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me

come on

yes

oh

how about we do a cappuccino i don't

know oh come on

it's good for us you want a sugar i'd

rather have you

one last kiss and then a crime of

passion

if i can't have you neither will the

police uh two cappuccinos please you

promised after two months of seven day a

week bonding with your new job that we'd

run away and lock the door on a cabin

with an ocean view and no phone

your time is up i know i know it hasn't

been easy for you and i'll make it up to

you i promise

oh things will be better in portland

quality of life

the great opportunities and me kicking

and screaming that i was gonna hate it

out here

well steve i do but i love it when you

kick and scream

and i love that you worked twice as hard

as you did in chicago

but i am going to give you another

chance only because i'm savagely hungry

for this vibe

sit down occupy your mind with something

else

until tonight okay i'll drive myself

crazy for the rest of the day

then i'll make you a surprise tonight

something besides food you're a lousy

cook

can i use food yeah

if you ever go to the police so help me

i'll

we'll talk about this later

i'm very sorry mrs

hmm

hey

so

i know it hasn't been easy for you and

i'll make it up to you i promise

oh things will be better in portland

if you ever go to the police so help me

i'm very sorry mr screamer

so help me

i'm very sorry mrs kramer

if you ever go to the police

i'm very

good sorry mr crimer

uh

oh

nice turnout yeah all murders were

across the street police headquarters

our response would be much quicker

fill us in arthur cramer goes up the

block over there number 808

fat cat judging from his wallet no

robbery go robert just for the hell of

it then

looks like a straightforward crazy you

call the police lady over here she was

walking her dog and found the body

i want to see the report and i want to

talk to her before she goes home you got

it

can you tell me gunnar hitman dr wu

silk corbin what can you tell us only

that he was shot within the past hour

probably large caliber handgun we'll

have to find a bullet to be sure

so

sorry

ellie

honey

well i got off the bus and i felt like

someone was watching me and then a block

later i was sure i was being followed

god this was so much like that night on

when i was walking home in chicago

one night chicago um right before we

left

why didn't you tell me about that uh

i just i don't know i you were on

overload on that murder case and

i didn't want my imagination to be a

problem yeah well what if it wasn't your

imagination

911 police emergency

this is captain murtagh i'm at home my

wife is safe but she was followed by a

prowler

yes sir do you have a description she

wasn't able to give one i want all units

in this area dispatched

if this guy's around i want him found

i'm going out myself thank you

do you have to take care of this

yourself you're my wife

i'll be back

can we take him jake yeah he might as

well

we don't see whackers with cannons

around here much anymore pretend all

units are broadcasting felony area ninth

and hayes

all units hey pete fun stuff oh oh slow

down man what's up oh no prowler calls

nathan hayes the only thing is they got

the whole world on it oh let's get to it

hang a lift

there he is son of a go back go back go

back

suspect in custody no current id

yeah what you got there you got a gun or

something huh what what's this

watch this hello

captain murtagh thank you for your

assistance oh

you chased the wrong woman tonight man

lieutenant corbin and

sergeant silke will take it from here

thank you gentlemen come on sir

wait come on come on i don't wrap it up

know every face on the force but when a

team has as many accommodations as you

two i read the file

i hope you didn't read the file too

closely captain close enough to know you

were the competition for my job corbin

yeah nothing unusual with this guy

except you picked your wife captain

maybe somebody else tonight who fought

back

look at the side of his head what

happened to you i got slapped with a gun

that's what happened

look man i followed the lady but i

wasn't the only one

you want to tell me about your partner

ain't got no partner there was somebody

else watching us both

oh man you could talk to me i don't work

duets there was somebody else come on

you don't tell me that

it was somebody that's somebody else

look like i don't know i didn't see him

real clear

clear enough to see the gun i know what

a gun feels like i just saw the top of

his head he was somewhere around my

height

you know he was in the shadows one big

blur and he was off

take him through it again just a

scavenger sir i'll get id from every

game a hard time could make a big

difference to somebody else if there's

another gun on the street

he sees what he wants to see captain

the joker who slammed me was not the

competition what do you mean

well he took me out and took off the

competition would have scored your old

lady

why was he then one of my psychic

i don't know

yeah it's just never enough when it's

personalized home

come on hey let's not leave out any

blanks on this one sounds like you'll

cover the report himself

why do you got that right get in there

don't bump your hair hey i told you not

to bump your head

uh

great lover pretty good cook

notoriously ambitious and annoyingly

overprotective

ellie

what made you think it was the same guy

as the one that followed you in chicago

i didn't say i was the same guy but it

sounded the same

just every feeling was the same um it

felt like that night in chicago so it

made me think of the same guy

are you okay about this i love my wife

that's home

that's all that's all you sure

i'm sure was there anything that

happened in chicago i should have known

about honey there was a creep who i was

trying to find that took up all my time

until we left for here that's it

that's it that's it steve will you talk

to me

i don't have to think very hard to

remember how obsessed you were

did you ever find that guy no

no i didn't

i just hate to be reminded of that time

in chicago

i'm sorry ellie i am

you take your job so seriously

you'll probably end up being police

chief by the time you're 44.

