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- Strangled, huh?

- More like garroted.

- All three of these victims served as jurors at the

trial of Lewis McMann.

Questioning a suspect.

- Louie can't talk.

Guilty.

- Shall we divide and conquer?

- Works for me.

We're gonna be suspended.

- Works for me.

♪ Bumble Jacks

♪ Bumble Jacks

♪ Tastes like a blue rainbow

♪ Bumble Jacks

♪ Bumble Jacks

♪ Gives you that special glow

♪ Bumble Jacks

♪ Bumble Jacks

♪ Tastes like a blue rainbow

- I hate it.

- So do I.

Hey, go home already, you look dead.

The Bumble Jacks account will survive another night

without a lyric.

- I don't think anything can survive

'Tastes like a blue rainbow'.

That's about the time to go home

and get some sleep.

Hey, come on, your boyfriend's waiting for ya.

Hey, he's probably on his way up here right now

with a shotgun, just waiting to catch us.

- David has seen what you look like Ted,

he would never worry about that.

- See, it's him!

Hey, don't tell him I'm here.

Garner Ad Agency, Loretta Johnson speaking.

Guilty.

- What?

- Guilty.

- Who is it?

- Who was that?

- I dunno, some weirdo I guess.

He was doing some heavy breathing and he said 'Guilty'.

That's a weird thing to say.

- Probably some prank call, you know some kids just

dialing numbers.

Come on, let me walk you down to your car.

Are you okay Loretta?

- I'll be fine as soon as I get home.

- Look, why don't you give me a call when you get home,

I'll feel better.

- Hey, you'll be waiting for me.

I'll be okay.

- Sure?

- Yeah.

Attention all units in the

Willshire District, we have a silent neighborhood

watch report, prowler on Northridge Street.

- Northridge Street, that's too far.

- Hunter, come in.

Hunter, come in.

Hunter, you there?

Hunter, come in.

Need a unit on 211 silent on Caden Place,

shots fired.

- That's not too far.

Yeah, this is L56, I'm at the corner of

Colfax and Burbank Boulevard, I can respond.

- L56, we have three closer units in motion,

one already there.

Do not respond.

- Great.

Your last chance Hunter, come in.

- Sorry McCall, what do you got?

- Where've you been?

- Been listening to the radio.

- Hunter, I've been sitting on this greasy park bench,

I am bored out of my mind and you're listening to the radio.

- Somebody's gotta be listening for calls to run on.

- What do you mean calls, we're on an assignment here,

remember?

We're supposed to clean out all the muggers.

Look McCall, you were the one...

Am I in your way?

Look McCall, you were the one coming out of the ladies

room when the captain was looking to give

this assignment away.

- Yeah, well don't forget buddy, we're in this together.

- Just cover our butts until I can get something to run on.

- So you can get something, you're gonna leave me out of it.

- I wouldn't do that to you McCall.

All units, we have a 1-8-7 at

18534 Mezlin Drive, available units respond.

- I got one McCall.

- Wait a minute Hunter, what're you doing?

- You just hang tough, I'll be right back.

- Well, where you going?

Hunter, wait.

This is L56, I'm responding to that 187 at

18534 Mezlin Drive, out I'm rollin'.

Hunter will you pick up the walkie-talkie please?

Hunter, will you pick up the radio?

Hunter?

Great.

- Every bone in the girl's neck was crushed.

Guy must have used some kind of erotic rope.

- Any suspects?

- Well they took her boyfriend down to the station,

he was in the house.

Claims he came out and found the body this morning.

His story is pretty inconsistent.

Right now, he's the prime suspect.

- Anybody know who's keys?

Hunter, get away from that car.

You're supposed to be in a park with your partner.

Look captain, I was going to lunch

when the call came in.

I understand they arrested the boyfriend.

- Yeah, well a complete report will be in the

morning newspaper.

You're supposed to be in a park catching muggers.

- The park is practically clean.

