Street Justice (1991–1993): Season 1, Episode 20 - The Long Way Home - full transcript

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sweetheart thanks

give it to your brother

we made a deal one vegetable a meal

sounds like pokey's home in time for

dinner i'll let him in

you eat i'll do it honey

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everybody quiet nobody move do what i

say and no one gets there

okay go upstairs first open that little



wall safe next to your daughter's room

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like i said before it happens so fast

black masks black clothes that's all i

remember that's all any of us remembered

and the one that spoke anything

distinctive about his voice

it was a voice how many times do i have

to tell you i understand you're upset mr

walker but if how could you understand

these guys didn't walk into your house

and hold your family at gunpoint

we're doing everything we can to catch

these people yeah that's what you've



been telling the papers for the last two

months

believe me we're doing our best in fact

tell that to my ten-year-old daughter

upstairs afraid to leave a room

if this is your best i'd hate to see

your worst

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hey bobby department psychologist taking

a firearm

oh no i uh need your help on something

it's about charlie pie

yeah well you got my attention and

charlie needs to take some time off from

the job adam

but he refuses to even discuss it needs

he's living on ant assets and adrenaline

he sleeps in the office

he's got to get away from the job

and we solve this dinner time case

you'll be fine adam he hasn't been fined

for a long time

i don't want to tell your business dr

resnick but

maybe you're overreacting and so is his

wife

because she left him 10 days ago

shadow left charlie i'm talking out of

school here because i know you two are

very close

she gave me a call she said she can't

watch him kill himself anymore

he never said a word to me if i bring

him in officially

and he refuses rnr it can get real ugly

form with the brass

okay i'll talk to him see what i can do

i appreciate it

good morning lieutenant only got a lead

from last night's robber

no sir just a list of things missing

various high-tech equipment free tvs to

vcrs

and the safe contents you're gonna tell

me they knew exactly where everything

was again

it's like the last time oh and you've

got a visitor i told him to wait in your

office but he said something about a

man's office being his sanctuary

how you doing boy good you're gonna be

better what are you doing in town

you still don't listen to what i tell ya

the firefighters convention i'm standing

at the meridian hotel does that ring a

bell

uh lieutenant news guy on three but the

walker family down the hall

the walker family i saw them on tv last

night you're not exactly on that hit

parade i am a boy

not this weekday

listen i'd love to talk but i'm up to my

ears in this thing why don't you

call me before you fly out you're not

going to come have dinner

with me boy i mean i'm only in town a

few days dad if i didn't have this case

sir missing person the local federal

locals coming

thanks dad line three lt they're still

holding

yeah i got it

dad let me call you hey charlie morning

adam

um this is my father dad this is

detective sergeant boudreau we work

together

detective good to meet you how'd you

like to join my son and me for a meal

dad lunch tomorrow chuck's busy tonight

adam you'll join us sure

okay dad lunch tomorrow settle good to

meet you

sir see you then chuck

chuck

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i don't have time to breathe much less

