[Smash Mouth singing "Walkin' On The Sun"]
What do you say, Dorothy, should I double down?
You're showing a four, the book says no, but hey.
- You're hot. - Me or the cards?
Both.
♪ It ain't no joke I'd like to buy the world a toke ♪
♪ And teach the world to sing in perfect harmony ♪
♪ And teach the world to snuff the fires and the liars ♪
♪ Hey I know it's just a song but it's spice for the recipe ♪
♪ This is a love attack ♪
Nice playing!
♪ It's just like any fad it retracts before impact ♪
Nice flirting with you, Dorothy.
You should never quit after a win.
I got a feeling my luck's run out.
♪ So don't delay act now supplies are running out ♪
♪ Allow if you're still alive six to eight years to arrive ♪
♪ And if you follow there may be a tomorrow ♪
♪ But if the offer's shunned you might as well ♪
♪ Be walkin' on the sun ♪♪
[slow instrumental music]
[music continues]
[elevator bell dings]
You waste your money on the daily numbers?
Every mornin'.
Five bucks down the drain.
I don't got dependents. I can afford it.
So if you won big, you'd retire?
Nah, I'd stay doing what I do.
I'd just, uh, dress sharper if that's possible
and brag a lot more.
that's
Lil, you want to take a look at this?
What is it?
Regional broadcast from Delaware State Police.
They just got a murder similar to a cold job in Jersey.
Young white male, walked into the woods
shot once in the chest.
Both were hitchhikers.
- Motive? - Straight robbery.
Bullet in both cases was .38 caliber.
"Requesting information on any like murders.
solved or unsolved, in the region."
What, they think they got a serial murder?
- 'Sounds like it.' - Nice.
I'll check the H-records.
We had a job like that.
Yeah, a kid hitchhiking.
Five, six years ago.
- Denny Saltzman's job. - Saltzman. Right.
What do you remember about it?
It was in the summer. And just like you said.
In the forest, hitchhiker, .38 slug.
- Remember his name? - I should remember.
Saltzy brayed on and on about that kid.
There wasn't much on it. Some footprints, fiber.
Yeah, he just turned 20, uh, "Gone good."
'Saltz was always sayin''
'"crummy kid gone good," over and over.'
He was a good-looking kid.
Saltzman had his picture on the wall.
Damn, this name thing's gonna bug me.
You ever establish who the kid caught a ride with?
Nah, case went cold fast.
Dean. I think his name was Dean.
No, it wasn't Dean.
- Darren. Darren something. - No.
Matt.
- What? - Mills. Matt Mills.
Right. That's it.
Yeah. Almost had it.
[theme music]
[music continues]
[instrumental music]
Matt Mills, 20
shot in the woods off the Expressway.
The 3,000 bucks he'd just won in Atlantic City, gone.
Like the other two jobs.
I talked to Jersey and Delaware
both are thinking it's the same doer.
Serial killer.
Our guy Matt could've been his first.
Well, Matt's killed in '97.
Jersey's body turns up fall of 2000.
And Delaware's just four weeks ago.
A three-year cooling off period.
I say we go right now. To Delaware.
No need. Delaware's coming here.
Don't get too excited, Scotty.
A serial job don't get you hopped up just a little, boss?
What else do we know about the victims, Lil?
All young guys, 18 to 20.
All three were headed home from Atlantic City
after winning a few thousand in the casinos.
So the doer hangs around the tables
stalks the winners, catches up to 'em
on the lonely road home.
These kids are leaving with thousands of bucks.
Why are they hitchhiking?
File says Matt missed his bus back.
I can win ten grand over there
I still ain't paying a cabbie 300 bucks to drive me home.
Now, you put it that way, I guess my thumb's out too.
(Rush) 'Besides the robbery and the .38'
we got a size ten print that lines up with other murders.
Plus the gray carpet fiber on the body.
Delaware and Jersey have a list
of seven suspects that could've done both jobs.
