Street Justice (1991–1993): Season 1, Episode 8 - The Group - full transcript
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uh
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who found her prostitute coming off
graveyard she's over here
back away from the tape anybody from the
bleachers made a statement
zip all around hooker's no good to us
either
says when she tripped on her girl was
already dead
back up please it's not a freak show
what happened
what do you think that's funny you've
been standing here 10 minutes
didn't get any deader come on sir back
it up
talking to you please back
that's two asian women in two weeks both
took it to the neck
you want to call her to cereal
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sergeant no i do not
how about just a psycho
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damn sure have to be that wouldn't it
hey we'll have to tell julia to fire the
new guy you're late
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very good very good very good kids
i'm gonna cut the session short today
i'll make it up to you next time
see you saturday me
hey
cut a few classes short myself kids i
really take it out of you huh
yeah yeah they do how long you've been
working here
oh couple months
how long have you been practicing
martial arts
why don't you tell me
what i'd say about a year
would that hurt
at least you do have speed
so to you for no timer
you ain't seen nothing yet schoolboy
calm it down come on just fine
i had you
okay i'm coming yeah
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what's wrong with you man do you have
some kind of problem with your off
button
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i'm sorry man i'm sorry you're gonna
have to do better
than that
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they're both women both vietnamese i
both live in little saigon
you want to call it a cereal
you and shoeham have a thing for labels
adam we
got the corners preliminary and
she divided a broken neck same as the
other one full report will be out but i
have a feeling
i know it's a cereal
you take care of the media yeah i always
do
are you okay compared to the victims
i'm great
dog tags huh yeah they get all tangled
up
something tells me you didn't pick those
up in the gulf
no me and desert storm missed each other
by about 20 years
how long are we in there
a year forever
i know what you mean
do you schoolboy
oh could you just push it in just a
little bit more
okay that's good that's good thank you
thank you hey what's
with the pinball machine ask malloy you
have to growl like that
i just don't think a bar is a bar
without a pinball machine can't argue
that
no i tried could you humor me i
am
anyway you wanted to talk to me what
about there's this new instructor at the
club
right we're sparring for fun the guy
tries to take my head off
come on you can handle that i put him
down to the mat
but he's a vet vietnam
well you don't have to be a vet to be a
little edgy true
but he's still wearing his dog tags
oh that's different
that's what i thought why don't you give
me his number
i'll give him a call and see what i can
do his name is banting
i had just uh about talked myself into
being a no-show tonight
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you guys know i've been feeling pretty
good lately
like who needs to work anything out yeah
anyway um
another day on the job
i had to cover this murder of this
vietnamese woman
remember how we used to mock a kill
we got a vc with the ace of spades drop
that ace right on their face
let everybody know the score yeah
well a day
when i knelt down beside
this woman's body to confirm
the kill i mean to confirm the fact that
she was dead
go ahead man you can say it here
i had the strongest urge to flick that
ace on a man
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i didn't want to
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but it came over me i mean it just came
over me
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adam you're okay
yeah yeah
i'm working on that yeah
yeah this must be willis huh open all
night
come on in i'm ted willis dexter benton
i talked to adam boudreau on the phone
yeah i'm patrol man
how's it going good sorry blake got lost
don't worry about that there's a lot of
it going around let's pull up a chair
look at it say anything do anything just
don't judge us and we'll do likewise
all right
okay everybody settle in now all right
walter
you're up man
we took turns walking point me and
shorty
we could always feel trouble coming
except for that day shorty stepped on a
mine
the kind that don't go off for a split
second
it clicked he looked at me
i still remember his eyes
anyway as i was saying i write shorty's
mom every year
on his birthday because i figure
he was born with her
but he died with me and
even though her and me never met
well you know
walter you send those letters as long as
you want
how old are you man excuse me
you need permission to send that lady a
letter
i give you a stamp you can send her a
letter go ahead hey hey
this isn't how we handle things here
friend
you don't handle anything oh
chill out then no you chill out all i've
been hearing here this afternoon is the
kind of talk to give veterans a bad name
you went to war it stunk
let me get off your knees and stop
crying about it
i invited him all right hey benton
forget it okay just forget it why you
can't
you wouldn't have come here unless you
wanted some help
i'm going back in you coming i hate
crowds
i want you to meet me here early
tomorrow morning
just you and me
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i see you found the place
yeah yeah
nice and peaceful here
you know when i first went to nam a
place like this put me off it was too
small too neat
now it makes the most sense took the
words right out of my mouth
you had to be marine special forces
how about you 82nd have one
derosed march 71.
