T.J. Hooker (1982) s04e20 Episode Script

(dramatic music) (funky music) - This is Four King 12.
Show me code six at Sicamore and Hazelhurst.
- [Dispatcher.]
Roger Four King 12.
(tense music) Four King 12, you're informant on the bank 2-11 reports that suspects may be enroute to the First Investment Bank on Mason.
- This is Four King 12 rolling.
(dramatic music) - [Dispatcher.]
Four Adam 30, meet Four King 12 on tac-two.
- Four Adam 30, go ahead.
- Hey guys, I'm over by the First Investment Bank on Mason Street.
I could use some backup.
- [Cop.]
Always glad to help, Lee.
What do you have? - Three robbery suspects, two of them are stuffed in the employee's powder room.
Hurry up, will ya, in case somebody else might need to use the room.
- 30, roger.
(dramatic music) - Four Adam 16, show us rolling code two backing up Four Adam (humming Amazing Grace) (laughs) - Well, I have to go, Patsy.
I promised to check with Mrs.
Hendricks in number seven about some errands she wants me to run on the weekend.
- I had a great time this afternoon.
- Me too.
Okay, I'll see you.
- See you tomorrow.
Okay.
- Bye, bye.
(whistling and humming Amazing Grace) - Hello, who's there? - The lord knows us, young sister.
The sweet lord knows us all.
- And puts burdens upon us all.
Bless you sister, may the lord see fit to remove the burden he's put on your sight.
- Amen to that.
- Well, thank you.
(knocks on door) - Mrs.
Hendricks.
(humming and whistling Amazing Grace) (knocks on door) Mrs.
Hendricks, it's me, Dave.
Hello.
(whistling and humming Amazing Grace) Oh my God! Oh my God! (dramatic music) - Looks like you're gonna have company, slick.
- Wouldn't want a teammate taking a burglary rap alone.
- Anybody seen Sergeant Stockwell? - Last time I saw her, she had suspect number three spread eagled against a wall reading his rights.
- Look again, this guy's just begging to tell us everything's he's pinched in the last month.
Right, Barry? - Hey, we'll have him gift wrapped and waiting for you at the station, Lee.
- Thanks for backing me up, guys.
- It was a good bust, Lee.
- Ooh, I'm Hooker trained.
Make 'em stick, right? - Right.
- Great lady.
- And a dynamo too.
Every time I look at the promotion sheet, she's up another grade.
What's her secret? - She studies hard and she's a damn good cop.
- You know, Lee Stockwell graduated from the academy only two years ago and look at her.
Already a sergeant detective in burglary.
- Next thing you know, we'll be calling her chief.
(horn blares) - There's a ticket if I ever saw one.
(sirens blare) Four Adam 30 in pursuit.
Speed only, make model, two tone brown Chevy Impala.
License plate adam tom victor nine 12.
West on Adam's towards northgate.
- Oh, lord, cops.
- [Dispatcher.]
Four Adam 30, be advised that a vehicle matching the description of the one you are pursuing was just seen leaving the Oakview Apartments and may possibly be involved in a 187.
- Four Adam 30, roger.
- Come on, hit it.
Take a right here.
(tires squeal) - Hold on, brother.
- (laughs) We lost him, brother.
Hallelujah.
- Glory, glory hallelujah.
- 30, pursuit terminated.
Suspects eastbound on Proctor, we are unable to pursue.
Show us out to the Oakview apartments.
- Okay, stay back, people.
Come on, keep it back.
Stay back.
Stay back.
- Then you didn't see anyone near the apartment? - No.
Just before I knocked on the door, I saw two guys go that way.
But I didn't pay any particular attention to them 'til they moved off.
- By the sound of their voices, I'd say one of them was as tall as me.
The other was taller than Dave.
Seemed nice enough.
- This is Patsy Evans.
She's the only witness who had contact with our suspects.
- Patsy, I heard you say they seemed nice.
- Right, seemed nice.
Maybe more like religious.
Said God knows all of us and then he blessed me.
- Anybody do any door knocking? - I just got here.
I took one look inside the apartment and I called homicide.
- I'll get it started.
