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Tonight, hot, expensive for hire.

The girls just came in and they didn't look at you to me. How about you?

I don't like the idea of a private investigator going under cover at my school.

Come on, we have a time. I'm a storm and I'm having some scheduling problems.

You're not a substitute. Did you or you or a cop? I didn't need help.

They said it was Caroline. How old is your daughter? Well, I'm not. I got a fight.

Call that as a mean, man. Don't you get a blindfold?

the city always lighten my spirit, especially in

winter when the white snow had a nasty habit

of becoming gray curbside slush.

Heats once erode to what has been long in the

city pent, it is very sweet to look into

the fair and open face of heaven.

Well Smithfield Township wasn't exactly heaven,

but it was the first stop on the way.

I was going

to pick up Susan at school.

She was taking a few days off and we were headed for Pico Mountain in Vermont.

A mountain cabin and a roaring fire. Now that was heaven.

Thank you.

that in.

I found her in the girls' bathroom. They said it was her own.

That's going on here.

Mr. Amriss has been notified yet? Yes. They were directly to the car office.

better be there.

Soos.

I can't talk now, I'm a chicken placeman now. What happened? We had Mother Overdose.

I have to go talk to the parents.

Are you sure, sir? Yes. My name is Betty Times.

I'm the assistant superintendent of the district. Susan's told me a lot about you.

She said something about an overdose. Susan found the girl. heroin.

heroin in Smithfield? There's a lot of character, isn't it?

Yes, but this is the second one we've had in the last three months.

Sounds like you've got to push her on canvas. Sure as hell does.

With all due respect, Mr. Spencer, I don't like the idea

of a private investigator going undercover at my school.

At the very least, it'll undermine the trust that's been established here

between the student body and the administration.

And Betty, think of the legal ramifications for the school district.

Legal ramifications be damned, David. Two girls are dead.

All I'm saying is that these things can be handled internally.

It hasn't worked, David?

I'm going to hire Mr Spencer and I know we can count on your full cooperation.

Well, it isn't exactly sugar bush.

Feeling better?

How old did you know her?

Well enough.

You can know the academic records and their test scores and their...

personal profiles.

as you just don't know what's going on inside.

Hey, you're the one who's always telling me I can't say to the world.

and understand better why you keep trying.

BAM!

BAM!

You can't even say. Ah, you pulled the last one to the

right.

Who are shoes and magnums, babe? Close to be good enough.

But I guess you didn't come here to talk artillery.

Someone's got a pipeline in the Smithfield, heroin. I need to know who.

Well, well, well. Smacking the suburbs and everybody get real upset.

Two young girls are dead. As a matter of whether it's uptown or downtown,

Jason, the drag can be hazardous to your health. Yeah.

So you put on the tab, huh? What else is there to do?

Many times warned me that this would be a

learning experience so far she'd been right.

While Hawk hit the streets I had the chance

to catch up on some reading about knights

and fairies, lords and ladies, which as it turned out proved pertinent to the kicks.

They're with, she spewed out of her filthy maw.

A flower of poison, horrible and black.

full of great loves of flesh.

and garbage raw. Definitely horror flick. The exorcist. Wow.

Well, for 16th century England, I'm sure you're right. But...

What else is the poet trying to say by having

the knight slay the dragon in this fashion?

Okay, try to finish the first camp tomorrow.

Good job. Great, Lisa. Good.

Go. Valor in these names.

Excuse me, yeah. Talk to you, Rosie.

So what do you want?

What's your name? Amanda. Amanda.

Well, Amanda, I just want to thank you for your participation in my class today.

I sat through it, didn't I? Well, yeah, you did in body. I don't know about spirit.

I'm sorry. I'll try harder next time. OK, can I go now?

What is it? What is what? You're on something. Yeah? What is?

None of your damn business.

Tuesday's special. Yeah, it's brown. Oh, my. Looks good. It matches my shoes.

Oh, yeah. Well, then you'll love Wednesday's special, it is great.

You got a great pair. Ah, because you're... No, I don't.

