T.J. Hooker (1982) s05e14 Episode Script

(dramatic music) (suspenseful music) - Beautiful, here, this is exclusive.
- Okay, okay, I'm done.
Let's get out of here.
- Yeah, after we do upstairs.
- Oh Danny, Marcus only gave us the alarm (mumbles) for this part of the house.
- So we'll be careful, come on.
- Danny, Danny.
- Come on, come on.
- [Woman.]
No.
- We need a gold (mumbles).
(suspenseful music) Somebody's coming.
(suspenseful music) Welcome to the party.
- Hey, Lola.
Lola.
How's business, baby? - Lousy.
It's not gonna get better with me talking to you, Hooker.
- Well, let's cut it short.
I'm doing for somebody doing in business in furs, silverware, jewelry, expensive things.
- Come on baby, do I look like your second story, man.
- No, you certainly look like a second story.
But you're on the streets, you know what's going down.
Are you listening to me? - Sure, I got ears, right.
- Well, then talk to me.
- I don't know anything.
- If you kept those ears of yours open, you might hear what's going on.
How about it? - What's in it for me? - My undying gratitude.
(laughing) And I might put in a good word for you with Vice.
- Okay.
(radio beeping) - [Woman.]
Four Adam - 30.
- [Woman.]
Four Adam 30, a Handle code two.
- I'm on my way.
- Four Adam 16 (mumbles) backing up 30.
(suspenseful music) - How about cash, you got cash? (woman groaning) Huh? (suspenseful music) - You're hurting her.
Danny, you are hurting her.
(woman groaning) - Don't you ever interfere when I'm working.
- [Woman.]
Let me go.
(woman groaning) Oh my god, the police.
(suspenseful music) - Go around back.
(door creaking) Four Adam 30, requesting an RA unit at my location.
(dramatic music) (gunshots firing) (car screeching) (dramatic music) (engine revving) (siren ringing) Four Adam 30, give me an ETA on that ambulance.
(siren ringing) - Four Adam 16 in pursuit, heading east on 6th Street.
Two suspects are driving a silver sedan.
(engine revving) (cars screeching) (siren ringing) (car horn honking) (car screeching) - Stacy, Stacy.
Stacy.
(dramatic music) (car exploding) (dramatic music) - Jim, I could still be in there.
- I know, I know.
(dramatic music) (fire burning) - There's no sign of concussion.
You'll have a sore head for a couple of days, but that should be it.
- You are lucky, you are one lucky girl.
- Thanks to Jim.
- Hey I do it for all my partners.
- What about the woman who got hurt in the burglary? - She's unconscious but she's gonna make it.
- I'm okay.
- Take her Jim, lock her up for the night.
- Sure thing.
- I'll check with you later.
You get a good night sleep.
(dramatic music) - Jim, you said you were gonna leave after I got to sleep.
That was two hours ago, have you slept any? - You know me, the original night owl.
- I'm okay, quit worrying.
- Yeah I know.
It's just that I keep seeing the car blowing up and thinking what could have happened.
- I've thought about that too.
Thank you, Jim.
(dramatic music) - They want you out in the streets.
I'll make this short and sweet.
We've got in a woman in a coma.
She apparently walked in a middle of a burglary.
And we have 11 unsolved cases in the same area.
Two suspects, a man and a woman.
You got the description.
Hi Stacy.
- Good to see you Stacy.
- Thanks.
- Okay, the MO's the same on all the crimes.
They hit when no one's home, both day or night.
The alarms are usually disconnected or circumvented.
An entry is made through cutout window blinds.
We're also running a check on the alarm company's personnel.
- Meantime, check your street sources to see if anybody's fencing.
Expensive merchandise, stereos, silver, jewelry.
- One more thing, these people are dangerous.
Don't forget that.
Now, if you get a lead, let us know.
Don't move in on your own.
- Okay that's it, hit the streets.
- You know what.
- Jim.
- What were you gonna say? - I was gonna say that one of us better say something.
