0:02:02 > 0:02:04So you tell me, dear.
0:02:04 > 0:02:08Why would I burn down my own factory?
0:02:08 > 0:02:11- How's business, Mr Seymour? - Don't ask.
0:02:11 > 0:02:14- Cream, two sugars.- Thank you.
0:02:14 > 0:02:20- Hm-mm... You've got such a punim. You know what a punim is? - Yes, sir. Thank you.
0:02:20 > 0:02:25I'm asking... How's business?
0:02:25 > 0:02:28For 25 years, stocks go up, hemlines go up.
0:02:28 > 0:02:32Stock's down, hemlines down. It was easy.
0:02:32 > 0:02:35Well, not so easy...
0:02:35 > 0:02:41But now... Now there's minis and maxis, above the knee, below the knee...
0:02:41 > 0:02:44Who can guess this business?
0:02:44 > 0:02:48So this nice, convenient fire solved a lot of your problems?
0:02:48 > 0:02:55Nice?! The insurance company whose gonifs don't pay off without the say-so I didn't do it.
0:02:55 > 0:03:00And now you two ladies are giving me the third degree.
0:03:00 > 0:03:02Nice(!)
0:03:02 > 0:03:08- Very nice.- What my partner is saying, sir, is that eventually you will get the money.
0:03:08 > 0:03:11You think money is going to do it?
0:03:11 > 0:03:15Money makes up for 43 years of sweat and blood?
0:03:15 > 0:03:18The Fire Department says it was definitely arson.
0:03:18 > 0:03:22Why should I do such a thing? I had a wonderful line coming out!
0:03:22 > 0:03:24If you didn't do it, who did?
0:03:27 > 0:03:29I don't know.
0:03:31 > 0:03:36Excuse me, Mr Seymour. You seem a nice man... but you're a terrible liar.
0:03:36 > 0:03:38Excuse me back, detective lady.
0:03:38 > 0:03:40I'm a terrific liar.
0:03:40 > 0:03:44I've been in the shmatte business for 43 years.
0:03:44 > 0:03:47OK, Mr Seymour. You are not lying. You don't know who it is.
0:03:47 > 0:03:52But you have a pretty good suspicion. Am I right?
0:03:52 > 0:03:55Who are you protecting, Mr Seymour?
0:03:55 > 0:03:59You know I got great-grandchildren. Two of them.
0:03:59 > 0:04:01And eight grandchildren.
0:04:01 > 0:04:04All from three daughters and a wife.
0:04:05 > 0:04:07Who am I protecting?
0:04:07 > 0:04:10A business you can rebuild.
0:04:12 > 0:04:14Family...
0:04:22 > 0:04:26If I tell you the name, that's the end of the story.
0:04:26 > 0:04:32I don't sign nothing. I don't go testifying.
0:04:32 > 0:04:34Otherwise...
0:04:35 > 0:04:39I came into this world with nothing...
0:04:39 > 0:04:42..I can go out the same way.
0:04:48 > 0:04:54He claims Ashland Trucking is trying to take over the delivery business of the whole district
0:04:54 > 0:05:00- without saying anything outright, but three fires later...- Looks like there could be something to it.
0:05:00 > 0:05:03Nelson Ashland's been in the business a year.
0:05:03 > 0:05:07- He's got a lot of the trade. Nobody wants to say how.- Organised crime?
0:05:07 > 0:05:11We ran the name past OCCB, but they've never heard of him.
0:05:11 > 0:05:17So all you've got is a situation that smells hickey and a story from this Seymour. He won't co-operate?
0:05:17 > 0:05:24- He gave us the name. It's all he's got. He's an old man. He wants to retire.- What do you want from me?
0:05:24 > 0:05:29- 24-hour surveillance on Nelson Ashland.- Come on, Cagney!
0:05:29 > 0:05:35That's three sets of detectives off the duty roster on the word of a man who may be covering HIS handiwork!
0:05:35 > 0:05:38- I believe him.- So do I, sir.
0:05:38 > 0:05:41All right... So I'll think about it.
0:05:41 > 0:05:47In the meantime, you two are bringing up the rear in this squad when it comes to paperwork.
0:05:47 > 0:05:52I figure you got 45 minutes till shift change. How about it?
0:05:52 > 0:05:53Yes, sir.
0:05:53 > 0:05:55Good.
0:05:55 > 0:05:56Well...?
0:05:56 > 0:05:58Oh, yeah.
0:05:58 > 0:06:02- I'll talk to Knelman about the surveillance.- Thank you, Lieutenant.
0:06:04 > 0:06:06The sergeant's exam...
0:06:06 > 0:06:08Coleman, you make book on anything.
0:06:08 > 0:06:14Come on, La Guardia, it's a natural. We have Petrie going out at 3-2. He's the odds-on favourite.
0:06:14 > 0:06:21- What about Cagney and Lacey?- Got them at 4-1. Now way two women from the same squad will make sergeant.
0:06:21 > 0:06:23One sort of offsets the other.
0:06:23 > 0:06:28- And what about me?- 7-1. - 7-1?! What, are you kidding?
0:06:28 > 0:06:31Takes more than a pretty face, Isbecki.
0:06:31 > 0:06:35- Obviously, if you made it. - Sticks and stones, Isbecki.
0:06:35 > 0:06:39- Wanna put your money where your mouth is?- Not at those odds!
0:06:39 > 0:06:43It's ridiculous. I've got as good a chance as Cagney and Lacey.
0:06:43 > 0:06:45Ah... Let me get this straight.
