T.J. Hooker (1982–1986): Season 5, Episode 2 - Return of a Cop - full transcript
(adventurous music)
- [Thief] It's a holdup,
everybody do what I say,
nobody gets hurt.
(shoppers shouting)
Put your hands behind your head.
Come on, move get on.
(thieves and shoppers shouting)
Don't be funny Fender, mama's
gonna be drawing your pension.
- [Thief] Open it up.
Come on, put it all in there.
- [Thief] Take a
look at that safe.
Now move!
(ominous music)
- [Dispatcher] All units,
vicinity of Hampton's Market
at 216 West Normandy Boulevard.
A 2-11 in progress.
- Four Adam 30, roger.
- Four Adam 16 to four
Adam 30 on tack two.
Rolling backup.
- [Thief] What do we have here?
Now, friend, you don't
open that safe real quick,
the little lady goes to Heaven.
That real clear to you?
Huh!
(tires screeching)
- [Thief] Get that
money in there.
Go on, get it in there.
(guns firing)
- [Thief] Cops, hurry it up.
(guns firing)
(thief grunts)
- I put one down back there.
Let's go.
- There's two more.
- [T.J.] Where?
- In back.
- [T.J.] Jim.
(ominous music)
(guns firing) (glass shattering)
- [Thief] You two
are coming with us.
If we don't make
it, you don't make it.
Forget it.
You don't want their
blood all over the floor.
They don't mean nothing to me.
- Two hostages
coming out the back.
We make sure they survive.
- [Thief] All right,
everybody stay cool.
- [Thief] I got it.
- [Thief] I see just
one car on our tail,
this beautiful couple won't
have nothing to live for.
(tires screeching)
- [T.J.] Four
Adam 30 to control.
Advise all units that
suspects have taken hostages
and have fled south on Normandy
in a blue '85 Ford van.
License number 2-K-9-7-600.
(tires screeching)
(tires screeching)
(tires screeching)
- They blasted Danny.
What about Frank?
- Don't sweat it.
I'll blast 'em with
a legal counsel,
an expert in the art
of the plea bargain.
He knows enough to
keep his mouth shut.
- When do we take
off our next job?
- Alex, you get
greedy, you get dead.
The heat's on.
You just be calm, I'll
pick out a couple of
new vice presidents,
I'll map out the plan,
I'll ring your phone.
You keep quiet until then, okay?
- Okay.
(car engines revving)
- [Stacy] How are the hostages?
- Safe, sound, and scared.
Suspects vanished
down about two blocks
away from where the
hostages were let off.
- They've been getting
away with these market heists
for too long.
- [Stacy] We're back where
we started, zero leads.
- Yeah, well, I'll try and
scratch up some more bodies
to throw into the case.
- Oh by the way, the
lieutenant said to give you this.
(phone ringing)
Oh he also said to
tell you he's coming in
on the 6:00 from Phoenix.
- What's he coming here for?
- You would know that
a lot better than we do.
He's your father.
- How are you, son?
- Little surprised.
I'd have met you if you
told me you were coming.
- Yeah, no need.
I'm an old fire horse.
I know my way
back to the station.
- No arguing about that.
- Well, what'll it be, bunk
with you or find a motel?
- I rent a house,
plenty of room.
- And, I'm an A-1
boarder, no trouble at all.
(melancholy horn music)
- Not much like the old place.
- Oh it'll do.
Just needs a woman's touch.
- Now don't start that again.
- Well, you and Fran
had the old magic.
Just that damn job that
chews up a relationship
and spits it out.
How are the kids?
- Tommy and Chrissy are fine.
They're up with Fran in Oregon.
They visit whenever
they have a chance.
- Penal code gives me the right.
- That doesn't explain
why you're carrying.
- Never stopped.
Just an old habit, I guess.
- John, why did you come back?
(country music)
(patrons chattering)
- You know it's funny,
I never heard much
of John Hooker before.
Now that's all everybody
seems to be talking about.
- From what my dad's told me,
he was sort of a living legend
around the department.
- Yeah, I guess, the
old-timers talk about him
like he was a disciple
to street police work.
I wonder why I never
hear Hooker mention him.
- Maybe Hooker didn't
wanna live with the legend.
Take it from me, it's tough
enough coming on the job
when one of your parents
has already broken ground
and built the ivory tower.
Besides, I understand he
was off the job nearly 10 years.
- That's a long vacation.
Where's he been?
- Pensioned.
He fought it, though.
It was a disability case.
He was shot during a hold
up drawing the suspect's fire
away from innocent bystanders.
- Sounds like a Medal
of Valor candidate.
- He got on then he spent
seven months in the hospital
and the pension board gave
him a shove out the door.
(patrons shouting)
- [Patron] Come on
over, we'll buy you a beer.
- Hey, you know what they
say about drinking alone.
- Translated that
means when will I join
the cheering section?
- Yeah, now that you mention it.
What's bugging you, Hooker?
- Let's just say it's personal.
- Webster and
Tomasino, Adam nine,
Wayland and Edam, Adam seven,
Jackson and Waters, Adam three,
Sheridan and Corrigan...
Anybody seen Corrigan?
- Right here, Hooker.
Look who I found
roaming the halls.
- Jim here just saved
me from future shock.
Things have really changed
around here in the past 10 years.
(officers chuckling)
- You want the honor, Hooker?
- I'd like you all to
meet, John Hooker,
one of the finest cops to
ever strap on the Sam Browne.
- [Officers] Morning, sir.
- Lt. O'Brien said it'd be
okay if I dig around my roots.
- Well, what can you
say to an old friend
who's as much a
pain in the butt as ever.
(officers laughing)
- About yesterday's
market robbery number five
in a month, people.
Each robbery at a market
that had funds on hand
to cash payroll checks
from nearby factories.
And, again we have no leads.
Suspect in custody
is a nickel-dime punk,
probably hired
for yesterday's job.
- Hooker, how do we know that?
- He just came out
of the slam last week
on a boosting charge.
Now the detectives say
that he either didn't know
who he's working
with or isn't talking
which is the most likely case.
In my opinion, the two with
the shotguns are the brains.
They engineered the robber
M.O.s, the method of entry,
hockey masks, the
vehicle switch, everything.
- The shotgun, was it cut down?
- It looked like that,
about 16 inches.
- [John] How was it carried?
- Concealed under
his sport coat.
- You two mind if I carry on?
- Oh sorry, just another
old habit (chuckles).
- So, what all this adds
up to is that the brains,
and I use that word
charitably, is still on the loose.
And, we can expect
to hear more from him.
So, stay on your toes out there.
Pick up what
information you can,
pass it on to the detectives.
Any questions?
All right, check your pin maps
and I'll see ya on the street.
(phones ringing)
- T.J., you handled
'em real good.
(dynamic music)
- Okay, like always, we enter
from here, here, and here.
Two hired guns will
meet us in the parking lot.