- Yeah, I love that word, practically.

- Captain, can't McCall and I like, you know...

- Look, you and McCall are already on a case, alright?

I want you to go back to the park and I don't want to

see you again or have you check in until it's

completely cleaned up, not practically, but completely

cleaned up.

Look captain, McCall and I are ready to take this

homicide case.

Besides, the park is completely under control.

- Hunter, get over here, I think we got one.

Come in, Hunter!

- Ugh!

What do you got a brick in there?

- Yeah, and I got a bullet in here, now freeze police!

Where you been?!

- You have the right to remain silent.

If you give up that right to remain silent

anything you say can and will be used against you

in a court of law.

- She was strangled, huh?

- More like garroted.

- Oh great.

- They arrested her boyfriend but I don't think it was him.

She was jumped while she was trying to lock her car,

the key was bent over to the right.

- So?

- So, which means when she was jumped she was pulled out

towards the street.

Now, if the boyfriend did it, he would have come

from the house, jumped her, pulled her back toward

the house, and the key would have been bent

towards the left.

- That's right, how'd you figure that out?

- Auto shop, Longdale High School, 1963.

- Well, you guys really double up, don't you?

Not more than five minutes ago I told other

detectives that were here.

- Well, we just like to be thorough, is all.

I can't believe it.

I told her not to worry, you know just some kids

making prank calls.

Now, she's dead.

- We're very sorry.

- Was 'guilty' the only thing he said?

- Yeah, that was it.

What does it mean?

We're not gonna know until we find this animal.

- If you happen to think of anything else that might

help us give us a call, would ya?

- Yeah.

She was just 30 years old.

She thought up jingles for cereal ads, for God's sake.

Who'd want to kill Loretta?

- Guilty.

I don't get it.

This guy decided who's guilty and then he goes out

and executes them.

- Loretta Johnson, she doesn't exactly have your typical

criminal profile, you know.

- Maybe she's got a past life we don't know anything about.

Let's run her by the computer and see what we come up with.

- Looks pretty clean.

- What are you two doing in the computer room?

I was sure I saw the two of them in there Captain.

I thought the two of you were supposed to be in a park

somewhere?

Hey Hunter, I never got those reports on my desk.

What is it, you're so tired from chasing and arresting

muggers that you don't have the strength to carry

the paperwork into my office?

Ah, we're just tying up some loose ends, Captain.

- Hunter you had something in your hand, where'd you put it?

- What?

- Hey look, I don't know what you two are up to but it

better not involve that strangler case.

I've already got enough detectives working on that.

- Oh we were just trying to match up some saliva samples

from the winos down at the park, Captain.

- Boy that's a real killer on shoe leather.

- That's disgusting McCall.

- How's that strangler case coming Captain?

Didn't the boyfriend do it?

No, we released him this morning.

Wrong guy.

And we've got no further clues or suspects.

- These two are up to something, Captain.

Did you see her pour him coffee?

She never pours him coffee.

- Hey look, Hunter, do everybody a favor.

Stay out of the computer room and in the park, okay?

- Right.

- Yeah as a matter of fact, why don't we go on back

to the park and clear the city of all the

winos and bag-ladies.

- Oh yeah, right.

Yep Bernie, you never can tell when a wino is gonna

barf on your feet.

- Okay.

Loretta Johnson.

There's no arrests, no convictions, no nothing.

Cleaner than Bernie's sex life.

- Then what's she guilty of?

- I don't know.

Guilty.

- I know who this is.

I know who you are.

And I'm going to the police.

- Guilty.

- That's right boys, let's get that stiff out of here,

very good, that's the way to do it, excellent.

Ah yes, get in there and start lifting those prints,

fine yes.

And you just go around the corner and do...

I want a lawyer, I know my rights.

Are you sick man, are you sick?

Hey, hey, wait a minute now.

I want my lawyer, I want to make a phone call,

and I want a cup of coffee, black.

