T.J. Hooker (1982) s04e21 Episode Script
Lag Time
(action music) - Exclusionary rule opens the door for the development of workable rules governing search and seizure.
Rules that provide protection for the individual rights guaranteed by the constitutional provisions.
- Wait a minute.
I've got to disagree with that.
What about the right to society at large to be protected from the lawless elements? Should the protection of the individual be gained at the disproportionate loss to society? (bell rings) - To be continued (laughs).
Well, that's all for tonight.
Let's hit those books, folks.
We have midterms next week.
(classroom chatter) - I'm sorry if I gave you a hard time.
- Oh, don't be.
Students like you make teaching much more interesting.
You inspire other minds.
I like that.
Thank you.
- [Vince.]
Miss Randolph.
- Cynthia, in the classroom it's Miss Randolph, out here, I'm Cynthia.
- Mine's Vince.
- I know.
- There's this new play in town.
Buddy of mine from back East is in it.
I have a couple of tickets, I was wondering--? - Oh gee, Vince, that's awfully sweet of you.
But I make it a habit never to date my students.
- I make it a habit never to date my teachers, usually.
- Well believe me, if I was ever going to break my rule, it would have to be with somebody like you.
Actually, I'm involved.
- How involved? - Very.
(car horn honking) Oh, look, I've gotta run.
(suspenseful music) Friends, okay? - Sure.
Goodnight.
- Goodnight.
Hello, darling.
- Hi, hun.
- I missed you and I was a little worried.
- Hey, look, I'm sorry.
I drive around and I think about the book, what I've written and what I've got left to do.
I lose track of time.
- Well maybe we can make up for all that when we get home, huh? (romantic music) (upbeat music) - Lovejoy versus California.
- Lovejoy versus California.
The Mickelson rule applies.
Lovejoy was case law involving a suspiciously parked car.
- All right! - You didn't think I knew that.
- No, I didn't think you knew it.
- I didn't either.
- Now I know you didn't know it.
- C'mon, Hooker.
It's too nice a day for a pop quiz.
- All right, it's not me that has a law midterm coming up.
You're the one that wants to be a lawyer.
- I just figure the better educated I am, with the points and authorities on search and seizure, the better cop I'm gonna be on the streets.
Besides, you should see my teacher.
Did you see that? What a good catch.
(suspenseful music) - [Jack.]
Hey, nobody move! Hey, you, get on the floor! Get on the floor! Check out 11, get down.
- [Porter.]
Open the cage! You got two seconds.
All of it.
(suspenseful music) - I'm really sorry I didn't make Sally's funeral.
- You had a case in court.
Besides you really didn't know her.
- No, but I know you two were good friends.
- The best.
(radio beeps) - [Woman Over Radio.]
4 Adam 16, 211 in progress at the Lucky Loan check cashing service, 750 Holmand.
Four suspects wearing ski masks and armed with sawed-off shotguns and 45s.
- Oh man, sawed offs and 45s.
This is 30, we're rolling back up to 16's call.
- Control, can you repeat that address? - C'mon Stace, shake and bake time.
- Control, we have the address.
We're rolling with a two minute ETA.
(action music) - [Jack.]
All right, let's get out of here, c'mon.
(excited chatter) (gun shot fires) (gun shot fires) - There they are.
- [Jack.]
Caswell, back out of here! (police car sirens) (car screeching) - 4 Adam 16 is in pursuit of 211 suspects.
Shots have been fired at the Lucky Loan company.
Man down, requesting an ambulance.
- This is 4 Adam 30, show us code 6 of the crime scene.
(police sirens) (car braking) (police sirens) (car crashes) (car screeches to a halt) (suspenseful music) - [Man.]
Take him, we'll get the other one.
- Freeze! Up against the wall.
Spread 'em.
Spread 'em! - When you get to heaven, tell 'em Frank Morlin sent you.
- Hey! (gunshot fires) It looks like he'll make it.
I'll call an ambulance.
Are you okay? (dramatic music) - [Vince.]
Heard on the radio you put one down.
- He's on his way to City Hospital.
I lost the other one.
- His names Ted Barnes, a retired cop.
Friend of Hooker's.
- C'mon, Teddy.
Fight it, fight it! Fight it! C'mon Teddy.
- Please, may I? If you can, say after me.
Lord Jesus, son of God, have mercy on me.
To the degree that you are needful and I am capable, I absolve you of all your sins in the name of the father, son, and holy ghost.
(dramatic music) (romantic piano music) - What happens if they put the squeeze on Morlin and he talks? - They won't.
He knows that in or out of the joint, I can get to him.
- Cops got his shot gun.
What if they trace it back to Ellison? - Well if that time comes, we'll eliminate the problem.
- [Porter.]
Like you're eventually gonna eliminate that dumb blonde schoolteacher you're living with? - [Jack.]
Straight on.
Hey Tommy, how you doing? Just talking about you, pull up a chair.
- I heard about Morlin.
What about my piece man? There ain't many works around that good.
The cops start asking around, they're gonna come looking around.
- Oh by that time, we'll be long gone on the breezle, buddy.
I'm gonna need a new shotgun made though.
We're gonna need it in two days.
This is a full blown gig, man.
Go ahead, tell him, babe.
- 250 Gs.
- You're serious? - Your cut's 10%, old buddy.
- That's 25 thousand.
(radio beeps) - [Woman Over Radio.]
4 Adam your robbery suspect Frank Morlin is in stable condition.
A criminal records check indicates Morlin has a prior record for robbery, assault and manslaughter.
- 4 Adam 16, Roger.
- 16, Sergeant Shaffer of the shooting team requests Officer Sheridan report to the station, code two.
- Roger, dispatch, tell Shaffer we're in route.
- So, Sheridan, why did you use a wall search instead of proning out the suspect? - C'mon Shaffer, we've been at this for over three hours.
Give the lady a break, huh? - Corrigan, you know as well as I do why we have to keep at this, the lady had her gun taken away.
If it hadn't been for you, she'd have been blown away.
Good tactics, proper search procedures might have prevented this shooting.
- It's like a dream.
When I looked up to the barrel of my gun, I knew the flash was coming and that it would all be over and I thought about my dad and my friends, and I didn't feel sorry for me, I just felt bad.
I thought, "This is a really stupid way to die.
" - Hey look, something's gotta come out here.
Stacy lost a good friend recently.
They buried her just yesterday.
