T.J. Hooker (1982) s04e22 Episode Script
The Throwaway
(suspenseful electronic music) (pulsing dance music) These are crazy days Living at the hands of fate Kids are in a haze And the world is a daze - Look at this scene Hooker.
All these kids at this hour of the night.
- You'd think they were homeless.
But the truth is almost all of 'em have parents and homes.
- Well, what's with the parents? Don't they care? - You tell me.
There's only one thing you can do Buckle up your dancing shoes Everybody's waiting for you You gotta dance Like a getaway To the music in the air Dance Let your body shake Like your love was never there Dance (teenagers screaming) - Alright! - Enjoy the music, but don't mix it with dope, okay.
Don't get into the easy hype.
The cost is too great.
- Listen the only cost too great are the tickets.
Hi, tell 'em.
(teenagers screaming) - Just take one of these okay.
I'm not trying to scare anybody.
But this stuff makes sense okay.
(teenagers screaming and laughing) - Go spread your message in the box office pal.
- You gonna open the safe, mister.
You gonna open it? 'Cause you got 10 seconds or I blow that sucker sky high.
And you with it.
- Get high on life.
You don't need a crutch.
- How do you get around it? I mean, if it's life it's gonna come from doopy doopy right? - You know, I would like to help this man.
But you have to help me yourself first.
Don't be a stoner, a burnout.
Keeping your mind and your body working, that's what it's all about.
- [Control.]
All units and 4-Adam-30 a 211 siren at the ticket office, Track Two club, 9242 Walker Way.
call, code three.
- 4-Adam-30, that's a roger.
(siren blares) (suspenseful music) - Cops, get out of there.
- Yeah, Willie, we're coming.
(suspenseful electronic music) (siren blares) Five seconds.
Eat my heat.
- Hooker! Hooker! Hey get away from there! They threw a bomb under your car.
- Get back, get out of the way.
Get back! (people shouting and screaming) - Hey! (explosion booms) - 4-Adam-16, officers need help at the Track Two club, an explosion.
Roll an R unit code three.
(tires squealing) CPR.
- [Hooker.]
Get the car, get moving.
Suspects in a blue Chevy sudan.
- [Driver.]
I see them Hooker.
- [Hooker.]
Go! (siren blares) - Two one thousand, three one thousand, four one thousand.
- Why did he do it? He saved my life.
(suspenseful electronic music) (tires squealing) (siren blares) - Takes a top wheel man to drive like that.
- 16, suspects abandoned their vehicle at fifth and Maple.
Show us code six.
(tires squealing) (motorbike engines roar) They switched to bikes Hooker.
(somber music) - [Romano.]
Paramedics bought him back to life twice before we left the street.
- Those animals and me swallowing those explosives.
- [Corrigan.]
Hey, there was no way to expect what you ran into.
- A 211 with a high cash take.
Five other robberies, two people killed in the last month.
All with explosives that were used to either threaten or to open the safes.
Odds were good that they were hitting again.
- The explosives man matches previous descriptions.
A six one, 200 pounds, iron popper.
The trigger man was maybe 25, brown hair, five eight, nervous.
- Theater manager heard them call the driver Willie over the radio.
- You say Willie? - We'll cross check with known wheel men, maybe know of the last name.
- I'll save you the trouble.
It's Donovan, Willie Donovan.
- He called your name Hooker.
You knew him? - Greg Stuart.
He used to babysit for my kids.
Came camping with us a few times.
Used to try and talk his kid brother Johnny into coming with us.
- You want one of us to make the notification? - There's nobody to ring.
His parents died in a auto accident several years ago and Johnny.
That was the reason Greg was at the rock concert tonight.
Johnny got an overdose of speed last year.
- The good ones truly hit home when you lose 'em.
Ask yourself why.
(motorbike engines roar) - Must be close to 10 grand here.
- Enough to hire some local talent for fun and games (laughs).
- How'd it go? - Just like you said, easy.
- Greek, my .
45's gone.
- Was that gun registered to you? - No.
- Forget it.
- Greek and I picked up some guns in San Francisco a few years ago.
I got a back up.
- Alright Willie, I blew it.
- I can't have my kid brother, trigger in our next job without his own piece now can I? - SID says the explosives are C4, black market item and impossible to trace.
- The getaway car was easy enough.
It was stolen an hour before the heist.
- Latents? - Hundreds.
The family who owns the car has five kids and two dogs.
The only thing that didn't have prints is this.
The vehicle owner says it isn't his.
So we're running the registration now.
- What did you dig up on the motorcycle? - Same MO, the bikes were stashed in a parking structure near the target the day of the heist in case they're needed for back up.
But nobody seems to know who put them there.
- Talked to an old snitch of mine in San Francisco.
He says Willie Donovan's down here.
- Anyway to get a line on him? - My source gave me a good idea where to go fishing.
(suspenseful music) - [Corrigan.]
Kicked out of Fisherman's Wharf, but still in the smelly business hey Julia.
- The whole pier got rank when you showed up Corrigan.
I haven't forgotten how you burnt me down at Fisherman's Wharf and one of these days-- - Where's your old boyfriend? - What boyfriend's that? - The one who signs his mugshots with blood, Willie.
- The only pictures I collect are for target practice.
You wanna give me one of yours? - You're pushing your luck Julia.
An old friend in San Francisco said you and Donovan are still fanning each others fires.
So where is he? - Hooker, I hate it when you're onto something and I haven't been hit by the same light-bolt.
- It may be a fizzling candle.
- Share the light anyway.
- Well, the ticket girl said that the bank robbers used their own bank bag.
Take at look at that decal.
- Alright, Pacific Security Armored car company picks up their cash when they're not being ripped off.
- All six robbers went down.
The safe's were full, but before the money was transported.
What if all six heisted companies use the same armored truck company to take their money to the bank? - Somebody working for that outfit could be cashing in on the pick-up schedule.
- It's worth a hard look.
- Have you noticed Corrigan's look every time Willie Donovan's name has been mentioned? Something's bugging him bad.
- It's clear their paths have crossed.
It's also clear that Willie Donovan needs taking down, fast.
(suspenseful music) - 4-Adam-16, show us code six at the pier fun zone.
Following up on an informant's lead for suspect Willie Donovan.
- [Control.]
16, code six, roger.
- I still think we should have booked Donovan's girlfriend for attempted assault.
- We got what I wanted to know out of her.