On Thursday, we got a slightly lighter shade of brown than it repeats.

No, thanks. I'm cutting back.

Jim, you're the assistant principal, right?

So that makes you head of discipline here. Yeah, so.

What are you telling about Amanda Leaton? Leaton, uh, senior.

She's in that, uh... lit class you've been selling. Yeah, right. Yeah.

She was zoned out in class today. With drugs? Oh, damn.

You know, she's basically a good kid. She's just in a bad place. What place is that?

Home or mother ran off with a father's business partner.

He got custody of a kid, but every time he looks at her,

she reminds him of his wife. It's a bad situation.

Have you had a bad time? Oh, good.

What are you doing? We're in cat-living some of these. Can I help?

One person job.

That's it.

Friends boys

Nina and Sally, they want me to go over and study.

But I don't have to. Just make sure you're home by a lot.

I've got surgery in the morning. I want to get to sleep early.

You don't have to wait up for me. 11 o'clock, Amanda.

Drop me off the mall, okay? No way. Hey, a star's border.

I didn't like sitting out in the cold. And I didn' like tailing little girls.

But if one of them was your only lead, you had to follow them.

I learned from Susan that Amanda's grades had

tumbled sharply over the past six months

from Honor Society to Academic Probation.

The other two in the car I didn't know, but I meant to find out.

I also meant to just find out just what three high school girls

from the very best part of town were doing in the combat zone.

If you want to use the booster, the girls just came in

and they didn't look 18 to me, how about you? Don't see many girls in here.

Mask you again, nicely.

upstairs.

Thanks.

Go!

Sugar and spice and everything nice.

I tried warm milk, push-ups, or even tried counting sheep.

That nursery rhyme kept me from catching a wink of sleep.

That, in the face of a man who could cash in on the corruption of teenage kids.

I got that name you after. Thanks.

I think the game might have changed last night, though.

Caught me a little off guard. How many guesses I got? How much you get is this?

What is it?

pornography with minors. Uh-huh. Different game, but maybe the same name.

How's that?

The name I got is a cat from Miami made his reputation in the skin business.

Expanded in emotion pictures, production, distribution. Got to be real big.

Bought into some of King Powers' drug interests,

soon after you and me sent Old King an early

retirement. Those interests include Smithfield? Right.

What is it?

names Corbin. The expensive, if what you got there belongs to Corbin,

you won't have to find him.

Thank you.

Come on, we have to talk. That's all we already did that! You're here.

Father taught me never to follow strange men in strange places. Man, no.

I don't want to judge people. But I can't

ignore what I saw last night.

And what was that? I followed you and your friends down

to the zone. I saw the film.

I recognized the leading lady.

So some kind of come on Mr. Spencer because it is I'm not interested in.

Look, you can play a cool and sophisticated if you want. But this is for keeps.

You can't pretend it's not happening. I'll make it go away by using drugs.

Now where are you getting them? Who's selling?

If you're not a substitute, date your or your cop.

I'm working for the police and I can help you. You can just walk away from this.

You can' quit anytime you feel like it. You're involved with big time crime.

Big risk, big money. And they don't care about little girls.

I don't have to talk to you. No, you don't.

You've got to talk to somebody and not the people

you've been talking to because they're using you.

And there's a woman, Councillor, here. You can trust her.

talk to you before it's too late.

I might need help. You're the one who needs help, Mr. Spencer.

Hitting on your own students.

I think I should speak to Mrs. Tarrin. No, no, no.

She'll think I'm complaining to you again. You did, Eric.

Look, sometimes people have misunderstandings. That's OK.

But we should confront this before it turns into a bigger problem than it is.

I'll talk to her first. Then the three of us can get together and talk it out, OK?

How's that sound?

Thanks, Mr. President.

Miss Silverman, I'm having some scheduling problems.

I like the schedule dinner tonight. So, there you have it. I'll be there. All right.

In the meantime, I need to know which classes these three girls have in common.

Spencer, you got a minute?

Sure.

Listen.

Amanda came to see me.

Well, what's been going on?

