Street Justice (1991–1993): Season 2, Episode 5 - Each One, Teach One - full transcript

thank god you're here

sheila sheila's still in there he's got

a gun i don't know what to do please

you're gonna help me just help her out

slow down slow down just take your

it's a breath all right okay i was in

the back room

and i came out i saw him he had a gun he

was only a gun to her head all right

right

all right who is the man it's frankie



frankie her husband

please what are you waiting for you got

to do something cause i'm the killer

please take it easy all right i have to

wait for backup there'll be a few other

officers here any minute

okay one henry's 17 where's the backup

123 on my way

over all right is there anyone else in

there no no nobody

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okay sports fans what do we got no who

the hell are you

on number 23 otherwise known as rothman



harecroft but you're bedrock right

a police officer well last time i

checked what's up

hostage situation husband holding his

wife at gunpoint

aisle three cereal and breakfast foods

all right you you take the front door

i'll take the back put your radio on

tactical women i

i uh i never handled a hostage situation

before

you're about to handle one now

okay i'm in place

me too sorry

how's this kinda thought

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this is adam madrow metro pd go away

i can't do that sir so come on just put

on the gun

she fooled around on me again no

second time i caught her in my bed with

some bad boy

and that's very uncool but this is not

the way to handle that so come on

i told her i caught her again i'd kill

her

i'm a man of my word she's really gonna

kill her sarge

hey just stay calm all right i don't

think negotiating is gonna work i mean

we gotta stop them now i'm trying to do

that now so

just stay cool

come on man there's got to be another

way to deal with this

no one has to get hurt right huh

it's not too late yeah it is

don't get any closer i'll blow your head

off

hey you hear me

you hear me

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okay are you okay

i'll live you know it was a real stupid

thing to do

yeah probably but hey look at the bright

side

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we caught a serial killer

see you met rothman that man i could

have done without

what is he vice narco no he's a new

transfer

what unit yours

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come on charlie i don't want to hear it

yeah well i don't want him in my unit

how do you know you haven't even gotten

to know him yet i've seen enough man i

know his type

and what is his type some hot-headed

rookie with something to prove and

nothing to prove it with you're the one

who put in for a replacement for shoeham

yeah well i'd rather have nobody than

somebody was likely to get himself or

another cop killed

her call just came in dead hooker at the

fair haven hotel

i'd like to take that one lieutenant and

that is if it's uh okay

it's yours adam take rothman with you

charlie come on

let's go right behind you you don't like

me very much dude i don't know you

i don't know you either but i know

you're a rap but maybe you could teach

me a thing or two that's why i requested

this unit

you requested this unit yeah that so

happens you had just requested a new man

looks like it was fate huh cruel fate

what are you doing here james and i were

just meeting with chief dave

about what the department needs new

uniforms my company can import them at a

price

since when do you make personal sales

call

what happens to me in return dad eric

your father's only thinking of your best

interest stay out of this what happens

to me in return rothman let go

who are you sergeant adam patrol

for now i'm your son superior officer

not for long i can assure you

what have you done getting you

transferred to a safe position eric

where is that opening james community

relations i don't believe this i told

you to stay out of my life

you want me out of your life when it's

convenient eric

not when you need me to pay for the

fancy condo or the fancy car

here car's out back

i'm sure jimmy here would be happy to

drive it home as for the condo you'll

have the keys the minute i move out

officer

you know who i am everybody knows who

you are well most of the city

good if there's ever anything i can do

for you any favors

please don't hesitate hey

i don't take bribes to babysit rookie

cops

but don't worry i'll keep an eye on your

son for his safety

and everyone else's

uh looks like something john went too

far in a hooker we don't have an id on

her yet

any witnesses no just a hotel clerk saw

them come in together describe that john

is about 170 pounds

around 35 caucasian

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well looks like the john was more in

