Jake and the Fatman (1987–1992): Season 2, Episode 2 - I'll Never Smile Again - full transcript
Hey!
Take a hike!
Hey!
Hey!
Hey!
What do you think you're doing?
Come on, muffin stuff!
Bring me my camera!
It's Jake.
I'd sure hate to interrupt
the Star Spangled Banner,
but I've got some good news.
I've been fired ?
Wishful thinking.
Hang on. What is it?
Another mugger was shot
tonight with a 10-millimeter.
All right.
Well, I'll see you in the morning.
He's at Central Receiving. I want you to go
down there and see if you can get a statement.
Then get over to CID. They're doing
a firearms identification on the gun.
You got a gun?
It's a Colt Delta Elite.
While you're there,
you might want to interview the other guy.
Wait, wait, wait. What other guy?
What are you talking about?
Some jurist by the
name of Thompson.
Looks like he mixed it up
with the suspect and got cut.
Okay.
All right.
What's the good news?
The good news?
I get to go back to bed.
I'll see you in the morning.
I still think you should
let us admit you overnight
for observation.
There's always the chance of infection.
No way, doc.
I don't want to spend my
vacation in a hospital.
Besides, my wife and daughter are
probably worried sick about me.
You were lucky, Mr. Thompson.
Nothing vital was cut.
Mr. Thompson, Jake Styles.
Investigator for the
prosecuting attorney's office.
I got down here as soon as I could.
You all right?
You guys don't waste any time,
do you?
Where were you when I needed you?
You were in a pretty bad part of town.
Well, I didn't have any
idea that wasn't safe.
What am I, in some kind of trouble here?
No, I just have to ask a few questions,
that's all.
Well, uh, I don't remember much.
I blacked out right after
that guy stabbed me.
His pulse is dropping, doctor.
We're losing him.
Oh my God !
What did the CID come
up with on the gun?
They matched it to the other two murders.
Any prints?
No readable ones.
What about the dead man?
Did Jake ID him?
Yes, sir.
His name is Roscoe Sleepy Maneu,
small-time stick-up artist who's sometimes
moonlighted on residential burglaries.
What about this tourist, Thompson?
He's a normal guy, owns a sporting
goods store in Canton, Ohio.
He sure as hell doesn't win any medals
for his street smarts, I'll tell you that.
Be nice, huh?
What?
What do you mean, be nice?
Have I not always been nice?
Can you remember one
time when I wasn't nice?
I don't know what's the matter with you.
Be nice.
Mrs. Thompson?
Yes?
My name is McCabe.
I'm the prosecuting attorney.
This is Derek Mitchell,
the deputy prosecutor.
May we come in?
Who is it, John?
Oh, well, it's just a routine follow-up.
It shouldn't take long at all.
Ah, sure, sure. Come on in.
Thank you.
Sit down.
Thank you.
Well, I hear you folks
are from Canton, Ohio.
It's a nice town.
Well, like everything else, it's changed.
Yeah, well, you know,
the more you want things to stay the same,
it seems like the more they change.
Tell me, sir,
do you remember any more about
what happened last night?
I wish I could.
Cheryl, honey, come on,
come on in here.
Come on.
This is our daughter.
These men are from the
prosecuting attorney's office.
Hello.
I was just going downstairs
to get some postcards.
Sure, sweetheart.
Go ahead.
Nice to meet you.
She's very pretty.
Perhaps a little too pretty.
What's that they say?
You can never be too pretty or too rich?
I think that is too thin or too rich.
Right, Mr. Thompson?
Well, gentlemen, I don't know what
else I can tell you about last night.
Maybe you can tell us
where the gun came from.
I don't remember seeing a gun.
Maybe the other guy had it.
You mean there was
somebody else there?
Oh, yeah, yeah.
He grabbed me from behind.
I didn't get a very good
look at his face, though.
There's no mention of another
suspect in this report.
Well, like I said before,
after I got stabbed, everything got mixed up.
And you don't know
which man had the gun?
Uh, look, I don't know.
It could have been either of them.
Uh, is there something more going on
here than the fact that I was mugged?
Richard,
there was a homicide last night.
It's our job to determine
if it was justified.
What do you mean, justified?
Whether it was murder or self-defense.
Wait a minute. I didn't have any gun.
Maybe the other guy shot him.
Maybe it was an accident.
Maybe it was a mistake.
Maybe.
All right. I tell you,
now I wish I'd never gotten involved.
Well, I don't suppose
you'd mind coming downtown
and looking through some of
our mug books, would you?
- Mug books?
- Yes.
Perhaps you can identify the other man in the
alley, the one who grabbed you from behind.
Sure, sure. If you think it'll help.
It might. Mrs. Thompson.
What?
You actually were nice.
Well, thank you.
So what do you think?
Well, I think there were a lot
of sad eyes in that family.
The guy who got away,
we got a major problem
that he was the one with the gun,
and he thinks Richard can ID him.
Now, we better put a security detail
on Richard and his family.
Sure.
Wait for me outside, will you, kid?
Hi again.
Hey, you must have a lot
of friends back home.
Not really.
Actually, these are for my scrapbook.
Hey, I can't believe a lovely young lady
like you hasn't got a special guy back home.
Guys are okay, I guess.
You guess?
