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    from the shows creator, off the EZ Streets maillist...
    
    Subject: NOW IS THE TIME FOR...
    
    >  To everyone:
    >
    >  Okay guys and gals, we're coming down to the wire. It's two weeks
    till we
    >  come back on the air, and if you want to do anything to ensure the
    future
    >  of quality television, this is the time to do it.
    >
    >  That may sound like an exaggeration, but it's not that far from the
    truth.
    >  Ken Olin tells me he's read most of the pilots for the new season,
    and a
    >  third of them are "EZ Streets-lite"--all the flash without the
    bother of
    >  substance.  The good guys are good and the bad guys are bad, but
    they have
    >  cool music and look brooding.  And the networks are saying, quite
    literally
    >  to these film makers "We don't want EZ Streets".  Meaning, go light
    on the
    >  thought-provoking stuff, and don't give us those confusing moral
    >  ambiguities.  If EZ Streets goes down for the count, we'll witness
    the
    >  continued dumbing of network television, and it'll be that much
    harder for
    >  me or the next guy/girl to do anything of substance.
    >
    >  And to make things worse, NBC just announced that they're putting
    LETHAL
    >  WEAPON 3 up against our Monday night launch.  They don't want us to
    get
    >  even a toe hold.  Unless we start a full court press right now,
    unless
    >  everyone on this list starts going flat out on this thing and
    elicits the
    >  support of every person they know, we ain't got a prayer.  The show
    will
    be
    >  gone before March is over.
    >
    >  So, let's not go down quietly.  As you will hear one of my favorite
    >  characters, LEO say to Jimmy in Episode 5 "Come, do it, you
    half-guinea
    >  son-of-a-bitch. I'll show you how a working man dies!"  That is,
    you'll
    see
    >  it in episode 5 if we make it through March.
    >
    >  Let's talk this up on every list you can get your hands on --
    especially
    >  non-TV lists. Those who got the tapes, show them to your friends.
    Those
    who
    >  have the tapes of the pilot and Every Picture, start pulling people
    off
    the
    >  street and making them watch them, cause they ain't gonna see them
    in
    March
    >  and we have to get them hooked now.
    >
    >  Talk up the dates MONDAY MARCH 3, 10PM and then WED MARCH 5, 10PM
    and
    every
    >  Wednesday after that until we make it or are yanked off the air. 
    These
    >  aren't the reruns, these are the new episodes.
    >
    >  Those of you who loved the pilot and episode 1, you ain't seen
    nothing
    yet.
    >
    >
    >  I can't do this without you! Let's get the net buzzing!
    >
    >  Give me a fighting chance and I'll be forever grateful.
    >
    >  --Paul
    

    Those of you interested in quality tv ... don't forget to watch the
    re-launch of EZ Street - tonight at 10:00 and then again on Wednesday
    at 10:00 for the 2nd episode.  I think Wed at 10 will be the permanent
    slot.

Having missed the opener at the beginning of the season, then seeing the
reaction of the many critics that loved it, I was really awaiting its return.  I
saw last night's episode and it was immediately apparent that this show has huge
potential.  I can't believe that Ken Olin was that good...but he was last night.
I was really blown away by the ending where Ken's character, after having slept
with the defendant's lawyer, went straight to his boss and said he now had a way
of getting information about this defendant due to his new relationship with the
lawyer.  What a prick!  Great stuff!

All of that aside I found it confusing, and I had a hard time following  lot of
it.  Would someone who saw the first episodes please enter a brief description
of the overall plot line?

much appreciated, 
dave

    Plot summaries can be found at
    http://members.aol.com/SaveEZsts/index.html
    
    For those of you without access to the internet.... I'll post the pilot
    and first two episode summaries in the next three notes.
    
    Let me know if you want me to continue to do it in the future.

    These summaries are long and detailed.... so of course, the usual
    spoiler warnings are in effect...
    
                                                                               
    The show opens at night on the docks of an unnamed city. Several police
    officers are standing around at river's edge as a boat pulls in and
    offloads a barrel. The barrel is opened with a tremendous rush of blood
    and one of the policemen, Detective Cameron Quinn (Ken Olin), walks quickly
    away as the following exchange is heard in voiceover: 
    
         "How long did it take you to figure it out?"
         "I'm not sure I ever did."
         "How did you know where to start?"
         "I followed the keys."
    
    The next morning, young Danny Rooney (Jason Gedrick) is one of a crowd
    of men released from prison after being paroled. While the other men are
    greeted by family, the only person who's come for Danny is his boyhood
    friend, Jimmy Murtha (Joe Pantoliano). More properly, Jimmy's deceased
    younger brother Brian and Danny were best friends. Danny was the only
    one who could keep Brian from abusing drugs, and with him in jail, Brian
    overdosed. In recognition of what Danny did for his little brother,
    Jimmy has come to look upon Danny almost as a surrogate baby brother. 
    
    Jimmy also owes Danny a huge debt for keeping his mouth shut. It seems
    that Danny just spent three years for driving the car Jimmy used for an
    armed robbery. By staying quiet about the other parties in the robbery, 
    Danny took the fall alone, an act made all the more remarkable by the fact
    that the robbery was apparently a spur of Jimmy's moment and Danny knew
    nothing about it. As an attempt to pay off the debt, Jimmy has driven all the
    way to the prison to give Danny a ride home, and to offer him a job, at
    least until his prison debts are paid. Danny thanks him for his concern, then
    takes the bus back to the city. 
    
    Back at the police precinct, Quinn is liberating $10,000 from the
    evidence room. The custodian requires him to sign in his presence, even though
    the record will not show that Quinn took anything. The custodian warns
    Quinn to return the money by tomorrow morning or he'll "figure out" that Quinn
    "must have stolen it while his back was turned." Taking the cash to the
    locker room, Quinn finds the department's sound man, Breen, wiring up his
    partner, Tim. Quinn gives Tim the cash and in return, Tim gives Quinn his 
    keys to hold onto. Quinn asks why they're rushing into this buy, since they
    hardly know the people involved, but Tim is adamant. He tells Quinn that they
    just need to make a quick stop by his house and they can go to the buy.
    Quinn is reluctant, but accedes. 
    
    Meanwhile, over on E Street, the new Mayor is explaining to a small
    crowd that he has returned to clean up the area and bring in new business 
    and other such political talk. As he speaks, a street crew is replacing a
    battered "E St." sign with a sparkling new "Elm St." sign. 
    
    Having arrived back home, Danny goes to his apartment, a somewhat less
    than desirable den. Rather than being delighted to see him, his wife Ellie
    is enraged that he would go to jail for Jimmy while leaving her and their
    daughter Janie in such dire straits that she was forced to turn tricks
    to survive. She also hints that she's found someone else to occupy his
    place as man of the house, if you know what I mean and I think you do. She
    throws him out of the apartment and tells him if he wants to see her, it'll
    cost him $100 and if he wants to see Janie, it'll cost $200. Since Danny is a
    felon, Ellie has a court order which allows her to decide when/if Danny
    can see Janie. 
    
    At the site of the buy, Tim is standing on a street corner with Quinn
    and Breen monitoring him from a van about half a block away. Tim and Quinn
    are concerned that no one has shown up yet, while Breen's biggest fear is
    that the batteries in Tim's wire will die. After calling Quinn's attention
    to a blue Camaro which has circled the block a few times, Tim humors Breen
    by turning off the wire. Quinn takes a long look at the Camaro and turns
    back to see that Tim has gotten into a black sedan, which is pulling away
    from the curb. Quinn drives like a madman through the streets trying to
    catch up to the sedan, but is forced to get out and run when his reckless
    driving results in the van's being hit by a dumptruck. As Quinn is racing down
    the street with a wireless receiver in his ear, Tim finally turns the wire
    back on, in time for Quinn to hear Tim say "Don't do this." An unidentified
    voice responds "I want to know who you told!" A shot is fired, the
    sedan screeches to a halt, and a man wearing a ski mask dumps Tim's body.
    Seeing Quinn running at him, he fires a few shots at Quinn, jumps back into
    the car, and it speeds away. Quinn gets to Tim, who has been shot in the
    abdomen, but is powerless to do anything more than watch his partner
    die there in the street. 
    
    After reliving Tim's death in a nightmare, Quinn wakes up next to a
    lovely young lady. Internal Affairs has discovered that $10,000 is missing
    because of Tim and Quinn and Quinn is to be questioned that day. His lady
    friend, whose name I missed in three viewings, tries to get him to relax and
    stop blaming himself, lest IA do so as well, but the conversation quickly
    degenerates into a fight and she stalks out, telling Quinn not to sleep
    with martyrs, since they have a different definition of getting nailed. 
    
    At the IA interrogation, the two agents questioning Quinn want to know
    what happened to the money, if he and Tim stopped anywhere between the
    police station and the buy, if Tim needed money, and how Quinn spends his 
    own money. After Quinn flippantly responds that he doesn't make enough to
    buy much more than a lone IA officer, they give him a brief lecture in
    solid partner relationships by slugging him. 
    
    At an abandoned warehouse downtown, the Mayor is meeting with local
    crime figure Michael "Fivers" Dugan. Fivers picks up a broken board and idly
    pulls a nail out of it as he tells the Mayor how important it is that
    the Mayor follow through on his part of their agreement. The Mayor reminds
    Fivers of his own part of the agreement, which is to keep a tight lid
    on the crime element. Fivers tells the Mayor that he'll keep his end, but
    the Mayor has to eliminate Jimmy Murtha. To make his point, he drives the
    nail through the Mayor's palm, then gives him what looks like a package of
    cocaine or heroin and tells him not to blow it all in one place. 
    
    After the interrogation, Quinn has gone to see his mother. He can tell
    that she has been smoking and rails against his father, whom he suspects of
    providing the cigarettes. Ma can tell he's in a lot of trouble and
    recommends that he go see his father, who lives elsewhere despite still
    being married to Ma, for help. 
    
    Danny has found a job at a burger joint. He's on the phone talking to
    Ellie and has just convinced her to put Janie on the line when his boss comes
    in and tells him to get off the phone. After several ignored warnings, the
    boss hangs up the phone himself. Enraged, Danny beats his boss
    savagely. 
    
    Quinn has gone to see Tim's widow. She tells him that Internal Affairs
    has already been by and cleaned out all their financial records. Quinn asks
    if she has any money and Alice, thinking he's implying something about
    Tim, turns her anger on him. "If it had been you in that car he woulda got
    to you in time and you damn well know it. He'd've gotten there somehow and
    he'd've gotten in front of that bullet and he never, ever, woulda let
    you die." Stunned, Quinn can only respond "Yeah...that's true enough."
    Still venting, Alice tells him that he can make points with IA by giving 
    them this salient piece of information: someone sends her $200 cash every
    week. None of Tim's co-workers will even talk to her on the phone for fear of
    being implicated, but at least _someone_ cares enough to see that she
    eats. With that, she throws the stack of brown envelopes the money has been
    coming in at Quinn and orders him to get the hell out of her house.
    Quinn picks up the envelopes, places them neatly on the table, and leaves
    without a word. 
    
    The two IA men who questioned Quinn are now being questioned
    themselves, by
    Captain Geary. He wants to know if Quinn is a dirty cop or not. When
    they hedge by saying that they could _probably_ get a conviction even
    without proof of any wrongdoing, Geary orders them to clear Quinn. After 
    they leave, he picks up his phone, calls someone, and says "It's Geary. I
    think I have our man." 
    
    Jimmy Murtha and his inner circle, meanwhile, are passing the day by
    playing softball against a team of Rastafarians, a game which features
    a blind umpire. Jimmy asks his driver Mickey "did I not tell you that he
    wasn't supposed to be here?" Mickey begs off that he couldn't tell a
    blind man not to come to the game and besides, he can call balls and strikes
    by sense. Jimmy informs Mickey that it's _his_ sense that if the ump shows
    up next week, he's going to kill Mickey's whole family. After this
    pleasant interlude, Jimmy returns to the batter's box, where he continues to
    hurl verbal abuse at the pitcher. A now-unemployed Danny walks up just in
    time to see the pitcher intentionally hit Jimmy in the arm. Jimmy charges
    the mound, and suddenly there are more guns than in a Quentin Tarantino
    film. Despite the presence of the pitcher's gun against his cheek, Jimmy
    orders the pitcher to forfeit or else he'll kill him right there. When the
    pitcher remarks that he'd kill Jimmy as well, Jimmy responds that if the 
    Rastas don't forfeit, Jimmy loses face and someone will kill him, so he might
    as well die with it. In the face (heh) of such logic, the pitcher loudly
    announces a forfeit. The victorious Jimmy walks to the bleachers to
    chat with Danny, and to again offer him a job as Jimmy's driver. Having few
    other prospects, Danny agrees. Jimmy gives Danny a roll of bills to get
    started and tells him that the burger joint owner has been "persuaded"
    to drop assault charges against Danny for the beating. 
    
    After getting thrown out of Tim's house, Quinn has gone home. As he is
    walking to his apartment, he is called over to a car. Captain Geary
    introduces himself and tells Quinn that he's finished in his job as
    detective because of the taint of corruption. However, Geary can use a
    cop who looks dirty for an assignment in his Intelligence Division. He asks
    after Quinn's father and upon being told that Quinn doesn't talk to his
    father, replies "You should. There's a lot he can teach you. Like
    nothing comes between partners except for money." Ousting Quinn from the 
    car, claiming "I got a 'thing'" Geary rolls down the window and tells Quinn
    that an informant named Sammy Feathers claims to know who killed Tim. 
    
    Driving home, Jimmy has Danny stop the car so he can take a leak. He
    walks down a dark alley and knocks on a door at the end. Inside is the gang
    of Rastafarians from the softball game. When their leader, the pitcher,
    puts his eye up to the peephole, Jimmy shoots him twice through the opening.
    He then returns to the car. After ditching Danny, Jimmy and Mickey are
    seen by a deep-freeze filled with severed hands, each carefully placed in its
    own labelled baggie. Selecting one, Jimmy presses its fingers all over the
    gun he used to kill the Rastafarian, then places the gun in a baggie and
    orders Mickey to drop it near the site of the murder, in a place where the
    police will be sure to find it. 
    
    The next day, Geary takes Quinn to see Sammy Feathers. Feathers
    protests at 
    spilling his guts to a man he doesn't know, but a harsh word from Geary
    opens him right up. He tells Quinn that he overheard Jimmy Murtha and
    some nobody discussing whether Formula 409 or Tide with Ammonia was superior
    at removing bloodstains from a car. As supporting evidence for his
    cleanser of 
    choice, Jimmy mentions having had to clean up after shooting a cop some
    weeks earlier. Sammy tells Quinn that he overheard Murtha say that he
    had shot the cop in the gut. Quinn storms out of the room, where Geary
    joins him and offers him a job: get inside Murtha's organization; get so far
    in that he can bring them all down. After confirming that Geary couldn't
    care less about Quinn's new hatred for Jimmy, he agrees. Geary tells him to
    clean out his old locker and to come over the ID's offices. 
    
    At a briefing given by a member of the Intelligence Division, Quinn is
    given an introduction to the underworld by slideshow. Fivers Dugan, who
    controlled everything on the East Side until Jimmy began to make
    inroads
    some two years earlier. The briefer, Det. Collero, tells Quinn that the
    ID calls Murtha's gang the Easies, because they control the area from E
    Street 
    to Z Street. When Quinn points out that the "alphabet streets" only run
    through W because of the docks, Collero blows his stack (the nickname
    was his idea) and it quickly becomes apparent that he and Quinn will not be
    friends. Collero tells Quinn that ID has bugged a bar Murtha controls
    and that he and Breen listen from a van outside the bar. Quinn also
    discovers that his paramour of some nights before works in the ID. The final
    slide is that of Jimmy's lawyer and lover, Theresa Connors. Quinn clearly
    recognizes
    her picture. He tells Collero that he has a 'thing' and leaves to go
    clean out his old locker. Putting on the jacket that has been hanging in the
    locker, Quinn finds Tim's keys in the pocket. One of the keys is a very
    small key with nothing on the end for finger and thumb to hold on to.
    Quinn attaches Tim's keys to his own keyring and leaves. 
    
    Quinn crosses the bridge into Canada, stopping as a casino where he is
    friends with a man named Frenchie. Brainstorming with Frenchie, he
    mentions
    that Tim had a snitch named Lonnie who set up the ill-fated buy which
    resulted in Tim's death. Someone was running guns and Quinn wonders if
    it could have been Murtha. There's no way to find out from Lonnie; he
    vanished 
    the day Tim was killed. Frenchie suggests that Quinn speak to the elder
    Quinn, a man with many contacts. The casino's pit boss comes in as
    Quinn is leaving, but before he gets out of the room, Frenchie asks "Did you
    find the key?" When Quinn turns back and asks "What did you say?" Frenchie
    points to the pit boss and says "I was talking to him." Quinn leaves
    without hearing the befuddled pit boss ask "Did you want a key?" 
    
    Returning from Canada, Quinn stops by Theresa Connors' office. After
    first patting Quinn down for a wire, and leaving no part unpatted, she wants
    to know the reason for the visit. Quinn tells her all about the bug that
    ID has at Murtha's bar and gives her the license number of the listening
    van. Leaving, he looks back and comments "Small world, huh?" 
    
    Theresa wastes no time getting the information to Jimmy. That night, as
    he and Danny leave the bar, two of Murtha's cronies slip out. They pour
    gasoline all over the ground around and under the listening van. Quinn,
    who is watching from his car around the corner, jumps out and calls the
    van's cell phone from a pay unit on the corner. As he is telling Collero that
    he and Breen need to leave the van, one of Murtha's cronies drives a car
    into the back of the van, blocking the rear doors. Collero hangs up on
    Quinn, 
    exits the van through the front door, and walks after the now-departing
    driver, who drops a lit flare into the trail of gas leading to the van.
    Quinn calls the van again and tells Breen to get out. As he jumps out
    of the van, it explodes. 
    
    The next day at the ID office, the whole gang is gathered in Geary's
    office 
    to hear Collero yelling for Quinn's head and adamantly refusing to work
    with him again. Geary shuts him up and orders everyone out except for
    Quinn and his paramour. They agree that Quinn's "betrayal" has certainly made
    a believable point to the Easies, but that in the future he should
    refrain from putting other cops in danger. Quinn receives a phone call from
    Theresa Connors, which is patched through to Geary's office because of her
    connection to Murtha. Theresa invites Quinn to dinner. 
    
    At dinner, Quinn notices that Theresa is now sporting a black eye. She
    hints that it was received when she took a punch during rough sex.
    Fivers Dugan stops by the table to speak to Theresa. She introduces Quinn to
    Fivers, who allows as how he's heard the name. It turns out that the
    restaurant belongs to Fivers, which makes for a tense moment when Jimmy
    strolls in and joins the couple. Jimmy asks Quinn what he wants. Quinn
    explains that someone killed his partner and wants Murhta's help to
    find that person, so he can kill him. When Murtha asks "What if I killed
    him?"
    Quinn calmly responds "Then I'm going to kill you." Murtha jokingly
    disavows any knowledge of the killing, and Quinn leaves the restaurant,
    but not before patting Theresa on the leg and thanking her for her
    hospitality.
    Jimmy starts to finish Quinn's steak dinner and the waiter comes over
    with a bottle of champagne. It's compliments of Fivers and he trusts that
    Jimmy will never come in there again. Jimmy thanks the waiter, then pours the
    entire bottle into the ice bucket. When Jimmy asks Theresa what the leg
    pat was about, she coolly replies "I guess he wanted you to know I was
    feeling
    him up under the table." A quiet Jimmy points his steak knife at her
    black eye and says "You must really like wearin' those sunglasses." 
    
    After dinner, Jimmy and Danny are sitting on the stoop of Jimmy's
    house, an 
    old brownstone his father bought. Jimmy reminisces about his youth and
    tells Danny a story: When he was a kid and Fivers was taking over the
    neighborhood, Mr. Murtha was a union organizer who wouldn't cough up
    the protection money Fivers demanded. One day Fivers and some of his men
    came to the house, dragged Mr. Murtha into the street, and began beating him
    with a brick. Despite being only eight years old and 40 pounds, Jimmy
    jumped on Fivers' back and started thrashing him. An amused Fivers
    tossed the kid off into the street, where he hit his head. As he lay dazed,
    Fivers placed a five-dollar bill into his pocket and told him to buy a gun,
    because he'd never hurt anybody with his fists. As Danny listens
    silently, Jimmy remarks, to himself, "People deserve to feel safe." Back at
    Fivers' restaurant, a waiter picks up an abandoned purse and opens it. The
    purse turns out to be a package bomb, which blows the restaurant to pieces. 
    