love than i lost

yeah uh maybe she rejected him and you

know that's that's why he killed him

i uh what are the prince were on that

buzz you just smudged

i know it's an accident so it will do me

a favor go wait in the car

yeah i'll wait in the car

great

i don't want to give him some time

charlie the guy is trouble he's

new adam were you perfect when you were

his age

i sure as hell knew not to touch

anything on a crime scene i am asking

you as a personal favor

just give rothman some time please

why man what the hell is he to you

i can't tell you that

charlie is he i.a no no he is not ia

you've got to trust me on this one adam

he's a good man that is all i can tell

you

as a favor to me please give him

some time

you get rid of me no

i'm gonna lie to you i'm not too happy

about it

all right appreciate the honesty

oh yeah yeah well let's get on with it

run the victim's rap sheet see what

comes up already done it

nothing there but a few prostitution and

possession busts nothing you wouldn't

expect for a hooker

okay from the mo

see if there are any similar cases

floating around out there you got it

your move

so uh why don't like the new guy i've

worked with rookies like rothman before

guys who joined the force for all the

wrong reasons i can't really think of a

right reason

come on guys like rothman i joined for

the excitement

i like to be cowboys break down doors

shoot bad guys now that doesn't make him

a bad cop

not but it makes him a dangerous cop

he's the kind of cop that got

plenty killed look if rothman's that bad

b then why

why doesn't pine just kick him off the

force i wish i knew

it's not because of rothman's father

he's getting to get rothman out of the

division

his father oh wait is is is this rothman

guy is he

is he one of the rothmans no the guy

with the mansion has a bowling alley

his father is michael j rothman

i just read about that dude i mean this

guy's got like a billion dollars

billion five

what my father's worth a billion five

not that it's any of your business

don't tell me kelsey told me i could

find you here

why i checked the mo like you asked

nothing came up that was similar you

could have told me that tomorrow

i know but uh then i wouldn't have an

excuse to come talk to you

away from work that's my cue to leave

checkmate i love it when your mind's

somewhere else

it's a pleasure

how much of that conversation did you

hear all the important parts

look sarge i'm not like that believe me

i'm no cowboy

yellow belly'd be more like it

why'd you go for the badge then why not

work for your father's company because

my father's company does nothing but

make money and ruin people's lives

do you want to know what dear old dad

did in evansport last week

what closed a huge shipyard laid off

most of the town bang instant ghetto you

know why he did it

so he wouldn't have to pay any pensions

what does this have to do with you

becoming a cop

you don't get it my father hurts people

i want to help them that's why i became

a cop

oh i know that sounds like a lot of

idealistic crap

no sounds very familiar it sounds like

me about 20 years ago

yeah yeah also sounds a lot more

naive than i was to you know you

you can't save the world by just putting

on a badge

i saved a life this morning maybe two

that's good enough for me

you almost lost your own life by doing

it

so i have a lot to learn

look sarge i just want to give back a

little of what my father took away

that's why i joined the force

and that's all i came here to tell you

all i'm asking for is a chance

i'm sorry to bother you off duty rothman

when i got out of the academy 20 years

ago

this man named calhoun was my sergeant

he taught me what the academy doesn't

teach you

other words he touched almost everything

what he taught me

is what's kept me alive

when calhoun was retiring i went to him

i want to know how i could repay him

he said to me just keep the chain going

just pass it on to someone else

and did you

looks like i'm about to you won't regret

it sasha

you know he seems like a nice enough guy

yeah you trust him

i want to i'm not sure i do but i want

to

thank you just found something you might

be interested in

i was cross-checking the prince on

stacey roberts the hooker that was

killed yesterday

and something came up what

last year stacey filed a harassment suit

against a rookie cop

don't tell me it's eric rothman

looks like you may be right