- Yeah.
- So.
- Go ahead, you go first.
- Well, I'm sort of confused about last night, about us.
(radio beeping) - [Woman.]
Four Adam 16, meet four Adam 30 on tap two.
- Four Adam 16.
- I just got off the landline with the lieutenant.
Most of the houses ripped off from those burglaries have the same security system installed, by the Safety Plus Security Company.
- Coincidence? - I don't know but that's what I'm gonna find out.
I'll be in touch when I'm through.
- Roger and out.
(suspenseful music) - Take the upstairs.
(suspenseful music) - Mrs.
Dryer, are you home? Mrs.
Dryer? (gunshot firing) (suspenseful music) - He's dead.
- It was him or me.
Come on, come on.
- You killed him.
- Come on, move it.
- There is not a thing out of the ordinary, Sgt.
Hooker.
Everyone who works here is bonded.
All applicants must have four quality references.
In this business, reputation is everything.
- In my business, results are the only thing.
I'd like to talk to some of your people, Mr.
Haines.
- I have shown you the personnel files.
Now is that all that's required? - I want more.
- If you're insinuating that I'm covering something up.
- I can come back with a court order if you wish, Mr.
Haines.
- You knew I had something to tell you, didn't you? I could tell.
- You'd make quite a detective.
- I almost was, I couldn't pass the exam.
They're like ostriches in there.
If they didn't see it happen, it didn't happen.
- But you keep your eyes open, Mr.
-- - Genesee.
About six months ago, we had a guy working here, Marcus Douglas.
I caught him one night going through the customer files.
Now, there's no reason for him to do that.
It wasn't his job.
- What happened to this Marcus Douglas? - He worked here about a month and just up and quick.
No point in checking out his address.
I already did.
It's phony.
- You do good work, Mr.
Genesee.
(radio beeping) - [Woman.]
All units in the vicinity and four Adam 30, shots being fired at 922 Gold Way.
Four A 30, your call is code three.
(siren ringing) - You said you were hungry.
- I thought I was.
- Yeah, me too.
- What are you thinking of? - We got to talk about us.
I don't know where to start or what to say.
- I know.
I'm confused too.
- Maybe it was your almost being killed last night.
- Maybe, but one thing I'm sure of.
I don't want this feeling to affect our working together.
- Hey, nothing would ever do that.
Hooker asked me if everything was okay between us.
- One kiss and that's obvious.
- Maybe it's what comes next.
(radio beeping) - [Woman.]
Four Adam 16, come in.
(car screeching) - (Mumbles), they're empty cartridges.
You two picked a hell of a time to take a break.
- Sorry, what do you got so far? - Same MO as the other burglaries.
Only if this is our burglary team, they just graduated to the major leagues.
Killers now.
Bullet to the heart.
- Did you find a gun? - But judging by the size of the wound, it's either a .
38 caliber or a nine millimeter.
- Hey, Hooker, take a look.
It's another Safety Plus protected house.
What's that do to your theory? - That's a good question.
Let's finish up here.
Jim, I want everything.
Make sure they dust the entrance door, the room, everything.
Go to it.
Stacy, talk to the neighbors, dig.
(dramatic music) - We'll be five (mumbles), not bad.
(dish breaking) What the hell is wrong with you? - I don't want any of the money, Danny, it's blood money.
- It was self defense.
- It was murder.
You didn't have to kill him.
I want out.
No more.
- Maybe I ought to kick some sense into you.
What do you say? - Well, you can't do that, Danny.
- Why not? - Because you'll be killing your own child, that's why.
- You're saying you're pregnant.
- Yes, damn you, I'm pregnant.
- You figured a way.
Your way to trap me into doing what you want.
Well, it won't work, baby.
Nothing changes.
Only now, you open your mouth about taking off, you run off, I'll find you.
And I know how to hurt you most, got it.
(dramatic music) - Downtown's been getting a lot of phone calls from influential citizens who don't like their houses burglarized.
