T.J. Hooker (1982) s04e04 Episode Script
Hardcore Connection
(upbeat music) ("I'm so Excited" by The Pointer Sisters) (horn honks) - Come on Sugar.
Jump in we'll have us a real good time.
- Is that the best you can offer, a good time? - Well along with this to pay for you to give me a party.
- That's all it takes Sugar.
- Now what did you go and do that for? - So you don't drive off crazy when you find out you been busted.
- Solicitation of a sex act for money.
It's called prostitution.
- Hey I ain't no prostitute.
- Same law applies to the tricks.
- We call it equal opportunity enforcement.
- Let's go pal, come on.
- I mean look at that.
How can we make any money when the streets are full of blonde haired blue eyed entrapment? - You can always move on ladies.
Set up in another city.
- [Call Girl.]
Police harassment that's what this is.
- Continue the economics lesson Junior.
There's something I want to check out.
- What can I say ladies? We're drying it up.
Creating an environment free of lust and moral decay.
Making this a better place to live, to raise our children.
- I don't believe the trash coming from this man's mouth.
- Hey what about it honey? $50 bill pay for the whole night? Stacy? - My God Paul.
- No Stacy I - Get out of here, just get out.
- Hey what gives? Looks like he made you a righteous offer and you gave him a pass.
Hey wait a minute I've seen that car before.
- Can we get back to work? - I want you Danny.
- The name Kelly.
I want the name of the guy who's burning my porno investigation.
(shotgun fires) (Kelly screaming) - Get down.
Danny, Oh my God.
(dramatic music) Jim call an ambulance.
Room 21, police officer down.
(suspenseful music) - [Moloch.]
Get going or I'll blow your head off.
(suspenseful music) (shotgun firing) - [Hooker.]
Stop the bus.
(tires squealing) (dramatic music) - How is he? - Bad.
What'd you turn? - Night watch CP is still set up.
Romano and Stacy are running a grid search on each side of the alley for 20 blocks where he was last seen.
- Anybody turn his wheels? - We've tossed everything that moves since the shooting, nothing.
And the prostitute that recognized him in the hotel room, Kelly LaRue, we put the word out.
- Get back to the motel.
I want the names and addresses of everyone registered there, license numbers for a five square block area.
Danny's silver blue Mazda is in the parking lot.
Have forensics give it the full sweep and then hit the Boulevard joints.
Put the squeeze on every hustler, every fly by night who could even remotely help us find Kelly LaRue.
- Table that, all of it.
It's out of our hands mine, Lt.
Stafford's, yours.
- Daniels worked A watch vise for me.
He was with a prostitute outside of his assignment off duty.
We received an anonymous call.
- It was alleged that Daniels was taking bribes, shaking down some porn operation.
- Come on.
- Internal Affairs is already on it - They searched his house Hooker.
Tool box in the garage turned this.
- There's $10,000 there.
- It's a paint job.
- Maybe but it's up to IAD to find out for sure one way or another.
- What about his wife? - She couldn't explain the money either.
- I can't live without him Hooker.
Oh God please don't let him die.
Helen, do you have any idea what Danny was doing at the motel tonight? - We'd just started to watch the 10 o'clock news.
The telephone rang, a man, he asked for Danny.
I didn't recognize the voice.
When Danny hung up he said he had a meet at Piccolos.
- You have any idea who the man was? - Danny isn't what they're saying Hooker.
- I never doubted that.
We'll clear his name I promise you.
- [Intercom.]
Code blue intensive care.
Code blue intensive care.
(dramatic music) (Helen crying) (flat line toning) (somber music) - Stacy, Paul Majeski just called, seemed anxious to get ahold of you.
You two still dating? - Occasionally.
- What's wrong? - Nothing I can't handle.
Did Hooker turn him around yet? - He's working on it.
- Hey Majeski called twice before Romano took that message.
He's the guy you gave the pass to on the Boulevard last night right? The car I recognized? - I'd rather not talk about it okay.
- We're not ignoring the 18 departmental commendations Sergeant but that doesn't rule out the possibility of dishonesty.
Danny Daniels gave his entire adult life to the force.
He didn't have so much as a hair out of place in 17 years.
- Department has to be sure.
If we're talking about the slightest hint of police corruption here the press will have a field day.
- He was taking any juice.
And he can't defend himself but I damn well can.
And I'm not about to sit around let this take away the one thing he has left, his reputation.
- I appreciate your loyalty to your friend Sergeant but I'm sorry we have to through an Internal Affairs investigation.
I'm sorry, Captain.
- He's right Hooker, I think you know that.
- Everyone will be expecting an honor guard.
Mayor, Chief, attending the funeral, the Commissioner paying the last respects.
Above all else he is a slain cop.
- The burial is Wednesday.
He can't have an Inspectors funeral, not with the allegations.
And IAD won't have completed it's investigation by then.
- Then I want those two days.
Captain if you let Danny's body go in the ground dishonored how are you gonna feel if the next morning evidence surfaces that clears his name? - Just take this to the desk Sergeant he'll take care of it, right over there.
- We got 48 hours.
The entire Vice squad has been put on ice so we're it.
- Well this Kelly LaRue has gone up in smoke, vanished.
- From the size of the crater that shotgun cut in the mattress I've got a good idea what she's running from.
- The best we can turn up on Kelly is an ex-roommate Sandy Wyzinski, she's on the run too.
Seems she couldn't cough up a $5000 fine to keep the 26 prostitution busts from turning into a year of county time.
- Any idea where she's running to? - Baywatch book guys have a high rated rumor she's trying to make the fine on the tables at an illegal gambling spot on Avelon.
- What's your turn on Danny's log book? - Two entries including Kelly LaRue.
Both times he bought her lunch out of secret serVice funds.
Then within a week of each meet he applied for warrants to search Post Office boxes that were supposed to be part of a porno distribution system he was trying to crack.
- What'd the search warrants turn? - Came up dry both times.
