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Don Conrad, Ed Bentley.

Remember me?

Uh, no. Sorry.

I don't spend a little time. I met you
and your wife.

Oh.

Well.

We're, uh, we're divorced.

Can I help you?

Yeah, I've got some mug shots here I'd
like for you to look at and see if you

can identify any of them, if you don't
mind, please.

Sure. What's it about?

Just some records business.

Did you know that I was shot two years
ago?

Yes.

And that I identified two men, and
because of my testimony, they

were indicted?

Yes.

Is that what this is about? Is that why
you're here?

That's right.

I was the officer of record.

Those little men shot me.

Hey.

Now, look, don't sweat this. It's going
to be all right.

I mean, we got to clear it up.

It's got to be cleared up right.

You know that. We're cops.

That's our job.

Keep it posted, okay?

Yeah, it's a surprise.

I'm sorry to pull you out of the
courtroom, but I've got a bomb here.

Yeah, what's up?

Looks like two guys in federal custody
are good for the Conrad shooting.

I've been holding off telling anyone,
but I'm to the point where I've just got

to get off the dime.

Well, I'll tell you, partner, I've never
felt right about Conrad's

identification. I've been queuing.

I'll meet you at Charlie's about...
about 7, okay?

Then I called you.

Spent the rest of the day trying to
track down the registration of that 1969

Chevy. Negative.

As a matter of fact, neither Babchuk nor
Driscoll ever owned a car, as far as I

can determine, which means it's either
stolen or borrowed.

You got nothing.

Nothing? Conrad's identification is
worthless to guys who screw it up. He'd

identify anybody just to please you.

No, it wasn't that way. The ditcher and
the brother -in -law think these two

guys might have been in the right place
at the right time.

Bet that's a coincidence. There's no
evidence at all.

Well, the car would be.

I tell you, partner, I'm a little
surprised.

The way you sounded, I thought you had
it all wrapped up.

Now, wait a minute. Hold on just a
second.

You've got one dead end after another.

Plus, you've got something more you
haven't told me about.

I think we've got to let it go.

Well, I'm going to see Peter.

He asked not to be housed with the other
two, so they put him at Bayside Honor

Farm. Well, let's examine that one very
carefully before we... Let's see if

we've got enough evidence to warrant
pushing the thing.

What do you mean by that? Which is what
I said. Is it worth our time?

I'm all for opening a can of peas.

Yeah, there we go.

But two years ago when we closed the
Conrad case, cops were shot.

We built a case against the assailants.

It's good police work. The department's
happy with that. But what's that got to

do with anything?

We could have been wrong.

Is that something that you don't want to
face?

Wait a minute.

Come on, like that, we could have been
right, too.

Hey, Ted, hold it a second.

The DA said we were right. The grand
jury said we were right.

Okay, let's assume that we weren't.

We're not going to shed any tears over
Huggley and Q, and I hope.

It's not as if we could bail some
innocence out of jail with new

Conrad?

What about Conrad?

You think this is going to help him? No,
as a matter of fact, it's not. Think

about that.

What about these two turkeys, Driscoll
and Babchuck? They're already losers.

What you said, they're doing life on the
installment plan now.

They've got hard time coming and plenty
of it. What is the point? Wait a minute.

You know, you talk fast and it all
sounds good until I start to roll it

What are you talking here?

Profit and loss?

We could have nailed the wrong guys for
this number.

Well, now maybe we got a line on the
guys that are guilty.

Well, that's all there is. Just good to
look at all sides.

Ball!

There's only one side. We got to know
who shot Conrad.

And when a ball like this starts
rolling, it goes all the way.

What's got a hold of you?

Ted? Hold it.

If you feel that strongly about it, I'm
with you.

You're my partner.

I'll go with you.

I don't know what for, but if you want
it, let's go to work.

Didn't mean to get up on a soapbox.

Well, you got a feel, and I trust that.

I'll go with it.

Well, I guess we should let the captain
in on it in the morning.

