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Tonight on Acapulco Hughes.

I can't believe it.

You know that's not fair, because you should at least give us a chance at a

conspiracy.

Oh, here comes another drill sergeant.

What was that about adult service?

I don't know. Ask Nicole, she will flip.

Can she do that in French?

Yep.

We got a job?

I haven't been back inside the heat room since the Flight 401 deal.

Your little assistant here tried to send a signal for help.

You won't get one out.

Don't try it again.

Bastard!

Take three.

I don't know, plenty of us want to go back in there.

There's nothing much left.

There's not much of anything left.

Yeah, we need computers to stay on top of this one, too.

We can always listen to the author.

That's what I figured.

So, the auto insurance companies got together and formed this organization.

It's got a... A bunch of initials for a name and a hefty bankroll. They want to

recover and stop the flow of stolen cars across the border.

I'm the man. I need some help down here.

The company pays on time and checks cash out okay.

I've been doing it for a year and I already bought 18 acres in North

What exactly is this?

Neither corporate chicken. We never ask.

What kind of crop are you putting down?

Dogs, I'm going to breed golden retrievers.

So how are you going to do that?

Well, you start out with two, then sort of nature takes over and you just keep

count.

We know about that.

What about these cars?

They're here. They come in all the time, either by boat or by truck.

Last shipment was over land about two weeks ago. Solid information.

Good. Then get them.

Youse the local cops are good.

You don't need us. Maybe not, but I want you.

I need your local contacts, your communication systems.

I want to link into every state motor vehicle bureau.

I was told by someone in Washington that you people can do that.

We used to could have.

Well, I reckon we could give you a neighborly foot up if you was needing

We're not building a barn here. We've got bigger problems than that.

Don't we all, little lady? Don't we all?

I remember my Uncle Clement.

He had his little brouhaha.

I had one named Clement.

Nothing about that name always got a mess with it. All right, you are a

lady.

Okay, okay, we'll think about it. Well, appreciate it if you think hard and

answer quick.

Cars got wheels. They move a lot quicker than we can.

Yeah, I heard someone say that once.

Another uncle, I'm sure.

Could have been a cousin. I have a lot of them. Yes, we know.

We'll think hard.

What are we going to do?

Maybe we've had enough.

We sort of pushed the envelope in the past.

Maybe it's time to close the book and move on to something else.

No.

I did that before and I'm not too good at it.

Then you want to stay in the business?

It's not a business.

I mean, if we're going to discuss it, let's be honest.

It's more than that.

It's a way of life.

Then is it a life that we want to continue with?

You want to hear what I have to say?

It's going to be short.

It's short.

Either I'm with you, or I'm back to cornfields and clogged in.

I'm not ready for that.

So you want to stay?

Not without the rest of us.

I don't want to leave my family.

Just what I always wanted. A genius sister.

Hey, I never did.

Tough. You got one.

Then what am I, Big Mama?

Now, we found you on a doorstep and raised you like one of our own. Yeah,

got that action from a cookbook that was left in your crib.

Well, like it or not, I'm going to have to go back into the heat room.

Well, I've been there.

And?

It ain't pretty.

I remember when I saw the heat room for the first time.

What a mess.

Then I met all of you.

I'm better.

I'm Joanna.

I think I've got it all working.

We could bring it back.

But do we really want to?

Hey, you wouldn't want to start it with that art masterpiece case.

I remember all the help we got from the local police.

We can still work. We can't try to find cars without interfacing the information

bank. But we can still try and find the cars, can't we?

And the best way to find a real bargain in used cars is the local

paper.

Anybody got two paces for paper?

Call a reinvestment.

Call it two pesos, and let's see what happens.

This one is just for the money.

And we'll all be together a little longer, won't we?

Yes.

Makes me a little mad.

What, for an orphaniato?

No.

Every time Joanna proves she is smarter than me.

Just because you picked the ad out on the paper doesn't mean she's smarter

you. No, Kat, Joanna is smarter than me.

Okay.

Oh, well, you didn't have to agree so quickly.

It's because I know how you feel. Sometimes I think she's smarter than all

us.

You mean about keeping heat alive?

That I'm not so sure about yet.

Like I said, let's just look at this case as extra cash and leave it at that.

That's pretty smart, too.

Yeah.

Hey.

Making the deal.

The ones we want.

Okay, they just sold a car at 428 Via Marimba Street. It's a trailer park.

