Miami Vice s02e06 Episode Script

(Music Playing) (People Chattering) What can I get you? Three shots.
Scotch.
- For you and who else? - It's all me.
I became a father tonight.
Across the street? That's where I was born.
Salute.
(People Whooping) (Whoops) Kid got a nice mother? She's the sweetest, kindest, most beautiful woman I've ever known.
Why? Well, 'cause daddy ain't gonna live long drinking like that.
Hey, don't even talk to me like that, man.
It's a celebration tonight, and I don't need to hear that.
- Robbie.
- Hey, Sonny.
Tell me, boy or girl? I got a son.
(Cheering) That's great, man.
- Let's go see the family.
- Why don't you have a drink with me first? The doc wants them to rest up for a little while.
- Everything okay? - Everything's all right.
Julia, she's just knocked out, though.
She was in labor for 15 hours.
- You're kidding me.
- I'm not kidding.
- How's the kid? - How's the kid? He's great.
Black Jack.
That's terrific.
How much did he weigh? - Eight pounds, six-and-a-half ounces.
- Wow! - You got yourself a big boy.
- Come on, let's sit down.
(Laughing) - Here's to the family.
- Salute.
I'm so charged, Sonny.
I never felt this way before in my whole life.
I know, man, it's a great feeling.
I mean, things are looking up.
This has got to be the beginning of some good stuff for us.
You know? It's got to be.
- I'm so happy for you, man.
- Thanks, man.
How's the club? It's great.
I couldn't ask for anything better.
I got more money than I know what to do with.
That's the way it should be.
Yes, sir.
Oh.
We're smiling.
- Must've been when we first landed.
- Yeah.
You know who's in that picture? - You and me.
- No.
It's me and the godfather of my son.
You're kidding.
- That's what Julia wants, too? - Yeah.
What do you say? Yeah! You bet! (Both Laughing) Hey, let me get two more.
And one for my buddy.
(Music Playing) Oh, man, you remember this? How could I forget it? Good times.
Good times.
Good times.
(Robbie) Good times.
Good times.
Good times.
Yeah.
Hey, you wanna get your sidekick under control? Robbie, chill out, man.
It's $200 if I gotta recover that table.
You gonna pay for it? Yeah, I'll take care of it.
Robbie, this isn't "American Bandstand".
Get off the table.
Come on, man, you're disrupting this whole establishment.
Hey, man, you know what's good for your health? Get off the table.
- Police officer, put the gun down.
- Hey, hey, hey, hey.
No problem.
No problem at all.
- Lay it down, pal.
- Sonny, relax.
Now this little guy didn't mean it, right? Robbie, let me handle this.
- Robbie! - Back off.
You never pull a gun out unless you're planning to shoot somebody.
- You got it? You got it? - Yeah, I got it.
Robbie.
Robbie.
Ease off.
You started this dance.
He was stupid, you were stupid.
Come on, let's just forget it and get out of here.
Come on.
- Thanks, Sonny.
- Forget it, man.
That's what I'm here for.
Hey, I don't want to see you guys in here again.
Yeah, we love you, too.
(Muldoon) Forget it, Annie.
You don't wanna be in the music business.
It's a jungle.
Exotic dancing ain't exactly the United Nations.
- Neither is stripping.
- I got a great set of pipes.
Really, I do.
I agree.
But can you carry a tune? Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz? My friends all have Porsches I must make amends I need a singer, not a stripper.
I'll have my agent call you.
(Baby Crying) Sometimes it helps them if you pat them on the fanny.
Oh, yeah? Thanks.
(Laughs) You got a baby? Well, in a manner of speaking.
His name's Noogie and I'm married to him.
Baby's gotta be with his mother.
How old is he? Eight months on Friday.
I'm gonna give him a birthday present.
Happy birthday to you - # Happy - Hey.
Hey.
What's this I hear about a baby being back here? Don't look at me.
Noogie's out of town.
Mr.
Nello, it's just for tonight.
Please? I couldn't find a babysitter.
(Nello) Look, you've got 15 minutes to find one and be back here in a tutu and on the floor.
Cut her some slack.
What the hell are you doing here? Babysitting.
For those of you who don't follow the Nobel Prize, I'm Morty Price.
But seriously, I would like to thank right now Mr.
Cannata and Mr.
Doss for bringing me back to glorious Miami.
In fact, I was so eager to come, I turned down a chance to be an extra in "Coma Part II".
(People Laughing) - Not bad.
