T.J. Hooker (1982) s03e04 Episode Script

(energetic music) (rock music) - Look at this scene, Hooker.
All these kids at this hour of the night.
- You'd think they were homeless, but the truth is, almost all of them have parents and homes.
- Well, what's with the parents? Don't they care? - You tell me.
(rock music) (engine revving) (tires squealing) (radio beeping) - [Police Dispatcher.]
All units in the vicinity of Maple and Second Street, a GTA just reported at 413 Maple Street.
Vehicle a '71 Firebird, red in color, license 421 Boy Mary Charlie.
(rock music) - That looks like our man.
(siren wailing) Four Adam 30 in pursuit of possible GTA suspect in a '71 Firebird, license 421 Boy Mary Charlie, heading north on Mason past Fifth Street.
- Four Adam 16, heading west on 18th, we will intercept.
Our ETA is two.
(tires squealing) (tires squealing) (car crashing) (wires sizzling) - You guys are crazy.
Look what you made me do to my dad's car.
- Put that to music.
Read him his rights and then cuff him.
- You have the right to remain silent.
If you give up the right to remain silent, anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law.
You have the right to speak with an attorney and to have the attorney present - My God! - during questioning.
Hooker! - If you so desire and cannot afford one, an attorney will be appointed for you, without charge, before questioning.
- Put a call into the coroner, then call homicide.
- She's just a kid.
- What a waste.
(dramatic music) (gentle music) - The girl's father, he was called down to make the identification.
- Her name's Gloria Neely.
- What about our suspect? Did you get anything out of him? - He didn't kill her, didn't even know her.
He's a dumb kid tryin' to steal a car.
The body happened to be in the trunk.
The detectives cleared him and the owner of the car.
- Are you the officers that found her? - Yes, sir, we are.
- She was my only daughter.
- Is there anything you can tell us that might help? - Me? What about you people? You're the cops! How can you let something like this happen? (dance music) - Miles, you don't listen.
I'm making this film for the foreign market, Asia, the Middle East.
You know what they want over there, something young, fresh, a baby doll.
- I found you a baby doll.
- Gloria Neely was a baby doll that developed problems.
- So she cost you 200 a day for coke, so what? - That isn't it.
It's my whole operation.
What do you think would've happened if I just cut her loose? Would she have kept her mouth shut about the abortion, about being in hard-core flicks at 16? - Look, it's just the whole idea of killing someone.
- That's not the idea, that's the fact.
The idea is not to wind up in prison.
Now, I'm shutting down the operation, and you're out of a director's job until you come up with another baby doll.
You understand? - They're tough to find, Mr.
Laszlo.
- Gold is tough to find, Miles, but it's out there.
Charlie.
- I didn't even knock on your door.
I thought you'd still be asleep.
- I couldn't sleep.
- The girl last night, Gloria Neely? - Yeah, I couldn't get her out of my mind.
I kept seeing her in the trunk of that car.
- It really got to you, didn't it? - Till two in the morning.
So I picked up the phone and called Hooker.
- What about me? I'm right across the hall.
- That's why I called Hooker.
- Speaking of which.
Hooker, what are you doin' here on your day off? - Stacy, I was worried about you.
You sounded pretty upset.
- I was, until I talked to you.
Have you heard from homicide? - Yeah, preliminary findings indicate that Gloria Neely died from a single shot, a .
22.
Detectives are gonna need help on this one.
I've already talked to Corrigan.
I volunteered for the four of us.
- A .
22? That sounds like a professional job.
- On a teenager? - Yeah, it does sound strange.
- Maybe she witnessed something, something she wasn't supposed to see? Maybe her family's into something illegal? - That doesn't track with what the detectives found out.
Her father's a highway construction worker, a widower.
Gloria Neely, popular, good student, she was a cheerleader at Washington High.
- Apple pie.
- A girl like that shouldn't end up dead in a trunk.
Isn't Washington High one of the schools you and Corrigan are monitoring for drugs? - They've got a supply that seems like it's on a conveyor belt.
