Face Down (1997) Joe Mantegna | Kelli Maroney - Crime HD

[Music] [Music] so [Music] hmm [Music] uh [Music] [Applause] [Music] that's what i'm saying man if i'm listening to the building wouldn't i get mushed everybody [ __ ] up that you know that i know that i mean check my bell in the morning let me do all the checkups all the time bing bing bing bi detective cooper this is albert saint dubois he was just uh telling us about his bell all right you must be the boss man around here how long have you got to steer here for huh relax mr saint dubois you live longer you still reside in queens listen i ain't gonna know a [ __ ] all right i'm an honest guy ask the boys at the club in fact i'm supposed to be down there playing dominoes right now you kept your nose clean since you've been out oh my that ah robbery rock was [ __ ] some other dude did it yeah okay mr sane dude beat it what you mean i can't go prelim says the guy was dead before you got there tonight you know it you know why you know how much this is broken up hey don't hurt anybody i enjoy the poetry here curtis a scumbag like this ends up dead in the gutter crushed by a garbage truck god damn it's enough to make yourself believing in justice again [Music] it's a shock i had dinner with him just last night we talked about the future together now [Music] maybe there's a mistake there's no mistake connie but you said positive identification was difficult well we did receive documentation just this morning from uh dayton um i'm sorry connie um i'm afraid your fiance is already [Laughter] married no connie you must have had some suspicion before you came to us um right [Music] oh sorry bob um miss tavenfeld um you know my partner herb aims ms tavenfeld please excuse me oh well it sounds funny under the circumstances but thank you mr signaling bob listen uh connie um strictly speaking it is unethical but uh maybe um i could take you out for a couple of stiff drinks tonight i know a place oh oh i i don't think so i mean oh you're probably right huh it was just a suggestion [Music] well oh um maybe i could meet you just for a drink the blue cage you know what good music food say um eight o'clock we got subpoenaed on that crawford deal you bastard me i told you not to get mixed up with crawford i'm not talking about crawford i'm talking about coming on to that povenfeld babe strictly speaking it's not ethical herbie don't practice your eavesdropping techniques on me okay got to do something to make this job interesting hey you know what i'm not in business to keep you entertained look at this you don't keep track of the days anymore it's not thursday bob it's monday the 18th [Music] [Music] alright [Music] just wait right there vehicle registration and estate license renewal mr cignarelli i have something here that's going to make your day yeah well something better excuse me could i say detective please [Music] i'm sorry uh mr ames is out and mr cignarelli has another appointment uh i could schedule one for you like how soon could i get in to see one of them it's kind of important miss jones my 11 45 canceled did i happen to mention that uh perhaps you could see miss blank mary with two e's m-e-r-r-e or do you want my real name well your real name unless you meredith meredith what like no see the last part is real it's just that i always use mary because meredith sounds so stuck up or something i understand robert cignarelli bob robert's more distinguished why don't you step into my office he said what oh nothing good morning dr pilger uh i'm very sorry uh mr cignarelli had to cancel his 11 45 appointment with you uh it's just that uh something came up and this car has been following you it's never the same car twice it's the same kind of car though four-door like what somebody's grandma would drive or something but never exactly the same i started noticing it about a week ago miss lake manhattan's a big place there's lots of cars that fit that description someone was in my apartment last week while i was at work did you call the police no nothing was taken but somebody was in there you can tell when somebody's been in your place even if nothing's messed up you can just tell you have a very big fish i noticed at the moment i walked in here look at this guy and why did you come to us you were the first ones in the phone book but more importantly you were closer to the subway i worked for derek fry gallery 77th and luck so i can take the f train practically right here i meant what do you want us to do find out who it is and tell him to leave me alone or something miss lake uh mary with two e's my partner and i get fifty dollars an hour plus expenses now that could add up pretty fast if you don't know who you're looking for or why i'm uh sorry i can't be more healthy but um if you have something more to go on give us a call we can um talk again anytime thank you for being honest with me not many people have been ah thank you again [Music] mr cignarelli i missed my signal i got the information that you wanted from the dmv great yeah it took me three hours but i got into the computer system that's great thanks emily emily yeah call connie tabenfeld tell her i won't be able to make it tonight mr fry i was wondering if i might have a word with you it's about meredith or mary whatever she's calling herself this week frankly in the last two weeks she's become well somewhat of an embarrassment how so last monday she said the ghee desmond acrylics looked like vomit actually puke was the word she used this comment was loud enough to be overheard by others in the gallery that's refreshingly honest don't you think no mr fry i do not nor do i think this is any way to run a business bringing in people with no experience jacob jacob if i elect to extend a helping hand to someone that i believe desperately needs a helping hand i'll do so and as far as this business is concerned it's my name on the front out there so i'll run it anyway i damn well please okay you're listening and jacob 98.9 fm it's not eight to so it's 2 30 in the city and now five minutes of local news the body of manhattan attorney richard cassio was found in chinatown early this morning by a sanitation worker the exact