T.J. Hooker (1982–1986): Season 5, Episode 7 - Funny Money - full transcript
Corrigan considers leaving after accidentally shooting an undercover informant during a counterfeiting investigation.
(upbeat electronic rock music)
- Get these bills boxed up
and get them in the car, Reno.
Now.
- Sure, John.
- The informant tells me
they'll be coming out of there
with a car trunk
full of funny money.
- Just what we need.
Another counterfeiting
operation.
- Snitch came to me
after he was invited in.
You know him, Jim, Toby Reno.
- Reno, I thought he
married a bump and grind girl
and retired into
the straight life.
- Semi retired.
- Must have some good moves.
The only thing Reno ever
liked more than a street hustle
was playing undercover cop.
- Komack, Secret Service.
You know my team.
Sheridan, Corrigan.
- What do we got here?
Toby Reno got off
a quick call to me
before he went in there.
He just met the guy running
the operation, John Simone.
- Wow.
He's wanted for escape
from McNeil Prison.
He heads a federal
prison gang of enforcers
called the Brotherhood.
He's also probably the best
paper hanger in the business.
Who else is in there?
- Guy who does the
printing, who recruited Reno.
Clarence Trent.
Anda couple of hired guns.
Listen, Komack, Toby Reno
is the one handing you this.
If things start to
go down heavy,
watch out for him, will you?
- Like he was my brother.
I've got the warrant.
Should we go do this?
Bobby, cover the back.
You have any ideas
how to get in the front?
- Yeah, I got one.
- Let's go, cars are moving.
- All right.
- Now!
(guns firing)
(tires squealing)
(guns firing)
(Trent groaning)
- Reno.
He's dead.
(tires screeching)
(siren blaring)
- Adam 30, in pursuit
of the counterfeit suspect
driving a brown Gremlin.
Eastbound on
Seventh, just past Julia.
(siren blaring)
- Four Adam 30 to control.
Advise all units to the
Becker Drawbridge area.
Suspect in brown Gremlin,
last seen going west
on Becker Avenue.
Unable to read
plates for accurate ID.
- [Stacy] 16 to 30,
come in on Tac-2.
- 30.
- We've got four people
down at the warehouse,
one in custody, one DB.
Shooting team is rolling
with a 20 minute ETA.
- I'm sorry, your man
got caught in the crossfire.
And it looks like he was
taken out with a shotgun.
- What happened?
- Trent was opening up on me.
I fired back, Reno
was behind him.
He took a hit.
- OK, these things happen.
- I took out the wrong man.
- From the way it looks,
you didn't have any choice.
- I've been around long enough
to know the tactical error is
I didn't clear my background
before I pulled the trigger.
Now a poor guy who
liked to play cop is dead.
- Jim.
Combat shooting is almost
always a matter of pure reflex.
Before you start jumping
all over yourself, back off.
Let the shooting
team do their thing,
and if they second
guess you wrong, OK.
Then you pay your dues.
- Is that what Reno
did, pay his dues?
For what?
My mistake?
- US attorney can't
do me any good.
I escaped from
McNeil with Simone.
Just going back to do my time.
- Plus time for this new
counterfeiting charge.
But there is something
that can be done
if you're willing to deal.
If you turn
government's witness.
- Why should I deal?
All I did was age the bills,
make them pass easier.
I wasn't the printer.
- Photograph these as evidence,
and try you as the printer.
Judge compounds the
sentence and adds a murder rap.
- I didn't shoot anybody.
- Come on, Trent.
You're a jailhouse lawyer, you
know how the system works.
You didn't pull the trigger,
but you pulled the crime.
That's murder one.
- You're trying to put
a jacket on me, man.
- No, we'll let the judge
and the jury do that.
You'll rot inside
your cell an old man.
- I might want to cooperate.
The Brotherhood, you
don't know what they're like.
They kill stoolies.
- Well, the government
might be willing
to put you under deep cover.
- Yeah?
- Sometimes we trade off, sure.
- Look, you get the US attorney
to promise no murder charge,
I'll do what I can.
- Thanks for the help.
- I owe Toby Reno, so
then John Simone owes me.
I'll take them any
way I can get them.
- Jim, I've been
looking for you.
- I'm meeting
Vicky and I'm late.
- How'd it go with
the shooting team?
- They asked me a lot
of very polite questions
and let me sweat.
- It was an accident, Jim.
By the way, Hooker
wants to talk to you.
- I don't want to talk him.
Know what I've been thinking?
I've been thinking about
13 years of shootouts,
of blood and dead bodies.
I've been thinking maybe
I've had 13 years too many.
Know what I mean?
- No, I don't.
Vicky's father has an
opening in his company.
The spot's mine if I want it.
- And Vicky's pressing you.
- Let's say she thinks it might
be a change for the better.
There's something else
I've been thinking about.
That shootout could
have gone either way.
Maybe the law of averages
is catching up with me.
- Now, why don't
you tell me about it?
- About what?
- You've been
somewhere else all night.
Something has happened
and you're ready to explode.
Tell me and maybe we can
do something about it together.
- There was a shooting today.
I was involved.
A man was working
undercover with us,
and one of the suspects
got a shot off at me,
and I fired back.
