- How's the slum balls of [mumbles]?
- Same as usual, Wayne.
- How you doing darlin'?
Half a dozen of your slipperies, Goob.
Draw me a cold one, hey Luce?
So, what is a nice girl like you doing in a place like this?
- I like the smell.
- Yeah, there's something about the smell of raw fish.
Hold the sauce, Goob, I just suck 'em back.
[slurping]
[eerie music]
- Gimme a beer and a plate of blue points.
You want somethin'?
- How long it's takin' 'em?
- Relax.
- I'm the foreman at the fish packing plant.
I eat here every day.
- Don't you get tired of it?
- No, I'm a seaman.
- I can tell.
[dramatic music]
- Back off or I'll scramble her brains.
- [Penhall] Drop the gun.
[gun firing]
- [Officer] Don't move.
- Thank you.
[zapping]
[hissing]
♪ We never thought we'd find a place where we belong
♪ Don't have to stand alone
♪ We'll never let you fall
♪ Don't need permission to decide what you believe
♪ I said jump, down on Jump Street
♪ Your friends will be there
♪ When your back is to the wall
♪ You'll find you'll need us
♪ 'Cause there's no one else to call
♪ When it was hopeless a decision is what you need
♪ You'd better be ready to
♪ Be ready to jump
♪ 21 Jump Street
[birds chirping]
[knocking]
- We're late.
- [Penhall] I'm on the sports page.
- Well, if you want me to work
you better get off the sports page.
- No way to treat a hero.
- Hey, boys.
- There he is.
- Hey, hey, hey.
- Hey Penhall.
That's my man, Penhall, the new star of police intelligence?
- And, Jackie, how you doing?
- Great.
Been heck of a case over here.
We're gonna nail this guy.
- Well you know I was just following my instincts.
- Well, keep following 'em Sweet Cakes
you'll be running this show.
- Jackie, man don't call me Sweet Cakes.
- Oh, I love to make you blush.
So, word around town is that you and Fitz
are gonna be moving up to Major Crimes.
- Get outta here.
- We should celebrate.
What about dinner tonight?
- Yeah, what about it?
- Dorothy?
This is Deputy District Attorney Jackie Garrett.
- Hi, nice to meet you.
- You forgot your lunch.
- I was just asking the deputy here
if she'd like to come over to dinner, you know,
meet Tom Hanson.
- Oh, oh, that'll be great.
She'd love Tommy.
About 8:00?
Bring home some wine, Dougie.
- Okay.
She made me lunch.
Dougie.
- Cute.
[police radio squawking]
[knocking]
- Hey Captain, they towed your car.
- They did what?
- Hey, it's gone, it's gone, Captain.
- Did you see the uniform who towed Miss Elle?
'Cause the deed to his butt just changed hands.
- They weren't uniforms, Captain.
They were repo men.
- Repo men?
No.
- Captain, my father had two Cadillacs, a T-Bird
and a refrigerator repoed.
I know what a repo looks like when I see one.
[phone ringing]
- [Officer] Congratulations.
- [Officer] There he is.
- All right Dougie.
- Penhall, good job.
Penhall!
- What, what, what?
Oh.
- Check out that beard.
Boy you look like a Hell's Angel.
- Hey, we heard about your big bust, man.
You're a celebrity.
- Well, you know I was just doing my job.
- Oh, come on Mr. Modest.
You caught a hitman.
That's a star bust.
- Right.
- Douglas.
- Oh no, hey.
- I saw you on TV last night.
- You did?
How did I look?
- You gotta shave that beard.
- Listen, um, Jude and I are finishing up on something.
You gonna be around for a little while?
- Yeah.
- Yeah, we'll get together in about 10 minutes
and go get something to eat.
- Get some burgers or something, all right.
- All right.
- She's picking on me.
What's with that hair?
- She cut it off.
- So, how's everything going?
- It's pretty slow.
Very slow.
- Slow?
What are you doing tonight?
- Nothin'.
- Dinner, dinner?
- A little dinner, good.
- Okay, dinner.
Be at my place at 8:00, bring some wine,
and get a shave.