- Well, thank you very much.
- Thank you.
- I thought you were working robbery.
- Well, I picked up the assault call.
I figured it couldn't hurt to have an extra pair of hands on the scene.
- Some people might call that jumping the call.
- Don't leave without making the package look good for the promotion board.
- That too.
- Her name was Barbara Hendricks.
She worked as a full-time waitress and a part-time call girl from the local gossip.
- Look at those shoulders.
- Yeah, she didn't give up easy.
Amazing Grace.
- What? - That's what the blind girl said they were humming.
(tense music) - Says here that sinner we took care of in that apartment was supposed to meet a Mr.
Daniels in this motel around midnight.
- Maybe we should pay our respects.
- [Man.]
The Zanadoo motel room 101.
(dramatic music) - Looks like our Mr.
Daniels in 101 is checking out.
- Maybe he got tired of waitin' on that sinner we took care of yesterday.
- Well, bless you on this beautiful night, brother.
- Look, I'm not into talking religion tonight, boys.
Believe me.
- Well, you know we hear that from a lot of people these days.
Seems folks have forsaken the spirit.
Ain't that right? We believe you're a sinner, brother.
Just like that tramp from the apartment you were supposed to meet tonight.
(dramatic music) - Next item.
We had a 187 in the Oakview Apartments yesterday.
Two suspects.
They left the scene in a stolen license adam tom baker nine one two.
One of the suspects may be six foot two, the other about five foot seven.
Talk to your people in the streets, let us know what you find out.
And I'm asked to remind you that those policemen-- - Uh, police persons.
- Good morning Sergeant Stockwell, I stand corrected.
Those police persons.
Those police persons playing in the annual charity full contact football game will be issued jerseys, pads, and athletic supporters.
(laughter) But we need to know your sizes.
Okay, we're out there for the public's benefit, but sometimes they forget, so be courteous and be careful.
(phone rings) - Lee.
We have that party for Holly to talk about.
- Oh, gosh, Stace, can I call you after watch? I got to get to a deposition at nine, I gotta go.
Oh, here's your cookbook, I copies out the pasta recipes.
- When do you sleep? - We heard you were up all night at that homicide.
- Rumors, nothing but rumors.
- Yeah, that's what makes a police department.
- You bet.
- Make sure that brown Chevy is on a state-wide teletype broadcast.
- I'm on it.
- You know, I spent most of last night thinking about what you said about that victim's shoulders.
- I could think of other things to do all night.
- I know, I remember that about you.
- Ancient history.
- Yeah, well, this teletype I dug out from Vegas PD is a little more recent, like, last week.
They had a female victim worked over the same way.
- Dislocated shoulders.
Bruises at the base of the skull.
Two suspects, one tall, one short.
- And into whistling an old hymn, Amazing Grace.
Looks like we're dealing with a couple of crazies here, don't you think? - And without a clue as to how to find them.
(beeping) - [Dispatcher.]
Four Adam - 30, go 16.
- Hooker, a couple sheriff's deputies just turned our brown Impala at Rancho Rio County Park.
- Any signs of the suspects? - No, but they left a calling card in the trunk.
(dramatic music) - Oh, good lordy.
Not only did we get $300 from that man, but a good look at home sweet home.
- And where might that be? - Driver's license says San Diego, brother.
(harmonica plays Amazing Grace) How sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me - Any ID in the car? - At the moment, he and the suspects are all John Does.
- Heard the call.
- Bruises at the base of the skull, on the shoulder.
Same as the Hendricks woman.
- You think both homicides are connected? - You wanna lay odds that they aren't? - Are you okay, Lee? - Yeah, night work's just catching up with me.
I think I'll just go splash some cold water on my face.
- They found this under the front seat.
- The Zanadoo Motel, room 101.
- They sending it in for latents.
- I think it'll be faster to see who's been staying in room 101.
- Stacy and I can check it out.
- Give me a minute.
Lee, are you okay? - Yes, I'm fine.
Yes, thanks.
I'm fine.
Thanks.
(dramatic music) (doorbell rings) - Good morning, ma'am.
