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Okay.

Here's your SIM question.

Would you rather be prince of a monarchy or the president of the United States?

What's an SIM?

Spontaneous Intelligence Monitor.

It was really big in the Navy.

Hypothetical questions designed to promote intelligent, meaningful

And you want to play this game with me?

I know it's a little bit of a stretch, but just play along with me, okay? Okay.

So, what is it?

Prince or president?

Prince. What?

I mean, a prince is a powerless figurehead. The president has a true

He has the ability to change the world.

Chris, I'm a prince.

I don't want to change the world.

I eat all the best food, go to the great parties. I hang out with the most

beautiful women in the world.

Does everything come back around to fun and pleasure with you?

No.

But it's a great combination.

You should try it sometime.

It's a big mistake.

My turn.

What would you rather be?

Someone who cleans septic tanks for a living or someone who picks up roadkill

off the freeway?

I wish I never started this game.

One baker seven responding over.

This time dinner's on you.

You guys see anybody sprint out of the building?

Two feet parking lot. Got it.

Some try to talk it down.

Why everyone bags on my town.

But then at least it worked for me.

Take a look around.

Just another day in LA.

Be more than me, with anybody.

Make me free, someday.

Put it down, just another day, oh.

I appreciate you coming down this morning, Mr. Stanton.

Why don't you have a seat?

I'm trying not to take too long.

Like I told the hotel manager, I really don't want to press charges.

Oh, that's not really up to you, Mr. Stanton.

By the way, where is Mrs. Stanton?

I felt it would be better to leave her at home.

She was in no condition to come down. She seemed okay last night.

Well, this morning, the reality of it all hit her.

Uh, well, we'd be happy to go to your home and talk to her there.

No, that won't be necessary.

Let me take a shot in the dark here, Mr. Stanton.

The woman in the hotel room with you last night?

Not Mrs. Stanton.

No, she's her sister.

Family reunion?

Five robberies in two weeks at the same hotel.

Marries on my butt that stops before a word gets out. It's our case. What do we

know? M .O. is clear. The robber only hits when the couples are in the throes

passion. Literally catching them with their pants down.

Smart.

On average, it's happening every other night or so.

All right, you two take the place out. I want to perp and cuss you before I'm

back from vacation.

You got it, Lieutenant.

By the way, have you decided who's in charge while you're gone?

I sure have.

Who's that?

Get out of here.

Just keep the paperwork going. And remember, don't take any crap from

They're all bark.

Got it. Oh, and don't let Del Toro get slippery with the time plot.

Sometimes his O .T. is a little iffy.

See what else? Lieutenant, you're only going to be gone for two weeks.

Everything is going to be in good hands.

Come on.

Just forget about this place for a little bit and enjoy your skiing, okay?

Believe me, I can't wait to go.

Everybody, please step back.

Please step back.

Back.

We're breaking one to one, breaking one.

What do you got?

I got a DB you should see, sir. It's pretty bizarre.

Hey, sir.

Hey. What do we have?

Victims are female.

No ID, 30 -ish. Single gunshot to the head.

Something's just not quite right.

Oh, and Captain Larson's on his way.

What is that, a swan?

It's an angel.

She's a doctor.

How can you tell?

Okay, everyone just get back, okay? Just take a hike, buddy, huh?

Back, please!

Everyone, go now!

Well, if it isn't Jerry Winters. Ain't no slime could crawl across the sand.

Turn it around, Winters.

Palermo, I am part of the press.

Snapshots of the dead and their body parts are hardly news. Now, get lost.

Oh, now, come on. Let me just have a little peek at the girl. I mean, look at

hurt. Who says the victim's a female?

Well, you know me. I just got a knack with covered bodies. Just the way it's

going to stay. Victor, get him out of here.

Got to go, got to go.

Hey, hey.

So, Tony, what's up?

He's back.

I can't believe Palermo picked Corey to run the unit while he's gone.

Why? She's a woman?

It's not because of her sex.

It's just because I'm the best bike cop in this unit.

You know...

I don't know who has a bigger ego, you or Del Toro. No ego has nothing to do

with it.

Yeah, right.

Hey.

Hey. You got anything here for a wounded male psyche?

Yeah, I might have just the thing.

Did you see that guy?

Barely. He had to be doing at least this.

Wretched time, I worry.

Standing in a line.

With those babies wasting time.

I'm in your wretched world out of nowhere.

He broke the chain like that. He was lonely.

We are young.

We gotcha.

I'm telling you, there's something wrong with this bike.

He was just fast.

Not that fast. And plus, if it wasn't for that damn hot dog cart.

