"I'm Erica Bain." " And as you know, I walk the city." " I bitch and moan about it." " I walk and watch and listen a witness to all the beauty and ugliness that is disappearing from our beloved city." " Last week took me to the gray depths of the East River where Dimitri Panchenko swims his morning laps like he has every morning since the 1960s." " Today I walked by the acres of scaffolding outside what used to be the Plaza Hotel and I thought about Eloise." " Remember Kay Thompson's Eloise?" " Eloise who lived in the Plaza Hotel with her dog Weenie and her parents, who were always away and her English nanny who had eight hairpins made out of bones." " That Eloise." " The adored brat of my childhood." " A little punk kid...." "Sid Vicious, spewing beer from his teeth in the Chelsea Hotel." " Andy Warhol, his sunglasses...." "Edgar Allan Poe, freeing live monkeys from the crates of a crumbling schooner on the oily slips of South Street." " Stories of a city that is disappearing before our eyes." " Its people swept over...." "So, what will be left of those stories?" " Are we going to have to construct an imaginary city to house our memories?" " Because when you love something, every time a bit of it goes you lose a piece of yourself." " So where's Eloise going to sleep tonight?" " Can you hear her ghost wandering around the collapsing corridors of her beloved Plaza trying to find her nanny's room calling out to the construction workers in a voice that nobody hears:" ""Has anyone seen my turtle, Skipperdee?"" " This is Erica Bain, and you've been listening to Street Walk on WNKW." " And this is 90.  1, WNKW." " All right." " See you next week." " Have a good one, Erica." " Hey, I'm out of here." " Did Eloise really mean that much to you?" " Oh, come on, Carol." " Weren't you ever a little girl?" " Not the kind of little girl that remembers the name of her turtle." " Anyway, good show." " Look, Bravo called again about that TV spot." " You know what?" " I'm" "I'm not a face." " I'm just a voice." " The shows are on the website." " People can download them for free." " Yeah, exactly." " Maybe." " Bye." " Hello?" " Hey." " Hello." " What are you wearing?" " Green scrubs, tied at the waist, very sexy V-neck." " Short-sleeved little number." " How about the sexy green hat?" " Still got that?" " In my hand." " You like it more than the others, less than the others or the same?" " Oh, yeah." " I'm at the place and I wanna make sure you're still okay with the cream and the orange." " Yeah, cream and orange." " Actually, it's not cream." " It's vanilla." " But that's fine." " It's not cream." " It's vanilla." " Who cares?" " Let's go get married tonight." " Your mother cares." " Trust me, she wants invitations." " Yeah, these are good." " Thanks." " Hey, listen." " For tonight, if you meet me at Nicole's art thing you don't have to talk to anyone but me." " Maybe." " Come on." " I've got a game, haven't I?" " You're not coming?" " Look, I've gotta go." " What?" " I do love you." " Yeah." " I love you too." " Hi." " Hi." " Oh, you're James." " I'm Erica." " I'm Nicole's friend." " Hi." " These are good." " They're really cool." " I love them." " The Laundromat is in a town in Jersey where Diane Arbus used to do her laundry." " Oh, yeah?" " Oh, that gun store is down in Chinatown." " Berenice Abbott shot it in the '30s." " It's really evocative, you know?" " Kind of quiet." " I like that." " It doesn't make too much noise." " Thanks." " Bring more drinks, less shrimp." " More." " Where you going?" " You're leaving?" " No, no." " I'm staying." " I'm staying." " Oh, my God, you're such a bad liar." " I know, but I try." " You have to convince him to come to one of these things." " He can't avoid us forever." " Oh, my God." " What are you doing here?" " Don't you love this woman?" " I could take her or leave her." " You guys this, when it starts, it's disgusting." " We have to go." " You're too happy." " Say goodbye." " Bye." " I hate you." " I love you." " I really" " I hate you so much." " Oh, God." " It's so pretty out." " Tell you what." " I'll get him." " You sit here." " Okay?" " No, let me get him." " Okay." " Will you get me my jacket too?" " Fine." " Here." " Take this." " Thanks." " Hey." " Oh, I can open my own door." " Thank you." " Good boy." " Good boy." " Hi, puppy!" " Here." " Are you gonna be that crabby when you get older?" " I am older." " And I'm way meaner." " Look, she gave me an apple." " Here, baby." " So she is human." " That was too big a bite." " That was too big a bite." " I didn't say you could eat the whole thing." " You know what?" " I could get about maybe five days and we could go to the place with the water and find good food and lots of sleeping." " Yes, I concur." " Here, boy." " Good boy." " Good boy." " Don't give it to him." " Throw it." " I wasn't mucking about, you know." " What about?" " Why can't we go down to city hall tonight?" " Because it's closed." " Tomorrow, then." " David, you have a family." " I don't, you know?" " You're not marrying my family." " Well, I am, kind of." " I mean, I hope I am." " Your mom is so sweet and she just-- She wants the whole deal, you know?" " She wants the invitations and the band playing and the minister." " I don't know." " Maybe I do too, you know?" " Because it's not like I'm gonna do this twice." " You're not?" " No, I'm not." " That's the nicest thing you ever said to me." " Where's Curtis?" " Oi, Curtis!" " Come on, boy." " Come on, pup!" " Did he go up there?" " He's not in there, is he?" " Come on!" " Curtis?" " Hey!" " There he is." " Curtis." " Come on, boy." " Curtis, come on." " Hey, Curtis?" " Hey." " Curtis." " Hey." " What's up, boy?" " What's wrong, sweetheart?" " Hey." " Man, don't you know there's a fucking leash law?" " Yeah, don't you fucking know better?" " Yeah." " I'm sorry." " Thanks for finding him." " It's" " It's all good, bro." " It's all good." " But I get a reward or something?" " Our gratitude." " Now give him to me." " Come on, man." " You know gratitude ain't worth shit around here." " You're hurting him!" " Give me the dog." " No, I don't think so." " See, I kind of like this dog." " I think he's a keeper." " A keeper." " Smile, baby." " You are a cunt." " Fuck you, bitch!" " Come on, motherfucker." " That's what I thought, you stupid