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Hello, Olympic Massage.

Yeah, can I speak to Mercedes, please?

It's important.

Yeah, just a minute.

Hold on.

Mercedes, telephone.

This may be him.

Mia, take over for me. Where's your room one?

Hello?

Hi, it's me. I'm right outside of town on Route 24.

Oh, sweetheart, are you all right?

Yeah, it was okay.

That's all I can tell you.

I'll be there as soon as I make the drop, all right?

Oh, baby, I love you.

Hurry up, huh? I'll be waiting for you.

Listen, the girl, Juanita, she's sick.

She's got the flu or something.

Maybe you could put her up, huh?

All right.

Hang on. You'll be okay.

Sit tight, Billy, and keep logging in calls.

Gotcha.

Won't be long now. It's a home stretch.

As soon as I load the money, we'll get you a shot at the hospital.

You'll be fine.

Thank you.

451, you got me.

I don't know what to do.

I have an emergency.

A vehicle off the road.

Bridge Road right past the railroad tracks.

Send an ambulance immediately.

This girl ain't breathing.

Come on, darling. You'll be all right. Take it easy.

I got a pulse.

She's cooking.

I got a pulse.

How's that guy doing?

I think he's okay.

Tell me when they was coming in, remember?

But you weren't going to do that, were you?

You was going to make the call yourself just to score some points, huh, G-Man?

It's a federal matter, Baretta, and it's my case.

I dug this whole thing up in the first place, remember?

Nobody was talking about federal matter when I was doing that, huh?

Nobody's putting down your work.

But if I hadn't gotten the order for the phone tap, you'd be up the creek.

A phone tap over here.

I worked eight months on this case.

Now we're going to blow it so you can score points with somebody with a suit on?

Let's go file a report, G-Man.

He's on his way down here to be checked out.

He's going to get his personal belongings from you?

Yes. - Very good.

Very good.

You don't know me.

Okay.

Like we figured, the girl died without regaining

consciousness, and Hatfield's going under the name of Danfield.

He's been released, and he's on his way down here to check out.

Did you get that towing order put in his personal

effects so he'll know where the van went?

Yeah, the nurse was terrific.

Here he comes.

Listen, if you don't go look for that money, this whole thing is a joke.

You know that? - Yeah.

Danfield?

You're just signing for this?

Yeah?

Uh, Dr. Leo.

It's Hatfield.

What are you calling me on this number for?

I just want to let you know I am late.

I cracked up the van and Juanita's dead.

But it's all right.

The money's still there.

Still where?

It's in the van at the Jade Avenue tow yard, and I'm going down there now.

I just want to let you know.

Yeah.

Okay.

You went for it.

Get on your horse.

See you later.

Don't walk with me, boss.

You walk like a cop.

Juanita got killed.

In an accident.

Hatfield's in an accident looking for a place to happen.

Jade Avenue tow yard.

Get over there.

Hey, that's him right there.

Okay, just pull on behind him and take it easy.

That guy's got a radio.

He must be tailing him.

Get over there and spread him!

Get out of the car, you!

Hey, dummy, get out of the car!

Get up there and spread him!

You think you're dealing with some kind of chump here?

Put your hat down!

I lost Hatfield.

They sent a couple of Jim Oaks and somehow or other they boxed me in.

Get somebody down here to pick him up.

I'm at 1307 Mateo Street.

Pick up a cabbie for me from the S&M cab company.

His number is 811. Hold him.

I want to talk to him.

Hey, boss, where's my van?

Can you call in just a second, Barack?

I said, where's my van?

Gilliam has got your van!

Who the hell is Gilliam?

What's he doing with my van?

Excuse me, I'm from the public health department. - The public health department?

I just want every single point from here to Florida notified so that anybody who

had any kind of contact with Hatfield or the girl is rounded up.

Do you understand? - Boss!

I can't get to the Puerto Rican authorities myself.

The Puerto Rican authorities?

What have they got to do with it?

The girl had meningitis, Baretta.

Spinal meningitis!

The public health authority?

Excuse me, Doc, I'm sorry for yelling.

My name is Tony Baretta.

