All language subtitles for Rockford Files s05e18 The Return Of The Black Shadow.eng

Relax, mama,
you're gonna dig it.

lt'd be a shame to see
the whole Cooper family wiped out by one gang.

Is that what an ex-motorcycle
gang member does when his sister gets raped?

I'm with the Rattlers, Jimmy.

Now, you gotta take
a look and see if these bums are the ones.

All right,
burn them up.

ROCKFORD
This is Jim Rockford.

At the tone, leave your name
and message.

I'll get back to you.

Jim, this is Florence Boyle.
You worked for my husband last month in Glendale.

You were so
helpful then and...

Well, I have a problem
of my own I'd like to discuss, confidentially, of course.

I got a nose
like a bloodhound.

This is really nice of you,
I mean, asking me out.

Hey, it's okay,
I wanted to.

Hey, you don't have
to say that, Mr. Rockford.

I know Johnny
made you do it.

He says I never date,
but I do.

I mean, not a lot because
there's so much extra cataloguing at the university.

We're completely redesigning
the entire physics research catalogue.

That must be something.

Well, it is sort
of interesting,

because physics is basically
a quantitative science.

It used to be that
it was just called natural physics.

But, more recently, they've
broken it down into a lot of different classifications,

like mechanics and heat
and thermodynamics and optics.

And then, of course,
are the more highly developed classifications

like geophysics
and astrophysics.

Those, too, huh?
Absolutely.

Most people think
that those fields are astrological designations,

but they're really physics.
Pure and simple.

Pure and simple.

You and Johnny must
really be great friends.

Well, yeah, we share
a certain resentment for the establishment.

What made you
say that?

Well, I mean for you
to agree to take me out and everything.

Gail, I wanted to.

No, I bet he made you do it,
but I don't mind.

I've never been deep-sea
fishing, so I'm really looking forward to it.

Me, too.

...and then there's
plasma physics and low-temperature physics.

Yeah, Einstein?

No, silly, the theory
of relativity is all about in-laws.

Oh, that's an old
physics joke.

And a good one, too.

Hey, dude, you trying
to hog all the road to yourself?

You can't drive it, citizen,
you park it, you hear?

Saddle up back there.

Hey, who's that mama
you've got in there with you, boy?

Come on.

Hey, mama, can't you
speak to nobody?

Let's go.

Bunch of...

It's okay.

They've gone.

You won't believe this,
but Johnny used to be like them.

Who, those bikers?

After our parents were killed,
he went kind of crazy.

He had a bike
and friends like that, it lasted almost two years.

Didn't he ever
show you his tattoo?

Tattoo?

Yes, he was in a club.
And they all had to wear tattoos.

They called themselves
The Vincent Black Shadow.

Oh, yeah, after the old
classic motorcycle.

Yeah, I guess so.

You know, when Johnny
finally became an attorney,

it was, for me,
the biggest moment of my life.

When he stepped up
and got that certificate,

I cried, I couldn't stop.

People were looking.

You're all right, Gail.

Oh, you're just
saying that.

That's right,
but I mean it, too.

Hey, horn-honker.

Your horn works.

Try the lights.

Hey, Animal,
try his lights.

Hey, mama.

Hey, his lights work.

How about if I just
rev it up a little bit?

Hey, all right!

Okay, the fun's over,
all right?

No, it ain't.

Hey, we're gonna give
your wheels a little test

and you turn into Tarzan!

Trouble, Willie.

Hey, you got
a problem, citizen?

No, sir.

'Cause if you was
to have a problem,

I wish you'd let me
know about it.

I got no problem.

Except you're
a geek, right?

Yes, sir.

How about you?

You got a problem?

Hey, horn-blower,
you got a problem?

He doesn't want
no problem.

Then you won't mind
if I borrow your wheels.

Hey, please, man,
leave us alone.

I ain't hurting anybody...
Am I hurting somebody?

No, sir.

Then I'm gonna
take your mama and your wheels.

Is that okay with you, Tarzan?

Hey, please don't...

How's that again?

I said...

Okay, then,
so it works for Tarzan, so it works for me.

You honk your horn
at a Rattler,

and that's how it goes,
you eat it, Jack.

Animal?
Yo.

This horn-honker's
mama's gonna pull a train.

Let's take her
up to the canyon.

Relax, mama,
you're gonna dig it.

Hey, you okay?

Hey, buddy,
you got a car?

You're not going
after them, fella. You might have a broken rib.

