T.J. Hooker (1982–1986): Season 4, Episode 13 - Trackdown - full transcript
A psychopathic killer uses his female captive to lure unsuspecting women into a deadly trap.
(upbeat jazzy music)
- Thank you, room 1011.
- [Valet] Got it, sir.
(upbeat jazzy music)
- [Dispatcher] Four Adam
30, meet the security officer
at the Hotel Wilton,
219 West Seventh,
regarding suspicious
circumstances.
30 handle, code two.
- Roger, control.
(upbeat jazzy music)
- You wanted some help?
- Yes, Sergeant, we do.
A man came in here
about five minutes ago.
Our parking attendant,
Jim, parked his car for him
and happened to
look at the trunk.
That's when he called me.
- Let's go take a look.
- Did he give you a
name and room number?
- Yeah, he told me 1011.
- But after I saw the car,
I decided to call
you people first.
- Call Four Adam 16 for backup.
I'll try the room.
- Thank you.
- [T.J.] I'm terribly sorry.
(dramatic music)
- Hey, that's him!
(upbeat electronic music)
- Move, move, move, move, move!
Watch out, watch out!
Get down!
(gunshots banging)
- [Joe] What do you got?
- We're sure it's Marshall.
He actually stayed
at the hotel last night.
Checked out in the morning.
Probably stopped back
to pick up his airline tickets.
- Sounds reasonable, what else?
- He came in last
night from Miami.
- Sure.
They found two dead
girls there now, same MO.
- He used the name L.K. Bentley.
Gave out information
that generally checks
with the area in
Dallas where he lives.
- The address is wrong and
the street is wrong, but close.
- Sounds familiar.
Any idea how he met this victim?
- He stopped by the cocktail
lounge in the hotel last night.
Had a drink, several actually.
And this young
lady, Marian Sullivan,
worked as a cocktail
waitress in the lounge.
The night manager
was called at home,
and he said that
she left with Marshall.
- What the hell's he tell them?
- He offers them an
executive secretarial position
in the Dallas area with
a well-established firm
and good opportunities
for promotion.
Uh oh, brace yourself.
You're gonna see more FBI
and police brass and newspaper
and TV hotshots than
you've seen in a long time.
- Joe, I don't wanna
be shut out of this one.
- Hooker, it's a different
case, different circumstances.
You're not
Robbery-Homicide anymore.
- I know, I know.
I'm on the streets, and
I've got eight hours there,
and I got 16 more
you can have gratis.
- Okay, okay.
Be careful of the brass, okay?
And the other agencies.
- Last time I got clobbered.
I've learned my lesson.
- [Teller] Next.
- I, I'm sorry, I'm
in the wrong line.
- Change your mind?
- Yeah, I did.
I guess I did anyway.
- I know how you feel.
I'm on the road
a lot and get tired
of terminals and stations.
You know the Southwest well?
- What, I'm sorry?
- Well you were in line for
Dallas, Santa Fe, Albuquerque.
I thought that's maybe
where you came from.
- Oh, no I have an
aunt that lives there.
Do you think I could bother
you for change for the phone?
- Sure.
- I have a dollar, I just...
- No, no, no, don't
worry about it.
- You sure?
- No, I'm positive.
Here you go.
Hey, oh.
- Thank you.
- Sorry, just coffee.
The microwave is down today.
- Coffee's fine, whoops.
We can grab a hot
dog at the bus station.
- I don't recall the food
being that good there.
- Well it isn't, but
Marshall's gotta know
that the airports
are being watched.
That leaves 28 neighborhood
and two major
downtown bus terminals.
- Sounds like you've
got a full day planned.
- I said I was sorry, Lee.
I just couldn't take it anymore.
- It wasn't my idea
to get laid off, Yvonne.
The same thing
happened to 12 other guys.
- I know, I'm not
blaming you for that.
(baby crying)
- The baby's crying.
- I know, I can hear her.
Oh God, Lee, I'm sorry.
- I need you.
And even if I
didn't, Cheryl does.
- Okay.
I'm gonna come home.
I love you.
- I love you.
We'll be okay.
- Okay.
- Miss, I can see you're upset.
Hey, what would it hurt?
- Thank you.
- [Dispatcher] Four Adam 16,
a suspect matching description
of 187 suspect Robert
Marshall has been reported seen
in the vicinity of the
Fourth Street bus station.
Handle the call, code two.
- Four Adam 16, roger.
- [Jim] That's 10 blocks from
here through midtown traffic.
- Take a job with
my firm in Dallas,
and your life gets a
thousand percent better.
- Well, I can type and I
probably know enough shorthand.
I can take a letter.
I don't know, I'm pretty
well-committed here.
- You mean your
husband and your baby?
Thought you were
running away from all that.
- Yeah, I was, and I can
never forgive myself for that.
- Oh, sure you can.
We all forgive
ourselves for everything.
- Can I ask you something?
- Absolutely.
- Well, I mean, I'm sure you're
everything you say you are.
I can tell by your clothes
and your manners,
but what's a guy like you doing
hanging out in bus stations?
- So I can pick up dumb,
shallow little girls like you.
- Ow!
- Hey, shut up, shut up!
Shut up.
Now get in the car.
I said get in the car!
(upbeat electronic music)
Start the car and drive away.
You make one sound
and you're a dead slut.
- [Dispatcher] Four Adam
30, meet Four Adam 16
at Fourth Street bus station.
- Four Adam 30, roger.
(dramatic music)
- [Stacy] Excuse me.
- Could be Marshall.
Came out with a blonde girl,
shoved her into a mustang,
and took off a few minutes ago.
- [T.J.] Anything on
the license plates?
- No, just a red Mustang.
- Get a description
of the car on the horn.
We'll get additional
units down here.
We've got to identify that girl.
I'll notify Joe Fisher
and Robbery-Homicide.
- Sergeant, is it Marshall?
- We don't know.
What do you got?
- A man on the phone.
He's expecting his wife home,
and he has got a very
sick child on his hands.
- Get a description of the wife?
- Yes, blonde, green
eyes, 19 years old.
Can't come looking for her
because she took their car.
It's a '65 red Mustang.
I got the plate.
- Good.
(knocking)
(baby crying)
Mr. Lee Winslow?
- That's right, what is it?
- Do you and your
wife own a red Mustang,
license number 984XUY?
- I just told the people
at the bus station that.