They hold down the check stands,
we go after the safe.
- What's the take?
- 40 thou, bottom.
- Security?
- Silent alarm in the
manager's cage, right there.
- Well, how do you figure
we keep the manager
from leaning on it?
- I figure it's your job.
Just convince him it would
be a foolish thing to do.
- Funny how these types
listen when they're sucking
on the business end
of a 12-gauge shotgun.
- For a paper hanger, you
sure picked up the flavor
of this business real quick.
- Well, I got a good professor.
- No good about it,
Johnny, you got the best,
the very best.
(engine revving)
- Guy says, "Gimme
a dozen of those two."
(men laughing)
Hey, excuse me, I gotta...
- You'll never believe this.
You're at this taco
stand with our father
and this guy pulled,
when this guy pulls up
in the alley behind the place.
- Only we don't
see him at first.
- But, your father does.
- And, he says, "Hey
why don't you bust that guy
"for grand theft auto?"
- So, we look and we
say how can you tell
that that car is hot?
- And your dad says,
"Check out the rear plate.
"It's a switch."
- And?
- [Stacy] So, we look and it is.
- Bugs.
- Dead bugs.
You father says the plate
had been the front plate
off someone else's car.
Or this guy had been doing a lot
of high speed
driving in reverse.
- That's when the
guy tried to split,
your old man ran him
down and busted him.
- [T.J.] Oh, you're kidding.
Well nobody can't say
he isn't a damn fine cop.
- Coming here your idea or his?
I mean two days in town
both nights you end up in here.
I'd think the two of you'd
want some private time.
- We never did get much of that.
John was never at home.
But, it's funny how well you
can get to know somebody
without a lot of
that private time.
- Hooker, when Lt.
O'Brien was injured,
why wasn't he retired on
disability like your father?
- Well, the lieutenant's
a smart man.
He doesn't mind working
inside most of the time.
They offered the
same deal to J.P.
He told 'em what to do with it.
He said, "I'm a
street cop or no cop."
Hey, this is what
Sherry's is all about.
J.P. chow's on.
- Pizza, just what
the doctor ordered.
I should have paid
this visit years ago.
Oh it's great hanging
out with everyone,
seeing everybody around
the old department, huh?
- John, what ever
happened to the suspects
in the robbery
when you were shot?
- Well, it was never solved.
Never found the guy
who pulled the trigger.
- 10 years (mumbles)
nailed for something.
- Maybe but not for putting
a hole in me (chuckles).
You know, I read the
reports on the market robbery.
There's very little detail
on the descriptions.
I guess you didn't get close
enough to get a good look,
you know with the
masks and all, huh?
- No, but we called
in a followup later
after Jim remembered something.
- I was running the
heist through my mind
and I remembered
what you were telling us
about the two guys who shot you.
The M.O. is identical.
- Yeah, that's interesting.
- And, the query is done here.
We can run just about any
combination you could ask for.
- What about the M.O.?
- Sure if there's
something to work with.
- Would you try one for me?
- Mmm hmm.
- Like that market robbery?
Could you compare the M.O.
with the suspect description?
- I'm already making a
run like that this afternoon
for the detectives.
- Is that right?
- Yeah (giggles).
- Hey, maybe I can
look at the results,
see how all this modern
technology comes together, huh?
- I'll see what I can do.
- Thank you, baby doll.
(phones ringing)
- You're really getting into
this modern technology.
Any particular reason?
- Oh, just curiosity.
Trying to figure out
how you do it these days.
Thinking of writing a book,
Return of the Dinosaur.
Got a luncheon date
with some of the old-timers
down in bunko.
See you tonight?
- Uh huh.
- Hey John, question.
True or false, have you
been bugging the robbery team
about that market heist?
- Bugging no,
professional interest yes.
- Well they're the new
breed, J.P. and you're retired.
It makes them uncomfortable,
you know what I mean?
- Yeah, I guess you're right.
Just caught my interest is all.
Trying to see if I get my
old head in gear again,
solve a good case, do
something worthwhile.
Like I heard that latent
print boys had lifted a partial
off the market safe.
I was just wondering if
you got anything on it yet.
- Well it's an unclear partial
and they're having
trouble classify it.
Besides, the partial means
nothing till you have a body
to go with it, right?
- Basic police work, Pete.
Computers will never take
the place of that, will they?
- I sure hope not.
- See ya later, Pete.
- Mmm hmm.
(radio beeping)
- [Dispatcher] Four Adam 30
meet four Adam 16 on tack two.
- All right, I'm 30, go 16.
- Just wanted to let you know
we're taking out code seven
at Benny's, 1am.
- [T.J.] Benny's 1am, gotcha.
How's it going?
- Quiet, but you never
know on a night like tonight.
We're keeping an eye on
anything suspicious at markets
along West 57th.
- Stakeout teams are
posted along the boulevard.
If anything goes
down, they'll be ready.
Meantime, I'm off duty
to meet J.P. for dinner.
- Have fun.
- J.P, I'm sorry I'm late, I...
(slow piano music)
(mysterious music)
(John knocking)
(door crashing)
- Ozzie, you're a
hard man to find.
- Hooker, is that really you?
What are you doing here?
- I came back to town.
First thing I wanted to do
was look up an old friend.
- Come on, J.P. I'm no old
friend and you're no cop anymore.
- Time's come when I
wanna take one last shot
of a little police work.
I need something
from the street, Ozzie.
I think you have it.
- No, I don't move with
that crowd anymore.
- What you doing,
shooting, Ozzie, huh?
Baby monkey's crawling,
itching, scratching,
and there's only one
way to stop him, money.
This money'll put the monkey
down, buy you a heavy fix.
- I am hurting, J.P.
It's been bad lately.
I want his name, he's
5'10', uses hired guns,
heists markets, taken
down two in the last week.
- If they found out.
- Nobody's gonna
know except you and me.
- J.P. they'd kill me.
- Well, what do you
prefer, the alley or this?
- There's this guy
named Lucas, Alex Lucas,
drives a red Mercedes.
Word is he carries
and he's been known
to take off a market
here and there.
And, that's all I know.
He's around but I
don't know where.
(door pieces clattering)
- Hello Frank.
This is John Hooker.
Yeah.
Listen, about that market
robbery the other day,
I understand you lifted
an unclean partial print
off the safe.
Yeah, would a name help?
Yeah, I picked up a
rumor that the suspect
might be a guy called
Lucas, Alex Lucas.
You could check the
partial against the name.
There shouldn't be
too many of them.
The boys down at the precinct
would really appreciate it.
I'll check with you
in the morning.
Okay old buddy, thanks.
(door clacking)
- Hey, I waited an hour
before I went off to dinner.
- Oh my God.
I got involved with
some of the guys.
- What's going on with you?
- What kinda question is that?
- Straight one, I'd
like a straight answer.
You here for something
more than just a visit?
