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On the floor!

On the floor!

Get out!

Come on!

Hurry!

You! Get your hands on your head!

Four out of 30, roger.

On your feet, come on!

Everybody in the sleigh!

You two, move!

Get out!

It's not nearly bad enough.

OK, pal, there's no other way out.

Come out with your hands up.

Hands on the bar.

How was the suspect you shot?

He's got a 70-30 chance, but he's strong. They got a 24-hour guard around

his hospital room.

They say he can't be moved to the county jail ward until tomorrow, maybe the day

after. What's our next move?

The sweet young thing who dented your forehead.

Not to mention my ego.

Dr. Seidelman to X-ray, please. Dr.

Seidelman.

How's the old man?

I don't know. They got a guard outside his door.

We gotta do something fast. I heard some talk at the nurse's station. The cops

might try to send him to a jail ward tomorrow.

What do we do?

You're gonna come with me. We're gonna get a lay out of this place.

We're gonna get him out of here tonight.

Stacey, anything on our young lady bandit?

The matron found this in her search. Room 115, but no name of the motel on

it. I'm running it down now.

Did you run the prints on the suspect in the hospital? Mm-hmm. His name is Henry

Baker. The records show he has two sons and a stepdaughter.

I'm waiting for a rundown on them as well as the hotel robbery M.O. Two sons

and a stepdaughter.

Looks like we have a family operation on our hands.

Kathy.

What a shame.

Pretty girl like you.

The only shame is I got caught.

Things could be worse.

If you'd hit me just right with that bottle, you could have killed me.

Then you'd be looking at a murder charge.

Too bad the bottle wasn't a hammer.

Must be hard.

You're a tough guy, Act, and I don't think you are.

I'm not acting.

What you see is what you get. What I see is a kid who got herself deserted by a

bunch of cheap rip-off punks in front of the Excelsior Hotel today. They're not

cheap, and they didn't cut out on me.

You'll see.

My brothers will come back and bust me out of this dump. Brothers Baker.

And Father Henry.

They're not your blood relatives, are they?

How old were you when Henry married your mother?

Ten. If it's any of your business.

We're running a check.

You want to tell me now your first name?

Carol Ann.

Now I'm through talking.

Getting out of here.

Not until I make you an offer.

Free of charge. No strings attached.

I don't want anything from you.

Hey, Carol Ann.

Your stepfather and your stepbrothers are using you.

You have your whole life ahead of you.

You can be a new life if you cooperate with us.

How old are you, 17?

Bingo. Give the man a prize.

I'm guessing you lost most of your teens to a pack of mad dogs who used you to

pick up after them.

I bet you lost a lot of your childhood.

Boyfriends, school dances, fun, laughter. When was the last time you

laughed?

It's not too late to get some of what you missed back.

You're not 18 yet.

You could be placed in a foster home with decent people, a chance to meet

decent friends, nice schools, everything you should have.

All you have to do is say I want a new start on my own without them

Think

about it think about it real hard

That's a pretty deal you offered her there. Feeling sorry for her? She's a

victim herself.

I figure if we help her, she'll help us. But she won't. So we tracked down the

maggot she ran with. Hooker!

It's a family operation, all right? The son's name's Freddie and Sammy. The

stepdaughter's name is Carol Ann. There are warrants out on them in five states

for everything from armed robbery to murder. This guy Freddie's a charmer. On

top of the beefs against the family.

He's wanted for rape and assault.

What about the M.O.?

Just like here. Hotel robberies in Louisiana, Alabama, New Mexico, Mexico,

and San Diego. We also ran down the motel key. Safari Motel on Crocker.

We'll run it down.

Hooker, turn it over to the detectives, okay?

We can do it now while we're on patrol, Captain.

These guys are armed and dangerous.

No need to stand on protocol while we're out on the streets.

Hooker, can't you ever take no for an answer?

Not when yes makes more sense.

What time are you planning on visiting Valerie at the hospital?

As soon as I change into my civvy. Her mom needs a break from the bedside

vigil. Well, you give them both a great big hug for me, and you tell Val's mom

I'm praying, too.

Nice operation.

Free hotel brochure, study the layout, take off with the cashier's money. Nice

hotel. It's a lot different from this dump.

What do you make of this? Looks like they drew it themselves.

Some kind of floor plan.

Excelsior Hotel Lobby.

Fourth floor of the community hospital.

Henry Baker's on that floor.

He's not the only one.

Fran just started her shift.

Mrs. Fernandez, front desk, please. Mrs. Fernandez.

Dr. Biggert, pediatrics, please. Dr. Biggert.

Whoever said hospitals were a bad place never saw what they got here.

