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Thank you.

You are the subject, and we will, sure, sure, I will be glad to do that.

Sergeant Cooper, he knows me.

Thank you very much, ma'am.

Uh, Colonel Chadway is not in his apartment. Perhaps you'd like to leave a

message, sir?

Colonel Chad... Look, did you tell him it was Jesse Cooper?

Well, I just spoke to Mrs. Chadway. Colonel Chadway is not in now, but I

told Mrs.

Chadway, uh, Sergeant Cooper, right?

Look, you must have called the wrong room.

Because I saw him. I was coming up from the street.

If you'd care to leave a message, sir.

Hey, 503. Go on, try it, will you?

Tell him it's Jesse Cooper. Come on.

503! Colonel Chadway lives in 403. I'm afraid you're a bit confused.

Try back later, okay?

Call first.

Mr. Cooper, just a minute.

You can't go up there.

Mr. Cooper, you can't go up there. Look, he was my CO.

Colonel Chadway is not in this apartment. Look, why don't you just come

with me? Get away from me, will you?

All right.

If you'd rather talk to the police.

Stumble bum.

a knock-down, drag-out thing. He's harmless, I think.

Just, uh, old and, uh, kind of stubborn.

Cooper. Sergeant Cooper. You say that Lieutenant, uh, Colonel Chadway knows

him? That's what Cooper says.

Was he agitated?

No, uh, I'd say unstable.

What can I tell you?

I'll take it, Frank.

Friendly persuasion. Room 403.

Yes, well, the colonel must be visiting. He has a lot of friends in this

building. Look, I'm Sergeant Cooper.

I know who you are, Sergeant.

Look, I know he's in the building. I saw him walking in the door from the street.

Well, you must be mistaken.

No, I'm not. He told me I could come here any time and talk to him. Sergeant

Cooper? Well, he's not home.

Sarge, the lady. You don't think the lady's lying.

Look, I got to talk to the colonel. Come on, Sarge.

Will you talk to him? I am sick and tired of him.

Stop! The stairs! It's faster! Take the stairs!

Huh?

Officer, hold your fire.

Officer, I'm coming out.

Where is he?

He's not on this floor.

Call an ambulance.

I already have.

Mr. Morrison, stay in your apartment and please don't come out in the hall. Thank

you.

Attention, all tenants of the Albemarle Apartments, please stay in your

apartments.

This is Captain Glover of the Honolulu Police Department.

There is no immediate danger.

Attention, all tenants of the Albemarle Apartments, please stay in your

apartments to avoid... Any chance of accidents, please stay in your

apartments.

Captain, we think the kid is saying Ruth, not Ruth.

Officer Bailey, check the apartments directly below.

Sir, that could mean the suspect is holding a hostage.

No one has seen a hostage. No one has seen a suspect with a hostage.

What do we got?

Top shooter.

523, top floor. The window way on the right.

Is he holding somebody?

My guess, a teenage girl. We don't know that.

Captain, you got things nicely staked out here.

Good work.

We know how to handle these things.

Now, what I don't want is this kook thinking he's on top of us.

If he gets a little confidence, he'll be ego-tripping how he pinned down the

whole Honolulu Police Department.

I'm going to give him an ultimatum.

Five minutes, I'll lay down a flag.

Attention.

Captain.

We check out the hostage first, right? That's for opening.

Danu, Officer Pearson, get him up there.

Right. Chin.

What's that coal bit? See if you can try that from the adjacent apartment. See if

it works. Yeah.

This is McGarrett.

I was patched into the apartment switchboard.

How's Officer Wade?

Ridiculous. What about ammo? Does he have anything beside what was in Wade's

.38?

I'll check it. Thank you, Captain.

Mrs. McGarrett.

Her name was Ruthie?

And Ruthie went upstairs with the man?

Ah, good boy. Good boy.

Sir, I think a girl was babysitting for him. I don't know her. She doesn't live

in the building.

What about the boy's parents?

Well, I'll try to locate his mother.

She's kind of a flip.

All right. Check all the families in the building who have kids. See if they know

a babysitter named Ruthie. Yes, sir.

Here's the blacklist. I don't need that.

You got to wear it. It's too restrictive.

No choice. He's armed.

Okay, you're right.

All right? Good.

Chin.

To the left, just a little.