Most guys are jerks.
Well, I'm sure that there
are some nice boys out there.
See, I knew you could smile.
It's a very pretty smile, too.
What do you think of Hawaii?
I thought it was gonna be...
I don't know, somehow different.
I mean,
it isn't any different than back home.
I gotta go.
See ya.
Here you go, Mr. Thompson.
Have a good time.
Cab!
What do you mean he got away ?
That's what I said, Richard.
He got away.
How ?
You were trying to draw that guy out,
weren't you?
Weren't you?
- Using me and my family as bait?
- You and your family were never in any danger.
The guy had a knife!
Investigator Klein is one of the best I got.
Now, she made the suspect before he
was any danger to you or your family.
That does not excuse the fact
you were using me as bait.
You know...
We were trying to protect him,
but he didn't see it that way.
Yeah, he was a little more than upset,
I'd say.
Yeah.
Well, you know, the best thing we
can do with Richard and his family
is to find the guy who
tried to take him out.
You got something?
I don't know.
Ernie Petula,
arrested for ADW and robbery.
I guess Richard missed this one when
he was going through the mug book.
Derek, call HPD.
Have them pull this guy's files, OK?
If you need me, I'll be out in the field.
All right.
Mom, look at this !
Sweetheart, it's cute.
You really love him, don't you?
Well, he's my daddy.
He loves you, you know.
Why do you have to go on punishing him?
You really think that's what I'm doing?
Cheryl, you're barely 16.
You only see what you want to.
Honey, how could you possibly know what
it's like between your father and me?
I just know it hurts.
I know it's hurting all of us.
Your father's to blame for all of this.
He wanted to make you happy.
By bringing us here?
He had to know it wouldn't.
Well, how nice of you to finally call.
Is your beeper broken?
I'm an investigator, not a doctor.
Anything?
I've turned this town inside out.
I've looked everywhere.
It's like this guy just left the island.
I don't know.
I can't find him anywhere.
Well, Derek has come up with something.
You don't know what it's worth,
but he talked to Ernie's old cellmate,
who says Ernie hangs out at the
Harbor Heaven nightclub.
That's more than I got to go on.
Tell Derek I said thanks.
See you there.
Guys, wait till you see this.
Wait till you see this.
Look what I got. Ta-da-da-da-da-da!
A sexy ribbon for you, Mother,
and an enchanting blue for you,
my princess.
What's that?
Well, what do you think, huh?
I love mine, Daddy. Thank you.
Now, can we look for
slippers to go with these?
You bet we can.
We've got to look fast.
I want to go over to the memorial
barracks for the sundown ceremony.
Sure, Daddy.
We can go shopping any time.
But I thought you wanted
to go to the cemetery first
and find where Grandpa's buried.
No, honey, no. I...
I want to see where he died first.
Sure, Daddy.
Whatever you want.
Jake !
- Hi !
- Hi !
*** a drink.
Oh, I'd love to. Maybe another time.
Can't right now, okay ?
Here she is, gentlemen.
The woman of your dreams.
The sexy...
Scheherazade!
Hi.
You remember me?
Uh, yeah.
You work with Mr. McCabe.
That's right.
Are your folks here?
Only my mom.
Is Daddy in trouble?
No.
No, no, no, we caught the other man,
the man that was following your father.
I just thought that you and your folks
might want to know that.
Yeah, well, my mom's getting dressed.
OK.
What's he saying?
Who?
The man who stabbed Daddy.
Oh, well, he says he's innocent.
But don't worry, they all say that.
He's not, though, is he?
No, we don't think so.
But that's up to a jury.
Like a trial?
Will Daddy have to be on trial?
He might be called as a witness.
Hi.
What's wrong?
No, everything's OK.
Listen, we have a suspect in custody,
and we think he was the
other man in the alley.
Well, that's swell.
- Come on in, Jake.
- Okay, thank you.
Didn't you hear that, Cheryl?
Isn't that swell?
I'm just sorry that you folks
have been put through the wringer.
I really apologize for that.
Listen, I was a little rough on you earlier.
You guys have done a swell job,
and I mean that.
Thanks, we tried.
Now can we go visit all those
places we wanted to see?
You bet.
What do you want to see first?
Listen, honey,
I need your father for about one hour
to help me identify the suspect.
Is that all right?
I promise, I'll bring him right back.
What do you, uh, mean like a,
like a, like a lineup?
Yeah, it's a lineup.
It's real simple.
Well, if you want me to, I guess I will.
Good, good.
- You ready to go?
- Yeah.
Hey, princess.
I'm just going to go look at a lineup.
Jake's not going to lock me away,
are you, Jake?
It won't be long.
What do you think ?
I don't know.
Could I see number five again, please?
You know, sideways.
Okay.
Number five, profile, please.
No, that's not him.
Jake,
I just don't recognize any of them.
Richard, Richard...
It's okay.
Just take a long look and think back.
I'm sorry.
It's OK.
It's all right.
Richard, uh, Roscoe Manu and Ernie Petula,
one of the men out there, were a team.
Roscoe's dead,
and Ernie tried to take you down at the zoo.
He thinks he can make you.
Matter of fact, he not only thinks,
he's dead sure.
Why is that?
He must have seen me better.
It was a trick of the light.
