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Thank you.

What does your gut tell you, Hooker?

How the jumpsuit bandit's going to show?

Dietrich would be the one to ask. It's his caper.

OP -1, you holding up okay?

Roger, 30.

But I want you to know, the pigeons were here before us. A lot.

That's life in the outdoors, Jason.

Why do I always get this kind of stakeout?

Dietrich and Fernandez get dancing girls and I get a rooftop.

You better walk away, better run, cause you're under the gun.

Keep it to yourself, keep away from me.

Keep it to yourself, baby, can't you see?

I don't wanna hear it, I just won't play it, no, no.

DJ, Fernandez, what's the latest in there?

The action's down to a crawl.

Never can tell, we may still get lucky.

It's easy for you to say.

Hang in there, Dietrich.

There's two guys.

One in the jumpsuit.

The M .O. has them both in jumpsuits.

Yeah, I know.

No deal.

Two minutes.

You better take it easy on that stuff, Sam.

You might fall out of the nest.

Let's go.

Shots have been fired.

It's the pursuit of two 11 suspects driving red and white four -door sedan

westbound an alley behind ocean view Boulevard

Barney, forget it!

Sounded like cannons.

Had to be .45s for sure.

Hey, are you okay?

I've been better.

Are you guys okay?

Yeah, we're fine. The jumpsters got away.

What about the driver?

DOA at the hospital. That's the word on Fernandez.

He wasn't looking too good when we put him in the ambulance.

Can I talk to you a minute?

I know you and Dietrich go back a ways, but whatever it's worth, he's got booze

on his breath.

How bad?

Hard to say.

I thought you ought to know.

I imagine he's pretty broken up about Fernandez.

Maybe he had a belt while waiting for the ambulance.

All right. Thanks a lot.

I don't know if I can tell you how I feel.

He's got to make it. He's just got to... Did we salvage anything positive out of

this mess?

Well, we know a little bit more about the M .O.

They've been in the place a while before they hit it. They go into the john,

they put on the jumpsuits and masks, and then they come out. Then you saw them

before they did it. Not really. I wasn't paying any attention until they came

out. The bartender? He wasn't concentrating on anyone at the bar. He

watching the door. That's where he expected the action to come from.

Like we all did.

We ended up with something.

Found this in the john.

Green stripe.

Menthol. There's something else.

PCP. Yeah, that's for sure.

What makes you think this connects up with the jumpsuits?

The bartender tidied up a few minutes before the shooting.

It wasn't there then.

It's a start.

Hi, guys.

What's up? Jill outside. She's taking it pretty well.

That's my lady.

How did that happen, Tony?

It just doesn't figure.

You and Sam are too good.

They spotted us before we could draw down.

It just doesn't seem possible.

Yeah, I know, but let me tell you, that's what happened.

What was Dietrich leaning on?

The hype who gave him the tip about the Rafi at Max 415 Club.

I thought the hype only needed driver.

Yeah.

And the driver's dead.

Dietrich, still on it?

If you ask me, it's getting pretty hairy.

Is that the one you talked to a police officer?

Hey, hey, hey.

Let's take a walk.

What are you doing? That's my snitch.

You got everything he had to give you three days ago. I want the guy who shot

partner. That's my only lead. You're not thinking straight, Sam. I'm thinking

about Tony. What about the sheriff?

So we know the guy who shot him. He was his PCP. So what? Sam, hold on a second.

I want to talk to him.

Hold on a minute.

You got trouble.

I want to help you.

Look, it's nothing I can't straighten out myself.

Do me a favor, will you? Back off. Let me do my job.

We're going to track the sheriff, find the dealer who sold it.

What's Dietrich's problem? Is it the job or is it something personal?

I think it's a lot of both.

Mostly it's his wife.

Does she play around?

All that with other guys.

It's Sam's money.

She likes to live big.

She shouldn't have married a cop.

I know it's not easy in being your friend and all, but we've both been

long enough to know that booze and police work don't mix. It's just a

I don't want to believe it.

But I'm telling you, Hooker, Dietrich is just an accident waiting to happen.

You may be right, Jim.

Either way, it's a problem.

I just need time to handle it.

I hear you.

Just don't take too long, huh?

Somebody else might get shot, and this time, somebody might die.

We've roused every dealer in the city looking for a guy who sells shirms.

