RoboCop (1994): Season 1, Episode 16 - The Tin Man - full transcript

(playful music)

(people chattering)

(people arguing)

- Get out of here kid, get out.

- [Kid] Hey, don't push.

- [Truck] Your selection please.

- 50 on the Italian army and
the Cypress Creek conflict.

- [Secretary] The chairman
is ready for your conference.

Mr. Trenton, you have three
minutes beginning now.

- Good morning Mr. Trenton.

- Good morning, sir.



I was hoping we could have a face-to-face.

- Yes, well, I'm a busy man.

You have some thoughts regarding gambling

related crime Mr Trenton?

- [Truck] You're selection please?

(tires squealing)

(dramatic music)

- [Patron] Get out of here.

(people scrambling)

(guns firing)

- Violence is rising due
to the Braga Molotov war

for control on illegal
gambling in old Detroit, sir.

Gambling, which significantly affects,

the sale of OCP lotto tickets.



Now as vice president in charge
of the criminal think tank,

I have come up with what I am confident

is the only viable solution.

(guns blasting)

I want to reprogram Robocop.

Get rid of all his
directives and overrides

all of that namby pamby stuff.

(guns blasting)
(dramatic music)

I want to make him as
ruthless as the criminals.

Now I ran some numbers.

- Mr. Trenton, with ideas like that.

The only numbers that should concern you

are your remaining days with OCP.

(guns blasting)
(sirens wailing)

(guns firing)

Robocop is first and
foremost, a police officer.

He will not break the
law to uphold the law.

- Drop your weapons and surrender.

Or there will be, trouble.

- Bust him.

(guns blasting)

(men groaning)

(man shouting)

- And most important,

Robocop represents the
most positive aspects

of this corporation.

(man groaning)

- Freeze,

You're under arrest.

- Wager data transmitted,
all bets cleared from memory.

- I just dumped the evidence.

You got nothing on me, robot.

(dramatic music)

- Don't bet on it.

- I expect better of you, Mr. Trenton.

And I expect it by the end of the week.

(tense music)

- Buchanan Max, Warden
Delvecchio, private line.

- What is it J. Michael?

- Activate tin man.

- You're joking.

What about glitches?

What about?

- I'll take that chance, activate him now.

(dramatic music)

(machine beeping)

- Tin man, activation.

(dramatic music)

- [Man] Go ahead and sharp
the flat line then let's quit.

- [Woman] Okay, everybody clear.

- Officer Alex Murphy shot
to death in the line of duty.

- [Doctor] Legally he's dead.

We can pretty much do what we want.

- There's a new guy in town.

His name's Robocop.

(triumphant music)

- Murphy, it is you.

(gun blasting)

- Wow.

(explosion blasting)

(news music)

- Give us three minutes

and we'll give you the world.

This is Media Break with Beau
Harlan and Rocky Grimshaw.

Rioting broke out at the
national Scholastic decathlon

in Las Vegas today.

When spectators accused this
young man Elliot "Pukey"

Feldman of throwing the match by failing

to recognize the molecular
structure of Silicon

and causing the odds on
favorite Mumford High to lose.

- It was a frame up, the
opposing team brought donuts.

I was hyped on sugar.

I'm not supposed to have sweets.

Ask my mom.

- It's too bad.

I had five bucks on that one.

(news person laughing)

Speaking of bucks, treasury
department officials

declared the $1 Ronald
Reagan coin affectionately

known as "the Ronnie" a success,

saying that in its second year of minting,

the coin has completely replaced

the traditional paper
greenback, more after this.

- Hi, my name is Milton Seger

and I won 10 million bucks,

playing Commander Cash scratchers.

And you know what?

It's true what they say.

Money talks.

- [Announcer] Commander Cash scratchers,

It's more than a game, It's easy money.

Odds of winning a 14,500,000 to one.

(siren wailing)

- [Girl] Come on, it wasn't really.

- I need you to sign off on these.

- Did that this morning, Sarge.

- Those were this morning's memos.

This is the afternoon batch.

- You're Kidding me.

- Yeah.

- Oh Well, I should have known

from the desk of Mr. J Michael Trenton

executive vice president,
criminal think tank.

- Robocop, where are you off to?

- I have a lead on one of
Reggie Brogos Pitman games.

- Not til you give me those arrest reports

on the junk food shoot 'em
up you crashed this morning.

