Original subtitles

Thank you.

Well, these toast girls are hip. I really dig those styles of wear.

And the southern girls, with the way they talk, they knock me out when I'm

there.

The Midwest farmers' daughters, well, they all make you feel all right.

And the northern girls, with the way they kiss, they keep their boyfriends

at night.

Oh, wish they all could be California.

Oh, wish they all could be California. Oh, wish they all could be

California.

Like Jell -O on Springs. I mean, there is something

about California girls. Music you've ever heard one.

Oh, come on. No, I'm serious here.

I have never seen such.

Beautiful creatures in all my life. Listen, check it out, girls. I like you.

You're going to spend the rest of our lunch hour shopping.

What I'm going to do, Hooker, is take the plunge. The plunge?

Hooker, the streets of South Philly are behind me.

I'm going to become a total Californian.

I think I'll even buy a surfboard.

You been watching those late -night Beach Blanket movies again?

Yeah, well, they are classics, you know.

Right up there with Casablanca and Citizen Kane.

You know, you saw me on this, though. I mean, sand, sun, surfboards.

That's it, Hooker. I'm a convert.

South Philly's gonna be in mourning.

Romano.

Romano! Huh?

If you want to buy a board, you ought to take a long, hard look at one of these.

A tanker?

My research says time has passed this one by. Ah, it's a pioneer board.

You buy one of these, you catch a curl, stand tall, hang ten, before that triple

thrusher there gets off the tide.

I don't know so much about this stuff.

Oh, a cop.

Fix up things.

Hear me?

Come on.

Okay, just keep still like a good little girl. Take the money. Don't hurt me,

please. Open the box.

Come on.

Doing your grocery list?

I'm making a list of all the Beach Boy albums I'm going to buy.

And hey, I just found out the Beach Boys are doing a concert at the Amphitheater

next week. I got a flash for you. The concert's sold out.

What? It can't be.

It's part of my education.

There's some things you're not going to get a degree in, kid.

I've got to get a ticket, and I will believe it.

All units and 4 Adam 30, a 211 silent at the theater box office, 810 Broadmoor.

4 Adam 30, handle code 3.

Sounds like a box office heist. Yeah.

4 Adam 30, roger.

Get the money in a sack.

Move it. All right, come on. Get it done. I want it all.

Get the money in. Get out.

Hey, just a minute. Come on, come on. Come on, move, move, move, move.

Hey, you just stay right there, sweetheart. I'll blow your damn head

right, we got it. Let's go.

You just had to do it, didn't you? You just had to do it.

Adam 30 in pursuit. He's found on Center Street from Placer Avenue. Two 11

suspects driving a blue Ford van. Lighten 217. Call Charlie Edwards.

All units, all frequencies, stand by. Four Adam 30 is in pursuit.

This guy's got a death wish.

Then goodbye.

For now.

I

was

passing on my way into the precinct.

Cashier took a bullet.

We're not sure how bad she is yet.

Any witnesses?

Well, the assistant manager, but they thumped him from behind. He didn't see a

thing. Any count on the take, Captain?

Well, they hit it just right. He called it a season, $8 ,000, and we're left

with nothing for suspects.

What about that young lady?

Miss Perry.

Ann Perry. Nobody's had a chance to question her yet.

Attendants are treating her. She caught some concrete when a slug hit the wall

near her head.

I'll give it a try.

Miss Perry, I'm Sergeant Hooker.

Are the robbers in custody, Sergeant? I'm afraid not. We lost them in traffic.

You mean you have no idea who they are?

All we've got is a lot of vague descriptions.

We were hoping you could come up with something.

No, I'm sorry, I can't.

Oh, Miss Perry, you were within 20 feet of that van. They must have run right

past you.

Yes, and they shot at me.

Please try and remember.

I don't have anything to remember. I didn't see anything.

You must have seen something. I didn't see anything, Sergeant.

I'm blind.

Now, if you'll please excuse me. I'm really sorry.

I didn't know this.

Blind.

And I was so sure we had a witness.

I'm not so sure we don't.

All

right,

hand by your back.

Hand -to -hand combat.

It's okay if you're doing a martial art movie.