- What? Not great, but not bad.
You ought to bottle his jokes and sell them for sleeping pills.
I know it's hard to believe, I used to work in the stock exchange till one of the brokers told me when my IQ hit 20, I should sell.
(People Laughing) I really appreciate you helping me out.
This job is really important to me right now.
Better cover those.
You got husband troubles? Not anymore.
I left him.
It took me a year and a half.
It wasn't until he tried to hit my baby Stevie that I left.
A year and a half? You leave your brains in a box somewhere? - He loved me.
- Oh.
He told me so.
- He just hit me 'cause I'm ugly.
- You're not ugly.
- You got a place to stay? - Yeah.
I found a cheap motel across from the airport.
Cheapest place I could get, but two or three nights working here, I think I can get a good place, move out of there.
And what if that bruiser comes looking for you? He won't.
I talked to God at "Kennedy" Airport in New York before I left.
He told me that I have to live for my baby.
So I told him that I would kill anybody who tried to hurt me like that.
I don't think God is going to let Danny come near me again.
('80s Pop Music Playing) (Glass Shattering) (Knocking On Door) - Dorothy? - Yeah? I don't think it's gonna work out for you here.
I'm gonna have to let you go.
What? I'm sorry.
It's just the way things worked out.
(Baby Crying) Help me.
What are you worried about? I've known Frank Doss and Mr.
Cannata for years.
I'll speak to them, I'll explain things - It's gonna be all right.
- Thank you.
You're a beautiful girl.
You know that? That's what they love around here.
They need girls like you.
And with me in your corner, you're in like Flynn.
Thanks a lot for helping, really.
Good.
That's nice.
That's what I like to hear.
I like to be thanked.
- No.
I'm sorry, I don't want to.
- Oh, come on.
Get off me.
Don't play hard to get.
Get away.
Get off me! I don't mind if you don't.
(Groans) Get back.
Get away! Come on, we're gonna trade favors.
Tit for tat.
You wash my back, I'll wash yours.
(Baby Gurgling) Definitely not a funny way to die.
Crockett, I thought you were off.
Since when has that mattered? Who's in the bag? - Morty Price.
- The comic? He got a nice slice from a steak knife.
- Definitely not a funny way to die.
- That's what I just said.
Where did he get it, right here? So why are we here? Johnny Cannata and Frank Doss own this hotel.
Why would they kill a comic? I don't think they did.
FBI has had them under surveillance.
Price was involved with Cannata and Doss, very tight.
Silent partner? We don't know.
Let's go nose around.
- How was fishing? - Rainy.
Hi.
Someday I'm gonna be wearing threads like that.
- Mrs.
Noogman.
- Yeah, definitely his better half.
Where's Miami's favorite mouth? I don't care.
I got an agent.
I'm a singer now.
(Trudy) I ran into Annie downstairs.
Said she saw a cocktail waitress named Dorothy Bain head up here with Morty Price about 4:00 this morning.
What's your connection with Miss Bain? We're acquainted.
She's a sweet kid, Sonny.
You'd like her.
She's got a cute little boy.
Yeah.
I'd like to meet her.
You know where we can find her? - My lips are sealed.
- I checked with Dorothy's boss.
She was let go last night, but on the application she listed a motel by the airport.
- Thanks, Trudy.
- Yeah.
(Knocking On Door) - Where's the papers, lady? - What papers? - Come on, come on, where's the papers? - What papers? We can do this nice or we can do this not so nice, now.
Where's the papers, lady? Come on, come on, where's the papers? Freeze.
(Glass Shattering) Dorothy? I'm Det.
Crockett, Miami Vice.
Everything's okay, open up.
(Car Engine Revving) Wait a minute, Dorothy.
Hold it.
I'm a cop.
- Dorothy! - (Tubbs) Crockett! (Castillo) Frank Doss was convicted of murder in 1943.
Served 15 years.
In 1960, became partner to Johnny Cannata.
Las Vegas, Atlantic City.
Now they're spearheading the drive for legalized gambling in Miami.
They've been arrested several times, but never convicted.
Morty Price has been with Cannata and Doss since they began working in Las Vegas.
Dorothy Bain is the question mark.
Except, we think we know why she might have killed Morty Price.
Annie said Dorothy told her stories about being beaten by her husband back in New York.
That's what drove her and the baby to Miami.
I called him there, he was no help.
But I did find out from NYPD that Dorothy tried twice in the past six months to have him arrested.
