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Bye.

Easy friend what makes you think it's gonna be easy.

I don't know how to get something like this done Hooker, you said you wanted to

get more involved in the children's activities.

Why don't you just talk to Chrissy?

Uh, no. No, no. Just wait a minute. Hi, Daddy.

Hiya, pumpkin.

You know, Daddy was just telling Mommy how terrific it's going to be that

you're going to be in the school play.

The play's in three days, Dad. Are you going to have my costume ready like Mom

said? Well, sweetheart, don't you worry. Old Dad's on the job.

You're gonna have the best costume of anybody.

Oh, great.

I can hardly wait to see it. Neither can I.

Sweetheart, let me speak to your mommy again.

Fran, did you know about alimony again, Hooker?

Worse. She stuck me with getting Chrissy a costume for her school play.

The Frog Prince.

Don't tell me.

Chrissy's... The Frog.

Sure laugh.

Where the heck am I going to get a costume like that?

Why couldn't she have been the princess?

Ah, yes.

She who kissed the frog and turned him into a prince.

Romano, you don't know your Grimm's fairy tales.

The princess didn't kiss the frog to turn him into a prince. She didn't? No.

She threw him against the wall. Huh.

No kidding.

What a lousy way to start off a love affair. Yeah.

It's a little off the wall.

Can you spot the source?

I don't see any flashes.

You go for Coleman. I'll go for Marsh. Go!

of code zebra forget code zebra he's long gone

uh

that's part of the clash you're taking over tomorrow for its final training

phase yeah some say it's the best class to come down the pike in years they sure

look solid physically yeah yeah

Especially the one on the end.

Her name is Kate Nichols.

And I am going to find a way to get to know her. Sure wish I had that problem.

Instead of a frog costume.

Hooker.

Let your fingers do the walking.

The yellow pages.

Ever hear of theatrical costumes? They have everything.

Yeah? Yeah.

I swear, Hooker, you're so helpless.

What would you do without me? More police work?

Funny guy.

Hooker, Romano.

Captain's waiting for you.

I hear it was pretty hairy out there.

Hairy? It was a nightmare.

Listen, Stacy, pull recruit, uh, Nichols' background package for me, will

you? Thanks.

Background package?

Is this official, Romano?

Well, of course it is.

I'm assisting Sergeant Hooker with his class.

Well, just what is it you want from Nichols' package?

Special interests, hobbies, that sort of thing.

I must know our students so as to afford them maximum assistance, you know?

I'm sure glad this desk is a couple feet off the floor.

Must be awfully deep where you're standing.

Not deep, Officer Sheridan.

Filled with opportunity.

I've doubled the detective manpower on this.

Three patrol cars sniped at in two weeks. Now, we're lucky no one was

killed. I don't think luck had anything to do with it, Captain.

You got some facts? Hooker, get to them. Okay.

Fact.

Sniper's primary targets were the black and whites from the academy precinct.

If he were really after the officers, he'd have nailed the drivers or the gas

tanks. Fact.

Romano and I were dead meat.

If the sniper were on a real hunt, the number of rounds he fired, it took an

expert to miss us.

Fact. We never saw the flash from his weapon.

He must be using a flash suppressor.

Add that to the fact that he's using an M-14, means we're up against a sniper

that could only have been trained in one place.

Nom, Captain.

The M-14 was the sniper's baby.

All right. What does he want? What is he after?

Could be AIDS cops, just cops from this precinct. No, Romano. He's not crazy.

He's too careful. Even his escape route was carefully planned.

I like your analysis. I'll pass it along.

Get him looking at the military angle.

Now, uh, regarding the notice about the mayor's visit that's been posted on the

activity board for the past week...

So the mayor is concerned about the female washout, right? What else is new?

What else is new is that in three days he'll be here for his own personal look

-see. And in three days, Hooker, I want that class of yours to shine.

And you don't want me to lean too hard on the women, is that right?

No, you are the last training officer on earth that I would ever ask to ease up

on anybody.

I think that was a compliment.

I think it's the captain's way of saying that we should be especially careful in

documenting female washouts. Or his way of suggesting that the training

officer's assistant should make sure that the women are not distracted.

I heard a newsflash on the radio. Yeah, I had to pick off another patrol car.

Why? Why did you have to do that? Well, I had to see how the academy precinct

was filed in an emergency.

You see, they've set up this plan they're calling Code Zebra. They set it

up after the first two snipings. But the men in the car... They're alive and will

live to tell the tale.

I told you no one was going to get killed.

The important thing is this code zebra didn't even get implemented, and that's

good news. Now, I want you to go down to the 5th Street bus station.