i have a wonderful idea

why don't you talk to the hospital and

have him move you to day shift

then you can learn how to cook i know

how to cook

why don't you lay on the kitchen table

and i'll show you

i'll tell you what you lay in here and

i'll have the table set

up

i know you're a wonderful girl

jerry knows i hate this kind of plants

hate it

why do i have to wear a jacket i just to

have my breakfast off as usual by the

business not making enough money

it isn't he always has to make an

entrance that's why he's late

jerry believes this must be making

more coffee sir you can't stand him

anyway why are we doing this

because he's your brother and your

partner

jerk yes yes he says he has a big

surprise for all of us oh yeah

oh here they come you know

hey leah hi me

hi gee jerry we usually do our

celebrating with coffee and donuts at

deli

well that's your problem leon here is

where you do real business

jerry you promised

auto parts has been in a rut for 10

years right

we've been manufacturing the year two

years

it seems we fill a small niche in

specialty parts

we're talking a fat deal leon i am not

turning my business over to a company

can't even make a decent bumper but they

can make a profitable bumper

that's crap your attitude about making

money listen i built this business up

from nothing jerry

i care about i care about the people

that work there in united auto

corporation

isn't going to care about anybody and

what am i supposed to do when they take

over huh

no they're not going to fire you in fact

they demand you stay on during the

transition you couldn't leave if you

wanted to no look it was my money that

bailed you out of the whole

money already your money listen let me

tell you don't tell me about that

you wanted to become a social worker

is mrs kramer in i'm a mother mrs kramer

miss kramer we're uh detectives corbin

and silk thank you for seeing us

please come in thank you lucy

you don't know who killed my husband do

you no man we don't mrs kramer

there have been several suspected abuse

reports filed by your neighbors prior to

your husband's murder

it's no secret that we fought like hell

i should have left him years ago why

didn't you i've asked myself that

question many times

mrs kramer did your husband have any

enemies you knew about

nobody that would do something like this

i mean there must have been times like

the other night you wished he was dead

am i a suspect of course i am

yes i wished he was dead but only wished

where were you last night about 11

o'clock

i was having dinner with my mother where

right next door to friend of ours

mildred cable

she served poached salmon

thank you mrs kramer if you think of

anything would you give us a call

miss kramertown i got one more thing had

you been romantically involved with

anybody during your marriage

i thought about it but no well

had you thought about anybody in

particular i was always faithful to my

husband even though i hated my life

thank you for your time lucy will see

you out

thank you

she could have hired somebody to kill

him i doubt she has those connections

yeah lady like that's smart you want the

connection to find the connection

i believe her yeah well i think i'm

gonna go find out what mildred cable had

for dinner last night

my condolences mrs kramer thank you any

mail

yes your mail

two super clean 380s now the harkins

evidence came out of chicago what's a

chicago case coming here for

well it usually doesn't but this kramer

killing was interesting

so i ran the specifics through the fbi

down in quantico

i put a rush on it and they came back

with a possible match

parkinson chicago so i called the

chicago d.a

and presto the evidence appears

my you've been a busy little techie i do

my best

so we get lucky or what maybe every time

a bullet fires it's like a miniature

eruption

eventually the barrel is impregnated

with heat checks

carbon fills the craters i guess

both guns are 10 years old but there's a

problem

see this strange line it's not the sort

from a gun cleaning brush but

almost as if some kind of abrasive metal

like a file was used on the inside of

the barrel

and it's only on one bullet so are you

saying that someone altered the barrel

but they're both the same gun

different lines means no match pretty

smart huh

but unfortunately for our boy he forgot

something

in both crimes we found the shell casing

so so during firing the casing

slams back into the gun bolt leaving

marks that can be matched

just as accurately as a slug

i am pretty damn sure that the gun that

killed harkins in chicago

is the same one that killed kramer here

mrs kramer i recently sent you a bill

who are you you may call me alex

do you understand the terms you made it

quite clear

