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These canyon roads have always had

high accident stats.

'Blind curves, falling rocks'

improper grading, wildlife.

Oh, well, Getraer knows that

he also knows when the accident rate jumps

all of a sudden there's got to be a reason.

Just cause they call it weed

doesn't make marijuana any easier to grow.

Nice and sticky.

Looks like harvest time.

There's some activity on the south slope

of the Varro Farm.

I think I'll drop in and pay them a call.

Hey, Kenny.

Yee-haw!

Yee-haw.

Hey, there goes the weirdo.

'That guy's crazy.'

LA 15, Mary 3.

We have an 11-80 top of Topanga and summit.

Roll an 11-41.

'10-4, 7 Mary 3.'

Alright.

Uh, listen, I want everybody to back up.

Get in the back of the bus, come on.

Alright, get back.

Hey, the van's going to blow!

Alright, come on.

One at a time, now.

Hurry up, the van's going to blow.

Come on, hurry up, Ponch.

Alright, come on. Grab a hold of my hands.

Now, boys, get out of the way.

Come on, hurry up.

Come on, come on, right down here.

That a girl.

Come on.

Come on!

'Come on, Ponch. Hurry up, let's go.'

Get down!

Yeah, same here.

- Yeah.

The hexer up there, he saw it all

probably caused it.

What?

The hexer up there.

'His name's Tyler.'

Why do you call him the hexer?

He hexed me, that's why.

You mean he put on you some kind of curse?

He gave my sister a whole week of zuper zits.

'And he got my pitching arm.'

I can't even find the strike zone anymore.

Well, we'll be talking to Tyler.

He may have seen something from up there.

Now, I'm going to need your name and addresses.

Start with you.

Mark Levin.

Watch out for that kid Tyler

he can really zap you.

Aren't you a little old for ghost stories?

Look, how come Tyler wasn't in school today?

He was. But he doesn't ride the bus.

He takes shortcuts across the valley.

He changes into a coyote and runs over the hills.

I've seen him.

Oh, when you talk to Tyler, don't mention my name, okay?

Why take chances, right?

Yeah, right.

Yeah, that's great. Thank you.

No one on that school bus was hurt.

Oh, good.

You know, we were lucky.

That guy was trying to kill us.

Yeah, I know.

The other marijuana growers

have been having hassles, too.

Irrigation pipes torn up, fields burnt.

I knew we'd have problems

when we started all this.

Insects, fertilizer premature flowering.

I never figured on this.

Let's get out of here.

Excuse me, miss.

Oh, is there anything wrong?

No. Hi, I'm officer Jon Baker.

This is officer Frank Poncherello.

How do you do?

We're looking for witnesses to a bus accident

on Topanga Canyon.

We understand that a boy living here

named Tyler might have seen it.

I'm Loretta Lensford, Tyler's sister.

Is it alright if we talk to him?

Yeah. Tyler was here just a minute ago.

Tyler!

Tyler!

Tyler, come on over here, honey.

These officers want to ask you some questions.

- Hi. - Hi.

It's about the accident that happened down the road.

Would you two like something cold to drink?

Uh, water would be fine, thank you.

Look, anything you tell us

will help out, alright?

Did you see anything?

Saw the accident.

Did you see the vehicle hit the bus?

Can you describe it?

It was a pickup truck.

Anything else?

Such as?

Such as color, make, identifying marks

a driver's description, a license number.

Tyler, just a minute, now.

Just try to remember, okay?

I mean, maybe you can think of something, was there..

...was there anything unusual about the truck?

It was being chased.

Chased

Another truck, that's all I saw, it's not my business.

Gotta go feed my animals.

Just a minute, son.

You leave me be.

Not until you answer my questions.

This is a serious situation.

Is this supposed to mean I'm hexed?

Your first hex?

Uh, I got over that supernatural nonsense

when I was three.

Well, glad to hear that.

Hey, this is a brand new pen.

'It's got to have ink.'

Ponch, maybe not anymore.

Aw, man.

Can't go around all day looking like that.

Do you think..

Do I think what?

Nothing.

Nothing.

You know, it's bad luck to be superstitious.

And lastly, I want to keep up

our high visibility in the Topanga area.

Yesterday, we had a multiple TC

that came close to becoming a tragedy.

Now, something crazy up there is spilling out

onto the highway and I want somebody

to tell me what it is.

'Okay, take off.'