pussy." " Look...." "Go." " I haven't got much money." " You can have what I've got." " Give me your watch, give me your ring." " Let's go, I ain't got all day." " Hurry the fuck up, princess." " Let's go." " Hurry up!" " Give him the shit." " Get the fuck over here." " Fuck!" " David!" " I fucking missed it!" " Where you going?" " Action!" " Think you're fucking with me?" "!" " You just made my day!" " Popped your motherfucking cherry!" " Let's even shit out." " Ready for your close-up, cunt?" "!" " Heads up!" " Hollywood!" " Think you're fucking with me?" "!" " You ain't got nothing to say now, fool!" " David." " Oh, how cute." " Lovebirds." " A chickenhead and a faggot." " Say "cheese," bitch!" " This is the emergency room." " Did you get any sleep?" " No." " Where's Murrow?" " We're looking for him." " She was dead on arrival and her fingerprints are all over the gun." " Where?" " Bedroom." " Daughter called 911." " Thanks." " I wanna see her." " So he's laughing again." " Yeah." " Listen, the kid's in a waiting room with ACS." " I'll meet you over there." " We need your signature right here." " Where is she?" " Can I talk to her?" " You can try." " Hey, sweetie." " Can I have a word with you?" " We're just gonna be right here." " All right." " You like lollipops?" " Pick one." " That was the one I was gonna pick." " You know, sweetie something you should know." " Your mommy, she was really worried about you." " And if she could, she would tell you that you can trust me." " Did your stepfather hurt your mommy?" " Sean?" " Sean!" " Okay." " Okay, step back!" " I want my daughter!" " Get back!" " All right!" " All right." " You don't have the right." " I do" "At a time like this, I need to see her." " No, you don't." " I do have the right." " She is my daughter." " No, she is your stepdaughter." " And you know how this whole thing works." " You done been through this a thousand times." " You hire your lawyers and you do your thing." " But right now, we're gonna do ours." " I'm gonna take a walk." " You deal with him." " Yeah, I got it." " That was Dr. Sterling." " Okay, bye-bye." " It's a hell of a thing." " Yup." " I heard her show once." " Erica?" " Erica, can you hear me?" " Erica?" " You had the service?" " They didn't know when you were going to wake up if you were going to wake up." " You were gone for three weeks." " We had to let him go." " We had to." " I wanna see him again." " He's gone." " I wanna see him again!" " He's gone, honey." " He would have been happy that you lived." " Nurse Bench, you have a call on one-four." " Nurse Bench." " I don't know." " All the faces are starting to blur together.  l" "I just can't tell anymore, you know?" " You gotta help us here." " We need something from you, anything." " Let's start over again." " He hit your boyfriend with the pipe." " Once, twice, three times?" " We know how tough it can be..." "...to go back there" "Do you, huh?" " Look, Miss Bain, we're on your side." " Yeah." " I know that." " You're the good guys." " So how come it doesn't feel like that?" " Please leave a message for David and Erica after the beep." " Hey, it's me." " Call me at the gallery." " I'll take you out." " Go to dinner, a movie." " Let's go for a walk." " Anything, okay?" " Ma'am, can I help you?" " Detective O'Connor and Detective Pitney, please." " Pitney and O'Connor are out." " Can anyone else help you?" " Well you know, I wanted to check on my case." " I've been calling and we've been playing phone tag..." "...and I thought that if I came down" "Okay." " What kind of case did you have?" " My boyfriend was beaten to death." " Oh, I'm sorry." " Do you have a complaint report number?" " No, I don't know it." " And what was his name?" " David Kirmani." " K-l-R-M-A-N-I." "It might be under Erica Bain." " About how long ago did it happen?" " June 11 th." " Okay." " I realize how difficult this can be but if you'd please be patient and have a seat over there an officer will be down shortly to help you." " Okay." " I realize how difficult it can be but if you'd please be patient and have a seat over there an officer will be down shortly to help you." " Wanna get something to eat?" " What's up, guys?" " Hey." " You saw the game last night?" " Man." " Could I help you?" " Yeah." " I wanna buy a gun." " License?" " Oh, yeah, of course." " I need a license, yeah." " Once you get one, fill out this form, and we'll notify you in 30 days." " I need to get something now." " Sorry." " That's illegal." " Hey!" " I won't survive 30 days." " Hey." " What happened to you?" " Me?" " Nothing." " A thousand dollars." " A thousand dollars?" " Okay, but I need to learn how to use it." " No shit." " Follow me." " Wait right here." " In here." " It's a Kahr K9." " Check to see if it's loaded." " How do I do that?" " The chamber." " Pull the slide back." " It's got internal safety so you don't shoot yourself." " Loads from the handle." " All right." " You pay me now, it's yours." " I'll throw in the bullets." " Yeah, I'll take it." " Got it, got it, got it." " You shouldn't smoke." " It'll kill you." " I don't care." " There's plenty of ways to die." " But you have to figure out a way to live." " Now, that's hard." " Look at you, all sophisticated." " You shouldn't be working this late." " I had a client dinner." " Hey, can I get a dirty martini for the lady?" " You said this was business, Sean." " It is." " Eighty-six that." " Okay, l-- I need a favor from you." " You...." "You heard about that Murrow thing, right?" " His wife killed herself." " Oh, come on." " Women don't shoot themselves in the face." " At least in my experience." " Where do they shoot themselves, in your experience?" " The heart." " Jackie, I been chasing after this asshole for three straight years." " And right when his wife was ready to turn state's evidence on him instead of blowing the lid off of him, she blows off her own head." " Come on." " You don't let go, do you?" " So what can I do?" " Well, she has a daughter." " Had a daughter." " And her daughter knows something." " But now he's asked for custody of her and then he's gonna get it." " Is he the father?" " No, no." " He's her stepfather." " And you want her made a ward of court." " Yes." " She knows something and she's not safe with him." " Look, all I'm asking you to do is just act on her behalf." " Please." " Sean, I'm