election?
If we down play it, we get accused
of protecting the police...
If we go all the way then PDA say we're
weakened in law enforcement.
Forget that Jerry, we are dealing with
a deranged person here.
I guarantee he is going to kill again.
For the time being,I want
this kept quiet...
...We'll begin an internal investigation .
For now no public announcement
of the cop might be involved.
- Nothing like that !
- Right Jerry.
I'm so suprised
when you called.
I didn't think we will see
each other again.
I see you on the news,
in the end of each night.
Just before I shut off the lights.
How romantic.
Gina, this is'nt about romance.
about murder.
People have to be warned.
Most people, they respect the uniform.
They do anything the cop tells them,
Including take a walk up a dark alley.
Who is he killing?
Pushers? Hustlers?
Innocent people.
Jesus! Maniac cop?
How's that for a tag?
I knew I could count on you
to sensationalizing the best way.
Now you got to make it bigger than AIDS.
Its the only way to city hall
off their ass.
You're ready to go
on the line on this?
Be quoted directly?
I'm ready to hand you an
exclusive on this...
...But I want you break it on the
late news show tonight.
Okay, I'll need a backup on every detail,
names of witnesses, specifics from...
Find everything you
need right there.
Mc Crea, remember ...
I owe you one.
You don't owe me anything.
Goddamn it! Why can't that
sonofabitch Pike control his own men?
- You want Mcrae here?
- Hell no!
The last thing I need is to be
accused of a coverup.
Issue a statement that I didn't know about
the connection between these killings.
And say I'm setting up an inquiry board headed
by a group of independent psychologists.
What about also saying something
nice about the police?
The average cop on the street...
because they're the one's that are
going to take the heat on this.
- That's their lookout.
- What about Mcrae?
Let him handle the investigation.
If he fails, I'll bust him.
...If he succeeds, I'll commend him.
Then six or eight months later,
I'll cut his balls off.
This report was  informed by the source
within the New York Police department...
...of attempts by the Homicide Division...
to suppress facts regarding three recent homicides.
Facts and witnesses to these murders point
unmistakably to a uniformed police officer.
I repeat, a uniformed New York cop
has been seen in the commission...
of these brutal killings occuring on
the streets of the city after dark.
The question this station wants answered,
why has Commissioner Pike
withheld these facts,
and does the Mayor know what
is going on in his city?
How can the public defend themselves
if they're unaware...
...that one of New York's finest may
indeed be a psychopath...
whose intent is to kill them
rather than protect them?
Tomorrow on the morning show,
we will have an interview with...
...Detective Lt. Frank Mc Crae McCrae who
is in charge of the investigation.
was ordered not to speak to the press.
You're not gonna get me!
Anybody who wants to shoot a cop these
days has got a helluva excuse.
Can you believe that?
She thought he was the
fucking the maniac.
Look. We've received 700 letters
accusing individual police officers.
Look Councillor,
A cop gives you a parking ticket
so what you do naturally...
...you write in a letter accusing
him of being the killer. Right?
Shit! Why does that have to happen
4 weeks before of my retirement?
We're all in trouble, Captain.
Tourism's off by 38 percent.
This nut must be quite, he is costing the
taxpayers bringings every day.
Ripley, If you can't handle this, put in
for early retirement and step down.
No way, Councillor.
I want to nail this bastard.
Pretty sharp.
He'll be one step ahead of me.
If I stake out
Tribecca and Soho,
he strikes the east side.
He may be getting information
from inside the department.
That means he is one of us.
I didn't