Police Woman (1974–1978): Season 3, Episode 6 - Brainwash - full transcript
(tense instrumental music)
- Can you hear me?
I'll do anything you want.
- Come on, be nice,
be a sweetie pie.
- What did you say?
- You know, being big and
muscle-y isn't everything.
- Sounds like brainwashing.
- No, brainwashing is what
they get from the chatters,
the loonies.
- Hoping you'd be a
little more cooperative.
(yelling)
- Take a walk.
(high-pitched squealing)
- I'm looking for a psycho
killing kids on the beach.
- All right, freeze,
hold it right there!
(rhythmic instrumental music)
(dramatic music)
(car horn honking)
(dramatic music)
(telephone ringing)
- Lewin residence.
One minute please.
(suspenseful music)
- Yes, operator?
Oh, I'm sure the party
will call right back.
Thank you.
Oh, operator?
Where was the call placed from?
Which beach?
Thank you.
- Look, some
people are after me.
They're trying to kill me!
(car tires squealing)
(dramatic music)
- Why don't you get
on the radio, Pep,
see if the local police
can come up with anything
that might tie in.
- Greetings.
What's happening?
Remember me?
I wanna ask you
a couple questions.
- What are you doing?
- I'm asking you questions, man.
- All right, all right.
- Uh, you were here this
morning, weren't you?
- Sure, 5:30.
Why, what's going on?
- Homicide.
The body's over there
where the crowd is gathering.
When you got here this morning,
did you find anything
unusual or anything different?
- I wouldn't notice anything.
I'm into a training cycle now.
All's I can think
of is concentration.
- I can dig that.
So you didn't see
anything at all, right?
- I have to ignore
the externals.
All I can think about
now is my body
until after the quarter-finals.
- Well, I think you're doing
good, man, good luck to you.
- [Bill] Was he exactly like
that when you found him?
- Exactly, I mean, I
didn't touch a thing.
I could see he was dead
even though it was still dark out.
- What were you doing out
on the beach before daylight?
- Summer hours, I make a
run ahead of the cleaning rigs.
They can't see the
ground 'cause of the scoop.
I mean, we've run over
guys sleeping on the beach.
- Have you ever
seen this kid before,
hanging around the
beach, that you know of?
- No, huh-uh.
- You're sure?
- Yeah, I'm positive,
I've never seen him.
The first time I saw
him was this morning,
just the way he is.
- Okay, thanks very much.
- Yeah.
- Hey, excuse me.
(sighing) I'm
Investigator Styles.
You a tenant in this building?
- Yeah, well, I
mean not exactly.
- What do you mean?
- I stay,
I got some friends
up on the third floor.
- Look, a boy was
murdered last night
about a hundred yards from here.
Right over there on the beach.
- Yeah, I heard about that.
Man, it sure bummed me out.
- I'd like to question the
people in the building.
I just can't walk right in.
Good citizens might get nervous,
flush their stash
down the toilet,
make all those
crazy panic moves.
- Yeah, panic.
- No, I'm not
narcotics, or vice,
or the juvenile department, I
just wanna ask some questions.
Could you spread
the word around?
Hey, now you're
missing the whole point.
I'm looking for a psycho
killing kids on the beach.
This your beach?
- Yeah.
- You know the kid in the
plastic bag was about your age?
I'm just trying to
catch the killer,
put him on the brain ranch
before he hits again, that's all.
- Okay, wait here.
- [Bill] Death by asphyxiation.
Somebody twisted his
arm behind him 'til it broke,
and shoved his face in
the sand and held it there.
The M.O.'s different from
our other beach murders.
- [Pepper] They had one
at Santa Barbara like this
not too long ago.
- Similar, yeah.
But most of our
victims were discovered
on the more secluded beaches.
This guy was right
here on a public beach.
- Police responded to a
disturbance call last night.
- How long?
- It came from over there
on Wynnewood Street,
they didn't find anything.
- Do they know
who placed the call?
- It came from a youth
hotline switchboard
a few miles from here.
What was the time of death?
- Approximately midnight.
- That's when the call came in.
- Where are Pete and Joe?
- They split in both directions.
They wanted to cover as
much of the beach as possible,
before it filled up, but I
guess they didn't make it.
- Hey, spare a quarter?
- Don't have a quarter.
I tell you what, I'd give
you a quarter for a hug.
- Sure.
- Mmm, all right.
- Thanks, officer.
- Broke his arm and
buried his face in the sand?
- Yeah.
It wouldn't really
be that tough, Pep.
He was pretty
small, thin, 14 or 15.
- You wanna check
out the youth hotline?
- Yeah, let's do it now.
- Methadone take-home
privileges are just
to save you the daily trip!
He won't believe you anyhow.
Grass won't show
up on the urinalysis.
Yes, I'm positive.
I'm sorry.
Yes, I heard about
the kid on the beach.
Now, how can I help you?
- Did you call the
police last night?
- Yes, a boy called
in just after midnight.
He was scared but I could
tell it wasn't a bad drug trip.
He said they were
trying to kill him,
that he'd seen
them kill another kid.
- Did he say who they were?
- No, he just said they.
- So what did you do?
- I offered to call his parents
but he said he'd tried that.
He told me to get the police,
then he dropped the phone,
and I heard the door
go, and then a dial tone.
- Any voices, anything else?
- No, oh, isn't it terrible?
Missing kids turn
out to be dead kids.
- Yeah, there have been
an awful lot of them lately.
- Last week, it was
some girl, a missing girl,
out on the Coast
Highway, all busted up.
She went on the report
as a hit-and-run victim.
(telephone ringing)
- Hello, hotline.
- The call was placed
at 12:14 for anyone,
collect from Gary.
If I get a hold of
one of the parents,
and the description matches,
I'll have to ask them
to identify the body.
Tough one to put
through the phone.
- If the description matches,
Santa Barbara's only
a couple hours' drive,
I'll go with you.
Want me to?
- [Man] I'm Paul Lewin.
- How do you do, sir,
I'm Sergeant Crowley,
this is Sergeant Anderson.
- I assume this is about Gary.
- That's right, sir.
- Look, if I'm gonna
need my lawyer...
- Uh, not at this point.
How long has it been since
you've seen your son, Mr. Lewin?
- About two months.
Gary ran away from home.
I think this last time
made it an even dozen.
- Then you have
no idea where he is?
- None at all.
He'd tried to call me last night
but he hung up before
I could talk to him.
But he'll call back.
Look, I realize
that I don't qualify
as concerned parent
of the month to you,
but I have played this
scene several times before.
You must understand,
I'm sure you work
with plenty of juveniles.
- The questions we're
asking are in connection
with a homicide case.
- Homicide?
- A young man was
murdered in the beach area.
We think it might
be your son, sir.
I have some photographs
here, if you'd care to look at them.
- Oh my God.
Six months ago, Gary
ran away from home, again.
He was gone for two weeks,
then I got a call
from this fella, Curry,
representing the youth
foundation that he has,
and he said he'd located my
son, he wanted to talk to me.
So I drove down to
check out the foundation,
and I enrolled Gary.
- Was it expensive?
- It was a flat fee of $25,000.
Half at enrollment and
the balance in a year,
if the boy did not run away.
And if he did, the
foundation would locate him
and put him back in training.
