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MIKE: Oh, William, you wanna gimme

a hand here?

WILLIE: Well, not really, but, uh...

You will. Your heart's so pure you can't refuse.

Yeah. Here we go.

Okay, watch it. [SIGHS]

You got it? Yeah, I got it.

MIKE: Who is that?

Is that Billy Stomper?

What's he doing back on the street?

What he's always doing,

pushing for some kid.

Hey, uh, should we search him?

What do you think?

No. If he's out, he won't have

anything on him.

If he's back on the street, he's either out on an

acquittal or he's out on bail.

I'm afraid, gentlemen, that we will have to presume

that he is innocent.

Well, um...

Why don't I just take a walk over there and

talk to Billy Stomper

and, uh, see what's happening, okay?

Uh-huh. He's fast.

We did it again.

Evening, Officer Webster.

Nice night, isn't it?

Well, it was,

just I saw you.

What's going on, Billy?

Just looking at the stars, Officer Webster.

What's going on with you?

You telling all the citizens over there

all about the good things you, uh,

you police are doing?

Oh, no man. We...

We're not that good, I mean you're out.

Hey, man. Come on.

I'm as clean as can be.

You gotta give me that much.

I wouldn't give you the runt out of a pig litter.

[SCOFFS] Well now,

you would be the one to know about a litter

of pigs, wouldn't you?

MIKE: Now this film you're going to be seeing,

involves an experiment we conducted at the police

academy last summer.

A lot of people are under the impression

that a couple of drinks

doesn't alter their attitude or coordination

while behind the wheel.

Well, it does, and I think this film

will prove that point.

Okay.

MAN: [ON FILM] The film you're about to view

deals with the greatest killer on the highway,

the drinking driver.

With alcoholic blood levels below those presently set as

the legal minimums,

the drivers you'll be watching

are attempted to negotiate an obstacle course set up

by the police academy driving instructions.

The results are more than obvious.

See for yourself.

[TIRES SCREECHING]

[DOG BARKING]

Not now, Junior, just a second.

[CAR ENGINE STARTS]

[TIRES SCREECHING]

[GUNSHOT] [TIRES SCREECHING]

[TIRES SCREECHING]

How bad is it?

Bad enough.

Stay with him, I'll call him in.

Okay.

I'll see if there's a blanket inside.

Good idea.

[INDISTINCT CHATTER ON RADIO]

Dispatch.

This is Ludlow Niner.

Requesting an ambulance and back up by the

Vollmer Municipal Park.

Attempted murder.

DISPATCHER: [ON RADIO] Ludlow Niner, roger.

Do you have any suspects in custody?

Or any description for relay? Over.

Negative dispatch.

We don't have any suspects...

Wait...

They were driving a green four door Sedan.

Uh, hold it dispatch.

I was walking my dog and...

I heard the shots and...

They went out that way.

You say they... How many were they?

Two. Two I believe. They...

I only saw the driver's face up close.

Any license number?

No.

Dispatch.

Eye-witness says, uh, shots were fired from a

green four door Sedan.

Two occupants, last seen heading West in Colden.

No license number.

DISPATCHER: [ON RADIO] Will cover Niner.

Dispatch out.

Um...

Would you, uh, wait here, miss? Please?

He's in room one, Lieutenant, and the doctors says you got

30 seconds and no more.

We have to take him to surgery, all right?

All right.

DOCTOR: How's the BP? NURSE: 100 over 60.

Falling. DOCTOR: Pulse?

Thirty. Very weak.

Billy. DOCTOR: We'll be lucky

to save him.

Billy Stomper.

Do you know who I am? How are we on blood?

NURSE: Just fine, Doctor.

EDDIE: Billy, the doctors have put you

on the critical list.

As far as your living or dying goes,

it's gonna be uphill and it's gonna be slippery.

You understand what I'm saying, Billy?

Make sure they're ready for us upstairs.

Five minutes.

Anything you say qualifies as a death bed statement.

If you know who burned you, tell me now. This is the time.

NURSE: Doctor Rosen. EDDIE: Billy?

Head a little left.

Billy? That's it, over there.

[EXHALES] Ba...

BILLY: [STRUGGLING] Back...up...for...

What?

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

Back...up...

For...

BP, 90 over 60, Doctor.

Pulse irregular. DOCTOR: We don't have

time to wait.

Call upstairs. Tell them we are

on our way.

This man's going cyanotic on us.

Come on. Let's go. Move it.

Back up for...

Back up for... Is that what you

understood him saying?

Yeah, but it was so low and he was mumbling.