but why should i pay you i could just go

to the police i wouldn't do that if i

were you

the police will think you hired the

killer i've linked you to arthur's

murder

actually you're the only one with

anything to gain from this

crime you're their chief suspect

but i would i would never murder arthur

sally

you're safe now you're safer now

than you've been in a long time don't be

a fool and make your life

miserable again now let's discuss

how you'll get the money let me suggest

to you

three of your husband's accounts the

capital account

the first savings and the premier

federal account

your husband had quite a stash draw the

money from those accounts

no bills larger than a hundred put them

in a brown paper bag

and i'll call you tomorrow and tell you

where to drop them off

yes thanks

thanks now just screw the cap on and

it'll work fine

yes he's definitely eating traffic

problem oh no problem i wanted to

personally give you the report of the

scavenger who follows your wife

sticking to his story yep all zeroes

just a street cowboy like we thought

you know when you were questioning him i

got the feeling you were onto something

no corbin was just sloppy he already had

his mind made up about the guy

corbin is as good as they come captain

good enough for my job

you know it's hard when they get

somebody from the outside

especially from the big city where is

corbin anyway

oh he's on his way to chicago we got a

maybe out of ballistics on the kramer

shootdown or maybe one

well the same weapon may have been used

on a woman there by the name of hawkins

possibly a professional job

it's welcome to housekeeping is

sergeant becker i'm sure you remember

rebecca

we were married this year

congratulations mrs harkins

this is detective corbin from portland

thank you both very much for seeing me

in such short notice sir

we have reason to believe that the gun

used to kill your former wife may have

been involved recently in a murder in

portland

what does that have to do with me there

may be professional killer involved

are you telling me that i'm still a

suspect in maria's death

as long as the case is unsolved i'm

afraid so for a year now you've been

tormenting me with

your accusations

it's not easy for me these days i won't

submit that anymore

they say i've got two months left

for the last time i often wished my

ex-wife

dead but i didn't hire anybody to kill

her

oddly enough sir the circumstances of

the murder in portland are very similar

to this case only there it was a wife

who wished her husband did we're very

concerned

there's a likelihood there will be more

victims

it was a professional killer no dear

james is only trying to protect me

but i don't want anybody else to have to

go through this

the guy killed my wife on his own and

sent me the bill

i couldn't believe it so i didn't think

about the money until he

called you can't believe it either

does this killer have a name

yes alex

mr harkins do you have this bill that he

sent you no

i got rid of it afterwards

i tore up small pieces and flushed it

down the toilet

after i paid him how should you pay for

these services

one hundred thousand dollars

i have never heard the name alex before

and i don't like what you're suggesting

mrs kramer when you listen to us your

alibi checks out

i buried my husband yesterday i have

nothing to do with his death

and as far as i'm concerned it's over

would you mind telling us then why you

visited your safe deposit boxes

yesterday

there's papers for my attorney i mean is

that a crime i grieved for the last five

years of my marriage

that same morning i i went grocery

shopping and i bought a new dress

is there anything else that's all

for now

hey gentlemen she's adding something oh

okay well maybe you're right

but what does that have to do with

murtaugh not sure yet but sergeant

decker told me murtaugh ran the harkin

case in chicago

no harkin and kramer why didn't you

mention

hello why were the police visiting you

how do you know what did they want

they um they found out about

uh murder in chicago they said

that you did it that you used the same

gun

to murder arthur what else did they tell

you

i don't remember think

a man named i believe

harken tell them about a note you sent

he's dying of cancer i can't go on like

this

mrs kramer you have nothing to worry

about as long as you do as you're told

did you destroy my bill yes

you just have to stick to your story

don't break the bond

okay

hello i was being followed as soon as i

left the hospital the last two nights

by police i presume yes if you've got a

problem

tell me and that'll be good enough for

me because in case you haven't noticed

you're driving me

crazy there's no problem it's a

precaution ellie tell me you're not

afraid

