T.J. Hooker (1982–1986): Season 4, Episode 21 - Lag Time - full transcript
During a robbery/murder investigation, Stacy's insecurity over an earlier failure endangers Hooker.
(action music)
- Exclusionary rule opens
the door for the development
of workable rules governing
search and seizure.
Rules that provide
protection for the individual
rights guaranteed by the
constitutional provisions.
- Wait a minute.
I've got to disagree with that.
What about the right
to society at large
to be protected from
the lawless elements?
Should the protection
of the individual
be gained at the
disproportionate loss to society?
(bell rings)
- To be continued (laughs).
Well, that's all for tonight.
Let's hit those books, folks.
We have midterms next week.
(classroom chatter)
- I'm sorry if I gave
you a hard time.
- Oh, don't be.
Students like you make
teaching much more interesting.
You inspire other minds.
I like that.
Thank you.
- [Vince] Miss Randolph.
- Cynthia, in the classroom
it's Miss Randolph,
out here, I'm Cynthia.
- Mine's Vince.
- I know.
- There's this new play in town.
Buddy of mine from
back East is in it.
I have a couple of
tickets, I was wondering...?
- Oh gee, Vince, that's
awfully sweet of you.
But I make it a habit
never to date my students.
- I make it a habit never to
date my teachers, usually.
- Well believe me, if I was
ever going to break my rule,
it would have to be
with somebody like you.
Actually, I'm involved.
- How involved?
- Very.
(car horn honking)
Oh, look, I've gotta run.
(suspenseful music)
Friends, okay?
- Sure.
Goodnight.
- Goodnight.
Hello, darling.
- Hi, hun.
- I missed you and
I was a little worried.
- Hey, look, I'm sorry.
I drive around and I
think about the book,
what I've written and
what I've got left to do.
I lose track of time.
- Well maybe we can
make up for all that
when we get home, huh?
(romantic music)
(upbeat music)
- Lovejoy versus California.
- Lovejoy versus California.
The Mickelson rule applies.
Lovejoy was case law involving
a suspiciously parked car.
- All right!
- You didn't think I knew that.
- No, I didn't
think you knew it.
- I didn't either.
- Now I know you didn't know it.
- C'mon, Hooker.
It's too nice a
day for a pop quiz.
- All right, it's not me that
has a law midterm coming up.
You're the one that
wants to be a lawyer.
- I just figure the
better educated I am,
with the points and authorities
on search and seizure,
the better cop I'm
gonna be on the streets.
Besides, you should
see my teacher.
Did you see that?
What a good catch.
(suspenseful music)
- [Jack] Hey, nobody move!
Hey, you, get on the floor!
Get on the floor!
Check out 11, get down.
- [Porter] Open the cage!
You got two seconds.
All of it.
(suspenseful music)
- I'm really sorry I didn't
make Sally's funeral.
- You had a case in court.
Besides you really
didn't know her.
- No, but I know you
two were good friends.
- The best.
(radio beeps)
- [Woman Over Radio] 4
Adam 16, 211 in progress
at the Lucky Loan check
cashing service, 750 Holmand.
Four suspects wearing
ski masks and armed with
sawed-off shotguns and 45s.
4 Adam 16, your call is code 3.
- Oh man, sawed offs and 45s.
This is 30, we're rolling
back up to 16's call.
- Control, can you
repeat that address?
- C'mon Stace,
shake and bake time.
750 Holmand.
- Control, we have the address.
We're rolling with
a two minute ETA.
(action music)
- [Jack] All right,
let's get out of here, c'mon.
(excited chatter)
(gun shot fires)
(gun shot fires)
- There they are.
- [Jack] Caswell,
back out of here!
(police car sirens)
(car screeching)
- 4 Adam 16 is in
pursuit of 211 suspects.
Shots have been fired at
the Lucky Loan company.
Man down, requesting
an ambulance.
- This is 4 Adam 30, show
us code 6 of the crime scene.
(police sirens)
(car braking)
(police sirens)
(car crashes)
(car screeches to a halt)
(suspenseful music)
- [Man] Take him,
we'll get the other one.
- Freeze!
Up against the wall.
Spread 'em.
Spread 'em!
- When you get to heaven,
tell 'em Frank Morlin sent you.
- Hey!
(gunshot fires)
It looks like he'll make it.
I'll call an ambulance.
Are you okay?
(dramatic music)
- [Vince] Heard on the
radio you put one down.
- He's on his way
to City Hospital.
I lost the other one.
- His names Ted
Barnes, a retired cop.
Friend of Hooker's.
- C'mon, Teddy.
Fight it, fight it!
Fight it!
C'mon Teddy.
- Please, may I?
If you can, say after me.
Lord Jesus, son of
God, have mercy on me.
To the degree that you are
needful and I am capable,
I absolve you of all your
sins in the name of the
father, son, and holy ghost.
(dramatic music)
(romantic piano music)
- What happens if
they put the squeeze
on Morlin and he talks?
- They won't.
He knows that in or out of
the joint, I can get to him.
- Cops got his shot gun.
What if they trace
it back to Ellison?
- Well if that time comes,
we'll eliminate the problem.
- [Porter] Like you're
eventually gonna
eliminate that dumb blonde
schoolteacher you're living with?
- [Jack] Straight on.
Hey Tommy, how you doing?
Just talking about
you, pull up a chair.
- I heard about Morlin.
What about my piece man?
There ain't many
works around that good.
The cops start asking around,
they're gonna come
looking around.
- Oh by that time, we'll be
long gone on the breezle, buddy.
I'm gonna need a new
shotgun made though.
We're gonna need it in two days.
This is a full blown gig, man.
Go ahead, tell him, babe.
- 250 Gs.
- You're serious?
- Your cut's 10%, old buddy.
- That's 25 thousand.
(radio beeps)
- [Woman Over Radio] 4
Adam 16, the hospital reports
your robbery suspect Frank
Morlin is in stable condition.
A criminal records check
indicates Morlin has a prior
record for robbery,
assault and manslaughter.
- 4 Adam 16, Roger.
- 16, Sergeant Shaffer
of the shooting team
requests Officer Sheridan
report to the station, code two.
- Roger, dispatch, tell
Shaffer we're in route.
- So, Sheridan, why
did you use a wall search
instead of proning
out the suspect?
- C'mon Shaffer, we've been
at this for over three hours.
Give the lady a break, huh?
- Corrigan, you know as
well as I do why we have
to keep at this, the lady
had her gun taken away.
If it hadn't been for you,
she'd have been blown away.
Good tactics, proper
search procedures
might have prevented
this shooting.
- It's like a dream.
When I looked up to
the barrel of my gun,
I knew the flash was coming
and that it would all be over
and I thought about
my dad and my friends,
and I didn't feel sorry
for me, I just felt bad.
I thought, "This is a
really stupid way to die."
- Hey look, something's
gotta come out here.
