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This place is terrific. You're going to love the food.

Guess we lost the argument.

As soon as they find out about Nim's death, Chinese blood's going to flow all

over town.

He won't talk.

Probably no life insurance.

Kidnapping, buddy. This will be the night of the dragons.

I don't even like Chinese food.

Works for me.

You know, McCall, I know you won the bet, but don't you think this is rubbing

in a little bit?

Give it a rest, will you? This place is terrific. You're gonna love the food.

Do me a favor and order me something edible. I don't mean, uh, marinated clam

lips, either.

I'm gonna use it for her.

Of course, out of order.

Excuse me. Can anybody here tell me where I can find a phone that works?

Who the hell are you?

I told you, pal, I was looking for a telephone.

None here. Now get out.

I agree with you, pal.

Customer's always right.

Great ambiance here, Paul, really.

Dead ducks hanging up in the kitchen. You got Genghis Khan in the hallway and

phone that's out to lunch.

So what'd you order me?

Number 36.

What's that?

Boiled shark fin.

It's great.

Here's your break.

They really got you Chinese vegetables, okay? And they are good.

Let's ask some questions under

Looking for someone, Lieutenant?

Rick!

Raymond Lau.

How are you? Good, good, and you?

I'm doing very well. I haven't seen you in years. I know.

You're so short.

Good job.

This is D .D. McCall. This is Lieutenant Raymond Lau.

How's Barbara and Tim?

Oh, they're fine.

We go back a long ways to the Academy.

We were compatriots there.

Now Lau is in charge of the Asian Task Force downtown.

So, What's the story here now?

Well, it's hard to say. No subtitles.

We got a dead body for you.

Gone.

Probably just wounded.

Guess he ran.

No way, Raymond. That guy was dead. I checked him. I saw him take the hits. He

didn't walk out of here. Well, where's the body, Rick?

So what is it? A robbery?

Now, four Vietnamese came through that door hot under the collar. Now, an

argument broke out right here in the middle of the floor, and next thing we

knew, bullets were flying.

Are you sure they were Vietnamese?

I was in Vietnam, remember.

A Chinese had a Viet in the back room they were arguing with. Where did the

Chinese go? Well, out the back and over the wall, I guess.

Well, who shot first?

I don't know.

Does this make any sense to you?

Yeah, well, there's been a lot of gang activity down here lately, and I got a

hunch about this missing body.

What's that?

The Chinese came back to get him, to give him a proper burial.

I'll bet if you check the next big Chinese funeral, you'll find something.

That's an interesting idea, Rick, but this is just a small piece to a big

puzzle, and I don't have time to follow up on the long shots.

But thanks anyway.

It's nice meeting you. Excuse me.

What are you doing on your day off, McCall?

Going to a Chinese funeral.

There's a Great Wall of China. We're like Godzilla.

Bingo, there's our man.

Honey, take my picture. It's a Chinese wedding. Biff and Muffy will love it.

You look good, honey.

Say cheese.

Uh -oh, uh -oh. Come here. Look out. Come on, come on.

Give me that camera.

Hey, give me that camera. Right there, whale bait. You're not going anywhere,

buddy.

Think again, buddy.

right there.

Put it down.

You tore my shirt.

You're under arrest.

For what?

Assaulting a police officer, attempted theft of my camera, and warranted

destruction of personal property. You think this guy's going to fit in the

Yeah, I'll call a tow truck.

Yeah.

Oh, that's nice.

Come on, whale bait.

Let's go, McCall.

Whoa, you look like the cat that swallowed the canary.

I'm going to get you to repay an old debt today.

Oh, what do you mean?

Well, Lieutenant Lau and I were roommates at the academy. He covered me

night when I was AWOL. Hey, wait a minute.

I bet you're going to settle an old debt.

Lieutenant, how are you?

Well,

we'd never been to a Chinese funeral, so we decided to go to it.

This big guy here, he's downstairs in the slammer. You arrested him? Sure did.

You might want to talk to him before he makes bail. He tried to steal my camera.

Besides, he ripped my good shirt.

Stop. You're ripping my heart out.

Sergeant McCall. Rick.

Thanks. I'll check on these right away. Thanks. Hey, how about lunch?

