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5 East Prosper.

Your PR is at 122 East Prosper.

Handle code 2.

Grand Digger, you know about alimony again, Hooker? Word.

She stuck me with getting Chrissy a costume for her school play.

The Frog Prince.

Oh, don't tell me.

Chrissy's... The Frog.

Sure laugh.

Where the heck am I going to get a costume like that?

Why couldn't she have been the princess?

Ah, yes.

She who kissed the frog and turned him into a prince.

Romano, you don't know your Grimm's fairy tales.

The princess...

Didn't kiss the frog to turn him into a prince. She didn't? No.

She threw him against the wall.

Huh. No kidding.

What a lousy way to start off a love affair. Yeah.

It's a little off the wall.

4 Adam 30, 4 Adam 30.

A possible code zebra in progress.

Citizen reports officers down in a vehicle.

Lincoln Freeway, access road westbound.

One quarter mile west of Sanford Street on -ramp.

Officers involved.

Handle code 3.

4 Adam 30, roger.

Can you spot the source?

I don't see any flashes.

You go for Coleman. I'll go for Marsh. Go!

gotta be him. I'll put out a code zebra.

Forget code zebra.

He's long gone.

Hooker, let your fingers do the walking.

The yellow pages.

Ever hear of theatrical costumes? They have everything.

Yeah? Yeah.

I swear, Hooker, you're so helpless.

What would you do without me? More police work?

Funny guy.

Hooker, Romano.

Captain's waiting for you.

I hear it was pretty hairy out there.

Hairy?

It was a nightmare.

Listen, Stacey, pull recruit, uh, Nichols' background package for me, will

Thanks. Background package?

Is this official, Romano?

Well, of course it is.

I'm assisting Sergeant Hooker with his class.

Well, just what is it you want from Nichols' package?

Special interests, hobbies, that sort of thing.

I must know our students so as to afford their maximum assistance, you know?

I'm sure glad this desk is a couple feet off the floor.

Must be awfully deep where you're standing.

Not deep, Officer Sheridan.

Filled with opportunity.

I've doubled the detective manpower on this. Three patrol cars sniped that in

two weeks. Now, we're lucky no one was killed. I don't think luck had anything

to do with it, Captain.

We got some facts, so we could get to them. Okay.

Fact.

Sniper's primary targets were the black and whites from the academy precinct.

If we were really after the officers, he'd have nailed the drivers or the gas

tanks. Fact.

Romano and I were dead meat if the sniper were on a real hunt.

The number of rounds he fired, it took an expert to miss us.

Fact. We never saw the flash from his weapon.

He must be using a flash suppressor. Add that to the fact that he's using an

M14. Means we're up against a sniper that could only have been trained in one

place. Nom, Captain.

The M14 was the sniper's baby.

All right. What does he want? What is he after?

Could be AIDS cops. Just cops from this precinct. No, Romano.

He's not crazy. He's too careful. Even his escape route was carefully planned.

I like your analysis. I'll pass it along.

Get him looking at the military angle.

Now, uh... regarding the notice about the mayor's visit that's been posted on

the activity board for the past week.

So, the mayor is concerned about the female washout, right? What else is new?

What else is new is that in three days, he'll be here for his own personal look

-see. And in three days, Hooker, I want that class of yours to shine.

And you don't want me to lean too hard on the women, is that right?

No, you are the last training officer on earth that I would ever ask to ease up

on anybody.

I think that was a compliment.

I think it's the captain's way of saying that we should be especially careful in

documenting female washouts. Or his way of suggesting that the training

officer's assistant should make sure that the women are not distracted.

Jeff, I heard a news flash on the radio.

Yeah, I had to pick off another patrol car.

Why did you have to do that? Well, I had to see how the academy precinct was

filed in an emergency. You see, they've set up this plan they're calling Code

Zebra. They set it up after the first two snipings.

Got the men in the car.

They're alive and we'll live to tell the tale.

I told you no one was going to get killed.

The important thing is this Code Zebra didn't even get implemented.

And that's good news. Now, I want you to go down to Fifth Street bus station.

I want you to go where the lockers are and I want you to open this locker.

Okay? Inside, there's some electronic equipment, and there's a set of

You take the electronic equipment over to your house, and you bring me the

lockpicks. Okay?