i hope that was wrong what's it say

rothman requested a lot of hooker cases

last year almost half his workload

what kind of cases looks like anything

involving blonde upscale call girls like

the one you found yesterday

have you ever solved any of them most of

them were never solved

man man rothman sold me bill of goods

last night

i almost bought it all i think he's

taking all these cases so he can clean

up after someone

maybe

or maybe so he can clean up after

himself

when do you start taking hunger cases

uh he started as soon as he was promoted

to detective

this is weird what stopped about six

months ago

he stopped getting involved in hooker

cases just stopped and his record runs

out in june

why just says classified leave

go to dispatch do everything he can to

find rothman

it's time for you to tell me the truth

how about what eric rothman why does he

have an obsession with hooker cases

does he unless the assignment computer

is lying

now you want to tell me what's going on

here

i'm not sure i can it's privileged

information

why did the department send him on leave

charlie was there ever any suspicion

that he'd committed some of these

murders

i'm afraid that's privileged too

here we are with a cop who looks like

he's stalking prostitutes and you want

to play i have a secret

i don't make the rules excuse me adam

dispatcher found rothman said he's

taking a sick day

kels pull his home address from the

computer i'll meet you at the car

you go gently here adam why what do you

know huh

i know rothman is in a bad situation

he's close to the edge

and that's all you can tell me

well i'll do what i have to do charlie

that's all i can tell you

how would a guy with his looks and this

much money have to pay for female

attention

like they say money can't buy love

doesn't look very sick to me

looks more like he's dressed to kill

shall we bust him what

just see where this thing

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i've got him kelsey's across from the

concierge's desk

i've got a bad feeling about this why

i've got a call girl entering past me

and she fits the profile

i see her

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so

he's moving and now we move

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this is 117 requesting backup of the

royal arms

which one did you just send the

prostitute to i don't know what you're

talking about

what prostitute i don't have time for

this now where did you send her

sweet fourth floor thank you

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you tell me why don't you live

does he look like a man who could

strangle an athletic woman to death

now you just calm down and you let me

know why you're playing the lone ranger

here

i thought i had him why

i i looked at a florist card from the

flowers yesterday

when i checked it out the floor said he

had a similar order being picked up here

today i just

i hope that gotten lucky that what

rothman why you so hell-bent on stealing

evidence and hot dogging around huh

i want to know what's going on all right

you want an answer come on

this is the guy's first known victim

she's my sister

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i became a cop to rebel against my

father

chrissy became a call girl for the same

reason

last year some sicko took her to a hotel

tied her up and beat her almost to death

she's been in a coma ever since

so i come here every day i talk to her

don't lie sweetie

you think she can hear me i don't know

yeah well nobody does

doctors specialists cops nobody knows a

damn thing

listen eric

i won't say i know how you feel but i do

understand pain

let me tell you something you keep

trying to bury this a little right up

through the cracks

eric

i hope adam missed visiting ourselves

i've got news for you michael

you missed your visiting hours a long

time ago

um maybe we should wait outside hey

good idea jim

you want to know how i really deal with

coming here every day sarge i lie to

myself

when i drive up i just pretend that

chrissy's in the car beside me it's our

old man we're coming to see here in this

bed

aren't you being a little hard on your

own flesh and blood i wasn't as flesh

and bloated was this product

so was chrissy i mean

he even set her up with the head of the

longshoreman's local to help him get a

better contract

tore her to pieces she just decided

if he wanted her to be a horrifying

she'd really be a [ __ ]

