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I've got a curiosity.

How many pounds of explosives do you think they've got in this place?

Oh, 25 % more than they need, probably.

They'd look pretty stupid if they went to implode this place that didn't

implode, huh?

Yeah, very.

Well, if we're going to go, at least we have the satisfaction of knowing that

that idiot Ellen is gone.

okay let

him

know

Oh, man, we're going to die.

Hey, what the hell are you doing? Get back.

Why the hell can't we reach in here? Who are you?

SFPD. We've got people in there.

It's not possible. What is not possible? We've got cops in there.

Dove brought you pomegranates? And a bag of oranges for Inger. He even offered

to squeeze her juice for her.

This is Dove that speaks his mind.

Israeli contractor, that Dove? The one and the same.

Show her what the power of love will do, brother.

Who's he in love with?

Amy, the architect.

If I play my cards right, I can be best man at their wedding. The wedding could

take place at my house.

What better incentive to have the project done on time and on budget?

Beautiful. You don't know how beautiful, brother.

What happens if they break up?

Well,

well, Rick Pitino.

Look at you guys. It's so good to see you.

It may not be as good as you think it is.

All right. I admit it.

I had a momentary lapse in judgment.

I learned my lesson. I did it. Nash, my understanding is the parole board is

predisposed to maybe show me a little mercy and maybe you'll show me a little

mercy. Sure.

You know, I was wondering if for old time's sake, your old friend, Rick

give me one or two kind words on my behalf. You got it. Right. Just tell me

where the two and a half million dollars is.

Nash, look at me.

I don't know where that money is. If I had any idea, I would tell you. I swear

to God I would tell you. Nash, what do you think? I like being in prison.

What we think is that you think you're going to get out of prison and live like

a king on that money. That's what we think, Rick. You're not going to let

happen, are you?

You're not going to say any kind words on my behalf. You would rather see me

in prison. You mean than being out spending the money from pension plans of

hardworking police officers that you stole?

Oh, you bet your furry little ass, yeah. I don't believe this.

You two are the most vengeful people I've ever... Well, you know what? Forget

about it. Forget about it. Screw the both of you. And let me tell you another

thing. Nash Bridges, someday you are going to get yours.

Yep. But not today.

Stop. Get changed. You got five minutes.

Like I said, hurry up. Get changed.

Joe.

Since when does Deputy Chief take an interest in a routine parole hearing?

Well, I'm guessing that he's trying to cut a deal with Bettina and get all the

police pension money back.

Grab all the credit on a political level with the rank -and -file cops?

Man wants to be chief, and he's got a plan.

The prisoners escaped.

Patina.

Bridges!

Son of a bitch, he's shooting at us.

We've got help.

Do you see who it was?

No. You?

No.

It was Bettina, wasn't it?

Yep.

Guess he's gone bad and stupid.

Okay. Meet me at the rendezvous. Five o 'clock sharp. And then I'll pay you what

I owe you.

If you screw with me, I'll kill you. Alvin, are you kidding? I'm a free man

because you're five o 'clock tomorrow.

Don't be late.

Rachel? Yeah? I want you to get with Folsom.

I want the records on a prisoner by the name of Rick Bettina.

Phone chief, visitor logs, attorney information, anything to do with this

hearing. I want to know who knew about it, how to find him, and it went fast.

All right, well, I was just finishing up this Pisk case. Couldn't I do that

first? No, you may not.

Get it for me now, please. Thank you.

Hey, don't worry about it. It has nothing to do with you. Why is he acting

that? The guy, Rick Bettina.

Yeah? Who is he?

Used to be an SIU cop, and his mother married the chief of police.

He was promoted to director of police investigations, became our boss, and

they tried to get rid of Nash.

I don't know.

You don't know the half of it. This was before he stole the police pension

money. $2 .5 million? Let me tell you about this Rick Patina guy.

The last thing the department wants is for this thing to hit the papers.

You know how reporters could have a field day with this story.

Make a mockery of certain individuals who wear the badge.

I would hate to see that happen.

You know, Max, it's been my experience that the only time the press is an issue

is when someone talks to it.

Well, that's not going to be me.

So if anything actually does get misconstrued, I guess we'll know where

from, won't we?

You know, if I were us, I'd want Bettina back in custody.

Let me ask you something.

Were you going to give Bettina back his old job that's part of the deal?

I think it's in both of our self -interest that this thing not spin out

control. I couldn't agree more.

See ya.

Joseph, you need to recover the prison van in an alley off of Van Ness. The

prints inside, besides patinas, were ones that should have been there.

