Knight Rider (1982) s01e19 Episode Script
White Bird
Michael, I'm picking up two men on | the ridge above you.
One has a rifle.
Stephanie, get inside! Go! KITT, cover us.
! Our conspiracy case | rests on your testimony.
No matter what happens, | you stay with KITT.
But you just seem so familiar to | me your voice, the way you move.
They're gonna try and take her out of the | picture before she gets to the grand jury.
Knight Rider, a shadowy flight | into the dangerous world of a man who does not exist.
Michael Knight, a young loner on a crusade to champion | the cause of the innocent, the helpless, | the powerless, in a world of criminals | who operate above the law.
Yes, it's been set for, uh, | 10:00 on Monday.
Right.
Okay.
Uh-huh.
| We'll see you then.
Mm-hmm.
Hi.
It's almost 5:30.
| Anything before I leave? No, I can't think of anything.
| Oh, wait.
If you're going down, you could help a | forgetful client retrieve his briefcase.
He's on his way over.
| A silver sedan, chauffeur, the works.
Sounds hard to miss.
| Anyone I know? No, no.
Just another wealthy bachelor | with tax shelter problems.
You're right.
| It's no one I know.
I'll see you tomorrow.
| Good night.
Good night.
It's a setup! Hey, what are you doing? | Let me go.
- Calm down, miss.
You're not going anywhere.
| - Stop it.
Let me go.
Federal agents, | Department ofJustice.
Right this way.
Let's go.
¢Ü We run like bandits ¢Ü ¢Ü¢Ü Michael? | Yeah, KITT.
"C" is beyond your grasp, and "D" is beyond your vision.
I didn't know | you had perfect pitch.
- It's a cross I have to bear.
| - You do it so well.
Thank you.
| De nada.
¢Ü The heart of the night ¢Ü¢Ü - Can I get you something? | - Very funny.
Stevie.
The money in that briefcase is marked.
It's illegal money.
| It's dirty.
It comes from a man | named Anthony Solan.
Now, that name may mean | nothing to you, but it's well known | at the Department ofJustice, the F.
B.
I.
And various other circles.
What isn't as well known | is the very special relationship that exists between Anthony Solan and a well-known attorney | by the name of Gilbert Cole.
I don't believe that.
| You don't have to.
We've had your boss | under investigation for six months.
We know of the connection between him and | Solan, but we haven't been able to prove it.
Now we can.
That briefcase proves conspiracy.
If that's true, | why don't you arrest him? He's a smart lawyer.
Would you let a guilty man go free | just because he's smart? Look, I'll spell it out for you.
Our conspiracy case | rests on your testimony.
You've got to say that he gave you | the briefcase with specific instructions.
What if I refuse? If you refuse, and there's insufficient evidence | to prove that the briefcase is Gilbert's, then there's only one person left | to hang it on, and I'm looking at her.
Michael, I love you.
Don't ever leave me.
Michael, I love you.
Stephanie? | Yes.
I'm Michael Knight.
| I arranged for your bail.
Do I know you? | No.
Do you work for Mr.
Cole? No, I work for | the Foundation for Law and Government.
I'm sorry.
| I don't know of them.
Why would a foundation | I've never heard of post bail for me? Well, we're interested in your case.
| We help people we're interested in.
I'm not sure | that answers my question.
Maybe I can fill you in | on the way.
On the way where? | To your apartment.
Unless you want | to hang around here.
No.
| I didn't think so.
How did you know I live | in an apartment? Your address was on | the arrest report.
And how did you get your hands | on the arrest report? Stephanie, the Foundation | has a lot of friends.
It seems like everyone has friends | in high places except me.
Sorry.
Just a little self-pity | slipping through.
You're entitled.
But Stephanie, | you do have friends if you choose.
Thanks, really.
But my boss is going to help me.
In fact, he's probably arranging bail | for me right now.
I appreciate your sense | of loyalty and trust, I really do.
But Stephanie, so far the facts | indicate your boss is much more | than an innocent bystander.
Everyone seems to think | that he's guilty of I don't know some major tie-in | with the underworld.
- I don't believe it.
| - I'm not saying you have to.
All I'm saying is that until we can | develop some more information, you'd be real wise not to lock yourself | into a particular defense or a particular person.
Well, what do you think? | I don't know what to think.
Tell you what | do it my way for 24 hours.
If you're not convinced by then, you're | free to handle it any way you choose.
Why are you doing all of this? I told you why.
| I know.
The Foundation and all that.
But it | just seems like there's something more.
Is there? No.
But you just seem | so familiar to me your voice, | the way you move.
Hey, do we have | a deal or what? All right.
| All right.
I'll see you in a couple hours.
| Now, you keep this door locked.
And don't let anybody in.
Michael? Yeah, KITT.
Are you all right? I took the | liberty of scanning your vital signs.
Your blood pressure | is 190 over 120, and your pulse is 104.
| Good.
Not according to my information | on the human body.
What I mean is, | it's not as bad as I thought.
Gilbert Cole.