meet my old man for lunch

oh you got anything on the on the case

you know wrong about what yeah

i don't think you're supposed to drink

so much at one time well you tell that

to my ulcer

fine here that's right that was the

sixth house to be hit

no i don't have a quote about the little

girl i feel awful about it how the hell

would you feel charlie

oh yeah you want to know what i think of

your hard-hitting report charlie

lieutenant pine's busy right now call

him back later this afternoon

thanks what are you doing giving the

media so much ammunition

i can't stand these news guys

maybe you need a break from all this

give yourself a chance to cool out

regroup man

you're crazy there's no way i am walking

off this case

charlie i'm up to speed on this case if

it blows up you just jump right back in

i can't do it it doesn't matter charlie

the way things are going you need to a

man who can't stand the heat shouldn't

be in the kitchen in the first place

all right you win you stay

you're gonna have to find a way to

handle this pressure man let me know you

get any great ideas

as a matter of fact i just got one

you're taking deep breaths inhale exhale

i got the drill

good and then clear your mind

done all right

now imagine yourself traveling through a

tunnel

you like the holland tunnel uh well in

tunnel

a train tunnel any kind of town you want

to imagine

okay

you keep exhaling as you travel through

the tunnel

and as you do you'll pass each color in

the spectrum

each color corresponding to an emotion

each emotion

okay that's it we're done here we just

got started no

i'm done this garbage might work for you

but it's got no place in my life look

this is not garbage lieutenant this is

relaxation i don't need to relax i need

to get back to work

fine then why don't you hit the showers

boudreaux calls down tell him i'll be up

in a minute good

i only did it for him anyway that makes

two of us

i'll tell you something though negative

emotions have a way of putting the body

out of alignment and right now i'd say

you're about as good as a pretzel

really yeah yeah you don't want to do

something to help adjust it back fine i

guarantee that your body will do it for

you what the hell are you talking about

i'm talking about ulcers insomnia a

heart attack

you just take your pick lieutenant

okay grady okay flat

try the tunnel

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um

how bad

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the seventh robbery has taken on a new

dimension

murder we're asked to speak to this

latest development yesterday lieutenant

charles pine jr of the 10th precinct

declined to comment which makes this

reporter wonder if the city has the

right man for the job surely

when asked to comment on that fine again

refused

in other news over 500 angry people

stormed city hall today

ignore that clown all right

you can't see anything worse than what

i've already said to myself

you should go talk to resnick say a few

words to him

resnick well that's what this has been

all about isn't it

president gotti would have shrink talk

he's a doctor he has an informed opinion

i have no interest in sitting on his

couch

in our vets group we sit in chairs but

the process is pretty much the same do

you guys want to sit around and examine

your navels about vietnam fine

i just don't go in for that bellyaching

we sort things out man call it whatever

you want

things are real clear to me and until

things change

sergeant i'll thank you to stay out of

my personal business

lt excuse me uh mr walker's in the hall

in line two is for you

who's calling the news guy no

uh it's your wife's lawyer

you tell my wife's lawyer i'll call him

back when hell freezes over

i'll be with walker they're waiting for

you in the interrogation room i'll take

walker

i can handle it you can be in both

places at once

all right take walker

mrs roland

if you'd like to rest a while we can

continue later

no it's all right your statement

is very important in helping us find the

men who did this

because my husband grabbed one of the

men's masks

did you see the man's face

mrs rowland

mrs rowland

those men didn't get this last night

it was still in my car trunk

all the years we were married my husband

said

he could never use a good watch they

were too expensive he'd say

he'd only ruined it working in the yard

he'd say

but every time we walked by a jewelry

store he'd stop

and look at the watches

i got him this for our 20th anniversary

because i knew it was the only way you'd

ever have one

well my husband

finally has his good watch

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these people tape their own house we

have an insurance company

anyway there's a pair of diamond

earrings on it family heirloom the joe

wants us to find it

blow it up hit the pawn shops find the

earrings and take some heat off the lt

you can hear it from me of course

first detective all right

how'd it go with the widow this morning

how'd it go

there was no kleenex in the

interrogation room

i bring a woman and talk about her dead

husband and i can't even offer a kleenex

she didn't ask for one that's not the

point she shouldn't be here her husband

shouldn't be dead

and i can't do a thing to change it

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i'll take your dad on five in the hotel

dining room he wants to know where you

guys are

just tell them we're on our way

sure i'll just go wash up

i'll meet you there

yeah i'll meet you

where could that sound of mine be you

had to type a few loosens on a case

i always told him growing up you're on

time you're already five minutes late

that's a no-win situation isn't it you

ever been late to a fire

no sir and it wasn't easy

what was it chuck

growing up he always had his head in the

clouds and his mother would let him stay

like that but

i was the one that wrote him i made sure

he hit the books i saw to it that he

made football practice all the

scrimmages

charlie says he hates football that's

right

but he was all city nose guard his

senior year

i made certain of that i didn't realize

that

for sure a couple of times he wanted to

quit the team you know college entrance

exams

but i told him you quit that one thing

you might as well quit everything else

you told him can't stand the heat stay

out of the kitchen i always say i think

i heard charlie say that

excuse me are you detective boudreau

yeah call you sir

thanks yeah

when okay

what is it no armed robbery in progress

we think it's the dinner done in case

excuse me sure

go get em

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do you want to tell me about this

robbery do you want to tell me i didn't

call

these cops here you didn't call the

police no

caller gave this address said there was

a robbery going on

look my boyfriend was just moving in

what's murray doing here he's supposed

to be in thunder bay i mean that's

probably

called you why would he do that i got

this house in our divorce

and he's a very poor loser hold it

stop right there

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officer of the law tells you to stop you