Donovan is down here somewhere.
- I have a feeling Donovan's a personal thorn in your side.
If I'm out of line tell me.
- You're not out of line, I.
Donovan.
Radio for back up.
(suspenseful electronic music) - 4-Adam-16 in foot pursuit of a possible 211 suspect.
- [Control.]
16 requesting backup at the pier fun zone.
First and Marina, possible 211 suspect.
(siren blares) (suspenseful electronic music) (glass shatters) (eerie music) - Give it up Donovan.
I've got you nailed.
- [Willie.]
You've got nothing! (gun bangs) (upbeat carnival music) (siren blares) (tires squealing) - Shots fired! Over there.
- You two cover the back.
Jim! - Call an ambulance.
Better make that the coroner.
(somber music) (thunder cracks) - There's not a sign of Donovan's buddy.
He jumped the pier.
He's either shark meat or a free man.
- Put together a composite.
Show it around the beach.
- Hooker, where's the shooting team? They're usually the first ones to roll on this kind of thing.
- Anderson from IAD, put them on hold.
- This isn't an internal affairs problem, how'd he get involved? - Willie's old girlfriend, the lady from the fish market, slapped you with a police brutality complaint.
What the hell happened at the fish market? - Nothing.
- Jim.
Anderson wants to talk to you.
- What's going on? - Anderson is building the fastest case against a cop in the history of the department.
He's worked up a theory that maybe Jim shot an unarmed man and then put down a throwaway gun.
- [Hooker.]
That's crazy.
- Anderson ran the gun through CII, it was logged at the San Francisco PD property room when Jim was still on a department up there.
And now he wants to know why he sent Stacy in the opposite direction when he finally spotted Donovan.
- To call for back up is why.
- Yeah, but you put that together with a police brutality complaint and IAD figures they got a cop out of control.
And that's trouble.
That's bad trouble.
(suspenseful music) - So a gun fell into a crack at San Francisco PD and turned up with a stinking parasite.
Since when is it a crime to blow away parasites before they put you in the ground.
- When you're personally involved.
Five years ago, Donovan left tire treads all over some pedestrian's trying to get away from a robbery, and you tore up San Francisco looking for him.
- Yeah that's right.
But nothing you say or do is gonna make his killing a murder.
Or his gun a throwaway because I'm not that kind of cop.
- Well I'm here to find that out.
And if you are Corrigan then you are no better than that piece of scum you cut down on the pier.
- This Julia, the fish lady, what did Jim do to get her to beef him to IAD? - He asked her a few questions that made her uncomfortable.
- Did she, or did she not come at you with a meat cleaver? - She toyed with it and Jim made sure it didn't become more than a toy.
- What does that mean? - Romano.
I just gave IAD an hour on the subject.
I don't owe you any explanations and neither does Jim.
- Frank.
About Corrigan.
That was a righteous shooting.
- You don't know that anymore than I do right now, Hooker.
So as long as nobody knows, he's relieved from duty until we clear him or nail him.
- I'm beginning to smell your preference.
- Oh come off it Hooker, we're talking the possibility of another cop being an untraceable piece in his pocket until his favorite enemy comes along and then boom.
The untraceable piece becomes a throwaway so he can justify the shooting.
- You believe that Corrigan held onto that gun all these years, until Donovan reared his ugly head? - Some cops hold onto a piece for eventualities, Hooker.
Any eventualities.
- Not Corrigan.
He's not that kind of a cop.
- Well you won't believe this, but I hope you're right.
- I know I am.
Look Frank, downtown gave you the grease to yank him, that means you got the clout to put him behind a desk until we find some answers.
- Alright Hooker.
Just make damn sure he stays there.
- Where's Jim? - He stewed in the interrogation room, then split.
- He didn't even stop to talk to us.
It's hurting him, but what can we do? - Best thing all of us can do, keep working on the robberies.
If Donovan was involved, maybe his partners can ID the gun.
Finding them, making them talk is our best shot at clearing Corrigan.
- Pacific Security left a message.
They said that all five of the other robberies were on their routes.
And they also have that list of past and present employees that you wanted.
- Alright pick it up in the morning.
Label all the large cash businesses as potential targets and run that employee through the computer.
- What about you and me? - We'll try the beach.
If Julia knew Willie so well, maybe she knows some of his friends.
- Jim's gonna want in on that.
- Jim is gonna stay behind the desk until he's clear.
And I better make sure he stays there.
(dramatic music) You're not relieved from duty, you're not going home.
You're gonna sit behind the desk until this is over.
- The desk? A good place for a coward who cuts down unarmed men.
- I don't know any coward.
I just know a friend who's hurt and angry 'cause somebody called him one.
Ride it out Jim.
- Expect me to smile on my way to the stake, while IAD burns me? - No, I expect you to stay behind the desk until we clear the air.
- Forget it Hooker, I can handle my own problems.
- Sure.
We spin our wheels keeping you in line, another robbery goes down.
And other innocent victims like Greg Stuart.
Is that what you want? (motorbike engines roar) - I know Willie tried to take that lousy cop out, but somehow he didn't.
Willie's dead and that cop Corrigan did it.
And he had it in for Willie back in San Francisco.
- Does that cop know you? - He might be able to track me down, I don't know.
- You better move on 'til this thing blows over.
- What am I gonna do for a job? I need money.
- If you didn't spend so much time at the card tables you wouldn't need either one.
Here.
Here's a couple of grand.
You better split before the Greek there starts feeling like you're a bigger threat than that cop.
What do you think? Our new recruits gonna work out? - Oh they ride good.
You sure Nakamura's Currency Exchange is gonna have enough good old American green to make it worth the trouble? - I worked that armored car job for two years.
I know which places have the bucks and when to collect.
(suspenseful music) - You gonna choke on what's bothering you or you gonna spit it out? - It's what we've talked about so many times before.
How much you give up to be a cop.
- If we didn't get back just as much, the ranks would thin pretty fast.
- Tell me what Jim is getting is good, or fair? How could they even think he put down a throwaway? - It's happened.
- Not somebody like Jim.
You cut him, he'd bleed as blue as his uniform.
For god's sake he's got a package full of commendations and the department is treating him like a second class citizen.
- His partner's aren't and that's what counts.
- That'll be six 50.
Your change is three 50.
- What, wait a minute.
Just a minute.
I gave you a $20 bill.
- I'm sorry you gave me a 10, it's right here.
