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Single -handedly taking on terrorism? What about the FBI?

I wanted somebody I could trust in a more personal level.

The senator and his wife are here now. They're going on stage.

Something's wrong.

Over there.

you

Oh, Marshall.

He's all yours. Thank you for your cooperation, Hooker. We appreciate you

boys catching our fugitives for us. Fine. Keep it in New Mexico this time,

you? I got shin spoons from chasing.

Have no time for escape. Seven years, do it. To make a ten.

This is Nancy Bosco coming to you live from the federal building where I'm

hoping to get a comment from Senator Stuart Grail.

Senator Grail. Good evening, Senator Grail. Good evening. Nice to see you.

to see you. How are you? This is Mrs. Grail. The lovely Mrs. Grail. Hello,

Grail.

This is Tim Braddock, the senator's press aide. Is this the senator's last

before his meeting in Hawaii?

That's right. He wants to thank the federal judges who are already rallying

behind his bill.

And then he'll proceed to Honolulu, where he'll meet with other key

figures to ask for their support to combat terrorism.

Some of his critics have said the senator's bill goes too far, that it

stimulate terrorists to even more extreme acts of violence. Do you have

comment on this? Not at this time.

Ms. Raymond here will pass out press packets, which will explain the

position. Thank you very much. Senator, regarding this bill, I need to get a

statement from you, please.

Just let me say this.

There is no extremism worse than the killing of innocent people. And I happen

believe that the American people agree with me, and I hope to convince my

colleagues of that in Honolulu.

Thank you. Thank you very much, Senator.

Mrs. Grail, do you think there's enough support in Congress to get this bill

passed? Well, my husband is a very persuasive man.

Wait till you get closer.

I'm never too big for you.

Can't wait.

Let her go!

Hold it!

Who are you?

Who sent you?

Who sent you?

How'd it go at the shooting board?

Unusual.

Why didn't I take the suspect alive? Did I consider the alternatives before

shooting? Well, did you?

Sure I did. I considered the alternatives. Same old me. I chose him.

got? Nothing so far. Our ammo file drew a blank.

So did Sacramento.

There was no ID on the dead man.

No papers, no passport.

What about the APB and the guy that got away?

Zip. We haven't heard back from the FBI yet. Or the morgue. Twelve hours.

Still spinning our wheels. What's going on? Maybe the feds want to hit a home

run with this one themselves.

The United States Senator and all. The feds couldn't hit water if they fell out

of a boat.

I tell you, there's more to this than a couple of crazies looking for kicks.

What do you got on the dead man's last words?

Mimi, no knocker, me eerie.

There's no name or business on record that even comes close to that. It's not

Vietnamese. Maybe Korean, Japanese.

You sure you got the spelling right? I mean, you usually have trouble with

parking tickets.

Hooker, it says here that an unidentified police officer who Senator

stopped to chat with probably prevented his being killed.

Are you keeping secrets from us again?

It's in my report on your desk in trouble.

Come on, humor me.

Well... Stuart Graham and I went to college together. We played football,

girls. He was a hero to everybody.

He went into law, got into politics. I became a cop.

We stayed in touch with each other for a while, and then we lost contact.

End of story.

Not quite.

But it does help explain the call that I got from the chief a few minutes ago.

How do you feel about a whitey?

Great onions, great potato chips. Why?

Well, the senator's requested you for special duty for the duration of his

in Honolulu.

A bodyguard.

Personal security. A bodyguard. Come on, Pete, that's not my style. You know

that. Now, tell it to the chief. He's already assigned you Corrigan as your

partner and Sheridan for personal assignment to Mrs. Grail.

And the Hawaii police will cooperate.

Hawaii? On the house?

No objections from me.

He's your friend. He needs protection.

And you need a tan, right?

Exactly. Was there something you wanted to say?

Pack your bikini, Blue Eyes.

Welcome to Hawaii, Sergeant. I'm Tim Braddock. Thank you. This is Howie

Kalanuma, Hotel Security. Howdy.