i was september
land in san francisco right
oh is that a trip or what the whole
country hates the war
and they have us deplaning in hippie
town usa
in uniform oh man how far did you get
before somebody spit on you to determine
try the plane man no
come on that's right the plane
we picked up this student in hawaii
all the way to the mainland she keep
telling me
i'm a baby killer and she spit in my
face
you tell her that maybe you were baby
killer but at least you had good manners
know i did
she's no different than they are now
want me a killer
who's calling your killer
a man does things sometimes that he's
not proud of
yeah i know i have she made me do it
why did she have to go and open her
mouth
who them the girl
it was my life or hers
where nam are here i stopped the words
right on my throat
what exactly do you mean
but
it doesn't matter man
none of this man
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2017 respond
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217 roger shoeham here we got another
woman down as of half an hour ago
hill and fourth you anywhere near
adam
real near
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how well do i know benton
he's great with kids and he's got a
problem with his off button
why it's something that he said this
morning
it's better if i don't involve you b
i'm already involved remember
i suspect he's real dangerous greggy
how do you mean like you might kill
somebody
that's what i have to find out
what do you have for me witness says the
guy was maybe six feet
without your build just before the kill
the guy shouted real loud
this is for jimmy
jimmy huh and then he stops the scream
right in their throats
you've been reading true detective again
hey read the report
he fractures the voice box
we don't take this to lieutenant pine
until i say so okay
you want to tell us what's going on no
run the name dexter benton pass veterans
administration
dexter benton yeah what are we looking
for
we're looking for a killer
so how are you doing mustard right yeah
i can't complain with relish yeah right
how about you i'm doing good man doing
real good how's the shoulder
oh it still hurts that's how it is well
you know you ought to see a doctor about
that bursitis
i don't have any bursitis
no just your shoulders on fire right
it's a muscle pool
you've had a muscle for three and a half
years
beside us is for old people anna i am
not over
kids your shoulder i mean am i old
are we old oh we're not old
well i ain't old either that's a damn
show but you do have precise
so tell me how'd i get lucky enough for
lunch in the middle of a work day
i need a favor what can i do
is there a possibility of calling
special meeting tonight some on your
mind
yeah a couple things those vietnamese
win
i guess we should be able to get most of
the guys there
look i know it's short notice ah makes
no matter that's what the group's for
right
right is that it
yeah okay then
i'll set it up see you then
kelsey went all the way to the va in
washington
no dexter benton ever served in vietnam
thank you yeah so who is this guy
it's one of the guys from my group
and that's all you want to tell me
come here
i've got three dead women and no killer
in sight of benton's elite i'd like to
know about and i got a room full of guys
who put their trust in me
to leave my badge at the door even with
a killer look i'm not certain he is a
killer run him in we'll find out
and what if he's innocent huh i put him
over the edge
i didn't realize you were responsible
for all vietnam veterans i'd just like
to give the guy a break charlie why
because nobody else does
some things are just unfair if you have
a case on them
you make it wait a minute
i'll have something by midnight or i
won't
i hear you sometimes i need a meeting
just so i can hear other guys no i'm not
crazy
but somebody got to say something my
will is going to discuss that sports car
again
and i've never told this to nobody
i was on recon and uh
i was out looking for down chocolate and
i find this guy
on a tree
b.c had staked into a tree
after doing every other damn thing you
could do to a man
he sees me and he starts crying and
begging and
asking me to kill him
kelly was already dead
but i couldn't so i called headquarters
and
they told me it was my responsibility
so i asked the team to leave
hell he just wanted me to finish what uh
charlie had started
you know i think he was one hell of a
man to ask me to do something like that
so i put my m16 next to his head and uh
anyway when the team got back we even
talked nothing about it
and we just buried it
very deep
was that jimmy
huh it was jimmy wasn't it jimmy i
i don't know i thought i heard you
mention a jimmy a buddy you'd lost
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i don't know anybody named jimmy that
must have been the other night
no i i don't
adam
i must be mistaken
i apologize
okay then um i think that's enough for
tonight
i'll see everybody next week and uh in
between
now you call me if you need me
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now what was that all about pounding
again