I think she's in trouble.

Now I know it sounds crazy, but Amanda told me that you've been hitting on her.

I was just trying to straighten her out. Such a...

Well, about the main thing that everybody around here seems to want to ignore.

Do you have any proof that she's been taking drugs? No.

You have any evidence that she has done anything wrong at all?

What did she tell you anyway? Well, just that...

She'd like it if you'd stay away from her.

I'll tell you the truth. I don't think it's such a bad idea.

Now well, thanks for the advice.

Anytime.

Hey, that is a great old car. It's just 67 in it. 65.

I could say that I wouldn't have to worry about finding Corbett. He knew his man.

A welcoming committee was waiting on my doorstep when I got home.

Shoot me here and take me for a ride.

I took my lesson from antiquity.

If you can't get into the enemy camp by force,

send them a present, a Spencer, the Trojan Horse.

Mr. Spence? Let me guess.

The eighth summer rhyme.

You know the same of the days I take it. In country?

I did. Yet you never developed a fascination for Eastern philosophy.

For the discipline of the mind and body. Fascination, yes. The vote should no.

You're easily satisfied, Mr. Spencer. So am I.

You've got something in mind. I want it. Go back to Miami Corp.

Or I'll stay on your back until it breaks. You're

not on my back, Spencer.

You're on my feet. You're in my way.

Look, I know you're not a teacher.

I know who you are and what you are, and I hear you pretty good.

Take what I'm offering you.

Film's not traceable anyhow.

It's a matter of pride you understand.

What I understand is getting you out of Smithfield on a wave of munder-aged girls.

And what do you think you're going to do? Whatever it takes.

You have brass, Spencer. I'll give you that.

But she's not too bright.

Right enough to leave a letter with the homicide lieutenant named Quirk.

I'm not telling you what I'm working on.

Who pulled the trigger if I wind up with a bullet in my back?

And you think that will make me let you call the shots in?

I think in the long run it'll cost you a lot less to pull out of Smithfield now.

I don't offer a second chance of spencing.

I don't take him.

I'm going to be a blind wolf.

Are you the least bit angry? Well, sure, I'm afraid.

And now we're going to try to kill you. And now you're standing there.

Making holidays. I'm angry. I'm very angry. And I'm well, I don't know about afraid,

but concerned, certainly. But I think it's pointless to indulge

in those kind of emotions, especially

when there are so many other wonderful emotions

to indulging in this world, you know what I mean? No, what are we going to do?

Well, we put all the pieces together.

First one being that Corbett must have a connection in Smithfield.

One of the students? Faculty. Faculty, Spencer, I know those people.

Did you look at those files I actually bring home tonight? I did.

Those girls didn't share a single class.

Amanda and Ginny Marys played obviously each other in the last drama production.

Nina Barnes and Salem McDonald.

Jim Gullin? Faculty advisor. The first one Amanda went to after I spoke to her.

Jim Gollin? What do you know about his background? Not much. He's from the Midwest.

His father owns a string of industrial plants.

Well, it certainly would explain the snappy clothes in the fancy car.

But you don't think so, do you?

As soon as I took one look at that car on those threads,

and I said to myself, how does a guy hack that on a teacher's salary?

That's the thing about my line of work. It's tough not being cynical.

So I find myself digging into people's backgrounds,

questioning whether they are what they seem to be. Would you find out?

Well, yeah, his father worked in an industrial plant, all right. He was a welder.

Yeah, two brothers and a sister. He was the only one to go to college,

stayed school, and a scholarship. And that car's not the only thing he's got.

It's a new condo on Beacon Hill and $100,000 in First National Bank of Boston.

I think if teaching paid that well, I might try it myself.

You know that makes sense.

As a system principal, as access to all the student files.

Especially the disciplinary cases. Yeah, the most vulnerable kids.

Sort of an ex-rated pipe, right?

So, what do you think? Smells good.

I think I just lost my appetite.

Yummy too.

Hawk!

Corbett.

Long time.

It was a good time. And we worked together.

Everything has its time.

