T.J. Hooker (1982–1986): Season 3, Episode 18 - Death on the Line - full transcript
The latest victim of the Marina Rapist - and the first to survive - is known to Hooker, but she resists his request to admit what really happened for fear of losing her boyfriend. Even when one suspect is killed whilst trying to escape a crime scene, Hooker isn't convinced the Marina Rapist's crime career is concluded.
(upbeat disco music)
(slow downbeat music)
- Listen dear I'm going to run,
'cause I'm missing
the best part of the sun.
There's no one out at the pool.
If I'm lucky I might
be able to get myself
one good hour of
peace and quiet.
- [Man On phone] Okay,
alright I'll let you go.
I'm sorry about today, but
I'll make it up to you alright.
- I'm sure you will.
I'll talk to you later.
I love you.
- [Man On Phone]
I love you too babe.
I'll see you tomorrow.
- Okay bye bye.
(slow suspenseful music)
- Our little chicken is
ready to be plucked.
- Roger.
(upbeat dramatic
suspenseful music)
- You got me down for
teaching the eight o'clock class.
Do you realize that's the
(mumble) of my evening.
- The Crisis Center
needs volunteers
to teach self defense,
counsel victims.
I mean even Dr. Carson
doesn't get paid
for the time she puts in.
- Okay, but she's married.
She doesn't need
the time to meet
to find a women with whom I
will spend the rest of my life.
- Or the rest of the evening.
- Whatever.
(dramatic suspenseful music)
(electronic buzzer)
- [Dispatcher] All units
and Four-Adam-30,
a possible attack in progress.
At 229 Wallace.
Four-Adam-30, handle
the call, code three.
(blaring sirens)
- Four-Adam-30, roger.
(blaring sirens)
- That could be our man.
(screeching tires)
- Hooker it's Linda Stevens.
- Take care of her.
- Take it easy Linda.
- He hurt me.
- Take it easy.
(upbeat suspenseful music)
(screeching tires)
(upbeat music)
(blaring sirens)
Four-Adam-30 in
pursuit of 261 suspect
in a Gold 73 Gremlin
northbound on Wallace.
Passing 10th street.
- Six blocks away, close enough.
Let's jump in.
- Four-Adam-16 we're
rolling back up to the 30.
Our ETA is three.
(blaring sirens)
(upbeat music)
(screeching tires)
Where did they go?
- Let's try to cut 'em off.
(screeching tires)
(screeching tires)
(crashing cars)
(screeching tires)
Four-Adam-30 to Control.
Advise all units the
Becker Drawbridge area
attack suspect last
seen going westbound
on Becker boulevard
(rinigng bell)
How's Linda?
- Dr. Carson's
still examining her.
Linda would not let me
take her to a hospital.
She finally let
me take her here.
- Poor kid.
Last time I saw her
she was so bubbly.
All smiles.
- Last week.
The day she got engaged.
- What's her condition?
- Physically, she was lucky.
It's her mental state
I'm concerned about.
I understand that
you all know girl.
- Yeah she's a civilian
secretary at the precinct.
She always struck as
sensitive, vulnerable.
- That's how I'm reading her.
She doesn't even want
to admit she was raped.
- Is there any doubt about it?
- Not according to the test.
- I want those
tests by the book.
Defense attorneys love to
rip it with lack of evidence.
- Don't worry I've
set up guidelines
for evidence
collection in storage.
- Stacy?
Where's Linda is she hurt?
- Take it easy Dan.
She's going to be okay.
- What's this all about?
At Linda's apartment
the police told me
they brought her here.
- She was attacked.
- She has a few
minor cuts and bruises.
- I want to see her.
(whimpering)
- Sorry.
- Linda are you alright?
- I was at the pool and
there was this shadow.
And then something hit me.
And then everything
started spinning
like a (mumble).
And then I felt hands on
my throat strangling me.
- Linda.
He didn't rape you did he?
- No, no.
No I'm okay.
- [Dan] Oh thank god.
- [Linda] EVerything's okay.
- Why did you lie to him?
- I'm sorry Hooker
I can't handle it.
I know.
- Well he's going to find out.
We'll need your testimony
and the results of the test.
- No.
No, no testimony and no tests.
- Linda I know you've been
through a terrible ordeal,
but if we're going
to catch this animal.
- Don't you understand?
Dan would never be
able to live with this.
It could ruin our
whole life together.
- I think the man who attacked
you is the Marina Rapist.
And if I'm right you're the
first of his victims to survive.
That's why we've got
to have the test results.
- I don't care about that.
I don't ever want to
think about him again.
- Look please,
we need your help.
I don't ever want to think
about him again because
it didn't happen.
- We need your help.
- It was just a
terrible nightmare.
It didn't happen so
please just leave me alone.
Just leave alone.
- Hooker don't push
her she's on the edge.
Give her some time.
- I know.
I just don't know how much time
the Marina Rapists
is going to give us,
before he strikes again.
(slow eerie dramatic music)
- Thanks for taking
off alone load Bryce.
I almost got nailed out there.
- What was I supposed to do>
Hang around until
he caught both of us.
How did you do on the loot?
- Nothing big.
Some jewelry, a little cash.
Man you've got to start finding
some girls with some bread man.
Over the last three jobs,
I only got enough for
two days worth of snow.
- That's a sleazy habit,
you ought to do
something about that.
You know that.
- Why don't you do
something about yours?
Why don't you do something
about finding some chicks
in a high rent
district for a change?
- 'Cause rich old
broads don't turn me on.
Is that her ring?
- Yeah probably
a family heirloom.
Maybe she was engaged.
- Loose it dummy.
You're too dangerous
to fence that.
It'd be too easy to identify.
- Alright.
Just take me back to my truck.
- Back off Hooker.
Detectives want to
move as fast as you do.
- Linda was attacked
yesterday afternoon,
forensics team didn't
leave her apartment
until an hour ago.
We operated on that
speed on the street,
we wouldn't catch a cold.
- Now look she didn't give
us permission to checkout
her apartment
until this morning.
- What about the women
who called in the 261?
Did she give the detectives
a description of the rapist?
- Jeans an tennis shoes.
THat's all she saw
before she ran into
her apartment and
locked herself in.
