Please state your name for the record.
Richard milhous nixon.
- Lieutenant hunt. - See? You know who I am.
Ray carling.
What am I doing re with you swamp donkeys?
Detective sam tyler of the 1-2-5 squad.
Is this about the russians?
'Cause I put everything I know into my report.
Case number 6-2-4-5-3 concerning the disappearance of edward S. Carling, A. K. A. , Eddie carling.
This is about eddie?
Ray carling's brother?
This investigation will determine if anyone in the 125th precinct
of the new york police department aided eddie carling in the commission of a crime,
or the subsequent cover of one.
As you know, aiding and abetting a suspect in a felony is a crime.
Oh, that's okay.
I-I only aid and abet suspects in misdemeanors.
Do you know the whereabouts of eddie carling, detective tyler?
That, I don't know.
You were one of the last people to see him.
All right, let's start with the night of august 21st.
Where were you?
I was in a hospital bed.
Hospital records indicate that you were nursing multiple bullet wounds,
and yet you left without telling anyone.
Why would you do that?
There were a number of cases I've worked on since coming to the 1-2-5,
and i thought they might be connected.
And were they?
I pieced them together and I came up with an address.
Out in hastings, so I followed it up.
Hello?
Hello, sam.
You can hear me?
Of course I can hear you.
You're doing a good job, sam.
But I need you to do something for me.
Who is this?
I need you to go to the basement.
Why?
The basement, sam-- across the room, behind you.
I need you to go down to the basement, sam.
You'd met eddie carling before the night of august 21st, correct?
Sad to say, yeS.
Eddie's a screwup.
Ray deserves better.
So does ray's mother.
And ray's father.
And on the night in question, where was detective carling?
He was going door-to-door.
Sometimes he moonlights as a fuller brush man.
Got a hell of a way with that johnny mop.
This is not a game, lieutenant.
All right, all right.
Ray likes to play the occasional accumulator.
Accumulator?
The ponies?
Any word from ray?
Nah.
Tried him at home, tried at the snug.
Nothing.
What is that?
I don't know. It's been there all day.
Who's it for?
No card on it or nothin'.
Well, who brought it in?
Hey, ted.
Hey, ray.
Hey, boss.
Where you been?
Honestly?
No.
Lie to me.
I find it oddly comforting.
I went up to yonkers.
You went to the track.
It was the commander's return to turf for the first time since june.
Plus, his first start with the new barn.
Well, how'd the commander fair today?
He stalked the pace and wiped out.
I know what you're gonna say-- when am I gonna learn, right?
Nah, what I'm gonna say is, while you were out making fast bets on slow ponies,
a certain waste of wild air named eddie was gettin' himself arrested once again.
You gotta be kiddin' me.
What'd he get pinched for?
Robbery.
Armed robbery.
Patrol made the collar.
Out of respect, they figured they'd wait until you talked to the desk sergeant
before they entered the charges on the arrest report.
I'll kill him.
What is this thing?
now go to the ya.
find the big rock.
Dig in.
555-0195.
Sam!
What happened?
You left the hospital.
I know, annie.
I was there when I left.
Why?
I don't like hospitals.
They smell like.
hospitals.
What's going on?
Hello, tyler.
Head over here.
Oh, and sam?
If you ever want to know why you're here in 1973,
you can never tell anyone about this phone call.
My name is sam tyler.
I was in an accident, and I woke up in 1973.
I don't know how or why I'm here, but whatever's happened,
it's like I've landed on a different planeT.
Now maybe if I can work out the reason, I can get home.
Crazy, huh?
Well, so would you guys up in hyde, uh.
I. D. That?
You can't very well.
fingerprint him, right?
We have some pretty advanced methods in hyde involving D. N. A.
D. N. A. ?
What, like the stuff babies are made out of?
Yeah, like what babies are made out of.
So what's with ray?
I mean, it's not like him to miss out on an opportunity for some gross-out humor.
Who's the collar that's more important than a head in a box?
That's his brother.
His brother?
His kid brother.
Eddie.
Um, why's he dressed like that?
Is he a magician?
No.
Eddie is a doorman at the monarch.
Eddie carling-- multiple counts of petty theft,
drunk and disorderly, disturbing the peace.
How did a guy like that manage to get a job
as a doorman one of the best addresses on the upper east side?
You got a brother?
So you got him the job?
Thing gets past you.
On august 21st, your brother committed an armed robbery of a dry cleaner--
two blocks away from his job, still wearing his doorman's uniform.