- Now you and Jackson check the neighbors and see

if they heard anything?

- I already checked them out.

The old lady back in number seven said she heard a crash,

might have been the door being kicked in.

- That's very good.

Door kicked in.

That's two O's in 'door', Bernie.

- Hunter, what the hell are you doing here?

This case is off limits to you and McCall.

Boy he sure makes you feel at home, doesn't he?

- Wait, it's off limits Hunter.

- Bernie, we were transporting a suspect when we saw

these vehicles out front, we decided to pop in.

- Hey, I know my rights!

- Shut up Eddie, I'll cave your head in.

Oh you'll hit me again, are you?

- I'm thinking about it.

- You don't even get it but you don't know who you're

dealing with here, do you?

Are you sick?

Are you sick or something?

- There are departmental orders concerning the treatment

of prisoners, Hunter.

I treat all my prisoners the same Bernie.

- You may well be in violation of a departmental order then.

What seems to be the trouble?

- Who are you?

- I'm detective Terwilliger.

- Listen, you gotta get me away from him.

- Who?

- This Sergeant Hunter.

Hey, please don't leave me with him, this guy's crazy!

- Did he hurt you?

- Hey, I had cuffs on...

- Are you saying that Sgt. Hunter overstepped the laws,

some kind of police brutality or something?

- Yeah, yeah.

- He's real scary, and he says he's gonna get me if I talk.

- Oh no, no, no, no, you can talk to me.

You can tell me everything.

- Well, first off...

No, I can't talk to you.

I can't trust none of you cops, cause y'all stick together.

- No, no, no, no, you can trust me, honestly.

Would you like some coffee or something?

- Did you find anything?

- I don't know.

I was looking out in the trash and I found today's

newspaper with a couple of articles clipped out.

- Looks like the old man was keeping a some sort

of a scrapbook here.

- Yeah.

Seems like he was interested in crime stories too.

- Yeah, now this is this morning's newspaper.

There's two pages ripped out of the scrapbook.

- So this killer is coming in here, snuffing this guy,

and then he's taking old articles with him?

- Yeah, that's what it looks like.

- Let's go locate these missing articles.

- Yeah.

- You have a date on that?

- A date?

I got a place and a time.

- Bernie.

That looks like Hunter's car.

No what the hell is he doing here?

- Sir, I've been getting some very interesting information

about Hunter from this prisoner right here.

- How you doing Captain?

- Surprise visit, Hunter?

- Well I was transporting this hooligan that we picked up

from the park downtown and we saw the cars so we decided

to stop by.

Yeah we saw all these cop cars, we thought maybe

Terwilliger got hit by a bus or something.

We were concerned.

- Well according to Bernie, your prisoner here has a lot

to say.

- I got it all written down and signed by the witness, sir.

I had it right here.

- Hey, well look, I'd like to stick around and chat with you

guys but we got a booking to go to.

Taa-taa!

I had it right here a minute ago.

I got it in my pocket.

- Yo Twit, I thought you were gonna help me out.

You should have seen him, I really had him going.

- Thanks Eddie, I appreciate this, I owe you one.

- Yo!

♪ I am the man to break

- Hey, Bernie's wallet.

Must've sort of slipped out of his pocket.

Hey you ain't go to open the door.

Adios Amigos!

- Let's take a run by the library, McCall.

Excuse me?

We're looking for the last two issues of the newspaper?

- Local or out of town?

- Local.

- Planning on photo copying?

- Well, that's a possibility.

Why, is it against the law?

- Only if you photo copy money, in which case

they put you away.

And, it usually turns out pretty awful anyway.

Now, we charge for all of our photo copies.

No checks, no credit cards, do you need change?

- I think we can handle it, would you just point us in

the direction of the file?

Right over there against the wall.

Oh, do you have your library card?

- Never leave home without it.

- This is really a long shot, you know.

- Well, when you're bobbing for anything, you try anything.

Oh come on, a rumpled up newspaper in the victim's

trashcan that can be zip.