Hello? Stephanie, is that you? Who is Stephanie Mason? Bonnie In my other life, | when I had a different face, when I didn't have this identity, when I was Michael Long, Stephanie and I were engaged | to be married.
Michael, I'm sorry.
| I didn't know.
Yeah.
No one knows, except Devon.
Now you.
I've programmed KITT | with everything I could get on Cole.
I hope it helps.
| Yeah, me too.
Thanks a lot.
| Michael, be careful.
Stephanie? Hey! Stephanie! Stephanie, it's me! It's Michael! | Oh, Michael.
Oh! Oh, I thought | they'd come back.
I didn't know | Who? What happened? Two men came while you were gone.
They tried to break in | when I wouldn't open the door, so I ran out the back.
L It's okay, Stevie.
| It's okay.
Why did you call me that? What? "Stevie.
" Nobody calls me that anymore.
I guess I'm pretty thorough, huh? I must've read it in | the Foundation's files.
Come on.
| I gotta get you out of here, get you someplace safe.
Go put some clothes together, huh? - They just left the apartment.
| - Find out where they go.
Right now | that's all I want to know.
What are you looking for? The microwave and the sunlamp.
Really.
I've never seen | anything like this before.
I'm still amazed if someone | has a phone in their car.
All right.
| Might as well deal with this now.
KITT, say hello to Stephanie.
Stephanie, meet my car, KITT.
Say something, KITT.
Come on, say something.
| She's gonna think I'm crazy.
Hello, Stephanie.
Michael isn't crazy, | not in the clinical sense, at least.
Thank you very much.
He talks.
How can a car talk? Computers.
Don't ask me how.
I | don't know.
I don't wanna know.
How you doin'? | Feel better? Aside from trying to adjust | to being in a car that talks? Yes, better.
Thanks.
As a matter of fact, the farther | away we get, the better I feel.
Where are we going? The Foundation | has a retreat just north of here.
What's the matter? I just realized | I hadn't asked you that.
That scares me.
What scares you? That I would trust | a stranger so much.
I think the reason I did | is this feeling I have, this feeling I know you.
Michael, there's a car following us.
A blue sedan.
- You think it's the men that came to my apartment? | - That's my guess.
KITT, give me the car's license number | and visuals on both men inside.
Right away, Michael.
There are the visuals, Michael.
And | I have the number.
Then let's go.
Hang on, Stephanie.
There's an obstruction ahead, Michael.
Michael? | I see it, KITT.
Hang on, Stephanie.
Whoo! How was that? | That was fantastic.
Any reading on them, KITT? | None.
- Not only does he talk, he has a sense of humor.
| - I wouldn't go that far.
I beg your pardon.
The guy's got a car | twice the car we've got.
What am I supposed to do? | All right, forget it.
I think I know | where they're going.
Seems they've got a place in the | mountains, 40 or 50 miles north.
Well, here we are.
Ah, it's beautiful! A fireplace too? | You want a fireplace? Yeah.
| You got a fireplace.
Well, thank you.
Hello.
You're late.
I expected you | over an hour ago.
Who is he? | It's my boss.
Oh.
Since Michael seems to have lost the | power of speech, let me introduce myself.
I'm Devon Miles.
And you | are Stephanie Mason.
Yes.
How do you do? | Fine.
Won't you make yourself at home? By the way, uh, | the tea is very good.
And now, if you'll excuse us, I'd like to have a word | with Michael outside.
Sure.
I'll unpack.
Does she know who you really are? | No.
Good.
Keep it that way.
Devon, it seems to me the Department ofJustice is | trying to put the squeeze on her.
Either she testifies | and implicates her boss, or they're gonna try her | for conspiracy charges.
Whoever's behind this whole thing knows that if she testifies, | they're in big trouble.
I think they're gonna try and take her out of | the picture before she gets to the grand jury.
I'll see what I can do, starting | with the car that followed you.
Michael, you've chosen to do the most difficult thing | a man in your position can do to help someone you love.
If it had been anyone | other than you and that girl in there, | anyone other than who she is I'd forbid it.
Thanks.
Hey, you hungry? Please say yes, because I'm starved, | and I don't want to feel guilty.
Yes.
What? Have you ever had the feeling | you've been someplace before, said the same things | to the same person? I know it can't be true, | but that's how it feels.
Come on.
| You're just too tired.
Yeah, I guess.
I guess I've been working so hard | trying to get my life together, and take care of myself Look at me now.
| I can't even go home.
I can't do anything without you.
I'm dependent on you.
The last time I depended | on someone, I lost him.
His name was Michael too.
Michael Long.
You know all about me.
I don't know | anything about you.
It's not fair.
I'll tell you later.
| Tonight? Yeah, maybe tonight.
In the meantime, I refuse to let | this gorgeous day go by without picking some flowers.
Is that all right? It's all | right.
Just don't go too far.
¢Ü Or she will die ¢Ü ¢Ü White bird must fly ¢Ü ¢Ü Or she will die ¢Ü¢Ü Michael, I'm picking up | two men on the ridge above you.
