Hill Street Blues (1981–1987): Season 6, Episode 22 - Come and Get It - full transcript
The precinct reaches a crisis point after Hill and Renko rescue an escaped mass murderer from a vigilante mob.
- All right, everybody,
listen up. Listen up.
Item 1 is what you've already
heard on the news media.
We finally got a
make on the creeper.
- He's this maniac that's
been on a rampage.
He's a suspect in
at least nine murders
both here and upstate, in
addition to sexual assaults
and God knows what else.
Now, late last night,
the state police forensics
managed to lift a print
from this guy's last
appearance upstate.
From that, they managed
to make a positive ID.
The guy's a jail rat
name of Albert Sawyer.
Male cauc, 5-8 and 140.
There's a full description
in your hot sheets.
There's also a mug shot.
Now, this same photo is gonna
be plastered in all the papers
as well as on all of
the news programs,
so this might be the break
that's gonna flush this guy out.
On the other hand,
this kind of exposure
also buys a huge
increase in false sightings
and it ups the risk
of copycat incidents,
and we also pay a price,
which I don't have to
tell all of the tour patrols,
in general community anxiety.
- General anxiety.
That means when
everyone in the city
sleeps with a piece
under his pillow.
- Yeah, that's
what it means, J.D.
And it also means
that I'm gonna have to
pull Tonelli and Galvin
off street patrol
because the department's
commandeering two uniforms
from every precinct for
temporary assignment
to their domestic security
evaluation program.
It also means that every poor
slob who forgets his door key
or who is selling
brushes door to door
runs a good chance
of getting whacked.
- Especially if
he's white and 5-8.
- Now, if this
maniac is upstate,
I hope they catch him up there.
I don't care if they
catch up in Timbuktu.
But if Mr. Albert
Sawyer is on our streets,
I don't want us to miss him.
I want him caught...
today.
- No! No!
- Get out of here!
- All units, attempted
2-13, Melton and Hillside.
Suspect is said to match
description of Albert Sawyer,
subject of APB, considered
extremely dangerous.
- 2202, Fifth and
Broad, responding.
- Acknowledge 2203.
- Hey, you!
- All right, police officers!
- Put that gun
away! Put it away!
- Stand back. Get
back. Get off of him.
Get off of him! Get off of him!
All right, I don't want
nobody touching me.
Nobody touching anybody
here now. Come on.
- Get back! Come on, get back!
- Let's get him out
of here. Come on.
Let's get him in the car.
I mean it. You stay
away from this car!
Let's go.
- If you so desire
and cannot afford one,
an attorney will be appointed
to you without charge.
Do you understand
these specific rights
as I've given them to you?
- Yeah.
- Don't you think we ought
to get him to a hospital?
- They want to kill me.
- We got him! We got him!
- What's your name?
- I'm who everyone's
looking for.
- We have a 9-11.
Armed robbery in progress.
See Surplus Store
corner of Peebles
Drive and 124th Street.
- Okay, make way. Come on,
now, let him through, people.
Let him through. Make way, huh?
- Was it the cops or the
civilians that beat him?
- Are you the creeper, Albert?
- Do you feel sorry
for your victims?
- Did he get Miranda'd?
- Yes, sir.
- Give us anything?
- Well, sir, he says he's
the one we're looking for.
- Stan?
- Composite hit him right
on the button, huh, Captain?
- We have to set up a temporary
press room down in roll call.
We have to keep these
reporters down there
while we bring in the
witnesses for the lineup.
- Yeah, a real
three-ring job, huh?
- Frank, your office.
- Stan.
- Yeah?
- I'm gonna work
squadron the rest of the shift
to help out with logistics.
- Good going, Luce.
Melvin, make sure all those
media people have press passes,
which should be
checked downstairs.
- I see. So police are
eligible for the reward money
for the capture of
this creeper fellow.
Yes, I know.
I realize I'm only talking to
the Chamber of Commerce, sir,
but, yes, I do realize
that other organizations
are also contributing
money to this fund.
Yes, sir, I'd be glad to
talk to you some more,
but I'm gonna have
to get back to you,
and I will, I assure
you, real soon.
- You've got an arrest
report to file, Andrew.
- Yes, Sergeant, I do.
Yes, police are eligible.
- I heard the conversation.
- Now, do you
want to give a guess
as to what this guy just gave me
as to how much money is in that?
- Renko, there are
gonna be other people
up for the money besides us.
- One quarter of
a million dollars.
- Are you serious?
- So worst case, we
only get half of it, right?
That's 62.5 each. 62.5.
- Renko, you're gonna
get a heart attack
before you spend one...
- Guys?
How about some
pictures right here, huh?
- Pictures.
- Pictures.
You, you, you come over here
and you have your
picture made, okay?
Stand right up here
against the wall there,
right like this here. Take it.
- Hell of a thing
for us, huh, Frank?
I was afraid they were
going to capture him up north.
- They think he'd
just come off a bus.
- So how are we handling it?
- He's being booked.
We'll arraign the afternoon.
- I mean the media. Where are
we having the press conference?
- We're checking the
credentials in roll call.
- Great! We'll do it down there.
I understand the good
folks in the neighborhood
roughed Mr. Sawyer up a
bit before our uniforms arrived.
- He's suspect in four
murders in that area.
- I'm trying to remember why
would have been a bad thing
if they'd finished him off.
Now, let's see.
For the people at the podium,
I want the cops
who made the bust,
the civilians who were
involved in the capture,
and of course you, Frank,
standing right beside me.
- Hill and Renko were
the arresting officers.
- Good. We'll collect
them on the way down.
Once in a while it all comes
up sevens, eh, my friend?
We're gonna make
every damn edition.
- Joyce.
- Hi, Irwin.
- Did you draw Sawyer?
- At least through intake.
- I can't believe
the guy's file.
Just for openers, we're
charging him three rapes,
two ADWs, the
two B&Es, a kidnap,
and four counts of murder,
special circumstances.
- Wait till you hear from
the outlying districts.
- Right. Have you seen him yet?
- Just going in.
- Ask him if he knows
any good therapists.
- Ms. Davenport,
Interrogation A.
- Would you wait
right outside the door?
- My name's Joyce
Davenport, Mr. Sawyer.
I've been assigned
to represent you
if you don't have the means
to hire a private attorney.
- Right.
- Have you made a
statement to the police?
- I know what to do.
- Did you receive
any of those injuries
after you were arrested?
- You tell me.
- They're going to be taking
you to a lineup any second.
Tell me if you were hurt
while you were being
captured or afterward.
- It was the
people in the street.
- Do you know what
takes place during a lineup?
- I understand.
- There are going to be people,
victims in the crimes
you're suspected of,
who will try to identify...
- I said I understand.
- Look, you're making me afraid,
and I don't want to have
to have a guard in here.
I don't want to have to
conduct a defense that way.
But if you're trying
to frighten me,
I want you to stop it.
- I ain't trying
to frighten you.
- All right. I'm sorry.
Let's go on. Uh...
- Belker.
Hi.
What do you mean?
I don't know what
that means, Robin.
Either it is time
or it isn't time.
I'm coming home.
Don't go anywhere.
I love you.
- You people aren't going to
find out anything more up here.
Now go downstairs to
the press conference.
- Personal time, Sarge.
- Yeah.
Hey, Mick, is it
the baby? Is this it?
- I don't know. Maybe.
- Chief, why did you
decide to go public
with the Creeper's
picture, Chief?
Was it because the police
weren't getting
anywhere on their own?
- I have been proud
of law enforcement
in our department and
throughout the state
since this nightmare
began three weeks ago.
The simple fact is
that given the high
degree of public awareness
and concern about the
so-called Creeper's activities,
by circulating his picture,
we were able in effect
to deputize the entire
community to assist us.
That kind of cooperation
is always desirable.
- The community did
more than just assist you.
We understand that they
actually caught the guy.
- You are not going to
sell police/civilian relations
in the capture of Mr. Sawyer
as having been
adversarial, gentlemen.