your ex-wife." " Conflict of interest." " And besides, I don't do pro bono." " You used to." " Yeah, well, I grew up." " When did you get out?" "!" " You won't let me see my kids?" " You can't be here!" " Court order!" " I'm calling 911 !" " lf I can't see them, you won't see them!" " Try seeing them now." " It's my money too." " I can hear you breathing." " No." " Squad central." " Notify upon arrival." " Damn." " We're a 10-84 at 110 and Lenox." " 10-4." " Eighty-five to patrol supervisor on the scene." " 10-4." " Looks like the circus made it to town." " Any IDs?" " Victim's a 30-year-old Vietnamese female." " Ida Combs." " Where's the other body?" " This way." " Got a 39-year-old, Sandy Combs." " White male." " Looks like he was a roadie for Aerosmith." " I don't think those guys have a dental plan." " Guy had a rap sheet longer than my dick." " So in other words, no priors." " Easy." " So we got us a Sandy Combs and an Ida Combs." " What does that tell us?" " They're married." " I'm way ahead of you, pal." " Yeah, that's one way of ending it." " You know, what's wrong with divorce?" " Everything." " Divorce sucks." " Okay, so tell me." " Well, she took three in the torso with a .38." " Then somebody smoked him with a 9 mm automatic." " Don't ask me who, though." " And we found these casings." " Three casings." " Looks like there's a partial print on one, but it's smudged." " Anybody check surveillance?" " That monitor's working, but the machine's empty." " Machine's working." " But where's the tape?" " Don't know." " And why didn't he take the money?" " They chickened out, got scared?" " We got three casings, only one hit." " How about that?" " Maybe he's farsighted, crappy shooter." " Who knows?" " Or he never fired a gun before." " It is astonishing numbing, to find that inside you there is a stranger." " One that has your arms your legs your eyes." " A sleepless, restless stranger who keeps walking keeps eating keeps living." " New York, like any metropolis" "New York, like any metropolis, is an organism that changes, mutates." " Building sprout-like chromosomes on the DNA of its streets." " New York, like any metropolis is an organism that changes, mutates." " Building sprout-like chromosomes on the DNA of its streets." " Look, I've got" " I've got two shows that are almost finished." " They're already mixed." " All they need is an intro and an outro, which I could do live." " I've got six shows in various stages." " I've got all these stories in my files." " You know, new stuff, better stuff." " And I know what I'm doing, and you know that I know what I'm doing." " Erica." " You've been through so much." " You need more time before you put yourself out there." " Don't make me beg." " I don't mean to." " But we have a public and I'm not sure you're ready for it yet." " You telling me I can't work because of what happened?" " I did not say that." " Look I just need to keep living." " You know, I don't wanna...." "I don't wanna disappear." " station WNKW, located at 90.  1 on the FM dial." " Up next is Street Walk." " Let's now join Erica Bain in our WNKW studios." " Okay, Erica." " Three, two, one, you're on." " This is Erica Bain, and I walk the city." " New York like any metropolis, is an organism...." "Okay." " Is there anything we can cut to?" " Music, prerecord, anything?" " Give me a minute, Carol." " New York like any metropolis is...." "Oh, shit." " New York the safest big city in the world." " But it is horrible to fear the place you once loved." " And to see a street corner you knew so well and be afraid of its shadow." " To see familiar steps, be unable to climb them." " I never understood how people lived with fear." " Women afraid to walk home alone people afraid of white powder in their mailbox darkness and night." " People afraid of people." " I always believed that fear belonged to other people." " Weaker people." " It never touched me." " And then it did." " And when it touches you, you know that it's been there all along waiting beneath the surfaces of everything you loved." " And your skin crawls and your heart sickens and you look at the person you once were walking down that street and you wonder, will you...?" " Will you ever be her again?" " Talk to me." " Look at this motherfucker right here." " Hey, what sounds you got up in there, dog?" " This motherfucker think I'm playing, man." " Don't nobody talk in New York no more?" " I asked you a motherfucking question!" " I said, what are you listening to, you fucking faggot?" "!" " Radiohead, man." " Radiohead?" " Leave him alone, man!" " Man, shut the fuck up!" " Little man, you ain't know your pop sucked dick?" " He's good at it too." " Now, you wanna grow up to be like that punk ass?" " That's a nice watch." " How old are you?" " Get your ass out of here." " Tell your mom I said "What's up?"" " Yo, little man, holler at me, I'll show you how to be a G." "Hey, yo, thanks for the iPod, man." " This shit is nice, man." " This is all me right here." " I'm keeping this joint." " You kidding me, right?" " This is cool." " Oh, shit." " Yo, yo, yo, I got this, I got this." " Bitch, is you crazy?" " This is too easy, man." " So you gonna give me some Radiohead too?" " You ever been fucked by a knife?" " I should have walked out of that train." " I could've just shown them the gun, and they wouldn't have hurt me." " Why don't my hands shake?" " Why doesn't somebody stop me?" " I swear they like Oreos." " Homicide, this is Vitale." " There you go, you're doing the tricks again." " Upside down." " No, come on up." " Gotta come to the top." " There you go, baby." " Okay, thank you." " We've got two confirmed shot on a subway from Brooklyn." " Church Street, lower Manhattan." " Everyone's arguing whose jurisdiction." " That makes it ours." " All right, fellas, let's go." " We got two dead bodies inside the subway car, and no eyewitnesses." " Of course not." " Did you check with BCI?" " Yeah, I got this printout." " They here yet?" " Yes, sir." " And I'll get them to you." " Morning, fellas." " Christ on a cracker." " Well, I hope this is their stop." " Got Radiohead, U2, Dixie Chicks." " No Wu-Tang?" " I don't think this is his." " Money in his pocket." " Looks like a 9 mm automatic." " Like from the other night?" " Yeah." " Check it against Brass Catchers, see