Hunter (1984–1991): Season 5, Episode 10 - The Pit - full transcript
The son of an LAPD dispatcher lands himself in hot water when he accumulates gambling debts.
Tonight on Hunter.
-These guys know that
you're a police dispatcher
and that you work
the swing shift.
They're going to kill
me if you don't help
-Whoever stole that burning
bar has a big job planned ahead.
-Five million dollars in gold
bullion was unaccounted for.
Now, that's about
a thousand pounds.
-If the police find me
or the gold, he dies.
-Hold it right there!
Police!
One Adam 15.
We see the woman.
Possible 415 gang.
They are now 15 4 6th
Street... Gitzman 1249.
One William one 56.
Roger code six... 515
22 West 7th Street.
Adam six... go to
Tac-2 for Adam 24.
Adam six... go to
Tac-2 for Adam 24.
I know it's difficult,
Mr. Gilman.
But please keep on going.
What else did they take?
Well, I made a check.
And they've taken a few things.
Uh, two welding tanks...
-Uh, just a second.
-They smashed
down the front door.
And they hit the night watchman.
They didn't kill the guy.
But he's elderly.
The ME says he had a stroke.
-Hi, I'm Sargent Hunter.
-The manager.
-How are you doing?
What'd they get?
-Two oxygen tanks...
A metal burning bar.
-A burning bar, huh?
-Yeah, we use it
to cut elevator or air
conditioning shafts
in old buildings.
-Uh-huh.
What else they got?
-A box of goggles and masks,
half a dozen ear protectors,
and a sweet, old collie
that'd never hurt anybody.
-Thanks.
That'll be enough for now.
-Thank you very much.
-We have a witness who
saw the license plates
on a large rental truck that
was leaving this, uh, building.
-Uh-huh.
Well, whoever
stole that burning bar
has got a big job planned ahead.
-Yeah.
-What about Eddie?
-Fine, no problem.
He's gonna wave
us through the gate.
-Uh-huh, you talked
to our other friend.
-Just now.
It's all set.
We don't have to
worry about the alarm.
Well, that leaves our
loose end... the guard inside.
-Just like you said... take
care of the guard's telephone.
Take care of the guard.
The phone cable is buried.
Can't cut it.
So I did just like you said.
-How did the kid react?
-Scared to death.
When we doing it?
-Tomorrow night, OK?
Tomorrow night.
-Kayes.
What's going on over there?
-It's Rockland's second
day without his training
officer... pulled the car over.
The guy got out with a gun.
It's a standoff.
-Really?
ROCKLAND One Adam 43.
We're responding code
3 to assist one Lincoln 19.
We're one block south turning
the corner onto 5th Street.
-How far away is he?
ROCKLAND About 30 feet.
-Are you properly deployed
behind the door of your car?
-Yes.
Can you hear the
sound of my voice?
Can you hear the
sound of my voice?
-Yes.
-All right, I want you put the
mic down, aim at his heart,
and shoot him.
-OK!
OK!
Suspect in custody.
Code four.
-All right, Carol.
-Roger, all units... code four.
-Shoot him?
-Hey, it seemed like a
good idea at the time.
-You know, Carol I think you...
You do these little things here
just so you'll have some
stories to tell later on.
-You mean like the time I sent
backup to a domestic dispute,
even though a
hot-headed rookie named
Rick Hunter told
me he didn't need it?
-That's right.
You know, there'd be one
less Rk Hunter around here
if it hadn't been for that.
-Yeah, right, look, I had it
all under control, believe me.
-Sure.
-Husband with a shotgun.
Wife with a .45.
Brother in law
with a butcher knife.
Hey, you could
have handled it, Rick.
No problem.
-Yeah, but you left out
the baby with the Uzi.
-A... a... all right, gang,
let's go back to work.
Come on.
What you got?
-Well, we've got a, uh,
dead night watchman
and enough equipment
that's been stolen
to pull off another
very large burglary.
We also have the
license plate number
off the truck that was
seen leaving the building.
Listen, Carol, give
an hourly broadcast
on this as a possible
vehicle involved in a burglary.
And if located, stake
and notify one of us, OK?
-You got it, Dee Dee.
-Good job, Carol.
-Thanks.
-You know with that
burning bar, Charlie,
we can expect some
sort of a bank job.
-Yeah?
-We tried to follow up
the truck rental agency.
The place is locked up tight.
We couldn't locate the manager.
We'll hit it again in
the morning though.
-All right, let's start
with the obvious.
Call the parole index.
Get a printout of all recent
parolees with a burn job MO.
Then see if we can
match any of them
to the rented truck
that was used tonight.
-We've already did it.
-Oh, I guess that's why you
guys get those big, fat paychecks.
-Fat?
Mines practically anorexic.
-Mine died of starvation
in the Spring of '85.
-Hi, Bobby.
Boy, what a day I had.
I wish you could
have been there.
-Mom, we need to talk.
-What is it honey?
-I'm in a really big trouble.
-Bobby, what is it this time?
-These friends of mine... I
owed them some money.
-Oh, honey, I thought we
took care of your friends
last month.
Honey, I asked you not to
get back into those card games.
How much is it this time?
-$40,000.00.
-$40,000?
-Just listen, mom, these
friends of mine... all of a sudden I
don't owe it to them anymore.
I owe it to these other guys.
-What are you talking about?
-These other guys.
I guess they bought the IOU.
And I owe them the $40,000.00.
-Where are we going to come
up with that kind of money?
-I don't know, mom.
But if we don't, they
said they would kill me.
-Well, they've got to
know I don't take that much.
What do they really want?
-Well, these guys know
you're a police dispatcher
and that you work
the swing shift.
And at 11 o'clock
tomorrow night you're
going to receive a call
from the west side of town.
They want you to delay
reporting it for 30 minutes.
-I can't do that, Bobby.
That's my job.
-It's just 30 minutes, mom.
I mean, it's no big deal.
The call comes in at 11 o'clock.
You don't report until 11:30.
-Bobby, I can't do
that to the people
that I work with... the
people that I work for.
