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I really think it could get you some work.

Anyway, this was just fantastic

So, Mr. Minnelli, I didn't actually see who did it.

Oh, I was here inside helping a customer.

But the windows were clean, and they're all red.

What's happened to this neighborhood, huh, Hoker? In the old days, when a cop

walked the beat around here, we had nothing like this.

That was a family neighborhood then, you know.

Parents believed in discipline.

You know, for 35 years, before I opened this store, I used to fight the sharks,

storms, sometimes even other fishermen, just to make a living.

Now I gotta call you for help with kids.

Yeah, the better you should call us, the better handle it yourself.

Speaking of kids, how are your grandchildren?

They are beautiful.

Yeah? Yeah.

Hey, they're going to come and visit me next month. No kidding.

Listen, Mr. Minnelli, how do your grandchildren feel about cats?

What are you talking about, cats? I got one. It's the cutest little guy I ever

saw. I was trying to find a home for him.

You know, Hooker, you got a partner who's crazy.

When I got a fish store here and he's trying to give me a cat.

Oh, Mr. Minnelli, come on.

Hey, you're crazy. You are crazy.

Hey, guys.

All units of 4 Adam 30 and ADW just occurred in the parking lot to the rear

1813 Pacific Avenue.

The suspect is described as an unknown male riding a black and red striped

motorcycle, unknown make. 4 Adam 30, handle code 3.

4 Adam 30, that's a roger. We gotta roll. Gina, we'll be back and finish the

report. Okay.

Take care, Paisan. Let me know if you change your mind about the...

A cat, Romano? It's a very interesting story.

I'll just bet it is.

Keep your eyes open, Junior. Pacific's only two blocks ahead.

That could be our guy.

4 a .m. 30. We are in pursuit of a possible assault with deadly weapons

riding a black motorcycle traveling east and alley between 50 and Bergen.

He said it for the freeway.

Motorcycles. They do have a way of sneaking through traffic.

Another trash car, Hooker.

Sheridan is going to go for our throats.

Well, it did have more than a thousand miles on it.

4M30, pursuit terminated.

Request a police tow and motor transport for a black and white replacement.

Looks like we lost more than an ADW suspect.

She was dead before we got here.

You guys get any kind of a description before you lost him? No, he was wearing

visor helmet. We didn't get close enough to get a license.

Is she an actress?

Dancer.

Joan Gillen, 24, according to her driver's license.

Be careful. You're about to step on some of your evidence.

Probably nothing.

I'll have a forensic checkup.

Garcia.

Don't you have multiple stab wounds?

Yeah.

I don't have a man. We're holding on to a bag of nothing. Except maybe for your

oil spot.

You know her, Hooker?

There's no way I do.

Garcia.

Did you notice her hair?

What about it?

The lock has been cut off.

I know this guy.

And I know his victims.

eight years ago.

But when I heard dancer, I knew I was going to find him in that blanket.

How many women did he kill? Four.

Missed a fist by inches.

He thought she was dead. He was going to cut a lock of her hair off.

Interrupted by a neighbor. They called him the barber.

The barber? Then the press had a field day with that one. Well, they find out

he's back.

Who is that doll?

Why, come here. I'll introduce you.

Stacy. I'll handle it. Okay.

You are beautiful.

No, I better introduce you, Romano.

I'd like to introduce you to Stacy.

Beautiful.

I'm your Vince Romano.

You've heard of me?

I replaced Vicki Taylor, Romano.

You've definitely heard of me.

Yes.

Rodney. Oh, yes.

Rodney.

Vicki passed your problem to me, along with the rest of her destiny.

Hiya, Rodney.

Uh, wait. See, there's been a slight change of plans.

See, Detective Warner was going to take Rodney home with him, but he had a fight

with his wife last night. Now she won't let him have him.

Romano, the only reason I let Vicki talk me into keeping this cat in the

barracks last night was because she said you swore Warner would take him

tonight. Don't worry about a thing, doll.

I'm planning on having another customer real soon.

Look.

Look at that cute little bundle of fur.

That's the biggest cat I've ever seen. That's not little. Come on, he'd be a

great companion for you.

Okay, maybe now. How about your family? You want a moment of truth?

Look into my eyes.

Hey. No.

Okay, fine.

Now what, Romano?

Why don't we talk about it over dinner tonight? I think I should introduce you.

This is Stacy Sheridan.

As in Captain. Captain Sheridan.

short DMV for me, will you, Stacy?

