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my friend Chuck killed his own lady

whoever gets this case is room good luck

good hunting we'll look on the bright

side there is no bright side buster you

so afraid of commissioner I've got

people I can call two of you up on a

trial board you're both suspended

without pay

bullets duty I'm have to cover the fun

begin

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works for me

there we go hey go one more come within

that let's go bring your knees more

let's go it's up take shorter steps

you're looking sloppy out here your feet

are dragging all that's it

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Larry could you move your car please the

keys are already in it honey

just pull it on over will you

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ha you're knocked onto your fake bitch

you're not concentrating

yeah yeah

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we got hot grounder man and the officer

who gets this one he's gonna be drilled

and we'll come on Smitty it can't be

that fed on the commissioner's wife just

got exploded in the commissioners car I

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won't make my pension I got three

official 608 complaints last year you

think maybe the commissioner dinner in I

don't take this personally mr.

commissioner but where were you when

your wife got gonzo good morning where

is everybody

last time I saw like this the mayor's

kid sister disappeared yeah Commissioner

Crenshaw killed his own lady okay take

it we don't know that now you know it

could have been somebody else could have

been the butler something Wow 68% of all

the homicides involving a husband and a

wife it's a spouse who committed the

crime now we got a 60% chance that the

Commissioner whacked his old lady if I

get this case it's over I mean no one

officer should get stuck like to cover

your practice one year yeah yeah I

wonder what Cain's gonna give it to for

you the Crenshaw case

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I know you and McCall conduct an

absolutely scrupulous investigation is

homicide good luck good hunting and

goodbye well at least I'm in the right

room call got it come out now girl it's

safe

why didn't you hide hunter I was in the

men's room would you wanna do climb up

an event too big

hey Hana gonna have your desk in your

locker there's no way out on this 100

Kane's finally managed to pull our plugs

look on the bright side at all there is

no bright side buster I've met

Commissioner Crenshaw I took me to lunch

once that eases my mind some nice guy is

he I hope it was when I made detective

grade the purpose of the lunch was to

find out how I like being a lady cop and

then we moved on to the wine tasting and

the heavy breathing oh no he took a shot

at you

well it has been known to happen hunter

if he's a player who's probably playing

around on his wife she found out about

it he decided to eliminate her that's a

new detectives manual under a favorite

motives

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Crenshaw I don't want you to forget the

man's under a great stress at the moment

I don't want you to care for that stress

good a little later please please you

may have to ask them some questions no

I'm afraid it can't lady would you would

you guys get this out of my face right

now right now move these people out

please could you clear out this area

later Connie and Larry Crenshaw ha were

two of my dearest friends I don't have

to tell you that I'm gonna be looking

into every aspect of this case I'll be

like a shadow hanging over your desk

well I'll try not to let that interfere

with the way I carry out my

investigation sir sergeant one phone

call and I can have you doing a straight

eight on a foot beat on Skid Row

Larry these officers have to ask you a

few questions I hope you don't mind go

in the living room make this as quick

and as painless as possible

he's pretty upset what happened to his

hands he scores some pretty bad trying

to get the burning cargo a little bit

his tennis coach is still here

same as mantling Lance Lane would you

see him the guy looks like a Lance Lane

he was here when the car went up it's a

mess I don't think the crime labs gonna

get much of anything

did you see Commissioner Crenshaw's

hands with a badly burned no he had him

wrapped when I got here it's too bad you

guys got this grounder no-win huh I was

getting tired of police work anyway

gotta get a fishing boat moved to

Florida pick up girls why was she

driving his car well he says she was

just moving it out of the way so she

could get her car out

he was down taking a tennis lesson from

cutie-pie

commissioner Crenshaw I'm Sergeant

hunter this is sergeant McCall I'm very

sorry about the death of your wife sir

she was just moving it my car and then

Lance and I we we heard it I mean things

all the things you plan as if nothing

we're ever going to happen we were

planning on having lunch this afternoon

then going to the mayor's party tonight

and this morning we were sitting there

talking about Jill's graduation from

Vassar I'm sorry I'm I'm rambling

well sergeant McCall is gonna ask you

some questions sir I want you to find

out who killed my wife it isn't well I

mean they were after me it was my car

there'd been threats you had threats on

your life yes how many how long ago twos

and twos do know it was Wednesday night

about half an hour apart did you report

these threats on your life to somebody

no why not what the hell is that

supposed to mean I'm just asking why

when threats were made on your life you

didn't report it to somebody I didn't

take them seriously Larry are you all

right I'm a little tired yeah look

hunter maybe you'd like to talk to the

tennis coach I'll finish up here

commissioner do you remember me

sure well I'm afraid I'm not sure I made

so many police officers

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yes I'm calling about Commissioner

