All language subtitles for T J Hooker - 03x13 - The Lipstick Killer

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- You know, I don't know
if I like Stacy going out

with Dave Jamison.

- He's okay.

- Yeah, but he's divorced.

Will be.

- What's wrong
with divorced men?

- Well, for one
thing, they're...

Terrific guys.

Come to think of it,
divorced men are a real find.

A real find.

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(screaming)

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(Engine turns and revs)

(tires squealing)

- [Dispatcher] Four
Adam 30 and all units

in the vicinity of
County Hospital.

A 187 just occurred.

Suspect left in brown
late model Ford Fairmont.

License William,
Dog, Mary, 6-4-6.

- Tell 'em we've got it.

- Four Adam 30, Roger.

(siren blaring)

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(tires squealing)

- I think that's him.

(tires squealing)

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Four Adam 30 in
pursuit of 187 suspect

Southbound on
Chandler crossing 8th.

- Four Adam 16, we'll
pick them up at 10.

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(sirens wailing)

(tires squealing)

(explosion blasts)

- Get out of here.

(explosion blasts)

(sirens wailing)

- I'll call it in.

- You guys okay?

- Yeah.

- Your back hurting, Hooker?

- Only when I breathe.

- You sure you're okay?

- Let's get to the
scene of the 187.

- We're gonna need a ride.

(fire crackling)

(engine turns and revs)

(chattering on radio)

(siren wailing)

- It's the staff parking area.

- The victim must have
worked at the hospital.

- The motive probably
wasn't robbery.

It's not likely that
anyone on a hospital

staff would be carrying
a lot of money.

- You haven't paid any
doctor bills lately.

- Let's see if we can give
the detectives a hand.

(radio chattering)

- Hooker.

Been awhile.

- Lieutenant Pete O'Brien.

My partner, Vince Romano.

- [Romano] Lieutenant.

- You're riding with
top company, kid.

- You doing your brown bag
number on this one, Pete?

- Eh, you know me, Hooker.

Creature of habit.

What's your stake in this?

- Well, we were in hot pursuit.

Lost the suspect and the car.

- That's too bad.

I wish you would've
caught the lady.

- [Romano] Lady?

The killer's a woman?

- The report I got from
division, says the witness

described the killer as a
woman dressed in a nurse's

uniform, long
brunette hair, 5'7".

The victim was a nurse too.

Bludgeoned to death.

- Bludgeoned.

Pete there were a couple of
nurses in the Highland area

that were bludgeoned to death.

Could me more of the same.

- I remember.

Three murders
separated by a year.

That doesn't set a pattern.

- No, but there
might've been others.

It's a big city.

- Could be.

(radio chattering)

- Where's he going?

The murder went down there.

- He knows what
he's doing, Junior.

- Hooker, you look
a little ouchy.

- No pain, no gain.

Well, let's hear it.

- A severe blow to the skull
with a blunt instrument.

That's all I can tell
you at this point.

- Joan, I have a
hunch about this one.

Can you give it priority?

- Hooker, have I
ever said no to you?

- This belong to her?

- I guess so.

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- I just checked the
board, they assigned us

to Pete O'Brien.

- Yeah, he wants us to
assist in the nurse killing.

What did you dig up in records?

- 11 months ago, Paula
Lipton, several blows

to the head with a
blunt instrument.

Two days later Genevieve
Mann taken out the same way.

- Where?

- Highland, both of them,
like you remembered,

no apparent motive.

- Two senseless killings,
two days apart and nothing.

- Till five months later.

In Bayside, another
nurse, Ruth Russo.

Again a blunt instrument.

Then again two days later,
one more, Louise Meredith.

- That's a pattern.

- Sorry to disappoint
you but Louise Meredith

was killed by a loaded
street type driving

a stolen vehicle.

- That 48 hour interval
is like a red flag.

I had the same thing
on a case I worked

with O'Brien five years ago.

- They nurses too?

- No, ordinary women.

And they were stabbed not
bludgeoned, but they were

killed 48 hour apart.

