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Hey, Hunter, man, I got here as soon as I was able, man. Where is the fire?

Three, maybe four cops might have gotten away with four million bucks.

And if we want to uncover the fourth man... If there is a fourth man... That

man's name may have been Hunter. I can't believe you lied to me.

You want crooked?

You look in the mirror.

You know, I was 14 years old when all that happened. Old enough to see how

killed him with their rumors.

Next driveway.

Right.

8 William 3.

We're in place. Subject's vehicle's inside.

This is 8 William 4. We got a two -minute ETA.

Give me a growl when you're in place.

Roger. Don't start without us.

We'll see you at the finish line.

Roger that. 8 William 4 clear.

Hey, William, we're in position.

We're rolling.

Why don't you take the small door on the right? I'll take the big sliding one.

See you inside.

Hey, where are you going? I'm not through counting the money yet.

Hold your hands outside the window.

8 William 4.

This is 8 William 4. Go ahead.

How's Ackerman?

He's gonna make it.

Great. I got the dope. Good job. We got the bucks.

I've made up my mind. I'm going to put Hunter on the Ackerman case.

There's no possible way that we can allow Sergeant Hunter to take this case,

Captain. IA won't stand for it. Charlie, it doesn't make much sense, does it,

not to have me on the case. It's stupid, as a matter of fact. See, I know the

circumstances. I know the people involved.

Well, that's exactly my point.

You know this case far too well.

What's the problem, Commander?

Hunter was completely cleared.

All right, let me show you the world according to IA.

Five years ago, four cops make a drug bust.

Three suitcases with $2 million in each.

Plus the dope.

Now, Ellis Riley, the only surviving dealer, now, he claims that there are

suitcases, $10 million.

Did Ackerman, Chandler, and Tolson, and maybe a fourth man, take a million bucks

apiece? Internal affairs starts an investigation.

And ruins the careers of three damn good cops. Amen.

Thanks for calling me, Charlie.

Ellis Riley lied to cut a deal with the D .A., but it didn't work.

Ackerman, Chandler, Tolson, and Hunter were all completely cleared. But

affairs has a way of letting its unofficial opinions be known.

And unofficially, I .A. decided the three cops on the scene took that money

agreed to sit on it until a statute of limitations ran out. Well, you couldn't

prove that.

So you did the next best thing.

You froze them out.

Ackerman took an early retirement.

Chandler quit because of a bad ticker. And Tolson probably because of a bad

conscience. Now, if you want my opinion, Captain, take it easy.

It's too late to rehash all that stuff now.

But I'll be damned if I'm going to keep quiet while you do the same thing to

Hunter five years later.

August 10.

Tolson and Chandler can start living like the millionaires they are right

Now, if I left out a name...

It's because there may or may not have been a fourth man.

And that man's name may or may not have been Hunter. Charlie, just give me the

case. You'll find out I'm not the fourth man. It's you people at IA who seem to

think that since there were four million bucks stolen, there have to be four men

involved. And there is no evidence, even if you're right, that you're fourth

man's Hunter.

I'm putting him on acumen because the killing may be connected to that drug

bust. And he knows the case and the people involved.

I just found out some information that I feel is going to throw a wrench into

everything you gentlemen have been discussing.

Ellis Riley got out on parole two weeks ago.

I'd say that nails it down for I .A.

Ellis Riley told the truth, and now he's out on parole, and he's looking for

four million bucks.

And he knows right where to find it.

Take Chandler. He may have to go up north to find it.

I'll find Tolson and check on Riley's P .O.

What's the matter with you? Why are you so uptight?

Want to know why I'm uptight?

Because there's people in this department, believe it or not, who think

sitting on one million dollars. This is my opportunity to prove them wrong.

Well, well, Sergeant Hunter.

Hi, Russ.

Good God, don't tell me they put you on this case. What case is that?

Oh, come off it. When I read Ackerman got killed, I knew that it's in

but I sure as hell didn't think it'd be you.

You know, whoever killed Ackerman ransacked his house.

So what?

So maybe he caught a prowler in the act and got bumped.

Happens all the time.

Or maybe one of the guys he punched out on the street decided to get even.

Ackerman was a jerk on the job.

They made enemies right and left, you know that.

Ellis Riley got put out on parole as of two weeks ago.