That guy kicked you real hard.
Let's just call the cops.

Is that your truck?

Look, let's just
call the sheriff.

Give me the keys!
Just give me the keys!

Now, go on, you call
the cops and tell them to look in the canyon.

Go on!

Come on,
where is she, huh?

Okay, you.
Just come on.

You're so tough,
you wanna eat some iron? Come on.

I'd love to stuff this thing
down your throat.

Tough guy, you wanna
eat some iron? Come on.

Come on, come on,
all of you!

Get away.

Stop it! Stop it!

Let's get out of here!
Cops! Come on!

What should I
do with her?

Dump her.

Gail?

Gail?

You better get
an ambulance up here.

Okay, looks like
she's in bad shape.

Dr. Elliot.
Dr. Elliot to CCU.

I'm John Cooper.

I understand my sister Gail
and a friend of mine,

Jim Rockford,
were brought in here a while ago.

Can I see them?

You'll have to talk
to the doctor.

Mr. Cooper?

Dr. Conrad.
Dr. Conrad, you're needed in OR.

I'm Dr. Greenberg.

Yeah, how is she?
The nurse said she was unconscious.

She's been sexually
assaulted more than once.

Physically, she's all right,
but, mentally, she is in a deep emotional trauma.

Well, just what the hell
does that mean, Doctor?

She's in an
emotional shock.

She can open her eyes,
but she doesn't hear or respond to anything.

Right now she's in PIC.
They're looking her over.

PIC?

Psychological
Intensive Care.

We'll know more about her
condition in a few hours.

Dr. Russell. Dr. Russell,
please call Radiology.

Raped?

My God.

Where is Rockford?
Can I see him?

I think so. The police are
finished talking to him.

But, Mr. Cooper,
please don't be too long.

He's in no great
shape, either.

He has a rib
that's punctured his lung.

Yeah.

Which room?

He's on
the fourth floor, 415.

Well, I heard you tried
to take on 20 guys.

What are you, nuts?

I'm sorry, John.

Hey, it's not
your fault.

How're you feeling?

Terrible.

How's Gail?

Well, they got her in PIC.
They wouldn't let me see her.

PIC?

Yeah, it's a...

It's a...

A head ward.

I guess
she blanked out or something.

Those guys, they...

They took her up
in the hills...

I know, Coop.

You talked to the cops?

Uh-huh.

And?

Now, listen, John...

And?

They're working on it.

Oh, that's good.

What'd you tell them?

Leave it alone, Coop.

The cops will
turn something.

Dennis... Dennis Becker
took this case right off of Chapman's desk.

Jim,

suppose that's
Rocky lying in there,

and they got him looking
at little boxes and triangles,

and he's staring right
past them at a wall.

You're gonna let
the cops handle it?

I don't know, Coop.

You never lied to me,
Jim, what would you do?

All right, all right.

Suppose you catch up
with them, what then?

I turn them
over to the cops.

Is that what an ex-motorcycle
gang member does when his sister gets raped?

She told you
about that, huh?

Yeah.

Well, I'm not a
Black Shadow anymore, Jim.

I'm a graduate of
West Virginia Law School.

I don't go around hitting
guys with sprocket chains, at least not anymore.

Okay.

I'll put it
to you this way.

I'm going after them.

Now, you can tell me
what you know, or you can hold onto it.

It doesn't change my course.
It just maybe keeps me from walking into a windmill.

It'd be a shame to see
the whole Cooper family wiped out by one gang.

Or one friend.

Hey, that's not your fault.

But what happens to me,

could be.

Coop.

They were called the Rattlers.
There were 15, 20 of them.

They were one-percenters.

I figured that.
What else?

I got one license plate,

9Z9951.

Any names?

Yeah, one.
There's Animal.

Who was on the point?

Oh, he was a pretty
good-size guy with dirty blonde hair.

He was 39, 40 years old,
he was older than the rest of them.

They were in their
mid-twenties as far as I could tell.

It's not much except
for the plate, it's almost nothing.

Coop,

tell Gail I'm sorry, man.

Yeah.

Hey, you rest easy.

Thanks, Jim.

Gail.

Gail.

What do you mean,
it makes no sense?

I know you're
upset, John.

Look, Rockford saw
the plates, and Rockford doesn't make mistakes.

Rockford makes mistakes
all the time.

He got busted up pretty bad,
he misread the plates. Pure and simple.

Well, what's his name?
I wanna talk to him. What's his name?

The plate is registered
to a guy by the name of Robert Greis.