look why don't we nine out huh

go get a bite

come

everything christy did she excelled well

class valedictorian phi beta kappa

and before she got the hell beat out of

her she was the highest paid call girl

on the north side

hell of a resume huh yeah yeah

never caught this guy

it's been 11 months two weeks in one day

i saw those roses in the murder scene

yesterday and whale i was right back to

the night chrissy was assaulted

roses were found with chrissy too

i was the first cop to the hotel routine

disturbance call

it was so quiet when i entered i i

thought i was in the wrong room

first thing i found were the roses

scattered on the marble floor and that

go on

then i found chrissy

trust me sarge it was no way for the

class valedictorian to end up

is that when you took mental stress leaf

shortly after that

it's worried about lieutenant pine

that's how we knew you yeah we were in

group together

and he couldn't tell me because it's

supposed to be confidential

group's been a lot of help you know it's

been

i've been taking what happened to

chrissy pretty hard you know man it

doesn't sound like it's your fault no it

was my fault

i could have prevented it

less than three hours before i found

chrissy half dead

i was part of a prostitution sweep on

the north side

and i busted chrissy

she was in the cuffs man she was miranda

and headed for a night in lockup

then you let her go yeah

i was she was family you know she was my

kid's sister

better cower doesn't belong in lockup

listen stay here as long as you want

grady

yeah what where are you going let's say

i just got a new sense of

urgency to solve this case i'll go with

it i don't think so

you can't toss me aside not on the most

important case of my life

it's the most important case for all the

wrong reasons dangerous

i can handle it the harassment complaint

your folder says otherwise

i roasted that hooker the night that

chrissy was beaten i was out of my head

i was a different cop than i am now

i need to see this thing through to the

end sarge it might be my last chance for

that

we do this by the book of course

absolutely

let's go

adam just got a call from a hooker

working hotel row

claims to have info about yesterday's

murder where is she just waiting for you

alleyway up for green's near third

thanksgiving

you sure you can handle us buy the book

just like you said

you're a pimp calvin have a last name

yeah it's done calvin dunn and he was

also stacey roberts pimp at the time she

was murdered

a few days ago he was bragging around

how he got stacy set up with this big

money dude who

no name just said that the guy was a

little kinky but that stacy was up for

it

kinky how calvin told stacey that the

guy was into some mild rough stuff but

nothing bad

but then after he sent her over there i

overheard him say that the john put a

girl in the hospital before

i mean he knew that and he sent her over

there anyhow okay where can i find this

couch no i don't know

hey i usually find him over the spider

grill it's not on beyond street

thanks come on carmen

take the night off

take a couple of nights

no usually guys don't treat us like

we're people

thanks

what was that all about i'm talking to

you i don't know

i just wish somebody had done that for

chrissy

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what did you say to them

all right that's far enough out of the

car come on

out of the car turn around your hands

above your head

now you're under arrest

look i said it before and i'll say it

again

i never heard her no girl named stacy

you're going to check your local

cemetery

she was beaten to death by one of your

clients just yesterday

clients i don't know what you're talking

about man

sarge

i know i can get this guy to talk but

you gotta widen the field for me a

little

i don't think that'd be too good for his

health no no

tempting as it is i'm not gonna hurt him

the john that did stacey and chrissy's

the real prize

okay the second i see you blowing it

you're gone i think such

am i getting a little wild but i won't

hurt him

trust me

if you're not going to cooperate and

you're facing accessory to murder

i'll do the paper whisper

put this bowel movement back in the

toilet

oh i get it good cop bad guy right

that's right

you see if you can guess which one i am

oh my god just wait

i thought we'd play a little game calvin

you like games don't you no cop is that

crazy

i got 14 million dollars i can be as

crazy as i want

you know i was thinking just the other

day

do i really need this hand i don't use

it that much

except to uh slap on the laughter shave

you know and it's probably just gonna

end up with arthritis someday anyway

right so

what the hell

score one for aquaville the huh he's

gonna blow our case with this guy

this is not the guy we're after i want

my lawyer

now you can hobble over and see him

later i mean yeah let me see your foot

there kyle

what your foot let me see it you know

the one you used to kick all the girls

adam he's crazy i don't think so

give me your foot

this is for all the girls

the toe jam survives

well congratulations calvin you've made