(computer beeping)

- Done.

- Hey, wait a minute, Robo.

Here's a memo about you.

Arrest record down 2% in the last quarter.

Please adjust circuits accordingly.

- Circuits.

Give that memo to Lippincott.

- Hey look, just do what I do.

Don't read 'em, just initial them.

- This looks just like the machines

on the east cream trucks.

- All done.

Want to give it a test?

Scratch off six Commander
Cashes win 10 million big ones.

Just costs a Ronnie to play.

- Wow. 10 million big ones.

You know, Sarge won't let me
buy anything from those trucks.

He says they're full junk food and vice.

- I did not authorize that thing.

- Sorry General. OCP's putting
them in every precinct.

Besides you initialed the memo.

- Gadge, On days like this,
I wish I could buy a boat

and you and me could sail away.

Gambling in the police
station, can you believe it?

Next thing you know, we'll
be getting naked, dancing.

- 10 million big ones, could buy the sarge

a really big boat.

With a pool table, kitchen,

Gee I lost.

(crowd cheering)

(fighters growling)

(crowd cheering)

- Yeah, come on!

(audience booing)

- Please, come on.

(crowd cheering)

- You know, it's a pleasure doing business

with enterprising young Americans.

who know when to lay down.

- Hey, where's the rest?

- Hey.

- Wow. Donuts, thanks Reggie.

(Reggie laughing)

(crowd cheering)

(tense music)

- You're a good boy, Pukey.

- My name's Elliot, stitch.

- Don't call me stitch.

- Yes, sir.

- Let's go.

(crowd shouting)

- Down, get down, come on.

- Well, if it isn't Reggie Braggo.

- Molotov,

perhaps we can make a deal.

- Yeah, sure, on your knees,

now.

- Okay. (chuckling nervously)

I can be a reasonable man.

I won't hit your truck's no more, okay,

We can forget about all this.

- Yeah. We're going to
forget about it, all right.

Out of sight, out of mind.

- Hey boss, who's that?

(crowd shouting)

(gun blasting)

(glass shattering)

(people screaming)

(sirens wailing)

- Finally, get him.

(guns blasting)

(crowd shouting)

- Drop your weapons.

(alarm beeping)

- Malloys rule number
one, there is nothing

nothing better than being a cop.

- Malloy?

(device blasting)

- [Bomb] Hello, I am a talking bomb,

I'm sure to explode in 15
seconds, have a nice day.

14 seconds, 13,

12, 11 10,

nine, eight, seven, six

five, four,

- [Man] move it, move it.

(bomb exploding)

(dramatic music)

(siren wailing)

- Hey, robo,

robo, wait up.

- Can I help you?

- Can you help me?

Murphy what's going on with you?

You alright?

- Yes.

Thank you for your concern.

- Robocop.

- Oh, thank goodness.

- Hey, we lost track of you
after their warehouse explosion.

What happened out there?

- I will file a report.

Excuse me.

- Guess I'll read the report.

(doors slamming)

- Sergeant, can you spare
a Ronnie for some coffee?

I seem to have misplaced all my change.

- Oh yeah.

(soft music)

(computer beeping)

- I'm outside the courtroom
where the Malloy trial

took a dramatic turn today.

The jury heard damning
testimony from Detroit police

officer Timothy Malloy's rookie partner

officer Alex Murphy, that
he attempted to stop Malloy

from striking a suspect, Robert Prince,

with several brutal blows.

What, here's officer Murphy now.

(reporters shouting)

- Hey, thanks buddy, thanks a lot.

How do you feel now, huh?

It was your testimony
that's going to put me away.

Do you know what they
do to cops in prison?

He was a dirt bag Murph.

He was a (beeping) dirt bag.

- Officer Murphy. how do
you feel knowing it was

your own testimony that put
your own partner in prison?

- All I did was tell the truth.

He doesn't deserve this.

He's only going to
prison because you people

turned this trial into a witch hunt.

I should have lied.

- Malloy's rule Number two

Good cop always plays by the
rules even when it hurts.

(soft music)

(computer beeping)

- Beautiful,

Just beautiful.

I love this guy.

Single-handedly takes
on two of the nation's

most vicious crime gangs

and he's a cool as a vegetable.

No Offense.

Oh wait til the old man gets a
load of this guy's handiwork.

