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Oh, God, my husband is laying in there right now. I don't know if he's going to

live or die.

Angel didn't stop on the fifth floor just to pick up three slugs. I'm betting

had a partner and got himself double -crossed.

Quite pretty home on the third what?

It was a federal mark.

I've got five years invested.

I got a dead cop invested.

Nobody does that in this city.

Air 20 to dispatch. Air 20 to dispatch. We need assistance on a blown narcotics

stakeout from any units in the vicinity.

Roger, Air 20. What is your location?

Dispatch, we are at 14th and Broadway in pursuit of a late model red sedan

headed west on 14th.

Four out of 30 and any units in the vicinity.

Air 20 needs assistance in pursuit of late model red sedan headed west on

Four out of 30.

This is Air 20. I'm tack two.

This is Air 20. What do you have, 30?

I've just spotted a red sedan going west from 6th and Penn.

Roger, 30. That's our narcotic suspect.

Our ETA is one minute.

Southbound on Macy to Bridgeton. How far from me?

You should be exiting a side street just ahead to your right.

Air 20, I've got him.

Right in my sights. Dead ahead.

Air 20.

I kind of like you, Hooker, even if you did almost break my arm.

So you got respect for my intelligence.

Any other cop would be telling me I wouldn't have to go back to the slammer

spit out a couple of names. You're going back behind bars, Freddy, no question

about that. I told you, man, my name ain't Freddy anymore, it's Jamal. Okay,

Jamal, but there are prisons and there are prisons.

You want to do hard time or you want to do soft time?

Oh, man, give me a break.

Four months ago you bought that car of yours from a guy named Angel.

He was just a guy I met.

Hard time, Freddy.

Jamal, man, Jamal!

What do you want Angel for?

Angel's an old friend who deals heavy dope, and I want to reach out and touch

him. Jamal, tell us the truth.

Do yourself a favor.

Well, maybe it can't hurt to do a favor for some old friends.

I've got Angel's number, if that'd help.

Looks like you're going to set up your bust after all. Yeah.

You better have to go. Thanks, Stace.

Honey, what did the doctor say? How is she?

Maria's the one with morning sickness and Rico's the one who's panicking. This

is kid number three. What are you so uptight about? You take whatever the

gives you, okay?

Nothing's too good for my first son.

I'm probably future president of the United States.

You got it, buddy.

Yeah, yeah, Maria.

Late. Look, I'm sorry. I got a job to do.

I'll see you then.

I love you.

Don't we have to deal with the feds on this podcast?

Well, you got 50%, but our 50 % has all the muscle. And you're looking at them,

baby.

Rico, I'm not so sure I want you out on this one. Ah, no way, no way. I've been

following this deal from the get -go, and I'm not quitting.

Priorities, man.

You got a pregnant wife, family.

And a job.

And I intend to do it.

This is Hooker.

Go ahead, Hooker. This thing's set.

Your man is overdue already, isn't he?

Hooker, I got it covered.

What about the deployment?

You're giving Rico the right kind of backup?

Leave it alone, Hooker. I know how to run a buy. I've been at it enough years.

Yeah, and I've crossed swords with you feds enough to know you get it wrong

the time.

Renewal's doing a solo.

He's alone?

So far.

But don't count on anything staying the way it looks.

He's going in.

I'll keep an eye on the lobby. And when he comes up, Bennett, do it right.

Is he always this pleasant to work with?

Croker? Never asked for anything more than perfection.

Angel hasn't contacted anywhere in the lobby. He's on his way out, Bennett.

Look alive.

Are we ready?

The sound I've been waiting for.

We in business could look it?

Bet he said that to all us cops.

Looks like the LCTD's finest is about to make a buy, Tom.

You know, all you guys that work with Hooker sound alike.

It's still a federal case, Rico.

Don't forget who found him.