0:06:45 > 0:06:49- Are you saying that if I give you 4-1, you'll bet?- Careful, Victor.
0:06:49 > 0:06:52It's OK. ..4-1.
0:06:52 > 0:06:54As opposed to 7-1, right?
0:06:54 > 0:07:00Hey! Isbecki, you drive a hard bargain. I guess you're right. What, ten bucks' worth?
0:07:00 > 0:07:02Make it 50.
0:07:04 > 0:07:06That's why he's 7-1.
0:07:06 > 0:07:12- Hi, Christine! Where's Mary Beth? - Harvey! What are you doing here? - I can't talk. Where's Mary Beth?
0:07:12 > 0:07:15She's over in the records file.
0:07:16 > 0:07:18Hey, you!
0:07:19 > 0:07:25- What's Harvey doing here? - I don't know, but he only wears suits to funerals.- Oh!
0:07:25 > 0:07:28Probably wasn't a close friend.
0:07:29 > 0:07:32- Ernie, Ernie, Ernie...- Yeah?
0:07:32 > 0:07:39He jokes about me getting out of manual labour, only he doesn't think I can do anything else.
0:07:39 > 0:07:44Only now I put together this contracting thing. I proved myself.
0:07:44 > 0:07:48We've been talking. Today, he puts it on the line. I start Monday.
0:07:48 > 0:07:51Oh, Harve, that's wonderful.
0:07:51 > 0:07:52Wonderful!
0:07:52 > 0:07:55Harve... What do you know about tax shelters?
0:07:55 > 0:07:59I'm a businessman, Mary Beth. It's business.
0:07:59 > 0:08:02Ernie isn't exactly Albert Einstein.
0:08:02 > 0:08:06- If he can do it and make that kind of money, why not me?- Why not?
0:08:06 > 0:08:09Hey, Chris, how are you?
0:08:09 > 0:08:11- Hi, Mr Lacey.- How's your pop?- Fine.
0:08:16 > 0:08:19Salute!
0:08:20 > 0:08:22Good.
0:08:25 > 0:08:27- Thank you.- You're welcome.
0:08:30 > 0:08:37- Harve, you noticed how much this wine is on the menu? - A night to be extravagant.
0:08:40 > 0:08:46- In fact, Mary Beth, I'll tell you what.- What?- Make a wish.
0:08:46 > 0:08:52- What kind of wish?- Something you always wanted but we couldn't afford.- I don't need anything.
0:08:52 > 0:08:59- I want to buy you a present. - Oh, honey...- Tell me something I can buy you. A present.
0:09:02 > 0:09:07- Come on. You got something. Tell me.- A new refrigerator.
0:09:07 > 0:09:13- Oh...- We need a new refrigerator. - I don't want something we need. I want something YOU want.
0:09:13 > 0:09:15OK...
0:09:17 > 0:09:19How about...?
0:09:19 > 0:09:23- No, it's too much.- What is it? Tell me. Why is it too much?
0:09:23 > 0:09:26An engagement ring.
0:09:28 > 0:09:35I never cared, Harve, because the wedding ring was plenty. But I always wanted...an engagement ring.
0:09:35 > 0:09:37A small one.
0:09:47 > 0:09:49To the lady who is still my fiancee.
0:10:06 > 0:10:12You should see the size of the office that he's gonna get. The desk is the size of a squad car!
0:10:12 > 0:10:16- It sounds terrific. Are you going to celebrate?- I don't know.
0:10:16 > 0:10:21Muriel's taking the kids for Saturday, so... We'll probably do the usual, you know.
0:10:21 > 0:10:24- Oh! Ho-ho, Mary Beth!- What?
0:10:24 > 0:10:30- It's been a long time since the old folks had a Saturday alone together.- No, not that, Christine.
0:10:30 > 0:10:34We might do that, too, but probably we'll just go for a drive.
0:10:34 > 0:10:37THEY LAUGH
0:10:37 > 0:10:39That's OK. So where are you going?
0:10:39 > 0:10:45Nowhere. It's just a drive. Harve likes to drive. Sometimes we stop and look at houses.
0:10:45 > 0:10:50- But you're not going anywhere! - You never get in the car and drive?
0:10:50 > 0:10:54- No, it's like window-shopping. - I have seen you window-shop!
0:10:54 > 0:11:00Only when I am trying to kill time. Otherwise, I figure what I want and then set out to find it.
0:11:00 > 0:11:04Well, we stop and look at houses, and we imagine if we lived there.
0:11:04 > 0:11:09- I think that'd be frustrating. - Do you never look at a dress and imagine what it'd look like on?!
0:11:09 > 0:11:13Sure I do. If I like it, I buy it.
0:11:13 > 0:11:17- That's the difference between you and me, Christine.- What, patience?
0:11:17 > 0:11:21- Money!- That's great, Mary Beth. Almost a joke.
0:11:21 > 0:11:28- We'd better run. We have two more witnesses. Samuels wants us back by three.- Not a joke!
0:11:28 > 0:11:3324-hour surveillance, starting Monday. Cagney and Lacey are in charge. You report to them,
0:11:33 > 0:11:39they report to me. I want to know everything this Nelson Ashland does
0:11:39 > 0:11:41- and everyone that he sees.- Wire tap?
0:11:41 > 0:11:47- We haven't got enough for a court order.- What kind of vehicles do we get?- Regular unmarked squad cars.
0:11:47 > 0:11:52We're to keep tabs on a possible strong-arm guy from open cars?
0:11:52 > 0:11:59You used the word yourself, Cagney - "possible". This is the best I can get with a possible.