They depend on
me for their lives.
-Well, what about my life, mom?
-These guys said they
we're going to kill me.
-Tell them that my
calls are monitored...
That I can't get away with it.
-They know you're
only being taped
and that nobody
listens to the tape
unless there's a
problem later on.
They just need to buy some time.
They said nobody's
going to get hurt.
And they'll forget
about the money.
And they won't kill me.
I'm sorry, mom.
One William 157.
Advise one William
156 on code six
at Western Truck Rental
on the suspect 459 vehicle.
-Are you Sargent McCall?
-Sure am.
-Great.
I rented the truck in
question to a John Grady.
He rented it for two
weeks, paid cash,
and he left a credit card
number for collateral.
Now, what are the chances,
uh, we'll see this truck again?
-Oh, pretty good
if they're going
to use it in another burglary.
They'll probably dump it in some
out-of-the-way neighborhood.
And we'll find it a
week later, you know?
-With no tires, no
radio, and no engine.
-Yeah, well, you know.
Take a look at these.
Recognize any of them?
-Um, I think, yeah, that's him.
-Paul Rosario, huh?
Yeah.
Paroled eight weeks
ago out of Chino.
-Yeah, Rosario was using a
fake license and a stolen credit
card under the
name of John Grady.
-I've got an old
address here on Rosario.
I'll run it down.
It's probably no good though.
-OK, I'm going to go
check with his parole officer
and see if he's been reporting.
-Yeah, good.
See you later.
Thanks.
-One Adam 47, OK, code seven.
Julia, would you go
down to the cafeteria
and get me a sandwich?
-It is my turn isn't it?
-The usual?
-Yes, thank you.
RADIO SPORTS ANNOUNCER:
They are in first and
goal to go territory.
That's down at
the seven yard line.
Let's see if they measure.
Third down and inches
to go for a first down just
shy of the Pittsburgh
seven yard line.
Now set up.
Strong right. Goodman
is the fullback.
And the tailback
is Charles White.
They give it to Goodman.
He bangs to the right and
may have gotten it, may not.
Let's see where they mark it
down on his forward progress.
It looks like it's
inside the seven
as they mark it down
there... maybe, maybe not.
We'll have to see.
Goal to go.
Paul just shy of
the six yard line.
First and goal to go just
shy of the Pittsburgh six.
Inside... one minute to
play 45 seconds to go.
Goodman in motion on
the right turn on a mission.
Charles White cuts it back.
Inside... hurtles a
man inside the five...
Loses the ball in the endzone.
And it's recovered
by Pittsburgh.
They blew it down and dead
at about three yard line of...
-Police Department...
Operator 47.
What are you reporting?
-Do you have a missing
person's department?
-I'll transfer you.
SPORTS ANNOUNCER The Rams
get a break with
30 seconds to go.
The clock continues to run.
26 seconds to play in
this first half for the Rams.
16 plays for the Rams...
Consuming eight minutes
and 50 seconds of time.
That's John Robinson
getting the football.
They come out top.
-Police Department...
operator...
-This is a security guard
at LAX... building 121 south.
Look, the alarm
is not going off.
And someone is burning
through the front door right now.
-We're rolling.
Do not confront the
suspects. Repeat...
Do not confront the suspects.
-All units into the city and
one Adam 47... 459... suspect's
there now... building
121 LAX south.
One Adam 47...
Your call is code three.
Be advised there's an armed
guard inside the building.
Possible vehicle
involved is an 87 GMC
U-Rent... license
one ocean nine.
-Little bitch.
Sharr... Sharr she
double-crossed us man.
Uh, she just put us
out over the radio.
Come on.
Let's go.
Let's move.
- All right, all right.
Take it easy.
They'll probably be
here within five minutes.
-He's been shot.
-The driver was our
parolee, Paul Rosario...
Shot in the back of
the head with a .38.
His buddies propped
him up in the truck...
Jammed down the
accelerator... needed a decoy.
-Fun guys.
-You're not kiddin'.
Bought them some
time though... got away
going in the other
direction the second truck.
-How do you know
there was a second truck?
-Airport completed their
inventory... $5 million
in gold bullion was
unaccounted for.
Now that's about 1,000 pounds.
You can't cart that
away in a wheel barrow.
-Half a ton of gold?
What are they doing with that?
-It was in the process of
being transferred to Japan.
It was only supposed to be
held in high-security storage
for six hours.
-Ah, we ought to
send up a chopper...
Get some aerial photos... a
general overview of the area.
So much for high security, eh?
-Yeah.
-Communications say
they received about, uh,
half a dozen or
so of false alarms
at the facility over
the last few weeks.
-It might be an
interesting coincidence.
But check it out.
-When the cops
leave, it's all ours.
-Why'd you have to kill Rosario?
-Wouldn't have
gotten away if I hadn't.
The guy was a snitch.
I can't afford that
kind of loose end.
They are moving it.
Let's go.
-Go where?
What do you want to do?
Cut a whole in the fence?
The place is crawling with cops.
-We'll catch him on the way out.
-Ah, there's too many
exits that truck could take.
Which one do we pick?
-Dammit.
-I've got the license plate.
-So what?
-We can trace it.
You seem to forget.
We got somebody on the inside.
-Yeah, a lot of good it did us.
Rosario's dead.
And we still don't
have the gold.
-Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, this time it's different.
This time we got leverage.
Let's go use it.
-That sector of the airport
was shut down last night.
Why?
-An Intermittent
bug of the worst kind.
-What do you mean?
-It's a foul-up in the
system that you really
can't trace because
it's not regular.
It happens randomly.
We've notified the police
seven times in the last 25 days
on what turned out
to be false alarms
on that part of the airport.
I'm sure you people were
as tired of it as we were.
-So you shut it down last
night to put a trace on it?
-For a half hour.
Our resident wizard thought
he had a handle on the problem.
So we accommodated him.
And he was right.
He found a bad chip.
-Well, unfortunately,
the airport got hit.
And two people were killed.
Where's the repairmen now?
-Home.
He works the swing shift.