- What was the
training program like?
- Oh, it was athletics,
manual crafts.
They had a lot of
intensive counseling,
I guess they
called it retraining,
or reprogramming.
When Gary called, I just
assumed he was back
at the foundation.
- Mr. Lewin, there
will be an investigation.
You can help us if you
don't talk to Mr. Curry,
so if he tries to contact
you, just let us know,
will you, please?
- Oh, sure.
- Reprogramming, retraining.
No matter how you slice it,
it still smells like
brainwashing to me.
- Are you up on brainwashing?
- Just the North Korean variety.
That's mostly a case
of push-and-shove,
and listen to the same thing,
until that's all you could hear.
- Hmm, some of them
didn't live through it, did they?
- [Bill] No.
- Do you remember what
the boy said about killing?
- Yeah, he said that
they were trying to kill him,
and he'd already seen
them kill another kid.
- I'd like to learn more
about reprogramming.
- Are you listening?
Can you hear me?
I'll do anything you want!
Really!
But you have to
let me out of here!
Please!
Please!
Please!
- Hmm, here's a winner for you.
If you operate a
crash pad for kids,
you do not need
juvenile authority,
unless you claim
county or state aid.
- Well, from this information,
these centers can
avoid a business license,
and then a lot of paperwork,
by filing as a
nonprofit organization.
- Right, here's one
that's hard to believe.
There's a Curry Youth
Foundation, lists seven employees
and not one has been
checked for a criminal record.
- It's not required.
- It's not?
- Nope, all they
need is approval
from the Department of Health.
- I never realized that.
These centers operate under
no supervision, no controls?
Did you know that?
- I didn't know it.
You gotta be lawyer just to
hand out a parking ticket, Pep.
- Sure.
- Those are the rules.
Whatever they are,
Mr. Curry is complying
with existing regulations.
Can't fault him for that.
No check for criminal records?
- None.
- There you go.
- Damn right.
- Been all night
long waiting for this.
- That's a pretty healthy leg.
Play a lot of football?
- No, a little soccer.
- Pep, I usually go
along with your instincts,
but I haven't yet figured out
a way inside the foundation.
- It's a lot more than instinct.
We have positive
indications that...
- Positive enough
to hold our interest,
but not for a search warrant.
- So what do we have, nothing?
- Nothing.
We may have to wait
for their next move.
What is that?
- Well, Pete thinks it's
a cross of hot chocolate
and onion soup.
I make it out to be
consomme and tea.
What do you think, William?
- I think the coffee
machine's out to get us all.
- You know, Pep, there's a
saying for that kind of smile.
- Cheshire.
- Cheese or cat.
- It's rather uncomplicated.
There are facts existing
inside the foundation,
which must be brought to light.
This will be brought to you
today through the medium
of reporter asking
questions at the front door.
- Sometimes you remind me
of my third-grade
elocution teacher.
You planning on doing your
Barbara Walters routine again?
- It's worth a try.
- You know, Pep, Curry's
not gonna let you in
just for publicity.
- Especially if he's
involved in the kid's death.
And besides, Pep,
everybody's not gonna go
for the baby browns, you know?
- Uh, I'd give her an interview.
- You would.
- See, it might work.
- You know, if a reporter
showed up asking questions,
Curry just might think
this is a bad time to say no.
- Particularly, if it's a pushy,
aggressive national magazine
like The National Woman.
- Which just happens
to be published
back in New York, right?
That would give us
time to salt in your cover,
before they could
check you out, maybe.
Okay, Barbara, what would
you say to open him up?
- I'm doing a feature article
for The National Woman.
I'll be writing about
youth foundations
and I'd like it to be accurate.
- [Curry] I'm sorry, I
don't give interviews.
- Then why don't
you listen to me?
I can't be writing about
west coast youth centers
without mentioning you
and your youth center.
Now, your competitors
have plenty to say about you,
so I have enough material
for a real hatchet job,
but I wanna be fair to
our subscribers and to you.
Now, all I have, so
far, are a few rumors
and a turn-down
for an interview.
I wouldn't wanna
print it that way.
- You're not trying
to intimidate me?
- Me intimidate you?
Oh, you'd never let
me get away with that.
- I'll give you 10 minutes.
- Terrific!
- Well, she walked
right in with no hassle.
- Well, you could
read that either way,
but you know Pepper,
she can take care of herself.
- [Curry] Here we are.
- Thank you, I really
do appreciate your time.
- Not at all.
- Uh, do you mind if I tape?
- All right.
Oh no, I don't mind at all.
The clock's on you,
you got 10 minutes.
- Thank you, I really
wanted to be accurate.
- I'd prefer it actually.
- Thank you.
Well, in your opinion, how
did you become so successful?
- We know what we're doing.
We work hard at it
just like any other field,
and we've gotten this big
because we understand kids.
- And are your
services expensive?
- Sometimes.
All of our income is
classed as contributions,
but I have to adjust
some of the charges,
because some of
the people can't pay.
But I never accept
a contribution
unless we can produce results.
- How do you do that?
- Well, you have to
understand the motivations
with runaways.
They're usually running
to something, not away.
They're running to new
experiences, new lifestyles.
- That's very
interesting, continue.
Please go on.
- Well, the most difficult
cases are the kids
who are running back
to groups or orders
who had them before.
And it's, um, well, there
must be a dozen groups
like that out there,
and they're offering kids
spiritual highs, eternal life,
then they bend their heads
and put them out on the street
with a cup or have them
sell incense or flowers.
Parents bring me kids
who won't go home,
or that won't stay
there if you take them.
My program brings them
around to the original values,
reorients them to the
meaningful things in life.
- Sounds like brainwashing.
- No, brainwashing is what
they get from the chatters,
the loonies.
I simply give them
common-sense counseling,
a chance to think it over.
- That simple?
- Mm-hmm.
What'd you expect,
something complicated?
- Truth.
And what's your
ratio of girls to boys?
- Well, that varies.
Right now, it's 40/60.
- Mm-hmm, and do you
have any women on your staff?
- Yes, a lady psychologist
and two companion matrons.
- Is this you?
- [Curry] (chuckling) Yes.
- Nice picture.
- Well, it was taken a
long time ago, Korea.
Are your readers
interested in sports?
- Yes, we have a
sports department.
(yelling)
(whistling)
- Actually basketball's
a very good thing,
'cause you get a
lot of body contact.
Got the girls over here.
(dramatic music)
Look at that spirit!
(dramatic music)
Oh, they're just
working off energy.
When they get serious,
they look like the Lakers.
When do you go back east?
- Oh, tomorrow or the day after.
Might stay and soak up some
of this California sunshine,
there's a pool at the Excelsior.
- Well, if you need
some more information,
why don't you give me a call?
- I have all I need, thank you.
I work very hard,
I'm really very tired.
- Well, if you...
Maybe I could
call you for a drink?
- Maybe that's why I told
you where I was staying.
(chuckling)
- Thank you.
- Sure.
What's wrong with Pamela?
- [Matron] I don't know,
she's not responding.
- Put her back into isolation.
- She's a very high-strung
girl, I'm not sure...
- I'm sure!
Put her back into the
chamber right now!
And phone some
of the youth centers
and find out if they've
been approached
by The National Woman magazine!