    Quinn has returned home. Opening the door, he sees the place has been
    ransacked. Leaving his keys in the lock, he goes through the apartment
    with gun drawn. Stepping to his window, he sees a police car on the street
    below. Seeing someone move in the hallway, he steps outside. A figure
    moving overhead causes him to race up two flights of stairs, only to
    see that the figure was a tenant. Returning to his own floor, he sees that
    his keys are missing. Stepping back to the window, he looks down to see the
    police car pulling away. Calmly, he reaches to the underside of the
    windowsill and removes Tim's oddity key. 
    
    The next morning, Quinn faces the fact that he has run out of ideas and
    goes to see his father. The elder Quinn comments "You must be
    desperate" 
    and invites his son in. Quinn refuses and tells his father that he
    believes Tim might have been in something connected to Jimmy Murtha and that
    cops might be involved. Mr. Quinn sneers "So you came to the expert on bent
    cops?" He tells his son that he's over the border now; that nothing
    touches 
    him and he touches nothing. As Quinn turns to leave, his father remarks
    "We're all bent in one way or another. Sometimes you bend to make a
    righteous bust; sometimes you bend because you owe a friend a favor;
    and sometimes you bend just to save your ass. You get so bent you can't
    straighten up. Come back in a few years and let's see how clean _you_
    are."
    
    Quinn asks again about Tim and his father tells him to look in Geary's
    private file: first at Sammy Feathers, then at a guy named Arnie
    Kellogg.Kellogg owes the elder Quinn a favor. As Quinn again turns to leave,
    his father pleads with him to remember "You can only be betrayed by people
    you trust." When Quinn reaches the stairwell, his father comes running
    after him and, choking back tears, thanks his son for coming, even if it was
    just for information. The son calmly says "It'll be the last time" and
    leaves. Mr. Quinn sits down on the stairs and begins to cry. 
    
    Danny has some free time on his hands and has driven by Janie's school
    to watch her play at recess. He sees Ellie's new boyfriend, a real piece
    of work who could really, really use an introduction to the wonders of
    modern shampoos, pick up Janie to take her home. 
    
    Quinn receives a phone call from Geary: an anonymous phone call has
    told them where they can find Tim's snitch Lonnie. The scene cuts back to
    the scene on the docks which opened the program: the episode has been told
    in flashback. We recognize Quinn and Collero as the barrel is lowered to
    the dock. Collero asks if they should open it downtown, but Quinn argues
    for opening it there on the dock. When they get the lid off, Collero shines
    his flashlight into the barrel so he and Quinn can see. Collero: "Is that
    him?"
    Quinn: "No." Collero: "You know him?" Quinn: "Yeah. It's my father." As
    he walks away, clearly fighting back tears, we get our first look into the
    barrel, into the wide dead staring eyes of Mr. Quinn. 
    
    Danny has stopped by Ellie's and is talking to Janie on the stoop about
    inconsequential things like trees. Since they live on Elm Street, Janie
    asks if any of the trees around the building are elms. Danny sighs and
    tells her that they don't have elms there anymore, then sends her in to
    bed. 
    
    Quinn goes from the docks to his father's apartment to find half a
    dozen cops inside going through everything. We next see him sitting in a car,
    holding one of the brown envelopes Tim's widow has been receiving from
    her anonymous benefactor. After a moment, he gets out of the car and drops
    the envelope into a mailbox. 
    
    As Danny starts walking home from Ellie's, Jimmy and Mickey drive by.
    Jimmy invites Danny to breakfast, he gets in the car, and they drive away
    under the shiny "Elm St." sign which has been defaced to read "E St." 
          

    "Every Picture Tells a Story"
    
    
    
    In Frenchie's Canadian Casino, Quinn is getting some information from
    Frenchie about his father's last hours. Frenchie has determined that
    Mr.Quinn crossed into the US on the day he was killed but never came back
    to Canada. He is confused why someone would kill Mr. Quinn now, given the
    number of years he's been out of the spotlight. When Quinn remarks on
    Frenchie's amazing ability to gather data, Frenchie tells him that some
    people at the Casino can't afford to pay their debts in cash. 
    
    That night, Quinn and his mother are at his father's wake when Quinn is
    approached by his father's old partner, Arnie Kellogg. When Quinn says
    that his father had mentioned Arnie to him, Arnie begins to spin a tale of
    how close he and Mr. Quinn were back in the old days. An angry Quinn cuts
    him off, reminding him that the old man was a corrupt cop. He asks Arnie
    why it was that when he asked his father who might know about Tim's death,
    Arnie's 
    name came up. He tells Arnie that Mr. Quinn had said Arnie owed him and
    that Arnie now works in the records department. A fuming Arnie concedes
    that he owed Mr. Quinn a tremendous favor, but that he owes the son
    nothing, and leaves. 
    
    Next morning, Quinn stops by the office of Mark, one of the police
    department's forensics men and leaves Tim's key with him in the hopes
    that he can find out what it's for. 
    
    Over at Jimmy Murtha's bar, Danny is trying to get through the want ads
    while Jimmy mocks his hopes of landing a straight job. Jimmy and Mickey
    then argue about a man nicknamed Dogface who's late with the vig on
    some money Jimmy shylocked him. After settling the question of just exactly
    who Dogface is, Jimmy grabs his gun and tells Mickey, "Come on. It's time
    to go to work." 
    
    Quinn and his unwilling partner Collero are driving to Jimmy's bar and
    Collero is being totally upfront and honest with Quinn. He doesn't like
    Quinn; he doesn't trust Quinn; he sees Quinn as being reckless or bent
    and either way, Collero doesn't want to work with him. He offers to get out
    of the car and fight Quinn, just to settle affairs. To his surprise, Quinn
    offers him a cup of coffee. Collero agrees to the coffee but refuses to
    let Quinn buy, since he doesn't want to be swapping favors with him. After
    realizing he's left his wallet back at the station, Collero tries to
    bum a
    twenty from Quinn until they get back to the station. (He doesn't have
    anything smaller than a twenty in his wallet and doesn't want to make
    change just for Quinn.) Quinn pops open the car's glove compartment and
    removes a twenty from a secret panel in the door, explaining to Collero
    that it was Tim's idea in case of an emergency. 
    
    Fivers Dugan and henchmen are going through the burned-out, bombed-out
    ruin of his restaurant when Jimmy saunters in. After making some patronizing
    remarks to Fivers about the unexpected pitfalls in business, Jimmy cuts
    to the chase: He and his "associates" were thinking of expanding in
    Fivers'direction, what with their business going so well. Would Fivers, who
    used to know about successful business, happen to know of any property in
    the area which might be available as a business venture? Fivers says he
    can't think of any, but offers Jimmy some advice: "Don't sign any long-term
    leases." 
    
    Quinn and Collero are staking out Jimmy's bar. Collero sees Danny
    waiting outside by Jimmy's car and tells Quinn "The driver's a punk named
    Danny." Quinn tells Collero that after they get back to the station, Collero
    can look the kid's records up under "D" for Danny. Collero again offers to
    fight and gets out of the car. Saying, "I got a thing," Quinn drives
    away and leaves Collero standing by the street. 
    
    Jimmy and Mickey have located Dogface and Jimmy is beating him in an
    alley 
    because he's late with the vig. He demands something of Dogface's which
    has his real name on it. Dogface hands over his wallet and Jimmy takes his
    union card. He tells Dogface to have the money by Monday, or else.
    Dogface protests that without his union card, he can't work. Jimmy draws his
    gun and shoots Dogface in the leg, then asks "You got disability insurance,
    don't you?" When Dogface gasps out, "No," Jimmy replies "Guess I
    shoulda asked that before I shot you. Well, you're right. You can't pay me
    back." He exchanges a look with Mickey and walks out of the alley to his car.
    Mickey empties his pistol into the unfortunate Dogface. He walks back
    to the car and asks Jimmy "Do you want me to take the hands?" Jimmy
    angrily
    answers "Are you gonna ask me that every time?" Mickey: "I thought you
    might have changed your mind." Jimmy: "Have you ever known me to change
    my mind?" He then tells Mickey to get a picture of Danny and put it on the
    late Dogface's union card. 
    
    After abandoning Collero, Quinn goes back to the station, where he is
    assembling a bulletin board of what they know about the Easys. Geary
    tells Quinn that the Homicide Division was unable to get any useful
    information
    from the barrel his father's body was in because of it having been
    underwater. He promises to keep Quinn posted. Quinn says "I'm sure
    you'll know everything before they do." Geary tells Quinn that information
    is a wonderful thing; get enough of it on enough people and it tends to
    become self-sustaining. Turning the conversation to Murtha, Quinn asks why 6
    guys running a crime ring in a waterfront bar are such a threat to the city.
    Geary tells Quinn that Murtha is making a lot of important people on
    both sides of the law very nervous and their job is to find out why. Geary
    then tells Quinn that he is the cop who brought down Quinn's father fifteen
    years earlier, giving the man a choice between retiring and facing
    corruption charges. Quinn asks Geary "Why do you think I wanted to work
    with you?" Geary offers one more piece of information about Mr. Quinn
    that the police have not released to the public: when the body was removed
    from the barrel, the hands were missing. 
    
    Back at the bar, Jimmy gives Danny Dogface's now-doctored union card,
    which will allow him to get a job as a day laborer. A grateful Danny hugs
    Jimmy and turns to leave the bar. Mickey asks Danny for the keys to Jimmy's
    car. Danny tosses the keys, but an intervening Jimmy catches them. When
    Danny leaves, Jimmy tells Mickey to "call that fat bastard at the union so he
    knows what's what" and then leaves for church. 
    
    Quinn stops by Mark's office in forensics to find out the story of the
    key. Through ultraviolet light, Mark has been able to lift a partial serial
    number off the key. With that and the die marks, he was able to
    identify the manufacturer, a company from New Jersey. Since the company made
    only a few sales in their city, all to Union Station, Mark can even tell Quinn
    the exact locker the key is for. Quinn signs a form of some sort, probably
    a cost-account to record who Mark was doing the work for, and tosses it
    into Mark's inbox. 
    
    Jimmy has gone to confession. His priest tells him that he's known
    Jimmy since Murtha was a boy, he knows what Murtha does now, and taking the
    Lord's name in vain is _not_ Jimmy's only sin. He asks if Jimmy has no
    regard for the Sacraments. Jimmy tells the priest "I'm giving you what
    I can." Sighing, the priest tells Jimmy to say 10 Our Fathers, 10 Hail
    Marys, and do 1 Act of Contrition. Jimmy tells the priest that the most he can
    do is 2 Our Fathers and 2 Hail Marys, then offers the man a fine cigar.
    Leaving the confessional, Jimmy is confronted by a naked Theresa
    Connors, who wants to have sex on a pew. Horrified, Jimmy asks her if she has no
    regard for the Sacraments, drapes his coat over Theresa, and asks her
    what she's learned about Quinn. Theresa tells Jimmy that Quinn is dangerous,
    but that his own ever-growing arrogance is more dangerous. Jimmy cockily
    disregards Fivers as an old man, who once would have retaliated but now
    can't or won't. 
    
    Danny has stopped by Ellie's apartment to tell her he'll be working as
    a union man. She tries to send him away, but he tells her "I'm never
    gonna give up on us. Never." She replies "Never came and went, Danny. I was
    here and I saw it go by." 
    
    At Union Station, an overly talkative custodian takes Quinn to the site
    of the lockers, which were removed in 1995 because of the fear of
    terrorists. When Quinn asks where they went, the man offers to look up that
    information
    in his records. As they walk to the man's office, a crewcut man wearing
    a policeman's jacket is watching Quinn. 
    
    At the Union Hall, Sammy Feathers is explaining to Danny how things
    work: all the men with union cards come to the hall, then the boss comes out
    with the day's jobs. If you're lucky, you get assigned one of the jobs. If
    not, you don't work. Danny sees a friend's father, Mr. Kinnear, who has
    hostility toward Danny because of an unpleasant childhood incident. The
    union boss, a man who looks to be the "fat bastard" Jimmy told Mickey
    to call, comes out with only six jobs. Mr. Kinnear and Danny are two of
    the six men chosen. Danny walks through a crowd of men growling about his
    special treatment to go to work. 
    
    Quinn has gone to a junkyard and found Tim's locker in a maze of the
    lockers from Union Station. Opening it, he finds it completely empty.
    He goes to the junkyard manager's office and asks if anything was taken
    out of the lockers. The manager responds that the lockers are as they came to
    the yard, but that "you guys are welcome to search all you like." A fuming
    Quinn returns to the police forensics department and roughs up Mark,
    demanding to know who he told about the key. Mark asks why he would
    tell anyone about a key and besides, he hadn't even sent in the paperwork
    yet. He invites Quinn to see for himself, so Quinn rifles through the inbox,
    only to find his form missing. 
    
    Danny is working, sort of, on a loading dock as the second checker. Mr.
    Kinnear is the first checker, the man whose job is to mark off boxes
    against a manifest as they are loaded. Danny's job is to stand around
    in case Mr. Kinnear needs any help. When he protests to the foreman that
    he wants to work, the foreman tells him to go home and wait for a call
    from Kinnear, who'll call if he needs help. After a further protest, the
    foreman tells Kinnear to check out after only three hours because he's
    "through."
    
    When Danny complains "I don't want _his_ job" the foreman barks at him
    "Well, I don't want a bullet in the head!" Danny stands mute as a
    out-of-work Mr. Kinnear grabs his jacket and leaves the dock. 
    
    Later that day, Danny has returned to Jimmy's bar and Jimmy is yelling
    at Danny for screwing up the sinecure into which Jimmy placed him. When
    Danny walks away, Jimmy grabs him and spins him around. Danny shoves Jimmy
    across  the room. He loses his balance bouncing off a table and crashes to the
    floor against the bar. An outraged Jimmy orders Mickey to shoot Danny.
    When Mickey protests because "it's Danny" Jimmy tells another crony to shoot
    Danny. When this crony claims to have left his gun at his mother's
    house, Jimmy gets up and stands face to face with Danny, telling him "You see
    why I need you? You're the only one I can trust. I never let anyone hit me
    like that, no matter who they were." Seeing he's to be spared, Danny starts
    to laugh. Jimmy tells Mickey "This kid doesn't make any sense. Everybody I
    know woulda kissed my ass and prayed for my sainthood for a job like
    this." He tells Danny that ex-cons with a history of violence, such as Danny,
    will never be able to get honest work and that Jimmy is keeping Danny out of
    the dirt. He gives Danny a roll of bills to give to Ellie and, as Danny
    takes it, punches him in the stomach. Jimmy lowers the gasping Danny to the
    floor and whispers into his ear "That was for them, but if you ever lay a
    hand on my body again, I'll kill you, love you or not." 
    
    Outside the bar, Quinn is sitting in a car taking pictures. He is
    unaware of the crewcut cop driving slowly past him and taking a long look.
    When Quinn puts the camera into the glove compartment, the door won't latch.
    Looking at the door, Quinn remembers Tim's practice of using fake
    panels and returns to the junkyard. With a tire tool, Quinn rips apart the
    two portions of the locker door and finds a photo of seven or eight men
    taped to the inside. Standing side-by-side in the photo are his father,
    Fivers Dugan, and Captain Geary. Quinn hears something clunk against metal
    and looks around, but he is alone. 
    
    Danny has taken Jimmy's money to Ellie. When she asks him how he got so
    much money after only working a day, he tells her that it's union work
    so the pay's real good. When she chides him, saying "You never lied to me.
    You done a lot of things but you never lied," Danny explains "It was
    complicated. The only way I could keep the job was if I took it from
    someone else." "That's my Danny, always thinking of others." Ellie
    calls her boyfriend down and gives him the money, telling him to go buy
    groceries. As he squeezes past Danny into the hallway, Danny fixes him
    with a cold stare. 
    
    Quinn gets home at the end of the day and goes to hang up his jacket.
    The crewcut man runs up behind him and put a gun to the back of his head,
    demanding "Give it to me." Quinn asks "Give you what?" The crewcut man
    responds "Fine" and cocks his gun, then is shot by Frenchie, who is in
    Quinn's apartment for reasons unknown. Frenchie checks the body as
    Quinn goes to the phone to call the incident in. Frenchie tells him not to
    do that but to clean up the blood as he disposes of the body. When Quinn
    protests, Frenchie explains the situation: There's a dead cop in
    Quinn's apartment who never fired his weapon. Quinn is suspected of corruption.
    The neighbors didn't hear any gunshots because Frenchie used a silencer, "a
    natural self-defense weapon." Since Frenchie has already done time, no
    one will believe him and because of the suspicion of corruption, no one
    will believe Quinn either. He tells Quinn he can either turn in the man who
    just saved his life, or put down the phone and get a rag. After a moment,
    Quinn returns the handset to its cradle. 
    
    At Jimmy's, Jimmy is preparing to leave for a date with Theresa when he
    sees a few boxes of wine sitting on the bar. He tells the bartender to
    put the wine away. The bartender protests because he also has a date, but
    Jimmy tells him he'll have a date with an axe-handle if the wine's not put
    away before he returns. Jimmy gets into his car with Theresa, and as Danny
    pulls the car away, the front of the bar is blown out in a tremendous
    explosion. Danny stops the car and all jump out, but the heat is too intense to
    see if there were any survivors. As Jimmy sags against his car, Theresa taunts
    him: "I smell something. What is that smell? It's you. You're sweating."
                                                                  

    "A Terrible Beauty"
    
    
        The episode opens with a flashback to the end of "Every Picture
    Tells a Story" with Frenchie killing the crewcut cop in Quinn's apartment.
    To refresh our memories, we see Frenchie talk Quinn into cleaning up and
    not reporting the shooting, then we get rolling into the new.  We see a
    couple of Jamaicans dealing drugs on the street when Jimmy Murtha drives by and
    guns them down.  The sound of Jimmy's gun dissolves into a funeral salute to
    Det. Cameron Quinn's murdered father.
    
    After the service, Mrs. Quinn offers Cam a ride.  He declines,
    saying that he wants to stick around to make sure the old man doesn't crawl
    out. In yet another exasperated attempt to get her son to forgive his
    father, Mrs. Quinn says "You buried him; now let's see if you can make him
    go away."    Alone, Quinn kneels by the grave and picks up a handful of
    earth. Looking around, he sees Theresa Conners standing not far off and walks
    over to talk.
    
    Conners tells Quinn that she's come by to see if she can offer Quinn 
    any sympathy.  Sympathy doesn't seem to be her primary concern, however, as
    she takes Quinn's hand and places it on her breast.  Withdrawing, Quinn
    says "If you want to give me something, give me information."  Theresa claims
    that Jimmy can't give Quinn what he doesn't have, so Quinn gives her the
    handful of dirt he's been carrying and tells her "Then give this to Jimmy
    Murtha. Tell him to put it on the ground and lie face down on it and 
    think of my
    foot on the back of his head, because that's where it's gonna be until
    he changes his mind."  Putting the dirt in her purse, Theresa pulls out an
    envelope looking suspiciously stuffed with cash, telling Quinn that
    Murtha wanted her to give that to him, having seen it "fall out" of Quinn's
    pocket.  A saddened Quinn asks "What happened to you?"  She replies
    "You're thinking of someone else" and walks away, to the flicking of a camera
    iris that lets us know someone's photographing the conversation.
    
    The next morning, Jimmy and Theresa are taking a shower.  Jimmy's
    talking to Tommy O, one of his numbers-runners, via cellphone when
    Quinn raids Tommy's establishment.  The bookies quickly set their book slips
    on fire, which gives Quinn an excuse to arrest them for felony arson.  He
    picks up the phone and tells Jimmy about the raid.  Jimmy denies that there's
    any Jimmy Murtha on the line, but remarks that Quinn has nothing on anyone
    present at the site of the raid, at which time Quinn tells Jimmy about
    the arson charge.  Slamming down the phone, Jimmy tells Theresa to go bail
    out his bookies.  He asks Theresa if didn't she give Quinn the money like
    he said.  She acknowledges doing so by giving Jimmy the dirt sample.  As
    she goes downtown, Jimmy stands dumbfoundedly demanding to know "what kind
    of a person gives someone dirt?"
    
