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[THEME MUSIC PLAYING]

[SIRENS WAILING]

[SIRENS WAILING]

DISPATCHER: Control to all available units in the

vicinity Third and Main.

Code 3 Alexander Hotel.

A single sniper. Code 6 Charles.

Appears to have multiple weapons.

Use all caution. Repeat, code 3

to Alexander Hotel.

Protect persons on street. Keep cover.

All available units in downtown area, code 3.

[GUNSHOT]

Thirty seconds.

[RIFLE CLICKS]

Now!

[GLASS SHATTERS]

[SNIPER COUGHING]

Police! Come on out of there!

SNIPER: Why, pig?

[GROANS]

[GUNSHOT] All right,

hold your fire!

Hold your fire, come on now!

[COUGHING]

TERRY: Lieutenant,

we're all right.

What about the sniper?

He's dead.

Coming up.

His name is Bobby Tom Farley.

Nineteen years old.

Out of state driver's license,

and no other ID.

Nineteen.

What possible motive could he have had?

Well, on one level, that's easy, Gillis.

He barricaded himself in his room

as soon as he realized the maid had seen

all the weapons

he had stashed in there.

A unit showed up to investigate,

he panicked and he started firing.

But why all the weapons?

I don't know, Webster. I just don't know.

But there must be some reason.

I'm sure there is.

I'm not sure we'll ever find out what

that reason is, though,

but I am sure a reason exists.

Ah, don't put your uniforms

in those lockers.

There's still tear gas on 'em.

Have 'em cleaned as soon as possible.

And, uh...

You did pretty good.

[SIGHS]

Yeah, if you call killing someone pretty good.

The compliment was for keeping

some people alive.

You know, the ones on the street.

I know that, Mike.

But why does a 19-year-old kid start a war all by himself?

I don't know.

[SIGHS]

You picking up Jill?

Yeah, about a half-hour.

Why don't you meet us at the bar

next to the hotel?

I'll buy you both a beer.

Would have thought you guys would have had

enough of that place.

Yeah, we gotta get the bartender's signature

on this eyewitness report.

Okay, I'll see you in half hour.

[REEL WHIRRING]

Excuse me.

Uh, was there an accident here

or something? What happened?

No, a gunfight.

Some kid up there on the fifth floor

started taking potshots at the cops.

You could hear it all over town.

What happened to him?

They killed him.

They went in there with tear gas.

Blew him to kingdom come.

I guess some of that tear gas is still in the air, huh?

What do you mean?

Take a look at your partner there.

Thanks a lot. [CRYING]

Here, look.

Just don't come apart on me now.

They killed Bobby.

Don't change anything. We can still get out of here.

They blew him to kingdom come.

Wait a minute.

Did you hear what he said?

Shh!

What we need now is wheels, Farley.

Wheels.

[GROANING]

You getting that pain again?

Yeah.

[GROANING]

All we got is 200 miles, Farley.

Listen to me, Farley. Just 200 miles.

You hear? Yeah.

You want a drink?

That'll help you, huh?

Okay, I'll get you a drink.

Relax.

Okay, come on.

Try to get it together.

What I mean is

there just isn't any point to anything we do

if we don't learn something from it.

But you're liable to find yourself

buying a lot of easy answers

'cause you can't accept the fact that sometimes

there just aren't any answers.

[CLICKS TONGUE] Let me hold a quarter, huh,

play some music.

Yeah.

[SIGHS]

Hey, play a Little Leon, huh?

Mmm-hmm.

Hey, what's wrong with the machine?

Hey, my friend, is that your motor home

out there in the alley?

No. Not ours. Oh.

How... How about you?

You know who that motor home belongs to?

Sure do. It's mine.

You boys looking to buy one?

Yeah, we sort of interested,

but not in buying.

Some people do rent them.

Yeah, and some people take 'em.

We're those people.

Hey, get over there.

Come on, clean out that cash register

and give me the key to that bucket

out in the alley.

Sit down.

This all you got?

I keep the tens and twenties under the tray.

All right.

Is he dead?

No, but it could be arranged.

I'm afraid that makes you two witnesses.

