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Come to Los Angeles.
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The sun shines bright.
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The beaches are wide and inviting.
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And the orange groves stretch
as far as the eye can see.
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There are jobs aplenty. Land is cheap.
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Every workingman
can have his own house.
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And inside every house,
a happy all-American family.
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You can have all this, and who knows?
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You could even be discovered...
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...become a movie star,
or at least see one.
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Life is good in Los Angeles.
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It's paradise on earth.
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That's what they tell you, anyway.
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Because they're selling an image.
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They're selling it through
movies, radio and television.
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In the hit show, Badge of Honor,
the L.A. Cops walk on water...
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...as they keep the city clean
of crooks.
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You'd think this place
was the Garden of Eden.
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But there's trouble in paradise...
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...and his name is Meyer Harris Cohen,
Mickey C to his fans.
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Local L.A. Color to the nth degree.
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And his number one bodyguard...
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...Johnny Stompanato.
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Mickey C's the head of organized crime
in these parts.
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He runs dope, rackets and prostitution.
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He kills a dozen people a year.
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And the dapper little gent
does it in style.
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And every time his picture's
on the front page...
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...it's a black eye for the
image of Los Angeles.
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Because how can organized crime exist...
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...in the city with the best
police force in the world?
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Something has to be done.
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But nothing too original
because this is Hollywood.
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What worked for Capone
would work for the Mickster.
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Mr. Cohen, you're under arrest.
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Non-payment of federal income tax.
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But all is not well. Sending Mickey up
has created a vacuum.
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And it's only a matter of time...
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...before someone with balls
of brass tries to fill it.
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Remember, dear readers...
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...you heard it here first...
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...off the record...
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...on the q. T...
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...and very...
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...Hush-Hush.
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You're like Santa Claus with that list.
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Except everyone on it's been naughty.
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Guy's been out of Q two weeks.
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Leave it for later.
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We got to pick up the booze
and get it to the station.
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Hollywood, this is 6-Adam-7.
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Have Central send a prowler
to 4216 Evergreen.
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Parole violation: Assault arising
from a family dispute.
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We won't be here but
they'll see him.
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Quit your whining!
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Quit whining all the time!
It makes me sick!
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Shut up!
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Who the hell are you?
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The ghost of Christmas past.
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Dance with a man for a change?
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You a smart ass?
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You'll be out in a year and a half.
I'll get cozy with your parole officer.
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Touch her again, I'll have you
violated on a kiddie-raper beef.
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You know what they do
to kiddie rapers in Quentin.
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You got someplace you can go?
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Go get yourself fixed up.
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Merry Christmas.
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- Merry Christmas, ma'am.
- Let's go, Bud.
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The guys are waiting.
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What do you do on Badge of Honor?
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I'm the technical advisor.
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I teach Brett Chase how to
walk and talk like a cop.
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Brett Chase doesn't walk
and talk like you.
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That's because he's the
television version.
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America isn't ready for the real me.
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Is it true you arrested Bob Mitchum?
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The Badge of Honor guys like to pretend,
but the real thing must be a thrill.
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Why don't we go someplace quiet?
I'll give you the lowdown on Mitchum.
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Big V. Jack Vincennes.
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- May I have this dance?
- Of course.
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This is Sid Hudgens,
Hush-Hush magazine.
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- Hello, Karen.
- Hello yourself.
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What that's about?
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Her name was in a piece we did,
"Ingenue Dikes in Hollywood. "
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My friend just sold reefer
to Matt Reynolds.
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He's tripping the light fantastic
with Tammy Jordan.
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Sorry, I lost you for a second.
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Contract players, Metro. Pinch them,
I do you up a nice feature next issue.
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- Plus your usual $50 cash.
- I need another $50.
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Two 20s for two patrolmen,
a dime for the watch commander.
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It's Christmas.
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No, it's not.
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It's felony possession of marijuana.
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Actually, it's circulation 36,000
and climbing.
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There's no telling where this will go.
Radio, television...
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Once you whet the public's appetite
for the truth, the sky's the limit.
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Sgt. Ed Exley, son of the
legendary Preston Exley.
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Must be a hard act to follow.
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Why not make a mark elsewhere?
Why become a cop?
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I like to help people.
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We heard 2 officers
were assaulted this evening.
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- What do you think of that?
- Goes with the job.
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Luckily, they're okay.
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Aren't you young to be
watch commander?
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It's only tonight.
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The married men have Christmas Eve off.
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That's a good lead for the story.
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Merry Christmas, Captain.
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- Captain Smith.
- Drop the formalities, Bobby.
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- It's Christmas Eve, call me Dudley.
- I got the story's title.
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I'm calling it
"Silent Night with the LAPD."
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That's grand.
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Remember that's "Smith"
with an "S."
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Thank you, Merry Christmas.
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Hold on, lads.
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Merry Christmas.
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I saw the results
on the lieutenant's exam.
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First out of 23.
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What'll it be, then? Patrol Division?
Internal Affairs? What?
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Detective Bureau.
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You're a political animal.
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You have the eye for human weakness,
but not the stomach.
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You're wrong, sir.
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Would you be willing to plant evidence
on a suspect you knew to be guilty...
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...to insure an indictment?
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- We've been over this.
- Yes or no?
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Would you beat a confession
out of a suspect you knew to be guilty?
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Would you shoot a hardened
criminal in the back...
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...in order to offset the chance
that some lawyer...
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Then for the love of God...
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...don't be a detective.
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Stick to assignments where you don't
have to make those choices.
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Dudley, I know you mean well...
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...but I don't need to do it
the way you did... or my father.
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At least get rid of the glasses.
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I can't think of a man
in the Bureau who wears them.
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If I ever get held up,
you better be here.
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Hi, Nick.
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I need a delivery.
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A case each of gin, rum, Scotch.
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Sounds like a hell of a party.
Be right with you.
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Merry Christmas.
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Merry Christmas, Officer.
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That obvious?
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It's practically stamped
on your forehead.
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There you go.
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See what he wants, Buzz.
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Get lost, why don't you?
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Down!
Get your fucking head down.
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I got a license for that.
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Cut me some slack.
I used to be a cop.
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"Leland Meeks"?
Never heard of you.
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They call me Buzz.
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I don't give a rat's ass.
Keep your head down.
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And stay there... Buzz.
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You okay?
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She's fine.
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I'm not asking you.
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Who hit you?
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It's not what you think.
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What, then?
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You got the wrong idea.
I'm fine.
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But it's nice to know you care.
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Drive safely.
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What's going on?
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You know him?
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Yeah, I've seen him around.
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He used to be a cop.
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They're sitting in the dark,
goofing on the Christmas tree.
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Put your camera right there.
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When I walk out, get the
movie premiere in the background.
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I like it, I like it.
"The Movie Premiere Pot Bust. "
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I don't want those goddamn
floodlights of yours in my eyes.
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Consider it done.
You hear that, Chip?
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Come on. Get down.
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Go! Pop them!
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Freeze! Police!
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Jesus Christ!
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Come on.
Come on, let's go.
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My family's coming...
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- It'll be a nice Christmas gift.
- Hi, Tammy. Hi, Matt.
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Over here.
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- Just turn.
- Hold it. Got it!
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- The Movie Premiere Pot Bust!
- Take them. I'll get the evidence.
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"It's Christmas Eve
in the City of Angels.
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And while decent citizens sleep
the sleep of the righteous...
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...hopheads prowl for marijuana...
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...not knowing that a man
is coming to stop them:
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Celebrity crime-stopper, Jack Vincennes.
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Scourge of grasshoppers
and dope fiends everywhere. "
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You like it?
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Yeah, subtle.
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What took you?
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My partner stopped
to help a damsel in distress.
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His priorities are all screwed up.
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Up to your old tricks again?
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Hollywood Jack, what brings you
to our humble station house?
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What are you doing here?
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You know, keeping the streets safe.
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Get these two dressed
and book them.
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- The party's upstairs.
- I'll be right up.
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What's that for?
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Aren't you watch commander tonight?
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Yeah. So?
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It's from Hush-Hush magazine.
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Buy yourself some loafers.
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No thanks, Jack.
You keep your payoff.
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I'm not interested.
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What's this?
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Six spics.
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The Mexicans who assaulted
Brown and Helenowski.
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I hear Helenowski bled 6 pints,
Brown's in a coma.
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They've got bruises
and muscle pulls.
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It's not what I heard.
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Lock them up.
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Stens, you guys hear what those taco
benders did to Helenowski and Brown?
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Helenowski lost an eye, and they're
reading Brown his last rites.
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Should make for a very
merry Christmas for them.
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Hey, guys.
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Guys.
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They brought the Mexicans in.
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They're downstairs.
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- Let's do it.
- Come on. Let's get them.
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The party's upstairs.
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This doesn't concern you.
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Come on, guys.
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You got work?
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Go back.
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- Come on, it's Christmas, help me out.
- Move it!
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I just got a few more questions.
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You don't have to be here.
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Go!
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You better get your partner
before he kills somebody.
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Teach him a lesson!
Get him, Stens!
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This is for ours, Poncho.
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Let me through!
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He didn't do nothing!
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What are you looking at?
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- Tell that Mexican to shut up!
- Move!
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You're sick!
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Stens!
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- Come on!
- Don't break it up!
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Get back! Get back!
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Fuck your mother!
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Fuck you!
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Stop! That's an order!
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You're all in my report!
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"Bloody Christmas. "
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The press love to label.
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This is bigger than the police board.
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The grand jury's convening.
Indictments may be handed down.
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Will you testify?
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No, sir.
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District Attorney Loew?
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00:16:44,630 --> 00:16:48,081
You and Officer Stensland
brought the liquor to the station.
256
00:16:48,592 --> 00:16:50,216
Stensland was already drunk.
257
00:16:51,261 --> 00:16:55,923
Appearing as a witness against him
could offset the damage to yourself.
258
00:16:56,892 --> 00:16:59,300
I won't testify against him
or anyone else.
259
00:16:59,853 --> 00:17:01,929
This man is a disgrace.
260
00:17:02,231 --> 00:17:05,896
Your badge and gun, officer.
You're suspended from duty.
261
00:17:07,402 --> 00:17:08,434
Dismissed.
262
00:17:26,672 --> 00:17:30,716
We need police witnesses to offset
the damage done to the Department.
263
00:17:31,009 --> 00:17:34,129
Justice has to be served.
Of course I'll testify.
264
00:17:37,224 --> 00:17:40,260
I'm glad you feel that way.
Most of the men don't.
265
00:17:40,519 --> 00:17:43,140
They think silence and integrity
are the same.
266
00:17:43,564 --> 00:17:46,185
Not exactly the image of...
267
00:17:46,775 --> 00:17:48,566
...the new LAPD we're creating.
268
00:17:48,819 --> 00:17:51,736
Welcome to Los Angeles,
the city of the future.
269
00:17:51,989 --> 00:17:54,610
- May I make a suggestion?
- By all means.
270
00:17:54,867 --> 00:17:59,078
The public will expect the Department
to sweep this under the carpet.
271
00:17:59,913 --> 00:18:01,028
Don't.
272
00:18:01,582 --> 00:18:04,417
Shift the guilt to men with
secure pensions.
273
00:18:04,668 --> 00:18:06,293
Force them to retire.
274
00:18:07,754 --> 00:18:09,664
But somebody has to swing.
275
00:18:09,923 --> 00:18:14,965
So indict, try and convict
Richard Stensland and Bud White.
276
00:18:15,512 --> 00:18:17,172
Secure them jail time.
277
00:18:17,472 --> 00:18:19,015
The message will be clear.
278
00:18:19,641 --> 00:18:24,552
The new LAPD will not tolerate officers
who think they're above the law.
279
00:18:25,606 --> 00:18:28,523
Dick Stensland is an embarrassment
as a policeman.
280
00:18:28,775 --> 00:18:32,773
He's had rotten fitness reports
from every C.O. He's ever served under.
281
00:18:33,030 --> 00:18:35,022
But White is a valuable officer.
282
00:18:35,324 --> 00:18:36,866
White's a mindless thug.
283
00:18:39,036 --> 00:18:43,033
He's just a man who can say "yes" to the
questions I asked you the other day.
284
00:18:43,665 --> 00:18:46,583
The Department and the public
need role models.
285
00:18:46,835 --> 00:18:49,872
Clean-cut, forthright men
the public can admire.
286
00:18:51,548 --> 00:18:52,378
Sergeant...
287
00:18:53,008 --> 00:18:54,633
...I'll promote you...
288
00:18:54,927 --> 00:18:56,385
...to Lieutenant.
289
00:18:56,637 --> 00:18:59,673
- Effective immediately.
- Detective Lieutenant.
290
00:19:01,808 --> 00:19:03,516
Ed, you're 30.
291
00:19:03,769 --> 00:19:07,304
Your father didn't make lieutenant
until he was 33.
292
00:19:07,606 --> 00:19:11,473
I know. I also know when he made
lieutenant, it was as a detective.
293
00:19:11,777 --> 00:19:14,066
Before we start polishing our laurels...
294
00:19:14,321 --> 00:19:16,894
...it'd look better if we had
a corroborative witness.
295
00:19:17,407 --> 00:19:20,859
That won't be easy to come by.
The men hate a stool pigeon.
296
00:19:21,119 --> 00:19:22,662
Jack Vincennes.
297
00:19:23,121 --> 00:19:25,244
He hit one of the Mexicans.
298
00:19:25,916 --> 00:19:29,700
A veteran like Vincennes might
admit his own culpability...
299
00:19:30,170 --> 00:19:32,412
...but not a fellow officer's.
300
00:19:33,090 --> 00:19:35,925
Jack's the technical advisor
on Badge of Honor.
301
00:19:36,176 --> 00:19:37,670
He lives for it.
302
00:19:37,928 --> 00:19:39,588
That's how to get to him.
303
00:19:43,058 --> 00:19:45,264
I'd like you to observe, Ed.
304
00:19:48,939 --> 00:19:50,481
Call Sergeant Vincennes.
305
00:19:51,316 --> 00:19:52,692
Bright kid.
306
00:19:53,026 --> 00:19:54,900
You may well reap the benefit...
307
00:19:55,404 --> 00:19:57,977
...but are you prepared to be despised?
308
00:19:58,699 --> 00:20:00,109
Yes, sir, I am.
309
00:20:02,202 --> 00:20:03,116
So be it.
310
00:20:09,376 --> 00:20:11,701
Sergeant, we'll get right to it.
311
00:20:12,254 --> 00:20:16,334
Nine civilian witnesses identified
you as hitting Ezekiel Garcia.
312
00:20:16,592 --> 00:20:21,930
But we have a witness who will name
names and testify that you hit back...
313
00:20:22,181 --> 00:20:23,295
...after being hit.
314
00:20:23,765 --> 00:20:25,888
You'll testify against 3 officers...
315
00:20:26,143 --> 00:20:30,852
...who've already earned their pension,
and plead ignorance about the rest.
316
00:20:31,315 --> 00:20:33,224
No thanks. I'm not a snitch.
317
00:20:33,483 --> 00:20:36,935
I'll guarantee a slap on the wrist,
a brief suspension...
318
00:20:37,196 --> 00:20:40,446
...followed by a temporary transfer
from Narcotics to Vice.
319
00:20:40,824 --> 00:20:43,611
Transfer out of Vice,
you're back on the show.
320
00:20:48,582 --> 00:20:49,578
The show?
321
00:20:50,167 --> 00:20:51,791
Badge of Honor.
322
00:20:53,420 --> 00:20:56,255
We need to tone down
your profile for a bit.
323
00:20:58,717 --> 00:21:02,929
I doubt you've ever taken
a stupid breath. Don't start now.
324
00:21:03,514 --> 00:21:04,759
Okay, I'll do it.
325
00:21:08,727 --> 00:21:10,102
The grand jury hears...
326
00:21:10,354 --> 00:21:12,477
...your testimony tomorrow.
Dismissed.
327
00:21:23,784 --> 00:21:25,776
And so it goes...
328
00:21:26,245 --> 00:21:28,036
...Detective Lieutenant.
329
00:21:29,790 --> 00:21:32,281
Ace them at the
grand jury tomorrow.
