T.J. Hooker (1982) s05e02 Episode Script
Return of a Cop
(adventurous music) - [Thief.]
It's a holdup, everybody do what I say, nobody gets hurt.
(shoppers shouting) Put your hands behind your head.
Come on, move get on.
(thieves and shoppers shouting) Don't be funny Fender, mama's gonna be drawing your pension.
- [Thief.]
Open it up.
Come on, put it all in there.
- [Thief.]
Take a look at that safe.
Now move! (ominous music) - [Dispatcher.]
All units, vicinity of Hampton's Market at 216 West Normandy Boulevard.
A 2-11 in progress.
- Four Adam 30, roger.
- Four Adam 16 to four Adam 30 on tack two.
Rolling backup.
- [Thief.]
What do we have here? Now, friend, you don't open that safe real quick, the little lady goes to Heaven.
That real clear to you? Huh! (tires screeching) - [Thief.]
Get that money in there.
Go on, get it in there.
(guns firing) - [Thief.]
Cops, hurry it up.
(guns firing) (thief grunts) - I put one down back there.
Let's go.
- There's two more.
- [T.
J.
.]
Where? - In back.
- [T.
J.
.]
Jim.
(ominous music) (guns firing) (glass shattering) - [Thief.]
You two are coming with us.
If we don't make it, you don't make it.
Forget it.
You don't want their blood all over the floor.
They don't mean nothing to me.
- Two hostages coming out the back.
We make sure they survive.
- [Thief.]
All right, everybody stay cool.
- [Thief.]
I got it.
- [Thief.]
I see just one car on our tail, this beautiful couple won't have nothing to live for.
(tires screeching) - [T.
J.
.]
Four Adam Advise all units that suspects have taken hostages and have fled south on Normandy in a blue '85 Ford van.
License number 2-K-9-7-600.
(tires screeching) (tires screeching) (tires screeching) - They blasted Danny.
What about Frank? - Don't sweat it.
I'll blast 'em with a legal counsel, an expert in the art of the plea bargain.
He knows enough to keep his mouth shut.
- When do we take off our next job? - Alex, you get greedy, you get dead.
The heat's on.
You just be calm, I'll pick out a couple of new vice presidents, I'll map out the plan, I'll ring your phone.
You keep quiet until then, okay? - Okay.
(car engines revving) - [Stacy.]
How are the hostages? - Safe, sound, and scared.
Suspects vanished down about two blocks away from where the hostages were let off.
- They've been getting away with these market heists for too long.
- [Stacy.]
We're back where we started, zero leads.
- Yeah, well, I'll try and scratch up some more bodies to throw into the case.
- Oh by the way, the lieutenant said to give you this.
(phone ringing) Oh he also said to tell you he's coming in on the 6:00 from Phoenix.
- What's he coming here for? - You would know that a lot better than we do.
He's your father.
- How are you, son? - Little surprised.
I'd have met you if you told me you were coming.
- Yeah, no need.
I'm an old fire horse.
I know my way back to the station.
- No arguing about that.
- Well, what'll it be, bunk with you or find a motel? - I rent a house, plenty of room.
- And, I'm an A-1 boarder, no trouble at all.
(melancholy horn music) - Not much like the old place.
- Oh it'll do.
Just needs a woman's touch.
- Now don't start that again.
- Well, you and Fran had the old magic.
Just that damn job that chews up a relationship and spits it out.
How are the kids? - Tommy and Chrissy are fine.
They're up with Fran in Oregon.
They visit whenever they have a chance.
- Penal code gives me the right.
- That doesn't explain why you're carrying.
- Never stopped.
Just an old habit, I guess.
- John, why did you come back? (country music) (patrons chattering) - You know it's funny, I never heard much of John Hooker before.
Now that's all everybody seems to be talking about.
- From what my dad's told me, he was sort of a living legend around the department.
- Yeah, I guess, the old-timers talk about him like he was a disciple to street police work.
I wonder why I never hear Hooker mention him.
- Maybe Hooker didn't wanna live with the legend.
Take it from me, it's tough enough coming on the job when one of your parents has already broken ground and built the ivory tower.
Besides, I understand he was off the job nearly 10 years.
- That's a long vacation.
Where's he been? - Pensioned.
He fought it, though.
It was a disability case.
He was shot during a hold up drawing the suspect's fire away from innocent bystanders.
- Sounds like a Medal of Valor candidate.
- He got on then he spent seven months in the hospital and the pension board gave him a shove out the door.
(patrons shouting) - [Patron.]
Come on over, we'll buy you a beer.
- Hey, you know what they say about drinking alone.
- Translated that means when will I join the cheering section? - Yeah, now that you mention it.
What's bugging you, Hooker? - Let's just say it's personal.
- Webster and Tomasino, Adam nine, Wayland and Edam, Adam seven, Jackson and Waters, Adam three, Sheridan and Corrigan Anybody seen Corrigan? - Right here, Hooker.
Look who I found roaming the halls.
- Jim here just saved me from future shock.
Things have really changed around here in the past 10 years.
(officers chuckling) - You want the honor, Hooker? - I'd like you all to meet, John Hooker, one of the finest cops to ever strap on the Sam Browne.
- [Officers.]
Morning, sir.
- Lt.
O'Brien said it'd be okay if I dig around my roots.
- Well, what can you say to an old friend who's as much a pain in the butt as ever.
(officers laughing) - About yesterday's market robbery number five in a month, people.
Each robbery at a market that had funds on hand to cash payroll checks from nearby factories.
And, again we have no leads.
Suspect in custody is a nickel-dime punk, probably hired for yesterday's job.
- Hooker, how do we know that? - He just came out of the slam last week on a boosting charge.
Now the detectives say that he either didn't know who he's working with or isn't talking which is the most likely case.
In my opinion, the two with the shotguns are the brains.
They engineered the robber M.
O.
s, the method of entry, hockey masks, the vehicle switch, everything.
- The shotgun, was it cut down? - It looked like that, about 16 inches.
- [John.]
How was it carried? - Concealed under his sport coat.
- You two mind if I carry on? - Oh sorry, just another old habit (chuckles).
- So, what all this adds up to is that the brains, and I use that word charitably, is still on the loose.
And, we can expect to hear more from him.
So, stay on your toes out there.
Pick up what information you can, pass it on to the detectives.
Any questions? All right, check your pin maps and I'll see ya on the street.
(phones ringing) - T.
J.
, you handled 'em real good.
(dynamic music) - Okay, like always, we enter from here, here, and here.