What's happened?
- May we come in?
- What's your baby's name?
- Cheryl, she's running a fever.
- Hi, Cheryl, why don't you
come up over here, huh?
Let me take you.
Where's her bedroom?
- In there.
- Okay come on,
Cheryl, let's go back here.
Oh, you can show me the tour.
- What's goin' on?
- Mr. Winslow, we
have reason to believe
that your wife may have been
kidnapped by Robert Marshall.
- Who's Robert Marshall?
How do you know?
- Does this man look
at all familiar to you?
- No, no.
Wait, I've seen
his picture on TV.
He's killed girls
all over the country.
- Yes, he has.
Why did your wife go
to the bus station today?
- She came home from work
early, and the baby was feverish.
And I didn't get
a job again today.
She said she couldn't
stand it anymore,
so I told her to
get the hell out.
But I was mad at her, you know.
God, I never meant.
- Course you didn't.
You can help us by
getting the most recent
picture of your wife.
(knocking)
- Fisher and a half dozen
FBI agents are right behind us.
- Help Romano.
Mr. Winslow has a
sick baby on his hands.
- That way.
But what makes you so sure?
Have you found Yvonne?
She wouldn't go with him.
- We're trying to
put it together now.
She and Marshall were in
line at one of the ticket windows,
but your wife
didn't buy a ticket.
- Yeah, that's right.
That's right, she was
coming back to me.
Oh.
- Take it easy.
- Oh my God.
- We'll find your wife.
I'll get her back for you.
- [Vince] Looks like
we're out of this one.
- No, we're not out of this one.
No matter what happens in there,
we'll keep checking
back with the husband.
- You've known Joe
Fisher a long time?
- Yeah, we worked
Robbery-Homicide together.
- You worked a case like this?
- You're getting
perceptive, Junior.
Mills Taskforce, '78.
- Where's that,
on the south side?
- That's right.
Seven little girls between
the ages of 10 and 14.
Kidnap murders.
I wanted to move the
taskforce headquarters
into the neighborhood where
the murders were happening.
The brass thought they could
do it in the federal building.
They were wrong.
- Stacy, the ambulance is here.
- She's burning up.
I'll call you as soon
as I know anything.
- [T.J.] Alright, move it.
Move along, just keep movin'.
Thank you.
- Gimme the keys.
Gimme the keys!
Let's go.
Let's go!
Come on!
Come on out, out!
What's the matter with you?
If you start stallin', I'll kill
you right here and now.
You understand that?
Your only hope is to please me.
- Okay, I understand.
- Somebody's still too
cheap to put in an alarm.
Come on.
Been a long time
since I worked here.
- I thought you
were from Dallas.
- Nah, I've been
livin' there for years,
but I grew up around here.
My dad owned this shop.
Used to work here for him.
He's dead now.
- I'm sorry.
- Forget it.
- Did you love him a lot?
- I hated him.
He used to beat me
right here in this shop
when I was little.
I was hoping one of these
babies might be in here.
'79 Camaro.
Used to work on
these cars a lot.
Very popular car with the swinging
singles, remember Yvonne?
- No, I don't.
- Used to come in here.
Young executives with their
pinstripes, sexy girls with 'em.
You're prettier than any
girl they brought in here.
- I have a little girl at home.
She's very sick.
Remember, I told you?
She's very sick.
- I don't care
about your little girl.
I don't care about her
or your husband or you.
Let's get out of here.
Come on.
- What about my suitcase?
- [Robert] We'll pick
it up on the way out.
- [Yvonne] Okay.
- Alright, you get a
jump from the guys.
And there's the scoop
sheet with the Camaro
Marshall lifted last night.
- Well maybe that was his
first big mistake, boosting a car
we'd have information
on in a couple of hours.
- I'd like to think so,
but Marshall has killed
girls in four major cities,
and each time he's
stolen a car from a lot
and driven it night and day,
picked up girls in
populated areas,
and made his escape
from major airports.
And good cops
were looking for him.
- Yeah, well maybe
his luck's run out here.
- Count on it.
- What about poor Yvonne's luck?
I keep remembering the
girl in the trunk of that car.
- Yvonne Winslow is alive.
We've identified her, and
we're gonna get her back.
- Well at least we got
plenty of people interested
in this one.
- That may be, but we
depend on ourselves.
- What do you mean by that?
- I think I know.
I looked up some files
on the south end murders,
the taskforce they
put together in '78.
- I heard you wound up
virtually running that taskforce.
- Yeah, I ran it for a while,
and we were making headway.
I wanted to flood the area
where the murders had occurred
with teams of police and agents.
After murder number
four, I went nose to nose
with the government and
the brass to get those men.
They yanked me
off the taskforce,
and three more little girls
between the ages of 10 and 14
were killed, one
right after the other.
And it didn't have to happen.
- But that's a different
case altogether.
- That's right, different
case, different MO.
And this time we have a
chance to save someone,
Yvonne Winslow.
Come on, I've got
a roll call to run.
(upbeat electronic music)
- [Yvonne] They must be
looking for us all over the city.
- Just for me.
Not a nice couple
from San Francisco.
You know, you're
a very pretty girl.
Nice body too.
You know who Laurel Simpson is?
- No.
- She's on Atlanta,
the daytime soap.
She looks something like you.
Or you look something like her.
She has terrific legs.
- You're crazy.
- Tell me something
I don't know.
Think we'll get you some
nice, new high-heeled pumps
like she wears.
It's lucky for you
that you look like her.
Maybe, maybe not.
(upbeat jazzy music)
- [Dispatcher] Four Adam
30, on your requested update
on search for stolen Camaro
we have no new information
and no further sighting of
187 suspect Robert Marshall.
- Roger, control.
- That's 5.80, sir.
- Can you change a 50?
- Let me check, I think so.
Here you go, that's
six, 10, 30, and 50.
Thank you very much.
- Would you do me a favor?
Would you take that
silly cap off for a minute?
- Is that better?
- It's much better.
Thank you.
- [T.J.] What do you got?
- Marshall let Yvonne make
a call to see how Cheryl is.
- How did you find out about it?
- Dr. Salter was
on duty last night.
Came on just in
time to take the call.
I had left my card.
- [T.J.] Any chance
to trace the call?
- She was only on
the wire a minute.
Asked how the baby was
and Salter told her the truth.
- You two spend as much
time as you can with the doctor.