i was just trying to help him open up
you won't tell me what's going on man
i was just a little too pushy oh no i
don't
you asked for this meeting and then you
spend it hounding the new guy
like i said i was too pushy and you
don't want to explain why
is that a problem i guess not unless we
make it man
then let's not
to the prince on his coffee cup his real
name's ross wilton
has five priors all assaults
all against vietnamese women
come on you did good work
and how come i feel so damn lousy
you want me to bring them in no
that much i ordered
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how'd you find out i'm a cop
and you're under arrest
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foreign
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i was up all night too
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hold on hold on
i'll see you later
i take it you heard about benton aka
wilton
good bus for you
when i get a killer off the streets it's
always a good bust
if you used us you used the group
the guy is dangerous
adam every guy in our group is dangerous
and they got but one place to open up
and talk about
it when you come you trample all over
you don't see the dead bodies i have
zipped up more body bags than any guy
in our group including you 20 years ago
i'm still zipping them up
every day out there in the streets i'm
the guy who has the answer for them
and if that messes up our group man then
it does
yeah yeah
well then maybe you should find yourself
another group you know what i'm saying
everybody's got to do what everybody's
got to do
and that's it that's it no that's not it
adam
that is not the half of it
well look i'm not some hobby you can
throw
over when it gets in the way of your job
i'm your friend i know that oh yeah well
you sure as the hell could have fooled
me
wasn't the last 10 years about trust
getting it back we both know what we did
in group
we both know oh yeah
i don't think you know cause you
wouldn't have done what you did
see you around
good questions
school boy what you doing here i
want to help you
look i can't believe i'm the one who's
doing it
and i can't deny it either
because of what you saw in there because
of what i did
that's what i did
you ever wake up and realize you have no
idea where you were
what you did the night before i've had
my moments
now i'm talking about days total
blackout
last week i woke up in an alley they
were wheeling the body away
and honest to god i don't know if i did
it or not
when i was a kid and then
i watched my parents village burnt down
i just
gotten to get water you know then i came
back i saw the vc shooting up
every living thing
i still hear the screams
sometimes it gets too big to carry
sometimes i think i must have killed my
parents i must have because
i was right there and i didn't die so i
must have killed them
how do you imagine you can help me hmm
because
when i get clear on it i know i didn't
and i'm betting that you didn't kill
anybody either
will you speak for yourself i'm better
off in here
why how do you know that you're gonna
hurt someone at least
in here i know i won't
wow you're pretty good at that i better
be
that's all i did the first year i was
home from there
you never talked about that time
nothing to talk about it's just a lot of
pinball
what's so funny
willis used to snatch me away from this
machine every chance he got said i used
it to numb my feelings
how were you that's so bad i didn't
have feelings i lost grady and
i didn't even know you
and here i thought it was about the game
no it was about feelings
willis taught me that
he's quite a guy yep
the best
what's happened
we had a party in the ways
i put my job before our friendship
does it know you have other friends yeah
but nobody's willis
you know what i mean
what are you doing here meeting a
witness and uh
why aren't you taking my head off
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oh obviously your lieutenant hasn't told
you yet
told me what i threw out your case
against the vet
what are you talking about we had a
witness
someone who saw the tail end of
something maybe down the end of a dark
alley
that guy's in no shape to be let out on
the streets a weak case sets him free
for good
why don't you come to me with something
more solid more solid
like maybe we catch him with his hands
around some woman's neck it wouldn't
hurt
excuse me i have to make a call
hey b hey hold on i've got something on
ben
too late man he's already been released
to air don't know but i have to find him
before he hits again come on b i talk to
the man the only person he's gonna hurt
is himself
i wish i had your confidence wait what
are you gonna do just cruise around
looking for the guy
you got a better idea yeah does your
department have a social worker a shrink
for police yeah
ben told me he's been having blackouts
he doesn't understand him maybe your
shrink can
come on it's called a fuse state
yeah but is he dangerous well that
depends on how he deals with the
demons that cause the blackest okay fine
look wait
would he kill he could
but there are ways to offset those