Richard, you can put this man away
so he will never kill another person.
You cops are all alike.
You're never there when
decent people are hurt.
There are murderers who...
There are rapists...
And, and, and, and,
and the courts, they don't care.
Nobody cares when, when...
I'm sorry.
Can I get out of here?
Sure.
Have a nice vacation.
It was either you or your partner, Ernie.
That's the arithmetic. What do you think?
No way.
What? Did the gun come from an airplane?
What was it doing in the alley?
- I didn't use a gun.
- You didn't use...
Mr. Petula, you don't have to
answer any of these questions.
That's right. That's right. He's right.
Don't answer any questions.
Just sit there like a moron and take
the rap for three murders. Go ahead.
Is this guy for real?
I see no mention of previous homicide.
Benny Stone, killed Tuesday night.
Address unknown. Johnny Ola.
Transient. Blown away Thursday night with
the piece found next to your pal Roscoe.
Does that bring you up to speed, Counselor?
Mr. Petula, I strongly suggest that
you answer no further questions.
- You're jerking me around, right?
- Yeah.
Please don't say anything else.
That's right, Ernie.
You don't have to say anything.
You don't have to do anything.
All we have to do is blow the whistle
and you go away for life. No parole.
Three counts of first-degree murder.
It wasn't me.
Then it was your partner, wasn't it?
What the hell are you protecting him for?
He's dead!
You just don't get it, do you?
It wasn't us that burned those two guys.
Okay. We'll see you in court, Ernie.
Counselor.
Okay. All right, all right, all right.
In Waikiki on Tuesday night,
a fancy condo got hit.
Stereo component.
Uh, some jewelry.
And a couple jade statues.
On Thursday, seven rooms at the Hakala.
Billfolds, suits,
and a bag full of diamond-cutter toys.
What's the point, Ernie? What's the point?
Me and Roscoe did it, all right?
Tuesday and Thursday night.
Can you prove that?
Yeah, I can prove it.
I still got some of the stuff in my room.
Who had the gun?
I didn't. Roscoe didn't.
Use your arithmetic, man.
HPD has matched the loot in Ernie's garage
to the burglaries on the nights
of the other two murders.
Ernie's story seems to check out.
Any possibility that he and his partner
hit these places and then
did a little night stalking?
Times are much too close.
They almost overlap.
Contact the Ohio State Police.
Find out everything you can
about Richard Thompson, huh?
Mr. McCabe, it's a little late back there.
Oh, forgive me, Derek.
How thoughtless of me.
You're right, of course.
It can certainly wait until morning.
Perhaps early tomorrow afternoon might
be even more convenient for them, huh?
I'll make the call.
Hey, princess. What you doing?
My scrapbook, daddy.
Honey?
What's the matter?
Nothing
I got an idea.
You wanna go home?
Could we?
Sure we can.
How's about we hoist sail for home tomorrow?
How's that
sound to you ?
You're just the best.
Guess it wasn't such a hot idea, huh?
Coming here?
At home, mom can handle it better.
I guess I just notice her more here.
Yeah, yeah.
Daddy?
I know what happened to mom.
She told me one day, we were in the
store together after closing and...
She just started talking about it.
She didn't cry or anything.
She just described it.
That's why she changed, isn't it, daddy?
Because of what happened.
When I was smaller, I used to say
that my real mommy had gone away...
and that this one had
come to take her place.
Cheryl?
And I remember what
she was like before.
When I was eight and she
took us out in the woods.
She was our brownie leader.
We all got lost.
And she sang to us and
she told us all stories.
And we all started to laugh.
And I remember her laughing.
And I wasn't scared.
I'm scared all the time now, Dad.
****
Joan.
Yes?
Why did you have to tell her?
I suppose I thought she ought to know.
But we agreed.
Doesn't matter.
But she's just a child, Joan.
What good did it do?
We wanted her to be normal.
We agreed.
We wanted to keep it a secret
so she wouldn't be damaged like...
Like me.
For eight years,
I've tried to make it up to you.
Every day I wake up and I say to myself,
maybe this is going to be the day
my wife is going to forgive me.
Maybe today she's going to look at me,
and she's going to smile,
and she's going to say,
it's all right, Rich.
It's all right.
Maybe today she'll take
her daughter to the movies.
Or take her out shopping,
help her buy a new dress.
Or talk to her like she
meant something to her,
like she was there.
Why did you have to tell her?
I wanted her to know what
kind of a man her father was.
I'm sorry.
God.
Joan.
Joan, I'm sorry.
Daddy ?
Daddy, don't go, please!
Daddy, please don't go!
Daddy !
Daddy !
Daddy !
Anything wrong, miss?
My father, have you seen him?
Yes,
I believe I saw him heading that way, miss.
Looks like Cheryl.
Cheryl!
Cheryl!
Cheryl!
What's wrong?
Why are you running?
Mr. McCabe, I couldn't stop him.
He just gets like this
and then he runs away.
He can't help it. It's not his fault.
He couldn't do anything about it.
I tried to tell him that. I tried!
I love him!
It's gonna be okay, Cheryl. Come on now.
You have to find him, please!
We will.
We will, I promise.
Go on !
You know what I like best about my dog?
He's always glad to see me.
He loves me no matter what.
Your father loves you like that, Cheryl.