- Bob.
What did you talk
to that reporter for?
- Brushing her off could've
meant more attention.
And I wanted to look her over.
- Pamela!
Where's Pamela?
- [Cody] I'll call the
magazine in the morning.
- I was thinking about
something for tonight.
We gotta watch everything,
if they connect Gary
with the foundation...
- After the first one,
they're all numbers.
(tense upbeat music)
- Leave me alone!
Please let me go!
- Just cooperate with
me and get upstairs.
(yelling)
You know where
you're going, don't you?
(crying)
- Oh, thank you.
Hello?
- [Bill] Hi Pep.
- Oh, I guess I dozed
off, what time is it?
- It's time to pack it in, kid.
I guess the fish
aren't biting, eh?
- Well, I'm not
getting too sunburned.
Why don't I give it
another hour or so, okay?
Have you turned up anything?
- Nah, neither Cody nor
Curry has a criminal record.
I got Pete talking
to an ex-employee
and I got Joe out checking
Curry's service record.
I'm just leaving to check
out a complaint filed
against the foundation.
- You got anything for me?
- (laughing) What
have I got for you?
Why don't you just
knock it off for the day?
I hate to see a
lady work overtime.
- Okay, thanks, Bill.
- Like I said, Pamela's
mother remarried,
a dentist with two kids.
Pamela just never
felt comfortable there.
Okay, thank you.
- Sir, tell me something.
Why did you file the complaint?
- When I found out
my ex-wife put Pamela
into that youth foundation,
I tried to see her,
but I hit a brick wall.
They said it would
disturb her therapy.
- Is there any way that you
could make a home for the girl?
- I'd sure try.
- Then why don't you?
- The courts won't permit
it, she's got legal custody.
Look, I've got a home near here,
but most of the
time I'm on the road.
I filed that complaint
because I didn't know what
this Curry foundation was, or
what they were doing with her,
but now I'm really worried.
What's going on?
- We're just conducting an
investigation of the place.
- Is there anything I can do?
- I really can't think of
anything right now, sir.
I tell you, thank you very
much for your cooperation
and we'll be in touch.
- Please let me know if I can.
- Ah yes, room service, please.
This is room 412, I
just placed an order.
I'd like to cancel it,
I'm going to have dinner
in the dining room instead.
Thank you very much.
- [Pete] Bill?
- [Bill] Yeah, how'd you do?
- Just got off the phone
and I thought you
might like to know
that Curry did receive a full
medical disability discharge
from the army.
He stopped receiving his
checks when he failed to appear
for his periodical checkups.
- That's very interesting.
- Yes, and he was a
patient at the VA hospital,
psychiatric section.
- I wonder what
he was treated for?
- Well, it certainly wasn't
athlete's foot, I know that.
- The VA would have
copies of his medical records.
It's probably too late to go,
why don't you get on this
first thing in the morning?
- Well, ordinarily that's
true, but in this case,
I happen to know a nurse
who thinks I make
a wonderful doctor.
- That's who they are.
- Oh, hi, I just tried to call
you on the house phone,
but you must've been
on your way down.
Did you make any
plans for dinner?
- I was thinking of maybe
just grabbing a sandwich
in the dining room and
then heading back tonight.
I don't find this
town very friendly.
- I'm sorry about
today, but if you knew
how many muckrakers I get
coming around that foundation
trying to do a smear job on me.
You know, I even get
competitors spying on me,
trying to figure
out how I operate.
- Really?
- Yeah.
Gotta be careful.
Now, how about relaxing?
Ah, we'll have a
very nice dinner,
and I'll tell you everything
that you wanna know.
I got the car right outside.
- Thank you.
- Freeze, turkey!
- Put all that away, Pete.
I'm just cooperating
with the police.
- Just the police, huh?
So that's what our
relationship has come to
after all this time.
There's nobody else is there?
- Why, there must be.
It's been over a month.
- Has it really been that long?
- Well, you came in with
that bottle of dandelion wine,
all up on that big
arrest you just made.
We were right at this desk.
- Well, you have to admit, it
was a very beautiful evening.
(yelling)
- What do you want?
This is a private club.
- You Oaks?
I'm Sergeant Crowley
with the police department.
- What do you wanna do, bust me?
- I'd like to ask you
a few questions.
- Jam it, I'm concentrating.
- Just hoping you'd be
a little more cooperative.
- Take a walk.
You might accidentally
get chopped up around here.
- Sorry I bothered you.
Think I'll just take
a look around.
(grunting)
(moaning)
Now you better relax.
You know the old saying,
when you're up to your
neck in one of these,
don't open your mouth.
- I ought to kill you
when I get loose!
- See what I mean?
You're just getting
in deeper and deeper.
All right, outside, outside,
this place is occupied.
You were listed as an employee
of the Curry Youth Foundation.
Why'd you get fired?
- Where you going?
Don't leave me like this!
- I'll be back
when you're ready!
- I didn't get fired!
I quit.
The guy that runs it, Curry.
He's doing numbers
on kids' heads.
- What kind of numbers?
- How do I know?
He's doing some sort
of brainwashing deal.
- What do you know about Curry?
- I don't know
nothing about him!
- What about this guy
you worked with, Cody,
what do you know about him?
- He used to work out here.
- Yeah, give me some more.
- His name's Colfield.
I think he's wanted
back in Ohio.
- For what?
- How should I know?
That's it, there ain't no more!
There ain't no more!
- Okay.
How many bricks can you break?
- What do you mean, how
many bricks can I break?
- How many bricks can you break?
- 12 or 14.
- That's really something.
Gonna give me the cuffs?
Give me the cuffs.
Give me the cuffs!
What do you got, Pete?
- Curry's been confined
in a neuropsychiatric ward
a couple of times.
And about a dozen
times as an outpatient.
- Anything we can move on?
- Well, not really.
All we do know is that his
head was really spaced-out
for a few years.
As a matter of fact, his last
visit was three years ago.
- That was supposed
to be Pepper's date.
Glad he stood her up.
- Really?
How about you, anything?
- Yeah, another name for Cody.
We're checking it out.
- Well, I'll be right in.
What time do you get off?
- 6:00 a.m.
Gonna take me out
for coffee and a donut?
- You keep talking like that
and I'll put the cuffs on you,
then you know what'll happen.
- Most of the
things that you read
about brainwashing are negative.
They break you
off to the basics,
cut you off from everything
that's familiar, secure.
- Is that how some
groups convert runaways?
- Well, their techniques are
a little bit more sophisticated
but the principle's the same.
I was talking about
Korea in the '50s.
- You were a prisoner of war?
- Two years.
Look, I've gotta stop by the
foundation for a minute, okay?
- Sure.
- And then we'll get to dinner.
Kids turn over their existences
to whatever movement has them,
and they exclude everyone
outside of the group,
even their parents.
Sometimes they're even sent
home to rip off their parents.
- And you can remove the
effect of all that conditioning?
(telephone ringing)
- Oh, excuse me, be right back.
- I'm getting a little hungry.
- It smells phony to me.
There are no baggage
checks, no labels in her clothes.
You keep her
there, I'm on my way.
- Is it dinnertime yet?
- Almost.
I'd like to show you something.
Have you ever seen
an SD chamber?