if it matches." " Hey, you." " just go inside." " I came out here for a smoke." " I just wanna go back in." " You're giving me a hard time." " You let my friends in." " They both had cash, so neither one of them was robbed." " And they had priors." " A shitload of them." " The guy at Sandy's, he had priors." " I know, but that was domestic." " No, but he wasn't robbed." " Or something." " I mean, what are we missing?" " I wish I knew." " Now, look." " You got a small guy sitting." " These two punks come at him with a knife and, you know he shoots the first one without getting out of his seat." " Right." " Go on, I'm with you." " It's like maybe Mr. Average Joe just decided, "I'm not gonna take it anymore." " And I'm gonna take matters into my own hands."" " The kind of guy you wouldn't even notice." " Well, if that's true, he's getting better." " Yeah." " Every bullet hit home." " Detective!" " Hey, detective!" " Detective!" " Any leads, detective?" " Please." " Come on, step back!" " What about the bodies, detective?" " It's a new" " It's a new investigation." " We haven't talked to anybody yet, no." " It's a brand-new investigation." " Any suspects?" " No, we're not" " I'm sorry, but we're not" "Any leads?" " How many?" " Detective!" " Hey." " Excuse me, don't I know you?" " No, I don't think we've met." " Wait a minute." " I know you." " No." " You haven't.  l" "What's your name?" " My name's Erica Bain." " I do a radio show." " I don't know if you'd be interested in doing an interview." " I'd love to" "I'm sorry." " We're not talking to the media now." " I'm not that kind of media." " It would be about you." " My life's not that interesting." " Yeah, but the work you do is." " No, thank you." " So you gonna give me some Radiohead too?" " You ever been fucked by a knife?" " How the hell did this get out so quick?" " Who knows?" " Coroner hates you, people fucking technicians." " Who knows?" "" Bloodbath."" " You ever listen to NKW?" " What is that, like hip-hop?" " No." " Remember a couple of months ago this girl and her boyfriend, they got jacked in Central Park?" " No." " Which ones?" " Well, anyway, she has this radio show." " Right." " She shows up at the subway last night..." "...and guess who she wants to interview?" " Me?" " What, you?" " You should totally do it." " Remember that Bernie Goetz thing?" " Hey, is Carter in?" " Reporters calling in the night." " Reporters eat that shit up." " No, well, she's not that kind of reporter." " Yeah, well, have him call me." " What is she?" " Like a DJ or something?" " No, she's just interesting, you know." " Interesting?" " Have him call me at my desk." " It's Mercer." " What's she want with you?" " Give her my number." " What's her precise street address?" " You know what I want?" " I want everyone in the market that night everyone on the subway, outside." " Everybody, I need them all brought in." " Somebody has to have seen this guy." " I need you to get the registration off of this iPod." " See who it belongs to." " I'm on it." " You've been avoiding me." " No, I haven't." " Yeah." " You've been avoiding the full glare of my disapproval." " Yeah, well, it was" " The show sucked and everybody hated it." " I'm sorry." " Well, we don't normally do silence on WNKW." " You almost managed a full minute." " Well, I think I did an okay recovery, so...." "You got 11 more steps, do you?" " Are they all gonna be on the air?" " I thought we were better than some AM confessional but people are responding." " I was wrong." " I'm big enough to admit it, so keep it up." " Erica Bain?" " Erica Bain." " I'm Detective Mercer." " You" "You remember me from last night?" " Yeah." " Yeah, well I saw you in the hospital after...." "After what had happened to you and to your friend." " My friend?" " Yeah." " I stopped by your room, you know, because I recognized your name." " My wife, she used to listen to your show all the time and that was why I stopped you in the subway." " I just wanted you to know that." " Thank you." " You know, it was disturbing." " It really was." " I mean, you were gone." " And to see somebody that can't see you, it...." "But you're back now." " Yeah, I'm back now." " A lot of people don't make it back." " I know that." " I know you do." " You see I checked into your case." " You checked into my case?" " Yeah." " We got two of the best detectives in this city that's working on this and we will find them." " We always do." " Are policemen always so confident?" " Are you interviewing me now?" " Yeah, I guess I am." " Right." " Okay." " How long is this gonna take?" " Five minutes, tops." " We can do it over here." " Yeah." " When you first go to a crime scene..." "...what do you look for?" " Evidence." " Okay, such as?" " Murder weapon, entry wound DNA samples, prints, carbon fragments position of the corpse." " It's amazing what a dead body can tell you." " So the dead do talk?" " Oh, yeah." " Everybody talks." " Now, most everybody lies." " But the dead can't." " And then again, the lies tell you things too, because people tell them for a reason." " And those bodies at the subway, what are they telling you?" " You read the paper." " Should I believe what I read?" " You ever read about him?" " Why do I know him?" " That's Mr. Murrow." " He owns the parking out on Roosevelt Island." " But that's not all he does." " What else does he do?" " You really wanna know?" " Yeah." " Then this is off the record." " Okay." " He imports drugs, guns, people." " Whatever's in demand." " Found three guys that had crossed him with their hands Superglued to a table and expanding cement in their throats." " Had his wife ready to testify against him and then she's found with her brains blown out, gun in her hand." " Nothing adds up except his lawyers." " Now he's got custody of his stepdaughter and not for sentimental reasons." " But he knows she knows something and I hate to think what's gonna happen to her." " But maybe you know a nicer side." " And why can't you nail him?" " Because I follow the law." " Well, there's nothing you can do?" " Nothing that's legal." " I didn't say that." " I didn't hear it." " Thank you." " Nothing that's legal." " So there's nothing you can do?" " No." " No matter how bad I feel about it." " I petitioned that she be made a ward of the court but his lawyers killed that one