Yeah maybe the killer didn't want us to find it.

You got to keep an open mind about these things McCall.

- Alright, what do you got?

- Ah!

A Sacramento coroner is currently examining the remains

of Martin Clink for filed determination of death

which is thought to have been participated by cord or rope.

- You mind keeping it down a little, please?

That stuff makes me sick.

Mr. Clink arriving home late in the evening from a

business meeting, with an insurance client,

was found lying just outside the front door of a small

apartment not far from the state capitol building.

- It's about a murder, big deal.

- Well it parallels with the cases we've been running into.

They're all strangulations, don't you get the connection?

- Hunter, why would this guy kill somebody up in Sacramento

and then come down to LA to get another victim?

- Victims.

- Victims, plural, okay fine, but it still doesn't make

any sense.

- Yet.

I'll bet if we call the Sacramento's coroner office,

right now, he might be through with that investigation.

It may have something to do with this case.

- And if not?

- Well, if not then I've just defaced a publicly owned

major newspaper.

Want the funnies?

- I just got off the phone with Sacramento.

Get this.

They found pieces of rawhide embedded in the victim's neck.

- Same way John Matthews died.

- Hmm hmm, and this is weird Hunter.

Why would Matthews cut out an article on the Sacramento

killing and then he winds up being killed the same way?

- I better run this Sacramento guy to see if he's still

on the street and if he is, I say we go pay him a visit.

There it is, the guy lived in Los Angeles seven years ago

in Van Nuys.

- Think Matthews knew him?

- Yeah, possibly.

But it still doesn't explain the connection between

the killer and the two victims.

There's something about this address that rings a bell.

Loretta Johnson.

- Loretta Johnson lived in West Hollywood.

- Yeah, currently.

But here's a sheet on her.

In 1978, her California drivers license address was

Van Nuys, California.

- All three of these people lived in the same area in 1978.

- Remember those news clippings at Matthew's house about

jury trial?

All these victims were living in the same district at the

very same time.

And they pull jurors from voter registration files by

districts.

- You think?

Hunter, you're right.

All three of these victims served as jurors

at the trial of Louis McMann.

He was convicted for murder and sentenced to life.

Which usually means he's back out on the streets.

The first thing I want to do is contact the other

two jurors living in Los Angeles.

Let's see if they've received any phone calls.

- Just a minute!

Hello?

Damn.

- Hi, Ms. Thelma Adkins?

- That's right.

Who are you?

I'm Sgt. DeeDee McCall, homicide division.

May I come in and speak with you please?

It's about the Louis McMann case.

- Something's happened.

He's out of prison, isn't he?

- Well, we're checking on that right now.

Ms. Adkins, what we do know is that at least three of

the other members of the jury that convicted him have

been receiving rather strange phone calls.

And, shortly thereafter, been strangled.

- He said he would.

- Are you saying McMann said he would kill the jurors?

When?

It was right after the conviction was brought in.

He looked over, before they took him away,

and he said 'We were more guilty than he was

and we would pay'.

- He used the word guilty?

- First time I laid eyes on that man and I,

it scared me to death.

- It's just the pipes, they make noise.

- Listen Ms. Adkins, we'd like to offer you some protection

if you'll take it, at least until we know whether or not

it is Louis McMann, and if it is,

until we get him convicted.

- Ms. McCall, we both know it's Louis McMann.

He didn't look like the other young man who's trial I

was a juror on.

The others looked like they had some humanity

in their faces, except they were just misled.

As if they weren't really happy having done something wrong.

But Mr. McMann, he sort of liked what he did.

You know what I mean?

He liked it, like he couldn't get enough.

- Ms. Adkins, take some protection from us okay?

- No, I don't think I want that just yet.

Not that I'm a fool but...

You said the victims had all been telephoned first?

- Yeah that's right.

- Well, if he calls me, I'll call you, fair?

I don't get it, how can they continually parole

guys like that?