- Look, son, I
don't like your tone.
- Oh come on, that
doesn't wash anymore.
Talk to me.
For once in your
life, talk to me.
- About what?
- About you, me, what's going
on in your head, this paper.
Talk to me!
- Well I saw this
paper before I came.
I brought it with
me to show to you.
Besides that I don't have
much of anything to say.
(dark music)
(typewriter clacking)
Hey son, take a look at this.
- Yeah, what is it?
- Alex Lucas and his
fingerprints match the partial
taken off that market safe.
- Beautiful, how'd prints
come up with his name?
And, how'd you get onto it?
- Just luck, incredible luck.
I dropped into a
few of my old haunts.
Ran into one of
my old informants.
- And, he gave you
Lucas, just like that?
- No, it wasn't as easy as that.
No, I had to take
the first giant step.
- By telling him
about the robberies.
- I took a long shot
that he knew something.
- And, he did.
- Yes, he did.
It was sheer luck,
incredible, dumb, stupid luck.
But, the big thing is
that Lucas wheels around
in a red Mercedes and
he's been seen right here
in your district.
- Well, that's
great police work.
We'll give it to the watch.
Wanna get on it?
- If this guy's nailed,
we'll put it in the report
courtesy of J.P. Hooker.
- Hey son, I want in.
- You're retired, that's
out of the question.
- Well, that's a
mere technicality.
I can get it cleared.
(phones ringing)
- You've got 25 years
of this under your belt.
Why ask for more?
- To satisfy something
inside, something...
Oh, you wouldn't understand.
- Try me.
- That article you found,
it's the reason I came back.
Market robbers had
pushed me off the job
and I got to thinking
how nice it would feel
to be alive again inside.
That's what I want
you to understand,
that it's the police
work, hunting 'em
and finding 'em,
and bringing 'em in.
That's what
breathes life into me,
gives me a sense of being.
64 years of age
and old fool or not,
I wanna do one good
piece of police work,
just one more time.
- You know that's the
first time in your life
you ever opened up to me.
- If I had to live
my life over again,
there'd be a hell
of a lot of changes,
I can guarantee
you that, but, I can't.
So, what do you say?
Just you and me, one more hunt,
one more good bust?
(T. J. chuckles)
- We've never even
hit a baseball together.
Now you wanna team
up doing police work.
- I got a hunch that
together, we'd be dynamite.
Looks like we're coming
up empty around here.
What say we check
that informant of yours
and try to place Lucas's car?
- You forget this part of
the police work, patience.
(John chuckles)
- So, I wake up and that
dream is just as fresh and alive
as it was before.
I say to my wife, baby
get the dream book.
And, sure enough, there it is,
just like I dreamed
it, number 242.
- You're hooked on
those numbers, Freddy.
- Yeah, I put $2 on it.
- And?
- Lost, like always.
(T.J. chuckles)
Okay, Sergeant Hooker.
- You gotta put your
money in the bank.
- Yeah, but it's
not as much fun.
- Freddy, take a look
at this for me, will ya?
- Never seen him before.
Don't know who he is.
- Come on, that picture
hit you like a ton of bricks.
Who is he?
- [Freddy] I said I
never saw him before.
- You cut the bull, who is he?
- John, John, John,
I'll take care of this.
Thank you.
Sorry about that, Freddy.
He's just a little impatient.
Forget it.
Here you go.
Thank you, Freddy.
- Thank you.
Oh Hooker, the dude
drives a red Mercedes.
I see him parked over on
Dillon Street a few times.
- Thank you,
Freddy, that'll help.
- I could've got it out
of him my way, too.
- [T.J.] Yeah, but I have
to work with these people
long after you're
back in Phoenix.
- There's more than
one way to skin a cat.
You're a damn good cop,
but you don't know it all yet.
- Maybe you can teach me.
It's a little late in the
ballgame, but I'm listening.
- What are we
fighting about, son,
my interrogation techniques
or my lack of
qualifications as a father.
- You pick it.
- Look, if you want,
I'll stay out of your car
and off of your back.
Maybe I'm pushing too hard.
It just seems like
the clock is running
and I'm standing still.
It won't happen again.
- Forget it.
Let's go check
out Dillon Street.
(heavy rhythmic music)
(tires screeching)
- Looks like our man's car.
I'll cover the back.
- John, take it easy.
I'll call for backup.
It's been over 10
years, you know.
- Oh but this I'd never forget.
Look, put the call through.
I'll cover the back
till they get here.
(door slamming)
- J...
Control, this is four Adam
30, request a back up.
- [Dispatcher] Adam 30 stand by.
Four Adam 23 go
ahead with your message
and all other units stand by.
- [Dispatcher] 235
3600 (mumbles).
Stationary unit for 37.
- [T.J.] Control,
this is four Adam...
(lively music)
- Don't touch it.
Stand up, punk.
Stand up.
- Take it easy, pop,
you might hurt somebody
with that thing.
- Don't tell me you're
afraid of an old man, punk.
- I am when he's
holding a piece on me.
- Smart boy.
(ominous music)
How long you been
ripping off markets?
- You writing a book?
Who are you anyway?
- Back away from that table.
- You got a warrant, cop?
- I said back away.
(dramatic music)
(furniture clattering)
(guns firing)
What the hell you come
flying in the front door
like that for?
- What the hell were
you doing in the room?
- He spotted me,
I had to move in.
- You were supposed
to wait for backup.
- I'll call an ambulance.
- Take your time, he's dead.
- Better him than you, right?
- Or you, right?
(dispatcher mumbles)
That wraps it up here.
Starting now our little
adventure as partners is over.
- Over?
Hey, what is this?
I kept that guy from
blowing you away.
I had no choice but to take it.
- Take it easy.
Nobody said it wasn't clean.
But, you could've waited.
- I told you before, he saw
me outside, I had to move.
- It's a matter of opinion.
Anyway, the brass don't
want any more questions
than is necessary, O'Brien
said no more ride-alongs,
and I agree.
- And, that's it?
- You're welcome to
come down to the station
and visit, watch the
case develop on paper,
and that's it.
- Okay, I'll take
what I can get.
- Shooting team's
waiting to talk to you.
J.P. it was fun while it lasted.
- Problem these days is
nothing lasts long enough.
- Why'd he try to take the
guy without you, Hooker?
He's a good cop.
He knows better.
- Well, he said he was
afraid that we'd lose him
if he didn't.
- You buy that?
- I'm still thinking about it.
- What are you getting at, Jim?
- I'm not sure.
It's just going in
alone that way.
J.P. could've been the one
we're taking to the morgue.
You'd think he'd know better.
(J.P. coughs)
(T.J. knocks)
- Anything wrong?
- No, these damn vitamins
are so big, they'd choke a horse.
Forgot to take 'em earlier.
- I forgot to tell you
Tommy and Chrissy called.
They said to say hello.