Our man just happened to be
behind him at the wrong moment.
I shot and killed him.
- I'm sorry.
I'm so sorry.
- That's the problem, so am I.
Only being sorry
won't change anything.
- You can't blame yourself
for an accident, Jim,
and that's what it was.
But you can do
something about it
so that it never happens again.
You can do something
else for a living.
You don't have to lay your
conscience and your life
on the line every day like this.
You've got that choice.
You want to talk about choices?
- Jim, Vicky.
- Hooker.
I was just going to
touch up my face.
Excuse me.
- Nice girl.
- Yeah.
How'd you find me?
- I got it out Stacy.
Had to pull rank.
Two things.
The shooting team
reported, you've been cleared.
- Thanks.
And two?
- Komack called.
Clarence Trent had
agreed to cooperate
in putting a collar
on John Simone.
He was being kept
at the county jail.
Only about an hour ago,
somebody put a wire necktie
around Trent's neck, he's dead.
- Who got to him?
- Komack said it
was the Brotherhood.
Prison pipeline got word
out that Trent was a stoolie.
- You're gonna need a lot
of luck finding Simone now.
- We're just going to have to
make our own luck, aren't we?
- Don't count on the we part.
I might not be around.
- I can't accept that, not yet.
- Hey, Stacy, where's Hooker?
- Said he was gonna
see Reno's widow.
Ready for patrol?
- As ready as I'll ever be.
- Are you still doing that
guilt number on yourself?
- Guilt is just a symptom.
- Jim, you have
citations left and right.
Medal of valor,
officer of the month,
plus you have the A-number
one partner on the force.
- I'll buy the last part.
The rest sounds
like my obituary.
- Am I bringing you up, or
are you bringing me down?
- Depends on your point of view.
Come on, partner, we have duty.
(engine starts)
(sleazy rock music)
- You'll ruin our
business, Hooker.
Our customers don't like cops.
- I came by to tell you
how sorry I was about Reno.
- Yeah, well, what's another
husband more or less, huh?
He'd still be alive if he
stayed away from you.
- Reno's dead because
Simone decided to shoot it out.
I need your help.
I need your help
to catch Simone.
- You're something else.
My husband is gone,
so Sally steps in, right?
Get the hell out
of here, Hooker.
- Sally.
Reno and I were friends.
He told me something that a
man doesn't tell another man
unless they are friends.
He said the best thing
that ever happened to him
was meeting a certain lady.
She was the only thing
that really mattered in his life.
He was talking about you.
I just want you to know that.
- Reno told me something
that I think he'd want you
to know now.
- What's that?
- The first time
that he met you,
you caught him in a money
switch deal he had going.
Instead of booking him,
you marched him to a church
and made him put every
penny into the poor box.
He couldn't get over that.
- I remember when he
called me the next day.
After the shock had
worn off, he said he felt
like a new man.
- He was.
That was the last
crooked deal he ever tried.
I guess he thought a lot of you.
- Thank you for
telling me, Sally.
- Hooker.
John Simone,
he works with a
guy named Paulie.
That's all I know, Paulie.
- Thank you.
- Komack is down at the
Federal Reserve bank.
Simone's funny twenties
started showing up
on the receipts from
shopping centers.
- His wife came up with a name.
Cross checking it with
Simone's known associates,
we came up with a match.
- Paulie Morris.
Did 306 for passing bogus money.
- Six years ago,
Paulie was arrested
with one Clarence
Trent, now deceased,
but John Simone's late printer.
- So we got a connection.
- It's a reach.
But I'll check Paulie's
last known address.
He might take us to Simone.
- It's worth a shot.
Call us for surveillance
if you need anything.
- Quality stuff here, John.
- It's been only
the best, Paulie.
Why don't you want to
score some more, huh?
- I'm running a little
light of ready cash.
Let me get rid of this package.
I'll be back this afternoon.
- That money might not be
here when you get back, Paulie.
- You ain't the only
supplier around town.
- But I'm the best.
(Paulie laughs)
- I'll be back this afternoon.
- When he comes
back, the price goes up.
A thousand on 30.
- I thought he was your friend.
- I don't have
any friends, Marty.
- When are we gonna
go away, Johnny,
have a good time like you said?
- Don't bug me on this, huh?
You ain't that good, baby.
- But I'm good enough to
sit around in motel rooms
for the last six months right?
- You got a loose mouth.
Shut it up, will ya?
- What are you
going to do, snuff me
like you did your
printer Clarence?
- Where'd you get that?
Who told you that?
- One of your passers told me.
Everybody knows it.
- Oh yeah?
Maybe it's good you
know about it, baby.
That's what happens to
people that got a big mouth.
Just remember that. (sighs)
- [Dispatcher] Four Adam 30.
See the woman, the
bookstore, Fourth and Flower,
possible counterfeiter
there now.
- Four Adam 30, roger.
- [Stacy] Four Adam 16
to Four Adam 30 on Tac-2.
- [Hooker] 16, you're
clear for backup.
- Rolling backup.
- 30 to 16, I've made our man.
He's slim, 5'9, wearing
a gray suit, black tie,
and he's carrying
a small package.