Too scared to even
lookout the window,
till he was long gone.
- Captain that animal
was strangling Linda.
He's already raped and
killed three other women
in the marina.
- Now we've finally
got a break we've got
to of after them with
everything we've got.
And I want in on that.
- Alright.
I'll tell the detectives
you're going to help out.
But you make sure
you keep up to date
on everything you turn.
- Hey Hooker.
We just got word,
they located the
car the rapist stole.
- Did they leave
anything for forensics?
- Negative, he either
wiped off his prints
or he wore gloves.
- Romano did you get
that list I asked you for?
- Every know fence and pawn
broker who handles the kind
of loot the rapist rips off.
- And we're still trying
to deal with his robbing
her places after
he attacked her.
But I did get a
list of the jewelry.
- We've added them to
the list of detective's list
of items stolen from
the first three victims.
- Good let's roll.
On our way I want to
swing by Linda's apartment
see if forensics
turned anything there.
- It's hard to understand,
the way guys can turn
away when a rape happens.
- Don't lay it off on the
entire male population.
I've come across guys
who have been nothing
but understanding.
- You think Linda
Steven's fiance will walk
when he finds out
she's been raped?
- Who knows?
Some guys just can't handle it
now matter how hard they try.
But I do know she's
making a mistake
not telling him
the truth upfront.
- She's afraid.
Afraid of what he'll do.
- The woman the guy loves
is victimized, raped
and maybe he feels part
of what they had together
has been violated.
He's angry, frustrated,
confused, a mess.
He's wrong.
But there are no easy
answers to it Stace.
Ever.
- Hooker, Romano
if you ame to give
us a hand, you're late.
- Did you find anything?
- No a few items, but
they looked like the girls.
Figure our boy wore gloves.
- He must have
ice water for blood.
Not only raping but
robbing the same victim.
It's hard to believe
one man could do that.
- You check this
white powder here?
- It's plaster dust
from the wall.
The victim had a
kitchen phone extension
put in four days ago.
The dates on that warranty
in the nearest drawer.
- It sounds like he
didn't miss a thing.
- I'm with you partner.
Let's go check the pawn shops.
- What is this the tenth,
eleventh pawn shop
we've been to.
- Twelve but who's counting?
Right now it's all I got
so we've got to keep
hitting it until we
turn something.
There he is (mumble)
Morey the Hawkmister.
Bringing your cherished
dreams and he'll chisel you down
to a dime on the dollar.
- Hooker you want to
hawk the badge and gun?
We could do some business.
- No what I want is
to look in your safe.
- You got some kind of paper?
- Don't send my partner
for a warrant Morey.
You wouldn't like what
happens when it comes back.
- Good advice.
Do we get a look?
- Eh.
- No, no Morey.
Not the top drawer where you
keep your solid brass watches.
The bottom drawer.
Where you stash
all your stolen goods.
- This came off the
wrist of a dead girl.
Second victim of
the Marina Rapist.
- Hey Hooker, I swear no
way would I do business
with filth like that one.
- You would and you did.
Now tell me about it.
What did he look like?
How many times did he come in?
- Once.
One time only.
I can't remember the guy.
It's a parade in here.
They come in
wearing dark glasses,
hats pulled down.
Better for business
you don't even look.
- Morey if the man who
brought you this comes back
or if you spot any of the
other items on this list.
You're going to call me
faster than I can say two to five
for receiving stolen goods.
- Yes sir.
- Let me here it again.
- Yes sir.
(slow dramatic music)
(slow suspenseful music)
(ringing phone)
- Here' I'll get it.
- Oh it's alright,
it's a line check.
I'll get it.
Yeah.
- I've put a circle around
this address Tanner.
- I think we'll be back.
- Victim one,
raped and strangled
in her bedroom.
No signs, of forced entry.
Second victim in her own car.
Just as she pulled out
of her townhouse garage.
Look here forensic found
footprints athletic shoes
and a witness to Linda's rape
the man wore tennis shoes.
- Almost every guy today
owns pair of athletic shoes.
- Victim number three
in her living room.
Again no forced entry.
- So what's it mean?
One and three knew
the rapist let him in?
- I just flashed on two
things at Linda's apartment.
When we roll in the call,
the rapist was coming in
out of the apartment building,
he saw us duck back in.
Finally wound up.
Taken off in a stolen car.
Do you remember that?
If it was parked across
the apartment building?
The rapist may might very
well have been heading for
if we hadn't spooked him.
- Vaguely a truck.
A Municipal Phone
Company service truck.
- You got it.
The other thing I remember is
the new phone in
Linda's apartment.
- A telephone service man
it could be a perfect cover.
- Practically the invisible man.
So many people see
don't remember seeing.
Open the door let him
in without even thinking.
- Which could account
for the daylight M.O.
When he's out
making service calls?
- Sounds right but
how do we prove it?
- You and Jim check
with the phone company
see if service was scheduled
to any of the three victim's
homes before they were killed.
And if so who made
the service calls.
- So how much can
you give me for it?
You know me we've
worked together before.
- Sure I remember.
Not bad.
I'll have to wash
it up a little bit.
Get my glass, get
a better look at it.
Sergeant Hooker urgent.
Well get a hold of him.
It's important.
Tell him Morey has
something for him.
(honking cars)
- All three women had
telephone repair service
in the last three months.
- And it looks like all the
victims had service calls
only a week before the murders.
- Is there any way of
know who the repairmen
where on those jobs?
- Oh of course,
I've got it right here.
You know the company
is very careful in selecting
its employees and I don't
want to believe it was anyone
working for us.
Here it is.
One man did all
three repair jobs.
Names Tanner, Cliff Tanner.
- I need his personal
file and photo I.D.
Mr. Vickers.
- I'll get 'em for you.
- Thanks.
- Then we better
get a hold of Hooker.
- Just as soon as
I get on the phone
he's gone.
Left this behind.
Antique gold, small
diamonds emerald,
just like on the
list you gave me.
- What about the guy?
What did he look like?
- Thirty, six foot tall,
beard, brown hair.
- Gives us something to go on.
- Yeah, he's not
your average snook.
- Hey Hooker I think
we I.D.'ed the rapist.
The same phone repair
man was at all the victim's
apartments just a few
days before they were killed.