Two hired guns will meet us in the parking lot.
They hold down the check stands, we go after the safe.
- What's the take? - 40 thou, bottom.
- Security? - Silent alarm in the manager's cage, right there.
- Well, how do you figure we keep the manager from leaning on it? - I figure it's your job.
Just convince him it would be a foolish thing to do.
- Funny how these types listen when they're sucking on the business end of a 12-gauge shotgun.
- For a paper hanger, you sure picked up the flavor of this business real quick.
- Well, I got a good professor.
- No good about it, Johnny, you got the best, the very best.
(engine revving) - Guy says, "Gimme a dozen of those two.
" (men laughing) Hey, excuse me, I gotta-- - You'll never believe this.
You're at this taco stand with our father and this guy pulled, when this guy pulls up in the alley behind the place.
- Only we don't see him at first.
- But, your father does.
- And, he says, "Hey why don't you bust that guy "for grand theft auto?" - So, we look and we say how can you tell that that car is hot? - And your dad says, "Check out the rear plate.
"It's a switch.
" - And? - [Stacy.]
So, we look and it is.
- Bugs.
- Dead bugs.
You father says the plate had been the front plate off someone else's car.
Or this guy had been doing a lot of high speed driving in reverse.
- That's when the guy tried to split, your old man ran him down and busted him.
- [T.
J.
.]
Oh, you're kidding.
Well nobody can't say he isn't a damn fine cop.
- Coming here your idea or his? I mean two days in town both nights you end up in here.
I'd think the two of you'd want some private time.
- We never did get much of that.
John was never at home.
But, it's funny how well you can get to know somebody without a lot of that private time.
- Hooker, when Lt.
O'Brien was injured, why wasn't he retired on disability like your father? - Well, the lieutenant's a smart man.
He doesn't mind working inside most of the time.
They offered the same deal to J.
P.
He told 'em what to do with it.
He said, "I'm a street cop or no cop.
" Hey, this is what Sherry's is all about.
J.
P.
chow's on.
- Pizza, just what the doctor ordered.
I should have paid this visit years ago.
Oh it's great hanging out with everyone, seeing everybody around the old department, huh? - John, what ever happened to the suspects in the robbery when you were shot? - Well, it was never solved.
Never found the guy who pulled the trigger.
- 10 years (mumbles) nailed for something.
- Maybe but not for putting a hole in me (chuckles).
You know, I read the reports on the market robbery.
There's very little detail on the descriptions.
I guess you didn't get close enough to get a good look, you know with the masks and all, huh? - No, but we called in a followup later after Jim remembered something.
- I was running the heist through my mind and I remembered what you were telling us about the two guys who shot you.
The M.
O.
is identical.
- Yeah, that's interesting.
- And, the query is done here.
We can run just about any combination you could ask for.
- What about the M.
O.
? - Sure if there's something to work with.
- Would you try one for me? - Mmm hmm.
- Like that market robbery? Could you compare the M.
O.
with the suspect description? - I'm already making a run like that this afternoon for the detectives.
- Is that right? - Yeah (giggles).
- Hey, maybe I can look at the results, see how all this modern technology comes together, huh? - I'll see what I can do.
- Thank you, baby doll.
(phones ringing) - You're really getting into this modern technology.
Any particular reason? - Oh, just curiosity.
Trying to figure out how you do it these days.
Thinking of writing a book, Return of the Dinosaur.
Got a luncheon date with some of the old-timers down in bunko.
See you tonight? - Uh huh.
- Hey John, question.
True or false, have you been bugging the robbery team about that market heist? - Bugging no, professional interest yes.
- Well they're the new breed, J.
P.
and you're retired.
It makes them uncomfortable, you know what I mean? - Yeah, I guess you're right.
Just caught my interest is all.
Trying to see if I get my old head in gear again, solve a good case, do something worthwhile.
Like I heard that latent print boys had lifted a partial off the market safe.
I was just wondering if you got anything on it yet.
- Well it's an unclear partial and they're having trouble classify it.
Besides, the partial means nothing till you have a body to go with it, right? - Basic police work, Pete.
Computers will never take the place of that, will they? - I sure hope not.
- See ya later, Pete.
- Mmm hmm.
(radio beeping) - [Dispatcher.]
Four Adam 30 meet four Adam 16 on tack two.
- All right, I'm 30, go 16.
- Just wanted to let you know we're taking out code seven at Benny's, 1am.
- [T.
J.
.]
Benny's 1am, gotcha.
How's it going? - Quiet, but you never know on a night like tonight.
We're keeping an eye on anything suspicious at markets along West 57th.
- Stakeout teams are posted along the boulevard.
If anything goes down, they'll be ready.
Meantime, I'm off duty to meet J.
P.
for dinner.
- Have fun.
- J.
P, I'm sorry I'm late, I (slow piano music) (mysterious music) (John knocking) (door crashing) - Ozzie, you're a hard man to find.
- Hooker, is that really you? What are you doing here? - I came back to town.
First thing I wanted to do was look up an old friend.
- Come on, J.
P.
I'm no old friend and you're no cop anymore.
- Time's come when I wanna take one last shot of a little police work.
I need something from the street, Ozzie.
I think you have it.
- No, I don't move with that crowd anymore.
- What you doing, shooting, Ozzie, huh? Baby monkey's crawling, itching, scratching, and there's only one way to stop him, money.
This money'll put the monkey down, buy you a heavy fix.
- I am hurting, J.
P.
It's been bad lately.
I want his name, he's heists markets, taken down two in the last week.
- If they found out.
- Nobody's gonna know except you and me.
- J.
P.
they'd kill me.
- Well, what do you prefer, the alley or this? - There's this guy named Lucas, Alex Lucas, drives a red Mercedes.
Word is he carries and he's been known to take off a market here and there.
And, that's all I know.
He's around but I don't know where.
(door pieces clattering) - Hello Frank.
This is John Hooker.
Yeah.
Listen, about that market robbery the other day, I understand you lifted an unclean partial print off the safe.
Yeah, would a name help? Yeah, I picked up a rumor that the suspect might be a guy called Lucas, Alex Lucas.
You could check the partial against the name.
There shouldn't be too many of them.
The boys down at the precinct would really appreciate it.
I'll check with you in the morning.
Okay old buddy, thanks.
(door clacking) - Hey, I waited an hour before I went off to dinner.
- Oh my God.
I got involved with some of the guys.
- What's going on with you? - What kinda question is that? - Straight one, I'd like a straight answer.