-I'd like to get his home
address and his work schedule
for last month.
-Sure.
One Adam eight...
Code 6... 5th and Columbus.
-Adam eight... Roger.
Police Department.
Mom.
-Oh, Bobby.
Honey, where are you?
I've been worried sick.
Are you all right?
Mom, they are going to kill me
if you don't help.
Go across the street to
the phone booth and wait.
-Bobby.
Lady, you screwed
up real bad last night.
Now, if you want to
see your kid again,
you better listen real close.
-If you hurt him...
-Hey, hey, I got
a flash for you.
I am the on holding
the cards here.
Now, are we
absolutely clear on that?
-I'm listening.
-I want you to keep me up
to date on the investigation.
I'll call you back in six
hours at this number.
You tell me
everything they've got.
Now, I also have a
license I want you to run.
You got a pencil?
-I'll remember it.
1 Q 9 7 7 6.
I also want you to
find out where it is.
-Listen, it could take me
at least two days to do that.
-Your kid doesn't have two days.
-Carol, how are you doing?
-Oh, not bad, Rick.
I had a break.
I thought I'd stop by and
see how you were doing.
-Yeah, well, the usual
Wednesday... two
dead bodies and a half
a ton of missing gold.
-Half a ton?
-Yeah, $5 million worth
of gold and no suspects.
-Any leads?
-Nothin' to write home about.
Speaking of home.
How is Bobby doing?
-Bobby is fine.
-Good.
-Listen, Rick, I've got
to get back to the pit.
I'll se ya.
-OK, hun, see ya later.
Hey, how you doin'?
-Good.
What'd you find out?
-Paul Rosario's
cousin, Eddie Miataco,
worked at the, uh,
loading docks at the airport.
He may be involved in all this.
-You think that Eddie
got the burglar's clearance
to drive through
the airport gate?
-Yeah, we'll know soon enough.
-Did you find him?
-Not yet.
What do you got?
-I have the days and
the hours that our alarm
repairman was
on duty last month.
And I also have a list
of all the false alarms
that came in from the airport.
And guess what?
-Right, what?
-They match.
-They do?
-They do.
-Great.
I'll get right on this.
I'll run this down for ya.
-You want to run it down?
-Yeah, why not?
Smoggy day... just
have you stay in here
with the air conditioning.
-You know, sometimes your
compassion as a human being
towards me as a fellow
human being is just...
Is just absolutely amazing.
-I'm an amazing guy.
Hi, Eric Lovell?
-Hi, could I help you?
-Yeah, I'm Sargent
Hunter... L.A. homicide.
-I'm sorry.
Go play with your
sister in the back there.
What can I do for you?
-You're a systems
engineer for CSS, are you?
-Yes, I'm a troubleshooter.
-Oh, you're in
trouble all right, Eric.
-Look, I'm no crook, OK?
This cousin of
mine is in prison.
And he told this guy
in there about my job.
A guy by the name of Alan Sharr.
And when Sharr got
out, he came over here
and he said to me that I was
going to be $100,000 richer
or my family was
going to be dead.
-So you faked the alarms
at the airport as an excuse
to shut the entire system down.
-Yes.
-You should have
called the police.
-He said he was
going to kill my family.
-I understand that.
All the more you should
have called the place.
Now, have you talked
to Sharr since last night?
-No, I haven't.
Now look, we'll see what
we can do about getting
your family some
police protection.
What have you got?
-Where's Bobby?
Do the police have
any suspects identified yet?
-No.
-Do they know what was taken?
A shipment of gold...
$5 million dollars worth.
-Do they know where it is?
-No, I'm not gonna answer
any more of your questions
until you let me
speak to my son.
-Lady, we have got 24 hours
to solve this little problem
or your son is dead.
You understand that?
-Yes.
Now, what about that plate?
-The vehicle belongs to a
construction company that
was subcontracted
to the airport.
They've got six maintenance
yards in the area.
I'm not going to
be able to find out
until tomorrow
which one it's at.
Where's Bobby?
-Hidden.
If the police find me
or the gold, he dies.
Now, somebody should be
at that construction company
by 7:00 AM.
I'll call you at 7:30.
-Where are we going?
-Shut up and walk.
-Come on, man.
-Get in.
-Don't do this to me.
-In.
Come on.
Come on.
Oh, uh, cover up.
I don't want you to get cold.
Do it.
Hurry up!
Hurry up!
You know, you're
lucky you're still alive.
If you weren't my
insurance policy... but you
are.
-What's up, Sporty?
You're a little subdued today.
-I ought to be considering
I've been riskin' life and limb
for this chump change
you're offering me.
-How's that?
-Look, you told me to find
out where Eddie Miataco was...
The guy who
worked at the airport.
-Yeah.
-But you neglected to inform
me that Eddie Miataco was himself
involved in that
airport burglary.
The Alan Sharr airport burglary.
-So what?
-So what?
Alan, don't leave any
loose ends behind, Sharr.
That man bumps off any and
all potential witnesses, man.
He'd bump off his mama
if she was a witness
because that's his
modus operandi.
Now if he finds out
that I'm helping you,
Sporty James will be
sleeping with the caterpillars.
You dig what I'm sayin'?
-You shut up.
Nothing's gonna happen to you.
-Oh, you guarantee that?
-Yeah, I guarantee it.
Now, where the hell
is Eddie Miataco?
-Try the, uh, Red
Circle bar in Culver City.
-Red Circle Bar... CC.
All right, nice Sporty.
Look, uh, I just happen
to have the old, uh,
Sporty James snitch file here.
-Uh, let's just do it off the
post this time OK, Hunter?
I don't even
want to, uh, risk it.
-You don't want your money?
-Yeah, I want my money.
I got to pay my rent, man.
My god... what was I thinking.
Want me to burn that for you?
-No, I'll take care
of this myself.
OK?
-What were you thinking about?
-I don't like this, man.
The guy did his job.
-Are you kiddin'?
This clown is the
original Mr. Mouse.
-Give everybody another
drink... whatever you want.