0:11:59 > 0:12:05You give me a probable, or a likely, and I'll get you the whole shooting match. Until then, it's squad cars.
0:12:05 > 0:12:09- ..Questions?- How long, sir?- If you don't turn anything up in a week...
0:12:09 > 0:12:12- Shifts?- Cagney and Lacey decide.
0:12:12 > 0:12:17- We'll take graveyard. - Fighting with the wife again, Marty?
0:12:17 > 0:12:21- Do this somewhere else. Some of us still got work to do here.- Yes, sir.
0:12:26 > 0:12:30And, as you know, we are back in the dining room again.
0:12:33 > 0:12:35Can you see it, Harve?
0:12:35 > 0:12:41- Having a dining room - candelabras, and I'm lifting soup from a tureen. - It'd be nice. It's well-built.
0:12:43 > 0:12:44Well, um...
0:12:44 > 0:12:49- Thank you. It's a lovely home, Mrs...- Parks.- Parks.
0:12:49 > 0:12:55- I could run my own workshop.- It just came on the market this week. It's not going to stay around.
0:12:55 > 0:12:58- I'm sure it won't. Thank you. - What are the terms?
0:12:58 > 0:13:02It's all right here on the offer sheet.
0:13:02 > 0:13:08The first mortgage is assumable and, say, with 20% down, the second is very reasonable.
0:13:08 > 0:13:10What's the monthly payment?
0:13:10 > 0:13:16Well, depending on the down and the interest rate on the second, it would be between these two figures.
0:13:16 > 0:13:20- Thank you very much. - Hold on a minute, Mary Beth.
0:13:20 > 0:13:23- Can I talk to my wife?- Of course.
0:13:25 > 0:13:28Harve, I know what you're going to say.
0:13:28 > 0:13:34- Do you like the house?- No! I don't like the house(!) It's a wonderful house.- I like it, too. A lot.
0:13:34 > 0:13:37Harve, we can't afford this house.
0:13:37 > 0:13:42I know it's a stretch, Mary Beth, but with the new job, the tax break we get, we could almost do it.
0:13:42 > 0:13:45- You mean it?- Yes.
0:13:45 > 0:13:49- Are you serious?- You want me to buy you a house?
0:13:49 > 0:13:51- This house here?- Yes.
0:13:51 > 0:13:53This house right here?
0:13:56 > 0:13:58Oh, jeez...
0:14:00 > 0:14:04- I don't wanna move. - Quit belly-aching!
0:14:04 > 0:14:07If I change schools, I'm not going to be eligible for basketball.
0:14:07 > 0:14:13- Nobody's said we're moving yet.- All my friends are here.- He means Julie Knight.- I'm going to kill you!
0:14:13 > 0:14:16What kind of talk is that?
0:14:16 > 0:14:22- I need you to get some brown beef after school.- I've got practice. How come Michael never has to?
0:14:22 > 0:14:26- Cos I'm not old enough.- Whoever goes can pick out dessert, right?
0:14:26 > 0:14:28- Hi, guys.- Oh, honey!
0:14:28 > 0:14:32- Look at you! You look... I don't know the word for it.- You like it?
0:14:32 > 0:14:37- Yeah!- Pretty good for off-the-rack! - I think you look funny.- You do?
0:14:37 > 0:14:42- Get used to it, your father's in the big time.- Handsomer - that's the word. You were handsome,
0:14:42 > 0:14:45but now you're handsomer.
0:14:45 > 0:14:50- I got to go.- I'll be thinking about you. Honey, you forgot...
0:14:50 > 0:14:52- What is that?- Nothing, never mind!
0:14:52 > 0:14:56- I made lunch.- Expense account, Mary Beth.- Expense account...
0:14:58 > 0:15:00Do good.
0:15:00 > 0:15:02See you guys tonight.
0:15:04 > 0:15:09- OK, which one is going to Zyboot's Fare.- I'll go.- You're old enough?
0:15:15 > 0:15:19You think Ashland's ever going to go to work?
0:15:19 > 0:15:25I don't know, Chris. But I got a couple of extra BLT on wholewheat, if you are interested, for later.
0:15:25 > 0:15:29- Thanks. Mary Beth, your house sounds really wonderful.- Oh, it is.
0:15:29 > 0:15:36It's got a room that Harvey's going to put in a skylight for me. I could grow flowers all year.
0:15:36 > 0:15:39It's not like this place, but it'd be nice for the four of us...
0:15:39 > 0:15:45What do you want with a white elephant like that? Look at the lawn!
0:15:45 > 0:15:51- If that isn't Astroturf, Ashland spends every weekend behind the lawnmower.- You making fun of me?
0:15:51 > 0:15:57- No...- It sounds like you're making fun of the house I want. It may not be a big deal...
0:15:57 > 0:16:02I'm not making fun of your house. I'm just giving you the downside to ownership...
0:16:02 > 0:16:07- That's easy for you to say. You own your lawn.- Exactly!
0:16:07 > 0:16:12- You've always owned the house you lived in.- That isn't true. When I went to college, I did not.
0:16:12 > 0:16:18When you were waiting for your trust fund! I'm sorry, you don't know what you're talking about.
0:16:18 > 0:16:25I DO know what I am talking about. It's why I'm trying to advise you. There are two sides to ownership.
0:16:25 > 0:16:29In this country, when you're growing up, they make promises.
0:16:29 > 0:16:35They promise that you'll grow up, find a terrific man, have terrific children, live in a terrific house.
0:16:35 > 0:16:41A house you own! I've been feeling cheated all my life because I couldn't afford a house.
