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Hey, hey, I know that kid.

Yeah? So do I. I went to school with his brother.

Did you know he's been busted for pushing angel dust?

What are we following him for?

Just keep your eyes on him and don't lose him.

If he rolls into Melrose Sporting Goods

with that envelope in his back pocket

and rolls out with a package of Christmas goodies

then you're on the way to your first major bust, rookie.

Why don't we just pick him up and take him to juvenile?

Because we got bigger fish to fry

right under our own noses.

Hey, don't lose him! Just watch the road, Murph.

He's not gonna disappear.

Yeah?

I knew it. I knew it!

They are using that joint as a depot and that little punk is a mover.

I can smell it. I can always smell it.

If you really got something, Murph, let's get a warrant.

Oh, that's very good. Very good.

Three weeks out of the academy, you know all about warrants.

Look, I don't want to give any advance notice.

Hey

..it's alright with me, Murph,

but the lieutenant's gonna have your ass

if we go in there with no backup.

Then my ass is all his, Mr Johnson,

because when we find what I know we're gonna find

he's gonna have to kiss it first.

No envelope and there's the goodies.

A ski jacket?

Listen, you and I

are going on a little hunting expedition tonight, rookie,

without a licence.

Hey, Murph! Check out these gloves!

Great feel.

I remember wanting a first baseman's mitt for Christmas so bad one year

I promised my dad I'd mow the lawn every day if he'd get me one.

I ran downstairs Christmas morning, it wasn't under the tree.

I figured he couldn't afford it.

Then when I went back to my room there it was, lying on my bed.

Boy, I loved that glove.

I played great ball with it too

until my younger brother left it out in the rain for two days.

I went nuts! I Jeez, $55?!

Who the hell can afford to buy their kid a leather glove for $55?

I'm telling you, Murph,

they gotta start paying cops more money.

I mean, can you afford to buy Johnson.

Johnson! Ohh!

Murph?

Hey, Murph?

Murph. Murph!

Murph! Huh!

Ohh!

Ohh

Does the Narcotics Squad want the car back?

Yeah, get it out of there

before they tell us we're polluting the bay.

Just what the hell were your guys doing?

Son of a bitch, I don't know. You tell me.

I sure as hell don't know.

Two experienced narcs end up in the bay with their throats crushed,

nobody here has even a smell of what was coming down?

Did you go through their files?

First thing. There's nothing there.

Well, shit.

Shit, shit!

OK, Harry, what have you got?

Um, bruises that are so deep

that there was internal haemorrhage.

And, uh, major tracheal injuries,

obliterating the air passage.

In other words, uh,

something smashed their windpipes

and they strangled in their own blood.

Two dead cops! So what the hell happened?

Lieutenant, we all wanna know just as bad as you do.

Sam, the only thing I'm thinking

is that maybe they ran across something

and they didn't have time to check in.

Now, that happens all the time.

It should never happen! You know that.

I know that.

You know that. They knew that.

Hey, I think something went down that has nothing to do with the job.

How do you figure that? Look at the beating they took, man.

It looks like something you get from a loan shark

for not keeping up with your payments.

A pusher or dealer, he gonna shoot you or cut you.

He's not gonna hang around to see if he can beat you to death.

That's right. Come on. That's a lot of crap.

Two experienced men just stand and let a loan shark beat them to death?

Come on. They never even fired a shot.

I didn't say they stood around.

I can't buy it.

If they were involved in anything, anything financially, you know,

one of you guys would have fished it out by now.

Uh, whatwhat about Murphy's wife?

She give you anything?

It's the god-damnedest thing I've ever seen.

I've never seen anything like this.

It's like they ran into something from outer space.

Doc, you find anything unnatural on their bodies?

Well, the only thing we found on their bodies

was a trace of goose down.

Say what? Goose down.

Goose down? Mmm.

Well, what was the weapon, Harry?

No idea.

Now, what the hell does that mean?

It means weapon unknown, Sam. It's as simple as that.

So you're saying they got stomped in a bar room brawl or something, Doc?

Yeah, and their wounds healed up real fast

and then all the Saturday night drunks

hauled them out and dumped them in the bay?

Goddammit. Goddammit!

Murphy and Johnson, they were handy guys.

I mean, they

If they ran into a professional fighter, they could stand

One of them could stand 10 feet away and dust him off with a piece, right?

I could do that.

Unless, uhunless the killer hit before they saw him.

I mean, an expert in martial arts, hand to hand combat

somebody who could kill with their bare hands

and not leave a mark, huh?

She's got something, Lieutenant.

Maybe it's one of them karate weirdos like in the movies.

It sounds pretty feeble to me.

But

..let's check it out.

We'll check that out.

