's not available just now.
12:15Yeah, just now he's at one police plaza getting reamed by his bosses for taking your word.
12:20That ball game was gonna come off like one of them happy sneaker commercials.
12:25You guys can get as busy as you want, but I'm not talking till Arthur Fassie gets here.
12:31I was looking to get busy on you, Quasi.
12:34That would have happened before.
12:36You gonna behave yourself if I take these cuffs off?
12:38I want to make a phone call.
12:41I want to talk to my daughter.
12:42What's her number?
12:45You don't get my daughter's number.
12:47Oh, this guy's a gem.
12:49Wait a minute, Quincy.
12:49You just asked to use the phone.
12:52Now, once we know that it's your daughter and not one of your running buddies, then we'll be straight.
12:56You don't get the number.
12:58Then you don't get the phone call.
13:03When Fassie gets here, send him in.
13:05Next time I lay eyes on that hump, I got relocation plans for his phone.
13:17Hey.
13:18You call our brother, Quasi?
13:20Baffert case.
13:22Disorderly and resistant.
13:25How'd you do on those gunshots, Aikers?
13:27Ah, nobody saw anything.
13:29Nobody wants to say.
13:31We grabbed up a guy named Bobo Thomas.
13:33Liquor store owner saw him running from the scene with a gun.
13:36What do you have?
13:37Two.
13:38Here's my notes.
13:39Thanks, Aikers.
13:40Guy's got a great personality.
13:41Bobo, my man.
13:59What's happening?
14:01I'm here.
14:02I'm here.
14:03What?
14:04How long I gotta be here?
14:06You answer a few questions and you can be on your way.
14:09Cool.
14:10Oh, the thing what happened today, huh?
14:16Yeah, I don't know nothing about that.
14:18Oh, you were at the game.
14:19Yeah, I was at the game.
14:20Speak up, Bobo.
14:22I was at the game.
14:24So what'd you do when the shooting started?
14:27I ran.
14:28You ran with your gun out?
14:30I ain't got no gun.
14:31Somebody saw you with a gun.
14:33Oh, yeah?
14:34Who?
14:35You were running with a gun in your hand.
14:36Now, that's been established, all right?
14:38Now, what you got to do is explain why.
14:41Shots being fired every which way makes sense that you want to protect yourself.
14:45I ain't got no gun.
14:46You knew Lorenzo Gaines, didn't you?
14:52I was just saying, Lorenzo Gaines.
14:54Yeah, Lorenzo Gaines.
14:56You know, the guy that somebody shot point blank in the face in the middle, all this excitement.
15:01You knew him, right?
15:02Mm-mm.
15:03No?
15:04Mm-mm.
15:04He used to sling dope out of the Avenue D Projects.
15:07You sling dope out of the Avenue D Projects.
15:10I don't sling no dope.
15:11Oh, you don't?
15:12Mm-mm.
15:12Oh, I'm glad to hear that, Bobo, you know, because slinging dope, that's a dangerous career path.
15:18And after getting to know you a little bit here, I can't take the thought of seeing you winding up like poor Lorenzo.
15:29I'm so funny.
15:30Both your facts ain't too straight, that's it.
15:34No.
15:34In what way?
15:36Lorenzo Gaines ain't no dealer.
15:39No, not now, Bobo, because he's dead.
15:42But I had the pleasure of arresting that scumbag myself with the crack in his pocket.
15:48Not last year.
15:49He was out the game.
15:51Okay, so 13 months ago.
15:54See what I thought you didn't know any Lorenzo Gaines, Bobo.
15:59I just seen him around the projects.
16:02And he quit selling dope?
16:04Yeah, too much drama.
16:05So why do you think he got shot in the face today?
16:11It's just time to go, I guess.
16:15You know, y'all, um, ain't gonna arrest me.
16:21I wanna go.
16:23No, no, no, no, no, no.
16:26So you're gonna walk us through it one more time, Bobo?