Stacy lost a good
friend recently.
They buried her just yesterday.
And she's had a lot on her mind.
- And she's lucky.
She's damn lucky her
preoccupation with a personal problem
didn't cost her her own life.
- [Shaffer] Frank
Morlin is a stone killer.
- You came down a little
hard on Stacy, don't you think?
- Yes, I did.
Maybe she'll remember
for a long time.
At least long enough to
count the next time around.
- Okay, I think I know
where you're coming from.
- You think?
What do you mean think?
Complacency kills cops.
- Shaffer's gonna say
that or something like it
in the shooting report.
And somebody's gonna come
to you and ask whether or not
Stacy should stay on the street.
- Maybe I'll have to go to them.
- And she's my partner.
- If you'd been 30 seconds late,
she'd have been a dead partner.
It's called survival, Jim.
Yours, hers, anybody
you're working with.
- Maybe it was
forgetting about survival
that killed your
friend Ted Barnes.
All he had was
tombstone courage.
- He didn't have to die.
Why the hell couldn't he
have waited for back up?
For us to arrive.
The sawed-off and
wasted Ted is still out there.
I want him.
And the trigger man.
Guy who modified this was no
garage gunsmith with a hacksaw.
(intense music)
- What are you doing here?
- I had some paper
work to catch up on.
- You got off watch
four hours ago, Jim.
- You were still in there
with the shooting team.
I didn't want
to leave until I...
- Until what?
You made sure your
incompetent partner
made it through the
day in one piece?
- Incompetent?
Is that what you got
out of that grilling?
If I get my hands on
Sergeant Shaffer...
- Wait a minute.
I'm the one who
blew it, not Shaffer.
- So you made a mistake?
Hey, I got news for you.
Cops are human.
Think because we put
on a badge, we're perfect?
- When you put it on and
you're a woman, you have to be.
- According to whose Bible?
Sergeant Shaffer's or your own?
- How about Hooker's?
- All right, Caswell
and Janie will go in first.
Janie's gonna
cover the rear door.
Todd stops right here.
- Okay, what about security?
- No problems.
There's a security
guard station right here.
We'll take him
out hard and fast.
- [Cynthia] Jack?
- Put that away,
it's just my old lady.
Here you go.
- Is that really necessary?
- Just my paranoia I guess.
- I was hoping
you'd outgrow that.
- Hi.
- What's he doing here?
- Porter?
You remember him, don't you?
- Oh, yeah, sure.
I remember Porter.
How can you forget
that associating with him
violates your parole?
- Hey, c'mon.
Give me a break will ya?
- Yeah, well, it's always nice
to see you too, Miss Randolph.
You still donating time down
at the prisoner's
defense league?
Or ain't you got
the need no more
since you sleeping with
your own forbidden toy?
You wasp do-gooders
never cease to humor me.
- Hey c'mon man, that's enough.
Let's go.
- Morlin still stone-walling?
- He's suffering from a
heavy case of prison ethics.
Now they're very
loyal to his buddies...
- Morlin's scared to
death they'll smell a snitch.
He'll end up with
a sliced artery
in some corner
of the prison unit.
- Jim, pull his associates file.
See if any of his friends
fit the robbery MO.
- I found an expert
in refitted shotguns.
I thought maybe I could...
- Romano and I
have that end covered.
Thank you.
Let's go check it out.
- He never sets foot in
here again, none of them.
You swore!
- I know, I know I
swore I wouldn't see
any of the guys again.
- You're damn right you did.
That's another
promise you broke.
- Now what's that
supposed to mean, huh?
- What that means...
What that means is
sometimes I wonder
what I fell in love with.
The words the man wrote or
the man who wrote the words.
- Hey, c'mon honey.
Give me a break, will ya?
I'm trying.
Listen the words...
They're just not coming.
What does your book have to
do with Porter being in my home?
- Research, baby.
I mean Porter has seen things
that I never would see before.
I need his insight.
I need to know what's
going on inside his mind.
- He resents me.
What I did for you
and couldn't do for him.
I tried to help him.
- That's exactly what I'm
trying to do with my book too.
Expose the system
from the inside.
That way there's a better chance
at making humane
changes for everybody.
- That's why it's so important
you don't jeopardize it.
- Hey.
I wouldn't disappoint you,
not after all you did for me
to get me out on parole.
I need you.
And I know that you need me.
(dramatic music)
- This a real good job, Hooker.
- Who's that good
at, and that dirty?
- Well, you guys have
got most of them in jail.
But Tommy Ellison's out,
best slay the mill man we had.
- He worked here?
- Mm-hmm.
Trouble with Tommy was he liked
to bet on slow horses
and fast women.
Got in real deep with the boys.
'Course they came up
with a way he could pay off.
- Making illegal
firearms for them?
- Machine guns, silencers,
you name it, he made it.
Finally got caught
and went to prison.
- I'd like to talk to him.
- He's in iron three.
I hear he goes to that new
health spa over in Lexington.
- What does he look like?
- Little guy,
dark-haired, maybe 30.
You wonder where he gets
the strength to pump that iron?
- Thanks.
(upbeat music)
- Todd.
- Bobbi?
- Yeah?
- The receptionist says you
were a friend of Tommy Ellison.
- I was.
- Does he come
around very often?
- What?
- We were wondering
if he worked out here.
- Uh huh.
- Does he come around
at any specific time?
- At one o'clock.
- We'll stick around.
Thank you.
(phone rings)
- Hello?
- [Todd] We have trouble
with Tommy Ellison.
- What?
- [Todd] Cops
are looking for him.
They are?
- Yeah.
So what are we gonna do?
Tommy's a lightweight,
the cops can twist him.
- So you want me to handle it?
- Do what you have to do.
- Something on
your mind, Junior?
- I was wondering
how you'd been feeling
if I'd been the one
looking down at the end
of that gun barrel
instead of Stacy?
- That's very simple.
I'd be chewing you
out or burying you.
- I didn't ask how you'd
act, I asked how you'd feel.
- I don't know.
Stacy's like one of my own kids.
If something ever
happened to her, I'd...
- Then she doesn't
just have to be good.
- She's got to
survive, she's got
to be better than the best.
- She is better than the best.
- I know.
- Does Stacy know that?
I think you should talk to her.
- I plan to.
(radio beeps)
- [Woman Over Radio] 4 Adam 30,
meet Officer Corrigan on tact 2.
- Go, Jim.
- Hooker, I ran
Morlin's associates.
Come up with half a
dozen fitting our MO.
- Any best bets?
- I've got a con who specializes
in gun takeaway classes
with his prison buddies.
- The prison authorities
made a tape of something
like that about a year ago.
- One in the same.
Con's name is Jack Lewis.
- Start running down Jack Lewis
and see if you can get
me a copy of that tape.
- [Jim] Roger.
- Hooker, there.
