Street Justice (1991–1993): Season 1, Episode 18 - Bad Choices - full transcript

no way

now look from what i hear a job is a

condition of your probation

a race car driver bar balancer

professional athlete these are jobs

this is a paperwork and it's all i got

so take it or leave it i guess i got no

choice

good now these people arrived from asia

about three hours ago

and these are the forms applications for



food stamps

social services cards and federal

refugee assistance benefits

you don't like the job you can quit

tomorrow

because today these forms were due

yesterday okay

so i'm gonna see about apartments for

these people

so that means my friend you are gonna

have to keep an eye on it

hey

thanks don't make me regret it

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welcome to america

hey where you going you're supposed to

stay here

does anybody speak english habla espanol

stay here

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giving back his jacket

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oh

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man you gotta hold on to your stuff say

disneyland

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what's this mcgills and gang colors uh

the white flags

what's wrong hey dumb in there question

is how are you doing

i never thought being a file clerk could

be so exciting

i heard about what happened why did he

hit you

i don't know but uh it was safe for

gangbanging

come on miguel we know you have a short

fuse i didn't provoke him if that's what

you're getting at

then why'd he put you in the hospital

beats me

you're the cup that's why you're not

telling me what's going on because i'm

the cop

hey i told you all i know did you

yes then maybe i should find this

refugee talk to him huh i'm good

let me know when you do uh i'd like a

piece of them

i'll be sure not to let you know when i

do

political refugee or economic depending

on who you listen to

it's been a couple years in the worst of

the refugee cancer

i want him for assault come on hannah

come on what well after what these

people have been through they're just

plain scared man

it's understandable no it's not a man

assaulted someone that's against the law

in this country

and you have to be the one to teach him

that

did you and farm come back here no

any idea where it might be man he could

be anywhere

but i guess that's where i'll have to

find him

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so

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so

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another heroin boost three two months

