Acapulco H.E.A.T. (1998–…): Season 1, Episode 17 - Code Name: Phantom - full transcript
A film director hires the H.E.A.T. team to investigate a series of accidents that occurred on the set.
Tonight on "Acapulco H.E.A.T."
- you're not right for.
- Aah! Help!
- ♪ Oh, can you feel it?
♪ Burn inside
♪ Yeah
♪ Making me hazy
♪ Making me crazy
♪ Out on the street
♪ I feel the heat
♪ Deep in the darkest night
♪ I feel the motion
♪ Keep all my love alive
♪ Come to the ocean
♪ Out on the street
♪ I feel the heat
- Just when did you plan
on showing me this?
- Probably never.
- In case
you may have forgotten,
this was my father's business.
- Which he gave
to you and me for me to run.
- And you were supposed
to consult with me.
- Just exactly
when am I supposed to do that?
Between fittings?
Hair appointments?
Manicures? Facials?
Massages?
- Between rendezvous
with your mistress?
- Don't you wish
you could prove that.
- Oh, I will, soon.
- You know, it's hard enough
fighting the competitors
without having to fight
with my own wife all the time.
- Aah!
- Cut!
- Harrison Cartwright,
meet Joanna, Nicole, and Cat,
my faithful
and distrusting partners.
- Tommy says you're having
a little trouble on the film.
- Yeah, three serious incidents.
Somebody is
out to sabotage my film.
- Any ideas?
- None.
And I'm... I'm desperate...
If I don't get back on schedule,
the studio'll pull the plug.
- Why doesn't the studio
provide you with some security?
- Well, they have.
You're it.
They sent an advance
with your names on it.
- Smart studio.
- We would need you to help us
get one of us
undercover on the set.
- Well, that shouldn't
be hard, actually,
there's a small part
that hasn't been cast.
It's for the part
of a beautiful, young wife.
- Young?
- Beautiful?
- Well, actually,
I was thinking of her.
- She's never done it before.
- Um, I was Joan of Arc
in high school.
- And I played Jane
in "Jane Eyre,"
but it could be too risky.
- Yeah, it could be too risky.
- You see...
if I hired either one of you,
my star would feel threatened.
- She could still get hurt.
- You mean bad reviews?
Oh, I don't care, I wanna do it.
- You already said that.
- My Aunt Louise always said
I would be a star.
- Another one of
your uncle's wives?
- Well, naturally,
that's what made her my aunt.
- Hey-hey-hey,
don't-don't-don't
wind her up.
We'll handle it.
Why don't you,
um, introduce me around
as some old friend
you discovered who lives here?
That way, I can keep
an eye on Joanna.
- Sure, however you want it.
- Whoo!
- How're you feeling?
- How do you think I feel after
almost being killed?
- Lucky?
- That's not exactly the word
I had in mind.
- You think maybe
we can try getting along?
We've got another five weeks
here in Mexico.
- Well, in case
you hadn't noticed,
I am trying.
- What do you suppose is
behind all these accidents?
- Stupidity.
- The film is
getting a lot of publicity.
- This film needs a lot
of publicity.
- If you hate it so much,
why are you doing it?
- Because, unlike you,
I don't have
my next job lined up.
- How do you know that?
- I know more about you
than you want me to know.
- My resume.
Study in New York,
Regional Theater.
Commercials.
- Hey, before
you rush off, Meryl,
we need background checks
on all the cast and crew.
- I have to get this
to Mr. Cartwright right away.
I'll have to do it later.
- I think
we have created a monster.
- Mm-hmm.
- Hi.
- Hi.
- Are you okay?
I forgot to talk to you
after everything settled down
last night.
- Yeah, I'm okay.
A little bruised, but okay.
- It was really brave,
the way you jumped in and shoved
Jeanette out of the way.
- Yeah, I was there.
Had to do something.
- Yeah, well,
she wouldn't've risked her neck
to save you.
- Well, she's a star.
- You know, you're really good
at what you do.
You ever think about
coming to the States to work?
- Oh, no no no.
This is my country, my home.
I love Mexico.
- Well, maybe
when you get a chance,
you'll show me some of it.
- Yeah, sure.
- Gwen, Amilio, say hi to Tommy.
He's an old surfing buddy.
Hi.
- Hi.
- Well, Tommy's gonna hang
around and watch us make
a little, you know, movie magic.
- Harrison makes great magic.
- That's what I hear.
- I met the new girl.
Joanna.
- Uh-huh?
- I should've had that part.
- Gwen, sweetheart,
you read for that part
in the beginning.
You're not right for it.
You can't take roles
you're not right for.
She's such a hussy.
Vance Ellison, Jeanette Winston,
I'd like you to meet
an old friend of mine
who I discovered lives here.
- How're you doing?
- Hey, how're you doing?
- Well, if you live here,
then you can be
the perfect tour guide.
- I don't know about perfect,
but... I'd probably get
a passing grade anyway.
- I'll bet you can.
- And over there is
Joanna Barnes.
- Hey.
- Hi.
- Pleased to meet you.
- Girls.
- Uh-oh, Joanna's
now a real actress.
- We're in trouble.
- Mm-hmm.
- More old friends?
- Actually, darling,
I've hired these detectives
to get to the bottom
of what's going on here.
- You're kidding, right?
- Are you really detectives?
- Where exactly
did you find these two?
- The studio hired them
and said they're the best.
- Why?
- Why?
I don't know...
because they look like
they probably advertise
on billboards around town.
Most likely wearing bikinis.
- No, actually,
we have no need for notoriety.
Our styles do our talking.
- We've found the less we show,
the more effective we are.
- Effective at what, darling?
- Oh, everything we do.
We try harder.
- Mm.
- If you would excuse us,
we'd like to find
a better conversation.
- Absolutely...
Anything you need.
- She must've gotten out of
the wrong side
of the bed this morning.
- Thanks.
- I bet you they won't be in
any hurry to solve this mystery.
- Why do you see that?
- Free lunches.
- Okay, people,
let's go to work here.
We got a film to shoot,
all right?
Bruno and Fred are fine,
it's nothing fatal.
Let's go.
- The medic said that
they're gonna be just fine.
- In a couple of days,
they'll be back at work.