If you know your stuff, it works.

If you don't, and there are three suspects, I suggest you consider taking

back and drawing a revolver.

All right, tomorrow we'll work on escalation, de -escalation, decision

based on your newfound physical skills. That's it. Go on, move it.

Wait till they find out the job's 90 % paperwork.

Speaking of which, anything come in the 211 van yet?

Been reported stolen from a church group an hour after the robbery.

Not turned up yet. What about the cashier?

Her name's Lori Weber. She just got out of surgery. She's traumatized and can't

remember one thing about the robbery.

And all we got left is Ann Perry.

I read your report, Hooker. You have some concerns about the blind witness?

I think she's holding something back. Like?

I checked her out.

She teaches sensory awareness to blind kids. Well, that doesn't necessarily

she can tell us anything, Hooker.

My gut says she can.

Well, now, look, tread easy.

We don't need those kind of complaints.

We also don't need any more young girls catching 45 slugs. I think Ann Perry

needs a push.

All right.

See what you can find out, but between calls, Hooker? I wouldn't have it any

other way.

I don't know why I ever worked for a tie -cracker like you.

There's 50.

And, uh, five for the sub.

Now, why don't you just take it and crawl in the corner and croak or

all right? Huh?

I'm listening to the news, and I've been checking all the newspapers.

The cops haven't put out a description on us.

That's just a way of protecting the witness.

She saw us all right.

First job out here, we get eyeballed.

She's all that's between us and the slammer.

Joe, we got to get out of here. No. No way.

Our box office idea is too good.

And we're going nowhere until we take off the big one.

Concert this Saturday.

What about the lady?

We're going to find her.

We're going to find her before the cops find us.

Then there won't be nothing for us to worry about, will there?

What do you think?

Okay.

Glenn, may I have the conch shell, please?

Now, as Glenn passes this shell around and you feel it, I'm going to be asking

you some questions.

Paco, does this conch feel like your new kitten?

No, my kitty's soft.

That's right. Her fur is soft and thick to keep her cool during the day.

just as the conch has a strong thick shell to keep it safe at the bottom of

ocean where it lives.

Sarah, does this conch have long or short wings?

That's right.

No, it does not have wings. No wings, but the gulls we hear flying above us

Now, just as these animals depend upon their fur and their wings and their

shells to help them live where they do, we depend upon our...

feet and our hands and our ears and our noses to help us live where we do.

So then... Now, Glenn is going to hand out some buckets and we're going to go

a shell hunt.

Sergeant Hooker.

We recognize you.

I remembered your cologne from the other day.

And you're not alone.

No, I brought my partner with me.

I'm Vince Romano. Please meet me.

Oh, it's Anne.

And you're from South Philadelphia, aren't you?

Yeah. Yeah, how could you tell? I went to school outside Philadelphia.

And here I've been working on my accent ever since I've been out here.

Linguistics was my passion in college.

And now it's children.

Yes.

Could I impose upon the two of you to meet them?

I got a better idea. What about Romano taking over the classroom?

For a lecture on law enforcement and action. Oh, that would be great.

Absolutely. I can talk about my job for hours. Ten minutes will do, I'm sure.

And you and I can talk about crime in the street.

You detected my cologne.

You pinpointed Romano's hometown.

You teach those kids to feel.

Sense things and be aware of so much.

I just can't accept an answer from you.

You're so sure of yourself, aren't you? So tuned into everything?

Yeah, I feel things.

And my senses are tuned in.

From experience.

I feel for that young girl who got shot.

That's why I can't bet up on you. Don't you understand?

No, you don't understand.

What it's like to be blind?

I can look at the sun and see its fire, the power of the surf, seagulls flying

overhead.

And I can tell you about it from one perception of mine.

If you add that with your perceptions, you have a whole lot more, and that more

is what I need.

What we're talking about has nothing at all to do with the beauty of

interpreting nature.

It has to do with those animals at the theater.

Look, last week, a friend drove me to a conference downtown.

She went to park the car and I went into the building.

Alone. She was delayed and I was late.

And so I asked somebody to assist me into the elevator and push the floor

button.