He's at the address,
move in from the south.
- Roger, we're in position.
(exciting instrumental music)
- No, no!
- Stay back, or I'll kill her.
- No, don't, please
don't hurt me.
- Paulie, it's only passing
funny money so far.
Let the girl go, don't
make it any worse.
- I've done all the
hard time I'm gonna do.
Now back out of here.
Everybody!
- [Hostage] No, don't hurt me.
Don't hurt me.
Don't hurt me.
- Paulie.
She dies, you die.
It's as simple as that.
- No, no.
- Don't hurt me.
No!
(gun fires)
(hostage sobbing)
- It almost happened
again, Stacy.
I almost hit that woman.
- You didn't, Jim.
You didn't.
- Will there be
another inquiry by,
what do you call it,
the shooting team?
- Sure, procedure.
Two down in two days,
I'm getting a reputation
to live up to.
- Do something about it, Jim.
- Like quit?
- Don't misunderstand me.
Your being a police
officer doesn't matter to me.
It's just that you have
so much more potential.
- Potential to do what?
- You don't have to
work for my father.
You can be anything
you want to be,
except use a gun
as a way of life.
Shooting, being shot at.
I love you, Jim, but
I don't want to watch
the man I love being destroyed
by what he does for a living.
- Has it been that bad?
- You know what you've gone
through these past two days
better than I do.
There's nothing wrong with
coming home every night,
enjoying beautiful things,
leading a normal,
quiet, uneventful life.
There's nothing wrong
with that, is there?
- There's nothing
wrong with that.
- I've gotta run.
I promised my mother
I'd take her shopping.
- Thanks for stopping by.
- I'll see you tonight.
And Jim, whatever
you decide, it's OK.
I'll see you tonight.
(engine starts)
- I got a question.
- I hope I have an answer.
- I got time on the books.
Figure I'd pull a
special tomorrow.
- You need some extra
time off, why don't you take it?
- To tell it like I
feel it right now,
I'm not sure I
want to come back.
- Cop's badge
isn't easy to wear.
- I'm not sure I want to.
See those guys?
I work with most
of them every day.
Today they won't
look me in the eye.
- Maybe you're not
reading it right, Jim.
These guys haven't
been where you've been.
They haven't had
to pull the trigger.
So they get to
wondering about it.
Thinking whether they
could handle it or not.
Whether they'd come out alive.
- I gotta live with the fact
that two men are dead
and an innocent woman
came within an inch
of having a bullet in her head.
- You did what had to be done.
- By the book, I've had
that chapter read to me.
- Because it's right.
- Maybe for you.
Maybe that's what I thought
when I pulled the trigger.
But maybe I've
been thinking wrong.
- I'm worried about Jim.
- Maybe some extra
time off will help him
get his head together.
- Not if he spends
it with Vicky.
She wants him to
start a new line of work.
After the last couple of days,
her thinking is hard to fault.
- Maybe, but Jim's
put in 13 years.
Every time you saw
another hash mark,
seems you end up
asking yourself the whys
and the what fors.
If it makes any difference,
if it's all really worth it,
the pain and sweat.
I keep thinking about it myself.
Coroner found this
on Paulie's body.
It's phony, but it's top grade.
- [Stacy] Is this the
only one he had on him?
- Yeah.
Patrol unit found his car
in a parking lot, this one.
- Would he risk that,
leaving his own car
full of funny money?
- He'd hide it real good.
- Is this a private
scavenger hunt,
or can anybody join in?
- Join the party.
Paulie's stash has got
to be here somewhere.
- Sometimes they slit the
seats through the backrest.
Anywhere they can
get quick access.
- Back end's clean.
(box rattling)
- Well look at
what we have here.
Look what's
playing in the top 20.
- This is quality merchandise.
The kind Simone sells.
- The return address.
- We got the passer.
Let's see if Simone is still
dealing at the El Rancho.
- Stacy, book the money.
Bring O'Brien up to date.
- It's Charlie Burrell.
His street name is 10 Spot.
I've popped him before,
he's a race track passer.
- You can pick up
10 Spot any time.
Simone is your target.
- Let's hit the door.
(knocking on door)
- Police, open up.
(gun firing)
- Komack, you all right?
- Yeah, take it.
(car horn honking)
- You've done a little
time in the joint, Marty.
You know how tough it can be.
It's no place for a lady.
- Look, Marty,
what we're saying is,
if you cooperate and
help us turn Simone,
we got no big
reason to hit you hard.
- Why waste your
best years inside,
while Simone is on the outside,
living it up without you?
- What do I have to do?
- Find Simone.
We'll fill you in on
what to say to him.
We'll give you one of
our men to work with.
- No hard time.
OK, lay it out for me.
- You think Marty
can pull this off, huh?
- She's all we've got.
Simone isn't going to show
unless we offer him a deal
he can't turn down.
- [Komack] OK,
but I got a problem.
- What's that?
- I got nobody available
to work with her.
I'll have to fly
somebody in from DC.
- By the time you do that,
Simone will have buried
himself somewhere.
- Then you come up with someone.
- Yeah, I just might do that.
- You really mean it?
