Street Justice (1991–1993): Season 1, Episode 6 - Shadows - full transcript

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how come coffee in the courthouse is

always better than it is at the precinct

good coffee keeps the jury awake for

long murder trials like this one

you boys should consider giving up

coffee it causes heart attacks you know

what does that thing in your mouth do

what difference does it make

punk's victim probably never smoked a

day in his life



detective how does it feel to hear that

the boy got life in prison

well it's always rewarding to have our

efforts pay off this hectic what about

you

i'd rather save the victim than bust the

killer you're dead

you three times a day you hear me you're

gonna get you guys

we're gonna get you guys confused

detective can you take that threat

seriously well a little bit of danger

makes life interesting

and it goes to the job



cameras

hate the press not me hey maybe i should

retire become a tv star what do you have

i think you should keep your day job do

you think that fun can give us any

trouble ah come on

how many times we see threats like that

maybe hundreds

just the same watch your back graveside

21 gun salutes make me jumpy

while i'm over here

keep your eyes open too

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um

what are you doing

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another 15 seconds you and me would open

our doors we'd all be dead now

no what are you doing looking for clues

being a cop more than i can say for you

no you're disturbing a crime scene let

the evidence guys do it not my style to

sit around and let someone else do the

work

you know if there was any evidence in

this pile of crap you just messed it up

i gotta find the bracelet

a what

chase he bought his wife this bracelet

it's nice diamonds rubies

maybe it's in his locker i gotta find it

give it to her trainer

don't go acting like a human on me okay

or i'll have to change the way i

feel about you it's an anniversary

present

it's our first wedding anniversary it's

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tomorrow

so that means the bomb was set here

after he parked the car only one problem

there's no way anyone could get near

that car to do it security cameras

record every nook and cranny in here

let's take a look at the tapes already

did nothing no one came near that car

the whole time it was here

where's the camera that recorded this

area it's over here

somebody give me a laptop

thanks

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what is that looks like a video recorder