Crenshaw's tuxedo for tonight didn't he

rent one yes no my mistake

Thanks

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you mr. Lane lat

Lane Larry's tennis coach did you see

anything I was given mr. Crenshaw is

lesson

you mean Larry what well you just called

him Larry

shit Larry I was given him his lesson

and Connie wanted to move his car and

the keys were in it

well how do you know that they were told

to move herself the keys were we were

having our lesson give me idea why the

commissioner parked his car behind his

wife's when he could have just as easily

put it in the garage

what is this this is a homicide

investigation Lance sometimes we ask a

lot of tiresome questions I don't look

can I go I got other people to teach

well you're taking this pretty hard

aren't you

hang in there Lance the grief will pass

with time I'm hardly newer okay

leave your number and address with the

officer at the gate Oh mr. Lane what's

your real name I mean before you changed

it I'm sorry Oh Lance Lane sounds like

it came out of the casting directory who

were you before you changed it to Lance

Lance I can print you and run it causes

me a lot of problems get me to thinking

at all sometimes it's just best to

cooperate I was born

Teddy Sheinberg

okay see you around Oh teddy

did you see who wrapped the

commissioners burned hands I think he

did himself

alright I'm pleased I would like to lie

down sergeant McCall that's enough for

now there's no reason this can't be

postponed till later excuse me I got

some ointment from the doctor outside

let me take a look at those hands

Commissioner Kenny can you please make

this end I'm feeling a little ill

certainly sergeant hunter sergeant

McCall would you please come outside

with me I understand you left the keys

to your car in the ignition is that

something you usually do Commissioner

perhaps you didn't hear me sergeant I

heard you

it's just that I'm on kind of a roll

right now you get outside right now

sergeant don't make me say it again

kicked out of port I got a chance to

take his hand and squeeze us slightly no

flinch so I don't think he was burned

too badly want my cops hunch I think he

did it why would a guy leave the keys in

his car and the car Parker would have to

be moved when it would be just as easy

to put the car in the garage I don't

know that's pretty thin well I got

another piece it's a little bit more

solid

he had a black-tie dinner to go to

tonight there was no tuxedo in his

closet so I called the cut shop that's

listed in this telephone book he didn't

rent one so he knew she was going to be

dead why would he go to a party why

would he bother to rent a tux bingo

I thought you said Lance claimed to be

hardly knew her right

if you go back in her calendar she was

taking a tennis lesson from him every

Friday her friend Lance Lane made a

little boo-boo

I guess the sexual revolution hasn't

made at the bed table avoid your first

big fella what do you got in that

checkbook

Oh mostly checks made out to cash the

market stuff like that our three large

amounts made out to a Manny Roth Oh two

for 501 four thousand could be worth

checking out she was headed at two five

two seven seven Wilshire Boulevard won't

hit that place first yeah might as well

stole my purse

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how do they expect me to pay for my

lunch

- five - 77 Wilshire Boulevard is a

lawyer's office lawyers maybe they were

going to do a taxes for her divorce will

never get anything out of her attorney

unless we get creative

like like God hey I wake over dr the

hancock drug counter you know it's

across the street from my club

commissioner's office secret i like i'm

all the time seeing none mr. krenshaw

come in where i with this line with the

split in you know so i've said to mrs.

Crenshaw hey honey I think that this mr.

C's been messing around on you enough so

anyway like I said to mrs. Crenshaw

what kind of fine I'll come down and you

know make a statement of something

whatever you wants no problem we're not

working on the Crenshaw divorce action

any longer because mrs. Crenshaw was

killed earlier this morning it was on

the radio hey life a peach pit just what

the hell is going on here mrs. Crenshaw

asked this woman to come in and be

deposed on the divorce case I just told

her about mrs. Crenshaw's death I demand

to see your identification I'm real

hungry yes and I'm sure you're gonna

stop all this demand unless you plan on

growing five or six inches in next two

or three seconds come on ceiling honey

these aren't very nice people

no kiddin so the loving couple was

getting a divorce huh

the commissioners sort of forgot to tell

us that this morning when we were over

there yeah well maybe he was just a

little too upset yeah perhaps tell you

what I think we ought to find out what

all these checks to Manny Roth are for

yeah it's either that early retirement

huh

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Manny Roth I remember this guy he was an

