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Thank you.

Thank you.

Getting nervous?

Okay.

Besides, I need the bread.

Bye.

Not bad for your first time out, you know?

Any problems?

No. No problem.

Pay him, Blaine.

So where can we drop you off, kid, huh?

Dave's waiting on Fairview, about four blocks away.

Okay.

at it this way hooker there's a shortage of nurses fran's doing a good thing

besides being employed no she doesn't have to go back to work now the kids are

too young not that young they're in school most of the day well time marches

on hooker situations change people change and you're among them

it's a process called aging

how do you know so much about it well anyway i'm not getting into it

I've got too many things to take care of before I get old.

Papaya oil would help.

I'm almost afraid to ask.

The oil of papaya holds the secret of youth.

Yeah?

Papaya? Yeah.

Well, listen, I haven't had a glass of papaya juice in a long time. No, no, no,

not papaya juice. Papaya oil.

You'll rub it all over your body. No way.

Come on, it's great.

I'm not gonna rub fruit oil all over my body.

Okay, fine.

Someone put a cork in that bottle. Oh, terrific.

I'm watching a Mustang cross the road.

Oh,

man,

what if those cops make us?

Come on, officer, give me a break.

It is an easy thing to check on, especially when you're fried.

Get traffic moving, will you?

In 1943, a GTA occurred five minutes ago at the supermarket, Rio Mesa Shopping

Mall. A 1982 Ford Bronco, brown in color, was taken.

Suspect is a male. Everybody just makes dumb chicken jokes.

Kids plucked my feathers out. One kid gave me an egg, told me to sit on it.

Let's go. Let's clear this up right now. Back it up. Back it up right here. Let's

go. Come on.

You bring it right through here. Bring it right through there. Come on, honey.

There you go.

All right, right through there. Bring it right through there.

Step out of the car, please

Get away!

Get away!

Somebody get an ambulance!

Get an ambulance!

Hang in there, Brandon.

I thought you were working the fifth floor.

Oh, Hooker.

I heard the call. 4 Adam 30, officer down. I thought it was happening all

over again.

It has happened again.

Only this time it spins.

Yeah. You just come in.

The way you ordered.

Right, exactly.

Right down to the pinstripe.

Not bad for one day's work, huh? How can you do it?

How can you act like nothing happened?

Hey, listen to me, brother-in-law. The only thing that happened is we filled an

order in one day.

So now you can take out my baby sister to a decent meal for a change, right?

What if the kid talks?

He never been to the garage.

He don't even know our names.

Who knows?

He might even be dead by now.

Parker, 6 o'clock news.

Get a load of what the DA's stirring up.

Vincent Romano is reported to be under treatment for a head wound at Memorial

Hospital. Our Nightwatch News team was on the scene to get these pictures of

the actual shooting of the unarmed teenager.

Don't shoot!

Don't shoot!

The hospital has confirmed that the boy was shot in the back.

The district attorney has appointed a special investigator to deal with this

latest in a rash of police shootings.

The focus of the investigation, Sergeant T.J. Hooker.

It wasn't my bullet that hit the kid.

Ballistics will show that the minute the surgeons retrieve the slug. You don't

have to convince me, Hooker. I know how good a shot you are. But then they

should worry more about a cop that's still in ICU.

Do they know yet who the boy is? The detectives have ID'd him as Craig

Marshall, 18, no priors.

The ballistics hooker's talking about maybe a long time coming.

The boy's still critical and the bullets lodge between his third and fourth

vertebrae. The surgeons say it's too dangerous to try to remove it.

Fran, check on this again, will you?

Any word on the four-wheel drive?

It was the same vehicle that was stolen from the Rio Mesa shopping mall. The

description the woman gave fits Craig Marshall.

But she says he was alone. And before he hit that intersection, he picked up two

friends. One of them shot him, not me.

I wish we could prove that a lot faster than it looks like we're going to be

able to. There were witnesses there. They'll turn it around.

Look, there was also a lot happening there, Hooker. I mean, confusion. And

some of those witnesses are saying that you shot the boy.

I'm sorry I wasn't there, partner.

I'm sorry I didn't invite you.

Bullet grazed to the upper left forehead, causing a mild concussion.

Well, lucky the bullet hit you in the head, not one of your vital organs.

Funny guy.

Did you see anyone?

I remember walking up to the Bronco.

Then nothing.

You want to know what I remember?

Papaya oil.

Diner get my head blown off, and it's papaya oil rather than suspects.

You always were strange.

What is this with you and papaya oil? I'm planning this demonstration party

over at Sherry's bar so Daphne can explain her papaya oil personal care

products. I should have figured there'd be a Daphne at the bottom of your body

rub.