- Well, I'm not going
back to work until it's agreed
that food will be
brought in for the cast
from a different hotel
every day.
- What about the crew?
You want 'em
to taste it for you?
- No, I meant the crew, darling.
I was including the crew
when I said "cast."
- I bet she did.
- We have already
made arrangements
for food to be brought in
as soon as we're dressed.
- Why don't I find that
reassuring?
- I don't know... why don't you?
- Because you're employed
by Harrison here,
and it's to his benefit that
we don't get any more scared
than we already are.
- No one is saying
"don't be afraid."
We're just saying that the stuff
used in the food was not lethal.
- Just like the switchknife
wasn't lethal.
And just like the fallen
arc light wasn't lethal.
Just like everything
that's happened here
wasn't lethal.
- All right, all right,
ladies and gentlemen,
let's get back to work now,
we got film to shoot.
Gwen, wardrobe, please?
Gentlemen, if you could
just help me out over here.
- Oh, all right,
I'll go talk to Jeanette.
- You don't want Vince?
- Nah, actors
don't do it for me.
- He's very good-looking.
- Yeah... I know.
- "Right this minute,
that doesn't mean a lot."
Hmm-hmm-hmm,
"No, it doesn't."
"I'm sure you said," um...
"I'm sure you said
the same thing to your wife
when you left the house
this morning."
Hmm-hmm.
"Why don't I believe you?"
"Why don't I believe you?"
- Would you like some help?
- Oh, can you?
- Sure, I can read
the guy's part for you.
- Oh, that'd be great.
- Why would anyone
as pretty as you
want to spend their lives
pretending to be other people?
- For now, it's fun,
and you entertain people.
For a couple of hours,
they can forget their troubles.
- Well, it's not
like you're curing
some terrible disease, no?
- No, but you're not
giving it to them, either.
- Not if the film is any good.
- Oh, I never thought of that.
- Okay, here?
"I'm really glad
you could make it."
- "Why?"
- "Because I love you."
- "Right this minute,
that doesn't mean a lot."
- "My telling you
I love you?"
- "Why don't I believe you?"
- I don't know... why don't you?
- Stick to the script.
This is hard enough.
- Maybe you should try nursing
or something like that.
- If you have a few minutes,
I'd like to ask you
some questions.
- More than a minute with you
is a waste of my time.
- Do you have any idea
why somebody would
want to sabotage this film?
- Well, if they'd read
the script,
they would realize
that the writer had already
done an exemplary job.
- Well, if the script's so bad,
why did you take the part?
- It's called work.
Staying in the business?
A girl has to eat.
- Not too much.
- Adjustments,
mechanical repairs...
it's deductible.
And now your minute is up.
- I have no idea who or why.
- Can you think of somebody
who would have something to gain
by this film being stopped?
- Well, it sure isn't me.
This is my shot.
I've parked cars, waited tables,
done phone sales,
and generally
kissed a lot of butt
waiting for a chance
in the film.
- Somebody seems determined
to shut it down.
- Then find out who it is.
I'll kill 'em.
- So, can you
recommend a good place
to eat dinner in town?
- Oh, I thought they were
feeding here tonight.
- I'm not eating another thing
off of that catering truck.
No, I'm going
to restaurants, thank you.
- Doesn't that make it
kinda hard to get back here
if they need you?
- That's not my problem.
- Well, uh, do you like hot?
- What?
- I... do you like hot,
spicy food?
- I love it.
- Well, good, 'cause
I know a place that serves
food so hot,
you'll pray for poison.
- So, is that a formal
invitation?
- Well, it's as close of one
as I can get.
You want food, I'll feed you.
- Well, if I make it through
today's work alive,
I'd love to.
- Action.
- You have to call it off.
- Why don't you just ask me
to rip out my heart
and throw it in the trash?
- He's married.
- He wants me.
- If you don't walk away,
he's gonna leave you
like roadkill.
- Not a chance.
- She's got money,
he's not gonna leave.
- The business is half his.
The money, too.
- Listen, as long as
you're not gonna leave the guy,
how about seeing if you can
borrow 10,000 from him?
- You mean you...
You can't cover lunch?
- Cut... was it good for you?
Let's print.
Gwen...
Gwen, honey?
You fed Joanna
the wrong lines twice.
- Sorry.
- Either way, the scene works.
- It was okay?
Really?
- It was fine.
- I saw that it was
loose from there.
- That's enough to make it fall?
- Well, there is a lot of stuff
hanging all over the stage.
All of it has to be checked.
Just happened to see it
this time.
Well, she was very lucky
you were paying attention.
Keep your eyes peeled
for anything that
isn't braced like it should be.
- Sure, that's what I always do.
- Thanks.
- Well, if it was up to me, I'd
give you all the time you want.
- Tell me what you want.
Anything.
- You make me wish I had the
money to pay off Sean for you.
- Well, tell him...
He'll listen to you.
- Too late,
you shot off your mouth
about how they can collect me.
- Oh, I was drunk.
I wouldn't say
anything like that.
I'm not that stupid.
- So you were stupid,
same thing.
I still want the money.
You're only making it worse
on yourself.
The money, now.
- Give me a break!
A week, three days.
- I can't do it.
- Crazy!
- Crazy?
- Hey, look,
there's holes in the set!
Stay tuned for more
"Acapulco H.E.A.T."
Oh, my God.
- Shh, calm down, calm down.
- Oh, my God.
- I'll be back, okay?
Right over there.
Steve is the prop...
- Well, if they hadn't used
steel-jacketed bullets,
I'd've never noticed.
- Well, whoever it is
is getting serious.
- Serious or stupid...
One of these,
go right through you
into somebody else.
- Do you think
Harrison bringing us in
has caused this new attack?
- Hard to say.
This guy is a phantom.
- I talked to the prop man.
He swears that the guns were
loaded with blanks.
- This is no blank.
- He said, with everything
that's been going all around,
he'd double-check.
- Do you think it could be
one of the new actors?
- No, they just got
in this morning.
- Which means
they were never here
when all the other accidents
occurred.
- The Phantom was.
- Feeling better?
- It's gonna be a long time
before I feel better.
- Here, take a sip of this...
It'll help.
- I heard the bullets go by.
I've never been so scared.
- It's a good thing Tommy
knocked you out of the way.
