Parting Shots Cagney and Lacey

And was anyone guarding the suspect?

Detective Newman, the team leader in this investigation was there.

So the suspect was under guard?

I said detective Newman was there, counselor.

That doesn't mean the suspect was under guard

because somebody was there, does it?

The grand jury will decide what all this means, Detective Lacey.

What all this means is that I'm feeling rattled

and my stomach is making noises you're going to hear in Jersey

and I cannot for the life of me do anything with this hair!

The members of the jury will take all of that into consideration.

That's what I'm afraid of.

Ready for my big day in court?

Does this put it all in perspective?

It's a beautiful suit, Jonah.

It is, isn't it?

Newman, when somebody pays you a compliment,

you're merely supposed to say "thank you".

Like the skirt, Cagney.

You have great legs.

Thank you.

And nobody likes a wise guy, Newman.

You'd be surprised.

Thank you.

Cagney! Cagney, when are you going to give me

that report you promised me?

-Today.

-Today?

You're going to be in court all day.

You're the one who assigned me to narcotics.

I didn't like taking six detectives off the charts,

but narcotics made a request!

Now I'm making a request of you.

-On your desk, tonight.

-Come hell or high water.

-Yes, Lieutenant.

So, there in the proto section is this chick Trixie.

Blonde, blue-eyed, with the kind of body that you find on billboards.

So, I mosey on up to her real slow and I say

"How'd you like to have kids that look like me, huh?"

Oh, baloney!

All right, maybe I didn't say that,

but I do have a date with her tonight.

And I am taking my toothbrush.

Hey, nice suit, Newman.

Thank you.

I bought it for the detective of the month luncheon.

A dark day in the history of the union.

I am going to miss working undercover.

You get to hang out with characters more unsavoury than you are.

Coleman, if we win, we'll be celebrating at Flannery's

and probably pick up the tab.

-A solid conviction!

-Do you know what this means?

-Getting rattled pays off.

Second grade detective is a sure win. Aren't you glad you

nominated me detective of the month?

-Aren't you glad the award's not for humility?

-Absolutely.

Let's' go celebrate, dinner and drinks are on me!

Uh, Newman, I got this girl waiting for me

and if I'm late, she's the type that will just start without me.

So why don't we make it another time, huh?

-Oh, come on!

-Hey, listen.

You've got other wins, man, you buy me some drinks then!

That'll be my inspiration in life. Are the rest of you ready to party?!

-Ready!

-Wow!

-Sorry.

-Klutz.

-Jonah, I can't make it. I've got to go home.

It's a PTA meeting at Michael's school. Can we do it another time?

-How about tomorrow, maybe?

-You're on. How about you, Cagney?

I've got paperwork to do, Newman.

I'd rather you tell me almost anything than hand me a line like that.

Really, Samuel's got on my case this morning.

-If I can, I'll come by later, all right?

-I won't hold my breath.

Come on, Newman. We'll just have to party without 'em.

OK, don't get too crazy because we have to party all over again tomorrow.

Have a good time! Bye!

Do you really have a PTA meeting tonight?

-You think I'd lie about a thing like that?

-I know I would.

Hey, Cagney!

You got some money I could borrow?

Are you kidding?

You invite people out for dinner and drinks and you don't have any money?!

-What kind of host are you?

-The kind that left my wallet in my locker.

Couldn't you have borrowed it from them?

They say I never pay back a loan.

It's good to know, Newman.

GUNSHOT

-Newman!

-Oh, my God!

-Newman!

Stay down! Everybody get back!

We're going to get you help!

Petrie! Get an ambulance! Call it a 10-13.

Everyone put on their shields!

-Go and get help.

-Witnesses, please!

-No, I want to stay with him.

-THAT'S AN ORDER!

-NO!

Nothing's going to happen to you.

Jeez, he's bleeding!

Anybody who saw what just happened

would you please step over here?

Give me your name.

You're going to be OK.

You're very young.

You're very strong.

We'll get you an ambulance.

You're going to be fine.

You're going to be fine.

The partner I had before Victor, Frank Mambelli,

was back on patrol two weeks after he was shot.

