Street Justice (1991–1993): Season 1, Episode 10 - Self Defense - full transcript

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yeah it's no problem what are you gonna

see uh toss up

now between what no that's the name of

the movie toss-up

dumb name hello hi it's me yeah i'm on

my way

okay bye see ya all right oh malloy have

fun

okay

who was that malloy she's on her way



for working out tonight remember girls

night out

really out where

we talked about this last week

do i have to repeat myself

to a movie you said i could go out to a

movie with malloy tonight

without making dinner no i made you a

cold plate it's in the refrigerator i

see

no more dinner i want a hot meal

on the table and that's going to

preclude your going out

and you'd better hurry because if you



don't

we won't have anything left to eat on

please

please what i'll stay i'll do anything

you say

just please don't do this you do it you

know

you make me do it i don't want to but

you bring it on

what are you looking at get back here

please don't do this

oh

i give you an order

i'm sorry i have to take a rain check

lisa what's wrong nothing

i have a headache won't go away

lisa i'll clean tomorrow okay

i'm sorry now lisa lisa

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he

well thank you

did i actually see him hit her no but

she was fine on the phone

and she was a mess when i got there that

doesn't prove that she was beaten oh

maybe i should have gotten some

snapshots believe me it couldn't hurt

huh

okay what so you've been through this is

that it it's a cop's worst call

arresting a wife beater hauling a

husband off the jail and having a wife

change your mind

oh great malloy

hi hi i'm sorry i'm late no

no that's okay we just sat down um lisa

blake this is adam boudreau

hi you own the bar with some lie

oh that's right so how are you how you

feeling um

fine much better the headache's all gone

i'm sorry i wasn't expecting company

i asked adam to come lisa

i'm a police officer malloy surprised

both of us

talk about what doug

what about duck

you know what about doug

you don't have to be afraid mrs blake

this is not official if your husband's

giving you trouble we can talk about it

i don't know what you mean i love my

husband he loves me

we want to help you lisa we don't need

any help

doug is a wonderful husband i'm sure he

is

if you'd excuse me i need to use the

ladies room

ah

no i already checked the contraband okay

take it easy i'm taking these man

all right so hard oh my god let's go

okay man what do we have here the

youngster brothers

another smash and grab quick drug money

ain't like the old days adam be careful

with your wishes

not again you know the blitz i go by

there once a month and a neighbor's

complaint

ever make an arrest of who mr blake's a

regular gentleman the mrs says the

neighbors lie

i'll take this one ah it's my beat i'll

take it

hello police open the door please where

are you going

hello police i should get that if you

want to go to the door looking like that

that's fine with me

yes sir this is blake adam padre police

what's the trouble officer your

neighbors thought someone was being hurt

your name sir

this is my husband doug blake

mr boyk and i don't know what the

neighbors heard but there's no one being

hurt here

honey oh no i had the tv online while i

was vacuuming it

that must have been it you also knock

over the lamp man

i was upgrading papers last night

detective math papers

some of the work can be a little hard to

read you're a teacher

professor at community and i'm a little

behind on tomorrow's lecture so if you'd

leave us now

i'm not finished yet

mrs blake you can file assault charges

man would you like to come with me and

do that

what i'm not talking to you

i'd like to help you

i have some soup on stove if you please

see yourself out

if i have to come back here i don't want

to hear about loud televisions and

vacuum cleaners

and creating papers i don't have to

listen to this

let's keep it that way

this is blake

so she won't take my help and she won't

take your help

what am i supposed to do now get her

away from that guy oh adam i

tried she just won't leave doug she says

she's nothing without him

this is that classic case you were

talking about right

low self-esteem keeps her in a place

that gives her low self-esteem yeah

we're closing up folks thanks for the

business good night folks don't forget

your seatbelts

adam i mean isn't there anything else

that that you can do for

anything grady's still here right

yeah he's in the back why maybe i have a

fix

you want me to take an abused woman and

turn her around with a few martial arts

lessons

i don't want you to turn her around just

get her on her face

look b i can uh i can teach her a move

that'll kill the guy but when it comes