You get your hands off me.
- Here's your money.
I'd appreciate it if you wait by the police car and sign a crime report.
- You bet I'll sign a crime report.
- What crime report? You don't have a thing on me.
- It's called theft by trick and device.
It's good for five days in the slammer, more for an ex-con like you on parole.
- Okay officer.
I'll drop the charges on Corrigan, you forget the 20.
- I'll forget the bribe I heard just now.
If you'll cough up what I want to know.
- So ask.
- Willie Donovan had a friend with him when he was shot.
- It's Willie's brother, Mike.
He's got a gambler's itch.
He usually scratches it down at the Shamrock Poker clubs.
- So much co-operation Hooker.
Maybe you could talk to the Judge.
- You'd do that for me? - Well sure, we'll see to it that you get to sit next to each other at your arraignment.
- You-- - I forgot the bribe.
I didn't forget the theft.
Let's go.
- Hi.
- Hey, how's it going? - Feels funny riding alone, I miss you.
- I saw a report from CII.
They traced the owner of the gun, we found in the theater robbery car.
- Hank Nichols.
I just talked to him.
- Did he have an alibi for the time the theater robbery went down? - As tight as the g-string on that stripper we busted last week.
(laughing) - That tight huh.
- Yeah, Nichols said he lost a big pot in a local poker club and he sold the gun to a player named Mike.
To pay off his debts.
- Get the name of the club? - The Shamrock.
See you.
(upbeat country music) - [Control.]
Control calling Officer Corrigan.
Commander four, requests a landline regarding vehicle use authorization, code one.
- Manager's gonna bring our man over to us.
(table crashes) (people screaming) (motorbike engine roars) Hey! Get the car.
- [Romano.]
Get out of the van, we need the car, - Get out of there! (suspenseful music) Okay, now start to close in on him.
Hey get over there.
Hey.
Now you gonna set some people straight about the shooting.
- Dream on man.
I'm not talking to anybody.
- Oh you're talking about the gun, Will tried to use on me.
- What the hell are you doing here? I told you to stay behind a desk.
- Getting the truth.
- The truth? You want the truth? The truth is my brother didn't have a gun.
You pushed him into a corner and squeezed one off.
Just like you always said you were gonna do.
(dramatic music) - Okay, so you tell me Hooker, is Corrigan coming out clean in the wash or is the water getting dirtier by the minute? - Who you gonna believe? punk with a grudge? - I sent for the report transcript on the Donovan trial at San Francisco five years ago.
Corrigan stood up in the middle of a packed courtroom and yelled it.
"I'm gonna kill you Donovan, if it's the last thing "I do in this world, I'm gonna kill you.
" End quote.
Read it for yourself Hooker.
That punk in there is right.
You tell me those aren't the words of a cop out of control.
- And so I said that in an emotional moment.
- People kill people in emotional moments.
- I didn't shoot Donovan down in cold blood.
- Well the DA thinks it's time for a grand jury to decide.
- Corrigan.
What's going down? - I'll tell you what's going down, this department and the DA are drowning me in circumstantial evidence.
Yes, I wanted Donovan.
Yes, I threatened him.
I hunted him down and I killed him.
But I didn't murder him.
God knows I wish I'd never laid eyes on him.
(dramatic music) Willie Donovan perjured his way through the San Francisco courts and his brother is lying here Hooker, believe me.
- I don't doubt you.
I don't doubt that.
What's grinding on me is the promise you made.
The promise to sit tight and let us run interference for you.
- I had my reasons.
- Do you wanna talk about them? - They're personal.
- Well your personal is beginning to smell like an old-fashioned vendetta.
And vendetta's have a way of catching civilians and good cops in the crossfire.
- Hey, I'm sorry Hooker.
But I'm not gonna take the fall behind this hang job because Anderson wants to put IAD in the headlines.
- I got news for you Corrigan.
I'd rather bury this whole thing in the want ads.
Now you're without portfolio under the grand jury makes a decision.
So you just stay where we can find you.
- You'll find me wherever I have to be to clear my name.
- Don't cut us out Jim.
We're all on the same side.
(suspenseful electronic music) (explosion booms) (motorbike engines roar) - IAD are sending a man to San Francisco.
They want to nail down how the gun found under Donovan's body got out of the police property room.
I wanna make sure that they don't miss anything.
- You make sure they don't nail Jim instead of the people they should be looking for.
- Just keep 'em honest Stacy.
I scheduled you the day off.
- We can take the Nakamura Currency Exchange off the armored car route list.
They were just hit.
- They had the money and they blew the safe anyway.
I mean they had me down on the ground and there were two girls in there.
They were terrified, they'll never be the same.
They had these helmets on.
I don't know what they look like, who picks up what they look like.
- Hooker.
Forensics thought we might be interested in this.
- Watertight housing around the detonator.
Get a hold Jess Parish's parole officer.
See where his boy is.
I think it's about time we talk to a pro about explosives.
Something you borrowed from the police station? - It helped me dig up a witness.
And it looks like they've changed their MO.
You know, my guess is the getaway car went out with Willie Donovan.
- Hey are you a cop? - One of the best.
- And I was gonna ask him to go riding with me.
- She got curious when she saw three suspects rip around the corner on bikes.
She said they were race rigged.
- Racers? When those bikes flew over us after the theater robbery, I thought those engines sounded beefed up.
Look there's an officer down by the Nakamura Exchange, why don't you go down there and tell him everything you remember about the suspects.
- Why can't I just tell him? - Because Officer Corrigan has other things to do.
Other places to be.
- That friendly advice Hooker? Or a warning? - Go home Jim.
(suspenseful music) - [Control.]
4-Adam-30 we have a report from detective headquarters regarding your inquiry about explosives expert Jess Parish.
His present job site is located on Fifth Avenue between Adams and Wilcock.
- 4-Adam-30 roger.
(explosion booms) - Like old wine, you pack more punch the older you get Parish.
- What the hell are you doing here Hooker? This job's legit.
My safe blowing days when out with my parole.
- Yeah, what came in? Blowing up patrol cars and college students like Greg Stuart? - I heard up the chunk of metal that kid took in that heist.
I'm sorry but-- - Hey Hooker.
This guys using illegal plastic explosives instead of dynamite.
- Don't make trouble with me because I like C4 better than sticks.
- You're up to your knees in trouble Parish.
C4 is killing people these days.
A package with an underwater detonator.