The arresting officer brought him into your precinct.
Now you would do anything for your brother, wouldn't you, detective?
Get him a job, get him out of jail.
now that's where you're wrong.
This is bad.
You know how bad this is?
- Racer, come on - don't "racer" me, you can of cancer!
You don't understand.
No, you don't understand!
I'm trying to help you get your life together.
I got you the job.
I let you crash at my place when you can't make rent.
I fix it so ma and the old man down in florida don't hear about
the minor eaks and mooches you been pinched for the last few years.
And this is how you repay me, with an armed robbery in your top hat and tails?
Directly across the street from where ya wear the top hat and tails!
Master criminal.
We got the number for the store manager,
in case you wanna call and see about dropping the charges against eddie.
No, not this time.
We're not dropping nothing this time.
You on smack?
What?
Me?
Smack?
W-- come on, ray!
I'm the one that dr. Silverstone d
to chase around the office just to get me to--to take a flu shot.
Yeah, you always were a ladyboy when it came to that.
I can't do nothin' right!
You know?
I-- look, I make a buck, 25 a week dressed like the freakin' nutcrackeR.
You know, changing litter boxes for rich old ladies' kitty cats.
You know, "thank you, ma'am, " "yes, ma'am, " "my pleasure, ma'am, "
all the while, my older brother's carrying my water for me.
Now how do you think that makes me feel?
How you should feel-- humiliated.
Come in.
The, uh, head in the box case?
I'd like in on this one, boss.
You just got shot.
Grazed. I got grazed.
I really want to be part of this investigation.
Fine, as long as you let no-nuts work her medical magic on that raze.
So.
where were you?
I was out.
That's it?
You were "out"?
Yeah.
I was on a date.
On a date.
With a sucking side wound?
Well, that's not a nice way to describe her.
she was more like an oozing head trauma.
SaM.
you saved my life.
Remember?
You know, I promised myself that I would try and be a better friend to you--
someone who listens when you tell me all these strange things,
how there are people taking you off your life support machines,
and about how you and your mother are somehow the same age,
and how paul newman is gonna one day make spaghetti sauces and salad dressings and lemonade.
And do great things for mankind.
So here I am.
I'm ready to be open to all of it.
And quite suddenly, you've.
become secretive?
I.
two days ago, we were pursuing a man you said was your father.
A nada?
Annie--
sam, you told me you were having visions of a woman being chased through the woods in a red dress.
And then it happened... to me.
So.
what?
You're starting to believe my crazy rants?
Well, I don't know.
I just.
but all that happened out there.
I just.
I-I got work to do.
You know?
Yes.
Okay.
Thanks for the bandage.
I worked the case till my tour ended, and then I.
I went home.
So the rest of the night was, uh, uneventful?
Yeah.
Yeah, uneventful.
What about the phone number?
The phone number?
The phone number.
Whose was it?
Excuse me?
The phone number on the bodY.
Who answered the phone?
When you dialed the number, who picked up, detective tyler?
You know who it was.
Good morning, boys and girls, and welcome to "the cowboy dan wild west jamboree, " broadcasting.
0-1-9-5.
a basket of kumquats.
Hello?
Tell me who this is, joker.
Tell me who this is, or I'll climb through the phone and piss on your brain.
Ray.
How you doing?
I've been better.
How you feelin', spaceman?
For a guy who just got shot, you been running around like a chipmunk.
I was only grazed.
You know those things'll kill ya.
Oh, they won't have a chance.
The whiskey and the salami will beat 'em to it.
So what's going on with your brother?
Don't you worry about it.
Anything I can do to help?
Yeah, you can "don't you worry about it. "
So we got an I. D. On the head.
His name's albert corsey.
45 years old, unmarried.
Hangs out with one of those biker gangs, call themselves the vicious cycles.
We're going to talk to them.
You guys coming?
Come on.
To meet the friends of the head?
How could we resist?
You okay, boss?
Yeah, sizeable ted and me was having a conversation with these genemen about albert corsey.
I told you, he's not one of us.
I know you know something about albert corsey.
And you know.
I know.
So how about we play a different game?
If I win, you talk.
If you win, we walk.
At least until I go down and see my friend judge berger and we get a warrant to toss this place.
Trust me.
It'll be fun.
It's called international cover-up.
Six drinks in all-- three pints of beer, three shots of whiskey.
Whoever finishes first wins.
Simple.
And because toy I feel magnanimous, I'm gonna let you take the shots.
They're dainty.
like you.
I gotta drink three shots before you finish three beers?