(phone ringing)

I'll dig out the name
of a hype driver.

You call Joan Wagner
and tell her I want

an autopsy report on the
nurse that was killed

last night and the file
on Louise Meredith.

- You got it.

- Striking surface
of the murder weapon

measured 36 millimeters square.

- About an inch and a half.

- And probably metal judging
by the clean definition

of the wound and I'd
say it was smooth.

- Can you get me a sketch
of the wound configuration?

- Better than that.

I'll have Dr. Yamoto
take an impression.

- Is that Louise
Meredith's file?

- What are you looking for?

- To prove a theory.

There have been four homicides
of nurses by bludgeoning

the last 11 months, I'm
betting that Louise Meredith

makes it five.

- Hooker, look at this.

Cause of death,
internal injuries.

- Isn't there any evidence
of blows to the head?

- It's too hard to tell.

Body was too badly damaged.

- Oh, Joan.

These three nurses,

will you check and
see if their wounds

could have been caused
by the same weapon?

- Sure.

What else have I got to do?

- Well, I'm sure if we
put our heads together

we can think of something.

(laughs)

- You think maybe
O'Brien got lucky?

- Could be, he figures he's
the luckiest guy in the world.

- You've got to be kidding.

The guy's in a wheelchair.

- Before I turned in my
gold shield, Pete and I

worked on that psycho
killer case, the one Travers

helped us with.

- Yeah.

- And Pete went after the
killer on a rooftop chase,

it was eerie as hell.

It was dark, there was no moon.

And Pete never saw the
killer, he was just chasing

shadows and shapes.

And suddenly he glimpsed
a figure leaping across

to the next building.

- And he followed
and didn't make it.

- He fell eight stories.

But his fall was broken
by a window awning.

He only lost the
use of his legs.

Lucky for him.

Lucky for us.

He's a damn good cop.

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Pete, what's up?

- Tango red.

- Sounds pretty exotic.

- It's supposed to
and it's the name

of a lipstick shade.

- You found this near the
scene of Karen Peyton's murder?

- Yeah, over near the
hospital entrance.

- That's over 50
yards from the scene.

- [O'Brien] Close enough.

Had it analyzed
the brand color ID

is tango red.

Paula Lipton, Highland Hospital.

- [Romano] The first
murdered nurse.

- Right.

Found not too far
from the murder scene.

- [Hooker] Tango red.

That ties Karen Peyton
to Paula Lipton.

And she was murdered two
days before another nurse

was bludgeoned to death.

It's coming together.

- Could be.

But according to your
research one of the murders

over at Bayside was a
vehicular manslaughter.

- Committed by one
Maurice Winston Morgan.

- Sounds like a banker.

- The only banking
this Morgan's ever done

is a cue ball off the
rail while waiting

for his connection to show.

Now it's our turn to
pick up some garbage.

There he is.

The one on the left.

- Looks like he just
bought himself a fix.

Gives us probable cause.

- You've been reading
your manuals, Junior.

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I got him, I got him.

Maurice, you always
were a pain in the back.

- Hooker, I've only been
out of jail for a month.

I don't wanna go back.

- That was for
vehicular manslaughter.

This is a change for you.

- It was an accident.

That nurse ran right
in front of my car.

- Your car?

- Okay, so it was borrowed,
but she wasn't even looking.

I told the detectives,
like she was running away

from the other nurse.

- This other nurse,
what did she look like?

- She was scary,
wrapped up in that cape.

Bright red lips.

It was like George Hamilton
in that vampire picture.

- Sounds like you
were hallucinating.

- Yeah, that's what
the detective said,

only she was there.

She was a witness.

She could've gotten me off
the hook but she split.

- I think I know why.

Hook him up, Romano.

We're taking him in.

- Hey, come on, Hooker.

I'm clean.

- Maurice, the reason the
detectives didn't believe you

about the other nurse,

is that you lack credibility.

(engine revving)

- You think Maurice can
come up with somebody

in the mug books?

