[ Siren wails in distance ]
Hold on, brother.
[ Weakly ] I just hear humming, man.
Mom.
"O-o-h Child."
My little bedside song.
Stay here, man.
Stay here. Here? Big deal.
What's here?
The only thing they can say about me, man,
after a whole life --
"He slept with a thousand women.
And men."
I'm coming, Mom.
Stay here, Nico. The ambulance is flying in.
It's not even true.
I only slept with 999.
A thousand. I'm one away.
So they can't even say that about me.
♪
Mills...
Want to make love?
With you?
Oh, yeah.
You're dying.
That's what I'm saying.
I can round that number off. That's something.
In my whole life.
Maybe, you know, stop it with the buttons.
♪
Where is this ambulance?
Yeah, I'm -- I'm talking crazy.
I didn't mean to make it all awkward there, partner.
No, it's no problem.
Let's just, you know, stop it with the buttons.
Got it.But you're still doing it.
Yeah. All right.
Okay, just hang on, Nico.
I can't -- I can't lose you, too,
because if I do, I'm [Sighs]
I'm going lime.
I'm going deep lime.
I just got nothing here at the end, Mills.
You know that song?
"O-o-h Child"?
Yeah. Sure.
Hum it to me, man.
Can you do that?
That's something.
Yeah, Nico.
[ Humming "O-o-h Child" ]
Thanks, brother.
[ Siren wailing in distance ]
[ Continues humming ]
♪ 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 ♪
Detective coming through. Coming through!
Detective coming through.
Narrator: While his partner's life hangs in the sky,
Mills hustles back to the scene of that heavy gunshot
to kick up dust.
You'll see.
♪
Nixons? What's going on with you?
I got to pay a guy to get on the subway.
He doesn't work for the city.
I-I got to pay some guy
just so I can get into a bodega to get Mentos.
Then I have to give him like two Mentos on the way out.
Hey, Gail! It's really nice to see you.
Who was that?
That's your uncle.
That's my sister, Detective Gail Smith.
It's been a peculiar couple of days.
♪
Cops lost, Mom.
It's the way it is.
You pay for any peace now,
here with money or Mentos or being in the Nixons.
♪
Remember this place?
The fire escape where big trouble started
for Little Grace,
and the very spot Nico started climbing
before his awful surprise.
Mills is going to finish that long climb and find out why.
And the shot just ripped totally through this guy's spine.
♪
[ Thud on door ]
Get up against the wall.
[ Beeping rhythmically ]
Gail: Does the dad know?
No, not yet. He's a sensualist.
I don't know if he's going to be in the picture much.
Well, you've had 12 months to tell --
13. I started my quintmester this morning.
This kid won't show up. I swear it knows, Gail.
Knows what? That I'm a freak.
I count my footsteps.
I write songs on the spot called, like, "Stove."
And I sing them as I move around my apartment.
♪ Walking to the stove now
♪ Putting on the stove now
♪ Putting the kettle on the stove ♪
♪ Yeah
♪ To make the tea for me now
♪ On the stove now
♪ On the stove
♪ Stove
Is it Nico?
Yeah.
Maybe tell him. Yeah?
You never know where the good dads come from.
He may have it in him.
[ Fluid gushing ]
Oh. Ohh.
Eww. Eww, eww, eww.
No.
♪ Gonna have my baby
♪ Freaky baby's coming
♪ Coming out my body
♪ Stove
I'm asking you where you were 30 minutes ago.
'Cause why?
Because a cop was shot coming up here.
Heh heh.What's so [bleep] funny?
We got an alibi.A sweet one.
What's so sweet about it?
We were with the deputy mayor, Jeff Thumb.
What? What were you doing with him?
He runs a community outreach,
helping gang members go all straight.
We're straight, man.
What is in here?
Nothing hard. Friendship bracelets.
♪
Very glad you visited, Jeff.
And I'm excited about this opportunity
with the mayor's office.
Yeah, well, like I was saying,
your wife made you look like a real jerk.
Because of that, she's polling great.
She may have a chance against the mayor.
We're glad you're gonna help us out with that.
Yeah. Well, cool. Very cool.
Been hoping to connect with you for a while.
Thumb.
Yeah? Why?
Your name's Jeff Thumb, right?
Yeah?
Yeah, well...
"Yeah, well..." what?
Deputy Mayor Jeff Thumb.
Yeah?
Congressman Chris Pecker.
Yeah?
Pecker. Thumb.
So?
Last names. Burdens.
For me andyou.
Mine's not. Mine's a thumb.
Yeah?
Yours is a dick, so I'm not in your club.
Thumbs are cool.
Dicks are cool. Dicks are very cool.
Why are dicks cool?
Why are thumbs cool?
It's the thumb that allows us to pen an essay,
turn a nut, pick up a coin, or button a shirt.
Can you pick up a coin with your dick?
Give it a shot.
[ Coin clinks ]I'm not stupid, Thumb.
I know I can't pick up a coin with my penis.
But there is one thing on your little list there
that I could totally do with it.
If I had old-fashioned ink.
Which? Pen an essay.
Gotcha.
And I-I do have an old-fashioned ink too.
Donella bought me some for my first day as a congressman
because she thought the gesture would point
to the gravity and heritage of my new position in Congress.
Because she has respect for the hallowedness of public service.
And I love her.
Well, thanks for giving us this sex tape,
which will destroy her.
