Street Justice (1991–1993): Season 1, Episode 15 - Protectors - full transcript

did somebody call a cab here

oh you bet guys all right yep

ollie hey holly

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come on gritty what's going on what's

going on we're gonna get you home nice

and safe

oh my god uh you can come back tomorrow

and get your keys

okay he's at the hampshire towers

apartment 37b



consider him safe and foul thank you

thank you

okay good night

the bar is closed the night is young

and there's this hot new club with a

band that plays all night

don't talk to me about hot new clubs

hey grady my man i got free passes

miguel my man only pass i want is to bed

how about you malloy

how about me what miguel you and me

on the town clinton tv mcgill

i'm gonna have to start working you

harder during daylight hours



i gave the cabin the address didn't i

yeah oh i'll get it no i

can sorry hello folks

it's happy hour okay say comment nobody

gets hurt

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hey you get brave she gets dead

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how much nine grand

plus change business is off

i'll come back next week maybe things

will pick up hey she's got a mouth

hey okay okay stay cool

listen to the lady dipstick maybe we

gotta take her in the back

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that's not what we're here for go

all right don't hurt her don't hurt her

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all right it's been fun

now you all stay put we all go home in

one piece

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what

are you okay

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so

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so

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so

i told you they were wearing masks a

devil a clown

like that but next you're gonna ask me

to go through a mug book

no all right no there's nothing special

about their voices no accent

no nothing

matter of fact they smoke better than

you do

if you want one of us will stay with you

now all i need is a

hot bath that's an aspirin

you warn me when you start to act brave

believe me i'm not brave

i just figured a cop's place had to be

safe

i plan on making that point to the

detectives on this case

oh i'd rather you made it to the guys

that held us up

name's adam bader i'm looking for

simmons and ellen over here

thank you detective simmons always a

pleasure detective alan

i bet him you'd show up here and i

thought you'd call first

sorry you lost your money hey it's okay

i got doubly nothing on whether you try

to take over the case

but you'll be able to but i figure you

know that

so he's betting you just hang around

make a pain in yourself

okay guys i get the message cops make

the world's worst victims

we know you're ticked off major

understatement

well we're not too thrilled ourselves

third robbery in that neighborhood this

week

we're not looking real good with the lt

all right i hear you but i got a big

need to help out here well then act like

a civilian and give us all the

information you can

and let us do our job

all right it doesn't matter all right

it's clear that this neighborhood has

been made a target

target hell it's a sitting duck the

question is guys what are we

gonna do about it the question should be

is what the police are gonna do about it

well they haven't been able to come up

with anything yet why hasn't boudreaux

gotten after them

because he knows they're doing

everything they can but now that he's

been ripped off we finally get a

merchants meeting exactly

you could have called this any time hey

what the hell are you doing here anyway

because last night i stood here with a

gun in my face

we can sit here griping about this or we

can try and come up with something

hello folks sorry i'm late evie hi

have your people found anything new i'm

afraid not

then what are we paying our taxes for

yeah right so you can yell at me and

every other policeman

adam has some ideas about what we can do

on our own

look i've tried to model this after uh

neighborhood watches where basically we

get to keep an eye out for one another

there's a list of the telephone numbers

of all our stores that way we can call

one another if we see anyone suspicious

during the day

yeah also we can let each other know

when we're closing up seeing as all the

robberies have happened

right after closing i got a better idea

there's this guy i know that'll convert

a regular weapon to an automatic

hey are you here as a merchant or as a

cop both

then maybe you should take a walk

guys guys this isn't really

accomplishing anything

yeah neither is he with his little

telephone list maybe we should be doing

something more

like what i don't know

well maybe grady could uh teach us some

self-defense moves

um yeah yeah yeah all right let me

give julie a call and see if we can get

the dojo a couple times a week

not much good against shotguns that's a

lot better than running around pacing up

teleporting this

i still think we should get just as much

firepower as we can

look these guys are professionals

they're not looking for a gunfight you

start trying to shoot it out and

somebody's gonna get hurt

well that's usually the point isn't it

i'm telling you milford

they'll use weapons a lot better than

you do then it's up to me to even the

odds

you want to check my rifle boudreau

it'll be under my counter

yeah thanks a lot it's the last of them

thanks for your help

i could have used a little bit of it

back there at the bar you know come

again

teaching people martial arts isn't going

to stop the robbers

i never thought it would then why agree

to show them

because they they got to feel like

they're doing something

they are grady this watch thing will

work come on b

we're not talking about a bunch of old

people that they're getting their purses

snatched

next you're going to tell me you want an

automatic weapon yeah well if i could

have gotten my hands on one last night

then

that's not the way let me tell you

something

those guys had malloy behind the bar

they could have done anything that they

wanted to her

anything

it doesn't matter how fast i am because

bullets are faster so all i could do

was stand there and pray that they

weren't going to hurt her that's all i

could do

i never want to be in that position

again

so you're going along with milford

no but i sure understand how he feels

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if you'd like to make a call please hang

