T.J. Hooker (1982) s04e18 Episode Script

(energetic action music) (soft upbeat music) - Letter from Oregon? - Yeah.
For Fran.
Reminded me that the alimony's due and that today is Chrissie's birthday.
- Tell her the check's in the mail.
- Well, it is.
I almost forgot.
I mean, the alimony.
Couldn't forget Chrissie's birthday.
I picked out something special for her.
Charm bracelet from Dahavid's down town.
I'm having them sent special delivery from the store.
- Great.
Fran know its coming? - Yeah.
- What will happen if it's late? Chrissy will get disappointed huh? - Well I'll call and I'll make sure.
Wish her happy birthday.
As soon as I get a break.
- You wish you were there with here, huh? - What do you think? - Can you believe that? Blew right the light and I aint even had my coffee yet.
- Well do you want to get some coffee first or do you want to go get them? - Ah what the heck? What's let our duty.
Then the coffees on you.
- Thanks a lot.
on a traffic violation.
Texas license plates, 641G2V.
(sirens wail) (tense dramatic music) - Here we go.
(gunfire) - Four Adam 16, shots fired.
Officer down.
(tense electronic music) - Hold it! - [Dispatch.]
All units in the vicinity and four Adam 30, officer needs help.
Shots fired.
Officer down, Meridian and sixth.
- Bring her, Tom.
We might need them at the border.
(groaning.
- Get going.
Get them in the car.
(sirens wail) - Come on, come on.
(soft tense music) - The church.
- Okay! - Come on.
- Back off! Get the hell away from us.
We'll finish them both off.
- Come on.
(tense electronic music) - Come on.
Get her inside.
- [Goon.]
Hold that door! - We ask this through our lord Jesus Christ, your son, you lives and reigns with you in the unity of the holy spirit, one god forever and ever, amen.
(footsteps) - Stand still, father.
You're not going anywhere.
- What is this? What are you doing here? - Alright, everybody get down on your knees.
- Cover the side entrance.
Four Adam 30, requesting additionally units.
A paramedic ambulance and a SWAT call up at St.
Paul's church corner of Meridian and Pacific.
- [Dispatch.]
Roger Four Adam 30.
(groaning) - Stacy, watch those people.
It's not very far.
Oh my god, it hurts.
Then I can't feel anything at all.
- Take it easy, Jim.
(sirens wail) - Cover the rear and let me know when you're in position.
We have a hostage situation here.
Nobody in, nobody out till you hear from me.
(sirens wail) - Hey you out there! This is Rita Holmes.
- This is Sergeant Hooker.
- We want out.
Pull all those cop cars back and we'll take off.
You got three minutes or we shoot both your friends.
- I can't do that.
I want to talk to you but I can't just let you walk away.
If you want to surrender, I promise you, we'll hold our fire.
- No we don't want to surrender.
We're not here to surrender.
(gunfire) (siren wails) - Take over Romano's position.
(tense dramatic music) Cordon off the boulevard.
- Who is she? - I'm trying to think.
Rita Holmes.
I got it.
She's the women in the papers who just got convicted a couple weeks ago of murdering her husband.
- [Dispatch.]
All units and all frequencies, we are clearing tact two for an emergency broadcast from the Chief of detectives.
- [Garcia.]
This is Chief of detectives Fred Garcia at the superior court, department 45.
Two men have freed Rita Holmes and fled.
They have killed three people this morning.
Superior Court Judge Matthew Clemens, Sheriff's Deputy Sanchez, and Jackson.
- Four Adam 30, this is Sergeant Hooker.
We now have the man listed in Chief Garcia's emergency broadcast and Rita Holmes contained in Saint Paul's church.
- [Dispatch.]
Roger, four Adam 30.
- Romano, go to the car wash, get the phone number of the church.
I want to speak to those people on the phone.
- They've killed three people already and Jim didn't look like he was gonna make it.
- Right.
I'll cover you.
(tense dramatic music) - Alright, suit up.
- Roy.
