Police Woman (1974–1978): Season 1, Episode 12 - The Cradle Robbers - full transcript

Up against the wall.

- Is that what Anna told you?
- Some lawyer.

Anna said he was making
all the arrangements.

Mommy, Mommy,
Mommy! [Indistinct]

- What, child buying?
- Kids are treated
like merchandise...

- by brokers who buy the kids
from hard-up mothers.
- Bobby? Mr. and Mrs. Simon.

Please! Let me have my
kids! Let me have my kids!

Black-and-white found the body
about a half hour ago. Blood everywhere.

[Chattering]

Mommy, Mommy!

Mommy, Mommy!

Ooh!

How ya doin', my little
dynamite kid? Dynamite.

You know, I bet
he could spot you...

a mile away with
his eyes blindfolded.

- What... Did you get off work?
- Well, I took off early.

You see, I want to take him
someplace really special today.

Wow, Bobby. Did you hear that?
I wonder where you're gonna go.

Where? It's a
secret. It's a surprise.

And you're gonna love it.
Bye-bye. Thanks. Bye-bye.

- Cross carefully.
- Oh, yeah. Thanks.

[Mother] Look at those
beautiful animals, huh?

Did you ever see such long
necks? Huh? [Bobby] No.

Aren't they cute?

[Indistinct] [Laughs]

How do you like
that? Isn't he cute?

Oh, he is cute.
Hey, Bobby, wait!

Hey! Hey, wait a minute.

Ho, ho! [Laughs]

He's a boy. He's a healthy boy.

- Oh, hi, Carolee.
- Hi, Marcia.

Hi, Mr. Ronald.

You were supposed to meet
us at the main gate, honey.

Oh, I just wanted to show,
uh, Bobby everything.

I guess I got a
little late, huh?

That's okay. Uh, Ron?

Why don't you show Bobby
the lions? We'll be right with you.

What do you say, Bobby?
Let's go take a look, huh? Yeah!

[Laughing] Come
on. Let's have a talk.

[No Audible Dialogue]

Here. Oh, okay.

I have this for you to sign.

Here.

You sign right here.

There. Same thing. Okay.

Uh, where's, uh, Mr. Cory?

He couldn't make it. You
know, he's such a busy man.

Oh. Yeah.

There. Now...

There you are. Here's your pen.

Thanks.

Go ahead. Open it.

$5,000?

Mm-hmm. Now this
is for your records.

Oh, yeah. [Bobby] Mommy, Mommy!

Mommy, Mommy! Lookit me!

Bobby, now you're gonna go
with Mr. Ronald and Carolee.

Now, I want you to be a really,
really good boy. Understand?

Mommy, where am I going?

It's gonna be better for you
this way, Bobby, believe me.

Now, you know that Mommy's gotta
go into the hospital. You know that.

It'll be better this way, Bobby.

Mommy, Mommy.

Mommy, Mommy,
Mommy, Mommy, Mommy...

[Continues, Indistinct]

[Moans]

[Gasps, Moans]

I gotta have those
jackets before 5:00.

Can't wait.

Okay, 3:00, but you get
'em here, you hear me?

I gotta have 'em
by 3:00. All right.

Hello, Billy.

Well, you old son
of a gun. [Laughing]

Hey! Oh, it's been a
long time, hasn't it?

I'll tell you one thing. It's been a long
time since anybody called me Billy.

Well, you're lookin'
good. Healthy, happy...

Single again. Oh.

Oh, no, no. I'm
healthy and happy.

Look at... Look at you.

Hey. Sit down. Sit down.

Guy calls me up and he says, "Abe
Falkner is down here to see you."

"Abe Falkner? You
gotta be kidding."

Abe, listen. I heard about Ted.

I don't know what to say.

Well, that's sort of what I
came to talk to you about, Billy.

Yeah, but you were the one
who busted that pusher. Not him.

No, he was the one that found
out he was working for Fontana...

while you were out
following that other trail.

Remember that trail you
thought was going somewhere...

that led you to infinity?
I don't wanna hear it.

- Hey, Pep, can I see you
for a minute?
- Uh, okay.

Hey, listen, Joe. I'll take
you on for five, the next case.

Yeah, yeah. I'll buy anything.

Yeah, Bill. Honey, I want you
to meet an old friend of mine.

This is Abe Falkner. Sergeant
Pepper Anderson. How do you do?

Sergeant. How are you?