No problem.
Don't forget to write a press release
saying you're joining the mayor's office.
Release it after we release the tape today.
Understood.
And welcome aboard.
Thank you.
♪
[ Zipper unzips ]
♪
[ Grunting ]
♪
Get...
[ Coin clinking ]
[ Grunting ]
I'm gonna pick it up.
[ Coin clinking ]Pick this thing up.
♪
[ Zipper zips ]Anything a thumb could do.
♪
[ Zipper unzips ]
I am...
truly humbled...
this morning...
to accept...
a position...
in the...
office...
of our...
great...
Mayor...
Kevin...
De...Max...imum.
Signed...
Congress...man...
Chris...to...pher...
Pe...cker.
[ Humming tune ]
[ Harmonica music plays ]
Detective coming through. Coming through here.
Mrs. Pecker, as mayor,
what would you do about the city's
extraordinary crime rate, Mrs. Pecker?
Look, I know that's fun.
You said Pecker twice. But it's unnecessary, guy.
Fun, I'm sure, for you.
But my name's Smith now, okay?
And I'm carrying on Carpenter Smith's mission
to restore peace in our streets and our schools
and dignity in our homes,
to make our city a place where its citizens
don't have to live with or resort to violence
in order to survive.
When is the name change going into effect, Mrs. Pecker,
legally, Mrs. Pecker.
Takes a long time, man. It's a pain in the ass, frankly.
Can't you just get with the spirit of the thing
till then and call me Miss Smith?
You know what? I will, Miss Smith.
This place is a hellhole.
That's what I'm saying, guy. Nice one.
♪
Anyways, I know you just got shot in the spine and all.
And, hey, we only have one spine,
I get it, but do you feel up
to destroying Donella Pecker's life this afternoon?
Cool, Thumb.
Later.
Okay, I scaled down from the roof.
Cool.
I appreciate that.
And I broke in through the window.
Very cool. Now what?
Now, um, make your way over to me.
I would appreciate that.
And -- wait, wait, wait, wait.
No, don't -- don't do it like that.
Uh, do like Catwoman.
Not like -- well, okay. Catwoman. Okay.
I don't...
Like sexylike.
Um, prancing.
Like cat -- cat-prance over. Yeah.
Then -- yeah, then we'll just do
all the normal stuff we usually do.
And you'll, ah, meow now and then.
When it feels right. But often.
Okay.
No, no, no. That -- not. That's not...
I don't really appreciate that prancing.
I thought it was sexy.
Just honestly, um, mediocre, honey.
♪
Hi.
My name's Grace.
Tim.
I'm in ninth grade,
I'm in...a wheelchair.
I have to get over to my laptop.
Can I get a little push, kid, back to the hospital?
Thanks, I have to get a video of someone's most intimate
and private moments online.
Are you always gonna be like this?
Am I always gonna lack ethics?
No. Are you always gonna be in a wheelchair?
So I'm told.
♪
Does everybody have their river guns?
Yeah.Yeah.
[ Note plays on harmonica ]
No. I left mine at Starbucks.
We'll go back and get it, Uptown Rich.
[ Flatline ]
♪
He fought like hell.
But he didn't make it.
♪
How's the baby?
She's kicking and screaming.
I think he would have been a good dad.
That's something.
Yeah, well...
Yeah, well, that's not God's sun up there.
God's sun is above that one there.
And that...
That's probably just the flat pane of his magnifying glass.
Bringing His heat down.
To toy with us when He's bored.
That's dark, man.
Well, it's dark down here.
I was born alone. Then I lost you.
Then I lost Nico.
And Jaya loses the father of her child
the day the kid was born.
He don't care.
Well, I don't know, David, but...
Yeah?
You're not alone.
You lost your partner, and I don't have one either.
But we have each other. How's the case?
We got something.
Me and Nico, we got something.
Carpenter's killer.
Yeah?
Put one in that reporter, same gun.
Same gun -- Carpenter K. Smith, and this reporter?
You got it.
That's something.
That's a lot.
That's something, Mills.
You're getting there.
I'm about to go question this reporter about it.
I'm about to go get another look at that pretty child.
Come with me, kid.
It might do that heart good.
For a minute.
Yeah. For a minute.
♪
Ultra City was shocked this week by the early release
of the World's Most Dangerous Man
from the state penitentiary.
In funnier news, this lady's not gonna be mayor now.
What a joke she's become because we all watched
her most intimate and private moments.
How are her poll numbers now, Jane?
Poor. Almost as poor as her B.J. technique.
Just totally cycling through during that B.J. Right, Gary?
She was, in fact, just cycling through those two moves.
And let's not forget that B-side deep cut
when she tried to twerk.
♪
What's the subject down there?
No surprise, knowing this guy, if it's young David Mills.
They eliminate Gail, Nico next.
There's a pattern, if you care to see one.
Well, the gang's all here.
Gather 'round, boys.
Quiet down too, I assume, if the subject's moidah.
You keep forgetting to...
Oh! Sorry, yeah. Meow.
Cool. I appreciate that.
News Anchor: It's unclear how the private tape
got to TMZ reporter Tim Snodgrass,
but it's the talk of Ultra City...[ Man clears throat ]
...and promises to derail Donella Smith's --
formerly Pecker --[ Clears throat ]
...campaign just as it was taking off.
Street Hustler Boy: Excuse me.
This is a robbery.
[ "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