Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1983) s01e19 Episode Script
Fearless Dotty
[GROANS.]
It's Hadj.
I told you we hadn't lost him.
I knew he'd come this way.
He still have the book? WALTZ: He's carrying something.
I'm surprised he made it this far.
I got in two good hits.
Should we go for it now? No, let's give it a few minutes, see what happens.
It wouldn't be smart to go in there while he's still alive to identify us.
Won't be any trouble persuading Keene once Hadj is out of the way.
Oh, my gosh.
I can't believe it.
[CHUCKLES.]
I can't tell you how long I've been looking for this book.
I never dreamed I'd find it this afternoon.
It has been out of print for years.
This is my daughter's favorite book when she was a child.
And now I'm going to buy it for her son, my grandson, for his birthday.
There's something wo Wonderful about that.
Good.
Books are my favorite gift.
Toys and bikes are what they want, but books open up whole new worlds.
I tell you who's really gonna be surprised is my daughter.
I cannot wait to see her reaction when Philip opens this package.
Identification? I don't have a driver's license.
I don't know.
Do you mind? I just never learned to drive.
- Is he all right? KEENE: He's fine.
DOTTY: Thank you.
[WOMAN GASPS.]
She She took the wrong book.
It's a mix-up.
Maybe it's a mix-up, and maybe it's deliberate.
KEENE: But l I didn't That's Jamil Karlo.
We should have followed Hadj.
- You think Karlo's got the book? - Of course.
Who else would have it? Follow that cab.
Hi.
- I want that table.
- Sure.
Okay.
I got the party hats and the noisemakers not that they need any noisemakers, and I have, uh, the decorations - What about the presents? - Presents.
Ah.
New baseball glove, electric hockey game.
No Captain Galaxy.
The one thing he wanted I looked all over town.
They don't have it.
- Toy Town, the last one in the city.
- Oh, Mother.
Clerk said he was glad they were gone.
With every shipment, there has been near riots.
Oh, Mother, Philip will go into orbit himself.
Wait till you see this.
I'm not going to tell you what it is.
It's a surprise.
I'll give you a hint.
When you were Philip's age, you loved it.
- It's obviously a book.
- Obviously.
- It's a book about animals? - Uh-uh.
- Bravo, Burro.
- No.
- No? - No.
- No, no, no.
- Shh, Mother.
Shh.
I want that book, Karlo.
I killed for it once.
I don't mind doing it again.
[CHUCKLES.]
Please don't make me nervous.
You see, I have a pistol pointed at your belly.
[CHUCKLES.]
AMANDA: Mm.
All right, now, there's still a lot to do, so if it's all right with you I'm gonna drop you at the market and then deliver this typing and then I'll pick you up.
Okay? I don't know why you work for a company that won't give you office space.
You're never gonna meet anyone working at home.
Mother, I don't wanna meet anyone right now.
Amanda, that doesn't make sense.
How can you not want to meet someone you've never even seen? [CHUCKLES.]
AMANDA: What's the matter? Used to be such a wonderful place to eat until they started serving wine.
Tsk.
[WOMEN GASP.]
Oh, flowers.
We have to have flowers for the party.
- Here, let me take your bag.
- Okay.
[AMANDA GRUNTS.]
[BRAKES SCREECH AND CAR HONKS.]
- Amanda.
AMANDA: Mother.
- What happened? AMANDA: Mother.
DOTTY: Oh, are you all right? Oh.
- I think so.
- Did you see what that man did? - What man? The man who pushed me in the street and tried to steal Philip's presents.
I mean, I can't believe Look at my new slacks, they're ruined.
I can't believe a thing like this could happen in broad daylight on a busy street.
Amanda, I'm not really sure what exactly did happen.
[AMANDA SIGHS.]
Mother, I think I was mugged.
Thank you.
- Mugged? - Mugged.
[KARLO SIGHS.]
The book.
Where's the book? You didn't get the book.
She still has it.
[RHAMID SIGHS.]
Why didn't you just tell her she made a mistake? - Because I don't know it's a mistake.
- What? You know, we're not the only people looking for that book.
She could be Intelligence, she could be Counterintelligence, I don't know.
You know what happens to us if we make a mistake? Yeah, I know.
All right, we'll get it.
Let's go.
[STAMMERING.]
Hadj is dead, Karlo.
Did you recover the book? [O VER PHONE.]
They're gonna blame me for losing it.
I'm a dead man.
We'll all be dead if we don't get it back.
Now, you stay where you are.
I'm on my way.
Right, right, right, I'll stay right here.
And Karlo, you know you can trust me, right? [KEENE CHUCKLES.]
You're sure it was Hadj that they body bagged? Positive ID.
There was a big buy going down somewhere.
He's a major broker for tech data for the Eastern Bloc.
Last month, it was array-transform processors and binary codes tomorrow, it's directed-energy weapons, laser-mirror processors jamming devices for phase-array radar.
So who feeds him all this data? Or who fed him this data? Well, Hadj found out where the work was being done he bought or blackmailed engineers or lab techs to slip it to him.
I've been after him a long time, Billy.
So somebody got to him before you, Scarecrow.
[FRANCINE SIGHS.]
- Come on.
- On the other hand we know he wasn't sightseeing.
[BILLY SIGHS.]
Okay, hang in there.
- Amanda.
- Sir.
- Hello.
LEE: Hi.
- What happened to you? AMANDA: I was mugged.
- You were what? AMANDA: I was mugged.
In the middle of the street, broad daylight.
LEE: That's terrible.
FRANCINE: That's funny.
The same thing happened to me last week.
I was outside the airport making a surveillance pass all of a sudden I felt this big arm lock around my neck from behind.
What did you do? I spiked his instep, thumbed his eye sockets pressed my forearm against his larynx and brought up my knee in a lifting motion.
I just screamed.
Heh.
So did he.
[CHUCKLES.]
- Are you sure you're all right? - Oh, I'm all right.
I can't believe in a city like Washington there weren't police all over the place.
I thought we had more police than any place in the country.
And agents.
We're tripping over each other.
Foreign agents.
Foreign, domestic, neutral, committed, uncommitted, freelance.
Ugh.
You know what we've got? We've got double agents, counteragents, surveillance and countersurveillance teams.
- Lots of spies.
- Yeah, lots of spies.
It's supposed to be a secret, but you know what I think? I think espionage is the growth industry of the decade.
Kind of makes my problem seem petty.
I mean, I'm worried about Philip's birthday and the mugging.
The mugging's not petty.
People like Hadj move around Washington conducting their business as if they own a franchise.
- Who's Hudge? - Hadj.
Hadji.
H-A-D-J.
- Hadj.
- Hadj.
- It doesn't matter anyway, he's dead.