Get down every word Yvonne said.
Take him through the
conversation several times.
Background noises,
traffic, TV, radio.
- Well, you were right, Hooker.
- About what?
- She is still alive.
(dramatic music)
- There she is.
How 'bout that?
She's gotta wait for the bus.
She'll remember me.
That's why I brought you
along with me this time, Yvonne.
Why don't you go, huh?
- No, no I can't help
you hurt someone else.
I can't.
- Now I know where you live,
and I know where your kid is.
So you do exactly what I
tell you or I'll kill your husband
and your sick kid and then you.
Bye.
(dramatic music)
- There's a man, he raped me.
- Oh my God.
- I got away but my
baby's in the back seat.
- It's okay, calm
down, I'll help you.
We'll call the police.
- No, I want to get my baby.
- I'll help you with your
baby, then we'll call the police.
- No, go run.
Go run!
Run!
Get out of here, run!
Hurry, run!
- [Woman] Help me, help me!
Someone call the police!
- I couldn't do it.
(crying)
- I ran inside and
called for help,
and some customers
followed me outside,
but the car was
already down the street.
So that's when I
called the police.
I was still afraid
he'd come back.
I'm scared now
in a police station.
- It's alright, it's over now.
- Was Yvonne Winslow
with him the first time?
- No, he was alone.
I thought he looked familiar,
but then I thought he must
just be a repeat customer.
I'm sorry, I can't
seem to stop talking.
- That's alright,
that's what helps us.
So he came back
again with Yvonne.
Did she go into the restaurant?
- No, she came over
to me at the bus stop,
and then she warned me
as I got closer to the car.
She saved my life.
- She warned you
off, almost certainly.
- I've read the newspaper.
I've seen the TV.
He's been arrested
so many times,
and they keep letting him go.
- Right.
Rape, assault, attempted murder,
and each time it's plea
bargained down to a swinging door.
- Every honest shrink
has told the courts
the longer he's on the street,
the more violent he'll be.
- But why would he wanna
kill me and keep her alive?
- In you go.
There you go.
How do they feel?
- They're fine.
You're right, I guess
that is a good style for me.
- Well, shouldn't
you walk on 'em?
- Okay.
- Take a look in the mirror.
I think they're very sexy.
- Yeah, guess
they are pretty sexy.
- I also bought you a dress.
The saleswoman said
they'd go well with the shoes.
How do you like it?
- I like it.
- Well, put it on.
- Are we going somewhere?
- Yeah, we're
going out for a while.
Kind of a night on the
town before we take off.
When we come back,
we're gonna come back
like husband and wife, okay?
- [Reporter] The
kidnapped girl's daughter
has improved overnight.
Meanwhile, police
pressed an all-out search
for the cross country killer.
Marshall is now believed
to be responsible for two
additional homicides.
- Hey, I told you to change.
- In the Miami area.
- It's Cheryl.
My little girl's better.
- [Reporter] If you
have any information
concerning Marshall.
- Get back in there
and put that dress on.
- [Reporter] Immediately
notify the nearest police
or FBI authorities.
- How'd you find me?
- Your neighbors told
us you went back to work.
- Yeah, yeah they
called me back to the job.
That's good, I couldn't
stand it anymore.
The phone was
ringin' off the wall.
- [T.J.] Wanna tell us about it?
- Some magazine wants to
give me $40,000 for our story.
- [Vince] You're gonna
get a lot of offers like that.
- I don't need their damn money.
I don't need what
they say, what they ask.
- [T.J.] Get it out.
- They talk now as if Yvonne
went with him willingly.
They ask me if she'd
ever had any other affairs
that I know of.
Yvonne and I never had anybody
except each other and Cheryl.
- You know that,
that's all that counts.
- Hell, I don't know sometimes.
I mean, one minute I'm afraid
they're gonna find her dead,
and then...
- The next you're angrier
than hell that she ran off
to the bus station
in the first place.
- When that comes over the
radio, some woman in a store
says Marshall came in
and bought a new dress
and a pair of shoes for Yvonne.
Now what am I supposed to think?
- I can't tell you
what to think.
I can tell you what we
think and what we know.
- Yeah, but she went
up to the other girl too.
It's hard to believe
Yvonne would ever do that.
- She did that because
she was afraid Marshall
will take her life,
and she warned the other
girl in time for her to run away.
- You mean, she
couldn't go through with it?
- That's right.
She increased the
danger to herself,
she put her own
life in jeopardy,
to save the other girl's life.
She's not with him
voluntarily, not now, not ever.
The victims never are.
- [Dispatcher] Four Adam 30,
meet Four Adam 16 on TAC-two.
- Four Adam 30, roger.
What have you got, Jim?
- We've been workin' out
from the store where Marshall
did the shopping.
We found the Camaro
stashed a couple blocks away.
- [Vince] Surprised
he held onto it this long.
- We just found a branch
bank where he cashed $5,000
in travelers checks using the
name of L.K. Bentley again.
- Yvonne wasn't with
him at either place?
- Nope.
We asked the
teller where he went.
He happened to see
Marshall go across the street
to a travel agency.
- You got something.
- You bet your life.
Mr. and Mrs. L.K.
Bentley have reservations
tomorrow on an Aztec
Lines cruise to La Paz.
- Roger.
- Bingo, maybe tomorrow, huh?
- I don't wanna
wait until tomorrow.
He let her call once before.
Now she's leaving,
she'll wanna call again.
(phone ringing)
- Hello?
- Lee?
Hi, baby, it's me.
- Where are you?
- I can't tell you that, Honey.
If I tell you that,
he's gonna kill me.
He let me call so I
can say good-bye.
I wanted you to
know that I love you.
- That's very touching.
Let's go back to the motel.
I feel like making love.
- I never made love with
you, not ever, not once.
Not ever.
- I let you call your husband.
I kept you alive so far,
and you stay alive as long
as you do exactly what I
tell you to, you got that?
You think anybody can help you?
You think anybody can
take you away from me, huh?
(laughing)
- No one by either name?
Alright, don't say anything
about this call to anybody.
Either Sergeant Hooker or
myself will get back to you
in a few minutes, thanks.
- What you got, Hooker?
- I dropped by Lee
Winslow's house after work.
- [Joe] And?
- And he got another
call from his wife, listen.
- [Yvonne] He just let me
call so I could say good-bye.