Ooh, he's going to love it.

We are talking bonus time.

Maybe even a promotion.

- Sensors registered a glitch.

- Glitch, what kind of a glitch?

- He hesitated,

again.

- Who cares?

He pulled it off.

- You know the CIA wasn't
too pleased when it happened

during the real sanction.

- Larry, Larry, Larry

you worry too much.

You got to take some chances in this life.

You know, put your butt on the line.

You want to get ahead.

- Sometimes. I wonder if
he can even comprehend

what's happened to him?

- Larry,

you really needed a change of scenery.

Hang around this zombie long enough,

He'll give anybody the
creeps. huh? (laughing)

Come on. I'll buy you dinner, huh?

And we'll bring you back a doggy bag.

(machines beeping)

(Murphy moaning)

(phones ringing)
(people chattering)

- Do you have a tissue, Lisa?

- Sure do.

There you go.

- Thanks. You know what?

- [Cop] What's that?

- That new motorcycle
you're always talking about,

You're going to get a real soon.

- Is that so?

- Yep. You just wait.

- Sarge, you got a sec.

- That's about all I got.

Hi.
- Hi.

- Why would Murphy be so
interested in this Malloy guy?

- It was his testimony that convicted him.

He was a good cop, but he had one bad day

thought he could clean up
this town all by himself.

Pressure caught up, he
took it out on a suspect,

put him in the hospital.

- Well they sure threw the book at him.

- The media and the
politicians made sure of that

they were like sharks at a feeding frenzy.

- Look at his prison record, spotless,

up for parole three times
turned down every time.

- What?

It can't be.

I should have been called
as a character witness.

Damn, look who was warden then.

- If it isn't our old pen
pal. J Michael Trenton.

- You saying that Murphy was checking up

on Malloy last night?

- [Cop] Yep.

- Do me a favor, keep an eye on Murph.

(soft music)

- Sorry. I took so long.

There was a nasty pile up
on the information highway.

What's up Alex?

- I need a citywide scan
on a tag I made last night.

- The Vigilante, you tagged him?

- Yes.

all right, something
interesting for a change.

I'm on my way.

- Diana,

can you access Buchanan,
Mac's parole records.

- Sorry Alex. They're
not part of my system.

Why?

- Just curious.

(soft music)

- What exactly are you
driving at Mr Trenton?

- It's all in my latest statistics, sir.

Gambling and related
criminal activity are down

by more than 40% since the
vigilante hit Broggo's arena.

- And you're suggesting?

- I am strongly suggesting, sir

that we look the other way

and let the vigilante
do what he's been doing.

He has no affiliation with OCP

his actions don't reflect on us

and look at the results he gets.

- So you think the vigilante is positive?

Is that correct, Mr. Trenton?

- The figures don't lie, Mr. Chairman?

- Uh-huh, yes, yes.

Give me today's what's
on your mind, 55 to 60.

- Umberto, there is a man out there,

who's trying to kill us.

We are not the criminals.

We are businessmen.

I sell healthy sandwiches
to hungry working men

in old Detroit.

- And delicious Boffo the clown ice cream

to the little children.

- The police out there are
doing nothing to protect us.

They don't care about the children.

(sniffling)

They don't care about
the hungry working men.

- It's because we are foreigners.

They want us all to go
back to where we came from.

They allow this madman to stalk us.

- So if you can, Ritchie
Braga, Vlad Malatov,

share with our viewers and
myself. Umberto Ortega,

what you have decided to
do about this injustice?

- We're merging our companies.

- Strength, through unity.

- Your vigilante has just
created the largest crime cartel

in Detroit's history.

You would like to figures Mr. Trenton,

well, we estimate the resulting rise

in illegal gambling is
going to cost the OCP lotto

almost 2 billion in revenue.

What have you to say to that?

- Buchanan, Max, Warden
Delvecchio, private line,

- J Michael?

- Tell tin Man.

He's taking a meeting with
Boffo the clown tonight.

And nobody walks away from this one.

(soft music)

- Alex, I've picked up a
weak signal from your tag.

He just passed a satellite dish
on a roof at 1040 Whitaker.

- Thank you, Diana.

- Boffo the Clown represents
the finest in illegal gambling.

The people trust Boffo the clown.

I don't want you messing with that image.

- Oh, I wouldn't think of it.

