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Now folks, I'm here to tell you, I'm here to guarantee you, that the new and

improved Quick Chop Pro will make you a legend in your own kitchen. Now who's

having guests for dinner tonight, right? Mother -in -law coming by with a brand

new diet, huh? Birthday parties, Passover, Seder, Thanksgiving, Christmas

dinner.

She told me how it was supposed to go.

I'm sorry, guys, but I got to take a look in that bag.

Oh, you know what's in this old gym bag, sir. Old gym clothes. All you got to do

is show me and you'll be on your way. Hey, I'm scared. Whoa.

Hey. Hey, stop.

No, back off, dude, all right? Back off.

Back off.

It's just a wallet. It's yours.

Come on.

Don't do that.

Rise and shine, birthday boy.

What are you doing?

I guess I should be glad it's not a phone call.

What is it? I'll open it and find out.

Thank you.

Yeah, well, I figured since you soaked the other one in coffee, you needed a

one. I do. Thank you.

Okay. That's the boring present.

What's the not boring present?

Well, Willie made you a shoeshine box.

Yeah? Nice.

Anything else?

How about what every old married man wants for his birthday?

A new power saw.

Oh.

Okay, well, that's what you want.

Oh, no, no, I don't want that.

I'm just wondering when you're going to remind me that another year older is

another year closer to retiring.

Oh, well, that's usually after dinner.

Unless you want to talk about it now.

After dinner's good.

Okay. And back to the matters at hand.

Now, no screaming out in ecstasy, Detective Stevens, or you'll wake that

child up next.

There you go, sir. Now you can pay the bail, you can go to court, or you can

attend traffic school. They have comics. They make it a lot of fun. Yeah, you

have a nice day, too, sir.

Hello. What's up?

Officer Thomas Turcotte.

How's your back?

Yeah, I'm fine.

No, you're not fine.

You were in so much pain yesterday, you were vibrating.

Oh, I'm coming in later. What are you, nuts? I don't want you coming back to

work. All those pain pills in you, it's like working with Keith Richards.

Oh, you're right.

No, no, I'm alone, I'm alone. Hicks wanted to put someone in your seat, but

told him I didn't need anybody.

Hell, I barely need you. You just sit there and relax. Why don't you watch it?

Hang on, hang on a minute.

Pull it over, pull it over right up here.

That's it. Now bring it on back and drop anchor.

What do you got? Some guy in a Humvee.

I don't know, he's got eight different braking systems. He can't figure out how

to handle a stop sign. Probably smelled a gas station.

I gotta go.

No, no, let me listen. You want to what? You want to listen?

Yeah. Well, just take your happy pills and watch Dr. Phil. Come on, Ray.

All right, all right. I'll put you on pocket patrol, okay? How's that?

License and registration, please.

What'd I do, officer?

Well, first of all, you violated a long -standing tradition of coming to a full

and complete...

You shut up.

What are we doing on this level? Our cars are far from... Never mind the

The cops will have all the exit field off before we can get out of here. We

enter the mall. I make the drop.

And we disappear.

That's why God invented Plan B.

All right, son, earn your keep. Get us out of sight and into a service hallway.

There was a flag on the play.

I got angels, remember?

Listen to me.

You know I told you you might need a backup place to be.

Go there now and wait for me. You care which door?

Doesn't matter. As long as you can pass through.

moron i need someplace out of the way a storage room or something i see any more

cops up here people start dying go get up go go go what's the nature of your

emergency i'm in the west side mall there are three guys here with guns and

shots have been get up please repeat that i'm in the west side mall and a

called domani's it's a men's clothing store on the second floor can you speak

please i can't they're gonna hear me

Teresa Ortiz. I'm a recruit officer at the police academy. Look, there are

guys here with pistols. They have a black duffel bag. And the shots have

Bye.

So Willie crashes a party to deliver the shoeshine box that he made for me. Now,

it's the cutest thing you ever saw, but he forgot my birthday card.

So he runs out of the room yelling, I'll be back in a jippy.

In a jippy? Jippy.

That's hysterical, man.

I'm glad to see you aging so gracefully, because usually you're in the toilet on

your birthday. Oh, it's the new me. Well, good.

So exactly what kind of party did Willie crash?

Oh, let's just say all pleasantries were exchanged.

Yeah, so things are back on track, husband and wife -wise. Yeah.

Glad for you. Yeah, I'm a lucky man.