cause of death has not been established due to the condition of the body at the time of discovery but foul play is suspected this brings to 95 the number of murders in the triboro area i'd like to introduce you to me to this particular piece it's by helmut gunter [Music] [Music] two two yeah derek fry galleries how may i help you oh hi hi i was just uh standing here working thinking about you and um thought maybe you'd like to um go out for drinks tonight you know talk about um your problem no charge i uh i know this great place good food great music uh let's say i uh pick you up seven o'clock perfect [Music] morning hey what are you doing [Music] yeah it's uh it's bob listen you can set up that meeting with mr goldstein regarding his wife's trips to the city to go shopping oh yeah uh three prints of each uh-huh uh dr pilch yeah he canceled um i i don't know what the problem was um uh listen herb um about goldstein and his wife do you think you could talk to him about that i've kind of had my uh quota of uh broken hearts this week [Music] yeah um [Music] hi sorry i'm like getting ready come on in i was so freaked out when i got home and kind of somebody was in here again nothing was touched just like before it's so weird i'll be ready in a sec how did you know someone was here well like i said you can always tell about things like that but i could especially tell because of the remote control for the tv i was watching letterman last night looking in the tv guide you know to see if there was a movie this wasn't any good so i decided to go to bed i put the tv guide on the coffee table and the remote control on top of it i always do that because if i don't i can never find the remote so i come home this afternoon and the remote was moved well maybe last night you didn't put the remote on the tv guide nope i'm dumb in some ways but not about things like that it's the way my mind works some people got that kind of mind could you so i figured whoever was in here must have moved it that would explain why it wasn't on the tv guide yeah maybe you a model tried it for a while it was in a few things catalog stuff mostly not exactly the big break i dreamed about when i moved here a mind and observation what well for a girl who thinks her apartment has been broken into twice and also thinks she's being followed you don't seem all that um what shook up yeah i'm funny that way huh she didn't say where she was going did she just got a phone call and laughed sorry jacob i feel i owe you an apology i think you may have been right about her behavior [Music] we'll just have to figure that out but that's a problem that can be handled [Music] i can't tell you what this means and i know you have more important stuff no me no the case this week this baby suspects that something is up with her boyfriend now the reason she suspects this is because he's put off them getting married eight times in the last year now every three weeks he puts off them getting married oh no really and she begins to suspect something is up she's not sure but she just suspects now it turns out this guy that she was gonna marry he already has a wife now a not too bright third grader could have figured this out but no i mean she's got to hire me connie didn't my office call you no i don't know what to say something just came up i'm sure it did it's okay it's okay on second thought oh what is this displaced aggression honey i've been looking to suck somebody all afternoon get out of the crate i'm going back to ottawa say hey bobby how's every little thing what you been working on gumshoe my income tax who's the blonde as if it's any business of yours i'm always interested in you bobby you and your friends [Music] are you okay dude that must hurt a lot yeah occupational hazard you know this guys some of them uh look maybe maybe this wasn't such a good idea um this place is starting to get a little too crowded okay sure whatever um only will we be eating sometime like i only asked cause i had to take this medication with food that's the only reason otherwise it wouldn't matter yeah sure come on i'd like to blow his [ __ ] head off better watch any [ __ ] like that ia's nose around the division what somebody rip off the parking meter receives nope worse i heard [Music] so you try and try and try and you do everything you can you know you try to keep pounds off but no matter what you do they just sort of stick to you you know it's like this constant battle to stay thick you know what i mean you look pretty good to me thin enough with the camera it's not just fat though fat you can deal with but like bone structure there's a lot to do with it and god what can you do about bone structure either you've got it or you don't you have very good bone structure you have nice cheekbones you're italian right italians have a good bone structure generally i mean god look at sulphur loretta talk about bone structure what was he just talking about modeling he asked me about miley okay well general it was the people you know i had a couple of bad experiences you know that talks into them and then you wish you hadn't but i got lucky because i got this job came right out of the blue and rescued me see i told you it's one of them that was following me oh no we're supposed to be waiting outside really it's always like outside outside be careful we couldn't get killed waiting outside [Music] i'm sorry i thought it was i'm sorry it's okay i understand [Music] hey wait [Music] boom i'm sorry about this stuff but it'll be quicker shows are out so there won't be any kids i don't mind honestly don't sometimes i write the subway for fun yup i do the d train you know how it runs out to brooklyn and you can see the whole city sometimes i ride it back and forth when i want to think or be alone sometimes when the train is coming i stand with my toes on the line here close as they let you get to the edge ever do that [Music] and you hear that rumble and the rails make that whipping sound and the wind rushes at you and the light streaking across the tile at just the right moment one step forward haven't you ever wondered what it would be like in that last split second strangely enough no yes you have i bet yes [Music] um [Music] [Music] [Music] oh um [Music] [Music] it's mine dangerous keeping a loaded gun yes i suppose it is i don't know much about guns really shouldn't even have it i guess fired it recently no never i'll get rid of it tomorrow unless you really want to talk about it now no doubt about it entry wound front cranial i know this much is 22. if you can find it i can make it i got good marks on the slug embedded in the heart tissue two shots point blank one in the head one in the pump bad ass stuff waldorf astoria the only thing that doesn't fit is why this guy would use some candy-ass 22. artie it's your wife i can't talk to you now honey i'll have to talk to you later very funny hello yeah what makes us think that the shooter was a guy because this was a very precise professional hit wouldn't rule out a crime of passion it's just a thought yeah send him in a cab for christ's sake this is what you get back right you're lucky it didn't break a new crown would set you back about four hundred dollars safe quest bob you stood up dr pilch pilch i know him uh charles pilch a surgeon look i know the business doesn't mean [ __ ] to you but it's my life it supports my family dr pilch could do a lot of work our way surgeons are always being so i can't believe you're willing to blow this off get some bimbo not so much you know she's down there right now wandered in oh is this gonna be a daily occurrence in the office he waits for no man jesus christ bob as soon as you get that stick out of your mouth more minutes i want you in your car and over to dr pilcher's oh there's a household what the battery's dead the car won't start then take a cab you walk in the door oozing concern whatever him and his lawyer want you do it i want you there by the end of the day the [ __ ] novocaine wears off before he's done in there i'm so sorry bob's tied up uh i'm just leaving can i drop you somewhere okay i'm a professional um well here we are everything seems fine bye bye now [Music] huh [Music] my [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] okay [Music] um i don't know what more he need to see this guy's running up and down that ladder like a circus bear well i have to say charles i agree with mr cignarelli and he's claiming injuries that preclude that kind of physical activity and we need something to positively establish the date video cameras can be reset i'm assure you his lawyer will make that point but we have mr signorelli's sworn testimony don't we mr signorelli's testimony may not carry the required weight i don't understand counselors just trying to be delicate doctor a couple of years back i was discharged by the nypd for providing false information i see would you excuse us for a moment mr signorelli under the circumstances mr cignarelli my attorney and i would be happier if mr ames were to take the case from this point on there's no offense intended none taken oh is there something i can help you with i was just curious about a drug lithub a friend of mine is taking it prescribed by an md regular prescription how well do you know this friend oh acquaintance more like well it's a lithium carbonate compound and it's used to control certain types of schizophrenic behavior but there's no other application excuse me gentlemen there's a phone call mr signal rally is for you it's police [Music] okay [Music] he was your friend the only one you had left [Music] bobby bobby bobby this is my partner curtis lowell this is bobby cignarelli formerly of the nypd what happened somebody dropped a hammer on your partner split his head into i hope you got some good answers because i got some great questions it could have been some kind of a payback somebody wanted to get even with her and finally just got in the way payback for what listen fellas i've been trying to tell you this girl didn't have a clue about any of this all right she might be a little goofy but if she was involved in anything she would have told me that right bobby bobby loves goofy people he's always up for a laugh well laugh this one off pal we got three tapes like this they were all shot last year and they all got two things in common your girlfriend and a guy named richard cassio i guess i'm supposed to react to that name sorry means nothing to me he was a lawyer notice the past tense fairly successful guy or two and a video camera no business like show business huh two nights ago cassio had a date for drinks at the cradle of china off columbus avenue his guest never shows instead he gets a phone call around 11 15. we figure it's the guest canceling at any rate the bartender said that when he left he was really pissed off never made it to his car a setup shot twice with a 22. seen this before if she was involved with anything she would have told me goddamn sounds like old times doesn't it yeah just like two years ago a little bit different a little bit different you got your fingerprints i'm all right you got your fingerprints all over the gun this time that babe who works for you emily jones she said to me that this brought you i got something to do let me tell you something if there was any [ __ ] white [ __ ] you are going down seen enough yeah look bob i don't know if you're aware of the deal with this girl she's schizoid manic-depressive she's totally [ __ ] up she can control it with medication but we've got indications that she hasn't been taking it oh really yeah we found a bottle in her medicine chest label says two times a day one capsule every 12 hours but the bottle was full cotton still stuffed in the top hmm obviously cooper's got his opinions about you but i'm gonna take a chance coop's gonna scream but i think that i can get you out on the street if you'll just do one little favor for me listen curtis your name is curtis isn't it yeah now in about an hour and 10 minutes you're either gonna have to charge me or let me go and you don't have enough to charge me you sure about that well i figured the d.a told you no dice this morning my tip-off was your partner's attitude now what is it you want me to do bring the girl in wow well somebody's better and pretty quick because last night she was talking about stepping in front of a subway train tell him gary