- [Hooker] That looks like
our gun expert, Tommy Ellison.
- Hey, Tommy!
- Let's go.
(dramatic music)
(gunshot fires)
- [Jim] Call an ambulance
and get back up!
(dramatic fast-paced music)
(police sirens)
(panting)
(screaming)
- How's Ellison?
- Made it through surgery.
What about the
guy that shot him?
- I booked him in the jail ward.
His injuries are minor
but he's still in healing.
What'd you get from Ellison?
- (laughs) It's
kinda tough to talk
with a bullet in your throat
but he did give me a name.
- Jack Lewis.
- Jack Lewis.
It's all coming together.
The shooter's name
was Todd Caswell.
I pulled his package.
His records show time
done for armed robbery.
Get this, his partner
in crime, Frank Morlin.
- The guy who took
away Stacy's gun?
- And one of Jack
Lewis' disciples.
(intense music)
(soft-paced music)
- Tell, you Paul.
The day they saddle me
with some blonde mini cop
for a partner,
that's the day I quit.
Or I quit real police work.
Put on the old
blinders, you know,
so you don't get
tempted into any situation
that might get dangerous.
I mean ain't this job tough
enough without having to
depend on some
pony-tailed munchkin
to back you up if
you get in trouble?
- Yeah, it's tough
feeling like John Wayne,
isn't it Shaffer, when an
attractive lady can do the job?
- Well, not that's kind of
Sheridan's problem, isn't it?
I mean, she didn't
do the job, did she?
You know they say I
gotta live with this federally
ordered affirmative
action including the hiring
of women and minorities,
but there's nothing in that
directive that
says I gotta like it.
- You know, Shaffer,
the problem with prejudice
is that it's a matter
of opinion that belongs
to somebody we dislike.
- Why don't you get
out of my face, Hooker?
If I wanted to fight
with someone,
I'd gone home with my old lady.
- Want some company, Stace?
Ah, there's a lot of
chauvinists out there.
- Don't patronize me, Hooker.
I can take care of myself.
I can't even remember
the last time I had nails.
- No matter what
happened out there,
you're still a good
cop, Sheridan.
- You're only a good cop
as long as you think you are.
(sighs)
- That doesn't sound like a
Hooker-trained cop to me.
- Maybe you just let me
waltz through probation
on a count of a lot of reasons.
Including the fact that
I'm the captain's daughter.
- That's a lot of
bull and you know it.
Where's all this coming from?
You know where it's coming from.
- I thought you had
more guts than that.
- Don't push me
with that, Hooker.
I've got more problems
to deal with here
than just having
my gun taken away.
You know, one woman
can do something stupid,
and it reflects on all
other female cops.
But if a man does
the same thing,
it doesn't reflect
on the other men.
- Fear is the motivating
factor, it always is.
- Sure.
They're worried
about us getting killed.
More like, they're afraid
that we'll get them killed.
That's what's been
bothering you too, Hooker.
You're not sure if I
should be out there either.
Well maybe I can't
handle it anymore.
- All right.
You made a mistake out there.
Hopefully you learned
something from it.
You're scheduled for an
in-service refresher course
that I'm teaching at the
academy tomorrow morning.
It's important
that you be there.
- What we're seeing is becoming
more and more commonplace
in our jails and prisons.
Inmates teaching other
cons how to become
professional criminals.
Here you see two inmates
practicing a gun takeaway
that was used by a 2 11 suspect
on one of our own officers.
As seasoned officers,
you're all aware of the fact
that an officer's survival
depends on alertness.
Attention to proper
police procedures
and the use of
good field tactics.
Have a plan.
If you are your partner find
yourselves at a disadvantage,
be ready to act.
Use a code signal, some
sort which will send you both
into action not surrender.
This group's guru is Jack Lewis,
a multi-talented hood
who's gained some notoriety
for a book of prison
poems he's written
but whose real talents
lie in teaching other cons
how to disarm cops.
- I might add, I
know this guy Lewis.
He did a gun takeaway
on an Officer up in Oakland,
put six of the
officers own into him.
- Well, what'd you
think of the tape?
- To be honest, it
scared the hell out of me.
I kept seeing
Marlin with my gun.
Thinking how close
I came to buying it.
- Thing is, did you
learn anything from it?
- Yeah, I know I never
want to get caught
in a situation like that again.
Where someone's
got the drop on me.
- Well, maybe you'll be
lucky, maybe you won't.
On the other hand, could
happen tomorrow evening.
To you, to me, to any cop.
It's part of the job.
- The technique is
down to perfection.
Makes you wonder how
many students this guy Lewis
has put out on the street.
- Plenty.
Background intelligence
on him says he's not only
a hot shot stick-up
artist, he's a fast talking...
Why don't you check on Lewis,
see if he's still in the joint.
Jim, contact the
armored truck companies.
See what you can find out.
(radio beeps)
- [Woman Over Radio] 4
Adam 30, your request to
authority has been confirmed.
Suspect Jack Lewis is out
on parole from San Quinton.
His parol agent has
supplied an address.
2538 South
Mariposa, apartment 7.
- 4 Adam 30, roger.
(slow-paced music)
- Jack, this is fantastic.
I think a couple more
pages as good as this,
and we'll get in touch with
that publisher I told you about.
- You're the first person that
ever really believed in me.
(knocking on door)
- Yes?
Jack, it's two policemen.
Vince?
- Jack Lewis.
- So what's this all about?
- It's about a friend
of mine that was killed
in the robbery of a
check cashing place.
It's about an officer of
mine that almost lost her life
in a gun takeaway
that you taught
to one of your San
Quinton disciples.
Guy by the name of
Frank Morlin, remember?
- I never heard of him.
- Sure you have.
He was a cellmate
of Todd Caswell.
Perhaps you heard that
Caswell is off the street
but not before he
pumped a 22 into a guy
by the name of Tommy Ellison,
or maybe you never heard of him.
- Well that's a real
touching tale, Sergeant.
But obviously you're mistaken.
- No, I've got my facts
straight, I'm just verifying them.
- Look, this is my
apartment, you have no...
- Now you look lady, looks
like you and this gentleman
have set up good
housekeeping rules,
but maybe you don't
know he's out on parole
for armed robbery and
the second degree murder
of an Oakland policeman.
- I'm perfectly aware of that.
I'm also his attorney.
- Cynthia, this man
has killed a policeman.
- And he's paid for
his mistake, Vince.
- And I thought you
had more respect
for the law and yourself.
- Seems you've been had, lady.
This guy owes more than he
could ever repay in 10 lifetimes.
You want to tell this lady
and me where you were
Friday afternoon, three o'clock.
- You don't have
to answer, Jack.
- What are you writing,
a how to kill a cop book?
- I think you'd better
leave, Sergeant.
- Friday afternoon.
- That's about enough.
- You're on parole, Lewis,
hanging by a short rope.