Get some rest and see to it. Yeah.

Hooker.

I know you weren't close enough to get a description.

I'm sorry I can't remember anything about the suspects.

No sweat.

It'll come back to you.

Are you satisfied that your partner's okay?

Physically, he's top-notch.

We'll just have to wait and see how he handles the survival syndrome.

Did the other TV channels pick it up?

And the Chronicle, evening edition, front page.

Stacy, anything on that hot four-wheel drive?

Not yet.

Listen,

do me a favor, will you?

Run that Greg Marshall kid through the field interview file.

Maybe he hasn't been arrested, but I can't believe he hasn't come close. The

good don't go bad overnight.

Done. How's Vince this morning?

Oh, fine. When I saw him an hour ago, he was inviting three nurses to Sherry's on

Friday. Three more?

I knew I shouldn't have let him talk me into hostessing that oil thing.

But being a gunshot victim and all... He can work every advantage.

Booker?

It's coming down like I said.

There's a lawyer here from the DA's office waiting to talk to you.

And three years ago, your partner was shot.

He died.

Naturally, it was tough for you. You second-guessed yourself. You evaluated

it over and over, and you made some decisions about how you wished you would

have dealt with it. It's called self-critique. It's a healthy process.

You guys ought to try it when you lose those open and shut cases in court.

Personality studies show that what you call self-critique sometimes builds in a

preconditioned response for the next time, Sergeant.

It's a preconditioned response working its way up from my gut.

My family, I don't want them to hurt any of them.

They went through this kind of smear once before.

Suddenly their friends stopped calling.

Little signs labeling their daddy a killer got scrawled on chalkboards at

school.

Strange voices on the phone uttered nasty words.

None of them slept too well.

All because people shut their mouths off, playing a guessing game called

informed speculation before the facts were in. The facts initiated this

investigation, Sergeant.

You have been involved in a number of other shootings.

Hey, you know that happens when you're a working street cat?

I mean, the bad guy gets shot sometimes, too, as well as the cop.

But it wasn't a bad guy you shot in the back yesterday, Hooker. It was an

unarmed juvenile.

You know, I'm getting tired of saying this.

The TV camera didn't show the guy in the truck.

He shot the boy, not me.

It's not just the TV tape. We talked to the witnesses.

Now, wait a minute. You know yourself.

There was a lot of confusion among the witnesses.

Unfortunately for Hooker, there was confusion.

Some of the witnesses don't think you shot the boy.

But then, they didn't have a clear view.

Being ever so humble, this is it.

Yeah, well, it beats a hospital room.

Give me 15 minutes to suit up. Whoa, whoa. Take it easy. Tomorrow will be

soon enough. And I've got a class this afternoon.

Besides, you've got an interview.

For what?

The shooting team talked to me in the hospital.

Way past the shooting team.

This one belongs to the DA's office now.

Politics. But what about the kids? Certainly he can tell them it wasn't

you. No, he can't.

Greg Marshall died an hour ago.

Look at this.

Look at what?

Youth wounded in police shootout dies.

The district attorney's office is awaiting autopsy results to confirm

suspicions that Greg Marshall was struck by a police bullet.

But we know the cops didn't do it.

Yeah, but they don't.

Anything on the stolen Bronco?

No, sir.

But I did get the computer run you asked for on the stolen four-wheel drive.

Good.

Hooker, I do have the detectives all over this case.

I could use any help I can get.

That slick in there with Romano is gonna waste his time looking for car thieves

or my bullet, because he believes.

The stolen four-wheel drive is the key. And I assure you, Hooker, everybody's

looking for it.

If it hasn't shown up now, it's because it's been changed.

A chop-chop job?

Why not?

They know it isn't just kids. There were two adults in that vehicle. If they're

pros, that Bronco won't look anything like it did before.

Hey.

Oh, uh, Stacy, uh, get out a special statewide M.O. bulletin on altered

Broncos, new paint jobs, anything that remotely smells of a chop job. I want it

tossed. Yes, sir.

You sound like a committed cop, Captain.

I sound like you, Hooker.

How is it working with an older partner?

Hooker?

Oh, I don't think of him as an older partner.

I didn't mean physically older as much as mentally.

There is a generation separating the two of you.

Well, according to Hooker, it gives us a wider base of experience.

Well, my boss and a few other important people in this city think that maybe

Hooker's experience is working against a safe community.

Is that what you think, too?

Or are you just doing your job?

Early in his career, Sergeant Hooker's partner was shot.

He died.