The fact is, we are deeply
indebted and grateful
to individuals like
Mr. Sanchez here,
for their preliminary work
in bringing the
so-called Creeper to bay.
Congratulations, Manolo.
- Thank you very much.
You know, I'd like to
become a police officer myself.
- You'd make a fine
one. Why don't you apply?
- You mean that?
- Absolutely. You've
demonstrated your bravery
and your public spiritedness
and those are the
very qualifications
the Department is looking for.
- I'm a Vietnam veteran, sir.
That will help, right?
- Yes.
- Because I've been
on unemployment
for the last 19 weeks,
and besides the reward
money, I could use this job.
- Mr. Sanchez, you
fill out an application,
and I will see to it personally.
I'd also like to thank the
members of the city force...
- God bless you,
Chief. God bless you.
- It's a great day for us all.
- God bless this country.
To hell with the Creeper!
- This is it?
- This is it.
- Let's do it.
All right.
All right!
- Number three.
I think that's the one.
- Can you say definitely?
- Yes. Number three.
- Thank you, Mrs.
Prince. That's all we need.
Congratulations. You
picked the suspect.
- That was him?
- That's him, number three.
- Hi.
- Hi.
- Finished with intake?
- I suppose it was routine.
But his eyes, the
way he looked at me,
Frank, I was terrified.
- He's not exactly your
run-of-the-mill defendant.
- Sawyer deserves a lawyer
who's not too frightened
to give him a defense.
- Different lawyers are
right for different clients.
- You think I should withdraw?
- Well, it's pretty obvious
this one's way
beyond the call of duty.
Capital case, automatic
appellate review.
It could be three or
four years out your life.
- It was just the first intake.
I saw a replay of your
press conference, Furillo.
- You think I talked too much?
- How you doing, Stan?
- Who ordered that stuff?
- I knew you'd have
a mob scene here,
so I figured, hey,
people gotta eat.
I got crullers here, I got
three different kinds of Danish,
and Manuel's right
behind me with the coffee.
- Jerry, I appreciate
the thought,
but it's only gonna make
for more crowd control.
- You got any sandwiches?
- Sandwiches? Yeah. They
should be along around noon.
- This food is not
for the uniforms,
It's for the press downstairs.
You know where roll call is?
- Yeah, yeah, sure.
You got it, Stan.
Stan?
- What?
Any chance of
getting a look at him?
- Who?
- Abraham Lincoln.
Who do you think?
The Creeper.
Where is he, in the
cells downstairs?
- Jerry, please, I got
my hands full today.
- Forget I asked, all right?
- Hey, great score for
you guys, huh, Norm?
Diempro, whacko?
- What do you want?
- I got some stuff that might
be in the background music,
some items that may be
connected to this creep.
The minute I was
approached, I hurried over.
- What kind of items?
- Watches, jewelry.
This chick's been
fencing his stuff all along.
- You knew this before,
and you didn't get it to us?
- No, I didn't know.
She just told me the story.
- How'd you leave it with her?
- Made a meet for
a couple of hours.
- She's bringing the pieces?
- Correct.
- All right. I gotta
get a warrant.
You'll be wearing a wire.
- Yeah.
- Hey, look, Sid, don't get
all hurt on me now, all right?
I didn't mean to
wound your feelings.
- Well, I mean, I'm a
human being, too, Norm.
You think I would know
about a guy like this
without giving him up?
Forget that he's a monster,
off the reward money I
can retire to Fort Lauderdale.
- Mr. Lopez, I have your name
and I have your
account of the incident.
- What your gonna do about it?
- Put them on my report.
- Yeah? Wait, I want to see.
- Meaning what?
- Hey, you're up for a
taste of that reward yourself.
How do I know what
you're putting in there?
- You know, you're lucky
you're standing in the
police station, pal, because...
- Mr. Sanchez, look,
you filed a job application,
and I've got your
name in my report,
so would you now
please just leave?
- Both of you go home.
- You got it was me that
hit him with a baseball bat?
- I got it. I got it.
- 'Cause that's what
slowed him down.
- Don't worry about
slowing him down, man.
These guys ain't giving up
10 cents of that reward money.
- You know what?
This is the second time
you have called me a thief,
so I strongly suggest
that you andale out of here
before I refry your beans, boy.
- Come on, Paco.
- Get out of here, Paquito.
- You're a cabron, man.
- Can you imagine
the stones on that guy
trying to think I'm gonna
ace him out of that money?
- You spell his
name right, Renko?
- Yeah, I spelled
his name right,
and I don't like your
tone of voice, neither.
- Mr. Sanchez?
- Yeah.
- Would you come
here a second, please?
On this application form that
you filed, my eyes are going.
Is that a three or an eight in
your social security number?
- Three.
- Oh, and this here,
you didn't fill in this block.
Have you ever been
convicted of a felony?
- He told me to
leave that blank.
- Who was that?
- The police chief.
I was convicted, see,
but it was a long time ago.
It was when I was just a kid.
- This was a juvenile offense?
- I robbed a store, and I did
a two-year bit when I was 20.
Now, look, the police chief
said I was gonna get this job.
- Mr. Sanchez,
I think that the...
I think the department has regs
on accepting an applicant
who has a felony jacket.
- Hear that, bro?
That's how they're
gonna do everything, man.
- Get the Chief on the phone.
- Now, I'm going to
file the application.
I'm just telling
you about policy.
- Yeah, you just
put it through, man.
I'm gonna go to the Police Chief
because he said he was
gonna handle this for me.
- Are you all right?
- I'm fine.
Oh, take it easy.
Nurse!
- No, Mick.
- This woman
is in terrible pain.
- I'm all right.
- You're in pain, nobody comes.
- Mick, will you take a break?
- No. I wanna stay
here and help you. I'll...
- No. Honey, I'm not
even two centimeters yet.
There's nothing to do.
Just go. Go ahead, take a walk.
- All right. You sure?
- Yeah, honestly, I
think I'll try to take a nap.
- All right.
I'll be back in a
couple of minutes.
- Okay.
- You're all right?
- Yeah.
- If this stuff came
to me any other way,
I'd be asking for five figures.
- Yeah, but are we sure
it's all from the Creeper?
- He put it from
his hand to mine.
Sometimes I would touch
like a broach or something,
and I could hear the
voices screaming.
- You should see a
doctor about that, Alice.
- He made me fence for him, Sid.
I was too afraid to tell him no.
He was basing all the time.
He was crazy.
I mean, sometimes
I'd give him money
even when he didn't
have anything to sell.
That's how bad he scared me.
- You kind of put this
guy on scholarship.
- You want to know why I
was so scared to do anything?
You want me to tell you
some of the things he did?
- Yeah.
- I asked him once,
I said, hey, what
are you smiling for?
He said, hey, Alice,
everything comes off.
I didn't know.
I thought he was
asking me to strip.
He said...
He said he tore
this woman's face off
with his own hands.
He said he tore out her tongue.
Everything comes off, Alice.
Oh, God.
Oh, my God.
I don't want to talk
about it anymore.
- Okay.
- Well, you want this or not?
It's 1,200.
- Yeah.
Let's do business.
- Ms. Davenport?
- What is it? What's
wrong with him?
- Herb Elman.
- You said you had urgent
news about my brother.
- Well, I'm afraid
I stretched the bounds
of veracity a bit there.
I wanted a chance at
you away from that zoo.
- Wait a minute.
- Joyce, did you follow
the Larry Larson case?
- You mean this isn't
about my brother?
- There were 51 other
executions in this country
in the last nine years.
Did you ever wonder why
Larson got more exposure
than all the rest of
them put together?
- You listen to me, mister.
- I made over $200,000
for Larry Larson
and the heirs to
his estate, Joyce.
And believe me, if I'd
been Larry's lawyer's agent,
and he'd been as classy
and beautiful as you are,
well, that figure might
have had another zero...
- Even if you wind
up attaching yourself
to one of the
principles in this case,
you and I have had
our last conversation.
- Well, would you at
least take my card?
- Go to hell.