- Yes? - Is this the Daniel's residence? - What do you want? - I bet you're Lindsay, Bill's wife? - That's right.
And who are you? Where's Bill? What's his car doing here? - Bless you, ma'am.
We're just two poor souls here to help you find God.
- God? - Lee using cocaine? Maybe you're mistaken.
- I hope I am.
- So, what are you going to do? Cocaine is illegal.
- I don't know, I'm gonna have to think about it.
I wanna be sure about Lee before doing anything.
- I checked the teletypes coming out of Arizona, Utah, and Nevada the last two weeks.
There were two victims with bruises similar to ours and the one in Las Vegas.
- Then they coulda worked their way into our area.
- The question is, what's triggering their moves? Romano, take a hard look at the victims.
See if you can find any connection between them.
- Friends or relatives? - Anything.
Receipt, correspondence, the smallest item that might lead the killers from one victim to the next.
- It's classic serial murder.
No real motive, just random progressive killing that doesn't stop.
- Unless we can find the trigger and then clamp down on people that can squeeze it again.
- I'll get to work on it.
- Did you find anything at the motel? - Well, we got the victim identified.
Registered as William Daniels, home address in San Diego.
- Any idea of what he was doing in our city? - A salesman of some kind.
We also got a partial ID of two guys the maid saw.
Both Caucasian, one is short, the other very tall.
Late 30s and well dressed.
- You'd better get it on the teletype.
Ask the San Diego PD to check the address and make the death notification.
- Something wrong? - No, uh-huh, I'm just thinking.
Tall and short, Mutt and Jeff.
Like the comic strip characters, remember? - Only these guys aren't funny.
We're talking serial murder.
We'd better go through the teletypes, FBI bulletins, Quantico, and the major city survey.
(dramatic music) (hums Amazing Grace) - Seek and ye shall find, brother.
Mana from Heaven, huh? I thanked Sister Lindsay for her jewelry but I don't think she heard me.
(laughs) - I don't expect she'll mind us havin' it.
Seems Sister Lindsay was a hard workin' woman.
Had a business accordin' to her picture book.
- See what other goodies we can Oh, lord of me.
What have we here? Two bank books.
One made out to Sister Lindsay, the other to a Kimberly Johnson.
- What's wrong? - Well, there was - Closed the business down three months ago.
What's that tell you, brother? - Well, Sister Lindsay and her friend Kimberly Johnson was blessed with a lot of glorious money, but there ain't nothin' here, we've been all through this house.
- Bank's in the city we just left.
- Maybe Kimberly Johnson is too.
(ominous music) - That might be the Kimberly we should be lookin' for.
(laughs) - We're reporting murders that might be connected to these two characters.
- Good God.
By the looks of this, they've left a string of bodies all over the country for the past two years.
- They're like quicksilver and psychopaths too.
- That was San Diego.
They checked the Daniel's house and they found Mrs.
Daniels.
Murdered.
The house was ransacked, but a neighbor got a quick look at the two guys coming out.
- Mutt and Jeff description? - That's it.
Listen, this Sergeant Foster I talked to says he knows you.
Thinks we ought to come down.
I'll get it cleared.
- We, now hold on here hotshot.
You were up half the night, you handled all your cases this morning, then you went through all that research.
- Only your partner's halfway into his, you can't take him off.
- She's right, Hooker.
- Yeah, but she's also tired.
- A couple of cups of coffee, a little caffeine, I'll be running on all eight.
Come on, what do you say? - Alright.
Pack up, I'll meet you at the car in half an hour.
- You gonna let them go to San Diego without talkin' to Hooker? - She's my friend.
- Friends don't stand by while a person they love destroys her life.
Maybe puts another friend's life in danger.
- I don't have any proof.
- This is not a courtroom, Stace.
Hey, you gotta tell Hooker.
- You don't understand.
Lee was more than just a friend to Hooker after his divorce.
She helped him get over the rough parts.
- Maybe now it's time for him to return the favor.
Don't sell Hooker short, Stace.
- You ever slow down? - Promised the boss I'd get these done before I took this case on.
Can't let him down, can I? - Sure can't.