    The rebuilding of Fivers Dugan's bombed-out restaurant continues and
    Fivers is present to oversee the construction when he is visited by an
    angry Jamaican named Quami.  It seems that Quami's Rasta dealers have
    been paying Dugan a percentage to protect them and with Jimmy mowing them
    down unmolested, they're feeling a bit shortchanged.  Dugan tells Quami that
    he plans to meet with Murtha, after which meeting everything will be back
    to normal.  Quami and the Rastas are to be good little ganja boys and
    wait.
    
    Back at the Investigative Division offices, Quinn is telling Geary that
    with the pressure of cops and Dugan, Murtha is near the breaking point,
    at which time Quinn will be able to infiltrate the Easys.  When Geary
    solicits Collero's opinion, he offers that he's only there to watch and learn. 
    When the meeting breaks up, Quinn locks the envelope from Theresa Conners in
    his desk, unaware that he's being watched by Collero.
    
    If you're a criminal on the Alphabet Streets, you gotta use a bombed-out 
    building for your base of operations.  At the hollow shell that
    used to be a bar, Jimmy and Theresa are debating the merits of a
    meeting with Dugan.  Still cocky despite the bombing, Jimmy denies that a 
    war is imminent.  She argues the point, telling him his only option is to
    eliminate Dugan, and the sooner, the better.  Jimmy thinks she's a little too
    eager for a gang war and asks her why she hates men so.  "What did we ever
    do to you?"
    
    That night, Capt. Geary calls Quinn at home:  a cop's body has been
    found in an incinerator over on R Street.  When Quinn and Collero
    arrive at the scene, they find the body of the cop Frenchie killed in Quinn's
    apartment.  His wallet identifies him as Joseph Merrick.  Quinn
    suggests that the investigation begin with a questioning of Merrick's partner
    after the Homicide and IA units are finished with him.
    
    Next morning, Quinn drives over the Bridge To Canada to see Frenchie.
    He accuses Frenchie of either being sloppy or wanting to be caught. 
    Frenchie points out that if they get caught he goes to the chair, too.  When
    Quinn asks if he got rid of Merrick's car, Frenchie states that there was no
    car, which means Merrick had help.  He tells Quinn again to trust him and
    reveals that he didn't leave the body on R Street:  he buried it.  Someone
    followed him and retrieved the body to send Quinn a message.  Before stalking
    out, Quinn tells his friend "I am not covering it up again even if it means
    both of us go down."
    
    We next see Quinn after he has driven to the apartment he lived in as
    a boy, now a burned-out abandoned building.  Wandering through the
    building, he makes his way down to the basement, where in a small room he 
    makes the surprising discovery of a cot, freshly made up with clean sheets.
    
    Back at Jimmy's, the argument over the meeting with Dugan is raised
    again when Jimmy tells Theresa to call Dugan and set it up.  Seizing
    her throat, Jimmy coolly explains as she runs out of air that his way is
    never to let anyone get comfortable.  If they think they're getting a
    war, he gives peace.  If they want peace, they get war.  That way, they
    never know
    if he's going to kill them, or kiss them, or both.  With that, he
    plants a smack on the gasping-for-air Conners.  Turned on by his violence, 
    she concedes that Dugan will indeed agree to a meeting, then gives Jimmy a
    fingers-on-the-lips kiss and leaves.  Jimmy turns to Danny Rooney and
    offers him a .25 handgun for protection.  Refusing to accept, Danny tells
    Jimmy in no uncertain terms that he won't be drawn into the life:  "If you're
    lookin' for me to have your back, I don't have it.  If something goes down,
    I'm gone. You can not depend on me."  Jimmy tells him he's walking around 
    with his eyes
    closed and he doesn't open them, someone's going to sneak up behind him
    and blow him away...like Elli's doing.
    
    Quinn and Collero are questioning Merrick's partner, who claims to be
    largely ignorant of anything.  Thinking to draw him out, Collero tells
    him to be careful of IA.  The partner blows off IA, since most of their
    questions were about Quinn.  He gives up that since he didn't know
    Quinn, he hadn't had much to say to them.  After he is dismissed, Quinn
    continues to
    needle Collero by calling him Rank.  When told "It's Frank," he remarks
    "That's not what it says on your desk."  Collero grabs his nameplate,
    from which the "F" has been removed.  He accuses Quinn of taking his "F",
    which prompts the deadpan comeback "I wouldn't accuse somebody of something
    like that without any proof, Rank."  In his now-trademark scene-ending
    style, Quinn leaves.
    
    He's having a drink at a bar when Theresa Conners walks in and asks
    him what it will take to end the harassment of Murtha.  Seeing the
    finger marks on her throat, Quinn comments that between him, Dugan, and
    choking his girlfriend, Jimmy's a busy guy.  Theresa shoots down Quinn's
    cockiness,
    telling him he'll destroy himself long before he gets to Murtha.  She
    knows he's back in hot water with IA and asks if there's anything she can do
    to help.  He suggests that getting Jimmy to confess killing Tim might
    help. Theresa makes light of Quinn's actions on the day of Tim's death,
    asking him if he's looking for a killer or someone to share the guilt.
    Nonresponsive, Quinn tells the bartender to bring him another drink,
    plus whatever Theresa wants: water.  When Quinn asks if water is all she
    wants, she answers "Are you offering more?"
    
     "I'd be scared of what you'd bring to bed."
     "You mean like feelings?"
     "See, already I'm getting scared."
     "Fear is an emotion; that's an improvement."
     "And what do you do when you get scared?  Or does that never happen?"
     "We all have places we run to...or away from...but I don't have to
    tell you that."
    
    On the subject of running away, Quinn tells her about his fifteenth
    birthday, when he came home from school and found his father snoozing on the
    couch with a sack on the floor beside him.  Thinking it was his birthday present,
    Quinn opened the bag to discover more five-dollar bills than he'd ever seen. 
    When his father woke up and hit him, telling him to keep out of police
    business, Quinn ran away.  "I didn't say goodbye to anyone; I just ran."
    Theresa:  "Maybe that was smarter."  "Than what?"  Changing the
    subject, Theresa asks again what would get Quinn off Murtha's back.  Quinn
    suggests a
    gesture of good faith:  Jimmy should give him Tim's missing snitch
    Lonnie O'Shea.  When Theresa gets up to go, Quinn reminds her that she never
    answered his question from the graveyard:  "What happened to you?"  Wordlessly,
    she walks out.
    
    Danny has gone by Elli's apartment to pick up Janie for a day at
    the zoo.  He has also brought flowers for Elli and invites her to come
    along.  Telling him "We're doin' somethin'," Elli shuts the door in his
    face.  Propping the flowers by the door, Danny goes back to Jimmy's
    bar.
    
    Working at his desk, Quinn is visited by two IA investigators who
    want to share a little information:  they found Merrick's car...parked
    behind Quinn's apartment.  Saying that if they'd only called to tell him he'd
    have saved them some trouble and driven it over, Quinn picks up his jacket
    and, yes, leaves.
    
    Elli is awakened by a phone call from an unusually determined
    Danny. He's coming to get Janie to take her to the zoo, end of discussion.
    Hanging up, Elli goes into the bathroom and begins to clean herself up.
    
    At the ID offices, Collero is caught breaking into Quinn's desk by an
    angry Capt. Geary.  Trying to defend his actions, Collero tells Geary
    that Quinn's bent and he's got proof:  the photos of Quinn and Theresa in
    the cemetery.  He tells Geary he's been doing a little investigating and
    asks if
    Geary knows where Quinn grew up.  Unwilling to put up with partners who
    don't trust each other, Geary concedes that Conners is giving Quinn an
    envelope, but
    that he doesn't see any money.  Collero opens Quinn's desk to provide
    proof, but the envelope is gone.  Geary states "Your partner's your partner;
    if he's dirty you let someone else prove it."
    
    Jimmy and Mickey Kinnear are fleshing out the details of the meeting with
    Dugan as an insurance assessor goes through the wreckage of the place.
    Unhappy with his presence, Jimmy is not mollified when Mickey tells him
    that they simply can't steal _everything_ they need to rebuild.  He
    tells Mickey to call Frankie Ball and arrange for him to stay open, and to
    send an Easy named Bobby over to watch Dugan's place.
    
    Danny arrives at a noticeably dressed-up Elli's, but when she opens the
    door, he crudely thrusts a wad of bills into her hand and says "This is
    what you want, right?"  It is obvious his invitation to the zoo will not be
    repeated, so as he takes Janie and leaves, Elli takes the cash and
    locks herself in her room.  When the omnipresent Shirt asks her what she's
    got, she sullenly answers "Nuthin."
    
    At Jimmy's Mickey has called Frankie and told him to keep his fast-food
    stand open.  The insurance assessor, a plant of Dugan's, uses the
    redial feature and upon hearing "Frankie Ball's Shack" hangs up and calls it
    in to Dugan.  Taking the call is one of Dugan's men, who relays the
    information
    to Fivers and his guest, Quami the Jake.  Dugan tells Quami where the
    meet is to take place and sends him away, before telling his crony that he has
    no intention of meeting with Murtha, but plans to let Murtha and the Jakes
    destroy one another.
    
    Geary has taken Quinn for a ride to get caught up on recent events.
    Quinn tells him that Conners gave him an envelope at his father's
    funeral but that she's too smart to get caught on tape.  Geary suggests that
    Quinn and Collero start working together, as partners.  After all, if he'd
    been present at the funeral, Collero could have gotten the payoff on film. 
    He tells Quinn to keep the money so he'll look dirty.  After all, it's not
    unlikely that Conners has a contact in IA and if they're not breathing
    down Quinn's neck, the bent-cop charade falls apart.  Again expounding upon
    the theme of trust, Geary tells Quinn everything will be fine if they all
    just trust one another.  Claiming a 'thing,' Geary orders Quinn to catch a
    cab and lets him out of the car...in front of the old apartment building.
    
    After a pleasant day at the zoo, Danny brings Janie home to find Shirt
    and Elli fighting.  He hurls Shirt down the stairs and starts pounding
    on him.  Between blows, Shirt gets out "Stop her!"  Danny runs back
    upstairs 
    to find Elli finishing an overdose of heroin.  After getting her to a
    hospital, Danny listens to the doctor explain that they've pumped her
    stomach,given her some medication, and after a little rest, she can go home. 
    When the doctor asks how long she's been an addict, Danny has to confess
    ignorance. Returning to her bedside, he can only murmur "I'm sorry, Elli; I'm so
    sorry"while she sleeps.  Later in the hall, he and Shirt are talking.  Shirt
    offers to back out if Danny wants to come back, but states that Elli can't
    handle it.  She loves Danny but is too filled with guilt over her actions
    during his 
    jail time to live with him again.  Sadly, Shirt concedes that Danny is
    a better man than he by saying "The only thing she can deal with is me." 
    Having awakened and dressed, Elli leaves her room, picks up Janie, grabs
    Shirt, and leaves the hospital refusing to talk to Danny.  As he watches them
    leave, Jimmy strolls up and says "She's blowin' you away, Danny."  "How'd you
    find me?"  "I know everything, Danny.  Everything.  Let's go."
    
    When Bobby calls Jimmy to report no sign of anything suspicious at
    Dugan's, Jimmy calls Theresa and orders her to notify Dugan of the time
    and place of the meeting.  After doing so, she reaches into a cranny in the
    wall and pulls out a cigar box filled with childhood playthings, including a
    heart-shaped pendant.  Breaking down, she calls Quinn and when he picks
    up, finally answers his question:  "I believed someone."  His demand to
    know where
    she is is met with a click as she hangs up.  As the camera pulls back,
    we see that she is sitting on the cot in the abandoned apartment.
    
    At Frankie's Jimmy is trying to buy some junk food but Frankie won't
    let him pay.  The crusty old man threatens to give Jimmy a smack if he
    persists.  Smiling, Jimmy walks to his car, where Danny waits and gives
    him his food.  Danny asks "What do I owe you?"  Replying "Everything,"
    Jimmy tries
    again to get Danny to take the .25.  When he refuses again, Jimmy moves
    to put it in the glove compartment.  Danny tells him "If that goes in
    there, I'm getting out and walking."  Jimmy says "So walk."  He
    explains to Danny that he has plenty of protection, nothing will happen, and if
    something does go down, all Danny has to do is honk twice and drive
    away. Placated, Danny lets Jimmy hide the gun in the glove compartment.  The
    two-honk is intended to let Jimmy's backup know they should come
    a-runnin'. That won't be possible, however, as they are incinerated when the
    forewarned (and therefore forearmed) Quami drops a Molotov cocktail onto their
    car.
    
    Figuring out what Theresa meant in the bar when she said "We all have
    places we run to...or away from" Quinn goes to the abandoned apartment.
    He pauses to look at the Conners name on a mailbox near Quinn and goes
    down into the basement, where a softly crying Theresa says "You came back
    for me."  Sitting on the cot beside her, Quinn sees the pendant around her
    neck and flashes back to the day he gave it to her, when they were neighbors
    and sweethearts.  Unaware that all Hell is breaking loose at Frankie's,
    they make love on the cot.
    
    A carload of Jakes pulls up in front of Frankie's with guns a-blazin'.
    Danny honks twice, giving Jimmy and Mickey time to take shelter behind
    an overturned table and return fire.  Mickey is hit near the right
    shoulder and Frankie is cut down behind the counter, but they give as good as they
    get: two of the three Jakes are killed.  Meanwhile, Danny has been hiding in
    the car trying not to get shot, and sees the surviving Jamaican, Quami, get
    out of his car and walk to Frankie's shack, where Jimmy has hurled himself
    after running out of bullets.  In the shack, Jimmy looks frantically for
    something
    to defend himself with and settles on a frying pan.  He can only watch
    as Quami opens the door, steps inside, raises his gun, and is shot through
    the heart by Danny.  Recovering quickly, Jimmy puts Mickey and Frankie in
    the back of his car, the Jakes in the trunk, and tells a horrified Danny to
    get them out of there.  Lost in the realization that against his wishes,
    he's been made a part of Jimmy's criminal life, Danny has to be told
    repeatedly to drive before snapping out of it and driving away.
    
    Geary is working late when Quinn comes into the office and reports "I
    found a way in:  Theresa Conners."  "You're gonna turn Murtha's
    attorney against him?  What makes you think you can do that?"  "I just slept
    with her."
    

    "St. Jude Took a Bullet"
    
    EZ Streets Plot Summary
    Title: "St. Jude Took a Bullet"
    Episode Number: 3
    Episode Original Air Date: 5 March 1997
    
    ===================================================================
    
        The morning after his tryst with Theresa Conners, Quinn is in the
    ID's office with Collero and Geary.  Geary wants to know precisely how Quinn
    plans to turn her against Jimmy Murtha.  Quinn explains that he has offered
    the Easies freedom from police harassment in return for Tim's missing
    snitch Lonnie O'Shea, who Quinn thinks can tie Murtha in to Tim's death. 
    Noting that Quinn seems to have a lot of things that "could" get to Murtha
    but nothing that does, Geary demands to see Quinn alone in his office.
    
    
        In Geary's office, he tells Quinn that as per his earlier promise,
    he is working to get the police department to release Tim's death benefits
    to his wife and two children.  Internal Affairs is convinced that either
    Tim or Quinn is dirty and that unless there's a confession from one or the
    other, the benefits will not be released.  Geary knows that Quinn's
    attempts to link Murtha to Tim are an excuse to try to clear Tim's name and
    orders him to drop the charade and do what Geary hired him for:  bring down
    Murtha. As Quinn leaves the office, Collero asks what was said.  Quinn tells
    him that Geary's orders are to drop everything and find Lonnie O'Shea.
    
    
        In the aftermath of the shootout at Frankie Ball's Shack, Jimmy has
    disposed of the bodies and is preparing to deal with the gun Danny
    killed Quami with.  He has taken a visibly shaken Danny to the freezer of
    hands and is covering the gun with the fingerprints of the late and uninsured
    Dogface.  Danny is still resisting his actions, asking Jimmy "Why are
    you showing me this?  I don't want to know this."  He tells Danny that
    killing Quami was to save his life and that elevates him above the level of
    Jimmy and Mickey.  He promises that the matter will never again be brought
    up, then demonstrates a unique definition of "never" by clapping Danny on the
    shoulder, saying "Come on, Killer, let's go home."
    
    
        Quinn has dropped by Alice Beatty's house with a sack of groceries.
    Unnoticed by her or the children, he stands in the doorway long enough
    to hear her pleading for her old job over the phone.  When she hangs up
    after a fruitless effort, he avoids intrusion by setting the groceries on the
    stoop and leaving.  Hearing sounds from outside, Alice finds the
    groceries and initially drops the bag into the trash, but upon a moment's
    reflection, retrieves them.
    
    
        At Jimmy's burned-out bar, the Sweet Spot, Mickey Kinnear is
    explaining to Jimmy that while they can steal all the furniture they need for the
    rebuilding, the structure itself was extensively damaged and will cost
    a fortune to fix.  Jimmy suggests that Danny kill the estimator, then
    continues to needle him about the killing.  Theresa Conners calls to
    relay Quinn's proposal of freedom for Lonnie.  After confirming with Mickey
    that they can locate the snitch, he tells Theresa to come by and they'll
    work everything out.  She tells him that she's not coming over until he has
    a new place of business, so Jimmy goes in search of a new home.
    
    
        He finds that new home across the street, at a "gentlemen's club"
    owned by a friend of his.  When his friend offers condolences on the fire at
    the Sweet Spot, Jimmy mentions "That's OK.  We were thinking about moving
    anyway."  He and Mickey persuade the owner to sign his establishment
    over to Jimmy by threatening to deal with him in the same manner Jimmy dealt
    with someone else a year earlier:  by killing him in that very
    establishment. Taking the unsubtle hints about his health, the owner opts for early
    retirement.
    
    
        In an empty parking garage, Mayor Christian Davidson meets with
    Michael Dugan.  After being chastised by Dugan for failing to eliminate Murtha,
    he is reassured when Dugan lets him know the bar bombings were an
    eye-for-an-eye action and that there will be no further violence. 
    Matters then turn political as Dugan points out the vast quantity of dollars
    flowing over the Bridge To Canada into Frenchie's casino.  He proposes
    that the mayor get a casino built in their own city.  When Davidson
    protests, claiming he'll never be able to get that through the city council,
    Dugan suggests he have the bill introduced by Councilman Neeling, who
    allegedly owes the mayor a favor.  Dugan then gives the mayor a baggie of
    cocaine. Protesting "I don't want that," he is told by Dugan "Then throw it
    away; I have no use for it."
    
    
        In his apartment, Quinn is staring at the photo of his father with
    Dugan and Geary when Theresa Conners drops by to tell him that Lonnie
    O'Shea can be found at the abandoned train station.  When he invites
    her in for a beer, she asks "Do you always open your door to strangers?"  He
    replies "I didn't think we were," prompting "Really?  When did that
    change?" from a departing Theresa.
    
    
        Next morning, Quinn goes to the old train station.  He sees Lonnie
    at the same time Lonnie sees him and is forced to chase him down before
    placing him under arrest with a sardonic "Nice to meet you, Lonnie."
    
    
        Danny has taken his daughter Janie to the neighborhood church,
    where they are lighting all the votive candles that are out.  When the
    priest, a Father Mac initiates a conversation with Danny, he tells Janie to say a
    prayer for him and walks with the priest.  Danny tells Father Mac that
    he is looking for a better job.  Father Mac knows he drives for Murtha but
    can tell that something else is bothering him.  Danny asks if Mac is aware of
    the trouble he and Elli are having, and Mac concedes that he does, but
    proposes that the two of them come in for counseling.  Danny wryly comments that
    Shirt could be a problem and Mac says to bring him along too; Father
    Mac will take care of everything.  When Danny denies that matters are that
    simple, Mac tells him it _is_ that simple; the hard part is telling
    yourself that.  He tells Danny that the only way to really fail is to
    give up.  Danny protests that he'll never give up on Elli and the cleric
    counters with "I'm worried you're giving up on yourself."
    
    
        Upstairs from the ID, Quinn is questioning Lonnie O'Shea.  Since
    his old partner is dead and he can't trust the new one, Quinn is forced to
    play both roles in the traditional Good Cop/Bad Cop game.  When Lonnie tries
    to feed Quinn the bogus story about the fatal buy being an exchange of
    $10,000 for guns, Quinn scares him by dragging him backwards towards an
    elevator shaft.
    