One has a rifle.
| Stephanie! Get inside! Go! KITT, cover her! Stevie! Let's go.
Morning, Michael.
Come now.
| It's unlike you not to eat.
Just look at the breakfast | I had prepared for you.
All your favorite things | steak, eggs, greasy potatoes.
Michael, she'll be fine.
You have Doctor Carlysle's | personal assurance on that.
God, Devon, I've gone over KITT's | programming twice.
I've got nothing.
How about you? Any luck? Some.
What? | Regarding Gilbert Cole.
It seems he's everything | the Department ofJustice says he is.
Which is what exactly? Well, amongst other things, that he's | a business partner of Anthony Solan.
His primary contribution to that | partnership is laundering Solan's money.
It's a strange world we live in, | isn't it, Devon? The Department ofJustice knows | that Gilbert Cole is breaking the law.
I know he's behind | shooting Stephanie.
We can't move a damn finger | against him.
Calm yourself, Michael.
It serves no one's purpose | to react from emo I'm not reacting! | I'm feeling.
Is it okay to feel? Does the Foundation permit that? Do you? Come.
| Let's take a walk.
I'm not so much concerned | about Stephanie dying.
I'm more concerned | about her living.
What does that mean? Well, have you thought | about afterwards? When this is all over, | what are you going to do then? I know I want to be with her.
And how do you propose | to accomplish that? Tell her who you really are? Set up housekeeping, and, as the | saying goes, live happily ever after? I don't know.
You saying that's impossible? You | know better than to ask that question.
You have too many enemies | in the real world.
You can't go back.
| You can't even afford to look back.
I suppose loving her means making | another kind of choice.
Michael, when I was | with the O.
S.
S.
In France, I met a young lady, | a very special young lady.
I met her in a little cafe | just outside of Paris.
I remember | she was wearing a white dress, and she looked like an angel.
Well, we were young.
| Time was short.
We fell very much in love.
But soon I realized | I had a choice to make.
After all, I too was in | a dangerous occupation.
I love her, Devon.
You telling me | I can't ever love anybody? Everything changes, Michael.
I can't look into the future, but I know | that right now you have a choice to make.
A decision.
| I know you'll make the right one.
Oh, uh, before I go, | I have something else.
I don't want to tell you this, | but I feel I must.
Stephanie was arrested twice, represented by Cole | on both occasions.
For what, jaywalking? Solicitation.
I'm sorry, Michael.
- I want to talk to you.
| - Who the hell do you think you are? - Name is Michael Knight.
| - It's all right, Claire.
I'll handle it.
It's okay.
All right.
You're here.
| What do you want? Did you defend Stephanie Mason | on criminal charges? - You have her? Is she with you? | - I didn't ask you what you wanted.
You asked me.
- Just answer my question.
| - You get tough with me, I won't answer anything.
Stephanie Mason was never | arrested on solicitation.
So when it popped up on a computer, | I started asking some serious questions.
The first was who salted | a phony bust on her and why.
I'm still working | on that one.
The second question | is who represented her.
I got that one, man, | and that's you.
Now, my plan for the first one | is to start rattlin'cages.
And I'm gonna keep rattlin'cages | until all the monkeys fall.
So you get yourself | a real good grip.
KITT, if I'm right, a call should be | going out of Cole's office right about now.
See if you can pick it up.
| Right away, Michael.
Yeah.
He was just here, | Michael Knight character.
He was hot, raging about how | Stephanie was never arrested, and how he was gonna find out | who salted her record.
Good.
Let him spin his wheels | for a while.
It'll buy us time to find out | where they're keeping her.
We'll find her.
- How'd we do? | - We drew a blank, Michael.
A call went out on his private line, | but he has a scrambler on it.
Terrific.
Bonnie, I think we've | got something here.
Cross-reference the union case.
Coming right up.
- Oh, Michael.
Glad to see you.
| - What's up? Look at this.
| Those two cases Cole recently lost.
In one of them he represented | a splinter group of a large labor union.
They were trying to form | an independent bargaining unit and lost.
Guess whose name pops up | on the winning side - Anthony Solan.
| - His name keeps popping up.
Yes.
Well, Solan was also a principal behind the scenes | in Cole's other major defeat.
That was a-a zoning dispute | over a shopping center site.
I'll bet a little more digging | will turn up a connection.
You need some more, I'll | get you some more.
Michael, the grandjury convenes the | day after tomorrow.
Yeah.
Solan.
Anthony Solan.
Michael, my sensors detect | the electronic signal of a silent alarm.
There is a security guard | approaching, Michael.
- How much time does that give me? | - One minute, Michael.
He's approaching | this corridor, Michael.
Okay, pal.
Hey, Stevie.
It's me.
It's Michael.
Michael? Where are you? I'm here.
Right here.
I woke up, and you were gone.
I was | Don't talk, huh? You're not alone anymore.
Michael, don't go away again.
Please, don't leave me.
I won't.
It's okay.
I won't.
Shhh.
"Lawyer names law clerk | in gangland conspiracy.
