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I'm back on the streets again, wondering when my world

will end.

On the streets, it's always the same.

That's why you better learn to play those games.

Just take your pride, and put that food aside.

Don't wait for a song to get done.

Yeah, who is it? Police, open up. We have a warrant for Jose Martinez.

What's the charge?

Jaywalking. Open the door.

Step back into the room.

Who are you?

Just a neighbor.

Name's Dale.

Johnson. Dale Johnson, huh?

Where's Martinez?

Getting his beauty sleep.

But I got to warn you, he's a very cranky boy if he doesn't get his

nap. Yeah, well, we'll take our chances.

Hey, Martinez, time to wake up.

You all right?

Yeah.

martinez

Don't give it another thought. It's okay. I've done it before.

I will do the file. It's okay. Look, it's not every day that you get your

almost blown up. I'll take it. Relax. Have a nap, Dee Dee. I'll take care of

Alex.

Hi. Hi.

Gosh, it's good to see you. What are you doing here?

There's a medical symposium on tropical diseases, and I am one of the guest

speakers. So why don't you go and tell me you were coming? Everything happens

fast. One minute I'm in Africa, the next I'm here in L .A. From here I go to

Oxford, where I have been offered a research grant. Thank you very much.

Congratulations. That's wonderful.

Hi. Hi. Oh, I'm sorry. This is my partner, Sergeant...

Rick Hunter, this is Dr. Alexander Turner. Dr. Turner, pleasure. Please

Alex. Nice to meet you.

Okay, how are you?

Have dinner with me tonight.

Oh, I can't. I have to work on the spot. Oh, yes, you can.

Have a good time. Nice meeting you. Are you sure? Absolutely.

See you later.

What are you thinking about?

I was thinking about, uh...

Africa, actually.

A lot of things there I'm going to miss.

Like the clinic that I used to work in and some of the people I worked with and

the kids that I treated.

Of course, there's a lot of things I'm not going to miss.

Like what?

Government bureaucracy.

In a good month, medicine would be four to five days late getting to me. In a

bad month, it wouldn't get there at all.

The infant mortality rate is ten times what it is here.

And the average lifespan is 43 years.

There were a lot of times when I wanted to get on a plane and get the hell out

of there.

Your work is too important to you. You could never do that.

What a sparkling dinner conversation this is, don't you think?

Isn't it wonderful?

Tell me how you got this post in England.

I had written some papers on some research I was doing with malaria. They

published in a few journals, and the next thing I know, there's some guy from

the British consulate standing there in my clinic, inviting me to chair a course

in tropical medicine.

That's wonderful.

I'm really proud of you, you know.

When do you leave?

Day after tomorrow.

I wanted to see you before I left.

I'm glad you did.

Got stuck with the paperwork, huh?

Where's McCall?

Well, she went to dinner with Dr. Turner.

Dr. Turner? Something wrong with her?

I won't go into that right now. No, I think Dr. Turner has left me past,

darling. Uh -oh. Yeah.

Anyway, I'm just finishing up here. I'll finish these reports tomorrow.

Aren't you going to be at Hollenbeck tomorrow?

Is that tomorrow? Holy smoke, tomorrow's my day in the barrel. That's right.

Oh, man, where are my feet beginning to hurt?

Amazing.

You're still fit.

Getting a little gray on top, aren't you? Hey, you're not doing too bad

yourself, pal. Yeah, but on me it looks distinguished.

Hey, good to see you, Rick. You too.

Uh, Rick.

Look, I want you to listen to me, huh?

Things have changed a lot since you last did your two days of mandatory footbeat

detail, buddy. It's only been a year, Dave.

It's even more dangerous out there now.

Don't worry about it.

Look, this isn't detectives, Rick. Dave, I've done this before, remember?

Look, I know you too well.

Streets change fast now, not always for the better.

Keep alert, huh?

Things happen quick out here.

So where am I going, the DMZ?

All right, next. Keep an eye out for the three Ps.

Pimps, prostitutes, and pushers.

The night shift found two more junkies dead from OD.

All right, next on the list.

It seems that City Councilman Avery's daughter had her IROC stolen out of a

wash yesterday.

Seriously, though, people, keep an eye out for the car.

And last on the agenda, this is a flyer about a major fencing operation

somewhere in our little domain.

I want it found and shut down.

All right, that's it. Hit the streets.

And people, keep your wits about you.

It's like a good haul.

Yeah, productive night's work.

Where's the captain?

He's in the back.

Too busy to come out and say hello?

You know how he is.

It's a good thing he's the best fence in town. He is too weird to be anything

else.

Hey, you better never let him hear you say that.

