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These canyon roads have always had high accident stats.

Blind curves, falling rocks, improper grading, wildlife.

Well, Guthrie knows that. He also knows when the accident rate jumps all of a

sudden, there's got to be a reason.

Just because they call it weed doesn't make marijuana any easier to grow.

Nice and sticky.

Looks like harvest time.

There's some activity on the south slope of the viral farm.

I think I'll drop in and pay him a call.

Hey, Kenny.

LA-15 Mary 3, we have an 1180, top of Topanga and Summit, rolling 1141.

10-4, 7 Mary 3.

Get in the back of the bus. Come on.

Yeah, same here. Anybody here see anything?

Yeah. The hexer up there. He saw it all. Probably caused it.

What? The hexer up there.

His name's Tyler.

Why you call him the hexer? He hexed me, that's why.

You mean he put on you some kind of curse?

He gave my sister a whole week of zooper zits.

And he got my pitching arm.

I came to find the strike, Sonny.

Well, we'll be talking to Tyler. He may have seen something from up there. Now

I'm gonna need your name and addresses.

Start with you.

Mark 11.

Watch out for that kid, Tyler. He can really zap you.

Aren't you a little old for ghost stories?

Look, uh, how come Tyler wasn't in school today?

He was.

But he doesn't ride the bus.

He takes shortcuts across the valley.

He changes into a coyote and runs over the hills.

I've seen him.

Oh, when you talk to Tyler, don't mention my name, okay?

Might take chances, right?

Yeah, right.

Yeah, that's great. Thank you.

No one on that school bus was hurt.

Oh, good.

You know, we were lucky.

That guy was trying to kill us. Yeah, I know.

No, the other marijuana growers have been having hassles, too.

Irrigation pipe torn up, field burnt.

I knew we'd have problems when we started all of this.

Insects, fertilizer, premature flowering.

I never figured on this Let's get out of here

Excuse me, miss.

Oh, is anything wrong?

No, hi, I'm Officer John Baker. This is Officer Frank Poncharello. How do you

do? We're looking for witnesses to a bus accident on Topanga Canyon.

We understand that a boy living here named Tyler might have seen it.

I'm Loretta Lentzford, Tyler's sister.

Is it all right if we talk to him? Yeah, Tyler was here just a minute ago.

Tyler!

Hi.

It's about the accident that happened down the road.

Would you two like something cold to drink?

Water would be fine, thank you.

Anything you tell us will help out, all right?

Did you see anything?

Saw the accident.

Did you see the vehicle hit the bus? Can you describe it?

It was a pickup truck.

Anything else?

Such as?

Such as color, make, identifying marks, a driver's description, a license

number. Tyler, just a minute now. Try to remember, okay?

I mean, maybe you can think of something. Was there anything unusual

about the truck?

He was being chased.

Chased? By what?

Another truck. That's all I saw. It's not my business.

Gotta go feed my animals.

Just a minute, son.

You leave me be.

Not until you answer my questions.

This is a serious situation.

Is this supposed to mean I'm hexed?

Your first hex?

I got over that supernatural nonsense when I was three.

Glad to hear that.

Hey, this is a brand new pen.

It's got to have ink.

Uh, punch.

Maybe not anymore.

Oh, man.

Can't go around all day looking like that.

You think... Do I think what?

It's bad luck to be superstitious.

And lastly, I want to keep up our high visibility in the Topanga area.

Yesterday, we had a multiple TC that came close to becoming a tragedy.

Now, something crazy up there is spilling out onto the highway, and I

want somebody to tell me what it is.

Okay, take off.

I'm buying.

Yeah. Your tires were soft and all your fluid levels were down. What did you do

to your bike yesterday?

Just an ordinary day.

Maybe I can save the frames.

Maybe I'd quit while you're ahead.

Ahead? Oh, don't get psyched out, Punch. Now, you know, it's just another

coincidence, that's all. What kind of coincidence?