Lockpicks? What for?

To get me the last piece of information I need.

All the planning's about to pay off. The academy precinct is the perfect target.

My fire base in the park is just about set up.

And His Honor, the mayor, visits on Friday.

how much I love you.

I've stayed with you through so much.

But Jeff, please, you're going too far this time.

You give me five minutes in that room, I'll know where they're weak and where

they're strong and where I have the best advantage.

So you get me those lockpicks.

Well done.

The recruit firing at number two.

Is this target as good as his form?

Six rounds, dead center. What's his name?

Turner.

Jeff Turner.

Believe me, Hooker, out there somewhere, there is a frog for Chrissy. Yeah,

well, I'm open for ideas.

I'll tell you what, I'll get the frog costume for you.

Yeah? Yeah.

What's the catch?

Well, I have heard that you have Warner's boat on loan for next weekend,

was wondering... I heard that you checked out Nickel's Hobbies.

Boating, water skiing, that among them.

I'll take the boat Saturday night. You can have it back by Sunday.

Look at my mouth.

Read my lips. I see. You focus very clearly. You got your beady eyes on my

little mouth. No problem. Right there. No way. No way. I've been planning this

one weekend by myself with a fishing pole for six months.

Okay, fine. Forget it.

It's over. Finished.

Poor Chrissy. Okay. She's going to be so disappointed. I mean, I could just see

her little eyes.

I'm starting my kick.

You drop back. Push Nichols.

Don't risk a boating invitation until Chrissy has frog in hand. That's the

bottom line, Romano.

Never fear.

The frog print is here.

Ribbit. Ribbit. All right.

Pick him up.

Let's push it.

All right. Lift him up. Come on. We're going to kick now.

Come on. Lift him up.

Come on, Nichols.

Tough it out.

Try to sit Whiskey, come on.

Don't do me any favors.

I'm used to running against the clock.

You'll be chasing bad dudes, not clocks.

Your partner's going to be dependent on you.

Come on.

Let's see you go for it. Come on. No pain, no gain.

Let's go. Let's go.

Let's go, Turner.

Not good enough, sir.

Jeff?

Mind if I take a minute, sir?

Take two.

Thank you, sir.

All right, Nichols. All right.

Nice finish. 6 .5 seconds off your best time.

I can't believe it.

I forgot all about the clock.

Got the lock fixed?

Good girl.

It is good.

This was the final position of the police vehicle. Both officers on the

both officers disarmed, both officers dead. Lights, please.

The officers you just saw didn't talk vehicle approach tactics.

So the driver officer was suddenly staring down the barrel of the suspect's

auto. The passenger officer was told to give up his weapon by the suspect or

watch. His partner died.

So he gave up his gun.

Partner died anyway.

So did he.

Bottom line.

Officer survival begins with communication.

Any questions?

All right.

I'll see you at hand -to -hand later this afternoon. Class dismissed.

This may sound like a dumb question, but no.

Do you sell?

Sure, why?

Well, I need your help.

It might be to our mutual benefit.

Our mutual benefit, huh?

Yeah.

Talk about it at lunch?

How can I say no?

I mean, after you gave me the tip on how to breathe when I shoot, our range

score's up eight points.

Really? Yeah, look.

Look how I'm breathing already.

Terrific. No,

no, thank you.

May I ask you a question, sir? What is it, Turner?

I don't have any argument with the communications advice, but I recall

in one of the tactical bulletins and in the training manual that an officer

should never give up his weapon, I mean, under no circumstances.

I don't recall that material being issued to the class yet. I like to read

ahead, sir. It's a habit of mine. But I was wondering why you didn't share that

policy with the class, sir.

You'll find a difference between the field and the tactical manual, Turner.

It's easy to write absolute in a book.

But it's never the same out on the streets.

There's nothing certain out there.

And I won't tell a cop.

There's a strict policy to follow when he's making his own decision about his

survival. Well, now, sir, does that come from here or down here?

Both.

Okay, yeah. Well, thank you. Yes, sir.

Okay.

You've got to admit, the guy is sharp.

Good strategy.

Offense is the best defense.

Results stink. Your partner's dead.

I guess I blew it.

