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Informant tells me that they'll be coming out of there with a car trunk

funny money. Just what we need. Another counterfeiting operation.

Reno. I shot Kilder. Stay back or I'll kill her. It's only passing funny money

so far. Police.

Open up.

I just think I want out. All the way out.

And I'm losing a partner for all the wrong reasons.

Thank you.

Get these pills boxed up and get them in the car, Reno.

Now. Good, John.

And Pullman tells me they'll be coming out of there. It's a car trunk full of

funny money.

Just what we need. Another counterfeiting operation.

Snitch came to me after he was invited in. You know him, Jim? Toby Reno?

Reno?

Thought he married a bumpin' grind girl and retired into the straight life.

Semi -retired.

He must have had some good moves. The only thing Reno ever liked better than

street hustle was playing undercover cop.

Comax, Secret Service. You know my team? Sure.

Sheridan, Corrigan, what do we got here?

Toby Reno got off a quick call on me before he went in there. He had just met

the guy running the operation, John Simone.

Wow.

He's wanted for escape from McNeil Prison.

He heads a federal prison gang of enforcers called the Brotherhood. He's

probably the best paper hanger in the business.

Who else is in there? Guy who does the printing, who recruited Reno.

Clarence, Trent, and a couple of hired guns.

That's in Comite.

Probably Reno's the one handing you this if things start to go down heavy Watch

out for him. Will you like he was my brother?

Okay, I've got the warrant shall we go do this Bobby cover the back You have

any ideas how to get in the front?

Yeah, I got one

Thank you.

She did it.

pursuit of a counterfeit suspect driving a brown Graveler.

He filed on 7th, just past Julian.

to control and advise all units in the Becker Drawbridge area.

Suspect in Brown Gremlin, last seen going west on Becker Avenue.

Unable to read plates for accurate ID.

16 to 30, come in on tack two.

30. We've got four people down at the warehouse.

One in custody, one DB.

Shooting team's rolling for 20 minutes.

I'm sorry.

Your man got caught in the crossfire.

And it looks like he was taken out with a shotgun.

What happened?

Trent was opening up on me.

I fired back.

You know what's behind him.

Took a hit.

What if she didn't have any choice? I've been around long enough to know what

tactical error it is. I didn't clear my background before I pulled the trigger.

Now, a poor guy like the play cop is dead.

Yeah.

Combat shooting is almost always a matter of pure reflex.

Before you start jumping all over yourself, back off.

But the shooting can't do that thing.

And if the second guess you're wrong, okay.

Then, you pay your dues.

Except that Reno did.

Pay his dues.

For what?

My mistake?

Your attorney can't do me any good. I escaped from McNeil with Simone.

She's going back to do my time.

Plus time for this new counterfeiting charge.

But there is something that can be done if you're willing to deal.

If you turn government's witness.

Why should I deal?

All I did was age the bills, make them pass easier. I wasn't a printer.

Photography is evidence.

And try you as the printer. Judge compounds a sentence and has a murder

Hey, I didn't shoot anybody.

Come on, Trent.

You're a jailhouse lawyer. You know how the system works.

He didn't pull the trigger, but you pulled the crime.

That's murder one.

You're trying to put a jacket on me, man. Oh, no.

Well, if the judge and the jury do that, you'll rot.

Inside your cell, an old man.

Look, I might want to cooperate.

Brother, you don't know what they're like.

I mean, they kill stoolies.

Well?

The government might be willing to put you under deep cover.

Sometimes we trade off, sure.

Look.

You get the U .S. Attorney to promise no murder charge.

I'll do what I can.

Thanks for the help.

I owe Toby Reno, but then John Simone owes me.

I'll take him any way I can get him.

I've been looking for you.

I'm meeting Vicki and I'm late.

How'd it go with the shooting team?

They asked me a lot of very polite questions and let me sweat.

It's an accident, Jim.

By the way, Hooker wants to talk to you.

Well, I don't want to talk to him.

You know what I've been thinking?

I've been thinking about 13 years of shootouts of blood and dead bodies.

I've been thinking maybe I've had 13 years too many.

You know what I mean?

No, I don't.

Vicki's father has an opening in this company. It's Fox Mine if I want. And

Vicki's pressing you.

Let's say she thinks it might be a change for the better.

There's something else I've been thinking about.