I'm the officer in charge of this whole thing.

Could you tell me what's going on?

Spinal meningitis?

Meningococcal.

It's not only an epidemic type, but it's highly, highly contagious.

This particular strain of the disease is resistant to treatment.

The girl died from it, for sure.

If Hatfield was in close contact with her, he's got it.

He's a very dangerous man, and so is anyone who's

had any kind of physical contact with either of them.

So far, so far we've got the van, the tow-yard owner, and the taxi-care driver.

But the most important thing is that Hatfield be

found before he spreads this into a major epidemic.

Yeah, excuse me.

Anybody who's been in contact with these people is contagious?

After 48 hours.

What does that mean, 48 hours?

Can you explain that to me?

Yes, that's the period of incubation.

Look, Baretta, weren't you and Begley in

contact with these people at the accident scene?

Uh, no, we didn't have contact with them.

We made a radio call.

But you didn't touch any of these people.

You didn't touch the van.

No, no. - You're sure of that?

Yeah, sure I'm sure of that.

Okay, then.

This guy, Hatfield, there's no special symptoms.

He wouldn't know he's got it, huh?

That's right, that's right.

So that anyone who had any kind of physical contact with him or the girl has

got to be brought in and placed under quarantine.

Now, I've got to, but I've got to issue an alert for the public health.

Look, uh, Mr. Gilliam, uh, I've got a real problem here now.

I don't want to let you in on this.

See, Hatfield is trafficking them guns.

It's a federal offense.

We've been building a case on that for eight months now.

It's Detective Baretta and the feds, right?

We thought we'd be able to make a bust in the next 48 hours.

He's working for some very heavy people.

He's nothing but a delivery boy who wants to get to the people on top.

Now, the reason I bring this up, you issued a public health alert.

There are one or two choices.

Either he's going to run and you're never going to find him, or else the people he's

working for are going to blow him away because they don't want to be exposed.

Now, they do that.

We want to know where he's been, who he got in contact with.

You're going to have the epidemic anyway.

Now, you give me a better answer as to what we can do here.

No, no, no.

I don't have a better answer than that.

Hey, G, man, you and me got some things to talk about.

I'm looking for your boss.

You are out, Baretta.

I back off to let you operate and you'll lose him.

Just cab all that stuff.

We got a lot of bigger problems.

You know that girl that was in the van?

She died from spinal meningitis.

Not only that, but the guy Hatfield, he's got it.

That means you and I got exposed to it.

Wait a minute, wait a minute.

Are you telling me we're carrying around meningitis?

Yes, that's right.

But we got 48 hours to... - We may have a killing disease.

Shut up! Yes, that's true.

But we can't give it to nobody for 48 hours.

So there's no danger just yet.

Now, do you want to blow eight months' work or do you want to make a collar?

Let me go out in the streets.

This is my town.

I know the people.

I can find this guy.

If I find him, you got a collar and everybody's off the hook.

What choice do you really have?

You better be right, Baretta.

48 hours is not a lot of time.

Yeah.

Thanks for telling me.

Let's go in there.

All right. Yes, I understand.

Hey, boss, how we come out with the time?

It's up to him, Baretta.

Doc, you got the ball?

I've just checked.

It's my decision.

I think the wisest choice is to go with you.

Fair enough.

Will you come with me, Doc?

I'll check in with you, boss.

Yeah.

We're going to go see this cabbie.

When we see him, is he going to have the farfelonus?

I mean, will we see some signs or something?

No.

After 48 hours of incubation, the symptoms begin to show.

Oh, you mean Daniel will start barfing his brains out and everything, right?

The problem of meningitis is that people don't pay attention

to the first sign because they think it's only the flu.

By the time they decide to take it seriously, well, it's

already started its damage on the central nervous system.

They go into convulsions, coma, most likely die.

Even if they don't die, they can be left crippled, mentally retarded, deaf.

Let me put it this way, Detective Baretta.

I hope you find him in time.

Amen, Doc.

The yard was closed and I couldn't see the van.

You're sloppy, you're a loser.

You touch something that goes wrong.

You picked up a tail.

You got Gus and Benny tossing the slammer.