He's a 40-year-old
food dealer.

He's got these little
trucks that go around

and sell to factories
on their coffee breaks.

We had him in for questioning.
He wears a three-piece suit.

The Rattlers were
a club 10 years ago.

According to our gang squad,
they've been disbanded,

at least,
as far as we can tell.

Maybe these guys
came from up north.

Now, what about the bike
the plate was traced to?

It's a dirt bike,
registered to his catering company.

A dirt bike?
A dirt bike.

So, maybe he switched
the plates.

Or maybe
Rockford was wrong.

Maybe.

Hey, hold it.

Listen, John.

Me and you have had
no run-ins. I'd like to keep it that way.

Me, too.

I know you're upset
about your sister, anybody would be.

But it's more the reason
why you stay out of this.

Okay.

I mean, really.

I'm out. Okay?

Okay.

It just doesn't make much
sense to me to have a meeting without Billy being here.

I don't know, Bob.

Maybe he's the one guy
that shouldn't be here.

He still scares
us all, right?

Hey, nobody
ever said that.

Come on now, let's own up
to at least that much.

He scared us 10 years
ago and he still does.

The only reason
he's in for 30%

is we were too scared
of him then to offer him any less.

Look, that wasn't
the situation then and you know it!

Now, wait a minute,
wait a minute, hold on.

Now, look, we got a good
thing going here, right?

I just went over
the third quarter with Harry.

Rolling Catering stock
is up 25%. Weddings and Picnics, 22.

The Danish shop on Crenshaw
is turning the corner, plus.

Dave and Milt tell me
we can franchise the donut business.

And we got
"Whispering Willie" Green.

Still running citizens
off the road.

Taking some broad up
in the hills and making her pull a train.

He's got Bob's plate
on his bike.

He's hired a bunch
of punks from up north to work on the trucks.

He's forming the club
back up and making runs.

And now Bob gets
pulled in and questioned.

Now, just suppose
somebody starts digging in your old file, Bob?

And just suppose they find
out that this whole company was put together by us.

What then?

Hey, Bob, he's right.
Someone's got to stop him.

Somebody's got
to wise him up.

Okay, I'll do it.

I'll tell him,
he gets out of town

and he stops making runs
or we feed him his spurs. Agreed?

Yeah, yeah,
it's agreed, it's agreed.

You wanna keep your hands
off that bike there, sonny?

Tough guy, huh?

Who knows?
I sure don't.

But you keep smarting off,
citizen, you might find out.

It's just I haven't seen
one of those for 10 years.

That is the finest bike
ever built.

You seen a guy
named Animal?

Well, he's a Rattler I met
up on the Porterville run.

How many Animals
you heard of, huh?

Personally, I know six guys
that answer to that handle.

Okay.

There's this bar
down near the Coast.

The guys have been
hanging around there.

The citizens don't mind
if we hang around.

Okay.

It's called Kilroy's.

Kilroy's?

You trying to be
funny or something?

I'm not kidding you.
I think the guy that owns it is named Kilroy.

You kidding me?
You don't think I can?

Hey, cowboy, I got 10 bucks
right there says you can't.

You pull that on me
every week, man, I'm sick of it.

I just wish I had
me a citizen's head to break it over.

Hey, talking
about citizens.

Hey, you guys
here selling donuts?

Hello, Willie.

You guys wouldn't know it,
but you know, there was a time when these two and me,

we take a broad so bad,
she didn't know where she was for a week.

You wanna hold
it down, Willie?

No, Jack, I don't
wanna hold it down!

Hey, Willie,
we gotta talk to you. It's important. Now.

Oh, it must be for you
guys to be taking a chance to come down here

and have them
fancy suits flashed on.

Hey, Willie, it's private.
Come here.

Yeah?

You still collecting
on that dumb bet?

Hey, if you don't like it,
you know what you can do with it, Jack.

Okay, Willie,
I'll give it to you straight.

You're causing
too much trouble.

Hey, are you the same
Phil Dankus who used to be called "Zorro"?

The same guy that
took a couple of kids

back into the Redlands
10 years ago and snuffed them?

But that was when
you was interested in the Rattlers, wasn't it,

instead of ham
and cheese on rye?

Okay, pal.

We had a board meeting,
and we all agreed that you get out of town.

And if you're not gone
in one day, or less,

Bob and the rest
of us are gonna

see to it personally that
you leave town feet first.

And if you don't
think we're up to it,

just play back a few
10-year-old memories.