- God, I don't even wanna think
about if he hadn't been there.
- Oh... it's tequila.
Cures everything.
- You could've warned me.
- Well, if I'd've warned you,
then you wouldn't have
sipped it.
And it wouldn't've taken
the accident off your mind.
- I don't think
that was any accident.
- Why would anybody
want me dead?
- I haven't done
anything to anybody.
I mean, I can understand
why someone would want
to drop a wall on Jeanette.
But I'm nice to people.
- We are doing
everything we can.
- Well, that's not enough.
I need results...
I've got my first AD
out on the street looking
for replacement crew.
- What, you mean
the really tall guy
who speaks bad Spanish?
- Yeah.
That's him.
Why don't you ask somebody like
Amilio, who knows the language?
- He speaks well enough,
all right?
- I heard him ask a caterer
for a car battery
to put on his sandwich.
- Well?
- The prop guy left the guns
to get a holster that he forgot.
But he was willing
to take a blood oath
he wasn't gone two minutes.
- You believe him?
- I think so...
yeah, I do.
- Well, I'm glad you found out
when it was done.
Now, maybe you can find out who.
- Well, do you have
any new thoughts on the subject?
- No.
- Well, I vote it's personal.
Or someone with some
broken toys in the attic.
- It's not a political picture.
No extreme group interview.
- Why don't you give
some more thought to somebody
who might want you personally.
- It's not just me.
The studio is gonna
take it in the shorts
for... ten mil.
- Either way,
it's gotta be someone
who can hang around without
drawing any suspicion.
- So the Phantom is
someone we've all seen
and talked to.
- And meanwhile,
I've got a cast and crew
that's too sc...
Scared to work tonight.
So I'm gonna go
another day behind.
- I've been looking
everywhere for you.
- Well, it looks like
Jeanette's found her bodyguard.
- How do you want
to handle the rest?
- Well, why don't I take
Vance and Gwen,
and you stay here with Harrison?
- Okay.
- Stay with me... why?
- Until we can lock you
into a hotel,
for the night,
just for security.
- Do you really think
that's necessary?
- I'd say yes.
- Sounds good to me.
- You're the first
real-life hero I ever met.
- Ha, well, most people would've
done the same thing.
- You made me think
of secret servicemen
who are sworn
to throw themselves
in front of the bullet.
- Taking a bullet wasn't
what I had in mind.
- So it's not like
boys and their toys.
- What?
- Well, you know,
it's actions like that
that separate men from the boys.
Not toys.
- I don't know, I...
I kinda got a fondness for toys.
- Well, would you like
to pull my string
and see what
a cooperative toy I can be?
- I would like
to get you both back
to the hotel before dark.
- Just a couple things
from my chair...
My script
and my water and stuff.
- Mm-hmm.
- I don't know
why I have to go with you.
I could've gotten Amilio
to take me back to the hotel.
- Well, right now
Cartwright wants us
to take care of the cast.
- If trouble were to start,
I think Amilio would probably
do a better job
of protecting me.
- I wouldn't bet
a whole heck of a lot of money
on anyone else if I were you.
Come on, let's go.
- As much as I hate to admit it,
it does feel a little funny
having a woman for a bodyguard.
- Will it make you feel
a whole heck of a lot better
if I looked like
a pro-football linebacker?
After getting that group
back to the hotel,
I have a new respect
for preschool teachers
all over the world.
- They're just frightened.
- Well, so are pre-schoolers,
but they're better behaved.
- Hmm... well?
- I've got the background
information on the cast,
but the crew is international.
It'll take longer.
Sometime tomorrow.
- Well, if it isn't
Elizabeth Taylor's next husband.
- Got lost trying
to find the hotel?
You two would do well, y'know?
Small stage, Jersey City.
- So tell us, is she for real,
or is she an assembly-line
model?
- Jean would never tell.
- I know,
that's why I'm asking you.
- My, my.
- Secrets time.
- Who do you have?
- Jeanette.
Harrison?
- Yes.
Mr. Director and Mrs. Star
were married to each other
ten years ago.
- Huh.
- I don't know
about those two,
but... our boy Vance
has another movie.
A bigger one
that starts shooting
two weeks before
this one finishes.
He negotiated a credit line
into the contract.
We'll talk to them
in the morning.
I'll, uh, check
on the set tonight.
- Right, and I'm going
cliff-diving in the dark.
- And it's okay
if I practice my lines?
My big scene is tomorrow.
- Can I interest you
in a light dinner?
- Yes, you can.
Lobster?
Champagne?
- Of course, we are on expenses.
- Mariachi?
- Absolutely.
- Oh, hang on,
I can study later.
Stay tuned,
the "Acapulco H.E.A.T." team
will be right back.
- Why is it dark in here?
Do you see a light switch?
- No... the other side?
- There!
See if you can find
a first-aid kit.
And stay alert, because whoever
did this may still be around!
- I hope they are!
- Look for some smelling salts.
- Okay.
- Yeah, good.
Oh, easy.
What happened?
- Somebody swung
that sandbag over there,
and it decked me.
- Huh.
Well, somebody knows
the rigging on a stage.
- Doesn't eliminate anybody.
- Yeah, well, doesn't
take a real genius.
- Wow, let's get some sleep.
We can ruin
everybody's day tomorrow
by talking about some secrets
that they may have.
- Mm-hmm.
- God, you're heavy.
- Then you lied to me.
- Look, we felt
it'd be safer for everyone
if one of us was wandering
around undercover.
- Well, I don't like
being lied to.
- Neither do we.
- What do you mean by that?
- Well, I mean, you conveniently
failed to mention that
you used to be married
to Harrison.
- Well, I try to block that out,
but what does that have
to do with anything?
- Well, it would depend on
if you disliked him enough
to wanna wreck his movie.
- I'm the star of this movie.
I'm the one who gets wrecked.
- I wasn't there, I don't know
how close of a call
it really was.
- You know, for someone who
used to be so cute and cuddly,
you certainly have changed.
- You know, getting hit on
the head kind of does it to me.
- Well, I'm not
the one who did it.
- Well, I hope that's true.
Look, why did Harrison
put you in the movie?
- Ask him.
- I'm asking you.
- It was part of
the divorce agreement.
- I was, uh, in love
with this French woman
that I met on an airplane.
