Steven Seagal: Lawman (2009) s02e04 Episode Script
The Perfect Target
Jefferson Parish Yeah, and the truck-- saw a body in the driveway.
He's laying on the ground? Gonna be 5'3", about 140.
crime scene.
Just so you know, he's got a gun.
Put your hands up! Put your hands up! We saw you with the gun in your hand.
When you have it in your hand, we get nervous.
In and out through he calf.
Damn.
He's lucky that's all he got.
Get out of the vehicle.
Hands out.
Hands out.
I make a living in the movies, but for the past 20 years I've also been a cop.
And along with some of the finest deputies on the force, I serve the people of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana.
Code 94-G, shots fired.
My name is Steven Seagal.
All units respond.
That's right, Steven Seagal, Deputy Sheriff.
Generally speaking, Jefferson Parish is a very safe place.
Just like any other community, we have our dangerous areas, our projects, our problematic areas.
But those are the areas where we're proactive.
We work very hard to let the bad guys know that we're always there, always watching 'em.
John, this guy's got a gun, and he's waving it around.
Pull over to the side of the road.
Put your hands up! Put your hands up! Hands up! Whoa! Whoa! Don't you reach for nothing.
Don't you reach for nothing.
Where's the gun at? What you doing with a gun? I saw you with a gun in your hand.
Get your seat belt.
Get your seat belt off.
Dude, I didn't have anything.
Put your hands on the car.
My hands are on the car.
I didn't have anything in my hand.
Dude, seriously.
We were just putting it on the Floor.
You were driving like Put your hand on the car.
Keep your hands on the car.
Shut up and look thataway.
Look thataway! As we were proceeding across the bridge, this Monte Carlo passed us up at a high rate of speed.
And it appeared as though the passenger was waving a semiautomatic handgun.
Now, we saw you with a gun in your hand.
You heard? Now, when you have it in your hand, we get nervous.
If the weapon would have accidentally discharged, then what would have happened? It could have been tragedy.
Brian, you running that gun? It's cleared.
So it appears as though the owner of the handgun is the driver.
Obviously if you say that's your gun, you know it's a semiautomatic weapon.
If it has a round in the chamber, which it must have It did.
In the State of Louisiana, you're allowed to have a handgun in your car.
What concerned us, though, is, the passenger was brandishing it and waving it around so people could see it, and that could be considered a threat.
That's Steven Seagal.
I don't give a If he's Steven Seagal or the Mayor, dude.
Shut up.
All right, then.
What you been drinking? No, you had more than a beer.
If a beer gets you this, you need to leave alcohol alone the rest of your life.
You know how much this is gonna ruin my Life? You acting a jackass up here.
Do you realize I'll never have a job ever in this city again? If you think this is gonna ruin your career, try behaving a little better.
Sir, I've tried, but it's like, every time-- you're driving a bright yellow car with a passenger-- has a pistol in his hand.
That's what might ruin your career.
You're either dumb or drunk, and I'm going with drunk, because you don't look dumb.
Well, look, man, I mean Dude, no.
You don't understand.
Do me a favor.
Turn around.
Kneel down.
Now what happened? I don't know.
Says he's gonna jump off the bridge, so now we make sure he doesn't hurt himself.
Look, the New Orleans police department's here, so they're gonna have to deal with you, and I only hope that they're as patient and tolerant as we are.
By the time we'd pull them over, they had already crossed over into New Orleans, so now we have N.
O.
P.
officers here, and they're gonna administer a field sobriety test and try to determine whether or not charges need to be filed.
Ready? One, two-- wait.
Wait.
Wait.
Wait.
Ow.
Ow.
Ow.
You're good, man.
Let's go.
Ow.
Ow! What am I gonna do? Really, guys.
I tried to, but y'all are hemming me up! Yeah, sure.
You know, he really doesn't get it.
Watch your head.
This could have potentially been a very dangerous situation.
Guy's waving a gun around in a car.
I'm just glad we were able to apprehend them before anything happened.
Let's go.
All right.
Let's go.
So, happily, yesterday's incident with the gun turned out where nobody got hurt, but we may encounter situations where we have to use force against force.
On my team, I believe in training, and you can never train enough.
Shooting is a perishable skill, and I like to keep my team members' skill up.