I'm a rich son of a gun.
Hey, thanks, Eddie.
All right, Miataco.
-Hey, my partner.
Belly up to the bar.
So where's my cut?
-Shh.
Shutup.
-Hey, they don't know
what I'm talkin about.
So where is it?
-Why don't you come out back?
-Sounds good to me.
The bathroom in
here stinks anyway.
-Excuse me.
-Ohh!
-Man, you got a big mouth.
Hey!
Come on.
I didn't say
anything to anybody.
What about the bar?
Man, I didn't say anything!
-Hold it right there!
Police!
-Oh!
-Good morning, this is
Sergeant Meyers, Homicide.
Are you the manager?
Yes, I am.
One Adam nine...
Quant only Robert,
Robert, queen... 239.
-Just one minute please.
One Adam nine... no wants.
Thanks, Carol.
-Thank you for waiting.
We're looking for
one of your vehicles...
The license number
is 1 Q 9 7 7 6.
Sure, let me check.
-Great.
Corner of Western and 29th.
It's in a garage there
for maintenance.
But they're not gonna
work on it until tomorrow.
Please, let me talk to Bobby.
-I'll call you back
at six o'clock.
If everything goes
smoothly today,
you'll have your
son back by tonight.
We have a date with
1,000 pounds of gold.
-Can't believe you and
me are the only ones left.
-Yeah, it's too bad.
Good men are hard to find too.
-A lot of dead bodies...
A lot of dead ends.
I'll tell you what.
This case is keeping
me up at nights.
I keep thinking about that gold.
-Maybe he never got it out.
-What do you mean?
-Well, up 'til now, we've been,
uh, working on the assumption
there were two trucks.
Nobody saw a truck near
the airport or leave the airport.
We haven't been
able to find a truck.
Maybe the gold is still there.
Maybe they didn't get it out.
-So you think he hid the gold?
And he used
Rosario as a decoy so
that they could escape on foot?
-It's a good a scenario
as I can think of.
-Well, then where would he
hide 1,000 pounds of gold?
-I don't know.
I think we should take a look
at these aerial photographs.
OK, let's see.
Wait a minute.
That damn water truck.
-He knew he couldn't
get the gold out in time.
-Right.
And the airport
cleared the truck
after we released the site.
-That wouldn't have taken
him more than three minutes.
-Right.
-Give me airport security.
I don't see a water truck.
And I don't see a
1,000 pounds of gold.
And I don't see a
1,000 pounds of gold.
-Now they left us a dead body.
-This guy has
managed to stay one
jump ahead of us all the way.
How the hell did he know
where that truck went?
Did he have it tailed?
-No, he had to have found it.
Otherwise, he would have
gotten to the gold yesterday.
The time of death for Sharr's
partner was less than an hour
before we got there.
-Well, Sharr is probably
halfway to Mexico now.
He had a plan going in.
And you can bet he
had a plan going out.
He's a smart cookie.
-Sharr couldn't keep
the guard at the airport
from calling the police.
So when we got the
phone call here... It's just...
Uh, come with me.
Adam six... go to
Tac-2 for Adam 24.
-Where are we going.
-The tape room.
Adam six... go to
Tac-2 for Adam 24.
Police Department.
SECURITY GUARD
This is a security
guard at LAX building 121 south.
Look, the alarm
is not going off.
And someone is burning
through the front door right now.
We're rolling.
Do not confront the suspects.
Repeat... do not
confront the suspects.
All units in the vicinity
and one Adam 47... 459...
Suspects there now.
121 LAX.
-Shut this off for a second.
Carol James does
not wait that long
to respond to any
type of emergency.
-Not unless she's got
a real good reason.
-Uh, pull up all of her tapes.
-You don't have to
go to all that trouble.
Sharr kidnapped Bobby.
And he gave me the
license number of a truck.
I tracked it for him in house.
-Carol, why didn't
you come to us then?
-Dee Dee, he said he'd kill
my kid if I double-crossed him.
I couldn't take that chance.
But I did put a trap
trace on the pay phone.
-Good girl.
-How are you doin'?
-Fine.
-You see this guy
around here recently?
-Yeah, he used the phone booth.
I seen him drive
off to the north.
There's a couple
of places up there.
- Right down this road?
- Yeah.
-Yeah. Five miles.
-Thanks.
-You're welcome.
-Get me outta here!
-Where's Bobby?
-What are you?
Nuts!
Come on!
-I got all the time in the
world out here, Sharr.
Where's Bobby?
-Next to the water
truck... in the ground.
Now, come on!
Come on!
-Take him.
You, come with me.
Hey!
-He buried Bobby over here.
Here we are.
All right
Wonder how long
he's been down here.
-Come on.
Grab the other end.
Get him out of here.
Come on.
Come on.
You all right?
You all right?
Get a paramedic.
OK, now let's get
him out of here.
-Hi.
- Hey.
- Look at this.
-We've got dinner.
-It's for you guys.
-Great, well...
-Aww.
-I don't eat this type of stuff.
But, uh, she might.
Although, she doesn't eat
this type of stuff unless it has,
uh, red dye 47 and, uh,
some white chocolate all over it.
-Hey, thanks a
lot for everything.
-You're welcome, Bobby.
You know the district
attorney will take
into consideration
your, uh, testimony.
But, uh, there is
a chance you may
have to do about
a year in county.
-I'll be thinking
about that guard that
got killed for the
rest of my life.
-Well, don't forget,
Bobby, you've
got some good support here.
Carol, how is the
teaching going?
-Oh, pretty good,
Dee Dee, thanks.
I'm doing my best with the
next generation of dispatchers.
But I miss the
excitement of the pit.
You know I wanted to
apologize to you guys again.
I... I should never have taken
matters into my own hands
like that.
The two of you
are more like family
than anything we've ever had.
I should have trusted that.
Well, listen, enjoy your fruit.
We'll see you later.
- OK.
- Thanks a lot.
-Take care.
-Bye.
-Bye.
What is that?
-This is a horned melon.
They used them down in the
islands to catch, uh, blowfish.