- Ooh.
He will have a replacement very soon and I've gotta find out who killed him and why.
- Oh, my gosh, your pants are all torn up.
- I know.
I didn't go home, you know, after the mugging - You what? - I knew that you needed this Wait a second.
You didn't go home after you were mugged? - That's where you belong, home.
- Oh, Lee.
You should have gone home after your police report.
I just didn't file a police report.
- You didn't file one? - No.
How do you expect them to find the guy if you don't file a report? Oh, look, I mean, I didn't have a license number I'm not sure I could positively identify him, and Oh, well, look.
How am I to know who I'm supposed to call? - Amanda.
- We have so many police agencies.
We've got Park Police, we've got, um, Capital Police we've got Metro-transit Police - Now, wait, wait, wait.
- What? - Now, where did it happen? L On a busy downtown street.
All right.
Now, that's probably City Police.
Their jurisdiction ends on the Virginia side of the Potomac.
Now please, would you just take it easy? Huh? Okay.
Thanks.
L I don't think you should be here because, uh I mean, the police might come back.
- You worry too much.
- Yeah.
You know, it occurs to me that I haven't even seen Hadj's book and I've only your word that the woman got it.
Maybe you still have it.
What, you think I'd cross you? Never.
Because I have too much respect for you.
[KARLO CHUCKLES.]
Yes, you respect me, because you know I'd kill you without a second thought.
- Right, right.
I respect that a lot.
So the woman gave you this check? - Huh? - Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Well, then, we'll just have to pay her a visit, won't we? [GASPS.]
[CHUCKLES.]
[CAR DOORS CLOSE.]
DOTTY: I tell you, I love parties.
AMANDA: Mm-hm.
DOTTY: Even the grocery shopping.
AMANDA: Mm-hm.
DOTTY: As soon as we get these put away, I wanna take a look at that knee.
It's okay.
I just barely skinned it.
You can't be too cavalier about knees and elbows.
- They are tricky propositions.
- It's all right it doesn't even hurt much.
- You should have come right home.
I know you have business obligations.
You've always been very responsible when it comes to things like that.
But we should have come right home.
Well, did they like your work? - They didn't say.
- Ah.
Well, you see? That is big business for you.
Ninety words a minute, no mistakes and they haven't even got the decency to say thank you.
AMANDA: Hmm.
It is a big company, isn't it? [AMANDA SIGHS.]
Mother.
Here.
I want you to sit down just for a minute.
I wanna try to explain something to you and it's, uh, a little difficult to explain I don't know what you're talking about.
Did I ask for an explanation? Uh, no, no.
No, you didn't.
No, you didn't.
But I just wanna I just want to Well, do you remember when I was little and I had that little brown-and-white dog, Pinto? Of course I remember.
But I think I forgot the vanilla.
No, uh, you didn't forget the vanilla, I saw it on the check-out counter.
Now, do you remember when Pinto got older and he'd sort of start to wander away from the house and we'd wait until Daddy came home and then when he came home he'd take me by the hand and we'd go all over the neighborhood and we'd look for Pinto and we'd call him and say, "Pinto.
Pinto.
" [WHISTLES.]
But, you know, he couldn't hear us because he'd gotten a little deaf by then.
But, you know, luckily, we had those nice neighbors and usually somebody would have taken him inside and given him a little water.
And then, do you remember that weekend that you took Pinto up to Uncle Chester's farm and Amanda, I like to reminisce with the best of them but don't you think this is getting a little depressing? Yes, Mother, I'm sorry.
Yes.
But I have a point, though.
I have a point, and I wanna I have a point.
Um, well, the point is, is that, um Well, I knew that Pinto was really very sick and I knew that you didn't tell me because you didn't want me to worry.
Amanda, you would have done the same thing under the same circumstances.
- Mother, I am doing the same thing.
- Amanda.
If you are trying to tell me that you are dying, I absolutely refuse to accept it.
Oh, no, no, Mother.
No, I'm not.
No, Mother.
I'm just I'm just, uh, trying to tell you that there's something that I'd love to be able to tell you but I can't tell you because I promised I wouldn't.
You thought I was pumping you about your work? Amanda, you know me better than that.
I wouldn't pry into your life.
I mean I have too much in my own life to worry about.
[SIGHS.]
Well, I'm glad to hear it, Mother [SIGHS.]
because you wouldn't approve and you'd worry.
- Yeah.
- Heh-heh-heh.
[SIGHS.]
I wouldn't approve? And I'd worry? Oh.
We have to find a good hiding place for these presents.
Philip has the instincts of a bloodhound when it comes to presents.
How many cakes should we bake? There are gonna be 12 kids.
Well, I would say, uh, enough for 20 including me.
- Ha, ha.
I am going to take these and put them up in my room and don't you peek at the book.
- I won't look at the book.
I'll put these other ones someplace else.
[AMANDA YELLING.]
Amanda, don't we have a better hammer than this? See if you can find a box of nails.
- Scarecrow? - I'm in kind of a hurry right now.
Since you expressed an interest in Hadj, I thought you'd like to know.
Word is whatever he was selling is up for grabs.
That's great.
We still have a crack at it.
I'll run everything through the computer.
May take a little time Time is what I need at the moment.
I just got this semi-hysterical phone call from Amanda.
I think I'd better get over there right away.
I'll see you later.
KARLO: I cut it at the King house.
He's lost a lot of blood for a cut like that.
He's not a bleeder, is he? [STAMMERING.]
I mean, of course, a lot of very important people have been bleeders.
Royalty, people like that.
And, uh, there's no problem at all, just cleaning things up, as far as Look, everybody knows that I'm a very generous man and a man that, you know, doesn't think of himself or his safety you know, before his friends.
- Friends.
Or business associates.
Um, and believe me, there's I felt it was okay that you came here without you know, even a phone call, but there is one problem that I think I should mention.
Uh, what if Karlo dies? [CHUCKLES.]
I mean, you know, where does that put me? I have Hadj in the front room, I have Karlo in the back room.
It's gonna look awfully suspicious to the cops.
- Hey, Karlo.
- Shh.
RHAMID: Keene wants to know if you're planning to die.
And you've never looked better, honest.
The answer is no, Keene.
No, I am not planning on dying.
Maybe I'm planning on killing.
Well, as good as you look, I wouldn't push it.
A good night's sleep, that's all he needs.
That's exactly what I intend to do.
And then tomorrow, I'm going to get the book.
And if I don't, the woman dies, and so do you.
You can count on it.
That sounds okay to me.
[SIGHS.]
LEE: Are you all right? - Oh, ha.
You said the guy had a knife.
Yes.
There was a man in the closet holding a knife.
- And? - I opened the closet door.
- Yeah? - I saw the man there holding the knife.