time to use it she probably

won't it doesn't happen overnight aren't

you the guy who said self-first then

defense

b she doesn't sound like a serious

martial artist huh

i never said she was all i want is to

build up her confidence

okay so this is like uh get her out of

the house

show there's a big world out there now

you're getting it

and you think maybe that with the little

victory maybe she'll leave this guy

maybe just realize she's got choices

you hope

it's the best i got

my husband would be so mad if i did this

how would you feel excuse me

you might like martial arts lisa

i might i don't usually think about how

i feel

you have to start lisa no you don't

understand

my husband loses his temper because he

cares

why don't you come with me to see grady

i'll get my things

okay feet together

the leg's going to be one long line from

the ground all the way up your spine

to the sky relax your shoulders

you're going to breathe in through your

nose and out through your mouth

and you're going to breathe out from

your diaphragm right here

okay in

and out

in

out in

and out that's it

in

out what now

now nothing we all have to learn to

crawl before we learn to walk

and stand here like this no not like

that you gotta tilt your head

i won't hurt you lisa

i'm sorry i didn't know what you were

gonna do

i guess detective boudreau told you

about my

problem

um no not everything

this is so embarrassing i shouldn't have

come

wait don't go

lisa come on you know we both don't feel

comfortable with this

you're not either

we're doing this for friends right

and i do know about your problem so i

know that you don't have much faith in

this

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but we're here so we could help each

other

and see what comes of it

come on you're just breathing

oh fella yes

you're a very nice man thank you you

make it easy

so i'll see you tomorrow

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lisa

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i think it just needs a new washer and i

think the whole tap needs to be replaced

15 cents washer's a lot cheaper and

penny wise pound foolish

you know if you know so much why'd you

ask me to help are you mad

no i'm just a little frustrated you know

maybe i can have a beer and watch you

fix it

so why don't you hit me what

i know you wouldn't i mean why wouldn't

you and why would a guy like blake

well his kind is a thousand excuses

excuses fine but why

really let's just call it insecurity

when you can't control the boss and you

can't control the traffic maybe you

can't control the one person in the

house makes you feel powerful

that's pathetic would you know deep down

inside

oh which you take out on your woman oh

that's lovely

what

we need a whole new tap

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i won't say

you i'm

good hey lisa

what's up happening everybody stretch

hey i just wanted to tell you i've

changed my mind

i don't want to come back i don't like

it why

what happened nothing i don't want to

pursue our lessons

okay okay

um lessons are off just go come on

lisa if you need me you call

i won't

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she's been taking a bath for the last 24

hours doug would you

please just put her on the phone lisa

just stepped out of the tub malloy

in fact she's got something she wants to

tell you

oh loy lisa are you okay don't call me

anymore okay

lisa

lisa no

i don't want you go see her she pays

when someone tries to help

i was her last link she have a lesson

today

she would have what time eleven

we'll meet you at the dojo

i'll be there

lisa lisa

how about some lemonade babe

what are you doing relaxing

well cut it out i'm just

breathing look i told you

no more of the martial arts stuff it's

over

what is it what are you so afraid of

don't provoke me

i'm not

i want this it's different you're not

leaving me a choice in this lisa

this is blake

detective your friend malloy asked me to

drop by and say hello

are you all right yeah

i was just leaving for my martial arts

lesson you need a lift

doug just be careful

you can get hurt doing that martial arts

i will

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lemonade's in the fridge

i'll be home soon

you're gonna lose her one way or another

you decide which what are you talking

about

either should get strong and walks out

or you're gonna kill her first and

they're gonna carry her out

is this an official wild accusation or

just something to do in your spare time

a warning get some help man before it's

too late

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okay

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do

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so i'm glad that you came back