it to our bonus round

time for the big spin

i don't know anything man then i guess

you'll just have to die

dumb you're nuts

bathman batman don't get me out of here

the sky

cycle back off sarge i mean it

whoa okay okay look i don't know his

name all right he drives a

convertible blue countach the vanity

plate reads

what blue

blue blood blue blood that's all i know

never trust a bad cop

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um

kelsey where's rothman just blew out of

here

great he said you sent him i didn't send

him anywhere

adam what's going on the killer's

countach was registered to rockman

industries

you think eric knows who it belongs to

that's exactly what i'm afraid of

look i don't care how long the city

council knows okay come in here they

don't give me the tax breaks

move the whole operation of guadalajara

i'm sorry mr rothman

but he just wouldn't listen you have an

appointment it's a police matter

oh yes you're that cop um i'm in the

middle of something very important here

more important than your son so how's he

screwed up this time

he may be in trouble and if he is so are

you

i'll call you back later

all right sergeant the clock is ticking

what kind of car do you drive

oh what's that got to do with anything

anyway vanity plate blue blood on a

countach mean anything to you

maybe the car's registered to your

company now what's so important about

this damn car anyway

the person driving this car may be tied

to a murder

hey look this company provides cars to

hundreds of its employees it could

belong to anybody

don't try to snow me rothman if i have

to i'll get a warrant

my son put you up to this didn't he or

is he no longer on this case

yeah he's on this case he's on chrissy's

case too

what are you talking about the person

who drives the car is the same person

who left your daughter the way she is

can't be talk to me rachman who the hell

are you trying to protect

forgotten damn it man why don't you stop

thinking about yourself for once and

start thinking about your children

i built this for my children just for my

children all of it

how do they repay me becoming a cop

i gave them the best of everything money

could buy did you ever think to give

them the best that money can't buy

i don't need any street cop telling me

how to love my children look i'm not

here to question your love i'm here

because i give a damn about your son

i don't understand when eric heard that

the countach was tied to chrissy's case

he left

he took off i'm trying to save his

career and his life

and if you really give a damn about your

son then tell me what i want to

i know believe you'd actually do that to

chrissy

who james hiller

my attorney where is he

down at our docks talking to some of the

longshoremen sergeant

if you're going down there to see

hillary take plenty of backup those men

don't like cops

they're not afraid to prove

it may be troubled and may not i just

need you to shadow me that's all

look why don't you get pine tell him and

he'll bring an army of cops and they'll

back you up

i can't if i go to charlie and tell him

what rothman's up to then rothman could

lose his badge

so what b i mean uh you think the guy's

gonna make a good cup anyway

i don't know he reminds me a lot of me

when i was his age

so that's why he's taking your neck so

far out on this one

and the fact that i have a legacy to

pass on

all right i'll go change

okay guys we got a deal yeah we got a

deal all right

all right guys congratulations you're

welcome you don't have to call me sir

you can call me jim

okay good going good benefits package

you guys

hey who the hell are you

what are you doing here hey rick quick

it's all right all right

he's my god son eric what are you doing

here

brought you going away present going

away i'm not going anywhere

yeah you are and you're not coming back

are you here to arrest me no that'd be

too good for you

you're in unfriendly territory eric you

could get yourself hurt

doesn't matter what happens to me so

long as you get what's coming to you

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yeah you need any help all right

eric please don't duck look you and i

we're like family all right is that what

you said to chrissy that night i was in

accident i swear

an accident all five blows to the head

are just the first one and she walked in

on me and she recognized me i lost it

like you lost it with stacy roberts who

the prostitute you murdered yesterday

eric please please i'll do anything

for you marsman

i can't make any promises this time if

you kill him you'll have nothing

it'll all be a waste man what have i got

now your self-respect a career tends to

do some good

he took my sister away don't let him

take you too

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this is only a fraction of my father's

empire

some people think the rich don't have

any problems

they did the right thing eric what'll i

tell chrissy sergeant

oh you were a good cop she'd be proud of

that she'd be the only one

no there'd be two of us

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