gonna score a nickel bag for a thousand

dollars in this part of town

now it's sidewalk sale days on central

avenue there must be somebody new into

the trade

that's what we figure you could use your

help adam

all right give me a half a day i'll get

with you guys all right immigration

confirms

one yen fam came in yesterday am refugee

status told me something i don't know

listed a sister in little saigon

our tax dollars at work

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you speak english yes

can i help you no miss family looking uh

i'm the manager here

if you come into my office you'll see

all the green cards are in order for

everybody

i'm not with him aggression and i must

ask you to leave

a police officer well unless you have a

warrant

i must insist that you leave what do you

have to hide

go go go go

my superior doesn't like police and his

establishment

who's your superior i have the honor of

managing for mr kim

perfect you tell old kim

that it wasn't your fault that i refused

to leave until i got what i came for

what is that

miss farm i need to find your brother

perhaps you would like to discuss it in

the present

i have no brother

you afraid of this man

if you have your answer these

gentlemen will show you out now

you tell okay madame pedro said hello

hello mr willis what can i do for you

sir why did yen farm attack my assistant

i will answer your question with a

question

tell me mr willis why do you think

i asked you to insert yen farm in your

group of refugees this month

and his predecessors last month

and the month before that i had my

guesses

come home mr willis you may speak your

mind

i assumed you were selling them passage

on the black market

mr willis i i am offended

i don't care if you make money on a few

refugees

as long as you help the rest find jobs

and places to live

nothing is free mr willis

detective boudreau

must stop looking for our friend bien

farm

i can't tell adam not to do his job then

mr willis

i will answer your question

jen farm and his

smuggled contraband in the linings of

their jackets

into this country contraband

heroin

as i see it you

are an accomplice first

they had no documentation

and you provided it second

they had no passage and you

brought them here

you set me up

mr willis

if i were you

i wouldn't want to have a very

overzealous policeman

as my friend

my signature

it's nowhere yours mr willis

is everywhere

well the worst part is they kept me up

all night to make sure i didn't have any

brain damage

you mean any new brain damage i didn't

have any

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hey willis

you there's cb is he here

no let me have a beer here

hey miguel glad to see you all right

thanks one beer

hey something wrong no

because you didn't come here to see

boudreau and you don't come here unless

to see him all right all right all right

i can't talk to adam about this

about what

a man commits a serious crime

but he never knew he was doing it now

is he guilty of that crime how can he

commit a serious crime and not know it

easy dealers do it all the time they

give little kids bags of rock to deliver

little ones never know what they're

doing those are kids

trust me it happens to adults

you know old kim he asked me to add a

couple of people to my groups

in exchange for helping everybody else

but it turns out they were carrying

drugs

you uh you gotta tell boudreaux yeah but

then he'd have to arrest me

he never arrest you you don't know

boudreau very well

you told me he'd address his own buddy

i'm telling you i understand the man

would have a hard choice

yeah i can't make him have to choose

who else knows about this just old kim

he left a nice neat paper trail that

leads right to me

all the documents arranging the

transfers all

every last one of them signed by yours

truly

this paper trail where is it

jim's office i guess

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got it bunch of government paper signed

by willis

fusion yes

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all right get out of here i'll take them

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we ought to join our frequent loser

program he's here often enough to

qualify for free sell upgrades

open it grady nobody's pressing charges

don't ask so what the hell are you doing

i said don't ask was this some sort of

payback for miguel

that's got nothing to do with me again i

know you're not dumb enough to go after

old kim without a damn good reason

that's right so what was it

i can't tell you why

who are you protecting you

what

if i tell you why did you're gonna have

to do something you won't like

okay let me lift the burden off your

shoulders don't worry about protecting

me now what's going on with old kim

no all right

you can sit in here and stew in your own

little secrets you can't keep me here

wrong fine said that nobody's pressing

charges most says i can hold you for up

to 48 hours oh

i can hold you through the weekend until

you talk whichever comes first

see you monday

so

sergeant futrow what can i do for you

i came to see old kim about

something's going on he's involved i

want to know what it is

mr kim's not here i tried the pool hall

in there well he's not here

who's in there my wife

i've asked you politely not to come here

officer now this is the last time i will

politely ask you to leave

all right now who's in the office i told

you it's my wife

let's go see her

i'm sorry sir i tried to stop him

boudreaux so this is your wife

what do we have here kim do you have a

search warrant

may i use your phone

kelsey and this is pedro

i found your drug connection

get over to two three four one spruce

yeah bring back up

right boudreau

you have no idea how bad a mistake you

are making

you're finally going down kim i'm gonna

treasure every second of it

i don't think so

i have a perfect case of course you do

but i do not think you will take

pleasure

in it and why not check it out boudreaux

your police records will confirm that

heroin arrests increase each and every

month following mr willis's group's

arrival

you can stop your tap dance kim i've

known willis for 10 years

i hear that he is bringing in drug

couriers with its refugees and one of

them is named yen farm

infant

someone broke into my office last night

have you heard the burglars took some

files

i had gathered on mr willis one of the

men was caught

i believe you know him

so what about it why don't you ask him

to show you the papers

willis has been trying to help your

people and this is how you repay him by

framing him

i did no such thing mr willis did that

to himself

tell me boudreau

how much pleasure are you going to get

arresting mr willis

nothing what

i don't have a search warrant so i don't

have anything

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how could you have been so damn naive i