You mean the cart that jumped out in front of you?

Faithfully, TC, the only hot dog that beat you was Mariah.

Mariah who?

That was the vendor's column.

They said he rides and likes the wind, and as the song goes, they call the

Mariah, yeah.

I know.

Who's Mariah?

Some biker who left TC's buck in sand.

Elvis just needs to overhaul this thing.

Pronto. They just gave your bike the patent of Krasinski 200 -point

tune -up.

Your bike should be flawless.

So why is the thing riding like a clown's unicycle?

Maybe it's the clown.

Hey, I'm going to get this guy.

I'm going to be setting up some temporary quarters here until I can

suspect. Determine a suspect?

The victim was a doctor, right? Yes.

He left this, right?

Him and you know it.

In fact, I don't. Oh, I do.

Lieutenant, will you personally explain to Del Toro here that his tardiness

won't be accepted while you're on vacation?

I'm not going on vacation, okay?

Tony!

You listen to me!

An origami angel, a dead doctor.

You know what we'll find in the bloodstream.

Given this guy's history, we only have so much time before he drops another

body. Who's this we we're talking about? I want in on this.

We don't know that it's him, but even if we did, especially if we did, your

involvement would be inappropriate.

No one knows this guy better than I do.

Knows him?

This guy has gotten under your skin and is eating you alive. It's a load and you

know it.

Isn't it, Tony?

You know, what happened back then happened.

Why don't you take some advice from a friend?

You start looking forward, not back.

Say that, please.

Officer, this present is for you.

Tinkerbells.

Guy said he noticed you admiring it this morning. He bought it for you.

You know where he went? No, no idea.

I tell you, that guy's faster than the wind.

To catch the uncatchable one, one must hunt where the wind chimes.

Say to see you there tomorrow.

If you ran enough.

I'm a photographer.

I take pictures.

That's what I do. That's my job. Your job's taking on a nutcase.

It's my job to stop them. I guess that puts us on different sides of the fence,

doesn't it? Yeah.

I guess it does.

Anybody, anybody buy so much as a CC of this stuff, I want to know immediately.

They need your signature.

I'm going to have to wait.

Not you. This is important. Get back to me, okay?

Tony, have you lost your mind?

Funny, I was beginning to wonder the same thing myself.

Now, that's cute.

Excuse me?

I just had my ass chewed out by the chief because of what? Your harassment

Winters. Harassment? Come on.

And if that wasn't bad enough, imagine my surprise when I walked into the

coroner's office to get a report on that dead doctor only to find out that you

had beaten me to it. Sodium pentothal in the bloodstream. Now tell me it's not

him. I know it's him. It's not the point.

Winters' article fanning the flames. We really have to move on this. I've

already contacted every pharmaceutical outlet. We tried that last time, if

you'll remember.

It didn't work. It was a dead end. Then how about this? The victim had some kind

of crystalline powder under her fingernails. I'm running that angle down

now. It is my case.

You go skiing. My leg hurts too much to go skiing, okay?

Damn it.

I mean, the way you handled Winters and the corner, this just isn't you.

Now, you're too close to this thing. I'm going to ask you.

I've examined all the routes in and out of the hotel, and I've talked to the

security force.

Now, we can cover the back of the hotel from the alley and the front of the

hotel from the street. If a robber hits, boom, we got him.

Are you listening to me?

Yeah.

Yeah, it's a good plan.

You know, if you don't mind, could you put a little concentration on our case

and a little less on your ego?

This has nothing to do with that at all.

Well, maybe a little bit.

Did you see that guy?

He can't do that.

Can he do that?

You mean leave you in the dust without breaking a sweat?

Come on, Victor.

I'd have had him. If you were 10 years younger or 10 miles faster or... Or

Or if you were Victor Del Toro.

Can't find my in -basket?

Um... I was just... Being nosy?

I'm sorry, sir.

What's going on, Lieutenant?

You know this angel of death somehow.

You heard Larson. It's not my case.

Look, I know it's none of my business, but does this have something to do with

Adele and Addison?

You're right. It's none of your business.

Close the door on your way out.

I'm all right.

I'm all right.

He's got her. He's got her.

Call the backup.

Palermo, wait.

Palermo!

No!

Police! Let her go.

Please, please.

Drop it.

You drop it.

Or I drop her.

Come on, hero.

Toss it.

We'll all walk out of here alive.

Sorry, I can't do that.

If you shoot me... If I even jerk... She's dead.

What's it gonna be? Come on.

Okay.

Let's go.

Now let her go.

First she learns the truth.

No!

