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They used the strict nine to cut the heroin.

Yes, and about ten more minutes you would have lost the boy.

That little kid is holding on to life with more harm than body weight.

He deserves better.

We call him baby Mike.

I want murder.

Murder one.

They killed the motherclacks.

They tried to kill the baby.

What do you want?

Satisfaction.

You're not quite so large an impediment in my life as you think.

Is that a euphemism or a compulsion?

It never ceases to frustrate me.

We're living in an age when man can travel to the moon.

It is almost impossible for him to get from the Upper West Side to the village.

I had no intention of giving up until I got where

I wanted to go, but my car decided different.

My first instinct was to put it out of its

misery, but I didn't want to waste the bullet.

Excuse me.

Is there a garage around here?

Thanks pal, sorry I had.

What's your name?

Lady, just sign out there's his emergency.

I've got one.

Code Blue Pediatrics.

What's your name?

Admit it, Miss Pearson Code Blue.

Code Blue Pediatrics Code Blue Yeah, one age.

Code Blue, please.

Four.

Donna,

are you still there?

Donna.

Mike, how much money are you talking about?

I need seventy-five bucks for the emergency room and a five hundred dollar deposit.

Five hundred?

That's going to strain my plastic.

When do you need it?

As soon as you can get here.

Right.

Where did you find the way?

I need you, Mr. Hammer.

I'll tell you when I see you, I got to run.

This blood type is all negative.

Don't worry, hope.

Let's exchange on a child.

It's not a big deal today.

Your son has a pretty good chance if we move fast.

What son?

He's not my son.

As hematology shows, strict nine toxicosis.

Strict nine.

Now, if the heroin level isn't too high, we can flush in

before there's any damage to the central nervous system.

Draw me four hundred cc's.

A tiny newborn life.

A miracle.

This one was struggling with every breath to survive.

And I couldn't help remembering that somebody

had left that miracle in a trash can to die.

The doctor.

The doctor.

You think he's gonna make it?

Touch and go.

But I've seen worse.

Here, this is yours, isn't it?

Oh, yeah, thanks.

It's been auto-claved.

What's that mean?

Clean.

You bet it wasn't pressed.

Mr. Hammer, I can understand your reluctance,

but you've got to bring your wife in immediately.

I don't have a wife, and I'm not his father.

This is not the first drug he knew born, I've cleaned out.

He is four and a half pounds of muscle instinct and fight, and he's got a chance,

but there was a mother on the other side of the placenta.

Now, she's carrying the same load of strict nine that put him in that shape.

They used the strict nine to cut the heroin.

Yes, and about ten more minutes you would have lost the boy.

Now, taking into consideration the mother's body

weight, we have probably an hour to get her in here.

This mother's dying.

Give me a name, an address.

I will call an ambulance.

All right, call the police.

Ask for Captain Pat Chambers.

Tell him to bring a warrant and meet me in the alley at 103rd and 2nd Avenue.

What kind of warrant?

All right, now you know the drill.

Looking for Jane Doe, this woman just had a baby.

Probably one of these shooting garys right here.

Dad knows of this neighborhood.

There's enough of them.

Now, show your ideas.

We don't start any rasping.

Happy he's down that corner working with our parents around the corner.

Yes, yes.

Did you check over here?

All right.

I got that working house to house.

You got an idea?

Yeah, I got an idea right up here.

Okay.

The doctor lady for the year is pretty swift.

We're barreting to say go through channels.

She had warrants and triple get through the health department.

It's a bright lady.

Matthew, as we're talking 1147, I want backups.

Hey, where are you going?

Let's go with the backups.

Yeah, Captain Chambers in my PD.

We have a search warrant.

Hey, not so fast, Jack.

Gonna cost you $10 to get by me.

Five for the room.

Five for the bag.

Well, I only have eight.

Seven on the clip and one on the chamber.

Now, I say that gets me past you.

What do you say?

I say no problem.

I'm looking for the girl that had the baby.

Yeah.

Okay.

Okay.

She's dead.

Want me to bring the car around?

He's the one.

I want him.

He was right.

Scuffle.

Come on.

Yes, sir.