Uh, next week for sure, huh? You swamped?

It never ends.

It's not supposed to, Raymond.

All right. Schedule the lineup for as soon as possible.

I don't want the witness getting cold feet.

Yeah.

No. Absolutely no overtime.

Right.

Not now, Shirley. And hold all call.

Anyway, we found a suspect that only McCall and I could identify.

And we did it on our day off, too. Yeah, but nobody asked for your help. That's

my point. You know, I don't get this, Captain. Two hours ago, we give Loud the

biggest clue he's had, and the guy goes and tells the deputy chief that we're

getting in the way. Now, what the hell is that?

In the past few years, the Vietnamese population has doubled in this city.

And they're living right in the middle of Chinatown, and that's causing a lot

real problems, considering the thousand -year -old grudge they carry for each

other. And that's where the Asian task force comes in. And that's why I don't

want you two getting involved.

This is a job for specialists, which you two are not.

Then why didn't Raymond, Lieutenant Lau, tell us about that? Because I'm telling

you now.

Now, it's an area that the chief is nervous as hell about.

Something's boiling up down there, and he wants it contained.

Now, Lau knows how to do that, and you don't. And won't.

That's an order.

Got it.

Don't I owe you dinner?

Forget it, Hunter. Just because you brush your teeth next to the guy for a

doesn't mean you know him.

Lau and I were damn close friends.

Well, maybe Ray turned into a political wussy. People do change, you know. Yeah,

not that much.

Fine. Look, the captain was pretty explicit about us staying out of Lau's

so why don't we get out of Chinatown, huh?

Let's go get some Italian food. How about some calamari fritti?

Squid? It's good for you.

Any units in the vicinity of the Pacific Pagoda need be found.

Possible 187, spawn code 2. Like you said, let's get out of Chinatown.

I'll not stick around and ID the body before dinner, okay?

You guys must get paid a bundle for overtime.

Well, we were just a few minutes away, and it was called as any units in the

vicinity. It's not a problem.

I got a question for you, Raymond.

Why did you go to the deputy chief instead of me, anyway?

I tried, Rick, but I couldn't find you.

Look, I've been...

Up to my butt in this stuff, and so I asked the deputy chief to have you ease

on, because this is a delicate situation.

Did it sound like a complaint? Because I didn't.

Lieutenant Lyle, you want to take a look at him before we ship him to the

morgue? Yeah.

Vietnamese, male,

round 45.

Do me a favor, let me see how he's dressed, will you?

What was the guy arguing with the Chinese bigwig at the restaurant that

the shooting?

Guess he lost the argument.

Did you really see him? I mean, could you swear to that, Rick?

Yeah, sure, I could.

Okay, uh, let's see if any of this connects, huh?

Hey, look, uh, you owe me a dinner, remember? We got a bet.

Come on.

See you around, man.

Why did you make a public spectacle of this murder, Chang? It serves as a

warning to those who would dare resist me.

Couldn't you have phoned them up? Did you have to go on national television

news? Well, the murder was private. The message was public.

Yeah, well, you just made a terrible mistake, Chang. Because once those media

dogs have a scent, they're not going to let this thing go.

All dogs tire of a scent that leads them to nothing.

Calm yourself, Lieutenant.

This is just the beginning.

There's something I need your assistance on.

Take a look at those photographs and tell me the whereabouts of those men,

Lieutenant. Why, Chang?

Why do you want to find him?

Oh, don't ask me why.

Just do it.

Why don't you have him do this?

It's obvious that you can get places where he can't.

Just find him.

I can't guarantee anything, but I'll look into this.

Lieutenant, I'm sure you can find him. After all, it's to the best of your

interest, huh?

Why are you so eager?

We haven't even completed our business yet. What else?

There's the two American sergeants. They annoy me. They are behaving badly. They

went so far as to arrest Mongo. This upsets him very much.

I don't need the conflict from these. Why, Goran?

Hunter and McCall are off the case.

Hey, that's good.

There is one last thing that I want you to do for me.

I think you know what that is. I can't touch him now. It's too dangerous.

I need that witness.

I need him. Without him, there can be no transaction.

Do you understand?

Yeah.

I understand.

You know, Mongo, I don't trust these American boys.