ritter from internal affairs hey signorelli long time no see i'd like to keep it that way what's going on between you and signal nothing i got a right to know nothing [ __ ] nothing last i heard he got booted for a lion for covering for some guy he killed a kid a little chinese girl what are you talking about he was responsible same as if he pulled the trigger he should have shipped his ass up the river instead they gave him a bad conduct hey move the vehicle hey i got it cool you got to let this crap go this is not worth it listen to me i was working a case of armed robbery turns out the guy behind it is a snitch that cignarelli was using the [ __ ] cries on bobby's shoulder tells them some other dude done it or whatever the [ __ ] is that they hand you and i tell bobby this guy is dirty but he takes the word of the [ __ ] now we never got along me and bobby what the hell kind of thing is that taking the word of a piece of [ __ ] over our fellow officer i thought i told him this guy is dirty he lies for the guy he gives him an alibi the d.a doesn't file and that's that three weeks later the snitch sticks up a mom-and-pop grocery in chinatown there's a little girl there something rattles the [ __ ] he starts shooting the little girl she takes one right in the chest but she doesn't die right away see her lungs filled with blood and she drowns can you imagine that seven years old and drowning to death in your own blood that's why we don't like bobby cignarelli very much huh partner i need this to jump like i need a hole in my head [Music] [ __ ] i'm expecting friends here any minute any second even just don't try anything so did you ask to see a search warrant before you let the cops in here i assumed they had one and of course you gladly answered every goddamn question they asked you oh well what was i supposed to do stutter you weren't supposed to stick a knife in my back you're fired like i really planned on hanging around ah shut up and i wouldn't touch any mr ames things you're already in enough trouble get out of here and take your donuts with you i'll be back to the rest of my stuff later yeah yeah [Applause] [Music] foreign ah fine i'll pass it along is he involved in this it's just something we're checking into we know he's associated with marriage like you got anybody following bob cignarelli yeah i asked frank north to keep an eye on him today lost him christ coop i don't recall you getting any authorization for surveillance from captain mcginnis curtis i thought i explained to you in some detail we don't like bob cignorelli all right all right i'm coming teenage basement thickest bricks randy that you my name is bob cignarelli mr frager hey sorry i ain't open to the public well well i'd like to talk to you i'm not with the police or anything i'd just like to ask you about a woman named meredith lake oh beat it man no no no it'll just take a couple of minutes i promise hey hey you understand english get hosed um why don't you just uh don't stand behind the door okay what just move a little over to the side i'm gonna shoot the deadbolt off whoa whoa [ __ ] hold him man hang on a sec jesus i'm on set right now look at what do you want from me huh i mean i only seen her twice once at a party cassio had and like once when we put her on tape you know and that's all i know about that well how did she behave two times you saw her uh kind of cute at the party i remember maybe a little hyper you know laughed ran off at the mouth like that she got a little weirded out when she was here you know while we was taping but that happened sometimes bella sweet 16 and never being kissed you'll see these flipping burgers there you go don't worry go to the couch good she done this before hey this is first time foxes you know fresh tape and i never screw with a concept people trust me on that you got a cold [ __ ] you cassie will back you on this yeah well i was a little short on cash so uh you know he paid for the tape duplication and distribution on the stuff i did with that meredith and that was all look over here honey up here it was a 50-50 deal i was supposed to get half the net on those three tapes and i got dick between you me and the lamppost the guy was a [ __ ] bloodsucker and i ain't totally surprised at the way he ended up you know what i'm saying forget it ready get off the phone get your ass over there come on let's go let's go let's go you're nervous don't worry don't be nervous all right all right you're just doing what comes natural like with your boyfriend in the back seat of the car okay honey there you do let me see what you look like on your knees there honey just mud no no yeah just get down your knees what's your name sounds like a pretty tough businessman might have friends who want to get to the person who got him yeah well i knew him as much as anybody and i hated his [ __ ] guts i mean cassio made a lot of his money in cash you know what i mean on account of the type of clients he represented so he had cash he could front you off the books that way you don't got to involve the irs except the leech would charge you the [ __ ] nose for it you know and then now look if you'll excuse me there's an issue of modesty here huh you remember where the door is right oh yeah good oops what the [ __ ] hey what are you doing man you got insurance right hey hey you bastard yeah i get that complaint all the time i can't get parts for that [ __ ] oh [ __ ] me so we still happening or what yeah i would remember somebody like her whoa for sure absolutely well take another look to face this time i don't know maybe yeah the conductor on the d train had me take a look there's so many homeless around crazies you don't pay much attention you know what i mean well you pay enough to see which way she went yeah yeah come to think of it some sailors were hitting on them some of these girls you know out in the street they put up pretty easy for a few bucks maybe they made the same stop that's all i know oh one of these sailor boys was talking a lot about zanzibar i guess it was kind of impressive with that worldly guys it was like they've really been a santa [Music] oh [Music] that's right [Music] come on vince man i can tell she's not