i'm afraid yes but that's my problem i

haven't seen you like this since we left

chicago

i just want to cut out the paranoia okay

is there something you're not telling me

no

yes sir yeah

all they want is for is a damp parking

lot jerry not a better bumper

they just want to get rid of the

competition do me a favor let's go talk

in the office okay

why you don't want all these people to

hear they may not have jobs this home

the ball is going to pay you a jackpot

because of me a jackpot

i don't want a jackpot i want to run my

own business

please talk some sense into it where

does this deal stay i'm trying the

papers in a couple of days

you know something brother of mine

you're damn lucky i'm lucky

snotty you hear that everybody huh i

trust my brother

and he takes over my whole business

jerry i'll fire you up

uh harkins is telling the truth i'm sure

of it and we got to do something to

follow up on this kramer case

you pushed the lady hard enough we're

conducting a routine investigation damn

it harkins even tells his bride

why is a dying man gonna lie what kind

of medication is he on

what one heavy medication can cause

delusions

two if there was a killer whether he

hired him or not you don't have a

description and three harkins was a

heavy gambler

he cashed checks like that all the time

you know uh

i don't get it captain why didn't you

ever mention you were involved with the

hawkins case

was involved in a lot of cases in

chicago

i want you two to report to vance and

fields on the slasher case you'll be my

homicide liaison team

i also checked ballistics reports it

won't hold up

hey it's his call yeah i know but after

what that sergeant back in chicago told

me about the captain's involvement in

the harkins case how the hell can he

keep it from us

look he's pushed his pencil through

every report and come to a conclusion we

don't like know

what's wrong with that everything he's

backing us off because we're hot

the only thing that made sense in that

meeting with the things that shouldn't

what's wrong is you're not captain

what's wrong with the captain you're

playing this straight whoa

jake look nah i mean you're a good cop

but i'm not willing to lose my pension

on one of your damn hunches now you got

that

yellow is anybody in there

mr rog jerry

i'm lori hollowell i spoke with you this

morning what

time were you supposed to meet me i'm

sorry but

i'm his money dog did you come up with

an assessment schedule not yet

what about the blueprints here

these are incomplete

no one in portland was paying any

attention to these buildings at all

until i figured out how to joint venture

the rehab

now even though uncle sapp

closed off most of my leverage in that

stupid 86

tax reform i can still still offer a

four to one shelter understanding

secret is in finding structurally sound

space

that's why i was looking over myself

before the engineer

and i like to start at the top so which

way to the roof

there now you see someone did a lousy

patch job

what's that that's my boss mr eden he

said he called with the figures you

needed

we'll go and call him back that's a

check on how you gun-ups are gonna cheat

me anyhow

jerry a lot of people get hurt in

elevators what is this

this is some kind of joke no joke

my hot shot lawyer howard says um

as long as jerry is the majority

stockholder i can't stop

the sale peg says you're just making

matters worse for everyone

without my work my life is over me what

am i gonna do when the new oldest kiss

me off but i'm sorry

maybe it's not as bad as you think

believe me

i'm as good as gone then we'll run away

to one of those exotic

islands and the brochures i've been

bringing home for the last 10 years

it's gonna work out like it always does

45 years

may i help you nice lecture huh

minimum weight is nine months would you

uh like to place an order

what kind would you like oh i'm not

particular i like surprises

sorry i'm late it's okay just another

lake dinner

i say

oh yes right there right there

no not there

but if you get that i'm giving up on you

and you're entitled to a hot bath and no

phone

and persistence must be reported

i'll be back i promise before your sons

disappear

hello hi

how are you it is you isn't it yeah it's

me

you know you were a very bad boy running

away like that

i spent the better part of a month

locating you in your

simpler less stressful life

my heart bleeds for you how did you find

me anyway

i wish you had consulted me on this move

i would have preferred

a larger city a place that would give me

more opportunity

you killed kramer didn't you no comment

how many does that make now how long are

you gonna keep up this insanity

how's ellie i really miss her

you know we're all in this together

steve i'm as married to you as she is