All right.
Let me put this rig on.
I just invited all my guys to the gun range today.
I was kind of hoping that we can help each other sharpen our skills a little bit.
Okay, our good Captain Jeff Eddy.
He's our range master.
Chief, how you doing? Good.
Great.
Nice to see you again.
I was gonna give some simple exercises to my team.
Okay.
Absolutely.
Practicing together on the range as a team is important.
Eye protection.
Hearing protection.
Anytime we get an opportunity to come into the range with Steven, we take advantage of it.
Here we go.
Hey, bring that target in.
So that's three here, three here.
Okay? Your turn.
Not bad.
Okay, Mr.
Fortunato.
Okay.
Good shootin'.
Thank you, sir.
How about a photograph of a hostage situation now? Let's throw that up.
I got three to the head and three to the heart.
Wasn't quite the grouping that he got Okay, now we're gonna hit the suspect in the head, because that's all we got.
We'd rather have you shoot high on his head than low on his head.
And we're not gonna give you a lot of time.
I'm gonna come up.
I'm gonna aim.
Don.
Don.
Okay? There you go, Lar.
There you go.
Ha! Okay, Mr.
Fortunato.
I shouldn't laugh.
I think it looks good.
That's a little too close.
My investigation revealed she was in on it.
I want these over here.
All right.
Let me try to show you fellas how it's done.
Okay? Notice I'm aiming a little bit left, because I don't want to be near her.
That's right where I wanted to be.
That's right where I want to be too.
Shooting at the range was good practice for my team, but it was also good timing for me.
I got to qualify next week.
I'm hoping to get a perfect score.
Man, this radio hasn't said a word in an hour.
You wouldn't think it was a Friday night.
Very, very quiet.
Ain't no nobody out here tonight.
I'm sure we'll run across something.
Not a soul in sight, man.
What's that car doing back there, Johnny? I just saw a car run out right out there.
Ain't nothing back there but abandoned warehouses, man.
They call that trespassing.
Let's follow him.
What's that car doing back there, Johnny? I just saw a car right out there.
Ain't nothing back there but abandoned warehouses, man.
They call that trespassing.
Let's follow him.
You see him going? We lost him.
Up in here somewhere.
Yeah, he's back there, back in the back.
Where the did he go? I saw him.
Shine your lights, man.
Run back there now.
There he is right there, stopped.
Step out of your vehicle.
Get out of the vehicle! Get out! Take your hands out your pockets! Put your hands up.
Hands out.
Hands out.
Hands out.
Come on over here.
Put your hands on the car.
- You speak English? - Yeah.
- You work here? - No.
What are you doing back up in here? Check the front of the car.
Say, uh, Steven? In plain view located on the passenger seat of the vehicle, this looks like a receipt, like he sold some insulated copper wire.
Uh-huh.
You know what that means, right? When they closed this business, the copper thefts out of here where insane.
I actually wrote one when I was in patrol division.
Yeah.
Before hurricane Katrina, this was very active commercial businesses back here.
So there's still quite a bit of equipment that's still usable inside here, a lot of copper wire, stuff like this, and it's all worth a lot of money.
He's got a hacksaw in here.
He's got his work gloves in here.
He's got a pair of cutting pliers.
What you doing back here? I just go get a piece plywood.
A piece of plywood? Yeah.
Did someone tell you you can have that plywood? You're just taking it? Yeah.
If you want plywood, go to Home Depot or go to Lowe's.
You can't come back here and take nothing that ain't yours, man, even if this place is closed.
I don't care if they've been closed for 50 years or 50 minutes.
If it doesn't belong to you, you can't take it.
It's against the law.
Do you have any I.
D.
? I just want to see if you're wanted.
They might be looking for this dude.
Well, we're gonna find out right now.
RMV showing 117 out of J.
P.
For 1463.
He has several priors.
Copy? Yeah.
Criminal trespass.
Thank you.
Ay-yi-yi.
Trespassing.
You have an outstanding warrant for your arrest right now, my friend.
You know what it's for? The exact same thing you're doing tonight, so you have to go to jail.
No, you can't leave.
You can leave-- you're gonna be leaving to jail.
Do me a favor.
Put your hands behind your back.
He discovered a method to make money that's easy for him to do without getting caught.
