Space Precinct (1994) s01e11 Episode Script
Divided We Stand
- the name's Brogan, lieutenant Brogan.
For 20 years, I was with the n.
Y.
P.
D.
Now-- Well, let's just say "I've transferred to another precinct.
" - Ah, this takes the cake, Brogan.
Vinny artak running for city council? - Time-Honored tradition.
- right.
Illegal immigration, cyber piracy, interspecies porn.
This guy ticks me off.
- Ah, relax.
The media's here.
They'll ask all the right questions.
- hmm.
I never get to have any fun.
- Vinny, honey, I don't think this is such a hot idea.
- don't think, babe.
Let's do it.
Go make nice to the cops.
- But I don't like talking to cops.
Ahh.
- don't want no discussion.
- That does it.
- Oh, easy, easy, easy.
- Officers.
- Okay, everyone, vinny artak.
- I gotta tell ya, I'm overwhelmed.
I mean, all of you helping me the way you do.
And then, just a few minutes ago, find out in spite of the attacks on my character, that I'm gaining in the polls.
- Yeah.
- Is this over the top or what? - This is for the cameras.
- Mr.
Artak, you've been accused of connections with organized crime.
What's your response? - Excuse me? - I've referring to reported connections to the creon underworld.
- There is no creon underworld.
- Ha-Ha! - You heard it here first.
- the politicians and the corrupt police better get the message.
- Corrupt, us? - I'm gonna win This election because I'm just a citizen like you, and I'm gonna be you in the assembly kicking lazy, bureaucrats' Butt.
- Police.
Police.
- ahh! - Police.
- Vinny.
- Drop the gun.
Drop it.
Get back.
- Get back.
- I don't want to hurt nobody.
- All right.
- Get back.
- It's okay-- All right.
I'll tell you, that was some shooting there, Buddy.
I mean, you don't know, but you just did the public a great service.
- Leave me alone! - It's all right, it's all right.
Come on, we don't need anymore guys like vinny artak takin' office do we? We got enough crooked politicians as it is, right? I'm telling you, somebody should give you a medal.
Put her there.
- Get away from me.
- How about me, huh? - Stay down.
- Vinny! Vinny! Oh, no.
- Help me get him out of here.
- Look out.
- Where you takin' him? - To his private medical facility.
Now, please, every second counts.
- I love this job.
Come on, pal.
Mr.
Vinny artak's body is currently at his private medical facility in the care of his personal physician.
Given the highly public nature of the shooting, I can confirm that this precinct has launched a full-Scale investigation.
I can also confirm that we have one creon male in custody who we are questioning in connection with the incident.
- Look, we're gonna find out who you are sooner or later.
Try it, again.
- Hold steady.
Ah, clean as a newborn.
No priors.
He never committed a crime in this system.
- Brogan, captain would like to see you asap.
- Yeah, I'm sure he would.
Okay, uh, run a dna.
If he's got a birth record, he's got a name.
- right.
- Let's see here.
Personal physicians, dr.
Lazlo kyte.
One patient, vinny.
- speaking of which, that was a stupid thing you did, haldane.
- Thank you.
- Crazy and irresponsible.
- Too much caffeine.
- And pretty damn brilliant.
- You're scaring me here, castle.
- Come on, Janie, we got a 508 at demeter memorial.
- Right behind ya.
- Hey, haldane, command performance.
Brogan's already up there.
- Have fun.
- Thanks.
I mean, come on-- We don't need any more guys like vinny artak in office, do we? We got enough crooked politicians as it is, right? - That singular phrase, Officer haldane, has made you and all of us at the 88 very unpopular cops.
Communiqués from most of the city council, the mayor's Office, even a nice, little query from the governor.
- Captain, it was off the top of my head.
- look, I understand what you did and why you did it, but the politicians and the media are manipulatin' the situation, and destroying this precinct's reputation in the process.
- Yeah, well, maybe if I can just explain myself.
- Perfect.
We'll get the cameras in, and you can do it on live tv.
- um.
- The tarn egg-Sac has disappeared from the maternity incubators.
- Have the parents been informed? - He's gone mad.
- They're in there.
You wait here.
- Get out! - We're here to help you, Mr.
Dodvek.
- You don't understand-- They've taken our baby.
If I can't have mine, then nobody gets theirs.
I want our baby back.
- We'll get your egg-Sac back, Mr.
Dodvek.
Please put that down and let's talk.
- not until they find our baby.
Look, I'm reading you, Mr.
Dodvek.
I can see that you're a good man in a lot of pain.
You can read me, too.
You'll see that we're here to help you.
That's all we want to do.
- I'm sorry.
I'm so sorry.
- Come on, Mr.
Dodvek-- Let's go sit down and see if we can sort this out.
- We got a match with his dna.
He's a first generation, darnin immigrant.
- Junna cazar.
- Check out the next bit.
- So, junna, you grew up with vinny.
- Isn't that a gas? Even vinny's friends hated him.
- Old pals, says here vinny's godfather to your kids.
- So who paid you to kill him? - No one.
- He talks, too.
- Why did you do it then, junna? - Because vinny's like a brother to me.
I love him.
- Whoever took it must have had a portable incubator.
The egg-Sacs have to be kept in a controlled environment.
- Security? - After the double snatching From COUNTY General last month, all the hospitals have been on maximum alert.
- Do you mind if we have a look? - No, not at all.
Oh, thank you, nurse.
This one is in the early stages of gestation, and this little fella - Aw! - Is about ready to Hatch.
- The 88th precinct has released the name of vinny artak's assailant.
Junna cazar, a danin creon, was supposedly a childhood friend for Mr.