- You holding, Artis?
You got 40 bucks?
- How's this look?
- Like Andrew Jackson and
the Hamilton brothers. All right.
- Bye, boys.
- How long?
- Five minutes, man.
Wait in the lobby.
- Hospital security, sir.
- All right. You want to
take your hands off me?
- You're in a narcotics
dispensation area, pal.
I'm gonna have to
search your pockets.
- What's going on, Tony?
- Search his pockets.
I bet you'll find 40
bucks worth of drugs.
- Say what?
- You better come
with me, too, Artis.
Let's straighten this out.
- Hey, look, man, no.
The only thing you're
gonna find in my pockets
is $40 worth of concert tickets.
- Let's go inside there
and straighten this out.
- If Laidlow from
the "Times" calls,
tell him I'll be back at 2:30.
We can talk about politics,
the Creeper, whatever he wants.
- What about the mayor?
- I'm late.
Tell him I had a nooner.
- Hey, Chief.
- Mr. Sanchez.
- They're giving me a runaround
about my police application.
- Did you fill out the forms?
- Yeah, but they say that
thing about a conviction.
Hey, Chief, can you just
give me a second, all right?
- I didn't know you had
a record, Mr. Sanchez.
- That was another
life back then, Chief.
Now, you promised you'd help me.
- I'm not God.
We do have
application requirements.
- So how come they let
liars and promisers in, huh?
I caught your Creeper, didn't I?
Me and my wife,
we risked our lives.
- For which you
have our gratitude.
- Here's my gratitude.
You want my gratitude?
- Let's handle this carefully.
- That's it, huh? This is it?
This is what I get?
- I'm very sorry for
the misunderstanding.
- Look, I have been authorized
to that area for 11 years.
- I misunderstood your
conversation in the men's room.
I said I'm sorry.
- Mr. Belker's wife is
expecting, gentlemen.
He's under considerable stress.
- Then why don't you get him
back on the maternity floor?
- Well, if you're done with him,
I think that's exactly
what we'd like to do.
- No problem here.
- All right. Enjoy the concert.
- I hope your baby
takes after its mama.
- Don't feel too
badly, Detective.
This sort of behavior
isn't all that uncommon
in expectant fathers.
We call it paternal
parturition psychosis.
- I'm a cop.
I thought they were
making a drug deal.
- The syndrome can manifest
as skin irritations, hives, eczema,
in addition to the
delusional episodes.
- This was not delusional.
- My mistake.
I suppose you're
going to tell me
you growl like that
all the time, too.
- Stan.
- Captain.
- How you holding up?
- I'll make it.
You know, this sort of thing
brings out every angle guy
and bing bong in the forest.
- I hear they're setting
up special holding
for Sawyer on Michigan Avenue.
- Well, I don't care where
they put him, Captain,
so long as it ain't here.
- Well, arraignment's at 3:00.
After that, he's
out of our hands.
- Tick tock.
- Want a ride to arraignment?
- Half an hour?
- Sorry about the excited law
student routine this morning.
I mean, from
where you're sitting,
it's a different
kind of experience.
- It's who's sitting next to me.
- What's he like?
- I don't think I formed
any rational impressions.
I was reacting so strongly
to my own feelings.
- Mark Dignan, Sergeant,
filing change of representation...
- I don't know, Irwin, I...
- Re Albert Sawyer. Thank you.
- What's going on?
- I don't know.
Mr. Sawyer?
- We decided to change.
No offense to you.
- Your son's agreed to this?
- Was this young
lady Albert's lawyer?
- This is her.
- Marty Dignan, Ms. Davenport.
A pleasure to know you.
- How do you know my name?
- Don't underestimate
your celebrity.
In certain circles,
we hear a lot
about a brilliant and
able public defender
up in these parts.
- It's getting a
little deep in here.
- Who's married to
a precinct captain.
- If you want to recommend
that your son change lawyers,
that's your prerogative.
But if Mr. Dignan has
suggested to either of you
that I'll provide anything less
than full and satisfactory
representation
because I'm married to someone
in the police department...
- That's just one of
a whole array of facts
I've asked
Mr. Sawyer to consider.
You don't really want to
stay on this thing, hmm?
- I think I'd like to
talk to my client.
- Sir, how can
you include people
who contributed to
the composite drawing?
Doesn't that seem like a
little too much right there?
That's 20 extra people.
Well, how long is
that going to take?
Yeah, well, can I suggest to you
that your distinguished
Citizens Advisory Commission
somehow concentrate
on the people
who actually made the capture,
whoever those cops were?
Uh-huh. I understand.
Thank you very much.
- How long?
- Eight months.
- How many claims?
42 as of 2:30.
- It's gonna help. Thanks.
- I'm sorry I didn't
grease her more,
but I just couldn't
listen anymore.
- Yeah. Yeah. No problem.
- It all spends, huh, Norm?
- I'll see you, Sid.
- Excuse me.
- Yeah?
- I'm one of the people
involved with this man.
- Oh, you're here
for the lineup?
- Yes, sir. I can identify him.
- What's your name, sir?
- Frederick Spears.
- You, you go downstairs.
Sir, you can come with me.
- Captain Furillo, I'm with
the "Post Gazette," sir.
- Nothing more from here
until after the arraignment.
- Well, that's understood, but
I think I have a hot tip for you.
That guy that they
just brought into lineups
says his name is
Frederick Spears.
- What about him?
- Well, they never
gave out pictures,
and I don't know what
the guy actually looks like,
but the Spears that got
beaten up by the Creeper,
his wife was killed,
that man was in a
coma till six days ago.
I mean, I don't see how
that guy could be him.
- Excuse me.
- Look straight ahead.
- Number six.
- That's it.
Thank you, Mr. Spears.
- I got him, didn't I?
- Off the record, yes.
- What happens now?
- Well, you're the
last ID for now.
We're taking him to
court to be arraigned.
- When does he go on trial?
- Probably not
for quite a while.
- Frederick Spears?
- That's right.
- Would you go with
this officer, please?
- What the hell, Frank?
- He's an imposter.
- Hey. Sergeant Jablonski
told me to bring you this.
- All right for the Sarge.
- How many you got back there?
- Just one.
- Must have sent extra.
There you go.
- Thanks.
- My uncle's been in a
coma ever since it happened.
The doctors say it's
gonna be permanent.
He won't die, he'll
just stay like he is.
- That's a terrible
thing, Mr. Spears,
but you can't take
your uncle's place.
You have to realize
your identification of
Mr. Sawyer is invalid.
- I just wanted to see him.
I can't explain it.
I just had to see
him face to face.
See who he could
be to do these things.
- Go home, Mr. Spears.
- He'll get what's
coming to him now.
- Sarge.
- How's it going?
- How come we're
using outside food?
- What do you mean?
- You sent this guy
Jerry in with food.
- Get some uniforms down here.
- Stop it, man. You're
making me dizzy.
- Where is he?
Where'd they take him?
- Jerry?
- Leave me alone, Stan.
- Are you crazy?
- I mean it.
Where'd they take him?
- Don't be a damn fool.
Drop the gun
before you get killed.
- I had prostate surgery
three years ago, Stan, a tumor.
I don't care what happens to me.
- These would hurt you worse.
- I explained to Ms. Davenport
that when you spoke to
your dad on the telephone
you gave him permission
to get a private attorney.
- Uh-huh.
- If memory serves,
it was Joey Leo's dad
who contacted me
originally in his defense.
I think I originally was
contacted by his father
in that case, too.
- If that's what you want,
I'm willing to turn over
your defense, Mr. Sawyer,
but I don't want you to decide
based on mistaken
ideas about my loyalties.
I am married to
a police officer.
He's actually the
Hill Street captain.
But I secure a higher
percentage of dismissals
and acquittals for clients
arrested in this precinct
than any other lawyer.
- Any other public defender.
- Any other lawyer.
I don't know you.
If you're guilty of the
crimes you'll be charged with,
I don't pretend
I'll be sympathetic
or understanding of that,
but that doesn't mean
I won't defend you
as aggressively or
resourcefully as I can.
