Jake: Why'd you delete it? You said you'd help us if we got proof.
Captain Lamazar: Yeah, but I didn't think you'd get proof, get proof. I thought you just, you know, get proof. There's proof and there's proof. You got the wrong kind of proof. I don't know how much clearer I can be.
Rosa: So you were never gonna help us?
Captain Lamazar: I am helping you. I can still get the charges against your client dropped. Now that I saw that footage, I'll get my officers to revise their statements.
Jake: And they'll be punished?
Captain Lamazar: No, there's no way I can suspend them.
Jake: Suspend? I thought you would fire them.
Captain Lamazar: [snorts] Oh, you're being serious now. Huh, I guess jokes aren't our thing. Well, if I fired them, it would trigger the union's appeal process. PBA's grievance proceedings allow for both unions and individual officers to challenge personnel actions by superiors. [time lapse] The complaint gets sent up the chain of command till they get someone who sides with the officers. [time lapse] And the courts are a nightmare. Prosecutors work closely with cops. They're not gonna jeopardize their relationship by pursuing cases against them. [time lapse] All the officer has to say is he feared for his life, and it gets thrown out.
Jake: Look, we know all of this, but that doesn't mean you just give up.
Captain Lamazar: Okay, so say I don't give up and I get the commissioner to agree to fire the officers. Do you know what happens next?
Jake: They'd file a countersuit.
Captain Lamazar: Yes. And the officers get paid to stay at home. [time lapse] Not to mention qualified immunity. [time lapse] And now the officers are back on the street and I am blackballed. [time lapse] And then one of the only female captains in the NYPD is forced to quit. And you don't want me gone. I'm one of the good ones. And I know how that sounds, but I'm not one of the bad ones who say they're one of the good ones. I'm one of the good ones who say they're one of the good ones.
Jake: Yeah, I hear it, Rosa. You can stop staring daggers at me. Let's just go.
