All language subtitles for T.J Hooker s02e19 Requiem For A Cop

Four, two, five, six, one.

Bingo! The winner of the fourth race
tomorrow will be Big Jake. I love it, I

love it, I love it.

Tell me, Junior, how many races are you
and Stacy betting on tomorrow?

Just the fourth.

We're each buying a $10 ticket.

This guy who sold it to the computer,
he's going to take it down to the track

and place our bet.

You want to get in on a sure thing? No,
no, don't be ridiculous.

The only sure thing about guys who take
tips from touts is that they end up

broke at the end of the night.

And what you have in your hand there,
Junior, is an electronic tout.

Uh -uh.

Uh -huh. Uh -uh. This is a sophisticated
piece of technological wizardry.

Technological wizardry. Uh -huh.

Uh -uh.

4 Adam 30 roger.

Hooker. Max Silver, what are you doing
here? I'm working on an arson case for a

small insurance company. I took a flyer
on this call.

Hey, remember my daughter Linda? She
works with me now.

Don't ask her a wrong PI license.

It's been a few years. How are you,
Hooker? I'm not sure.

Get around the other side. Move it up.
This looks bad, Max.

Yeah, it's not too safe. What do you say
we move it and I'll call you later?

Cajun, pull back.

Let's hit the second floor.

Hey, talk to her, Romano. What do you
need?

A miracle.

We've still got people in there.

Get a number three up to the third
floor.

We've got to come up to the line.

Get it in the third floor.

Romano, is there a chance they're alive?

Don't give up.

Get in there. Get some lines in there.
Get some more pressure.

What are people doing in there? The
building's condemned.

Ended it.

Dad, I think you're the only place they
can afford.

There's still a whole family on the
second floor.

I could get to them. I never had a
chance.

The building was a wall of flame when we
got here.

But you as the bullhorn told them to
stay low and look for a way out.

But even the back stairs look out.

Romano, I'll call you.

Get some water and let me down.

Walker, stop!

Hey,

would you fight to even try and get out?

Look, he did everything he could
possibly do.

Those kids saved themselves.

They heard the chief of the bullhorn
telling them to stay low on the floor in

case of fire.

But thank God for that.

Two kids without parents now.

Last month it was those old people who
burned her down.

They were indigent, too.

is trying to find out if the children
had any relatives in the area.

Were those people squatting?

Or were they paying rent to live in that
rat -infested fire trap?

Well, the survivors indicated they were
paying something, but from their

descriptions, it could be anything.

Just like the fire we had last month in
the Allison building.

Scavengers who collect a little
undeclared pocket money to allow human

live in those hellholes are worse than
slumlords.

Did arson come up with anything?

Enough to convince them it was arson.

but not enough to prove it in court.

So the insurance company pays off in the
building that the city code condemned?

That's right, as long as it's insured,
and it was. Checked out the owner?

Clean as a whistle.

Somebody's burning down buildings
without caring who's burning with them.

They've got to be stopped.

The question is, how?

Tucker.

Max Silver called.

He's going to be out for a while, but he
wants you to meet with him and his

daughter at their office at 3 o 'clock.

That's the guy who was at the fire last
night. Yeah.

He said he was working an arson case.

You think he could have something that
we could use?

I'll bet on it.

Without a computer.

This private investigator, Max Silver,
how long have you known him, Hooker?

He was my first partner.

He was the best in the business.

So why to retire?

I mean, I'd rather be on the job than
try to make it as a PI.

I'm sure Max would, too.

He didn't have much of a choice.

Cindy, I want to talk to you. Later. I'm
really busy right now, okay?

Nobody move! This is a stick -up!

Hands on the bar! On the tables!

Open the register!

Fill it up!

Everybody, money, wallet, jewelry, get
it out!

Get it out!

Move it. Move it!

You too, old man. Dig it up.

Anything you say, punk.

I don't like your attitude.

That makes two of us. You too.

Twin City, roger.

He had a gun.

He shot one of the customers. Ran off.

Out the back door.

Get on the bus, Dad.

My God, it's Max.

He's dead.

And his daughter is waiting to meet all
of us.

The man who did this.

He did.

My father.

Where's my father?

I found this and the tape from the
answering

machine. I thought maybe we could get
something off of it that would help.

We'll take it all to the lab.

Did Linda have any idea what Max wanted
to talk to you about?

A lot of clue.

What are you doing?

Oh, Hooker.

When you told me about my dad, did you
really believe it was just a robbery?