-I see.
I wouldn't eat that if were you.
-Why?
Because we don't
know where it's been.
-These guys know that
you're a police dispatcher
and that you work
the swing shift.
They're going to kill
me if you don't help
-Whoever stole that burning
bar has a big job planned ahead.
-Five million dollars in gold
bullion was unaccounted for.
Now, that's about
a thousand pounds.
-If the police find me
or the gold, he dies.
-Hold it right there!
Police!
One Adam 15.
We see the woman.
Possible 415 gang.
They are now 15 4 6th
Street... Gitzman 1249.
One William one 56.
Roger code six... 515
22 West 7th Street.
Adam six... go to
Tac-2 for Adam 24.
Adam six... go to
Tac-2 for Adam 24.
I know it's difficult,
Mr. Gilman.
But please keep on going.
What else did they take?
Well, I made a check.
And they've taken a few things.
Uh, two welding tanks...
-Uh, just a second.
-They smashed
down the front door.
And they hit the night watchman.
They didn't kill the guy.
But he's elderly.
The ME says he had a stroke.
-Hi, I'm Sargent Hunter.
-The manager.
-How are you doing?
What'd they get?
-Two oxygen tanks...
A metal burning bar.
-A burning bar, huh?
-Yeah, we use it
to cut elevator or air
conditioning shafts
in old buildings.
-Uh-huh.
What else they got?
-A box of goggles and masks,
half a dozen ear protectors,
and a sweet, old collie
that'd never hurt anybody.
-Thanks.
That'll be enough for now.
-Thank you very much.
-We have a witness who
saw the license plates
on a large rental truck that
was leaving this, uh, building.
-Uh-huh.
Well, whoever
stole that burning bar
has got a big job planned ahead.
-Yeah.
-What about Eddie?
-Fine, no problem.
He's gonna wave
us through the gate.
-Uh-huh, you talked
to our other friend.
-Just now.
It's all set.
We don't have to
worry about the alarm.
Well, that leaves our
loose end... the guard inside.
-Just like you said... take
care of the guard's telephone.
Take care of the guard.
The phone cable is buried.
Can't cut it.
So I did just like you said.
-How did the kid react?
-Scared to death.
When we doing it?
-Tomorrow night, OK?
Tomorrow night.
-Kayes.
What's going on over there?
-It's Rockland's second
day without his training
officer... pulled the car over.
The guy got out with a gun.
It's a standoff.
-Really?
ROCKLAND One Adam 43.
We're responding code
3 to assist one Lincoln 19.
We're one block south turning
the corner onto 5th Street.
-How far away is he?
ROCKLAND About 30 feet.
-Are you properly deployed
behind the door of your car?
-Yes.
Can you hear the
sound of my voice?
Can you hear the
sound of my voice?
-Yes.
-All right, I want you put the
mic down, aim at his heart,
and shoot him.
-OK!
OK!
Suspect in custody.
Code four.
-All right, Carol.
-Roger, all units... code four.
-Shoot him?
-Hey, it seemed like a
good idea at the time.
-You know, Carol I think you...
You do these little things here
just so you'll have some
stories to tell later on.
-You mean like the time I sent
backup to a domestic dispute,
even though a
hot-headed rookie named
Rick Hunter told
me he didn't need it?
-That's right.
You know, there'd be one
less Rk Hunter around here
if it hadn't been for that.
-Yeah, right, look, I had it
all under control, believe me.
-Sure.
-Husband with a shotgun.
Wife with a .45.
Brother in law
with a butcher knife.
Hey, you could
have handled it, Rick.
No problem.
-Yeah, but you left out
the baby with the Uzi.
-A... a... all right, gang,
let's go back to work.
Come on.
What you got?
-Well, we've got a, uh,
dead night watchman
and enough equipment
that's been stolen
to pull off another
very large burglary.
We also have the
license plate number
off the truck that was
seen leaving the building.
Listen, Carol, give
an hourly broadcast
on this as a possible
vehicle involved in a burglary.
And if located, stake
and notify one of us, OK?
-You got it, Dee Dee.
-Good job, Carol.
-Thanks.
-You know with that
burning bar, Charlie,
we can expect some
sort of a bank job.
-Yeah?
-We tried to follow up
the truck rental agency.
The place is locked up tight.
We couldn't locate the manager.
We'll hit it again in
the morning though.
-All right, let's start
with the obvious.
Call the parole index.
Get a printout of all recent
parolees with a burn job MO.
Then see if we can
match any of them
to the rented truck
that was used tonight.
-We've already did it.
-Oh, I guess that's why you
guys get those big, fat paychecks.
-Fat?
Mines practically anorexic.
-Mine died of starvation
in the Spring of '85.
-Hi, Bobby.
Boy, what a day I had.
I wish you could
have been there.
-Mom, we need to talk.
-What is it honey?
-I'm in a really big trouble.
-Bobby, what is it this time?
-These friends of mine... I
owed them some money.
-Oh, honey, I thought we
took care of your friends
last month.
Honey, I asked you not to
get back into those card games.
How much is it this time?
-$40,000.00.
-$40,000?
-Just listen, mom, these
friends of mine... all of a sudden I
don't owe it to them anymore.
I owe it to these other guys.
-What are you talking about?
-These other guys.
I guess they bought the IOU.
And I owe them the $40,000.00.
-Where are we going to come
up with that kind of money?
-I don't know, mom.
But if we don't, they
said they would kill me.
-Well, they've got to
know I don't take that much.
What do they really want?
-Well, these guys know
you're a police dispatcher
and that you work
the swing shift.
And at 11 o'clock
tomorrow night you're
going to receive a call
from the west side of town.
They want you to delay
reporting it for 30 minutes.
-I can't do that, Bobby.
That's my job.
-It's just 30 minutes, mom.
I mean, it's no big deal.
The call comes in at 11 o'clock.
You don't report until 11:30.
-Bobby, I can't do
that to the people
that I work with... the
people that I work for.
They depend on
me for their lives.
-Well, what about my life, mom?
-These guys said they
we're going to kill me.