Artak's.
What prompted this bizarre shooting is as yet undetermined.
The conduct of the police officers, present during the shooting, is also under investigation.
This is anza berry for city-Wide news.
- What an entrance line.
- You, huh! You were supposed to protect him.
Now he's gone.
- We did everything we could, ma'am.
- Yeah, you expect me to believe that after what he said? - No, ma'am.
- Well, then, why did you come here? - We got a call from Dr.
Kyte saying that he wanted to meet us here.
- Okay, okay, okay, okay, give me room.
Room-- I mean it.
Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
- Quite a recovery, vinny.
- I got a genius doctor, lieutenant.
Plus the best reason in the world to live, these here volunteers and the good citizens of demeter city.
- Yeah! - Come on, vinny-- You're shot by an old friend right in the middle of your own campaign headquarters.
Then your doctor whisks you away before anybody has a chance to examine the wounds? - Hey, I don't know why junna did what he did, but I notice that you weren't there to stop him.
- What my partner is saying, vinny, is that we know this whole thing is a-- - I know what he's saying, and I know what happened.
- Yes, vinny artak, for city council.
He's blastproof.
Blastproof, blastproof! Blastproof, blastproof! Blastproof, blastproof! Blastproof, blastproof! Blastproof, blastproof! Blastproof, blastproof! - Blastproof, blastproof! - Ah, guys, can you turn it down, please? I'm trying to talk to your father.
- Blastproof! Blastproof! - Matt? - Blastproof! - Sorry.
Ah, Well, um, creons are Hardy.
I suppose it is possible if the shots missed all the vital organs, But, ah, from what you described I can't see how.
- me, neither-- Thanks, hon.
- Hey, dad, you sure, ah, vinny artak's a bad guy? I mean, he hasn't been convicted of anything.
- Yeah, I'm sure, Matt.
- The news says he gives all the money to the children's hospital.
- Ah, yes he does, sweetie, but if he steals it, it's all wrong.
- But the kids still need it.
- Um, look, I-I-I've gotta go-- I'll talk to all later.
- don't tell me-- Bail was posted.
- by one of vinny's lawyers.
- and he's not gonna press charges either, right? - Right again.
- Well, that's some friendship you have there, junna.
I really hope you guys Patch things up.
- You don't know nothin' about vinny and me.
Vinny, I did this to you? - Naw, I'm good as new.
I just like the wheels.
Ha-Ha-Ha, come here.
It musta been hard for you to do that to me, old friend.
- You mean more to me than my own brother.
I-I-I'd do it again.
- I know you would.
- ahhh! - What? The guy had the nerve to kill me.
What else should I do? - I'm sorry if my actions at the attempted assassination of vinny artak offended anyone.
I was attempting to distract the assailant.
Nothing more.
- Was your accusation about Crooks in Public office your opinion or a matter of policy at the 88? - No, that is not a matter of policy at the 88.
- Oh, then, it was your opinion? - He didn't say that.
- Yeah, but he meant it.
- Well, if there is nothing else, the lieutenant and I are going to go and catch some bad guys.
- Do you have anything more to say? - No, no, no! - Those two cops are messin' with the wrong guy.
- vinny, I was thinking-- Ahh! - I do the thinkin', okay? - Then, I realized I don't wanna be his punching bag no more.
- Then leave him.
- It's not that easy.
Vinny's gonna be at some big-Deal meeting tonight.
If you get down here and take me into-- - Protective custody? - Yeah, then, maybe I can get you some stuff on vinny, that'll put him away for a long time.
- She phoned that in this afternoon.
- Smells like a set-up.
- So we'll be careful.
At least it gets me close to my pal, vinny.
Ah, it's too bad Vinny's gonna have to give all this up.
- Officer haldane, look, I'm sorry-- Vinny's home.
I've changed my mind.
- You're dead, you hear.
- Vinny, open up-- It's the police.
- Freeze! - Let her go, vinny.
- You're breakin' into my home and threatenin' me for no reason? Here's your reason.
- Drop it! Drop the gun, vinny! - Murderers! Vinny! Oh, vinny.
- What just happened? - Insanity.
- Body is that of adult creon, vinny artak.
Apparent cause of death-- - Wearing his lungs on the carpet.
- Internal affairs are gonna have a field day with you two over this one.
- He was trying to kill her.
- Those two, they're to blame.
- She don't look so bad now.
- Tell me exactly what happened? - They just shot their way in and murdered him.
It's them you should be talking to not me.
- Okay, so let's suppose you were set-up.
The question is, by whom? - Vinny.
- You're saying he planned his own murder and wanted to take you down with him? You fellas are gonna need a better story than that, if I'm gonna save your Butts this time.
In any event, you're off the street.
- Wait a damn minute, captain! You take us out of the action now, it's gonna make us look that much more guilty.
- and if I don't follow policy, it'll compromise this precinct, lieutenant-- You know that.
Starting tomorrow, you're on desk duty Pending review by internal affairs.
You can help officers castle and took Track down their missing tarn-Egg.
- I tried to set up an interview with the couple who's twin egg-Sacs were taken last month.
They're in seclusion.
Not a chance.
- Well, can you blame them? Oh, I've just about had it for one day.
- Oh, yeah, what I wouldn't give for a magna- Steam right now.
- I'm with you.
- Ah, here's the data you requested on the two previous abductions From county general.
- Thanks.
What's this one, slomo? - that one? Sorry, I thought you might pass it on to lieutenant Brogan and officer haldane for me.
I'm a bit overloaded this evening-- Thank you.
- Ah, lieutenant's not gonna like that, at all.
