1 00:01:58,990 --> 00:01:59,749 One more. 2 00:01:59,750 --> 00:02:00,750 Best you can do is try. 3 00:02:06,650 --> 00:02:07,950 Beautiful. That's it. 4 00:02:08,870 --> 00:02:10,350 High score, 6 -6. 5 00:02:10,610 --> 00:02:12,990 I kind of thought we'd settle for a draw. Oh, no. 6 00:02:13,310 --> 00:02:14,310 First basket win. 7 00:02:14,610 --> 00:02:15,610 All right, you're off. 8 00:02:19,330 --> 00:02:22,510 Chief, don't you think it's about time you got yourself some real competition? 9 00:02:23,190 --> 00:02:27,470 Hey, you want to take me on? Yeah, I want to take you on. All right, then. 10 00:02:27,470 --> 00:02:29,110 loser buys hamburgers tonight. 11 00:02:29,330 --> 00:02:32,390 Right. We got the deposition. We'll throw back. Here's the morning paper. 12 00:02:32,390 --> 00:02:33,390 you. 13 00:02:36,190 --> 00:02:37,230 Eat your heart out. 14 00:02:38,150 --> 00:02:39,170 Wait until you see this. 15 00:02:42,610 --> 00:02:43,610 Game called. 16 00:02:43,930 --> 00:02:44,930 Mark. 17 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:49,100 Shalom Aleichem, Rabbi Faber. 18 00:03:51,720 --> 00:03:52,760 Shalom Aleichem, Shalom. 19 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:54,520 Robert Ironside. 20 00:04:05,080 --> 00:04:06,080 I remember. 21 00:04:08,460 --> 00:04:11,240 I was visiting one of my congregation. 22 00:04:11,900 --> 00:04:16,779 You were in the next bed with weights and pulleys on your feet. 23 00:04:18,320 --> 00:04:24,240 The next time you came, you brought a book. You said, the hours pass slowly in 24 00:04:24,240 --> 00:04:25,680 hospital. This may help. 25 00:04:27,640 --> 00:04:28,800 I've thought of you often. 26 00:04:29,580 --> 00:04:30,900 Meant to get in touch with you. 27 00:04:31,580 --> 00:04:32,580 I understand. 28 00:04:34,920 --> 00:04:37,620 Hours crawl, the years fly. 29 00:04:39,060 --> 00:04:41,300 Now you and I meet again in a hospital. 30 00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:43,200 How do you feel? 31 00:04:44,820 --> 00:04:46,600 Some small bruises. 32 00:04:47,260 --> 00:04:49,780 Mild concussion a day in this bed and I'll be all right. 33 00:04:52,300 --> 00:04:54,920 About last night, what happened? 34 00:04:55,660 --> 00:05:00,160 I heard a noise in the shoe. I went in. 35 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:04,240 Two men knocked me down and ran away. 36 00:05:04,620 --> 00:05:05,900 Did you recognize them? 37 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:10,280 It was too dark to see their faces. 38 00:05:11,620 --> 00:05:13,540 Had there been this kind of trouble before? 39 00:05:14,380 --> 00:05:16,300 It's a mixed neighborhood. 40 00:05:17,930 --> 00:05:22,930 Different religions, colors, maybe even different ways of seeing things. 41 00:05:23,570 --> 00:05:24,570 Nothing serious. 42 00:05:30,670 --> 00:05:33,070 The hour has passed slowly in the hospital. 43 00:05:34,610 --> 00:05:36,130 This book may help. 44 00:05:52,010 --> 00:05:53,010 How is he? 45 00:05:54,130 --> 00:05:55,410 Physically, he seems all right. 46 00:05:56,130 --> 00:05:57,510 Mentally, there's something else again. 47 00:05:57,790 --> 00:06:00,150 Well, you can't expect him to forget to run in so soon. 48 00:06:00,550 --> 00:06:03,190 I think there's more to it than that. Let's get his address. 49 00:06:40,460 --> 00:06:41,460 My name's Ironside. 50 00:06:42,220 --> 00:06:43,800 I'm a friend of Rabbi Farmer. 51 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:45,880 Oh, I'm Mrs. Farmer. 52 00:06:46,180 --> 00:06:47,300 I'm happy to meet you. 53 00:06:47,620 --> 00:06:48,780 Oh, this is Mark Sang. 54 00:06:49,260 --> 00:06:50,920 Hello. How do you do? 55 00:06:52,360 --> 00:06:57,020 I'm very sorry about the rabbi and about all this. 56 00:06:57,220 --> 00:07:02,220 The paint can be removed and the arc can be fixed and where they cut with their 57 00:07:02,220 --> 00:07:03,320 knives will smooth over. 58 00:07:04,500 --> 00:07:06,280 But the Torah can't be replaced. 59 00:07:08,020 --> 00:07:09,020 The Torah? 60 00:07:10,830 --> 00:07:13,190 Your husband didn't mention anything about a Torah. 61 00:07:13,950 --> 00:07:15,530 He can't speak about it. 62 00:07:15,730 --> 00:07:17,010 No one here can. 63 00:07:19,710 --> 00:07:21,550 The Torah is a sacred scroll. 64 00:07:21,910 --> 00:07:23,730 It is our symbol of life. 65 00:07:24,510 --> 00:07:25,830 Our tree of life. 66 00:07:26,730 --> 00:07:30,650 Mrs. Farber, I'm with the police department. I want to help. 67 00:07:33,050 --> 00:07:36,770 Now you tell me anything you can that might have a bearing on what happened 68 00:07:36,770 --> 00:07:39,150 here. The day the Nazis came. 69 00:07:39,710 --> 00:07:42,570 When they burned our synagogue, my husband ran in. 70 00:07:43,210 --> 00:07:49,430 To save the Torah, he put his hands in the flames. 71 00:07:51,690 --> 00:07:55,970 Then we hid the Torah with some Gentile friends, and we escaped to America. 72 00:07:56,990 --> 00:08:01,170 After the war, Herschel wrote letters to those who survived, begging them, look 73 00:08:01,170 --> 00:08:06,130 for the Torah. But no trace could they find, and no trace of the people he left 74 00:08:06,130 --> 00:08:06,689 it with. 75 00:08:06,690 --> 00:08:07,690 And then... 76 00:08:07,840 --> 00:08:10,420 Last month, like a miracle, a letter came. 77 00:08:10,660 --> 00:08:13,800 One of our lancemen had found it and was sending it. 78 00:08:14,040 --> 00:08:18,460 Like God had said, here is the symbol of your faith. Here is your Torah. 