stop hey i didn't do anything no

did you call the police if this car has

a phone in it we can sure as i'll trace

that call

i thought she was being robbed you told

911 you were being robbed

what it feels like with the boyfriend

how many people you took off a real case

for your lousy breakup hey charlie come

on time up charlie

come on get him out of here

dinner time guys they're still out there

come on kelsey and shoehead

they're riding this all right they'll

call us if anything comes up

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it's just the guys like this get me you

know they really get me come on charlie

it's over let's watch the game

at least he's not as bad as these tv

reporters you know

they're always on my back talk about

your monday morning quarterbacks charlie

come on

you want soda on yours yeah yeah why not

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don't forget the butter second period

intermission after this channel three

news break

in local news tonight the dinnertime

murderer is still at large

lieutenant charles pine jr of the 10th

precinct may have committed police

brutality

when he accosted witnesses are not

certain if pine's action was proof of

frustration post brutality or just plain

10th precinct has been unable to uncover

a single lead in this case

action was proof of frustration police

brutality or just

lieutenant charles pine jr told the

widow mr rowland today

that he feels personally responsible for

her husband's death still at large

lieutenant charles pine junior of the

10th precinct may have committed police

brutality

when he accosted an innocent kenwood

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area

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what the hell

don't worry i'll buy you another one

i thought i'd find you here

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what's this for check for a new tv

i am sorry about last night i i got a

little crazy

a little crazy

you just need to take a little break

i'll glue your hair

charlie pine does not walk away from a

job you don't have a choice

you're getting way too dangerous man to

yourself to the people around you

and if i don't leave

i go to the captain

you would actually do that to me no

charlie

i'd do that for you

you got till noon today i handle it

yourself i don't need till noon

i am staying put

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especially ones about exploding tvs

right no good

okay

charlie i came to get my things

you are some friend

you might feel betrayed you go ahead

table's returned you'd have done the

same thing unless i don't know you at

all

okay okay

all right

the thing is adam i don't know how i got

into such a bad shape in the first place

what'd you say i said i don't know how i

got into such bad shape

a couple years after nam i uh

had a perp and a chokehold

he was unconscious i was still choking

it took three officers to pull me off

him and i remember wondering

how'd i get in such bad shape in the

first place

resnick says i should

take a vacation relax

tell me do you know how to relax

compared to you here

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take it easy

you two

17-79

precinct television set's pretty

relieved though yeah

oh god i'm sorry that's okay trisha

i was joking

did you just call me trisha

you have never called me trisha the

entire time we've worked together

too i mean i figured you didn't even

know our first names

first names parents hometown

i know everything about my officers

what's that a vcr for the dinner time

case

what part of the case frankly sir i'm

not at liberty

that's okay i'm off the force

watch your back yeah well

take care of yourself

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you know how hard it is to find a beta

machine these days

must be

insurance tape okay diamond earrings are

coming up next after living room stuff

what insurance companies do before

videotape took people's words for things

what so person could say they had the

hope diamond reported messing and

collect millions of dollars

adam you have something you want to

share

not yet pedro here 10th precinct

yeah i'm on the way dinner time please

yeah let's go

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real thing this time right so anybody

hurt no just shook up

hey we drill isn't lieutenant fine on

suspension

how come he's inside

but first i thought it was a joke

someone from the office

we should add them mrs lloyd returned

just a second check the garage see if

the tires picked up any oil backing up

what the hell are you doing here i am

here in an unofficial capacity you're

interfering in a department

investigation against direct orders

it's my case

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you're sick charlie this is sick

you're like an addict who can't kick oh

this is beautiful

first you sound like restless now you

sound like my wife there's a big

difference

your wife won't arrest you for this

stunt

adam you're not serious you come within

a mile of a crime scene again i'll

arrest you on the spot

get some help charlie

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so how's it going i got prince and some