- Any idea who's pushing coke there? - There's no proof yet, but I can give him a name.
I think you know him, Hooker, Tommy Carmel.
- Yeah, a senior, 18 going on 50, slick and nasty.
- I can't wait to meet him.
- Put it on your schedule.
- Hooker! Where you headed? - Dr.
Wagner's, she should be finished the autopsy by now.
- You want me to come with you? - No, no, no, you stay here.
Make sure that she's okay.
You know, swim a few laps, work on your pecs.
(upbeat music) Not just another case, huh? - Not when they're as young as she was.
No matter what they say about our being immune to these things, don't you believe it.
- I never did, about you.
Did you find out anything we could use? - For one thing, I was right about the cocaine.
She was a user and a heavy one.
- With the face of an angel.
- An angel on a fast track.
She also had an abortion.
- Could you tell how long? - Within the past four or five weeks, not a very good one, either.
- You think it was a backroom job? - Maybe, maybe not.
Even a practicing physician can get careless.
- What is it with kids these days? They're old before they start.
- I not only see it here, I see it with my friends and their children.
That scares me, Hooker.
Maybe that's why whenever I think about marriage, I back off.
- Well, that's not the answer.
You'd make a great parent, because you care.
- Is that a proposal? - Don't put ideas in my head.
- Hooker, my job's through.
Yours is just beginning.
Where do you go from here with Gloria Neely? - Right to the end.
I don't like living in a city where a 16-year-old girl is already hooked on coke, has had an abortion and gets shot in the head.
I'm gonna find out how and why it happened.
(dramatic music) (dance music) - Excuse me, Miles.
- Yeah, how ya doin'? Excuse me.
- I thought you'd never get here.
I'm coming down.
- [Miles.]
Have you thought about the thing we discussed? - But you said before that there are nude scenes.
- You name a movie today that doesn't have 'em.
- I don't know, Miles.
I mean, my parents.
- Hey, they're never gonna know.
Besides, you're a big girl, Lisa.
I'm offering you a career and cash.
- How much would I get? - Would you believe $3,000? - You're kidding.
- Have I ever lied to you? - Gloria was a beautiful girl, Mr.
Neely.
- Yes, she was, and now she's in the ground.
- It must be rough.
- Yeah, now what can I do for you? - According to the autopsy report, Gloria used cocaine.
- I suspected she was on something.
Came down on her real hard.
She wouldn't level with me.
You know kids.
She was okay until about six months ago, and then, I don't know, she just went to hell.
- Did you know she was pregnant and had an abortion? - That's why she spent that week at her girlfiend's.
- Didn't you ask her why at the time? - Look, I gave her money to spend, I bought her a car, I did everything I could.
But I got my own life to live.
- Do you know who got her pregnant? - How the hell would I know that? - This girlfriend you mentioned? - Lisa Telford, in Gloria's class at Washington High.
They were cheerleaders together, best friends.
She probably told her everything she never told me.
- Maybe Lisa had time to listen.
- Thank you, Mr.
Neely.
I get the feeling if Gloria had come home and said she was pregnant, Neely wouldn't've paid much attention.
- Maybe that's why she didn't go home.
She knew there would be no love there.
I want to get Stacy and Corrigan out checking the clinics and the hospitals.
I told the skipper that we'd follow through on the abortion angle.
- Do you think a legitimate medical facility would perform an illegal abortion? I mean, obviously, there was no parental consent involved.
- Well, might've been a quack, an opportunist lookin' for a fast buck.
We've gotta take a run at it.
- Where to now? - To find Gloria Neely's cheerleader friend.
(upbeat music) Lisa Telford? - Yes.
- I'm Sergeant Hooker.
This is Officer Romano.
We're investigating the murder of your friend Gloria Neely.
- I was at the funeral the other day.
I still can't believe it.
I've been having nightmares about it.
- Anything you might be able to tell us about Gloria could be helpful.
- Like what? - If Gloria was in any trouble.
If there was somebody who might've wanted to hurt her.