On this, though, not the highest quality artificial hair product on the market,

but good enough to get the job done? No idea on the accomplice yet.

All right, we know two things. First, Bettina had a pen pal in prison, the one

Juliet Harrison.

According to this, she never visited, but she does live here in the city.

Number two, his cellmate in Folsom was our old friend Eldon's sister.

Eldon and Bettina?

Funny. All right, grab Anton, find Eldon, and then I'll talk to the pen

right.

Yes, I am, Inspector Dominguez. Joe, you better get over here.

Why, what's up? What's the matter? Dub.

Dove? What's wrong with Dove?

How did Joe before she leave?

Wait, wait, wait.

Before who?

Dove? No, Amy!

Wait a minute. What are you talking about?

Hello?

Inger?

Big emergency.

Dove quit.

Why? Amy was late to work this morning. Amy was late, so he quit?

No, he yelled at her. Then she quit. Then he quit. Joe, you have got to fix

this. It's not that simple.

It's very simple.

We needed to make a decision. You were not here. I made it without you. You

could have waited. You knew I wanted to be a part of this. It's disrespectful.

You were late. That's disrespectful. I told you I ran into traffic. You could

have left earlier.

You could have waited ten minutes longer.

Yes, well, remind me to get you together with the electrician so we can decide

once and for all who the world revolves around, you or him. Oh, Amy, hi.

Hey. Hi.

Hey, how can I help?

You can take this to my truck.

I mean, how can I help you solve this problem? I mean, come on, Dove, this is

not worth quitting over, is it?

Yes, good luck.

Oh.

Amy, what are you doing? Hey, this is your big shot here. This is your big

project. What about your resume?

I have no control over the traffic, Joe. Yeah, I know, but look, just relax and

we'll talk about this, okay? I'm sorry, Joe.

Thank you for the opportunity.

Good luck with it.

Amy!

Goodbye, Inga.

Goodness gracious, Eldon.

No offense, but you been to Miss Manor's since I last saw you?

I was rehabilitated in prison.

I'm a different man now.

Oh, so if I ask you a few questions, you're not going to break anything, huh?

Because my new partner, he didn't go for that, Eldon. You got some impulse

control issues, Eldon?

So he gave me his number and then he asked me out.

Well, you know, we can't. What the hell?

What? Is that Eldon?

I thought we arrested him three weeks ago.

We did.

Means he's out on bail.

I need you alive, Eldon. I need you dead.

Tell me you're not selling differences, dude.

Eldon, this is a gun. That's a chain. Are we clear on that? You're going to

shoot me? Go ahead, shoot.

Shoot.

What do you want to do?

What do you mean, what do I want to do? I want to shoot him. Go ahead.

Shoot. Paperwork.

What are you going to do?

I need the bastard alive.

The market, the video store, and the museum.

So there's it.

Take a look.

All dated and timestamped.

You just happened to be packing an airtight alibi, that it?

You don't have all the pace to keep track of your time. Where's Bettina?

Who?

Look here, slick.

Don't play a where is he.

I have no idea.

That's right, stay away from bad elements.

Bettina fugitized from his parole hearing this morning. He had help,

He's going after that $2 .5 million that he stole from the police fund.

Let me make something real clear to you.

That's police money.

That's my retirement fund.

So if you're involved, there ain't a cop in the city that's going to allow you

or Bettina to enjoy a dime of that money.

Capisce?

Are you going to challenge me or not? Because if you don't, I'm going to get

with my day.

So tell me, what do you want?

You know, Roscoe Ward works in the DA's office. He used to work with your

sister. I need him to confirm a few rumors.

Five minutes of his time is all I'm asking.

All right, you got it. I'll make a call.

Just like that?

Just like that. Anything else?

No.

I'll check back with you on the other situation.

That's okay.

I read the paper.

Hey,

where are you going?

The basement.

There's an arrest room down there, right?

Basement's off limits.

Authorized personnel only.

Why? Is there already dynamite down there? No, the charges start on this

The demo workers are finishing upstairs.

Other than that, the building's off limits until we blow it.

Oh, yeah, right.

Hey, when are they going to do that?

11 a .m. sharp.

Thanks.

We can pull that out in the final.

Hey, I just met a top limit down there.

Oh, right. Yeah, I thought you meant tomorrow morning.

What's your name?

Roland McQueen.

We work in McQueen's third floor.

Second.

Come with me. The guys on the roof can use the next hand.

I'll be right there.

Come on.

Let's go.

Go, go, go!