He's not going to be too thrilled.

Yeah.

But you're right.

We've got to take it to him. I wish I
could be there with you, but it's going

take me the whole morning to wiggle out
a trial duty.

You talk to the captain and swing by the
courthouse and pick me up.

How's that sound?

I'll tell you what I'm getting tired of.
It's taking a lot of flack for doing my

job.

Pardon me for not doing any jigs,
hearing the department might have jumped

gun closing the Conrad case.

I'm just trying to figure out how to
duck when I tell the chief.

In fact, maybe you can guess what the
answer to that one is.

You don't tell me.

Not until I have a lot more to go with
it. Maybe you can guess who else isn't

going to talk about this thing to
anyone.

Repeat, anyone.

Oh, I understand. Yeah.

I mean, not to the DA, who might figure
he was hustled.

Hustled? Hustled into a quick indictment
on Conrad's testimony just so we could

maintain a fast clearance record.

And I don't have to tell you about the
press. If this leaks, we're going to

a railroading poor innocence like
Huggley and Kewin.

Well, this isn't going to all blow away,
you know.

No.

But when the time comes, if we've
goofed, we've goofed, but not before.

You know, when I came up with this, it
didn't thrill me either.

But when a ball like this starts to
roll, it just goes all the way.

Right. Price said the same thing.

Price? Yeah, he called to tell me he'd
be going up to Bayside with you. Said

he'd be looking over your shoulder.

Over my shoulder?

He didn't mean it that way.

But who knows more about the Conrad case
than he? I looked at the file. He

closed that case.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I know. That's the way it reads, yeah.

A lot of cops would take it personally.
Be worried their records would get

contradicted. Not Price.

Hell of a cop.

Your old lady had a headache last night?

What? You're looking pretty down,
partner.

So I'm looking down. Do you mind?

Look any way you want to. It's okay with
me.

Why'd you call the captain?

Just let him know I'd be kind of, uh,
looking over your shoulder.

What's that? I gotta have my hand held?

It's just shorthand language, partner.
Who wound you up all of a sudden?

Price, I'm going to tell you just once.
Don't do it again.

All right.

That's the way you want it. I mean it.
No more.

Yeah, sure. I turned him in. I want out
of this mess.

That's them.

For the record.

Ray Driscoll.

Johnny LeBabchuk.

You're on.

The two of them owned a bar.

The way they got it was they hijacked a
truckload of cigarette.

Yeah. That's a high profit item. So they
were flush.

Go ahead.

Well, uh, I was tending bar at this
place when they took it over.

They're like a couple of kids, you know,
they used to close the place down every

night. I'll tell you, you could, uh, you
could clean more suds off the floor

than for what they told us. You're past
the small talk.

You got nailed for taking out a bank.

Yeah, well, uh, for some reason they
like me. I don't know, maybe it's

I, uh, listened to all their old
stories.

Anyway, uh...

Sooner or later, I figured out that
they're talking about knocking over a

Next thing I knew, I'm invited. Hey, to
this point, all you're telling us is

that you were a poor slob led astray.

Yeah, I'm trying to cooperate here.

Well, then get off it.

We didn't come down here for that.

You let it out that they told you how
they killed a cop.

Yeah, yeah, Babchuk laid it out one
night until Driscoll cut him off.

He could get pretty mean when he had a
few.

This cop?

I think Driscoll used a machine gun on
him.

Well, never mind what you think.

What did they tell you?

Well, I, uh... I can't give it to you
exact.

They're all a little fuzzy, you know?

But, uh... I think they said they cut a
cop in half. Well, that's a machine gun,

right?

It was raining, uh...

No, I'm pretty sure.

They said they cut the cop in half.

I'll tell you, partner, it's about time
you start taking an objective view.

What Painter described isn't even close.
A machine gun.

It's not our case.

I don't think it's anybody's case. It's
fear talk.

That Chuck Invisco playing big man and,
uh... Painter hoping there's a shred to

it to buy his way out of where he's at.