- Recognize him?
- Yeah.
That's him.
That's the guy.
- Do you know where
we can find him?
We checked out his next
scheduled service call,
but he wasn't there.
Detectives have it staked
out in case he shows up.
- He might just be making
an unscheduled stop.
We need a list of
all the service calls
he's made in the last two weeks.
- We've already got it.
We narrowed it down to
anyone who's young, female,
and living alone.
There's only four there.
- How many in the marine area?
- Just two.
- You take one,
we'll take the other.
Let's roll.
(suspenseful dramatic music)
(knocking door)
- [Woman] Who is it?
- Phone company.
Sorry to trouble
you again ma'am.
- What's the problem?
You said you
repaired it last time.
- I know we've had
some complaints
so we think that the
trouble is coming from here.
- After all the time you
spent on my phone.
I know.
- What are you guys doing?
(suspenseful dramatic music)
Oh no.
(screaming)
- I don't see his truck.
Maybe he parked it around back.
There he is.
Seal off the alley.
(upbeat jazz funk rock music)
(blaring sirens)
(suspenseful music)
- Sorry sweet stuff.
I can't leave any witnesses.
(upbeat jazz funk rock music)
(screeching car tires)
(blaring sirens)
(screeching car tire)
(firing gunshot)
(crashing car)
- Don't touch the car.
(electronic crackling fire)
Get him out.
(exploding car)
- We got him Hooker.
- We've got someone Junior.
Someone who isn't
wearing tennis shoes.
(slow dramatic music)
- Thank you.
- Hooker.
- This is Frank Bryce lineman
works in the marina area.
- I heard you're asking
about Cliff Tanner.
- Can you tell us
anything about him?
- He worked here
for a couple of years.
I hardly knew him.
He's a loner.
- Still I'd like you to remember
any names he mentioned.
- The way he kept to himself.
That was enough to keep me
going in the opposite direction.
- I've go to tell you it shakes
you up when you find out
a guy you've been working with
is the Marina Rapist.
- Two of the men we talked
to said that Tanner wore boots.
Is that so?
- Yeah, most of us wear
athletic shoes these days.
Makes it easier climbing
around in attics and places
when you're working
on phone lines.
- If you think of anything
we'd ought to know,
here give me a call.
- Sergeant Tanner's dead.
Why are you asking
these questions?
- We want to make sure that
we've covered all the basis,
before we close the case.
- Pretty thorough huh.
I guess you have to be
to catch the Marina Rapist.
How did you guys
know it was Tanner?
- Police business Mr. Bryce.
- Looks like you were right.
We got the wrong guy.
- It's not going to make
Sheridan very happy.
- Hey nice work Hooker.
'Cause the detectives
weren't too thrilled
that you picked
up the golden ring.
- Brass ring.
- I don't think Tanner's
the Marina Rapist.
- You've got to be kidding.
- Tanner tried to
hawk Linda's ring.
He was in all the
other victim's pads.
- How can you say
he's the wrong man?
- The witness at Linda
Steven's apartment building
said that the rapist
had tennis shoes.
Tanner only wore work boots.
- People have been
known to own more than
one kind of shoe Hooker.
- Not Tanner just boots.
- And then there was
the way he strolled out
of coed's building.
Without a worry in the world,
'till he saw us.
But the coroners report said
he didn't complete the act.
That he was interrupted.
I think he was
interrupted by us.
Chasing Tanner.
The real rapist
heard us and split.
- Two rapist?
Is that what you're saying?
- One rapist, one robber.
Tanner did the robbing.
The other man.
Tied to Tanner in some
kind of sick partnership.
He's the one who
rapes and murders.
- I don't buy it.
Not without more than a theory.
The Marina Rapist is dead.
- We know Tanner
is not the rapist.
But the captain is right,
there's no way we
can prove it Hooker.
- There is one way,
convince Linda to
release the test results.
- If they don't match
Tanner then we know.
- Hooker please,
Linda's in real
emotional trouble.
If you start
pressuring her for this.
If we do and she agrees,
we may keep the rapist
from killing another
innocent victim.
- I understand that,
but she's been through so much.
- Linda's already a victim.
Our priority is to do you job.
- It just seems so cold.
- Now look, if there
was another way,
I'd take it.
- Thank you very much.
- Hooker I heard the good news.
You caught the Marina Rapist.
I'd like to think so, but...
- But what?
- Hooker thinks the man
we caught may have had
a real partner
who's the real rapist.
- I think Linda's test
results will back that up.
- I just phoned Stacy,
I told her that I though
Linda should stay here,
again tonight she's
still quite disturbed.
- How long do you
think it will be before
she can talk about it?
I know it's tough,
but she has to realize
how important it is for us
to do our job and
find the rapist.
- She realizes, but she's
an emotional rollercoaster.
The first response
a rape victim feels
is shock, followed by disbelief.
Once the realization of
what happens settles in,
the victims
invariably feel shame,
and guilt.
- She feels there's something
more she could have done
to prevent the rape.
- Exactly.
- The next response
is depression.
Overwhelming
feelings of helplessness.
Followed by fear,
anger and anxiety.
Which is where she is now.
- Look I don't want to hurt her
anymore than she's
already been hurt,
but if the rapist is out there,
we've got to know that.
- Yeah, she's in the yard.
- Alright.
- Linda.
- Please, you've
caught the rapist,
now leave me alone.
- I don't think the
man we've got
is the man who attacked you.
I think the killer's
still out there.
I think he's
going to kill again.
Unless you help us stop him.
- Hooker nothing's changed.
I told you.
I don't want to loose Dan.
Think about it Linda.
Is it fair to Dan?
- What happens
the day he finds out?
And he will you know.
- I want to tell him.
But I can't.
- Give him a chance.
Give him time.
Give yourself time.
- Linda fight back.
Help him make that man
pay for what he did to you.
I want to catch him.
I want him bad.
And you're the only one
who can make that happen.
- Okay.
You can have my test.
- Well that's a start.
Would you like me
to talk to Dan for you?
- It would help me.
- I'll tell him what
you want to see him.
- I got it.
- Linda agreed to
release the test results.
- Oh great.
- Do you remember
the rapist's blood type?
- Type A.
