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Tonight on Hunter.

All the burns on the body were not caused by the fire.

Torture. Somebody nosing into our case again?

Yeah, I don't like it.

Where is Tingo Chavez?

He's a man who's going to make you very rich.

So we got a two million dollar puzzle and we're missing some pieces.

One of my couriers is an informant.

Take me to Becky right now.

If I had 20 cops down here beating the bushes looking for her, in two hours I'd

hear it on the nightly news. Still haven't done it. Nice shot.

We didn't find him till this morning. He was under all the debris.

Does this fire tie in with the one Monday on 34th Street?

Yeah, I think so. So does your boss.

This place has got the same burn pattern as the first place. Low charring. The

suspect used a flammable petroleum product to put on the body again. I'm

was gasoline.

You said my boss was Charlie Devane here?

Devane? No, no. This guy was a lieutenant.

Said he was from Homicide.

What was his name?

Lieutenant Jack.

Jack something.

He was asking questions.

Like what?

Age of the victim, sex, you know.

I'm sorry if I was out of line. No, no, you're all right. I want to ask you

something. Did we ever get the ID on the first victim? No, we're working on it.

Excuse me.

Yeah. Sergeant Hunter, L .A. Homicide.

Hi. You see what went on here?

Sure did.

I saw the dude who started it.

Yeah? Yeah, he jumped in his truck and he drove off down the street. What kind

of truck was that?

It's one of them go -anywhere 4x4s.

You know, I thought every house on the block was gonna go.

You wouldn't have, uh, got the license to do it. Hell yeah.

Uh, it's, uh, 2KX0715.

Welcome to the Regency, Miss Baca.

Sacramento Operator, hold for your contact, switchboard.

Switchboard.

to get in touch with Jack Chance immediately, please.

I'll have to patch you through.

Patch me? Please hold.

He's on assignment in L .A. Tell him it's Becky.

Ringing now.

Yeah, Jack Chance here.

Hold for Becky.

Put her on. I gotta talk to her right now. Come on, now!

Who are you calling?

Oh, you.

We were a little early, and I wanted to find out if the car was on the way.

Get her back!

It's a long line's call.

I'll try.

What are you doing here, Pingo?

I thought you'd just send the limo for me.

Mr. Sherman's very impressed with your work. He wants to meet you, Becky.

And just who is Mr.

Sherman? He's a man who's going to make you very rich.

Oh, let me help. Here.

Hank, take this.

You could have made two trips.

No, I couldn't.

By the time I got out to the roach coach, all the really good stuff would

been gone.

What is this thing, anyway?

It's a file of every arson fire in L .A. over the last four years.

Devane said there was another John Doe arson murder last night. I figured I'd

check it out, see if we can tie it into a known arsonist. That's a good idea.

Do me a favor.

Run this license plate of a four -by -four.

through the DMV.

See if anybody's run it in the last week or so.

Be very discreet about it.

Somebody nosing into our case again?

Yeah, and I don't like it.

Remember the battalion chief at the 34th Street fire? He said there was a

detective snooping around there. We couldn't identify him.

Well, he's back again.

So what do you think, FBI?

It could be anybody.

I don't know who he is. He's on my case. I don't like it. Anyway, I'm going to

get a rundown on this number here. Give me a call. Okay. Wait a second. Did you

get an ID on this morning's victim?

No, uh, like your Danny shoes.

Burned beyond recognition.

See you later.

Yeah, Tony, are you sure about that?

All right, good.

Well, listen, I do appreciate the effort. Thanks.

Robbery, homicides, and negatives.

What about the major crime unit?

No, I saw Captain Casey at a retirement dinner last night. I think he would have

mentioned it.

What makes you so sure this is a cop?

Maybe it's just the firebug getting a kick. No.

According to the arson investigators at the scene, our boy has been asking some

very specific and technical questions. He's legit, all right?

All right, well, I'll call the feds. Maybe they've got somebody working down

there.

