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Attention all units, Mary 1 -7 reports
code 10 at 700 block of South Basin

Street.

Mike, what's the situation?

Oh, temp?

Great. Lieutenant finds out you're here
and I'll be wearing out my shoes in a

beaten Tijuana. A radio call said it was
a Code 10. Any shots been fired?

No, not so far.

Any hostages?

Well, the guy's got a kid, but we don't
know if she's in there.

Mr. Belinsky, the SWAT team is here.

Listen to me.

Somebody's got to hear my side of the
story.

Please!

Help me!

Please!

Nixon, it's for a case. We will only
need it overnight.

You guys can talk till you turn blue.
These D -220 forms are my

and there's no way I'm letting you take
one out of this office.

All right, that's fine.

Where's the copy machine?

Sorry, guys.

Confidential police material.

Power's a dangerous thing.

Nixon.

Nixon.

How long have we been friends?

Don't do it to me, A .J. You remember
your birthday?

The party?

On Rick's boat?

Most of it.

You remember Elaine?

You told her you were a detective
sergeant in vice.

You told her Don Johnson was a personal
friend.

Oh, my goodness.

Well, she keeps calling every few days.
She wants to talk to you.

She wants your number. No.

She does, honest.

You wouldn't give it to her?

Oh, I wouldn't.

No! Why are you so uptight about letting
me see him? I'm not uptight.

You just have to wait. Wait for what?
The man was arrested two hours ago.

You have to wait your turn.

Don't see anybody in line in front of
me, Brown.

Try the arresting officer, booking
officer, police photographer,

the guy's family.

When they are through, if visiting hours
aren't over, then you can see him.

Capisce?

Bye, Temple.

Sometimes there are good reasons people
have to go to jail for a little while.

But I'll be out of here real... Wait,
Daddy.

I want to go home.

Who's taking care of Beasley?

Beasley will be fine.

He has plenty of dry food. He doesn't
like dry food.

I want you to go home.

Oh, Maggie, believe me.

There is nothing in the world I want
more than to be home with you.

But your Aunt Sue's going to be taking
care of you. I want you!

I'll get her.

Don't worry, Steve.

Very cute little girl you have.

You said outside your house that someone
should hear your story. That's why I'm

here.

I never dreamed it would be you.

They took my house away from me, Miss
Hill.

I couldn't just sit there while they
took away our home.

First of all, call me Temple.

Second, who is they?

If I knew I could do something.

But the bastards, they come out of
nowhere, and before you can... I'm

crazy, aren't I?

I'll start at the beginning.

I lost my wife two years ago.

Car accident.

Megan took it hard.

I wanted her to have something permanent
in her life, so I scrimped, I

borrowed...

I begged.

I bought that house.

Congratulations. A lot of people never
get that far.

What happened?

A few months back, some real estate lady
comes to the door, offers me barely

what I paid for the place.

I told her to get lost.

Then a few days later, I get a notice
from the bank saying I was late on my

mortgage payment.

And you weren't? No way. That got paid
before anything.

The house was the only thing we had.

It took a month to get things
straightened out.

And the next month, it happened again.

Steve, computers do funny things
sometimes.

I mean... Computers don't follow your
kid home from school in dark sedans.

Computers don't set your house on fire
when you won't sell. Are you serious?

Somebody did that. Last month, fire was
in my workshop.

I'm always real careful.

It was arson, Temple.

I even found where they broke the lock.

But the bank didn't care.

Insurance got canceled, and boom,
foreclosure.

I didn't know they could do that.

Legally, they can, but they usually give
you a chance, a grace period.

Somehow, mine got canceled, and no one
would tell me why.

So you took a stand.

Steve, people don't just shoot it out
with the police these days.

Temple, this didn't just happen. It
wasn't bad luck.

Somebody wanted me gone, and when I
wouldn't sell, they decided to drive me

Fred, visiting hours are over. We're
almost through here. I can't make

exceptions, Temple, even for you.

