The Equalizer (1985–1989): Season 2, Episode 6 - Nightscape - full transcript

What the hell is the matter with you?

You don't care that inocent
women have been hurt ?

Your wife was rapped.

Amanda !

You bring my husband home.

Shut up !

Mr. Kaufman ! Don't do it !

Just leave me alone
untill I find those men.

And I kill them.

That was the worst class ever !
It was horrible !

I couldn't understand a
word he was talking about.



Because he was boring.

At least when we get in the 21st century
I'll understand what those *** are about.

****

- What else is there ?
- Normal relationships.

Boring ! Come on, no one is
going home early these days.

- Good bye ! Take care !
- Bye !

Are you okay ?

She'll do.

- Yeah ! Which one ?
- Both.

- Slow down. Not too fast.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.?

Yeah, I know what you mean.

How come Tim isn't meet
me at the school anymore ?

Well, you know he's been busy,
so I... We both had, you know...

Uh huh.



- Let's run for it !
- Okay.

Come on !

- Oh, no ! It's an express.
- That's okay.

No. I wanna take a look.
Let's ride togheter.

Don't be silly. I'm gonna call
Jim tell him I'm on my way home.

- Go ahead.
- Are you sure ?

Yeah, go on.
Go straight home.

- Bye-bye !
- Okay.

Bye !

- Excuse me.
- What do you want ?

You !

1085 requesting ambulance and
female officer at University Station.

You know, I've been out with you all
evening and I still don't know what you do.

Well, I was always told a little mystery
makes a man more interesting.

I didn't say it doesn't.

Thank you.

Thank you.

As a matter of fact, I'm dealing...

Sort of insurance.

I'll bet you do.

Anyway it's not the sort of?subject

that will be interesting to you
over a?bottle of delightful Cabernet.

- Actuarial tables, life expectancy.
- Now that part I might believe.

You know, Kate was right about you.
You do have?a keen wit.

She wouldn't tell me anything?about you.

She said I wouldn't believe it.

- Shall I see you to your door ?
- No, don't bother.

I pay plenty for security.

Well the age of chivalry?is not yet dead.

And this can be a pretty tough?time
for a woman this time of night.

Yes I know, particularly on a
first date with a strange man.

I learned a man can make rather forceful?
expectations when you let him in your door.

I'll tell you what.

Why don't I telephone?you
someday next week ?

No, no, no, you telephoned me,
if you're feeling inclined.

Perhaps we're gonna?have dinner
again or maybe we can get...

I don't know what I'm talking about.

- I would like? that very much.
- Fine, fine.

- And I will.
- Good.

Thank you.

- Good night.
- Good night.

- Robert !
- Yes ?

What the hell. Would you
please walk?me to my door ?

Why don't I walk you to your door ?

- Where's the victim ?
- Right in there.

- You get?a statement ?
- Three men drunk about 11 p.m.

Same man ?

Maybe. The descriptions are?right.
They're not in the mug books.

Mrs Kaufman, I'm detective small NYPD.

- Where's my husband ?
- We've sent a car for him.

I want him now !

You go see where that car is !

Did you tell her about the council ?

She won't?let me call them.
It's not uncommon,

so I give her their card.

Amanda ! What happened? ?

Amanda, I got here as quickly as I could.

- They didn't tell you ?
- Yeah, they said you'd been attacked?.

Baby, did they hurt you much ?

What did they do to?you ?

Didn't you tell him ?

They took everything.

What's going on here ?

Mr. Kaufman, I'm?very sorry,
but your wife was raped.

- I'll make you some tea.
- It's okay, I'm fine.

Can I get you something ?
Brandy, anything ?

Excuse me.

What you said to the police ?

Getting a copy of your?statement.

- You have a right to...
- Don't read?that !

I want to know.

- It's over.
- They haven't caught?them.

Jim...

Amanda ! Amanda, did
you call me after class ?

i was only out for a second.

Did you want me to walk you home ?

Amanda !

Amanda !

Hello, this is Robert McCall.

Can you help me, please ?

- Mrs. Kaufman ?
- Thank you for coming.

I appreciate it a great deal.

On the telephone you said that
you've been attacked by three men.

That's not the whole story, is it?

No, it isn't.

You mean sexually attacked.

Yes.

Well, perhaps it will be easier
if I read the police report first.

My husband took it with him.

Oh, I see...

Or I think I see.

Mrs. Kaufman, I really
do have to tell you that

I can't help people if
they're simply after revenge.