I wanted out of the marriage.
So... you know,
I would've...
agreed to anything.
- Why now?
Why put Jeanette in this film?
- Well, the agreement gave me
until December of this year.
- You mean, if you had a choice,
you wouldn't have used her.
- That's right, you know...
she's gotten hard
over the last few years.
And it comes out in her acting.
- Well, divorce
will do that to a woman.
- So will age.
Now, look, I... you know,
I'm not gonna
make any apologies.
- How is she doing in this film?
- She's being an absolute bitch.
But to her credit,
she's turning in
one of her better performances.
- What happens to her career
if this film never sees
the light of day?
- What career?
Mine, on the other hand,
turns to quicksand.
You see, if a film
doesn't get delivered,
the director takes the heat.
- Well, you'd better start
thinking harder
about who would like
to see you fail.
- I have.
I can't figure it out.
You see, I try and treat people
like I would like to be treated.
- So, you don't think
you have any enemies.
- Well, to have enemies
in the film business,
all you have to do
is be alive and working.
I just don't have any who are
any more violent than
leaving me off
their Christmas list.
- Did you know Vance
has another movie
that starts before this one
is scheduled to finish?
- What?
- I didn't say anything because
I've been trying to get
the next film pushed back.
- Yeah, but it still would
be to your advantage
if the movie shut down, right?
- I don't do business that way.
- Yeah, not on the surface, huh?
- I'll finish this film,
even if it costs me
the next film.
- Yeah, that's pretty honorable
for this day and age.
- Because I'm in this business
doesn't mean I don't try
to do what's right.
- Okay, well,
why not tell Harrison?
- It's none of his business.
And he's got enough on his mind.
- And you don't
wanna burden him?
- Why is that so hard
for you to accept?
- Well, the people I deal with
usually aren't
on their best behavior.
- Well, this one is.
And he has some work to do.
So, if you'll excuse me.
- Okay, we're rolling.
- We're rolling.
- Tail slate.
- Action.
- Well...
if it isn't my husband's
little paramour.
- You know who I am?
- There's nothing about
my husband that I don't know.
Come in if you feel you have
something important to say.
- I love Victor.
- I'd offer you a drink,
but if that's an example
of what you think
is important conversation,
you won't be here long enough.
- You can't be sure of that.
- How long have you been there?
- Probably longer
than you would like.
- I thought you were gonna be
at your office.
- I told you
I would deal with my wife.
- I thought maybe if I told her
about us, she'd give in.
- What, so you could
run off and make babies?
Hah! I don't think so.
In fact,
I'll make sure you don't.
- You're too late.
- Oh, I hope that doesn't mean
what I think it means.
- Why didn't you say something?
- Because I didn't know what
I was going to do until tonight.
- What we are going
to do, my love,
is...
fly, drive, run, walk,
take a train
to the ice cream shop...
I'm sorry.
- Cut, cut, give him the line.
We'll go again.
- We're gonna
have to do it once more?
I have to cry again?
- Don't worry, you were great.
- I was?
- Wow.
It's gonna be hard to keep her
back down on the farm.
Yeah, or in
the H.E.A.T. room.
Maybe we should go down there
without her
and check on the crew files.
- And miss Joanna's next scene?
- Good.
- Yeah, what do you
think of Vance?
- Well, either
he's too good to be true,
or I'm gonna start dating him.
- What about Ms. Warmth?
- Well, I don't think
she's forgiven Harrison
for leaving her.
- You think she's the one?
- Not really.
- Was that your brain,
your heart,
or some other part
of your anatomy talking?
- I'm ignoring you.
Got a couple felonies.
- Hey, I'll trade you two
deadbeat dads for one felony.
Okay.
- Bruno, the one
that was poisoned,
has a couple of warrants
out for him.
- What for?
- Parking tickets.
He only hates parking meters.
- Hey, some of these
crew members have already quit.
- This one hasn't.
He could be our friend.
- Where's Amilio?
- I don't know... why?
- We need to talk to him.
- Do you think he's the one?
- We won't know
till we talk to him.
- Why... why him?
He's been a great help.
- His father was killed
working on a movie
in Mexico for the studio.
- Let's split up.
- Hey, what the hell?
Let her go, creep!
- Help!
- Shut up, or I'll kill you!
- Tommy!
Tommy!
- He took her that way.
How do I look?
- Stunning.
- Tommy! Hey!
Get up there!
- Aah!
- I'll kill her.
- Hey, I... I know
why you're doing this.
- Oh, no, you don't.
- Yeah, your father,
he was killed on a film set.
- I'm sorry.
- Shut up!
- It wasn't just any film.
It was a film
Harrison's father was directing.
- You're gonna make the son pay
for the sins of the father?
- He made the crew work
18 to 20 hours a day...
then got tired and careless,
and my father had to pay for it.
- It was an accident,
nobody meant for him to die.
- Oh, now you remember,
Harrison.
- Yes... I'm sorry it happened.
- That's it?
You're just sorry?
My family was destroyed!
- Back out of here,
you're making yourself a target.
- How old were you
when your father died?
- What difference does it make?
- Must've been tough
on your mother.
- There were four.
Four... little... kids.
Aah!
- Tommy!
Don't hurt him...
too much more.
- You wanna adopt him?
- I don't think
he would've hurt me.
- Well, I couldn't take
that chance.
- I know.
Real life, huh?
- Very real.
- Stay tuned, the "H.E.A.T."
- team will be right back.
- You know...
lately I have this feeling
that I just wanna
let out my artistic side.
You know, I'd like
to expose my inner feeling.
To... to just give
of myself.
- I find that deep...
profound and deep.
- Do you?
- Mm-hmm.
- Do you also have a feeling
you just wanna change your life?
To get out of the humdrum
of everyday living?
To just break out, you know?
- Of course, no more fast cars.
Danger, beautiful sunsets,
romance.
- Palm trees, surf.
Sun, food.
- Lobsters, shrimp, fresh fruit.
- Cold beer.
- Tequila.
- Mariachi.
- Cold beer.
- I am not going anywhere.
- Really?
You're not?
- No.
- What about the audience?
The roar of the crowd?
The applause?
What about your fans?
- Hmm, what fans?
- We're it, Joanna,
we're your fan club.
- Thank you, Cat.
