Picket Fences (1992–1996): Season 2, Episode 6 - Dairy Queen - full transcript
A sexy young centerfold model becomes the controversial symbol for a dairy campaign. She turns out to have an abusive husband. Kimberly wants a breast implant.
- ...that adrenaline rush?
- All right, everybody's tensed.
We're not tensed.
- Yeah, we're not...
- This is fun!
We love what we do.
We love our work.
We do love it.
All right, come on, everybody guns down,
- shake out your shoulders.
- All right.
Shake it out, come on.
- Better?
- Never mind.
We're lousy when we're tight.
That's right.
OK, it's show time, it's fun.
We love what we do.
All right, let's get a little chatter
going here.
Come on, come on, come on!
- Yeah, yeah, yeah!
- Yes!
All right, okay, remember,
have fun.
- I love you all.
- We love you too, Laurie.
- Let's go to work!
- Let's go to work!
I'm gonna be late for school.
Two minutes.
We'll be done in two minutes.
Don't time me.
It was just an estimate.
You could bank at home by computer,
you know.
- Technology exists.
- Oh. Mmm.
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.
Allow me to introduce myself.
My name is Laurie Bey,
better known as the Dancing Bandit.
I'll be inconveniencing you today with
a brief robbery,
please try to remain as calm as possible.
As you may note I am deaf
and I'm therefore speaking to you
through my interpreter Henderson Cole.
- Video cameras.
- Oh.
- Get down!
- Get down! Get down!
- Silent alarm, Colonial Bank.
- What? Bank?
- What branch?
- Hammond Street.
Call Jimmy, tell him we'll meet him there.
Kenny!
- What?
- Colonial Bank, all units, let's go.
No, no, no, no,
everybody up, everybody up!
I'm not one of those "everybody down on
the ground" bandits.
I prefer you to remain standing.
Okay, then, listen up.
While my staff tends to business,
let me tell you a little bit about
who I am.
I'm known as the Dancing Bandit.
Because with each stick up,
I customarily do a celebratory dance
that lends itself to a certain
type of folklore,
that cast me as human, if not delightful.
A characterization I can exploit
with a jury,
should I ever be captured and
brought to trial,
that's not gonna happen.
All right, we got it.
Thank you.
- I've just got one more.
- All right.
Well, well, well!
What a gorgeous little boy.
You know sign language?
He learned it at school.
You can talk directly to me.
I read lips.
- Are you this boy's mother?
- Yes.
Such a beautiful child.
It's a shame I don't kidnap.
Are you still studying sign language?
No, um, they discontinued the program,
uh, budget cuts.
- Cole, we're finished.
- I'm done.
All right my, uh, staff is finished.
- Who's in charge here?
- Uh, I am.
I'm Kenneth Graham, the president.
Graham. Hello, Mr. Graham.
The money that we've stolen is to
be deducted
from the account of Mr. Gene Lavanchi.
- Is that clear?
- Gene Lavanchi?
Anything in excess of 100,000 dollars
will return.
We want to make sure Mr. Lavanchi's loss
is fully insured.
With that, I believe we're done, finished.
Music.
Okay, quick guys, we gotta go.
Uh, you want to join me,
you better do it now.
I won't dance long.
I've got a full day.
As you can see she can pick up the beat.
I think I hear something, Cole.
Company. Two units.
- What?
- Police.
Somebody hit the alarm.
Two more pulling up.
We got trouble.
I'm very disappointed.
Get back behind the yellow ribbon.
We're secure.
Kenny.
On my order I want you to take out
the point man.
Are you nuts?
They've got hostages in there.
I haven't given the order yet.
What's happening?
The Dancing Bandit.
She's holding up the bank.
Dancing what?
Bandit, modern-day Robinhood,
steals from the rich gives to the poor.
Oh, boy!
All right, Jill's in there.
Zack's with her.
All other exits are on time locks.
Our only way out is through the front.
We need hostages, at least three.
We're secure.
The FBI's on the way.
All right.
All right, listen in there,
this is, uh, Sheriff Brock.
Sheriff Brock speaking.
You are completely surrounded.
Do you hear me?
No, I'm deaf.
Now, listen to me-- - No, you listen to me.
You've interrupted our dance.
I'm very saddened.
In fact, I'm annoyed.
This is what's going to happen.
We're going to board
our truck with our money
and a few hostages.
Once we're satisfied
that we're away and we haven't
been followed,
- we'll release--
- We've got Agent Morrell from the FBI.
He says do anything to stall,
they're on their way.
They do not want this woman getting away.
They've been chasing her for months.
Okay, I know I said I didn't kidnap
but unfortunately I need hostages.
Where's the little redheaded boy?
Oh, there.
No, no, no, no.
- You want to ride with me?
- No.
- I'll teach you more sign language.
- No, please.
- Please, no, please.
- He'll be fine.
I promise.
I always keep my promises.
- No, please.
- Stop.
This is questionable judgment.
I have five people in here with
automatic weapons,
you have one pistol and it looks
to be small.
I'll shoot you.
You let us walk out or I'll shoot you.
You're being futile and dilatory.
I'm getting annoyed.
I'm gonna count to three...
If you don't let us go...
Count to five, you'll live longer.
One.
Two.
I heard shots.
- Stop!
- Let me go.
- I'm a doctor, let me go.
- No!
This isn't funny anymore,
don't let her die.
- You're in there, if you-- - Jimmy, this is Jill.
We have a gunshot wound.
I think it's critical.
She says she'll let
the victim go
if you can guarantee
their safe getaway.
FBI says stall.
Not stalling.
We can't lose the Dancing Bandit.
I don't care.
It's a life at stake in there.
If you let them
all drive away in the truck.
All right, here's the deal.
Y'all get out of there except Bey,
she stays.
The whole gang gets away free.
Now, that's a good deal.
No, I go free too.
Please.
That sheriff is my husband.
I know the procedure, he can't let you go.
Then the woman dies.
- Maybe more.
- You can save that woman.
You can save your whole gang.
She's gonna die.
I'll stay, my people go.
- Everybody go.
- Come on.
Jack, you and I stay with Laurie,
everybody else in the truck.
Come on, let's move, hurry.
We might be able to tail with an
unmarked car, sir.
It's too risky.
Let him go, we still got her.
All right, here they come.
Here they come.
All right, get the
person out, take 'em to Thayer.
Kenny, Max, keep them covered.
The paramedics
are coming in, unarmed.
Hurry up, hurry up, come on,
let's go, let's go.
She's in shock, you got to move,
you got to move.
- No, no, not yet, not yet!
- What do you mean?
This woman's in critical condition.
No, when I get the call,
when I know my people are safe,
then...
Look, look, let them take her now.
You've got plenty of hostages.
You can keep us for as long as you
want to.
Okay,
all right, I want everybody in the vault.
Now! Come on, come on, move in the vault.