Everybody sit, now!

What are you doing?
You guys shot me.

Now, you want the rest of it,
or are you gonna cut your losses and drift?

I'm bleeding here.

I'm really hurt here.
You guys shot me.

You got it, Willie.

Now, you get out of town
or the next one's in the middle of your head.

Now, everybody
just stay put.

If you don't, I don't.

Now, come on, Willie,
give me your keys.

They ain't nothing!
Come on, Willie.

You guys just watch.

We're gonna bust
those dudes!

Come on.
Come on, Willie.

You going somewhere?

Who's that?

What's it to you?

Nothing.
Ain't nothing to me.

You pulled that
shiv out real quick.

Hey, we're the Rattlers.
You pulled the blade on our Number 1.

No kidding. You mean that guy
with the hole in his shoulder?

Hey, you got colors?

Well, show them.

He's been closed
out since '62.

Yeah, well,
sure changed my mind now.

A Black Shadow, huh?

West Virginia, right?

No kidding.

That's right, ace,
no kidding.

Hey, where's
Whispering Willie? He okay?

Yeah.

He says we
gotta lay low.

Yeah?

Yeah, we're gonna
make a run tomorrow.

Hey, all right.
Hey, all right.

Who's the stranger?

He's all right.
VBS.

A Black Shadow, huh?

Hey, I'm talking to you.

Yeah, I can tell,
'cause your lips are moving.

Now, you wouldn't be
looking for more than just kicks, would you?

I'm looking for trouble.

Maybe you're it.
Maybe you ain't.

Come on,
you're parking in with me.

Okay, come on.
Let's go get wasted.

Break them out, doc.

Hey.

All right,
we're gonna make a run tomorrow!

Gonna trash-can
that catering company.

Willie says
we take them all.

We party with these guys
and nobody walks away.

Hey, I like that.

Then we roll out of there
and we take our stuff north. Okay?

What is it?

Who knows, brother,
you either fly or crash.

Hello.

Hey, hey, Jimmy, it's me.

Yeah, Coop?

You got it, pal,
it's old Coop.

Coop, you sound funny.

I'm feeling funny.
I'm flying, brother. Beer, reds.

You're what?

No, no, now, listen up,
listen up, listen up 'cause... 'Cause I'm about to fall down.

Billybob Caterers tomorrow.

The Rattlers is
gonna rip the place.

And I need...

I need...

Hey, Coop?

Oh, boy.

Coop.

Cooper. Coop.

Ah, yeah.
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

Look, I'm riding with them.
I'm... I...

Listen, I'm... I'm...

I'm with the Rattlers, Jimmy.

Now, you got to
take a look, see.

And see if these bums
are the ones.

Now, I'm riding
with them, see.

And we're gonna
make a run tomorrow.

And...

Hey... Hey, Animal!
How you doing?

Hey, Animal!

What you doing
down there, ace?

Hey, who is this?

Who is this?

Is this one
of them motorcycle...

Karen, you go back
to your room.

...motorcycle bums?
Who is this?

Hey, relax, daddy,
or I'll come and relax you.

Listen, you leave
my daughter alone, huh?

If any of you bums come
around here, I got a shotgun.

You hear me, boy?

Yeah, I hear you, daddy.
You tell Karen to sleep tight.

We'll be by
in the morning.

Yeah, well...

She's so fine.

She's so fine.

Nobody uses a phone,
ace. Nobody.

Yeah, well,
when I get ripped, I need a woman.

You just take yourself
a mama.

But you don't seed out.
You got it?

Yeah. Hey, Animal. Animal,

you and me,
are we gonna tangle?

Yeah, we are
sure gonna do that.

How can you even
consider such a thing?

Dad, I feel responsible.

Responsible for what?
'Cause you drove that little old gal up on a public road?

'Cause you jumped 20 maniacs?
'Cause you got your ribs all busted up?

Rocky, Coop somehow
or other is hooked up with those guys.

At least,
he thinks he has.

And from all I can tell
from everybody I've talked to,

it has something to do
with that catering company, so I'm gonna stake it out.

Oh, boy.

If I'm gonna run a make on
those guys, I want Dennis waiting there in the weeds.

I want him there
with the Marine Division.

Yeah, you need
Dennis all right.

You can't even get on
your shoes without help.

Dad, Coop's sister Gail
is sitting in a corner in a head ward.

Coop is out there
riding with those maniacs.

What am I supposed to do,
just sit around and wait to hear it on the news?

