All language subtitles for T.J Hooker s05e06 Rip-off

Oh, God, my husband is laying in there
right now. I don't know if he's going to

live or die.

Angel didn't stop on the fifth floor
just to pick up three slugs. I'm betting

had a partner and got himself double
-crossed.

Quite pretty home on the third what?

It was a federal mark.

I've got five years invested.

I got a dead cop invested.

Nobody does that in this city.

Air 20 to dispatch. Air 20 to dispatch.
We need assistance on a blown narcotics

stakeout from any units in the vicinity.

Roger, Air 20. What is your location?

Dispatch, we are at 14th and Broadway in
pursuit of a late model red sedan

headed west on 14th.

Four out of 30 and any units in the
vicinity.

Air 20 needs assistance in pursuit of
late model red sedan headed west on

Four out of 30.

This is Air 20. I'm tack two.

This is Air 20. What do you have, 30?

I've just spotted a red sedan going west
from 6th and Penn.

Roger, 30. That's our narcotic suspect.

Our ETA is one minute.

Southbound on Macy to Bridgeton. How far
from me?

You should be exiting a side street just
ahead to your right.

Air 20, I've got him.

Right in my sights. Dead ahead.

Air 20.

I kind of like you, Hooker, even if you
did almost break my arm.

So you got respect for my intelligence.

Any other cop would be telling me I
wouldn't have to go back to the slammer

spit out a couple of names. You're going
back behind bars, Freddy, no question

about that. I told you, man, my name
ain't Freddy anymore, it's Jamal. Okay,

Jamal, but there are prisons and there
are prisons.

You want to do hard time or you want to
do soft time?

Oh, man, give me a break.

Four months ago you bought that car of
yours from a guy named Angel.

He was just a guy I met.

Hard time, Freddy.

Jamal, man, Jamal!

What do you want Angel for?

Angel's an old friend who deals heavy
dope, and I want to reach out and touch

him. Jamal, tell us the truth.

Do yourself a favor.

Well, maybe it can't hurt to do a favor
for some old friends.

I've got Angel's number, if that'd help.

Looks like you're going to set up your
bust after all. Yeah.

You better have to go. Thanks, Stace.

Honey, what did the doctor say? How is
she?

Maria's the one with morning sickness
and Rico's the one who's panicking. This

is kid number three. What are you so
uptight about? You take whatever the

gives you, okay?

Nothing's too good for my first son.

I'm probably future president of the
United States.

You got it, buddy.

Yeah, yeah, Maria.

Late. Look, I'm sorry. I got a job to
do.

I'll see you then.

I love you.

Don't we have to deal with the feds on
this podcast?

Well, you got 50%, but our 50 % has all
the muscle. And you're looking at them,

baby.

Rico, I'm not so sure I want you out on
this one. Ah, no way, no way. I've been

following this deal from the get -go,
and I'm not quitting.

Priorities, man.

You got a pregnant wife, family.

And a job.

And I intend to do it.

This is Hooker.

Go ahead, Hooker. This thing's set.

Your man is overdue already, isn't he?

Hooker, I got it covered.

What about the deployment?

You're giving Rico the right kind of
backup?

Leave it alone, Hooker. I know how to
run a buy. I've been at it enough years.

Yeah, and I've crossed swords with you
feds enough to know you get it wrong

the time.

Renewal's doing a solo.

He's alone?

So far.

But don't count on anything staying the
way it looks.

He's going in.

I'll keep an eye on the lobby. And when
he comes up, Bennett, do it right.

Is he always this pleasant to work with?

Croker? Never asked for anything more
than perfection.

Angel hasn't contacted anywhere in the
lobby. He's on his way out, Bennett.

Look alive.

Are we ready?

The sound I've been waiting for.

We in business could look it?

Bet he said that to all us cops.

Looks like the LCTD's finest is about to
make a buy, Tom.

You know, all you guys that work with
Hooker sound alike.

It's still a federal case, Rico.

Don't forget who found him.