Let's go, let's go, let's go!
Those vehicles
have to be re-routed.
Move. Let's go.
Wait a minute, you.
Everybody else, keep moving.
You're very brave.
What's your name?
- Zachary Brock.
- Pleased to meet you.
Be good to your mother.
All right, let's go, come on, hurry.
- Where's my suit?
- It's right here.
Hurry up.
Keeping everybody in the vault for
one hour.
That's to give her gang enough time
to get away.
How much of her gang is still in there?
Just the woman and her interpreter.
- Maybe we can move in.
- They have automatic weapons.
Come on, let's go.
Let them through.
Surround the building and bring in
the heli-team,
I want surveillance from the air
just in case.
- Are we secure?
- Secure.
Good, this woman is not getting away.
We finally got her.
She got away, I knew it.
She couldn't have gotten away,
they're trapped in the bank.
I've read all about this Dancing Bandit.
They're an organized
Mission Impossible team.
Just when you think you got them--
- She's caught.
- She's not caught.
They're in the bank.
Jimmy, we combed the place, they're not
in the bank.
So, they never really got into the vault
with you?
No, they stayed out here with the
paramedics and the woman.
They weren't real paramedics.
The Thayer ambulance was intercepted on
Dalton Road,
that was a phony that showed up.
Get all the hostages, round them all up.
Most of them have gone to the hospital for
trauma checks.
- Oh, damn it!
- What?
Obviously the bandits switched clothes
with paramedics to escape.
Bey was probably on the stretcher.
Paramedics who showed up must have
become the hostages.
We just let them walk right out.
Son of a bitch!
What happened to the woman who got shot?
She didn't really get shot.
It was part of the getaway plan.
I saw her, she was diaphoretic.
Did you actually see a bullet hole?
Well, no, I didn't but the symptoms--
Were perfect, I'm sure.
She shot out three videos,
she saved the blank for her friend.
Get me this, uh, Gene Lavanchi,
she stole from his account.
I want to know why.
I'll tell you why.
Cow flatulence.
- Who is this man?
- Carter Pike, Chief Pathologist.
We met over the Green Bay Chopper.
I autopsied the severed hand, found
the syphilis.
- Nice to see you again
- Carter, we're busy.
I know all about the Dancing Bandit.
Came down with a fever as a baby,
the hospital wouldn't treat her
because her parents didn't have
any insurance.
The fever caused her deafness.
That's why she's declared war
on bureaucracy
and government waste.
She nailed Gene because of his
farting cows.
- Carter!
- Who is this man?
No, no, no, no, hear me out.
I went to two years of veterinary school.
I was called out to Gene's farm
last year on an emergency, Okay.
He was breeding a mare.
The stallion became over-engorged
and gone--
- Sheriff!
- Carter!
- I saw the chambers!
- What chambers?
The glass enclosed sealed chambers
built to capture and analyze atmospheric gases,
in this case, cow flatulence.
Not asking who I am now are you inspector?
I've stopped caring.
Cows emit methane when they break wind.
They contribute 50 million metric tons
of methane
into the atmosphere each year.
The government thought it could
be responsible
for global warming so they started
hiring farmers
and scientists to test the emissions.
Of cow gas?
We spent 19 million dollars on
the project.
- What?
- That's it!
19 million and Gene Lavanchi was on
that payroll.
Now the question is...
- How is she gonna give it back?
- What do you mean?
When the Dancing Bandit takes
she always gives back
within the same community she steals from.
She reallocates federal spending
in her own way.
I should be deputized on this!
Now, come on, Special Agent Pike!
Yeah, I'll think it over.
- Flood victims.
- What?
We never qualified as a disaster area
so we lost out on federal relief.
We had 700 families
that lost their homes because of
the floods.
That's it.
She's bringing public exposure
to this ridiculous cow flatulence thing
and then she's funneling the wasted
funds back to the flood victims.
They're on to us.
Who invited the nosy little pathologist?
Name's Carter Pike,
he's the medical examiner, quick
to autopsy.
We'll launder later.
Send the money by mail to the shelter.
Then we'll have to use a donor.
She's got a network of wealthy people,
who are willing to pose as philanthropists.
She launders the stolen money
through them,
then they in turn write personal checks
to give it back to charity.
So there must be some way of tracing
the transactions.
Well, so far, we haven't found it.
These people are very good at
what they do.
No, no, it's too risky even for us.
- No.
- Here we go.
American Sign Language.
Mrs. Coburn, 4th grade, room 10B.
Yep, that's it, Brock Zachary,
that's the class.
Is that the only class that had
the course?
That's all that's showing up.
Yeah, sign language,
purchase order request by Mary Coburn.
Request denied.
Shelter for the flood victims does accept
anonymous donations.
We could have clean cash here by
tonight if we can--
No, we're gonna make a pit stop first.
- Oh, no.
- Yes.
Little miss 'I never choose
romantic causes'
wants to take some time out
to visit the sign language students,
who don't get to take sign language anymore.
Laurie.
Please.
What's the cognito? I mean, we didn't
bring wardrobe for an elementary school.
We're in luck.
Rome community theater.
- Utilities are almost nil it must be dark.
- So?
So nobody will be there and they have
to have costumes in stock.
We can borrow a few and go into
the school on some kind of theme.
Yeah, what was the last production in
the theater?
Let's see.
Oh, boy!
That's your favorite!
This is nuts.
We deserve to get caught.
- Shut up, Cole.
- Just look at my chest.
Tim Smith didn't forget to give me one,
- he just ripped it out!
- Excuse me.
What exactly is going on here?
We're off to see the Wizard.
Well, I'm in charge here
and I'd like to know what this is about.
You must be Michael Oslo.
No, Mr. Oslo is at a conference.
I'm the assistant principal.
Oh, then you would be Chauncey Smith.
I've heard you're an excellent
history teacher.
Well, thank you.
We were hired by a Mary Coburn, room 10B.
Evidently her class is reading
The Wizard of Oz,
and as a little treat
she's bringing us in for a short performance.
I see.
Well, it doesn't sound at all like Mary
but anything to get them to read
more, hmm?
- 10B is that way?
- Third door to the left.
Turn to page 72, we'll begin reading
from passage.
Good afternoon, students of room 10B.
Let me introduce myself,
my name is Dorothy Gale.
And I'm here to organize
the River City Boys Band.
Uh, wrong musical.
Actually I've been sent
by the National Society for the Deaf
to give you, the children of room 10B,
a very special lesson in sign language.
Hold on, just a second,
I'm the teacher here and I don't--
Uh, uh, you have no power here.
Be gone before somebody drops a
house on you.
You're the Dancing Bandit.
And you're being school-jacked.
Just go along.
First, let me tell you about the beauty
of sign language
and why you should all continue to
study it
and maybe on your own
if the school won't offer you a course.
And I'm--
Ah!
It's my gorgeous little redhead.