tendencies everything from
drugs to art therapy now i've heard
about drug therapy but
art therapy is a way for a patient to
release what he can't express
verbally has this person ever initiated
any art therapy any any drawings
even finger paintings i don't know but
we were in this meeting
and he was doing some kind of drawing
that could be meaningful
listen i've got a hearing in 10 minutes
if you need me for anything
the main operator can always beat me
okay i wouldn't doc one more thing
if he gets his yayas out doing these
drawings does that mean he isn't
dangerous well it certainly helps
yeah come on where are we going
this is the stuff we see from benton's
apartment but it has to go back to the
evidence room for return to him
well he's got some demons on it i look
at that he takes their mouths out
and called us some serious art therapy
well maybe if he does it here he doesn't
need to do it out on the streets
that's what the dog said
how yeah we're gonna find this guy he
could be anywhere he could be out of the
country by now
or he could be here
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down all available units respond 217
in the vicinity responding over 2017
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roger
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what is this does he hate women does he
hate being amazed either way he's gonna
pay right now we gotta find beth
be careful with him
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ah
this is one of those days
back to you
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hey ben oh whoa
right there you stay right there just
take it easy yeah i'll go over
look hey i won't move a muscle all right
right easy now hey
whatever it's worth you're not the one
but you come near me stay there you're
not the one benton what are you talking
about man you had me in jail
you got the guy come on come on i'll
show you don't run no games on me
hey no no no man don't
hey man you come all the way back from
vietnam just to kill yourself you don't
know what i've done some low down things
that's right the lowest this man has
done worse
you don't know what you're talking about
man me and my platoons
are hiding in the bush 30 feet away from
charlie holding my breath hoping that he
passes by
along comes this little girl picking the
baskets for the flowers
she sees me she smiles and she waves
i just know she's gonna hate number one
gis and give away our position
so i shot him
i shot we got into a hell
firefight anyway why did i shoot
her why did i shoot her i could have
opened up on charlie i just didn't think
adam mentioned
there was never enough time to think man
not even for me
or it's just a serious mistake spent
mistakes mistake
she's dead but you're alive it's not
fair
i killed her but killing yourself won't
bring her back then
it won't bring her back no at least i
won't have to worry about i don't know
ben
no no no no don't no no
i can't i got it i got it oh
my god
you guys are fools just boom
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you're welcome
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it is us benton's version anyway
my hair is better than that drop by the
va tell him okay
oh oh that's what he needs right oh
jeez
how long is he in doc says as long as he
needs
i thought when i left nam i left nam
i know the feeling
hey uh can i get a beer it's a public
house
where's your pinball machine
i told malloy to call the vendor get
that thing out of here
how about a beer grady
incoming
i heard you almost went over the ledge
with benton
both gradient i did
it ever occur to you you could have died
not at the time
and you couldn't live with yourself if
benton had
so you been good good
you
good not the same on thursday nights but
good hi guys oh
man what's trump still won't let me talk
about that little sports car i got my
eye on
tell him i said hello tell him yourself
i made my own bed that's what i said
but the group doesn't see it that way
and the more i think about it adam i
don't either i mean
you tried to protect benton and the
women in the neighborhood
i just wish you would have told me
i wish i could have
so see you thursday night thursday night
hey it's a nice picture of grady there
man
but who is that ugly dude standing next
oh that's you i'm sorry get out of here
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you
uh
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who found her prostitute coming off
graveyard she's over here
back away from the tape anybody from the
bleachers made a statement
zip all around hooker's no good to us
either
says when she tripped on her girl was
already dead
back up please it's not a freak show
what happened
what do you think that's funny you've
been standing here 10 minutes
didn't get any deader come on sir back
it up
talking to you please back
that's two asian women in two weeks both
took it to the neck
you want to call her to cereal
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sergeant no i do not
how about just a psycho
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damn sure have to be that wouldn't it