I screamed.
I slammed the door closed, I ran into the kitchen the man ran out the front door, and he got blood on the floor.
I think he cut himself, with the knife.
- That's probably what saved your life.
- Lee.
- What? - It was the same man who pushed me and tried to steal my shopping bags.
- Are you sure? - I am absolutely positive.
- I knew it the second I saw his face.
- That doesn't make any sense.
A guy who mugs you in the street doesn't usually follow it up with a house call.
He didn't get your house keys or your address, right? No.
Don't you see what this means? No.
[SIGHS.]
It had something to do with the agency.
No.
Wrong.
You haven't been tied in with anything worth killing for.
Lee, I know you don't think I have a very logical mind but I have a very logical mind, and I know that in my day-to-day living I don't do anything that would warrant having a man hiding in my closet with a knife in his hand.
- You're right.
- I am.
What did you have in that shopping bag? [SIGHS.]
Philip's birthday presents, some decorations, that's all.
Things like that.
We're gonna need to take everything down to the agency.
No, no, no, you can't.
Mother's got the presents nearly wrapped.
She's going to finish as soon as she fixes the closet shelf.
We need everything, Amanda.
- Everything.
- Oh, I don't know what Philip's presents could have to do with anything.
Well, that man wanted them and I want them examined.
We're also going to need you to come make a composite image for the computer.
[SIGHS.]
I know what you're thinking.
I've already got a security team setting up right now.
- So no more unexpected guests.
- Thank you.
- All right.
DOTTY: Will you help me with the ladder? Uh, yes, Mother, I'll be right there.
Lee, the on AMANDA: Oh.
Please do be careful, those presents have to go back as soon as we're finished here.
FRANCINE: Uh-huh.
- How about the nose, Amanda? - Uh, the nose was long and thin.
Mm-hm.
- Hairline okay? - No.
No, no.
He had, uh, more forehead, his hair was dark and wavy.
Now you have too much hair.
Mm-hm.
Now, his jaw was more pointed and he had a mean little mouth.
How about, uh, eyebrows? Thick? Bushy? Um, and when you're finished, you can put those things back together and no one will ever know that you took them apart.
- Right.
- Amanda.
Amanda, the eyebrows.
The eyebrows were dark and close to his eyes.
[GIFT CRACKS AND FRANCINE GASPS.]
FRANCINE: Oh.
[SIGHS.]
[CHUCKLES.]
That was the last Captain Galaxy doll in the entire city.
FRANCINE: Oh, boy.
- Amanda, we'll get you another one.
- By tomorrow? My mother and I looked for that doll for four days.
It's the only thing that Philip asked for.
Oh, look, I know it was an accident, but what am I supposed to tell him? Am I supposed to tell him he almost had a wonderful birthday.
He almost had a birthday he would never forget and he almost had the best birthday present in the world until one of your guys sat on him? LEE: Amanda.
I promise you I will get you another Captain Galaxy.
Trust me, huh? Of course I trust you, but you don't know the toy market.
- Now the, uh The eyes.
Hmm? AMANDA: Ugh.
[GIFT CRACKS.]
AMANDA: Oh.
[SIGHS.]
LEE: People.
- Little, mean and beady.
Ooh.
AMANDA: That's very good.
Heh.
That's him.
That's Karlo.
Look at this.
I have read so many bulletins on this guy, I feel like I already know him.
Was I mugged by a well-known person? You're right, Lee.
It is Karlo.
How'd he come up? He was at Amanda's home a few hours after he tried to take her shopping bag.
Now, we are working on the possibility that Amanda had something that he was after.
Who is he? He's a middleman for agents selling high-value items to the Middle East.
He arranges drops, guarantees pickups and deliveries and takes a cut from both sides.
See, there's a lot of distrust in this system.
This man furnishes a kind of insurance to both the buyers and the sellers.
What does he want with me? - That's what we're trying to work out.
- Oh.
I wonder what Karlo had to do with Hadj's murder.
- They both worked the same game.
- He's a good candidate.
I'm ready to go home now, please.
- Uh, Amanda? AMANDA: Yes.
I'm sorry.
You're being provided with the best security in the business.
- Yes, I know.
- For you both and your family.
- Yes.
- Lee? I'd give my pension to see Karlo put away.
Now, you use whatever we've got and ask for whatever you need.
Please be careful with those presents.
- Goodbye, sir.
- Goodbye, Amanda.
Uh, we're closed.
Closed.
I said we're - I'll bet you have some questions.
BRANDT: Right.
And no patience at all.
Well, I was just, uh I was just going to, uh Uh, I was I was just, um Uh [STAMMERING.]
You see, I have a very low pain threshold.
Um Here.
Uh Take notes, and start where you like.
Where'd Karlo go? After the book.
Some woman's got it, but Here, I'll write down the address for you.
Do you need a street guide? [SIGHS.]
I mean, anything at all.
Shoot.
I didn't mean l I meant ask uh, instead of shoot.
Check 1.
Check 2.
DOTTY: Oh, I'm running Ooh, I'm running late.
If I miss my appointment with Mr.
Emelio, he will kill me.
Yes, Mother.
I'm sorry that I can't drive you but this is the last chance to clean the house before the party.
Don't worry.
I will take another driving lesson one of these days.
[CHUCKLES.]
Now, think about Philip's book.
If you think about it, hard, you'll get it.
- Yes.
- Sorry about this.
Go ahead.
[AMANDA SIGHS.]
- Bye-bye.
- Bye-bye.
[SIGHS.]
[DOOR CLOSES.]
[SIGHS.]
[CLEARS THRO AT.]
[RINGS.]
Lee Stetson.
Hi, it's me.
I just remembered the book.
- The book? AMANDA: That Mother bought for Philip.
She'd hidden it when I brought the other presents to be checked out at the agency and so you haven't seen it.
And I just thought that maybe it might be important.
Uh, well, I won't know till I run it through analysis.
- What is it, anyway? AMANDA: I don't know.
It's supposed to be a surprise and Mother said that it was one of my favorite books when I was a kid.
- The title, Amanda.
AMANDA: I'd have to look at it.
But I guess under the circumstances l - Amanda? - I'll look at it.
LEE [O VER PHONE.]
: What is it? Drought Cycles of Burma.
Your favorite book was The Drought Cycles of Burma? Of course not.
This has to be a mistake.
I mean, Mother must have picked it up by mistake.
Gosh.
Oh, that's it.
Oh, that's gotta be it.
And she's having her hair done.
Wait, wait.
Ho, ho, ho.
I'm not following you.
Lee, I've been worried because I thought that I should be protecting my home and myself.
But, you know, uh, Karlo I don't think he's after me, I think he's after my mother.
And she just left the house, she's out there all alone.