They sold a black Buick sedan, license plate, Hotel Victor Jackson,

4316. We'll follow the sellers.

We're on our way. Are you sure you have the thieves?

They're huge car salesmen. How honest can they be?

Hey, you got a point.

Yeah, it seems like we've done this before.

Oh, yeah.

Remember we were protecting my dream girl?

Right now?

Tommy?

Tommy? Tommy, look out with the truck!

Okay, now I know where they are. Just have to make sure that they sold a hot

car.

That's the car Kat described.

We have to verify its registration numbers.

Well, can I just go over and lift up the hood?

We can wait till they go inside the house.

They probably will take it with them to bed.

We only want to look... Look at the vehicle identification number. Maybe

won't mind that.

What do you really think?

No. No is a good, short, positive answer.

We are going to take more pictures.

kids in the car and take us to the river fishing and swimming not at the same

time mind you but it was a

Never mind, you just answered it.

What about the car?

The vehicle identification number plate on the dashboard looks newer than the

car. The engine plate number isn't missing. That is a car with a bad

Thank you.

For what?

Well, I speak French, Italian, and English, and some Spanish, and you just

taught me a new language.

Well, you'll come back for less than any old time you want now, you hear?

Fenster's checking it out. He believes it was part of an Overland shipment from

two weeks ago because there was a Buick sedan on that trip. But he'll let us

know.

Yeah.

Maybe even we'd have the answer in minutes.

Right.

Don't start!

This was just supposed to be a job to get some cash flow going, remember?

I didn't say anything.

No, but see, you say more without saying anything than anyone I've ever known.

You like it, don't you?

Yeah.

Yeah, I guess I do.

Mostly, though.

I'm always starting to appreciate it.

Remember the first time you ever held a gun?

I don't know what to do with that.

To the vessel.

Pull it away from yourself.

Call them and yell.

Why should I yell?

Because the noise will scare the blazes out of you.

How about the first time you actually shot someone?

Any of them?

All present and accounted for.

That's a nice way to put it, but I just shot someone.

We're glad you did.

You know, I think I liked you better as a straight man.

What do you mean?

That's better already.

You started out a rookie who couldn't fire a gun and turned into one hell of a

piece of work.

Thanks, Tommy.

But I got tricked a couple of times and made a fool out of myself.

Like with McHenry. Don't let that bother you.

I'm the expert on bad choices.

Remember Richard?

You know, when we have children, you get to be on time.

Take them up from school, take them to the doctors and dentists.

I'm sorry. Soccer, gymnastics.

I'm sorry.

You know, but sometimes that boutique is like a runaway train.

I thought you skirted the children at you very nicely.

Well, that's a little premature.

Not for me.

We've only known each other two weeks.

I've known you in a hundred different lifetimes.

Well, we must have been Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire.

No, we were probably wrapping bodies in Egypt.

Oh, what a ghastly thought. No, no, no. Bodies are important to them.

It's a highly thought of position that lowly physicians go.

Wow. Speaking of positions, how about we take a seated one? I've been on my feet

all day.

You know, we have options besides sitting.

You are as much a runaway train as that boutique. And you love it.

I'm afraid I'm starting to.

We all have feelings and we're all vulnerable from time to time.

It's human and it's part of us.

It could all be ours.

I need for the father of my children to have honor.

Getting hurt is not exclusive and it doesn't make us fools.

Just a little stupid on occasion.

What is it like my turn to confess or something?

I get it, I get it.

Yeah.

Got it.

Thanks.

I'm off to go.

The duke was part of the shipment, and a little more.

When the car was snatched, the owner was killed.

Oh.

Wow. Yeah.

That's the rest of the cars.

We can't just walk in and check it out. Well, the beauty about front engines is

there has to be a rear one.

That sounded almost profound.

Are we going to move to climbing walls?

No.

Are we going to move to waiting tables from 9 to 5?

No.

I get the message.

It's a regular dealership.

Yeah, with almost no overhead.

Maybe it's a business we should get into.

Yeah, well, there we are.

All we got to do is document one of those cars, get the cops to do the rest.

Just one?

One or two would be better.

About a full one?

Deal. Deal.

Okay, how are we going to do this?

Uh, sneaky.

Yeah, we're good at that.

I'll move your cover.

Thank you.

Is that something in that?

And fix that one up for us. We'll come back.

Hey! Who's that? Get it!

Which one was the distributor cat?

Huh? Oh, is that what that is? I just grabbed it so they would think that we

were petty thieves.

We can't prove anything with this.

Ah, but I also have this.

