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Well, East Coast girls are hip. I really dig the styles they wear.

And the southern girls, with the way they talk, they knock me out when I'm

out there.

The Midwest farmers' daughters, well, they all make you feel all right.

And the northern girls, with the way they kiss, they keep their boyfriends

warm at night.

I wish they all could be California.

I wish they all could be California.

I wish they all could be your California girls.

Like Jell-O on Springs, Hooker. I mean, there is something about California

girls. A music you've ever heard one. No, come on. No, I'm serious here.

I have never seen such beautiful creatures in all my life. Hey, listen,

check it out, girls. I like it. Are you going to spend the rest of our lunch

hour shopping?

What I'm going to do, Hooker, is take the plunge. The plunge?

Hooker, the street and South Philly are behind me.

I'm going to become a total Californian.

I think I'll even buy a surfboard.

You been watching those late-night beach blanket movies again?

Yeah, well, they are classics, you know. Right up there with Casablanca and

Citizen Kane.

He's selling on this, though. I mean, sand, sun, surfboards.

Bikinis. That's it, Hooker. I'm a convert.

South Philly's gonna be in mourning.

Romano.

Romano! Huh?

If you want to buy a board, you ought to take a long, hard look at one of these.

A tanker?

My research says time has passed this one by. Ah, it's a pioneer board.

You buy one of these, you catch a curl, stand tall, hang ten, before that triple

thrusher there gets off the tide.

How do you know so much about this stuff?

Oh, a cop picks up things.

Here and there.

Come on.

Okay, just keep still, like a good little girl. Just take the money, don't

hurt me, please.

Open the box.

Hey, come on.

Is this doing your grocery list?

I'm making a list of all the Beach Boy albums I'm going to buy.

And hey, I just found out...

The Beach Boys are doing a concert at the amphitheater next week. I got a

flash for you. The concert's sold out.

What? It can't be.

It's part of my education.

To some things, you're not going to get a degree in, kid.

I got to get a ticket, and I will believe it.

All units and 4 Adam 30, a 211 silent at the theater box office, 810 Broadmoor. 4

Adam 30, handle code 3.

Sounds like a box office heist. Yeah.

4 Adam 30, roger.

Get the money in the sack!

Move it! All right, come on, get it done!

I want it all!

Let's get the money and get out!

Hey, just a minute. Come on, come on. Come on, move, move, move, move.

Now, you just stay right there, sweetheart, or I'll blow your damn head

off. All right, we got it! Let's go!

This guy's got a death wish.

We can kiss them goodbye.

For now.

I was passing

on my way into the precinct. The cashier took a bullet.

We're not sure how bad she is yet. Any witnesses?

Well, the assistant manager, but they thumped him from behind. He didn't see a

thing. Any count on the take, Captain?

Well, they hit it just right. Peak holiday season, $8,000, and we're left

with nothing for suspects.

What about that young lady?

Miss Perry.

Ann Perry. Nobody's had a chance to question her yet. She caught some

concrete when a slug hit the wall near her head.

I'll give it a try.

Miss Perry, I'm Sergeant Hooker.

Are the robbers in custody, Sergeant? I'm afraid not. We lost them in traffic.

You mean you have no idea who they are?

All we've got is a lot of vague descriptions.

We were hoping you could come up with something.

No, I'm sorry, I can't.

Miss Perry, you were within 20 feet of that van. They must have run right past

you. Yes, and they shot at me.

Please try and remember.

I don't have anything to remember. I didn't see anything.

You must have seen something. I didn't see anything, Sergeant.

I'm blind.

Please excuse me. I'm really sorry.

I didn't notice

Blind

and I was so sure we had a witness.

I'm not so sure we don't

Hand behind your back.

Hand-to-hand combat.

It's okay if you're doing a martial art movie.

If you know your stuff, it works.

If you don't, and there are three suspects, I suggest you consider taking

a step back and drawing your revolver.

All right, tomorrow we'll work on escalation, de-escalation, decision

-making based on your newfound physical skills. That's it, let's shower.

Come on, move it.

Wait till they find out the job's 90% paperwork.

Speaking of which, anything come in at the 211 van yet? It's been reported

stolen from a church group an hour after the robbery.

Not turned up yet. What about the cashier?

Her name's Lori Weber. She just got out of surgery. She's traumatized and can't

remember one thing about the robbery.

And all we got left is Ann Perry.

Stacy.

You remember you were talking about the Beach Boys coming to town the other day?

Oh, yes. I love them.

You know, it is amazing how you and I enjoy the same things.

