♪
Girls: ♪ Happy birthday, Jenny
♪ Happy birthday, girl
♪ We are happy you are human ♪
♪ Happy birthday, Jenny
♪ Happy birthday, girl
Announcer: This is a Woodlawn-bound 4 express train.
The next stop is 138th street --
the nice part of town.
Girls: ♪ Happy birthday, girl
♪ We are happy you are human, happy bir-- ♪
[ Monitors beeping ]
♪
Ron: Hello. I'm Ron Shapiro.
And you are Mr. Charles Gogolak's
significant other?
I'm his partner, yes. Terrence Smith.
Well, let me put his x-rays up,
and I'll inform you about what he's facing, exactly.
I'm sorry to have to share this news with you.
♪
[ Cash register dings ]
Shop Owner: Thank you. Come again.
♪
[ Door bell jingles ]
Street Hustler Boy: Chuck, I talked to Dr. Shapiro.
Yeah? He said...
34th Street Chuck,
he said it's too late for a lung transplant.
But he said there's a way.
There's a way you can be okay even without okay lungs.
He said it's too late for a lung transplant,
but he said it's not too late for a neck reduction.
He can make your neck shorter, 34th Street Chuck,
which lessens the distance
oxygen travels from your lungs to your brain.
Buys you 10 years.
I put you on the neck reduction list,
and, well...
now we just need to come up with $107,000.
Okay. Well...
Well, now we have a goal.
And that's -- you know, that's good.
[ Coughs ]
Yeah, that's good, Chuck.
Sure.
Street Hustler Boy: Hey, any of you guys
want to rob a bank with me tomorrow?
No. Yeah.
No. No.
Yeah.[ Harmonica plays ]
No. Yeah.
Cool.
That's enough guys.[ Toilet flushes ]
♪ 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 ♪
Narrator: Welcome back. How you been?
Us? Well, we're struggling along here.
These two, though --
they're getting closer to solving a crime
this city's darker forces may wish to keep a mystery.
Careful, boys. Careful.
Hey, Captain, the new kid and I traced the shell casing
to the gun that killed the Carpenter Smith.
Yeah, we're connecting the dots, Captain.
Captain, this guy's [bleep] awesome.
Yeah. Nice job.
Oh, shit. They're connecting dots.
[ Door bell jingles ]
Hey! I'm getting married!
Man, that's not good.
How's that?
That's the sensualist.
What's the big deal?
Can you not be sensual with a spouse?
No. You can't.
So he's not a sensualist anymore.
Damn. He's gonna be a damn good cop, now.
Well, we're gonna have to do something about that.
♪
Donella: Sorry, yeah, I was just kidding.
I-I am leaving him.
She's cool.
Yeah, I'll probably marry her.
Chris Pecker: My wife, uh, has a different opinion,
I-I see, about my interest in artistic nudes.
[ Camera shutters clicking ]
Reporter: You mean your dick pics?
Whoa, whoa. Hey, man.
That is not what that was, guy.
What was it?
It was an artistic nude.
[ Laughter ]
No, you got it all wrong.
You -- Let me tell you a little something
about the history of artistic nudes, guys.
♪
Rad development.
Yeah, we might get a gentler Ultra City after all.
Oh [bleep]
[ Water splashes ]
[ Ethereal music plays ]
♪
I know you're in the Nixons.
You know, when you lose somebody,
both people have to let go.
What do you mean?
I could hold you, even if you didn't want me to,
and keep you with me, even if you don't hold me back.
To lose you for real, I have to let go, too.
But I don't know how I did.
I don't know when I did.
Is it the job?
Honey, there have been some changes this week.
I lost the grade I made in Homicide.
I'm gonna have to put my head down
and put in the hours to get it back.
Things are gonna get harder, not easier.
So we're gonna have to get better, honey,
at being our family.
We both have to hold on just now.
How many guns rest at the bottom of our river here
in Ultra City,
put to foul use and thrown here
to float down and rest on top of each other?
Many.
It's a riverbed of guns here in Ultra City.
Not much use, really,
if they've been down there for a while --
unless you're gonna rob a bank
with a gang of old male prostitutes,
so you can hang on to your lover for a while longer
and you don't want to hurt anybody.
My name was Donella Pecker,
but my name's not Pecker anymore -- thank God.
My name's Smith.
And I asked you here to announce that, as of this morning,
I'm a candidate, as my father was, for mayor.
[ Cheers and applause ]For a gentler Ultra City,
dear Lord, please, too.
Homey found a snack.
Pecker's running for mayor.
Good. He's a buffoon.
Not him -- the wife.
She's smart.
Yeah. She's a Smith, turns out.
Well, that's going to shake things up around here.
Also, Turnip Truck and Sensual...
Yes. Yes.
They're connecting dots.
Well, we'll have to do something about that, won't we?
Both: Whatcha gonna do about that?
♪
Hello, boys.
Dark here.
Down our corridors, around our corners.
So dark sometimes, you can't even see
the turning of the evening and the morning.
We want to screen my vest cam footage by 3:00 p.m.
We're gonna interview the actress.
Want me to call her?
No. I want to catch her off guard.
[ Birds chirping ]
Ms. McSapphire?
We'd like to ask you some questions.
Well, I'm on my way to a breakfast,
at Delmonico's with my sister.
It won't take long, ma'am. We can sit in the park.
♪
Did you get hurt last night?
In the sweatshop match?
