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[♪♪♪]

[SIRENS WAILING]

[♪♪♪]

[SIGHS]

Are you nuts?

There've gotta be 10,000 cops around here.

You sure you don't wanna go with me?

[LAUGHING]: No way!

And I'm gonna tell ya something else too.

If you're really crazy enough to start shootin' in there,

I don't know you.

I mean, I'll burn rubber out of here so fast--

Just try not to run over me on your way out, okay?

[LAUGHS]

WEBSTER: It's a beautiful-- GILLIS: Yeah.

See you later. See you.

Hi. Sorry we're late.

Uh-huh. Well, you just see if we show up on time

when they give you the Medal of Valor.

Oh, no respect. No respect.

Come along.

[♪♪♪]

[ALL CHATTERING]

RYKER: How do you like it?

MAN: I like it.

Fine.

Those things will burn a hole in your gut one of these days.

You're beginning to sound like Pat.

Go see a doctor, Finn.

I will. When?

Now, believe it or not,

there's not that much wrong with me.

A few aches and pains and that's it.

It goes with the age.

You keep talking like that,

I may make captain a lot sooner than I would like to.

FINN: It couldn't happen

to a better man.

RYKER: It could and it did.

No, I don't wanna go to all the trouble

of breaking a man in to take over my job.

Finn, I'm asking you as a friend.

See a doctor.

[♪♪♪]

Is there anything I can do to help, ma'am?

Um-- Um, no, I--

It's about to get started.

Would you like me to help you find a seat out there?

[CLEARS THROAT]

Uh... I-I have one.

Thank you. I didn't-- I didn't realize.

Captain, lieutenant, it's getting that time.

[GRUNTS]

Ed, tomorrow.

I promise.

[♪♪♪]

[APPLAUSE]

Policewoman Sara Roberts.

RYKER: On the morning of April 20th,

while on duty at the corner of Jackman and Olive Avenues...

Policewoman Sara Roberts,

assigned to Juvenile,

acting with disregard for her own safety--

[CROWD GASPS]

Webster.

Hey, Finn. Let me get you over.

[GROANING]

[SIREN WAILING]

[♪♪♪]

ANNOUNCER: As of now, there is no report

of Captain Finley Whitfield's condition

or the cause of his sudden attack.

Today at the White House--

Think by now they'd have something to tell you.

They call their instant news coverage.

I thought you did it. I mean it.

I really thought that you were crazy enough to go in there

and open up on him

with all those cops all over the place.

Yeah, so why didn't you run?

I tried to, baby. Believe me.

Just like I said I would.

You know, you act like something

that crawled out from under a rock.

I mean, this cop, this Whitfield, puts Claude,

your own brother, away for 10 years,

and you'd go out drinking with him if he invited you!

Right.

[CHUCKLES]

As long as he had the price.

[SIGHS]

'Cause I don't.

You know, if you had half of Claude's brains,

or half of his guts--

I'd be in the joint with him!

Will you please just get off my back?

Huh?

If you have nothing better to do,

go hit your head against the wall a couple of times.

Or why don't you get on the phone, call the hospital,

find out how Whitfield's doing.

You don't know what it is to hate.

[♪♪♪]

You can only hate like I do, and you can...

love like I do.

Isn't that right, sweetheart?

Ed?

Oh.

What's wrong with him, Ed?

I don't know. I'm trying to find out myself.

I was at a meeting. Some silly meeting.

I didn't even know anything about it

until I got home and Finn wasn't there.

I called the precinct, and I--

Mrs. Danko, this is Mrs. Whitfield.

What's wrong with him, nurse? What's wrong with my husband?

Is it his heart?

No, it's not quite that serious.

But Dr. Harris has asked me to tell you

that it's a bleeding ulcer.

What? I know that sounds terrible.

But he's doing fine. He really is.

Can I see him?

I'm sure he'd like that. He's been asking for you.

I don't think he'd like to see that worried look on your face.

Jill, I'd like to know the rest of it.

That's all there is, lieutenant.

They're giving him medication to stop the internal bleeding.

The best medicine for Finn just walked through that door.

If you'd just come home for lunch

instead of eating out in one of those greasy spoons...

Well, leaving you in the morning is tough enough.

If I came home in the middle of the day,

I'd never get back to work.

I'm serious, Finn.

So am I.

I wish you were.

I wish you'd take what's happening to you

more seriously than you do.