- I don't know anyone who didn't like Gloria.
- We talked to her father, Lisa.
He said that Gloria was your best friend, sometimes she stayed with you.
She must've confided in you, huh? - Yes, about most things, but - But what? - Well, I don't know, lately, she was kind of private.
- You knew about her abortion? - Yeah, I knew about that.
- Do you know where she had it done? - No.
But, um, I think I remember her saying she liked the doctor.
- This doctor, do you know his name? - I think Gloria said his name was Adam, I'm not sure.
- That'll help.
Thank you.
(tense music) - What's up, Hooker? - A drug-dealing punk we should have a chat with.
- Tommy Carmel? - You got it.
Hey, Tommy? Come here, I want to talk with you.
(chase music) Hate to ruin your day, but we want you to sing us a song.
- I don't have to tell you nothin', cop.
- Try again, punk.
We want some answers.
- If I give you the answers, what do I win? - If you're smart, you try and cut your losses.
What do you know about Gloria Neely? - Like I said, I don't talk to cops, especially you, Hooker.
- That does it, wise guy, assume the position.
- What for? - To see if you have a concealed weapon.
Read him his rights, Romano.
- I'm getting very good at this.
You have the right to remain silent.
If you give up the right to remain silent-- - Save your breath, man, I know 'em by heart.
- All right, airhead, if you're any part of what happened to Gloria Neely, you're not lookin' at juvenile hall this time.
We're talkin' hard time.
Try again? Gloria Neely.
- Okay, Gloria was a coke head, man.
I hear she went from zero to being the biggest user around.
- How big? - Maybe 200 bucks a day.
- Where did she get the money? - She was into movies, at least that was the word.
- If Gloria's makin' movies, how come the world didn't know about it? That'd be big news around here.
- There's one kind of movie you don't talk about, especially if you're underage.
- Porno.
(dramatic music) - Turn him over to the narcs.
- Hey, I played ball with you guys.
- Yes, you did, and now you can play ball with the narcs.
(gentle music) - Nothing so far on Gloria's involvement with teen pornography.
I sat down with the guys in vice and told them what we were looking for.
They said they'd get back to us.
- Yeah, thank you.
Well, we've come up dry on the hospitals and clinics.
No one of Gloria Neely's description was the patient at any of 'em.
- The doctor's name that Gloria's friend wasn't sure about, Adam, anything on that? - There are no doctors in this city with that name, neither first or last.
- Scratch hospitals, clinics, Gloria Neely got her abortion on the black market.
- My God, no wonder she was so hacked up.
- Poor girl must've been desperate.
- Somebody else was too.
Somebody who stood to lose if it became apparent that she was pregnant.
- Illegal abortion mills operate underground.
They're pretty hard to uncover.
- Yeah, but girls like Gloria who keep 'em in business somehow manage to find 'em.
- But how? - Referrals, a friend of a friend of a friend.
- But how do we get referred? - I think I know someone who might point us in the right direction.
We're still tracking Gloria Neely's abortion.
We've eliminated all the legitimate facilities, clinics, hospitals.
- So then it's out to an outlaw shop.
- That's our thinking, and it occurred to me that you might be able to help us.
- Maybe I can.
There was a case some years back.
An obstetrician was brought up on charges for performing an abortion on a young girl without benefit of parental consent.
I did the autopsy on the girl.
- Was the doctor prosecuted? - No, witnesses backed out at the last moment, so the DA had to drop the case.
But, the state board revoked his license.
- That's good news.
- Dr.
Adam Garwood.
- Could be our man.
- Sounds like our man.
- Are you sure? For all I know, he could be selling shoes these days.
- I don't think so.
Doctors like this tend to keep doctoring, license or no license.
(suspenseful music) - Okay.
Relax, sweetie, relax.
Okay now, Lisa, the camera's gonna want to see a lot more of you, okay? At first, I want you to start with the top, lover, all right? And I don't want you to hurry, honey.
I want you to tease me, okay? Yeah? All right, here we go.
Okay, honey, let's do it.