Lieutenant, did you listen to this man's
story?

He was resisting arrest, threatened a
peace officer with a firearm, and put

of my men in the emergency room.

Has his bail been set?

Check with P .D. Why?

Get him ready for release.

What?

If you won't let me talk to him in here,
I'll talk to him outside.

The public should hear what this man has
to say.

Are you crazy? I'd rather go one -on
-one with a whirling propeller.

She never has to see you. She doesn't
have to know about this.

No, I think what Rick means here is that
we don't want to get in the middle of a

lover's spat.

I know exactly what he means.

The woman needs the protection I can't
give her unless you two help me.

Town, town, town. Please, just sit down.
You're making me very nervous.

She wouldn't listen to a word I said.

The guy fought like a bull on PCP, and
she's not worried.

Well, uh, excuse me, town. Um, this guy
has no record. And frankly, if I'd been

in his shoes, I'd have thrown a few
punches myself.

Don't tell me you're on her side. We are
not on anybody's side.

Town, your lady is no dummy. She is a
pretty good judge of character.

Okay, call me an overprotective lover.
You're an overprotective lover.

Will you shut up? It's just that I've
seen this type before.

Smooth as silk. He's got a story that'll
break your heart. Underneath it,

unstable as hell.

Central has a ticking bomb. Now that's
the way I read him. Temple is a

professional at the top of her field.

I don't think she's going to take kindly
to having her police officer boyfriend

hire a couple of babysitters.

She won't be mad at you. She'll be mad
at me.

Guys, please.

I'm telling you, I got a strange feeling
about this thing.

If something were to happen to Temple, I
mean.

77. Ladies and gentlemen, the moment
you've all been waiting for. You've

these ladies, heard them interviewed,
seen their talents on display.

The judges have decided, and now, this
year's winner, from La Jolla, Mid

Hill!

the Padres. I'm Temple Hill, Channel 3
News.

Good evening. The pre -dawn quiet was
shattered this morning in a Mirren Mason

neighborhood when a man kept a police at
bay with a shotgun for nearly an hour.

The SWAT team was called in when a young
school bus driver barricaded himself in

his home, refusing to obey a bank
eviction order he felt was unjust.

Don't tell me they're going to make a
martyr out of him.

Until this morning, Stephen Belinsky was
an ordinary working citizen like you

and me, a widower, father of a six -year
-old girl.

When a lien holder ordered a quicker
-than -usual eviction and Balinski

find an ear for what he called his
grievances, he fought back.

Balinski will be the subject of my in
-depth report tonight at 11.

I don't believe it.

Making a cause out of that pig.

Well, I haven't waited this long to lose
it now.

You want something done about it?

Let me just put it this way. I don't
want to lose any sleep wondering if

Hill's in -depth report is going to get
in my way.

This is the kind of assignment I enjoy,
Mr. Cameron.

I trust you'll handle it with your usual
creativity.

And more than my usual thoroughness.

There'll be a bonus in it, Fisher.

Good.

Great job tonight, Miss Hill. Thank you,
Al. I'm glad you liked it. I always

take my break when you're on.

Good night.

Hello? Al, is that you?

What the hell are you doing here?

You all right?

Is this your idea of a joke trying to
scare the daylights out of somebody?

What are you doing around here this time
of the night?

Well, I just happened to be in the
neighborhood.

Brown.

This has to do with Brown, doesn't it?

That man can't leave well enough alone.
Come on, don't hang him without a trial.

He cares about you.

His ego's all bent out of shape because
I went around as authority. No.

Come on, Temple.

Look, at least listen to what I say, all
right?

Temple, wait.

Just answer me one thing.

If everything is so peachy, how come
you're so edgy?

Your office, tomorrow morning. I'll give
you 15 minutes before work, and it

better be good.

Yo, Temple.

I'm parked around the corner. Could I
get a lift?