    
        In Jimmy's new strip joint, a strangely standoffish Theresa Conners
    is antagonizing Murtha while going over the transfer of ownership for the
    bar. When she tells him there's an outstanding option to buy held on the
    bar, he tells her to take care of it.  She retorts that her rates have 
    gone up and that she'll give the matter to a paralegal to handle.  After she
    leaves, a perplexed Jimmy looks over at Mickey and offers "You tell a 
    broad once you're not in the mood, they tear your skin off."
    
    
        At City Hall, Mayor Davidson approaches Councilman Neeling about
    the casino.  Before he can even suggest it, the councilman informs him that
    he knows of the project through a mutual friend and that the bill is being
    drafted as they speak.  "Just act surprised when you hear about it and
    offer your well-considered support.  Give my love to [your wife]."
    
    
        Returning to his desk, Quinn finds Collero bantering with the two
    IA hacks who questioned him about Merrick's car.  Collero excuses himself,
    then Det. Dana Larkin tells Quinn that IA knows he has Lonnie hidden in
    the system under a false name and they want him.  Quinn is curious why. 
    Larkin fires back that he'd been telling everyone for months that Lonnie could
    clear Tim, but when he finally lays hands on the man, he keeps Lonnie
    sequestered.
    Quinn promises that whatever Lonnie tells him, he'll share with IA. 
    Larkin orders him not to withhold information.  Quinn retorts that all IA
    wants is him and since they can't squeeze Tim, they're squeezing his
    widow by
    withholding the death benefits.  Larkin maintains that Tim or Quinn is
    dirty and that unless Quinn gives them some useful information, they simply
    can't release the benefits.  When Quinn attempts to deflect the conversation
    by asking if Larkin's silent partner Al ever speaks, she tells him they'll
    find Lonnie and stalks out.
    
    
        One day later, Quinn is again questioning Lonnie.  His hypothesis
    that Lonnie is a drug addict has been proven correct and a crashing Lonnie
    offers to tell the truth.  Switching on a tape recorder, Quinn listens to the
    story:  Tim was looking for information on a gang of dirty cops calling
    themselves the Tamarack Boys.  The fact that Quinn was unaware of this
    means either that Tim didn't trust him or was looking to protect him. 
    The Tamarack Boys were involved in arson, extortion, kidnapping, drugs,
    even murder.  They had some extremely high-placed members.  Lonnie doesn't
    know why the name "Tamarack Boys" was taken but he knows the rest because he
    was once a cop who got fired after he progressed from a bagman to a drug
    user. Somehow Tim found him and started asking questions.  Lonnie was quickly
    pulled in on a phony drug bust and given a choice:  go down the river
    for 10-12 years or set up a meeting with Tim.  He was to offer evidence
    that could put the Boys away in return for $10,000.  Quinn supposes that he
    had to get the money from evidence control because Lonnie was afraid of
    getting it through normal channels and tipping off the Boys.  Lonnie claims not
    to have been present at the fatal meeting; indeed, he's been in hiding
    ever since and ran from Quinn because he feared Quinn had come to kill him. 
    He offers his condolences to Quinn and says that he really liked Tim. 
    Quinn turns off the recorder and prepares to transcribe the recording, at
    which time Lonnie will have to sign.  Lonnie agrees and then asks Quinn to
    uncuff him.  Quinn refuses.
    
    
        On the way downstairs, Quinn bumps into Geary on his way up.  Geary
    tells Quinn that IA is searching Tim's house for the third time and
    that this time they brought a wrecking crew:  tearing up the floors and
    everything.  He looks curiously upstairs as Quinn returns to his desk,
    locks the tape in a filing cabinet, then retrieves Lonnie and deposits
    him in the Psych. Ward under the name Brendan Behan "until I come and get
    him."
    
    
        Councilperson Patricia Wyler has gotten wind of the casino bill and
    confronts Mayor Davidson, livid that he could consider such a thing. 
    When he mumbles typical political platitudes about needing to study the
    wording of the bill and ensuring the city will see a "substantive benefit"
    she cuts him off with "You wanna do this to me in bed, Christian, I will always
    enjoy it...but don't try it here or I will cross my legs and snap your
    neck."
    
    
        Quinn arrives at the Beatty house just as an IA searcher finds a
    paper bag filled with cash under a floorboard.  He and Alice Beatty exchange
    a meaningful stare as the IA man counts the cash.
    
    
        Danny has stopped by a surprisingly friendly Elli's.  She tells him
    she was dreaming about the brief time they had together as a family before
    he went to prison.  She says the word is out about Frankie's and that she
    was worried about him.  He denies being there, and when she asks if he
    hadn't killed someone, denies that too.  Turning away from him, she asks
    "Lyin's startin' to come easier to you, Danny?  You know who's easy to lie
     to? Janie.  I know because I do it all the time.  And she believes you. 
    And that's what hurts, don't it?  Having someone believe you."  A guilty
    Danny says nothing.
    
    
        Quinn returns to the Psych Ward for Lonnie, only to be told by an
    agitated attendant that IA came by not five minutes after Quinn had
    left. Racing back to the ID offices, Quinn rifles through his filing cabinet
    to find the tape of Lonnie's statement as vanished as Lonnie himself.  He
    storms into Larkin's office at IA demanding to know where Lonnie is. 
    She tells him that they released Lonnie and gloats that they found him. 
    "You should have worked with us."  "I've seen the way you work.  Did you
    plant the money before or after you pried up the floorboards?"  He figures
    they've rewarded Lonnie with a one-way ticket out of town.  Larkin
    won't admit it, but hands Quinn a copy of the statement Lonnie gave them:
    He set up a gun buy between Tim and Someone Else for $1,000.  They think Tim
    pocketed the other $9,000 of the $10,000 taken from evidence...and with
    $9,000 being taken from the Beatty house that morning, they appear to
    have reason to believe it.  According to Lonnie's statement, the gun deal
    was all Tim's doing and Quinn knew nothing of it.  Quinn, angry that IA is
    choosing to take the word of a drug-addicted bent former cop over his
    partner's, listens to the rest of the story:  Lonnie gave up the name
    of Tim's shooter.  The man was in the system already for an unrelated
    offense. Quinn says expectantly "I'm waiting..."  Larkin reluctantly
    acknowledges
    that the man was stabbed in the heart while awaiting indictment.  Quinn
    remarks that the whole situation is awfully neat, especially since IA
    found Lonnie from an anonymous phone tip.  When he asks Larkin about Tim's
    death benefits, she explodes.  No way, Tim was dirty, the money was in his
    wife's house, the whole nine yards.  She tells Quinn to get out of her office
    and comments "it could've gone the other way and between us, I was hoping
    it would."
    
    
        Exercising a futile hope, Quinn returns to the train station.  Not
    only is there no sign of Lonnie, his squatter's campsite is gone as well.
    Staring at the floor, he makes An Important Decision.
    
    
        Having returned home, Danny lights a votive candle and stares
    vacantly into the flame before making An Important Decision of his own.
    
    
        Mayor Davidson, in his bedroom, pulls out the bag of cocaine Dugan
    gave him, places it on the dresser, stares at his haggard face in the mirror
    and, yes, makes An Important Decision.
    
    
                (During this part of the show, I also made a decision.
                          It was Not Important.  --  JH)
    
    
        Quinn returns to Dana Larkin's office.  She tells him "Unless you
    came to confess, I've got nothing to say to you."  Quinn: "Then it's your
    lucky day; you get 2 for 1.  Lonnie was my snitch.  He was lying to save my
    ass. I took the money and I set up the deal."  Larkin:  "I don't like being
    played."  Quinn: "Then you're in the wrong city."  Larkin:  "You wanna
    save your partner, do it on someone else's time."  Quinn states that he took
    the ten grand, gave Tim $1,000 for guns, then after the buy went bad, he
    hid the rest in Tim's house, figuring that nothing worse could happen to the
    dead Tim.
    
    
        After being arraigned and released on his own recognizance, Quinn
    head back to the ID offices to clean out his desk, where he is
    confronted by a livid Captain Geary, who wants to know if he really did it.
    His flippant "It doesn't matter" provokes a torrent from Geary:  "It
    doesn't matter?  You just blew my chance to get Murtha because you thought
    today was a good day to self-immolate but that doesn't matter?  Get out of my
    sight."
    
    
        In his office, we are privy to Geary's end of a phone call:  "He
    just blew himself up.  Quinn.  He blew himself up confessing the money
    thing.  I
    don't know if he did it.  In my gut I think no.  Three or four months. 
    I'm not making this up; that's how long it will take me to get someone else
    next to Murtha.  I can't fix this one; it's gonna have to come from on
    high."
    
    
        After some legal records-tracking, Theresa has located the
    organization that holds the option to buy on Jimmy's strip joint:  A 
    corporation in the Dutch Antilles.  On paper, anyway; according to the articles of
    incorporation it's a front for Fivers Dugan.
    
    
        Quinn is nursing a drink in a bar when Dana Larkin walks in and
    returns his badge.  The charges against him have been dropped; his suspension
    stuck for two hours.  She tells him "I don't know what you did, or who you
    have in your pocket.  I don't even really want to know, but when they don't
    need you anymore, I'll be waiting."  Quinn refuses to accept his badge until she
    agrees to tell whoever sent her that Tim's death benefits are to be released. 
    When she asks "Why should they care?" he responds "They shouldn't."  The
    next day, Alice receives the first benefits check from the city treasurer.
    
    
        Quinn is standing at Tim's grave when he sees Alice and her
    daughter and walks over.  She confronts Quinn about his confession and wants to
    know how he could let them dangle like that for two months while Tim's name
    got dragged through the mud.  Then she wonders aloud if he was telling the
    truth all along and suddenly lied for Tim and the family.  Summing up the
    thoughts of the viewing audience, she tearfully says "I can't follow all the
    lies.  I don't know who you are.  Did I ever?  Did he?" and walks to Tim's
    grave.
    
    
        Danny has returned to church to say his confession, presumably for
    killing Quami.
    
    
        Back in his apartment, staring at the picture, Quinn hears Lonnie's
    story of the Tamarack Boys in his head as he notices the word
    "Tamarack" stenciled on a crate behind his father.
    
    ===================================================================
    
    Well, that's it for this episode.  I'd love to stay and chat, but
    I've got a thing.  --  Jim
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>           In Geary's office, he tells Quinn that as per his earlier promise,
>  he is working to get the police department to release Tim's death benefits
>  to his wife and two children.  Internal Affairs is convinced that either
>  Tim or Quinn is dirty and that unless there's a confession from one or the
>  other, the benefits will not be released.  

I think they actually did say something like unless "one or the other" of
you talks, the benefits can't be released. 

Which is odd, since one of them is dead. So Quinn must confess to get the
benefits released?  Doesn't follow. Sounds like lawsuit time--grieving 
widow, hungry children,  no proof...

  I saw EZ Streets the other day and I was a bit disappointed. After all the
hype I thought it was going to be something that would blow you away but it
came up short. 

  One problem, the characters don't seem to have much depth. It's has a sort of
dark feel to it like "Homicide" but the characters lack personality. In
particular the women are card board cut outs walking through their parts while
men seem like refugees from a depression unit.

  Maybe it was a slow show but I didn't see any life or personality in any of
the characters. So someone gets shot. So someone wonders if he should fess up.
One woman wonders why no one wants to go to bed with her. No one gives a rip,
that's why. Not that she gave it much more than a passing thought.

  Even the shower scene was dull. Maybe that was suppose to be funny, hard to
tell. Maybe for these characters life is too EZ. It's finding reason to live
that's the challenge.

  George

    I enjoyed the first new episode early in the week, but lost interest in
    the second one. Similar reason I think--too gloomy.
    
    Joe Pantoliano seems like the only one who's enjoying himself. Debrah
    Farentino is gorgeous in a cadaveresque kind of way. She sure could use
    a day at the beach. 
    
     

BTW - Is Debrah the sister of Linda Farentino?  Of "Last Seduction" fame?  If
not the resemblance is striking.

/d

    
    	Farentino or Fiorentino?
    

    One of each.
    

    "Every Dog has its Day"
    
    EZ Streets Plot Summary
    Title: "Every Dog Has Its Day"
    Episode Number: 4
    Episode Original Air Date: 12 March 1997
    
    ===================================================================
    
        Cameron Quinn and Rank Collero are interviewing the Widow Dogface
    (Lucinda Jenney, whom discerning viewers will remember as Annabella
    Wilgiss, the white-cotton-glove killer from NBC's _Homicide: Life on
    the Street_ a few seasons back), who has called the police certain that
    Jimmy Murtha killed her husband.  As Quinn and Collero trade canine quips,
    she tells them about her husband's daily life and the strangely romantic
    state of their marriage.  She explains that she had a feeling of completeness
    every single day of their marriage and that she knows her husband is
    dead because that feeling is gone.
    
    
        At Jimmy's strip club, a well-dressed Danny Rooney and Theresa
    Conners are discussing her vibrating-mode pager when Jimmy walks up and demands
    to know if Theresa has rectified Fivers Dugan's option-to-buy on the strip
    club.  She has brought an affidavit for the prior owner to sign
    swearing
    that he signed the option-to-buy under duress from Dugan, at which time
    she can have the option declared invalid.  Something in her tone sets off
    Jimmy, who asks her if she's looking to get smacked, because she's
    "this close" to getting it.  Gazing pointedly at Jimmy's crotch, Theresa
    suggests that he not start measuring things as it will force comparisons. 
     She departs the bar, just before the arrival of Quinn and Collero.
    
    Danny has gotten a phone call which requires him to leave the bar
    for an hour; on his way out, he passes Collero and Quinn, who gives him a
    friendly "Hi, Danny."  "Do I know you?"  "Not yet."  The detectives
    join Jimmy at a pool table, where Quinn introduces Collero to Jimmy.  They
    question him about the missing Dogface.  Jimmy readily admits knowing
    Dogface; in fact, he willingly gives up that he last saw Dogface
    shortly before the disappearance when he was beating Dogface over the overdue
    money.  He then asks to speak to Quinn privately in the men's room,
    where two of his henchmen are waiting.  They frisk Quinn for a wire.  An
    indignant Jimmy wants to know what's going on:  he gave Quinn money and
    a tip on the whereabouts of Lonnie O'Shea, but he's still being hassled.
    Quinn claims that the Lonnie tip was a dud.  Murtha claims the deal was
    a quid pro quo and he's giving plenty of quid but getting no quo.  When
    Quinn claims that the uselessness of the Lonnie tip means that Murtha
    effectively has given him nothing, Jimmy agrees to start fresh.  He gives Quinn
    $200 to find Dogface and promises another $300 when the man is found.  He
    explains that Dogface owed him $3700 and he wants his money.
    
    Meanwhile, Danny's phone call was a job interview set up by Father Mac.
    Despite being an ex-con and totally up front about that, Danny is hired
    to do filing work in a warehouse.
    
    That night, Quinn is surveilling Theresa Conners' apartment. Inside,
    she seems just a little _too_ happy to be lying in bed, when she
    reaches under the covers and pulls out her vibrating pager.  She returns the
    call, which is from Jimmy.  After asking why she doesn't just give him her
    home number, Jimmy wants to know if he has to have a notary or some such
    present when the prior owner of the club signs the affidavit.  Theresa tells
    him all he has to do is get the signature and she'll take care of the rest. 
    He asks if he woke her up; she demurs and tells him "I had to get up
    anyway."
    She walks over to the window and flashes Quinn.  On the street below,
    Quinn picks up his tape recorder and makes a note:  "1:32 am.  Subject
    Theresa Conners...extends an invitation."
    
    The next morning, Mayor Davidson is in the hallway of the City Council
    building, talking on a pay phone to Fivers Dugan.  Dugan knows that
    Patricia Wyler is the crucial vote on his casino project and that she
    will be planning to vote against it.  When Davidson asks for more time to
    sway her, Dugan hangs up on him.  Gathering himself, Davidson banters with
    his aides, claiming the call was his wife, and returns to work.
    
    At the Investigative Division offices, Collero has purchased a new
    nameplate and is putting it into the holder when Quinn appears in the
    elevator and says that Dogface's car has been found.  As Collero walks
    to the elevator, Quinn closes the door.  Collero takes the stairs.
    
    Elli is dressing Janie for school.  Danny will be coming over to walk
    her to school and Elli wants the girl to look especially pretty.  When
    Danny arrives, he invites Elli to walk with them.  She initially
    declines, but then changes her mind, throws on a dress, and joins them.
    
    Beneath an isolated overpass, Quinn and Collero confirm that the found
    car belonged to Dogface.  They split up to canvass the immediate
    neighborhood, which consists of a half-dozen abandoned buildings and
    two known crackhouses.
    
    
    Danny is telling Elli abut his new job as they arrive at Janie's school.  
    She joins her classmates on the playground merry-go-round. Watching her 
    from the street, Elli compliments Danny on the job and the
    possibilities it offers him.  He admits that it's not much, but that
    the previous holder of the job is now a salesman and he too has a shot. 
    She replies "Sometimes a shot's all you need."  He tells her she looks
    better. Her biting "Yeah?  Better than what?" is met with "You look better. 
    You look good."  Not wanting to be late on his first day, Danny takes off
    for the warehouse.  Unclenching her fist from the schoolyard fence, Elli
    has driven a broken wire through her palm.  She appears unconcerned with
    the injury as she too leaves the school grounds.
    
    While searching, Quinn has come to the alley where Dogface was killed.
    He finds a scrap of cloth in a puddle of dried blood near an empty
    dumpster.
    
    Jimmy is renaming his strip club after his burned-out bar.  The Sweet
    Spot lives again, and in celebration, Mickey is advertising for new
    exotic dancers.  Danny stops by and asks for Jimmy.  Mickey tells him that
    Jimmy is in the office, but he's busy.  Coming out of the office, Jimmy again
    heckles Danny on his conservative attire and tells him to get to work.
    Danny explains that he's gotten another job.  Jimmy promises unending
    friendship, tells Danny again that the shooting of Quami the Jamaican
    has been taken care of, but then warns him that he can't walk away from
    what's inside him, from "the things done to us; the things we done."  Danny
    says that things are going well with Elli and he wants an honest job.  Jimmy
    tells him not to count on Elli and says that if the job doesn't work
    out, he can always come back, and if he needs a suit, he has only to
    call and tell Jimmy the color and size.  They shake hands and Danny leaves.
    Jimmy goes back into the office, where he and his men have been holding
    the club's former owner until he signs the affidavit.  When he protests
    that if
    he signs it, Fivers will kill him, Jimmy throws a glass of water in his
    face and asks "What am I gonna do, throw you a party?"
    
    Quinn has determined where the alleyway dumpster's contents eventually
    ended up, and he, Collero, and some uniforms are searching the area.
    Standing amidst the filth, Collero is holding forth on the absence of a
    body when Quinn comes up with Dogface's library card.
    
    At the warehouse, Danny receives his first assignment:  clean up the
    records room, which was left an utter shambles by IRS agents irritated
    when their audit of a refund revealed a larger refund.  Without complaint,
    he gets right to it.
    
    Back at ID, Collero is explaining to Capt. Geary that the trash site
    turned up Dogface's driver's license, credit card, library card, and
    such. They are notified that the blood found in the alley is the same type as
    Dogface's.  Collero goes further, saying that they also have Murtha's
    acknowledgment of the beating, a statement from the Widow Dogface, the
    victim's car found near the blood.  Quinn steps in to tear the
    circumstantial
    case to shreds:  the statement means nothing, no one can put Murtha
    anywhere near Dogface at the time of the killing, someone could have
    stolen the car and dumped the wallet, and that Murtha pre-empted his own
    motive by telling them Dogface owed him a considerable sum of money.  He 
    then tells Geary that Murtha demonstrated that he wanted Dogface found by 
    giving Quinn
    money to do just that.  A flabbergasted Geary asks "Quinn!  You've got
    a clear idea who you're workin' for?"  Quinn replies "It's getting
    clearer all the time" as he departs the office.
    
    That afternoon, Danny stops his boss and asks if he can leave early to
    go pick up Janie from school.  Irritated that Danny would ask to leave
    early on his first day, his boss orders him to get back into the records
    room and finish the job.  When Danny shows him that the work is done
    and the room is spotless, his boss tells Danny (with a small grin) not to
    stand around rubbing his nose in it but to go get Janie.
    