stone dead, so...." "Ever shot anyone?" " Yeah." " Did your hands shake?" " No." " But that's one of the benefits of being on the right side." " A benefit that that asshole and the subway shooter don't have." " And you think they're the same?" " They both walked away from a murder, didn't they?" " Let me ask you a question." " Just us." " How did you pull it back together after what happened to you?" " You don't." " I'm sorry." " No, no." " Jacked-up question, man." " It's a fair question." " You...." "You become someone else." " A stranger." " You must have loved him very much." " Yeah." " Sometimes that just makes it harder, you know." " You just wish you didn't." " So, come on, some more cop stuff." " Or are we done?" " No, l" " We're good." " Thanks." " And...here." " That's my card." " You" "You wanna talk about your case, you can call me." " Any time." " I warn you I don't sleep." " Neither do I." "I walk the streets at night now." " I find places and things I never knew existed." " But am I finding them or are they finding me?" " Ever shot anyone?" " Yes." " Did your hands shake?" " No, that's one of the benefits of being on the right side." " That from a police detective covering last night's subway shooting." " And like all good cops, he believes in the law in right and wrong, and the thin, fragile line between them." " And he's probably wondering, as I speak why is somebody doing his job for him?" " Hey, baby." " Hello." " What's up, honey?" " Not much." " So, what would 50 dollars do for you?" " Shouldn't she be at home?" " She got no home." " Have you, honey?" " Where to?" " Come on in." " You're looking for a show in the back seat?" " Oh, yeah." " What's your name, honey?" " Chloe." " What's he got in mind, Chloe?" " The little whore needs a mommy." " Are you a mommy?" " You're a whore, right?" " I'm collecting whores." " You know them suicide bombers over in Iraq?" " When they die they want 72 virgins." " Me, I want whores." " I want them while I'm alive." " You know, Chloe and I are gonna take a little walk." " You ain't going nowhere." " Never get in the car." " How long have you been in it?" " Four five, six days." " Since...." "Since Vegas." " But you wanna go now, don't you?" " Yes." " Are you giving me grief again?" " Oh, my, got us a supercunt here." " Open the doors." " And if I don't?" " Then I'll be the last supercunt you'll ever see." " Get out of the car, Chloe." " Go on." " Not until he pays me." " All right, pay the girl." " Come on!" " Easy." " All of it." " All of it!" " Come on, walk." " Don't turn around." " Just keep going." " You got a family back there, Chloe, in Vegas?" " No." " I went there from Albuquerque." " Well, you got enough money to get you home now." " Ain't you a sad whore?" " Get out of the way!" " Hey." " Hey!" " You're okay." " You're okay, come on." " Let me turn you over." " All right." " I'm so sorry." " Here." " Is this still America?" " Yeah." " Your leg is broken." " Who the hell are you?" " I'm nobody." " There is no going back to that other." " She is gone." " This thing, this stranger it's all you are now." " You walking out the heat?" " Yeah." " Are you all right?" " Your hands are cold as ice." " Your lipstick is smudged." " Erica." " Erica!" " You never said my name before." " I heard your show." " Right and wrong?" " Ballistic tests have linked last night's shooting with the shooting from the market and the shooting from the subway, so...." "Are you saying--?" " Are you saying the same gun was used in all three shootings?" " Well, that seems to be the case." " Detective." " Sources are saying the witness can provide a description..." "...but has refused to talk." " I'm sorry, can you repeat that?" " Has the witness refused to provide a description?" " No, the witness is awake and she is coherent, and we will be interviewing her shortly." " Now, thank you, that's everything." " Chief." " Please, everybody, please." " That's all the information we're prepared to release." " Thank you very much." " Hey." " You handled yourself really well back there." " I tried." " So, what, is this guy becoming an obsession with you?" " No, my interest is in you." " Why me?" " Well, because you seem like a good man, you know?" " Like a good cop." " Yeah, well, ain't nobody doing my job for me." " You heard my show." " Yeah." " You gotta think every one of those reporters in that room is gonna sensationalize this." " But not you." " You're better than that." " How can you tell?" " Your show." " My show?" " Yeah." " You see, my wife..." "...she didn't listen to it." " No?" " I did." " Well, you don't fit our audience profile." " Yeah, and you don't fit your voice either." " I don't?" " No, you're a whole lot cuter and about 100 pounds lighter." " How's the girl doing?" " She's pretty banged up." " Yeah, but we'll know more tomorrow." " Well...." "I hope she's all right." " Yeah." " Hi." " Hey." " You see those pictures of the subway thing?" " Gross." " They shot another one last night." " Some pervert." " Who will they go for next, Donald Trump?" " No, that's incitement." " And justified." " Wish he'd take care of my ex." " You think that's funny?" " I suppose you think lethal injection's funny too." " Funny like strange, or funny "ha, ha"?" " You're sick, you know that?" " You're all sick." " I'm thinking about opening up your show." " I want you to take phone-ins." " On what?" " You heard them." " You mean the shootings?" " The vigilante thing?" " You really think that that's appropriate?" " Why not?" " Well, I thought you said you didn't like that kind of thing." " I don't." " But you're good at it." " How am I good at it?" " You're a survivor." " I'm not asking you to personalize it." " Oh, you're not?" " No more than you already have." ""  The essential American soul is hard isolate, stoic, and a killer." " It has never yet melted."" " I quote that from D.H. Lawrence because someone is playing God out there killing in the name of justice, in this the safest big city in the world." " And because I've been asked today to do something that we've never done before:" "Take calls from our listeners on the subject." " This is a new departure for us but we wanna hear from you so call 212-165-9990." " First caller." " Hi, you're on the air." " As far as I'm concerned, he's doing us a favor." " And why