Get in.

I can't believe my own lover hired...
Spanking alfalfa to babysit me.

Come on, Temple.

Being pretty rough on the guy, let's
look at it from his side.

I spent 24 hours researching Stephen
Belinsky. I talked to the man for three

hours. He was a perfect gentleman.

The worst thing I could find out about
him was that he went on some kind of a

jag, a bender for two weeks after he
lost his wife.

But that would make anyone flip out.

Town loves you, Temple. He's worried
about you.

A .J.

If loving each other with all that there
was, Brown and I would have been

married a long time ago.

Besides, do you think I rest easy
thinking about the people he associates

every day?

True. That Nixon is a dangerous
character.

Yeah. But he's not a crook. No.

Guys, cut the jokes. If I wanted a low
-risk occupation, I wouldn't have gone

into news.

I tried to explain that to Brown, but
there's some things in his background

he hasn't quite overcome yet.

Things that make him think that I should
spend my time cooking and raising

babies. Temple, you just took a large
and intimate step into the life of an

individual who put two cops in the
hospital.

Let's give town a break, okay?

Yeah.

But you two guys, I don't want you
popping up everywhere I go, shooting at

bush that moves.

Okay, Temple, when you're right, you're
right, and you're right.

Thank you. So we'll work as a team.

What? You heard me. We'll work as a
team.

Now, you said Balinski thinks he's the
victim of some kind of conspiracy here.

If that's true, three of us will find it
out a lot quicker than you working by

yourself. Agreed?

Well... And if Towne's right and
Balinski is a little loose in the

it's not going to hurt anything to have
it hanging around.

What do you say? Deal?

All right, only because I need this
proof fast.

Do you mind if it's urgent?

Go ahead. Go right ahead. Help yourself.

Just slam the door when you leave, and
be sure and call us before you leave the

station, okay?

Okay. You gonna tell town we're working
with a young man?

I think discretion is the better part of
valor.

Charlie. Yeah?

Temple, be careful.

Who is this?

Those things he says about someone being
after him.

They're true.

Someone very powerful wants to see him
hurt.

I watched your report last night.

And I'll tell you what I know.

Maybe you can help him.

Okay.

I'm listening.

You don't understand.

I'm taking a very big risk in talking to
you at all.

I'll need to meet you.

I'm afraid I don't work that way.

I'm sorry.

Did you call me?

What did you say? Did I call you?

I called you a harebrained bimbo for
coming around here.

I'm about to close up. You better get
out of here before I can't hold him

anymore.

Linsky's boss showed up at the end of
the school bus route.

Said the parents were calling to
complain.

Fired the guy cold turkey.

Telling you, Rick, your heart would have
bled for the guy.

He stood there and he watched his
livelihood slip away just like his son.

Even if no one's harassing him, he's on
a bad roll.

Well, I think his story might not be so
far -fetched after all.

That loan officer at his bank.

Lovely young lady. We're having dinner
next week. Big Bruce Springsteen.

Rick? I was getting there.

She confirmed that his repo was just
within the legal limits.

No grace period? Mm -hmm.

Maybe someone at the bank was bribed.
Maybe.

I then paid a visit to his insurance
company.

Met another lovely young lady down
there, Julie. Dark hair, blue eyes. Will

cut it out?

You don't have a romantic bone in your
body anymore.

Well, they're putting the fire in his
house down as accidental.

They say it started in his workshop.

Oily rags, braid wires, not ours.

That doesn't fit.

I talked to his neighbors. They said he
was handy, real handy. Worked around the

place all the time.

That is funny.

Julie said there were a lot of other
fire code violations, too.

There's a reason they canceled.

Want to take that word for it?

No more than you do.

Thank you.

Homework.

Right little kid.

How do you spell gorgeous?

J -U -L -I -E.

I tell you, the more I see, the more I
think Temple may be right.

I'd like to go into town's office a
little bit more than your hunch.