That's supposed to mean that I got a million bucks sewed into my mattress?

Haven't you ever heard a coincidence?

Oh, I've heard a coincidence, Russ, but this is evidence.

Yeah, but not proof.

Not now, not five years ago.

Not that the department needed any. They hung us anyway.

Trial by rumor.

Look, I've worked my butt off these last five years just to make ends meet.

I lost my house, my savings. I almost went bankrupt twice.

You think I'd live like that if I had a million bucks salted away?

I think all three of you decided not to touch the money, Russ, until the statute

of limitations ran out. And I think you're way the hell out of line.

Well, if I am, then you have nothing to worry about, isn't that right? However,

on the other hand, you and Chandler could be on Riley's hit list.

That is, assuming that you didn't kill Ackman for his million dollars.

By the way, where were you last night between 11 and 12?

If you want to ask questions, you call my lawyer. Now, I've been saying that

five years, and I'm still saying that. Call my lawyer. Just leave me the hell

alone. Take it easy, if you can.

A trip to Mexico would be considered a violation of your parole.

Uh -huh. That's right.

Canada, too.

Uh -huh.

All international borders.

State lines, large bodies of water.

Mr. Jacobs,

Rick Hunter, Metro PD.

Sergeant, have a seat.

Large bodies of water, huh?

How can I help you?

Ellis Riley.

I figured somebody'd be around.

Ellis Riley was a model prisoner. He's a model parolee.

On the other hand, any idiot can keep himself clean for two weeks.

Especially if he's got plans.

What do you mean?

Ellis is living with his lovely wife, Vanessa.

She helps manage the Cine Grill, that jazz club.

She met and married Ellis Riley while he was still in prison.

Now think about it.

Why would a woman with her act completely together marry a con with

prospects? I don't know. You tell me.

Because three, maybe four cops might have gotten away with four million

If they did, Ellis Riley is the only man in the world that knows for sure.

And Ellis is going to get some of it back.

Maybe prison rehabilitated him, huh?

That's a fat chance, my friend.

Oh, now, if one of these guys dies and comes back as Mother Teresa, then I

believe in rehabilitation.

Until that happened... Jacobs.

Will you accept a collect call from Mr.

Skarlosky? Collect?

Yes, sir.

How you doing?

I'm looking for Ellis Riley.

Hello, Sergeant Hunter.

I'm Vanessa Riley.

My husband is waiting for you.

Thank you.

How

you

doing, Riley?

Long memory.

What's it been?

Four years, three months, 22 days.

Where were you last night about 11 o 'clock?

Last night?

Last night when Ackerman got what was coming to him, huh?

I went home about 11.

Anybody there with you? Your wife, maybe? No, she was here.

Ackerman was killed between 11 and 12 o 'clock last night.

Doesn't give you much of an alibi, does it?

Alibi? Yeah, you know, alibi, you get out of jail, Ackerman winds up dead.

of a coincidence, don't you think?

So what?

So what? Let me tell you something, Ellis. It all points to you.

Unless you want to change your story it told us five years ago.

No, no, no. It was ten million dollars. You understand?

Your buddies only turned in six.

Oh, I get it. I bet everybody's been wondering about you the whole time, huh?

Sure, you were out on the street busting me at the time, but that doesn't mean

they didn't cut you in.

See, how many cops know how to divide four into three?

You want to arrest me now, you go ahead.

But I didn't kill Ackerman.

I've got a good woman, and I'm going to find a good job.

I'll admit that I was a stupid kid, but I'm not a kid anymore, and I'm not a

crook.

You want crooked?

You look in the mirror.

I think they cut you in.

Don't look down.

I haven't seen him around the last couple of days.

You a friend of Walt's?

Yeah, I'm from the police department where I used to work.

Don't tell me you're a cop.

Yeah.

Detective Sergeant Dee Dee McCall.

Are you a neighbor of his or a friend?

I'm the manager here.

Oh. Well, we've been trying to find him.

Well, like I said, I haven't seen him for a couple of days.

Do you think we might be able to take a look inside? We're kind of worried about

him.

Let's take a look.

Thanks.

Who's the girl in the picture?

That's his daughter.

She's married. She lives in town.

Do me a favor, will you?

