T.J. Hooker (1982) s05e11 Episode Script

(upbeat instrumental music) - Okay the way I see it is we corral Hooker and some of the other guys at the precinct, and we form a pool.
- You know what the chances are in winning the lottery? - You see we all put our money in and if somebody wins we all share.
You know what I'm talking about? - Two million dollars, year right.
Count me out.
I've never won anything in my life.
I'm not lucky, and I'm not wasting my money.
- You got me for a partner.
Now is that luck or is that luck? - Can I get back to you on that.
- I'm gonna kick it for your share kid.
- Since when? I can't even get you to buy your own coffee.
My conscience would hurt me if we won all that money, and in your old age you wound up having to live off your pension.
(breaks squealing) You feeling okay? - Oh yeah.
Two rapes, eighty year old woman mugged, kids drugged and prostituting themselves on the street.
Sure, I'm great.
- It's been a rough week.
Don't let it get to you.
Okay? (electronic music) - [Man in Blue.]
Give me the money! (gunshots) (ominous instrumental music) - [Man.]
Go! Go! (tires screeching) - [Woman On Radio.]
Sixteen, sixteen.
A two eleven shooting has just occurred at the liquor store, seventeenth and Mor-ton.
Suspect vehicle is a brown coupe headed east on seventeenth.
Handle code three.
Four (speaker drowned out by music) Roger.
- Four (speaker drowned out by music) rolling backup.
(tires screeching) (instrumental music) - [Stacy.]
I think we got them.
(tires screeching) (sirens) (instrumental music) (tires screeching) (fast-tempo instrumental music) - What do we got? - Three of them.
It looked like they were all carrying.
- We'll take it easy.
Follow up call said they left one dead, one wounded at the scene.
(suspenseful instrumental music) (cat meows) (guns fire) (guns firing) - You, face down! Spream 'em! Say something.
(sirens) - She took one.
She's lucky.
She's wearing a vest.
(instrumental music) - Right, okay I got it.
Yep.
- They took (speaker drowned out by surroundings) to St.
Joe's.
The one Stacy shot was DOA.
- What about the other one? - Serious condition.
- Really? - She has some bruised ribs and a mild concussion.
She took a good whack on the back of the head, after the bullet impact.
You can see her, but I'd advise that she get some immediate rest.
- Talk about lucky.
Somebody's watching over you, kid.
How do you feel? - How should I feel? I can still see the look in that kid's eyes when I shot him.
Don't think about it.
You did your job.
How old was he? According to his ID, seventeen.
- He's dead, isn't he? - Yes, he's dead.
And you'd be too if you weren't wearing your vest.
- He have a family? - Stacy, forget about it.
Put it out of your mind.
- It's easy to say.
- Stacy, he and his friends killed a man and maimed another.
You can bet if he made it to 18, there'd be more blood on the streets.
- What you need is a rest, get away from it while IA reviews the shooting.
- You're right.
I need to get away.
(thunder) - What a night.
I got a migraine that won't quit.
And I still got reports to make out.
- You see Stacy before she left? - Not since the hospital, no why? - She left her badge, her ID, gun all in her locker and told O'Brien she was driving to her sister's house in West Valley.
- Tonight? - Tonight, damnit.
I wouldn't have let her drive from here to the corridor coffee machine.
- She's in no shape.
There was a storm coming on.
(thunder) (instrumental music) - [Woman On The Radio.]
Rain and more rain dipped into the southland this weekend.
Storms out of the north and chill coastal winds.
Road conditions continue to be hazardous.
And all in all friends, it's a good night to be home curled up by a roaring fire.
(instrumental music) (truck honking) (horn blowing) - There's been an accident.
A woman's been hurt.
She was passing on the wrong side of the road.
I couldn't pull away in time.
(eerie instrumental music) - I'm a doctor.
Let me take a look.
- She was driving on the wrong side of the road.
It wasn't my fault.
- All right, look in her purse.
See if you can find a tissue, a handkerchief, anything.
Can you hear me? Can you hear me? Open your eyes.
It's gonna be all right.
Now listen to me.
I'm a doctor.
I'm going to take you to my home and office which is very close by.
I want you to take this tissue.
That's it, hold it right up here.
Hold it real tight.
Okay? Hold it tight now.
(wheezes) - Are you okay doc? - Yeah, just my asthma.
Listen, get her purse and lock up the car.
Okay? (coughs) - I gotta get to a phone.
I'll call the highway patrol and report he accident.
- That won't be necessary.
I'll do it myself when I get home.
(thunder) (eerie instrumental music) - All right, thank you.