I wanted you to
know that I love you.
- That's a jackhammer drill
and a compressor
in the background.
I called the Department
of Water and Power,
and they say they got
a crew working outside
the new Citywide Bank tonight.
- That's right across from
the downtown Stanford Hotel.
- I just got off the
wire their security man.
There's a bank of
phones outside the hotel,
but there's no
registration at the Stanford
under any of the names
that Marshall has used.
- You got six hotels
and a dozen motels
within walking
distance of the Stanford.
- Some of the Stanford
shops are open late.
Maybe they bought some
new clothes for the trip
and are killing time.
- Now you're the only cop
that Winslow's been willing
to talk to since this
thing happened.
- Well, Stacy took
his kid to the hospital.
We spent some time
listening to his story.
And we went down to
his job today and realized
that he was depressed
and feeling the pressure.
And we did what we
could to reassure him.
- Yeah, I think that's
admirable, but I'm curious.
Is Yvonne with Marshall
now voluntarily, Sergeant?
She apparently made a
phone call outside a hotel
full of people.
- She's terrified by
him, dominated by him.
- Are you sure about that?
- Yes, I'm sure about that.
But why don't we get her
back first and then ask her?
- No argument there, Sergeant.
You developed information
they be taking a cruise tomorrow,
but we've got a good
lead to the hotel tonight.
And we've gotta
take advantage of it.
- We need somebody
in that hotel right now.
(dramatic music)
- Stacy to Hooker, it's quiet.
- Hooker to Stacy,
acknowledging.
I should be in that lounge.
- No, no, if I let
you stay in there,
then Martinez and his buddy
are gonna wanna be in there,
and then it's gonna look like
a law enforcement
officer's convention.
Corrigan and Romano are
already in the coffee shop.
- Hey, why don't you go
ahead and get us a table?
Order me a gin and tonic, okay?
- Okay.
- You look beautiful.
- She's here, alone so far.
- Hooker?
- We wait for Marshall.
- We move now, he's there.
- We have to know he's
there, then we move.
- [Stacy] Can I
get you anything?
- A gin and tonic
and a water, please.
- It's happening all over again.
You wanna wait to be sure.
We wait, we lose the girl.
- Look, I don't know
what you're talking about.
- I know.
Look, Hooker, I'm sorry,
but we're running the show.
When Stacy sees Marshall,
we'll move in and
wrap them both up.
- Wait for Stacy to confirm
that Marshall's with Yvonne.
- Two wines, thank you.
Gin and tonic?
- Mm hm.
- Can I get you anything else?
- No, that'll be
just fine, thank you.
- Okay.
Something wrong, sir?
- Yeah, I just
remembered I left my wallet
in the liquor store.
I'll be right back, Sweetheart.
Alright, Copper, I'm leaning
a gun against your spine.
You make one sound
and I'll blow you away.
Yvonne, let's go.
(dramatic music)
- Stacy?
Stacy, acknowledge.
Stacy?
Corrigan, Romano, move in.
(dramatic music)
- Let's go, let's go!
Keep movin'.
Keep Bobby Marshall happy.
(upbeat jazzy music)
- [T.J.] Romano.
(speaking in foreign language)
- Hooker.
- No show, and the cruise
ship is about to weigh anchor.
- Well, we had to check it out.
Don't worry, the FBI's got
agents covering every departure
from the harbor.
- We got four hours before
we're due back at the precinct.
We'll take the unmarked
cars, go back downtown,
and start from scratch.
We'll try the train
station, the bus station,
anything it takes.
- Look, Hooker, the fact
that Stacy was grabbed
is no reflection on you.
We held you up.
- That doesn't matter to me.
I just want to get
Stacy back alive.
- How do you like it, Copper?
It's not what you had
in mind when you sailed
through the academy, huh?
Forget it.
Well, we had a
lot of fun, girls,
but all good things
must come to an end.
Sit down, stay there.
We'll be in San
Francisco tonight.
If you make one sound,
I'll put six in the
back of your head.
And then I'll do the same
for Yvonne, you believe that?
(dramatic music)
Sit down, you too.
Down on the floor.
Down!
Don't move.
Oh, this is gonna be perfect.
Get out of town, then we
can stop and have a little party.
Just the three of us.
You'd like that,
wouldn't you girls?
- Go, tell them where we are.
Go.
Now, go.
Alright.
- Damn!
(screaming)
Stupid slut.
- Stop it, please!
Please don't!
(gunshot banging)
- Just you and me now, Copper.
- [Dispatch] Four Adam
20 and any other unit
able to handle a GTA with
shots fired at the Olympic Motel.
11th and High Street.
- This is Four Zebra 30.
We will handle Four
Adam 20's hotshot call.
(upbeat jazzy
music) (siren blaring)
- There she is, call Corrigan.
- [Yvonne] Somebody
help me, please!
- Get out of the way!
- He still has her.
She's in there.
- Where, where?
- In a camper.
- Did you see which
way they went?
- The street down that way.
San Francisco.
- Corrigan's on his way.
I called an ambulance.
- Stay with her.
- Yeah.
- And have Corrigan put
an all-frequency bulletin out.
- It'll be alright.
You're gonna get
help, you're totally fine.
It's gonna be alright.
(dramatic music) (siren blaring)
(gunshots banging)
- I'm okay, go on.
(gunshot banging)
- Hold it!
(gunshot banging)
(gunshot banging)
Not this time.
This watch makes the
worst coffee in the history
of police departments.
Anything on Yvonne Winslow?
- Her husband just called.
She's out of danger.
- That's good.
Anything on Stacy and Corrigan?
- Negative, Stacy was probably
just treated and released.
Jim took her home.
He'll probably be in any minute.
She's probably going
to take an IOD day off.
- Well that makes sense.
- Shooting team not gonna
take you back out to the site?
- They're giving me 15 minutes.
Corrigan could've called
and told me Stacy was alright.
- No, he couldn't.
I want to say I'm okay.
- Could've waited, but
I'm glad you came in.
- Thanks.
- [T.J.] Why don't you go
home and get some sleep?
- I figure we'd have a couple
cups of coffee with Romano
and get a start on the reports.
- No, no, no, Stacy's been
through enough for one day.
You can do the reports later.
- By the time the shooting
team turns you loose,
it'll be time for breakfast.
How about our treat for
breakfast at Tremendous Tacos.
- Whatever.