I want you to go where the lockers are, and I want you to open this locker,

okay? Inside, there's some electronic equipment, and there's a set of

lockpicks. You take the electronic equipment over to your house, and you

bring me the lockpicks, okay?

Lockpicks? What for?

To get me the last piece of information I need.

All the planning's about to pay off. The Academy precinct is the perfect target.

My fire base in the park is just about set up.

And his honor, the mayor, visits on Friday.

You know how much I love you.

I've stayed with you through so much.

But, Jeff, please, you're going too far this time.

You give me five minutes in that room, I'll know where they're weak and where

they're strong and where I have the best advantage.

So you get me those lockpicks.

Wild shots.

Speedy low.

Fire at will.

The

recruit firing

at number two.

Is this target as good as his form?

Six rounds, dead center. What's his name?

Turner. Jeff Turner.

Believe me, Hooker, out there somewhere, there is a frog for Creasy. Yeah, well,

I'm open for ideas.

I'll tell you what.

I'll get the frog costume for you.

Yeah? Yeah.

What's the catch?

Well, I have heard that you have Warner's boat on loan for next weekend,

and I was wondering... I heard that you checked out Nichols' hobbies.

Boating, water skiing.

That among them?

I'll take the boat Saturday night. You can have it back by Sunday. Look at my

mouth.

Read my lips. I see. You focus very clearly. You got your beady eyes on my

little mouth. No problem. Right there. No way. No way.

I've been planning this one weekend by myself with a fishing pole for six

months. Okay, fine. Forget it.

It's over. Finished.

Poor Chrissy. Okay. She's going to be so disappointed. I mean, I could just see

her little eyes.

I'm starting my kick.

You drop back. Push Nichols.

Don't risk a boating invitation until Chrissy has frog in hand. That's the

bottom line, Romano. Never fear.

The frog prince is here.

Ribbit. Ribbit. All right.

Pick him up.

Let's push it.

All right. Lift him up. Come on. We're going to kick now.

Come on. Lift him up.

Come on, Nichols.

Tough it out.

Try to stay with me. Come on.

Don't do me any favors.

I'm used to running against the clock.

You'll be chasing bad dudes, not clocks.

Your partner's gonna be dependent on you.

Come on. Let's see you go for it. Come on. No pain, no gain.

Let's go. Let's go.

Let's go, Turner.

Come on, Turner.

Come on, Turner.

Let's go, Turner.

Good race, Turner.

Not good enough, sir.

Jeff?

Mind if I take a minute, sir? Take two.

Thank you, sir.

All right, Nichols. All right.

Nice finish. 6.5 seconds off your best time.

I can't believe it. I forgot all about the clock.

Got the lockpicks?

Good girl.

See, this goes... Go on.

Oh!

This was the final position of the police vehicle. Both officers on the

roadway, both officers disarmed, both officers dead. Lights, please.

The officers you just saw didn't talk vehicle approach tactics.

So the driver officer was suddenly staring down the barrel of the suspect's

.45 auto. The passenger officer was told to give up his weapon by the suspect or

watch his partner die.

So he gave up his gun.

Partner died anyway.

So did he.

Bottom line.

Officer survival begins with communication.

Any questions?

All right.

I'll see you at hand-to-hand later this afternoon. Class dismissed.

This may sound like a dumb question, but, uh... Do you sew?

Sure, why?

Well, I need your help.

It might be to our mutual benefit.

Our mutual benefit, huh?

Yeah.

Talk about it at lunch?

How can I say no?

I mean, after you gave me the tip on how to breathe when I shoot, my range

score's up eight points.

Really? Yeah, look.

Look how I'm breathing already.

It's terrific.

Just, uh... Terrific.

Thanks.

No, no. Thank you.

May I ask you a question, sir? What is it, Turner?

I don't have any argument with the communications advice, but I recall

reading in one of the tactical bulletins and in the training manual that an

officer should never give up his weapon. I mean... Under no circumstances.

I don't recall that material being issued to the class yet. I like to read

ahead, sir. It's a habit of mine. But I was wondering why you didn't share that

policy with the class, sir.

You'll find a difference between the field and the tactical manual, Turner.

It's easy to write absolute in a book.

But it's never the same out on the streets.

There's nothing certain out there.

And I won't tell a cop.

There's a strict policy to follow when he's making his own decision.

About a survival.

Well, now, sir, does that come from here or from down here?

A little of both.

Okay, yeah. Well, thank you. Yes, sir. Thank you, sir. Okay.

You've got to admit, the guy is sharp.

Do I?