I don't want anything we discussed here to leave this room.

Nothing. Clear?

That's all this town needs to make it a perfect Christmas panic.

This isn't even a fight. This guy's no match for Matt.

It's the next one he's gonna have to worry about.

Yeah, who?

Me. Yeah, right.

I wonder if that guy knows he's so obnoxious.

Unfortunately, that's his sense of humour.

1, 2,

3, 4,

5, 6, 7,

8, 9, 10.

He's out.

Come on! Come on, Christa! Come on! Come on, come on!

Go, Christa! That's it.

Harder, harder! Oh!

That's it! That's it! Congratulations!

There you go.

Shake hands. Very good. Thank you, Christa.

Good job, Christa. You're welcome.

Will you take over? Sure will.

Until you have proof that the killer's a karate man, Lieutenant,

I'm afraid I can't help you.

You could train my undercover people, Mr Logan.

Right now I hardly have time to even train myself, Lieutenant.

I've got a big fight coming up.

Yeah, well

Look.

About three three and a half months ago,

our little Californian city here

started to become a pusher's heaven

..just like that.

I mean, I thought we had drug related problems

pretty well wrapped up around here,

but all of a sudden we started getting reports

of busts from all over the county

and the point of origin turned out to be Santa Madre right here.

I mean, there's just no end to it.

We don't know why, we don't know how

You got a minute?

Well, you brought me down here.

Good. I want to show you something.

Should've squeezed it out of him. Oh, I don't know, man.

You can't squeeze him. The guy's looking for his 20 bucks.

I guarantee you one thing, though.

He knows a hell of a lot more than he's talking about. I'd bet on that.

Hey, how's it going, Bishop? Hey, Lieutenant.

Que pasa, Orlando? Nada.

I'd like for you to meet Matt Logan.

Hello, Matt. He's a karate man.

I've been trying to talk him into helping us out a little bit.

We need all the help we can get. Yeah.

Lieutenant, we're gonna check in

and comb the west side for anything on Murphy and Johnson.

OK, yes. See you round.

Right, sure.

They're a couple of guys you'd be training.

See, it's not that we don't work the streets.

It's just someone's working them faster.

42267, box 11. Got that, Dan?

Yep.

47 ounces of cannabis, California v. Daniel Mickey.

Hey, Tom? Yeah.

I got an order for two.38s and an icepick to go to the grand jury.

And hurry it up, will you?

Damon, would you relax?

I can't.

Boy, this place gives me the creeps.

Why the hell didn't they build a new storeroom

when they built a new jail?

What do you mean? This old joint's a landmark.

Yeah.

You know, you guys ought to use that stuff instead of burning it.

You'd be a lot happier on the job.

Here, Damon. Sign this and get lost.

OK. What else?

Uh

..number 9264, box 14.

14 kilograms of heroin,

uh, California v. Kay Reeds.

OK, you got it.

Alright.

OK, it's ready for the fryer.

OK, Frank, lock it up. I'll come back and pick it up later.

OK. Hey, what's new on Murphy and Johnson?

Well, nothing much. They think maybe karate was used on them.

Really?

So the lieutenant wants everybody in Narcotics to take lessons.

Hm, well, lots of luck, then. Take care.

Hey, Rollins. You know Matt Logan here?

Oh, sure. Yeah, I've seen you fight many times. I enjoyed it.

Well, thank you. Good day.

These two containers here that Rollins was just working on,

they hold over a million bucks worth of confiscated drugs.

We got smack, we got coke,

we got uppers, we got downers,

we got acid, we got pot, we've got angel dust.

We've got it. Anything you want, you name it.

We've gotta burn those two boxes by the end of next week

and we'll have two more full boxes, maybe three.

We've got a major connection in this city, Mr Logan,

and we are gonna bust it.

Obviously Mr Logan doesn't want to get involved right now.

Let me drive him back to the school and he can think about it.

Look, he might have a change of heart.

OK. Well, you think about it.

Come on.

Look, I don't need to be shown what life is like on the streets.

I've lived on them all over the world and it's the same everywhere.

My son was an addict.

His mother was hooked when she got pregnant.

How can you not get personally involved if your own wife and son

No, she wasn't my wife,

just a girl who brought her 7 year old son in

to take karate lessons

..because that was more important

than anything else in the world to him.

Charlie, uh, didn't know his father

and she wanted him to have someone to look up to.

He used to walk all the way to the studio all by himself

just to watch and ask me questions.

Yeah?

Then, uhthen one afternoon

he found his mother dead from an overdose

..and he came to the studio to tell me about it.

There was no family, so I petitioned the court

and Charlie's been my son ever since.

That was 10 years ago.

Did he ever pick up a habit of his own?

Not Charlie. All he does is train.