330
00:21:32,584 --> 00:21:35,289
Wear a smart-looking suit
and ace them.
331
00:21:36,213 --> 00:21:37,328
And Ed...
332
00:21:37,589 --> 00:21:39,214
...lose the glasses.
333
00:21:49,560 --> 00:21:52,347
So you're the stellar witness.
334
00:21:52,604 --> 00:21:56,139
I should have known.
What's the Chief throwing you?
335
00:21:56,525 --> 00:21:57,474
Throwing me?
336
00:21:57,943 --> 00:21:59,603
What's the payoff?
337
00:21:59,987 --> 00:22:03,237
You're the payoff expert.
I'm just doing my duty.
338
00:22:03,490 --> 00:22:07,025
Come on. You're playing an
angle here, college boy...
339
00:22:07,286 --> 00:22:10,405
...so you don't have to hobnob
with the rank and file...
340
00:22:10,664 --> 00:22:12,324
...who'll hate you for snitching.
341
00:22:12,749 --> 00:22:15,323
If they make you detective, watch out.
342
00:22:15,836 --> 00:22:19,999
Some Bureau guys'll burn in this and
you'll be working with their friends.
343
00:22:20,257 --> 00:22:21,122
What about you?
344
00:22:21,967 --> 00:22:26,095
I'm snitching 3 old-timers who'll be
fishing in Oregon next week.
345
00:22:26,430 --> 00:22:28,339
Next to you, I'm clean...
346
00:22:28,599 --> 00:22:29,761
...and smart.
347
00:22:30,100 --> 00:22:32,591
Edmund J. Exley to chambers.
348
00:22:34,980 --> 00:22:35,810
And remember...
349
00:22:36,064 --> 00:22:39,730
...Bud White will fuck you for this
if it takes the rest of his life.
350
00:22:43,530 --> 00:22:45,108
Captain, what do you want?
351
00:22:46,283 --> 00:22:47,481
Call me Dudley.
352
00:22:48,035 --> 00:22:49,743
Dudley...
353
00:22:50,287 --> 00:22:51,152
...what do you want?
354
00:22:52,456 --> 00:22:55,991
Look, lad, I admire
your refusal to testify...
355
00:22:56,376 --> 00:22:58,369
...and your loyalty to your partner.
356
00:22:58,921 --> 00:23:00,581
I admire you as a policeman...
357
00:23:00,839 --> 00:23:05,335
...and your adherence to violence
as a necessary adjunct to the job.
358
00:23:05,594 --> 00:23:08,880
And I'm impressed with your
punishment of women-beaters.
359
00:23:09,973 --> 00:23:11,088
Do you hate them?
360
00:23:13,769 --> 00:23:14,848
What do you want?
361
00:23:19,399 --> 00:23:20,858
They're yours.
362
00:23:22,152 --> 00:23:23,018
Take them.
363
00:23:26,740 --> 00:23:28,199
There's no bill on me?
364
00:23:28,450 --> 00:23:30,906
- 4 witnesses recanted their testimony.
- Why?
365
00:23:31,161 --> 00:23:32,490
They had a change of heart.
366
00:23:32,746 --> 00:23:33,528
And Stensland?
367
00:23:33,997 --> 00:23:35,575
Your partner's through.
368
00:23:35,832 --> 00:23:37,909
Scapegoat on the Chief's orders.
369
00:23:38,210 --> 00:23:40,084
A year from his pension.
370
00:23:43,257 --> 00:23:46,423
- Exley?
- Exley got what he wanted.
371
00:23:46,677 --> 00:23:50,046
As a politician he exceeds even myself.
372
00:23:50,848 --> 00:23:53,683
The Department needs
smart men like Exley...
373
00:23:54,226 --> 00:23:55,601
...and direct men...
374
00:23:56,311 --> 00:23:57,426
...like you.
375
00:23:58,856 --> 00:24:02,853
Look lad, I need you for
an assignment the Chief's given me.
376
00:24:03,193 --> 00:24:05,518
A duty few men are fit for...
377
00:24:05,821 --> 00:24:07,280
...but you were born for.
378
00:24:08,073 --> 00:24:10,646
You'd be working
out of Homicide at City Hall.
379
00:24:10,909 --> 00:24:12,072
Homicide?
380
00:24:13,078 --> 00:24:14,537
Working cases?
381
00:24:15,706 --> 00:24:18,327
Your talents lie elsewhere, Wendell.
382
00:24:18,876 --> 00:24:20,453
It's a muscle job.
383
00:24:21,712 --> 00:24:25,875
You'll do as I say and ask no questions.
Do you follow my drift?
384
00:24:27,134 --> 00:24:28,758
In Technicolor, sir.
385
00:24:31,471 --> 00:24:34,508
"Meet Tony Brancato
and Anthony Trombino...
386
00:24:34,766 --> 00:24:38,218
...two rising lieutenants
in the Mickey Cohen rackets.
387
00:24:38,478 --> 00:24:41,349
With the dapper little gent in prison...
388
00:24:42,024 --> 00:24:44,859
...who knows how far they'll go?
The sky's the limit.
389
00:24:51,700 --> 00:24:52,530
Oh, well. "
390
00:25:05,672 --> 00:25:10,133
"Meet Deuce Perkins,
Mickey Cohen's narcotics lieutenant.
391
00:25:10,385 --> 00:25:11,761
Could he be behind the hits?
392
00:25:12,554 --> 00:25:15,306
Is he consolidating
organized crime power?
393
00:25:21,438 --> 00:25:23,098
I suppose not.
394
00:25:28,612 --> 00:25:30,154
One thing's for sure:
395
00:25:30,405 --> 00:25:33,609
2- man triggers are punching the tickets
on the Mickster's muscle. "
396
00:25:43,001 --> 00:25:46,833
"Meanwhile, rumor has it the LAPD...
397
00:25:47,089 --> 00:25:51,916
...has set up a not-so-Welcome Wagon
to dishearten the criminal element...
398
00:25:52,177 --> 00:25:55,427
...from filling the void left by
Mickey's absence.
399
00:25:55,681 --> 00:25:58,598
When I know more, dear readers,
so will you.
400
00:25:58,851 --> 00:26:01,520
Off the record, on the q. T...
401
00:26:01,895 --> 00:26:03,437
...and very...
402
00:26:03,689 --> 00:26:05,480
...Hush-Hush. "
403
00:26:06,692 --> 00:26:10,641
With Mickey Cohen in prison,
Los Angeles is organized-crime-free.
404
00:26:10,988 --> 00:26:12,696
The Chief wants to keep it that way.
405
00:26:14,032 --> 00:26:17,033
In Cleveland, you're an
organized crime associate...
406
00:26:17,286 --> 00:26:21,070
...in desperate need of re-education
in the ways of polite society.
407
00:26:23,542 --> 00:26:25,285
I hear things.
408
00:26:25,544 --> 00:26:27,453
Like those 2-men shooter teams.
409
00:26:27,713 --> 00:26:29,752
They're 86ing Cohen's lieutenants.
410
00:26:30,007 --> 00:26:31,501
What do you want?
411
00:26:32,342 --> 00:26:34,134
We want you to go home.
412
00:26:38,765 --> 00:26:40,425
Picture-book smut, men.
413
00:26:40,684 --> 00:26:44,349
There's been a bunch of this
found at crime scenes lately.
414
00:26:44,605 --> 00:26:47,559
Quality ranges from piss-poor...
415
00:26:48,817 --> 00:26:49,647
...to very well done.
416
00:26:50,652 --> 00:26:52,645
Look who's back from suspension.
417
00:26:53,447 --> 00:26:55,439
We're honored, Sergeant Jack.
418
00:26:55,699 --> 00:26:59,068
Look at that.
The Great Jerk-Off Case of 1953.
419
00:26:59,453 --> 00:27:01,611
Is there someplace you'd rather be?
420
00:27:02,247 --> 00:27:05,367
Yeah, working Narcotics,
looking for Cohen's missing H.
421
00:27:05,667 --> 00:27:09,712
Yeah, finding 25 pounds of heroin
would get you plenty of ink.
422
00:27:09,963 --> 00:27:13,048
You should've thought of that
before Bloody Christmas.
423
00:27:14,134 --> 00:27:17,835
Make a major case. It's the only way
you'll get out of here.
424
00:27:19,473 --> 00:27:20,848
Dismissed, gentlemen.
425
00:27:29,066 --> 00:27:31,023
Go get the facts, Jack.
426
00:27:31,276 --> 00:27:33,020
Just the facts.
427
00:27:40,619 --> 00:27:41,947
Whatever you desire.
428
00:27:42,329 --> 00:27:44,950
Hi. I'd like to get a delivery
to Beverly Hills.
429
00:27:45,332 --> 00:27:46,281
I don't know you.
430
00:27:46,959 --> 00:27:51,288
A friend just gave me this number
and I wanted to find out if there was...
431
00:27:52,422 --> 00:27:56,290
Would you grab a reverse directory
and shag a name and address for me?
432
00:27:56,677 --> 00:27:58,468
Crestview-2239.
433
00:28:05,853 --> 00:28:08,059
Hush-Hush, off the record, on the q. T.
434
00:28:08,647 --> 00:28:10,141
Sid, it's Vincennes.
435
00:28:10,524 --> 00:28:13,774
Jackie, you back on narco?
I need some good copy.
436
00:28:14,152 --> 00:28:16,026
I have something going with Vice.
437
00:28:16,405 --> 00:28:17,816
Something juicy for the Sidster?
438
00:28:18,073 --> 00:28:20,315
Tracking porn.
Arty, high-class stuff.
439
00:28:20,617 --> 00:28:23,571
Know about Fleur-de-Lis?
Slogan's "Whatever you desire. "
440
00:28:23,954 --> 00:28:25,448
No, I've heard bupkes.
441
00:28:25,831 --> 00:28:29,282
Get me some narco skinny.
I want to do an all-hophead issue.
442
00:28:29,668 --> 00:28:33,417
Shvartze jazz musicians and movie stars.
You like it?
443
00:28:33,714 --> 00:28:35,089
I'll talk to you later.
444
00:28:35,465 --> 00:28:37,838
- What do you got?
- The number's not assigned.
445
00:28:38,218 --> 00:28:39,167
Thanks, Ginger.
446
00:28:41,138 --> 00:28:42,336
A bootleg.
447
00:28:51,607 --> 00:28:52,602
Take it easy.
448
00:28:52,983 --> 00:28:54,311
Tough break, Stens.
449
00:28:54,693 --> 00:28:56,650
We're going to miss you.
450
00:28:57,029 --> 00:28:58,571
Raw deal, Stensland.
451
00:29:02,117 --> 00:29:03,742
Here comes the snitch.
452
00:29:15,005 --> 00:29:16,547
Sorry about that, Lieutenant.
453
00:29:33,607 --> 00:29:35,350
Stay out of trouble, Bud.
454
00:29:37,986 --> 00:29:40,109
I got some time.
I'll buy you a drink.
455
00:29:40,405 --> 00:29:42,398
Rain check. I got a hot date.
456
00:29:44,451 --> 00:29:46,610
Who is she and
what did you arrest her for?
457
00:29:47,162 --> 00:29:48,443
It's confidential.
458
00:29:48,830 --> 00:29:53,576
Like that magazine that
Vincennes scams for. Hush-Hush.
459
00:29:54,878 --> 00:29:56,586
I'll see you later in the week.
460
00:29:57,297 --> 00:29:59,089
We'll do the town, on me.
461
00:29:59,466 --> 00:30:02,337
Yeah. I'll bring
my wallet just in case.
462
00:30:06,807 --> 00:30:08,883
- See you tomorrow.
- Hang on a minute.
463
00:30:09,810 --> 00:30:11,185
I'll walk down with you.
464
00:30:19,945 --> 00:30:22,436
Punk kid. Who is he
trying to impress?
465
00:30:23,490 --> 00:30:24,605
Yeah, I wonder.
466
00:30:24,992 --> 00:30:27,150
Got himself a real career going.
467
00:30:31,540 --> 00:30:33,782
Sergeant Williams, pick up, please.
468
00:30:35,127 --> 00:30:36,669
Sergeant Williams?
469
00:30:40,007 --> 00:30:42,711
Is there anybody up there in Homicide?
470
00:30:43,844 --> 00:30:45,303
Anybody there?
471
00:30:47,681 --> 00:30:48,677
Lieutenant Exley.
472
00:30:48,932 --> 00:30:50,925
You've got a homicide downtown.
473
00:30:51,310 --> 00:30:54,061
- The Nite Owl Coffee Shop.
- I got it.
474
00:30:54,396 --> 00:30:55,427
It's mine.
475
00:31:07,159 --> 00:31:09,780
At least one person's dead.
I stopped for coffee...
476
00:31:10,162 --> 00:31:12,831
No one comes through
the front door. Understand?
477
00:32:49,178 --> 00:32:53,009
I want barricades both ends
of the street. Make sure...
478
00:32:53,473 --> 00:32:55,383
I took the call. It's my case.
479
00:32:56,059 --> 00:32:58,135
You don't want it and you can't have it.
480
00:32:58,520 --> 00:32:59,386
I took the call.
481
00:32:59,771 --> 00:33:00,767
It's mine.
482
00:33:01,940 --> 00:33:03,732
I'll make you my second-in-command.
483
00:33:04,109 --> 00:33:05,734
Captain, over here, please.
484
00:33:10,073 --> 00:33:14,403
The cook drew a gun and set it off.
The rest died in the men's room.
485
00:33:20,459 --> 00:33:23,958
We got a total of 15 spent
12-gauge Remington shotgun shells.
486
00:33:24,338 --> 00:33:28,335
I'm betting 3 men, 5-shot capacity
pumps, all of them emptying once.
487
00:33:28,717 --> 00:33:31,552
Excuse me, we got an I.D.
On one of the victims.
488
00:33:32,262 --> 00:33:33,460
It's Dick Stensland.
489
00:33:36,266 --> 00:33:38,638
At first, I thought
she was Rita Hayworth.
490
00:33:39,019 --> 00:33:40,347
Yeah, me too.
491
00:33:50,155 --> 00:33:52,148
Hell of a way to avoid prison.
492
00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:04,158
What happened?
493
00:34:04,795 --> 00:34:07,202
Appears 3 men held up a coffee shop.
494
00:34:07,589 --> 00:34:10,341
The guy at the register pulled a.38,
so they killed him.
495
00:34:10,926 --> 00:34:12,550
Then they killed everyone else.
496
00:34:15,639 --> 00:34:18,510
Lieutenant, we're ready
with that Nite Owl I.D.
497
00:34:24,147 --> 00:34:25,974
Is this your daughter?
498
00:34:26,817 --> 00:34:28,394
I don't know.
499
00:34:29,319 --> 00:34:31,810
We know this is difficult.
Take your time.
500
00:34:33,657 --> 00:34:35,780
It seems like my Susan.
501
00:34:36,034 --> 00:34:38,905
But my Susan was a blonde,
not a redhead.
502
00:34:39,288 --> 00:34:41,031
When was the last time you saw her?
503
00:34:41,623 --> 00:34:43,497
Just before Christmas.
504
00:34:44,168 --> 00:34:47,038
We'd fought.
I didn't like her boyfriend.
505
00:34:47,671 --> 00:34:48,786
Mrs. Lefferts...
506
00:34:49,173 --> 00:34:51,498
...does your daughter have
any distinguishing marks?
507
00:34:52,718 --> 00:34:55,505
You got the wrong idea, mister.
I'm fine.
508
00:34:56,513 --> 00:34:59,514
She has a birthmark on her hip.
509
00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:06,891
It's her.
510
00:35:07,691 --> 00:35:09,731
My baby.
511
00:35:13,071 --> 00:35:14,731
I'm sorry, Mrs. Lefferts.
512
00:35:16,033 --> 00:35:18,321
Who's in charge of this investigation?
513
00:35:18,869 --> 00:35:20,280
Captain Smith and myself. Why?
514
00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:24,285
"The Nite Owl Massacre. "
515
00:35:24,666 --> 00:35:26,291
Hyperbole aside...
516
00:35:26,668 --> 00:35:30,168
...this is a heinous crime
that requires swift resolution.