Up here.

Look at the wall.

Up.

Let's go.

Let's go.

Right there.

Okay.

Come on.

Don't turn around.

That's your sheet on that wall.

All right, come on.

What you doing?

What's in there?

I don't know.

I don't know, man.

It's private.

You

better get the rest of these jerks to the hospital.

See if they shoot in the same poison.

All right.

Start to wake you up.

Get out of the wall.

She had been pretty and young and alive.

Then came pills, poppers, blow, crack, smack.

Now our arms were marked with a needle track road to death.

Such a waste.

Front A&E.

Come on, pick it up.

Last one.

Sign these.

We see Clackston.

Both go home.

Where's the important one?

I'm talking about Micah.

We got resisting assault.

Assault with intent.

Two counts, common assault, trafficking, three counts.

Come here.

Rub possession, unregistered weapons.

What do you want from me?

I want murder.

Murder one.

They killed the mother, Clackston tried to kill the baby.

I don't see no murder.

Yeah, then you need glasses.

We got intent, vanity, and infinite.

Any homicide's going to have to spin out of the D.A.'s office.

Slacks and come here.

Cigarette?

Okay.

What are you doing, huh?

I'm going to throw you in there.

I love that.

It's a win-a-win-a-win, huh?

I see.

Barring to do it here.

That's the one here.

Well, I pick a fight on your own turf.

I brought you this seven hours and over time.

You're still in family, remember?

Listen, say hello to Linda and Bobby for me, will you?

Yeah, yeah, well, if I recognize her.

Boy, boy, you okay?

Throw him, but come on!

Hey!

I'm just concerning publicity, Cameron.

Hello, Larry.

Do you want to know a birthday party?

Cameron, Joe, and Tammy, and Mr. Hammer.

Mr. Harrington has told me all that it helped

that you gave the case in trying to save Veronica.

It's Veronica Burnett.

Joe has just confirmed identification.

Well, I'm glad to hear the lady out of France.

You got to use one earlier.

I don't think you realize we're talking about the daughter of George Winston Burnett.

I'm sure you can appreciate the sensitivity of our situation.

But Mr. Burnett is the grandfather.

The question is, who's the father?

We're working on that.

I'll make a note.

I'm sure that Mr. Burnett will want to speak to you.

I'd like to see him.

We'll be in touch with him.

In the meantime, you can call Dr. Ellen Bosnowski at the Manhattan General Hospital.

She's taking care of the boy.

Mike.

Um, Veronica was Mr. Burnett's favorite.

This is tragic time.

I'm sure the baby will be a great comfort to him.

Well, I hope he takes better care of his grandson than he did his daughter.

I'm sorry.

Yeah.

Well, good morning to you too.

Before I go off duty, I thought you'd like to know that your

baby's status has been upgraded from critical to stable.

Serious, but stable.

Well, that's good news, but I told you he's not my baby.

Well, it's your blood he's running on.

I'm sure he'd thank you if he could.

Listen, what are you doing for dinner tonight?

Eating.

Where do I find you?

614 Bleaker, apartment B.

What time?

Say about seven, all right?

Hey, I never argue with my doctor.

Dr. Bosnowski was a very special kind of doctor.

I didn't think they made up like that anymore.

The baby was lucky to have her around, and so was I.

Still, nothing could wipe my mind clear of the woman who gave birth to this child.

How did she live?

Why did she die?

Where was the baby's father?

I was long on questions, but short on answers.

What's on the tube?

Me runs.

I'm filing away your old cases.

There's a gentleman in a uniform to see you in there.

New York's finest?

Not that kind of uniform.

It's too bad you lost the mother.

We didn't lose her.

She was murdered.

Hello, Peter, sir.

Mr. George Burnett sends his solicitations and requests you to join him.

Now or at my convenience?

Mr. Burnett's not a patient man.

Neither am I.

We could leave now.

What's keeping us?

After you, sir.

Northampton, Long Island, is where God spends

the summer if he doesn't have time for Newport.

Flowers grow through cracks at the city sidewalks.

An hour away, the old money has backyards big enough to fit Central Park in.

