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Tonight on Hunter.

Well, these guys know you're a police dispatcher and that you work the swing

shift. They're going to kill me if you don't help.

Whoever stole that burning bar has got a big job plan to have.

Five million dollars in gold bullion was unaccounted for. Now that's about a

thousand pounds.

If the police find me or the gold, he dies.

Hold it right there, please!

out of 15.

See the woman of 415 Gang.

They are now 1546 Street, Incident 149.

1 William 156.

Roger. Vote 6.

5152 West 7th.

Go to TAC 2 for Adam 24.

Adam 6. Go to TAC 2 for Adam 24.

I know that it's difficult, Mr. Gilman, but please keep on going.

What else did they take?

Well, I made a check and they've taken a few things.

Two welding tanks.

Just a second.

They smashed down the front door and they hit the night watchman. They didn't

kill the guy, but he's elderly.

M .E. says he had a stroke.

Hi, I'm Sergeant Hunter.

My manager.

How you doing? What'd they get?

Two oxygen tanks, a metal burning bar.

A burning bar?

Where we use it to cut elevator or air conditioning shafts in old buildings.

Uh -huh.

What else have you got? A box of goggles and masks, half a dozen ear protectors,

and a sweet old guy who never hurt anybody.

Thanks. That'll be enough for now.

Thank you very much.

We have a witness who found a license plate on a large rental truck that was

moving at 12 o 'clock.

Well...

Whoever stole that burning bar has got a big job planned ahead.

Yeah.

What about Eddie?

Fine, no problem.

He's going to wave us through the gate.

Uh -huh. You talk to our other friend.

Just now.

It's all set.

We don't have to worry about the alarm.

Well, that leaves our loose end.

The guard inside.

Just like you said.

Take care of the guard's telephone.

Take care of the guard.

Phone cable is buried.

Can't cut it.

So I did just like you said.

How did the kid react?

Scared to death.

Do anything.

Tomorrow night.

Any kids?

What's going on over there?

It's Rockland's second day without his training officer.

Pulled the car over, the guy got out with a gun. It's a standoff.

Really?

How far

away is he?

About 30 feet.

Are you properly deployed behind the door of your car?

Yes.

Can you hear the sound of my voice?

Can you hear the sound of my voice?

Yes.

All right, I want you to put the mic down, aim at his heart, and shoot him.

Okay, okay!

Suspect in custody.

Code four.

Roger. All units, code four.

Shoot him? Hey, it seemed like a good idea at the time.

You know, Carol, I think you do these little things here just so you have some

stories to tell later on.

You mean like the time I sent back up to a domestic dispute even though a hot

-headed rookie named Rick Hunter told me he didn't need it? That's right.

You know, there'd be one less Rick Hunter around here if it hadn't been for

that. Yeah, right.

I had it all under control, believe me. Sure.

Husband with a shotgun, wife with a .45, brother -in -law with a butcher knife?

Hey, you could have handled it, Rick, no problem.

Yeah, you left out the baby with you, Z.

All right, gang, let's go back to work. Come on.

What you got?

Well, we've got a dead night watchman and enough equipment that's been stolen

pull off another very large burglary. We also have the license plate number of

the truck that we've seen leaving the building.

Listen, Carol, give me an hourly broadcast on this as a possible vehicle

involved in a burglary. And if located, stake and notify one of us, okay?

You got it, Jeannie.

Good job, Carol. Thanks.

You know, at that burning bar, Charlie, we can expect some sort of a bank job.

Yeah? We tried to follow up the truck rental agency.

The place is locked up tight. We couldn't locate the manager. We'll hit

in the morning, though. All right, let's start with the obvious.

Call the parole index. Get a printout of all recent parolees with a burnt job M

.O. Then see if we can match any of them to the...

Rented truck that was used tonight.

That's the way he did it.

Oh. I guess that's why you guys get those big fat paychecks.

Fat? Mine's practically anorexic.

Mine died of starvation in the spring of 85.

Hi, Bobby.

Boy, what a day I had. I wish you could have been there.