- Anything? - Your sister hasn't heard from Stacy.
- Well with the rain it's a longer drive than usual.
Maybe she grabbed a motel room until morning.
- Maybe, I left a word for her to call if she came in.
- If you can believe it, they just posted us for day watch.
An eight hour turnaround and rain predicted through the weekend.
Lovely huh? - Well, let's go get some rest.
(eerie instrumental music) (inhales deeply) (meows) (gun fires) - Somebody's watching over you, kid.
(thunder) - Hello, I brought you some warm milk and honey.
Don't be frightened.
I'm the doctor that picked you up after the accident.
There's nothing seriously wrong as far as I could find.
But apparently you took a pretty decent clout on the head.
You've only been out for an hour or so, but that dizziness could hang around for a while.
- You said I had an accident? - You swerved your car into miss colliding with the truck.
I came along after it happened.
Don't you remember? - No.
No I don't.
- Well I wouldn't worry about it.
It's probably just the shock.
It's quite common temporary amnesia.
It'll go away after a few hours of rest.
My name's Lansing.
Dr.
James Lansing.
- James? - James, yeah.
Jim to my friends.
Something wrong? - I was with a Jim today.
We were talking about - It's not exactly a unique name.
What's yours? (eerie instrumental music) Look, if I know who you are and where you're from, I can contact your family, your friends and let them know that you're all right.
- I don't know.
I don't know who I am.
- I don't understand it.
No word from Stacy either to her sister or to us.
- It's not like her.
- I phoned her apartment in case she changed her mind about going, no answer.
I've never seen her as wiped out as she was.
She was edgy even before the shooting, stressed out.
- She needed some time off.
Should've seen it and done something about it.
- [Woman On The Radio.]
Four Ad-am thirty, four Ad-am thirty, investigate a homicide and escape of two patients from Pacific State Hostpital, drowned out by rain) Handle code two.
- Terrific, now we get to play singing in the rain with a couple of Looney Tunes.
Four Ad-am thirty, roger.
(eerie instrumental music) - How's the coffee? - Just the way I like it.
I think.
(chuckles) - Well, you lost your memory but you kept a sense of humor.
That's a good sign.
How about some breakfast? Eggs benedict is my specialty.
- Thanks, maybe latter.
What about a wallet or a handbag? Did I have any kind of identification with me when you found me? No, I looked hoping to find a name, yours or someone I could contact about the accident.
- You said I was in a car maybe a registration slip.
- Good thought.
After I get some food in you, I'll go back and check that out.
Do you remember anything? Where you were going? Where you came from? - Nothing.
Everything's a blank.
- You just need more rest.
It's nothing to be alarmed about.
Besides, even if you knew who you were and where you were headed, I certainly wouldn't send you out into a storm like this.
In fact, until you're feeling in A1 condition, I'm not gonna let you out of my sight.
(thunder) (electricity humming) - One of them was in solitary confinement for his own protection.
He was a child molester.
The other has been with us for 16 months.
I thought we were making progress getting through but uh Now we know.
- When did you find the body? - Shortly after six a.
m.
A security guard, his neck was broken.
- Are you certain that the men who escaped are the ones who did this? - They were witnesses.
- First patient's name is Reese Corely, the other Edward Millan.
- Millan is extremely intelligent, educated, worldly.
He could've just been playing games with us, letting us think we were making progress.
- When did you discover the two of them missing? - Well uh Millan disappeared from a theater during the screening of a movie then released Corely.
And then they uh made their way down here, tired to escape through there.
Where the security guard tried to stop him.
- We have an APB out on him along with a description that you gave when you called it in.
Any additional information you have have would be very helpful.
- Corely has been a child molester since his early teens.
Millan is a paranoid schizophrenic with a troubled past.
He was on his way to being a brilliant medical student, then he was booted out of med school after a series of violent emotional conflicts.
- And the violence is still there? - He's deranged, a walking time bomb.
Anyone that comes in contact with him is in extreme danger.
- You said you have some pictures that we might be able to use.
Right here, there are files on both of them.
There's a last known address for Corely and some physical characteristics on them that might help.
For one thing Millan has an acute asmatic condition.
(ominous instrumental music) - [Voiceover.]
I hope you'll be comfortable until I get back from an errand.
Plenty of food in the refrigerator.
I'll return as soon as possible.
Jim.
(ominous instrumental music) - Hello? - Is anybody home? (knocking) (dial tone) (beeps) - [Operator.]
Operator, can I help you please? Hello, operator.
- Yes, could you tell me what time it is please.
- It's exactly 4:52 PM.
- Thank you.
- Did you remember something? Someone to call? - No, no I started to remember something but I couldn't.