And she's had a lot on her mind.
- And she's lucky.
She's damn lucky her preoccupation with a personal problem didn't cost her her own life.
- [Shaffer.]
Frank Morlin is a stone killer.
- You came down a little hard on Stacy, don't you think? - Yes, I did.
Maybe she'll remember for a long time.
At least long enough to count the next time around.
- Okay, I think I know where you're coming from.
- You think? What do you mean think? Complacency kills cops.
- Shaffer's gonna say that or something like it in the shooting report.
And somebody's gonna come to you and ask whether or not Stacy should stay on the street.
- Maybe I'll have to go to them.
- And she's my partner.
- If you'd been 30 seconds late, she'd have been a dead partner.
It's called survival, Jim.
Yours, hers, anybody you're working with.
- Maybe it was forgetting about survival that killed your friend Ted Barnes.
All he had was tombstone courage.
- He didn't have to die.
Why the hell couldn't he have waited for back up? For us to arrive.
The sawed-off and wasted Ted is still out there.
I want him.
And the trigger man.
Guy who modified this was no garage gunsmith with a hacksaw.
(intense music) - What are you doing here? - I had some paper work to catch up on.
- You got off watch four hours ago, Jim.
- You were still in there with the shooting team.
I didn't want to leave until I-- - Until what? You made sure your incompetent partner made it through the day in one piece? - Incompetent? Is that what you got out of that grilling? If I get my hands on Sergeant Shaffer-- - Wait a minute.
I'm the one who blew it, not Shaffer.
- So you made a mistake? Hey, I got news for you.
Cops are human.
Think because we put on a badge, we're perfect? - When you put it on and you're a woman, you have to be.
- According to whose Bible? Sergeant Shaffer's or your own? - How about Hooker's? - All right, Caswell and Janie will go in first.
Janie's gonna cover the rear door.
Todd stops right here.
- Okay, what about security? - No problems.
There's a security guard station right here.
We'll take him out hard and fast.
- [Cynthia.]
Jack? - Put that away, it's just my old lady.
Here you go.
- Is that really necessary? - Just my paranoia I guess.
- I was hoping you'd outgrow that.
- Hi.
- What's he doing here? - Porter? You remember him, don't you? - Oh, yeah, sure.
I remember Porter.
How can you forget that associating with him violates your parole? - Hey, c'mon.
Give me a break will ya? - Yeah, well, it's always nice to see you too, Miss Randolph.
You still donating time down at the prisoner's defense league? Or ain't you got the need no more since you sleeping with your own forbidden toy? You wasp do-gooders never cease to humor me.
- Hey c'mon man, that's enough.
Let's go.
- Morlin still stone-walling? - He's suffering from a heavy case of prison ethics.
Now they're very loyal to his buddies-- - Morlin's scared to death they'll smell a snitch.
He'll end up with a sliced artery in some corner of the prison unit.
- Jim, pull his associates file.
See if any of his friends fit the robbery MO.
- I found an expert in refitted shotguns.
I thought maybe I could-- - Romano and I have that end covered.
Thank you.
Let's go check it out.
- He never sets foot in here again, none of them.
You swore! - I know, I know I swore I wouldn't see any of the guys again.
- You're damn right you did.
That's another promise you broke.
- Now what's that supposed to mean, huh? - What that means What that means is sometimes I wonder what I fell in love with.
The words the man wrote or the man who wrote the words.
- Hey, c'mon honey.
Give me a break, will ya? I'm trying.
Listen the words-- they're just not coming.
What does your book have to do with Porter being in my home? - Research, baby.
I mean Porter has seen things that I never would see before.
I need his insight.
I need to know what's going on inside his mind.
- He resents me.
What I did for you and couldn't do for him.
I tried to help him.
- That's exactly what I'm trying to do with my book too.
Expose the system from the inside.
That way there's a better chance at making humane changes for everybody.
- That's why it's so important you don't jeopardize it.
- Hey.
I wouldn't disappoint you, not after all you did for me to get me out on parole.
I need you.
And I know that you need me.
(dramatic music) - This a real good job, Hooker.
- Who's that good at, and that dirty? - Well, you guys have got most of them in jail.
But Tommy Ellison's out, best slay the mill man we had.
- He worked here? - Mm-hmm.
Trouble with Tommy was he liked to bet on slow horses and fast women.
Got in real deep with the boys.
'Course they came up with a way he could pay off.
- Making illegal firearms for them? - Machine guns, silencers, you name it, he made it.
Finally got caught and went to prison.
- I'd like to talk to him.
- He's in iron three.
I hear he goes to that new health spa over in Lexington.
- What does he look like? - Little guy, dark-haired, maybe 30.
You wonder where he gets the strength to pump that iron? - Thanks.
(upbeat music) - Todd.
- Bobbi? - Yeah? - The receptionist says you were a friend of Tommy Ellison.
- I was.
- Does he come around very often? - What? - We were wondering if he worked out here.
- Uh huh.
- Does he come around at any specific time? - At one o'clock.
- We'll stick around.
Thank you.
(phone rings) - Hello? - [Todd.]
We have trouble with Tommy Ellison.
- What? - [Todd.]
Cops are looking for him.
They are? - Yeah.
So what are we gonna do? Tommy's a lightweight, the cops can twist him.
- So you want me to handle it? - Do what you have to do.
- Something on your mind, Junior? - I was wondering how you'd been feeling if I'd been the one looking down at the end of that gun barrel instead of Stacy? - That's very simple.
I'd be chewing you out or burying you.
- I didn't ask how you'd act, I asked how you'd feel.
- I don't know.
Stacy's like one of my own kids.
If something ever happened to her, I'd-- - Then she doesn't just have to be good.
- She's got to survive, she's got to be better than the best.
- She is better than the best.
- I know.
- Does Stacy know that? I think you should talk to her.
- I plan to.
(radio beeps) - [Woman Over Radio.]
4 Adam 30, meet Officer Corrigan on tact 2.
- Go, Jim.
- Hooker, I ran Morlin's associates.
Come up with half a dozen fitting our MO.
- Any best bets? - I've got a con who specializes in gun takeaway classes with his prison buddies.
- The prison authorities made a tape of something like that about a year ago.
- One in the same.
Con's name is Jack Lewis.
- Start running down Jack Lewis and see if you can get me a copy of that tape.
- [Jim.]
Roger.
- Hooker, there.
- [Hooker.]