79 00:08:19,340 --> 00:08:22,520 But now, again, the swastika. 80 00:08:23,900 --> 00:08:25,920 Grandma! In the kitchen. 81 00:08:26,480 --> 00:08:29,440 How's Grandpa? What a way to come into the house. 82 00:08:30,080 --> 00:08:31,280 Look at you. 83 00:08:31,640 --> 00:08:33,000 Again, a fight. 84 00:08:33,559 --> 00:08:34,559 I'm sorry. 85 00:08:34,679 --> 00:08:36,919 How's Grandpa? Oh, he's feeling much better. 86 00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:40,820 So say hello to Chief Ironside and Mr. 87 00:08:41,299 --> 00:08:42,340 Sanger. Hi. 88 00:08:42,799 --> 00:08:43,880 Who'd you take on? 89 00:08:44,680 --> 00:08:45,880 Just horsing around. 90 00:08:46,580 --> 00:08:47,660 Well, that looks for real. 91 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:53,060 This is the way he comes home from school. Yesterday, the day before, such 92 00:08:53,060 --> 00:08:54,060 neighborhood. 93 00:08:54,560 --> 00:08:55,580 What happened, son? 94 00:08:56,180 --> 00:08:58,160 It's just some guys, the Loyals. 95 00:08:58,540 --> 00:09:01,860 They know I'm going to be bar mitzvahed this Saturday. But they say if that's 96 00:09:01,860 --> 00:09:05,040 supposed to mean I'm a man, I've got to prove it. So I've been fighting some of 97 00:09:05,040 --> 00:09:06,040 their guys my age. 98 00:09:07,260 --> 00:09:08,260 Every day? 99 00:09:08,980 --> 00:09:10,220 Just once in a while. 100 00:09:10,780 --> 00:09:12,260 You ought to see the other fella. 101 00:09:15,500 --> 00:09:20,320 So go help in the shul. You are so strong to fight, you can help to wipe 102 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:21,159 paint. Sure. 103 00:09:21,160 --> 00:09:22,160 Nice to meet you. 104 00:09:25,340 --> 00:09:29,520 Everybody suffered during the war. Why should we sit and cry and tell you the 105 00:09:29,520 --> 00:09:30,780 hardships of our lives? 106 00:09:31,860 --> 00:09:33,540 Doesn't everybody have some troubles? 107 00:09:37,520 --> 00:09:39,700 The end of your troubles, Mrs. Farmer. 108 00:09:40,780 --> 00:09:41,780 Thank you. 109 00:09:42,340 --> 00:09:45,340 Best apple strudel I ever had. 110 00:09:46,260 --> 00:09:47,880 Oh, you're an authority? 111 00:09:48,640 --> 00:09:50,180 I know what I like. 112 00:09:52,700 --> 00:09:54,700 How valuable is the Torah? 113 00:09:56,220 --> 00:10:00,740 What price can you put on 5 ,000 years of human suffering and hope? 114 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:22,000 We used to call ourselves the Fifth Street Sharks. 115 00:11:23,560 --> 00:11:24,560 I'm Chief Ironside. 116 00:11:24,920 --> 00:11:27,720 We figured like the whole station house was going to come to call. 117 00:11:28,320 --> 00:11:30,400 Like ten cars full of honky cops. 118 00:11:37,740 --> 00:11:40,880 Sorry to disappoint you. There only was two of us. 119 00:11:42,500 --> 00:11:43,500 Haven't you heard? 120 00:11:43,920 --> 00:11:45,340 We're big around here. 121 00:11:46,140 --> 00:11:49,360 Man says any crime in this territory, it's got to be them Loyals. 122 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:51,000 All right, Tim. 123 00:11:51,950 --> 00:11:53,470 What do you know about last night? 124 00:11:54,150 --> 00:11:55,410 Nothing. Same as you. 125 00:11:55,990 --> 00:11:57,190 Where were you last night? 126 00:11:57,710 --> 00:11:59,730 Right here, the old cotton fields back home. 127 00:12:00,010 --> 00:12:03,390 And they'll all vouch for you. We're all able to vouch for each other. 128 00:12:03,790 --> 00:12:06,410 We were here in this clubhouse, all of us, 9 o 'clock till 11. 129 00:12:06,710 --> 00:12:07,710 Hold in a prayer, mate. 130 00:12:08,710 --> 00:12:10,510 Look, man, I gave you the word. 131 00:12:11,050 --> 00:12:13,350 Now don't push us. No reason to push you. 132 00:12:14,250 --> 00:12:15,930 Boys club, youth activity. 133 00:12:17,290 --> 00:12:18,290 Or maybe... 134 00:12:18,880 --> 00:12:23,040 Some small -time shoplifting, penny -ante graph, pushing around a few winos. 135 00:12:23,400 --> 00:12:24,700 Shows you how much you know us. 136 00:12:25,180 --> 00:12:26,980 I told you we're big around here. 137 00:12:27,700 --> 00:12:31,160 Busting up a Jewish church and cracking old rabbi's head, that ain't our bag. 138 00:12:31,740 --> 00:12:33,040 We're too big for that. 139 00:12:33,860 --> 00:12:39,480 Well, before this is over, we may have a chance to find out just how big you 140 00:12:39,480 --> 00:12:40,480 are. 141 00:13:12,680 --> 00:13:13,680 Chief Ironside. 142 00:13:15,360 --> 00:13:16,620 I'm Reverend Hunt. 143 00:13:17,760 --> 00:13:18,760 Reverend Henley? 144 00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:20,400 Mark Zanger. 145 00:13:21,940 --> 00:13:23,980 We had you tabbed as one of the gang, Reverend. 146 00:13:24,780 --> 00:13:25,780 Well, I am, in a way. 147 00:13:26,600 --> 00:13:27,980 I was born in this neighborhood. 148 00:13:28,460 --> 00:13:31,640 Guess I know just about everybody, including Rabbi Farber. 149 00:13:32,460 --> 00:13:35,000 Oh, I was a year old when the Farbers came here from Europe. 