- What? Something else to make our day? - Ah, the ambulance with Vinny was high jacked and his body was stolen? Oh, that's perfect.
- right.
Who do you think the media's gonna blame for that? - That farm idea's lookin' pretty good right now.
- Hold that thought and, um, call me in about 20 years.
- Altorian years or earth? - Mmm-- Whatever.
- How the kids taking things? - This is okay.
Um, Matt, he's, you know, just trying to come to terms with what's happening.
- Door's open.
- Behavioral sciences? - Life.
- Terragate? - Yeah.
It's eggs have been implanted.
Soon we'll be hatching dorfins, I hope.
- a different species.
- An endangered species.
Fairly orbital, huh? - Yeah, amazing.
So, ah, you wanna talk about this deep pile of manure I've got us all into? - You didn't do anything wrong, dad.
I know.
- It looks like the guys at school don't think so.
- The guys at school don't know you like I do.
- It's not fair.
- Yeah, well, tell it to the other guy.
He's got two of these.
- Good-Bye, vinny.
It's an odd feeling playing God.
Role out the new one.
- It looks like I got killed again, huh, Dr.
Kyte? - We went back nearly a decade.
No egg-Sac was stolen from a hospital within demeter's database.
- Then three in less than a month.
- Could be some kind of black-Market thing startin' up.
- Well, I hope not.
- The embryos can survive unless the egg-Sacs are in a controlled environment, right? - Yes.
Whoever's behind it must have a portable incubator, at least for transporting.
My, it's vinny artak back from the dead.
- Brogan? - Mr.
Artak, you're alive.
Mr.
Artak-- Mr.
Artak! - I'll have a statement to make shortly.
- tell me, Mr.
Artak, how do you feeling? - Not bad, considering.
What's the matter, boys-- You look like you've seen a ghost.
- So who'd we blow away last night, vinny? - You can't kill the world of people, Brogan.
- Or creon cockroaches.
- You're going down, cop.
- Open this door! You, I want a piece of! - Easy now, Officer haldane.
Back off! - I don't know who you are, But vinny artak is dead.
That's not an opinion but based on the dna sample taken at the scene.
It's a medical and legal fact.
- fact this, captain.
I saw a golden light at the end of a long tunnel, darkness was all around me, but I fought and I struggled, and well, here I am.
I got a destiny to fulfill, a debt to pay to the people of demeter city.
- You're no Miracle resurrection.
- You never know.
- Yeah, well, if you are really vinny artak, you won't mind takin' a retinal scan.
- Hey, not a problem.
- Vinny artak, the people's candidate, is offering the reward of one million credits for information leading to the safe return of a tarn egg-Sac taken from DEMETER memorial hospital.
- One glass apiece, you understand what I'm saying? - Mr.
Artak? - Huh.
- I'm a new volunteer.
- nice to see ya.
- They told me to come.
They all said you'd be expecting me.
- Who? - The people who live in my head.
You're the inter-Dimensional messiah.
We're here to protect you.
- Get her away from me.
- Vinny's been chosen-- He's our master.
Vinny! - We're startin' to attract crazies like a super Nova.
You better make sure there's another vinny waiting in the wings.
- First thing in the morning.
- Did I say morning? - I-I'll get started right away, vinny.
- Make that "Mr.
Artak.
" - Officer nebbis, prisoner information desk.
- You know, I think I detect a pattern here.
If you're a hospital patient, you can only be cured when the paperwork equals your body weight.
- Here is the biography you wanted on the bad guy, Officer haldane.
- What bad guy, slomo? - If I divulge that information, Officer haldane has promised to re-Arrange my resistors.
- Get out of here.
- Just some bad guy's biography.
- Ah, don't let podly see it.
- I'll be damned-- Dr.
Lazlo kyte, vinny's personal physician, bought a tarn egg-Sec incubator.
- But vinny's his only client and he's a creon.
- Hey, the review's ready for you.
- With slamball bats.
- Well, I guess we better wear our protective gear then, huh? - You behave yourselves.
- Yeah, look, ah, take a look at this highlighted name here.
He bought an incubator a couple of months ago.
It might get the wheels turning.
Let's go, pal.
- Lieutenant Brogan, Officer haldane.
You are here to give an accounting of your actions in the armed assault on vinny artak.
At this time, the board instructs you to surrender your shields and weapons, and to consider yourselves on suspension pending the results of this inquiry.
- I say "the hell with them.
" - What? - You give that precinct more time than you give your own family, and at the end of it all, they take away your shield.
Ah, life is too short.
I say we make a down payment on that farm.
- It's not that easy, is it? - No.
No, I feel better for saying it.
We're been through worse.
Don't ask me when.
- Hey, how's life in the jungle? - a jungle.
I got a b plus on that egg implantation report.
- way to go.
- Very good.
- Later.
- Sal? - hmm.
- Could a tarn egg-Sac be altered to produce a creon? - You mean a surrogate womb? Well, theoretically, yes.
I mean, they have some common physiology.
- Vinny.
- Mmm? You lost me.
- Could an egg-Sac be used to create a clone? - Wait, wait a second.
You know, I mean, that's been done once or twice outside the medical community even-Even forcing accelerated growth, but, ah-- - But, it wouldn't be vinny artak, because it wouldn't have his mind.
- Exactly.
- I never knew how much fun it could be watching a guy's mailing address.
- that's what it's all about.
Thrills and spills of life on the force.
It never looks this dull on the tv shows.
- Tonight on "Cop wars," Dr.
Lazlo kyte, criminal doctor at large.
- The only difference is kyte's for real.
That's his limo.
- and I bet that's him.