Do I feel sorry for him? Yes.
Should he try to get a job and stop this criminal activity? Yes.
Here.
Have a seat.
He had an open warrant out for doing the same thing we caught him doing tonight, so this obviously seems to be his M.
O.
We got the P.
C.
all ready.
Get up, and all you do is transport him.
Okay, boss? Appreciate it.
No problem.
So we're gonna bring him to jail on an open warrant for trespassing, and hopefully he learns his lesson.
So you're trying to get a job, huh? Right? All right.
Well, good luck with getting a job, man.
Watch your head on the way in there, you hear? Thanks, guys.
Appreciate it.
Thank y'all.
Fine line between looting and taking what you need to survive.
Straight after Katrina, it sometimes became a gray area.
If people were stealing things to survive-- you know, food and clothing and whatever-- that's one thing.
Certainly if we caught someone breaking into a local supermarket To steal food.
And stealing water and food We would do nothing.
Then we would do nothing.
But if people were taking, you know, a huge plasma tv when there was no electricity, that's another thing.
Wouldn't you say, Johnny? So you really have to look at it case by case.
Shooting on Stumpf.
We got a call for multiple gunshots, and the shooter might still be there, so we're trying to get there quick.
Shooting on Stumpf.
Where's the-- it's gonna be the corner of Stumpf and Holmes.
Ambulance is already here.
In and out? That's the only place you got hit? For sure in and out.
Right there, through the calf.
Thank God it's not a life-threatening injury.
If the bullet had been a 1/2 centimeter over, could have shattered his tibia.
Just extremely lucky young man.
You didn't see nothing? How many guys? Anybody you knew? How many shots did they fire on you? I heard 12 shots come out.
Yeah.
That's a bad situation.
We have a young man, he's out for a night on the town, claiming that he was walking to the parking lot on his way to a club, and all of a sudden, a bunch of guys start shooting at him.
His car's shot up too.
Where the car? His car's right there, that silver Monte Carlo, whatever it is.
There's some blood.
Oh, this one here? Damn, man.
He's lucky that's all he got, huh? Yeah.
Damn.
That looks like tissue.
Man.
That must be where he was standing when he got hit.
Looks like we have several different caliber shells.
These are all .
45s.
That looks like a .
9.
We got three different calibers, man.
You see .
9, .
32, and .
45.
Lot of .
45s, I see.
Multiple guns means multiple shooters.
Man.
They got quite a few bullet holes all up along that wall, and they got some over here.
Up there at the top.
Man, it's amazing, with all these shots fired from three different guns, we only have one victim.
From where we recovered the spent casings and where the victim was, I just think he wasn't the intended target.
I think he just got caught in the cross fire.
You know.
So crime scene will come now, collect the evidence, and take over the investigation.
All right.
Let's go.
Let's go.
Man, that kid got lucky tonight.
So I'm glad we got to get a little bit of range time in.
I'm just headed over to the Jefferson Parish range to re-qualify.
I'm hoping to get a perfect score: All right, eye and ear protection on.
There's positions at the 25-yard line.
There's six standing, six kneeling at different intervals.
There's many different variations that's putting you in a position that in a real-life situation, you could be anywhere from 3 to 20 yards from somebody who's actually shooting back at you.
Let's go.
All right.
Holster.
First stage of fire is gonna be Is the line ready? Line is ready.
Watch your target.
Police.
Don't move! I've been a policeman for 17 years, and never before have I seen anybody make a group like that.
Holster.
Final station.
Two shots.
Two seconds.
Line is ready.
Watch your target.
All right.
Let's check out your target.
The eyes, yeah.
That's just to make him see good.
He can't see anything.
He can't even stand up anymore.
All right, Captain Eddy will score it for you.
It's perfect.
Perfect score.
Perfect score: It's incredible.
Thank you, sir.
Did a good job.
I taught you well, you know.
Not many people can shoot a 120 on a PPC course, but Steven did.
Thank you, Jeff.
Thank you.
My score wasn't bad.
I don't think it gets much better than that.
I don't think he shoots that well.
You might want to give me this one.
They wanted you to autograph that for you.
Part of being a police officer is being able to serve the community and help people who are in need.
