NYPD Blue (TV Series)

The Bookie and the Kooky Cookie (1995)

Dennis Franz: Det. Andy Sipowicz

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  Det. Andy Sipowicz : I worked a case once. A couple's kid was missing. A 14-month old kid. He wandered away in a park, and we're looking everywhere, and there's flyers we got out, they're interviewed on the radio. The guy's a dog trainer in from the Midwest who came here so he could take this special course with a German Shepherd that he's got. And the wife's half an oilier. You can tell that she likes to drink. I'm just getting this bad feeling about the both of them. So, I go at her a little bit. We're up there in their transient apartment they rented, and finally she says... whatever happened, it wasn't her. So now I'm looking at the husband. He's this... he's this horse-balled tough guy. A fake marine. And he's talking to me about how pets have to be disciplined, and the breakdown of discipline... and I'm getting worried what might have happened with this asshole. And now she starts screaming that it wasn't her. She was asleep. The baby peed while the father was changing it one night and... uh... it urinated in the guy's face. He threw the baby down on the floor, and fractured its skull, and the baby lay there and died. And what happened with the baby, I wanted to know. And she's still screaming that it wasn't her and I'm looking at this dog, and this asshole husband is trying to get the dog away from me. This German Shepherd dog with a drooping round belly. Now, I got to cut open this dog to find out what's going on. I take the dog over to the vet's. We cut its large belly open... we got to murder this poor dog and... there's the pieces of the dead child... hacked apart... inside the dog. The sick couple tried to hide their dead baby by hacking him apart and surgically hiding its pieces inside their dog.

  [after a long pause] 

  Det. Andy Sipowicz : Father Kankarides wanted to know if I lost my faith. I got faith in you.

• Lt. Arthur Fancy : Hey, Andy, you come up with that address?

  Det. Andy Sipowicz : You mean where "Donna Reed" was calling "Little Earl"?

• Father Kankarides : Do you believe in God, Andrew?

  Det. Andy Sipowicz : I'd as soon not get into that.

  Father Kankarides : I'm sure that in your work you must see things that are very hard to deal with. Have you lost your faith?

  Det. Andy Sipowicz : Yeah.

  Father Kankarides : [Bows his head and prays for Andy]  Sylvia's been a favorite of mine ever since I've known her. I think she has a great gift of spirit, of finding the best in people.

  Det. Andy Sipowicz : I think that's right.

  Father Kankarides : And you wanna make her happy. You do love her.

  Det. Andy Sipowicz : Yeah, I do.

  Father Kankarides : Good. Good. Very well, , Andrew. I'm glad I got to meet you. Don't give up on God.

  Det. Andy Sipowicz : It's good to meet you.

  Father Kankarides : He may not be through with you yet.