Do you want me to cut it for ya?
- He was with me all day.
- Now you heard my attorney.
- We'll be around and
your parole conditions
say you better be.
- You know, love and
justice are said to be blind.
In your case, Miss
Randolph, I suggest you
move the blindfold long enough
to distinguish the difference
between the good guys
and the bad guys, the
victims and the vicious.
- You had something
for that lady.
- Had.
- Sorry.
- So am I, for her.
- I mean she probably fell in
love with his jailhouse poetry
and he figured he'd have
it better than he ever had
in his whole life with her.
He lied to her just
like he lied to us
'cause it's the only
thing he knows how to do.
- She lied for him.
You could tell because
she's not used to it.
- Jack, you can't run.
- Watch me.
- That counselor been on
me about a parolee not being
discharged is serving
out a sentence in a prison
without any walls.
- It's the law, Jack.
- Hey, you heard those cops.
They're setting
me up to go back.
If I go back in the
joint, I'm a dead man.
Do you want that?
- I only want
what's best for you.
- Well this morning
in bed, it was us.
You and me.
What happened
to that, huh, Cindy?
- Jack, if you'll just stay
here, fight it through,
finish the book.
- Now you lied to
those cops for me.
That puts you on
my side of the fence.
All right, maybe I
don't know every thing
there is to know about you...
- You wanna know what
there is to know about me?
Well I'm gonna tell ya.
You don't shut the door on
me ever, you understand that?
- Jack, I never...
- You wanna know what
there is to know about me?
Well, I'm gonna show
you right here and now.
Let's go.
- Jack!
- There.
There, that's what I'm about.
(dramatic piano music)
- I thought I'd
get an early start.
Hope I'm not interfering
with your workout.
- I usually have
this place to myself
this early in the morning,
but since you seem
to be practicing, some of my
old academy training advice,
I'll share it with you.
- The consumit
sensei, always teaching.
- Do you remember my lesson
on the dangers of lag time?
- Sure.
The reaction gap
between the decision to act
and the actual action.
It's what officer
survival is all about.
- There's no quarter given
by the bad guy on the streets.
To be a policeman you have
to learn to defend yourself.
And your partner.
And those who can't
defend themselves.
Now if you can't handle that,
then you don't
deserve to be out there.
It's not a matter
of man or woman,
that isn't part of the issue.
You either believe in
yourself or you don't.
- When other people
no longer believe in me.
- Stacy, if you think that
you're a good policeman,
believe it!
'Cause if you don't, how can
you expect anybody else to?
- Hooker, we got another
report from Quinton.
Lewis had a girl
who visited him a lot.
She lives here too.
- Yeah, we met her.
His live-in, her name
is Cynthia Randolph.
She's an attorney,
teaches at City College.
- This is a different one.
Her name is Janie Holms.
Minol just talked
to her landlady.
Janie's already left for work
and you'll never
guess what she does.
Operations officer for the
commonwealth thrift bank,
the bank that has
the fast cash deposits.
- I'll go pick up Vince.
We'll talk to the
personnel department.
We'll meet you later on the air.
- [Jim] After I pick
up Janie Holms.
- Wait a minute,
I've seen her before.
She was at the gym when we
were asking about Tommy Ellison.
- That's right.
And 10 minutes later,
Caswell capped Ellison.
Just one big happy family.
Better put a call into
your security people.
Janie works out of
the Southcoast branch
at Lincoln and Grand.
They handle all the
distribution of funds
by armored truck
for the fast cash train.
Today's Wednesday, that's payday
at the Colton Aircraft
company in the valley.
- There's a fast cash
place right around
the corner from Colton.
- Yeah, but I gotta
feeling if Lewis' bunch
is gonna make a hit,
they're not going to try
for a hit on a check
cashing place.
- Sure, go directly
to the source.
Maybe even come up
with something extra.
The Holms girl definitely
knows the layout
and delivery
schedule at the bank.
- We're on route to the bank
with an ETA of two minutes.
We'll meet you there code two.
- Roger, 30, we're rolling.
We'll be there in three.
(suspenseful music)
- All you gotta do is look
out and drive the first wake.
If you do your part, nobody's
gonna get hurt, all right?
But from here on
in, you belong to me.
Okay guys, hard and fast.
- [Jack] Hey, this is a hold-up!
Any idiot who doesn't
do as I say is dead.
Get on the floor, tellers get
your hands over your head.
You, wanna do the chicken?
Get down there, all
the way down, down!
Nobody move.
(radio beep)
- [Woman Over Radio]
Any unit in the vicinity
able to handle a 2 11 silon at
the commonwealth thrift bank,
455 South Grand,
come in and identify.
- That's our bank.
- 4 Adam 30, we'll
handle the hot shot.
- Roger 30, your call is code 3.
- We're only two blocks
away, put a hold on the siren.
(car screeching)
- Cops!
- That looks like a
getaway car to me.
- [Jack] What's up?
- Cops!
- We'll have to use the car.
- What about Janie and Cynthia?
- Hey, forget about them now.
When it comes down to
it, they're all just broads.
Let's go!
- Let me see your hands!
Stick 'em out the window.
(dramatic music)
- Drop the gun.
Drop it!
Where's Jack Lewis?
- If Jack had been in here,
he'd have blown your guts out.
- Yeah, put your
hands behind your neck,
just the way you did.
- Get out!
Move!
Against the car.
Hands on your head.
- All right everybody,
you can get up.
- Why?
- Cynthia, where's Lewis?
- You keep your
mouth shut, girl.
You don't tell 'em nothing.
- Lewis, where is he?
- We were gonna switch
to my car after we left here.
- Where is it and what is it?
- Why it's a green
Chevy, at Lawson.
- Romano, you
stay with the women.
Corrigan, you handle the bank.
You come with me.
(suspenseful music)
(police siren)
- Jack!
Jack, you scum!
(police siren)
- There he is!
(car screeching)
(horn honking)
(car crashes)
- Take the shortcut.
(suspenseful music)
(police sirens)
- Hold it right there.
Make a move and
I'll cut you in half.
Give me that gun.
C'mon!
Make a move, lady,
and your partner's dead.
Drop your gun.
- Stacy, take it easy.
You can't be expected to
handle a situation like this.
- Right.
(gunshot fires)
Taking action, not surrender.
- It's called survival.
- [Runners] One, two,
three, hey, one, two, three.
- Hey, Romano, cheer up.
If Cynthia wasn't
there voluntarily,
it'll come out in court.
- I just can't figure it.
How could she get so screwed up
as to even go along with them?
- Maybe her heart
and head had no idea
what the other one was doing.
Somehow he slowed her.
- And by the time he found
out about her, it was too late.
- Stacy.
- How'd it go?
- Okay, I guess.
- I guess your shooting
was in policy, huh?
- Hey Sheridan.
- Yes?
- That was one fine shooting.