Go and call the sheriff. I don't want to put my prints on the phone in here.

I'm terribly sorry I have to bring you news like this.

I still have some more questions that I need to ask you, but I can certainly

come back later.

No, it's okay.

Well, maybe we should try to locate your husband.

We can't.

He's out looking for work right now. I don't know where he is.

Mike got laid off last Christmas.

What about your father?

Yes. When was the last time he was in Los Angeles?

Years.

Probably four years ago.

That's when he moved up here.

Did he ever make any short visits, you know, like on the weekends?

No.

He would have told me.

What did you know about his financial situation?

Had a disability pension from the police department because of his heart.

Is there anything else? You know, like a savings account?

Or maybe a million dollars he was chipping away at.

You know, I was 14 years old when all that happened. Old enough to see how

killed him with their rumors.

My father and his partners were innocent. My father was a good man.

When are you people going to believe that?

The

place

was really torn up. The coroner said that Chandler had been dead for more

two days.

The cause of death was the massive coronary.

He had bruises all on his face and his shoulders, and the coroner said that...

Apparently he died of cardiac arrest while he was being slapped around.

For his million bucks.

Which means that Chandler and Ackerman, may they rest in peace, were both

crooked. And so's Tolson.

Now, I hate to say I told you so, but 20 -20 hindsight, George. Let's stick to

the situation at hand.

All right.

What about Tolson?

Do we pick him up on a five -year -old theft and conspiracy warrant? The DA

would throw us out on our butts.

If we want a case against Tolson.

And if we want to uncover the fourth man... If there is a fourth man.

If there is a fourth man, then you'd better hold off.

All right, look.

Check and see if Ellis Riley could have been in San Luis Obispo when Chandler

was killed.

Matchbook found in Chandler's apartment has Riley's fingerprints all over it.

Pick them up now.

Riley dropping that matchbook made it kind of convenient for us, don't you

think?

What are you getting at?

Well, the only fingerprints that were found in Chandler's apartment were on

matchbook.

Riley's fingerprints on the matchbook make it a pretty tight frame, don't you

think? Yeah. Let's find Ellis.

Who the hell are you?

Five years in the slam made you a tough little man, huh, Ellis?

Sit down.

Sit down!

So you're one of those crooked cops, huh?

We're gonna play 20 questions.

Six questions, actually.

Because that's all the chances you got. Did you kill Ackerman?

No.

What did you do with Ackerman's million bucks?

I don't have it.

I didn't kill Ackerman, and I don't have his money. I didn't kill him!

Oh, God.

Oh, God.

You got four left now. Where's the money?

Man, if I had it, I would give it to you.

Your odds are running real thin, Ellis.

All I want's the money and then I'll go.

Please, man, I didn't kill him and I don't have his money.

I haven't got the money, man.

Please, man.

You got it.

I don't have his money, I swear to God. You're running out of time, Ellis. Talk

to me.

I count five.

You're a real lucky man.

Tell me where the money is and stay lucky.

I got what I came for.

It was either you or one of those cops that killed Ackerman.

Now I know it wasn't you.

Either that or you're the toughest guy that I ever met.

And I know that's not the case.

Behind

the

bar at the far end of by the mirror. Away from the door.

Thanks.

May I help you? Yes, I'm Sergeant Jeannie McCall, Metro Homicide.

I need to speak with your husband. It's rather important.

Well, he was supposed to be here half an hour ago.

He was going to help me with this.

You can wait if you'd like.

Where is Sergeant Hunter?

He's probably at your apartment right now.

Look, man, when he pulled the trigger for the fifth time and I couldn't come

with any answers for him, he decided to believe me.

Now, if he believed me, why the hell can't you?

I believe you, Ellis.

Now, you being out on parole gave the killer his opportunity.

If I take him, there's no way we can catch him.

Then I'm in the clear.

Looks that way.

But if you really want to be in the clear, you got to cooperate with me.

How?

I want to get you out of town or no one can find you.

That way, if Tolson or someone winds up with a bullet in their head, you don't

become a number one suspect.

Look, I'm going to have to call Vanessa.

I'm already late. She's going to be worried. And what about my parole

Don't worry about that. I'll take care of that.

Hey, honey, man, I got here as soon as I was able, man. Where is the fire?