Yeah. Here.

Steven.

Where?

Okay. Yep.

Five minutes.

Pierce is headed to the West Side Mall.

Some bank robbers drove in. They took hostages.

Yeah. I know.

Everything we might use inside the van, I want outside. I don't want to be stuck

in a box while this whole thing's going down. It ain't Monday night football.

I want a schematic of the entire mall, all ingress and egress, plus underground

maintenance plans, rooftop too.

Now, the airship said the Humvee could have made it to the freeway, but they

decided to come here instead.

I think it might be an inside job. I want employee manifest of everyone

worked here for the past five years. And where the hell is what, huh?

Well, if the team's wrapping up a call in the valley, they're at least 15 to 20

out. Pierce, who's running this? I'm incident commander.

Where's Captain Higgs?

Captain Higgs is in Santa Barbara at a seminar, a hostage crisis seminar.

SWAT's on the way until they get here on the wall with a loud voice.

The uni from us were here.

Well, that's why I called you. What happened here?

I talked to Heckler. He'll fill you in on the details. Where is that employee

manifest?

So what are we all doing here? Bank at the corner of Dockery and Chillum. Three

suspects, male, 40, walked in, armed with a handgun.

Colcock's a bank manager.

Sticks the gun in the eyeglasses of the first teller, urges the teller's

colleagues to cooperate.

Just at that time, poor schmuck $12 -an -hour security guard decides to step up

the plate.

Suspect number one blows him away.

So they've killed already?

Yeah. They get the money?

Yeah, 250 Gs.

Cashes collected by a white male accomplice in his 20s. Then they mount

yellow Hummer, driven by another white male, 30s, blonde, surfer type, real

yahoo. So someone outside already took a good look at the driver?

No. It was me.

They blew a stop sign. I flagged him down.

Just as I approached the window, I get the 211 call on them in the vehicle.

They reverse, nail my patrol car, the unit's PO.

So where was Tom?

Tom's on his couch all week. He put his back out.

Working solo?

Yeah, I'm allowed to work alone, Joel.

Ray, Ray, we're just trying to get the information, man. That's it. All right?

Anything else?

There was a call to 911 from a witness inside the mall. She said she was a

recruit at the academy and her name was Teresa Ortiz.

Did she call back?

Not that I heard.

Maybe she made it out.

I haven't seen her around.

Who's in charge out there?

My boy's in there.

We're doing everything we can, sir.

He's deaf.

Profoundly deaf.

Okay.

Give me his name and his age.

Bernie Leonard. He's only 15.

My only baby.

All right, sir. I'll look out for him. Give the rest of your information to

officer here.

Who's in charge out there?

He's picked into us through 911.

I'm in charge.

Detective Catherine Pierce.

Miss or Mrs.? Miss.

Are you my friend?

Yes, I'm your friend.

Are you mine?

Well, I tend not to make friends as easily as you.

Well, let's give it a try. I want $5 million and a helicopter cleared to

That's going to take some time.

Oh, I've got nothing but time, Miss Friend.

This guy's jerking us around. He doesn't need money. He just robbed a damn bank.

How many people do you have in there with you?

Enough so if you screw up, the local news has its slogan for today.

Murder at the mall.

That's a certain alliterative appeal, don't you think?

Listen, I got a wounded officer in there. Let me get him out, then we'll

a deal.

Don't waste my time with the cops dressed as paramedics thing.

Go ahead and send in cops, regular cops.

No SWAT.

Anyone you find on the first floor, you can keep. Anyone else is mine.

And, Miss Friend.

Yes? You surprise me, I'll surprise you. It comes to that, and it could get...

Well, the word ugly comes to mind.

You have five minutes.

I knew you guys would come in handy. Put together an IRT. Good. We're going to

need two more.

I'm one.

Grab a fourth.

Which time we're here? Fearless, if Tom were here, we wouldn't be here.

Do your extract and get out.

Could be a setup.

Could be bleeding to death.

Hello, boys.

You okay? Yeah.

What? I'm like, hell, you're okay.

Get him out of here.

All right, come on. Come on.

Come on.

Go to his face. Come on.

Come on. Go.

Go.

Go.

Go. Go.

Go.

Come on. Go.

I don't see anybody else. Could be some people inside these doors.

What about the second floor? What?

What about the second floor?

Ray, when Ortiz called 911, where was she calling from?

