One Good Cop Page #3

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and then I'll come down

and we'll talk this sh*t out?

Why don't you get out of here, Lewis?

I got nothing to say to you.

- He's gonna kill her.

- No, he's gonna give her up.

- He's gonna kill her.

- I want some time with her.

- I can't let him do it.

- Listen to me, Mick.

- I can't let you do it, Mickey!

- Stevie, no!

Go!

Go ahead, move a muscle.

- Move one. I'll pop you right now.

- You got him?

- All right, take him.

- Don't let him move, or shoot him.

- Mickey!

- Come here.

Stevie! Hey, partner.

We're alive, partner?

I'm all for grief support, guys,

but I ain't got all day.

When Artie says so. Not before.

We're gonna run into overtime

because of this.

Danny.

You can't keep him here.

He can't take you where he's going.

Come on. Let these guys do their job.

You all right?

He was tired all the time, you know.

I knew it.

Quinn kept piling cases on us.

Son of a b*tch.

He couldn't sleep

with a caseload like we had.

You lay there with names and faces

spinning around in your head.

He had a lot on his mind, you know.

I should have made him go home,

Reet.

I should have put a gun to his head

if I had to.

Even called Quinn.

You couldn't have known, Artie.

Eight years we were together.

Eight years.

- He ain't coming back, is he, Reet?

- I love you, Artie.

I never did this for somebody I know.

Thank God you're here.

Can I have some more tea, please?

Want some sugar?

Hi, Uncle Artie.

Hiya, girls. How you doing?

Hi, Uncle Artie.

Hey, honey. Come here.

Let me talk to you for a minute.

Your daddy had an accident.

Rita!

I want my daddy!

The doctor's number's in the kitchen.

I'll go.

It's OK. It's gonna be OK, I promise.

Where's my daddy?

It's OK.

Marian's an extremely bright girl,

and they suffer the most.

But they also adjust the quickest.

Carol's a baby. As she grows she'll lose

all conscious memory of her parents.

Barbara... of course, needs special care.

She needs two insulin injections a day

and needs her blood tested twice a day.

These pamphlets

will explain how this works.

It's not as bad as it looks.

It'll say about insulin shock...

Excuse me, doctor,

I'm scared stiff of needles.

I hope you don't have a problem

with that, Mr Lewis.

No, I can take a shot.

I don't know if I can give one.

Well, bring the girls in tomorrow

and we'll go over the procedures.

- OK.

- Good night.

Thanks a lot.

So, doctor,

what's going to happen to the girls?

Something good, I hope.

Thank you for coming. I thought

house calls were a thing of the past.

For these girls you go the extra mile.

Good night.

Good night.

You OK? You want something, Barbara?

You have to go to the bathroom?

No? You hungry?

Do you want to eat?

OK.

We have to be quiet.

We don't want to wake up Aunt Rita.

OK. Let's go get some breakfast.

Wait here.

Uncle Artie?

I have to get dressed first.

Yeah. Come on.

Here. Let's go in here.

One, two, three, up!

All right.

What time is it?

I don't know.

Uncle Artie's sleepy.

- Do you always get up this early, hon?

- Always.

Here, take these.

I'm gonna take you to a nice place

for breakfast.

What about my sisters?

Aunt Rita will take care of them

when they get up. Come on.

You OK?

Look, my jobs are up 40%.

I need more personnel.

Don't give me that, Carl.

It's not the same all over the city.

I'm drowning up here.

People on ice killing each other...

Yeah, OK.

Just get me some bodies up here.

- You OK?

- Yeah.

I'm giving you Felix

until we can get a replacement.

Ride him around today.

Show him the ropes.

All right.

Better read this.

Stevie left a will?

Yeah. I took a quick look at it.

He didn't leave much.

Most of the insurance

will go for his wife's medical bills.

He made me legal guardian of his kids.

I saw that.

Wait a minute. What about his family?

- He's got a brother Angelo.

- He's putting it all on you.

You can do what you wanna do.

He won't be around to complain.

Being legal guardians

means you're responsible for the kids.

Lot of paperwork, lot of aggravation.

You gotta see to trust funds

and health plans... schools...

You're gonna want to make sure

they find a good home,

so you gotta stay

on top of the adoption agencies.

You probably want

to check out the parents.

That's all in the future, Cheryl.

What about right now?

Cute as these kids are,

we'll find them a home real soon.

If you could put them up for a week or two,

we'll be making it happen.

We're moving them to my apartment

tonight, but it's small.

You know,

we're crammed in there ourselves.

There's a priest who runs a shelter

at lmmaculate Heart church.

He's a little jammed right now,

but maybe he'll take them in.

We had 27 kids

sleep here last night.

We had to keep the heat, the electric on.

That's gonna kill us

at the end of the month.

Let me ask you something.

Say I bring my partner's kids here.

What might happen to them?

- Three of them, right?

- Right.

Well, we'd move them out

into a baby boarder home pretty quick.

What's that?

It's kind of a... halfway house

for kids waiting for foster placement.

How long might they have to stay there?

That's hard to say.

Especially with three of them.

They may have to be separated.

One of the girls is a diabetic.

This complicates things.

A lot of foster parents

don't want medical problems.

They can be in the system a year or more

before they find a family with the money

and commitment for three little girls.

- And they meet a princess.

- What does the princess look like?

lt'll look... It looked like...

- She had...

- Black.

...black hair.

- Right.

And she had a kind of dress like...

It was pink.

- Pink. That's beautiful.

- And it had blue diamonds all over it.

I was thinking of white diamonds.

White diamonds are pretty.

We'll make it white and blue.

I'm gonna tuck you in.

Let's tuck real tight, real close. OK?

- We'll finish the story later.

- Yeah, we sure will, darling.

OK, here we go. Is that cosy?

- When are we going to Jesus?

- What?

Mrs Christofaro said that Mommy

and Daddy were walking with Jesus.

And we would see them again someday.

Well, you will, sweetheart.

But not for a very long time.

- Not until we die.

- When will we die?

That's not for a very, very long time.

No. We could die at any time,

just like Mommy and Daddy.

- No, you're not gonna die.

- Why? You could die.

Uncle Artie could get shot like my dad.

- That won't happen to Uncle Artie.

- Why not?

Do you think he's a better cop

than my dad?

- No.

- Don't try to cheer us up, OK?

Just leave us alone.

Just let us go to sleep.

OK, guys.

Give me a kiss.

Stop it.

OK, monkeys. Go to sleep.

Oh, God.

It's OK, baby. It's OK.

It's OK. You're all right.

OK. It's OK, sweetheart.

Honey. It's OK, honey.

Can you put down some towels?

She wet the bed.

- OK.

- OK.

It's OK. You just had a bad dream.

You had a bad dream, honey.

You're safe now. It's OK.

Yeah. You feel better?

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