- Oh, no.
- Sensory deprivation,
the basis for
behavioral modification.
(door slamming)
The effectiveness
is in the simplicity.
- Can't say too much
for your decorator.
- You may change
your mind about that.
Containers hold water and a
high-protein food supplement
in vanilla-flavored.
The temperature is a
constant 68 degrees,
and the room's
completely soundproof.
It's amazing, what
with all the advances
in behavior control,
this is the most effective,
and the most humane.
- This is where you
retrain runaways?
- This is where we begin.
- I'm starting to get a
little nervous in here.
- Well, you may notice
that a little bit more acutely
after you've been
in here a while.
A few people
experience absolute quiet,
and total solitude,
entire lives.
- Interesting.
- After the initial
shock of the solitude,
you may doze a lot, and then
you'll lose all sense of time.
Men keep track of it by
the growth of their beards.
Have you read Edgar Allan Poe?
Well, he wrote a
story about a man
who was accidentally
locked in a mausoleum,
and he became
completely disoriented.
He imagined that
he was dying of thirst,
sensed hunger pains,
but when they let him
out, he'd gone mad,
and he'd only been locked
up a matter of a few hours.
You're gonna tell me
what you're doing here
and who you're working for.
- I already told you.
- Now don't try to bluff it out!
You can save yourself
a lot of discomfort.
- If I can just get to a
phone, I can call my editor.
- Well, since you're a reporter,
this will give you a
first-person experience
in sensory deprivation
conditioning.
I'll let Cody take care of you.
He'll enjoy that.
(dramatic music)
(moaning)
- Hello.
- Chicks don't go out
with no ID and no makeup,
and they don't fly around
with one change of clothes
with no labels in it.
Are you sure no one
saw you leaving with her?
- Positive, nobody
knows she's here.
We've got all the time we need.
- We don't know how
much time we have,
until we find out who she is.
- We'll find out.
(keys jingling)
(groaning)
- Put it on!
That is no teenager
we have in there.
We have to have some answers
and we have to have them now.
- We'll get them.
- All right, we'll try it
your way for a while,
but remember, my
way always works.
- We have to know who
she is and why she's here.
After that, we can figure
out what to do with her.
(knocking)
- No, no!
No, no!
(screaming)
Don't!
Don't!
- You don't talk.
Instead, give me the belt.
- [Pepper] I can explain!
- Yeah?
- [Pepper] Don't!
- You see, you haven't told
the truth since you got here.
- [Pepper] Yes I have!
- Yes, but I'll tell
you what, you will.
- You'd better
tell us everything.
He'll make you talk,
he gets a kick out of it.
- Lewin came in from
Santa Barbara today
to identify his son's body.
He said the boy was terrified
of going back to the
foundation, but all he could say is
that he was locked up,
alone for long periods.
- I know that.
I've seen tough cons
fall apart in solitary.
It's gonna be heavy for the kid.
- Yeah.
Hell, we don't even
know if Curry saw the kid
after he ran away.
- He's careful.
Probably snatches the kids
and looks them over for a while
before he calls their parents.
(buzzing)
- Yeah.
Okay.
You know that peabrain
Oaks lied to me?
Cody doesn't show under
the name he gave me.
- That's strange,
he knows you're gonna run
a make on him right away.
- Maybe he just doesn't
appreciate our problems.
- There he is, I'll take the
front, you take the back.
Hi there.
(upbeat music)
- [Joe] All right,
keep up, come on!
Come on!
I got him, Pete.
- [Pete] All right, bowlegs.
- Come on, come
on out, bring him out.
Come on buddy.
All right, hold it.
- Oh, that's too unbe...
Another 10 minutes
and I'd have been gone.
- What, you scared?
- You believe it!
- Oh, go on.
- I'll tell you all I know.
Just keep me out of it, okay?
- What about Curry?
- He's in it for the bucks.
Cody, though, he's crazy.
- What do they do to the kids?
- I don't know.
- What do you mean
you don't know?
- They got a room
underneath the gym,
where they keep
the violent ones,
they were the hard cases.
They come out like zombies.
- Yeah, why's that?
- I don't know!
I just wanted out.
- What the hell you
running away from us for?
We got nothing on you.
- I don't trust cops.
Besides, I figured you
mentioned me to Cody.
(high-pitched squealing)
(groaning)
- Oh!
- Crowley, did you
check out the shrink
that was on the
foundation's health permit?
- Yeah, she turned out to
be an outside consultant
with a mail-order
degree in psychology.
She's had meetings with Curry,
but she's never
been to the foundation
and she's never
worked with the kids.
- [Pete] Maybe
drop it someplace.
- [Joe] Well, maybe
it's not our move.
- [Pete] Yeah?
- A maid at the motel found
Pepper's room ransacked
and reported it as a burglary,
now Pep's not
answering her phone.
- All right, rolling.
(telephone ringing)
- Hello.
- [Pete] Is she there, Bill?
- No, she's not here.
- The door was forced, it
could've been a burglary.
Oh, Joe found Pep's car
out in the parking lot, locked.
- I think we'd better get
over to that foundation.
(gasping)
- She's been in there all night,
and she hasn't said a word.
Turn the strobe on,
alternate the frequency.
It'll keep her from resting.
(high-pitched squealing)
(heavy breathing)
(knocking)
- [Pete] Hi, I'm lost.
Could you call me a cab?
- There's a public telephone
two blocks down the road.
- Yeah, I know,
but I got no change,
and besides, it's a pretty
frightening area around.
I get a little scared.
Come on, be nice,
be a sweetie pie.
- What did you say?
- Let me use the phone.
You know, being big and
muscle-y isn't everything.
- [Joe] Hold it, police!
(dramatic music)
- [Pete] Halt!
(gun firing)
- Freeze, hold it!
Get them over your head.
Let's go, get them, get them up!
Now, up on the wall.
Let's go.
Where is she?
- I'll show you.
- She better be
all right, let's go!
(high-pitched squealing)
(dramatic music)
Let's go.
Let's go!
(high-pitched squealing)
Where's she at?
Pepper?
Untie her!
- Bill?
- Pepper, you okay?
(groaning)
Get outta there,
come on, let's move.
- [Joe] Hey Bill!
- Yeah!
Get him Joe.
Ah!
- Oh, Bill.
Oh, Bill.
- Are you okay?
- The key.
- Huh, what do you want?
- The key.
The key.
- Hang on.
- Couldn't shut him up.
- Really, is that right?
Yeah?
- Well, we got everything.
- That's great.
Oh, how is she, Doctor?
- The child's all right.
She's just a little disoriented.
We're gonna keep her here
a few days for observation.
Has anyone notified her
parents that she's here?
- That's all been taken
care of, thank you.
- Thank you.
- Thank you very much, Doctor.
- [Doctor] Thank you.
- [Pepper] You're
gonna be okay, Pam.
- Pam, we notified your father.
He's on his way over.
He's very concerned about you.
- My father.
- [Bill] He loves you very much.
- You're gonna have to be
making some decisions pretty soon.
- Soon as I get my
head back together,
I think I'll be able to
hack it with my dad
and a lot of other things.
- Well that's good, because
I might not be around
to bail you out next time.
- Yes, I know.
- Bye, Pam.