Let's see what code in here. This could
be violating.

Hey!

Hey!

You got people in here?

I don't think that's going to help.

No, I know.

Oh, my God.

What are you doing? Trying to kill him?

What are you talking about? I was trying
to save your lives.

What did you set the fire for?

Me?

Why would I want to burn down my own
house?

Because it's not your house anymore,
pal. If you can't have it, nobody can,

right? Okay, back off.

I saw a car driving away. I don't think
the guy did it.

I saw the smoke. I broke in to help.

I came over here to get my daughter's
homework. She left it here and got in

trouble at school.

She worked on this for three weeks.

I helped her look up the words.

In Washington, D .C. today, Senator
Aldous Westminster, 73, entered a not

plea to assault charges filed against
him by a patron of a Georgetown saloon.

The plaintiff claimed that Westminster
punched him in the nose, knocked him

down, and challenged him to a duel.

In entering his plea, Westminster
alleged the man called him a lousy liar,

said he sort of brushed up against the
fella, and he just fell over.

Yes. Mr. Fisher's on the line. Not now.
I can't be disturbed.

Giles, Lieutenant.

Inside. Close the door.

Please.

I want everything you've uncovered about
Stephen Belinsky.

May I ask why? Because he nearly killed
the Simons today. That's why.

I've heard the story, Brown.

There is no proof that Steve set that
fire.

He was there.

The courts have a name for that. It's
called circumstantial evidence.

The man of the wacko temple, a stretched
out nutcase. I don't believe I am

hearing you say this.

You have been bombarded by the dark and
seedy underside of the human race for so

long in here, you're beginning to lose
your judgment. You're getting very

cynical, Brown. You're getting hard.

Why do you think I'm upset about this?

You think it's an ego thing or
something?

The truth?

Yeah. Yes, I do.

Well, think again, lady.

I started this because I was trying to
save your life.

Now I find out this guy nearly cost me
two of the best friends I have.

So your reason's a personal, huh?

What about yours?

This is no longer human interest.

Crimes have been committed here.

Arson and attempted murder.

This is no longer in your area. It is
now into mine.

Just wait a damn minute here since when
is crime not news?

When a news person interferes with the
enforcement of the law.

Tell that to Dan, rather.

Oh, come on, Temple.

Brown, since the day we met, I've
wondered when this is going to happen.

When our careers were going to clash.

When your badge and my camera broke us
up.

Temple, I think this man should be
behind bars.

Now, you tell me what you've learned.

Tell me what you know.

Don't make me go for a subpoena.

Goodbye, Lieutenant.

Thanks for the flower.

I'm going to lose him, Cecilia.

I'm going to lose Brown.

He loves you, Temple. I think it would
take a lot to... If Stephen Balinski

a criminal, I would be the first one to
help convict him.

But we're talking about a man who's had
his life ripped away from him piece by

piece.

He lost his wife.

He lost his home. He lost his job.

They're even talking about him losing
his little girl.

Everybody is against him.

Except you.

I've known you a long time, Temple.
You're a very principled person.

Do you think you could live with
yourself if you gave the story less than

best?

I just can't stand the thought of Brown
not being in my life.

The woman is one bullheaded piece of
work.

She's actually going to make me subpoena
her for the DA's case against Belinsky.

Is that the way you treat someone you
love?

She's not doing it to you, town.

Know what I was going to do this week?
No.

I was going to take the woman to Chez
Rosine.

Order some Chateaubriand, a bottle of
Beaujolais.

No, I can't stop you. Of course I don't.

I was going to ask her to marry me.

I don't even care if I ever see her
again.

Is it as bad as all that?

Oh, I don't know, A .J.

You ever know anyone who's cared as much
about their work as she does?

I can think of one person, yeah.

Superwoman. She thinks she's some kind
of beacon of truth out to enlighten the

minds of the people.

Sounds good to me.

Yeah, if it's directed right, yeah.

