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Tonight, on Hunter.

Aren't you a little overdressed for your everyday shootout? I was trying to

figure out why Dr.

Bennett still had Martinez's file.

Martinez's daughter is suing the trauma center for malpractice. I need to see

you right away.

She still have a problem with the... Jan Bennett ingested about 200 milliliters

of bourbon just before she died.

Nobody is throwing a blanket over the truth.

You're making this up as you go along.

Where's your license to kill, doctor?

You didn't drive the car over the cliff for her.

Nice shooting.

Yeah, well, the little boy that you shot will probably say the same thing if he

makes it.

It wasn't me.

I saw you pull the trigger, James.

A minute.

What does that mean, you weren't alone?

Ow!

Trauma base, this is RA -47. We are en route.

EPA is five to six minutes.

Copy, RA -47.

What are the patient's vital signs at this time?

Vitals are BP is 80 over 60, respirations 10 is shallow, pulse is 80

Copy, RA -47.

Is the patient alert and oriented?

Affirmative trauma base, but be advised, patient has lost a lot of blood,

approximately 1 ,000 cc. No problem, man.

I got a lot more.

Dr. Callister, report to ER stat.

Dr. Callaghan, aren't you a little overdressed for your everyday shootout?

tell me about it. I was on my way to a date and Washington here decided to rip

off the liquor store where I was buying the wine.

Code blue, ER.

Code blue, ER.

Don't lose him, Emily. I may have to try and murder one. He just shot down a 14

-year -old kid and never knew what hit him.

Let's get him intubated.

Give me another unit of D5W.

Relax. Let us help you.

We've got a lot to talk about, Jane.

You relax too, Sergeant.

Don't worry, Judy. Her bark's still worse than her bite.

Her bark's bad enough.

I'm going to go check on the kiddie shop.

James? James, it's Dr. Bennett.

I need blood gases.

Type and cross match for two units, whole blood. Blood pressure is no longer

palpable. I'm pressing for surgery.

14 years old, wasn't it?

Is he going to make it?

This point could go either way.

Keeps up, we're going to have to put a pediatrician on full time.

Got my bed, you remember that?

At least it was my bed for about six days back in 87.

Six rotten days, as I recall.

Yes. How's the back?

It's all right.

Another one of your success stories.

You're welcome.

Well, don't take all the credit.

Jan Bennett really pulled me through that long haul of therapy.

You know, she really got me back on my feet.

Dr. Rapp, this girl wants to talk to you.

What's happening down in New York?

I'm so proud of people backed up all the way down the hall.

They closed the Oak Park Trauma Center, you heard?

We're getting all the overflow for everything west of Normandy.

Heidi.

Hey, Elliot Trudell.

That's the peanut. That rape case I treated.

I'm being asked to testify.

Second time in a week.

I end up working 36 hours without any sleep, and everything they ask me is

sitting right there in the chart.

Where's the mother?

I'll see you later, Dee Dee. That back acts up on you.

Magic finger.

It's good to hear that's a stab.

Tim! Hi, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to rush right by.

You're Mr.

Washington's stable, a bullet just missed his vena cava. You can see him

tomorrow. Great, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Why don't you take a break? It seems to me, call me crazy, but it looks like

maybe you need it. Come on, let's get some coffee. No, rain check. I'm

Again?

Rushing what? Have things not changed?

Oh, yeah, things have definitely changed. Now I'm rushing two things

running away from them.

Well, that sounds interesting.

Mm -hmm.

Yeah, that sounds like...

Maybe a man?

Um... So?

Tell me.

I can't. I've got a bad tachycardia down the hall. Dinner tomorrow.

You're on. Great.

Hey, McCall.

Washington wants to rat out his partner. Let's go.

That's a surprise.

Yeah. The police defender wants to make a deal with him. Oh, wait a minute. I

can't trade a shooter for an accomplice. If I do that, I'm left right out of the

detective's bureau.