(perilous music) (energetic music) - Can I help you officers? - No.
- Wait, you can't go in there.
- What's going on here? I'm seeing a patient.
- Not anymore you're not.
- Everything's gonna be all right.
- Wait a minute, wait a minute here, what the hell is all this about? - Let's start with patient of your named Gloria Neely.
- Neely? I don't believe I've heard that name.
- I think you have.
- I don't discuss my patients.
It's a matter of confidentiality, or haven't you heard? - Haven't you heard? Gloria Neely is dead.
- What has that got to do with me? - She was a minor.
You performed an illegal abortion on her.
Butchers like you don't stop with one victim, Garwood.
When the DA's office is through talking to the girls you've treated, they'll be an army of witnesses waiting to bury you.
I'll be the one with the shovel.
- [Adam.]
I'm not saying anything until I talk to my lawyer.
- Who brought Gloria Neely here? Who paid for your services? - I'll have to ask you to leave.
- Sure, I'll leave.
But by the end of the day, the DA's investigators will be all over you and your bogus weight-loss dodge.
You've performed your last illegal abortion.
You've maimed your last pregnant girl, doctor.
(dramatic music) (phone ringing) - Hello.
- Dickson? This is Dr.
Garwood.
- Yeah, what can I do for you? - The police were just here.
They found out the Neely girl had an abortion.
They tracked her to me.
- You didn't mention my name, did ya? - Not yet, but they're gonna close me down, and I'll need money to set myself up someplace else, in another state.
- How much? - 25,000 cash.
I'll give ya an hour to get it, and then I'll be there to collect.
- That Dr.
Garwood just called.
The police just ran him down.
He'll be here in an hour.
He wants 25 grand not to finger me.
- I'll take care of Garwood.
You guys got a doctor's appointment.
- Kill him? - Dead.
(tense music) Now that's what I call my kinda girl, Dickson.
We got us a real hot baby doll here.
A real baby doll.
(energetic music) - [Vince.]
What do we do now? - Try and stay out of hot water.
(door opening) Michelle.
- Hooker.
Did you come for an autographed picture, or did you want to take a dip? - We're here on business.
This is my partner, Vince Romano, Michelle Jameson, reformed film star of Jenny's Delights and Babes in the Woods.
- Nice to meet you.
- Don't get up.
- Now, Hooker, you're no longer on vice, and besides, you don't have any reason these days to bust me.
So what kind of business did you have in mind? - We're looking for someone who's cranking out teeny bopper porn using real teeny boppers.
- Most of them try to fake it with 18 year olds.
I played 16 till I went over the hill at 20.
- Are you kidding, you, over the hill? - He's sweet, Hooker.
Why don't you give him the afternoon off? - Hey, the subject is teen porn.
Give me a name.
- Miles Dickson, he'd be my leading candidate.
He's out here from the East Coast.
- Where'll I find this Miles Dickson? - The Black Star, it's a nightclub on the west side.
If he's in town, that's where he'll be.
I can point him out for ya.
- I'll take you up on that, tonight.
(sexy music) (moves to energetic music) - [Police Dispatcher.]
Four Adam 30, message for you from the DA's investigators.
They're on their way to meet you at Dr.
Garwood's office.
- Four Adam 30, roger.
(gun with silencer firing) - It's Garwood! - Cops! (tires squealing) (siren blaring) - Four Adam 30 in pursuit at Franklin and Van Ness construction site.
(guns firing) (radio beeping) - [Police Dispatchere.]
All units in the vicinity and four Adam 16, officer needs help, Van Ness and Franklin.
Four Adam 16, handle code three.
(siren blaring) - Four Adam 16, roger.
(engine rumbling) (gun firing) (siren wailing) - Whew, what happened? - Close.
- You're not kidding.
They get away? - One of them didn't, over there, he's dead.
(radio beeping) - [Police Dispatcher.]
Four Adam 30, switch to tack two for Four Adam eight.
- I'll get it.
Roger, this is 30.
Go ahead, eight, this is Corrigan.