How do you see her, Tom?

As the most wonderful person I've ever
met.

Someone I like to settle down with.

Someone who makes me madder than anyone
else on this planet.

Perfect. Match made in heaven.

Listen, I got something else for you to
put in the hopper.

I am pretty sure that Balinski didn't
start the fire.

Talk fast.

License plate I saw going away from the
scene.

Traced it back to a company car
registered to a guy named Jackson

You know him?

Yeah. Out -of -town talent.

Hobbies are fracturing femurs. The same.

Now works for a local developer named
Miles Cameron.

The Miles Cameron?

Bay City Mall?

Mission Bay Shopping Center? Ain't no
other.

When I checked the bank the other day, I
found out there's just one bidder on

Steve's repossessed house.

Mile Cameron.

Aloha. You win a free trip to Tahiti.

I have quietly bought up nine houses in
that neighborhood, and they've got

another three in escrow.

How'd you find all this out?

What, you think you're dealing with a
couple of amateurs?

I've got a friend in national title.

Dee Dee?

Big Dee Dee?

Big Dee Dee.

I thought you told her you'd move to
Nova Scotia. Yeah, I did. I did. I came

back. It got cold.

Guys, would you quit joking around?

Sounds like somebody did try to run
Balinski off his place.

Mm -hmm.

And the temple may be right.

Mm -hmm.

Boy, I'm in a deep now.

Mm -hmm. May I use your phone? Mm -hmm.

Ah, Izzy.

Wait a minute.

Did either of you guys play Cupid and
send her some flowers?

Flowers?

I did.

You can forget my ever going back.

You don't understand.

It's gotten worse for Steve. Now they
really have to come after him.

What are you talking about?

They know that you and your private eyes
are trying to save him. They're

worried. They can't risk the truth
coming to light.

Mr. Cut the BS.

If you have something to say, just say
it.

You can't just barge in.

Why, it's nice.

Oh, hi, Mr. Cameron, Rick Simon.

Just who the hell do you think you are?

Eh, you know exactly who I am.

And I'll tell you what I'll do. For, uh,
100 grand, I won't bid against John

Steve Belinsky's house.

And I won't blow the whistle on what
you've done to him.

Debbie, get Fisher to come and throw Mr.
Simon out.

Well, now, if he does that... I'm going
to go straight to Temple Hill at Channel

3 News with everything I've got.

Thought I'd give you the first shot. I
figured you paid better.

It's all right, Debbie.

We know all about the property purchases
you've made on the 700 block in Mason.

We know that your agents made offers to
Steve Balinski, which he refused.

Oh, yeah, and I can place your man
Fisher at the scene of the fire at

house yesterday.

And I'm pretty sure that his little girl
could ID the car as the one that

followed her home from the school bus
stop.

I don't hear a guilty verdict in any of
that. No, not yet. There's more.

There's the zoning variance that you've
quietly applied for.

It's going to be an office building,
shopping mall.

Well, it doesn't matter.

Something too expensive to let a little
nobody like Steve Belinsky get in your

way.

There's only one thing that we haven't
quite completed yet, and that's the

of evidence between you and his bank and
insurance company.

Whoever it was that you paid off to yank
Steve's house out from under him.

But the people are in there, Cameron.

And people can be persuaded. They can be
bought. They can be...

I'll get them.

And when I do, your little project is
going to be history.

And you just might be, too.

Well, let me tell you about Steve
Balinski.

I came up with Mason Avenue as the ideal
spot for a shopping center two years

ago.

The community needed the influx of jobs
and money.

Yeah, you're just a regular
philanthropist, I know.

Well, I was with Steve Balinski.

At least I tried to be.

Here, look at this.

I started the bidding at $65 ,000 for
his place.

Not great.

Well, it's not terrible, right?

Anyway, we declined.

I went to $80 ,000.

$100 ,000.

$110 ,000.