- Get a shave?
- Yeah, shave.
- I been out with you a thousand times,
you never asked me to shave before.
- Well, you know, it's just that Dorothy
made a special effort, you know.
It's gonna be, it's gonna be nice.
- Yes.
You set me up on a blind date.
- No, no, wait, wait.
It's not a blind date.
Just, it's just dinner.
- How many people are gonna be there?
- Including me?
- Yes.
- Four.
That's Dorothy.
- Yeah.
- You.
- Right.
- Me.
- Yeah.
- And, a female.
- No, wait please listen to me.
I'm in trouble.
Dorothy caught me flirting with this girl.
And, I told her that I was fixing her up with you.
And, you don't show up,
she's gonna snip.
You gotta help me.
You'll like her.
She's nice.
And, you'll just be the beard.
- All right.
- You'll do it?
- Yes.
Thank you.
- By now you're all familiar with the renowned officers
Penhall and Fitzgerald.
- Better known as the puppy patrol.
[laughing]
- Well they've been assigned to Major Crimes
as detective trainees.
And, I hope you will all give them the benefit
of your experience because we have a lot of faith
in these puppies.
Welcome.
- Thanks Captain.
- Sure.
- All right, all right.
Let's hear the glory talk.
- No glory talk.
Just a lot of legwork.
- Come on, this ain't bunko.
The guy's a contract player.
Escaped two federal investigations.
- You don't learn that stuff in the academy.
- Gentlemen, superior police instincts cannot be taught.
- Oh, ho, yeah.
The man's got confidence.
- You'll need a lot of that in this shark tank, junior.
- I've got a preliminary investigation
that's been turned over to us
because it involves a semi-celebrity.
You guys are handling it.
Well, the man's estranged wife has filed a report
of child molestation.
- Jeff Logan?
- Yeah?
- I read his sports column every day.
He's my hero.
- What, you want off this case?
- No way, Captain.
- No.
- Mrs. Logan brought the little girl in to child services
because she's been having nightmares
since spending the weekend with her father.
The psychologist feels the girl has been molested
so now it's been turned over to us.
- When can we meet them?
- Mrs. Logan and her daughter will be here
at eight tomorrow morning.
- Jeez, I just can't believe it.
- Well, don't believe it until you've got a case.
This is real dicey stuff.
An overeager cop can misread it.
And, a smart lawyer can chew up
a four-year-old witness in two minutes.
Study up.
- Don't worry.
It's great.
I gotta get home.
- Call me later?
- Yeah, I'll see you later, okay.
- Hey Peggy.
- Hi Doug.
- Hey Bozo.
- Hi Doug.
- Hey.
- You okay?
- Yeah, sure.
[doorbell rings]
That must be Jackie.
- The food looks great, Dorothy.
- We're having steaks.
- Good.
Oh, hey I brought this.
- Oh, thanks.
- Jackie, you already met Dorothy.
- Hi. - Hi.
- Tom Hanson, Jackie Garrett.
- Hi, nice to meet you Tommy.
- I don't really go by Tommy, but you can call me Hanson.
- Oh I can call you Hanson.
Wait, this is an informal get-together.
First names aren't appropriate here?
- Anyone for wine?
- Yes, definitely.
- How do you guys like your meat?
- Rare. - Burnt.
- Okay.
- So Jackie, how do you like working for the DA?
- Oh, it's great.
It's a lot of hard work but it's a real opportunity
to do some good.
- Jackie, you know Hanson here's a cop.
- Really?
Uh, you guys, I don't wanna sound like a jerk here,
but do you think we could change this tape?
- Uh, you don't like it?
- Well, I mean music just means a lot to me
and this guy's so derivative, he drives me crazy.
You know, I listen to R&B I want the real thing, you know.
- Like what?
- T-Bone Walker, Freddy King, Muddy Waters, I'm easy.
- Hey Dorothy, Jackie helped me build this case.
- Really?
- Yeah, well that's the great thing about working with Doug.
Every detail on this bust was letter perfect.
- Well, you know, sometimes you do, sometimes you don't.