You'll talk to my
father tomorrow?
- It seems like the thing to do.
- Jim.
I'm sorry to interrupt,
but I need to talk to you.
- Come on, Stacy,
give me a break.
- It's important.
- Here I go again.
- How did you find me?
- Your landlady.
- Oh, great.
What is it?
- Hooker trapped
John Simone today,
but he rabbited
before the collar.
There's a way we can get to him.
- Come on, Stacy,
can't this wait?
- Since when did being a
cop become nine to five?
- I'm on days off, remember?
- You know why I'm
here instead of Hooker?
Because we've
shared a lot together.
Because I thought I knew you
and what was important to you.
- I just think I want
out, all the way out.
- OK, if you're pulling
the pin because of the lady
or more cash in the bank,
great, I can understand that.
I'll even throw you
a going away party.
But if you're quitting
because things got tough,
because you had to lay
some of yourself on the line
and it hurt, then
I'm losing a partner
for all the wrong reasons.
You turn everything you
touch sour, and everyone,
including yourself.
So before you break up a
damn good team, think about it.
- It's decision time, isn't it?
- Talking about my job or us?
- Isn't it the same thing?
- Yeah, I guess it does
come down to that.
- Well, I only have
one thing to say.
I love you.
- You argue a good case.
- I'm trying.
- Jim's had enough
time to think about it.
I guess I blew it.
- Who else can we use?
- It's your turn.
- Great.
Yeah, this is Komack.
Put me through to the
assistant director, please.
- I thought you were
on your days off.
- Stacy said you figured
a way to get to Simone.
I want a piece of him too.
- Operator, cancel this call.
- Well, first we better get you
into something more comfortable.
- This is 100,000 genuine.
It'll buy five times
that in funny money
and if you should lose
it, I'll probably get fired,
or maybe executed.
(phone rings)
- Hooker.
It's Marty.
Yeah.
Yeah.
OK, we'll play it his way.
You did good, Marty.
Our man's name is Corrigan.
He'll be there waiting for you.
OK, the meeting
with Simone is set.
Like we figured,
he couldn't say no
to $100,000 in real green.
One thing, you
can't wear a wire.
Simone will be checking for it.
Fortunately, we
anticipated that.
(device beeps)
Homing device.
And your transmitter.
- Be careful how
you hold the handle.
That's where the mic is.
- You Corrigan?
- Yeah.
Marty, right?
- A friend of Simone
dropped me off.
- Yeah, one of them will
check our clothes out for bugs.
So how'd you sell me to Simone?
- I told him you did
time with your ex-wife.
When I got out, we used
to be a thing together.
- Was that smart?
You're his girlfriend, right?
- Something he'd believe.
I'm just merchandise
to him, like his money.
- Well, you're about
to change that.
- I just got paid 100
bucks by a gentleman
to tell you both to be
out front in five minutes.
- Was that before or after
they searched our clothes?
- After.
- Did he pay you in twenties?
- Yes.
- Sweetheart, you'll be
amazed at what that gentleman
just did to you.
- 16, you there?
- Standing by, 30.
- They just got into a brown
Lincoln four-door sedan.
Be ready.
(device beeping)
- Simone's playing it cute.
He's supposed to be in that car.
- 16, subject is
northbound on 40th.
We're rolling.
- Right on target.
- Let's keep it that way.
- Where's the telephone?
Mr. Simone, please.
- Let me talk to Marty.
- Hey, I'm packing
the money, pal.
You deal with me, or I'll take
my business somewhere else.
- We talk, and you take orders.
Go to the phone on the
fourth level by the fire stairs.
- Come on.
(device beeping)
- [Jim] He's covering
himself by running us
until he's sure we're
not dragging a tail.
- Yeah, he's real cute.
- Hooker, we're on the
fourth level, but hang tight
until I know for sure
where it's going down.
(phone rings)
Yeah?
- You're lucky you came alone.
- You're lucky I came at all.
- Go to the phone
on the terrace level
by the south entrance.
- He's got us on the move again.
(phone rings)
Hey, stop playing
games, let's deal.
- Just turn around.
- Hooker, we're on
the fourth level terrace.
This is it.
- Let's go.
- Rub his neck too, Marty?
- Hey, Slick, I
came here to score.
You got something for the lady,
you two work that out until
we conclude our transaction.
I have 100,000
genuine in this case.
You have what I want.
Do we trade or not?
- First we look.
Careful in, careful out.
Stay put.
Nice doing business with you.
(exciting instrumental music)
(tires squealing)
(gun firing)
- I forgot, I don't
have any cuffs.
Also aren't packing a gun.
Better keep an eye
on your partner, Stacy.
He's getting careless.
- My pleasure.
- Maybe it's better
this way, Jim.
You belong here.
I don't and I never will,
and my mistake was
impressing you to change.
- I'd make a lousy
executive anyway.
Probably a lousy husband.
- I won't buy that.
We had some great times.
I don't intend to just
disappear through a trap door.
- Who said anything about that?
- I'm gonna give it
a couple of weeks
and then I'll call you.
- If I don't call you first.
- So I lose a husband
and I gain a friend.
- Think that little scene
means I got my partner back?
