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the head off a real live chicken...

...right there

in that plushy apartment.

A chicken?

And squished that old chicken

around in the sink...

...while the water was running.

And he nearly went crazy.

- And Lord, why'd you do it?

- Yeah, why'd you do it?

Sh*t, I didn't know

what the bastard wanted...

...till he got me there

and handed me the butcher knife.

Butcher knife?

And I was so scared,

I just did it so he wouldn't get mad.

You know, that milk bath guy

picked up Wilma one night.

Didn't he, Wilma?

Oh, speaking of milk,

pass it right on down here.

Scotch ain't no good without milk.

Thank you, honey.

Yeah, but he ain't too weird.

I don't mind him though,

except he lives too far away.

Up in North Hollywood,

in one of them hilltop pads.

He just gives you a bath

in a tub full of milk.

Anybody wanna feel

my lily-white skin?

People is getting

so goddamned weird anymore.

- Yeah, they are.

- Sure.

Seem like only black man

like to ball.

You take black tricks, baby?

She'll take any kind of tricks

she can get.

Well, I guess

we can let them out now.

They're too drunk to work tonight.

We've done our good deed

for society.

All right, ladies. Everybody out.

Habeas corpus

has arrived for one and all.

Step over here.

Get mama down, will you?

Yeah.

- Thank you. Bye-bye.

- Goodbye.

- Come on, baby.

- Thank you.

Bye.

Bye-bye.

Let's go now.

Hey, we just got robbed, man.

He just ran down that alley.

He hit me with his gun.

Does this alley

come out down here?

Yeah, it goes through.

- I'll try the alley here, I can cut him off.

- I'll call in.

- They got everything, everything we...

- Take it easy, son.

Three-A-five-four, Code 6 Adam.

Freeze.

Have to be...

My father.

My father.

You killed him.

You killed my father.

He was chasing the robber

and you killed him.

You killed my father.

Pig!

Gus.

Gus, call an ambulance right now.

Now.

You pig.

Ten-A-21,

10-A-21, go to the station.

Ten-0-three, roger.

- Fourteen-A-89...

- I'll tell you something right now.

If it'd happened to me, I'd done

the same thing. You had no choice.

Comes down to something like that,

you have no choice.

It was just as much my fault

as yours.

I let the guy run out of the store

with a gun in his hand.

I did it. I did it.

- I'll pull over to the side, kid.

- Eleven-eight-45.

Phone the station.

Twelve-0-20, roger.

Thirteen-A-99, clear.

Thirteen-eight-27, 13-eight-27.

Go to the station.

Thirteen-0-five, roger.

Good evening.

I'm the one who made the call.

There's a lady in that house

who's always drunk.

Is she bothering you?

No, but she's got a new baby,

and she drops him all the time.

Tonight, she's in there staggering

around, and I saw her drop him again.

My husband told me

it wasn't our business...

...but I told him

I was gonna call the police.

That's what I did.

- All right, we'll have a talk with her.

- Thank you.

What do you want?

Good evening, ma'am.

We received a call

that there might be some trouble.

We came over to help.

Do you mind if we step in?

I know how the police help.

Look, lady, we were told

your baby might be in some danger.

How about just letting us look to see if

the kid's okay? We'll be on our way.

Get off my porch.

Get off. You too.

Out, out, out.

Hey, you can't just go ahead...

Hey, where's he going?

He's my baby.

What do you think you're doing?

Just leave him alone.

My God.

You just can't walk in here...

...without telling me something.

- Take it easy.

All right, she put him on the

kitchen table next to an ashtray.

He burned his hand.

Looks like his stomach too.

I said that's my child.

- Hey, give me my child.

- Take it easy, just take it easy.

All right, get ahold of it.

- Give me my baby.

- Hey.

Give me my baby.

Give it here. It's my baby.

- Let go, Andy. Let go.

- My baby.

- Mine, mine, mine.

- You'll break her apart.

- Don't drop it.

- It's mine.

Lady, take your fingers...

You're choking your baby.

Pry her fingers loose.

It's my baby. It's my baby.

- Okay, I got her.

- Let go.

Let go.

All right, lady, that's it. That's it.

You keep

your filthy hands off of me.

- Damn it.

- Hey.

- Give me.

- Come on.

Let me go. Let me go.

You can't take my baby.

Like hell I can't. Get her in the car.

Let's go, lady.

You know, there was a moment there

when I really thought I could kill her.

I mean, I really wanted to kill her.

Maybe I should have killed her.

It would be better off for the child.

- It is tempting.

- It's more than that.

Well...

Stay frosty, kid.

You can't become an avenging angel.

Look out the window.

There's always another a**hole

in the street.

You can't stop them all

no matter what you do.

So you do your 20

and take your 40 percent and relax.

Eleven-eight-45, clear.

Eleven-eight-23, roger.

- Hi, sweetheart.

- Hi.

- How are you?

- Fine.

Give Daddy a kiss?

All ready for school?

There's a boy I don't like.

Well...

- Hi, honey.

- Hi.

- Breakfast?

- No, thanks.

You'll be late for work.

Well, I can fix you some eggs.

No eggs.

That's the trouble

with this all-night watch.

I eat breakfast at 7

before I hit the sack.

And when I get up, I don't want

anything heavier than breakfast.

Then about 11:
00, before I go back

to work, I grab a couple of eggs.

You know,

I'm eating breakfast three times a day.

If it annoys you,

why don't you get off the night watch?

It doesn't annoy me.

Night watch is okay.

Well, you're complaining.

I'm not...

What the hell is that?

What's going on here?

It's the plumber.

He's promised to be quiet as he can.

Come, Becky, you're gonna be late.

And I'll be late for work.

The plumber?

Dorothy,

don't leave me with the plumber.

I gotta get some sleep. Couldn't he

come back in the afternoon, Dorothy?

Dorothy? Dorothy, answer me.

The john hasn't been working right

for three days...

...and unless he came now,

he couldn't come until after 6...

...which means

he gets time and a half.

Now, the man gets $ 18 an hour

as it is.

So that means that after 6:00...

...his time is worth more than

yours and mine put together.

Oh, I see, his time

is more valuable than mine, huh?

I didn't say valuable.

I said it was worth more.

- What's the difference?

- There is.

I know. I'd like to know what it is.

On the open market, a man

who can make your toilet flush...

...is worth more money

than a cop and a secretary combined.

All right, Dorothy.

I know, you're making the world

a better place to live in.

Hey, look, could you please stop

that for just a moment?

Everywhere but for us kids at home.

- Here's your mail.

- Thanks.

Aren't you going to open it?

Later.

Just curious.

Curious about my mail?

Curious why you're not curious.

All right, then here,

why don't you just open it yourself?

All right, I will.

"Dear Mr. Fehler.

The grades are hereby submitted

for the term ending November 30th.

Economics 5-A, incomplete.

Corporate Law 27-A, incomplete."

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