You joking?
I never joke about booze.
Let's get it on.
Wait!
There's only one rule.
You cannot touch the other guy's glass.
Not at all.
Agreed?
If you say so, oink.
I got so much to drink.
What do you say you give me a little handicap?
A little head start?
I don't know about that, man.
Oh, let him start.
He's cute.
Thank you, gorgeous.
I learned to play this game back in world war ii.
I learned that victory is achieved not with brute strength,
but by outsmarting your opponent.
Back then, we valued smarts.
Since J. F. K. , This whole country has turned to personality.
Okay, you can start.
Go!
Come on!
We agreed.
You can't touch my glass.
Hence the name of the game-- international cover-up.
You dirty bastard.
See what I did here?
Chris, who's the most clever mammal in the zoo?
You are, loot.
Now why don't you tell me about your friend albert corsey?
Okay.
You wanna know about corsey?
He's a knucklehead.
That's what.
Comes around here a couple weeks ago, trying to find some partners for a job.
Only he's a knucklehead, so everyone says "no. "
One guy says "yes"--this, um, part-time patch-holder named big boy louie bosco--
'cause he's a knucklehead, too.
Big boy bosco.
Thank you.
Next summer, you should come to one of my barbecues.
And I'll beat your sorry ass at croquet.
Lieutenant hunt, you have some pretty unorthodox investigative methods.
What can I say?
I'm an artist.
But get resultS.
Bosco!
Police!
We found the guy we were looking for, didn't we?
Well, most of him anyway.
Well, I'm guessing, uh, albert corsey and big boy bosco here made the wrong guy mad.
I'll issue an alarm to all the other precincts to have us notified if any other.
headless bodies are discovered.
Do you know this guy?
Well, the clothes look familiar, but I can't place the face.
What are you reading?
"the sick sense: Schizorenia, E. S. P. & The conscious nd. "
Sounds deep.
Why you reading about E. S. P. , Annie?
Because I can't stop thinking about it-- the red dress.
Stop!
You hurt?
I'm fine.
And you predicted it.
I mean, scientists are just beginning to understand the components of extrasensory perception.
Okay, but where--where does the schizophrenia part come in?
Well.
I'm worried about you, saM.
about your mental health.
You and me both.
Why, just the other day, I received a phone call from the great beyond.
Or maybe it was 2008.
Or maybe it was god frohigh in the heavens, having a little laugh at sam tyler and the whole.
existential shell game.
Well, I wanna talk to you about all this.
I wanna talk to you.
about ray.
What about him?
Does he seem a little.
angrier than usual to you?
Everyone is upset.
You know, someone is cutting off heads in the precinct.
Ray is probably more upset on account of his brother eddie being arrested.
It's a shame.
You know, there's a lot things I don't like about ray carling,
but he has always been a good brother to eddie.
I mean, ray's even letting eddie live with him.
H-how long has eddie been staying with ray?
Well, maybe a month, maybe more.
I'm not sure.
Why?
That explains a lot.
Sam, what's going on?
I'm not completelyure yet.
but thanks, annie.
See you later.
Do you speak any english?
What's going on?
Well, I've been talking tothis nice lady for ten minutes, and I have no idea what she's saying.
She--she's here about big boy bosco.
She saw a man come out of bosco's apartment.
His hands and face were on fire.
Did she just say that big boy bosco was killed by the devil?
Yeah, I think so.
Just got a call about a headless body in hastings.
35 stewart.
Let's go.
You coming?
Yeah.
Hey, fraini, can you find someone who speaks spanish.
To take this woman's statement?
Gracias.
Yeah. Sure.
Well, based pure on stench assessment.
corsey's been dead at least three days.
But the body was dug up recently-- I'd say in the last 24 hours or so.
Let's check the house, chris.
I'll call the loot.
Yeah.
You don't think maybe it really was the devil?
There's no such thing, chris.
There's only bad people.
What did you just take off the body?
What are you talking about?
I saw you take something off the body, ray.
You wanna search me, spaceman?
Is that what you wanna do?
This mope's head might be gone, but at least it ain't up his ass like yours is.
It's about your brother, isn't it?
No, this is about you keeping your chopsticks out of other people's rice.
That's what this is about.
A short while after your detectives returned from 35 stewart, eddie carling posted bail.
We weren't able to locate any paperwork indicating who the surety was.
So many pieces of paper these days.
I lose a piece of paper.
I file another piece of paper to find the missing piece of paper.
So you don't know who bailed eddie carling out of your jail?