He has his receipts with him? Oh, everything but an affidavit from the guy

scooped his ice cream.

Eldon isn't smart enough to churn butter.

This whole scheme stinks of Bettina's.

We'll get to Bettina through Eldon. Or Slicely.

So I'll have Bettina pull off this pinch and ice anyone.

Look, I've come down here.

to observe and oversee the capture and arrest of the man who swindled the good

workers of this city out of their hard -earned retirement fund. Uh, Rick,

going to go back to City Hall. Is that clear? No, no, no, you don't got to do

it. I got him. I called him to the house and I opened up the gas. Rick, have you

lost your mind?

It's going to work like a charm. I give him five, six minutes before he...

The cash you stole from the pension fund, somebody robbed from you. Yeah.

You guys know.

He used to be a cop.

Nash. Hello, Nash, old buddy of mine.

Got him. Uh, Rick, where are you, buddy?

Everybody's getting a little concerned.

Oh, they are? Oh, I'm touched, truly.

Rick, that means get your ass in here with them.

That's a no, Nash. The money now belongs to me.

Just bring the money back, all right?

Nash, all my life, people have been dumping on Rick Pitino. But no more. Not

going to happen anymore, buddy. Rick, if you take this money, you're going to go

to jail. If you go to jail, you're going to be in a jail cell. And you won't be

the husband.

Do you get my drift?

Buddy, dude, there's not going to be any jail. This was the perfect crime.

The perfect crime.

All right. Have a good life. Rick. Bye -bye. Don't hang up.

Rick.

Excuse me. I got the window seat deck for me.

Yeah.

Love the new do, Rick.

Not even you are this good.

Sometimes I just get lucky.

Okay, explain.

Now, Bettina's scheduled to be released in, what, 18 months? Why would he risk

breaking out now?

I'm going to bet that his nest egg is in peril somehow, and he got wind of it

and couldn't risk the wait.

He's going to need someplace to hide out.

So let's stay on his prison pen pal.

I've got to get Dove and Amy back together.

Good. How's that going to happen?

Poetry.

Poetry? Yeah.

The power of the pen.

I'll help Dove write a letter of apology to Amy.

A poetic apology.

Yeah. That way she can read it over a couple times, know she'll get captivated

by the words, and by the morning, they'll be back to work together again.

You know, that doesn't strike me as a particularly poetic soul.

How's that going to work?

That's not going to work.

It's got to work.

It'll work.

Why should I write the letter? She's the one who screwed up.

I know, Dov, and now you're going to be the bigger man, okay?

So let's get going.

Look, just tell her how you feel, you know? You don't have to sugarcoat it.

be honest.

I've always found that that's the best approach when writing letters, you know?

It makes a stronger impact.

Besides, it's easier to remember the truth.

So let's go. Come on.

You sure about this?

Dov.

Fine. Okay.

Um, do you... Don't think about it too much. Just, uh...

Say what you feel. What I feel. Right.

I feel cold.

About her, Dove.

I feel hot.

Will you please?

You said be honest.

I hope no one has to do this so soon.

All right. First we drink.

Then we write.

We'll get hungry and eat.

We'll eat.

Right.

There.

This is good.

Okay, well, read it. Read it out loud, if you will, to...

It's got a sound.

Dear Amy, I

am sorry you are late.

Affectionately, Dove.

What, too happy?

Rise and shine, big boy. Your turn.

What time is it?

Oh, you know, time to ask yourself, is this any way to spend a life?

Epistles from the Cathedral of Love.

Oh, yeah.

Boy, oh, yeah.

Oh,

burritos.

Incoming.

Thanks.

Latina. If you're there, pick up.

Juliet.

Listen, yes, my baby, I am out and I am coming over to see you. Oh, hey, in the

meantime, if a guy named Bruce Mills calls for me, give him my cell number.

5550128. I'll see you.

In the meantime, love you.

Lottery, lottery.

We in business.

Rick is here every week.

He suffers from a very high level of addiction.

Bettina.

Bettina is a sexaholic?

I don't know whether to feel sorry or proud.

I'm feeling nauseated.

As soon as we find pictures, I'm out of here.

For some reason, picking up women is something I'm good at. I'm not proud of

These are earth women we're talking about, right?

Believe me, I don't understand it either.

I know, I know. How am I going to tell you this? I couldn't tell you. What do

you say? Hey, Nash, guess what? I have to have sex four or five times a day. If

I don't get it, I go crazy.

Sometimes I feel like I'm going to go crazy even if I do get it.