is that?" " Because no matter what the media tells us crimes are being committed, and he's cleaning it up." " And you think he has the right to do that." " Well, yeah." " Next caller." " You're on the air." " You're talking about murder." " The death penalty without a trial." " The vigilante is just like the people he's killing." " He should be in jail." " Well, maybe he will." " Next caller." " You're on the air." " It's less about what he's doing than how it makes us feel." " There's not a person I know doesn't get a jolt of pleasure when they hear" "Pleasure?" " Yeah, revenge makes us feel good." " That's why we have war, why we got the death" "Next caller, you're on the air." " I think it's good for New York." " I mean, this city was turning into Disneyland." " We're getting our street cred back." " Next caller." " You're on the air." " What is wrong with our society, that this kind of thing can even get on radio?" " Revenge, murder, vigilante killings?" " Hasn't the whole Iraqi debacle taught us anything?" ""  Waste the bad guys, bring them on. "" " I've been a fan of yours." " I can't even believe you're" "Neither can I. You're on the air." " I wonder if the vigilante has a girlfriend because there's something sexy about" "Sexy?" " Yeah, completely." " And if he's listening, my number is 2" "You're on the line." " This is the vigilante calling." " I'm the man that takes care of business." " That chick can have" "I need to talk to someone." " Ma'am, can I help you?" " Yeah." " I need to talk to someone about a homicide." " Names?" " Erica Bain." " She was the victim?" " No." " She wasn't the victim." " She was the...." "She's...." "No "Erica Bain" under homicide." " Well, maybe there should be." " You know?" " Pardon me?" " Nothing." " You gonna give me some Radiohead too?" " Fucking woman!" " Are you a mommy?" " You're a whore, right?" " Erica?" " Is that you?" " Because I could not stop for Death..." "Erica?" "... he kindly stopped for me." " Erica?" " The carriage held but just ourselves." " And Immortality." " Erica?" " Mercer." " Hey, it's me, Erica." " I know." " Is everything okay?" " Yeah, I...." "I just wanted to talk and l-- For some reason, I thought of you." " Okay." " What's going on?" " What do you do when you can't sleep?" " Nothing." " Isn't that hard?" " To do nothing?" " Well, you sort of get used to it." " Erica?" " Well, come on, what's happening?" " Talk to me." " Did you sleep better when your wife was beside you?" " I know I did." " I couldn't feel my body unless his arms were wrapped around me." " Yeah, well, my wife, she used to flip through the night." " So I called her a mackerel." " I guess that's not the worst thing in the world to wake up to." " Hey, you want me to stay on the phone with you until you go to sleep?" " No." " You've been good to me." " Sleep tight." " Yeah." " How late?" " Look, I'm not busting your balls." " You told me it'd be there and it better be." " Why do you think you can hurt people?" " What?" " Just do damage and walk away." " Don't you know what you leave behind?" " Do I know you?" " Do you think about it?" " Does it keep you up at night?" " Does it haunt you?" " Excuse me?" " Because it haunts me." " Are you one of them press paparazzo freaks?" " You got a fucking camera there?" " You can't take my fucking picture." " You're gonna come to my fucking place and take my fucking picture?" " You fuck!" " You a fucking cop?" " You wish." " Well, it looks like he fell from up there." " Cause of death could be the fall." " It could be the crowbar stuck in his skull." " I'd say 50-50 either way." " Shit." " Maybe 70-30." " I mean, come on, man." " How many people wanted this prick dead?" " Besides us?" " Too many." " The problem is he knew all of them." " He wouldn't let anybody get this close to him." " You think someone did us a favor?" " Maybe we should put him on the payroll." " What, like someone think they're doing our job for us?" " Saying, "Hey, New York's finest, I'm gonna send you a little message." " This is how it's done."" " Get a shot right there." " Officer!" " Here we go." " All right, I'll be back." " Erica, are you okay?" " Oh, my God." " Get out." " My God!" " Get away!" " No, I won't get away." " Don't touch me." " I'm sick!" " I can see that." " We have to get you to a hospital." " No." " No." " Why not?" " I can't because...." "Oh, God." " I can't." " What kind of trouble are you in?" " You don't wanna know." " Were you a nurse?" " When I had to be." " This is going to leave a scar." " I killed a man tonight." " Because he did this to you?" " No." " I would've killed him anyway." " Back home they gave young boys guns." " Made them kill their parents." " Just to show us anyone can cross that line." " Anyone can be a killer." " Each death leaves a hole waiting to be filled." " Did the ME come back with his liver temperature yet?" " Yeah, he's about" " Dead about two hours from when we got there." " So that puts us at what time?" " About 1:00, give or take." " Damn." " Okay, I want everyone from the subway and from that market killing..." "..." "I want them all brought in again." " We've done all of that." " We need to do it again." " We need to think outside the box." " But he hit him with a crowbar, hefted him over the rail." " We're talking about a different guy here, man." " Think about it." " Maybe." " What about the iPod?" " You said it traced back to a kid." " I thought I told you." " The kid's father is an attorney." " He wants a subpoena, but I'm on it." " Get him." " Whatever you gotta do" "All right." " I'll call right now." " Hey, Erica." " No, I just wanna know how you slept." " Hey, you wanna see what I do?" " Well, meet me over at Wynnward Hospital in Washington Heights." " You'll get an idea." " East 14 and Broadway, East 14 and Broadway." " None confirmed at the time." " Why doesn't he march here?" " March down the street." " Ethan Grant, my man." " Now sit your hippie ass down." " You smoking pot?" " I need to talk to you." " My dad said not to get involved." " Oh, yeah?" " Does your dad know you smoke grass, huh?" " That's a lot more than a misdemeanor these days." " Listen, I didn't see anything." " I think you did." " Look at me." " Hey, you selling this shit?" " No." " Well, I believe you." " Maybe a judge won't." " Come on, Skippy." " Get your