How are you?
So cute.
Didn't we have fun in the bank?
And finally...
I'll be showing you a technique
to make the learning easier.
We'll be signing the lyrics to a song
and you'll be so amazed
at how fast you'll learn
and then of course...
I'll dance.
- I think we got a problem.
- What?
Chauncey Smith said four people dressed as
Wizard of Oz characters
just entered the school.
The Tin Man had the suit Phil Banks have
on when he died.
How can he tell that?
Because of a hole in the chest.
Remember, Jimmy, you cut it open
because your thought it was a
heart attack.
And he just went to the theater,
it had been broken into.
- They stole those costumes.
- That's them, let's go.
Oh, no. Gumball.
- Police, I told you.
- Again!
- Yes, of course again, I told you.
- Oh
- Okay.
- Okay, class,
uh, it's been a pleasure thank you
very much.
Our welcome has been officially
overstayed, yes.
- Time to find Toto.
- There's no place like home!
Bye.
I never got to finish the song!
They got a truck back up to the cafeteria.
- I think--
- Okay, where is it?
Uh, northwest side.
We got it, you take the south.
All right, move in.
Freeze, FBI!
It's a decoy.
Keep the building surrounded.
I think she's still inside, come on.
- Where's that quarter come out?
- Right over here.
- There! Freeze!
- I told you!
- I said stop!
- Shut up, Cole!
Freeze, damn it!
- Stop right now.
- Come on.
Come on, get in.
Come on, Laurie.
Laurie!
- Come on, come on, come on!
- Freeze.
Here, here, here.
Laurie.
Laurie!
Take out the tire.
Damn.
They're going up Prospect.
We lost them.
You got her.
You definitely got her.
Give me a knife to cut up the cloth.
Come on.
It's okay, it's okay.
It's okay, Laurie.
- Cole.
- Come on.
There's blood everywhere.
Let's go, let's go,
come on!
Give me something to put pressure on it.
Where we going?
Where we going?
All right, get us to a hospital.
The bullet's still in here.
Just hang on.
Help me turn her over.
It's all right.
- Come on, let's go!
- It's okay, honey. Just hang on.
We'll take care of you, okay.
- Just hang on.
- Cole, come on.
Oh, Laurie.
Are you sure you got her?
She could have faked the hit.
I got her.
Suspect is wounded, gunshot to the back.
I want two teams at Thayer Hospital.
Let's hope they care about saving
her life.
We can't go to a hospital.
We have to. She's--
They know she was hit.
They'll be all over the hospital.
I don't care.
There's a doctor's office nearby.
- I saw it.
- We have to go someplace.
- I can't help her here.
- Let's go, let's go.
- We're almost there.
- Come on!
I'm thrilled that we're out of the room.
Let's go, come on.
Come on, lady, get out of here.
Everybody, out of here!
Hey, what are you doing?
What is-- What is this?
Gunshot wound.
No exit, she's in shock.
She's bleeding a lot.
- You guys get out of here, go on.
- We're not going!
No, no, no, the FBI is going to be
here any minute,
just get out of here have a life.
- Cole!
- Get out of here! Get out!
Come on, Jack, get her out of here, quick!
They brought her to Jill's.
They're in there now.
We're on our way.
- Get her to a hospital.
- It's hit an artery.
she's not going to make it to
the hospital.
- What's the pressure?
- 90 over 60.
Give me one percent Dolocaine.
Pack four by fours.
Prep... Kelly clamps.
- So you're a doctor.
- It's a hobby, scalpel.
- Scalpel? You can't--
- Scalpel,
we've got a bleeder, damn it.
Freeze, FBI!
- Get away.
- Forceps!
Get out, this woman is in serious condition
and she needs to be stabilized.
- Get out.
- We're staying right here.
I can feel it.
It's next to the scapula.
Let's scoop in.
Please, please, yes!
Yes, that's it, I got it.
I got the slug.
It's okay, baby. We got it.
I want 24-hour guard at the hospital.
Make sure that's a real ambulance outside.
- You get his rights?
- Twice.
Good.
Feel like making a statement?
Free agencies ruined baseball.
Put them in lock up, we'll send a
Federal Marshal.
- You shot her?
- She wouldn't stop.
She's wanted by the FBI.
She wouldn't stop.
Well, honey, she's gonna be okay.
She's gonna make it.
I'm part Robinhood myself.
I Rob from the rich then I call it a day.
I'm willing to cut a deal but I'm not
giving anybody up in the gang.
It's just Laurie and me.
I don't like this word "gang".
We need a nicer word for the jury.
How about folks?
The Dancing Bandit folks?
- You're really a good lawyer?
- The best.
Why don't you tell me about her
being deaf?
I want to milk that for sympathy.
She wouldn't be a mute too, would she?
Hey, little man.
Hi.
She's gonna be okay, you know, just fine.
I know.
You understand she is a criminal.
They say she's a hero.
She does good things for people who
need help.
Well, yeah, she does.
But she breaks the law.
So you shot her.
She was trying to escape, Zack.
I am the sheriff.
You shot her in the back.
She didn't even have a gun.
- You think I'm crazy?
- Don't answer that,
it's a trick question.
If the A.G goes for 12 years, fine,
but this man is in my custody.
I am not letting him have hospital visits.
- Then I won't cooperate.
- Then don't.
We don't need your cooperation.
I have got facts and records
of crimes you don't even know were committed.
I can put everything into your hands.
Maybe get back a lot of the money
that was stolen even.
I am not letting you out of this cell.
Under armed guard.
He just wants to see his little
deaf friend
with a hole in her back.
What's so important about
a hospital visitation anyway?
She's my wife.
Uh-huh, it's his little deaf wife.
I give you my word
I will not try to escape,
just let me see her.
Excuse me.
The hospital just called there's
a problem.
Her rate's way up and irregular.
You X-rayed?
The heart looks fine,
we're hooking up the EKG now.
Has she had any coronary problems?
Never.
Hi, honey.
- I'm sorry.
- Hey, shh, shh.
It's over, honey.
I'm making a deal with the government.
We're out of the philanthropy business
for a while.
- I know.
- Maybe...
when we get out...
we could settle down...
finally have a real life.
Yeah.
She says she wants a kid just like yours.
I'm not through with him yet.
What?
Nothing, it's okay.
What's wrong?
She could die, it's an electrical problem
with the heart.
It sent her rate out of control.
What causes it?
We don't know that.
It can come about very suddenly.
It can be brought on by exertion
or stress or...
Somebody's shooting you.
I'm sorry.
You were just doing your job.
We yelled at her to freeze.
Jimmy didn't want to shoot.
We yelled at her--
She's deaf.
Her back was to you, she's deaf.
Look. I'm not really interested in
vilifying you people,
but if you come in here expecting me
to take you off the hook.
She's unarmed, running away,
threatening nobody
and you put a bullet in her back.