Everything cool?

Cool.

Sitting in the tub right here, pal.

Where's the cat?

He's busy.

This is the guy, man.

He knows who the old bum is with the metal.

Uh -uh.

Give me his name.

I don't know his name.

Sweet and simple.

Your friend with the medal, what's his name?

The next thing I slice is your throat.

His name!

George Craig.

You're a smart man.

Where can I find him?

The warehouse on Decker.

Good.

Get this filth out of here.

What? When you're going to hit me?

I'm going to show you something. Hey, hey, hey. Come on, come on. Break it up,

break it up. Just relax.

Everybody get back. Come on. There's nothing going on here. Hold it just a

second now. What is your name?

Albert Stimps. Albert.

What's your name? Malcolm. Malcolm.

Now, what is going on here? What? Him, him, him.

He's the problem. Me? Yes. I mean, look at this. Every morning, he holds us off

the sidewalk in front of his store, and never mind.

Mine gets a drip that looks like a dog bit has been in his ear.

I pay for the water. I pay for the hose. Why should I also clean up for him?

Well, you're neighbors, aren't you?

Yeah. All right. Now, where's your store? Right here, sir. Right there.

where's yours? That's mine right over there. Right there. Okay.

Now, look.

Who owns the hose? I own it. Oh, you own the hose. Let's take a look at this

hose.

Oh, well, look here. Now, look, Malcolm.

All this hose does is leak.

Now, Albert, why don't you buy Malcolm a new hose?

Therefore, you can own the hose, and he can supply the water.

Both sharing cleaning the sun, huh?

How much does a hose cost?

Well, we won't worry about that right now. Let's just go inside the store

Malcolm, and talk about this. Now, everybody, just break up. Everything was

right. There's no problem here at all. I don't know why you ever think of things

like that.

Don't argue with one another. Hey,

George.

How you doing, man?

Pete, what happened?

I ran into a couple guys.

You look like you ran into a truck.

Say, George, you know that medal of yours you showed me a while back?

Yeah. You still got it?

It better.

Beat it.

Get out of here!

What do you want?

We want your medal.

What is this?

These guys beat me up, George.

You gotta let them have the medal.

Listen to him.

Make things easy on yourself. Please, George, just let him have it. I'll rot

hell before I give you.

Nice black and white photograph, isn't it?

Officer! Officer!

Officer!

My friend, the beating.

Miss Wiggins, thanks very much. Good to see you. Nice meeting you.

This way. What's this all about?

The beating, my friend. It's in the warehouse on deck.

Where is it?

I'm not telling you nothing.

my possessions.

This is now the most prized. Why don't you add this?

The cops are coming.

He's down there in the basement.

Stay right here.

This is 4SB20.

Request of backup unit RA at abandoned warehouse 1330 North Decker.

Man down. Code 3.

Now, Marvin, don't you give me any trouble.

You take these pills.

Hi. How's he doing?

Not great.

His vital signs are very weak.

Say, listen, shouldn't he be in an ICU?

He should.

But like most hospitals, our ICU goes to the paying customer first.

Has he regained consciousness at all?

No, he hasn't.

Excuse me. Sure.

I hope you're not responsible for the concussion.

But no, ma 'am, I'm not. Good.

Now, has he said anything at all?

Oh, he did mutter a couple of words.

What's that?

Well, it was pretty hard to understand, but it was something about a medal. He

didn't want it taken.

What do you want?

I need the name of your friend.

I don't remember.

Do you remember your name?

Yeah, it's Pete.

Pete Florino.

You took off on me, Pete.

I didn't see any reason to stick around.

Why were those guys beating up your friend?

Look, man, people beat up on people like us all the time. They don't need any

reason.

Your friend's in the hospital. He's in pretty tough shape. He keeps mumbling

something about a medal. You know anything about a medal?

No, how the hell would I know anything about a medal?

Pretty bad cut you got here. Hey!

What's your friend's name?

George, all right?

George. George Craig. Now, would you leave me the hell alone?

People think they can help out, but you can't.

You come down all the time. You think you can help us out, but you can't help

out. Just leave us alone.

Get off my back.

All you want to do is hassle us.

So we got anything on George Craig yet?

No, I ran him through NCIC. Haven't come back with anything. I'm waiting here.

There's a gentleman here to see either you or me, and something tells me it's

you.

Let me guess.

It's Alex.

Cute, isn't it?

Well, he's not my type.

He is mine.

Hello. Hi. I couldn't wait until tonight to see you. Can you get away early?

Oh, I can't. I'm sorry. I have so much work I have to do.

Okay. But tonight we are... Absolutely. All right. Good.