That looks like our gun expert, Tommy Ellison.
- Hey, Tommy! - Let's go.
(dramatic music) (gunshot fires) - [Jim.]
Call an ambulance and get back up! (dramatic fast-paced music) (police sirens) (panting) (screaming) - How's Ellison? - Made it through surgery.
What about the guy that shot him? - I booked him in the jail ward.
His injuries are minor but he's still in healing.
What'd you get from Ellison? - (laughs) It's kinda tough to talk with a bullet in your throat but he did give me a name.
- Jack Lewis.
- Jack Lewis.
It's all coming together.
The shooter's name was Todd Caswell.
I pulled his package.
His records show time done for armed robbery.
Get this, his partner in crime, Frank Morlin.
- The guy who took away Stacy's gun? - And one of Jack Lewis' disciples.
(intense music) (soft-paced music) - Tell, you Paul.
The day they saddle me with some blonde mini cop for a partner, that's the day I quit.
Or I quit real police work.
Put on the old blinders, you know, so you don't get tempted into any situation that might get dangerous.
I mean ain't this job tough enough without having to depend on some pony-tailed munchkin to back you up if you get in trouble? - Yeah, it's tough feeling like John Wayne, isn't it Shaffer, when an attractive lady can do the job? - Well, not that's kind of Sheridan's problem, isn't it? I mean, she didn't do the job, did she? You know they say I gotta live with this federally ordered affirmative action including the hiring of women and minorities, but there's nothing in that directive that says I gotta like it.
- You know, Shaffer, the problem with prejudice is that it's a matter of opinion that belongs to somebody we dislike.
- Why don't you get out of my face, Hooker? If I wanted to fight with someone, I'd gone home with my old lady.
- Want some company, Stace? Ah, there's a lot of chauvinists out there.
- Don't patronize me, Hooker.
I can take care of myself.
I can't even remember the last time I had nails.
- No matter what happened out there, you're still a good cop, Sheridan.
- You're only a good cop as long as you think you are.
(sighs) - That doesn't sound like a Hooker-trained cop to me.
- Maybe you just let me waltz through probation on a count of a lot of reasons.
Including the fact that I'm the captain's daughter.
- That's a lot of bull and you know it.
Where's all this coming from? You know where it's coming from.
- I thought you had more guts than that.
- Don't push me with that, Hooker.
I've got more problems to deal with here than just having my gun taken away.
You know, one woman can do something stupid, and it reflects on all other female cops.
But if a man does the same thing, it doesn't reflect on the other men.
- Fear is the motivating factor, it always is.
- Sure.
They're worried about us getting killed.
More like, they're afraid that we'll get them killed.
That's what's been bothering you too, Hooker.
You're not sure if I should be out there either.
Well maybe I can't handle it anymore.
- All right.
You made a mistake out there.
Hopefully you learned something from it.
You're scheduled for an in-service refresher course that I'm teaching at the academy tomorrow morning.
It's important that you be there.
- What we're seeing is becoming more and more commonplace in our jails and prisons.
Inmates teaching other cons how to become professional criminals.
Here you see two inmates practicing a gun takeaway that was used by a 2 11 suspect on one of our own officers.
As seasoned officers, you're all aware of the fact that an officer's survival depends on alertness.
Attention to proper police procedures and the use of good field tactics.
Have a plan.
If you are your partner find yourselves at a disadvantage, be ready to act.
Use a code signal, some sort which will send you both into action not surrender.
This group's guru is Jack Lewis, a multi-talented hood who's gained some notoriety for a book of prison poems he's written but whose real talents lie in teaching other cons how to disarm cops.
- I might add, I know this guy Lewis.
He did a gun takeaway on an Officer up in Oakland, put six of the officers own into him.
- Well, what'd you think of the tape? - To be honest, it scared the hell out of me.
I kept seeing Marlin with my gun.
Thinking how close I came to buying it.
- Thing is, did you learn anything from it? - Yeah, I know I never want to get caught in a situation like that again.
Where someone's got the drop on me.
- Well, maybe you'll be lucky, maybe you won't.
On the other hand, could happen tomorrow evening.
To you, to me, to any cop.
It's part of the job.
- The technique is down to perfection.
Makes you wonder how many students this guy Lewis has put out on the street.
- Plenty.
Background intelligence on him says he's not only a hot shot stick-up artist, he's a fast talking-- Why don't you check on Lewis, see if he's still in the joint.
Jim, contact the armored truck companies.
See what you can find out.
(radio beeps) - [Woman Over Radio.]
4 Adam 30, your request to authority has been confirmed.
Suspect Jack Lewis is out on parole from San Quinton.
His parol agent has supplied an address.
apartment 7.
- 4 Adam 30, roger.
(slow-paced music) - Jack, this is fantastic.
I think a couple more pages as good as this, and we'll get in touch with that publisher I told you about.
- You're the first person that ever really believed in me.
(knocking on door) - Yes? Jack, it's two policemen.
Vince? - Jack Lewis.
- So what's this all about? - It's about a friend of mine that was killed in the robbery of a check cashing place.
It's about an officer of mine that almost lost her life in a gun takeaway that you taught to one of your San Quinton disciples.
Guy by the name of Frank Morlin, remember? - I never heard of him.
- Sure you have.
He was a cellmate of Todd Caswell.
Perhaps you heard that Caswell is off the street but not before he pumped a 22 into a guy by the name of Tommy Ellison, or maybe you never heard of him.
- Well that's a real touching tale, Sergeant.
But obviously you're mistaken.
- No, I've got my facts straight, I'm just verifying them.
- Look, this is my apartment, you have no-- - Now you look lady, looks like you and this gentleman have set up good housekeeping rules, but maybe you don't know he's out on parole for armed robbery and the second degree murder of an Oakland policeman.
- I'm perfectly aware of that.
I'm also his attorney.
- Cynthia, this man has killed a policeman.
- And he's paid for his mistake, Vince.
- And I thought you had more respect for the law and yourself.
- Seems you've been had, lady.
This guy owes more than he could ever repay in 10 lifetimes.
You want to tell this lady and me where you were Friday afternoon, three o'clock.
- You don't have to answer, Jack.
- What are you writing, a how to kill a cop book? - I think you'd better leave, Sergeant.
- Friday afternoon.
- That's about enough.
- You're on parole, Lewis, hanging by a short rope.
Do you want me to cut it for ya? - He was with me all day.
