Original subtitles

ALEX: I didn't say I was gonna take the offer.

WALKER: You didn't say you weren't, either.

TRIVETTE: Yeah, I thought you said you wanted

to get the bad guys as much as we do.

I do, but I've got a future to think about.

Some future, Alex.

Defending the same guys you were prosecuting.

I'm not the first person

that's ever considered switching sides.

They offered me four times what I make as an assistant DA.

If it was about money,

we'd all be doing something else.

Yep. I'm just gonna talk to them.

You know, maybe it's good for my ego.

(CELL PHONE RINGING)

Oh, sorry.

(LAUGHS)

Hello?

Yes.

Okay, I'll be right up.

(PHONE BEEPS)

(ALEX EXHALES) Well,

they're ready to see me upstairs.

Thanks, guys.

I really appreciate your moral support.

We'll walk you to the elevator.

Do you have any money?

Yes, I have money.

Then you don't mind buying?

The plane will be waiting for you at 5 o'clock.

You're at the Plaza tonight,

and the board meeting is at 10:00 in the morning.

It sure was a hell of a lot simpler

before I took the company public.

I'm beginning to think we're getting too big for our own good.

TRIVETTE: All right, tear them up, counselor.

Thanks.

They'd be stupid not to take you.

I'll meet you back at C.D.'s and let you know what happened.

MAN: Hold the car, please.

Excuse me, officer.

Walker, what?

That guy. Which one?

The one in the maroon suit.

He looks familiar to me.

Maybe he's your long-lost cousin

or you owe him money.

What money? You lost all of mine.

The chopper should get us there

with about five minutes to spare,

then they'll take you to the airport.

Helicopter. Good way to beat traffic.

Not the only way.

LaRue, that's who that is. Who?

Victor LaRue. He's bad news, Trivette.

(ELEVATOR DINGS)

Sorry, nobody gets off.

Excuse me? Just step back.

What the hell is this? Wrong attitude, Mr. Trask.

(EXHALES)

Nobody gets heroic.

He's got Alex.

(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)

♪ In the eyes of a ranger

♪ The unsuspecting stranger

♪ Had better know the truth of wrong from right

♪ 'Cause the eyes of the ranger are upon you

♪ Any wrong you do he's gonna see

♪ When you're in Texas look behind you

♪ 'Cause that's where the Ranger's gonna be ♪

Look, I don't know what you think you're doing,

but my pilot is not gonna fly you anywhere.

Really? Yeah.

(GUNSHOTS)

Mine will.

In the chopper.

Move it now. Let's go.

MOX: Come on.

Come on, get in there.

MAN: Put it in lock. Come on.

(PHONE BEEPS)

Yeah, this is Trivette.

I'm on the top of the Trask Building.

Alert all Air Traffic Control to report sightings

of a blue and white Bell Jet helicopter

heading south from the Ridgeland area.

This is Walker.

Get a chopper up here now.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

MAN: All right. It's off. MAN 2: Off the stud?

MAN: Yeah.

MAN: All right, boys, let's go.

Careful.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

MAN: All right, here we go.

MAN 2: Yeah.

Okay.

You all right up front? Yeah.

LARUE: Stop.

Let's go, come on. Come on!

WOMAN: Well, if you're kidnapping him,

what do you want with us?

LARUE: Well, you're bargaining chips, sweetheart.

I might need to trade for a favor,

or drop a dead body on them now and then,

to prove I'm serious.

Look, please, I just got on the elevator.

I've got kids at home.

LARUE: Well, remember that and do what you're told.

Let's go, she's clean.

Get out, now.

MAN: Go on, move it, move it.

TRASK: Please...

Please, please, don't hurt us.

Let me call my people. Let me go.

They'll give you anything you want.

Call your people.

I promise, they will. Yes, they will.

In our time and in our way.

Okay, he's clean, let's go.

(CHUCKLES)

Oh, very nice. (CHUCKLING)

She's an assistant DA.

Well,

this is really getting interesting, isn't it?

Now, you don't have any weapons hidden in there, do you?

You tried to hurt me.

Okay, she's clean. Let's go.

MAN: Move it, move it.

TRIVETTE: Walker? Yeah, go ahead, Trivette.

You were right about that Victor LaRue.

We got an FBI bulletin on him a while back.

TRIVETTE: He was kicked out of the military

and they said he was too ruthless in his missions.

Prone to overkill.

Right now, he's wanted for a series

of high-dollar kidnappings.