- What about the meet last night at Piccolos? Has that been logged? - Well we know he came by the station but it's not in the book.
- So the street sources said that a man meeting Danny's description was at Piccolos about 11 last night and that he left with a woman matching Kelly LaRue's description.
- Lunches, late night rendezvous, the $10,000, maybe there was a romance going that Kelly's pimp objected to.
It could explain why he didn't log Piccolos or the motel room last night.
- It could explain it.
That's not the theory I'm working on.
He was set up.
- What makes you so sure? - I know it in here.
Come on let's go.
Stacy get your Boulevard clothes on.
I got a prostitute to catch.
- What makes you the precincts leading critic all of a sudden? - I gave up blind faith a long time ago.
When I got burned in the same kind of situation Hooker's getting into.
(dramatic music) - I'll put 100.
- 100, 100 to you.
Let's see.
Full House gentlemen and ladies.
- What's happening fellas? - Straight flush.
You're cheating.
- I know, it's the only way I can win around here.
- Now wait a minute fellas, hold it, that's a plant.
(all shouting at once) (fast paced music) - Miss Wyzinski? Police officer.
I have a proposition for you.
Safe and sound.
- I'm not amused.
- I could book it in at the station, $5000 illegal gambling money.
- That's my money, I won it.
- Then you want me help me find Kelly LaRue? Or do you want me to follow procedure and book the money? Turn you over to sentencing court.
- That's blackmail.
You're supposed to be a cop.
Okay if I help you, can I get the key? - It's the only way you're gonna get it.
- You're a real sleazeball you know that? - 26 arrests for prostitution you call me a sleazeball? - Well yeah well half those were humbugs.
- You're a retrograde and fantasy and paranoia have become a way of life that's your problem.
- Retrograde? - Retrograde, want me to spell it for you? - Listen sleazeball I don't have-- - R-E-T-R-O-G, something like that.
(dramatic music) (phone ringing) - Yeah? - [Mystery Man.]
Daniels is dead.
- What about the girl? He missed her you know that don't you, he missed her.
- [Mystery Man.]
Make sure he doesn't miss her next time.
I want Kelly LaRue dead too, you hear me? - Yes.
(dramatic music) - You still want me to kill the prosty? (dramatic music) - Yeah I got all your messages, including the one through dispatch.
I want you to stop calling Paul.
I mean what I said, it's over between us.
- Now as I was telling your friend Hooker here, Kelly LaRue has not been my roommate for over a month.
Which it why you should just give me back the key and let me get on with my life.
- The life you mean.
- Yeah well I told you guys and I'm telling you now, that's all behind me.
As a matter of fact when I get out from under this beef it's Vegas time.
I'm gonna be a dealer.
- You say that Kelly LaRue graduated to porno films.
Some people think she was tricking in a motel on the Boulevard last night.
- Kelly LaRue never used the Boulevard motel.
Like I said she was out of the life.
- [Hooker.]
How long ago was it she made her screen debut in porno films? - A couple months.
- And where did she make her first connection in showbiz? - A dive on the Boulevard, Piccolos.
Some slug named Moloch recruited her after he kicked the hell out of her pimp and sent him running.
- I think you and Corrigan should work out a way to get Stacy a casting session.
- While you track down Kelly LaRue? - Yeah.
Me and my new partner here.
- Hey.
- Hey.
- Yeah I used to live out here when we first moved out to New York, looks just the same.
Only different not, you know what I mean.
There used to be this beauty parlor and it was over on 63rd.
When I was 12 years old I used to peek in the windows.
I thought it was just so glamorous, all those little old ladies with purple hair you know? They were getting pampered and fussed over.
I even enrolled in Beauty College at one time if you can believe that one.
But I had to use my tuition to bail out a friend.
You know you're some conversationalist but I gotta tell you that.
- I want Kelly LaRue not conversation.
(dramatic music) - Stop stop.
Yeah last time I remember Kelly's manager Willy Valdez stayed on the second floor, room 204.
That's the third door on the right.
- This Valdez, was he your manager as well? - I didn't need a pimp Hooker.
You know like the veteran ball players I was a free agent.
- Experience countless times at bat, make sense.
- Let's be careful you know the people that live here they're not the most upstanding citizens.
- Yeah where do you live? - Will you lay off? It's your party remember I am the extortee waiting to start a Vegas career.
- Extortee you stay here.
- I can take care of myself thank you.
What are you looking at? - Willy Valdez.
(furniture breaking) Hold it.
(door slamming) Come here, come here.
- Well looks I can take care of you too Hooker.
- Hey what you guys want from me? - Oh he's a cop Willy.
If I were you I definitely wouldn't trust him.
- Oh man oh man.
I thought it was Moloch coming back.
- I swear to you guy I didn't mean to jive no cop with no guns in my hand I swear.
- You got sticky fingers you know that? - True but I also have great legs and a winning personality.
- That's true too.
You say Moloch was here? Looking for Kelly LaRue? - That dude is gonna kill her.
Look what he did to me.
I don't want that guy in my face no more.
- Where did you tell him he could find her? - Hey man I don't want his kind of trouble okay.
- Don't need my kind of trouble.
Now listen to me Buster Britches.
You waste two more seconds of my valuable time and I'm gonna squeeze you into a paper sack small enough to flush down a standard sized toilet.
- Okay okay okay.
I might have mentioned to Moloch that Kelly has a cousin that used to work at a bar on the Boulevard.
The name of the club is The Waldorf.
Her name is Victoria.
I swear to you I don't know what she's doing now.
- Thank you very much.
- You're very welcome.
- He's polite too.
You know despite the fact that I do not trust you.
I have been doing my best to make the team effort here and you're not making it any piece of cake.
- I'm getting my $5000 worth.
- So ease up what's the big push? - The big push is a murdered cop who's not getting a fare shake.
And I'm trying to make it straight okay? - Okay I understand.
- 3816 give me a meet location Hooker.
We got a run down on Moloch.
