The Bridge

You're always late with the deliveries, Deke.

I'm looking for you the other day.

Where are you?

Around the corner picking up a hooker.

You got a problem with me? Try doing this on your own.

That's exactly what we're gonna do.

You know what?

You don't get to just back out of the deal.

Watch us, Deke. You said you were tied in.

Turns out you're just working independent.

Guess what. We can do that, too.

So when I say it's over, it's over.

And you really should listen to him.

And you should stop ing your own product,

'cause if you think for one second

I'm gonna let you go straight to my connection,

then the 'roids are really getting to your head.

It's already done. Deal's made.

Free market, Deke.

"Free" means we don't need you.

You guys should think twice about how protected you are.

Mm? You know why?

I make one phone call, and you're over.

What did you say?

What did you say?

Oh, leave it. He's just blowing smoke.

Hey, Deke, come back here!

What did you say?! Kaye!

Come back here and say that, little man!

Kaye! Kaye!

Deke! Hey!

Hey, where are you going?! Get back here!

You don't cut me out!

You wait and see! This ain't done!

Did you hear that? Yeah. Let it go, man. Just take it easy.

"This ain't done" is right.

¶ Second warning ¶

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¶ I'm a man of my word ¶

Whoo! Did you see that?!

I nailed that guy! What are you thinking, man?!

He got in my face. Nobody gets in my face.

Cops. Great.

Just don't say anything, all right?

Keep your mouth shut.

Put your gun down... now!

Hands in the air!

Hands in the air!

Turn around! Back up! Get down!

Get down!

We're police.

Billy pulls in, she didn't know these two guys were cops.

Looked like weight lifters to me.

Yeah. So she takes them down.

You're up early.

I've been up all night.

Me and Lee are around the corner,

looking for a hooker who's been robbing her johns with a knife.

Call comes in... shots fired outside the gym here.

Lee's like all the way in the corner store getting coffee,

so I took the call.

Who was doing the shooting?

I don't know.

It was done by the time I got here.

Anybody get hit?

Well, we got some blood traces back there.

Oh, that complicates things.

Yeah.

I said I'd ask the union president

to personally come down and talk to them,

get them ready for I.A. shooting team.

You know we would have come down anyways.

Yeah, but this way,

I get a discount on a membership for the gym.

It's all about who you know, right?

I got to take off.

Okay. Thank you, Billy.

You guys buying their story?

I don't know.

You know, it could have gone down the way they said.

Any witnesses?

Well, we got our canvass going, but nothing so far.

What about the guy that got hit? Anything there?

I put a call in to the hospitals.

No gunshot wounds have come in yet,

but could be he's dead already or holed up somewhere.

You mind if I talk to these two guys?

I want to get them ready for the shooting team.

Mm. I love it when you ask me first.

Yeah, sure. No problem. I'll send them over.

Look at these guys.

They're built like a couple of tanks.

You know, you could look like that

if you put on about 150 pounds.

I eat like eight meals a day... ice cream, beer, potato chips.

Falls into that wooden leg of yours.

Actually, it's some kind of space-age plastic.

But it's hollow, so it serves the same purpose.

Hey, fellas. Rough morning?

Yeah. You could say that.

Frank Leo. Tommy Dunn.

I'm head of the police union.

Yeah, sure, Frank. Everybody knows you.

I'm James Kovinsky, Park East.

Spencer Kaye.

So, you guys normally work out this late

or early or whatever?

Oh, yeah, I usually try to get a workout in

before I open up the gym.

My partner Kaye here was just helping me out.

So you guys moonlight here?

No. I own it.

Oh, yeah?

Well, we're gonna need to see the paperwork on that.

Sure. No problem.

So, shooting team try and talk to you guys yet?

They wanted our guns, and we just handed them over.

It's okay, right?

Yeah, yeah. Don't worry about that.

Look, just tell me what happened.

We're inside the gym and see this black guy come out.

He was trying to steal a car.

We come out to stop him, and guy just opened up on us.

We're the victims here.

Drug dealer starts shooting, what are you gonna do?

Drug dealer? I thought it was a car thief.

Yeah, well, we figured the guy was on drugs.

You know, he went nuts.

Yeah. So, you guys all right?

You want to talk to somebody?

No, we're good.

Well, we recommend that you talk to somebody anyway, okay?

Okay. Yeah, I mean, whatever you guys think, right?

Okay. Yeah.

Well, we'll get you set up with a psychologist.

In the meantime, guys, go home, relax, put your feet up,

have a drink or a power shake... whatever you do.

You don't have to give a statement for 24 hours.

What about a lawyer... stuff and all that? Yeah, we'll get you a lawyer.

We'll get your statement ready for the shooting team.

We have to make another statement?

Yeah, but this one's for us,

just in case we need to defend you guys on this.

This is righteous shooting here, Frank.

We just got to make sure

so nothing can get twisted and come back on you guys.

You sound like you don't believe us.

Look, guys, after this happened, you sat down,

you talked about it, right?

You came up with a story that fit what you remembered.

Problem is, that's gonna sound too rehearsed.

Whenever there's a shooting,

there's things that you're not supposed to remember,

but you guys do because you sat down,

talked about it, and filled in the blanks.

You get me? Okay.

Okay. Yeah, sure. I mean, yeah, that makes sense.

You know, we did.

We talked about it, went over it,

you know, said it in our minds, so...

I thought we were supposed to have our stories straight.

Yeah, that's why we got to tear it apart.

Okay. Thanks, fellas.

Thanks.

Yeah, something's not right there.

You see the way Kaye

kept looking over at Kovinsky like that?

Yeah, like he's taking his cue.

Hey, fellas, one more thing...

You're not banging 'roids, are you?

What? No.

No. I'm all natural. I don't need that stuff.

Thanks, fellas.

Rabbi.

Is Tim still working drug squad?

You mind?

Thanks.

Not banging 'roids, my ass.

Well, Siobhan's due in a couple of months.

Tim, how many is that now?

Well, we got three girls already,

and this one coming is a girl.

Tim four girls.

Yeah, plus my wife and my partner Darby here...

I'm surrounded by women.

Oh. Have a seat.

You and Tim go back, huh?

Yeah. We did what...

Six, seven buys together when I was on the street?

Uniform's a little more uptown now, I guess, huh?

Yeah. Less chafing in the summer.

I get that, too.

So, I was just wondering...

Have you guys ever come across a couple of cops...

Kovinsky, Kaye?

They run a gym on 28th.

Well, we know the gym. Kovinsky owns it.

I don't know this guy Kaye. You know him?

Don't think so.