150 00:13:35,400 --> 00:13:36,580 Grew up on the same street. 151 00:13:36,990 --> 00:13:40,750 Sometimes when I was a kid, I'd sneak into the shul when the rabbi was alone 152 00:13:40,750 --> 00:13:41,930 we'd talk. We still do? 153 00:13:42,970 --> 00:13:45,470 Tell me, would you know if he's gotten any threats? 154 00:13:46,470 --> 00:13:47,670 Any hate mail? 155 00:13:48,670 --> 00:13:52,050 The kind of thing he'd keep from his wife or his congregation? 156 00:13:53,470 --> 00:13:54,570 No, I don't think he has. 157 00:13:55,410 --> 00:13:59,030 Now, don't expect me to tell you this neighborhood is a racial paradise. There 158 00:13:59,030 --> 00:14:00,030 are tensions. 159 00:14:00,870 --> 00:14:02,930 Exactly how well do you know the Loyals? 160 00:14:03,730 --> 00:14:05,970 Well, as you can see, I drop around. 161 00:14:07,050 --> 00:14:10,750 You know, bring the church to them. Their kind of church. I talk their 162 00:14:11,270 --> 00:14:13,810 You groove with them. We keep the faith. 163 00:14:16,990 --> 00:14:19,290 I came to see Digby for the same reason you did. 164 00:14:19,710 --> 00:14:21,230 But the Loyals didn't do it. 165 00:14:21,650 --> 00:14:23,210 What made you think they did? 166 00:14:23,790 --> 00:14:27,090 The Loyals had an idea for keeping the black kids off the street at night. 167 00:14:27,810 --> 00:14:30,030 They wanted the Franklin High Gym. 168 00:14:30,230 --> 00:14:33,550 But the usual city hang -ups. No funds. 169 00:14:34,190 --> 00:14:35,190 Right? 170 00:14:35,720 --> 00:14:38,640 Cost money to keep a school open at night. That's good enough. 171 00:14:39,200 --> 00:14:43,800 But when young guys like the Loyals want to do something positive, I say find 172 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:47,880 the money, find a way, and help keep these kids out of the trick bag they're 173 00:14:48,120 --> 00:14:50,340 Do you think they see this as a wait, Padon? 174 00:14:50,720 --> 00:14:51,720 They're uptight. 175 00:14:53,380 --> 00:14:55,540 But they didn't bust into that shoe. 176 00:15:03,740 --> 00:15:05,040 All right, you'll let us know then. 177 00:15:08,880 --> 00:15:09,880 Okay, thank you. 178 00:15:11,100 --> 00:15:13,040 It's an APB out on Foreman's Brother. 179 00:15:13,440 --> 00:15:15,940 Nothing much doing. Police picked up. I've got a breather, too. 180 00:15:16,340 --> 00:15:17,580 Defendant's sick. Case postponed. 181 00:15:17,860 --> 00:15:19,280 I don't have to testify until Friday. 182 00:15:19,540 --> 00:15:22,080 Well, that's good. That means you can help us with the Farber case. 183 00:15:22,760 --> 00:15:23,760 Farber case? 184 00:15:24,360 --> 00:15:26,620 A Torah stolen from a vandalized synagogue. 185 00:15:27,300 --> 00:15:28,300 Routine, isn't it? 186 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:32,620 Eve, there was a time three years ago when the road signs were down for me. 187 00:15:33,560 --> 00:15:35,280 Rabbi Farber put them up again. 188 00:15:35,860 --> 00:15:36,860 Spelled them out. 189 00:15:37,790 --> 00:15:39,010 Now someone needs to do it for him. 190 00:15:39,670 --> 00:15:40,670 I'm sorry. 191 00:15:42,150 --> 00:15:43,950 There are three synagogues in the neighborhood. 192 00:15:45,370 --> 00:15:46,930 Why did they have to pick Bethel? 193 00:15:47,390 --> 00:15:48,610 What's so special about it? 194 00:16:05,630 --> 00:16:07,530 Miss Farber, this is... Rob Ironside. 195 00:16:08,670 --> 00:16:10,710 Was there ever any publicity on the Torah? 196 00:16:11,150 --> 00:16:12,830 Did any of the newspapers pick it up? 197 00:16:15,950 --> 00:16:16,950 Thank you. 198 00:16:17,310 --> 00:16:18,310 I'll be in touch. 199 00:16:19,850 --> 00:16:22,090 Eve, check Chuck Brogan's column. 200 00:16:22,730 --> 00:16:24,650 Monday. Monday's paper. See if we've got it. 201 00:16:24,890 --> 00:16:25,890 I think we do. 202 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:40,060 In 1939, Rabbi Herschel Farber hid an ancient Torah from Hitler's goons before 203 00:16:40,060 --> 00:16:44,120 fleeing from Europe. Lost for 30 years, the invaluable Torah was recently 204 00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:48,020 recovered and returned to Rabbi Farber, who is now the spiritual leader of 205 00:16:48,020 --> 00:16:49,300 Congregation Bethel. 206 00:16:49,740 --> 00:16:51,300 The invaluable Torah. 207 00:16:52,240 --> 00:16:54,600 Spelled it out on Monday, God's Tuesday. 208 00:16:55,280 --> 00:16:58,340 If it was burglary, why'd they damage the synagogue? 209 00:16:59,040 --> 00:17:00,340 Mislead the police, maybe? 210 00:17:00,680 --> 00:17:02,460 Make it look like vandalism? 211 00:17:03,100 --> 00:17:05,220 Ed... the number of Chuck Brogan's paper. 212 00:17:05,839 --> 00:17:07,740 Brogan? What do you want with him? 213 00:17:09,040 --> 00:17:10,839 He opened up this can of worms. 214 00:17:11,880 --> 00:17:13,880 The least he can do is to help close it. 215 00:17:21,640 --> 00:17:22,859 Very nice, Chuck. 216 00:17:25,540 --> 00:17:26,540 You like it, huh? 217 00:17:26,760 --> 00:17:27,760 Do you? 218 00:17:31,140 --> 00:17:32,140 Beautiful. 219 00:17:32,980 --> 00:17:33,980 A work of art. 220 00:17:35,440 --> 00:17:36,840 I want $2 ,500 for it. 221 00:17:42,860 --> 00:17:43,860 What's so funny about that? 222 00:17:45,480 --> 00:17:47,300 Okay, well, then name it. How much are you giving me? 223 00:17:47,780 --> 00:17:49,180 Nothing. What do you mean, nothing? 