- Corrigan, Romano, tell Hooker, Garwood didn't make it.
- Okay, Romano.
Hooker, Garwood's dead.
- Bad news.
Good news for a lot of young girls, whether they know it or not.
- Now all we have is the porno lead.
- Yeah.
(dramatic music) (disco music) If Dickson doesn't show tonight, I'm gonna have to bring you back tomorrow, Michelle.
- If you insist, Hooker.
I'm all yours.
- I didn't see anybody who looked like Dickson come in while you guys were boogieing.
You know, Hooker, you move pretty good for a senior citizen.
- Are you kiddin'? I'm an Arthur Murray graduate.
You wanna see my rumba? - Not while I'm eating.
- Hi ya, doll.
Hey, haven't seen you here before.
- Maybe that's because I haven't been here before.
- Yeah, well, you're in for a real blast now, sweetie.
Wait'll you see some of my moves.
- Why don't you show me the one that gets you lost.
- Another one bites the dust.
- Stacy's spreading a lot of insecurity among the young bucks.
They're all hitting on her.
- Not all of them.
- You're not exactly joining in.
- No, I haven't seen anyone who really turns me on.
- That's too bad, 'cause I have.
- Oh? Who? - You.
- Look buddy, if anybody is gonna pick me up, it's gonna be somebody in high heels and a miniskirt.
- Don't leave.
I'll be back.
- I keep telling Romano he oughta get his hair cut.
- Hooker, looks like we've been watching the wrong door.
There's Dickson.
- Who's the girl he's with? - Lisa Telford.
- I'm going to stick with Dickson.
- I get the uneasy feeling that Dickson may be setting Lisa up.
- To replace Gloria Neely? - That's the kind of innocence Dickson likes.
- Where did they come from? What's in back of this place? - Stacy and I were asking the same question.
She's checking it out.
(suspenseful music) (disco music) Relax, Hooker, Stacy can handle herself.
- I'd sure like to think so.
- Gloria Neely.
(door closing) (tense music) Hi.
- Hi, yourself.
What are you doing here? - I'm looking for the powder room.
- You're looking in the wrong place.
- I already figured that out.
This is a big place.
They oughta give out road maps.
- Who told you the powder room was back here? - I think we better see what's going down.
- Look, can we talk later? I really have to find the little girls' room, you know? - Run along.
- You had us worried.
- It was worth it.
I found something.
- We are getting closer.
Stacy described the guy she ran into last night at the Black Star, vice put a name on him.
- George Laszlo.
- The money man.
He owns the Black Star and several other clubs.
Vice has a smell that he might be moving into the porno racket.
- Probably backing Dickson.
- Yeah, backing him to the hilt if you can judge by Dickson's flashy wheels and his expensive condo.
- All of which means nothing.
For all we know, Laszlo and Dickson could be making legal porno films, if you can believe that phrase.
- What about the picture I found of Gloria Neely? - You can't hang him on that, partner.
They could say some agent submitted it.
- So we have to catch him dirty.
- Right on.
Vice says we have to nail him in the act of filming a teeny bopper flick.
That's when they'll jump in.
Meanwhile, we're gonna need some help.
- Are we talking about Lisa Telford? - We are.
According to your partner here, she may be willing to cooperate.
- Well, when Dickson dropped her off last night, they had a hot argument.
She ran into the house crying.
- I hate to use her, but I'm gonna have to.
(upbeat music) - There she is.
- Lisa.
You remember us, we talked to you about Gloria Neely? - I remember.
- We need to know more.
- Look, I told you everything I know.
- Then perhaps we can tell you something.
Gloria Neely was mixed up with Miles Dickson, too.
- We saw you last night at Black Star, with Dickson, coming out of a studio.
- Well, I'm through with him.
I'll never do what he wants me to do.
- You mean performing in his movies? - The whole thing is sick, but I was afraid of him.
- Lisa, Dickson will go on destroying the lives of other young girls like Gloria unless you can help us stop him.
- I found out last night that he was the one who made her pregnant, and he paid for the abortion.