up and try again

if you need help hang up and then dial

your operators

they got me for seven thousand dollars

it was one of my best weeks the bottom

line is you guys can't protect us

so i've contacted someone who can

like who a private security firm you

mean armed guards

folks meet the man who's gonna save our

tails

williams emmett williams

i know you oh

i was a rookie when you got busted what

do you mean

mr williams here was number one in armed

robbery for almost a year

when you get out a little while back

congratulations milford you just hired

the fox to guard the hen house

scary looking fella williams yeah

what i remember more than looked

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you know a couple of times victims tried

to resist they wound up in the hospital

glad he's on our side

what hour

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oh well i agreed to help pay for him

you could have asked me why i know what

your answer would have been

are we just partners at tax time look if

you feel so strongly about it i'll just

pay for it out of my share okay

you know this has got nothing to do with

the money well then what what

when i was a kid growing up about seven

or eight i saw this lynching

this mob pulls a man named sandy

mcpherson out of a cell throws a rope

across a tree

and hangs him they wanted to make sure

justice was being done

from the bushes i could see the face of

the man pulling the rope

and what i saw wasn't justice at all

what i saw was the look of a man

happy to be killing

well that was a mob of ordinary folks

shopkeepers just like you and me and

milford

well you're a long way from that

not very far

all right we've been going over this for

a week is everybody clear on what the

deployment patterns are yeah

we'll have walkie-talkies for anyone who

wants to join us tonight

the important thing is to keep in touch

with each other that way if there's any

trouble

the rest of us can get to you hey emma

what if

uh we get there after the robbery has

already taken place

just try to keep them in sight what if

they see us following them keep in mind

that these guys are professionals

and they're not going to shoot unless

they have to

what makes you so sure yeah i spent a

few years going into places with guns

the last thing i wanted to do was shoot

somebody

life imprisonment is a little risky for

a few thousand dollars

but you're a pro that's right it's a

different case

if you're trying to stop somebody on

crack or speed what about

us carrying guns if you have one bring

it only keep it out in the open

it's against the law isn't it ah

it's against the law to carry a

concealed weapon now if a cop sees you

he might hassle you but

if it's not hidden and you have a

character myth there's nothing he can do

all right and we meet here tonight about

8 o'clock

hey

man does uh have an interesting approach

to things

i bet he does all he's gonna do is make

your job easier

sure it is you're still on probation

you get caught carrying a weapon you go

back to camp

i'll keep that in mind

sergeant boudreau right

right

these guys are going to be real helpful

i thought you were hiring out as a

security force not as a training cat

i'm teaching them to fish come again

you know the saying give a man a fish

freedom for a day

teach him to fish feed him for life

that's very noble

forgive me if i don't buy it it's a

problem sergeant what i'm doing or what

i am

some of both what i'm doing is

organizing your neighborhood

rabble rousing is a better description

that's semantics

until it gets out of hand then it's

vigilantes

your neighbors call me because they're

unhappy with you so you keep on going

doing your job the best you can and i'll

do mine

hey just make sure it stays within the

and rules had 15 years to learn the

rules i don't intend on breaking from

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that

i thought you promised to butt out but

things have changed not for us

okay i've got a neighborhood full of

people who are turning into a mob fine

tell them to start looking for clues

that's not what they have in mind

as long as they stay out of our way we

don't care what they do and uh sergeant

that goes for you as well

look at least fill me in maybe i could

feel some use you are filled in

since when since we have nothing you

have as much as we do if you want to

deal yourself in

you can take the next chewing on the

lieutenant's office all right look how

about i just take a look at the client

uh no way i'm talking unofficial

who draw you don't understand the lte

wants the illusion that we're the only

precinct in the city that ever gets

anything done

all right you think about this if

williams's group goes off half-cocked

your precinct's gonna get all the blame

now how's your lt gonna handle that

particular illusion

now well not well at all

how about i take a look at the crime

reports maybe you should

we'll burn copies and have them over to

you in an hour

good and pedro yeah

let us come to see you it'll make our

lives a hell of a lot easier

if you know what we mean yeah i know

what you mean

it's grady i'm on uh abbott and hastings

and everything looks good

all right move over a block and then

back to where you are all right

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oh shut up

do it

it's going down where

boot corral on carroll between fifth and

sixth all right everybody copy that

this is mendes i'm heading around back

your arms are going out back is anybody

out dude

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i'm at the rear entrance all right stay

with him

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hold it

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so

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my yeah

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women

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you're a runner sergeant not unless i'm