didn't think he was smuggling heroin

what did you think he was doing huh oh

kim's a criminal

i mean you had to suspect he was up to

something look when i was in country

there was a guy in my company he liked

to walk point he liked to walk point

he was damn good at it too he carried an

m16 for spraying the enemy when he could

see him and a grenade launcher for when

he could smell him

sucker blew more holes in that jungle

what's your point

my point adam is that he carried

something else

a k-bar knife for cutting off ears

and i never actually saw him taking here

but we uh we had this big jar and a

wreck bunker and somebody kept putting

ears in and i

hated i thought it made us worse than

the enemy

but in the jungle he'd be about as far

away from me as you are right now

with his knife out and i never saw him

do it

all right you mean he was fast no i mean

i didn't look i didn't want to know the

man had saved my life too many times oh

kim wasn't saving your life

nobody was saving the lives of a lot of

those refugees that doesn't make it

right

i didn't say it did we all make our

choices

we sure as hell do well what's yours

gonna be

i don't know all right i don't know but

you compromised me teddy

i had old kim with kilos of heroin in

his dirty little hands and i had to look

the other way

i'm sorry you're sorry i could lose my

badge i should lose my badge

you're right where the hell are you

going i'm gonna turn myself

in i'll testify against old kim and

maybe they'll go easier more than likely

he'll walk and you'll take the fall well

i'll take my chance no you're not

serious

i can't let you do that why not

because it's a choice between my job and

my friendship with you my friendship

with you wins every time

now adam you know you have to take him

down oh i will

but i'll do it without taking you down

with him

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you're sure there isn't anything you'd

like to share with the class

absolutely last night grady busts up old

kim's

then kelsey and shoeham find you waving

your gun at him is this national old kim

week

can't prove anything but we think the

heroin uptown might be coming from

little saigon

kim runs little saigon what about it

have you got anything i'm just trying to

find the guy that attacked miguel

you're tearing the city apart for a

simple assault

are we done here i hope you know what

you're doing

i know you do you need me you have my

number

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thanks

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thanks for getting me out b stupid stunt

breaking into old kim's

yeah well if it worked you and willis

wouldn't have a problem now

you should have told me look i figured

if you didn't have to deal with the rock

then you could hand over a hard place

all right b

i'm proud of you for what for risking my

job for closing my eyes to a major

heroin operation no for putting

friendship above the system

the system is trying to stop a major

drug trafficker

and the system would have chewed willis

up man

relax we'll make everything right

we isn't that why we're here maybe i

just love this cold coffee in your

scintillating conversation

there she is who is she

she's yen fan sister really she know

where he is

if anybody does and yen pham knows who

he dealt with on the drugs and it sure

as hell wasn't willis

officer

this is grady jameson god

i you can talk freely there's nobody

here

i'm not supposed to talk to anybody

i need your help for a man named ted

willis

mr willis yeah yeah do you know him

he brought me here he saved my life

for ted willis i need to find your

brother

i don't have a brother don't worry

um i can protect you i don't have

brother

a man named jen pham enough

who are you afraid of no one

i do not have brother

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i wish i did

right it was my idea

your idea well they got the same last

name man

the government likes families it just

made it easier to get info

in man oh so you took care of all the

logistics for old kim's drug smugglers

you already knew that adam i knew you

looked the other way

that's one thing man but adam ymfong was

in a camp in hong kong about to be sent

back to vietnam

oh so anybody stuck anywhere lousy

just grab a bag of heroin fly off to

america

ted willis will get you in

adam about two years ago there was a

refugee named loan

now he was rescued by a tanker out in

the middle of the ocean

after his boat capsized and his whole

family died

now i got word i went down to

immigration i tried everything i

possibly could to squeeze him into my

program

but those damn bureaucrats man they said

i was already over my quota

and they sent him back to now

and then by last year man i heard from

one of those monitoring girls

they said lung was tried for treason and

taken to a camp and tortured to death

but

i stayed to my quota

i don't i don't care because if what i

do

to save even one of those people makes

me a criminal

then arrest me come on here's the phone

man

call the precinct do you duty

in the farm's the kid you have any idea

where he might be

uh we've been asking around

one of my uh refugees works as a busboy

at this eternal supper club

he said uh young phone's in there all

the time

well no offense b but uh isn't

three kind of a crowd miguel's the only

one that can identify the man

how are we gonna get in kitchen

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there he is are you sure i'm looking