I guess I just called the operator to hear someone's voice.
I woke up and wasn't sure how long you'd be gone.
- I had a house call.
Country doctor.
Family tradition, I'm caring on where my father left off.
- Did you get a chance to check my car? - Yeah, no, sorry no registration slip.
- Oh, the lights in the basement don't work.
- Basement? - Yeah, the window was open, banging in the wind, so I just went down to close it.
- Why don't we go in by the fire and relax.
(ominous instrumental music) (synth-pop music) - It could be Corely and Millan caught a ride and are halfway across the state by now.
- Highway patrol put up roadblocks and they might catch them.
But in this weather, I wouldn't be the farm on it.
- Corely's sister? - To the boss says she is.
- All right you check her for concealed weapons, I'll call in to see if there's any word from Stacey.
(synth-pop music) (applause) (instrumental music) - What? Is my limousine double-parked again? - If you don't sing my song, we could give you a lift downtown in my limousine.
- (sighs) Looks, I'm clean.
No dope, no (speaker drowned out by music).
So having never made a crime in this city, we've got nothing to discuss.
- I'm looking for Reese.
- Reese who? - Come one Debby, your brother.
Make it easy for me will ya? You don't want to be hassled; I don't want to hassle you.
- My brother's in a hospital for the criminally insane.
He's wacko, always has been wacko, and always will be.
- Well he's out.
- What do you mean? - He escaped with another inmate.
- All right.
- Only now he's wanted for murder.
And I want to find him.
- I don't know nothing about it see, nothing.
- I think you do.
Debbie, help me.
Tell me before all the children suffer.
(instrumental music) (sighs) - He started with me when I was six.
Then it was with my friends.
There wasn't a kid in the neighborhood who was safe.
- Give me a way to go so I can stop him.
- He was here.
He took the keys to my car.
He's headed for my apartment.
- Alone? - He said that he and the guy he broke out with split up.
You've gotta stop him.
Put him away for good this time.
- I know these woods like the back of my hand.
I grew up here.
But we were gonna talk about you.
Now, tell me about these dreams you've been having about Jim.
- I'm not sure, but maybe I'm married to him.
- You're not wearing a wedding ring.
- I know.
I've thought of that.
I remember a black cat and, a gun firing, someone being shot.
- Someone being shot? - Yeah.
- Go on, keep trying.
- It was a man.
No, no no no it was boy, a teenager.
- Who shot him? - I think I did.
- In self-defense? - Yes, I mean I think it was.
- Was the person who was shot named Jim? - No, no Jim is close to me.
I wouldn't have shot him.
- What about the black cat? How does that tie in? - It's just a black cat bolting in front of me.
Boy Just after the shooting, he died.
- I've seen a lot of death.
- You mean as a doctor? - For a thesis as a pre-med I wrote about death, or to be more precise, the art of self-inflicted death, or self-destruction.
Suicide's no disgrace.
Given enough stress, any man can crack.
How's your brandy? - Oh, fine.
Um, maybe I should be getting some rest.
- Just when we maybe making some progress about your memory.
This is an old house, wiring's very unstable.
- Yeah, like in the basement.
- Yes, I'll have to take a look at that the next time I have the chance.
- I really am tired.
I should try and get some rest.
- Yeah, you should relax.
The road down to the main highway is probably all but washed out by now.
Even in the morning you may have some difficulty going anywhere.
I have some work to do.
Why don't you just cozy on down here and get snugly and warm by the fire.
If you need anything, I'll be in the back of the house.
- [Woman On The Radio.]
That's it four ad-am 30.
The last accident report we've had covering every precinct in the city.
- Four ad-am 30, roger.
We'll there's still the highway patrol.
- There's no telling when we'll get something definite from them.
Most of the people are still tied up with roadblocks looking for Corely and Millan.
- Dammit, something must've happened.
There's no way Stacy wouldn't have checked in by now.
What about the West Valley Sheriff's department? - I called them earlier.
They got nothing.
- I think we got to start doing more than just waiting to hear from Stacy.
I wish banana would show.
- His sister said that Corely had some stops to make.
He'll show.
I think we're in business.
- License checks? - License checks.
Go to the front entrance, in case he tries rabbit out.
I'll take him at the elevator.
(suspenseful instrumental music) (tires screeching) (gun fires) (gun fires) (sirens) - Hooker! (tires screeching) (tires screeching) (horns blowing) (tires screeching) (tires screeching) (tires screeching) (car crashes) (uptempo instrumental music) (struggling) - We're gonna have a talk about this.