That shootout could have gone either way.

Maybe the law of averages is catching up with me.

Why don't you tell me about it?

About what?

You've been somewhere else all night.

Something's happened and you're ready to explode. Tell me.

And maybe we can do something about it together.

There was a shooting today.

I was involved.

A man?

A man was working undercover with us.

One of the suspects got a shot off at me, and I fired back.

That man just happened to be behind him at the wrong moment.

My shot killed him. Oh, I'm sorry.

I'm so sorry.

That's the problem. So am I.

Only being sorry won't change anything.

You can't blame yourself for an accident, Jim, and that's what it was.

But you can do something about it so that it never happens again.

You can do something else for a living. You don't have to lay your conscience

and your life on the line every day like this.

You've got that choice.

Do you want to talk about choice?

Jim? Peggy?

Okay. Hi.

I was just going to touch up my face.

Excuse me.

Nice girl.

Yeah.

How'd you find it?

I got it out of station.

Out of the rank.

Two things.

The shooting team reported it.

You've been cleared.

Thanks.

And two?

Comac called.

Clarence Trent had agreed to cooperate in putting a collar on John Simone.

He was being kept at the county jail. Only about an hour ago, somebody put a

wire necktie around Trent's neck. He's dead.

Who got to him?

Comack said it was the Brotherhood.

Prison Pipeline got word out that Trent was a stoolie.

You're going to need a lot of luck finding Simone now.

Well, we're just going to have to make our own luck, aren't we?

Don't count on the we part.

I might not be around.

I can't accept that.

I said he was going to see Reno's widow.

Ready for patrol?

As ready as I'll ever be.

Are you still doing that guilt number on yourself?

Guilt's just a symptom.

Jim, you have citations left and right. Medal of Valor, Officer of the Month.

Plus, you have the A number one partner on the force.

I'll buy the last part. The rest sounds like my bitch work.

Am I bringing you up or are you bringing me down? It depends on your point of

view. Come on, partner.

We have duty.

You'll ruin our business, Hooker. Our customers don't like cops.

I can't believe I had to tell you how sorry I was about Reno.

Yeah, well, what's another husband more than that, huh?

He used to be alive if he'd stayed away from you.

Reno's dead because Simone decided to shoot it out.

I need your help. I need your help to catch Simone.

Oh, you're something else.

My husband's gone till Sally steps in, right?

Get the hell out of here, Hooker.

Sally.

friends. And he told me something that a man doesn't tell another man, unless

they are friends.

He said the best thing that ever happened to him was meeting a certain

She was the only thing that really mattered in his life.

He was talking to you.

I just want you to know that.

Reno told me something that I think he'd want you to know now.

What's that?

Well, the first time that he met you, you caught him in a money switch deal he

had going.

And instead of booking him, you marched him to a church and made him put every

penny into the poor box.

He couldn't get over that.

I remember when he called me the next day. After the shot had worn off, he

he felt like a new man.

He was.

That was the last crooked deal he ever tried.

I guess he thought a lot of people.

Thank you for telling me, Sally.

Booker.

John Simone.

He works with a guy named Polly.

That's all I know.

Polly.

Thank you.

Comac is now at the Federal Reserve Bank.

Simone's funny twenties had started showing up on the receipts of shopping

centers. Sober's wife came up with a name, Frost checking it. With Simone's

known associates, they came up with a match.

Hmm, Pauly Morris.

Dead 306 for passing bogus money. Six years ago, Pauly was arrested for one

Clarence Trent, now deceased, but John Simone's late printer.

So we got a connection.

It's a reach.

But I'll check Pauly's last known address.

He might take us to Simone. Hey, it's worth a shot.

Call for surveillance if you need it.

We see the woman. The bookstore, 4th and Flower.

Possible counterfeiter there now.

4 item 30, roger. 4 item 16 to 4 item 30 on tack 2. 16.

You're clear for backup.

Rolling backup.

30 to 16, I've made a man.

He's slim, 5 '9", wearing a gray suit, black tie, and he's carrying a small

package. He's at the address. Move him from the south.

Roger, we're in position.

No. No.

No.

Stay back or I'll kill her.

No.

No, don't. Please don't hurt me.

No.

Polly.

It's only passing funny money so far.

Let the girl go. Don't make it any worse.