I'm buying.

Good.

- Ponch.

Your tires were soft

and all your fluid levels were down.

What did you do to your bike yesterday?

Just an ordinary day.

Oh!

Maybe I can save the frames.

Maybe you ought to quit while you're ahead.

Ahead?

Oh, don't get psyched out, Ponch.

Now, uh, you know, it's just another coincidence, that's all.

What kind of coincidence?

Well, what's been happening?

Well, yesterday when Ponch and I

were going back to Central

Ponch went through four ballpoint pens

tore his shirt on the bumper of a car and..

...lost his personal phone directory.

Yeah, 12 critical numbers.

Mostly unlisted.

- Oh, yesterday.

We met this kid in Topanga, and he..

...put a hex on him.

Yeah, complete with pentagram.

Do you believe it?

Do you?

You're the guy with the truck?

Yeah.

Come on.

I represent an organization.

Spend a lot of time..

...developing, testing..

...importing, marketing our grass.

You guys plant a few seeds

try and score on a closed market.

It's our market.

I've got a non-negotiable deal

for you and your penny ante pals.

You sell to me or you don't sell at all.

Up till now..

...everything has been a warning.

You try and market your smoke..

...we'll burn you bad.

I'll pass the word.

- Great, that'll help a lot. - Yeah.

He's too scared to try anything.

There's always somebody who wants to be a hero.

Have something ready.

Okay.

So what's the deal?

I think we just got one of those offers

you can't refuse.

Tyler said one truck was chasing another.

Yeah, it fits the same pattern

of most of the other accidents

high-speed collision chases.

Check out this dirt road, huh?

You got it.

First it's thieving hikers, then grazing animals

outside harassment, now, it's the cops.

I tell you, from raising these things

nurturing them into adulthood

they get primo, we can't even get it to the buyers.

We just had a run of bad luck.

Look, we can't let a couple of accidents get us down.

We got a crop to harvest, okay?

It's not ready yet.

Yeah, you're right.

Get 'em in there.

Let's get rolling, Spiff.

What's the rush?

I just got a strange feeling we're being watched.

Let's go.

LA 15, 7 Adam, I have a visual on two trucks

speeding southbound on a dirt road north of Topanga.

'Request backup.'

Mary 3 and 4 responding.

Hey.

Get away from here, man.

Ha ha! Yee-haw!

Yaah!

Okay, you in the checkered shirt get up and head towards the car.

Let's go.

Come on, let's get back to Bear.

'That's no ordinary truck fire.'

'Must be a half a ton of dope down there.'

When these fumes hit Topanga Village

there's going to be a run on junk food.

At least now we know what's behind all the accidents.

A weed war.

I guess we lost the other half of this party.

Yeah, but we got a witness.

What do you think of that?

Better call Central for a trailer.

For me or my motor?

Alright.

We got a marijuana war on our hands.

The Canyon roads are dangerous enough

without big dealers and small timers

battling it on the pavement.

Now, I want to stay on top of this.

Keep your eyes open and maintain tight communication.

Okay, go to it.

Frank.

Yeah, sarge?

Uh, you want to fly a desk for a couple of days?

Uh, no way, sarge.

Come on, I know you're concerned about my--

Bad luck?

I prefer to use the word coincidence.

Good going, Ponch, keep fighting it.

Look at it this way

with all this stuff raining down on you now

you got five years of sunshine coming.

Frank, I hope the clouds part soon.

Yeah, me too.

Let's go.

Hmm.

'Ponch.'

I got some information for you.

That fireball really had me stumped for a while.

Then I theorized that the change in atmospheric pressure

created by riding up in the Topanga area

caused a vacuum, and a fine mist of fuel

seeped out of a pinpoint leak

and ignited on contact with the hot manifold.

You found the leak!

No. No.

Oh, what do you think?

I'm with you, Ponch.

Yeah? Well, where am I?

Harlan, I thought you were working on Ponch's motor.

I did.

What's the matter?

I went over that motor with a microscope.

I gave it a clean bill of health.

He's out there checking it now to see if I made any mistakes.

He's impugning my integrity.

Harlan, don't feel hurt.

This kid they're dealing with, really has Ponch spooked.

He's supposed to be good with kids.

City kids. This kid's from the country.

His grandparents brought him up in the hills of West Virginia.

It's a case of culture shock. You understand.

- No. - Harlan!

Harlan, Harlan.