Because I have something very special planned.

What?

It's a surprise.

Sergeant McCall?

The fax from NCIC just arrived for you.

Oh, thank you.

Where you been hiding him?

Goodbye, Christine. Goodbye, Christine.

Good news?

I hope so.

I gotta go.

Bye.

Hey, Hunter.

You get a look at these punks that beat up George Craig?

Well, I didn't see two of them. The other one had camouflage paint all over

face. I don't think I could recognize him without it. That sounds like another

case of bum -dicing to me. No, I don't think so. Hunter?

Hi. Hi, just came in from NCIC.

Oh, great.

Oh, look, you know Dave Peterson, don't you? Sergeant D .D. McCall. Always a

pleasure, McCall. It's been a while.

You're going to find this very interesting.

I see.

George Craig, Sergeant U .S. Army, Company C, Place Quang Nhan, Province,

Vietnam.

For conspicuous gallantry and action at the risk of his own life, above and

beyond the call of duty, Sergeant Craig chose to disregard his own safety.

For this act of heroism, he's been awarded the Congressional Medal of

Yeah, who's the detective on this case?

It's Tom Bowman.

That's him right over there.

Listen, while you guys are checking it out, I gotta go.

Yeah, well, look, thanks for bringing this over. Oh, sure, it's no problem.

Besides, how could I pass up a chance to see you in your blue?

You have very good taste.

You're right, I do.

Are you going out with Alex tonight?

Speaking of good taste, yes, I am.

I know you don't have a lot of time. I hope you catch these guys.

I don't depend on Detective Bollingworth.

The Medal of Honor.

Established in 1861.

For those individual acts of gallantry at the risk of life, above and beyond

call of duty.

It's beautiful, isn't it?

Yeah, it's a real nice medal, Captain.

At it, Hunter.

The guy won the Medal of Honor. And I got five other cases stacked up, and

they're circling the runway.

Be different if it wasn't a transient.

That is bull, and you know it.

I try to treat every case the same.

Unfortunately, there just ain't enough for me to go around.

Now, if you got a problem with that, you take it up with the chief of

detectives.

Last time I was up here was with you.

Would you like to dance?

I'd love to.

I'm surprised you remembered this.

Well, there were a lot of times when memories like this were the only thing

would keep me going.

I thought about you a lot.

I thought about you, too.

I don't know how many times I'd see someone on the street that would remind

of you, and... I hear some old song which has

taken me right back to all of our time together.

Alex, this is just so strange. We've been in and out of each other's lives

eight years.

i think we're dancing you know what i mean

Okay, last thing.

Look, I'm still getting phone calls from a certain council.

Now, if you care about me as a mentor and as a friend, then go out and find

black IROC and make his poor sweet daughter happy, huh?

All right, that's it. Go.

Protect, sir.

Be safe.

Hey, Rick.

Look, Bowling came to see me. I want you to butt out of his business. Uh -huh.

But come on, he was just another cop on the beat. Leave the follow -up to the

detective. Low -priority case, huh, Dave?

Hey, Rick, wait a minute.

Well, the reality of it is, yes.

Hey, look, I'm a detective.

I understand that. You know what bothers me about Boland is his attitude.

Now, George Craig was a congressional Medal of Honor winner. He was somebody

some point in time. To me, he still is.

Hey, look, we both know you can't take every case to heart. This job eats you

alive, huh? I'm not a rookie here, Dave. I understand that.

It hasn't eaten me up so far, has it?

Man, you haven't changed much since our days on the beat, have you? No, I don't

plan to.

Still the idealist, huh?

Last time I looked, idealism still worked.

Well, this is what works for me, Rick.

Division of cops, the mother hen. And you were born to be a detective. All

right. But look, when you're wearing blue out there, you're not there to ask

it happened.

You're there to try and intervene before it happens.

I'll see you soon, huh?

Hey, Dave.

Sounds like idealism to me.

He's there.

Just like I said he'd be.

There's a big ugly cop out there.

And this piece of trash can lead him right to us.

You're just gonna shoot him while he's asleep?

You're right.

It's not very original.

We've got a real problem.

That was great.

I wish I had more time to spend today.

Well, if we were in Africa right now, after this wonderful lunch,

we would take a nice long siesta.

This sounds like a superior culture to me personally.

Alexander, do you really have to leave today?

I wish you were going with me.

I wasn't expecting to hear that.

I didn't expect to say it.

I'll drive you back to the hotel.

front license plate on the rear. How about that? Hey, you still got a beat

eye, huh?

Hey, Councilman's daughter's on her way over here. She should be very grateful.

How grateful?

Hey, wipe that smile off your face.