He wants to be world champion one day

and, you know, I think he'll make it.

I'd like to meet him.

One more stop, OK?

Hello, Erwin.

Is this a raid?

No, not if you behave yourself.

Pass key.

Go to it.

Always.

Romantic, huh?

Does this feel good?

It's Detective Rust. I'm coming in.

Well, Alice

Oh, please don't arrest me, Miss Rust. Please, please.

I'm not gonna bust you.

Have you been to the clinic?

II'm going tomorrow. Honest, I am, tomorrow.

Let me see your arm.

Let me see your arm.

I have to see how you're doing.

Terrific.

Alice is 15 years old.

Her father runs a very successful insurance company.

We've sent her home at least a dozen times,

but she always ends up back here

'cause this is where she finds the man with the magic nickel bag.

And this is what she does to pay up.

Ah, here he is.

What the hell is this, girl?

A social gathering or something, huh?

You're lucky it's not a bust.

Rudy, please!

You and you, get out of here.

Well? Rudy, please put it away!

Please!

Please, mister. Please! Ooh!

Please don't hurt him. Rudy! Oh!

I'll drag him down to the car?

No, I'll radio for a wagon.

Rudy, everything's gonna be OK.

Pack your bags. Alice, pack your bags.

Go to the clinic. I'll call them. They're waiting for you.

He's gonna be away a long time.

Do you hear me? Yes, I promise.

OK, Miss Rust, I promise, I promise.

Rudy, Rudy, Rudy, Rudy. Everything's gonna be OK, Rudy.

Rudy, I'll call my father. Everything will be OK.

Please don't be angry with me, Rudy. Please, Rudy.

Phew! What's that?

About a million, million and a half? Yep.

Now I know how the boys in the Treasury Department feel

when they burn up all that old money.

How did you go with the fastest hands in town?

I'm working on it. To hell with him.

I'm not gonna jump around like a chimpanzee in jockey shorts

so Sam knows I'm safe on the streets.

Sound like one of your kids. Come on.

Sign that. Let's get out of here. Just a minute!

I don't sign anything until I read it.

God, it looks like a drug store.

Mandy, will you please sign that thing?

Getting cold here, baby.

May I?

He's gonna get it. I wouldn't bother with him.

Here you go. Bye bye.

OK. See you back at the place.

Right.

What were you doing all morning? Or shouldn't I ask?

Not what you think, unfortunately.

No, I was with the police.

They want me to teach their Narcotics squad.

With your schedule? Are they kidding?

No, they're not.

Don't get grumpy with me just because you missed your training.

Pay your respects.

Ready? Bow.

Thank you. Continue, Charlie.

Give me 10 push-ups. Your belt's undone.10 push-ups.

Detective Rust?

Tell your people I'll teach them. Be here tomorrow at noon.

Not that it would be the first time,

but I think you've lost your marbles.

Don't tell me. He's got a date with you.

No, he's got a date with the entire Santa Madre Police Force.

Man, what about your training?

I'll manage.

Sparks is training harder for this fight

than any other fight in his career

and he's going around telling people

that you won't last three rounds against his kicks,

and you will 'manage'.

I'll be ready, Charlie.

There's just something I have to do first.

You know, I don't understand

how anything could be more important than your title, Matt.

I'm telling you, Charles

Hey, wait. Don't, don't. Don't call me 'Charles'.

I hate 'Charles'. Call me 'Charlie'.

Frankly, I think 'Charles' makes you sound more mature.

Well, don't What about my maturity?

Let's not discuss it. No, what about my maturity?

Anyone who goes around with half a moustache needs 'Charles'.

You know what I mean? You need a little help.

You're gonna get it. Oh, yeah? Who's gonna give it to me?

I am. And don't call me Charles! Oh, God! This is really mature!

Don't call me Charles no more. Charles! Charles!

Don't call me Charles!

All you good people are gonna report to that gym

every morning for two hours of karate training

or you can go back to hanging paper on jaywalkers downtown.

I don't care.

My kids know about this stuff from watching it on TV. It's a lot of crap.

What good does it do me to bust a two-by-four with my bare hands?

'Cause I don't want your head busted open, Moskowitz.

You go to those classes.

That means everybody, every one of you.

What do you say, Mandy?

Huh, no argument from me. I've seen him in action.

Oh, now, we've all had hand-to-hand combat training,

everybody's an expert marksman.

I got a desk full of paperwork here.

Lieutenant, there's an epidemic going on.

Detective Newton, you fix it so it doesn't interfere with your work.

Oh, thank you.

Listen. If it's for everybody, where's Orlando and Bishop?

They got caught up in something coming off the night shift.

They'll be there. Don't worry about it.

Well, what are they into, Sam?