" It's a lie! | Everything in there is a lie! What does he hope to accomplish? Does he really expect | the grand jury to believe that I'm a-a-a money courier | for the underworld? Stephanie, don't be | too sure they won't.
It's all a matter of credibility.
| It's your word against his.
Well, I'll take that chance.
| My credibility's intact.
Isn't it? - Michael? | - I didn't want to get into this until I could prove otherwise.
What are you talking about? Stephanie, a routine computer run | shows you got a record.
- What? | - Two arrests in Las Vegas.
That's ridiculous.
I've never been | arrested in Las Vegas or anywhere else.
L What was I supposedly arrested for? Solicitation.
That's a lie! How can he do that? You can prove that's a lie, | can't you? We're working on it.
Do you believe me? | Oh, yeah, I believe you.
It's the grand jury | that I'm worried about.
Michael, Devon wants you.
Ah, Michael.
| I have Stephanie's arrest record.
Listen.
"Stephanie Mason, | Las Vegas, June 10, 1982.
"Solicitation.
Arresting | Officer, William Donner.
"Las Vegas, July 23, 1982.
Solicitation.
Arresting | Officer, William Donner.
" The same arresting officer.
| That's very interesting.
Yes.
Now listen to this.
William Donner.
| Ten years on the police force.
Indicted last fall in a police scandal, | but it didn't stick.
Then he disappeared.
And here he is.
Wait a minute.
| I've seen this face.
The car that tailed us | to the retreat.
KITT, the visuals on the two men | who tailed us to the retreat.
Patch 'em through.
Right away, Michael.
That's our man, Devon.
That's the proof | they salted a phony record on Stephanie.
Wait a minute.
This may be enough to | question the veracity on Stephanie's record, but it doesn't touch Gilbert Cole, | not yet.
What will? | We're running out of time.
I know a way.
Gilbert, it's me, Stephanie.
| I need your help.
Where are you now, at home? No, they've got me at the Foundation.
| But I heard them talking.
They're taking me to a retreat, | somewhere in the mountains.
Someone's coming.
| I'll try to call you from there.
All right.
No matter what happens, you stay with KITT.
I will.
| Stephanie, promise me.
I promise.
| Okay.
Devon's standing by.
All we have to do | is bait the trap.
KITT, scan the cabin.
There's no one inside, Michael.
Michael, I'm a little afraid.
| Everything's gonna be all right.
I promise.
| He knows what he's talking about.
I certainly hope so.
Michael, a vehicle is approaching | at high speed.
Bingo.
I hit it with everything I got! | Ram him! - Here they come.
| - Surely you don't expect me to just stand here, Michael.
Just one second longer.
Now! You okay? Where's Cole? I don't know | what you're talkin' about! Michael, are you in need | of assistance? No, just a little privacy! All right.
It's your last chance, man.
| Where's Cole? No call.
I checked with the | operator.
The car phone's dead.
Something's wrong.
| Let's get out of here.
Do you think we'll be in time? I hope so, buddy.
They're waitin' for a phone call | they're not gonna get.
- Michael, there's a fence ahead.
| - No problem, pal.
Can we catch 'em? | No problem, pal.
They're approaching airspeed, Michael.
Yeah, I know.
There's only one way | to stop 'em.
Ready whenever you are, Michael.
Way to go, pal.
As usual.
Usually, I'd wait for you | to swing first.
But I talked to the federal attorney.
He said that after I testify, I'll be in the witness relocation | program.
New place to live.
| New identity.
Sometimes it doesn't seem | like any of this ever happened.
Well, it's all behind you now.
The nightmare is over.
And the dream? Hey, what happened? | You lose your necklace? No.
I gave it back.
It's gonna be strange | becoming somebody else.
Leaving my life behind.
You know, I read about | a bird once a long time ago.
A white bird.
It eats, sleeps, spends its entire life | in flight.
It never lands.
That's its purpose.
Its destiny.
To fly forever.
¢Ü Or she will die ¢Ü Good-bye, Michael.
Good-bye, Stevie.
¢ÜDreams of the aspen tree ¢Ü ¢Ü With her dying leaves ¢Ü ¢Ü Turning gold ¢Ü ¢ÜBut the white bird ¢Ü ¢ÜJust sits in her cage ¢Ü ¢Ü White bird must fly ¢Ü ¢Ü Or she will die ¢Ü ¢Ü White bird must fly ¢Ü ¢Ü Or she will die ¢Ü¢Ü I'll make it up to you, I promise.
Name it.
Anything.
All right.
| What do you want me to do? It's not within your power.
I didn't know they were gonna | shoot up the place.
Do you know what that was? | A 150-year-old clock.
Oh, here.
| Maybe I can fix it.
I guess not.
I'm gonna take a little drive.
| It's really nice outside.
I'll come back in about an hour or so | when you've added up all the damages.
What is it, Michael? I wonder if she really knew, KITT.
Look in the glove compartment.
Why did she leave it for you? A mutual friend gave this to her a long time ago.
He's dead now.
I think she wanted me | to remember him with this.