right just by looking at her she looks all right to me then i can't so i'm fine darling you only 20 bucks easy way let's just go man i love sweetness what sure i get nothing better to do walk around with drunks try to find anything something got will be fine here pal everybody scores tonight knock yourself out i can take a cat i'm out of sweetness that's what this is for i i have a place to live and what it's filthy in here hey what are you doing i kept too careful right i'm gonna go i have to go [Music] let's go you better call this short patrol there's a guy in the head with a fractured skull and a heart on the whole time i kept saying love shut up will be here i did where are we going straight to the police taxi why because you're going to tell her they have nothing to do with shooting your pal casio then you're going to tell us who whacked her you got to wipe some kids does that mean anything to you it's okay it's okay it's okay it's all right you're all right [Music] you're safe it's okay you're safe it's all right [Music] it's okay [Music] hey you need a ride honey get it with me pal would you stick built i'm sorry yeah you and brenda lee keep your hands down he's a nice guy i like him i like him he smells good handsome got a nice coat sure loves to read stuff from books looking at that book [Applause] get over here i'm gonna shove it down your throat you take medication after eating you'll take it now no that's supposed to empty stomach what do you know what you're supposed to do you're [ __ ] crazy i'm gonna go out and get you food you're nuts maybe i could get a job delivering pizzas you're not asking for a second chance armand this would be an eighth or ninth chance i i know you're hurting but i've got feelings too you never think about my feelings you know what because you're selfish you're a selfish person armand and it's not just me that says this everybody knows this if a lot of people think this oh okay okay okay okay um luanne and dennis think this and they said this even before we were going on they said you're a selfish person could you hold on hold on look um what do you want do you want to make some money depends i'm looking for clothes to fit somebody about your size you got anything you might want to sell maybe 200 bucks [Music] hmm [Music] [Music] [Music] i can handle this case on my own cap and better how long you been here curtis three years you've been in homicide for a while ten months john cooper's been here for 20 years maybe i've only been in this division for 10 months maybe uh maybe that means i'm not all hung up on bob cignorelli like everybody else is around here cooper in particular you should have heard him the other day he was going on about the guy it was a bad scene what happened with cignarelli but that doesn't mean that he's behind the casio thing and it doesn't mean he isn't either we just got a call positive on the lake woman crystal pharmacy signorelli was with her curtis yeah we were about finished here don't you think give me internal affairs gary ritter it's mcginnis over at rnh gary you guys been giving my department the eyeball for the last couple of weeks i want you to tell me what's up so what day is it thursday the 21st of march memory problems mary meredith oh yes a meredith of course i forgot do you remember who i am at all robert policemen or something used to be does the name richard cassio mean anything to you well i'll take that as a yes by the way he's dead oh is he don't read too much into the hand tremor it's a reaction to the lithium nothing more the only thing that concerns me about richard cassio's death is that it might not have been slow and painful your heart not mine oh you've worn it the last three days probably picked it up somewhere i have a habit of picking up junk what time did i take my medication 10 30 11 last night where is it your prescription it's safe shaking's a problem with lithium but when you consider the option been this way your whole life meredith all right sure the gory details i started having trouble when i was 12. i was diagnosed at 16. of course that was after my grades had gone from a's to f's after i'd ran away twice and been in a major car wreck if you know you needed lithium why'd you stop taking it i've been taking it for the last three months i've been i got back on my medication and i stayed on it i don't know why this is happening to me were you on your medication you met cassio i was short of money prescription ran out and i thought i was doing okay without it i only remember pieces i met him i guess somewhere club new way i could make some money it's amazing what you can get talked into and when you got back on your medication and figured out what happened if you're asking did i want to kill richard the answer is yes but i didn't know what's the special oh yeah how do you know i just know okay sounds good uh give me two look i don't know how a gun came from yeah but the one thing that i do know is that i would never do something like that on medication or off ever well i like that once upon a time you might have said the same thing about humping a couple guys while someone got it all on videotape it's just take it easy meredith i'm just giving you a preview of what the da's gonna tell the jury please forget it i don't need your help and i for sure don't need you prying into my life honey let me see look what you've done to your shoe you've pulled the soul away uh yeah yeah we know you've got the girl when are we gonna get her you want to get the girl cooper wants to get me gee whiz anybody want to get the guy who shot her sure we do so are you bringing the girl she can clear you corroborate your story oh please that babe was so out of it she couldn't cooperate dog crap if she stepped in it my guess is it's all part of the frame oh now there's a frame look she had the gun she had the motive she stopped taking her medication she went skid swords she blows cassio away there's only one problem she never stopped taking her medication or at least what she thought was her medication listen you found a full prescription bottle in her medicine chest when i saw that bottle it was half empty whatever she was taking it wasn't lithium