- Yeah, well plenty don't.
I remember a bust came into our office last year,
and this was a major crack dealer.
We had a pound of coke sitting in a locker,
and this idiot undercover cop totally mishandled
the continuity of evidence.
I couldn't even file.
- That was you?
- You busted that kid in Piedmont?
- Steaks are up.
- Hey, I worked that guy for three months.
You nit pick my case right out the window.
- You're supposed to build a solid case.
- I caught him.
- You didn't even fingerprint the bags.
- He was wearing gloves.
I had possession, probable cause, intent to sell.
I gotta go.
- I don't think this is gonna work out, you guys.
Thank you and I'm sorry.
- Something wrong with the wine?
- Mrs. Logan and Molly.
This is Officer Kathryn Fitzgerald
and Officer Douglas Penhall.
- Hello.
Wanna say hi, Molly?
- Hey, Molly, how are you?
It's very nice to meet you.
Is that your teddy bear over there?
No?
Oh, I think he's following you.
- When I picked her up that night,
she seemed a little strange.
- How?
- Distant,
unusually quiet.
I figured she'd had a busy weekend.
Jeff is always taking her a million places.
- What did you and your daddy do last weekend.
- We went swimming.
- You did, you went swimming?
Wasn't it too cold to go swimming?
- My daddy's friends have a pool in their house.
- Inside?
- What did she say happened in the nightmare?
- She said, "Daddy scared me."
And, then she started crying this sad little whimper.
- Hey, Molly, can you show me what happened
with you and your dad?
- I don't want to.
- Okay, we can talk about something else.
Who's your favorite person in daycare?
- Elizabeth, you cited infidelity in your divorce suit.
Can you tell me the circumstances
of his extramarital affair?
- Extramarital affairs.
He didn't have just one.
- Could you show me again how it happened?
Did you read our report?
- Yeah, I did, but I didn't finish it.
Looks like a doozy, though.
- He did it and I want him, now.
- You know the examination showed no sign of trauma.
Prosecutor would have a hell of a time on this.
You're gonna need an admission of guilt
to get this guy.
- I'll get it.
- Okay, all right but don't pick him up now.
Wait until tonight.
- Why?
- It's Friday, if you pick him up late,
I can get his bail up high, you can keep him in custody.
That'll give you all weekend to work on him.
Let's get that warrant.
[crowd talking]
- Hey, Harry, how are you guy?
Good to see you.
- Right with me.
- Uh oh, uh oh, you're here too much.
You gotta watch him better.
I told you about that game, huh?
Next time you'll listen.
Hey, look who's here [mumbles], how are you?
[mumbles] this is Doris.
Talk to you later.
We have serious things to discuss.
- Good evening Mr. Logan.
Cocktail?
- Sure.
What are you gonna have, Doris?
- Very dry gin martini.
- Sounds great to me.
I'll have the same thing, Jack.
- Hey, Jeff, I'm at the back table.
Stop by before you leave.
- Okay, Georgie.
Great man.
Gave me my first job.
- Really?
- He dresses like a bum, let's people take advantage of him
and rich enough to buy this whole town.
- Jeff Logan?
- Yes.
- Would you stand up and step away from the table, please?
- What's this about?
- Please stand up.
- Mr. Logan, you're under arrest for child molestation.
You have the right to remain silent.
Should you give up that right,
anything you say... - Wait a minute.
- Can and will be used against you in a court of law.
You have a right to an attorney.
- [Jeff] Just give me a second.
- [Doug] If you cannot afford an attorney,
one will be appointed to you.
Do you understand these rights...
Excuse us.
Pardon me.
Do you understand these rights?
- Hey, Penhall, Penhall, hi.
Give me details huh?
I wanna know all about the pervert.
- Louchec, man, you are the pervert.
- Hey, nice work, puppy.
- Thanks, Dave.
- Hey, Penhall, did you have to bust
my favorite sports writer?
How am I gonna bet the ponies?
- You've made a big mistake.
I didn't do it.
- Are you willing to take a polygraph test?