I've done all the hard time I'm going to do.

Now back out of here.

Everybody.

Don't hurt me.

No.

She dies, you die. It's as simple as that. No!

No!

It almost happened again, Stacy.

I almost hit that woman.

You didn't, Jim.

You didn't.

Will there be another inquiry by, what do you call it, the shooting team? Sure.

Procedure.

Two down in two days. I'm getting a reputation to live up to.

Then do something about it, Jim.

Like quit?

Don't misunderstand me. Your being a police officer doesn't matter to me.

just that you have so much more potential.

Potential to do what?

You don't have to work for my father. You can be anything you want to be.

Except use a gun as a way of life.

Shooting, being shot at.

I love you, Jim, but I don't want to watch the man I love being destroyed by

what he does for a living.

Has it been that bad?

You know what you've gone through these past two days better than I do.

There's nothing wrong with coming home every night.

enjoying beautiful things, leading a normal, quiet, uneventful life. There's

nothing wrong with that, is there?

There's nothing wrong with that.

I've got to run. I promised my mother I'd take her shopping.

Thanks for stopping by.

I'll see you tonight.

Okay.

And Jim, whatever you decide, it's okay.

question. Oh, I hope I have an answer.

I got time on the books. I figured I'd pull a special one.

You need some extra time off, don't you think?

It felt like I feel it right now. I'm not sure I want to come back.

Cop's badge isn't easy to wear.

I'm not sure I want to.

See those guys?

I work with most of them every day.

But today they won't look me in the eye.

Well, maybe you're not reading it right, Jim.

These guys haven't been where you've been.

They haven't had to pull the trigger.

Well, you get to wondering about it.

Thinking whether they could handle it.

Whether they'd come out alive.

I gotta live with the fact that two men are dead and an innocent woman came

within an inch of having a bullet.

You did what had to be done. By the book. I've had that chapter read to me.

Because it's right. Maybe for you.

Maybe that's what I thought when I pulled the trigger.

But maybe I've been thinking wrong.

I'm worried about Jim.

Maybe there's an extra time off. It'll help him get his head together.

Not if he spends it with Vicki.

She wants us to start a new line of work.

After the last couple of days, I'm thinking it's hard to fault.

Maybe, but Jim's put in 13 years.

Every time you saw another hash mark, it seems you end up asking yourself the

whys and the what -fors.

If it makes any difference, if it's all really worth it, the pain and sweat I

get thinking about myself.

The coroner found this.

Paulie's body.

It's phony.

It stopped great.

Is this the only one he had on him? Yeah.

Patrol unit found his car in a parking lot.

This one.

Would he risk that, leaving his own car full of funny money?

He'd hide it real good.

Is this a private scavenger hunt, or can anybody join in? Join the party.

All these stashes have got to be here somewhere.

Well, sometimes they slit the seats or the backrests.

Anywhere they can get quick access.

Back end clean.

Look at what we have here.

Look what's playing in the top 20.

Oh, this is quality merchandise.

The kind Simone sells.

The return address.

Well, we got the password.

Let's see if Simone's still dealing at the El Rancho.

Tracy, book the money.

Bring O 'Brien up to date.

Charlie Burrell.

His street name is Ten Spot.

I popped him before. He's a racetrack passer. You can pick up Ten Spot

Simone is your target.

Let's hit the door.

Hold it up.

Look, Marty, what we're saying is, if you cooperate and help us turn Simone,

you've got no big reason to hit you hard.

Why waste your best years inside while Simone is on the outside?

Living it up without you?

What do I have to do?

Fine, Simone.

We'll fill you in on what to say to him.

We'll give you one of our men to work with.

Marty can pull this off. Oh, she's all we got.

And Simone isn't going to show unless we offer him a deal he can't turn down.

Okay, but I got a problem. What's that?

I got nobody available to work with her.

I'll have to fly somebody in from D .C.

By the time you do that, Simone will have buried himself somewhere.

Well, then you come up with someone.

Yeah, just might do that.

You really mean it? You'll talk to my father tomorrow?

It seems like the thing to do.

Jim.

I'm sorry to interrupt, but I need to talk to you. Come on, Stacy. Give me a

break. Important.

Here I go again.

How did you find me?

Your landlady.

Oh, great.

Well, what is it?