I'll always know that.
So, if you guys want
my autograph,
I'll understand.
- Aww.
- Oh, I am sure.
- you're not right for.
- Aah! Help!
- ♪ Oh, can you feel it?
♪ Burn inside
♪ Yeah
♪ Making me hazy
♪ Making me crazy
♪ Out on the street
♪ I feel the heat
♪ Deep in the darkest night
♪ I feel the motion
♪ Keep all my love alive
♪ Come to the ocean
♪ Out on the street
♪ I feel the heat
- Just when did you plan
on showing me this?
- Probably never.
- In case
you may have forgotten,
this was my father's business.
- Which he gave
to you and me for me to run.
- And you were supposed
to consult with me.
- Just exactly
when am I supposed to do that?
Between fittings?
Hair appointments?
Manicures? Facials?
Massages?
- Between rendezvous
with your mistress?
- Don't you wish
you could prove that.
- Oh, I will, soon.
- You know, it's hard enough
fighting the competitors
without having to fight
with my own wife all the time.
- Aah!
- Cut!
- Harrison Cartwright,
meet Joanna, Nicole, and Cat,
my faithful
and distrusting partners.
- Tommy says you're having
a little trouble on the film.
- Yeah, three serious incidents.
Somebody is
out to sabotage my film.
- Any ideas?
- None.
And I'm... I'm desperate...
If I don't get back on schedule,
the studio'll pull the plug.
- Why doesn't the studio
provide you with some security?
- Well, they have.
You're it.
They sent an advance
with your names on it.
- Smart studio.
- We would need you to help us
get one of us
undercover on the set.
- Well, that shouldn't
be hard, actually,
there's a small part
that hasn't been cast.
It's for the part
of a beautiful, young wife.
- Young?
- Beautiful?
- Well, actually,
I was thinking of her.
- She's never done it before.
- Um, I was Joan of Arc
in high school.
- And I played Jane
in "Jane Eyre,"
but it could be too risky.
- Yeah, it could be too risky.
- You see...
if I hired either one of you,
my star would feel threatened.
- She could still get hurt.
- You mean bad reviews?
Oh, I don't care, I wanna do it.
- You already said that.
- My Aunt Louise always said
I would be a star.
- Another one of
your uncle's wives?
- Well, naturally,
that's what made her my aunt.
- Hey-hey-hey,
don't-don't-don't
wind her up.
We'll handle it.
Why don't you,
um, introduce me around
as some old friend
you discovered who lives here?
That way, I can keep
an eye on Joanna.
- Sure, however you want it.
- Whoo!
- How're you feeling?
- How do you think I feel after
almost being killed?
- Lucky?
- That's not exactly the word
I had in mind.
- You think maybe
we can try getting along?
We've got another five weeks
here in Mexico.
- Well, in case
you hadn't noticed,
I am trying.
- What do you suppose is
behind all these accidents?
- Stupidity.
- The film is
getting a lot of publicity.
- This film needs a lot
of publicity.
- If you hate it so much,
why are you doing it?
- Because, unlike you,
I don't have
my next job lined up.
- How do you know that?
- I know more about you
than you want me to know.
- My resume.
Study in New York,
Regional Theater.
Commercials.
- Hey, before
you rush off, Meryl,
we need background checks
on all the cast and crew.
- I have to get this
to Mr. Cartwright right away.
I'll have to do it later.
- I think
we have created a monster.
- Mm-hmm.
- Hi.
- Hi.
- Are you okay?
I forgot to talk to you
after everything settled down
last night.
- Yeah, I'm okay.
A little bruised, but okay.
- It was really brave,
the way you jumped in and shoved
Jeanette out of the way.
- Yeah, I was there.
Had to do something.
- Yeah, well,
she wouldn't've risked her neck
to save you.
- Well, she's a star.
- You know, you're really good
at what you do.
You ever think about
coming to the States to work?
- Oh, no no no.
This is my country, my home.
I love Mexico.
- Well, maybe
when you get a chance,
you'll show me some of it.
- Yeah, sure.
- Gwen, Amilio, say hi to Tommy.
He's an old surfing buddy.
Hi.
- Hi.
- Well, Tommy's gonna hang
around and watch us make
a little, you know, movie magic.
- Harrison makes great magic.
- That's what I hear.
- I met the new girl.
Joanna.
- Uh-huh?
- I should've had that part.
- Gwen, sweetheart,
you read for that part
in the beginning.
You're not right for it.
You can't take roles
you're not right for.
She's such a hussy.
Vance Ellison, Jeanette Winston,
I'd like you to meet
an old friend of mine
who I discovered lives here.
- How're you doing?
- Hey, how're you doing?
- Well, if you live here,
then you can be
the perfect tour guide.
- I don't know about perfect,
but... I'd probably get
a passing grade anyway.
- I'll bet you can.
- And over there is
Joanna Barnes.
- Hey.
- Hi.
- Pleased to meet you.
- Girls.
- Uh-oh, Joanna's
now a real actress.
- We're in trouble.
- Mm-hmm.
- More old friends?
- Actually, darling,
I've hired these detectives
to get to the bottom
of what's going on here.
- You're kidding, right?
- Are you really detectives?
- Where exactly
did you find these two?
- The studio hired them
and said they're the best.
- Why?
- Why?
I don't know...
because they look like
they probably advertise
on billboards around town.
Most likely wearing bikinis.
- No, actually,
we have no need for notoriety.
Our styles do our talking.
- We've found the less we show,
the more effective we are.
- Effective at what, darling?
- Oh, everything we do.
We try harder.
- Mm.
- If you would excuse us,
we'd like to find
a better conversation.
- Absolutely...
Anything you need.
- She must've gotten out of
the wrong side
of the bed this morning.
- Thanks.
- I bet you they won't be in
any hurry to solve this mystery.
- Why do you see that?
- Free lunches.
- Okay, people,
let's go to work here.
We got a film to shoot,
all right?
Bruno and Fred are fine,
it's nothing fatal.
Let's go.
- The medic said that
they're gonna be just fine.
- In a couple of days,
they'll be back at work.
- Well, I'm not going
back to work until it's agreed
that food will be
brought in for the cast
from a different hotel
every day.
- What about the crew?
You want 'em
to taste it for you?