Right, right. I mean, you dudes got the
room bugged. Radio equipment that'd

break the city's budget. A hundred
thousand cash and all we can come up

talent and manpower.

Especially talent.

Angel, come on in.

Angel. Hey.

Hey, I'm clean, man.

Okay.

Looks like you come empty -handed,
Angel.

Hey, I can get the snow in two minutes,
man.

But we count first.

Then we deal.

Fred, don't leave the room till the snow
arrives.

You hear me talking, Angel?

It's only because of a short
relationship that a man has to take his

Make sure things are cool.

You know?

Hey, it's cool.

Count it, Angel.

100 thou.

Nice.

Real nice.

It's all yours.

As soon as we see five keys of Snow
White.

I'll be right back.

Oh, just one thing.

It's a rip -off.

Move in.

Number one party is going down.

Hey, all right.

I had to shoot one of them. It was a
setup.

Cops are all over up there.

What'd you think of it?

Hey, what do you think, man? You're
talking to Angel. I got it all.

Hey, easy with him.

How is it?

Through and through.

Nobody knows yet.

Look, what about Rico's wife?

She ought to hear it from one of us.

I convinced Maria that this was the best
job in the world for Rico.

And I trained him.

She's got to hear it from me.

I've got to get some answers.

This thing is a circus.

Right now, everybody in it looks like a
star clown.

Three slugs, an angel.

How many shots did you say you got off?

Three. But they're in the elevator doors
on the 16th floor.

I got questions.

What happened to the money? The U .S.
treasurer. Who covered the elevators?

floors were staked out?

That garage looks like a big black hole.

That was calling the shots. He was in
charge. It was their case, remember? No.

It became our case the minute that drug
pusher squeezed the trigger that hit our

man.

Booker, do you read me?

Yes, Stacey, what is it? Nine millimeter
casing. And they still smell fresh.

How many?

Three. They landed on the floor right
outside the elevator.

Three casings on the floor? Three slugs
and Angel?

I don't think he ever got off the
elevator.

Angel didn't stop on the fifth floor
just to pick up three slugs. I'm betting

had a partner and got himself double
-crossed. All right, Stacey, stick with

until you get a lift from every push
button on that elevator.

Jim, have the ME move on Angel's
autopsy. And then toss the registration

for everybody who checked in or out of
the fifth floor. Everybody.

Bell boys, maids, waitresses.

Push them hard.

Hooker, my husband is laying in there
right now.

Now, I don't know if he's going to live
or die.

Maria, whoever did this, I promise you
I'll get him.

Two years ago, right here, it was the
same thing.

Only you were telling me what a terrific
job Rico had done. What a terrific job

he did before that tenon switchblade
went up to its hilt in his body.

Now my husband has been used.

Why can't he be like other cops?

Why can't he come home at five instead
of spending his nights working the

of the city?

He volunteered for the job. He
volunteered because he wants the city

his kids, for all kids.

So they won't ever... End up in that
sewer.

You really believe that?

I believe it.

Rico believes it. You believe it, Maria.

Can I, um... Can I hold on to you,
please?

Yeah, I got it.

Yeah.

What'd he say, Corey?

Yeah. What'd he say?

Layton's wrapped up their comparison on
Angel's prints and the partials lifted

from the inside elevator buttons.

Layton's on the fifth and sixteenth
floor buttons along to Ayn.

No match in the partial lifted from the
elevator button on the fifth floor.

Yeah, I mean, the Angel intended to go
to five, and our mystery man sent him

down the rest of the way. Angel intended
to stop. That means he had a reason,

and that reason means he had a partner.

Yeah. We've got it down to one room on
the fifth floor, Hooker.

The registration desk put a guy named
Alvarado in at noon, but nobody's seen

since the ripoff. Have forensics go over
that room with a vacuum cleaner.

Right. Oh, there's also a good chance
this guy might be wearing a beard or a

mustache. Found a small bottle of spirit
gum.

That's good police work. When you round
up the employees from the hotel, let's

make a special on everyone who saw a guy
with a beard or a mustache. Bring them

in for interviews.