You here for something more than just a visit? - Look, son, I don't like your tone.
- Oh come on, that doesn't wash anymore.
Talk to me.
For once in your life, talk to me.
- About what? - About you, me, what's going on in your head, this paper.
Talk to me! - Well I saw this paper before I came.
I brought it with me to show to you.
Besides that I don't have much of anything to say.
(dark music) (typewriter clacking) Hey son, take a look at this.
- Yeah, what is it? - Alex Lucas and his fingerprints match the partial taken off that market safe.
- Beautiful, how'd prints come up with his name? And, how'd you get onto it? - Just luck, incredible luck.
I dropped into a few of my old haunts.
Ran into one of my old informants.
- And, he gave you Lucas, just like that? - No, it wasn't as easy as that.
No, I had to take the first giant step.
- By telling him about the robberies.
- I took a long shot that he knew something.
- And, he did.
- Yes, he did.
It was sheer luck, incredible, dumb, stupid luck.
But, the big thing is that Lucas wheels around in a red Mercedes and he's been seen right here in your district.
- Well, that's great police work.
We'll give it to the watch.
Wanna get on it? - If this guy's nailed, we'll put it in the report courtesy of J.
P.
Hooker.
- Hey son, I want in.
- You're retired, that's out of the question.
- Well, that's a mere technicality.
I can get it cleared.
(phones ringing) - You've got 25 years of this under your belt.
Why ask for more? - To satisfy something inside, something Oh, you wouldn't understand.
- Try me.
- That article you found, it's the reason I came back.
Market robbers had pushed me off the job and I got to thinking how nice it would feel to be alive again inside.
That's what I want you to understand, that it's the police work, hunting 'em and finding 'em, and bringing 'em in.
That's what breathes life into me, gives me a sense of being.
old fool or not, I wanna do one good piece of police work, just one more time.
- You know that's the first time in your life you ever opened up to me.
- If I had to live my life over again, there'd be a hell of a lot of changes, I can guarantee you that, but, I can't.
So, what do you say? Just you and me, one more hunt, one more good bust? (T.
J.
chuckles) - We've never even hit a baseball together.
Now you wanna team up doing police work.
- I got a hunch that together, we'd be dynamite.
Looks like we're coming up empty around here.
What say we check that informant of yours and try to place Lucas's car? - You forget this part of the police work, patience.
(John chuckles) - So, I wake up and that dream is just as fresh and alive as it was before.
I say to my wife, baby get the dream book.
And, sure enough, there it is, just like I dreamed it, number 242.
- You're hooked on those numbers, Freddy.
- Yeah, I put $2 on it.
- And? - Lost, like always.
(T.
J.
chuckles) Okay, Sergeant Hooker.
- You gotta put your money in the bank.
- Yeah, but it's not as much fun.
- Freddy, take a look at this for me, will ya? - Never seen him before.
Don't know who he is.
- Come on, that picture hit you like a ton of bricks.
Who is he? - [Freddy.]
I said I never saw him before.
- You cut the bull, who is he? - John, John, John, I'll take care of this.
Thank you.
Sorry about that, Freddy.
He's just a little impatient.
Forget it.
Here you go.
Thank you, Freddy.
- Thank you.
Oh Hooker, the dude drives a red Mercedes.
I see him parked over on Dillon Street a few times.
- Thank you, Freddy, that'll help.
- I could've got it out of him my way, too.
- [T.
J.
.]
Yeah, but I have to work with these people long after you're back in Phoenix.
- There's more than one way to skin a cat.
You're a damn good cop, but you don't know it all yet.
- Maybe you can teach me.
It's a little late in the ballgame, but I'm listening.
- What are we fighting about, son, my interrogation techniques or my lack of qualifications as a father.
- You pick it.
- Look, if you want, I'll stay out of your car and off of your back.
Maybe I'm pushing too hard.
It just seems like the clock is running and I'm standing still.
It won't happen again.
- Forget it.
Let's go check out Dillon Street.
(heavy rhythmic music) (tires screeching) - Looks like our man's car.
I'll cover the back.
- John, take it easy.
I'll call for backup.
It's been over 10 years, you know.
- Oh but this I'd never forget.
Look, put the call through.
I'll cover the back till they get here.
(door slamming) - J-- Control, this is four Adam - [Dispatcher.]
Adam 30 stand by.
Four Adam 23 go ahead with your message and all other units stand by.
- [Dispatcher.]
235 Stationary unit for 37.
- [T.
J.
.]
Control, this is four Adam (lively music) - Don't touch it.
Stand up, punk.
Stand up.
- Take it easy, pop, you might hurt somebody with that thing.
- Don't tell me you're afraid of an old man, punk.
- I am when he's holding a piece on me.
- Smart boy.
(ominous music) How long you been ripping off markets? - You writing a book? Who are you anyway? - Back away from that table.
- You got a warrant, cop? - I said back away.
(dramatic music) (furniture clattering) (guns firing) What the hell you come flying in the front door like that for? - What the hell were you doing in the room? - He spotted me, I had to move in.
- You were supposed to wait for backup.
- I'll call an ambulance.
- Take your time, he's dead.
- Better him than you, right? - Or you, right? (dispatcher mumbles) That wraps it up here.
Starting now our little adventure as partners is over.
- Over? Hey, what is this? I kept that guy from blowing you away.
I had no choice but to take it.
- Take it easy.
Nobody said it wasn't clean.
But, you could've waited.
- I told you before, he saw me outside, I had to move.
- It's a matter of opinion.
Anyway, the brass don't want any more questions than is necessary, O'Brien said no more ride-alongs, and I agree.
- And, that's it? - You're welcome to come down to the station and visit, watch the case develop on paper, and that's it.
- Okay, I'll take what I can get.
- Shooting team's waiting to talk to you.
J.
P.
it was fun while it lasted.
- Problem these days is nothing lasts long enough.
- Why'd he try to take the guy without you, Hooker? He's a good cop.
He knows better.
- Well, he said he was afraid that we'd lose him if he didn't.
- You buy that? - I'm still thinking about it.
- What are you getting at, Jim? - I'm not sure.
It's just going in alone that way.
J.
P.
could've been the one we're taking to the morgue.
You'd think he'd know better.
(J.
P.
coughs) (T.
J.
knocks) - Anything wrong? - No, these damn vitamins are so big, they'd choke a horse.
Forgot to take 'em earlier.
- I forgot to tell you Tommy and Chrissy called.
They said to say hello.