Your dad was in a bar. He didn't drink.

The witness said he didn't resist.

The robber had no cause to kill him, and
he did.

I think he wanted him dead.

He didn't want it investigated as a
murder.

Oh, God, what do we do?

I know it's hard, but I've got to ask
you.

Think. Was Max working on any
significant cases that you know about?

that would have taken him to that bar?

Given someone a reason to destroy this
office?

Besides a couple divorce cases.

The only other thing he had was some
arson claims for United Federal

Had he filed any reports with United
Federal? I doubt it.

I would have typed them for him.

Besides, I don't really think United
Federal expected much from Dad.

They had to hire someone to investigate.

And you know how it is with an arson
case.

Ninety -nine times out of a hundred, you
come up dry.

I'm sure they just hired Dad because he
worked cheaper than most.

Also, they knew about his old problems.

Probably didn't think he was a very good
detective because of it.

I think someone thought he was too good.

detonator. Been out about a year now.
Works on a high frequency signal.

No mainspring set off by a pulsating
beam.

Not helping you violin music either.

Violin music? Hey, I'll see you later.
You don't call Brahms violin music.

Sorry, Hong. I didn't tell him.

This man is probably the best
electronics technician in the department

order to maintain his concentration
while working with... Lazy cops.

Us?

He plays Brahms.

Ah.

Sort of like a security blanket, huh?

Okay. Take this boy out of here and
teach him the rules. I will. I will,

But first we have a little business to
transact. Let's show him.

Don't worry. It's not Brahms.

This was in Max Silver's telephone
answering machine at the time of the

I was going to toss it out.

Hooker said that if anybody could get
anything off of it, you could.

But I guess Hooker was exaggerating.

Hooker, let's not exaggerate. If there
are any words in here, I will get them

out.

Hooker? See him in it? Yes, sir.

You gonna file those reports, Ron? I'll
get right on it.

I just want to discuss a little business
with our expert here.

Paul!

Is it possible your electronic genius
may extend to improving the performance

this little computer?

I can do anything electronic.

What does it compute?

Horse races.

I hope winning horse races.

They could benefit the both of us.

Turn up the browns.

Did you send this to headquarters,
Hooker?

Yes, sir.

It's a request for an honor guard at
Max's services.

It's been denied.

Captain, he was a cop.

He was one of us.

He didn't exactly retire with honors,
Hooker.

He was kicked off the force because he
couldn't control his drinking problem.

They went through a long, hard fight.

But he kicked the alcohol.

He was on his way back. He was dry for a
year.

He started his own P .I. business.

And some lowlife blows him away.

While he was working on a case that
could have helped all of us, he's

to go out with the cops' honors.

Booker, your request went through
channels. It's been denied. I'm sorry.

How was Max doing on this investigation
for you, Miss Reed? Well, I wish I could

say great, but I'd be lying.

Oh, it wasn't his fault.

Proving arson is like trying to prove
the theory of evolution.

They found fossils and bones and all
kinds of evidence, but it's still not

enough to convince some people.

Well, I'll tell you what I'm convinced
of. I'm convinced that Max was closer

than you think.

Perhaps too close for his own good. And
I'm not going to let this investigation

end because of his death.

Sounds like you'd be a good friend to
have.

It's more than friendship, Miss Reed.

This arsonist is murdering people, and I
for one find it hard to live with the

idea that he's on the loose out there.

Thank you.

I don't like those cops hanging around.

You heard.

They're going to take up where that
private eye left off.

What's wrong, DaCosta?

Afraid someone will find out you're
picking up pocket money, renting space,

condemn building?

Now, you listen, punk.

My business is my concern.

Look, I just think too much is happening
right now, and we should take it easy

for a while.

The old Barclay factory will change
hands next week.

You won't be managing it anymore.

You won't collect a penny of the
insurance.

Has to be done now.

I don't know.

Those cops.

And that detective.

Finding the license plate of your
girlfriend's car.

A month ago.

Max Silver.

They're taken care of.

I'd be worried about the cops.

I can take care of them too.

Now you wait a minute.

You're talking about killing.

DeCosta, cops, down -and -outers that
you collect rent from, what's the

difference?

It was as if my dad was trying to
communicate with me just now.

I was praying and it came to me.

What? Well, I remembered my dad telling
me the other day that he found a witness

who had picked up a license number at
the Allison building fire.

He was in the process of checking the
plate number at the DMV.

This information would have been
destroyed in the fire.