accounts receivable specialist for bad

Bob Austin the loan shark

yeah used to me cash register with a

baseball bat he once killed a guy

collecting $100 low he's not gonna be

easy to talk to

he likes a cooperative spirit how about

a little good cop bad cop

I'll be the bag top I've had five

partners and every time we played good

cop bad cop I was a bad cop

that's sort of my thing I'd do a great

bad cop you mean you used to do a great

bad cop this time you're gonna do the

good cop the hell I am

the hell you aren't don't tell me you

threw a couple of pointers from downtown

but I ain't done nothing it's a shove

off let's get something straight right

now Manny I haven't got any sense of

humor I lived a hassle bums like you you

want some trouble from me I'll Park

outside this little rat hole of yours

and I'll start spinning your cash I will

write you up on fire rigs access codes

you name it I'm gonna find it calm down

McCall well where does this bag of wind

get off calling us winkers huh I think

we got to cut this ball of slime down to

size

you'll have to excuse my partner she's

headed south wood we're here to check up

on a client of yours mrs. Crenshaw

DeeDee could I have a few minutes here

would you wait for me in the unit please

and that's your cue told you to do this

I don't talk to pigs now get out of here

before I call my attorney

I don't think you scared him wanna trade

I'm not through yet I told you to get

out of here

I said good eye I'm the best friend

you've gotten this room so maybe you

better talk to me are you insane

that's a possibility now mrs. Crenshaw

hired you to do something why don't you

start from there she's had her to

practice swings Manny now she's gonna

try it out on you I used to be your

specialty didn't Manny busting guys with

that thing just let me go in here's mrs.

Crenshaw hired you to follow the

commissioner right because she thought

he was having an affair she didn't want

her husband followed showing me to

follow his tennis coach why she told me

she was having an affair with him tennis

coach was in love with her she tried to

break it off the guy goes home nuts

start saying he's trying to kill her

husband go on I followed the guy for a

few weeks he seemed to calm down okay

what was that mrs. Crenshaw was killed

this morning Manny that makes this a

homicide investigation and as the two

pointers on this case you try to leave

town and we're gonna do the ham hock

polka on top of your head it's the truth

I swear the nanny if you get that urge

to leave town fight it real hard okay

so what do you want to do we got two

choices we can stake out her beloved

commissioner bad career move

but maybe the right one well we can sit

on Lance Lane and see what he's doing

when he's not serving up those four

little white balls two people in

tailored shorts well we decided let the

Commissioner drift and camp out on Lance

would that make us chicken hearted

scaredy-cats

yeah well let's do it anyway hey leaving

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where's hunter your cars going to fit

right in here

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yes well boy I do have something for you

something for me that first please

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shut up do you know what's going on

