Narrator: The winds of change.
A man who sought piece on these streets...
comes to rest.
The long one. The forever arrest.
[ Sirens wailing ] Moidah.
♪
So, who did it?
Was it the foul play of a mayor
wishing to keep this city his?
♪
Or was it something more personal?
♪
Was it part of the dark complications
you find behind those closed doors in every family?
Well, I -- I know someone was giving this thought.
Yeah, just now. This morning.
[ Sirens wailing ]
Is that it for the questioning?
Because I have a doctor's appointment that --
That's it for now.
I'll find you when I want more.
♪
Johnson, we're opening up Smith's phone.
If he made a call while you and I were on
our beat last night, then you're scot free.
The timeline will make it clear
that you had nothing to do with it.
We'll have that phone report in an hour.
David, I had nothing to do with it.
Look, I'm sorry I didn't tell you
I encountered him last night.
Before.
I-It's all been so confusing.
Well, I'm gonna go for a walk.
I really want a lime right now -- God damn it.
I want to go for a walk and get centered.
Gail, it's gonna be okay.
Yeah, well, I'm just worried about my kid right now, Mills.
Mills, now, when you say limes --
Yeah, I mean scotch.
I do have a thing with limes,
but I also have a thing with scotch.
That's got the wife worried -- scotch -- a little bit.
She doesn't like that.
She doesn't like the lime thing either,
but she really doesn't like the Scotch thing because --
I get it.Yeah, 'cause when I get drunk,
I focus on my limes all the time.
I work on my lime collection.
I lose family focus.
Antonio doesn't like that.
It's a struggle.
It's a lime struggle.
My lime struggle.
♪ Action
♪ Star system filled with wishes ♪
♪ Crash in, ocean of messages ♪
♪
♪ Static attraction
♪
♪ The universal wishing well
♪ Of all you wish to see and feel ♪
So, uh, I guess we're sisters.
I guess so.
Is your arm -- Is your arm okay?
It's backwards, but, y-yeah, thanks for asking.
We're so terribly differently sized.
I'm ordinary,
and, well, you're magnificent.
Well, that's one way to put it.
♪
Do you want to get a cup of coffee or something?
Pancakes? Trish?
♪
Well, I don't -- I-I don't know.
I have an awfully long day ahead of me and --
Yeah. Me, too.
I-I have to start wrestling in underground lady fights
to make some money with a backwards arm, so...
Tomorrow? What's that?
Tomorrow morning.
Coffee, pancakes.
Yeah.
Do you know Delmonico's?
8:00? Good.
Who do you think did it? I haven't a clue.
Yeah, well, I hope the cops do.
♪
Who has the bag?The Motherless.
So, they have the money?
Yeah, but I have a plan to get it.
My mom is wrestling in these back alley matches
to make that money back, and...she got hurt already.
I'm worried what's gonna happen to her.
I want to get that money back.
Be careful.
♪
[ Sirens wailing ]
[ Can clatters ]
[ Rain pattering in can ]
[ Slurps ] Mm, rain soup.
Yeah, rain soup.
[ Coughs ] How are those lungs, Chuck?
Oh, well, just harder and harder
to catch my breath.Chuck, I'm sorry.
I wish I could do better than the rain soup.
I guess being a male prostitute
wasn't the best strategy for long-term security
while we were waiting for that ship to come in.
You sold an HJ in May.
I did. I did sell an HJ in May.
But that ain't gonna get us that white picket fence, kid.
[ Coughs ] It's around the bend.
Darkest before -- [ Coughs ]
I will deliver at the Tenderloin mark.
Darkest before -- [ Coughs ]
The dawn, yeah.
[ Coughing, hacking ]
You're not gonna be able to walk
to the doctor today, are you?
You'll have to go.
Get the news.
For sure.
They'll give you the X-rays and such.
You're my common law husband by now, street hustler boy.
I guess I am, 34th Street Chuck.
"We" by now.
♪
Yeah, "we."