You know I was just
saying that this watch
makes the best coffee in the
history of police departments.
(upbeat jazzy music)
- Thank you, room 1011.
- [Valet] Got it, sir.
(upbeat jazzy music)
- [Dispatcher] Four Adam
30, meet the security officer
at the Hotel Wilton,
219 West Seventh,
regarding suspicious
circumstances.
30 handle, code two.
- Roger, control.
(upbeat jazzy music)
- You wanted some help?
- Yes, Sergeant, we do.
A man came in here
about five minutes ago.
Our parking attendant,
Jim, parked his car for him
and happened to
look at the trunk.
That's when he called me.
- Let's go take a look.
- Did he give you a
name and room number?
- Yeah, he told me 1011.
- But after I saw the car,
I decided to call
you people first.
- Call Four Adam 16 for backup.
I'll try the room.
- Thank you.
- [T.J.] I'm terribly sorry.
(dramatic music)
- Hey, that's him!
(upbeat electronic music)
- Move, move, move, move, move!
Watch out, watch out!
Get down!
(gunshots banging)
- [Joe] What do you got?
- We're sure it's Marshall.
He actually stayed
at the hotel last night.
Checked out in the morning.
Probably stopped back
to pick up his airline tickets.
- Sounds reasonable, what else?
- He came in last
night from Miami.
- Sure.
They found two dead
girls there now, same MO.
- He used the name L.K. Bentley.
Gave out information
that generally checks
with the area in
Dallas where he lives.
- The address is wrong and
the street is wrong, but close.
- Sounds familiar.
Any idea how he met this victim?
- He stopped by the cocktail
lounge in the hotel last night.
Had a drink, several actually.
And this young
lady, Marian Sullivan,
worked as a cocktail
waitress in the lounge.
The night manager
was called at home,
and he said that
she left with Marshall.
- What the hell's he tell them?
- He offers them an
executive secretarial position
in the Dallas area with
a well-established firm
and good opportunities
for promotion.
Uh oh, brace yourself.
You're gonna see more FBI
and police brass and newspaper
and TV hotshots than
you've seen in a long time.
- Joe, I don't wanna
be shut out of this one.
- Hooker, it's a different
case, different circumstances.
You're not
Robbery-Homicide anymore.
- I know, I know.
I'm on the streets, and
I've got eight hours there,
and I got 16 more
you can have gratis.
- Okay, okay.
Be careful of the brass, okay?
And the other agencies.
- Last time I got clobbered.
I've learned my lesson.
- [Teller] Next.
- I, I'm sorry, I'm
in the wrong line.
- Change your mind?
- Yeah, I did.
I guess I did anyway.
- I know how you feel.
I'm on the road
a lot and get tired
of terminals and stations.
You know the Southwest well?
- What, I'm sorry?
- Well you were in line for
Dallas, Santa Fe, Albuquerque.
I thought that's maybe
where you came from.
- Oh, no I have an
aunt that lives there.
Do you think I could bother
you for change for the phone?
- Sure.
- I have a dollar, I just...
- No, no, no, don't
worry about it.
- You sure?
- No, I'm positive.
Here you go.
Hey, oh.
- Thank you.
- Sorry, just coffee.
The microwave is down today.
- Coffee's fine, whoops.
We can grab a hot
dog at the bus station.
- I don't recall the food
being that good there.
- Well it isn't, but
Marshall's gotta know
that the airports
are being watched.
That leaves 28 neighborhood
and two major
downtown bus terminals.
- Sounds like you've
got a full day planned.
- I said I was sorry, Lee.
I just couldn't take it anymore.
- It wasn't my idea
to get laid off, Yvonne.
The same thing
happened to 12 other guys.
- I know, I'm not
blaming you for that.
(baby crying)
- The baby's crying.
- I know, I can hear her.
Oh God, Lee, I'm sorry.
- I need you.
And even if I
didn't, Cheryl does.
- Okay.
I'm gonna come home.
I love you.
- I love you.
We'll be okay.
- Okay.
- Miss, I can see you're upset.
Hey, what would it hurt?
- Thank you.
- [Dispatcher] Four Adam 16,
a suspect matching description
of 187 suspect Robert
Marshall has been reported seen
in the vicinity of the
Fourth Street bus station.
Handle the call, code two.
- Four Adam 16, roger.
- [Jim] That's 10 blocks from
here through midtown traffic.
- Take a job with
my firm in Dallas,
and your life gets a
thousand percent better.
- Well, I can type and I
probably know enough shorthand.
I can take a letter.
I don't know, I'm pretty
well-committed here.
- You mean your
husband and your baby?
Thought you were
running away from all that.
- Yeah, I was, and I can
never forgive myself for that.
- Oh, sure you can.
We all forgive
ourselves for everything.
- Can I ask you something?
- Absolutely.
- Well, I mean, I'm sure you're
everything you say you are.
I can tell by your clothes
and your manners,
but what's a guy like you doing
hanging out in bus stations?
- So I can pick up dumb,
shallow little girls like you.
- Ow!
- Hey, shut up, shut up!
Shut up.
Now get in the car.
I said get in the car!
(upbeat electronic music)
Start the car and drive away.
You make one sound
and you're a dead slut.
- [Dispatcher] Four Adam
30, meet Four Adam 16
at Fourth Street bus station.
- Four Adam 30, roger.
(dramatic music)
- [Stacy] Excuse me.
- Could be Marshall.
Came out with a blonde girl,
shoved her into a mustang,
and took off a few minutes ago.
- [T.J.] Anything on
the license plates?
- No, just a red Mustang.
- Get a description
of the car on the horn.
We'll get additional
units down here.
We've got to identify that girl.
I'll notify Joe Fisher
and Robbery-Homicide.
- Sergeant, is it Marshall?
- We don't know.
What do you got?
- A man on the phone.
He's expecting his wife home,
and he has got a very
sick child on his hands.
- Get a description of the wife?
- Yes, blonde, green
eyes, 19 years old.
Can't come looking for her
because she took their car.
It's a '65 red Mustang.
I got the plate.
- Good.
(knocking)
(baby crying)
Mr. Lee Winslow?
- That's right, what is it?
- Do you and your
wife own a red Mustang,
license number 984XUY?
- I just told the people
at the bus station that.
What's happened?
- May we come in?
- What's your baby's name?
- Cheryl, she's running a fever.
