Jesse Stone: Innocents Lost Page #4

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You're repairing it.

Your Scout's beyond repair.

It's a rusted hulk.

Exactly.

But I don't know

what that's supposed to mean.

- You're saying I have issues?

- You do.

How would you

know that?

I'm the police chief.

- I know everything.

- So I have to spend the night

in jail?

We both do.

What is that supposed to mean?

If you spend the night in jail,

I can't go home.

You can't put me in jail

just because you think

that I have issues.

No, I can't.

And my mom wanted

me out of here.

She did.

So then, why can't I go home?

Public drunkenness is illegal.

- This is not right!

- I'm not in the right

and wrong business; I'm in

the legal and illegal business.

You don't make any sense.

Detective Gammon,

can I talk to you

for a moment?

We don't have

detectives, sir.

Well, what should I call you?

Rose.

Well, Rose, as you know,

we're understaffed here.

We lost a very good man

when Detective DeAngelo left.

I'm sorry. How do we refer

to our personnel?

As "Officers," sir.

Chief Stone had a

problem in that...

He didn't like Officer D'Angelo.

That isn't what

I was going to say, sir.

You don't have

to call me sir, Rose.

What should I call you?

I don't know.

How about "Chief"?

Well, Chief,

the former chief felt

that Officer D'Angelo spent

too much time writing tickets.

- That's a good thing.

- Tickets bring in...

Lot of revenue.

Anyway, being shorthanded,

I'm going to need you here

manning your desk.

This has nothing to do

with you being a woman.

I want you to know that, Rose.

You need someone

to man the telephones,

to be a kind of dispatcher.

I prefer

that you think of it more

as a temporary kind of

home guard action.

Then I'll try

to think of it that way.

Thank you, Rose.

Thank you.

I guess it takes me 24

hours to get offended.

You could have called.

I'm in a dead zone.

Okay.

Truth is, I forgot.

By the time I thought

to call you,

it was raining again.

Was it important?

I don't know.

I got a perp on trial

for robbery and murder.

What's your problem?

What makes you think

I got a problem?

Every time

you stop by

to see how I'm doing,

either you got a problem,

or I got a problem.

Well... you've got a problem.

So do you.

How do you know?

Coply intuition.

Oh.

I don't think

the perp's the perp.

Excuse me?

I don't think he did it.

Did what?

Robbed a liquor store,

got the money,

shot the owner

in the face three times.

Nice.

Your bust?

No. One of my ambitious

college students.

Case is a slam dunk.

Eyewitness ID.

Credit card receipts,

cell phone records

put him in the area

at the right time.

Final arguments are today.

And you got a problem?

I do.

Why do you have a problem?

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