So this is the fire.

Forty James.

Ellis Rod.

I heard you were recently out from under.

Forty wants you to do me a favor. Take Ellis and get him out of the city. And I

mean out of the city.

Out of the city.

Hey, I can do you one better than that.

I can take him off the continent.

Good. I like that.

Let's go.

Go ahead.

Let me tell you about Gordon, okay, Ellis?

Now, Gordon is a quiet sort of a guy, but he is absolutely positively

man. I called ahead and I told him what he needs to know. No more, no less, man.

There's no safer place that you can be right now, man. I can guarantee that

without qualification.

Great, yes.

This is wonderful.

Good thing you called me when you're dead.

I was about to leave.

Is that the job?

It is indeed.

Now, Gordon, listen.

You are going to have to stay out there.

Don't land unless it's Mexico or British Columbia.

Don't have to land.

Got enough supplies for a month.

Hey, fabulous.

I'll radio you when Hunter gives me the all clear.

Now, Ellis, you're going to have a lot of free time on your hands. I hope you

can put it to some good use. I am a very big fan of barbecued salmon or marlin

or shark or squid.

Hey, I can't swim.

Great. We'll get along just fine.

Ellis Riley wasn't at his wife's club, wasn't at her apartment either. She was

expecting him, but he never did show up.

What did he do? Take the money and run? Yeah, I think it's possible.

First he goes to see Chandler, and then Chandler dies before he gets a chance to

find out where the money is.

Then he hits Ackerman, and he scores.

A million bucks.

But why doesn't he leave town immediately?

Why wait?

Maybe he panicked.

What do you think about this, McCall? It sounds reasonable.

Hunter's in the process of running down everybody that Ellis came into close

contact with while he was in prison, especially parolees for the last five

years. It's possible he could be with one of them.

All right, good.

Keep it up.

I can't believe you lied to me. I can't believe that. You told me you had not

found Ellis. You let me go into Devane's office and pass it on to everybody.

Look.

I couldn't tell you I found Ellis over the radio because there's dirty cops

involved. We now know there's a fourth man.

Yeah, you're right.

And Tolson and the fourth man are all that's left.

The odds are that Tolson and this fourth man are going to go after each other.

Absolutely right. But first we go get our scrambler for our cars. Come on.

idea.

Hunter? Yeah, I know. You're sorry you got upset with me, right?

Right.

How'd you get?

We're partners, aren't we?

Where is Ellis?

I don't know. Have you seen this man in here in the last couple of weeks?

No.

I have a really good eye for faces.

It's part of my job to remember people who come in here.

Everybody who comes in here.

If this guy had been in here in the last couple of years, I would recognize him.

Wait a minute, Doctor.

I'm confused.

Is Sheila's condition terminal or is it not?

All right. All right, then. Is it operable?

Doctor. Doctor!

Look, look, I've got to have an appointment with you.

I want to be able to stand there in your office face to face with you and get

some straight answers.

Yeah, 8 o 'clock will be fine.

Yeah, I'll see you tomorrow morning.

Sure, thanks.

Lieutenant Finn.

Jim McBride, Lieutenant.

How's it going?

You know, rounding up the usual suspects.

We haven't found Ellis Riley yet, if that's what you're wondering about.

How did you guess?

I know you, Jim.

I know how important it is to you for your men to be cleared.

Yeah, it sure is, Ambrose. It sure is.

You boys any closer to it yet?

Hunter thinks that someone tried to frame Ellis by stealing a matchbook from

Cinegrill with Ellis' fingerprints on it.

Hunter knows it's not your boy Tolson that's worth anything to you. Well, it's

worth plenty.

That's a big step in the right direction.

Anything else?

No, not much else.

Say, I was just on my way over to Rex's for a pot of coffee.

How about joining me? We can both talk about our troubles.

You haven't got any troubles.

That's what you think.

Five minutes?

You got it, Ambrose.

Five minutes.

Lincoln 5 -7, come in, please.

This is Lincoln 5 -7. How you doing?

What's the deal on Colson? He has not budged.

Hello. Wait a minute. Correct that.

He's moving.

He's moving in a gray Dodge sedan.

Okay, keep reporting your location, McCall.

And remember, don't get too close to him. He's a nice undercover cop.