Mr. Hammer, I'm Amanda Burnett.

Hello.

My husband's waiting for you in the study.

I've seen that look before.

I take it you're not the first Mrs. Burnett.

Number three.

George can afford it.

He has good taste.

Thank you.

But a word of caution about my husband.

He won't shake hands.

Does he have something contagious?

Don't take it personally.

He avoids all physical contact whenever possible.

I'll make it awkward for you.

I have my compensation.

I'm sure you do.

You'll have five minutes.

No more.

Hope I can fit it into my schedule.

Thanks.

Mike, come in.

Mr. Burnett, this is Mike Hammer.

I understand you're the gentleman who discovered Veronica.

Yes, sir.

I found your daughter.

He's not my daughter.

There's some five months.

She turned her back on me.

Everything I did for her.

Mr. Burnett, I found your daughter's body shot full of heroin and strict night.

Doesn't that mean anything to you?

I don't want to hear about it.

Why not?

Vengeance is an expensive commodity, Mr. Hammer.

Veronica chose the sly me if she was living in.

But your grandson didn't.

That little kid is holding on to life with more heart than body weight.

He deserves better.

He deserves nothing from me.

I disowned Veronica.

Her child, if indeed it is hers, means nothing to me.

Well, Mr. Burnett, you're obviously not bucking for father to be here,

so why did you call me out here?

I don't like publicity, Mr. Hammer.

But I warn you, I don't negotiate.

I look at a man.

I know his price.

Are you all right?

I've got a price.

Make the check out the Manhattan General Hospital.

Mike, wait.

I apologize for that.

Mr. Burnett, you have to realize that Veronica hurt him pretty bad.

He was his favorite.

He worshipped her.

She just disappointed him, that's all.

Please, you're breaking my heart.

Mike, you have to understand it.

Do I?

Excuse me.

Are you the detective?

Yeah, my camera.

I'm Lisa Burnett.

I hope my father was more generous to you than he was to my sister.

No question.

But the morning in love, one always brings out the best in people.

Don't take everything in face value, fella.

The tennis was my idea, not Lisa's.

The vigorous exercise leaves depression.

Why aren't you smiling?

You don't work at being a likable person.

It's a flaw in my personality.

Did Veronica have a child?

Not according to your father.

I hope you don't judge me by my father.

No, I don't.

Joe said it was a boy.

I don't go, Lisa.

He's not interested.

Can he shut up?

We're not married yet.

Is there a baby?

Yes, there is.

You can see for yourself.

Call Manhattan Journal for visiting hours.

It looked as though Amanda Burnett's chauffeur was

interested in more than keeping both hands on the wheel.

But it was getting late, and I had my own interests.

You're early.

I can't tolerate darkness.

Well, just pretend I'm a patient in your waiting room.

Well, I'm afraid you wouldn't pass the physical.

Here, I'll check this in with the wines to it.

It's a nice place.

It reminds me of a little bit of my own.

Oh.

Sorry.

Who's the man in the picture with the horse?

Oh, that's my grandfather.

Polish cavalry.

Really?

Horses have been my family's weakness.

My father still teaches at a riding school out on Long Island.

I'm surprised you didn't wind up as a vet.

Oh, no.

I love babies.

All shapes and sizes.

I have time to breathe.

I'm gonna have four or five of them on my own.

That's a lot of heavy breathing.

We had

planned to visit the hospital and come back to her place to finish the evening.

Unfortunately, even the best laid plans sometimes get laid aside.

All through?

Hey, my client's looking pretty good.

Six months term.

We got a fighting chance.

Sad he lost his mother.

But it could have been worse.

How could it have been worse?

Well, you know all those other druggies that please ran through here?

If they've been shooting the same stuff, we could have had a catastrophe.

Wait a minute.

Nobody else in the shooting gallery had strict night in their system?

No, thank God.

This little guy and his mother were the only ones?

And that menagerie the way they passed their stash around.

Do you think it was deliberate?

I think it was murder.

Look, I'm sorry.

I got a run.

Oh.

They should cover his expenses.

Poor kid.

He doesn't even have a name.

We call him Baby Mike.

I'll call you tomorrow.