Well, that's no harm done.

I think I want to go anyway.

Well, that's great.

That's just wonderful.

I don't know what's gotten into you.

All right, if that's what you want,
let's do it. Let's just get this thing

with.

I'm Sergeant Price.

Sergeant Bentley, you've been informed
of the purpose of this meeting?

Hey, look, I got nothing to say to you
guys.

Save your breath and let me go back to
what I was doing. Thank you.

We've come a long way to talk to you,
and we're going to talk.

Sit.

All right.

Go ahead, Phil.

On the 21st of October, 1975,
approximately 9 .05 a .m., you and

Driscoll were seated in a parked car at
the intersection of Adams and Orchard.

A police officer began to question you.

And Driscoll cut him in half with a
sawed -off shotgun.

You drove away, left the officer lying
on a sidewalk with his guts in his

Is the officer dead?

No.

Gee, that's too bad.

Hey, look, fellas, I don't know what
you're talking about.

And if I send it to your rod, I'm not
going to know anything.

I was never in California until three
months ago.

You're not going to frame me with a...
Hold on, you garbage. You'll leave when

you're told.

Go easy, partner.

You want to tear me apart, huh? Go
ahead, take your best shot.

You too.

I'll get both your badges.

You're that bad, Chuck.

We know it and we're going to get you.

You got nothing.

You'll see me again.

Before your sentence, you'll see me
again and you can bank on it.

Hold this for a minute.

You blew it. You threw him away.

Yeah.

I was taking a shot at a tacit
admission.

It went wild.

Wild? That's crazy. What kind of
interrogation technique is that?

I sized him up wrong. I was wrong.

You've had too many people on the grill.
You're smooth. You're subtle. You've

got a reputation for it.

That's right. I'm good, and I know what
I'm doing.

All I get from you is a lot of gas.

I'll take Driscoll.

Now, you know who we are and why we're
here, right?

Yeah, one of your guys got dusted and
you're trying to lay it on me.

I want you to listen very carefully to
what I'm going to say.

You've been around quite a bit, so I'm
banking on the fact you've got enough

moxie to know that I'm being straight.

I say.

I said you're a nickel.

Yeah.

Yeah, I checked you out, and the word is
that Ray Driscoll is a man, whatever

else he might be. And you're right.

We're trying to clear up the shooting of
a policeman.

You and Babchuck dusted him, but he's
not dead.

And you know that I'm telling it
straight when I say to you he had no

all in picking you out of a stack of mug
shots.

Now, wait a minute. Just let me finish.

Your sister and her husband put you and
Babchuck driving the Chevy that day.

There's no point in going through all
the other evidence. The point is, what

have you got to lose in clearing this
up? Huh?

I want to tell you something. You make
us go through all the motions and we're

going to nail your hide to the wall. But
if you cooperate, then any sentence

that you might get will probably run
concurrent with your present sentence.

understand?

I understand, and I'm not going to say
another word.

to my lawyer.

I saw it. It was there.

Not a blink or... Well, it wasn't really
anything.

The way you can't explain it, but you
know.

I knew and Driscoll knew I knew. He's
the one that shot Conrad.

You'll never get him to admit it.

But now we know.

Yeah. You know. Big difference.

One step at a time.

You can't prove they were ever anywhere
near Conrad. Conrad is worthless as an

eyewitness. When he ID'd Hugney and
Kuhn, he blew his credibility.

And that Chevy, that missing Chevy you
keep talking about finding, is probably

Japanese bicycle by now. What is it with
you? Is that what you're going to tell

the brass when we get back?

I'm going to tell them you did Class A
police work all around.

But... But?

You're holding air. We've got other
cases to move on. In my opinion, you

to let it go right now.

Well, what would that do, Price?

Hurt your record of cases closed?

You've been coming out of left field
recently, so I'm going to let that one

by.