Yeah, to armed robbery and ADW,

but if you guys would wise up and get that man a doctor...

Hold it.

Hold it.

Armed robbery, ADW.

Let me see your... Let me see your wallets.

You waiting for me to say "please"?

I know one thing,

we ain't got ourselves a couple of witnesses.

We got ourselves a couple of tickets out of here.

Hey, baby.

You're under arrest.

[KNOCKS ON DOOR]

TERRY: You know what the penalty is for kidnapping

a police officer?

Yeah, 15 yards and loss of down.

Go ahead.

Yeah.

Okay, we got money?

No, have you got any money?

Oh, let me see.

Yeah. Here's some. Oh, groovy.

Oop.

You sure this is the place they were talking about?

Well, yeah, I'm sure.

[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]

[SIGHS]

Is this one of those times you were telling me about?

No reasons, no answers.

I hope not. This is

one time we better find some answers.

Why don't you take Jill home?

I'll keep you posted.

Okay.

But you only have to look over your shoulder

to keep me posted.

See you at the precinct.

Right.

Look, I'm gonna take you home

and then go back to the precinct...

...precinct until they find Willie and Terry.

They'd do the same for me.

I know.

Mike, one thing, though.

What's that?

You know the way the bartender's mouth

and his hands were taped.

Yeah.

Well, that stuff's all hospital issue.

You can't just pick it up at a drugstore.

Good one. I'll tell Ryker that when I get to the precinct.

[ENGINE TURNS OVER]

What are we stopping for?

'Cause it's been 30, 40 miles since

I had a drink,

and like the preacher says,

"Man lives not by bread alone,

old buddy."

You shouldn't drive and drink.

[LAUGHING]

That's terrific.

Here you are serving 40 to life for murder one,

and now you're bucking for a traffic safety award.

[DRINK POURING]

Well...

[CLOSES BOTTLE CAP]

How are our passengers doing?

Getting along all right?

They ain't been that talkative.

Maybe those ropes have tied their tongues too, huh?

Oh, but he was real talkative back there at the bar.

Look, would you drink that drink and

get this thing going?

My head is killing me!

Remember? He was tellin' us

all about the penalties for people who

up and kidnap police officers.

Maybe we ought to tell them about the penalty for people

who kill people's brothers.

Killin' a boy 19,

that's below the bottom.

That's lookin' up to low.

It's a bad one, ain't it?

Yeah.

Okay. If I get this show on the road,

we'll be there before you know it, Farley.

[CURTAIN SLIDES]

Do you get those attacks very often?

Often?

[SCOFFS]

Once every century is often enough.

I'm sorry. I just meant that...

We're trained in first aid. Maybe we could help.

[CHUCKLES] No, you couldn't,

but thanks.

No, I know what's wrong and I know what I'm

gonna do about it.

Then you're one up on us.

Do you mind telling us where we're going?

Yeah.

We're going to get rid of my headaches.

[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]

All right, sit down, shut up and listen.

I don't want to waste any time on this.

Fingerprints on the glasses belong to Webster and Gillis,

so we can assume that they are being held hostage.

The bartender's wife says he drove a motor home to work.

The motor home is missing.

The wife cannot remember the license plate number.

DMV will have it to us in a few minutes.

Any other prints in the bar?

Thousands.

All right, I got a line on the kid

in the hotel room.

His brother broke out of Utah three days ago

with another guy.

They were both aides in the prison infirmary.

Names and descriptions as follows.

The first one is Ben Farley.

Caucasian. Age, 36 years.

5'11", 170 pounds,

brown hair and brown eyes.

MIKE: Lieutenant? Yes, Danko?

Could they possibly be the two guys that were in the bar?

Jill said that tape was hospital issue.

They could be, Danko. They very well could be.

[SIREN WAILING]

Farley? FARLEY: Yeah.

There's a cop buzzing me.

Were you speeding?

No way. I'm 10 miles under.

What am I gonna do?

Is he alone or has he got

a partner?

He's alone. He's waving me over.

Pull over, then.

Either of you yells,

I'll kill the other one.