And that may be correct police procedure
but don't expect me to just...
I mean, is there anything I can really say
to make you feel okay about this?
No.
Jill Brock's a great doctor.
Your wife will get the best
treatment possible,
- she really will.
- Yeah.
Hey, Zack.
- Where's your big brother?
- Went with Kim.
Let me take you to school I can
drop you off.
No.
- Zack.
- I'm late.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, close that door,
turn around and look at me, young man.
You're not being fair.
I have a hard job, sometimes--
You didn't have to shoot her.
I did have to shoot her.
She was an escaping criminal.
It's my job to stop her and how dare
you punish me?
You're being selfish you know that?
Think for a second how I feel.
I know she's a good person.
I know she helps people out, you think I
slept last night?
You think I don't feel terrible?
It might be nice if you made me
feel better.
Maybe I need your help, Zack.
You're too selfish to think of that.
I know you're not too young.
I'm sorry I shot her, all right?
Go to school.
Nurses who know sign language,
really impressive.
Well, we're full service here.
Good hospital.
When I woke up I realized I wasn't dead.
- I was really pleased.
- Well, your rate's still way up.
I'm not going to kid you,
I'm worried about it.
I'm giving you a drug called Digoxin.
If it doesn't work...
It will.
You know, um.
It was my husband who shot you.
I know.
How's Zack taking it?
Well, he can't quite understand
how his father could shoot you.
Well, bring him in.
I'll speak with him.
Maybe I'll keep him.
Do you know that you are a very
inspiring person?
I'll bet that you could help the world
without breaking the law.
Little late for a career change.
Mmm.
How did you get started with this?
A friend of mine was dying of AIDS.
So I broke into a lab to steal some
experimental drugs.
Next thing I know I'm a fugitive.
And your husband?
I don't know.
Not cut out for hospital politics,
I guess.
Two years ago,
I was, uh, prepping a 19-year-old
for a kidney transplant
when the chief of staff suddenly tells me
I can't operate,
patients chances weren't strong enough.
I don't understand.
Our Federal Transplant Grant was based
on a success rate.
If she died we'd lose too much money.
- So you didn't operate?
- Nope.
Patient died.
That's what the hell.
Hospital didn't lose a penny.
I hate to be the messenger again
but there are more complications
and Jill wants you at the hospital.
This is completely unconscionable.
It's part of the deal.
And what are you doing here?
Nobody called you.
I'm a lawyer, I go through life uninvited.
This isn't fun and games, inspector.
My wife has a serious medical condition.
- She has other doctors.
- But I know her history.
So give us some space, Mr. Morrell,
please now.
It's rapid atria tachycardia.
- It's over 200.
- What?
You keep a gun pointed right at him!
- Still very high.
- Have you tried Digoxin?
Yes, with very little effect.
I want to try some cardio-version,
- low energy.
- No.
No, from what you're describing,
she could have digitalis toxicity.
Even a low-grade shock could put
her in arrest.
I don't know what else to do.
If she stays like this
she's at risk for congestive failure.
Have you heard of a procedure called
ablation?
It's a new operation,
um, they don't have the equipment here,
so we have to move you to Chicago.
Oh, it's very complicated,
um, they take a probe.
They put the probe into your vein
and near your groin and they basically
run the probe
up into your heart,
so that they can find the tissue that's
causing the arrhythmia.
- Right?
- Yes.
And then they use a kind of radio frequency
of about 55 volts to burn off the
damaged tissue.
You're gonna burn my heart?
It's risky but the alternative could
be worse.
He says he belongs to you.
I am Chief Pathologist, if she dies I want
to be ready.
You're not authorized.
He discovered flatulence cows.
Methane, global warming, tragic.
- Now what?
- Excellent!
- Tell this man who I am.
- Get out.
- I'm the medical examiner.
- You're interfering, get out.
I tried to tell him, Don, but
he wouldn't--
- Yeah, you get out too.
- I represent Henderson Cole.
- I'm here on official business.
- Just go, now!
Inspector, please.
With any luck I could land
a hearing impaired bandit.
It would be a big break.
My only big client was the ex-mayor
and he exploded on me.
Spontaneous human combustion, into bits.
Tragic.
I'm sorry my father shot you.
He was just doing his job, Zack.
- I'm a criminal.
- But you help people.
There's something you should understand.
A lot of people walk around disguised
as heroes.
Baseball players, doctors,
congressmen,
even fathers.
Most of them aren't.
I find it safer
to admire the good qualities in people...
rather than their hero status.
You'll be less disappointed that way.
I've made a lot of mistakes,
I'm sure your dad has too.
Shooting me wasn't one of them.
You're not mad at him?
No.
You shouldn't be either.
Zack, get out of here.
Get out of here, now.
Give me 0.5 milligram Digoxin, stat!
- Stat!
- Zachary, you get out of this room this minute!
okay...
Okay, heart rate's over 200.
It's okay, it's okay, sweetie.
Lie still, lie still, honey,
it's all right.
It's all right.
Her heart rate's up to 230,
- she's got to go to Chicago.
- Chicago, why?
We don't have the equipment.
Chicago General is sending a chopper.
No, no, no, we'll take her by ambulance.
No, we don't have the time,
she's in severe arrhythmia.
I give her two or three hours tops.
We have to have the Air Evac.
Two of my men go in the helicopter.
The husband stays here.
Secure the landing field now.
- She's not gonna make it?
- I don't know?
Coming through.
She should be monitored for both
pulmonary and--
- Get away.
- Get your hands off me.
I will not die, I promise.
I always keep my promises.
You'll tell Zack?
I'll tell him.
Thank you.
No, you're not going.
Look, part of the deal was that I got
the visitor--
You're staying here, you two get
on the chopper.
- Yes, sir.
- Right.
I told you not to go to the school.
Oh, baby, shut up!
All right, come on, come on,
let's go, let's go.
You know, she's right about one thing.
It's getting tougher and tougher to tell
who the heroes are.
There we go.
God, I hope she makes it.
You know what epinephrine does?
Even a small injection can cause horrible arrhythmia,
can make a good heart look bad,
can even fool an EKG.
Oh, my God!
I gave her the first dose at your office,
another one here at the hospital
last night.
And the last big one
just now instead of the Digoxin.
We had a needle stashed in the men's room.
We have an excellent team.
Her heart, her heart is normal?
We needed you to call for that ablation procedure.
We needed the Air Evac.
Trouble is...
the chopper you called for...
It's over there.
The one that just left is ours.
There's, there's two FBI agents on board.
About to take up skydiving...
with parachutes.
We're nice people.
- Your wife is okay?
- Oh, she'll have her moments.
What the hell is going on?
Why is there another chopper?
I have no idea, there, there must be
some mix-up.
All right, Mr. Cole, let's go.
Take him into custody and--
Just let me say goodbye.
What, you have to say goodbye
to everybody?
