"Roach, come out of there!" "It's a dead end!" "You got nowhere to go!" "Come on, Roach!" "We want to get home sometime tonight, okay?" "You believe this guy?" "Roach, we're running out of patience here!" "Okay, that's it." "Aah!" "My gun jammed." "Get the shotgun." "I'm shot!" "I'm shot!" "I need help!" "I'm shot!" "Move where we can see you, Roach!" "Toss that gun away from you!" "What's up with your weapon?" "I don't know." "I just cleaned the damn thing." "You wouldn't listen, huh?" "Now look at you." "Look what you made me do to you." "This is Bridge 211." "We need an ambulance and detectives to our location." "We got a male suspect with a gunshot wound." "¶ I got mine ¶" "Lady, you all right?" "There's no way we could see the old lady in there." "The guy was shooting at us." "You give your gun to the shooting team?" "Yeah." "The gun jammed on me." "I didn't even get a shot off." "How's the old lady?" "Paramedics said they were looking over her, and a bullet fell out of her hair." "Said it was just under the skin." "That's a first." "Oh, you know my partner, Les Hedford." "Hey, how you doing?" "How you doing?" "I.A. shows up, acts like we planned to shoot this old woman." "They want us down at the division for a statement." "No, no, no, you guys can forget about that." "You got 24 hours, and they know it." "So, what do we do?" "Tomorrow you come and see me." "Union lawyer goes to I.A. With you." "Right now, you guys go home." "Okay." "Thanks, Frank." "All right, Partak." "Rytell, what the hell?" "You know cops have 24 hours before they have to talk to you guys." "Why you pushing this?" "You push us, we push back." "I'm talking to Rytell." "Who the hell are you?" "Ruiz." "Who the hell are you?" "Frank Leo." "Get out of my face or get hurt." "Ruiz, back off." "Go talk to the shooting team." "Hey." "Go." "Frank Leo." "Big deal." "Got to teach your boy." "Ruiz just transferred in." "He thinks he's got to show attitude." "You know what?" "You guys keep ignoring the 24-hour rule," "I'm gonna promote all I.A. Detectives out of rank and file." "You guys will be brass..." "No more union healthcare, no more union pension fund." "And don't think the brass is gonna give you guys a raise just 'cause you joined their little club." "They're not gonna give up their vacations to the Bahamas for you guys." "Point taken, okay, Frank?" "But we're just doing our jobs." "We got orders to push the rule every chance we get." "Whose orders?" "See you around, Frank." "Looking for somebody?" "Yeah, I'm looking for Tommy Dunn." "Yeah, he's in the back." "Daniels?" "Yeah." "Office in the far corner." "Tell you later." "I just got some good news about the Partak/Hedford shooting last night." "Mm-hmm?" "The bullet that hit the homeless woman came from their suspect's gun." "So, the shooting team will give them a pass?" "Yeah." "Gets even better." "Talked to I.A..." "no statement." "Guy named Rytell over there seemed sympathetic." "Oh, right, yeah." "I put the fear of God into him." "Threatened to kick I.A. Out of the union." "That's great." "Thank you." "So, how's the homeless woman?" "She's talking about a lawsuit." "Of course she is." "I'll call Partak and Hedford's duty sergeant, tell him not to expect any suspensions." "I already did that." "He's gonna put them both back out on the job tonight." "Well, they still need to see our psychologist." "Yeah, I set that up, too." "So, you're kind of all over this thing, aren't you?" "You said Partak was a friend, so..." "Yeah, we were actually partnered together in our first year." "And, uh, yeah, he saved my ass on day one." "What happened?" "We're serving a fugitive warrant in the projects, right?" "And this guy decides to run." "So, we chase him and we split, and I get completely lost." "Like, I have no idea where I am." "You know what it's like down there." "All the buildings look the same." "It's my first day." "I'm overwhelmed." "So, anyways, I'm trying to figure out where I am, and, suddenly, the guy's right behind me with a knife." "I have no idea he's there." "Partak takes him out." "Saved my life." "First day on the job, and you almost get killed?" "I didn't pull the trigger on a guy till I was three years in." "Partnered with Frank Leo?" "You never told me that." "Yeah, I did..." "couple