End of speech.
- I gotta decide now?
- We're about to go to court.
- I think I'll use her.
- Stan. Stan!
Forget you're a
cop for just a minute.
Don't you wish I
killed this maniac?
- No.
- I don't believe it.
- Suit yourself.
- All right, now give
me the straight goods.
- Jerry, the straight goods is
we've known each
other for a long time
and you're supposed to
make allowances for friends.
But when I see you in
here waving a piece around,
pulling all of this
avenging angel crap,
a screwball is a screwball.
Now, maybe you
got better intentions
than this other whacko,
but I'm glad you're
both gonna be locked up.
Take his picture.
- You ever gonna get that
AR on Sawyer into me, guys?
- We got it right here, Sarge.
- Well, see, what
the delay was, Sarge,
is every civilian
Tom, Dick, and Harry
are trying to put their name
down in our arrest report
so they get that reward money.
- You know, I wasn't
gonna say anything, Renko,
but it just so happens,
now that you brought it
up about greedy people,
that call, that 2-13
on Sawyer today,
that was in our sector.
- Your sector?
- Yeah. Our sector.
- Well, no. It was
all units, wasn't it?
It was all units.
- It was our sector.
- No, no, Sergeant. You
see, we acknowledged
and the dispatcher cleared us.
- We were trying to
acknowledge at the same...
- And you got their late,
so what's the problem?
- There's no problem, Renko,
except I'm just getting frosted.
Every time I go by you
today, you're on the phone.
You're trying to
get your little snout
in that reward
committee's trough
trying to get some
money and then...
Oh, now you complain about
the civilians being greedy.
It just...
- You know, Sergeant, if
it makes any difference,
there's about 50 people
trying to get this money.
As of 2:00 P.M.
- Well, then I'm out of line.
- Gentlemen.
- Hey, how you
doing, Lieutenant?
- Hey, quite an
armful you got there.
- Busting the Creeper's
gonna close down half
our actors, Lieutenant.
- I'm on my way
to his arraignment.
- What for?
- Fascination with
the abomination.
Observe the
phenomenon first-hand.
You guys care to join me?
- No, thanks, Lieutenant.
- They say there's a
lottery for admission.
- Yeah? Well, hope you
make it in, Lieutenant.
- Thank you.
- Phenomenon?
- Well, you live
and learn, Neal.
I thought the guy was
just a scum bucket.
- Disorderly conduct and
threats against a public official.
- According to
the arrest report,
you attempted forcible entry
at the office of
Police Chief Daniels.
Mr. Sanchez, you threatened
battery against the Chief.
- Your Honor, this incident
resulted from a minor
misunderstanding
which has been cleared up.
We would decline to prosecute.
- Where have I seen you, sir?
Is this a return engagement?
- I was arrested 12 years ago.
- Last few days.
- You may have seen Mr. Sanchez
on television today, Your Honor.
- I helped catch the Creeper.
- Is that so?
You should have quit
while you were ahead.
Dismissed.
- Albert Sawyer,
statute violations
783 through 7, 1217, 1244,
four counts of Statute 148.
- Counsel's been arranged?
- Yes, Your Honor.
- Martin Dignan, Your Honor.
I believe Mr. Sawyer
wishes a change of counsel.
- That's not my
understanding, Your Honor.
- You want to help
us here, Mr. Sawyer?
- I want him.
- Meaning Mr. Dignan?
So indicate.
- Why'd you change your mind?
- I was just making
him sweat a little.
- What are you talking about?
- He's getting all kind
of money for his story,
but they want this lawyer.
- Who wants it?
- That guy.
Some kind of agent.
- Request arraignment be
postponed 24 hours, Your Honor.
- Mm-hmm. So ordered.
- Paco Lopez. He's sitting
right around the corner.
- You know where he's at?
- Yeah. He robbed me
and then he sits there.
- All right. Get in the back.
- Paco Lopez. There he is.
- Okay, great. Get
down on the floor.
On the floor.
- Put your hands up, Paco.
- Up where we can
see them, Paco.
- What's the matter?
- What, are you crazy? Come on.
- Paco, you're under
arrest, assault robbery.
- You guys ain't gonna give
me any straight money, man.
This is my only
way I got to do it.
- I don't know what
you're talking about, pal,
but the only thing you're
getting this way is busted.
- Damn it. Damn it.
- He's got a gun and
he's gonna kill himself.
- Okay, ma'am, just
step over here please.
All right, folks.
Just step back.
- I think it's your
old friend Manolo,
and ma'am, you're
gonna have to get back.
- He's got a gun.
- Ma'am, just stand
back here, please.
- Manolo, put the
gun down, Manolo.
- Combat situation, it's
a different story, man.
Over there a man's word is
something you can count on.
Over there you can bet your
life on what a man promises you.
- Do not discharge
that weapon again.
- Man, it ain't like that here.
With all the lies and
the crap they're giving,
they expect you
to stand still for it.
- Manolo, I know you're
upset at what happened today.
- I got handled. I got robbed.
- Listen to me now.
Nobody is gonna get
nowhere talking like that, pal.
- I was gonna be a cop, man.
I helped capture him.
- Yes, you did.
- I did.
- You're damn right you did.
- We helped capture him, man.
Now what have we
got to show for it?
Man, I ain't got nothing.
Look at my car.
Man, I was gonna be a cop.
- Give me the gun, Manolo.
- Manolo, let me have the gun.
- I ain't got a permit for it,
man, I'm telling you now.
- There I was
rattling off statistics
about my rate of
dismissals and acquittals.
I felt like a soap salesman.
- I didn't know your office
kept those kinds of statistics.
- We don't, But Dignan
made me so angry
telling Sawyer I was in
bed with the precinct captain.
- Well, when he's
right, he's right.
- When Sawyer said he
wanted me to represent,
I heard a little voice inside.
Nice going, Davenport.
- I didn't want to load the
dice while you are deciding,
but I'm glad you're
not defending him.
- Five years in
company with that.
It may take someone
who feeds on all the hoopla
and glitz surrounding it.
- I think maybe Sawyer
has the right man.
- We've got that much in common.
- I started the day off
capturing that damn Creeper,
and I'm gonna
end up going to jail.
- Oh, come on, pal. If
we was gonna pop you,
do you think we'd be sitting
here trying to sober you up?
You ain't the only person
that's had some
heartaches today.
- You guys got
some Police Chief.
- He doesn't make
the rules, Mr. Sanchez.
- He could have busted you.
We heard you were down there
trying to threaten him in
his own office this afternoon.
- He is a jerk, though.
- We just saw somebody
on TV and he looks like you,
and, well, we were wondering...
- Yeah, that was Manolo.
He's the guy that
captured the Creeper.
- Little girl, do you
recognize me and my partner?
We were the ones that was...
- Manolo, tell her about it.
- I was the guy that hit
him with a baseball bat.
He came into my apartment
and tried to attack my wife.
I heard a noise in
the hall, so I go out,
and the Creeper jumps me
from behind and knocks me down.
So I get up and run
back in my house
and he's attacking my wife.
So I grabbed a baseball
bat and I knock him down,
and I start beating on him,
and he runs out the window,
and I chase him down the
fire escape and into the hall
and down into the
alley and I corner him
and I start beating on
him, and he can't get away.
That was me, Manolo Sanchez.
And I whooped on him good.
- Okay, Robin, come
on. Come on, push.
Robin, give me a good push.
- Come on, honey, push.
- I'm pushing!
- Give me a good...
No, more. More, Robin.
Come on, good. Okay, relax.
Relax. Do your breathing, yeah.
Steady, steady.
Do your breathing.
- Oh, it's coming again.
- Working up some
psychogenic hives, detective?
Bear down, bear down.
Bear down, Robin.
- Come on. Come on.
- Okay, bear down.
There's the head.
There's the head.
- Oh, can you see the head?
- Yeah.
- There it is.
- Come on, honey.
- Here it is. Here it comes.