You asked me the question my
recommendation is don't make the wave I

Would let it go

Best to close it without fanfare. You
can withdraw charges against Huggley and

Kuhn. I'll have lunch with Ryan. Let him
know. He shouldn't be buried. Not yet.

Bentley, give me credit to know what I'm
doing. What's there to lose by waiting?

Nothing. Nothing changes.

What's the game?

Well, again, nothing. Maybe.

But maybe not.

Look, before we talked to Driscoll and
Babchuck, I put out a lot of hooks.

I called Salt Lake. That's the last
place they were nailed for anything.

I talked to Sacramento to see if there's
some way that we could put them down

here.

I've got Rene and computers looking for
the Chevy.

Your point is made, Bentley. You've been
working very hard.

What do you expect to come back from all
this?

I just don't want this closed. I want to
work it.

That's what I get paid for, and that's
what I want to do.

Until this thing is made right, one way
or the other, that's all.

All right, let's call it low priority.

Keep it alive, but get back to cases in
the meantime.

But if nothing pops soon, that's it.

And Bentley,

don't worry about this cop and me.

We've all paid our dues.

Come in.

Fire rate.

Uh, Swede?

This is Ted Bentley. What have you got
for me?

Say that again?

Really?

Hey, Swede, I owe you a big one.

Yeah. I'll be talking to you.

What is it with Gibbs?

Maybe enough to put this on bad Chuck
and Driscoll.

Maybe enough to hang him.

Well, if anybody asks where you'd be,
traffic court, El Monte.

Isn't that the most beautiful, fantastic
traffic citation you've ever seen? You

see the name?

John Babchuck.

Driving a 1969 that was stolen. I
checked on it. Blue -green Chevy.

Nevada license plate.

R -double -A -4 -0 -1. He was stopped on
the San Bernardino Freeway and cited by

an officer, Tony Gestaldo, for driving
in an unsafe manner. Traffic ticket.

Well, don't knock it. We take what we
can get. And we've got some down here.

You see here at the bottom?

The signature of old, never -been -in
-California Babchuck?

That's all that we had to do was to get
that car down here, and as you guys say,

I rest my case.

You know, I talked to Ryan this
afternoon.

Yeah, well, he was out. I couldn't get
him back, so I came over here. No, thank

you. Well, the decision's already been
made.

What does that mean?

We are going to let Babchuck and
Driscoll fade quietly into the prison

Wait a minute. I've got evidence here. I
called down south, and it looks like

the two of them are going to cop out to
additional counts of bank robbery.

They should pull about eight years in
the federal pen, which is pretty good

these days.

Even for murder, it's pretty good these
days.

You're just going to ignore what you see
in front of you in black and white?

Reopening the Conrad case at this time
could only be embarrassing to everybody

concerned, most especially Conrad.

We cannot prosecute this case without a
credible witness.

But we know... Just a minute.

I'm the district attorney. I say what we
know and what we prosecute, and I'm

telling you that I'm not going to
prosecute this case.

Period. Well, why don't you just say it
out loud? You don't care if a man's life

is ruined. You don't care if Conrad has
to spend his days chewing painkillers or

his nights thinking about a wife that he
doesn't have anymore or even that it's

just sloppy police work.

All that's important is that nobody gets
embarrassed, right?

What are you going to do? I'm just going
to do my job, that's all.

Here we are.

Your school and bachelor.

You for sentencing tomorrow afternoon at
four.

That's in Department 29, Superior Court.

Judge Simon Richards.

Now, you'd be happy to know that
Richards is about the closest thing to a

hanging judge that San Diego has.

Who's the attorneys of record?

That's, uh, Dwight Shepard and
Associates.

Now, Shepard's a little flaky, but, uh,
he's a good head.

What do you mean, flaky?

Oh, don't get me wrong.

He's sharp.

Used to be a city prosecutor until he
decided he could get more drinking done

private practice.

Fast deals, hard drinking, his
trademark.

He's kind of way out.

Well, much obliged to you.

I'll hit the judge first.

No, you'll have to go to the prosecutor.