Never mind, Mr. Morrell.
Thanks.
You sacrificed your freedom for hers.
I guess that's love.
She'll be back.
She promised.
- All right, everybody's tensed.
We're not tensed.
- Yeah, we're not...
- This is fun!
We love what we do.
We love our work.
We do love it.
All right, come on, everybody guns down,
- shake out your shoulders.
- All right.
Shake it out, come on.
- Better?
- Never mind.
We're lousy when we're tight.
That's right.
OK, it's show time, it's fun.
We love what we do.
All right, let's get a little chatter
going here.
Come on, come on, come on!
- Yeah, yeah, yeah!
- Yes!
All right, okay, remember,
have fun.
- I love you all.
- We love you too, Laurie.
- Let's go to work!
- Let's go to work!
I'm gonna be late for school.
Two minutes.
We'll be done in two minutes.
Don't time me.
It was just an estimate.
You could bank at home by computer,
you know.
- Technology exists.
- Oh. Mmm.
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.
Allow me to introduce myself.
My name is Laurie Bey,
better known as the Dancing Bandit.
I'll be inconveniencing you today with
a brief robbery,
please try to remain as calm as possible.
As you may note I am deaf
and I'm therefore speaking to you
through my interpreter Henderson Cole.
- Video cameras.
- Oh.
- Get down!
- Get down! Get down!
- Silent alarm, Colonial Bank.
- What? Bank?
- What branch?
- Hammond Street.
Call Jimmy, tell him we'll meet him there.
Kenny!
- What?
- Colonial Bank, all units, let's go.
No, no, no, no,
everybody up, everybody up!
I'm not one of those "everybody down on
the ground" bandits.
I prefer you to remain standing.
Okay, then, listen up.
While my staff tends to business,
let me tell you a little bit about
who I am.
I'm known as the Dancing Bandit.
Because with each stick up,
I customarily do a celebratory dance
that lends itself to a certain
type of folklore,
that cast me as human, if not delightful.
A characterization I can exploit
with a jury,
should I ever be captured and
brought to trial,
that's not gonna happen.
All right, we got it.
Thank you.
- I've just got one more.
- All right.
Well, well, well!
What a gorgeous little boy.
You know sign language?
He learned it at school.
You can talk directly to me.
I read lips.
- Are you this boy's mother?
- Yes.
Such a beautiful child.
It's a shame I don't kidnap.
Are you still studying sign language?
No, um, they discontinued the program,
uh, budget cuts.
- Cole, we're finished.
- I'm done.
All right my, uh, staff is finished.
- Who's in charge here?
- Uh, I am.
I'm Kenneth Graham, the president.
Graham. Hello, Mr. Graham.
The money that we've stolen is to
be deducted
from the account of Mr. Gene Lavanchi.
- Is that clear?
- Gene Lavanchi?
Anything in excess of 100,000 dollars
will return.
We want to make sure Mr. Lavanchi's loss
is fully insured.
With that, I believe we're done, finished.
Music.
Okay, quick guys, we gotta go.
Uh, you want to join me,
you better do it now.
I won't dance long.
I've got a full day.
As you can see she can pick up the beat.
I think I hear something, Cole.
Company. Two units.
- What?
- Police.
Somebody hit the alarm.
Two more pulling up.
We got trouble.
I'm very disappointed.
Get back behind the yellow ribbon.
We're secure.
Kenny.
On my order I want you to take out
the point man.
Are you nuts?
They've got hostages in there.
I haven't given the order yet.
What's happening?
The Dancing Bandit.
She's holding up the bank.
Dancing what?
Bandit, modern-day Robinhood,
steals from the rich gives to the poor.
Oh, boy!
All right, Jill's in there.
Zack's with her.
All other exits are on time locks.
Our only way out is through the front.
We need hostages, at least three.
We're secure.
The FBI's on the way.
All right.
All right, listen in there,
this is, uh, Sheriff Brock.
Sheriff Brock speaking.
You are completely surrounded.
Do you hear me?
No, I'm deaf.
Now, listen to me-- - No, you listen to me.
You've interrupted our dance.
I'm very saddened.
In fact, I'm annoyed.
This is what's going to happen.
We're going to board
our truck with our money
and a few hostages.
Once we're satisfied
that we're away and we haven't
been followed,
- we'll release--
- We've got Agent Morrell from the FBI.
He says do anything to stall,
they're on their way.
They do not want this woman getting away.
They've been chasing her for months.
Okay, I know I said I didn't kidnap
but unfortunately I need hostages.
Where's the little redheaded boy?
Oh, there.
No, no, no, no.
- You want to ride with me?
- No.
- I'll teach you more sign language.
- No, please.
- Please, no, please.
- He'll be fine.
I promise.
I always keep my promises.
- No, please.
- Stop.
This is questionable judgment.
I have five people in here with
automatic weapons,
you have one pistol and it looks
to be small.
I'll shoot you.
You let us walk out or I'll shoot you.
You're being futile and dilatory.
I'm getting annoyed.
I'm gonna count to three...
If you don't let us go...
Count to five, you'll live longer.
One.
Two.
I heard shots.
- Stop!
- Let me go.
- I'm a doctor, let me go.
- No!
This isn't funny anymore,
don't let her die.
- You're in there, if you-- - Jimmy, this is Jill.
We have a gunshot wound.
I think it's critical.
She says she'll let
the victim go
if you can guarantee
their safe getaway.
FBI says stall.
Not stalling.
We can't lose the Dancing Bandit.
I don't care.
It's a life at stake in there.
If you let them
all drive away in the truck.
All right, here's the deal.
Y'all get out of there except Bey,
she stays.
The whole gang gets away free.
Now, that's a good deal.
No, I go free too.
Please.
That sheriff is my husband.
I know the procedure, he can't let you go.
Then the woman dies.
- Maybe more.
- You can save that woman.
You can save your whole gang.
She's gonna die.
I'll stay, my people go.
- Everybody go.
- Come on.
Jack, you and I stay with Laurie,
everybody else in the truck.
Come on, let's move, hurry.
We might be able to tail with an
unmarked car, sir.
It's too risky.
Let him go, we still got her.
All right, here they come.
Here they come.
All right, get the
person out, take 'em to Thayer.
Kenny, Max, keep them covered.
The paramedics
are coming in, unarmed.
Hurry up, hurry up, come on,
let's go, let's go.
She's in shock, you got to move,
you got to move.
- No, no, not yet, not yet!
- What do you mean?
This woman's in critical condition.
No, when I get the call,
when I know my people are safe,
then...
Look, look, let them take her now.
You've got plenty of hostages.
You can keep us for as long as you
want to.
Okay,
all right, I want everybody in the vault.
Now! Come on, come on, move in the vault.
Let's go, let's go, let's go!
Those vehicles
have to be re-routed.
Move. Let's go.
Wait a minute, you.
Everybody else, keep moving.