Add in this murder, maybe we narrow it down even more.
Vera and Jeffries can check the list, see if anyone
had ties to Philly in '97.
- Hmm. - What?
When Matt was 17 he got locked up
by my sergeant at West Detectives.
For what?
Him and his cousin robbed
a food mart, got probation.
I'll put a call in, see if he remembers Matt.
- Good. - Better get to the family, Lil.
Let them know what's going on.
[instrumental music]
- Hello. - What's your name?
- Katie. - I'm Detective Rush.
Detective Valens.
Are your parents home?
- Is it about Matt? - How'd you know?
Whenever it's cops, it's about Matt.
(Rush) 'So Matt was in Atlantic City'
visiting his cousin Blaine that weekend?
Matt hadn't seen Blaine for a long time.
He wanted to go whoop it up with him.
Yeah, he'd earned it.
How so?
He was working for a brokerage house.
An entry level position, but a good start.
He'd gotten into computers
that investment world.
It was impressive.
During the days, he was hustling at his job.
Nights he was over at Drexel taking classes.
Folks he worked for liked him
but Matt knew he needed his B.A.
Sounds like your son really stepped up.
After that trouble he and Blaine got into.
A footnote in our file mentions the food mart robbery.
It wasn't a footnote to us.
Matt had some... very bad years.
First, he was stealing money off my dresser
'then breaking into the neighbor's house.'
I'm glad he robbed that store.
He became a different person after that.
Scared straight.
No, that didn't straighten him out.
He straightened himself out.
'There's a difference.'
[voice breaking] That kid..
He had what it takes.
He had it.
Well...the next three years
Matt was the boy we'd always dreamed we'd have.
And what about Blaine?
Blaine's still over in Atlantic City.
[instrumental music]
You the guys from Philly?
Blaine Robbins.
Detectives Rush and Valens.
- Hey. - Gotta admit, um..
I'm not that glad to see you guys.
Dragging up Matty's ghost has me feeling kind of funky.
Don't you want his murder solved?
Definitely. Look, he missed his bus.
I told him, stay, but he had to be at work.
I would've given him a ride myself, but no wheels.
Well, you remember anyone watching Matt
that night, hanging around him?
Well, I wasn't with him at the time
but Matt is a...was..
...a real approachable guy.
Let's talk about that robbery you and Matt did.
Those were our bad years.
We were kids.
Kids who needed a thousand bucks.
A thousand bucks for what?
Start a vending machine business.
What, like a Coke machine?
Candy bars.
There was a machine for sale for $1,000.
And the idea was, after we stocked it
Matt and I could clear 300..
...a week!
Young guys, thinking big.
Yeah. Yeah.
Anything else about that night?
[laughing ] No, I..
I was kind of hammered.
- Been celebrating all night. - Celebrating what?
Matty had become a real entrepreneur.
This rockin' investment opportunity
had just come our way..
So this Click Twice stock is a sure thing?
For us to get in on an IPO
the broker would be doing us a major favor.
And that would get us in on the ground floor
right where you want to be.
The stock'll shoot right up, that's why everyone wants in.
But then it'll re-set, find its real value.
But, by that time, you and me have already cashed out.
Millionaires by age 25.
We would've made out like bandits.
But..
...without Matty, the deal
went up in smoke.
How's our list doing?
Getting shorter.
Two guys were in jail in '97
three others have good, substantiated whereabouts
at the time of Matt's murder.
So that leaves two.
One.
Oh. Meet Sam Royal, Delaware State Police.
- How's it going? - Okay.
- Down to one, huh? - Yeah.
My suspect number two was in a hospital
in Bridgeport having dialysis
the night Matt was killed.
So who's that leave?
Henry Floyd.
Truck driver with a three-page sheet.
He's a convicted thief
'con artist, attempted rapist'
overall menace to society.
Sounds like you know him pretty good.
Yeah. I interviewed him.
He's got ice water in his veins.
