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Two things right in a row. Is that the story?

Look, Mr. Tarpon was... Two simple hits.

Complete surprise on our side and Hawk still walking around.

Cop's dead as hell, ain't he?

Says Petey. He put him in the car.

Yeah. I owe this Hawk guy for him.

Not like I owe him.

So give me another shot.

I got something else in mind.

Dump Petey's bottle.

What do you mean, dump him? What do you want? A 21 -gun salute, a state funeral,

lose his body quietly. Get out of here.

Where'd you find him, jerk?

Not a lot of brain surgeons looking for driver's jobs, Mick.

Just calm down.

We're doing okay here.

Is that right, Jesse?

I can read.

I've seen the books.

Girls are off 50%. And don't give me any song about new morality.

Drug traffic is way down, too.

Mick, it's a new game.

There are new players, street players.

We can't control them all.

Like I said, I can read.

Even the gambling's a mess.

Look, Jesse, I didn't spend four and a half years in prison to come out and

my whole organization falling apart. Things are going to change right now.

That includes incompetent staff, even drivers.

Look, Willight's all right.

He did do a good job on Bowers, didn't he?

Yeah, yeah.

The cop who sent me up is dead. I still want Hawk.

You know what? I got his gold for you guys. I'm not selling it cheap.

Why don't you just rot away the next five years? I'm out of here.

Hold it, Brogan. Will you just hold it?

You gotta give my stuff.

I didn't come all the way down here from headquarters to play Let's Make a Deal,

Sternberg. In fact, I think this whole jailhouse snitch business stinks.

Will you just sit down, okay?

It's about Terry Bowers.

You gave me some time off on this deal, right?

Hey, I know who dusted him.

This is really not a very good time to get cute with me, Carl.

We're talking about a dead cop here. Look at me, Carl.

Look closely. Tell me you understand what I'm saying.

Look, what do you think, I'm nuts?

I'm not going to feed you some fantasy about Bowers.

I picked up a name, man.

A name.

Go.

This guy has got himself a bullet with Bowers' name on it.

I want the name, Carl.

It's a brother.

Name's Hawk.

You're distant.

Away from the art.

Yes.

This room can be a place of contemplation and calm.

But not for you now.

Someone tried to kill me this morning.

I see.

And where would this lead you?

But lead you at will.

You're not one to be hunted.

You are the hunter.

Not the sparrow, but the hawk.

Look at you.

It's in your blood, your heart.

These things cannot be denied.

Ashanti. Yes.

A man of Kumasi.

It lives in you still.

So, you will hunt those who seek you.

As you say, let the hunt be good.

It's okay, I understand.

You're busy, huh?

Yeah, tomorrow.

Yeah, I know.

The more I think about it, I got something to do tonight anyway.

All right.

Yeah, well, I knew you when it was a lot easier to get a date with you, you

know.

Yeah, we both look different then.

Listen, how are you feeling?

Lower back.

Yeah, that's rough.

Well, Doc said to expect it, though.

What? I told you, look, I'm going to cut down and then I'll stop.

Listen, why don't you just curl up and go to sleep, okay?

Get some rest.

I'll call you tomorrow.

Okay. Fine.

All right, listen, Susan, love you, pal.

All right, see you soon.

You all right, sir?

Who are you, man?

Talk to him and read him a speech.

You have the right to remain silent.

If you give up the right to remain silent, anything you say... I know my

What's the charge? Before you started playing hide -and -seek, I just wanted

do a little talking.

But now there's more. Now you're under arrest for murder.

Who'd I kill?

A cop, homeboy.

A friend of mine.

You're under arrest for the murder of Detective Sergeant Terry Bowers.

You know I got the right to use what you say in here.

Sure hope I don't slip up. Why don't we just get a PD down here and let's get on

with it. If I want or need a lawyer, I will find someone of my own choosing.

Someone with skills.

Yep, I noticed Thurgood Marshall didn't crawl out of bed to be here with us.

Right.

Okay, Hawk, since you seem willing to proceed, can you tell us your

on the 9th? That's three weeks ago between 6 and 9 p .m.

I have no recollection.

Feel free to use that against me.

Oh, the court's gonna love the Comedian Act. You know, you're gonna start with

that... Brogan?

Sergeant Bowers was shot with a .357 Magnum, Hawk. You were arrested with a

Magnum. Who told you?

Same gun, Counselor?

It's in ballistics now, Hotshot. We'll find out.

Solid. What else?

Where do you live?

In the District of Columbia.

Anywhere in particular?

Somewhere very particular.

How about Boston?

I have records showing eight shuttle flights in the last two months between

Boston and D .C.

All charged on credit cards found in your wallet.

One was made the day before the killing.

Ergo. Ergo, did you know Detective Sergeant Terry Bowers, Hawk? We met

Under what circumstances?