You're very brave.
What's your name?
- Zachary Brock.
- Pleased to meet you.
Be good to your mother.
All right, let's go, come on, hurry.
- Where's my suit?
- It's right here.
Hurry up.
Keeping everybody in the vault for
one hour.
That's to give her gang enough time
to get away.
How much of her gang is still in there?
Just the woman and her interpreter.
- Maybe we can move in.
- They have automatic weapons.
Come on, let's go.
Let them through.
Surround the building and bring in
the heli-team,
I want surveillance from the air
just in case.
- Are we secure?
- Secure.
Good, this woman is not getting away.
We finally got her.
She got away, I knew it.
She couldn't have gotten away,
they're trapped in the bank.
I've read all about this Dancing Bandit.
They're an organized
Mission Impossible team.
Just when you think you got them--
- She's caught.
- She's not caught.
They're in the bank.
Jimmy, we combed the place, they're not
in the bank.
So, they never really got into the vault
with you?
No, they stayed out here with the
paramedics and the woman.
They weren't real paramedics.
The Thayer ambulance was intercepted on
Dalton Road,
that was a phony that showed up.
Get all the hostages, round them all up.
Most of them have gone to the hospital for
trauma checks.
- Oh, damn it!
- What?
Obviously the bandits switched clothes
with paramedics to escape.
Bey was probably on the stretcher.
Paramedics who showed up must have
become the hostages.
We just let them walk right out.
Son of a bitch!
What happened to the woman who got shot?
She didn't really get shot.
It was part of the getaway plan.
I saw her, she was diaphoretic.
Did you actually see a bullet hole?
Well, no, I didn't but the symptoms--
Were perfect, I'm sure.
She shot out three videos,
she saved the blank for her friend.
Get me this, uh, Gene Lavanchi,
she stole from his account.
I want to know why.
I'll tell you why.
Cow flatulence.
- Who is this man?
- Carter Pike, Chief Pathologist.
We met over the Green Bay Chopper.
I autopsied the severed hand, found
the syphilis.
- Nice to see you again
- Carter, we're busy.
I know all about the Dancing Bandit.
Came down with a fever as a baby,
the hospital wouldn't treat her
because her parents didn't have
any insurance.
The fever caused her deafness.
That's why she's declared war
on bureaucracy
and government waste.
She nailed Gene because of his
farting cows.
- Carter!
- Who is this man?
No, no, no, no, hear me out.
I went to two years of veterinary school.
I was called out to Gene's farm
last year on an emergency, Okay.
He was breeding a mare.
The stallion became over-engorged
and gone--
- Sheriff!
- Carter!
- I saw the chambers!
- What chambers?
The glass enclosed sealed chambers
built to capture and analyze atmospheric gases,
in this case, cow flatulence.
Not asking who I am now are you inspector?
I've stopped caring.
Cows emit methane when they break wind.
They contribute 50 million metric tons
of methane
into the atmosphere each year.
The government thought it could
be responsible
for global warming so they started
hiring farmers
and scientists to test the emissions.
Of cow gas?
We spent 19 million dollars on
the project.
- What?
- That's it!
19 million and Gene Lavanchi was on
that payroll.
Now the question is...
- How is she gonna give it back?
- What do you mean?
When the Dancing Bandit takes
she always gives back
within the same community she steals from.
She reallocates federal spending
in her own way.
I should be deputized on this!
Now, come on, Special Agent Pike!
Yeah, I'll think it over.
- Flood victims.
- What?
We never qualified as a disaster area
so we lost out on federal relief.
We had 700 families
that lost their homes because of
the floods.
That's it.
She's bringing public exposure
to this ridiculous cow flatulence thing
and then she's funneling the wasted
funds back to the flood victims.
They're on to us.
Who invited the nosy little pathologist?
Name's Carter Pike,
he's the medical examiner, quick
to autopsy.
We'll launder later.
Send the money by mail to the shelter.
Then we'll have to use a donor.
She's got a network of wealthy people,
who are willing to pose as philanthropists.
She launders the stolen money
through them,
then they in turn write personal checks
to give it back to charity.
So there must be some way of tracing
the transactions.
Well, so far, we haven't found it.
These people are very good at
what they do.
No, no, it's too risky even for us.
- No.
- Here we go.
American Sign Language.
Mrs. Coburn, 4th grade, room 10B.
Yep, that's it, Brock Zachary,
that's the class.
Is that the only class that had
the course?
That's all that's showing up.
Yeah, sign language,
purchase order request by Mary Coburn.
Request denied.
Shelter for the flood victims does accept
anonymous donations.
We could have clean cash here by
tonight if we can--
No, we're gonna make a pit stop first.
- Oh, no.
- Yes.
Little miss 'I never choose
romantic causes'
wants to take some time out
to visit the sign language students,
who don't get to take sign language anymore.
Laurie.
Please.
What's the cognito? I mean, we didn't
bring wardrobe for an elementary school.
We're in luck.
Rome community theater.
- Utilities are almost nil it must be dark.
- So?
So nobody will be there and they have
to have costumes in stock.
We can borrow a few and go into
the school on some kind of theme.
Yeah, what was the last production in
the theater?
Let's see.
Oh, boy!
That's your favorite!
This is nuts.
We deserve to get caught.
- Shut up, Cole.
- Just look at my chest.
Tim Smith didn't forget to give me one,
- he just ripped it out!
- Excuse me.
What exactly is going on here?
We're off to see the Wizard.
Well, I'm in charge here
and I'd like to know what this is about.
You must be Michael Oslo.
No, Mr. Oslo is at a conference.
I'm the assistant principal.
Oh, then you would be Chauncey Smith.
I've heard you're an excellent
history teacher.
Well, thank you.
We were hired by a Mary Coburn, room 10B.
Evidently her class is reading
The Wizard of Oz,
and as a little treat
she's bringing us in for a short performance.
I see.
Well, it doesn't sound at all like Mary
but anything to get them to read
more, hmm?
- 10B is that way?
- Third door to the left.
Turn to page 72, we'll begin reading
from passage.
Good afternoon, students of room 10B.
Let me introduce myself,
my name is Dorothy Gale.
And I'm here to organize
the River City Boys Band.
Uh, wrong musical.
Actually I've been sent
by the National Society for the Deaf
to give you, the children of room 10B,
a very special lesson in sign language.
Hold on, just a second,
I'm the teacher here and I don't--
Uh, uh, you have no power here.
Be gone before somebody drops a
house on you.
You're the Dancing Bandit.
And you're being school-jacked.
Just go along.
First, let me tell you about the beauty
of sign language
and why you should all continue to
study it
and maybe on your own
if the school won't offer you a course.
And I'm--
Ah!
It's my gorgeous little redhead.
How are you?
So cute.
Didn't we have fun in the bank?
And finally...
I'll be showing you a technique
to make the learning easier.