- Morning, Hooker.
Like we got ourselves one this time.
- I'll fill you in as we go.
- we got to get those kids out of here fast.
(siren wails) - I've got a badly wounded officer inside with his partner.
- Police woman? - Yeah, if I can talk to them into I'm gonna try to get Jim Corrigan, the wounded officer, out of there but if I can't, would you be willing to go in and do what you can for them inside? - Hell yes, we'll go in for you.
- Go.
Roy, I want a evaluation of this situation as quickly as possible.
What will cost to go in and get Sheridan and Corrigan out of there? - I'll get started on it.
- Evacuate the school immediately.
You children move out, quickly please.
Get away from the school.
Children leave as quickly and as quietly as possible.
Move out, please.
- How's he doing? - I'll be alright.
I'll get out of this alright, don't worry about it.
- Yeah sure you will.
They better move out there.
- Suppose they let you go, then what? - You heard what my boyfriend said.
We're going to Mexico.
- You mean you'd hide out there? For how long, to what purpose? - Don't push it father.
Mind your own business.
So you've been a cop very long? - 20 years.
- I'm Deputy District Attorney Paul Clay.
You gentlemen are? - I'm Sergeant TJ Hooker, this is Lieutenant Roy Harrison, SWAT squad.
What can we do to help you? - We want that woman back, that's the bottom line.
She's a cold blooded murderer so we want her hot body in the gas chamber.
Now who's running the show? - I'm in charge of SWAT.
Sergeant Hookers a trained hostage situation negotiator and those people inside are his people.
Excuse me.
- Aren't those children in danger? - We're handling it.
- You know what you got in there Sergeant? Father Terry Connors.
He's an activist, came right out of the seminary, tried to get the war in Vietnam stopped.
This is his parish.
- I'll talk to him as soon as we can get communication.
I have to know what the situation is in there.
- Forgive me interrupting, Sergeant but don't count on Terry Connors.
He's anti war, anti capital punishment, anti establishment.
My advice is to shoot your way in there right now.
- Thanks for your advice.
- Wish I could talk to her.
I wish I could get through.
- Let me tell you a little bit about her, father.
It came out at her trial that she and Randall are both ex convicts.
They worked on a rich man for three years.
She married him, then he was murdered.
- I remember a little of it now, from TV.
- On TV they sounded like Bonnie and Clyde, till death do them part.
- People start off playing roles then they have to play them out.
- Hooker! We've tied it to the church phone, just dial.
- Good.
I want a run down on Rita Holmes.
Children, family, anything or anybody that might be important to her.
(phone rings) - Somebody gonna answer that? (phone rings) - Yeah who's this? - This is Sergeant Hooker.
I want to talk to whoever's in charge.
- You got lucky, this is Tom Randall.
- Naturally I'm concerned about the officers you have in there.
- You have a right to be concerned.
One of them isn't gonna be around much longer.
- I'm asking you to let me bring em out or let me send somebody in to treat them, if you feel safer that way.
- Hey if your buddy dies, he dies.
Maybe the fact that he's draining like a sink will make you move faster.
- You've had time to figure out what you want.
It's time to talk about that.
- What are you telling him? - I'm gonna give him the demands.
- Let me talk to him.
Hey Hooker, you remember Joe Bram? Well let me refresh your memory.
Armed robbery.
You and your partner busted me when you was plain clothes, now you remember? - Yeah I remember you, Bram.
- Yeah, well I did a lot of time in Quentin cause of you cop and this morning we ripped your buddy's guts open.
Now aint that poetic justice? - Your friend was talking about demands.
- Yeah! We want some booze in here.
We want some scotch and some bourbon and some cartons of cigarettes.
Now that's my demand.
- I can't get you the alcohol but I will send in the carton of cigarettes.
The way it works, I don't give you something, unless I get something.
- Now you just a-- - Come on.
Hooker, I'm gonna send a priest out the side door with the demands.
I don't want to see any SWAT troopers climbing around anywhere or we'll be throwing bodies out in the parking lot.