-Tell them that my
calls are monitored...
That I can't get away with it.
-They know you're
only being taped
and that nobody
listens to the tape
unless there's a
problem later on.
They just need to buy some time.
They said nobody's
going to get hurt.
And they'll forget
about the money.
And they won't kill me.
I'm sorry, mom.
One William 157.
Advise one William
156 on code six
at Western Truck Rental
on the suspect 459 vehicle.
-Are you Sargent McCall?
-Sure am.
-Great.
I rented the truck in
question to a John Grady.
He rented it for two
weeks, paid cash,
and he left a credit card
number for collateral.
Now, what are the chances,
uh, we'll see this truck again?
-Oh, pretty good
if they're going
to use it in another burglary.
They'll probably dump it in some
out-of-the-way neighborhood.
And we'll find it a
week later, you know?
-With no tires, no
radio, and no engine.
-Yeah, well, you know.
Take a look at these.
Recognize any of them?
-Um, I think, yeah, that's him.
-Paul Rosario, huh?
Yeah.
Paroled eight weeks
ago out of Chino.
-Yeah, Rosario was using a
fake license and a stolen credit
card under the
name of John Grady.
-I've got an old
address here on Rosario.
I'll run it down.
It's probably no good though.
-OK, I'm going to go
check with his parole officer
and see if he's been reporting.
-Yeah, good.
See you later.
Thanks.
-One Adam 47, OK, code seven.
Julia, would you go
down to the cafeteria
and get me a sandwich?
-It is my turn isn't it?
-The usual?
-Yes, thank you.
RADIO SPORTS ANNOUNCER:
They are in first and
goal to go territory.
That's down at
the seven yard line.
Let's see if they measure.
Third down and inches
to go for a first down just
shy of the Pittsburgh
seven yard line.
Now set up.
Strong right. Goodman
is the fullback.
And the tailback
is Charles White.
They give it to Goodman.
He bangs to the right and
may have gotten it, may not.
Let's see where they mark it
down on his forward progress.
It looks like it's
inside the seven
as they mark it down
there... maybe, maybe not.
We'll have to see.
Goal to go.
Paul just shy of
the six yard line.
First and goal to go just
shy of the Pittsburgh six.
Inside... one minute to
play 45 seconds to go.
Goodman in motion on
the right turn on a mission.
Charles White cuts it back.
Inside... hurtles a
man inside the five...
Loses the ball in the endzone.
And it's recovered
by Pittsburgh.
They blew it down and dead
at about three yard line of...
-Police Department...
Operator 47.
What are you reporting?
-Do you have a missing
person's department?
-I'll transfer you.
SPORTS ANNOUNCER The Rams
get a break with
30 seconds to go.
The clock continues to run.
26 seconds to play in
this first half for the Rams.
16 plays for the Rams...
Consuming eight minutes
and 50 seconds of time.
That's John Robinson
getting the football.
They come out top.
-Police Department...
operator...
-This is a security guard
at LAX... building 121 south.
Look, the alarm
is not going off.
And someone is burning
through the front door right now.
-We're rolling.
Do not confront the
suspects. Repeat...
Do not confront the suspects.
-All units into the city and
one Adam 47... 459... suspect's
there now... building
121 LAX south.
One Adam 47...
Your call is code three.
Be advised there's an armed
guard inside the building.
Possible vehicle
involved is an 87 GMC
U-Rent... license
one ocean nine.
-Little bitch.
Sharr... Sharr she
double-crossed us man.
Uh, she just put us
out over the radio.
Come on.
Let's go.
Let's move.
- All right, all right.
Take it easy.
They'll probably be
here within five minutes.
-He's been shot.
-The driver was our
parolee, Paul Rosario...
Shot in the back of
the head with a .38.
His buddies propped
him up in the truck...
Jammed down the
accelerator... needed a decoy.
-Fun guys.
-You're not kiddin'.
Bought them some
time though... got away
going in the other
direction the second truck.
-How do you know
there was a second truck?
-Airport completed their
inventory... $5 million
in gold bullion was
unaccounted for.
Now that's about 1,000 pounds.
You can't cart that
away in a wheel barrow.
-Half a ton of gold?
What are they doing with that?
-It was in the process of
being transferred to Japan.
It was only supposed to be
held in high-security storage
for six hours.
-Ah, we ought to
send up a chopper...
Get some aerial photos... a
general overview of the area.
So much for high security, eh?
-Yeah.
-Communications say
they received about, uh,
half a dozen or
so of false alarms
at the facility over
the last few weeks.
-It might be an
interesting coincidence.
But check it out.
-When the cops
leave, it's all ours.
-Why'd you have to kill Rosario?
-Wouldn't have
gotten away if I hadn't.
The guy was a snitch.
I can't afford that
kind of loose end.
They are moving it.
Let's go.
-Go where?
What do you want to do?
Cut a whole in the fence?
The place is crawling with cops.
-We'll catch him on the way out.
-Ah, there's too many
exits that truck could take.
Which one do we pick?
-Dammit.
-I've got the license plate.
-So what?
-We can trace it.
You seem to forget.
We got somebody on the inside.
-Yeah, a lot of good it did us.
Rosario's dead.
And we still don't
have the gold.
-Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, this time it's different.
This time we got leverage.
Let's go use it.
-That sector of the airport
was shut down last night.
Why?
-An Intermittent
bug of the worst kind.
-What do you mean?
-It's a foul-up in the
system that you really
can't trace because
it's not regular.
It happens randomly.
We've notified the police
seven times in the last 25 days
on what turned out
to be false alarms
on that part of the airport.
I'm sure you people were
as tired of it as we were.
-So you shut it down last
night to put a trace on it?
-For a half hour.
Our resident wizard thought
he had a handle on the problem.
So we accommodated him.
And he was right.
He found a bad chip.
-Well, unfortunately,
the airport got hit.
And two people were killed.
Where's the repairmen now?
-Home.
He works the swing shift.
-I'd like to get his home
address and his work schedule
for last month.
-Sure.
One Adam eight...