hey we'll have to tell julia to fire the
new guy you're late
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very good very good very good kids
i'm gonna cut the session short today
i'll make it up to you next time
see you saturday me
hey
cut a few classes short myself kids i
really take it out of you huh
yeah yeah they do how long you've been
working here
oh couple months
how long have you been practicing
martial arts
why don't you tell me
what i'd say about a year
would that hurt
at least you do have speed
so to you for no timer
you ain't seen nothing yet schoolboy
calm it down come on just fine
i had you
okay i'm coming yeah
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what's wrong with you man do you have
some kind of problem with your off
button
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i'm sorry man i'm sorry you're gonna
have to do better
than that
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they're both women both vietnamese i
both live in little saigon
you want to call it a cereal
you and shoeham have a thing for labels
adam we
got the corners preliminary and
she divided a broken neck same as the
other one full report will be out but i
have a feeling
i know it's a cereal
you take care of the media yeah i always
do
are you okay compared to the victims
i'm great
dog tags huh yeah they get all tangled
up
something tells me you didn't pick those
up in the gulf
no me and desert storm missed each other
by about 20 years
how long are we in there
a year forever
i know what you mean
do you schoolboy
oh could you just push it in just a
little bit more
okay that's good that's good thank you
thank you hey what's
with the pinball machine ask malloy you
have to growl like that
i just don't think a bar is a bar
without a pinball machine can't argue
that
no i tried could you humor me i
am
anyway you wanted to talk to me what
about there's this new instructor at the
club
right we're sparring for fun the guy
tries to take my head off
come on you can handle that i put him
down to the mat
but he's a vet vietnam
well you don't have to be a vet to be a
little edgy true
but he's still wearing his dog tags
oh that's different
that's what i thought why don't you give
me his number
i'll give him a call and see what i can
do his name is banting
i had just uh about talked myself into
being a no-show tonight
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you guys know i've been feeling pretty
good lately
like who needs to work anything out yeah
anyway um
another day on the job
i had to cover this murder of this
vietnamese woman
remember how we used to mock a kill
we got a vc with the ace of spades drop
that ace right on their face
let everybody know the score yeah
well a day
when i knelt down beside
this woman's body to confirm
the kill i mean to confirm the fact that
she was dead
go ahead man you can say it here
i had the strongest urge to flick that
ace on a man
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i didn't want to
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but it came over me i mean it just came
over me
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adam you're okay
yeah yeah
i'm working on that yeah
yeah this must be willis huh open all
night
come on in i'm ted willis dexter benton
i talked to adam boudreau on the phone
yeah i'm patrol man
how's it going good sorry blake got lost
don't worry about that there's a lot of
it going around let's pull up a chair
look at it say anything do anything just
don't judge us and we'll do likewise
all right
okay everybody settle in now all right
walter
you're up man
we took turns walking point me and
shorty
we could always feel trouble coming
except for that day shorty stepped on a
mine
the kind that don't go off for a split
second
it clicked he looked at me
i still remember his eyes
anyway as i was saying i write shorty's
mom every year
on his birthday because i figure
he was born with her
but he died with me and
even though her and me never met
well you know
walter you send those letters as long as
you want
how old are you man excuse me
you need permission to send that lady a
letter
i give you a stamp you can send her a
letter go ahead hey hey
this isn't how we handle things here
friend
you don't handle anything oh
chill out then no you chill out all i've
been hearing here this afternoon is the
kind of talk to give veterans a bad name
you went to war it stunk
let me get off your knees and stop
crying about it
i invited him all right hey benton
forget it okay just forget it why you
can't
you wouldn't have come here unless you
wanted some help
i'm going back in you coming i hate
crowds
i want you to meet me here early
tomorrow morning
just you and me
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i see you found the place
yeah yeah
nice and peaceful here
you know when i first went to nam a
place like this put me off it was too
small too neat
now it makes the most sense took the
words right out of my mouth
you had to be marine special forces
how about you 82nd have one
derosed march 71.