You know, Abe and I have been
friends since I was about five years old.

I grew up with his son Ted.

Abe, why don't you tell
Pepper what you told me?

Uh, I was just saying
that Ted got married...

to this... sick girl...

Sick up here.

Anna, her name was,
and she was beautiful...

Beautiful girl...
but drugs, sex,

what she called "the exotic"...
That's all she cared about.

And she led Ted into a hell
that he never came out of.

It killed him...
three years ago.

I'm sorry. And the wife?

Last week I learned that
Anna, too, was dead...

Found in some dive in New York.

She wanted everything.
She wound up with nothing.

But there shouldn't
have been nothing.

When the authorities
found Abe's daughter-in-law,

they should have
found a little girl with her.

My granddaughter, Julie.

She'd be five now.

The last time I saw her,
she was a beautiful little child.

- Now I don't know.
- Pep, not only was she
not with her mother,

but the people who knew
Anna Falkner back there...

didn't even know that
she had a daughter.

Uh...

- If I read you right,
the girl's vanished.
- Completely.

The last time I know that she was
with Anna was here, eight months ago.

Anna wrote for some money,
and she sent along this.

[Chuckles] She
sure looks like Ted.

Maybe if we start tracing, we might
be able to find out where Julie is.

- What do you think?
- Uh, would you excuse us
a minute?

Sure. Bill, can I
see you outside?

I want to look at
this. Be right back.

Bill, why do you do this to me?

This isn't a case for us.

It's not Criminal
Conspiracy's line of work.

I mean, I know
how you must feel,

- but we've got our first
real lead in the Fontana case.
- Oh, honey, what do we got?

We got a snitch who'll never
testify against his boss in court.

Look, Pep, don't worry.

I know, but it just isn't fair.
Of course it's not fair, Pep.

I know it's not fair. Well?

Pep...

I'm asking you to help find
my best friend's little girl.

You're the best policewoman
in the city. You know that.

How come you only tell me
that when you want something?

- Fink.
- Sergeant Fink to you.

All you have to do
is sign these papers...

and the adoption can go
through. You said he's a boy.

What's he like? How old is he?

- Four in October.
- We wouldn't be here
if we didn't have to be.

Either there's too much morality
these days or too much birth control.

But you're gonna be very happy.
He's Caucasian and he's healthy.

- We can see a doctor's report?
- I can do better than that.

Carolee?

Bobby, this is
Mr. and Mrs. Simon.

[Woman] Oh, Bobby.

Bobby, hello. Oh,
am I glad to see you.

[Chuckles]

You know something?

I think he looks
like you a little.

When we talked, I thought
your fee was a little high.

- I mean, $10,000.
- And what do you think now?

When your dream comes true,
how can you put a price on it?

♪♪ [Man Whistling]

[Man] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah. Oh, ho.

Can we do something
for you, lady?

- Yeah. Is your foreman around?
- Yeah, he's right up there. Hey, Phil!

Lady wants to talk to you.

What can I do for you?

If it's anything personal,
I'll come right down.

I'm looking for an old friend that
wrote me a letter from this address.

Everybody's moved
out. Urban renewal.

We're improving the place.

Oh. Well, uh...

You wouldn't happen to have any
records on former tenants, would you?

No. If you want any forwarding addresses,
you'll have to talk to the old owners.

- You can get that at city hall.
- Yeah, I know.

Thanks. Uh, hey...

I know a great
little bar near there.

I can hop down and we
can stop off for a drink.

- What's your drink?
- Beer.

Sorry. I only drink champagne.

I told you, Phil. You
never had any class.

Aw...

Hey, baby, you got
it all. ♪♪ [Whistles]

We all try our best, Sergeant.

Helping's what we're here for...

- Helping each other,
helping ourselves.
- I understand.

I've had this place now
for about seven years.

I think of it as kind
of a halfway house.

Well, what Ike
means is that, uh,

most of the people that
live here have problems.

[Ike] Junkies, ex-cons,

unwed mothers...

People with no place else to
go, trying to get over the hump.

I'm just trying to pay back
some of the kindness...

that other people gave
me when I needed it.

You can be real proud
of what you're doing, Ike.

Real proud.

So, now, what about
this Anna Falkner?

It should be in here.

I'd better go check on Marcia...
See that she's okay, okay?

See you. Okay.

They're a great couple,
Carolee and her husband.

I couldn't run this
place without 'em.