- I'll take the back.
- Possible 820 in progress, zone 7, 111 industry road, request back-up.
- Dr.
Kyte? Tooky, I think he's headed for the roof.
Tooky, Brogan's right-- I've got the dodvek's baby.
- I'll take that.
- Ahh.
- Jane! - Thanks for the call, took.
- Haldane? - Right behind me.
- is she okay? - She's lucky-- Just a mild concussion.
- Oh, Bull-- Then why the cortex cradle? That's for serious head injuries.
- Old your fire, haldane-- It's routine.
We're storing a back-up copy of her thought patterns as a precaution.
Give me a recording check.
- Too much caffeine.
- What I wouldn't give for a magna-Steam right now.
- I'll take that.
- I've been a jerk, but I'll change.
- I didn't say that.
- Wishful thinking.
- She's gonna be fine.
- um, the cortex cradle, can it transfer one mind to another? - Not a chance-- Two minds into one brain? Makes for suicides and heavy metal bands.
- Ah, not another mind, an empty one, a cloned one? - Nothing-- Maybe he brought one through another company.
- Let's cross-Reference kyte's address.
Yes-- Cortex Cradle was sold to that address for L.
K.
Enterprises-- Lazlo kyte.
- Didn't kyte say vinny had a personal medical facility? - Yeah, but we're not exactly cops, right now.
- Well, the hell with that if, it saves the baby.
We just have to make damn sure that's where it is.
- If only we could read vinny's mind.
- Yeah.
Yeah.
Let's do that-- Come on.
- if it is discovered that you have used the precinct rsa for an unauthorized clandestine operation - Slomo, what are they gonna do? We're already on suspension.
- Un-Oh.
Ah, I find this mode of transport very unsettling, Officer haldane.
- No-- Please, vinny.
Not another one-- It's someone's baby.
- I'm touched by your concern, but I've decided that two vinny's alive at once is better than one.
We'll be like a force of nature.
- Come on, vinny, we need to update your mind store, so you can get out of here.
I'll implant the egg-Sac after that, hopefully, before the cops catch up with me.
- Relax.
Once I'm elected, I'll own the cops.
- I'm in.
- Good.
- first, I am accessing vinny artak's mainframe.
Now, if there is a cortex cradle in the penthouse, it will show up.
Yes, it's there-- Interesting.
There is also a growth accelerator.
- Concentrate on the cortex cradle.
- Have accessed and am recording Mr.
Artak's cortex cradle.
Uh-Oh.
Mr.
Artak is updating the file at this moment.
We are connected and parallel.
I am seeing through his eyes, and he is seeing through mine.
- What the hell! The cops are outside.
- What? - The cops are outside.
Destroy the egg-Sac.
- vinny! - Sit.
- Oops! Lost the signal.
- is the egg-Sac still there? - Sba, Mr.
Artak ordered Dr.
Kyte to commence dna implantation just a few minutes ago.
- Slomo, we have to get in there.
- Accessing entry codes now.
- Let's go.
- Thanks, slomo.
- No! - I'm sorry, vinny-- I don't love nobody that much.
- Where is he, vacua? - I don't know.
His campaign headquarters.
- Okay, rolling.
- Well, here it is, people of demeter, vinny's first interview since returning from-- Well, let's ask vinny, himself.
Vinny? - I'll have a statement to make shortly.
- Hey.
- Mr.
Artak, what are you doing here so early? - Those two cops, Brogan, haldane, they're still trying to kill me.
- Okay, lock the door.
- Officer Brogan, I'd like to ask you a few questions.
- That camera direct feed to your station? - Can be.
- They broke in and planted some poor, innocent little tarn baby in my home.
It was barbaric.
- This is an exclusive, live report outside candidate, vinny artak's campaign headquarters.
- open up, police.
- Hey, vinny, you're under arrest.
- What should we do, Mr.
Artak? - open it.
You got badges, fellas? - Ah, we don't need 'em.
We're makin' a citizen's arrest.
- Yeah, so are we.
- Ah, now's as good a time as any.
- Replacing cortex cradle extracts now.
- why don't we let Mr.
Artak speak for himself.
Turn up the sound there, Buddy.
- But I don't like talking to cops.
Ahh! - There are no discussions.
- Aahh! Ahhh! - What? The guy had the nerve to kill me.
- What's this? - What else should I do? - What? - The cops are outside-- Destroy the egg-Sac.
- You! - Uh, ma'am, you don't want to do that.
- Oh, yes, I do.
I quit.
- What's going on, vinny? - Yeah.
- You're gonna pay for this.
- You're a traitor, vinny.
- Murderer.
Murderer.
- Take me into custody.
- Haldane, is it a crime if these people kill a clone of somebody who's already legally dead? - No, you don't-- I am vinny artak.
I demand protection.
- Let's go.
- Well, it'll make a good test case.
- Okay, vinny, this time you're not comin' back.
- No.
- Okay! Rackets, extortion, murder, take your pick, I still got the right to a trial.
- Terrific campaign slogan, vinny.
Let's go.
- Protectin' this guy-- Isn't that where we came in? - We can't let people like vinny artak get in the way of what pride stands for.
- So you're not giving up the fight? - Absolutely not.
If anything, it's made us more determined to have True representative of the people on city council.
- Hey, this Regina baylek's okay.
- Yeah, she's honest, smart, dedicated.
- Pretty.
- So you're gonna vote for her? - I haven't decided yet.
- Gee, dad, what do you want? - If anything-- - Brogan, demeter memorial, you better get here fast.
- What? Am I too late? - Nope, it looks like you're just in time.