months my first year." "Shot a guy on my first day out." "Yeah, okay, yeah, I remember now." "That reminds me..." "What'd they say about your gun, anyway?" "The firing pin was screwed up." "Mercury must be in retrograde." "What the hell does that mean?" "Oh, anything mechanical breaks down, my wife says, "Mercury's in retrograde. "" "All these years we've been running together, and I just find out you're a flake, huh?" "It's my wife's thing, astrology." "I pretend I'm listening, but she's happy because we're sharing something." "Hey, man, whatever floats your boat." "Hey, you seeing this?" "That's not who I think it is, is it?" "Yeah." "It's Roach." "Unbelievable." "What the hell is Roach doing out?" "Didn't we arrest him last night?" "Tell me I wasn't dreaming that." "He looks like he's going towards the school." "10 years ago, kids played basketball in there, and now it's full of pipe fiends." "Yeah, I know." "Yeah, it's the cops, you idiot." "See that?" "Son of a bitch has a gun already." "Roach, stop right there." "I'll call for backup." "What?" "What for?" "It's drug addicts." "We've been in there." "I heard there's a bunch of mental patients who live in there, too." "Dale, the guy's got a gun, okay?" "Yeah, all the more reason we should call it in first, right?" "Okay, so, we wait, and in the meantime, Roach shoots some helpless head case." "Is that what you want?" "We just had I.A. looking at us, questioning our procedure." "Is that what you want?" "I'm calling it in." "Fine, call it in, but I'm not waiting." "I'll see you in there, partner." "Roach, I'm coming for you!" "Come out of there!" "This is Bridge 211, requesting backup to our location." "We got a male suspect with a gun." "Copy that, 211." "Come on, Roach." "You know I'm gonna find you, you little creep." "Come back, Dale." "Any zombies, man..." "You shoot them in the brains, that'll kill them." "Les, you read me?" "Les, Les, you reading me?" "Damn it." "Roach, how's that leg?" "It's got to sting, huh?" "Dale, come back." "I need you, man." "Dale?" "My walkie's not working!" "You in here yet?" "Dale?" "!" "Ugh!" "Does that sting?" "!" "Huh?" "!" "Does that sting?" "!" "Les!" "Les!" "So, what's the mayor want?" "She found out about these little meetings we're having, and she wants in." "Really?" "How'd she find out?" "I told you... she's got eyes and ears in the department." "I thought she was gonna hand me my ass, but she seems to like the idea." "She says it's time for the two of you to bond..." "Her choice of words, not mine." "All right, well, tell her it's the same deal as us." "She comes alone." "She also said, as a sign of good faith, she'll rescind the freeze on, uh, hiring new officers." "Really?" "How many new cops?" "50 to start with." "50?" "I need 500." "I'll talk to her." "Oh, one other thing, Frank." "You remember that cop who was ripping off the drug dealers?" "Mike?" "Yeah, what about him?" "He's getting out of prison." "What are you talking about?" "Snitched out some Russian kid..." "Nick Babchenko." "You know him?" "Yeah, I busted him for drugs when I was in uniform." "Yuri Babchenko's kid..." "Russian mob boss." "Apparently he was running drugs and prostitution in the prison." "Mike got into his gang and helped bring him down." "And they're gonna let him out for that?" "He was gonna kill other cops." "I know." "Some ambitious prosecutor figured he'd make his bones on this." "I went over there to ream them out, but what the hell are you gonna do?" "When?" "Well, he's got an early parole hearing in a few weeks." "We'll see if Mike still wants to get out when he faces a roomful of pissed-off cops." "Frank." "Hedford, what's up?" "Take it easy, all right?" "I was blindsided by a bunch of freaks, and they got my gun, Frank." "All right, we'll get it back." "Yeah?" "Yeah, and what if some bad guy gets it and shoots a cop?" "What then?" "Les, just calm down." "All I'm saying is that whoever's got my gun has already taken a couple of shots at a cop, okay?" "Me." "I screwed this up." "Hey, man, give me a minute?" "Yeah." "You need to shut up." "You need to stop talking right now." "Anything you say, anything anybody can hear..." "Like that paramedic..." "can be used against you later." "You understand what I'm saying?" "Okay, yeah, yeah." "So, what's