What was his name? Michael Long, KITT.
Michael Long.
One has a rifle.
Stephanie, get inside! Go! KITT, cover us.
! Our conspiracy case | rests on your testimony.
No matter what happens, | you stay with KITT.
But you just seem so familiar to | me your voice, the way you move.
They're gonna try and take her out of the | picture before she gets to the grand jury.
Knight Rider, a shadowy flight | into the dangerous world of a man who does not exist.
Michael Knight, a young loner on a crusade to champion | the cause of the innocent, the helpless, | the powerless, in a world of criminals | who operate above the law.
Yes, it's been set for, uh, | 10:00 on Monday.
Right.
Okay.
Uh-huh.
| We'll see you then.
Mm-hmm.
Hi.
It's almost 5:30.
| Anything before I leave? No, I can't think of anything.
| Oh, wait.
If you're going down, you could help a | forgetful client retrieve his briefcase.
He's on his way over.
| A silver sedan, chauffeur, the works.
Sounds hard to miss.
| Anyone I know? No, no.
Just another wealthy bachelor | with tax shelter problems.
You're right.
| It's no one I know.
I'll see you tomorrow.
| Good night.
Good night.
It's a setup! Hey, what are you doing? | Let me go.
- Calm down, miss.
You're not going anywhere.
| - Stop it.
Let me go.
Federal agents, | Department ofJustice.
Right this way.
Let's go.
¢Ü We run like bandits ¢Ü ¢Ü¢Ü Michael? | Yeah, KITT.
"C" is beyond your grasp, and "D" is beyond your vision.
I didn't know | you had perfect pitch.
- It's a cross I have to bear.
| - You do it so well.
Thank you.
| De nada.
¢Ü The heart of the night ¢Ü¢Ü - Can I get you something? | - Very funny.
Stevie.
The money in that briefcase is marked.
It's illegal money.
| It's dirty.
It comes from a man | named Anthony Solan.
Now, that name may mean | nothing to you, but it's well known | at the Department ofJustice, the F.
B.
I.
And various other circles.
What isn't as well known | is the very special relationship that exists between Anthony Solan and a well-known attorney | by the name of Gilbert Cole.
I don't believe that.
| You don't have to.
We've had your boss | under investigation for six months.
We know of the connection between him and | Solan, but we haven't been able to prove it.
Now we can.
That briefcase proves conspiracy.
If that's true, | why don't you arrest him? He's a smart lawyer.
Would you let a guilty man go free | just because he's smart? Look, I'll spell it out for you.
Our conspiracy case | rests on your testimony.
You've got to say that he gave you | the briefcase with specific instructions.
What if I refuse? If you refuse, and there's insufficient evidence | to prove that the briefcase is Gilbert's, then there's only one person left | to hang it on, and I'm looking at her.
Michael, I love you.
Don't ever leave me.
Michael, I love you.
Stephanie? | Yes.
I'm Michael Knight.
| I arranged for your bail.
Do I know you? | No.
Do you work for Mr.
Cole? No, I work for | the Foundation for Law and Government.
I'm sorry.
| I don't know of them.
Why would a foundation | I've never heard of post bail for me? Well, we're interested in your case.
| We help people we're interested in.
I'm not sure | that answers my question.
Maybe I can fill you in | on the way.
On the way where? | To your apartment.
Unless you want | to hang around here.
No.
| I didn't think so.
How did you know I live | in an apartment? Your address was on | the arrest report.
And how did you get your hands | on the arrest report? Stephanie, the Foundation | has a lot of friends.
It seems like everyone has friends | in high places except me.
Sorry.
Just a little self-pity | slipping through.
You're entitled.
But Stephanie, | you do have friends if you choose.
Thanks, really.
But my boss is going to help me.
In fact, he's probably arranging bail | for me right now.
I appreciate your sense | of loyalty and trust, I really do.
But Stephanie, so far the facts | indicate your boss is much more | than an innocent bystander.
Everyone seems to think | that he's guilty of I don't know some major tie-in | with the underworld.
- I don't believe it.
| - I'm not saying you have to.
All I'm saying is that until we can | develop some more information, you'd be real wise not to lock yourself | into a particular defense or a particular person.
Well, what do you think? | I don't know what to think.
Tell you what | do it my way for 24 hours.
If you're not convinced by then, you're | free to handle it any way you choose.
Why are you doing all of this? I told you why.
| I know.
The Foundation and all that.
But it | just seems like there's something more.
Is there? No.
But you just seem | so familiar to me your voice, | the way you move.
Hey, do we have | a deal or what? All right.
| All right.
I'll see you in a couple hours.
| Now, you keep this door locked.
And don't let anybody in.
Michael? Yeah, KITT.
Are you all right? I took the | liberty of scanning your vital signs.
Your blood pressure | is 190 over 120, and your pulse is 104.
| Good.
Not according to my information | on the human body.
What I mean is, | it's not as bad as I thought.
Gilbert Cole.