- Yeah, hey they're a real pair, aren't they? Too bad your mother, God bless her, never got to see 'em.
(delicate music) - Well, Oregon's a way, but I make it a point to see them as much as possible.
- Something I never did.
- I guess we all wish for things we never had.
But, I don't blame you for anything, J.
P.
You did the best you could.
- The best wasn't good enough, was it? I know that now as well as you.
God if your mother hadn't died so damn young.
She could've taught me so much more about living and loving and raising the kids.
You missed a lot not knowing your son.
- I know.
- Those last days, sitting there with her, watching her waste away to nothing.
She always kept that smile and strength.
There's a whole lot of her in you, son.
A whole lot.
- Lieutenant.
- [Lieutenant.]
Yeah Corrigan.
- You were around back when John Hooker was shot, weren't you? - I was right in the middle of it.
hard to believe your life goes by that fast.
- Is it possible, Alex Lucas could have been a suspect in that robbery, the one who shot John? - I guess it could be possible, but you know J.
P.
mentioned that this morning at coffee.
It's kinda remote though, no, no.
- Then the suspect who shot him was never IDed? - No he wasn't.
What's bugging you anyway, Corrigan? - Oh nothing, I'm just curious.
- Ah curious, yeah well, that's a good thing for a cop to be.
(phones ringing) - Hey Mary.
Mary did the I sheet on Alex Lucas come in yet? - Yeah, 'bout an hour ago.
Got it right here.
- Okay thanks, Mary.
- You're welcome.
(dynamic music) (rifle clacking) - Get the bags packed to be ready to split when I get back here.
- Let's go now, Ed.
Forget about the market.
It's too hot out there.
- I'm taking the market, Tina, we need the traveling cash.
- Look, Alex is dead.
You've got two inexperienced kids to go with.
It's too risky.
Just forget about it.
We don't even need the money.
- The punks will be okay.
Besides if they get killed that's their problem.
It's 40 grand, Tina, and it'll take us a long way.
Don't worry, baby, I'd kill half the town to get back here.
- [Stacy.]
And, Lucas matched the description of the suspect who shot J.
P.
? - I just can't help thinking of the possibility that your dad was on a hunting trip looking for revenge.
- You're dead wrong.
Did you see Lucas's FBI sheet? - Yeah, I know he was in the Kansas State Pen for forgery the day your dad was shot, but what if J.
P.
thought Lucas was the one and then used you to get to him? - He was a good cop.
Good cops don't go hunting for revenge.
- He's not that type of man.
- Then all this is just coincidental, right? - I didn't say that.
I said he isn't a killer.
Operator, I'd like information in Phoenix, Arizona.
- Hey, baby face.
I wonder if it's possible to run Alex Lucas for any known associates, huh? - You really are persistent, aren't you, Mr.
Hooker? - Ah be a love, Mary.
I just wanna show that kid in the old (quacks) can still function, huh? - (giggles) Well, it so happens I've already done that run for the detectives.
- And? (phones ringing) - Come.
Okay, records show Lucas was questioned in the field a few times in the company of an Ed Jokish.
Most times in that red Mercedes, but twice in a gray Daytona.
- Have you got a license number? - Mmm hmm, 1-H-A-D-3-6-9.
Registered to a Mrs.
Tina Jokish, 247 Overland.
- Thanks again, Mary.
- Yes, I understand what you're saying.
Well, my father never mentioned it.
Thank you, Doctor.
(dynamic music) - Hooker, I know he's your father.
I know it's tough to see a lot of things you maybe don't wanna see.
- What are you saying? - He conned Mary for this information on Jokish then took out of here like a shot.
- He has to be stopped, Hooker.
- You're right.
I didn't see it.
Didn't wanna see it.
Let's roll.
(ominous music) - Who are you? What are you doing in here? - Where is he? - I don't know what you're talking about.
I think you better get out of here right now.
- Shut up, shut up.
- Listen to me.
- Shut up.
- I don't want you in my house.
Get out.
- Shut up.
You his wife? - Yes, let go of me.
- He's a very dangerous man and I wanna find him and I wanna find him now.
- I don't know what you're talking about.
Let go of me.
- Now you shut up.
- Ow! - Tell me where he is.
- No! (dramatic music) (tires screeching) - Jim, cover me.
- I had to tell him.
He's gonna kill Eddie, isn't he? - Then he was here? - He's crazy.
He scared me to death.
He threatened me till I told him where Eddie was.
He's a cop, isn't he? - You told him where your husband is? - Eddie's gonna hold up Phil's Supermarket at three.
He's crazy.
I had to tell him.
(dramatic music) - [Ed.]
This is a hold up.
Everybody get up against the window.
Come on, move.
Put your hands over your head.
- [Thief.]
Fill that.
- [Ed.]
Keep 'em up.
Turn around.
- [Thief.]
Hurry up.
Hurry up, hurry up.
You, you, come on, come on, hurry up.
(upbeat store music) - [Ed.]
Come on! - [Thief.]
Hurry, come on, fill it up.
(tires screeching) - [Ed.]
Cops.
- Stacy, Corrigan, take the front.
- [Ed.]
Let's get outta here.
(upbeat store music) - Hold it.
Drop your gun.
(guns firing) Put your hands on your head.
- Hold it, punk.
Gotta go through me first.
- No.
(guns firing) (upbeat store music) Just take it easy.
- Old reflexes aren't what they used to be.
- Where are you? Why did you do it? - You know, huh? - I called your doctor in Phoenix.
We had a long talk about, about your health.
- I watched your mother die and I didn't wanna go through what she did, understand? - Why didn't you tell me? - What was I to do? Ask you to pull the plug when it got bad? The way your mother asked me.
I couldn't do it for her and I wasn't going to ask you to face that same decision.
No, it's better this way, on the street, in action.
Quick.
Hell, I knew those guys weren't the ones who shot me up that time.
They had the same M.
O.
I just used it as an excuse to muscle in.
- Hooker, an ambulance is on the way.
- It is.
- About what that doctor said, that's our secret, between you and me, promise me, son.
- I promise.
- That sounds good.
I'm glad we finally had our little talk.
(sad horn music) - He did it his way, Hooker.
He'd be satisfied.
- I never realized before how much I'm like my father.
- Stubborn, proud, lovable, a good cop all the way.
- Good epitaph.
He'd have liked that.
- It's perfect.
No sad songs for John Hooker.
- There were a lot of things both of us would like to have done over, but no sad songs.
- He loved you, you know that.
- I know.
