NYPD BLUE Pilot Revised Network Draft 9/18/18 17.
Then Theo flips to the end of the notebook - where the lists abruptly stop. On one, toward the end, it reads, Grateful to see Violet P. He irises down on Violet P. He then searches for and finds an old address book. INT. RUSSELL’S OFFICE - DAY CHIEF OF DETECTIVES ERIC GAMBLE (55), sits across from Russell. CHIEF GAMBLE Chief, there’s a reason it woke up. And I was never comfortable with the original outcome -- SQUAD - Gamble, Lazarus, Pettibone and Irvin are at their desks. CHIEF GAMBLE But you got nothing here. What Can’t think of another case better suited to the term, “can of worms.” RUSSELL
wouldn’t a dope fiend like Jennings say to get out from under? I know what you’re going to say: what’s the harm in pursuing it? The harm is another run of front page
headlines about the “whore monger cop” which were a black eye to the department then and will be again now. That’s not happening. RUSSELL Especially if your son winds up in the article. (fighting words, but...) Forgive me for saying exactly what you were thinking, Chief. Before he pulls rank... he considers, then -- CHIEF GAMBLE Not my predominant reason for coming here. But it was. The Chief is on his feet. CHIEF GAMBLE (CONT’D)
Wading into this Sipowicz sewage is a waste of his time - the Squad’s time.
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