No, I realised that
I don't want revenge.

I don't know if I could handle it.

If they did catch those...

I just forget.

I just want everything
to be back the way it was.

But my husband took his gun and I want
him to come home before he gets arrested

or they might hurt him.

Can you do that ?

Can you bring my husband home ?

I'm sorry.

Of course I will.
I'll find him.

Believe me, I'll find him.

Before I do, I've got
to get some help for you.

I've already been examined.

- Did you talk to anyone ?
- No.

Well, you must.

You really must talk.

It will help.
You start with a friend.

Just one good friend. Please, for me.

But after all, if I'm going out to
look for your husband, I have to know

that you are all right while I'm there.

Please.

Who do I call ?

Zena.

I could talk to Zena.

She's my best friend.

It wasn't a bad night.

She got me a good one in the arm.

Yeah, I see. You gave her one back, too.

Should I call her a perfect night ?

Even found out I won on
the Giants when I got home.

What's the matter with you ?

I wanted the other one.

- And we're going to get her.
- Huh ?

Last schedule, four nights a week.

Want to see a photo of your next date ?

Zena !

You think she'll fight ?

If she don't, I will.

For Pete's sake, McCall,
I've been up 22 hours.

Give me a break.

Yeah, I expect the men
who attacked Amanda Kaufman

to *** , don't you?

Which is why I'm still sitting
here reading these reports.

There's not pattern ***

Maybe, maybe...

We've got the same descriptions before,

but for all sorts of crimes
in all sorts of places.

Why are you so interested
in this case, anyway ?

You don't go chasing after criminals
unless your client is in danger.

- They have not gone after her again.
- No, no.

Unless is the husband.

Why do you say that, Isadore ?

Because if someone hurt the
woman that I love like that.

the very first thing I would
think of would be to kill them.

Yes, well...

Isadore, what is the
password of your database ?

No ! No, no, Robert.

No, no, I cannot do that.

You cannot invade our computer banks.

Isadore, you know that I still
have access. to certain resources.

Computer programs, designed to
break down raw intelligence reports

on gorillas, terrorists,

to correlate their movements,

their equipments,

their habits.

But, above all, to sort out and pinpoint
areas of posible ambush.

- These were field tested in Vietnam.
- Oh ! That's got to be a terffic program.

Oh, no, no. No.

We were...

...very good in killing people.

Just that there were to
many in the end to kill.

Isadore, it will save time.

The password now, please !

I can't do that, Robert.

But...

But, I'll tell you what I can do.

You give this telephone
number to your man.

I'll authorize the downloading
of all the data that he needs.

Okay ?

All right. Thank you,
thank you for that.

Oh no !

Jonah, Jonah, please !

I have a deal for you
that you can not refuse.

Why don't you just shoot
me and get it over?with, McCall ?

I got a lot of work to do.

Some guy at the agency has found
out that a certain Latin?colonel

whose name I won't mention,

has been using?a home pc to call up
the bulletin boards and play?war games

can you imagine. So they want me to? hack
attack his games and make sure he loses.

They figure it'll push him
entirely over the brink.

So try me again in about a week.

How about the police
department data bank ?

Really ? They've got?triple level
encryption protection.That'd take...

Three or four hours to break ?

Oh, you won't have?to. No, someone
I know is going to download

the information ***.

You mean we don't?have to steal it ?
What's the fun in that??

Well, the fun in that, Jonah,

is that you can apply the delphi
programs to your heart's content.

You know, if I could crack
their download protection,

I could probably solve
my parking ticket problem.

Jonah, I was thinking of a more
important use? than a few parking tickets.

Come on, McCall ! Forty
seven hundred dollars worth??

- What ?!
- This is a snow emergency route.

- Okay ! Coffee ?
- I'd love one.

I don't want to go in there, Zena.
I don't want to talk to them...

Come on, kiddo ! I already made
an appointment with the?counselor.

I'm not going to face him alone.

All right, I'll tell you what. You hold my?
hand while I ask them what to say to you.

Why do we have to say anything?

Because you're my?best friend.
I've already let you down one time??

I'm not gonna do it again.

I thought of?being
together with this doctor.

You don't know what they were like.

Then, you will tell me ?

And then ?

So we can figure it out togheter ?

There's a pattern.

There is ?

Yeah. Factor analysis of crime reports? will
generate 82 possible groups of three men.

But only group 79 dash
pi had a high probability

of attacking Amanda Kaufman and
they're the worst?to the bunch.