517
00:35:31,298 --> 00:35:32,163
Six victims.
518
00:35:32,549 --> 00:35:35,123
One of them, one of our own.
Dick Stensland.
519
00:35:35,552 --> 00:35:39,597
He was a Nite Owl regular,
in the wrong place at the wrong time.
520
00:35:40,224 --> 00:35:41,932
Robbery is the likely motive.
521
00:35:42,184 --> 00:35:46,680
We have rubber glove smears
on the register and forensics...
522
00:35:47,064 --> 00:35:50,682
...tend toward a trio of shooters.
We do have one hot lead.
523
00:35:51,235 --> 00:35:53,026
Three Negro juveniles...
524
00:35:53,403 --> 00:35:56,855
...were seen discharging shotguns
last night in Griffith Park.
525
00:35:57,241 --> 00:36:01,155
A park ranger I.D.'d them as driving
a 1948-1950 Mercury coupe...
526
00:36:01,537 --> 00:36:02,699
...maroon in color.
527
00:36:03,372 --> 00:36:06,871
An hour ago a canvassing crew
turned up a news vendor...
528
00:36:07,209 --> 00:36:10,792
...who saw a maroon Merc coupe
parked by the Nite Owl at 1 a. m.
529
00:36:11,463 --> 00:36:15,046
DMV has come up with
a registration list of Merc coupes.
530
00:36:16,426 --> 00:36:20,804
48 two-man teams will shake
three names apiece.
531
00:36:21,598 --> 00:36:24,089
Interrogations will be led by
Lt. Edmund Exley.
532
00:36:27,688 --> 00:36:28,968
Enough on that!
533
00:36:32,317 --> 00:36:35,817
Gentlemen, just go out and get them.
Use all necessary force.
534
00:36:37,155 --> 00:36:39,278
The people of Los Angeles demand it.
535
00:36:39,908 --> 00:36:41,106
Dismissed.
536
00:36:44,580 --> 00:36:46,489
Why not just put a bounty on them?
537
00:36:53,922 --> 00:36:56,959
- Ready to roll?
- You take them. I got something to do.
538
00:36:57,301 --> 00:36:59,092
What if one of these names...?
539
00:36:59,469 --> 00:37:00,845
Get somebody else.
540
00:37:01,805 --> 00:37:03,881
I got our assignments, Big V.
541
00:37:04,266 --> 00:37:07,137
If we go by this list,
we'll never make this collar.
542
00:37:07,519 --> 00:37:11,517
I got a guy who knows what happens
south of Jefferson. He'll put us at 50-50.
543
00:37:12,441 --> 00:37:16,485
What are you doing? That's the same
thing that got you in trouble before.
544
00:37:16,862 --> 00:37:18,142
I'll take those odds.
545
00:37:22,367 --> 00:37:23,696
We got it from here.
546
00:37:25,954 --> 00:37:28,410
You should bring along
a photographer.
547
00:37:33,504 --> 00:37:36,837
I need an address on a customer
of yours. Her name is Lynn.
548
00:37:37,216 --> 00:37:38,924
- That's all I got to go on?
- Yeah.
549
00:37:39,384 --> 00:37:41,710
You already know who I mean,
so cough it up.
550
00:37:42,221 --> 00:37:45,257
There's a billing address
and a delivery address.
551
00:38:12,042 --> 00:38:13,702
Are you Pierce Patchett?
552
00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:16,083
I am.
553
00:38:18,215 --> 00:38:22,213
Are you soliciting for police charities?
Last time you called my office.
554
00:38:22,761 --> 00:38:25,548
Go on down to the driveway.
We'll talk there.
555
00:38:36,692 --> 00:38:38,102
What can I do for you?
556
00:38:39,236 --> 00:38:42,771
- Where were you last night?
- I was here hosting a party.
557
00:38:44,575 --> 00:38:46,152
Tell me about Dick Stensland.
558
00:38:46,535 --> 00:38:48,574
I don't know him, Mr...?
559
00:38:49,037 --> 00:38:50,282
Officer White.
560
00:38:51,540 --> 00:38:52,619
You know Sue Lefferts?
561
00:38:53,083 --> 00:38:55,289
You know I do.
You saw me with her.
562
00:38:57,087 --> 00:38:58,629
How did you find me?
563
00:38:59,423 --> 00:39:03,421
Nick's Liquor. This is where
Lynn Bracken's booze bills go.
564
00:39:03,802 --> 00:39:05,261
Of course.
565
00:39:08,265 --> 00:39:10,304
Sue Lefferts died at the Nite Owl.
566
00:39:11,059 --> 00:39:12,602
I'm investigating.
567
00:39:14,938 --> 00:39:16,314
Everything all right?
568
00:39:16,899 --> 00:39:18,642
Fine, Phillip, thank you.
569
00:39:22,946 --> 00:39:25,354
What happened to the other guy?
Buzz.
570
00:39:25,782 --> 00:39:27,941
Buzz Meeks no longer works for me.
571
00:39:28,327 --> 00:39:30,652
Lefferts looked beat-up Christmas Eve
but didn't act it. Why?
572
00:39:31,038 --> 00:39:35,118
I think she'd been hit in the face
with a tennis racket. She is... was...
573
00:39:35,501 --> 00:39:36,699
...a big doubles fan.
574
00:39:37,628 --> 00:39:40,498
You're a known associate of a woman
killed in a mass murder.
575
00:39:42,216 --> 00:39:45,667
- Want to go downtown to discuss it?
- Is this official?
576
00:39:46,595 --> 00:39:51,008
Somehow I have the feeling
this is more personal with you.
577
00:39:54,436 --> 00:39:55,811
All right, then...
578
00:39:56,813 --> 00:40:01,060
...are you concerned about criminal
matters peripheral to the murders?
579
00:40:01,443 --> 00:40:04,693
- Not at the moment.
- So you're not obligated to report them.
580
00:40:07,157 --> 00:40:09,233
Why were Lefferts' eyes black?
581
00:40:09,701 --> 00:40:12,323
I needed a Rita Hayworth
to fill out my little studio.
582
00:40:12,704 --> 00:40:13,653
What little studio?
583
00:40:14,039 --> 00:40:17,538
Well, there's Gardner, Russell,
Monroe, Turner...
584
00:40:17,918 --> 00:40:20,041
Lynn Bracken is my Veronica Lake.
585
00:40:20,712 --> 00:40:23,001
I use girls that look like movie stars.
586
00:40:23,382 --> 00:40:25,873
Sometimes I employ a plastic surgeon.
587
00:40:26,510 --> 00:40:28,882
When the work was done,
that's when you saw us.
588
00:40:29,805 --> 00:40:31,513
It's why her mom couldn't I.D. Her.
589
00:40:33,141 --> 00:40:34,552
Jesus fucking Christ.
590
00:40:34,810 --> 00:40:36,719
No, Pierce Morehouse Patchett.
591
00:40:39,189 --> 00:40:42,605
I sense you're on your best behavior,
but that's all I'm saying.
592
00:40:43,151 --> 00:40:45,061
If you persist,
we'll meet with my attorney.
593
00:40:46,321 --> 00:40:48,361
Would you like Lynn Bracken's address?
594
00:40:48,740 --> 00:40:50,235
I got her address.
595
00:40:51,660 --> 00:40:53,569
Find Susan's killer, Mr. White.
596
00:40:54,246 --> 00:40:56,239
I'll give you a handsome reward.
597
00:41:01,670 --> 00:41:02,500
Whatever you desire!
598
00:41:11,221 --> 00:41:12,763
I know you're not asleep.
599
00:41:15,225 --> 00:41:17,052
What do you want?
600
00:41:17,436 --> 00:41:18,930
My 5 bucks.
601
00:41:19,313 --> 00:41:21,519
It was the only one I had.
602
00:41:21,899 --> 00:41:22,930
Right now?
603
00:41:23,567 --> 00:41:25,892
Hey, dollface,
tell him to leave us alone.
604
00:41:26,278 --> 00:41:28,436
I understand.
Okay, fine.
605
00:41:30,073 --> 00:41:31,105
Oh, baby...
606
00:41:32,576 --> 00:41:33,739
...bad news.
607
00:41:34,119 --> 00:41:35,068
You have to go.
608
00:41:35,454 --> 00:41:36,450
Go?
609
00:41:36,955 --> 00:41:40,241
Something very important has come up
and you have to go.
610
00:41:40,626 --> 00:41:42,334
I'll make it up to you.
611
00:41:42,711 --> 00:41:45,119
I will, I promise.
Excuse me.
612
00:41:47,758 --> 00:41:49,133
Is it the cops?
613
00:41:53,805 --> 00:41:54,920
Miss Bracken...
614
00:41:55,307 --> 00:41:56,089
...I'm Officer White.
615
00:41:56,475 --> 00:41:58,930
I've been expecting you,
just not this soon.
616
00:41:59,311 --> 00:42:01,767
Pierce called.
He told me what happened to Sue.
617
00:42:02,147 --> 00:42:05,101
Everything all right, doll?
Want me to get rid of him?
618
00:42:05,609 --> 00:42:06,391
Hit the road.
619
00:42:08,946 --> 00:42:10,321
Maybe I will...
620
00:42:10,948 --> 00:42:12,323
...maybe I won't.
621
00:42:12,783 --> 00:42:16,318
LAPD, shitbird. Get out or
I'll have your wife come get you.
622
00:42:33,011 --> 00:42:34,422
- Officer.
- Councilman.
623
00:42:53,198 --> 00:42:56,532
- Would you care for a drink?
- Yeah, Scotch straight.
624
00:43:02,499 --> 00:43:05,998
I was friendly with Sue Lefferts,
but we weren't friends.
625
00:43:06,503 --> 00:43:07,701
Know what I mean?
626
00:43:08,172 --> 00:43:09,749
You sorry she's dead?
627
00:43:11,675 --> 00:43:13,050
Of course I am.
628
00:43:13,468 --> 00:43:15,212
What kind of question is that?
629
00:43:17,514 --> 00:43:19,637
You know why Pierce
is humoring you?
630
00:43:20,017 --> 00:43:22,259
Use words like that,
you might make me mad.
631
00:43:22,686 --> 00:43:23,717
But do you know?
632
00:43:24,188 --> 00:43:25,183
Yeah, I know.
633
00:43:26,356 --> 00:43:28,016
Patchett's running whores...
634
00:43:29,484 --> 00:43:31,311
...cut to look like movie stars.
635
00:43:31,695 --> 00:43:34,945
And judging by his address,
something bigger on the side.
636
00:43:35,324 --> 00:43:37,067
He doesn't want any attention.
637
00:43:37,492 --> 00:43:40,908
That's right. Our motives are selfish
so we're cooperating.
638
00:43:41,288 --> 00:43:44,040
So cooperate. Why was
Susan Lefferts at the Nite Owl?
639
00:43:44,541 --> 00:43:46,997
I don't know. I never heard of
the Nite Owl till today.
640
00:43:47,377 --> 00:43:48,243
How'd she meet Patchett?
641
00:43:48,629 --> 00:43:50,087
Pierce meets people.
642
00:43:50,339 --> 00:43:54,253
Sue had dreams of Hollywood
and this is how they turned out.
643
00:43:54,885 --> 00:43:58,550
Thanks to Pierce,
we still get to act a little.
644
00:43:59,223 --> 00:44:01,429
Tell me about Pierce.
645
00:44:01,934 --> 00:44:03,843
He's waiting for you to mention money.
646
00:44:05,229 --> 00:44:08,229
- Want some advice, Miss Bracken?
- It's Lynn.
647
00:44:08,732 --> 00:44:09,895
Miss Bracken...
648
00:44:10,901 --> 00:44:13,226
...don't ever try to fucking bribe me...
649
00:44:13,612 --> 00:44:15,901
...or I'll have you and Patchett
in shit up to your ears.
650
00:44:17,074 --> 00:44:19,446
I remember you from Christmas Eve.
651
00:44:20,744 --> 00:44:23,828
You have a thing
for helping women, don't you?
652
00:44:24,748 --> 00:44:26,408
Maybe I'm just fucking curious.
653
00:44:26,875 --> 00:44:30,078
- You say "fuck" a lot.
- You fuck for money.
654
00:44:30,420 --> 00:44:33,955
There's blood on your shirt.
Is that an integral part of your job?
655
00:44:34,216 --> 00:44:35,794
- Yeah.
- Do you enjoy it?
656
00:44:36,176 --> 00:44:37,042
When they deserve it.
657
00:44:37,427 --> 00:44:38,756
Did they deserve it today?
658
00:44:40,597 --> 00:44:41,463
I'm not sure.
659
00:44:41,890 --> 00:44:43,135
- But you did it anyway.
- Yeah.
660
00:44:44,059 --> 00:44:46,135
Like the half dozen guys
you screwed today.
661
00:44:47,604 --> 00:44:49,513
Actually, it was only two.
662
00:44:52,067 --> 00:44:53,858
You're different, Officer White.
663
00:44:54,236 --> 00:44:58,613
You're the first man in years who didn't
tell me I look like Veronica Lake.
664
00:44:58,991 --> 00:45:00,615
You look better than Veronica Lake.
665
00:45:06,331 --> 00:45:07,197
Pierce Patchett?
666
00:45:08,959 --> 00:45:11,664
He takes a cut of our earnings
and invests it for us.
667
00:45:12,045 --> 00:45:14,999
He doesn't let us use narcotics
and he doesn't abuse us.
668
00:45:15,465 --> 00:45:19,214
Can your policeman's mentality
grasp those contradictions?
669
00:45:21,471 --> 00:45:23,630
He had you cut
to look like Veronica Lake.
670
00:45:24,016 --> 00:45:24,846
No.
671
00:45:25,601 --> 00:45:28,388
I'm really a brunette,
but the rest is me.
672
00:45:30,355 --> 00:45:32,811
And that's all the news
that's fit to print.
673
00:45:34,151 --> 00:45:36,025
It's nice meeting you.
674
00:45:40,824 --> 00:45:43,031
- I'd like to see you again.
- For a date...
675
00:45:43,327 --> 00:45:44,489
...or an appointment?
676
00:45:46,622 --> 00:45:47,653
I don't know.
677
00:45:48,081 --> 00:45:51,616
- If it's a date, what's your first name?
- Forget I asked.
678
00:45:52,794 --> 00:45:54,205
It was a mistake.
679
00:46:14,858 --> 00:46:16,234
Leonard Bidwell?
680
00:46:17,486 --> 00:46:19,360
Come down here and talk to us.
681
00:46:21,532 --> 00:46:22,730
How's the left these days?
682
00:46:23,367 --> 00:46:24,316
What's it to you?
683
00:46:24,701 --> 00:46:26,196
I saw you fight Kid Gavilan.
684
00:46:26,703 --> 00:46:28,198
I like your style.
685
00:46:30,832 --> 00:46:32,576
What do you want, Mr. Policeman?
686
00:46:33,502 --> 00:46:35,909
You got a brother in Folsom.
I put him there.
687
00:46:36,296 --> 00:46:37,162
Until 1970.
688
00:46:37,548 --> 00:46:39,421
How'd you like to make it 1960?
689
00:46:39,842 --> 00:46:42,083
I know the judge,
and Lieutenant Exley...
690
00:46:42,469 --> 00:46:44,462
...is good friends with the D.A.
691
00:46:47,182 --> 00:46:50,432
We're looking for 3 colored guys
who like to pop off shotguns.
692
00:46:50,811 --> 00:46:52,768
One owns a maroon Mercury coupe.
693
00:46:53,230 --> 00:46:56,231
- Want me to snitch?
- Want to buy your brother 10 years?
694
00:46:56,608 --> 00:46:58,316
- It was 10 years?
- 10 years.
695
00:46:58,694 --> 00:47:01,778
You don't have to say anything,
just look at this list...
696
00:47:02,239 --> 00:47:03,614
...and point.
697
00:47:06,076 --> 00:47:07,950
He's bad, so I'll just tell you.
698
00:47:08,579 --> 00:47:09,741
Sugar Ray Collins.
699
00:47:10,122 --> 00:47:12,245
Drives a maroon '49 coupe.
700
00:47:12,875 --> 00:47:14,452
Beautiful ride.