Yeah, he killed them all. What?

WALKER: I remember his file.

Ransom or not, he killed all the hostages.

That's right.

Okay, keep at it, Trivette.

There's nothing here. Head south.

(TRAIN BELL DINGING)

(SCREECHING)

(TRAIN HORN BLARING)

TRIVETTE: Walker, I got a traffic copter over in Garland

that located Trask's helicopter.

It landed at an abandoned warehouse

at Miller Road and Route 12.

TRIVETTE: I got units en route. I'll meet you there.

Did you get that? Let's go.

Keep a sharp eye.

All right, let's move it.

Come on, come on.

This way. Come on.

Let's go.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

TRASK: This isn't right. Come on.

TRASK: This isn't right.

This isn't right.

MAN: Shut the doors.

LARUE: All right.

Is everybody comfortable?

What? What?

What's with all the long faces.

Look, this is... It's really not complicated.

Mr. Trask Oil here

is worth a lot of money,

okay?

We are gonna get some of it.

Now,

this might take a little while.

My people will pay.

I guarantee it.

Excuse me. I was talking!

I had the floor.

That's good, because...

Because I'm gonna get them on the phone right now

and see if your life is worth $10 million.

Oh, dear God.

It's all right. They'll pay.

OFFICER: It's the best plan we got...

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

(CAMERAS CLICKING)

When you're finished with this, talk to Mrs. Meeks' family.

Find out if she needs any special medication.

Mm-hmm.

This damn rain has wiped out all the tracks.

What if something goes wrong?

What if...?

What if they don't? (BREATHING HEAVILY)

I mean, the police...

The police might force them not to give into their demands.

I mean... It's gonna be all right.

You've gotta hold yourself together,

Mr. Trask, for all of our sakes.

(DIALING)

Excuse me.

I don't mean to cause any trouble,

but I really need to use the rest room.

She can't get out.

All right.

Don't be too long.

Don't lock the door.

(PHONE RINGING)

Trivette. ALEX: Jimmy.

It's Alex.

Alex, where are you?

I don't have much time.

Listen. We landed in Garland,

they blindfolded us, and loaded us into a van.

We drove for about 20 minutes,

until we came to some kind of bridge.

Then we traveled for about ten minutes more

and we came to a train crossing.

ALEX: Then we went onto a gravel road

and stopped at a gate with some cattle guard.

I think we're in some kind of estate.

Time's up.

Excuse me.

(EXHALES)

Let's go. Come on.

We're getting low on fuel.

TRIVETTE: There's a bridge about six miles west

of that warehouse off the service road.

PILOT: I got it. There's a bridge. Over here.

WALKER: Stay over the service roads.

Veer west.

I said, veer west.

(ENGINE WHIRRING)

Walker, we're onto them now.

We'll get her.

What if they caught her making that call, Trivette?

(TRAIN HORN BLARING)

WALKER: There's the rail line.

That could be where she heard the whistle.

All right, now you're supposed to get

to some ranch land.

She said an estate.

There's an estate over there.

Don't get too close.

Land over there. We'll check it out.

We should call for backup.

Make sure they approach with caution, Trivette.

Would you care for some wine?

We have a nice chardonnay here.

It's, uh, not too pretentious.

(CORK POPPING)

LARUE: You know,

I've known a few assistant DA's in my time,

but, uh, I don't recall any looking quite like you.

Am I supposed to be flattered by that?

Absolutely.

I've got very high standards for my women.

(EXHALES)

So, are you

somebody's woman, Alexandra?

I don't see a ring.

I'm not married.

Ah!

Maybe a boyfriend, then?

Mm. (SMACKS LIPS)

Maybe more than one?

Let's see. (EXHALES)

A successful woman like you dates who?

An airline pilot?

No?

What about, uh,

pro athlete?

No, wrong again.

Uh, a politician?

Definitely not a politician. (LARUE LAUGHS)

Well, well, and she has a sense of humor too.

(EXHALES)

Seems to me you have everything a man could ever want.

I'll bet the guys just can't get enough of you.

Listen,

I have connections at city hall.

If you let us go, I could...

Don't waste your time. I don't

even wanna talk about it.

I can negotiate a deal for you, for when you're caught.

(LAUGHS)

You... You just don't give up, do you?

The men I was with back there are Texas Rangers,

and they don't give up, either.

Yeah, backwater cops in cowboy costumes.

I'm shaking already. Look at that.

Oh... Oh, no.