Mrs. O'Brien, telephone, please. Mrs. O'Brien.

Wouldn't it be something if this elevator got stuck between floors?

I like your puppy.

Dr. McCullen, surgery, please. Dr. McCullen.

Hi, Fran.

Oh, Stacy.

Hi. Valerie's mom just went down to the coffee shop. Boy, is that little girl

looking forward to your visit.

Alert our police security at Community Hospital that a possible escape plan for

suspect Baker may be in progress.

Hi, Valerie.

Hiya, Stacy.

Look. A cute puppy.

I thought maybe he weren't coming because he had to catch a crook or

something.

No crook could keep me from you. You know, I was thinking, maybe if they

fixed me good, I could be a policewoman too.

You bet you can.

Victor 10, Victor 10, 4 Adam 30 reports a possible escape plan in progress. How

you doing?

What are you trying to do? What's going on out here?

Come on.

Let's go. Come on. Come on. Come on.

Move. Move.

What? She's a lady cop.

Try that new weapons.

You ain't telling us nothing.

Now, we're giving the orders here.

You tell the top police hard show to give us what we want, or we're going to

kill everybody on this floor.

The numbers of all the patients on the fourth floor, okay? Get it for me.

How many hostages, Hooker?

According to the registrar records, there are eight patients up there.

Some of the nurses went on a coffee break, so it appears that... Fran was

the only staff member up there.

I'm sorry, Hooker.

So am I.

How about Stacy being up there?

She was visiting the daughter of some friends of ours.

Along with the guard, that makes a total of 11 hostages.

My team has the fourth floor isolated, Captain. The other floors are secured.

As soon as I go over the blueprints of the building, I'll recommend a plan of

attack. Hold on a second, Digger.

I suggest you take a look at the suspect's rap sheets.

Two of those men are violent criminals.

We'll take our chances.

It wasn't your team that I was thinking about.

It's those hostages who don't get to vote on your plan.

My baby is up there.

They were just going to bring her down for emergency surgery.

What kind of surgery?

She has a coarctation of the aorta.

The blood flow to the heart is being squeezed off.

Did the doctor say how much time we have?

It could stop her heart at any time.

If she's frightened or if her blood pressure goes up for any reason.

Fourth floor nurse's station.

It's for you.

Yeah, what can I do for you?

This is Lieutenant Decker.

I'm calling to see if you and I can't find a way to work this out without

anybody getting hurt.

You must be one of the yo-yos they bring in when they want the bad guys to give

up. Don't you forget that.

Now, I want to talk to Sergeant T.J.

Hooker.

The cop who shot my old man.

I want to kill him before all this is over.

But right now, I trust a harness bull more than I do a smooth talker like you,

Yo-Yo.

Hooker, he wants to talk to you.

Sergeant T.J. Hooker.

Now, you listen real good, Hooker.

You got two hours to get me $100,000 and a station wagon.

When the money gets here, I want my baby sister out of jail so she can bring the

money up here to us.

Now, if everything's in order, we'll come down and take a nice long drive

away from here.

Now, hold on. You're asking for an awful lot.

Oh, yeah?

Well, I'm gonna give you something for free.

It's coming down in the elevator right now.

up here a lady cop and you got a whole two hours to put things

together hooker but that's it two hours where your lady cop takes the next ride

down baker listen to me i

want to speak to you man to man you got a little girl up there named valerie

webb room 402 She needs surgery real bad. If she doesn't get it, she could

die at any minute.

Look, you've got ten other hostages.

Let me send a doctor up and get her.

Nobody gets up on his floor. You got that, Hooker?

That kid's so sick, you better do what I told you.

You got an hour and 57 minutes, T.J.

They know that Stacy's a cop.

We'll do whatever it takes to keep her alive.

He's telling you the truth.

Little girl's overdue for surgery now.

That's the way it goes.

Your Honor, there isn't time to think about it.

Well, they have ten hostages that we know of.

Among them is a little girl who may die without immediate surgery.

Yes, sir.

I'll wait for your call.

His honor, the mayor, is running for re-election and says these are times for

law and order, not times to give in.

But he'll think about the money.

Did anybody talk to the DA about releasing Caroline Baker?

No. The chief is making that call, but the DA is running for re-election, too.

Damn it!

Dealing with scum would kill a policeman without blinking an eye, and everybody's

worried about their own re-election.

Hooker's right, Captain.

We don't have time.

According to these blueprints, there are only three ways into the fourth floor.

Fire escape, stairway, and elevator.

And all of them are easily guarded from the nurse's station.

Let me repel a couple of men down the side of the building.

And they can try to enter from the rooms farthest from that station. Hold on,

Decker. This building is ventilated for climate control.