- Now you heard my attorney.
- We'll be around and your parole conditions say you better be.
- You know, love and justice are said to be blind.
In your case, Miss Randolph, I suggest you move the blindfold long enough to distinguish the difference between the good guys and the bad guys, the victims and the vicious.
- You had something for that lady.
- Had.
- Sorry.
- So am I, for her.
- I mean she probably fell in love with his jailhouse poetry and he figured he'd have it better than he ever had in his whole life with her.
He lied to her just like he lied to us 'cause it's the only thing he knows how to do.
- She lied for him.
You could tell because she's not used to it.
- Jack, you can't run.
- Watch me.
- That counselor been on me about a parolee not being discharged is serving out a sentence in a prison without any walls.
- It's the law, Jack.
- Hey, you heard those cops.
They're setting me up to go back.
If I go back in the joint, I'm a dead man.
Do you want that? - I only want what's best for you.
- Well this morning in bed, it was us.
You and me.
What happened to that, huh, Cindy? - Jack, if you'll just stay here, fight it through, finish the book.
- Now you lied to those cops for me.
That puts you on my side of the fence.
All right, maybe I don't know every thing there is to know about you-- - You wanna know what there is to know about me? Well I'm gonna tell ya.
You don't shut the door on me ever, you understand that? - Jack, I never-- - You wanna know what there is to know about me? Well, I'm gonna show you right here and now.
Let's go.
- Jack! - There.
There, that's what I'm about.
(dramatic piano music) - I thought I'd get an early start.
Hope I'm not interfering with your workout.
- I usually have this place to myself this early in the morning, but since you seem to be practicing, some of my old academy training advice, I'll share it with you.
- The consumit sensei, always teaching.
- Do you remember my lesson on the dangers of lag time? - Sure.
The reaction gap between the decision to act and the actual action.
It's what officer survival is all about.
- There's no quarter given by the bad guy on the streets.
To be a policeman you have to learn to defend yourself.
And your partner.
And those who can't defend themselves.
Now if you can't handle that, then you don't deserve to be out there.
It's not a matter of man or woman, that isn't part of the issue.
You either believe in yourself or you don't.
- When other people no longer believe in me.
- Stacy, if you think that you're a good policeman, believe it! 'Cause if you don't, how can you expect anybody else to? - Hooker, we got another report from Quinton.
Lewis had a girl who visited him a lot.
She lives here too.
- Yeah, we met her.
His live-in, her name is Cynthia Randolph.
She's an attorney, teaches at City College.
- This is a different one.
Her name is Janie Holms.
Minol just talked to her landlady.
Janie's already left for work and you'll never guess what she does.
Operations officer for the commonwealth thrift bank, the bank that has the fast cash deposits.
- I'll go pick up Vince.
We'll talk to the personnel department.
We'll meet you later on the air.
- [Jim.]
After I pick up Janie Holms.
- Wait a minute, I've seen her before.
She was at the gym when we were asking about Tommy Ellison.
- That's right.
And 10 minutes later, Caswell capped Ellison.
Just one big happy family.
Better put a call into your security people.
Janie works out of the Southcoast branch at Lincoln and Grand.
They handle all the distribution of funds by armored truck for the fast cash train.
Today's Wednesday, that's payday at the Colton Aircraft company in the valley.
- There's a fast cash place right around the corner from Colton.
- Yeah, but I gotta feeling if Lewis' bunch is gonna make a hit, they're not going to try for a hit on a check cashing place.
- Sure, go directly to the source.
Maybe even come up with something extra.
The Holms girl definitely knows the layout and delivery schedule at the bank.
- We're on route to the bank with an ETA of two minutes.
We'll meet you there code two.
- Roger, 30, we're rolling.
We'll be there in three.
(suspenseful music) - All you gotta do is look out and drive the first wake.
If you do your part, nobody's gonna get hurt, all right? But from here on in, you belong to me.
Okay guys, hard and fast.
- [Jack.]
Hey, this is a hold-up! Any idiot who doesn't do as I say is dead.
Get on the floor, tellers get your hands over your head.
You, wanna do the chicken? Get down there, all the way down, down! Nobody move.
(radio beep) - [Woman Over Radio.]
Any unit in the vicinity able to handle a 2 11 silon at the commonwealth thrift bank, come in and identify.
- That's our bank.
- 4 Adam 30, we'll handle the hot shot.
- Roger 30, your call is code 3.
- We're only two blocks away, put a hold on the siren.
(car screeching) - Cops! - That looks like a getaway car to me.
- [Jack.]
What's up? - Cops! - We'll have to use the car.
- What about Janie and Cynthia? - Hey, forget about them now.
When it comes down to it, they're all just broads.
Let's go! - Let me see your hands! Stick 'em out the window.
(dramatic music) - Drop the gun.
Drop it! Where's Jack Lewis? - If Jack had been in here, he'd have blown your guts out.
- Yeah, put your hands behind your neck, just the way you did.
- Get out! Move! Against the car.
Hands on your head.
- All right everybody, you can get up.
- Why? - Cynthia, where's Lewis? - You keep your mouth shut, girl.
You don't tell 'em nothing.
- Lewis, where is he? - We were gonna switch to my car after we left here.
- Where is it and what is it? - Why it's a green Chevy, at Lawson.
- Romano, you stay with the women.
Corrigan, you handle the bank.
You come with me.
(suspenseful music) (police siren) - Jack! Jack, you scum! (police siren) - There he is! (car screeching) (horn honking) (car crashes) - Take the shortcut.
(suspenseful music) (police sirens) - Hold it right there.
Make a move and I'll cut you in half.
Give me that gun.
C'mon! Make a move, lady, and your partner's dead.
Drop your gun.
- Stacy, take it easy.
You can't be expected to handle a situation like this.
- Right.
(gunshot fires) Taking action, not surrender.
- It's called survival.
- [Runners.]
One, two, three, hey, one, two, three.
- Hey, Romano, cheer up.
If Cynthia wasn't there voluntarily, it'll come out in court.
- I just can't figure it.
How could she get so screwed up as to even go along with them? - Maybe her heart and head had no idea what the other one was doing.
Somehow he slowed her.
- And by the time he found out about her, it was too late.
- Stacy.
- How'd it go? - Okay, I guess.
- I guess your shooting was in policy, huh? - Hey Sheridan.
- Yes? - That was one fine shooting.