- If it hadn't been for all of you at the 88th precinct, this day would never have come.
Thank you.
For 20 years, I was with the n.
Y.
P.
D.
Now-- Well, let's just say "I've transferred to another precinct.
" - Ah, this takes the cake, Brogan.
Vinny artak running for city council? - Time-Honored tradition.
- right.
Illegal immigration, cyber piracy, interspecies porn.
This guy ticks me off.
- Ah, relax.
The media's here.
They'll ask all the right questions.
- hmm.
I never get to have any fun.
- Vinny, honey, I don't think this is such a hot idea.
- don't think, babe.
Let's do it.
Go make nice to the cops.
- But I don't like talking to cops.
Ahh.
- don't want no discussion.
- That does it.
- Oh, easy, easy, easy.
- Officers.
- Okay, everyone, vinny artak.
- I gotta tell ya, I'm overwhelmed.
I mean, all of you helping me the way you do.
And then, just a few minutes ago, find out in spite of the attacks on my character, that I'm gaining in the polls.
- Yeah.
- Is this over the top or what? - This is for the cameras.
- Mr.
Artak, you've been accused of connections with organized crime.
What's your response? - Excuse me? - I've referring to reported connections to the creon underworld.
- There is no creon underworld.
- Ha-Ha! - You heard it here first.
- the politicians and the corrupt police better get the message.
- Corrupt, us? - I'm gonna win This election because I'm just a citizen like you, and I'm gonna be you in the assembly kicking lazy, bureaucrats' Butt.
- Police.
Police.
- ahh! - Police.
- Vinny.
- Drop the gun.
Drop it.
Get back.
- Get back.
- I don't want to hurt nobody.
- All right.
- Get back.
- It's okay-- All right.
I'll tell you, that was some shooting there, Buddy.
I mean, you don't know, but you just did the public a great service.
- Leave me alone! - It's all right, it's all right.
Come on, we don't need anymore guys like vinny artak takin' office do we? We got enough crooked politicians as it is, right? I'm telling you, somebody should give you a medal.
Put her there.
- Get away from me.
- How about me, huh? - Stay down.
- Vinny! Vinny! Oh, no.
- Help me get him out of here.
- Look out.
- Where you takin' him? - To his private medical facility.
Now, please, every second counts.
- I love this job.
Come on, pal.
Mr.
Vinny artak's body is currently at his private medical facility in the care of his personal physician.
Given the highly public nature of the shooting, I can confirm that this precinct has launched a full-Scale investigation.
I can also confirm that we have one creon male in custody who we are questioning in connection with the incident.
- Look, we're gonna find out who you are sooner or later.
Try it, again.
- Hold steady.
Ah, clean as a newborn.
No priors.
He never committed a crime in this system.
- Brogan, captain would like to see you asap.
- Yeah, I'm sure he would.
Okay, uh, run a dna.
If he's got a birth record, he's got a name.
- right.
- Let's see here.
Personal physicians, dr.
Lazlo kyte.
One patient, vinny.
- speaking of which, that was a stupid thing you did, haldane.
- Thank you.
- Crazy and irresponsible.
- Too much caffeine.
- And pretty damn brilliant.
- You're scaring me here, castle.
- Come on, Janie, we got a 508 at demeter memorial.
- Right behind ya.
- Hey, haldane, command performance.
Brogan's already up there.
- Have fun.
- Thanks.
I mean, come on-- We don't need any more guys like vinny artak in office, do we? We got enough crooked politicians as it is, right? - That singular phrase, Officer haldane, has made you and all of us at the 88 very unpopular cops.
Communiqués from most of the city council, the mayor's Office, even a nice, little query from the governor.
- Captain, it was off the top of my head.
- look, I understand what you did and why you did it, but the politicians and the media are manipulatin' the situation, and destroying this precinct's reputation in the process.
- Yeah, well, maybe if I can just explain myself.
- Perfect.
We'll get the cameras in, and you can do it on live tv.
- um.
- The tarn egg-Sac has disappeared from the maternity incubators.
- Have the parents been informed? - He's gone mad.
- They're in there.
You wait here.
- Get out! - We're here to help you, Mr.
Dodvek.
- You don't understand-- They've taken our baby.
If I can't have mine, then nobody gets theirs.
I want our baby back.
- We'll get your egg-Sac back, Mr.
Dodvek.
Please put that down and let's talk.
- not until they find our baby.
Look, I'm reading you, Mr.
Dodvek.
I can see that you're a good man in a lot of pain.
You can read me, too.
You'll see that we're here to help you.
That's all we want to do.
- I'm sorry.
I'm so sorry.
- Come on, Mr.
Dodvek-- Let's go sit down and see if we can sort this out.
- We got a match with his dna.
He's a first generation, darnin immigrant.
- Junna cazar.
- Check out the next bit.
- So, junna, you grew up with vinny.
- Isn't that a gas? Even vinny's friends hated him.
- Old pals, says here vinny's godfather to your kids.
- So who paid you to kill him? - No one.
- He talks, too.
- Why did you do it then, junna? - Because vinny's like a brother to me.
I love him.
- Whoever took it must have had a portable incubator.
The egg-Sacs have to be kept in a controlled environment.
- Security? - After the double snatching From COUNTY General last month, all the hospitals have been on maximum alert.
- Do you mind if we have a look? - No, not at all.
Oh, thank you, nurse.
This one is in the early stages of gestation, and this little fella - Aw! - Is about ready to Hatch.
- The 88th precinct has released the name of vinny artak's assailant.
Junna cazar, a danin creon, was supposedly a childhood friend for Mr.
Artak's.