16:30Yeah, make up some interesting fib while you weren't back.
16:35Yeah, well, that was the worst of it, Arthur.
16:42I won't let it get to paperwork.
16:44Yeah, all right.
16:45Just keep your head down.
16:47Don't look to these guys for any favors the next few months.
16:50I'll expect favors from the chiefs.
16:52For me, you get today back times ten.
16:56I know you could have looked to spread the blame, and I won't forget you for standing up.
17:00You want to see where we are?
17:04No, I better keep an eye on the Puzzle Palace.
17:07Now, Arthur, I want you to jump on this, work the hell out of it, clear it, and rub their noses in it.
17:13Hmm?
17:14Yeah.
17:15All right.
17:15All right.
17:16Yeah.
17:20I will give him the message.
17:22Come back, Donna.
17:23Hold on.
17:24Lieutenant?
17:26Yeah.
17:27The desk sergeant said a reporter just came in claiming that Detective Simone Inzibowicz have one of his notebooks.
17:34What's the story, Sergeant?
17:38Okay, I appreciate that, Uncle.
17:41Hey, we just got an anonymous tip.
17:45Charlton Moody's one of the shooters.
17:47He's at Grace Fruma home with a couple bodyguards.
17:50Well, let's go get him.
17:52Said he gets a volume deal with the mortuaries.
17:56How's it going, Lou?
17:57My office.
17:58My office.
17:58We just got a push on Charlton Moody for one of the shooters and where to grab him up.
18:08My brother Quasi's in three.
18:10He'll only talk to you.
18:12He came in voluntarily?
18:14Not exactly.
18:16What does that mean?
18:18He put his hands on Andy when we went to talk to him, so we called him for disorderly conduct and resisting.
18:24Can that go away if Quasi gives us something?
18:26Listen, yeah, I guess it could go away.
18:31There's a reporter downstairs.
18:33Says you guys have his notebook.
18:35Guy dropped something in the elevator.
18:38Could have been a notebook.
18:39I do not need this craft today.
18:41Lou, that reporter's an eyeball witness.
18:44Good enough that he's got blood all over his clothes and he doesn't want to say what he saw.
18:48If the guy didn't get his notebook back, he's going to the deputy commissioner for public information to tell him you two stole it.
18:54Now, before you move on Charlton Moody, I want you to go downstairs, talk to this guy, and work out a way to help him find what he lost.
19:02Do we understand each other?
19:05Quasi's in interview three.
19:09Probably wasn't his current notebook anyway.
19:11Probably just background on the game.
19:30I came upon that at the hospital.
19:33Maybe you could drop it at the lost and found.
19:35Meet you at the funeral, Father.
19:37Yeah, once I'm done loving up this hoop, we'll...
19:41Let's go.
19:42All right, I appreciate it.
19:44How you doing, Dave?
19:46I gotta tell you, it seems like old times, you know.
19:48I spent a lot of hours in the station house after Jimmy Leggett died.
19:52I understand you misplaced the notebook?
19:56Yeah.
19:57Where'd you see it last, Dave?
19:59Uh, well, it was, uh, in the pocket of this, uh, this code here, and it was missing after I got the code back from you and your partner at the elevator?
20:06You inquired as to its whereabouts with the hospital personnel?
20:11Janitorial and the like?
20:12Look, go get your ho-hos, detective, all right?
20:14Because the notebook I lost wasn't the one that courts you calling quasi a nigger.
20:19I don't take your reference.
20:21Okay, whatever.
20:22Look, am I gonna get my other notebook back, or am I gonna file a complaint?
20:25Well, you lost something at the hospital, maybe you'd find that it lost and found.
20:29Don't jerk me around on this, all right?
20:31Hey, kid, two people are dead, seven more shot.
20:35You think I want to waste more time with you?
20:37You were there, you got a trained eye, but you don't want to stumble over your big journalistic principles on cooperating with the authorities.
20:45Look, if I had knowledge of a crime being committed, I'd put it in my story, all right?