0:16:41 > 0:16:44Well, that's stupid, Mary Beth.
0:16:44 > 0:16:50- I've never had a husband, never had children. I do not feel cheated. My life is fine.- By choice, Christine!
0:16:50 > 0:16:57The owning of a house like that... For people like Harve and me, it's almost not a choice any more.
0:16:57 > 0:16:59Only now we got one...
0:17:00 > 0:17:03I know...
0:17:03 > 0:17:06It's the American dream, right?
0:17:06 > 0:17:09It's important to me.
0:17:09 > 0:17:13Well, I'm happy for you, Mary Beth. I really am.
0:17:13 > 0:17:15And I'm sure you have a nice house.
0:17:15 > 0:17:17If we get it.
0:17:17 > 0:17:22We still have to work the price down, get a second... Christine!
0:17:30 > 0:17:34Excuse me, ladies, would you mind getting out of your car?
0:17:34 > 0:17:39Officer, we're detectives Cagney and Lacey, 14th squad, New York City.
0:17:39 > 0:17:45I will reach into my pocketbook to get my ID. My partner will get out of the car...
0:17:45 > 0:17:49and I will place my ID on the seat for your inspection.
0:17:51 > 0:17:54Right-hand pocket.
0:17:57 > 0:18:01We're staking out someone in that house over there.
0:18:01 > 0:18:03- Mr Ashland?- Do you know him?
0:18:03 > 0:18:06He's the one who called.
0:18:06 > 0:18:10He thought maybe you were casing the place, planning a burglary.
0:18:14 > 0:18:19- Good morning, Mr Ashland. - Thank you, officers.
0:18:20 > 0:18:23Oh, boy...
0:18:23 > 0:18:28- Cross!- It was embarrassing! Two Nassau uniforms lapping us like we're a couple of Keystone Kops.
0:18:28 > 0:18:35- We gotta have vans or something.- I can't go to Knelman for more on the basis of an unsubstantiated hunch.
0:18:35 > 0:18:41Now, give me some ammunition. You still got a couple of days. ..Come on upstairs. I want to talk to you.
0:18:45 > 0:18:52- Want to try Mr Seymour? Maybe he changed his mind.- Sure. You're the one with the nice punim!
0:18:52 > 0:18:57I call it the "mister woman's haberdashery". I woke up one morning and saw the whole line in my head.
0:18:57 > 0:19:02- Pretty nifty, huh?- Mr Seymour, you told us you were retiring.
0:19:02 > 0:19:08What can I tell you? Harvey Holscher calls, says he's shutting everything and going to Miami Beach.
0:19:08 > 0:19:14He'll give me a deal on this place if I come in lickety-split, so Freyda's Frocks is back in business!
0:19:14 > 0:19:16So your wife said.
0:19:16 > 0:19:22- Mr Seymour, you haven't even collected on your insurance yet. - Don't worry. Don't worry, I will.
0:19:22 > 0:19:29I have a little something in the bank, so... I got orders from two of the biggest chains in the country.
0:19:29 > 0:19:34- You can do it that fast?- That's the beauty of the shmatte business.
0:19:34 > 0:19:39A few thousand dollars, a couple of designs and a good name, you're in business.
0:19:39 > 0:19:44Fabrics go to the cutting service, then to my sewing contractor.
0:19:44 > 0:19:49His people send me the dresses. The shipping contractor picks them up.
0:19:49 > 0:19:51All done on a handshake.
0:19:51 > 0:19:56- A wonderful country, America. - That easy, huh?
0:19:56 > 0:20:02And next month, I may be taking out a second and third mortgage on my house.
0:20:02 > 0:20:04You'd do that?
0:20:04 > 0:20:10When you want something, you do what you gotta do. Otherwise, nobody is gonna give it to you.
0:20:10 > 0:20:18- Mr Seymour, tell me something. This time, are you going to use Ashland Trucking Company?- Who knows?
0:20:18 > 0:20:22- That's a nice coat.- Thank you.- Mind if I ask how much you paid for it?
0:20:22 > 0:20:28- Mr Seymour, we need your help. If you...- You, if you'll excuse me, need something more stylish.
0:20:28 > 0:20:31Camel's hair, maybe.
0:20:31 > 0:20:35Mr Seymour, the way we see it, you got two choices.
0:20:35 > 0:20:39Either you give in, and you hire the gonifs - thieves -
0:20:39 > 0:20:45which is hard to picture for you - a man who works as a cutter every day of his life,
0:20:45 > 0:20:48even after his son could afford to support him -
0:20:48 > 0:20:54- or else go up against Nelson Ashland again.- In which case, you'll be asking for another fire.
0:20:54 > 0:20:59Or worse. So, Mr Seymour... ..Oh, you ask him.
0:20:59 > 0:21:01Please...
0:21:02 > 0:21:04He's a remarkable man.
0:21:04 > 0:21:08- 71 years old.- 71?!- He's excited like a kid over starting up again.
0:21:08 > 0:21:13Now he's a registered confidential informant, the lieutenant's going to try and get us everything.
0:21:13 > 0:21:18Two surveillance teams, 12 detectives, vans and wire taps.
0:21:18 > 0:21:24Christine is hacked off, as part of the deal I made with Mr Seymour is that we would watch his place,
0:21:24 > 0:21:30which means Petrie gets to lead on the team that's tailing Nelson Ashland. She's so competitive!
0:21:30 > 0:21:35- Are you listening to me? - Sure. That is terrific, babe.