224 00:17:49,560 --> 00:17:52,120 You just said it was a work of art. The newspaper said it was worth a bun. What 225 00:17:52,120 --> 00:17:52,619 do you mean? 226 00:17:52,620 --> 00:17:53,620 What am I doing? 227 00:17:53,800 --> 00:17:54,920 Who will I sell it to? 228 00:17:55,260 --> 00:17:56,820 It's not a saxophone, gentlemen. 229 00:17:57,649 --> 00:17:59,650 There's no place to fence a hot Torah. 230 00:18:00,250 --> 00:18:03,430 There isn't a synagogue in the world would buy it without a hundred 231 00:18:03,670 --> 00:18:07,370 Where did it come from? How did I get it? Et cetera and so forth. 232 00:18:07,710 --> 00:18:12,090 No, gentlemen, I'm not in the mud. You know that, Benny? You know what you are? 233 00:18:12,590 --> 00:18:14,310 You're a gumdrop. 234 00:18:15,170 --> 00:18:17,450 Why don't you take your business someplace else? 235 00:18:17,710 --> 00:18:19,430 Ben, I'll do that. I'll just do that. 236 00:18:34,670 --> 00:18:35,910 That's right, Mr. Brogan, stolen. 237 00:18:37,090 --> 00:18:40,810 But the irony is that whoever took it has a surprise coming when they try to 238 00:18:40,810 --> 00:18:41,810 peddle it. 239 00:18:42,250 --> 00:18:46,830 The Torah is invaluable, as you wrote, but only to the congregation, no one 240 00:18:46,830 --> 00:18:47,830 else. 241 00:18:48,430 --> 00:18:49,430 Yes, that's right. 242 00:18:49,670 --> 00:18:51,750 Its value is essentially spiritual. 243 00:18:54,510 --> 00:18:55,510 You're very welcome. 244 00:18:56,270 --> 00:18:57,270 Goodbye. 245 00:18:59,330 --> 00:19:02,030 It'll be the lead item in his column tomorrow morning. 246 00:19:02,270 --> 00:19:03,550 But suppose they don't read it. 247 00:19:03,920 --> 00:19:04,920 They read it before. 248 00:19:05,340 --> 00:19:07,400 That's how they found out about the Torah in the first place. 249 00:19:10,460 --> 00:19:12,500 Mark, how do you read the loyals? 250 00:19:13,520 --> 00:19:16,940 Well, you heard Digby. He wants action, and that doesn't mean some small 251 00:19:16,940 --> 00:19:17,940 synagogue. 252 00:19:18,340 --> 00:19:20,460 But he wanted money to rent the school gym. 253 00:19:21,480 --> 00:19:24,660 Ed, names of each one of the loyals, police records of any. 254 00:19:25,460 --> 00:19:29,340 Mark, you read up on Torahs, how they're made, what they look like, their value. 255 00:19:30,280 --> 00:19:31,440 Anything else we can use. 256 00:19:31,950 --> 00:19:33,510 Eve, you better get on pawnbrokers. 257 00:19:49,590 --> 00:19:54,030 That one bite any place in town. 258 00:19:57,470 --> 00:20:00,550 The whole idea was a bummer from the start, Clay. I told you, I told you. 259 00:20:01,350 --> 00:20:04,250 You don't steal a holy thing like this and get away with it. Don't give me none 260 00:20:04,250 --> 00:20:08,030 of your small town Sunday meeting stuff now, will you? Boy, you're a loser, you 261 00:20:08,030 --> 00:20:08,929 know that? 262 00:20:08,930 --> 00:20:10,130 You really are a loser. 263 00:20:10,650 --> 00:20:12,250 We talked about a bank job. 264 00:20:12,650 --> 00:20:13,870 You made it sound good, huh? 265 00:20:14,970 --> 00:20:16,370 Girls, new car, clothes. 266 00:20:19,910 --> 00:20:20,990 Then you do a switch. 267 00:20:21,610 --> 00:20:22,610 Do a switch. 268 00:20:23,370 --> 00:20:26,150 We wind up in some holy place and you got to be smart and mess it up. 269 00:20:26,430 --> 00:20:29,190 We had to make it look like kids busting in now, didn't we? 270 00:20:29,760 --> 00:20:32,000 How many times do I got to explain that to you? How many, huh? 271 00:20:32,980 --> 00:20:34,460 Well, we ain't got no more use for that. 272 00:20:37,760 --> 00:20:39,260 We dumped it in some post office, huh? 273 00:20:40,360 --> 00:20:41,780 And that didn't bring it back to the synagogue. 274 00:20:42,220 --> 00:20:43,780 The place to dump it is right here. 275 00:20:44,620 --> 00:20:46,020 No, no, no, wait a minute. It's holding. 276 00:20:46,680 --> 00:20:47,680 Hold me. 277 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:59,080 Do you know how many pawnbrokers there are in this city? 278 00:20:59,630 --> 00:21:01,590 You haven't covered them all, have you? Oh, no. 279 00:21:02,030 --> 00:21:03,190 Twelve more to go. 280 00:21:04,210 --> 00:21:05,210 So far, nothing. 281 00:21:06,190 --> 00:21:10,650 They call a Torah the sacred scroll of the law, the five books of Moses. 282 00:21:10,730 --> 00:21:14,050 Anything else you want to know, just ask me. I'm the expert. 283 00:21:14,390 --> 00:21:15,390 What are they worth? 284 00:21:15,770 --> 00:21:20,550 Well, the average price is 600 to 1 ,000 bucks, depending on size and condition. 285 00:21:20,910 --> 00:21:21,910 What about age? 286 00:21:22,450 --> 00:21:26,830 Well, some real old ones go for 5 ,000, 10 ,000, even more. 287 00:21:27,170 --> 00:21:28,430 I better read it. 288 00:21:28,890 --> 00:21:33,610 It says a Taurus made of parchment, the skin of a kosher ram, a goat. Each 289 00:21:33,610 --> 00:21:39,090 letter is artistically inscribed by artisans called sofrim and hand -sewn in 290 00:21:39,090 --> 00:21:42,650 sections. In the event of damage, that section of the Torah can be replaced. 