I don't know. I don't know.

You selling any tacos?

Taco? Funny. You don't look like a Mexican.

Hey, a good taco is the lifeblood of the Chicano community.

You're telling me. I ain't got no tortillas.

That's what I've been telling you, my friend.

You ain't got no tortillas!

I will tell you this.

The dealers are having themselves a field day out here.

Oh, oh, the pony express has just arrived.

Well, well, well.

We gonna follow that little skateboarder, Orlando,

and I'll just bet you all the tortillas that you don't have

that he's not gonna take that money home to mamma.

Nine yellows. Yep.

Three light blues. Bring me up a couple dozen of those.

Yes, sir.

Six, eight

I gotta go upstairs for a minute, Al. Take over for me, will you?

Uh, Mr Melrose, that new jogging suit, how much is it?

Uh, $38.50.

OK, good. I'll bring some up.

Let's have it.

I think some guy was following me.

Damn! What did he look like?

I don't know. He was selling balloons.

That's him the guy by the ski jackets.

Are you looking for something in a ski jacket?

Oh, no. I'm just looking for now, thank you.

Great sport. Yeah, it is.

Warm too, huh?

Well, if there's anything we can do, just ask somebody for help.

Yeah, I'll get my wife to come in, get me one for Christmas.

The door right behind me goes to the storeroom.

Is that a fact?

Look at all these golf clubs.

Oh, look at that!

Jesus, those are Hey, OK, let's go.

Shh, shh, shh!

What's this? Soap?

Wax. Oh, yeah.

Ohh!

Oh, son of a bitch! What is it?

God, that's hot wax.

Well, you stuck your finger in it, didn't you?

Ohh! What the hell do they use hot wax for?

The skis, man. Yeah, it makes them go faster.

Sure.

Damn.

What if you took six kilos of coke

..and put it in here with this wax

..then you melted it down

and then you put it in smaller containers,

then later on you can melt it again

and the coke would come right to the top?

Yeah?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah!

Ohh! Arggh!

You son of a Oh!

Hyah!

This is Charlie Newton. Hi. How you doing?

And this Well, you remember.

Yeah, I know Moskowitz. How you doing?

Oh, this is Matt Logan. And this is Harriett.

Hi. Nice to meet you. Hey. How are you?

Hi. Hello.

OK, well, let's get started, then.

Uh, should fit you.

Let's see. Moskowitz.

The dressing rooms are right in the back, over here.

You'll look snappy. And for you

Yes, snappy is the word. Dressing room?

Right that way.

This will fit you and I'll show you where to get dressed.

OK, sure.

If I'd have known

This always happens to me.

Matt calls for a cop, they send one like that.

Ha-ha-ha. It's not funny, Bob.

Have a chip. Alright.

What I would like to know is how you keep these things from falling down.

I don't know, Doug. I think they're supposed to fall when you get hit.

Cool it, man. No, seriously.

You know they don't give you no real belt till you get good.

Wise-ass. What I would like to know is where Orlando and Bishop are.

I think those rookies ran out on us because they are embarrassed.

I do not blame them for being embarrassed.

Hey, don't sweat, man.

You know General Dunne's gonna send them down here

as soon as they hit the squad room.

Hyah! Ooh!

See, it's all in the attitude.

Gotta have authority, you know? This whole, Hyah!

Hyah!

Hyah!

How do they do that?

Hai.

Oh!

Uh-uh

The whole essence of what we do is a philosophy of discipline.

Get your weapons in a ready position.

Now you're gonna get a chance to find out for yourselves.

Jesus. Where did that come from?

Ha-ha-ha.

The techniques have to become a reflexive action.

If you have to think about it, it'll be too late.

Stick 'em up.

Mm-hm. That's not very funny.

Let's keep it serious, OK? Yeah, peace.

No, man. This is your piece.

Thank you.

Alright, Mandy, you and Rollins work on it.

Bob, work with them, and I'll work with Newton and Moskowitz.

You'll be over here. You'll be the mugger first.

Now, remember, the main thing is bring your hand across the face,

blocking with the edge of the hand.

OK, throw a punch. OK.

Blocking, punch, grab, sweeping

I'm not gonna go down.

I'm not gonna do it. I'm not gonna do it.

You notice that he didn't go down, right?

You noticed that, right? OK.

Hey, man, it's your world. You know what I mean?

Let me show you one more thing here.

When you grab the chin here, grab his hair back here.

That way, you can control the neck, like a bulldog.

Alright. OK, let's try it.

It's not gonna cut you. OK.

Yeah. That's it, that's it. Ohh!

Yeah. Now you can ask him why he grabbed you.

Why did you come up and grab me like that?

Just insanity, man, you know? Alright, alright.