Hello? Stephanie, is that you? Who is Stephanie Mason? Bonnie In my other life, | when I had a different face, when I didn't have this identity, when I was Michael Long, Stephanie and I were engaged | to be married.
Michael, I'm sorry.
| I didn't know.
Yeah.
No one knows, except Devon.
Now you.
I've programmed KITT | with everything I could get on Cole.
I hope it helps.
| Yeah, me too.
Thanks a lot.
| Michael, be careful.
Stephanie? Hey! Stephanie! Stephanie, it's me! It's Michael! | Oh, Michael.
Oh! Oh, I thought | they'd come back.
I didn't know | Who? What happened? Two men came while you were gone.
They tried to break in | when I wouldn't open the door, so I ran out the back.
L It's okay, Stevie.
| It's okay.
Why did you call me that? What? "Stevie.
" Nobody calls me that anymore.
I guess I'm pretty thorough, huh? I must've read it in | the Foundation's files.
Come on.
| I gotta get you out of here, get you someplace safe.
Go put some clothes together, huh? - They just left the apartment.
| - Find out where they go.
Right now | that's all I want to know.
What are you looking for? The microwave and the sunlamp.
Really.
I've never seen | anything like this before.
I'm still amazed if someone | has a phone in their car.
All right.
| Might as well deal with this now.
KITT, say hello to Stephanie.
Stephanie, meet my car, KITT.
Say something, KITT.
Come on, say something.
| She's gonna think I'm crazy.
Hello, Stephanie.
Michael isn't crazy, | not in the clinical sense, at least.
Thank you very much.
He talks.
How can a car talk? Computers.
Don't ask me how.
I | don't know.
I don't wanna know.
How you doin'? | Feel better? Aside from trying to adjust | to being in a car that talks? Yes, better.
Thanks.
As a matter of fact, the farther | away we get, the better I feel.
Where are we going? The Foundation | has a retreat just north of here.
What's the matter? I just realized | I hadn't asked you that.
That scares me.
What scares you? That I would trust | a stranger so much.
I think the reason I did | is this feeling I have, this feeling I know you.
Michael, there's a car following us.
A blue sedan.
- You think it's the men that came to my apartment? | - That's my guess.
KITT, give me the car's license number | and visuals on both men inside.
Right away, Michael.
There are the visuals, Michael.
And | I have the number.
Then let's go.
Hang on, Stephanie.
There's an obstruction ahead, Michael.
Michael? | I see it, KITT.
Hang on, Stephanie.
Whoo! How was that? | That was fantastic.
Any reading on them, KITT? | None.
- Not only does he talk, he has a sense of humor.
| - I wouldn't go that far.
I beg your pardon.
The guy's got a car | twice the car we've got.
What am I supposed to do? | All right, forget it.
I think I know | where they're going.
Seems they've got a place in the | mountains, 40 or 50 miles north.
Well, here we are.
Ah, it's beautiful! A fireplace too? | You want a fireplace? Yeah.
| You got a fireplace.
Well, thank you.
Hello.
You're late.
I expected you | over an hour ago.
Who is he? | It's my boss.
Oh.
Since Michael seems to have lost the | power of speech, let me introduce myself.
I'm Devon Miles.
And you | are Stephanie Mason.
Yes.
How do you do? | Fine.
Won't you make yourself at home? By the way, uh, | the tea is very good.
And now, if you'll excuse us, I'd like to have a word | with Michael outside.
Sure.
I'll unpack.
Does she know who you really are? | No.
Good.
Keep it that way.
Devon, it seems to me the Department ofJustice is | trying to put the squeeze on her.
Either she testifies | and implicates her boss, or they're gonna try her | for conspiracy charges.
Whoever's behind this whole thing knows that if she testifies, | they're in big trouble.
I think they're gonna try and take her out of | the picture before she gets to the grand jury.
I'll see what I can do, starting | with the car that followed you.
Michael, you've chosen to do the most difficult thing | a man in your position can do to help someone you love.
If it had been anyone | other than you and that girl in there, | anyone other than who she is I'd forbid it.
Thanks.
Hey, you hungry? Please say yes, because I'm starved, | and I don't want to feel guilty.
Yes.
What? Have you ever had the feeling | you've been someplace before, said the same things | to the same person? I know it can't be true, | but that's how it feels.
Come on.
| You're just too tired.
Yeah, I guess.
I guess I've been working so hard | trying to get my life together, and take care of myself Look at me now.
| I can't even go home.
I can't do anything without you.
I'm dependent on you.
The last time I depended | on someone, I lost him.
His name was Michael too.
Michael Long.
You know all about me.
I don't know | anything about you.
It's not fair.
I'll tell you later.
| Tonight? Yeah, maybe tonight.
In the meantime, I refuse to let | this gorgeous day go by without picking some flowers.
Is that all right? It's all | right.
Just don't go too far.
¢Ü Or she will die ¢Ü ¢Ü White bird must fly ¢Ü ¢Ü Or she will die ¢Ü¢Ü Michael, I'm picking up | two men on the ridge above you.
One has a rifle.
| Stephanie! Get inside! Go! KITT, cover her! Stevie! Let's go.