I guess.

All right.

Get up.

Your partner can't read your mind.

So if you're going to make the first move, you've got to take on both

adversaries. Give your partner time to react.

Any questions?

All right.

Break into groups of four and get it on.

You all right, Nichols?

You're a little hard on Turner, weren't you? He's Hartman's partner.

Well, maybe.

He certainly knows his hand to hand.

Any break in the sniper investigation?

No. Zero.

What are the detectives doing, sitting on their hands?

Well, I guess they're just not as fast as you used to be when you were flashing

a gold shield, Hooker.

Take that.

47.

Hooker. Look, I hate the side with the brass, but Turner is better than that.

Yeah, well, you're judging performance. I'm rating attitude.

Break him loose. End of watch.

Okay, end of watch. Hit it.

Looking good, Kate.

Thanks, Red.

That work we did on quick moves instead of strength and hand -to -hand, it works

great. Yeah?

Well, I... I have a few other ideas that we can work on today.

Yeah?

It's a combination of Aikido and karate.

I can't, Vince.

Why not?

Not if I'm going to get the bottom half of that costume done in time.

Oh.

Maybe we'll do it some other time, okay?

Still making those phony moves on the new fish, huh, Romano?

What do you mean phony?

Hey, I'm your regular, sincere, upfront kind of guy.

Listen, Stacy, you said you were going to give me an answer about doing some

work on the top half of that frog costume.

Well, if I have time after Smitty. Smitty?

We've got this end -of -watch workout program we're into.

The gym's over there.

Who said anything about a gym?

Me.

Fantastic, Fran.

Uncle Vince, Daddy said you were helping with my costume.

Well, I thought you deserved some credit for all your help, Ramona.

Thanks. Is it going to be ready in time, Uncle Vince?

Is it going to be ready in time, Uncle Vince?

Don't you worry about a thing, Chrissy, darling.

It's going to be ready in no time at all.

And speaking of the frog prince, you have to practice your lines, Chrissy.

Okay. Guess I better be good with all the trouble getting a costume. I guess

I mean, come on.

Good night, Daddy. Good night, sweetheart.

I can't wait to see the costume, Uncle Ben.

Well, it'll be terrific.

You can count on it.

See you all at the play.

Good night, sweetie.

Good night.

Is something bothering you tonight, Hooker?

What's something bothering me? I'm eating my cake. Like a recruit named

It crossed my mind.

Marginal? One you might have to terminate?

Romano doesn't seem to think so.

We looked at his military record together.

I learned that Turner and I were in Nam at the same time.

Well, he'd won the Bronze Star.

You pay the price before they pin that on you. Oh, how I know that.

In so many ways.

Turner's military records show that he barely qualified in the army rifle

Now, he's a distinguished expert.

I guess that's what set Hooker off.

Hooker, are you worried that the war made this Turner into something or

who shouldn't be a police officer?

When you shared the trenches and the jungles and the...

Firefights. You get to know what it's done and what it hasn't done to vets.

I know the streets in the same way, Fran.

And that's Guy Turner.

He's not a soldier.

He's not a cop.

And hand -to -hand this afternoon.

His first reflex was to save himself.

He even used his partner to do it.

But it was in a classroom situation where you're allowed to make mistakes

learn from them. But I think I just heard Hooker say that he was selfish,

I don't think that I would want to have a selfish partner out there in that

jungle you two play in.

It's a game of life and death.

And it's my responsibility to decide whether Turner is worthy

to be another cop's partner.

You gotta believe what I'm saying to you. I'm telling you. We're gonna make

We're gonna be rich.

You gotta trust me. Jeff, please.

I'm frightened for you.

Try to understand, baby.

To get out of NAMM, I beat 40 years in the army stockade because I take on the

identity of a dead man.

But all those cities.

One plan after another that didn't work out, you were always running from some

kind of trouble. Yeah, well, that's what happens when you depend on other

people, all you idiots who can't handle nothing.

It's not going to happen again. I learned my lesson. This time it's me,

Then why did you have to join the police force?

Okay. General Patton read Rahm's book on tank warfare, see?

And he beats the guy. Well, I'm going to do the same thing. I'm going to beat

them at their own game.

Oh, God, Jeff.