291 00:21:44,730 --> 00:21:46,090 Fourteen kids in the gang. 292 00:21:46,490 --> 00:21:48,590 Each one has had a run -in with the law. 293 00:21:52,870 --> 00:21:57,370 Shoplifting, joyriding, pot, 30 days, suspended sentences, the usual. 294 00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:02,100 Doesn't help much. No? 295 00:22:02,780 --> 00:22:03,780 Leaves us with this. 296 00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:08,980 Well, now, Mr. Brogan has come through. 297 00:22:10,120 --> 00:22:13,780 Now we gotta hope as those scouts have a dime to buy a paper. 298 00:22:29,290 --> 00:22:31,070 Clay, now, we can't keep driving around with that thing. We've got to do 299 00:22:31,070 --> 00:22:31,969 something with it. 300 00:22:31,970 --> 00:22:32,970 Well, 301 00:22:33,410 --> 00:22:34,630 we can't, Hockett. Let's get rid of it. 302 00:22:34,850 --> 00:22:36,850 I was going to back at the point, but you chickened out. 303 00:22:37,150 --> 00:22:38,470 Not your way. Not your way. 304 00:22:38,690 --> 00:22:41,110 No, you want to go on back to that joint handed over personal. 305 00:22:41,570 --> 00:22:44,910 I'm sorry, Rabbi. I stole your Torah, but here you are, no hard feelings. 306 00:22:46,150 --> 00:22:47,390 Well, we can leave it someplace, all right? 307 00:22:49,330 --> 00:22:50,350 We dump it right here, okay? 308 00:22:50,830 --> 00:22:51,830 You'll get back to him. 309 00:22:51,890 --> 00:22:52,890 Shut up, will you? 310 00:22:53,330 --> 00:22:54,510 Clay, I ain't going to get back to him. 311 00:22:54,730 --> 00:22:56,090 Now, shut up, will you? I'm trying to read. 312 00:23:04,650 --> 00:23:05,650 anything about the rabbi? 313 00:23:05,790 --> 00:23:06,970 Is he out of the hospital? 314 00:23:07,970 --> 00:23:09,570 There's something that's got in Brogan's column. 315 00:23:10,430 --> 00:23:12,010 Brogan, he's who got us in this mess. 316 00:23:12,450 --> 00:23:13,810 He might get us out again, too. 317 00:23:14,110 --> 00:23:15,270 Well, now, how is he going to do that? 318 00:23:15,610 --> 00:23:18,630 Well, there are going to be pains. The thieves won't get a cent. 319 00:23:18,850 --> 00:23:22,770 The Torah is valuable, but only to a rabbi, a father, and a congregation. 320 00:23:23,470 --> 00:23:27,210 Sure. Sure, and everybody knows you can't sell a Torah. Everybody knows it. 321 00:23:27,490 --> 00:23:28,490 But except you. 322 00:23:28,590 --> 00:23:30,710 He said we can't. How are you going to sell the Torah? 323 00:23:31,210 --> 00:23:32,430 And my father sold you? 324 00:23:33,230 --> 00:23:34,230 But who says I can? 325 00:23:34,750 --> 00:23:35,750 Who says? 326 00:23:45,430 --> 00:23:50,150 Come in. Come in. 327 00:23:50,410 --> 00:23:52,990 He wouldn't stay in the hospital another minute. 328 00:23:53,270 --> 00:23:55,750 Leah, he said to me, Leah, I am going home. 329 00:23:57,150 --> 00:23:58,150 Reverend Hanley. 330 00:23:58,390 --> 00:24:01,490 Reverend Hanley brought me home as soon as we came in the telephone rings. 331 00:24:02,060 --> 00:24:04,520 The man on the phone says, look in your letterbox and then we will talk. 332 00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:09,000 He tears a piece of the Torah to show me that he has it. Now, what kind of a man 333 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:10,000 is that? 334 00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:15,560 Did you recognize the voice? 335 00:24:15,980 --> 00:24:18,460 A muffled voice on the telephone. Who can tell? 336 00:24:18,700 --> 00:24:19,840 Was it a young voice? 337 00:24:20,340 --> 00:24:23,800 It was sharp, like the edge of a knife. 338 00:24:24,700 --> 00:24:26,360 Any background noises? Music? 339 00:24:26,750 --> 00:24:29,150 Radio, jukebox, any street sounds? 340 00:24:29,490 --> 00:24:34,390 Who was listening? All I heard was $5 ,000 at 2 o 'clock tomorrow. That's when 341 00:24:34,390 --> 00:24:35,390 he'll telephone. 342 00:24:37,170 --> 00:24:38,370 We're a poor congregation. 343 00:24:39,810 --> 00:24:41,290 We don't have that kind of money. 344 00:24:42,090 --> 00:24:44,730 My church will help. I'll take up a collection tonight. 345 00:24:45,070 --> 00:24:48,190 We don't want you to make our problems your problems. 346 00:24:48,870 --> 00:24:50,910 That's what it's all about, Mrs. Farber. 347 00:24:52,889 --> 00:24:56,570 Rabbi Farber, I think we can handle this. And when the call comes tomorrow, 348 00:24:56,850 --> 00:24:57,850 we'll be here. 349 00:25:33,450 --> 00:25:34,950 I knew something, Chief, I tell you. 350 00:25:35,290 --> 00:25:37,190 I mean, you know I always level with you. 351 00:25:37,810 --> 00:25:38,810 All right, Packer. 352 00:25:39,490 --> 00:25:41,550 Put some feelers out. Get word around. 353 00:25:42,090 --> 00:25:43,090 Sure, Chief. 354 00:25:43,150 --> 00:25:45,550 Sure. I want that information fast. I want it tonight. 355 00:25:46,190 --> 00:25:47,190 I'll do my best. 356 00:25:53,650 --> 00:25:55,050 You know, Clay, this looks handmade. 357 00:25:55,910 --> 00:25:56,910 No kidding. 358 00:25:58,310 --> 00:25:59,770 It ought to be in a museum or something. 