"'In New York City's war on crime, 'the worst criminal offenders are pursued ' by the detectives of the Major Case Squad." "'These are their stories.'" "So Britney's, like, committed." "Who knows if she'll even show up." "That's not the point." "Who is he?" "He's supposed to be in Atlanta for an Elton John benefit." "He is off the VIP list forever." "Lily, I need to speak with you." " We're late, Daddy." " This article?" "That's great exposure." "That's a national magazine." "Didn't you get enough exposure when you nearly ran over those people?" "By accident!" "And now there's this expose of your sex life." " Nobody takes that stuff seriously." " They do, Lily." "It's degrading." "Well, I didn't do it to embarrass you, OK?" " Let's talk about it later." " Where are you going?" " Where do you think?" " I don't want you going there." "If that so-called friend of yours doesn't stay away from you..." " Daddy, stop it!" " Lily, I mean it." "I can hurt him." "Lily, I'm on your side." "Sometimes I wish you'd remember that." "Does it ever occur to your dad what a supreme geek he is?" " Don't say that." " Well, he is." "Shut up, Serena." "You need to get out of there." "That is out of control." "He was threatening me." "I was like, "Great, Daddy." "Love you, too."" "Want me to do a Menendez on him?" "Just say the word." "I'm there for you." " Thank you, sweetie." " Ooh, yeah!" "Hey, jerkwad!" "Put it away, Eddie!" "It's all right, man." "Go tell Jimmy I said to take care of you, all right?" "Try that again, I'm not letting you back in here." " How are you ladies doing?" " Great." "Cos we've only been here a half-hour." "Where have you been?" "Come on." "I wanna talk to you." "Where'd you go to?" "Let's have some fun." "Johnny, what is this?" "Honey, go back inside now." "Now." " That was weird." " Could you just leave me alone?" "Please?" "Daddy?" "It's me." "Are you there?" "Pick up!" "Pick up!" "Pick up!" "Please!" "I'm sorry!" "I'm sorry!" "Mr Carlyle?" "Hello?" "Please, get up!" "Please!" "I didn't mean to yell at you!" "Please, get up!" "That's great, Dad, just lie there!" "Please!" "Daddy!" "Please get up!" "Get up!" "Daddy, please don't do this!" "Wharton Carlyle, son of the late Titus Carlyle, the billboard king." "What do you make of this?" "The guy's stabbed with a double-edged knife and hits his head on the floor." "Look at the indentation, the rip in the skin." "You don't get that from hitting the floor." "Look at the oars." "Bet you find part of Carlyle's brain on one of them." "Rode in the Olympics in '72, in Munich." " His daughter into it?" " First time I seen her." "I get here, there he is." "She's all going haywire." " Get much trouble with the locals?" " Just the occasional bum." "I feel bad about this." "He was a nice guy." "Lily Carlyle." "Call Dominic Dunne." "What do you know about her?" "It Girl of the minute, famous for being rich and famous." "Vanity Fair." "Very popular, very young." "Very everything." "Excuse me." "Are you the new detectives?" "Cos I need to leave." "Mmm." "She sounds like lots of fun." "Are you warm enough, Miss Carlyle?" "Cos we could get you some coffee." "No." "I'm sorry." "I'm a bit of a wreck right now and I need to go home." "As traumatic as this is for you, we can't allow you to leave until we get a better sense of what happened here." "I showed up and I found my father dead." " Are you on drugs, Miss Carlyle?" " Excuse me, what did you say?" "I was wondering if you'd consent to a drug test." " Don't answer that." " Hall!" "Thank God!" " This is terrible!" " It's OK." "Hall Richmond." "I'm a friend of the family." "And a lawyer." "Lily will answer your questions once she's been home and changed." "As for a drug test, the answer's no." "Come on, Lily." "I just got a call from the inspector who got a call from the chief who got a call from a Mr Richmond." "Smoke and mirrors." " You asked to drug-test this girl?" " She's a suspect." "She's 90lbs soaking wet." "With a noseful of cocaine, she's a 400lb gorilla." " The guy was an Olympic champion." " She could've had an accomplice." " How's that work?" " Two weapons." "An oar on the skull." "No prints." "Torso wounds from a dagger, presumably gathering silt at the bottom of the Harlem River." "OK." "I'll call Richmond and get him to bring Miss Carlyle by for a chat." " Aren't you gonna ask if I did it?" " It's irrelevant, Lily." "Now, whatever