- Detective Mac Taylor: I'm just asking questions, Don.
- Detective Don Flack: No, you're not just asking questions, Mac. Come on, I know you. You wouldn't be here talking to me if you hadn't already tracked the chain of custody, checked with property, and called the DEA agents. And let me tell you something, cocaine from that raid wouldn't last six months on the street. So what is this? My interrogation?
- Detective Mac Taylor: You're overreacting.
- Detective Don Flack: Well maybe I am, but let me save you a little bit of time - none of my guys took a thing.
- Detective Mac Taylor: You can't be sure of that. You weren't there. You just said you didn't remember.
- Detective Don Flack: It didn't happen, Mac.
- Detective Mac Taylor: You're listed on the DD5 as the recorder on the scene. You had to take everything down in your memo book - every detective who was there, who searched the room, who found the drugs.
- Detective Don Flack: You askin' me for it?
- Detective Mac Taylor: You can check your notes or you can let me do it.
- Detective Don Flack: Is this official business?
- Detective Mac Taylor: It's a request, from a friend.
- Detective Don Flack: Then I'm gonna have to think about it.
- [He walks away]
- Adam Ross: Hey guys.
- Detective Stella Bonasera: Adam.
- Adam Ross: Hey Danny, you remember that rust stuff you found in the alley?
- Detective Danny Messer: Rust stuff? Rust stuff? You respect the time it took me to collect that, at least call it "trace."
- Adam Ross: Okay. Contained traces of molasses and non-human blood. Bear blood to be exact.
- Detective Stella Bonasera: What?
- Adam Ross: North American Grizzly Bear. But, but there's more. The blood on this rock is a match to Cyrus Menlo, but it's also a match to the blood found on these leaves.
- Detective Stella Bonasera: Both human blood, right?
- Adam Ross: Right.
- [Holds the two leaves up]
- Adam Ross: But you put them together like this and shazam.
- Detective Danny Messer: You got one leaf - with a hole in the middle of it.
- Adam Ross: A hole probably made from a spike or something with a jagged edge. Right, huh, you see where I'm going here?
- Detective Stella Bonasera: Bear blood, molasses, leaves with human blood on them, a spike and a jagged edge, you're talking bear traps.
- Adam Ross: Yes, you win the washer and dryer.
- Detective Danny Messer: Whoa, whoa, whoa, help me out here. You're telling me Cyrus Menlo was caught in a bear trap?
- Adam Ross: Yeah.
- Detective Danny Messer: You're crazy.
- Adam Ross: It's the only conclusion we can arrive at with this evidence.
- Detective Danny Messer: So Tanaka sets the bear trap, leads Cyrus Menlo down the alley, Tanaka goes into the warehouse...
- Adam Ross: - Bang bang, Tanaka gets shot. Cyrus walks out, steps in the trap while Tanaka bleeds to death inside the warehouse. Moral of the story, alright: stick with bowling. What up?
- [He and Danny fist bump]
- Adam Ross: Check this out.
- [He puts a slide under the microscope]
- Adam Ross: Alright, look, look. It's a piece of the moon. A moon rock. Yeah, this rock is, is from the moon.
- Detective Danny Messer: From the moon?
- Adam Ross: Outer space.
- Detective Danny Messer: Get outta here. Wow. How did a piece of the moon end up in the alley?
- Adam Ross: I-I don't know. This stuff is illegal to have and somebody went through a lot of trouble to get it. I mean I've seen this stuff listed on eBay before, you know, and most of it isn't real, but if it is short of going to the moon they would have had to steal from NASA.
- Detective Danny Messer: Something happened in that alley and I don't think it had anything to do with what happened in the warehouse.
- Detective Mac Taylor: Don.
- Detective Don Flack: Hey.
- Detective Mac Taylor: You know why I'm here.
- Detective Don Flack: Do you care about the consequences?
- Detective Mac Taylor: I know this isn't easy for you.
- Detective Don Flack: I'm not talking about me, Mac. I'm talking about the hundred of arrests this cop was involved in, the thugs who are going to be screaming for an appeal because his credibility's in question, and the ones who are going to go free despite the fact they're guilty and he did everything by the book. I'm talking about child molesters, rapists, murderers.
- Detective Mac Taylor: Kym Tanaka's shooter stepped over his body and collected shell casings. He stuck his fingers into the victim's shoulder wound to retrieve a bullet all to save his own ass. He was there to sell drugs, poison, that destroys families, creates addicts out of babies in the womb, and accounts for twenty-three percent of the murders in this city. Don't make me subpena your memo book, Don.
- [Flack throws him the memo book. Mac walks away, stops, and turns back to Flack]
- Detective Mac Taylor: The consequences I care about are the cops who never cross the line who now have to face critisim on suspicion because one of their own forgot the oath we took. Whichever one of these guys is found guilty I hope he goes away for a very long time because he disrespected the badge that you and I wear.
- Detective Stella Bonasera: I think somebody's following me.
- Detective Mac Taylor: What makes you think that?
- Detective Stella Bonasera: I'm hearing footsteps and seeing shadows and glimpses of something or someone and -
- [sighs]
- Detective Stella Bonasera: Look, I know this sounds crazy but I really feel like I'm being watched.
- Detective Mac Taylor: This is at your place?
- Detective Stella Bonasera: No. No, actually it's, uh, as I go into work, twice on the subway, while I was shopping today.
- Detective Mac Taylor: When did this start?
- Detective Stella Bonasera: Uh, about a week ago. I first felt it when I dropped off your birthday gift at your place.
- Detective Mac Taylor: Well, I'll assign a patrol unit. We'll have some guys outside your place.
- Detective Stella Bonasera: No, no that's not necessary.
- Detective Mac Taylor: [Mac's phone rings] Taylor. Okay.
- [He hangs up]
- Detective Mac Taylor: A homocide on Lafayette. Come on, I'll drop you off at home, it's on the way.
- Detective Stella Bonasera: Nah, no, it's okay. I wanna enjoy every last minute of my day off. Just telling you makes me feel a lot better, okay?
- Detective Mac Taylor: Okay, I'll call ya.
- [He leaves]
- Dr. Sheldon Hawkes: [about to perform an "autopsy" on a giant, inflated Nutcracker balloon] This job is never boring.