Mom, we need to talk.

What is it, honey?

I'm in really big trouble.

Bobby, what is it this time?

These friends of mine, I owed them some money.

Oh, honey.

I thought we took care of your friends last month.

Honey, I asked you not to get back into those card games.

How much is it this time?

$40 ,000.

$40 ,000?

Just listen, Mom.

These friends of mine, all of a sudden, I don't owe it to them anymore. I owe it

to these other guys.

What are you talking about?

These other guys. I guess they bought the IOU, and I owe them the $40 ,000.

Where are we going to come up with that kind of money?

I don't know, Mom.

But if we don't, they said they would kill me.

They've got to know I don't make that much.

What do they really want?

Well, these guys know you're a police dispatcher and that you work the swing

shift.

And at 11 o 'clock tomorrow night, you're going to receive a call from the

side of town.

They want you to delay reporting it for 30 minutes.

I can't do that, Bobby. That's my job.

It's just 30 minutes, Mom.

I mean, it's no big deal. The call comes in at 11 o 'clock. You don't report it

until 11 .30. Bobby, I can't do that to the people that I work with, the people

that I work for.

They depend on me for their lives.

Well, what about my life, Mom?

These guys said they were going to kill me.

Tell them that my calls are monitored, that I can't get away with it. They know

you're only being taped.

and that nobody listens to the tape unless there's a problem later on.

They just need to buy some time.

They said nobody's going to get hurt, and they'll forget about the money, and

they won't kill me.

I'm sorry, Mom.

1 William 157, advise 1 William 156, I'm post 6 at Western Truck Rental on the

suspect 459 vehicle.

Are you Sergeant McCall?

Sure am.

Great.

I rented the truck in question to a John Grady.

He rented it for two weeks, paid cash. We left a credit card number for

collateral.

What are the chances we'll see this truck again?

Oh, pretty good if they're going to use it in another burglary.

They'll probably dump it in some out -of -the -way neighborhood and we'll find

it a week later, you know. With no tires, no radio, no engine.

Yeah, well, you know.

Take a look at these.

Recognize any of them?

Um... I think... Yeah, that's him.

Paul Rosario, huh?

Yeah.

Paroled eight weeks ago out of Chino.

Yeah, Rosario was using a fake license and a stolen credit card under the name

of John Grady.

I've got an old address here on Rosario. I'll run it down. It's probably no

good, though.

Okay. I'm going to go check with his parole officer and see if he's been

reporting. Yeah, good. See you later.

Thanks.

1 Adam 47, okay,

code 7.

Julia, would you go down to the cafeteria and get me a sandwich?

It is my turn, isn't it?

The usual.

Yes, thank you.

Let's see if they've made it.

Third down and inches to go for a first down. Good shot of the Pittsburgh seven

-yard line.

How are I set up? Strong right. Newman is the fullback, and the tailback is

Charles White. They give to Newman, bangs to the right, and may have gotten

may not. Let's see where they mark it down on his forward progress. It looks

like it's inside the seven as they marked it down there. Maybe, maybe not.

have to see.

We're told to go. Long and shy of the six -yard line.

Inside, one minute to play, 45 seconds to go.

Goodman in motion for the right turn, and official Charles White cuts it back.

Inside, hurdles the man inside the five, loses the ball in the end zone, and

it's recovered by Pittsburgh.

Police Department, Operator 47, what are you reporting?

Do you have a missing persons department?

I'll transfer you.

50 seconds of time.

That's John Robinson kind of football.

They come out top.

Police department.

Operator for security guard at LAX. Building 121 south.

Look, the alarm's not going off. Someone is burning through the front door right

now. We're rolling.

Do not confront the suspect.

Repeat, do not confront the suspect.

All units in the vicinity and one Adam 47.

459 suspects there now. Building 121, LAX South. One Adam 47, your call is

code 3.

Be advised, there's an armed guard inside the building.

Possible vehicle involved is an 87 GMC U -Rent.

License 1, Ocean.

You bitch.

Sure, sure.