so am i

will you tell malloy that i'll call her

this afternoon

um lisa are you sure that you want to go

back home it's where i live

listen you do what feels best for you

okay just keep coming back

only if you promise me one thing oh

name it teach me to break a board

only one get out of here

have a good day

show me your mean look ah it's not mean

show me

why because when i talked to lisa this

afternoon she said it makes her laugh

she called good yeah and it's nice to

hear laughs so show me

malloy okay if you're too embarrassed

never mind

i'm not show me

it's like this

oh pretty scary not supposed to be scary

it's

clearing your mind clearing your mind

like this

is that something you ate

malloy

are you alone he went to his favorite

pub to play darts

all right grady and i will be right over

and adam will meet us there

no he'll put dug in jail only if you

press

charges lisa

i'm sorry i can't let me come over then

no you better not

lisa he beat her again where is he

he goes to that pub on college road near

the arena i wish i had

five minutes with that guy i'll give me

your five plus mine

so you have the picture so far pop

warner finals a3

three minutes left in the game coach

motions at me to go back in

i love this story my old man runs down

out of the stands

and he says don't put him in he choked

in the third quarter you're putting me

on

man called it like he said 20 parents

begging him to play their kid in the

last game of the season

my old man begging him to keep me up

said it would teach me a lesson oh

man anybody up for another round

yeah why not

i want to talk to you something wrong

doug uh no

i'm gonna give you a chance

which is more than you give lisa

i'll call the cops i am the cops on

unofficial business of course

in fact guys i want you to witness this

let's see you pick up that gun and shoot

me before i do what i'm gonna do to you

what you heard me

pick it up

you can't be serious only one way to

find out

now you know how your wife feels

pick it up tough guy come on

pick it up

just what i thought

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remember me the next time you go to hit

lisa

i want surveillance on the corners and a

man inside round the clock

all right i'll swing kelsey on it

what are you doing here i'm waiting for

my attorney

he's across the street filing civil suit

against you sure

may sue me for what that's very funny

officer

what's this about he did this to me

he caught me in the parking lot and did

this to me

i never laid a hand on this man actually

that's true

he pistol-whipped me

i'll see you in depositions budrow

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on our worst days i think about

stratford park

oh because you were married there

he was so sweet in the beginning

i'm scared this time stay with me a

while at least until this legal thing

with adam blows over

well you don't understand how mad he'd

get

and you think that's love what

well him getting mad at you you think

that's love don't you

it does show that he cares it doesn't it

shows he's got

problems and i should run out on him

then

for your own safety lisa yes you have to

my mother never left my dad well did she

have reason to

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okay i'll stay with you

but just for a few days

okay i can't introduce that adam his

lawyer's gonna have me for breakfast

but that's why i went to the bar to get

him to stop it on his own

i need corroboration a statement from

the wife she's too scared

i wouldn't lead her in court damn it

elliott it took all she had to leave the

guy now she's not going to testify

against him

let me explain something this isn't a

criminal case a civil jury is going to

fight against you based entirely on what

happened in the bar

then i guess i have to find who really

beat up blake

i wouldn't advise it why not

in a civil action police work adds more

intimidation and harassment to the

original complaint

that's crazy that's the law

hey b what's up i need a little help

actually i need a lot of help

i'm all yours

thanks

should have been a bullseye i shoulda

coulda woulda

you play now and then

how about a game well i never played

darts for the man whose name i don't

know

was that grammatically correct my name's

grady

and i do hope you're walking home

tonight grady

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i am walking and i don't usually get