- And you used to be a navy demolition's man.
- Hey I wouldn't hit anybody, you know me.
- Yeah I remember.
People make you nervous.
- Yeah, and nervous can make you dead.
- I'd hate to see him nervous for the same reason, are you getting nervous? - I'm getting real nervous.
- Look there's this giant called the Greek.
Cooks up anything from a cocktail to a terrorist special.
He was assigned to the same navy ship as me in 'nam.
Best underwater demolition man in the fleet.
He did time for putting his training to work in civilian life.
- What's his real name and where do we find him? - Sefaris, Harry Sefaris.
Last time I heard he was working a boat up in San Francisco, salvage boat.
- How you gonna stop Mike Donovan from telling the cops everything? - If he was talking, they'd be crawling all over your roof right now.
Forget it.
He's a rabbit.
- This is still our last haul.
- Yeah, well you may have the plans Sturges, but I know what they are.
So when I feel like quitting, I'll quit.
But not before.
I say we hit the 50 grand jackpot, tomorrow.
(mellow rock music) - Thank you.
- Here's what you wanted on Sefaris.
- This package is thicker than War and Peace.
- At least we have a mugshot of him.
- Can I get a beer? - What'd you get from San Francisco? - What we always knew about Jim.
He's one of the best cops ever to come out of their academy.
There's not one black mark on his record.
He didn't have anything to do with that gun being logged in the property room.
And I found out how it left the department.
- Sounds like IAD may be coming up empty handed.
- Don't I wish.
That gun was one of a load that SFPD sent out to be dumped at San Francisco bay.
Jim was one of the officers assigned to the dumping.
Talk about piling on the evidence.
It just looks worse now than when he had his badge taken away.
I don't know how the grand jury is ever gonna get to the truth.
- I've given you the truth.
- Jim, we've been waiting for you.
- What, to tell me how much you believe in me? - We didn't think we had to.
- Well, you won't have to anymore.
I've had my fill of this job.
As far as I'm concerned they can keep my badge.
(dramatic music) (motorbike engine revs) - I stopped by your apartment.
I thought I might find you here.
- I don't need or want company right now Hooker.
- Now look, you're not gonna kick us out of your life because of something you thought you heard last night.
You didn't stick around and find out what really happened.
- Help somebody else, don't make me a cause.
- Why not? You made Angelo Frascati one.
- Angelo? - The picture I saw in your laundry.
I called Stacy while she was still in San Francisco, had her check him out.
He was a friend of yours wasn't he? - He was more than friend.
Angelo was like a father to me.
When my folks died, the only decent advice I ever got came from Angelo.
He used to bring me to a place like this, say "you're gonna take care of all the people "in this city someday Jimmy.
" He took a kid headed in the wrong direction and pointed him to a damn fine good career.
- And Willie Donovan ran him down escaping from a robbery.
- Donovan murdered him.
And escaped with a lousy five year sentence.
Five years was justice after killing a man? Donovan deserved what he got.
But I didn't put that gun on him.
- I know that.
We'll turn it around Jim.
I promise.
(dramatic music) - Welcome back.
- I gotta try to listen and stay out of trouble.
So there's one thing I wanna say.
I remember the day we dumped those guns.
I watched every crate go into the water, I didn't touch one of them.
- The boat you were on.
Remember any of the crew.
- Yeah, he was the commercial diver on the boat.
Wouldn't let anybody go near his gear.
- His names Harry Sefaris, he's an old buddy of Willie Donovan.
- I don't think it's a big stretch to say that a military trained diver went back later to get those guns and gave one to a friend.
- Anderson's gonna say prove it.
- Why don't we start right here.
I think we're looking for someone who worked the money transporting routes long enough to learn the ropes.
To cash in later, like now.
Only the Greek and the Donovan's aren't on that armored car employee list, that I got.
- So we may be looking for a fourth man? - We're hoping he's been seen with our suspects at one of the raceways.
- Handing out mugshots takes a badge.
- You don't get off that easy.
- You're taking a big chance.
What about Anderson and IAD? - Who's inviting them? This is our party.
Stacy start showing mugshots at the West Side Track, we'll take Lakewood Speedway.
Jim take Motorama Race Park and keep in radio contact.
(motorbike engine roars) Said he recognized Willie Donovan's mugshot, said he always saw him in the company of the guy who owns this motorcycle rental place.
Fella by the name of Shay Sturges.
- Bingo.
Sturges used to be a driver for Pacific Security.
(suspenseful music) Hold it police! - [Hooker.]
I said hold it! - Hands on your head.
- Guns for rent as well as motorcycles Sturges? Or is this what you had Donovan and his friends use in heists? Read him his rights.
- [Romano.]
You have remain to silent.
- Cut the litany, I know my rights.
- Planning a trip? Or is this what you were trying to grab? - Hey that's private property.
You have no right.
Not without a search warrant.
- You've given my my search warrant.
You just circled your next job.
(suspenseful music) - [Control.]
4-Adam-16 meet - 4-Adam-16 roger.
This is 16.
- Suspects are on route to the next 211.
Music Center box office.
I briefed Jim he's on his bike rolling from the east side through the interchange.
- I'm in the are eta five minutes.
- Roger rolling.
- [Control.]
4-Adam-30 and all units in the vicinity.
Silent alarm Music Center box office, first and Remington.
- 4-Adam-30, roger.
(suspenseful rock music) (tires squealing) Spread eagle face down on your chin.
(motorbike engine roars) (tires squealing) - [Corrigan.]
I'm on him Hooker.
(motorbikes engines roar) (car horn blares) (car horn blares) (explosion booms) (explosion booms) (jazz music) - I just talked to Lieutenant Anderson.
He says the Greek isn't gonna talk, even when they unwire his jaw.
But Sturges tied the Donovan's to all the robberies.
And once Mike started confessing, they couldn't get the words down fast enough.
- What about the guns you found in Sturges's garage? - They were all that was left, of the guns the Greek brought up from San Francisco bay.
- The rest are probably out in the street right now.
- We'll get 'em back.
One at a time maybe, but we'll get 'em back.
- How many cops are gonna have to face those guns before that happens? - All part of the territory isn't it? - You know, for a while there I thought they were gonna take it all.
Not just the badge and gun, but everything.
- They got nothing.
- Oh they did.
They got a good piece of my faith.
I ended up treating my best friends like they were the enemy.
I'm sorry for that Hooker.