You did a hell of a job, officer.
- I've had a good teacher.
(upbeat music) (action music)
Rules that provide protection for the individual rights guaranteed by the constitutional provisions.
- Wait a minute.
I've got to disagree with that.
What about the right to society at large to be protected from the lawless elements? Should the protection of the individual be gained at the disproportionate loss to society? (bell rings) - To be continued (laughs).
Well, that's all for tonight.
Let's hit those books, folks.
We have midterms next week.
(classroom chatter) - I'm sorry if I gave you a hard time.
- Oh, don't be.
Students like you make teaching much more interesting.
You inspire other minds.
I like that.
Thank you.
- [Vince.]
Miss Randolph.
- Cynthia, in the classroom it's Miss Randolph, out here, I'm Cynthia.
- Mine's Vince.
- I know.
- There's this new play in town.
Buddy of mine from back East is in it.
I have a couple of tickets, I was wondering--? - Oh gee, Vince, that's awfully sweet of you.
But I make it a habit never to date my students.
- I make it a habit never to date my teachers, usually.
- Well believe me, if I was ever going to break my rule, it would have to be with somebody like you.
Actually, I'm involved.
- How involved? - Very.
(car horn honking) Oh, look, I've gotta run.
(suspenseful music) Friends, okay? - Sure.
Goodnight.
- Goodnight.
Hello, darling.
- Hi, hun.
- I missed you and I was a little worried.
- Hey, look, I'm sorry.
I drive around and I think about the book, what I've written and what I've got left to do.
I lose track of time.
- Well maybe we can make up for all that when we get home, huh? (romantic music) (upbeat music) - Lovejoy versus California.
- Lovejoy versus California.
The Mickelson rule applies.
Lovejoy was case law involving a suspiciously parked car.
- All right! - You didn't think I knew that.
- No, I didn't think you knew it.
- I didn't either.
- Now I know you didn't know it.
- C'mon, Hooker.
It's too nice a day for a pop quiz.
- All right, it's not me that has a law midterm coming up.
You're the one that wants to be a lawyer.
- I just figure the better educated I am, with the points and authorities on search and seizure, the better cop I'm gonna be on the streets.
Besides, you should see my teacher.
Did you see that? What a good catch.
(suspenseful music) - [Jack.]
Hey, nobody move! Hey, you, get on the floor! Get on the floor! Check out 11, get down.
- [Porter.]
Open the cage! You got two seconds.
All of it.
(suspenseful music) - I'm really sorry I didn't make Sally's funeral.
- You had a case in court.
Besides you really didn't know her.
- No, but I know you two were good friends.
- The best.
(radio beeps) - [Woman Over Radio.]
4 Adam 16, 211 in progress at the Lucky Loan check cashing service, 750 Holmand.
Four suspects wearing ski masks and armed with sawed-off shotguns and 45s.
- Oh man, sawed offs and 45s.
This is 30, we're rolling back up to 16's call.
- Control, can you repeat that address? - C'mon Stace, shake and bake time.
- Control, we have the address.
We're rolling with a two minute ETA.
(action music) - [Jack.]
All right, let's get out of here, c'mon.
(excited chatter) (gun shot fires) (gun shot fires) - There they are.
- [Jack.]
Caswell, back out of here! (police car sirens) (car screeching) - 4 Adam 16 is in pursuit of 211 suspects.
Shots have been fired at the Lucky Loan company.
Man down, requesting an ambulance.
- This is 4 Adam 30, show us code 6 of the crime scene.
(police sirens) (car braking) (police sirens) (car crashes) (car screeches to a halt) (suspenseful music) - [Man.]
Take him, we'll get the other one.
- Freeze! Up against the wall.
Spread 'em.
Spread 'em! - When you get to heaven, tell 'em Frank Morlin sent you.
- Hey! (gunshot fires) It looks like he'll make it.
I'll call an ambulance.
Are you okay? (dramatic music) - [Vince.]
Heard on the radio you put one down.
- He's on his way to City Hospital.
I lost the other one.
- His names Ted Barnes, a retired cop.
Friend of Hooker's.
- C'mon, Teddy.
Fight it, fight it! Fight it! C'mon Teddy.
- Please, may I? If you can, say after me.
Lord Jesus, son of God, have mercy on me.
To the degree that you are needful and I am capable, I absolve you of all your sins in the name of the father, son, and holy ghost.
(dramatic music) (romantic piano music) - What happens if they put the squeeze on Morlin and he talks? - They won't.
He knows that in or out of the joint, I can get to him.
- Cops got his shot gun.
What if they trace it back to Ellison? - Well if that time comes, we'll eliminate the problem.
- [Porter.]
Like you're eventually gonna eliminate that dumb blonde schoolteacher you're living with? - [Jack.]
Straight on.
Hey Tommy, how you doing? Just talking about you, pull up a chair.
- I heard about Morlin.
What about my piece man? There ain't many works around that good.
The cops start asking around, they're gonna come looking around.
- Oh by that time, we'll be long gone on the breezle, buddy.
I'm gonna need a new shotgun made though.
We're gonna need it in two days.
This is a full blown gig, man.
Go ahead, tell him, babe.
- 250 Gs.
- You're serious? - Your cut's 10%, old buddy.
- That's 25 thousand.
(radio beeps) - [Woman Over Radio.]
4 Adam your robbery suspect Frank Morlin is in stable condition.
A criminal records check indicates Morlin has a prior record for robbery, assault and manslaughter.
- 4 Adam 16, Roger.
- 16, Sergeant Shaffer of the shooting team requests Officer Sheridan report to the station, code two.
- Roger, dispatch, tell Shaffer we're in route.
- So, Sheridan, why did you use a wall search instead of proning out the suspect? - C'mon Shaffer, we've been at this for over three hours.
Give the lady a break, huh? - Corrigan, you know as well as I do why we have to keep at this, the lady had her gun taken away.
If it hadn't been for you, she'd have been blown away.
Good tactics, proper search procedures might have prevented this shooting.
- It's like a dream.
When I looked up to the barrel of my gun, I knew the flash was coming and that it would all be over and I thought about my dad and my friends, and I didn't feel sorry for me, I just felt bad.
I thought, "This is a really stupid way to die.
" - Hey look, something's gotta come out here.
Stacy lost a good friend recently.
They buried her just yesterday.
And she's had a lot on her mind.
- And she's lucky.