Now that Hunter and McCall are off the case, I hope you're satisfied and happy.

No, that man owes me a debt.

I will collect.

No, no, not right now. I just want you to observe them for the time being.

If they get in my hair again, then I will give them to you as a little humble

present, a dessert.

I

wasn't

sure until now, but I know this guy.

Who is he?

He hasn't been in the headlines in over ten years.

Wasn't he the guy they called the People's General? It was the last big

of Saigon, right? Still flying his own helicopter, I think.

Hunter and McCall, you got a minute? Yep.

I want to believe that you two aren't crazy, so you tell me, what happened?

What do you mean? I just got a report from the Asian Task Force that you were

the scene of their investigation up at Pacific Pagoda.

Asian Task Force? You mean Lieutenant Lau?

Actually, it was the duty sergeant. Hunter owes me a Chinese dinner, so we

near Chinatown. It was any units in the vicinity call, and we were there in

minutes. As soon as we saw Lieutenant Lau, we left, okay?

Don't you know any other place in this city to eat besides Chinatown? I don't

even like Chinese food.

So it was an accident, right?

Right. You don't have any quarrel with Lieutenant Lau?

Except for the fact he called you instead of me.

Well, we're all under pressure, Hunter. So bottom line, no more strange

coincidences. Right? Right.

We got a tail?

Don't look back.

Yeah, we got a tail, all right.

Great.

Captain said no more strange coincidences, remember?

It's no coincidence. It's the tail.

Hold on.

Captain, look. Why are we running from him? Why don't we just... Pull over and

see what's going down here.

Who says they're going to pull over? We've got a guarantee that they'll pull

over. Okay, fine. How do we do that?

Hold on.

Let's see what this baby will do.

On the point.

Don't even think about it. Get out.

Say cheese.

You made bail real quick, didn't you, Whale Bay? Well, your boss is going to

real happy with the tab you're running, because you're under arrest again.

I'm not letting you go with a warning. You can tell me why you've been

me. Reckless driving and carrying concealed weapons.

You're a real scoff, aren't you, Whale Bay?

Well,

we should do this again some other time, Fatso.

Get him out of here.

Excuse me.

Excuse me.

Are you Sergeant Hunter and Sergeant McCall?

Yes. I work for a man of great importance from Saigon who would very

to talk to you.

Well, you boys ought to talk to Raymond Lau. He's the man.

This important person would not speak with Lieutenant Lau.

He wished to speak to you.

It's a private matter.

Yeah, we'll follow you.

I have heard that you are not our enemy.

as Lieutenant Raymond Lowry.

Well, Mr. Nim, the Asian task force is a complete different ballgame, you know.

Nonetheless, your actions with Chang's people is thick otherwise.

Is that the name of the man, Chang?

Is he associated with Chang's restaurant supply company?

I need your assistance.

The leader of our community has been meeting since yesterday.

Perhaps you've heard of him.

General Luke Nguyen Nim. He is my son.

Well, I'm sorry that we have to be the first to tell you this.

But your son is dead.

Thank you for your honesty.

My man will see you out.

Well, sir, excuse me, but I think we might still be able to help each other

here. There's nothing we can do for your son, but maybe we could join forces

together to get the people who killed him.

You know how Chang was involved with your son?

The matter has nothing to do with police now.

We must handle it in our own way. Let's not forget one thing. This is not

Saigon. This is Los Angeles.

You are mistaken, Sergeant Hunter.

This is Canada.

God, how I hate delivering news like that.

Yeah, I know McCall but if you didn't there's something wrong with you, you

If

I were him I'd be getting ready for the war I think he is

Yeah, I'd like to find out if mr. Nim has permits for all those firearms he

laying around You better do a quick McCall something's going on here. It

quite smell like to me

I get that queasy feeling like the one I had just before K -Son, you know what I

mean? Didn't we lose that one?

Say cheese.

Take a hike, whale bait.

What did Mr. Luck want from you?

He wanted to buy a couple of tickets to the policeman's ball.

For God's sakes, Hunter, will you stop being a hero?

The old man wanted to know who killed his son.

He didn't know that your boss had him iced. Now that's it. As soon as he found

out the general was dead, we were out the door, all right?