so please don't ever leave me

again if you don't get off that phone

our marriage is going down the drain

uh-oh maybe i should let you get back to

your bath

where are you you bastard you're not

gonna get away with this forever

you were a lot more respectful in

chicago

i think it's time we had a meeting in

person

just you and me face to face i don't

think that's necessary

you're always in my thoughts in my

dreams

it's necessary you should learn to relax

steve everything's gonna be all right

i promise you incidentally there was a

terrible accident this evening

a man fell down an elevator shaft very

messy steve

come on maybe i should call you at work

i sense that you have something more

pressing on your mind

what's wrong

haley i didn't leave chicago and come

here to portland because of the

opportunity

i left chicago because i was afraid you

were gonna be the next victim of the

killer i was looking for

me why because alex told me that

alex is is a name he uses and he said

that if i didn't stop my investigation

of him then he was gonna kill you

did the department know about this yes

why didn't you tell me

it was bad enough that i had to go

through it when this job came up i felt

the best thing i could do for the both

of us was

just get out of chicago that was alex on

the phone wasn't it

yes

well what did he say he said that he

just killed somebody else

oh my god

did he betray the trust steve hold me

he broke the bond

jerry sure left her enough money to make

sure she finds herself another sucker

at least i got the first option on the

shares leon he was your brother

and i loved him i just couldn't stand

him

oh look i'm a relatively

civilized person so i'm not proud of the

way i feel but i got two dozen

employees who think he got what was

coming

leon telephone

hey y'all get it

hello mr wald my name is alex

i recently sent you a bill a bill for

what

for your brother leon for jerry

leon i took care of your problem i

executed jerry are you crazy

who is this the police won't think i'm

crazy when i tell him you hired me for

the job

i i i don't have that kind of money leon

i performed a service

you benefited directly from that service

i expect to be remunerated

hey listen you know what i'll go to the

police i'm afraid they won't believe you

leon the same fate that befell jerry

could just as easily fall

on may

hey

i i'm gonna have to i have to borrow 25

000

from your father why i can't tell you

that

i know it's unreasonable i mean i know

that what is it leon

please don't make this any harder than

it is okay i i i

this this thing came up and i'm all

tapped out

well what happens if you don't get the

money then you're gonna be going to my

funeral

somebody threatened your life well you

have to go to the police no no no no the

police can't know anything about this

please mate

i've already told you more than i should

what have you done leon

nothing i i i haven't done anything

nothing but i'm scared may i'm scared of

what this man might do

he's dangerous he's dangerous in a way

that you can't even imagine

he might kill me he might kill somebody

close to me you're the only one that's

close to me

well all the more reason you have to go

to the police no no

no i can't do that

hello captain it's alex

11 tonight washburn street what number

on washburn any number

so

hey man

father kiss loves

have you noticed how ambitious men are

always on time

come on alex i never trusted you you're

upset

hey i haven't lost faith in you well why

don't you put your little toy down

come on out where i can see you

come on alex come out and show me what

you're really made of

because i think you're like a little boy

that hides under the bed

if i were hiding under your bed i'd be

up all night with the use in the eyes

why keep hiding alex i thought we were

gonna meet face to face

i've always looked at our arrangement as

being mutually beneficial i did the work

you got what you wanted i don't think i

asked for much to you

killing is really easy for you i'm paid

well for my services my calling in life

is riding wrongs

eliminating suffering you're the one

that should die

i had no idea how angry you were i'm

truly sorry about that

why are you following my wife i wanted

to be clever of announcing my return

i let her know she was being followed i

expected her to let you know

but along came this unsavory fellow i'm

very protective of lovely girls

especially your

a little darling you're not trying to

kill me are you

you can't shoot at something you can't

see

see stop looking around

i hate to see you lose control it

reminds me

killing sarah was your idea not mine and

kramer was your idea too wasn't he

you breached our special relationship by

discussing me with ellie

