T.J. Hooker (1982–1986): Season 4, Episode 18 - Sanctuary - full transcript
Hooker calls in a task force when three murderers take hostages, including Stacy and an injured Corrigan.
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(soft upbeat music)
- Letter from Oregon?
- Yeah.
For Fran.
Reminded me that
the alimony's due
and that today is
Chrissie's birthday.
- Tell her the
check's in the mail.
- Well, it is.
I almost forgot.
I mean, the alimony.
Couldn't forget
Chrissie's birthday.
I picked out something
special for her.
Charm bracelet from
Dahavid's down town.
I'm having them sent
special delivery from the store.
- Great.
Fran know its coming?
- Yeah.
- What will happen if it's late?
Chrissy will get
disappointed huh?
- Well I'll call
and I'll make sure.
Wish her happy birthday.
As soon as I get a break.
- You wish you were
there with here, huh?
- What do you think?
- Can you believe that?
Blew right the light and I
aint even had my coffee yet.
- Well do you want
to get some coffee first
or do you want to go get them?
- Ah what the heck?
What's let our duty.
Then the coffees on you.
- Thanks a lot.
16, show is code six
on a traffic violation.
Texas license plates, 641G2V.
(sirens wail)
(tense dramatic music)
- Here we go.
(gunfire)
- Four Adam 16, shots fired.
Officer down.
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- Hold it!
- [Dispatch] All
units in the vicinity
and four Adam 30,
officer needs help.
Shots fired.
Officer down,
Meridian and sixth.
- Bring her, Tom.
We might need
them at the border.
(groaning.
- Get going.
Get them in the car.
(sirens wail)
- Come on, come on.
(soft tense music)
- The church.
- Okay!
- Come on.
- Back off!
Get the hell away from us.
We'll finish them both off.
- Come on.
(tense electronic music)
- Come on.
Get her inside.
- [Goon] Hold that door!
- We ask this through our
lord Jesus Christ, your son,
you lives and reigns with you
in the unity of the holy spirit,
one god forever and ever, amen.
(footsteps)
- Stand still, father.
You're not going anywhere.
- What is this?
What are you doing here?
- Alright, everybody
get down on your knees.
- Cover the side entrance.
Four Adam 30, requesting
additionally units.
A paramedic ambulance
and a SWAT call up
at St. Paul's church corner
of Meridian and Pacific.
- [Dispatch] Roger Four Adam 30.
(groaning)
- Stacy, watch those people.
It's not very far.
Oh my god, it hurts.
Then I can't feel
anything at all.
- Take it easy, Jim.
(sirens wail)
- Cover the rear and let me
know when you're in position.
We have a hostage
situation here.
Nobody in, nobody out
till you hear from me.
(sirens wail)
- Hey you out there!
This is Rita Holmes.
- This is Sergeant Hooker.
- We want out.
Pull all those cop cars
back and we'll take off.
You got three minutes or
we shoot both your friends.
- I can't do that.
I want to talk to you
but I can't just
let you walk away.
If you want to
surrender, I promise you,
we'll hold our fire.
- No we don't want to surrender.
We're not here to surrender.
(gunfire)
(siren wails)
- Take over Romano's position.
(tense dramatic music)
Cordon off the boulevard.
- Who is she?
- I'm trying to think.
Rita Holmes.
I got it.
She's the women in the papers
who just got convicted
a couple weeks ago
of murdering her husband.
- [Dispatch] All units
and all frequencies,
we are clearing tact two
for an emergency broadcast
from the Chief of detectives.
- [Garcia] This is Chief
of detectives Fred Garcia
at the superior
court, department 45.
Two men have freed
Rita Holmes and fled.
They have killed three
people this morning.
Superior Court Judge
Matthew Clemens,
Sheriff's Deputy
Sanchez, and Jackson.
- Four Adam 30, this
is Sergeant Hooker.
We now have the man
listed in Chief Garcia's
emergency broadcast
and Rita Holmes
contained in Saint
Paul's church.
- [Dispatch] Roger,
four Adam 30.
- Romano, go to the car
wash, get the phone number
of the church.
I want to speak to those
people on the phone.
- They've killed
three people already
and Jim didn't look like
he was gonna make it.
- Right.
I'll cover you.
(tense dramatic music)
- Alright, suit up.
- Roy.
- Morning, Hooker.
Like we got ourselves
one this time.
- I'll fill you in as we go.
- we got to get those
kids out of here fast.
(siren wails)
- I've got a badly
wounded officer inside
with his partner.
- Police woman?
- Yeah, if I can
talk to them into
I'm gonna try to get Jim
Corrigan, the wounded officer,
out of there but if I can't,
would you be willing to go in
and do what you
can for them inside?
- Hell yes, we'll go in for you.
- Go.
Roy, I want a
evaluation of this situation
as quickly as possible.
What will cost to go
in and get Sheridan
and Corrigan out of there?
- I'll get started on it.
- Evacuate the
school immediately.
You children move
out, quickly please.
Get away from the school.
Children leave as quickly
and as quietly as possible.
Move out, please.
- How's he doing?
- I'll be alright.
I'll get out of this alright,
don't worry about it.
- Yeah sure you will.
They better move out there.
- Suppose they let
you go, then what?
- You heard what
my boyfriend said.
We're going to Mexico.
- You mean you'd hide out there?
For how long, to what purpose?
- Don't push it father.
Mind your own business.
So you've been a cop very long?
- 20 years.
- I'm Deputy District
Attorney Paul Clay.
You gentlemen are?
- I'm Sergeant TJ Hooker,
this is Lieutenant Roy
Harrison, SWAT squad.
What can we do to help you?
- We want that woman
back, that's the bottom line.
She's a cold blooded murderer
so we want her hot body
in the gas chamber.
Now who's running the show?
- I'm in charge of SWAT.
Sergeant Hookers a trained
hostage situation negotiator
and those people
inside are his people.
Excuse me.
- Aren't those
children in danger?
- We're handling it.
- You know what you
got in there Sergeant?
Father Terry Connors.
He's an activist, came
right out of the seminary,
tried to get the war
in Vietnam stopped.
This is his parish.
- I'll talk to him as soon as
we can get communication.
I have to know what
the situation is in there.
- Forgive me
interrupting, Sergeant
but don't count
on Terry Connors.