You got my word on it.

Stitch?

- Told you nobody calls me. Stitch.

Nobody, You hear that.

Nobody calls me Stitch,
especially not you.

I want him dead, kill him.

- Guns, guns, guns, there
you go being stupid again.

The first rule of good business
is don't kill your partner.

(laughing) I apologize
for being too fascinated

by that big ugly scar on your face.

(glass shattering)
(dramatic music)

- [All] Blow him away.

(guns blasting)

- Please clear the area.

- [Stitch] Run for it, come
on, lets get out of here.

- Surrender Malloy.

I don't want to hurt you.

(Malloy groaning)

- Help me, I don't want to be like this.

(groaning)

- Tim, what happened to you?

- What am I going to do?

There's going to be an investigation.

What if Malloy glitches?

They'll find out everything.

- We have broken a ton of laws, Larry.

It is going to get real
nasty from here on in.

They could put us both
away for attempted murder

at the very least.

And worse than that, the old
man is getting rid of me.

It's all over the offices.

I'm out of the loop, Larry.

I can't protect you anymore.

You are on your own baby.

Do what you have to.

I'll Take care of Malloy.

Yeah.

(workers chattering)

- Malloy.

Do you remember Alex Murphy?

- I,

I,

Murphy was killed.

- Yes.

(soft music)

- Check this out.

- Whoa
- yeah.

- [Cop] Pretty high tech.

- Yeah, it's on par with Robocop's system.

And look at this

(gun blasting)

(laughing)

- What are you doing?

What are you doing?

- The fabric's some sort
of unstable molecular weave

it soaks up impact like a sponge.

This thing could take a bazooka round

and still keep a crease.

You're looking at the cutting edge

of security concepts,
experimental weapons division.

- There's no way in the world
that Malloy escaped prison

with this kind of firepower
without somebody's help.

I'm going to find that somebody.

(workers chattering)

- Wait here a minute,

Robo it's time.

How is he?

- He is not himself.

- Prison can do that to a man.

- Not like this.

There is something else.

- Look Murphy, he was a good cop,

but he made a mistake and he paid for it.

- He paid too much.

(dramatic music)

(soft music)

- Ah Warden Delvecchio,

Detective Madigan, Metro South.

- Hi. (chuckling nervously)

Could you come back in a couple
of hours, tomorrow maybe?

- Oh tomorrow's not good for me.

I'm on the Malloy case, I
was hoping you could answer

a few questions.

- (chuckling nervously)

what kind of questions?

- Oh big ones.

Like how did he escape a
maximum security prison

without it being reported?

- Gadge?

Are all those yours?

So this is where all my change went.

Gadge, I'm not missing this much.

- I borrowed some.

When I win I'm going to pay everyone back.

The grand price is 10 million big ones.

I was going to buy you your boat.

And Lisa a motorcycle,

and something for Robocop.

I don't know what but something.

Please don't be mad at me, okay.

- Hey hey,

I'm not mad.

Gadge, you fell for the
oldest hook in the book.

There's no easy Money in real life.

All these people here, they
work real hard for their money.

You don't see them looking
for the quick payoff,

now do you?

What you did is no different

than the kids that get
sucked into the street gang.

And you know that's wrong, don't you?

- Sure, but this is different.

It's legal.

- Yeah, It's legal.

But you stole to play
it and that's not legal.

You know what I want you to do.

I want you to go tell everyone

that you borrowed money
from that you are sorry,

and that you're gonna pay them back, okay?

- Okay.

- Now do it.

- I love you, Sarge.

- I love you too.

Go do what I told you.

- Hey hey, kid.

Howdy do, general, just here
to empty the money machine.

- Could I borrow this hammer?

- Help yourself, buddy.

- Excuse me.

(machine shattering)
- hey hey hey hey.

What, are you crazy?

- You keep your damn slot
machines out of my precinct.

Are you going to need a
proctologist to find the next one?

(man scoffing)

- Malloy was part of a
weapons testing program?

- Of course, many of
our inmates volunteer.

The testing program is the main
source of Buchanan's funds.

My predecessor's idea.

- J Michael Trenton.

- That's right.

- Why didn't you report Malloy's escape?

- I thought we could handle it internally.

Avoid embarrassment.

My mistake.

- Tell me why did you put a man

with a record of mental instability

in a weapons testing program?