you broke the bond now it's kelly's turn

good night captain

me

so

hey

buff it out buff it up

machine i'll check it out

uh leon speaking

yeah um i've raised the money

i can't hear you i've raised the money

and i just want to know is this is this

going to be

payment and full absolutely leon

one service one payment

how did you find out about jerry and me

i mean why me

you picked me leon what are you talking

about i don't even know you

how could i pick you you've been asking

for help for a long time

not that way there was no other way

and you had nothing to do with it listen

somebody had to tell you about me damn

it

somebody leon i want you to put the

money in a briefcase

at 11 15 starting at the traffic light

on wilcox i want you to walk

south side of mape's boulevard toward

grand

at some point a car trunk will

pop open i want you to put the briefcase

in the trunk

close the lid and continue on toward

grand

don't bother trying to get the license

number the car has been rented

thanks see you later

steve

corbin and silk silkman i told leon that

i wasn't feeling well so he told me to

stay home

i didn't call you to get my husband into

trouble but

i'm afraid for both of us

i mean my husband may have done

something really terrible

he was at the end of his rope when he

asked for all that money

i never ordered my brother's killing

this guy

did it on his own on his own

he even sent me a bill for a hundred

thousand dollars

yeah and i didn't believe that

and all of a sudden he calls me and he

says i owe him the money

does this guy have a name alex and he

gave me some time to get the money

together

then he called again with instructions

what i'm supposed to do with the money a

hundred thousand dollars

put it in the trunk of a car on um

mape's boulevard alex did you see him i

don't know we've only spoken on the

phone how many times twice

mr wald why didn't you call the police i

wanted to but he said that if i did that

then he was gonna say that i hired him

and then he threatened to kill my wife

did you ever get a bill

from a murderer say you wouldn't happen

to have this bill would you

oh yeah oh yeah whoa

silky oh he's dead meat

please

good evening you know stevie can tell a

lot about people by the way they breathe

into a phone

their hopes their dreams why don't you

help me out alex

are you starting to panic a little

actually i'm enjoying our little game

when the stakes are high so am i

i'd say it was pretty careless of you to

risk a meeting with me i prefer exciting

it demonstrates how inept you really are

well then give us a kiss love

you know i don't recall ellie ever

having

taking the bus to work with another

nurse

was her chaperone a policewoman

a halting breath

unhealthy but it helps control the anger

sound is so extraordinary

you're upset because you couldn't kill

me the other night aren't you

well i'm upset too

i'm afraid that the trust i so valued in

our relationship

is in jeopardy

i always knew the most intimate details

in your life

and now i'm afraid you'll go out of your

way to deceive me

count on it you're so good

and i'm so bad

are you as good a boy as ellie thinks

you leave her out of this

if you hadn't told her about us if you

hadn't broken the bond she wouldn't be

in it would she

we're walking on ice if we don't go to

murtaugh with the alex letter

maybe merton's walking a nice damn thin

ice a dirty cop

look he's mr gung-ho teamwork on every

case except this one you think about it

corbin i love you ever tell you that

i love you gilbert's got a story and a

stationary alex used

the only clear prince are those of leon

wall

that the paper is distinctive 20 pound

weight

woven fiber hand brushed cockle finish

expensive stuff like this always has a

watermark this one was registered

documents section identified the

manufacturer as to schulte's papers in

switzerland

how can you eat that that's lethal have

you called them yet

yep now here's where we hit a bit of

block it seems there's only one store in

the whole us that sells it and that's

yarbro stationers in chicago

there much call for it not a whole lot

especially in the blue shade

they had seven orders in the last year

three of them went to new york two of

them went to chicago and one to dallas

texas

you're getting smart on us gilbert at

six what about the seventh to a mr

belmont at the party club here in dear

old portland

let's get out of here let's go you're

right about these things especially if

they're day old oh

thank you

well now the package was sent from the

yarborough stationers to gerald belmont

at the party club mr hardman and all

deliveries are registered uh

it's easy to check

you say it was mailed out about three

weeks ago that's right

you've got quite an arsenal here mr