Typically, a group
answering their?description

is reported early in
the evening at?a robbery,

making a robbery near
a subway station

and then in the same evening
later they reported??

at the scene of a rape,
usually intoxicated,

usually?only two or three
stops down the same subway line.

Two or three stops ? That close ?

Well there are express?stops.
They like fast trains.

So they're intoxicated??

Two or three hours
after?they've committed a robbery ?

Which would therefore indicate

that somewhere?along the line
they stop off in a watering hole,

spend the cash they've stolen?
and get some courage up??

to go and brutalize yet another woman.

They're very?predictable.
They follow the same subway line,

like wild pigs on a forest trail.

Yes. Thank?you, Jonah.
Thank you very much indeed.

- Yeah. And there's another thing.
- What's that??

Group 79-b commits rapes
and clusters a few?days apart,

and if the computer's right,
Amanda is the first one in a new cluster.

Oh charming !

Excuse me. I wonder if you can help.

I'm looking for these men.

This is a drawing of each of them
from just a?description of them.

They mean anything to you??

Why should they ?

Well if they came in
here, you'd?certainly know

where they were because
they've?been behaving badly.

I mean what do I care ?

Well, they have hurt a woman.
As a matter of fact we?think

they've hurt a number of women

Makes me kind of glad
I'm not a woman.??

What the hell's the matter with you, friend ?

You?don't care that innocent
women have been hurt??

And you could possibly
stop it by one word ?

Just?think of the power
that would give you. One word.

I don't know about the other three guys,

but that guy was in
here about an hour ago.

Him ?

Yeah. He had a cup of coffee?he
was one *** real type.

You know which way he went ?

He headed?down toward the subway.
I'm not sure though.

Thank you.

If you happen to see?any of them again,

would you please telephone
one of these numbers ?

- Yeah, sure.
- Thanks.

- What you say ?
- I say why not.

Will you leave me alone ?

Give me some money.

Give me your life, freak ! Get down?!

- Please, mister !
- Shut up !

Mr. Kaufman, don't do it !

- Who are you ?
- I'm a friend. My name?is McCall.

Your wife asked me to
come and?look for you.

My wife...

She needs you alive and
preferably not in prison.

Anyway, he's not the?same man.

They're vermin, just the same !

Don't?you think you're
being a little premature??

sentencing them to death without
a chance, without?a trial ?

I will make sure that they go to trial?.

I'll just cover them here until the
police arrive and they'll be here soon.

Well, good ! You do that !

- While I attend to my business ?
- What is it that's driving?you, Kaufman ?

You're hoping for some sort of release??
from something, by killing those men ?

Just leave me?alone! Just leave
me alone until I find those men !

And I kill them !

Freeze ! I said freeze !

I didn't bother her,
man. I'm just a ***.

You know, they're just
going to let me out anyhow.

You're just wasting your time.

Don't you have?anything
better to do, Mr. policeman ?

Ricky Franklin.

- I arrested his father for assault.
- Sort of family?trade.

Carried on down the
generations. Is that it??

Yeah, you could say that, in a way.

Ricky was the victim of that assault.

Oh, McCall, the lady said this party?
was broken up by a man with a gun.

Now, I know it wasn't you
because the lady said it wasn't.

Now, what Ricky and his friends just tried
to pull here was a misdemeanor at most

but a gun in this town is a felony.

Unless you happen to have one of those
strange little licenses like you have.

So, what's Jim Kaufman going
to do with my men's body ?

I'm circulating copies
of his photo. I had to.

You know, Isadore, I don't know why you don't
just put all your energy into cleaning out

the filth from the subway.

From the streets of the city or
the schools. For God's sake, Isadore !

That man...

Look, Robert, I don't make these laws.
I can barely enforce them but I do know

I can't have a crazed man stalking
through these subways with a gun.

Yeah all right. I know that.

I know that. But he didn't
hurt the boys, did he ?

Robert, if we find him,
we're going to stop him.

Yes, I know. I know. So, I...

- I'll have to find him first.
- I hope you can do that, Robert.

Because a guy in the shape like he is might
just flip out me and try to arrest.

I can try and tell my
detectives to take it easy.

But this might just go down, anyway.

Yeah...

- So, you did find him ?
- Yes, very briefly.

He's riding the subway line which services
the station where you were attacked.

Some blind hope that he'll be
there when they strike again.

Amazing thing is he could have been.

However,

there are one or two pieces of this
puzzle which I'm missing. Aren't there ?

For instance...

Why were you walking home alone ?