Ever hear from Lenny? - Christmas cards, birthday.
It's civil between us.
Fran? - Well, it's a little better than that.
We have the kids, of course.
- Yeah, sometimes I think Lenny and I might still be together if - I didn't mean to dig up any of the things we helped each other bury so long ago.
- I know you didn't.
Anyway, we've got places to go and things to do.
- Yes we do, and I think lunch may be in order.
What do ya say? - Oh, I'm not hungry.
I say we stay on the road and get this thing done.
- Okay.
Lee.
Forensics found this by the door.
I dusted it, found two partials that don't belong to Mrs.
Daniels.
- It's a closed joint bank account between the murder victim and someone names Kimberly Johnson.
- Yeah, whoever found it didn't like the idea that it was closed.
- Serial killers.
They just might go after her.
This says they were interested.
- They tracked from Daniels to his wife, it's not a big jump to one of her friends.
It's the best bed in my book.
- Especially with money at stake.
Ah, it looks like they cleaned out her jewelry too.
- Yeah, I think we should hit the local pawn shops before we head home.
Lee! You okay? - Yes, come on, Hooker.
Look, if a man gets a little dizzy he could be drunk or a little overworked or hungry, but a woman is pregnant, right? I'm fine, I just shoulda had lunch, I didn't have breakfast.
- Hey, hotshot, you're a great cop.
But you're spreading yourself too thin.
- Look, I'm fine.
We minority cops always have to work a little harder.
You know that.
Come on, let's hit the pawn shops.
- I'll get you something to eat at the pawn shop.
Some used food, you know how it is.
(dramatic music) Lee! - Yeah? - Found somethin'.
- Turned some jewelry? - A ring, LD inscribed inside.
Pawned by Mutt and Jeff.
- How long ago? - About 30 minutes ago.
- Then they could still be close.
Did the jeweler remember anything they said? - Pawned the ring, said God bless you a few times and left.
How sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me I once was lost But now I'm found Was blind but now I see I once was lost But now I'm found Was blind but now I see - Bless you, sir.
God has truly given you a gift.
- Thank you, brother, hallelujah.
- Glory hallelujah, brother.
- [Preacher.]
Thank you, also.
And now, my dear friends, let us sing one of my very favorites.
(organ music) - You think they're here for us? Sowing seeds of kindness Sowing in the dark night and the gloomy eve Sowing in the morning Sowing seeds of kindness Sowing in dark night - Excuse me.
Hey! Lee! - Go on, go! (dramatic music) - He fell! My partner fell! (hits thud) - Lee! Lee! - Leave him, brother, leave him.
Come on, there may be more of 'em, let's get out of here.
Come on, let's go! - Hooker! Hooker! - They got away.
What in the hell happened to you? So the only possible connection we have to those killers is that bank book.
- Yeah, we checked it out, the account was closed, but we got an old address on Kimberly Johnson.
- She lived at the Lakeside Apartments when she and Lindsay Daniels withdrew their funds from the bank.
- Where did they put it? - Well, that's what we got to find out before those two crazies do, isn't it, Hooker? - What are you doing here? I told you to take a couple of days off and get some rest.
- I'm fine.
The doctor put me through my paces and he said I worked up a good case of sugar imbalance.
So, he ordered me to eat right.
And I'm gonna follow his orders to the limit.
No more screw ups.
- Yeah, well I'm gonna help him make sure of that.
- So now I have two doctors.
Look, we gotta roll.
We've got a potential victim to track down.
- There's no stopping her.
- Sugar imbalance, maybe I was wrong.
- Maybe.
- Three weeks ago Kimberly moved away.
I suppose they haven't had time to change her number in the phone book.
- Of course.
Did she leave a forwarding address? - Let me see.
Was she the one that moved to Sacramento with her brother? No that was Mrs.
Jackson in Bungalow J.
Kimberly Johnson was the one with the good looking salesman.
- Salesman? From out of town? San Diego, maybe? - San Diego! That sounds possible.
Oh I love San Diego, don't you? I go to the zoo and-- - Ma'am, excuse me.
Could you just try to think.
Kimberly Johnson, do you know where she's located now? - Well, let me see.