- Then it wasn't Tanner.
The coroner said
his blood was type O.
- The lineman we talked to
said that Tanner was a loner.
It doesn't figure that
he'd develop a relationship
with a psycho killer overnight.
- Then we'll dig into
Tanner's background,
see what we can turn.
- Go get him.
- I'll go get Linda's
test result for you,
besides the rapist
blood results,
I've collected a
few strains of hair.
- Good that will give us
enough evidence for a
conclusive I.D.
when we do nab him.
Tell Jim and Stacy to give
you a hand checking out Tanner.
(slow suspenseful music)
(knocking door)
- Who is it?
- [Bryce] Municipal Telephone.
- I thought you
fixed it last week?
- This is just a
follow up call ma'am.
We still have some
problems in the area.
- I don't understand.
It seems to be working alright.
- [Man] Honey where
did you hide my blazer?
- It's in the closet darling.
- [Man] I'm supposed to be
in the office in 20 minutes.
I got to run or the
boss will have my head.
- Heyis this your
only telephone?
- Ah uh we have one in
the kitchen and the bedroom.
- I seem to be a
little out of sinc today,
I got to check the junction box.
Are you going to
be here for awhile?
- Until four.
- Thank you.
- Dan.
Linda asked me to
stop by and talk to you.
- Then I was right.
That she...
- Raped.
Go ahead and say it.
Spit it out get rid of it.
- Why?
Why Linda of all people?
What kind of animal
would do a thing like that?
- Sick animal.
One that would have killed her
if he hadn't been scared away.
Linda's lucky to be alive.
The trouble is she doesn't
feel that way right now.
She needs your reassurance.
She needs to know you still
feel the same way about her.
- The same.
How the hell can I?
Any man who gives a
damn about his women,
how can he feel anything?
Sick anger.
- To get past those feelings,
you're going to need help.
That's what the rape
enter is all about.
It's for all the victims.
You're a victim too Dan.
Almost as much as Linda.
- I can't even think about it.
Let alone talk to someone.
- I think you'll
change your mind.
Like I said she'll needs ya,
she needs to talk to you.
The two of you have a lifetime
of happiness ahead of you.
It's up to you.
Get your act together.
Go to work.
Don't make a mistake
that you'll regret
the rest of your life.
(dramatic downbeat music)
- Collins George,
you need an installer?
- It's Robert Collins.
- Is your watch over.
- Yeah,
we're trying to find
Tanner's partner.
The guy at the phone company
said that Tanner was a loner.
Trying to find an employee
he goes back with.
- You figure that had a
long time relationship.
- Shared rape and murder,
for that they'd have
to be pretty close.
- We're cross checking the
Municipal Phone Company's
personal records,
with Tanner's school
roster, army records,
stuff like that.
- I'll see if I can
pull some staff.
Give you a hand in it.
- You got a Frank Edmond.
- Edwards, Francine,
not even close.
- What about a Frank Bryce?
Same platoon both
stateside and overseas.
- Stacy don't bother checking.
That's him.
- The guy we talked to Bryce.
- Jim, call the phone
company dispatcher
see if you can find
out where Bryce
is supposed to be right now.
If you find him bring him in.
- You want some units sent
over to Bryce's apartment?
- Right?
- We'll pick up a warrant to
get into Bryce's company lock.
I saw something that
I want to see again.
Up close.
(downbeat music)
(electronic buzzer)
- [Dispatcher] Four-Adam-30,
four-Adam-16 on tack two.
- See if you can find
someone with authority
in the office to
open up the lockers.
Four-Adam-30 roger.
This is 30, go 16.
- We checked Bryce's route,
he should be at his second stop,
but he's nowhere in site.
- We'll let you know if
we come up with anything
at this end.
- Hooker,
this is Mr. Vickers
the supervisor.
Jim and Stacy
Sheridan talked about.
- How do you do?
Can you open up
Fran Bryce's locker?
- Well it is company property?
- It's important.
- What are we looking for?
- These.
Old routing sheets.
I know this one
had a name circled.
More than one.
Alice Gardner.
- Victim number three.
- Cathy Freeman.
- Victim number five.
- Here's one that circled,
wasn't a victim, not yet anyway.
Judy Kilmer, 1649 Apian Way.
Thank you very
much for your help.
- [Dispatcher] (mumbling)
120 West 81st street.
(downbeat eerie music)
(knocking door)
- Who is it?
- Telephone company.
I was right, I check
the junction box,
something keeps causing
static on your neighbor's line.
- Well could you hurry,
I'm on my way to the airport.
- It won't take a minute.
- What are you doing?
(screaming)
(slapping)
- [Romano] Phone
company truck, he's here.
- [Hooker] Call for backup.
- Four-Adam-30 needs
backup at 424 Surfview,
possible 261 in progress.
- Nice try sweet stuff.
(smashing door)
(upbeat suspenseful music)
(firing gun)
- Call an ambulance.
(upbeat suspenseful disco music)
(firing gun)
(firing gun)
(firing gun)
(firing gun)
Alright Bryce give it up.
You've got no chance.
(upbeat suspenseful disco music)
(smacking punches)
(splashing water)
(dramatic music)
(downbeat music)
- Alright I want you
to come up behind me
as if you're an attacker.
Like this.
I'll show you how to get...
- You and your people
have helped us so much.
Is something wrong?
- No, no, it's just that I
leaned on Stacy a little bit
too hard when she
wanted to protect Linda.
I owe her an apology.
- Hooker, I didn't get a
chance to talk to you at roll call.
- Stacy I've for
something to tell you first.
- No me first.
- No, no, what I have
to say is very important.
- Hooker I know you're a
sergeant and Stacy's only a rookie,
but this time let
her speak first.
Okay?
Pam, Linda and Dan are inside.
Why don't you give
them a hand picking out
the wedding invitations.
(laughing)
- I want to apologize.
- Ah listen Stacy.
- No let me finish.
I've been listening to you
and taking your advice,
ever since you taught
me about crossing streets
at the corner.
And a lot of people, including
some of my own family,
weren't too keen on my
joining the department.
But you convinced
me to take a stand.
- One of my better moves.
(slow downbeat music)
- This time I let
my emotions get
in the way of an investigation.