Sure, Sergeant.

While I go talk to your father.

Your?

He's your?

On second thought, maybe I'll just get to work on trying to find a home for

Rodney.

See you, Rodney.

Good thinking, Romano.

Good thinking.

All dancers.

All from the beach district.

All with multiple stab wounds with a matching weapon.

All with a lock of hair cut off. I've seen four other bodies that looked like

Joan Gillan's.

Eight years ago, Hooker. Eight years, nothing, then all of a sudden he's alive

and well and working in the beach district again?

Maybe we got ourselves a copycat killer, Captain.

I don't think we can risk maybes here.

This guy could have been in jail for some other crime.

A mental hospital.

None of which you know of a certain, Hooker.

In my gut, Captain. I feel it in my gut.

Captain, I know this case better than anybody.

Sure you do, Hooker.

You were a hot shot homicide detective on a sensational case. Lots of media

coverage.

How close did you come to IDing the killer?

You know the answer to that one.

The case is still open. Because we never had anything more than a rough

composite from Lindharp on the one girl who wasn't killed.

And the murder stopped.

No more witnesses.

No leads.

Suspect dropped from sight.

And the M .O. never turned up again.

Until now.

Eight years later.

That's a long time, Hooker.

Now, until we know better, it's a different homicide.

Captain, I'm not asking to come out of the car. I just want to help.

We have a potentially sensitive case here, which promises to draw attention

this precinct. And the last thing I need is a blue suit moving through the

background of the investigation.

Now, if Garcia needs any help, he knows where to find you. In the meantime, you

have a class to teach.

And I have a briefing to attend.

Captain.

Lynn Hartman is the only one who can identify the barber. Who knows? He could

after her at any time. That's why she's got to be covered, starting now.

I'm sorry, Hooker, but like you said, we can't deal in maybes. And after one

killing, I can't use a maybe to justify the manpower. Now, the issue's closed,

all right?

Oh, no.

Cold, Captain?

No.

No old allergy, you.

One of you must have been around a cat week.

One more reason why you've got to get Rodney out of here, Ramali.

Base two recruits are coming along, aren't they? Yeah, they're right behind

Ramali. You better stay sharp.

Stacy give you that DMV for me?

I couldn't help reading the name on there.

Lynn Ann Hartman, the lady who survived.

Stacy's also running a check for you on the unsolved for the barber killings.

I'm particularly interested in getting that S .I .D. info.

And the original composite on that killer.

Right. Except, Hooker, didn't Captain Sheridan tell you to back off?

Well, yeah, but when we're out on patrol, nobody makes any rules where we

our breaks, right?

You got it, Park.

Was this lady special?

She could have been.

I was married at the time.

I'll see you in a few minutes, I guess.

Right.

I'll hit the market across the street, pick up some chow for Rodney. Little

he's like he's twins.

That's it, Michelle. Very good.

Think tall, girl. Come on. Pull up.

That's right.

Relax your arm, huh?

Here we go.

Releve.

Turn.

Very good, Shannon. That's it, girls. Okay.

Okay, ladies, that's it for today. You all were terrific.

Well, I always had an idea we'd run into each other sometime, Hooker.

Casually.

In a restaurant, maybe.

I'd be with someone else, you'd be with your wife.

But smile.

Maybe pass the time of day and...

That would be the end of it.

How about you?

I tried never to think about it.

I didn't think we'd ever see each other again.

You know, I was surprised to see you still there.

What happened to the dream?

Broadway, you were working so hard to make it come true.

Funny, I forgot I ever had that dream.

You know, after that night, the horror of the attack, all of a sudden I

realized that it wasn't the fame or the money I really wanted.

It was the dancing I was high on.

It was the joy I wanted to share.

Corny, huh? No, no.

I'll bet when you see those kids' faces looking up into yours, you know every

day you made the right choice.

You're wonderful, Hooker.

You give everything.

How are your kids?

Your wife?

Oh, they're fine.

They're not mine in the same way anymore.

A divorce took care of that.

I'm sorry, Hooker. Yeah.

Classic cop in the radio car story.

Well, I read the newspaper stories a couple of years ago about, what do they

call it, a bad shooting.

Is that why you're in uniform?

Well, that's what some people think.

I did kill a man in self -defense.

Scum who killed my partner.

Well, that wasn't put down in the blues.

I asked for the streets again.

Under that tweed jacket and tie, you always wore a street top.