Nothing yet.

TC, 211 Suspect, back at the hotel.

On my way.

Lieutenant.

What?

Are you all right? You don't look that well.

You should worry less about how I look and more about the fact there was

hit on the Chantel's hotel last night.

We staked out the hotel as ordered, but the perp basically vanished into the

night. So all you have is excuses.

We went back and talked to some of the robbery victims and found out they had

one thing in common. Each couple met in the lounge before their trip. And none

of them were robbed the first night they rendezvoused. So whoever's doing this

is carrying his victims one night in the lounge and then following them back to

their room the next.

That's what you're going to do.

You mean bait this guy?

The guy victimizes lovers, we'll give him lovers.

Undercover.

Oh, wait, that's a bad choice of words.

Just do it.

Lovers, huh?

Us?

God, I miss the Navy.

Ow!

Take off, sir.

My hand!

Don't worry, Doc.

I'll take care of you.

The glory of the chase is in the beauty of the pursuit.

But there is no beauty, and glory is meek, as meek as the pursuer who

Meek. Yeah.

Afraid. That would be you, T.

Yeah, we'll see.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Seems to me you've had your shot, cowboy.

So just sit back and relax.

Let the real writer kick some butt.

Know what I mean?

Yeah, when is it?

Hi, Headline. What's new?

Who is it?

I'm insulted you had to ask.

It's the angel.

How did you get my number?

Doesn't matter.

What does is what I've got planned for tonight.

If you thought the last one was good, be at the corner of 11th and Ocean.

At 9, point your camera toward heaven.

You might wind up with a prize winner.

Go easy on the department money.

If our robber's watching, we have to make ourselves the perfect target.

Rich.

And in love.

Nibble my ear while I scan the lounge again.

Oh, please.

We gotta make this look good.

Nibble.

Drop another 50, darling.

No, no, no, no. This is an exclusive.

I got better offers.

I got exclusive motion picture rights.

I got television rights. I don't... I'm sorry.

Hold it. I'm on the horn here.

You've been talking to him, haven't you?

Are you crazy?

Are you crazy?

You're the expert on crazy.

Hey, get out of my apartment now, okay? I'm on the phone. You were on the phone.

You think I'm as dumb as your buddy, the angel of death, huh? Huh? All right.

I'm going to call the lawyer. Good, good. Call the lawyer. Maybe we can

why you let an innocent man die so you can sell more papers.

You think I knew that was going to happen?

You knew something was going to happen, but you didn't stop. You just took the

picture. Let me take that.

You know, right?

I got a right to report news. No, you're not reporting it anymore. You're

creating it. You're a participant, okay?

You're under arrest for accessory to murder.

Yeah, okay.

Yeah.

Yeah, you're going.

You got that.

Palermo.

Back off, Larson. You know what he did.

No, we all know what he did. But there's a thing in this country called the

Constitution, and unfortunately, it gives him the right.

It's called an obligation to the public.

What about your obligation as the human being?

Winters' paper, if you can call it that, marched an army of lawyers into the

chief's office.

It was his call to release Winters, not mine. Release him?

I don't like this any more than you do, but it has to be done.

You better get new locks on your doors, Winters.

Because whether you know it or not, you and the angel are in bed now.

You're his eyes and ears.

Every time he kills you, you're right there with him.

Every printed word.

This guy's a random killer. There's no predicting it. The only thing we know

sure is that he's talking to Winters. So the way to nail this guy is to trail

Winters. I've booked you on a flight to Aspen. It leaves in an hour.

McNamara here is going to take you to the airport.

Look, the case is just... You need the R &R.

I'm fine.

Tony, a week in the snow will do you a world of good.

Now, as a friend, I'm asking, and as your superior, it's an order.

You make sure he gets to that airport and I can see him.

You got it.

You know, this Mariah character probably won't even show his face once he

realizes Del Toro's out. Yeah, he'll be here. In fact, he bought this chime this

morning. He told me to give it to whichever bike cop was looking for him.

be you.

Oh, man.

No message here.

There's something wrong with this thing, I'm telling you.

Right.

Yeah.

Did you get Palermo off?

Yes, I did, and as a matter of fact, he should be on the slopes right about now.

Good.

Captain, what's going on?

Ten years ago, he let a guy get away who'd hurt a lot of people.

It's the same guy that gave him the bad leg.

It's been haunting him ever since.

Look, it's all in here.

I just hope Tony can get over it.

Thanks.

Yeah, winners.

Hey, headline, we're looking good.

Time for an up -close -and -personal, don't you think?