Okay, okay, hold it.
Just tell me where.
She's at Mr.
Emelio's, 14th and Cleveland, I'll meet you there.
Good, yeah.
That's better.
Good.
Hmm.
How long does this sort of thing take? It depends.
If she has it washed and blown dry, it could take about half an hour.
But if she has it set, it'll take her 45 minutes under the dryer and there's comb out and we don't know if Mr.
Emelio's running on schedule or not.
Is she having a haircut or surgery? We have to get that book to Crypto.
Not until my mother is home safely.
Hold it.
- You stay here, you got that? - Right.
Karlo.
[LEE GRUNTING.]
[KARLO GRUNTING.]
[WOMAN 1 SCREAMS.]
WOMAN 1: Oh! [WOMEN SCREAM.]
[WOMAN 2 SCREAMS.]
[WOMAN 3 SCREAMS.]
[WOMAN 3 SCREAMS.]
[CAR REVS.]
[CAR TIRES SQUEAL.]
Where is he? LEE: Uh, I lost him.
He's after my mother.
[LEE PANTING.]
Am I dry yet? Are you sure my mother is being protected? Yes, yes.
By the very best men in the agency.
We've nailed down a connection between Karlo and your mother.
Now we need to know why.
And it's not an agency-related connection.
Drought Cycles of Burma just hit the bestseller list down in Cryptography.
"Microdot enlargements had the design of broadband filters.
" Whatever they are.
They're filters that neutralize the close-combat laser-assault weapon.
That's high-priority technology.
The East Bloc would pay a lot for it.
Crypto's still on the first chapter, but they expect a lot more.
That's the same kind of tech that Hadj dealt.
- Karlo too.
- What am I gonna tell my mother? Captain Galaxy's a pile of plastic.
Philip's book is a vital piece of national security and I don't know the right book so that I can get another one.
- The right book? - The book that my mother meant to buy or that she did buy and got it mixed up Well, you know, I mean I should be able to figure this out.
She said it was one of my favorites, and it's about animals.
[LEE SIGHS.]
Oh, heh! Sky Chief Rides Again.
Oh, Lee.
It has to be Sky Chief Rides Again.
It's about a horse and Philip loves horses and I loved horses.
Oh.
And I bet they have another one at that bookstore.
Amanda, I'll get you another copy.
- I have to see Mr.
Keene very shortly.
- Thank you, sir.
I'll need it by 2:00 tomorrow.
Just like Captain Galaxy.
- Hey, are you okay? - Hmm? - Oh.
- Huh? Yeah, I think so.
Um, I'm just worried about my family.
I mean, we've got a dangerous spy after us and it's all because of a book.
Yeah, well, that book is very important, Amanda.
Well, sometimes I get the feeling that people get a little lost at the agency.
You know what I mean? Everybody is so concerned with, um, spies and stolen formulas and secrets that well, I don't know, sometimes it just starts to seem like it's a game.
Yeah, well, that game gets pretty serious at times.
We play it like a game, but we know it's just a cleaner battlefield.
You know, I think if we take one of the side streets, we'll go a lot faster.
Yeah, you're right.
[KNOCKING ON DOOR.]
[STAMMERING.]
I'm in big trouble, right? Right.
Okay, come in.
Okay, I, uh I know my rights, so just tell me where to start.
Uh, you need my tape recorder? Later.
[CHUCKLES.]
We got three ways to go.
We can put you away for 20 years.
We can leak information that you're our man which should get you killed in a hurry or then there's the third option.
- I'II, uh I'll take it.
- I know you will.
- You're working for us.
- Me? Working with, uh, you guys? Ha, ha.
We know you, Keene.
You give slime a bad name.
Well We don't trust you, but you'll play it straight with us.
You're a survivor, and you know we'll protect you.
You simply have more to gain with us.
There's also the redeeming quality of working with your country instead of against it.
[CHUCKLES.]
There's even a chance we might find a human being in you somewhere.
You're under protective surveillance.
Right now.
Good.
Good.
Good.
I'll send in a team to brief you as to what we expect.
Oh.
Get me a copy of Sky Chief Rides Again.
Sky Chief Rides [DOOR OPENS.]
uh, Again.
You better go to the door.
She might recognize me.
As soon as she answers the door, I'll follow right behind.
That's Rhamid, Karlo's partner.
They can save us some work.
[GUNFIRE AND INDIANS WHOOPING ON TV.]
- Are you having cable installed? - No.
Watchover, this is Scarecrow.
The van in the drive is [O VER RADIO.]
a possible security leak.
Check it.
MAN: Excuse me, sir.
Hold it.
[GUNFIRE AND INDIANS WHOOPING ON TV.]
Hold on, here we go.
[GUNFIRE AND INDIANS WHOOPING ON TV.]
AGENT: Hold it.
Get out of the car.
Hands up.
Get up against the car.
Move it.
[GASPS.]
AMANDA: It's a cul-de-sac.
LEE: Take cover.
All right, pal.
End of the line.
Come on.
[LEE GRUNTS.]
See? We got him.
[KIDS CHEERING.]
DOTTY: All right.
I made the best for you.
Okay.
All right.
Okay.
- There we go.
- Now make a big wish.
- Get them all, Philip.
- Here we go.
[ALL CHEERING.]
Happy birthday.
PHILIP: All right.
I'm digging in.
You know, he was so good about not getting Captain Galaxy it made me wanna feel worse.
Mother, look, they're all having a good time and that's all that matters.
And Sky Chief? I could have sworn that I put it in that pheasant.
- I could have sworn.
- Well I called the shop, and they said the last copy is gone, someone took it.
I think they need more lemonade.
I'll get it.
Oh, honey, honey.
Oh, my gosh, way too big.
Okay.
LEE: Psst.
Amanda.
Psst.
Amanda.
DOTTY: Oh, that is Some more ice cream.
Okay.
Hi.
- Hello.
LEE: Hi.
Hi.
Oh, Captain Galaxy.
- I said I would.
- Yeah.
How'd you do it? Well, the, uh, manufacturers are in Taiwan so it was just a matter of getting one of these to the Naval Air Station in Guam and Air Force Transport brought it to Bolling Air Base and the rest was easy.
[CHUCKLES.]
Oh, and [SIGHS.]
[IN UNISON.]
Sky Chief Rides Again.
[CHUCKLES.]
[SIGHS.]
Well Wish I could ask you in for a piece of cake.
- Well, just save me a piece.
- I will.
Oh, uh, I didn't mention it before but you know that bit with the sprinkler and the hose? - Yeah, I was - That was all right.
- It was? - Your reaction time was pretty good you thought on your feet.
- You were glad I was there.
- Well, I - I was glad I was there.
Yeah.
Gotta go.