Now as you turn, you just twist his head, like this here.

As you do, you step back slightly with the right foot,

take him to the ground, pushing his head to the side and to the mat.

OK. OK, going in, grabbing at her.

Blocking, grab hold of the chin, grab the hair,

turn and take him down, all the way down.

Right.

Remember, it depends on where the gun is

for what block you're gonna use, right?

If it's lower, you can use the low block.

If it's above the middle of the back, then use the knife hand block, OK?

Huh! Good, good.

Remember, the main thing is it depends on where the gun is

for what block you're gonna use.

One time he put it here and you put your arm up.

If it's down in this area, keep the hand down.

OK, Rollins.

Huh! Good. OK.

That's a good one. Good work.

OK, again.

OK. Huh!

Great. Good, good.

OK, one more.

Yo mamma! Huh, hyah!

Arggh!

Oh!

Alright, what do I do? OK, grab me.

Alright. Hyah! Arggh!

Huh!

Hyah!

Huh!

Oh!

Oh, Charlie. Detective Rust, this is my son Charlie.

Hey. How are you? Hi.

I understand you're gonna be the next karate champion of the world.

Probably not the NEXT, but maybe the one after that.

Nice meeting you.

How do you feel?

I feel every muscle in my body.

You're the one that talked me into this.

I know, I know.

Also, the last two times I fell I think I, um

..landed on my pride.

I'll see you in the morning. OK.

Thanks a lot. Really. 'Bye.

You know, that lady's OK.

Yeah.

She's got a lot more going for her than pride.

Oh, yeah? Not that her pride is so bad either.

Your towel.

Well, don't look at me.

Why don't you join the police academy or something?

Or the highway patrol or the FBI?

You could be a meter maid,

eat with one hand and give out tickets with the other,

have a suit and bullets, everything else you want.

Goodnight. Goodnight.

I thought I taught you to heighten your awareness.

If I weren't aware,

you'd be dead, Mr Logan.

You learn fast.

Tomorrow I'll show you how to keep me from taking that away from you,

but tonight how about going with me to a karate match

and meet some of the people involved?

OK, if you feed me.

You got it.

Wow.

They're incredible.

And I have to defend my title against the winner.

He loves all this.

Later on I'll introduce you to that charming personality.

Ladies and gentlemen,

the winner by knockout

in the sixth round,

Jerry Sparks!

Kiss your title goodbye, big boy.

We'll see. Mandy Rust, Jerry Sparks. I told you about him.

Hello. Here you are.

You don't look like a cop.

What do cops look like?

When you're through with basic karate training,

why don't you call me?

I will, I will, as soon as I think of something to call you.

That's the end of round one.

Let's go get something to eat.

Mm, by the way, you have a great kick. Really.

It's just as high as it needs to go.

Excuse me.

Rude. That was rude.

Oh, no.

I'm sorry. I'll be right back. OK.

Not bad, not bad.

You can call me tomorrow, OK?

I'll give you one of my cards.

Wait a minute. I got a card right here.

I'm gonna give it to you. You call me tomorrow, both of you.

I thought you came to the party

to see all the great fighters in one room.

Oh, well Yeah, well, I saw them. Oh, you saw them?

Yeah. I can tell. I can tell you saw them.

Call me tomorrow, now. I'm gonna give you a card.

Hey, Bob.

Oh, boy.

Well, in two weeks I'll be able to start eating some cake too.

I'm trying to stay in shape like you.

Great fight, Josh.

Uh What's wrong?

I have to go. I have to go right away.

Listen, Mandy. You don't wanna see this.

OK, we got one guy, he's been in the park all night,

but says he hasn't seen anything.

We're gonna take him downtown. I don't believe this kid at all.

Alright, turn around.

OK, Lieutenant, I've got enough.

They weren't supposed to die.

They were

..more than friends.

See, uh

..their life depended on me

..and mine on

..on them.

I don't know what to say.

Do you want me to leave?

Maybe we could go somewhere.

Some time outside, a walk on the beach

Mandy, I'll do all I can to help.

Homicide put 10 people on this thing, that doesn't mean we stop.

I want you to talk to everybody and anybody on a skateboard.

I don't care if they're 6 or 60, that's all we got.

And these karate people, check them out.

Mandy, you stick to this guy, Logan.

Look, I don't think he's Then make double sure.

Rollins, I want you to make contact

with all of your informants, every one,

and tell them we'll bust ass if we don't get some goddamn answers.

You got it.

Watch it. Ooh!

Alright. Alright.

Watch it.

Watch out.

What's the matter, champ, you getting old?

Oh, I feel old.

Hey, when are you gonna let me fight full contact?

When I say you're ready.