Four or five times a day? You wouldn't even believe the bars I've been to, the

kinky clubs, the swinging singles parties.

We're defining day as like a 24 -hour period day. I was afraid.

If you knew the real me, you'd like me even less than you already do.

Juliet? Juliet?

Juliet?

How doth my Juliet?

I ask that again.

For nothing can be ill if she is well.

Juliet?

Juliet, hello.

What's that?

An outgoing call from Infant Juliet.

Yeah. Hey, it's me. Forget about the rendezvous spot. I got another job for

It's Patina.

It's a reunion.

I come in my garage.

Harrison and Fifth meet me there in half an hour.

Let's go. Let's go. Let's go.

Welcome home, Juliet.

Oh, my God.

Oh, it's me, Rick Bettina.

What are you doing?

I just took a shower and I like the air dry.

I mean, what are you doing here?

I thought that you were in prison.

No, no, I tapered it out this morning.

That way you and I could be together.

You freak.

Stay away from me.

What are you talking about?

Julia, what about all those letters you wrote to me while I was in prison? Stay

away from me.

Where is he?

He's in there.

Watch out. He's nude.

Come on, around the front.

For you have the kindest soul, the gentlest spirit, and shine with more

than anyone I've ever known.

When I sleep, I dream of you.

Your smile turns my darkest shadows into clear light.

And I am blessed every time I look upon your radiant face.

Please forgive me for anything I've done wrong.

I love you, Amy.

Tough.

Isn't that the most beautiful thing you've ever heard?

Oh, yes.

In fact, it was.

Morning. Well,

I think I solved the Amy problem.

Oh, really? I don't mean to brag, but I outdid myself on this one.

No kidding.

Poetry in motion, Bubba. Poetry in motion.

Well, good luck with it.

Good luck with the work. Morning, Inger. Nash, why don't you auction the rest of

these off on the Internet?

Inger. Inger.

Honey.

Captain, call line two.

Nash. Ross, we lost Bettina. His jailhouse girlfriend scared him off.

Give me some good news.

He has a meeting this morning at 8 a .m.

Agamemnon Garage on Harrison.

Ask me the bonus question.

Who owns Agamemnon Garage? And don't say Agamemnon.

None other than Eldon Fitzdrunk. You want us to take it?

No, I think I'll take this one myself. Thank you very much.

Roger. Has Nass got any backstory with this guy Eldon?

Eldon? Old acquaintance.

Eldon, I want you to contemplate these questions. Don't answer me now, but I

want you to think about them real hard.

What was Binks' connection to Frankie Brown?

Did he work for him?

Were they allies?

Were they enemies?

Who wanted LaVitia dead and why?

Hey, you're going to sink the boat. What are you doing?

Pinhead, that's my daughter.

Tell my lawyer, his number is 1 -800 -KISS -MY

-ASS.

My, my, my. I think I just got propositioned by Eldon.

Sorry, Bubba. Too much body here.

Oh, oh, easy now, easy.

Oh, my God.

Nice.

Shut up. No, it looks very nice on you. Well, at least I'm wearing something

from this seat. What do you want?

Listen, Eldon.

When we were Shelleys, you told me you were the munition sergeant for NATO

forces, right?

Yeah, that's right.

Okay, Eldon.

Eldon, here's the whole truth.

Eldon, the money I stole from the police pension fund?

Yeah. Well, it's all hidden in an emergency shelter in the basement of a

building at 14th and Lake. The problem is they've wired the building. They're

going to encode the building. The whole place is wired up. So I need you and I

need your expertise to get me in the building.

Get me to the money, get me out of the building, and not get me blown up. How

much? 500 grand. And I'm prepared to offer you half. That's 250. Jeez.

500 grand, huh?

No, Eldon, the total is 500 grand. I'm offering you half. Half of 500 is $250

,000. What could be fairer?

What could be?

Hey, buddy.

How about, you know...

Front or the back?

Doesn't matter to me.

I'll take the back.

Fine.

Do you hear me? Put your gun down.

Don't make me shoot you, Eldon. Put your gun down. Do you hear me?

Put your gun down, please.

Eldon. There's a time to fight and there's a time not to fight. You fight

now, he dies, we all die.

Well, you're for sure going to die.

You think about that.

Put your gun down.

Maybe we'll negotiate.

Okay.

Okay.

how we talk.

Eldon.

Eldon. What exactly is your plan here?

500 ,000, my ass!

Let me have your cell phones.

Come on, give me your cell phone, I ain't got all day.

Come on, man.

Bye, Bridges. Hey, hey, wait, wait, wait, wait.