drunk like this

that's the occasion

you wouldn't understand well try me

i'm a professor my friends are

professors

ten years to tenure my motto you think

you know people

and then they surprise you i mean really

surprise you

yeah yeah

people like uh

doug blake

who are you jameson i'm working on

doug's case

four or against for the truth

you think you can help me

didn't mean to scare you i'm sorry

let me get these for you

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still hurt as bad

only when i smile

and that's not often since you left

i thought it was best it's okay

i'd like to talk can we go inside

just set it down we can talk out here

i'm never going to hurt you again you've

said that before

it's different now

i need help lisa i know that now

i know i have to change

and i really think i can

if you'll let me

i've waited so long for you to say those

words

but now i just don't know

come back to me i can't do it alone

i need you

i love you

the university's like a small town i

speak against someone

i could ruin my career yeah well a cop

might lose his he had no right to scare

them like that

scared

this cow i thought he beat him

then it was staged wasn't it high

profile low damage who did it you

i asked you a question darts are about

as rough as i get

man fine there's another guy with you

that night i uh

what's his name uh evans i didn't give

you that information

you're right where do i find him i don't

know

he trains a football team

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uh

take this citizen to book him okay you

got him adam

adam hey what's wrong

it's from lisa she left it for me

she's gone back to her husband

but i hope you can understand he knows

he needs help and he really wants to

change

and if he can it won't matter anyway

because he'll never hit me again

anyway thanks for putting me up and

putting out with me

see you soon lisa well i wish i'd been

there to see his performance

what the hell does that mean well maybe

i could have thrown him off his game

no i mean this part where she says it

won't matter anyway because he'll never

hit me again

oh it probably meant she'd leave him for

good

maybe how about you you're gonna be okay

the civil case piece of cake your lawyer

is worried isn't he

yeah but that's because he doesn't have

grady's on it

you wendell evans

maybe who are you let's talk about your

friend

doug blake

cat's out of the bag you supposed to

show me a badge or something

wrong answer

well calm down i didn't come here to

fight all right i'm going to calm down

all right just talk to me talk to me all

right

all right all right all right look your

friend

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i asked you nicely to talk

i don't know oh hey i see a penny see if

that's a lucky penny wendell

all right don't try this at home with

trained professionals

excuse me suck blake

rearrange face ring a bell no

no fine

professor doug blake

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i don't know i don't know

there's a lot of pennies under there

wait wait

all right i did it

we did it that's doug and i

i'm gonna lose my job in the football

squad for this

yeah there's always a swim team come on

nice work is he talking with pictures

and arrows

man blake is one weird guy letting

wendell pee off on him like that i'd

like to be a fly on the wall when he's

talking to his shrink

yeah pedro she took my dad's gun

i i showed it where it was hidden you

know just in case and i'm straightening

up my room

and adam it's gone

he'll never hit her again i'm on my way

to their house later

blake's house she's got a gun b she's my

student i'm coming

come on it's even prettier than the day

we got married

uh-huh so are you

i'm so glad you're my wife

something wrong i need to ask

i need to tell you something what's on

your mind

anything zip no one out back either

they're at stratford park are you a vsp

no they got married at stratford talking

when lloyd told me

i want to go back to school back to

community pick up where i left off

why would you want to go back to school

you have to have a reason

maybe you just need to get out more

yes to school but not with malloy what

i think she's had a detrimental effect

on us

you know overall i'd prefer it if you

didn't see her anymore

she's my best friend

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it was her idea wasn't it this whole

school thing

she had nothing to do with it then who

did your boyfriend grady

you're doing it again you're getting all

upset about nothing

a boyfriend's nothing you think i didn't

know about that

she's not my boyfriend it's all your

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fault what

don't move my friends try to help

and i keep falling for your lines

that's what you count on isn't it

lisa

go ahead you're gonna have to do it

shoot me

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come here come here come here come here

you come here

you want to run huh you want to run run

go ahead run

run so you want to escape huh

you want to escape come here you see how

it feels when you can't get away let's

see how it feels now please please

that's what i thought you're under

arrest come on come on

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i will see you then okay bye

that was lisa how's she doing well she

is out of the shelter

she's filing for divorce and she's

enrolled

at community night classes

how did you know psychic

now she came back to the school for

lessons she's one of my best students

i want to thank you both for helping hey

come on what are friends for

no still you guys really made a

difference in her life amen let's hope

for her sake she can stay on track huh

okay who's behind the bar and who's on

the floor well

i'm behind the bar and this gentleman is

on the floor no no you're the yes you're

going to watch

woman i am the man i am behind the bar

oh well

no

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