Mid-town.
Someplace.
Somebody seems to have told me she has her own shop.
She went into business for herself.
She used to have a partner, but they split up.
Hanky panky with the husband, I think.
- Do you happen to remember who the partner was? - Sure.
Pretty lady.
Lindsay Daniels.
It's her that was married to the salesman.
- Kimberly Johnson's new business, do you know where it is? - Why would I know that? I don't even know what she sells.
(dramatic music) - Okay, thanks very much.
Hey, I just woke somebody up at city clerk's office.
They said it's gonna take about half the night to track down all the business licenses connected with a K or Kimberly Johnson.
- Good girl.
Why don't you go home and get some rest.
- Okay.
And talk to Stacy in the mornin', will ya? - Why, is something wrong? - No, I just sense that she's worried about you.
- What did she say? You know, she has got no right to - No right to what? (laughs) - Boy, listen to me.
I have really gone off the deep end.
The doctor said this would happen if I didn't eat.
- Maybe you'd better add sleep to that list of requirements.
I think you're burning the candle at both ends.
Go home and get some sleep, that's an order.
- Boy, you can really be an ogre when you wanna be.
I'll see you tomorrow, huh? - Hooker.
I know it's bothering you.
It's the same thing that's been bothering me for two days.
I just wasn't sure, I didn't know how to tell you.
(dramatic music) - It was there in front of me all the time.
But I never saw it.
How long you been a user? How long? - Come on, Hooker, look at me.
Is that what you see, no.
Same eyes, same hair, same girl.
- But not the same cop I thought I knew.
- Well, maybe that was a problem.
Maybe because there just is never enough time, enough energy, you know.
You wake up one morning after a couple hours of sleep coming off a case and you've got 15 others pending.
Court, depositions, follow ups that lead you around in circles.
Stake outs that make your eyes wanna fall out-- - What the devil are you givin' me? Excuses, I don't need excuses.
What I need is to know what you're gonna do if you have to score some stuff and you don't have the money.
Hmm? And your connection swears he'll spot you some snow if you cover one of his felonies, what are you gonna do then, Lee? What kind of excuse you gonna give then? - Look, this is a weekend need.
I can take it or leave it.
- More excuses.
You sound like the alcoholics in the tank.
Or the junkies we all pull out of the gutter.
- Oh, come on, you're blowing this out of proportion.
I am not an addict.
- Convince the department.
There are a lot of ways a cop can step over the line, but by God they don't do dope or they don't carry a badge.
- Hooker, come on, we're friends, we can work this out.
We can.
- Sustenance for the body, brother.
- We have been poundin' our heads against the church door, brother.
- Amen to that, I am sick unto death of looking for Sister Kimberly Johnson and her money.
- We've been tryin' to find this lady under her name, right? - Well, how else do you figure to find her? - Under the business she and Sister Daniels used to run, maybe.
What'd I tell you? That boutique in that picture, it's right there in that book.
- Maybe I should place a phone call, brother.
(laughs) There was no answer on the home phone, brother.
But Sister Kimberly left a message on the answering service at her new business.
It's Kim's Boutique, And she'll be pleased to welcome us after 10 in the morning.
- We'd best move on 'til that time.
- Why? - We made the headlines again.
- Woo! The police have a partial description of a tall man, a short one, always together.
- Two guys always together.
(ominous music) (hums Amazing Grace) (plays Amazing Grace on harmonica) - Hooker.
That was San Diego PD, they turned Daniels' car.
- Any luck on the latents? - A thumb print matching the one on Linda Daniels' bank book and not matching Daniels or his wife.
- That leaves us still looking for the two crazies that it might belong to.
- Any luck with the captain? - My arguments and your research connecting the Arizona and Utah victims, he bought it.
He put in a request to form a multi-jurisdiction serial killer task force right now.
- Lee Stockwell's been on this case since it broke, why don't you recommend he give it to her? - That's not a good idea, Jimmy.
- Why not, she's been busting her tail on this-- - Forget it.
- The city clerk called on the businesses owned by the K Johnsons of this city.
- We have six possibles.