- Believe me, I wanna help clear this up.
But, I think I should speak to my lawyer.
- If you're so innocent, why won't you take the test?
You pass it can only help you.
- I'll take the test.
I just wanna talk to my lawyer first.
- You called him last night, Jeff.
He didn't get back to you.
This guy a friend of yours?
- Yeah.
- Well, he's an ex-friend now.
See, people do not like to be associated
with child molesters.
- Thank you, sir.
In a million years I would have never figured you
for a bowler.
- Well, actually I'm not.
I kinda got set up on another blind date.
- Oh.
Worse than me?
Ooo, bowling nerd.
Bad news.
- Yeah, when he's not picking his nose.
He's picking elsewhere.
Hanson, I'll make you a deal.
You get me out of this,
I'll push your next dicey case through.
- This is a lot to ask.
Okay, I'll be there in a minute.
- Thank you.
- You take a long time in the bathroom.
- Oh, I'm not housebroken yet.
- Jackie.
This is highly irregular.
Who's with the kids?
- They're alone.
- Didn't I tell you if you're gonna cheat on me,
you don't cheat on my bowling night?
- Yeah.
- Is that what I said?
- Yeah.
- I thought so.
Would you excuse us?
- Sure.
- Thank you.
- My god, that was great.
I can't believe you did that.
- Oh yeah, I'm great in bowling alleys.
Just can't catch criminals.
[knocking]
- What am I gonna do with you?
I know, we'll take you to County, huh?
Do you know what'll happen to you
when the brothers find out you're a child molester?
Any way you look at it, you're a dead man.
- So, why should I sign a confession if I'm a dead man?
- I'll tell you why.
Because the system will go easier on you
if you cooperate.
Work with us.
And, a lot of very angry police officers
will be more inclined to see that you're treated fairly.
- I didn't do it.
- Get him out of here.
- This guy ain't talkin'.
- He's desperate.
I think we're kinda close.
- No, we're not gonna break him.
He's gonna hang on until somebody bails him out
and his lawyer's gonna make mincemeat out of that kid.
- The hell he is.
I'm gonna get him into that polygraph test
and he's gonna be begging to sign a confession.
- Look, Penhall, you've been doing a great job
at this bad cop routine.
But, just watch your step.
- What is this?
Are you backing down?
You're right, we should let him go.
Maybe we can get him a date with your kid sister.
- Don't give me that crap, Penhall.
I want this guy as bad as you do.
When I think of what he did to that little kid,
it makes me wanna puke.
- I'm sorry.
- Yeah.
Look, this isn't good for me.
You handle it your way.
I'm gonna go talk to Mrs. Logan again.
Maybe she's got something more for us.
- Hey, Penhall.
- Hanson.
- You okay?
- Yeah, I'm fine.
I got a tough one, you know.
I been up all night.
What's up?
- I was,
I was just wondering what was going on with you and Jackie.
- Nothing, no.
We just work together.
I think she's got a little thing for me, but...
- Are you two?
- Us, no, you know, I would never cheat on Dorothy.
Although I have noticed her legs.
- Yeah.
Would it bother you if I took her out?
- You guys...
I don't understand.
I thought you didn't get along.
I mean, you had that argument.
- I ran into her at a bowling alley the other night and,
you know, she's a lot cooler than I thought she was.
But, if it would bother you at all,
I wouldn't do it.
- No, no, no, go ahead.
- You sure?
- Yeah, sure I'm sure.
Go ahead.
- All right.
- She's got nice legs.
- Jeff, you failed every question on the polygraph
except for your name and address.
Now, I'm tired and you're tired.
But, I wanna help you.
Talk to me.
- I don't know what to tell you.
- Tell me what happened with you and your daughter.
- I don't have the right words.
Everything I tell you is a lie.
- Then tell me the truth.
Come on, Jeff, I just wanna help you.
- Then help me.
Put a damn gun to my head and tell your boss
I was trying to escape because my life's over.
- You can get therapy.
- I need to talk to you.
I was asking her about the weekend.
And, I noticed an inconsistency in her story.
So, I pushed her on it.