You understand? - Yes I understand and I agree but what do I get in exchange for the cigarettes? - A nice religious lady.
How's about that? (tense instrumental music) - I've got the cigarettes.
- Alright Mary, it's gonna be alright.
- Thank you father, but what about you? - I'll be okay.
- Mary, Tim Harrison wants to talk to you.
You tell him where everybody is in the church and anything else you think might help us.
- I will and bless you.
- Anybody else with you in the church when they came in? - Bill Keegan, he's one of the altar boys.
These are the demands.
- $100,000.
00 in cash, banks are open, that's a possible.
Limousine and an escort to the Mexican border, that's also a possible.
- I gathered front eh conversation that Randall hid out in Mexico during her trial.
Apparently he feels safe there.
- What's their move? Are all three of them in this together or is there a chance we can split them up, play them off against each other? - Look, they're desperate, driven people.
Now apparently they've killed and you may have to kill them but it would bother me to spy on them for you.
- Doesn't it bother you that there's a cop bleeding to death in there and a policewoman helpless with three killers staring down her throat? - Yes.
It all bothers me.
Rita Holmes says she's been sentenced to the gas chamber.
Now in this state, in its wisdom, decides that it's wiser than god and can vengefully kill, then it always bothers me.
- Father, my job is to get the hostages out.
If you want, you can come with me now.
You're out.
- Wouldn't that make it worse for your people? - The hostages are the first priority, Officer Sheridan and Corrigan know, it's part of putting on the badge.
- [Father.]
What about my altar boy? - How's he doing? - He's scared.
But he's alright.
- I have a plan to get him out but it's you, I can walk you to safety right now.
- I can't.
- [Thug.]
Hurry up father, come on, come on.
(tense 80s music) (tense drum music) - Get it here as fast as you can but keep it out of sight and I appreciate your cooperation.
- I talked to the general manager of Security National, if it will help, they got 100,000,00 at the Pacific avenue branch in 10 minutes.
- Good, I made arrangements to bring in a limo.
- Alright, still against giving in to those animals.
- I just got word on Rita Holmes background, no family expect for a Her names Marcie.
- And where's the daughter? - Ward of the court, probably in a foster home.
- Good.
I want you to go with Mr.
Clay to Security National to pick up $100,000.
00 in cash.
Make sure the bills are recorded and get back here as fast as you can.
- Ready when you are, Mr.
Clay.
- We can use my car.
- [Dispatch.]
Detective Headquarters Division, Officer Johnson speaking.
- Yes, Johnson, this is Sergeant Hooker, I'm at the command post by the church.
- [Dispatch.]
Yes sir.
- I'd like you to locate a ward of the juvenile court.
Marcie Holmes, aged 12 and get the courts authorization to bring her to our CP.
She's vital to a hostage negotiation situation.
- [Dispatch.]
Rodger Sargent Hooker, we're on it.
(tense music) - Keep him away from her.
- That's not my problem.
Car and the money, that's the problem.
(energetic tense 80s music) - Just climb up there on that billboard and keep your eye on the people inside that church.
- Would you mind? - What the hells taking them so long? You keep an eye on these two.
(tense 80s electronic music) (gunshot) (soft 80s music) - He's still alive.
Wes! Wes.
Easy, we've got help here buddy.
- Get it in here.
- Easy.
We got help.
Easy, take it easy.
He's all yours.
- I promised Randall we wouldn't put an officer on the high ground.
I told you that too.
- You asked me for an evaluation, Hooker.
I can't do that with my men crouched behind a SWAT truck.
- What will I tell Randall when I get him back on the line? - Tell him you gave your word and I broke it for you.
I don't give a damn what you tell him.
(sirens wail) - He'll make it, Roy.
Did you get anything out of the lady we got out? - Yeah she told me exactly where everybody is.
Now based on what my scout teams have been able to come up with, we can make a tear gas assault and entry and neutralize the suspects in under two minutes.