♪
Narrator: The little ones here...
♪
...they have to toughen.
♪
The little ones.
♪
To take care of themselves and those they love very much.
Here, the little ones.
Which leads me back to suits.
Did you know doctors will spend 80% greater time
with a person who cares to come to their visit in a suit?
Probably greater care.
Subconscious, probably.
Nevertheless, harder.
Life -- if you can't snag a suit
for those heavier-suit moments.
Is that true?
The suit thing?
And doctors?
That's a fact.
Hey, how about a paper?
Mm, well, I see that you're not
holding any money. Right.
A-And I can see also that you're not wearing any pants.
Right.So, hmm.
Well, there are no pockets in your situation.
There are no pockets in my situation.
So there's no money in your situation.
There is no money in my situation.
♪
Yeah, well, here's the news.
Read all about it.
Why were you asking about doctors
and -- and suits?
I have a doctor's appointment this afternoon.
It's pretty serious, so I guess
I'd like to be taken seriously.
Well, you should wear pants, then.
Yeah, I should.
Hey, let's make you some newspaper paper pants.
What do you say? Go on, take a few.
That's yesterday's news.
Yeah, so am I.
[ Indistinct chatter ]
Johnson. Johnson, it's Mills.
The old man's phone report is in.
He made a call at 10:20 last night,
and you and I were together from 8:00 until this morning.
You're clear.
But Gavin's taking you off it.
Because the guy's your family.
You're off the case, Johnson.
Our suspects, they're your family.
So you're going to robbery, Johnson.
I get another guy.Robbery?
I worked my way up through Robbery already.
Well...
Narrator: In what sort of city does its mayor conspire
in the open with the city's major crime lord
and a police captain at the feet of strippers?
In Ultra City, sister.
How's the new kid doing on the case?
Well, a pretty good cop, turns out.
I thought he rolled off the turnip truck.
Man, we lucked out.Lucked out how?
Gail Johnson.
About the best we have.
They would have made a good team.
But she's a Smith, it turns out.
And she's off it now.
I got her in Robbery.
I just need to keep her there.
So, the kid's getting a new partner, right?
[ Scoffs ] Well, who's your worst detective?
Put him with -- I don't have a worst one.
I ever distracted one, though.
A ladies man, a skirt chaser.
Nico Onasis. He's a sensualist.
I don't think he's made an actual arrest
in three years.
He's probably slept with a thousand women...
and men. [ Laughs ]
He's not going to have spare time to solve a murder.
♪
[ Cheering ]
♪
[ Grunts ] 13.
[ Grunts ] 14.
Okay, [Bleep].
Narrator: Detective Nico Onasis -- sensualist.
Wow, [Bleep]. Been doing 15 reps
for the last 23 years -- until this morning.
Couldn't get 15 all the way back up today.
He's 43, man.
That happens.
The fade. Natural as rain.
Oh, man.
This is k-kind of a situation here.
That's the risk of a bachelor maxing out.
Rggh, gah!
Oh, wow. We did it!
I [Bleep] did it.
Phew. Oh, my God.
♪
Ah, the Fed.
I'm gonna need a spotter.
I should probably get married now because of that.
♪
I'm getting married, dude!
♪
[ Train wheels grinding ]
-[ Singing ]
[ Thunder crashes ]
♪
Mills. Onasis.
Let's get out there.Central Park.
The Smith murder.You got it.
I swept it last night, but it was pitch black.
Let's go see what's shining in the sun.
Clue-wise.You got it.
[ Shouting, cheering ]Announcer: Are you ready for this,
underground surf shop wrestling fans?
Disgraced former ladies' heavyweight champ
and current murder suspect of our beloved Carpenter Smith
is gonna take on 14 regular sized men.
[ Cheering ]
Ding-ding-ding.[ Bell dings ]
[ Indistinct chatter ] [ Car horn honks ]
Man: TMZ has learned the identity of the mother
of Ultra City's famous little forgotten one --
police station baby --
and it is a stunner.
