A young white guy in a brown suede jacket and a pretty black girl come into the stationhouse. They want to see a detective about a murder. Sip jumps on top of them before John has barely turned around. They young couple are Roger and Sugar. Roger's parents have been murdered in their place on East 12th Street, shot dead in the kitchen. He didn't call 911 - he "just had to get out of there." Sip drags them out and as they pass Di and Ricky, Sip barks, "Wanna work a homicide?" then to Ricky, "Those are the same clothes you were wearing yesterday." Busted!
Here we get a gritty dialogue-less montage of Roger, Sugar, Sip, Ricky, Di and Baldwin entering the apartment. The music is mournful and creepy. The motion is slightly slow. A man is in a chair, shot in the chest. A woman lies on the floor in a puddle of blood, shot in the head. Sugar recoils, Baldwin holds her. Roger drops to the floor, his back against the wall. Ricky touches the woman's head and says, "Aah - half her face is gone." Sip walks into another room, finds a small chunk of something and brings it back to where the bodies are. "They were shot in here. This is her tongue." Gross. Sip is starting to creep me out. Or maybe it's the music. Or maybe it's the bloody corpses. "They were shot in here, and moved over here. Put in these chairs. They were murdered in here...and moved here." Sip looks at Roger, slumped and leaning against the wall, and Roger stares back. Sip stares hard. Rogers stares as hard back. Sip stares at Roger so hard that maybe Roger will just break down and confess to the murder of his parents, but we're only twenty minutes into the show. Sip's face takes up the whole frame as he stares so hard at Roger I can't believe his head doesn't explode like in Scanners. If Sip ever looked at me that hard I'd confess - to loving Dennis Franz's fine acting abilities!
Roger is being interviewed in the pokey. He's drawing them a map: "This is the course of my actions. Want me to initial it?" He does and Ricky says thanks. Sip tries to ask a question and Roger interrupts: "There were no angry partners in my father's dry cleaning business." Sip glowers.
Baldwin is interviewing Sugar. Lucky Sugar. She's saying she met Roger in a chat room called "The Rainbow Room", which does not have a gay theme or a little-kid-TV-show theme; it's about interracial dating. Hmm. Baldwin starts laying the pressure onto Sugar, saying "This is life and death here," and "Are you going to stand beside him? Are you in love?" Sugar is folding faster than a mom on laundry day, saying weepily, "I just feel so PRESSURED! I don't know if I can stand it!" Baldwin offers to lighten her load, and she asks him to hold her. Bitch! He does and then asks if she has anything to tell her. Nope. She just wants to FEEL UP BALDWIN. Baldwin looks over her shoulder and says, "Not yet, but soon."