you do, you must not lie to the police." "If there's anything I don't want you to answer, I'll let you know." "You're out of your depth, so keep your mouth shut and do what I say." "My dad was angry about a magazine article and erm...we got into a fight Thursday night." "And er..." "I went there to apologise." "And then when I saw that he was dead," "I just started throwing things." "But that's all that happened." "You drove from West Village all the way to the Bronx." "Who was with you?" "Nobody." "Anybody you know carry a knife?" "I wouldn't associate with people who carry weapons, now, would I?" "I..." "I didn't know very much about you." "So I pulled some articles off the computer." "I went to the newsstand." " Is this the article that upset your father?" " No." "How about this one?" "It was this one, wasn't it?" "You're very candid about your sex life in this article." "Was your father embarrassed?" "It's promotion..." "for my public-relations business." "Er..." "last summer... you got into an altercation with a photographer?" "No." "He was intruding on my privacy." "You see, people like me are always targets." "You nearly ran him over with your car." "Did your father think that's appropriate for...people like you?" "No, people like me don't have to put up with crap like this!" " Lily." " No!" "I'm not doing this any more!" "We need the names of the people you were with last night." "Just go to the club." "They all know me there." "If you'll excuse us." "I didn't see her leave." "We were packed." " At 5am on a Friday?" " 5am any morning." " Who was she with?" " Like I said, it was a zoo." " Can you pull the security tapes?" " It's a loop." "It won't help you." "I read that she did PR for you." "What does she do exactly?" "She's Lily Carlyle." "Her Rolodex is like the MTV Awards guest list." "She put us on the map." "Is that why you're giving us the run-around?" " Come on." " Mr Hampton." "You can alienate her or you can alienate us, but we can get a lot nastier than some debutante." "Talk to Serena Whitfield." "She was with her." "I don't remember anything unusual." "Lily talk about her father that night?" "Was she upset with him?" " I don't know anything about that." " These are the police." "Tell them what they want to know!" "Her dad was on her a lot, and Lily was, like..." " She can give as good as she gets." " What was his problem with Lily?" " He didn't like her hanging out at the Aztec." " Why?" "He didn't like the people there, the people who ran the place." "Her dad said he knew what went on there and he was gonna shut it down." "What was going on at the club?" "Like..." "Thursday night... a guy was getting beat up behind the club." "I don't know who he was." " Who was beating him up?" " These two big guys." "Everybody says they're gangsters." "Those two were just whaling on this other guy." "John was there." " John Hampton?" " Yes." "Lily was so freaked out." "Hampton, John." "That's right." "Business address is 112 Garston." "OK." "Get back to me." "Cabaret and liquor licences are held by Hampton." "We're not the only ones checking up on him." "Two weeks ago, Carlyle called the state liquor authority about Hampton, also the real-estate board and health department." "Looks like Hampton didn't want the attention." "Hampton ran a few clubs in Tempe, Arizona." "Cited for serving alcohol to minors, fire regs." "He paid his fines." "Tempe's a long way from Mott Street." " The club is connected, Captain." " The magic gut speaks." "If I'm gonna talk up this mob angle upstairs, you're gonna have to prove it to me first." "Excuse me!" "This is a private lot." "Yeah?" "Who owns it?" "Sorry, Officer." "It's leased by the Aztec Club." "Hope there's no problem." "We're just keeping an eye on the neighbourhood." " How come?" " Because we're the police." " How long you been exclusive?" " Couple of months." "They make it worth your while to keep the place deserted during the day?" "It's an arrangement." "Works for them, works for me." "It looks more like you're working for them." "When you made this arrangement..." "did they threaten you?" " We'll protect you." " Right." "All right." "Which lucky stiffs get to park here during the day?" "That's Mr Hampton's car." "He owns the club." "That one..." "I dunno." "It's been here a few days." "Paper on the dash from Thursday." " This has been here since Thursday?" " Yeah." " Is