How do you like it?

It's great. It's terrific.

It's a pattern, not a costume.

Yeah, well, you were right.

There is not a frog costume to be found anywhere. Romano, the play starts

tomorrow night at 6.

Fran expects the costume there an hour early, and I know you don't sew.

Not to worry. I've mobilized the troops.

What troops?

Who else? The lady who's going to enjoy the day with me on the boat.

She's going to sew the bottom end. Romano, there's no boat yet.

Who else?

Well, I'm still mobilizing but not to worry hooker

All

right

Turner good strategy

offense is the best defense results stink your partner's dead i guess i blew

it i guess all right get up your partner can't read your mind

so if you're gonna make the first move you gotta take on both adversaries give

your partner time to react any

questions all right

break into groups of four get it on

You all right, Nichols?

You're a little hard on Turner, weren't you? He's Harden's partner.

Well, maybe.

He certainly knows his hand-to-hand.

Any break in the sniper investigation?

No, zero.

What are the detectives doing, sitting on your hands?

Well, I guess they're just not as fast as you used to be when you were flashing

a gold shield, Hooker.

Take care.

47.

Hooker. Look, I hate to side with the brass, but Turner is better than that.

Yeah, well, you're judging performance. I'm rating attitude.

Break him loose. End of watch.

Okay, end of watch. Hit it.

Looking good, Kate.

Thanks, Vince.

That work we did on quick moves instead of strength and hand-to-hand, it works

great. Yeah?

Well, I have a few other ideas that we can work on today.

Yeah? It's a combination of Aikido and karate.

I can, Vince.

Why not?

Not if I'm gonna get the bottom half of that costume done in time.

Oh.

Maybe we'll do it some other time, okay?

Uh-huh.

Still making those phony moves on the new fish, huh, Romano?

What do you mean, phony?

Hey!

I'm your regular, sincere, upfront kind of guy.

Listen, Stacy, you said you were going to give me an answer about doing some

work on the top half of that frog costume.

Well, if I have time after Smitty. Smitty?

We've got this end-of-watch workout program we're into.

Oh.

Uh... The gym's over there.

Who said anything about a gym?

Not me.

Fantastic, Fran.

Uncle Vince, Daddy said you were helping with my costume.

Well, I thought you deserved some credit for all your help, Ramona.

Thanks. Is it gonna be ready in time, Uncle Vince?

Is it gonna be ready in time, Uncle Vince?

Don't you worry about a thing, Chrissy, darling.

It's going to be ready in no time at all.

And speaking of the frog prints, you have to practice your lines, Chrissy.

Okay. Guess I better be good with all the trouble getting a costume. I guess

so. I mean, come on.

Good night, Daddy. Good night, sweetheart.

I can't wait to see the costume, Uncle Vince.

Well, it'll be terrific.

You can count on it.

See you all at the play.

Good night, sweetie.

Was something bothering you tonight, Hooker?

What's something bothering me? I'm eating my cake. Like a recruit named

Turner? You crossed my mind.

Marginal? One you might have to terminate?

Romano doesn't seem to think so.

We looked at his military record together.

I learned that Turner and I were in Nam at the same time.

Well, he'd won the Bronze Star.

You pay the price before they pin that on you.

Oh, how I know that.

In so many ways.

Turner's military record showed that he barely qualified in the Army rifle

range.

Now he's a distinguished expert.

I guess that's what set Hooker off.

Hooker, are you worried that the war made this Turner into something or

somebody who shouldn't be a police officer?

When you share the trenches and the jungles and the firefights, you get to

know what it's done and what it hasn't done to vets.

I know the streets in the same way, Fran.

That's Guy Turner.

He's not a soldier. He's not a cop.

And hand-to-hand this afternoon.

His first reflex was to save himself.

He even used his partner to do it.

But it was in a classroom situation where you're allowed to make mistakes

and learn from them. But I think I just heard Hooker say that he was selfish,

Vince. I don't think that I would want to have a selfish partner out there in

that jungle you two play in.

It's a game of life and death.

And it's my responsibility to decide...

whether Turner is worthy to be another cop's partner.

You gotta believe what I'm saying to you. I'm telling you. We're gonna make

it. We're gonna be rich.

You gotta trust me. Jeff, please.

I'm frightened for you.

I'm trying to understand, baby.

Get out of NAMM.

I beat 40 years in an army stockade because I take on the identity of a dead

man. But all those cities.

One plan after another that didn't work out, you were always running from some

kind of trouble. Yeah, well, that's what happens when you depend on other people

like idiots who can't handle nothing.