I'll

hold every street muscle in the city.

Tony Cartel's lawyer is blue in here with

enough habeas corpse to spring Jack the Ripper.

Tony Cartel, who's he?

Not a he, is she.

What's the speciality?

The slum lord.

She owns that block we're in.

I could cut through some of her paper circus.

I could cut down half the shooting galleries in the east side.

What do I find her?

It's got a bowling alley, a 53rd and Lester.

Thanks.

Hey, listen, keep it as strikes and spares, huh?

I

was surprised to find Tony Cartel talking to Kenny Sanderson.

The kid with the mouth who'd been playing tennis at the Bernetta State.

It was clear he wasn't there because of the tennis or the bowling.

Give me the board.

Interesting friend you have, Tony.

Says I have any.

I don't know you.

My name's Mike Hammer.

I'm real close to your man, Clackston.

Never heard of him.

He iced a kid named Veronica Burnett in your place.

Question is, would you let him play like that without permission?

Like I said.

I know what you said.

Kenny Boy there, I guess you don't know him either.

You know, it must be worth a lot to you to risk your

entire operation because that's what it's called.

I'm not going to cost you.

Kid, I gave you some advice.

But you probably wouldn't take it.

You're right.

But I would take some information.

Like who had Veronica Burnett killed?

See what I mean?

When you get in trouble, I'm going to feel regret.

A kind of anguish gives me heartburn.

Yeah, I know what you mean.

Some people give me an upset stomach.

Then save yourself, Crete.

Life's too short.

If you notice it's too long.

Think about it.

Didn't I see you boys on bowling for dollars?

No, I guess not.

The early

morning, the city traffic finally thins out.

And there's nothing much left to die beside the potholes.

Of course, there can be far more dangerous things in the street.

Clackston had gotten away, but not before he poured some lead into my arm.

At least I wasn't the only one looking for rats.

Right here.

We're

in common in just a name.

We were both in the hospital because Clackston had tried to kill us.

Someone had put him up to it.

And it was just a matter of time before I put him down.

Good morning, Mr. Prosecutor.

You want to see Mike's baby?

That poor child.

Barely drew blood.

You know you ought to take a rest.

Stay off your feet for a while.

You'll feel better.

Is that a prescription or a proposition?

Emma, what happened?

Don't tell me.

You were out of bullets, so you tried to run them down with your car.

Larry, I wasn't even at the wheel.

Look, it's all in the patch report.

Why did you leave the scene?

Well, I just happened to look down and I noticed that I was bleeding.

Dr. Vosnowski, my Secretary of Elder Special Prosecutor Barrington.

How do you do?

Oh, I recognize you from the television, but your pictures don't do you justice.

Thank you very much.

I know what you mean.

The makeup has to be just right and often.

There's not enough time.

Excuse me, Mike.

Here's your suit.

Although, I kind of like you in there.

Oh, thanks.

Emma, I'd like another report, please.

I'm particularly interested in why these two guns were after you.

There were three including Clackston.

Look, you had them all behind bars.

You should have asked them.

Dr. Julian, to 4th floor, nurse's station, please.

Dr. Julian, 4th floor, nurse's station call.

Mike, I'm glad we ran into you.

Don't tell me the old man changed his mind.

Well, Lisa and I both decided that we want to

do everything we can to help Veronica's baby.

That's nice, but it's already taken care of.

Oh, but it can always be improved upon.

I'm Dr. Vosnowski.

You're the family?

Joseph Attain, yes, we'd like to help.

Good.

I'd like you to talk to the administrator.

You're right back.

Baby, to the actress, please.

He's so tiny, so ugly.

Be... she was first again.

Even in death, she was first.

Veronica was younger than me, but she was always first.

Daddy was just a little bit easier with her.

She got the first bicycle.

She got the first pony.

She'd been dated before me.

What about your fiancé, Lisa?

What's your first with him, too?

You do?

Just a figure.

God, I hate it for this.

I can't help but I hate it for this.

Isn't this Kenny at the house I need to speak?

Yeah.

The baby was an ugly little package.

Or somebody.

Somebody who was sweating because the kid hadn't stayed in his trash can.