    At ID, Quinn has gone back over the notes from the interview with the
    Widow Dogface.  She told them that her husband sometimes worked down at
    the convention center, which Quinn realizes was union work.  He notices
    that there's no union card found among Dogface's papers, so he and Collero
    head down to the union loading dock.  They arrive around the same time as
    Sammy Feathers, who is given a day job by the union boss only after all 
    other possible workers are exhausted, including an ancient man named
    Herskovitz. In his office, Leo the union boss is questioned by Collero, 
    who wants to
    know the last time Dogface worked.  Looking him up by his union ID, the
    boss states that Dogface last worked two Tuesdays before.  When
    Collero states that that is one day after Dogface's disappearance, Leo
    backtracks, claiming to have misread the entry...Dogface really worked
    the Friday before the disappearance.  When Quinn and Collero suggest they
    take a look at the log, Leo tells them to get a warrant and orders them out
    of his office.  They go to the car, but drive only to the back of the
    building.  The growing respect between Quinn and Collero is captured by
    their exchange on the way to the car.  Quinn:  "You did some fine
    police work back there; did I mention that, Rank?"  Collero:  "Yeah, I got
    nothin' but admiration for you, too."
    
    Danny has picked up Janie from school.  They decide to wait for Elli to
    arrive, but time passes with no sign of her.
    
    Cornering Sammy Feathers, Quinn and Collero demand that he get them
    Leo's hiring log.  When he demurs, they begin to pay him off in front
    of everyone, despite his protestations that if the guys think he's a
    snitch, they'll kill him.  It's a story that fails to tug the cops'
    heartstrings,
    and they tell him he can either meet them in the parking lot with the
    log or they'll come back and be chummier.
    
    Danny has waited until the schoolyard is deserted and the last teacher
    is leaving with no sign of Elli.  Reluctantly, he takes Janie home.
    
    Mayor Davidson and Councilperson Wyler are in a hotel room spending the
    postcoital glow in an unusual fashion:  debating the merits of the
    casino proposal and the effect a casino would have on the city's poor. 
    Davidson maintains that it would provide thirty million dollars annually to help
    the poor, while Wyler avers that those thirty million would come out of the
    pockets of the poor.  She stands firm on her refusal to vote for the
    casino and tells Davidson he should hold a press conference and announce he's
    changed his position (so that he can be on the winning side).
    
    Sammy Feathers has obtained the log and meets Collero and Quinn in the
    parking lot.  He pretends to be taking a smoking break as they scan the
    entries and see that Dogface's ID was used on the Tuesday in question,
    but that the name attached was that of Danny Rooney.
    
    Danny is asking all of Elli's neighbors if they have seen her, but to
    no avail.  He stays with Janie until they hear a door open and close. 
    It turns out to be the omnipresent Shirt.  Danny asks "Where's my wife?" 
    A worried Shirts answers with "She's not here?"  Danny ducks back into
    Janie's room to ask her if she's OK and to tell her he's going to go
    out and look for Mommy.  A seemingly unconcerned Janie returns to playing
    with her doll.
    
    That night at the Sweet Spot, Mickey is inviting in a handful of
    prospective dancers.  At the bar, Sammy Feathers is telling Jimmy about
    his day:  cops came and asked Leo about Dogface and Danny and since Sammy
    knows Jimmy and Danny are friends, he came down to let Jimmy know.  Jimmy
    orders Sammy to cut to the chase:  did Leo rat out Jimmy as being the driving
    force behind Danny's use of Dogface's ID?  Sammy doesn't know, but
    gives Jimmy the cop's name:  Quinn.  Jimmy thanks Sammy for his time and
    gives him some cash, which Sammy pockets while telling Jimmy there's no need
    for payments between friends.
    
    Business concluded, Jimmy and the boys line up at the bar to, ahem,
    review the dancers.  One of the dancers turns out to be the Widow
    Dogface, who has brought a pistol with her and begins unloading in the direction
    of the bar, behind which Jimmy and Mickey have taken refuge.  Jimmy wants
    to know who the shooter is.  When Mickey identifies her as Mrs. Dogface,
    Jimmy asks how she got there.  Mickey admits letting her audition, as he
    thought
    she could probably use the money.  He then asks if Jimmy wants the boys
    to shoot back.  Before he gets an answer, the Widow Dogface, having
    emptied her gun, picks up her clothes and leaves the club.
    
    Danny is out walking the streets searching for Elli.  Councilperson
    Wyler, on the other hand, is leaving the hotel.  She is less fortunate
    than Danny, however, as person unknown joins her on the elevator and kills
    her.
    
    Quinn is sitting in a police car outside Theresa's when a bathrobe-clad
    Jimmy Murtha comes outside and demands to know what he's doing there.
    Quinn responds "Looking for you."  He tries to give Jimmy back the
    money to find Dogface and explains that he is unable to keep the money because
    he won't
    be able to find Dogface.  He thinks Dogface is dead and that Jimmy
    should reconcile himself to doing without the $3700.  Jimmy turns to walk back
    to the apartment.  Quinn calls out "Kiss her good night for me."  Jimmy
    stops and stares at him as he pulls his car out into the street to drive
    away.  On
    his way past Jimmy, he throws the money into the street.  Jimmy picks
    up the money, then gazes up at the apartment window, where a shapely
    silhouette reveals that Theresa witnessed the encounter.
    
    Danny has located Elli:  she's tarted up and is working a corner for
    tricks.  As he approaches her, Quinn drives up and cuts him off.  He
    tells Danny that they know all about the Dogface-Danny switcheroo and that
    they think Murtha was behind it.  Belief in Murtha's guilt notwithstanding,
    Quinn threatens to haul Danny downtown and pin the murder on him if he
    doesn't give up Murtha.  Danny stands silent as Quinn offers the
    parting
    shot "Such is life, Danny...see ya" and drives away.  Danny turns his
    attention back to Elli, only to see her getting into a car that pulled
    up as he was engaged with Quinn.  As the car drives away, Danny chases it
    down the street, falling farther behind, calling his wife's name.
    
    ===================================================================
    
    Well, that's it for this episode.  I'd love to stay and chat, but
    I've got a thing.  --  Jim
    --
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            101 Ways to be Obnoxious on Usenet by Alan Meiss, Number 96:
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                          as you find it 'dply offnsiv'."
    
        

    Gee if that's a summary I'd hate to see the detailed version...
    

    I think it's for all those people who find it "too hard" to concentrate
    on a show for an hour.  This is a show that you do have to pay
    attention to.

    
    	RE: .27
    
    	The detailed version also contains synopses for the commercials.
    
    	8^)
    
    	[Sorry, Christine!!]
    

    <---  =B^P

One relationship that I've had a hard time understanding (outside of a purely
intellectual level) was Danny and Elli. I understand that Danny is trying so
hard with her because she's his wife and the mother of his child, etc. But
her personality has been a complete blank except when she was being anything
from unpleasent to vicious. 

Now some flashes of personality are coming through with her (if you pay close
attention). This combined with the further development of Danny's personality,
he's none too bright but very loyal, begins to make the relationship a little
more clear.



Randy

    "One Acquainted with the Night"
    
    Warning... warning.... looonnnggg *detailed* summary to follow 8^)
    
    
    
    
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    From: 	James Lloyd Hill[SMTP:[email protected]]
    Sent: 	March 20, 1997 12:27 AM
    Subject: 	"One Acquainted with the Night" [summary]
    
    EZ Streets Plot Summary
    Title: "One Acquainted with the Night"
    Episode Number: 5
    Episode Original Air Date: 19 March 1997
    
    ===================================================================
    
        Elli is soliciting a john on her street when Danny walks up and
    asks to speak to her.  He pleads with her to let him take her home, but she
    will say only that she's waiting for somebody.  When another john pulls up
    to the corner, she claims he's the friend she's been waiting on, then gets
    into the car and rides away.  Danny walks disconsolately away, unaware that
    Cam Quinn has watched the discussion from a car parked farther down the
    street. Quinn gets out of the car and walks to a pay phone.  He calls Jimmy at
    the Sweet Spot to tell him that Danny will be busted for killing Dogface.
    While Jimmy splutters, Quinn offers to talk later, as he's got a thing.
    Realizing he's been hung up on, Jimmy orders Mickey to find Theresa
    Conners.
    
    
        Sammy Feathers knows the difference between life and death; I
    don't.Councilperson Wyler was not killed in the elevator after her hotel 
    room romp with Mayor Davidson.  She was, however, savagely beaten and is
    recuperating in a hospital with Davidson by her side.  Waking up, she
    tells Davidson that she held the elevator for her attacker and asks who
    would do such a thing to her.  Silently, Davidson walks to the door and
    after a long look, steps out.
    
    
        Back at the Investigative Division office, Collero is presenting
    everything they know about Danny Rooney to Captain Geary as Quinn looks
    on. The slide show ends with the connection between Danny and the late
    Dogface's union card.  Geary asks if Collero and Quinn think Rooney
    killed Dogface for the card.  Quinn responds that Murtha killed him.  When
    an obviously confused Geary asks if Murtha whacked Dogface for the $3700
    Dogface owed him, Quinn offers that Dogface was killed for the union
    card. Geary calls that the stupidest reason to whack someone he's ever heard
    of, so Quinn tells him of the robbery-gone-bad that ended up with Danny
    doing time for Jimmy.  "He did three years for his friend; let's see if he
    wants to do life."  Geary asks what Quinn will need.  "Two stakeout teams and
    some overtime."  "You can have Collero."
    
    
        At the Sweet Spot, a frustrated Jimmy and Theresa Conners are
    discussing Quinn's phone call.  Jimmy wants to know why Quinn would call and
    announce his
    intention of busting Danny.  Reading between the lines, Theresa tells
    him that Quinn might have said 'Danny' but he meant Jimmy.  He's announcing
    his plans to bring down Jimmy.  Jimmy asks if he should just have Quinn
    killed. Theresa says that would be stupid; that Quinn needs to bring down
    Murtha over his belief that Murtha was involved in (or knows about) the 
    deaths of Tim and Quinn pere.  That need is a weakness which can be exploited,
    but that Jimmy should be careful, because while Quinn has indeed opened
    himself up, he is also probing for Jimmy's weaknesses.  As Jimmy mulls that
    over, she asks "How's Danny?"
    
    
        Danny's doing fine, thankyouverymuch.  At least, he was until his
    boss begins reaming him out for making a sale over the phone; a phone which
    Danny shouldn't have answered because he's not a salesman.  His real mistake
    was giving the customer a 10% discount, which is strictly against policy.
    Danny offers to make up the difference out of his own pocket, and is
    stunned when his boss (who, I might add, needs a good sock to the chops
    for being a sadistic bastard) suddenly switches gears and praises Danny's
    skill:  he got a tenfold higher order out of that customer than anyone
    had been able to get for a decade. His boss tells him one of the salesmen
    might be moving west and that Danny will get the job when it opens.  He
    offers Danny the commission on that morning's sale, but Danny refuses since it
    wasn't his phone and the customer wasn't calling for him.  He calls
    Elli to tell her the good news.  She is home, but doesn't answer the phone.
    Eventually, Danny hangs up and gets back to work.
    
    
        An enraged Mayor Davidson meets with Fivers Dugan and asks if Dugan
    used a pipe or his own hands on Councilperson Wyler.  He concedes that
    Dugan's hands are all over him, but orders Dugan to keep away from his
    friends.  Dugan asks if Mrs. Davidson knows the depth of "friendship"
    between Wyler and the mayor, which only makes Davidson angrier.  He
    icily tells Dugan not to touch his wife.  Dugan responds with "Everyone needs
    to be touched," then changes the subject.  He cares about one thing only: 
    the casino bill.  With Wyler in the hospital, Davidson and his allies have
    a majority in the City Council.  "Hold the vote.  Today.  And be
    grateful, Chris:  as bad as it feels, it's someone else's pain."
    
    
        Quinn and Collero have brought in union boss Leo and his work log,
    which is a sodden mass.  Leo claims that he left it under running
    water, or perhaps dropped it in a toilet.  He refuses to answer questions about
    Danny or Jimmy, so Quinn turns the subject to Leo's gambling habit.  After
    leading Leo into the admission that all his debts are to Jimmy's bookie Tommy
    O, Quinn informs the man that the situation is grave:  Leo owes money to Tommy
    O, who works for Jimmy, who's friends with Danny, who just so happened to
    use Dogface's union card under Leo's supervision.  "In police circles,
    that's what we call a syllogism."  Leo blusters "You ain't getting me on no
    syllogism" and refuses to answer further questions.
    
    
        Elli gets back to her apartment to find Danny alone.  He sent Shirt
    and Janie off to a burger joint so he could have some private time with
    Elli to
    discuss matters.  He tells her of the day's events at work, then tells
    her that the money he'll bring in as a salesman is enough that she won't
    have to hook any longer.  He magnanimously offers to get past that, claiming
    that "we've all done stupid things."  Elli takes offense at the
    suggestion that she stumbled into prostitution and tells him why:  Janie 
    was sick, and
    Jimmy had reneged on his promise to take care of them while Danny was
    in jail.  She went down to the Sweet Spot to ask for money so Janie could
    get the medicine she needed, and Jimmy had just laughed at her.  With no
    other options, she turned to the night life.  She breaks down uncontrollably
    as she tells Danny about the first time, with a married trick.
    
    
        Councilman Neeling is in Davidson's office, offering to take the
    heat on the casino bill by bringing up the vote himself.  After all, it is
    his bill under discussion.  The two men reflect on Davidson's election
    victory over an obscenely corrupt incumbent as Davidson tries to figure out
    where he lost his principles.  Without the financial support of Fivers Dugan,
    Davidson could never have beaten his opponent.  He suggests that the
    price was too high.  Neeling fires back "You had a choice to make: you chose
    the people of this city over your integrity."  Davidson tells him to go
    ahead and hold the vote, then leaves his friend working the phones as he
    walks out of the office.
    
    
        Jimmy and Mickey have located Leo and are beating him in the men's
    room of the Sweet Spot to find out what he told Quinn or Collero.  Despite
    being smashed in the face by Mickey everytime he denies saying a word, Leo
    sticks to his story.  He tells Mickey that he knows Jimmy will kill him and
    asks if Mickey will see that the word gets out Leo was a stand-up guy who
    didn't do anything wrong.  Mickey replies "I don't know if I can do that,
    Leo."  He
    and Jimmy step outside.  Jimmy asks for Mickey's opinion, so he says
    that he believes Leo.  Jimmy admits that he does, too; Leo really is a 
    stand-up guy.
    Then he asks for Mickey's gun.  When Mickey protests, Jimmy states that
    Leo didn't say anything "when he was my friend.  Now what's he gonna do?" 
    Jimmy attaches a silencer to the gun, steps into the men's room, and shoots
    Leo six times in the body.  As he stands over the body, Mickey steps in and
    tells him that Danny has arrived and is demanding to speak to him.
    
    
        Mickey walks out the bathroom and brusquely orders Danny to leave.
    Danny refuses and tells Jimmy that Elli has told him of the time Jimmy
    laughed off her request for money.  An incredulous Jimmy responds "She
    told you I did that?"  Mickey steps out of the bathroom and tells Jimmy that
    there's a situation that needs to be taken care of.  Jimmy tells him to
    take care of it himself, then tells Danny to look at him and Elli and decide
    which one is the more believable.  When Danny accuses Jimmy of not keeping
    his promise, Jimmy retorts that he gave money every week to Elli for two
    and a
    half years, even when he couldn't really afford it.  Danny sets him off
    by asking "Why not three; that's what I did for you?"  Mickey steps out of
    the bathroom again and asks for help.  Again Jimmy tells him to handle it
    himself, then yells at Danny "do I gotta defend myself from you?"  "If it's
    true, yeah."  "That's good to know."  "No it's not, Jimmy, because if it's
    true,I'm gonna deal with it."  Jimmy's "How?" goes unanswered as Danny walks
    out. With his attention no longer divided, Jimmy can address Mickey's
    predicament,which turns out to be a whopper:  Leo is gone.  Despite having six
    bullets in the guts, he dragged himself out the window, down the alley, and
    vanished. Leaving the men's room, Jimmy states the obvious:  "This is not 
    good, Mickey."
    
    
        The next morning at work, Danny is visited by Det. Quinn, who again
    pressures him to give up Jimmy for the Dogface killing.  When Danny's
    boss comes by to see that the fuss is all about, Danny thanks him for the
    job and
    the opportunity, which made him believe in himself again, then tenders
    his immediate resignation.  Pulling on a jacket, Danny leaves.  Shortly
    after, Quinn follows.  As he drives in the direction Danny took, Quinn fails
    to see Mickey sitting in a parked car, watching him.  He catches up with Danny
    at a bus stop and tells him "It's not that easy, Danny.  We got your wife. 
    She's at the 3-0.  Want a lift?"
    
    
        Arriving by alternate means at the 30th Precinct, Danny asks the
    desk sergeant for information about his wife.  When the sergeant hears the
    name Rooney, she picks up the phone and asks for Detective Quinn to come
    outside.  Having followed the procession down to the precinct, Mickey
    ambles across the street to an all-night diner and calls Jimmy at the
    Sweet Spot to tell him that Quinn has arrested Elli and the cops are
    squeezing Danny.  Jimmy asks "Do you think he'll pop?"  "What do you want 
    me to do?" Jimmy tells Mickey not to act yet, but to wait for his arrival.
    
    
        Quinn and Danny are watching Elli through the interrogation room's
    one-way window.  Quinn tells Danny "We got a problem, Danny."  Danny
    asks Quinn "How far are you gonna take this?"  Quinn replies that the
    prostitution
    arrest is a trivial misdemeanor, but the drug paraphernalia found in
    Elli's purse kicks the bust up to a felony.  With a charge of that magnitude,
    Elli is certain to do a few years.  He asks if Danny remembers _his_ first
    year behind bars; if he thinks Elli can handle that.  When Danny accuses
    Quinn of
    forgetting cops are supposed to protect the weak, he makes the mistake
    of asking "What kind of man are you?"  Without missing a beat, Quinn
    responds"Look at _you._  You're thinking about letting your wife do time for a
    miserable piece of garbage like Jimmy Murtha...what kind of man are
    you?" He tells Danny that Elli doesn't have to be formally charged for
    several hours and suggests Rooney call an attorney, but warns him that a 
    call to
    Jimmy's lawyer means Elli gets processed right away.  Quinn walks into
    the interrogation room and explains to Elli that Danny has been given a
    choice: her or Murtha.  Elli answers "You're wastin' your time.  He already
    made that choice."
    
    
        Downstairs in the lobby, a troubled Danny is glancing at a pay
    phone while flipping a quarter through his fingers.  Before he can decide, he
    is met by Theresa Conners, who has come down to represent Elli and lean on
    Danny. She reminds Danny that the police strategy is to make him feel alone
    when in reality he has Murtha's full support.  Conners promises to have a
    release writ
    in no time so that Danny and Elli can go home in time to put Janie to
    bed. Angered by the clumsy effort to seem like chums, Danny says "Jimmy must
    really be worried to send you racing in here to make sure I don't do anything
    stupid."  Dropping the pretense, Theresa asks if he indeed plans to do
    something stupid.  Danny asks if she can promise that Elli won't do
    time and
    when Theresa dances around it and makes light of the charge and its
    consequences, tells her to pass the word to Jimmy:  "I appreciate the
    offer;
    if I need him I'll call."  Standing to go, Theresa icily says "You are
    making a big mistake."  Danny wryly comments that if you make enough, you get
    good at it.
    
    
        In the diner across the street, Theresa gives Jimmy the good news
    first:  since no charges have yet been filed, the police are hoping to
    make a deal with Danny.  When Jimmy offers his opinion that Danny could have
    made a deal when he took the robbery rap, Theresa gives him the bad
    news: some people learn from their mistakes.  She asks if Danny knows
    anything that can hurt Jimmy; Jimmy replies that Danny knows enough.  
    Commenting "Then
    he's not the only one with a decision to make," she heads for the door. 
    Jimmy tells her to stay where he can reach her; she tells him to page her.
    