She's damn lucky her preoccupation with a personal problem didn't cost her her own life.
- [Shaffer.]
Frank Morlin is a stone killer.
- You came down a little hard on Stacy, don't you think? - Yes, I did.
Maybe she'll remember for a long time.
At least long enough to count the next time around.
- Okay, I think I know where you're coming from.
- You think? What do you mean think? Complacency kills cops.
- Shaffer's gonna say that or something like it in the shooting report.
And somebody's gonna come to you and ask whether or not Stacy should stay on the street.
- Maybe I'll have to go to them.
- And she's my partner.
- If you'd been 30 seconds late, she'd have been a dead partner.
It's called survival, Jim.
Yours, hers, anybody you're working with.
- Maybe it was forgetting about survival that killed your friend Ted Barnes.
All he had was tombstone courage.
- He didn't have to die.
Why the hell couldn't he have waited for back up? For us to arrive.
The sawed-off and wasted Ted is still out there.
I want him.
And the trigger man.
Guy who modified this was no garage gunsmith with a hacksaw.
(intense music) - What are you doing here? - I had some paper work to catch up on.
- You got off watch four hours ago, Jim.
- You were still in there with the shooting team.
I didn't want to leave until I-- - Until what? You made sure your incompetent partner made it through the day in one piece? - Incompetent? Is that what you got out of that grilling? If I get my hands on Sergeant Shaffer-- - Wait a minute.
I'm the one who blew it, not Shaffer.
- So you made a mistake? Hey, I got news for you.
Cops are human.
Think because we put on a badge, we're perfect? - When you put it on and you're a woman, you have to be.
- According to whose Bible? Sergeant Shaffer's or your own? - How about Hooker's? - All right, Caswell and Janie will go in first.
Janie's gonna cover the rear door.
Todd stops right here.
- Okay, what about security? - No problems.
There's a security guard station right here.
We'll take him out hard and fast.
- [Cynthia.]
Jack? - Put that away, it's just my old lady.
Here you go.
- Is that really necessary? - Just my paranoia I guess.
- I was hoping you'd outgrow that.
- Hi.
- What's he doing here? - Porter? You remember him, don't you? - Oh, yeah, sure.
I remember Porter.
How can you forget that associating with him violates your parole? - Hey, c'mon.
Give me a break will ya? - Yeah, well, it's always nice to see you too, Miss Randolph.
You still donating time down at the prisoner's defense league? Or ain't you got the need no more since you sleeping with your own forbidden toy? You wasp do-gooders never cease to humor me.
- Hey c'mon man, that's enough.
Let's go.
- Morlin still stone-walling? - He's suffering from a heavy case of prison ethics.
Now they're very loyal to his buddies-- - Morlin's scared to death they'll smell a snitch.
He'll end up with a sliced artery in some corner of the prison unit.
- Jim, pull his associates file.
See if any of his friends fit the robbery MO.
- I found an expert in refitted shotguns.
I thought maybe I could-- - Romano and I have that end covered.
Thank you.
Let's go check it out.
- He never sets foot in here again, none of them.
You swore! - I know, I know I swore I wouldn't see any of the guys again.
- You're damn right you did.
That's another promise you broke.
- Now what's that supposed to mean, huh? - What that means What that means is sometimes I wonder what I fell in love with.
The words the man wrote or the man who wrote the words.
- Hey, c'mon honey.
Give me a break, will ya? I'm trying.
Listen the words-- they're just not coming.
What does your book have to do with Porter being in my home? - Research, baby.
I mean Porter has seen things that I never would see before.
I need his insight.
I need to know what's going on inside his mind.
- He resents me.
What I did for you and couldn't do for him.
I tried to help him.
- That's exactly what I'm trying to do with my book too.
Expose the system from the inside.
That way there's a better chance at making humane changes for everybody.
- That's why it's so important you don't jeopardize it.
- Hey.
I wouldn't disappoint you, not after all you did for me to get me out on parole.
I need you.
And I know that you need me.
(dramatic music) - This a real good job, Hooker.
- Who's that good at, and that dirty? - Well, you guys have got most of them in jail.
But Tommy Ellison's out, best slay the mill man we had.
- He worked here? - Mm-hmm.
Trouble with Tommy was he liked to bet on slow horses and fast women.
Got in real deep with the boys.
'Course they came up with a way he could pay off.
- Making illegal firearms for them? - Machine guns, silencers, you name it, he made it.
Finally got caught and went to prison.
- I'd like to talk to him.
- He's in iron three.
I hear he goes to that new health spa over in Lexington.
- What does he look like? - Little guy, dark-haired, maybe 30.
You wonder where he gets the strength to pump that iron? - Thanks.
(upbeat music) - Todd.
- Bobbi? - Yeah? - The receptionist says you were a friend of Tommy Ellison.
- I was.
- Does he come around very often? - What? - We were wondering if he worked out here.
- Uh huh.
- Does he come around at any specific time? - At one o'clock.
- We'll stick around.
Thank you.
(phone rings) - Hello? - [Todd.]
We have trouble with Tommy Ellison.
- What? - [Todd.]
Cops are looking for him.
They are? - Yeah.
So what are we gonna do? Tommy's a lightweight, the cops can twist him.
- So you want me to handle it? - Do what you have to do.
- Something on your mind, Junior? - I was wondering how you'd been feeling if I'd been the one looking down at the end of that gun barrel instead of Stacy? - That's very simple.
I'd be chewing you out or burying you.
- I didn't ask how you'd act, I asked how you'd feel.
- I don't know.
Stacy's like one of my own kids.
If something ever happened to her, I'd-- - Then she doesn't just have to be good.
- She's got to survive, she's got to be better than the best.
- She is better than the best.
- I know.
- Does Stacy know that? I think you should talk to her.
- I plan to.
(radio beeps) - [Woman Over Radio.]
4 Adam 30, meet Officer Corrigan on tact 2.
- Go, Jim.
- Hooker, I ran Morlin's associates.
Come up with half a dozen fitting our MO.
- Any best bets? - I've got a con who specializes in gun takeaway classes with his prison buddies.
- The prison authorities made a tape of something like that about a year ago.
- One in the same.
Con's name is Jack Lewis.
- Start running down Jack Lewis and see if you can get me a copy of that tape.
- [Jim.]
Roger.
- Hooker, there.
- [Hooker.]
That looks like our gun expert, Tommy Ellison.
- Hey, Tommy! - Let's go.