Are you going to the concert, too?

Well, I was, but, uh, they're sold out.

You see, the two tickets I ordered got followed up in some kind of mail mix-up.

Oh, that's too bad. My tickets are there waiting for me. Yeah, and I killed them

for those follow-ups.

You know, Stacy, uh, I was planning on inviting you to go along with me.

Oh, well, I'm flattered.

But like I said, I have my tickets.

Oh, well, uh...

I'd be happy to buy your tickets and take the two of us.

Well, thank you, but I already have a commitment.

You do?

Who?

Well, let's just say a very special man in my life.

I thought I was special.

It's okay.

Forget it, Stacey. Really, it's okay.

I read your report, Hooker. You have some concerns about the blind witness?

I think she's holding something back. Like?

I checked her out.

She teaches sensory awareness to blind kids.

That doesn't necessarily mean she can tell us anything, Hooker. My gut says

she can.

Tread easy.

We don't need those kind of complaints.

We also don't need any more young girls catching 45 slugs. I think Ann Perry

needs a push.

All right.

See what you can find out, but between calls, Hooker? I wouldn't have it any

other way.

I don't know why I ever worked for a tight cracker like you, Megan.

There's a 50, and, uh, five for the suds.

Now, why don't you just take it and crawl over the corner and croak or

something, all right? Huh?

I'm joking. What?

I've been listening to the news, and I've been checking all the newspapers.

The cops haven't put out a description on us. Yeah, it's just a way of

protecting the witness.

She saw us, all right.

First job out here, we get eyeballed.

She's all that's between us and the slammer. Joe, we got to get out of here.

No. Yes. No way. Our box office idea is too good.

And we're going nowhere until we take off the big one.

Concert this Saturday.

What about the lady?

We're going to find her.

We're going to find her before the cops find us.

Then there won't be nothing for us to worry about, will there?

has a strong, thick shell to keep it safe at the bottom of the ocean where it

lives.

So now Glenn is going to hand out some buckets and we're going to go on a shell

hunt Sergeant

hooker you recognized me.

I remembered your cologne from the other day and you're not alone.

No, I brought my partner with me Vince Romano, nice to meet you.

Oh, it's Anne and you're from South Philadelphia, aren't you?

Yeah, yeah, how could you tell? I went to school outside Philadelphia.

And here I've been working on my accent ever since I've been out here.

Linguistics was my passion in college.

And now it's children.

Yes.

Could I impose upon the two of you to meet them?

I got a better idea. What about my mama taking over the class for a lecture on

law enforcement and action? Oh, that would be great.

Absolutely. I can talk about my job for hours. Ten minutes will do, I'm sure.

And you and I can talk about crime in the streets.

You detected my cologne.

You pinpointed Romano's hometown.

You teach those kids to feel, sense things, and be aware of so much.

I just can't accept an answer from you.

You're so sure of yourself, aren't you? So tuned into everything?

Yeah, I feel things.

And my senses are tuned in.

I'm experienced.

I feel for that young girl who got shot.

That's why I can't let up on Jan. Don't you understand?

No, you don't understand.

What it's like to be blind?

I can look at the sun and see its fire, the power of the surf, seagulls flying

overhead.

And I can tell you about it from one perception of mine.

If you add that with your perceptions, you have a whole lot more, and that more

is what I need.

What we're talking about has nothing at all to do with the beauty of

interpreting nature.

It has to do with those animals at the theater.

Hooker, last week, a friend drove me to a conference downtown.

She went to park the car and I went into the building.

Alone. She was delayed and I was late.

And so I asked somebody to assist me into the elevator and push the floor

button.

I'm riding up alone.

I think.

When suddenly somebody whispers something filthy in my ear and touches

me.

A simple trip for you and a nightmare for me.

And that's what being blind can be like, too.

Yeah, but I'm not a stranger.

I'm only asking you to give me what you can.

An accent, a speech impediment, anything, anything at all.

Hooker, please, don't.

You're frightened.

I want you to help me.

I'll help you.

No.

You'll go on with another crime.

And I'll be back in the elevator.

Now, please, Sergeant, I really must get back to my children. Anne, somewhere,

somewhere between us, there's got to be a compromise.

They found the stolen van dumped in a used car lot. Got one partial print, but

nothing they can ID.

Anything from Anne Perry?

Nothing.

Just have to try her.

Well, what do you think?

A costume party.

You're going as a Malibu reject.

Frankie Avalon lives.

Very funny. You guys are a riot.

Since none of my good friends will extend themselves to help me get into

the Beach Boys concert, this attire, which neither of you appreciate, is

going to attract a ticket to me.