But I'm sure that dad ran a check on the
license.

There'd be a record of the check.

I'll get the detectives on a runaway.

It's going to be a long, hard pull
checking all those DMV records.

Well, with everything that's happened,
I'm impressed that you came up with the

idea.

I guess part of Dad rubbed off on me.

What are you going to do now, Linda?

Back to the typewriter and office
clerking, I guess.

I heard you applied for a P .I. license.

You can be partners with your dad.

But now, I couldn't do it alone.

I was just learning.

Hey, if Max was anything like Hooker,
which I suspect he was, you learned

If I ever was looking for a terrific
private detective, I'd call you.

Thanks, Ben.

Listen, if you turn up anything on that
license number, give me a call.

You won't be able to stop me.

Hooker.

Detectives turned up the DMV check Max
made. Captain Sheridan said we should

with it since we're so close. So close
to what?

The car Max ran down belongs to a
waitress, Cindy Cole, who works at a bar

familiar with.

Let me guess, the happy hour.

Cindy Cole, huh?

Let's see what she has to say.

Did Hong do something worthwhile with
this thing? Did he ever.

Hong is a genius. That computer even
sounds better.

The sixth race tomorrow is in the bags.
Sally B is the horse.

Romano, why don't you hold your bet?

See how Sally B does.

Like a test run.

Are you kidding?

And lose all that money?

Hooker, Sally B is going off at ten to
one.

You better get on board.

Not this time.

But if your friend is taking your bet to
the track again.

I'd like him to put five bucks on number
four.

Sure. What race?

The sixth.

Hooker, you might as well just flush
that five bucks.

Sally B's a lock in the sixth. You're
not listening to the Hong Toon computer.

Neither are the horses, Junior.

car doing near the Allison building last
month, just before it burned to the

ground. Who said it was?

Somebody spotted it.

Max Silver traced it to you.

Is that why he was here the day he was
killed?

I don't know.

Look, he didn't ask me anything.

And my car, it was stolen some time ago.

So if it was at that building, that's
how it must have gotten there.

Then you reported it stolen.

I didn't know it was stolen.

You see, I parked it in my garage
basement.

And in the morning when I woke up, it
wasn't in my space.

So I was going to call the police. But
then I walked around outside and I saw

the car parked a few houses away.

So whoever stole it was thoughtful
enough to bring it back.

Yeah.

I don't know. I figured it was just some
kids taking it out for a joyride.

Maybe you don't know what you got
yourself into, little girl.

But I'm going to fill you in.

Arson and murder.

And not just Max Silver's murder. Four
people in a building torched not two

miles from here.

And two vagrants in a factory fire.

What next?

How much are you responsible for?

Look, I've told you everything I know.

My car was stolen.

I have to go back to work now.

Junior, I got a hunch we're carrying a
bomb.

We can't stop it here.

It's a risk.

What the hell are you smiling about?

We must be close.

We're making someone very nervous.

Okay.

I put that building research report in
your box. Did you get it? Yes, I did.

Thank you, Stacy.

Bye, Stacy.

Arson research?

Turn anything worthwhile?

One name turned up more than any other.

DaCosta Management.

Management?

How can a management company benefit
from arson? It's the owners who collect

insurance. A lot of management companies
collect a percentage, 10, 15%. Ah, 10 %

of $500 ,000.

50 grand. That's not too cheap.

Hooker, I just got the report on the
Barkley factory fire. Let me guess.

Probable arson.

No proof.

Owners of the building are clean.

And managed by DaCosta management?

Right on all counts.

Did the detectives talk to DaCosta?

Oh, I saved that for you, Hooker.

And for Max.

genuine work to do.

We collect the rent.

We see the windows get washed.

The plumbing is kept up.

Whatever it takes to keep the owner's
mind at ease.

And when one of these buildings burn,
you lose the income from that building,

don't you?

Well, an owner's not going to pay me to
keep up a building that doesn't exist.

You must be in a lot of financial
trouble, Mr. DeCosta.

What do you mean?

In the past six months, four buildings
you manage have been destroyed by fire.

Yeah. And I understand the insurance
company investigated every one of those

fires. Same insurance company, United
Federal.

You pick the insurance companies like
you pick the plumbers and the window

washers.

What are you getting at?

I think someone in the insurance company
is in this as deep as you and the

torch. Have you got any proof?

Because if the answer is no, get out.

I'm a busy man. You're a greedy man, Mr.
DaCosta.

Four fires that I know.