Here it comes. Robin.
Robin, it's a boy.
- Hi.
Hi. Oh, we have a boy.
We have a son.
listen up. Listen up.
Item 1 is what you've already
heard on the news media.
We finally got a
make on the creeper.
- He's this maniac that's
been on a rampage.
He's a suspect in
at least nine murders
both here and upstate, in
addition to sexual assaults
and God knows what else.
Now, late last night,
the state police forensics
managed to lift a print
from this guy's last
appearance upstate.
From that, they managed
to make a positive ID.
The guy's a jail rat
name of Albert Sawyer.
Male cauc, 5-8 and 140.
There's a full description
in your hot sheets.
There's also a mug shot.
Now, this same photo is gonna
be plastered in all the papers
as well as on all of
the news programs,
so this might be the break
that's gonna flush this guy out.
On the other hand,
this kind of exposure
also buys a huge
increase in false sightings
and it ups the risk
of copycat incidents,
and we also pay a price,
which I don't have to
tell all of the tour patrols,
in general community anxiety.
- General anxiety.
That means when
everyone in the city
sleeps with a piece
under his pillow.
- Yeah, that's
what it means, J.D.
And it also means
that I'm gonna have to
pull Tonelli and Galvin
off street patrol
because the department's
commandeering two uniforms
from every precinct for
temporary assignment
to their domestic security
evaluation program.
It also means that every poor
slob who forgets his door key
or who is selling
brushes door to door
runs a good chance
of getting whacked.
- Especially if
he's white and 5-8.
- Now, if this
maniac is upstate,
I hope they catch him up there.
I don't care if they
catch up in Timbuktu.
But if Mr. Albert
Sawyer is on our streets,
I don't want us to miss him.
I want him caught...
today.
- No! No!
- Get out of here!
- All units, attempted
2-13, Melton and Hillside.
Suspect is said to match
description of Albert Sawyer,
subject of APB, considered
extremely dangerous.
- 2202, Fifth and
Broad, responding.
- Acknowledge 2203.
- Hey, you!
- All right, police officers!
- Put that gun
away! Put it away!
- Stand back. Get
back. Get off of him.
Get off of him! Get off of him!
All right, I don't want
nobody touching me.
Nobody touching anybody
here now. Come on.
- Get back! Come on, get back!
- Let's get him out
of here. Come on.
Let's get him in the car.
I mean it. You stay
away from this car!
Let's go.
- If you so desire
and cannot afford one,
an attorney will be appointed
to you without charge.
Do you understand
these specific rights
as I've given them to you?
- Yeah.
- Don't you think we ought
to get him to a hospital?
- They want to kill me.
- We got him! We got him!
- What's your name?
- I'm who everyone's
looking for.
- We have a 9-11.
Armed robbery in progress.
See Surplus Store
corner of Peebles
Drive and 124th Street.
- Okay, make way. Come on,
now, let him through, people.
Let him through. Make way, huh?
- Was it the cops or the
civilians that beat him?
- Are you the creeper, Albert?
- Do you feel sorry
for your victims?
- Did he get Miranda'd?
- Yes, sir.
- Give us anything?
- Well, sir, he says he's
the one we're looking for.
- Stan?
- Composite hit him right
on the button, huh, Captain?
- We have to set up a temporary
press room down in roll call.
We have to keep these
reporters down there
while we bring in the
witnesses for the lineup.
- Yeah, a real
three-ring job, huh?
- Frank, your office.
- Stan.
- Yeah?
- I'm gonna work
squadron the rest of the shift
to help out with logistics.
- Good going, Luce.
Melvin, make sure all those
media people have press passes,
which should be
checked downstairs.
- I see. So police are
eligible for the reward money
for the capture of
this creeper fellow.
Yes, I know.
I realize I'm only talking to
the Chamber of Commerce, sir,
but, yes, I do realize
that other organizations
are also contributing
money to this fund.
Yes, sir, I'd be glad to
talk to you some more,
but I'm gonna have
to get back to you,
and I will, I assure
you, real soon.
- You've got an arrest
report to file, Andrew.
- Yes, Sergeant, I do.
Yes, police are eligible.
- I heard the conversation.
- Now, do you
want to give a guess
as to what this guy just gave me
as to how much money is in that?
- Renko, there are
gonna be other people
up for the money besides us.
- One quarter of
a million dollars.
- Are you serious?
- So worst case, we
only get half of it, right?
That's 62.5 each. 62.5.
- Renko, you're gonna
get a heart attack
before you spend one...
- Guys?
How about some
pictures right here, huh?
- Pictures.
- Pictures.
You, you, you come over here
and you have your
picture made, okay?
Stand right up here
against the wall there,
right like this here. Take it.
- Hell of a thing
for us, huh, Frank?
I was afraid they were
going to capture him up north.
- They think he'd
just come off a bus.
- So how are we handling it?
- He's being booked.
We'll arraign the afternoon.
- I mean the media. Where are
we having the press conference?
- We're checking the
credentials in roll call.
- Great! We'll do it down there.
I understand the good
folks in the neighborhood
roughed Mr. Sawyer up a
bit before our uniforms arrived.
- He's suspect in four
murders in that area.
- I'm trying to remember why
would have been a bad thing
if they'd finished him off.
Now, let's see.
For the people at the podium,
I want the cops
who made the bust,
the civilians who were
involved in the capture,
and of course you, Frank,
standing right beside me.
- Hill and Renko were
the arresting officers.
- Good. We'll collect
them on the way down.
Once in a while it all comes
up sevens, eh, my friend?
We're gonna make
every damn edition.
- Joyce.
- Hi, Irwin.
- Did you draw Sawyer?
- At least through intake.
- I can't believe
the guy's file.
Just for openers, we're
charging him three rapes,
two ADWs, the
two B&Es, a kidnap,
and four counts of murder,
special circumstances.
- Wait till you hear from
the outlying districts.
- Right. Have you seen him yet?
- Just going in.
- Ask him if he knows
any good therapists.
- Ms. Davenport,
Interrogation A.
- Would you wait
right outside the door?
- My name's Joyce
Davenport, Mr. Sawyer.
I've been assigned
to represent you
if you don't have the means
to hire a private attorney.
- Right.
- Have you made a
statement to the police?
- I know what to do.
- Did you receive
any of those injuries
after you were arrested?
- You tell me.
- They're going to be taking
you to a lineup any second.
Tell me if you were hurt
while you were being
captured or afterward.
- It was the
people in the street.
- Do you know what
takes place during a lineup?
- I understand.
- There are going to be people,
victims in the crimes
you're suspected of,
who will try to identify...
- I said I understand.
- Look, you're making me afraid,
and I don't want to have
to have a guard in here.
I don't want to have to
conduct a defense that way.
But if you're trying
to frighten me,
I want you to stop it.
- I ain't trying
to frighten you.
- All right. I'm sorry.
Let's go on. Uh...
- Belker.
Hi.
What do you mean?
I don't know what
that means, Robin.
Either it is time
or it isn't time.
I'm coming home.
Don't go anywhere.
I love you.
- You people aren't going to
find out anything more up here.
Now go downstairs to
the press conference.
- Personal time, Sarge.
- Yeah.
Hey, Mick, is it
the baby? Is this it?
- I don't know. Maybe.
- Chief, why did you
decide to go public
with the Creeper's
picture, Chief?
Was it because the police
weren't getting
anywhere on their own?
- I have been proud
of law enforcement
in our department and
throughout the state
since this nightmare
began three weeks ago.
The simple fact is
that given the high
degree of public awareness
and concern about the
so-called Creeper's activities,
by circulating his picture,
we were able in effect
to deputize the entire
community to assist us.
That kind of cooperation
is always desirable.
- The community did
more than just assist you.
We understand that they
actually caught the guy.
- You are not going to
sell police/civilian relations
in the capture of Mr. Sawyer
as having been
adversarial, gentlemen.
The fact is, we are deeply
indebted and grateful
to individuals like
Mr. Sanchez here,
for their preliminary work
in bringing the
so-called Creeper to bay.