It's not going to happen again. I learned my lesson. This time it's me,

just me.

Then why did you have to join the police force?

Okay, General Patton read Rommel's book on tank warfare, see? And he beats the

guy. Well, I'm going to do the same thing. I'm going to beat them at their

own game.

Oh, God, Jeff.

It's going to make my escape from the fire base that much easier.

Like the VC pulling out a holding gorge.

That was war.

This isn't.

Yeah, it's a war.

It's a war.

I've been fighting it since I was 11 years old, since some cops got me an

alley and beat up on me unmercifully

for stealing a bicycle.

And it's been that way ever since.

Cops here, cops there, shaking me down the street, MPs hassling me in Vietnam.

You're attacking a police station because you hate cops.

Yeah, you got it.

It's my way.

And it's brilliant.

Because those cops aren't prepared for their own to be the target.

Sergeant Hooker?

Zona was wondering if you'd give us a shooting exhibition.

I saw you win the championship last year, Sergeant.

Remarkable performance.

Thank you. I seem to recall I had a strong wind and weak competition in my

favor. It might be valuable if you gave these recruits a standard to try for.

I'll give it a try.

Your Honor.

34 seconds. Score perfect.

Thank you.

All right, Turner, I know your classmates are waiting for the big

shootout.

Let's not keep them in suspense.

Yes, sir.

42 seconds. Score perfect.

Hey, Hooker, you edged him by eight seconds, but he got an extra bad guy.

That makes it a draw.

You better talk to that cowboy about target selection, Hooker. You might be a

hostage yourself someday.

Luke took the words right out of my mouth.

That hostage target was questionable with a rifle.

A definite no-no with a pistol.

I want to talk to you later.

About that?

Among other things.

Yes, sir.

Palmer on deck.

Nichols, you're up.

Hey, guys.

What do you think?

Great. Stacy, you are a lifesaver. Not yet, Ramona. You need the other half

before you get the boat on Saturday.

A boat?

Romano, you use my labor to hustle yourself a boat?

Yeah, well, why?

Ah, yes.

Recruit Nichols' hobbies.

Hooker? Romano?

Aaron?

There's not a whole lot of difference between the mascot and the mascot.

See what I mean?

Hooker, a Colonel Evans of Army Intelligence called. He wants to meet

you in an hour.

Army Intelligence?

Yeah, I asked him to double-check Turner's military record.

It's cute.

It was for a good cause, Stacy.

Put it on, Romano, and I'll turn you into a prince.

Yeah?

No, that's okay. I know the story.

Colonel Evans says we found a man the army thought was dead.

Turner?

His real name is Kevin Wyman, an army explosives expert and sniper.

Our man switched identities with Turner?

The colonel zeroed in on the marksmanship discrepancy. Turner's

complete 201 file told him that the man we've been training is Kevin Wyman.

Intelligence was after Wyman as part of a Saigon drug ring in 1970.

He volunteered for snapper duty and disappeared into the bush before they

could catch him.

I can understand how Wyman could switch IDs with Turner and Knob, but how did he

get the army record switched?

Well, the drug ring had a contact inside the army records department.

He was weeded out, but not before he tampered with some of the files.

All right.

We know his name.

We know he was a criminal in the army.

But what's he up to now?

Now, we've already put in the additional wing here, and it's been enclosed today.

Captain, recruit Turner's on the phone. He says he knows the mayor's with you,

and he's going to blow up the station if you don't talk to him.

Okay, Captain, now you shut up and you listen.

Your whole station is mined with plastic explosives.

So even so much as one person tries to get out, I'm going to get myself a blue

light, and then all of you, and that includes the mayor, are going to get

blown up sky high.

You've got a city.

You tell the mayor I want $2 million.

I don't think that's an unreasonable request.

I'm gonna tell you how I want it and where I want it delivered when I'm

ready. But first, Captain, something you gotta understand.

You see, the money's more important to me than a whole lot of dead police

officers scattered all over the place.

So I'm gonna give you one last proof that I mean what I say.

I'm gonna perform magic, see?

So first off, I'm gonna make the storage room disappear.

Now, wait a minute.

Turner! You hold on now.

That's what he's up to.

Wyman has put a lot of planning into this, Captain.

Now that he's out in the open, he's got to go for broke.

Army confirms that he's an anti-personnel ordnance expert.

You let SWAT call the shots, he'll be pulling the plug on everyone in that

building. Now don't sell SWAT short hooker.

Test in one, two, three, four.

Hello, Captain Sheridan.

Okay.

I don't want any idle conversation.

I'm going to talk and you're going to listen.