He's anti war, anti
capital punishment,
anti establishment.
My advice is to shoot
your way in there right now.
- Thanks for your advice.
- Wish I could talk to her.
I wish I could get through.
- Let me tell you a little
bit about her, father.
It came out at her trial
that she and Randall
are both ex convicts.
They worked on a rich
man for three years.
She married him,
then he was murdered.
- I remember a little
of it now, from TV.
- On TV they sounded
like Bonnie and Clyde,
till death do them part.
- People start off playing roles
then they have to play them out.
- Hooker!
We've tied it to the
church phone, just dial.
- Good.
I want a run down
on Rita Holmes.
Children, family,
anything or anybody
that might be important to her.
(phone rings)
- Somebody gonna answer that?
(phone rings)
- Yeah who's this?
- This is Sergeant Hooker.
I want to talk to
whoever's in charge.
- You got lucky,
this is Tom Randall.
- Naturally I'm concerned
about the officers
you have in there.
- You have a right
to be concerned.
One of them isn't gonna
be around much longer.
- I'm asking you to
let me bring em out
or let me send
somebody in to treat them,
if you feel safer that way.
- Hey if your
buddy dies, he dies.
Maybe the fact that
he's draining like a sink
will make you move faster.
- You've had time to figure out
what you want.
It's time to talk about that.
- What are you telling him?
- I'm gonna give
him the demands.
- Let me talk to him.
Hey Hooker, you
remember Joe Bram?
Well let me refresh your memory.
Armed robbery.
You and your partner busted
me when you was plain clothes,
now you remember?
- Yeah I remember you, Bram.
- Yeah, well I did a
lot of time in Quentin
cause of you cop
and this morning we ripped
your buddy's guts open.
Now aint that poetic justice?
- Your friend was
talking about demands.
- Yeah!
We want some booze in here.
We want some scotch
and some bourbon
and some cartons of cigarettes.
Now that's my demand.
- I can't get you the
alcohol but I will send
in the carton of cigarettes.
The way it works, I
don't give you something,
unless I get something.
- Now you just a...
- Come on.
Hooker, I'm gonna send
a priest out the side door
with the demands.
I don't want to see any
SWAT troopers climbing around
anywhere or we'll be throwing
bodies out in the parking lot.
You understand?
- Yes I understand and I agree
but what do I get in
exchange for the cigarettes?
- A nice religious lady.
How's about that?
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- I've got the cigarettes.
- Alright Mary, it's
gonna be alright.
- Thank you father,
but what about you?
- I'll be okay.
- Mary, Tim Harrison
wants to talk to you.
You tell him where
everybody is in the church
and anything else
you think might help us.
- I will and bless you.
- Anybody else with
you in the church
when they came in?
- Bill Keegan, he's
one of the altar boys.
These are the demands.
- $100,000.00 in cash, banks
are open, that's a possible.
Limousine and an escort
to the Mexican border,
that's also a possible.
- I gathered front
eh conversation
that Randall hid out in
Mexico during her trial.
Apparently he feels safe there.
- What's their move?
Are all three of
them in this together
or is there a chance
we can split them up,
play them off
against each other?
- Look, they're
desperate, driven people.
Now apparently they've killed
and you may have to kill them
but it would bother me
to spy on them for you.
- Doesn't it bother
you that there's a cop
bleeding to death in there
and a policewoman
helpless with three killers
staring down her throat?
- Yes.
It all bothers me.
Rita Holmes says
she's been sentenced
to the gas chamber.
Now in this state,
in its wisdom,
decides that it's wiser than god
and can vengefully kill,
then it always bothers me.
- Father, my job is to
get the hostages out.
If you want, you can
come with me now.
You're out.
- Wouldn't that make it
worse for your people?
- The hostages
are the first priority,
Officer Sheridan
and Corrigan know,
it's part of putting
on the badge.
- [Father] What
about my altar boy?
- How's he doing?
- He's scared.
But he's alright.
- I have a plan to get him out
but it's you, I can walk
you to safety right now.
- I can't.
- [Thug] Hurry up
father, come on, come on.
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- Get it here as fast as you
can but keep it out of sight
and I appreciate
your cooperation.
- I talked to the general
manager of Security National,
if it will help, they
got 100,000,00
at the Pacific avenue
branch in 10 minutes.
- Good, I made
arrangements to bring in a limo.
- Alright, still against
giving in to those animals.
- I just got word on Rita
Holmes background,
no family expect for a
12 year old daughter.
Her names Marcie.
- And where's the daughter?
- Ward of the court,
probably in a foster home.
- Good.
I want you to go with
Mr. Clay to Security National
to pick up $100,000.00 in cash.
Make sure the bills are recorded
and get back here
as fast as you can.
- Ready when you are, Mr. Clay.
- We can use my car.
- [Dispatch] Detective
Headquarters Division,
Officer Johnson speaking.
- Yes, Johnson, this
is Sergeant Hooker,
I'm at the command
post by the church.
- [Dispatch] Yes sir.
- I'd like you to locate a ward
of the juvenile court.
Marcie Holmes, aged 12
and get the courts authorization
to bring her to our CP.
She's vital to a hostage
negotiation situation.
- [Dispatch] Rodger
Sargent Hooker, we're on it.
(tense music)
- Keep him away from her.
- That's not my problem.
Car and the money,
that's the problem.
(energetic tense 80s music)
- Just climb up
there on that billboard
and keep your eye on the
people inside that church.
- Would you mind?
- What the hells
taking them so long?
You keep an eye on these two.
(tense 80s electronic music)
(gunshot)
(soft 80s music)
- He's still alive.
Wes!
Wes.
Easy, we've got help here buddy.
- Get it in here.
- Easy.
We got help.
Easy, take it easy.
He's all yours.
- I promised Randall
we wouldn't put an officer
on the high ground.
I told you that too.
- You asked me for
an evaluation, Hooker.
I can't do that with
my men crouched
behind a SWAT truck.
- What will I tell Randall
when I get him back on the line?
- Tell him you gave your
word and I broke it for you.
I don't give a damn
what you tell him.
(sirens wail)
- He'll make it, Roy.
Did you get anything
out of the lady we got out?
- Yeah she told me
exactly where everybody is.
Now based on what my
scout teams have been able
to come up with, we can
make a tear gas assault
and entry and
neutralize the suspects
in under two minutes.