with your partner?" "I don't know." "He's avoiding me." "Look, he came into the school and he pulled me out, but it was too late and all the freaks were gone." "He didn't go in with you?" "No." "No, he wanted to call for backup first." "He could have done that on the way in." "I know." "I'm kind of pissed at him." "I ain't riding with him anymore." "Let's just calm down and think about that one." "Think about what, huh?" "He could have gotten me killed." "I'm saying you're not really in the head space to make a decision like that, okay?" "Let's just calm things down for a bit, talk to him." "You're both gonna be on the desk for a couple of weeks anyways." "Let's just let it cool off." "I don't think I can do that." "All right, well, do what you can." "You all right?" "Yeah." "Yeah, I'm okay." "Give me a minute?" "Yeah." "You sure?" "'Cause I kind of get the feeling you lost your mind." "What are you talking about?" "Hedford said you didn't go into the school with him." "Yeah, I was calling for backup." "You're your partner's backup first." "That's the code." "Yeah, if I'd have gone in there with him, we'd have both been mobbed, and there'd be two missing police guns out there." "You rehearse that little speech?" "'Cause I'm not buying it." "Come on, Frank, what else was I supposed to do?" "I was following procedure." "Since when the hell do you go by the book?" "You know what?" "Just let it go, okay?" "I don't want to talk about this." "No, no, no." "Dale, listen to me." "When it gets out there that you didn't follow your partner in, the guys you work with..." "They're gonna start asking questions." ""Can I trust that guy to back me up?"..." "Those sorts of things..." "you know what I'm saying?" "Yeah. 11 years..." "I got nothing to be ashamed of, okay?" "You know, I really expected you to be behind me on this one, Frank." "You're a hell of a big disappointment." "Oh, Dale, come on." "Frank." "I think we might have caught a break on who got ahold of Les' gun." "One of the junkies inside the school said they saw this girl Vera grab it, and she hangs out at this little park near here." "So, you got a name and a place to look already." "That's good." "Yeah, but this girl Vera..." "Her nickname's C.K., "Chemical Kid. "" "She's a mental patient." "What kind of mental problems we talking?" "She's crazy as a bedbug." "What do you want, Donut?" "I'm busy." "Where'd you get the gun?" "None of your business." "You got guns." "You don't need mine." "You got any of your meds left?" "Somebody stole them from me." "Yeah, I know." "Want them back?" "So, this is what I got." "This kid Donut..." "you remember him, right?" "Donut." "Yeah, I know him." "Black guy, wears a track suit all the time?" "Yeah." "We busted him before." "Word is he's got some MP3 players he lifted off the back of some truck, and he's selling them." "Anyway, he's in the neighborhood here somewhere, so I'm gonna take a walk down the street and see what I can see." "All right." "I'll take a drive around." "I'll meet you a couple of blocks up." "Sounds good." "How long were you in-country?" "Afghanistan..." "almost a year." "So, you get back home, you report to your division, you go back to work." "Like I told Tommy here, I was still a cop, right?" "Did any of the other cops that you worked with know about your condition?" "To tell you the truth, no." "Um, I wanted to prove myself first." "So, I did that, and then..." "then I started showing people." "And what did your division commander do when he found out?" "Pulled me in his office and showed me my police contract and told me I should have read the fine print that says I can't be a cop with one leg." "Then he called me a liar and a cheat, and he fired me right then and there." "I've seen the fine print." "You take a leave of absence, you have to return in the same physical condition." "You said you proved yourself." "How did you do that?" "Two takedowns my first week." "One guy I had to chase four blocks on foot, but I got him okay." "I got state-of-the-art." "Anyway, I heard Tommy here had a below-knee amputation, so I thought if anybody could help me, he can." "Well, it's not gonna be easy to get you reinstated, but we're certainly going to try, okay?" "Okay." "Thanks." "I got rehab." "Man, there it