[GRUNTS]

DISPATCHER OVER RADIO: All units Murdock division,

DMV reports license number on mobile home

as Queen Paul Adam 377.

Unit 6, does that number correspond to mobile home

you just reported?

Repeating, Queen Paul Adam 377.

Unit 6, do you read, over?

It's okay to yell now.

Ain't nobody gonna hear you.

[CURTAIN SLIDES]

DISPATCHER: Any unit making contact

with suspect vehicle,

approach with caution.

Suspect, or suspects, believed armed and dangerous.

Tate.

Yeah.

Is he dead? No.

But we'll be dead unless we get this thing

and that patrol car out of sight.

Out of sight?

Oh, yeah, sure, out of sight.

How are we gonna do that little thing, huh,

tell me?

We'll take a little detour.

What?

You're not caring to try and cross

that way, are you?

Tate buddy,

we did 10 years, maximum security

state pen.

We ate slop that dogs wouldn't eat.

We got thrown into the black slam

for doing nothin'.

[SCOFFS] After 10 years of that,

hell oughtn' to be so bad.

[RUNNING FOOTSTEPS]

[CAR DOOR CLOSES] [ENGINE TURNS OVER]

Any news?

Nothing.

Oh, we got some bits and pieces.

Nothing very conclusive.

Hey, what you got in here?

Just beef stew.

I didn't know you'd be home for dinner.

Oh, I'll take anything I can get.

Do you want a drink or something?

[SIGHING] Oh, no.

Oh, maybe I'll have a beer.

Oh, by the way, you were right about

those two guys.

They do have a medical history.

Yeah?

I don't know if it really helps much.

These two, the picture's not

very bright.

Why not?

It seems that one of the guys

is the brother

of that kid that got killed this morning.

If he finds out that Terry and Willie were involved...

Oh, I don't know.

There's no way of knowing, babe, you know?

Don't do this, Mike!

Don't be less honest with me than you'd be with yourself.

Now tell me what you really think?

I think if he finds out they were involved,

he'll kill 'em both,

if he hasn't killed them already.

[MUSIC PLAYING OVER HEADPHONES]

He likes it tuned up real loud.

Says it helps him get his mind off

those attacks he gets.

He told us he knows why he gets the attacks.

Yeah. On account of the tumor.

What tumor?

Well, they spotted it about six months ago.

Said there wasn't anything they could do.

They give Farley less than a year,

that's all.

And then Farley's brother, Bobby Tom,

he heard about this new place across the border where,

I don't know, they got this new medicine

supposed to dissolve them things.

And Farley and me decided

we better get on down there while there was still time,

so that's where we're headed, in case you wanna know.

You know, some of those places,

they're selling blue sky.

I've never heard of a drug that dissolves a tumor.

Me neither,

except at this place.

So I figure it's probably all a shuck.

Ain't likely to help him none.

So you racked up two men

and kidnapped us for something you can't help?

Well, I got other reasons just as good.

Because we're out now,

and out isn't just better than in.

Out is bein' alive.

In is bein' nothin'.

Bein' in is like bein' a...

I don't know, a stone.

That's no way to be.

That phony clinic means hope to Farley.

And him and me, we're prison kin.

So I wanna keep him hopin' just as long as I can.

Any way you can?

When I smell water,

I'll think about a way to cross the bridge.

I'll untie you guys one at a time.

Let you use the can.

RADIO ANNOUNCER: 19-year-old sniper identified

as Bobby Tom Farley

was shot and killed by Officers Webster,

Gillis and Danko

of the SC Police Department.

You better let him know what's happening.

It's okay, Farley. He just wants to

use the can.

It ain't okay.

Radio was just talking about

Bobby Tom getting killed this morning.

It's also talkin' about who it was did the killing.

[GROANING]

You stay right here, Farley. You stay here.

It's okay, Farley.

It's okay.

No, no, don't trouble yourself.

They're dead.

Both of 'em.

Highway Patrol says their man was somewhere

in this area here

the last they heard from him.

Oh, that's a lot of ground to cover.

What happens if they go up here

to Interstate 12?

If they're still in the motor home,

they'd have been picked up.

That thing sticks out like a sore thumb.