Will do.

What's that about a mustache?

Stacy found a bottle of spirit gum.

Seems our mystery man likes to play
active.

I'd ring any bells?

No, not a thing.

Look, why don't I take a copy of the
parcel you lifted off the elevator

Why? It's only a parcel.

You got a name to go with it?

No, no name. I just thought we could
start checking it against major drug

dealers.

Forget it.

The $100 ,000 got me pushing too hard.

Look, I got some reports I gotta get
out. I'll see you guys in the morning.

Yeah.

Jim, roll our police artists out of bed.
Tell them we need a composite as

quickly as possible.

And Jim, have our analytical officer do
a rundown on every narc rip we've ever

heard of. Okay, you got it.

Mr. Alvarado, room 220.

I'd like to place a call, please.

555 -2264.

This is Rita.

I have a message for Martinez.

Yes, Mr. Castro.

Tell him I have all but $50 ,000.

I should have the rest within a week.

Mr. Martinez expects shipment within
five days.

He asked that I inform you of his
circumstance.

What circumstance?

Mr. Martinez has other people wanting to
buy his shipment.

He will negotiate with the first buyer
available when the shipment arrives.

You tell him I am his buyer.

I have been getting ready for one year
for this. I will not lose it now.

I can only relay Mr. Martinez's message.
I can't argue with you.

Please, continue to use the same number
for contact at the designated times.

8 and 10 a .m., 8 and 10 p .m.

Adios, Sr. Castro.

Hello. Fit me hairline information.

Hooker.

Autopsy on Angel.

Three 9mm slugs. Two are good for
comparison, and if we can find the gun.

What else?

Leighton's got one partial index finger
out of the fifth floor hotel room. Came

off the glue box.

Matches ten points to the one we got out
of the elevator.

It's the ribbon on the package.

Tight conspiracy on the rip and Angel's
murder.

And the analytical officer asked me to
tell you that she checked their files on

Nargrip. Nothing comes close to this
case, except for the Benny Goldstone rip

six months ago.

He's still in jail.

Did they say what else the feds had?

She said they had nothing.

Come on.

That's what she said.

She called their records man. Five
minutes later, he calls back. There's

connected. Five minutes?

We'll have her call again.

Tell them to look this time.

Jim.

They did a nice job on the composite.
Look, thanks to the maid, she got one

long look yet.

Bergen's running some copies off now.
Yeah, we're all working like dogs here.

I appreciate it. I've been getting a lot
of heat from that $100 ,000. Well, we

all have a stake in the matter, see?

Rico's life is on the line.

Close the door, Tim.

I don't follow.

We called your records office in
Washington.

Five minutes later, they don't know
anything about any NARC rip anywhere in

country. Maybe they didn't have
anything.

Come on, they have a Benny Goldstone
rip.

I gave them the information personally.

That Miami rip was all over the
newspapers two months ago.

Your files aren't that sloppy.

Hey, Hooker, no doors are closed. We're
in this together.

Maybe you just got a lazy records man.
I'll check it out personally, okay?

Hooker!

Here's our man.

Bring any bells, Tim?

You've done nothing for me.

Listen, I'll go back to the office, get
an in -house distribution going. Maybe

one of our people can make it. Check out
your filing system at the same time.

Pull out the day watch together.

I want this distributed to every
precinct in the city. Set up a specialty

telephone.

Start with the mug books.

Pull every known drug pusher. Where are
you going?

Where'd you go, Tim?

All right, everybody, listen up.

As of now, Tim Bennett is shut off. He
gets nothing. You understand?

Okay, he gets nothing, but I don't
understand.

Bennett and Gregory Lohman III just had
a nice, cozy little chat. Gregory Lohman

III what?

He's a federal mark.

Bennett has been sucking us dry and
running to him with information.

But why?

That's a question I'm going to ask at
the right time.

I've distributed a thousand copies of
Castro's picture with the suggestion

he might be wearing a phony beard. Now,
if he is spotted, they are to leave him

alone but call us. Airports?