And a size ten shoe.
Guns?
Got three registered hand guns
including a .38 Smith and Wesson.
Oh, and, uh Mac withdrawals puts Floyd
in the AC casinos the night before each of the murders.
Gas receipts also put him near the crime scenes.
I'm liking Floyd more and more.
Oh, when I asked him about these kids
the cocky SOB smiles at me and tells me
he never picks up hitchhikers.
What was cocky about that?
I never mentioned hitchhikers.
I want to meet this guy.
I got copies of his logs, he's due back tomorrow.
Where's he stay in Philly?
Uh, he's got ties to a woman out in Bristol.
- What's the tie? - Girlfriend.
Name's Janice Burns.
Yep.
'I'm the girlfriend.'
That always sounds so silly.
Why is that?
I look like a girly-girl to you, Hot Stuff?
Besides, um, I wouldn't exactly..
...consider what we got a traditional situation.
What do you have?
Henry comes here for one thing.
Two, if he decides to stay and eat up all my food.
(Royal) 'That doesn't sound like you get much out of this.'
Why you let him in?
Because if I don't, he'll get his tool box
and he'll take the door off the hinges.
He's done it before.
Who knew you'd be better off leaving your door unlocked.
Janice, you never called the police, filed charges?
- Nope. - Why not?
I know what he'd do to me.
Look, I made my bed.
The only reason I met Henry
was I was at the truck stops looking for dates.
And now that animal's been in my life for ten years.
I knew what I was doing was risky.
So, tomorrow is just another day?
What's tomorrow?
Henry's coming to town.
I didn't know that.
He hasn't called you?
Like I said, I leave the door open.
Damn it.
Ah, don't worry about it.
Janice, you say Henry's been trampling in and out of here
the last ten years?
That's right.
'And how long have you had this gray carpet?'
Hey, lab going to do a rush job on that fiber?
We'll have the results by the end of the day.
- You check on Floyd? - On schedule.
Should arrive at Muncy's Meats by noon.
It'll take him at least another 40 minutes
to get out to Janice's.
We'll go early and wait for him.
Royal's already on his way over.
He's got it bad for this guy?
Got a few hours.
Wanted to take a ride, see my old sergeant.
He called back.
He remembers the arrest?
Just says he's in the office.
We should swing by.
Scotty Valens.
So, how's Homicide treating you, man?
Ain't all bad. How's things here?
Good and quiet with you gone.
[chuckles]
Manny, this is my new partner Lilly Rush.
- Nice to meet you. - Same here.
Here's that DC number on that arrest I was talking about.
Oh, yeah, the two kids robbing a food mart, right?
- Yeah. - Let me grab the 49.
Uh, cousins.
One of the kids, Matt Mills, ended up dead.
(Rush) 'Matt was the younger of the two.'
His mom said getting locked up
scared Matt pretty good.
I don't know if it was so much about being locked up
as it was that Russian reading him the riot act.
The Russian is the store owner?
Yeah, Ivan Medvedenko.
If he made a scene out here you wouldn't forget too easy.
So I took the phone, dialed 911.
I should've ran after them.
No, calling was the right thing.
There is one, right there.
You! You stole from me!
Shame on you.
'Your dirty hands.'
- Lazy, American boy. - Calm down, Ivan.
How old are you?
Seventeen.
- Too late. - Too late for what?
Change.
You'll always be spoiled.
Die! Just die.
A boy like you no one will miss.
Johnny, take this man downstairs.
Russian tells Matt to die.
Anything behind those words?
Oh, first detectives on that kid's murder
came asking the same, but Medvedenko had no record.
Wonder if Matt and Blaine ever went back to his store.
If they were dumb enough to do that
then I'd say all bets were off.
[phone ringing]
Sorry.
Rush.
- Working with a girl, huh? - Yeah.
- She a political case? - Nah, she came from North.
- Did real good there. - Floyd just got to town.