i was september
land in san francisco right
oh is that a trip or what the whole
country hates the war
and they have us deplaning in hippie
town usa
in uniform oh man how far did you get
before somebody spit on you to determine
try the plane man no
come on that's right the plane
we picked up this student in hawaii
all the way to the mainland she keep
telling me
i'm a baby killer and she spit in my
face
you tell her that maybe you were baby
killer but at least you had good manners
know i did
she's no different than they are now
want me a killer
who's calling your killer
a man does things sometimes that he's
not proud of
yeah i know i have she made me do it
why did she have to go and open her
mouth
who them the girl
it was my life or hers
where nam are here i stopped the words
right on my throat
what exactly do you mean
but
it doesn't matter man
none of this man
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2017 respond
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217 roger shoeham here we got another
woman down as of half an hour ago
hill and fourth you anywhere near
adam
real near
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how well do i know benton
he's great with kids and he's got a
problem with his off button
why it's something that he said this
morning
it's better if i don't involve you b
i'm already involved remember
i suspect he's real dangerous greggy
how do you mean like you might kill
somebody
that's what i have to find out
what do you have for me witness says the
guy was maybe six feet
without your build just before the kill
the guy shouted real loud
this is for jimmy
jimmy huh and then he stops the scream
right in their throats
you've been reading true detective again
hey read the report
he fractures the voice box
we don't take this to lieutenant pine
until i say so okay
you want to tell us what's going on no
run the name dexter benton pass veterans
administration
dexter benton yeah what are we looking
for
we're looking for a killer
so how are you doing mustard right yeah
i can't complain with relish yeah right
how about you i'm doing good man doing
real good how's the shoulder
oh it still hurts that's how it is well
you know you ought to see a doctor about
that bursitis
i don't have any bursitis
no just your shoulders on fire right
it's a muscle pool
you've had a muscle for three and a half
years
beside us is for old people anna i am
not over
kids your shoulder i mean am i old
are we old oh we're not old
well i ain't old either that's a damn
show but you do have precise
so tell me how'd i get lucky enough for
lunch in the middle of a work day
i need a favor what can i do
is there a possibility of calling
special meeting tonight some on your
mind
yeah a couple things those vietnamese
win
i guess we should be able to get most of
the guys there
look i know it's short notice ah makes
no matter that's what the group's for
right
right is that it
yeah okay then
i'll set it up see you then
kelsey went all the way to the va in
washington
no dexter benton ever served in vietnam
thank you yeah so who is this guy
it's one of the guys from my group
and that's all you want to tell me
come here
i've got three dead women and no killer
in sight of benton's elite i'd like to
know about and i got a room full of guys
who put their trust in me
to leave my badge at the door even with
a killer look i'm not certain he is a
killer run him in we'll find out
and what if he's innocent huh i put him
over the edge
i didn't realize you were responsible
for all vietnam veterans i'd just like
to give the guy a break charlie why
because nobody else does
some things are just unfair if you have
a case on them
you make it wait a minute
i'll have something by midnight or i
won't
i hear you sometimes i need a meeting
just so i can hear other guys no i'm not
crazy
but somebody got to say something my
will is going to discuss that sports car
again
and i've never told this to nobody
i was on recon and uh
i was out looking for down chocolate and
i find this guy
on a tree
b.c had staked into a tree
after doing every other damn thing you
could do to a man
he sees me and he starts crying and
begging and
asking me to kill him
kelly was already dead
but i couldn't so i called headquarters
and
they told me it was my responsibility
so i asked the team to leave
hell he just wanted me to finish what uh
charlie had started
you know i think he was one hell of a
man to ask me to do something like that
so i put my m16 next to his head and uh
anyway when the team got back we even
talked nothing about it
and we just buried it
very deep
was that jimmy
huh it was jimmy wasn't it jimmy i
i don't know i thought i heard you
mention a jimmy a buddy you'd lost
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i don't know anybody named jimmy that