I hate him.
- Then help us stop him.
- I don't understand.
How can I help? - Tell Dickson you'll do what he wants, that you'll make his sleazy films.
(dramatic music) (dance music) - These little chicks are flaky.
First they say they will, then they say they won't.
You can't expect me to control that.
- That's what I'm paying you for.
- Look, Mr.
Laszlo, we're talking about kids here.
It takes time to suck 'em in.
- Your time's run out, Dickson.
Pack up your gear, clear the office.
You're through.
- Mr.
Laszlo, you might wanna reconsider.
- Miles, I was praying you'd be here.
I've gotta talk to you, now.
- That's all right, angel.
We're all friends here.
- You can't cut me off.
- You got a problem, kid, I'm not interested anymore.
- Please, Miles, I'm in a bad way.
And I changed my mind.
- No you listen to me, Lisa, and this is the last time we're gonna do this little dance.
Okay? Now, I'm gonna give you enough stuff to get through tonight, and the way you get through tomorrow is you show up here nine o'clock, bright and early, ready to do what we started.
- I'll be here.
- You can't let me down this time, honey, or we're talkin' trouble like you never dreamed of.
Nine o'clock sharp, all right? - It worked.
We shoot tomorrow morning at nine.
- Good.
- What? What do you want? - What Dickson gave you.
- Sergeant Hooker, please, I can't quit cold.
- Yes, you can.
I promise you.
I'll get you medical help, long term.
You won't need drugs ever again.
Lisa, you can do it.
Now, let's talk about tomorrow.
(energetic music) - You and your people made this case, Hooker, so it's your bust.
- We appreciate that.
Corrigan, Stacy, you stay with vice.
- Okay now, we're rolling.
Lisa, honey, look, don't be nervous, okay.
- Let's do it.
- What are you doin'? You got no right to do this.
- Get on your knees.
No right? We have a warrant for your arrest.
- Hands on your head! (tires squealing) - Were you scared? - You bet.
- Your trouble's only starting here, Dickson.
You're looking at a murder rap.
- Where do you get that? I didn't kill anyone.
- Gloria Neely.
- Hey, wait a minute, I had nothing to do with that! - You also paid Garwood to give her an abortion then had him killed to shut him up.
- Look, I swear, you're wrong.
I'm not a killer.
- You'll do.
We've already read him his rights.
- We'll take him.
Come on.
- Hold on, just one moment.
I'm bookin' you for murder one.
You alone, murder one.
- All right, all right, it was Laszlo.
It was George Laszlo.
- Hooker, Laszlo's body guard, I just saw him.
He spotted me and then took off.
- Laszlo'll know we're onto him.
Hold on, just a second.
Where will I find George Laszlo? (tires squealing) (chase music) (sirens wailing) - [Jim.]
Hold it right there.
Hands behind your head.
(tires squealing) (siren wailing) (punches thudding) - Cuff him.
Then wash your hands.
(gentle music) - Hi.
This meat is freshly ground.
The butcher did it for me an hour ago.
- Ugh, this wine is freshly made, too.
Romano, when you buy the vino next time, make sure it's aged more than an hour and a half.
- Ah Corrigan, it just tastes strange to you 'cause you're used to wine with screw-off caps.
- Now, that's enough you guys.
Now, let's get this thing started.
Anybody got a match? - Yeah, this wine and furniture polish.
- [TJ.]
Oh, does that look good, and am I hungry.
- Here, help yourself, partner.
Salute.
- That should do wonders on untreated wood.
- Hooker, what happened to Lisa when you took her home? - She laid it all out on the table.
Her parents took it pretty hard, but I think it's gonna work out.
- What about the drug program? You think she'll stick with it? - Yeah, and I think the parent's will follow through.
- Let's get this barbecue in motion.
Hooker, light the fire, would you? - I don't light fires.
I put 'em out.
- Yeah? That's not what your ex wife told us.
- Are you kidding? We used to keep a fire extinguisher by the bed.
(happy music) (energetic music) (light music)