Of course.

Look, relax.

This creep is going to surface somewhere
and then I am going to nail him.

And then you'll be out of it.

I'll be out of friends, too.

I've been out on the street rapping with
the girls. Any particular reason?

Angel's girlfriend was looking for him,
so I let her find me.

And I told her Angel was dead and that
this was the dude who pulled the

Did she ID the drive?

Yeah. She said his name is Gunther
Castro, Angel's new business partner.

She also came up with an address.

Regent Arms on Sycamore. He's using the
name Alvarado.

That's good police work.

Changing something decent.

Pick up a warrant. You and Jim get on
it.

What about Maria?

She's not dead.

Pick up that damn warrant.

The manager said he's been here three
weeks. He left two hours ago.

Visitors? His only recall is of two
people, and the description matches

and his girlfriend.

And one possible lead. He made a phone
call last night.

Phone been busted?

Yeah. Jim, the eye sheet on Castro says
he's a dealer. He's been busted three or

four times for narcotics.

The last time was a year ago.

Did he do time?

None of the cases held up.

Interested in who had charge of the
cases?

Tell me it was your friend, Gregory
Lohman III, government supernark. How'd

ever guess?

We've been had.

Good.

Look, you owe me an answer, Lohman.

What's with you and Castro? I mean, why
do you want him so bad?

Okay.

I have had him three times in the last
five years, and each time he has gotten

off. The last time I made a case?

He planted the evidence himself and then
proved it phony in court.

He made a fool of me.

And this time, I won him.

And I've almost got him.

How are you going to be so sure?

Because an airport guard recognized him
from one of the photos and alerted our

men.

He's en route to Detroit where he's
probably getting ready to set up another

ripoff to fund his next big buy.

I've got a surveillance team on him
right now. So why don't you just step in

bust him? Why tail him?

Because I don't want him for some small
rip.

I want him for the big buy.

I want him to be tasting that money in
his mouth so I can just pull it right

out. But you gotta make a case against
him first. Catch him dirty. All Hooker's

gotta do is find him first. He's bought
and paid for.

Yeah, like you say.

All Hooker has to do is find him first.

Pardon me for not knocking.

Not to seeing you here, Bennett.

Hooker, I... Shut up.

I want some answers to some questions.

We lost $100 ,000. Well, yeah, but it
was he who lost it. Wasn't Bennett that

lost it? Sure, it was him.

What do you know about him? If I told
you, what would you do with the

information? Use it.

What happened to all the teamwork we
were supposed to have, Bennett?

Hooker, I'm sorry.

Rico's dead.

It was your operation that got him
killed.

This maggot set it up.

I think you have an obligation to us.

Gunther Castro.

This criminal record dates back to 1966.

His last arrest was May.

Last year.

Lohman here.

Ran the show. Only he slopped it up and
Castro beat his case for the third time.

Congratulations.

What else do you know? What is it with
you?

An ego trick, Lohman? We have... Got six
million in cocaine, three mules in the

joint, but we lost him.

Is there any reason to cut me out?

This creep's responsible for killing a
cop.

I'll give you this much, Hooker.

When we took him, he had a million up
front.

The dope was seized, and it bankrupted
him.

Now, I didn't know he was in your city.
We had no idea that he was setting a rip

-up here.

He was clearly trying to build a new
bankroll to buy a big shipment.

Where? I don't know.

You're lying.

Stay off the case, Hooker. You'll have
your shot at him. I want it now.

I've got five years invested.

I got a dead cop invested.

Nobody does that in this city. If Castro
doesn't go on trial, there's that much

more jeopardy for a thousand other cops.

All right.

I've located Castro's pad.

And I know a certain telephone number
he's been calling. I'm putting that up

trade. I've got nothing to trade.

Then stay the hell out of my way.

Phone company traced our number, Hooker.
The number captured calls a public

telephone in the valley.

And then comes you.

That's all we got. It's got to be
important.

On surveillance team.