What's been happening?

Well, yesterday, when Punch and I were going back to Central, Punch went

through four ballpoint pens, tore his shirt on the bumper of a car, and lost

his personal phone directory.

Yeah, 12 critical numbers, mostly unlisted.

When did all this begin?

Oh, yesterday.

We met this kid in Topanga. He put a hex on him.

Yeah, complete with pentagram.

Do you believe it?

Do you?

You're the guy with the truck.

Yeah.

Come on.

I represent an organization.

Spend a lot of time developing, testing, importing, marketing our grass.

You guys plant a few seeds, try and score on a closed market.

It's our market.

I've got a non-negotiable deal for you and your penny ante pals.

You sell to me, or you don't sell at all.

Up till now, everything has been a warning.

You try and market your smoke, we'll burn you bad.

I'll pass the word.

That's great. That'll help a lot.

He's too scared to try anything there's always somebody who wants to be a hero

Have something ready So

what's the deal hey,

we just got one of those offers you can't refuse

Talus, that one truck was chasing another.

Yeah, it fits the same pattern as most of the other accidents.

High-speed collision chases.

Check out this dirt road, huh?

Got it.

First it's thieving hikers, then grazing animals, outside harassment, now it's

the cops.

I tell you, from raising these things, nurturing them into adulthood, they get

primo and we can't even get it to the buyers.

We just had a run of bad luck.

Hey, look, we can't let a couple of accidents get us down.

We got a crop to harvest.

so so

It's not ready yet.

Yeah, you're right.

Get him in there.

Let's get rolling, Spiv.

What's the rush?

I just got a strange feeling we're being watched.

Let's go.

L.A. 15-7, Adam. I have a visual on two trucks speeding southbound on a dirt

road north of the Panga.

West back.

Mary 3 and 4 responding.

Okay, you in the checkered shirt, get up and head towards the car.

Let's go.

Come on, let's get back to Perry.

That's no ordinary truck fire. Must be half a ton of dope down there.

When these fumes hit Topanga Village, it's gonna be a run on junk food.

At least now we know what's behind all the accidents.

The weed war.

I guess we lost the other half of this party. Yeah, but we got a witness.

What do you think of that?

We'll call Central for a trailer.

Me and my motor.

All right.

We got a marijuana war on our hands.

The canyon roads are dangerous enough without big dealers and small timers

battling it on the pavement.

Now I want to stay on top of this. Keep your eyes open and maintain tight

communication. Okay, go to it.

Frank. Yes, Sarge?

Do you want to fly a desk for a couple of days?

No way, Sarge. Come on, I know you're concerned about my situation. Bad luck?

I prefer to use the word coincidence.

Good going, Ponch. Keep fighting it.

Hey, look at it this way. With all the stuff raining down on you now, you've

got five years of sunshine coming.

Frank, I, uh... I hope the clouds part soon.

Yeah, me too.

Let's go.

Pudge!

I got some information for you.

That fireball really had me stumped for a while. Then I theorized that the

change in atmospheric pressure created by riding up in the Topanga area caused

a vacuum and a fine mist of fuel seeped out of a pinpoint leak and ignited on

contact with the hot manifold.

You found the leak?

No. No.

What do you think?

I'm with you, Ponch.

Yeah? Well, where am I?

Colin, I thought you were working on Ponch's motor.

I did.

I went over that motor with a microscope.

I gave it a clean bill of health.

He's out there checking it now to see if I made any mistakes.

He's impugning my integrity.

Harlan, don't feel hurt.

This kid they're dealing with really has Ponch spooked.

He's supposed to be good with kids.

City kids? This kid's from the country.

His grandparents brought him up in the hills of West Virginia.

It's a case of culture shock.

You understand.

No.

Harlan!

Harlan. Harlan.

This kid's had a hard time opening up with anyone, let alone authority

figures. I've got relatives in Kentucky, and I'll tell you, mountain people are

very distrustful of strangers.