If they've acquired a second vehicle,

they might have slipped through.

How can they slip through a roadblock?

There isn't any roadblock.

We were denied permission to set one up.

You can't close down six interstate highways

on a "possible."

Wait a minute.

What about... What about that roadblock

a couple of months ago?

Why was that different?

Because...

Because it involved a civilian?

I don't think so.

Okay, then why?

I think it's because...

Because they've already written Webster

and Gillis off.

Come on. It's almost 6:00 a.m.

We're not accomplishing anything around here.

Let's head out to the highway patrol.

See if we can get 'em to put a chopper up.

Why don't you call 'em?

'Cause they're not gonna say no to my face.

[WIND WHISTLING]

Terry.

Terry.

Hey, Terry.

[GROANS]

You okay?

Oh, wow, man.

I thought you were dead.

[GROANING]

I guess so did they, huh?

Oh, wow.

Is it bad?

I don't know.

Looks like the bullet went straight through.

Yeah.

I don't think anything's broken.

You?

I think I'm okay. It's just, uh...

Tate, he just gave me a rap in the head.

I must have hit mine going through that door.

Hey,

how come I didn't get shot?

Huh?

You think

maybe Tate conned Farley into thinking

we were both dead?

Why?

Farley had his chance to kill us.

He didn't take it.

He didn't?

Leaving us out here isn't much of a favor.

But it's...

It's not a bad deal when you consider

the alternatives.

Give me a hand, will you?

Yeah.

Let's get out of here.

Lieutenant, it is a pleasure meeting you in person.

We've talked a great many times

on the telephone.

Please sit down. Thank you.

I'm sorry that we can't meet

when I could be of more service to you.

Well, perhaps you can explain to me

why you can't be of service, Captain Gentry.

Two of my men are missing after all.

And one of my men is missing after all.

Seems to me all the more reason

why you'd wanna get a bird up

and go looking for those boys.

I'd like to very much, but this says no.

The weather report says there's a chance

of high winds,

and our pilot doesn't think it's advisable

to fly in high winds.

I'm sorry.

Well, then let Danko here take it up.

I was in the Air Force, but I...

Well, of course you were in the Air Force, Danko.

Where else would you learn how to fly a helicopter?

Well, what were you going to say, man?

We haven't got a lot of time here.

[CLEARS THROAT] I was just gonna

say, yeah,

I've flown in a lot worse winds than that.

No sweat.

All right, then that settles it.

Uh, wait just one moment.

Your man is willing to fly?

Yes, he is.

You two wait here.

Maybe our pilot didn't understand

how pressing this is.

I wanna know what we would have done

if he'd let me take that copter up?

Beats me, Danko.

Well...

How's the leg?

It throbs a lot.

Sounds like it might be infected.

Sounds like it, feels like it.

Let's move.

Okay.

[GROANS]

I don't think I'm gonna make it, William.

Well, if you don't...

Can I have your stereo?

[BOTH LAUGH]

[EXHALES]

Terry,

take five.

Yeah. Oh.

Be right back.

Take five...

Take 50...

Take your time.

This Foreign Legion thing, it ain't...

Ain't all that it's cracked up to be.

Yeah, but nothing else is lately.

It's all a big hype.

You know that, William?

Instant coffee,

instant tea.

Never figured out a way to make instant water, did they?

[DOOR CLOSES]

[ENGINE TURNS OVER]

Cab, sir?

[BOTH LAUGH]

[GRUNTS]

[WINCES]

Bet if it had been raining,

you never would have been here, huh?

The radio working?

Nope.

They ripped out the microphone.

[EXHALES]

Well, no telling where they left the

highway patrolman,

if he's even alive.

[RATTLES COMPARTMENT]

At least they left the first-aid kit.

Yeah.

Oh, no.

There's only an eighth of a tank.

That's not enough.

Maybe

10, 12 miles in this kind of soil.

Well, let's turn this thing around

and take our shot.

This leg don't look so good.

All right?

Yeah.

TERRY: Hold it! Hold it!

Forget it.

We're just gonna burn out the engine.

[SIGHS]

Okay, okay. What do we do now?

We don't do anything.