Not one thing.

Seems like I've been getting chased my whole life.

But so far, I've always gotten away.

What are you doing?

Take a look. We've got company.

There's a gun under my seat. Get it.

But, Dad!

Get it!

These are real goods.

This car can be connected to the last shipment. It's like we figured.

They're sitting like fish in a barrel now.

Well, let's pack them up and pay our fee.

I have to recover the cars first.

It takes a little time to get the locals to cooperate, then organize the crash

and all the paperwork on the seizing of the property and returning it over the

border. Well, I listen to you.

You're sounding all city educated, using your nouns and verbs in all the right

places.

You ain't sounding down home no more.

What happened to that sweet southern jaw of yours?

I still got it sitting here and waiting.

Where are you really from?

Where I said.

The drawl is mine.

It's real. Sits in the back of my head. Took me years to lose it. Only took

Johanna five minutes to bring it all back.

Something about you does that to me.

He's good.

Sure have more fun if he's bad.

He's a little bad. He's just good at it. Eh, but I like him. Oh, there's the

right pretty little thing.

All lumped out and shapely and strut and ice slack.

Makes a man just want to never settle down and just go running about and

out his eyes.

That's good.

That's as good as it gets.

Too bad I'm not ready for some down -home puppy love.

I guess I'll always remember puppy love.

Then after I left the army, I...

Ripped it a little.

Asia. Europe.

Then I applied to the DEA.

What about you? How did you get in?

Hmm.

Long story.

I've got time.

Hello?

Hi, Tommy.

Okay. I'll talk to you later.

Is he okay?

Oh, he's fine.

I kind of wish I was out there living alone.

No one offended.

Oh, no.

I mean, I never get to do the really exciting thing.

It's a matter of experience.

The others have a lot more of it than you do, don't they?

Yeah, but... There's another reason why you're here.

I request it.

Look, it's just... We never thought we'd be involved in the final raid.

Alright, it could be dangerous.

Danger is what you do, isn't it?

I'm not really sure anymore.

There's too much distance between the front gate and the garage for us to make

it without them being warned.

We're going to have to crash in and take our chances.

We know. We just don't have to like it. We have the back covered.

Hopefully they'll run toward them.

They won't.

How can you be so sure?

Too easy.

You people are cynics. I wasn't. Not until you pulled your phony drawl.

I owe you an apology.

I kind of like the way I found you.

Let's go.

Getting thick out here.

I wanted this car today, not tomorrow.

What's wrong with you guys?

Yeah, Bobby min and I got into a real dragged -down fight once too

I'm glad you made it.

Are any of my people still alive?

Still looking for Brill.

Just him?

Oh, and the girl.

What do you think of me, Tommy?

Do you have an opinion?

I'd really like to know.

Oh, yeah.

What is it?

You're one sick puppy, man.

You think I have a death wish?

Yeah.

Do you have one?

Nope.

What did you learn your craft?

One. The one you're practicing now. Here and there.

Are you familiar?

No.

You talk too much.

Hey, can we have our money now?

I'd be afraid not to.

And we'd like one more thing.

What's that, little sister?

We'd like to get driven home in that limo.

I'd be right privileged to do it myself.

That is something you had to have taught her.

It was pure instinct.

No amount of training could perfect that.

Joanna has developed the... Are you coming or

not?

No.

Hope and James.

Something wrong?

Worse than wrong.

Like what?

This spear is a fake.

Impossible. The crack came right from the ship. It looks perfect.

I don't care.

I looked up the history of the spear on my computer and... and...

Right. Nice try, Joanna.

Congratulations. You really had it going there. I did, didn't I?

Spirit's beautiful, isn't it?

If you're into spirits, it is.

But for scaring me, I am deducting your share from our... Hey, no fair!

I'm kidding.

I'm not. Get her money.

I need to fix my truck.

You're scared. That's the best.

I know how to make it run better.

And it won't cost you a dime.

How?

First, remove the pro board.

What? So your legs and feet can touch the ground.

My legs are... Yeah.

You know, like flip -flops.

You ever know, dude?

My name is Nicole Bernard.

I know who you are.

I'm here to offer you the kind of work that's far better suited for you.

That's a pretty strong approach.

What is it you think I'm better suited for? A great many things.

The team stays together.

I won't call my lawyer.

Thank God we don't have kids.

Who snore?

Do not.

Hey, can I

paint too?

Yeah, I don't paint.

But I'll do windows.

Tommy will do the heavy work.

Says who?