right whoever is responsible tapped into

the cable between the camera and the

security room

so what does that do it allows them to

pre-tape the undisturbed garage

then play it back for the security

guards

how did you know that there's no special

forces trick

only back when i used it the video unit

weighed more

than my car sergeant

a few words with you and trainer

i'm not going to like this emma

i am putting you both in protective

custody

you are not to tell anyone where you are

no contact with the outside

is this really necessary yes it is i

don't intend to lose two more men

that cheer up boudreau we get overtime

hazard pay

lounge around a hotel order room service

watch all the cable tv we can stomach

you ever hear of knocking pedro he's

fine

i want to see him he's in protective

custody

where he's safe i can't tell you any

more than that

why not because that would jeopardize

boudreau's safety

neither of us wants that oh like i'm

gonna tell anybody where he is

you could be followed your phone could

be tapped you could be forced into

telling where he is

what are you doing you don't want to

tell me where he is

i'm fine maybe your files will no they

won't

leave those alone stop it

i said stop it

we're on the same side here

why don't you go keep an eye on malloy

that's what adam would want

i'm sorry man look i'm sorry

that's it it's okay i'll go on

you okay

yeah why something like this really

makes you look at your life huh

should need something like this

put that away oh my nervous wreck my

cigars relax me

it's unhealthy no i don't inhale

i didn't mean for you

there's a bunch of wackos out there

trying to kill us and you're worried

about some secondhand cigar smoke

just go outside all right if i go

outside and make it snuff

you light that in here it'll get snuffed

what is the problem with me and you the

problem

yeah come on let's face it neither one

of us is going to be singing for he's a

jolly good fella any time soon

at least not for each other anyway so

you mind telling me what it is you don't

like about me

why you gonna make some grand effort to

change if i do

no i like me the way i am why should i

care what you think

you shouldn't no i don't

just curious that's all

look there's no one

concrete reason trainer

some people just don't mesh

well we could be locked in this room

together for a long time

so maybe you better start meshing

hey boudreau's okay

then what's with the two badges are you

ready for this

they're here to protect us one of us

will be out front and one out back at

all times

just call if you need us ma'am i will

thanks

protect us from what brian says it's

routine

did you see adam no wouldn't even tell

me where he is but

he's safe says who

says pine i remember when the lieutenant

said my father was safe

what oh the night that daddy didn't come

home in time

lieutenant told me not to worry he said

daddy was safe

he said

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daddy was safe

boy it's not the same thing boudreau's

under protection

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right

we have customers

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uh where are you going

do something i got to do something

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great

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gentlemen kelsey lieutenant

malloy and your friend grady are secured

so are your wife and kid

she sent you some clothes thanks i had

to pick your clothes up myself adam

hope you don't mind wearing stripes with

plaids does this mean we're going to be

here for a long time

until we arrest who's ever after you

yeah great

let's tend to life it's about time

i thought you fell in or something hey

never stomach

hello lieutenant shum well have you made

any progress here charlie we're

investigating hugh's gang oh

so i sit here to the mold in gray and

you block up the wrong tree right

the dragons are the ones who made the

threat a car bomb is not shadow dragons

mo they're going for knives and baseball

bats okay

adam do you mind stepping away from the

window

if you think i'm so off track why don't

you steer me in the right direction

fine let's go from this room look

i don't want to just sit here when

there's some guy out there who's a cop

killer i understand that

and you know what i don't want adam two

dead friends

that's what i don't want

all right if you're so almighty smart

tell me how you'd proceed with this

investigation

i cross-checked the file see if there's

anybody else out there that all three of

us had dealings with

like who how the hell am i supposed to

know that

trainer chase ever mentioned anyone else

that might be after him

yo trainer

hey trent are you okay there's no way

anybody can get to him in there

no windows trainer open up

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there's

there you go

they don't know looks like it's heart

just stopped

trainer always said the stress of being

a cop would give him a heart attack

and what he smoked those damn cigars he

used to stress

yeah well he used it all right

oh he sure did maybe we should get him a

headstone that says see

or here lies a cop under cardiac arrest

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what's up oh nothing

nothing

what do you got next door

let's go

found it in the sink find a colored

liquid

no senator forensics

find out probably sarin what's that

it's a nerve engine we used in vietnam i

think the army still uses it

what's it do it causes convulsions

paralysis

eventually heart attack yeah but we

found in this bathroom not next door

yeah these sinks must have common pipes

shoot little of it down this drain at

least some of it comes up on the other

side

only takes a little another special

forces method

you guessed it oh why leave the evidence

here

they want us to know its murder

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they knew we were hiding you here yeah

you think there was a leak

i doubt it they probably followed us

here

where are you going i think i gotta take

care of myself charlie i can't let you

do that

you don't have a choice let kelsey and

chuam take you to another safe house

forgive me charlie but your safe houses

aren't they are if no one knows you're

there

they weren't supposed to know i was here

well we'll just have to take extra

precautions this time

yeah right

all right

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thank you

kelsey promise if they kill me you won't

let them put me one of these

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wait a minute

oh nice tattoo

you guys shadow dragons

no such thing as shadow dragons just a

myth

everything in little saigon's a myth

what do you want

now that your leader is locked up who's

in charge i told you

i know there's nothing to be in charge

of it's too bad

cause i wanna do a little favor for the

dragons

what kind of favor there's this cop

named adam boudreau what about him

he gets hurt everybody with a tattoo

like yours ends up the same way

there are a lot of tattoos like this one

you got to know me

don't need one

i think you do

you sure you want to try anything you

come into our place

you threaten us you are the one who is

trying something

there's a difference between trying and

doing

you're wasting your time i don't

consider saving a friend's life wasted

time

your friend put me where i am today why

would i kill him for that

you tell me but sometimes when a prince

is in line for his throne

he does not mind if someone kills the

king

but you hook it so much as a scratch you

were warned

hello yeah hold on

it's pine yeah tell me i can go home

he did what

let me know if you find him yeah

what did he say my friend grady went off

half-cocked with the shadow dragons he's

out there playing cowboys while i'm in

here playing house

how many times are you gonna do that

what

check your clip

and what about you shoeham you think

these locks are gonna unfasten

themselves

you can never be too careful yeah well

this is not about being careful calm

down adam

yeah what's with you i mean we're just

doing our jobs that's right

both of you you're doing your jobs but

i'm not doing mine right now your job is

to be protected by us

oh yeah i mean look at the two of you

shoeham here checks the same locks every

five minutes you keep checking your clip

every 10.