Then maybe you should think about this.

A man is dead,

and Texas is a capital punishment state.

Now, any effort that you make to do the right thing

will be taken into consideration by the judge.

Well, that's assuming that I'm caught.

You will be.

But I can help you.

And that's assuming that you are still alive.

(COW MOOING)

(MONITOR BEEPING)

(GRUNTS)

(GROANS)

(SIRENS WAILING)

I said "with caution."

(MONITOR BEEPS)

It's impossible. How could they find us already?

There's no way.

LARUE: Those two?

We gotta get out of here.

Mox, Boyer, pack it in, let's go.

Move it. Come on. Get up now.

(SIRENS WAILING)

(GROANS)

Please, let me talk to them. Get in the van.

I'll get them to back off. Shut up. In the van.

(GRUNTS)

(SCREECHING)

(SCREECHING)

(SIRENS WAILING)

Needless to say I appreciate the help.

No problem.

(GROANS AND THUDS)

(SIRENS WAILING)

Damn it.

I'm gonna borrow your wheels. Sure.

You got two over the hill over there.

All right, we'll book them.

(SCREECHING)

(BRAKES SCREECHING)

TRIVETTE: Which way, left or right?

Which way, left or right?

Left.

Walker.

(SCREECHING)

LARUE: I don't believe this.

This operation was planned down to the minute,

and now I'm running from Texas Rangers!

How did they know where we were?

There's no way. They couldn't have.

Maybe it's the van. We should burn it.

LARUE: The van, burn the van.

What a great idea, Mox.

What do you think about that?

MAN: It couldn't be the van. How could they get to it?

Well, it... It couldn't happen.

What are you doing? I just need a minute.

For what? Are you out of your mind?

Shh, maybe... Don't let them get riled up.

Maybe there's something we can do.

Maybe there's a way out of here.

I don't consider a body bag a way out.

And that's where I'll wind up if you don't do what they say.

I know what men like these are like.

I've prosecuted dozens of them.

ALEX: They don't care if they hurt other people.

They don't care if you cooperate or not.

Either way, they're gonna kill you

if they want to.

MRS. MEEKS: She's right.

We've all known that since the beginning.

No,

I'm ordering you to stay here.

Mr. Trask, believe it or not, I don't work for you,

and I'm not gonna sit here and wait to die.

I'm gonna do something.

Go for it.

Good luck.

MR. TRASK: She'll be sorry.

You just wait and see.

(LABORED BREATHING)

She'll be sorry.

LARUE: You just don't give up, do you?

(PHONE BEEPS)

(SCREECHING)

(EXHALES)

We should've gone left.

But I'd have gone right too.

(PHONE RINGING)

(PHONE BEEPS)

Jimmy. Jimmy,

Jimmy, we're at...

Trace me.

It's her.

Alex?

(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)

(SHRIEKS) WALKER: They got her.

Maisy, I need a priority trace to a cellular call to my number

from ADA Cahill's private number.

Yes, yes, we're locked on right now.

What are you doing here?

ALEX: I just needed a moment alone.

You needed a moment alone?

To pray.

ALEX: You know.

I just wanted to pray. You can't hold that against me.

Tell her to hurry.

Come on, Maisy.

Well,

I've got some good news.

LARUE: Your prayers have been answered.

Don't touch me.

All right, they're onto her phone.

ALEX: Don't touch me.

(MOANS)

(ALEX SHRIEKING)

(CONTINUES SHRIEKING)

(LARUE GROANING)

LARUE: You don't...

South side.

TRIVETTE: Oak Cliff.

(ALEX SHRIEKING)

Map coordinates, map...

C... C4.

(ALEX SHRIEKING)

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

(ALEX SCREAMING)

You're mine.

LARUE: I've got you.

(DRESS RIPPING)

Animals! MOX: Shut up.

Sit down.

Got it.

ALEX: (SCREAMING) No. LaRue!

WALKER: LaRue!

LaRue!

ALEX: (SCREAMING) No! WALKER: Can you hear me?

Come to the phone, LaRue.

WALKER: LaRue,

come to the phone, you son of a bitch.

(ALEX SOBBING)

Of course,

and that's how they knew how to find us.

You wanted me, you got me. Who is this?

Touch her again and I'll rip your heart out.

You're the one on the roof.

LARUE: Is that right? That's right.

And you'd better let them go.

And why would I do that?

WALKER: Because if you don't,

you're a dead man.

Move, come on, get, get.