- Yeah, hey they're a
real pair, aren't they?
Too bad your mother, God
bless her, never got to see 'em.
(delicate music)
- Well, Oregon's a
way, but I make it a point
to see them as much as possible.
- Something I never did.
- I guess we all wish
for things we never had.
But, I don't blame
you for anything, J.P.
You did the best you could.
- The best wasn't
good enough, was it?
I know that now as well as you.
God if your mother
hadn't died so damn young.
She could've taught
me so much more
about living and loving
and raising the kids.
You missed a lot
not knowing your son.
- I know.
- Those last days,
sitting there with her,
watching her waste
away to nothing.
She always kept that
smile and strength.
There's a whole lot
of her in you, son.
A whole lot.
- Lieutenant.
- [Lieutenant] Yeah Corrigan.
- You were around
back when John Hooker
was shot, weren't you?
- I was right in
the middle of it.
10 years, man
it's hard to believe
your life goes by that fast.
- Is it possible, Alex Lucas
could have been a suspect
in that robbery, the
one who shot John?
- I guess it could be
possible, but you know
J.P. mentioned that
this morning at coffee.
It's kinda remote
though, no, no.
- Then the suspect who
shot him was never IDed?
- No he wasn't.
What's bugging you
anyway, Corrigan?
- Oh nothing, I'm just curious.
- Ah curious, yeah
well, that's a good thing
for a cop to be.
(phones ringing)
- Hey Mary.
Mary did the I sheet on
Alex Lucas come in yet?
- Yeah, 'bout an hour ago.
Got it right here.
- Okay thanks, Mary.
- You're welcome.
(dynamic music)
(rifle clacking)
- Get the bags packed
to be ready to split
when I get back here.
- Let's go now, Ed.
Forget about the market.
It's too hot out there.
- I'm taking the market, Tina,
we need the traveling cash.
- Look, Alex is dead.
You've got two
inexperienced kids to go with.
It's too risky.
Just forget about it.
We don't even need the money.
- The punks will be okay.
Besides if they get
killed that's their problem.
It's 40 grand, Tina, and
it'll take us a long way.
Don't worry, baby,
I'd kill half the town
to get back here.
- [Stacy] And, Lucas matched
the description of the suspect
who shot J.P.?
- I just can't help
thinking of the possibility
that your dad was on a
hunting trip looking for revenge.
- You're dead wrong.
Did you see Lucas's FBI sheet?
- Yeah, I know he was
in the Kansas State Pen
for forgery the day
your dad was shot,
but what if J.P. thought
Lucas was the one
and then used you to get to him?
- He was a good cop.
Good cops don't go
hunting for revenge.
- He's not that type of man.
- Then all this is just
coincidental, right?
- I didn't say that.
I said he isn't a killer.
Operator, I'd like information
in Phoenix, Arizona.
- Hey, baby face.
I wonder if it's possible
to run Alex Lucas
for any known associates, huh?
- You really are persistent,
aren't you, Mr. Hooker?
- Ah be a love, Mary.
I just wanna show that
kid in the old (quacks)
can still function, huh?
- (giggles) Well, it so happens
I've already done that run
for the detectives.
- And?
(phones ringing)
- Come.
Okay, records show Lucas
was questioned in the field
a few times in the
company of an Ed Jokish.
Most times in that red Mercedes,
but twice in a gray Daytona.
- Have you got a license number?
- Mmm hmm, 1-H-A-D-3-6-9.
Registered to a Mrs.
Tina Jokish, 247 Overland.
- Thanks again, Mary.
- Yes, I understand
what you're saying.
Well, my father
never mentioned it.
Thank you, Doctor.
(dynamic music)
- Hooker, I know
he's your father.
I know it's tough to see
a lot of things you maybe
don't wanna see.
- What are you saying?
- He conned Mary for
this information on Jokish
then took out of
here like a shot.
- He has to be stopped, Hooker.
- You're right.
I didn't see it.
Didn't wanna see it.
Let's roll.
(ominous music)
- Who are you?
What are you doing in here?
- Where is he?
- I don't know what
you're talking about.
I think you better
get out of here right now.
- Shut up, shut up.
- Listen to me.
- Shut up.
- I don't want you in my house.
Get out.
- Shut up.
You his wife?
- Yes, let go of me.
- He's a very dangerous
man and I wanna find him
and I wanna find him now.
- I don't know what
you're talking about.
Let go of me.
- Now you shut up.
- Ow!
- Tell me where he is.
- No! (dramatic music)
(tires screeching)
- Jim, cover me.
- I had to tell him.
He's gonna kill Eddie, isn't he?
- Then he was here?
- He's crazy.
He scared me to death.
He threatened me till I
told him where Eddie was.
He's a cop, isn't he?
- You told him where
your husband is?
- Eddie's gonna hold up
Phil's Supermarket at three.
He's crazy.
I had to tell him.
(dramatic music)
- [Ed] This is a hold up.
Everybody get up
against the window.
Come on, move.
Put your hands over your head.
- [Thief] Fill that.
- [Ed] Keep 'em up.
Turn around.
- [Thief] Hurry up.
Hurry up, hurry up.
You, you, come on,
come on, hurry up.
(upbeat store music)
- [Ed] Come on!
- [Thief] Hurry,
come on, fill it up.
(tires screeching)
- [Ed] Cops.
- Stacy, Corrigan,
take the front.
- [Ed] Let's get outta here.
(upbeat store music)
- Hold it.
Drop your gun.
(guns firing)
Put your hands on your head.
- Hold it, punk.
Gotta go through me first.
- No.
(guns firing)
(upbeat store music)
Just take it easy.
- Old reflexes aren't
what they used to be.
- Where are you?
Why did you do it?
- You know, huh?
- I called your
doctor in Phoenix.
We had a long talk about,
about your health.
- I watched your mother die
and I didn't wanna go through
what she did, understand?
- Why didn't you tell me?
- What was I to do?
Ask you to pull the
plug when it got bad?
The way your mother asked me.
I couldn't do it for her and
I wasn't going to ask you
to face that same decision.
No, it's better this way,
on the street, in action.
Quick.
Hell, I knew those
guys weren't the ones
who shot me up that time.
They had the same M.O.
I just used it as an
excuse to muscle in.
- Hooker, an
ambulance is on the way.
- It is.
- About what that doctor said,
that's our secret,
between you and
me, promise me, son.
- I promise.
- That sounds good.
I'm glad we finally
had our little talk.
(sad horn music)
- He did it his way, Hooker.
He'd be satisfied.
- I never realized before
how much I'm like my father.
- Stubborn, proud, lovable,
a good cop all the way.
- Good epitaph.
He'd have liked that.
- It's perfect.
No sad songs for John Hooker.
- There were a lot
of things both of us
would like to have done over,
but no sad songs.
- He loved you, you know that.
- I know.
I just hope it got
through to him
that I loved him too.