For one thing, I could
never get organized.

Oh, yeah. Here. Anna Falkner.

She stayed a little longer than a
month. Had one of the one-bedrooms.

Moved out with her
rent a week overdue.

- Did she leave
a forwarding address?
- Forwarding address...

No. No.

I have a picture
of her daughter.

- Did she have
her daughter with her?
- Oh, yeah.

Oh, what a cute little kid.

- Almost forgot about her.
- Oh?

She was only here a couple of weeks when
she went back east to live with her father.

You sure about that?

Sure, I'm sure. That's
what her mother said.

So the last time you saw
the Falkner girl was, uh...

Must have been
the week of the 18th.

Week of the 18th. Yeah.
That'd be about right.

You know, we missed
with Anna, Sergeant.

Dope, booze, crazy parties...

She just wouldn't stop.

Well, she stopped now, Ike.

She's dead.

Oh. That's too bad.

Thanks, Ike.

Lucy. Sergeant Anderson.

Hi. Sandy, this is
Sergeant Anderson.

Hi. See you later, Lucy. Okay.

- What are you doing here?
- I might ask that.

Well, this is
home for a while...

You know, when
I got out of jail.

- When was that?
- Two weeks ago.

I swear, man, I
have had it with jails.

Twice in two years is
enough for a lifetime.

Well, when my old man gets
out, things'll be a lot better...

When.

Good luck, Lucy.
Stay out of trouble.

Well, see you
around, maybe. Maybe.

[Carolee] Now, Marcia,
you gotta stop this.

You gotta get rid
of Bobby's things.

Either give 'em away
or throw 'em away.

Like I threw him away?

Oh, you know you didn't do that.

No, I did something
worse than that.

I sold him like he
was a piece of meat.

You know, he was
always such a...

Such a good little boy.

You know that? And brave.

I remember the time when he
was trying to learn how to walk.

And no matter how
many times he fell down...

Now, you know you
couldn't do it anymore.

N-Not while you're so sick.

Now look, honey, you got
the money for the doctors.

At least you don't
have to worry about that.

I just wish there'd been
some other way, you know?

Cory's been a lifesaver to us.

I mean, after you've
given it some time,

you'll see that he's
been one to you too.

Yeah. Sure.

Sure, he's a real
lifesaver, all right.

[Buzzing]

[Woman] Mr. Cory,
Marcia Gordon on line two.

Hello, Miss Gordon.
What can I do for you?

Uh, Mr. Cory, I'm
sorry I had to call,

but I've been going through
hell these past few days.

There's no reason for that.
Bobby's in a fine home. The best.

I-I want him back. I want
my son back, Mr. Cory.

I appreciate your feelings, but there's
nothing I can do. It's been arranged.

Uh, well, isn't there something
you could do, please? Anything?

Well, I suppose I could
talk to the boy's new parents.

I could try. Let me
get back to you.

You know, Ronnie,

I think you were right
about this Marcia Gordon.

I trust I'm not interrupting
anything important.

Just because we don't get
a chance to play lone wolf,

you don't have to rub it in.

Oh, you ought to see the case
he gave me. You got trouble?

Well, I've
pinpointed the time...

the people who knew Anna
Falkner last saw her daughter.

That's fantastic. That's real
progress. What do you got?

She told them she sent
Julie to live with her father.

- I thought you said
her father was dead.
- He is.

The story has to be a cover.
It's getting to be interesting.

Pep, did you check
with Child Abandonment?

Maybe she just walked off
and left the kid someplace.

What, do you think you
put a dummy on this case?

Yeah, Bill, I checked.
No Julie Falkner.

I even checked the morgue,

and I took a court order to city
hall to check the adoption records.

Nothing there either.

[Sighs]

What am I gonna tell Abe, huh?

Well, I'm not gonna give up.

I was wondering. You want me to
look into the illegal adoptions racket?

What, child buying?

Yeah, it's a
high-volume business,

child buying.

The kind that makes millionaires.
I'd like to take a crack at it.

Yeah, but you know, that
game is played with babies.

I'm talking about
a five-year-old kid.

Yeah, but I think the
older kids are involved...

because infants are
so hard to get now.

Pep, why don't you talk
to your friends in Juvenile?

See what the child buyers
are doing nowadays.

I'll do it.

You know what really
bothers me about this racket?

I mean, the new
parents never know...

how badly they're
taken by these crooks.

They pay their money. They give
their kid love, and their kid loves them.