    
        Mickey has been talking to fellow Easy Bobby on the phone.  He
    reports to
    Jimmy that no sign of the shot-up Leo has been found.  The two make
    smalltalk for a moment about the high probability of Leo's death, then Mickey
    turns the conversation to Danny and their mutual predicament: "I love Danny and
    I'd never want to hurt him...but I _can_ get to him, no matter where he
    is."  In return, Jimmy tells Mickey a story about his late brother Brian and
    Danny: Jimmy had bought Brian a Used Shiny Red Sportscar for Brian's
    eighteenth
    birthday, which Brian promptly wrapped around a pole.  When confronted
    by Jimmy, he blamed the affair on Danny.  Despite being present, Danny
    said nothing.  Jimmy explains that he knew already what had happened, which
    was good, or he might have made a mistake.  Mickey asks if he thinks Danny
    will talk.  Jimmy glumly says "He went to jail for me; he's lost his wife
    and kid; now he thinks I didn't even take care of them."  Mickey softly says
    "You had your reasons."  Jimmy looks away from Mickey and asks how he would get
    to Danny.  It turns out that Mickey knows someone who can ensure that a
    precinct
    door is left unattended at the proper time.  Asking if he should see if
    the guy is working, Mickey takes Jimmy's silence as affirmation and goes to
    call.
    
    
        Danny has been allowed into the interrogation room to speak to
    Elli. He hardly gets through the door before she tells him to save his
    breath; she already knows what he's going to do.  When Danny claims that's
    impossible since he doesn't even know what he's going to do, Elli mocks
    him.  Further promises to get her out elicit a bitter "You're gonna
    roll on Jimmy?  You gonna choose me this time?"  Backpedaling, Danny claims
    it's not that easy.  Bitterly, Elli protests "It _is_ that easy!  You
    promised me!
    You promised me you wouldn't do this to me again!  I'm your wife!  Just
    once I'd like to know what it's like to get the kind of loyalty from you
    that Jimmy gets."  Danny offers to take the fall again for Jimmy's misdeeds. 
    Stung by 
    her continued attacks, he claims that he just can't turn himself into
    -- "Someone that loves me?"  He feebly offers that he just can't make the
    decision.  Elli tells him he just has.  Apologizing yet again, Danny
    tells Elli he's going to get her the best possible lawyer and leaves the room
    as Elli breaks down crying.  When Danny has fully left the room, a
    dispirited Elli plaintively says "Choose me," leaving the words to hang in the
    empty air, punctuated only by her cries.  (Stop me before I wax poetic.  Or
    my legs.)  On his way downstairs, Danny passes Quinn and Collero and tells
    Quinn to do what he has to.
    
    
        Danny walks to the diner next door and asks "You gonna whack me,
    Jimmy?"  Jimmy answers with a question of his own:  "Are you gonna hurt
    me, Danny?"  Danny tells him to get Theresa in there to spring Elli and
    heads for the door.  Jimmy stops him with "Danny -- I woulda never done
    it...because I know you'd never hurt me."  Danny answers with "You know 
    how hard it is to
    know that, Jimmy?" and leaves.  As Danny crosses the street, Jimmy
    places a quick call from his cellphone and tells Mickey "Get the hell outta
    there."
    
    
        Watching Elli, Quinn and Collero discuss her fate.  Quinn says to
    let her go because Danny will never roll on Jimmy, but Collero points out
    that they have her on a Class 4 felony.  Quinn says "Look at her."  Collero
    does:
    Elli is pacing around the room, holding her arms at her side and softly
    crying.
    
    
        That night, Danny comes to the Sweet Spot to settle the matter of
    Jimmy cutting Elli off financially when Janie was sick.  Jimmy interrupts his
    pool game to tell Danny to take a look in Elli's medicine cabinet for
    all the stuff he bought.  He admits to cutting Elli off, but only after he
    found out she was using his money to buy drugs.  He tells Danny about Brian's
    struggle with drugs and the many stories he would tell when he came to
    Jimmy for money.  Despite knowing the money was going for drugs, Jimmy
    couldn't
    bring himself to say no.  He quietly tells Danny that Brian overdosed
    on junk Jimmy had paid for.  "I killed my baby brother; I wasn't going to kill
    your wife.  Turning the conversation to matters of employment, Jimmy says "I
    heard you quit your job."  Asking if Danny beat up this boss (like he had the
    burger joint owner) and hearing the negative response, Jimmy flashes the
    Murtha smile
    and walks off with a hearty "Y'see:  Every day, in every way, we're
    gettin' better and better."  Alone at the pool table and with his thoughts,
    Danny picks up a ball and disgustedly throws it down onto the table.
    
    ===================================================================
    
    Well, that's it for this episode.  I'd love to stay and chat, but
    I've got a thing.  -- Jim
    
    

    Maybe I'm starting to figure out this show, or who's who, or something,
    but last night's show actually made sense to me!
    
    I still don't know what Danny sees in Elli, though.
    
    NAZZ

Goodbye to another quality show...

The show's been axed, so reports the Boston Globe this morning.  And the network 
is so desparate to get this off of the air that they aren't even going to show this run's 
finale, which purportedly was going was going to bring closure to a lot of the loose 
threads we've all been trying to hang onto.  Goes to show what they think of us.

dave

    Not only aren't they going to show the last episode, it's being
    replaced with an episode of Walker, Texas Ranger. Dreck!
    

The TV section of the Globe noted the show's demise today by refering to it as the 
best new show of this viewing season.  I would certainly have to agree that is a very 
defendable position.  I think it's amazing how TV shows seem to be driven by 
people with very short attention spans.

But, I don't want to get off on a rant here...

    Well, it's kinda a bummer it's being canned.  I also liked "Murder
    One", which is being yanked as well.  It's perplexing how networks
    want/expect instant hits, and are very reluctant to allow a show a
    steady time slot or time for it to gain an audience.  
    
    Also, I often wonder who those Neilsen families really are.  
    
    At any rate, I hope that CBS relents and shows whatever episodes are
    left, especially if it brings closure to *any* of those dangling plot
    threads.  I also want ABC to show the rest of Murder One's episodes.  
    
    
    Here's hopin'.
    
    
    kim
    

    Seems like the networks have no historical perspective.
    The long-running shows of the past, M.A.S.H., etc didn't do
    spectacularly well their first year(s) either.
    
    And it seems to me that the automatically doom a show to failure if
    they don't show it in the same timeslot EVERY WEEK people.
    And stop preempting every other week.  Lois and Clark is (was?) on
    only 12 out of the first 20 weeks.
    
    I mean really, what do they expect from an audience?
    They certainly don't pay any attention to critical reviews either.
    

  Well there is some truth to what you are saying but in this case I believe
the show was over rated by the critics. The show was very dark and somber and
as I said earlier, I just didn't see the depth of characters needed to pull
off something of that nature.

  I watched a couple times and while there were some brief moments, in general
I just couldn't find my self either identifying or being drawn in by any of
the characters. I just didn't care if they lived or died. The lead bad guy
seemed something of a joke, the good guys seemed like extras, and the women
looked and behaved like cardboard cut outs.

  It is odd that they didn't run the final episode, the ratings must have been
really dreadful but holding the final episode might give it a 2nd chance.
Maybe if enough people complain it will get picked up in syndication using the
"final episode" of the first year as a hook during their advertising. If not
then maybe they will run the last show as a network movie some time in the
summer when people are not likely to be watching TV anyway.

  George

    It would be really nice if the person who was putting the summaries in
    could continue to do so for the final episode.  Those summaries were so
    good, so detailed, I think they must come from someone in the know with
    the show.  I can't imagine someone istting in front of the TV and
    writing notes as the show was being aired!
    
    NAZZ

    I was entering the summaries from an EZ Streets mailing list.  I've
    been on vacation and missed the last 3 shows, but I have the mail list
    messages and as soon as I get around to reading them, I'll enter
    whatever summaries are there.  I want to watch the episodes I taped
    first.

    Thanks!  Since they'll never show the last episode, there's no hurry!
    
    NAZZ

    "On the Left Side of the Angels"
    
    EZ Streets Plot Summary
    Title: "On the Left Side of the Angels"
    Episode Number: 6
    Episode Original Air Date: 26 March 1997
    
    ===================================================================
    
        Cam Quinn arrives in the offices of Geary's Investigative Division
    to find that Collero has received a phone call from Animal Control: 
    gutshot Leo was found on an operating table in a local veterinarian's office. 
    He and Collero are ordered down to the vet's forthwith to oversee Leo's
    transfer to a hospital.
    
        Danny Rooney goes to Janie's school to pick her up.  He finds her
    leaning alone against the school building, moping.  It seems there's a
    school play in which Janie is to play an angel, but Elli has yet to get
    a costume for the girl.  After confirming that Janie had indeed told Elli
    a week earlier, Danny promises to buy her the best angel clothes
    available, including a wished-for "big bow."
    
        Quinn and Collero have arrived at the vet's to find an Animal Control
    officer (who explains that they found Leo during a surprise inspection),
    the vet (who explains that Leo told him a "Jimmy Murder" shot him), and
    a third man (who explains he's Leo's attorney and that Leo has cogently
    expressed his desire to remain at the vet's, so that's where he'll
    stay). Collero rouses the drugged Leo long enough to ask "Who shot you?"  
    Down but hardly out, Leo banters "Your wife.  I kicked 'er outta bed."  
    Looking in a
    specimen tray by the table, Quinn picks up a nearly pristine bullet and
    says "If she did, she got him with a .38...and left us with six perfect
    examples."
    
        After the opening credits, we are treated to a haunting montage of
    scenes from the city:  an unending series of hollowed-out ruins, dusty
    vacant lots, shells of cars.  Truly, this is a city on the edge of
    utter collapse.
    
        Back at the ID offices, Quinn tries yet again to get Geary up to
    speed: Murtha shot Dogface to get a union card for Danny.  Danny used that
    union card to work.  Leo approved it, therefore he must have known about the
    killing.  When the ID began squeezing Leo, Murtha got nervous enough to
    try killing the man, who survives because he "has the body fat of a
    humpback whale."  If Leo lives, the vet's statement that Leo said "Jimmy Murder"
    shot him is inadmissible hearsay, whereas if Leo shuffles off his mortal
    coil, the statement becomes a dying declaration and a perfectly acceptable
    piece of evidence against Jimmy.  Quinn tells Geary that survival is unlikely
    with Leo remaining at the vet's office.  Geary wants to be told the minute
    Leo dies.
    
      Danny and Elli are fighting over Janie's play.  Elli has completely
    forgotten about it, something Danny attributes to her drug use. 
    Applying the "best defense is a good offense" strategy, Elli accuses Danny of
    thinking she's a bad mother.  Denying that, Danny says that all he
    meant was if he had known about the angel costume, he could have taken care
    of it.  Elli (who, by the way, seems to have the world's largest
    collection
    of button-free buttonfly jeans) complains that Danny is trying to buy
    Janie's affections and be the hero.  "Try thinking about somebody
    besides yourself, Danny."  "Your daughter's in there crying her eyes out
    because she thinks you don't love her, and _I'm_ thinking about myself?" 
    "Yeah, Danny, you _are_.  But I don't expect you to understand that."
    
        Rank interrupts Quinn at his desk and tells him to step into
    Geary's office.  The ballistics report on the bullets taken out of Leo
    indicates that they came from the same gun that killed Quinn's partner Tim.
    The only link between Murtha and the gun is the clinging-to-life Leo.  In 
    search of
    more evidence, to wit, the gun itself, Geary sends them to the Sweet
    Spot to arrest Murtha and exercise a search warrant:  he wants the gun.
    
        Fivers Dugan is enjoying the breakfast of champions:  coffee,
    cigarette, and morning paper when he is joined by Councilman Neeling.
    Dugan remarks that Mayor Davidson has yet to sign the casino bill and
    asks where he is.  Despite the round-the-clock security detail the Mayor
    has, Neeling hasn't a clue.  Dugan makes it quite clear to Neeling that the
    casino is very important to him.  Neeling makes the mistake of joshing
    about the money it'll put into Dugan's pockets.
    
    "Shut up.  When I was a boy, this city was alive.  Business thrived;
    streets were clean; parks were safe.  There was plenty for everyone and
    now you're sitting there and you're thinking I'm a criminal."
    
    "I don't think you're a criminal."
    
    "Shut up!  I am a criminal.  But what you boys have done - the
    politicians who've sold off the city's assets to their friends for nickels
    and dimes,
    the chemical companies who've turned the river I used to swim in into
    an open sewer, the judges who took hundred-dollar bribes to let them do it
    - you _boys_ in your Ivy League ties have turned this city into a
    corpse...and laid her out on a slab.  Now, when the casino bill becomes 
    law I will be
    awarded the contract to build and run it.  I'll make a lot of money. 
    I'll also be employing thousands of people who haven't seen a paycheck in
    years.
    I will be giving back to this city and no one - no one - will stop me
    from doing that.  You and the mayor go back a long way, don't you, Carl?"
    
    "I wouldn't want to see him hurt."
    
    "Then find him."
    
     Quinn, Collero, and a pack of uniforms are rousting the Sweet Spot.
    Jimmy is placed under arrest and Quinn orders the uniforms to tear the
    place apart.  One of the Easies must have recently seen _Midnight
    Cowboy_, as he can plainly be heard protesting "I'm walkin' heeeeere!" as 
    they drag him out of the club.
    
        In the interrogation room, which looks suspiciously like the one
    down at the 30th Precinct where Elli spent much of "One Acquainted with the
    Night", Quinn is watching Jimmy and his counsel, Theresa Conners,
    confer.
    Jimmy is protesting his innocence.  When Theresa tells him that Leo is
    close to dying, which would provide the police with a dying declaration,
    which means that Leo told someone Jimmy shot him, Jimmy mutters "I knew
    I couldn't trust that Mick rat bastard."
    
    (At this point, CBS cut in to offer the news of the mass suicide in
    California, as though they hadn't already been scooped hours before by
    CNN and as though the dead might arise and walk before the late news, thus
    ruining a good story.  But fear not!  I still have ways beyond those of
    mortal men.)
    
    "What was that 'close' thing?  Do they or don't they have this dying
    thing?"
    
    "He is alive but in critical condition."
    
    "So then find him and I'll kill him myself!"
    
    "Jimmy, you're not listening to me.  If he dies, then they have you."
    
    "Oh.  What if he lives?"
    
    "That depends...do you think he still likes you?"
    
    "Sure.  Why wouldn't he?"
    
    "Jimmy, sit down."  She tells him about the gun and its use in the
    shootings of both Tim and Leo.  "Unfortunate coincidence, don't you
    think?"
    
    "I didn't shoot the cop."
    
    "Like you didn't shoot Leo?"
    
    "No, like I didn't shoot the cop!"
    
    "If you didn't shoot Quinn's partner, then where did you get the gun
    with which you didn't shoot Leo?"
    
    "I don't know.  Look, I get lots of guns.  People give them to me on
    the street; they give them to me for birthday presents. It's like I'm the
    NRA or something.  I coulda gotten it anywhere."
    
    "Will they be able to find this gun?"
    
    Wising up, Jimmy tells her "Like I said...there is no gun...but there
    might be a place where a gun might be found, and you might want to mention 
    it to Mickey."
    
    Quinn watches through the one-way glass as Murtha tells his attorney
    something, then watches her pack her briefcase and leave.
    
        Spending her day in the typical way (lying half-somnolently on the
    bed), Elli suddenly flies into action, stripping the bedcovers and
    cutting the sheets into a dress form.  She tells the omnipresent Shirt to 
    bring her
    a needle.  Shirt stands quietly in the doorway until Elli realizes her
    mistake and clarifies the request:  she wants a needle _and thread_.  
    Never one to miss the obvious, Shirt remarks "Oh, like you're sewing.  That's
    great."
    
        The search of the Sweet Spot turned up no gun. Guards have been
    placed at Leo's bedside.  Police are watching Mickey Kinnear to see if he 
    goes for the gun.  While waiting for further developments, Quinn and Collero
    discover Sammy Feathers has come to see them.  After the typical song and dance
    about danger, plans for the future, danger, and the need for money, Sammy
    cuts to the chase:  he was visiting a friend on O Street when he saw a
    flickering
    light in the basement.  Thinking of troublemaking teenagers, Sammy went
    down to check it out.  He saw a guy putting something that looked like a gun
    into a heating vent.  When Quinn ups the snitch's fee from $50 to $100,
    Sammy puts a name to the man:  Jimmy Murtha.
    
        Danny has taken Janie to a costume shop in search of angel attire.
    While he and the proprietor argue over the $300 cost of a one-day
    rental, Janie falls in love with a $500 sale-only dress with wings and the
    big bow.
    After getting the owner to knock $50 off the price by not getting the
    wings, Danny gives the man $50 for a deposit and promises to come back
    later with the rest.  He tells Janie not to tell Elli about the dress. 
    She asks if was too expensive and he tells her "If you need something, you
    tell me and I'll get it for you.  I'm your Dad; that's my job."
        
        The mysteriously absent Mayor Davidson is in his limousine, being
    driven around the city and glumly looking at the decay all around him.
    His chauffeur lowers the divider and asks "Where to now?"  Davidson
    answers "Nowhere" and raises the divider again.  He reaches into his breast
    pocket for a money clip and a baggie of cocaine.  After a long pause
    interrupted  only by the unanswered ringing of the car phone, he rolls a 
    bill into a straw.
               
        Quinn and Collero have gone to the apartment building on O Street
    as per Sammy's directions and find a gun in a basement heating vent.  It's
    a .38.  (And for the firearms buffs who were watching last week, it is
    indeed a revolver.)
    
        Returning to the interrogation room, Quinn saunters in and stands
    quietly.  Jimmy asks him "Are you just gonna stand there?"
    
    "We found the gun, Jimmy."
    
    "Oh, really?  What gun is that?"
    
    "The gun that shot Leo; the gun that shot Tim Beatty, my partner."
    
    "Well, good for you.  Did you find any prints on it?"
    
    "No."
    
    "Oh.  Well, that's _not_ so good for you, is it?"
    
    "You remember what I said, Jimmy, the first time we met?  What I said
    I'd do when I found the person that killed my partner?"
    
    "Well, you know, seein' as how I didn't do it, I didn't pay much
    attention."
    
    "That person is looking more and more like you, Jimmy."
    
    "Like me.  I never even met your partner, the poor bastard."
    
    "He was a good man, a decent cop; he always had my back."
    
    "Which I guess is more than he could say about you."
    
    "You see that mirror?  There are people watching us, which means I'm
    going to have to respond to that."
    
    "So then respond."
    
    Walking behind Murtha, Quinn violently slams the man face-first into
    the tabletop.  Jimmy pops right back up and continues.
    
    "You tryin' to get me to react?  What do you think I am, stupid?  Do I
    look like I never took a beating before?"  He then bashes his face onto the
    table twice more, then sits up and mutters "I scare myself more than
    you scare me."
    
    Quinn walks over to the table, takes off his jacket, and places it over
    the microphone.  "You have a window of opportunity, Jimmy.  Once Leo dies,
    that window closes.  I could care less about Leo; I care about who shot my
    partner.  The gun says you did.  If you expect me to believe you and
    not the gun, you have to give me something: the name of the person who shot
    my partner.  If you do that then maybe I can help you with Leo."  Jimmy
    gloats
    that if Leo dies they can't tie the gun to him, so Quinn tells him they
    have a witness to Jimmy putting the gun in the heating vent.  Jimmy
    vehemently denies being stupid enough to use the same gun for multiple
    crimes and proclaims that someone is setting him up.  Quinn offers him
    one more chance to take the deal, then picks up his jacket and leaves the
    room. Outside, he tells Geary he tried something that didn't work.  Geary
    tells him he knows full well that Quinn has an agenda and he doesn't care,
    but Geary wants Murtha and warns Quinn not to come between them.
    
        Elli has gotten the sheet formed into a rough dress.  Before she
    gets a chance to hem it and such, Shirt interrupts to show what he's been
    doing:
    making an aluminum foil wing.  Obviously proud of being a part of the
    big night, he compliments Elli on the near-dress and goes to make the other
    wing.
    
        Meanwhile, Danny has figured out how to pay for the dress in the
    costume shop.  Counting out the cash he needs, he leaves his own
    apartment building with his landlady's threats to evict him if he doesn't 
    pay his overdue rent ringing in his ears.
    
        When Quinn and Collero arrive at the vet's Leo is up on his feet
    and preparing to leave, despite the IV he's still attached to.  Quinn
    reminds him that he's almost certain to be killed if he leaves.  Leo again
    refuses to rat on Jimmy and proudly tells Quinn "It's who I am.  It's what I
    take to bed at night."  He then gathers his few things and leaves.
    
        Mayor Davidson is giving a ringing speech to an appreciative factory
    crowd.  He shares their anger over the constant decline of the city's
    jobs, schools, neighborhoods, and businesses.  He exhorts his listeners to
    vote for him, to draw a line in the sand and keep this factory open.  He
    declares that if they vote for him for City Council, their factory shall not
    close. With applause ringing in his ears, he looks around.  He stands, alone,
    in the dust-filled litter-strewn remnants of an empty factory.  Another
    campaign promise broken, another failure from his past stands dark
    before him and visibly weighs upon him.
    