shit." " Let's go." " Come on." " Hey." " Thanks for coming." " Hey." " Sure." " Nice jacket." " Thanks." " So, what time you got to sleep last night?" " I don't know, pretty soon after we hung up, I guess." " About 1, 1:30?" " Yeah." " Something like that." " Yeah." " I ended up working all night." " You know you're not gonna be able to reference this on your show?" " Sure, if I knew what this was." " We're gonna interview a witness to a shooting." " Isn't that against procedure?" " Yeah." " But I've tried to talk to her twice and she seemed real nervous to talk to me." " I figure maybe if you were there, she'll talk." " Why me?" " Because you got me to talk." " Hi, Chloe." " How are we feeling today?" " All right." " I brought a friend." " Hi, Chloe." " Hi." " So you feel like telling me what happened to you that night now?" " That's a pretty necklace." " You should tell them what you saw." " Whatever it was, tell them the truth." " It's okay." " I saw...." "I saw nobody." " Come on, Chloe." " Tell me the truth now, all right?" " And nobody saw me." " Okay." " Sorry if that upset you." " Well, I'm sorry that I couldn't be more help back there." " Well, you definitely seemed to help her." " She sure liked your necklace." " It meant a lot to me." " Erica?" " Yeah." " Why'd you call me last night?" " I told you, I couldn't sleep." " And you were in bed?" " No." " I couldn't sleep." " You wanna tell us again why you didn't wanna come in?" " For what?" " To get back my iPod?" " Hey, watch your ass." " I don't know." " I had mixed feelings." " I mean, I was kind of glad those guys got killed." " You were glad?" " Yeah." " I know I shouldn't be, but I was." " While we're young, give us a statement." " Look, I didn't see any vigilante." " Those guys smacked me around and took my iPod." " Then they hassled some black dude sitting next to his kid so we all got off, except for some woman at the back." " A woman." " Yeah, just a woman." " She was staying out of it." " Maybe the vigi guy got on at the next stop." " Can you describe this woman well enough for an artist to make a sketch?" " I can try." " Where are you going with this woman thing?" " I'm not sure yet." " Women kill their kids, their husbands, boyfriends, shit they love." " They don't do this." " How you doing?" " They don't?" " Good." " You need some more water?" " Nope." " Okay." " Just think about the first moment that you met her." " All right?" " Where you were, where she was." " Tell me anything that comes to mind." " She had light hair, I think." " And okay lips." " And she was skinny." " But she had some ass." " You know, you could tell because" "But you're not doing the ass, right?" " No." " Okay." " She had good skin." " It was smooth." " And nice breasts." " Yeah." " Like, they were little, like Kate Moss titties." " But they looked good with" "Try to focus on the face." " Oh, I'm sorry." " Hey, you know what I do remember?" " What?" " She was, like, on lockdown." " I mean, shut off." " Kind of scary." "" lt's not cream." " It's vanilla."" " You left a hole in me." " But I'm done now." " You hear me?" " I'm done now." " Great." " It's Jennifer Aniston." " I knew he was bullshitting us." " No, not really." " This is a phenomenon that happens quite often." " The mind gets so saturated with popular images it's often difficult, especially for people under 20, to recall something unique." " That's Mr. Murrow." " He owns the parking out on Roosevelt Island." " That's not all he does." " What else does he do?" " You really wanna know?" " Yeah." " Then this is off the record." " Erica!" " Who is it?" " It's Detective Mercer." " Could I have a minute with you?" " Yeah." " Yeah, just a second." " Hey." " Hey." " I tried to call, but there was no answer." " The ringer must be off." " Can I come in?" " Yeah, sure." " Come on in." " It's pretty dark in here." " I like it like that." " Got something...." "Is this yours?" " Where'd you find it?" " Spanish Harlem." " A uniform pinched the suspect's girlfriend trying to pawn it." " He fit the description that you gave." " Oh, my God." " I need a favor from you." " I'd like for you to come downtown and ID him in a lineup." " No." " I can't." " I understand you're nervous, but you won't be alone in there." " I promise." " I'll get my stuff." " Thanks." " Okay, let's go." " You're going to view five subjects, and then I'm gonna ask you three questions:" "Do you recognize anyone?" " Where do you know them from?" " And what did they do?" " Lights and blinds." " Number one, approach the mirror." " No." " Sit down." " Number two, approach the mirror." " No." " Sit down." " Number three, approach the mirror." " No." " Sit down." " Number four, approach the mirror." " I can see them all." " It's none of them." " Sit down." " You're sure?" " Yeah." " I'm sorry." " I really am." " I'm so sorry." " Damn, I thought we had him." " You think she just froze up?" " Doesn't really seem like the type, you know?" " I don't know." " You okay?" " Yeah." " That looked like it was pretty tough on you." " It was." " I was kind of hoping I was finally done." " Yeah, well, I'm off now." " Let's go get some food." " No, I'm not hungry." " That's okay." " No, you need to eat." " I can barely remember his hands." " Perhaps you need to forget." " I can't." " I miss who I was with him." " You know that feeling?" " You know this is Mughal." " It was a gift from David's grandmother." " Speaking of gifts...." "You know, someone gave me a gift the other night." " Yeah?" " You recall that guy we saw on TV at the coffee shop?" " The one I've been trying to put away for three years." " Apparently somebody else must've had something against him because we're not talking about a 9 mm here." " It got real personal." " Yeah, I read about it." " We got some more information on that subway shooting." " Turns out there was a woman on the car." " Now, all this time, we've been looking for a man with a gun." " It was a woman with a grudge." " Well, I guess there's a lot of us out there." " You know, Erica, when I was a rookie I used to give myself this test." " I would ask myself, if there was someone that I knew that had committed a crime would I have the fortitude to put them away?" " What kind of someone?" " Someone close to me." " Like the best friend I could ever...." "I could ever hope to