We're out of bodies, Hooker. I'll spring
one for you tonight, but Corrigan and

Stacey will have to cover in the
morning. Consider it done.

Hooker's sweating it out here all night.
He isn't going to bring Rico back.

Now he's lying in bed with my eyes open.

Hooker.

Two drug dealers were shot to death
tonight in Detroit.

Looks like another rip -off.

Castro style?

Yeah, Castro style. Lohman had a tail on
him, but the guys nearly slipped it.

Lohman's ego's running up a hell of a
tab, you know that? Yeah.

Look, Hooker, from everything I've been
able to find out, it looks like Castro's

coming back here for a big buy. That's
all we really know.

And I just wanted you to know that.

Tim.

Welcome back.

I don't think anyone's even

alive at this end of town.

What are you talking about?

Comes a live one now.

Anything? We had one tricky looking
woman about 8 o 'clock.

Parked by the phone booth like she was
waiting for a call.

Smoked a cigarette, looked at the
scenery and split.

Any suggestions?

Yeah, stick with it.

Castro slipped through Lohman's fingers
in Detroit.

We expect her back in town.

She's back.

Go make a phone call.

And keep your ears open.

talk to you. Put mom on.

Yeah, I'll wait.

Come on, I haven't got all day.

This is Rita.

Castro here.

Yes, Senor Castro.

Our friend has merchandise.

He is concerned about your situation.

I just got back into town after a very
successful trip.

You tell him my situation is perfect.

I'll meet him in one hour at the
designated place.

He will want to know what you consider
successful.

500 ,000.

500 ,000 is a nice figure.

Senor Martinez will be pleased to hear
that.

One hour. We'll be there.

How could it be, Mr. Bureau?

Going down in an hour. Cool half
million. All right, let's go.

4X -830, this is O 'Brien on Control 3.

4X -830, go ahead.

I just got off the line to the Attorney
General, and I had to give your friend

Lohman all our information, including
what you're doing and your location, and

he's rolling now.

You know, if Lohman takes Castro, he
gets priority.

Our orders say cooperate.

How far is this cooperation supposed to
go?

You're to give Lohman all the
information on the progress of your

takes Castro first?

I didn't ask.

4X -ray 16.

We've moved into front position on Our
Lady. We're southbound on the harbor

freeway.

That's a roger. Stay with her.

She has to pick up the merchandise.

All other units, fall back.

Keep us informed, 16.

Roger.

For X -ray 16, we're rolling again. Our
lady just picked up a male passenger.

They're heading north on Lake.

Roger. X -ray 30, moving up to
Interceptor Corp Street. We'll be behind

5A base, do floor X -ray 30.

X -ray 30, go.

Staff 7 requests you relay all
information to an agent Lohman who wants

you at termination point when known.

As a roger.

Connect me through to Lohman.

I'll keep him informed.

I appreciate the cooperation, Hooker. On
even terms. No, Attorney General.

Nobody to call the shots.

I find Castro.

And mine.

That's not priest.

Well, it's Castro.

It's my bus, man.

We hand them over to you, you get
priority jurisdiction over them.

What's the difference? The scum is still
off the street.

Good man named Rico is dead. That's the
difference.

Money's under the feet.

Make the count.

Thank you.

I don't like your methods, Loma. I don't
like you.

You made a good case back there in the
church.

You want him?

Yeah.

12 -8 -79, clear.

Change will do you good.

Could be.

Anyway, Uncle Sam got back all the money
that Tim Bennett lost.

You know, I wasn't worried about
Bennett, all the money.

Well, he was worried about losing your
respect.

Well, you got what you want.

Case closed.

Listen, I've also been thinking, what
the hell?

The dope's off the street, that's good.

Take him, he's yours.

Why, Lola?

You're at the edge.

Maybe I've developed a conscience.

Or maybe I just don't want you mad at me
anymore.

Okay.

Is that really Gregory Lohman III?

Maybe it's the church. Maybe he got
religion in there. Whatever it is, I'll

it for Rico.

Amen.

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