- Hi, Cheryl, why don't you
come up over here, huh?
Let me take you.
Where's her bedroom?
- In there.
- Okay come on,
Cheryl, let's go back here.
Oh, you can show me the tour.
- What's goin' on?
- Mr. Winslow, we
have reason to believe
that your wife may have been
kidnapped by Robert Marshall.
- Who's Robert Marshall?
How do you know?
- Does this man look
at all familiar to you?
- No, no.
Wait, I've seen
his picture on TV.
He's killed girls
all over the country.
- Yes, he has.
Why did your wife go
to the bus station today?
- She came home from work
early, and the baby was feverish.
And I didn't get
a job again today.
She said she couldn't
stand it anymore,
so I told her to
get the hell out.
But I was mad at her, you know.
God, I never meant.
- Course you didn't.
You can help us by
getting the most recent
picture of your wife.
(knocking)
- Fisher and a half dozen
FBI agents are right behind us.
- Help Romano.
Mr. Winslow has a
sick baby on his hands.
- That way.
But what makes you so sure?
Have you found Yvonne?
She wouldn't go with him.
- We're trying to
put it together now.
She and Marshall were in
line at one of the ticket windows,
but your wife
didn't buy a ticket.
- Yeah, that's right.
That's right, she was
coming back to me.
Oh.
- Take it easy.
- Oh my God.
- We'll find your wife.
I'll get her back for you.
- [Vince] Looks like
we're out of this one.
- No, we're not out of this one.
No matter what happens in there,
we'll keep checking
back with the husband.
- You've known Joe
Fisher a long time?
- Yeah, we worked
Robbery-Homicide together.
- You worked a case like this?
- You're getting
perceptive, Junior.
Mills Taskforce, '78.
- Where's that,
on the south side?
- That's right.
Seven little girls between
the ages of 10 and 14.
Kidnap murders.
I wanted to move the
taskforce headquarters
into the neighborhood where
the murders were happening.
The brass thought they could
do it in the federal building.
They were wrong.
- Stacy, the ambulance is here.
- She's burning up.
I'll call you as soon
as I know anything.
- [T.J.] Alright, move it.
Move along, just keep movin'.
Thank you.
- Gimme the keys.
Gimme the keys!
Let's go.
Let's go!
Come on!
Come on out, out!
What's the matter with you?
If you start stallin', I'll kill
you right here and now.
You understand that?
Your only hope is to please me.
- Okay, I understand.
- Somebody's still too
cheap to put in an alarm.
Come on.
Been a long time
since I worked here.
- I thought you
were from Dallas.
- Nah, I've been
livin' there for years,
but I grew up around here.
My dad owned this shop.
Used to work here for him.
He's dead now.
- I'm sorry.
- Forget it.
- Did you love him a lot?
- I hated him.
He used to beat me
right here in this shop
when I was little.
I was hoping one of these
babies might be in here.
'79 Camaro.
Used to work on
these cars a lot.
Very popular car with the swinging
singles, remember Yvonne?
- No, I don't.
- Used to come in here.
Young executives with their
pinstripes, sexy girls with 'em.
You're prettier than any
girl they brought in here.
- I have a little girl at home.
She's very sick.
Remember, I told you?
She's very sick.
- I don't care
about your little girl.
I don't care about her
or your husband or you.
Let's get out of here.
Come on.
- What about my suitcase?
- [Robert] We'll pick
it up on the way out.
- [Yvonne] Okay.
- Alright, you get a
jump from the guys.
And there's the scoop
sheet with the Camaro
Marshall lifted last night.
- Well maybe that was his
first big mistake, boosting a car
we'd have information
on in a couple of hours.
- I'd like to think so,
but Marshall has killed
girls in four major cities,
and each time he's
stolen a car from a lot
and driven it night and day,
picked up girls in
populated areas,
and made his escape
from major airports.
And good cops
were looking for him.
- Yeah, well maybe
his luck's run out here.
- Count on it.
- What about poor Yvonne's luck?
I keep remembering the
girl in the trunk of that car.
- Yvonne Winslow is alive.
We've identified her, and
we're gonna get her back.
- Well at least we got
plenty of people interested
in this one.
- That may be, but we
depend on ourselves.
- What do you mean by that?
- I think I know.
I looked up some files
on the south end murders,
the taskforce they
put together in '78.
- I heard you wound up
virtually running that taskforce.
- Yeah, I ran it for a while,
and we were making headway.
I wanted to flood the area
where the murders had occurred
with teams of police and agents.
After murder number
four, I went nose to nose
with the government and
the brass to get those men.
They yanked me
off the taskforce,
and three more little girls
between the ages of 10 and 14
were killed, one
right after the other.
And it didn't have to happen.
- But that's a different
case altogether.
- That's right, different
case, different MO.
And this time we have a
chance to save someone,
Yvonne Winslow.
Come on, I've got
a roll call to run.
(upbeat electronic music)
- [Yvonne] They must be
looking for us all over the city.
- Just for me.
Not a nice couple
from San Francisco.
You know, you're
a very pretty girl.
Nice body too.
You know who Laurel Simpson is?
- No.
- She's on Atlanta,
the daytime soap.
She looks something like you.
Or you look something like her.
She has terrific legs.
- You're crazy.
- Tell me something
I don't know.
Think we'll get you some
nice, new high-heeled pumps
like she wears.
It's lucky for you
that you look like her.
Maybe, maybe not.
(upbeat jazzy music)
- [Dispatcher] Four Adam
30, on your requested update
on search for stolen Camaro
we have no new information
and no further sighting of
187 suspect Robert Marshall.
- Roger, control.
- That's 5.80, sir.
- Can you change a 50?
- Let me check, I think so.
Here you go, that's
six, 10, 30, and 50.
Thank you very much.
- Would you do me a favor?
Would you take that
silly cap off for a minute?
- Is that better?
- It's much better.
Thank you.
- [T.J.] What do you got?
- Marshall let Yvonne make
a call to see how Cheryl is.
- How did you find out about it?
- Dr. Salter was
on duty last night.
Came on just in
time to take the call.
I had left my card.
- [T.J.] Any chance
to trace the call?
- She was only on
the wire a minute.
Asked how the baby was
and Salter told her the truth.
- You two spend as much
time as you can with the doctor.
Get down every word Yvonne said.
Take him through the
conversation several times.
Background noises,
traffic, TV, radio.