He'll be fine. He's a healthy kid.

-The only second base one we got.

-Short stop.

Shortstop if he's good enough.

Second base if MacIvey's got the edge. I'd bet on Newman.

He's faster. He was.

When MacIvey lost weight.

Why didn't I see it coming?

Nobody here is to blame. We have to hope for the best, that's all.

-I couldn't get here any sooner. How is he?

-Still in surgery.

-With an excellent team of doctors.

-Can I do something? Can I give blood?

No, there's nothing to do but wait, Victor. Why don't you sit down?

I should have been there.

You think you could have done something to stop it from happening?

-Maybe.

-We were there. We couldn't stop it.

Any word on who did it?

A witness saw a car, gave us the car model

and a partial licence plate number.

I'll stick around.

I owe him money from the last poker game. 60.

-65.

-I know, man.

He'll live to collect and wipe me out next time we play.

I know you can't identify what kind of car it is, ma'am,

but does the rear of this look familiar to you?

Or maybe the front of these cars?

-Petrie, I want the hotline manned 24 hours a day.

-I'll set it up.

All information strictly confidential.

Where's Cagney? Where's the hell's Cagney?

Er, the name of the man from intelligence division, sir,

Peter Roth. Do you want me to get him down here?

Good thinking, Lacey.

Are you all right, Lieutenant?

Do you want me to get you an aspirin or a cup of coffee?

No, no, no. I'm fine. Fine.

But as soon as Cagney comes in, will you send her back to my office?

Yes, sir.

I want you to reach up to the 104 and grab me Warren Cormer.

-Oh, yeah, he's supposed to be the great water man?

-Right. Yeah, right.

Corrassa, reach out and grab me Prolack, from Brooklyn homicide.

We also need a good street person too.

Newman was the best.

-Bye.

-Phone problem?

-My teenager.

-I called Claudia from the hospital.

I tried to get Harvey there too, but he already left from Saratoga.

-I hope he's not listening to the car radio.

-Claudia was watching TV.

They said a NYPD detective. No name, no precinct.

She cried when she heard my voice.

They protected that officer's family. They worry everybody else's.

Our families will have plenty to worry about

if it's open season on cops.

Oh, Marcus.

I checked Newman's card, Lieutenant.

He'd been assigned two weapons.

These are the serial numbers.

His shield and his ID card and service revolver were

found on his person, and I found his other weapon in his locker.

-All the serial numbers match?

-Yes.

I also cleaned out the rest of his locker.

I figured that Corrassa wouldn't be up to it.

Nice. Good work, Sergeant.

Will you sit down?

Thanks, I don't feel like sitting.

Yeah, I know the feeing.

SHE CLEARS HER THROAT

A little shot, huh? Just a lick?

No, thanks, I have some work I have to do.

He was only...at the most a couple of years older than my own son David.

Nothing like working undercover, huh?

He was a hot dog.

He was a good cop!

I didn't say he wasn't, Lieutenant.

I'm going to get the bastard that gunned him down.

Mark my words.

You shouldn't drink while on duty, Bert.

Yeah, I know.

Ah, pour me one too.

I'm told you haven't released the name of the dead detective yet.

I'll make a full statement to the press after all the proper

notifications have been made to the boy's family.

The boy had a family, so the damn vultures can wait.

We have a good relationship with the press, Bert. Let's keep it that way.

We're going to send Al Corrassa

and you over to notify next of kin.

Don't you want to do that yourself?

No, I've got too much to do here. You're the second whip.

And didn't you and this Newman fellow work on a case

together around Christmas time, some street musician nonsense?

That's good thinking, Bert.

She's a woman, so is his mother, might make it a little easier.

It's very hard for widows and mothers.

Corrassa knows where his mother lives.

-Lieutenant...

-No, look, there's nothing to discuss.

There's no time. Just go ahead and do it.

They had me here for Thanksgiving last year. His mum's a great cook.

Have you done this before?

HE KNOCKS ON DOOR

If you're worried about what to say, you won't have to say much.

Al, what a nice surpri...

Rabbi?

Al? AL! NO! NO!

Mary Beth?

Hi, sweetheart.