Hooker tracked John Simone today, but he rabbited before the caller.

But there's a way we can get to him. Come on, Stace, can't this wait?

Since when did being a cop become nine to five?

Hey, I'm on days off, remember?

You know why I'm here instead of Hooker?

Because we shared a lot together.

Because I thought I knew you and what was important to you.

Hey, I just think I want out, all the way out.

Okay. If you're pulling the pin because of the lady or more cash in the bank,

great. I can understand that.

I'll even throw your going away party.

But if you're quitting because things got tough, because you had to lay some

yourself on the line and it hurt, then I'm losing a partner for all the wrong

reasons.

You turn everything you touch sour, and everyone, including yourself.

So before you break up a damn good team, think about it.

It's decision time, isn't it?

Talking about my job or us?

Isn't it the same thing?

Yeah, I guess it does come down to that.

Well, I only have one thing to say.

I love you.

You are your good case.

I'm trying.

I haven't had enough time to think about it.

Guess I blew it.

Who else can we use?

Short term.

Great.

Yeah, this is Comac. Put me through to the assistant director, please.

I thought you were on your days off.

Stacy said you figured a way to get to Simone.

I want a piece of them, too.

Operator, cancel this call.

Well, first we better get you into something more comfortable.

This is 100 ,000 genuinely.

It'll buy five times that in funny money, and if you should lose it, I'll

probably get fired. Or maybe executed.

Okay.

It's Marty.

Yeah.

Yeah. Okay, we'll play it this way.

You did good, Marty.

Our man's name is Corrigan.

He'll be there waiting for you.

Okay, the meat with Simone is set.

Like we figured, he couldn't say no to $100 ,000 in real green.

One thing, you can't wear a wire.

Simone will be checking for it.

Fortunately, we anticipated that.

Homing device.

And your transmitter.

Be careful how you hold the handle.

That's where the mic is.

You Corgan?

Yeah.

Marty, right?

A friend of Simone dropped me off.

Yeah, one of them will check our clothes out for bugs.

So, how'd you sell me to Simone?

I told him I did time with your ex -wife.

When I got out, we used to be a thing together.

Was that smart?

I mean, he was a girlfriend, right?

Something he'd believe.

We just merchandised to him.

Like his money.

Well, you're about to change that.

I just got paid a hundred bucks by a gentleman to tell you about to be out

in five minutes.

Was that before or after they searched so close?

After.

Did he pay you in twenties?

Yes.

Really?

Sweetheart, you'd be amazed at what that gentleman just did to you.

16, Liddell.

Standing by, 30.

They just got into a brown Lincoln four -door sedan.

Be ready.

Simone's playing it cute.

He's supposed to be in that car.

16. Sunday's northbound on Coltree. We're rolling.

Right on target.

Simone, please.

Let me talk to Marty.

Hey, I'm packing the money, pal.

You deal with me or I'll take my business somewhere else.

All right, we'll talk.

But you take orders.

There's a phone on the fourth level by the fire stairs.

Come on.

He's real cute.

Hooker, we're on the fourth level, but hang tight until I know for sure where

it's going down.

Yeah? You're lucky you came alone.

And you're lucky I came at all. Go to the phone on the terrace level by the

south entrance.

He's got us on the move again.

Stop playing games. Let's deal.

Yes, turn around.

Hooker, we're on the fourth level terrace.

This is it.

Let's go.

Rough his neck too, Marty.

Hey, Slick, I came here to score.

You got something for the lady?

You two work that out after you conclude our transaction.

I have 100 ,000 genuine in this case.

You have what I want.

Do we trade or not?

First we look.

Careful in, careful out.

Stay put.

Nice doing business with you.

under any cuffs. Also, I'm packing your guts.

Better keep an eye on your part, Stacy.

He's getting careless.

My pleasure.

Maybe it's better this way, Jim.

You belong here.

I don't, and I never will.

And my mistake was impressing you to change.

I'd make a lousy executive anyway.

Probably a lousy husband.

I won't buy that.

We had some great times.

And I don't intend to just disappear through a trap door.

Who said anything about that?

I'm gonna give it a couple weeks and then I'll call you.

I don't call you first.

So I lose a husband and I gain a friend.

You think that little scene means I've got my partner back?

A little bruised, maybe.

A little older and wiser.

But definitely back.