I want to know where your partner Edward Millan is, then I'm going to book you for murder.
- Confirmation from the highway patrol.
There was an accident on Old Canyon road.
Stacy's car was involved.
- What about Stacy? - Highway patrol isn't sure where she is.
The truck driver claimed a doctor picked her up after the accident.
- And? - That's it.
Found Stacy's car locked and deserted at the accident sight.
- Do they know who the doctor is? - Not yet.
He told the truck driver he was going to report the accident himself but for whatever reason he never did.
- A description of the car? - A description but license is traced.
- Well, I just interrogated Corely, and he claims that he and Millan broke into a house in the valley near Old Canyon road.
(eerie instrumental music) (doorbell rings) - Is Dr.
Lansing home please.
- Well who might I say is calling.
- Donald cotton, It's about my wife, Mary.
- [Millan.]
I'm afraid the doctor isn't in right now.
Why don't you come in and wait should he be here shortly.
- No, I can't wait.
My wife's in bad shape.
The baby's coming early.
Do you know where I can reach Dr.
Lansing? It's an emergency.
- [Millan.]
I'm sorry, but like I say, wait and the doctor should be here soon.
- No I have to get back to Mary.
Look, doc has my number, have him call me.
- Sure, just the moment he walks in the door.
- Thanks.
(eerie instrumental music) (instrumental music) (eerie instrumental music) (knocking) - Oh god, no, no.
(crying) (screams) - You shouldn't have come down here.
You shouldn't have come down here.
I liked you.
I would've let you go.
But now - You're not the doctor.
Who are you? - An old friend of the doctor's.
That's a good doctor right there.
We go way back.
From all the way back to medical school.
- I don't know what you mean.
- The good doctor was the one most responsible for buying me a ticket to an exclusive club for the criminally insane.
Have you ever seen anyone killed? Oh no, that's right.
You think you shot someone at some time, don't you? When I was 14, I tried to kill my mother.
She was a tramp and an alcoholic.
- You don't want to kill me.
- Don't I? Why? - Because I think I'm a police officer.
That's why I was shooting a gun.
I remember now.
I was wearing a police uniform.
And I was chasing after the person who was shot.
- That's a good one lady.
You would've had a police ID in your bag, wouldn't you? - Then you did see my bag.
- What do you think? (crashing) (fast-tempo instrumental music) (yells) (screaming) - [Stacy.]
Let go of me! Let go of me! Let me go! (screaming) Let me go! - Sorry that's about all I can tell you.
- [Hooker.]
This doctor, have you ever seen him before? - No, never.
I would've remembered.
He was a good-looking young guy.
- How young? - Oh early thirties.
I guess my image of a doctor is a bit older, like doc Lansing.
In fact for a second I thought it was Lansing when I first saw the car pull up right after the accident.
- What do you mean? - Mercedes.
This young doc was driving the same kind of Mercedes Lansing had.
- Could the car have been the doctors? - You mean this guy might've been driving Lansing's car? - Doc Lansing, does he live near here? - Two, tree miles down big ol' frame house right off the road.
- Well thank you.
- Funny thing about that young doctor, you think he'd want to live in a different climate.
- How's that? - With his condition, asthma, you'd think he'd want to live in a drier climate.
(yelling) - [Lansing.]
You! - [Stacy.]
Stop it! Stop! (crying) - (yelling) you're gonna be just as dead as he is.
(screaming) - This man's not dead.
He's still breathing.
He's still breathing.
- No.
- It's true.
Look.
- No, he was dead yesterday.
- Feel him.
- He's still breathing.
It's true, see.
He's still breathing.
See? He's still breathing.
- No! (yells) - [Stacy.]
Oh god! Stop! Let go! - Stace, Stace it's Jim.
- Millan.
Put it down.
Put it down.
- No further! Come any further and I'm gonna start taking off some heads.
(gun fires) - Call an ambulance.
- Hooker.
(crying) (instrumental music) (instrumental music) (thunder) - What about the man in the cellar? - The real Dr.
Lansing, He's been dead a couple of days.
Coroner's on his way.
What about you? - A little temporary amnesia isn't gonna stop me.
I'm indestructible.
Didn't you know that? - Are you kidding? You only think you're indestructible.
- Jim's right.
From here we go to the hospital for a checkup.
- I should've been able to protect myself better from what happened.
- You're lucky to be alive.
Let's leave it at that.
- Twice lucky.
And when we get home I want to talk to you about some lottery tickets you owe me for.
- I owe you? You said you were going to pitch in for me.
- What I tell you, perfect memory when she wants to.
- [Hooker.]
Perfect.
(electronic music) (instrumental music)