Those windows are sealed.

That's right.

Your men would have to break a window to get in. What if one of the bakers hears

them? How many men do you lose? How many hostages do those psychos kill? We've

already got one dead officer.

It's medication time.

So what?

Ignoring the patients up until now hasn't been a problem.

But if you're smart, you'll let me administer the medication.

I could care less about them, so don't give me that nurse's routine.

Use your head.

I give them their pain pills and their sleeping medication, and this floor

quiets down. It'll be easier for you to control.

Okay.

Give them that fix.

And you use your head.

You try anything cute, and this little honey takes the next elevator ride down.

Yes, Chief, that's real nice, but it's only half the demand.

Yes, sir, I'll wait.

But I'm not sure how long they will.

The mayor has authorized release of the money, should we need the cash.

But the DA refuses to release the girl, being a strong law and order man, I know

that.

How are you doing, honey?

How come the doctor's in here yet? And my mom?

Oh, don't worry, sweetheart.

They've just been delayed a little.

Think happy thoughts, hmm?

Stay with me, please.

I don't want to be alone.

Shh, shh, shh.

You have to be quiet and stay very relaxed.

Just like a little raggedy andow, remember?

But I'm scared.

It's my mommy.

When did she come?

Now you just lie back for me, darling, okay?

Now, you just lie still and rest, and I'm going to see if I can find someone.

Come sit with you.

I need her.

The little girl's blood pressure is in the danger zone.

I don't have anything to quiet her.

Medication for children has to be special ordered from the hospital

pharmacy.

I need her, too.

The only way sweetness here leaves my sight is if I search her for weapons.

Mommy!

I want my mommy!

You can search me.

Keep an eye on things, Sammy.

When he's with a girl, he just does not know how not to.

That light, that's from your father's room. He must have regained

consciousness.

Dad's awake.

He wants to see you.

You keep an eye on her.

It ain't hard.

You said I could help with a little girl.

Yeah, go ahead.

But you owe me one.

And I'm gonna collect.

Don't let her out of your sight.

How long before the money gets here?

About a half hour.

I got an idea. It's a long shot, but it's worth a try.

Oh, God, I'll do anything.

Captain, I'd like to call a press conference for Mrs. Webb.

What good will that do?

They could nudge him a little, soften him up.

Soft isn't going to work.

Well, it better, because according to the chief, not only is the D.A. not

going to release Carol Ann, he's going to make an announcement to the media

that he's not going to release her.

If the bakers see that, he could be sentencing the hostages to death.

Let me put a couple of my men through the windows now.

Just because the D.A. is willing to play Russian roulette with their lives

doesn't mean we should.

Have you seen Mommy yet, Aunt Stacy?

She'll be here.

Now you rest and don't worry.

I won't let anyone help my little girl.

The doctors say that she could die without any warning.

If she gets upset or scared, her heart could stop and she'd

be gone.

I can't believe that those people could just sit there and let a child die.

Please.

I'm talking to you, Henry Baker, and your son.

You're a family.

You know how much my little girl means to me.

I'll be right back.

Don't go too far.

Please, let a doctor come and get her.

Why don't you do something?

You're not like your brother.

Do you want that little girl to die?

Look, Dad, I just don't like what Freddy's doing.

I want that little girl to have help.

And if he gets in the way of that, it's going to have to be passed to me.

Okay by me.

Cut it out, both of you.

Freddy, I want you to let him help that little girl.

There's no time to be fighting amongst ourselves.

It's Freddy Baker.

He wants to speak to you.

We've still got 45 minutes left.

Baker? You can come get the little girl, Hooker.

I'd like to bring a doctor up. What do you say?

I say you better get one of those phones for the hearing impaired.

I said you can get the little girl. You got two minutes. Otherwise, forget it.

Two minutes to get Valerie.

Take charge, lieutenant.

I have to brief the chief.

Yes, sir.

Now it's time to go.

Hooker being on the floor getting the girls the perfect distraction.

Lieutenant, it's too late to let Hooker know what you're doing.

It's better he doesn't know.

Then he won't do anything to Tippett.

The captain would never go for this.

You heard him. I'm in charge. Plan Zebra, the stairway and the elevator.

It's worse than using Hooker as a decoy. At least the decoy knows what's coming

down.

Hooker would do the same thing in my shoes.

No, he wouldn't.

I know my partner.

And I'm not just going to sit here and let you set him up.

I ought to kill you right here, Hooker, for shooting my old man.

You'll get your chance.

Right now, I'm keeping you to your word.

I'm taking the child.

I'll get you both out of here.

We know you will.