I've got to call Marty back.

Right now, OK? Forgive me.

How you doing, baby?

HE LAUGHS

Mary Beth, I win 50. Marty Caplin is not home.

Marty Caplin and his father are up in Saratoga doing a cousin's

basement, we're 185 miles from Queens, I see him in a coffee shop.

How's that for coincidence, huh?

Anyway, we bet 50 who can get home faster.

Should've got a ticket.

-I didn't.

-Could've got in an accident.

I didn't, I won 50, babe.

-I was calling you.

-What do you say tomorrow we paint the town, eh?

I was worried that you'd be worried.

-What are you doing manicuring your nails now?

-Did you hear me?

Yeah, I heard you.

I've been gone three days,

aren't there better things we could be doing, hm?

Johan Newman was killed today, Harvey.

I was scared to death that you'd hear a detective got shot at the courthouse,

and you were busy making some stupid bet with

Marty Caplin that could've got you killed.

I was there, Harvey. He was as close to me as you are now. We all were.

Two shots from God knows where, a car, I think. I saw a car.

And then he was down and I held him in my arms.

I hardly knew him, Harvey. But he was a kid, you know.

27, 28 years old.

The whole time we knew each other,

I don't think we said ten words, but I saw him every day.

-You get used to somebody you see all the time.

-Yeah.

And I told him, "You'll be OK."

At the hospital, we told each other, "He'll be OK."

But somehow you know.

We knew.

-Thank God he...

-No, don't say it, Harvey. Don't even think it.

This case in court, he was so excited that we won.

It was the most important thing in the world to him.

I told him I had to go to the PTA meeting and we'd celebrate tomorrow.

Tomorrow, I said.

We all regret this terrible tragedy,

but the important thing is to remain calm, be cautious,

and don't overreact.

Might even be a good idea for the next couple of days

to wear a bulletproof vest.

Let's not overreact.

The Detectives Endowment Association has asked me

to announce a 10,000 reward for information that leads to the

arrest and conviction of this killer.

And the mayor has matched that reward.

It's a tribute to your former comrade that you've elected to return

to work when you've all been excused for the rest of the day.

But I know we all feel...

..that when you lose one cop,

every cop in this country loses a brother...

or a sister.

(Great time to get enlightened.)

I thank you all.

Bert, can we talk for a minute, please?

Will you check that the narcotics case is finished, please?

I'll check his past and present cases for revenge motive.

I'm going through his Rolodex. Maybe it was a crime of passion.

Yeah, a lot of these drive-by shootings are gang initiations.

Well, I bet somebody was...

Well, he was in all the papers, because he was detective of the month.

Which made him a target. Is that what you're trying to say, Victor?

I think we have to treat it like any other homicide.

I don't know about you guys, but I'm packing extra weapons out there.

If I'm in a situation where I've got to draw my guns,

I'll shoot first and ask questions later.

Mind, Corrassa, when are we going to start carrying grenades?

I'd rather be tried by twelve than carried by six.

Newman was shot from a moving car.

-Extra weapons wouldn't have done him any good.

-That was then!

This is now! We've got to protect ourselves out there.

I don't want to end up like Newman!

Who does?

I'm never going to end up like Newman, dying without a widow.

I've decided to marry Trixie.

-Is he serious?

-He is. Whether the relationship is, we'll have to see.

Cagney?

Close the door.

Yes, Lieutenant?

I think Corrassa should be put on modified assignment for a month,

and I'm talking clerical duty without his gun.

Today he's got his three guns.

One of my detectives lost his life.

We can't have another one taking his or somebody else's.

So, please talk to him before he signs out today.

Wouldn't it be better if it came from you, Lieutenant?

Oh, I don't think so.

And I think I would like you and Lacey to take Mrs Newman

her son's personal property.

Oh, couldn't Corrassa do that?

I don't want to be too hard on Corrassa.

-I wanted to go back to the crime scene today.

-Well, you can.

But, you know, first pay your respects.

We wanted to be involved in the active part of this investigation.

And you will be.

First you've got to take care of this.

After I talk to Corrassa.

You're the second whip here,

and that carries with it some extra responsibilities.