(sad piano music)
(adventurous music)
- [Thief] It's a holdup,
everybody do what I say,
nobody gets hurt.
(shoppers shouting)
Put your hands behind your head.
Come on, move get on.
(thieves and shoppers shouting)
Don't be funny Fender, mama's
gonna be drawing your pension.
- [Thief] Open it up.
Come on, put it all in there.
- [Thief] Take a
look at that safe.
Now move!
(ominous music)
- [Dispatcher] All units,
vicinity of Hampton's Market
at 216 West Normandy Boulevard.
A 2-11 in progress.
- Four Adam 30, roger.
- Four Adam 16 to four
Adam 30 on tack two.
Rolling backup.
- [Thief] What do we have here?
Now, friend, you don't
open that safe real quick,
the little lady goes to Heaven.
That real clear to you?
Huh!
(tires screeching)
- [Thief] Get that
money in there.
Go on, get it in there.
(guns firing)
- [Thief] Cops, hurry it up.
(guns firing)
(thief grunts)
- I put one down back there.
Let's go.
- There's two more.
- [T.J.] Where?
- In back.
- [T.J.] Jim.
(ominous music)
(guns firing) (glass shattering)
- [Thief] You two
are coming with us.
If we don't make
it, you don't make it.
Forget it.
You don't want their
blood all over the floor.
They don't mean nothing to me.
- Two hostages
coming out the back.
We make sure they survive.
- [Thief] All right,
everybody stay cool.
- [Thief] I got it.
- [Thief] I see just
one car on our tail,
this beautiful couple won't
have nothing to live for.
(tires screeching)
- [T.J.] Four
Adam 30 to control.
Advise all units that
suspects have taken hostages
and have fled south on Normandy
in a blue '85 Ford van.
License number 2-K-9-7-600.
(tires screeching)
(tires screeching)
(tires screeching)
- They blasted Danny.
What about Frank?
- Don't sweat it.
I'll blast 'em with
a legal counsel,
an expert in the art
of the plea bargain.
He knows enough to
keep his mouth shut.
- When do we take
off our next job?
- Alex, you get
greedy, you get dead.
The heat's on.
You just be calm, I'll
pick out a couple of
new vice presidents,
I'll map out the plan,
I'll ring your phone.
You keep quiet until then, okay?
- Okay.
(car engines revving)
- [Stacy] How are the hostages?
- Safe, sound, and scared.
Suspects vanished
down about two blocks
away from where the
hostages were let off.
- They've been getting
away with these market heists
for too long.
- [Stacy] We're back where
we started, zero leads.
- Yeah, well, I'll try and
scratch up some more bodies
to throw into the case.
- Oh by the way, the
lieutenant said to give you this.
(phone ringing)
Oh he also said to
tell you he's coming in
on the 6:00 from Phoenix.
- What's he coming here for?
- You would know that
a lot better than we do.
He's your father.
- How are you, son?
- Little surprised.
I'd have met you if you
told me you were coming.
- Yeah, no need.
I'm an old fire horse.
I know my way
back to the station.
- No arguing about that.
- Well, what'll it be, bunk
with you or find a motel?
- I rent a house,
plenty of room.
- And, I'm an A-1
boarder, no trouble at all.
(melancholy horn music)
- Not much like the old place.
- Oh it'll do.
Just needs a woman's touch.
- Now don't start that again.
- Well, you and Fran
had the old magic.
Just that damn job that
chews up a relationship
and spits it out.
How are the kids?
- Tommy and Chrissy are fine.
They're up with Fran in Oregon.
They visit whenever
they have a chance.
- Penal code gives me the right.
- That doesn't explain
why you're carrying.
- Never stopped.
Just an old habit, I guess.
- John, why did you come back?
(country music)
(patrons chattering)
- You know it's funny,
I never heard much
of John Hooker before.
Now that's all everybody
seems to be talking about.
- From what my dad's told me,
he was sort of a living legend
around the department.
- Yeah, I guess, the
old-timers talk about him
like he was a disciple
to street police work.
I wonder why I never
hear Hooker mention him.
- Maybe Hooker didn't
wanna live with the legend.
Take it from me, it's tough
enough coming on the job
when one of your parents
has already broken ground
and built the ivory tower.
Besides, I understand he
was off the job nearly 10 years.
- That's a long vacation.
Where's he been?
- Pensioned.
He fought it, though.
It was a disability case.
He was shot during a hold
up drawing the suspect's fire
away from innocent bystanders.
- Sounds like a Medal
of Valor candidate.
- He got on then he spent
seven months in the hospital
and the pension board gave
him a shove out the door.
(patrons shouting)
- [Patron] Come on
over, we'll buy you a beer.
- Hey, you know what they
say about drinking alone.
- Translated that
means when will I join
the cheering section?
- Yeah, now that you mention it.
What's bugging you, Hooker?
- Let's just say it's personal.
- Webster and
Tomasino, Adam nine,
Wayland and Edam, Adam seven,
Jackson and Waters, Adam three,
Sheridan and Corrigan...
Anybody seen Corrigan?
- Right here, Hooker.
Look who I found
roaming the halls.
- Jim here just saved
me from future shock.
Things have really changed
around here in the past 10 years.
(officers chuckling)
- You want the honor, Hooker?
- I'd like you all to
meet, John Hooker,
one of the finest cops to
ever strap on the Sam Browne.
- [Officers] Morning, sir.
- Lt. O'Brien said it'd be
okay if I dig around my roots.
- Well, what can you
say to an old friend
who's as much a
pain in the butt as ever.
(officers laughing)
- About yesterday's
market robbery number five
in a month, people.
Each robbery at a market
that had funds on hand
to cash payroll checks
from nearby factories.
And, again we have no leads.
Suspect in custody
is a nickel-dime punk,
probably hired
for yesterday's job.
- Hooker, how do we know that?
- He just came out
of the slam last week
on a boosting charge.
Now the detectives say
that he either didn't know
who he's working
with or isn't talking
which is the most likely case.
In my opinion, the two with
the shotguns are the brains.
They engineered the robber
M.O.s, the method of entry,
hockey masks, the
vehicle switch, everything.
- The shotgun, was it cut down?
- It looked like that,
about 16 inches.
- [John] How was it carried?
- Concealed under
his sport coat.
- You two mind if I carry on?
- Oh sorry, just another
old habit (chuckles).
- So, what all this adds
up to is that the brains,
and I use that word
charitably, is still on the loose.
And, we can expect
to hear more from him.
So, stay on your toes out there.
Pick up what
information you can,
pass it on to the detectives.
Any questions?
All right, check your pin maps
and I'll see ya on the street.
(phones ringing)
- T.J., you handled
'em real good.
(dynamic music)
- Okay, like always, we enter
from here, here, and here.
Two hired guns will
meet us in the parking lot.
They hold down the check stands,
we go after the safe.