is, right there." "I can feel it." "Phantom limb?" "Yeah." "Gets you the most when you're..." "when you're not moving, right?" "Sometimes I get out of bed in the morning, and I fall flat on my ass." "You forget about it, then you got to remember it all day." "Okay, well, listen, you just leave this with us." "We'll get you back in uniform." "I promise you." "I hope so." "I" " I lost my leg, but I didn't lose my guts." "We'll be in touch." "That's a promise we might not be able to keep, right?" "What do you want me to say..." ""Give up hope"?" "Ask you a personal question?" "Yeah, shoot." "How come you never fought to get back in a uniform?" "I didn't want to be the guy who couldn't back up his partner." "Wake up." "Ow!" "What'd you hit me for?" "Wake up." "Let's go." "Up, up, up, up." "Hey." "Where's the gun, Vera?" "My name's C.K. I ain't done anything wrong." "Hey, those are mine." "I don't have very many left, okay?" "Where's the gun?" "What gun?" "The gun you stole from the cop." "Oh, yeah, that." "I traded it to get some of my meds back." "Then I traded them for this cool music player." "Who'd you trade with?" "I can't tell you." "He'll get mad at me." "Then he'll make me do sex stuff with him, and his breath stinks." "We'll protect you from that, all right?" "Like I haven't heard that before." "I'm gonna ask you one more time." "Where's the gun?" "Who'd you trade with?" "Mm, I forget." "Okay, okay, I'll tell." "It was Donut." "Donut?" "That his real name?" "I don't know." "I just know Donut." "Donut a real person or just a voice in your head?" "I'm bipolar and some other stuff." "I'm not schizo, okay?" "Ohh." "What's his name?" "I don't know." "I don't." "What the hell was that?" "It came from over there." "Stay put." "I'm all right." "I took two shots in the vest." "Which way did he go?" "I don't know." "I got a shot off, but after that, I got the wind knocked out of me." "Ugh!" "You know the shooter?" "Kid they call Donut." "Billy and me heard he was selling some MP3 players he stole." "So, I'm doing a drive-around." "I see Donut." "I go after him." "Kid pulls a piece on me." "You know what's weird?" "I don't usually wear my vest." "This morning, my wife goes, "Put it on today. "" "What kind of gun was it?" "9- mil, like one of ours." "So, you think it was Les' gun?" "Well, Lee says it was a 9-mil." "You guys know this kid..." "Donut?" "Donut, yeah." "Yeah, we know him." "He's got a hole where his brain's supposed to be." "Yeah, well, he pops his empty head up anywhere, he's gonna get it blown off." "Word gets out about this, every cop in the city's gonna be out looking for him." "Find Donut, you find the gun." "Unless he sells it first." "Yeah." "All right, I'm gonna go check on my partner." "See ya, guys." "So how much you think, uh," "Donut's gonna get for Les' gun..." "What, $300, maybe?" "Well, how about this?" "We put out a reward." "We pay 1,000 bucks for whoever brings it in." "That's gonna bring in a lot of other guns." "So we pay 100 bucks a gun." "It's not a bad idea." "Best-case scenario..." "We get a bunch of guns off the street." "Meantime, we got to hit every gun runner we know." "Yeah, Daniels?" "Where's our head case?" "Gone." "All that was left were my handcuffs." "I've been running around looking for her." "How'd she get away?" "I don't know..." "picked the lock or something." "Was it my gun?" "Was it my gun?" "Maybe." "Ah, everybody's here." "What happened?" "That gun almost killed a cop, you son of a bitch." "What do you think happened?" "We don't know that for sure." "There's a lot of 9-mils out there." "That's not what I heard." "I heard some nut job sold it to a kid named Donut." "I heard that, too." "Where you guys hearing this?" "It's all over the radio." "See what you did?" "Back off, all right?" "Oh, are you gonna act like a man now, huh?" "You get your guts back?" "Is that it?" "You just had to be a cowboy, didn't you, huh?" "You couldn't wait for help." "You did this to yourself." "You know what?" "Both of you shut the hell up." "No, stay out of this, Frank." "Oh, really?" "Okay, you want me to?" "Because I will." "No, I'll tell the brass the union's not gonna back you." "You guys go to your hearing." "It's bye-bye, career, bye-bye, pension." "What do you want?" "Okay." "Okay." "Whatever." "You