And then one day somebody knocks on the
door and says, "Hey, that child is mine."

Yeah, and if that's
what happened...

to Abe's granddaughter,
it's gonna hurt...

It's gonna hurt everybody.

Well, so this
Mr. Perry, Ike Perry...

He told me about this place.

He said I'd be all right here.

You figure on staying long?

Well, till my time, I guess.

It's four months.

Listen, do you think you guys
could help me find some kind of job?

Could be. Were
you working before?

Well, yeah, until little Charlie
in there knocked that right out.

- What do you mean?
- Well, the kind of work I did,

a big belly ain't exactly
what you call an asset.

If the kid got in the way of your
tricks, why didn't you get rid of it?

But that's the same
as murder to me.

I know that...

a lot of people don't
understand that.

It's a living thing.

It's alive.

I couldn't do that.

After the baby's born,
do you intend to keep it?

What for? What am
I gonna do with it?

Well, uh, maybe we'll be able...

to help you solve that problem.

- Hey!
- Take a look at that.

So, all right. What's
the matter? I got tracks.

But I know there's a lot of
junkies that have been here.

Oh, those are new.
You're still on the stuff.

Yeah, but I'm gonna shake it.

- I figure as long as I'm here...
- You're not here. We don't want you.

Chicks like you never shake it.

And your baby's gonna be
born a junkie just like you.

- So what?
- So we don't need that, lady.

We don't need that at all.

So who needs you?

Who needs anything you got?

Come on. You sit right there
and I'll be right back, okay?

A lovely mother.
A loving mother.

How could anybody dump a
kid in the middle of the freeway,

clinging to a center divider?

God. Oh, my God.

Makes the fourth
abandoned child this week.

You know, across the country,
that probably makes 5,000.

Oh, Pepper, sometimes...
Sometimes I...

I wish I could just forget
who I am and what I am,

and grab a shotgun and
go after all those parents.

Yeah.

Me too.

Me too.

I guess his loving mommy
didn't know about child buyers.

Well, that gives us something
to be thankful for, doesn't it?

Oh, your phone call.
I did some checking.

Chances are the Falkner
woman lived on the Westside...

and did business with
some of these cockroaches...

Twisted insects that use
everything children mean to people...

just to make a buck. Yeah.

- You've got nothing
on a Ike Perry?
- No. Should we?

He runs the place
where Anna Falkner lived.

Admitted to getting a
lot of unwed mothers.

I saw at least one pregnant
girl while I was there.

Well, that should be a good place
for you to find the sellers, but no.

No, we have nothing on him.

Okay. Uh, you can keep
those files if you like.

- If you need the pictures.
- Okay, Ruth. Thanks.

I'm-I'm sorry we had to meet
in a place like this, Mr. Cory,

but you see, it's about a...

I only get a half
hour for my lunch,

and it's real close
to the place I work.

I think the important
thing, Miss Gordon,

is that we get to talk.

You've talked to
the people then?

The people that have
Bobby? I did my best,

and I like to think of myself
as being able to talk to people,

but I'm afraid they
just won't give him up.

Well, you see, I've got
the money right here.

- I'm afraid
there's nothing we can do.
- Well, I've got it here.

I've got, uh, 4,000...

$4,535 and some change,

and the only reason I
don't have the whole thing...

is because I paid some bills with
it, but I'll get it back to you, Mr. Cory.

I promise I will. Now listen
to me. Keep the money.

I've just seen your
little boy. He's well.

He's a very happy little boy.

Things are going to be much
better. Isn't that what you told him?

Well, you didn't lie to him
when you said good-bye.

That's right, I lied to
him. That's what I did.

- I was so uptight I...
- Look.

- He said there's
no more he can do.
- Well, he's gotta do something.

He'd better do something.

Because I can make trouble.
I can make a lot of trouble.

I mean it.

I met a lady at the doctor's office the
other day, and she works for a lawyer.

I'm not so sure everything
that we did was even legal.

You know what she told me?
She told me that you can't buy kids.

And she also
told me that-that...

That parents have to be
approved by an agency.

It doesn't just take a couple of
days, like-like the way we did it.

The only trouble you could make
is what you make for yourself.

Mr. Cory...

Without my kid, I've
got nothing to lose.

Don't you see? Please
give me back my kid.

Please, Mr. Cory.
I want my kid back.

Please. Please!

Mr. Cory! [Screaming]

You make sure she
gets her head on, eh?