- What about
Corrigan and Sheridan?
- Problematic.
- Besides the priest,
there's an altar boy.
I don't want him hurt.
- [Cop] Hooker!
- You lied to me, Hooker.
You must of ripped
those two off already.
- No either statement is true.
There was a mix up out here.
I'm working on your demands.
I'm getting everything
you asked for.
- I'm tired of fooling
around with you Hooker.
Look, it's 10:30.
You got 25 minutes
to put this all together.
At 11 o'clock, we go to Mexico
or we start killing the
hostages off one by one.
- Look, I know where
you're coming from,
I can only make
things happen so fast.
We'll get the car,
we'll get the money
but you have to
go along with me.
- You've got it
all wrong, Hooker.
I don't have to go
along with anything.
(tense dramatic music)
- Take it easy, father.
You keep on cooperating,
nothings gonna happen
beneath the
stations of the cross.
- How much do you know
about the stations of the cross?
- My mother was
some kind of a Catholic.
I've been in church.
- While you were in
custody, did you ever talk
to the chaplains?
- What good would it have done?
- They might of
suggested a way of life
that doesn't depend on violence.
You could of won
another kind of freedom.
- You want me to go
quietly to the gas chambers
saying the rosary
with some priest?
Don't kid yourself
father, I want to live.
- Get out there father, come on.
They got the money.
- I sure hope we
can keep you alive
till we get to Mexico.
You ever been to
Culiacan, Sinaloa?
- No.
- Oh they sure like blondes
and blue eyes down there.
(laughs)
- I know the time is running out
but you can tell them
that I'm acting in good faith.
- I can't tell them that unless
I believe it myself.
- What do you want
from me father?
I just had a policeman
taken out of here
with his chest ripped open.
- Yeah I thought you might
decide to come in after that.
- Decisions not all
together up to me.
I've got a SWAT squad Lieutenant
who will take this
people in a minute.
He can do that.
- What about the hostages?
- We got a guy
from the DAs office
who isn't putting the
hostages in first priority.
- My alter boy.
- I haven't forgotten
about him, believe me.
Let's try and keep him calm.
(soft tense music)
- You know that guy
from the DA's office
is looking for a bloodbath.
- He's liable to get it.
Marcie, I'm Sargent
Hooker, glad you're here.
We need your help.
Your mothers in that church.
She's in big trouble,
do you know that?
There are other people in
the church too, hostages.
Your willingness to help
may save your mothers life
and the others too.
Are you willing to try?
- She's no mother to me.
She never cared about me
and I don't care if
she lives or dies.
(dramatic music)
(tense drum music)
(coughing)
- What's happening?
- Looks like Hookers'
gonna let them go.
- Oh go, let them go.
I can't.
Listen.
If anything happens,
get ahold of my ex wife.
Her phone number is in
my desk at the precinct.
- You're not gonna die on me.
- I don't call her
that much anymore
because there's not
much to talk about.
If you could do anything,
anything she needs,
I'd appreciate it.
(groaning)
- He's hemorrhaging.
He's hemorrhaging!
We've got to do something
or he's gonna die.
- Mr. Randall.
- Oh he'll be alright father
but the next time
you take a walk,
I'd tell them they ought
to move a little faster.
(phone rings)
Yeah?
I'll let you talk to her.
- Yeah?
- I've got your
daughter Marcy here.
- What's he talking about?
- What right have you
got to bring her here?
- I just talked to her
and she's decided that
she wants to talk to you.
- Well I don't
want to talk to her.
- What's he saying?
(shushes)
- Well look, if you want me to,
I can put her in a police
car and get her out of here.
- Wait a minute.
- What's going on?
- My daughter.
No.
Have you got kids?
- Yeah I have kids
and I'm thinking
about them right now
and about your daughter
and about the altar boy.
Look you tell me,
maybe we should forget
about your daughter.
- No, no I want to see her.
- Make sure it's her.
Make sure it's not a trick.
- Let me talk to her now.
- Yeah it's me, mom.
Do you remember my voice?
- Sure I do honey.
- Hooker.
Alright Hooker, they can talk.
You bring her to
the church right now
but we hold to our schedule.
- Expect you forgot
that I don't give anything
unless I get something
- Don't pull that on me.
Look, your hot
shot officer Corrigan
is bleeding right through
his bandages now.
- I'll bring Marcy
to the side door
with the paramedics.
You have Father
Connors bring Corrigan out.
- You know the policy.
Hooker, that girl isn't
placed in jeopardy.
- That goes without saying
but nothings written in stone.
I want to give Rita as
much reason to live as I can.
Her little girl may be
able to do that for us.
- Stacey.
- Don't worry about Stacey.
I'll get her out.
Go on.
- I'll bring her daughter
back in a couple minutes.
Randall is
determined to go at 11.
- Wrong father.
Rita Holmes comes out here.
- That's not what said.
- Forget what I said.
I'm not handing them
another potential hostage.
Officer Sheridan's
in there unarmed.
If this comes to a showdown,
there are three heavily
armed people in there
who could kill her.
- What are you talking about?
- I could give you
this two inch 38.
You could slip it
to Officer Sheridan
and she'd have
a chance for life.
- You mean by taking
someone else's?
I'll send Rita Holmes out.
(soft instrumental music)
- You've grown a lot.
You look beautiful.
- Why didn't you want to see me?
- It wasn't just me, honey.
I guess everybody
figured it be better if I didn't.
Then for awhile I didn't
know where you were.
- Did you look for me?
- Sure I...
I was in Florida,
in jail for awhile
and then when I got married,
I didn't tell my
husband who you were.
I'm sorry.
- Why can't you give up?
Sergeant said if you give up,
they won't have to shoot you.
- That's the first
thing she asked me.
- Tom says we're
losing time, Rita.
Finish it up.
(tense drum music)
- Don't you see
how hopeless it is?
You think it's gonna be
any different in Mexico?
You think its
gonna help anything
to kill more people,
get yourself killed?
- Listen to him, mom.
- I can't, I got to
go back inside.
- I always loved you.
- I always loved you.
(somber instrumental music)
- I can't let you stay here,
I explained that to you.
- I understand.
You tried.
- Sure.
- What about the deadline?
You told them 11 o'clock.
- Yeah and it's 11 o'clock.