I think you should take something with you too.

What?

Strudel.

Strudel?

That would be good.

I've got the creeps coming here.

Yeah.

The traffic department is checking every sum it's

given in the last month.

They're interviewing every shopkeeper in the area.

They don't need us here.

Mary Beth, the DMV says it's going to take a few days to

run down that licence plate with the three numbers.

There could be 100 cars that model.

Well, if that's all the witness saw,

then I suggest we take up a different tactic.

No, that's all the witness remembered. You saw the car too.

I saw the side of a car, Christine.

But maybe you remember more than you think you do.

So let's walk through it.

I don't want to walk through it,

we should be back at the precinct on the telephone, or knocking on doors.

-Where were you yesterday?

-Oh, gee!

-You were here with me, all right?

Do you remember what you were talking about?

Don't you?!

We were talking about how come we couldn't go celebrate with Newman.

I want you to remember, I don't want you to rub it in.

I'm in no mood to play detective and witness, Christine.

Look, I could play the witness and you could play the detective,

but I did not see the car!

-Come on, Mary Beth.

-You're pushing me!

Do you remember seeing any meter maids, traffic cops,

-street vendors...

-I already submitted a 49, Sergeant.

It's on Lieutenant Samuel's desk, you could read what I saw.

I don't want to read what you saw, I want to hear what you saw,

from you now.

Going over Newman's present cases could be valuable.

Going over Newman's past cases could be valuable,

but this is not valuable here, Christine. This is annoying.

About as annoying as you were being yesterday.

What are you talking about?

Saying that I was a liar, about having to go to Michael's school.

I don't lie, Christine. And I was about to tell you that

if it hadn't been for all the cars honking at that cab.

What cab?

The chequered cab that was stalled which I didn't put in my report.

We find the cab driver, and maybe he saw something nobody else did.

You did good, Mary Beth.

And I was terrific.

Thank you.

There aren't that many chequered cabs left in here.

We'll find out the places that still have them

and check the cars from yesterday.

Between evening shifts and midnights,

we should have the cabbie's name by tomorrow morning.

MY PARTNER'S DEAD!

Now you find something or I'll find you.

Al?

Are you all right?

Yeah.

I want him so bad I can taste it.

-Yeah, but you've got to calm down, Al...

-What do you mean, "calm down"?

That's easy for you to say. What if this happened to your partner?

What if it was Cagney who was off, do you think you'd keep your cool?

This is hard for all of us.

I want that bastard behind bars.

We all do.

Excuse me.

Detective Lacey, may I speak with Detective Corrassa alone, please?

Yes, Sergeant.

No, Cagney.

You're taking me off the streets, do you know what you're losing?!

YOU CAN'T DO THAT!

-I don't have a choice.

-DESK DUTY?!

-A lot of good I'm going to do us on desk duty!

-Al, you're tired.

No need to worry. You don't have to be alert on clerical.

If I misplace a stapler, no lives are endangered.

Go home and get some rest.

My first sergeant told me we watch out for our own.

If so-and-so's a cop, you might not like 'em,

but if they need your help,

you lay down your life for 'em, because he's a cop.

Now I laid down my life for Newman because he was Jonah Newman.

There were two bullets, Cagney. Why didn't the other one hit me?

Because it didn't.

Now we're all out there trying to figure out what we're looking for,

well, I'll tell you what we're looking for. We're looking for a lousy shot!

KNOCK ON DOOR

Chris, come on in.

Thanks.

I hope it's not too late.

Well, I didn't expect to see you this week, with all that's going on.

Yes, it's been busy. How about you?

-How did your deposition go tonight?

-Very well.

Can I get you a drink?

A double, thank you.

Must be tough, partner dying.

-It wasn't my partner.

-He was with you on that Santa Claus case.

One case.

He seemed like a nice guy when I met him.

He was on his best behaviour, trust me.

I guess everybody must be pretty upset.

David, enough with the guessing, OK?

OK.

I'm sorry.

I really shouldn't have come. I certainly should've called first.

If you had, I would've invited you over.

Well, yes, but then you would've known what to expect.