- Corrigan there's a bar at the south end of the Boulevard called Club Waldorf.
- That's a roger.
- Okay I was giving that cop Daniels information.
I already admitted that to you.
And I promised that I'd make it up to you.
You said you just wanted to take pictures of him and me so you could roll him over, not kill him.
That dude killed him, and he tried to kill me.
- Hey hey that's not so Kelly.
Nobody's trying to kill you.
The whole thing has been a big misunderstanding.
- Oh yeah? Is it a misunderstanding that Moloch is turning the streets inside out looking for me? - He's just trying to find you so we can talk that's all.
- Yeah well maybe I should talk to the cops.
What about that? - Not good Kelly, besides who would you talk to? (dramatic music) - Victoria, I was told you might know a friend of mine, Kelly LaRue.
(dramatic music) (switchblade clicks) (upbeat music) - Moloch is his street name.
Moniker file shows his real name is Jamie Simpson.
Romano's getting an APB out on him.
- That's the man who killed Daniels alright.
- Whoa talk about ugly.
- Hey your roommates best friend.
He got her into pictures remember? - What's with all this hostility? I am doing my best to earn that locker key you know.
Don't worry it's sill there.
- Well I've got a date to try Piccolos again for the porn connection.
- You know even if we do find the porno factory it won't explain why Daniels is dead.
Unless he was shaking them down.
- Daniels was an honest cop that's the bottom line.
You want to get off that train that's up you.
- Alright, I just hope you don't get hurt if your train derails.
- You stay in the car.
- You'll get nothing in there.
You see it's a place where trollops go when they're off duty.
They don't like men off duty.
- I'll do my best stay in the car.
- It won't be good enough Hooker.
- Will you stay in the car? - Nah you need me.
- Do what I say.
- They're gonna eat you alive for breakfast.
- For what it's worth I want to believe the jury's still out on Hooker's friend.
- What it's worth I agree, but a lot of my feelings come from experience you don't have yet.
Daniels was in Vice.
The temptations are there every day.
And it gets easier and easier to take a take.
He was in Vice five years Stace, about three too many.
- I hope I'm not a cynic when I got all your experience.
- Yeah and I hope the piranha don't chew you up because you didn't see them coming.
(upbeat jazz music) - [Hooker.]
Police officer.
- So what? - Hey.
Looking for a girl named Victoria, Kelly LaRue's cousin.
(upbeat jazz music) (glass breaking) - Hey what's the matter, you didn't hear the man? Check it out guys.
Back off police business Fireball.
See the badge? See the badge? See it? My partner asked you a question.
Now we'd like an answer before I roll you into a tiny little ball and I bounce you to the other end of the bar.
(upbeat jazz music) - Victoria owns the Beef Boutique on Madison, across from City Park.
- You answer the same question for this man? - You're being rude again.
- About a half hour ago.
- Thanks a lot doll.
You're all lucky we do not book you on a 647A, that's enraging public decency.
Now behave.
Let's go kid.
- For the mirror, and the necklace.
Hey kid, Wyzinski.
You did okay.
- I'm a quick study.
- A 647A1.
- Oh whatever.
- I know I was laying in on you for making a quick judgment on Daniels.
But my decision about Paul wasn't as quick as you think.
As far as I'm concerned the evidence is in on it.
- And none of it your fault? - That crossed my mind, for exactly one second.
I mean what he I'd so completely turned me off that even if it was my fault I wouldn't be interested in correcting the problem.
Besides he wasn't the love of my life you know.
- Good then I'll volunteer to help you keep looking.
- Thanks but I haven't needed help since I got my braces off in the ninth grade.
Shall we get to work? I want to nail that porn movie connection at Piccolos.
- A little early for it to be closed.
(dramatic music) (suspenseful music) - [Susan.]
Oh no.
(Susan hyperventilating) (dramatic music) - [Bystander.]
Hey, where you going? (dramatic music) - Which way? - Up above.
(dramatic music) (glass breaking) (dramatic music) - [Painter.]
Hey what do you think you're doing? - Hold it.
(gun fires) (bomb exploding) (dramatic music) - [Painter.]
Get that back there.
(dramatic music) (somber music) - This Sandy Wyzinski where is she? - I don't know she wasn't here when I got back.
And after seeing that she's probably running scared.
I don't blame her after what I put her through.
- You're supposed to stay out of the Daniels investigation Hooker.
- I got a reprieve, and I was making headway.
- Don't you understand how all this is gonna look? That girl you been running around with is a bale jumping prostitute.
- She's my source of information.
And she's the only way I have of finding Kelly LaRue.
- Look Hooker I understand you wanting to clear a friends name, I'd like to do that myself.
The man worked for me but we have to let IAD do their job.
That's not from me.
That's from downtown.
- IAD isn't doing their job.
Where were they when that woman was fileted and hung on a meet hook? Where are they in finding Kelly LaRue? - It takes time.
They do things their way.
Now downtown has ordered both Captain Sheridan and me to make sure back off.
Now you let IAD handle it, all of it.
- 17 hours, that's all I got left is 17 hours.
And Danny is laid in the ground dishonored.
I'm not gonna let that happen.
- Hooker you've got nothing anyway.
The girl is gone.
You let IAD run with Moloch in I'm telling you, that's an order, it's an order.
- Yeah well I got my problems too you know.
I mean how the hell am I supposed to know where she is? (line clicks dead) Look I want Kelly LaRue.
I want her dead or it's over for us.
Do you understand me huh? The business, the money, everything, it's over.
- Just tell me where to look.
Like that cop I'm running out of leads Andrew.
- You just find her.
- I came that close to locating the porn factory last night.
- Did you get burned or do you have a return invitation? - I can go back but not 'til next week.
- But the place connects I'm sure of it.
- The bartender made a call from the payphone to try and get me a casting session.
If it's a toll call we might be able to run down the location.
- Good.
Get a Dun & Bradstreet, and a state corporation break down on Piccolos ownership while your at it.