So we leave now, we
leave in 10 minutes.
What difference does it make?
- Well maybe you're right.
What's another 10 minutes?
What do you think sugar?
- I dot think you people
are going anywhere.
- No that's not
what I want to hear.
(laughs)
No, as long as we
got a little bit of time,
I think you and I are
gonna do something
I've been planning
on doing all along.
Come on, Officer Sheridan.
Let's check out the back office.
Come on.
- Leave her alone!
Don't you know where you are?
(grunts)
- Come on, father, get up.
Come on!
You think I won't kill a priest?
- Bram.
- Come on!
You think that
collar turned around
makes you bulletproof?
Come on.
(shouts)
- Stay away from her.
Stay away from her or
you will have to kill me.
- Tom Randall, I know
have the limo you asked for.
Randall!
- We got the limo.
We're gonna make it.
We're gonna make it.
- Tom Randall.
- Bring it up by the front door.
Pull everybody back
and I'll send the priest out
when you get there.
You drive it by
yourself unarmed.
- Alright I understand.
But I don't give
something for nothing.
You know that.
- What are you talking about?
- I want the altar boy.
You get the limo
but you send him out
with Father Connors.
- Alright.
You got the boy but move.
(tense rock music)
- Okay we're gonna finish
this up right here and now.
- That's good to hear.
I was beginning to
worry about you, Hooker.
- We'll take them
out on the boulevard.
- What about Stacey?
- We'll get Stacey,
for the moment...
- Hooker!
- For the moment, trust me.
Go with Lieutenant Harrison.
I need you junior.
Not angry, not
emotional, not concerned.
In control.
(tense dramatic music)
- Sergeant Hooker, a trained
hostage situation negotiator,
is apparently about to
drive the kidnap murder trio
to the Mexican border
and we have late word
that Officer James Corrigan,
wounded earlier and
released by the fugative,
is in emergency surgery.
Alicia Martin
live at St. Paul's.
(tense dramatic music)
- Alright take off, kid.
Alright Hooker, come
on get out of the car.
Alright, come around.
Come on, come on.
Anything goes wrong
and you can bury the policewoman
and the priest in
the same grave.
- What happened?
- Bram was gonna
rape Officer Sheridan.
I was able to stop him
for the moment only.
- What are they doing here?
- I told you to pull
everybody back.
- Thats your
escort to the border,
exactly what you asked for.
- Yeah.
Just fine.
Bram!
Keep an eye on these two.
- I'm looking right
at you, Hooker.
- This car gonna work for ya?
- Yeah everything
will be just fine.
- Come in here, Father Connors.
- What now, Rita?
- [Rita] I want to talk to him.
- [Randall] Not now.
- Yes, now.
- What about it, Randall?
- Alright, go on get
back in there, move.
(tense music)
- Come on.
- This is gonna take
a couple seconds.
Don't want you to get any ideas,
you understand?
- You're calling the
shots now, Randall.
It's all up to you
from here on in.
- Seems to be going well so far.
- Hooker knows what he's doing.
(tense dramatic music)
- Father.
- Father Connors.
- Yes, Stacey?
- I have to tell you the truth.
It might get bad out there.
- I know that.
I'm praying for us all.
- Father Connors.
(tense dramatic music)
I'm gonna send money from Mexico
for my little girl, Marcy.
See that she gets it?
- Alright.
- Something else.
I need to talk to you.
- Do you want to
make a confession?
- Call it whatever you
want, will you hear it?
- I'd be glad to hear it.
But I can only give absolution
when you indicate an
honest desire to change.
- But what I tell you here,
you don't tell anybody else.
I mean even if I
die you keep silent?
- What you say here is
between you and god.
I'm just an intermediary.
- In court I swore I
didn't kill my husband.
That's not true.
Three years we planned.
One night, Tom came to the house
and we killed him together.
(tense dramatic music)
- But you wound up alone
and you loved no one
and no one loved you.
- But didn't I
love my little girl?
Don't I love Marcy now?
- See love leads to actions
actions that benefit and
sustain the people we love.
- You're condemning me?
- No I'm looking
for you soul, Rita.
Separate yourself
from these people,
try in what time is left
to do penance and change.
I could help you do that.
- I know you want to
but it is too late.
- Do you know of any
reason for the delay, sir?
- Yeah, I think
they lost their nerve.
- We're ready, Tom!
- Alright Hooker, get in
the car, you're driving.
I'll be right up front with you.
Bram!
Bring down the priest.
You get in the back,
right behind Hooker.
Rita!
Come on down.
(tense dramatic music)
- You're gonna
like Mexico, Hooker.
We're gonna have a good time,
you, me, and that
little blonde cop.
Yeah we're gonna have
a good time, for a while.
- Get in the back,
in the middle.
Let's go.
- [Rita] Wait a minute.
- What now?
- Let the priest go.
He's gonna take care of Marcy.
- Throw him out of here.
(tense dramatic music)
Go.
Don't stop, go straight ahead.
- The green lights
on you, Romano.
- Come on now, step to it.
(gunshot)
- Drop it.
(gunshot)
Drop it!
(sirens wail)
(soft tense music)
- We can do it right now.
- You'd think we
won a football game.
- I guess they
waited it out too.
- You want to get
out of here, Stacey?
- I'll wait till
the end of shift.
There's still a lot left to do.
- Okay good.
- Thank you Sergeant, thanks.
You saved my life.
- You saved your own life son
by remaining calm and doing
what Father Connors said.
(soft instrumental music)
I just got word that Corrigan's
surgery was successful.
He's out of danger
- Thank god for that.
- I want to thank you, father.
I know it can't of been easy
for you to have brought that gun
to Officer Sheridan.
- I'm glad it worked
but I have the worse sense
of failure of inadequacy.
I keep trying to think what
I could of done differently.
- Probably nothing.
It's natural feeling
after something like that.
Your adrenaline pumps,
your emotions are engaged
and it's over.
A couple of violent,
bloody seconds
that nobody could
entirely foresee.
- Thank you.
It could of been a
lot worse, couldn't it?
- Oh father it could of
been a hell of a lot worse
- If you're wondering
about using the phone,
it's in the office.
Your partner told me about
your daughter's birthday.
That it's been on
your mind all day.
- It has been.
- I'll say a prayer for her.
- Why thank you, father.
She'll appreciate that.