- We can go through
the motions but we're

not going to find our
killer in a mug book.

- Why not?

- I've got a feeling no
cop has ever laid hands

on this lady.

My gut tells me she's
gotten away with murder

five times and she's
headed for number six.

- How do you figure?

- Pairs.

Paula Lipton.

And 48 hours after
that, Genevieve Mann.

Then Ruth Russo and
48 hours after that,

one Louise Meredith.

And last night, Karen Peyton.

And I think that could
mean within 24 hours

another nurse will die
at County Hospital.

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- [Corrigan] Cream
and sugar, Stacy?

- [Stacy] Yes, please.

- Stacy.

On such a chilly night
you have quite a glow

your love life picking up?

- Well, I bet it is.

(laughing)

- Heard you went out with
Dave Jamison last night.

- Well, we were trying
to keep it low profile,

but no chance with
you guys around.

- Well, that's life in the
precinct goldfish bowl.

- [Romano] Low profile.

Sure.

- What's that supposed to mean?

- Well, isn't Dave
Jamison married?

To a police woman?

Works out of midtown.

- Don't start in, Romano.

Dave and Irene are separated.

They're getting a divorce.

- Okay, I was just
trying to help.

- Well don't.

I'm a big girl and I
can take care of myself.

- Stacy, I just care about you.

We all do, don't we, Jim?

- Passionately.

- Just keep everyone
out of my personal life.

Including yourselves.

- We're only trying to
protect you, partner.

Heard that Jamison's
wife shoots expert

on the shooting range.

- Ah, come on you guys, will ya.

Stacy's right,
it's her business.

Let's roll.

- Okay.

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- [Intercom] Dr. Klein,
telephone please.

Dr. Klein.

- Hooker, what are
you doing around here?

- Looking for you, Doc.

I need your expertise
on these nurse killings.

- Killings, plural?

I heard about last night but...

- Here's what came
out of the computer.

It's not much.

But it reminded me of
the case that you helped

our psychiatric case you
helped our people with

when we first met.

- Five years ago.

Four women were attacked.

Only one survived, right?

- You put together
a psychological
profile of the killer.

- A lot of good it did.

Murderer was never caught.

- The murders stopped.

And we didn't have
much to go on.

And the one witness
who did survive,

she never eyeballed
her assailant.

- You don't think this
is the same killer

starting up again, do you?

- It could be.

Five years ago we didn't
know whether the killer

was a man or a woman.

- All right.

I'll take a look at this.

See what I can come up with.

- Thank you, Doc.

- Okay.

- Say hello to Marilyn for me.

- Ah, wish I could.

Split a couple of years back.

- Ah, I'm sorry to hear that.

Welcome to the club.

- See you later.

- Problems, partner?

- Someone saw Dave Jamison
out on a date last night.

(laughs)

- When a guy splits
with his wife,

he sometimes plays the field.

- Yeah but the girl he
was with was his wife.

- Well maybe I should have
a little talk with him.

- Thanks, Jim.

But no thanks.

- Okay.

Just say the word if you
want me to get into it

with Jamison.

- I tried, Hooker.

But the division is not going
to swing anyone to help.

- Well, at least you
got the four of us.

- Yeah but Sheridan
is not happy.

But he did clear you
guys for 48 hours.

- We better get crackin'.

- All right, I'll get
on the horn to Bayside

and Highland Hospital
and I'll have my boys

waiting for you
when you get there.

- Okay.

- Hey, Corrigan.

That partner of
yours is USDA prime.

- Well starting now, Jamison,
she's off limits to you.

- What I do is my
business so butt out, huh?

- Hey, read my lips, Jamison.

Hands off Stacy.

She doesn't need to be
hit on by a married guy.

- Leave him alone, Jim.

He's not worth it.

- Stacy I want to talk to you.

- You heard the
lady, now buzz off.

I think he got the message.

- Yeah, so did the
whole precinct.

From now on, stop acting
like my guardian angel.

- Something wrong?

- Just a little
misunderstanding.