20:49If I got taken to court, I'd testify that what I reported is accurate.
20:52That's all I feel obliged to do.
20:54You sound like you're on a potty.
20:56Go find your notebook.
20:58Hey, don't you want to call me a kite first?
21:04Look, you want to try screwing me for something you think you heard.
21:08That's on you.
21:09I'm working a case.
21:10I am, too.
21:11Oh, yeah?
21:12You're going with that agent provocateur theory.
21:15You're gonna bust this thing wide open.
21:18Yeah, that's kind of what I look for.
21:24Yeah, all right.
21:26No, I don't know how long.
21:28No, I don't need more of this chumped up nonsense.
21:33Yeah, all right.
21:34You're going to get these charges dropped?
21:43Let's talk about the ballgame, Quasi.
21:45The healing event you gave up to drug dealers.
21:51Let's talk about how Avenue D versus the Houston Projects turned into Petey Green's ringers against Charlton Moody's.
22:00That game was a memorial to Jimmy Leggett.
22:03Anybody gets to grieve.
22:04Who are you talking to, Quasi?
22:06That game wasn't a memorial.
22:08And it wasn't grieving.
22:09It was a vanity tug-of-war for gangsters.
22:13I sat down and talked with those brothers like men.
22:17It weren't about making trouble.
22:19You and I sat in a room.
22:20You think I'm God, Arthur?
22:22Huh?
22:24People I know.
22:26People I see every day.
22:28You think I wanted them shot?
22:29I mean, lying in blood?
22:31That's what happened.
22:32Who did it?
22:34That is for us to take care of in the community.
22:36Oh, you couldn't take care of a ballgame.
22:38Man, you can't take care of your own cops.
22:40You got people working for you that like to toss around, nigga.
22:44Just like saying, how you doing?
22:47Talk about how that gunfight is just brothers acting their crap.
22:50Who said that?
22:52Bald asshole.
22:54Gutting a stupid mustache.
22:56That's mine to deal with.
22:58It's cops like that that killed Jimmy Leggett and lied to cover it up.
23:01The Emmy said Jimmy Leggett wasn't murdered.
23:05Boy, they got you wrapped up like a Christmas present, don't they?
23:10You disappoint me so much, man.
23:15I want those shooters, Quasi.
23:17And if you don't know who they are, you can get in the street and find out.
23:21You gonna release me?
23:22You gonna work with me?
23:23I want that cracker with the mustache.
23:25I want his badge.
23:26We clear these homicides, you get your charges dropped.
23:29The rest is on me.
23:31That guy has no business walking around with a license to kill.
23:34Not in my neighborhood.
23:35Can anyone verify I'm using that language?
23:37How about a reporter?
23:39You got a name?
23:40Jewish kid.
23:44David Bloom writes for The View.
23:47We're talking about Detective Sipwoods?
23:49Sounds right.
23:51Am I released?
23:53I want those shooters.
23:55I feel like we'll work something out.
23:59Yeah.
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24:40How much is this, man?
24:52$8,800.
24:53All right, guys, please, just relax.
24:55Put your hands where we can see you.
24:56Put your hands on the castle.
24:59What do y'all want?
25:00I want you to be quiet.
25:02Oh, now, you see, now, this is wrong.
25:04You're going to have to come in with us.
25:05I got another piece here.
25:06Right here, James.
25:07Why do I have to come in?
25:08Ain't no weapons on me.
25:10Oh, yeah, that's a very interesting point there, Charlie.
25:13Whose funeral are you planning anyways?
25:15Not my own.
25:17I want my lawyer.
25:18I want your tailor.
25:20Come on.
25:29You want to run a fence?
25:30Yeah.
25:31Luke.
25:32Yeah.
25:33This Moody, he just lawyered up.
25:35We're going to have to talk to his guys.
25:37How do you want me and Andy to play?
25:38Both of you come in here in a second.
25:41Okay.
25:42In.