How does that work?

Simple.

I hang around the amphitheater tonight.

Ticket scalpers come flocking.

You'd pay a scalper's price to get in. To see and hear the Beach Boys, you got

it, sweetheart. I'd pay double the face value.

Like, stay cool, fools, you know.

Hubba hubba.

Come on, push it up, baby.

Push it up.

Push it up.

Push it up.

Push it up.

Come on, give me another one, mama. Push it up.

Come on, one more. Push it up.

Good boy.

They got a half-decent box office to hold us till the concert opened the

matinee.

I thought we was gonna take off the lady who eyeballed us first. We are.

The way I figure we find her is we go back to that, uh, theater about the same

time of day we took off the box office.

And just wait for the bus.

Yeah. Then we follow her home.

That was about three o'clock.

We hit here at noon.

Then we do the lady.

Ann Perry either has something to give or she doesn't. We've done our best.

No, we haven't. We've done our best. We've broken through, got the evidence,

and nailed those scum.

I should be so determined about my rock concert tickets.

What's the matter?

Didn't the scalpers flock?

Well, they flocked all right.

The price was more than my paycheck.

Those scalpers should attend a session or two with me and those kids from the

institute.

That's a place where honesty can hit you right between the horns.

Kids got to you, huh?

I'll tell you, Hooker.

Those are the first blind kids I ever really got even that close to.

They're really something.

Yeah. And Ann, she's... What can I say? She's terrific.

You know, thanks to Ann, those kids from the Institute go to school every day

with sighted kids who've come to see them as not that different rather than

handicapped. At Ann's classes, they learn to adapt, fit in better, feel good

about themselves.

Who knows? Maybe...

In a generation or two, handicap won't be a word we use anymore.

4 Adam 30, 4 Adam 30, shots fired at the roller dome.

214 South Beachwood, handle code 3.

4 Adam 30, roger.

No leads, no witnesses.

There's no doubt in my mind who's responsible.

There's a pattern now, Hooker. Box offices. And our friends just graduated

to the A-list.

Murder.

Let's go. I want to talk to Ann Perry again. She gets off her bus in ten

minutes.

How would you like a police escort?

That's the best offer I get all day.

I'm late and a friend's going to take me downtown. I've got to talk to the

committee again about integrating blind children into a sighted world.

Here.

You're going to get me there so much faster. Well, I always knew I'd be of

service somehow.

Thank you.

Well, then, ain't she cozy with the cops?

So long, Ann. Bye-bye. Thank you.

Well, here I am again, Ann, asking for help, only this time a man is dead.

Hooker, why do you insist on believing that I have the courage to be involved

in this?

Because I'm impressed.

Amazed, really, at the way you handle the kids at the Institute, the way you

live your life so independently.

If I were in your place...

I don't think I could handle the things that you do.

You just won't take any kind of no I give you, will you?

And there are two animals out there.

More and more of them are getting the idea that they're immune.

Free to take whatever they want.

I need some kind of lead, some kind of evidence.

Do something about them.

Because if I stop trying, the community belongs to them.

Not to you. Not to me.

But to them.

All right, Hooker.

But just this much.

There were two of them. One black, one white.

How do you know?

I'm a linguist, remember?

And there's my ride.

Oh, boy, are we late.

I'll be right there, Mrs. Johnson. I am really late. Please.

What else did you hear?

What about a regional accent?

The white one, I'm pretty sure is from the southwest, probably Oklahoma.

And his friend is from the south, maybe Louisiana.

You're terrific.

What else? Think hard.

There must be more. Hooker, I am not involved and I am late. Ann, please.

This is important.

You must tell me everything.

Hooker, where I'm going is important, too. This meeting tonight is the result

of a two-year uphill battle for those children. If I am ten minutes late,

they'll scratch me from the agenda, and it'll take me at least three months to

get back on.

What time will you be back?

You are pushy.

By eight.

I'll be here.

A bottle of champagne to celebrate after I've picked your brain.

I like that.

Now we know where she lives.

And we'll be back.

After dark.

You get that information into the mill?

Yep.

Stacy and I got on the horn, coordinated with Oklahoma and Louisiana State

Police, to begin a search with that partial...

The lab got out of the stolen van.

You're learning, Junior. Well, it's a long shot and skimpy.

Heck, a lot better than we had before.

You know, I was critical of you pushing Ann.

I was wrong.

I can see that now.

No apologies necessary.

And now we're on the racquet.

See you in the a.m.

You still working on those concert tickets?

