The Little Things

[upbeat music playing on car radio]

No, no, no. Hello! Hello!

Somebody!

No, please, no, no, please! No, no, no, please!

Please, please, please!

Please, please, please!

[music continues playing on car radio]

Please. Oh, God.

Please, please, please, help me!

- -

[indistinct police radio chatter]

- Yeah, it's blood. - Good.

I hope they bleed to death.

It's the third time in two months.

There are 47 bulbs in the letter "G."

It's $3.10 a pop.

That's $145.70, every time.

That's an additional 13 dinners I gotta sell just to float.

Are you listening to me?

Yes, sir.

Half our take is from the interstate.

You drive by, you look up...

Not exactly a Happy Meal.

Morning, Deke.

Hey, Deke.

Yes, sir.

You remember a punk named JJ Kendricks?

Robbed the Quick Mart?

We've got a witness who ID'd him, but she's

All she knows for certain is that he was wearing a really

Fancy stitching.

"Unforgettable," she says.

But Kendricks is a suspect in a robbery down in LA.

Down in LA?

- Yeah. - Is this headed somewhere?

Yeah. And so are you.

There's a prelim day after tomorrow

You drive to LA and bring back the bloodstained boots,

she ID's them, and the judge

The blood, they definitely ran the ABO on the blood?

That's correct.

Then that means this is a DA problem, Captain,

Oh, no, it's our problem.

No evidence, no conviction.

I got nobody else.

Yes, sir.

Don't look at me like that. You the one been gone

Ah...

I'll see you tonight.

I'm, uh, here to pick up seized evidence.

Property said it was here.

Yeah.

Excuse you.

Evidence is here, but it's not leaving without a signature.

- Ah. - Uh-uh. Not yours.

I need authorization from Homicide to release.

There's a preliminary tomorrow.

Captain Farris put a lock on this item for testing.

- It's already been tested. - Don't I know it.

He wants it re-tested. Become a thing.

So I hear.

Hey, look. You get me a signature and, uh,

wearing the damn things for all I care.

- -

Hey. Hey.

This yours?

- Yeah, unhook it. - You blocked me in.

Why didn't you just ask me to move it?

'Cause I don't have time. You want special treatment?

Go back to Kern County.

Unhook it.

...all-hands-on-deck approach to this case.

To these cases.

Our city, our communities, our citizens,

and above all else...

these innocent victims deserve no less.

I don't know how many times I need to tell you, man.

Take it out of the file. Please.

...is that we're asking for your help.

If anyone has seen or heard from anyone

that might somehow be related to these cases...

Carl.

I see Brother Love's...

salvation show's still in operation.

Everybody needs a little faith. Even you.

Got yourself a new disciple.

Great detective, great guy.

You should listen in, you might learn something

- Anyway... - The lab called.

Are you leaving town when you're done?

- You wanna take me to dinner? - Want you out of here.

They'll run the test first thing in the morning

and if there's no match, you're gone.

Tomorrow's no good. My CO told me...

Ah, I called your CO.

He says you should hang until the tests are complete,

deliver the evidence tomorrow.

Okay?

Good to see you, Captain.

Look at it this way...

give you a chance to visit all those friends you left behind.

Who says that bad guys don't return

How's it feel to be back in uniform?

Still padding your overtime, Rogers?

Ooh. That's, uh, Sergeant Rogers now, Deke. Yes.

Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

- Hmm. -

Your phone's ringing.

Yeah, I know.

We are being meticulous and methodical in our efforts.

Sergeant Rogers. Yeah, but what did he say?

...and we are in the process of evaluating

- Nice to see you, Deke. - Good to see you, too.

...and gathering additional evidence.

I can assure you all, we are taking a 24/7,

all-hands-on-deck approach to this case.

- These cases. -

Questions.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but what I'm hearing is

after two months and four victims,

you don't have a suspect.

None that I can discuss.

Four dead girls, Jimmy.

We haven't been under this much scrutiny

There's talk.

Sheriff hinted that we might wanna reach out

- Are you kidding me? - Some point.

Some point, Jimmy. Not today.

Deke?

Son of a bitch.

- The man, the myth, the legend. - Hey, Sal.

You still hanging around?

No rest for the ugly.

- - What are you doing here?

Eh, don't ask, don't tell.

I'm just going across the street,

Come on, what's one cup of coffee?

All right.

Yeah.

Who is that, talking to Sal?

Kern County patrol dep.

That's Joe Deacon.

You're kidding.

No.

They're a bunch of nancies.

End of shift, I gotta beg for somebody to grab a beer with.

They got no soul, these new guys.

They weeded all the heart out of the place.

But then, you know that better than anybody.

- Hey, Sarge. - Sal.

- You know Joe Deacon? - Get what you came for?

I will.

You got nothing better to do than to bust my balls

Nothing personal. Deke busts everybody's balls.

You wanna bullshit John Q. Public

into thinking that the worst is behind us,

that's your business, until the next time,

but, hey, it's your shift, right?

Yeah, it is.

I hear you're a good cop.

I hear things, too.

He is a good cop, Deke. College boy,

bit of a Holy Roller, but, hey, I've been thinking

Get on the fast track for a promotion.