(dramatic music) (gunshot fires) - [Jim.]
Call an ambulance and get back up! (dramatic fast-paced music) (police sirens) (panting) (screaming) - How's Ellison? - Made it through surgery.
What about the guy that shot him? - I booked him in the jail ward.
His injuries are minor but he's still in healing.
What'd you get from Ellison? - (laughs) It's kinda tough to talk with a bullet in your throat but he did give me a name.
- Jack Lewis.
- Jack Lewis.
It's all coming together.
The shooter's name was Todd Caswell.
I pulled his package.
His records show time done for armed robbery.
Get this, his partner in crime, Frank Morlin.
- The guy who took away Stacy's gun? - And one of Jack Lewis' disciples.
(intense music) (soft-paced music) - Tell, you Paul.
The day they saddle me with some blonde mini cop for a partner, that's the day I quit.
Or I quit real police work.
Put on the old blinders, you know, so you don't get tempted into any situation that might get dangerous.
I mean ain't this job tough enough without having to depend on some pony-tailed munchkin to back you up if you get in trouble? - Yeah, it's tough feeling like John Wayne, isn't it Shaffer, when an attractive lady can do the job? - Well, not that's kind of Sheridan's problem, isn't it? I mean, she didn't do the job, did she? You know they say I gotta live with this federally ordered affirmative action including the hiring of women and minorities, but there's nothing in that directive that says I gotta like it.
- You know, Shaffer, the problem with prejudice is that it's a matter of opinion that belongs to somebody we dislike.
- Why don't you get out of my face, Hooker? If I wanted to fight with someone, I'd gone home with my old lady.
- Want some company, Stace? Ah, there's a lot of chauvinists out there.
- Don't patronize me, Hooker.
I can take care of myself.
I can't even remember the last time I had nails.
- No matter what happened out there, you're still a good cop, Sheridan.
- You're only a good cop as long as you think you are.
(sighs) - That doesn't sound like a Hooker-trained cop to me.
- Maybe you just let me waltz through probation on a count of a lot of reasons.
Including the fact that I'm the captain's daughter.
- That's a lot of bull and you know it.
Where's all this coming from? You know where it's coming from.
- I thought you had more guts than that.
- Don't push me with that, Hooker.
I've got more problems to deal with here than just having my gun taken away.
You know, one woman can do something stupid, and it reflects on all other female cops.
But if a man does the same thing, it doesn't reflect on the other men.
- Fear is the motivating factor, it always is.
- Sure.
They're worried about us getting killed.
More like, they're afraid that we'll get them killed.
That's what's been bothering you too, Hooker.
You're not sure if I should be out there either.
Well maybe I can't handle it anymore.
- All right.
You made a mistake out there.
Hopefully you learned something from it.
You're scheduled for an in-service refresher course that I'm teaching at the academy tomorrow morning.
It's important that you be there.
- What we're seeing is becoming more and more commonplace in our jails and prisons.
Inmates teaching other cons how to become professional criminals.
Here you see two inmates practicing a gun takeaway that was used by a 2 11 suspect on one of our own officers.
As seasoned officers, you're all aware of the fact that an officer's survival depends on alertness.
Attention to proper police procedures and the use of good field tactics.
Have a plan.
If you are your partner find yourselves at a disadvantage, be ready to act.
Use a code signal, some sort which will send you both into action not surrender.
This group's guru is Jack Lewis, a multi-talented hood who's gained some notoriety for a book of prison poems he's written but whose real talents lie in teaching other cons how to disarm cops.
- I might add, I know this guy Lewis.
He did a gun takeaway on an Officer up in Oakland, put six of the officers own into him.
- Well, what'd you think of the tape? - To be honest, it scared the hell out of me.
I kept seeing Marlin with my gun.
Thinking how close I came to buying it.
- Thing is, did you learn anything from it? - Yeah, I know I never want to get caught in a situation like that again.
Where someone's got the drop on me.
- Well, maybe you'll be lucky, maybe you won't.
On the other hand, could happen tomorrow evening.
To you, to me, to any cop.
It's part of the job.
- The technique is down to perfection.
Makes you wonder how many students this guy Lewis has put out on the street.
- Plenty.
Background intelligence on him says he's not only a hot shot stick-up artist, he's a fast talking-- Why don't you check on Lewis, see if he's still in the joint.
Jim, contact the armored truck companies.
See what you can find out.
(radio beeps) - [Woman Over Radio.]
4 Adam 30, your request to authority has been confirmed.
Suspect Jack Lewis is out on parole from San Quinton.
His parol agent has supplied an address.
apartment 7.
- 4 Adam 30, roger.
(slow-paced music) - Jack, this is fantastic.
I think a couple more pages as good as this, and we'll get in touch with that publisher I told you about.
- You're the first person that ever really believed in me.
(knocking on door) - Yes? Jack, it's two policemen.
Vince? - Jack Lewis.
- So what's this all about? - It's about a friend of mine that was killed in the robbery of a check cashing place.
It's about an officer of mine that almost lost her life in a gun takeaway that you taught to one of your San Quinton disciples.
Guy by the name of Frank Morlin, remember? - I never heard of him.
- Sure you have.
He was a cellmate of Todd Caswell.
Perhaps you heard that Caswell is off the street but not before he pumped a 22 into a guy by the name of Tommy Ellison, or maybe you never heard of him.
- Well that's a real touching tale, Sergeant.
But obviously you're mistaken.
- No, I've got my facts straight, I'm just verifying them.
- Look, this is my apartment, you have no-- - Now you look lady, looks like you and this gentleman have set up good housekeeping rules, but maybe you don't know he's out on parole for armed robbery and the second degree murder of an Oakland policeman.
- I'm perfectly aware of that.
I'm also his attorney.
- Cynthia, this man has killed a policeman.
- And he's paid for his mistake, Vince.
- And I thought you had more respect for the law and yourself.
- Seems you've been had, lady.
This guy owes more than he could ever repay in 10 lifetimes.
You want to tell this lady and me where you were Friday afternoon, three o'clock.
- You don't have to answer, Jack.
- What are you writing, a how to kill a cop book? - I think you'd better leave, Sergeant.
- Friday afternoon.
- That's about enough.
- You're on parole, Lewis, hanging by a short rope.
Do you want me to cut it for ya? - He was with me all day.
- Now you heard my attorney.
- We'll be around and your parole conditions say you better be.