- Forget it.
We were all working for the same thing.
To put this back where it belongs.
(victorious music) (suspenseful electronic music)
All these kids at this hour of the night.
- You'd think they were homeless.
But the truth is almost all of 'em have parents and homes.
- Well, what's with the parents? Don't they care? - You tell me.
There's only one thing you can do Buckle up your dancing shoes Everybody's waiting for you You gotta dance Like a getaway To the music in the air Dance Let your body shake Like your love was never there Dance (teenagers screaming) - Alright! - Enjoy the music, but don't mix it with dope, okay.
Don't get into the easy hype.
The cost is too great.
- Listen the only cost too great are the tickets.
Hi, tell 'em.
(teenagers screaming) - Just take one of these okay.
I'm not trying to scare anybody.
But this stuff makes sense okay.
(teenagers screaming and laughing) - Go spread your message in the box office pal.
- You gonna open the safe, mister.
You gonna open it? 'Cause you got 10 seconds or I blow that sucker sky high.
And you with it.
- Get high on life.
You don't need a crutch.
- How do you get around it? I mean, if it's life it's gonna come from doopy doopy right? - You know, I would like to help this man.
But you have to help me yourself first.
Don't be a stoner, a burnout.
Keeping your mind and your body working, that's what it's all about.
- [Control.]
All units and 4-Adam-30 a 211 siren at the ticket office, Track Two club, 9242 Walker Way.
call, code three.
- 4-Adam-30, that's a roger.
(siren blares) (suspenseful music) - Cops, get out of there.
- Yeah, Willie, we're coming.
(suspenseful electronic music) (siren blares) Five seconds.
Eat my heat.
- Hooker! Hooker! Hey get away from there! They threw a bomb under your car.
- Get back, get out of the way.
Get back! (people shouting and screaming) - Hey! (explosion booms) - 4-Adam-16, officers need help at the Track Two club, an explosion.
Roll an R unit code three.
(tires squealing) CPR.
- [Hooker.]
Get the car, get moving.
Suspects in a blue Chevy sudan.
- [Driver.]
I see them Hooker.
- [Hooker.]
Go! (siren blares) - Two one thousand, three one thousand, four one thousand.
- Why did he do it? He saved my life.
(suspenseful electronic music) (tires squealing) (siren blares) - Takes a top wheel man to drive like that.
- 16, suspects abandoned their vehicle at fifth and Maple.
Show us code six.
(tires squealing) (motorbike engines roar) They switched to bikes Hooker.
(somber music) - [Romano.]
Paramedics bought him back to life twice before we left the street.
- Those animals and me swallowing those explosives.
- [Corrigan.]
Hey, there was no way to expect what you ran into.
- A 211 with a high cash take.
Five other robberies, two people killed in the last month.
All with explosives that were used to either threaten or to open the safes.
Odds were good that they were hitting again.
- The explosives man matches previous descriptions.
A six one, 200 pounds, iron popper.
The trigger man was maybe 25, brown hair, five eight, nervous.
- Theater manager heard them call the driver Willie over the radio.
- You say Willie? - We'll cross check with known wheel men, maybe know of the last name.
- I'll save you the trouble.
It's Donovan, Willie Donovan.
- He called your name Hooker.
You knew him? - Greg Stuart.
He used to babysit for my kids.
Came camping with us a few times.
Used to try and talk his kid brother Johnny into coming with us.
- You want one of us to make the notification? - There's nobody to ring.
His parents died in a auto accident several years ago and Johnny.
That was the reason Greg was at the rock concert tonight.
Johnny got an overdose of speed last year.
- The good ones truly hit home when you lose 'em.
Ask yourself why.
(motorbike engines roar) - Must be close to 10 grand here.
- Enough to hire some local talent for fun and games (laughs).
- How'd it go? - Just like you said, easy.
- Greek, my .
45's gone.
- Was that gun registered to you? - No.
- Forget it.
- Greek and I picked up some guns in San Francisco a few years ago.
I got a back up.
- Alright Willie, I blew it.
- I can't have my kid brother, trigger in our next job without his own piece now can I? - SID says the explosives are C4, black market item and impossible to trace.
- The getaway car was easy enough.
It was stolen an hour before the heist.
- Latents? - Hundreds.
The family who owns the car has five kids and two dogs.
The only thing that didn't have prints is this.
The vehicle owner says it isn't his.
So we're running the registration now.
- What did you dig up on the motorcycle? - Same MO, the bikes were stashed in a parking structure near the target the day of the heist in case they're needed for back up.
But nobody seems to know who put them there.
- Talked to an old snitch of mine in San Francisco.
He says Willie Donovan's down here.
- Anyway to get a line on him? - My source gave me a good idea where to go fishing.
(suspenseful music) - [Corrigan.]
Kicked out of Fisherman's Wharf, but still in the smelly business hey Julia.
- The whole pier got rank when you showed up Corrigan.
I haven't forgotten how you burnt me down at Fisherman's Wharf and one of these days-- - Where's your old boyfriend? - What boyfriend's that? - The one who signs his mugshots with blood, Willie.
- The only pictures I collect are for target practice.
You wanna give me one of yours? - You're pushing your luck Julia.
An old friend in San Francisco said you and Donovan are still fanning each others fires.
So where is he? - Hooker, I hate it when you're onto something and I haven't been hit by the same light-bolt.
- It may be a fizzling candle.
- Share the light anyway.
- Well, the ticket girl said that the bank robbers used their own bank bag.
Take at look at that decal.
- Alright, Pacific Security Armored car company picks up their cash when they're not being ripped off.
- All six robbers went down.
The safe's were full, but before the money was transported.
What if all six heisted companies use the same armored truck company to take their money to the bank? - Somebody working for that outfit could be cashing in on the pick-up schedule.
- It's worth a hard look.
- Have you noticed Corrigan's look every time Willie Donovan's name has been mentioned? Something's bugging him bad.
- It's clear their paths have crossed.
It's also clear that Willie Donovan needs taking down, fast.
(suspenseful music) - 4-Adam-16, show us code six at the pier fun zone.
Following up on an informant's lead for suspect Willie Donovan.
- [Control.]
16, code six, roger.
- I still think we should have booked Donovan's girlfriend for attempted assault.
- We got what I wanted to know out of her.
Donovan is down here somewhere.
- I have a feeling Donovan's a personal thorn in your side.
If I'm out of line tell me.