It was 30 years ago when a newborn was simply abandoned
in the middle of the city --
left at the back door of Police Station House 6.
Sadly left there for days undiscovered,
police station baby...
Nearly died.
The woman who left her baby that fateful day --
Academy Award-winning actress Trish McSapphire.
What are you hoping to find?Shell casing.
If there isn't one, we're chasing a pro, Nico,
because he picked it up.
If something's shining there, well,
we're dealing with another sort of person --
desperately unsure.
You get it? You married?
Yeah. I'm getting married.
Congratulations. When's the wedding?
Yeah, I don't know.
I have to meet my wife first.
Then we'll probably decide that together.
You haven't met your wife yet?
I just decided to get married today
when I was working out.
I've been giving it thought,
and -- and I'm getting older.
And -- And I need a spotter --
literally, but, uh, in other way, too --
to help me with the heavy lifting of life.
And I'll help her -- or him.
And now, I can be better detective
because I won't be asking everybody out
because I'm getting married.
Let's start this matter, dude!
Let's go see what's shining in the sun.
Man: Looking forward to having you back in Robbery, Gail.
We'll get you with your new partner tomorrow.
Yeah.[ Cellphone beeps ]
That's [Bleep] bull[Bleep].
It's not fair what happened to you.
Hey, and I know you're worried about Trevor,
but chin up, kid.
It's not too late for him.
I just made 43,000.
Look, we can send him to that clarinet camp
in the Catskills.
I'll get the money in the bank
first thing in the morning
and then pay the registration fee.
We are not letting the city take this kid.
♪
[ Gun cocks ]
-I want the money.
♪
I want...the money.
That's not even loa--
[ Gunshot ]
♪
I want the money.
♪
[ Cellphone beeps ] Woman: 911. Hold, please.
[ Snazzy muzac plays over phone ]
Man: Dude down in Central Park.
Car 9 on it, 'cause we were almost there.
'Cause we were hauling ass there anyway for clues.Haul ass!
I'm gonna stick my chest out the window
to photograph anyone who might be
fleeing the scene on my vest cam!
That is a good idea.
Why hasn't anyone ever thought of that before?
I don't know! I just thought of it!
But I wasn't thinking about girls and guys.
That's rad.
[ Radio chatter ]
[ Sirens wailing ]
Way to go, a new kid. You drove.
I cannot get.
[ Sirens wailing ]
Yeah, nice one. Hot clue?
No, cold. It's been out here all night.
It's the Carpenter casing.Way to go, kid.
Smith was shot in this very same spot.
What is going on here?
Hey, what's that shining in the sun?
♪
Is it hot?It's hot as hell.
They look a hell of a lot alike.
Maybe they came from the same gun.
You read my mind.
Narrator: Maybe you're wondering -- is it a coincidence
that the most dangerous man in the world
was released this week back into these streets?
The very week that there's a scramble for power
in the town this very little man once ran in a very big way.
♪
-TMZ reporter Tim Snodgrass was shot in the back
in Central Park today.
Cedars Hospital says the patient suffered
severe spinal damage and a sustained period
of unconsciousness, the effects of which
remain undetermined.
♪
[ Indistinct chatter ]
[ Cellphone rings ]
Hey, brother. Nico: Hey, brother.
This thing just got weirder.
The bullet from our guy this afternoon?
Yeah? Same gun that killed Carpenter K. Smith.
We got a bead on the gun, brother.
Now we just have to find out who pulled the trigger.
Bright and early, baby.
[ Cellphone beeps ]
Narrator: Bad time to go lime, kid.
You're getting close to catching a killer.
Fight the lime.
Way to go, sister!
♪
[ "Bound" plays ]
♪ I wake with a locomotion
♪ Like the break of a row of waves ♪
♪ On a rolling ocean
♪
♪ I'm bound hour upon hour, man ♪
♪ Then and now and after, I am
♪
♪ Bound