What prompted this bizarre shooting is as yet undetermined.
The conduct of the police officers, present during the shooting, is also under investigation.
This is anza berry for city-Wide news.
- What an entrance line.
- You, huh! You were supposed to protect him.
Now he's gone.
- We did everything we could, ma'am.
- Yeah, you expect me to believe that after what he said? - No, ma'am.
- Well, then, why did you come here? - We got a call from Dr.
Kyte saying that he wanted to meet us here.
- Okay, okay, okay, okay, give me room.
Room-- I mean it.
Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
- Quite a recovery, vinny.
- I got a genius doctor, lieutenant.
Plus the best reason in the world to live, these here volunteers and the good citizens of demeter city.
- Yeah! - Come on, vinny-- You're shot by an old friend right in the middle of your own campaign headquarters.
Then your doctor whisks you away before anybody has a chance to examine the wounds? - Hey, I don't know why junna did what he did, but I notice that you weren't there to stop him.
- What my partner is saying, vinny, is that we know this whole thing is a-- - I know what he's saying, and I know what happened.
- Yes, vinny artak, for city council.
He's blastproof.
Blastproof, blastproof! Blastproof, blastproof! Blastproof, blastproof! Blastproof, blastproof! Blastproof, blastproof! Blastproof, blastproof! - Blastproof, blastproof! - Ah, guys, can you turn it down, please? I'm trying to talk to your father.
- Blastproof! Blastproof! - Matt? - Blastproof! - Sorry.
Ah, Well, um, creons are Hardy.
I suppose it is possible if the shots missed all the vital organs, But, ah, from what you described I can't see how.
- me, neither-- Thanks, hon.
- Hey, dad, you sure, ah, vinny artak's a bad guy? I mean, he hasn't been convicted of anything.
- Yeah, I'm sure, Matt.
- The news says he gives all the money to the children's hospital.
- Ah, yes he does, sweetie, but if he steals it, it's all wrong.
- But the kids still need it.
- Um, look, I-I-I've gotta go-- I'll talk to all later.
- don't tell me-- Bail was posted.
- by one of vinny's lawyers.
- and he's not gonna press charges either, right? - Right again.
- Well, that's some friendship you have there, junna.
I really hope you guys Patch things up.
- You don't know nothin' about vinny and me.
Vinny, I did this to you? - Naw, I'm good as new.
I just like the wheels.
Ha-Ha-Ha, come here.
It musta been hard for you to do that to me, old friend.
- You mean more to me than my own brother.
I-I-I'd do it again.
- I know you would.
- ahhh! - What? The guy had the nerve to kill me.
What else should I do? - I'm sorry if my actions at the attempted assassination of vinny artak offended anyone.
I was attempting to distract the assailant.
Nothing more.
- Was your accusation about Crooks in Public office your opinion or a matter of policy at the 88? - No, that is not a matter of policy at the 88.
- Oh, then, it was your opinion? - He didn't say that.
- Yeah, but he meant it.
- Well, if there is nothing else, the lieutenant and I are going to go and catch some bad guys.
- Do you have anything more to say? - No, no, no! - Those two cops are messin' with the wrong guy.
- vinny, I was thinking-- Ahh! - I do the thinkin', okay? - Then, I realized I don't wanna be his punching bag no more.
- Then leave him.
- It's not that easy.
Vinny's gonna be at some big-Deal meeting tonight.
If you get down here and take me into-- - Protective custody? - Yeah, then, maybe I can get you some stuff on vinny, that'll put him away for a long time.
- She phoned that in this afternoon.
- Smells like a set-up.
- So we'll be careful.
At least it gets me close to my pal, vinny.
Ah, it's too bad Vinny's gonna have to give all this up.
- Officer haldane, look, I'm sorry-- Vinny's home.
I've changed my mind.
- You're dead, you hear.
- Vinny, open up-- It's the police.
- Freeze! - Let her go, vinny.
- You're breakin' into my home and threatenin' me for no reason? Here's your reason.
- Drop it! Drop the gun, vinny! - Murderers! Vinny! Oh, vinny.
- What just happened? - Insanity.
- Body is that of adult creon, vinny artak.
Apparent cause of death-- - Wearing his lungs on the carpet.
- Internal affairs are gonna have a field day with you two over this one.
- He was trying to kill her.
- Those two, they're to blame.
- She don't look so bad now.
- Tell me exactly what happened? - They just shot their way in and murdered him.
It's them you should be talking to not me.
- Okay, so let's suppose you were set-up.
The question is, by whom? - Vinny.
- You're saying he planned his own murder and wanted to take you down with him? You fellas are gonna need a better story than that, if I'm gonna save your Butts this time.
In any event, you're off the street.
- Wait a damn minute, captain! You take us out of the action now, it's gonna make us look that much more guilty.
- and if I don't follow policy, it'll compromise this precinct, lieutenant-- You know that.
Starting tomorrow, you're on desk duty Pending review by internal affairs.
You can help officers castle and took Track down their missing tarn-Egg.
- I tried to set up an interview with the couple who's twin egg-Sacs were taken last month.
They're in seclusion.
Not a chance.
- Well, can you blame them? Oh, I've just about had it for one day.
- Oh, yeah, what I wouldn't give for a magna- Steam right now.
- I'm with you.
- Ah, here's the data you requested on the two previous abductions From county general.
- Thanks.
What's this one, slomo? - that one? Sorry, I thought you might pass it on to lieutenant Brogan and officer haldane for me.
I'm a bit overloaded this evening-- Thank you.
- Ah, lieutenant's not gonna like that, at all.
- What? Something else to make our day? - Ah, the ambulance with Vinny was high jacked and his body was stolen? Oh, that's perfect.
