Bending the Rules Page #6

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- Toss it.

Everybody wants you, Gil. Cops, 4's, FBI.

But I'm the only one that can save you.

Tell them I said hello, and goodbye.

- Easy, tiger.

- Yeah, yeah.

Sit down.

I need your contact. One name.

Give me that name and maybe

I'll let you live so you can remodel.

You're a real sweetheart, Blades.

Back inside.

Now!

You want me to go after them

or get those off you?

- Because I can't be in two places at once.

- Forget it.

- I'm really trying here, Blades.

- I appreciate the effort.

Did you ask about the car?

I forgot.

It's okay.

I'm sorry I shot you.

Nothing nine Band-Aids

and a bottle of Cuervo won't fix.

I did predict you'd shoot me.

I remember.

I decided I wanted to live

more than I want my car.

My father will understand that.

I'll take you home.

Just drop me off at my parents'.

I'll break the news.

I can already see his face.

God, I'd do anything to avoid

that slightly disappointed...

...but not altogether surprised look.

You know the look?

Please.

I got two ex-wives and a 14-year-old

daughter I see one weekend a month.

I know the look.

Theo, go get him before

one of the neighbors calls the police.

Yeah.

- Yep.

- What are you doing?

Call you in a bit.

I can't tell whether

I'm being guarded or surveilled.

Your little redheaded

co-counsel Rosalyn Wohl?

- She's the one that bailed Gil out of jail.

- Really? Why?

- Thought maybe you'd know.

- I don't know.

I just know her from working on your case.

She's a good lawyer.

- Have access to the informant database?

- Sure.

She just works on misdemeanors.

Why would she want access to that?

- Those names are worth a lot to some.

- Come on. That's ridiculous.

She can go to any private firm in this city

and make five times what she's making.

She doesn't need to sell informant data

for money, okay?

- You want me to call her? Let me call her.

- Thanks, Theodore. Maybe later.

My mother wants you to come in

for my belated birthday dinner.

She also wants to see where I shot you.

And please stop calling me Theodore.

First aid courtesy of Lena Valoise.

I'm living the dream, my friend.

She knows nothing about first aid.

She just likes to see other people's pain.

- She thinks we're looking for the Hawk.

- We're not?

Can you do the entire Valoise family a

favor and just stay off the subject? Please?

Did you know that Robert Evans was

our neighbor for a while in California?

Of course,

that was before he became huge.

- Actually, he was always huge.

- That's incredible.

Apparently not so incredible

that he cast me in anything.

Herb did everyone's teeth back then.

Sonny and Cher. Bobby Redford.

Bobby had a terrible overbite.

Tell me again. Who are you?

Blades is the corrupt police officer.

I'm the prosecutor in the case.

That is very interesting.

Your son's a great lawyer.

We would have preferred

if he had gone into dentistry...

...but you give them wings,

they fly away.

You know how it is, Marty.

I put the moves on Larry Olivier once.

That was before anyone told me

about his, you know, style.

Can I have another piece of cake?

Can you just cut it? Thank you.

- You have a home?

- Not much of one, no.

I used to think I had one.

Now I realize I burned it down

without even knowing.

Homes get rebuilt.

All I wanted was to spend

whatever time my dad has left...

...driving around with him in the Hawk.

- Pulling plugs. You know?

- And sending me to prison.

I figured this is the time

to be a good son.

After, I'd try to be a better

husband and father.

Tell me about your daughter.

She lives with her mom.

All the money I skimmed from the

detective busts went toward her school.

Child care, alimony, braces, whatever.

Life.

I feel horrible about it.

You expect me to drop the case...

...because you have the same problems

that everybody else does.

- You regret committing multiple felonies?

- I do.

- Regret it or expect me to drop the case?

- Ideally, both.

People get divorced

and pay for braces all the time...

- ...without skimming drug money.

- That's because they're not cops.

They lack opportunity.

Maybe.

I mean, my wife's family has money.

Otherwise my kids would be screwed.

You still can't tell me

what we've been doing for the past day?

For the moment, no.

And the car is safely on its way

to Argentina.

Bon voyage, old friend.

Theo, Nick, let's go.

I'm starting the movie.

Tomorrow, Again,

again and again and again.

- It's a great movie.

- Yeah. She's not your mother.

What's that about your mother?

Theo was just telling me

that Lena's not my mother.

You didn't know that?

I told you, detective, my father dropped

me off at the hotel. I was alone.

- He signed for a nightcap.

- That's really distracting.

- I can't help it.

- Try.

You're lying, Ms. McPherson.

He was there with you. He used three

capital letters to sign for the drink.

WMP. William McPherson.

Why do you hate me?

Don't you know?

I'm Willa McPherson. People love me.

Don't you know?

I'm Willa McPherson. People love me.

- You too?

- I can't help it, I love it.

That scene kills me every time.

You mind pausing it?

I gotta hit the restroom.

- WVB?

- Yeah.

The initials at the end of the list.

A signature.

Makes sense, but we figured

it came from him.

And I talked to Rosalyn Wohl...

...and she says Gil snitched for her

in a possession case last year.

So she felt like she owed him a favor.

Gil gave her some story

about the hold being trumped up.

- She seemed really embarrassed.

- Do something for me.

Check and see

if Van Beber has any kids.

Nick, what the heck

are you doing in there?

- I gotta go. Just check.

- Okay.

I'm sorry.

Okay, that's it.

Thanks everybody for a wonderful birthday.

I'm going home.

- I'll bring your car back in the morning.

- Who said you could take my car?

You say you'll bring it back

and I nod like a robot?

I'll take him. Just let me get this. Yo.

Detective Blades? It's Rosalyn Wohl.

- Yes?

- Who is that?

- Is that Rosalyn?

- I'm listening.

- Want me to talk to her?

- What do I get?

He says he'll give you the guy

who's killing the people on the list.

All right. Where?

- Where what?

- I'm scared, Blades.

Just do what he says.

- What does Gil want?

- The list.

- Why?

- If he gets the list back...

...his employer refrains

from putting a bullet in his ear.

- So he's trading Rosalyn for the list?

- That's the story.

You don't have the list. Happy took it.

- Affirmative.

- Why am I on a hit list, Blades?

You know all those bad people you sent

to prison? They ever call to say thanks?

No. Sometimes I send people

to prison for doing bad things.

Doesn't necessarily mean

they're bad people.

I appreciate that.

- The list came from Willie Van Beber.

- Really?

Apparently his last wish is for you

to precede him to the promised land.

- I should go with you.

- This one's on me, Theo. Too dangerous.

It hasn't been dangerous so far?

Did you forget the driving range already?

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