forward to seeing that guy again

well he must have gotten foreign aid

let's go

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i'll join you

calmly calmly i

listen to the man

you speak english

i speak english good

can i talk with them my friend here

carries a grudge

it was not personal

i don't think it was

how much did they feed you enough

apparently you are a policeman

yeah you were arresting me just talking

perhaps we can help each other see under

our system if you testify against the

greater criminal that hired you

you possibly get a lot of sense

you want me to testify yeah

in exchange i protect you you get a new

name

it's settled in a new city

then i'm prepared to testify

i will tell you when and how i was hired

and how the entire operation was run by

mr

theodore

let's willis

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where are you taking me

nice night for a drive don't you think

i'm not under arrest

i want to get out okay

you do not scare me american police do

not harm prisoners

no police don't

all right and then clear something up

last night you wanted old kim to see and

fam right

more importantly i wanted fam to see old

kim yes we'd be afraid of him

right but why and why should yan fam be

afraid of kim

they're on the same side kim doesn't

know that i'm sure he does

b kim obviously put pham up to this yen

fam is not going to go point the finger

willis on his own

maybe but why should kim continue to

trust fine

why should he leave a loose wire hanging

out there

okay you and i might see it that way but

in fam

what if he doesn't we just have to see

to it that he does

well that doesn't sound like your usual

by the book methods

look if i do this strictly by the book

willis is going down

uh-huh so then we're gonna do things

more

my way let's just say

somewhere between your way and my way

what a surprise what do you want nothing

i'm just here for dinner how about you

i didn't expect you to show your face in

public so soon

why wouldn't i i don't know

fear of old kim why should i feel kim

you trust me if he trusts you then why

is his man keeping an eye on you

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if i were you i would consider your

choices carefully

me or him

mr kim is my friend the only reason he

would hurt me

is because of you

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i saw boutrow go in he talked again film

tell me wrong can uh

yen fam be trusted

question sir is why risk trusting him

good point good point

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hold it right there

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i don't know it took off damn

object bro

kelsey shoot him what's going on you're

gonna have these three guys

what's the charge attempted mark adam i

think it's time you told us what's going

on

so you're on to old kim's whole drug

operation the drug operation you knew

shoeham and i were after all month

and you didn't think you should clue us

in i was trying to protect a friend

not good enough i thought i could take

him down without risking willis

willis broke the law unwittingly

wittingly or unwittingly you should have

brought him and old kim in

you know as well as i that teddy would

have taken the fall and not kim i

couldn't let that happen

excuse me guys well you are arguing

about this the infam might be out there

getting killed right now

yen found the key do you know where he

might be right now well we might you

told us i'd be long gone if i were him

if he had any brains he'd come to us for

protection just like willis said

man is from another culture they're

afraid of cops

where else could he go for protection

there's only one place he's at kim's

you are very brave

young man i appreciate your coming to me

the only way i could show you i have not

turned against you

is to come to you

yen farm do you remember

during the bloody days in the old

country when

the viet cong would come into the

villages

looking for informants yes sir

i remember it was bad

and uh

do you remember why

it was so bad

uh the viet cong were never sure that

they had got all the true informants

so they

killed everybody just to be

sure right right

i am deeply sorry

please

georgia georgia drop it tim

drop it

you still ready to testify mr farmer yes

sir

and now who are you going to say was in

charge with mr kim

we're gonna put you away for many many

years is that so boudreaux

and uh what will become of our friend mr

willis

the way i see it that gun you had in

your hand constitutes attempted murder

what does that have to do with your

friend

it has everything to do with him

the way you handle ted willis determines

the way i handle you

i do not understand if you try to take

willis down with you

i put you away for life where you can

forget about ted willis and i forget

about the gun

uh boudreau mr willis

has done very good things for my people

and uh

i don't suppose he can help them very

much from jail

that's what i like about you kim you're

such a good samaritan

get him out of here

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you know pointing a gun at someone is an

attempted

murder yeah but kim doesn't know that

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listen man i can't begin

to thank you hey your testimony will be

thanks enough

adam you could have been in a real bind

with the department man

well these days i'm mr popularity we've

been trying to put old kim away for

about 10 years

well i guess we're even huh

i didn't say that

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so

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so

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ah

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you