have." " And...?" " I always hoped that I would have the courage and the dedication to say yes." " And do you?" " I do." " And it's important that you know that." " I know that." " It's what I admire about you." " One more piece of evidence, and she goes down." " And I'm sure you'll find it." " You're a good detective." " You miss nothing." " I have to go." " I got it." " Okay." " Hang on." " Hey." " I wonder what David would think of" "Think of what?" " This woman with a grudge." " I don't know." " The dead don't talk." " At least not to me." " All right, thanks." " Hey, can I get Joey Mortell?" " Crackheads." " I got you stuck in traffic, 88th and 3rd Avenue." " Pull over at the corner, Roma's Pizza." " Get yourself a slice." " No, I'm not gonna be here that long." " You are gonna be there that long because I got traffic backed up on 3rd all the way to 96th Street." " Make yourself comfortable." " Well, I need you to do me a favor, okay?" " Can you run a trace on a call?" " And I don't have a subpoena." " But you'll get one, right?" " Yeah, if I have to." " All right." " Give me the date and the time." " Two days ago, July 20th between 12 and 1:30 a.m." "All right." " Okay, I need the number." " Hold on." " It's 917..." "Yeah." "...  157- 1431." " All right, give me the name." " Look, it's private, like I said." " Okay, it's that kind of private." " I see." " All right." " Okay, yeah, I got you covered." " Okay, just call me, all right?" " You got it." " You seen this ring before?" " It looks familiar." " I got a name." " Shauna Nelson." " An address, a cell phone." " What'd she look like?" " She had two eyes, a mouth and a nose, right in the middle of her face." " Please get the fuck out of here." " Yeah." " Shut up." " Shut up." " That is" "It's true." " Hello?" " Hello?" " Do you know this number?" " No." " Are you sure?" " 917." " Hey, you guys, are 917" " Fuck you guys." " I'll see you later, okay?" " Bye." " Later." " Hey!" " Are you Shauna?" " Did you just call me?" " Yeah, l" " I got your number from the pawn shop." " You had my ring." " Yeah." " Motherfucker fucks some slut gives me the ring as a fucking make-up gift." " Turns out he stole the shit." " I wanna know where he is." " Can you tell me where he is?" " l" "No." " No." " I need an address." " Phone number, anything." " No." " Tell me where he is!" " No!" " I saw what they did to you." " That shit can't happen to me." " The call lasted three minutes and 46 seconds." " From 12:26 to 12:30 from 917-157-1431 to your cell phone." " Vicinity of Roosevelt Island." " Did she tell you she was someplace else?" " Yes, she did." " I'm sorry, man." " But fuck her, right?" " Fuck her." " Yup." " Fuck her." " Hey, do me a favor." " Keep this to yourself until..." "..." "I can get that subpoena." " Didn't even go on the hard drive." " Action!" " Think you're fucking with me?" "!" " Popped your motherfucking cherry!" " Over there." " Let's even shit out." " Heads up!" " Hollywood!" " How cute." " Lovebirds." " Action!" " Think you're fucking with me?" "!" " You guys wanna make money or not?" " Hell, yeah." " You know what to do." " Stand on that corner and keep an eye out." " Show me you can do this." " Show me you're ready." " Stand next to the four guys, keep your mouth shut and your eyes open." " Cops come, what do you do?" " Run!" " Run, right?" " Good." " Listen, motherfuckers, stand on that sidewalk, keep an eye open." " How hard can that shit be?" " Right?" " Yeah." " Good." " So get going." " Get on that fucking sidewalk." " Come on." " You want something?" " I want my dog back." " The fuck?" " Hi." " Hi, boy." " It's me." " Hey." " Hey, buddy." " Hey." " Do you remember me?" " Huh, boy?" " Come on, man." " Go, go!" " No, you got me fucking waiting, and I need an address!" " For Reed Bryant." " He came in yesterday." " Get away, bitch!" " Who's the bitch now?" " 90 Clayton Avenue." " Thank you." " Get the fuck out of the road!" " Hey, puppy." " Don't you know there's a leash law?" " For a bitch like you!" " It's just you and me and the fucking dog again, bitch!" " I made your boyfriend smile." " I'm gonna make you smile too, bitch!" " You think you can come after me, huh?" " Get on the ground!" " Get on the fucking ground!" " Police!" " On the ground!" " Lay flat on the ground!" " Drop the gun, Erica!" " Stay out of this!" " No." " This is between him and me!" " You do not have the right." " Yes, I do!" " No." " I have the right to hunt him down and to shoot him." " Then shoot him, then!" " I don't do that shit, I investigate it." " Now give me the gun." " And what are you gonna do, Mercer?" " Come on." " You gonna arrest him?" " Give me the gun." " Arrest me, officer!" " Shut up!" " Give me the gun!" " Come on, cuff me!" " Shut up!" " Give me the gun, I said." " Come on." " Good girl." " That's it." " Good girl." " No." " Now, if you're gonna use a gun, you make sure it's legal." " What the fuck are you doing, man?" " Ain't nobody talking to you." " Come on" "I saw that shit you did!" " You're a fucking cop!" " Not tonight." " Come on!" " Put me in cuffs!" " Get me out of here!" " Shut the fuck up!" " You can take me now." " Problem is, if you go down, I go down." " No." " I can't let you do that for me." " So you've got one person left to shoot." " What?" " You see, there was never any vigilante." " It was just three punks out on a killing spree." " They got a taste for it up in Central Park." " And they bought themselves a gun." " And they turned on each other, the way they do." " And somehow I got winged and I did what I had to do." " Right here." " I can't." " You only shoot bad guys?" " I've joined that club." " Now you nick me, graze me, but you wound me." " From about 3 feet." " My hands are shaking." " You just make sure you miss my heart." " Damn!" " Motherfuck, that shit hurts!" " I'm sorry." " I'm sorry." " So am I." "Now you get out of here before I lose my temper." " Baby, look at you." " She left you too, huh?" " That's okay." " I got you now." " You're gonna be fine." " Come here." " Come here." " Wait, wait, wait!" " 10-13, 10-13." " Officer hit." " Three perps down at 90 Clayton." " Send a bus." " There is no going back to that other person that other place." " This thing, this stranger she is all you are now." 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