359 00:26:00,570 --> 00:26:01,870 Boy, you're really gone, you know that? 360 00:26:02,330 --> 00:26:03,890 You really ought to go to a museum, huh? 361 00:26:06,630 --> 00:26:07,950 Somebody worked real hard on this. 362 00:26:08,410 --> 00:26:11,330 Yeah, some sucker like my old man. He's been slaving away for 40 years, and he 363 00:26:11,330 --> 00:26:12,330 ain't got nothing. He's nowhere. 364 00:26:13,370 --> 00:26:15,210 Look at the fancy tops on some of the letters. 365 00:26:15,810 --> 00:26:16,810 They're like crowns. 366 00:26:18,250 --> 00:26:19,250 Yeah. 367 00:26:20,150 --> 00:26:22,210 And over here, it's like somebody towed it by hand. 368 00:26:22,710 --> 00:26:23,710 I see that. 369 00:26:25,650 --> 00:26:26,830 Well, that's really pretty, ain't it? 370 00:26:27,770 --> 00:26:28,770 Look at this. 371 00:26:31,470 --> 00:26:32,890 You're really crazy, you know that? 372 00:26:33,210 --> 00:26:34,210 You're nuts. 373 00:26:36,470 --> 00:26:41,450 Now look, I helped you bust into that church because it didn't look like a 374 00:26:41,450 --> 00:26:44,650 church to me. But the more I think about this whole deal, the less I like it. 375 00:26:44,950 --> 00:26:46,190 So now you quit bugging me, okay? 376 00:27:22,690 --> 00:27:24,310 What can I do for you, Digby? 377 00:27:24,790 --> 00:27:26,230 I got something to sell. 378 00:27:27,450 --> 00:27:28,450 Why'd you come here? 379 00:27:29,150 --> 00:27:31,610 This is the marketplace, man, and you the buyer. 380 00:27:34,310 --> 00:27:36,750 Oh, you took the long hike for nothing. 381 00:27:37,090 --> 00:27:38,090 Talk to me. 382 00:27:38,550 --> 00:27:39,790 I'm one of your flunkies. 383 00:27:40,510 --> 00:27:43,850 Look, Digby, you came here. 384 00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:46,100 You come look at us up first. 385 00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:47,820 We never said for you. 386 00:27:48,220 --> 00:27:50,180 You come hot -nosing around in our business. 387 00:27:50,660 --> 00:27:51,660 You the mover. 388 00:27:51,860 --> 00:27:53,400 I'm just playing your game, huh? 389 00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:55,560 You knew we'd be doing a check on you. 390 00:27:56,120 --> 00:27:57,580 Well, what you been finding out? 391 00:27:57,840 --> 00:27:59,300 That we've been smoking grass? 392 00:28:00,100 --> 00:28:01,620 That we all been busted? 393 00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:02,960 Big deal. 394 00:28:04,340 --> 00:28:06,040 That's exactly what we found out. 395 00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:08,800 So what's that have to do with the price of a Torah? 396 00:28:10,540 --> 00:28:12,620 One of the brothers was out walking today. 397 00:28:13,570 --> 00:28:18,090 When he passed by that rabbi's church, he dug somebody getting out of a car and 398 00:28:18,090 --> 00:28:19,330 put something in the mailbox. 399 00:28:20,390 --> 00:28:22,310 Well, they got a real good look at that car. 400 00:28:28,670 --> 00:28:29,670 Ironside. 401 00:28:29,770 --> 00:28:30,770 I got lucky, Chief. 402 00:28:30,990 --> 00:28:31,849 Go on. 403 00:28:31,850 --> 00:28:33,070 Well, I reached a fence named Benny. 404 00:28:33,650 --> 00:28:35,510 He says two guys tried to unload that Torah. 405 00:28:36,490 --> 00:28:37,469 Go on. 406 00:28:37,470 --> 00:28:40,610 Benny never saw them before, but he watched from the window as they left. 407 00:28:41,150 --> 00:28:43,630 And I got you something real solid to go on. 408 00:28:54,890 --> 00:28:55,930 Thanks. I owe you one. 409 00:28:58,870 --> 00:28:59,870 Okay, Digby. 410 00:29:01,050 --> 00:29:02,050 Dig. 411 00:29:02,770 --> 00:29:06,450 We got an idea for the brothers and sisters, and Reverend Hanley said do it 412 00:29:06,450 --> 00:29:09,210 properly and go through all them channels that white establishment 413 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:14,380 Well, I spent a bill on the telephone, and it takes four weeks till a man sees 414 00:29:14,380 --> 00:29:18,160 me. Then he says, we don't have enough money to open Franklin High on nights. 415 00:29:18,380 --> 00:29:19,600 Give me all that bull. 416 00:29:20,100 --> 00:29:24,260 You want a gem, and you've got information to offer in return. That 417 00:29:24,740 --> 00:29:26,660 I got real black power. 418 00:29:27,420 --> 00:29:30,660 I want that gem. You gonna give me a guarantee you'll get it for us. 419 00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:35,120 Well, I'll look into it, Digby. 420 00:29:36,180 --> 00:29:37,780 Try to work it out if I can. 421 00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:40,020 But on a personal basis. 422 00:29:40,500 --> 00:29:41,500 Meaning what? 423 00:29:41,540 --> 00:29:45,220 No official promises. No guarantee. I don't buy information. 424 00:29:45,620 --> 00:29:46,960 And I don't make deals. 425 00:29:47,580 --> 00:29:50,440 Men ain't gonna trust no cop. White, black, or green. 426 00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:51,640 Hey. 427 00:29:52,300 --> 00:29:56,260 Now you listen to me. That gym is important to a lot of black kids. 428 00:29:56,640 --> 00:30:00,460 Sure, you only have an outside chance of getting it. But why blow it all 429 00:30:00,460 --> 00:30:01,460 together? 430 00:30:24,010 --> 00:30:26,670 We only got the first three letters of the license plate number. 