I'll bet you don't share the money you
get from renting condemned buildings

your partners.

The extra cash you get from illegals who
have no other place to live.

Now, why don't you secure the buildings,
keep the vagrants out?

You don't want to spend the extra bucks,
do you?

No window washers, no plumbers, no
maintenance costs.

They're only homeless indigents.

I promise you something, mister.

I'm gonna make damn sure that it does
cost you.

Everybody's hanging tough.

The waitress, the Stacosta creep, the
insurance company lady.

She did make one mistake.

She hired Max Silver.

She thought a drunk ex -cop would come
to a dead end like the rest of the

investigators.

4W90 on tack 2 to 4 item 30.

Go 90.

We just got a call from Sam Miller at
the Three Star Pawn Shop.

Your pawn shop bulletin paid off.

Someone just hopped Max Silver's watch.

Roger, 90.

Mistake number two.

There it is, sucker.

Just like on the stolen property
inventory, right?

It's Max's, all right.

We gave it to him when he made the
homicide.

How long ago did the suspect leave?

About half an hour ago.

Maybe he got thirsty.

Grab the money and ran over to that bar.

There. Coming out now.

That's him.

You. We have enough litter on the beach
without scum balls like you.

Detectives get anything from the creep,
we call it?

No, he's sticking to his story. He
claims he ran because he knew he had

stolen watch and he says he bought it
from some street sleep. He just made

on her. You're putting me out.

No, no, no.

What are you doing?

It's just going to take some time.

While how many other buildings and
people burn?

Well, we'll try a few different filters.

Linda.

Next two callers

hung up. No messages.

At the bar.

Turn it back.

I didn't catch the name.

Max, this is...

Try again.

More slowly.

One more time. Turn it back.

even slower okay this is as slow as she
goes max

this is cindy cole i've got cindy cole
cindy cole

oh you're beautiful is there any more on
that no that's it

Okay, just a minute.

Romano, telephone.

Maybe it's Sally B's train.

Romano? It's Linda.

Listen, I saw a man leave in your
precinct get picked up by the guy who

me and set fire to our office.

Great, we just nailed down the waitress.
Where are you?

I followed them to Da Costa Management.

They're inside now.

Sit tight, we're rolling.

Linda, she ran a tail on Benson, the car
went straight to Da Costa.

She'd make one heck of a P .I.

Like father, like daughter.

You're an idiot.

Will you tell me something?

Where did you find that baboon?

Oh, come on, Mr. DaCosta.

He didn't say anything to the cops.

I want you to unload him, Jennings.

Now!

We have to make sure all our tracks are
covered.

And there's one other loose thread.

Your girlfriend.

I don't think she's gonna crack.

I think we have to be a little more sure
than that.

That cop hooker, if he gets to her
again... So you get there first.

And you better make sure.

Then you better pack in your operation
for a while.

You know, maybe...

Maybe I can roast two birds with one
fire.

That tape proves that cute little
waitress set Max up.

Yeah, but she was scared.

And if they smell it, she's in deep
trouble.

4 Adam 30, citizen call from Melinda
Silver.

Reports suspect picked up a waitress at
the happy hour bar and proceeded to a

garage.

4M30, roger.

Ross, please don't do this. Sorry, baby,
you're getting too dangerous.

Let's go.

Are you crazy?

Yeah, I'm crazy. Crazy to get involved
with you. Let's go.

Ross.

You stay here.

Yeah.

My dad would have been really impressed.

Bax would have been impressed with you.

You helped him close his case.

I can't think of a better requiem for a
cop.

The detectives have a real tight wrap
-up on the arson case. Everyone involved

is rolling over on each other now that
you two have brought them down. Linda

Silver's had a hand in it. Well, the
police commission citation should help

get a new detective agency off to a
great start.

Terrific. Couldn't happen to a nicer
lady.

Right.

Romano, your friend came by on his way
home from the track and he left this

envelope full of money at the desk.

Sorry, Hooker, but don't feel bad. You
can get your money back on the

next pick.

This payoff is 18 to 1.

Hey, the odds really changed.

So did the horse.

What happened to Sally B?

Finished out of the money.

Number four.

Your horse took it by two lengths.

So much for the computer, right?

Yeah. Who needs a computer anyway?

Come on, Hooker, let us in on your
system, huh?

I'll get a pencil and paper. There's no
need.

It's very simple.

Whenever I bet, which is so, I always
put my money on number four.

How can you bet like that? It's not
scientific.

I'm not complaining.