Right, right. I mean, you dudes got the room bugged. Radio equipment that'd

break the city's budget. A hundred thousand cash and all we can come up

talent and manpower.

Especially talent.

Angel, come on in.

Angel. Hey.

Hey, I'm clean, man.

Okay.

Looks like you come empty -handed, Angel.

Hey, I can get the snow in two minutes, man.

But we count first.

Then we deal.

Fred, don't leave the room till the snow arrives.

You hear me talking, Angel?

It's only because of a short relationship that a man has to take his

Make sure things are cool.

You know?

Hey, it's cool.

Count it, Angel.

100 thou.

Nice.

Real nice.

It's all yours.

As soon as we see five keys of Snow White.

I'll be right back.

Oh, just one thing.

It's a rip -off.

Move in.

Number one party is going down.

Hey, all right.

I had to shoot one of them. It was a setup.

Cops are all over up there.

What'd you think of it?

Hey, what do you think, man? You're talking to Angel. I got it all.

Hey, easy with him.

How is it?

Through and through.

Nobody knows yet.

Look, what about Rico's wife?

She ought to hear it from one of us.

I convinced Maria that this was the best job in the world for Rico.

And I trained him.

She's got to hear it from me.

I've got to get some answers.

This thing is a circus.

Right now, everybody in it looks like a star clown.

Three slugs, an angel.

How many shots did you say you got off?

Three. But they're in the elevator doors on the 16th floor.

I got questions.

What happened to the money? The U .S. treasurer. Who covered the elevators?

floors were staked out?

That garage looks like a big black hole.

That was calling the shots. He was in charge. It was their case, remember? No.

It became our case the minute that drug pusher squeezed the trigger that hit our

man.

Booker, do you read me?

Yes, Stacey, what is it? Nine millimeter casing. And they still smell fresh.

How many?

Three. They landed on the floor right outside the elevator.

Three casings on the floor? Three slugs and Angel?

I don't think he ever got off the elevator.

Angel didn't stop on the fifth floor just to pick up three slugs. I'm betting

had a partner and got himself double -crossed. All right, Stacey, stick with

until you get a lift from every push button on that elevator.

Jim, have the ME move on Angel's autopsy. And then toss the registration

for everybody who checked in or out of the fifth floor. Everybody.

Bell boys, maids, waitresses.

Push them hard.

Hooker, my husband is laying in there right now.

Now, I don't know if he's going to live or die.

Maria, whoever did this, I promise you I'll get him.

Two years ago, right here, it was the same thing.

Only you were telling me what a terrific job Rico had done. What a terrific job

he did before that tenon switchblade went up to its hilt in his body.

Now my husband has been used.

Why can't he be like other cops?

Why can't he come home at five instead of spending his nights working the

of the city?

He volunteered for the job. He volunteered because he wants the city

his kids, for all kids.

So they won't ever... End up in that sewer.

You really believe that?

I believe it.

Rico believes it. You believe it, Maria.

Can I, um... Can I hold on to you, please?

Yeah, I got it.

Yeah.

What'd he say, Corey?

Yeah. What'd he say?

Layton's wrapped up their comparison on Angel's prints and the partials lifted

from the inside elevator buttons.

Layton's on the fifth and sixteenth floor buttons along to Ayn.

No match in the partial lifted from the elevator button on the fifth floor.

Yeah, I mean, the Angel intended to go to five, and our mystery man sent him

down the rest of the way. Angel intended to stop. That means he had a reason,

and that reason means he had a partner.

Yeah. We've got it down to one room on the fifth floor, Hooker.

The registration desk put a guy named Alvarado in at noon, but nobody's seen

since the ripoff. Have forensics go over that room with a vacuum cleaner.

Right. Oh, there's also a good chance this guy might be wearing a beard or a

mustache. Found a small bottle of spirit gum.

That's good police work. When you round up the employees from the hotel, let's

make a special on everyone who saw a guy with a beard or a mustache. Bring them

in for interviews.