But still.

I miss them.

There aren't many left like us, Hark.

Guys who say something, then do it.

You and me.

We're in endangered species, but not extinct.

There are a couple of us left. Spence as one. Spence?

You know him, yes.

work.

Together. Sometimes. Now? No. And you came here for him? No.

For you.

You think he's that good? Affirmative.

You think you can take him? Never tried.

Can I?

I hear you got some good soldiers. I said.

Can I?

be interested. You're telling me I can't?

Maybe it's not worth going all this trouble to find out.

Smith feels too small a town for a big city slicker.

Look around you, Hawk.

I didn't get this.

back and down.

Knock one inch.

especially not of some hundred dollar a day private cut.

Besides.

If he's as good as you say he is.

Maybe you'll be interested.

He's a friend. You only hawk.

That's just been paid, Corbin.

Man's character is as fate says Heraclitus.

I can only guess at what part of Jim Gollum's

character made him pander for a man like Corbin.

But in my line of work, guessing isn't good enough. You need proof.

When you don't have proof, sometimes the best you can do

is start shaking all the trees and see how many rotten apples fall off. 10 minutes.

Hi Spencer.

which one is next, Jim?

Little redhead.

Maybe the blonde.

Who's gonna be the new Amanda Light and the new Genie Mayor?

Uh, you know something to say to me, Spencer, go ahead and say it.

How does a man with no conscience wind up in a position of responsibility and trust?

You get the hell out of here. I don't need to listen to this.

How does a man like you?

Get in position to control young minds. There's something wrong here.

There's some wrong with the system that allows that to happen.

Yeah, I don't need to listen to this.

My own system will take care of dies like you.

You want to solicit teenagers for a court, but you've got to deal with me, too.

You want a deal, drugs? You're going to deal me, two.

Yeah, I don't know what you're talking about. Hell, you don't.

And if you think Corbin's going to protect you, you're wrong.

You're both guilty and you're both going to pay.

Miss Silverman?

And I'll get you something. No thank you, this is an essential call.

just what has she done now?

You know, we have had this discussion before, myself.

I feel I have been a responsible father. I have fed and cloned that girl.

I have put a roof over her head. She is not a child anymore.

Her grades are unsatisfactory. I suggest you discuss them with her.

It's not her grades.

disciplinary problem.

Dr. Layton, that girl is your daughter. She needs

more than a responsible father.

She needs love. If she can't find it in her own home,

she's going to look for it somewhere else. What are you saying?

I know a little bit about Amanda.

We've talked.

I know that she feels you've never forgiven your wife for leaving you.

She feels that you blame her somehow for what happened.

Is there any truth in that? Ms. Silberman.

If I wanted professional help for family matters,

I would turn to someone other than a high school counselor.

I'm trying to help you understand your daughter.

Oh, I think I understand my daughter very well. I lived with her mother.

Since she ran out on us, I have watched Amanda become more and more like her.

Amanda is Amanda. She is just as much your daughter as your ex-wife's.

Just? What is it she has done?

She has looked somewhere else for love.

I hope that you are not telling me that she is pregnant.

No, but she has been taken advantage of. How?

She's been introduced to drugs. Just what

kind of school are you running?

I moved out of the city. Get away from that atmosphere.

It's a new problem for us.

We're trying to solve it, but it's not the only problem Amanda has. Or you have.

Well, you get on with it. The man she turned to put her in a pornographic film.

She needs you, Dr. Layton.

She's lost and she's never gonna find herself

until you find the ability to love her.

Thank you.

Very cheap.

She's gone to the only place she feels wanted.

To the only person who's told her he cares whether she lives or dies.

I don't want to go. You have to. Please.

You said that if I did just that one film

it would be the only time you promised.

I told you, Mr. Corbett thinks you're something special. OK?

Now, please, just do this one last film. OK?

Come on, you love me, don't you? Huh? Yes. And you trust me?

Yes.

I love you, too. You know that, but I can't back out on Mr. Corbett.

He'd be very upset if he thought that I was holding out on him.