We'll be signing the lyrics to a song
and you'll be so amazed
at how fast you'll learn
and then of course...
I'll dance.
- I think we got a problem.
- What?
Chauncey Smith said four people dressed as
Wizard of Oz characters
just entered the school.
The Tin Man had the suit Phil Banks have
on when he died.
How can he tell that?
Because of a hole in the chest.
Remember, Jimmy, you cut it open
because your thought it was a
heart attack.
And he just went to the theater,
it had been broken into.
- They stole those costumes.
- That's them, let's go.
Oh, no. Gumball.
- Police, I told you.
- Again!
- Yes, of course again, I told you.
- Oh
- Okay.
- Okay, class,
uh, it's been a pleasure thank you
very much.
Our welcome has been officially
overstayed, yes.
- Time to find Toto.
- There's no place like home!
Bye.
I never got to finish the song!
They got a truck back up to the cafeteria.
- I think--
- Okay, where is it?
Uh, northwest side.
We got it, you take the south.
All right, move in.
Freeze, FBI!
It's a decoy.
Keep the building surrounded.
I think she's still inside, come on.
- Where's that quarter come out?
- Right over here.
- There! Freeze!
- I told you!
- I said stop!
- Shut up, Cole!
Freeze, damn it!
- Stop right now.
- Come on.
Come on, get in.
Come on, Laurie.
Laurie!
- Come on, come on, come on!
- Freeze.
Here, here, here.
Laurie.
Laurie!
Take out the tire.
Damn.
They're going up Prospect.
We lost them.
You got her.
You definitely got her.
Give me a knife to cut up the cloth.
Come on.
It's okay, it's okay.
It's okay, Laurie.
- Cole.
- Come on.
There's blood everywhere.
Let's go, let's go,
come on!
Give me something to put pressure on it.
Where we going?
Where we going?
All right, get us to a hospital.
The bullet's still in here.
Just hang on.
Help me turn her over.
It's all right.
- Come on, let's go!
- It's okay, honey. Just hang on.
We'll take care of you, okay.
- Just hang on.
- Cole, come on.
Oh, Laurie.
Are you sure you got her?
She could have faked the hit.
I got her.
Suspect is wounded, gunshot to the back.
I want two teams at Thayer Hospital.
Let's hope they care about saving
her life.
We can't go to a hospital.
We have to. She's--
They know she was hit.
They'll be all over the hospital.
I don't care.
There's a doctor's office nearby.
- I saw it.
- We have to go someplace.
- I can't help her here.
- Let's go, let's go.
- We're almost there.
- Come on!
I'm thrilled that we're out of the room.
Let's go, come on.
Come on, lady, get out of here.
Everybody, out of here!
Hey, what are you doing?
What is-- What is this?
Gunshot wound.
No exit, she's in shock.
She's bleeding a lot.
- You guys get out of here, go on.
- We're not going!
No, no, no, the FBI is going to be
here any minute,
just get out of here have a life.
- Cole!
- Get out of here! Get out!
Come on, Jack, get her out of here, quick!
They brought her to Jill's.
They're in there now.
We're on our way.
- Get her to a hospital.
- It's hit an artery.
she's not going to make it to
the hospital.
- What's the pressure?
- 90 over 60.
Give me one percent Dolocaine.
Pack four by fours.
Prep... Kelly clamps.
- So you're a doctor.
- It's a hobby, scalpel.
- Scalpel? You can't--
- Scalpel,
we've got a bleeder, damn it.
Freeze, FBI!
- Get away.
- Forceps!
Get out, this woman is in serious condition
and she needs to be stabilized.
- Get out.
- We're staying right here.
I can feel it.
It's next to the scapula.
Let's scoop in.
Please, please, yes!
Yes, that's it, I got it.
I got the slug.
It's okay, baby. We got it.
I want 24-hour guard at the hospital.
Make sure that's a real ambulance outside.
- You get his rights?
- Twice.
Good.
Feel like making a statement?
Free agencies ruined baseball.
Put them in lock up, we'll send a
Federal Marshal.
- You shot her?
- She wouldn't stop.
She's wanted by the FBI.
She wouldn't stop.
Well, honey, she's gonna be okay.
She's gonna make it.
I'm part Robinhood myself.
I Rob from the rich then I call it a day.
I'm willing to cut a deal but I'm not
giving anybody up in the gang.
It's just Laurie and me.
I don't like this word "gang".
We need a nicer word for the jury.
How about folks?
The Dancing Bandit folks?
- You're really a good lawyer?
- The best.
Why don't you tell me about her
being deaf?
I want to milk that for sympathy.
She wouldn't be a mute too, would she?
Hey, little man.
Hi.
She's gonna be okay, you know, just fine.
I know.
You understand she is a criminal.
They say she's a hero.
She does good things for people who
need help.
Well, yeah, she does.
But she breaks the law.
So you shot her.
She was trying to escape, Zack.
I am the sheriff.
You shot her in the back.
She didn't even have a gun.
- You think I'm crazy?
- Don't answer that,
it's a trick question.
If the A.G goes for 12 years, fine,
but this man is in my custody.
I am not letting him have hospital visits.
- Then I won't cooperate.
- Then don't.
We don't need your cooperation.
I have got facts and records
of crimes you don't even know were committed.
I can put everything into your hands.
Maybe get back a lot of the money
that was stolen even.
I am not letting you out of this cell.
Under armed guard.
He just wants to see his little
deaf friend
with a hole in her back.
What's so important about
a hospital visitation anyway?
She's my wife.
Uh-huh, it's his little deaf wife.
I give you my word
I will not try to escape,
just let me see her.
Excuse me.
The hospital just called there's
a problem.
Her rate's way up and irregular.
You X-rayed?
The heart looks fine,
we're hooking up the EKG now.
Has she had any coronary problems?
Never.
Hi, honey.
- I'm sorry.
- Hey, shh, shh.
It's over, honey.
I'm making a deal with the government.
We're out of the philanthropy business
for a while.
- I know.
- Maybe...
when we get out...
we could settle down...
finally have a real life.
Yeah.
She says she wants a kid just like yours.
I'm not through with him yet.
What?
Nothing, it's okay.
What's wrong?
She could die, it's an electrical problem
with the heart.
It sent her rate out of control.
What causes it?
We don't know that.
It can come about very suddenly.
It can be brought on by exertion
or stress or...
Somebody's shooting you.
I'm sorry.
You were just doing your job.
We yelled at her to freeze.
Jimmy didn't want to shoot.
We yelled at her--
She's deaf.
Her back was to you, she's deaf.
Look. I'm not really interested in
vilifying you people,
but if you come in here expecting me
to take you off the hook.
She's unarmed, running away,
threatening nobody
and you put a bullet in her back.
And that may be correct police procedure
but don't expect me to just...
I mean, is there anything I can really say
to make you feel okay about this?
No.