Any answers? - Nom the computer is working its way through the Safety Plus client list right now.
- That list has over - Yeah, but we deleted all the houses with live-in domestics, that didn't fit the MO.
- Same with those with guard dogs.
- Every house with a series has a simple alarm system, that'd be set off by opening a door or a window.
They got in by cutting into the glass.
- And Marcus Douglas? - His address was a vacant lot.
We're working on it.
- After eliminations, we have five houses in the same area that fit the MO potential.
- Okay, ride hard on those houses for a new nights.
- There's just one problem.
The last house wasn't serviced by Safety Plus.
- That's right.
But the owner switched to Diamond last month.
Before that, he was still Safety Plus.
It still works.
Four Adam 30, four Adam - Four Adam 16, over.
- [Hooker.]
I'm at 38 Huntington Street, report of a prowler.
Where are you? - Three blocks east.
We're rolling.
- I'll be around back.
(dramatic music) Stacy, stay be the door.
Jim, you come.
(dramatic music) (cat meowing) - What are you doing? (gunshot firing) Hooker.
(cat meowing) (dramatic music) Hooker.
(dramatic music) - In there.
I'm alright (mumbles).
- They're going out the front.
- Go.
(suspenseful music) (car screeching) (rock music) (siren ringing) (engine revving) - There, it's them.
(siren ringing) - Four Adam 16, we're in pursuit of 459 suspects, shots been fired, vehicle is a red coupe, north bound on Huntington.
(siren ringing) (car screeching) (rock music) (siren ringing) - Look out! (car horn honking) (loud crashing) (electricity sparking) (siren ringing) (dramatic music) - Better get a hold of Hooker.
- Yeah, that's the least we can do.
(phone ringing) (door closing) - Ah, Mr.
Bailey.
DA, has a charge of burglary he wants to file against you, and maybe an accomplice to murder.
If you cooperate, maybe I can help you.
- What kind of cooperation? - He wants your husband.
He is your husband? - Yes.
- He's not at your home address.
Where is he? - Sorry, I can't help you.
- You're trying to protect him, I could understand-- - Protect him (laughs).
Oh my god, that's funny.
Oh god (crying) - Alright, alright.
Here, take her back.
Make sure the doctor sees her.
(phone ringing) She was scared, she won't talk.
- She's obviously protecting the guy.
- Yeah.
Who were you protecting last night? - I made a mistake, I'm sorry.
- It's my fault as much as us, Hooker.
- You're right.
That's why I'm splitting the two of you up as a team.
Lieutenant O'Brien agrees.
- Come on Hooker, Stacy and I have been a team for two years.
- And a damn good one until last night.
Look, you work together Your partner becomes like family.
Sometimes they become more important than the job.
That's where I think the two of you are at right now.
- So what happens? - When you two get your minds back on working together effectively as police officers, I'll reassess the situation.
In the meantime, your new partner is named Pat Williamson.
Stacy, you work with me.
Come on Stacy, lighten up, it's not so bad.
I buy all the coffee.
- It's why I'm here.
I blew it, I feel lousy.
- Alright, it happened.
The two of you are getting a little distance now, that's all.
- I hope that's all.
- So do I, Stacy.
- You Corrigan? - That's me.
- Pat Williamson, we're working together.
- I'm sorry.
You caught me a little off guard.
- No problem, it happens all the time.
They hear the name Pat Williamson, they expect a man.
- The same thing always happens to my partner, my ex-partner, she's a woman too.
Always bothered her, didn't like to be stereotyped.
- Me either.
- I think we'll get along fine.
- You ready to work? - Yeah.
You changed precincts because you wanted to, Pat? - Yeah, conflict of interests.
My boyfriend became supervising officer and it changed things.
- A lot of precinct gossip, right.
- No, I left before it started.
Now, we'll see what we see.
You understand what I'm talking about.
- Yeah, you'd be surprised.
(radio beeping) - [Woman.]
Four Adam 30, switch to tap two for a message.