around here I'm lost I admit it

the case is closed

the killer is dead and all the pieces

fit no they don't just doesn't quite

track for me well it tracks for me

Lance Lane was jealous of Connie he

wanted to marry her and he planned to

get rid of her husband so he tried to

kill the commissioner he got Connie by

mistake

Manny Roth confirms it he has given a

statement right now we think Manny's

lying I said it tracks for me hunter

then what was many doing in the junkyard

handing an envelope over to Lance it

looked like he expected a payoff

maybe blackmail but then Lance tries to

kill Manny why what did Manny have on

land

Manny Roth says there was no envelope

you two say there was so where is it

Lansing it burned up in the junkyard oh

excuse me all to hell Lansing the

envelope burned up that's great don't

close the case captain leave it open

commissioner Crenshaw wants it closed so

tell him to sit on his hat this is our

case commissioner Crenshaw killed his

wife bathenosh she was running around

with Lance Lane he put the dynamite

underneath the hood of his own car

parked his car his wife would have to

move it why because she was getting a

divorce

says whom she was seeing a divorce

attorney by the name of Shriver we can

subpoenas files you'll never get that

paper through the system there is not a

judge in this town that'll sign that

subpoena attorney/client files of

privileged information it's a community

property state if she divorces him she

gets half his net worth

now I ran him through dead and

bradstreet he's worth 20 million dollars

I think 10 million bucks is pretty good

motive okay so if Commissioner Crenshaw

killed his wife like you to say he did

why was Manny raw blackmailing Lance who

hasn't got 20 million bucks seems to me

manire ought to be blackmailing

Commissioner Crenshaw you got a way to

explain that you're right it doesn't

seem to make any sense

this case is off the sheet Lance Lane

did the murder

Lance Lane is dead we move on you got

that

are you quite clear on that yeah well I

hear you too did some fine police work I

did I just can't believe that Lance

tried to kill me

neither can wait excuse me

excuse me I thought that I thought well

Lance did kill my wife I thought the

case was closed that's just because you

had the juice to get it closed

commissioner we both know who killed

your wife wasn't Lance what exactly are

you insinuating we got questions lots of

them like why didn't you rent a tuxedo

for the mayor's party what you hit a

black-tie dinner to go to and you didn't

rent a tuxedo that's because you knew

your wife was gonna be dead and a man

doesn't go to a black-tie dinner on the

night his wife has been murdered are you

out of your mind sergeant I resent this

entire conversation what are you so

afraid of commissioner that is it the

two of you were up on a trial board

you're both suspended without pay

leave your shields and your weapons with

a watch commander you know captain

you're always talking about the system

how impartial it is well this scum ball

blew his wife halfway to Tarzana and

just because he's the the mayor's tennis

partner or some damn thing we have to

back off

forget it hunter you're wasting your

breath

oh there's a piece of good news not

burned at all nice working

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I fit the cops a phony story told me

your old lady hired me to follow Lance

because she was afraid he was jealous he

might kill you kept the heat off of you

mr. big shot you had your boy try to

kill me though I don't have to sit here

and put up with all this

hey Magoo it's a whole new game don't

make no difference that Lance is dead

you and him killed your wife and I've

got the pictures that tell why set it up

in payments a hundred thousand a month

I'll call you what you know how and when

I'm not gonna let you pressure me

forever I want the negatives see

blackmail is an art it's a lot like

Chinese water painting

so you squeeze too hard you kill the

patient but I'm very good I squeeze just

hard enough so you'd always rather pay

then face the heat I'll go to the police

so confess wanna bet

his wife told me for the last two weeks

in opinion later oh and you had to meet

in the bottom of the garage to discuss

that huh yeah unit that part wheel saw

him get used to it we're going wherever

you go taking pictures and writing it

down you said your copies if they come

out you two are suspended I know but we

love the city and we hate injustice so

this was on the house should we fall no

I think he's gonna go home and try to

figure out what to do next

Lance's funeral is today I think we

should go why

well you're known by the company I keep

I think we can find out about Lance

let's go isn't that mark Leland well

well if it isn't the Prince of the

chickenhawks probably here to spit on

the coffin let me handle this mark but

what do we have here a rat woman and her

drooling companion the Rat Fink I didn't

know the Lance was one of your boys I

don't talk to cops

hey look I could arrange to have a black

and white park outside one of your

little bath houses for a couple of weeks

that would play hell with business Lance

is dead I don't think there's much more

any of us can do to him I gave mr.

tennis lessons I paid for them oh that

was nice so Lance was one of your boys

yes years ago when he was younger

oh you mean like about 16 you never

understood our sergeant you've got all

your bushwalk Calvinistic supremacy

hangups I don't need a sermon from you

you sell 15 year old boys to wealthy old

men for money that doesn't make you a

freedom fighter just a pimp God's eyes

were all equal I'll bet you the boss

sees it real different

are you through with me sighs you look

old for a while anyway

that's the missing piece isn't Lance's

gay I betcha Commissioner Crenshaw is

gay he and Lance were having an affair

mrs. Crenshaw hired Manny raw follow the

commissioner and he got some nice juicy

shots on him mrs. Crenshaw files for

divorce he's gonna name last

correspondent the commissioners life is

financially and socially ruined so he

and Lance kill mrs. Crenshaw and many

Roth pure slime City fashion makes an

extra set of prints and he's got a

blackmail scheme yeah works for me but

it's only circumstantial boy I'd sure

like to have a set of those photographs

tell you I feel sorry for the guy yeah

which one Lancer the Commission Lance

they come to LA looking for glitter and

some slug like Marc Leland gets a hold

of let me corrupt some and then it's

just one slippery slide from here to

there

well you can't change what's in people

didi I just get tired of throwing

garbage out into the wind and watching

it blow back I've got a theory about

that you see there's this little hole up

here if you shovel just right you get

one or two pieces to drop down into it

and stay down and that's what we're

trying to do isn't it get those one or

two pieces to stay down I'd sure like to

get mark Leland he's pretty smart well

I'll tell you what let's throw this

little spit ball back at the

commissioner and see what happens huh

works for me

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you miss Lance's funeral commissioner

get off my car

it's pretty nice service too if you can

get past all the male hustlers pimps

chicken Hawks I don't know what you're

talking about

come on commissioners the 1980s it's

time to accept your feelings come to

terms with what they are mores are

changing and so is the law there's

nothing to be afraid of or shamed of

anymore I think you should have faced it

and dealt with it instead of killing

your wife to hide it leave me alone just

leave me the hell alone

I've got people I can call you can't do

this to me you simply cannot sure we can

I think this guy's coming unwrapped I'll

watch him you take Manny and I kind of

feel funny about this I still can't

forget Connie Crenshaw yeah she's in the

ground and all she tried to do was get

out of a bad marriage yeah I'll be on

channel 17

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captain Cain please

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hi you boys you're under arrest hunter