This kid's had a hard time opening up with anyone

let alone authority figures.

I've got relatives in Kentucky

and I'll tell you mountain people

are very distrustful of strangers.

They've got a lot of superstitions, too.

You tell Ponch and Jon?

This kid feels out of place here.

I bet he started this hex thing

just to stop kids from teasing him.

Why don't you tell Ponch and Jon?

The trouble is he might start believing it.

Kids do that with their dreams.

Hey, you want me to tell Ponch and Jon?

I wonder if it's one of those cases

out of uniform, more authority.

On a kid's own turf.

On a kid's own terms.

A picnic.. I bet that would do it.

What're you gonna do?

Tell Ponch and Jon.

Tyler! Tyler, we're leaving.

Okay, where to?

Why don't we let Tyler be our pathfinder?

Oh, great.

Here we go.

Alright, after you, Tyler.

Ah, I'm starved.

This is the place.

Well, I didn't know, I was so out of shape.

I'd be in a lot better shape

if I get this rock outta my shoe.

I mean, when I get this shoe out of my rock.

Hey, Tyler.

You know, we saw you on the hill

the other day above the accident.

Was that truck that got away

the same one that caused the other accidents?

Alright, you know..

...you know, kids are saying that you're making

these accidents happen.

They don't like me.

Yeah, maybe it's just that, uh, they don't know you, huh.

Listen, between you and me and the cosmos.

How do you deal with the little hexer?

With extreme caution.

'It's true, but not because of the hexes'

but because I'm the last chance he's got.

I'm all the family he has left.

He's got a good thing going for him.

I just wish he and I didn't start off on the wrong foot.

I have a lot of friends up here.

You do?

People in this canyon like to snare rabbit.

So I save 'em and get 'em all and leave 'em to go up here.

Yeah, but what about real friends?

I try.

Oh, like putting a hex on Ponch?

He was asking me too many questions.

Back home, we mind our own business.

Oh, you mean like not talking about moonshine stills?

But, Tyler, we know all about the marijuana growers.

Then what'd you want to talk to me for?

Because you've seen most of the accidents.

I mean, you could be a witness against the person

that's causing these accidents.

I already told you back home

we mind our own business.

Yeah, I know.

But you live here now.

And this is your community unless you plan

on being an outsider the rest of your life.

Everybody sure keeps making me feel that way.

Well, sure. You keep talking about hexes and spells.

I mean, it makes it hard for people to like you.

That's what my sister says all the time.

'And she's right.'

Look, you gotta quit hiding behind this hex stuff

and take a chance at just being yourself around people.

'Hey, aren't you guys hungry?'

You better believe it!

How about you?

Yeah.

Look, uh, when we hike on down the hill..

...do you mind if I stop into the ice cream parlor?

Thanks.

Now, before we start eating

I think there's something you and me need to take care of.

Sure.

You think you could, uh, cancel my hex?

Sure.

Think we could shake on that?

Can we do this again tomorrow?

I think Jon and Ponch have to be back on duty tomorrow.

Ah, don't you worry, we'll do it again.

Come here.

Go ahead and give it a try.

Say hello.

Hiya, Mark. Hiya, Gary.

Hiya, Mark. Hiya, Gary.

Hiya, Mark. Hiya, Gary Hiya, Mark. Hiya, Gary.

Hiya, Mark. Hiya, Gary.

- Hiya, hiya. - Hiya, hiya.

Let's get outta here before he does something weird.

Yeah.

Wait a minute. Wait a minute.

Just hold it, Tyler, don't let it bug you, eh.

- See what you made me do! - Aw, man, that's baloney.

'They weren't watching what they were doing.'

'You had nothing to do with it.'

Did, too.

Things don't work that way, Tyler.

Oh, yeah?

You get a double hex now.

'Tyler!'

Tyler! Oh.

Loretta, look if you want us to stick around, we'll be glad to.

No, I better catch up to him alone.

A little system I'm developing.

Hmm, uh, order out of chaos?

I keep hoping.

You guys hear the latest?

Poncherello got two flats yesterday.

I checked both tires..

...there's no punctures

no slow leak, nothing.

How's he dealing with that?

On the surface, he's taking it in stride.

Underneath, he's freaked.

I gotta admit I might be, too.

Well, being of scientific persuasion

I've got one word for it.

- Strange.

I have a better word.

Hex?

Phenomenology.