I'm riding up alone.

I think when suddenly somebody whispers something filthy in my ear.

Touches me.

A simple trip for you.

And a nightmare for me.

And that's what being blind can be like, too.

Yeah, but I'm not a stranger.

I'm only asking you to give me what you can.

An accent, a speech impediment, anything, anything at all.

Hooker, please.

You're frightened.

I want you to help me.

I'll help you.

No.

You'll go on with another crime.

And I'll be back in the elevator.

Now, please, Sergeant, I really must get back to my children. Ann, somewhere,

somewhere between us, there's got to be a compromise.

Hooker, out of that car. They found the stolen van dumped in a used car lot.

Got one partial print, but nothing they cannot read.

Anything from Anne Perry?

Nothing.

I heard her.

Well, what do you think?

A costume party.

You're going as a Malibu reject.

Frankie Avalon live.

Ha ha. Very funny. You guys are a rhyme.

Since none of my good friends will extend themselves to help me get into

Beach Boys concert...

This attire, which neither of you appreciate, is going to attract a ticket

me. How's that work?

Simple.

I hang around the amphitheater tonight.

Ticket scalpers come flocking.

You pay a scalper's price to get in.

To see and hear the Beach Boys, you got it, sweetheart. I'd pay double the face

value.

Like, take who, fool, did you know?

Hubba hubba.

Push it up.

Push it up.

Come on, give me another one, Mama. Push it up. Come on, one more. Push it up.

Good work.

They got a half -decent box office to hold us till the concert opened the

matinee.

I thought we was going to take off the lady who eyeballed us first. We are.

The way I figure we find her is we go back to that theater about the same time

of day we took off the box office.

And just wait for the bus.

Yeah. Then we follow her home.

That was about three o 'clock.

We hit here at noon.

Then we do the lady.

14 South Beechwood, handle code 3.

4 Adam 30 Roger.

No leads, no witnesses.

There's no doubt in my mind who's responsible.

There's a pattern now, Hooker. Box offices.

And our friends just graduated to the A -list.

Murder.

Let's go. I want to talk to Ann Perry again. She gets off her bus in ten

minutes.

How would you like a police escort?

That's all for my dad all day.

I'm late and a friend's going to take me downtown. I've got to talk to the

committee again about integrating blind children into the private world.

Here.

You're going to get me there so much faster. Well, I always knew I'd be of

service somehow.

Thank you.

Well, then, ain't she cozy with the cops?

Bye -bye. Thank you.

Well, here I am again, Ann.

Asking for help, only this time. The man's dead.

Okay, why do you insist on believing that I have the courage to be involved

this?

Because I'm impressed.

Amazed, really, at the way you handle the kids at the Institute.

The way you live your life so independently.

Right, we're in your place.

I don't think I could handle the things that you do.

You just won't take any kind of no I give you, will you?

Ann, there are two animals out there.

More and more of them are getting the idea that they're immune.

Free to take whatever they want.

I need some kind of lead, some kind of evidence.

Do something about them.

Because if I stop trying, the community belongs to them.

Not to you. Not to me.

But to them.

All right, Hooker.

With just this much.

There were two of them. One black, one white.

How do you know?

I'm a linguist, remember?

And there's my ride.

Oh, boy, are we late.

I'll be right there, Mrs. Johnson. I am really late. Please.

What else did you hear?

What about a regional accent?

The white one. I'm pretty sure it's from the southwest. Probably Oklahoma.

And his friend is from the south.

Maybe Louisiana.

You're terrific.

What else? Think hard.

There must be more.

Hooker, I am not involved and I am late.

Anne, please.

This is important.

You must tell me everything.

Look, where I'm going is important, too. This meeting tonight is the result of a

two -year uphill battle for those children. If I am ten minutes late,

scratch me from the agenda, and it'll take me at least three months to get

on. What time will you be back?

You are pushy.

By eight.

I'll be here.

A bottle of champagne to celebrate.

After I've picked your brain.

where she lives.

And we'll be back.

delivery, man.

Might as well come on out now.

It don't matter, baby.

As a matter of fact, this might make it a little more fun.

Hey, look at this.