- You know, love and justice are said to be blind.
In your case, Miss Randolph, I suggest you move the blindfold long enough to distinguish the difference between the good guys and the bad guys, the victims and the vicious.
- You had something for that lady.
- Had.
- Sorry.
- So am I, for her.
- I mean she probably fell in love with his jailhouse poetry and he figured he'd have it better than he ever had in his whole life with her.
He lied to her just like he lied to us 'cause it's the only thing he knows how to do.
- She lied for him.
You could tell because she's not used to it.
- Jack, you can't run.
- Watch me.
- That counselor been on me about a parolee not being discharged is serving out a sentence in a prison without any walls.
- It's the law, Jack.
- Hey, you heard those cops.
They're setting me up to go back.
If I go back in the joint, I'm a dead man.
Do you want that? - I only want what's best for you.
- Well this morning in bed, it was us.
You and me.
What happened to that, huh, Cindy? - Jack, if you'll just stay here, fight it through, finish the book.
- Now you lied to those cops for me.
That puts you on my side of the fence.
All right, maybe I don't know every thing there is to know about you-- - You wanna know what there is to know about me? Well I'm gonna tell ya.
You don't shut the door on me ever, you understand that? - Jack, I never-- - You wanna know what there is to know about me? Well, I'm gonna show you right here and now.
Let's go.
- Jack! - There.
There, that's what I'm about.
(dramatic piano music) - I thought I'd get an early start.
Hope I'm not interfering with your workout.
- I usually have this place to myself this early in the morning, but since you seem to be practicing, some of my old academy training advice, I'll share it with you.
- The consumit sensei, always teaching.
- Do you remember my lesson on the dangers of lag time? - Sure.
The reaction gap between the decision to act and the actual action.
It's what officer survival is all about.
- There's no quarter given by the bad guy on the streets.
To be a policeman you have to learn to defend yourself.
And your partner.
And those who can't defend themselves.
Now if you can't handle that, then you don't deserve to be out there.
It's not a matter of man or woman, that isn't part of the issue.
You either believe in yourself or you don't.
- When other people no longer believe in me.
- Stacy, if you think that you're a good policeman, believe it! 'Cause if you don't, how can you expect anybody else to? - Hooker, we got another report from Quinton.
Lewis had a girl who visited him a lot.
She lives here too.
- Yeah, we met her.
His live-in, her name is Cynthia Randolph.
She's an attorney, teaches at City College.
- This is a different one.
Her name is Janie Holms.
Minol just talked to her landlady.
Janie's already left for work and you'll never guess what she does.
Operations officer for the commonwealth thrift bank, the bank that has the fast cash deposits.
- I'll go pick up Vince.
We'll talk to the personnel department.
We'll meet you later on the air.
- [Jim.]
After I pick up Janie Holms.
- Wait a minute, I've seen her before.
She was at the gym when we were asking about Tommy Ellison.
- That's right.
And 10 minutes later, Caswell capped Ellison.
Just one big happy family.
Better put a call into your security people.
Janie works out of the Southcoast branch at Lincoln and Grand.
They handle all the distribution of funds by armored truck for the fast cash train.
Today's Wednesday, that's payday at the Colton Aircraft company in the valley.
- There's a fast cash place right around the corner from Colton.
- Yeah, but I gotta feeling if Lewis' bunch is gonna make a hit, they're not going to try for a hit on a check cashing place.
- Sure, go directly to the source.
Maybe even come up with something extra.
The Holms girl definitely knows the layout and delivery schedule at the bank.
- We're on route to the bank with an ETA of two minutes.
We'll meet you there code two.
- Roger, 30, we're rolling.
We'll be there in three.
(suspenseful music) - All you gotta do is look out and drive the first wake.
If you do your part, nobody's gonna get hurt, all right? But from here on in, you belong to me.
Okay guys, hard and fast.
- [Jack.]
Hey, this is a hold-up! Any idiot who doesn't do as I say is dead.
Get on the floor, tellers get your hands over your head.
You, wanna do the chicken? Get down there, all the way down, down! Nobody move.
(radio beep) - [Woman Over Radio.]
Any unit in the vicinity able to handle a 2 11 silon at the commonwealth thrift bank, come in and identify.
- That's our bank.
- 4 Adam 30, we'll handle the hot shot.
- Roger 30, your call is code 3.
- We're only two blocks away, put a hold on the siren.
(car screeching) - Cops! - That looks like a getaway car to me.
- [Jack.]
What's up? - Cops! - We'll have to use the car.
- What about Janie and Cynthia? - Hey, forget about them now.
When it comes down to it, they're all just broads.
Let's go! - Let me see your hands! Stick 'em out the window.
(dramatic music) - Drop the gun.
Drop it! Where's Jack Lewis? - If Jack had been in here, he'd have blown your guts out.
- Yeah, put your hands behind your neck, just the way you did.
- Get out! Move! Against the car.
Hands on your head.
- All right everybody, you can get up.
- Why? - Cynthia, where's Lewis? - You keep your mouth shut, girl.
You don't tell 'em nothing.
- Lewis, where is he? - We were gonna switch to my car after we left here.
- Where is it and what is it? - Why it's a green Chevy, at Lawson.
- Romano, you stay with the women.
Corrigan, you handle the bank.
You come with me.
(suspenseful music) (police siren) - Jack! Jack, you scum! (police siren) - There he is! (car screeching) (horn honking) (car crashes) - Take the shortcut.
(suspenseful music) (police sirens) - Hold it right there.
Make a move and I'll cut you in half.
Give me that gun.
C'mon! Make a move, lady, and your partner's dead.
Drop your gun.
- Stacy, take it easy.
You can't be expected to handle a situation like this.
- Right.
(gunshot fires) Taking action, not surrender.
- It's called survival.
- [Runners.]
One, two, three, hey, one, two, three.
- Hey, Romano, cheer up.
If Cynthia wasn't there voluntarily, it'll come out in court.
- I just can't figure it.
How could she get so screwed up as to even go along with them? - Maybe her heart and head had no idea what the other one was doing.
Somehow he slowed her.
- And by the time he found out about her, it was too late.
- Stacy.
- How'd it go? - Okay, I guess.
- I guess your shooting was in policy, huh? - Hey Sheridan.
- Yes? - That was one fine shooting.
You did a hell of a job, officer.
- I've had a good teacher.
(upbeat music) (action music)