        Quinn has located Sammy Feathers outside Fivers Dugan's new place of
    business.  He watches through binoculars from his car down the street
    as Dugan comes outside and speaks to Sammy briefly before slapping him to
    the ground.  Sammy gets up and scurries away.  After a moment, Dugan
    goes back inside.
        
        After dragging Sammy back to the ID, Quinn asks how Sammy knew where
    the gun was.  He then demolishes Sammy's story by pointing out the
    impossibility that Sammy saw it.  Having established that Sammy is full
    of it, Quinn turns the focus to _how_ Sammy knew the gun was there and_who_
    told him.  Obviously scared witless, Sammy refuses to name names but
    offers to say whatever Quinn needs him to say in court.  Walking out, Quinn is
    intercepted by Collero, who asks what they should do.  With Sammy's
    story patent bunk and Leo likely to survive, Quinn tells him to let Murtha
    go.  The case has collapsed.
    
        Danny brings the angel dress to Elli's and arrives as Elli is
    trying to
    persuade a recalcitrant Janie to put the wings on.  Clad in the homemade
    dress, Janie complains and tells Elli that she wants to wear the dress
    Daddy bought.  Elli denies that Danny has done any such thing.  Seeing
    the homemade dress, Danny quickly put the bag containing his purchase
    behind an
    end table.  Just as he straightens up, Elli comes out of the bedroom
    and, seeing him empty-handed, snidely asks "More broken promises, huh,
    Danny?" He goes into the bedroom with Janie and after asking the angel if 
    she's seen
    his daughter, tells Janie that he just couldn't afford the dress, but
    he brought her the bow.  He praises Elli's dress and tells Janie it's such
    a good dress that he hadn't even recognized her.  Out in the living room,
    Elli notices the bag and inspects the tailored dress.  She says nothing
    as Danny leads Janie out of the bedroom and asks if Elli will sew the bow
    on to Janie's dress.
    
        Back in his car, Davidson finally answers his car phone, which he'd
    been neglecting all day.  It's Dugan, who tells him "You're a difficult
    man to find, Mr. Mayor.  You haven't signed my bill yet."  Davidson quietly
    replies "I'm not going to" and hangs up.  The chauffeur again lowers
    the divider and asks where to take his passenger.  "Take me home."
    
        Having followed Sammy Feathers to Theresa Conners' apartment, Quinn
    sees her give Sammy an envelope of cash.  After Feathers takes the
    money and bolts, Quinn goes up to her apartment to tell her a story.  Of a
    lovely lady, who was bringing up three very lovely girls.  Wait, wrong story.
    "It's about an attorney whose client is facing two murder charges.  He
    asks his attorney to hide the murder weapon.
    
    "She wouldn't do that; she'd be disbarred."
    
    "You want it to be a woman?  All right, we'll say she is.  So she goes
    to a snitch; we'll call him 'Sammy Feathers'.  She tells him where the
    murder weapon is and gives him a story to tell about how he found it."
    
    "If this gun could implicate her client, why would she want it to be
    found?"
    
    "Because she knows the story will never stand up.  She'll be able to
    tear it apart on the stand.  She'll discredit the witness and she'll
    discredit the evidence."
    
    "I like this girl."
    
    "Ah...she gets better.  She sends Sammy to Michael Dugan, so now it
    looks like Dugan is trying to frame her client."
    
    "I, uh, I think I know this 'Sammy Feathers'."
    
    "I think you just gave him an envelope full of money."
    
    "Sammy brought me some information I thought valuable.  Apparently
    somebody was trying to frame my client.  If need be, he'll testify to that."
    
    Quinn pulls The Gun out of his jacket and thrusts it under her nose,
    asking "Do you know what this is?"
    
    "Is it a gun?"
    
    "The gun that shot my partner."
    
    "What, have you been stealing from the evidence locker again, Cam?"
    
    All banter aide, Quinn presses the grip into her hand and leans in so
    that the barrel is pointed directly at his stomach.  "How does that feel?"
    
    "Cold...hard...you wanna come in?"
    
    "This is how Tim was shot:  point blank, in the gut.  As close as I am
    to you the killer looked him in the eyes and he pulled the trigger.  Now
    look in my eyes.  What do you see?"
    
    "My reflection."
    
    "If you were involved, that'll be the last thing you see."  Abruptly,
    Quinn turns and leaves.
    
        Leo has packed a bag and loaded a gun, but before he can get out of
    his office, Jimmy and Mickey come by, prompting a soft "Not again!"  Jimmy
    compliments Leo on being a stand-up guy and tells the union boss how
    glad he is the man pulled through.  He points to Leo's overnight bag and
    asks if he's going outta town.  When Leo confirms the plan, Jimmy shakes his
    head, gives Leo an envelope of cash, and says "Nahh, don't do that.  A man
    needs every friend he can get."  Turning, Jimmy leaves.  After a half-smile
    and a pat on Leo's shoulder, Mickey follows him as a flabbergasted Leo can
    only lean against his desk and stare after them.
    
        The play at Janie's school was a smashing success.  Danny is
    carrying an already-asleep Janie and Elli at his side as he puts the girl to
    bed. Elli looks at Danny, as if to speak, but says nothing.  After an
    awkward pause, Danny offers a halfhearted "Good night."  After Elli's return
    "G'night," Danny heads for home.  As he makes his way downstairs, he
    hears Shirt ask how the play went.  Quietly, Elli says "Fine.  It was fine."

    "A Ceremony of Innocence"
    
    
    EZ Streets Plot Summary
    Title: "A Ceremony of Innocence"
    Episode Number: 7
    Episode Original Air Date: 2 April 1997
    
    ===================================================================
    
        In Theresa Conners' apartment, Jimmy Murtha is angrily asking
    Theresa about her strategy for getting him out of jail.  He feels that perhaps
    leading the police directly to the weapon used in two crimes might not
    have been the wisest course of action.  To make his point, he hurls a his
    glass at the wall, littering the floor with glass fragments.  Insulted,
    Theresa 
    calls his attention to the fact that he's not in jail anymore and tells
    him to be thankful and keep paying her bills.  Jimmy clutches her throat,
    telling her _he_ almost paid with his life and asks if she'd like to pay that
    way. She suggests that he track down the history of the gun because someone
    close to him is trying to frame him for murder, and that he start with
    the people closest to him.  He throws her onto the bed and tells her to
    disrobe, then steps into the bathroom.  Reaching down, Theresa removes
    something from the side of her foot.
    
            In the small apartment that Mickey Kinnear shares with his father,
    the two men are discussing his employment.  Mr. Kinnear is disturbed that
    Mickey is no longer driving for Jimmy Murtha, as the he no longer can
    pretend that Mickey is other than an enforcer.  Mickey tells his father 
    that a chance
    conversation with a bookie revealed that the older Kinnear is gambling
    again. When his father denies it, Mickey chastises him gently and heads for
    the door.  Mr. Kinnear calls back that knowing what Mickey does for a
    living makes
    him ashamed to be his father.  Without answering, Mickey picks up his
    keys and goes to work.
    
        Cameron Quinn and his mother have just had dinner in his apartment. 
    As he cleans up, Mrs. Quinn wanders into his bedroom to find the walls
    adorned with photos pertaining to Tim's murder, including a blowup of the
    infamous
    Tamarack Boys photo and a homicide shot of Cam's murdered father.  She
    picks up a minicassette recorder and clicks it on to hear Quinn asking
    himself
    rhetorical questions.  When her son steps into the room and shuts the
    recorder off, she accuses him of being obsessed and suggests he step
    back a bit.  While he defends himself as a guy trying to do his job, she walks
    back over to the Tamarack Boys photo, recognizing most of the men in it
    as ne'er-do-wells of all stripes.  She tells him again to go to Arnie
    Kellogg, his father's partner, for help.  She points at Captain Geary in the
    photo,saying that he looks familiar.  When Quinn tells her the man's name is
    Geary, she remembers him as the man who sold out Quinn's corrupt
    father.She tells her son to stay as far away from him as possible.  He tells
    her he works for Geary, prompting a surprised "In that case, be nice."
    
        Quinn stops by his boss's office to ask what Geary knows about Arnie
    Kellogg.  Geary accuses Quinn of going fishing, but tells him a story:
    Geary's first assignment in Intelligence was to wiretap a pawnshop
    thought to be a front for mobsters.  Instead, the tap revealed the voices of
    seven crooked cops.  Four were busted and two were allowed to retire.  One
    was never identified.  Since one of the privileged two was Quinn's father,
    Geary is certain that the unidentified seventh man was Kellogg.  He
    never pursued the matter, since his job wasn't chasing dirty cops.  To make
    his point to Quinn, he offers the detective a choice: a transfer to
    Internal Affairs to chase corrupt cops, or a return to his nominal job of
    getting the good on Jimmy Murtha.  Catching Quinn looking over his 
    shoulder at the
    open safe on his floor, he tells Quinn "This doesn't concern you" and
    indicates that Quinn should leave.
    
        Jimmy is terrorizing a lineup of Easies in the Sweet Spot to try to
    find out which man gave him the tainted gun.  Growing ever wilder, he
    provokes
    one man into a loss of bladder control, which angers him so much that
    he's about to shoot the man when Mickey intercedes.  He reminds Jimmy that
    he himself had given the gun to Murtha before Murtha shot Leo.  Jimmy asks
    him where he got the gun, but his claim of ignorance is met with "That's
    not good enough.  I need you to track this down."
    
        Quinn has gone to Arnie Kellogg's apartment.  Remembering the younger
    man's bad attitude at his father's wake, Kellogg initially refuses to
    speak to the detective.  After Quinn reminds Arnie that he was the seventh
    man and Quinn pere took the fall alone, Arnie lets him in, agreeing to let
    Quinn ask
    one question.  Pulling out the Tamarack photo, Quinn tells Kellogg that
    he had identified some of the men in the picture as a state senator,
    Dugan's predecessor as the city's mob boss, Quinn pere, Dugan, the former
    mayor, a
    union boss named Gaynor, and Someone Else.  Kellogg refuses to say who
    the Someone Else is.  Quinn tells him that's not the question; the question
    is why are these men all together?  Kellogg tells Quinn that he heard they
    went on a fishing trip together when Gaynor came to town to force the local
    unions into line with a big-money project.  One local boss wouldn't go
    along
    and shortly thereafter turned up dead.  From the initial fishing trip,
    the whole Tamarack Boys gang of extortion, murder, and real estate fraud
    got started.  He claims that the elder Quinn was not actually a "player"
    but was along just because people liked to have him around.  He claims that
    Mr.Quinn was a good man who had the misfortune of knowing too much.  Quinn
    replies "So did my partner," then shows Kellogg the portion of the picture 
    with Geary in it.  Despite claiming to have discharged the debt to Quinn 
    pere, Arnie tells
    Quinn fils to look into how Geary came to hold his current job.  As
    Quinn makes for the door, he says to Arnie "My father was right.  You _are_
    the man to see."  Arnie preens a bit and says "Well, you live long enough,
    you hear more than you ever want to."  Quinn says "Yeah, and somebody had
    to take the picture."
    
        Danny, Elli, and Janie Rooney have been out for a walk and a
    dinner-spoiling treat.  After Janie runs ahead upstairs, Elli asks
    Danny what's obviously bothering him.  He asks her if she's considered going
    into a drug rehab program.  When she responds that she's doing fine on her
    own, he tells her she isn't and suggests that it's not shameful to seek
    help. When he asks again if she'd go, she tells him she can't really think
    about something that won't happen because she doesn't have the money.
    
        In the Kinnears' apartment, Mickey is pointing out to his father that
    the lock on his gun drawer was picked.  The older man initially begins
    to spin a tale of a burglary, but quickly gives up the truth:  in debt
    from gambling losses, he sold a few items including the gun, then after a
    win at
    the track, bought a new gun and placed it in the drawer.  Mickey tells
    his father that bodies are attached to the gun and that he needs to know
    where it came from.  His father claims to have purchased the gun from "a 
    tall guy" on the street and will say no more.
    
        Taking Arnie Kellogg's advice, Quinn has gone into the personnel
    section to look up Geary's records.  The Captain's computer file has
    been mysteriously erased, but the clerk gives Quinn his paper dossier. 
    Flipping through the file, Quinn asks her if he's holding the entire thing.
    Responding affirmatively, she asks if something is missing.  Handing
    back the file, Quinn says "A life" and walks away.  Looking down, she flips
    through the file.  Aside from a cover sheet, all pages in the folder
    are blank.
    
        Still in search of information on the increasingly mysterious Capt.
    Geary, Quinn stops by the newspaper morgue and starts scanning
    headlines
    for Geary.  Working backwards, he discovers that in January 1990 Geary
    was appointed head of the Intelligence Division by new police commissioner
    Randall McFarland.  McFarland had become commissioner upon the December
    1989 resignation of Commissioner Devlin, brought about by the November
    1989 suicide of Mrs. Devlin, linked to missing police department funds
    in a scandal investigated by Geary.  Going still farther back, Quinn
    discovers 
    that in 1979 Geary served as Best Man at McFarland's wedding.
    
        Jimmy is questioning Sammy Feathers, stoolie extraordinaire, at the
    Sweet Spot.  Sammy reveals that a bookie named Paulie Two-Shoes is
    holding
    markers in excess of $10,000 on Mr. Kinnear.  The only reason he hasn't
    taken aggressive collective action is because someone has guaranteed
    payment of those markers.  Jimmy pays off Sammy, tells him he's "got the 
    job", and
    calls Danny over to take him to Paulie's.  Before leaving, Danny tells
    Jimmy he needs to earn some money.  Jimmy asks how much.  When told
    "Six thousand dollars" he pulls an immense wad of cash out of his pocket and
    casually counts out $6,000.  He gives it to Danny, telling him that
    future income will result from Danny taking over a collection route from the
    Easy who wet Jimmy's floor.  Danny promises to pay the money back quickly,
    but Jimmy tells Danny "This is not a loan.  It doesn't come back.  Neither
    does this."  He then gives Danny a gun, which the ex-con tries to refuse. 
    Jimmy tells him that there are very few people he can trust and that Danny 
    is one
    of them.  When Danny turns down the gun again, Jimmy asks for his money
    back. He tells Danny that without the gun, Danny can't very well watch
    Jimmy's back.  Sadly, Danny takes the gun and the two men leave for Paulie
    Two-Shoes'.
    
        Quinn has arranged a meeting with former Commissioner Devlin at pool
    where the man gets his exercise.  Despite the discovery of a large pile
    of cash in his mother's attic, no hard evidence against Devlin for
    corruption
    was ever obtained.  He claims that Geary went after his wife in the
    absence of such evidence.  Geary obtained a photo of Mrs. Devlin coming 
    out of a
    bank in the Cayman Islands and leaked it to the press, which led to the
    woman's suicide with her husband's service revolver.  Devlin tells
    Quinn that two pieces of evidence never got into the innuendo-laden
    newspapers
    stories:  (1) Mrs. Devlin was vacationing in the Caymans and was in
    that bank
    cashing a traveler's check and (2) Geary knew it.  When Quinn asks how,
    the older man gives him a photo from Mrs. Devlin's belongings:  Geary and
    the woman smiling for the camera in the Caymans.  During some marital
    strife between the Devlins, she and Geary had gone away together.  Devlin
    tells Quinn "I've done some terrible things in my life, things I regret, but
    I never used anyone like he used her."
    
        That night, Jimmy stops by the Kinnear apartment.  He and Mickey
    reminisce
    briefly about the late Mrs. Kinnear, then matters turn serious.  With
    Jimmy's gun in his ear, Paulie Two-Shoes had confessed that Mr. Kinnear's
    markers were
    guaranteed by Fivers Dugan.  Jimmy tells Mickey "This is something I
    can't forgive.  Talk to him, Mickey.  Come back to me with something.  Give
    me a reason not to do what you know I have to do."  Mickey protests that
    there must be another explanation.  Jimmy says "I hope so.  Get back to me
    tonight," then
    leaves the apartment as Mickey places his head in his hands and sits
    silently.
    
        Capt. Geary is taking target practice at the shooting range when
    Quinn walks up and lays the photo of Geary and Mrs. Devlin in front of him.
    Geary tells him "I heard you've been asking some questions about me. 
    How is the ex-commissioner these days?"
    
    "To be honest, I think he misses his wife."
    
    "No one wanted that to happen to her, Quinn.  She was a nice person,
    but frail."
    
    "You were in a position to know just how frail.  You used her to bring
    him down.  You leaked the story and she killed herself."
    
    "You have a cause, you think your actions are justifiable...that you
    can defend the consequences and that no matter what the price, it's worth
    paying...
    then somebody else has to pay the price.  Maybe someone you love.  And
    you're not so sure.  I took Devlin down the only way I could.  God help me,
    I'd do it again."
    
    "Which might lead one to ask what else would you do."
    
    "You realize this:  I am the only lifeline you've got, pal.  Now, you
    want to throw that away, you are on your own."  Geary tells Quinn about the
    light bulletproof vests Devlin arranged for the force to have.  Nearly every
    cop wore one, good cops: peoples' friends, peoples' partners.  Though
    they've since been replaced by better ones, he still remembers the light 
    vests Devlin bought.  He tells Quinn "I have to live with the things I've 
    done" and that if  the detective wants to come after him, he'll have to 
    wait in line.  Slapping the target-return button, Geary picks up his 
    things and leaves.  As the target arrives in the shooter's booth, Quinn 
    sees it's a policeman's bulletproof vest, studded with Geary's bullets.
    
        When Danny comes by her apartment yet again, Elli teasingly suggests he
    put a cot in the hallway.  Her joking demeanor vanishes when Danny gives
    her the $6,000 he got from Jimmy.  When she asks what he did for it, he
    tells her he borrowed and asks if he can trust her to take it to a
    clinic for rehab.  After a brief hesitation, she answers in the negative. 
    He tells her he'll have to, because he can't give the money back.  She 
    pleads with him
    not to do this to her; that he's stupid to give that kind of money to a
    junkie.  He tells her she doesn't have to call herself that.  When she
    protests "That's what I am" he gently says "I know who you are."  As he
    turns to leave, she calls after him.  He turns to her and repeats "I know 
    who you are" then leaves.
    
        City Councilman Neeling intercepts Mayor Davidson to tell him the
    mayor's chauffeur has been arrested.  A traffic violation turned up 
    cocaine in the man's car; however, he is claiming the drugs belong to 
    the mayor.
    
        Mickey is confronting his father in their apartment.  He pleads with
    his father to tell the truth about the gun and when the older man
    claims to be doing so, asks him to tell a lie, to give his son something 
    he can take to Jimmy.  He frantically grabs a suitcase and offers to pack Mr.
    Kinnear up and get him out of the state.  Mr. Kinnear refuses to leave, so
    Mickey resolves to go to Jimmy's and plead for the man's life.  Grabbing his
    wallet, he sees an old war medal he stole from his father at age nine.  They
    laugh about the medal and the late Mrs. Kinnear, then Mickey grabs a gun to
    go to Jimmy's.  Mr. Kinnear tells him not to take the gun if he won't need
    it. Planning to play on his friendship with Jimmy, Mickey agrees and puts
    the gun back.  With a tremor in his voice, Mr. Kinnear thanks his son for
    taking care of him.  As Mickey walks to the door, Mr.  Kinnear quickly picks
    the drawer lock and removes the gun.  On a hunch, Mickey turns around in
    time to see his father place the gun against his own chin and fire upward.
    
        Later, Theresa Conners steps out onto her balcony, where Jimmy is
    engaging in Deep Thought.  When he tells her he's thinking of Mr.
    Kinnear,Theresa suggests that Jimmy could have planned everything, up to and
    including shooting Leo with a palmed gun instead of the one Mickey gave
    him. As he himself told her, people are always giving him guns and one gun
    looks a lot like another.  When he asks why he would have gone to all that
    trouble,she reminds him of Machiavelli's dictum in _The Prince_: that it is
    safer tobe feared than loved.  She mentions that she had given him a copy of
    the book and had seen him reading it.  Turning to go back inside, Jimmy tells
    her "People are always giving me books.  One book looks a lot like
    another."
    