I'm in store on the second floor. Come on, man. The guy said we could clear

people from the first floor only.

I'll go up, scan around, and we'll come back down quickly.

Blue team, blue team, what's your status?

Blue team, I need a status check.

I'm going to take a look around for the death kit.

What the hell? I guess I've got to get you something for your birthday anyway.

Oh, it's your birthday?

Yep.

Congratulations.

I've got a lot to look forward to.

Where are you going, boys?

You coming up here?

No, we're just looking around down here for stragglers.

You think I'm stupid? You were coming upstairs.

No, we're leaving right now.

You got five seconds.

Five, four, three, two,

one.

Don't test me again. And tell Miss Friend she gets fresh kill every ten

until my demands are met.

What happened in there?

Your guess is as good as ours. The guy was trying to make a point. No, my guess

is not as good as yours. I called for your status three times. We were kind of

busy in there. Oh, cut the crap, detective.

As far as I see it, you did all you could do on the first floor. You headed

upstairs, and that's when the shooting went down. He was going to kill him

anyway. He was just looking for an excuse. Did you head upstairs?

Yes. Why? Why what? Why do we not follow your instructions?

Do you think I care that you didn't follow my instructions? Yeah, I do. All

care about is what if three good cops head upstairs, give him the risk.

Because there was someone in there that we knew, and they didn't come out.

Who? The recruit that called it in.

Ortiz?

She helped with the murder at the academy. We've known her since her

days.

Okay, well, next time, just tell me.

Okay?

Pretend I'm Hicks.

We wouldn't tell Hicks. We'd never tell Hicks. Because he'd sideline us.

Thinks if it's too personal, it'll cloud our judgment.

Sometimes it does cloud your judgment. Sometimes it sharpens it.

Depends on the person.

Detective Pierce.

Keep your vests on. I might need you to go back in.

Give me a fingerprint card.

Things are not always what they seem.

He was the driver of the Humvee.

Who's the best real man in the business?

That'd be me.

Looks to me like you're wiped out. Can't let that happen.

It's a game, Trev.

There's a real world. All's good.

You got work to do. You remember work, don't you? It's what grown -ups do to

make money. I can live without the slam, all right?

So is he in?

Yeah, he's in.

Is this really a good idea, Trev, on the young side?

He's not the kid I'm worried about.

So was that a slam?

It sure sounded like a slam.

Let's go make a living.

Guys, wait up, will you?

License and registration, please.

What'd I do, officer?

Well, first of all, you violated a long -standing tradition of coming to a full

and complete...

Let's go.

Get one more. Come on, move.

Hey, old.

What do you say we do a sing -along? Wouldn't that be fun?

Give us something to pass the time? Huh?

Wouldn't that be fun?

Huh?

Wouldn't that be fun?

I said, wouldn't that be fun?

Hey, I'm talking to you.

Yeah, you. You look at me.

I think he's deaf.

Are you deaf?

Are you deaf?

Yeah, he's deaf.

I'm sorry. That's all I know. I'm sorry.

What are you, some kind of social worker or something? I'm just someone who

wants to go home with the rest of us.

Mm -hmm.

Liar.

Liar, you're a liar.

This is the police academy, I .D.

We got ourselves a cop in training.

Hey, y 'all do that, what is it, shoot and don't shoot thing, huh?

Shoot, shoot, no, no, don't shoot.

I don't mean shoot.

The woman, she's in the police academy.

Good for her.

Word.

close with one of the men.

That's a joke, right?

Ask yourself, do I ever joke?

All right. Can I at least buy a clue?

Sure is the clue.

Trust me.

All right. Who?

The square badge.

The security guy.

All right.

Come on. Let's go.

We're going to do a little dress up.

You've got five seconds.

Five. Four.

Three.

Who's the best wheel man in the business?

I am.

Two.

And you shot a freaking cop.

One.

Don't test me again.

And tell Miss French she gets fresh kill every ten minutes until my demands are

met.

I found this, sir.

Where is he?

We don't know yet.

He can't hear.

He's all alone in there. I understand that, sir.

LAPD is the finest police department in the world. We will get your son out of

there.

Tell me you're sure about this.

Sure, I'm sure.

Greased his prints through the system. Your name came up as prosecutor.

Figured maybe you could shed a little light on the situation.

Is that why you invited me down here, or was it to bust my balls?

Well, that's always an added bonus.