You're not taking care of yourself, Finn.

The hours you keep at that office,

and even when you do come home,

you leave part of yourself back there.

Last time you had a decent vacation--

Finn?

[GROANS] Finn?

Nurse!

Nurse!

Nurse!

Nurse, please, something's happening to him!

Help him, please!

Yes, I understand.

I tried to call the doctor, but I couldn't get through.

You see, this is Captain Whitfield's sister.

I'm calling from out of state and I just wanted to know

if it's serious enough for me to make the trip out there.

If you can, I suggest you come as soon as you can.

Captain Whitfield will be going into surgery very soon now.

The doctor says it looks like a perforated ulcer.

Oh. Well, thank you very much.

Well, now...

isn't that a shame?

He's dead?

Captain Whitfield. Good old Captain Whitfield,

always good for a laugh.

Well, tomorrow you can be hysterical at his grave.

He's not dead yet. They're gonna operate.

Well, they'll save him.

Hey, that's lucky for you.

With the man you love in the joint,

and the man you hate dead, what do you got to live for?

Shut up!

[SIGHS]

How I'd love to be there when they cut him open.

[LAUGHING]

Right on, Florence Nightingale.

Oh, yeah, you just truck on in there

with your trusty rusty butcher knife.

[♪♪♪]

Oh, come on, Rita.

I'm puttin' you on.

It can work, Arnie.

Forget it.

Forget it.

Whatever you're thinking.

Why burn a guy who's probably dying already?

No, I don't care about Whitfield.

It's Claude I'm thinking about. And we can do it, Arnie.

We can get him out. You and me together.

No, not with me taking his place you can't.

Oh, Arnie, didn't you ever love anything in your life enough

to take a risk for it?

Money.

Money.

And she divorced me a long time ago.

How much do you want?

What?

To help Claude. To get him back.

Oh, you've blown your mind!

How much do you want to free your own brother?

Come on. How much? Ten thousand dollars.

Okay, you got it. You got it.

Yeah, but you don't.

How are you gonna get numbers like that?

The same way I'm gonna get Claude out.

I'm gonna do it! I'm gonna do it!

Okay?

[♪♪♪]

I couldn't find you.

I started to get a little worried.

When do they operate?

Well, uh, he's in the prep room now.

So it should be 15, 20 minutes.

I should be with Pat now.

There was a time when I needed someone

and they were there, both of them.

We'll have the best there is in there with him, lieutenant.

Dr. Harris is a good man.

He'll be all right.

Sure he will.

I've been here before.

I've heard these same words in a place just like this.

But it didn't end with everyone living happily ever after.

You mean when your wife died?

Yeah.

If it wasn't for Pat and Finn,

Humpty Dumpty never would have made it.

I don't want to let go of this man, Jill.

I wanna reach out and connect with him.

I don't know how. There's no link.

There's no way.

[SIGHS]

Lieutenant?

How would it be if I arranged to be in there with him?

I could, um,

act as circulating nurse.

Well, whatever you do, I wouldn't want you

to break any rules, Nurse Danko.

We'll just bend them a little.

Jill.

Thank you.

WOMAN [ON PA]: Dr. Lichtfield,

check with Surgery, please.

Dr. Lichtfield, check with Surgery, please.

Just keep the 10,000 floating around in your head, Arnie.

It warms my heart, baby.

All right, let's get it on.

Mm-hm.

Is he deep enough?

He's ready, Dr. Harris.

Scalpel, please?

Move away from him!

Get out of here!

Put the knife down and move against the wall.

Move it!

Doctor, don't.

Come on! In the corner there. Come on, move it.

[♪♪♪]

[LAUGHING]

[♪♪♪]

[♪♪♪]

RYKER: No more talk like that, okay?

Oh, why, Eddie?

Who's hiding what?

I mean, we've all seen it.

You, me, Finn.

We've seen 'em die young and old on the force.

We live knowing it can happen any time.

Oh, but not like this.

Not for Finn.

Or for me.

I mean, I'm a cop's wife.

I thought about bullets and about a--

A knife in a dark alley.

And I've taught myself to live with that.

But this...

Dear God... [PHONE RINGS]

...I don't think I could handle this.

Lieutenant Ryker? Yeah?

There's a phone call for you.

You can take it at the nurses' station.

Thank you.

[QUIETLY] I'll be right back.