She broke down.
She told Molly what to say.
- No, what are you talking about?
He failed the polygraph test.
- He failed the polygraph test
because you scared the crap out of him.
- Oh, okay so we destroyed a man's life
because some angry woman lied about him?
- Penhall, we had the information right in front of us.
That this is gonna be a vicious custody battle.
We should have dug deeper.
- I broke the man.
He's ready to confess to something he didn't even do.
- Good thing your partner bailed you out, huh, hotshot?
[somber rhythmic music]
- Jeff.
Are you okay?
- No, Gene, I'm not.
- When I heard what happened I tried to bail you out,
but it was too high.
I couldn't raise that kind of money on the weekend.
Did you try Paul?
- Never got back to me.
- This is a terrible thing.
- Yeah.
- Jeff,
Jeff, I don't know how to say this.
- What, Gene?
You don't know how to say, you're fired?
Come on, Gene, you can say that.
Just say, nobody in this building
has the guts to stand up for you.
Just say, it doesn't matter that you're innocent.
That we've been friends for 11 years.
Just say, you're fired.
You can do that, Gene.
- How the hell could you be so irresponsible?
- Look, I screwed up, I know it.
What can I do to change it?
- Don't just sit there and say, "I screwed up."
You wrongly filed against a public figure.
The man's life is over.
Go to his house and say, "I screwed up."
Maybe he'll invite you in for a beer.
- Hey don't talk to me like that.
I've busted my ass making letter perfect cases for you.
I don't need this crap.
- Hey, hey, you watch how you talk to me.
I'm your boss because I'm smarter than you
not just because I got lucky.
Now, let me tell you something.
After this, you aren't the golden girl around here anymore.
You're gonna have to prove yourself all over with me.
- Hey, wanna go grab a beer down at the bowling alley?
- Hanson, what's wrong with you?
What, you just drop into people's workplaces
without calling?
Can't you see I'm busy here?
- Fitzgerald, I've got an open spot on a conspiracy crew.
I think you'd be perfect for it.
I want you to report to Mark Stein over at Sedgwick.
- But, I've got a lot of paperwork here, Captain.
- Well, Penhall can handle it.
Can't you Penhall?
[sad music]
- Am I missing something here?
I've had my car repossessed because you idiots
had a computer malfunction and now it's going on my TRW?
You must be out of your mind.
- Milk.
- Doug.
- Hey.
- Listen man, I heard about your problem.
I'm sorry.
- Do you wanna share a six pack, shoot some baskets?
- I'm sorry, I wish I could.
I gotta go.
I'm teaching a self-defense class tonight.
Look, stop in tomorrow, okay?
- Okay, all right.
- Call me.
- Okay, I'll call you tomorrow.
Okay, good, right.
[basketball thumping]
[dark rhythmic music]
- I hear Fitz is practically running that conspiracy team.
- Penhall, for the last six years
any time I had a terrible day, I went to bed
comforted by the knowledge that I could wake up
to Logan's column.
You took that away from me, Penhall.
You ruined my life.
- Willis, I'm gonna save your life with a warning.
Ever remind me of that mistake again, I'll tear--
- What's wrong with you?
Come on, back off, man.
- Have you looked in the mirror lately?
You trying to get transferred to a skid row unit?
- I'm sorry, Captain.
It's been a rough couple days.
- Well, I call it more than a rough couple of days.
You made a major screw up.
- Yeah well, I've been reminded of that screw up
every second of every day, haven't I?
- So?
Welcome to the big leagues cry baby.
What did you expect?
Penhall, when you came in here last week,
you were the golden boy.
Star bust, everyone having fun.
You bragging like the cock of the walk.
You don't think those guys were just waiting for you
to take a fall.
- Oh, great guys.
- Yeah, some of them are
and some of them aren't.
But, they're all great cops.
And every one of them handled their first big screw up
a lot better than you.
- What do you want me to do?
- Take a few days off, Penhall.
And, you got a lot to think about.
- Doug, it's 3:00 in the morning.
Are you okay?
- Yeah, I'm all right.