Got to go. Thanks, Manny.
[instrumental music]
Henry Floyd?
Yeah.
Philadelphia police.
Sit down, Henry.
Get you some coffee?
Sure you can't offer me more than that, sweet tits?
Oh..
You and me are gonna have some problems, Henry.
It's okay, Scotty.
You wanna do me, huh?
I'm not sure yet.
Twirl around once.
Scotty, give me and Henry some private time.
You've been naughty, Henry.
Three murders along your truck route.
So?
We've been charting where you've been
and what you've done, and not just us.
Jersey and Delaware cops are on your ass, too.
Am I under arrest?
No. You're free to go.
'Want to?'
No.
I'm enjoying myself.
We have copies of your trucking logs, credit card receipts
a day-to-day map of your whereabouts.
Dolly, none of that means nothing and you know it.
Actually, one good piece of physical evidence
can mean everything.
And we have fibers, Floyd
from Janice's carpet.
Oh, you've seen Janice?
So you know what an upgrade you'd be.
Three murder trials in three states.
Anyway you look at it
'you'll get the needle.'
Matt Mills.
You ended his life for $3,000.
You ever think on that?
I don't get your meaning.
Well, what's the lowest
you'd end someone's life for?
2,000, 1,000
a Swiss Army knife?
Dolly, you and me
we don't see the world the same way.
Oh, you're a philosopher.
So that gives you the right
to take someone's life away?
You're puttin' words in my mouth.
Didn't kill him, didn't kill anyone.
Then take a polygraph for me.
Okay.
- 'Did you murder Matt Mills?' - 'No.'
Did you kill Chuck Praska?
Chuck get iced in Jersey or Delaware?
Yes or no answers, Floyd.
Roger that.
Did you murder Chuck Praska?
No.
- Did you murder Brian Fritz? - No.
The next question I want you to answer incorrectly.
'The purpose is to intentionally make the chart spike.'
Is this card the ace of spades?
Yes.
He never spiked.
Not even when he lied about the card.
He beat the polygraph.
But good.
You know, you never should've gone to see Janice.
Now a perfectly good ten-year relationship
will have to end.
You gonna kill her too, Henry?
Like those three kids?
You're putting words in my mouth again.
What?
What are you looking at?
A dead man.
And get those feet off my table.
The ball on Floyd's left boot is severely worn down
probably from pressing down on the clutch
when he's in his rig.
First time around criminalistics looked at
brand, size, and tread.
Maybe they never looked at the ball of the foot.
So let's pull the molds from evidence
re-submit them to the lab.
- Want to let Jersey know? - Yeah.
- Hey! - Hey, well, see ya.
Lot of wear and tear on Floyd's left hoof.
If the plaster molds match, we got him.
Good. 'Cause the fiber match didn't happen.
- Crap. - Inconclusive.
But I got something else.
- Yeah, what? - 'Manny called back.'
Ran that store owner through the computer again.
Starting '99, he does have a sheet.
For what?
Arrested for assaulting one of his customers.
Then five months ago
chased a shoplifter with a revolver.
'Fired six shots.'
What kind of revolver?
.38 Special.
'Just like the one that killed Matt.'
Better go have a conversation.
Philadelphia Homicide.
Wanna ask you some questions.
I haven't done anything.
We're investigating the murder of a young man
you had history with.
Recognize him?
You know who that boy is, don't you?
He robbed me.
Him and the other.
Held you at gunpoint, right?
Like animals.
[Nine Inch Nails singing "Closer"]
[cash register bell rings]
Thank you.
♪ You can have my absence of faith ♪
♪ You can have my everything ♪
♪ Help me ♪
♪ Tear down my reason ♪
♪ Help me.. ♪♪
Hey!
'Hey! What are you doing there?'
- Sorry, pops. - Hey!
Get away.
I said get away, or I'll call the police.
Get away, I said!
Hey! Thief! Thief!
Don't move! Don't move!
Matty, hurry!