chasing someone

you want to come out on patrol with us

it should be a hell of a workout

that's what i'm here to discuss with you

i didn't think you were coming here to

recommend restaurants

mind if we walk while i cool down

i'd say it's a good idea for you to pull

back on these patrols

and i disagree i've already gotten one

man killed

no no he was killed because lawless men

shot him

men who should have already been caught

by the police

the last thing we need is some ex-con

telling us how to do our job

wrong again you need me and a lot of

other people because you sure as hell

ain't getting it right

you love this don't you it should do it

tickles the hell out of me

i'm making a living off your

incompetence we weren't incompetent

catching you

oh no took you almost a year but we did

get you

15 years worth so you did

maybe now you can make up for all that

lost time not likely

just keep doing the same fine job you're

doing my phone is ringing off the hook

with people wanting me

and my cardra business is booming you

cops are looking stupid

doesn't get much better than that

have a nice day sarge

i have great regards to the difficult

task basically

one of the reasons we chose blue colors

our people are meant to help enough to

hint

and it's through sacrifices of people

like lee milford that

we hope to put an end to anarchy in the

streets

i'll bet he's getting a lot of business

off all this you'd win on that one

yeah we can't get recruits and this

guy's got people standing in line to get

shot at

that's you and me talk about that

downtown is fed up with this whole

situation

at least for once downtown's making

sense they figure the quickest way to

quiet this down

is to nab the shooters and how many

geniuses did it take to reach that

conclusion

bottom line is they want you to work

with the guys from the 14th

great but uh they don't have anything

new

just how do you know that we've been

pooling our resources

i see which means you can't come up with

anything either

i'm afraid so these guys are pros

charlie they don't leave fingerprints

the mask they're wearing could be bought

in a hundred different stores including

mail order

i mean it's all dead ends

well you better find an answer

because until you do mr williams is

going to be a major embarrassment

to all of us

right

peppers ready yeah coming right up would

it keep the napkins

uh right over there

looking good you keep stirring that all

right all right

hey man that's been a long time since i

cooked for everybody

tell me about it here we go man at least

you get home-cooked meals

yeah b i'm telling you man dump the bar

and open up a restaurant

yeah right and you're gonna wait for

tables no i'll be the uh

i'll be the the wine guy with a little

cup around my neck

where'd you start to learn about some of

yes yes

watching old movies huh this is great

boudreaux

really good i'm glad you like it

all right one for you

yeah right

okay

beautiful beautiful oh yes all right

and a little bit here a little bit more

no you got enough

none for you uh you're underage we're

gonna stop

funk nothing wrong with being young

believe me

okay uh here's to the guys let's sit

around have a little

talk and have some good food huh

a little talk yeah uh-huh about what i

mean we already know about the birds and

the bees

i figured you know we talked about

emmett williams about patrols

no we uh we know how you feel about it

you sure i mean we don't mean to

disrespect what you do no but b

it's like i told you all right uh we

need to feel that we you know we're

doing something about it

i mean we almost got those guys the

other night no no you almost got

shot not even close and milford got

himself killed

no somebody killed milford all right big

difference

what is this do you guys have a party

line williams said the same thing on

television

yeah we talked about it all right no you

mean he talks about it

no i mean we talk about it he treats us

like equals

yeah well that's coming down a step for

you two what's the need to diss him

the guy's running a hustle why because

people are turning onto what he does

walking patrol is fine chasing bad guys

with guns

isn't there's no law against it that

doesn't make it right

so what makes it right the boudreau seal

of approval

look i didn't want to fight okay all i

wanted for us was to talk

no you want to talk you want us to

listen

well i'm sorry b but that's not our idea

of conversation all right

come on miguel we gotta patrol

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well at least it wasn't a total loss oh

yeah

yeah i can come by tonight and help you

finish those leftovers

don't worry you'll get through to them

sooner or later yeah

i'm not so sure well they've got a point

you know it's no fun being dependent on

the kindness of strangers

i'm no stranger well the guys who showed

up in blue last week sure acted that way

you could see their minds working too no

one killed no one injured

the more i talked and the more i saw our

robbery go sliding down the priority

list

what you were probably seeing was relief

whatever

i'm not blaming them i'm not looking for

blame just protection which is what you

get from trained people

yes we do but if we can't get it there

maybe some of us would just as soon take

a chance with untrained people

some of us figuratively speaking

you know it's not william's lack of

training that's bugging you i know

then tell me doctor

your authority's being threatened

okay you're right i don't like people

thinking police can be easily replaced

no no no i'm not talking about your

authority as a cop

oh you're worried about your standing as

father of the year

all right that may be true but it

doesn't change anything yes it does

maybe you'll be a little looser the next

time you talk to the guys assuming there

is a next time

oh trust me there will be

now before you go running off to work to

protect the city

you mind dropping off last night's

receipts at the bank please

be my pleasure

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before excuse me miss reaper and forgot