Jill Brock's a great doctor.
Your wife will get the best
treatment possible,
- she really will.
- Yeah.
Hey, Zack.
- Where's your big brother?
- Went with Kim.
Let me take you to school I can
drop you off.
No.
- Zack.
- I'm late.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, close that door,
turn around and look at me, young man.
You're not being fair.
I have a hard job, sometimes--
You didn't have to shoot her.
I did have to shoot her.
She was an escaping criminal.
It's my job to stop her and how dare
you punish me?
You're being selfish you know that?
Think for a second how I feel.
I know she's a good person.
I know she helps people out, you think I
slept last night?
You think I don't feel terrible?
It might be nice if you made me
feel better.
Maybe I need your help, Zack.
You're too selfish to think of that.
I know you're not too young.
I'm sorry I shot her, all right?
Go to school.
Nurses who know sign language,
really impressive.
Well, we're full service here.
Good hospital.
When I woke up I realized I wasn't dead.
- I was really pleased.
- Well, your rate's still way up.
I'm not going to kid you,
I'm worried about it.
I'm giving you a drug called Digoxin.
If it doesn't work...
It will.
You know, um.
It was my husband who shot you.
I know.
How's Zack taking it?
Well, he can't quite understand
how his father could shoot you.
Well, bring him in.
I'll speak with him.
Maybe I'll keep him.
Do you know that you are a very
inspiring person?
I'll bet that you could help the world
without breaking the law.
Little late for a career change.
Mmm.
How did you get started with this?
A friend of mine was dying of AIDS.
So I broke into a lab to steal some
experimental drugs.
Next thing I know I'm a fugitive.
And your husband?
I don't know.
Not cut out for hospital politics,
I guess.
Two years ago,
I was, uh, prepping a 19-year-old
for a kidney transplant
when the chief of staff suddenly tells me
I can't operate,
patients chances weren't strong enough.
I don't understand.
Our Federal Transplant Grant was based
on a success rate.
If she died we'd lose too much money.
- So you didn't operate?
- Nope.
Patient died.
That's what the hell.
Hospital didn't lose a penny.
I hate to be the messenger again
but there are more complications
and Jill wants you at the hospital.
This is completely unconscionable.
It's part of the deal.
And what are you doing here?
Nobody called you.
I'm a lawyer, I go through life uninvited.
This isn't fun and games, inspector.
My wife has a serious medical condition.
- She has other doctors.
- But I know her history.
So give us some space, Mr. Morrell,
please now.
It's rapid atria tachycardia.
- It's over 200.
- What?
You keep a gun pointed right at him!
- Still very high.
- Have you tried Digoxin?
Yes, with very little effect.
I want to try some cardio-version,
- low energy.
- No.
No, from what you're describing,
she could have digitalis toxicity.
Even a low-grade shock could put
her in arrest.
I don't know what else to do.
If she stays like this
she's at risk for congestive failure.
Have you heard of a procedure called
ablation?
It's a new operation,
um, they don't have the equipment here,
so we have to move you to Chicago.
Oh, it's very complicated,
um, they take a probe.
They put the probe into your vein
and near your groin and they basically
run the probe
up into your heart,
so that they can find the tissue that's
causing the arrhythmia.
- Right?
- Yes.
And then they use a kind of radio frequency
of about 55 volts to burn off the
damaged tissue.
You're gonna burn my heart?
It's risky but the alternative could
be worse.
He says he belongs to you.
I am Chief Pathologist, if she dies I want
to be ready.
You're not authorized.
He discovered flatulence cows.
Methane, global warming, tragic.
- Now what?
- Excellent!
- Tell this man who I am.
- Get out.
- I'm the medical examiner.
- You're interfering, get out.
I tried to tell him, Don, but
he wouldn't--
- Yeah, you get out too.
- I represent Henderson Cole.
- I'm here on official business.
- Just go, now!
Inspector, please.
With any luck I could land
a hearing impaired bandit.
It would be a big break.
My only big client was the ex-mayor
and he exploded on me.
Spontaneous human combustion, into bits.
Tragic.
I'm sorry my father shot you.
He was just doing his job, Zack.
- I'm a criminal.
- But you help people.
There's something you should understand.
A lot of people walk around disguised
as heroes.
Baseball players, doctors,
congressmen,
even fathers.
Most of them aren't.
I find it safer
to admire the good qualities in people...
rather than their hero status.
You'll be less disappointed that way.
I've made a lot of mistakes,
I'm sure your dad has too.
Shooting me wasn't one of them.
You're not mad at him?
No.
You shouldn't be either.
Zack, get out of here.
Get out of here, now.
Give me 0.5 milligram Digoxin, stat!
- Stat!
- Zachary, you get out of this room this minute!
okay...
Okay, heart rate's over 200.
It's okay, it's okay, sweetie.
Lie still, lie still, honey,
it's all right.
It's all right.
Her heart rate's up to 230,
- she's got to go to Chicago.
- Chicago, why?
We don't have the equipment.
Chicago General is sending a chopper.
No, no, no, we'll take her by ambulance.
No, we don't have the time,
she's in severe arrhythmia.
I give her two or three hours tops.
We have to have the Air Evac.
Two of my men go in the helicopter.
The husband stays here.
Secure the landing field now.
- She's not gonna make it?
- I don't know?
Coming through.
She should be monitored for both
pulmonary and--
- Get away.
- Get your hands off me.
I will not die, I promise.
I always keep my promises.
You'll tell Zack?
I'll tell him.
Thank you.
No, you're not going.
Look, part of the deal was that I got
the visitor--
You're staying here, you two get
on the chopper.
- Yes, sir.
- Right.
I told you not to go to the school.
Oh, baby, shut up!
All right, come on, come on,
let's go, let's go.
You know, she's right about one thing.
It's getting tougher and tougher to tell
who the heroes are.
There we go.
God, I hope she makes it.
You know what epinephrine does?
Even a small injection can cause horrible arrhythmia,
can make a good heart look bad,
can even fool an EKG.
Oh, my God!
I gave her the first dose at your office,
another one here at the hospital
last night.
And the last big one
just now instead of the Digoxin.
We had a needle stashed in the men's room.
We have an excellent team.
Her heart, her heart is normal?
We needed you to call for that ablation procedure.
We needed the Air Evac.
Trouble is...
the chopper you called for...
It's over there.
The one that just left is ours.
There's, there's two FBI agents on board.
About to take up skydiving...
with parachutes.
We're nice people.
- Your wife is okay?
- Oh, she'll have her moments.
What the hell is going on?
Why is there another chopper?
I have no idea, there, there must be
some mix-up.
All right, Mr. Cole, let's go.
Take him into custody and--
Just let me say goodbye.
What, you have to say goodbye
to everybody?
Never mind, Mr. Morrell.
Thanks.
You sacrificed your freedom for hers.
I guess that's love.
She'll be back.
She promised.