431 00:30:27,450 --> 00:30:29,350 But you're a big detective. That's all you need. 432 00:30:41,550 --> 00:30:44,210 White, 61, Sedan, PHG. 433 00:31:03,370 --> 00:31:04,570 Come in. Come in. 434 00:31:04,970 --> 00:31:10,750 This is Officer Whitfield. This is my husband and my grandson, Ali. She works 435 00:31:10,750 --> 00:31:11,850 with Chief Ironside. 436 00:31:12,190 --> 00:31:13,630 Officer Whitfield? 437 00:31:13,870 --> 00:31:14,870 That's right. 438 00:31:15,130 --> 00:31:16,330 Only in America? 439 00:31:16,650 --> 00:31:20,510 Excuse me. We're counting up the money we managed to raise. 440 00:31:20,870 --> 00:31:25,670 That was 15, 16, 17, 18, 19... 441 00:31:25,670 --> 00:31:31,490 $720. And the Reverend Hanley's church gave $250. 442 00:31:32,650 --> 00:31:34,810 We still need over $4 ,000, Grandma. 443 00:31:36,130 --> 00:31:39,730 Chief Ironside wants me to arrange the trace on the call when it comes and to 444 00:31:39,730 --> 00:31:40,730 stand by with you. 445 00:31:40,990 --> 00:31:42,130 May I use your telephone? 446 00:31:42,370 --> 00:31:43,370 Oh, of course. 447 00:31:58,590 --> 00:31:59,590 Ironside. 448 00:32:00,750 --> 00:32:01,750 Yes, Commissioner. 449 00:32:03,690 --> 00:32:05,550 I appreciate your returning my call. 450 00:32:08,570 --> 00:32:11,490 Yes, we're making progress on the mayor's report. 451 00:32:11,910 --> 00:32:13,570 You should have it in a day or so. 452 00:32:14,230 --> 00:32:18,470 But, Dennis, that's not why I've been trying to reach you. 453 00:32:19,090 --> 00:32:23,830 I need $5 ,000 in marked $20 bills. 454 00:32:26,310 --> 00:32:28,010 To buy a Torah. 455 00:32:30,250 --> 00:32:31,750 A Torah, Dennis. 456 00:32:35,020 --> 00:32:36,300 Of course it's police business. 457 00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:41,220 It's a long story. I need the money before two this afternoon. 458 00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:44,560 I knew you'd understand. 459 00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:46,560 Thank you very much. 460 00:32:53,660 --> 00:32:56,340 Last registered owner was Clay Royce. 461 00:32:56,680 --> 00:33:00,780 Male, Caucasian, 27 years old, 958 Bradford Street. 462 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:02,440 Checking now to see if he has a record. 463 00:33:03,159 --> 00:33:04,460 Why are you waiting for that? 464 00:33:33,230 --> 00:33:34,230 What do you want? 465 00:33:34,370 --> 00:33:36,150 I'm looking for Clay Royce. Do you know him? 466 00:33:37,170 --> 00:33:38,170 I'm his father. 467 00:33:38,530 --> 00:33:39,610 I'd like to talk to him. 468 00:33:40,050 --> 00:33:41,050 Well, he ain't here. 469 00:33:42,330 --> 00:33:44,430 Could be in Timbuktu, all I know. 470 00:33:45,570 --> 00:33:47,050 When was the last time you saw him? 471 00:33:47,510 --> 00:33:49,150 A couple of months ago when he got out. 472 00:33:49,390 --> 00:33:50,590 Has he called you? Yeah. 473 00:33:50,850 --> 00:33:51,850 Yeah, he called me. 474 00:33:52,010 --> 00:33:53,130 About three weeks ago. 475 00:33:54,210 --> 00:33:55,410 Wanted to borrow some money. 476 00:33:56,730 --> 00:33:58,190 I said, when are you coming home, boy? 477 00:33:59,370 --> 00:34:00,810 He said, oh, I'll, uh... 478 00:34:01,450 --> 00:34:03,230 I'll drop around some of these days, maybe. 479 00:34:03,850 --> 00:34:05,090 Where did he call you from? 480 00:34:08,710 --> 00:34:10,949 Mr. Royce, your son is in trouble. 481 00:34:11,810 --> 00:34:14,389 The longer it takes me to find him, the deeper he gets. 482 00:34:17,170 --> 00:34:20,810 He said he was staying at one of those hotels or Roman houses on Sagittarius. 483 00:35:07,180 --> 00:35:08,180 You got the money? 484 00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:13,220 Yes, yes. Okay. Put it in a paper bag and have the kid bring it on the 330 bus 485 00:35:13,220 --> 00:35:14,220 to Ocean View. 486 00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:16,620 He gets off there and walks north to the point. 487 00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:18,160 Contact will be made. You got that? 488 00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:21,900 Yes, but I... I will bring it myself. 489 00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:23,440 I said the kid. 490 00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:25,680 I will not let him go. 491 00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:27,600 The kid or the deal's off. 492 00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:29,800 Hello? Hello? 493 00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:31,160 Hello? 494 00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:34,560 I'm sorry I didn't anticipate that. 495 00:35:35,140 --> 00:35:36,240 What is it? 496 00:35:36,970 --> 00:35:37,970 What did he say? 497 00:35:38,730 --> 00:35:41,490 They want Ellie to bring the money. 498 00:35:41,830 --> 00:35:42,830 Did you get anything? 499 00:35:43,210 --> 00:35:44,210 Ellie. 500 00:35:46,710 --> 00:35:47,790 I say thank you. 501 00:35:48,370 --> 00:35:51,190 Trait to the Midtown area. Wasn't enough time to pinpoint it. 502 00:35:54,850 --> 00:35:59,530 I will not let him go. He's only a child. I will not let him go. 503 00:36:00,190 --> 00:36:02,030 Grandpa, I'm 13. 