25:46You know, I'm figuring maybe we hint this an eyewitness.
25:50Something like that.
25:51Yeah, you can do that.
25:56Close the door.
25:57So, what's up?
26:05I'm taking you off the case.
26:07Russell will work with you.
26:08What's this about?
26:10It's about she's showing your ass in public.
26:12Deciding to call someone whose help we need to clear this case a nigger.
26:16Mr. Quasi told you I called him that?
26:19He said you called him that in front of that reporter from The View.
26:22I called him to find out what happened.
26:24Except he'd ask me for a statement.
26:27So I guess me and the commissioner have to read about it next week.
26:29This guy was provoking the hell out of both of us.
26:32You call him a nigger too?
26:33Lou.
26:33I did not call him that.
26:35He called himself that and I threw it back at him.
26:38He said something like,
26:40I'm the one nigger you cops can't mess with.
26:44And I threw it back at him out.
26:45He's the one that caused these shootings.
26:47You're the one nigger.
26:48I was throwing it back at him.
26:50You don't get to throw that back.
26:52Look, I've been partnered with Andy now a year and a half.
26:55I have never heard him use that word before.
26:57It was off the guy.
26:58Save your breath, Bobby.
27:00You want me catching other cases?
27:02For now.
27:06What?
27:08I'm sorry I'm late for taking this.
27:10Can you believe that?
27:15Just be cool, Andy.
27:16Be cool if you were there.
27:18You saw the context, how that happened.
27:23Yeah, well, I guess Fancy's just acting his color.
27:30What you said in that elevator?
27:32About those low-life homies deciding to act black?
27:35So you got a problem with me too?
27:37Partner, I was not comfortable with those words.
27:41I am not comfortable with the thoughts behind it.
27:44I just want you to understand that.
27:46So this Fancy can break my balls when I decide to give a little back.
27:50I'm the asshole.
27:52Giving it back, was that all it was?
27:54Do me a favor, all right?
27:55Finish your sermon another time.
27:57How far you think I can bluff this drug lawyer with this weak-ass hand we got?
28:12I don't know.
28:13I have somebody else less bigoted.
28:14Come on, Andy.
28:16Go talk to Moody's lawyer.
28:17Go talk to Moody's lawyer.
28:47Is Mr. Moody being charged?
28:49Well, if you got two minutes, I'd like to lay out your guy's situation.
28:52I'd like him charged or released.
28:59Don't you want to know what this is about, Mike?
29:01See, we picked up Charlton at the funeral home.
29:03He's making arrangements for this Eddie Holloway, which Eddie was executed at this basketball game.
29:09Muzzle of a 380, flush up against the back of the head.
29:13And then, I don't know if you heard about this, Mike, all hell breaks loose.
29:18And Charlton's name keeps coming up in a lot of statements.
29:22Now, what he ought to understand is that his bodyguard got kept.
29:26And we recognize there could be a scenario here for self-defense.
29:30Charge or release.
29:31Well, the DA's making that call right now, Mike.
29:36Maybe you could use the time to talk to Charlton.
29:40You know, lay out what we've got.
29:42Self-defense scenario.
29:44He cooperates.
29:46It could be close to a walk.
29:48Of course, that isn't your call, is it?
29:49It's our strong impression, right?
29:55Conversations with the DA, Mike.
29:58If you want to convey that.
30:03Where is he?
30:04Interview room next door.
30:19We'll be back in a sec.
30:32Hey, guys.
30:33What's going on?
30:34That girl over there could be a eyewitness.
30:36I know the day guy at the rec center on Houston Street.
30:39He beeps me and he says she's been telling people she was at the game and saw one of the murders.
30:43She's cooperating?
30:45The guy says she's been in and out of trouble.
30:47Some Greg and I ran into a BCI.
30:49She's got a shoplifting, beef pinning, family court.
30:52We brought her in off of that.
30:53She won't get a day off that charge.
30:55She's a tough read, but I think we could tip her.