0:21:35 > 0:21:39- How come you're sitting there, smirking like you know something? - I don't know nothing.
0:21:39 > 0:21:43- Do you know you had dinner with a very rich man tonight?- Huh?
0:21:43 > 0:21:46I closed my first deal today. Ha!
0:21:46 > 0:21:52- Harve!- I dunno how the guarantee comes off the commission, but either way, it is a nice piece of change.
0:21:52 > 0:21:56- You told me it was going to take a while.- This stuff is easy!
0:21:56 > 0:22:01I learn some catchwords and these people sit around and listen to me like I'm doing magic tricks!
0:22:01 > 0:22:06- A rich person?- That's me.- I have this thing about wheeler-dealers!
0:22:06 > 0:22:10The best part is this guy, Foster, is about to confirm a bigger deal.
0:22:10 > 0:22:16- You know what?- What?- That this calls for a proper celebration. Wanna join me in the bedroom?
0:22:16 > 0:22:20Gee, I wish I could, Mary Beth, but I got to finish my paperwork.
0:22:20 > 0:22:22- Aw... OK.- Yeah.
0:22:24 > 0:22:27- Is it going to take long? - Well... I...
0:22:27 > 0:22:31When I'm done, I'm done. Why don't you go and, um, I'll join you later?
0:22:31 > 0:22:32OK?
0:22:37 > 0:22:39I might be asleep.
0:22:39 > 0:22:42I'll be quiet so I won't wake you.
0:22:44 > 0:22:47Harve, if you want to wake me, wake me.
0:22:47 > 0:22:50It's OK.
0:22:52 > 0:22:54Goodnight.
0:23:07 > 0:23:14- Did you get him?- Yeah. If we had wire taps, we'd know who we were taking pictures of.
0:23:14 > 0:23:19This is so stupid, getting shots of everyone that goes into Seymour's building.
0:23:19 > 0:23:25- One piece of evidence, that's what the lieutenant said. Then he gives us the right equipment.- Coffee?
0:23:25 > 0:23:27No. It might keep me awake(!)
0:23:27 > 0:23:33Harve closed his first deal yesterday. He got another suit - three-piece with a vest.
0:23:33 > 0:23:40- CAGNEY LAUGHS - What?- No, it's nice. It's just hard to picture Harve in a suit!
0:23:40 > 0:23:42Why?
0:23:42 > 0:23:44I don't know.
0:23:44 > 0:23:47It doesn't fit. Some men it fits, but...
0:23:47 > 0:23:51Old Harve? I just can't see him in a three-piece suit!
0:23:51 > 0:23:56I think you got a prejudice against men who are blue-collar, Christine.
0:23:56 > 0:23:58Oh, come on, that is ridiculous!
0:23:58 > 0:24:01Yeah? Have you ever dated one?
0:24:01 > 0:24:05Have you ever gone out with a man who did not graduate from college?
0:24:05 > 0:24:08- I don't remember.- I rest my case.
0:24:08 > 0:24:10That does not mean I'm prejudiced.
0:24:10 > 0:24:15I'm not making a value judgment, simply pointing out an observation.
0:24:15 > 0:24:17Hm-mm. Right...
0:24:19 > 0:24:23So did you make another offer on the house?
0:24:25 > 0:24:30- Mary Beth? Did they accept?! - I'm very superstitious about things like this!
0:24:30 > 0:24:34- I'm going crazy every night with that mortgage rate.- Terrific!
0:24:34 > 0:24:38- I don't want to talk about it any more, OK?- OK.
0:24:38 > 0:24:42I haven't been so excited about anything since Michael was born.
0:24:42 > 0:24:45What are you doing?
0:24:45 > 0:24:47I'm taking a picture of my partner.
0:24:47 > 0:24:53- They'll develop that at the police lab.- If they can't take a joke, to hell with them!- Stop that!
0:24:54 > 0:24:59- I don't see anything hickey.- If you knew you were under surveillance,
0:24:59 > 0:25:05- would you do anything incriminating?- There's not been one torch job in the garment district.
0:25:05 > 0:25:11This can't go on indefinitely. Crime hasn't stopped in the streets just because we've got a hard case.
0:25:11 > 0:25:15- I've new business coming in the door every hour.- Let me show you this.
0:25:15 > 0:25:21That's Monday, 1pm, Twelve Months Restaurant. It's a big deal, three-martini business lunch.
0:25:21 > 0:25:27Ashland puts it away pretty well, right through a big dessert and coffee. He left at two forty-five
0:25:27 > 0:25:32and then, just 20 minutes later, he goes to another restaurant.
0:25:32 > 0:25:38- He stops at a coffee shop, reads the paper and has another coffee. - Did he talk to anybody?
0:25:38 > 0:25:42This is one of the two of them - he is two stools away.
0:25:42 > 0:25:48- He stayed ten minutes and then went back to his office.- That's his only break from routine all week.
0:25:48 > 0:25:51Anybody?
0:25:51 > 0:25:57OK, La Guardia, finish cataloguing these pictures. I want the Massadini files on my desk tomorrow morning.
0:25:57 > 0:26:03- Lieutenant! You can't drop this investigation.- A cigarette stand gets knocked over for 80 bucks.
0:26:03 > 0:26:10That man has as much right to a detective hot on his case as anybody in the garment district does.
0:26:10 > 0:26:18- Nelson Ashland is dirty. Everything Seymour said is true.- But we don't have one shred of evidence!
0:26:18 > 0:26:23Excuse me, Bert, I think we have something. This photo in the coffee shop, this fella here...