must have been the other night
no i i don't
adam
i must be mistaken
i apologize
okay then um i think that's enough for
tonight
i'll see everybody next week and uh in
between
now you call me if you need me
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now what was that all about pounding
again
i was just trying to help him open up
you won't tell me what's going on man
i was just a little too pushy oh no i
don't
you asked for this meeting and then you
spend it hounding the new guy
like i said i was too pushy and you
don't want to explain why
is that a problem i guess not unless we
make it man
then let's not
to the prince on his coffee cup his real
name's ross wilton
has five priors all assaults
all against vietnamese women
come on you did good work
and how come i feel so damn lousy
you want me to bring them in no
that much i ordered
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how'd you find out i'm a cop
and you're under arrest
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i was up all night too
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hold on hold on
i'll see you later
i take it you heard about benton aka
wilton
good bus for you
when i get a killer off the streets it's
always a good bust
if you used us you used the group
the guy is dangerous
adam every guy in our group is dangerous
and they got but one place to open up
and talk about
it when you come you trample all over
you don't see the dead bodies i have
zipped up more body bags than any guy
in our group including you 20 years ago
i'm still zipping them up
every day out there in the streets i'm
the guy who has the answer for them
and if that messes up our group man then
it does
yeah yeah
well then maybe you should find yourself
another group you know what i'm saying
everybody's got to do what everybody's
got to do
and that's it that's it no that's not it
adam
that is not the half of it
well look i'm not some hobby you can
throw
over when it gets in the way of your job
i'm your friend i know that oh yeah well
you sure as the hell could have fooled
me
wasn't the last 10 years about trust
getting it back we both know what we did
in group
we both know oh yeah
i don't think you know cause you
wouldn't have done what you did
see you around
good questions
school boy what you doing here i
want to help you
look i can't believe i'm the one who's
doing it
and i can't deny it either
because of what you saw in there because
of what i did
that's what i did
you ever wake up and realize you have no
idea where you were
what you did the night before i've had
my moments
now i'm talking about days total
blackout
last week i woke up in an alley they
were wheeling the body away
and honest to god i don't know if i did
it or not
when i was a kid and then
i watched my parents village burnt down
i just
gotten to get water you know then i came
back i saw the vc shooting up
every living thing
i still hear the screams
sometimes it gets too big to carry
sometimes i think i must have killed my
parents i must have because
i was right there and i didn't die so i
must have killed them
how do you imagine you can help me hmm
because
when i get clear on it i know i didn't
and i'm betting that you didn't kill
anybody either
will you speak for yourself i'm better
off in here
why how do you know that you're gonna
hurt someone at least
in here i know i won't
wow you're pretty good at that i better
be
that's all i did the first year i was
home from there
you never talked about that time
nothing to talk about it's just a lot of
pinball
what's so funny
willis used to snatch me away from this
machine every chance he got said i used
it to numb my feelings
how were you that's so bad i didn't
have feelings i lost grady and
i didn't even know you
and here i thought it was about the game
no it was about feelings
willis taught me that
he's quite a guy yep
the best
what's happened
we had a party in the ways
i put my job before our friendship
does it know you have other friends yeah
but nobody's willis
you know what i mean
what are you doing here meeting a
witness and uh
why aren't you taking my head off
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oh obviously your lieutenant hasn't told
you yet
told me what i threw out your case
against the vet
what are you talking about we had a
witness
someone who saw the tail end of
something maybe down the end of a dark
alley
that guy's in no shape to be let out on
the streets a weak case sets him free
for good
why don't you come to me with something
more solid more solid
like maybe we catch him with his hands
around some woman's neck it wouldn't
hurt
excuse me i have to make a call
hey b hey hold on i've got something on
ben
too late man he's already been released
to air don't know but i have to find him