Look, Leo, I don't know what happened.

The van was supposed to be there.

The cops got the van and probably the money, which means

I'm probably out about 110 grand, including your advance.

My next shipment's going cash up front.

No more of this.

Look, there is no way they could find the money.

They would have to tear the van to pieces.

Which they've been known to do.

Will you just give me a little time?

They must have taken the van to the wrong tow yard.

All I gotta do is just find out where it's at.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Okay.

Where you at?

Uh, the Dewey Hotel, 19th Street.

Room 12.

I'll tell you what.

Forget about the van.

Just stay where you are.

We'll take care of that.

Stay out of sight.

When we get the money, we'll be in touch.

Okay.

Room 12.

I want to know what I'm doing in here.

I got fare to pick up.

We'll take care of Fair and the rest of it.

Just answer a couple of questions first, will you, pal?

He just said to let him out.

That's all?

That's all.

Not another word.

All right. When you were in the cab with him, did he say anything then?

Uh, hey, lady, would you let him answer the questions, please?

Take that thing out of his mouth.

I'd like to get out of here before I catch, uh, four felonies.

Thank you very much.

He said to let him out where?

I don't know.

He didn't say a word.

Did he say anything else to you in the cab?

He was like a clam.

He was like a clam.

All right.

What did he look like?

The guy looked all right to me.

When you let him out, what did he do?

Did he walk across the street in front of the cab, down the street?

Wait a minute. Wait a minute. What?

I think he walked in one of those cheap hotels.

Good. There's four hotels on that block.

Give me a name.

What are you asking me that for?

What am I, have I got a photogenic memory or something?

Come up with a name for me, will you?

There is a name that comes to my mind.

I'm trying to... The Truman.

There's no Truman Hotel on that street.

I grew up in this town.

I knew that street like the back of my hand.

Give me another name.

Wait a minute.

There's a Dewey Hotel there.

What are you whining? I bought it for Truman.

Hey, Doc.

You got him.

Mr. Ice, you've been in contact with a dangerous disease.

There's three slugs in the shower door.

There's no blood.

There's no sign of a struggle.

That means whoever was trying to nail him, he out-foxed him.

Yeah, but it means that Hatfield's back out on the street.

He don't have no marks on him.

That's what it means.

Yeah, but it figured he knew somebody who was trying to kill him.

Oh, that's beautiful.

Charlie, you did a terrific job.

Found a dream. - Yeah?

And we painted it up real fast for you, Baretta.

I hope it's what you need.

No green on it now.

This thing looks terrific.

Beautiful work, Charlie.

They wouldn't ever give me the bandwagon.

They wouldn't ever give me the bandwagon without my name on it.

What are you doing to the thing?

You give me a few answers here.

What are you doing to this?

You're following the whole front end up.

Get out of here!

Well, hello there.

I'm Miss Morrison.

Would you like to come in?

Well, I think that we can take care of my business out here.

Excuse me. I mean, I think...

Well, I'm here to investigate the accident.

What accident?

Mr. Hatfield's van was in an accident, but they put it in the wrong tow yard.

And Mr. Hatfield's van is in the Jade Avenue tow yard.

I'm Floyd Larkin from Mutual of El Paso.

You see, I'm a claims adjuster, and we insure Mr. Hatfield's van.

Why are you telling me all this?

Because you know him, you see, and we want to find him.

No, I don't know any Hatfield.

I beg your pardon? - I don't know a Mr. Hatfield.

Oh, well, you see, we have... That's very strange.

Because we... It's...

Excuse me.

Well, it says that you know him.

Who said I was a friend of his?

I'll just look it right up here.

I'll just look it right up, is what I'm going to do.

I'm going to look it right up.

I think it was an accident.

I think someone made a mistake.

I... You see, I just...

I'm just an adjuster.

I go in and I pick up the papers in the morning,

and I come out and deal with all the people.

And sometimes they give me the wrong papers, and then...

I... Excuse me.

Thank you very much.

Sure, honey. We're open 24 hours a day.

Come on back. - Oh, yes, I will.

Don't eat at all.

Mind about the tow truck.

Are you all right?

Yeah.