701
00:47:15,210 --> 00:47:19,290
Don't know about shotguns,
but he gets his thrills killing dogs.
702
00:47:19,756 --> 00:47:20,919
He's righteous trash.
703
00:47:21,425 --> 00:47:24,461
Look at that. It's five minutes
from here. Thanks.
704
00:47:26,763 --> 00:47:28,139
I'll hear from you...
705
00:47:29,308 --> 00:47:30,588
...about my brother?
706
00:47:30,976 --> 00:47:33,099
Keep it up, Lenny. Up.
707
00:47:39,234 --> 00:47:41,357
There it is.
It's in the back.
708
00:47:58,837 --> 00:48:01,328
- One of ours.
- Shit, somebody beat us here.
709
00:48:07,471 --> 00:48:08,669
Damn it.
710
00:48:09,306 --> 00:48:10,551
My glasses.
711
00:48:10,933 --> 00:48:12,047
You're kidding.
712
00:48:13,644 --> 00:48:15,517
Just don't shoot me.
713
00:48:24,488 --> 00:48:26,148
What are you doing here?
714
00:48:27,282 --> 00:48:28,860
We were in the neighborhood.
715
00:48:29,284 --> 00:48:32,700
- What do you got?
- Three 12-gauge pumps.
716
00:48:32,996 --> 00:48:33,696
And cash.
717
00:48:36,083 --> 00:48:38,656
So long, Vice.
Badge of Honor, here I come.
718
00:48:39,044 --> 00:48:40,669
Fuck you! This is our collar.
719
00:48:41,046 --> 00:48:42,042
Quiet!
720
00:48:42,422 --> 00:48:45,874
I'm ranking officer here.
We go as a team. End of story.
721
00:48:51,306 --> 00:48:52,220
Right.
722
00:48:53,684 --> 00:48:54,715
How many ways in?
723
00:48:55,102 --> 00:48:57,178
Only one. Up the stairs.
724
00:48:58,689 --> 00:49:00,562
He's very serious.
725
00:49:15,247 --> 00:49:16,077
Police!
726
00:49:16,331 --> 00:49:17,327
Don't shoot!
727
00:49:19,334 --> 00:49:21,410
- Don't move.
- Shut up!
728
00:49:21,670 --> 00:49:22,868
Anxious, aren't you?
729
00:49:23,255 --> 00:49:24,204
Don't kill them.
730
00:49:26,550 --> 00:49:28,009
Back, back, back!
731
00:49:29,386 --> 00:49:30,549
Get off me!
732
00:49:31,889 --> 00:49:33,264
Against the wall!
733
00:49:33,640 --> 00:49:35,300
- Put your hands up!
- Get over there.
734
00:49:36,560 --> 00:49:38,220
Shut up!
Hands behind your back!
735
00:49:39,563 --> 00:49:40,476
So...
736
00:49:41,190 --> 00:49:43,763
...how's it feel
getting out of the office?
737
00:49:49,948 --> 00:49:51,407
This came from forensics.
738
00:49:51,783 --> 00:49:53,159
"Burning clothes...
739
00:49:55,162 --> 00:49:56,442
...Casitas Youth Camp... "
740
00:49:59,958 --> 00:50:01,666
It's crowded in here, White.
741
00:50:02,336 --> 00:50:04,044
These guys killed Stensland.
742
00:50:20,771 --> 00:50:23,476
The ejection marks on the shells
fired from the shotguns...
743
00:50:23,857 --> 00:50:26,811
...are identical to those on the
shell casings found at the Nite Owl.
744
00:50:27,277 --> 00:50:29,104
I want confessions, Edmund.
745
00:50:29,571 --> 00:50:31,564
A night's stewing
has softened them up.
746
00:50:32,908 --> 00:50:34,319
I'll break them, sir.
747
00:50:54,680 --> 00:50:57,550
Are you sure golden boy
is up to the task, Cap?
748
00:50:58,308 --> 00:51:01,179
I think you'd be surprised
what the lad is capable of.
749
00:51:03,647 --> 00:51:05,556
You're 22, aren't you, Ray?
750
00:51:11,071 --> 00:51:12,814
Did an officer work you over?
751
00:51:15,242 --> 00:51:17,947
- You're 22, right?
- Why do you keep asking that?
752
00:51:18,328 --> 00:51:20,654
22 makes it a gas chamber bounce.
753
00:51:21,164 --> 00:51:23,371
You should've pulled this 2 years ago.
754
00:51:23,750 --> 00:51:26,917
Get life, do a little
Youth Authority jolt...
755
00:51:27,171 --> 00:51:28,914
...transfer to Folsom a big man.
756
00:51:29,423 --> 00:51:31,131
Get yourself a sissy.
757
00:51:31,633 --> 00:51:33,377
I don't truck with sissies.
758
00:51:36,388 --> 00:51:37,419
Louis.
759
00:51:38,182 --> 00:51:39,095
What?
760
00:51:40,767 --> 00:51:43,341
You did the Casitas
Youth Camp with Louis.
761
00:51:43,604 --> 00:51:47,352
Why you keep asking me about Louis?
His business is his business.
762
00:51:47,608 --> 00:51:50,941
Sugar, Louis told me
you went sissy up at Casitas.
763
00:51:51,361 --> 00:51:55,311
You couldn't do the time, so you got
a big white boy to look after you.
764
00:51:55,574 --> 00:51:57,198
Said they called you Sugar...
765
00:51:57,784 --> 00:51:59,991
...because you gave it out so sweet.
766
00:52:01,079 --> 00:52:05,124
Louis gave it up at Casitas.
I was the boss jock in my dorm!
767
00:52:05,375 --> 00:52:06,371
He was the sissy!
768
00:52:06,835 --> 00:52:10,785
Louis gave it up for candy bars!
He ain't got the sense of a dog!
769
00:52:11,965 --> 00:52:13,376
You like to shoot dogs.
770
00:52:13,884 --> 00:52:15,877
Dogs got no reason to live.
771
00:52:18,013 --> 00:52:19,341
What about people?
772
00:52:19,723 --> 00:52:21,301
What you trying to say?
773
00:52:21,808 --> 00:52:23,137
We got the shotguns.
774
00:52:23,519 --> 00:52:24,894
I don't own shotguns.
775
00:52:25,145 --> 00:52:27,470
Why were you throwing clothes
in the incinerator?
776
00:52:27,898 --> 00:52:28,763
Say what?
777
00:52:29,358 --> 00:52:33,652
A neighbor said she saw you
throwing clothes in the incinerator.
778
00:52:34,029 --> 00:52:35,060
Doesn't look good.
779
00:52:35,531 --> 00:52:37,440
I ain't talking till I see a judge.
780
00:52:37,824 --> 00:52:41,158
Were you on hop? You were
passed out when we arrested you.
781
00:52:41,537 --> 00:52:43,944
Ty and Louis fuck
with that shit, not me.
782
00:52:44,331 --> 00:52:45,909
Where do they get their stuff?
783
00:52:47,376 --> 00:52:48,371
Come on.
784
00:52:48,961 --> 00:52:52,045
Give me one to feed the D.A.
It'll make me look good...
785
00:52:52,422 --> 00:52:55,957
...and I'll say Sugar Ray's not a punk
like his sissy partners.
786
00:53:02,808 --> 00:53:04,966
Tell me where Jones and Fontaine...
787
00:53:05,394 --> 00:53:06,639
...get their drugs.
788
00:53:09,731 --> 00:53:11,107
Roland Navarette.
789
00:53:13,527 --> 00:53:15,318
He runs a hole-up on Bunker Hill.
790
00:53:15,696 --> 00:53:17,605
And he sells red devils.
791
00:53:18,532 --> 00:53:20,026
Exley's good, I'll give him that.
792
00:53:20,409 --> 00:53:21,322
I'll take a break.
793
00:53:25,414 --> 00:53:28,284
You know, I'm talking
about the gas chamber...
794
00:53:29,334 --> 00:53:31,706
...and you haven't asked me
what this is about.
795
00:53:32,546 --> 00:53:35,084
You got a big "guilty" sign
around your neck.
796
00:53:39,928 --> 00:53:41,588
That was masterful.
797
00:53:42,097 --> 00:53:43,093
He's ready to go.
798
00:53:51,023 --> 00:53:53,514
Give Jones the newspaper.
I want him primed.
799
00:53:53,775 --> 00:53:56,148
Take the cuffs off so he can read it.
800
00:53:56,653 --> 00:54:00,236
Ray Collins just ratted you off.
Said the Nite Owl was your idea.
801
00:54:00,657 --> 00:54:04,821
I think it was Ray's idea.
You talk, I think I can save your life.
802
00:54:05,829 --> 00:54:08,498
6 people are dead,
and someone has to pay for it.
803
00:54:08,874 --> 00:54:11,709
Now, it can be you, or it can be Ray.
804
00:54:13,962 --> 00:54:15,706
Louis, he called you queer.
805
00:54:16,131 --> 00:54:19,880
- He said you took it up the ass.
- I didn't kill nobody!
806
00:54:22,346 --> 00:54:23,341
Son...
807
00:54:25,307 --> 00:54:27,763
...you know what'll happen
if you don't talk.
808
00:54:28,143 --> 00:54:30,930
You'll go to the gas chamber.
So admit what you did.
809
00:54:32,189 --> 00:54:33,766
I didn't mean to hurt her.
810
00:54:34,149 --> 00:54:36,901
- Maybe she's okay.
- Okay?
811
00:54:38,153 --> 00:54:41,439
They're in the morgue.
They were dead when you left them.
812
00:54:41,782 --> 00:54:46,242
I just wanted to lose my cherry.
She don't die, so I don't die.
813
00:54:46,662 --> 00:54:49,069
She don't die, so I don't die.
814
00:54:49,456 --> 00:54:51,947
Louis, who's the girl?
What's her name?
815
00:54:52,626 --> 00:54:54,120
Who are you talking about?
816
00:54:54,837 --> 00:54:56,496
Was she at the Nite Owl?
817
00:54:57,172 --> 00:54:59,497
Listen to me, was she at the Nite Owl?
818
00:55:06,932 --> 00:55:09,221
- This newspaper ain't shit!
- Where's the girl?
819
00:55:09,560 --> 00:55:10,342
You kill her?
820
00:55:11,311 --> 00:55:15,724
Louis lost his cherry, but things
got out of hand. You made her bleed.
821
00:55:16,108 --> 00:55:18,266
She bled on your clothes,
so you burned the clothes.
822
00:55:18,652 --> 00:55:19,399
Who said that?!
823
00:55:20,863 --> 00:55:22,191
Now, listen to me.
824
00:55:22,573 --> 00:55:25,028
If she's alive, she's your
only chance.
825
00:55:25,284 --> 00:55:26,482
I think she's alive.
826
00:55:27,077 --> 00:55:28,322
Where is she now?
827
00:55:28,745 --> 00:55:30,453
You leave her someplace?
828
00:55:32,040 --> 00:55:33,535
Tell me where she is!
829
00:55:35,669 --> 00:55:37,294
What're you doing?!
830
00:55:37,546 --> 00:55:38,744
Don't.
831
00:55:39,882 --> 00:55:40,795
White!
832
00:55:42,050 --> 00:55:44,090
1 in 6! Where's the girl?
833
00:55:44,303 --> 00:55:45,845
I have this under control!
834
00:55:46,096 --> 00:55:47,471
Where's the girl?
835
00:55:55,939 --> 00:55:59,142
Sylvester Fitch, 109 Avalon...
836
00:55:59,985 --> 00:56:02,476
...brown corner house, upstairs.
837
00:56:15,000 --> 00:56:17,206
- Just give me one minute.
- You got it.
838
00:56:23,425 --> 00:56:24,800
Nobody moves.
839
00:56:25,385 --> 00:56:27,343
We're going in the front.
Stay put...
840
00:56:27,596 --> 00:56:29,055
...until I give the word.
841
00:58:54,618 --> 00:58:56,326
He went around back!
842
00:58:57,913 --> 00:59:01,993
I'm Lieutenant Exley. I'm sorry,
I need to know what time they left.
843
00:59:02,251 --> 00:59:04,576
Get her to the hospital.
Excuse me.
844
00:59:05,170 --> 00:59:06,546
Give your career a rest.
845
00:59:07,089 --> 00:59:08,203
Leave her alone.
846
00:59:08,590 --> 00:59:11,212
A naked guy with a gun?
Who'll believe that?
847
00:59:11,468 --> 00:59:13,176
Get the fuck away from me.
848
00:59:13,762 --> 00:59:18,175
- How will that look in your report?
- Like justice. That's what the man got.
849
00:59:18,600 --> 00:59:21,637
- Justice.
- You don't know the meaning of the word.
850
00:59:22,479 --> 00:59:25,682
You think it means getting
your picture in the paper.
851
00:59:25,941 --> 00:59:28,147
Go after criminals for a change.
852
00:59:28,402 --> 00:59:30,525
Stensland got what he deserved
and so will you.
853
00:59:45,502 --> 00:59:47,495
It's best to stay away
when his blood is up.
854
00:59:47,796 --> 00:59:49,255
His blood's always up.
855
00:59:50,841 --> 00:59:52,833
Perhaps you should
avoid him altogether.
856
00:59:53,760 --> 00:59:56,927
Raymond Collins, Ty Jones
and Louis Fontaine.
857
00:59:57,306 --> 00:59:59,879
They are considered
armed and dangerous.
858
01:00:00,267 --> 01:00:02,840
Repeat. The Nite Owl
suspects have escaped.
859
01:00:03,353 --> 01:00:05,180
How'd they get out the window?
860
01:00:05,439 --> 01:00:07,266
They jumped from the 2nd floor.
861
01:00:07,524 --> 01:00:11,652
Girl said they left her at 12.
They could get to the Nite Owl by 1.
862
01:00:12,696 --> 01:00:16,065
The question was,
where did they get their drugs?
863
01:00:16,325 --> 01:00:18,282
I haven't gotten that far yet.
864
01:00:18,702 --> 01:00:22,237
"Roland Navarette lives on Bunker Hill.
He runs a hole-up... "
865
01:00:24,583 --> 01:00:25,911
Anyone seen Jack Vincennes?
866
01:00:28,045 --> 01:00:29,455
Is something up?
867
01:00:29,838 --> 01:00:31,582
I need backup. Come on.
868
01:00:48,982 --> 01:00:51,058
- What?
- Nothing. Let's go.
869
01:00:59,701 --> 01:01:00,982
This should be it.
870
01:01:05,707 --> 01:01:06,537
404.
871
01:01:28,438 --> 01:01:29,268
Nobody moves!
872
01:01:30,649 --> 01:01:31,479
Stay right there!
873
01:01:31,733 --> 01:01:33,607
- You're under arrest.
- Don't shoot!
874
01:01:33,861 --> 01:01:35,403
Please don't shoot!
875
01:01:35,654 --> 01:01:36,769
Don't move!
876
01:02:28,749 --> 01:02:29,495
There he is.
877
01:02:30,709 --> 01:02:31,954
You did good, kid.
878
01:02:32,336 --> 01:02:35,455
You should've seen this place.
Blood everywhere.
879
01:02:36,131 --> 01:02:38,503
Who would have thought?
Shotgun Ed.
880
01:02:39,510 --> 01:02:41,004
Somebody get him cleaned up.
881
01:02:41,386 --> 01:02:42,252
Come on.
882
01:02:45,682 --> 01:02:49,466
Edmund J. Exley
has amassed a brilliant record...
883
01:02:49,853 --> 01:02:52,142
...in his 7 years with the
Los Angeles Police Department.
884
01:02:52,523 --> 01:02:55,440
Recently, he evinced
spectacular bravery in the line of duty.
885
01:02:55,817 --> 01:02:58,522
It is our privilege to present him
with our highest honor:
886
01:02:58,987 --> 01:03:00,529
The Medal of Valor.
887
01:03:00,906 --> 01:03:03,064
- What kind of car was it?
- It was a Ford.
888
01:03:03,450 --> 01:03:06,024
My husband always drove a Ford.
I know what they look like.
889
01:03:06,870 --> 01:03:09,408
Excuse me, ma'am.
Just the facts. Light or dark?