because she went nuts anyway we checked those capsules they contained lithium hello curtis are you with me the capsules you found were lithium they've been switched for the bogus stuff she'd been taking i hope you're writing all this stuff all right all right all right yeah yeah uh i need to uh i need to just check this out so can you just hang on all right yeah right hey you come here hey wanna make 10 bucks can you just bob are you still there yeah yeah yeah i'm still here uh just hurry up huh sorry just stay on there for about a minute or two okay that's it just great go ahead put it right here yo good yeah 120 to linux fastest way you can get there hello so [Music] [Music] so you're so good at this how come you're not on the police force anymore i trusted someone once me too i was gonna call work they're probably worried i decide who gets called understand whoever got herb is still out there and still looking for you you put your head up it's gonna get blown off all right i understand but you have to understand something too this is like waking up from a dream for me that's what it's like you say things happened i don't know he told me a lot about being at my place and finding a gun but she didn't go into anything about us you're right i didn't you know somebody named jacob knutson yes he works for mr fry friend of yours not particularly please wait robert be careful [Music] [Music] got to lead signalreally got in a cab was headed up to 120 at lenox uh-huh somebody overheard him say that yeah relax curtis bobby got out of that cab before it went two blocks hey coop that prescription uh bottle that you found in her medicine chest that was full right yeah yeah sure what do you mean am i sure [Music] kiss kiss you think so how about my all he wanted was to offer someone a helping hand all he wanted was to get laid on a regular basis i don't know if there was a god in heaven you'd be running that business maybe he'll get a chance now i wish derek fry always lands on his feet last year he nearly lost his shorts the economy's [ __ ] he's in debt up to his cap teeth but somehow he pulls it out of the fire it's the way it is with him i hate that excuse me jacob knutson bob cinderelli ames investigation if i think it's a good idea if we have a little talk yeah and it might be a good idea if i called the police someone said too much well if you did that they'd probably pick me up and then ask me a lot of questions but then they pick you up and probably ask you a lot of questions table for two last month you picked up a prescription for meredith lake you're crazy you signed for it i saw your name in the book at the drugstore so what the second she shows up suddenly i'm an errand boy find an apartment pick up her medicine well maybe you had a key to her apartment all right all right we'll let that one go for now now when you picked up her medicine did you deliver it to her or what i don't remember well i think maybe you should remember jacob i gave it to derek he gave it to her i suppose i don't know as for the apartment i only found some places he helped her rent he had to co-sign because she didn't have credit and you did say he had a key for her place right i didn't say anything about it i think i will call the police well i think you should we don't really know what the colors of the sistine frescoes were like i mean how could we but we do know that michelangelo wasn't a colourist and yet these uh characters had all these bright splashes of colour everywhere there's the old chapel that looney tunes look don't you think excuse me just for one moment i'm mr cignarelli i've been expecting you before now actually um it's a bit awkward i've got some dinner guests so perhaps you'd be so kind as to follow me through this place is ridiculously large for one person i know i took over the apartment one floor below made one large space at times like these i love the privacy of the fords i'm sure you'll understand that well um you have to excuse me i i have to herd my lovely guests towards the door i have an 8 30 curtain to catch all here how long did you wait before you called him two three minutes i'm sorry if you feel betrayed well you can make up for it by uh telling me what your relationship is with this guy derek had business with richard i don't know much about it that's where i met him at richards i'm sorry i don't recall details the important thing is derek knew what my problem was oh you shrink too his mother was the same way he grew up watching her go in and out of asylums he knows the symptoms i owe him more than you can imagine robert he saved my life and what's he get out of it he never took advantage of me if that's what you mean i wonder if you could say the same you know something meredith i liked you a whole lot better when you were nuts uh the others have gone on ahead i really should be making a move myself i thought perhaps you'd like to share uh my car mr zignarelli you staying here it's safer i asked her well at least your hands aren't shaking as much anymore [Music] funny how that lithium changes from day to day [Music] yeah occasionally i come into contact with people like richard casio a rotten individual he imagines that he can elevate his scumbag status by the acquisition of some fine art i just wish people like that weren't so lucrative and you told this to the police yeah i disliked the fellow but not enough to kill him that is what you're thinking isn't it that i killed him it crossed my mind yeah of course last month she got her medication from you yeah i told the police that oh i'm sorry that was the main thrust of your case against me was it no no uh in fact it was three months i was giving it to her just to make sure that the prescription was filled and that it was in her possession all times and you got an apartment yeah and a gun oh you are direct aren't you yeah she did warn me about that no i didn't get her a gun although she was always asking me for one for protection against cassio possibly mr cignarelli it is hardly likely that i should in some way be able to get her to own a gun don't you think well someone got her to do hardcore yeah i take your point well if it comes down to it it'll be my word