Here's the post -mortem on John Doe No.

2.

He was bound to a chair.

Like John Doe No. 1, he was also shot once in the back of the head.

Very interesting on page 2 there.

All the burns on the body were not caused by the fire.

Preliminary investigation says maybe high -voltage electricity.

Torture?

Wasn't that fast?

I'll tell you. The 4x4 is registered to a Henry Granado, 11921 Wilshire Avenue.

I checked. It's a condo. The car has been run twice.

Two weeks ago by the county clerk's office.

That usually means they're prepping a repossession. Who ran it the second

I don't know. Somebody in Sacramento this morning, 0900.

But who in Sacramento?

The computer refused to ID the requesting agency.

What?

Now, that doesn't happen very often.

I don't like that.

I'm going to make some calls.

Did you match Granato's car to a driver's license?

Yeah. They're correlating the registration address to licensed

13 Henry Granatos in the state.

Got the pictures on the way by laser fax.

Good. I think what we should do is get a search warrant for Renato's

condominium. I'll go out and sit on it until you show up.

Sounds good.

I think he's definitely Hispanic.

Can you tell how old he is?

Well, I'm not even going to be positive even when I'm finished, but I'd say he's

probably in his mid -30s.

How soon can you have this guy together? We've got another one this morning.

Same M .O.

I'm not real sure about the hair, but the face is pretty close.

Henry Granato.

That was fast. How'd you manage to do that so quickly?

Well, the killer drove Granato's 4x4 at the scene of the second murder.

Well, I think you ought to tell that to the lieutenant. He certainly didn't seem

to know that this morning.

Let me ask you a question. Can you tell me what this lieutenant looked like?

Yeah.

I draw it.

Thank you.

I'm Philip Sherman.

How did your trip go?

It went fine. I prefer flying, but I understand the concern.

It's a little too risky right now with the feds watching all the airports now,

isn't it? Bingo.

Any chance you were tailed?

Absolutely none.

Good.

Should be 2 .5 million.

It's all there.

Oh, I'm sure it is. But we'll count it anyway.

You see, uh...

Becky, we've been, well, experiencing sort of a cash flow problem on the East

Coast.

I'd like to get your input, if you don't mind, on what we could do to protect

ourselves against any future interruptions.

You'll have to be a little more specific, Mr. Sherman. I don't... Of

Let's see.

Two weeks ago, we lost a million and a half dollars when it arrived in Miami.

Now, you and Mr., uh... Granado.

Yes, Granado.

transported it there.

Now, six hours after you turned it over, the feds arrested my people and

confiscated the cash.

Why didn't you tell me? I mean, hey, everything went fine.

We followed Tingo's instructions to the letter. You asked Henry.

Oh, I have.

Believe me, I have.

A week later, we lost a million in Fort Lauderdale.

Now, you and your husband moved the money that time. Is that correct?

Hey, wait a minute. and now you're accusing us of something that happened

thousands of miles away.

Hell, we could have been back in L .A. by then.

You know what?

That's exactly what your husband said.

Right up to the end.

Oh, what's going on here?

That's what I'm trying to find out.

Oh, I know one thing for sure.

One of my couriers is an informant.

Well, maybe more than one.

Now, Henry and your husband both denied working for the law.

You're the only one left to question.

Phoenix and then Tucson and San Diego?

I was wondering why you had me on the road for six days.

You were keeping me tied down.

Where are they?

You know what, sweetheart?

I would suggest...

that you concentrate on saving your own skin.

Now, are you working for the cops, Mrs. Baca?

Teeth are crazy.

I'm leaving now, and I would suggest you do nothing to stop me.

Never gets easy.

Does it, Tingo?

Hey, McCall.

I'm in here.

Hi. Hi.

There's suitcases, a money counter, and some clothes in the closet, not much

else. This apartment has two spaces assigned to it, and the garage is

there. And there's no 4x4 out on the street.