I could tell when I first
saw you two together. I knew.
And you love him, too, don't you?
We think
your father is in danger
right now, Cheryl.
We need to find him.
I don't know where he went.
Why is he doing this, Cheryl?
Oh come to me, my melancholy baby,
cuddle up and don't be blue
There's a foolish, fancy baby seat...
It's very hot, so be careful, okay?
Tell me, Cheryl, does your father
know the people he's hunting?
Who does he want to find?
Men.
The men...
I was really little.
I wasn't there.
Mom told me men came into this store
to rob it.
Um...
And they put a gun to Daddy's head.
And...
They took my mother.
And they...
Weren't the men caught?
It was a small town.
Mom didn't want anyone to know.
I wasn't supposed to know either.
She told me when I was 14.
I don't know why she did that.
She seemed so angry at my father.
But he couldn't have done anything.
They would have killed him.
They would have.
Why does she blame him?
I think your father blames himself
more than your mother ever could.
Has your dad tracked these
men here to Honolulu?
Is that why he's here now?
You don't understand.
He doesn't know who those men were.
He... He just goes out and...
Cheryl, how long has this been going on?
I don't know.
I started to notice after my
mom told me what happened.
He went away on trips to different cities.
Yes ?
Go on.
Then I found the gun.
Where?
In his fishing tackle box.
With
bullets and newspaper clippings.
Did you tell your mother?
No.
But she knows.
Did you tell anyone?
I couldn't.
See, I didn't want it to be true.
I'm scared.
I don't know what's gonna happen.
Why did your father come to Hawaii?
He didn't tell you?
He came, he said,
on kind of a pilgrimage.
His father died at Schofield
Barracks during Pearl Harbor.
And he said he just wanted to
visit the memorial barracks
they set up for all the men who died there.
Just to be near him.
Cheryl, you've been a very brave girl.
Whatever happens, you're gonna come through.
I want you to hold on to that thought,
no matter what.
Promise me you'll remember that, huh?
I promise.
Go on, smile my honey dear,
while I kiss away each tear
Wait till the sun beams, beams through.
Go on, smile my honey dear,
while I kiss away each tear
While I kiss away each tear
Go easy, man.
Please, we weren't gonna hurt you.
Look what you did to my friend.
Please.
Please.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
Here you go, Jake.
How you doing, Pete?
What do we got? We got a mess?
Sure looks that way.
Yeah?
Same MO as the others?
Not quite, but we got a live one.
You got a witness?
Remember that tourist guy
you wanted the APB on?
Yeah.
Might have been him that popped this guy.
Where'd you get this one?
Well, I responded to a report of a gunshot.
We found Alex B. Keaton
here jumping over the fence.
Yeah.
He says he's a pal of the victim.
Rough night, huh?
Yeah.
Is this the man that killed your friend?
You mean you guys knew
about this psycho?
And you let him run around
preying on innocent people?
Mr. Innocent bystander had it here with
carrying this when we tackled him.
Why are you still alive?
I don't know.
You don't know.
He was going to blow me away.
And he apologized.
He took off.
You're a lucky man.
You investigator Styles?
Yeah, here you got an intruder.
When we challenged him, a shot was fired.
He ran into the memorial.
Anyone hit ?
Fired into the air.
What's he doing in there?
He's visiting his father.
How do you want us to handle this?
All right.
You keep him in here, OK?
I know this guy.
I think I can talk to him.
Just let me see what I can do, all right?
You got it.
It's yours.
Richard?
Richard, it's Jake.
Hey, Jake.
They're all around us.
Can you feel them?
The heroes.
You know how my father
and the others died?
In their sleep.
22 years old,
my dad became a hero without even waking up.
I wonder if they know.
Oh, I think they do.
Then, my father knows about me.
He knows what a coward I am.
I think he knows what a good
father you've been, Richard.
You got a terrific kid.
Cheryl knows what I am.
She told me
how I failed her mom,
how I stood there and let them rape,
rape her.
You know, the whole time they
were holding that gun to my head,
all I could think of was Cheryl.
How I got to live for her
all those years.
Knowing in my heart I
should have done something.
Anything, Jake, anything.
You know what it's like to live your life
knowing you're a coward?
Richard, it wasn't your fault.
What could you do,
what could anybody have done?
Jake, I could have died for her.
Maybe then she could be proud of me.
Richard, she loves you.
She understands, okay?
Don't try it, Jake.
You're not gonna make it, okay?
Oh, you won't shoot me.
No, no.
Oh, God, hey, don't do this, please.
Please.
Hey.
Cheryl wants me to bring
you back to her, you know.
Right. Oh, yeah.
No, she does. Honest to God.
I swear to God.
So she could visit
her old man in prison.
She'd be proud of me then,
wouldn't she?
I was proud of my dad.
Proud!
I just don't want her to be...
To be...
Ashamed of hers.
Richard, you're gonna hurt her.
I have hurt her!
But she's a good kid,
though, isn't she, Jake?
Oh, Richard, she turned out great.
She, I mean, she turned out great.
You got a great kid.
She's gonna make it.
You know what I wonder?
I wonder if maybe
my dad thought of me
the second before he died.
Maybe he was dreaming
of me even when...
What do you say, Jake?
This all has to come out.
- Richard, hey...