fabric samples i'll get back to the

precinct and find the lloyd's statement

hold on let me see that

gold pen setting and a diamond necklace

valued at seven thousand dollars

you asked the lloyds if maybe they got

some pictures of these items or a

videotaper no well they didn't offer

you should have asked

did you by any chance make a videotape

of your household

yes for the insurance company we taped

every room

even the safe so we'd have proof

are you saying that my insurance company

did this

or someone who has access to your

insurance company can you give us the

tape

well if i had it my son taped over it

last year some

mtv concert but i can get a copy from my

insurance company

oh it's okay we'll handle it thank you

let me get this straight these people

tape their stuff for protection the

wrong guys get it and suddenly home

shopping network

we've got work

i'll get the walker's tape see what i

can see i'll get the victim's phone

numbers from them the insurance carriers

it's gone

hey o'neill o'neil

where's the dinner time file how should

i know serge

has anybody been here since we left just

the regulars

although i guess the lt isn't in that

category anymore

lieutenant pond was here about 20

minutes ago yeah

packing up his personal files

that's not all he packed up that's great

we break a case and our boss runs off

with the evidence

okay if you hear anything get back to me

any luck with charlie oh

uh no one's seen him or heard from him

well maybe he's taking your advice and

he's off somewhere dealing with his

problems

he's out there somewhere on the case oh

after what you told him last night that

you'd arrest him i don't think so

he's hurting malloy he's just not

rational

adam i know it's small consolation but

you have done the right thing

all along i just never thought i'd have

to lose the friendship to save the

friend

and i think i have anybody here

i'll get it

oh hi bobby what's going on i didn't

want to have this conversation in the

office

but i read something interesting in your

report from last night

an off-duty member of the force was also

at the scene of the crime

that's what you wrote here that's true

pine takes time off between blowing out

tv sets to interfere

at the scene of a crime and you buried

in your report

he's a friend he's a spectacle and he's

damaging

the department

what about the damage to the man is that

why you came to see me in the first

place

if charlie shows up at another scene

he won't i hope not for both of you

because i don't think charlie could take

losing his badge permanently

any more than you could take letting him

lose it

morning you want to bring me up to speed

insurance companies i'll check out so

far

they gave us all these tips and they

could have made us wait for a subpoena

here

what are we looking for i'm not sure but

this is vhs

yeah all the insurance tapes are on vhs

however the families are on beta

right

there's two formats made in vhs

something ties these tapes together

there's gotta be an answer in there

somewhere great

what's the question mr walker can you

tell me why you had your own videotape

made on beta and the insurance companies

done in vhs

the insurance company asked us to submit

vhs they said beta was becoming obsolete

so we

had our old tape transferred

well a-okay video transfer

kelp let me see the problem

okay okay

okay okay all families

where is that mr walker elman third but

i've already told your

lieutenant pine what

when was he here 20 minutes ago he's on

his way to the tape place now

i use your phone thanks

hi kelsey and i are on our way to aok

video transfer

elm and third pine's on his way

make sure we don't find him there yeah

yeah uh okay i'll take care of it

can i help you hope so

huh just set go i'll get my boss

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put that over here

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everyone get out

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charles pine jr

snow on your junior

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lieutenant charles pine lieutenant

the hell are you doing here favorite for

a friend

adam told you to follow me yeah but the

favor

was for you

charlie the back door is over there are

you coming

yeah along with every mask you can find

eh

how much you want to bet these match the

fibers in our evidence locker

just what i thought get him out of here

i think i just saw lieutenant pine's car

leaving on my way in is that possible

i don't see how that could be

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that's right the dinnertime case has

been sold

when asked detective sergeant adam

boudreau the 10th precinct said they

could have convicted the four men

on evidence alone but in a late

development one of the men

is turning evidence against the others

again detective budreau reports that the

10th precinct's dinnertime case

has been solved and the kenwood area is

breathing a sigh of relief

we go now to one of those families

i didn't hear your name in there

anywhere

i wasn't in on the end

i'll come there was a lot of pressure

my superiors thought i should take some

time off while i was off the case got

close

that's so well sometimes the only thing

you can do is

step away for a bit what are you talking

about

your situation son you never pulled back

not in your life

if i hadn't might have been dead right

now you ran from a fire

well the technical word is retrenched

what about fight to the finish uh all

that stuff those were guidelines

guidelines i've been operating on

something you didn't mean i

meant them sometimes a man has to pick

and choose that way you learn to stand

on your own two feet well i don't

remember you letting me

what that's not something you get that's

something you're trying

hey everybody ready ready and raring

dad let me get that for you no way i'm

thought of the day i can't carry my own

bag is the day they lower me six feet

into the ground

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better

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better

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so

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you