890
01:03:09,790 --> 01:03:13,455
Light. And that's really
all I remember, Officer.
891
01:03:14,503 --> 01:03:16,377
Thank you.
You've been a big help.
892
01:03:17,047 --> 01:03:18,541
Cut!
That's a print.
893
01:03:18,924 --> 01:03:20,252
Big Jack!
894
01:03:20,926 --> 01:03:21,839
He's back!
895
01:03:22,219 --> 01:03:24,046
Jack's back.
896
01:03:57,296 --> 01:04:00,795
Tell Mr. Patchett I have no intention
of changing my vote.
897
01:04:12,519 --> 01:04:17,181
It may surprise some that an official
would admit to making a mistake...
898
01:04:18,150 --> 01:04:20,475
...but after due consideration...
899
01:04:21,195 --> 01:04:24,279
...I am changing my position
on the matter before the council.
900
01:04:26,241 --> 01:04:29,361
"Go west, America"
was a slogan of Manifest Destiny.
901
01:04:29,745 --> 01:04:33,280
Today is that last step westward
with no stop signs...
902
01:04:33,707 --> 01:04:35,830
...no traffic signals, from downtown...
903
01:04:36,210 --> 01:04:38,167
...to the beach in 20 minutes.
904
01:05:09,117 --> 01:05:11,240
What were you going to start with?
905
01:05:13,372 --> 01:05:14,782
Prostitution?
906
01:05:16,625 --> 01:05:17,823
Gambling?
907
01:05:21,296 --> 01:05:25,341
Go back to Jersey, sonny.
This is the City of the Angels...
908
01:05:25,634 --> 01:05:27,710
...and you haven't got any wings.
909
01:05:50,659 --> 01:05:52,865
Nice to see you again.
Take care.
910
01:06:30,324 --> 01:06:33,490
I wondered when you'd
knock on my door again, Officer White.
911
01:06:34,244 --> 01:06:35,240
It's Bud.
912
01:06:36,955 --> 01:06:37,987
Bud.
913
01:07:07,528 --> 01:07:08,523
Why me?
914
01:07:10,697 --> 01:07:11,812
I don't know.
915
01:07:48,527 --> 01:07:49,606
This election...
916
01:07:49,987 --> 01:07:53,106
...is about the future of
law enforcement in Los Angeles.
917
01:07:53,490 --> 01:07:56,444
City Councilman Rogers
represents that future.
918
01:07:56,869 --> 01:07:58,446
So let's dig deep...
919
01:07:58,829 --> 01:08:02,412
...and get a moral man re-elected.
Ellis Loew wants to say a few words.
920
01:08:06,628 --> 01:08:09,582
Thank you, Brett Chase.
The talented star of Badge of Honor.
921
01:08:12,092 --> 01:08:14,630
Let me tell you,
I am so thrilled to be here.
922
01:08:16,430 --> 01:08:17,426
Big V.
923
01:08:19,892 --> 01:08:21,434
Good to see you back.
924
01:08:21,810 --> 01:08:24,432
- How they hanging, Sid?
- Down around my ankles.
925
01:08:24,813 --> 01:08:26,557
You tight with the D.A., Jackie?
926
01:08:28,025 --> 01:08:30,267
He tried to throw me
off the force last Christmas.
927
01:08:30,652 --> 01:08:32,111
How about some payback, big-time?
928
01:08:32,487 --> 01:08:37,066
Plus the usual $50 donation
to the Jack Vincennes retirement fund.
929
01:08:37,701 --> 01:08:40,702
- Did you know the D.A. Was a swish?
- No kidding?
930
01:08:43,457 --> 01:08:46,411
Remember Matt Reynolds? Christmas Eve?
"The Movie Premiere Pot Bust"?
931
01:08:46,793 --> 01:08:49,284
- He just got off the honor farm.
- What's he doing here?
932
01:08:50,255 --> 01:08:52,627
Reynolds is acey-deucey,
not to mention broke.
933
01:08:53,008 --> 01:08:55,214
I'm getting him
to fuck the D.A. For $ 100.
934
01:08:55,594 --> 01:08:58,381
That's twice the $50
you got for wrecking his career.
935
01:09:00,182 --> 01:09:02,637
- Come here, come here.
- Jesus, don't bring him...
936
01:09:07,689 --> 01:09:09,267
That's D.A. Loew right there.
937
01:09:14,655 --> 01:09:15,853
You need a drink?
938
01:09:16,823 --> 01:09:17,772
Yeah.
939
01:09:18,951 --> 01:09:19,982
Look after him.
940
01:09:20,369 --> 01:09:24,069
Matt, this is Jack.
No secrets between me and him.
941
01:09:29,503 --> 01:09:31,745
- How you doing?
- I'm okay. How're you?
942
01:09:32,047 --> 01:09:33,162
I'm good.
943
01:09:36,301 --> 01:09:38,045
Have we met before?
944
01:09:40,472 --> 01:09:41,503
Yeah.
945
01:09:42,766 --> 01:09:43,964
Was it at a party?
946
01:09:44,393 --> 01:09:46,101
It was something like that.
947
01:09:47,813 --> 01:09:49,355
Fleur-de-Lis party, right?
948
01:09:50,732 --> 01:09:51,764
Right.
949
01:09:52,568 --> 01:09:53,943
Fleur-de-Lis.
950
01:09:54,695 --> 01:09:56,522
"Whatever you desire. "
951
01:09:56,905 --> 01:09:59,443
Dope, hookers that
look like movie stars...
952
01:09:59,992 --> 01:10:01,783
...Pierce Patchett has it all.
953
01:10:02,870 --> 01:10:04,577
You could say that again.
954
01:10:04,955 --> 01:10:07,363
Pierce, he's not like regular guys.
955
01:10:09,168 --> 01:10:10,366
I dig him...
956
01:10:12,045 --> 01:10:12,911
...but you know...
957
01:10:14,131 --> 01:10:15,459
...he scares me too.
958
01:10:16,341 --> 01:10:17,373
Really?
959
01:10:18,010 --> 01:10:18,875
How?
960
01:10:20,012 --> 01:10:24,804
When I came out to L.A. This isn't
exactly where I saw myself ending up.
961
01:10:26,268 --> 01:10:27,347
Yeah, well...
962
01:10:27,728 --> 01:10:28,807
...get in line.
963
01:10:29,438 --> 01:10:31,395
Dutch courage, kid. Drink up.
964
01:10:36,403 --> 01:10:38,479
I don't think I should do this.
965
01:10:39,072 --> 01:10:41,148
It's not like you don't know how.
966
01:10:41,408 --> 01:10:45,904
Jack's connected to Badge of Honor.
Pull this off, you'll get a part.
967
01:10:46,288 --> 01:10:49,040
I smell a comeback, don't you, Jack?
968
01:10:51,793 --> 01:10:52,908
The D.A.'s free.
969
01:10:53,295 --> 01:10:55,786
Go introduce yourself. Go on.
970
01:10:56,256 --> 01:10:58,794
Tell him about the opening on the show.
971
01:11:00,093 --> 01:11:02,252
I'm pretty sure I can get you a part.
972
01:11:04,097 --> 01:11:09,222
But that's later on. Tonight, just
go over and pretend it's an acting job.
973
01:11:09,603 --> 01:11:10,848
Like show biz.
974
01:11:11,230 --> 01:11:12,309
Acting, that's it.
975
01:11:12,689 --> 01:11:13,436
Right.
976
01:11:13,815 --> 01:11:15,393
No one's going to know about this?
977
01:11:15,776 --> 01:11:16,392
No.
978
01:11:18,779 --> 01:11:20,273
It'll be our secret.
979
01:11:25,077 --> 01:11:27,484
- Show biz.
- That's it. Go on.
980
01:11:31,083 --> 01:11:32,707
Show biz.
981
01:11:34,795 --> 01:11:37,037
If Reynolds works his charms,
and he will...
982
01:11:37,297 --> 01:11:40,084
...they'll be at the Hollywood
Center Motel, room 203.
983
01:11:40,342 --> 01:11:42,418
Meet me there at midnight
for a photo shoot.
984
01:11:43,595 --> 01:11:46,632
Maybe we can work in
the Hollywood sign this time.
985
01:11:48,016 --> 01:11:49,641
You know Pierce Patchett?
986
01:11:51,478 --> 01:11:53,020
I know what you know.
987
01:11:53,397 --> 01:11:57,644
He's rich. Invested in the freeways,
which'll make him richer. Why?
988
01:11:59,027 --> 01:12:00,985
I keep hearing rumors.
989
01:12:01,363 --> 01:12:04,613
High-class porn, drugs, hookers
that look like movie stars.
990
01:12:05,742 --> 01:12:08,946
Patchett's what I call twilight.
He ain't queer or red.
991
01:12:09,454 --> 01:12:13,155
He cannot help me in my quest
for prime sinnuendo.
992
01:12:18,922 --> 01:12:22,872
As though Badge of Honor would
touch that guy with a 10-foot pole...
993
01:12:23,260 --> 01:12:26,261
...after he's been Hush-Hush
cover boy twice in one year.
994
01:12:26,638 --> 01:12:27,670
See you soon.
995
01:12:28,098 --> 01:12:31,966
Midnight. I guarantee all kinds
of illegal activity.
996
01:13:05,302 --> 01:13:06,381
Another, Jack?
997
01:13:51,849 --> 01:13:52,844
Kid?
998
01:14:00,858 --> 01:14:03,313
Come on, you don't have to do this...
999
01:14:35,142 --> 01:14:37,431
Thank you for what you did for me...
1000
01:14:37,769 --> 01:14:40,307
...for killing those animals
who raped me.
1001
01:14:40,731 --> 01:14:43,482
Will you thank Officer White
for me, please?
1002
01:14:43,734 --> 01:14:44,730
Sure.
1003
01:14:46,320 --> 01:14:50,234
Seeing him come through the door
is about the only thing I remember.
1004
01:14:50,490 --> 01:14:51,522
Thank God.
1005
01:14:52,618 --> 01:14:55,535
You remember what time
the Negroes left you?
1006
01:14:55,787 --> 01:14:58,907
In your statement, you said
they left you at midnight.
1007
01:14:59,166 --> 01:15:00,245
They might have.
1008
01:15:05,797 --> 01:15:07,126
They "might" have?
1009
01:15:07,424 --> 01:15:10,959
I don't know what time they left me.
I wanted them dead.
1010
01:15:11,470 --> 01:15:14,755
Would anyone care that they
raped a Mexican girl...
1011
01:15:15,098 --> 01:15:18,016
...if they hadn't killed those
white people at the Nite Owl?
1012
01:15:19,102 --> 01:15:21,344
I did what I had to do for justice.
1013
01:15:22,272 --> 01:15:23,553
Exley, over here.
1014
01:15:23,815 --> 01:15:24,847
Smile, Inez.
1015
01:15:26,568 --> 01:15:28,312
Is he your hero?
1016
01:15:29,029 --> 01:15:33,323
Fellas, how about this? " Rape Victim
Wheeled Out by Nite Owl Hero. "
1017
01:15:39,122 --> 01:15:41,198
All they get is Veronica Lake.
1018
01:15:43,544 --> 01:15:45,750
I get Lynn Margaret Bracken.
1019
01:15:56,974 --> 01:15:58,005
"Bisbee"?
1020
01:16:00,352 --> 01:16:01,763
I grew up there.
1021
01:16:03,981 --> 01:16:08,358
I'm going back in a couple of years,
open up a dress shop.
1022
01:16:10,487 --> 01:16:13,571
The girls in Bisbee
need a little glamour.
1023
01:16:19,246 --> 01:16:20,740
Where'd this come from?
1024
01:16:22,583 --> 01:16:26,450
I was 12. My dad went after my mother
with a bottle. I got in the way.
1025
01:16:28,589 --> 01:16:30,047
So you saved her.
1026
01:16:31,592 --> 01:16:32,754
Not for long.
1027
01:16:36,013 --> 01:16:39,132
- I'm sorry. It's none of my business.
- He tied me to the radiator.
1028
01:16:40,058 --> 01:16:43,143
I watched him beat my mother to death
with a tire iron...
1029
01:16:45,689 --> 01:16:47,100
...and he left me there.
1030
01:16:49,735 --> 01:16:52,605
Three days before
a truant officer found us.
1031
01:16:55,908 --> 01:16:57,651
They never found the old man.
1032
01:17:07,127 --> 01:17:09,001
Is that why you became a cop?
1033
01:17:09,880 --> 01:17:11,160
To get even?
1034
01:17:12,883 --> 01:17:13,914
Maybe.
1035
01:17:15,928 --> 01:17:17,303
Do you like it?
1036
01:17:20,724 --> 01:17:21,969
I used to.
1037
01:17:24,102 --> 01:17:26,854
Now it's all strong-arm,
sitting duck stuff.
1038
01:17:30,567 --> 01:17:34,399
If I could get a chance to work
Homicide like a real detective...
1039
01:17:36,740 --> 01:17:39,445
That prick, Exley.
He shot the wrong guys.
1040
01:17:40,118 --> 01:17:44,662
Whoever killed Stensland's still around.
I know it in here. I know it.
1041
01:17:45,415 --> 01:17:47,207
Something's wrong
with the Nite Owl.
1042
01:17:47,626 --> 01:17:49,665
I just can't prove it, that's all.
1043
01:17:51,004 --> 01:17:52,831
I'm not smart enough.
1044
01:17:54,967 --> 01:17:58,133
I'm just the guy they bring in
to scare the other guy shitless.
1045
01:18:01,473 --> 01:18:02,802
You're wrong.
1046
01:18:03,767 --> 01:18:06,175
You found Patchett. You found me.
1047
01:18:06,687 --> 01:18:08,395
You're smart enough.
1048
01:18:20,158 --> 01:18:23,195
Bud White. What brings you
down to the basement?
1049
01:18:26,999 --> 01:18:28,908
A couple of Nite Owl questions.
1050
01:18:29,168 --> 01:18:32,252
Don't know if you read the papers,
but that case is closed.
1051
01:18:34,298 --> 01:18:36,089
Anything bother you about it?
1052
01:18:36,842 --> 01:18:40,507
The fact that the pack-up boys haven't
hauled this shit out of here yet.
1053
01:18:45,225 --> 01:18:49,223
The suspects' 3 shotguns match
the strike marks on the shell casings.
1054
01:18:50,355 --> 01:18:52,015
What more do you want?
1055
01:19:03,911 --> 01:19:05,737
There's blood on the wall here.
1056
01:19:06,371 --> 01:19:08,827
I thought everyone got shot
in the men's room.
1057
01:19:09,082 --> 01:19:11,371
That is Stensland's blood.
1058
01:19:13,545 --> 01:19:17,413
Blow to the head. Probably unconscious
when they dragged him in the john.
1059
01:19:19,051 --> 01:19:20,379
They hit anyone else?
1060
01:19:20,636 --> 01:19:23,839
No, but he was a cop.
Probably tried to do something.
1061
01:19:27,768 --> 01:19:31,303
Grilled cheese, black coffee.
Someone was sitting next to him.
1062
01:19:35,442 --> 01:19:37,150
2 of the victims were women?
1063
01:19:37,444 --> 01:19:41,312
Yeah, Patti DeLuca, the night shift
waitress, and a Susan Lefferts.
1064
01:19:46,078 --> 01:19:47,786
Susan Lefferts.
1065
01:19:49,540 --> 01:19:50,915
What about her?
1066
01:19:54,127 --> 01:19:55,408
You're welcome!
1067
01:20:01,552 --> 01:20:02,714
Mrs. Lefferts?
1068
01:20:03,095 --> 01:20:04,922
I'm Officer White, LAPD.
1069
01:20:07,891 --> 01:20:11,177
Tell me about the boyfriend.
The one you mentioned at the coroner's.
1070
01:20:11,436 --> 01:20:13,762
Susie, I told you
I didn't approve.
1071
01:20:14,398 --> 01:20:18,692
He was too old for you.
And you let him be fresh with me.
1072
01:20:20,571 --> 01:20:22,859
They came here one day
when I wasn't home.
1073
01:20:23,448 --> 01:20:25,108
Mrs. Jensen next door said...
1074
01:20:25,492 --> 01:20:28,908
...she saw Susie's boyfriend
and another man...