Well, that's what you always say,

and I'm as good as any bantamweight out there.

It takes more than technique, Charlie. It takes attitude.

Well, damn, I got attitude and I got technique.

OK.

Alright.

Let's see what you can do.

I mean, all-out, no pulling.

Like I've always tried to tell you, it's attitude.

Matt

Matt, I'm sorry

..but I just wanna compete so bad.

I know, son.

I tell you what, as soon as I get through with this championship fight,

you and I will get down to some serious training.

How about that?

You mean that? You bet I do.

Hey, what's going on?

Bob, where the hell have you been for the last two days?

Hah, having a great time.

I suppose you haven't noticed the papers.

No.

The headlines are screaming

that there's a karate killer loose somewhere in the city.

You gotta be kidding. I wish I were.

What if it is one of our people who's killing these cops?

No way.

It takes an expert fighter to kill with that kind of speed and accuracy.

Well, every top belt is in town for your fight.

Yeah, but the drug tie-in doesn't make sense.

I don't know one guy in that kind of shape that fools with drugs.

Let's put together a list. The least we can do is be sure.

Out of the group in the special forces,

can you think of anyone that might have gone bad?

How bad?

Drugs. Murder. As bad as that.

Jesus.

You, me, Bill, Bob, Sparks, George Williams,

maybe 50 scattered through the forces.

We were all in the killing business, but murder?

Well, think, Alex. Anything at all could help.

Bill. I need your help, Bill.

What can I do?

I think that one of the guys that was with us in Nam is an assassin.

Oh, my God.

Hey, Josh, when you going home?

After Matt and Sparks's fight, man. I don't wanna miss that.

Shit, what are you doing, scouting the competition or something?

No, just killing time.

Hey, you think Sparky can take Matt? Maybe.

Man, he fights like he's crazy.

I thought he was trying to kill me.

Sparky? Mm-hm.

Sound like sour grapes to me.

Man, if I didn't know better,

I would think that guy was really on something, you know?

Really.

Hey, um, where does Sparky train?

Well, there's a private road at the end of Scotland Drive

that leads to, man, the prettiest little house you ever saw.

Belongs to a buddy of his.

He's letting him train there for the big fight.

Oh, man, that place got EVERYTHING -

hot tub, jacuzzi.

Hey, man, you ought to talk to him.

Maybe he'll let you take a few friends around, use the facilities, huh?

Yeah, maybe he will. Thanks a lot.

Alright.

Logan Karate. Hey, Harriett, where's Matt?

You just missed him, Charles. He's out checking some other schools.

Wanna leave a message?

OK, tell him I'm on to something and I'll talk to him later on.

And don't call me Charles!

See you later, Josh.

Hey, alright. Take care, little brother.

Ho-ho, and what have we here? Coke.

Pure coke, almost a kilo.

You do good work, Detective Rollins.

Well, thank you, Mr Melrose.

Rollins, you gotta get rid of those kids.

Look, all you have to do is get those kids off of those skateboards -

put them on bicycles, tricycles, anything.

Try that.

Where's the tooter? Alright. Here.

Hand me the tooter. There you go.

How can people use this crap? You know what it does to the sinuses?

I wouldn't worry about that too much.

You got problems of your own.

I know.

Those kids have gotta go, Rollins.

Hey, Sparky, lunch. Come on.

That little greaser he killed put a call in through the desk,

said something about somebody on skateboards,

so now we're pulling in everybody who's on skateboards -

I mean everybody.

You might even get some cop coming in asking who's been buying.

Well, if they can put it together,

how long is it gonna take Matt Logan to figure out

that if he's not doing it, somebody like Sparky is?

Can he take him? Yeah.

Why did you come?

Sparky, you'll never get away with it. Turn yourself in.

Turn yourself in, Sparky.

Want a chance, Charlie?

I'm gonna give you one.

All you gotta do is get past me.

Oh!

That's enough!

OK, Michael, I guess that's all.

Must be 3 million skateboards in this city.

Detective Rust.

Hi. Any luck?

Bob and I have checked just about every karate school and gym in town.

So far nobody knows anything.

Meet me at the In Chon Restaurant on 15th.

It's a hangout for karate types, and we'll see who's there.

OK. Bye-bye.

Hi.

Uh, two, please. OK.

The other's coming.

Hey, are you OK?

Hi. Gentleman like see you. Kitchen.

Oh. Thank you.

There. Thank you.

What happened to you?

I had a blow-out and had to change it.

Ah.

Is it good? I tripped on a trash can outside.

I don't think you've tripped over anything in your whole life.

Well, anyway, I should go home and change.

Oh, yes, I agree.

It's just that I thought you said

Hi.

..your training gave you some sort of-

what was it? special night vision.