Well, if you'll examine the records, you'll find that that partner made a

tactical error.

Like I did.

It wasn't Hooker's fault then or now.

You were shot, Romano, down on the streets.

Shot by someone in that vehicle. The marshal boy came running from that

vehicle, unarmed.

Maybe Hooker was getting even for you.

No way. For his other partner, the one that died?

No.

Are you sure, Vance?

Are you absolutely sure?

Yeah.

David, this is Blaine.

Sorry to hear about Greg.

Lousy cops.

He didn't have a gun or anything.

His hands were in the air. Hey, David, calm down.

Let them take care of their own.

Listen, I need a couple more four-wheel drives.

Do you think you can handle that?

There's an orchard full of them out there.

Just name the make and model.

Sounds good.

Thanks.

All right, so push Paul. Grab his wrist. Real tight. Bring him around.

That's it.

Take over, Sergeant Trout.

Bad news.

Ballistics report.

Inconclusive, I know.

Bone damage to the slug. They couldn't make a clear-cut comparison one way or

the other.

That report just came into the captain's office. How did you find out? Hey, when

you've been around as long as I have, you get plugged in.

I still have a few friends around here. I was counting on that ballistics report

to put an end to the DA's witch hunt so things could get back to normal around

here. There's got to be something we can do, Hooker. Well, according to the

computer, there is, and we'll get to it tomorrow morning.

You got a lead on a stolen four-wheel drive?

Indirectly. It's going to take a lot of work.

I want to circle search the pattern that's been built up behind the last

dozen four-wheel drive thefts.

Hey, I'm rested.

Dining the street and I'm dying to unload those barracudas

Yesterday

put

two more notches in the pattern one four-wheel drive from the Rio Mesa

shopping center Another one five blocks away from the studio center complex

You're talking about a possible chop shop. It doesn't figure for pros to be

going back to the same areas. No, I don't think Greg Marshall was a pro.

I think he was working for one.

I think his replacement fits the same pattern.

Lazy and looking for easy pictures.

Romano.

You all recovered now?

Thanks to medical science and an incredibly resilient body.

Oh, good.

Now you can hustle your incredible body over to Sherry's.

You know how many people are coming to your soiree?

The more the merrier.

Chips and dips and crackers and pretzels. I am getting phone calls for

reservations. Plus, those personal care products are being shipped here. I

cannot keep up with all of it. Hang in there, Stacey. You can handle it. I just

gave up Romano. Hey, come on.

You're not a quitter, are you?

Oh, uh, we gotta get going. Look, just sign my name on the statement, okay?

You will be rewarded, Stacey.

I like beer nuts.

Pour a little salt.

Sixteen four-wheel drive stops and three hours of circle searching.

Said police work with glamour.

I don't know who.

There's one more for the computer.

Tell them we're Code 6 Adam. Give them our location.

Romano!

Romano.

Tell them we're Code 6 Adam.

Code 6, right.

4 Adam 30, Code 6 at... Riverdale and Union Way.

Put your hands behind your head.

The ignition was punched out.

Kid must have just picked it up.

Stupid kid, he could have been killed.

Then we could have lost him.

We weren't too quick on the radio.

Yeah, well, I'm sorry I got this roaring headache, you know.

Yeah.

Physical wounds heal fast.

The emotional laughter affects.

No. You see, at the hospital, they mentioned something about delayed

reaction. You know, like the guys who came back from now.

It was a while after I got shot.

I began to have thoughts.

Thoughts? Hooker, who said anything about thoughts?

I'm getting headaches, that's all. Just headaches.

Relax, Romano.

It's normal to feel unsure when you come so close.

I'm not unsure.

I'm not.

But my problem is physical.

Physical.

So let's drop it, okay?

Let's drop it.

something for you from the computer run on the field interview cards greg

marshall i ran his name dob and driver's license we scored on a cross reference

under primary associates marshall gregory c and the company of david

harman observed loitering near square deal used car lot look a few lines down

harman david joyriding possession of stolen property i think i'm gonna have a

little talk with david harman you know where he is we bagged him on the gta i

want to know where you're going I knew we were planning on seeing you.

And when I tell you nothing, what are you gonna do?

Gun me down like you gunned down Greg?

Sit down.

Got it all figured out, haven't you?

Joyriding bust, easy hit.

Stick it to the cop who shot your friend.

Walk out of here with a smile on your face.

You got it, big daddy. No, you got it, sunshine.

You got a point, cop.

Make it.

Put the tape on record.

The cop here didn't shoot your friend.

I know you don't choose to believe that.