- A little bruised, maybe.
A little older and wiser.
But definitely back.
(upbeat electronic rock music)
- Get these bills boxed up
and get them in the car, Reno.
Now.
- Sure, John.
- The informant tells me
they'll be coming out of there
with a car trunk
full of funny money.
- Just what we need.
Another counterfeiting
operation.
- Snitch came to me
after he was invited in.
You know him, Jim, Toby Reno.
- Reno, I thought he
married a bump and grind girl
and retired into
the straight life.
- Semi retired.
- Must have some good moves.
The only thing Reno ever
liked more than a street hustle
was playing undercover cop.
- Komack, Secret Service.
You know my team.
Sheridan, Corrigan.
- What do we got here?
Toby Reno got off
a quick call to me
before he went in there.
He just met the guy running
the operation, John Simone.
- Wow.
He's wanted for escape
from McNeil Prison.
He heads a federal
prison gang of enforcers
called the Brotherhood.
He's also probably the best
paper hanger in the business.
Who else is in there?
- Guy who does the
printing, who recruited Reno.
Clarence Trent.
Anda couple of hired guns.
Listen, Komack, Toby Reno
is the one handing you this.
If things start to
go down heavy,
watch out for him, will you?
- Like he was my brother.
I've got the warrant.
Should we go do this?
Bobby, cover the back.
You have any ideas
how to get in the front?
- Yeah, I got one.
- Let's go, cars are moving.
- All right.
- Now!
(guns firing)
(tires squealing)
(guns firing)
(Trent groaning)
- Reno.
He's dead.
(tires screeching)
(siren blaring)
- Adam 30, in pursuit
of the counterfeit suspect
driving a brown Gremlin.
Eastbound on
Seventh, just past Julia.
(siren blaring)
- Four Adam 30 to control.
Advise all units to the
Becker Drawbridge area.
Suspect in brown Gremlin,
last seen going west
on Becker Avenue.
Unable to read
plates for accurate ID.
- [Stacy] 16 to 30,
come in on Tac-2.
- 30.
- We've got four people
down at the warehouse,
one in custody, one DB.
Shooting team is rolling
with a 20 minute ETA.
- I'm sorry, your man
got caught in the crossfire.
And it looks like he was
taken out with a shotgun.
- What happened?
- Trent was opening up on me.
I fired back, Reno
was behind him.
He took a hit.
- OK, these things happen.
- I took out the wrong man.
- From the way it looks,
you didn't have any choice.
- I've been around long enough
to know the tactical error is
I didn't clear my background
before I pulled the trigger.
Now a poor guy who
liked to play cop is dead.
- Jim.
Combat shooting is almost
always a matter of pure reflex.
Before you start jumping
all over yourself, back off.
Let the shooting
team do their thing,
and if they second
guess you wrong, OK.
Then you pay your dues.
- Is that what Reno
did, pay his dues?
For what?
My mistake?
- US attorney can't
do me any good.
I escaped from
McNeil with Simone.
Just going back to do my time.
- Plus time for this new
counterfeiting charge.
But there is something
that can be done
if you're willing to deal.
If you turn
government's witness.
- Why should I deal?
All I did was age the bills,
make them pass easier.
I wasn't the printer.
- Photograph these as evidence,
and try you as the printer.
Judge compounds the
sentence and adds a murder rap.
- I didn't shoot anybody.
- Come on, Trent.
You're a jailhouse lawyer, you
know how the system works.
You didn't pull the trigger,
but you pulled the crime.
That's murder one.
- You're trying to put
a jacket on me, man.
- No, we'll let the judge
and the jury do that.
You'll rot inside
your cell an old man.
- I might want to cooperate.
The Brotherhood, you
don't know what they're like.
They kill stoolies.
- Well, the government
might be willing
to put you under deep cover.
- Yeah?
- Sometimes we trade off, sure.
- Look, you get the US attorney
to promise no murder charge,
I'll do what I can.
- Thanks for the help.
- I owe Toby Reno, so
then John Simone owes me.
I'll take them any
way I can get them.
- Jim, I've been
looking for you.
- I'm meeting
Vicky and I'm late.
- How'd it go with
the shooting team?
- They asked me a lot
of very polite questions
and let me sweat.
- It was an accident, Jim.
By the way, Hooker
wants to talk to you.
- I don't want to talk him.
Know what I've been thinking?
I've been thinking about
13 years of shootouts,
of blood and dead bodies.
I've been thinking maybe
I've had 13 years too many.
Know what I mean?
- No, I don't.
Vicky's father has an
opening in his company.
The spot's mine if I want it.
- And Vicky's pressing you.
- Let's say she thinks it might
be a change for the better.
There's something else
I've been thinking about.
That shootout could
have gone either way.
Maybe the law of averages
is catching up with me.
- Now, why don't
you tell me about it?
- About what?
- You've been
somewhere else all night.
Something has happened
and you're ready to explode.
Tell me and maybe we can
do something about it together.
- There was a shooting today.
I was involved.
A man was working
undercover with us,
and one of the suspects
got a shot off at me,
and I fired back.
Our man just happened to be
behind him at the wrong moment.
I shot and killed him.
