Editing Bad Lieutenant (section)

==Plot==
After dropping off his two young sons at [[Catholicism|Catholic]] school, an unnamed [[New York City Police Department|NYPD]] police lieutenant snorts [[cocaine]] before driving to the scene of a double homicide in [[Union Square, Manhattan|Union Square]]. The lieutenant then tracks down a drug dealer and gives him a bag of [[cocaine]] from a crime scene; he has a small bag of [[crack cocaine]] fronted and smokes some while the dealer promises to give him the money he makes from selling the drugs in a few days. The lieutenant ends the day at a rundown apartment, where he gets drunk and engages in a [[threesome]] with two women. He then visits a red-haired female junkie and smokes [[heroin]] with her. In parallel events, a nun is [[rape]]d inside a church by two young hoodlums.

The next morning, the lieutenant learns that he has lost a bet on a [[National League Championship Series]] baseball game between the [[New York Mets]] and the [[Los Angeles Dodgers]]. He tries to win back his money by doubling his wager on the Dodgers in the next game. At another crime scene, the lieutenant rifles through the victim's car and finds a hidden stash, which he stuffs in his coat pocket. However, the bag falls out onto the street in front of his colleagues. The lieutenant lies and says that he intended to enter the drugs into evidence, and orders them to do it on his behalf.

At a hospital, the lieutenant spies on the nun's examination and learns that she was penetrated with a [[crucifix]]. Later that evening, he pulls over two teenage girls who are using their father's car without his knowledge to go to a club. Aware that they are unlicensed, the lieutenant extorts the girls by having one of them bend over and pull up her skirt and the other to simulate oral sex while he masturbates. The following day, he eavesdrops on the nun's confession to her superior, where she says she knows who assaulted her but will not identify them.

While drinking and shooting drugs as he drives through [[Times Square]], the lieutenant listens to the final moments of the Dodgers game and shoots out his car stereo in a drug-fueled rage when the Mets win. Despite being unable to pay the $30,000 wager, he doubles his bet for the next game. The lieutenant spends the last of his money on more drinks when the Dodgers lose again. After scoring cocaine in a nightclub, he tries to double his bet again but the runner refuses, insisting that his [[bookmaker|bookie]] would kill him.

The lieutenant picks up his $30,000 share from the drug dealer and calls the bookie personally to place his bet. They arrange to meet in front of [[Madison Square Garden]]. He then visits the red-haired junkie again for a final shot of heroin. At the church, he tells the nun that he will exact vengeance upon her attackers, but she repeats that she has forgiven them and leaves. In the resulting emotional breakdown, the lieutenant sees an apparition of [[Jesus]] and tearfully curses him before begging forgiveness for his crimes and sins. The figure is revealed to be a woman holding a golden chalice, which turns out to have been [[pawnshop|pawned]] at her husband's shop.

With the help of the woman, the lieutenant tracks the two rapists to a nearby crack den in [[Spanish Harlem]] and cuffs them together. The three men then smoke crack while listening to the Mets win the pennant on a radio. Instead of taking them to the station, he drives them to the [[Port Authority Bus Terminal]] and puts them on a bus with a cigar box containing the $30,000 and a promise not to return. After he leaves the terminal, he parks on the street in front of [[Pennsylvania Station (New York City)|Penn Station]]. Another car drives up beside him, and the driver, presumably the bookie with whom the lieutenant had arranged to meet, fatally shoots the lieutenant before speeding off. A crowd begins to form as the police arrive.