Still, there's no loss as he's got to
sell.

Hell, he turned me down at $175 ,000.
Now, that's twice market value.

I got thinking maybe he's doing this for
that kid of his.

So, I sweetened the offer.

See, I agreed to pay for that little
girl's tuition all the way through

Any school in this state.

Still think I'm the bloodless ogre, huh?

Well, maybe not a bloodless one.

I am a human being, too.

Successful? Sure.

Relentless?

Occasionally.

But stupid? Never.

And a criminal? Hell, I don't have to
be.

Look, I was glad when they evicted
Balinski, but I sure as hell did nothing

cause it. He brought that on himself.

How? Because he's a lunatic.

I mean, the man is dangerously
unbalanced.

The agent.

Who delivered my offers was a woman
named Dorothy.

Bright young woman. Came to my company
right out of high school.

Well, he didn't just turn down the
offers.

He took it out on Dorothy very
intensely.

I mean, just as if she was the one
trying to buy the place.

I mean, verbal abuse, sexual innuendo.
Oh, come on.

You want verification?

I'll have her up here in five minutes.
She will tell you herself.

And then she'll tell you about the break
-ins.

Break -ins? Someone started rifling her
apartment.

They never took anything.

They just rearranged her belongings just
enough so she'd know someone had been

there going through her things.

Her personal things, if you know what I
mean.

No proof it was Bolinski.

Proof? Well,

not courtroom style, but we knew.

Oh, there was one other strange thing.
He always left her flowers.

Roses.

AJ.

Where's Temple?

At work. We called her. She checked out
for the afternoon.

I'll call a pager. I've already done
that.

Well, she hasn't called me. What's up?
Come on. We'll explain on the way. Nick,

grab me a car.

Promise not to scream. I'll take off the
gag.

Explanation, Steve. What the hell are
you doing to me?

I'm sorry.

There was no other way.

They're looking for me, and I had to
figure they'd be following you, hoping

you'd lead them to me.

They?

Who are they, Steve?

Was it you who called me?

Of course.

I always call you.

Tell me while we're up again.

You knew it all the time, didn't you?

Knew it?

Us.

We're always supposed to be together.

Even when what you told me was bad or
evil.

You had that magical way of making it
seem all right.

I grew to depend on you after Molly
died.

And you were always there for me.

Dave, you were watching me on the news.

Oh, come on. We both know better.

Do you mind?

It's our home now.

Do you think we can be comfortable here?

I know you have the money to buy it back
from the bank.

Of course.

Just like you had the money to bail me
out of jail.

It worked so perfectly.

Just like I planned.

You planned, huh?

Who do you think called your station to
report the incident?

I even told the editor you'd want to
cover it personally.

Where are you going, dear?

No! Don't!

I can see I'm going to have to teach you
some things.

I like my other wife.

That's why she had to have that
accident.

Brake lines.

They really come loose so easily.

But you know your place.

You know how to please me.

And what you don't know, I'll show you.

That's the only way we'll really be
happy together, isn't it?

Isn't it?

I love the way you look.

Your eyes.

Your body.

I especially love the way you look in
your bathing suit.

You brought it with you, didn't you?

I've got one for you.

Why don't you go get it?

I'll put it on.

We know one of us should have been with
Temple at all times, but the plan to

hook Cameron took both of us.

Yeah, and so what if he turned out to be
innocent? I mean, how are we to know?

Besides, I mean, look at the bright
side.

The two of you realize how much you love
each other, right?

Yeah.

Exactly.

So here, what's this?

Three days at your usual rate.

Plus a generous allowance for your
expenses.

Forget it. No, don't be ridiculous.

Who's being ridiculous?

We've got early reservations at Chez
Rosine.

Little Chateaubriand.

Little Beaujolais. You know the rest.

Bonjour, amigos.

Bonjour, amigos.

This way, my sweet.

Nice shooting, guys.

Uh -huh.

Two points.