Don't move!
You should have chased me out.
Why you got to make things complicated?
'Matty, hurry!'
'Let's go!'
They never saw Pejia
my son
and for that... I am thankful.
- But you must've held a grudge. - What's your meaning?
Those boys got arrested but only got probation.
- 'Did that get you mad--' - They should've gone to jail.
And since they didn't, maybe you decided to do
something about it.
Aah, three years later?
You remember how many years later Matt got killed?
You heard that kid got murdered, huh?
Yeah. Everyone talked about it.
You recall where you were the day he died?
Here. Working, like always.
Can you prove it?
I leave people alone.
I've never hurt anyone.
Oh, you leave people alone outside of
when you shoot your gun off at them, is that it?
I don't have a gun.
Medvedenko, we're the cops.
We know about you firing shots at the shoplifter.
The neighbors told police you had a .38 Special.
No gun was found. Go on, check.
That's 'cause you got rid of it.
Please, leave my store.
You wanna tell us about the gun otherwise
you look suspicious, Ivan.
- I sold it. - To who?
Back to whom I bought it from. Mr. Joey.
Mr. Joey?
You saying Joey's, his last name?
I don't know.
He just has hot guns.
At his pawn store.
You'll never find it.
I want to find Mr. Joey. Follow that gun.
- Molds came back. - Ball on the left foot?
Worn down.
Perfect match... for Jersey and Delaware.
our
So, Floyd didn't kill Matt.
But it absolutely puts him away
for the other two hitchhiker jobs
and, uh, honest, I can't thank you enough.
Yeah. Anytime.
Floyd'll go down to holding until Jersey can get here.
'You can fight over him down there.'
Thanks, Philly.
I couldn't have done it without you.
So, you just solved two murders.
That's pretty decent.
We didn't solve our murder.
Matt's our job.
Lil? Matt's sister.
Hi, Katie.
Hi. Is it okay I'm here?
Oh, sure. Your parents with you?
No. I got the address off your card.
Uh, I'm gonna go find Mr. Joey.
What can I do for you?
I wanted to know about Matty
'cause no one tells me
and...I mean, I miss him, too.
What do you want to know?
Do you know who killed him?
Not yet.
Blaine said a serial killer.
You're close to Blaine, huh?
He tells me things, not like my parents.
Well, your parents probably just wanted to keep you young
Katie, as long as possible.
Matt treated me like a grown-up.
Blaine's just like him.
Real nice.
Really, really smart.
Hmm, smart, huh?
He knows how to do all kinds of stuff.
He can fly a plane.
Blaine's a pilot?
- He has his license. - Oh.
And later this year, he's starting a restaurant.
Really.
Well, a nightclub kind of place.
I got some seed money saved up to invest.
Sounds like you got business in your blood, Katie.
Like Matty did.
He called me that night.
Matt did?
Before he died.
(Matt) 'I'm coming home tomorrow, okay?'
You made a lot of money?
- Yup. - 'So you'll buy me something?'
- I already did. - 'What?'
- Sand dollars. - What else did you do there?
I ran into somebody I knew.
Sort of...got into a fight with him.
It brought up some bad feelings.
- 'Matty?' - Yeah?
Besides the sand dollars, could you bring taffy, too?
Sure. Taffy, too.
I was only ten.
I didn't think about what he said.
I understand.
But now I'm thinking that maybe it mattered
that he ran into someone.
It might.
Thanks for telling me now.
He first came by after them two kids robbed him.
Said he had to have a gun.
You gave him the .38.
Then all was quiet for, like, years
till he ran wild on that shoplifter.
After that craziness, he came back
wanting to move that gun real quick.
I need to get that gun, Joey. Where is it now?
I only had it another week.
It went back out hot?
Nah, I'm riding on the boulevard
minding my own business.
These bozos on patrol pulled me over.
I wonder why.
Bastards said I ran a light.
