He learns that they need money to stage their production, and he gets an angelically diabolical idea—he offers them the money, with a condition.

As Lily, Lizzie Klemperer gorgeously sings the show’s long, haunting invitation — “Come to my garden” — with each syllable angelically sent heavenward.

But let’s also not have the reflex of pretending cops are angelically pure of what was born into the rest of us.