- What about Corrigan and Sheridan? - Problematic.
- Besides the priest, there's an altar boy.
I don't want him hurt.
- [Cop.]
Hooker! - You lied to me, Hooker.
You must of ripped those two off already.
- No either statement is true.
There was a mix up out here.
I'm working on your demands.
I'm getting everything you asked for.
- I'm tired of fooling around with you Hooker.
Look, it's 10:30.
You got 25 minutes to put this all together.
At 11 o'clock, we go to Mexico or we start killing the hostages off one by one.
- Look, I know where you're coming from, I can only make things happen so fast.
We'll get the car, we'll get the money but you have to go along with me.
- You've got it all wrong, Hooker.
I don't have to go along with anything.
(tense dramatic music) - Take it easy, father.
You keep on cooperating, nothings gonna happen beneath the stations of the cross.
- How much do you know about the stations of the cross? - My mother was some kind of a Catholic.
I've been in church.
- While you were in custody, did you ever talk to the chaplains? - What good would it have done? - They might of suggested a way of life that doesn't depend on violence.
You could of won another kind of freedom.
- You want me to go quietly to the gas chambers saying the rosary with some priest? Don't kid yourself father, I want to live.
- Get out there father, come on.
They got the money.
- I sure hope we can keep you alive till we get to Mexico.
You ever been to Culiacan, Sinaloa? - No.
- Oh they sure like blondes and blue eyes down there.
(laughs) - I know the time is running out but you can tell them that I'm acting in good faith.
- I can't tell them that unless I believe it myself.
- What do you want from me father? I just had a policeman taken out of here with his chest ripped open.
- Yeah I thought you might decide to come in after that.
- Decisions not all together up to me.
I've got a SWAT squad Lieutenant who will take this people in a minute.
He can do that.
- What about the hostages? - We got a guy from the DAs office who isn't putting the hostages in first priority.
- My alter boy.
- I haven't forgotten about him, believe me.
Let's try and keep him calm.
(soft tense music) - You know that guy from the DA's office is looking for a bloodbath.
- He's liable to get it.
Marcie, I'm Sargent Hooker, glad you're here.
We need your help.
Your mothers in that church.
She's in big trouble, do you know that? There are other people in the church too, hostages.
Your willingness to help may save your mothers life and the others too.
Are you willing to try? - She's no mother to me.
She never cared about me and I don't care if she lives or dies.
(dramatic music) (tense drum music) (coughing) - What's happening? - Looks like Hookers' gonna let them go.
- Oh go, let them go.
I can't.
Listen.
If anything happens, get ahold of my ex wife.
Her phone number is in my desk at the precinct.
- You're not gonna die on me.
- I don't call her that much anymore because there's not much to talk about.
If you could do anything, anything she needs, I'd appreciate it.
(groaning) - He's hemorrhaging.
He's hemorrhaging! We've got to do something or he's gonna die.
- Mr.
Randall.
- Oh he'll be alright father but the next time you take a walk, I'd tell them they ought to move a little faster.
(phone rings) Yeah? I'll let you talk to her.
- Yeah? - I've got your daughter Marcy here.
- What's he talking about? - What right have you got to bring her here? - I just talked to her and she's decided that she wants to talk to you.
- Well I don't want to talk to her.
- What's he saying? (shushes) - Well look, if you want me to, I can put her in a police car and get her out of here.
- Wait a minute.
- What's going on? - My daughter.
No.
Have you got kids? - Yeah I have kids and I'm thinking about them right now and about your daughter and about the altar boy.
Look you tell me, maybe we should forget about your daughter.
- No, no I want to see her.
- Make sure it's her.
Make sure it's not a trick.
- Let me talk to her now.
- Yeah it's me, mom.
Do you remember my voice? - Sure I do honey.
- Hooker.
Alright Hooker, they can talk.
You bring her to the church right now but we hold to our schedule.
- Expect you forgot that I don't give anything unless I get something - Don't pull that on me.
Look, your hot shot officer Corrigan is bleeding right through his bandages now.