Yeah?

Jim, what are you
doing at home?

You're supposed to be...
I left.

All right, Dennis, I'm gonna
need a stakeout on Billybob Catering tomorrow.

Hey, I told you,
forget the caterers.

It's a very
reputable company.

You keep bugging them
and the Deputy Chief runs me into the wall.

Dennis, Cooper's hooked up
with the Rattlers.

Aw, come on,
you're joking, right?

Hey, you want a joke?
You just show up at Billybob's Catering tomorrow morning.

You could die laughing.

Oh, Jim.

He'll show up.
I know Dennis. He'll show.

You said there was trouble,
it's a picnic. What kind of trouble were you expecting?

Maybe they rigged
the three-legged race?

All I know is Coop said
the Rattlers were gonna rip this place.

Maybe they're gonna come
in here and trash it after everybody leaves.

I doubt it.
Bikers don't usually rip empty buildings.

Half the fun for jerks
like that is scaring the straights.

I don't know
all the answers.

You never sat on a deal
when you didn't know all the answers?

If I did on something,
it's usually because it's been cleared by the department.

I'm sorry, Jim,
you said Cooper admitted that he was up on something.

Maybe he read it wrong.
I don't think it's worth the time.

Besides, I got a full schedule
this morning without this.

And you, I think you ought
to check yourself back into the hospital.

Thanks, Dennis.

Okay,
everybody's on the bus.

Yeah, let's get moving.

All right,
burn them up.

Larry, bring me
some more charcoal, please.

Mom,
he's spitting at me!

I don't believe it!

Get those kids
out of here!

Coop! Come on!

Let's go!

Come on, let's go!
Get out of there!

Let's give it to them!
Chase them out of here!

Hey, get out of here!

If we're unlucky enough
to catch up with these dudes,

you got any brilliant plans
on how we should play it?

I don't know.
I'll have to give it some thought.

Yeah, please.

Hey, hey, I don't like it.
They're beginning to slow down.

Yeah,
I don't like it either.

I don't know, Jim.
If they get us stopped, we're in a lot of trouble.

What's he got in his hand?

Look out! Look out!
It's a rock!

I can't see.
Can you see over there?

Can't see a thing.

We're gonna have to
stop it, Coop, we're gonna have to stop!

Here they come.
Here, take this and stay in the truck.

I just want one shot
at Willie, that's all, just one!

I tried that,
it don't work. Now stay in here!

Worse comes to worse,
I'll drive right over them.

Hey, scab, come on!

Step out
of there, stupid!

Come on,
scab, come on!

Come on out!
Roll down the window, at least.

Come on, get out!

Come on, man.
Goddamn...

There's the cops.

Drop to the ground,
or you're dead!

All right, Coop.
Coop!

Coop, leave him alone!

Okay.
Come on.

Okay, now don't
hit him, all right?

Okay.

Sure?
Okay, okay.

Coop!

All right. All right.
Okay, okay, okay.

There's some more down
the road, they raided the picnic grounds.

Well, don't worry about it,
I got it covered.

For a guy with
a busy schedule, you sure get around.

Yeah, well, I went
back to the station and I got to worrying,

so I ran a deep check
on Robert Greis.

He's got a package that goes
back about 12 years, wasn't on the computer.

You'll never guess who owns
this catering company.

Well, let's see now.
A bunch of retired Rattlers?

Right, and all with
outstanding criminal charges against them.

I went back to the catering
company and they were gone. I ran into this old man.

He told me
where the picnic was.

So I figured, well,
I'd better get over here

and see what trouble
you guys were into.

I... I don't
feel too good.

Well, you don't
look too good, either.

But you never looked better,
Lieutenant. Never better.

That's right, Coop,
and don't forget it.

Hi.

Hi.
Jim.

How you doing, honey?

I'm better.

Could I have a moment
alone with him, Johnny?

Well, I guess so.

Thanks.

Thank you.

I heard that you
and my brother got them.

Well, with a lot of help
from the police, yeah.

I've decided to testify
against them.

Johnny says it will
be dangerous, but I want them put away.

I'll be right
there with you.

Jim.

Yeah?

Do you think...

I mean, is it okay if...

I was wondering...

We never had our date.

Oh, now,
that was my line. You jumped it.

But you probably don't
want to go out with me.

I mean, you just did it
because Johnny made...

That was last time.

I got to tell you something.

You're something special.

I'd be so happy
to take you out.

You just name it,
and out we go.

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