I acted with my
feelings not my head.
I made a mistake.
- You're allowed one.
- Okay now what
did you want to say?
- I forgot, it couldn't
be very important.
(upbeat music)
(upbeat disco music)
(slow downbeat music)
- Listen dear I'm going to run,
'cause I'm missing
the best part of the sun.
There's no one out at the pool.
If I'm lucky I might
be able to get myself
one good hour of
peace and quiet.
- [Man On phone] Okay,
alright I'll let you go.
I'm sorry about today, but
I'll make it up to you alright.
- I'm sure you will.
I'll talk to you later.
I love you.
- [Man On Phone]
I love you too babe.
I'll see you tomorrow.
- Okay bye bye.
(slow suspenseful music)
- Our little chicken is
ready to be plucked.
- Roger.
(upbeat dramatic
suspenseful music)
- You got me down for
teaching the eight o'clock class.
Do you realize that's the
(mumble) of my evening.
- The Crisis Center
needs volunteers
to teach self defense,
counsel victims.
I mean even Dr. Carson
doesn't get paid
for the time she puts in.
- Okay, but she's married.
She doesn't need
the time to meet
to find a women with whom I
will spend the rest of my life.
- Or the rest of the evening.
- Whatever.
(dramatic suspenseful music)
(electronic buzzer)
- [Dispatcher] All units
and Four-Adam-30,
a possible attack in progress.
At 229 Wallace.
Four-Adam-30, handle
the call, code three.
(blaring sirens)
- Four-Adam-30, roger.
(blaring sirens)
- That could be our man.
(screeching tires)
- Hooker it's Linda Stevens.
- Take care of her.
- Take it easy Linda.
- He hurt me.
- Take it easy.
(upbeat suspenseful music)
(screeching tires)
(upbeat music)
(blaring sirens)
Four-Adam-30 in
pursuit of 261 suspect
in a Gold 73 Gremlin
northbound on Wallace.
Passing 10th street.
- Six blocks away, close enough.
Let's jump in.
- Four-Adam-16 we're
rolling back up to the 30.
Our ETA is three.
(blaring sirens)
(upbeat music)
(screeching tires)
Where did they go?
- Let's try to cut 'em off.
(screeching tires)
(screeching tires)
(crashing cars)
(screeching tires)
Four-Adam-30 to Control.
Advise all units the
Becker Drawbridge area
attack suspect last
seen going westbound
on Becker boulevard
(rinigng bell)
How's Linda?
- Dr. Carson's
still examining her.
Linda would not let me
take her to a hospital.
She finally let
me take her here.
- Poor kid.
Last time I saw her
she was so bubbly.
All smiles.
- Last week.
The day she got engaged.
- What's her condition?
- Physically, she was lucky.
It's her mental state
I'm concerned about.
I understand that
you all know girl.
- Yeah she's a civilian
secretary at the precinct.
She always struck as
sensitive, vulnerable.
- That's how I'm reading her.
She doesn't even want
to admit she was raped.
- Is there any doubt about it?
- Not according to the test.
- I want those
tests by the book.
Defense attorneys love to
rip it with lack of evidence.
- Don't worry I've
set up guidelines
for evidence
collection in storage.
- Stacy?
Where's Linda is she hurt?
- Take it easy Dan.
She's going to be okay.
- What's this all about?
At Linda's apartment
the police told me
they brought her here.
- She was attacked.
- She has a few
minor cuts and bruises.
- I want to see her.
(whimpering)
- Sorry.
- Linda are you alright?
- I was at the pool and
there was this shadow.
And then something hit me.
And then everything
started spinning
like a (mumble).
And then I felt hands on
my throat strangling me.
- Linda.
He didn't rape you did he?
- No, no.
No I'm okay.
- [Dan] Oh thank god.
- [Linda] EVerything's okay.
- Why did you lie to him?
- I'm sorry Hooker
I can't handle it.
I know.
- Well he's going to find out.
We'll need your testimony
and the results of the test.
- No.
No, no testimony and no tests.
- Linda I know you've been
through a terrible ordeal,
but if we're going
to catch this animal.
- Don't you understand?
Dan would never be
able to live with this.
It could ruin our
whole life together.
- I think the man who attacked
you is the Marina Rapist.
And if I'm right you're the
first of his victims to survive.
That's why we've got
to have the test results.
- I don't care about that.
I don't ever want to
think about him again.
- Look please,
we need your help.
I don't ever want to think
about him again because
it didn't happen.
- We need your help.
- It was just a
terrible nightmare.
It didn't happen so
please just leave me alone.
Just leave alone.
- Hooker don't push
her she's on the edge.
Give her some time.
- I know.
I just don't know how much time
the Marina Rapists
is going to give us,
before he strikes again.
(slow eerie dramatic music)
- Thanks for taking
off alone load Bryce.
I almost got nailed out there.
- What was I supposed to do>
Hang around until
he caught both of us.
How did you do on the loot?
- Nothing big.
Some jewelry, a little cash.
Man you've got to start finding
some girls with some bread man.
Over the last three jobs,
I only got enough for
two days worth of snow.
- That's a sleazy habit,
you ought to do
something about that.
You know that.
- Why don't you do
something about yours?
Why don't you do something
about finding some chicks
in a high rent
district for a change?
- 'Cause rich old
broads don't turn me on.
Is that her ring?
- Yeah probably
a family heirloom.
Maybe she was engaged.
- Loose it dummy.
You're too dangerous
to fence that.
It'd be too easy to identify.
- Alright.
Just take me back to my truck.
- Back off Hooker.
Detectives want to
move as fast as you do.
- Linda was attacked
yesterday afternoon,
forensics team didn't
leave her apartment
until an hour ago.
We operated on that
speed on the street,
we wouldn't catch a cold.
- Now look she didn't give
us permission to checkout
her apartment
until this morning.
- What about the women
who called in the 261?
Did she give the detectives
a description of the rapist?
- Jeans an tennis shoes.
THat's all she saw
before she ran into
her apartment and
locked herself in.
Too scared to even
lookout the window,
till he was long gone.
- Captain that animal
was strangling Linda.
He's already raped and
killed three other women
in the marina.
- Now we've finally
got a break we've got
to of after them with
everything we've got.