She double -crossed us, man.

She just put us out over the radio. Come on, let's go. Let's move.

All right, all right. Take it easy.

They'll probably be here within five minutes.

He's been shot.

The driver was our parolee, Paul Rosario.

Shot in the back of the head with a .38.

His buddies propped him up in the truck, jammed down the accelerator.

Needed a decoy. Fun guys.

You're not kidding.

Bought them some time, though.

Got away going in the other direction in the second truck.

How do you know there was a second truck?

Airport completed their inventory.

Five million dollars in gold bullion was unaccounted for. Now, that's about a

thousand pounds. You can't cart that away in a wheelbarrow. Half a ton of

What are they doing with that?

It was in the process of being transferred to Japan. It was only

held in high -security storage for six hours.

We ought to send up a chopper, get some aerial photos, a general overview of the

area.

So much for high security, huh?

Yeah.

Communications say they received about half a dozen so -called Solange's

facility over the last three weeks.

That might be an interesting coincidence, but check it out.

When the cops leave, it's all ours.

Why'd you have to kill Rosario?

He wouldn't have gotten away if I hadn't.

The guy was a snitch.

You can't afford that kind of loose end.

They're moving.

Let's go.

Go where?

What do you want to do, cut a hole in the fence? The place is crawling with

cops.

We'll catch him on the way out.

Ah, too many exits that truck could take. Which one do we pick?

Damn. I got the license plate.

So what?

We can trace it.

You seem to forget we got somebody on the inside.

Yeah, a lot of good it did us.

Rosario's dead and we still don't have the gold. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, this

time it's different.

This time we got leverage.

Let's go use it.

That sector of the airport was shut down last night.

Why? An intermittent bug, the worst kind.

What do you mean?

It's a follow -up in the system that you really can't trace because it's not

regular. It happens randomly.

We've notified the police seven times in the last 25 days on what turned out to

be false alarms from that part of the airport.

I'm sure you people were as tired of it as we were.

So you shut it down last night to put a trace on it? For a half hour. Our

resident wizard thought he had a handle on the problem, so we accommodated him.

And he was right. He found a bad ship.

Well, unfortunately, the airport got hit and two people were killed.

Where's the repairman now?

Home. He works the swing shift.

I'd like to get his home address and his work schedule for last month.

Bobby.

Honey, where are you? I've been worried sick. Are you all right?

Mom, they're going to kill me if you don't help.

Bobby. Lady, you screwed up real bad last night.

Now, if you ever want to see your kid again, you better listen real close.

You hurt him. Hey, hey.

I got a flash for you.

I'm the one holding the cards here.

Now, are we absolutely clear on that?

I'm listening.

I want you to keep me up to date on the investigation.

I'll call you back in six hours at this number. You tell me everything they've

got.

I also have a license I want you to run.

You got a pencil?

I'll remember it.

1Q9776. I also want you to find out where it is.

Listen, it could take me at least two days to do that.

Your kid doesn't have two days.

Carol, how you doing? Oh, not bad, Rick. I had a break, thought I'd stop by, see

how you were doing.

Yeah, well, usual Wednesday, two dead bodies and a half a ton of missing gold.

Half a ton?

Yeah, five million dollars worth of gold and no suspects.

Any leads?

Nothing to write home about.

Speaking of home, how's Bobby doing?

Bobby's fine.

Good.

Listen, Rick, I've got to get back to the pit. I'll see you. Okay, hon. See

later.

Hey, how you doing?

Good.

What'd you find out?

Paul Rosario's cousin, Eddie Miatico, worked at the loading docks at the

airport. He may be involved in all this.

You think that Eddie got the burglar's clearance to drive through the airport

gate? Well, no, soon enough.

Did you find him?

Not yet.

What do you got? I have the days and the hours that our alarm repairman was on

duty last month. And I also have a list of all the false alarms that came in

from the airport. And guess what? Great. What? They match.

They do?

They do.

Great. I'll get right on this. I'll run this down for you.

You want to run it down?

Yeah. Why not?