- I'm sorry.
I'm so sorry.
- That's the problem, so am I.
Only being sorry
won't change anything.
- You can't blame yourself
for an accident, Jim,
and that's what it was.
But you can do
something about it
so that it never happens again.
You can do something
else for a living.
You don't have to lay your
conscience and your life
on the line every day like this.
You've got that choice.
You want to talk about choices?
- Jim, Vicky.
- Hooker.
I was just going to
touch up my face.
Excuse me.
- Nice girl.
- Yeah.
How'd you find me?
- I got it out Stacy.
Had to pull rank.
Two things.
The shooting team
reported, you've been cleared.
- Thanks.
And two?
- Komack called.
Clarence Trent had
agreed to cooperate
in putting a collar
on John Simone.
He was being kept
at the county jail.
Only about an hour ago,
somebody put a wire necktie
around Trent's neck, he's dead.
- Who got to him?
- Komack said it
was the Brotherhood.
Prison pipeline got word
out that Trent was a stoolie.
- You're gonna need a lot
of luck finding Simone now.
- We're just going to have to
make our own luck, aren't we?
- Don't count on the we part.
I might not be around.
- I can't accept that, not yet.
- Hey, Stacy, where's Hooker?
- Said he was gonna
see Reno's widow.
Ready for patrol?
- As ready as I'll ever be.
- Are you still doing that
guilt number on yourself?
- Guilt is just a symptom.
- Jim, you have
citations left and right.
Medal of valor,
officer of the month,
plus you have the A-number
one partner on the force.
- I'll buy the last part.
The rest sounds
like my obituary.
- Am I bringing you up, or
are you bringing me down?
- Depends on your point of view.
Come on, partner, we have duty.
(engine starts)
(sleazy rock music)
- You'll ruin our
business, Hooker.
Our customers don't like cops.
- I came by to tell you
how sorry I was about Reno.
- Yeah, well, what's another
husband more or less, huh?
He'd still be alive if he
stayed away from you.
- Reno's dead because
Simone decided to shoot it out.
I need your help.
I need your help
to catch Simone.
- You're something else.
My husband is gone,
so Sally steps in, right?
Get the hell out
of here, Hooker.
- Sally.
Reno and I were friends.
He told me something that a
man doesn't tell another man
unless they are friends.
He said the best thing
that ever happened to him
was meeting a certain lady.
She was the only thing
that really mattered in his life.
He was talking about you.
I just want you to know that.
- Reno told me something
that I think he'd want you
to know now.
- What's that?
- The first time
that he met you,
you caught him in a money
switch deal he had going.
Instead of booking him,
you marched him to a church
and made him put every
penny into the poor box.
He couldn't get over that.
- I remember when he
called me the next day.
After the shock had
worn off, he said he felt
like a new man.
- He was.
That was the last
crooked deal he ever tried.
I guess he thought a lot of you.
- Thank you for
telling me, Sally.
- Hooker.
John Simone,
he works with a
guy named Paulie.
That's all I know, Paulie.
- Thank you.
- Komack is down at the
Federal Reserve bank.
Simone's funny twenties
started showing up
on the receipts from
shopping centers.
- His wife came up with a name.
Cross checking it with
Simone's known associates,
we came up with a match.
- Paulie Morris.
Did 306 for passing bogus money.
- Six years ago,
Paulie was arrested
with one Clarence
Trent, now deceased,
but John Simone's late printer.
- So we got a connection.
- It's a reach.
But I'll check Paulie's
last known address.
He might take us to Simone.
- It's worth a shot.
Call us for surveillance
if you need anything.
- Quality stuff here, John.
- It's been only
the best, Paulie.
Why don't you want to
score some more, huh?
- I'm running a little
light of ready cash.
Let me get rid of this package.
I'll be back this afternoon.
- That money might not be
here when you get back, Paulie.
- You ain't the only
supplier around town.
- But I'm the best.
(Paulie laughs)
- I'll be back this afternoon.
- When he comes
back, the price goes up.
A thousand on 30.
- I thought he was your friend.
- I don't have
any friends, Marty.
- When are we gonna
go away, Johnny,
have a good time like you said?
- Don't bug me on this, huh?
You ain't that good, baby.
- But I'm good enough to
sit around in motel rooms
for the last six months right?
- You got a loose mouth.
Shut it up, will ya?
- What are you
going to do, snuff me
like you did your
printer Clarence?
- Where'd you get that?
Who told you that?
- One of your passers told me.
Everybody knows it.
- Oh yeah?
Maybe it's good you
know about it, baby.
That's what happens to
people that got a big mouth.
Just remember that. (sighs)
- [Dispatcher] Four Adam 30.
See the woman, the
bookstore, Fourth and Flower,
possible counterfeiter
there now.
- Four Adam 30, roger.
- [Stacy] Four Adam 16
to Four Adam 30 on Tac-2.
- [Hooker] 16, you're
clear for backup.
- Rolling backup.
- 30 to 16, I've made our man.
He's slim, 5'9, wearing
a gray suit, black tie,
and he's carrying
a small package.
He's at the address,
move in from the south.
- Roger, we're in position.