- No, I meant the crew, darling.
I was including the crew
when I said "cast."
- I bet she did.
- We have already
made arrangements
for food to be brought in
as soon as we're dressed.
- Why don't I find that
reassuring?
- I don't know... why don't you?
- Because you're employed
by Harrison here,
and it's to his benefit that
we don't get any more scared
than we already are.
- No one is saying
"don't be afraid."
We're just saying that the stuff
used in the food was not lethal.
- Just like the switchknife
wasn't lethal.
And just like the fallen
arc light wasn't lethal.
Just like everything
that's happened here
wasn't lethal.
- All right, all right,
ladies and gentlemen,
let's get back to work now,
we got film to shoot.
Gwen, wardrobe, please?
Gentlemen, if you could
just help me out over here.
- Oh, all right,
I'll go talk to Jeanette.
- You don't want Vince?
- Nah, actors
don't do it for me.
- He's very good-looking.
- Yeah... I know.
- "Right this minute,
that doesn't mean a lot."
Hmm-hmm-hmm,
"No, it doesn't."
"I'm sure you said," um...
"I'm sure you said
the same thing to your wife
when you left the house
this morning."
Hmm-hmm.
"Why don't I believe you?"
"Why don't I believe you?"
- Would you like some help?
- Oh, can you?
- Sure, I can read
the guy's part for you.
- Oh, that'd be great.
- Why would anyone
as pretty as you
want to spend their lives
pretending to be other people?
- For now, it's fun,
and you entertain people.
For a couple of hours,
they can forget their troubles.
- Well, it's not
like you're curing
some terrible disease, no?
- No, but you're not
giving it to them, either.
- Not if the film is any good.
- Oh, I never thought of that.
- Okay, here?
"I'm really glad
you could make it."
- "Why?"
- "Because I love you."
- "Right this minute,
that doesn't mean a lot."
- "My telling you
I love you?"
- "Why don't I believe you?"
- I don't know... why don't you?
- Stick to the script.
This is hard enough.
- Maybe you should try nursing
or something like that.
- If you have a few minutes,
I'd like to ask you
some questions.
- More than a minute with you
is a waste of my time.
- Do you have any idea
why somebody would
want to sabotage this film?
- Well, if they'd read
the script,
they would realize
that the writer had already
done an exemplary job.
- Well, if the script's so bad,
why did you take the part?
- It's called work.
Staying in the business?
A girl has to eat.
- Not too much.
- Adjustments,
mechanical repairs...
it's deductible.
And now your minute is up.
- I have no idea who or why.
- Can you think of somebody
who would have something to gain
by this film being stopped?
- Well, it sure isn't me.
This is my shot.
I've parked cars, waited tables,
done phone sales,
and generally
kissed a lot of butt
waiting for a chance
in the film.
- Somebody seems determined
to shut it down.
- Then find out who it is.
I'll kill 'em.
- So, can you
recommend a good place
to eat dinner in town?
- Oh, I thought they were
feeding here tonight.
- I'm not eating another thing
off of that catering truck.
No, I'm going
to restaurants, thank you.
- Doesn't that make it
kinda hard to get back here
if they need you?
- That's not my problem.
- Well, uh, do you like hot?
- What?
- I... do you like hot,
spicy food?
- I love it.
- Well, good, 'cause
I know a place that serves
food so hot,
you'll pray for poison.
- So, is that a formal
invitation?
- Well, it's as close of one
as I can get.
You want food, I'll feed you.
- Well, if I make it through
today's work alive,
I'd love to.
- Action.
- You have to call it off.
- Why don't you just ask me
to rip out my heart
and throw it in the trash?
- He's married.
- He wants me.
- If you don't walk away,
he's gonna leave you
like roadkill.
- Not a chance.
- She's got money,
he's not gonna leave.
- The business is half his.
The money, too.
- Listen, as long as
you're not gonna leave the guy,
how about seeing if you can
borrow 10,000 from him?
- You mean you...
You can't cover lunch?
- Cut... was it good for you?
Let's print.
Gwen...
Gwen, honey?
You fed Joanna
the wrong lines twice.
- Sorry.
- Either way, the scene works.
- It was okay?
Really?
- It was fine.
- I saw that it was
loose from there.
- That's enough to make it fall?
- Well, there is a lot of stuff
hanging all over the stage.
All of it has to be checked.
Just happened to see it
this time.
Well, she was very lucky
you were paying attention.
Keep your eyes peeled
for anything that
isn't braced like it should be.
- Sure, that's what I always do.
- Thanks.
- Well, if it was up to me, I'd
give you all the time you want.
- Tell me what you want.
Anything.
- You make me wish I had the
money to pay off Sean for you.
- Well, tell him...
He'll listen to you.
- Too late,
you shot off your mouth
about how they can collect me.
- Oh, I was drunk.
I wouldn't say
anything like that.
I'm not that stupid.
- So you were stupid,
same thing.
I still want the money.
You're only making it worse
on yourself.
The money, now.
- Give me a break!
A week, three days.
- I can't do it.
- Crazy!
- Crazy?
- Hey, look,
there's holes in the set!
Stay tuned for more
"Acapulco H.E.A.T."
Oh, my God.
- Shh, calm down, calm down.
- Oh, my God.
- I'll be back, okay?
Right over there.
Steve is the prop...
- Well, if they hadn't used
steel-jacketed bullets,
I'd've never noticed.
- Well, whoever it is
is getting serious.
- Serious or stupid...
One of these,
go right through you
into somebody else.
- Do you think
Harrison bringing us in
has caused this new attack?
- Hard to say.
This guy is a phantom.
- I talked to the prop man.
He swears that the guns were
loaded with blanks.
- This is no blank.
- He said, with everything
that's been going all around,
he'd double-check.
- Do you think it could be
one of the new actors?
- No, they just got
in this morning.
- Which means
they were never here
when all the other accidents
occurred.
- The Phantom was.
- Feeling better?
- It's gonna be a long time
before I feel better.
- Here, take a sip of this...
It'll help.
- I heard the bullets go by.
I've never been so scared.
- It's a good thing Tommy
knocked you out of the way.
- God, I don't even wanna think
about if he hadn't been there.
- Oh... it's tequila.
Cures everything.
- You could've warned me.