instruction to justice instruction of

Justice Cain says the charge you with it

until he can come up with something

better you packin sergeant yeah I like

the gun please

I'll have to cuff you well I I guess I

underestimated him

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I tell you they know absolutely all of

it now I've got to have those pictures I

have to know that they're destroyed

you've been to the bank you got the

money I've got it but I cannot just buy

one picture at a time I've got to

destroy them all tell you what bring the

money and we'll see maybe I'll have a

change of heart and Commission it I get

friends who love me and will open an

envelope and send it to the DA you try

one more stunt like you did with pretty

boy I'll triple the price and I'll sink

your man I'll be alone we're all right

there's a warehouse at two two zero zero

Broadview belongs to my cousin you out

there right now and wait I took you off

the case i suspended you I've got the

motive I've got the missing piece you

disobey every direct order I give you

I'm a cop

what do you think I am you're a

politician I'm I'm what did you call me

you heard me I'm sorry Vic I was in

court I got here as soon as I could

what is it this time well I was minding

my own business listening to the radio

and cane rolls two black-and-whites and

has me arrested after I gave you a

direct order to close this case you

disobeyed my direct order I'm not under

your command sir you suspended me

remember what's the charge against my

client just for the record obstructing

justice come on captain if you close the

case there's nothing to obstruct damn

straight

I don't like being threatened by

attorneys captain what you like or don't

like interest me not in the least now if

you try and lay a specious charge on my

client I will have you in court so fast

don't think I did it with mirrors go get

him gale hey hunter

don't make things any worse just be

quiet here are some precedents and

obstructing justice cases in this state

Lyle vs. Long Beach PD salmon versus the

San Diego District Attorney the corrupt

Mitchell defense is circled in red it's

kind of heavy reading but the decision

is a monster

so here we are captain the old fish or

cut bait moment pick a strategy

get out of here hunter I set your trial

board for Tuesday you and McCall will be

heard together

it's got to be an easier way thanks for

blowing him back for me

god bless little cruft Mitchell decision

I've never heard of them I made it up he

looked like he was teetering Krupp is my

butcher Mitchell runs the produce

counter you're my kind of lady boy

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my true this is McCall channel 70 -

McCall channel 70 there's a situation

brewing

we call this is honey where are you

gonna move on hunter it's going down

here close I'm in a warehouse at 2200

brought you up going in

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you have the pictures you came prepared

I see look both tough guys

if I die you fry let's not get any ideas

how do I know you didn't make copies

yeah

it's always a tough one to answer Larry

I guess if I call you in a month and ask

for more money you know I made another

set and if I don't call you you'll know

I did I don't believe there is any

letter I think you're working strictly

by yourself hmm

so I think I'm gonna take a chance and

call your bluff Harry I want to finish

you I don't meet you live like this

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shooting at her I think it's a

free-for-all

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nobody will ever know this is corny and

I even feel stupid saying it but I'd

know commissioner besides the best

things in life are free conditioner

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or are they

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I cancelled the trial board I've had

your reinstated including back pay Thank

You captain we're never gonna be eating

off the same plate because we don't see

the job the same way look captain you

know I was thinking about I'm talking

you want to shut up what I'm trying to

say is I was wrong about this case but I

was not wrong about you two you got

lucky and you saved your butts but that

doesn't change anything yeah he did I'll

be right there it's a big chief I got to

get upstairs I should be clear watch

captain yeah yeah fine fine you take it

I'm not going over there that joints a

sewer man I didn't get the color take it

you were sitting at Hunter's desk and

was transferred to you okay I just got

the call

hey hunter you're up hey listen I don't

want to sound like I'm ducking or

anything but every time I used to work

vice I got the heebie-jeebies when I

went over to that place what's the

problem we're tell you we got another

ground too mark Leland the guy who runs

these bath houses he shot one of his

clients a fight over one of those boys

at work over there

the Blues don't wanted on that desk they

want a homicide dick over there on the

double I don't believe this the timing

is perfect this is too good to be true

don't worry about it guys we'll take it

no job is too scummy and all that we're

here to serve this community

you want this grounder mm-hmm okay this

time we do it right we observe every

technicality we read Lee Linda's rights

I'll bring the shovel the hell you're

talking about

see we shovel garbage don't him see

there's this little hole out there if

you shovel it just right Leland is gonna

drop right down in that hole

works for me let's do guys are weird no

that's just the headhunter and the brass

cupcake and they make their own kind of

music

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