against hers won't it [Music] [Applause] [Music] you can take the car if you wish it's on my account uh no thanks my own car is just a few blocks back so you did this all for her just out of the goodness of your heart when i first saw her mr signorelli she had a choke chain around her neck cassio was leading her around on a leash bow wow he found it highly amusing i wonder what you would have done in that situation i'm risking a lot taking her in under these circumstances i'm willing to do so because i think there may be the off chance that you can sort things out however there is something that you and i both should be aware of she could actually have killed him she could easily have killed richard casio and not even remembered it you may never have met anybody like her or with her problem but i have and i have to tell you it's a distinct possibility now if you will excuse me oh just one more thing last year when your business was so bad how did you get by did you get a loan or something business was never that bad good evening [Music] mr [Music] [Music] mm-hmm [Music] [Applause] [Music] uh [Music] [Applause] [Music] god damn it okay [Music] [Music] derek oh i thought you were asleep you really ought to be i heard you come in i wanted to know what you and robert talked about you i would have thought that was plainly obvious does he really think that i'm innocent does he really believe that i am [Music] yes yes meredith that was the impression he gave me that's good isn't it that he thinks that it's good don't you think yeah it's good you know i'm really sorry this is happening to you [Music] really sorry [Music] [Music] not no no no i have no idea where she is [Music] something's happened something very bad i'm afraid i don't understand i know you don't understand but you must understand this no one must know that you're here if anybody comes to that elevator you let esperanza deal with it is that clear my name is jacob knutson he was at this bar on the upper west side earlier this evening he and signorelli they mixed it up lots of witnesses knutson left shortly after that and his friends say that he wasn't very happy and he ended up here i don't know maybe the plan was to dump the body and car wouldn't start this cold weather is going to be a problem fixing the time of death gory details dominant during asphyxiation as his pants marks on his wrists indicate that his hands right mighty look i call him as i see him listen coop i don't know what to say it looks like you were right about signaling all along i'm uh sorry it's okay how come his hands were cut free afterwards i mean it's unusual bothering to do that all right get a warrant auto body repair here give you some body repair transmission rebuilder wanted new york police department signorelli is wanted concerning the slaying of jacob knutson and the associated murderer oh finally i called you at that point two days ago emily oh wait go away emily emily you can't lock yourself in the bathroom all day emily think about it don't you think about it do you really think i'm so stupid as to kill somebody and then stuff their body in my own car uh well well if you really think that then i think you want to call the police right now and turn me in now i am taking the phone and i am putting it right here now i am walking away i am now in the kitchen the phone is there and i am far away in the kitchen now you go ahead pick it up i won't stop you go ahead and call 911 there's no dial tone i unplugged it you might have called what do you want emily you liked her right now i know you don't have any family here and herb and brooke they want to invite you over for christmas and and parties for the kids and stuff like that what's your point my point is that i just thought you might want to play a part in getting the guys behind his murder okay so what are we looking for money honey thanks could take a while well you got to try for me this guy almost went belly up last year he came up with money someplace my guess is richard cassio so like fry might have killed cassio instead of paying him back if there was money well you got it babe except for one thing what fry's not the type to get blood on his hands he set it up provided meredith like to take the fall but he hired somebody else to pull the trigger and that card's face down on the table well you keep at it okay excuse me excuse me cops stupid civil servants with guns we should clean this up every once in a while look at this i'm telling you look forward and take it easy artie everybody and his uncle's looking for you maybe i am a killer you know what this is oh [ __ ] bob come on one question pal i'm not your pal the police go into meredith's apartment they find the 22. they send it to ballistics to be typed against the slug taken out of castle now what i want to know is that this happened before or after they made a connection between richard cassio and meredith lake what just think about it cooper already had a match on the gun oh damn fine police work matching a gun in a murder before you know there's a connection between the two man that's hot now any thoughts as to why the knutson kid's hands were freed after he was dead that's two questions like maybe his hands were bound with something unusual like what like handcuffs just the thought now the last thing this kid said to me was he was gonna call the cops now you give that some thought in case something happens to me you gotta watch this car more often arty [Music] [Applause] [Music] yeah yeah i've been working on it all day but he has offshore accounts and i can't get into them but he was short on 10. yeah about to lose his house looks like but he paid off a lot of things and he got himself out of the hole last february on the gallery oh billing at his business wasn't great so the money had to come from somewhere yeah yeah these accounts probably but like i said honey you gotta come up with something this is one frosty dude okay okay there is one thing anything whatever you got ah in checking phone records i saw that derek fry made one late call the night cassio was killed now i checked the number and it just seemed kind of funny well he called the cradle of china at 11 18. now