0:26:23 > 0:26:31- He looks familiar.- Remember that commission on organised crime? Took the fifth the whole day long.
0:26:31 > 0:26:37- He's got a record as long as your arm.- Including arson! I just can't think of his name. Fenton, or...
0:26:37 > 0:26:40- Farraday or...- No, it's Fennady.
0:26:40 > 0:26:43- That's it.- Frank Fennady.
0:26:43 > 0:26:47- 10-1 Ashland left the paper and Fennady picked it up.- Thatta girl!
0:26:47 > 0:26:49All right!
0:26:49 > 0:26:52Get me Inspector Knelman, please!
0:26:52 > 0:26:54Lieutenant Samuels.
0:27:03 > 0:27:08COUNTRY AND WESTERN MUSIC PLAYS OVER SURVEILLANCE EQUIPMENT
0:27:08 > 0:27:11CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS
0:27:11 > 0:27:17- Anybody?- Small guy in a coat. I think he's going to the tailor on the first floor.
0:27:17 > 0:27:23- So, how's it going? - I can't stand it with this music blasting in my ear, George.
0:27:23 > 0:27:27Hey, George! Do we have to have this music blasting?
0:27:27 > 0:27:32If I cut out the monitor, you won't be able to hear anything else that's going on out there.
0:27:32 > 0:27:36I love it. 71 years old and he's into country and western music!
0:27:41 > 0:27:43Hey, Victor! Where are you going?
0:27:43 > 0:27:45- Lunch!- It's almost five.
0:27:45 > 0:27:48- Well, I don't plan to eat.- Wait!
0:27:48 > 0:27:50Bonbon's got a free hour.
0:27:50 > 0:27:56- We take over the stakeout on Fennady at six-thirty.- Hey! What do you think I am? An amateur?
0:27:56 > 0:27:58I'll be there in plenty of time.
0:28:09 > 0:28:13- MUSIC CONTINUES - Argh!
0:28:13 > 0:28:15Is the music getting to you?
0:28:15 > 0:28:17No, it's this.
0:28:17 > 0:28:23"Proceedings upon felony complaint, from a deposition thereof." Who understands this stuff?!
0:28:26 > 0:28:32- Well, you probably do! Do you think Coleman understands it?- It was easier when Coleman made sergeant.
0:28:32 > 0:28:33Sure(!)
0:28:33 > 0:28:36'Yes? Can I help you?'
0:28:36 > 0:28:39'I'm looking for Aaron Seymour.
0:28:39 > 0:28:42'I'm Seymour. What can I do for you?
0:28:42 > 0:28:45'Mr Seymour, I represent Ashland Trucking.'
0:28:45 > 0:28:51- Here we go.- 'I wanted to talk to you about your shipping needs for your new line...'
0:28:53 > 0:28:58All I'm trying to get at, Mr Seymour, is are you going to give in or not?
0:28:58 > 0:29:02May I ask you smart ladies something?
0:29:02 > 0:29:06- Ever noticed the shoddy tailoring on women's suits?- Beg pardon?
0:29:06 > 0:29:12Now, take men's suits. There's hand-stitching here, extra tailoring there. That's quality!
0:29:12 > 0:29:18Now, say you want to buy a nice, classic, never-go-out-of-style women's suit with the same oomph?
0:29:18 > 0:29:21You'd love it. You'd wear it forever.
0:29:21 > 0:29:23You'd be happy to pay 150.
0:29:23 > 0:29:29- Could you answer my partner's question? - Mister woman's haberdashery look!
0:29:29 > 0:29:36- It's going to be a monster. I can feel it in my kishkas. - In your whats?- Kishkas. ..Guts!
0:29:36 > 0:29:38I'll tell you what I'm gonna do.
0:29:38 > 0:29:44You ladies have been so terrific, what say I give you each a sample?
0:29:44 > 0:29:49- We can't.- Why not? You think it's a bribe? It's not a bribe.
0:29:49 > 0:29:54- I like you.- And we like you, Mr Seymour. And we thank you,
0:29:54 > 0:29:56but we just want to do our job.
0:29:56 > 0:29:59I want you should be happy.
0:29:59 > 0:30:01I want everybody should be happy.
0:30:01 > 0:30:03Even Nelson Ashland?
0:30:03 > 0:30:09- My old mother, may she rest in peace, used to tell the story...- Oh...
0:30:09 > 0:30:16..way back in the old country, the Cossacks would come through the town, hurting people.
0:30:16 > 0:30:20My uncle one day thinks, "Maybe I should do business with them."
0:30:21 > 0:30:27Even Cossacks understand business. So he gives each one a chicken.
0:30:27 > 0:30:33- You're going to pay protection to the king of the Cossacks? - What can it cost me? A chicken?
0:30:33 > 0:30:3510-15% extra on the shipping?
0:30:35 > 0:30:37This line is going to be a monster!
0:30:37 > 0:30:43So I take a little less profit margin, and I avoid a lot of tsuris!
0:30:43 > 0:30:47- Well, Mr Seymour... - I want to think about it.
0:30:49 > 0:30:51I gotta think!
0:30:54 > 0:30:57But I ask you, ladies...
0:30:58 > 0:31:01..what would be so terrible?
0:31:06 > 0:31:09We're sitting out like idiots and he's caving in!
0:31:09 > 0:31:14- You heard what he said.- Did you see the look on Mrs Seymour's face?
0:31:14 > 0:31:18- That man's not going to get a minute's peace tonight!- Hey!
0:31:18 > 0:31:21Am I in your way?!
