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
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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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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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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you
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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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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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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got a search warrant mitchell
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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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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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