Got here pretty fast, Counselor. You must have broken a few insignificant

along the way. There are no insignificant laws, Officer Heckler.

Oh, yeah, that's right.

There's only insignificant people.

Robert Cherry.

Deceased.

When your name came up, I called some of my friends at DHD.

They had quite a story to tell.

What's the M .O.? Same as last time, Counselor.

They upped it a notch.

Two dead so far.

And here I was, blaming myself for this crap storm, because of the way I handle

the traffic stop.

Then it turns out that none of us might even be here if it weren't for you

making a deal.

Five years ago, there was the ADA.

New to town.

Ready to please.

I was a golden boy.

95 % conviction rating. There's only one way you get a rate like that.

A few months into my new tenure, some petty loser gets busted robbing a check

-cashing store. Same M .O., same driver.

One Robert Cherry, as in today's bank job.

Call up DHD. You'll find out they handed him that case airtight.

The robber's name was Trevor Jankowski, given that Cherry was the driver and

what I've learned of this bank job.

Chances are that's him in there.

On it.

So he lawyers up.

Next thing you know, I'm listening to some sob story about how Jankowski's

was killed in a hit -and -run, and he's the sole supporter of their 11 -year

-old kid.

Yeah, and his sole supporting source of revenue is robbing people with Robert

Cherry. Walk away, officer.

So you went for the sob story Jankowski pleads out. Yep.

All the while staying 95%. All the while staying golden.

Jankowski and Cherry?

They walked after six months.

Look, I don't care what kind of promises you have to make. Just know this. As

far as the DA's office is concerned, no more deals for Trevor Jankowski.

You got it?

What about the helicopter in Mexico? It's never going to happen.

Then what do we do?

Sooner or later, the cops are going to make their move. And when they do, we're

going to be one step out of them.

That's why I had you grab those two guys.

We're going to swap clothes with them and put our masks on them. But they've

seen our faces.

Making ideas easy.

Well, we can take care of that.

And when the cops make their move, we get rescued and rushed to the safety of

our loved ones.

And our money.

With Bobby dead, it's a new split, right?

Trust me.

Where the hell are they? Copy extracted said they headed for the north side of

the mall.

That's the remodeled wing.

It reopens in a month. The mall security monitoring station is right there.

Still online.

If we get in there, we can see the entire place.

What if they're in there watching you go in?

They can't watch us if they can't see.

Here we go.

Tech man.

You

two,

let's go.

Get up!

I said move!

Now! Both of you!

Turn the lights back on, Mr. Friend, or I'm going to go worst -case scenario on

everyone's ass.

Listen, it's not my fault. I'm dealing with FBI and swatting all kinds of

out here.

Not my problem.

Okay, okay. You're right. Hang on.

Turn on the damn lights.

Okay, it's going to take a minute, but I'll get your lights back on.

Trust me.

Turn the power back on.

There. That was the deaf kid. I got his picture.

Get it back. We're trying.

There.

Check him out.

Sign language.

What is he saying?

It's on tape.

His father will know.

They're alive.

Yeah.

Where are they?

Weird, the coincidence.

You being connected to this?

No coincidence.

Fade. Big man upstairs wanted me to be here so he could rub my nose in it. You

blame yourself for this, Counselor? I'm Irish Catholic, Detective. I blame

myself when it rains.

Oh, wait a second.

It's a Jankowski who works here.

Our Jankowski?

No, no criminal record, but still, not a very popular name, is it?

Maurice Sandoval.

Uh, son of a, uh, sales clerk, Candy Castle.

And a felon with a 459 assault and armed robbery to his credit.

He's in a wheelchair.

Here's another one.

Victor Polanco?

Yeah. He's one of them.

Bastard shot my part.

Small maintenance worker.

Hey, guys, you have a positive on our third suspect, Victor Polanco, male,

white, 6 '2", red hair with a pretty ugly list of violent crimes.

Roger.

Set this up right away.

We're in an empty storage room at the end of the new part of the mall.

Go down a long hallway. An empty storage room at the end of the mall. Go down a

long hallway with metal shelves. Go left.

Roger.

We're going to switch clothes with two of the men here and kill us all.

Get in there, Code 3.

Switch. I

got

it. Come on, it's my time. Come on, it's your birthday. I'll take care of it.

Deal with the deal.

Recruit Officer Ortiz, do you mind if I buy you a coffee?

Could be habit for me. Yeah?

I'll take your chances.