504 00:36:02,450 --> 00:36:03,890 That's when you said I'd be a man. 505 00:36:04,130 --> 00:36:05,130 I want to go. 506 00:36:13,290 --> 00:36:17,410 5 ,000 bucks, no sweat. We pull up, grab the bag, and take off. 507 00:36:18,310 --> 00:36:19,310 What about the scroll? 508 00:36:20,310 --> 00:36:21,310 We hang on to it. 509 00:36:22,830 --> 00:36:23,830 What for, man? To when? 510 00:36:24,070 --> 00:36:25,070 Till we meet again. 511 00:36:25,430 --> 00:36:26,590 Now, what are you talking about? 512 00:36:26,830 --> 00:36:28,170 What do you mean, what am I talking about? 513 00:36:28,410 --> 00:36:30,310 When we run out of dough, we work the same deal again. 514 00:36:30,670 --> 00:36:33,070 They want it so bad now, they want it even worse later on. 515 00:36:33,390 --> 00:36:36,830 We give it back right now. Look, I'm running this show. I said we give it 516 00:36:36,830 --> 00:36:38,410 now! I'm running this show, you understand that? 517 00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:32,880 We have a Clayroy registered here. 518 00:37:33,700 --> 00:37:34,700 You owe it to Adam. 519 00:38:09,810 --> 00:38:11,070 Sergeant O 'Harris in position. 520 00:38:15,310 --> 00:38:17,030 No sign of a white sedan, Chief. 521 00:38:23,450 --> 00:38:26,350 Ironside. Ed, Chief, we nailed Clay Royce's partner. 522 00:38:26,570 --> 00:38:28,250 Took him to the hospital. They had a fight. 523 00:38:28,850 --> 00:38:30,070 Royce took off with a tour. 524 00:38:30,670 --> 00:38:31,950 Get anything from the partner? 525 00:38:32,710 --> 00:38:34,310 Only that they ditched the white sedan. 526 00:38:34,610 --> 00:38:35,610 I'm afraid it was too high. 527 00:38:35,990 --> 00:38:37,890 Royce stole another car. No description. 528 00:38:38,460 --> 00:38:39,460 Where are you now? 529 00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:41,440 Just outside of Ocean View. 530 00:38:42,500 --> 00:38:43,740 What kept you, Ed? 531 00:38:46,680 --> 00:38:48,800 Gene, the bus is coming. 532 00:39:32,710 --> 00:39:33,710 He's getting fat. 533 00:39:38,190 --> 00:39:39,430 This is Ironside. 534 00:39:39,630 --> 00:39:41,650 Subject now moving along Beach Road. 535 00:39:41,950 --> 00:39:43,250 All units stand by. 536 00:39:47,570 --> 00:39:49,270 The bus ride was uneventful, Chief. 537 00:39:49,570 --> 00:39:50,570 How's Alec? 538 00:39:51,010 --> 00:39:53,190 Doing a good job of hiding how scared he is. 539 00:39:54,210 --> 00:39:55,490 Keep your eye on him. 540 00:40:23,500 --> 00:40:24,980 Hey, kid, where's the parkway? 541 00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:26,400 Back that way. 542 00:41:36,910 --> 00:41:37,910 Where's the Torah, Royce? 543 00:41:40,290 --> 00:41:41,590 It's no use to you now. 544 00:41:42,350 --> 00:41:44,490 No use to anyone in a few hours. 545 00:41:48,970 --> 00:41:50,130 Where'd he hide it, Trennan? 546 00:41:50,850 --> 00:41:51,850 I don't know. 547 00:41:52,310 --> 00:41:53,930 You don't owe him any loyalty. 548 00:41:56,190 --> 00:41:57,550 I don't owe you any either. 549 00:41:58,730 --> 00:41:59,730 Bring him in, Mark. 550 00:42:03,310 --> 00:42:04,310 Rabbi. 551 00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:20,440 It wasn't my idea. 552 00:42:22,060 --> 00:42:23,060 I'm sorry, honest. 553 00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:26,260 Please, try and help us. 554 00:42:26,480 --> 00:42:27,480 I can't. 555 00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:29,480 I don't know where he hid it, Reverend. 556 00:42:37,320 --> 00:42:39,900 Wherever you put it, Chief, something will happen to it soon. 557 00:42:40,420 --> 00:42:41,420 That's all he'll say. 558 00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:42,640 Stick with it. 559 00:42:47,050 --> 00:42:49,210 No use to anyone in a few hours. 560 00:42:51,050 --> 00:42:53,910 A few hours, about five or six. 561 00:42:54,830 --> 00:42:56,730 Something will happen to it soon. 562 00:42:59,150 --> 00:43:00,150 Tide, high tide. 563 00:43:02,270 --> 00:43:03,270 High tide. 564 00:43:04,610 --> 00:43:06,330 That mean something to you, Trennan? 565 00:43:07,110 --> 00:43:08,110 Maybe. 566 00:43:08,650 --> 00:43:10,350 Clay goes to Taylor's cove a lot. 567 00:43:10,590 --> 00:43:12,030 There's a place between the rocks. 568 00:43:12,350 --> 00:43:14,370 You just did yourself a big favor. Let's go. 569 00:45:05,169 --> 00:45:07,970 Thank you. 570 00:45:09,530 --> 00:45:11,590 Thank you. 571 00:45:11,890 --> 00:45:13,870 Thank you. 572 00:45:14,430 --> 00:45:15,870 Thank you. 573 00:45:17,650 --> 00:45:18,650 Thank you. 574 00:45:45,149 --> 00:45:47,790 Thank you. 575 00:46:39,810 --> 00:46:41,870 Alan, you take care of your friends. 576 00:46:51,720 --> 00:46:53,920 left you'll take home. A little for everybody. 577 00:46:55,040 --> 00:46:58,060 The commissioner and I had a talk. We had very good results. 578 00:46:59,360 --> 00:47:02,440 One high school gym for Digby two nights a week. 579 00:47:03,080 --> 00:47:04,540 However, there is a condition. 580 00:47:05,580 --> 00:47:09,300 The loyals will need a male supervisor each night. 581 00:47:09,620 --> 00:47:13,140 Now what's required are a couple of live volunteers. 582 00:47:36,240 --> 00:47:39,960 Stay with us as Gary is tempted to break his vow to never change history. 583 00:47:40,160 --> 00:47:41,660 Goodnight Sweetheart is next.