- Well, you were right, Hooker.
- About what?
- She is still alive.
(dramatic music)
- There she is.
How 'bout that?
She's gotta wait for the bus.
She'll remember me.
That's why I brought you
along with me this time, Yvonne.
Why don't you go, huh?
- No, no I can't help
you hurt someone else.
I can't.
- Now I know where you live,
and I know where your kid is.
So you do exactly what I
tell you or I'll kill your husband
and your sick kid and then you.
Bye.
(dramatic music)
- There's a man, he raped me.
- Oh my God.
- I got away but my
baby's in the back seat.
- It's okay, calm
down, I'll help you.
We'll call the police.
- No, I want to get my baby.
- I'll help you with your
baby, then we'll call the police.
- No, go run.
Go run!
Run!
Get out of here, run!
Hurry, run!
- [Woman] Help me, help me!
Someone call the police!
- I couldn't do it.
(crying)
- I ran inside and
called for help,
and some customers
followed me outside,
but the car was
already down the street.
So that's when I
called the police.
I was still afraid
he'd come back.
I'm scared now
in a police station.
- It's alright, it's over now.
- Was Yvonne Winslow
with him the first time?
- No, he was alone.
I thought he looked familiar,
but then I thought he must
just be a repeat customer.
I'm sorry, I can't
seem to stop talking.
- That's alright,
that's what helps us.
So he came back
again with Yvonne.
Did she go into the restaurant?
- No, she came over
to me at the bus stop,
and then she warned me
as I got closer to the car.
She saved my life.
- She warned you
off, almost certainly.
- I've read the newspaper.
I've seen the TV.
He's been arrested
so many times,
and they keep letting him go.
- Right.
Rape, assault, attempted murder,
and each time it's plea
bargained down to a swinging door.
- Every honest shrink
has told the courts
the longer he's on the street,
the more violent he'll be.
- But why would he wanna
kill me and keep her alive?
- In you go.
There you go.
How do they feel?
- They're fine.
You're right, I guess
that is a good style for me.
- Well, shouldn't
you walk on 'em?
- Okay.
- Take a look in the mirror.
I think they're very sexy.
- Yeah, guess
they are pretty sexy.
- I also bought you a dress.
The saleswoman said
they'd go well with the shoes.
How do you like it?
- I like it.
- Well, put it on.
- Are we going somewhere?
- Yeah, we're
going out for a while.
Kind of a night on the
town before we take off.
When we come back,
we're gonna come back
like husband and wife, okay?
- [Reporter] The
kidnapped girl's daughter
has improved overnight.
Meanwhile, police
pressed an all-out search
for the cross country killer.
Marshall is now believed
to be responsible for two
additional homicides.
- Hey, I told you to change.
- In the Miami area.
- It's Cheryl.
My little girl's better.
- [Reporter] If you
have any information
concerning Marshall.
- Get back in there
and put that dress on.
- [Reporter] Immediately
notify the nearest police
or FBI authorities.
- How'd you find me?
- Your neighbors told
us you went back to work.
- Yeah, yeah they
called me back to the job.
That's good, I couldn't
stand it anymore.
The phone was
ringin' off the wall.
- [T.J.] Wanna tell us about it?
- Some magazine wants to
give me $40,000 for our story.
- [Vince] You're gonna
get a lot of offers like that.
- I don't need their damn money.
I don't need what
they say, what they ask.
- [T.J.] Get it out.
- They talk now as if Yvonne
went with him willingly.
They ask me if she'd
ever had any other affairs
that I know of.
Yvonne and I never had anybody
except each other and Cheryl.
- You know that,
that's all that counts.
- Hell, I don't know sometimes.
I mean, one minute I'm afraid
they're gonna find her dead,
and then...
- The next you're angrier
than hell that she ran off
to the bus station
in the first place.
- When that comes over the
radio, some woman in a store
says Marshall came in
and bought a new dress
and a pair of shoes for Yvonne.
Now what am I supposed to think?
- I can't tell you
what to think.
I can tell you what we
think and what we know.
- Yeah, but she went
up to the other girl too.
It's hard to believe
Yvonne would ever do that.
- She did that because
she was afraid Marshall
will take her life,
and she warned the other
girl in time for her to run away.
- You mean, she
couldn't go through with it?
- That's right.
She increased the
danger to herself,
she put her own
life in jeopardy,
to save the other girl's life.
She's not with him
voluntarily, not now, not ever.
The victims never are.
- [Dispatcher] Four Adam 30,
meet Four Adam 16 on TAC-two.
- Four Adam 30, roger.
What have you got, Jim?
- We've been workin' out
from the store where Marshall
did the shopping.
We found the Camaro
stashed a couple blocks away.
- [Vince] Surprised
he held onto it this long.
- We just found a branch
bank where he cashed $5,000
in travelers checks using the
name of L.K. Bentley again.
- Yvonne wasn't with
him at either place?
- Nope.
We asked the
teller where he went.
He happened to see
Marshall go across the street
to a travel agency.
- You got something.
- You bet your life.
Mr. and Mrs. L.K.
Bentley have reservations
tomorrow on an Aztec
Lines cruise to La Paz.
- Roger.
- Bingo, maybe tomorrow, huh?
- I don't wanna
wait until tomorrow.
He let her call once before.
Now she's leaving,
she'll wanna call again.
(phone ringing)
- Hello?
- Lee?
Hi, baby, it's me.
- Where are you?
- I can't tell you that, Honey.
If I tell you that,
he's gonna kill me.
He let me call so I
can say good-bye.
I wanted you to
know that I love you.
- That's very touching.
Let's go back to the motel.
I feel like making love.
- I never made love with
you, not ever, not once.
Not ever.
- I let you call your husband.
I kept you alive so far,
and you stay alive as long
as you do exactly what I
tell you to, you got that?
You think anybody can help you?
You think anybody can
take you away from me, huh?
(laughing)
- No one by either name?
Alright, don't say anything
about this call to anybody.
Either Sergeant Hooker or
myself will get back to you
in a few minutes, thanks.
- What you got, Hooker?
- I dropped by Lee
Winslow's house after work.
- [Joe] And?
- And he got another
call from his wife, listen.
- [Yvonne] He just let me
call so I could say good-bye.
I wanted you to
know that I love you.
- That's a jackhammer drill
and a compressor
in the background.