Assault and battery.
So maybe Morty wanted to have a little S&M party and Dorothy wasn't up for it.
And then Cannata and Doss order a hit 'cause she snuffed out their old friend.
Yeah, maybe a vendetta.
Uh-uh.
- It doesn't add up.
- Yeah.
Why would they wanna risk blowing a multi-million dollar shot at a casino racket on a vendetta against a cocktail waitress? Cannata and Doss, we'll begin with them.
Switek, Zito, I want video surveillance at "Shelborne".
Gina and Trudy, I want you guys to try to get jobs at the hotel.
- Crockett and Tubbs - Dorothy Bain.
- She's the key.
- Yep.
(Camera Clicking) (Inaudible) (Doss) You were supposed to get the papers not start World War III.
What? I don't wanna hear it.
No.
It's not their fault the heat showed up.
It's your fault we're in this mess to begin with.
You had to place bets with that jackass friend of yours, Price.
Hey, have a little respect.
The guy's dead.
Yeah.
So is our chances of turning this joint into a legit casino if we don't beat the cops to them tally sheets.
So they find them.
Big deal.
It's only names and numbers.
Circumstantial evidence.
They take to the D.
A.
and the next thing we're having lunch with the grand jury, what? Okay, okay.
So we'll put the word out, find the girl, have her taken care of.
End of story.
- You forget how to knock? - (Nello) I'm sorry, Mr.
Cannata.
Robbie's here.
Hey, Robbie.
- How's the baby? - Good.
Here's the check.
It was a good two weeks.
- Everything all right at the club? - Sure.
- So? Why can't you sit and talk? - Talk? About what? You were talking about business.
Your business.
I don't want anything to do with your business.
What business? No business.
Frank made a couple of bets - which the markers got misplaced.
- All right, whatever you say.
Don't candy-coat it.
If he's using our money, he ought to know.
He ought to help.
Well, you're getting your money back with interest.
Say, listen, from now on I'll mail you the checks.
- Robbie.
- No.
(Annie) So how could you be my agent and run this burger stand at the same time? That's what I'd like to know.
You want something done, Annie, you ask a busy man.
I got some talent scouts coming from Hollywood.
And we're gonna get you a real big gig.
- # Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz? # - Yeah.
- Well, here's the scouts.
- (Pompeii) That's my girl.
Oh, let's see.
- Giggle smoke.
- "Celebrity" Burger.
What a name.
Two triple "Spielburgers", drag them through the garden and two iced "Mister T's", larger.
That'll be $23.
50.
- Annie.
- Ah, taking in the scenery? Yeah, we're looking, but it ain't at the scenery.
Looking for your girlfriend Dorothy.
With the baby? You seen her? Maybe she clicked her heels and went back to New York.
Don't hold out on us, Annie.
This girl is target practice and if you don't help us, you'll be in the orphan-making business.
- Really? - That's as real as it gets.
I'll keep an eye out.
I will.
Good.
Hey, can I get you some "Spielburgers"? Compliments of my agent.
- Thanks, but no thanks.
- He doesn't eat meat.
(Baby Cooing) Found another '78 Toyota sedan.
Green.
- What's that make? Three? - Yeah.
And you haven't even located one yet.
What's this, hon? Names of all the people we saw dealing with Cannata and Doss.
That's just the first two days.
We'll have more.
- (Crockett) Gina.
- Yeah? - You had lunch yet? - No.
You want the other half of my sandwich? You can join us in the wonderful world of abandoned vehicles.
Good idea, I can use a break.
Hey, Sonny there's a Robert Cann in here.
Could be two or three Robert Canns in Miami.
- How did you get these names? - I didn't.
Trudy did.
Excuse me, Trudy.
Excuse me.
- Excuse me - How'd you get these names? Gina connected the face to Cannata and Doss Switek and Zito connected the car on video.
I connected the car with the license plates and ran the numbers.
Guys, I need to see your home movies.
Now.
- Now? - We're having lunch.
(Crockett) Bring a doggy bag.
Okay, it's coming up.
Here's Robert Cann.
Is it him, Sonny? Crockett, is it him? You ever been here before? Can't afford it.
Anybody who's everybody is here.
(Music Playing) - Excuse me.
- I'd like to go in here.
Sonny, he has to choose you.
- He's got to choose me? - Yeah.
No, wait, look, I'm a good friend of Robert Cann's.
That's about the 45th time I heard that tonight.