you tell me you're both not nervous rex

if my gun won't fire it won't be much

help will it

we're just being careful look

we're as calloused as any comp when it

comes to your average bad guy but

whoever's after me is not your average

bad guy

it's my coat what are you doing i'm

looking for your keys why because they

probably know michael where are you

going

away everybody's at risk because of you

you're not going anywhere adam

kelsey you two are in danger just by

being with me and grady's out there

knocking heads because he's not i'm

putting a stop to all this

i can't let you go

look me in the eyes and tell me you want

to be here

uh

hey hi kevin what are you doing here i

own the placement

yeah i know but you shouldn't be here

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what the hell happened

in the trap

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i just man get it

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hey

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ah

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boy you okay yeah i'm fine

good to see you alive yeah ditto

you got one you mean there were more

at least one that i saw i couldn't stop

them

or they

let's find out

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what is it being this man was a member

of the ldnn frogmen

what's that south vietnamese special

forces

oh how do you know him

because i trained him

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you okay

i've never seen a person die i

grew up with a cop for a father and

i haven't caught for a business partner

and never seen a person die

you were lucky no

man's to they're not five feet from me

alive and one

bullet and one second later is dead

you took another man's life

it could have been the other way around

no i'm not saying what you did is wrong

i'm just saying

this life is so fragile

you got family in colorado right yeah

i want you to go there stay there until

i call you

oh who's gonna run the bar don't worry

about the bar

it'll be closed

i'm glad you're all right malloy thanks

adam we have to stop meeting like this

you want to tell me what magic trick

these guys used to get into this place i

had a man at each door

did you have one on the roof no

you should have

i want you back at that safe house and

under protection no way charlie can't do

it

oh wait a minute now you're telling me

to go to colorado and hide but you won't

hide yourself

look i didn't got two men killed already

oh what so you figure your strap on your

guns and go shoot it out at the okay

corral

something like that no you won't adam

i know these frogmen charlie now i

trained some of them so you're saying

that makes you better qualified to fight

them

i'm saying i trained those men to kill

me i trained them and now they kill two

cops

and they won't stop charlie they just

won't give up they'll keep killing

that's why you have to let us protect

you no

that's why i have to be the one to stop

them

wait where you going you just stay here

and watch malloy

all right man if anything happens to her

it's on you okay

come on man it's me adam open up damn do

you know what time it is

that wake you yeah i just got back in

town man i've been up

all night look i'm sorry teddy but i

need your help and i can't wait

where's your coffee it's right there man

i make a cup for you no man

what i want is to go back to sleep if

you don't man

hey can you tell me about the refugee

placing business

it's a never-ending stream adam why

you replacing the ldn and frogman

you kidding me never been more serious

didn't think they really exist believe

me they exist

my unit trained them no no no man i know

they existed in country

i just thought the stories about them

here were just legend

what stories adam the refugees tell

stories about the frogmen like we tell

stories about the boogeyman

well tell me one well usually

there's something about the frogmen

coming out of nowhere

killing someone melting back into the

shadows

the victim is found in the locked room

where no one could get to them no one

heard anything no one saw anything

like that do you know any of the victims

no not personally but you know talk

around little saigon is that they were

all people who didn't pay protection

or didn't pay the gambling debts

to who you ever hear of old kim

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department's got a file thickened an