That's a bigger word, not necessarily better.

Why can't people be objective about these things?

It's simply a phenomenologicalproblem.

How can you be objective about something

you can't even pronounce?

From a raw description of everything that's going on

I'd have to say first off that..

...that something is going on.

Stay with us, Harlan.

The point is ...one's knowledge of an event

is...affected..

...by the...way..

...one experiences it.

How did you experience that?

Moisture on an unlevel table

and a little subliminal freeway vibration

that gave it a push.

Possible?

Yeah.

Probable. It'll do it every time.

Can I give anyone a hand here?

Oh, I was just lending some perspective

to what's obviously an emotional issue.

Hexes and spells.

- Phenomenology.

Aw, come on, now.

I've been hearing a lot of that nonsense lately

and I gotta tell you..

Aw.

Does anybody remember Topanga?

I said I wanted that area covered.

"High visibility" is what I said.

Now, if you all are sitting here

it follows that none of you are out there.

Well?

Phenomenology, come o..

As if we don't have enough problems.

Cops are buzzing around here like yellow jackets.

Well, maybe we should just leave it.

Leave it?

I've tended those Christmas trees

since they were little bitty seedlings.

If we get zapped a second time

they're gonna look like oak trees before we see 'em again.

Sam's right, what we're dealing with here is some basic rights.

And a few thousand dollars in cash.

Well, if the cash is so important

then why don't we just sell to Vincent?

Because I don't think we'd get the money.

I don't trust the guy.

I'm not gonna deal with criminals.

Yo, you wanna know something?

Some people think that we're the criminals.

Oh, come on, Varro, it's a victimless crime.

Yeah, well, I wanna stay out of the victim category, okay?

I mean, I don't like sitting around waiting

on that crash artist in that pickup.

He's not so tough.

Well, neither are we.

We could blitz 'em.

Cut all the plants down

all at once by morning we're gone.

Yeah, nobody knows these roads like we do.

And they put the pressure on us

they'll think we're laying low.

You know, what we got here is a beginning

of a marijuana growers co-op.

Hey.

Hey, let's do it!

- Let's get going. - 'Let's go.'

Man, I never would've guessed farming was such a hassle.

A few more bags, and we're outta here.

- Music to my ears. - Yeah.

Oh!

What's the matter, you getting a contact high?

Oh, hardly.

Those pollen's got my hay fever going.

Relax. This stuff will buy you a vacation in the desert.

'See anybody?'

'No, but I'm gonna check around by the truck.'

I don't see nothing.

I think you're paranoid.

It goes along with the business.

Well, I think we better get outta here

before both of us get paranoid.

Yeah.

These dopers got a bad case of independence.

Are you sure you wanna go along, Mr. Vincent?

Yeah, I wanna make sure we shut 'em down for good.

- Let's go. - Okay.

We're not losing him this time.

LA 15, Mary 3 and 4.

Northbound, Oak Ridge at Topanga

request backup in pursuit of suspect felony vehicle.

'10-4, 7 Mary 3 and 4.'

7 David, a block North, exit Oak Ridge.

7 Charles, moving to South intersection

of Topanga and Oak Ridge.

This is 7 Adam, I'll back you up.

Watch this.

Hey, man, he's trying to kill us.

Whoa!

Get out of the truck! Get out!

Put your left hand on your head.

- I'll take him. - Alright.

Help!

- Help! - Hey, over here, quick!

- 'Hey!' - Come on.

- Yeah.

We had no idea there was a kid in the back of the truck.

Yeah, just save it. Would you get over there to the cruiser?

We'll take care of it. Hurry up.

I'm gonna go for the kid, partner.

- 'I can't hold on!' - Alright, better use my belt.

Okay, go ahead.

Help!

Help me, Ponch!

I'm gonna fall.

- Here we goes. - Just take it easy.

Alright.

'Easy.'

Ponch, I'm gonna fall!

Just hold on.

Come on, Ponch!

I can't hold on!

Come here.

Hey, today I have to let loose my rabbits wanna help?

- Yeah. - Sure.

Great idea!

- Sure.

You know, I wanna thank you two

for working a little bit of magic.

Oh, it was no work at all, really.

It'd feel a whole better if, uh..

You know what I mean, uh..

Tyler and me were all straightened out.

I thought you weren't worried about the hex?

I'm not.

It'd just be good to have it all straightened out

that's all.

It wasn't me, Ponch.