Thanks. So what are they doing to you at the academy these days?

Weapons training.

Yeah? Yeah.

You doing the old shoot, don't shoot yet?

We're just starting.

Yeah. For all those years as a paramedic patching up gunshot victims, it must be

quite an adjustment for you.

And most police officers go their entire career without firing their weapon.

Yeah, they told us that one, too.

Teresa? Hey.

You buy it? Don't I always buy it? No. Yeah? I'll buy it. Oh, my God, I'm so

sorry. Sorry. Looks like the drinks are on me now. Yeah, it's on your favorite

shirt, too. Don't say that.

He wears his shirt all the time.

But the good thing is... I know where to get you for your birthday. His

birthday's next week. He's just so sensitive. Is he still talking because

hearing this chirping sound in my ear?

Do your wife get jealous in relationships you get? No, she's

complain to about all the nagging I get at work.

Oh, that's me. Look, I gotta go.

Thanks. Okay.

Sorry. Thanks.

So how's the Academy stuff going?

She's doing shoot, don't shoot. Really? Already?

Mm -hmm.

Come on, I'll buy you coffee. Really?

Shoot, huh?

Don't shoot.

Oh,

by all means, shoot.

This woman, she's in the police academy.

Good for her.

Word.

Shoot.

I want you to change clothes with one of the men.

That's a joke, right?

Can I at least buy a clue?

Sure, here's the clue.

Oh.

The square bands.

The security guard. Yeah, all right.

Hey, you, come on. We're going to play dress -up. Let's go.

I got your back. I got you covered.

Okay, we're good. Is everybody okay?

You guys okay?

All right, hostages unhurt. Two suspects down. Send paramedics. Shut your face.

Thank you, officer, for saving my son's life.

Don't thank me.

Thank her.

Who's she?

She's a cop.

Good job in there, recruit officer.

Thank you, ma 'am.

Still want to be a cop?

Yes, ma 'am.

Any sign of the money?

No. Well, I got an idea based on what our legal eagle found in the employee

list. You should go check it out.

I'll catch up in the second part.

So all this and no SWAT?

Tell me something, Detective.

In all your time over at South, you ever run something as big as this?

Actually, uh, no.

You could have fooled me.

Time of death, 1 .32 p .m.

He died.

He needed to.

And what are the chances that I'd be in that store right when it went down?

I don't know about chances.

I just know that if you weren't in that room today, a lot of people would have

died. We were in that room for an hour, you know. A lot can go wrong in that

time.

If that security guard didn't have a gun, stabbed his ankle, man, I don't

what I would have done.

He did.

Okay? He did.

Teresa, I've spent my whole life taking care of people.

It's important that you understand that killing this man, that's your way of

taking care of the people in that room today.

Okay?

It's not your fault.

Okay? It's not your fault.

It wasn't your choice.

When you finish with the shooting, if you need anything, anything, you call

Hey, you can call me.

All right?

That's what cops do for each other.

That's what friends do.

Thank you.

What were you doing

here at the mall today?

I'll buy.

Oh, my God. I'm so sorry. It's all right.

I was, um, buying a gift.

To our friend.

We got to go.

Joel? Yeah?

What was his name?

Trevor Jankowski.

After that, we just drop the money in the trunk of your car and walk away.

Then you just clock out and drive home like always.

It's the next best thing to a victimless crime.

And no one gets hurt?

I'm in the money business. I'm not in the hurting business.

Well, yeah, maybe so, but I'm still worried about you.

Hey, I got angels smiling down on me.

Hello? There was a flag on the plane.

Well, are you okay?

I got angels to remember.

Listen to me.

You know, I told you we might need a backup place to be. Go there now and

for me.

Carl! Don't go back!

Get a bump in the road, but I'll take care of it. You just do like we said.

Whoa, wait, wait, Dad!

People start dying.

Hey, hey, hey, can I get some food?

You all right?

Civilians are coming out. I repeat, civilians are coming out.

You work in there?

Me too. I see you around.

It's terrible what some people do, ain't it?

Yeah, terrible.

Those guys are serious.

Take no prisoners serious.

Those psychos are dead meat.

Ben? Nope.

He needs to come with us.

I know.

It's clear.

One coming out. Code four.

Where's my father?

He's downtown.

Can I see him?

Yeah, son.

You can see him.

back with more of this late -breaking story. Stay tuned for continuing

of Murder at the Mall.