If you want to know the truth, I never know what to expect with you.

I like that.

Keep you guessing, huh?

You don't always have to be a barrel of laughs.

Can I fix you something to eat?

No.

Would you like to hear some music?

We could see what's on the tube?

Can we just go to bed?

Are you tired?

I just want to feel alive.

-You could come in, you know.

-Yeah, I know.

Come here.

Sweetheart,

what I do can be dangerous,

but life is dangerous.

You start thinking about all the ways you can die and stuff,

living anyway.

Aren't you scared?

Yeah. But it'll pass.

If we didn't have to move, you wouldn't have to work.

That's not true.

We want the house.

It's something we dreamed about all our lives, but I want to work too.

Oh, kiddo...

I wish that I could tell you that nothing bad will ever happen to you.

Or me either.

But you're getting too old for me to say stuff like that to you any more.

Sometimes that bothers me.

Sometimes it bothers me too.

-Where have you been?

-The subway was very crowded.

-Midnight's found the cabbie.

-Good.

Even noted a tan car with licence plates similar to the ones

-we're looking for.

-Good.

-There's only one problem.

-The letters come before the numbers.

-Can I get coffee first?

-Yes.

Now, the way I see it, there are two possibilities.

Either the witness or the cabbie read the licence plate

backwards, dyslexia, right? Or they're not New York plates.

Every witness swore that it was gold with blue figures.

Same colours as Oregon licence plates which happen to have

letters preceding the numbers.

-You are something else.

-Thank you.

Samuel's approved - we're to run an APB for the car with the Oregon plates

while the DMV is looking up the New York plates.

It's all arranged.

What? Your marriage to your widow-to-be?

I like to call her my fiancee, Cagney.

Does she answer?

Anyway, she is not the one that's going to make the difference,

-it is cryonic suspension.

-What kind of suspension?

-Cryonic suspension.

When you die, they freeze you, then they defrost you

-when they can cure whatever killed you.

-The immortal Isbecki.

Come on, Mary Beth. The snipers in the street await us.

This freezer business, what do they put you in?

I don't know. I didn't ask.

What do you guess, Marcus?

Ski clothes.

This APB business, it's a long shot. Do you think it's worth it?

What do we have to lose?

It's asking a lot of the uniform, sir,

but I think that it might get us somewhere.

-All right, so do it.

-Thank you, Lieutenant.

First, uh...

first I want the two of you to go over to Newman's apartment.

-I've got to know if he's clean.

-Yes, sir.

Lieutenant, can't you get someone else to do that?

Cagney, how come every time I ask you to do something, you want me to ask someone else?

It's the things you're asking me to do!

Tell his mother, visit his family, reassign Corrassa, now go through his personal effects?

I don't have to apologise to you every time I ask for your help!

SERGEANT!

I wasn't suggesting that you do, Lieutenant.

Right, now go to Newman's.

-To see if he was a crook?

-No, to see if you can find something!

Yes, sir. We're on our way.

I don't believe this.

He's asking us to do what anybody could do.

Maybe not him, Christine.

Feels weird, huh?

I mean, it's not like going through things of people you don't know.

Or people you think you know, like family.

Let's just get what we need and get out of here.

He had an amazing record collection.

Chris, look at this.

Must've been him when he was a boy.

Mary Beth, we're...

OK, I know! Files, diaries, any unusual habits.

-POLICE! Don't move!

-Freeze!

Who are you?

Debbie Chasler.

My wallet's in my bag.

I don't carry a gun, only credit cards.

I'm...I was his girlfriend.

I sort of lived here part-time.

Put your hands down.

We apologise, Miss Chasler.

We didn't mean to scare you like that. I'm Detective Lacey.

-This is Sergeant Cagney.

-Hi.

Cagney! He talked about you a lot!

He thought you were the best detective he'd ever met.

I should've known you'd be coming.

It's part of the investigation.

I guess you've got to check to see if he was

the terrific guy everyone said he was.

Yes, Miss Chasler.

-What a sweet girl she is, huh?

-Well, his appointment book didn't show any irregularities.

They were planning their honeymoon in Paris.

-No signs of drug or alcohol abuse.