Yep. And this time, I am gonna score. I got me a hot lead in the form of a

righteous policeman.

Well, just be sure the hot lead doesn't burn you. No way. I'm a Californian.

Awesome. Totally awesome.

delivery man

Might as well come on out now.

It don't matter, baby.

As a matter of fact, just might make it a little more fun.

Hey, look at this.

A blind cane.

Hell, this lady can't do us no harm.

She's blind.

Ann, it's Hooker. Are you in there?

so so

I think that's them.

Stay right here.

That's all right. Stay right here.

Let me go.

Hooker, 18 years ago, my father's drugstore was burned because he refused

to pay protection money.

We lived above the store, and the stairs collapsed while my parents were trying

to carry me out of the fire. You don't have to tell me any of this.

My mother, she died in that fire, Hooker, and I suffered optic nerve

trauma.

Those flames were the last thing that I ever saw.

Before the fire, my...

Father told the police everything that he knew.

Names and descriptions, but nobody was ever arrested.

And he died two years later.

And on his deathbed, he said to me that he

should have paid the protection money.

I'm really sorry I pushed as hard as I did. I should have stayed and I should

have told you everything.

Everything that I knew.

And you heard only one name used?

It was Bobby Joe.

That was the Caucasian's name.

Nothing on the other guy?

Except the odor.

I recognized the smell from the theater robbery. It was liniment, like athletes

use. Anything else?

Boots.

The small Caucasian wore high-heeled boots, probably Western.

I'll get this on the wire.

It's going to be all right, Anne.

I've arranged for room for you.

And a 24-hour guard until we nail these guys.

But when they discovered I was blind, I heard them say that I couldn't be a

threat to them.

Well, you are.

You can put the two of them in the theater.

Ballistics can tie the bullet from Laurie Webber's wound to the roller dome

killing. You're the key to their conviction.

Four W-90 on tack one. Four out of 30.

Go, Stacy.

Tellick's just in from Oklahoma, Romano. They have one of the suspects ID'd

behind the partial print.

Bobby Joe Nash, two-time loser, bartender by trade.

Affects western attire.

Stacy, have they telephoned with a mugshot of him?

Should be here within an hour.

Thanks, Stacy. That's a roger.

We're starting to cook, Junior. Next stop, bartender's union.

You the owner of the bar, Terry Megan?

I got a picture here I'd like you to take a look at.

Union tells me he works here.

Now listen, Megan, without even looking, I know that girl in the corner there is

underage.

I'll just bet there are a couple of whiskey bottles in the trash that

haven't been broken so you could do some whiskey watering.

I just guessed the alcoholic beverage control boys could add that to assorted

other offenses and come up with a three-month closure.

Name's Bobby Joe Nash.

I know that.

Where can I find him?

I don't know. He stopped working for me a couple of weeks ago.

Where does he live?

I don't know.

Gypsy.

He's got a partner. Tell me about him.

Black guy. One of those muscle freaks.

Bodybuilder. And smelled liniment.

Yeah.

Does he have a name?

Luther... something. I don't know. I don't remember.

Where can I find him?

This boomerang's undead. You know that. Come on, Megan.

Where?

Works at the weight pen, not a muscle beach.

There's a lot of people in the box office.

This will get them out and us in.

Here. Put this on after I do the damage.

Oh, it's them, all right.

Mementos of their crimes.

The question is, what's their next hit? The Beach Boys concert.

Next performance began ten minutes ago.

Y'all gonna sing with us on this one too?

30 requesting fire department at the amphitheater. Possible structure fire.

Thank you.

You okay?

What could be wrong?

Working the music like that.

Oh, yeah, it's easy for you to say. I'm the one who's missing the concert.

You know, I've been thinking about that, Junior.

And I just might have to pull strings to make your California education complete.

I guess this is what's known as hooker magic.

Coming up with tickets to a sold-out concert. No, I can't believe it. How'd

you do it, hooker? Let's just say...

i called some friends let's go the concert started

coming

through it doesn't end this is the ace section of the concert excuse me hey

stacy oh unless you're dating teenyboppers i guess you got stood up

huh no way i'm with my favorite man this afternoon i'm with my favorite girl

now i'd like to introduce an old surfing buddy from malibu and now he's one of

the lcpd's finest sergeant tj hooker and with him his partner officer vince

romano that's me we used to call hooker the big kahuna the big

kahuna wax your board get into your wetsuit and after the concert i'll give

you a few tips on how to make that thruster safe

This one's for you, Hooker.

We'll be right back.

Thank you.