Unpleasant. He roused you. It's in his notes.

So.

I carry a big gun, fly on airplanes, had an unpleasant encounter with a blue

coat. Sounds like murder one to me.

And you shot him in the back. Yeah, murder one hot shot and you're gonna

for it. We got more on you. Jim, cool off.

Meeting's over. I'm going back to my cell to wait for bail.

Excuse me.

Bail?

What we got is pretty circumstantial so far, Jim.

We'll get more.

Bail will be pretty high anyway.

or hope to God we don't meet outside of here.

Another Magnum, huh?

Where'd you get that? Did you buy it by the case?

Firefield. Sit down.

This is great.

You had on bail for murder, and now you're going to add on breaking and

entering, ADW, threatening a peace officer, and anything else I want to

you with.

Or am I gone now?

You're going to blow me away too, hotshot?

Attention, Officer Brogan.

Answers. Like, why are you warming up the electric chair for me?

Killing a police officer.

That enough?

He was dirty. Did they tell you that? You are really something. I don't

you, man.

Folk came to me, folk from the neighborhood, said a cop had his hand

was Bowers.

You can can that right now. So I went to see this civil servant, see what was

happening, and he was not pleased with what I told him. In fact, he wanted to

bust me for anything he could.

That was what he had in the notes about me.

I can check this out, you know, man. I am doing some checking myself.

What else do you have, Mr.

Bloodhound?

What else?

You were fingered.

Got right out of Lorton.

Picks up on the inside telegraph line, lays it hot on the table for me.

Who?

Yeah, all right, you can't get to him. You can't touch him.

Guy by the name of Carl Sternberg going 10 to 20 for armed robbery.

Bye, Mr. Bloodhound.

Thanks for dropping by, hot shot.

You know you must tell me who your interior decorator is.

I'm moving soon.

Please send me your change of address card.

He's out on bail. You believe that? So what?

He could walk from court, too, Mick. One way or the other, he's dead.

If he goes up, he'll get it in prison.

If he's acquitted, some cop will eventually nail him for revenge. All we

do is point the finger.

Yeah.

I'll tell you, though.

I'll be glad when this stuff is over so we can get back to business.

What, is this all some pain to you?

Look, Jesse.

Maybe that's because you didn't sit in some stinking cell all those years.

Here's some street punk named Hawk shot your brother down.

Hey, Mick, I didn't mean anything by it.

There's no in -between with me.

Either you're with me or you're against me.

You got a minute, man?

No, no, Deuce. I'll be late at work, man. This won't take long, man.

What is this, Deuce? It's a readjustment session.

I heard you've been talking about the man.

All friendly like.

Deuce, you've been listening to fairy tales again, man.

A tale I heard is somebody in here been jacking his jaw to the man about a

brother on the outside.

Deuce, I heard he said this brother dropped a cop.

You hear this story, Sternberg?

No, no.

Well, the worst part is the cat lied, man.

And for money.

You ever heard of such a thing?

Deuce, I don't know what you're talking about, I swear. I'm talking about Hawk,

little man.

His name is Hawk.

You know him?

I, uh, I, uh... Just take the baddest dude you know and double it. Add a

of zeros.

You're starting to get close to Hawk.

What are you gonna do, Deuce? I'm gonna watch a liar change his ways.

Or watch a man commit suicide.

Hi.

Do you have room for one and a half more here? Yeah, I've almost given up on

you. Yeah.

Traffic as usual.

Do you remember when you used to be able to drive in this town?

Yeah, I can't even make it through with a siren anymore.

And how are you?

I'm fine.

I feel like something out of a circus sideshow.

Well, not long now. Yeah, I have the same feeling.

You know, maybe we should just move plans up just a little. Now, come on.

you can hold on until Saturday. Yeah, yeah, I can.

I can, but it's him or her I'm worried about.

Oh, him or her.

Him, him or her. Can this wait, please, until Sunday at the earliest?

So we're really going to do it, huh?

Yeah.

Saturday at noon. Judge is all set.

That's great.

Then we can sneak off together for three or four romantic days and nights at

St. Simeon's maternity ward.

A little backward, huh? Yeah.

That happened.

I still can't believe it.

We're married for five years. We're divorced for two.

And a couple of dates.

Well, you were lonely. You wouldn't let me go home. Well, something just keeps

reminding me of that.

I think I'm going to have to make an honest man out of you.

What's the least you could do?

Isn't technology amazing?

You can get a telephone call without even having a phone.

Yeah.

The station.

You gotta go?

That's what I always used to do, isn't it?

When we were married.

Didn't work too good, did it?

I think I'm gonna try a little differently this time.

Can I get you something to eat?

Are you sure about this?

I'll call when we're finished.

Probably bad news anyway.

It can wait.

I want

to

talk to you.

We had our talk.

What, when you put your cannon in my face and assassinated my couch?