Congratulations, Manolo.
- Thank you very much.
You know, I'd like to
become a police officer myself.
- You'd make a fine
one. Why don't you apply?
- You mean that?
- Absolutely. You've
demonstrated your bravery
and your public spiritedness
and those are the
very qualifications
the Department is looking for.
- I'm a Vietnam veteran, sir.
That will help, right?
- Yes.
- Because I've been
on unemployment
for the last 19 weeks,
and besides the reward
money, I could use this job.
- Mr. Sanchez, you
fill out an application,
and I will see to it personally.
I'd also like to thank the
members of the city force...
- God bless you,
Chief. God bless you.
- It's a great day for us all.
- God bless this country.
To hell with the Creeper!
- This is it?
- This is it.
- Let's do it.
All right.
All right!
- Number three.
I think that's the one.
- Can you say definitely?
- Yes. Number three.
- Thank you, Mrs.
Prince. That's all we need.
Congratulations. You
picked the suspect.
- That was him?
- That's him, number three.
- Hi.
- Hi.
- Finished with intake?
- I suppose it was routine.
But his eyes, the
way he looked at me,
Frank, I was terrified.
- He's not exactly your
run-of-the-mill defendant.
- Sawyer deserves a lawyer
who's not too frightened
to give him a defense.
- Different lawyers are
right for different clients.
- You think I should withdraw?
- Well, it's pretty obvious
this one's way
beyond the call of duty.
Capital case, automatic
appellate review.
It could be three or
four years out your life.
- It was just the first intake.
I saw a replay of your
press conference, Furillo.
- You think I talked too much?
- How you doing, Stan?
- Who ordered that stuff?
- I knew you'd have
a mob scene here,
so I figured, hey,
people gotta eat.
I got crullers here, I got
three different kinds of Danish,
and Manuel's right
behind me with the coffee.
- Jerry, I appreciate
the thought,
but it's only gonna make
for more crowd control.
- You got any sandwiches?
- Sandwiches? Yeah. They
should be along around noon.
- This food is not
for the uniforms,
It's for the press downstairs.
You know where roll call is?
- Yeah, yeah, sure.
You got it, Stan.
Stan?
- What?
Any chance of
getting a look at him?
- Who?
- Abraham Lincoln.
Who do you think?
The Creeper.
Where is he, in the
cells downstairs?
- Jerry, please, I got
my hands full today.
- Forget I asked, all right?
- Hey, great score for
you guys, huh, Norm?
Diempro, whacko?
- What do you want?
- I got some stuff that might
be in the background music,
some items that may be
connected to this creep.
The minute I was
approached, I hurried over.
- What kind of items?
- Watches, jewelry.
This chick's been
fencing his stuff all along.
- You knew this before,
and you didn't get it to us?
- No, I didn't know.
She just told me the story.
- How'd you leave it with her?
- Made a meet for
a couple of hours.
- She's bringing the pieces?
- Correct.
- All right. I gotta
get a warrant.
You'll be wearing a wire.
- Yeah.
- Hey, look, Sid, don't get
all hurt on me now, all right?
I didn't mean to
wound your feelings.
- Well, I mean, I'm a
human being, too, Norm.
You think I would know
about a guy like this
without giving him up?
Forget that he's a monster,
off the reward money I
can retire to Fort Lauderdale.
- Mr. Lopez, I have your name
and I have your
account of the incident.
- What your gonna do about it?
- Put them on my report.
- Yeah? Wait, I want to see.
- Meaning what?
- Hey, you're up for a
taste of that reward yourself.
How do I know what
you're putting in there?
- You know, you're lucky
you're standing in the
police station, pal, because...
- Mr. Sanchez, look,
you filed a job application,
and I've got your
name in my report,
so would you now
please just leave?
- Both of you go home.
- You got it was me that
hit him with a baseball bat?
- I got it. I got it.
- 'Cause that's what
slowed him down.
- Don't worry about
slowing him down, man.
These guys ain't giving up
10 cents of that reward money.
- You know what?
This is the second time
you have called me a thief,
so I strongly suggest
that you andale out of here
before I refry your beans, boy.
- Come on, Paco.
- Get out of here, Paquito.
- You're a cabron, man.
- Can you imagine
the stones on that guy
trying to think I'm gonna
ace him out of that money?
- You spell his
name right, Renko?
- Yeah, I spelled
his name right,
and I don't like your
tone of voice, neither.
- Mr. Sanchez?
- Yeah.
- Would you come
here a second, please?
On this application form that
you filed, my eyes are going.
Is that a three or an eight in
your social security number?
- Three.
- Oh, and this here,
you didn't fill in this block.
Have you ever been
convicted of a felony?
- He told me to
leave that blank.
- Who was that?
- The police chief.
I was convicted, see,
but it was a long time ago.
It was when I was just a kid.
- This was a juvenile offense?
- I robbed a store, and I did
a two-year bit when I was 20.
Now, look, the police chief
said I was gonna get this job.
- Mr. Sanchez,
I think that the...
I think the department has regs
on accepting an applicant
who has a felony jacket.
- Hear that, bro?
That's how they're
gonna do everything, man.
- Get the Chief on the phone.
- Now, I'm going to
file the application.
I'm just telling
you about policy.
- Yeah, you just
put it through, man.
I'm gonna go to the Police Chief
because he said he was
gonna handle this for me.
- Are you all right?
- I'm fine.
Oh, take it easy.
Nurse!
- No, Mick.
- This woman
is in terrible pain.
- I'm all right.
- You're in pain, nobody comes.
- Mick, will you take a break?
- No. I wanna stay
here and help you. I'll...
- No. Honey, I'm not
even two centimeters yet.
There's nothing to do.
Just go. Go ahead, take a walk.
- All right. You sure?
- Yeah, honestly, I
think I'll try to take a nap.
- All right.
I'll be back in a
couple of minutes.
- Okay.
- You're all right?
- Yeah.
- If this stuff came
to me any other way,
I'd be asking for five figures.
- Yeah, but are we sure
it's all from the Creeper?
- He put it from
his hand to mine.
Sometimes I would touch
like a broach or something,
and I could hear the
voices screaming.
- You should see a
doctor about that, Alice.
- He made me fence for him, Sid.
I was too afraid to tell him no.
He was basing all the time.
He was crazy.
I mean, sometimes
I'd give him money
even when he didn't
have anything to sell.
That's how bad he scared me.
- You kind of put this
guy on scholarship.
- You want to know why I
was so scared to do anything?
You want me to tell you
some of the things he did?
- Yeah.
- I asked him once,
I said, hey, what
are you smiling for?
He said, hey, Alice,
everything comes off.
I didn't know.
I thought he was
asking me to strip.
He said...
He said he tore
this woman's face off
with his own hands.
He said he tore out her tongue.
Everything comes off, Alice.
Oh, God.
Oh, my God.
I don't want to talk
about it anymore.
- Okay.
- Well, you want this or not?
It's 1,200.
- Yeah.
Let's do business.
- Ms. Davenport?
- What is it? What's
wrong with him?
- Herb Elman.
- You said you had urgent
news about my brother.
- Well, I'm afraid
I stretched the bounds
of veracity a bit there.
I wanted a chance at
you away from that zoo.
- Wait a minute.
- Joyce, did you follow
the Larry Larson case?
- You mean this isn't
about my brother?
- There were 51 other
executions in this country
in the last nine years.
Did you ever wonder why
Larson got more exposure
than all the rest of
them put together?
- You listen to me, mister.
- I made over $200,000
for Larry Larson
and the heirs to
his estate, Joyce.
And believe me, if I'd
been Larry's lawyer's agent,
and he'd been as classy
and beautiful as you are,
well, that figure might
have had another zero...
- Even if you wind
up attaching yourself
to one of the
principles in this case,
you and I have had
our last conversation.
- Well, would you at
least take my card?
- Go to hell.
- You holding, Artis?
You got 40 bucks?
- How's this look?
- Like Andrew Jackson and
the Hamilton brothers. All right.