- We took a chance.

- You took a chance.

- He was a cop.

He had certain training we needed.

- Training?

I've seen your Guinea pig
warden, the man as a zombie.

He couldn't have done this on his own.

He sits and waits for orders like a robot.

Now what the hell did you do to him?

- I'm not cleared to give
you that information.

- Well, then you tell me who can,

otherwise I'm going to make sure

that you take full credit
for this little project.

(tense music)

- We're going to have a
lock on all the gambling

in Old Detroit.

This is going to make
the OCP lottery look like

a church. Bingo, which by the way

is something we ought to look into.

I always thought the real
money was in religion.

- I'll put it on the board's agenda.

What do you want?

Who's going to visit us?

- The vigilante escaped
and he knows where you are.

Oh, I'd say you had about

15 minutes before he gets there.

- [Vlad] Who's this?

- Me.

I'm just a friend

- There's a detective after me.

You've got to help me out.

- Sorry Lar, no can-do.

Got my pink disc.

I'm walking and none too soon.

- This detective linked me to Malloy.

If she gets me, she'll get you too.

- You want to bet.

I may have been the warden,
but you were the psychiatrist

with the big ideas, emotional
amputation You said,

turn a man into a flesh and
blood robot Ooh, CIA loved it.

They're funding put,
Buchanan Max in the black

got me this nifty office,

but Hey

where's the paper trail?

- But. But?

- My authorizations were verbal.

And you can bet

that the CIA is as clean as I am on this.

No, the only thing linking me to Malloy

is Malloy

and I took care of that loose end

when I broke him out of the prison bus.

And thanks to Braga and Molotov

tin man is about to be toast.

So hasta la vista, Larry.

(soft music)

A wire?

A wire!

- That's right, a wire.

So where's Malloy?

- [Radio] all units, all
frequencies be on the lookout

for suspect, Timothy Malloy,
suspect was broken out

of a prison bus by an unknown accomplice

while on route to Buchanan
maximum security penitentiary

approach with extreme caution.

Malloy is considered armed and dangerous.

- And Malloy's rule number three.

You always look out for
your partner, always.

(people chattering)

(siren wailing)

- Sorry, Alex, I scanned the whole city.

There's no sign of Malloy.

Somebody must have deactivated
the tag you put on him.

- He needs my help.

I will find him.

(car revving)

(siren blasting)
(exciting music)

(dramatic music)

- Murphy, Trenton just spilled his guts.

He sent Malloy to Molotov's
warehouse on Lake Shore.

It's a setup.

- [Robo] I'm on my way.

(lights clicking)

- Get him.

(guns blasting)

(siren wailing)

(guns blasting)

(siren wailing)

(guns blasting)

- [Vlad] Come on, forget the pea shooters.

- What is Malloy's Rule number one?

What is Malloy's rule number one?

- That, nothing

better than

being a cop, cop.

- Thank you, partner.

- Murphy, Murphy?

What did they do to us, Murph?

(weapons blasting)

(sirens wailing)

(guns blasting)

I'll cover you Murphy.

There's nothing better than being a cop.

- The coat, get the guy with the coat.

- [Henchman] He's over there.

(guns blasting)

- Take him Murph.

(explosion booming)

(men screaming)

(sirens wailing)

- [Police] Police, everybody freeze.

- [Henchman] Let's split, come on.

(men shouting)

- Okay, here, we go, okay.

- What did you do, this is ridiculous.

I'm innocent, I didn't do anything.

He started, it, why don't you get him.

I'm just an immigrant
trying to make his way.

This is all your fault Stitch.

- I told you don't call me Stitch.

- Murphy, You all right?

Where's Malloy?

- [Robo] there.

- Dispatch send a search boat.

- Malloy's rule number three,

always look out for your partner.

(dramatic music)

(rock music)

♪ in the heart of the
darkness, a light still burns ♪

♪ Take you back there to a memory of ♪

♪ In the heart of the
darkness, she's still there ♪

♪ She's always holding
on to what you share ♪

♪ Is anybody out there
gonna shake your hand ♪

♪ Hold you close, help you understand ♪

♪ There's a future to this life ♪

♪ And it burns in the night ♪

♪ there's a future to this life ♪

♪ But it's like a sign in the sky ♪

♪ There's a future to this life, oh ♪