- Well, if I'd've warned you,
then you wouldn't have
sipped it.
And it wouldn't've taken
the accident off your mind.
- I don't think
that was any accident.
- Why would anybody
want me dead?
- I haven't done
anything to anybody.
I mean, I can understand
why someone would want
to drop a wall on Jeanette.
But I'm nice to people.
- We are doing
everything we can.
- Well, that's not enough.
I need results...
I've got my first AD
out on the street looking
for replacement crew.
- What, you mean
the really tall guy
who speaks bad Spanish?
- Yeah.
That's him.
Why don't you ask somebody like
Amilio, who knows the language?
- He speaks well enough,
all right?
- I heard him ask a caterer
for a car battery
to put on his sandwich.
- Well?
- The prop guy left the guns
to get a holster that he forgot.
But he was willing
to take a blood oath
he wasn't gone two minutes.
- You believe him?
- I think so...
yeah, I do.
- Well, I'm glad you found out
when it was done.
Now, maybe you can find out who.
- Well, do you have
any new thoughts on the subject?
- No.
- Well, I vote it's personal.
Or someone with some
broken toys in the attic.
- It's not a political picture.
No extreme group interview.
- Why don't you give
some more thought to somebody
who might want you personally.
- It's not just me.
The studio is gonna
take it in the shorts
for... ten mil.
- Either way,
it's gotta be someone
who can hang around without
drawing any suspicion.
- So the Phantom is
someone we've all seen
and talked to.
- And meanwhile,
I've got a cast and crew
that's too sc...
Scared to work tonight.
So I'm gonna go
another day behind.
- I've been looking
everywhere for you.
- Well, it looks like
Jeanette's found her bodyguard.
- How do you want
to handle the rest?
- Well, why don't I take
Vance and Gwen,
and you stay here with Harrison?
- Okay.
- Stay with me... why?
- Until we can lock you
into a hotel,
for the night,
just for security.
- Do you really think
that's necessary?
- I'd say yes.
- Sounds good to me.
- You're the first
real-life hero I ever met.
- Ha, well, most people would've
done the same thing.
- You made me think
of secret servicemen
who are sworn
to throw themselves
in front of the bullet.
- Taking a bullet wasn't
what I had in mind.
- So it's not like
boys and their toys.
- What?
- Well, you know,
it's actions like that
that separate men from the boys.
Not toys.
- I don't know, I...
I kinda got a fondness for toys.
- Well, would you like
to pull my string
and see what
a cooperative toy I can be?
- I would like
to get you both back
to the hotel before dark.
- Just a couple things
from my chair...
My script
and my water and stuff.
- Mm-hmm.
- I don't know
why I have to go with you.
I could've gotten Amilio
to take me back to the hotel.
- Well, right now
Cartwright wants us
to take care of the cast.
- If trouble were to start,
I think Amilio would probably
do a better job
of protecting me.
- I wouldn't bet
a whole heck of a lot of money
on anyone else if I were you.
Come on, let's go.
- As much as I hate to admit it,
it does feel a little funny
having a woman for a bodyguard.
- Will it make you feel
a whole heck of a lot better
if I looked like
a pro-football linebacker?
After getting that group
back to the hotel,
I have a new respect
for preschool teachers
all over the world.
- They're just frightened.
- Well, so are pre-schoolers,
but they're better behaved.
- Hmm... well?
- I've got the background
information on the cast,
but the crew is international.
It'll take longer.
Sometime tomorrow.
- Well, if it isn't
Elizabeth Taylor's next husband.
- Got lost trying
to find the hotel?
You two would do well, y'know?
Small stage, Jersey City.
- So tell us, is she for real,
or is she an assembly-line
model?
- Jean would never tell.
- I know,
that's why I'm asking you.
- My, my.
- Secrets time.
- Who do you have?
- Jeanette.
Harrison?
- Yes.
Mr. Director and Mrs. Star
were married to each other
ten years ago.
- Huh.
- I don't know
about those two,
but... our boy Vance
has another movie.
A bigger one
that starts shooting
two weeks before
this one finishes.
He negotiated a credit line
into the contract.
We'll talk to them
in the morning.
I'll, uh, check
on the set tonight.
- Right, and I'm going
cliff-diving in the dark.
- And it's okay
if I practice my lines?
My big scene is tomorrow.
- Can I interest you
in a light dinner?
- Yes, you can.
Lobster?
Champagne?
- Of course, we are on expenses.
- Mariachi?
- Absolutely.
- Oh, hang on,
I can study later.
Stay tuned,
the "Acapulco H.E.A.T." team
will be right back.
- Why is it dark in here?
Do you see a light switch?
- No... the other side?
- There!
See if you can find
a first-aid kit.
And stay alert, because whoever
did this may still be around!
- I hope they are!
- Look for some smelling salts.
- Okay.
- Yeah, good.
Oh, easy.
What happened?
- Somebody swung
that sandbag over there,
and it decked me.
- Huh.
Well, somebody knows
the rigging on a stage.
- Doesn't eliminate anybody.
- Yeah, well, doesn't
take a real genius.
- Wow, let's get some sleep.
We can ruin
everybody's day tomorrow
by talking about some secrets
that they may have.
- Mm-hmm.
- God, you're heavy.
- Then you lied to me.
- Look, we felt
it'd be safer for everyone
if one of us was wandering
around undercover.
- Well, I don't like
being lied to.
- Neither do we.
- What do you mean by that?
- Well, I mean, you conveniently
failed to mention that
you used to be married
to Harrison.
- Well, I try to block that out,
but what does that have
to do with anything?
- Well, it would depend on
if you disliked him enough
to wanna wreck his movie.
- I'm the star of this movie.
I'm the one who gets wrecked.
- I wasn't there, I don't know
how close of a call
it really was.
- You know, for someone who
used to be so cute and cuddly,
you certainly have changed.
- You know, getting hit on
the head kind of does it to me.
- Well, I'm not
the one who did it.
- Well, I hope that's true.
Look, why did Harrison
put you in the movie?
- Ask him.
- I'm asking you.
- It was part of
the divorce agreement.
- I was, uh, in love
with this French woman
that I met on an airplane.
I wanted out of the marriage.
So... you know,
I would've...
agreed to anything.
- Why now?
Why put Jeanette in this film?