I need to be alone.
I'm going for a walk.
[lively music]
[knocking]
- Penhall.
- Can I talk to you?
- Sure, come on in.
- Uh, you need anything?
Some coffee, something to drink?
- No.
I need answers.
- Yeah, yeah I know you do.
I just don't know if I've got the right ones for you.
- When I heard what that man did to his little daughter,
I wanted to rip his head off.
Some cop.
I wanna protect the public.
Turns out they need protection from me.
- No, you were trying to protect a child, Penhall.
That's a good thing.
You just made a mistake.
- You know, my father,
he used to drink.
Sometimes he got a little
abusive.
And, I loved him but sometimes
I wish somebody would have stopped him.
- You know it took years to pass effective
child protection laws.
They're good laws.
- Well, I don't know.
I don't understand how this whole thing's
supposed to operate.
I mean,
one lie and your whole life,
it ain't even worth a dime.
- Our lives aren't measured in money.
Some ways we'd be better off if they were.
The currency we trade in is reputation.
Everything we do depends on it.
Unfortunately, in our world a lie holds too much power.
- What's gonna happen to Logan?
- I don't know.
It's gonna be tough.
And, he's in bad shape.
- Bad shape?
His life is over.
- In Harlem, sure he's not ready for party time.
But you don't know what he's made of.
Terrible things happen to people all the time.
But, they survive.
- I don't know if I'd wanna survive that.
- Human beings wanna live, Doug.
They don't let go as easy as you think.
- I owe that man.
- Don't try to pay it back.
You're not ready for that.
- I went to his place.
I couldn't face him.
- Look, just put it behind you.
- How can I do that?
- Time.
It heals.
It's gonna heal Logan and it's gonna heal you.
- I really wish I could believe that.
[knocking]
- What are you doing here?
- I need to talk to you.
- No.
- Please.
It's important.
- Why don't you just kick the door in
'cause I don't wanna see you.
- I'm not gonna kick the door in.
But, I'm not gonna leave either.
- You can come in storm trooper.
I can't stop you.
Welcome to hell.
Impressed?
No, I was hoping you'd handled this better.
- You're hoping I handled it better?
Well I'm sorry to disappoint you, pal,
but you took my best back in that jail cell.
What's the matter?
You cops get jealous when you see somebody
make a success of their life?
You got upset because you saw me at a ballgame
with better seats than you, what?
- No...
You're a hero of mine.
I read your column every day.
- I'm touched.
- Can't you understand that I was trying to protect
your daughter and that I made a mistake?
- Oh.
Now you've really put it in perspective for me.
You're just a conscientious guy doing his job,
protecting the world from evil-doers.
So, now you come in here like Ollie North
saying, "Okay, I made a mistake,
"but I was trying to to the right thing."
- I really wish I could change things for you.
- You do?
- Let me tell you something.
I doze off for a couple hours at a time on the couch.
When I wake up, I smile because I think
the bad dream's over.
Then I remember.
The nightmare begins when I wake up.
I sneak out at night to get my meals.
I'm afraid of everybody who makes eye contact.
But, mostly I just lie here.
You should live inside my shoes.
Everything's all rotted and crazy,
just the way you made it.
- You gotta, you gotta
pull yourself together.
You get therapy, you try to get your job back.
- What are you, the Tidy Bowl man?
You decided my life was a toilet
that you needed to clean up?
You wetback moron.
Garbage.
A stupid cop like you steps into my life
and now it's all garbage.
Get out of my apartment.
Get out.
- Officer Penhall, you're being very naive.
A man's name is connected to something like this
and he's tainted.
You know how people are.
He'll always be known as the child molester.
- Well, can you print a retraction
and let everybody know he's innocent?
- I already have.
Nobody cared.
People love marrying a celebrity to a scandal.
They don't wanna hear the truth.
Look, Officer, I'll do anything I can to help Jeff.
Give this thing some time and I'll talk to
some editors in other cities.
But, I can't give him back his job.
I'm sorry.
[sad music]
- How could you let it happen?
You loved that man once.
How could you do that to him?