- right.
Who do you think the media's gonna blame for that? - That farm idea's lookin' pretty good right now.
- Hold that thought and, um, call me in about 20 years.
- Altorian years or earth? - Mmm-- Whatever.
- How the kids taking things? - This is okay.
Um, Matt, he's, you know, just trying to come to terms with what's happening.
- Door's open.
- Behavioral sciences? - Life.
- Terragate? - Yeah.
It's eggs have been implanted.
Soon we'll be hatching dorfins, I hope.
- a different species.
- An endangered species.
Fairly orbital, huh? - Yeah, amazing.
So, ah, you wanna talk about this deep pile of manure I've got us all into? - You didn't do anything wrong, dad.
I know.
- It looks like the guys at school don't think so.
- The guys at school don't know you like I do.
- It's not fair.
- Yeah, well, tell it to the other guy.
He's got two of these.
- Good-Bye, vinny.
It's an odd feeling playing God.
Role out the new one.
- It looks like I got killed again, huh, Dr.
Kyte? - We went back nearly a decade.
No egg-Sac was stolen from a hospital within demeter's database.
- Then three in less than a month.
- Could be some kind of black-Market thing startin' up.
- Well, I hope not.
- The embryos can survive unless the egg-Sacs are in a controlled environment, right? - Yes.
Whoever's behind it must have a portable incubator, at least for transporting.
My, it's vinny artak back from the dead.
- Brogan? - Mr.
Artak, you're alive.
Mr.
Artak-- Mr.
Artak! - I'll have a statement to make shortly.
- tell me, Mr.
Artak, how do you feeling? - Not bad, considering.
What's the matter, boys-- You look like you've seen a ghost.
- So who'd we blow away last night, vinny? - You can't kill the world of people, Brogan.
- Or creon cockroaches.
- You're going down, cop.
- Open this door! You, I want a piece of! - Easy now, Officer haldane.
Back off! - I don't know who you are, But vinny artak is dead.
That's not an opinion but based on the dna sample taken at the scene.
It's a medical and legal fact.
- fact this, captain.
I saw a golden light at the end of a long tunnel, darkness was all around me, but I fought and I struggled, and well, here I am.
I got a destiny to fulfill, a debt to pay to the people of demeter city.
- You're no Miracle resurrection.
- You never know.
- Yeah, well, if you are really vinny artak, you won't mind takin' a retinal scan.
- Hey, not a problem.
- Vinny artak, the people's candidate, is offering the reward of one million credits for information leading to the safe return of a tarn egg-Sac taken from DEMETER memorial hospital.
- One glass apiece, you understand what I'm saying? - Mr.
Artak? - Huh.
- I'm a new volunteer.
- nice to see ya.
- They told me to come.
They all said you'd be expecting me.
- Who? - The people who live in my head.
You're the inter-Dimensional messiah.
We're here to protect you.
- Get her away from me.
- Vinny's been chosen-- He's our master.
Vinny! - We're startin' to attract crazies like a super Nova.
You better make sure there's another vinny waiting in the wings.
- First thing in the morning.
- Did I say morning? - I-I'll get started right away, vinny.
- Make that "Mr.
Artak.
" - Officer nebbis, prisoner information desk.
- You know, I think I detect a pattern here.
If you're a hospital patient, you can only be cured when the paperwork equals your body weight.
- Here is the biography you wanted on the bad guy, Officer haldane.
- What bad guy, slomo? - If I divulge that information, Officer haldane has promised to re-Arrange my resistors.
- Get out of here.
- Just some bad guy's biography.
- Ah, don't let podly see it.
- I'll be damned-- Dr.
Lazlo kyte, vinny's personal physician, bought a tarn egg-Sec incubator.
- But vinny's his only client and he's a creon.
- Hey, the review's ready for you.
- With slamball bats.
- Well, I guess we better wear our protective gear then, huh? - You behave yourselves.
- Yeah, look, ah, take a look at this highlighted name here.
He bought an incubator a couple of months ago.
It might get the wheels turning.
Let's go, pal.
- Lieutenant Brogan, Officer haldane.
You are here to give an accounting of your actions in the armed assault on vinny artak.
At this time, the board instructs you to surrender your shields and weapons, and to consider yourselves on suspension pending the results of this inquiry.
- I say "the hell with them.
" - What? - You give that precinct more time than you give your own family, and at the end of it all, they take away your shield.
Ah, life is too short.
I say we make a down payment on that farm.
- It's not that easy, is it? - No.
No, I feel better for saying it.
We're been through worse.
Don't ask me when.
- Hey, how's life in the jungle? - a jungle.
I got a b plus on that egg implantation report.
- way to go.
- Very good.
- Later.
- Sal? - hmm.
- Could a tarn egg-Sac be altered to produce a creon? - You mean a surrogate womb? Well, theoretically, yes.
I mean, they have some common physiology.
- Vinny.
- Mmm? You lost me.
- Could an egg-Sac be used to create a clone? - Wait, wait a second.
You know, I mean, that's been done once or twice outside the medical community even-Even forcing accelerated growth, but, ah-- - But, it wouldn't be vinny artak, because it wouldn't have his mind.
- Exactly.
- I never knew how much fun it could be watching a guy's mailing address.
- that's what it's all about.
Thrills and spills of life on the force.
It never looks this dull on the tv shows.
- Tonight on "Cop wars," Dr.
Lazlo kyte, criminal doctor at large.
- The only difference is kyte's for real.
That's his limo.
- and I bet that's him.
- I'll take the back.
- Possible 820 in progress, zone 7, 111 industry road, request back-up.