Back up for something. Back up for who, for what?

You know, I'd take a cup of coffee

and hang around

and see how he comes out, if that's not imposing on you.

No, but it might be a long way.

Well, I got nothing else to do but sleep

and that just bores me.

See if I can rustle some up.

Miss Danko? Yes?

What floor is the operating room on?

6th floor.

Now why did they stop at...

At the fifth? Now they're coming

back down again.

That's the answer.

[PHONE RINGING]

Uh...

Excuse me, uh, Miss Hines?

I'm the officer who drove you back here.

Oh. Oh, yes. I'm so sorry.

I didn't recognize you know.

It's okay.

What are you doing here?

Didn't the detectives drive you back after they

took your statement?

They haven't taken my statement.

Wait here one second, okay?

Hey, Ray.

Oh, hi Webster.

What can I do for you?

Not for me, man, uh...

For her.

Nice looking lady. What can I do for her?

Well, you can take the statement

which you were supposed to take from her

when we brought her in here, nearly eight hours ago.

What'd she do?

She... She didn't do anything.

She is the woman who saw the guys that

burned up Billy Stomper.

Look, Webster, you're right. Somebody should have taken

her statement. No question.

We had that hotel robbery to deal with

and when we heard it was that creaton Billy Stomper,

well, you know.

No. I don't know.

Well, uh, who really cares who killed him?

Who really wants the guy caught, you know?

The important thing is that he's dead,

isn't that right?

[SIGHS] Okay, I'll tell you what.

You have her come back here this afternoon

and we'll take some kind of a statement from her

just for the record, okay?

Okay?

Um, Miss Heinz.

Uh, there's been some kind of foul up.

Uh, could you come back later on this afternoon?

Give your statement then? [SIGHS]

Certainly.

I'll be happy to.

Thank you, uh...

Give you a ride home?

No thanks, but you could give me

a lift back to my car.

It's at the lot where it happened.

Let's go.

PAMELA: Who was he? Did you know?

TERRY: Yeah. His name was, uh, Billy Stomper.

He was a pusher.

Not a very nice man, I guess.

Where's your car?

When someone owed Billy money,

he used those big clodhopper of his

to make them pay up.

PAMELA: You mean he'd kicked them

with his boots?

TERRY: That's right. He'd kick them

with his boots.

Leave them pretty messy.

That's why they called him Billy Stomper.

You're not sorry he's dead.

Well... [CHUCKLES]

I'm, uh, not condoning on what happened, but, um...

What I am doing is, putting this whole

conversation

on a very down mood which won't help me

ask you out tonight.

I have a class at the University.

Well, uh, that cant last all night.

What about after class?

That won't be till 9.30.

Well, I've been known to stay up that late

for a good cause,

seeing that I've never met a girl from the Bahamas.

Not Bahamas, Jamaica.

That's what I said, seeing that I've never met

a girl from Jamaica.

Kingston? No.

Montego Bay? No.

[LAUGHS] Well, those are the only two types of

Jamaica that I know, so...

Ocho Rios. That's exactly

what I said.

Seeing that I've never met a girl from Ocho Rios...

In Jamaica.

[SIGHS] Okay.

I'll meet you outside the design building at

the university at 9.30 okay?

[CHUCKLES] Okay.

Thank you. Um...

Leave Holly home, okay?

Well, I'll discuss it with her.

[LAUGHS] You talk to dogs?

Yes, and trees and several other things.

[LAUGHS]

Leave Holly home. Okay.

Bye.

See you later, sweetheart.

Then the morning paper ran an editorial

about the department having a quota system

for handing out tickets.

Our public information office has issued

a statement denying this.

Pressing the point that there are no quotas.

Not one citizen will believe that statement,

so be prepared for some flack today as

you hand out citations.

[OFFICERS MUMBLING]

Might make it little more difficult for you

to meet your quotas.

[ALL LAUGHING]

All right, that's it. Check your pin maps

and hit the street.

Dismissed!

Oh, hold it, hold it, hold it.

Webster, Gillis, Danko. I want to talk you

for a second.

Any of you get a chance to read the statement

that detectives took from the Hines girl?

No. Not yet. No, sir.

What's wrong?

Well, the only thing wrong with it is it doesn't

qualify as a statement.

At best, it's a weather report.

"It was dark, it was foggy.

"She couldn't see all that clearly."

That doesn't sound like the girl you told me about

when you brought her in here that night.

Yeah, well, Lieutenant, any statement is as good

as the questions asked.

And, uh, maybe the questions

are at fault here.

That's possible, but it's not likely, Webster.