You touch me one more time and you're going to have a whole world of trouble

coming at you. Yeah, well, I'll file that under things I'm terrified of.

What is your problem besides your thick skull and your occupation?

What is it? I want you to tell me how you got to Sternberg.

What makes him take everything back that he told me two days ago? Man's got a

right to change his tune, but we aren't there yet, are we? What is it that's

churning around in you?

Thing.

Ballistics, huh?

Old scientist found something you did not like. All right.

The gun that killed Bowers wasn't the one we took off him. My, my, my. We got

real grim fairy tale working here. The rat lied. The dirty cop dirty. My gun

not shoot him.

Eureka. I repeat, I was framed. I'm going to find out who did it. The only

you're going to do, you jive, thousand -dollar coat, sunglasses at midnight

bozo, is to stay the hell out of my way. Maybe Bowers was dipping, but I knew

him for 15 years. He was a good cop.

And whoever took him down is mine.

are to clean up your language.

Stay out of my way, hot shot.

I'm not going to tell you again.

You have a warrant?

Doesn't much matter. Nothing in the desk anyway.

Don't waste your time. Kitchen, basement, bathroom, all empty.

Mr. Bowers must have kept all of his books in his head.

How the hell did you get inside that house? Same way you did. Took less time,

too. Hey, shouldn't I tell you to stay out of this?

You are such a fool.

Oh, hey, I'm sorry.

I'm just trying. I'm not supposed to touch you like that, right?

I hope you got insurance.

Like I said, I'm terrified.

I just want you to know.

think you've taken the word fool to a new height. Think you think.

Think you're a jerk.

Think.

Think I just got my butt kicked.

Also, think you had nothing to do with Terry Bauer's death.

But everywhere I go, you're not going to leave it alone, right? You're going to

be there in my face, right?

What, you want to cut the middleman?

just like the driver seldom works.

A little overdue for a tune -up.

Kept putting it off.

Well, shall we take yours?

The only thing you get here is a hard road to hold.

You want to beep this cop -killer rap or not?

Wipe your feet before you get in.

Man, this thing's great. What do these things go for, anyway?

More than you got.

Where are we headed, anyway?

Downtown. Oh, you got to keep quiet about this, too.

I'm going to pick up the file on Bauer, see if there's something in there that

points us in the right direction.

You ain't said nothing but a word.

Oh, yeah, and I got to do an errand first. Just take the next right, okay?

Say what?

I said just take the next right.

act tomorrow for the rest of it.

So you broke your bed, huh?

I want to have a baby.

Trouble is, first I got to get a wife.

Who'd choose you?

My wife.

My ex -wife, as you know, we're getting remarried this weekend.

That a fact.

Yeah, then, bang, we got a family.

I don't know, a kid, you know.

I was kind of afraid having a kid, this job and all. Susan told me I just about

dropped over, but...

The more I think about it, the more I like the idea.

Yeah, I think I like this fatherhood thing.

You don't mind if we drop off the bassinet, do you?

Oh, no, no, no, no. I hope this fun never ends.

Hi, honey. I got it.

Great.

Susan, this is Hawk.

Hawk, Susan.

Hi, pleased to meet you.

My God, Jim, your face.

I had a heated discussion.

Okay.

Well, I want this set up right outside our bathroom.

Okay.

It must be me. It goes off the minute it sees me. Yeah, we have something here.

There's an urgent code on this.

Okay, go.

No, no, go, go.

I can get the bassinet upstairs.

Go. You sure? Yeah.

Bye.

You got that? I got it. All right. Bye.

Right, right. Two big hits on the passenger side.

One of them punctured the victim.

Okay, so they creamed him. Put that in the report.

Hey, look.

It's been a long day for everybody.

Yeah, yeah, I'll tell him.

Yeah, he just got here.

So, when do I get promoted to detective?

When you grow up, Stanley.

Who found him?

A couple of kids were fishing when they spotted it.

Guy's name is Peter Carlson with a K, alias Carlson with a C, alias Petey

I'm very impressed.

You get all that by yourself?

Guy carried a wallet.

He the one you've been looking for?

That's Kim.

That's him.

So you got a make. What else you got?

He was paroled on an ADW last October.

Works as a bartender for a club over in Alexandria.

The employer's name is Jesse Blake.

You got all that from a wallet?

I've been on the horn to the computer.

Told you I wanted to make detective.

Name Jesse Blake mean anything to you?

Blank. Wrong, hot shot.

Always an answer. You just got to know who to ask the question.

That's the first time you sound like you know what you're doing.

I got a plan.

You have a plan?

Yeah, first we got to get my car back, though. This is already a disaster.

We need something unmarked. We're going to lose this Batmobile.

Uh -huh.

Right, then I called down to the big mother computer like Stanley did.