before he hits again come on b i talk to
the man the only person he's gonna hurt
is himself
i wish i had your confidence wait what
are you gonna do just cruise around
looking for the guy
you got a better idea yeah does your
department have a social worker a shrink
for police yeah
ben told me he's been having blackouts
he doesn't understand him maybe your
shrink can
come on it's called a fuse state
yeah but is he dangerous well that
depends on how he deals with the
demons that cause the blackest okay fine
look wait
would he kill he could
but there are ways to offset those
tendencies everything from
drugs to art therapy now i've heard
about drug therapy but
art therapy is a way for a patient to
release what he can't express
verbally has this person ever initiated
any art therapy any any drawings
even finger paintings i don't know but
we were in this meeting
and he was doing some kind of drawing
that could be meaningful
listen i've got a hearing in 10 minutes
if you need me for anything
the main operator can always beat me
okay i wouldn't doc one more thing
if he gets his yayas out doing these
drawings does that mean he isn't
dangerous well it certainly helps
yeah come on where are we going
this is the stuff we see from benton's
apartment but it has to go back to the
evidence room for return to him
well he's got some demons on it i look
at that he takes their mouths out
and called us some serious art therapy
well maybe if he does it here he doesn't
need to do it out on the streets
that's what the dog said
how yeah we're gonna find this guy he
could be anywhere he could be out of the
country by now
or he could be here
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what is this does he hate women does he
hate being amazed either way he's gonna
pay right now we gotta find beth
be careful with him
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ah
this is one of those days
back to you
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hey ben oh whoa
right there you stay right there just
take it easy yeah i'll go over
look hey i won't move a muscle all right
right easy now hey
whatever it's worth you're not the one
but you come near me stay there you're
not the one benton what are you talking
about man you had me in jail
you got the guy come on come on i'll
show you don't run no games on me
hey no no no man don't
hey man you come all the way back from
vietnam just to kill yourself you don't
know what i've done some low down things
that's right the lowest this man has
done worse
you don't know what you're talking about
man me and my platoons
are hiding in the bush 30 feet away from
charlie holding my breath hoping that he
passes by
along comes this little girl picking the
baskets for the flowers
she sees me she smiles and she waves
i just know she's gonna hate number one
gis and give away our position
so i shot him
i shot we got into a hell
firefight anyway why did i shoot
her why did i shoot her i could have
opened up on charlie i just didn't think
adam mentioned
there was never enough time to think man
not even for me
or it's just a serious mistake spent
mistakes mistake
she's dead but you're alive it's not
fair
i killed her but killing yourself won't
bring her back then
it won't bring her back no at least i
won't have to worry about i don't know
ben
no no no no don't no no
i can't i got it i got it oh
my god
you guys are fools just boom
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you're welcome
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it is us benton's version anyway
my hair is better than that drop by the
va tell him okay
oh oh that's what he needs right oh
jeez
how long is he in doc says as long as he
needs
i thought when i left nam i left nam
i know the feeling
hey uh can i get a beer it's a public
house
where's your pinball machine
i told malloy to call the vendor get
that thing out of here
how about a beer grady
incoming
i heard you almost went over the ledge
with benton
both gradient i did
it ever occur to you you could have died
not at the time
and you couldn't live with yourself if
benton had
so you been good good
you
good not the same on thursday nights but
good hi guys oh
man what's trump still won't let me talk
about that little sports car i got my
eye on
tell him i said hello tell him yourself
i made my own bed that's what i said
but the group doesn't see it that way
and the more i think about it adam i
don't either i mean
you tried to protect benton and the
women in the neighborhood
i just wish you would have told me
i wish i could have
so see you thursday night thursday night
hey it's a nice picture of grady there
man
but who is that ugly dude standing next
oh that's you i'm sorry get out of here
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