1075
01:20:29,288 --> 01:20:30,948
...and she heard a ruckus.
1076
01:20:31,748 --> 01:20:32,828
What was his name?
1077
01:20:33,125 --> 01:20:35,663
We weren't properly introduced.
1078
01:20:36,420 --> 01:20:38,578
He had a nickname, Muns or Luns.
1079
01:20:38,964 --> 01:20:41,420
Stens? Was it Stens?
1080
01:20:41,675 --> 01:20:42,754
Maybe.
1081
01:20:43,135 --> 01:20:45,127
- I don't know.
- Look at this picture.
1082
01:20:48,974 --> 01:20:50,053
That's him.
1083
01:20:50,475 --> 01:20:51,471
That's him.
1084
01:20:56,857 --> 01:20:59,182
You said a neighbor heard a ruckus.
1085
01:20:59,776 --> 01:21:00,690
Outside?
1086
01:21:00,944 --> 01:21:01,893
Inside?
1087
01:21:03,155 --> 01:21:04,317
Outside.
1088
01:21:04,698 --> 01:21:08,530
And then Mrs. Jensen said
they kept going under the house.
1089
01:21:12,748 --> 01:21:15,036
You have to leave now, Officer.
1090
01:21:16,376 --> 01:21:19,745
- What's through here?
- Just a room full of old things.
1091
01:21:20,005 --> 01:21:21,832
Don't move that.
1092
01:21:24,343 --> 01:21:27,925
Don't mind the smell.
I think a rat died behind the wall.
1093
01:21:29,306 --> 01:21:30,717
My Susie was a good girl.
1094
01:21:31,475 --> 01:21:34,511
She was never in any
kind of trouble at all.
1095
01:22:45,924 --> 01:22:48,166
"Leland Meeks. "
Never heard of you.
1096
01:22:48,552 --> 01:22:50,011
They call me Buzz.
1097
01:22:57,102 --> 01:22:58,300
Was it a rat?
1098
01:22:59,229 --> 01:23:00,973
Yeah, a great big one.
1099
01:23:03,400 --> 01:23:04,396
Here.
1100
01:23:05,402 --> 01:23:07,311
Compliments of the Police Department.
1101
01:23:24,463 --> 01:23:27,250
Stomach of the week
from a motel homicide.
1102
01:23:27,508 --> 01:23:31,090
Unemployed actor had frankfurter,
french fries, alcohol and sperm.
1103
01:23:31,345 --> 01:23:33,717
Hell of a last supper,
don't you think?
1104
01:23:33,972 --> 01:23:36,890
Anything bothering you
about the Nite Owl case?
1105
01:23:37,434 --> 01:23:39,391
The fact that you guys
won't let it go.
1106
01:23:40,604 --> 01:23:44,187
- What do you mean?
- Bud White grilled me on it today.
1107
01:23:45,359 --> 01:23:46,473
Bud White?
1108
01:23:47,236 --> 01:23:49,145
He's not as dumb as I thought.
1109
01:23:51,532 --> 01:23:54,153
Did he say where he was going?
1110
01:24:06,672 --> 01:24:08,463
Let my daughter rest in peace!
1111
01:24:08,715 --> 01:24:10,838
I just want to ask a few questions.
1112
01:24:11,093 --> 01:24:13,465
Officer White already checked
under the house.
1113
01:24:14,054 --> 01:24:15,133
Under the house?
1114
01:24:15,889 --> 01:24:18,096
- Where?
- Out back.
1115
01:24:19,685 --> 01:24:21,262
All he found was rodents.
1116
01:24:24,648 --> 01:24:28,562
I need an I.D. On this as soon as
possible. Talk only to me on this one.
1117
01:24:32,573 --> 01:24:33,521
I need your help.
1118
01:24:33,782 --> 01:24:37,151
I'm busy. Why don't you ask
your boys in Homicide?
1119
01:24:40,080 --> 01:24:42,785
I can't. I need someone
outside of Homicide.
1120
01:24:43,500 --> 01:24:46,252
I want you to tail Bud White.
1121
01:24:47,754 --> 01:24:49,913
Do me a favor. Leave me alone.
1122
01:24:51,133 --> 01:24:53,422
You make the 3 Negroes
for the Nite Owl killings?
1123
01:24:56,763 --> 01:24:57,593
What?
1124
01:24:57,931 --> 01:24:59,260
It's a simple question.
1125
01:25:01,476 --> 01:25:04,181
Why in the world
do you want to dig deeper...
1126
01:25:04,563 --> 01:25:06,354
...into the Nite Owl killings...
1127
01:25:06,732 --> 01:25:07,811
...Lieutenant?
1128
01:25:11,695 --> 01:25:13,070
Rollo Tomasi.
1129
01:25:15,282 --> 01:25:17,275
Is there more or do I have to guess?
1130
01:25:20,454 --> 01:25:22,493
Rollo was a purse snatcher.
1131
01:25:27,044 --> 01:25:29,001
My father ran into him off-duty.
1132
01:25:31,131 --> 01:25:34,085
He shot my father 6 times
and got away clean.
1133
01:25:35,719 --> 01:25:37,344
No one knew who he was.
1134
01:25:38,347 --> 01:25:40,386
I made the name up
to give him personality.
1135
01:25:42,267 --> 01:25:43,299
Your point?
1136
01:25:43,977 --> 01:25:46,599
Rollo Tomasi's the reason
I became a cop.
1137
01:25:47,523 --> 01:25:50,892
I wanted to catch the guys who
thought they could get away with it.
1138
01:25:52,486 --> 01:25:54,229
It was about justice.
1139
01:25:55,239 --> 01:25:58,109
Then somewhere along the way
I lost sight of that.
1140
01:26:02,371 --> 01:26:03,616
Why'd you become a cop?
1141
01:26:14,258 --> 01:26:15,882
I don't remember.
1142
01:26:22,724 --> 01:26:23,922
What do you want?
1143
01:26:24,685 --> 01:26:26,227
I want to solve this.
1144
01:26:26,979 --> 01:26:28,556
Nite Owl was solved.
1145
01:26:31,525 --> 01:26:32,687
I want to do it right.
1146
01:26:33,527 --> 01:26:35,769
Even if it means
paying the consequences?
1147
01:26:39,408 --> 01:26:41,116
All right, college boy, I'll help.
1148
01:26:41,660 --> 01:26:44,281
But there's a case your boys
in Homicide don't care about.
1149
01:26:44,663 --> 01:26:48,447
They think it's just another
Hollywood "homo" -cide. But I don't.
1150
01:26:49,459 --> 01:26:52,579
You help me with mine,
I'll help you with yours.
1151
01:26:53,172 --> 01:26:54,037
Deal?
1152
01:26:55,174 --> 01:26:55,956
Deal.
1153
01:27:28,498 --> 01:27:30,456
Johnny Stompanato.
1154
01:27:31,752 --> 01:27:34,457
Officer Wendell White.
How's tricks, paesano?
1155
01:27:34,838 --> 01:27:36,332
I ain't your paesano.
1156
01:27:37,257 --> 01:27:39,297
I ain't in the snitch business anymore.
1157
01:27:39,635 --> 01:27:41,674
You know a guy named Buzz Meeks?
1158
01:27:42,888 --> 01:27:44,596
Works for Pierce Patchett.
1159
01:27:45,307 --> 01:27:46,386
Should I?
1160
01:27:47,893 --> 01:27:50,598
You're muscle for hire.
Meeks is muscle for hire.
1161
01:27:50,979 --> 01:27:52,177
You tell me.
1162
01:27:54,233 --> 01:27:56,024
Yeah, I remember now.
1163
01:27:56,401 --> 01:27:59,853
Meeks is a run-down ex-cop.
Same as you'll be some day.
1164
01:28:00,239 --> 01:28:01,697
That's all you'll get.
1165
01:28:02,574 --> 01:28:04,282
Keep your $20.
1166
01:28:09,915 --> 01:28:13,331
What do I get if I give you your
balls back, you wop cocksucker?
1167
01:28:17,714 --> 01:28:19,873
There was a rumor going around...
1168
01:28:20,259 --> 01:28:23,260
...that Meeks had a line
on a large supply of H.
1169
01:28:25,430 --> 01:28:26,260
And?
1170
01:28:27,099 --> 01:28:28,344
And nothing!
1171
01:28:28,725 --> 01:28:30,268
He skipped out.
1172
01:28:42,781 --> 01:28:43,860
Bullshit.
1173
01:28:44,908 --> 01:28:48,028
How would Meeks get his hands
on a large supply of heroin?
1174
01:28:48,954 --> 01:28:50,033
You're right.
1175
01:28:50,289 --> 01:28:52,080
It's probably bullshit.
1176
01:28:52,457 --> 01:28:54,865
Even if he did,
he couldn't unload it.
1177
01:28:55,294 --> 01:28:57,749
Not without drawing
all kinds of attention.
1178
01:28:58,338 --> 01:29:02,206
Maybe that's why he's under a house
in Elysian Park not smelling too good...
1179
01:29:03,802 --> 01:29:05,000
...paesano.
1180
01:29:57,606 --> 01:29:59,978
Maybe White's
not so dumb after all.
1181
01:30:13,372 --> 01:30:17,239
We got Rita Hayworth at the morgue,
and now Veronica Lake with White.
1182
01:30:17,876 --> 01:30:22,088
I think your case and my case
are connected. It's Fleur-de-Lis again.
1183
01:30:22,381 --> 01:30:23,460
Fleur-de-Lis?
1184
01:30:24,550 --> 01:30:26,008
"Whatever you desire. "
1185
01:30:26,385 --> 01:30:27,381
Porno.
1186
01:30:27,886 --> 01:30:30,556
High-class whores
cut to look like movie stars.
1187
01:30:30,931 --> 01:30:34,347
Who knows what else? Reynolds,
the kid that got killed, was involved.
1188
01:30:34,726 --> 01:30:36,185
So is Pierce Patchett.
1189
01:30:36,562 --> 01:30:37,724
The millionaire?
1190
01:30:38,397 --> 01:30:40,270
I think we should talk to him.
1191
01:30:41,191 --> 01:30:43,065
First I want to brace Stompanato.
1192
01:30:59,459 --> 01:31:01,785
Want an autograph?
Write to MGM.
1193
01:31:02,796 --> 01:31:05,916
Since when do two-bit hoods
and hookers give out autographs?
1194
01:31:06,466 --> 01:31:07,462
What?
1195
01:31:07,718 --> 01:31:08,963
LAPD. Sit down.
1196
01:31:09,219 --> 01:31:11,342
Who the hell do you think you are?
1197
01:31:11,597 --> 01:31:12,972
Take a walk, honey.
1198
01:31:13,432 --> 01:31:16,516
- You're making a large mistake.
- Get away from our table.
1199
01:31:16,894 --> 01:31:17,807
Shut up.
1200
01:31:19,438 --> 01:31:21,596
A hooker cut to look like Lana Turner
is still a hooker.
1201
01:31:22,774 --> 01:31:25,182
- She just looks like Lana Turner.
- She is Lana Turner.
1202
01:31:26,778 --> 01:31:28,522
She is Lana Turner.
1203
01:31:37,831 --> 01:31:39,491
How was I supposed to know?
1204
01:31:55,807 --> 01:31:59,473
I believe the Nite Owl's
your area of expertise, Mr. Exley.
1205
01:31:59,895 --> 01:32:02,350
I saw you on television
getting your medal.
1206
01:32:04,024 --> 01:32:05,139
And you're...
1207
01:32:05,651 --> 01:32:09,399
...that other Hollywood
celebrity policeman, aren't you?
1208
01:32:10,489 --> 01:32:14,321
The Veronica Lake look-alike works
for you. She's one of your whores.
1209
01:32:15,786 --> 01:32:18,952
- A vulgar term.
- Why's she seeing Bud White?
1210
01:32:19,331 --> 01:32:22,830
Why do men and women
usually see each other?
1211
01:32:25,879 --> 01:32:28,370
Let's try this on for size:
Fleur-de-Lis.
1212
01:32:29,007 --> 01:32:30,715
"Whatever you desire. "
1213
01:32:31,468 --> 01:32:32,879
An actor named...
1214
01:32:33,470 --> 01:32:34,384
...Matt Reynolds.
1215
01:32:36,181 --> 01:32:37,095
Nothing?
1216
01:32:40,310 --> 01:32:42,018
We want some answers.
1217
01:32:44,857 --> 01:32:46,600
We all want something.
1218
01:32:49,027 --> 01:32:50,985
The guy's as cool as they come.
1219
01:32:53,532 --> 01:32:56,237
Lieutenant Exley,
come in, please. Over.
1220
01:32:57,494 --> 01:32:58,276
Exley.
1221
01:32:58,537 --> 01:33:01,407
The coroner wants to talk to you.
He says he has your I.D.
1222
01:33:02,082 --> 01:33:04,869
Tell him Sergeant Vincennes
is coming in to talk to him.
1223
01:33:05,252 --> 01:33:07,328
- I'll drop you at your car.
- Where are you going?
1224
01:33:07,713 --> 01:33:08,911
Lynn Bracken's.
1225
01:33:09,381 --> 01:33:13,877
To find out why Patchett has her seeing
Bud White. See you at the Frolic Room.
1226
01:33:14,720 --> 01:33:17,923
Oh, great. You get the girl.
I get the coroner.
1227
01:33:28,066 --> 01:33:30,937
Hush-Hush, off the record
and on the q. t.
1228
01:33:34,740 --> 01:33:37,313
I was just coming to see you.
Got that I.D.?
1229
01:33:37,576 --> 01:33:41,953
Thank God for dental records.
Stiff used to be a cop. Leland Meeks.
1230
01:33:42,206 --> 01:33:43,119
Buzz Meeks?
1231
01:33:43,373 --> 01:33:44,702
- You knew him?
- Of him.
1232
01:33:44,958 --> 01:33:48,623
He was around when I joined the force.
Bad rep. Thanks.
1233
01:33:49,254 --> 01:33:50,499
"Just the facts. "
1234
01:33:50,756 --> 01:33:52,416
"Just the facts. "
1235
01:33:55,928 --> 01:33:56,841
Anything else?
1236
01:33:57,221 --> 01:34:01,088
Leland Meeks worked Vice '39-'41.
I need to see his arrest records.
1237
01:34:08,315 --> 01:34:09,180
Miss Bracken...
1238
01:34:09,566 --> 01:34:10,764
...I'm Lieutenant Exley.
1239
01:34:11,151 --> 01:34:12,147
I know.
1240
01:34:12,611 --> 01:34:14,650
Bud told me all about you.
1241
01:34:15,113 --> 01:34:16,193
Is that so?
1242
01:34:17,324 --> 01:34:19,198
And what did White have to say?
1243
01:34:20,786 --> 01:34:22,660
He said you were smart.
1244
01:34:23,455 --> 01:34:27,120
He also said you were a coward, and that
you'd screw yourself to get ahead.
1245
01:34:27,918 --> 01:34:29,994
Let's concentrate on my smarts.
1246
01:34:30,462 --> 01:34:35,290
Pierce Patchett made you, didn't he?
Taught you how to dress, talk and think.
1247
01:34:36,468 --> 01:34:38,295
And I'm impressed with the results.
1248
01:34:39,763 --> 01:34:40,961
But I need answers.
1249
01:34:41,348 --> 01:34:44,302
And if I don't get them,
I'll take you and Patchett down.
1250
01:34:45,102 --> 01:34:47,640
Pierce Patchett
can take care of himself.
1251
01:34:48,856 --> 01:34:50,682
And I'm not afraid of you.
1252
01:34:51,692 --> 01:34:54,183
And you forget one thing, Lieutenant...
1253
01:34:54,695 --> 01:34:57,150
...Pierce also taught me how to fuck.
1254
01:35:01,034 --> 01:35:02,778
And he tells you who to fuck.
1255
01:35:03,287 --> 01:35:05,160
Why are you fucking Bud White?
1256
01:35:05,539 --> 01:35:08,540
What makes you think
I'm not seeing Bud because I want to?
1257
01:35:10,377 --> 01:35:13,580
It would be easier for you
if there was an angle, wouldn't it?