- Hooker.
- [Lola.]
It's me Lola.
- Hey, I use to know somebody by that name.
She was gonna do something for me.
- Yeah, well I did it.
I got a name for you.
- I'm listening.
- [Lola.]
Ray Kincaid.
- An old friend of mine.
He helps wires cars and sells them in Mexico.
- Not anymore, he moves a lot of stolen goods now.
He hangs around Eastern and the Boulevard.
Word is he's kind of dealing with a kind of dude you're looking for.
- I'll say hello for you.
- Don't bother, but there is one thing.
Remember when you said you'd put in a good word for me with Vice.
Talk to (mumbles), Hooker.
- Take a look at it.
Gold watch man, gold watch? - That's Kincaid.
Kincaid.
- Oh not you again, Hooker, I'm clean man.
- Sure you are.
- You see this, you see what he's doing.
That's police brutality.
- I don't see anything.
- Where do you get your merchandise? - Hey man, I buy it off lots of people, man.
- Hey.
I checked this merchandise out, and it ties to a certain robbery.
You're in for accomplice to murder, you read me.
- I don't know nothing about that, Hooker I just petal stuff man.
- Give me a name.
- No.
- Give me a name.
- Look at me, Hooker.
- You're in the slammer.
- Douglas.
Marcus Douglas.
- Marcus Douglas again.
- That ties in with his job at Safety Plus.
- Furnishes the alarm layout, setups the houses, and fences the stuff himself.
- Full service fence.
- Let's someone else take the risk.
- I think it's about time we have another talk with Stephanie Bailey.
Check that, you have a talk with Stephanie Bailey, woman to woman.
(car engine revving) - Stephanie, we went to your apartment and talked to your landlady today.
She told us a lot about your husband and the way he treats you.
You don't have to be afraid of him anymore.
We'll protect you.
- You don't understand.
- I do understand.
You're afraid for your baby.
The only way you'll be safe from him is if you'll help us put him where he belongs, in prison.
- I told you the truth.
I don't know where he is.
- Alright, then let's talk about Marcus Douglas.
- [Stephanie.]
You know about him? - Sets up houses for you and then sells the goods.
- We had dinner once at his apartment.
Was on the corner of Melton and Western.
(dramatic music) (suspenseful music) (loud knocking) - Open up, police.
Ah.
(suspenseful music) (gunshots firing) Call for back up.
- Four Adam 30, requesting a backup unit at 617 Melton.
(dramatic music) - Hold it.
(gunshot firing) (dramatic music) - There goes our Danny Bailey connection.
We're back to square one.
- Not necessarily.
If Ray Kincaid bought stuff off of Danny, so did a lot of others.
There's a regular thieves market down at the docks.
I'm gonna bring Corrigan and his new partner in and see what they can dig up.
They know my face down there.
(dramatic music) - Forget this junk.
Flea market.
I need good stuff for my buyers.
- [Man.]
Sorry man, this is all I got right now.
- Well, who do I talk to, to get something with a little class, expensive? - Now come on sugar, now I know you can do better than that.
- How much are you willing to pay? - [Man.]
Pay whatever it is, man.
- Hey, you get it, and my man here, he'll meet your price.
You just make sure it's quality merchandise, you hear me? - Yeah, well if you got the money, then maybe I know somebody, honey.
- Come here, pal.
You'll call me soon, I go somewhere else, okay.
See you around.
- You jealous? - Me, of what? - Somebody else is working with Jim.
- Maybe, maybe I am.
I just feel like she's doing my job.
Does that make sense? - It does to me.
You and Jim were a team.
You put your lives on the line for each other everyday.
But there's a line you can't step over.
- So we stepped over that line and you got hurt.
You'll never forgive us for that.
- Look, you and Jim are attracted to each other.
It's natural.
But you're in the one job in the world where it won't work.
How'd it go in the docks? - We got a nibble.
Now we're waiting for a phone call.
- You two met? Officer Williamson, Officer Sheraton.