Senator Gray will ask us to meet you. This is Officer Stacy Sheridan, Jim

Corrigan.

Hi there. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you.

Your car is right over here.

Can't complain about the service.

It's going to be nice having you with us. Very nice.

Thank you. Oh, let me get your luggage, tickets.

Yeah, right here.

Sergeant Hooker, you gave a seminar at UCLA last year. I'll take the police

science class and caught it. Top stuff, man. Oh, yeah, going to be great working

with you. Well, thank you.

I'll get your luggage.

You're here five minutes and you're already a celebrity.

Of course.

Want to see where the action will be, where the senator's making a speech?

down to work, eh, Howie? Yeah, I know that's how you want it done, Sergeant.

I am on the case.

You've got to be kidding.

Piece of cake.

All we need is an army to secure this place. Hooker, you did say we're getting

local backup, right?

Howie. You got it, Frank, yeah?

Who are we working with?

Gus Kalioki, Hawaii Metro. He's a detective sergeant. Tough guy, man.

Sounds like my kind of guy.

Well, already he doesn't like you much, yeah? He thinks he ought to be in charge

instead of you. Heard him tell the senator, though.

Welcome to paradise.

You're looking, but I bet you're not seeing anything.

Very perceptive of you, Stuart.

Look, I know this routine is rough on you, but it's part of being a senator's

wife.

Make things a lot easier on me if you just warm up a little bit.

I know how to carry out my wifely public image.

Don't worry about that, Senator.

Just remember, this island is my family's home.

They have great pride and are respected.

Don't shame them with some cheap little affair with some hotel maid.

Don't get started on that again. Give me a break, huh?

Senator, Sergeant Hooker's here.

Thank you, Carol.

Hooker!

Welcome to Hawaii.

Thanks, sir.

Carol, will you and I check out my schedule with the desk downstairs,

You know, things got a little bit hectic down at the federal building. I don't

think you ever met Barbara. Hello.

Hello. You probably saved my husband's life, Sergeant Hooker.

All I can say is thank you. I'm glad it worked out that way.

I know you two have a lot to talk about.

Please excuse me.

Anything new on the dead man at the federal building?

They're doing an autopsy.

Forensics has gone to work on it. They'll let me know if anything

My people asked your captain some pretty tough questions about you.

It's all true.

Overdrawn on my bank account.

Two months behind on my alimony.

And you gave up your detective shield to go back into a black and white? What

kind of a move was that?

I don't know. Maybe not as dumb as you.

Single -handedly taking on terrorism?

Maybe that's just self -preservation.

Anyway, I believe in what I'm doing, and if it happens to be good politics right

now, so be it.

What do you think of my bill?

Bottom line, it's search and destroy, isn't it?

No, that's an oversimplification.

We've got to hit those terrorists where it hurts.

Economic sanctions, cutting off arms sales, that's not going to do anything.

You know, strange as it may seem, I never really...

personalize my stand into what happened at that federal building.

That's why I asked for you. You're the best cop I know. What about the FBI?

I wanted somebody I could trust on a more personal level. I know we've kind

lost touch over the years, but I knew when I asked for you, you'd help out an

old friend.

There's not a hell of a lot of difference between politics and police

It's both blood sports.

Play the game. You've got to pay the price. Well, you can keep the policy. My

job is to keep you and your wife alive, and to do that, I'm going to have to

know everything you do before you do it.

Same old hooker.

Found where you belong, right?

Well, I found where I was needed, where I might do something, something that I

think is important.

We used to talk about that, didn't we?

How are we going to change the system, redistribute the wealth?

Remember? You forgot.

A backup plan to marry rich wives in case.

Boy, we were some combination.

Hooker to grail.

Remember the Cal game?

Four touchdowns.

And all those pretty girls out there.

All those pretty girls.

Think you can still toss a football?

Think you can still catch one?

Oh, shut up. No, wait. Hey, hey, hey.