How could you do that to your daughter?
- I didn't mean for it to happen.
Jeff and I have had a very bitter breakup.
We both want sole custody of Molly.
It's become very hateful.
So, you used your own daughter to get back at him?
- No.
- When Molly came home that night,
she did have nightmares.
I guess I hated Jeff so much I wanted to believe the worst.
I didn't realize I was putting words in Molly's mouth
until your partner made me reconstruct it.
- So, what are you gonna do now?
- I can't put his life back together for him.
I wish I could.
- Mrs. Logan,
you are very lucky that my department is so embarrassed
by this case that they dropped the whole thing.
Beause they'd take your daughter away
and they'd bring you up on charges for that lie.
Now, I suggest
that when this custody suit comes up,
that you find a way to settle it that's easy on Molly.
- Hi.
- I think I owe you an explanation.
- No you don't.
- Yes I do.
My behavior was a bit inconsistent yesterday.
- Oh, not it wasn't.
You were always a bitch.
See it was inconsistent at the bowling alley
'cause you were almost nice that night.
- Nice?
No one's ever described me in quite that fashion before.
- So, it'll probably never happen again.
- Look, I admit I'm guilty but with an explanation.
My boss ripped my face off two seconds
before you walked in the door.
- What for?
- For going to war on a case I should never have filed.
- You screwed up a case?
- All right, Hanson.
I guess you're getting to me.
I'm filing bad cases, I'm going bowling,
and I'm acting like a goofball.
- You're also dripping in my car.
- I'm sorry.
Look why don't you drive us to a coffee shop,
I'll buy you some waffles?
- I don't want any waffles.
- All right then drive us to a florist,
I'll buy you some flowers.
- I don't want any flowers.
- All right then drive me to my apartment,
I'll let you make love to me.
- I don't want...
- Doug, is that you?
- Yeah.
- I'm in the kitchen with Peggy.
You need anything?
- No.
[child giggling]
Not now, Bozo.
Go back in the kitchen.
[ominous music]
[knocking]
- Jeff?
Jeff.
[banging]
- It's off.
I do this every day.
Turn the gas on, sit here.
Listen to it hissing.
Then I turn it off.
I don't wanna die.
My life is terrible but I can't end it.
- You shouldn't end it.
- Look, you've proven
what a wonderful big-hearted guy you are,
now leave me alone.
- I can't.
I've been searching for something to help you.
I didn't realize it but it was something
that was already there.
- What?
- Your daughter.
Part of your life is over
and I can't pretend that it isn't.
I mean, you'll never be the toast of this town again.
But, a more important part
of your life
is still there.
Your daughter.
- You and Elizabeth and your partner
made everything I do with my little girl dirty.
I'll never be able to hug her in public
without worrying about some watchdog like you
dragging me off to jail again.
- That's bull.
Do you think your daughter cares what the rest of us say?
She needs you.
You don't know me but you gotta believe this.
There's nothing I wouldn't give to change what happened.
And, there's nothing I wouldn't do for you
and your little girl.
If you needed money, it'd be yours.
I'd get two jobs.
If you needed to punch my face in,
I'm right here.
- I don't wanna punch your face in.
I want my life back.
I liked my life.
- I liked it too.
Some of it can't come back.
There's nothing anybody can do about that.
But, the best part of it
is still there for you.
- What can I give her?
Everything inside of me is so twisted and hateful.
- Hate me.
I have a debt to you that I can never pay back.
If you wanna hate me forever, okay.
But, love your daughter.
Be there for her.
- Under the circumstances I think I have been very patient
with you people but we're talking about
my credit rating here.
I haven't missed a payment on anything in 15 years
and now because of your computer malfunction,
I've got a black mark on my TRW?
I'll call you back.
- I wanna come back.
- Are you sure?
You're a fine cop, Penhall.
And, I'd love to have you back.
But, don't do it because they ran you out of Major Crimes.
You're better than that.
- Well, they didn't run me out, Captain.
I just wanna start over.
It means a lot to me to help kids out.
This is the place where I did the most good.
[lively music]
[dramatic music]