- What's the take?
- 40 thou, bottom.
- Security?
- Silent alarm in the
manager's cage, right there.
- Well, how do you figure
we keep the manager
from leaning on it?
- I figure it's your job.
Just convince him it would
be a foolish thing to do.
- Funny how these types
listen when they're sucking
on the business end
of a 12-gauge shotgun.
- For a paper hanger, you
sure picked up the flavor
of this business real quick.
- Well, I got a good professor.
- No good about it,
Johnny, you got the best,
the very best.
(engine revving)
- Guy says, "Gimme
a dozen of those two."
(men laughing)
Hey, excuse me, I gotta...
- You'll never believe this.
You're at this taco
stand with our father
and this guy pulled,
when this guy pulls up
in the alley behind the place.
- Only we don't
see him at first.
- But, your father does.
- And, he says, "Hey
why don't you bust that guy
"for grand theft auto?"
- So, we look and we
say how can you tell
that that car is hot?
- And your dad says,
"Check out the rear plate.
"It's a switch."
- And?
- [Stacy] So, we look and it is.
- Bugs.
- Dead bugs.
You father says the plate
had been the front plate
off someone else's car.
Or this guy had been doing a lot
of high speed
driving in reverse.
- That's when the
guy tried to split,
your old man ran him
down and busted him.
- [T.J.] Oh, you're kidding.
Well nobody can't say
he isn't a damn fine cop.
- Coming here your idea or his?
I mean two days in town
both nights you end up in here.
I'd think the two of you'd
want some private time.
- We never did get much of that.
John was never at home.
But, it's funny how well you
can get to know somebody
without a lot of
that private time.
- Hooker, when Lt.
O'Brien was injured,
why wasn't he retired on
disability like your father?
- Well, the lieutenant's
a smart man.
He doesn't mind working
inside most of the time.
They offered the
same deal to J.P.
He told 'em what to do with it.
He said, "I'm a
street cop or no cop."
Hey, this is what
Sherry's is all about.
J.P. chow's on.
- Pizza, just what
the doctor ordered.
I should have paid
this visit years ago.
Oh it's great hanging
out with everyone,
seeing everybody around
the old department, huh?
- John, what ever
happened to the suspects
in the robbery
when you were shot?
- Well, it was never solved.
Never found the guy
who pulled the trigger.
- 10 years (mumbles)
nailed for something.
- Maybe but not for putting
a hole in me (chuckles).
You know, I read the
reports on the market robbery.
There's very little detail
on the descriptions.
I guess you didn't get close
enough to get a good look,
you know with the
masks and all, huh?
- No, but we called
in a followup later
after Jim remembered something.
- I was running the
heist through my mind
and I remembered
what you were telling us
about the two guys who shot you.
The M.O. is identical.
- Yeah, that's interesting.
- And, the query is done here.
We can run just about any
combination you could ask for.
- What about the M.O.?
- Sure if there's
something to work with.
- Would you try one for me?
- Mmm hmm.
- Like that market robbery?
Could you compare the M.O.
with the suspect description?
- I'm already making a
run like that this afternoon
for the detectives.
- Is that right?
- Yeah (giggles).
- Hey, maybe I can
look at the results,
see how all this modern
technology comes together, huh?
- I'll see what I can do.
- Thank you, baby doll.
(phones ringing)
- You're really getting into
this modern technology.
Any particular reason?
- Oh, just curiosity.
Trying to figure out
how you do it these days.
Thinking of writing a book,
Return of the Dinosaur.
Got a luncheon date
with some of the old-timers
down in bunko.
See you tonight?
- Uh huh.
- Hey John, question.
True or false, have you
been bugging the robbery team
about that market heist?
- Bugging no,
professional interest yes.
- Well they're the new
breed, J.P. and you're retired.
It makes them uncomfortable,
you know what I mean?
- Yeah, I guess you're right.
Just caught my interest is all.
Trying to see if I get my
old head in gear again,
solve a good case, do
something worthwhile.
Like I heard that latent
print boys had lifted a partial
off the market safe.
I was just wondering if
you got anything on it yet.
- Well it's an unclear partial
and they're having
trouble classify it.
Besides, the partial means
nothing till you have a body
to go with it, right?
- Basic police work, Pete.
Computers will never take
the place of that, will they?
- I sure hope not.
- See ya later, Pete.
- Mmm hmm.
(radio beeping)
- [Dispatcher] Four Adam 30
meet four Adam 16 on tack two.
- All right, I'm 30, go 16.
- Just wanted to let you know
we're taking out code seven
at Benny's, 1am.
- [T.J.] Benny's 1am, gotcha.
How's it going?
- Quiet, but you never
know on a night like tonight.
We're keeping an eye on
anything suspicious at markets
along West 57th.
- Stakeout teams are
posted along the boulevard.
If anything goes
down, they'll be ready.
Meantime, I'm off duty
to meet J.P. for dinner.
- Have fun.
- J.P, I'm sorry I'm late, I...
(slow piano music)
(mysterious music)
(John knocking)
(door crashing)
- Ozzie, you're a
hard man to find.
- Hooker, is that really you?
What are you doing here?
- I came back to town.
First thing I wanted to do
was look up an old friend.
- Come on, J.P. I'm no old
friend and you're no cop anymore.
- Time's come when I
wanna take one last shot
of a little police work.
I need something
from the street, Ozzie.
I think you have it.
- No, I don't move with
that crowd anymore.
- What you doing,
shooting, Ozzie, huh?
Baby monkey's crawling,
itching, scratching,
and there's only one
way to stop him, money.
This money'll put the monkey
down, buy you a heavy fix.
- I am hurting, J.P.
It's been bad lately.
I want his name, he's
5'10', uses hired guns,
heists markets, taken
down two in the last week.
- If they found out.
- Nobody's gonna
know except you and me.
- J.P. they'd kill me.
- Well, what do you
prefer, the alley or this?
- There's this guy
named Lucas, Alex Lucas,
drives a red Mercedes.
Word is he carries
and he's been known
to take off a market
here and there.
And, that's all I know.
He's around but I
don't know where.
(door pieces clattering)
- Hello Frank.
This is John Hooker.
Yeah.
Listen, about that market
robbery the other day,
I understand you lifted
an unclean partial print
off the safe.
Yeah, would a name help?
Yeah, I picked up a
rumor that the suspect
might be a guy called
Lucas, Alex Lucas.
You could check the
partial against the name.
There shouldn't be
too many of them.
The boys down at the precinct
would really appreciate it.
I'll check with you
in the morning.
Okay old buddy, thanks.
(door clacking)
- Hey, I waited an hour
before I went off to dinner.
- Oh my God.
I got involved with
some of the guys.
- What's going on with you?
- What kinda question is that?
- Straight one, I'd
like a straight answer.
You here for something
more than just a visit?
- Look, son, I
don't like your tone.