You don't understand, I'm his kid's godfather.
I don't care if you're his grandmother.
Let me show you his birth certificate.
Any friend of Robbie's is a friend of mine.
You're in.
Pays to know people in high places.
(Knocking On Door) - Robbie.
- Sonny.
Say "hello" to my partner, Rico Tubbs.
- Hey.
- How you doing? Say, I got something to show you.
(Laughs) - That's a good-looking boy.
- That's what I think.
I got a feeling this isn't a personal visit.
Robbie, your name showed up on a list of people that were seen with Johnny Cannata and Frank Doss.
- So? - Flash.
They're under surveillance by us and who knows who else.
(Sighs) The only affiliation I have with them is that they're general partners with me in the ownership of this place, Sonny.
I needed money and they had it.
It's that simple.
I didn't do anything wrong.
I didn't say you did do anything wrong.
- They're trying to kill a young girl.
- I don't know about that.
I didn't say you did.
Then what are you saying? I'm trying to say, do whatever it takes to cut yourself away from these guys.
They're bad news, pal.
And if you do hear anything, anything at all, you'll tell me.
I will, believe me.
All right.
That's all we wanted to talk about.
Listen, do me a favor.
Don't mention this to Julia.
You got it.
Are you sure you haven't heard anything about this woman? - Her name is Dorothy Bain.
- No.
What did I say? No? Then it is "no".
- You're sure? - Tubbs.
You got a hearing problem, Tubbs? This woman has a baby just a little bit older than yours, Robert.
Get him out of here, Sonny.
Doss and Cannata are trying to kill a mother with a little baby.
Get him out of here! (Tubbs) That scene back there was a riff.
Look, I've known this guy for 18 years.
He may come off like a playboy, but he's strictly by the book.
People change.
Don't worry about it.
He's my friend.
Yeah? I'm sorry, but I gotta worry about it.
That's my job.
What are you trying to say, pal? Your personal connection here is a problem.
Give it up.
Look, any first-year man can see that something's going on with him.
You don't know him.
Look, I don't have to know him.
Anybody who's a general partner with Doss and Cannata has gotta know something.
- You're not facing reality, man.
- And you're not hearing me.
He's my friend.
(Engine Revving) (Priest) Are you ready to help the parents of this child in their duty as Christian parents? I am.
Allen Christopher, the Christian community welcomes you with great joy.
In His name, I claim you for Christ our Savior by the sign of the cross.
I now trace you on your forehead.
(Baby Crying) I invite the parents and the godparents to do the same.
(Priest) Allen Christopher, I baptize you in the name of the Father and the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
I did a little check on Mr.
Robert Cann.
His name is not Cann.
It's Cannata.
He changed his name after graduating from high school.
It's the truth.
He's Johnny Cannata's son.
Sonny.
Hey, Crockett, where you going, man? Sonny, slow down.
- Crockett, this is Danny Bain.
- Not now, Gina.
He's Dorothy Bain's husband.
Are you in charge? 'Cause I can't get a straight answer from this one.
Is Dorothy being accused of murder? If you know where she is, I want her and my son back.
And if you don't, tell me 'cause I'll get a private detective to find her who'll do a lot better job than the Dick Tracy club you got here.
Why? You having trouble finding somebody new to smack around? - I'll give you a reason to hit someone, pal.
- Take it easy.
Or maybe it doesn't turn you on when somebody hits back.
- Hey.
- Is that right? - Crockett! - Is that right? - Sonny.
- (Castillo) Crockett.
I would like to see you in my office.
You're off the Morty Price case.
What did you do, drop by to say, "I told you so"? Castillo was right, you are too close Save the lecture.
- And you know it.
- Don't tell me what I know, all right? Okay, man, don't jump in my face because you let your friend play you.
You got a beef with everybody except the one person you should have got it together with from jump city.
Now you knew Robbie was giving you a line and now you're just mad at yourself for trying so hard not to hear it.
We were buddies.
Hey, look, Sonny.
I don't have all the answers.
I just came by to tell you that you're not the first cop who had his friend hold out on him.
Work it out, man.
(Door Closing) Give me a minute, please.
Daddy? I need you (Sobbing) I don't know what's happening to me.
I just want you to come and take Stevie back to New Jersey, okay? I don't care.
Please.
Yeah, okay.
All right.
Bye.
Julia, do you know how much I love you? More than that.
You're everything to me.
I just Can I call you back? Yeah, Sonny's here.