Manager said Granato had a couple living with him, a Becky and Dave Baca.

And my guess is they left in a hurry, and probably a few days ago. This

pretty moldy. What'd the manager say about Granato?

Said it was pretty secretive. Kept himself, didn't say too much. He leased

place out for 1 ,800 bucks a month paid cash. Let's go check the rest of the

place out. Come on.

Okay, let's see what we got here.

Got anything?

Well, I don't know. You tell me.

What is this?

Oh, boy.

What do you think, with the ethnic health care?

I don't know, but this stuff's real.

Huh. Well, check this out.

That's Granada.

That must be John Doe No. 2, huh? Mm -hmm. Question is, where's his wife?

Yeah, Sherman? The cops just got a search warrant for Granado's condo.

Relax. Read the affidavit. Does it mention anything about an informant?

No. It appears to be a routine follow -up to a murder investigation.

They're looking for a suspect.

Everything's fine, right?

Stop by.

Got a little something special for you.

You see Tingo Chavez around here today?

We open at five.

Listen, you could help me out here. I mean, Tingo, he owes me a few bucks, and

if you could point me in the right direction, I could make it worth your

Look, geezer, hit the bricks running before I tear your head off.

Why don't we just...

all over again.

Where is Tingo Chavez?

This is it, pal.

Hey, what do I know? He blows in and out of here like the wind.

Yeah, but where does he live?

I don't know. In my mother's eyes.

Now, this could be the end of the ride.

So you think this over real careful.

Who did he answer to?

The owner.

Sherman. Philip Sherman.

And where's he?

What the hell do I know?

Bingo. Go around the block. You've got a felony one in that four -by.

One way and one ticket.

1 William 156, go.

156, meet 1 Adam 9, code 2, 6th and Alvarado, regarding your 187 vehicle.

Yeah. 156, roger.

Sergeant Hunter was the affiant on the warrant.

Was there any indication that Grenada was working for the cops?

No, nothing that I saw.

Look harder.

Monitor their entire investigation.

I'll buy anything you can get.

There's no backup. Everyone's tied up with a barricaded suspect on Wilshire.

Yeah, I heard all about that. Where is he?

Motel down the way. He met two guys, loaded some suitcases in the four -by,

back inside.

Where's your partner?

He's down there with a rover, keeping an eye on the motel.

Okay.

You guys take the alley. I'll go through the front and try to get to these guys

before they hit their cars, okay?

1 -M -19, the driver's out of the room and he's getting into the 4x4.

This is it.

Keep going.

Remember, south end of the alley behind the motel.

Charlie, what have we got? Did you get an ID on him? No ID as of yet, but I

to show you something. Come here.

Madre Tatu.

Mariolito.

Yeah. Cuban. That's what it looks like to me. Come here. Let me show you

something else.

Must be more than a million bucks there.

Yeah. Drug money?

Well, I'd say if it is drug money, it's being laundered.

The two mules who were handling it took off and hit a gunfight.

So we got a $2 million puzzle and we're missing some pieces.

Yeah. I think we got one more piece of the puzzle to take a look at, huh?

Let's go. Bill, take the money.

Don't even play.

Don't even think about that.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's Jack Chance.

Sacramento PD.

Okay, you're done.

Okay.

Now, want to tell me about your friends?

I shouldn't have left you this long.

But Tingo got held up.

He was caught with another $2 million.

Would you like to tell me how they found out?

I don't know.

You don't know.

You really don't know.

You see something you're getting better?

I can do this

as long as I have to. You can't.

Now tell me.

You're working for the cops.

And I'll make it go real quick for you after that.

How long you been in town, Lieutenant?

Not long.

Listen, Captain, I'd like to apologize for going around with your Sergeant

Hunter here.

Why don't we just call tonight a wash? I'll go home. Sit down.

You're not going anywhere until I find the truth.

So sit down.

And I'm not buying your, I'm down here looking for a fugitive crap either.