Any more than you choose to believe that the ice man was in the car with your

friend Greg.

The dude who pays the bills.

I don't know what you're talking about.

Of course not.

Just keep the recorder on.

The bullet I squeezed off is somewhere inside a chopped Bronco. I'm looking for

it. Because if you don't take me to the people who shot your friend, that four

-wheel drive will.

You're so full of it.

I saw you in full living color on the 6 o'clock news, cop.

You did it. You murdered Greg.

Just keep it going.

Because one day you'll rewind and put it on playback.

Your friend Greg got nervous.

He ran.

They pulled the plug on him. They did it. The same ones who put a bullet in my

partner's face.

I want him, sunshine.

I want them, and I'm going to get them.

With or without your help, they're going to fall.

And I mean hard.

Your bail's come through, so this time I'm going to get you off the streets.

But maybe this time, they will.

Permanently.

Because you don't believe.

Sorry about today.

How are they going to control, is it?

Oh, I guess the papaya oil has been delivered.

That's a lifetime supply for Orson Welles. You didn't buy all that, did

you?

No, I just laid out the money till Daphne gets here.

She'll sell it all at the personal care demo party. You know this Daphne long

enough to know she's good for the money?

Absolutely. She's a local stew, flies in and out of town.

She does this demonstration, Rob, you have to see it to believe it. This stuff

will sell, believe me. Yeah, I think you put yourself out on a limb for it.

No problem.

No problem.

Heavy date last night?

Huh? Oh, no.

I just didn't get much sleep.

Well, I guess I'd be worried, too, if I had all that papaya oil on my hands.

Hooker.

What's this remedial training you've got set up for me anyway? Here it is,

Junior. New situation I want you to try on.

You get away from me. Come on, put the knife down. Nobody wants to hurt you.

Just put the knife down.

No, I won't.

Why don't you go ahead and shoot me?

I'm no good anyway. Go ahead.

Shoot me.

Nobody wants to hurt you. Just put the knife down. You're going to throw me out

of my house. That's the place I live.

Come on, nobody cut your furniture.

Everybody's okay.

Just put the knife down.

I don't want to put the knife down. Shoot me. Go ahead, shoot me.

No, we're not going to shoot you. Just put the knife down. Come on. Nobody

wants to hurt you. Just put the knife down. You're going to throw me out of my

house.

Come on, nobody cut your furniture.

Come on, put the knife down. Nobody wants to hurt you. Just put the knife

down.

That's good.

Just put it down.

All right, partner, come on in and pick up that knife.

You're dead, Romano.

Your partner's dead.

Some film.

Caught me off guard, I guess.

That's twice.

What? You froze.

You're not dealing with it.

Dealing with what?

Yourself. Your fear.

It was a simulated incident, Hooker. I'm just fine. Get off my back, okay?

Can't.

I can't do that.

I need a partner who can function.

You were a better cop when you had two weeks on the job.

If you don't think I cut it, Hooker, maybe you should be working with another

partner.

I don't think I can't handle what's up. Ah, good news. The CHP just informed us

they've recovered the four-wheeler up in Newhall.

Right. And the bend number's been altered, new paint job. You should have

it down here by this afternoon.

There's a bullet in that set of wheels that should turn the heat off.

Well, I hope so, Hooker, because the DA just informed us that he's going to put

you on public display in spite of the inconclusive evidence.

Coroner's jury?

Yep. With all the trappings.

Great.

It's just what I need.

It's just what my family needs.

should be here in an hour to start going over it what do you say we take our own

look at my bullet i sure hope it's there hooker the pressure around this place is

getting heavier by the minute that's part of the job stacy just remember if

you're right nobody can change it tell that to romano you should have heard the

way he was talking at lunch today he's really bad mouthing the department the

system everything yeah but i think that's temporary he's hitting at every

target but the right one the way he was talking at lunch today i don't think

he'll be around much longer to hit anything he's talking resignation in a

dozen different ways It's about 90% of what's on his mind, if you ask me.

I didn't think it had gotten that far.

The garage is this way, Hooker.

You've just changed my priorities.

You're taking incredible hope pills or something.

Hey, you want another partner?

You ready?

Ready.

I hear you're having doubts about

carrying your badge.

You're under the knife.

What about your dice?

Nobody out there cares what kind of job we do.

He didn't sign on to take Bauhaus.

Stop looking for excuses to quit, Junior.

Take out the real reason.

Deal with it. You might just find you don't want to quit at all.

through the survival syndrome i know it happened to me you're composed

of buying it and then every time you roll you think it's going to happen

again this time they won't miss

cleaning the sleaze and slime off the streets.