- Every kid needs a hero, Jake.
Remember that.
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Take a hike!
Hey!
Hey!
Hey!
What do you think you're doing?
Come on, muffin stuff!
Bring me my camera!
It's Jake.
I'd sure hate to interrupt
the Star Spangled Banner,
but I've got some good news.
I've been fired ?
Wishful thinking.
Hang on. What is it?
Another mugger was shot
tonight with a 10-millimeter.
All right.
Well, I'll see you in the morning.
He's at Central Receiving. I want you to go
down there and see if you can get a statement.
Then get over to CID. They're doing
a firearms identification on the gun.
You got a gun?
It's a Colt Delta Elite.
While you're there,
you might want to interview the other guy.
Wait, wait, wait. What other guy?
What are you talking about?
Some jurist by the
name of Thompson.
Looks like he mixed it up
with the suspect and got cut.
Okay.
All right.
What's the good news?
The good news?
I get to go back to bed.
I'll see you in the morning.
I still think you should
let us admit you overnight
for observation.
There's always the chance of infection.
No way, doc.
I don't want to spend my
vacation in a hospital.
Besides, my wife and daughter are
probably worried sick about me.
You were lucky, Mr. Thompson.
Nothing vital was cut.
Mr. Thompson, Jake Styles.
Investigator for the
prosecuting attorney's office.
I got down here as soon as I could.
You all right?
You guys don't waste any time,
do you?
Where were you when I needed you?
You were in a pretty bad part of town.
Well, I didn't have any
idea that wasn't safe.
What am I, in some kind of trouble here?
No, I just have to ask a few questions,
that's all.
Well, uh, I don't remember much.
I blacked out right after
that guy stabbed me.
His pulse is dropping, doctor.
We're losing him.
Oh my God !
What did the CID come
up with on the gun?
They matched it to the other two murders.
Any prints?
No readable ones.
What about the dead man?
Did Jake ID him?
Yes, sir.
His name is Roscoe Sleepy Maneu,
small-time stick-up artist who's sometimes
moonlighted on residential burglaries.
What about this tourist, Thompson?
He's a normal guy, owns a sporting
goods store in Canton, Ohio.
He sure as hell doesn't win any medals
for his street smarts, I'll tell you that.
Be nice, huh?
What?
What do you mean, be nice?
Have I not always been nice?
Can you remember one
time when I wasn't nice?
I don't know what's the matter with you.
Be nice.
Mrs. Thompson?
Yes?
My name is McCabe.
I'm the prosecuting attorney.
This is Derek Mitchell,
the deputy prosecutor.
May we come in?
Who is it, John?
Oh, well, it's just a routine follow-up.
It shouldn't take long at all.
Ah, sure, sure. Come on in.
Thank you.
Sit down.
Thank you.
Well, I hear you folks
are from Canton, Ohio.
It's a nice town.
Well, like everything else, it's changed.
Yeah, well, you know,
the more you want things to stay the same,
it seems like the more they change.
Tell me, sir,
do you remember any more about
what happened last night?
I wish I could.
Cheryl, honey, come on,
come on in here.
Come on.
This is our daughter.
These men are from the
prosecuting attorney's office.
Hello.
I was just going downstairs
to get some postcards.
Sure, sweetheart.
Go ahead.
Nice to meet you.
She's very pretty.
Perhaps a little too pretty.
What's that they say?
You can never be too pretty or too rich?
I think that is too thin or too rich.
Right, Mr. Thompson?
Well, gentlemen, I don't know what
else I can tell you about last night.
Maybe you can tell us
where the gun came from.
I don't remember seeing a gun.
Maybe the other guy had it.
You mean there was
somebody else there?
Oh, yeah, yeah.
He grabbed me from behind.
I didn't get a very good
look at his face, though.
There's no mention of another
suspect in this report.
Well, like I said before,
after I got stabbed, everything got mixed up.
And you don't know
which man had the gun?
Uh, look, I don't know.
It could have been either of them.
Uh, is there something more going on
here than the fact that I was mugged?
Richard,
there was a homicide last night.
It's our job to determine
if it was justified.
What do you mean, justified?
Whether it was murder or self-defense.
Wait a minute. I didn't have any gun.
Maybe the other guy shot him.
Maybe it was an accident.
Maybe it was a mistake.
Maybe.
All right. I tell you,
now I wish I'd never gotten involved.
Well, I don't suppose
you'd mind coming downtown
and looking through some of
our mug books, would you?
- Mug books?
- Yes.
Perhaps you can identify the other man in the
alley, the one who grabbed you from behind.
Sure, sure. If you think it'll help.
It might. Mrs. Thompson.
What?
You actually were nice.
Well, thank you.
So what do you think?
Well, I think there were a lot
of sad eyes in that family.
The guy who got away,
we got a major problem
that he was the one with the gun,
and he thinks Richard can ID him.
Now, we better put a security detail
on Richard and his family.
Sure.
Wait for me outside, will you, kid?
Hi again.
Hey, you must have a lot
of friends back home.
Not really.
Actually, these are for my scrapbook.
Hey, I can't believe a lovely young lady
like you hasn't got a special guy back home.
Guys are okay, I guess.
You guess?
Most guys are jerks.
Well, I'm sure that there
are some nice boys out there.