0:31:21 > 0:31:25- Where's George picking us up? - 36th Street.
0:31:25 > 0:31:27That creep has taken our space.
0:31:41 > 0:31:44- Where's Pappas? - Hello, Marcus. He's in the back.
0:31:51 > 0:31:53How's it going?
0:31:53 > 0:31:55Boring...
0:31:55 > 0:32:00- Fennady hasn't stirred from his room. - Isbecki?- >
0:32:00 > 0:32:05With Bonbon... Sorry, Marty, you'll have to stay till he gets here.
0:32:05 > 0:32:09- Little post-prandial hanky-panky? - I don't know.
0:32:09 > 0:32:13But I'm sure he'll tell me all about it...in living colour.
0:32:15 > 0:32:17Anybody go in I should know about?
0:32:17 > 0:32:21Mr Fennady isn't exactly the social butterfly.
0:32:21 > 0:32:24Like I said, boring...
0:32:25 > 0:32:27I guess we should be grateful.
0:32:52 > 0:32:56- He did not come out that front door!- It's the only way out.
0:32:56 > 0:33:02- Good morning!- Good morning! What's up?- Fennady slipped by Petrie and Isbecki last night.- You're kidding?!
0:33:02 > 0:33:08- He didn't. And Coleman's hiking up the odds on us. Not fair! - Let it go, Victor! All right?
0:33:08 > 0:33:13- OK, so you lost him.- It's not the worst thing in the world.
0:33:13 > 0:33:14No...
0:33:14 > 0:33:19There was another fire in the garment district last night.
0:33:19 > 0:33:23The night watchman was critically injured.
0:33:23 > 0:33:27Congratulations! You are now the favourites in the sergeant's pool.
0:33:28 > 0:33:32What's with the look? I didn't set the fire, I just set the odds.
0:33:32 > 0:33:34Six.
0:33:34 > 0:33:40We're covering Seymour's loft and we're trying to re-establish surveillance on Fennady.
0:33:40 > 0:33:42We lost contact yesterday.
0:33:42 > 0:33:45We're combing the garment district!
0:33:45 > 0:33:47I understand.
0:33:49 > 0:33:54Sir, two weeks ago, I was begging you for surveillance equipment...
0:33:56 > 0:33:58Yes, Inspector.
0:33:58 > 0:34:00Thank you.
0:34:00 > 0:34:06- Typical! I got to yell to get their interest in this case. Now they want it back for themselves- Sure(!)
0:34:06 > 0:34:10The papers pick it up and it's the biggest thing since the Son of Sam!
0:34:10 > 0:34:14When is Seymour shipping out his dresses?
0:34:14 > 0:34:18- Any day now, sir.- Well, Knelman's given us till Friday.
0:34:18 > 0:34:20Then it goes to Major Cases.
0:34:20 > 0:34:22Yes, sir.
0:34:22 > 0:34:25Thank you, Lieutenant.
0:34:34 > 0:34:39I've been looking at all this bank stuff and the different rates.
0:34:39 > 0:34:44With a fixed rate at 13%, and a variable at 11.5,
0:34:44 > 0:34:48the difference is 130 bucks a month, assuming we put 20% down,
0:34:48 > 0:34:54which is what we planned, but I figure the variable can go to 14...
0:34:54 > 0:34:58- I'm sorry. This must be kind of boring, huh?- No!
0:34:58 > 0:35:00It's nice to see you so excited.
0:35:02 > 0:35:09I tried to tell Harve about this, but he was having trouble keeping his eyes open. Pretty boring, huh?
0:35:09 > 0:35:12- Yup.- I wasn't talking to you!
0:35:14 > 0:35:16Oh, lord!
0:35:18 > 0:35:21Mrs Seymour!
0:35:21 > 0:35:22What...?
0:35:22 > 0:35:28- Seymour was worried that you should get hungry down here.- Mrs S... - I made you a couple of sandwiches.
0:35:28 > 0:35:34- Brisket! I took off all the fat. - This is supposed to be an undercover operation!
0:35:34 > 0:35:36You young girls with your diets!
0:35:36 > 0:35:41- Mrs Seymour, please!- I heard about the night watchman who got burned.
0:35:41 > 0:35:43And so did Seymour.
0:35:46 > 0:35:49So...eat and be well.
0:35:49 > 0:35:53You should take on a few more pounds. It wouldn't kill you!
0:35:53 > 0:35:56Yes, ma'am. Thank you.
0:36:03 > 0:36:05Ready for this?
0:36:05 > 0:36:08She made us sandwiches.
0:36:08 > 0:36:12Well, that's very sweet, but she's now compromised the stakeout.
0:36:12 > 0:36:14What was I supposed to do?
0:36:14 > 0:36:18"From Aaron Seymour. I'm shipping the dresses tomorrow.
0:36:18 > 0:36:23"If he's coming, he's coming tonight. No more chickens for the Cossacks!"
0:36:23 > 0:36:26- All right!- What did I tell you?
0:36:26 > 0:36:30Kishkas, Mary Beth. The man has kishkas!
0:36:51 > 0:36:53(Isbecki?)
0:36:53 > 0:36:54Yo!
0:36:54 > 0:36:57- 'Anything?'- Negative.
0:37:15 > 0:37:18Nothing, Bert. He hasn't moved.
0:37:18 > 0:37:24- It doesn't make sense. If Ashland doesn't send him tonight, it'll be too late.- We can see the door.
0:37:24 > 0:37:28There's no other way out. He's got to still be there.
0:37:28 > 0:37:30That's what Isbecki said.