This may be the only time in my life I'll ever be glad you're a cop.

Hello.

Aunt Stacy says you're the best police officer she knows. She does.

Well, I don't know about that, but there's one thing that I really am

terrific at, and that's giving little girls a ride.

I have two daughters of my own, you know.

You do?

Sure do.

You wait right here.

And I'm going to go get one of those rolling chairs.

We'll go for a stroll.

Take your teddy with you, too, kid.

I shut down the electrical fringe system so there won't be any lights or bells to

alert him.

Okay, go.

Hold it, Romano. This is as far as you go.

It's gonna take your whole team to stop me, Lieutenant.

I'm taking her down the elevator.

Why not?

Anybody's on it you all die

I'm

gonna

kill you

big mistake hooker you think if i knew they were coming i'd be caught standing

in the middle of a hallway with two innocent women i'm gonna kill you just

for putting me in here he may be the only one on our side yeah then ask him

to explain why i just saw some tv news lady saying that da wouldn't release

caroline no matter what had to do with some law and order stand he was making

tell you what hooker i think i'll get my boys to kill Half the

patients in here, as my lawn ought to stand.

Listen to your son, Henry.

I'm all you got.

If I'm not out of here in one minute with that little girl, you can count on

it all ending for you right here in this hospital, because those cops will keep

coming at you till they get you.

If I get out of here, I'll do everything I can to see that your terms are met,

because I want to see these hostages set free.

I'll think about it.

There's no more time for you to think about anything.

I'm taking that little girl.

Now.

Wait a minute.

What are you doing?

I'm telling you.

We've got a lot of people killed, Decker. We're down to 14 minutes.

You've got to complain.

File it.

You better sit on this guy.

One of his men is wounded because of him.

When the bakers pick up the M16, you try storming that place again, they'll be

ready for you. You've got a better plan, Hooker.

We've got to do something they'd never expect us to do.

Something that'll surprise them.

What's she doing here? Now, you heard the DA. He's not releasing the Baker

girl. Captain, I'm the arresting officer.

As such, I have the legal right to check her in and out of jail and interview her

any place I choose.

Besides, who said anything about releasing her?

I'm going to ask for her help one more time.

I'll take her.

Knock it off, you guys. Knock it off!

Caroline?

We're sending you up with your stepfather.

I figured you would eventually.

I told you they wouldn't split without me.

They almost caused the death of a little girl.

They're threatening the lives of a lot of helpless people.

What do you want me to do, stop them?

They never paid attention to anything I've ever wanted.

They treated me like a slave, except for Sammy.

But he's not smart enough to do anything about it.

Look, have you been thinking about what I said?

Yeah, I've been thinking.

If you go back with him into the life you've been leading, you'll be caught

again.

Only this time you'll be over 18.

And any chance you had of turning your life around will be gone.

What you said before, is the offer still open?

It's there.

All you have to do is take it.

No strings.

No strings.

You don't have to help me.

But if you do decide you want to, you gotta tell me now.

Because we have nine minutes.

But if I don't want to help, you won't change your mind.

I can just stay away from them, and you'll see that I get a new start.

That's what I said.

What do you want me to do?

You better be talking business. In eight minutes, your lady cop buys it.

Hold on a second, Baker. I got Carol out of here.

I'm sending her up with the money, but I need 15 minutes first.

You send them up right now.

I got to count the money.

I don't want to shortchange you. No, you don't want to shortchange me. Well, you

count fast, Hooker. You got 10 minutes.

All right.

You get the old man ready. We're moving out.

You get ready, too, ladies.

You're going to be our protection, right?

Oh, yes, Sammy.

For starters.

Just for starters.

And, lady, don't shatter my faith in Sergeant Hooker or his faith in you.

Now we're running the department on faith?

Try it, Decker. Sometimes it works.

Yeah, sometimes.

We did it! Huh?

Come on, we gotta get out of here! Ready? Ready, count that money first.

I don't want anybody to put on the scam and break the family.

There!

There!

Sammy?

Get over there.

Push that button, lady cop.

Don't try it. You're dead.

I'll let the state settle with you for all the rest.

I don't suppose there's any chance you're still glad I'm a cop.

Maybe a little bit, whenever I see Valerie alive and smiling.

Enough to break bread with me tonight at your favorite steakhouse?

Well, I'll think about it.

Oh. All day.

Eight o'clock?

Sure. Dr. Anderson to maternity, please.

Dr. Anderson.

Valerie!

The doctors tell me they fix you up so good, you could become a policewoman.

Just like Stacy.

Sit down, Hooker. Valerie has something for you.

What you got?

I love you, Hooker.

I love you too, sweetheart.