to endorse this check

i'm sorry it's all right hello morning

adam how you doing better

kind of business she's doing she got to

be feeling good

how are you doing jerry fine just

i didn't know you and malloy banks here

couple years now

coming every monday to make weekly

deposits i used to do it that way on

friday

but since the robbery i come over every

day good idea

especially when she's having a week like

this at least if they come again

they'll only get one day's worth not

that i expect them back

emmett williams has things so well

organized i can't imagine them trying it

again

let's hope you're right and here's your

receipt

thank you you're welcome say hi to

malloy

i will

how's our audition jerry let's see

right on the nose you guys had a good

week too

yeah yeah we did you have a good memory

not really deposit records all in there

uh here's your receipt

see you next week count up

jerry mitchell on a record of his phone

calls from the start of the rounds

what are we looking for repetition of

calls to the same three numbers on a

regular basis

good b's got three girlfriends yeah

that's why we want to check names with

the numbers we're looking for three

other guys

it's not gonna be enough for search

warrants i know

kelsey double check with each of the

victims there should be a pattern of the

robberies

like what like they happened the night

before the merchants were to make their

deposits into the bank all right

so let's get to it

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okay we've got four names kelsey's list

shows the pattern is consistent every

one of the robberies was pulled on the

night when there was the most cash on

hand

that's enough for a search warrant judge

roth thinks so

so when do we go no time like the

present

we split up in the teams we hit all four

places at once we want weapons

masks money mostly i want these guys

is everybody ready ready

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let's do it

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got a search warrant mitchell

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so

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you guys we all came in like clockwork

same days every week i could chart how

your businesses were doing

it's too good to resist conrad took care

of getting the guns

we ordered the mass mail order made sure

never leave any prints

once we've done a round of the shops we

figured to take a year or so off

try the whole thing again all right all

right

let's talk about the killing

wasn't any killing lee milford the night

you almost got caught

yeah well nobody shot him hey you can

level with me mitchell

there's nothing to level about we got

the mass

we're going to get the guns and

ballistics is going to prove that you

killed him

yeah man ballistics is going to prove

nothing yo how can you be so damn sure

because those weapons were never fired

there wasn't any reason to load them

what the barrels were sealed on all of

them

the prop guns

no one was ever in any danger so our

sentences will be a lot lighter

people keep asking me if what we're

doing isn't just being vigilante

of course i tell them it's not that it's

a crusade

only instead of the infidels we're

driving out to criminals

and if people keep giving us their time

their support

we'll keep manning the streets they're

not taking their money

that was emmett williams patrolling the

old town section on the other side of

town police have finally arrested

suspects in the robberies of a number of

stores on the west side

i suppose comes under the heading of

better late than never

charlie will be here with sports with

i think maybe it's the scarves that make

him so popular

no just that we loved playing cops and

robbers when we were kids

he gets on camera time and we get thrown

away with unkind words in the process

ah the hell with them it's a good bust

adam

maybe better than you think

as the attacker comes in use his

momentum

bring him down you have three strikes to

the groin the solar plexus

you bring them down enough to the head

okay the safety sink will do to the sole

reflection

all right full speed

you really want to get them the head

just like that

nice and nobody's going to be as good as

great we just want to feature a series

of moves that you can

use if you're being attacked while

you're walking i can't work with you

okay

it'll discourage people from trying

anything further

if you drove nice bus last night glad

you like it

yeah a few less bad guys for us to worry

about no need for you to worry about any

of them

why you quadruple the force or something

now we're going to continue to make do

with what we've got

and without your help afraid that's not

for you to say

wrong you're out of business williams

why

because i'm showing up you and your

buddies no

for involuntary manslaughter willful

concealment of a crime

you killed lee milford he was killed by

the robbers

uh-uh their guns weren't real

hey grady you remember being shot at by

the robbers

no how about you miguel

i don't know i heard some shooting but i

didn't see their guns fire

your pals were carrying rifles

milford was shot with a 38 smith and

wesson

just like this one where did you get

that

your place which was taken apart with a

search warrant after you left this

morning

we ran a ballistics check perfect match

someone else shot it

your fingerprints were the only ones on

it

you're under arrest

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so

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oh

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look i never meant for that it was an

accident

that's what's likely to happen when mobs

carry guns

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on

still say everything better to burn

these yeah but the smell lasts forever

and we've got customers coming into me

besides it's the thought that counts

except it isn't uh much of an apology

not needed thank you well there's

nothing wrong with folks trying to help

law enforcement

as long as it stays in control

you know what the problem is the other

guys are still running out of control

but that doesn't mean we have to but

sooner or later they've got to win

don't bet on it

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so

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uh

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you