And I want in on that.
- Alright.
I'll tell the detectives
you're going to help out.
But you make sure
you keep up to date
on everything you turn.
- Hey Hooker.
We just got word,
they located the
car the rapist stole.
- Did they leave
anything for forensics?
- Negative, he either
wiped off his prints
or he wore gloves.
- Romano did you get
that list I asked you for?
- Every know fence and pawn
broker who handles the kind
of loot the rapist rips off.
- And we're still trying
to deal with his robbing
her places after
he attacked her.
But I did get a
list of the jewelry.
- We've added them to
the list of detective's list
of items stolen from
the first three victims.
- Good let's roll.
On our way I want to
swing by Linda's apartment
see if forensics
turned anything there.
- It's hard to understand,
the way guys can turn
away when a rape happens.
- Don't lay it off on the
entire male population.
I've come across guys
who have been nothing
but understanding.
- You think Linda
Steven's fiance will walk
when he finds out
she's been raped?
- Who knows?
Some guys just can't handle it
now matter how hard they try.
But I do know she's
making a mistake
not telling him
the truth upfront.
- She's afraid.
Afraid of what he'll do.
- The woman the guy loves
is victimized, raped
and maybe he feels part
of what they had together
has been violated.
He's angry, frustrated,
confused, a mess.
He's wrong.
But there are no easy
answers to it Stace.
Ever.
- Hooker, Romano
if you ame to give
us a hand, you're late.
- Did you find anything?
- No a few items, but
they looked like the girls.
Figure our boy wore gloves.
- He must have
ice water for blood.
Not only raping but
robbing the same victim.
It's hard to believe
one man could do that.
- You check this
white powder here?
- It's plaster dust
from the wall.
The victim had a
kitchen phone extension
put in four days ago.
The dates on that warranty
in the nearest drawer.
- It sounds like he
didn't miss a thing.
- I'm with you partner.
Let's go check the pawn shops.
- What is this the tenth,
eleventh pawn shop
we've been to.
- Twelve but who's counting?
Right now it's all I got
so we've got to keep
hitting it until we
turn something.
There he is (mumble)
Morey the Hawkmister.
Bringing your cherished
dreams and he'll chisel you down
to a dime on the dollar.
- Hooker you want to
hawk the badge and gun?
We could do some business.
- No what I want is
to look in your safe.
- You got some kind of paper?
- Don't send my partner
for a warrant Morey.
You wouldn't like what
happens when it comes back.
- Good advice.
Do we get a look?
- Eh.
- No, no Morey.
Not the top drawer where you
keep your solid brass watches.
The bottom drawer.
Where you stash
all your stolen goods.
- This came off the
wrist of a dead girl.
Second victim of
the Marina Rapist.
- Hey Hooker, I swear no
way would I do business
with filth like that one.
- You would and you did.
Now tell me about it.
What did he look like?
How many times did he come in?
- Once.
One time only.
I can't remember the guy.
It's a parade in here.
They come in
wearing dark glasses,
hats pulled down.
Better for business
you don't even look.
- Morey if the man who
brought you this comes back
or if you spot any of the
other items on this list.
You're going to call me
faster than I can say two to five
for receiving stolen goods.
- Yes sir.
- Let me here it again.
- Yes sir.
(slow dramatic music)
(slow suspenseful music)
(ringing phone)
- Here' I'll get it.
- Oh it's alright,
it's a line check.
I'll get it.
Yeah.
- I've put a circle around
this address Tanner.
- I think we'll be back.
- Victim one,
raped and strangled
in her bedroom.
No signs, of forced entry.
Second victim in her own car.
Just as she pulled out
of her townhouse garage.
Look here forensic found
footprints athletic shoes
and a witness to Linda's rape
the man wore tennis shoes.
- Almost every guy today
owns pair of athletic shoes.
- Victim number three
in her living room.
Again no forced entry.
- So what's it mean?
One and three knew
the rapist let him in?
- I just flashed on two
things at Linda's apartment.
When we roll in the call,
the rapist was coming in
out of the apartment building,
he saw us duck back in.
Finally wound up.
Taken off in a stolen car.
Do you remember that?
If it was parked across
the apartment building?
The rapist may might very
well have been heading for
if we hadn't spooked him.
- Vaguely a truck.
A Municipal Phone
Company service truck.
- You got it.
The other thing I remember is
the new phone in
Linda's apartment.
- A telephone service man
it could be a perfect cover.
- Practically the invisible man.
So many people see
don't remember seeing.
Open the door let him
in without even thinking.
- Which could account
for the daylight M.O.
When he's out
making service calls?
- Sounds right but
how do we prove it?
- You and Jim check
with the phone company
see if service was scheduled
to any of the three victim's
homes before they were killed.
And if so who made
the service calls.
- So how much can
you give me for it?
You know me we've
worked together before.
- Sure I remember.
Not bad.
I'll have to wash
it up a little bit.
Get my glass, get
a better look at it.
Sergeant Hooker urgent.
Well get a hold of him.
It's important.
Tell him Morey has
something for him.
(honking cars)
- All three women had
telephone repair service
in the last three months.
- And it looks like all the
victims had service calls
only a week before the murders.
- Is there any way of
know who the repairmen
where on those jobs?
- Oh of course,
I've got it right here.
You know the company
is very careful in selecting
its employees and I don't
want to believe it was anyone
working for us.
Here it is.
One man did all
three repair jobs.
Names Tanner, Cliff Tanner.
- I need his personal
file and photo I.D.
Mr. Vickers.
- I'll get 'em for you.
- Thanks.
- Then we better
get a hold of Hooker.
- Just as soon as
I get on the phone
he's gone.
Left this behind.
Antique gold, small
diamonds emerald,
just like on the
list you gave me.
- What about the guy?
What did he look like?
- Thirty, six foot tall,
beard, brown hair.
- Gives us something to go on.
- Yeah, he's not
your average snook.
- Hey Hooker I think
we I.D.'ed the rapist.
The same phone repair
man was at all the victim's
apartments just a few
days before they were killed.
- Recognize him?
- Yeah.
That's him.
That's the guy.
- Do you know where
we can find him?
We checked out his next
scheduled service call,
but he wasn't there.