[SIGHS]

Lieutenant Ryker.

Yes, this is Lieutenant Ryker. What is it you want?

[WOMAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY ON PHONE]

Hold on a second. Who is this?

Let me tell you something,

if this is some kind of a sick game you're play--

[LINE GOES DEAD]

[♪♪♪]

I guess the department can't make it without me.

I've become indispensable in my old age.

Pat, I don't want you to leave this room.

I want you to stay right here.

What is it, Eddie?

Is it Finn?

No, no.

Like I said, it's department business. I just wanna

make sure I know where to find you when I get back.

I'll see you later, hey?

[SNIFFLES]

[♪♪♪]

Sorry, sir. You're not allowed in this area.

Is that the observation room for 3?

Well, yes. But you can't go--

How are you, lieutenant?

What are you doing?

I'm going to push this...

He can't hear you.

You see, lieutenant, it's not just a sick game.

It's for real.

What is it you want?

Claude Samples.

He's serving 10 years in the state prison.

I want you to bring him to me.

And I want a helicopter on the roof with a pilot

and a one-way ticket to any place I tell him.

That'll take a little time.

You have as much time as it takes your captain here

to die on the table.

Because there's not gonna be any operation

until you come back with Claude.

He doesn't stand a chance like that.

What kind of a chance does Claude have up there?

What kind of a chance do I have?

I mean, we're all betting the same long shot, lieutenant,

for the same payoff, and it's up to you.

Now you can bring back the winner,

or you can bury the losers.

Doctor?

About the time?

I have to know how much time I've got.

There's no way of knowing for sure.

Two, five, eight hours?

How much?

Two hours, maybe three.

Anything over that, it gets riskier by the minute.

Even if we do get to operate by then,

it might be too late.

It's like a time bomb.

And it goes off in three hours!

That's it.

That's all the time I'm gonna stand around here sweating.

RITA: You heard what

the man said, lieutenant.

And if the captain's not dead by then

from the little hole in his stomach,

we'll give him a matching pair to go with it.

ARNIE: And one more thing.

Uh, when you come back, bring me a little surprise.

Say, uh, $100,000 in small, unmarked bills.

I like surprises.

You thief.

Well, you ask for 10, you ask for 100.

It's all in the same breath.

Uh, Ryker,

she's after her man and, uh,

she'll die trying to get him.

And me, I figure I can't spend money dead,

so I'm a very,

very careful person.

Now, there are three doors leading into here.

Any one of them opens for any reason I don't know about,

I'm gonna do a little surgery of my own with this gun.

Well, uh, what about the others?

You don't need them.

No, Pat!

[PAT SCREAMS]

[♪♪♪]

Get back!

Move it!

Ethel, keep bagging.

Yes, sir.

Are you still alive up there?

[CHUCKLES]

What are you doing to him?

Please don't say anything.

PAT: Leave my husband alone!

Your husband's life is at stake...

What--? What's going on in here?

Hey, kid.

Tell him, Ryker!

Tell him where it's at.

All right, get out of here. When you get outside,

tell the rest of them to stay out of this room.

Nobody tries to enter from any direction.

Go.

She stays.

You don't want her here.

I said she stays!

What do you want? Claude Samples or a bloodbath?

Make up your mind. I don't leave here without this woman.

Ed, please. Don't worry about me.

I can deal with something like this. I can--

Take her! Get her out of here!

No! ARNIE: Shut up, Rita.

That's all I need are two women fighting over their men in here.

Our time's a-wasting, man.

Now your three hours are running. Chase it!

Ed, I know what I'm doing.

RYKER: Upstairs. Up you go.

You're gonna be alone, Mrs. Whitfield!

Now you think about that!

And you think about what's it's gonna be feel like

a year from now, walking around in an empty house!

And an empty world! And an empty life!

If anything happens to any of them--

Anything.

--you're not gonna be able to run fast enough or far enough.

[♪♪♪]

[CLICKS TONGUE]

[SOBBING]

[SIRENS WAILING]

[HEART MONITOR BEEPING]

It's running low. He'll need more.

Ah.

Wait.

Wait a minute.

You heard the doctor. He needs more blood.

He'll die without it.

Why don't you put that to music

and you and Arnie can dance to it?

Baby, the next time you want to move, tell me.

And we can do it together.

Slowly.

What the hell are we standing around for?

Let's do something, then.