Yeah, that's good. Now, down and tip it.

Can you see anything?

That should be just about it.

Jen, have you got anything yet?

Ah, he can't make the right angle.

Oh, damn it.

Gentlemen, I'm Colonel Chadway.

I'm Garrett Feinberg.

I want to talk to you, but...

Would you check Army Records Center? We have a tentative ID on a Jesse Cooper.

That's your man.

I was his CO.

I want his personnel jacket.

Will you get on the phone and have it sent?

Certainly. Good idea.

Dano, is Pearson ready? Ready, Steve.

Remember, Chuck, we don't want any heroics.

Let's find out whether or not that babysitter's in there or not, huh?

You know it.

Interesting.

There's a young girl in there.

She's okay.

She's looking right at me.

Chuck, you okay?

Yeah, I'm okay.

I saw her. She looked right at me.

Is it?

Yeah.

Okay.

Steve, Chuck's hit, but not bad.

Listen, he saw the girl. She seems to be okay.

Okay, Dana, listen.

I want to set up in the hall.

Okay, Steve.

Captain, see if a couple of your men can get a heavy table and get it up to Danny

Williams on the fifth floor.

Look, McGarrett, he's got a hostage up there. Let's not diddle around with him,

if you know what I mean.

Duke, get a couple of extra flak suits and bring them up to Danny on the fifth

floor. Now, take it easy. We don't want to ruffle this guy.

Oh, no, let's not offend him.

That's right, Captain.

We're going to try to communicate.

Now, there's a word for you.

Communicate. This is going to be great. Group therapy.

You got a complaint, Captain?

Me? Not me.

Officer Wade's got a bullet in him. He's got a complaint. Me? I just got my own

opinion and 23 years' experience.

Well, you're a little short, Captain.

We're going on the experience of a lot of smart cops all over the country

who've been to school in this sort of thing.

Yeah, I know. You boys over at 5-0 make all the sound, don't you? Look, whoever

that guy is up there, he's got a problem. But more than that, he's got a

young girl hostage up there.

Now, there's a life in danger.

Maybe many lives, yours and mine and his included.

Now, we're going to try to get through to him. That's the operational

procedure. Clear? Clear.

Okay, the table up there on the double.

Yes, sir.

Dano, table coming up.

I talked with Army Records Center in St. Louis. They gave me some information.

Citations. Silver star with clusters.

Purple heart.

Court martial.

They're telexing the rest of the records over.

Is this right?

He was in combat at 15?

He lied about his age, but he was a great soldier.

Psycho? Oh, no, no. He was more like a, well, a natural soldier. Quiet.

Respectful.

Actually, if I may make a suggestion... He still looks upon me as his CO.

I know if I gave him an order... Well, what I mean is, I'm someone who can

communicate with Sergeant Cooper.

I see.

Were you in your apartment when he called up from the desk?

Yes, but the guy had been coming down to my health club, hanging around, mooching

money. I got tired of it. It wasn't the money.

Just that, well, Sergeant Cooper is always a little, uh... A little what?

Unstable? Excitable.

All right.

I'll tell you what I'd like you to do now.

About these battles that you were in together, I'd like you to write down

every detail that comes to mind.

Things that he might remember.

Things that involve Cooper.

Certainly. But you don't want me to talk to him?

Let's suppose that he was in serious trouble.

He comes to you as a last resort.

Now, if he feels that you deliberately turned your back on him, that could

really set him off this time.

You said that he was excitable.

Yes, but I don't think I'm... Now, look, Colonel.

He shot a policeman.

Now, if he goes over the line this time, he could take it out on that little girl

up there. I understand, but I was in the Army for 25 years. I've got to tell you.

Okay, Colonel.

You had your chance to talk to Sergeant Cooper when he came to your door.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have work to do.

Sir?

Could I turn on the TV?

No!

Now you quit your whining.

I'm not whining.

Besides, there's nothing good on TV now anyway.

Will you shut up?

Steve.

This is Mrs. Martin.

Her daughter's the hostage.

Sorry, Mrs. Martin.

Very pretty girl. What can you tell us?

She's a lovely child, really. Very bright for her age.

Is she emotionally stable? Is she cool in crisis?

Well, yes, I think so.

She's a competitive swimmer. She's on the debating team at school.