- Bye, boys.
- How long?
- Five minutes, man.
Wait in the lobby.
- Hospital security, sir.
- All right. You want to
take your hands off me?
- You're in a narcotics
dispensation area, pal.
I'm gonna have to
search your pockets.
- What's going on, Tony?
- Search his pockets.
I bet you'll find 40
bucks worth of drugs.
- Say what?
- You better come
with me, too, Artis.
Let's straighten this out.
- Hey, look, man, no.
The only thing you're
gonna find in my pockets
is $40 worth of concert tickets.
- Let's go inside there
and straighten this out.
- If Laidlow from
the "Times" calls,
tell him I'll be back at 2:30.
We can talk about politics,
the Creeper, whatever he wants.
- What about the mayor?
- I'm late.
Tell him I had a nooner.
- Hey, Chief.
- Mr. Sanchez.
- They're giving me a runaround
about my police application.
- Did you fill out the forms?
- Yeah, but they say that
thing about a conviction.
Hey, Chief, can you just
give me a second, all right?
- I didn't know you had
a record, Mr. Sanchez.
- That was another
life back then, Chief.
Now, you promised you'd help me.
- I'm not God.
We do have
application requirements.
- So how come they let
liars and promisers in, huh?
I caught your Creeper, didn't I?
Me and my wife,
we risked our lives.
- For which you
have our gratitude.
- Here's my gratitude.
You want my gratitude?
- Let's handle this carefully.
- That's it, huh? This is it?
This is what I get?
- I'm very sorry for
the misunderstanding.
- Look, I have been authorized
to that area for 11 years.
- I misunderstood your
conversation in the men's room.
I said I'm sorry.
- Mr. Belker's wife is
expecting, gentlemen.
He's under considerable stress.
- Then why don't you get him
back on the maternity floor?
- Well, if you're done with him,
I think that's exactly
what we'd like to do.
- No problem here.
- All right. Enjoy the concert.
- I hope your baby
takes after its mama.
- Don't feel too
badly, Detective.
This sort of behavior
isn't all that uncommon
in expectant fathers.
We call it paternal
parturition psychosis.
- I'm a cop.
I thought they were
making a drug deal.
- The syndrome can manifest
as skin irritations, hives, eczema,
in addition to the
delusional episodes.
- This was not delusional.
- My mistake.
I suppose you're
going to tell me
you growl like that
all the time, too.
- Stan.
- Captain.
- How you holding up?
- I'll make it.
You know, this sort of thing
brings out every angle guy
and bing bong in the forest.
- I hear they're setting
up special holding
for Sawyer on Michigan Avenue.
- Well, I don't care where
they put him, Captain,
so long as it ain't here.
- Well, arraignment's at 3:00.
After that, he's
out of our hands.
- Tick tock.
- Want a ride to arraignment?
- Half an hour?
- Sorry about the excited law
student routine this morning.
I mean, from
where you're sitting,
it's a different
kind of experience.
- It's who's sitting next to me.
- What's he like?
- I don't think I formed
any rational impressions.
I was reacting so strongly
to my own feelings.
- Mark Dignan, Sergeant,
filing change of representation...
- I don't know, Irwin, I...
- Re Albert Sawyer. Thank you.
- What's going on?
- I don't know.
Mr. Sawyer?
- We decided to change.
No offense to you.
- Your son's agreed to this?
- Was this young
lady Albert's lawyer?
- This is her.
- Marty Dignan, Ms. Davenport.
A pleasure to know you.
- How do you know my name?
- Don't underestimate
your celebrity.
In certain circles,
we hear a lot
about a brilliant and
able public defender
up in these parts.
- It's getting a
little deep in here.
- Who's married to
a precinct captain.
- If you want to recommend
that your son change lawyers,
that's your prerogative.
But if Mr. Dignan has
suggested to either of you
that I'll provide anything less
than full and satisfactory
representation
because I'm married to someone
in the police department...
- That's just one of
a whole array of facts
I've asked
Mr. Sawyer to consider.
You don't really want to
stay on this thing, hmm?
- I think I'd like to
talk to my client.
- Sir, how can
you include people
who contributed to
the composite drawing?
Doesn't that seem like a
little too much right there?
That's 20 extra people.
Well, how long is
that going to take?
Yeah, well, can I suggest to you
that your distinguished
Citizens Advisory Commission
somehow concentrate
on the people
who actually made the capture,
whoever those cops were?
Uh-huh. I understand.
Thank you very much.
- How long?
- Eight months.
- How many claims?
42 as of 2:30.
- It's gonna help. Thanks.
- I'm sorry I didn't
grease her more,
but I just couldn't
listen anymore.
- Yeah. Yeah. No problem.
- It all spends, huh, Norm?
- I'll see you, Sid.
- Excuse me.
- Yeah?
- I'm one of the people
involved with this man.
- Oh, you're here
for the lineup?
- Yes, sir. I can identify him.
- What's your name, sir?
- Frederick Spears.
- You, you go downstairs.
Sir, you can come with me.
- Captain Furillo, I'm with
the "Post Gazette," sir.
- Nothing more from here
until after the arraignment.
- Well, that's understood, but
I think I have a hot tip for you.
That guy that they
just brought into lineups
says his name is
Frederick Spears.
- What about him?
- Well, they never
gave out pictures,
and I don't know what
the guy actually looks like,
but the Spears that got
beaten up by the Creeper,
his wife was killed,
that man was in a
coma till six days ago.
I mean, I don't see how
that guy could be him.
- Excuse me.
- Look straight ahead.
- Number six.
- That's it.
Thank you, Mr. Spears.
- I got him, didn't I?
- Off the record, yes.
- What happens now?
- Well, you're the
last ID for now.
We're taking him to
court to be arraigned.
- When does he go on trial?
- Probably not
for quite a while.
- Frederick Spears?
- That's right.
- Would you go with
this officer, please?
- What the hell, Frank?
- He's an imposter.
- Hey. Sergeant Jablonski
told me to bring you this.
- All right for the Sarge.
- How many you got back there?
- Just one.
- Must have sent extra.
There you go.
- Thanks.
- My uncle's been in a
coma ever since it happened.
The doctors say it's
gonna be permanent.
He won't die, he'll
just stay like he is.
- That's a terrible
thing, Mr. Spears,
but you can't take
your uncle's place.
You have to realize
your identification of
Mr. Sawyer is invalid.
- I just wanted to see him.
I can't explain it.
I just had to see
him face to face.
See who he could
be to do these things.
- Go home, Mr. Spears.
- He'll get what's
coming to him now.
- Sarge.
- How's it going?
- How come we're
using outside food?
- What do you mean?
- You sent this guy
Jerry in with food.
- Get some uniforms down here.
- Stop it, man. You're
making me dizzy.
- Where is he?
Where'd they take him?
- Jerry?
- Leave me alone, Stan.
- Are you crazy?
- I mean it.
Where'd they take him?
- Don't be a damn fool.
Drop the gun
before you get killed.
- I had prostate surgery
three years ago, Stan, a tumor.
I don't care what happens to me.
- These would hurt you worse.
- I explained to Ms. Davenport
that when you spoke to
your dad on the telephone
you gave him permission
to get a private attorney.
- Uh-huh.
- If memory serves,
it was Joey Leo's dad
who contacted me
originally in his defense.
I think I originally was
contacted by his father
in that case, too.
- If that's what you want,
I'm willing to turn over
your defense, Mr. Sawyer,
but I don't want you to decide
based on mistaken
ideas about my loyalties.
I am married to
a police officer.
He's actually the
Hill Street captain.
But I secure a higher
percentage of dismissals
and acquittals for clients
arrested in this precinct
than any other lawyer.
- Any other public defender.
- Any other lawyer.
I don't know you.
If you're guilty of the
crimes you'll be charged with,
I don't pretend
I'll be sympathetic
or understanding of that,
but that doesn't mean
I won't defend you
as aggressively or
resourcefully as I can.
End of speech.
- I gotta decide now?