And why did the police take so long
to find him and bring him to you ?

That's none of your business.

Well I think it is. I think
it is my business, now.

I think you know why
he's still out there.

He wasn't really taking much care
of you, before the attack, was he ?

Tell him, Amanda. It isn't that bad.

He was having an affair
with a girl down the street.

I saw them together when I came
home from school early one night.

Go on.

So I decided that I would stay in school
to the very end. I wouldn't see them again.

And they didn't see you and you
haven't confronted him with it.

I was afraid I'd lose him.

And now he's afraid
that he might lose you.

- You really want him back ?
- Yes.

Well, in that case you
better come with me, now.

So that when we do find
him you can tell him.

I haven't got much time.

I get my coat.

Another day, another doll !

- Francis !
- Francis !

I have been saving some special time.

Oh yeah? Well don't let it go to waste.

Go buy yourself a good magazine.

- Nice dress !
- Excuse me.

- I am putting her on a schedule.
- She'll recognize you.

I am gonna fix her good
before I get out of this town.

Hey, let's get a little extra pay this afternoon.

What do you say ?

Yeah, then we'll take Zena on a
fast ride to a short date.

- Oh, I'm in.
- You got it !

If it were in a forest, you found the
key on the ground, you could pick it up

or would you leave it there ?

Wait a minute ! This is supposed
to tell if we're compatible or not ?

That's right. That's
what the magazine says.

- Yeah. Are you sure ?
- Should I repeat the question ?

If you're in a forest and you
found a key on the ground,

would you leave it there ?

- You got the time ?
- No.

Sure you do. You got a watch.

Leave her alone !

Just leave her alone !

Leave her alone !

Somebody help us !

Hello.

- Jim...
- What are you doing ?

- What are you doing ?
- The only thing I can think of to do.

Why don't you come home ?
Why can't you do that ?

- It's because you don't want to ?
- No.

Well, I know about Denise.
I know all about her.

Amanda, there's no excuse for...

If I'd known that being with her...

If I thought...

Oh, God, I'm sorry !
I'm so sorry !

I never meant to hurt you.

- I love you. You're my wife.
- Then come home with me and stay with me.

- Be with me.
- But I owe you something.

I wasn't there for you once,
but I'll be there for you this time.

I mean, if a man can't fight
for his wife, what's he got ?

Jim, whatever you do down here
isn't gonna change what happened.

You can be with me, right now.

- It isn't enough.
- It's everything.

I love you, Jim.

Just take care of me.

Take me home.

Well, I got you guys an
appointment at the Crisis Center.

First thing in the A.M.

- You gonna go ?
- Yeah, thanks you.

Where are you going ?

Class. Can still make the last hour.

See, now don't go on the subway alone.

Not now.

I got to, otherwise the bad guys win.

I'm gonna take good notes for you

I'll be real careful.

Call us later. Let us
know you're all right.

Call you later.

McCall.

Yeah, it's me, Tommy.

You know, the bartender.

Well, what's the matter ?

Look, I don't know why I'm getting into
the middle of this, but I just came back on.

and my waitress said
that there was some guys in there

and they scared the hell out of her.

There're three of them.

That would mean they were moving
up the line instead of down.

Subway line ?
That's where they were headed.

Thank you.

Hello. Jim Kaufman here.

Hello it's me, Robert McCall.
Is Zena still there ?

No, no, she went to class and
then she's going home. Why ?

She may be in real danger

The gang appears to
have broken its pattern.

I want you to call the school
and stop her from leaving. Now !

Alex ?

- Hi !
- Hi !

- Were's Steven ?
- He had to work tonight. Why ?

Nothing, I was hoping
maybe I can get a ride.

- Where you're heading ?
- Queens.

Never mind.

No !

Darn !

Zena !

Keep moving. Don't look back.

Chain ends here and now.

What ?!

What makes you think you
can stop us? No one can.

Allison ?

Well, this is a lovely place
to ask a girl out on ***.

I had to *** bartender.

In a such short notice.

Have you slept since I last saw you ?

Actually, no.

Well, tell me about it.

Oh, no, no, no. No,
it's not much to tell.

Then. why did you call me ?

It helps to talk. I know.

Start with a friend.

One good friend.

Well, that sounds like a majority vote.

Tell me.

You...

You wanted to know
what I do for a living.

I kill people.

There's always one who wields the sword
of Damocles, one self-appointed god.

It's me, Alice.

That's me.

Now, take your time.

I've got all night.

Transcribed by Adr1an