Yeah, I know. But the attorney also said the accomplice shot seven guys in a

convenience store.

That's different. But no immunity, okay? Have the DA review the case and then

give us his opinion.

Got it.

I'll be right with you.

Call Homicide.

D .D., it's Jan. I need to see you right away.

Well, what about our dinner tonight?

I can't.

I've got a staff party I've got to be at. I completely forgot.

Look, could we have a quick talk?

It's really important.

Okay, look, I'm going down to the hospital. I'll meet you there at ICU,

I'm off duty.

I'm just running some errands.

Look, please, can you make a few minutes for me now? Come on, let's go. Roll it.

Listen, Jan, I can't right now. I'm on to something real important. Listen,

in an hour and let me know where I can reach you, okay? All right, I'll leave a

message. Okay.

I hear that you got a break in the Washington case. Yeah, it looks like it.

Captain Jan Bennett's going to phone me. When she does, will you have me beeped?

Sure, sure.

Jan Bennett, I remember her. She still have a problem with the, uh... No.

Soda in line. Thank you.

Quit avoiding me.

We're going to have to talk sooner or later.

Okay, okay, so maybe you can't...

I appreciate why I have made the decision that I've made, but you've got

understand it was my decision to make.

What you are proposing is irresponsible.

Irresponsible? How can you possibly say that to me?

Two years ago, I was irresponsible.

I have worked damn hard to pull my life together since then. I want this.

I have to call the hospital and check on a patient.

Don't you use that line with me. Now, I want to finish what we've started here.

This is neither the time nor the place to resolve anything.

Are you okay?

I'm fine.

Hey, maybe it's going to stop raining.

Yeah.

My car ran out of gas. Can you give me a hand? I need to filter out some gas out

of your car. Can you back up?

926.

Back with more uninterrupted music.

My parents will kill me if I'm not home by 10.

Oh, come on, babe. We've got plenty of time.

You know, I heard her calling for help loud and clear.

So I could wait, right?

Yeah. I didn't... I didn't think it was that urgent. I don't know. I just

thought it was a romantic problem or something. No, but you didn't drive the

over the cliff for her.

I don't want you to start feeling guilty about this, understand?

What do you got?

The car was approaching yesterday from the east.

No skid marks. From the trajectory, I'd say it was moving slower than 30, but

it's a sharp curve, so that's about right.

Any witnesses?

Over there, those two kids.

They started to go over. I had them come back to talk to you.

Thank you.

I'm Sergeant McCall.

Can you tell me what you saw?

Well, uh...

We weren't exactly paying close attention.

I understand.

When did you see the car?

Just as it went over the edge there. The headlights lit up our car.

Do you know about what time it was?

It was about 9 .30.

You sure about that, 9 .30? No.

We had the radio on.

The announcer said it was 9 .26.

My parents had me on a strict curfew. I had to be home by 10.

Yeah, I guess we were a little late.

McDonald! Get a cast of these tire tracks as soon as you can.

I'll call it in.

What are you looking for?

Well, I spoke with her yesterday, Emily, and she sounded pretty upset. I just

thought there might be... something.

Did she say anything to you?

She was on top of the world.

Well, she wasn't yesterday.

She never even hit the brakes, and she's driven Mulholland hundreds of times.

She used to drive a blind drunk.

Yeah, you know, I was thinking... Forget it, Dee Dee.

She had been sober for months.

I wonder why Jan would have this stuff on her desk.

Grocery stand fast, Lockwood Mall stalled by Martinez Grocery.

What's that?

Copies of an EKG.

Pedro Martinez.

He died of an allergic reaction about six months ago.

Six months ago? Why would Jan have this stuff on her desk now?

Probably the lawsuit.

Martina's daughter is suing the trauma center for malpractice.

So what happened?

He had a heart attack.

They gave him lidocaine.

Turned out he was allergic to lidocaine. And he went into shock and died.

Martina's daughter claims we had access to that information.