- You're not out of line, I.
Donovan.
Radio for back up.
(suspenseful electronic music) - 4-Adam-16 in foot pursuit of a possible 211 suspect.
- [Control.]
16 requesting backup at the pier fun zone.
First and Marina, possible 211 suspect.
(siren blares) (suspenseful electronic music) (glass shatters) (eerie music) - Give it up Donovan.
I've got you nailed.
- [Willie.]
You've got nothing! (gun bangs) (upbeat carnival music) (siren blares) (tires squealing) - Shots fired! Over there.
- You two cover the back.
Jim! - Call an ambulance.
Better make that the coroner.
(somber music) (thunder cracks) - There's not a sign of Donovan's buddy.
He jumped the pier.
He's either shark meat or a free man.
- Put together a composite.
Show it around the beach.
- Hooker, where's the shooting team? They're usually the first ones to roll on this kind of thing.
- Anderson from IAD, put them on hold.
- This isn't an internal affairs problem, how'd he get involved? - Willie's old girlfriend, the lady from the fish market, slapped you with a police brutality complaint.
What the hell happened at the fish market? - Nothing.
- Jim.
Anderson wants to talk to you.
- What's going on? - Anderson is building the fastest case against a cop in the history of the department.
He's worked up a theory that maybe Jim shot an unarmed man and then put down a throwaway gun.
- [Hooker.]
That's crazy.
- Anderson ran the gun through CII, it was logged at the San Francisco PD property room when Jim was still on a department up there.
And now he wants to know why he sent Stacy in the opposite direction when he finally spotted Donovan.
- To call for back up is why.
- Yeah, but you put that together with a police brutality complaint and IAD figures they got a cop out of control.
And that's trouble.
That's bad trouble.
(suspenseful music) - So a gun fell into a crack at San Francisco PD and turned up with a stinking parasite.
Since when is it a crime to blow away parasites before they put you in the ground.
- When you're personally involved.
Five years ago, Donovan left tire treads all over some pedestrian's trying to get away from a robbery, and you tore up San Francisco looking for him.
- Yeah that's right.
But nothing you say or do is gonna make his killing a murder.
Or his gun a throwaway because I'm not that kind of cop.
- Well I'm here to find that out.
And if you are Corrigan then you are no better than that piece of scum you cut down on the pier.
- This Julia, the fish lady, what did Jim do to get her to beef him to IAD? - He asked her a few questions that made her uncomfortable.
- Did she, or did she not come at you with a meat cleaver? - She toyed with it and Jim made sure it didn't become more than a toy.
- What does that mean? - Romano.
I just gave IAD an hour on the subject.
I don't owe you any explanations and neither does Jim.
- Frank.
About Corrigan.
That was a righteous shooting.
- You don't know that anymore than I do right now, Hooker.
So as long as nobody knows, he's relieved from duty until we clear him or nail him.
- I'm beginning to smell your preference.
- Oh come off it Hooker, we're talking the possibility of another cop being an untraceable piece in his pocket until his favorite enemy comes along and then boom.
The untraceable piece becomes a throwaway so he can justify the shooting.
- You believe that Corrigan held onto that gun all these years, until Donovan reared his ugly head? - Some cops hold onto a piece for eventualities, Hooker.
Any eventualities.
- Not Corrigan.
He's not that kind of a cop.
- Well you won't believe this, but I hope you're right.
- I know I am.
Look Frank, downtown gave you the grease to yank him, that means you got the clout to put him behind a desk until we find some answers.
- Alright Hooker.
Just make damn sure he stays there.
- Where's Jim? - He stewed in the interrogation room, then split.
- He didn't even stop to talk to us.
It's hurting him, but what can we do? - Best thing all of us can do, keep working on the robberies.
If Donovan was involved, maybe his partners can ID the gun.
Finding them, making them talk is our best shot at clearing Corrigan.
- Pacific Security left a message.
They said that all five of the other robberies were on their routes.
And they also have that list of past and present employees that you wanted.
- Alright pick it up in the morning.
Label all the large cash businesses as potential targets and run that employee through the computer.
- What about you and me? - We'll try the beach.
If Julia knew Willie so well, maybe she knows some of his friends.
- Jim's gonna want in on that.
- Jim is gonna stay behind the desk until he's clear.
And I better make sure he stays there.
(dramatic music) You're not relieved from duty, you're not going home.
You're gonna sit behind the desk until this is over.
- The desk? A good place for a coward who cuts down unarmed men.
- I don't know any coward.
I just know a friend who's hurt and angry 'cause somebody called him one.
Ride it out Jim.
- Expect me to smile on my way to the stake, while IAD burns me? - No, I expect you to stay behind the desk until we clear the air.
- Forget it Hooker, I can handle my own problems.
- Sure.
We spin our wheels keeping you in line, another robbery goes down.
And other innocent victims like Greg Stuart.
Is that what you want? (motorbike engines roar) - I know Willie tried to take that lousy cop out, but somehow he didn't.
Willie's dead and that cop Corrigan did it.
And he had it in for Willie back in San Francisco.
- Does that cop know you? - He might be able to track me down, I don't know.
- You better move on 'til this thing blows over.
- What am I gonna do for a job? I need money.
- If you didn't spend so much time at the card tables you wouldn't need either one.
Here.
Here's a couple of grand.
You better split before the Greek there starts feeling like you're a bigger threat than that cop.
What do you think? Our new recruits gonna work out? - Oh they ride good.
You sure Nakamura's Currency Exchange is gonna have enough good old American green to make it worth the trouble? - I worked that armored car job for two years.
I know which places have the bucks and when to collect.
(suspenseful music) - You gonna choke on what's bothering you or you gonna spit it out? - It's what we've talked about so many times before.
How much you give up to be a cop.
- If we didn't get back just as much, the ranks would thin pretty fast.
- Tell me what Jim is getting is good, or fair? How could they even think he put down a throwaway? - It's happened.
- Not somebody like Jim.
You cut him, he'd bleed as blue as his uniform.
For god's sake he's got a package full of commendations and the department is treating him like a second class citizen.
- His partner's aren't and that's what counts.
- That'll be six 50.
Your change is three 50.
- What, wait a minute.
Just a minute.
I gave you a $20 bill.
- I'm sorry you gave me a 10, it's right here.
You get your hands off me.
- Here's your money.
I'd appreciate it if you wait by the police car and sign a crime report.