Not a clue.
When I got back to the station, eddie was already gone.
Who bailed him out?
Now that's an interesting story.
Hey, ddie's not in holding.
Where is he?
Hold on.
Uh, he made bail, like, an hour ago.
He what?
Well, who posted it?
I don't know.
I-I didn't see the surety's name.
But sam had the papers.
Oh, sam had the papers, did he?
Yeah. And you know what?
It was kind of weird.
Eddie acted like he didn't want to leave.
Carling.
Ray, it's sam.
Yeah, I don't have time to talk to you.
It's about eddie.
I'm listening.
I bailed eddie carling out.
You bail out my brother?
You got some stones on you, tyler.
Well, you know, I figured whatever you got mixed up in had to do with your brother.
So I sprung him myself to see where he'd go.
He made a beeline for this.
Just a bunch of jewelry, silver, some cash.
Nothing epic.
Nothing worth decapitating people over.
So what are you guys mixed up in, ray?
Where'd you get the stuff from, eddie?
Fine.
I'll take you down to the station.
We can have our conversation there.
Get your hands off him, tyler.
Two people are dead, ray.
The killer's still out there, and you're withholding vital information.
You have any idea what hunt's gonna say when he finds out about this?
Hunt don't understand!
One last time.
Where'd you get the stuff from, eddie?
Okay.
It's what me, corsey and big boy bosco stole from this guy who lives at the monarch.
The monarch?
Okay, that's the building where you work?
Yeah.
Now who's the guy?
Donovan stamp.
Who's donovan stamp?
You don't know who donovan stamp is?
He ain't from around here, eddie.
He's the.
"the werewolf wall street. "
I don't know.
"The werewolf of wall street"?
He's a big-time philanthropist.
They got parks named after him.
I mean, even now with the stock market melting around him,
this guy somehow still gets richer.
Okay.
So you pull this clown stickup, looking to get busted,
'cause you figured jail would be the only place you'd be safe.
Right?
Or maybe you figured jail would be the only place he'd be safe?
Hey, hey, no.
Racer was just looking out for me.
We don't owe him no explanation, eddie.
But you knew, ray, this whole time!
You knew!
Yes, I knew!
Sometimes you gotta keep a secret when the reason's right.
So why haven't you questioned this donovan stamp guy?
Three reasons.
Number one-- the minute I do, I implicate my brother in the theft.
Number two--stamp is a businessman.
He ain't the type to decapitate a couple of mooks overome stolen silverware.
And number three--he's the werewolf of wall street.
That makes him one of the untouchables.
This--the guy eats sunday cake with congressmen.
He plays in mayor lindsay's foursome up at westchester.
You don't just walk in and accuse a guy like that of murder.
You just don'T.
Or.
you do.
You and detective tyler took eddie back to the monarch
so he could return what he stole from donovan stamp.
Yes, we did.
And this was the last time you saw your brother?
Yeah, that was the last time.
Mr. Stamp, I want to apologize on behalf of my brother.
And as a police officer, I give you my word you will never see him again.
Strange thing about being robbed-- it forces you to realize what is truly valuable.
Yeah, I guess I, uh, I kinda took that by mistake.
I was like you, you know.
Not a nickel in my pocket.
So I learned all of the petty grifts and short cons that one needed in world war ii new york city.
Had the morals of, uh, your basic sewer rat.
I would gladly lift the insulin from my own diabetic mother's dop kit
and sell it on the street, leaving behind a chocolate chip cookie in its place.
But we can't ignore the fact that the two murders are linked to the robbery iur home.
Those two men were thieves.
They took things.
I mean, I-I don't even know what that is.
You took their lives.
I took their lives?
What are you accusing me of, detective?
I thought I was the victim of a crime.
Are you suggesting otherwise?
We're gonna have to ask you toome with us, mr. Stamp.
Do you believe donovan stamp had something to do with eddie's disappearance?
You don't get to be the werewolf of wall street without a little bloodlust.
Corsey.
Big boy that left.
eddie.
We talked with mr. Stamp.
He did not speak fondly of his time at your precinct.
This whole thing is utterly ridiculous.
You want ridiculous?
Look familiar?
Of course not.
You bringing a charge?
Because if you're not bringing a charge, my client and I are walking out of here.
Quite a coincidence, though, that twof the three people who robbed you turn up dead.
Or it's what kids today call, uh, karmic retribution.
You know, I've always wanted to belt a wall street-type in the face.
Never have, though, which is surprising.
Lieutenant, you will do no such thing.