30:58So you mind if we watch?
31:00No.
31:00Maybe you could pick up some pointers.
31:02Huh.
31:09You guys want to come with us?
31:19I didn't see nothing.
31:21Somebody said I did.
31:22They lying.
31:24Let's have a seat, Brad.
31:28Here we go.
31:32What people say, Shirelle, is what you've been saying yourself.
31:36You saw somebody get killed.
31:37I didn't see nothing.
31:39If she says she didn't see anything, then she didn't see anything.
31:43Well, here's the situation, Miss McClintock.
31:45This shoplifting matter, your daughter's looking at a year in the juvenile house of detention for that.
31:52A year?
31:53For shoplifting?
31:54It's a third offense.
31:55The district attorney has discretion.
31:58Now, we can urge them to dismiss the case if Shirelle will testify against the shooter.
32:04Testify?
32:04A year in jail is not something you want, Shirelle.
32:07Whatever wrong that you've done, this is your chance to turn around from that and get your life on the right track by saying what you saw in that game.
32:15What kind of life I'm going to have if I rat?
32:18Is it a matter of you being scared?
32:23We can place you in protective custody, you and your mother, until after the trial.
32:27And what about after that?
32:29If necessary, we could get you moved to another part of the city.
32:32Did you see something?
32:40Answer me!
32:42Do you want to go to prison?
32:50Y'all going to have to protect me.
32:52We'll protect you.
32:53What did you see, Shirelle?
32:57It was wrong.
32:59That man getting killed in front of his own son.
33:03Who?
33:04That man.
33:06He was watching the game with his little boy, like four years old.
33:10Then it was a gunshot, and people started running.
33:13And while he was trying to keep his son from getting stepped on and trampled and stuff, this guy came up and stuck a gun this close to his face, and just shot him.
33:25You saw who shot him?
33:27Yeah.
33:30Somebody you recognize?
33:31Charlton Moody.
33:46Good answer, Shirelle.
33:48Well, I don't know, Lillian.
33:53Not till we make some kind of progress.
33:56No.
33:58I don't want to decide what to do about him while I'm still pissed off.
34:03I wouldn't dare, Lillian.
34:04I don't know if it was malicious or just stupid.
34:10Yeah.
34:10I'll talk to you later.
34:12Yeah.
34:13Yeah, I love you.
34:13I see he's still at his desk.
34:20It's not working this case.
34:21Is he turned in yet?
34:23You had your say on Sipwitz.
34:24My say?
34:26I finally get some leverage to get one racist cop out of this whole sick department.
34:29You had your say with me, Quasi.
34:32Now, whatever else you do with Sipwitz, that's up to you.
34:35And the kid from the Village View.
34:37I'm hoping you're here to get right with what happened on that basketball court.
34:43What I'm hearing is a young knucklehead named Bobo Thomas deals with the projects for Petey Green.
34:58Steps up behind Holloway, who's bodyguard in Charlotte Moody, and blows Holloway's brains out.
35:05Was it a hit?
35:06I don't know.
35:08When his bodyguard goes down, Moody takes Alderman's own gains.
35:11My narcotics people said gains didn't work for Petey Green anymore.
35:15Maybe somebody should have told Moody.
35:18Arthur.
35:20You say Jimmy Leggett died of a seizure.
35:23I say some cop choked him to death.
35:26All I knew is, big thing everybody said about him, the boy was crazy for basketball.
35:31So you wanted to give him a game?
35:33Yes.
35:34Some people get behind it.
35:37Maybe some kids get some new sneakers.
35:41Simply to turn around and the kids are playing.
35:48The dealers.
35:50Got their own squads.
35:52Is there any way I can get anybody on record on Bobo pulling the first trigger?
36:03Not through me.
36:04I got you dead in my sights.
36:28You a shooter too, Quasi?
36:30Just like your drug-dealing pals?
36:33No.
36:35I'm a practical man.
36:37I know that if it's just my word, I got no chance going after you.