So what do you think? Think she's got a case?

We'll find out in court.

You don't seem too concerned over it.

In this business, Sergeant, having somebody hand you a subpoena is the same

asking for the time of day.

The next step was to order a chest tube.

There was additional reason for concern at this time because the patient was not

responding to fluid resuscitation, as indicated by his worsening vitals.

Oh, hi.

This looks exactly like what happens here every day.

Yeah.

I was just trying to figure out why Dr.

Bennett still had Martinez's file.

In the lawsuit, I assume.

No, no, no.

We gave everything to lawyers and gave our depositions over two months ago.

This was her pet project.

I'm just hypothesizing now.

But it's possible she was working on a new program, something on allergies.

So our staff would be better prepared the next time.

Is there some way to check that out?

Yeah.

I haven't been able to find anything new in here on lidocaine abreactions.

Let me know if you do.

Yeah.

Hold it right there. Drop your gun, Alistair. I'll blow her away.

Slowly.

Kick it over.

Sergeant Hunter. Sam Van Kirk. My teacher told me you wanted to talk to

Go all the way over here.

Thanks.

Now, you're a parking valet, is that right? Only part -time. Right now, I

have to do some acting to pay the rent. I see.

But you were working last night at the party in the 9100 block at Mulhall.

Yeah.

Doctors. Rotten tips.

Remember seeing her?

I got her car for her when she left. She wasn't having a good time.

Why do you say that?

She'd been crying.

I mean, it was hard to tell in the rain, but she'd sprung a week.

Had she been drinking?

You mean, was she drunk?

No. I would not have gotten her car if she was. It's company policy.

Anyway, I don't think she had been there that long.

Unless she'd started early.

What time was that?

9 -11.

9 -11? You seem pretty precise about that.

I was rehearsing for a commercial audition I had today, and I had 15

coffee, and I had to get it down to 10.

So I had my eyes on my watch.

Okay. I'll let you get back to your class. I can talk to you if I need to

Sure. Thanks. Appreciate it.

Thank you very much.

Oh, well, you did get the interview, didn't you? Too short. I hit the copy on

the nose, though.

Hey, wait a minute. You're a cop.

We're doing this police scene over here, and I play this streetwise undercover

narc with a guilty conscience and a grudge, and her ex -partner flips out

takes the hostage.

Got any tips?

Take him shopping.

How it is around here, day in, day out. Thought I was shockproof.

Jan.

God.

A number of staff at the party say that you were arguing with her. You want to

tell me what that was about?

She asked for a partnership I wasn't prepared to offer. I wasn't very

in my response.

It had been a bad day. I guess I was looking for an opportunity to explode

found it.

It's not the way I wanted to remember her.

Do you recall if she'd been drinking or not?

No.

I've always been alert to that kind of thing with Jan.

Maybe I upset her more than I thought.

Maybe it was me that drove her back to the bottle and over that cliff.

Find out, Diddy.

I don't want to be left with that maybe for the rest of my life.

You know, the tire track at the top of the hill matches those of Bennett's car.

And there's also a second set of tracks up there.

What's the tire track have to do with anything?

Well, maybe she stopped for somebody.

Maybe she just pulled over because she felt like she had too much to drink.

Captain, I don't buy the drinking angle.

No one at that party saw her ingest any alcohol.

Now, when would she have done it? She left the party at about 9 -11, went over

the cliff at 9 -26. That's a 15 -minute difference.

It only takes about seven and a half to eight minutes to get to the top of the

hill from the party.

She probably stopped off, ingested the alcohol, and then went over the edge of

the cliff. I found a whiskey bottle where the car went off.

First of all, I don't believe she committed suicide. Well, neither do I.

far as the whiskey bottle you found, I mean, come on. People are throwing junk

over cliffs all the time.

I know, but this one had her fingerprints all over it.

I'm having a hard time believing this.

Better believe it.

So, what do you got, Barney?