You know, I... I guess I feel a little guilty.

During the two weeks you spent making sure the barber wasn't coming back to

finish the job on me, I... I couldn't help but fantasize how different things

might be if...

You know what?

Okay.

We both ought to feel guilty.

I watched your every move for two weeks.

It was my job.

But it was my pleasure.

You're so different.

It's exciting.

I don't know anything about you.

But you never said anything.

Not a word.

How could I? I was married.

Lynn. I know how difficult all that was for you.

But I gotta ask you to remember it again.

I can't.

It took a while.

I'm here to tell you to be careful.

I mean, really careful.

Another woman was killed this morning.

And the M .O. was similar in every detail to that of the barber case.

You were the only one, then.

Another one?

The coroner says it looked like it happened early this morning.

Archer found her when he came in to open up.

Looks like she almost made it to the car when he nailed her.

Same wounds in here.

And she was a dancer of sorts. Hey, your theory is official, Hooker.

Yeah, well, I'm not jumping through hoops because I was the first one to

it. Garcia, why don't we be careful about what we tell our friends in the

huh? Maybe some hot press will push him into making a mistake.

Well, if anybody's going to push him, it ought to be us.

There's a woman out there who went through plenty eight years ago.

And if the press does its usual St. Vitus dance, she's going to be re

to that crazy man. I don't want that to happen.

Look, why don't you lighten up, I'll hook you.

No, thanks, pal. You're late backing up for me.

I was just going to ask him if he wanted a cat.

Well, that's a motorcycle skid mark. Looks like it was in a hurry, so he

probably didn't bother with the kickstand. It just leaned it against the

railing.

There.

That's very good, Sherlock.

Would you say that he leaned it a little hard this time?

Looks like it came off at the end of a handbrake lever.

Used to happen to me all the time.

One step closer.

What happened?

I was stacking some canned tomatoes. I heard ping -ping. The whole window

exploded. Did you see anybody?

No, just some ladies shopping. They wouldn't do something like this. All

Here's what went ping -ping on your olive oil can.

Tell it.

You mean like in a shotgun?

No, like in an air gun fire.

I don't worry about it, Mr. Minnelli. I'll give you our report number. You

it in to your insurance company, and they'll fix the window. Insurance is for

rich people.

For 35 years, I fish. I don't have it. I don't have it now.

Hey, Gina.

I need your help. Give me those CAT scans, will you, Ramal?

We've got a couple of X -rays here.

Stab wounds.

We're trying to connect the murder weapon.

Here.

Marlin spike, I thought at first.

Yeah. That looks like a marlin spike to me.

Yeah. Marlin spike. Sounds pretty exotic.

No, it's just a fisherman's tool.

It's used to splice rope.

Couldn't catch a good sailor without one.

Yeah, but it has a much larger curve than one I've ever seen before, Gino.

Well, let's see.

Yeah. Yeah, I guess you're right, Hooker.

You know, years ago, there was a Greek fellow. He fished with me for one whole

seat.

He used to carry a tool curve like that one.

Because in his country, they used a different hemp rope.

He... No, wait a minute. He wasn't Greek. A Turk. Yeah, a Turk.

Now it's all coming together.

A foreigner.

That answers some questions.

A foreign seaman who hasn't been back here in eight years, maybe? Keep

Junior. We're getting hot.

I want to keep it on the roll.

4 Adam 30 to 4 W90.

On tack two.

Go ahead, 4 Adam 30.

We have a new lead which suggests that our 187th suspect... Maybe a foreign

national. Have the detectives get all our information requests and

at CII and NCIC Washington. Checked out through Interpol.

That's a Roger.

And for Adam 30, is Officer Romano with you?

Uh, 4W90, he is. Can I pass on a message?

You tell him to... Just tell him to get his blue suit in here to see me at the

end of watch.

Gesundheit, Jan.

I mean, Captain Sheridan.

Ready and one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. One, two, three,

five.

I didn't hear you come in.

You know Trine Hartman?

No, she's out to lunch.

Can I help you with something?

I'll come back.

I know you want the whole thing to stay in the past, but it won't.

Don't remind me, Hooker, please.

It's a nightmare.

A nightmare that took me a long, painful time to forget.

I don't care what's happening now. I just don't want to get involved.

I'm afraid you don't have any choice.

Lynn, you are involved.

You're the only person to see this guy and be alive to talk about it.

I want you to force yourself to think about our friend, the creep.