I just hope it got through to him that I loved him too.
(sad piano music) (adventurous music)
It's a holdup, everybody do what I say, nobody gets hurt.
(shoppers shouting) Put your hands behind your head.
Come on, move get on.
(thieves and shoppers shouting) Don't be funny Fender, mama's gonna be drawing your pension.
- [Thief.]
Open it up.
Come on, put it all in there.
- [Thief.]
Take a look at that safe.
Now move! (ominous music) - [Dispatcher.]
All units, vicinity of Hampton's Market at 216 West Normandy Boulevard.
A 2-11 in progress.
- Four Adam 30, roger.
- Four Adam 16 to four Adam 30 on tack two.
Rolling backup.
- [Thief.]
What do we have here? Now, friend, you don't open that safe real quick, the little lady goes to Heaven.
That real clear to you? Huh! (tires screeching) - [Thief.]
Get that money in there.
Go on, get it in there.
(guns firing) - [Thief.]
Cops, hurry it up.
(guns firing) (thief grunts) - I put one down back there.
Let's go.
- There's two more.
- [T.
J.
.]
Where? - In back.
- [T.
J.
.]
Jim.
(ominous music) (guns firing) (glass shattering) - [Thief.]
You two are coming with us.
If we don't make it, you don't make it.
Forget it.
You don't want their blood all over the floor.
They don't mean nothing to me.
- Two hostages coming out the back.
We make sure they survive.
- [Thief.]
All right, everybody stay cool.
- [Thief.]
I got it.
- [Thief.]
I see just one car on our tail, this beautiful couple won't have nothing to live for.
(tires screeching) - [T.
J.
.]
Four Adam Advise all units that suspects have taken hostages and have fled south on Normandy in a blue '85 Ford van.
License number 2-K-9-7-600.
(tires screeching) (tires screeching) (tires screeching) - They blasted Danny.
What about Frank? - Don't sweat it.
I'll blast 'em with a legal counsel, an expert in the art of the plea bargain.
He knows enough to keep his mouth shut.
- When do we take off our next job? - Alex, you get greedy, you get dead.
The heat's on.
You just be calm, I'll pick out a couple of new vice presidents, I'll map out the plan, I'll ring your phone.
You keep quiet until then, okay? - Okay.
(car engines revving) - [Stacy.]
How are the hostages? - Safe, sound, and scared.
Suspects vanished down about two blocks away from where the hostages were let off.
- They've been getting away with these market heists for too long.
- [Stacy.]
We're back where we started, zero leads.
- Yeah, well, I'll try and scratch up some more bodies to throw into the case.
- Oh by the way, the lieutenant said to give you this.
(phone ringing) Oh he also said to tell you he's coming in on the 6:00 from Phoenix.
- What's he coming here for? - You would know that a lot better than we do.
He's your father.
- How are you, son? - Little surprised.
I'd have met you if you told me you were coming.
- Yeah, no need.
I'm an old fire horse.
I know my way back to the station.
- No arguing about that.
- Well, what'll it be, bunk with you or find a motel? - I rent a house, plenty of room.
- And, I'm an A-1 boarder, no trouble at all.
(melancholy horn music) - Not much like the old place.
- Oh it'll do.
Just needs a woman's touch.
- Now don't start that again.
- Well, you and Fran had the old magic.
Just that damn job that chews up a relationship and spits it out.
How are the kids? - Tommy and Chrissy are fine.
They're up with Fran in Oregon.
They visit whenever they have a chance.
- Penal code gives me the right.
- That doesn't explain why you're carrying.
- Never stopped.
Just an old habit, I guess.
- John, why did you come back? (country music) (patrons chattering) - You know it's funny, I never heard much of John Hooker before.
Now that's all everybody seems to be talking about.
- From what my dad's told me, he was sort of a living legend around the department.
- Yeah, I guess, the old-timers talk about him like he was a disciple to street police work.
I wonder why I never hear Hooker mention him.
- Maybe Hooker didn't wanna live with the legend.
Take it from me, it's tough enough coming on the job when one of your parents has already broken ground and built the ivory tower.
Besides, I understand he was off the job nearly 10 years.
- That's a long vacation.
Where's he been? - Pensioned.
He fought it, though.
It was a disability case.
He was shot during a hold up drawing the suspect's fire away from innocent bystanders.
- Sounds like a Medal of Valor candidate.
- He got on then he spent seven months in the hospital and the pension board gave him a shove out the door.
(patrons shouting) - [Patron.]
Come on over, we'll buy you a beer.
- Hey, you know what they say about drinking alone.
- Translated that means when will I join the cheering section? - Yeah, now that you mention it.
What's bugging you, Hooker? - Let's just say it's personal.
- Webster and Tomasino, Adam nine, Wayland and Edam, Adam seven, Jackson and Waters, Adam three, Sheridan and Corrigan Anybody seen Corrigan? - Right here, Hooker.
Look who I found roaming the halls.
- Jim here just saved me from future shock.
Things have really changed around here in the past 10 years.
(officers chuckling) - You want the honor, Hooker? - I'd like you all to meet, John Hooker, one of the finest cops to ever strap on the Sam Browne.
- [Officers.]
Morning, sir.
- Lt.
O'Brien said it'd be okay if I dig around my roots.
- Well, what can you say to an old friend who's as much a pain in the butt as ever.
(officers laughing) - About yesterday's market robbery number five in a month, people.
Each robbery at a market that had funds on hand to cash payroll checks from nearby factories.
And, again we have no leads.
Suspect in custody is a nickel-dime punk, probably hired for yesterday's job.
- Hooker, how do we know that? - He just came out of the slam last week on a boosting charge.
Now the detectives say that he either didn't know who he's working with or isn't talking which is the most likely case.
In my opinion, the two with the shotguns are the brains.
They engineered the robber M.
O.
s, the method of entry, hockey masks, the vehicle switch, everything.
- The shotgun, was it cut down? - It looked like that, about 16 inches.
- [John.]
How was it carried? - Concealed under his sport coat.
- You two mind if I carry on? - Oh sorry, just another old habit (chuckles).
- So, what all this adds up to is that the brains, and I use that word charitably, is still on the loose.
And, we can expect to hear more from him.
So, stay on your toes out there.
Pick up what information you can, pass it on to the detectives.
Any questions? All right, check your pin maps and I'll see ya on the street.
(phones ringing) - T.
J.
, you handled 'em real good.
(dynamic music) - Okay, like always, we enter from here, here, and here.
Two hired guns will meet us in the parking lot.