Saltonstall is the best interrogator

we have in the piecing.

Yeah, but he gave me the impression that he doesn't

care who killed that guy.

All right, I'll talk to Saltonstall.

I want one of you to talk to the girl

and find out how she feels about

her statement.

I wonder, uh, which one of us

have to talk to the girl.

Yeah, I wonder. Pick a number

from one to ten.

Eight. Uh, two.

I win.

He's so lucky.

He's bad.

JUNIOR: Sam? Hey, Sam?

This gentlemen has 15 more minutes

coming to him.

If you'll just kindly wait downstairs.

It's okay, honey. He's a friend of mine.

Well, then the rates for dual massage...

He doesn't want a massage.

He just wants to tell me something.

What'd you get, Junior?

Well, I tried that guy I told you about.

The one who works for the DMV.

He got fired.

Well, he can't help on the license plate

at all now.

SAM: Any other way to trace that car?

There's a million of them around, Sam.

They all look alike.

We can't just leave her running around loose.

There's gotta be some way.

Uh, it had a "Have a nice day" bumper sticker on the back

and orange and black decal.

I couldn't read it though.

That's University.

What'd you say?

Black and orange decal, that's the parking sticker

for at the University.

How about that baby oil?

You get out there and take a look, Junior.

Her car's gotta be around there somewhere.

LYDIA: That's it now. Now hit it in

harder this time.

That's good.

Okay, now get this one.

[TERRY LAUGHING] See what you made me do.

What I made you do? You made me miss.

I made you miss?

Well, it gives you some time to talk to me.

Come on. I'll buy you a drink your water, huh?

What about?

Oh, uh... Things.

[EXHALES] Thanks very much

for that lesson.

Same time tomorrow? Yes. Could we?

Is this the guy? Yes, it is.

You're not doing her or anyone else

any favors, you know?

What? Well, nice meeting you...

What's her name? Lydia.

Lydia, nice meeting you. Very friendly girl.

What was that all about? Nothing.

Nothing? It was nothing.

Well, you believe that.

I got a couple of Edsel hubcaps

I'd like to interest you in,

I don't know what that means.

You don't know what that means?

It means your friend don't like me too much

and I like to know why.

Well...

It's just that some of my friends

at the University

have been telling me about this Billy Stomper.

Yeah?

They say that I should just let it go.

Let it be.

Oh! And did those friends talk to you before you gave

your statement to Sergeant Saltonstall?

Yes. A little.

And then between you and Saltonstall,

all of a sudden it was,

"Too foggy that night and you couldn't see,

"and you're not sure you could recognize..."

Stop!

But why, Pam?

Because I do not know your country.

[SIGHS]

I, uh, want to understand.

[SIGHS]

When I was little, right?

I used to go to the cinema and I'd see gangster movies.

And I said, "That was America."

Then I grow up and I went to work for a hotel.

And I'd see these ladies in rhinestone glasses

and men who drink rum at 10 in the mornings

and stayed in the sun too long.

And I said, "That's America."

Now I've come here to study

and I've made friends, you know.

And they tell me what I'm...

What I'm trying to do for you is wrong.

They say that the man deserves to die.

And I shouldn't do anything.

I don't know your country.

I don't know what to do anymore.

I don't know anything.

These, uh...

People that you're talking about,

the ones drinking at 10 o'clock

in the morning,

they ever drink beer?

Yes.

What they do with the bottles?

Leave them on the beach.

Ruin the beach, right? Yes.

Pamela...

Letting a murderer go free

is not gonna help the looks of the beach

we're on right now.

Regardless of what your friends told you.

Now I'm going back to the station

and I'd love to give you a ride if you want

to change your statement.

Okay? No.

I have to go and change first.

Can I help?

I'll see you at the station.

Holly, you've got to stay, okay?

Will be back. Back in a little while, all right?

[HOLLY WHIMPERING]

RAY: This is quite some change in your story,

isn't it, Ms. Hines?

Yes, I suppose it is.

You suppose it is?

The reason I asked one of my men

to talk to Ms. Hines,

was that her statement there

seemed so different.

I don't know as much about these things as

a detective would, of course,

just seemed to me, that kind of a discrepancy

ought to be cleared up.

I appreciate your help, Lieutenant.

And you believe you could recognize the driver of the

car if you saw him again?

Yes, I do.

Officer Webster, would you take

Ms. Hines upstairs,

and have her start looking through the mug files, please?

Yes, sir.

[EXHALES]

I hope you guys know what you're doing.

What we're doing is what I thought police officers were

supposed to do, Sergeant.