know what?" "You two are gonna meet me at Rabbi's in an hour, and we're gonna talk about this." "I'll think it over." "No, you'll be there." "It's like I don't even know him anymore, you know?" "Yeah." "We're gonna check in with some of our C.I.s, see if we can't find this kid Donut." "In the meantime, what are we gonna do about these two cops?" "I don't know." "They can't ride together anymore." "I know that much." "Yeah, I'll call their duty sergeant, and I'll see what can be done about that." "All right." "You know, Frank, maybe you should let this thing play out the way it's supposed to." "Tommy, my first year, I was stumbling all over the place." "Partak got me through it..." "How to take guys down, no fear." "I learned a lot from him." "He made me a better cop." "So what?" "Now you're gonna show him how to be a good cop again?" "Is that it?" "Well, if I don't, he's gonna get his next partner killed." "If he gets another partner." "I mean, who the hell's gonna ride with him?" "What do you got for me?" "Something pretty special." "How much?" "Tell you the truth, Frank, when I was in that school and all those hands on me," "I..." "I was scared to death." "I thought for sure I was a dead man." "It takes a while to shake the feeling." "Yeah." "You know, it wasn't the first time, but it was the worst time." "You have any idea what the hell's going on with your partner?" "Nah, don't..." "You know what?" "Don't call him that." "Don't call him my partner." "Listen to me." "You guys have been partners for a long time." "You probably saved each other's lives more than once." "You cannot brush that aside over one mistake." "Not saying what he did was forgivable, because it's not." "But in order for you to continue to do your job and continue to do it well, you need to come to terms with this." "You can't let this cloud your judgment with a new partner." "You understand what I'm saying?" "Yeah, worrying that another partner might do the same kind of thing?" "Exactly." "Let me ask you this." "You ever felt like you're covering for Dale?" "No, I don't think so." "So, it's always been the two of you, side by side, no hesitation?" "I guess, yeah." "You guess or you know?" "I don't know." "Hell, Frank, maybe he's right, okay?" "Maybe I should have waited for backup." "Would you have waited any other time?" "No." "No, it was routine for us." "I mean, we went in like that together a thousand times." "So you know you did the right thing." "Yeah." "I'm sure I did." "Look, I don't think Partak's coming." "I got to go, okay?" "My wife wants me home." "She's pretty scared with what happened to me, too, you know?" "Mm-hmm." "Listen, just do me a favor, okay?" "Think about what I said." "Just think about it and ask yourself, have you ever covered for him for anything, even a small thing?" "Just think about it." "Yeah." "I'll think it over." "Donut, were you born this stupid, or did you have to work at it?" "Come on." "You're not fooling anyone." "I know you're in there." "What's going on?" "Hey." "Hey, Donut, Frank's here!" "You don't come out of there, Frank's gonna get mad, and you know what happens when Frank gets mad..." "You end up getting a bad tune-up." "How'd you find him?" "One of our old C.I.s rolled over on him." "I told you, I'm waiting for a sign!" "Then I'll come out!" "What?" "I think he's trying to set up some kind of insanity defense for himself." "He just shot a cop." "He's completely insane." "Hey, Donut, come on!" "Come on out of there!" "Donut, I got a whole bunch of cops all over this city who want to blow your head off." "So, unless you want them to come down here and do just that," "I suggest you find your sign." "Okay!" "I'm coming out!" "Don't shoot me!" "All right, that's it." "Turn around." "Turn around." "Back up." "Back up." "On your knees." "You know the drill." "Get out of here." "And the angel rode upon him was Death." "Aah!" "Shut the hell up." "Where's the gun?" "I suggest you tell me, or Tommy's gonna get a sign, come back out here, and shoot you." "Yeah, o-okay." "I sold it." "Hey, check this out." "Geez." "Yeah, most of these are useless." "It's not here, Frank." "Who'd you give the gun to?" "I sold it... some old guy with a purple tow truck." "I'm not lying!" "I swear!" "Get your hands on