Jan Bennett ingested about 200 milliliters of bourbon just before she

Most of it's still in her stomach.

Well, that's, what is that, like half a pint?

Take a pretty heavy drinker to down that. How much was left in her blood?

Very little. Only .04 had been absorbed.

Well, how old did that take?

If you belted it, say, ten minutes.

Not enough to get her very drunk.

You know, she didn't die, is there? She was unconscious a few minutes after she

went over.

All right.

So she leaves the party upset.

She pulls over. She guzzles half a bottle of booze to give her courage. She

punches the car over the cliff. The alcohol is absorbed as she's dying.

well, I don't buy that.

You know what I keep thinking about? That second set of tire prints that you

found. Right.

I think she pulled over because she saw someone that she knew.

On the other hand, she might have been very despondent.

Over what?

She's two months pregnant?

This is a waste of your time, Sergeant, and mine.

As I said on the phone, I can't help you. Well, I think that you can.

Look, I have to find out who fathered Jen Bennett's child.

I presume she told you that, at least.

She was 39.

She was a doctor.

If you didn't want to test the father's blood for RH compatibility, then she

would have.

Yes, but that's in confidence.

Yeah, but that doesn't matter much anymore because she's dead.

I really miss her.

She was so happy, she was expecting.

She was going to keep the baby?

Oh, absolutely.

Alone? Yes, I believe so.

I believe there was really no choice.

That means the father didn't want to get married.

Or he was already married.

Which says that we have a man with a very strong motive for murder.

It was an accident.

It was a bizarre accident, and we still have a lot of questions.

Dr. Stanton, I suggest you get your attorney on the phone, because I can

subpoena your records, and you know what? I think I'm going to have to do

Look, we both liked her.

Why don't you help me here?

Help me find out who killed her.

I don't know the name of the father, but I can give you some help.

Blood type, age, medical history.

Maybe you can find him.

Lois, bring me Jan Bennett's file, please.

Thank you.

You're going to be in some pain.

Tiene dolor?

I'm going to have one of the nurses stitch up the wound.

Enfermera.

Get word to the Sherman Oaks burn unit to stand by with their chopper and have

one of the RNs stitch up that guy. He's got a superficial laceration.

We don't have any free hands.

Ruben called and said, and the agency is still trying to find somebody who'll

come down here. That is three or four times as much.

I don't think it's good.

I think they're taking private referrals.

Why not? They pay better.

Anyway,

wouldn't you rather go sit beside some big bed in Beverly Hills than fight the

wars? She could at least tell us ahead of time. She knows we're down to a

skeleton crew as is.

That's the problem with a skeleton, Elliot.

You lose one bone and the whole thing falls apart.

Why don't we ever schedule a couple of our ends in reserve?

And pay... Pay them with what? I was on the phone today for two hours with Medi

-Cal trying to find their reimbursement from last July.

But Jan, God, this place has turned into a nightmare.

I'm sorry, Todd, but I miss her as much as you do.

In a different way, perhaps.

I've said it before.

Let's move.

Let's go to the west side where more people choke on their expensive dinners

than get stabbed for a bottle of muscatel.

We just can't fill up stakes. We've got a contract.

We're not surviving, Elliot. We're going broke.

You know it as well as I do.

I don't get it. When are you going to face facts? We can't keep our doors open

here much longer.

Talk,

Doc. There are a lot of options.

Questions.

It's complex.

When do you go on?

Now, I guess.

That's preposterous, T .D.

I don't think so.

I've got 11 definite correlations.

The father has a history of family diabetes.

So do you.

The father has type O negative blood. So do you.

Abdominal surgery in 83.

Six foot one, medium dark hair, blue eyes.

Oh, and I forgot.

You also work together.

It's still not a crime.

We even liked each other, which is more than I can usually say.

Jan was determined to be a single mother.

In a way, I was happy about that.

Oh, really?

You think your wife was happy about that? When were you going to tell her?

