One Good Cop Page #6

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Illegal search?

This is an illegal drug.

I could throw your ass in jail,

you know that?

Don't try that. I ain't scared of no cop.

Is that right?

You're scared of Beniamino, though.

What would happen if I told everybody

you were my personal stoolie?

Your boy Beniamino wouldn't like that,

would he?

He'd cut your tongue out

and ask if you were telling the truth.

Get in the car. Come here.

Get in the car. That's it.

That's the office, man.

They call it the office.

You go in... and you get the stuff.

You gotta sign a receipt

so they know how much you took.

Then you bring back the money.

- Don't slow down, man.

- Keep your head down.

- Is that where he keeps the money?

- No.

He's got this girl, Grace.

Every night she comes by in the car

and she takes it away.

There she is, man.

Get me outta here. If they catch me

with a cop, they're gonna kill me!

No, no, no, I got it.

I told you everything I know.

Please, cop, get me outta here.

Shut up and keep your head down.

- Let me give you a hand.

- It's OK.

- No. It's heavy. I'll get it.

- It's OK.

Man, that lady is so fine!

Go ahead. Give him some. Go on.

Grace, you want some?

No, you guys can do it.

Somebody let Oreste in. Come on.

Oreste?

Down on the floor right now!

All three of you! Line up!

Now, motherfuckers! Get down there!

You know who you're playing with?

I wouldn't be here

if you were from the post office, a**hole.

Here. Tie your boyfriends up with this.

If one of them gets loose,

you're dead, b*tch.

I'm gonna blow your head off.

Tie them up right now.

Where's the bread?

- What bread?

- Don't bullshit me, man.

This is no time to show off.

When one of your boys

feels your brains on his face, he'll talk.

Where's the bread?

In the panel. Behind the bar.

All right, show me.

Come on, show me, you motherf***er.

Show me.

All right.

Fill it up.

Come on, come on.

Come on! Fill it!

Put it there. Right there.

Now go back over there.

Come on. Come on.

Let's go, a**hole. Get down on the floor.

OK.

Tie your boyfriend up. Come on. Come on.

Come on. Come on.

Take a good look at this.

Take a good look at this, you f***!

Get down there. Now!

All right.

I see you soon.

- No peeking.

- I'm not peeking.

How long do I have to wait?

Here you go.

- There's a kerb right here.

- OK.

Come on, girls. Here we are.

Let's go. Move it.

OK.

Let's give Aunt Rita a spin. Three times.

One, two, three!

OK.

Surprise!

What's going on, Artie?

I talked Finnerty into taking our note.

Why is he being so nice to us?

Well, cops stick together. You know that.

Also he told me he can't live

another minute there since his wife died.

In truth, I think we're his first real prospect.

What are you cooking up with this guy,

Artie?

Let me ask you something, Rita.

Do you think it's fair

some lowlife dirtbag has millions of dollars

while other people

can't put a roof over their heads?

What have you done, Artie?

Something that can't be undone.

- Be cool, man.

- What you got to tell me?

The thing is

that if we don't find out who it is,

we're just gonna have to do everybody.

- We don't know who it is, man.

- I don't know nothing.

What the hell's he talking about?

Hey, baby!

Where you been?

- Oreste.

- I've been looking for you.

I've been kinda looking for you too.

- I need a little something.

- I got something for you.

I can't go right now. My baby's waiting.

- No, you're my baby. I want to talk to you.

- Look, Oreste, I...

Look what I found.

Raisa.

Beniamino.

Nice to see you. Come in.

I was just telling Oreste

my baby's waiting for me, and I...

You don't have to be afraid.

Have a glass of champagne with me.

Come on.

- This guy ain't no mutt. He was too good.

- Hold it for a second.

Lieutenant Quinn?

Yeah. That's right.

Earl Williams, head of the narcotics

task force, New York state.

Grace De Felice,

one of our undercover operatives.

- Hi.

- Detective.

Why don't you have a seat?

We got a situation.

Might involve one of your detectives.

- Which one?

- Artie Lewis.

He's one of my best men.

Well, you're not gonna like this, lieutenant.

You want to repeat your story,

Detective De Felice?

I've been working on a guy who's

opening a market for ice in New York.

I set up the buys, made the phoney sales.

I won his confidence.

I'll bet you're doing a really good job.

You got that right. I am.

I set him up great.

We were getting ready to make a big buy.

- We would hit every lab on the east coast.

- What happened?

Some dude comes out of nowhere

last night and holds us up.

Now my man's crazed.

All he talks about is getting even.

No business is being done.

The chemist tipped back to Brazil.

We're gonna blow a year's work.

I'm sorry to hear that. You didn't

identify the guy that ripped you off?

- No, he was wearing a mask.

- What does this have to do with Lewis?

Last week Beniamino threw a bill like this

in a cop's face.

Last night the dude crumpled this bill

and dropped it right back at him.

You're losing me.

It's real simple, lieutenant.

We went through

your squad's photo ID files.

The cop last week was Artie Lewis.

Now you're trying to link him up

with this rip-off? Based on this?

Come on! You know this crumpled bill

ain't worth anything.

To nail a cop,

you need something better than that.

No rip-off artist works alone.

A mutt would have done us all.

This dude threw money out the window.

No mutt would have done that.

He could have been some wacko.

You didn't see him.

I hope I'm wrong.

All I know is that this guy was too good.

He had to be one of us.

OK, I got four guys

out on court appearances next week,

which leaves nobody to watch the store.

You'll have to talk to the ADAs.

They're slowing us down.

A court appearance is not a paid holiday.

You tell your story

then you come back to work.

OK, that's it.

You got a pen.

One more thing.

Anybody hear about a robbery

at 401 Royalton the other night?

Somebody hit a drug dealer,

Beniamino Rios.

We know that dude, don't we, Artie?

That's funny, him getting hit.

- How do you know this guy?

- His name came up in the Garrett case.

It's in the report. Just checking it out.

Did you inform DEA?

No, I never got around to it.

It's standard procedure for

major drug dealers. Why didn't you do it?

- That was the day of the rat attack.

- I don't need a lawyer, thanks.

I never got around to it.

I know what I'm doing. All right?

Give me this.

I'm outta here.

What's up with that?

- Are you in the union?

- What's a union?

- Are you supposed to move?

- Of course I am.

I wanna show you something too.

All right. There you are. There you go.

I need to see you

on Broadway and Third.

- Are you there?

- You got to do a grand jury on that kid.

- Broadway and Third.

- OK.

- Are you gonna be there?

- Get anything on that robbery?

I'll be there.

What robbery?

We gotta talk. I'm scared.

All right. Get in.

I haven't heard from him,

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