You did a hell
of a job, officer.
- I've had a good teacher.
(upbeat music)
(action music)
- Exclusionary rule opens
the door for the development
of workable rules governing
search and seizure.
Rules that provide
protection for the individual
rights guaranteed by the
constitutional provisions.
- Wait a minute.
I've got to disagree with that.
What about the right
to society at large
to be protected from
the lawless elements?
Should the protection
of the individual
be gained at the
disproportionate loss to society?
(bell rings)
- To be continued (laughs).
Well, that's all for tonight.
Let's hit those books, folks.
We have midterms next week.
(classroom chatter)
- I'm sorry if I gave
you a hard time.
- Oh, don't be.
Students like you make
teaching much more interesting.
You inspire other minds.
I like that.
Thank you.
- [Vince] Miss Randolph.
- Cynthia, in the classroom
it's Miss Randolph,
out here, I'm Cynthia.
- Mine's Vince.
- I know.
- There's this new play in town.
Buddy of mine from
back East is in it.
I have a couple of
tickets, I was wondering...?
- Oh gee, Vince, that's
awfully sweet of you.
But I make it a habit
never to date my students.
- I make it a habit never to
date my teachers, usually.
- Well believe me, if I was
ever going to break my rule,
it would have to be
with somebody like you.
Actually, I'm involved.
- How involved?
- Very.
(car horn honking)
Oh, look, I've gotta run.
(suspenseful music)
Friends, okay?
- Sure.
Goodnight.
- Goodnight.
Hello, darling.
- Hi, hun.
- I missed you and
I was a little worried.
- Hey, look, I'm sorry.
I drive around and I
think about the book,
what I've written and
what I've got left to do.
I lose track of time.
- Well maybe we can
make up for all that
when we get home, huh?
(romantic music)
(upbeat music)
- Lovejoy versus California.
- Lovejoy versus California.
The Mickelson rule applies.
Lovejoy was case law involving
a suspiciously parked car.
- All right!
- You didn't think I knew that.
- No, I didn't
think you knew it.
- I didn't either.
- Now I know you didn't know it.
- C'mon, Hooker.
It's too nice a
day for a pop quiz.
- All right, it's not me that
has a law midterm coming up.
You're the one that
wants to be a lawyer.
- I just figure the
better educated I am,
with the points and authorities
on search and seizure,
the better cop I'm
gonna be on the streets.
Besides, you should
see my teacher.
Did you see that?
What a good catch.
(suspenseful music)
- [Jack] Hey, nobody move!
Hey, you, get on the floor!
Get on the floor!
Check out 11, get down.
- [Porter] Open the cage!
You got two seconds.
All of it.
(suspenseful music)
- I'm really sorry I didn't
make Sally's funeral.
- You had a case in court.
Besides you really
didn't know her.
- No, but I know you
two were good friends.
- The best.
(radio beeps)
- [Woman Over Radio] 4
Adam 16, 211 in progress
at the Lucky Loan check
cashing service, 750 Holmand.
Four suspects wearing
ski masks and armed with
sawed-off shotguns and 45s.
4 Adam 16, your call is code 3.
- Oh man, sawed offs and 45s.
This is 30, we're rolling
back up to 16's call.
- Control, can you
repeat that address?
- C'mon Stace,
shake and bake time.
750 Holmand.
- Control, we have the address.
We're rolling with
a two minute ETA.
(action music)
- [Jack] All right,
let's get out of here, c'mon.
(excited chatter)
(gun shot fires)
(gun shot fires)
- There they are.
- [Jack] Caswell,
back out of here!
(police car sirens)
(car screeching)
- 4 Adam 16 is in
pursuit of 211 suspects.
Shots have been fired at
the Lucky Loan company.
Man down, requesting
an ambulance.
- This is 4 Adam 30, show
us code 6 of the crime scene.
(police sirens)
(car braking)
(police sirens)
(car crashes)
(car screeches to a halt)
(suspenseful music)
- [Man] Take him,
we'll get the other one.
- Freeze!
Up against the wall.
Spread 'em.
Spread 'em!
- When you get to heaven,
tell 'em Frank Morlin sent you.
- Hey!
(gunshot fires)
It looks like he'll make it.
I'll call an ambulance.
Are you okay?
(dramatic music)
- [Vince] Heard on the
radio you put one down.
- He's on his way
to City Hospital.
I lost the other one.
- His names Ted
Barnes, a retired cop.
Friend of Hooker's.
- C'mon, Teddy.
Fight it, fight it!
Fight it!
C'mon Teddy.
- Please, may I?
If you can, say after me.
Lord Jesus, son of
God, have mercy on me.
To the degree that you are
needful and I am capable,
I absolve you of all your
sins in the name of the
father, son, and holy ghost.
(dramatic music)
(romantic piano music)
- What happens if
they put the squeeze
on Morlin and he talks?
- They won't.
He knows that in or out of
the joint, I can get to him.
- Cops got his shot gun.
What if they trace
it back to Ellison?
- Well if that time comes,
we'll eliminate the problem.
- [Porter] Like you're
eventually gonna
eliminate that dumb blonde
schoolteacher you're living with?
- [Jack] Straight on.
Hey Tommy, how you doing?
Just talking about
you, pull up a chair.
- I heard about Morlin.
What about my piece man?
There ain't many
works around that good.
The cops start asking around,
they're gonna come
looking around.
- Oh by that time, we'll be
long gone on the breezle, buddy.
I'm gonna need a new
shotgun made though.
We're gonna need it in two days.
This is a full blown gig, man.
Go ahead, tell him, babe.
- 250 Gs.
- You're serious?
- Your cut's 10%, old buddy.
- That's 25 thousand.
(radio beeps)
- [Woman Over Radio] 4
Adam 16, the hospital reports
your robbery suspect Frank
Morlin is in stable condition.
A criminal records check
indicates Morlin has a prior
record for robbery,
assault and manslaughter.
- 4 Adam 16, Roger.
- 16, Sergeant Shaffer
of the shooting team
requests Officer Sheridan
report to the station, code two.
- Roger, dispatch, tell
Shaffer we're in route.
- So, Sheridan, why
did you use a wall search
instead of proning
out the suspect?
- C'mon Shaffer, we've been
at this for over three hours.
Give the lady a break, huh?
- Corrigan, you know as
well as I do why we have
to keep at this, the lady
had her gun taken away.
If it hadn't been for you,
she'd have been blown away.
Good tactics, proper
search procedures
might have prevented
this shooting.
- It's like a dream.
When I looked up to
the barrel of my gun,
I knew the flash was coming
and that it would all be over
and I thought about
my dad and my friends,
and I didn't feel sorry
for me, I just felt bad.
I thought, "This is a
really stupid way to die."
- Hey look, something's
gotta come out here.
Stacy lost a good
friend recently.
They buried her just yesterday.