Right. So we find someone who's already done the searching.

A user.

So what's this guy's name? Milo Pie.

You're kidding.

No, but I think his mother was.

Hold it, Milo.

Stay right there. Take the back.

See you again, Milo.

I'm clean, Hooker.

Clean.

This is kind of cool.

Like always.

We want some information.

Tell your friend, Hooker, I ain't no snitch.

All right, I changed my mind. Pat him down.

What do you want to know?

We're looking for a sherm dealer.

Sells the kind with the green stripe around the tip.

Yeah, it'll be pinwheel.

All right, Milo, you bite yourself free.

But I'll be around.

It's a pinwheel. It's a little plastic thing on the end of a stick.

It spins in the wind.

That's again, huh, cowboy?

Ten wheel, my man.

And ten shirms.

Hey, what's happening out there?

Bar business is good.

It's all easy pickings for you, cowboy.

Could have been easier.

I lost my wheel man on this last one.

But it was worth it.

I got enough here to hold me for a few days.

And then what?

Another bar, another dollar.

Sounds like the way you and me used to keep a back in Albuquerque.

Ain't that the truth, Penwell?

Too bad you lost your nerve.

Hey, man, you want to hear my rendition of Ghost Riders in the Sky?

Take a look at that car What do you think?

Drunk as a skunk

Dietrich! Damn.

I dropped my gun.

Hey, it happens, you know.

Call Hooker.

I dropped my gun.

4 Adam 16 to dispatch.

Why, give to your Sherm dealer, Pinwheel. But we're beating the concrete

around town trying to find this Pinwheel dude. Pinwheel doesn't stay in one spot

very long.

You can say that again. He's like a shadow.

We keep looking for him, Junior, till we find him. If we find him, he'll be our

tie to the jumpsuit bandit.

Attention, 4 Adam 30. 4 Adam 16 requests you meet them at Gower and West 4th.

4 Adam 30, that's a rocker.

You're not listening to me. It's simple. Just put me in a taxi and I'll get out

of your way.

Tell it to your friend, Hooker.

Hey, old partner.

Your people here are making a federal case over a couple of drinks.

Okay, okay. I know I shouldn't be driving.

Just get me home. That's all I'm asking.

Lock up his car.

You know, it might do him more good if you ran him in.

It's a judgment call. I'm taking him home. Come on.

I'm sorry to hang you up like this, but you know I would do the same for you.

That doesn't make it right.

Hey, hey, Fernandez got dropped, so I had a couple too many. Now listen, sir.

My gut tells me that booze got in your way in that shootout.

For your sake, I hope internal affairs doesn't get the same notion.

Yeah, and who'd give him that idea? You?

Take it easy.

You step over the line one more time, and I will give you count on it.

Now get in the car.

How does a good cop like Sam Dietrich get to be like that?

Something snaps.

I've been there.

One day, one thing too many happens.

Dead child, a rape, a murder that could have been prevented if there'd been

enough hours in the day.

Or a wife walks out.

And you think drinking will drown the pain.

It doesn't.

So what's the answer?

Getting so...

Insulated, you're no longer human? The opposite.

You fight every day to get more human, to get closer to the people, to

understand and deal with the pain without running from it.

But maybe Dietrich's doing more than just running from the pain.

Maybe the pain's only an excuse.

You're asking me if I think Sam's an alcoholic?

Well, if he is, he's got more than a problem.

He's got a disease.

Thanks for coming out.

I'm glad you were able to get a hold of me.

Thank you.

I didn't open up to you at the hospital about Sam's drinking because... Oh,

because it's just so depressing to talk about it.

Must be depressing to live.

He used to have a couple with the boys, or with me.

Now he drinks alone.

For a while, I blamed it on the job, his heavy caseload.

Then I began to have doubts.

Even had visions of another woman.

God, I wish it were.

At least I could understand that.

Have you ever thought that you might be part of the problem?

You knew the department, salary structure, everything.

They never once complained?

That's not what cops do.

No, I guess they don't.

Poker, tell me something.

Why won't you let us in?

Why are all of you so damn macho?

You push us out, create a distance.

The only way you relate is in terms of law and logic, not with honest emotions.

At first you tell yourself,

You're protecting your woman from everything you have to deal with day in,

out.

A grim reality.

