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You do this?

Yeah, I used to. Tonight, on Simon and Simon.

I'm in law school.

Oh, come on. I suppose she's a nuclear physicist.

No, she's a hooker. She's a her.

Hey guys, there are a million stories in a naked city. She hired us to protect

her. You owe me, Holly. I'll buy my way out of this place if I have to.

The ballet will never allow one of her type on stage.

That guy defected with the ship, Allison.

Yeah.

Holly.

Why don't we take a

ride out to the beach?

Have a quiet drink.

We haven't talked in a month.

Listen, a lot of stuff's been happening, Randy.

I need to get out of here.

Maybe you ought to take a day off.

I'm talking about out of here for good.

You're just tired.

You'll feel different tomorrow.

Especially if you spend the night.

Look, I can't handle it anymore.

Now I expect you to respect my decision.

I'm not talking respect anymore. I'm talking gratitude.

You owe me, Holly.

Yeah, and I'm planning to pay you back.

I'll buy my way out of this place if I have to.

Name a figure. I'll sign an IOU right now. You already have.

A long time ago.

be one star elite.

I got some more quarters. You want me to get you some more ice? No, I do not

want another bag of ice. I want my doctor.

Well, you got to be patient.

According to Nancy over there, there's Captain Midnight.

Who?

He is the top trauma man at county. He always works Friday nights.

You know, payday, the whistle blows, you pick up your check and let the games

begin.

Ricky, Ricky, my friend.

Why? I haven't seen you since you brought in Carlos to have his

Very curious. How could a man swallow a pocket flashlight?

More important, why?

Oh, Ron, she got in surveillance. We're moving along a ledge on this condo. I

turn around to Ray J. He's gone.

Very interesting.

I'll be with you in a moment.

Well, hey, but... It's a busy night. He's a busy doctor.

Are you sure, Miss McGinnis?

Look, I told you it was an accident.

Please, I really don't want to pursue this.

Okay, it's your life.

No dilation.

Your x -rays are negative.

Why a concussion?

Well, you seem to be fine, but I sense that you are a woman with problems.

Do you always eavesdrop on your patients?

Eavesdrop? Why?

I am here. You are here.

He was here. I am not deaf.

Then you heard me say I don't need help. Oh, official help, no.

But perhaps some private...

Simply,

I thought, no more than two weeks.

See you, RJ.

Piece of cake.

Listen, Holly, this guy you want us to talk to, just how seriously do you want

us to talk to him?

I'm not sure I know what you mean.

Look, we deal with a lot of things into a string of obscene phone calls.

I guess mine fits the pattern, then.

I started with the phone call, and now this thing with my car.

You're sure Deaver is the only one... Ow!

Oops. Sorry.

Look, Randy's the only man that I've dated in the last two years. It's got to

him.

Just go and talk to him.

Seriously.

Okay.

It's amazing how quickly a broken heart will heal when you're threatened with a

broken arm.

Bad choice of word.

How did she do

that?

Should have let Captain Midnight give you something for the pain.

What we have to do to pain may come in handy.

Did you ever stop and think about where your life is headed, A .J.?

And here we are about to get paid 50 bucks to scare some geek out of his

Makes you think, doesn't it?

Yes, I'm in.

You know it.

It's always the choke shirt.

It does. We're all the same.

Let's get out of the way. Don, just take it easy now. All we got to do is lean a

little bit. There's no need to break any furniture.

Randy Deaver?

I know you guys.

No, and you don't want to.

Now listen up, because I'm going to choose my words carefully. Well, Mr.

Deaver, we have a message from a friend of ours, Miss Holly McGinnis. As I was

saying, Miss McGinnis does not want to see you again. She does not want to hear

from you.

And she does not want to work here.

She's willing to settle her debt, and I will be happy to be the conduit for

that. Who the hell do you guys think you are?

You don't come into my club.

And tell me what to do.

Obscene phone calls.

That's high school.

Deaver, do yourself a favor. Don't upset him anymore. He's already put two guys

in the hospital tonight.