there a problem?" " You'll be the first to know." "I already told the cops at the hospital." "I was on West 12th and 9th." "Four guys, one with a gun, they jacked my van." "Next thing you know, I wake up in the emergency room." "It's amazing you got Pete's van back." "Did you catch the guys?" "Er...no." "Mr Samuels, did you do any work at the Aztec Club?" " Never heard of the place." " Your van was in the parking lot." " Who roughed you up, Pete?" " We know you're afraid." "The fact is...if you don't help us, we can't help you." "I'm not asking for help." "I didn't ask you here." "We're here anyway." "I installed the audio system at the Aztec." "Were you there Thursday night?" "Yeah." "They asked me in to adjust the subs." "Soon as I got there, they went after me, on account they heard that I took a gig with a new place down on 9th." "I..." "No one told me I was exclusive." "That's the other guy, Vinny." "Him and Frank did the beat-down and Hampton just watched." "You did a good thing." " They don't have to know it was me." " No." "That's good!" "Now's a good time to think maybe this is gonna piss 'em off!" "Come on." "Wait!" "Vincent Russo." "Frank Ventura." "Kissing cousins of the Genoveses." "One second." " Why'd you lock your door?" " I was taking a nap." "Here you go." "Coat check and bar tabs." "We want you to use our new guy for your glassware." " I already got 2,000 glasses, Vinny." " Guess what?" "They're all chipped." "OK." "OK." "Look, the police came by about the Carlyle murder." "I don't need that kind of heat." "Don't go looking for trouble." "My dad never told me anything about the mob." "Why was he looking into the club's ownership?" "I dunno." "Why does it have to be about this whole mob thing?" "Can't it just be some mugger who tried to rob him?" "Why do you care one way or the other?" "I don't care what happens to these guys." "I think you care what happens to John Hampton." "John isn't a mobster." "Sorry to give you the bad news about the guy you've been sleeping with." " Excuse me?" "What?" " Were you or weren't you?" "I think you should answer the detectives truthfully." "It was a very casual thing." " But enough to worry your father." " He didn't want me going down there." "I told John he shouldn't let those guys in, that it was a horrible...image for the club." " And he said that he had no choice." " Did he say why?" "This guy, Vinny," "John said that the Feds had him indicted because he chopped off a guy's hand." "A Federal indictment?" "John Hampton said that?" "Yeah." "Since when?" "OK." "Thanks, Harry." "It was an indictment, all right." "Federal grand jury bailed Russo for torture and extortion." " It's not on his sheet." " It was sealed." "Where does a nightclub owner find out about a sealed federal indictment?" " What's it called?" "Aztec?" " Yes." "I never heard of it." "I can run the names of the principals through the database, see what comes up." " Could you?" "That'd be so helpful." " Mm-hm." " What's your interest in this club?" " It's in connection with a murder." " Wharton Carlyle." "Big shot." " Who you looking at for it?" "Vincent Russo, Frank Ventura, plus a newcomer, John Hampton." "We're about to execute arrest warrants." " You can't do that." " Really?" "Why's that?" "The Aztec...is a Bureau sting operation." "And John Hampton would be Agent John Hampton?" "We have spent over a year putting this in place." "We're putting together a case against the Genoveses for extortion, racketeering, money laundering." "We're not jeopardising that for..." "For a murder investigation." " How long before you roll it up?" " Four to six months." "Six months?" "What do we do till then, watch our leads turn to ice?" "I sympathise with you." "I can be your eyes and ears." "You'll do no such thing." "The Aztec Club is off-limits." "I won't have my agent compromised." "Then you'd better pull him out, because that club's on our beat." "It's a sting operation." "I wanna see the surveillance tapes." "Absolutely not." "I get calls every day from the mayor on down on this case." "Sure would be great to tell them how helpful the Bureau's been." "Think I got something interesting from Thursday night." "So, John, you like undercover?" "Well, it beats driving a desk in the Phoenix field office." "You forget you're playing dress-up." "It's like a groove." "You ever try it?" "No." "It's just not my nature." "Those four