Morning, Michael.
Come now.
| It's unlike you not to eat.
Just look at the breakfast | I had prepared for you.
All your favorite things | steak, eggs, greasy potatoes.
Michael, she'll be fine.
You have Doctor Carlysle's | personal assurance on that.
God, Devon, I've gone over KITT's | programming twice.
I've got nothing.
How about you? Any luck? Some.
What? | Regarding Gilbert Cole.
It seems he's everything | the Department ofJustice says he is.
Which is what exactly? Well, amongst other things, that he's | a business partner of Anthony Solan.
His primary contribution to that | partnership is laundering Solan's money.
It's a strange world we live in, | isn't it, Devon? The Department ofJustice knows | that Gilbert Cole is breaking the law.
I know he's behind | shooting Stephanie.
We can't move a damn finger | against him.
Calm yourself, Michael.
It serves no one's purpose | to react from emo I'm not reacting! | I'm feeling.
Is it okay to feel? Does the Foundation permit that? Do you? Come.
| Let's take a walk.
I'm not so much concerned | about Stephanie dying.
I'm more concerned | about her living.
What does that mean? Well, have you thought | about afterwards? When this is all over, | what are you going to do then? I know I want to be with her.
And how do you propose | to accomplish that? Tell her who you really are? Set up housekeeping, and, as the | saying goes, live happily ever after? I don't know.
You saying that's impossible? You | know better than to ask that question.
You have too many enemies | in the real world.
You can't go back.
| You can't even afford to look back.
I suppose loving her means making | another kind of choice.
Michael, when I was | with the O.
S.
S.
In France, I met a young lady, | a very special young lady.
I met her in a little cafe | just outside of Paris.
I remember | she was wearing a white dress, and she looked like an angel.
Well, we were young.
| Time was short.
We fell very much in love.
But soon I realized | I had a choice to make.
After all, I too was in | a dangerous occupation.
I love her, Devon.
You telling me | I can't ever love anybody? Everything changes, Michael.
I can't look into the future, but I know | that right now you have a choice to make.
A decision.
| I know you'll make the right one.
Oh, uh, before I go, | I have something else.
I don't want to tell you this, | but I feel I must.
Stephanie was arrested twice, represented by Cole | on both occasions.
For what, jaywalking? Solicitation.
I'm sorry, Michael.
- I want to talk to you.
| - Who the hell do you think you are? - Name is Michael Knight.
| - It's all right, Claire.
I'll handle it.
It's okay.
All right.
You're here.
| What do you want? Did you defend Stephanie Mason | on criminal charges? - You have her? Is she with you? | - I didn't ask you what you wanted.
You asked me.
- Just answer my question.
| - You get tough with me, I won't answer anything.
Stephanie Mason was never | arrested on solicitation.
So when it popped up on a computer, | I started asking some serious questions.
The first was who salted | a phony bust on her and why.
I'm still working | on that one.
The second question | is who represented her.
I got that one, man, | and that's you.
Now, my plan for the first one | is to start rattlin'cages.
And I'm gonna keep rattlin'cages | until all the monkeys fall.
So you get yourself | a real good grip.
KITT, if I'm right, a call should be | going out of Cole's office right about now.
See if you can pick it up.
| Right away, Michael.
Yeah.
He was just here, | Michael Knight character.
He was hot, raging about how | Stephanie was never arrested, and how he was gonna find out | who salted her record.
Good.
Let him spin his wheels | for a while.
It'll buy us time to find out | where they're keeping her.
We'll find her.
- How'd we do? | - We drew a blank, Michael.
A call went out on his private line, | but he has a scrambler on it.
Terrific.
Bonnie, I think we've | got something here.
Cross-reference the union case.
Coming right up.
- Oh, Michael.
Glad to see you.
| - What's up? Look at this.
| Those two cases Cole recently lost.
In one of them he represented | a splinter group of a large labor union.
They were trying to form | an independent bargaining unit and lost.
Guess whose name pops up | on the winning side - Anthony Solan.
| - His name keeps popping up.
Yes.
Well, Solan was also a principal behind the scenes | in Cole's other major defeat.
That was a-a zoning dispute | over a shopping center site.
I'll bet a little more digging | will turn up a connection.
You need some more, I'll | get you some more.
Michael, the grandjury convenes the | day after tomorrow.
Yeah.
Solan.
Anthony Solan.
Michael, my sensors detect | the electronic signal of a silent alarm.
There is a security guard | approaching, Michael.
- How much time does that give me? | - One minute, Michael.
He's approaching | this corridor, Michael.
Okay, pal.
Hey, Stevie.
It's me.
It's Michael.
Michael? Where are you? I'm here.
Right here.
I woke up, and you were gone.
I was | Don't talk, huh? You're not alone anymore.
Michael, don't go away again.
Please, don't leave me.
I won't.
It's okay.
I won't.
Shhh.
"Lawyer names law clerk | in gangland conspiracy.