It's going to make my escape from the fire base that much easier.

Like the VC pulling out a holding gorge.

That was war.

This isn't.

Yeah, it's a war.

It's a war.

My war.

And I've been fighting it since I was 11 years old, since some cops got me an

alley and beat up on me unmercifully

for stealing a bicycle.

And it's been that way ever since.

Cops here, cops there, shaking me down the street, MPs hassling me in Vietnam.

You're attacking a police station because you hate cops.

Yeah, you got it.

It's my way.

And it's brilliant.

Because those cops aren't prepared for their own to be the target.

Thank you.

All right, Turner, I know your classmates are waiting for the big

Let's not keep them in suspense.

Yes, sir.

42 seconds. Score perfect.

Hey, Hooker, you enched him by eight seconds, but he got an extra bad guy.

That makes it a draw.

You better talk to that cowboy about target selection, Hooker. You might be a

hostage yourself someday.

Luke took the words right out of my mouth.

That hostage target was questionable with a rifle.

A definite no -no with a pistol.

I want to talk to you later.

Right back.

Among other things.

Yes, sir.

Palmer on deck.

Nichols, you're up.

Hey, guys.

What do you think?

Great. Stacy, you are a lifesaver.

But not yet, Ramona.

You need the other half before you get the boat on Saturday.

A boat?

Romano, you use my labor to hustle yourself a boat?

Yeah, well... Ah, yes.

Recruit Nichols' hobbies.

Hooker? Romano?

Here.

There's not a whole lot of difference between the mascot and the mascot.

See what I mean?

Hooker, a Colonel Evans of Army Intelligence called. He wants to meet

hour. Army intelligence?

Yeah, I asked him to double -check Turner's military record.

Cute.

It was for a good cause, Stacy.

Put it on, Romano, and I'll turn you into a prince.

Yeah?

No, that's okay. I know the story.

11 says we found a man the army thought was dead turner real name is kevin wyman

an army explosives expert and sniper our man switched identities with turner

the colonel zeroed in on the marksmanship discrepancy turner's

told him that the man we've been training is kevin wyman

Intelligence was after Wyman as part of the Tygon drug ring in 1970.

He volunteered for sniper duty and disappeared into the bush before they

catch him.

I can understand how Wyman could switch IDs with Turner and Naum, but how did he

get the Army records switched? Well, the drug ring had a contact inside the Army

records department.

He was weeded out, but not before he tampered with some of the files.

All right.

We know his name.

We know he was a criminal in the Army.

But what's he up to now?

Now we've already put in the additional wing here, and it's been enclosed today.

Captain, recruit Turner's on the phone. He says he knows the mayor's with you,

and he's going to blow up the station if you don't talk to him.

Okay, Captain, now you shut up and you listen.

Your whole station is mined with plastic explosives.

So even so much as one person tries to get out, I'm going to get myself a blue

light, and then all of you, and that includes the mayor, are going to get

up sky high.

You've got a city. You tell the mayor I want $2 million.

That's an unreasonable request.

I'm going to tell you how I want it and where I want it delivered when I'm

ready. But first, Captain, something you've got to understand.

You see, the money's more important to me than a whole lot of dead police

officers scattered all over the place.

So I'm going to give you one last proof that I mean what I say.

I'm going to perform magic, see?

So first off...

I'm going to make the storage room disappear.

Now, wait a minute. Turner!

You hold on now.

That's what he's up to.

Wyman has put a lot of planning into this, Captain.

Now that he's out in the open, he's got to go for broke.

Army confirms that he's an anti -personnel ordnance expert.

You let SWAT call the shots.

He'll be pulling the plug on everyone in that building. Now, don't sell SWAT

short, Hawker.

Test in one, two, three, four.

Hello, Captain Sheridan.

Okay.

I don't want any idle conversation.

I'm going to talk, and you're going to listen.

First off, everyone in the station, you do just what the captain says, because

your lives are in his hands.

Now, SWAT units, you do not enter the park.

You do not approach the station, I mean, for any reasons, or your friends, you

see, are going to be the consistency of the grease.

Okay, Captain Sheridan, here are your delivery instructions.

I want two million dollars in unmarked bills.