Will do.

What's that about a mustache?

Stacy found a bottle of spirit gum.

Seems our mystery man likes to play active.

I'd ring any bells?

No, not a thing.

Look, why don't I take a copy of the parcel you lifted off the elevator

Why? It's only a parcel.

You got a name to go with it?

No, no name. I just thought we could start checking it against major drug

dealers.

Forget it.

The $100 ,000 got me pushing too hard.

Look, I got some reports I gotta get out. I'll see you guys in the morning.

Yeah.

Jim, roll our police artists out of bed. Tell them we need a composite as

quickly as possible.

And Jim, have our analytical officer do a rundown on every narc rip we've ever

heard of. Okay, you got it.

Mr. Alvarado, room 220.

I'd like to place a call, please.

555 -2264.

This is Rita.

I have a message for Martinez.

Yes, Mr. Castro.

Tell him I have all but $50 ,000.

I should have the rest within a week.

Mr. Martinez expects shipment within five days.

He asked that I inform you of his circumstance.

What circumstance?

Mr. Martinez has other people wanting to buy his shipment.

He will negotiate with the first buyer available when the shipment arrives.

You tell him I am his buyer.

I have been getting ready for one year for this. I will not lose it now.

I can only relay Mr. Martinez's message. I can't argue with you.

Please, continue to use the same number for contact at the designated times.

8 and 10 a .m., 8 and 10 p .m.

Adios, Sr. Castro.

Hello. Fit me hairline information.

Hooker.

Autopsy on Angel.

Three 9mm slugs. Two are good for comparison, and if we can find the gun.

What else?

Leighton's got one partial index finger out of the fifth floor hotel room. Came

off the glue box.

Matches ten points to the one we got out of the elevator.

It's the ribbon on the package.

Tight conspiracy on the rip and Angel's murder.

And the analytical officer asked me to tell you that she checked their files on

Nargrip. Nothing comes close to this case, except for the Benny Goldstone rip

six months ago.

He's still in jail.

Did they say what else the feds had?

She said they had nothing.

Come on.

That's what she said.

She called their records man. Five minutes later, he calls back. There's

connected. Five minutes?

We'll have her call again.

Tell them to look this time.

Jim.

They did a nice job on the composite. Look, thanks to the maid, she got one

long look yet.

Bergen's running some copies off now. Yeah, we're all working like dogs here.

I appreciate it. I've been getting a lot of heat from that $100 ,000. Well, we

all have a stake in the matter, see?

Rico's life is on the line.

Close the door, Tim.

I don't follow.

We called your records office in Washington.

Five minutes later, they don't know anything about any NARC rip anywhere in

country. Maybe they didn't have anything.

Come on, they have a Benny Goldstone rip.

I gave them the information personally.

That Miami rip was all over the newspapers two months ago.

Your files aren't that sloppy.

Hey, Hooker, no doors are closed. We're in this together.

Maybe you just got a lazy records man. I'll check it out personally, okay?

Hooker!

Here's our man.

Bring any bells, Tim?

You've done nothing for me.

Listen, I'll go back to the office, get an in -house distribution going. Maybe

one of our people can make it. Check out your filing system at the same time.

Pull out the day watch together.

I want this distributed to every precinct in the city. Set up a specialty

telephone.

Start with the mug books.

Pull every known drug pusher. Where are you going?

Where'd you go, Tim?

All right, everybody, listen up.

As of now, Tim Bennett is shut off. He gets nothing. You understand?

Okay, he gets nothing, but I don't understand.

Bennett and Gregory Lohman III just had a nice, cozy little chat. Gregory Lohman

III what?

He's a federal mark.

Bennett has been sucking us dry and running to him with information.

But why?

That's a question I'm going to ask at the right time.

I've distributed a thousand copies of Castro's picture with the suggestion

he might be wearing a phony beard. Now, if he is spotted, they are to leave him

alone but call us. Airports?