I appreciate the sentiment, G-Man, but get on

the blower and find that tow truck, will you?

Hey, boss, they go.

Sound it!

Get up! Get up there!

Get up there!

Let him, dummy!

Take that piece.

Let me see what we got.

Well, well, well.

Weasel.

Hey, Fats, we got us a score here.

This is Weasel, Leo's boy.

We got us a one-two punch.

Let me tell you something, pal.

You know what Hatfield's got?

He's got spinal meningitis.

You know what that is?

Do you know what that is, man?

I'll tell you what it is.

It's a disease.

You die from it.

It rots your brains out.

And you're gonna croak because you made contact with Hatfield, and I know it.

And I ain't gonna get you no help unless you tell me what I want to know.

Now, who blew the whistle on Hatfield?

I'm not playing.

What's your name, that, uh... Uh, Mercedes?

No!

Who? - That young one, uh, Ria.

She works for Leo.

Don't be lying to me, man.

Don't be lying.

Fats, read him his rights.

Big shot local cops.

Loretta, I just left Weasel.

He talked plenty in the tow yard, but now

that he's got a lawyer, he's total silence.

What good is it knowing about Leo?

The evidence in this case is marked money, and that isn't tied into anybody.

We've got nothing.

Yes, we do.

We got an accomplice.

His name is Hatfield.

What are you messing around with Weasel for, anyway?

I told you to arrest Leo.

When Leo finds out we got Weasel, he's gonna hit the

weeds, so go arrest him for 48 hours on anything.

Just hold him.

When we get Hatfield, he'll blow the whistle,

and you can make a legitimate bust on Leo.

Now, just how do you propose to get Hatfield?

The same way I get anybody else, with hard work.

You know what that is?

Hatfield was an ex-war hero.

We're doing a workup on him right now.

What's... Hey!

I don't got to justify myself to you.

Now, go out and arrest Leo.

Earn your keep.

Your friend Hatfield's gonna be an ex -human being if you don't find him soon.

Yeah, well, it'll be three strokes ahead of you, G-Man.

Good luck.

Go do your job.

Oh, thanks a lot, Doc.

What's so funny?

I told you, I wasn't a doctor.

Oh, yeah, right.

I bet you get frustrated in your work, too, don't you, Doc?

Sometimes.

Yeah.

You know what's got me?

This guy, Hatfield, he's been one step ahead of me the whole time.

He ain't even plotting against me.

You know what it is?

He ain't a hood.

I can figure a hood.

I know every move they're gonna make, but this is just another guy, a jemoke,

like you and me.

He's down on his luck.

He's got a woman who loves him, and he's trying to bail himself out of a hard place.

Now, what would I do if I was him?

Hmm?

Yeah.

It's for you, Baretta.

Yeah, this is Baretta.

Oh, you're dead?

Anybody in it or around it?

Uh, wait a minute.

Give me your address again.

Okay, I'll be right over there.

Hey, Foley?

They found the tow truck.

Nobody in it.

Get the lab team over there as quick as you can.

Tell them to dust the whole joint.

I'll see them there.

Hi, Sam.

This is where you left it, huh?

Yes.

You find anything?

No, but we checked the neighborhood.

You didn't find anything there either, huh? - No.

No, and you ain't going to.

Listen, I'll send somebody over to pick this thing up.

Don't let nobody touch nothing.

Not you, the cops, nobody, okay?

Right.

Let's go, Doc.

Wait a minute.

What are you doing?

What is that?

These are sheets off the logbook on this truck.

Looks like we're too late again, Doc.

Wait a second, Baretta, you lost me.

Yeah, he lost us.

See, he pulled the sheet out, just said this tow truck took the real van from the

Jade Avenue yard over to the impound garage.

Sam, call in for me.

Tell them to move over to the impound garage, okay?

Okay.

I'm Baretta from the 53rd.

I sure hope we beat him, Doc.

Oh, please stop it with that doctor stuff.

Right, right.

Ready?

Don't look good, Doc.

You see that window?

Forget it.

We're too late.

We ain't gonna find nothing here.

But now what, Tony?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Now.

What are you doing up here?