- We're about to go to court.
- I think I'll use her.
- Stan. Stan!
Forget you're a
cop for just a minute.
Don't you wish I
killed this maniac?
- No.
- I don't believe it.
- Suit yourself.
- All right, now give
me the straight goods.
- Jerry, the straight goods is
we've known each
other for a long time
and you're supposed to
make allowances for friends.
But when I see you in
here waving a piece around,
pulling all of this
avenging angel crap,
a screwball is a screwball.
Now, maybe you
got better intentions
than this other whacko,
but I'm glad you're
both gonna be locked up.
Take his picture.
- You ever gonna get that
AR on Sawyer into me, guys?
- We got it right here, Sarge.
- Well, see, what
the delay was, Sarge,
is every civilian
Tom, Dick, and Harry
are trying to put their name
down in our arrest report
so they get that reward money.
- You know, I wasn't
gonna say anything, Renko,
but it just so happens,
now that you brought it
up about greedy people,
that call, that 2-13
on Sawyer today,
that was in our sector.
- Your sector?
- Yeah. Our sector.
- Well, no. It was
all units, wasn't it?
It was all units.
- It was our sector.
- No, no, Sergeant. You
see, we acknowledged
and the dispatcher cleared us.
- We were trying to
acknowledge at the same...
- And you got their late,
so what's the problem?
- There's no problem, Renko,
except I'm just getting frosted.
Every time I go by you
today, you're on the phone.
You're trying to
get your little snout
in that reward
committee's trough
trying to get some
money and then...
Oh, now you complain about
the civilians being greedy.
It just...
- You know, Sergeant, if
it makes any difference,
there's about 50 people
trying to get this money.
As of 2:00 P.M.
- Well, then I'm out of line.
- Gentlemen.
- Hey, how you
doing, Lieutenant?
- Hey, quite an
armful you got there.
- Busting the Creeper's
gonna close down half
our actors, Lieutenant.
- I'm on my way
to his arraignment.
- What for?
- Fascination with
the abomination.
Observe the
phenomenon first-hand.
You guys care to join me?
- No, thanks, Lieutenant.
- They say there's a
lottery for admission.
- Yeah? Well, hope you
make it in, Lieutenant.
- Thank you.
- Phenomenon?
- Well, you live
and learn, Neal.
I thought the guy was
just a scum bucket.
- Disorderly conduct and
threats against a public official.
- According to
the arrest report,
you attempted forcible entry
at the office of
Police Chief Daniels.
Mr. Sanchez, you threatened
battery against the Chief.
- Your Honor, this incident
resulted from a minor
misunderstanding
which has been cleared up.
We would decline to prosecute.
- Where have I seen you, sir?
Is this a return engagement?
- I was arrested 12 years ago.
- Last few days.
- You may have seen Mr. Sanchez
on television today, Your Honor.
- I helped catch the Creeper.
- Is that so?
You should have quit
while you were ahead.
Dismissed.
- Albert Sawyer,
statute violations
783 through 7, 1217, 1244,
four counts of Statute 148.
- Counsel's been arranged?
- Yes, Your Honor.
- Martin Dignan, Your Honor.
I believe Mr. Sawyer
wishes a change of counsel.
- That's not my
understanding, Your Honor.
- You want to help
us here, Mr. Sawyer?
- I want him.
- Meaning Mr. Dignan?
So indicate.
- Why'd you change your mind?
- I was just making
him sweat a little.
- What are you talking about?
- He's getting all kind
of money for his story,
but they want this lawyer.
- Who wants it?
- That guy.
Some kind of agent.
- Request arraignment be
postponed 24 hours, Your Honor.
- Mm-hmm. So ordered.
- Paco Lopez. He's sitting
right around the corner.
- You know where he's at?
- Yeah. He robbed me
and then he sits there.
- All right. Get in the back.
- Paco Lopez. There he is.
- Okay, great. Get
down on the floor.
On the floor.
- Put your hands up, Paco.
- Up where we can
see them, Paco.
- What's the matter?
- What, are you crazy? Come on.
- Paco, you're under
arrest, assault robbery.
- You guys ain't gonna give
me any straight money, man.
This is my only
way I got to do it.
- I don't know what
you're talking about, pal,
but the only thing you're
getting this way is busted.
- Damn it. Damn it.
- He's got a gun and
he's gonna kill himself.
- Okay, ma'am, just
step over here please.
All right, folks.
Just step back.
- I think it's your
old friend Manolo,
and ma'am, you're
gonna have to get back.
- He's got a gun.
- Ma'am, just stand
back here, please.
- Manolo, put the
gun down, Manolo.
- Combat situation, it's
a different story, man.
Over there a man's word is
something you can count on.
Over there you can bet your
life on what a man promises you.
- Do not discharge
that weapon again.
- Man, it ain't like that here.
With all the lies and
the crap they're giving,
they expect you
to stand still for it.
- Manolo, I know you're
upset at what happened today.
- I got handled. I got robbed.
- Listen to me now.
Nobody is gonna get
nowhere talking like that, pal.
- I was gonna be a cop, man.
I helped capture him.
- Yes, you did.
- I did.
- You're damn right you did.
- We helped capture him, man.
Now what have we
got to show for it?
Man, I ain't got nothing.
Look at my car.
Man, I was gonna be a cop.
- Give me the gun, Manolo.
- Manolo, let me have the gun.
- I ain't got a permit for it,
man, I'm telling you now.
- There I was
rattling off statistics
about my rate of
dismissals and acquittals.
I felt like a soap salesman.
- I didn't know your office
kept those kinds of statistics.
- We don't, But Dignan
made me so angry
telling Sawyer I was in
bed with the precinct captain.
- Well, when he's
right, he's right.
- When Sawyer said he
wanted me to represent,
I heard a little voice inside.
Nice going, Davenport.
- I didn't want to load the
dice while you are deciding,
but I'm glad you're
not defending him.
- Five years in
company with that.
It may take someone
who feeds on all the hoopla
and glitz surrounding it.
- I think maybe Sawyer
has the right man.
- We've got that much in common.
- I started the day off
capturing that damn Creeper,
and I'm gonna
end up going to jail.
- Oh, come on, pal. If
we was gonna pop you,
do you think we'd be sitting
here trying to sober you up?
You ain't the only person
that's had some
heartaches today.
- You guys got
some Police Chief.
- He doesn't make
the rules, Mr. Sanchez.
- He could have busted you.
We heard you were down there
trying to threaten him in
his own office this afternoon.
- He is a jerk, though.
- We just saw somebody
on TV and he looks like you,
and, well, we were wondering...
- Yeah, that was Manolo.
He's the guy that
captured the Creeper.
- Little girl, do you
recognize me and my partner?
We were the ones that was...
- Manolo, tell her about it.
- I was the guy that hit
him with a baseball bat.
He came into my apartment
and tried to attack my wife.
I heard a noise in
the hall, so I go out,
and the Creeper jumps me
from behind and knocks me down.
So I get up and run
back in my house
and he's attacking my wife.
So I grabbed a baseball
bat and I knock him down,
and I start beating on him,
and he runs out the window,
and I chase him down the
fire escape and into the hall
and down into the
alley and I corner him
and I start beating on
him, and he can't get away.
That was me, Manolo Sanchez.
And I whooped on him good.
- Okay, Robin, come
on. Come on, push.
Robin, give me a good push.
- Come on, honey, push.
- I'm pushing!
- Give me a good...
No, more. More, Robin.
Come on, good. Okay, relax.
Relax. Do your breathing, yeah.
Steady, steady.
Do your breathing.
- Oh, it's coming again.
- Working up some
psychogenic hives, detective?
Bear down, bear down.
Bear down, Robin.
- Come on. Come on.
- Okay, bear down.
There's the head.
There's the head.
- Oh, can you see the head?
- Yeah.
- There it is.
- Come on, honey.
- Here it is. Here it comes.
Here it comes. Robin.
Robin, it's a boy.
- Hi.
Hi. Oh, we have a boy.
We have a son.