East on Claussen, just past Olympic.

Okay, pull off.

He just turned left onto Crescent.

Okay, I'll take it.

I got it.

He's still heading north on Crescent, just past Vista.

Okay, I'm with you.

Hunter, he's heading south on Euclid. Want me to stay with him?

No. Go one block and then parallel him.

Lincoln 5 -7, come in. This is Lincoln 5 -7, go ahead.

I'll call. I'm parked on the 4700 block of Rockport Place.

He's going into a house on the south side of the street.

Bear with me a minute here.

I think we found our man.

Who is it?

I can't tell you now. I'm gonna wait till I see your face. You won't believe

I

don't

know what you're talking about. Don't move.

A million wasn't enough for you, was it?

What did you do?

Captain.

Gamble it away?

You're out of your mind. You're a compulsive gambler.

We all knew that.

That's why you talked us into grabbing the money in the first place.

Yeah, all right.

I bet a little.

So what? Everybody does.

Not like you, they don't.

We kept our end of the bargain.

Five years, and we didn't spend a dime.

You probably blew yours in Vegas the first weekend.

You killed Ackerman and Chandler. You took their money, and I'm next.

Ellis Riley killed Ackerman and Chandler.

Isn't that obvious?

He's waiting all those years to get out and get even.

I had a little chat with Ellis, and I know he didn't kill anybody.

You're the one that's been waiting all these years. Ellis Riley out on parole

gave you the perfect opportunity.

You can't kill me.

You got five months till that statute of limitations runs out.

You kill me now, and this whole investigation centers right on you.

Don't worry, Captain.

I figured all this out. And you're right.

I'm not going to kill you, but you're not going to kill me either.

Because I've written it all down and put it in a nice, safe place.

How we radioed you from the bust.

How you told us to wait until you got there.

How you suggested that we just turn in six million, keep four for ourselves.

You make it sound like it was all my idea.

It was your idea.

You just had to have that money.

Well, you're not getting mine.

Because if anything happens to me now, the D .A. gets the whole rep.

Don't move.

All right, now throw the gun on the bed.

Now turn around.

I knew you didn't believe me when I told you I'd written everything down. I

could see it in your face.

So I came home, and I did.

I wrote it all down and decided to wait on you to show up.

And here you are.

Go ahead. Take a look.

It's all there, and it's going to go to that nice, safe place I mentioned.

I said take a look.

Drop the gun, Ruth.

Very gently.

Easy.

We almost made it.

Almost?

How was

your vacation, Riley? Let me tell

you, I've seen worse.

I missed you.

Baby, I missed you too.

Hey, that's the Scotty.

Brought that off the coast of San Luis Obispo.

Thanks a lot, Gordon.

Bet you guys did a lot to talk about, huh?

Are you kidding? That man said eight words to me the whole time.

Throw up on my deck, you shark bait.

So am I in the clear?

You're in the clear.

What about you?

I'm in the clear, too.

Tolson has pleaded guilty to theft and conspiracy.

He's cooperating fully with the D .A. because he sure doesn't want to risk

charged with the murder of Ackerman and Chandler. Yeah, Tolson's million is in,

and we found Ackerman's million over at McBride's house.

Well, that still leaves Chandler's million unaccounted for, doesn't it?

we're looking for that.

Well, I don't like loose ends, especially a million bucks' worth of

so keep looking, eh?

Yeah.

McCall. Someone here to see you.

Hi. Hello, Sergeant McCall. This is my husband, Mike. Hi, Mike. Hi. Sergeant

Hunter. Hi, folks.

We found a safe deposit key in her dad's things.

And, uh... Well?

I never believed the rumor, um, that my father took that money.

He was a good man, though. He really was.

Yeah, well, even, uh... Even a good man can make mistakes, you know? You know,

you, uh... You guys will get a reward for turning this money in, though.

Yeah, you will. Ten percent.

$100 ,000.

You can collect it, uh... Back at the desk, Sergeant.

You can take care of the paperwork.

He's got the money on him.

Thank you.

Thank you. We'll talk to you. Thank you.

You know, it sure is good to know that some good came out of all this.

Yeah.

A million bucks.

So what do you say we take a little quick hop to

the island of Bali?

I have this.

What do you mean, we, Tonto?

Bye.