And she's had a lot on her mind.
- And she's lucky.
She's damn lucky her
preoccupation with a personal problem
didn't cost her her own life.
- [Shaffer] Frank
Morlin is a stone killer.
- You came down a little
hard on Stacy, don't you think?
- Yes, I did.
Maybe she'll remember
for a long time.
At least long enough to
count the next time around.
- Okay, I think I know
where you're coming from.
- You think?
What do you mean think?
Complacency kills cops.
- Shaffer's gonna say
that or something like it
in the shooting report.
And somebody's gonna come
to you and ask whether or not
Stacy should stay on the street.
- Maybe I'll have to go to them.
- And she's my partner.
- If you'd been 30 seconds late,
she'd have been a dead partner.
It's called survival, Jim.
Yours, hers, anybody
you're working with.
- Maybe it was
forgetting about survival
that killed your
friend Ted Barnes.
All he had was
tombstone courage.
- He didn't have to die.
Why the hell couldn't he
have waited for back up?
For us to arrive.
The sawed-off and
wasted Ted is still out there.
I want him.
And the trigger man.
Guy who modified this was no
garage gunsmith with a hacksaw.
(intense music)
- What are you doing here?
- I had some paper
work to catch up on.
- You got off watch
four hours ago, Jim.
- You were still in there
with the shooting team.
I didn't want
to leave until I...
- Until what?
You made sure your
incompetent partner
made it through the
day in one piece?
- Incompetent?
Is that what you got
out of that grilling?
If I get my hands on
Sergeant Shaffer...
- Wait a minute.
I'm the one who
blew it, not Shaffer.
- So you made a mistake?
Hey, I got news for you.
Cops are human.
Think because we put
on a badge, we're perfect?
- When you put it on and
you're a woman, you have to be.
- According to whose Bible?
Sergeant Shaffer's or your own?
- How about Hooker's?
- All right, Caswell
and Janie will go in first.
Janie's gonna
cover the rear door.
Todd stops right here.
- Okay, what about security?
- No problems.
There's a security
guard station right here.
We'll take him
out hard and fast.
- [Cynthia] Jack?
- Put that away,
it's just my old lady.
Here you go.
- Is that really necessary?
- Just my paranoia I guess.
- I was hoping
you'd outgrow that.
- Hi.
- What's he doing here?
- Porter?
You remember him, don't you?
- Oh, yeah, sure.
I remember Porter.
How can you forget
that associating with him
violates your parole?
- Hey, c'mon.
Give me a break will ya?
- Yeah, well, it's always nice
to see you too, Miss Randolph.
You still donating time down
at the prisoner's
defense league?
Or ain't you got
the need no more
since you sleeping with
your own forbidden toy?
You wasp do-gooders
never cease to humor me.
- Hey c'mon man, that's enough.
Let's go.
- Morlin still stone-walling?
- He's suffering from a
heavy case of prison ethics.
Now they're very
loyal to his buddies...
- Morlin's scared to
death they'll smell a snitch.
He'll end up with
a sliced artery
in some corner
of the prison unit.
- Jim, pull his associates file.
See if any of his friends
fit the robbery MO.
- I found an expert
in refitted shotguns.
I thought maybe I could...
- Romano and I
have that end covered.
Thank you.
Let's go check it out.
- He never sets foot in
here again, none of them.
You swore!
- I know, I know I
swore I wouldn't see
any of the guys again.
- You're damn right you did.
That's another
promise you broke.
- Now what's that
supposed to mean, huh?
- What that means...
What that means is
sometimes I wonder
what I fell in love with.
The words the man wrote or
the man who wrote the words.
- Hey, c'mon honey.
Give me a break, will ya?
I'm trying.
Listen the words...
They're just not coming.
What does your book have to
do with Porter being in my home?
- Research, baby.
I mean Porter has seen things
that I never would see before.
I need his insight.
I need to know what's
going on inside his mind.
- He resents me.
What I did for you
and couldn't do for him.
I tried to help him.
- That's exactly what I'm
trying to do with my book too.
Expose the system
from the inside.
That way there's a better chance
at making humane
changes for everybody.
- That's why it's so important
you don't jeopardize it.
- Hey.
I wouldn't disappoint you,
not after all you did for me
to get me out on parole.
I need you.
And I know that you need me.
(dramatic music)
- This a real good job, Hooker.
- Who's that good
at, and that dirty?
- Well, you guys have
got most of them in jail.
But Tommy Ellison's out,
best slay the mill man we had.
- He worked here?
- Mm-hmm.
Trouble with Tommy was he liked
to bet on slow horses
and fast women.
Got in real deep with the boys.
'Course they came up
with a way he could pay off.
- Making illegal
firearms for them?
- Machine guns, silencers,
you name it, he made it.
Finally got caught
and went to prison.
- I'd like to talk to him.
- He's in iron three.
I hear he goes to that new
health spa over in Lexington.
- What does he look like?
- Little guy,
dark-haired, maybe 30.
You wonder where he gets
the strength to pump that iron?
- Thanks.
(upbeat music)
- Todd.
- Bobbi?
- Yeah?
- The receptionist says you
were a friend of Tommy Ellison.
- I was.
- Does he come
around very often?
- What?
- We were wondering
if he worked out here.
- Uh huh.
- Does he come around
at any specific time?
- At one o'clock.
- We'll stick around.
Thank you.
(phone rings)
- Hello?
- [Todd] We have trouble
with Tommy Ellison.
- What?
- [Todd] Cops
are looking for him.
They are?
- Yeah.
So what are we gonna do?
Tommy's a lightweight,
the cops can twist him.
- So you want me to handle it?
- Do what you have to do.
- Something on
your mind, Junior?
- I was wondering
how you'd been feeling
if I'd been the one
looking down at the end
of that gun barrel
instead of Stacy?
- That's very simple.
I'd be chewing you
out or burying you.
- I didn't ask how you'd
act, I asked how you'd feel.
- I don't know.
Stacy's like one of my own kids.
If something ever
happened to her, I'd...
- Then she doesn't
just have to be good.
- She's got to
survive, she's got
to be better than the best.
- She is better than the best.
- I know.
- Does Stacy know that?
I think you should talk to her.
- I plan to.
(radio beeps)
- [Woman Over Radio] 4 Adam 30,
meet Officer Corrigan on tact 2.
- Go, Jim.
- Hooker, I ran
Morlin's associates.
Come up with half a
dozen fitting our MO.
- Any best bets?
- I've got a con who specializes
in gun takeaway classes
with his prison buddies.
- The prison authorities
made a tape of something
like that about a year ago.
- One in the same.
Con's name is Jack Lewis.
- Start running down Jack Lewis
and see if you can get
me a copy of that tape.
- [Jim] Roger.
- Hooker, there.
- [Hooker] That looks like
our gun expert, Tommy Ellison.
- Hey, Tommy!