- Hi.
- Hi.
Thought you wouldn't stop running 'til you hit Mexico.
- Well I was up all night making some hard decisions about whether it's safe or not hanging out with you.
- Oh yeah, the locker key have anything to do with your decision? - No smart guy, Kelly.
She called she said she can't trust anyone, especially the cops.
- She can trust me.
- Well for some crazy reason that's what I told her.
She said for me to bring you to a meet at a very public place, Chase Park.
- Stay with Piccolos.
- Hold it all of you, you're not going anywhere.
- Captain we got three hours and Kelly LaRue agreed to meet Sandy and me at Chase Park, nobody else.
- The hell with the Chiefs orders.
- I agree.
- Well go go go.
(dramatic music) (phone ringing) - Yeah? - Yeah put Moloch to work.
I found Kelly LaRue.
She's on her way to meet Hooker at Chase Park.
(somber music) - [Sandy.]
What do you think of Winger? - [Hooker.]
What? - Sandy Winger, yeah.
- What's wrong with Sandy Wyzinski? - Wyzinski.
- God bless you.
- Right now couldn't you just see me in Vegas dealing blackjack with Wyzinski plastered across my chest? I wouldn't get any tips.
- Well.
- Winger, Sandy Winger it has a nice ring to it.
- Yeah like a doorbell.
- Ah no, no it's good, good.
(dramatic music) - You ever been married? - No, not that I wound want to it's just that that old profession kind of scares them off.
- But you're giving it up.
Los Vegas, blackjack remember? - Yeah but I couldn't lie about what I was, I just couldn't.
- Right guy could handle it.
- Could you? (dramatic music) You know what the best part was? I mean before my dad kicked off and my mom had to go back to work.
That.
She'd sit on a bench and she'd watch me and I'd just swing.
I'd swing so high and nothing could hurt me 'cause mama was always there.
- I'm talking Bryant Park, Midtown Manhattan, by the Fifth Avenue Library.
- You been there? - No, no I haven't but Danny Daniels was brought up in Manhattan.
(dramatic music) He used to tell me about those days when we worked stake outs together.
He had some fond memories of Bryant Park.
- Oh man so do I.
(silenced rifle fires) (woman screams) - Help police.
Help police.
- [Hooker.]
Alright alright alright.
- [Witness.]
I think she's been shot.
- Let me through please, let me through, let me through, police.
Call an ambulance quickly, call an ambulance.
- Oh Kelly.
(crying) - Oh God.
- Kelly.
- God, I shouldn't have trusted you.
- No no Kelly, Sandy came here to help you so did I.
Who did this to you? The same people who set up Daniels? - I didn't.
They said pictures not killing.
Pictures.
- Were you giving information to Daniels? - Porno.
Not good though, they found out.
- [Hooker.]
Who, who found out? - Andros and - And who? - Oh no.
You killed her.
You killed her.
- [Hooker.]
What about the payphone at the bar? - [Corrigan.]
Negative Hooker it wasn't a toll call.
No way to trace it.
- Damn.
The Dun & Bradstreet on Piccolos, has it come in yet? - Roger 30, it just came in.
It's owned by a holding company, Rectime Incorporated.
- [Hooker.]
Check the Board of Directors.
Does the name Andros appear anywhere? - Yeah I think you're on to something Hooker.
Andros Margolis listed as Corporate President.
- Now check for property holdings, industrial.
Warehouse property maybe.
- The holding company owns one, warehouse, Commerce Street, 10021.
- [Hooker.]
Got it.
- [Corrigan.]
Hooker, what does it all mean? - [Hooker.]
I hope it means the porno studio that Danny was looking for.
- Nice show Hooker.
Isn't that what it is, a show? - I don't blame you for what your thinking.
But you're wrong.
Think about it.
- It's over, pay me.
- Good, very good.
- You know Kelly was a lot of things but she was also my friend.
She's dead you don't even care.
- We each lost a friend.
Right now I'm trying to make it up to both of them.
- Cops, man you're just like my old man.
You never never quit no matter who you step on do you? - You're job is done.
Take it.
- Like that? All the whore wants is her money? That's what you think huh? - What I think is you're half right about Kelly being set up.
And I know it's foul and it's lousy.
(tires squealing) End of the line, I'm in hurry, go on.
(tires squealing) (engine revving) (loud crashing) - Hey hey hey it's no good.
It's no use give it up.
(guns firing) (gun clicks) - Damn.
(footsteps approaching) (somber music) Yeah.
Danny didn't log his last entry on his meeting with Kelly 'cause his boss sent him.
Told him that Kelly would give him the name of the cop that was burning his porno investigation.
Only that cop was you.
Kelly had to die before I could put it all together.
- Now I have to cover it all up again.
The money is just too good Hooker.
At least you died taking out a real bad character.
Isn't that always how you wanted to go? Isn't it huh? (gun cocks) - Bad mistake mister.
- I wouldn't.
She's got the best reason in the world to blow your head off.
(suspenseful music) You helped me give a friend an honorable burial.
I'll never forget that.
- You're a man of your word Hooker.
- You're okay too Wyzinski.
- You know I like the way you say that, sounds good.
Winger is kind of bland for a card dealer.
- Well that isn't you that's for sure.
- Think I should stick with Wyzinski? - You'd get my tip.
- I hope Sandy finds what she wants I Vegas.
- Yeah Hooker even backed it up with a phone call to a Pit Boss.
Thinks he's gonna give her a shot.
- Loyalty, one of Hooker's better qualities.
So I was wrong.
What do you want, blood? - What do you think Jim? - Ah a quart will do.
- Don't hurt me.
- If you ever need anything, I'm a phone call away.
- Thanks but I probably won't call.
I should have Vegas locked down in a week, two at the most.
Of course I could stay awhile.
- Wouldn't want you to miss that appointment.
You're too confident.
- I'm not confident Hooker.
It's just that I'm a lot like you.