That's U .S. Attorney Jerry Madlock.

Protocol. Or the fan it will hit.

No time.

Who the devil are you?

Sir, I'm Sergeant Bentley of Homicide.
I'd like to talk to you, if I could.

Oh, well, come in, Sergeant.

What is it?

Judge, you're scheduled to sentence two
men, Ray Driscoll and John Lee Babchuk.

That's right.

Tomorrow afternoon.

What about it?

I'd like to ask you to postpone
sentencing, at least for a couple of

see, I'm working on an investigation,
and I think what I'll come up with will

very important for you to consider when
you sentence them.

What kind of a case are you working on?

Two years ago, they shot and critically
wounded a policeman. Whoa, now you hold

it right there.

You're going to come barging in here,
interjecting such innuendo? It won't be

innuendo if you give me some time. Now
you're out of line.

Do your superiors know you're here?

Ah, they don't, do they?

Well, I know that I'm taking a shortcut
and coming to you. Shortcut? Nothing.

You can't come in here just before I
sentence two men in charge of armed

and say they blew up a cop.

That's not evidence.

I've never even heard that.

Do you understand what I'm saying?

Well, I'm sorry, Your Honor. I may be
presenting this in a poor way, but...

Well, don't you try it again or I'll go
to your superiors.

I know I've got a heavy reputation
around here.

Don't let that kid you into coming in
here like an avenging angel.

Avenging angel? Hell, I'm just doing my
job.

Nobody wants a part of it. It's
inconvenient or they're embarrassed.

But it happened.

And somebody's gonna listen.

Got me to thinking I'm some kind of an
oddball.

I don't know what side I'm on.

The good guys, the bad guys.

Well, I commend your tenacity.

You're cutting a thin line between you
and them.

Yeah.

And I guess maybe that that's the way
it's always been, huh?

Now, just a minute, Sergeant.

That officer that was shot, was he
pretty close to you?

No, no, he was just a...

A young policeman trying to do his job.

Of course you realize, no matter how
noble your cause, you're skating on

thin ice.

Yeah.

And I guess the smart money would drop
it here, huh?

Well, I can't let it go.

Well, if you get the information you're
after before I convene court tomorrow

afternoon, I'd like to know.

Sergeant Bentley?

That's right.

Oh, please, please, come forward.

Thank you.

Yes.

Ah, can I get you a drink or something,
Martini?

No, thank you. Sure.

No. Well, now, regarding your phone
conversation, I'm not sure I fully

understand what you had in mind.

Well, I have something here I'd like you
to listen to. It might clear it up for

you. Oh, listen to it? Well, fine, fine.
Leaves both hands free for lunch.

Join me?

Well, I don't really know what you want
of me.

You say you have my clients cold. You
have Driscoll and Badchuck.

In the suspect car, and you'd have a
positive identification by the wounded

officer. Well, why don't you sock it to
him?

Well, Mr. Shepard... No, Dwight. Please
call me Dwight.

Dreadful name, I know, but I had no say
in the matter.

Now then, why don't you file your case?

I've got no case.

Officer Conrad identified two other
suspects as the ones that shot him.

It was the department's fault. We
pressed him too soon after the incident.

So even though you're sure they did it,
you can't prosecute?

A little early in the morning for that
kind of honesty, but I find it

refreshing.

Why don't you cut your losses?

Stop pushing.

Because of two crazies, good lives have
been twisted. Well, I somehow just can't

let that go unfinished.

Somewhere it should be on record what
really went down.

You want Babchick and Driscoll to make a
confession?

Well, not the way that it sounds. I'm
not out to try and mousetrap anybody

anything.

Listen, just so there's no
misunderstanding, you realize that they

confession. I can see they did it.

Thumb their noses at you, and it still
wouldn't be admissible evidence.

Well, unless they signed a waiver of
rights, which, of course, they're not

to do. I understand that.

I've done my homework.

That's one of the reasons that I came to
you.

I want you to reassure them of just
that.