- Let's go.
(dramatic music)
(gunshot fires)
- [Jim] Call an ambulance
and get back up!
(dramatic fast-paced music)
(police sirens)
(panting)
(screaming)
- How's Ellison?
- Made it through surgery.
What about the
guy that shot him?
- I booked him in the jail ward.
His injuries are minor
but he's still in healing.
What'd you get from Ellison?
- (laughs) It's
kinda tough to talk
with a bullet in your throat
but he did give me a name.
- Jack Lewis.
- Jack Lewis.
It's all coming together.
The shooter's name
was Todd Caswell.
I pulled his package.
His records show time
done for armed robbery.
Get this, his partner
in crime, Frank Morlin.
- The guy who took
away Stacy's gun?
- And one of Jack
Lewis' disciples.
(intense music)
(soft-paced music)
- Tell, you Paul.
The day they saddle me
with some blonde mini cop
for a partner,
that's the day I quit.
Or I quit real police work.
Put on the old
blinders, you know,
so you don't get
tempted into any situation
that might get dangerous.
I mean ain't this job tough
enough without having to
depend on some
pony-tailed munchkin
to back you up if
you get in trouble?
- Yeah, it's tough
feeling like John Wayne,
isn't it Shaffer, when an
attractive lady can do the job?
- Well, not that's kind of
Sheridan's problem, isn't it?
I mean, she didn't
do the job, did she?
You know they say I
gotta live with this federally
ordered affirmative
action including the hiring
of women and minorities,
but there's nothing in that
directive that
says I gotta like it.
- You know, Shaffer,
the problem with prejudice
is that it's a matter
of opinion that belongs
to somebody we dislike.
- Why don't you get
out of my face, Hooker?
If I wanted to fight
with someone,
I'd gone home with my old lady.
- Want some company, Stace?
Ah, there's a lot of
chauvinists out there.
- Don't patronize me, Hooker.
I can take care of myself.
I can't even remember
the last time I had nails.
- No matter what
happened out there,
you're still a good
cop, Sheridan.
- You're only a good cop
as long as you think you are.
(sighs)
- That doesn't sound like a
Hooker-trained cop to me.
- Maybe you just let me
waltz through probation
on a count of a lot of reasons.
Including the fact that
I'm the captain's daughter.
- That's a lot of
bull and you know it.
Where's all this coming from?
You know where it's coming from.
- I thought you had
more guts than that.
- Don't push me
with that, Hooker.
I've got more problems
to deal with here
than just having
my gun taken away.
You know, one woman
can do something stupid,
and it reflects on all
other female cops.
But if a man does
the same thing,
it doesn't reflect
on the other men.
- Fear is the motivating
factor, it always is.
- Sure.
They're worried
about us getting killed.
More like, they're afraid
that we'll get them killed.
That's what's been
bothering you too, Hooker.
You're not sure if I
should be out there either.
Well maybe I can't
handle it anymore.
- All right.
You made a mistake out there.
Hopefully you learned
something from it.
You're scheduled for an
in-service refresher course
that I'm teaching at the
academy tomorrow morning.
It's important
that you be there.
- What we're seeing is becoming
more and more commonplace
in our jails and prisons.
Inmates teaching other
cons how to become
professional criminals.
Here you see two inmates
practicing a gun takeaway
that was used by a 2 11 suspect
on one of our own officers.
As seasoned officers,
you're all aware of the fact
that an officer's survival
depends on alertness.
Attention to proper
police procedures
and the use of
good field tactics.
Have a plan.
If you are your partner find
yourselves at a disadvantage,
be ready to act.
Use a code signal, some
sort which will send you both
into action not surrender.
This group's guru is Jack Lewis,
a multi-talented hood
who's gained some notoriety
for a book of prison
poems he's written
but whose real talents
lie in teaching other cons
how to disarm cops.
- I might add, I
know this guy Lewis.
He did a gun takeaway
on an Officer up in Oakland,
put six of the
officers own into him.
- Well, what'd you
think of the tape?
- To be honest, it
scared the hell out of me.
I kept seeing
Marlin with my gun.
Thinking how close
I came to buying it.
- Thing is, did you
learn anything from it?
- Yeah, I know I never
want to get caught
in a situation like that again.
Where someone's
got the drop on me.
- Well, maybe you'll be
lucky, maybe you won't.
On the other hand, could
happen tomorrow evening.
To you, to me, to any cop.
It's part of the job.
- The technique is
down to perfection.
Makes you wonder how
many students this guy Lewis
has put out on the street.
- Plenty.
Background intelligence
on him says he's not only
a hot shot stick-up
artist, he's a fast talking...
Why don't you check on Lewis,
see if he's still in the joint.
Jim, contact the
armored truck companies.
See what you can find out.
(radio beeps)
- [Woman Over Radio] 4
Adam 30, your request to
authority has been confirmed.
Suspect Jack Lewis is out
on parole from San Quinton.
His parol agent has
supplied an address.
2538 South
Mariposa, apartment 7.
- 4 Adam 30, roger.
(slow-paced music)
- Jack, this is fantastic.
I think a couple more
pages as good as this,
and we'll get in touch with
that publisher I told you about.
- You're the first person that
ever really believed in me.
(knocking on door)
- Yes?
Jack, it's two policemen.
Vince?
- Jack Lewis.
- So what's this all about?
- It's about a friend
of mine that was killed
in the robbery of a
check cashing place.
It's about an officer of
mine that almost lost her life
in a gun takeaway
that you taught
to one of your San
Quinton disciples.
Guy by the name of
Frank Morlin, remember?
- I never heard of him.
- Sure you have.
He was a cellmate
of Todd Caswell.
Perhaps you heard that
Caswell is off the street
but not before he
pumped a 22 into a guy
by the name of Tommy Ellison,
or maybe you never heard of him.
- Well that's a real
touching tale, Sergeant.
But obviously you're mistaken.
- No, I've got my facts
straight, I'm just verifying them.
- Look, this is my
apartment, you have no...
- Now you look lady, looks
like you and this gentleman
have set up good
housekeeping rules,
but maybe you don't
know he's out on parole
for armed robbery and
the second degree murder
of an Oakland policeman.
- I'm perfectly aware of that.
I'm also his attorney.
- Cynthia, this man
has killed a policeman.
- And he's paid for
his mistake, Vince.
- And I thought you
had more respect
for the law and yourself.
- Seems you've been had, lady.
This guy owes more than he
could ever repay in 10 lifetimes.
You want to tell this lady
and me where you were
Friday afternoon, three o'clock.
- You don't have
to answer, Jack.
- What are you writing,
a how to kill a cop book?
- I think you'd better
leave, Sergeant.
- Friday afternoon.
- That's about enough.
- You're on parole, Lewis,
hanging by a short rope.
Do you want me to cut it for ya?
- He was with me all day.
- Now you heard my attorney.