I get the feeling that you're questioning me.

I am. Not getting any answers, though.

Do you realise that any man in this city with the ability you have

is a suspect?

You don't have to tell me that. OK.

But after you've changed, alright, I want you to keep checking,

and if you find anything, please call me.

I'll be at the headquarters.

We're still working on Orlando and Bishop.

OK.

UmMatt.

Don't be a hero or anything.

I don't think I could take another one.

Logan Karate School. Yes.

Yes, he does, but he's not around now.

Oh.

Well, I'll let you talk to his father.

Matt! Matt, pick up line two in your office.

It's the police.

Uh, we found him still in the car at the bottom of San Ysidro Ravine.

He's shot full of junk, man.

Must've lost control and He never lost control.

The kid was clean.

Well, um, look at his arm.

Tracks.

And there was a needle in the back seat.

Call it anything you want,

but whoever did this is as good as dead.

Harriett told me you were up here.

Matt

..you can'tlet everything you've ever believed in

be destroyed because of revenge, no matter what.

What do I need? A badge?

A cop loses a friend and he has a hunting licence in his pocket,

but not me.

Well, that's right, yeah. That's the law.

I know the law.

I fought for it from here

to dirty little places on the South China Sea you never even heard of.

Charlie never got his chance.

And whoever killed him and stuck that needle in his arm is gonna pay.

That's our job.

If it was anything but an accident, we'll find out.

Matt, II promise.

Nobody's found out much so far!

I'm sorry. Hey.

Look, I've got to, uh check something out

and, uh, you've got a fight tomorrow.

Why don't you, uh, go down and work out,

concentrate on that?

OK?

I just checked that one. Uh-huh.

This bothers me. What?

The medical examiner said he found nothing on their bodies

except traces of wax under some of their fingernails, right?

So they shined their shoes before they went on duty.

Exactly. What colour shoes did they wear?

I don't know.

Bishop always wore those ridiculous black cycle boots.

And Orlando wore jogging shoes.

Mandy, why was the wax red?

That's a good question.

That's a very good question.

It turned out to be a paraffin mix

commonly used for skis, among other things.

There are various weather conditions.

Well, how can you tell the difference?

Well, they're colour-coded - blue, green, red and so on.

Is that in here? No, it's in my skiing lessons.

Can you identify the brand of that stuff?

A lot of it comes from Europe - Switzerland, France -

but there must be domestic brands available.

What the hell? It's only wax.

Let's go.

Oh, boy. Is that why you guys got me out of bed? For that?

Goose down on Murphy and Johnson and wax on Bishop and Orlando.

Don't you know no judge in his right mind

is gonna give us a warrant to go around busting sporting goods stores

on something like that stuff there?

Stake them out, couldn't we? Stake 'em out?

You

See that? Oh!

About 2,000 in there, I'd say,

including most major department stores,

discount outlets, ski shops, God knows what else.

And then we'd need a team

of about 25,000 highly trained surveillance personnel.

I got an idea.

I'm gonna call L.A., that's what I'm gonna do,

and, uh, see if I can borrow the entire department.

Murphy and Orlando were checking out related areas.

It makes sense there's a connection.

It makes nothing, Mandy, as evidence to justify search and seizure,

unless we get more information.

Then maybe this will mean something. Maybe.

It mean

Hey. I gotta talk to you, Ernest.

I said I've got to talk to you!

What are you doing, man? I didn't do nothing.

Man, you're blowing it, man.

Now everybody's gonna know I'm talking to you.

There's 100 people watching us.

We'll just have to go some place more private, won't we?

I'm holding it for a friend. Oh, bullshit.

You ain't got any friends, Ernie, don't you know that?

I can't even be your friend anymore.

Mandy. Yeah?

I got an idea.

Why don't we throw his ass back in a cell with a couple of regulars?

They love young ones like this.

Hey, y-y-you can't do that to me. Yes, I can.

Uh-uh. I got rights. No. I can.

I'll get the FBI.

Hah, I'm underage. That's enough, Ernie.

The kid on the skateboard used you for a drop.

You've been dealing again, haven't you?

Haven't you, Ernie?!

How many times I gotta tell you,

I don'tknow nobody with a skateboard.

Tell us about it, Ernest.

OK. Alright. OK.

Alright, alright, we were

Dan. What are you doing here?

Well, I picked up one of the skateboarders

and he broke when I told him you guys had Ernie down at the station

and he was spilling his guts.

And I picked up, I guess, about the same info as you guys

and I beat it right over here but, uh, it's all bullshit.

Who's this guy?

Ah, this is Martin Vigo, the owner of the place, who let me in.

Oh, hi.

Listen, I checked this place out. It is absolutely clean.

I mean, I tore the joint apart.