        Alone in his apartment, Quinn is dictating into his minicassette
    recorder:  "'You can only be betrayed by the people that you trust.' 
    Why'd  you get in the car, Tim?  Who did you trust?  Why didn't you talk to
    me? And now, who do _I_ trust?"  Advancing the tape, he hears Tim asking
    "How ya doin', Cam?"  Looking at the trail of photos on his wall and ceiling,
    Quinn sadly answers "Fine.  I'm fine."
    

    A note from Paul Haggis (show creator) posted to the EZ streets mailing
    list on April 6:
    
    Hi guys--
    
    I only have a few minutes, cause I got a thing and I'm gonna be dead if
    I'm
    late, but I wanted to put in a quick "thank you".
    
    I've read every one of your letters and all of your email. I've tried
    to
    get back to everyone, though it gets tough at times.  But I wanted you
    to
    know how much I truly and deeply appreciated your support of my show. 
    And
    more than that, I wanted to thank you for the fabulous discussion that
    it
    provoked.  Your insights were fascinating, I had a hell of a good time
    reading them.
    
    The first thing I want to tell you is: your voice does mean something.
    Write CBS all you want, and encourage others to do so -- Yeah, the odds
    are
    really long that'll help this show, but a big show of support might
    help
    the next show that comes on and is just a tad controversial or dark or
    complex.
    
    The second thing I wanted to say was: don't give up hope quite yet. 
    I'm
    not going to.  I'm out to sell it someplace else, and we've already had
    some encouraging conversations. Can't say where, cause nothing might
    come
    of it, but I'm far from packing up and moving on.
    
    Lastly, the eighth episode is out there -- Alan and the other critics
    have
    it, so bribe them with money or sex and maybe they'll let you get
    together
    and screen it. I'll let Alan and others tell you what they want about
    it,
    but I can tell you that one of the plots is Mickey, Jimmy and the other
    EZs
    are determined to give Mickey's dad the send off that Mickey promised
    him
    -- a burial at sea.
    
    As far as sending you the scripts or stories -- sorry, I'm not ready to
    do
    that yet, cause I still consider them "spoilers", as I am completely
    determined to produce those episodes and more.  I'm not going to leave
    you
    guys hanging.
    
    I have until June 15 to pull this off, so stick with me -- you might be
    able to play a big part in bringing it back.
    
    Until then, I remain the most optimistic cynic on these streets.
    
    Now I really do have to run, cause I'm late for that thing.
    
    --Paul
    

    "Neither Have I Wings to Fly"
    
    (not yet shown on network tv)  Summary was done by Alan Sepinwall who
    is a writer for the New Jersey (?)
    
    "Neither Have I Wings to Fly"
    
    Three weeks ago, a Con Ed lineman saw an illegal wire spliced into a
    box outside an empty warehouse on J Street and clipped it without
    checking to see what it was feeding power to. Since then, an
    unbearable stench has started creeping out of the building, and when
    a uniformed cop found a freezer full of severed human hands, he
    called Intelligence. Quinn and Collero survey the macabre scene, with
    Quinn increduously noting that the "sick bastard labeled them." Det.
    Frank Collero temporarily re-earns his "F" by quietly offering to do
    the inventory himself, since the hands of Quinn's father might be in
    there. "I know," Quinn mutters.
    
    At a neighborhood funeral home, the Easies are studying the
    wonderful job done patching up Mr. Kinnear to ensure an open
    casket. Bobby and Fat Man keep marveling at how you can barely
    even see the bullet hole, and Danny has to agree. Jimmy walks over,
    and also expresses astonishment at how good the old guy looks in the
    casket. Mickey, meanwhile, is going over various burial plans with
    the funeral director. His dad was an old Navy man and wanted to be
    buried at sea, but there's one catch: he also hated fire, and Mickey
    refuses to allow cremation. The director points out that a literal
    burial at sea would be highly illegal, and leaves Mickey alone for a
    few minutes to make a decision.
    
    Back in the hallway, Danny finds a payphone and calls Elli to find out
    what decision she made on rehab. "I'm sorry I let you down," she
    says, "I'm leaving." Elli hangs up the phone, and we see that she's
    packing a suitcase. She surveys the bedroom to see if there's
    anything she's leaving behind, and spots her wedding ring, which she
    stares at.
    
    After another helicopter shot of The City, including a lovely view of
    our friend the Bridge to Canada, we cut to the Mayor's office, where
    Mayor Davidson and Councilman Neeling are flustered by a
    newspaper headline about the Mayor's driver being arrested with
    cocaine in the limo. Neeling says that the Mayor has to go on the
    news and point a finger at the driver. "It's simple, Chris," he says.
    "If
    it's not his, they're yours. One of you gets burned. Joan of Arc looked
    pretty good up there, but she didn't get re-elected."
    
    At the Investigations Division office, Geary, Quinn and Collero are
    going over the preliminary information they've gathered on the
    freezer. They can't trace the freezer to anyone, since it was stolen
    off
    the back of a truck years ago, and the writing on the bags are in
    block letters, which makes a handwriting analysis impossible. Geary
    notes that an empty bag was labeled "Dogface," and Quinn says
    they're already having hair and fiber analysis being performed on it.
    Homicide has no open cases on those names, but prints from the
    hand labeled "Murano" turned up on the gun used to kill the rasta
    softball pitcher back in the pilot. "Some psycho's been killing people,
    hacking off their hands, sticking the prints on murder weapons,"
    Geary marvels. "Gotta love his style." Quinn and Collero head out to
    earn their pay.
    
    At the Sweet Spot, the Easies are holding an impromptu wake,
    getting plastered and telling stories about Mickey's old man.
    Jimmy's the narrator on the latest one, about a second-story robbery
    that he, Mickey and another guy pulled years ago. The cops showed
    up, and while Jimmy and the other guy made it across to the
    adjacent building by crossing a plank they'd set up, Mickey went out
    the wrong window and fell two stories to the ground. He kept his
    mouth shut the entire time, despite a broken wrist and leg, and when
    the cops left three hours later, Jimmy and the other guy came back
    and dumped Mickey into a Con Ed ditch. "I sued Con Ed for $40,000
    dollars!" Mickey boasts. "To this day, my father hates Con Edison for
    what they did to me!"
    
    They all laugh, and Bobby says that Mr. Kinnear would've been
    proud  of Mickey. Mickey's tone abruptly turns serious. "He wasn't
    proud of me," he says. "He might've loved me, but he was never
    proud of me. All my life, anything my father asked me to do, I had to
    do the opposite. Now, he's dead, and I ain't still doing what he
    wanted me to do." No one knows quite what to say, until Jimmy
    quips, "Mickey, you really know how to bring down a room."
    Everyone start laughing again, as Theresa shows up and offers
    Mickey her condolences. She asks to speak to Jimmy in private, but
    he laughs and says he's in mourning. Not willing to play Jimmy's
    drunken games, she blurts out that the police found the freezer.
    Bobby and Fat Man quickly get up to shoot some pool and Mickey
    goes to freshen his drink. "Do that again," Jimmy threatens, "they're
    going to find you in a freezer." She points out that 24 hands means
    12 capital cases, and people will take notice. She says goodbye to
    Mickey, who asks Jimmy if they're in trouble on this. "The only
    trouble we got is getting your father his last wish."
    
    Elli's at the bus station buying two tickets to Arizona. Janie says
    she's
    hungry. Elli says she has sandwiches they can eat on the bus. Janie
    points to a bus and asks if that's theirs. Elli says that they're going
    to Phoenix, and that bus is going someplace else. Janie asks if Daddy's
    coming with them; Elli asks if she wants to sit by the window. Elli
    stares at the bus in question, which is, in fact, Phoenix-bound, then
    grabs a sandwich out of the bag and gives it to Janie.
    
    The Mayor and Fivers Dugan meet on the second floor of yet another
    abandoned warehouse, which The City seems to have a lot of. Dugan
    calls Davidson the dumbest sonuvabitch he's ever met, and orders
    him to sign the casino bill, at which point he'll make a call, the cops
    will find cocaine in his driver's house, and all the problems will go
    away. "My driver doesn't have a house," the Mayor points out. "He
    has four kids, and rents an apartment." "Like anyone cares," Dugan
    sneers. "I do, as much as that surprises me," Davidson retorts. He
    paces, and says, "Listen to this. I don't want your help. I don't want
    to ever hear your name again. This is over." Dugan says okay, and
    pushes Davidson over the railing onto the floor below. As the mayor
    writhes in pain, Dugan casually walks over and asks, "See what
    happens, Chris, if there isn't someone there to catch you when you
    fall?"
    
    At the pathology lab, a wisecracking forensic scientist tells Quinn and
    Collero that they have no usable prints on the bags or the freezer,
    and only four of the hands were in good enough shape to pull prints
    off of. Of those four, only the one labeled "Max" has been identified
    so far, as a John F. Maxwell. Collero says he never heard of him; the
    pathologist spots him poking through one of the freezers, and snaps,
    "Hey! Do I go to your office and touch your things?" She finds a piece
    of silk stocking under one of Maxwell's fingernails. Rank asks how
    she can only come up with a piece of stocking with all that evidence;
    she doesn't figure she missed a signed confession. Rank goes up to
    Ident to check the other prints. Quinn stays behind a minute,
    mentions his dad's missing hands, and asks her to screen the hands
    for his dad's blood type, AB-negative.
    
    Danny shows up at the bus station after looking all over the city for
    Elli. "So, what, you're just going to take her and run away, is that
    what's happening here?" he asks. He tells her that what she's doing
    isn't right. "You gave me $6,000 to change my life," she replies. "Well
    that's what I'm going to do." She says she's going to someplace warm
    -- Phoenix. "What kind of place is Phoenix?" Danny asks, incredulous.
    "Do you know anyone there, do you know anyone who's ever been
    there?" "No, I just know it isn't here." He says she can't run away
    from her problems. She says that's not true, pointing out that Danny
    has never really tried running away from his problems, since he
    always runs right back to the old neighborhood. "Don't tell me you
    can't run away from your problems. Sometimes it's the only thing
    you can do."
    
    She tells Danny to go home. "I don't have a home," he retorts. "My
    home is with you and Janie."
    
    "Then come with us!" she asks. After a long silence from the both of
    them, Elli asks, "Did I just say that?"
    
    After a moment, Danny decides to go with them. Elli begs him not to
    say it if he doesn't mean it; he insists he means it. He just has to
    clear it with his parole officer. He asks her when the last bus is, and
    when
    she says it leaves at 9, he gets up to leave, she smiles and says she
    was going to wait until then. Danny turns around, sprints back to his
    wife and...
    
    (We interrupt this summary for the following quote from William
    Goldman's "The Princess Bride," which I feel more accurately
    describes the following moment than I could ever do:)
    
    "There have been five great kisses since 1642 B.C., when Saul and
    Delilah Korn's inadvertent discovery swept across Western
    civilization (before then, couples hooked thumbs). And the precise
    rating of kisses is a terribly difficult thing, often leading to great
    controversy, because although everyone agrees with the formula of
    affection times purity times duration, no one has ever been
    completely satisfied with how much weight each element should
    receive. But on any system, there are five that everyone agrees
    deserve full marks."
    "Well, this one left them all behind."
    
    (We now return you to the summary, having hopefully experienced
    many warm fuzzies.)
    
    After Danny plants one on his wife, he heads out, assuring her that
    he'll
    be back by 9. Janie, who's been sleeping through most of this, wakes
    up and groggily asks, "Where's Daddy going?" "With us," Elli replies.
    
    The Mayor's doctor has patched up his arm and loaded him up with
    painkillers. Chief of Police Jack Delaney stops by to check on Chris'
    health and update him on the cocaine investigation. The arresting
    officer's record, it seems, is skewed towards black drivers with
    expensive cars, and he doesn't want a cop like that on his force.
    When the police lab tests the bag found in the limo, they'll find that
    it's just full of baby powder. Davidson asks who Delaney is working
    for; the Chief says he's doing this out of loyalty to Chris' office,
    whether he likes it or not. "Flush that down, check yourself into
    Bayview. Tell the press you've gone fishing, anything, just get
    yourself cleaned up! I never agreed with your politics, but I always
    respected you enough to give you a second chance, Chris. Take it."
    The Mayor asks when the Chief is going to call in the marker on this,
    but Delaney exits without answering.
    
    Quinn and Collero are going over more evidence on the hands. Quinn
    studies John F. Maxwell's rap sheet, and learns that he did a bit in
    Attica with Murtha, and that he called Theresa Conners once when he
    was arrested.
    
    The very drunk Easies steal Mr. Kinnear's coffin from the funeral
    home and load it into a stolen carpet truck. The plan is to drive all
    the way to Atlantic City, where Bobby has a friend whose boat they
    can steal to dump the coffin in the water. Bobby and Fat Man get into
    a dispute over how long it will take to drive to A.C., but Jimmy tells
    them to shut up and orders everyone onto the truck.
    
    Mayor Davidson is sitting in bed, pondering, when his wife Marie
    comes in. He tries to tell her about the driver being released; she's
    already seen it on the news, and doesn't seem particularly friendly
    towards her husband. "Marie, If I went to Bayview..." he starts to ask.
    "If you're trying to get my support," she interrupts, "don't bother.
    You lost my vote a long time ago."
    
    Quinn talks to the detective who handled Maxwell case. Maxwell was
    the only man they had definitively managed to connect to an armed
    robbery, and they had him under surveillance for a week before he
    disappeared. According to the detective, Maxwell only left his
    apartment once, to meet with Conners. The night he disappeared, he
    got a phone call from a woman, who only said "Are you coming?" He
    got in her car, drove off, and managed to lose the police tail. The
    cops
    never saw Maxwell again. Quinn asks if Murtha's name came up in
    the investigation; the detective says Jimmy was on the short list of
    suspects, but they could never quite connect him. Quinn speculates
    that Maxwell may have realized he was being watched, told his
    partners, and they killed him to limit their exposure. "Did I mention
    we had his phone tapped?" the detective asks. "If he called his
    partners, he did it with ESP." "Or he talked with their attorney,"
    replies Quinn, who asks for a copy of that phone recording (which
    couldn't be definitively matched to Theresa's voice) and the
    surveillance photos.
    
    Elli and Janie are sitting in the bus station coffee shop. Janie's
    drawing a picture of her dad, which the waitress mistakes for a pig
    (when informed of her mistake, she quickly says, "Oh, he's very
    handsome."). Elli, meanwhile, is starting to get some serious
    withdrawal symptoms, and her eyes keep wandering to a grungy
    female drug dealer hanging out by the ladies' room. Trying to fight
    the urge, she orders a glass of lemonade, and dumps about 12
    pounds of sugar into it.
    
    "Are you coming?" Rewind. "Are you coming?" Rewind. "Are you
    coming?" Rewind. "Are you coming?" Rewind. Quinn is sitting beside
    his bed, listening to the phone tap recording over and over until he
    knows it by heart. He stops the routine for a moment to study a
    surveillance photo of the mystery woman, who could be Theresa.
    "Are you coming?" Rewind. "Are you coming?" Rewind.
    
    Danny's parole officer is having trouble granting Danny's request for
    permission to leave the state. Danny promises he'll call in as soon as
    he gets to Phoenix and will check in regularly, but the P.O. says they
    need to wait at least a month to get approval from the state, and
    even then the odds are unlikely. He tries to sound sympathetic, by
    mentioning his own family, which prompts Danny to ask what he
    would do if it were his wife and kid getting on that bus and leaving
    town. He says that there has to be a way to do this. The P.O. replies
    that there really isn't, and Danny gets up and announces that he's
    going to go anyway. The P.O., obviously conflicted, orders Danny
    not to walk out the door, but doesn't take any action.
    
    The great Atlantic City expedition is a bust, as Jimmy realizes that
    there's no way they'll make it all the way there while driving drunk
    in a stolen carpet truck. Instead, they wind up at a nearby lake.
    Mickey feels he'll be disappointing his dad, who'll "know" that he's in
    a lake and not the sea. Jimmy points out that lakes run into rivers,
    rivers run into other rivers, which run into seas. "So we put him
    here, he'll eventually make it to sea?" Mickey asks. "No, Mick," Jimmy
    gently replies, "he's going to sink like a rock. But the water's going
    to
    move over him and keep on moving, and eventually, bit by bit, he'll
    get there." Fat Man brings an inflatable raft out of the truck and
    starts to get it ready for travel.
    
    Elli is really jonesing now, and makes eye contact with the dealer.
    She asks the waitress to watch Janie and heads to the bathroom,
    where the dealer follows. Janie keeps drawing, but both she and the
    waitress look a little worried.
    
    Quinn is sitting on his bed, repeatedly turning his endtable lamp on
    and off. He calls Theresa, and says, "Hi. I just wanted to hear your
    voice." "That all you want?" she replies. "Don't think about it too
    long." He hangs up and starts to unscrew the lightbulb.
    
    In the ladies' room, Elli counts out the money, and the dealer hands
    her a heroin kit. She goes into a stall.
    
    Mr. Kinnear's body has been placed at the center of the raft, and each
    Easie starts giving him something to take on his journey. Fat Man
    gives him a racing form, while Bobby gives him a deck of cards.
    Mickey puts down his father's favorite album, but starts expressing
    hesitance about the plan. Jimmy says it'll be all right, that Mick is
    having a hard time saying goodbye, and offers him a swig of
    bourbon. Carolyn Moorlough music starts and Mickey pins one of his
    dad's navy medals to his chest.
    
    The music continues, as Elli unwraps the kit and starts heating the
    smack. She draws it into the syringe, ties the tourniquet around her
    arm and prepares to stick the needle in. At the last minute, she
    changes her mind and throws everything into the toilet. She opens
    the stall and gets a punch in the face from the dealer, who was lying
    in wait. The dealer proceeds to take all her money and rough her up.
    Elli's left lying on the floor of the stall, barely able to move.
    
    At the lake, Mickey says he's ready. Fat Man and Bobby bring out
    cinderblocks connected with chains to keep the body from floating
    back up the surface. Jimmy sticks a hundred dollar bill in Mr.
    Kinnear's pocket and whispers, "Lay down a bet for me." Bobby cuts
    a hole in the raft, and they push it out into the water. As the raft
    floats towards the center of the lake, Mickey begins to sing a
    beautiful Irish lullaby about being separated from a loved one by the
    sea, and Mike Starr demonstrates that he should've considered a
    career in the recording industry.
    
    Mickey's song continues, as the Mayor arrives at the Bayview rehab
    clinic to check himself in. He tells Councilman Neeling, "Take care of
    everything for me." Don't worry about anything, Chris" Neeling
    replies. "Get well." They hug, and Mayor is led into clinic.
    
    Mickey's song continues as Danny returns to the bus station and
    finds Janie asleep at the coffee shop counter with the waitress
    stroking her hair. He charges into the bathroom and finds Elli
    battered and cut. As Danny embraces her, she sobs and tells him that
    all the money is gone. "We almost made it. We could've made it," she
    cries. "Elli, we will. All right? We will," Danny assures her. She
    continues to cry, as the camera pans over to the hand she has
    wrapped around Danny, and we see she's put her wedding band back
    on.
    
    Mickey's concluded his song, but can't help wondering why the boat
    hasn't sunk. Bobby says he cut the hole in the bottom. Jimmy
    explains that the air is in the side, and a hole in the bottom doesn't
    do anything. "I see that now," Bobby replies. None of them can swim,
    and Mickey looks at the others and says, "I don't see no other way."
    All four draw their guns and start firing in unison at the raft, which
    rapidly sinks. Mickey, who's already had trouble keeping his
    emotions in check, really starts crying now.
    
    At Ms. Conners' apartment, Theresa and Quinn have just finished
    making the beast with two backs when she notices the time, gets up,
    and goes to the bathroom. She has to go out for a while, she says. She
    closes the door, and Quinn quickly pulls a listening device out of his
    jeans, unscrews the bulb in her bedside lamp, puts the bug in,
    rescrews the light bulb, and checks to make sure the lamp still
    works. He begins talking, "December 4, 7 p.m., subject Theresa
    Conners," as the camera briefly cuts to a recording device Quinn has
    set up nearby. Before he can say more, an attractive brunette shows
    up. Theresa sees her and tells Quinn to get his clothes on. Quinn, a
    bit
    confused, pulls on his jeans (without underwear, mind you, which is
    very unsanitary).
    
    "Are you coming?" the brunette asks, in a *very* familiar tone. Quinn's
    face turns into a mask of complete bewilderment.
    
    Fade out.