Give me.

Is Kenny around?

Come here.

Hey.

Alright, Kenny, it's time to talk.

What are you doing here?

Let's start with Tony Caudel and work our way

up on drugs and shooting galleries to murder.

I don't know what you're talking about.

Yeah.

I saw you with a bowling alley with Caudel.

Now, I suggest you start talking.

I got money in faster weather, but it's a mess.

I want out.

It's a mess, alright?

Like a murdered girl and a baby, maybe yours.

I just got it wrong.

I'm infested a lot of business.

I didn't know what Tony Caudel was into.

Now tell me you never slept with Veronica.

That was over a year ago.

Besides, I couldn't give her a baby.

You don't kiss on the first day?

It's the truth.

How's the kid?

My mom's.

Nothing sterile.

Monday's the thing you make, you know?

We all have our problems.

Mine is figuring how you're connected with Caudel.

Talked to Mr. Burnett.

I thought since he was invested with Tony.

It must be a pretty good thing.

Better than Mom's.

The guy

had left a baby, bad memories, and people who had trouble with the truth.

Considering the way George Burnett felt about his daughter when she was alive,

I was surprised to find him where I did.

This is private business, Mr. Hammer.

Like Tony Caudel?

Now look, I hear you've invested with her.

No wonder you're aware of white gloves.

Hammer, you're not quite so large an impediment in my life as you think.

Is that how you drove Veronica away?

The threats?

Or did she threaten you?

I loved her.

He soiled herself.

Veronica left five months ago.

There's a baby in the glass cage at the hospital.

The doctor tells me it's six months' term.

Is that you're going away, gift to her?

Bastard!

Mr. Granson and I have something in common.

Careful you might get your hands dirty.

Mr. Burnett?

Yes, Mr. Hammer is quite finished.

So are you, pal?

It was amazing how somebody so compulsively clean could make you feel so dirty.

It took a long, scalling shower with no idea I was about to have an open house.

But then George Burnett's wife could probably buy her way into anywhere.

Well, hello.

I knew you were coming out of the address to the occasion.

Looks like you did.

What happened?

I cut myself shaving.

I won't waste your time.

What is it you really want?

I'm not sure I'm still looking.

Satisfaction?

Money?

I told you my life has compensations.

I'm willing to share them.

Would you be willing to share them with five pounds

of life that nobody else seems to care about?

That's very expensive.

You want it all.

Nobody ever gets it all.

What do you want?

Only to protect my interests.

I'll share, but I won't be put at risk because of you.

Unless you can offer me some worthwhile compensations.

Sorry.

I'm not interested.

Excuse me.

It's all right.

Come on in.

The lady was just leaving.

Have you noticed how often I catch you with your pants down?

For a doctor that's an occupational hazard.

Well, let's see.

I took a chance.

And how do you feel about triage?

I prefer Polish.

Food's getting cold.

Oh.

Hello.

You're the spat chambers.

Who's this?

Dr. Fosnowski.

Maybe I have the wrong number.

No, sorry.

You have the right number.

Give me a mic.

Oh, hold on.

That's bad chambers.

Yeah.

Mike's been shooting down the boarding eye.

Get down here right away.

Give me ten minutes.

The last thing I wanted to do was climb out of a warm bed into a cold bowling house.

When it came to homicide, Pat Chambers didn't like favorites.

But he

shut off these machines.

It's the same caliber, the pluggier windshield.

Not surprised.

It means you have a murder of a clear place of witnesses.

It's so funny to make sure one of all her friends are.

You never had any friends.

Just victims.

It's fair enough.

Somebody had bolded a perfect strike in lane 12 on Tony Caudel.

For her it was the final frame of a very imperfect game.

Let's see it here on A&E.

It had been a long night.

The lady slumlord Tony Caudel was history.

She ran a bowling alley and known the drug den where

baby Mike's mother was poisoned by an overdose.

Now I knew the killer wouldn't feel satisfied until his hitman, Clackston,

got to me.

On the brighter side at least it didn't look like rain.

Put it away, pal.

And close the door.

Where I put her away.

Put away Tony Caudel.