years in Narcotics, what was that?" "You ran three undercover operations." "27 arrests, 27 convictions." " You read my file." " Wouldn't you?" "Eames, you transferred to Major Case after three years in Vice." "Winter nights trawling the Point in a fur coat and a halter top looking for johns." "That's tough duty." "Let's not run games on each other." "OK." "Let's check it out." "That's Eddie Dutton." "He shows up every time Lily's around." "This might help you." " Is there any more to the tape?" " That's all I can show you." "Good hunting'." "It was in your bedroom." "A double-edged knife." "The same kind of weapon used to kill Lily's dad." "Listen..." "I'm not even..." "This is nuts, OK?" "Relax." "We're gonna get to the bottom of this." "Jeez." "You know, this is..." "It's just really what I..." "You wanna start finishing a sentence here pretty soon." "Forensics is going over your knife." "Now would be a good time to talk." "What she says is true." "OK." "OK." "I offered to get rid of her dad." "I know how it sounds." "When I drink, I say pretty much anything." "People say things they don't mean when they're drunk." "But then it happened." "He's dead." "I'm screwed, man." "This is what..." "Well, you're in trouble." "That's a fact." "If you keep telling us the truth, we'll see where it gets us." "If I meant it, I wouldn't flash a knife in front of everybody." "Who's everybody?" "Lily, Serena." "A photographer." "Hampton." " Man, he really flipped out." " Over the knife?" "Yeah." "I thought he was gonna kill me." "After all this, what happened?" "All I remember is waking up in the bathroom." " What time did you leave?" " I don't know." "Morning." "The cleaning crew woke me up." "A mixed bag from forensics." "Size and shape consistent with the wound but no blood or tissue on the knife." "Could've soaked it in disinfectant." "If he was smart, he'd have ditched it." "Be happy he's plenty dumb to incriminate himself." "Just bust his alibi." "I have to brief the chief of detectives by 6:00." "A little good news wouldn't hurt." "Go and check the alibi." "I'm gonna be down in forensics." "I analysed the saliva." "This one, traces of animal fat, mustard." "Er...not that one." "I had pastrami for lunch." "Oh." "That explains the antacid." "The other mug is more interesting." "Cocaine." "It's also present in the fingerprints on the mug." "Those cops came to see me." "So?" "They come and see me all the time." "They asked about you and Eddie." "They think you killed your father." "What?" "Who told them that?" "Did Eddie tell them that?" "Had to get it from someplace." "That is so outrageous." "Doesn't really matter." "It's enough the police believe it." "You gotta protect yourself." "Oh." "So, what am I gonna do?" "What I tell you." "There's a way to handle the police." "You know so much about cops, right?" "I know enough." " John." " I never want this to end, baby." "You're so too much." "Eddie was drinking vodka gimlets all night." "I think he had, like, seven." "And then he came out and said he was gonna do something cool for me." "He was gonna pull a Menendez on my dad." "I ignored it, cos I thought what anybody would think, that he was just kidding." " What made you change your mind?" " I dunno." "I was just...thinking." "And then there's the part where he pulled out the dagger." "He took out a dagger?" "Yeah." "He got really pissed at this photographer and he started flashing it around to impress me." "I realise now he was trying to impress me." "That's why he did it." "That's why I think he killed my dad." "What was it he said again?" "That he was gonna do something really cool for me." "That he was gonna pull a Menendez on my dad." "And by that time he had er...what, three or four drinks?" "Seven." "Seven vodka...gimlets." "All right, Lily." "I think that's sufficient." "We appreciate your coming in." "It took a lot of guts." " The officer will accompany you out." " Thank you." "Call the DA." "Tell him we're ready to send up charges." "Dagger?" "Since when does a 20-year-old debutante use that word?" "Maybe she read it in a fashion magazine." "Only cops use the word dagger to describe a double-edged knife." "It didn't sound on the up-and-up coming from her." "Eddie Dutton didn't just have a lot of drinks." "He had seven drinks." "She was coached by her coke-snorting boyfriend, Agent Hampton." "Undercovers have to fit in." "Dipping