I have belted plenty of lawyers.
It's like eating potato chips.
Once you start, tough to stop.
Someone like you, mr. Stamp,
I'm gssing, probably wouldn't want to get his hands dirty.
What you're saying is that I would hire someone to eliminate those who have wronged me.
Sadly, you miss the point, detective tyler.
By choosing the path that they did, those men guaranteed eir fate.
It was their doing, not mine.
I need to speak with a detectivE.
I'm a detective.
Put the bag down.
Now step back.
Don't move.
I said don't move!
I said--put it down.
On the box.
Now get down on your knees!
Get down!
Keep your hands up.
I killed those men-- albert corsey, louis bosco.
with that machete, in those clothes.
A tall man with burn scars his face and hands walks into the precinct
with a machete and a head in a box and confesses to the murders.
That's what happened.
You can't make this stuff up.
Just another day at the zoo.
On the ground, a-face!
All the proof you need is in the box.
Let me guess-- big boy bosco.
The northern part of him, anyway.
You wouldn't by any chance know a donovan stamp, would you?
I do not.
Figured.
Although it's odd.
He's famous.
The werewolf of wall street.
I hate wall street and all who crawl there.
You want to tell us why you killed those two men?
I was in a diner eating soup.
They insulted my scars.
I don't believe you.
I offer a full confession, the head, and you don't believe me?
I can't believe my ears, detective.
Yeah, well, I can't lieve your ears either, pal.
El diablo.
Well, you're free to go.
for now.
"For now"?
You hear that, willis?
The boy detective is going to maintain a grudge.
Stand in line, friend.
Get him outta here, ted.
I am going home to sleep for 14 hours saigh
I don't think I'll ever sleep again after seeing that man and his box.
I know.
Good night, annie.
See you tomorrow.
we'll talk.
soon.
Okay?
I'd like that.
Okay.
The chief of d's came down hard on hunt to close the case.
We tried to connect stamp to the guy with the scars,
but we came up empty, and by then stamp was buried six lawyers deep.
We couldn't touch him.
At this point, where was eddie carling?
I don't know.
Last time I saw him was at stamp's apartment.
So neither you nor any of your fellow detectives colluded to assist eddie carling escape prosecution?
Of course not.
And I'm the one who posted his bond, remember?
I mean, I-I'm still on the hook for the dough.
Listen, don't you worry about it.
I'm gonna find my brother.
Well, we hope you do.
He has a lot to answer for.
You guys are the least of his problems.
Hear you this-- when he comes up for air,
and he will--he's gonna run to you just to get away from me.
So i'll call yous as soon as I get settled.
Hey, look, thanks for everything you done for me.
I didn't do nothing.
The werewolf didn't press charges.
That's how you caught your break this time.
Take it.
Wild blue?
I.
I can't take wild blue.
Sure you can.
Wild blue's what made you racer.
I don't want to be racer anymore.
What do you mean?
I'm done, eddie.
I got nothing else to give.
You took everything from me, from the whole family, all these years.
And then I almost let you take my badge.
I mean, what's a guy like me do when he loses his badge?
I know you think I'm a screwup.
Hell, i think I'm a screwup.
It's not easy being the brother of a cop.
Try being the brother of a nitwit who's one bit short of being two-bit.
That ain't no bubble bath either.
I just wanted something for myself!
My life would have been so different if I'd just passed that officers' exam.
Mine, too.
But here we are.
I can't take your car, racer.
You gotta go far, far away and never come back and don't ever call me again.
All right?
Anybody asks you, "you have a brother? "
Tell 'em you had one once, but he died-- 'cause that's what I'm gonna say when they ask me.
Look, don't do this, man.
Get outta here.
It's already done.
For god sakes, ray, I'm your brother!
Not anymore.
We're done here.
That's it?
No cigarette afterward?
No--no cuddling?
We'll contact you if we have any further questions.
I will be waiting by the phone.
I left the tapes from today's interviews.
I take it we got what we needed.
We did.
What took you so long?
They try to recruit you or somethin'?
Ray and I were on our way to sink a drink at the snug.
He's buying.
Well, I could certainly use a drink right now.
They'll grab it at the desk.
I'll catch up with you guys.
Fine.
But if you're not there by the time I finish my first mug,
you're paying your own way, spaceman.
Hello?
Sam?
Who is this?
You're doing an excellent job, sam.
Tell me who you are.
Don't worry, sam.
It's all going according to plan.
What plan?
What's--what's the plan?
Who are you?