All you want is to clear the record.

Well, what I would really like to do is
boil them in oil.

Clearing the record?

Well, yes, I'd settle for that.

Why should they help you?

I assume you came here with something to
offer them.

Well, not in the usual sense, like a
plea bargain.

I got to tell you up front, this is not
all according to Hoyle.

I'm out on a limb and I'm in no mood to
play with the kind of rules that will

let them laugh at the rest of us. And
they better well listen to me.

Yes, they better well listen to you.

I'll insist on certain ground rules, of
course, after all, I am the defense

attorney.

Although they haven't paid me yet.

It's just a joke, Sergeant.

John. Raymond, please, sit down.

You know Sergeant Bentley, of course.

Yeah?

What's he got in mind?

The sergeant came to me, he laid his
cards on the table.

Frankly, I think he's hitting a bit
below the belt.

But I also think you ought to hear him
out and see what he has to say. I'll

this quick because I know that I've got
him identified by the officer they shot.

And Risco's sister puts him in
California for testimony.

Yeah, but we're saying we weren't.

Really?

California traffic citation.

That's your John Hancock, so let's cut
through the garbage.

Why are we standing still for this?

Hear about it. Give it a chance.

Now, you know what I need. And if you
cooperate, I'll walk away from it.

Forget that I ever heard your names.
Case closed.

Look, if you could hurt us, you never
would have waited this long. So shove

cooperation.

You fellas are up on a federal rep and
headed for McNeil Island.

There's a couple of guys up there that
are doing some hard time and some extra

years just because of you.

Ugly and cute, you know?

They're really mean fellas.

You're going to the same joint.

He's threatening us. How long do you
think you'd last once I spread the word

the prison?

They'd have you for breakfast.

You hear what he's doing?

Hey, lawyer, that's blackmail.

It's up to you.

How do you want to spend your vacation?

Eight years looking back over your
shoulder?

You were supposed to be our lawyer.

That should suffice, Sergeant.

I told you I'd see you again.

Paul?

How about it?

Patience, patience.

You dropped a bombshell.

I got a tape recorder in the car.

No, no, not yet.

Let old Dwight choreograph this number,
Inspector Javert.

Javert? Yes, a very famous policeman who
pursued his man to the ends of the

earth.

Obsessed is a word with a chase.

Name is around.

The way you say obsessed sounds like
psychotic.

Why?

Seems to me like if something's wrong,
you clear it up. You fix it. Just common

sense. You like clams?

In truth, I feel that we should make set
-aside one week easier.

and called it Criminals Week. And during
that time, all the judges and the

attorneys and Bill Bonsman and the
policemen across the nation, no, across

whole world, all the whole world, would
pay homage to the criminal. Because

without the criminal, where would we all
be after all? I mean, we'd all be truck

drivers. No, no.

No.

No. Well, here's to the game, old boy.

The game.

I take it you don't particularly like
that, Tony.

Not... Particularly.

Well, you know, I used to be a
prosecutor.

Yes, that's what I hear.

Why'd you change sides?

Oh, very bluntly put. Well, I'll tell
you. I'll tell you. I work a lot less,

make a lot more money, and I know what
you're thinking. I've sold my soul to

devil, but my only regret is I didn't
start a little sooner.

Well, now, you've been listening to me
ramble on for five martinis worth here.

I make no pretenses. I love to hear
myself talk. I adore it. And I'll borrow

available ear. But I want to hear about
you. Now, you tell me about you.

What about me?

Well, you're a... Darling, may I have a
cup of drink? Do you want another one?

No, no, no. Yes, two. Two more, please.

Now, you're a good cop. Good cop, by the
way. Well, thank you. Thank you.

How'd you get into it?

I didn't get into it. I always wanted to
be a cop.

Well, some people get into it for the
paying the pension, but not me. Ever

I was a little kid, I just knew what I
wanted to be. I wanted to be a cop.

It seemed to make sense to me that there
was a right and there was a wrong, and

I just knew what side I wanted to be on.