36:41So I must be living right.
36:44You popping off in front of a white liberal reporter.
36:49Jeez, Quasi, you mean that kid might load the dice against me?
36:53He might not write how I wasn't cursing you?
36:56How you used that word first?
36:58You're going to pay for every single cop that ever called me, nigga, back when I was just Kenny Parker growing up in the projects.
37:05Yeah, fill the boat up, Quasi.
37:07Your difficult childhood.
37:09Kunta Kinte, Martin Luther King getting shot.
37:12You don't want to make it just simple stuff like man to man.
37:16You figure I insulted you, so we throw down.
37:19Just man to man.
37:21Here in your station house.
37:24You just name the time and place, I will tune you up anywhere you want.
37:28Step away, Andy.
37:29I'm a practical man.
37:30Quasi, you got any more business here?
37:33Quasi's deciding, does he want an honest shot at working out his bad feelings he's got for cops?
37:39Shut up, Sipwitz.
37:40You got my back.
38:02That kid you cut loose before, Bobo Thomas.
38:05He had a witness backed off on seeing a packet.
38:07Yeah, we got an anonymous tippy through the first shot.
38:11Took out Charlton Moody's bodyguard.
38:14You want me to pick him back up?
38:15Yeah, take Russell and Martin's.
38:26I'll be shut your mouth to anyone involved in this case to get the hell out.
38:37I'll be shut your mouth to anyone involved in this case to get the hell out.
39:07Bobo, don't you move.
39:09Come on.
39:10Please, don't move.
39:11Get up against the wall.
39:12He didn't fight against the wall.
39:14I told you I didn't do anything.
39:17Yeah, well, you're going to have to tell us again.
39:19Yeah.
39:20Check this out.
39:21The 380s?
39:22Yeah.
39:23Hey, man, that ain't mine.
39:24Yeah, I've never heard that before, Bob.
39:26So no one.
39:27Power, Bobo.
39:27Shh.
39:28You're under arrest.
39:29Hey, Christ.
39:30You see how you want to get it?
39:31Shut up.
39:32See, we got your gun, and ballistics is going to match your gun up with that slug that we
39:54pulled out of Eddie's skull.
39:55You know what that means?
39:56Lights out for Bobo.
39:58Yeah.
40:00Bobo didn't do...
40:02Shut up!
40:04Was this a hit?
40:06We know you work for Petey Green, Bobo.
40:08Did your boss put a contract on this guy?
40:11The only option you got right now is to tell the truth.
40:13I didn't do it.
40:15You did it, and I'm sick of you sitting here lying to me.
40:17I didn't do nothing.
40:21You hauled ass after that little execution of yours.
40:24No.
40:25But I was on that basketball court there cleaning up the mess.
40:30You were looking to start a bloodbath there?
40:33Because there was a whole lot of innocent people who got shot today, Bobo, including women.
40:38And I'm hoping that you're mad enough that that'll bother you.
40:44Well, if that don't mean much to you, maybe this will.
40:47You don't stop telling me the truth right now, and I'm going to start bouncing your ass up against these walls.
40:53You understand me now?
40:55You understand me now?
40:56Yeah, I understand.
40:57Well?
40:59Well?
41:00He had it coming.
41:01He had it coming?
41:02Eddie Holloway had it coming?
41:03Yeah, punk shot Froolo.
41:05Well, who the hell is Froolo?
41:06My cousin!
41:07Eddie Holloway shot Froolo?
41:08Yeah.
41:09When?
41:10Sometime.
41:12And you went and you shot him at this basketball game?
41:14Yeah.
41:17Andy Sipperwoods, ladies and gentlemen.
41:32How's it going?
41:32I hear the bosses came down on fancy behind this basketball mess, huh?
41:37Yeah.
41:38Well, it should have taken Einstein to figure that game was bad news.
41:41A couple of hundred.
41:42Yeah, there you go.
41:45Ah, so I said there were collars.