that's a restaurant on the lower east side son of a [ __ ] hey i'm trying my best here no no no no no not you emily you're a good man sister you're welcome bye who's there it's active cooper miss jones nypd can i come in for a minute i just need to ask a few questions yeah yeah you seen coop uh yeah you should be in about seven seven thirty we were out pretty much all night last night yeah i know koop checks in i want to see him yeah sure all right so he's not here but all of it robbery homicide detective lowell no no cooper's not here why never mind why listen curtis i'm gonna tell you something but you can't open your yap to cooper he can't know anything about this not for another hour right right yeah i got it what we're saying is we want to talk to cooper this is my squad you understand you don't come in here and tell me one of my guys is dirty and then tell me the butt out crap what did you do lay awake all night worrying that there was any trace anything to show money passing between casio and you you just had to double check right i told you and the police the extent of my business activities with casio oh yes fine art i remember and you had no contact with him after you uh rescued meredith lake i had no reason you know i told the police where they could find her that was very stupid i cannot tell you just how stupid that was you know the first question they're gonna ask her is if she was at your house when richard cassio was killed she wasn't i have no idea where she was that night and i very much doubt that she does either oh then it was you that called the cradle of china restaurant the night he was killed because the call was made from your house it's on the telephone company computer 11 18 pm you set up cassio and you set up the frame the gun was slipped out of her place and then back the next day cassio had money he was willing to loan off the books a loan that you never plan to pay back now when did you get the bright idea fry was it when you met meredith lake and saw what conditions she was in when you remembered dear old mother and how she couldn't tell between right and wrong is that when it occurred to you mr cignarelli there was no bride and when did your guy get nervous was it when you told him she had come to see me what guy are you talking about oh please the guy you're scared shitless of pal because he can't let you live now any more than he can let jacob knudsen live you me meredith lake we're all a threat to him now cinderelly put the gun down [Music] any unit in the vicinity of 77th and lexington avenue investigate shots fired and a unit in the vicinity 77 [Music] [Music] [Music] got a lot of explaining to do now you've got a lot of explaining to do you can start with what you were doing in the blue cage four nights ago when i walked in with meredith lake but you just happened to be there did fry tip you off full of [ __ ] yeah somebody kind of a coincidence what are you talking about it wasn't my idea to go to that place that night whose idea was it what [Music] take the gun take the goddamn gun in your hand now [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh it could be out of the goddamn car ever think of that it's [ __ ] she was followed by the same kind of car that you guys check out of the motor pool every day no we got them like about a million other people yeah how many 22 caliber guns are there in the city a couple of thousand but who decided to send that particular gun to ballistics before there was a connection between meredith lake and cassio you're out of your mind was that curtis's idea a wonder of free association turned out to be the right gun that's all that counts the right guy counts that's great that's great coming from you there's this little girl that would like to hear that from you [ __ ] except she's [ __ ] dead detective lol [Music] 5'9 [Applause] [Music] whatever she struggled with was blonde right down to the roots i want prince off that gun fast he can only do one thing at a time he's not gonna leave his own prince around shut up just shut the [ __ ] up we got a location on his car the report just came in thank you thank you very much folks thank you god bless you god bless you see if you can see it beat cops heard the call and saw the car he could be anywhere [Music] oh cool [ __ ] uh yeah i had her have you seen her i lost totally screwed up i thought she might have come down here he was saying how she was talking about suicides and subways and i thought maybe if i came down here i might where is she how about it curtis what is this you throwing in with this guy after everything that you said you're gonna take his word over my word excuse me may have your attention please police business did anyone here see this man escort a woman about five foot five blonde through this station please her life may be in danger yeah i did [Music] took her down there hey how about a little change i'm a veteran goddammit that's [ __ ] i went to the gulf with your ass curtis meredith come on [Music] get up we gotta go [Music] [Applause] get this train out of here right now i gotta shoot around the platform i told him i told him we were here before remember remember when i told you about the d-train and came to my house listen listen listen i have to get the keys okay you stay here i'll be back i'll be back i promise i'll be back it'll be okay okay i'll be back don't leave me wait please don't leave me please don't leave me robert it's okay stop stop [Music] curtis it's okay uh i'm sorry it's okay it's okay it's okay it's okay [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] remember me robert you know sounds distinguished [Music] you've got something that belongs to the department yeah right you know her little problem isn't going away things may get better for her but one way or the other she's got to live with it for the rest of her life i guess that's true for a lot of people huh [Music] take it easy thank god you're okay thank god listen i told that cookie detective that you're at fry's gallery i know you told me not to say anything but i didn't know that [Music] come on kiddo i'll buy you some donuts [Music] me you

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