- I'll bring Marcy to the side door with the paramedics.
You have Father Connors bring Corrigan out.
- You know the policy.
Hooker, that girl isn't placed in jeopardy.
- That goes without saying but nothings written in stone.
I want to give Rita as much reason to live as I can.
Her little girl may be able to do that for us.
- Stacey.
- Don't worry about Stacey.
I'll get her out.
Go on.
- I'll bring her daughter back in a couple minutes.
Randall is determined to go at 11.
- Wrong father.
Rita Holmes comes out here.
- That's not what said.
- Forget what I said.
I'm not handing them another potential hostage.
Officer Sheridan's in there unarmed.
If this comes to a showdown, there are three heavily armed people in there who could kill her.
- What are you talking about? - I could give you this two inch 38.
You could slip it to Officer Sheridan and she'd have a chance for life.
- You mean by taking someone else's? I'll send Rita Holmes out.
(soft instrumental music) - You've grown a lot.
You look beautiful.
- Why didn't you want to see me? - It wasn't just me, honey.
I guess everybody figured it be better if I didn't.
Then for awhile I didn't know where you were.
- Did you look for me? - Sure I I was in Florida, in jail for awhile and then when I got married, I didn't tell my husband who you were.
I'm sorry.
- Why can't you give up? Sergeant said if you give up, they won't have to shoot you.
- That's the first thing she asked me.
- Tom says we're losing time, Rita.
Finish it up.
(tense drum music) - Don't you see how hopeless it is? You think it's gonna be any different in Mexico? You think its gonna help anything to kill more people, get yourself killed? - Listen to him, mom.
- I can't, I got to go back inside.
- I always loved you.
- I always loved you.
(somber instrumental music) - I can't let you stay here, I explained that to you.
- I understand.
You tried.
- Sure.
- What about the deadline? You told them 11 o'clock.
- Yeah and it's 11 o'clock.
So we leave now, we leave in 10 minutes.
What difference does it make? - Well maybe you're right.
What's another 10 minutes? What do you think sugar? - I dot think you people are going anywhere.
- No that's not what I want to hear.
(laughs) No, as long as we got a little bit of time, I think you and I are gonna do something I've been planning on doing all along.
Come on, Officer Sheridan.
Let's check out the back office.
Come on.
- Leave her alone! Don't you know where you are? (grunts) - Come on, father, get up.
Come on! You think I won't kill a priest? - Bram.
- Come on! You think that collar turned around makes you bulletproof? Come on.
(shouts) - Stay away from her.
Stay away from her or you will have to kill me.
- Tom Randall, I know have the limo you asked for.
Randall! - We got the limo.
We're gonna make it.
We're gonna make it.
- Tom Randall.
- Bring it up by the front door.
Pull everybody back and I'll send the priest out when you get there.
You drive it by yourself unarmed.
- Alright I understand.
But I don't give something for nothing.
You know that.
- What are you talking about? - I want the altar boy.
You get the limo but you send him out with Father Connors.
- Alright.
You got the boy but move.
(tense rock music) - Okay we're gonna finish this up right here and now.
- That's good to hear.
I was beginning to worry about you, Hooker.
- We'll take them out on the boulevard.
- What about Stacey? - We'll get Stacey, for the moment-- - Hooker! - For the moment, trust me.
Go with Lieutenant Harrison.
I need you junior.
Not angry, not emotional, not concerned.
In control.
(tense dramatic music) - Sergeant Hooker, a trained hostage situation negotiator, is apparently about to drive the kidnap murder trio to the Mexican border and we have late word that Officer James Corrigan, wounded earlier and released by the fugative, is in emergency surgery.
Alicia Martin live at St.
Paul's.
(tense dramatic music) - Alright take off, kid.
Alright Hooker, come on get out of the car.
Alright, come around.
Come on, come on.
Anything goes wrong and you can bury the policewoman and the priest in the same grave.
- What happened? - Bram was gonna rape Officer Sheridan.