Gets it on straight.

[Woman] Don't you lay
a hand on me, you bum!

You let me go. I'll hit you!

Oh, he's gonna kill
me! He's gonna kill me!

Who's gonna kill you? That
lousy bum of a husband of mine.

Call the cops.

Uh, well, listen. I am
a cop. Oh, come on in.

Come on in. Come on.

You don't know what I've had
to put up with, with that character.

Where is he?

Come out, you bum. You've
had it, bum. The cops are here.

Aw, the cops are here. The
cops are here. Yeah, they are.

Where are the cops?

- You're a cop?
- Okay, now what's
all the fuss about?

Well, we were just having
what you might call...

a little domestic understanding.

Misunderstanding. He's drunk.

Look at him. He
can hardly stand up.

Don't tell me I'm
drunk. Look at you.

Well, I was just having a
little after-lunch cocktail,

but you, you've been
sipping up sauce...

ever since Wednesday. That's because
you haven't shut up on me since Wednesday.

Why don't you go
out and get a job?

I'll get a job, sure. Then
who's gonna cook around here?

Who's gonna clean
up? Who's go...

Huh. Be right back.

He cooks?

Yeah, him and his
trusty can-opener.

You name the soup, he cooks it.

Say, if you're a cop,
where's your gun?

Well, now, as I was saying,

we were just having a
little misunderstanding...

Misunderstanding? Shut up!

When, out of the clear blue,

she started bugging me about
going to her mother's on Sunday.

- He hates her.
- Like the plague.

Hey, you put your pants on.

You never put your pants
on for me, you lousy bum.

There is a lady present.

And what am I, chopped liver?

I'll tell you what you are.
Something you can push around...

whenever you feel
the urge? [Indistinct]

All right. Hold it,
hold it, hold it, hold it.

Now, if you don't
stop all the hollering,

there's gonna be more
than one cop around.

[Sighs] Now, you.

- Are you paying attention?
- Yes, ma'am.

Do you mind if I...
Could I sit down?

Oh, please, be my guest.

As long as I'm here, I
might as well ask you...

about a woman that
used to live in this building.

We would love to help you, Officer,
but we just moved in yesterday.

[Woman] The day
before yesterday.

Well, okay. Thank you.

Now, remember what I said.

Oh, Officer? Yeah?

Are you going to be
a regular on this beat?

No, but if you
don't start behaving,

I'll come around regularly.

Hi.

Uh, you're Sergeant Anderson.

Right? That's me.

Still looking for Anna Falkner's
daughter. Could I come in?

Oh, sure. Sure.
Sit down. Thanks.

Okay.

Uh, I'll do anything
I can to help you.

That's what we're here for.

But you know something?

We weren't what
you'd really call friends.

Oh. So she didn't really share
any of her secrets with you, huh?

No.

Well, did she ever...

mention any of these men,

or did you ever see
her with any of these?

Mmm, no.

Mm-mm. No. No.

Nope. Sorry.

Okay, well, thanks anyway.

Those men... Yeah?

Uh, why do you want
to know about them?

They're all involved
in a burglary ring.

Sorry I couldn't
have been more help.

Oh, I'm getting used to it.

Bye. Thanks. Bye.

Who was that?

Sergeant Anderson,
the cop I told you about.

Well, what did she want?

I don't know what she was after.

She showed me some pictures.

Well, I did know
some of the faces.

- Like who?
- People I've done
business with before.

Guys who place kids.

Like us.

What is it, lady?

Police officer.
Hey, ditch the stash!

[Toilet Flushing] Up against
the wall. Get your hands up.

I didn't come
looking for it, Charlie,

but since I'm here,
where's the stash?

Stash? What stash?

Oh, Mr. Ronald. What are you...

[Muffled Shouting]

If your friend hadn't panicked,
you wouldn't be here. Hey, listen.

That was smack
we had lying around.

He'd have been
a fool not to panic.

What did you want
to see me about?

- A deal.
- A deal?

- You asked me
about Anna Falkner, right?
- You said you didn't know her.

Well, I lied. Anna
and me were friends...

Very good friends,
if you follow.

I follow.

What I want to know
about is her daughter.

- We got a deal?
- Maybe.

- Where's the girl, Eric?
- With her old man.

You're about as dumb
as you are chicken.

Hey, now, listen.
That's the truth.

Anna didn't have any use for the kid
anyway. It got in the way, you know?