I mean, a man's been killed,

we're trying to find out who killed him.

No man was killed, Danko. A thing was killed!

The slimy slug that crawled out

from under a rock

and learned to walk on two legs!

I'm afraid Danko's attitude is my fault, Sergeant.

I neglected to point out to him the regulation that

lets an officer decide

which guys are the good guys to kill

and which guys are the bad guys.

That was an oversight on my part.

Eddie, what's gotten into you?

You wouldn't have this attitude

a couple of years ago.

I wouldn't? You bet!

Well, I'm glad to hear that, Ray.

It's not often a man of my age

gets to hear

that he can still learn and improve

with the years.

[DOOR CLOSES]

What are you two smiling at?

Just someone who knows how to keep on learning.

Am I hep or am I hep?

Well, I think the word is hip, Lieutenant.

And you are.

We're hip, you're hep.

After looking at all those faces,

it's hard to believe everyone in the world

isn't a criminal.

There were so many.

Well, knowing that, maybe you won't be

so trusting next time

to leave your door unlocked.

I didn't.

I'm sure I didn't.

Holly! Wait here.

Neck's broken.

[SOBBING] Holly.

Think she'll listen to you? Try to find a new apartment?

I hope so.

Because...

They know where she lives now and...

Just can't take the chance of staying there anymore.

Yeah. [SIGHS]

Here.

Hi.

Jill made you, uh, this toddy to drink.

If you want.

[SIGHS] No thanks. No?

Mmm-mmm. I don't drink.

Well, you're supposed to say yes or else I don't

have any excuse to stay.

Do you need an excuse to stay?

No.

Look, um...

Don't go on with this, okay?

You mean me trying to identify the man?

That's right.

It's not worth it.

It's not worth the risk, okay?

[WHISPERING] Is that an order?

No, it's not an order!

I don't have the right to order you to do anything.

But I'm asking.

Just want you around, that's all.

Don't ask me to do anything that I might

regret then, okay?

[IMITATES GUNSHOTS]

There were four shots. One went into that tree

and three into him.

And then this guy swung around and went out

that exit up there.

And that's what Pamela saw.

Had to be.

He wasn't robbed and there were no drugs.

Maybe somebody's trying to move in

on his territory?

Yeah, but you can't subpoena a possible.

[CHILDREN PLAYING]

What about that thing he said in the hospital?

"Back up for". What about that?

I don't know.

It's pretty hard to tell what a guy means when he

knows he's gonna buy it.

It could be anything.

It could be something from his childhood,

it could be just plain gibberish.

Not much to go on.

Yeah, I know, but it's about all we got.

Wait a minute.

Come on.

He didn't mean backup for, Willie.

He meant backstop four.

Come on.

Mike, come here.

You got something? Look.

Oh, yeah.

That's pure.

I'd say there's too much there

for a street buy.

He must have been waiting for a wholesaler.

Or he might have been set-up by a wholesaler.

Let's go.

TERRY: Hey, what's this?

Oh.

A boy made that for me in Jamaica.

Must have taken him some time to do.

Ten minutes. You're kidding.

Nope.

With a machete.

Ten minutes, no more.

That's strange.

Why?

Well, that some guy made this for you sitting

on a beach somewhere.

Ten minutes?

I couldn't do it in ten years.

So what?

It's just that, uh,

there's so much about you I don't know.

More to know,

more to learn about each other.

More to love.

I'm going to open the trunk.

[GUNSHOTS]

Get an ambulance. And the police.

Get her back on oxygen right away.

Wait a minute.

Okay.

Okay, move this out.

Five percent dextrose I.V.

Pull blood, and get her type.

Give me a four by four, stat!

Have a volume ventilator standing by.

Set up an OR. We way have to tube her.

Set up a respiratory apparatus there too.

Got a pulse yet?

NURSE: Thirty. Very weak.

Looks like she's going into afib.

Bring the cart over here. Set up the paddles.

NURSE: I can't get a BP, Doctor.

Okay. Everybody away from the table.

Set it at 400.

Come on, babe. Come on!

[CONTINUOUS BEEPING]

NURSE: Doctor?

Better cancel the OR.

She's gone.

Hold it there. Wait a minute.

Wait a minute.

Wait a minute. Wait a minute.

Wait a minute.

Damn it!

[KNOCKING ON DOOR]

WILLIE: Terry?

It's open, come in.

Hi.

Hi.

I guess there's a...

...lot of things to take care of, huh?

I um...

...called her family in Jamaica and, uh,

took me an hour to get through.