Everybody has to stay locked up in their homes.

Those vermin multiply. They feed on decent people and cops, good cops.

Keep them in their holes, and you're a good cop, Romano.

I'd personally like to see you hold on to that badge.

The D.A. has nothing conclusive, so he's holding a coroner's jury to hear my case

tomorrow.

Figures it'll get a lot of press.

Why don't you hang in there with me for the circus?

Who knows, you might just get your picture in the paper.

I don't know how I'll handle myself on the street when it comes.

You called it right in the simulator.

Hey, Ramona.

Right now, I know you can handle it.

You just have to prove it to yourself.

Nothing so far, and they've been all over it.

I missed the gun, but not by much.

That bullet is in the vehicle, probably in the seat.

Not these. Look at them.

Custom, brand new. Yeah, it does look like a complete overhaul.

First class, too.

Spring lock handles.

Look at these chrome wheels.

Nickel-plated, pinstripe. A Weber 411 chrome bumper.

I've never seen a bumper like this before. That's because there aren't many

around. Weber's one of those old line companies.

Limited custom production.

A beginning.

Stacy, check the local distributors of custom auto parts. See who handles the

Weber 411 bumper for four-wheel drives.

It's a slim beginning, especially with the DA's show and tell starting

tomorrow. That's all we've got.

I'm running with it.

Blaine, you here?

What are you doing here?

How'd you find this place?

I was curious.

Let me take the cars.

I phoned you one day. It was easy.

What do you want? Make it quick.

Aren't you gonna introduce me?

Oh, yeah.

This is David Harmon. He's one of the kids who, uh... Oh, of course.

Any problems, David? Yeah, there's a problem.

Cops picked me up. Ah, we heard.

That was quite stupid of you to let that happen, David.

Maybe.

But I'm looking at a joyriding charge, which is going to bring down some heavy

legal fees.

How heavy are we talking?

I don't know.

A couple thousand, maybe?

Oh, that seems like a reasonable request.

Would you mind if we step in the office and discuss the amount, David?

Good. Come on.

Excuse us.

I'm sorry about that. Get rid of him.

Sure, I will.

Let me get some money from the safe.

I mean permanently.

Anything yet?

I talked to the local Weber distributor.

There are only three shops near the Rio Mesa Mall that carry their 411 bumper.

Oh, Romano, I have a message for you from Daphne.

Oh. She just got a job with an international airline.

She'll be flying to Rome and Paris.

Oh, that's great.

She said she'll call you when she gets back to the States.

Sometime next year.

Oh, no. What am I going to do?

Don't worry. She's got a replacement for you. Her cousin.

Great.

I wonder what a cousin looks like.

Well, why don't you look on the bright side of it? If any of these cockeyed

schemes of yours ever work out and you make enough money to buy a big house and

a large swimming pool, you can always fill it with papaya oil.

Ha, ha.

Yeah, get me the police, quick.

This is David Harmon. Is Sergeant Hooker there? It's for you, Hooker. David

Harmon.

Hello. You were right. They did it. They shot Greg.

And they're gonna shoot me. I'm at the Gearbox Transmission Shop, 500 South

Sherwood Street.

You see what I'm talking about?

David. What is it?

Shots fired.

Sounds like he's in real trouble. Where is he?

The Gearbox Transmission Shop on Sherwood Street.

Let's hit it.

He's down here. He's back there. Go that way.

You okay?

Yeah.

I'm okay.

Come on.

Nice try, Dave.

Come on.

I'm sorry. This has got to be done.

He's wounded. We'll need an ambulance.

They did it. They shot Greg.

Three-quarters on playback.

This car seat here has got a bullet hole in it.

Oh, by the way, welcome back, partner.

Coming through.

Thank you.

Step right up.

That'll be $5, please.

Look, pal, you gotta buy a bottle of... Hooker!

Hi, Sergeant.

Sorry, I didn't know it was you. You see, I got this deal with Sherry. Taking

over the bar for today. It's great, huh?

Papaya oil must be a hot item.

That's not all that's hot around here.

You see, Daphne's cousin Zelda showed up to do the body rub demonstration.

Zelda?

You've got to buy a bottle of oil before you can go in. Five dollars.

But for you, my buddy, my pal, my partner, $3.50.

I'm just kidding.

Stacey, take it over, will you?

Can you?

Watch this. Take a gander.

Ooh. Zelda brought her brother Herbie along.

I was wondering why all the ladies were here.

All right, Romano, you sure lucked out.

Yeah. And this is only the beginning.

Zelda does this incredible thing with extract of guava.

Bye.