0:37:35 > 0:37:39- You're not falling asleep on me, Chris?- No!
0:37:52 > 0:37:55It's 4.51. The sun will be up in an hour.
0:37:58 > 0:38:00Which one of these?
0:38:01 > 0:38:03Fennady!
0:38:03 > 0:38:09- Mr Fennady, are you there? - He could in Miss Marr's apartment. - Who's Miss Marr? ..Fennady!
0:38:09 > 0:38:13- His girlfriend. On the other side of the building.- The other side?!
0:38:13 > 0:38:19- Has she got a fire escape?- Course! - ..Tell them Fennady may be on his way. ..Open up this door.
0:38:19 > 0:38:22Come on, dammit! Open up this door!
0:38:25 > 0:38:27DOOR OPENS
0:38:27 > 0:38:30Did you hear that?
0:38:31 > 0:38:33I didn't hear anything.
0:39:01 > 0:39:06- Police! Hold it right there! Turn around and put your hands up in the air.- I'm on him, Chris.
0:39:08 > 0:39:13Right there... Get your hands up, I said! Higher!
0:39:13 > 0:39:17- Don't you move! - Stand still. Spread them!
0:39:24 > 0:39:28- You have the right to remain silent...- Christine!
0:40:08 > 0:40:10Hold it!
0:40:10 > 0:40:13Put your hands up, Mr Fennady.
0:40:13 > 0:40:15High! Where I can see them.
0:40:15 > 0:40:18And keep them there.
0:40:30 > 0:40:32Hey...
0:40:32 > 0:40:34Hey, kiddo.
0:40:34 > 0:40:37- Couldn't sleep again, huh?- Yeah.
0:40:37 > 0:40:39- Did you have a bad day?- Huh!
0:40:42 > 0:40:44This job...
0:40:46 > 0:40:50- I don't know. - Everybody has a bad day, huh?
0:40:50 > 0:40:53You can't keep on with this not sleeping.
0:40:53 > 0:40:58HE SIGHS I'm not doing anything, Mary Beth.
0:40:58 > 0:41:04I'm sitting around, having lunch with these rich guys, and there's something...
0:41:07 > 0:41:11I don't know. My stomach... I can't eat.
0:41:11 > 0:41:16I'm not... I'm not making something. You know what I mean? I'm not accomplishing anything.
0:41:18 > 0:41:20Honey, you had a bad day.
0:41:20 > 0:41:25- You can't expect every day to make a big sale.- You don't understand.
0:41:25 > 0:41:27I sold two.
0:41:29 > 0:41:32It isn't enough.
0:41:33 > 0:41:35What?
0:41:36 > 0:41:41You know, back in history, when they built all those cathedrals,
0:41:41 > 0:41:44the workers carved their names in the stone.
0:41:44 > 0:41:47It was like signing their work.
0:41:47 > 0:41:53When I was on the high steel, I saw the Indians do that. They'd scratch their initials on the girders.
0:41:55 > 0:42:01Even now, when I do a remodel, I put my initials down under something, where it doesn't show.
0:42:03 > 0:42:06It's silly, I guess. I don't know...
0:42:08 > 0:42:10I keep thinking I...
0:42:10 > 0:42:16I can't take Mike out like I used to, and point to a building and say, "I built that.
0:42:16 > 0:42:19"My name's on it."
0:42:23 > 0:42:25You can't...
0:42:28 > 0:42:31..carve your initials in a tax shelter.
0:42:35 > 0:42:37Then you have to quit.
0:42:37 > 0:42:39- It means no house.- I know.
0:42:40 > 0:42:45- I feel terrible.- No, Harve... I've been thinking about that house.
0:42:45 > 0:42:47I mean...
0:42:47 > 0:42:50what with interest rates the way they are...
0:42:50 > 0:42:55it may not be real smart to commit to a long-term mortgage like that.
0:42:55 > 0:43:01- They're bound to come down eventually, huh?- I know how much this house means to you.- Ssh!
0:43:03 > 0:43:08We'll do it. It'll just take a little longer, that's all.
0:43:08 > 0:43:10I got something for you.
0:43:24 > 0:43:27It's beautiful, Harve.
0:43:27 > 0:43:30- I can't have that now. - We can afford it.
0:43:30 > 0:43:36- We need a new refrigerator.- No! If I'm taking your house away, the least I can do is give you a ring.
0:43:36 > 0:43:41Harve, we're going to get the house. We are, right? We're putting it off, is all.
0:43:43 > 0:43:46Oh, boy! It's beautiful!
0:43:49 > 0:43:52Yeah... It's about time we got engaged.
0:43:52 > 0:43:55Give me your hand, will you?
0:44:00 > 0:44:02Perfect.
0:44:06 > 0:44:09I love this ring.
0:44:09 > 0:44:11I really love this ring.
0:44:12 > 0:44:19Tell you what, we'll go in the bedroom, and I'll show you how much I love this ring.
0:44:29 > 0:44:31HE SIGHS
0:44:33 > 0:44:35- Mary Beth? > - Hm-mm?
0:44:35 > 0:44:40You know, maybe next summer, we could repaint. >
0:44:42 > 0:44:47It's about time we sprung for new carpets and drapes. >
0:44:48 > 0:44:51We could really fix this place up. >
0:44:52 > 0:44:58With all the stuff I'm doing for everybody else, you'd think I could spend time and energy here, right? >
0:44:58 > 0:45:00Right.
0:45:00 > 0:45:04What do you say, kiddo, we really do a job on it? >
0:45:07 > 0:45:09Right.