But what I learned, too late, was that I wasn't really protecting my

woman or my kids.

I was shutting them out.

I didn't have to relive it all over again.

I don't know.

I think I understand a little better.

But I'm not sure.

Well, I hope you do understand. And I hope you can help.

Because Sam's in over his head.

And something has to be done.

How'd she take it? Do everything she can to help.

But the bottom line is it's going to be up to Dietrich to pull himself together.

All right.

Where to now?

Find Pinwheel.

We've looked everywhere else but one place.

The end of the old jetty.

What makes you think you'd find him there?

He used to be one of his haunts years ago.

He liked it because it was a safe place to deal and nobody could sneak up on

him.

Maybe he's up to his old tricks.

The Arena Bar, 442 West Fountain, 4 Adam 30, handle code 3.

4 Adam 30, roger.

How'd it kill you?

Come on, man! Get out of here! Come on!

The getaway vehicle was a late model blue sedan, four -door. Got a partial on

the license.

Three, eight, seven.

Look what I

found.

Looks like the same M .O.

Green stripe around the tail.

Talk to the witnesses.

See if any of them made a pair of cowboy boots underneath one of the jumpsuits.

Let's go, Junior.

I want to find a missing person.

Pinwheel?

Pinwheel.

So that's the pinwheel.

That's right.

You can trust a spinning one.

Hey, Pinwheel.

Ever thought about taking lessons?

What, crap my style?

Word has it you're pushing sherms these days.

Hey, sherms are hot. A whole lot of dudes are huffing. Not with green rings

around them.

Nice new drum, huh?

Oh, come on, Hooker. Last time you flung my drum, it washed up in Tahiti.

I bet the natives are still high.

We're looking for one of your sherm heads.

Six foot two, male Caucasian.

A hard case.

Big dude, huh?

In that category, I got Merchant Marine, Swabby, Cowboy,

and the next linebacker. Any of them been around lately?

The Swabby checked in yesterday, and the Cowboy connected this morning.

Next time one of them shows up.

Drop a dime on it.

That's dangerous, Hooker. I gotta go on living.

You'll come up with an angle, or you'll be coming up with another new drum.

When Detective Fernandez narrowed it down, he recalled seeing a pair of

boots under the jumpsuit of the tall suspect. Glad you could make it.

So the magic word for the day is cowboy.

If you see somebody who looks like he should be rounding up strays in the

40, bring him in.

But if cowboy is our man, he's packing a .45 auto,

and he's already smoked three victims, including Detective Fernandez.

So don't let him make you the fourth.

All right.

That's wrong.

That's the way to deep it down.

Looked like he was headed for the locker room.

I'll catch you outside, Junior.

You look like yesterday's leftovers.

I guess I don't have to ask why, do I?

Don't start, Hooker.

I'm sick of being preached. When are you going to be sick of being sick?

Here comes the sermon.

No, no, no.

Just call it a bit of personal history.

I was doing my job pretty much the way I'm doing it now.

And suddenly one day a friend says, it's all over, I can't take it anymore.

Couldn't understand why at the time.

Maybe I didn't try hard enough. Anyway.

There I was.

Wife, kids, gone.

I needed a friend.

And I found one.

80 proof.

Still a friend.

Makes you feel good.

And it doesn't talk back.

No, sir.

It tears at your gut.

And dumps you out in the cold. And rips you away from anything you have left.

Friends like that I didn't need.

Back then, I had a handle on it.

I got lucky.

I caught it in time. Walked away before I drowned.

Look, I will, too. It's as soon as the pressure eases, you know, and I won't

need it anymore. Sam, Sam.

Has it ever occurred to you that pressure may be an excuse? Maybe you're

alcoholic.

What?

Are you crazy?

You can get help. Stay away from me. You can get help of your own kind.

Cops have been through it.

They want to help you.

We need all the good cops we can get, Sam. But you have to go to them. You

to want to go. I just told you, it's a temporary problem. Besides, it's

something that I do off -duty, not on the job.

Off -duty.

Off -duty.

That's it.

I'm pulling the plug.

You'd do that to me?

You would do that to me?

I have no choice.

Up ahead, see the big guy?

Does that look like a convoy to you?

Western clothes and cowboy boots.

Looks like a possible.

Let's check them out.