I won. I'm moving on.
It's round robin, winner take all.
Guess the prize.
I didn't ask you that. I asked if you got hurt.
No.
And the prize is $43,000 -- everything you owe.
Has my dad ever paid our child support?
Let's not talk about your dad.
Has he?
He hasn't, honey.
Well, that's 12 years.
I bet that's $43,000, too.
I'm gonna go see him and get it.
I don't want you to see your dad.
And I'm fine.
Hey, guess who my sister is.
Trish McSapphire.
Mills: Had you spoken to Carpenter Smith
before the night of his murder?
No.
Nico: What was the nature of your conversation that night?
He pulled alongside.
Then he shared that he was my natural father.
He said the day had come to make this clear.
And then he was driven off.
And that's all?
Yes.
What was his demeanor like during your conversation?
He seemed very sad.
Did that seem unusual?
Well, no.
He was discussing abandoning a child.
I'm sure you've heard the news about Police Station Baby.
We're here about another matter, ma'am.
Well, it's tremendously...
you know...
In order to lose someone,
both people have to let go, really.
Ma'am?
Do you know the little baby hand-pinky-grip thing --
the way an infant holds on to a parent,
grasping all they can that way?
Yeah. I do.
My son held me that way that morning.
And when I left him, finally, at the station --
well, when I walked away from him, finally --
I had to pull my hand away hard enough
so he could no longer hold it.
I had to move away enough so that hehad to let go.
So...
sad?
Yes.
Carpenter Smith was sad.
And no, that didn't seem unusual that night,
given our subject matter.
[ Children laughing in distance ]
Respect.
Hey. Guess who my sister is.
Will we be much longer?
I'm due to meet my sister for a breakfast.
Just a little while yet, ma'am.
[ Indistinct conversations ]
♪
Whoa.
They're just river guns.
Why do you need these river guns, Street Hustler Boy?
Gonna rob a bank with some of the boys.
I can bounce you a week of flops -- you and the boys.
You don't need to --
It's for Chuck, Sister.
We got to get to work on that neck.
It needs whittling down.
So I need $100,000 to keep him around.
I can't lose my man. He's my fam.
You just be careful.
You boys. Go on up.
I'll collect these wet paper scraps
that used to be your pants.
♪
I'm afraid you missed her, ma'am.
She was here, but she's since left.
♪
They're gonna patch my vest cam onto the inboard.
Good work, brother.
Thanks, brother.
There. What?
That's the Motherless Three.
Yeah? An uptown gang.
They're two blocks from the body 30 seconds after the call.
Let's pay 'em a visit, brother.
[ Tires screech ]
Street Hustler Boy: I put a river gun
under each of your mattresses.
I don't want to do it anymore.
Oh. Okay.
I actually want to do it now.
Okay, well, I'm gonna take the river gun
from under Little Italy Gary's mattress,
and I'm gonna put it under Chinatown Devin's mattress,
and then we're gonna be ready to go on this thing --
on this bank robbery.
How long have you been in Robbery?
Three years.
What, um, t-trimester are you in?
I'm in a quadmester.
Quad?
I'm in my 12th month.
Is that, um -- D-Does that happen?
Donella Pecker --
I know that's not her name anymore,
but come on, I'm gonna keep saying it --
announced her bid for mayor this morning.
That's gonna shake things up around here.
She just doesn't want to come out.
Between you and me,
I don't think I'm ready to be a mom...'cause it's gross.
I think she can feel that somehow,
and she doesn't want to come out.
You're never ready.
♪
Stop up at that poor person, please.
Pardon me.
Hi.
You look like you've had a hard life.
Oh, yeah.
I imagine you sometimes can't afford
the traditional forms of entertainment --
say, Ice Capades or Broadway.
Ice Ca-what?
Right. Well, it seems my sister participates
in an earthy form of wrestling.
Oh, the Underground Sweatshop Ring of Texas Fire.
That's in the Garment District, 1200 block of 3rd.
I'm sorry to bother you, a-and thank you.
No bother.
Just going on my health walk.
Each morning, I walk as far as my health will allow.
Want to come along?
Well...sure.
♪
Take care.
Well, take care.
September, I could still reach the post box.
Such is life.
♪
Well, I hope you make it back to the post box, um...
34th Street Chuck.
Well, I-I hope so, 34th Street.
A good man's working on it.
Very good.
N-Neck reduction.
Oh. Well...
Fingers crossed.
It costs a whole dollar.
What does?
The sweatshop underground wrestling.
Oh.
So make sure you have a whole dollar.
Okay. Thank you.
I loved you in "The Midnight Ferry."
So long. [ Coughing ]
So long, 34th Street.
Everyone have bank robbery getaway bus fare?
Yeah.Yeah.
No.
We talked about that, Chris the Junkie.
Yeah, I just -- I didn't realize we were
taking the bus to the bank.
I have enough money to flee from the bank on the bus,
but I don't have enough to take the bus there,
then flee on the bus again.
Same here.
[ Harmonica plays ]
Okay. Well, I guess we're gonna walk there,
then flee, after, on the bus.
How far is the bank?
Just across the whole town.
[ Harmonica plays ]
Nico: The Motherless Three, they're on the 31st floor.
I'll kick in the back, you go around front
in case they bolt out the front.
Mills: You got it, brother.
♪
[ Silenced gunshot ]
♪
Nico! Noooooooooo!
[ "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