Danko, we're doing everything we can.

Just charging in there would panic those people.

We don't want to do that.

Webster, Gillis, uh,

put on a set of those green surgery things,

mingle with the staff.

Don't start anything on your own.

Go ahead. Sir.

Now, they're sending additional support.

I want the rest of you to stay on this floor.

I want every exit covered.

Nobody goes in or out without your knowing who or why.

Go ahead.

Now wait a minute, lieutenant.

I've got every right to be in there.

No good. Sending you in there

would be like having one of those surgeons

operate on one of his own.

It's my wife.

I know who she is, and why she's in there.

If it wasn't for me,

she'd be in some safe corner of this place.

Don't tell me who that lady is. I know.

[♪♪♪]

Let's start one in the other arm. IV pole.

You kiss your woman goodbye and go to work

and your whole life goes up for grabs.

You're talking like a loser, Danko.

Right on, lieutenant.

'Cause that's the way I'm feeling.

Well, wipe that out of your head.

'Cause nothing is gonna happen to Jill.

[SIGHS]

You wanna tell that to the gun she's looking into?

MAN [ON RADIO]: Ludlow 5.

This is Ryker.

It's all set, lieutenant.

Roger and out.

They've got the money together.

What about Samples?

Nothing yet.

But things are starting to look up. Right?

[ENGINE STARTS]

[SIREN WAILING]

His BP is dropping. He's going into shock.

Pump them both faster.

ARNIE: Ah-ah! Uh-uh!

Nobody uses the phone.

Nobody comes in or out of this place.

Blood is coming out of his perforations

faster than we can pump it in.

He'll die if we don't get enough blood to make it up.

Let him.

You can't let him.

What happens when Lieutenant Ryker

brings Claude Samples here and he sees the captain's dead?

Well, then what do you have to trade with?

You.

All of you.

Oh, look, give him a chance.

That's what you want, isn't it? A chance.

You might make it.

You and Claude might make it.

But he won't.

Not without a steady flow of blood.

[♪♪♪]

You just better pray your lieutenant

gets back here fast enough.

[SIRENS WAILING]

OLDER [ON RADIO]: Ludlow 5. Ludlow 5.

Ryker, go ahead.

Samples is on his way to the bank.

They're flying him up by helicopter.

He took off about 20 minutes ago.

Thanks, Older. Ten-four.

RYKER: Wait for the chopper.

[♪♪♪]

Lieutenant Ryker? Right this way please.

Is it ready?

One minute, lieutenant.

You'll have to sign these.

Haven't got time for the red tape.

You'll have to make time, lieutenant.

Where do you want it? Three copies. Right here.

Lieutenant.

Thank you.

This way, lieutenant.

[HELICOPTER WHIRRING]

The lieutenant will be here in a minute.

You the one gonna tell me what's going on?

Somebody's got to tell me what this is all about.

I've still got some rights left, haven't I?

Just an hour ago I was in the joint.

Now, I'm not winning any popularity contests up there,

but I'm at least I'm not dirt.

All of a sudden I'm flying in the sky

and it's like I've got leprosy.

What have I done? I don't know what I've done.

Do you know a Rita King?

What about her?

Well, she just happens to be holding

about five people hostage for your release.

[♪♪♪]

Get them out of here. Clear the area.

All right, let's get back.

I swear, I didn't know anything about this.

Rita must have flipped.

She's gonna get us all killed.

Look, I'll talk to her on the phone and tell her--

It's a little too late for that, buddy!

No way! I'm not gonna go!

Oh, you're lying to me!

[ALL GRUNTING]

[GUNSHOT]

Aargh!

I didn't mean to! I didn't mean to, honest!

Don't you die on me!

You hear me?!

Don't you die on me.

[♪♪♪]

[HEART MONITOR BEEPING]

HARRIS: Keep that blood coming.

There's only one left, doctor.

It won't make any difference.

If Claude's not back in 15 minutes,

it's all over anyway.

What if he does get here?

What about the patient?

He'll go into irreversible shock and die

if he doesn't get that blood.

Ah, don't worry about it, doc. He'll live to tell his story.

JILL: I don't think he will.

I don't think any of us will. Can't you understand that?

We're all dead, whether it's in 15 minutes or right now.

If they get what they want or if they don't.

Look, suppose we all made a run for it? We won't all make it,

there's a chance, just a chance, one of us might.

Shut up, you!