Yeah.
Thanks a lot.
It's Hadj.
I told you we hadn't lost him.
I knew he'd come this way.
He still have the book? WALTZ: He's carrying something.
I'm surprised he made it this far.
I got in two good hits.
Should we go for it now? No, let's give it a few minutes, see what happens.
It wouldn't be smart to go in there while he's still alive to identify us.
Won't be any trouble persuading Keene once Hadj is out of the way.
Oh, my gosh.
I can't believe it.
[CHUCKLES.]
I can't tell you how long I've been looking for this book.
I never dreamed I'd find it this afternoon.
It has been out of print for years.
This is my daughter's favorite book when she was a child.
And now I'm going to buy it for her son, my grandson, for his birthday.
There's something wo Wonderful about that.
Good.
Books are my favorite gift.
Toys and bikes are what they want, but books open up whole new worlds.
I tell you who's really gonna be surprised is my daughter.
I cannot wait to see her reaction when Philip opens this package.
Identification? I don't have a driver's license.
I don't know.
Do you mind? I just never learned to drive.
- Is he all right? KEENE: He's fine.
DOTTY: Thank you.
[WOMAN GASPS.]
She She took the wrong book.
It's a mix-up.
Maybe it's a mix-up, and maybe it's deliberate.
KEENE: But l I didn't That's Jamil Karlo.
We should have followed Hadj.
- You think Karlo's got the book? - Of course.
Who else would have it? Follow that cab.
Hi.
- I want that table.
- Sure.
Okay.
I got the party hats and the noisemakers not that they need any noisemakers, and I have, uh, the decorations - What about the presents? - Presents.
Ah.
New baseball glove, electric hockey game.
No Captain Galaxy.
The one thing he wanted I looked all over town.
They don't have it.
- Toy Town, the last one in the city.
- Oh, Mother.
Clerk said he was glad they were gone.
With every shipment, there has been near riots.
Oh, Mother, Philip will go into orbit himself.
Wait till you see this.
I'm not going to tell you what it is.
It's a surprise.
I'll give you a hint.
When you were Philip's age, you loved it.
- It's obviously a book.
- Obviously.
- It's a book about animals? - Uh-uh.
- Bravo, Burro.
- No.
- No? - No.
- No, no, no.
- Shh, Mother.
Shh.
I want that book, Karlo.
I killed for it once.
I don't mind doing it again.
[CHUCKLES.]
Please don't make me nervous.
You see, I have a pistol pointed at your belly.
[CHUCKLES.]
AMANDA: Mm.
All right, now, there's still a lot to do, so if it's all right with you I'm gonna drop you at the market and then deliver this typing and then I'll pick you up.
Okay? I don't know why you work for a company that won't give you office space.
You're never gonna meet anyone working at home.
Mother, I don't wanna meet anyone right now.
Amanda, that doesn't make sense.
How can you not want to meet someone you've never even seen? [CHUCKLES.]
AMANDA: What's the matter? Used to be such a wonderful place to eat until they started serving wine.
Tsk.
[WOMEN GASP.]
Oh, flowers.
We have to have flowers for the party.
- Here, let me take your bag.
- Okay.
[AMANDA GRUNTS.]
[BRAKES SCREECH AND CAR HONKS.]
- Amanda.
AMANDA: Mother.
- What happened? AMANDA: Mother.
DOTTY: Oh, are you all right? Oh.
- I think so.
- Did you see what that man did? - What man? The man who pushed me in the street and tried to steal Philip's presents.
I mean, I can't believe Look at my new slacks, they're ruined.
I can't believe a thing like this could happen in broad daylight on a busy street.
Amanda, I'm not really sure what exactly did happen.
[AMANDA SIGHS.]
Mother, I think I was mugged.
Thank you.
- Mugged? - Mugged.
[KARLO SIGHS.]
The book.
Where's the book? You didn't get the book.
She still has it.
[RHAMID SIGHS.]
Why didn't you just tell her she made a mistake? - Because I don't know it's a mistake.
- What? You know, we're not the only people looking for that book.
She could be Intelligence, she could be Counterintelligence, I don't know.
You know what happens to us if we make a mistake? Yeah, I know.
All right, we'll get it.
Let's go.
[STAMMERING.]
Hadj is dead, Karlo.
Did you recover the book? [O VER PHONE.]
They're gonna blame me for losing it.
I'm a dead man.
We'll all be dead if we don't get it back.
Now, you stay where you are.
I'm on my way.
Right, right, right, I'll stay right here.
And Karlo, you know you can trust me, right? [KEENE CHUCKLES.]
You're sure it was Hadj that they body bagged? Positive ID.
There was a big buy going down somewhere.
He's a major broker for tech data for the Eastern Bloc.
Last month, it was array-transform processors and binary codes tomorrow, it's directed-energy weapons, laser-mirror processors jamming devices for phase-array radar.
So who feeds him all this data? Or who fed him this data? Well, Hadj found out where the work was being done he bought or blackmailed engineers or lab techs to slip it to him.
I've been after him a long time, Billy.
So somebody got to him before you, Scarecrow.
[FRANCINE SIGHS.]
- Come on.
- On the other hand we know he wasn't sightseeing.
[BILLY SIGHS.]
Okay, hang in there.
- Amanda.
- Sir.
- Hello.
LEE: Hi.
- What happened to you? AMANDA: I was mugged.
- You were what? AMANDA: I was mugged.
In the middle of the street, broad daylight.
LEE: That's terrible.
FRANCINE: That's funny.
The same thing happened to me last week.
I was outside the airport making a surveillance pass all of a sudden I felt this big arm lock around my neck from behind.
What did you do? I spiked his instep, thumbed his eye sockets pressed my forearm against his larynx and brought up my knee in a lifting motion.
I just screamed.
Heh.
So did he.
[CHUCKLES.]
- Are you sure you're all right? - Oh, I'm all right.
I can't believe in a city like Washington there weren't police all over the place.
I thought we had more police than any place in the country.
And agents.
We're tripping over each other.
Foreign agents.
Foreign, domestic, neutral, committed, uncommitted, freelance.
Ugh.
You know what we've got? We've got double agents, counteragents, surveillance and countersurveillance teams.
- Lots of spies.
- Yeah, lots of spies.
It's supposed to be a secret, but you know what I think? I think espionage is the growth industry of the decade.
Kind of makes my problem seem petty.
I mean, I'm worried about Philip's birthday and the mugging.
The mugging's not petty.
People like Hadj move around Washington conducting their business as if they own a franchise.
- Who's Hudge? - Hadj.
Hadji.
H-A-D-J.
- Hadj.
- Hadj.
- It doesn't matter anyway, he's dead.
- Ooh.