I want the money delivered in precisely two hours. You're going to drop it by

helicopter in a small clearing marked with a white X.

I don't see anything unusual in that money, because if I do, you're all going

be dead.

And you tell those chopper crews don't get cute because I got an M67 90mm

recoilless rifle and I've been practicing.

Got it?

Captain, Wyman's a smart cookie.

Our only chance to nail him may be when he makes a run for it. What's your

assessment, Lieutenant Lopez?

Hooker gives him too much credit.

He's going nowhere with my men surrounding this park.

Captain.

Wyman didn't plan this whole thing and forget that he had to get out of the

with the money.

And out of town, maybe out of the country. But how, with SWAT looking at

all sides?

Captain, the SWAT team is as good as I've seen in an urban environment.

But the park is no city, it's a jungle, and the man we're after is a jungle

fighter who knows everything about the SWAT operation.

What do you propose, Sergeant?

Romano and I go in, alone, Mr. Mayor.

We've crawled through the same rice paddies as Wyman. I'm opposed, Captain.

miss, there won't be another chance.

And if you miss, Lieutenant?

Then you call the best option you had available to you.

That's a safe decision, not an effective one. We're running out of time.

It's your call, Captain.

You're the best judge of your own resources, Captain.

He's praying we do it, partner.

I have to.

That's a frog costume. We've got to get out of there.

Sheridan, this is a reminder that you've got 20 minutes to deliver the money. I

repeat, the hard of hearing, 20 minutes.

This is it. You've got 20 minutes to make the draw.

Roger, Captain. We're on our way.

If Hook is right, he'll take the money and blow us up anyway.

That's his fire base line.

And I'm betting the storm brain is his escape route.

He's got to be up in the crest somewhere, watching the academy.

That's his route in and out.

But it's probably booby trap.

We'll have to parallel him.

Don't you, Dixon.

I wouldn't look at the distance.

Don't. Don't pull your leg out.

Those shafts on the side will tear your leg to shreds.

You're going to have to cut yourself off.

Block's taken over.

We better move on.

Thank you.

Put everything down nice and easy, Terry.

Good going, Hooker.

You found me out.

Figured you would.

It's not going to matter in the end.

Because unlike me, you're willing to die for somebody else.

So you drop that gun, or I'm going to blow everyone in the station to

smithereens.

It was against the law that I was telling you about.

People in the station are going to die anyway.

That's how you kill Turner and Nam.

Well, just like this.

I'm a believer in flak jackets.

They cut the odds.

You lost something, Clark. You okay?

Yeah.

I feel better knowing it works both ways.

You know what I like least about this maggot?

It's gonna be big news.

The cause of another Vietnam veteran headline.

I hate that.

I hate it because it rubs off on tens of thousands of decent Americans who

fought in Nam.

I shouldn't have to share this.

Damn, you're a scum like you.

Come on, quick, let's go, let's go.

Let's go, let's go.

Here, give it, give it, give it, give it.

Go, go, go.

Daddy, Daddy, I need you, Tom.

Oh, thank goodness. You're playing up to the world. Look what I got you.

I am glad you're all right, Hooker. Both of you.

Stacy was nice enough to call to tell us that you'd be late.

Mrs. Hooker, why don't I help you get Chris ready?

Five minutes is fair.

Thank you very much.

Well,

I guess Saturday's on.

I got a word of advice.

Wait on me. I see signs of a guy chasing a girl until she catches it.

I wouldn't go on that boat alone with her.

You wouldn't? No way.

She's wrong for you, Romano. You think you're in the driver's seat, and next

thing you know, she's going to ask you if you like kids.

Uh -huh.

Is that the way Smitty's talking these days?

At my age, I wouldn't hear of it.

Well, you've both got her all wrong.

I just love my costume, Daddy. It's so beautiful.

You look terrific.

Better hug your costume designer.

He got it mobilized.

Thank you.

Yeah, you're welcome. I never hugged a frog before.

We have to hurry, Chrissy, and I'll be right back.

Come on.

I asked one of the ladies who painted some things. You did? Yeah.

I love kids, don't you? Oh, no.

Oh, yeah, I love them. I think we should invite a few to come on the boat with

us. Hooker and Faithy are going to come along, aren't you, guys?

It'll be great fun, really.