into the nose-candy is not unheard of." "What is your problem?" "Ooh, I..." "I just get the feeling I gotta watch my back around him." "Come up with a motive before you talk to me about Hampton." "Mr Carlyle never mentioned a John Hampton." "Mr Carlyle was a very private man." "If it wasn't business, we didn't discuss it." "Ever see the name on any documents?" " No." " Eames." "It's the office phone records." "In the two weeks before the murder, three phone calls to Phoenix." "Hello." "What was that?" "Wagner Security." "Is there a Mr Wagner I can speak to?" "Mr Wagner?" "Detective Goren." "This is Detective Eames." " You're a tough guy to get hold of." " Can't hit a moving target." "Mind if we hurry?" "I have a meeting." " Wanna know what I did for Carlyle?" " Whatever you can tell us." "He had me run a background check on a guy in Arizona." "John Hampton." "Did he say why?" "Carlyle had found explicit Polaroids of Hampton with his daughter, plus evidence Hampton had given her drugs." "And the girl...had floated Hampton some money." "40 grand." "Carlyle wanted leverage to get this jerk to cut the girl loose." "The guy works for the Bureau." "Can you believe that?" " I'll fax you his file." " Great." "How did Carlyle react when you told him?" "That an FBI man was corrupting his daughter?" "He was not happy about." "I told him to be careful." "Hampton had already stuck a gun down the throat of one of Lily's boyfriends." "Carlyle was probably threatening to go to Hampton's boss." "Giving drugs to an underage girl, taking money from her." "It's indefensible, even for an undercover." " So, do we have a motive now?" " I think you do." "You'll be arresting an undercover FBI agent in the middle of a sting." "I don't want to be reassigned to the motor pool." "It'll be my decision." "I'll get the warrant, you pick him up." "What the hell is this?" "The FBI sting netted many associates of the Genovese crime family, including popular nightclub owner, John Hampton." "Son of a bitch!" "United States versus Vincent Russo, Francis Ventura, John Hampton et al." "The predicates include assault in aid of racketeering, money laundering and extortion." " How are we pleading, gentlemen?" " Not guilty." " Not guilty." " Not guilty." "We ask for remand." "The defendants all have records and the evidence is substantial." " They are remanded to custody." " Your Honour?" "ADA Carver, New York District Attorney's Office." "Before the defendants are removed, I'd like to be heard on this matter." "The first attempt to arrest Hampton was pre-empted by Agent Wallace." "We're trying to keep the FBI from kidnapping our suspect." "Their murder investigation can't be allowed to sabotage a Federal case." "It's not our fault the US Attorney pinned her hope on a murderer." "His behaviour is questionable, but what links him to the murder?" "If these detectives weren't so busy running the FBI's obstacle course," "I'm sure they'd find enough evidence to satisfy you." "The Federal government has the greater interest here." "Greater than prosecuting a murderer?" "What law books are you working from?" "Until I see more evidence, I'm staying your arrest warrant." "There's also the need to protect the identity of the Bureau's agent." " I'd like to request a gag order." " Very well." "Mr Carver, NYPD and your office is now under gag order." "You can continue to develop your case." "We are done here." "There goes Hampton down the rabbit hole." "Even the FBI can't ignore a Federal judge." "You heard him." "The man wants compelling evidence." "Right." "And I want a foot-massage from Derek Jeter." " I didn't see him." "I'm sorry." " That's all right." "This rope is cut through clean." " Are there any shears?" " No." " Knife?" " No." "There are marks on this bench." " Mr Carlyle keep a knife here?" " He had a rigging knife." "A rigging knife." "That's single-edged." "Double blades aren't so useful." "You cut yourself, you know?" "Yeah, I know." "Could you pick the knife from a book?" " Think so." " We'd appreciate it." "But Carlyle was killed with a double-edged blade." "But his is missing." "Caretaker picked it out." "He last saw Carlyle with it two weeks ago." "Big help there." "What are you doing?" "Reading Hampton's FBI files." "We passed his photo around the marina neighbourhood." "No pops." "We need somethin'." "Police liaison, Mayor's Office, and the Department of Justice