Next thing you know, they're confiscating
that .38 out of my glove box
and I'm on my way back to court.
What did the judge say?
Ordered that gun destroyed.
Wasn't such a loss.
It might've had a body on it anyway.
How well you know this Ivan Medvedenko?
- Enough to stay out of his way. - What's his deal?
When he first came to the neighborhood
he was actually kinda nice.
Had this idea America was gonna
treat him and his kid right.
Didn't work out that way?
Hated all them lowlifes hanging around
homeless trying to get free stuff from him.
When he came asking for that gun
talking about lazy kids needing a lesson
he had some... glint in his eye.
Kind of scared me.
- 'Morning.' - 'Hi.'
Over losing Floyd?
- All about Medvedenko now. - What changed?
I've been trying to connect Medvedenko
to Atlantic City the weekend Matt was killed.
And?
Guess who won a Center City Bank
sweepstakes, June of '97?
- Medvedenko. - His wife.
Prize was a free gambling junket in Atlantic City.
Trip for two.
Medvedenko said he was working.
Guess he wasn't working.
Oh, it's gonna be a good day for us.
- Bad one for Medvedenko. - Mm-hmm.
- You lied to me, Ivan. - I had to.
I knew you'd bring me in.
That you'd suspect me.
Those are some good instincts.
I'm innocent.
When did you come to this country, Ivan?
1973.
'60s and '70s were some dark times in Russia.
Walk lightly. Very lightly.
Must have felt good to finally get to America.
Since I was a boy, it was my dream
to work
make your own life.
What a gift.
Then one day two good-for-nothing boys
who didn't think much of that gift came and robbed you.
I didn't kill that boy.
Take a seat.
Don't lie to me.
You were in Atlantic City, so was Matt Mills.
[exhales]
Okay.
- Yes. - Yes, what?
Yes, I saw him in Atlantic City.
I saw him, did not kill him!
Remember me?
I-I-I don't want any trouble.
You don't want trouble?
I didn't want trouble either.
[instrumental music]
My son, Pejia.
You don't remember him.
But he was there when you robbed me.
He saw!
Sir, I regret what we did
an-and I heard what you said to me.
I tell Pejia if he works hard
he can be anything he wants.
But he says, "Dad
why work hard when people can just take your money?"
You did that.
Sir..
all I can do is say I'm sorry.
Please.
- Did you shake his hand? - No.
Because sorry wasn't good enough.
And who would miss this kid anyway?
What?
If he died
who would miss a boy like him?
Remember saying that?
No.
There he goes lying to me again.
You already lied to me about the gun.
'You lied about leaving people alone.'
'Lied about your whereabouts the day of the murder.'
'I mean, who do you think you're lying to, Ivan?'
I'm the police.
'You get that?'
- Yes. - Are you sure?
Because you want to see your son again
I better start hearing something I believe.
Please.
You're going away, Medvedenko.
I'll disappear?
What?
You'll make me disappear? Or Pejia?
Hey, you're damn right.
You want to keep lying, Medvedenko? Poof!
Now start talking about how you killed Matt Mills.
I have to see my son--
Tell me about the .38 you got from Joey.
How you took Matt in your car
and marched that kid into the woods
but-but don't you lie!
I hate a liar.
[instrumental music]
Yes.
Yes, what?
[sobbing quietly]
I did it.
I killed him.
[sobbing]
[music continues]
(Valens) 'You want me to feel sorry for you?'
You murdered a kid.
I'll write what you want.
I write, you talk.
It's got to be first person.
The other one deserved death.
What other one? Blaine?
He put the gun to my head.
He was there that night, too, Ivan.
You could've had a twofer.
I saw him outside the casino
but he drove away before I could say anything.
- He went. - Yeah.
I'll notify Matt's family, his cousin..
- I don't know, Scotty. - Don't know what?
Blaine told us he would've given Matt
a ride home but he didn't have wheels.
But Medvedenko said he saw Blaine driving away in a car.