- Oh come on, that
doesn't wash anymore.
Talk to me.
For once in your
life, talk to me.
- About what?
- About you, me, what's going
on in your head, this paper.
Talk to me!
- Well I saw this
paper before I came.
I brought it with
me to show to you.
Besides that I don't have
much of anything to say.
(dark music)
(typewriter clacking)
Hey son, take a look at this.
- Yeah, what is it?
- Alex Lucas and his
fingerprints match the partial
taken off that market safe.
- Beautiful, how'd prints
come up with his name?
And, how'd you get onto it?
- Just luck, incredible luck.
I dropped into a
few of my old haunts.
Ran into one of
my old informants.
- And, he gave you
Lucas, just like that?
- No, it wasn't as easy as that.
No, I had to take
the first giant step.
- By telling him
about the robberies.
- I took a long shot
that he knew something.
- And, he did.
- Yes, he did.
It was sheer luck,
incredible, dumb, stupid luck.
But, the big thing is
that Lucas wheels around
in a red Mercedes and
he's been seen right here
in your district.
- Well, that's
great police work.
We'll give it to the watch.
Wanna get on it?
- If this guy's nailed,
we'll put it in the report
courtesy of J.P. Hooker.
- Hey son, I want in.
- You're retired, that's
out of the question.
- Well, that's a
mere technicality.
I can get it cleared.
(phones ringing)
- You've got 25 years
of this under your belt.
Why ask for more?
- To satisfy something
inside, something...
Oh, you wouldn't understand.
- Try me.
- That article you found,
it's the reason I came back.
Market robbers had
pushed me off the job
and I got to thinking
how nice it would feel
to be alive again inside.
That's what I want
you to understand,
that it's the police
work, hunting 'em
and finding 'em,
and bringing 'em in.
That's what
breathes life into me,
gives me a sense of being.
64 years of age
and old fool or not,
I wanna do one good
piece of police work,
just one more time.
- You know that's the
first time in your life
you ever opened up to me.
- If I had to live
my life over again,
there'd be a hell
of a lot of changes,
I can guarantee
you that, but, I can't.
So, what do you say?
Just you and me, one more hunt,
one more good bust?
(T. J. chuckles)
- We've never even
hit a baseball together.
Now you wanna team
up doing police work.
- I got a hunch that
together, we'd be dynamite.
Looks like we're coming
up empty around here.
What say we check
that informant of yours
and try to place Lucas's car?
- You forget this part of
the police work, patience.
(John chuckles)
- So, I wake up and that
dream is just as fresh and alive
as it was before.
I say to my wife, baby
get the dream book.
And, sure enough, there it is,
just like I dreamed
it, number 242.
- You're hooked on
those numbers, Freddy.
- Yeah, I put $2 on it.
- And?
- Lost, like always.
(T.J. chuckles)
Okay, Sergeant Hooker.
- You gotta put your
money in the bank.
- Yeah, but it's
not as much fun.
- Freddy, take a look
at this for me, will ya?
- Never seen him before.
Don't know who he is.
- Come on, that picture
hit you like a ton of bricks.
Who is he?
- [Freddy] I said I
never saw him before.
- You cut the bull, who is he?
- John, John, John,
I'll take care of this.
Thank you.
Sorry about that, Freddy.
He's just a little impatient.
Forget it.
Here you go.
Thank you, Freddy.
- Thank you.
Oh Hooker, the dude
drives a red Mercedes.
I see him parked over on
Dillon Street a few times.
- Thank you,
Freddy, that'll help.
- I could've got it out
of him my way, too.
- [T.J.] Yeah, but I have
to work with these people
long after you're
back in Phoenix.
- There's more than
one way to skin a cat.
You're a damn good cop,
but you don't know it all yet.
- Maybe you can teach me.
It's a little late in the
ballgame, but I'm listening.
- What are we
fighting about, son,
my interrogation techniques
or my lack of
qualifications as a father.
- You pick it.
- Look, if you want,
I'll stay out of your car
and off of your back.
Maybe I'm pushing too hard.
It just seems like
the clock is running
and I'm standing still.
It won't happen again.
- Forget it.
Let's go check
out Dillon Street.
(heavy rhythmic music)
(tires screeching)
- Looks like our man's car.
I'll cover the back.
- John, take it easy.
I'll call for backup.
It's been over 10
years, you know.
- Oh but this I'd never forget.
Look, put the call through.
I'll cover the back
till they get here.
(door slamming)
- J...
Control, this is four Adam
30, request a back up.
- [Dispatcher] Adam 30 stand by.
Four Adam 23 go
ahead with your message
and all other units stand by.
- [Dispatcher] 235
3600 (mumbles).
Stationary unit for 37.
- [T.J.] Control,
this is four Adam...
(lively music)
- Don't touch it.
Stand up, punk.
Stand up.
- Take it easy, pop,
you might hurt somebody
with that thing.
- Don't tell me you're
afraid of an old man, punk.
- I am when he's
holding a piece on me.
- Smart boy.
(ominous music)
How long you been
ripping off markets?
- You writing a book?
Who are you anyway?
- Back away from that table.
- You got a warrant, cop?
- I said back away.
(dramatic music)
(furniture clattering)
(guns firing)
What the hell you come
flying in the front door
like that for?
- What the hell were
you doing in the room?
- He spotted me,
I had to move in.
- You were supposed
to wait for backup.
- I'll call an ambulance.
- Take your time, he's dead.
- Better him than you, right?
- Or you, right?
(dispatcher mumbles)
That wraps it up here.
Starting now our little
adventure as partners is over.
- Over?
Hey, what is this?
I kept that guy from
blowing you away.
I had no choice but to take it.
- Take it easy.
Nobody said it wasn't clean.
But, you could've waited.
- I told you before, he saw
me outside, I had to move.
- It's a matter of opinion.
Anyway, the brass don't
want any more questions
than is necessary, O'Brien
said no more ride-alongs,
and I agree.
- And, that's it?
- You're welcome to
come down to the station
and visit, watch the
case develop on paper,
and that's it.
- Okay, I'll take
what I can get.
- Shooting team's
waiting to talk to you.
J.P. it was fun while it lasted.
- Problem these days is
nothing lasts long enough.
- Why'd he try to take the
guy without you, Hooker?
He's a good cop.
He knows better.
- Well, he said he was
afraid that we'd lose him
if he didn't.
- You buy that?
- I'm still thinking about it.
- What are you getting at, Jim?
- I'm not sure.
It's just going in
alone that way.
J.P. could've been the one
we're taking to the morgue.
You'd think he'd know better.
(J.P. coughs)
(T.J. knocks)
- Anything wrong?
- No, these damn vitamins
are so big, they'd choke a horse.
Forgot to take 'em earlier.
- I forgot to tell you
Tommy and Chrissy called.
They said to say hello.
- Yeah, hey they're a
real pair, aren't they?