Heard the Captain
assigned us to O'Brien.

- Yeah.

I want you and Stacy to go
down to Highland Hospital.

Pick up a list of the
nurses that were on staff

at the time of the
first two murders.

- Same for Bayside and
the second two victims?

- Right, and Romano and
I'll pick up the list

at County.

- We'll match up the
rosters and see if there are

any names that
appear on all three.

- And afterwards we'll
eliminate anybody who's not

a brunette and under 5'7".

Let's roll.

- Come on, Hooker.

I can see your back is
still bothering you.

That crash must have
jostled that old slug

you've been carrying around.

- It's a souvenir
ever since I took down

the Bonner Brothers.

I'm used to it.

- You still think the
nurse murders are connected

to that old case you
worked on with Travers?

- I don't know.

If only someone
had seen the killer

and tell us whether
it's a man or a woman.

- You said one of
the victims survived.

Maybe it's worth talking to her.

- We'll find out as soon
as we leave the hospital.

- Here you go.

- [Hooker] Don.

- Hooker.

I'm afraid I don't
have anything for you.

There wasn't enough
information in the computer

readout for a profile.

- Well, there's more now.

The details are in here.

Now, we're sure she
strikes in pairs.

Two victims 48 hours apart,

five or six month wait and
then she strikes again.

- Interesting pattern.

Always the same MO?

- She bludgeons her
victims to death,

metal instrument,
square striking surface.

- My guess is, you're
dealing with a rigidly

compulsive individual here,

probably paranoid
with a controlled rage

that breaks loose periodically

and can only be
suppressed through

these ritualistic
acts of murder.

- Suppressed until she
feels the urge again?

- Exactly.

- Don, I appreciate
the diagnosis,

but I need a
specific profile now.

- I'll do the best I can.

I only hope it does
some good this time.

- Doctor Travers, how you doing?

- So far so good.

- Got the list, Hooker.

- Good, one stop, then
we'll check her out.

Shirley Potter.

This is Officer Romano,
my name is Hooker.

I've been trying to
reach you at the office.

- I know, I got your message.

I left word that I didn't want

to discuss the killings.

- Please, we've talked before.

Five years ago, I
was a detective.

- Of course, the hospital after.

Oh god.

I can't.

- I know the memory
of what happened

must be very painful,
but there's been

a new series of murders,
and it's possible

they could be connected to
the ones five years ago.

- I still have nightmares.

- Please try to remember.

- It's very important
Mrs. Potter.

- I tried so hard to forget.

I was coming home late, and,

and all of a sudden, there
was someone behind me

and before I could
just scream or run

or anything, he
grabbed me and he...

- He?

You said he, are you
sure it was a man?

- When he put his
hand over my mouth,

I could tell it
was a man's wrist

because there was hair
on the back of it,

long hair, and it
brushed my neck,

and then he started stabbing me.

(sobs)

I'll never forget it.

- I'm really sorry to
bring it back like this.

- Are you okay, mommy?

- I've told you all I can.

- You did very well.

Thank you.

- The killer five
years ago was a man.

There goes your connection.

- Yeah, you win some...

You lose some.

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All right, nine
brunettes who worked

at each of the
hospitals at the time

of the murder.

- And just five of them
are 5'7" or taller.

- Your instincts
were right, Hooker.

First three victims,
same murder weapon.

- Wound impressions, all
36 millimeters square.

- Like this, the
mold from Dr. Yamoto.

- Did you get
anything from Travers

on the profile?

- I'm gonna call him right now.

- These two nurses live
at the same address.

- Maybe they were roommates.

- I'll take them, we
can split up the rest.

Something wrong, Hooker?

- I'm disappointed
to Don Travers.

- He dragging his
feet on our profile?

- He said he's not ready yet.

- Well then, we have to
work with what we got.

- Well, I got Maryanne
Friedman Taylorstream.

- The others all live
near the hospital.

I'll work with Corrigan
and Stacy on it.

- Let's go.

Excuse me.

- Can I help you?