I've been told killing cops is not wise, but...

If I see your face again, I'm going to forget that good advice.

When

we

left your office, we were tailed by a couple of thugs

from that funeral down in Chinatown. And they forced you to arrest them? They

were driving recklessly and carrying concealed heat.

Speaking of which, it's got to be over 100 in here.

Well, the air conditioner's broken in here, but business as usual, it seems,

you two.

Hello.

Oh, Lord, I forgot all about him.

Apologize to him and assure him that the neighborhood watch program is very

important to me and reschedule again for sometime next week.

Any sign of the deputy chief?

Honor?

Hunter, leave the jacket on. The deputy chief will be here any minute.

So... Where did the Vietnamese come into this? They said their boss wanted to

talk. The hunter tried to steer them to Lao, but they weren't buying it.

They said he wouldn't talk to Lao.

Put it over there.

Captain, look, wouldn't you agree that it would have been very bad police work

if we had not gone along?

Look, we're just trying to figure out what the hell's going on here.

And we think we may have figured something out.

Who is this?

General Luk Nguyen Nim, leader of the L .A. Vietnamese community. He's the one

that turned up dead at the Pacific Pagoda.

It was General's father who wanted to talk to me.

Yeah. As soon as they find out about Nim's death, Chinese blood's going to

all over town.

Are you the authority on Chinatown now, Sergeant?

These ribs make it my business whether I like it or not.

And before we boil in our own oil here, Captain, don't you think we deserve an

explanation?

All right.

Chang was... The second biggest man in the Chinese underworld.

Now he's the biggest.

Five days ago, Lieutenant Lau set up a sting operation for Chang and his boss.

Something went wrong.

We lost one of our own men and all the videotape they had.

Who screwed it up?

Chang.

He thought his own boss was pulling the switch on him, so he shot him dead on

the spot.

Then he killed our undercover man who was working as Chang's flunky.

It was a mess.

But Lieutenant Lau pulled it out of the fire.

How'd he do that?

He got a class A witness to the murder. One of Chang's lieutenants.

Just one problem.

He won't talk.

Probably no life insurance.

Lau persuaded me and the chief that if we do this his way, he'd deliver the

witness.

That's why it's so damn important that nothing go wrong.

And that's why I'm telling you everything.

So you get it this time and you stay the hell out.

Well, I got it. But I want you to know one thing. Lau and I are very close.

I want to tell him in detail my conversation with Nim's father.

In person, if you don't mind.

All right, fine. You do that, Hunter.

Yeah.

Send him in.

Woman's touch.

Did you play with hornet's nest when you were a kid, Hunter?

Didn't everybody?

What are you doing?

I was going to have a plan D.

Sergeant Kwong, you got a minute?

What can I do for you? Wow upstairs?

No. Where is he?

Sorry, I can't tell you.

Look, Kwong, these wire photos just came in from Washington, D .C. They're a top

priority. Now, you're wasting my time. Where is he? I don't know.

Come on, Kwong. You know where he is when he's changing his socks.

Yeah, deputy chief, please.

Well, you're going to have to interrupt him because I guarantee you this is a

lot more important.

No, we got a little problem down here at the Asian task force.

Yeah, there's a sergeant... He's at the Wang Chu restaurant in

Chinatown.

You know, something's wrong, McCall.

You mean the pitch the captain gave us about Lau and his witness?

Doesn't add up for me either.

You know, if everything was as smooth as the captain made it sound, don't you

think Lau would have told me something about this? It's over at Wang Siu.

Changster.

Yeah, and we had to twist the sergeant's arm just to find that out.

Might as well say it, Hunter.

I'm the only one who's here.

Boy, I hate cooking, Tom.

You've been making all kinds of delays, Lieutenant.

I just want to make sure there's no way you're going to double -croft me. Double

-croft?

That's a harsh word.

Now, I want that prisoner. And when you have him in your possession, then call

me.

Don't worry.

Feel safe.

I want guarantees, not assurances.

Listen, you're in no position to make any demands on me.

I'm telling you right now, don't you dare test my patience any further. My

is my bond. It's been so for 1 ,000 years in my family.

But you wouldn't know anything about that, would you? You're an American

Chinese.

Mr. Chang, those two police sergeants just drove up outside.