- Bill Crowley
might not be around
to bail you out next time.
(tense instrumental music)
- Can you hear me?
I'll do anything you want.
- Come on, be nice,
be a sweetie pie.
- What did you say?
- You know, being big and
muscle-y isn't everything.
- Sounds like brainwashing.
- No, brainwashing is what
they get from the chatters,
the loonies.
- Hoping you'd be a
little more cooperative.
(yelling)
- Take a walk.
(high-pitched squealing)
- I'm looking for a psycho
killing kids on the beach.
- All right, freeze,
hold it right there!
(rhythmic instrumental music)
(dramatic music)
(car horn honking)
(dramatic music)
(telephone ringing)
- Lewin residence.
One minute please.
(suspenseful music)
- Yes, operator?
Oh, I'm sure the party
will call right back.
Thank you.
Oh, operator?
Where was the call placed from?
Which beach?
Thank you.
- Look, some
people are after me.
They're trying to kill me!
(car tires squealing)
(dramatic music)
- Why don't you get
on the radio, Pep,
see if the local police
can come up with anything
that might tie in.
- Greetings.
What's happening?
Remember me?
I wanna ask you
a couple questions.
- What are you doing?
- I'm asking you questions, man.
- All right, all right.
- Uh, you were here this
morning, weren't you?
- Sure, 5:30.
Why, what's going on?
- Homicide.
The body's over there
where the crowd is gathering.
When you got here this morning,
did you find anything
unusual or anything different?
- I wouldn't notice anything.
I'm into a training cycle now.
All's I can think
of is concentration.
- I can dig that.
So you didn't see
anything at all, right?
- I have to ignore
the externals.
All I can think about
now is my body
until after the quarter-finals.
- Well, I think you're doing
good, man, good luck to you.
- [Bill] Was he exactly like
that when you found him?
- Exactly, I mean, I
didn't touch a thing.
I could see he was dead
even though it was still dark out.
- What were you doing out
on the beach before daylight?
- Summer hours, I make a
run ahead of the cleaning rigs.
They can't see the
ground 'cause of the scoop.
I mean, we've run over
guys sleeping on the beach.
- Have you ever
seen this kid before,
hanging around the
beach, that you know of?
- No, huh-uh.
- You're sure?
- Yeah, I'm positive,
I've never seen him.
The first time I saw
him was this morning,
just the way he is.
- Okay, thanks very much.
- Yeah.
- Hey, excuse me.
(sighing) I'm
Investigator Styles.
You a tenant in this building?
- Yeah, well, I
mean not exactly.
- What do you mean?
- I stay,
I got some friends
up on the third floor.
- Look, a boy was
murdered last night
about a hundred yards from here.
Right over there on the beach.
- Yeah, I heard about that.
Man, it sure bummed me out.
- I'd like to question the
people in the building.
I just can't walk right in.
Good citizens might get nervous,
flush their stash
down the toilet,
make all those
crazy panic moves.
- Yeah, panic.
- No, I'm not
narcotics, or vice,
or the juvenile department, I
just wanna ask some questions.
Could you spread
the word around?
Hey, now you're
missing the whole point.
I'm looking for a psycho
killing kids on the beach.
This your beach?
- Yeah.
- You know the kid in the
plastic bag was about your age?
I'm just trying to
catch the killer,
put him on the brain ranch
before he hits again, that's all.
- Okay, wait here.
- [Bill] Death by asphyxiation.
Somebody twisted his
arm behind him 'til it broke,
and shoved his face in
the sand and held it there.
The M.O.'s different from
our other beach murders.
- [Pepper] They had one
at Santa Barbara like this
not too long ago.
- Similar, yeah.
But most of our
victims were discovered
on the more secluded beaches.
This guy was right
here on a public beach.
- Police responded to a
disturbance call last night.
- How long?
- It came from over there
on Wynnewood Street,
they didn't find anything.
- Do they know
who placed the call?
- It came from a youth
hotline switchboard
a few miles from here.
What was the time of death?
- Approximately midnight.
- That's when the call came in.
- Where are Pete and Joe?
- They split in both directions.
They wanted to cover as
much of the beach as possible,
before it filled up, but I
guess they didn't make it.
- Hey, spare a quarter?
- Don't have a quarter.
I tell you what, I'd give
you a quarter for a hug.
- Sure.
- Mmm, all right.
- Thanks, officer.
- Broke his arm and
buried his face in the sand?
- Yeah.
It wouldn't really
be that tough, Pep.
He was pretty
small, thin, 14 or 15.
- You wanna check
out the youth hotline?
- Yeah, let's do it now.
- Methadone take-home
privileges are just
to save you the daily trip!
He won't believe you anyhow.
Grass won't show
up on the urinalysis.
Yes, I'm positive.
I'm sorry.
Yes, I heard about
the kid on the beach.
Now, how can I help you?
- Did you call the
police last night?
- Yes, a boy called
in just after midnight.
He was scared but I could
tell it wasn't a bad drug trip.
He said they were
trying to kill him,
that he'd seen
them kill another kid.
- Did he say who they were?
- No, he just said they.
- So what did you do?
- I offered to call his parents
but he said he'd tried that.
He told me to get the police,
then he dropped the phone,
and I heard the door
go, and then a dial tone.
- Any voices, anything else?
- No, oh, isn't it terrible?
Missing kids turn
out to be dead kids.
- Yeah, there have been
an awful lot of them lately.
- Last week, it was
some girl, a missing girl,
out on the Coast
Highway, all busted up.
She went on the report
as a hit-and-run victim.
(telephone ringing)
- Hello, hotline.
- The call was placed
at 12:14 for anyone,
collect from Gary.
If I get a hold of
one of the parents,
and the description matches,
I'll have to ask them
to identify the body.
Tough one to put
through the phone.
- If the description matches,
Santa Barbara's only
a couple hours' drive,
I'll go with you.
Want me to?
- [Man] I'm Paul Lewin.
- How do you do, sir,
I'm Sergeant Crowley,
this is Sergeant Anderson.
- I assume this is about Gary.
- That's right, sir.
- Look, if I'm gonna
need my lawyer...
- Uh, not at this point.
How long has it been since
you've seen your son, Mr. Lewin?
- About two months.
Gary ran away from home.
I think this last time
made it an even dozen.
- Then you have
no idea where he is?
- None at all.
He'd tried to call me last night
but he hung up before
I could talk to him.
But he'll call back.
Look, I realize
that I don't qualify
as concerned parent
of the month to you,
but I have played this
scene several times before.
You must understand,
I'm sure you work
with plenty of juveniles.
- The questions we're
asking are in connection
with a homicide case.
- Homicide?
- A young man was
murdered in the beach area.
We think it might
be your son, sir.
I have some photographs
here, if you'd care to look at them.
- Oh my God.
Six months ago, Gary
ran away from home, again.
He was gone for two weeks,
then I got a call
from this fella, Curry,
representing the youth
foundation that he has,
and he said he'd located my
son, he wanted to talk to me.
So I drove down to
check out the foundation,
and I enrolled Gary.
- Was it expensive?
- It was a flat fee of $25,000.
Half at enrollment and
the balance in a year,
if the boy did not run away.
And if he did, the
foundation would locate him
and put him back in training.
- What was the
training program like?