First off, everyone in the station, you do just what the captain says, because

your lives are in his hands.

Now, SWAT units, you do not enter the park, you do not approach the station, I

mean, for any reasons, or your friends, you see, are going to be the consistency

of grease.

Okay, Captain Sheridan, here are your delivery instructions.

I want $2 million in unmarked bills.

I want the money delivered in precisely two hours. You're going to drop it by

helicopter in the small clearing marked with a white X.

I don't want to see anything unusual in that money, because if I do, you're all

going to be dead.

And you tell those chopper crews don't get cute, because I've got an M67 90mm

recoilless rifle, and I've been practicing.

Got it?

Captain, Wyman's a smart cookie.

Our only chance to nail him, maybe when he makes a run for it. What's your

assessment, Lieutenant Lopez?

Hooker gives him too much credit.

He's going nowhere with my men surrounding this park.

Captain.

Wyman didn't plan this whole thing and forget that he had to get out of the

park with the money.

And out of town, maybe out of the country. But how? With SWAT looking at

him on all sides.

Captain, the SWAT team is as good as I've seen in an urban environment.

But the park is no city. It's a jungle. And the man we're after is a jungle

fighter who knows everything about the SWAT operation.

What do you propose, Sergeant?

Romano and I go in. Alone, Mr. Mayor.

We've crawled through the same rice paddies as Wyman. I'm opposed, Captain.

They miss, there won't be another chance.

And if you miss, Lieutenant?

Then you call the best option you had available to you.

That's a safe decision, not an effective one. We're running out of time.

It's your call, Captain.

You're the best judge of your own resources, Captain.

He's praying we do it, partner.

After.

It's a frog costume. We got to get out of there.

Hello, Captain Sheridan.

This is a reminder that you've got 20 minutes to deliver the money. I repeat,

for the hard of hearing, 20 minutes.

This is it. You've got 20 minutes to make a draw.

Roger, Captain. We're on our way.

If Hook is right, he'll take the money and blow us up anyway.

That's his fire base, all right.

And I'm betting the storm drain is his escape route.

He's got to be up in the crest somewhere, watching the academy.

That's his route in and out, but it's probably booby-trapped.

We'll have to parallel it.

Fungi sticks.

I wasn't looking for this.

Don't. Don't pull your leg out.

Those shafts on the side will tear your leg to shreds.

You're gonna have to cut yourself off.

Lock's taken, Hooker.

You better move out.

I'll be back.

Yeah.

Put everything down, nice and easy, Turner.

Good going, Hooker.

You found me out. I figured you would.

But it's not gonna matter in the end.

Because unlike me, you're willing to die for somebody else.

So you drop that gun, or I'm gonna blow everyone in this station to smithereens.

Now that was against those odds I was telling you about.

People in the station are gonna die anyway.

That's how you kill Turner, Anand.

Well, just like this.

I'm a firm believer in flak jackets.

They cut the odds.

You lost something, partner. You okay?

Yeah.

I feel better knowing it works both ways.

You know what I like least about this maggot?

It's gonna be big news.

The cause of another Vietnam veteran headline.

I hate that.

I hate it because it rubs off on tens of thousands of decent Americans who fought

in Nam.

They shouldn't have to share the stench of scum like you.

Come on, quick, let's go, let's go.

Let's go, let's go.

Here, give me, give me, give me, give me.

Go, go, go.

You're playing up to the world. Look what I got.

I am glad you're all right, Hooker. Both of you.

Stacy was nice enough to call to tell us that you'd be late.

Mrs. Hooker, why don't I help you get Chris ready?

Five minutes, despair.

Thank you very much, all.

Well, I guess Saturday's on.

I got a word of advice.

Wait on me. I see signs of a guy chasing a girl till she catches it.

I wouldn't go on that boat alone with her.

You wouldn't? No way.

She's wrong for you, Romano. You think you're in the driver's seat, and next

thing you know, she's gonna ask you if you like kids.

Uh-huh. Is that the way Smitty's talking these days? At my age, I wouldn't hear

of it.

Well, you've both got her all wrong.

I just love my costume, Daddy. It's so beautiful.

You look terrific.

Better hug your costume designer. He got it mobilized.

Thank you.

Yeah, you're welcome. I never hugged a frog before.

We have to hurry, Chrissy, and I'll be right back.

Come on.

I asked one of the ladies to save us some seats.

You did? Yeah.

I love kids, don't you? Oh, no.

I mean, oh, yeah, I love them. I think we should invite a few to come on the

boat with us.

Hooker and Stacy are going to come along, aren't you guys? It'll be great

fun, really.

Hello.