See, I knew you could smile.
It's a very pretty smile, too.
What do you think of Hawaii?
I thought it was gonna be...
I don't know, somehow different.
I mean,
it isn't any different than back home.
I gotta go.
See ya.
Here you go, Mr. Thompson.
Have a good time.
Cab!
What do you mean he got away ?
That's what I said, Richard.
He got away.
How ?
You were trying to draw that guy out,
weren't you?
Weren't you?
- Using me and my family as bait?
- You and your family were never in any danger.
The guy had a knife!
Investigator Klein is one of the best I got.
Now, she made the suspect before he
was any danger to you or your family.
That does not excuse the fact
you were using me as bait.
You know...
We were trying to protect him,
but he didn't see it that way.
Yeah, he was a little more than upset,
I'd say.
Yeah.
Well, you know, the best thing we
can do with Richard and his family
is to find the guy who
tried to take him out.
You got something?
I don't know.
Ernie Petula,
arrested for ADW and robbery.
I guess Richard missed this one when
he was going through the mug book.
Derek, call HPD.
Have them pull this guy's files, OK?
If you need me, I'll be out in the field.
All right.
Mom, look at this !
Sweetheart, it's cute.
You really love him, don't you?
Well, he's my daddy.
He loves you, you know.
Why do you have to go on punishing him?
You really think that's what I'm doing?
Cheryl, you're barely 16.
You only see what you want to.
Honey, how could you possibly know what
it's like between your father and me?
I just know it hurts.
I know it's hurting all of us.
Your father's to blame for all of this.
He wanted to make you happy.
By bringing us here?
He had to know it wouldn't.
Well, how nice of you to finally call.
Is your beeper broken?
I'm an investigator, not a doctor.
Anything?
I've turned this town inside out.
I've looked everywhere.
It's like this guy just left the island.
I don't know.
I can't find him anywhere.
Well, Derek has come up with something.
You don't know what it's worth,
but he talked to Ernie's old cellmate,
who says Ernie hangs out at the
Harbor Heaven nightclub.
That's more than I got to go on.
Tell Derek I said thanks.
See you there.
Guys, wait till you see this.
Wait till you see this.
Look what I got. Ta-da-da-da-da-da!
A sexy ribbon for you, Mother,
and an enchanting blue for you,
my princess.
What's that?
Well, what do you think, huh?
I love mine, Daddy. Thank you.
Now, can we look for
slippers to go with these?
You bet we can.
We've got to look fast.
I want to go over to the memorial
barracks for the sundown ceremony.
Sure, Daddy.
We can go shopping any time.
But I thought you wanted
to go to the cemetery first
and find where Grandpa's buried.
No, honey, no. I...
I want to see where he died first.
Sure, Daddy.
Whatever you want.
Jake !
- Hi !
- Hi !
*** a drink.
Oh, I'd love to. Maybe another time.
Can't right now, okay ?
Here she is, gentlemen.
The woman of your dreams.
The sexy...
Scheherazade!
Hi.
You remember me?
Uh, yeah.
You work with Mr. McCabe.
That's right.
Are your folks here?
Only my mom.
Is Daddy in trouble?
No.
No, no, no, we caught the other man,
the man that was following your father.
I just thought that you and your folks
might want to know that.
Yeah, well, my mom's getting dressed.
OK.
What's he saying?
Who?
The man who stabbed Daddy.
Oh, well, he says he's innocent.
But don't worry, they all say that.
He's not, though, is he?
No, we don't think so.
But that's up to a jury.
Like a trial?
Will Daddy have to be on trial?
He might be called as a witness.
Hi.
What's wrong?
No, everything's OK.
Listen, we have a suspect in custody,
and we think he was the
other man in the alley.
Well, that's swell.
- Come on in, Jake.
- Okay, thank you.
Didn't you hear that, Cheryl?
Isn't that swell?
I'm just sorry that you folks
have been put through the wringer.
I really apologize for that.
Listen, I was a little rough on you earlier.
You guys have done a swell job,
and I mean that.
Thanks, we tried.
Now can we go visit all those
places we wanted to see?
You bet.
What do you want to see first?
Listen, honey,
I need your father for about one hour
to help me identify the suspect.
Is that all right?
I promise, I'll bring him right back.
What do you, uh, mean like a,
like a, like a lineup?
Yeah, it's a lineup.
It's real simple.
Well, if you want me to, I guess I will.
Good, good.
- You ready to go?
- Yeah.
Hey, princess.
I'm just going to go look at a lineup.
Jake's not going to lock me away,
are you, Jake?
It won't be long.
What do you think ?
I don't know.
Could I see number five again, please?
You know, sideways.
Okay.
Number five, profile, please.
No, that's not him.
Jake,
I just don't recognize any of them.
Richard, Richard...
It's okay.
Just take a long look and think back.
I'm sorry.
It's OK.
It's all right.
Richard, uh, Roscoe Manu and Ernie Petula,
one of the men out there, were a team.
Roscoe's dead,
and Ernie tried to take you down at the zoo.
He thinks he can make you.
Matter of fact, he not only thinks,
he's dead sure.
Why is that?
He must have seen me better.
It was a trick of the light.
Richard, you can put this man away
so he will never kill another person.
You cops are all alike.