Detectives have it staked
out in case he shows up.
- He might just be making
an unscheduled stop.
We need a list of
all the service calls
he's made in the last two weeks.
- We've already got it.
We narrowed it down to
anyone who's young, female,
and living alone.
There's only four there.
- How many in the marine area?
- Just two.
- You take one,
we'll take the other.
Let's roll.
(suspenseful dramatic music)
(knocking door)
- [Woman] Who is it?
- Phone company.
Sorry to trouble
you again ma'am.
- What's the problem?
You said you
repaired it last time.
- I know we've had
some complaints
so we think that the
trouble is coming from here.
- After all the time you
spent on my phone.
I know.
- What are you guys doing?
(suspenseful dramatic music)
Oh no.
(screaming)
- I don't see his truck.
Maybe he parked it around back.
There he is.
Seal off the alley.
(upbeat jazz funk rock music)
(blaring sirens)
(suspenseful music)
- Sorry sweet stuff.
I can't leave any witnesses.
(upbeat jazz funk rock music)
(screeching car tires)
(blaring sirens)
(screeching car tire)
(firing gunshot)
(crashing car)
- Don't touch the car.
(electronic crackling fire)
Get him out.
(exploding car)
- We got him Hooker.
- We've got someone Junior.
Someone who isn't
wearing tennis shoes.
(slow dramatic music)
- Thank you.
- Hooker.
- This is Frank Bryce lineman
works in the marina area.
- I heard you're asking
about Cliff Tanner.
- Can you tell us
anything about him?
- He worked here
for a couple of years.
I hardly knew him.
He's a loner.
- Still I'd like you to remember
any names he mentioned.
- The way he kept to himself.
That was enough to keep me
going in the opposite direction.
- I've go to tell you it shakes
you up when you find out
a guy you've been working with
is the Marina Rapist.
- Two of the men we talked
to said that Tanner wore boots.
Is that so?
- Yeah, most of us wear
athletic shoes these days.
Makes it easier climbing
around in attics and places
when you're working
on phone lines.
- If you think of anything
we'd ought to know,
here give me a call.
- Sergeant Tanner's dead.
Why are you asking
these questions?
- We want to make sure that
we've covered all the basis,
before we close the case.
- Pretty thorough huh.
I guess you have to be
to catch the Marina Rapist.
How did you guys
know it was Tanner?
- Police business Mr. Bryce.
- Looks like you were right.
We got the wrong guy.
- It's not going to make
Sheridan very happy.
- Hey nice work Hooker.
'Cause the detectives
weren't too thrilled
that you picked
up the golden ring.
- Brass ring.
- I don't think Tanner's
the Marina Rapist.
- You've got to be kidding.
- Tanner tried to
hawk Linda's ring.
He was in all the
other victim's pads.
- How can you say
he's the wrong man?
- The witness at Linda
Steven's apartment building
said that the rapist
had tennis shoes.
Tanner only wore work boots.
- People have been
known to own more than
one kind of shoe Hooker.
- Not Tanner just boots.
- And then there was
the way he strolled out
of coed's building.
Without a worry in the world,
'till he saw us.
But the coroners report said
he didn't complete the act.
That he was interrupted.
I think he was
interrupted by us.
Chasing Tanner.
The real rapist
heard us and split.
- Two rapist?
Is that what you're saying?
- One rapist, one robber.
Tanner did the robbing.
The other man.
Tied to Tanner in some
kind of sick partnership.
He's the one who
rapes and murders.
- I don't buy it.
Not without more than a theory.
The Marina Rapist is dead.
- We know Tanner
is not the rapist.
But the captain is right,
there's no way we
can prove it Hooker.
- There is one way,
convince Linda to
release the test results.
- If they don't match
Tanner then we know.
- Hooker please,
Linda's in real
emotional trouble.
If you start
pressuring her for this.
If we do and she agrees,
we may keep the rapist
from killing another
innocent victim.
- I understand that,
but she's been through so much.
- Linda's already a victim.
Our priority is to do you job.
- It just seems so cold.
- Now look, if there
was another way,
I'd take it.
- Thank you very much.
- Hooker I heard the good news.
You caught the Marina Rapist.
I'd like to think so, but...
- But what?
- Hooker thinks the man
we caught may have had
a real partner
who's the real rapist.
- I think Linda's test
results will back that up.
- I just phoned Stacy,
I told her that I though
Linda should stay here,
again tonight she's
still quite disturbed.
- How long do you
think it will be before
she can talk about it?
I know it's tough,
but she has to realize
how important it is for us
to do our job and
find the rapist.
- She realizes, but she's
an emotional rollercoaster.
The first response
a rape victim feels
is shock, followed by disbelief.
Once the realization of
what happens settles in,
the victims
invariably feel shame,
and guilt.
- She feels there's something
more she could have done
to prevent the rape.
- Exactly.
- The next response
is depression.
Overwhelming
feelings of helplessness.
Followed by fear,
anger and anxiety.
Which is where she is now.
- Look I don't want to hurt her
anymore than she's
already been hurt,
but if the rapist is out there,
we've got to know that.
- Yeah, she's in the yard.
- Alright.
- Linda.
- Please, you've
caught the rapist,
now leave me alone.
- I don't think the
man we've got
is the man who attacked you.
I think the killer's
still out there.
I think he's
going to kill again.
Unless you help us stop him.
- Hooker nothing's changed.
I told you.
I don't want to loose Dan.
Think about it Linda.
Is it fair to Dan?
- What happens
the day he finds out?
And he will you know.
- I want to tell him.
But I can't.
- Give him a chance.
Give him time.
Give yourself time.
- Linda fight back.
Help him make that man
pay for what he did to you.
I want to catch him.
I want him bad.
And you're the only one
who can make that happen.
- Okay.
You can have my test.
- Well that's a start.
Would you like me
to talk to Dan for you?
- It would help me.
- I'll tell him what
you want to see him.
- I got it.
- Linda agreed to
release the test results.
- Oh great.
- Do you remember
the rapist's blood type?
- Type A.
- Then it wasn't Tanner.
The coroner said
his blood was type O.
- The lineman we talked to
said that Tanner was a loner.
It doesn't figure that
he'd develop a relationship
with a psycho killer overnight.