- What? - You're the best at what you do, and so am I.
(romantic music) (upbeat music)
Jump in we'll have us a real good time.
- Is that the best you can offer, a good time? - Well along with this to pay for you to give me a party.
- That's all it takes Sugar.
- Now what did you go and do that for? - So you don't drive off crazy when you find out you been busted.
- Solicitation of a sex act for money.
It's called prostitution.
- Hey I ain't no prostitute.
- Same law applies to the tricks.
- We call it equal opportunity enforcement.
- Let's go pal, come on.
- I mean look at that.
How can we make any money when the streets are full of blonde haired blue eyed entrapment? - You can always move on ladies.
Set up in another city.
- [Call Girl.]
Police harassment that's what this is.
- Continue the economics lesson Junior.
There's something I want to check out.
- What can I say ladies? We're drying it up.
Creating an environment free of lust and moral decay.
Making this a better place to live, to raise our children.
- I don't believe the trash coming from this man's mouth.
- Hey what about it honey? $50 bill pay for the whole night? Stacy? - My God Paul.
- No Stacy I - Get out of here, just get out.
- Hey what gives? Looks like he made you a righteous offer and you gave him a pass.
Hey wait a minute I've seen that car before.
- Can we get back to work? - I want you Danny.
- The name Kelly.
I want the name of the guy who's burning my porno investigation.
(shotgun fires) (Kelly screaming) - Get down.
Danny, Oh my God.
(dramatic music) Jim call an ambulance.
Room 21, police officer down.
(suspenseful music) - [Moloch.]
Get going or I'll blow your head off.
(suspenseful music) (shotgun firing) - [Hooker.]
Stop the bus.
(tires squealing) (dramatic music) - How is he? - Bad.
What'd you turn? - Night watch CP is still set up.
Romano and Stacy are running a grid search on each side of the alley for 20 blocks where he was last seen.
- Anybody turn his wheels? - We've tossed everything that moves since the shooting, nothing.
And the prostitute that recognized him in the hotel room, Kelly LaRue, we put the word out.
- Get back to the motel.
I want the names and addresses of everyone registered there, license numbers for a five square block area.
Danny's silver blue Mazda is in the parking lot.
Have forensics give it the full sweep and then hit the Boulevard joints.
Put the squeeze on every hustler, every fly by night who could even remotely help us find Kelly LaRue.
- Table that, all of it.
It's out of our hands mine, Lt.
Stafford's, yours.
- Daniels worked A watch vise for me.
He was with a prostitute outside of his assignment off duty.
We received an anonymous call.
- It was alleged that Daniels was taking bribes, shaking down some porn operation.
- Come on.
- Internal Affairs is already on it - They searched his house Hooker.
Tool box in the garage turned this.
- There's $10,000 there.
- It's a paint job.
- Maybe but it's up to IAD to find out for sure one way or another.
- What about his wife? - She couldn't explain the money either.
- I can't live without him Hooker.
Oh God please don't let him die.
Helen, do you have any idea what Danny was doing at the motel tonight? - We'd just started to watch the 10 o'clock news.
The telephone rang, a man, he asked for Danny.
I didn't recognize the voice.
When Danny hung up he said he had a meet at Piccolos.
- You have any idea who the man was? - Danny isn't what they're saying Hooker.
- I never doubted that.
We'll clear his name I promise you.
- [Intercom.]
Code blue intensive care.
Code blue intensive care.
(dramatic music) (Helen crying) (flat line toning) (somber music) - Stacy, Paul Majeski just called, seemed anxious to get ahold of you.
You two still dating? - Occasionally.
- What's wrong? - Nothing I can't handle.
Did Hooker turn him around yet? - He's working on it.
- Hey Majeski called twice before Romano took that message.
He's the guy you gave the pass to on the Boulevard last night right? The car I recognized? - I'd rather not talk about it okay.
- We're not ignoring the 18 departmental commendations Sergeant but that doesn't rule out the possibility of dishonesty.
Danny Daniels gave his entire adult life to the force.
He didn't have so much as a hair out of place in 17 years.
- Department has to be sure.
If we're talking about the slightest hint of police corruption here the press will have a field day.
- He was taking any juice.
And he can't defend himself but I damn well can.
And I'm not about to sit around let this take away the one thing he has left, his reputation.
- I appreciate your loyalty to your friend Sergeant but I'm sorry we have to through an Internal Affairs investigation.
I'm sorry, Captain.
- He's right Hooker, I think you know that.
- Everyone will be expecting an honor guard.
Mayor, Chief, attending the funeral, the Commissioner paying the last respects.
Above all else he is a slain cop.
- The burial is Wednesday.
He can't have an Inspectors funeral, not with the allegations.
And IAD won't have completed it's investigation by then.
- Then I want those two days.
Captain if you let Danny's body go in the ground dishonored how are you gonna feel if the next morning evidence surfaces that clears his name? - Just take this to the desk Sergeant he'll take care of it, right over there.
- We got 48 hours.
The entire Vice squad has been put on ice so we're it.
- Well this Kelly LaRue has gone up in smoke, vanished.
- From the size of the crater that shotgun cut in the mattress I've got a good idea what she's running from.
- The best we can turn up on Kelly is an ex-roommate Sandy Wyzinski, she's on the run too.
Seems she couldn't cough up a $5000 fine to keep the 26 prostitution busts from turning into a year of county time.
- Any idea where she's running to? - Baywatch book guys have a high rated rumor she's trying to make the fine on the tables at an illegal gambling spot on Avelon.
- What's your turn on Danny's log book? - Two entries including Kelly LaRue.
Both times he bought her lunch out of secret serVice funds.
Then within a week of each meet he applied for warrants to search Post Office boxes that were supposed to be part of a porno distribution system he was trying to crack.
- What'd the search warrants turn? - Came up dry both times.
- What about the meet last night at Piccolos? Has that been logged? - Well we know he came by the station but it's not in the book.