We'd have a better chance than we would

if we just stood up against the wall and let them shoot us.

Now listen to me, all of you. Nothing is gonna happen to you.

Something is happening to one of us! He's dying!

Now, what do you want, lady?

Not that much!

Listen, if you'll show us

that just one life is important to you,

maybe we'll believe the rest.

Let them bring more blood for Captain Whitfield.

No!

Go on, call.

I said no. Let him die.

I wanna see him die.

Ah, what do you want, Rita? A revolution?

Now, what if we have to gun 'em down? All of 'em? Huh?

How do we get out of here?

And it's all for nothin', Rita.

You'll never see Claude again.

[SIGHS]

Ryker should have been here by now.

If he doesn't make it in 10 minutes,

they're all gonna be dead in there.

Terry, we have got to get something going.

If it comes down to the wire,

we just might have to rush the room.

Officer, they called for whole blood.

What do we do?

This may be the only chance we'll get.

We'll take it in to them.

Time me. Two minutes after I step through that door,

you bust through the observation room.

Come fast, brother.

GILLIS: Ten minutes to 5.

Good luck, huh?

To all of us.

Open the door very slowly.

ARNIE: Hold it right there.

Take the cart.

You, get out of here.

He has to set it up.

What do you mean, he has to set it up?

You've been setting it up all this time.

That blood's already typed and crossed.

He's the only one who knows how to do it.

Hey, it's okay with me, man. You want me out, I'm gone.

I don't want to argue with no gun.

Uh, look, it's no good without him.

It's like we didn't have the blood at all.

All right.

Just as long as you know I got nothing against you, man.

ARNIE: Yeah, yeah. Nothing at all.

Hold it right there.

Come over here.

Come here!

Now turn around.

Okay, go set it up.

And do it fast and get out of here.

Yes, yes, sir.

[♪♪♪]

Um...

Nurse?

Could you get me that pneumatic mixer

in the cabinet over there, please?

Uh, yeah.

[QUIETLY] Keep back.

Hurry it up, will you?

Hurry up!

[♪♪♪]

Money's in here, all of it.

Helicopter's on the roof.

Where's Claude?

That's something we're gonna have to talk about.

No, no. No more talking. Your three hours are up.

He's been shot.

He's dead.

[♪♪♪]

It wasn't our fault. We had everything together,

the helicopter, the money.

Claude panicked,

tried to make a run for it.

You're lying to me.

Now, you-- You tell me that you're lying.

I want Claude.

Now, you bring me my Claude.

Like I told you,

he's dead.

He's out there in the corridor.

ARNIE: What are you doing?

He's trying to get you through the door.

He's putting you on. It's a trick!

Don't go out there! It's a trick!

[SOBBING]

[SCREAMING]

There's no way out.

I don't need her, Ryker! I got them!

But you're a dead man!

Oh, man.

Oh, Jill.

Jill, set up Room 2 for a gastric resection, stat.

DOCTOR: Let's get a gurney

and get him out of there.

We're setting up another O.R., lieutenant.

Come on, take it easy. Relax.

Oh! You're hurting me! Come on, settle down now.

You're making it worse by struggling.

RITA: No. GILLIS: Just take it easy.

You're making it worse by struggling.

Claude?

Wait.

RITA: No.

Oh...

Please? Please?

Let her go. Please...

[♪♪♪]

They treating you okay?

Yeah, sure.

Just fine.

Well, if there's anything you need

or anything you want.

You knucklehead.

All I wanted was to be with you.

That's all I ever wanted.

I'm sorry, miss.

We have to take him into surgery.

Ma'am?

Excuse me.

[♪♪♪]

What she did was desperate, even crazy.

But she did it for the love of a man.

I can understand that.

[SNAPPING]

What are you so nervous about, Ed?

Not nervous. I just happen to be

a little less relaxed than normal, that's all.

Lieutenant? What?

It's getting to be time, sir. Yes, I know.

I'll see you, Finn. I gotta get going.

Come on, Ed. There's nothing to it.

All you do is drape a medal around somebody's neck,

shake his hand, and that's it.

For you, maybe. You know, the least you could have done

is wait till we finished that Medal of Valor ceremony

before you conked out of me.

I keep getting these butterflies in my stomach.

Say, Ed, why don't you have one of the doctors check you out

before you go?

No, Finn, it's just butterflies.

That's all it is.

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