Code 6... 5th and Columbus.
-Adam eight... Roger.
Police Department.
Mom.
-Oh, Bobby.
Honey, where are you?
I've been worried sick.
Are you all right?
Mom, they are going to kill me
if you don't help.
Go across the street to
the phone booth and wait.
-Bobby.
Lady, you screwed
up real bad last night.
Now, if you want to
see your kid again,
you better listen real close.
-If you hurt him...
-Hey, hey, I got
a flash for you.
I am the on holding
the cards here.
Now, are we
absolutely clear on that?
-I'm listening.
-I want you to keep me up
to date on the investigation.
I'll call you back in six
hours at this number.
You tell me
everything they've got.
Now, I also have a
license I want you to run.
You got a pencil?
-I'll remember it.
1 Q 9 7 7 6.
I also want you to
find out where it is.
-Listen, it could take me
at least two days to do that.
-Your kid doesn't have two days.
-Carol, how are you doing?
-Oh, not bad, Rick.
I had a break.
I thought I'd stop by and
see how you were doing.
-Yeah, well, the usual
Wednesday... two
dead bodies and a half
a ton of missing gold.
-Half a ton?
-Yeah, $5 million worth
of gold and no suspects.
-Any leads?
-Nothin' to write home about.
Speaking of home.
How is Bobby doing?
-Bobby is fine.
-Good.
-Listen, Rick, I've got
to get back to the pit.
I'll se ya.
-OK, hun, see ya later.
Hey, how you doin'?
-Good.
What'd you find out?
-Paul Rosario's
cousin, Eddie Miataco,
worked at the, uh,
loading docks at the airport.
He may be involved in all this.
-You think that Eddie
got the burglar's clearance
to drive through
the airport gate?
-Yeah, we'll know soon enough.
-Did you find him?
-Not yet.
What do you got?
-I have the days and
the hours that our alarm
repairman was
on duty last month.
And I also have a list
of all the false alarms
that came in from the airport.
And guess what?
-Right, what?
-They match.
-They do?
-They do.
-Great.
I'll get right on this.
I'll run this down for ya.
-You want to run it down?
-Yeah, why not?
Smoggy day... just
have you stay in here
with the air conditioning.
-You know, sometimes your
compassion as a human being
towards me as a fellow
human being is just...
Is just absolutely amazing.
-I'm an amazing guy.
Hi, Eric Lovell?
-Hi, could I help you?
-Yeah, I'm Sargent
Hunter... L.A. homicide.
-I'm sorry.
Go play with your
sister in the back there.
What can I do for you?
-You're a systems
engineer for CSS, are you?
-Yes, I'm a troubleshooter.
-Oh, you're in
trouble all right, Eric.
-Look, I'm no crook, OK?
This cousin of
mine is in prison.
And he told this guy
in there about my job.
A guy by the name of Alan Sharr.
And when Sharr got
out, he came over here
and he said to me that I was
going to be $100,000 richer
or my family was
going to be dead.
-So you faked the alarms
at the airport as an excuse
to shut the entire system down.
-Yes.
-You should have
called the police.
-He said he was
going to kill my family.
-I understand that.
All the more you should
have called the place.
Now, have you talked
to Sharr since last night?
-No, I haven't.
Now look, we'll see what
we can do about getting
your family some
police protection.
What have you got?
-Where's Bobby?
Do the police have
any suspects identified yet?
-No.
-Do they know what was taken?
A shipment of gold...
$5 million dollars worth.
-Do they know where it is?
-No, I'm not gonna answer
any more of your questions
until you let me
speak to my son.
-Lady, we have got 24 hours
to solve this little problem
or your son is dead.
You understand that?
-Yes.
Now, what about that plate?
-The vehicle belongs to a
construction company that
was subcontracted
to the airport.
They've got six maintenance
yards in the area.
I'm not going to
be able to find out
until tomorrow
which one it's at.
Where's Bobby?
-Hidden.
If the police find me
or the gold, he dies.
Now, somebody should be
at that construction company
by 7:00 AM.
I'll call you at 7:30.
-Where are we going?
-Shut up and walk.
-Come on, man.
-Get in.
-Don't do this to me.
-In.
Come on.
Come on.
Oh, uh, cover up.
I don't want you to get cold.
Do it.
Hurry up!
Hurry up!
You know, you're
lucky you're still alive.
If you weren't my
insurance policy... but you
are.
-What's up, Sporty?
You're a little subdued today.
-I ought to be considering
I've been riskin' life and limb
for this chump change
you're offering me.
-How's that?
-Look, you told me to find
out where Eddie Miataco was...
The guy who
worked at the airport.
-Yeah.
-But you neglected to inform
me that Eddie Miataco was himself
involved in that
airport burglary.
The Alan Sharr airport burglary.
-So what?
-So what?
Alan, don't leave any
loose ends behind, Sharr.
That man bumps off any and
all potential witnesses, man.
He'd bump off his mama
if she was a witness
because that's his
modus operandi.
Now if he finds out
that I'm helping you,
Sporty James will be
sleeping with the caterpillars.
You dig what I'm sayin'?
-You shut up.
Nothing's gonna happen to you.
-Oh, you guarantee that?
-Yeah, I guarantee it.
Now, where the hell
is Eddie Miataco?
-Try the, uh, Red
Circle bar in Culver City.
-Red Circle Bar... CC.
All right, nice Sporty.
Look, uh, I just happen
to have the old, uh,
Sporty James snitch file here.
-Uh, let's just do it off the
post this time OK, Hunter?
I don't even
want to, uh, risk it.
-You don't want your money?
-Yeah, I want my money.
I got to pay my rent, man.
My god... what was I thinking.
Want me to burn that for you?
-No, I'll take care
of this myself.
OK?
-What were you thinking about?
-I don't like this, man.
The guy did his job.
-Are you kiddin'?
This clown is the
original Mr. Mouse.
-Give everybody another
drink... whatever you want.
I'm a rich son of a gun.
Hey, thanks, Eddie.
All right, Miataco.
-Hey, my partner.