Die, Janice, and stop looking.

Pretty square, huh?

I just believe in it.

Is that why you're fighting so hard on
this Conrad case?

There's nothing in it for you.

You gotta know that.

Why does everybody think there has to be
something in it for you?

Well, you look like it was quite a
party.

What the hell are you doing here?

The minute you left, the phone started
to ring. They want your hot little body

back there in pronto.

You make people nervous.

Which is not doing your career a whole
lot of good.

I never was one for career moves.

Come on, I know we got some differences
between us.

But we're still partners.

At least that's what I told the captain.

You didn't exactly leave him and the DA
singing your praises, you know.

I'll live.

Okay. So, label you pig -headed.

How are you coming on our case? Any new
leads?

I'll know nothing of the progress of our
case until tomorrow morning at 10 o

'clock at the jail.

At which time I may be able to have the
right answers.

You must be getting the cooperation of
their attorney. How does that work?

Good night.

Tad, fill me in.

Do me a favor, will you?

Sure, Tad. What's that?

Just be quiet for once in your life.
Just shut up and go to sleep

Good morning.

This is my partner, Alan Price. He came
down to see what was happening.

We don't have a lot of time. They're
being hauled over to the court right

so I'll be blunt.

Mr. Price will have to wait in the car.

Is that really necessary?

If you want that statement.

I don't intend to have them make it in a
room full of people.

That's your choice.

I don't like the way you operate.

If I'd have known you were going to get
another detective in here to witness

this, there just wouldn't be any
statement.

I've gone out on a limb, way out on a
limb for you.

Or has your zealousness blinded you to
that fact? So help me, I didn't know he

was coming.

I've got a good mind to do a U -turn and
go back in my boat. Hey, please, don't

do that. Don't sour it now.

Not because of price.

Especially not because of price.

Let's start.

After you.

Today is the 7th of June.

Time, 10 .35 a .m.

Present are John Babchuk, Raymond D.
Driscoll, Sergeant Ted Bentley of the

police department, and I am Dwight
Shepard, representing Monsieur Driscoll

Babchuck. Now, with my advice, they have
agreed to make certain statements under

special conditions, which I will now
enumerate.

Nothing said by my clients is to be
construed as an admission of guilt.

Sergeant Bentley will specifically not
in any way attempt to establish an

admissible statement that could be used
to prosecute my clients for any offense.

Do you understand that, sir? Yes, I do.

You so agree?

Yes.

And you, you're going to stay off our
backs.

Now, in English, we give you the story
and you give us that the cops don't

charges.

In English, that's the arrangement.

You can't use none of this.

Would you two like to conduct your own
defense?

Roger.

Well, they know why I'm here.

Why don't I listen to them?

Where do you want to start?

From the start, the very beginning, the
whole story, up to the time you shot

Officer Conrad.

Well, that was two years ago, so don't
press for details.

Tell it your way.

Why don't you go back to Utah?

Okay.

We were in Salt Lake City and really
down on our tails.

We bought an Impala from a friend of
ours, and then we stole the license

in Reno.

And that's where we sold the shotgun,
too.

Babchuck lifted it from a pickup truck.

All right, you're in the city.

Yeah, well, we cased a couple of banks.

And we decided on a morning glory job.
You know, that means you get in early

before a lot of public, you know.

We never figured on bumping into that
officer.

Oh, yeah, that was an accident. An
accident.

Now, listen, that cop kept pushing. I
mean, you know, come out of there, come

out of there.

Shotgun had a hair trigger on it. It
bumped into the door and it went off. So

help me, that's the way it happened. All
right.

Then we got out of there and back to
Utah.

Well, it's not at the end.

Yeah, well, it's over with as far as the
cop shooting goes.

Yeah, we let the heat pass.

Eight months, maybe a year.

Yeah. Well, we came back out here to
California.

I mean, that's the only thing we got out
of that whole job.

We liked it here, so we decided we'd
come back permanent.