Smoggy day. Too soon to have you staying here with air conditioning.

You know, sometimes your compassion as a human being towards me, as a fellow

human being, is just, this is absolutely amazing.

I'm an amazing guy.

Hi, Eric Lovell.

Hi, can I help you?

Yeah, I'm Sergeant Hunter, L .A. Homicide.

Homicide, go back and play with your sister in the back there.

What can I do for you?

You're a systems engineer for CSS, are you?

Yes, I'm a troubleshooter.

Oh, you're in trouble all right, Eric.

Look, I'm no crook, okay?

A cousin of mine is in prison, and he told this guy in there about my job, a

by the name of Alan Scharr.

And when Char got out, he came over here and he said to me that I was going to

be $100 ,000 richer and my family was going to be dead.

So you faked the alarms at the airport as an excuse to shut the entire system

down? Yes.

You should have called the police.

He said he was going to kill my family. I understand that.

All the more you should have called the police.

Now, have you talked to Char since last night?

No, I haven't.

Look, we'll see what we can do about getting your family some police

Where's Bobby?

Do the police have any suspects identified yet?

No. Do they know what was taken?

A shipment of gold.

Five million dollars worth.

Do they know where it is?

No. I'm not going to answer any more of your questions until you let me speak to

my son.

Lady, we have got 24 hours to solve this little problem or your son is dead.

The vehicle belongs to a construction company that was subcontracted to the

airport.

They've got six maintenance yards in the area. I'm not going to be able to find

out until tomorrow which one it's at.

Where's Bobby?

Hidden. If the police find me, or the goal, he dies.

Now, somebody should be at that construction company by 7 a .m.

I'll call you.

Where we going? Shut up and walk.

Come on, man. Get in.

Don't do this to me.

In.

Come on, come on.

Now, uh... Cover up. I don't want you to get cold.

Do it.

Hurry up. Hurry up.

You know, you're lucky you're still alive.

If you weren't my insurance policy.

But you are.

What's up, Sporty?

I'm a little subdued today, Earl. I ought to be, considering I've been

life and limb for this chump change you offered me.

Yeah, how's that?

Look, you told me to find out where Eddie Mayatica was, the guy who worked

the airport. Yeah.

But you neglected to inform me that Eddie Mayatica was himself involved in

airport.

So what?

So what?

Alan, don't leave any loose ends behind, Char.

That man bumped off any and all potential witnesses, man. He'd bump off

if she was a witness because that's his modus operandi.

Now, if he finds out that I'm helping you, Sporty James will be sleeping with

the caterpillars. You dig what I'm saying?

Will you shut up? Nothing's going to happen to you.

Oh, you guarantee that?

Yeah, I guarantee it.

Now, where the hell does Eddie Mayotta go?

Try the red circle bar in Culver City. Yeah.

Red circle bar.

All right.

All right, Sporty. Good luck.

I just happen to have the old Sporty James snitch pile here.

Ah, let's do it off the books this time, okay, Hunter? I don't even want to risk

it. You don't want your money?

Yeah, I want my money. I got to pay my rent, huh?

My God, what was I thinking?

Want to

burn

that boy?

No, I'll take care of this myself, okay?

What were you thinking about?

I don't like this man.

The guy did his job. Are you kidding? This clown is the original Mr. Mouth.

Give everybody another drink.

Whatever you want.

The rich son of a gun.

Hey, thanks, Eddie.

All right, my edico.

Hey, my partner,

belly up to the bar.

So where's my cup?

Hey, they don't know what I'm talking about.

So where is it?

Come on out back.

Sounds good to me. The bathroom in here stinks anyway.

Excuse me.

Hey, you got a big mouth.

Hey, come on. I didn't say anything to anybody.

Come on, man.

This is Sergeant Myers, Homicide.

Are you the manager?

Yes, I am.

One Adam 9, want only Robert Robert Queen 239.

Just one minute, please.

One Adam 9, no wants.

Thanks, Carol.

Thank you for waiting.

We're looking for one of your vehicles. The license number is 1Q9776.