What about our negotiations?

That ain't no mine, Bridges, but I'm not gonna kill you.

I'm just gonna let you block in a lot of little pieces, because I don't want

anybody to find your body.

Here you go. Boom!

That's very considerate of you, Eldon. Come some more, please.

Very considerate of you. Thanks.

Ah!

Hits you double right down the gap in the left center.

All right, Rick. You've proven you can hit the screwball. Now I'm covered here.

Come on. Look, he's in his top left pocket there. Nope.

What do you mean, nope? You're right there.

Nope. This is a new Rick Pitino. Think about them apples before you send

one of your friends to jail.

Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho!

That's what I've been looking for.

Don't you take my car, Rick. Oh, come on. What goes the cooter to you if

going to be dead? Have a little respect for the machine. You know, somebody

should be enjoying it. You better run fast and far, Bubba.

Oh, yeah. Well, I intend to. You know what? Why don't I tell you exactly how

going to do it? Not that it'll do you any good.

Remember Butch Mills? You busted him once.

Travel agent?

Exactly. You're dead.

That's ironic.

Well, bye -bye. Enjoy your last few minutes on Earth. Goodbye.

Son of a bitch, he left us.

I'm kind of curious how many pounds of explosives you think they got in this

place. Oh, probably 25 % more than they need.

I guess they wouldn't have been too smart to try to implode this place if it

doesn't implode, huh?

No, you're right.

Well, one good thing is if we go, we've got the satisfaction of knowing that

that idiot Elvin is going with us.

Can you get me that shovel?

All right, straight back with me.

Fifty seconds!

Okay.

Call Harvey.

Come back this way.

Harvey! Harvey!

Joe, we're trapped in the basement of an abandoned apartment building on 14th

and Leg, and they're about to blow the place.

Hurry!

Look the other way.

What about him?

Well, we can't leave him here.

We're out of time.

Hey, what the hell are you doing? Get the hell down.

Why the hell can't we reach him? Who are you?

SFPD. We've got people in there. It's not possible. What is not possible?

got cops in that building.

You're right.

You're right.

Get over there and make yourself real small.

You've got to believe this, man.

Well,

that's about as close to a gimme as we're ever going to get.

Get clear of the door right now.

Harvey?

Hey.

Joey, here I am. Harvey.

Oh, God.

Harvey.

Eldon's just down under there.

Still breathing. I can't believe it.

Get some cuffs on him.

Maybe two pair.

Come on. Let's get out of here.

Hey, Butch.

Hey. I was wondering if you could book a trip for me.

Have we met? Let's say I was trying to fugitize with a lot of cash.

I mean, if I wanted a new identity and a place to disappear.

Could you make that happen for me?

No.

Not even if we're friends or Rick Patinas?

All

right,

all right. Take it easy, all right? I'm not doing nothing.

Just running.

You're going to have to change Rick Pitino's travel plans, huh?

Yeah, hello?

Your trip's all set.

Oh, yeah, hey, including the car?

Yeah, he just dropped the car off with me at the end of Pier 23 at 2 sharp.

All right, well, you're including the car in the overall package price, right?

Yeah.

Okay. Fine.

Later. Hold on, hold on, hold on. What's my new name? I want approval rights.

Colt Chisholm.

Colt Chisholm.

Well, all right.

All right.

Heard him.

Oh, we plan to.

It's me, Colt Chisholm.

Yo. Hey, Colt.

No.

No, it's not, but you're dead. You're... You'd look better in a nice tent.

Well, there you go, Max.

Since you're going to take credit for it anyway, you may as well take the money.

Good work.

Come on, Max. You can at least say it like you mean it. I didn't know you

to be stroked.

And I thought you could hide your disappointment better.

Do you need help out to the car with that?

I don't think so.

Uh, Max?

I'm going to need you to sign this little receipt for him here.

What receipt do you need? Do you know?

Need a pen?

Be around.

Well, there's no question about it.

Don't you have a life?

Don't you?

Well, gratefully, after this morning, I do.

I'm damn glad to have one.

Want to go get a bite to eat or something?

You know, I would love to, but I have to file this stuff.

Oh.

Want some help?

No, no, no. This is not a captain's job. This is my job.

Oh, maybe I can show you a couple of tricks.

The way I do this is categorize them by...

Crime. Cross -reference.

Clip it.

Sign off.

Okay. Just file as normal.

Thanks.

Feeding at that Italian place up on the Embarcadero?

No. No, I've been wanting to go there, though.

Yeah, me too.