CCI, Central Criminal Intelligence, feeding information on a Jesse Blake.

And we see what comes back. What do you want to bet he's in the racket?

Nothing.

Nothing satisfies you, you know?

Dinner would.

Fine. Buy you a hot meal.

Well, Ed was baloney.

Same thing Blake and Tarpon are having, I'm sure.

His name was Tarpon.

Michael J., known as Mick to his friends.

You a friend?

His brother and I had a fatal confrontation.

Is that what this is all about?

Time will tell.

Looks like dessert just walked out the front door.

Now, I don't suppose either one of them is Mrs. Tarpa.

I don't suppose so. Now what?

We wait, we watch, and we look for a tie -in.

It's already tied together.

Your buddy Bowers sent that man up the river. The hitman we found swimming in

the river works for Blake, who works for Mick, who wants me dead. That enough

tying for you?

Show me some evidence, I'll make a bust.

Take it easy.

Damn thing's broken again.

just begun yeah who's he the man who drove the car the morning they tried to

me okay the title call for backup we don't need any it's procedure all right

this is scalp 43 10 33 requesting immediate backup on a possible 402 near

of lawton and charles over procedures i learned long time ago not to

play hero only time i ever got anyone hurt

was when I didn't get a backup.

You are gonna blow this.

I'm not.

I'm through waiting. Yeah, something's up. I'll get the car.

You get the house.

I thought it would be nice.

One day we'd walk here together, watch the children play.

Only we never had the time.

I was always scared it would happen like this.

All of a sudden, he'd be gone before anyone could cry for him.

I'm sorry.

It was good of you to come.

Did he say anything before?

No.

Oh?

He was looking forward to being with you.

Thanks. And the new child made him happy.

Yeah, me too.

All they said was in the line of duty.

How did... Just like that.

That's him.

It was his job.

Look.

You know, you really don't have to stay.

Thanks. I'll be fine.

Will he be back?

I don't know.

You tell him the man who killed his brother is willing to do the same for

You won't forget, will you?

No, sir. Good!

So what'll I say?

I'll do the talking.

You won't like it.

I'm tired of caring.

He's out of touch.

Why not let Hawk have him?

Why not?

And then we'll get rid of Hawk.

What's in it for me?

A long and happy life.

Hey, I'm asking you.

It's him.

He's good at killing cops. What else has he got to live for? Hey, wait a minute.

It wasn't my... You shut up!

Look, Mick, so we got a problem.

There's nothing we can't handle.

Get rid of him.

Mick, you don't want him. You want Hawk.

That's what I'm here to help you with.

You want to help me?

You know what I mean.

We'll put the word out. We'll meet him somewhere.

We'll make a deal with him.

How's receipts?

Good, good.

What's to expect so soon?

One thing you learn inside, Jesse, is to expect nothing.

What are you getting at, Mick?

I'm selling out.

I got a bid.

From who?

Doesn't matter, but it's enough for me to live for a long time. But I've got to

have things shaped up.

They don't want a sloppy operation. So what happens to me?

I'll set you up in a new business.

What's the deal?

We're still together like always, right?

Sure. But no more mistakes, okay?

It's bad for our luck, you understand?

Don't worry about it.

Just tell me when you got Hawk set up.

I'll be there.

Okay.

Lot of secrets.

So who do you trust?

You.

Good choice.

Let's go.

I got an invitation to get out on the street.

Must have been some time since you've been here.

You said this was important, is it?

When do our roots stop being important?

That was your room up there, wasn't it?

Long time ago.

And over there, your daddy's.

I was just trying to remember all the good times lived here.

The holidays, the weddings, the baptisms.

Down there at the third house, there was a ghost hunt every Halloween.

and an uncle who died trying to kill a man out of revenge.

I was thinking about that today, passing by, all the joyful moments that

neighborhood had, and the small tragedy.

No different than any other.

True.

Every neighborhood has its legend, some of courage, some of foolish passion.

Might say, all the backyards are the same.

Only the people are different.

True. Like us.

We sense things, you and I.

Standing here, I felt something from the past.

Like you were in danger from yourself.

Like a child who was ruled out of passion.

Is that what the hundreds become?

If so, it could lead you astray.

I've got to go.

Take care, Hawk.

Take care.

What time is it? It doesn't matter.

Put that damn thing out.

No one's coming.

They'll come.

They'll come.

It's him.

It's Mick. Get ready.

Keep it quiet, Jesse.

We don't want to surprise anyone.

Mike, come on, please.

I want you not to be sloppy.

Give me another chance.

The last one, Jesse.

For your years of service.

Hawk?

Where are you?

Right here, sucker.

And I'm right here.

Only one way to find out.

No. You want me dead, so do it.

Don't shoot.

Do it!

Don't kill me!

You're dead, man.

Only not tonight.

Not here.

In prison is where you'll die.