It's a nice place.

Mm -hmm.

It is.

Well, I guess that's about it.

Any more questions, sir?

No. Stick your neck out. Come down here
all the way on your own time. Give

everybody around you a bad feeling. Let
me get out of it.

I got it.

Congratulations. Hey, now leave me
alone, okay?

You might as well take that tape and
burn it. You can't even use it. That's

enough, Price.

Don't say anything more. Not a damn
word.

Well, counselor, I want to thank you for
what you did.

You did it.

Me?

Yeah, you're a dangerous man, you know.

You tweak people's conscience.

I what?

Let's just say I owed one of the good
guys.

See you, sir.

Yeah.

Yes?

Just a minute.

Yes, would you give me that again,
please?

Uh -huh.

Seven, eight, two, nine.

Did he leave a message?

Could you get the number for me, please?

Thank you.

Callback message from Judge Richards.

Hello, Judge Richards, this is Ted
Bentley.

Yes, Sergeant, I was expecting you back
here with the results of your

investigation.

I'm scheduled to sentence Driscoll and
Babchuck in an hour.

Well, I'm sorry, Your Honor, but the
only way that I could get the

that I needed was to promise not to use
it against them.

I'll be sentencing in less than an hour.

Yes, sir.

Of course, you realize it's the duty of
the sentencing judge to weigh all of the

evidence. And that means a character in
past history to render a proper

judgment.

Yes. Are you saying you can't discuss
anything that would incriminate them?

Yes, sir.

That's right.

Is this the same Sergeant Bentley that
came charging into my chambers

Yes, sir, and I set the record straight,
but I gave my word.

Sergeant, why don't you come over here?

I'd like you to be in my court when the
sentence is passed.

Yes, sir.

Are the defendants Driscoll and Babchuck
ready for sentencing?

They are, Your Honor.

Please rise.

I don't know what we're doing here,
Pard.

We're supposed to be home.

Sentence on something like this is eight
years, period.

Good behavior.

They'll be back hitting the bricks in
maybe five.

Raymond Driscoll, John Lee Badchuck.

Been found guilty on two counts of armed
robbery.

Sentenced you to 25 years in count one,
25 years in count two.

Sentences to run consecutively.

What is this? How is this?

Don't worry about it. Don't worry about
it. We're going to fight this. We're

going to take this to the highest court
of appeals.

And I further recommend that at no time
during your sentence, you be

incarcerated in the same prison
facility.

So you're telling me that this judge put
these guys away on a gentleman's

agreement. There's no way that's legal.
No, he just took into account the past

history and stood the usual sentence. He
broke out his heavy guns.

Leveled them. Everything the law allows.

I don't believe it, but I love it.

Oh, just great. I want to congratulate
the both of you for doing a fine job of

investigation. I don't have to tell you
how I feel. I think we all feel the

same. No, this is still a delicate
matter.

The word from the brass is you don't
discuss this case with anyone.

It's not to be kicked around.

Well, Conrad should know they tagged the
right guys.

Oh, right. Of course.

Well, that's it, fellas.

First -class police work. Thanks again.

Thank you, sir.

Oh, Price, I'm really impressed.

You cleared this case, but when you
didn't feel right, you went out with

and you did something about it.

You're a first -class professional.

Thank you, Captain.

And you too, Bentley. Hell of a job.

Well, that one didn't turn out too bad
after all.

How about Charlie's on me?

What's troubling you, Bart?

I'm going to put in for another partner.

What's that supposed to mean?

We're doing sensation. I'll take care of
it in the morning. Hey.

Hey. Get your hands off of me.

You really flipped, you know that?

When did all this happen? What are you
trying to prove?

We've got the best clearance rate in the
division. What's the matter with you?

We're a top team.

Yeah, you really got one on, all right.

All right, suit yourself.

Nothing off me.

You've got a lot of problems, my friend,
let me tell you.

And I don't need your hang -ups.

You're blowing it, pal.

at six locations.