Report to the Commissioner

-Squad. -Yeah, we got a body in here.

Who answered the call?

-l did. -Well, what do you know?

There were shots fired. Two men were running.

Crunch.

They were seen on the roof.

-Well, what happened to the... -Crunch.

She's on the job. She's an undercover.

-You're kidding. -No. l used to work with her.

Holy Christ.

Well, l'd better get down to Saks and tell the boss.

l wonder if that's got anything to do with this?

Look, you get everything organized.

The lAD's going to go ape.

They're gonna be all over this.

What do you need, shotguns or Thompsons?

Everything. Just bring me everything.

We know your name.

You're Detective Bo Lockley,

but we have to have you say so for the record.

Look, Lockley, everybody here is very sympathetic with your situation.

We know what your father's going through. He's waiting for you downstairs.

-You... -What?

l didn't hear ya. What did you say?

-Son of a... -Wait a minute.

Keep him back. He's crazy. Keep him back!

Take it easy. Calm down.

Calm down.

All right, coming through now. Coming through here.

Coming through. Back up, people.

Coming through. Back out. Coming through.

l'll tell you what we have here.

We have the biggest scandal this department ever had.

You have a beautiful girl dead.

l gave her the shield myself, right here in this office.

Shot by a detective.

You got traffic stopped at Saks for blocks.

You've had the girl's beautiful face in every goddamn newspaper,

on every TV program.

She looks like every fathead's beautiful daughter.

And you're sitting around telling me you're not sure what happened.

l tell you it had nothing to do with the department.

lt happened on the outside.

Something they did on the outside that we had no knowledge of.

We got his statement.

Yeah, but now he won't swear to your statement!

Well, sure, the lawyers got to him.

l'm going to get a report. Don't worry about that.

ln addition, l want you to know there's going to be

a full investigation in this by my office

on the whole matter.

Now, get out of here, all of you.

Get the hell out of here.

You stay, Strichter.

God.

And they're supposed to be policemen.

Well, that's what's left.

Guys like D'Angelo working angles.

The shoe flies out combing the woods for someone to hang.

Wires on everyone. Tails on everyone.

lt's dirt. Just dirt.

Well, it used to be everybody standing together against the Commies,

now, it's turn your brother officer in for fun and advancement.

This has the seeds of everything that's wrong in the department.

And it can blow up in our face, Strichter.

l like teaching at the Academy, Dave.

l need you.

You're the only one l can trust.

You sure about me, Dave?

l want the truth

of what went on here.

How the girl died. Why.

l want to know why she was living with that guy.

Whether anyone assigned her.

And l want everything Lockley ever turned in.

Any activity ever went on.

And l want everything on that drug pusher, Stick, from the day he was born.

You sure you want everything?

l want a report.

l don't want a cover-up.

Taped interview.

Detective Bo Lockley. Shield number 9735.

Prison Ward, Psychiatric Division, Bellevue Hospital, New York City.

6/14/74.

What's going to happen to me?

No one tells me.

Some people think

that the grooviest thing they can do is lock up a cop.

That's what scares me so much.

'Cause if they convict me and send me away,

well, then, everything's fine for them.

They had a bad cop.

Bad apple.

He was just one out of 35,000.

Shouldn't judge the department by him.

But if they don't send me away,

it's like saying it wasn't my fault.

So, whose fault is it?

And every guy who reads The Daily News, boy, he knows.

Everything is someone's fault.

So, we were talking about

why you joined the police force.

And you were saying it was because of your father.

Him and my brother.

Why your brother?

He was killed in Vietnam.

What does that have to do with it?

My father always wanted my brother to go on the force.

So you took his place. That kind of thing?

l was the sole surviving son.

l wasn't eligible for the draft.

My brother saved me from the draft.

He didn't save the country or South Vietnam, but he saved me.

You must have thought a great deal of your father, huh?

Yeah, sure.

You're not going to hit me, are you?

He's

a very responsible man, my father.

And he says that to get along in the world

everyone has to have some kind of muscle.

-Some kind of power. -Yeah.

But that responsibility is more important than power.

And that one of the most important things

is muscle and responsibility.

And that one of the things responsibility means

is never betraying the power you have.

Or the people who trust you to use it.

You wanna tell me what happened when

you went into the 1 6th?

Well...

Yeah?

l was going to be the new cop.

What a modern cop should be. Remember?

Enlightened,

humanistic.

The trouble was the guys on the force and the people in the precinct

weren't prepared for the revolution.

Taped interview.

Detective Richard Blackstone.

BIackstone was unaware that the officer he was speaking to

was a member of the Internal Affairs Division,

or that the conversation was being recorded.

6/1 5/74.

You should have seen him the first day he come into the squad.

We heard we were getting a new undercover,

so we were looking for something a little strange.

But this Lockley, he was something else, man.

l'd like to see the Lieutenant.

What's the matter, kid?

Us plain detectives aren't good enough for you.

Hey, what's your problem?

l've been assigned to you.

Assigned?

As what?

l'm on the job.

lt happened. They sent us a hippie.

-Where's his office? -Just a second.

l'll take you in.

Lieutenant Seidensticker, l got somebody here to meet ya.

Yeah, what is it, son?

Don't call him "son".

Call him "detective".

You're Beauregard Lockley?

l'm afraid so.

That's what's happening to the job these days.

Hey, ball breaker.

Meet your new partner, Beauregard Lockley.

Beauregard.

Beau-regard.

Beauregard.

Most of the guys

call me Bo.

No, man. To me, you always gonna be Beauregard.

You from the South, Beauregard?

You from one of them Georgia plantations?

How many slaves you got, Beauregard?

Don't worry about this nigger.

His big black mouth just likes to put people on.

Hey, Jew boy, who you calling a nigger?

Why would a kid like you want to join the force?

My father was on the force.

Your father was on the force?

What's his name?

Dan Lockley.

Dan Lockley's your father?

He used to talk about you.

He was a ball buster.

Come on, Bo.

Let's you and l take a walk.

The problem was he never should have been a cop.

He never was a cop.

A few years ago he never would have made it through the Academy.

But today they're all over these kids. They eat 'em up.

He wanted everyone to like him.

But he didn't know how to go about it.

l think he'd led a pretty sheltered life.

l think the squad was a shock to him. I think the street was a shock to him.

You know the way things are.

You take a look at Times Square, the kids in that sewer.

And you know why they put Lockley in there.