(soft instrumental music)
(energetic 80s music)
(soft upbeat music)
- Letter from Oregon?
- Yeah.
For Fran.
Reminded me that
the alimony's due
and that today is
Chrissie's birthday.
- Tell her the
check's in the mail.
- Well, it is.
I almost forgot.
I mean, the alimony.
Couldn't forget
Chrissie's birthday.
I picked out something
special for her.
Charm bracelet from
Dahavid's down town.
I'm having them sent
special delivery from the store.
- Great.
Fran know its coming?
- Yeah.
- What will happen if it's late?
Chrissy will get
disappointed huh?
- Well I'll call
and I'll make sure.
Wish her happy birthday.
As soon as I get a break.
- You wish you were
there with here, huh?
- What do you think?
- Can you believe that?
Blew right the light and I
aint even had my coffee yet.
- Well do you want
to get some coffee first
or do you want to go get them?
- Ah what the heck?
What's let our duty.
Then the coffees on you.
- Thanks a lot.
16, show is code six
on a traffic violation.
Texas license plates, 641G2V.
(sirens wail)
(tense dramatic music)
- Here we go.
(gunfire)
- Four Adam 16, shots fired.
Officer down.
(tense electronic music)
- Hold it!
- [Dispatch] All
units in the vicinity
and four Adam 30,
officer needs help.
Shots fired.
Officer down,
Meridian and sixth.
- Bring her, Tom.
We might need
them at the border.
(groaning.
- Get going.
Get them in the car.
(sirens wail)
- Come on, come on.
(soft tense music)
- The church.
- Okay!
- Come on.
- Back off!
Get the hell away from us.
We'll finish them both off.
- Come on.
(tense electronic music)
- Come on.
Get her inside.
- [Goon] Hold that door!
- We ask this through our
lord Jesus Christ, your son,
you lives and reigns with you
in the unity of the holy spirit,
one god forever and ever, amen.
(footsteps)
- Stand still, father.
You're not going anywhere.
- What is this?
What are you doing here?
- Alright, everybody
get down on your knees.
- Cover the side entrance.
Four Adam 30, requesting
additionally units.
A paramedic ambulance
and a SWAT call up
at St. Paul's church corner
of Meridian and Pacific.
- [Dispatch] Roger Four Adam 30.
(groaning)
- Stacy, watch those people.
It's not very far.
Oh my god, it hurts.
Then I can't feel
anything at all.
- Take it easy, Jim.
(sirens wail)
- Cover the rear and let me
know when you're in position.
We have a hostage
situation here.
Nobody in, nobody out
till you hear from me.
(sirens wail)
- Hey you out there!
This is Rita Holmes.
- This is Sergeant Hooker.
- We want out.
Pull all those cop cars
back and we'll take off.
You got three minutes or
we shoot both your friends.
- I can't do that.
I want to talk to you
but I can't just
let you walk away.
If you want to
surrender, I promise you,
we'll hold our fire.
- No we don't want to surrender.
We're not here to surrender.
(gunfire)
(siren wails)
- Take over Romano's position.
(tense dramatic music)
Cordon off the boulevard.
- Who is she?
- I'm trying to think.
Rita Holmes.
I got it.
She's the women in the papers
who just got convicted
a couple weeks ago
of murdering her husband.
- [Dispatch] All units
and all frequencies,
we are clearing tact two
for an emergency broadcast
from the Chief of detectives.
- [Garcia] This is Chief
of detectives Fred Garcia
at the superior
court, department 45.
Two men have freed
Rita Holmes and fled.
They have killed three
people this morning.
Superior Court Judge
Matthew Clemens,
Sheriff's Deputy
Sanchez, and Jackson.
- Four Adam 30, this
is Sergeant Hooker.
We now have the man
listed in Chief Garcia's
emergency broadcast
and Rita Holmes
contained in Saint
Paul's church.
- [Dispatch] Roger,
four Adam 30.
- Romano, go to the car
wash, get the phone number
of the church.
I want to speak to those
people on the phone.
- They've killed
three people already
and Jim didn't look like
he was gonna make it.
- Right.
I'll cover you.
(tense dramatic music)
- Alright, suit up.
- Roy.
- Morning, Hooker.
Like we got ourselves
one this time.
- I'll fill you in as we go.
- we got to get those
kids out of here fast.
(siren wails)
- I've got a badly
wounded officer inside
with his partner.
- Police woman?
- Yeah, if I can
talk to them into
I'm gonna try to get Jim
Corrigan, the wounded officer,
out of there but if I can't,
would you be willing to go in
and do what you
can for them inside?
- Hell yes, we'll go in for you.
- Go.
Roy, I want a
evaluation of this situation
as quickly as possible.
What will cost to go
in and get Sheridan
and Corrigan out of there?
- I'll get started on it.
- Evacuate the
school immediately.
You children move
out, quickly please.
Get away from the school.
Children leave as quickly
and as quietly as possible.
Move out, please.
- How's he doing?
- I'll be alright.
I'll get out of this alright,
don't worry about it.
- Yeah sure you will.
They better move out there.
- Suppose they let
you go, then what?
- You heard what
my boyfriend said.
We're going to Mexico.
- You mean you'd hide out there?
For how long, to what purpose?
- Don't push it father.
Mind your own business.
So you've been a cop very long?
- 20 years.
- I'm Deputy District
Attorney Paul Clay.
You gentlemen are?
- I'm Sergeant TJ Hooker,
this is Lieutenant Roy
Harrison, SWAT squad.
What can we do to help you?
- We want that woman
back, that's the bottom line.
She's a cold blooded murderer
so we want her hot body
in the gas chamber.
Now who's running the show?
- I'm in charge of SWAT.
Sergeant Hookers a trained
hostage situation negotiator
and those people
inside are his people.
Excuse me.
- Aren't those
children in danger?
- We're handling it.
- You know what you
got in there Sergeant?
Father Terry Connors.
He's an activist, came
right out of the seminary,
tried to get the war
in Vietnam stopped.
This is his parish.
- I'll talk to him as soon as
we can get communication.
I have to know what
the situation is in there.
- Forgive me
interrupting, Sergeant
but don't count
on Terry Connors.
He's anti war, anti
capital punishment,
anti establishment.
My advice is to shoot
your way in there right now.
- Thanks for your advice.