They've got a lot of superstitions, too.

You tell Punch and John?

This kid feels out of place here.

I bet he started this hex thing just to stop kids from teasing him.

Why don't you tell Punch and John?

The trouble is, he might start believing it. Kids do that with their dreams.

Hey, you want me to tell Punch and John?

I wonder if it's one of those cases out of uniform or authority.

On the kid's own turf.

On the kid's own terms.

A picnic.

I bet that would do it.

What are you going to do?

Tell Punch and John.

Tyler!

Tyler, we're leaving.

Okay, where to?

Why don't we let Tyler be our pathfinder? Great.

There you go.

Alright, after you, Tyler.

This is the place.

Well, I didn't know I was so out of shape.

I'd be in a lot better shape if I get this rock out of my shoe.

I mean when I get this shoe out of my rock.

Here, Connor.

We saw you on the hill the other day above the accident.

Was that truck that got away the same one that caused the other accidents?

You know, kids are saying that you're making these accidents happen.

They don't like me.

Maybe it's just that they don't know you, huh?

I mean, you and me in the cosmos, how do you deal with a little hexer?

With extreme caution.

It's true, but not because of the hexers, but because I'm the last chance

he's got.

I'm all the family he has left.

He's got a good thing going for him.

I just wish he and I didn't start off on the wrong foot.

I have a lot of friends up here.

You do?

People in this canyon like to sneer rabbit.

So I save them and get them well and leave them to go up here.

Yeah, but what about real friends?

I try.

Oh, like putting a hex on punch?

She was asking me too many questions.

Back home, we mind our own business.

Oh, you mean like not talking about moonshine stills.

Look, Tyler, we know all about the marijuana growers.

Then what'd you want to talk to me for?

Because you've seen most of the accidents.

I mean, you could be a witness against the person that's causing these

accidents. I already told you, back home we mind our own business.

Yeah, I know.

But you live here now.

And this is your community, unless you plan on being an outsider the rest of

your life.

Everybody sure keeps making me feel that way.

Well, sure, you keep talking about hexes and spells.

I mean, it makes it hard for people to like you.

That's what my sister says all the time.

And she's right.

Look, you gotta quit hiding behind this hex stuff and take a chance at just

being yourself around people.

Hey, aren't you guys hungry?

You better believe it.

How about you?

Look, we hike on down the hill.

Mind if I stop into the ice cream parlors?

Thanks.

Before we start eating, I think there's something you and me need to take care

of.

Sure.

You think you could cancel my hex?

Sure.

Think we could shake on that?

It's good, huh?

Can we do this again tomorrow?

I think John and Poncho have to be back on duty tomorrow.

Don't you worry. We'll do it again.

Come here.

Go ahead and give it a try.

Say hello.

Hiya, Mark. Hiya, Gary.

Hiya, Mark. Hiya, Gary. Hiya, Mark. Hiya, Gary. Hiya, Mark. Hiya,

Gary.

Hiya, hiya, hiya.

Let's get out of here before you do something weird.

Yeah.

Wait a minute.

Just hold it, Tyler.

Don't let it bug you, huh?

See what you made me do?

Oh, man, that's baloney.

They weren't watching what they were doing. It had nothing to do with it.

It did, too.

Things don't work that way, Tyler.

Oh, yeah?

You get a double hex now.

Tyler!

Tyler!

Oh. Loretta, look, if you want us to stick around, we'll be glad to. No, I'd

better catch up to him alone.

A little system I'm developing.

Hmm.

Order out of chaos?

I keep hoping.

You guys hear the latest?

Macharello got two flats yesterday.

I checked both tires.

There's no punctures, no slow leak.

Nothing. How is he dealing with that?

On the surface, he's taking it in stride.

Underneath, he's freaked.

I've got to admit, I might be, too.

Well, being of scientific persuasion, I've got one word for it.