- Yes, I'm looking
for Maryanne Friedman.

- Come on, I'll show you.

Number 12, right down that way.

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- Mother?

(screaming)

- [Hooker] You, stop!

You all right?

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(tires screeching)

(police siren blaring)

(dramatic music)

(exclaims)

- How long have you had
that bullet in your back?

- About five years.

It has a way of acting
up every now and then

to remind me it's there.

- Well, I'm no neurosurgeon,

but I think you should see one,

and maybe stay here
for a few days.

- I'll take a rain
check on that.

- All right, so we
shouldn't have interfered.

- You're the one who said he was

going out with his wife.

- Well, it just proves
that things aren't

always what they seem.

There is nothing wrong with

Dave and Irene discussing
their divorce settlement.

- All right, so
Corrigan made a mistake.

- Me?

- All right, we both did.

- Look, from now on,
your personal life

is your own business.

- Thank you.

How's the patient nurse?

- Impossible, but nice.

I had him scheduled for
my first class massages,

but--

- Listen, I've got
this muscle spasm.

- Yeah, you can't stop talking.

Thanks for everything, Betty.

Come on, come on.

How'd you guys do
with the nurses

you questioned last night.

- Corrigan and I were
each with one of them

while you were
chasing the killer,

so they're in the clear.

- There's no way
either one of them

could have been involved.

- How were your
candidates, Stacy?

- One of them is
still a possible.

Her roommate says
she's out of town.

She's due back this evening.

- We can't let up.

The murderer's
compulsion will keep her

hunting for a
second victim until

she makes the kill.

- You sound pretty positive.

- Pretty specific, like you took

a crash course in
criminal psychology.

- I got the word
from Don Travers

just a few minutes ago.

- He was here?

I don't know if I'd
show up for work

after my Porsche got totaled.

- Don's Porsche?

He never mentioned
anything about it.

- Yeah, the killer was
driving it last night.

She stole it from the
hospital parking lot.

- You're kidding.

Did the homicide talk to him?

- Yeah, didn't get anything

that could help us though.

- Why don't the two
of you double check

that nurse that's supposed
to be out of town,

see if she's back, see
if her story holds up.

- Will do.

- Okay.

Let's drop in on
Don along the way.

(doorbell rings)

Don.

I want to talk to
you about your car.

- Well, I was trying
to catch a few winks.

- Oh, I'm really sorry,

but maybe there was something

the detectives didn't get.

- There's not much to get.

I was working late, when I went

to get in the car, it was gone.

- Did you notice anything,

I mean, where the
car was parked.

- An empty space.

- No, Don, I mean on the ground,

something that might
have been dropped.

- Come on, Hooker,
I loved that car.

I almost went into shock
when I saw it was gone,

as a matter of fact, it
took me quite a while

to get myself together
to call the police.

That was it.

- Well, I guess so
if you can't remember

anything more about last night.

- You mean, if I saw
a tall brunette nurse

sneaking around the
hallway on the way

to steal my car,
the answer's no.

- We'll get out of your hair.

- You collect antiques?

- It's a surgeon's kit from
the turn of the century.

- It must be worth
quite a bit of money.

- An old family heirloom.

I'm sorry I'm so crabby.

It's been a rough
couple of days.

- So I've been told.

Thank you.

(soft mood music)

- The nurse you
saved last night,

she was still in shock when I

got to the scene,
but she had some

strands of hair
clutched in her fist.

- [Hooker] Human hair.

Some of the ends have traces

of a rubber based adhesive.

- Maybe they were
yanked out of a wig.

- I say our killer
isn't a brunette.

- I'd go one step further, Pete.

I have a hunch our
killer isn't a woman.

- That's out of
left field, Hooker.

- What do you got
to hang that on?

- I never saw a
woman run like that,

and I'm not just
talking about speed.

- Shirley Potter said long hair.

Her attacker could have
been wearing a wig too.

- You got it, partner.

We could be after a man.

We'll be in touch, Pete.

Tell 'em to get
back to the morgue.