You're never there when
decent people are hurt.
There are murderers who...
There are rapists...
And, and, and, and,
and the courts, they don't care.
Nobody cares when, when...
I'm sorry.
Can I get out of here?
Sure.
Have a nice vacation.
It was either you or your partner, Ernie.
That's the arithmetic. What do you think?
No way.
What? Did the gun come from an airplane?
What was it doing in the alley?
- I didn't use a gun.
- You didn't use...
Mr. Petula, you don't have to
answer any of these questions.
That's right. That's right. He's right.
Don't answer any questions.
Just sit there like a moron and take
the rap for three murders. Go ahead.
Is this guy for real?
I see no mention of previous homicide.
Benny Stone, killed Tuesday night.
Address unknown. Johnny Ola.
Transient. Blown away Thursday night with
the piece found next to your pal Roscoe.
Does that bring you up to speed, Counselor?
Mr. Petula, I strongly suggest that
you answer no further questions.
- You're jerking me around, right?
- Yeah.
Please don't say anything else.
That's right, Ernie.
You don't have to say anything.
You don't have to do anything.
All we have to do is blow the whistle
and you go away for life. No parole.
Three counts of first-degree murder.
It wasn't me.
Then it was your partner, wasn't it?
What the hell are you protecting him for?
He's dead!
You just don't get it, do you?
It wasn't us that burned those two guys.
Okay. We'll see you in court, Ernie.
Counselor.
Okay. All right, all right, all right.
In Waikiki on Tuesday night,
a fancy condo got hit.
Stereo component.
Uh, some jewelry.
And a couple jade statues.
On Thursday, seven rooms at the Hakala.
Billfolds, suits,
and a bag full of diamond-cutter toys.
What's the point, Ernie? What's the point?
Me and Roscoe did it, all right?
Tuesday and Thursday night.
Can you prove that?
Yeah, I can prove it.
I still got some of the stuff in my room.
Who had the gun?
I didn't. Roscoe didn't.
Use your arithmetic, man.
HPD has matched the loot in Ernie's garage
to the burglaries on the nights
of the other two murders.
Ernie's story seems to check out.
Any possibility that he and his partner
hit these places and then
did a little night stalking?
Times are much too close.
They almost overlap.
Contact the Ohio State Police.
Find out everything you can
about Richard Thompson, huh?
Mr. McCabe, it's a little late back there.
Oh, forgive me, Derek.
How thoughtless of me.
You're right, of course.
It can certainly wait until morning.
Perhaps early tomorrow afternoon might
be even more convenient for them, huh?
I'll make the call.
Hey, princess. What you doing?
My scrapbook, daddy.
Honey?
What's the matter?
Nothing
I got an idea.
You wanna go home?
Could we?
Sure we can.
How's about we hoist sail for home tomorrow?
How's that
sound to you ?
You're just the best.
Guess it wasn't such a hot idea, huh?
Coming here?
At home, mom can handle it better.
I guess I just notice her more here.
Yeah, yeah.
Daddy?
I know what happened to mom.
She told me one day, we were in the
store together after closing and...
She just started talking about it.
She didn't cry or anything.
She just described it.
That's why she changed, isn't it, daddy?
Because of what happened.
When I was smaller, I used to say
that my real mommy had gone away...
and that this one had
come to take her place.
Cheryl?
And I remember what
she was like before.
When I was eight and she
took us out in the woods.
She was our brownie leader.
We all got lost.
And she sang to us and
she told us all stories.
And we all started to laugh.
And I remember her laughing.
And I wasn't scared.
I'm scared all the time now, Dad.
****
Joan.
Yes?
Why did you have to tell her?
I suppose I thought she ought to know.
But we agreed.
Doesn't matter.
But she's just a child, Joan.
What good did it do?
We wanted her to be normal.
We agreed.
We wanted to keep it a secret
so she wouldn't be damaged like...
Like me.
For eight years,
I've tried to make it up to you.
Every day I wake up and I say to myself,
maybe this is going to be the day
my wife is going to forgive me.
Maybe today she's going to look at me,
and she's going to smile,
and she's going to say,
it's all right, Rich.
It's all right.
Maybe today she'll take
her daughter to the movies.
Or take her out shopping,
help her buy a new dress.
Or talk to her like she
meant something to her,
like she was there.
Why did you have to tell her?
I wanted her to know what
kind of a man her father was.
I'm sorry.
God.
Joan.
Joan, I'm sorry.
Daddy ?
Daddy, don't go, please!
Daddy, please don't go!
Daddy !
Daddy !
Daddy !
Anything wrong, miss?
My father, have you seen him?
Yes,
I believe I saw him heading that way, miss.
Looks like Cheryl.
Cheryl!
Cheryl!
Cheryl!
What's wrong?
Why are you running?
Mr. McCabe, I couldn't stop him.
He just gets like this
and then he runs away.
He can't help it. It's not his fault.
He couldn't do anything about it.
I tried to tell him that. I tried!
I love him!
It's gonna be okay, Cheryl. Come on now.
You have to find him, please!
We will.
We will, I promise.
Go on !
You know what I like best about my dog?
He's always glad to see me.
He loves me no matter what.
Your father loves you like that, Cheryl.
I could tell when I first
saw you two together. I knew.