Just be a good guy and stay away from Holly.

You guys got this thing?

Well, it doesn't matter because she's in over her head now anyway.

That crowd she's running, what's going to hurt her?

Bad.

She's about to take a big fall.

And I won't be there to get you.

You tell her that, will you?

I will.

You know what Yogi used to say?

Yeah, it ain't over till it's over.

It's over.

That guy's acting there's an Academy Award in it for him.

Is that the right amount?

I don't think he's going to bother you anymore.

But if you don't mind, I got a couple of questions.

I don't think he bothered you to begin with.

We've done this before.

This guy just wasn't your basic hang -on -by -the -fingernails type.

Sure, they always deny it and say they just want what's best.

But I got the feeling Deaver was telling the truth.

You want to try doing the same thing?

Hey, wait a minute. I didn't pay you guys to play this as your life.

So if you just want to... Look.

We do not like situations where the guy we're after tells us more than our

client does.

And I especially do not like leaning on people when they don't deserve it. He

deserves it.

So you want him to take the check and leave?

Leave.

Dollar.

Wait. Wait.

Look.

We know you're in some kind of trouble.

Why don't you just tell us who these people you're involved with are? They

be any worse than people we deal with every day.

Woman

is in

deep linguine.

That's Taylor.

Hello? Hi.

God, the check bounced too.

Now they're tampering with my bank account.

Your credit's fine.

Especially... Hold on, what's behind the door?

The ballet.

The ballet.

This is the crowd that Deaver thinks is bad for you.

Didn't think that at first.

You pushed me to try it. I just don't want to blow a chance to dance with

Vladimir Kavi.

Boy, neither would I.

Who's Vladimir Khabi?

The only Russian he knows is filtered through charcoal.

And five, six, seven, eight, and oh, one,

two, three, lengthen, four, and five,

six, pull away.

Do you see how she is? It's all right, Vladimir.

It's all right. Kirsten, you've got to pull up. You've got to. Yes, please.

Could you pull up?

Okay, it's okay.

Three and four and five.

Six.

Seven.

Eight. Nine.

These people

come from the finest dance schools in the country.

I like an audition with none other than Darren Oates.

He's the chairman of the board and treats the ballet like his private

What a long shot.

Right off the street like that.

But I won the lead.

Now Randy thinks the ballet is trying to woo me away from him.

I'm just waiting for him to tell Oates that I dance at the club.

That's the 20th century. People can handle something like that.

I mean, Kissinger wrote all about Nixon wandering through the White House,

talking all the pictures on the wall, and Tricky Dick still gets to go to

with a pole.

Look,

Oates is scarcely going to fire you simply because you earned a few bucks

dancing in a nightclub.

Well, a fox hunt club's not as bad as that nude bowling joint out near the

airport. You know, look, right now, scandal is the least of my worries.

All these other things that are happening.

The accidents.

I mean, it's like acts of...

Patatage, I guess.

Someone is trying to psych me out.

Getting me to clutch or quit.

Take your pick.

Holly, Oates is calling for your scalp. Where have you been?

Car trouble.

Anytime.

No!

You move like old peasant woman and you behave like a tramp.

You'll never dance with me like this. Never!

Michelle, come on.

I'll talk to him.

That guy defector would be shipped down with some bad sardines.

He just happens to be the guy who has Baryshnikov looking over his shoulder.

I know about a hundred ballerinas who would kill to be in his arms.

Who's the woman he's about to kill?

Kirsten Jeffries. She's my understudy.

She's the one who's supposed to have Holly looking over her shoulder.

Well, back to the meat grinder.

Nice meeting you. That's nice meeting you.

I don't know.

Hey!

Listen, you guys, I'll be fine.

Listen, nothing's ever happened to me here.

Why don't you just go home and get some sleep?

What's in here?

Oh, that's Brenda's room.

Half the time she turns in before dinner.

We'll take shifts outside.

Oh, no, you don't have to do that. Yeah, we know we're going to do it anyway.

All right, well, I'm going to fix your breakfast in the morning, okay?