41:48They're talking one guy running a lineup on another one.
41:52You're not working it?
41:53If I was, Vince, would I be here talking to you?
41:55Whoa, Andy.
41:57You sure know Einstein, either.
41:58Recognize anybody, Shirelle?
42:14Remember, no one can see you.
42:20Two.
42:21What?
42:23Number two.
42:24Where do you recognize number two from?
42:29From the basketball court this morning.
42:31What did he do?
42:32He shot a man in the face.
42:34In front of his little boy.
42:41All right, you guys can relax for a while.
42:43We appreciate this.
42:45The district of Turner will get you situated.
42:48We're just going to be a few minutes.
42:50Where's Andy?
42:52He's in the squad.
42:53Hi.
43:11That girl make the ID?
43:13Yeah, I thought you were working that case.
43:15I'm off the case.
43:16How come?
43:17I got into a beef with that brother Quasi.
43:21So Fancy took you off the case?
43:23I don't know if I can even keep working for him.
43:26Getting slapped in the face like this.
43:28What kind of beef was it?
43:30Some language.
43:32Racial language.
43:34Excuse me, Miss Costas.
43:36We'll be downstairs.
43:40We're going to put them in a hotel tonight, so I've got to deal with the paperwork.
43:43Yeah, all right.
43:44We'll see you at home.
43:46All right.
43:47And we'll talk about this.
43:55We'll get through this, Andy.
43:58Yeah.
43:58Yeah.
44:36Finish your bubble?
44:42Yeah.
44:43Just sign off.
44:44I'll get my cup.
44:46Yeah, good.
44:53You gotta do this tonight, Andy?
44:56Wouldn't it be better just sleep on it?
44:58No.
45:03You got a minute for me?
45:06Good night, guys.
45:13Good night, Bobby.
45:14Good night, Lou.
45:15Good night, Andy.
45:16Good night.
45:16Good night.
45:20Give us a minute here, Vince.
45:22Sure.
45:24Anybody want a soda from downstairs?
45:25It would have been smarter for you to go home when the ship ended.
45:36If you're going after me, you bring charges or let Quasi do it.
45:44Because I want a chance to answer them in front of somebody besides you.
45:48Yeah, this is about me, Andy.
45:49I'm the racist.
45:51I've said that word.
45:52I've thought it plenty.
45:54But I've never used it on a job till your hump pal put us on that road.
45:59This isn't about a word, Andy, or your impure thoughts.
46:02It's about you making this case hard.
46:04Not about you being black, huh?
46:06Not about giving some back to me?
46:08It's about what I say it's about.
46:09Then say, part of what it's about is watching me sweat.
46:13Well, a hell of a lot went down today, so I'd have to check my notes.
46:16But I thought I'd spend some of that time trying to save your sorry ass.
46:20Give me a break.
46:21No, I'm not going to take you out, Andy.
46:23I move you out.
46:24My white bosses, they send me a little message.
46:26They send me another one just like you.
46:29But maybe that one can't do the job like you can.
46:31Jeez, thanks a lot, boss.
46:34If you go, it'll be somebody like Quasi or like that reporter.
46:38I've been dealing with white cops like you ever since the Academy.
46:42I can manage you with my eyes closed.
46:44Now, maybe you can't handle a black man being your boss.
46:47I can handle it.
46:48I've been covering you three and a half years.
46:51Except when you get so tied up in your brother-brother crap,
46:55you won't let us work the streets.
46:56That's when you get yourself in trouble.
46:59Hey, Lou.
47:00We got a report of a person shot near the Houston Street projects.
47:03Want me to handle it?
47:04Was it a homicide?
47:05I don't know.
47:06That teenage girl, the eyewitness, isn't she in those projects?
47:10Yeah.
47:11I think we got it out, though.
47:13Sylvia was involved there.
47:17Check it out.
47:18You want me to check it out?
47:21Yeah.
47:25Sip with the handling.
47:26Well, let's get out.
47:29Come on.