Hey, pal, I'd like to talk to you.

thank you

Okay.

Lester Stills.

I don't know nothing about nothing. Right, Lester. We just ran because we

chasing you. You got it. No, you got it.

Lester, you got my attention.

What happened to the bag you were carrying?

Oh, yeah, my bag.

I lost it.

On account of you, I should sue the city.

Seems Albuquerque PD put up with a lot of your nonsense.

Hey, Reed.

He says I've been rehabilitated.

He looks like a possible. What do you think of him? Say he's a possible. Free

room and board for you tonight, Lester.

Compliments of the city. Hey, you can't hold me.

Register our guest, Romano.

Hold over for ID confirmation. My pleasure.

Tomorrow, we'll bring him pinwheel.

Hope for a positive ID.

Step in.

All the way.

Take off your hats, face front.

Which one is Kyler?

Number one, step forward, turn around.

They're all cowboys, Hector.

Don't play games with me. Which one is your shareholder?

Number three, step forward and turn around.

I don't see him here. He ain't one of them.

You shoot.

Next man.

Sure, I'm sure.

I wish I could help you, Hooker. Number five.

Honest.

And the last one.

Kick him loose.

That'll be all.

away okay sam hold on what i want to talk to you that's what how'd it go with

the cap how do you think i'm off the cases of now and come tomorrow morning i

sit down with internal affairs you know how it tracks from there they take my

badge and my gun and flush them together with my pension thanks buddy you're a

prince and you're a fool if you get your act together it doesn't have to be that

way

That's sweet, Hooker.

But if I want a religion, I go to church.

Call an ambulance.

What happened? Who did this to you?

The cowboy.

You mean Lester Sayles.

I lied.

You had him.

Where can I find him?

Tomorrow.

Hit.

Hit.

Where, Penwell?

Ambulance is on the way.

Don't do any good.

The bars they hit are all over the

city. It sure moves around.

Yeah, but look at this. Each one of them is near a sports facility.

Baseball stadium, sports center, boxing arena.

And each one of them features dancing girls.

There is a pattern.

And look at the times of the robberies.

They all went down when some sporting event was in progress.

Fans mobbed the bars before the games and the place was empty out of game time

for the most part. And the register is loaded.

Too bad it took so long to figure out Cowboys' M .O.

Yeah.

Finwell said that Cowboys are going to hit a game today.

There's a basketball game this afternoon.

At the sports center near Max Club. You think he hit the same place twice? He

might.

He might think that's the last place we'll be watching.

Let's give it a try. Let's set up, get there before he does.

I'll clear the stakeout with the lieutenant.

Let's hear it.

Where are you going? What do you think you're doing?

This is my case.

You're off the case. Captain's orders.

Forget about orders.

This is the guy who shot my partner. I'm going after him. Let me tell you

something.

I did tell the captain about your drinking problem.

That's where I left it.

I didn't tell him what I really believe.

That your partner caught a bullet because of your drinking.

What are you talking about? You went there. I didn't have to be.

Let me tell you something else.

This is my stakeout.

I'm not going to let you follow it up. So get out of here.

I've got a bird's eye view of the bar from here, Corrigan.

The place seems to be pretty well emptied out.

Yeah, well it's getting pretty full in here.

I think I've got one.

He's handsome in the bedroom.

Hey, I think this is him moving in.

You're a dead man.

It's Dietrich. He blew it. What the hell is Dietrich doing here?

He's got Cowboy.

Roboto.

Thanks. Bought me an extra pass.

Yeah, you almost bought me.

A ticket to the graveyard.

You're dangerous, man. You're lethal.

To yourself and everybody around you.

Sorry. I really am.

Sorry doesn't cut it anymore.

What does?

I think you know.

The last little escapade pretty well did it.

Eternal Affairs will probably throw the book at me.

Looks like I'll be holding down a desk job for a while.

Not too bad.

I heard a lot of people along the way.

Laura, my partner.

You?

That's yesterday's news.

From now on, you deal with today.

Okay, boys and girls, it's showtime.

I'd like to call this meeting of the Peace Officers Fellowship to order.

And let's get the ball rolling by inviting our newest member to identify

himself.

Okay, thanks.

Stick close to him, Laura.

He's going to need you now more than ever.

My name is Sam.

I'm a cop.

alcoholic.