1258
01:35:14,506 --> 01:35:17,377
You're afraid of Bud because you can't
figure out how to play him.
1259
01:35:18,677 --> 01:35:21,761
He doesn't follow
the same rules of politics as you do.
1260
01:35:22,639 --> 01:35:24,264
It makes him dangerous.
1261
01:35:24,641 --> 01:35:25,721
I can handle Bud White.
1262
01:35:26,185 --> 01:35:27,180
Can you?
1263
01:35:31,356 --> 01:35:33,432
I see Bud because I want to.
1264
01:35:37,029 --> 01:35:40,232
I see Bud because
he can't hide the good inside of him.
1265
01:35:42,201 --> 01:35:44,822
I see Bud because he makes me feel
like Lynn Bracken...
1266
01:35:45,204 --> 01:35:48,407
...and not a Veronica Lake
look-alike who fucks for money.
1267
01:35:50,709 --> 01:35:54,873
I see Bud because he doesn't
know how to disguise who he is.
1268
01:35:57,049 --> 01:36:00,548
I see Bud for all the ways
he's different from you.
1269
01:36:03,096 --> 01:36:05,054
Don't underestimate me.
1270
01:36:05,724 --> 01:36:08,595
The way you've
underestimated Bud White?
1271
01:36:15,192 --> 01:36:17,861
Fucking me and fucking Bud
aren't the same thing.
1272
01:36:18,403 --> 01:36:20,277
Stop talking about Bud White.
1273
01:36:45,305 --> 01:36:47,097
Come on.
1274
01:36:49,935 --> 01:36:51,098
Shit.
1275
01:37:04,616 --> 01:37:06,194
Jack Vincennes.
1276
01:37:07,286 --> 01:37:08,828
It's going on midnight.
1277
01:37:09,329 --> 01:37:10,989
I need 2 minutes, Dudley.
1278
01:37:11,498 --> 01:37:12,494
It's important.
1279
01:37:13,292 --> 01:37:17,503
Good thing for you my wife and daughters
are at the beach in Santa Barbara.
1280
01:37:20,799 --> 01:37:23,255
Do you remember Buzz Meeks?
1281
01:37:23,552 --> 01:37:25,758
A disgrace as a police officer.
1282
01:37:26,138 --> 01:37:30,182
Straight D fitness reports from every
C.O. He ever served under. Why?
1283
01:37:30,976 --> 01:37:33,728
12 years ago, he was on a vice roust
with Dick Stensland.
1284
01:37:34,104 --> 01:37:37,271
They questioned Pierce Patchett
about a blackmail scam.
1285
01:37:37,649 --> 01:37:41,694
Patchett had Sid Hudgens photographing
prominent businessmen with hookers.
1286
01:37:42,487 --> 01:37:45,323
Anyway, charges were dropped.
Insufficient evidence.
1287
01:37:45,699 --> 01:37:50,028
You were the supervising officer on
that case. Remember anything about it?
1288
01:37:51,455 --> 01:37:52,866
What's this about, boyo?
1289
01:37:53,790 --> 01:37:57,325
It has to do with a murder
I've been working with Exley on.
1290
01:37:57,836 --> 01:38:00,327
You're Narco, Jack, not Homicide.
1291
01:38:00,714 --> 01:38:02,707
Since when do you work with Exley?
1292
01:38:04,009 --> 01:38:06,251
It's a private investigation.
1293
01:38:08,472 --> 01:38:10,927
I messed something up.
I'm trying to make amends.
1294
01:38:11,183 --> 01:38:14,883
Don't start trying to do the right
thing. You haven't had the practice.
1295
01:38:22,569 --> 01:38:25,404
Buzz Meeks and Dick Stensland.
1296
01:38:28,659 --> 01:38:31,197
So, what does Exley make of this?
1297
01:38:31,870 --> 01:38:34,990
I haven't told him yet.
I just came from the records room.
1298
01:39:00,899 --> 01:39:02,975
Have you a valediction, boyo?
1299
01:39:09,408 --> 01:39:10,902
Rollo...
1300
01:39:12,077 --> 01:39:13,619
...Tomasi.
1301
01:39:34,641 --> 01:39:38,057
Sergeant Vincennes was killed
by a.32 slug to the heart.
1302
01:39:38,437 --> 01:39:40,643
Time of death, approximately 1 a. m.
1303
01:39:41,356 --> 01:39:46,564
Although he was found in Echo Park,
forensics indicates the body was moved.
1304
01:39:47,613 --> 01:39:50,863
I want 2-man teams to scour
that entire neighborhood.
1305
01:39:51,950 --> 01:39:54,192
Our justice must be swift...
1306
01:39:54,578 --> 01:39:56,037
...and merciless.
1307
01:39:58,332 --> 01:39:59,281
That is all.
1308
01:40:09,134 --> 01:40:10,961
Might I have a word with you?
1309
01:40:14,264 --> 01:40:17,135
We're trying to run down a lead
on an associate of Vincennes.
1310
01:40:17,518 --> 01:40:20,187
The records check has led to a dead end.
1311
01:40:20,604 --> 01:40:21,683
What's the name?
1312
01:40:22,147 --> 01:40:23,522
Rollo Tomasi?
1313
01:40:25,609 --> 01:40:27,483
You ever heard Vincennes mention him?
1314
01:40:30,489 --> 01:40:32,031
No. No, I haven't.
1315
01:40:36,828 --> 01:40:38,738
It's probably nothing. Still...
1316
01:40:39,998 --> 01:40:41,908
...keep your eyes open, boyo.
1317
01:40:52,219 --> 01:40:54,792
I know it's unlikely, but suppose...
1318
01:40:55,180 --> 01:40:58,549
...somebody had a lot of heroin,
who would they go to to move it?
1319
01:40:59,142 --> 01:41:01,100
White, in my office.
1320
01:41:01,478 --> 01:41:03,934
Captain. Look, just give me a name.
1321
01:41:04,857 --> 01:41:06,055
Mickey Cohen.
1322
01:41:12,197 --> 01:41:13,111
Captain?
1323
01:41:13,365 --> 01:41:15,856
I could use your fearsome
habits at the Victory Motel.
1324
01:41:17,369 --> 01:41:18,400
When?
1325
01:41:19,872 --> 01:41:20,867
Now.
1326
01:41:23,208 --> 01:41:24,750
Close the door, lad.
1327
01:41:32,384 --> 01:41:35,255
You're a bit of a
puzzlement to me these days.
1328
01:41:35,679 --> 01:41:37,837
You don't seem your old cruel self.
1329
01:41:38,557 --> 01:41:41,427
And I had such grand plans
for your future.
1330
01:41:41,685 --> 01:41:42,764
What plans?
1331
01:41:44,354 --> 01:41:48,222
You have your extracurricular
activities and I have mine.
1332
01:41:51,403 --> 01:41:54,439
We must have a clarification
session one of these days.
1333
01:41:55,574 --> 01:41:56,487
However...
1334
01:41:57,409 --> 01:41:58,572
...right now...
1335
01:41:59,244 --> 01:42:02,447
...we'll brace a man who may know
who killed Jack Vincennes.
1336
01:42:02,789 --> 01:42:04,449
So the question is...
1337
01:42:04,875 --> 01:42:06,369
...can I count on you, lad?
1338
01:42:06,627 --> 01:42:08,335
- Yes or no?
- Yes, sir.
1339
01:42:13,550 --> 01:42:17,251
I want to know everything you and
Vincennes talked about last night.
1340
01:42:17,554 --> 01:42:19,511
Start with the I.D. On the corpse.
1341
01:42:19,765 --> 01:42:20,761
An ex-cop.
1342
01:42:21,183 --> 01:42:22,926
Leland "Buzz" Meeks.
1343
01:42:23,310 --> 01:42:24,473
An ex-cop?
1344
01:42:25,145 --> 01:42:26,520
Did Jack know him?
1345
01:42:27,272 --> 01:42:29,099
Only by reputation.
1346
01:42:35,322 --> 01:42:37,445
Wendell, this is Sid Hudgens.
1347
01:42:37,699 --> 01:42:40,404
I'm willing to cooperate.
No need to tie me down.
1348
01:42:40,786 --> 01:42:42,494
It's for your own safety.
1349
01:42:43,372 --> 01:42:46,705
What can you tell us
about Sgt. Jack Vincennes?
1350
01:42:46,959 --> 01:42:49,035
Hollywood Jack? The Big V?
1351
01:42:49,461 --> 01:42:52,332
I can tell you he's on
the night train to the Big Adios.
1352
01:42:56,635 --> 01:43:00,051
I had nothing to do with him
getting killed, if that's what you mean.
1353
01:43:00,430 --> 01:43:04,298
- But you were business associates.
- What's that got to do with anything?
1354
01:43:06,228 --> 01:43:08,304
Okay, so we worked together.
1355
01:43:08,939 --> 01:43:10,932
It was an information exchange.
1356
01:43:11,191 --> 01:43:15,438
I got him first-class collars, he got me
good stories. We were friends.
1357
01:43:15,821 --> 01:43:17,280
We'll drop that for now.
1358
01:43:17,781 --> 01:43:19,608
What about Pierce Patchett?
1359
01:43:19,867 --> 01:43:23,816
You think he had something to do
with Vincennes getting iced?
1360
01:43:24,746 --> 01:43:27,866
I'd like full and docile
cooperation on every topic.
1361
01:43:28,584 --> 01:43:30,956
Okay, okay, okay. All right.
1362
01:43:32,629 --> 01:43:35,416
Everyone knows Patchett's
worth a boatload.
1363
01:43:35,966 --> 01:43:37,674
But he has hobbies too.
1364
01:43:38,051 --> 01:43:40,507
He bankrolls B movies under the table.
1365
01:43:41,054 --> 01:43:42,549
And try this one on.
1366
01:43:42,931 --> 01:43:45,090
He's rumored to be a heroin sniffer.
1367
01:43:45,350 --> 01:43:48,268
All in all, a powerful
behind-the-scenes strange-o.
1368
01:43:48,562 --> 01:43:50,471
- And?
- And what?
1369
01:43:54,651 --> 01:43:58,270
Reciprocity, Mr. Hudgens,
is the key to every relationship.
1370
01:44:01,575 --> 01:44:03,069
He runs call girls.
1371
01:44:05,078 --> 01:44:08,032
Primo tail fixed up
to look like movie stars.
1372
01:44:10,918 --> 01:44:11,783
And?
1373
01:44:12,419 --> 01:44:13,878
Blackmail shit.
1374
01:44:14,796 --> 01:44:16,955
In my car, in the trunk,
under the rug...
1375
01:44:17,883 --> 01:44:22,046
Patchett got me to photograph this cop
screwing this gorgeous slut named Lynn.
1376
01:44:22,304 --> 01:44:24,380
She looks just like Veronica Lake.
1377
01:44:25,891 --> 01:44:26,673
Leave him!
1378
01:44:26,934 --> 01:44:28,511
I said leave him be!
1379
01:44:28,894 --> 01:44:30,222
Get him away from me!
1380
01:44:31,480 --> 01:44:32,345
Back off!
1381
01:45:16,650 --> 01:45:21,478
I wouldn't trade places with Exley right
now for all the whiskey in Ireland.
1382
01:45:25,659 --> 01:45:29,277
Dudley, I thought you were going to
let the dumb bastard kill me!
1383
01:45:30,122 --> 01:45:32,280
Learn to pull your punches
a little better.
1384
01:45:32,666 --> 01:45:34,623
You can uncuff me now, fellas.
1385
01:45:40,424 --> 01:45:41,622
Fellas...
1386
01:45:43,594 --> 01:45:44,507
...we had a deal.
1387
01:45:44,761 --> 01:45:46,256
You, me, Patchett. We're a team.
1388
01:45:51,435 --> 01:45:52,680
Hush-hush.
1389
01:45:53,937 --> 01:45:55,811
- Anything?
- Nothing.
1390
01:45:56,190 --> 01:45:58,811
Meeks never made an arrest
the entire time he worked Vice?
1391
01:45:59,193 --> 01:46:00,984
Someone must've pulled the files.
1392
01:46:03,697 --> 01:46:05,488
What about the daily report books?
1393
01:46:05,866 --> 01:46:08,950
- They'd be buried in the basement.
- Find them.
1394
01:46:40,025 --> 01:46:41,519
You talk to Exley?
1395
01:46:42,110 --> 01:46:43,735
Come in out of the rain.
1396
01:46:45,906 --> 01:46:47,863
What happened with Exley?
1397
01:46:49,701 --> 01:46:50,946
Just come in.
1398
01:46:52,412 --> 01:46:54,986
Will you tell me
what happened with Exley?
1399
01:46:55,666 --> 01:46:56,911
We talked.
1400
01:46:57,584 --> 01:46:58,699
Tell me about him.
1401
01:46:58,961 --> 01:46:59,992
Later.
1402
01:47:00,963 --> 01:47:01,994
Now!
1403
01:47:05,300 --> 01:47:06,842
You fucked him.
1404
01:47:10,556 --> 01:47:11,884
You fucked him.
1405
01:47:12,724 --> 01:47:14,717
I thought I was helping you.
1406
01:48:05,777 --> 01:48:08,019
I'm glad you're here.
I need you to see this.
1407
01:48:17,664 --> 01:48:18,613
Wait.
1408
01:48:45,484 --> 01:48:46,895
Dudley killed Jack.
1409
01:48:47,653 --> 01:48:49,361
He wants you to kill me.
1410
01:48:52,574 --> 01:48:54,567
He showed you the photo, didn't he?
1411
01:48:55,410 --> 01:48:56,406
Didn't he?
1412
01:48:59,081 --> 01:49:01,038
Think! Goddamn you, think!
1413
01:49:03,794 --> 01:49:04,873
Get out!
1414
01:49:21,353 --> 01:49:23,559
I checked the daily report books.
1415
01:49:24,690 --> 01:49:28,023
Dudley, Buzz Meeks and
Stensland go way back.
1416
01:49:31,738 --> 01:49:33,482
I knew Stensland lied to me.
1417
01:49:36,618 --> 01:49:39,572
Lefferts' mother I.D.'d
him as Lefferts' boyfriend.
1418
01:49:41,456 --> 01:49:45,917
Stensland pretended he didn't know
Meeks or her the night that I met...
1419
01:49:47,379 --> 01:49:48,458
...Lynn.
1420
01:49:49,506 --> 01:49:50,917
Stensland and Meeks...
1421
01:49:51,592 --> 01:49:53,086
...what were they up to?
1422
01:49:54,052 --> 01:49:57,386
I don't know. But I think
Stens killed Meeks over heroin.
1423
01:49:57,931 --> 01:49:58,963
What heroin?
1424
01:50:05,022 --> 01:50:08,473
Johnny Stompanato told me
that Meeks had heroin for sale.
1425
01:50:08,901 --> 01:50:10,478
Meeks ends up dead.
1426
01:50:11,069 --> 01:50:13,192
Stensland dies at the Nite Owl.
1427
01:50:14,156 --> 01:50:15,816
It wasn't the Negroes.
1428
01:50:16,909 --> 01:50:18,866
The rape victim lied.
1429
01:50:19,411 --> 01:50:22,910
The first guys to the Mercury coupe
were Breuning and Carlisle.
1430
01:50:23,290 --> 01:50:24,665
Dudley's guys.
1431
01:50:25,209 --> 01:50:26,952
They planted the shotguns.
1432
01:50:27,211 --> 01:50:30,626
They'd have killed the Negroes too
if Jack and I hadn't shown up.
1433
01:50:31,507 --> 01:50:34,710
Dudley framed them because
they were Negroes and had records.
1434
01:50:35,010 --> 01:50:37,466
He knew there'd be no questions asked...
1435
01:50:39,014 --> 01:50:41,422
...if they were killed resisting arrest.
1436
01:50:42,434 --> 01:50:44,759
Somehow it's all connected
to Jack's angle.
1437
01:50:45,437 --> 01:50:46,766
Sid Hudgens...
1438
01:50:47,356 --> 01:50:49,479
...the pictures to blackmail
Ellis Loew...
1439
01:50:50,651 --> 01:50:51,896
A kid got murdered.
1440
01:50:53,070 --> 01:50:55,228
To figure it out,
we must work together.