I called the Department
of Water and Power,
and they say they got
a crew working outside
the new Citywide Bank tonight.
- That's right across from
the downtown Stanford Hotel.
- I just got off the
wire their security man.
There's a bank of
phones outside the hotel,
but there's no
registration at the Stanford
under any of the names
that Marshall has used.
- You got six hotels
and a dozen motels
within walking
distance of the Stanford.
- Some of the Stanford
shops are open late.
Maybe they bought some
new clothes for the trip
and are killing time.
- Now you're the only cop
that Winslow's been willing
to talk to since this
thing happened.
- Well, Stacy took
his kid to the hospital.
We spent some time
listening to his story.
And we went down to
his job today and realized
that he was depressed
and feeling the pressure.
And we did what we
could to reassure him.
- Yeah, I think that's
admirable, but I'm curious.
Is Yvonne with Marshall
now voluntarily, Sergeant?
She apparently made a
phone call outside a hotel
full of people.
- She's terrified by
him, dominated by him.
- Are you sure about that?
- Yes, I'm sure about that.
But why don't we get her
back first and then ask her?
- No argument there, Sergeant.
You developed information
they be taking a cruise tomorrow,
but we've got a good
lead to the hotel tonight.
And we've gotta
take advantage of it.
- We need somebody
in that hotel right now.
(dramatic music)
- Stacy to Hooker, it's quiet.
- Hooker to Stacy,
acknowledging.
I should be in that lounge.
- No, no, if I let
you stay in there,
then Martinez and his buddy
are gonna wanna be in there,
and then it's gonna look like
a law enforcement
officer's convention.
Corrigan and Romano are
already in the coffee shop.
- Hey, why don't you go
ahead and get us a table?
Order me a gin and tonic, okay?
- Okay.
- You look beautiful.
- She's here, alone so far.
- Hooker?
- We wait for Marshall.
- We move now, he's there.
- We have to know he's
there, then we move.
- [Stacy] Can I
get you anything?
- A gin and tonic
and a water, please.
- It's happening all over again.
You wanna wait to be sure.
We wait, we lose the girl.
- Look, I don't know
what you're talking about.
- I know.
Look, Hooker, I'm sorry,
but we're running the show.
When Stacy sees Marshall,
we'll move in and
wrap them both up.
- Wait for Stacy to confirm
that Marshall's with Yvonne.
- Two wines, thank you.
Gin and tonic?
- Mm hm.
- Can I get you anything else?
- No, that'll be
just fine, thank you.
- Okay.
Something wrong, sir?
- Yeah, I just
remembered I left my wallet
in the liquor store.
I'll be right back, Sweetheart.
Alright, Copper, I'm leaning
a gun against your spine.
You make one sound
and I'll blow you away.
Yvonne, let's go.
(dramatic music)
- Stacy?
Stacy, acknowledge.
Stacy?
Corrigan, Romano, move in.
(dramatic music)
- Let's go, let's go!
Keep movin'.
Keep Bobby Marshall happy.
(upbeat jazzy music)
- [T.J.] Romano.
(speaking in foreign language)
- Hooker.
- No show, and the cruise
ship is about to weigh anchor.
- Well, we had to check it out.
Don't worry, the FBI's got
agents covering every departure
from the harbor.
- We got four hours before
we're due back at the precinct.
We'll take the unmarked
cars, go back downtown,
and start from scratch.
We'll try the train
station, the bus station,
anything it takes.
- Look, Hooker, the fact
that Stacy was grabbed
is no reflection on you.
We held you up.
- That doesn't matter to me.
I just want to get
Stacy back alive.
- How do you like it, Copper?
It's not what you had
in mind when you sailed
through the academy, huh?
Forget it.
Well, we had a
lot of fun, girls,
but all good things
must come to an end.
Sit down, stay there.
We'll be in San
Francisco tonight.
If you make one sound,
I'll put six in the
back of your head.
And then I'll do the same
for Yvonne, you believe that?
(dramatic music)
Sit down, you too.
Down on the floor.
Down!
Don't move.
Oh, this is gonna be perfect.
Get out of town, then we
can stop and have a little party.
Just the three of us.
You'd like that,
wouldn't you girls?
- Go, tell them where we are.
Go.
Now, go.
Alright.
- Damn!
(screaming)
Stupid slut.
- Stop it, please!
Please don't!
(gunshot banging)
- Just you and me now, Copper.
- [Dispatch] Four Adam
20 and any other unit
able to handle a GTA with
shots fired at the Olympic Motel.
11th and High Street.
- This is Four Zebra 30.
We will handle Four
Adam 20's hotshot call.
(upbeat jazzy
music) (siren blaring)
- There she is, call Corrigan.
- [Yvonne] Somebody
help me, please!
- Get out of the way!
- He still has her.
She's in there.
- Where, where?
- In a camper.
- Did you see which
way they went?
- The street down that way.
San Francisco.
- Corrigan's on his way.
I called an ambulance.
- Stay with her.
- Yeah.
- And have Corrigan put
an all-frequency bulletin out.
- It'll be alright.
You're gonna get
help, you're totally fine.
It's gonna be alright.
(dramatic music) (siren blaring)
(gunshots banging)
- I'm okay, go on.
(gunshot banging)
- Hold it!
(gunshot banging)
(gunshot banging)
Not this time.
This watch makes the
worst coffee in the history
of police departments.
Anything on Yvonne Winslow?
- Her husband just called.
She's out of danger.
- That's good.
Anything on Stacy and Corrigan?
- Negative, Stacy was probably
just treated and released.
Jim took her home.
He'll probably be in any minute.
She's probably going
to take an IOD day off.
- Well that makes sense.
- Shooting team not gonna
take you back out to the site?
- They're giving me 15 minutes.
Corrigan could've called
and told me Stacy was alright.
- No, he couldn't.
I want to say I'm okay.
- Could've waited, but
I'm glad you came in.
- Thanks.
- [T.J.] Why don't you go
home and get some sleep?
- I figure we'd have a couple
cups of coffee with Romano
and get a start on the reports.
- No, no, no, Stacy's been
through enough for one day.
You can do the reports later.
- By the time the shooting
team turns you loose,
it'll be time for breakfast.
How about our treat for
breakfast at Tremendous Tacos.
- Whatever.
You know I was just
saying that this watch
makes the best coffee in the
history of police departments.
(upbeat jazzy music)