And you love him, too, don't you?
We think
your father is in danger
right now, Cheryl.
We need to find him.
I don't know where he went.
Why is he doing this, Cheryl?
Oh come to me, my melancholy baby,
cuddle up and don't be blue
There's a foolish, fancy baby seat...
It's very hot, so be careful, okay?
Tell me, Cheryl, does your father
know the people he's hunting?
Who does he want to find?
Men.
The men...
I was really little.
I wasn't there.
Mom told me men came into this store
to rob it.
Um...
And they put a gun to Daddy's head.
And...
They took my mother.
And they...
Weren't the men caught?
It was a small town.
Mom didn't want anyone to know.
I wasn't supposed to know either.
She told me when I was 14.
I don't know why she did that.
She seemed so angry at my father.
But he couldn't have done anything.
They would have killed him.
They would have.
Why does she blame him?
I think your father blames himself
more than your mother ever could.
Has your dad tracked these
men here to Honolulu?
Is that why he's here now?
You don't understand.
He doesn't know who those men were.
He... He just goes out and...
Cheryl, how long has this been going on?
I don't know.
I started to notice after my
mom told me what happened.
He went away on trips to different cities.
Yes ?
Go on.
Then I found the gun.
Where?
In his fishing tackle box.
With
bullets and newspaper clippings.
Did you tell your mother?
No.
But she knows.
Did you tell anyone?
I couldn't.
See, I didn't want it to be true.
I'm scared.
I don't know what's gonna happen.
Why did your father come to Hawaii?
He didn't tell you?
He came, he said,
on kind of a pilgrimage.
His father died at Schofield
Barracks during Pearl Harbor.
And he said he just wanted to
visit the memorial barracks
they set up for all the men who died there.
Just to be near him.
Cheryl, you've been a very brave girl.
Whatever happens, you're gonna come through.
I want you to hold on to that thought,
no matter what.
Promise me you'll remember that, huh?
I promise.
Go on, smile my honey dear,
while I kiss away each tear
Wait till the sun beams, beams through.
Go on, smile my honey dear,
while I kiss away each tear
While I kiss away each tear
Go easy, man.
Please, we weren't gonna hurt you.
Look what you did to my friend.
Please.
Please.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
Here you go, Jake.
How you doing, Pete?
What do we got? We got a mess?
Sure looks that way.
Yeah?
Same MO as the others?
Not quite, but we got a live one.
You got a witness?
Remember that tourist guy
you wanted the APB on?
Yeah.
Might have been him that popped this guy.
Where'd you get this one?
Well, I responded to a report of a gunshot.
We found Alex B. Keaton
here jumping over the fence.
Yeah.
He says he's a pal of the victim.
Rough night, huh?
Yeah.
Is this the man that killed your friend?
You mean you guys knew
about this psycho?
And you let him run around
preying on innocent people?
Mr. Innocent bystander had it here with
carrying this when we tackled him.
Why are you still alive?
I don't know.
You don't know.
He was going to blow me away.
And he apologized.
He took off.
You're a lucky man.
You investigator Styles?
Yeah, here you got an intruder.
When we challenged him, a shot was fired.
He ran into the memorial.
Anyone hit ?
Fired into the air.
What's he doing in there?
He's visiting his father.
How do you want us to handle this?
All right.
You keep him in here, OK?
I know this guy.
I think I can talk to him.
Just let me see what I can do, all right?
You got it.
It's yours.
Richard?
Richard, it's Jake.
Hey, Jake.
They're all around us.
Can you feel them?
The heroes.
You know how my father
and the others died?
In their sleep.
22 years old,
my dad became a hero without even waking up.
I wonder if they know.
Oh, I think they do.
Then, my father knows about me.
He knows what a coward I am.
I think he knows what a good
father you've been, Richard.
You got a terrific kid.
Cheryl knows what I am.
She told me
how I failed her mom,
how I stood there and let them rape,
rape her.
You know, the whole time they
were holding that gun to my head,
all I could think of was Cheryl.
How I got to live for her
all those years.
Knowing in my heart I
should have done something.
Anything, Jake, anything.
You know what it's like to live your life
knowing you're a coward?
Richard, it wasn't your fault.
What could you do,
what could anybody have done?
Jake, I could have died for her.
Maybe then she could be proud of me.
Richard, she loves you.
She understands, okay?
Don't try it, Jake.
You're not gonna make it, okay?
Oh, you won't shoot me.
No, no.
Oh, God, hey, don't do this, please.
Please.
Hey.
Cheryl wants me to bring
you back to her, you know.
Right. Oh, yeah.
No, she does. Honest to God.
I swear to God.
So she could visit
her old man in prison.
She'd be proud of me then,
wouldn't she?
I was proud of my dad.
Proud!
I just don't want her to be...
To be...
Ashamed of hers.
Richard, you're gonna hurt her.
I have hurt her!
But she's a good kid,
though, isn't she, Jake?
Oh, Richard, she turned out great.
She, I mean, she turned out great.
You got a great kid.
She's gonna make it.
You know what I wonder?
I wonder if maybe
my dad thought of me
the second before he died.
Maybe he was dreaming
of me even when...
What do you say, Jake?
This all has to come out.
- Richard, hey...
- Every kid needs a hero, Jake.
Remember that.
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