Get out of here, Lau.

And pull into the first alleyway.

Pull now, Rick. It's Raymond here, okay?

Raymond, who's Doug Ball?

Settle down, Hunter.

I know how this must look.

But you don't know the story here, okay?

Look, I've had your crap up to here, Raymond.

Now, they got McCall. What the hell is going on here? I know they got McCall.

But she's still alive.

I saw her with Mongol. I know where she is. Good. Where is she? She's in some

tunnels under the Wangchu. Good. Let's go there. Now, wait, Rick. I got to talk

to Sergeant Kwong first, all right? Look, Kwong was the only one that knew

were at the Wangchu restaurant tonight, huh?

What was the cut out of this, huh? Let me ask you this, Raymond. What was your

cut out of it? You got to listen to me, Rick.

Chang murdered his boss and killed one of my men.

But there was a witness.

Now, the day I busted him, Chang kidnapped my daughter.

You got Kim?

Yeah, and that's why I couldn't tell you anything.

They're probably holding her and McCall in the same place. Now, let me make this

call, because all hell's going to break loose down here any second, and it's our

one chance to get Kim and McCall.

This is Lieutenant Lau. Patch me through to Kwong's Asian task force

immediately. It's code three emergency.

Stand by.

Lieutenant Lau.

Kwong. No, sir, we can't locate him. He's out of the office.

Well, find him!

That's China, John. That's Chang's phase two.

That's why I can't move until I talk to Kuang.

This is Sergeant Kuang. Lieutenant Lau.

Sergeant. Yeah, Chang's making his move in Little Saigon. Activate plans A and

B. Then I want you in front of the Wang Chu immediately.

Got it? Yes, sir. I'm on it now. Out.

The Chinese men have just launched phase two.

Roundup of all the NIMS lieutenants, about 12 men.

They're going to do what Al Capone did on St. Valentine's Day.

They're going to kill them all.

Well, your unit can do whatever it wants to.

My job is to find McCall.

When Kwan and our SWAT teams get here, the channel will be spread pretty thin,

so there'll only be a skeleton guard on Kim and McCall.

They should be signaling us any second now.

Damn it!

Where's that signal?

There it is!

Go!

Come on, honey.

I'll go first.

Hope you will.

What's your name?

Kim, Kim Lau.

Come on.

This is kidnapping, buddy.

You can get the death penalty for this, you know.

who needs one of you right now! Let's move it!

I'm cold.

Kim. Daddy.

How

you

doing? Okay.

Take him down there.

And be careful. I'll draw the fire from back here.

night of the dragons.

They should all be here now.

Except one.

Where are we?

At the gate of hell.

You don't need to do this to us. We want peace.

I will give you peace.

On my way.

Call the garage, get my car downstairs.

Johnson, come with me. We've got to be in Chinatown in five minutes.

Don't worry, honey.

Daddy will be just fine.

The sergeant will take real good care of you.

Move it. You will

respect

your strength.

You have taken my son away, but there will be no reprisals.

That's good.

That's very reassuring.

But I will sleep much better knowing that none of you will wake up the next

morning with a change of mind.

If you do this thing, the killing will never stop until every one of our people

is dead.

As for my son, the war is finally over.

But for you, Chang, it will just begin.

There is one thing I learned about you people, Diem.

In fact, from your son.

It does no good to talk.

There is one thing that you understand only.

The gun.

So be it.

Ying.

Thank you

for

watching.

Get it loud!

We've got Kang and the hot jizz in our warehouse!

Rock, wet, wet, too wet!

Heavy gunfire!

Cover me!

Thank you.

We got a fortune here for you, Chang.

You have the right to remain silent.

What the hell happened?

I think we just stopped a gang war, Captain.

We sure did.

Oh, McCall.

Don't I owe you that Chinese dinner?

Well, McCall, you're finally going to get that Chinese dinner you've been

worrying me out about.

Home cooked, no less.

Yeah, I think I almost said it for a pizza with the works.

Yeah, sounds good.

Specialty of the house.

My mom's own recipe from the old country.

An exotic adventure in taste.

What do you call it?

What's that?

Barbecued steak and french fries.

Hunter,

you still owe me a Chinese dinner.