You meditating at sunrise?

You said Gilliam on the phone again.

He's trying to tell me you only got six hours before he's

gonna put a blanket on everything with a public health alert.

Yeah, boss, I know it.

I'll get him.

I'll get him.

He's out there someplace.

The guy's getting to be like a brother.

I know him better than I know myself.

Reading this report that Foley got together here is some kind of a story.

You send a guy off to Vietnam, he gets blown up, gets his brain

scrambled, ends up with a plate in his head.

You send him back for treatment, he picks up the habit, kicks the habit,

gets himself straightened out, he goes back

stateside, he gets married, everything's looking good.

His wife walks out on him.

He's got a kid wandering around someplace in the world.

What do you do with a guy like that?

He's got no arrest record, he's got no convictions of any kind, he can't hold

down a job because he's got headaches from a plate in his head.

That's a lousy story, isn't it?

I know he's lonely.

I know he don't want to be alone.

He'll contact somebody, unless... Unless what?

Unless he's out there someplace sick and crawled

up in a hole somewhere like a rat in this city.

Maybe we ain't never gonna get him.

Maybe he's just gonna die on us.

We'll all be in trouble, won't we?

Don't look back. It's me, baby.

Baby, are you okay?

Look ahead.

Go into your purse like you're looking for your keys or something.

You are being followed.

I'm sure of it.

Where have you been?

Leo is trying to kill me, so I gotta go.

God. - And I got all the money.

And we are gonna get out of the country.

What's wrong with you?

You look terrible.

Turn and face the front.

Don't let me down.

Because I... I love you so much.

Oh, I love you.

Okay, here's what I want you to do.

I want you to get out of the car and go back

to the office like you've forgotten your keys.

Go in and open the safe and I want you to take out both our passports and the credit

cards, all the stuff that I... I'll go with you before I left.

And meet me at Meridian Air Charter.

Billy, what do you got?

Well, this may not sound like much, but the

man on the stakeout said she's acting strange.

She went to the car, stayed there a while, then

came back as if she forgot her keys or something.

But it could be something else.

Yeah, just stay away from it.

I'll be there in five minutes.

No, that's all you can do for us right now.

Thank you.

Listen, you see Detective Baretta, will you bring him up to date?

Listen, while you're at it, check the 34th Street area again.

Thank you.

Did you get him?

Leo's in the jail ward.

In your health order.

I don't think he's too happy about it.

You look too happy yourself.

What's the matter with you?

Oh, feel good.

Listen, I gotta tell you, I... I may have gotten infected myself.

What?

And that idiot Baretta, he gave the girl mouth-to-mouth resuscitation in the van.

Mouth-to-mouth?

Where is he?

Look, look, Bentley, you're no good to anybody right now.

Pick yourself up, turn yourself into the hospital right now, you hear me?

Give me communications.

I want this to go to all units.

I want to pick up Detective Baretta wherever he is in the city, take him

directly to the hospital or two arresting

officers or to stay with him and not go anywhere.

You got that?

Right, thank you.

Let's get out of here.

You and me got business, lady.

Who are you? What do you want?

My name is Tony Baretta and I'm a cop.

Wait a minute, you're not... you're the guy that came in with me.

No, no, no, I'm not that guy.

I was playing games then with the insurance stuff.

This is for real, sugar.

We got...

The first thing you gotta tell me is where your

boyfriend is so I can find him and get him to a hospital.

You understand? - What are you talking about?

He's got a very big body.

He's got a very bad disease called spinal meningitis.

He got it from the guys that he sold the guns to.

What?

Yeah, you know all about the guns and you know all

about him but you don't know that Hatfield is gonna die.

In a couple of hours, it's gonna be all over.

Not only that, but he's given it to everybody who's come

in contact with everybody and they're all gonna die too.

So you gotta tell me where he is so I can try to

save him and save your life and save my own life too.

I don't know any Hatfield.

I haven't seen any Hatfield and if I did, I

wouldn't tell you because you're a lying creep!

That's all jive, lady.

If I knew anyone by that name, I'd say he was a decent guy who never had

a break and who I wouldn't rat on no matter what it cost me.