Sunny side up? Okay.

Over easy?

All right.

Biscuits? Waffles on the side? I'm not sure about that. Maple syrup?

All right, thank you. Do we have to leave? Shouldn't we just stay here and

snack?

Dr.

Jastrow, my six -year -old son is constantly complaining about a pain in

lower back.

What should I do about it? Get rid of him.

and all over the place in there.

He showed me the door.

Holly? Took her to the cop shop about ten minutes ago.

Questions only for now.

We sure did her a lot of good, didn't we? I want to take a look at the

report. Let's go buy town a cup of coffee.

Hey, guys, there are a million stories in a naked city. I got a dozen of my own

right here. Now, if you want to have a seat, I'll be glad to help you as soon

I finish this paperwork.

Look,

town.

Holly McGinnis is our client.

She hired us to protect her. Now, whoever killed Brenda, chances are they

after Holly.

I'd like to help you. Okay.

But it'll be hours before this paperwork shuffles its way through the system. So

you're going to have to hit the corner on your own.

But watch your step. I think Roberts is working the shift.

Ed Crowder alive and fine.

That's me.

Yeah, Special Agent Ernie Boyer. I'm with the big guy in his office.

Here's the scan.

Hostages, sub -basement four.

The only reason I'm giving this to you is because of last week's editorial gun

control. Who needs it? Now, you better get a move on. Get on down there. Come

on. Go, go, go, go.

I hope so. I sure will.

Hi, Dr. Roberts. Andy Simon, Channel 3 Action News.

We'd like to talk to you for a few minutes about the Brenda Haas murder

investigation. Channel 3 Action News.

You're the guys who did the expose at the coroner's office.

Did I say Channel 3? I'm so sorry.

I meant to say Channel 3.

Okay.

Dr. Roberts, what have you found out so far about the Brenda Haas murder?

Well, Andy...

Of course, the coroner's office is doing a thorough examination of the victim,

but I can reasonably speculate that death was caused by a blow to the head

blunt instrument.

Is there any evidence that the murderer was male or female?

I can't really say at this time.

All right, thank you very much.

Okay, we're cut.

Just between you and me, I've got my money down on the roommate, Holly

Is there any chance that Brenda was involved?

I'm in the business about the club.

I only knew Brenda a few months, but she understood.

I mean, she danced for Joffrey. She knew I was working at Randy. I'd sure like

to know where Deaver was last night.

Randy?

Randy couldn't do anything like this.

Yeah, but he has plenty of friends who could.

But maybe you don't hear so good.

Maybe your boys don't talk so good. But I already told them.

Since you left, I wouldn't be there when you hit the wall.

Randy, I want to hear it from you. I want to know you had nothing to do with

this. With what?

Brenda's dead.

Somebody killed her.

Brenda?

And these guys said it had something to do with it?

Stop it! Stop!

If you ever want to see me again, just stop!

I want to talk to him alone.

It's okay.

Hi, I'm Susan.

Can I get you a drink?

I'd like a beer.

New break, huh?

How'd you guess?

No guess.

It's a virgin.

You're cast.

There's not a mark on it.

I'll be the first.

You'll always remember me.

That's laughing, wasn't it?

Look it up.

What's a nice girl like you doing speaking a dead language?

I'm in law school.

Oh, come on. Is everybody in this place doing graduate work? I suppose she's a

nuclear physicist.

No, she's a hooker. She's a hood.

When we aren't dancing, we're waiting tables.

Those are the rules, except for Holly. She has special rules. Ah.

So, anything for you? No, thank you.

I'd still like to be your counselor.

You got it.

So do you.

I love you.

Now, whether you succeed or not doesn't matter to me.

Oh, it does matter to me.

I can't spend my whole life dancing in this club. Forget the club.

Just... Just don't forget me, okay?

I'm a little surprised.

What's the matter with everybody?

I'm sorry.

What? Holly.

We believe in you.

You're part of the family here. What's going on, Mr. Oates?