- We'll be around and
your parole conditions
say you better be.
- You know, love and
justice are said to be blind.
In your case, Miss
Randolph, I suggest you
move the blindfold long enough
to distinguish the difference
between the good guys
and the bad guys, the
victims and the vicious.
- You had something
for that lady.
- Had.
- Sorry.
- So am I, for her.
- I mean she probably fell in
love with his jailhouse poetry
and he figured he'd have
it better than he ever had
in his whole life with her.
He lied to her just
like he lied to us
'cause it's the only
thing he knows how to do.
- She lied for him.
You could tell because
she's not used to it.
- Jack, you can't run.
- Watch me.
- That counselor been on
me about a parolee not being
discharged is serving
out a sentence in a prison
without any walls.
- It's the law, Jack.
- Hey, you heard those cops.
They're setting
me up to go back.
If I go back in the
joint, I'm a dead man.
Do you want that?
- I only want
what's best for you.
- Well this morning
in bed, it was us.
You and me.
What happened
to that, huh, Cindy?
- Jack, if you'll just stay
here, fight it through,
finish the book.
- Now you lied to
those cops for me.
That puts you on
my side of the fence.
All right, maybe I
don't know every thing
there is to know about you...
- You wanna know what
there is to know about me?
Well I'm gonna tell ya.
You don't shut the door on
me ever, you understand that?
- Jack, I never...
- You wanna know what
there is to know about me?
Well, I'm gonna show
you right here and now.
Let's go.
- Jack!
- There.
There, that's what I'm about.
(dramatic piano music)
- I thought I'd
get an early start.
Hope I'm not interfering
with your workout.
- I usually have
this place to myself
this early in the morning,
but since you seem
to be practicing, some of my
old academy training advice,
I'll share it with you.
- The consumit
sensei, always teaching.
- Do you remember my lesson
on the dangers of lag time?
- Sure.
The reaction gap
between the decision to act
and the actual action.
It's what officer
survival is all about.
- There's no quarter given
by the bad guy on the streets.
To be a policeman you have
to learn to defend yourself.
And your partner.
And those who can't
defend themselves.
Now if you can't handle that,
then you don't
deserve to be out there.
It's not a matter
of man or woman,
that isn't part of the issue.
You either believe in
yourself or you don't.
- When other people
no longer believe in me.
- Stacy, if you think that
you're a good policeman,
believe it!
'Cause if you don't, how can
you expect anybody else to?
- Hooker, we got another
report from Quinton.
Lewis had a girl
who visited him a lot.
She lives here too.
- Yeah, we met her.
His live-in, her name
is Cynthia Randolph.
She's an attorney,
teaches at City College.
- This is a different one.
Her name is Janie Holms.
Minol just talked
to her landlady.
Janie's already left for work
and you'll never
guess what she does.
Operations officer for the
commonwealth thrift bank,
the bank that has
the fast cash deposits.
- I'll go pick up Vince.
We'll talk to the
personnel department.
We'll meet you later on the air.
- [Jim] After I pick
up Janie Holms.
- Wait a minute,
I've seen her before.
She was at the gym when we
were asking about Tommy Ellison.
- That's right.
And 10 minutes later,
Caswell capped Ellison.
Just one big happy family.
Better put a call into
your security people.
Janie works out of
the Southcoast branch
at Lincoln and Grand.
They handle all the
distribution of funds
by armored truck
for the fast cash train.
Today's Wednesday, that's payday
at the Colton Aircraft
company in the valley.
- There's a fast cash
place right around
the corner from Colton.
- Yeah, but I gotta
feeling if Lewis' bunch
is gonna make a hit,
they're not going to try
for a hit on a check
cashing place.
- Sure, go directly
to the source.
Maybe even come up
with something extra.
The Holms girl definitely
knows the layout
and delivery
schedule at the bank.
- We're on route to the bank
with an ETA of two minutes.
We'll meet you there code two.
- Roger, 30, we're rolling.
We'll be there in three.
(suspenseful music)
- All you gotta do is look
out and drive the first wake.
If you do your part, nobody's
gonna get hurt, all right?
But from here on
in, you belong to me.
Okay guys, hard and fast.
- [Jack] Hey, this is a hold-up!
Any idiot who doesn't
do as I say is dead.
Get on the floor, tellers get
your hands over your head.
You, wanna do the chicken?
Get down there, all
the way down, down!
Nobody move.
(radio beep)
- [Woman Over Radio]
Any unit in the vicinity
able to handle a 2 11 silon at
the commonwealth thrift bank,
455 South Grand,
come in and identify.
- That's our bank.
- 4 Adam 30, we'll
handle the hot shot.
- Roger 30, your call is code 3.
- We're only two blocks
away, put a hold on the siren.
(car screeching)
- Cops!
- That looks like a
getaway car to me.
- [Jack] What's up?
- Cops!
- We'll have to use the car.
- What about Janie and Cynthia?
- Hey, forget about them now.
When it comes down to
it, they're all just broads.
Let's go!
- Let me see your hands!
Stick 'em out the window.
(dramatic music)
- Drop the gun.
Drop it!
Where's Jack Lewis?
- If Jack had been in here,
he'd have blown your guts out.
- Yeah, put your
hands behind your neck,
just the way you did.
- Get out!
Move!
Against the car.
Hands on your head.
- All right everybody,
you can get up.
- Why?
- Cynthia, where's Lewis?
- You keep your
mouth shut, girl.
You don't tell 'em nothing.
- Lewis, where is he?
- We were gonna switch
to my car after we left here.
- Where is it and what is it?
- Why it's a green
Chevy, at Lawson.
- Romano, you
stay with the women.
Corrigan, you handle the bank.
You come with me.
(suspenseful music)
(police siren)
- Jack!
Jack, you scum!
(police siren)
- There he is!
(car screeching)
(horn honking)
(car crashes)
- Take the shortcut.
(suspenseful music)
(police sirens)
- Hold it right there.
Make a move and
I'll cut you in half.
Give me that gun.
C'mon!
Make a move, lady,
and your partner's dead.
Drop your gun.
- Stacy, take it easy.
You can't be expected to
handle a situation like this.
- Right.
(gunshot fires)
Taking action, not surrender.
- It's called survival.
- [Runners] One, two,
three, hey, one, two, three.
- Hey, Romano, cheer up.
If Cynthia wasn't
there voluntarily,
it'll come out in court.
- I just can't figure it.
How could she get so screwed up
as to even go along with them?
- Maybe her heart
and head had no idea
what the other one was doing.
Somehow he slowed her.
- And by the time he found
out about her, it was too late.
- Stacy.
- How'd it go?
- Okay, I guess.
- I guess your shooting
was in policy, huh?
- Hey Sheridan.
- Yes?
- That was one fine shooting.
You did a hell
of a job, officer.
- I've had a good teacher.
(upbeat music)
(action music)