Admit it, you'll love it out there. Yeah, two days out of the year is good

enough for me, Dave.

You didn't have to do this.

You have a lot of work to do when you get back. But I wanted to do it, and of

course I have a lot of work when I get back.

Life goes on.

When I get to London, I'll call you.

Okay.

Alex, it's not like we're not going to see each other again. I mean, I've got

vacation time coming.

I'll come to London, and you can show me around.

You will, Alan.

Hi. How's George Craig doing? He's still critical.

Thank you.

Hey, Pete.

Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. I've been looking for you.

You've got to help me find the people who beat up George.

I don't know nothing.

Look, I think you do. I need your help. That's your problem.

I know it's my problem. That's why I need you.

Look, the woman's crazy, but I know you're scared. Let's go.

Yeah, if you were living out in the street in a cardboard box, you'd be

too. Plenty of things.

What would George do if it was you?

Who wants to do it?

Stand by. Clear.

Okay, 250.

Clear.

Get to the dilatate.

What do you think?

Yeah.

The past muster.

George won't even recognize me. I think he died and went to a Salvation Army

dance. You look great, Pete. Come on.

Well, this guy in a pointy uniform comes up and offers me 20 bucks to help

unload his truck.

Didn't look too legit to me, but the guy's got to eat, right?

What was on the truck?

TV, stereos, stuff like that.

You unloaded the truck. Then what?

When I got a glimpse of the room this guy keeps his medals in, I knew he was

some kind of nut.

Guy's got all kinds of stuff in there.

Calls himself a Vietnam vet.

Captain.

He's too young for that.

That's when I told him about my friend's medal of honor. You told him?

Yeah.

Guy ticked me off.

Wearing a uniform and all that, he didn't have any right.

Then he tries to burn me up with his flamethrower.

You with him?

Yeah, that's the captain, all right.

Andrew Seeley.

Previous arrest for receiving stolen property, aggravated assault. Yeah, now

murder. Where is he, Pete?

I went by the warehouse.

Moving day?

I'm taking a little heat.

As soon as I find a new place, I'll be back in business.

I got a truckload of good that needs a fence.

Now, find somebody else. Give me that.

I'll decide when you quit working for me.

Right here.

Hi. This is the last of that information on the drive -by.

Okay, great.

We'll just put it here with the rest.

I'm glad Hunter will be back tomorrow. He can help us dig out from under all

this stuff.

You've certainly done your share.

Yeah, well, I'm tired. I'm gonna call it a day.

Oh, Alex left today, huh?

Yeah.

Well, I know how that feels.

It's tough when they leave.

But maybe it's all for the best.

Charlie, it sure doesn't feel like that.

Yeah.

I, uh...

already has officers on the scene. I'm sending more. You don't need to go

I know that, Dave.

Look, technically you're off duty. In fact, technically you're back at Central

Homicide. Neither one of us are very good at technicalities now, are we?

Yeah, you're right.

Hey, you watch yourself.

Where's Straub?

With the truck.

I don't see him.

Straub!

It's dropped!

Drop!

Freeze, police!

Drop the gun!

Shut that thing off.

I haven't fought for none in 20 years.

But I fought him for this.

My medal.

Yeah.

You fought him.

You fought him when you won, you stubborn jackass.

Ain't nobody gonna bother you no more.

Pete, what the hell happened to you?

Cleaning up my act, George.

No more street life for us, man.

We're getting too old for this stuff.

I don't know about that.

Hell, you don't.

You're ordinary enough to take on anybody.

Or anything.

Yeah, Pete's right, George. I think you're too good of a man to waste out on

street.

I've been a drunk and a bum for ten years.

Peter, how am I supposed to change, man?

George,

I think it's just like in Vietnam. You take it one day at a time to survive.

One day at a time.

He can't make it, man.

He won't be alone.

Hey, welcome back.

I hear they kept you pretty busy over at Hollenbeck. Always busy over there,

Charlie. Where's McCall?

She's in my office talking to Alex. Kind of serious.

Yeah? What's that about?

I don't know, but he looks like a man on a mission to me. Really?

I can't let you do this.

You have worked your entire life to achieve what you have, Alex.

UCLA has an excellent tropical medicine department.

That's not the point.

What you really want is this grant in England. You can't give that up for me.

You can't give that up.

Well, I can't ask you to give up your life's work either.

So what are you saying?

Dee Dee, you and I have lived rich, full lives apart from each other. We have no

regrets.

Perhaps we wouldn't have accomplished the things that we did if we hadn't

out of each other's lives. But, Dee Dee, I don't want you to walk out of my life

again. I love you.

I want you to marry me.