What about the wax? Any ski wax?

Ski wax? Ski wax.

Not a scrap. What is it with ski wax?

Come on, Mandy, may we look around now?

Just wait a minute, wait a minute. What about Melrose?

Well, I got his address,

I got the names of all the employees who work here.

Now, apparently Mr Melrose put a sign in his window

saying Closed during Christmas rush and split.

Now, Mr Vigo says he has a bad heart

and does this sometimes when he's not feeling well.

Sure. Doesn't like holidays, right?

Right. I'll put an APB on him, don't worry.

Listen, I'm going to class. Karate anyone?

No, we'll do that.

I don't know what the hell's with this karate anyway.

It's like a drug store out there.

Quaaludes, angel dust, heroin, cocaine, and we're studying karate.

Mandy, let's look around ourselves, please. Come on.

Um, let's just go.

Mandy, it can't hurt to look around.

Rollins checked it. Now let's go.

Look, what should I do if, er

Go ahead.

..if I suspect one of us?

Hmm.

That's not such a simple question, Mandy.

I know that. Yeah.

Well, who is it?

Sam, I don't have any evidence, just suspicions. I'm not sure.

I don't wanna say.

That's good. That's-that's good.

Because you'd better be goddamn sure of your facts

before you even whisper something like this, even in your sleep.

The whole bunch of you, you're getting paranoid.

Murphy started it before the poor son of a bitch got dumped in the bay.

What did he say? He didn't. He didn't.

I told him he was talking about something so sensitive,

it could blow this whole force wide open,

and I didn't wanna hear about it till he had facts.

Yeah, I can understand that.

If the facts warrant it,

then the officer in question would be arrested, suspended

and maybe put under close surveillance.

Either way, that'll pretty well write off the man's career, right?

I mean, he'll be transferred away from sensitive areas

like us, like Narcotics here,

put in some mundane position and probably never trusted again.

You got me?

I understand. I hope so.

Thank you.

Oh, Mandy, I Oh, you scared me.

I get paid to sneak up on people. It's my job.

It's a habit. Yeah.

You talking to Matt later?

Yeah. Why?

Well, I want some tickets for the fight tonight, one ticket anyway,

and I don't wanna bother him.

I'll get you one, OK? Oh, great, great.

Hey, why don't we go together? We can make it a party.

Uh, I'm going with Matt's secretary, Harriett.

OK.

Well, I'll see you there anyway.

Hi. Hi.

Where have you been all day? Matt's been trying to get you.

Oh, I barely had a chance to change.

Did you get that ticket to Dan Rollins?

Yep. Picking it up at 6:00. 6:00?

Mm-hm. Then he should be there now.

Well, if he's not, they'll sell it. The fight's SRO.

Look, we gotta make a stop. OK.

So long as we don't miss any of the action.

No problem.

Get your program right here!

Right here. Sparks versus Logan.

Programs, T-shirts right here. Programs.

Programs, T-shirts right here. Right here.

Matt.

Matt, I've looked all over. She's not there.

You're not gonna have time to talk to her before the fight.

OK, if you're not back, I'm calling search parties.

Who lives here anyway? Dan Rollins.

Be right back.

Ladies and gentlemen!

The number one contender

for the middleweight karate championship of the world,

Jerry Sparks!

And now, the current middleweight karate champion of the world,

Matt Logan!

Just don't move.

Uh, I didn't expect to find a burglar in a cop's apartment.

Burglar, your ass. As far as I'm concerned, you're the burglar,

and I could blow you away with no problem.

Mr Melrose

Didn't you know that cop killers are executed in this state?

Cop? What cop? Me.

You don't look like no cop. Come on.

Come on.

Hold it.

Move.

Hold it. In here.

If I had time, I'd join you.

Yee-ha! Ha!

Get up. Get up!

Put your hands on your head.

Do you know how to use this? Keep it on him.

Sit down.

OK.

Oh, shit.

Very sneaky. Stay here. Help's on its way.

Sorry you have to miss the fight. Are you OK?

Yeah. OK.

Have a good time.

Logan! Logan! Logan! Logan! Logan!

Logan! Logan! Logan!

Logan! Logan! Logan! Logan! Logan!

One! Two! Three!

Four! Five! Six!

Seven! Eight! Nine!

Are you alright? Yeah.

Rollins is inside. I'm going after Sparks.

You OK?

Hey, I want you to get out.

I'm gonna try to block the road.

Stay away from the car.

Is that the reason, Sparks, the box?

Not the box, just the million in it, and I'm taking it outta here.

You're a dead man, Sparks.

Hee-yah!

Yah!

Hee-yah!

Hee-yah!

Hee-yah!

Hee-yah!

Hee-yah!