He will have a replacement very soon and I've gotta find out who killed him and why.
- Oh, my gosh, your pants are all torn up.
- I know.
I didn't go home, you know, after the mugging - You what? - I knew that you needed this Wait a second.
You didn't go home after you were mugged? - That's where you belong, home.
- Oh, Lee.
You should have gone home after your police report.
I just didn't file a police report.
- You didn't file one? - No.
How do you expect them to find the guy if you don't file a report? Oh, look, I mean, I didn't have a license number I'm not sure I could positively identify him, and Oh, well, look.
How am I to know who I'm supposed to call? - Amanda.
- We have so many police agencies.
We've got Park Police, we've got, um, Capital Police we've got Metro-transit Police - Now, wait, wait, wait.
- What? - Now, where did it happen? L On a busy downtown street.
All right.
Now, that's probably City Police.
Their jurisdiction ends on the Virginia side of the Potomac.
Now please, would you just take it easy? Huh? Okay.
Thanks.
L I don't think you should be here because, uh I mean, the police might come back.
- You worry too much.
- Yeah.
You know, it occurs to me that I haven't even seen Hadj's book and I've only your word that the woman got it.
Maybe you still have it.
What, you think I'd cross you? Never.
Because I have too much respect for you.
[KARLO CHUCKLES.]
Yes, you respect me, because you know I'd kill you without a second thought.
- Right, right.
I respect that a lot.
So the woman gave you this check? - Huh? - Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Well, then, we'll just have to pay her a visit, won't we? [GASPS.]
[CHUCKLES.]
[CAR DOORS CLOSE.]
DOTTY: I tell you, I love parties.
AMANDA: Mm-hm.
DOTTY: Even the grocery shopping.
AMANDA: Mm-hm.
DOTTY: As soon as we get these put away, I wanna take a look at that knee.
It's okay.
I just barely skinned it.
You can't be too cavalier about knees and elbows.
- They are tricky propositions.
- It's all right it doesn't even hurt much.
- You should have come right home.
I know you have business obligations.
You've always been very responsible when it comes to things like that.
But we should have come right home.
Well, did they like your work? - They didn't say.
- Ah.
Well, you see? That is big business for you.
Ninety words a minute, no mistakes and they haven't even got the decency to say thank you.
AMANDA: Hmm.
It is a big company, isn't it? [AMANDA SIGHS.]
Mother.
Here.
I want you to sit down just for a minute.
I wanna try to explain something to you and it's, uh, a little difficult to explain I don't know what you're talking about.
Did I ask for an explanation? Uh, no, no.
No, you didn't.
No, you didn't.
But I just wanna I just want to Well, do you remember when I was little and I had that little brown-and-white dog, Pinto? Of course I remember.
But I think I forgot the vanilla.
No, uh, you didn't forget the vanilla, I saw it on the check-out counter.
Now, do you remember when Pinto got older and he'd sort of start to wander away from the house and we'd wait until Daddy came home and then when he came home he'd take me by the hand and we'd go all over the neighborhood and we'd look for Pinto and we'd call him and say, "Pinto.
Pinto.
" [WHISTLES.]
But, you know, he couldn't hear us because he'd gotten a little deaf by then.
But, you know, luckily, we had those nice neighbors and usually somebody would have taken him inside and given him a little water.
And then, do you remember that weekend that you took Pinto up to Uncle Chester's farm and Amanda, I like to reminisce with the best of them but don't you think this is getting a little depressing? Yes, Mother, I'm sorry.
Yes.
But I have a point, though.
I have a point, and I wanna I have a point.
Um, well, the point is, is that, um Well, I knew that Pinto was really very sick and I knew that you didn't tell me because you didn't want me to worry.
Amanda, you would have done the same thing under the same circumstances.
- Mother, I am doing the same thing.
- Amanda.
If you are trying to tell me that you are dying, I absolutely refuse to accept it.
Oh, no, no, Mother.
No, I'm not.
No, Mother.
I'm just I'm just, uh, trying to tell you that there's something that I'd love to be able to tell you but I can't tell you because I promised I wouldn't.
You thought I was pumping you about your work? Amanda, you know me better than that.
I wouldn't pry into your life.
I mean I have too much in my own life to worry about.
[SIGHS.]
Well, I'm glad to hear it, Mother [SIGHS.]
because you wouldn't approve and you'd worry.
- Yeah.
- Heh-heh-heh.
[SIGHS.]
I wouldn't approve? And I'd worry? Oh.
We have to find a good hiding place for these presents.
Philip has the instincts of a bloodhound when it comes to presents.
How many cakes should we bake? There are gonna be 12 kids.
Well, I would say, uh, enough for 20 including me.
- Ha, ha.
I am going to take these and put them up in my room and don't you peek at the book.
- I won't look at the book.
I'll put these other ones someplace else.
[AMANDA YELLING.]
Amanda, don't we have a better hammer than this? See if you can find a box of nails.
- Scarecrow? - I'm in kind of a hurry right now.
Since you expressed an interest in Hadj, I thought you'd like to know.
Word is whatever he was selling is up for grabs.
That's great.
We still have a crack at it.
I'll run everything through the computer.
May take a little time Time is what I need at the moment.
I just got this semi-hysterical phone call from Amanda.
I think I'd better get over there right away.
I'll see you later.
KARLO: I cut it at the King house.
He's lost a lot of blood for a cut like that.
He's not a bleeder, is he? [STAMMERING.]
I mean, of course, a lot of very important people have been bleeders.
Royalty, people like that.
And, uh, there's no problem at all, just cleaning things up, as far as Look, everybody knows that I'm a very generous man and a man that, you know, doesn't think of himself or his safety you know, before his friends.
- Friends.
Or business associates.
Um, and believe me, there's I felt it was okay that you came here without you know, even a phone call, but there is one problem that I think I should mention.
Uh, what if Karlo dies? [CHUCKLES.]
I mean, you know, where does that put me? I have Hadj in the front room, I have Karlo in the back room.
It's gonna look awfully suspicious to the cops.
- Hey, Karlo.
- Shh.
RHAMID: Keene wants to know if you're planning to die.
And you've never looked better, honest.
The answer is no, Keene.
No, I am not planning on dying.
Maybe I'm planning on killing.
Well, as good as you look, I wouldn't push it.
A good night's sleep, that's all he needs.
That's exactly what I intend to do.
And then tomorrow, I'm going to get the book.
And if I don't, the woman dies, and so do you.
You can count on it.
That sounds okay to me.
[SIGHS.]
LEE: Are you all right? - Oh, ha.
You said the guy had a knife.
Yes.
There was a man in the closet holding a knife.
- And? - I opened the closet door.
- Yeah? - I saw the man there holding the knife.
I screamed.