" It's a lie! | Everything in there is a lie! What does he hope to accomplish? Does he really expect | the grand jury to believe that I'm a-a-a money courier | for the underworld? Stephanie, don't be | too sure they won't.
It's all a matter of credibility.
| It's your word against his.
Well, I'll take that chance.
| My credibility's intact.
Isn't it? - Michael? | - I didn't want to get into this until I could prove otherwise.
What are you talking about? Stephanie, a routine computer run | shows you got a record.
- What? | - Two arrests in Las Vegas.
That's ridiculous.
I've never been | arrested in Las Vegas or anywhere else.
L What was I supposedly arrested for? Solicitation.
That's a lie! How can he do that? You can prove that's a lie, | can't you? We're working on it.
Do you believe me? | Oh, yeah, I believe you.
It's the grand jury | that I'm worried about.
Michael, Devon wants you.
Ah, Michael.
| I have Stephanie's arrest record.
Listen.
"Stephanie Mason, | Las Vegas, June 10, 1982.
"Solicitation.
Arresting | Officer, William Donner.
"Las Vegas, July 23, 1982.
Solicitation.
Arresting | Officer, William Donner.
" The same arresting officer.
| That's very interesting.
Yes.
Now listen to this.
William Donner.
| Ten years on the police force.
Indicted last fall in a police scandal, | but it didn't stick.
Then he disappeared.
And here he is.
Wait a minute.
| I've seen this face.
The car that tailed us | to the retreat.
KITT, the visuals on the two men | who tailed us to the retreat.
Patch 'em through.
Right away, Michael.
That's our man, Devon.
That's the proof | they salted a phony record on Stephanie.
Wait a minute.
This may be enough to | question the veracity on Stephanie's record, but it doesn't touch Gilbert Cole, | not yet.
What will? | We're running out of time.
I know a way.
Gilbert, it's me, Stephanie.
| I need your help.
Where are you now, at home? No, they've got me at the Foundation.
| But I heard them talking.
They're taking me to a retreat, | somewhere in the mountains.
Someone's coming.
| I'll try to call you from there.
All right.
No matter what happens, you stay with KITT.
I will.
| Stephanie, promise me.
I promise.
| Okay.
Devon's standing by.
All we have to do | is bait the trap.
KITT, scan the cabin.
There's no one inside, Michael.
Michael, I'm a little afraid.
| Everything's gonna be all right.
I promise.
| He knows what he's talking about.
I certainly hope so.
Michael, a vehicle is approaching | at high speed.
Bingo.
I hit it with everything I got! | Ram him! - Here they come.
| - Surely you don't expect me to just stand here, Michael.
Just one second longer.
Now! You okay? Where's Cole? I don't know | what you're talkin' about! Michael, are you in need | of assistance? No, just a little privacy! All right.
It's your last chance, man.
| Where's Cole? No call.
I checked with the | operator.
The car phone's dead.
Something's wrong.
| Let's get out of here.
Do you think we'll be in time? I hope so, buddy.
They're waitin' for a phone call | they're not gonna get.
- Michael, there's a fence ahead.
| - No problem, pal.
Can we catch 'em? | No problem, pal.
They're approaching airspeed, Michael.
Yeah, I know.
There's only one way | to stop 'em.
Ready whenever you are, Michael.
Way to go, pal.
As usual.
Usually, I'd wait for you | to swing first.
But I talked to the federal attorney.
He said that after I testify, I'll be in the witness relocation | program.
New place to live.
| New identity.
Sometimes it doesn't seem | like any of this ever happened.
Well, it's all behind you now.
The nightmare is over.
And the dream? Hey, what happened? | You lose your necklace? No.
I gave it back.
It's gonna be strange | becoming somebody else.
Leaving my life behind.
You know, I read about | a bird once a long time ago.
A white bird.
It eats, sleeps, spends its entire life | in flight.
It never lands.
That's its purpose.
Its destiny.
To fly forever.
¢Ü Or she will die ¢Ü Good-bye, Michael.
Good-bye, Stevie.
¢ÜDreams of the aspen tree ¢Ü ¢Ü With her dying leaves ¢Ü ¢Ü Turning gold ¢Ü ¢ÜBut the white bird ¢Ü ¢ÜJust sits in her cage ¢Ü ¢Ü White bird must fly ¢Ü ¢Ü Or she will die ¢Ü ¢Ü White bird must fly ¢Ü ¢Ü Or she will die ¢Ü¢Ü I'll make it up to you, I promise.
Name it.
Anything.
All right.
| What do you want me to do? It's not within your power.
I didn't know they were gonna | shoot up the place.
Do you know what that was? | A 150-year-old clock.
Oh, here.
| Maybe I can fix it.
I guess not.
I'm gonna take a little drive.
| It's really nice outside.
I'll come back in about an hour or so | when you've added up all the damages.
What is it, Michael? I wonder if she really knew, KITT.
Look in the glove compartment.
Why did she leave it for you? A mutual friend gave this to her a long time ago.
He's dead now.
I think she wanted me | to remember him with this.
What was his name? Michael Long, KITT.
Michael Long.