We'll go over those victims'
files one more time.

- [Joan] Looks like
you struck out, Hooker.

- I was really hoping that
we'd missed something.

- But there's zip.

- Another nurse may die tonight,

and we keep hitting dead ends.

What's this?

- Surgical mallet.

- It's metal, smooth.

If the head wasn't round.

- You're right.

- My god, it was so close to me,

I didn't see it.

- See what?

- That's a modern
surgical mallet.

The old ones had a square head.

- Old, like in turn
of the century old?

- Yes.

How'd you know?

- A friend of mine, Don Travers,

has a collection of antique
surgical instruments.

(suspenseful music)

- Tonight, I'm going
to kill you, mother.

And then...

Then...

(growls)

You will not come
back to haunt me.

You will die.

Die.

Die.

(police siren blaring)

- Don.

Don.

- [Romano] Hooker, in here.

Uniforms, over there on
the dressing table, makeup.

- The wig, it's
gone and so is he.

- He's out there, Hooker,
looking to kill again.

- The question is who,
I'll tell you, Romano,

it's a nurse who works at County

whose been given
a long stem rose.

- How do you figure that?

- I'll bet ya money this
picture's his mother,

and those murders are tied up

with his feelings about her.

- Karen Peyton, in the
hospital parking lot,

the rose left near her body.

- And last night, the
nurse he tried to kill,

she had a long stem rose.

- Hooker, there could
be 100 nurses at County,

how do we find out which
one he sent the rose to?

- We go down to the
hospital and ask questions.

Get Stacy and
Corrigan on the horn

and tell them to meet
us down there and fast.

- [Woman on Intercom]
Nurse Macrae,

nurse Betty Macrae, report
to Dr. Miles in pathology.

(police siren blaring)

- We'll split up.

Stacy, you take
the nurses' lounge,

Corrigan, you cover
the cafeteria.

- They're covered, Hooker,

got hospital security scouring

the spot where nurses gather

and backups rolling
from the precinct.

- We'll cover this
place floor by floor.

You take the second,
we'll take the third,

and we'll work our way up.

- [Woman On Intercom] Dr.
Kline, telephone please,

Dr. Kline.

Dr. Henso, to surgery
please, Dr. Henso.

- This is the floor you were on.

- Find some nurses to
help spread the word.

Don travers has left
his calling card.

- And he left it with Betty.

- Betty Macrae, where is she?

- She was just called
down to the basement,

to pathology.

- At this time of night?

- One of the doctors
must be working late.

I saw her start down.

- Junior, if Betty shows up,

keep your eye on her.

(suspenseful music)

(screaming)

- [Hooker] Don, Stop!

Get upstairs, tell the police

I've got Travers down here, now.

- Travers?

Oh, my God.

- Do it, now!

(dramatic music)

(objects crashing)

(grunting)

(glass shattering)

(fire alarm blaring)

Dr. Travers.

- Travers' mother
mistreated him as a child

and didn't let up
until the day she died.

Our police shrink speculated

that the first
victim of each pair

represented his mother,
and the second, her ghost.

- The case you were working on,

five years ago, it was
Travers even back then

in drag.

What I don't get is that
there were a few years

in between there when
he wasn't killing.

- Well, he met a lady, right?

- Marilynn, while
they were involved,

when they split up, he
started killing again.

- Only this time, he
focused on nurses,

like his mother.

- @@ Travers, it's
all mumbo jumbo to me.

The important thing
is, we nailed Travers

before he started killing again.

- Jameson's wife have
any hard feelings?

- Hard feelings?

She told me he's been
working extra shifts,

special duty, he doesn't
come home much at night.

- You mean they're
still together

and she doesn't know he's--

- You got it, the creep.

And I'm supposed to meet
him for dinner tonight.

Maybe one of you
would like to keep

my date for me.

- I'd love it, let me at him.

- Wait a second,
hold on, Romano.

- Wait a second, I--

Call it, call it,
he's not all yours.

- Heads.

- He's mine.

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