I slammed the door closed, I ran into the kitchen the man ran out the front door, and he got blood on the floor.
I think he cut himself, with the knife.
- That's probably what saved your life.
- Lee.
- What? - It was the same man who pushed me and tried to steal my shopping bags.
- Are you sure? - I am absolutely positive.
- I knew it the second I saw his face.
- That doesn't make any sense.
A guy who mugs you in the street doesn't usually follow it up with a house call.
He didn't get your house keys or your address, right? No.
Don't you see what this means? No.
[SIGHS.]
It had something to do with the agency.
No.
Wrong.
You haven't been tied in with anything worth killing for.
Lee, I know you don't think I have a very logical mind but I have a very logical mind, and I know that in my day-to-day living I don't do anything that would warrant having a man hiding in my closet with a knife in his hand.
- You're right.
- I am.
What did you have in that shopping bag? [SIGHS.]
Philip's birthday presents, some decorations, that's all.
Things like that.
We're gonna need to take everything down to the agency.
No, no, no, you can't.
Mother's got the presents nearly wrapped.
She's going to finish as soon as she fixes the closet shelf.
We need everything, Amanda.
- Everything.
- Oh, I don't know what Philip's presents could have to do with anything.
Well, that man wanted them and I want them examined.
We're also going to need you to come make a composite image for the computer.
[SIGHS.]
I know what you're thinking.
I've already got a security team setting up right now.
- So no more unexpected guests.
- Thank you.
- All right.
DOTTY: Will you help me with the ladder? Uh, yes, Mother, I'll be right there.
Lee, the on AMANDA: Oh.
Please do be careful, those presents have to go back as soon as we're finished here.
FRANCINE: Uh-huh.
- How about the nose, Amanda? - Uh, the nose was long and thin.
Mm-hm.
- Hairline okay? - No.
No, no.
He had, uh, more forehead, his hair was dark and wavy.
Now you have too much hair.
Mm-hm.
Now, his jaw was more pointed and he had a mean little mouth.
How about, uh, eyebrows? Thick? Bushy? Um, and when you're finished, you can put those things back together and no one will ever know that you took them apart.
- Right.
- Amanda.
Amanda, the eyebrows.
The eyebrows were dark and close to his eyes.
[GIFT CRACKS AND FRANCINE GASPS.]
FRANCINE: Oh.
[SIGHS.]
[CHUCKLES.]
That was the last Captain Galaxy doll in the entire city.
FRANCINE: Oh, boy.
- Amanda, we'll get you another one.
- By tomorrow? My mother and I looked for that doll for four days.
It's the only thing that Philip asked for.
Oh, look, I know it was an accident, but what am I supposed to tell him? Am I supposed to tell him he almost had a wonderful birthday.
He almost had a birthday he would never forget and he almost had the best birthday present in the world until one of your guys sat on him? LEE: Amanda.
I promise you I will get you another Captain Galaxy.
Trust me, huh? Of course I trust you, but you don't know the toy market.
- Now the, uh The eyes.
Hmm? AMANDA: Ugh.
[GIFT CRACKS.]
AMANDA: Oh.
[SIGHS.]
LEE: People.
- Little, mean and beady.
Ooh.
AMANDA: That's very good.
Heh.
That's him.
That's Karlo.
Look at this.
I have read so many bulletins on this guy, I feel like I already know him.
Was I mugged by a well-known person? You're right, Lee.
It is Karlo.
How'd he come up? He was at Amanda's home a few hours after he tried to take her shopping bag.
Now, we are working on the possibility that Amanda had something that he was after.
Who is he? He's a middleman for agents selling high-value items to the Middle East.
He arranges drops, guarantees pickups and deliveries and takes a cut from both sides.
See, there's a lot of distrust in this system.
This man furnishes a kind of insurance to both the buyers and the sellers.
What does he want with me? - That's what we're trying to work out.
- Oh.
I wonder what Karlo had to do with Hadj's murder.
- They both worked the same game.
- He's a good candidate.
I'm ready to go home now, please.
- Uh, Amanda? AMANDA: Yes.
I'm sorry.
You're being provided with the best security in the business.
- Yes, I know.
- For you both and your family.
- Yes.
- Lee? I'd give my pension to see Karlo put away.
Now, you use whatever we've got and ask for whatever you need.
Please be careful with those presents.
- Goodbye, sir.
- Goodbye, Amanda.
Uh, we're closed.
Closed.
I said we're - I'll bet you have some questions.
BRANDT: Right.
And no patience at all.
Well, I was just, uh I was just going to, uh Uh, I was I was just, um Uh [STAMMERING.]
You see, I have a very low pain threshold.
Um Here.
Uh Take notes, and start where you like.
Where'd Karlo go? After the book.
Some woman's got it, but Here, I'll write down the address for you.
Do you need a street guide? [SIGHS.]
I mean, anything at all.
Shoot.
I didn't mean l I meant ask uh, instead of shoot.
Check 1.
Check 2.
DOTTY: Oh, I'm running Ooh, I'm running late.
If I miss my appointment with Mr.
Emelio, he will kill me.
Yes, Mother.
I'm sorry that I can't drive you but this is the last chance to clean the house before the party.
Don't worry.
I will take another driving lesson one of these days.
[CHUCKLES.]
Now, think about Philip's book.
If you think about it, hard, you'll get it.
- Yes.
- Sorry about this.
Go ahead.
[AMANDA SIGHS.]
- Bye-bye.
- Bye-bye.
[SIGHS.]
[DOOR CLOSES.]
[SIGHS.]
[CLEARS THRO AT.]
[RINGS.]
Lee Stetson.
Hi, it's me.
I just remembered the book.
- The book? AMANDA: That Mother bought for Philip.
She'd hidden it when I brought the other presents to be checked out at the agency and so you haven't seen it.
And I just thought that maybe it might be important.
Uh, well, I won't know till I run it through analysis.
- What is it, anyway? AMANDA: I don't know.
It's supposed to be a surprise and Mother said that it was one of my favorite books when I was a kid.
- The title, Amanda.
AMANDA: I'd have to look at it.
But I guess under the circumstances l - Amanda? - I'll look at it.
LEE [O VER PHONE.]
: What is it? Drought Cycles of Burma.
Your favorite book was The Drought Cycles of Burma? Of course not.
This has to be a mistake.
I mean, Mother must have picked it up by mistake.
Gosh.
Oh, that's it.
Oh, that's gotta be it.
And she's having her hair done.
Wait, wait.
Ho, ho, ho.
I'm not following you.
Lee, I've been worried because I thought that I should be protecting my home and myself.
But, you know, uh, Karlo I don't think he's after me, I think he's after my mother.
And she just left the house, she's out there all alone.
Okay, okay, hold it.