So when this dude comes
up with some bucks for it...

You mean to tell me that
her father made a settlement?

- Is that what Anna told you?
- No. Some lawyer.

Anna said he was making
all the arrangements.

Dude gave her a few thou.

Bought a lot of
jollies... for both of us.

What was the name of the lawyer?

- Well, I don't know.
- What do you mean,
you don't know?

I don't know. I
never met the guy.

You'll have to ask Carolee or
Ronald. They put her onto the dude.

- Carolee?
- Pep?

Yeah?

You know the neighborhood
you caught our friend in? Yeah.

Homicide wants you
down there right away.

They got themselves a mess that
they think you ought to know about.

Okay, Joe. Take over,
will you? You got it.

[Chattering]

Hi, Sarge.

A black-and-white found the
body about a half hour ago.

- But she wasn't killed here.
- Where?

In her room. There was obviously
a struggle. Blood everywhere.

Well, Caruso, this is a homicide.
What did you call me for?

- Ike Perry... You know him?
- Yeah.

He asked me to get in
touch with you about this.

He'd like to see you,
and he says it's important.

I try my best and something
like this has got to happen.

It's a terrible thing to
come out of my place.

After all I've
worked for. I know.

But why did you call me on this?

Well, Anna Falkner's daughter...
the missing daughter? Yes?

Marcia Gordon, she
had a son, a little boy.

I figured if you were
interested in the first child,

you'd be interested
in him too. Keep going.

Well, he lived with Marcia up
until a few days ago, and then...

- he left too.
- Left for where?

Well, she said she brought
him to his grandparents...

while she got ready to go into
the hospital, and she probably did,

but I thought you
should know about this.

[Car Approaching]

Mr. Cory.

You were supposed to straighten
her out, not kill her, dummy.

The cops were movin' in.

That broad, that
lady cop, Anderson.

She was asking questions
of everyone in the building.

If she'd have got to her, it
would have ruined everything.

So you think it
was all right then?

Ronald, you've got to learn
to think, to work things out.

You're a big boy.

I did what I had to do.

You did what
every fool has to do.

I can't afford to associate
myself with fools.

Hey.

Look, uh, we'll cool
things for a while, huh?

And then, when
all this blows over,

it'll be business at
the same old stand.

Forget it. What am I
gonna tell Carolee?

How am I gonna
explain it to her?

Carolee is your problem.

Yeah? Well, she could
become your problem.

Look, just keep away from me...

Both of you...

Or the police will find
some interesting records.

There's no statute of
limitations on murder.

♪♪ [Jazz] probably
Pisces or Aquarius.

I checked out all the
tenants in the building.

Almost everybody there
has a record of some kind,

but this guy has got four
pages of charges after his name.

"Ronald English."
It's all strong-arm stuff.

Armed robbery, extortion, attempted
murder. And he and his wife...

sort of help Ike in
running the place.

Sounds like a logical
contender to me.

He's also got
an alibi, of sorts.

His wife said she
was with him all night.

Uh-huh. That really
makes it "of sorts."

Mm-hmm. So what's our next move?

I think it's not just
getting to English...

'cause this guy's not smart enough
to handle an operation like that.

There's somebody higher up, and
what we gotta do is get through English...

to whoever that somebody is.

The home survives on donations,
and I've looked into the contributors.

One of the biggest is a
lawyer named Edward Cory.

Well, you've really hit on a
heavyweight this time. Yeah?

I had a run-in with this dude
one time. He's very slick.

He's a real bend-the-rules
kind of operator.

Not to mention the fact that the
last time Ronald English was in court,

this guy was his attorney...

and got him off on a
manslaughter charge.

That ought to tell us something.

Yeah, well, it tells me that we gotta
find a way to smoke the clown out.

Sergeant Anderson?

Oh, hi, Lucy. You
wanted to talk to me?

Yeah. It'll only take a
minute. It's about your guy.

You talked to him? Mm-hmm.

He tells me you two
have been wanting...

to make plans for when
he gets out of prison.

When did you talk to him?
When did you see him?

This morning in the lockup.

He comes up for sentencing next
week. How would you like to help him?

Help him? Sergeant Anderson,
I'd do anything to help him.

Okay.

Who the hell is that?

Oh, Carolee.

Oh, hi, Lucy. Is
something the matter?

I wanted to talk to Ronald.

[Carolee] Well,
what's the matter?