They hold down the check stands, we go after the safe.
- What's the take? - 40 thou, bottom.
- Security? - Silent alarm in the manager's cage, right there.
- Well, how do you figure we keep the manager from leaning on it? - I figure it's your job.
Just convince him it would be a foolish thing to do.
- Funny how these types listen when they're sucking on the business end of a 12-gauge shotgun.
- For a paper hanger, you sure picked up the flavor of this business real quick.
- Well, I got a good professor.
- No good about it, Johnny, you got the best, the very best.
(engine revving) - Guy says, "Gimme a dozen of those two.
" (men laughing) Hey, excuse me, I gotta-- - You'll never believe this.
You're at this taco stand with our father and this guy pulled, when this guy pulls up in the alley behind the place.
- Only we don't see him at first.
- But, your father does.
- And, he says, "Hey why don't you bust that guy "for grand theft auto?" - So, we look and we say how can you tell that that car is hot? - And your dad says, "Check out the rear plate.
"It's a switch.
" - And? - [Stacy.]
So, we look and it is.
- Bugs.
- Dead bugs.
You father says the plate had been the front plate off someone else's car.
Or this guy had been doing a lot of high speed driving in reverse.
- That's when the guy tried to split, your old man ran him down and busted him.
- [T.
J.
.]
Oh, you're kidding.
Well nobody can't say he isn't a damn fine cop.
- Coming here your idea or his? I mean two days in town both nights you end up in here.
I'd think the two of you'd want some private time.
- We never did get much of that.
John was never at home.
But, it's funny how well you can get to know somebody without a lot of that private time.
- Hooker, when Lt.
O'Brien was injured, why wasn't he retired on disability like your father? - Well, the lieutenant's a smart man.
He doesn't mind working inside most of the time.
They offered the same deal to J.
P.
He told 'em what to do with it.
He said, "I'm a street cop or no cop.
" Hey, this is what Sherry's is all about.
J.
P.
chow's on.
- Pizza, just what the doctor ordered.
I should have paid this visit years ago.
Oh it's great hanging out with everyone, seeing everybody around the old department, huh? - John, what ever happened to the suspects in the robbery when you were shot? - Well, it was never solved.
Never found the guy who pulled the trigger.
- 10 years (mumbles) nailed for something.
- Maybe but not for putting a hole in me (chuckles).
You know, I read the reports on the market robbery.
There's very little detail on the descriptions.
I guess you didn't get close enough to get a good look, you know with the masks and all, huh? - No, but we called in a followup later after Jim remembered something.
- I was running the heist through my mind and I remembered what you were telling us about the two guys who shot you.
The M.
O.
is identical.
- Yeah, that's interesting.
- And, the query is done here.
We can run just about any combination you could ask for.
- What about the M.
O.
? - Sure if there's something to work with.
- Would you try one for me? - Mmm hmm.
- Like that market robbery? Could you compare the M.
O.
with the suspect description? - I'm already making a run like that this afternoon for the detectives.
- Is that right? - Yeah (giggles).
- Hey, maybe I can look at the results, see how all this modern technology comes together, huh? - I'll see what I can do.
- Thank you, baby doll.
(phones ringing) - You're really getting into this modern technology.
Any particular reason? - Oh, just curiosity.
Trying to figure out how you do it these days.
Thinking of writing a book, Return of the Dinosaur.
Got a luncheon date with some of the old-timers down in bunko.
See you tonight? - Uh huh.
- Hey John, question.
True or false, have you been bugging the robbery team about that market heist? - Bugging no, professional interest yes.
- Well they're the new breed, J.
P.
and you're retired.
It makes them uncomfortable, you know what I mean? - Yeah, I guess you're right.
Just caught my interest is all.
Trying to see if I get my old head in gear again, solve a good case, do something worthwhile.
Like I heard that latent print boys had lifted a partial off the market safe.
I was just wondering if you got anything on it yet.
- Well it's an unclear partial and they're having trouble classify it.
Besides, the partial means nothing till you have a body to go with it, right? - Basic police work, Pete.
Computers will never take the place of that, will they? - I sure hope not.
- See ya later, Pete.
- Mmm hmm.
(radio beeping) - [Dispatcher.]
Four Adam 30 meet four Adam 16 on tack two.
- All right, I'm 30, go 16.
- Just wanted to let you know we're taking out code seven at Benny's, 1am.
- [T.
J.
.]
Benny's 1am, gotcha.
How's it going? - Quiet, but you never know on a night like tonight.
We're keeping an eye on anything suspicious at markets along West 57th.
- Stakeout teams are posted along the boulevard.
If anything goes down, they'll be ready.
Meantime, I'm off duty to meet J.
P.
for dinner.
- Have fun.
- J.
P, I'm sorry I'm late, I (slow piano music) (mysterious music) (John knocking) (door crashing) - Ozzie, you're a hard man to find.
- Hooker, is that really you? What are you doing here? - I came back to town.
First thing I wanted to do was look up an old friend.
- Come on, J.
P.
I'm no old friend and you're no cop anymore.
- Time's come when I wanna take one last shot of a little police work.
I need something from the street, Ozzie.
I think you have it.
- No, I don't move with that crowd anymore.
- What you doing, shooting, Ozzie, huh? Baby monkey's crawling, itching, scratching, and there's only one way to stop him, money.
This money'll put the monkey down, buy you a heavy fix.
- I am hurting, J.
P.
It's been bad lately.
I want his name, he's heists markets, taken down two in the last week.
- If they found out.
- Nobody's gonna know except you and me.
- J.
P.
they'd kill me.
- Well, what do you prefer, the alley or this? - There's this guy named Lucas, Alex Lucas, drives a red Mercedes.
Word is he carries and he's been known to take off a market here and there.
And, that's all I know.
He's around but I don't know where.
(door pieces clattering) - Hello Frank.
This is John Hooker.
Yeah.
Listen, about that market robbery the other day, I understand you lifted an unclean partial print off the safe.
Yeah, would a name help? Yeah, I picked up a rumor that the suspect might be a guy called Lucas, Alex Lucas.
You could check the partial against the name.
There shouldn't be too many of them.
The boys down at the precinct would really appreciate it.
I'll check with you in the morning.
Okay old buddy, thanks.
(door clacking) - Hey, I waited an hour before I went off to dinner.
- Oh my God.
I got involved with some of the guys.
- What's going on with you? - What kinda question is that? - Straight one, I'd like a straight answer.
You here for something more than just a visit? - Look, son, I don't like your tone.