"Uh, Officer Webster calling.

"I'm sorry to inform you

"that your daughter, uh,

"was killed this afternoon.

"Where do we send her belongings?

"What do we send to her?

"What do we send her?"

Terry, don't.

Her father wanted to know...

Wanted to know who killed Pamela.

I didn't have the guts to tell him that I did.

That's not true.

Yes, it is.

Yes, it is.

I talked her into it.

And I gave her all those speeches.

Citizenship.

Do you honestly tell me that she wouldn't be living

if I'd kept out of it?

Terry...

You're wrong.

That's just the whisky talking.

[ICE CLINKING]

Happens to be ice tea.

[SNIFFLES]

I thought of getting ripped.

God, it hurts.

I want it to keep hurting.

I want it to keep hurting deep.

I don't want to let it out.

I want to remember.

Those guys that killed her,

I'm not gonna let them get away.

Terry...

You know that Ryker's not gonna let

you stay on the case.

[SIGHS]

Nope. Ryker's got no choice.

'Cause, uh,

I'm the only target that works.

Officer Webster's plan is essentially this, Sergeant.

We tell the papers that Ms. Hines survived

the attack on her

and she's now under police protection

somewhere outside the city.

Won't work already.

She died yesterday.

Hospital must have put out a death notice.

No, uh, my wife tells me it got lost in the paperwork.

[SIGHS]

So, we say she's alive and under police protection.

What then?

Well, according to the stuff Gillis and Denko found, uh,

someone must have been moving in on Billy Stomper

simply because he never handled anything

this big before.

Where does that get us?

If they think the girl is still alive,

they're gonna wanna know where we've got her hidden

and one way to find out would be to tail

Officer Webster here.

Why Webster?

Simply because he had been seeing Ms.

Hines and they saw him with her.

They trail Webster,

we close the door on them after they're in.

That it?

WILLIE: Yes, sir.

If they follow Terry onto the north end of Vollmer Park,

we can close off the whole area with just

two additional cars.

Suppose they don't follow Webster?

That would tie up two cars and five officers

for Lord knows how long.

These men have already killed two human beings.

Are you gonna tell me that's not worth tying up

two cars and five officers?

EDDIE: That's enough, Webster

RAY: Eddie, it's up to you anyway.

Uniformed personnel are out of my area of responsibility.

Well, thank you, Ray.

All right, get going, get it set up. Come on.

Eddie...

Why'd you want me to know about this thing?

You could have set it up on your own

and you know that.

Yes, I could have.

Then what?

'Cause I didn't want you to think I was going

behind your back.

My report on this is gonna detail

how you handled

or did not handle Ms. Hines initial statement.

That's gonna make waves.

You wouldn't do that, Eddie.

I've been on the force too long.

I am gonna do it, Ray, because you have been

on the force too long.

Rider one, this is rider two.

East on Tallmadge.

You read?

Yeah, we read.

Anything happening there?

Not a thing. I'll let you know. Out.

Out.

They're not gonna let us keep this up forever.

[CLEARS THROAT]

Well, they can reassign you and me

but I'll bet Terry's not gonna quit.

PAMELA: See what you made me do?

You made me miss.

TERRY: Excuse me, uh, Ms. Hines?

[GUNSHOTS]

[TIRES SCREECHING]

Rider one.

Got me some action.

Green four door Sedan.

Two men.

Gonna turn north and central.

We'll meet you at the park.

[TIRES SCREECHING]

[TIRES SCREECHING]

[TIRES SCREECHING]

[TIRES SCREECHING]

[GUNSHOTS]

[GUNSHOTS]

[TIRES SCREECHING]

[GUNSHOTS]

Police! Halt!

We got the other guy.

Is he dead?

No, he's just wounded.

[BREATHES DEEPLY]

Hold these for me, will you?

Going for a walk.

That got heavy.

[DOORBELL RINGS]

[RINGING CONTINUES]

[WHISPERS] Come on in.

Hi. Shh.

Shh.

Why are we whispering?

That's the reason.

TERRY: Isn't he cute.

Very.

I was uh...

I was just cleaning out some stuff

and I thought that if you guys would

like to have this,

it's yours.

Terry, no. Yeah, yeah.

Uh, I don't want to throw it away

and I don't want it staring me in the face,

so, um,

you hold on to it, okay?

Okay.

Thank you very much. Thank you very much.

You take care of yourself, okay?

You too.

MIKE: Was somebody just here?

JILL: Yeah, it was just a friend with a message.

What message?

He just said, we love each other very much.

[THEME MUSIC PLAYING]