your head." "Hey, Jill, I got something for you." "Frank." "Thanks, everybody." "Listen, I just got off the phone with Hedford and Partak's duty sergeant." "He says if he splits them up, he's got to split up another team so they got someone to partner with." "Now, he doesn't want to do that 'cause he says all his other teams are working out great." "He says it screws up the whole department." "So, they either ride together, or they don't ride at all." "That makes sense." "If it was you and me, I wouldn't want to get split up 'cause two guys can't get along." "Tommy, about Daniels..." "we've got a big problem." "Now, according to the Police Act, there's an appeal process for this cop's firing." "Now, the brass is saying that if we go ahead with it, they're gonna file charges against him for fraud." "What cop is this?" "Oh, I meant to tell you." "Remember the guy you saw walk in here this morning?" "He took an Army leave and lost his leg in Afghanistan." "He went back to work." "He didn't tell them." "They fired him when they found out." "So go to court." "Yeah, we could do that, but they're serious about these charges." "And I'll tell you right now, this will end up in Supreme Court." "And if that happens, that'll be two, three years at least." "All right, all right." "I see the problem." "So, get him a job at the union." "Like me, you mean." "Yeah." "What's wrong with that?" "Look, you're my partner here." "You're like a bad habit I can't break, but this guy still wants to be a cop." "You know, I-I'm afraid that if he doesn't get that, things are gonna get ugly for him." "What do you mean by "ugly"?" "Let me put it to you this way..." "You lose a limb, you already feel less of a man." "And now these guys are gonna try to prove to the world that he is." "Understand?" "He can do the job, Frank." "I had a doctor run some tests." "He timed him getting in and out of the car, ran him on the track." "He's fit." "I'll handle this, okay?" "What are you gonna do?" "I got it covered." "I think somebody else is also trying to prove something here." "Yeah?" "I'll be right there." "See this, Frank?" "I get to my locker, and this is in there." "You know what it means, right?" "A black rose?" "It means I'm finished in the department." "No cop's gonna ride with me." "It means, "Quit or else. "" "You know what?" "This is all your fault." "You know that?" "I mean, you talk about backing somebody up, but where the hell was my backup from you?" "You won't even stand behind me when you know I'm right." "Rule number one in the academy is save yourself first so you can save your partner." "Remember that?" "No, no, you got to stick to your damn code." "I guess it's more important than what you owe me, huh?" "Or did you forget that you owe me, that you'd be dead if it wasn't for me?" "You finished?" "You listen to me." "I told you this was gonna go bad, and I told you I wanted to help you through it, but I cannot help you if you will not talk to me." "I have no idea what the hell's going on with you." "But that's the thing..." "There's nothing going on with me." "I'm the same way I've always been." "You want to stay a cop?" "Oh, come on, what do you think?" "5 years, I'll have in my 20." "I'm not giving that up for anything." "Then you got to find a way to do exactly that." "That's what I'm telling you." "I don't see what I can do, Frank." "Wh... tell me." "What can I do?" "Get out there and help find your partner's gun!" "Make people think that you care about what happened, okay?" "I mean, you do care what happened, don't you?" "What happened to your partner?" "Imagine how he feels, knowing his gun is in the hands of a bad guy!" "You get that, don't you?" "So what do you want me to do..." "Break protocol again?" "You trust me?" "Why should I?" "'Cause that's what guys do when they ride together..." "Blind trust." "What, you're gonna ride with me?" "It's either that, or you quit right now." "It's up to you." "Who found him?" "Homeless woman saw the whole thing go down." "Any sign of Les' gun?" "Oh, what, you give a damn all of a sudden?" "Did you find the gun?" "No." "What happened?" "Witness says that this guy in a pickup and this tow-truck driver got in an argument." "She said it looked like a drug deal because the guy in the pickup was arguing