- Oh come on, that doesn't wash anymore.
Talk to me.
For once in your life, talk to me.
- About what? - About you, me, what's going on in your head, this paper.
Talk to me! - Well I saw this paper before I came.
I brought it with me to show to you.
Besides that I don't have much of anything to say.
(dark music) (typewriter clacking) Hey son, take a look at this.
- Yeah, what is it? - Alex Lucas and his fingerprints match the partial taken off that market safe.
- Beautiful, how'd prints come up with his name? And, how'd you get onto it? - Just luck, incredible luck.
I dropped into a few of my old haunts.
Ran into one of my old informants.
- And, he gave you Lucas, just like that? - No, it wasn't as easy as that.
No, I had to take the first giant step.
- By telling him about the robberies.
- I took a long shot that he knew something.
- And, he did.
- Yes, he did.
It was sheer luck, incredible, dumb, stupid luck.
But, the big thing is that Lucas wheels around in a red Mercedes and he's been seen right here in your district.
- Well, that's great police work.
We'll give it to the watch.
Wanna get on it? - If this guy's nailed, we'll put it in the report courtesy of J.
P.
Hooker.
- Hey son, I want in.
- You're retired, that's out of the question.
- Well, that's a mere technicality.
I can get it cleared.
(phones ringing) - You've got 25 years of this under your belt.
Why ask for more? - To satisfy something inside, something Oh, you wouldn't understand.
- Try me.
- That article you found, it's the reason I came back.
Market robbers had pushed me off the job and I got to thinking how nice it would feel to be alive again inside.
That's what I want you to understand, that it's the police work, hunting 'em and finding 'em, and bringing 'em in.
That's what breathes life into me, gives me a sense of being.
old fool or not, I wanna do one good piece of police work, just one more time.
- You know that's the first time in your life you ever opened up to me.
- If I had to live my life over again, there'd be a hell of a lot of changes, I can guarantee you that, but, I can't.
So, what do you say? Just you and me, one more hunt, one more good bust? (T.
J.
chuckles) - We've never even hit a baseball together.
Now you wanna team up doing police work.
- I got a hunch that together, we'd be dynamite.
Looks like we're coming up empty around here.
What say we check that informant of yours and try to place Lucas's car? - You forget this part of the police work, patience.
(John chuckles) - So, I wake up and that dream is just as fresh and alive as it was before.
I say to my wife, baby get the dream book.
And, sure enough, there it is, just like I dreamed it, number 242.
- You're hooked on those numbers, Freddy.
- Yeah, I put $2 on it.
- And? - Lost, like always.
(T.
J.
chuckles) Okay, Sergeant Hooker.
- You gotta put your money in the bank.
- Yeah, but it's not as much fun.
- Freddy, take a look at this for me, will ya? - Never seen him before.
Don't know who he is.
- Come on, that picture hit you like a ton of bricks.
Who is he? - [Freddy.]
I said I never saw him before.
- You cut the bull, who is he? - John, John, John, I'll take care of this.
Thank you.
Sorry about that, Freddy.
He's just a little impatient.
Forget it.
Here you go.
Thank you, Freddy.
- Thank you.
Oh Hooker, the dude drives a red Mercedes.
I see him parked over on Dillon Street a few times.
- Thank you, Freddy, that'll help.
- I could've got it out of him my way, too.
- [T.
J.
.]
Yeah, but I have to work with these people long after you're back in Phoenix.
- There's more than one way to skin a cat.
You're a damn good cop, but you don't know it all yet.
- Maybe you can teach me.
It's a little late in the ballgame, but I'm listening.
- What are we fighting about, son, my interrogation techniques or my lack of qualifications as a father.
- You pick it.
- Look, if you want, I'll stay out of your car and off of your back.
Maybe I'm pushing too hard.
It just seems like the clock is running and I'm standing still.
It won't happen again.
- Forget it.
Let's go check out Dillon Street.
(heavy rhythmic music) (tires screeching) - Looks like our man's car.
I'll cover the back.
- John, take it easy.
I'll call for backup.
It's been over 10 years, you know.
- Oh but this I'd never forget.
Look, put the call through.
I'll cover the back till they get here.
(door slamming) - J-- Control, this is four Adam - [Dispatcher.]
Adam 30 stand by.
Four Adam 23 go ahead with your message and all other units stand by.
- [Dispatcher.]
235 Stationary unit for 37.
- [T.
J.
.]
Control, this is four Adam (lively music) - Don't touch it.
Stand up, punk.
Stand up.
- Take it easy, pop, you might hurt somebody with that thing.
- Don't tell me you're afraid of an old man, punk.
- I am when he's holding a piece on me.
- Smart boy.
(ominous music) How long you been ripping off markets? - You writing a book? Who are you anyway? - Back away from that table.
- You got a warrant, cop? - I said back away.
(dramatic music) (furniture clattering) (guns firing) What the hell you come flying in the front door like that for? - What the hell were you doing in the room? - He spotted me, I had to move in.
- You were supposed to wait for backup.
- I'll call an ambulance.
- Take your time, he's dead.
- Better him than you, right? - Or you, right? (dispatcher mumbles) That wraps it up here.
Starting now our little adventure as partners is over.
- Over? Hey, what is this? I kept that guy from blowing you away.
I had no choice but to take it.
- Take it easy.
Nobody said it wasn't clean.
But, you could've waited.
- I told you before, he saw me outside, I had to move.
- It's a matter of opinion.
Anyway, the brass don't want any more questions than is necessary, O'Brien said no more ride-alongs, and I agree.
- And, that's it? - You're welcome to come down to the station and visit, watch the case develop on paper, and that's it.
- Okay, I'll take what I can get.
- Shooting team's waiting to talk to you.
J.
P.
it was fun while it lasted.
- Problem these days is nothing lasts long enough.
- Why'd he try to take the guy without you, Hooker? He's a good cop.
He knows better.
- Well, he said he was afraid that we'd lose him if he didn't.
- You buy that? - I'm still thinking about it.
- What are you getting at, Jim? - I'm not sure.
It's just going in alone that way.
J.
P.
could've been the one we're taking to the morgue.
You'd think he'd know better.
(J.
P.
coughs) (T.
J.
knocks) - Anything wrong? - No, these damn vitamins are so big, they'd choke a horse.
Forgot to take 'em earlier.
- I forgot to tell you Tommy and Chrissy called.
They said to say hello.
- Yeah, hey they're a real pair, aren't they? Too bad your mother, God bless her, never got to see 'em.