And why do they always want to live in Los Angeles?

- Sunshine state.

Nice place.

- Yeah.

Excuse me, we're looking for a Louis McMann.

- That's him back there.

- Louis McMann?

Hey!!

- Freeze!

Get out of the truck!

- Come on, move it!

Get over there!

Spread 'em out.

Okay, now why did you run?

I'm asking you a question.

Now look, you're either gonna talk to me or you're gonna

tell it to the ground.

Now why did you run?

- What's going on?

- Questioning a suspect.

Well I can save your breath, Louie can't talk.

What do you mean Louie can't talk?

- He got no voice box.

He got it cut clean through in a knife fight in prison.

- His vocal cords were severed in the fight.

It was in the prison yard about six years ago.

Since then he hasn't been able to speak.

- He ran from me.

- Yeah, you come barging in, flashing a badge

to a parolee, he gets scared, he runs.

- The jury convicts this guy of murder and three months

ago, in Sacramento, he gets out on parole.

And a juror turns up dead.

And then, he moves to Los Angeles and guess what happens?

Two more of those same jurors wind up dead.

- I'm his parole officer.

He's a model parolee and he can't talk.

And you've got witnesses that claim he calls up and

talks up to his victims.

- Uses the word guilty.

- Yeah, it's all too simple, isn't it?

I mean wouldn't McMann be the perfect subject to

frame for these murders?

That's what I think is happening.

McMann is a fall guy for some nut.

- Oh give me a break.

No, you give me a break McCall.

Now we got a search warrant for the guy's apartment

and it's clean.

I mean, we got nothing on this guy, nothing.

And no DA is going to hold a mute who's making

phone calls to people.

- Maybe he can talk.

- What?

Maybe he's just been holding out.

- For six years?

- Go to hell, that's for you.

Captain, this is the guy.

I'm innocent, great.

Hey look, we can't hold him so let's drop it, huh?

Now we got nothing and you stay off this case, Hunter.

I mean it.

- Louis is our boy alright.

- Yeah and the guy is back out on the street.

Makes me sick.

- Eh, we know where he lives and we know where he works.

So, let's tail him.

- What's taking him?

Maybe he's cleaning up in there before he splits.

- That place hasn't been cleaned up since it opened.

The floor show's just beginning.

- Well, we could nab him for littering.

- Ah, I have an idea, we'll be able to get something

on him better than that.

♪ You know where it leads

♪ You set your spirit free

♪ I couldn't see

♪ Self pity

Wonder what the hell he's up to?

- Well, maybe somebody's having a rope sale in there.

- Come on.

♪ This is mine and my own body

♪ What's the crime

♪ Of wasting my own time

♪ You know where it leads

♪ You set your spirit free

♪ You know where it leads

♪ Dream while you're awake

♪ Seek and you shall find

♪ Dream while you're awake

♪ Seek and you shall find

♪ It's never been my own fault

♪ So many times

- Pretty strange place for a phone call, don't you think?

- Yeah, well if you're gonna terrorize people over

the phone you might as well do it in a

phonebooth of your choice.

- Say man, what is this?

- I'm sorry, I thought you were somebody else.

♪ You know where it leads

♪ You set your spirit free

L56, please respond.

- L56 Hunter here.

Got a call from a Thelma Adkins said you'd know

what it was about.

- Got it, we're on our way.

I mean, after this guy's trial, the DA sat us down

and told us 'whenever some criminal makes a threat on the

jury, they never follow through'.

Well, actually that's true, there's never been a

documented case where a convicted criminal did go after

the jurors but we just wanted to play it safe.

We wanted to take all precautions.

- I gotta tell ya, I was really scared when the guy called.

He called about 10 minutes ago, if he's gonna

make his move, he's gonna make it pretty soon.

- Hunter, come on, it's late.

I don't think this guy's gonna show.

We'll send you somebody from down town.

I don't get it, why would the guy call Thelma

and not show?