Try to remember anything you can about that night eight years ago.

His description.

His clothes, his words.

Anything that could help us take him down.

What do you think, Hooker?

Is Rodney going to love this?

He's going to love it, Ramon. He's going to love it.

Rodney.

Rodney. It's a long, boring story. Take my word for it. Not if you love cats. Do

you love cats?

I'm sorry, officer. It was an accident.

Just a minute. It was an accident. I understand that.

But what about what's been happening down at Gino's store on Seaview Avenue?

Those accidents, too?

What about it, guys? Does anybody know anything about that?

No.

You got a pocket full of these?

Hmm?

For your air gun?

Now, listen, son.

The truth is difficult sometimes.

But it's the best way.

I don't have an air gun. I have a slingshot.

I didn't mean to break the window.

And the paint yesterday?

What about that? Did you mean to do that?

Yes, sir.

What's your name and address, son?

Stevie. Stephen Pine.

726 Cliff Avenue.

Why'd you do those things to Gino's store, Stevie?

I... Friday, he pushed me around.

Said I was stealing.

I wasn't. I don't steal.

Honest, I don't.

All right, son, here's what I want you to do.

Why don't you go home, tell your folks the whole story, and have them call me.

This number here, around six in the evening.

Okay?

That's my number.

Okay, you got that? You guys got that?

Yeah. All right.

Go on.

Always the cop, aren't you, Hooker?

Never off the job.

It's what I do.

studio. It happened so quickly I didn't even realize who he was until he was

gone. And then I remembered that the two of you went out to lunch. Will you calm

down? Who was at the studio?

It was him, I'm sure.

The barber.

And he was looking for you, Lynn.

He was looking for you.

oil to five makes of motorcycles and only 185 dealers in the state. But the

broken brake lever narrows it to two makes and 50 dealers. So I put together

list of local dealerships, the ones that I've circled rent to.

That's very good, dear.

Oh, I mean, excellent work, Officer Sheridan.

I'll check out the dealers in Arby tomorrow.

It's strange, but no matter how much he changed, I'd never forget those hours.

My phone hasn't stopped ringing since that piece on the barber came out in the

afternoon papers.

Papers?

I didn't have anything to do with it, Hooker.

Captain.

Not for certain that we have to put a 24 -hour guard in there.

She's moved since the attack eight years ago, but if this guy found her studio,

he'll find out where she lives in no time at all.

I'm shifting things around, but until the A .M. watch comes on, the best I can

do is have the sector car roll by every few hours.

I'm off duty.

I'll stay with her until you can get somebody out there full time.

Romano's offered to help.

All right, Hooker.

You got it.

You say Romano offered to help?

Just exactly where is he, Hooker? I've been looking for him all day.

Rodney? Rodney.

He is the most irritable, insufferable, cantankerous animal I've ever seen.

Romano? Oh, you mean Rodney?

Well, if I catch up with... Romano, I'll tell him you want an appointment.

Do that one with a clue.

They're all coming back, every frightening moment of it.

Shy, so intense.

So evil.

And I also remember smells, impressions.

Good memories from out of nightmares.

Let's hear it.

Aftershave hooker.

Strong.

Sweet.

Yours.

And the sight of you stirring your coffee at my old apartment while you

I was napping in the living room.

And then the killings ended.

The threat was passed.

And you were gone.

No, not gone.

Not there, maybe, but not gone.

for a long time after those two weeks were over.

Romano start.

Hi, Len.

Everything all right?

Perfect.

Let's just realize how late it was.

How's it with you?

Whatever it takes to get this guy, I'm up for it. Just let me know when you

split so I can notify the AM watchman.

Your Interpol idea paid off.

Fingerprints are identical to those of a Joseph Descartes.

I'm on my way home.

If any more comes in, let me know.

That was about him, wasn't it?

Well, we think he's a Turk who escaped from a French prison.

But you can't be sure he's the barber.

He told the French shrink that his mother was a gypsy dancer who was

for stealing by having her head shaved so she couldn't work again.

And because of that, he's been killing women just because they're dancers?

I've seen so many men like this, so their heads messed up. You can't make

or logic of it. Just know for a fact that we're going to get this guy.

And soon.

I was just outside.

You all right?

Hooker?

Hooker? Help!

Hooker, please!

Hooker, please!

Hooker, please!

The back door, he's in there.

Lynn, lock yourself in the back. Go on.

This is 4 Adam 30 to Control.