- Wish I could talk to her.
I wish I could get through.
- Let me tell you a little
bit about her, father.
It came out at her trial
that she and Randall
are both ex convicts.
They worked on a rich
man for three years.
She married him,
then he was murdered.
- I remember a little
of it now, from TV.
- On TV they sounded
like Bonnie and Clyde,
till death do them part.
- People start off playing roles
then they have to play them out.
- Hooker!
We've tied it to the
church phone, just dial.
- Good.
I want a run down
on Rita Holmes.
Children, family,
anything or anybody
that might be important to her.
(phone rings)
- Somebody gonna answer that?
(phone rings)
- Yeah who's this?
- This is Sergeant Hooker.
I want to talk to
whoever's in charge.
- You got lucky,
this is Tom Randall.
- Naturally I'm concerned
about the officers
you have in there.
- You have a right
to be concerned.
One of them isn't gonna
be around much longer.
- I'm asking you to
let me bring em out
or let me send
somebody in to treat them,
if you feel safer that way.
- Hey if your
buddy dies, he dies.
Maybe the fact that
he's draining like a sink
will make you move faster.
- You've had time to figure out
what you want.
It's time to talk about that.
- What are you telling him?
- I'm gonna give
him the demands.
- Let me talk to him.
Hey Hooker, you
remember Joe Bram?
Well let me refresh your memory.
Armed robbery.
You and your partner busted
me when you was plain clothes,
now you remember?
- Yeah I remember you, Bram.
- Yeah, well I did a
lot of time in Quentin
cause of you cop
and this morning we ripped
your buddy's guts open.
Now aint that poetic justice?
- Your friend was
talking about demands.
- Yeah!
We want some booze in here.
We want some scotch
and some bourbon
and some cartons of cigarettes.
Now that's my demand.
- I can't get you the
alcohol but I will send
in the carton of cigarettes.
The way it works, I
don't give you something,
unless I get something.
- Now you just a...
- Come on.
Hooker, I'm gonna send
a priest out the side door
with the demands.
I don't want to see any
SWAT troopers climbing around
anywhere or we'll be throwing
bodies out in the parking lot.
You understand?
- Yes I understand and I agree
but what do I get in
exchange for the cigarettes?
- A nice religious lady.
How's about that?
(tense instrumental music)
- I've got the cigarettes.
- Alright Mary, it's
gonna be alright.
- Thank you father,
but what about you?
- I'll be okay.
- Mary, Tim Harrison
wants to talk to you.
You tell him where
everybody is in the church
and anything else
you think might help us.
- I will and bless you.
- Anybody else with
you in the church
when they came in?
- Bill Keegan, he's
one of the altar boys.
These are the demands.
- $100,000.00 in cash, banks
are open, that's a possible.
Limousine and an escort
to the Mexican border,
that's also a possible.
- I gathered front
eh conversation
that Randall hid out in
Mexico during her trial.
Apparently he feels safe there.
- What's their move?
Are all three of
them in this together
or is there a chance
we can split them up,
play them off
against each other?
- Look, they're
desperate, driven people.
Now apparently they've killed
and you may have to kill them
but it would bother me
to spy on them for you.
- Doesn't it bother
you that there's a cop
bleeding to death in there
and a policewoman
helpless with three killers
staring down her throat?
- Yes.
It all bothers me.
Rita Holmes says
she's been sentenced
to the gas chamber.
Now in this state,
in its wisdom,
decides that it's wiser than god
and can vengefully kill,
then it always bothers me.
- Father, my job is to
get the hostages out.
If you want, you can
come with me now.
You're out.
- Wouldn't that make it
worse for your people?
- The hostages
are the first priority,
Officer Sheridan
and Corrigan know,
it's part of putting
on the badge.
- [Father] What
about my altar boy?
- How's he doing?
- He's scared.
But he's alright.
- I have a plan to get him out
but it's you, I can walk
you to safety right now.
- I can't.
- [Thug] Hurry up
father, come on, come on.
(tense 80s music)
(tense drum music)
- Get it here as fast as you
can but keep it out of sight
and I appreciate
your cooperation.
- I talked to the general
manager of Security National,
if it will help, they
got 100,000,00
at the Pacific avenue
branch in 10 minutes.
- Good, I made
arrangements to bring in a limo.
- Alright, still against
giving in to those animals.
- I just got word on Rita
Holmes background,
no family expect for a
12 year old daughter.
Her names Marcie.
- And where's the daughter?
- Ward of the court,
probably in a foster home.
- Good.
I want you to go with
Mr. Clay to Security National
to pick up $100,000.00 in cash.
Make sure the bills are recorded
and get back here
as fast as you can.
- Ready when you are, Mr. Clay.
- We can use my car.
- [Dispatch] Detective
Headquarters Division,
Officer Johnson speaking.
- Yes, Johnson, this
is Sergeant Hooker,
I'm at the command
post by the church.
- [Dispatch] Yes sir.
- I'd like you to locate a ward
of the juvenile court.
Marcie Holmes, aged 12
and get the courts authorization
to bring her to our CP.
She's vital to a hostage
negotiation situation.
- [Dispatch] Rodger
Sargent Hooker, we're on it.
(tense music)
- Keep him away from her.
- That's not my problem.
Car and the money,
that's the problem.
(energetic tense 80s music)
- Just climb up
there on that billboard
and keep your eye on the
people inside that church.
- Would you mind?
- What the hells
taking them so long?
You keep an eye on these two.
(tense 80s electronic music)
(gunshot)
(soft 80s music)
- He's still alive.
Wes!
Wes.
Easy, we've got help here buddy.
- Get it in here.
- Easy.
We got help.
Easy, take it easy.
He's all yours.
- I promised Randall
we wouldn't put an officer
on the high ground.
I told you that too.
- You asked me for
an evaluation, Hooker.
I can't do that with
my men crouched
behind a SWAT truck.
- What will I tell Randall
when I get him back on the line?
- Tell him you gave your
word and I broke it for you.
I don't give a damn
what you tell him.
(sirens wail)
- He'll make it, Roy.
Did you get anything
out of the lady we got out?
- Yeah she told me
exactly where everybody is.
Now based on what my
scout teams have been able
to come up with, we can
make a tear gas assault
and entry and
neutralize the suspects
in under two minutes.
- What about
Corrigan and Sheridan?