- Oh, it was athletics,
manual crafts.
They had a lot of
intensive counseling,
I guess they
called it retraining,
or reprogramming.
When Gary called, I just
assumed he was back
at the foundation.
- Mr. Lewin, there
will be an investigation.
You can help us if you
don't talk to Mr. Curry,
so if he tries to contact
you, just let us know,
will you, please?
- Oh, sure.
- Reprogramming, retraining.
No matter how you slice it,
it still smells like
brainwashing to me.
- Are you up on brainwashing?
- Just the North Korean variety.
That's mostly a case
of push-and-shove,
and listen to the same thing,
until that's all you could hear.
- Hmm, some of them
didn't live through it, did they?
- [Bill] No.
- Do you remember what
the boy said about killing?
- Yeah, he said that
they were trying to kill him,
and he'd already seen
them kill another kid.
- I'd like to learn more
about reprogramming.
- Are you listening?
Can you hear me?
I'll do anything you want!
Really!
But you have to
let me out of here!
Please!
Please!
Please!
- Hmm, here's a winner for you.
If you operate a
crash pad for kids,
you do not need
juvenile authority,
unless you claim
county or state aid.
- Well, from this information,
these centers can
avoid a business license,
and then a lot of paperwork,
by filing as a
nonprofit organization.
- Right, here's one
that's hard to believe.
There's a Curry Youth
Foundation, lists seven employees
and not one has been
checked for a criminal record.
- It's not required.
- It's not?
- Nope, all they
need is approval
from the Department of Health.
- I never realized that.
These centers operate under
no supervision, no controls?
Did you know that?
- I didn't know it.
You gotta be lawyer just to
hand out a parking ticket, Pep.
- Sure.
- Those are the rules.
Whatever they are,
Mr. Curry is complying
with existing regulations.
Can't fault him for that.
No check for criminal records?
- None.
- There you go.
- Damn right.
- Been all night
long waiting for this.
- That's a pretty healthy leg.
Play a lot of football?
- No, a little soccer.
- Pep, I usually go
along with your instincts,
but I haven't yet figured out
a way inside the foundation.
- It's a lot more than instinct.
We have positive
indications that...
- Positive enough
to hold our interest,
but not for a search warrant.
- So what do we have, nothing?
- Nothing.
We may have to wait
for their next move.
What is that?
- Well, Pete thinks it's
a cross of hot chocolate
and onion soup.
I make it out to be
consomme and tea.
What do you think, William?
- I think the coffee
machine's out to get us all.
- You know, Pep, there's a
saying for that kind of smile.
- Cheshire.
- Cheese or cat.
- It's rather uncomplicated.
There are facts existing
inside the foundation,
which must be brought to light.
This will be brought to you
today through the medium
of reporter asking
questions at the front door.
- Sometimes you remind me
of my third-grade
elocution teacher.
You planning on doing your
Barbara Walters routine again?
- It's worth a try.
- You know, Pep, Curry's
not gonna let you in
just for publicity.
- Especially if he's
involved in the kid's death.
And besides, Pep,
everybody's not gonna go
for the baby browns, you know?
- Uh, I'd give her an interview.
- You would.
- See, it might work.
- You know, if a reporter
showed up asking questions,
Curry just might think
this is a bad time to say no.
- Particularly, if it's a pushy,
aggressive national magazine
like The National Woman.
- Which just happens
to be published
back in New York, right?
That would give us
time to salt in your cover,
before they could
check you out, maybe.
Okay, Barbara, what would
you say to open him up?
- I'm doing a feature article
for The National Woman.
I'll be writing about
youth foundations
and I'd like it to be accurate.
- [Curry] I'm sorry, I
don't give interviews.
- Then why don't
you listen to me?
I can't be writing about
west coast youth centers
without mentioning you
and your youth center.
Now, your competitors
have plenty to say about you,
so I have enough material
for a real hatchet job,
but I wanna be fair to
our subscribers and to you.
Now, all I have, so
far, are a few rumors
and a turn-down
for an interview.
I wouldn't wanna
print it that way.
- You're not trying
to intimidate me?
- Me intimidate you?
Oh, you'd never let
me get away with that.
- I'll give you 10 minutes.
- Terrific!
- Well, she walked
right in with no hassle.
- Well, you could
read that either way,
but you know Pepper,
she can take care of herself.
- [Curry] Here we are.
- Thank you, I really
do appreciate your time.
- Not at all.
- Uh, do you mind if I tape?
- All right.
Oh no, I don't mind at all.
The clock's on you,
you got 10 minutes.
- Thank you, I really
wanted to be accurate.
- I'd prefer it actually.
- Thank you.
Well, in your opinion, how
did you become so successful?
- We know what we're doing.
We work hard at it
just like any other field,
and we've gotten this big
because we understand kids.
- And are your
services expensive?
- Sometimes.
All of our income is
classed as contributions,
but I have to adjust
some of the charges,
because some of
the people can't pay.
But I never accept
a contribution
unless we can produce results.
- How do you do that?
- Well, you have to
understand the motivations
with runaways.
They're usually running
to something, not away.
They're running to new
experiences, new lifestyles.
- That's very
interesting, continue.
Please go on.
- Well, the most difficult
cases are the kids
who are running back
to groups or orders
who had them before.
And it's, um, well, there
must be a dozen groups
like that out there,
and they're offering kids
spiritual highs, eternal life,
then they bend their heads
and put them out on the street
with a cup or have them
sell incense or flowers.
Parents bring me kids
who won't go home,
or that won't stay
there if you take them.
My program brings them
around to the original values,
reorients them to the
meaningful things in life.
- Sounds like brainwashing.
- No, brainwashing is what
they get from the chatters,
the loonies.
I simply give them
common-sense counseling,
a chance to think it over.
- That simple?
- Mm-hmm.
What'd you expect,
something complicated?
- Truth.
And what's your
ratio of girls to boys?
- Well, that varies.
Right now, it's 40/60.
- Mm-hmm, and do you
have any women on your staff?
- Yes, a lady psychologist
and two companion matrons.
- Is this you?
- [Curry] (chuckling) Yes.
- Nice picture.
- Well, it was taken a
long time ago, Korea.
Are your readers
interested in sports?
- Yes, we have a
sports department.
(yelling)
(whistling)
- Actually basketball's
a very good thing,
'cause you get a
lot of body contact.
Got the girls over here.
(dramatic music)
Look at that spirit!
(dramatic music)
Oh, they're just
working off energy.
When they get serious,
they look like the Lakers.
When do you go back east?
- Oh, tomorrow or the day after.
Might stay and soak up some
of this California sunshine,
there's a pool at the Excelsior.
- Well, if you need
some more information,
why don't you give me a call?
- I have all I need, thank you.
I work very hard,
I'm really very tired.
- Well, if you...
Maybe I could
call you for a drink?
- Maybe that's why I told
you where I was staying.
(chuckling)
- Thank you.
- Sure.
What's wrong with Pamela?
- [Matron] I don't know,
she's not responding.
- Put her back into isolation.
- She's a very high-strung
girl, I'm not sure...
- I'm sure!
Put her back into the
chamber right now!
And phone some
of the youth centers
and find out if they've
been approached
by The National Woman magazine!
- Bob.
What did you talk
to that reporter for?