I was going to.

I wanted to spend time with the baby first, but I was going to. What were you

waiting for?

Elliot.

Got to take over the rest of my shift.

I'm about to sign up.

I know, but I have something I have to attend to.

The hell you say.

I've been on my feet for 39 stinking hours.

I'm going to have to insist.

What were you arguing about at the party?

The child.

She wanted to keep the child. I told you that. We simply disagreed.

Why do you think she so desperately needed your approval? Our relationship

like that.

And when you didn't approve?

She was furious.

She actually expected me to... Leave your wife?

Was she threatening to tell her?

Something like that.

It was all going so fast. It was such a mess.

I guess she didn't leave you too many other options than to kill her.

Forget it.

I'm a doctor. I couldn't kill anybody.

I knew her. She was one of the trauma people there.

Why ask me?

She's pretty involved in your father's case.

She may have been murdered.

I didn't know.

You're saying it has something to do with my lawsuit?

Well, it's a possibility. You're pretty avid about avenging your father's death,

weren't you?

Legally, in the courts.

Received the standard treatment, didn't he?

But he was allergic to it.

How could he know that?

I told them.

I came home. My father was having a heart attack.

I called the paramedics, and when they got here, I warned one of them about his

condition.

For all the good it did, I took that developer Lockwood's laptop, and the

I can forget what happened to my father, the better.

Thank you.

Pedro Martinez was a stubborn, foul -mouthed old hombre, but I loved the

We got to know each other.

I respected him. A good businessman.

His death was kind of convenient for you, wasn't it?

It would have been more convenient had he died six years ago.

That grocer was the toughest bird I ever faced in a negotiation.

When I saw I couldn't beat him, I realized I had to outlive him.

Dean, I want to reduce these to an 8x10 for a meeting this afternoon, all right?

I don't see you as the patient type, you know.

Negotiating takes time, Sergeant. It's not just a matter of dollars and cents.

Take Martinez, for instance.

He loved that miserable little fruit stand of his.

I could have kept adding zeros to my offer, but it wouldn't have mattered. So

tried to romance him.

We'd have lunch. I took him to a ball game.

We even went fishing one Saturday off the pier.

I truly enjoyed that.

But he wouldn't budge.

The month before he died, I think his position may have softened just a

Just a little bit. So the old man was really throwing a wrench into the whole

deal, huh?

There's always a last detail.

We're going full bore now.

Apartments, offices, parks, two department stores, 12 cinemas. We've

hospital with the only trauma center in central L .A.

Kind of the Pedro Martinez Memorial.

I don't have time for any window, okay?

And even I can't order up a heart attack.

Martinez, time came. That's all.

This is 1 William 56.

They'll need search warrants for bank records, credit checks, phone logs.

For Vincent Lockwood. L -O -C -K -W -O -O -D.

Roger, 56.

Sergeant McCall is code 6 at Wilshire Memorial.

Does the word sloppy mean anything to you? I don't care.

What the hell were you thinking about?

Just watch it from now on, because it isn't going to be me who's hung out to

dry. Comprende?

What does Pedro Martinez have to do with me?

Or Jan?

Maybe he was at the root of another argument you were having.

The one about what really happened when Martinez was brought into that trauma

center.

He died of an allergic reaction.

His daughter claims that she told the paramedic about his condition. I know, I

know. And the paramedic claims that he mentioned it when he brought Martinez

That's why she's suing the trauma center and everybody else involved.

See, the thing that I don't get is, why was Jan so obsessed about Martinez and

Lockwood's new downtown trauma center?

the paramedics say that he spoke to elliot rab the paramedic says that when

presented martinez to rab that he mentioned the allergy the rab says he

remember rab says it never happened how is that possible i've seen a critical

patient admitted to a trauma center it's a madhouse there's blood everywhere

everyone's talking at once it's not only possible it's likely

As I see it, nobody is throwing a blanket over the truth.