- Hi.
- What now, Hooker? - Just like always, we keep at it.
- That's right.
Well.
- She a good cop? - Not bad.
Not as good as some others I work with, but not bad.
Nah, she's pretty good.
Not bad.
Nah, she's good.
Not bad.
(loud knocking) (whistling) - Hi Jim, I'm sorry to bother you.
- Hey, no problem.
Come in, come in.
- About this thing between us.
We've got to settle it one way or the other.
- Yeah, how do we do that? - Maybe by looking at what it really is rather than what we made it into to.
- You mean, the car crash, pulling you out.
- You saving my life.
That's what really changed us, right.
I mean, if it had been Hooker you saved instead of me, just plain a cop, understand.
Not just a cop who happened to be your partner and also a woman.
- Hey, what have you gone sexist on me? - Maybe we both went sexist.
- Yeah.
I think maybe you're right.
- What I really miss is our partnership.
You and me working together.
I just want us back the way we were.
- That's the way you feel? - That's the way it's gotta be.
- Yeah.
I want that too.
Now what do we do about it? - Find a way to convince Hooker.
(phone ringing) - Yeah, yeah.
I'm listening.
Hey, if it's really good quality, sure.
Same warehouse, you got it.
Some woman, picking up in that contact I made at the docks.
To buy stolen goods.
- You want me to call Pat for you? - No, let her sleep.
We worked all night.
- Well, then I'll go with you.
- Are you kidding? You want Hooker to have our heads? Excuse me, I gotta finish dressing.
(dramatic music) - Where's that famous Sheraton morning bounce? - I'm working on it.
(radio beeping) - [Woman.]
Four Adam 30, Lieutenant O'Brien is on tap two.
- Four Adam 30.
- Thought you ought to know that Stephanie Bailey was bailed out about a half hour ago.
- How could that happen? - At her arraignment this morning, the DA only filed on the burglary charges, and the judge said he had to set a reasonable bail.
- Nobody would bail her out except for husband.
- I know.
Sorry Hooker, I'm out.
- Hooker, figures, the call.
- What call? - The one that Jim just got.
He said it was from a woman at the docks responding to his contact.
He's on his way to meet her now.
It's got to be Stephanie Bailey.
- That's good thinking.
- Hooker, she'll recognize him from the station.
(suspenseful music) - [Stephanie.]
You the buyer? You the buyer? - [Jim.]
Yeah.
- We've got some merchandise outside in the car.
I know you're a cop.
- You got to help me.
It's a chance to get out.
- I can't, he's outside.
He'll know everything.
(suspenseful music) - Why are you so nervous? - No reason.
- He's a cop isn't he, huh? Yeah, yeah (laughs).
What you think, I don't know this woman, cop? Now move out.
Come on, outside.
(dramatic music) (loud thumping) (car engine revving) Come on.
- I can't.
- Then stay here.
(car screeching) (siren ringing) (car screeching) (rock music) (car screeching) (truck horn honking) (car screeching) (car horn honking) (siren ringing) (car screeching) (cans crashing) (car screeching) (siren ringing) (rock music) (siren ringing) (water splashing) (car screeching) (dramatic music) (water splashing) - You Bailey, hold it.
(gunshots firing) (dramatic music) - I owe you one.
- No you don't.
We're even now.
(easy listening music) - Can I wear this at the precinct? - Yeah, go with your eyes.
(laughing) - They're making the uniforms with that.
- Yeah, a pink uniform.
So what's going to happen with Stephanie? - She gets battered wife counseling a reduced sentence if she testifies with the state.
- And Danny? - By the time Danny gets out, he'll be too old to bother anybody.
A toast to your official reunion.
- Partner.
- (Chuckles) Partner.
- And here's to Pat, to the partner that got away.
- Pat's a good cop and a terrific partner.
- Well, you've always been lucky, Jim.
- And so have you, Stacy.
(easy listening music) (dramatic music) (orchestra music)