- Well, the agreement gave me
until December of this year.
- You mean, if you had a choice,
you wouldn't have used her.
- That's right, you know...
she's gotten hard
over the last few years.
And it comes out in her acting.
- Well, divorce
will do that to a woman.
- So will age.
Now, look, I... you know,
I'm not gonna
make any apologies.
- How is she doing in this film?
- She's being an absolute bitch.
But to her credit,
she's turning in
one of her better performances.
- What happens to her career
if this film never sees
the light of day?
- What career?
Mine, on the other hand,
turns to quicksand.
You see, if a film
doesn't get delivered,
the director takes the heat.
- Well, you'd better start
thinking harder
about who would like
to see you fail.
- I have.
I can't figure it out.
You see, I try and treat people
like I would like to be treated.
- So, you don't think
you have any enemies.
- Well, to have enemies
in the film business,
all you have to do
is be alive and working.
I just don't have any who are
any more violent than
leaving me off
their Christmas list.
- Did you know Vance
has another movie
that starts before this one
is scheduled to finish?
- What?
- I didn't say anything because
I've been trying to get
the next film pushed back.
- Yeah, but it still would
be to your advantage
if the movie shut down, right?
- I don't do business that way.
- Yeah, not on the surface, huh?
- I'll finish this film,
even if it costs me
the next film.
- Yeah, that's pretty honorable
for this day and age.
- Because I'm in this business
doesn't mean I don't try
to do what's right.
- Okay, well,
why not tell Harrison?
- It's none of his business.
And he's got enough on his mind.
- And you don't
wanna burden him?
- Why is that so hard
for you to accept?
- Well, the people I deal with
usually aren't
on their best behavior.
- Well, this one is.
And he has some work to do.
So, if you'll excuse me.
- Okay, we're rolling.
- We're rolling.
- Tail slate.
- Action.
- Well...
if it isn't my husband's
little paramour.
- You know who I am?
- There's nothing about
my husband that I don't know.
Come in if you feel you have
something important to say.
- I love Victor.
- I'd offer you a drink,
but if that's an example
of what you think
is important conversation,
you won't be here long enough.
- You can't be sure of that.
- How long have you been there?
- Probably longer
than you would like.
- I thought you were gonna be
at your office.
- I told you
I would deal with my wife.
- I thought maybe if I told her
about us, she'd give in.
- What, so you could
run off and make babies?
Hah! I don't think so.
In fact,
I'll make sure you don't.
- You're too late.
- Oh, I hope that doesn't mean
what I think it means.
- Why didn't you say something?
- Because I didn't know what
I was going to do until tonight.
- What we are going
to do, my love,
is...
fly, drive, run, walk,
take a train
to the ice cream shop...
I'm sorry.
- Cut, cut, give him the line.
We'll go again.
- We're gonna
have to do it once more?
I have to cry again?
- Don't worry, you were great.
- I was?
- Wow.
It's gonna be hard to keep her
back down on the farm.
Yeah, or in
the H.E.A.T. room.
Maybe we should go down there
without her
and check on the crew files.
- And miss Joanna's next scene?
- Good.
- Yeah, what do you
think of Vance?
- Well, either
he's too good to be true,
or I'm gonna start dating him.
- What about Ms. Warmth?
- Well, I don't think
she's forgiven Harrison
for leaving her.
- You think she's the one?
- Not really.
- Was that your brain,
your heart,
or some other part
of your anatomy talking?
- I'm ignoring you.
Got a couple felonies.
- Hey, I'll trade you two
deadbeat dads for one felony.
Okay.
- Bruno, the one
that was poisoned,
has a couple of warrants
out for him.
- What for?
- Parking tickets.
He only hates parking meters.
- Hey, some of these
crew members have already quit.
- This one hasn't.
He could be our friend.
- Where's Amilio?
- I don't know... why?
- We need to talk to him.
- Do you think he's the one?
- We won't know
till we talk to him.
- Why... why him?
He's been a great help.
- His father was killed
working on a movie
in Mexico for the studio.
- Let's split up.
- Hey, what the hell?
Let her go, creep!
- Help!
- Shut up, or I'll kill you!
- Tommy!
Tommy!
- He took her that way.
How do I look?
- Stunning.
- Tommy! Hey!
Get up there!
- Aah!
- I'll kill her.
- Hey, I... I know
why you're doing this.
- Oh, no, you don't.
- Yeah, your father,
he was killed on a film set.
- I'm sorry.
- Shut up!
- It wasn't just any film.
It was a film
Harrison's father was directing.
- You're gonna make the son pay
for the sins of the father?
- He made the crew work
18 to 20 hours a day...
then got tired and careless,
and my father had to pay for it.
- It was an accident,
nobody meant for him to die.
- Oh, now you remember,
Harrison.
- Yes... I'm sorry it happened.
- That's it?
You're just sorry?
My family was destroyed!
- Back out of here,
you're making yourself a target.
- How old were you
when your father died?
- What difference does it make?
- Must've been tough
on your mother.
- There were four.
Four... little... kids.
Aah!
- Tommy!
Don't hurt him...
too much more.
- You wanna adopt him?
- I don't think
he would've hurt me.
- Well, I couldn't take
that chance.
- I know.
Real life, huh?
- Very real.
- Stay tuned, the "H.E.A.T."
- team will be right back.
- You know...
lately I have this feeling
that I just wanna
let out my artistic side.
You know, I'd like
to expose my inner feeling.
To... to just give
of myself.
- I find that deep...
profound and deep.
- Do you?
- Mm-hmm.
- Do you also have a feeling
you just wanna change your life?
To get out of the humdrum
of everyday living?
To just break out, you know?
- Of course, no more fast cars.
Danger, beautiful sunsets,
romance.
- Palm trees, surf.
Sun, food.
- Lobsters, shrimp, fresh fruit.
- Cold beer.
- Tequila.
- Mariachi.
- Cold beer.
- I am not going anywhere.
- Really?
You're not?
- No.
- What about the audience?
The roar of the crowd?
The applause?
What about your fans?
- Hmm, what fans?
- We're it, Joanna,
we're your fan club.
- Thank you, Cat.
I'll always know that.
So, if you guys want
my autograph,
I'll understand.
- Aww.
- Oh, I am sure.