Belly up to the bar.
So where's my cut?
-Shh.
Shutup.
-Hey, they don't know
what I'm talkin about.
So where is it?
-Why don't you come out back?
-Sounds good to me.
The bathroom in
here stinks anyway.
-Excuse me.
-Ohh!
-Man, you got a big mouth.
Hey!
Come on.
I didn't say
anything to anybody.
What about the bar?
Man, I didn't say anything!
-Hold it right there!
Police!
-Oh!
-Good morning, this is
Sergeant Meyers, Homicide.
Are you the manager?
Yes, I am.
One Adam nine...
Quant only Robert,
Robert, queen... 239.
-Just one minute please.
One Adam nine... no wants.
Thanks, Carol.
-Thank you for waiting.
We're looking for
one of your vehicles...
The license number
is 1 Q 9 7 7 6.
Sure, let me check.
-Great.
Corner of Western and 29th.
It's in a garage there
for maintenance.
But they're not gonna
work on it until tomorrow.
Please, let me talk to Bobby.
-I'll call you back
at six o'clock.
If everything goes
smoothly today,
you'll have your
son back by tonight.
We have a date with
1,000 pounds of gold.
-Can't believe you and
me are the only ones left.
-Yeah, it's too bad.
Good men are hard to find too.
-A lot of dead bodies...
A lot of dead ends.
I'll tell you what.
This case is keeping
me up at nights.
I keep thinking about that gold.
-Maybe he never got it out.
-What do you mean?
-Well, up 'til now, we've been,
uh, working on the assumption
there were two trucks.
Nobody saw a truck near
the airport or leave the airport.
We haven't been
able to find a truck.
Maybe the gold is still there.
Maybe they didn't get it out.
-So you think he hid the gold?
And he used
Rosario as a decoy so
that they could escape on foot?
-It's a good a scenario
as I can think of.
-Well, then where would he
hide 1,000 pounds of gold?
-I don't know.
I think we should take a look
at these aerial photographs.
OK, let's see.
Wait a minute.
That damn water truck.
-He knew he couldn't
get the gold out in time.
-Right.
And the airport
cleared the truck
after we released the site.
-That wouldn't have taken
him more than three minutes.
-Right.
-Give me airport security.
I don't see a water truck.
And I don't see a
1,000 pounds of gold.
And I don't see a
1,000 pounds of gold.
-Now they left us a dead body.
-This guy has
managed to stay one
jump ahead of us all the way.
How the hell did he know
where that truck went?
Did he have it tailed?
-No, he had to have found it.
Otherwise, he would have
gotten to the gold yesterday.
The time of death for Sharr's
partner was less than an hour
before we got there.
-Well, Sharr is probably
halfway to Mexico now.
He had a plan going in.
And you can bet he
had a plan going out.
He's a smart cookie.
-Sharr couldn't keep
the guard at the airport
from calling the police.
So when we got the
phone call here... It's just...
Uh, come with me.
Adam six... go to
Tac-2 for Adam 24.
-Where are we going.
-The tape room.
Adam six... go to
Tac-2 for Adam 24.
Police Department.
SECURITY GUARD
This is a security
guard at LAX building 121 south.
Look, the alarm
is not going off.
And someone is burning
through the front door right now.
We're rolling.
Do not confront the suspects.
Repeat... do not
confront the suspects.
All units in the vicinity
and one Adam 47... 459...
Suspects there now.
121 LAX.
-Shut this off for a second.
Carol James does
not wait that long
to respond to any
type of emergency.
-Not unless she's got
a real good reason.
-Uh, pull up all of her tapes.
-You don't have to
go to all that trouble.
Sharr kidnapped Bobby.
And he gave me the
license number of a truck.
I tracked it for him in house.
-Carol, why didn't
you come to us then?
-Dee Dee, he said he'd kill
my kid if I double-crossed him.
I couldn't take that chance.
But I did put a trap
trace on the pay phone.
-Good girl.
-How are you doin'?
-Fine.
-You see this guy
around here recently?
-Yeah, he used the phone booth.
I seen him drive
off to the north.
There's a couple
of places up there.
- Right down this road?
- Yeah.
-Yeah. Five miles.
-Thanks.
-You're welcome.
-Get me outta here!
-Where's Bobby?
-What are you?
Nuts!
Come on!
-I got all the time in the
world out here, Sharr.
Where's Bobby?
-Next to the water
truck... in the ground.
Now, come on!
Come on!
-Take him.
You, come with me.
Hey!
-He buried Bobby over here.
Here we are.
All right
Wonder how long
he's been down here.
-Come on.
Grab the other end.
Get him out of here.
Come on.
Come on.
You all right?
You all right?
Get a paramedic.
OK, now let's get
him out of here.
-Hi.
- Hey.
- Look at this.
-We've got dinner.
-It's for you guys.
-Great, well...
-Aww.
-I don't eat this type of stuff.
But, uh, she might.
Although, she doesn't eat
this type of stuff unless it has,
uh, red dye 47 and, uh,
some white chocolate all over it.
-Hey, thanks a
lot for everything.
-You're welcome, Bobby.
You know the district
attorney will take
into consideration
your, uh, testimony.
But, uh, there is
a chance you may
have to do about
a year in county.
-I'll be thinking
about that guard that
got killed for the
rest of my life.
-Well, don't forget,
Bobby, you've
got some good support here.
Carol, how is the
teaching going?
-Oh, pretty good,
Dee Dee, thanks.
I'm doing my best with the
next generation of dispatchers.
But I miss the
excitement of the pit.
You know I wanted to
apologize to you guys again.
I... I should never have taken
matters into my own hands
like that.
The two of you
are more like family
than anything we've ever had.
I should have trusted that.
Well, listen, enjoy your fruit.
We'll see you later.
- OK.
- Thanks a lot.
-Take care.
-Bye.
-Bye.
What is that?
-This is a horned melon.
They used them down in the
islands to catch, uh, blowfish.
-I see.
I wouldn't eat that if were you.
-Why?
Because we don't
know where it's been.