over some duffel bag that the tow-truck driver had." "Anyways, the guy in the pickup got pissed, strung him up from this hook here, and shot him." "The good news is that she got the license plate of the pickup truck." "Frank, it's Eddy Gray." "That's great." "Yeah?" "No, no, you tell me what it is, I tell you what it's worth." "I don't know this guy, Gray." "Who is he?" "Gang enforcer, hates cops." "Brother got killed in a takedown." "My C.I. says this tow-truck driver goes around, and he buys guns and sells them to Gray." "Any idea where he is?" "No." "Frank, can I have a word with you for a sec?" "What the hell you doing with this guy?" "No matter how much this guy was in the wrong, he's still a member of the union, and it's my job to protect his career if I can." "So, what, you think if cops see you driving around with him, it's gonna give him some sort of respect?" "It doesn't work like that, and you know it." "They're just gonna question whether or not you deserve their respect." "He saved my life." "So what?" "That's part of the job." "That's not something that you owe anybody or something that he can barter with you about." "You're not thinking straight." "This is about getting a cop's gun back." "To hell with this guy." "You know, he made his bed." "You don't have to sleep in it with him." "You know, I've been thinking... this is kind of like the old days, huh?" "You and me partnering like this?" "How come we stopped being partners, anyway?" "You said you wanted a change." "That was me?" "I remembered it being you who wanted the change." "Anyway, what do we do now?" "Any ideas?" "Gray deals exclusively with this guy Jiles who has a pawnshop." "Yeah, I know who Jiles is, but he ain't gonna talk to us about this." "He'll talk to me." "He was my C.I. for years." "So, Tommy Dunn." "I must say you surprised me when you called." "Does Frank know about this?" "No." "Is he going to know?" "Depends on what happens." "Okay, what's this about?" "I need your help." "Really?" "What are you offering?" "Well, hear me out first." "I'm listening." "There's this cop named Daniels." "He's lost his leg for his country." "Now he's lost his job as a cop." "Yeah, I know about this guy." "He lied to his division commander." "What do you want me to do about it?" "Send a patriotic message that the police department respects this nation's heroes and reinstate this cop to prove it." "You can't buy the kind of press that's gonna get you." "You keep thinking like that, they're gonna mistake you for a politician." "No telling how far you could go..." "Former police officer, lost his leg in the line of duty, good-looking family man." "I've seen your wife." "She's pretty." "Not interested." "Which brings me back to," ""What do you have to trade for this?"" "Well, all I can tell you is that..." "You got my word, somewhere down the line, you'll get something." "Not good enough, kiddo." "No, you're gonna have to bring me something I ask for, something I need." "And it's not gonna be anything Frank likes." "You'll reinstate this cop?" "Not so fast." "That's just half the deal." "The other half is I want you to meet some friends of mine." "About what?" "Well, it just so happens they're looking for someone who might have a likely political future." "All you have to do is listen to what they have to say." "That's all I got to do?" "That's it." "We have a deal?" "Yeah, we got a deal." "Hey, Jiles." "Frank, I'm busy." "What do you want?" "Eddy Gray." "I don't have to answer questions for you anymore." "Actually, yeah, you do." "I'm the one that lets you stay in business, remember?" "Hell, the money the department paid you for being a snitch bought this place." "Yeah, and you were amply rewarded for that with information from me." "Almost got me killed, too." "That could still happen." "I just got to put the word out there that you were my C.I." "You want that?" "Look, I'm tired." "I've had a long day here." "I don't know where Eddy Gray is." "I swear, Frank, okay?" "You know the great thing about not being a cop anymore?" "I don't have to play by the rules." "Look, I told you..." "I don't know where he is." "That's the back door." "You want to go see who it is?" "It's just some kids." "They play with the buzzer to screw me up." "They'll go away." "Let's