Yeah.
Bye-bye.
Julia sends her love.
Didn't you think I'd understand? It's like a scar, Sonny, being related to those people.
It's like having a cancer growing out of you.
I mean, do you show that to somebody? You were one of the closest people in the world to me.
I was? What am I now? You tell me.
Your father's trying to put a hit on that girl with the baby.
I don't know anything about that! - I'm not in their business.
- And I ain't buying it.
Don't play dumb with me, Robbie.
All I know is Doss and Morty Price made some bets and the girl took some of their tally sheets.
So they've got a contract out on her for tally sheets? And you're gonna stand by and let that girl die because your father needs to stay clean so he can start a casino? What am I supposed to do? Send my father to prison? I mean, what do you want from me, Sonny? I mean, for the first time since we landed back in the world I feel like a man.
I got a wife, a kid, a business.
I can hold my head up in the street.
Is that what being a man is? Standing by and letting that girl get blown away so that you can live high on the hill? What's happened to you, man? Where's your sense of right and wrong? Hey, I've got rights and wrongs.
I left that family for 12 years and stayed away.
Nobody does that and lives to talk about it.
But I did.
I was struggling to get money to start this place and then Julia got pregnant.
I was tapped out.
Sonny, I didn't want my kid not to have.
The family offered me the money and I took it.
And I can't just walk away.
One of these days I'll buy them out.
But right now, they got me, Sonny.
In their eyes, I'm obligated.
Only obligation you've got is to yourself.
If you can get up in the morning and look in the mirror and be proud of what you see then you fulfill that obligation.
If you can't, then you're worth nothing to nobody.
Not to yourself, not to Julia, not to me and certainly not to your son.
Maybe you're right.
Maybe I am nothing.
(Panting) So what do you think? Bullet through the brain? I mean, that would put me out of everybody's misery.
- That's not the answer, man.
- No? Then what is the answer, Sonny? You? I mean, you can get me out of a fight in a bar.
I mean, you can get me out of one of the hottest areas of operation crawling with NVA.
I'm half-dead and wounded.
But this is family.
This is blood.
And I cannot separate myself from it.
You gotta do something.
Find out if they know where she is.
I know where the girl is.
What? One of my father's people fingered her.
I overheard where.
You gotta tell me.
If I tell you, I'm dead.
Doss will cut my heart out.
Hey, what do you think? You remember that kid corporal in Da Nang the one that put a bullet through his head? I wonder what he saw when he looked in the mirror.
If you don't tell me, Robbie I gotta put you away for conspiracy to commit murder.
So arrest me.
I got a better idea.
Let's call Julia up right now.
Let's call her up and take her with you so she can meet this girl and then you shoot her, right in front of her so your wife can see what you really are.
I know what's right for me, you.
(Grunting) The man I knew always did what it took and it hurt sometimes, but he did it.
Because that's the only thing that got us out of the jungle, with our minds.
There was no "me and I" in our unit.
You and me, Robbie.
You and me.
We refused to throw those POWs out of the choppers.
No matter what the rest of the world was saying we did the right thing.
That's what being a man is all about.
Not standing by and letting Doss and your father put holes in a young girl.
They'll kill my baby, Sonny.
Don't you get it? If you let them do this you won't be able to look at your son.
All right, let's go.
Can I call Julia and tell her what's happening? You got two minutes.
Robbie.
(People Chattering) (Engine Starting) (Engine Vrooming) (Rock Music Playing) (Tires Squealing) (Knocking On Door) (Grunting) Please just don't hurt my baby.
Please.
I'm begging.
God, don't hurt my Stevie.
(Shushing) What I want you to do is get your things.
- Just don't hurt my baby.
- No, no, no, no.
Shh, shh.
Nobody is gonna hurt your baby, all right? Now listen, what I want you to do is get your things together.
I'm giving you $1000.
And I'm gonna put you on a plane and I'm gonna get you the hell out of here.
Okay? - Annie.
- We're closed, Crockett.
Annie, do you know where she is? Do you know where Get in the car.
Come on, right now.
I have a son.
(Knocking On Door) - Get down.
- No.
Get down.
(Gun Firing) Tubbs, I lost.
Dorothy Bain's at Annie's place.
Meet me there.
Robbie.
Sonny, behind you.
(Tubbs) Crockett, it's Tubbs.
Check the girl, Tubbs.
You'll be all right.
I did the right thing, Sonny? Yeah, man.
You did the right thing.