Wait a minute.

I've got work to do.

Okay, when we get back to the hotel, I'll go to my itinerary with you.

Doggone it, it's more than good to see you again, Hucker.

You know, I don't want you to think about this as a temporary assignment.

We could go all the way together.

Now think about that, pal, because I am going for the gold.

What do you report, McHugh?

The policeman who interfered at the federal building is at the hotel with

senator now.

That is a small prize.

You should have died in shame with the foolish young Ashikura.

I'm prepared to reclaim honor.

There will be time for that.

Meanwhile, we've received a telephone call from our employer.

There's an important change in our plans.

Do I have a part to play?

Your part is to hide this in the place where the senator will talk.

And then...

I'll need proof of your marksmanship.

Hi.

Now, Jim, you stay with the guest list. Do a background check on everything. All

the local radicals, extremists.

Anybody who's ever made threats against elected officials.

Don't forget about the dead man at the federal building.

You still have a zip on him.

Mimi no naka ni iri.

Gee, was it something I said, Hooker?

What? Mimi no naka ni iri. It's Japanese.

For what?

For stick it in your ear.

Terrific clue, Hooker. Next time I see Citizen Kane, would you come along so

can explain Rosebud to me?

Hey, uh, I didn't make you look bad, did I?

I mean, I can't help it if I know Japanese.

Yeah, I can be so young and so eager all the time.

I can tone the eager down, but, uh, young I'm stuck with.

Like we are with you. Hey, I'm your shadow hooker. At the feet of the

you rock, I roll.

Wonderful. Where's Kalioki?

Did I tell you I already sent an application into the LCPD Academy?

Why would you want to leave here? Hey, I figure I might end up working with you.

Wouldn't that be a kick?

All right.

What's going on out there?

Come into the office and you take it over like it's your own operation.

I was told you'd cooperate.

I'm having trouble requisitioning paperclips. That's because things get

around here when I approve them, Sergeant.

I guess you might say I'm in charge of tourists now.

We'll try not to steal the towns in the meantime.

Here's a list of what I need.

Stand by.

Sure.

Two snipers.

A SWAT team.

A chopper.

Where the hell do you think you are, brother?

Vietnam? Well, do I get it or don't I? I'll take it up with the captain. You do

that. Hooker.

Let me explain something.

You're not in L .A. or Chicago.

We run a tight ship here, mister.

Does that include stopping terrorism? There's never been any activity here.

And that's because we know what we're doing.

But you're not responsible for Senator Grail's life, I am.

Don't push it, Hooker.

I knew they'd like each other.

Why don't we make this a little more interesting? Yeah, I thought it was

interesting. See those rocks down there?

The one who gets there last buys the winner a round.

Hey, wait a minute. There's an election coming up. Are you voting for me?

Well, I did last year.

I think I did.

All you politicians are being dishonest and looking like.

If I win, I get your vote.

Looks like I get your vote and the drinks are on you. What the hell were

doing? Nice guys finish last. You know that.

Was it worth it?

Winning is always worth it.

Come on.

You're taking worse balls than that on a football field.

Nothing I'm thinking about.

The horse. The leg.

You want to stay with him? I'll get a trainer here in five minutes.

He'll be okay.

Is it the life?

Better than jockeying a black and white through the ghetto?

I don't know, Stuart.

Jockeying a black and white through the ghetto can be fun.

Hello, ladies.

Stuart! Stuart!

John, here's a guy I was telling you about. He could thread a needle with a

football from 50 yards.

John McAllister.

Stuart's been telling me nothing but good things about you. You know, these

politicians, are they exaggerating? No, not this one. No, sirree.

Listen, Stuart, you see that fat cat down there at the end of the bar?

Well, just meeting you is going to make him lower his guard so much that I'm

going to take a piece of prime waterfront away from him at my price.

Did I forget to tell you that my father -in -law is also a pirate?

Never mind that. Now, come on. I want you to soften them up for me.