A blind cane.

Hell, this lady can't do us no harm.

She's a blind.

Ann, it's Poker. Are you in there?

so

think that's them.

Stay right here.

Hooker, 18 years ago, my father's drugstore was burned because he refused

protection money.

We lived above the store, and the stairs collapsed while my parents were trying

to carry me out of the fire. You don't have to tell me any of this.

My mother, she died in that fire, Hooker, and I suffered optic nerve

Those flames were the last thing that I ever saw.

Before the fire, my father told the police everything that he knew.

Names and descriptions, but nobody was ever arrested.

And he died two years later.

And on his deathbed, he said to me that

he should have paid the protection money.

I'm really sorry I pushed as hard as I did.

I should have stayed and I should have told you everything.

Everything that I knew.

And you heard only one name used?

It was Bobby Joe. That was the Caucasian's name.

Nothing on the other guy?

Except the odor.

I recognized the smell from the theater robbery. It was liniment, like athletes

use. Anything else?

Boots.

Small Caucasian wore high -heeled boots.

Probably Western.

I'll get this on the wire.

It's going to be all right, Ann.

I've arranged for room for you.

And a 24 -hour guard until we nail these guys.

But when they discovered I was blind, I heard them say that I couldn't be a

threat to them.

Well, you are.

You can put the two of them in the theater.

Ballistics can tie the bullet from Lori Webber's wound to the roller dome

killing. You're the key to their conviction.

4W and ID on task one. Four out of 30.

Go, Stacy.

Telex just in from Oklahoma, Romano. They have one of the suspects ID'd

the partial print.

Bobby Joe Nash, two -time loser, bartender by trade.

Affects Western attire.

Stacy, have they telephoned to the mugshot of them? Should be here within

hour. Thanks, Stacy. That's a roger.

We're starting to cook, Junior. Next stop, bartender's union.

the owner of the bar terry megan i got a picture here i'd like to take a look at

union tells me he works here now listen megan without even looking i

know that girl in the corner there is underage i'll just bet there are a

of whiskey bottles in the trash that haven't been broken so you could do some

whiskey watering i just guessed the alcoholic beverage control boys could

that to assorted other offenses and come up with a three -month closure Name's

Bobby Joe Nash.

I know that.

Where can I find him?

I don't know. He stopped working for me a couple of weeks ago.

Where does he live?

I don't know.

Gypsy.

He's got a partner. Tell me about him.

Black guy.

One of those muscle freaks.

Bodybuilder. Ants know liniment.

Yeah.

Does he have a name?

Luther.

Something. I don't remember.

Where can I find him?

This boomerang's undead, you know that. Come on, Megan.

Where?

Works at the weight pen on a muscle beach.

There's a lot of people in the box.

Put this on after I do the damage.

Oh, it's them, all right. The mentors of their crimes.

The question is, what's their next hit? Beach Boys concert.

Next performance began ten minutes ago.

Y 'all gonna sing with us on this one too?

Fire Department at the amphitheater. Possible structured fire.

Stop! Go!

Come on!

Can't let him get into the concert.

We'll lose him in there.

You okay?

What could be wrong?

Working the music like that.

Oh, yeah, it's easy for you to say. I'm the one who's missing the concert.

Yeah, I've been thinking about that, Junior.

And I just might have to pull the strings to make your California

complete.

I guess this is what's known as hucker magic.

How do you have a ticket to a sold -out concert?

No, I can't believe it. How'd you do it, Booker? Let's just say...

I called some friends.

Let's go to the concert.

It

doesn't

end. The A section of the concert. Hey, Stacey.

Unless you're dating teenyboppers, I guess you got stood up, huh?

No way, Ramona. I'm with my favorite man.

I'm with my favorite girl.

He's an old serpent buddy from Malibu. Now he's one of the LCPD's finest.

Sergeant T .J. Hooker.

And with him, his partner, Officer Vince Romano.

That's me.

We used to call Hooker the Big Kahuna.

The Big Kahuna?

Wax your board and get into your wetsuit.

And after the concert, I'll give you a few tips on how to make that slush just

safe.

For you, Hooker.

Thank you.