Just tell me where.
She's at Mr.
Emelio's, 14th and Cleveland, I'll meet you there.
Good, yeah.
That's better.
Good.
Hmm.
How long does this sort of thing take? It depends.
If she has it washed and blown dry, it could take about half an hour.
But if she has it set, it'll take her 45 minutes under the dryer and there's comb out and we don't know if Mr.
Emelio's running on schedule or not.
Is she having a haircut or surgery? We have to get that book to Crypto.
Not until my mother is home safely.
Hold it.
- You stay here, you got that? - Right.
Karlo.
[LEE GRUNTING.]
[KARLO GRUNTING.]
[WOMAN 1 SCREAMS.]
WOMAN 1: Oh! [WOMEN SCREAM.]
[WOMAN 2 SCREAMS.]
[WOMAN 3 SCREAMS.]
[WOMAN 3 SCREAMS.]
[CAR REVS.]
[CAR TIRES SQUEAL.]
Where is he? LEE: Uh, I lost him.
He's after my mother.
[LEE PANTING.]
Am I dry yet? Are you sure my mother is being protected? Yes, yes.
By the very best men in the agency.
We've nailed down a connection between Karlo and your mother.
Now we need to know why.
And it's not an agency-related connection.
Drought Cycles of Burma just hit the bestseller list down in Cryptography.
"Microdot enlargements had the design of broadband filters.
" Whatever they are.
They're filters that neutralize the close-combat laser-assault weapon.
That's high-priority technology.
The East Bloc would pay a lot for it.
Crypto's still on the first chapter, but they expect a lot more.
That's the same kind of tech that Hadj dealt.
- Karlo too.
- What am I gonna tell my mother? Captain Galaxy's a pile of plastic.
Philip's book is a vital piece of national security and I don't know the right book so that I can get another one.
- The right book? - The book that my mother meant to buy or that she did buy and got it mixed up Well, you know, I mean I should be able to figure this out.
She said it was one of my favorites, and it's about animals.
[LEE SIGHS.]
Oh, heh! Sky Chief Rides Again.
Oh, Lee.
It has to be Sky Chief Rides Again.
It's about a horse and Philip loves horses and I loved horses.
Oh.
And I bet they have another one at that bookstore.
Amanda, I'll get you another copy.
- I have to see Mr.
Keene very shortly.
- Thank you, sir.
I'll need it by 2:00 tomorrow.
Just like Captain Galaxy.
- Hey, are you okay? - Hmm? - Oh.
- Huh? Yeah, I think so.
Um, I'm just worried about my family.
I mean, we've got a dangerous spy after us and it's all because of a book.
Yeah, well, that book is very important, Amanda.
Well, sometimes I get the feeling that people get a little lost at the agency.
You know what I mean? Everybody is so concerned with, um, spies and stolen formulas and secrets that well, I don't know, sometimes it just starts to seem like it's a game.
Yeah, well, that game gets pretty serious at times.
We play it like a game, but we know it's just a cleaner battlefield.
You know, I think if we take one of the side streets, we'll go a lot faster.
Yeah, you're right.
[KNOCKING ON DOOR.]
[STAMMERING.]
I'm in big trouble, right? Right.
Okay, come in.
Okay, I, uh I know my rights, so just tell me where to start.
Uh, you need my tape recorder? Later.
[CHUCKLES.]
We got three ways to go.
We can put you away for 20 years.
We can leak information that you're our man which should get you killed in a hurry or then there's the third option.
- I'II, uh I'll take it.
- I know you will.
- You're working for us.
- Me? Working with, uh, you guys? Ha, ha.
We know you, Keene.
You give slime a bad name.
Well We don't trust you, but you'll play it straight with us.
You're a survivor, and you know we'll protect you.
You simply have more to gain with us.
There's also the redeeming quality of working with your country instead of against it.
[CHUCKLES.]
There's even a chance we might find a human being in you somewhere.
You're under protective surveillance.
Right now.
Good.
Good.
Good.
I'll send in a team to brief you as to what we expect.
Oh.
Get me a copy of Sky Chief Rides Again.
Sky Chief Rides [DOOR OPENS.]
uh, Again.
You better go to the door.
She might recognize me.
As soon as she answers the door, I'll follow right behind.
That's Rhamid, Karlo's partner.
They can save us some work.
[GUNFIRE AND INDIANS WHOOPING ON TV.]
- Are you having cable installed? - No.
Watchover, this is Scarecrow.
The van in the drive is [O VER RADIO.]
a possible security leak.
Check it.
MAN: Excuse me, sir.
Hold it.
[GUNFIRE AND INDIANS WHOOPING ON TV.]
Hold on, here we go.
[GUNFIRE AND INDIANS WHOOPING ON TV.]
AGENT: Hold it.
Get out of the car.
Hands up.
Get up against the car.
Move it.
[GASPS.]
AMANDA: It's a cul-de-sac.
LEE: Take cover.
All right, pal.
End of the line.
Come on.
[LEE GRUNTS.]
See? We got him.
[KIDS CHEERING.]
DOTTY: All right.
I made the best for you.
Okay.
All right.
Okay.
- There we go.
- Now make a big wish.
- Get them all, Philip.
- Here we go.
[ALL CHEERING.]
Happy birthday.
PHILIP: All right.
I'm digging in.
You know, he was so good about not getting Captain Galaxy it made me wanna feel worse.
Mother, look, they're all having a good time and that's all that matters.
And Sky Chief? I could have sworn that I put it in that pheasant.
- I could have sworn.
- Well I called the shop, and they said the last copy is gone, someone took it.
I think they need more lemonade.
I'll get it.
Oh, honey, honey.
Oh, my gosh, way too big.
Okay.
LEE: Psst.
Amanda.
Psst.
Amanda.
DOTTY: Oh, that is Some more ice cream.
Okay.
Hi.
- Hello.
LEE: Hi.
Hi.
Oh, Captain Galaxy.
- I said I would.
- Yeah.
How'd you do it? Well, the, uh, manufacturers are in Taiwan so it was just a matter of getting one of these to the Naval Air Station in Guam and Air Force Transport brought it to Bolling Air Base and the rest was easy.
[CHUCKLES.]
Oh, and [SIGHS.]
[IN UNISON.]
Sky Chief Rides Again.
[CHUCKLES.]
[SIGHS.]
Well Wish I could ask you in for a piece of cake.
- Well, just save me a piece.
- I will.
Oh, uh, I didn't mention it before but you know that bit with the sprinkler and the hose? - Yeah, I was - That was all right.
- It was? - Your reaction time was pretty good you thought on your feet.
- You were glad I was there.
- Well, I - I was glad I was there.
Yeah.
Gotta go.
Yeah.
Thanks a lot.