Hooker, the place is yours. Just make yourself comfortable.

But leave some of the ladies for me.

Hooker.

We're about to have a security check run through at the hotel.

Good.

How's Howie doing?

She's on top of things like a lid. Believe it. Like white on rice, Hooker.

Stacy's with Mrs. Grail. Hooker.

I was with Mrs. Grail. She ditched me.

I don't think she likes me tagging along.

Why aren't you enjoying your guests, Barbara?

His guests, Mother, not mine.

You are married to a powerful man like I am.

We must have the courage and sometimes the ability to look happy

when we are not.

Do you understand?

Forgive me.

I didn't mean to intrude.

Not at all.

From here you can see Pali.

That's where Kamehameha fought his great battle.

They say that his enemies threw themselves off the cliff rather than

You love the islands, don't you?

Yes.

I belong here, you understand?

Yes, I think I do.

What about Stuart?

Stuart is more interested in people.

I know the lack of privacy is unsettling, but I must insist that one

with you at all times.

You're so bad.

I'll leave you here, Sergeant, if you don't mind.

I asked you to be discreet.

What are you talking about?

You said you had to come back early to go over the notes for your speech.

So I did.

You're not as good a liar as you used to be, Stuart.

And not nearly as careful.

One of these days, you're going to push me just a little bit too far.

Tell my father you said that.

And he might cut off your allowance.

Yes, this is the senator's first trip to Hawaii, and he's enjoying himself very

much. However, he is here for the purpose of creating...

He's got his own independent.

They'll probably work with him.

The founder and his wife are here now. They're going on stage.

I think I got something.

I'm going to check it out.

Something's wrong.

I'm on my way.

Is everyone okay?

Senator's fine, but Mrs. Grail had to be sedated.

A woman was killed, so they were both lucky.

Now, do you have enough security up there?

Yeah, if there's a problem, I'll give you a call. I was worried about you. I

handle it.

Thank you.

What happened? He got away.

Any prints?

Yeah, maybe.

Mostly smudged. The weapon's a special job, custom built.

It's gonna give us a hell of a time trying to trace it down. What about the

suspect? The men are getting an APV out of him. Asian 30.

Not much to go on. Hooker!

Hooker! I saw him! I saw him! The guy who did the shooting.

I know him anywhere.

I got a thing for faces.

Hey, settle down.

Describe the man you saw to this office over here. Tom, let's get it on the air

right away.

This thing is a work of art.

Yeah, which brings up an interesting question.

Yeah.

How did he miss hitting the senator?

Hooker!

There's something else.

Senator Grail was standing about there, right?

And Mrs. Grail was over here.

Yeah.

Make me a sketch.

Everybody's location at the time of the shooting.

Find every bullet hole and mark them. And O 'Brien must have got something

the coroner by now.

I'll call him.

You stick with Sergeant Kalioki. Give him all the help you can. Hey, Hooker.

It's out of your hands. A crime was committed here today. This is Hawaii,

remember? This is my jurisdiction.

I don't work for you.

You work for me.

It's still my job.

You don't want to cooperate?

Stay the hell out of my way.

Hey!

Something's bugging me.

You want a job?

Name it.

That sniper posed as a waiter.

I want you to check the security passes, see who they were issued to.

There are 200 people out there. Lucky there wasn't a thousand. You want to be

copper, don't you?

Hey, you're my man, right?

If you say it, it's survival.

Then start with Genesis now.

Got it.

Hooker!

The coroner found traces of a natural toxin in the blood and lower digestive

tract of the man you shot.

What kind of a toxin? Well, that's the weird part. It comes from a special

a blowfish.

It's considered a delicacy in Japan.

Well, that proves that our man was in Japan at least 24 hours before his

That fish hasn't eaten anywhere else but Japan.

I'll get a report on the prints from Tokyo via Hawaii Metro.

Where are you headed?

Kaleoke is giving us about as much cooperation as an IRS auditor. I'm going

change that.