Too bad your mother, God
bless her, never got to see 'em.
(delicate music)
- Well, Oregon's a
way, but I make it a point
to see them as much as possible.
- Something I never did.
- I guess we all wish
for things we never had.
But, I don't blame
you for anything, J.P.
You did the best you could.
- The best wasn't
good enough, was it?
I know that now as well as you.
God if your mother
hadn't died so damn young.
She could've taught
me so much more
about living and loving
and raising the kids.
You missed a lot
not knowing your son.
- I know.
- Those last days,
sitting there with her,
watching her waste
away to nothing.
She always kept that
smile and strength.
There's a whole lot
of her in you, son.
A whole lot.
- Lieutenant.
- [Lieutenant] Yeah Corrigan.
- You were around
back when John Hooker
was shot, weren't you?
- I was right in
the middle of it.
10 years, man
it's hard to believe
your life goes by that fast.
- Is it possible, Alex Lucas
could have been a suspect
in that robbery, the
one who shot John?
- I guess it could be
possible, but you know
J.P. mentioned that
this morning at coffee.
It's kinda remote
though, no, no.
- Then the suspect who
shot him was never IDed?
- No he wasn't.
What's bugging you
anyway, Corrigan?
- Oh nothing, I'm just curious.
- Ah curious, yeah
well, that's a good thing
for a cop to be.
(phones ringing)
- Hey Mary.
Mary did the I sheet on
Alex Lucas come in yet?
- Yeah, 'bout an hour ago.
Got it right here.
- Okay thanks, Mary.
- You're welcome.
(dynamic music)
(rifle clacking)
- Get the bags packed
to be ready to split
when I get back here.
- Let's go now, Ed.
Forget about the market.
It's too hot out there.
- I'm taking the market, Tina,
we need the traveling cash.
- Look, Alex is dead.
You've got two
inexperienced kids to go with.
It's too risky.
Just forget about it.
We don't even need the money.
- The punks will be okay.
Besides if they get
killed that's their problem.
It's 40 grand, Tina, and
it'll take us a long way.
Don't worry, baby,
I'd kill half the town
to get back here.
- [Stacy] And, Lucas matched
the description of the suspect
who shot J.P.?
- I just can't help
thinking of the possibility
that your dad was on a
hunting trip looking for revenge.
- You're dead wrong.
Did you see Lucas's FBI sheet?
- Yeah, I know he was
in the Kansas State Pen
for forgery the day
your dad was shot,
but what if J.P. thought
Lucas was the one
and then used you to get to him?
- He was a good cop.
Good cops don't go
hunting for revenge.
- He's not that type of man.
- Then all this is just
coincidental, right?
- I didn't say that.
I said he isn't a killer.
Operator, I'd like information
in Phoenix, Arizona.
- Hey, baby face.
I wonder if it's possible
to run Alex Lucas
for any known associates, huh?
- You really are persistent,
aren't you, Mr. Hooker?
- Ah be a love, Mary.
I just wanna show that
kid in the old (quacks)
can still function, huh?
- (giggles) Well, it so happens
I've already done that run
for the detectives.
- And?
(phones ringing)
- Come.
Okay, records show Lucas
was questioned in the field
a few times in the
company of an Ed Jokish.
Most times in that red Mercedes,
but twice in a gray Daytona.
- Have you got a license number?
- Mmm hmm, 1-H-A-D-3-6-9.
Registered to a Mrs.
Tina Jokish, 247 Overland.
- Thanks again, Mary.
- Yes, I understand
what you're saying.
Well, my father
never mentioned it.
Thank you, Doctor.
(dynamic music)
- Hooker, I know
he's your father.
I know it's tough to see
a lot of things you maybe
don't wanna see.
- What are you saying?
- He conned Mary for
this information on Jokish
then took out of
here like a shot.
- He has to be stopped, Hooker.
- You're right.
I didn't see it.
Didn't wanna see it.
Let's roll.
(ominous music)
- Who are you?
What are you doing in here?
- Where is he?
- I don't know what
you're talking about.
I think you better
get out of here right now.
- Shut up, shut up.
- Listen to me.
- Shut up.
- I don't want you in my house.
Get out.
- Shut up.
You his wife?
- Yes, let go of me.
- He's a very dangerous
man and I wanna find him
and I wanna find him now.
- I don't know what
you're talking about.
Let go of me.
- Now you shut up.
- Ow!
- Tell me where he is.
- No! (dramatic music)
(tires screeching)
- Jim, cover me.
- I had to tell him.
He's gonna kill Eddie, isn't he?
- Then he was here?
- He's crazy.
He scared me to death.
He threatened me till I
told him where Eddie was.
He's a cop, isn't he?
- You told him where
your husband is?
- Eddie's gonna hold up
Phil's Supermarket at three.
He's crazy.
I had to tell him.
(dramatic music)
- [Ed] This is a hold up.
Everybody get up
against the window.
Come on, move.
Put your hands over your head.
- [Thief] Fill that.
- [Ed] Keep 'em up.
Turn around.
- [Thief] Hurry up.
Hurry up, hurry up.
You, you, come on,
come on, hurry up.
(upbeat store music)
- [Ed] Come on!
- [Thief] Hurry,
come on, fill it up.
(tires screeching)
- [Ed] Cops.
- Stacy, Corrigan,
take the front.
- [Ed] Let's get outta here.
(upbeat store music)
- Hold it.
Drop your gun.
(guns firing)
Put your hands on your head.
- Hold it, punk.
Gotta go through me first.
- No.
(guns firing)
(upbeat store music)
Just take it easy.
- Old reflexes aren't
what they used to be.
- Where are you?
Why did you do it?
- You know, huh?
- I called your
doctor in Phoenix.
We had a long talk about,
about your health.
- I watched your mother die
and I didn't wanna go through
what she did, understand?
- Why didn't you tell me?
- What was I to do?
Ask you to pull the
plug when it got bad?
The way your mother asked me.
I couldn't do it for her and
I wasn't going to ask you
to face that same decision.
No, it's better this way,
on the street, in action.
Quick.
Hell, I knew those
guys weren't the ones
who shot me up that time.
They had the same M.O.
I just used it as an
excuse to muscle in.
- Hooker, an
ambulance is on the way.
- It is.
- About what that doctor said,
that's our secret,
between you and
me, promise me, son.
- I promise.
- That sounds good.
I'm glad we finally
had our little talk.
(sad horn music)
- He did it his way, Hooker.
He'd be satisfied.
- I never realized before
how much I'm like my father.
- Stubborn, proud, lovable,
a good cop all the way.
- Good epitaph.
He'd have liked that.
- It's perfect.
No sad songs for John Hooker.
- There were a lot
of things both of us
would like to have done over,
but no sad songs.
- He loved you, you know that.
- I know.
I just hope it got
through to him
that I loved him too.
(sad piano music)
(adventurous music)