McCanick

Mostly sunny today

with a slight chance of passing, evening showers.

High, 82. Clear and comfortable tonight, going down to 58.

Tomorrow morning, we'll have some clouds.

Otherwise, breezy and nice with a high of about 80.

6:30 a.M. Let's get a look at the traffic.

Steve, what's happening?

It's a little bit of a nightmare

around Philadelphia this morning,

with a backup on 95 north starting around the Walt Whitman bridge,

going back five to six Miles.

Road construction slowing things up there.

An overturned tractor-trailer on the schuylkill

by the Conshohocken curve westbound.

That's starting to be cleared.

Other than that, everything's looking pretty good.

And mass transit's running on time.

All right, thanks, Steve.

Let's get a look at sports.

The Phillies take on Pittsburgh at citizens bank park tonight

in the first game of a three-game series.

The pirates coming off a tough loss

against St. Louis on Saturday,

as the phills look to extend their five-game winning streak at home.

Game time is...

Morning.

Hey. H...

Morning. How you doing, Julius?

Thanks for the rush job.

That Harris tweed's very fine.

Yeah, Jenny, she's the one. She got that for me.

Let me...

I put it in.

Okay. Thank you.

Here you go, buddy.

Oh, no, no, no, no, no... yeah.

You say hello to Chris.

I will say hi to him.

Julius, you're a gentleman.

This is Eugene McCanick calling again.

I called about reserving a table for tonight.

Please call back at your earliest convenience.

It's very important.

Okay.

Hey. Hey.

It's, uh... baby, we gotta go.

We'll be late. I know.

What is it we have? The, uh...

Is it that dinner tonight?

Yep. And it's pot luck. Crap.

you're shitting me.

Why, because you're the one that cooks the food?

No, no, because I help.

Really? You kidding me? Of course I help.

Oh, okay, I don't remember that.

Of course. Short-term memory.

How have things been with Eugene?

Oh...

And there he is.

Hi. Hi.

Oh.

So scary.

Uh, weirdly but oddly... good.

Oh, is he on meds now?

That's very funny. I don't know.

Last couple days he's just been...

He's been really cheery.

Did you tell him about your promotion?

No, I didn't have the heart.

Okay, gather up, everybody.

I love you.

I love you, too, babe.

Get out of here.

I'll see you later. Yeah.

Come on, come on. Get a move on.

Get the fuck over here.

This is a very special day.

Anybody know why?

Anybody?

Today is the birthday

of one Eugene Wellington McCanick.

Are you shitting me?

Whoo!

happy five-niner, Mack.

hey, know what a cop should do on his birthday?

What's that?

Not get killed.

All right, that's it.

What are you still doing here?

you're wasting time. Get out there.

How were you not going to tell me it's your birthday?

It's my birthday.

What's this?

You tell me.

How'd you get this?

I'm arresting.

There's an order for notification.

He's been out three months. You knew about this? Sit down.

Did you fucking know about this?

Sit down, for Christ's sake.

Look. His behavior at Graterford was totally clean.

So they let him off with the minimum.

Okay?

To tell you the truth, I was hoping you wouldn't find out.

You need to leave this alone, Mack.

What's your problem?

What's my problem?

Jesus Christ.

you're lucky you didn't lose your job over this.

I need to know

that we understand each other.

You reopen this can,

And the shit flies all over again.

We're friends. Wai... we're friends,

but I'm also your captain,

And I'm giving you an order.

You are not to make contact

with Simon Weeks.

Is that understood?

Captain, the state attorney's guy is here.

I'll be right out.

Mack, is it understood?

All right.

Yeah?

Yes, yes.

Yes.

Okay, good.

I saw your brother at the captain's dinner last night.

Yeah... yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

I know he's an asshole,

but he told me that Chris is getting oriented.

They put him on the street Monday.

I know.

You know? Why, you been speaking to Chris?

No, he wrote back my letter.

I'm seeing him for dinner tonight, 8:00.

That's great.

Forget about Weeks. Make good your son.

Oh, Jim, that's one fuck of a tie.

Heads up. Cop.

What's up?

That's what's up.

Which one of you's Simon?

Simon. Which one?

What do you want?

I just want to ask a couple questions.

I'm homicide, not vice.

Gotta go, Simon. See you later.

How can I help you?

How can you help me?

Yeah.

I'm investigating the murder of Joe Langley.

You know who I'm talking about?

Yeah, congressman.

People say you knew him.

Really?

Who said that?

Is it true?

Look, kid, I'm not pointing fingers.

I'm just asking questions.

Yeah, he picked me up once.

just once?

Yeah, must've found somebody he liked better.

They shop around, you know.

Okay, who was it?

Who was it?

Raven. Raven.

Is that his first or his last?

Man, Raven's not his real name.

It's a tag. I don't know his real name.

Okay, I see.

Do you know how often Raven And congressman Langley

got together?

If you had to guess?

If I had to guess?

Yeah, if you had to guess.

Probably three or four nights a week.

They'd go off some place together.

Three or four nights a week.

Where? Hotel?

Raven wouldn't say. All right?

Raven always kept pretty quiet about Joe.

Joe.

Joe, huh? Yeah, Joe.

Raven's crazy. Nobody fucks with him.

Would you think that Raven could've killed congressman Langley?

I don't fucking know.

Would you... would you be willing to come down to the station,

make a statement?

Man... it's just a statement.

It's not a big deal.

Come on.

All right? Come on.

Come on.

Shit.

Get in the back. Get in the back.

hey, you finally made it, huh?

You believe that shit?

Like we're all shocked.

hey, you're going to run this place some day.