- The other juror.

He called Thelma to throw us off.

- You're not gonna have that light on much longer, are ya?

- I just have three more pages until the end of

this chapter.

- I hate it when you read those scary books

before you go to bed.

You keep me up all night thinking you're hearing noises.

- I do not.

Paul, did you hear something?

- Finish your book and turn off the light.

- I just have two more pages.

- Paul, did you hear something?

- McCall you take the back.

- Why is it I can always tell the sound of

Terwilliger's siren?

- Hunter, I got television people out here, look at em.

Newspaper reporters, everything.

You're making me an old man Hunter, you really are.

Look Captain, that was our man.

Yeah, but you wouldn't swear it was Louis McMann,

cause I mean, you didn't actually see him, did you?

- Well, it was dark.

- I almost had this guy Captain.

- Did you see the house?

You almost destroyed the house, Hunter.

I got two police psychologists up there now just trying

to coax the woman out from under her bed.

She's hysterical.

- Captain, we probably saved her life.

- Firearm discharge reports gonna have to be filed.

The officer involved shooting team is on its

way out here, I've already called them.

- Well, you are so efficient Bernie, I bet you were

a cub scout, huh?

- Look Captain, we've got a raving maniac on our hands.

- Look I want to catch this guy just as bad as you do,

but I want to make sure I catch the right one.

You know I could suspend you for what you did,

working on a case without authorization.

Derelict in duty, and in general, just sticking your nose

where it doesn't belong.

- Well Captain, I am his partner, I helped him stick his

nose where it doesn't belong.

- Look Captain, Bernard, I'd like to stand out here and

talk to you further but I'm gonna go put my head

in the dryer.

- Hey Hunter, I want you to go to the station,

you can change there.

McCall, you go with him.

Come on, Bernie.

- I think we're gonna be suspended.

- Come on Hunter, we're not gonna be suspended.

- Now look, I saw that wild and crazy look in his eye.

We're gonna be suspended.

I suppose you think you know everything, huh?

I saw the same crazy, wild look in his eye

and we're not gonna be suspended.

- Woman's intuition, I suppose?

You know what's wrong with you?

- No, but I bet you're gonna tell me.

- You got it, you always look at the downside

of everything.

I don't believe this!

Two week's suspension for me too.

- Man, what happened to my partner back there?

I'm not the one who shot up the guy's bedroom.

Besides, I never thought the captain would actually

go through with it.

Yeah, we're learning new and wondrous things about

our captain each and every day.

- We gotta get this guy Hunter.

Well, we got enough time to do it now, we're on

suspension.

Let's get some coffee, huh?

- How you doing Louie?

How's that voice box today, huh?

Why don't you say guilty for me?

I'd like to hear you say that.

- I think he wants a pencil and paper.

Yeah well he's not gonna get one.

I have an idea he's gonna talk to me today.

Now, when you gonna drop the pencil and paper bit?

I know you can talk.

Prove it.

That's just what I'm gonna do, I'm going to prove it.

Try it if you can.

- Come on Hunter let's get out of here.

Yeah, the stench in here is making me nauseous.

- Think he's gonna make a move on Thelma Adkins?

- Well, she's the only juror in Los Angeles he hasn't

hit at yet.

She works at a local machine shop, I think I'll

go over and give her a call.

- Yeah, you do that, I'm gonna hang around here until

this guy gets off work.

I'm gonna tail this guy, I don't want to lose him.

- You're dead.

- Ah!

- Are you okay?

- Yeah.

- How you doing, you alright?

- Yeah, thank God for plastic.

A little scary though.

- Yeah, it sure was.

Well, here we are McCall, right back where we started.

You know, all the things we've done, you'd think we'd

get a medal or a badge or something.

But nope, all we get is a thank you, and a lousy

assignment right back here at the same park.

- Give me your wallet.

- My wallet?

- The wallet, nobody gets hurt.

- Hey did you get me my orange