I was able to stop him for the moment only.
- What are they doing here? - I told you to pull everybody back.
- Thats your escort to the border, exactly what you asked for.
- Yeah.
Just fine.
Bram! Keep an eye on these two.
- I'm looking right at you, Hooker.
- This car gonna work for ya? - Yeah everything will be just fine.
- Come in here, Father Connors.
- What now, Rita? - [Rita.]
I want to talk to him.
- [Randall.]
Not now.
- Yes, now.
- What about it, Randall? - Alright, go on get back in there, move.
(tense music) - Come on.
- This is gonna take a couple seconds.
Don't want you to get any ideas, you understand? - You're calling the shots now, Randall.
It's all up to you from here on in.
- Seems to be going well so far.
- Hooker knows what he's doing.
(tense dramatic music) - Father.
- Father Connors.
- Yes, Stacey? - I have to tell you the truth.
It might get bad out there.
- I know that.
I'm praying for us all.
- Father Connors.
(tense dramatic music) I'm gonna send money from Mexico for my little girl, Marcy.
See that she gets it? - Alright.
- Something else.
I need to talk to you.
- Do you want to make a confession? - Call it whatever you want, will you hear it? - I'd be glad to hear it.
But I can only give absolution when you indicate an honest desire to change.
- But what I tell you here, you don't tell anybody else.
I mean even if I die you keep silent? - What you say here is between you and god.
I'm just an intermediary.
- In court I swore I didn't kill my husband.
That's not true.
Three years we planned.
One night, Tom came to the house and we killed him together.
(tense dramatic music) - But you wound up alone and you loved no one and no one loved you.
- But didn't I love my little girl? Don't I love Marcy now? - See love leads to actions actions that benefit and sustain the people we love.
- You're condemning me? - No I'm looking for you soul, Rita.
Separate yourself from these people, try in what time is left to do penance and change.
I could help you do that.
- I know you want to but it is too late.
- Do you know of any reason for the delay, sir? - Yeah, I think they lost their nerve.
- We're ready, Tom! - Alright Hooker, get in the car, you're driving.
I'll be right up front with you.
Bram! Bring down the priest.
You get in the back, right behind Hooker.
Rita! Come on down.
(tense dramatic music) - You're gonna like Mexico, Hooker.
We're gonna have a good time, you, me, and that little blonde cop.
Yeah we're gonna have a good time, for a while.
- Get in the back, in the middle.
Let's go.
- [Rita.]
Wait a minute.
- What now? - Let the priest go.
He's gonna take care of Marcy.
- Throw him out of here.
(tense dramatic music) Go.
Don't stop, go straight ahead.
- The green lights on you, Romano.
- Come on now, step to it.
(gunshot) - Drop it.
(gunshot) Drop it! (sirens wail) (soft tense music) - We can do it right now.
- You'd think we won a football game.
- I guess they waited it out too.
- You want to get out of here, Stacey? - I'll wait till the end of shift.
There's still a lot left to do.
- Okay good.
- Thank you Sergeant, thanks.
You saved my life.
- You saved your own life son by remaining calm and doing what Father Connors said.
(soft instrumental music) I just got word that Corrigan's surgery was successful.
He's out of danger - Thank god for that.
- I want to thank you, father.
I know it can't of been easy for you to have brought that gun to Officer Sheridan.
- I'm glad it worked but I have the worse sense of failure of inadequacy.
I keep trying to think what I could of done differently.
- Probably nothing.
It's natural feeling after something like that.
Your adrenaline pumps, your emotions are engaged and it's over.
A couple of violent, bloody seconds that nobody could entirely foresee.
- Thank you.
It could of been a lot worse, couldn't it? - Oh father it could of been a hell of a lot worse - If you're wondering about using the phone, it's in the office.
Your partner told me about your daughter's birthday.
That it's been on your mind all day.
- It has been.
- I'll say a prayer for her.
- Why thank you, father.
She'll appreciate that.
(soft instrumental music) (energetic 80s music)