- So the street sources said that a man meeting Danny's description was at Piccolos about 11 last night and that he left with a woman matching Kelly LaRue's description.
- Lunches, late night rendezvous, the $10,000, maybe there was a romance going that Kelly's pimp objected to.
It could explain why he didn't log Piccolos or the motel room last night.
- It could explain it.
That's not the theory I'm working on.
He was set up.
- What makes you so sure? - I know it in here.
Come on let's go.
Stacy get your Boulevard clothes on.
I got a prostitute to catch.
- What makes you the precincts leading critic all of a sudden? - I gave up blind faith a long time ago.
When I got burned in the same kind of situation Hooker's getting into.
(dramatic music) - I'll put 100.
- 100, 100 to you.
Let's see.
Full House gentlemen and ladies.
- What's happening fellas? - Straight flush.
You're cheating.
- I know, it's the only way I can win around here.
- Now wait a minute fellas, hold it, that's a plant.
(all shouting at once) (fast paced music) - Miss Wyzinski? Police officer.
I have a proposition for you.
Safe and sound.
- I'm not amused.
- I could book it in at the station, $5000 illegal gambling money.
- That's my money, I won it.
- Then you want me help me find Kelly LaRue? Or do you want me to follow procedure and book the money? Turn you over to sentencing court.
- That's blackmail.
You're supposed to be a cop.
Okay if I help you, can I get the key? - It's the only way you're gonna get it.
- You're a real sleazeball you know that? - 26 arrests for prostitution you call me a sleazeball? - Well yeah well half those were humbugs.
- You're a retrograde and fantasy and paranoia have become a way of life that's your problem.
- Retrograde? - Retrograde, want me to spell it for you? - Listen sleazeball I don't have-- - R-E-T-R-O-G, something like that.
(dramatic music) (phone ringing) - Yeah? - [Mystery Man.]
Daniels is dead.
- What about the girl? He missed her you know that don't you, he missed her.
- [Mystery Man.]
Make sure he doesn't miss her next time.
I want Kelly LaRue dead too, you hear me? - Yes.
(dramatic music) - You still want me to kill the prosty? (dramatic music) - Yeah I got all your messages, including the one through dispatch.
I want you to stop calling Paul.
I mean what I said, it's over between us.
- Now as I was telling your friend Hooker here, Kelly LaRue has not been my roommate for over a month.
Which it why you should just give me back the key and let me get on with my life.
- The life you mean.
- Yeah well I told you guys and I'm telling you now, that's all behind me.
As a matter of fact when I get out from under this beef it's Vegas time.
I'm gonna be a dealer.
- You say that Kelly LaRue graduated to porno films.
Some people think she was tricking in a motel on the Boulevard last night.
- Kelly LaRue never used the Boulevard motel.
Like I said she was out of the life.
- [Hooker.]
How long ago was it she made her screen debut in porno films? - A couple months.
- And where did she make her first connection in showbiz? - A dive on the Boulevard, Piccolos.
Some slug named Moloch recruited her after he kicked the hell out of her pimp and sent him running.
- I think you and Corrigan should work out a way to get Stacy a casting session.
- While you track down Kelly LaRue? - Yeah.
Me and my new partner here.
- Hey.
- Hey.
- Yeah I used to live out here when we first moved out to New York, looks just the same.
Only different not, you know what I mean.
There used to be this beauty parlor and it was over on 63rd.
When I was 12 years old I used to peek in the windows.
I thought it was just so glamorous, all those little old ladies with purple hair you know? They were getting pampered and fussed over.
I even enrolled in Beauty College at one time if you can believe that one.
But I had to use my tuition to bail out a friend.
You know you're some conversationalist but I gotta tell you that.
- I want Kelly LaRue not conversation.
(dramatic music) - Stop stop.
Yeah last time I remember Kelly's manager Willy Valdez stayed on the second floor, room 204.
That's the third door on the right.
- This Valdez, was he your manager as well? - I didn't need a pimp Hooker.
You know like the veteran ball players I was a free agent.
- Experience countless times at bat, make sense.
- Let's be careful you know the people that live here they're not the most upstanding citizens.
- Yeah where do you live? - Will you lay off? It's your party remember I am the extortee waiting to start a Vegas career.
- Extortee you stay here.
- I can take care of myself thank you.
What are you looking at? - Willy Valdez.
(furniture breaking) Hold it.
(door slamming) Come here, come here.
- Well looks I can take care of you too Hooker.
- Hey what you guys want from me? - Oh he's a cop Willy.
If I were you I definitely wouldn't trust him.
- Oh man oh man.
I thought it was Moloch coming back.
- I swear to you guy I didn't mean to jive no cop with no guns in my hand I swear.
- You got sticky fingers you know that? - True but I also have great legs and a winning personality.
- That's true too.
You say Moloch was here? Looking for Kelly LaRue? - That dude is gonna kill her.
Look what he did to me.
I don't want that guy in my face no more.
- Where did you tell him he could find her? - Hey man I don't want his kind of trouble okay.
- Don't need my kind of trouble.
Now listen to me Buster Britches.
You waste two more seconds of my valuable time and I'm gonna squeeze you into a paper sack small enough to flush down a standard sized toilet.
- Okay okay okay.
I might have mentioned to Moloch that Kelly has a cousin that used to work at a bar on the Boulevard.
The name of the club is The Waldorf.
Her name is Victoria.
I swear to you I don't know what she's doing now.
- Thank you very much.
- You're very welcome.
- He's polite too.
You know despite the fact that I do not trust you.
I have been doing my best to make the team effort here and you're not making it any piece of cake.
- I'm getting my $5000 worth.
- So ease up what's the big push? - The big push is a murdered cop who's not getting a fare shake.
And I'm trying to make it straight okay? - Okay I understand.
- 3816 give me a meet location Hooker.
We got a run down on Moloch.
- Corrigan there's a bar at the south end of the Boulevard called Club Waldorf.