- Problematic.
- Besides the priest,
there's an altar boy.
I don't want him hurt.
- [Cop] Hooker!
- You lied to me, Hooker.
You must of ripped
those two off already.
- No either statement is true.
There was a mix up out here.
I'm working on your demands.
I'm getting everything
you asked for.
- I'm tired of fooling
around with you Hooker.
Look, it's 10:30.
You got 25 minutes
to put this all together.
At 11 o'clock, we go to Mexico
or we start killing the
hostages off one by one.
- Look, I know where
you're coming from,
I can only make
things happen so fast.
We'll get the car,
we'll get the money
but you have to
go along with me.
- You've got it
all wrong, Hooker.
I don't have to go
along with anything.
(tense dramatic music)
- Take it easy, father.
You keep on cooperating,
nothings gonna happen
beneath the
stations of the cross.
- How much do you know
about the stations of the cross?
- My mother was
some kind of a Catholic.
I've been in church.
- While you were in
custody, did you ever talk
to the chaplains?
- What good would it have done?
- They might of
suggested a way of life
that doesn't depend on violence.
You could of won
another kind of freedom.
- You want me to go
quietly to the gas chambers
saying the rosary
with some priest?
Don't kid yourself
father, I want to live.
- Get out there father, come on.
They got the money.
- I sure hope we
can keep you alive
till we get to Mexico.
You ever been to
Culiacan, Sinaloa?
- No.
- Oh they sure like blondes
and blue eyes down there.
(laughs)
- I know the time is running out
but you can tell them
that I'm acting in good faith.
- I can't tell them that unless
I believe it myself.
- What do you want
from me father?
I just had a policeman
taken out of here
with his chest ripped open.
- Yeah I thought you might
decide to come in after that.
- Decisions not all
together up to me.
I've got a SWAT squad Lieutenant
who will take this
people in a minute.
He can do that.
- What about the hostages?
- We got a guy
from the DAs office
who isn't putting the
hostages in first priority.
- My alter boy.
- I haven't forgotten
about him, believe me.
Let's try and keep him calm.
(soft tense music)
- You know that guy
from the DA's office
is looking for a bloodbath.
- He's liable to get it.
Marcie, I'm Sargent
Hooker, glad you're here.
We need your help.
Your mothers in that church.
She's in big trouble,
do you know that?
There are other people in
the church too, hostages.
Your willingness to help
may save your mothers life
and the others too.
Are you willing to try?
- She's no mother to me.
She never cared about me
and I don't care if
she lives or dies.
(dramatic music)
(tense drum music)
(coughing)
- What's happening?
- Looks like Hookers'
gonna let them go.
- Oh go, let them go.
I can't.
Listen.
If anything happens,
get ahold of my ex wife.
Her phone number is in
my desk at the precinct.
- You're not gonna die on me.
- I don't call her
that much anymore
because there's not
much to talk about.
If you could do anything,
anything she needs,
I'd appreciate it.
(groaning)
- He's hemorrhaging.
He's hemorrhaging!
We've got to do something
or he's gonna die.
- Mr. Randall.
- Oh he'll be alright father
but the next time
you take a walk,
I'd tell them they ought
to move a little faster.
(phone rings)
Yeah?
I'll let you talk to her.
- Yeah?
- I've got your
daughter Marcy here.
- What's he talking about?
- What right have you
got to bring her here?
- I just talked to her
and she's decided that
she wants to talk to you.
- Well I don't
want to talk to her.
- What's he saying?
(shushes)
- Well look, if you want me to,
I can put her in a police
car and get her out of here.
- Wait a minute.
- What's going on?
- My daughter.
No.
Have you got kids?
- Yeah I have kids
and I'm thinking
about them right now
and about your daughter
and about the altar boy.
Look you tell me,
maybe we should forget
about your daughter.
- No, no I want to see her.
- Make sure it's her.
Make sure it's not a trick.
- Let me talk to her now.
- Yeah it's me, mom.
Do you remember my voice?
- Sure I do honey.
- Hooker.
Alright Hooker, they can talk.
You bring her to
the church right now
but we hold to our schedule.
- Expect you forgot
that I don't give anything
unless I get something
- Don't pull that on me.
Look, your hot
shot officer Corrigan
is bleeding right through
his bandages now.
- I'll bring Marcy
to the side door
with the paramedics.
You have Father
Connors bring Corrigan out.
- You know the policy.
Hooker, that girl isn't
placed in jeopardy.
- That goes without saying
but nothings written in stone.
I want to give Rita as
much reason to live as I can.
Her little girl may be
able to do that for us.
- Stacey.
- Don't worry about Stacey.
I'll get her out.
Go on.
- I'll bring her daughter
back in a couple minutes.
Randall is
determined to go at 11.
- Wrong father.
Rita Holmes comes out here.
- That's not what said.
- Forget what I said.
I'm not handing them
another potential hostage.
Officer Sheridan's
in there unarmed.
If this comes to a showdown,
there are three heavily
armed people in there
who could kill her.
- What are you talking about?
- I could give you
this two inch 38.
You could slip it
to Officer Sheridan
and she'd have
a chance for life.
- You mean by taking
someone else's?
I'll send Rita Holmes out.
(soft instrumental music)
- You've grown a lot.
You look beautiful.
- Why didn't you want to see me?
- It wasn't just me, honey.
I guess everybody
figured it be better if I didn't.
Then for awhile I didn't
know where you were.
- Did you look for me?
- Sure I...
I was in Florida,
in jail for awhile
and then when I got married,
I didn't tell my
husband who you were.
I'm sorry.
- Why can't you give up?
Sergeant said if you give up,
they won't have to shoot you.
- That's the first
thing she asked me.
- Tom says we're
losing time, Rita.
Finish it up.
(tense drum music)
- Don't you see
how hopeless it is?
You think it's gonna be
any different in Mexico?
You think its
gonna help anything
to kill more people,
get yourself killed?
- Listen to him, mom.
- I can't, I got to
go back inside.
- I always loved you.
- I always loved you.
(somber instrumental music)
- I can't let you stay here,
I explained that to you.
- I understand.
You tried.
- Sure.
- What about the deadline?
You told them 11 o'clock.
- Yeah and it's 11 o'clock.
So we leave now, we
leave in 10 minutes.
What difference does it make?