Why can't we just go away together?

That's why we're doing this. So we can go away together.

Just you and me, baby.

You hear me spencer, but you're not listening.

Man's in a different league than the folks you used to dealing with.

Sounds like you got your money someplace else. Money's in my pocket, babe.

This one's too close to car. Have you ever seen my operate?

Side by side 10 years back. Almost like a team.

Where Bayroot, Malaya, Indoghanna.

Yeah. Three years. It's been the last six months working for a due named Long.

Used to be a prince or something in a side guy. When I started on the Lame in 1975.

Anyway, the gig was mostly keeping longs people out of bad places.

Ugly work all around. You know the deal. Lots of gold, and they know the rules.

Right? So we got one week left to go on the contract before we collect.

Billion Franks each cashed money. Long since it's out on Recon. Easy.

It's supposed to be some NBA prison camp just outside of Con-Tool.

get there is empty.

I mean Corbin and Platoon start checking it out.

When the bag, the sky falls down hard. You know what I mean? Right on top of us.

T-34, sat-to-charge, is nape arm, and about 100 BC.

It was long set us up.

I don't remember what happened next. Just waking up in a ditch and call it,

standing up over me.

He said, I buried

you beneath the bodies till it stopped raining.

Look in his eyes.

looking yours.

Say.

I knew what was coming and I wasn't looking forward to it.

Thanks, sir.

But I was looking for it too, was a quiet evening alone with Susan,

even if it was going to be spent going over the case in detail.

Spencer?

Thanks here.

.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

You know who he was? It was Dylan. James T. worked at Smithville High School.

Oh yeah, doing what?

That someone stood into a Poin O'Ring moonlighting for a guy named Corbin. You know?

Yeah.

He ain't going. This Corbett's way of telling me to back off.

That's not such bad advice, you know? I can't. Two girls from Smith.

They're a dead of a pair of one overdose. They're both tied to Gullin.

I don't think they were accidents. Make sure to forget that.

I think they got in too deep.

And there's something they didn't like doing when they tried to get out.

They found out there was no exit.

There's another girl missing now named Amanda Layton.

Susan talked to her father.

You didn't know anything about this.

I'm gonna find that girl.

Talk to you too, per se.

Thank you.

I'm a private cop looking for a man to lay.

She's in trouble. Yeah? Who is it?

She's with a man named Corbett.

And I have an idea you can tell me where to find him.

Well, you want me to tell you where to go? You can go. Tim Collins, Dad.

Corbin had him killed.

I think a man who could be next.

You're trying to scare us? No, I'm trying to scurry.

You have every right to be scared. Because I know what a man is mixed up in.

And if I don't find her real soon, she's going to turn up just the same way

Jeannie Mayors did two days ago.

I'm not gonna shake it out of you.

But why not happen? And it's going to happen.

You took a little with the fact that you could have stopped it.

Hey.

It's where they filmed.

down at the waterfront by the old pilot house.

I remember this is the movies.

You have to have fun. Will

this help you?

Go ahead, drama.

Take one. Take two.

Yeah, that's a good call.

Okay now.

Everybody, let's go ready for take. Okay, quiet on the set, gentlemen, please.

Roll it!

Oh, my God!

It's been so anybody moves and I'll blow our head off.

Thank you.

Thank you.

That are my way, Hawk.

girls against the rules, babe, between you and Spencer.

is it one on one?

Go!

Please

This is her father.

She'll have to come down to the station. I'm going with her.

No, I didn't stay away from me! I'll have you, baby. You don't even know me!

I've ever liked to hate me and mistrust me. I've been selfish, self-pitting for.

But when your mother- I don't care about my mother. It was you that shut me out.

You never cared about what I was doing. You never even asked.

I just wanted to be proud of me. You were never proud of Me. I need you, baby.

I was hurt. I was angry. I went numb.

I just closed down and then I just didn't know how to open up again.

Give me a chance. That's all I have. I don't have a right but I'm asking anyway.

Please. This... This... Give me...

Get him out of here.

Let's go.

Yeah.