- That's a roger.
- Okay I was giving that cop Daniels information.
I already admitted that to you.
And I promised that I'd make it up to you.
You said you just wanted to take pictures of him and me so you could roll him over, not kill him.
That dude killed him, and he tried to kill me.
- Hey hey that's not so Kelly.
Nobody's trying to kill you.
The whole thing has been a big misunderstanding.
- Oh yeah? Is it a misunderstanding that Moloch is turning the streets inside out looking for me? - He's just trying to find you so we can talk that's all.
- Yeah well maybe I should talk to the cops.
What about that? - Not good Kelly, besides who would you talk to? (dramatic music) - Victoria, I was told you might know a friend of mine, Kelly LaRue.
(dramatic music) (switchblade clicks) (upbeat music) - Moloch is his street name.
Moniker file shows his real name is Jamie Simpson.
Romano's getting an APB out on him.
- That's the man who killed Daniels alright.
- Whoa talk about ugly.
- Hey your roommates best friend.
He got her into pictures remember? - What's with all this hostility? I am doing my best to earn that locker key you know.
Don't worry it's sill there.
- Well I've got a date to try Piccolos again for the porn connection.
- You know even if we do find the porno factory it won't explain why Daniels is dead.
Unless he was shaking them down.
- Daniels was an honest cop that's the bottom line.
You want to get off that train that's up you.
- Alright, I just hope you don't get hurt if your train derails.
- You stay in the car.
- You'll get nothing in there.
You see it's a place where trollops go when they're off duty.
They don't like men off duty.
- I'll do my best stay in the car.
- It won't be good enough Hooker.
- Will you stay in the car? - Nah you need me.
- Do what I say.
- They're gonna eat you alive for breakfast.
- For what it's worth I want to believe the jury's still out on Hooker's friend.
- What it's worth I agree, but a lot of my feelings come from experience you don't have yet.
Daniels was in Vice.
The temptations are there every day.
And it gets easier and easier to take a take.
He was in Vice five years Stace, about three too many.
- I hope I'm not a cynic when I got all your experience.
- Yeah and I hope the piranha don't chew you up because you didn't see them coming.
(upbeat jazz music) - [Hooker.]
Police officer.
- So what? - Hey.
Looking for a girl named Victoria, Kelly LaRue's cousin.
(upbeat jazz music) (glass breaking) - Hey what's the matter, you didn't hear the man? Check it out guys.
Back off police business Fireball.
See the badge? See the badge? See it? My partner asked you a question.
Now we'd like an answer before I roll you into a tiny little ball and I bounce you to the other end of the bar.
(upbeat jazz music) - Victoria owns the Beef Boutique on Madison, across from City Park.
- You answer the same question for this man? - You're being rude again.
- About a half hour ago.
- Thanks a lot doll.
You're all lucky we do not book you on a 647A, that's enraging public decency.
Now behave.
Let's go kid.
- For the mirror, and the necklace.
Hey kid, Wyzinski.
You did okay.
- I'm a quick study.
- A 647A1.
- Oh whatever.
- I know I was laying in on you for making a quick judgment on Daniels.
But my decision about Paul wasn't as quick as you think.
As far as I'm concerned the evidence is in on it.
- And none of it your fault? - That crossed my mind, for exactly one second.
I mean what he I'd so completely turned me off that even if it was my fault I wouldn't be interested in correcting the problem.
Besides he wasn't the love of my life you know.
- Good then I'll volunteer to help you keep looking.
- Thanks but I haven't needed help since I got my braces off in the ninth grade.
Shall we get to work? I want to nail that porn movie connection at Piccolos.
- A little early for it to be closed.
(dramatic music) (suspenseful music) - [Susan.]
Oh no.
(Susan hyperventilating) (dramatic music) - [Bystander.]
Hey, where you going? (dramatic music) - Which way? - Up above.
(dramatic music) (glass breaking) (dramatic music) - [Painter.]
Hey what do you think you're doing? - Hold it.
(gun fires) (bomb exploding) (dramatic music) - [Painter.]
Get that back there.
(dramatic music) (somber music) - This Sandy Wyzinski where is she? - I don't know she wasn't here when I got back.
And after seeing that she's probably running scared.
I don't blame her after what I put her through.
- You're supposed to stay out of the Daniels investigation Hooker.
- I got a reprieve, and I was making headway.
- Don't you understand how all this is gonna look? That girl you been running around with is a bale jumping prostitute.
- She's my source of information.
And she's the only way I have of finding Kelly LaRue.
- Look Hooker I understand you wanting to clear a friends name, I'd like to do that myself.
The man worked for me but we have to let IAD do their job.
That's not from me.
That's from downtown.
- IAD isn't doing their job.
Where were they when that woman was fileted and hung on a meet hook? Where are they in finding Kelly LaRue? - It takes time.
They do things their way.
Now downtown has ordered both Captain Sheridan and me to make sure back off.
Now you let IAD handle it, all of it.
- 17 hours, that's all I got left is 17 hours.
And Danny is laid in the ground dishonored.
I'm not gonna let that happen.
- Hooker you've got nothing anyway.
The girl is gone.
You let IAD run with Moloch in I'm telling you, that's an order, it's an order.
- Yeah well I got my problems too you know.
I mean how the hell am I supposed to know where she is? (line clicks dead) Look I want Kelly LaRue.
I want her dead or it's over for us.
Do you understand me huh? The business, the money, everything, it's over.
- Just tell me where to look.
Like that cop I'm running out of leads Andrew.
- You just find her.
- I came that close to locating the porn factory last night.
- Did you get burned or do you have a return invitation? - I can go back but not 'til next week.
- But the place connects I'm sure of it.
- The bartender made a call from the payphone to try and get me a casting session.
If it's a toll call we might be able to run down the location.
- Good.
Get a Dun & Bradstreet, and a state corporation break down on Piccolos ownership while your at it.
- Hi.
- Hi.