- Well maybe you're right.
What's another 10 minutes?
What do you think sugar?
- I dot think you people
are going anywhere.
- No that's not
what I want to hear.
(laughs)
No, as long as we
got a little bit of time,
I think you and I are
gonna do something
I've been planning
on doing all along.
Come on, Officer Sheridan.
Let's check out the back office.
Come on.
- Leave her alone!
Don't you know where you are?
(grunts)
- Come on, father, get up.
Come on!
You think I won't kill a priest?
- Bram.
- Come on!
You think that
collar turned around
makes you bulletproof?
Come on.
(shouts)
- Stay away from her.
Stay away from her or
you will have to kill me.
- Tom Randall, I know
have the limo you asked for.
Randall!
- We got the limo.
We're gonna make it.
We're gonna make it.
- Tom Randall.
- Bring it up by the front door.
Pull everybody back
and I'll send the priest out
when you get there.
You drive it by
yourself unarmed.
- Alright I understand.
But I don't give
something for nothing.
You know that.
- What are you talking about?
- I want the altar boy.
You get the limo
but you send him out
with Father Connors.
- Alright.
You got the boy but move.
(tense rock music)
- Okay we're gonna finish
this up right here and now.
- That's good to hear.
I was beginning to
worry about you, Hooker.
- We'll take them
out on the boulevard.
- What about Stacey?
- We'll get Stacey,
for the moment...
- Hooker!
- For the moment, trust me.
Go with Lieutenant Harrison.
I need you junior.
Not angry, not
emotional, not concerned.
In control.
(tense dramatic music)
- Sergeant Hooker, a trained
hostage situation negotiator,
is apparently about to
drive the kidnap murder trio
to the Mexican border
and we have late word
that Officer James Corrigan,
wounded earlier and
released by the fugative,
is in emergency surgery.
Alicia Martin
live at St. Paul's.
(tense dramatic music)
- Alright take off, kid.
Alright Hooker, come
on get out of the car.
Alright, come around.
Come on, come on.
Anything goes wrong
and you can bury the policewoman
and the priest in
the same grave.
- What happened?
- Bram was gonna
rape Officer Sheridan.
I was able to stop him
for the moment only.
- What are they doing here?
- I told you to pull
everybody back.
- Thats your
escort to the border,
exactly what you asked for.
- Yeah.
Just fine.
Bram!
Keep an eye on these two.
- I'm looking right
at you, Hooker.
- This car gonna work for ya?
- Yeah everything
will be just fine.
- Come in here, Father Connors.
- What now, Rita?
- [Rita] I want to talk to him.
- [Randall] Not now.
- Yes, now.
- What about it, Randall?
- Alright, go on get
back in there, move.
(tense music)
- Come on.
- This is gonna take
a couple seconds.
Don't want you to get any ideas,
you understand?
- You're calling the
shots now, Randall.
It's all up to you
from here on in.
- Seems to be going well so far.
- Hooker knows what he's doing.
(tense dramatic music)
- Father.
- Father Connors.
- Yes, Stacey?
- I have to tell you the truth.
It might get bad out there.
- I know that.
I'm praying for us all.
- Father Connors.
(tense dramatic music)
I'm gonna send money from Mexico
for my little girl, Marcy.
See that she gets it?
- Alright.
- Something else.
I need to talk to you.
- Do you want to
make a confession?
- Call it whatever you
want, will you hear it?
- I'd be glad to hear it.
But I can only give absolution
when you indicate an
honest desire to change.
- But what I tell you here,
you don't tell anybody else.
I mean even if I
die you keep silent?
- What you say here is
between you and god.
I'm just an intermediary.
- In court I swore I
didn't kill my husband.
That's not true.
Three years we planned.
One night, Tom came to the house
and we killed him together.
(tense dramatic music)
- But you wound up alone
and you loved no one
and no one loved you.
- But didn't I
love my little girl?
Don't I love Marcy now?
- See love leads to actions
actions that benefit and
sustain the people we love.
- You're condemning me?
- No I'm looking
for you soul, Rita.
Separate yourself
from these people,
try in what time is left
to do penance and change.
I could help you do that.
- I know you want to
but it is too late.
- Do you know of any
reason for the delay, sir?
- Yeah, I think
they lost their nerve.
- We're ready, Tom!
- Alright Hooker, get in
the car, you're driving.
I'll be right up front with you.
Bram!
Bring down the priest.
You get in the back,
right behind Hooker.
Rita!
Come on down.
(tense dramatic music)
- You're gonna
like Mexico, Hooker.
We're gonna have a good time,
you, me, and that
little blonde cop.
Yeah we're gonna have
a good time, for a while.
- Get in the back,
in the middle.
Let's go.
- [Rita] Wait a minute.
- What now?
- Let the priest go.
He's gonna take care of Marcy.
- Throw him out of here.
(tense dramatic music)
Go.
Don't stop, go straight ahead.
- The green lights
on you, Romano.
- Come on now, step to it.
(gunshot)
- Drop it.
(gunshot)
Drop it!
(sirens wail)
(soft tense music)
- We can do it right now.
- You'd think we
won a football game.
- I guess they
waited it out too.
- You want to get
out of here, Stacey?
- I'll wait till
the end of shift.
There's still a lot left to do.
- Okay good.
- Thank you Sergeant, thanks.
You saved my life.
- You saved your own life son
by remaining calm and doing
what Father Connors said.
(soft instrumental music)
I just got word that Corrigan's
surgery was successful.
He's out of danger
- Thank god for that.
- I want to thank you, father.
I know it can't of been easy
for you to have brought that gun
to Officer Sheridan.
- I'm glad it worked
but I have the worse sense
of failure of inadequacy.
I keep trying to think what
I could of done differently.
- Probably nothing.
It's natural feeling
after something like that.
Your adrenaline pumps,
your emotions are engaged
and it's over.
A couple of violent,
bloody seconds
that nobody could
entirely foresee.
- Thank you.
It could of been a
lot worse, couldn't it?
- Oh father it could of
been a hell of a lot worse
- If you're wondering
about using the phone,
it's in the office.
Your partner told me about
your daughter's birthday.
That it's been on
your mind all day.
- It has been.
- I'll say a prayer for her.
- Why thank you, father.
She'll appreciate that.
(soft instrumental music)
(energetic 80s music)