feel the FBI should not be messed with." "We got him." "This...is the same kind of knife that Carlyle kept in his boathouse." "The knife that was used to kill him." " This a single-edged knife?" " Yes." "He's wrong." "The killer stabbed the victim once with this knife, turned it around and reinserted it into the wound, this time with the sharp edge down." "Why would he do that?" "So we would think that the victim was killed with a double-edged knife." "A knife just like Eddie Dutton's." "And Hampton thought his little trick would fool a forensic examination?" "It wouldn't have been the first time." "The killer of a Federal informant in Arizona was almost acquitted because of an identical mistake made by a forensic examiner." "Hampton knew that..." "because he was the lead investigator." "It's in his file." "I hope you appreciate the fact that we came to you before the judge." "I'm not sure it's enough to convince me to honour your arrest warrant." "Then, give him to us for a day..." "just to question him." "It's Goren." "Frustrated, second-rate city cop." "Did you see the signs in their office?" ""World's Greatest Detectives." My ass!" "This whole thing is complete speculation." "There was a reference, actually, to a case in your file." "The Giorgio Benitez case." "I brought you a Federal indictment against the Genoveses." " I should be getting a medal." " You didn't do it by yourself." "The interview's set for tomorrow morning." "I'll pick you up at eight." "Be ready." "That's just fabulous." "On top of everything he's facing, you want him to perjure himself?" "There'll be no perjury." "He won't be under oath, and his statements won't be offered as evidence." "Say he does help you with this murder investigation." "What's in it for Mr Russo?" "These FBI operations always give rise to state charges." "We'll make sure they don't in Mr Russo's case." "Hampton was my business partner and he's my co-defendant." "Not that loyalty's a big thing with me, but why should I help you hang a murder rap on him?" "Because if I don't hang it on him, I'm gonna hang it on you." "What do you mean, John's in the FBI?" "I think I'd have known if he was a cop." "Your father found out he was an agent." "He threatened to expose his illegal activities." "Illegal activities?" "Giving Miss Carlyle drugs, taking money from her, threatening her former boyfriends." "What do you expect from Miss Carlyle?" "We need her to testify against Hampton." "I don't think you understand." "John's a victim here." "Those gangsters victimised him." "He didn't kill my father." "I don't think that you understand." "'That Friday night there was a problem in the coat room." "'Must've been around 5:30." "I couldn't find Hampton anywhere." "'I even went out to the parking lot." "His car wasn't there." "'He didn't turn up until about 6:00." "'He told me we didn't have to worry about Wharton Carlyle any more.'" "Not bad." "Beats a desk at the Phoenix field office." "Give it a work-out yet?" "Better not put it off, John." "The Department of Corrections is strict about conjugal visits for convicted murderers." "Trust me, you're a long way from making that stick." "What do you want?" "I wanna give you a chance to do right." "What's doing right in the Goren playbook?" "Well, fidelity, bravery, integrity." "That's what it says on your FBI crest." "You're gonna give me the good-agent-gone-bad speech?" "I just wanna know...what happened." "Did you get tired of watching the bad guys have all the fun?" "This is getting boring." "Let me make it a little more exciting for you." "'My father was angry that John Hampton was taking money from me, 'and that we were having a relationship." "'He said that he could hurt John, 'and I repeated that to John, and he got really angry." "'He knew Dad went rowing every morning." "'I even showed him where one time.'" "By the time we clean her up, put her in a nice blue dress, she'll make a terrific witness." "The remorseful daughter of the father who died trying to protect her." "You used her, John." "She was weak, and you used her." "And that really pisses me off." "I think it's time to think about taking a plea." "That crap's not gonna fly." "We're done." "Get him out of here." " I'm sorry." " What about?" "You're under arrest for murder." "You need me." "You can't make the case without me." "That's no longer your concern." "It's lonely at the bottom."