Why didn't you check in with us?

Why didn't you let us know you're working on a case down here?

What's the matter, all the phones in Sacramento busted?

What's your interest in Henry Granato?

Now, look, Chance.

We know that you were nosing around that first arson homicide, the one on 34th

Street Monday night.

The victim was Henry Granato.

You know, I can call your boss and get him out of bed if you want.

Henry Granato was my informant.

All right.

And the rest?

I'm on loan to the state attorney general.

It's a task force working on a money laundering operation.

They're mulling drug profits to the east coast and down to the Bahamas.

My primary suspect is a Cuban.

A Marielito named Chavez.

Tingo Chavez.

What about the couple, the Bacchus? Dave and Becky, they were staying at

Granada's condo.

State agents working undercover, opposing his man and wife.

I think you may have found Agent Baca this morning in that second torched

house.

Well, I can understand why you're anxious.

What went wrong?

Well, the feds, they wanted some money for evidence.

What does it say here? It's supposed to look like accidental seizures.

I tried to convince them it was too risky.

Chavez and his people, whoever they are, I didn't buy for a minute, so... He

started looking for leaks right away.

So you think Chavez killed Granato and Baca to plug the leaks?

What about Mrs. Baca?

Her name's Becky Cruz, and he's probably working on her right now.

Why didn't you let us know? We could have searched for her. Because you got

leaks down here.

Damn busters. Well, then lay them out.

I ran some phone calls, a couple of license plates.

Chavez found out.

And that's when everything went to hell.

So you can understand why it is I'm not too interested in you messing around

with my case.

Listen, I'm really dragging.

You think you could have your sergeant here drive me back to the hotel so I

could bag a couple hours sleep? Because then in the morning, early, we could go

out, get Tingo Chavez. I'm sure he'd take us right to Agent Cruz.

Is that Chalmers?

Yeah.

See how it happened to him.

I shot him.

You big, long bastard.

You're the only way I could get to her.

All right, what the hell went on?

Look, it was an accident. The cop spotted his car at the motel. It was an

accident.

It was no accident.

They were looking for that car.

Damn fool should have burned it.

He should have listened to me.

All right.

Is there any indication at all that they know about me?

None. Can't you find out?

This whole thing is taking a lot longer than I thought.

Now with Tingo dead, I've got to do every little damn thing by myself.

No, I need all the help I can get.

I want you to be extra vigilant for the next couple of days. You understand?

If I don't move five million down to Grand Bahama Island by this weekend,

they're going to... Now let's just say I'll be permanently persona non grata in

Bogota.

154 .83 omegahertz.

That's our tech one.

Yeah. Just in case I need a backup.

Just in case?

You know, you do have backup. Why don't you use it?

This, uh, this is all the information I have on the case.

Telephone tolls, address checks, and a complete background on the late Dingo

Chavez.

You ought to get some sleep. You're losing your edge.

I think you're right.

If you get out of here, I call it a night.

Unless you intend to camp on my doorstep. No, I don't intend to camp on

doorstep. You know, you still haven't answered my question. Why the solo

operation?

If I had 20 cops down here beating the bushes looking for her, in two hours I'd

hear it on the nightly news.

I don't intend to lose any more agents.

What would you do if it was your partner? I'll tell you what I'd do.

I'd beat the bushes until I knew she was safe.

But I'd use every available resource given to me to do it.

Yeah, you're right.

Matter of fact, I'm sure of it.

Look at my edge.

Make it some sleep.

I'll pick you up at 0700.

0700.

So when I get to his room, I check it. He's gone. His bed hasn't even been

flipped yet. Well, I talked to his captain.

He says Chance is a bulldog, but no rogue.

But something is driving that man hard.

You know, I get the impression that you like the guy.

Well, look, I understand you. I think you do, too.

He's lost some people he cared about. He's close to you.

No, he won't be doing any sleeping.

He's out there sitting on somebody.