Move, move, move it, move it.

MAN: Hurry up. Let's move.

MAN 2: Go, go.

MAN: Let's move it. We're out of here. Let's go.

(DOOR CLOSING)

(ENGINE REVVING)

(SCREECHING)

Coordinate C4, Oak Cliff warehouse district,

approximately Elmont and Dale.

All units respond, but do not approach.

This is a hostage situation.

Do not approach.

Or I'm gonna be all over your butts.

Just don't attract attention.

And stay at the speed limit, will you?

Let's drop them

and get the hell out of here, man.

This thing hasn't gone right from the beginning.

As long as we keep moving, we're fine.

No surprise. Nobody home.

(PHONE RINGING)

(PHONE BEEPS)

TRIVETTE: Trivette.

Thanks, Maisy. She's got nothing.

Alex had this on.

Dial LaRue.

He's never gonna answer.

Guys like LaRue always have to be in charge,

but when they get rattled, they make mistakes.

(DIALING) One, two, out. Redial.

One, two, out. Redial.

(PHONE RINGING)

What the hell's with that phone?

They're driving me crazy.

They're crazy if they think that I'm gonna pick it up

and give them a chance to trace me.

Throw the damn thing out the window.

Who are you talking to?

(PHONE RINGING)

LARUE: When the time comes,

I'm gonna give this cowboy something to listen to.

(LARUE LAUGHING)

(PHONE RINGING)

Maybe he doesn't even have the phone on anymore.

All he has to do is switch it off.

He's got the phone on.

He could take it out on Alex.

I know that!

Just dial.

(DIALING)

Don't run the light.

(PHONE RINGING)

(SCREECHING)

(PHONE RINGING)

Don't push me.

Mr. LaRue,

hold for Mr. Walker, please.

I'm right behind you, LaRue.

Stay out of this, cowboy. I warned you.

Maisy, we got him again.

You thought you had it all figured out, didn't you?

But you've got one big problem.

Me.

Back off or they all die.

I see one cowboy hat behind me

LARUE: and I'll kill them all.

Give it up, LaRue. It's your only chance.

(GRUNTS)

Did you get anything?

Yeah, we are right behind him. He's in this area.

Go, go, go!

(SCREECHING)

Here, dial him back.

(DIALING)

(PHONE RINGING)

What now? Just shut up and drive.

Ranger's got him spooked.

Shut up!

I promise you, the world will end

and everyone will die

before I am spooked by some cowboy.

Look, you don't know Ranger Walker,

but I do, and he is never gonna let up.

He will never leave us,

so why don't you just drop us at the corner.

Drop? Okay. Okay.

Okay, how about I drop some dead bodies

out of the back of this van?

You think that'll work then, huh?

I'd... I'd start with you, but we still have a date.

LARUE: Ringing, ringing, ringing.

(PHONE RINGING)

(PANTING)

Pull up in front of the bus.

He knows what we're doing.

Yeah, I know.

(TIRES SCREECHING)

(DOOR CLOSES)

LARUE: Excuse me. DRIVER: Hi.

Could you hold on a second? DRIVER: Yeah.

My friends need to get on the bus.

DRIVER: No problem. Yeah, thanks a lot.

Everybody, stay down and shut up.

LARUE: All right, we're taking the bus.

MAN: Everybody keep still or we start shooting.

All right, let's go, man.

Back of the bus. Okay.

All right, you drive.

When you get to the edge of the city,

leave the bus and disappear until I contact you, okay?

All right, let's go.

If anybody gets in your way, just kill them.

MAN: Got you.

TRIVETTE: He picked up. Hello?

TRIVETTE: LaRue?

(SCREECHING)

What's that sound like to you?

A motor?

Yeah, it's not the same background sound, though.

It sounds like a...

BOTH: Bus.

(HONKING)

(SCREECHING)

There it is.

TRIVETTE: I saw two of them, one gun.

Take the wheel.

Yeah, why don't I take the wheel.

Let me get this right.

My partner has just leaped from the hood of this moving car

to the back of that moving bus.

Yeah, that's right.

(COCKS GUN)

(GUNSHOTS)

(SCREECHING)

(CARS HONKING)

(CARS HONKING)

(SCREECHING)

(PEOPLE CHATTERING)

WOMAN: The driver!

(GUNSHOT)

(PEOPLE SCREAMING)

WOMAN: Look out!

(HONKING)

Hold on!