What do you mean, up -close -and -personal? You know a headline, you've

work, now meet the man kind of profile, an exclusive interview, just you and me

tonight? Really, I don't think that, no, no, no.

You don't know?

I thought we were a team.

But if you want the competition to get the interview, so be it. No, no, no,

wait, wait, wait, please, please, I'll, I'll be there.

Nine o 'clock, old McClure building, south side.

I'm, uh, I'm Winters.

Relax, Headline. We're partners.

I've been listening to the ship horns calling me at night. It's time for me to

move again.

But before I go, I wanted my mission to be heard.

I see.

I see. Well, uh, what is your mission?

The world is sick.

You're gonna cure it with shots of sodium pentothal?

I'm a messenger.

And my medicine...

Oh, and you're killing people and you're killing doctors.

Doctors give life. This life is a lie. The only way to escape the lie is to

reach the eternal truth, which is death.

I help others find the truth.

And you're the only one that knows this truth?

I'm tasting death. I live life. I help others find the truth. It is your

to help me spread the truth. My manifesto must be shared with the world.

Freeze, police!

In the truck.

I trusted you. I trusted you.

You see anybody suspicious?

Besides you?

Very funny.

No.

But they're out there. I can feel it.

So why don't we move this party upstairs?

Oh, but honey, I don't want our evening to end.

I'm sure our waiter feels the same way.

Nothing.

It was all clear.

I know. I didn't see anything either.

So. So.

Oh,

there's the bed.

Yep.

Look, whether we like this or not, we have got to make this thing look good.

Oh, right.

Oh, you're absolutely right. I mean, we are professionals being professional.

Right.

That's pretty firm.

Did I take you long enough?

Yeah.

Ouch. Oh, sorry.

That's good.

That was special.

Yeah.

I think we're just getting irresistible to each other.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh. Oh.

Oh, yes.

Oh, yes.

You're the kinky little pervert who's been sneaking into people's rooms?

Sorry, but you're not quite what I expected.

Oh, sure.

I've been rejected by every other woman that walks into this hotel.

They all go for the big, strong, dumb guys.

So, it's only fitting that the woman that arrests me rejects me, too.

Cuff him.

Would you?

You know, you really crossed the line this time, Tony.

Yeah, I blew it.

I had him and I blew it.

Now he has winners. Damn.

I don't know what the whole world will say.

Tony Palermo breaks the cardinal cop rule and puts down a gun.

What do you get for it?

A killer who gets away and every person who's died since can thank him for it.

McNamara.

Really? That's great, thank you.

Maybe he did leave a trail. The silicon chloride powder I was telling you about?

Yeah. I've been tracking its usage on the West Coast. Two places came up.

A lab in the valley and one near the waterfront.

The angel said something about ship warrants, the water.

Sounds right.

It's not much, but it's all we have.

Come on.

Well, let's do it.

Gotta be here.

I don't know if he'll publish what he did.

Oh, he'll publish.

Even if I have to tape it to your chest and blow your brains out.

Okay, headline.

Where should we start?

Spoke to me as a child.

He told me the truth and told me to spread it.

Looks like there's two doors.

I'll draw the angel out.

You guys get winters.

Get him out of here and down to the car now.

Dropping.

Hey, we meet again. The circle is complete.

You look better in blue.

It's all over this time. Remember the last time? If you shoot me, if I jerk,

he's dead.

I've seen how you keep your promises.

Drop the gun or I drop your friend.

Drop it.

Maybe he won't jerk.

Are you okay?

Yeah, I'm okay.

They would have killed you.

I knew you.

You can sound the chime, but you will be mine.

No, forget the poetry, man. Let's just lay it just right on the line to this

Mariah punk. You know what? You're right. And if this guy's got any guts at

he'll meet us on our terms, right?

When he does, I'm going to nail him. When I nail this guy, I'm going to take

derailers off and force feed it to his mouth.

Yes. Boy!

Hey, what's up, Chris?

Nothing just came in from a little ride. In fact, I brought someone here that

I'd like you to meet.

Mariah?

How did you catch him? There's no way. Let's just say the best man for this job

was the woman. Right, Mariah?

Better luck next time, boys.

No way.

Lieutenant, come on. We're going to be late.

Right, yeah.

Got everything?

Yeah.

Remember, Metro gives you any trouble.

Lieutenant, please, hurry up. We're going to miss your flight.

I just want to make one stop.

Okay.

I'm proud to talk it down.

Why everyone went to my town.

Look around and see.

It works for me.

Take a look around.

Just another day in LA.

More than me, anybody thinks he is free.

Someday.

What is it now?

Just another day.