-They wanted a lot of kids too.

Figure Newman being crazy about children. I didn't know that.

Maybe his cheque book or his mail will turn up or something.

I'm glad he had somebody to love him, Chris.

-Will you pull yourself together?

-I beg your pardon?

-We're working on a case.

-Yeah?

-Well, look at how you're acting.

-Somebody we both worked with has been murdered.

-Yeah.

I'm not the one that's acting strange, Christine.

Lacey! Your son Michael called.

He sounded a little upset,

so we talked for a while until he felt better.

-That's nice! Thank you, Sergeant.

-You're very welcome.

-Anything I can do for you, Cagney?

-Are you all right, Coleman?

-Let me guess, you found religion?

-No, poetry. Here, listen to this.

"I shall pass through this world but once

"If there be any kindness I can show, let me do it now

"For I shall not pass this way again."

-Pretty, huh?

-Beautiful.

-Death can certainly change a person.

-Sure, look what it did for Newman.

Anybody want to help with Newman's stuff?

-You didn't find any dirt on him, did you?

-Nothing.

-But we met Debbie Chasler. She seems like a fine young woman.

-Yeah.

She'll have a hard time finding a guy as great as Jonah.

I'm taking his cheque book.

I'll take his telephone bills.

He was always on the phone to one of his sisters.

A lot of charitable donations.

Maybe I'll have to forgive him for not paying back his loans.

Just like me. A cop's cop.

I used to say to Newman, "You're a gentleman and a scholar

-"and a good judge."

-He knew his ripple too!

Christine told me once that he was very good at poker.

He's a hell of a basketball player...for a short guy.

What is this? A Jonah Newman testimonial?

Some of us care that he's gone, Cagney.

Are you saying I don't?

I don't really know what you feel.

I'm not sure you do either.

Oh, Petrie, go analyse somebody else.

-We're trying to loosen up.

-Come on, Cagney, what's your problem?

Everybody's walking around saying what a great guy Newman was.

Nobody said that when you wanted me to set him up in the poker game.

We hardly knew him then.

Coleman knew him last week when he wanted MacIvey

instead of Newman to play shortstop on our softball team.

What's your point, Cagney?

Suddenly everybody's going around asking,

"Did he have a wife? Gee, did he have any kids?"

Nobody even cared until he got killed!

Nobody had even thought about Newman's personal life.

-Hell, nobody even know if he had one.

-Corrassa knew.

-Fine, Corrassa.

For the last few days all we've heard about is what a stand-up guy

Newman was. A really smart, hard-working... Wow, is he honest?!

-It's enough to make you puke.

-Yes, it is enough, Christine.

I would like to catch the guy who killed Newman just as much as you...

but I don't think that we have to anoint him first.

Here's a bank thing.

-Who's doing the phone bills?

-Me.

You know what time it is?

Honey, they want us working off-duty hours too.

12-hour shifts, you feel guilty going home at all.

Well, the squadron called me back.

They said you left a long time ago.

There's fewer trains this time of night.

Damn it, Mary Beth. I worry too.

I've been taking different routes home, Harvey.

Yesterday it was the F train to Delancey.

And the Q11 bus from Whithaven.

Today, it was the M train to Wyckoff,

and bus B55.

I keep thinking, you know, if he was a target...

I thought you were handling it so well.

When I was pregnant, I hated being on clerical duty,

but today on the street I kept thinking

it felt so safe sitting behind manila folders.

Then do it! Put in for clerical.

That little girl makes me want to live forever.

Look at her, she's so pure, so safe.

When am I going to feel safe again?

Come here.

Go to Mummy.

You know, when you first joined the force, every time we kissed goodbye

I thought it could be the last time,

but holding on to those fears doesn't make you any safer.

It doesn't make me any easier.

So stop looking over your shoulder.

Start taking the old route home.

-I wish we were in the new house already.

-Me too.

Can I have your attention, please?

Everybody?

18th Precinct just called to report an arrest

in the shooting of Detective Third Grade Jonah Newman.

Ballistics has been given a 38, covered in a car with

Oregon licence plates, matching the ones given by the chequered

cab driver to Sergeant Cagney and Detective Lacey.