So, Medvedenko's lying.
Maybe, but you should check it out.
We did. DMV shows Blaine didn't own a car in '97.
But AutoTrack just gave me a secondary address
for Blaine for all of '97.
A magazine subscription was sent to his workplace.
What workplace?
Roll-The-Dice Rentals.
A rent-a-car company.
It would have given Blaine access to a car.
Medvedenko just confessed.
I mean, why would he go if he didn't do it?
Because you got him wetting his pants.
You figured out where he lives, and you went there.
Ain't that our job?
Scotty, you ask a guy like that
if he wants to see his kid again
maybe he thinks KGB.
'Maybe he thinks you're saying'
'you're gonna kill his kid.'
"Make him disappear."
That was a good interview.
Let's make sure of that.
We got a lot of power in that room.
No good deed goes unpunished, I guess.
It's one more trip to Atlantic City.
We can afford that, can't we?
Before we put a father of an 11-year-old away forever?
That's gonna be one fun ride, I'll tell you that.
[instrumental music]
We can't get a car for another hour.
- Okay. - It's pretty pathetic.
The department don't got enough cars to go around.
You're just now noticing our crap resources?
Don't take a tone.
I was just about to say that to you.
Just hung up with the Atlantic City Flying Club.
Blaine shelled out $3,000 in October '97.
Exact amount stolen off of Matt.
- Four months after he died. - Case was cold by then.
We know Blaine didn't have a lot of cash flow.
$3,000 all at once is significant.
Yeah, but do you kill your buddy
just so you can take flying lessons?
This wasn't for recreation. He was gonna start a business.
Another business?
The plan was to buy a Cessna
and go into aerial advertising.
Like one of them planes with the banner flying over Eagle games?
Yeah, for "Ted's TV and Stereo," whatever.
So, what happened?
The $3,000 got him through instruction
not to his license.
'Blaine never became a pilot.'
Another brainstorm down the drain.
But he didn't kill Matt for the money.
'What's his motive?'
They hadn't seen each other in a while.
Maybe they grew apart.
We know Matt changed.
Blaine's looking like the mope he's always been.
Could rub a guy the wrong way if your prodigy grows up
'different than you did.'
Especially if that kid looked up to you
the way Katie does now.
Let's go see about that car.
(male #1) 'Blaine took a car out that day'
I don't have the paperwork.
What about mileage that's not accounted for?
You track that?
Give me a second.
Of course, all this tells me is if a car went out
on such and such a day, not who drove it.
Understood.
[keys clacking]
Okay, here's something.
One vehicle does show some missing miles.
89 miles on a Honda Accord.
About the round-trip distance between here
and the crime scene.
Sure glad I fired that kid.
Why did you fire Blaine?
One morning he showed up with a gun.
I saw it in his duffel bag.
What'd you do about it?
I took the gun, I turned it into the cops.
You're a tough guy to find, Blaine.
I've been upstairs.
Got on a bit of a streak this morning.
The house comped me a room.
Come on, number two.
Come on, two horse.
Even a permanent address. I couldn't find one.
I don't got one right now.
Where were you living last?
With some chick. It's a long story.
Been there.
- Yeah. Drink? - Thanks.
Uh, what you're having.
Come on.
'Come on, two, two, two, two.'
Damn it!
We talked to your cousin Katie the other day, Blaine.
Yeah? I love that kid. Smart, you know?
Funny, she said that about you.
Yeah?
She told me about the nightclub
bar-restaurant thing you're getting started.
Sounds like a hot move.
Could've been big
but some backers just dropped out.
Deal fell through.
- Same old, same old, right? - What?
You just seem to run into that a lot.
You know, this restaurant deal
and that airplane venture before that.
- Candy bar machine. - Why you taking shots?
Those aren't shots.
Part of me feels for you, Blaine.
When someone's bad at what they want to be good at
that's not easy to deal with.
We know about Roll-the-Dice Rentals, Blaine.