You've got to understand, Holly, this ballet exists at the whim of a lot of

pretty narrow -minded people.

You've got to let the air clear about Brenda. Everything.

It would be better if you could take some time off, don't you think?

But, Mr. Oates, we open on Thursday.

Even so, Kirsten can fill in for you.

You won't.

The park sure has changed, AJ.

Used to be a nice place to come and just... It's empty.

Get back to nature, listen to the birds sing.

Yeah, I know what you mean.

Carlos and I used to cut class, wouldn't we? Come down here, you know, race our

motorcycles through the trees, drink... What are you doing?

It's I .C.

Oriental Metro.

It's right over there. Over where?

Thanks for calling us, Sam. Nothing to it.

Is that good?

Yeah, I used to.

About a million years ago.

You know, it's actually relief.

It's also quitting.

I'm an embarrassment to the ballet.

Plus you're arrested for murder.

It's not going to happen. They don't have anything.

Neither do we.

And we won't. Not as long as you keep ducking out on reality.

Who doesn't want me there?

Vladimir and I dance beautifully together. I'm Darren Oates' discovery,

girl sensation, you know?

I'm the kind of draw he's looking for.

for his ticket over here.

We've only been working.

Maybe.

Maybe not.

Excuse me. Can I have everybody's attention, please?

I'm sorry, but I made the wrong decision yesterday.

I haven't done anything that I should be punished for. I just want to dance.

Your idea?

Oh, all she needed was a little pep talk.

She knows she's no longer welcome.

That was yesterday.

I figured someone had to make a move toward bringing things back to normal.

Don't try that on me.

You know my position here.

Or you ought to.

Why don't you enlighten us?

You want any lunch?

Yeah, give me a beer.

I say you want some lunch. And I said yes.

Just a trifle rusty there.

What exactly do you call that? It's called moon dance. Carlos and I used to

this. We'd get a couple of girls.

Go out in the desert on our motorcycles, we'd dance and drink beer. Yeah, I

know. Unlike most teenagers, you developed quite early a sense of what

wanted out of life.

Yeah, I did.

That was my next move.

May I?

And to what exactly do we owe the pleasure of this visit?

Curiosity.

A Russian passion.

I wanted to know what kind of man would encourage that girl to perform with her.

She would have made me look super -duper.

Yeah, well, you're going to look super -duper.

She's going to perform with you. We'll see to that.

Really? I think not.

For two reasons.

Firstly... The ballet will never allow one of her type on stage.

Just what type is that?

A murderess.

Listen, Rusky, we got this funny tradition in this country.

We like to prove a person guilty before we blame them. I know.

It is one of the reasons I'm here.

But I'm afraid such fine points of justice will be lost on Theranos and his

kind. They're the same everywhere.

Well...

Let's just say it's our job.

Ah, of course.

We have this tradition in the USSR.

All right, put up with us. Come on. Wait,

wait, wait, wait, wait. Before you throw him in the canal.

You said you had two reasons why Holly wasn't going to be performing. What's

second reason?

She's in the hospital.

They removed her from rehearsal after she collapsed.

leave the hospital at this time.

How is she? It was close. Some kind of poison.

Was she out of danger?

That's what they're trying to tell me.

How'd she get up?

Food, of course.

Yogurt.

Nasty business.

Botulism is not something we usually find in yogurt.

Does it itch?

What?

Oh, no. No, it's fine.

Oh, it will.

Be assured of that.

Most maddening.

Well, she must be here two, three days, then very, very weak.

Goodbye.

Oh, by the way, who wrote that on your cast?

Naughty, naughty.

Well, what does it say?

Hell of a stomachache, huh?

The worst.

Doc says that you can leave here day after tomorrow.

Another week, you're going to be good as new.

You have to do better than that.

Why push it?

The ballet, we open in four days.

Promise you'll get me there.

Promise.

Okay.

I promise.

And we're going to find out who killed Brenda.

tight. No breakfast stuff in here.

Uh -huh.

Uh -huh what? Uh -huh -huh -huh.

Uh -huh -huh -huh?