Sometimes in the process of helping people, it can be dangerous for us, but myself and my team have a lot of confidence that whatever it takes, we will rise to the occasion.
He's laying on the ground? Gonna be 5'3", about 140.
crime scene.
Just so you know, he's got a gun.
Put your hands up! Put your hands up! We saw you with the gun in your hand.
When you have it in your hand, we get nervous.
In and out through he calf.
Damn.
He's lucky that's all he got.
Get out of the vehicle.
Hands out.
Hands out.
I make a living in the movies, but for the past 20 years I've also been a cop.
And along with some of the finest deputies on the force, I serve the people of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana.
Code 94-G, shots fired.
My name is Steven Seagal.
All units respond.
That's right, Steven Seagal, Deputy Sheriff.
Generally speaking, Jefferson Parish is a very safe place.
Just like any other community, we have our dangerous areas, our projects, our problematic areas.
But those are the areas where we're proactive.
We work very hard to let the bad guys know that we're always there, always watching 'em.
John, this guy's got a gun, and he's waving it around.
Pull over to the side of the road.
Put your hands up! Put your hands up! Hands up! Whoa! Whoa! Don't you reach for nothing.
Don't you reach for nothing.
Where's the gun at? What you doing with a gun? I saw you with a gun in your hand.
Get your seat belt.
Get your seat belt off.
Dude, I didn't have anything.
Put your hands on the car.
My hands are on the car.
I didn't have anything in my hand.
Dude, seriously.
We were just putting it on the Floor.
You were driving like Put your hand on the car.
Keep your hands on the car.
Shut up and look thataway.
Look thataway! As we were proceeding across the bridge, this Monte Carlo passed us up at a high rate of speed.
And it appeared as though the passenger was waving a semiautomatic handgun.
Now, we saw you with a gun in your hand.
You heard? Now, when you have it in your hand, we get nervous.
If the weapon would have accidentally discharged, then what would have happened? It could have been tragedy.
Brian, you running that gun? It's cleared.
So it appears as though the owner of the handgun is the driver.
Obviously if you say that's your gun, you know it's a semiautomatic weapon.
If it has a round in the chamber, which it must have It did.
In the State of Louisiana, you're allowed to have a handgun in your car.
What concerned us, though, is, the passenger was brandishing it and waving it around so people could see it, and that could be considered a threat.
That's Steven Seagal.
I don't give a If he's Steven Seagal or the Mayor, dude.
Shut up.
All right, then.
What you been drinking? No, you had more than a beer.
If a beer gets you this, you need to leave alcohol alone the rest of your life.
You know how much this is gonna ruin my Life? You acting a jackass up here.
Do you realize I'll never have a job ever in this city again? If you think this is gonna ruin your career, try behaving a little better.
Sir, I've tried, but it's like, every time-- you're driving a bright yellow car with a passenger-- has a pistol in his hand.
That's what might ruin your career.
You're either dumb or drunk, and I'm going with drunk, because you don't look dumb.
Well, look, man, I mean Dude, no.
You don't understand.
Do me a favor.
Turn around.
Kneel down.
Now what happened? I don't know.
Says he's gonna jump off the bridge, so now we make sure he doesn't hurt himself.
Look, the New Orleans police department's here, so they're gonna have to deal with you, and I only hope that they're as patient and tolerant as we are.
By the time we'd pull them over, they had already crossed over into New Orleans, so now we have N.
O.
P.
officers here, and they're gonna administer a field sobriety test and try to determine whether or not charges need to be filed.
Ready? One, two-- wait.
Wait.
Wait.
Wait.
Ow.
Ow.
Ow.
You're good, man.
Let's go.
Ow.
Ow! What am I gonna do? Really, guys.
I tried to, but y'all are hemming me up! Yeah, sure.
You know, he really doesn't get it.
Watch your head.
This could have potentially been a very dangerous situation.
Guy's waving a gun around in a car.
I'm just glad we were able to apprehend them before anything happened.
Let's go.
All right.
Let's go.
So, happily, yesterday's incident with the gun turned out where nobody got hurt, but we may encounter situations where we have to use force against force.
On my team, I believe in training, and you can never train enough.
Shooting is a perishable skill, and I like to keep my team members' skill up.
All right.
Let me put this rig on.
I just invited all my guys to the gun range today.