I don't know what kind of games you're playing but I'm telling you, he's gonna

die and he's gonna take everybody that came in

contact with him and I ain't gonna let that happen.

Now, he's... No!

Leave me! Leave him!

No!

Hey, Billy.

I know you're on there. Now, listen to me.

I got passports.

I got credit cards. I got money.

That means, uh, airports, bus stations.

No bus stations. Airports.

They're going out of the country.

You understand me?

Uh, the chick will tell me nothing.

So, uh, the guy might even be dead by now.

I'm so sorry, baby.

I'm sorry.

Wait a minute, Billy.

I'm sorry, honey. It's over.

I'm sorry.

Go ahead.

Say it.

Please.

Please say it.

Meridian Air Charter.

You got that, Billy?

Meridian Air Charter.

I know where it is.

I'm on my way.

Call the boss and come to send some troops then

get up here and get this girl to the hospital.

I'll see you later.

We're gonna make it.

We're gonna make it now.

Just hang in there.

Just keep stroking now.

Hatfield?

It's me.

I'm the guy that's been dogging you.

The one that you've been just ahead of.

You in here?

Listen to me.

You ain't in this thing too far yet.

There's still time for you to get out.

Let me bail you out, man.

You got spinal meningitis.

You're crazy with this sickness, man.

You got a fever. You're nuts.

You don't know what you're doing.

You ain't no killer.

What are you trying to kill me for?

I ain't gonna shoot back at you.

I don't even want you.

The feds want you for running guns.

You'll do 18 months or 2 years and you're out.

You keep running. You're gonna die of this disease.

Or some cop is gonna plug you.

Just try to shake that sickness off, man.

Then think clear.

Hatfield?

You know what I mean?

That fever's driving you nuts.

What do you got?

The guy's inside.

Baretta went in after him.

You got a woman who loves you

It's more than most guys got.

Hatfield?

You hear me?

You still in here?

Hatfield, will you wait for me?

Listen man, you'll like your crazy night.

Go ahead, get yourself killed.

Let me tell you something.

We ain't got no way of knowing who you've been in contact with.

If you don't tell us, them people are gonna die too.

If you last another 3 or 4 days, everybody you touch is gonna get that thing.

When you go in the hole, you're gonna pull 50 people in with you.

You ain't no murderer.

Hold right there!

Let me help you, pal.

Don't kill me, man.

Don't do it!

You better!

Hold on, partner!

Hold on, partner!

I got you!

Brubaker, it's an emergency.

Get me an ambulance to Meridian Air Charter.

Get it out of here right away.

I want isolation space in the hospital.

When we get there, we're bringing in Hatfield and Baretta.

You gotta leave this thing on, or you're gonna catch the farfallonus in a blowhole.

Now, leave it there while I take a little snooze.

Well, Baretta's gonna be okay.

Hatfield's gonna pull through.

With his testimony and Mercedes, we're gonna be able to put Leo away for a long time.

I told you, Doc.

Patience and a little... Hey!

You guys, you ain't got the bags on you.

You're gonna catch the farfallonus.

Baretta, Baretta, wait a second.

Get in here!

Didn't you take those pills?

Yeah, I thought they were to keep me calm around...

The pills were to keep the disease from incubating once you've been exposed.

Well, how come you didn't tell me that in the first place?

How come you didn't tell me you were exposed?

We asked you.

You lied to us.

You remember, Baretta?

Right.

Boss.

Sharp mind.

My boss has a sharp mind.

He's very sharp.

What are you doing, darling?

It's time for your sponge bath.

Oh, no. He shouldn't be taking a bath.

Why not?

He overheats very easily.

No, no, no.

Don't you remember I got my thermostat adjusted

with that little Italian girl on the fourth floor?

You guys will have to excuse me now.

I've got to take my beauty bath.

Oh, Ingrid, I've been waiting all day for you, darling.

Oh, my dove of the Yukon.

Would you like to meet your new roommate now?

Certainly, if she's got red hair.

On account of my dove of the Yukon has blonde hair.

Right, sweetie?

Baretta, I hope you die before I do.

Get that guy out of here.

He's sick.