Really?

Well, I think I just found out the truth.

I want you to know finding a judge to authorize the exhumation of Martina's

wasn't easy.

Spare me the details.

I found it in the tissue her got.

Which is?

It's a drug. Could have been slipped into his food.

Poison? Not exactly.

In large doses, Urgot can cause severe chest pains.

Like a heart attack?

Pretty much.

He suffered a small thrombosis a few years back.

He was primed.

Somebody wanted Martinez in that trauma center.

To kill him.

Thank you for coming, Mr. Leonard.

No problem.

Believe me, if the alternative is having a homicide detective roaming around the

office, there's no problem at all. Not that we...

have anything to hide.

I just think our clients would rather we balance their books without a police

presence. I understand. Well, I just have a couple of questions here, and

you can be on your way.

Questions about what?

About one of your clients, the Dr. Elliot Rabb.

I'm sorry, Sergeant, but I didn't build a practice by sharing client records

with the police, not without a proper subpoena.

Mr. Lane.

I have a sworn duty to uphold the law. Now, if I am forced to get a subpoena, I

will have to look at a lot of your financial records. And if I find

that is even the least bit suspicious, even if it's totally unrelated to this

case, then I will be forced to notify the IRS.

You wouldn't? On a bet.

Just what are you looking for?

A connection between Rab and a Mr. Vincent Lockwood.

Let me put it to you this way, Mr. Lane.

You can either cooperate with me.

You can leave here, clear and free, and have a lovely day.

Or I get a subpoena.

We meet again in a couple of hours.

And I doubt that I'll be in a very good mood.

The choice is yours.

Okay, Lockwood and Rab are secret partners.

I'll get you the contract.

May I use your phone?

Sure.

Come in.

Uh -huh. Look, I'll get right back to you.

Sergeant McCall.

Dr. Rapp.

I've been doing a little research on you.

Undergraduate degree, USC, UCLA Medical School.

It's very impressive.

Well, thank you. I do my best.

There's just one thing that's missing.

What's that?

Where's your license to kill, Doctor?

What are you saying?

Found a very interesting deposit in one of your bank accounts.

Very large sum.

Traced it back to three banks and four shell corporations to Vincent Lockwood.

don't know a Vincent Lockwood.

Oh, well, that's strange.

Especially considering the fact that he's placed dozens of calls to your home

and your office over the last eight months.

Well, that must be a mistake.

He needed Martina's debt, didn't he?

It was so convenient. He had an allergy that only a doctor could exploit.

That's crazy.

I also know what happened to the money that Vincent Lockwood gave.

It was your freedom.

Working capital for your own ER.

You remember these?

I told you I got them out of Jan's office.

What do they prove?

They prove that Martinez wasn't having a heart attack at all. But then again,

you knew that, didn't you? That's why you administered the lidocaine. After

that, you called in for assistance because you knew that those people would

focused in on only one point at that time.

Pulling Martinez up and out of the allergic reaction that you caused.

You're never going to prove that.

You also made sure that it was you the paramedic spoke to when he brought

Martinez in that day.

That way, it was your word against his as to whether or not he told you about

the old man's allergy.

Why would I set myself up for a lawsuit?

Because even if you lost, with Lockwood's money, you'd still come out

You're making this up as you go along. You can't tie me to anything.

Jan Bennett confronted you, didn't she?

I know she probably wanted to give you the benefit of the doubt.

She pulled over that night because she saw someone she knew.

Well, we traced a second set of tire prints back to your car, Rab.

That someone was you.

You killed Martinez.

Jan knew about it, so you killed her.

Dr. Rab, please call 234 -

Where do you think you're going?

Friends. Friends.

Thank you very much for this honor and the recognition it represents.

You know, when I first came to Los Angeles, I saw a city, a vast

A vast opportunity. A city with a tremendous future. A city with heart and

Thank you very, very much.

Take care of Hunter.

Hold it.

Pick it up now!