I was kind of hoping that we can help each other sharpen our skills a little bit.
Okay, our good Captain Jeff Eddy.
He's our range master.
Chief, how you doing? Good.
Great.
Nice to see you again.
I was gonna give some simple exercises to my team.
Okay.
Absolutely.
Practicing together on the range as a team is important.
Eye protection.
Hearing protection.
Anytime we get an opportunity to come into the range with Steven, we take advantage of it.
Here we go.
Hey, bring that target in.
So that's three here, three here.
Okay? Your turn.
Not bad.
Okay, Mr.
Fortunato.
Okay.
Good shootin'.
Thank you, sir.
How about a photograph of a hostage situation now? Let's throw that up.
I got three to the head and three to the heart.
Wasn't quite the grouping that he got Okay, now we're gonna hit the suspect in the head, because that's all we got.
We'd rather have you shoot high on his head than low on his head.
And we're not gonna give you a lot of time.
I'm gonna come up.
I'm gonna aim.
Don.
Don.
Okay? There you go, Lar.
There you go.
Ha! Okay, Mr.
Fortunato.
I shouldn't laugh.
I think it looks good.
That's a little too close.
My investigation revealed she was in on it.
I want these over here.
All right.
Let me try to show you fellas how it's done.
Okay? Notice I'm aiming a little bit left, because I don't want to be near her.
That's right where I wanted to be.
That's right where I want to be too.
Shooting at the range was good practice for my team, but it was also good timing for me.
I got to qualify next week.
I'm hoping to get a perfect score.
Man, this radio hasn't said a word in an hour.
You wouldn't think it was a Friday night.
Very, very quiet.
Ain't no nobody out here tonight.
I'm sure we'll run across something.
Not a soul in sight, man.
What's that car doing back there, Johnny? I just saw a car run out right out there.
Ain't nothing back there but abandoned warehouses, man.
They call that trespassing.
Let's follow him.
What's that car doing back there, Johnny? I just saw a car right out there.
Ain't nothing back there but abandoned warehouses, man.
They call that trespassing.
Let's follow him.
You see him going? We lost him.
Up in here somewhere.
Yeah, he's back there, back in the back.
Where the did he go? I saw him.
Shine your lights, man.
Run back there now.
There he is right there, stopped.
Step out of your vehicle.
Get out of the vehicle! Get out! Take your hands out your pockets! Put your hands up.
Hands out.
Hands out.
Hands out.
Come on over here.
Put your hands on the car.
- You speak English? - Yeah.
- You work here? - No.
What are you doing back up in here? Check the front of the car.
Say, uh, Steven? In plain view located on the passenger seat of the vehicle, this looks like a receipt, like he sold some insulated copper wire.
Uh-huh.
You know what that means, right? When they closed this business, the copper thefts out of here where insane.
I actually wrote one when I was in patrol division.
Yeah.
Before hurricane Katrina, this was very active commercial businesses back here.
So there's still quite a bit of equipment that's still usable inside here, a lot of copper wire, stuff like this, and it's all worth a lot of money.
He's got a hacksaw in here.
He's got his work gloves in here.
He's got a pair of cutting pliers.
What you doing back here? I just go get a piece plywood.
A piece of plywood? Yeah.
Did someone tell you you can have that plywood? You're just taking it? Yeah.
If you want plywood, go to Home Depot or go to Lowe's.
You can't come back here and take nothing that ain't yours, man, even if this place is closed.
I don't care if they've been closed for 50 years or 50 minutes.
If it doesn't belong to you, you can't take it.
It's against the law.
Do you have any I.
D.
? I just want to see if you're wanted.
They might be looking for this dude.
Well, we're gonna find out right now.
RMV showing 117 out of J.
P.
For 1463.
He has several priors.
Copy? Yeah.
Criminal trespass.
Thank you.
Ay-yi-yi.
Trespassing.
You have an outstanding warrant for your arrest right now, my friend.
You know what it's for? The exact same thing you're doing tonight, so you have to go to jail.
No, you can't leave.
You can leave-- you're gonna be leaving to jail.
Do me a favor.
Put your hands behind your back.
He discovered a method to make money that's easy for him to do without getting caught.
Do I feel sorry for him? Yes.