(exciting instrumental music)
- No, no!
- Stay back, or I'll kill her.
- No, don't, please
don't hurt me.
- Paulie, it's only passing
funny money so far.
Let the girl go, don't
make it any worse.
- I've done all the
hard time I'm gonna do.
Now back out of here.
Everybody!
- [Hostage] No, don't hurt me.
Don't hurt me.
Don't hurt me.
- Paulie.
She dies, you die.
It's as simple as that.
- No, no.
- Don't hurt me.
No!
(gun fires)
(hostage sobbing)
- It almost happened
again, Stacy.
I almost hit that woman.
- You didn't, Jim.
You didn't.
- Will there be
another inquiry by,
what do you call it,
the shooting team?
- Sure, procedure.
Two down in two days,
I'm getting a reputation
to live up to.
- Do something about it, Jim.
- Like quit?
- Don't misunderstand me.
Your being a police
officer doesn't matter to me.
It's just that you have
so much more potential.
- Potential to do what?
- You don't have to
work for my father.
You can be anything
you want to be,
except use a gun
as a way of life.
Shooting, being shot at.
I love you, Jim, but
I don't want to watch
the man I love being destroyed
by what he does for a living.
- Has it been that bad?
- You know what you've gone
through these past two days
better than I do.
There's nothing wrong with
coming home every night,
enjoying beautiful things,
leading a normal,
quiet, uneventful life.
There's nothing wrong
with that, is there?
- There's nothing
wrong with that.
- I've gotta run.
I promised my mother
I'd take her shopping.
- Thanks for stopping by.
- I'll see you tonight.
And Jim, whatever
you decide, it's OK.
I'll see you tonight.
(engine starts)
- I got a question.
- I hope I have an answer.
- I got time on the books.
Figure I'd pull a
special tomorrow.
- You need some extra
time off, why don't you take it?
- To tell it like I
feel it right now,
I'm not sure I
want to come back.
- Cop's badge
isn't easy to wear.
- I'm not sure I want to.
See those guys?
I work with most
of them every day.
Today they won't
look me in the eye.
- Maybe you're not
reading it right, Jim.
These guys haven't
been where you've been.
They haven't had
to pull the trigger.
So they get to
wondering about it.
Thinking whether they
could handle it or not.
Whether they'd come out alive.
- I gotta live with the fact
that two men are dead
and an innocent woman
came within an inch
of having a bullet in her head.
- You did what had to be done.
- By the book, I've had
that chapter read to me.
- Because it's right.
- Maybe for you.
Maybe that's what I thought
when I pulled the trigger.
But maybe I've
been thinking wrong.
- I'm worried about Jim.
- Maybe some extra
time off will help him
get his head together.
- Not if he spends
it with Vicky.
She wants him to
start a new line of work.
After the last couple of days,
her thinking is hard to fault.
- Maybe, but Jim's
put in 13 years.
Every time you saw
another hash mark,
seems you end up
asking yourself the whys
and the what fors.
If it makes any difference,
if it's all really worth it,
the pain and sweat.
I keep thinking about it myself.
Coroner found this
on Paulie's body.
It's phony, but it's top grade.
- [Stacy] Is this the
only one he had on him?
- Yeah.
Patrol unit found his car
in a parking lot, this one.
- Would he risk that,
leaving his own car
full of funny money?
- He'd hide it real good.
- Is this a private
scavenger hunt,
or can anybody join in?
- Join the party.
Paulie's stash has got
to be here somewhere.
- Sometimes they slit the
seats through the backrest.
Anywhere they can
get quick access.
- Back end's clean.
(box rattling)
- Well look at
what we have here.
Look what's
playing in the top 20.
- This is quality merchandise.
The kind Simone sells.
- The return address.
- We got the passer.
Let's see if Simone is still
dealing at the El Rancho.
- Stacy, book the money.
Bring O'Brien up to date.
- It's Charlie Burrell.
His street name is 10 Spot.
I've popped him before,
he's a race track passer.
- You can pick up
10 Spot any time.
Simone is your target.
- Let's hit the door.
(knocking on door)
- Police, open up.
(gun firing)
- Komack, you all right?
- Yeah, take it.
(car horn honking)
- You've done a little
time in the joint, Marty.
You know how tough it can be.
It's no place for a lady.
- Look, Marty,
what we're saying is,
if you cooperate and
help us turn Simone,
we got no big
reason to hit you hard.
- Why waste your
best years inside,
while Simone is on the outside,
living it up without you?
- What do I have to do?
- Find Simone.
We'll fill you in on
what to say to him.
We'll give you one of
our men to work with.
- No hard time.
OK, lay it out for me.
- You think Marty
can pull this off, huh?
- She's all we've got.
Simone isn't going to show
unless we offer him a deal
he can't turn down.
- [Komack] OK,
but I got a problem.
- What's that?
- I got nobody available
to work with her.
I'll have to fly
somebody in from DC.
- By the time you do that,
Simone will have buried
himself somewhere.
- Then you come up with someone.
- Yeah, I just might do that.
- You really mean it?
You'll talk to my
father tomorrow?
- It seems like the thing to do.
- Jim.