All right.

You keep me posted.

I'm going to call the Justice Department. We don't know all we should

one. Right.

Hunter? Come here. I want to show you something.

Ah, yes.

What is that?

A telephone toll analysis.

Agrusa over in narcotics took the toll records from Chance's file and he read

them through the NIN computer. Check it out. This is what he's got.

You mean every drug connection in California has been calling the El

Exactly. It's owned by Philip Sherman.

Agrusa says that they've had a lot of rumbles on him in the past. And by the

way, I checked on Granado's car.

For whatever reason, the county clerk's office ran a DMV check. It wasn't for a

repo. One owner and he paid cash.

County clerk's office, huh?

And you know who issued search warrants.

for telephone record.

County clerk's office.

I'd like a number on that warrant, please. All right.

Okay. Your number's 3411.

Thank you.

You have a nice day now. Thank you.

Mr. Sherman, please.

Look, if you got a case, make it. Otherwise, I think you better release

Gloria, last week you ran a DMV on a car registered to Henry Granada. Why is

that? Me?

Sergeant, anyone in the office could have run that. I understand that, but

ID number is right there.

Look, if I'm the first one to sign on in the morning, I leave the computer open.

We have 60 clerks in my office.

Right after Sergeant McCall left your office, you called Philip Sherman. Why

that? I called my brother Frank. He's been sick.

Your brother Frank.

You know what we did, Gloria?

We tapped your phone.

You called Philip Sherman.

You now have two choices.

One, cooperate with me, or two, you gotta go to jail.

All right, these are the routes I want you guys to follow, all right?

Also, I want a woman in every car.

Understand? Every car.

Make it look better.

And no one, excuse you, Ricky, no one exceeds the speed limit.

You also got false identification papers in there just in case.

Yeah, Sherman.

Wait, wait. Ho, ho, ho, ho.

When did all this happen?

They just left. The cops searched Chavez's place. Apparently he kept a

implicates you in two murders.

All right.

All right.

Just listen.

You got to try to get a hold of that diary somehow, because that's the only

thing that connects me.

Sherman.

Everybody just keep your hands right on that table.

Why don't you just put that phone down and slide out of here?

Because we're leaving right now.

Have a squad car meet me at 4311 Ventura Boulevard, code 2, hot shot, and then

lock her up. You got it, Sarge.

Get on the floor.

Get on the floor!

Come on.

Who the hell are you? Come on.

Just take me to her, okay?

Crazy, take you to who? All right.

Just relax. Relax.

Just relax.

Huh?

You remember me, Giesel?

Drop it!

If you want to live,

you take me to Becky right now.

Adam 11, can you have William 56 meet me on an open tack?

Thanks.

I want to explain.

The Olympians have a representative down here. His name is Tinker Chavez.

He's the one that called all the shots.

In fact, he's the one that picked up Granado in the pocket.

Yeah, I mean, you know those cocaine cowboys. Violence is the...

Solution to all the problems, right?

I want you to believe me. I tried to prevent it.

How much further is it?

All units on tap one, stand by. We have a tactical emergency.

Air Nine, roger.

He's making a left turn on Franklin.

Roger, Air Nine.

It's flown out of Miami twice a month. Ten million dollars laundered through a

bank in Grand Bahamas run by a Brit, Ralph Pennington.

The connection is a Colombian businessman who lives in Miami.

And I'll testify to that. That's what you want, isn't it? Huh?

Then you can take everyone in.

They're in the alley, rear entrance.

Okay, you guys watch the front. I'll go around the back.

Now, where is she?

Where is she?

Second door on the left.

Becky?

Becky?

They'll be all right.

No, no.

No, please.

You gotta believe me.

It was Tingo who hurt her.

It was Tingo!

Yes!

Killing a drug pusher isn't worth it. Put the gun down.

No, he tortured Becky to death.

The law will take care of him.

Put it down.

What would you do if it was your daughter, huh?