You do.

You start walking out of here.

Uh-uh.

No way. Forget it.

I'm not gonna leave you here in the middle of nowhere.

Look, Willie, I don't wanna die!

I had a grandfather who lived to be 93,

and I was hoping to break that record!

But I'm not gonna make it unless you get your tail

on out of here

and get us some help!

If I go with you,

neither of us are gonna make it,

because I can't go another 10 yards

much less another 10 miles.

Okay?

Okay.

You better get inside, out of the sun.

Anything in here you wanna take with you?

Any flares in there?

Hey,

later, huh?

You bet.

[LAUGHING]

Hey, just thinking.

A friend of mine used to say,

"Paticas por que to quero."

He meant,

"Feet, don't fail me now."

Stay out of the sun.

[LAUGHING]

[FLY BUZZING]

[HELICOPTER WHIRRING IN DISTANCE]

[HELICOPTER APPROACHING]

Hold it.

You're supposed to be dead, young man.

[HELICOPTER BLADES WHIRRING]

Hey, hey, not too much.

You'll get the cramps.

If that's the price I have to pay,

I'll pay it.

All right, come on now.

Let's get back in the eggbeater.

We'll go find Gillis.

Which way were they headed?

That way.

Follow the tracks.

I figured that, uh,

they'd be heading towards the highway, too.

MIKE: That's about right.

Five miles. Willie should be

there by now.

TERRY: Well, let's not keep him waiting.

You told me he was dead.

You told me...

You told me they were both dead.

Why did you lie to me, huh?

Why?

I just didn't think there was any point

in killing them, Farley.

I just didn't wanna get more heat on us.

We got enough as it is.

Your buddy, your partner?

Don't tell me he's alive, too?

Yeah, he's still alive.

Dead cops won't make Bobby be alive, Farley...

I don't need any comments, friend.

I mean, that's what you are?

Aren't you my friend?

My lying friend?

Any lie I told you was to help you, Farley.

Help us both. We took 'em both

as hostages,

remember? Not to kill 'em!

That was before I found out what they did to Bobby!

Farley,

your friend's just tryin' to help ya.

He only lies to help just like

that other lie.

That's enough mouth out of you.

What are you talkin' about, blue buttons?

He's just talkin', Farley.

He's just tryin' to steam me up,

that's all.

Yeah, well, whatever he's tryin' to do,

he's making you awful nervous.

I said, "What are you talkin' about?"

Don't.

What lie are you talkin' about?

That lie

about how that clinic across the border

is gonna help you.

You don't know what you're talking about, buddy.

My... My brother told me all about that place.

He told me he read an article.

You remember what it said.

You remember all about that article, don't you?

Don't you, Tate?

Yeah.

He remembers.

He remembers, he just doesn't believe it.

My brother wasn't lyin'.

Nobody said he was lyin', Farley.

Then what are you sayin'?

I'm just sayin' that your brother

was a 19-year-old

who probably found that article

in some magazine between some muscle ads

and a coupon for pin-up playing cards,

and he wanted to believe because he wanted you alive.

And, Farley, I do too.

[GUNSHOT]

Lieutenant!

There's an attendant out back. Unconscious.

There's nothing in here.

You know, I've never seen a desert gas station

without a tow truck. Have you?

[TIRES SCREECHING]

You okay?

You in much pain?

Isn't everybody?

Ladies and gentlemen,

the fastest comeback in the history of the SCPD.

All right. Yeah.

I never thought that, uh,

one of these monkey suits would feel so good.

Well, you look dashing.

You look very much at home.

Thank you.

And how are you, Gillis? You feeling any better

now that you got your reason?

My reason, sir?

Well, yes. Earlier, you were upset

because Farley's brother didn't appear

to have a reason for what he did.

Well, he did have a reason.

He did what he did to save his brother's life

'cause he valued it as if it were his own.

I'm sure you can understand that, Gillis.

Well, what do you think?

You guys game for a little homecoming dinner?

How about a shore dinner? How does that sound?

Well, anything that comes out of the water

is fine with me.

What's the main course?

Sand dabs.

Oh, no! Sand dabs!

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