We're code 6 at Decker's Motorcycle Shop, checking the last entry on our

motorcycle rental sheet.

Here it is.

But the name's not Picardus.

It's Paul Vardik, Turkish, merchant seaman on the Istanbul Challenger.

When's the motorcycle due back?

Well, he wasn't sure when he was sailing.

Said maybe tonight, maybe Monday.

Mr. Decker, it's very important that we talk to this man, so I'm going to put an

unmarked unit down here until he brings that motorcycle back.

Traffic tickets, right?

I tell them to drive careful.

I don't know what it is about bikes. They seem to bring out the worst in some

people.

It's not your fault, Mr. Decker.

This guy had a real head start.

If you're sailing at midnight, when does the crew do back, Captain?

No later than 2200 hours.

Ten o 'clock. We'll have it covered. Thank you, Captain.

Closer, Kirk. I'm getting closer.

This guy, close doesn't count.

He's using the name of Bardic now. We're in a position to see him if he returns

and we'll maintain until relieved by an unmarked unit.

Will you relay that to Garcia, Stacy?

That's a Roger 30. I'll relay.

And we've just received a report from X -Ray 32.

They found Bardic's motorcycle abandoned two blocks from Decker's motorcycle

shop. Why would he do that?

Maybe he made us.

Or the stakeout team.

4W90, check the computer for any auto thefts in that area this afternoon, will

you? It's a Roger 30. Stand by.

What are you after?

Covering the bases, Junior.

30. We've got a reported theft on a late model green Plymouth with Utah plates

less than a block away about the same time. The physical description on the

suspect observed matches Vardick.

Roger. He could walk you from the motorcycle shop.

He's going to use that car to make another run at Lynn.

Let's hit it.

Six o 'clock.

We're meant to be on our way home now.

4L16, this is 4 Adam 30 on TAC -2.

4 Adam 30, this is 4L16.

What is your location, Ryan?

Proceeding northbound on Beach Boulevard following Ms. Hartman Hall.

Roger. Be advised that suspect may be driving a late model green Plymouth with

Utah license plates.

Roger.

No green Plymouth. Everything looks okay here.

She just made a hard right, took off west on Court Street.

Doesn't make any sense.

Don't lose her, Ryan. And keep those location directions coming.

It was hot and cold back there, but I was patient.

Finally, you came to me.

We're going west on Glen Cove. I can see a second person in the car. She was

alone when she left the studio. I checked personally.

Must be Vernon.

He must have slipped into her car somehow.

We're coming up at Glen Cove. Could be they're headed for the Harbor Bridge.

We'll cover that base, too.

Dispatch, 4 Adam 30 and 4 L 16 are in pursuit of a 187 suspect and kidnapped

victim westbound on Glen Cove.

Request you close off. Repeat, close off.

Harbor Bridge northbound.

Roger, 4 Adam 30.

You won't get away with this.

Let me stop.

You stop here and you'll die.

Take me to the harbor for the doctors.

They will stop you from killing you.

It's the first time.

And scum.

It's all over.

Let's go home.

I'm not complaining.

Being with you without a murderer to worry about is quite pleasant.

About last night, it was wonderful.

I'd like to think there'll be more.

Let's talk about it over dinner.

Good night.

You just read my mind.

Hey, Stevie, come here.

Stevie. Will you stop looking so worried? You're doing the right thing.

I know, Sergeant.

My dad told me that.

Morning, Hooker.

Lynn, Stevie.

Stacy. You're looking chipper, Romano.

Oh, I looked out last night.

Warner made up with his wife, took Rodney home.

Perfect timing.

Judith's back tonight.

Morning, Hooker. Romano.

Gino.

Gino, this is Stevie Pond.

Stevie's dad is back there with the detective, signing some papers.

He has something he wants to say to me.

I'm sorry about what I did, Mr. Minnelli.

And I'd like to pay for the damage out of my allowance.

Look, maybe I was wrong when I say you steal and I throw you out of my store

when I don't see for sure.

If I'm wrong, look, I'm sorry.

All right, listen, Stevie, I've been talking this over with Mr. Minnelli. And

what about you keeping your allowance?

And you're working in a store after school to pay the bill.

Gee, I'd like that.

Good. You start today.

We go for it together.

Deal? Deal.

Something here for you, Romano.

What is it?

Romano, I recognize the no return terms of our deal. So I'll take her when she

can travel.

Warner. Her?

She?

Good morning.

What's in the basket?