Both are to be congratulated.

Who is it?

Does he have a yellow sheet?

What did he have against Newman?

Let's go down to the 18.

No, no, no! No, there's no need for that.

They asked if we want a share in the collar

and they're on their way here now.

Thank you, sir! It's him.

I can feel it. It's him and we'll nip him down, right?

-Now that the hard part's done.

-I know, I know.

-Step by step.

Congratulations, Sergeant.

Do you want to come out with us, Lieutenant?

No, no. I think I'll take it in here.

Who's your fellow detective, eh?

New to you, Cagney, but I think you're going to find

it's something you can never get used to.

Especially...

sometimes I used to think, "OK, maybe my son will be a cop."

At times like this, I'm glad he's not.

Lieutenant, you are not responsible for what happened to Newman.

I know that. But a commanding officer feels responsible for everything.

I wanted to go over to the Newman family, but...

I just wasn't ready.

-Maybe you will be soon.

-Yeah.

This is not finished yet, so I'm going to go over and see them later.

A lieutenant watches all the new talent that comes in.

Sometimes when you see one with such promise,

such ambition and energy, you laugh and you talk and...

You know,

you call Newman a hot dog but, he and I...we called that chutzpah.

I'm sorry I leaned on you so hard, Cagney.

I'm glad you felt you could.

18th is bringing that suspect over for questioning.

Someone's going to have to interrogate him

and I'd like hell to do it, but I think I owe this one to you.

-And to Lacey.

-Thank you.

-Thank you.

What's taking so long?

- They're grilling him. - I hope they're frying him!

-What happened?

-What did he say?

-Is that the scum that offed Newman?

-Is that our man?

-Tell us!!

-Yeah, it looks like it.

-What did he have against Newman?

-He didn't know Newman was a cop.

-He didn't even know Newman.

"I wanted to commit a crime.

"I wanted to see if I could get away with it."

HE YELLS

Easy, easy, easy.

I now know Newman's past cases better than I know my own.

I now know Newman's past girlfriends better than I know my own.

That doesn't surprise me.

Hey, I thought you were going to be kind.

Yeah, but how long can that last?

About as long as Isbecki's engagement.

Victor, what happened?

Turns out to be, if I get frozen when I die, she doesn't know

if she's a widow or a wife waiting for her husband to defrost.

The courts have got to decide before Trixie will commit.

In the meantime, we've decided to see other people.

I keep looking for something we can get out of all this.

The only one who got anything out of this was Newman.

He got a hell of a funeral.

Sure was, all those cops in uniform as far as the eye could see.

Would've made Newman proud.

Do you remember...

..the bank robber he caught?

-What bank robber?

-There was no bank robber!

It was an old man withdrawing his account.

LAUGHTER

The embezzler who offered Newman a partnership

when he gets out of prison?

How about the hooker who promised to name

her first legitimate son after Newman?

I wonder what Newman's doing now.

He's probably organising a card game.

Lovely thought, Marcus.

What do you say we all go over to Flannery's

and we hoist one in Newman's honour, huh?

ALL: All right! Yeah! Yes, sir!

-Isbecki, you can pay!

-Right, I'll pay.

That was all for nothing, wasn't it?

-Some guy just getting his kicks.

-Yeah.

I thought catching him would help.

It didn't.

I feel rotten.

And a little guilty.

Because you're alive and he's dead?

No. I never really liked him.

But now that he's dead, I can't say that any more.

Why would you want to?

Because I thought he was an obnoxious little twerp.

Yes, we know.

Well, why should I lie about it?

He always irritated me, you know that.

He's the smart guy always throwing the fast answers

and I hated his big phoney smile,

and he looked like he slept in his clothes!

And I never told him what a good cop I thought he was.

You could tell Corrassa.

And Petrie and Isbecki.

They need to hear it, Christine.

I'm going to Flannery's with them.

You coming?

Yeah, maybe I will.

I'll buy the first round and make a toast.

Yeah.

That's one way of telling the person you're going to miss them.

I said he was a good cop.

I didn't say I was going to miss him.

Yeah. I know.