Thought you wouldn't stop running 'til you hit Mexico.
- Well I was up all night making some hard decisions about whether it's safe or not hanging out with you.
- Oh yeah, the locker key have anything to do with your decision? - No smart guy, Kelly.
She called she said she can't trust anyone, especially the cops.
- She can trust me.
- Well for some crazy reason that's what I told her.
She said for me to bring you to a meet at a very public place, Chase Park.
- Stay with Piccolos.
- Hold it all of you, you're not going anywhere.
- Captain we got three hours and Kelly LaRue agreed to meet Sandy and me at Chase Park, nobody else.
- The hell with the Chiefs orders.
- I agree.
- Well go go go.
(dramatic music) (phone ringing) - Yeah? - Yeah put Moloch to work.
I found Kelly LaRue.
She's on her way to meet Hooker at Chase Park.
(somber music) - [Sandy.]
What do you think of Winger? - [Hooker.]
What? - Sandy Winger, yeah.
- What's wrong with Sandy Wyzinski? - Wyzinski.
- God bless you.
- Right now couldn't you just see me in Vegas dealing blackjack with Wyzinski plastered across my chest? I wouldn't get any tips.
- Well.
- Winger, Sandy Winger it has a nice ring to it.
- Yeah like a doorbell.
- Ah no, no it's good, good.
(dramatic music) - You ever been married? - No, not that I wound want to it's just that that old profession kind of scares them off.
- But you're giving it up.
Los Vegas, blackjack remember? - Yeah but I couldn't lie about what I was, I just couldn't.
- Right guy could handle it.
- Could you? (dramatic music) You know what the best part was? I mean before my dad kicked off and my mom had to go back to work.
That.
She'd sit on a bench and she'd watch me and I'd just swing.
I'd swing so high and nothing could hurt me 'cause mama was always there.
- I'm talking Bryant Park, Midtown Manhattan, by the Fifth Avenue Library.
- You been there? - No, no I haven't but Danny Daniels was brought up in Manhattan.
(dramatic music) He used to tell me about those days when we worked stake outs together.
He had some fond memories of Bryant Park.
- Oh man so do I.
(silenced rifle fires) (woman screams) - Help police.
Help police.
- [Hooker.]
Alright alright alright.
- [Witness.]
I think she's been shot.
- Let me through please, let me through, let me through, police.
Call an ambulance quickly, call an ambulance.
- Oh Kelly.
(crying) - Oh God.
- Kelly.
- God, I shouldn't have trusted you.
- No no Kelly, Sandy came here to help you so did I.
Who did this to you? The same people who set up Daniels? - I didn't.
They said pictures not killing.
Pictures.
- Were you giving information to Daniels? - Porno.
Not good though, they found out.
- [Hooker.]
Who, who found out? - Andros and - And who? - Oh no.
You killed her.
You killed her.
- [Hooker.]
What about the payphone at the bar? - [Corrigan.]
Negative Hooker it wasn't a toll call.
No way to trace it.
- Damn.
The Dun & Bradstreet on Piccolos, has it come in yet? - Roger 30, it just came in.
It's owned by a holding company, Rectime Incorporated.
- [Hooker.]
Check the Board of Directors.
Does the name Andros appear anywhere? - Yeah I think you're on to something Hooker.
Andros Margolis listed as Corporate President.
- Now check for property holdings, industrial.
Warehouse property maybe.
- The holding company owns one, warehouse, Commerce Street, 10021.
- [Hooker.]
Got it.
- [Corrigan.]
Hooker, what does it all mean? - [Hooker.]
I hope it means the porno studio that Danny was looking for.
- Nice show Hooker.
Isn't that what it is, a show? - I don't blame you for what your thinking.
But you're wrong.
Think about it.
- It's over, pay me.
- Good, very good.
- You know Kelly was a lot of things but she was also my friend.
She's dead you don't even care.
- We each lost a friend.
Right now I'm trying to make it up to both of them.
- Cops, man you're just like my old man.
You never never quit no matter who you step on do you? - You're job is done.
Take it.
- Like that? All the whore wants is her money? That's what you think huh? - What I think is you're half right about Kelly being set up.
And I know it's foul and it's lousy.
(tires squealing) End of the line, I'm in hurry, go on.
(tires squealing) (engine revving) (loud crashing) - Hey hey hey it's no good.
It's no use give it up.
(guns firing) (gun clicks) - Damn.
(footsteps approaching) (somber music) Yeah.
Danny didn't log his last entry on his meeting with Kelly 'cause his boss sent him.
Told him that Kelly would give him the name of the cop that was burning his porno investigation.
Only that cop was you.
Kelly had to die before I could put it all together.
- Now I have to cover it all up again.
The money is just too good Hooker.
At least you died taking out a real bad character.
Isn't that always how you wanted to go? Isn't it huh? (gun cocks) - Bad mistake mister.
- I wouldn't.
She's got the best reason in the world to blow your head off.
(suspenseful music) You helped me give a friend an honorable burial.
I'll never forget that.
- You're a man of your word Hooker.
- You're okay too Wyzinski.
- You know I like the way you say that, sounds good.
Winger is kind of bland for a card dealer.
- Well that isn't you that's for sure.
- Think I should stick with Wyzinski? - You'd get my tip.
- I hope Sandy finds what she wants I Vegas.
- Yeah Hooker even backed it up with a phone call to a Pit Boss.
Thinks he's gonna give her a shot.
- Loyalty, one of Hooker's better qualities.
So I was wrong.
What do you want, blood? - What do you think Jim? - Ah a quart will do.
- Don't hurt me.
- If you ever need anything, I'm a phone call away.
- Thanks but I probably won't call.
I should have Vegas locked down in a week, two at the most.
Of course I could stay awhile.
- Wouldn't want you to miss that appointment.
You're too confident.
- I'm not confident Hooker.
It's just that I'm a lot like you.
- What? - You're the best at what you do, and so am I.
(romantic music) (upbeat music)