- Brushing her off could've
meant more attention.
And I wanted to look her over.
- Pamela!
Where's Pamela?
- [Cody] I'll call the
magazine in the morning.
- I was thinking about
something for tonight.
We gotta watch everything,
if they connect Gary
with the foundation...
- After the first one,
they're all numbers.
(tense upbeat music)
- Leave me alone!
Please let me go!
- Just cooperate with
me and get upstairs.
(yelling)
You know where
you're going, don't you?
(crying)
- Oh, thank you.
Hello?
- [Bill] Hi Pep.
- Oh, I guess I dozed
off, what time is it?
- It's time to pack it in, kid.
I guess the fish
aren't biting, eh?
- Well, I'm not
getting too sunburned.
Why don't I give it
another hour or so, okay?
Have you turned up anything?
- Nah, neither Cody nor
Curry has a criminal record.
I got Pete talking
to an ex-employee
and I got Joe out checking
Curry's service record.
I'm just leaving to check
out a complaint filed
against the foundation.
- You got anything for me?
- (laughing) What
have I got for you?
Why don't you just
knock it off for the day?
I hate to see a
lady work overtime.
- Okay, thanks, Bill.
- Like I said, Pamela's
mother remarried,
a dentist with two kids.
Pamela just never
felt comfortable there.
Okay, thank you.
- Sir, tell me something.
Why did you file the complaint?
- When I found out
my ex-wife put Pamela
into that youth foundation,
I tried to see her,
but I hit a brick wall.
They said it would
disturb her therapy.
- Is there any way that you
could make a home for the girl?
- I'd sure try.
- Then why don't you?
- The courts won't permit
it, she's got legal custody.
Look, I've got a home near here,
but most of the
time I'm on the road.
I filed that complaint
because I didn't know what
this Curry foundation was, or
what they were doing with her,
but now I'm really worried.
What's going on?
- We're just conducting an
investigation of the place.
- Is there anything I can do?
- I really can't think of
anything right now, sir.
I tell you, thank you very
much for your cooperation
and we'll be in touch.
- Please let me know if I can.
- Ah yes, room service, please.
This is room 412, I
just placed an order.
I'd like to cancel it,
I'm going to have dinner
in the dining room instead.
Thank you very much.
- [Pete] Bill?
- [Bill] Yeah, how'd you do?
- Just got off the phone
and I thought you
might like to know
that Curry did receive a full
medical disability discharge
from the army.
He stopped receiving his
checks when he failed to appear
for his periodical checkups.
- That's very interesting.
- Yes, and he was a
patient at the VA hospital,
psychiatric section.
- I wonder what
he was treated for?
- Well, it certainly wasn't
athlete's foot, I know that.
- The VA would have
copies of his medical records.
It's probably too late to go,
why don't you get on this
first thing in the morning?
- Well, ordinarily that's
true, but in this case,
I happen to know a nurse
who thinks I make
a wonderful doctor.
- That's who they are.
- Oh, hi, I just tried to call
you on the house phone,
but you must've been
on your way down.
Did you make any
plans for dinner?
- I was thinking of maybe
just grabbing a sandwich
in the dining room and
then heading back tonight.
I don't find this
town very friendly.
- I'm sorry about
today, but if you knew
how many muckrakers I get
coming around that foundation
trying to do a smear job on me.
You know, I even get
competitors spying on me,
trying to figure
out how I operate.
- Really?
- Yeah.
Gotta be careful.
Now, how about relaxing?
Ah, we'll have a
very nice dinner,
and I'll tell you everything
that you wanna know.
I got the car right outside.
- Thank you.
- Freeze, turkey!
- Put all that away, Pete.
I'm just cooperating
with the police.
- Just the police, huh?
So that's what our
relationship has come to
after all this time.
There's nobody else is there?
- Why, there must be.
It's been over a month.
- Has it really been that long?
- Well, you came in with
that bottle of dandelion wine,
all up on that big
arrest you just made.
We were right at this desk.
- Well, you have to admit, it
was a very beautiful evening.
(yelling)
- What do you want?
This is a private club.
- You Oaks?
I'm Sergeant Crowley
with the police department.
- What do you wanna do, bust me?
- I'd like to ask you
a few questions.
- Jam it, I'm concentrating.
- Just hoping you'd be
a little more cooperative.
- Take a walk.
You might accidentally
get chopped up around here.
- Sorry I bothered you.
Think I'll just take
a look around.
(grunting)
(moaning)
Now you better relax.
You know the old saying,
when you're up to your
neck in one of these,
don't open your mouth.
- I ought to kill you
when I get loose!
- See what I mean?
You're just getting
in deeper and deeper.
All right, outside, outside,
this place is occupied.
You were listed as an employee
of the Curry Youth Foundation.
Why'd you get fired?
- Where you going?
Don't leave me like this!
- I'll be back
when you're ready!
- I didn't get fired!
I quit.
The guy that runs it, Curry.
He's doing numbers
on kids' heads.
- What kind of numbers?
- How do I know?
He's doing some sort
of brainwashing deal.
- What do you know about Curry?
- I don't know
nothing about him!
- What about this guy
you worked with, Cody,
what do you know about him?
- He used to work out here.
- Yeah, give me some more.
- His name's Colfield.
I think he's wanted
back in Ohio.
- For what?
- How should I know?
That's it, there ain't no more!
There ain't no more!
- Okay.
How many bricks can you break?
- What do you mean, how
many bricks can I break?
- How many bricks can you break?
- 12 or 14.
- That's really something.
Gonna give me the cuffs?
Give me the cuffs.
Give me the cuffs!
What do you got, Pete?
- Curry's been confined
in a neuropsychiatric ward
a couple of times.
And about a dozen
times as an outpatient.
- Anything we can move on?
- Well, not really.
All we do know is that his
head was really spaced-out
for a few years.
As a matter of fact, his last
visit was three years ago.
- That was supposed
to be Pepper's date.
Glad he stood her up.
- Really?
How about you, anything?
- Yeah, another name for Cody.
We're checking it out.
- Well, I'll be right in.
What time do you get off?
- 6:00 a.m.
Gonna take me out
for coffee and a donut?
- You keep talking like that
and I'll put the cuffs on you,
then you know what'll happen.
- Most of the
things that you read
about brainwashing are negative.
They break you
off to the basics,
cut you off from everything
that's familiar, secure.
- Is that how some
groups convert runaways?
- Well, their techniques are
a little bit more sophisticated
but the principle's the same.
I was talking about
Korea in the '50s.
- You were a prisoner of war?
- Two years.
Look, I've gotta stop by the
foundation for a minute, okay?
- Sure.
- And then we'll get to dinner.
Kids turn over their existences
to whatever movement has them,
and they exclude everyone
outside of the group,
even their parents.
Sometimes they're even sent
home to rip off their parents.
- And you can remove the
effect of all that conditioning?
(telephone ringing)
- Oh, excuse me, be right back.
- I'm getting a little hungry.
- It smells phony to me.
There are no baggage
checks, no labels in her clothes.
You keep her
there, I'm on my way.
- Is it dinnertime yet?
- Almost.
I'd like to show you something.
Have you ever seen
an SD chamber?
- Oh, no.
- Sensory deprivation,
the basis for
behavioral modification.