That's good. That's good. They've told you we've seen her.

Yes.

How is the officer, the one who was shot?

We don't know yet.

What is it? Get a load of this, will you? This guy wants a parachute, an army

plane, clothes, suit, tie, shoes, and 500 bucks cash.

He's nuts.

Chin, stay on communications.

Did you talk to him? We tried.

The door has sprung.

He shut out the lock and it won't stay shut.

He's got that chair propped against it.

Yeah, I see.

Let's see if he wants to talk.

Sergeant!

Sergeant Cooper?

Jesse Cooper?

Jesse Cooper?

Is he calling you?

I know, I know.

Jesse Cooper?

This is Steve McGarrett, Hawaii 5-0. I'd like to talk to you.

Look, you just bring me what I asked for.

That's all. No talk.

Okay, Jesse, we're working on it. We'll get it.

Wish we could get a look in there, see what's going on.

If I could get on the hinge side of that door there, you know, I could push it a

little farther open.

Yeah, maybe.

Maybe we could open it a little more.

Let me try.

Okay, get yourself a short link of Paul. Be careful.

Hey, Jesse!

This is Steve McGarrett.

You okay?

Jesse, we put in a call to the Air Force. We don't know how long it's going

to take to round up a plane.

You've had a lot more experience with the armed forces than any of us have.

He's just your average conversationalist. No big words, no

little words.

Williams.

Steve, you better take this.

It's the head of your fan club.

McGarrett. Hello, McGarrett. Captain Glover.

Listen, I got a young fella down here named Holden, Richard Holden. He's an

applicant for HPD.

And he wants to volunteer to be a substitute hostage if Cooper will go for

it. Should I send him up?

A substitute hostage?

That's all we need.

Uh, Captain, leave him on the bench.

Sit tight, Holden. Yes, sir.

Leave him on the bench.

This ought to do it.

Looks good.

Here's

the hall

that we're in.

Here's a barricade.

Here's the elevator shaft. Here's a plant.

Okay.

This is what you have to look for.

There's a mirror in the apartment, right about here.

But be careful.

Now, you'll have to crawl right along this wall.

Right.

What about a distraction?

How about ringing the phone?

Yeah, it's a good idea. Do it.

Chin, have the switchboard ring the room. If he answers, how do you want to

handle the situation?

Uh, Chin?

Uh... Call him by his first name, tell him we're working on his clothes, and

keep him cool.

Got that, Jen?

Right. Wait till the phone rings, Frank.

Should I answer it?

Aren't you gonna answer it?

Close the door!

You okay?

Still in one piece.

Did you get a look at the girl?

Yeah, she's okay.

Didn't even look scared.

How about our friend Jesse?

Now him, he did look scared.

Well, that figures.

What's next?

We gotta keep them talking.

Go ahead, Chen.

Good. Have them leave it on landing five. Officer Rao is there.

They got the parachute and some of the clothing.

Maybe that'll open them up.

Jesse!

This is Steve McGarrett. We've got your chute and some of the clothing coming.

How do you want us to handle it?

Jesse, if you let us know, we'll try to do it your way.

Jesse, do you want us to leave the stuff in front of the door?

He's trying to be nice to you.

Do you want us to try to push it inside the room?

Okay, but don't try anything funny.

See if they got any coffee in the kitchen.

Jesse, this is Steve McGarrett.

We've got the clothes you want.

We're going to put them inside the door. Is that okay with you?

Hey!

Hey, get down!

Sir, sir!

Who are you?

Richard Holden, sir. What are you doing up here?

Captain Glover told me I could substitute for the hostage.

He sent you up here?

No, sir.

I figured something was going to happen, so if you want me to substitute for the

girl. Do you want to get your head blown off?

Dino, get a sound technician on the roof and one in the apartment directly below.

See if you can pick up the exact position of Jesse and the girl with

directional mics.

Right. I'll be back as soon as I can. Let's go.

My mother does this at home when the coffee in the jar gets hard.

That's good.

Thanks.

Now, keep him out of here.

What have we got?

Here's six pages I could do, 20 more.

Looks good. Names, places, dates.

That's exactly what I want.

It all came back, just like it happened yesterday.

It was an important time.

Yeah, Colonel, I guess it was.

Thank you.

Jen, this looks like it's getting out of hand. Clear the area. Everybody.