So we figured it out, huh?

I'm sorry at company.

I wanted it just you and me.

So Tony didn't order the hit on Veronica Burnett, did she?

Like you.

I'm an independent.

Only I charge more.

Now put it down.

I'll be excited.

I just want to know who ordered the hit on Veronica Burnett.

It was between me and my client.

Damn you!

I thought you were never fired!

Where you going?

I got a call in ambulance.

I doubt that it's going to do any good.

You could make me some coffee.

I'm really not very good in the morning without my coffee.

Clackston wouldn't be needing the ambulance, but at

least Ellen managed to catch a ride back to work.

If Clackston had stayed behind bars, he would have still been alive.

So much for justice.

I caught a few hours of much needed shut eye and

stopped back at the hospital to check on the kid.

I was pleased to find he had some visitors.

Dr. Richmond, Dr. Michelle.

Look, Hammer, about yesterday.

Maybe I had that coming.

But for Lisa's sake, I want... What about Lisa?

She's decided to adopt her sister's kid.

I mean, we have.

Would she ask a grown man about that?

She doesn't give a damn what he thinks.

Besides, I have money.

Whatever you think of me, I can take care of that child.

And Lisa.

All right, there.

And I do love her.

We'll make it work.

I'll be sure to invite me to the christening, okay?

See that?

It's got muscles.

Just like you.

Must be blood type, oh?

That's your blood.

You can donate to anybody.

But he's B.

B negative like his mother.

What's that make the father?

Well, about 90% chance is the same.

What kind of a man would have a woman killed

because she was giving birth to his child?

And then try to kill the child.

If my hunch was right, I was about to find out.

We're not welcome here, but Hammer.

Just like your daughter, right?

The Hammer, this won't help.

Well, it helps me.

Take your gloves off, George, and your hands are dirty already.

Clack's didn't put the needle in your girl's arm.

Tony Caudel provided the poison which you got hooked on.

But you financed your daughter's murder just as surely as if you planted it yourself.

Now, you listen here.

Was that investment solely yours?

Or did you have some help?

It's time, Mr. Hammer.

What's your blood type, Peters?

What?

Your blood type.

A positive.

Why?

Because somebody's going to need a transfusion if I'm right.

What about you, Joe?

What?

Your blood type.

I'd say it was B-negative.

Since you're the father of the baby.

What are you talking about, Joe?

I don't know.

He handled your deal with Caudel, didn't he?

He also handled your daughter and he gave her a baby.

You?

You and Veronica?

Stop it!

All I want is a little blood, Joe.

Just a little.

Just a test.

Yours this time.

Just to see if it matches.

Veronica was going to tell her father, wasn't she?

That's when you went to Caudel and hired her boy, Clackston.

Eliminate the mother, eliminate the problem.

The one thing you didn't count on was that your son would fight for his life.

You don't know what he's like.

Oh, I was good enough to handle his money.

But his daughter?

No.

But you did anyway.

She asked him much.

Veronica was going to cost me everything.

He would have crucified me.

You don't know what it's like.

It worked my way up from the gutter.

You just worked your way back down.

You'd give me that gun.

As I lay on the floor, I thought to myself, what an idiot.

Why didn't I just let Betsy finish him off?

My head was killing me.

And the last thing in the world I wanted to do was chase this bezel.

What the hell?

That's what I do.

You better clean your pool.

Gee, I thought you'd be better at this.

For someone who's so good with his hands.

Dr. Voznowski, please report to emergency.

Dr. Voznowski, I'm sorry I got a run.

So am I.

I'm off at nine.

See you then.

Michael Hammer Sanderson has a nice ring to it, don't you think?

Maybe Mike would live his life on different streets than mine.

But there'll always be a little bit of him with me.

Who knows?

Maybe there might just be a drop of me with him.

Anyway, I was feeling pretty good and I was looking forward to the evening.

After all, I had a nine o'clock doctor's appointment.

Tonight, Stacey Keach and Jamie Lee Curtis star in

the suspense thriller Road Games at 9210 Pacific.

Now, Laura looks for the Cleptomaniac on Remington Steel, next on A&E.