(door slamming)
The effectiveness
is in the simplicity.
- Can't say too much
for your decorator.
- You may change
your mind about that.
Containers hold water and a
high-protein food supplement
in vanilla-flavored.
The temperature is a
constant 68 degrees,
and the room's
completely soundproof.
It's amazing, what
with all the advances
in behavior control,
this is the most effective,
and the most humane.
- This is where you
retrain runaways?
- This is where we begin.
- I'm starting to get a
little nervous in here.
- Well, you may notice
that a little bit more acutely
after you've been
in here a while.
A few people
experience absolute quiet,
and total solitude,
entire lives.
- Interesting.
- After the initial
shock of the solitude,
you may doze a lot, and then
you'll lose all sense of time.
Men keep track of it by
the growth of their beards.
Have you read Edgar Allan Poe?
Well, he wrote a
story about a man
who was accidentally
locked in a mausoleum,
and he became
completely disoriented.
He imagined that
he was dying of thirst,
sensed hunger pains,
but when they let him
out, he'd gone mad,
and he'd only been locked
up a matter of a few hours.
You're gonna tell me
what you're doing here
and who you're working for.
- I already told you.
- Now don't try to bluff it out!
You can save yourself
a lot of discomfort.
- If I can just get to a
phone, I can call my editor.
- Well, since you're a reporter,
this will give you a
first-person experience
in sensory deprivation
conditioning.
I'll let Cody take care of you.
He'll enjoy that.
(dramatic music)
(moaning)
- Hello.
- Chicks don't go out
with no ID and no makeup,
and they don't fly around
with one change of clothes
with no labels in it.
Are you sure no one
saw you leaving with her?
- Positive, nobody
knows she's here.
We've got all the time we need.
- We don't know how
much time we have,
until we find out who she is.
- We'll find out.
(keys jingling)
(groaning)
- Put it on!
That is no teenager
we have in there.
We have to have some answers
and we have to have them now.
- We'll get them.
- All right, we'll try it
your way for a while,
but remember, my
way always works.
- We have to know who
she is and why she's here.
After that, we can figure
out what to do with her.
(knocking)
- No, no!
No, no!
(screaming)
Don't!
Don't!
- You don't talk.
Instead, give me the belt.
- [Pepper] I can explain!
- Yeah?
- [Pepper] Don't!
- You see, you haven't told
the truth since you got here.
- [Pepper] Yes I have!
- Yes, but I'll tell
you what, you will.
- You'd better
tell us everything.
He'll make you talk,
he gets a kick out of it.
- Lewin came in from
Santa Barbara today
to identify his son's body.
He said the boy was terrified
of going back to the
foundation, but all he could say is
that he was locked up,
alone for long periods.
- I know that.
I've seen tough cons
fall apart in solitary.
It's gonna be heavy for the kid.
- Yeah.
Hell, we don't even
know if Curry saw the kid
after he ran away.
- He's careful.
Probably snatches the kids
and looks them over for a while
before he calls their parents.
(buzzing)
- Yeah.
Okay.
You know that peabrain
Oaks lied to me?
Cody doesn't show under
the name he gave me.
- That's strange,
he knows you're gonna run
a make on him right away.
- Maybe he just doesn't
appreciate our problems.
- There he is, I'll take the
front, you take the back.
Hi there.
(upbeat music)
- [Joe] All right,
keep up, come on!
Come on!
I got him, Pete.
- [Pete] All right, bowlegs.
- Come on, come
on out, bring him out.
Come on buddy.
All right, hold it.
- Oh, that's too unbe...
Another 10 minutes
and I'd have been gone.
- What, you scared?
- You believe it!
- Oh, go on.
- I'll tell you all I know.
Just keep me out of it, okay?
- What about Curry?
- He's in it for the bucks.
Cody, though, he's crazy.
- What do they do to the kids?
- I don't know.
- What do you mean
you don't know?
- They got a room
underneath the gym,
where they keep
the violent ones,
they were the hard cases.
They come out like zombies.
- Yeah, why's that?
- I don't know!
I just wanted out.
- What the hell you
running away from us for?
We got nothing on you.
- I don't trust cops.
Besides, I figured you
mentioned me to Cody.
(high-pitched squealing)
(groaning)
- Oh!
- Crowley, did you
check out the shrink
that was on the
foundation's health permit?
- Yeah, she turned out to
be an outside consultant
with a mail-order
degree in psychology.
She's had meetings with Curry,
but she's never
been to the foundation
and she's never
worked with the kids.
- [Pete] Maybe
drop it someplace.
- [Joe] Well, maybe
it's not our move.
- [Pete] Yeah?
- A maid at the motel found
Pepper's room ransacked
and reported it as a burglary,
now Pep's not
answering her phone.
- All right, rolling.
(telephone ringing)
- Hello.
- [Pete] Is she there, Bill?
- No, she's not here.
- The door was forced, it
could've been a burglary.
Oh, Joe found Pep's car
out in the parking lot, locked.
- I think we'd better get
over to that foundation.
(gasping)
- She's been in there all night,
and she hasn't said a word.
Turn the strobe on,
alternate the frequency.
It'll keep her from resting.
(high-pitched squealing)
(heavy breathing)
(knocking)
- [Pete] Hi, I'm lost.
Could you call me a cab?
- There's a public telephone
two blocks down the road.
- Yeah, I know,
but I got no change,
and besides, it's a pretty
frightening area around.
I get a little scared.
Come on, be nice,
be a sweetie pie.
- What did you say?
- Let me use the phone.
You know, being big and
muscle-y isn't everything.
- [Joe] Hold it, police!
(dramatic music)
- [Pete] Halt!
(gun firing)
- Freeze, hold it!
Get them over your head.
Let's go, get them, get them up!
Now, up on the wall.
Let's go.
Where is she?
- I'll show you.
- She better be
all right, let's go!
(high-pitched squealing)
(dramatic music)
Let's go.
Let's go!
(high-pitched squealing)
Where's she at?
Pepper?
Untie her!
- Bill?
- Pepper, you okay?
(groaning)
Get outta there,
come on, let's move.
- [Joe] Hey Bill!
- Yeah!
Get him Joe.
Ah!
- Oh, Bill.
Oh, Bill.
- Are you okay?
- The key.
- Huh, what do you want?
- The key.
The key.
- Hang on.
- Couldn't shut him up.
- Really, is that right?
Yeah?
- Well, we got everything.
- That's great.
Oh, how is she, Doctor?
- The child's all right.
She's just a little disoriented.
We're gonna keep her here
a few days for observation.
Has anyone notified her
parents that she's here?
- That's all been taken
care of, thank you.
- Thank you.
- Thank you very much, Doctor.
- [Doctor] Thank you.
- [Pepper] You're
gonna be okay, Pam.
- Pam, we notified your father.
He's on his way over.
He's very concerned about you.
- My father.
- [Bill] He loves you very much.
- You're gonna have to be
making some decisions pretty soon.
- Soon as I get my
head back together,
I think I'll be able to
hack it with my dad
and a lot of other things.
- Well that's good, because
I might not be around
to bail you out next time.
- Yes, I know.
- Bye, Pam.
- Bill Crowley
might not be around
to bail you out next time.
(tense instrumental music)