Of course.

Look, relax.

This creep is going to surface somewhere and then I am going to nail him.

And then you'll be out of it.

I'll be out of friends, too.

I've been out on the street rapping with the girls. Any particular reason?

Angel's girlfriend was looking for him, so I let her find me.

And I told her Angel was dead and that this was the dude who pulled the

Did she ID the drive?

Yeah. She said his name is Gunther Castro, Angel's new business partner.

She also came up with an address.

Regent Arms on Sycamore. He's using the name Alvarado.

That's good police work.

Changing something decent.

Pick up a warrant. You and Jim get on it.

What about Maria?

She's not dead.

Pick up that damn warrant.

The manager said he's been here three weeks. He left two hours ago.

Visitors? His only recall is of two people, and the description matches

and his girlfriend.

And one possible lead. He made a phone call last night.

Phone been busted?

Yeah. Jim, the eye sheet on Castro says he's a dealer. He's been busted three or

four times for narcotics.

The last time was a year ago.

Did he do time?

None of the cases held up.

Interested in who had charge of the cases?

Tell me it was your friend, Gregory Lohman III, government supernark. How'd

ever guess?

We've been had.

Good.

Look, you owe me an answer, Lohman.

What's with you and Castro? I mean, why do you want him so bad?

Okay.

I have had him three times in the last five years, and each time he has gotten

off. The last time I made a case?

He planted the evidence himself and then proved it phony in court.

He made a fool of me.

And this time, I won him.

And I've almost got him.

How are you going to be so sure?

Because an airport guard recognized him from one of the photos and alerted our

men.

He's en route to Detroit where he's probably getting ready to set up another

ripoff to fund his next big buy.

I've got a surveillance team on him right now. So why don't you just step in

bust him? Why tail him?

Because I don't want him for some small rip.

I want him for the big buy.

I want him to be tasting that money in his mouth so I can just pull it right

out. But you gotta make a case against him first. Catch him dirty. All Hooker's

gotta do is find him first. He's bought and paid for.

Yeah, like you say.

All Hooker has to do is find him first.

Pardon me for not knocking.

Not to seeing you here, Bennett.

Hooker, I... Shut up.

I want some answers to some questions.

We lost $100 ,000. Well, yeah, but it was he who lost it. Wasn't Bennett that

lost it? Sure, it was him.

What do you know about him? If I told you, what would you do with the

information? Use it.

What happened to all the teamwork we were supposed to have, Bennett?

Hooker, I'm sorry.

Rico's dead.

It was your operation that got him killed.

This maggot set it up.

I think you have an obligation to us.

Gunther Castro.

This criminal record dates back to 1966.

His last arrest was May.

Last year.

Lohman here.

Ran the show. Only he slopped it up and Castro beat his case for the third time.

Congratulations.

What else do you know? What is it with you?

An ego trick, Lohman? We have... Got six million in cocaine, three mules in the

joint, but we lost him.

Is there any reason to cut me out?

This creep's responsible for killing a cop.

I'll give you this much, Hooker.

When we took him, he had a million up front.

The dope was seized, and it bankrupted him.

Now, I didn't know he was in your city. We had no idea that he was setting a rip

-up here.

He was clearly trying to build a new bankroll to buy a big shipment.

Where? I don't know.

You're lying.

Stay off the case, Hooker. You'll have your shot at him. I want it now.

I've got five years invested.

I got a dead cop invested.

Nobody does that in this city. If Castro doesn't go on trial, there's that much

more jeopardy for a thousand other cops.

All right.

I've located Castro's pad.

And I know a certain telephone number he's been calling. I'm putting that up

trade. I've got nothing to trade.

Then stay the hell out of my way.

Phone company traced our number, Hooker. The number captured calls a public

telephone in the valley.

And then comes you.

That's all we got. It's got to be important.

On surveillance team.