- You bet I'll sign a crime report.
- What crime report? You don't have a thing on me.
- It's called theft by trick and device.
It's good for five days in the slammer, more for an ex-con like you on parole.
- Okay officer.
I'll drop the charges on Corrigan, you forget the 20.
- I'll forget the bribe I heard just now.
If you'll cough up what I want to know.
- So ask.
- Willie Donovan had a friend with him when he was shot.
- It's Willie's brother, Mike.
He's got a gambler's itch.
He usually scratches it down at the Shamrock Poker clubs.
- So much co-operation Hooker.
Maybe you could talk to the Judge.
- You'd do that for me? - Well sure, we'll see to it that you get to sit next to each other at your arraignment.
- You-- - I forgot the bribe.
I didn't forget the theft.
Let's go.
- Hi.
- Hey, how's it going? - Feels funny riding alone, I miss you.
- I saw a report from CII.
They traced the owner of the gun, we found in the theater robbery car.
- Hank Nichols.
I just talked to him.
- Did he have an alibi for the time the theater robbery went down? - As tight as the g-string on that stripper we busted last week.
(laughing) - That tight huh.
- Yeah, Nichols said he lost a big pot in a local poker club and he sold the gun to a player named Mike.
To pay off his debts.
- Get the name of the club? - The Shamrock.
See you.
(upbeat country music) - [Control.]
Control calling Officer Corrigan.
Commander four, requests a landline regarding vehicle use authorization, code one.
- Manager's gonna bring our man over to us.
(table crashes) (people screaming) (motorbike engine roars) Hey! Get the car.
- [Romano.]
Get out of the van, we need the car, - Get out of there! (suspenseful music) Okay, now start to close in on him.
Hey get over there.
Hey.
Now you gonna set some people straight about the shooting.
- Dream on man.
I'm not talking to anybody.
- Oh you're talking about the gun, Will tried to use on me.
- What the hell are you doing here? I told you to stay behind a desk.
- Getting the truth.
- The truth? You want the truth? The truth is my brother didn't have a gun.
You pushed him into a corner and squeezed one off.
Just like you always said you were gonna do.
(dramatic music) - Okay, so you tell me Hooker, is Corrigan coming out clean in the wash or is the water getting dirtier by the minute? - Who you gonna believe? punk with a grudge? - I sent for the report transcript on the Donovan trial at San Francisco five years ago.
Corrigan stood up in the middle of a packed courtroom and yelled it.
"I'm gonna kill you Donovan, if it's the last thing "I do in this world, I'm gonna kill you.
" End quote.
Read it for yourself Hooker.
That punk in there is right.
You tell me those aren't the words of a cop out of control.
- And so I said that in an emotional moment.
- People kill people in emotional moments.
- I didn't shoot Donovan down in cold blood.
- Well the DA thinks it's time for a grand jury to decide.
- Corrigan.
What's going down? - I'll tell you what's going down, this department and the DA are drowning me in circumstantial evidence.
Yes, I wanted Donovan.
Yes, I threatened him.
I hunted him down and I killed him.
But I didn't murder him.
God knows I wish I'd never laid eyes on him.
(dramatic music) Willie Donovan perjured his way through the San Francisco courts and his brother is lying here Hooker, believe me.
- I don't doubt you.
I don't doubt that.
What's grinding on me is the promise you made.
The promise to sit tight and let us run interference for you.
- I had my reasons.
- Do you wanna talk about them? - They're personal.
- Well your personal is beginning to smell like an old-fashioned vendetta.
And vendetta's have a way of catching civilians and good cops in the crossfire.
- Hey, I'm sorry Hooker.
But I'm not gonna take the fall behind this hang job because Anderson wants to put IAD in the headlines.
- I got news for you Corrigan.
I'd rather bury this whole thing in the want ads.
Now you're without portfolio under the grand jury makes a decision.
So you just stay where we can find you.
- You'll find me wherever I have to be to clear my name.
- Don't cut us out Jim.
We're all on the same side.
(suspenseful electronic music) (explosion booms) (motorbike engines roar) - IAD are sending a man to San Francisco.
They want to nail down how the gun found under Donovan's body got out of the police property room.
I wanna make sure that they don't miss anything.
- You make sure they don't nail Jim instead of the people they should be looking for.
- Just keep 'em honest Stacy.
I scheduled you the day off.
- We can take the Nakamura Currency Exchange off the armored car route list.
They were just hit.
- They had the money and they blew the safe anyway.
I mean they had me down on the ground and there were two girls in there.
They were terrified, they'll never be the same.
They had these helmets on.
I don't know what they look like, who picks up what they look like.
- Hooker.
Forensics thought we might be interested in this.
- Watertight housing around the detonator.
Get a hold Jess Parish's parole officer.
See where his boy is.
I think it's about time we talk to a pro about explosives.
Something you borrowed from the police station? - It helped me dig up a witness.
And it looks like they've changed their MO.
You know, my guess is the getaway car went out with Willie Donovan.
- Hey are you a cop? - One of the best.
- And I was gonna ask him to go riding with me.
- She got curious when she saw three suspects rip around the corner on bikes.
She said they were race rigged.
- Racers? When those bikes flew over us after the theater robbery, I thought those engines sounded beefed up.
Look there's an officer down by the Nakamura Exchange, why don't you go down there and tell him everything you remember about the suspects.
- Why can't I just tell him? - Because Officer Corrigan has other things to do.
Other places to be.
- That friendly advice Hooker? Or a warning? - Go home Jim.
(suspenseful music) - [Control.]
4-Adam-30 we have a report from detective headquarters regarding your inquiry about explosives expert Jess Parish.
His present job site is located on Fifth Avenue between Adams and Wilcock.
- 4-Adam-30 roger.
(explosion booms) - Like old wine, you pack more punch the older you get Parish.
- What the hell are you doing here Hooker? This job's legit.
My safe blowing days when out with my parole.
- Yeah, what came in? Blowing up patrol cars and college students like Greg Stuart? - I heard up the chunk of metal that kid took in that heist.
I'm sorry but-- - Hey Hooker.
This guys using illegal plastic explosives instead of dynamite.
- Don't make trouble with me because I like C4 better than sticks.
- You're up to your knees in trouble Parish.
C4 is killing people these days.
A package with an underwater detonator.
- And you used to be a navy demolition's man.
- Hey I wouldn't hit anybody, you know me.
- Yeah I remember.