Sure, let me check.

Great.

The corner of Western and 29th.

It's in a garage there for maintenance, but they're not going to work on it

until tomorrow.

Please, let me talk to Bobby.

I'll call you back at six o 'clock.

If everything goes smoothly today, you'll have your son back by tonight.

We have a date with a thousand pounds of gold.

Can't believe you and me are the only ones left.

Yeah, it's too bad. Good men are hard to find, too.

A lot of dead bodies, a lot of dead ends. I'll tell you what, this case is

keeping me up at night. I keep thinking about that gold.

Maybe he never got it out.

What do you mean?

Well, up till now, we've been working on the assumption there are two trucks.

Nobody saw a truck near the airport or leave the airport.

We haven't been able to find a truck.

Maybe the gold's still there.

Maybe he didn't get it out.

So you think he hid the gold and he used Rosario as a decoy so that they could

escape on foot?

This is as good a scenario as I can think of.

Well, then where would he hide a thousand pounds of gold?

I don't know. I think we should take a look at these aerial photographs.

Wait.

That damn water truck.

He knew he couldn't get the gold out in time.

Right. And the airport cleared the truck after we released the site.

It wouldn't have taken him more than three minutes.

Right.

Give me airport security.

I don't see a water truck, and I don't see a thousand pounds of gold.

Nobody left with a dead body.

This guy has managed to stay one jump ahead of us all the way. How the hell

he know where that trunk went? Did he have it tailed?

No, he had to have found it, otherwise he would have gotten to the gold

yesterday. The time of death for Char's partner was less than an hour before we

got there.

Well, Char's probably halfway to Mexico now.

He had a plan going in. You can bet he had a plan going out. He's a smart

cookie.

Char couldn't keep the guard at the airport from calling the police.

Right. So when we got the phone call here...

Justice, come with me.

Adam 6, go to tap 2 for Adam 24.

Adam 6, go to tap 2 for Adam 24.

Look, the alarm's not going off. Someone is burning through the front door right

now.

Well, shut this off for a second.

Carol James does not wait that long to respond to any type of emergency.

Not unless she's got a real good reason. I'll pull up all of her tapes.

You don't have to go to all that trouble.

Char kidnapped Bobby, and he gave me the license number of a truck. I tracked it

for him in -house.

Carol, why didn't you come to us then?

Dee Dee, he said he'd kill my kid if I double -crossed him. I couldn't take

chance.

But I did put a trap trace on the payphone.

How you doing?

Fine.

Did you see this guy around here recently?

Yeah. He used the phone booth.

I've seen him drive off to the north.

There's a couple of places up there. Right down this road? Yeah. Five miles.

Thanks. You're welcome.

I got all the time in the world out here to show I work Bobby.

Back to the water, fuck, in the ground. Now, come on, come on. Take him. You,

come with me. Hey!

Don't bury Bobby over here.

Come on, grab the other end.

Get him out of here.

Come on.

Come on, you all right?

Come on.

You all right?

Get a pyramid.

I don't eat this type of stuff, but she might. Although, she doesn't eat this

type of stuff unless it has red dye 47 and some white chocolate all over it.

Hey,

thanks a lot for everything.

You're welcome, Bobby.

You know, the district attorney will take into consideration your testimony,

there is a chance you may have to do about a year of counting.

I'll be thinking about that guard that got killed for the rest of my life.

Well, don't forget, Bobby, you've got some good support here.

Carol, how's the teaching going?

Oh, pretty good, Dee Dee, thanks. I'm doing my best with the next generation

dispatchers, but I miss the excitement of the pit.

You know, I want to apologize to you guys again. I should never have taken

matters into my own hands like that.

The two of you are more like family than anything we've ever had, and I should

have trusted that.

Well, listen, enjoy your fruit.

We'll see you later. Okay. Thanks a lot. Take care. Bye.

What is that?

This is a horned melon.

They use them down on the islands to catch blowfish.

I see.

I wouldn't eat that if I were you.

Why?

Because we don't know where it's been.