(HORN HONKING)

(BRAKES SCREECHING)

(SCREECHING)

(PASSENGERS APPLAUDING)

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)

MAN: No. Ahh!

Get me to a hospital, man. My shoulder's on fire.

(GROANS)

Where did they take the hostages?

I don't know. You'd better know.

Look, after the safe house, all bets were off.

He'll be waiting for money but I don't know where.

What money are you talking about?

Waiting for the money, man.

For the oil people to deliver the money.

How are they supposed to deliver it?

Whoever's carrying the money

was to go to a roadside call box,

number 19 on LBJ,

and wait for a call at 4 o'clock.

TRIVETTE: Any units in the area

of emergency call box L 19, 635, LBJ,

be on the lookout for a caller there.

Report, but do not respond.

(PHONE RINGING)

OFFICER: This is L 12-11. I have your caller sighted.

I've passed his location. Please instruct.

L 12-11, don't go near the guy.

I repeat, do not respond. Lives are on the line.

OFFICER: Subject vehicle exited LBJ at Cuttler Road exit.

Now moving south to Mainway Boulevard.

We're two blocks away.

(ENGINE REVVING)

We're at Mainway and Third, heading south.

OFFICER: I'm on Mainway and Fifth.

I have your man in sight.

All right, we got him. We'll take it from here. Thanks.

OFFICER: Do you need backup?

I said, we got him!

(ENGINE REVVING)

Now let's see what happens.

WALKER: You hear something?

Look.

(DOG PANTING)

WALKER: Hope he doesn't pee on the money.

(DOG WHINING)

(VEHICLE APPROACHING)

MOX: Move it on in. That's it.

Up higher, higher.

(GRUNTING)

(GRUNTS)

(GROANS)

(GRUNTING)

(ENGINE REVVING)

(LARUE WHISTLING)

LARUE: Hey!

You know what this is, don't you, cowboy?

They're all gonna die!

Walker!

(MRS. MEEKS SOBBING)

LARUE: Are you gonna take a chance with their lives?

I don't think so.

Now lower the car with my money in it.

You want it,

come and get it.

(MOTOR WHIRRING)

Everybody on the floor!

(PEOPLE SCREAMING)

(GLASS BREAKING)

(PEOPLE SCREAMING)

(GLASS BREAKING)

(SCREAMING CONTINUES)

(GRUNTS)

(GROANS)

(SOBBING)

LARUE: Come back here.

(GROANS)

ALEX: Walker!

(ALEX SCREAMING)

(PEOPLE SCREAMING)

(PEOPLE SCREAMING)

(GLASS BREAKING)

ALEX: Let us out of here!

(MOTOR STOPS)

(GASPING)

MAN: Everybody out!

ALEX: Jimmy. TRIVETTE: Hey there, girl.

(ALEX SOBBING)

Everything's all right. Here.

(SOBBING)

Watch your head.

(SOBBING)

Okay.

(BREATHING HEAVILY) Are you all right?

(SOBBING) Just hold me.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

C.D: One week.

One lousy week, I'm gone to my nephew's wedding,

and everything goes to hell in a hand basket.

Are you referring to something specific?

I most assuredly am. You let them kidnap Alex.

Oh, we let Alex get kidnapped.

C.D: If she'd have been at lunch with me,

that never would've happened.

And, fellas, that's not the worst part.

I'm sure you're gonna tell us what the worst part is.

C.D: Exactly.

She's interviewing the firm of...

Thomas, Barton...

Bell... Clements.

Yeah, yeah, that's the firm.

She's gonna take the job, fellas.

I feel it in my bones.

You feel it in your bones?

Here she comes.

ALEX: Hi. Hey.

Can I get a cup of coffee, please?

Yes, ma'am.

Well, uh,

how'd it go?

Good. Yeah?

And they offered me more than I ever dreamed I was worth,

including a key to my very own washroom.

Well, that would be hard to pass up.

That's what I thought.

ALEX: Until I realized that they survived

by defending men like Victor LaRue.

So you turned it down.

You got it, cowboy.

TRIVETTE: Yeah.

(LAUGHTER)

See, fellas, I told you,

no way in the world was she gonna take that job.

No, sirree.

I just felt it in my bones.

Oh.

He just felt it in his bones. In his bones.

(CHUCKLING)

♪ 'Cause the eyes of the ranger are upon you

♪ Any wrong you do, he's gonna see

♪ When you're in Texas look behind you

♪ 'Cause that's where the ranger's gonna be ♪