People make you nervous.
- Yeah, and nervous can make you dead.
- I'd hate to see him nervous for the same reason, are you getting nervous? - I'm getting real nervous.
- Look there's this giant called the Greek.
Cooks up anything from a cocktail to a terrorist special.
He was assigned to the same navy ship as me in 'nam.
Best underwater demolition man in the fleet.
He did time for putting his training to work in civilian life.
- What's his real name and where do we find him? - Sefaris, Harry Sefaris.
Last time I heard he was working a boat up in San Francisco, salvage boat.
- How you gonna stop Mike Donovan from telling the cops everything? - If he was talking, they'd be crawling all over your roof right now.
Forget it.
He's a rabbit.
- This is still our last haul.
- Yeah, well you may have the plans Sturges, but I know what they are.
So when I feel like quitting, I'll quit.
But not before.
I say we hit the 50 grand jackpot, tomorrow.
(mellow rock music) - Thank you.
- Here's what you wanted on Sefaris.
- This package is thicker than War and Peace.
- At least we have a mugshot of him.
- Can I get a beer? - What'd you get from San Francisco? - What we always knew about Jim.
He's one of the best cops ever to come out of their academy.
There's not one black mark on his record.
He didn't have anything to do with that gun being logged in the property room.
And I found out how it left the department.
- Sounds like IAD may be coming up empty handed.
- Don't I wish.
That gun was one of a load that SFPD sent out to be dumped at San Francisco bay.
Jim was one of the officers assigned to the dumping.
Talk about piling on the evidence.
It just looks worse now than when he had his badge taken away.
I don't know how the grand jury is ever gonna get to the truth.
- I've given you the truth.
- Jim, we've been waiting for you.
- What, to tell me how much you believe in me? - We didn't think we had to.
- Well, you won't have to anymore.
I've had my fill of this job.
As far as I'm concerned they can keep my badge.
(dramatic music) (motorbike engine revs) - I stopped by your apartment.
I thought I might find you here.
- I don't need or want company right now Hooker.
- Now look, you're not gonna kick us out of your life because of something you thought you heard last night.
You didn't stick around and find out what really happened.
- Help somebody else, don't make me a cause.
- Why not? You made Angelo Frascati one.
- Angelo? - The picture I saw in your laundry.
I called Stacy while she was still in San Francisco, had her check him out.
He was a friend of yours wasn't he? - He was more than friend.
Angelo was like a father to me.
When my folks died, the only decent advice I ever got came from Angelo.
He used to bring me to a place like this, say "you're gonna take care of all the people "in this city someday Jimmy.
" He took a kid headed in the wrong direction and pointed him to a damn fine good career.
- And Willie Donovan ran him down escaping from a robbery.
- Donovan murdered him.
And escaped with a lousy five year sentence.
Five years was justice after killing a man? Donovan deserved what he got.
But I didn't put that gun on him.
- I know that.
We'll turn it around Jim.
I promise.
(dramatic music) - Welcome back.
- I gotta try to listen and stay out of trouble.
So there's one thing I wanna say.
I remember the day we dumped those guns.
I watched every crate go into the water, I didn't touch one of them.
- The boat you were on.
Remember any of the crew.
- Yeah, he was the commercial diver on the boat.
Wouldn't let anybody go near his gear.
- His names Harry Sefaris, he's an old buddy of Willie Donovan.
- I don't think it's a big stretch to say that a military trained diver went back later to get those guns and gave one to a friend.
- Anderson's gonna say prove it.
- Why don't we start right here.
I think we're looking for someone who worked the money transporting routes long enough to learn the ropes.
To cash in later, like now.
Only the Greek and the Donovan's aren't on that armored car employee list, that I got.
- So we may be looking for a fourth man? - We're hoping he's been seen with our suspects at one of the raceways.
- Handing out mugshots takes a badge.
- You don't get off that easy.
- You're taking a big chance.
What about Anderson and IAD? - Who's inviting them? This is our party.
Stacy start showing mugshots at the West Side Track, we'll take Lakewood Speedway.
Jim take Motorama Race Park and keep in radio contact.
(motorbike engine roars) Said he recognized Willie Donovan's mugshot, said he always saw him in the company of the guy who owns this motorcycle rental place.
Fella by the name of Shay Sturges.
- Bingo.
Sturges used to be a driver for Pacific Security.
(suspenseful music) Hold it police! - [Hooker.]
I said hold it! - Hands on your head.
- Guns for rent as well as motorcycles Sturges? Or is this what you had Donovan and his friends use in heists? Read him his rights.
- [Romano.]
You have remain to silent.
- Cut the litany, I know my rights.
- Planning a trip? Or is this what you were trying to grab? - Hey that's private property.
You have no right.
Not without a search warrant.
- You've given my my search warrant.
You just circled your next job.
(suspenseful music) - [Control.]
4-Adam-16 meet - 4-Adam-16 roger.
This is 16.
- Suspects are on route to the next 211.
Music Center box office.
I briefed Jim he's on his bike rolling from the east side through the interchange.
- I'm in the are eta five minutes.
- Roger rolling.
- [Control.]
4-Adam-30 and all units in the vicinity.
Silent alarm Music Center box office, first and Remington.
- 4-Adam-30, roger.
(suspenseful rock music) (tires squealing) Spread eagle face down on your chin.
(motorbike engine roars) (tires squealing) - [Corrigan.]
I'm on him Hooker.
(motorbikes engines roar) (car horn blares) (car horn blares) (explosion booms) (explosion booms) (jazz music) - I just talked to Lieutenant Anderson.
He says the Greek isn't gonna talk, even when they unwire his jaw.
But Sturges tied the Donovan's to all the robberies.
And once Mike started confessing, they couldn't get the words down fast enough.
- What about the guns you found in Sturges's garage? - They were all that was left, of the guns the Greek brought up from San Francisco bay.
- The rest are probably out in the street right now.
- We'll get 'em back.
One at a time maybe, but we'll get 'em back.
- How many cops are gonna have to face those guns before that happens? - All part of the territory isn't it? - You know, for a while there I thought they were gonna take it all.
Not just the badge and gun, but everything.
- They got nothing.
- Oh they did.
They got a good piece of my faith.
I ended up treating my best friends like they were the enemy.
I'm sorry for that Hooker.
- Forget it.
We were all working for the same thing.
To put this back where it belongs.
(victorious music) (suspenseful electronic music)