I'm sorry to interrupt,
but I need to talk to you.
- Come on, Stacy,
give me a break.
- It's important.
- Here I go again.
- How did you find me?
- Your landlady.
- Oh, great.
What is it?
- Hooker trapped
John Simone today,
but he rabbited
before the collar.
There's a way we can get to him.
- Come on, Stacy,
can't this wait?
- Since when did being a
cop become nine to five?
- I'm on days off, remember?
- You know why I'm
here instead of Hooker?
Because we've
shared a lot together.
Because I thought I knew you
and what was important to you.
- I just think I want
out, all the way out.
- OK, if you're pulling
the pin because of the lady
or more cash in the bank,
great, I can understand that.
I'll even throw you
a going away party.
But if you're quitting
because things got tough,
because you had to lay
some of yourself on the line
and it hurt, then
I'm losing a partner
for all the wrong reasons.
You turn everything you
touch sour, and everyone,
including yourself.
So before you break up a
damn good team, think about it.
- It's decision time, isn't it?
- Talking about my job or us?
- Isn't it the same thing?
- Yeah, I guess it does
come down to that.
- Well, I only have
one thing to say.
I love you.
- You argue a good case.
- I'm trying.
- Jim's had enough
time to think about it.
I guess I blew it.
- Who else can we use?
- It's your turn.
- Great.
Yeah, this is Komack.
Put me through to the
assistant director, please.
- I thought you were
on your days off.
- Stacy said you figured
a way to get to Simone.
I want a piece of him too.
- Operator, cancel this call.
- Well, first we better get you
into something more comfortable.
- This is 100,000 genuine.
It'll buy five times
that in funny money
and if you should lose
it, I'll probably get fired,
or maybe executed.
(phone rings)
- Hooker.
It's Marty.
Yeah.
Yeah.
OK, we'll play it his way.
You did good, Marty.
Our man's name is Corrigan.
He'll be there waiting for you.
OK, the meeting
with Simone is set.
Like we figured,
he couldn't say no
to $100,000 in real green.
One thing, you
can't wear a wire.
Simone will be checking for it.
Fortunately, we
anticipated that.
(device beeps)
Homing device.
And your transmitter.
- Be careful how
you hold the handle.
That's where the mic is.
- You Corrigan?
- Yeah.
Marty, right?
- A friend of Simone
dropped me off.
- Yeah, one of them will
check our clothes out for bugs.
So how'd you sell me to Simone?
- I told him you did
time with your ex-wife.
When I got out, we used
to be a thing together.
- Was that smart?
You're his girlfriend, right?
- Something he'd believe.
I'm just merchandise
to him, like his money.
- Well, you're about
to change that.
- I just got paid 100
bucks by a gentleman
to tell you both to be
out front in five minutes.
- Was that before or after
they searched our clothes?
- After.
- Did he pay you in twenties?
- Yes.
- Sweetheart, you'll be
amazed at what that gentleman
just did to you.
- 16, you there?
- Standing by, 30.
- They just got into a brown
Lincoln four-door sedan.
Be ready.
(device beeping)
- Simone's playing it cute.
He's supposed to be in that car.
- 16, subject is
northbound on 40th.
We're rolling.
- Right on target.
- Let's keep it that way.
- Where's the telephone?
Mr. Simone, please.
- Let me talk to Marty.
- Hey, I'm packing
the money, pal.
You deal with me, or I'll take
my business somewhere else.
- We talk, and you take orders.
Go to the phone on the
fourth level by the fire stairs.
- Come on.
(device beeping)
- [Jim] He's covering
himself by running us
until he's sure we're
not dragging a tail.
- Yeah, he's real cute.
- Hooker, we're on the
fourth level, but hang tight
until I know for sure
where it's going down.
(phone rings)
Yeah?
- You're lucky you came alone.
- You're lucky I came at all.
- Go to the phone
on the terrace level
by the south entrance.
- He's got us on the move again.
(phone rings)
Hey, stop playing
games, let's deal.
- Just turn around.
- Hooker, we're on
the fourth level terrace.
This is it.
- Let's go.
- Rub his neck too, Marty?
- Hey, Slick, I
came here to score.
You got something for the lady,
you two work that out until
we conclude our transaction.
I have 100,000
genuine in this case.
You have what I want.
Do we trade or not?
- First we look.
Careful in, careful out.
Stay put.
Nice doing business with you.
(exciting instrumental music)
(tires squealing)
(gun firing)
- I forgot, I don't
have any cuffs.
Also aren't packing a gun.
Better keep an eye
on your partner, Stacy.
He's getting careless.
- My pleasure.
- Maybe it's better
this way, Jim.
You belong here.
I don't and I never will,
and my mistake was
impressing you to change.
- I'd make a lousy
executive anyway.
Probably a lousy husband.
- I won't buy that.
We had some great times.
I don't intend to just
disappear through a trap door.
- Who said anything about that?
- I'm gonna give it
a couple of weeks
and then I'll call you.
- If I don't call you first.
- So I lose a husband
and I gain a friend.
- Think that little scene
means I got my partner back?
- A little bruised, maybe.
A little older and wiser.
But definitely back.
(upbeat electronic rock music)