go see who it is." "Stay there." "Hey, Eddy." "Where you going, Eddy?" "Drop the bag." "Drop it!" "Hands up." "They made me do it, Eddy." "I swear." "Shut up." "9- mil." "Is it Les'?" "No, first issue, not a cop's gun." "Where's the cop's gun, Eddy?" "What cop's gun?" "You traded a cop's gun with a tow-truck driver." "Man, I don't know what you're talking about." "It's got to be in there, Frank." "Where's the cop's gun?" "Ugh!" "I asked you a question." "I don't know." "He doesn't got it, okay?" "How do you know?" "'Cause I know who does." "She tried to sell it to me." "I told her it was too hot, and I'd meet with her later." "She?" "Let me guess... mental patient, C.K., Chemical Kid?" "Yeah, that's the one..." "Vera." "Bring him." "She's in there?" "Jiles says she is." "He was supposed to meet her here." "Where?" "First-floor classroom." "She said she traded Les' gun with that kid Donut." "No, she's lying." "She got her hands on another 9-mil, and that's the 9-mil she traded in." "That's the one we've been chasing all day." "Okay, so, uh..." "Do we know if she's in there with anybody else?" "Jiles said Roach was in there with her." "That's that guy that you chased to the school, right?" "Yeah." "Come to think of it, he had a 9-mil with him." "We saw it." "So, there could be other people in there, too." "Yeah, maybe." "Damn." "There's a lot of ways out of this building, Frank." "You gonna call for tactical?" "What?" "I'm just saying, we maybe got two people with guns in there." "Maybe in this case, he might be right." "So, where's this guy Jiles?" "Who cares?" "Come on." "Let me see that cop's gun." "No." "Let me see it." "Where'd you stash it?" "All you care about is this." "I care about the money." "Yeah, well, I changed my mind." "I'm not selling it." "Come on." "You said if gave you my gun, you'd let me have that cop's gun." "See?" "I was right." "All you care about is this gun." "Yo, give it here, Vera." "Everybody always wants something from me." "Nobody ever wants just me." "Ugh!" "Can't wait now." "Let's go." "Vera?" "You remember me from the park, huh?" "It was clever how you got out of my handcuffs, Vera!" "Go away!" "Was that you shooting, Vera?" "Help!" "You got to help me!" "She shot me, man!" "Stay right there, Roach!" "Don't you move!" "I can't move, man." "She shot my other leg." "Vera, come on out of there!" "Vera, it's okay!" "It's okay!" "Nobody's gonna hurt you." "Come on out, Vera." "Vera, put the gun down." "Put the gun down, Vera." "No, it's mine." "Don't come any closer." "Dale, take the shot." "Dale, take it." "Ugh!" "She's still alive." "I'm gonna go get help." "Dale, you had the shot." "Why didn't you take it?" "Dale?" "Give me your gun." "Give me... your gun." "You son of a bitch." "Empty?" "You're finished." "You're quitting." "You're done." "No." "No, I'm not." "I'm gonna finish up my 20, just like I planned." "That's not gonna happen." "I killed that guy for you, Frank." "And that day, I swore I'd never kill anybody again." "Just little things, you know?" "I never would have noticed them unless you brought it up, Frank." "Like, when we chased that guy Roach up the alley," "Partak said his gun jammed." "And I remember that that's happened a couple of times before over the years." "I didn't think anything of it." "I mean, hell, my gun's jammed before, too, right?" "But there's the other stuff, like always going in behind me." "I thought he was backing me up, but he wasn't." "He just didn't want to be the guy out front." "And he'd go in hard, beat on the guys if they needed it, but that was it." "I've heard of cops doing it." "I've never seen it." "Man, I didn't expect it from him." "I mean, one day, you just decide you ain't gonna study war no more, put in your time, and get out with a pension?" "I heard he went back to Division acting like nothing happened." "Yeah, he told me he's not gonna quit." "He's gonna get somebody killed." "What are we gonna do about that?" "Change his mind." "No one goes in." "This all we got?" "Not a hell of a lot, is it?" "Well, who knows?" "Maybe we saved a life." "Yeah, maybe." "Let's hope so." "Anyway, I got to get going." "Tommy." "Thanks, Frank." "Watch your 6:00." "Yeah." "Huh." "So what did the chief have to say?" "Went just like you thought it would."