How you took the car out that day.
There's no record of that.
There's a record of the mileage.
'Probably didn't think it through that far, huh?'
Didn't cover your tracks with that gun too good, either.
'Bringing it to work.'
Now AC police have it inventoried.
And spending Matt's three grand at the flying school.
Kind of a half-baked plan, huh, Blaine?
Kind of a familiar theme for you.
I'm good at business.
Matt was the one working for a brokerage house
making connections.
I taught Matt.
A 20-year-old with enough moxie
to get in on an IPO.
You said you were happy about that, but maybe it hurt.
Matt being the guy who was the one making things happen.
I made that happen!
The IPO was my idea. The whole damn thing.
Millionaires by age 25.
Salud.
Blaine, put the drink down.
What?
In theory, everything you're saying is great.
Now let's talk specifics.
Yeah, yeah, let's talk.
Who are the principals behind this?
These McSorley Brothers.
It's their dot com.
And who's underwriting?
Uh...I don't know.
Well, you'd want to find that out.
Look, Ronnie Mack says we got to jump on this.
Blaine, IPO's are all based on hype.
You can't just go on what
this pit boss buddy of yours is telling you.
When I get back to the office.
I'll see what an analyst thinks.
Ship's gonna sail.
We gotta pull the trigger on this day after next.
Then why are we having this conversation?
You said we needed 15 grand to get in.
'Where are we gonna get 15 grand?'
A casino.
A casino?
- I've been casing this place. - Here we go.
What are you doing? Cover that.
They got an open cage here.
We're in and out in 40 seconds.
Are you crazy?
Watch how you're talking to me.
Blaine, you got to wake up.
Always with the pipe dream. It's getting stupid.
Blah, blah, blah.
Forget you, pal. I'm doing this one myself.
I'm not gonna let you.
You're not gonna let me?
I'll walk over to the cage right now.
Tip 'em off.
Listen, he don't wanna go along?
Fine.
But saying he's gonna stop me?
my
That runt used to wear my hand-me-downs!
Now he's gonna big-man me like that?
No.
[instrumental music]
I'm sorry.
- Alright. - Come on. Get in.
[music continues]
Don't you stop? I swear, Matty, I'll blow your head off!
Alright. Alright.
Go to that tree.
Okay.
Turn around.
Listen, Blaine, you're gonna rob me?
Take the three grand from the tables.
'You can have it.'
Shut the hell up. I'm talking now.
You've known me longer than anybody.
Why'd you look at me like that?
- Like what? - You're still doing it.
Put your head down. I don't wanna see your face.
Do it!
Nothing's changed, Matty!
Suddenly, you're looking at me like you don't know
what the hell I'm doing?
All I need is a break.
One break and I'm on my way.
You've always known that since we were kids.
You were the only one.
- Blaine? - Shut up!
There's nothing for you to say.
I wanna see it..
...in your eyes.
Matty, I need one thing to go my way.
And no one's gonna tell me different.
You look up at me
and you show me you still know that.
[music continues]
Just one break.
[gunshot]
[Blessid Union Of Souls singing "I Believe"]
♪ Violence is spread worldwide ♪
♪ And there's families on the street ♪
♪ We sell drugs to children now oh why can't we just see ♪
♪ That all we do is eliminate our future ♪
♪ With the things we do today ♪
♪ Money is our incentive now so that makes it okay ♪
♪ Walk blindly to the light and reach out for his hand ♪
♪ Don't ask any questions and don't try to understand ♪
♪ Open up your mind and then open up your heart ♪
♪ And you will see that you and me aren't very far apart ♪
♪ Cause I believe that love is the answer ♪
♪ I believe love will find the way ♪
♪ Aah no ♪
♪ I believe that love is the answer ♪
♪ I believe that love will find the way ♪
♪ I believe ♪
♪ Love will find the way ♪
♪ Love will find the way ♪♪
[theme music]
[music continues]