47:29Let's head over.
47:29You want me to check it out?
47:30Come on, boy.
47:32Come on, boy.
47:32Come on, boy.
47:33Come on, boy.
47:34Let's go.
48:04What do you got?
48:04The guy's fired on while he's walking down the block.
48:07Gets to his car, tries to drive himself to the hospital.
48:11Multiple wounds.
48:12The guy's bleeding like crazy.
48:13It's like he's going out.
48:14Anybody else, Sean?
48:15No, not as far as we know.
48:17He's a reporter.
48:18Who's at you?
48:21I didn't want him in the car.
48:23I didn't see him.
48:24I'll tell you who it had to be.
48:26Charlton Moody.
48:28Charlton Moody's in custody.
48:30It had to be this guy.
48:31Because I saw what happened at the game.
48:33I'd be lying if I told you I'd recognize anybody.
48:38Can you describe the car?
48:40Dark, dark, dark color.
48:42Listen.
48:43Listen.
48:44You write this down.
48:45I'm not going to help you.
48:46Because I'm going to die.
48:49I've been starting.
48:50You calm down.
48:51They're working on you.
48:52This is a dying, dying declaration.
48:58All right?
49:00Charlton Moody.
49:01I saw him.
49:03Today.
49:05Shoot him at.
49:06Point blank.
49:07What person's dropping?
49:08At the ball game.
49:12Whoever started it.
49:13Shouldn't have done that.
49:15You shouldn't have done that.
49:17Oh, God.
49:19All right.
49:20You're going to write this in your story, kid.
49:22You're not going to die.
49:24They're going to fix you up.
49:25All right?
49:26All right.
49:27Okay.
49:28Okay?
49:28Okay.
49:29Guys, you're not going to let us work on him here.
49:35His blood pressure's bottomed out.
49:37Let's get him out of here.
49:40We're losing him.
49:42Let's get him on O2.
49:43Give me a hand with the gurney.
49:45You get it?
49:46Yeah.
49:47This kid's gone.
49:48Need the amble back.
49:49Who is it?
49:50That reporter.
49:52It occurred to him a little late that Moody's people might be gunning for witnesses.
49:56Where's Sylvia?
49:59Guess she wasn't here.
50:01Kid corroborated Moody for the second shooting.
50:04Cop wrote it down.
50:06Okay.
50:07I'll get the night watch to handle this.
50:09Get that cover.
50:13Watch the IV.
50:17Swing it around.
50:18Let's go.
50:19Watch your back, people.
50:20Cover your back.
50:31Cover your back.
50:40Cover your back.
50:44Cover your back.
50:44Hi, Andy.
50:55Sorry I'm late.
50:56We had a shooting near those projects.
50:59I was afraid Moody might send somebody after that girl.
51:03Or we got her into a motel.
51:07I winds up to kill the reporter who was at the game.
51:12He witnessed the murder.
51:15What happened with you and Fancy?
51:19This guy Quasi.
51:21We're mixing it up.
51:22He throws out the N-word.
51:24I throw it back at him.
51:26Fancy comes at me like I killed somebody.
51:30Is it going to come to charges?
51:32Not from him.
51:33He wants to watch me walk on eggs.
51:36And the kid heard me, but he's dead.
51:41I don't know where this Quasi will go with it.
51:44Let him bring charges.
51:48You ever hear me use that word?
51:54No.
51:54But I have seen you do this.
52:00That's not the same thing.
52:01That's something cops do so you don't have to mention race.
52:05Did you hear about the shooting at this barbershop?
52:07You know, this barbershop?
52:08Yeah.
52:09You know, so it doesn't have to be said and nobody gets offended.
52:13Andy, it's code for the word.
52:15It's code so you don't have to say it.
52:25Don't ever show that to our child.
52:33Yeah, all right.
52:33Don't teach him that.
52:38Don't teach him to think that way.
52:42Yeah.
52:43Well, go on.
52:58So we'll be right back.
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