- Dr.
Kyte? Tooky, I think he's headed for the roof.
Tooky, Brogan's right-- I've got the dodvek's baby.
- I'll take that.
- Ahh.
- Jane! - Thanks for the call, took.
- Haldane? - Right behind me.
- is she okay? - She's lucky-- Just a mild concussion.
- Oh, Bull-- Then why the cortex cradle? That's for serious head injuries.
- Old your fire, haldane-- It's routine.
We're storing a back-up copy of her thought patterns as a precaution.
Give me a recording check.
- Too much caffeine.
- What I wouldn't give for a magna-Steam right now.
- I'll take that.
- I've been a jerk, but I'll change.
- I didn't say that.
- Wishful thinking.
- She's gonna be fine.
- um, the cortex cradle, can it transfer one mind to another? - Not a chance-- Two minds into one brain? Makes for suicides and heavy metal bands.
- Ah, not another mind, an empty one, a cloned one? - Nothing-- Maybe he brought one through another company.
- Let's cross-Reference kyte's address.
Yes-- Cortex Cradle was sold to that address for L.
K.
Enterprises-- Lazlo kyte.
- Didn't kyte say vinny had a personal medical facility? - Yeah, but we're not exactly cops, right now.
- Well, the hell with that if, it saves the baby.
We just have to make damn sure that's where it is.
- If only we could read vinny's mind.
- Yeah.
Yeah.
Let's do that-- Come on.
- if it is discovered that you have used the precinct rsa for an unauthorized clandestine operation - Slomo, what are they gonna do? We're already on suspension.
- Un-Oh.
Ah, I find this mode of transport very unsettling, Officer haldane.
- No-- Please, vinny.
Not another one-- It's someone's baby.
- I'm touched by your concern, but I've decided that two vinny's alive at once is better than one.
We'll be like a force of nature.
- Come on, vinny, we need to update your mind store, so you can get out of here.
I'll implant the egg-Sac after that, hopefully, before the cops catch up with me.
- Relax.
Once I'm elected, I'll own the cops.
- I'm in.
- Good.
- first, I am accessing vinny artak's mainframe.
Now, if there is a cortex cradle in the penthouse, it will show up.
Yes, it's there-- Interesting.
There is also a growth accelerator.
- Concentrate on the cortex cradle.
- Have accessed and am recording Mr.
Artak's cortex cradle.
Uh-Oh.
Mr.
Artak is updating the file at this moment.
We are connected and parallel.
I am seeing through his eyes, and he is seeing through mine.
- What the hell! The cops are outside.
- What? - The cops are outside.
Destroy the egg-Sac.
- vinny! - Sit.
- Oops! Lost the signal.
- is the egg-Sac still there? - Sba, Mr.
Artak ordered Dr.
Kyte to commence dna implantation just a few minutes ago.
- Slomo, we have to get in there.
- Accessing entry codes now.
- Let's go.
- Thanks, slomo.
- No! - I'm sorry, vinny-- I don't love nobody that much.
- Where is he, vacua? - I don't know.
His campaign headquarters.
- Okay, rolling.
- Well, here it is, people of demeter, vinny's first interview since returning from-- Well, let's ask vinny, himself.
Vinny? - I'll have a statement to make shortly.
- Hey.
- Mr.
Artak, what are you doing here so early? - Those two cops, Brogan, haldane, they're still trying to kill me.
- Okay, lock the door.
- Officer Brogan, I'd like to ask you a few questions.
- That camera direct feed to your station? - Can be.
- They broke in and planted some poor, innocent little tarn baby in my home.
It was barbaric.
- This is an exclusive, live report outside candidate, vinny artak's campaign headquarters.
- open up, police.
- Hey, vinny, you're under arrest.
- What should we do, Mr.
Artak? - open it.
You got badges, fellas? - Ah, we don't need 'em.
We're makin' a citizen's arrest.
- Yeah, so are we.
- Ah, now's as good a time as any.
- Replacing cortex cradle extracts now.
- why don't we let Mr.
Artak speak for himself.
Turn up the sound there, Buddy.
- But I don't like talking to cops.
Ahh! - There are no discussions.
- Aahh! Ahhh! - What? The guy had the nerve to kill me.
- What's this? - What else should I do? - What? - The cops are outside-- Destroy the egg-Sac.
- You! - Uh, ma'am, you don't want to do that.
- Oh, yes, I do.
I quit.
- What's going on, vinny? - Yeah.
- You're gonna pay for this.
- You're a traitor, vinny.
- Murderer.
Murderer.
- Take me into custody.
- Haldane, is it a crime if these people kill a clone of somebody who's already legally dead? - No, you don't-- I am vinny artak.
I demand protection.
- Let's go.
- Well, it'll make a good test case.
- Okay, vinny, this time you're not comin' back.
- No.
- Okay! Rackets, extortion, murder, take your pick, I still got the right to a trial.
- Terrific campaign slogan, vinny.
Let's go.
- Protectin' this guy-- Isn't that where we came in? - We can't let people like vinny artak get in the way of what pride stands for.
- So you're not giving up the fight? - Absolutely not.
If anything, it's made us more determined to have True representative of the people on city council.
- Hey, this Regina baylek's okay.
- Yeah, she's honest, smart, dedicated.
- Pretty.
- So you're gonna vote for her? - I haven't decided yet.
- Gee, dad, what do you want? - If anything-- - Brogan, demeter memorial, you better get here fast.
- What? Am I too late? - Nope, it looks like you're just in time.
- If it hadn't been for all of you at the 88th precinct, this day would never have come.
Thank you.