(delicate music) - Well, Oregon's a way, but I make it a point to see them as much as possible.
- Something I never did.
- I guess we all wish for things we never had.
But, I don't blame you for anything, J.
P.
You did the best you could.
- The best wasn't good enough, was it? I know that now as well as you.
God if your mother hadn't died so damn young.
She could've taught me so much more about living and loving and raising the kids.
You missed a lot not knowing your son.
- I know.
- Those last days, sitting there with her, watching her waste away to nothing.
She always kept that smile and strength.
There's a whole lot of her in you, son.
A whole lot.
- Lieutenant.
- [Lieutenant.]
Yeah Corrigan.
- You were around back when John Hooker was shot, weren't you? - I was right in the middle of it.
hard to believe your life goes by that fast.
- Is it possible, Alex Lucas could have been a suspect in that robbery, the one who shot John? - I guess it could be possible, but you know J.
P.
mentioned that this morning at coffee.
It's kinda remote though, no, no.
- Then the suspect who shot him was never IDed? - No he wasn't.
What's bugging you anyway, Corrigan? - Oh nothing, I'm just curious.
- Ah curious, yeah well, that's a good thing for a cop to be.
(phones ringing) - Hey Mary.
Mary did the I sheet on Alex Lucas come in yet? - Yeah, 'bout an hour ago.
Got it right here.
- Okay thanks, Mary.
- You're welcome.
(dynamic music) (rifle clacking) - Get the bags packed to be ready to split when I get back here.
- Let's go now, Ed.
Forget about the market.
It's too hot out there.
- I'm taking the market, Tina, we need the traveling cash.
- Look, Alex is dead.
You've got two inexperienced kids to go with.
It's too risky.
Just forget about it.
We don't even need the money.
- The punks will be okay.
Besides if they get killed that's their problem.
It's 40 grand, Tina, and it'll take us a long way.
Don't worry, baby, I'd kill half the town to get back here.
- [Stacy.]
And, Lucas matched the description of the suspect who shot J.
P.
? - I just can't help thinking of the possibility that your dad was on a hunting trip looking for revenge.
- You're dead wrong.
Did you see Lucas's FBI sheet? - Yeah, I know he was in the Kansas State Pen for forgery the day your dad was shot, but what if J.
P.
thought Lucas was the one and then used you to get to him? - He was a good cop.
Good cops don't go hunting for revenge.
- He's not that type of man.
- Then all this is just coincidental, right? - I didn't say that.
I said he isn't a killer.
Operator, I'd like information in Phoenix, Arizona.
- Hey, baby face.
I wonder if it's possible to run Alex Lucas for any known associates, huh? - You really are persistent, aren't you, Mr.
Hooker? - Ah be a love, Mary.
I just wanna show that kid in the old (quacks) can still function, huh? - (giggles) Well, it so happens I've already done that run for the detectives.
- And? (phones ringing) - Come.
Okay, records show Lucas was questioned in the field a few times in the company of an Ed Jokish.
Most times in that red Mercedes, but twice in a gray Daytona.
- Have you got a license number? - Mmm hmm, 1-H-A-D-3-6-9.
Registered to a Mrs.
Tina Jokish, 247 Overland.
- Thanks again, Mary.
- Yes, I understand what you're saying.
Well, my father never mentioned it.
Thank you, Doctor.
(dynamic music) - Hooker, I know he's your father.
I know it's tough to see a lot of things you maybe don't wanna see.
- What are you saying? - He conned Mary for this information on Jokish then took out of here like a shot.
- He has to be stopped, Hooker.
- You're right.
I didn't see it.
Didn't wanna see it.
Let's roll.
(ominous music) - Who are you? What are you doing in here? - Where is he? - I don't know what you're talking about.
I think you better get out of here right now.
- Shut up, shut up.
- Listen to me.
- Shut up.
- I don't want you in my house.
Get out.
- Shut up.
You his wife? - Yes, let go of me.
- He's a very dangerous man and I wanna find him and I wanna find him now.
- I don't know what you're talking about.
Let go of me.
- Now you shut up.
- Ow! - Tell me where he is.
- No! (dramatic music) (tires screeching) - Jim, cover me.
- I had to tell him.
He's gonna kill Eddie, isn't he? - Then he was here? - He's crazy.
He scared me to death.
He threatened me till I told him where Eddie was.
He's a cop, isn't he? - You told him where your husband is? - Eddie's gonna hold up Phil's Supermarket at three.
He's crazy.
I had to tell him.
(dramatic music) - [Ed.]
This is a hold up.
Everybody get up against the window.
Come on, move.
Put your hands over your head.
- [Thief.]
Fill that.
- [Ed.]
Keep 'em up.
Turn around.
- [Thief.]
Hurry up.
Hurry up, hurry up.
You, you, come on, come on, hurry up.
(upbeat store music) - [Ed.]
Come on! - [Thief.]
Hurry, come on, fill it up.
(tires screeching) - [Ed.]
Cops.
- Stacy, Corrigan, take the front.
- [Ed.]
Let's get outta here.
(upbeat store music) - Hold it.
Drop your gun.
(guns firing) Put your hands on your head.
- Hold it, punk.
Gotta go through me first.
- No.
(guns firing) (upbeat store music) Just take it easy.
- Old reflexes aren't what they used to be.
- Where are you? Why did you do it? - You know, huh? - I called your doctor in Phoenix.
We had a long talk about, about your health.
- I watched your mother die and I didn't wanna go through what she did, understand? - Why didn't you tell me? - What was I to do? Ask you to pull the plug when it got bad? The way your mother asked me.
I couldn't do it for her and I wasn't going to ask you to face that same decision.
No, it's better this way, on the street, in action.
Quick.
Hell, I knew those guys weren't the ones who shot me up that time.
They had the same M.
O.
I just used it as an excuse to muscle in.
- Hooker, an ambulance is on the way.
- It is.
- About what that doctor said, that's our secret, between you and me, promise me, son.
- I promise.
- That sounds good.
I'm glad we finally had our little talk.
(sad horn music) - He did it his way, Hooker.
He'd be satisfied.
- I never realized before how much I'm like my father.
- Stubborn, proud, lovable, a good cop all the way.
- Good epitaph.
He'd have liked that.
- It's perfect.
No sad songs for John Hooker.
- There were a lot of things both of us would like to have done over, but no sad songs.
- He loved you, you know that.
- I know.
I just hope it got through to him that I loved him too.
(sad piano music) (adventurous music)