Something I should know about?

No, it's, uh... Well, yes.

Uh, come on in.

Come on.

Sit down.

You know, Lucy,

Ron and I have no
secrets from each other.

What can we do for you?

Well, it's about
the other night...

- You know,
when Marcia was killed.
- What about it?

Well, I couldn't sleep, so I
decided to go out for a walk.

But when I came
downstairs, I saw you.

- What?
- You were at Marcia's door.

It was 1:00 in the morning,

- but you were letting yourself
into her apartment with a key.
- So?

So, I heard some glass
breaking, and I heard a struggle.

Why didn't you stay
around for the whole act?

Because I got
scared and I split.

You killed her,
Ronald. You killed her.

Why, you lying
little... Hold it.

Hear her out.

Yeah, that's real smart.

You can't kill two of us in the
same apartment and get away with it.

Lucy,

What if I should tell you...

that Ron and I were
together all night?

No way he could have left.

Cops need
eyewitnesses, and I'm it.

Look, Carolee, I hate
cops as much as anyone,

and I won't go to 'em
unless I absolutely have to.

How much?

You two are involved
in that baby business.

I don't know what it is, but
I know there's some bread.

How much?

- Ooh, 15 thou.
- You blackmailer.
- Hold it!

It'd wipe out everything we've worked
for. We'd have hardly anything left.

You know something, Ron?

It wouldn't wipe out Ed Cory.

Oh, I tried to phone him.
He won't pick it up. Not for us.

He's got to...

now.

[Carolee On Radio] You know I'd
never really bother you, Mr. Cory,

but it's for your own
good as well as ours.

A girl here saw Ronald with
Marcia Gordon the other night.

She wants 25,000 to keep quiet.

Fine. We'll be there.

He wants the three of us
to meet him tonight at 11:00.

[Chuckles]

She made it. So far.

How's that for upping the ante?

[Chuckling] Yeah.

[Car Doors Shut]

[Car Starts]

12-Y-50 to 12-Y-52.
They just pulled out.

Be ready to pick
'em up at the corner.

Got you, Bill.

[Tires Screeching]

I mean, you're sure everything's
cool now? I'll get the bread?

We told you, Lucy.
You're gonna be rich.

Relax and listen to the music.

♪♪ [Country-Pop]

Man, I can't say much
for the guy's taste in music.

Well, it beats listening
to his rap... a little.

Yeah.

♪♪ [Continues]

You guys stay here. Pepper
and I will take the point.

Right.

So this is the young lady who's gonna
put us back into business together.

- You got the bread?
- Before we talk about money,

tell me what you know.

- I already told them.
- Who put you up to this?

Ike Perry?

That old goat? Strictly
on my own, man.

Now, uh, you got the bread?

No. I don't have any bread.

They said you were gonna
come up with 25 big ones.

What they said
is what I told them,

not what I thought about later.

What your husband did was messy.

Having this around is messy too.

Hey, look, mister, this
was just supposed to be...

a business deal, pure
and simple. That's all.

Ronald, straighten
her out your own way,

and I'll welcome
you back into the fold.

My God. Come and
get me! Hurry up!

[Tires Screeching]

Police officers! Freeze!

Hold it! Freeze!

Stay back. Stay back!

[Clattering]

[Groans]

You okay?

[Sirens Blaring]

Hey, you two. I'm gonna get
you for false arrest... entrapment.

We're gonna throw
the book at you.

And that includes
murder, sweetheart.

Sergeant?

Sergeant? You're still
gonna talk to the judge...

about my old man, aren't you?

You promised.

You bet I will.

You really delivered, Lucy.

It's me, Julie. Julie,
don't you remember me?

Don't you remember the
zoo and the pony rides?

She needs a little
time, Mr. Falkner.

She's a super little girl.

Julie, this is your grandfather,

and he loves you
as much as we do.

And you're going
to live with him now.

I'm not gonna take
you away, Julie.

I won't take you
anywhere. I promise.

Couldn't I be your grandpa?

Couldn't you call me Grandpa?

[Laughing]

Mr. Falkner,

we'd like it very much
if you stayed for dinner.

I'd love that. Thank you.

Oh, if all of you
stayed, please.

Gee, I don't know, Pep. What
do you think? Oh, no, thanks.

We've got a lot of work to do.

And you need some
time to yourselves.

We'll take a rain check.
We'll talk to you later.

Bill?

Thanks. Both of you.