One yogurt container.

Suitable for poisoning.

Ah!

Time to knock her out of the ballet.

But on the day of the murder, she didn't have it until later because she was

down here being questioned about Brenda Haas, who was probably killed because

she surprised whoever it was who was shooting up the yogurt.

Okay.

Now, I've got Deaver's, I've got Vladimir's, I've got

Kirsten Jeffrey's phone records.

Have you subpoenaed Darren Oates' phone records yet?

Uh -huh.

But that's all protected and privileged and strictly police business.

Bottom left corner drawer.

Okay.

So, Holly's off the hook.

I mean, you don't put it in your own yogurt.

But who would have wanted her not to dance that bad?

It's not Deaver.

He loves her too much to want to hurt her. It's not Vladimir because she would

have been a terrific partner for him.

Likewise, not Oates, because she'd have been great for his ballet.

I don't think you should, too.

Anyway, about six months ago, Oates had to cover himself with some bad

investments. And guess where he got the money?

The ballet.

Ah, you just served an eighth.

Could be that Oates and Kirsten are playing house.

Who says that?

Ma Bell.

Okay.

And here we've got Oates' phone records, right? Now, the guy's on the horn all

day long to various and sundry peoples until about 8 p .m. Then the calls stop.

These are Kirsten's phone records.

Starting at about 8 p .m., the same calls are being made from her place.

Funny, she doesn't call anybody before 8.

Well, at least not the various and sundry peoples.

I suspect that Mr. Oates and Kirsten are spending their evenings together.

How much they going on?

Not enough for me.

Well, we'll get some more.

You got any more privileged and protected information we could look at?

Yeah, but it's classified.

Uh -huh.

Bye, Dylan. Thank you much.

Well, well, well.

Look what the cat dragged in.

Gee, I figured she'd be in the lockup by now, didn't you?

So did I.

I guess they missed her.

Oh, that's all right. It's a big deal. We can make the citizens arrest over

until they get here.

Are you talking about me?

Tell me something. How long have you and Oates been sleeping together?

What makes you think we are?

That's what he says.

That's what he's telling them right now.

Yeah, the police were there when he got home. Boy, he snapped up the deal.

What are you talking about? What deal?

Well, it's kind of a trade -off. They give him immunity from prosecution and

gives them...

You? Yeah.

Oh, and plus the details. I mean, you know, how you put him up to it, how you

put the botulism in the yogurt, the, you know, et cetera, et cetera.

Yeah, I must be then right now.

Why should I get the blame? I just wanted to dance.

Don't ask us.

We're not lawyers. I would guess first -degree murder is kind of complicated.

You know, I don't think you actually...

have to do the killing in order to get convicted.

No, no, see, just as long as you... But I'm not even guilty.

Okay, sure.

I wanted the lead bad enough to use Darren to get it.

And he was going to give it to me, too, until Holly auditioned. But you did know

that he was using the ballet's money.

Sure. He bragged about it in private until he realized he couldn't pay him

Aha. And so you suggested that somebody might find out if you didn't fire Holly.

But I never wanted him to hurt her.

Look, that was his idea.

He was afraid if he fired his protege, somebody would start asking questions.

But you did kill Brenda, right? No.

He did it. Look, I wasn't even there.

He just told me about it.

He was going out when she was coming in, and he pushed her down the stairs.

Couldn't keep your mouth shut, huh, Kirsten? They already knew.

Well... No, we didn't, but now we do.

Anybody who sticks his head through his door gets it blown off.

I'll take the high road. Me too.

Freeze!

Hold it!

Don't do anything stupid.

On your knees. Slowly.

Hands behind your back. Put your thumbs together.

Well, the effect was the same.

Well?

You going to stay up there all day or what?

No.

No, Rick. No, wrong.

Rick.

AJ.

The, uh, right ankle?

I just want to say one thing.

I owe my life to you guys.

Out there, son.

I'm ready if you are.

Ready.

Hey, Rick.

You want me to find your calf?

Try to find this. You're going to need one of your own.