1441
01:51:00,953 --> 01:51:02,661
Why are you doing this?
1442
01:51:04,665 --> 01:51:06,373
The Nite Owl made you.
1443
01:51:08,293 --> 01:51:09,918
You want to tear all that down?
1444
01:51:11,547 --> 01:51:13,207
With a wrecking ball.
1445
01:51:13,841 --> 01:51:15,632
Want to help me swing it?
1446
01:51:27,938 --> 01:51:29,931
Let's go see Ellis Loew.
1447
01:51:30,524 --> 01:51:33,193
Find out what
the District Attorney knows.
1448
01:51:41,285 --> 01:51:42,909
You can't go in there.
1449
01:51:45,205 --> 01:51:48,408
- Want me to call the police, Mr. Loew?
- Ask for Capt. Dudley Smith.
1450
01:51:48,625 --> 01:51:52,374
Tell him we're discussing an unemployed
actor's death at a Sunset Strip motel.
1451
01:51:52,629 --> 01:51:53,661
These are the police.
1452
01:52:00,429 --> 01:52:01,627
What do you want?
1453
01:52:01,889 --> 01:52:06,136
I want D.A. Bureau men to tail Dudley
Smith and Patchett 24 hours a day.
1454
01:52:06,435 --> 01:52:09,768
I want you to get a judge to authorize
wiretaps on their home phones.
1455
01:52:10,022 --> 01:52:12,310
I want authorization
to check their bank records.
1456
01:52:12,858 --> 01:52:14,269
On what evidence?
1457
01:52:14,860 --> 01:52:16,568
Call it a hunch.
1458
01:52:17,779 --> 01:52:19,487
Absolutely not.
1459
01:52:19,740 --> 01:52:22,657
Dudley Smith is a highly-decorated
member of the department.
1460
01:52:22,910 --> 01:52:24,867
I won't smear his and
Patchett's name without...
1461
01:52:25,120 --> 01:52:26,495
Without what?
1462
01:52:26,914 --> 01:52:28,622
Them smearing yours first?
1463
01:52:28,999 --> 01:52:32,664
What do they have? Pictures of you
and Matt Reynolds with your pants down?
1464
01:52:35,047 --> 01:52:36,078
You have proof?
1465
01:52:36,798 --> 01:52:38,506
The proof had his throat slit.
1466
01:52:39,885 --> 01:52:42,043
So far, you're not denying it.
1467
01:52:43,388 --> 01:52:45,346
I won't dignify this with answers.
1468
01:52:45,599 --> 01:52:48,007
Now if you gentlemen will excuse me...
1469
01:52:48,268 --> 01:52:52,100
...I have a press conference for Jack
Vincennes that I have to prepare for.
1470
01:53:02,449 --> 01:53:06,317
Unless you came to wipe my ass,
I believe we're through.
1471
01:53:10,999 --> 01:53:15,329
Don't pull that good-cop-bad-cop crap.
I practically invented it.
1472
01:53:16,129 --> 01:53:18,288
So what if some homo actor is dead.
1473
01:53:18,549 --> 01:53:21,585
Boys, girls. Ten of them
get off the bus to L.A. Everyday.
1474
01:53:29,518 --> 01:53:30,763
Pull him off me!
1475
01:53:31,019 --> 01:53:31,885
I don't know how.
1476
01:53:35,899 --> 01:53:39,731
I know you think you're the A-number-one
hotshot, but here's the juice.
1477
01:53:39,987 --> 01:53:42,359
If I kill you, 10 lawyers
will take your place tomorrow.
1478
01:53:42,614 --> 01:53:44,441
They just won't come on a bus.
1479
01:53:58,380 --> 01:53:59,459
Okay!
1480
01:54:00,841 --> 01:54:03,047
Dudley and Patchett, they...
1481
01:54:04,178 --> 01:54:05,209
Oh, my God!
1482
01:54:05,512 --> 01:54:07,505
I wouldn't play ball so they set me up!
1483
01:54:07,764 --> 01:54:09,804
I gave in!
But the kid heard everything...
1484
01:54:11,310 --> 01:54:12,259
...so they killed him.
1485
01:54:12,519 --> 01:54:13,515
Why?
1486
01:54:13,896 --> 01:54:17,265
- What are Dudley and Patchett up to?
- Taking over Mickey Cohen's rackets.
1487
01:54:17,524 --> 01:54:21,439
Because of those pictures
I couldn't prosecute them!
1488
01:54:21,820 --> 01:54:23,149
Oh, Jesus!
1489
01:54:23,405 --> 01:54:24,318
Help me up!
1490
01:54:33,498 --> 01:54:35,621
Is that how you ran
the good-cop bad-cop?
1491
01:54:38,212 --> 01:54:39,374
Patchett?
1492
01:55:14,831 --> 01:55:17,453
Looks like his bodyguard
had a conflict of interest.
1493
01:55:23,882 --> 01:55:25,258
Suicide note.
1494
01:55:25,509 --> 01:55:29,886
Says he killed Jack because Jack had
figured out his pornography scam.
1495
01:55:30,138 --> 01:55:32,261
Slicing himself open wasn't his idea.
1496
01:55:33,725 --> 01:55:35,136
2 of his fingers are broken.
1497
01:55:35,394 --> 01:55:36,307
They held him there.
1498
01:55:38,564 --> 01:55:39,477
Or drugged him.
1499
01:55:42,943 --> 01:55:44,686
Dudley's tying up his loose ends.
1500
01:55:45,571 --> 01:55:46,851
Patchett's dead.
1501
01:55:47,114 --> 01:55:48,738
He sent you after me.
1502
01:55:50,409 --> 01:55:51,607
Lynn.
1503
01:55:52,744 --> 01:55:53,907
West Hollywood Sheriff.
1504
01:55:54,162 --> 01:55:56,998
- They're closer than we are.
- I'll get the car. Keys!
1505
01:56:04,506 --> 01:56:07,080
We took her to the station
for safekeeping.
1506
01:56:08,135 --> 01:56:11,634
Hold her as Joan Smith.
And no one sees her unless I okay it.
1507
01:56:12,431 --> 01:56:14,139
Someone worked her over.
1508
01:56:14,391 --> 01:56:16,016
She wouldn't say who.
1509
01:56:21,190 --> 01:56:22,814
See you, Exley.
1510
01:56:26,028 --> 01:56:27,522
We should talk to Lynn.
1511
01:56:28,530 --> 01:56:29,728
You do it.
1512
01:56:30,407 --> 01:56:31,522
What will you do?
1513
01:56:34,786 --> 01:56:36,696
I'm going to talk to Sid Hudgens.
1514
01:56:37,456 --> 01:56:40,077
Compliment him on his
performance at the Victory Motel.
1515
01:56:40,334 --> 01:56:42,492
Remember, Bud, we need evidence.
1516
01:56:43,712 --> 01:56:45,171
I'll get the evidence.
1517
01:56:57,726 --> 01:56:58,722
Are you okay?
1518
01:57:01,480 --> 01:57:02,476
You okay?
1519
01:57:13,158 --> 01:57:15,115
Bud hates himself for what he did.
1520
01:57:16,411 --> 01:57:18,404
I know how he feels.
1521
01:57:20,749 --> 01:57:23,584
I need to know what you
can give me on Dudley Smith.
1522
01:57:25,671 --> 01:57:28,078
He's a police captain
in business with Patchett.
1523
01:57:28,757 --> 01:57:30,299
I've never heard of him.
1524
01:57:34,513 --> 01:57:36,090
Do you have a place to stay?
1525
01:57:37,850 --> 01:57:39,344
I'll be okay.
1526
01:57:45,983 --> 01:57:48,308
Nobody goes in without official I.D.
1527
01:57:53,031 --> 01:57:54,691
It's okay. Let him through.
1528
01:57:58,287 --> 01:57:59,662
What happened?
1529
01:58:00,205 --> 01:58:03,206
Someone beat him to death,
and stole a bunch of files.
1530
01:58:03,458 --> 01:58:05,451
Must have dug up garbage
on the wrong guy.
1531
01:58:05,878 --> 01:58:07,835
We got it narrowed down
to 1000 suspects.
1532
01:58:09,131 --> 01:58:10,411
Sergeant White...
1533
01:58:11,383 --> 01:58:13,008
...dispatch got a call for you.
1534
01:58:13,260 --> 01:58:16,296
Lieutenant Exley wants you
to meet him at the Victory Motel.
1535
01:58:50,255 --> 01:58:51,833
You wanted to meet here?
1536
01:58:53,926 --> 01:58:56,962
- You called it. I thought Hudgens was...
- Hudgens is dead.
1537
01:59:08,398 --> 01:59:09,941
Let's get out of here.
1538
01:59:17,366 --> 01:59:18,741
It's too late.
1539
02:00:08,250 --> 02:00:10,326
You figured it was a set-up
but came anyway?
1540
02:00:10,586 --> 02:00:12,578
A lot of bad stuff happened here.
1541
02:00:13,130 --> 02:00:15,336
It's as good a place as any
for it to end.
1542
02:00:25,642 --> 02:00:26,674
Clip.
1543
02:00:31,815 --> 02:00:34,520
All I ever wanted
was to measure up to my father.
1544
02:00:35,611 --> 02:00:36,524
Now's your chance.
1545
02:00:39,281 --> 02:00:41,108
He died in the line of duty, didn't he?
1546
02:02:40,777 --> 02:02:41,976
Goddamn it!
1547
02:03:42,130 --> 02:03:42,830
You okay?
1548
02:03:43,757 --> 02:03:44,955
Yeah.
1549
02:04:03,485 --> 02:04:05,478
Come on. Easy.
1550
02:04:12,244 --> 02:04:13,109
Move!
1551
02:04:35,893 --> 02:04:37,303
Rollo Tomasi.
1552
02:04:40,772 --> 02:04:42,148
Who is he?
1553
02:04:42,983 --> 02:04:44,062
You are.
1554
02:04:46,361 --> 02:04:48,188
You're the guy who gets away with it.
1555
02:04:52,326 --> 02:04:53,405
Jack knew it.
1556
02:04:53,660 --> 02:04:54,941
And so do I.
1557
02:05:20,687 --> 02:05:22,395
Are you going to shoot me...
1558
02:05:23,690 --> 02:05:24,722
...or arrest me?
1559
02:05:31,114 --> 02:05:32,359
Good lad.
1560
02:05:33,200 --> 02:05:35,109
Always the politician.
1561
02:05:35,744 --> 02:05:37,571
Let me do the talking.
1562
02:05:38,205 --> 02:05:41,241
After I'm done, they'll make you
Chief of Detectives.
1563
02:06:09,111 --> 02:06:10,819
Hold up your badge...
1564
02:06:11,113 --> 02:06:13,022
...so they'll know you're a policeman.
1565
02:07:03,582 --> 02:07:06,417
You think you can talk
your way out of this, Lieutenant?
1566
02:07:09,046 --> 02:07:10,208
No...
1567
02:07:10,464 --> 02:07:12,041
...but I can tell the truth.
1568
02:07:13,091 --> 02:07:14,918
During our investigation...
1569
02:07:16,053 --> 02:07:19,137
...of events surrounding
the Nite Owl case...
1570
02:07:20,224 --> 02:07:23,639
...Jack Vincennes, Bud White
and I learned the following:
1571
02:07:24,394 --> 02:07:26,850
Your golden boy's
throwing his whole life away.
1572
02:07:27,105 --> 02:07:28,600
The 3 Nite Owl suspects...
1573
02:07:29,566 --> 02:07:32,022
...while guilty of
kidnapping and rape...
1574
02:07:32,819 --> 02:07:35,820
...were innocent of the
multiple homicides at the Nite Owl.
1575
02:07:37,199 --> 02:07:39,108
The gunmen were most likely...
1576
02:07:39,368 --> 02:07:44,113
...Los Angeles police officers
Michael Breuning and William Carlisle...
1577
02:07:44,373 --> 02:07:45,831
...and a third man...
1578
02:07:46,542 --> 02:07:50,160
...who may or may not have been
Captain Dudley Smith.
1579
02:07:51,255 --> 02:07:52,713
The objective:
1580
02:07:53,674 --> 02:07:56,295
The elimination of
another police officer...
1581
02:07:56,552 --> 02:07:58,343
...Richard Stensland...
1582
02:07:59,263 --> 02:08:04,221
...who, along with former LAPD officer
Leland "Buzz" Meeks...
1583
02:08:05,310 --> 02:08:09,011
...also committed multiple homicides
on behalf of Captain Smith...
1584
02:08:09,690 --> 02:08:11,267
...and then betrayed him...
1585
02:08:11,567 --> 02:08:13,773
...over 25 pounds of heroin...
1586
02:08:14,903 --> 02:08:16,730
...the retrieval of which...
1587
02:08:17,030 --> 02:08:20,067
...was the ultimate motivation
behind the Nite Owl killings.
1588
02:08:23,287 --> 02:08:26,537
Beginning with the incarceration
of Mickey Cohen...
1589
02:08:26,957 --> 02:08:31,868
...Capt. Smith has been assuming control
of organized crime in Los Angeles.
1590
02:08:33,755 --> 02:08:37,456
This includes the assassinations
of Mickey Cohen lieutenants...
1591
02:08:38,051 --> 02:08:41,218
...the systematic blackmail
of city officials...
1592
02:08:42,848 --> 02:08:47,391
...and the murders of Susan Lefferts,
Pierce Patchett, Sid Hudgens...
1593
02:08:48,812 --> 02:08:50,888
...and Sergeant Jack Vincennes.
1594
02:08:54,151 --> 02:08:56,986
Captain Smith admitted as much to me...
1595
02:08:57,613 --> 02:08:59,522
...before I shot him...
1596
02:08:59,907 --> 02:09:01,698
...at the Victory Motel.
1597
02:09:03,911 --> 02:09:05,025
That's it.
1598
02:09:09,958 --> 02:09:11,951
The press will have a field day.
1599
02:09:13,587 --> 02:09:14,998
Christ!
1600
02:09:15,255 --> 02:09:17,544
It’ll stain the Department for years.
1601
02:09:17,799 --> 02:09:18,665
Decades.
1602
02:09:20,010 --> 02:09:22,583
If we can get the kid to play ball...
1603
02:09:23,639 --> 02:09:25,430
...who's to say what happened?
1604
02:09:26,558 --> 02:09:29,014
Maybe Dudley Smith died a hero.
1605
02:09:29,269 --> 02:09:31,843
- Good idea.
- If we get the press to play.
1606
02:09:39,696 --> 02:09:42,401
Want to tell me what
you're smiling about?
1607
02:09:47,871 --> 02:09:49,116
A hero.
1608
02:09:49,748 --> 02:09:51,408
How'd he know what we said?
1609
02:09:51,667 --> 02:09:53,291
He couldn't have heard us.
1610
02:09:57,130 --> 02:09:59,004
In this situation...
1611
02:09:59,383 --> 02:10:01,292
...you'll need more than one.
1612
02:10:08,267 --> 02:10:13,142
It is my pleasure to present this award
to Detective Lieutenant Edmund Exley...
1613
02:10:13,772 --> 02:10:15,812
...two-time Medal of Valor recipient.
1614
02:10:26,034 --> 02:10:29,984
Next year the LAPD
will move into its new facility.
1615
02:10:30,372 --> 02:10:32,032
With leaders like Edmund Exley...
1616
02:10:32,291 --> 02:10:35,375
...the image of fat cops stealing apples
will be left behind...
1617
02:10:35,627 --> 02:10:39,495
...and Los Angeles will finally
have the police force it deserves.
1618
02:10:53,437 --> 02:10:55,513
You just couldn't resist.
1619
02:10:55,814 --> 02:10:58,352
They're using me.
So for a while, I'm using them.
1620
02:11:00,402 --> 02:11:01,481
Come on.
1621
02:11:36,396 --> 02:11:37,677
Thanks for the push.
1622
02:11:59,503 --> 02:12:01,495
Congratulations, Lieutenant Exley.
1623
02:12:04,842 --> 02:12:06,918
Some men get the world...
1624
02:12:07,427 --> 02:12:11,010
...others get ex-hookers
and a trip to Arizona.