encyclopedia on him

this is not a nice man well it's not all

bad

the man helps me settle a lot of my

refugees

teddy you do business with this man he

helps my

i don't ask any questions

i want a meeting can you set it up maybe

what's going on heather

the frogmen do exist

they're trying to kill me

you don't have to come with me teddy he

won't see you without me

what across the street doorway

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what do you want to do just follow my

lead okay okay

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now what you should follow us great

then what

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put the damn gun away pete what do you

weigh like three million pounds

will somebody tell me what the hell's

going on it's my friend grady here

he won't take no for an answer grady

here spent 20 years without bedro

and i'll be damned if i'm gonna see you

taken away from me now

get out for me come on

crazy walking around the open would you

go home greedy

no we're team not this time why

what is so different about this time i

know these frogmen so do i their methods

are unusual so are mine

look it's dangerous i don't want you to

get killed

all right but you do as i say you got it

where are we going

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thanks

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talk about the lions dude uh kim gave us

where'd you be safe live here

is it worth anything let's do it

i was told there would only be two

wait outside gritty be i don't think

that's a good idea

wait outside please

gentlemen have a seat please

thank you for seeing me mr willis

it's a good friend to my people that is

the only reason why you are here

and um i appreciate that what do you

want

you know what i want you have become a

target

who holds a gun

you are the law for your people and i

am the law for mine you're a businessman

you're not the law

for many years there's been an

unofficial agreement between

your police and the people of little

saigon

we police ourselves

i'm aware of that then why did you step

over the line

there was a murder i arrested the

murderer

tell me when you are forced to kill a

criminal

in the line of duty are you then

considered

a murderer no

then perhaps the shopkeeper was killed

as punishment for

breaking our laws what law

refusing to pay your protection money

are my fees any different

than your taxes we don't murder tax

evaders

calm down adam and we damn sure don't

use frogmen for the more sophisticated

jobs like killing cops

mr boudreau little saigon

is not your jurisdiction

i just made it my jurisdiction kim

it is for behavior such as this that

perhaps someone

is making an example of you you want to

see an example adam

mr boudreau

i believe it is time

for you to go

let's go come on

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okay brady what happened i acted like

you

you sho did how can you do business with

her man

because he's the only one who comes

through with a job and a place to live

for my refugees

and he probably makes them pay for the

rest of their life well that's their

choice adam it's not mine and it's not

yours

can you find your own way home why

where we're going you're not going to

want to go where's that

in a manner speaking back to vietnam

this is two henry17 pass me through

lieutenant pine 2017

standby yeah adam you okay

i'm fine i need access to safe house too

you want some men

no just open the safe house and be gone

before i get there

all right that's what you want that's

what i want

what are we going to do cook up a few

frogs

legs

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radio check ready got you hear me

yeah i hear you just take your position

and wait

what the hell are you two doing here i

told pine pine didn't send us we heard

you on the radio

what are you here for we're here to back

you up i don't want your backup so

please just get out of here

all right put me in the eye and tell me

you don't want us here

okay yeah

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patrol said just one shot would be fired

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did you see where the shot came from

move across the street all right

you take the back i'll go in the front

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so

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surprise but you're dead there goes the

christmas present

and you're under arrest for attempted

murder let's move it

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now

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good night sergeant

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oh

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gun beats knife

but glad you could join us all you said

was roof

you didn't know which building

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i trust you will be more gracious this

visit

we have two of you frogmen in county

jail frogmen

are a legend they do not really exist

that's what the frogmen said

i hope you did not come to talk about

imaginary

characters no i came here to talk about

you

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a worthy subject i don't have enough to

put you behind bars yet

but i'll keep working on it you'll be

working on it

for the rest of your short life

that's the other thing you want the

police to stay out of little saigon

correct

of course that's too bad

you see my lieutenant plans to triple

the shift here

but only if one of your people so much

as scratches one of our cops

including me i do not control

all of my people and you better

because otherwise little saigon will

look like a police convention do you

understand me

i think he's speechless b

no he's just thinking about what 10 cops

on every street corner

would do this business

demo get out get out

no

oh

there will be another time

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you