How? By going over his head.

See his captain.

is full of your action, McHugh. A woman panicked, ran into my line of fire.

The federal building, you're supposed to kill and failed.

At the hotel today, you're supposed to fail.

And you killed.

Give me the knife.

There's a drugstore across the street.

There's a doctor.

When he attended to you, come back.

With everything that's going on, I thought you might know something that

help put the puzzle together.

If you're referring to the senator, I am just as pressy. Who must know it's

every move and every enemy. Hey, I'm looking for a dinner date here, and

giving me the third degree.

Well, I might be interested in dinner, if you're interested in talking about

public image you've created for the senator.

How real is it?

Nobody's perfect.

What goes on behind closed doors has nothing to do with the shootings.

That could be.

But there's a lot of things we don't understand about this case.

All we know for sure is that people are getting killed, and it could happen

again.

Yeah, well, let's just hope it doesn't.

Good night.

Good night.

Hey, how's it, Rick?

It's Howie. Look, I want to find out if... What do you mean, what really

went down? You were there, weren't you? You were supposed to mingle.

What?

Oh, great. You're putting my foot in the ring, or I count on you, Rick.

Where'd you meet this guy?

Okay, look, I don't want to talk on the phone.

Meet me at the same place. Maybe we can check him out.

You can see the pattern.

They were trying to kill Barbara.

Does that make any sense? Not to me, it doesn't.

I mean, hitting Barbara wouldn't stop Stewart's bill. In fact, public sympathy

would probably guarantee its passage.

Well, maybe they meant it as a warning to scare him into withdrawing it or

they'd kill his wife. That bomb at the federal building was no warning. No,

doesn't track for me.

Then where does that leave us? That's a very good question.

What do you got, Jim?

Not much.

Kalioki told me he might have a lead, but he wanted to run it by his captain

first. Booker, what happened when you talked to the captain about Kalioki?

Are we going to get any more cooperation?

Not unless Kalioki divorces the captain's sister.

He's not. The captain's brother -in -law.

I can't believe you, Rick.

Telling your past is so good you met a joint like this? I hang out here

sometimes. So does this guy. There's a lot of girls here, you know.

He'd hunt for one of them.

I guess I was talking to her about the work of the senator's speech this

afternoon and he overheard me.

You're going to cost me everything I've been working for.

How much, huh? How much?

Two hundred bucks.

Hey, you said he was a big fan. He couldn't find a ticket to buy.

I didn't see anything wrong with it.

I can't cover for you, Rick.

I gotta phone it in. That guy may be the sniper, understand?

That's him.

That's the guy that I told my past.

Yeah, we got him.

April, don't move.

Booker. Hey, it's Howie.

I found him, Booker.

The guy who did the shooting.

Where are you, Howie? How far away?

The Bootsy Bar.

On Front Street near Mason.

You can get here in five minutes.

You went into the back room not two minutes ago.

All right, now listen to me, Howie. Don't play cop. Get out of there as fast

you can.

I'm on my way.

Good guy.

Jim, you stick with the Senator. Stace, come with me.

We're out of here.

You don't have to twit my arm.

Excuse me. Excuse me.

Howie, I'm sorry.

I had no idea that that guy was going to do anything like that. He just told me

he needed a ticket.

Here, bro, yeah?

Are you looking for somebody?

Who? Me?

No, I'm just looking for a cab, yeah?

Oh.

Over there.

Call an ambulance.

Take it easy.

Easy now.

I can...

A little bit, huh?

With him.

With him?

All right, I've got it.

Not a very good cop, huh? You're a hell of a cop.

Looker.

Next, I'm T .J. Hooker.

The question is, why would the Yakuza want the Senator dead?

Maybe they don't.

Remember, the bullet pattern on the stage was around Barbara, not Stewart.

Now I find you into the same dirty laundry I've had to handle all my life.

I'm not a killer.

They'll trade the lady for us, you and me.

I'll say hello to your friends for you.

Ugh!