Mr. McGarrett, you don't think she's been molested?

Molested?

I don't think he's the type. He hasn't bothered her so far.

Every minute, her chances get better.

We study these hostage situations very carefully. Our whole effort is to get

the girl out.

It's just that... I mean, I don't think that way, but someone said he... He has

a record of sex offense.

Who said that? I said.

It's true.

You want to know who you're dealing with, don't you?

What charge, Doctor?

I don't know.

Well, find out.

Yes, sir.

One suggested.

You keep talking and it's not as long as you think you're doing any good. But I'm

telling you, to bore some holes in that table, let me send a sharpshooter up

there. At that distance, my man can shoot the freckles off Cooper's ear.

That's unless you don't want to see her daughter get raped.

Sorry.

How's it going, Denner?

Charlie's right below me.

You can practically hear Cooper breathing.

Ruth?

Ruth?

Do you know that Jesse was a hero in the war?

That's true. He got a medal for saving the lives of three other American

soldiers.

He really did.

Steve, the girl said, hey, you really did?

Her position in the room, right here.

That's good, okay.

Ruth, that's true, you know.

The army said he was wounded himself, but he held off a whole squad of enemy

soldiers.

He held them off a couple of hours, as a matter of fact, till a helicopter came

and rescued them.

You did?

Really?

Jesse, you know, I met a guy from the 191st at some convention in L.A.

Maybe you know him. His name was, uh, Art Flores.

Do you know Art?

Art was my buddy.

We worked in construction after the war on the mainland.

Common laborers.

You know, Art went to college, but I couldn't get in because I never went

through high school, so I got married.

I came back to the islands.

I hate Art.

Art had a mother, such a nice lady.

She used to make some kind of pancakes, you know, wrapped around some kind of

green stuff.

I tell you, it was the best food I ever tasted. Hey, McGarry!

Yeah?

Do you know that a bullet... Once went through Art's helmet liner, right

through the liner.

You're talking about close. It never even touched him.

Is that right? You know, that happened to a buddy of mine once in Korea.

It almost scalped him.

Hey, you were in the Army?

No, no, I was in the Navy.

Oh, Navy.

Hey, you guys had it soft. You know, you had, you sleep in sheets and you had dry

clothes and hot food and movies.

Yeah.

Yeah, I agree with you, Jesse.

We really had it soft.

Until the ship went down, then you wish you were in a foxhole.

Yeah.

Yeah, I guess nobody had it soft, not in the war.

Except maybe civilians.

Not even them anymore.

They're gonna buy it, too.

Huh? Did you ever hear the story about Einstein?

Somebody said to him... What weapon would be used in World War III? He said

he couldn't answer that, but he could say what weapon would be used in World

War IV.

Stones.

Stones?

Stones!

Yeah, hey, that's pretty good. I get it.

How about something to eat?

That'd be nice, Steve.

I'm getting tired of stale coffee in here.

Good, good, Jesse. I'll send some hamburgers up.

You got him talking. Yeah.

Take over here. I'll be right back.

Excuse me, please.

She asked if you were here and if she could have a hamburger.

But not in that order.

No. No, the hamburger came first, but you ran a close second.

She's cool.

Yeah.

A psychiatrist at the Veterans Administration has been seeing Cooper.

He said he's had a history of emotional and family problems, but he's never seen

any sign of violence.

Now, what we have to do is keep him calm and talking.

If nobody triggers him, we're going to make it.

You're doing good.

So are you.

So are you.

McGarrett!

I don't think we've met, Steve.

I'm Wiley Shepard, anchorman on the late news.

This is Mrs. Cooper.

And I am the Reverend Craigill.

Now, we've interviewed Mrs. Cooper, and she guarantees us her husband's never

been involved in anything like this. Mrs. Cooper believes that if she had the

opportunity... Captain,

what about that charge you mentioned?

I got a bum report.

He was drunk and assorted.

He took his clothes off in public.

Mrs. Cooper admits there's a problem of alcohol?

Yeah, drunk.

What is it you want?

Let Mrs. Cooper talk to her husband.

Live and in living color exclusively on your station, you mean, huh? Our first

consideration, believe me, is that the girl should not be hurt.

Sure, sure.

We can get right up there on the fifth floor. One camera.