Should he try to get a job and stop this criminal activity? Yes.
Here.
Have a seat.
He had an open warrant out for doing the same thing we caught him doing tonight, so this obviously seems to be his M.
O.
We got the P.
C.
all ready.
Get up, and all you do is transport him.
Okay, boss? Appreciate it.
No problem.
So we're gonna bring him to jail on an open warrant for trespassing, and hopefully he learns his lesson.
So you're trying to get a job, huh? Right? All right.
Well, good luck with getting a job, man.
Watch your head on the way in there, you hear? Thanks, guys.
Appreciate it.
Thank y'all.
Fine line between looting and taking what you need to survive.
Straight after Katrina, it sometimes became a gray area.
If people were stealing things to survive-- you know, food and clothing and whatever-- that's one thing.
Certainly if we caught someone breaking into a local supermarket To steal food.
And stealing water and food We would do nothing.
Then we would do nothing.
But if people were taking, you know, a huge plasma tv when there was no electricity, that's another thing.
Wouldn't you say, Johnny? So you really have to look at it case by case.
Shooting on Stumpf.
We got a call for multiple gunshots, and the shooter might still be there, so we're trying to get there quick.
Shooting on Stumpf.
Where's the-- it's gonna be the corner of Stumpf and Holmes.
Ambulance is already here.
In and out? That's the only place you got hit? For sure in and out.
Right there, through the calf.
Thank God it's not a life-threatening injury.
If the bullet had been a 1/2 centimeter over, could have shattered his tibia.
Just extremely lucky young man.
You didn't see nothing? How many guys? Anybody you knew? How many shots did they fire on you? I heard 12 shots come out.
Yeah.
That's a bad situation.
We have a young man, he's out for a night on the town, claiming that he was walking to the parking lot on his way to a club, and all of a sudden, a bunch of guys start shooting at him.
His car's shot up too.
Where the car? His car's right there, that silver Monte Carlo, whatever it is.
There's some blood.
Oh, this one here? Damn, man.
He's lucky that's all he got, huh? Yeah.
Damn.
That looks like tissue.
Man.
That must be where he was standing when he got hit.
Looks like we have several different caliber shells.
These are all .
45s.
That looks like a .
9.
We got three different calibers, man.
You see .
9, .
32, and .
45.
Lot of .
45s, I see.
Multiple guns means multiple shooters.
Man.
They got quite a few bullet holes all up along that wall, and they got some over here.
Up there at the top.
Man, it's amazing, with all these shots fired from three different guns, we only have one victim.
From where we recovered the spent casings and where the victim was, I just think he wasn't the intended target.
I think he just got caught in the cross fire.
You know.
So crime scene will come now, collect the evidence, and take over the investigation.
All right.
Let's go.
Let's go.
Man, that kid got lucky tonight.
So I'm glad we got to get a little bit of range time in.
I'm just headed over to the Jefferson Parish range to re-qualify.
I'm hoping to get a perfect score: All right, eye and ear protection on.
There's positions at the 25-yard line.
There's six standing, six kneeling at different intervals.
There's many different variations that's putting you in a position that in a real-life situation, you could be anywhere from 3 to 20 yards from somebody who's actually shooting back at you.
Let's go.
All right.
Holster.
First stage of fire is gonna be Is the line ready? Line is ready.
Watch your target.
Police.
Don't move! I've been a policeman for 17 years, and never before have I seen anybody make a group like that.
Holster.
Final station.
Two shots.
Two seconds.
Line is ready.
Watch your target.
All right.
Let's check out your target.
The eyes, yeah.
That's just to make him see good.
He can't see anything.
He can't even stand up anymore.
All right, Captain Eddy will score it for you.
It's perfect.
Perfect score.
Perfect score: It's incredible.
Thank you, sir.
Did a good job.
I taught you well, you know.
Not many people can shoot a 120 on a PPC course, but Steven did.
Thank you, Jeff.
Thank you.
My score wasn't bad.
I don't think it gets much better than that.
I don't think he shoots that well.
You might want to give me this one.
They wanted you to autograph that for you.
Part of being a police officer is being able to serve the community and help people who are in need.
Sometimes in the process of helping people, it can be dangerous for us, but myself and my team have a lot of confidence that whatever it takes, we will rise to the occasion.