- Then we'll dig into
Tanner's background,
see what we can turn.
- Go get him.
- I'll go get Linda's
test result for you,
besides the rapist
blood results,
I've collected a
few strains of hair.
- Good that will give us
enough evidence for a
conclusive I.D.
when we do nab him.
Tell Jim and Stacy to give
you a hand checking out Tanner.
(slow suspenseful music)
(knocking door)
- Who is it?
- [Bryce] Municipal Telephone.
- I thought you
fixed it last week?
- This is just a
follow up call ma'am.
We still have some
problems in the area.
- I don't understand.
It seems to be working alright.
- [Man] Honey where
did you hide my blazer?
- It's in the closet darling.
- [Man] I'm supposed to be
in the office in 20 minutes.
I got to run or the
boss will have my head.
- Heyis this your
only telephone?
- Ah uh we have one in
the kitchen and the bedroom.
- I seem to be a
little out of sinc today,
I got to check the junction box.
Are you going to
be here for awhile?
- Until four.
- Thank you.
- Dan.
Linda asked me to
stop by and talk to you.
- Then I was right.
That she...
- Raped.
Go ahead and say it.
Spit it out get rid of it.
- Why?
Why Linda of all people?
What kind of animal
would do a thing like that?
- Sick animal.
One that would have killed her
if he hadn't been scared away.
Linda's lucky to be alive.
The trouble is she doesn't
feel that way right now.
She needs your reassurance.
She needs to know you still
feel the same way about her.
- The same.
How the hell can I?
Any man who gives a
damn about his women,
how can he feel anything?
Sick anger.
- To get past those feelings,
you're going to need help.
That's what the rape
enter is all about.
It's for all the victims.
You're a victim too Dan.
Almost as much as Linda.
- I can't even think about it.
Let alone talk to someone.
- I think you'll
change your mind.
Like I said she'll needs ya,
she needs to talk to you.
The two of you have a lifetime
of happiness ahead of you.
It's up to you.
Get your act together.
Go to work.
Don't make a mistake
that you'll regret
the rest of your life.
(dramatic downbeat music)
- Collins George,
you need an installer?
- It's Robert Collins.
- Is your watch over.
- Yeah,
we're trying to find
Tanner's partner.
The guy at the phone company
said that Tanner was a loner.
Trying to find an employee
he goes back with.
- You figure that had a
long time relationship.
- Shared rape and murder,
for that they'd have
to be pretty close.
- We're cross checking the
Municipal Phone Company's
personal records,
with Tanner's school
roster, army records,
stuff like that.
- I'll see if I can
pull some staff.
Give you a hand in it.
- You got a Frank Edmond.
- Edwards, Francine,
not even close.
- What about a Frank Bryce?
Same platoon both
stateside and overseas.
- Stacy don't bother checking.
That's him.
- The guy we talked to Bryce.
- Jim, call the phone
company dispatcher
see if you can find
out where Bryce
is supposed to be right now.
If you find him bring him in.
- You want some units sent
over to Bryce's apartment?
- Right?
- We'll pick up a warrant to
get into Bryce's company lock.
I saw something that
I want to see again.
Up close.
(downbeat music)
(electronic buzzer)
- [Dispatcher] Four-Adam-30,
four-Adam-16 on tack two.
- See if you can find
someone with authority
in the office to
open up the lockers.
Four-Adam-30 roger.
This is 30, go 16.
- We checked Bryce's route,
he should be at his second stop,
but he's nowhere in site.
- We'll let you know if
we come up with anything
at this end.
- Hooker,
this is Mr. Vickers
the supervisor.
Jim and Stacy
Sheridan talked about.
- How do you do?
Can you open up
Fran Bryce's locker?
- Well it is company property?
- It's important.
- What are we looking for?
- These.
Old routing sheets.
I know this one
had a name circled.
More than one.
Alice Gardner.
- Victim number three.
- Cathy Freeman.
- Victim number five.
- Here's one that circled,
wasn't a victim, not yet anyway.
Judy Kilmer, 1649 Apian Way.
Thank you very
much for your help.
- [Dispatcher] (mumbling)
120 West 81st street.
(downbeat eerie music)
(knocking door)
- Who is it?
- Telephone company.
I was right, I check
the junction box,
something keeps causing
static on your neighbor's line.
- Well could you hurry,
I'm on my way to the airport.
- It won't take a minute.
- What are you doing?
(screaming)
(slapping)
- [Romano] Phone
company truck, he's here.
- [Hooker] Call for backup.
- Four-Adam-30 needs
backup at 424 Surfview,
possible 261 in progress.
- Nice try sweet stuff.
(smashing door)
(upbeat suspenseful music)
(firing gun)
- Call an ambulance.
(upbeat suspenseful disco music)
(firing gun)
(firing gun)
(firing gun)
(firing gun)
Alright Bryce give it up.
You've got no chance.
(upbeat suspenseful disco music)
(smacking punches)
(splashing water)
(dramatic music)
(downbeat music)
- Alright I want you
to come up behind me
as if you're an attacker.
Like this.
I'll show you how to get...
- You and your people
have helped us so much.
Is something wrong?
- No, no, it's just that I
leaned on Stacy a little bit
too hard when she
wanted to protect Linda.
I owe her an apology.
- Hooker, I didn't get a
chance to talk to you at roll call.
- Stacy I've for
something to tell you first.
- No me first.
- No, no, what I have
to say is very important.
- Hooker I know you're a
sergeant and Stacy's only a rookie,
but this time let
her speak first.
Okay?
Pam, Linda and Dan are inside.
Why don't you give
them a hand picking out
the wedding invitations.
(laughing)
- I want to apologize.
- Ah listen Stacy.
- No let me finish.
I've been listening to you
and taking your advice,
ever since you taught
me about crossing streets
at the corner.
And a lot of people, including
some of my own family,
weren't too keen on my
joining the department.
But you convinced
me to take a stand.
- One of my better moves.
(slow downbeat music)
- This time I let
my emotions get
in the way of an investigation.
I acted with my
feelings not my head.
I made a mistake.
- You're allowed one.
- Okay now what
did you want to say?
- I forgot, it couldn't
be very important.
(upbeat music)
(upbeat disco music)