- Alright, you take the three on the east side, we'll cover the rest.
- We're not gonna hand it over to the task force? - Task force is still gearing up.
Task forces take time, and I don't think Mutt and Jess are gonna give it to us.
(phone rings) - Hooker.
Saw you come out of the captain's office.
Boy, you just couldn't wait to tell him, could ya? - That stuff really helps ya think straight, doesn't it? - Look, regardless of whatever condition you imagine I'm in, I'm not a fool.
- Then you're one step away from it.
And I haven't got time to discuss the fine lines.
- So, there goes my job? - Stop worrying about your job and start thinking about your life.
- I can still handle both.
- Then start by doing what you know you have to do.
Turn yourself in.
Because, if you haven't by the time I get back I will.
(dramatic music) - Thank you, and good luck with the coming attraction.
Bye-bye.
- Bless you, ma'am.
(ominous music) Kimberly Johnson? - Yes, can I help you? - Well, praise God you can.
I'm lookin' to put my hands on all your money.
(dramatic music) - Are you gonna tell me what's doing it? - Doing what? - Rubbing you the wrong way every time Lee Stockwell's name is mentioned.
Did you two have a fight or something? - If you had a problem, would you like me to advertise it? - No.
- Well, she's got a problem and that's what's chewing at me.
I may have to tell the whole world.
(beeping) - [Dispatcher.]
Four Adam 30, meet Sergeant Stockwell on tac-two.
- I'll check it.
- Yes, what is it? - I want to let you know that I can still handle myself on this case.
- You know what I have to say about that.
- Then don't say anything, just listen up.
Homicide found a little black book belonging to our second murder victim, Bill Daniels.
- Where'd they find it, San Diego? - No, here, on the small one's body.
It seems the fountain of brotherly love ran dry and one of 'em killed the other.
Anyway, the little black book has Kimberly Johnson's home and business phone numbers.
- Lee, give me the numbers.
I'll have control run them for addresses.
- [Lee.]
It's done.
- Hooker.
- Lee, hold it.
- I don't think we need her business address, this is it.
The inside is torn apart, no sign of the lady.
- Lee, give me Kimberly Johnson's home address.
- 3221 Packard.
What's going on? - The survivor has found his next victim, we're rolling.
- [Lee.]
I'll meet you there.
- Lee, get back to the station and take care of the important business.
- Dammit, Hooker, there's nothing wrong with me.
- Then prove it before I get back.
(dramatic music) (tires squeal) Check out the rear.
Get out of here, Lee.
- Why? Think I have my nose in a bag all day? I can back you up.
- I think you used to be one hell of a cop and I was happy I had something to do with it.
I'm not happy about it anymore.
Stay out of my way.
- No! - You're lyin'! Just like you're lyin' about puttin' your money in this no account business.
(cries) It's a lie! (screaming) - Hold it! (screams) - Drop the gun or I'll blow her away, brother.
- I'm a cop, you could treat me like one.
- Alright, don't hurt her.
(punch thuds) (gun fires) - Thanks for trusting me, Hooker.
Good day's work.
- Took care of everything but the most important.
You.
- Not that note again, look, I made some mistakes, I'll never make them again.
Ever.
- Don't, Lee, please.
- You were there today.
When it got to the bottom line, I functioned.
Smart, fast, like clockwork.
That was no junkie out there.
- Lee.
Because you're my friend, because I love you, I let myself be fooled.
The symptoms were there but I couldn't see them, because I guess I wanted to fool myself.
I can't do that anymore.
I can't let you do that.
- I just can't get through to you, can I? Alright, I'll do it.
- By tomorrow morning.
That's all the time I'm gonna give you.
- You're wrong, Hooker.
But, I guess I'm just gonna have to prove that to you.
I'm telling you right now, I can go the rest of my life without ever touching another gram.
- Don't ever forget.
When you need me.
- Is she gonna be alright? - Well, it's gonna be a battle, but she's got friends.
We'll make sure of it.
This is William Shatner.
No one is immune to the tragedy of cocaine addiction.
With it, you lose control of your life and your future.
The only way to prevent it is never to start.
(dramatic music)