Which is?

Strange. I have a better word.

Hex?

Phenomenology. That's a bigger word, not necessarily better.

Why can't people be objective about these things?

It's simply a phenomenological problem.

How can you be objective about something you can't even pronounce?

From a raw description of everything that's going on, I'd have to say first

off that... that something is going on. Stay with us, Harlem.

The point is, one's knowledge of an event is affected by

the way one

experiences it.

How did you experience that?

moisture on an unlevel table.

And a little subliminal freeway vibration to give it a push.

Possible?

Yeah.

Probable. I'll do it every time.

Can I give anyone a hand here?

Well, I was just lending some perspective to what's obviously an

emotional issue.

Hexes and spells.

What?

Phenomenology. Oh, come on.

I've been hearing a lot of that nonsense lately, and I gotta tell you...

Does anybody remember Topanga?

I said I wanted that area covered. High visibility is what I said. Now, if you

all are sitting here, it follows that none of you are out there.

Well?

We don't have enough problems. Cops are buzzing around here like yellow jackets.

Well, maybe we should just leave it. Leave it?

I've tended those Christmas trees since they were little bitty seedlings. If we

get zapped a second time, they're gonna look like oak trees before we see them

again. Sam's right. What we're dealing with here is some basic rights.

And a few thousand dollars in cash.

Well, if the cash is so important, then why don't we just sell to Vincent?

Because I don't think we get the money. I don't trust the guy. I'm not gonna

deal with criminals.

Yo, you wanna know something?

Some people think that we're the criminals.

Oh, come on, Varo. It's a victimless crime. Yeah, well, I don't want to stay

out of the victim category, okay?

I mean, I don't like sitting around waiting on that crash artist and that

pickup. He's not so tough.

Well, neither are we.

We could blitz them.

Cut all the plants down all at once. By morning, we're gone.

And nobody knows these roads like we do. And they put the pressure on us. They'll

think we're laying low.

You know what we got here is the beginning of a marijuana growers' co-op.

Hey, let's do it!

Man, I never would have guessed farming was such a hassle.

A few more bags and we're out of here.

Music to my ears.

Yeah.

What's the matter? You getting a contact high?

Hardly.

This pollen's got my hay fever going.

Relax. This stuff will buy you a vacation in the desert.

See anybody?

No, but I'm gonna check around by the truck.

I don't see nothing.

I think you're paranoid.

Goes along with the business.

Well, I think we better get out of here before both of us get paranoid.

Yeah.

These dopers got a bad case of independence.

Are you sure you want to go along, Mr. Benson?

Yeah. I want to make sure we shut them down for good.

Let's go.

Okay.

I'm not losing him this time.

LA-15, Mary 3 and 4, northbound, Oaks Ridge and Topanga. Request backup in

pursuit of suspect felony vehicle.

10-4, 7 Mary 3 and 4.

7, David will block north exit of Oak Ridge.

7, Charles, moving to the south intersection of Topanga and Oak Ridge.

This is 7, Adam. I'll back you up.

Watch this.

Maybe he's trying to kill us.

I'll take it. All right.

Help!

Hey, over here, quick!

Hey!

You got him, Bear?

Yeah. Hey, we had no idea there was a kid in the back of the truck. Yeah, just

save it. Would you get over there to the cruiser? We'll take care of it.

Hurry up.

I'm going to go for the kid, partner.

I can't hold on.

All right, I'm going to use my belt.

Okay, go on.

Help! I'm going to fall!

Take it easy.

All right.

Easy.

Want to help?

Yeah, sure. Great idea.

You want a ride?

Sure. You know, I want to thank you two for working a little bit of magic.

It was no work at all, really.

It'd feel a whole lot better if, you know what I mean, Tyler and me were all

straightened out.

I thought you weren't worried about the hex.

I'm not.

Hey, it'd just be good to have it all straightened out. That's all.