We're out of bodies, Hooker. I'll spring one for you tonight, but Corrigan and

Stacey will have to cover in the morning. Consider it done.

Hooker's sweating it out here all night. He isn't going to bring Rico back.

Now he's lying in bed with my eyes open.

Hooker.

Two drug dealers were shot to death tonight in Detroit.

Looks like another rip -off.

Castro style?

Yeah, Castro style. Lohman had a tail on him, but the guys nearly slipped it.

Lohman's ego's running up a hell of a tab, you know that? Yeah.

Look, Hooker, from everything I've been able to find out, it looks like Castro's

coming back here for a big buy. That's all we really know.

And I just wanted you to know that.

Tim.

Welcome back.

I don't think anyone's even

alive at this end of town.

What are you talking about?

Comes a live one now.

Anything? We had one tricky looking woman about 8 o 'clock.

Parked by the phone booth like she was waiting for a call.

Smoked a cigarette, looked at the scenery and split.

Any suggestions?

Yeah, stick with it.

Castro slipped through Lohman's fingers in Detroit.

We expect her back in town.

She's back.

Go make a phone call.

And keep your ears open.

talk to you. Put mom on.

Yeah, I'll wait.

Come on, I haven't got all day.

This is Rita.

Castro here.

Yes, Senor Castro.

Our friend has merchandise.

He is concerned about your situation.

I just got back into town after a very successful trip.

You tell him my situation is perfect.

I'll meet him in one hour at the designated place.

He will want to know what you consider successful.

500 ,000.

500 ,000 is a nice figure.

Senor Martinez will be pleased to hear that.

One hour. We'll be there.

How could it be, Mr. Bureau?

Going down in an hour. Cool half million. All right, let's go.

4X -830, this is O 'Brien on Control 3.

4X -830, go ahead.

I just got off the line to the Attorney General, and I had to give your friend

Lohman all our information, including what you're doing and your location, and

he's rolling now.

You know, if Lohman takes Castro, he gets priority.

Our orders say cooperate.

How far is this cooperation supposed to go?

You're to give Lohman all the information on the progress of your

takes Castro first?

I didn't ask.

4X -ray 16.

We've moved into front position on Our Lady. We're southbound on the harbor

freeway.

That's a roger. Stay with her.

She has to pick up the merchandise.

All other units, fall back.

Keep us informed, 16.

Roger.

For X -ray 16, we're rolling again. Our lady just picked up a male passenger.

They're heading north on Lake.

Roger. X -ray 30, moving up to Interceptor Corp Street. We'll be behind

5A base, do floor X -ray 30.

X -ray 30, go.

Staff 7 requests you relay all information to an agent Lohman who wants

you at termination point when known.

As a roger.

Connect me through to Lohman.

I'll keep him informed.

I appreciate the cooperation, Hooker. On even terms. No, Attorney General.

Nobody to call the shots.

I find Castro.

And mine.

That's not priest.

Well, it's Castro.

It's my bus, man.

We hand them over to you, you get priority jurisdiction over them.

What's the difference? The scum is still off the street.

Good man named Rico is dead. That's the difference.

Money's under the feet.

Make the count.

Thank you.

I don't like your methods, Loma. I don't like you.

You made a good case back there in the church.

You want him?

Yeah.

12 -8 -79, clear.

Change will do you good.

Could be.

Anyway, Uncle Sam got back all the money that Tim Bennett lost.

You know, I wasn't worried about Bennett, all the money.

Well, he was worried about losing your respect.

Well, you got what you want.

Case closed.

Listen, I've also been thinking, what the hell?

The dope's off the street, that's good.

Take him, he's yours.

Why, Lola?

You're at the edge.

Maybe I've developed a conscience.

Or maybe I just don't want you mad at me anymore.

Okay.

Is that really Gregory Lohman III?

Maybe it's the church. Maybe he got religion in there. Whatever it is, I'll

it for Rico.

Amen.

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