Let Jesse see he has not been abandoned by his loved ones.

Mrs. Cooper, how long has it been since you've lived with Jesse as husband and

wife?

Huh?

Reverend, when's the last time you tried to counsel Jesse, tried to help him? You

ever tried to get him to AA?

Has he been in your church lately?

Hey, McGarrett, come on.

They want to cooperate with HPD, communicate.

Well, these two people are closer to that poor guy up there than anybody else

in the world. Mr. Shepard, if these two people could communicate, he may not be

that poor guy up there.

Those are shots! Get back!

What were the shots?

I was on the intercom. When I looked up, here comes Holden waltzing down that

side passageway. He's saying, let the girl go. I'll be your hostage.

Before I could stop him, he had the door open and just shot him.

Is the girl all right? As far as we can tell.

That was just the trigger I was worried about. Where is he? Right over there.

So you finally tried it, huh?

I tried.

Get him out of here.

Tell him.

Get him out of here.

Police departments all over the world pool their intelligence, their

experience.

We spend weeks in seminars learning the various kinds of hostage situations.

Then you get to the scene, you turn your back, and some idiot tries some stupid

kind of home remedy.

Count on it.

Given the chance, some idiot will blow it for you every time.

I should have locked that nut up myself.

Did you see the look on his face after he was shot? He loved it. He loved it.

Yeah. We better cool it for a minute.

Hey, get in the closet.

Come on, in the closet.

One of them seems to have left the room, Danny.

The TV set has been turned on.

McGat hasn't talked to Mr. Cooper since the shooting.

Have you heard from the hospital? Have you heard how Officer Waite is?

He'll be coming out of surgery in about a half an hour.

He's got the TV on.

They're having a hard time picking up any movement.

Here, Dan, I'll count the money again.

Make sure it's right. It's one of those little things that could really set him

off again.

Let's see if he's cooled off.

Jesse?

It's Steve McGarrett here.

You okay?

How is Ruth? Can she talk?

Money's all here.

Jesse, we've got your money. I counted it.

We're going to put it by the door.

Jesse, I've got your money, and I'm unarmed.

I'm coming down.

It's all here, Jesse.

I'm going to put it in front of the door.

I understand. I just want to check with Mr. McGarrett. I don't see what's wrong

with that.

If McGarrett didn't want you on the tube, he would have told you. Don't you

think I want to cooperate?

Look, this is a public service.

I just want to check.

Do you mind?

Come here.

Get down on your belly like a soldier.

Go on.

Go on, get the money.

I got it, Steve. I got it.

It's all there, Jesse, isn't it?

Yep. 500 clams.

You're in the money.

Hey, did you ever hear about inflation? Huh?

Yeah, I heard. Believe me, I heard.

You know, Steve, this kid doesn't cry.

She's worth a lot more than 500 bucks.

Now, both my kids cried.

Both of them, even the boy.

But this kid...

She's a real soldier.

That's what her mother said.

You know, I didn't whine.

When I was her age, I was out in the war getting my butt shot off, but I didn't

whine.

You know, me and Art Flores and the rest of the guys, guys that never came back,

guys that never came back and made the world a better place to live in.

When I was getting my butt shot off, I was putting my life on the line.

You did fine, Jesse.

You did fine.

You were a hero.

So why couldn't I get a job?

Maybe it's the booze, Jesse.

Booze?

Those who have known you best, those who have loved you longest, Luella, your

pretty wife, and Sharon, your loving daughter. Mr. Cooper?

Your wife's on TV.

And there's a man. He says he's talking to you heart to heart.

Let's put the guns down, Jessie.

Ruth, go outside.

Is it okay?

Goodbye, Mr. Cooper.

Jessie, give me the gun.

Give me the gun, Jesse.

OK, then let's go.

Why?

Oh, come on, Jesse. We both had a very hard day.

Let's call it quits.

How's the cop on the floor below?

You know the one who was shot?

Officer Wade?

He's coming out of surgery. He's going to be OK.

Gee, I hope you're not just saying that.

I really hope so.

He was just a kid now.

He's all right, Jesse.

Honestly, he's gonna be all right.

Congratulations, McGarrett. It's not my style, but what the hell it worked.

Coming from you, Captain, that's high praise.

Come on, Cooper.

Wait.

Let's go.