hartman who's your collector we all are

detectives

after all party is portland's oldest gun

club

i remember now mr brandt said that a

package would be coming for a friend mr

belmont

when did belmont pick up the package no

he didn't but then the package is still

here uh no

mr brant collected it who's mr brand uh

mr brandt is our most recent member a

transfer

transfer from where the uh bridgestone

club in chicago

do you happen to have mr brandt's

portland address oh of course

i'll get out his application

hey jake you think brad and belmont just

might be the same guy i would bet my

life on him

latest

let's see what we got

it's right here

quality construction

hey give me this thing

steel

man this dude is living in a vault

yeah this is silk i'm gonna need a torch

up here man

come on guys come on come on little

elbow grease let's get it open

come on

pete yeah come here what you got

got a lot of bad answers here

yes yes what's he doing here

captain murtagh informed us of his

dilemma two months ago when he arrived

here

what dilemma come in sit down

i was a candidate of alex's

why the hell were we kept in the dark

because i was afraid

to take a chance alex knew every move

that i made if he even suspected that i

was helping you with your investigation

he'd kill my wife

alex surveys a conflict between two

people he doesn't even know

and dispassionately picks one to

champion and then

coolly destroys the other the question

on the table now is

what do we do about it i think we should

go public with the story

all of it man is unstable we have no

idea of how he'll react it'll force him

to move

as i see it your wife will be the target

we'll take ellie out of the equation

hide her someplace that alex can't find

her then he won't have a choice

he'll have to move and his only target

will be me it's too risky steve

frank i've got to

i don't know what was the matter with me

honey

it happened about a month before we got

married

i was in chicago and you were gone two

weeks at that

nurse's conference we were having

lieutenant carter's bachelor party i had

too much to drink

there she was it was a stupid mistake

how long did it go on just a few days

admit nothing

i've always trusted you i don't know

what to think now ellie i love you don't

do this to me

don't do this to you that's funny i told

her i never wanted to see her again but

it didn't stop her

she'd keep coming by after work

calling on the phone she was getting

crazy she wouldn't go away no matter

what

i couldn't stand it anymore don't keep

telling me what kind of pain you were in

you're a liar

i was afraid you afraid alex killed her

he set me up and he took advantage of me

because of the way i compromised myself

and his fee was his freedom

he was the one who followed me yes

i felt if maybe i had more time i could

get him but i had to play by

his rules emily he was going to kill you

i wanted to tell you about her a

thousand times stop the car

stop the car

hilly

i can't be around you right now

your attention please your attention

please visiting hours are now

is the nursery down this way thank you

visiting hours

hi it's ellie sergeant silk just arrived

describe him to me

uh 6-1 black it's okay

where am i going i don't know they'll

tell me later

hallie

i love you i'll talk to you later

oh

so

foreign

how's it going dave one minute is all we

need

yeah well he knows that he saw his stuff

you can't set up that kind of rig

overnight

you need a bank of phones to do anything

what if he scrambles

we can unscramble in three seconds if he

calls

he'll find him believe me dave he'll

call

here we go

hello hello

i hate to admit it but i've had a

terrible day

well it's gonna get worse what do you

mean it's gonna get worse

worse for who i'm still in a driver's

seat lover boy

you have made my life extremely

uncomfortable

now i have to figure out how to even the

score

and what did you have in mind do you

really think that my

clients only pay me because they're

intimidated

they love the fact that someone will

step in and do their dirty work for them

you loved it but you never paid

you're not a very good boy ah let me

guess

this is the point where you're gonna

threaten me right

actually i wasn't even thinking of you

i was thinking of a bubble bath

i was thinking of ellie

all right

oh

yeah we're ready

good evening benson hotel 3 28.

hello ellie

is everything all right there

just sit tight and uh try not to worry

okay

remember the important thing is don't

open the door for anyone

you understand everything will be okay

huh look at this

come over here

out

hello ellie has still given you the gun

yet

yeah it's in the drawer in the next

you really think you try and get me here

we have to take every precaution honey

the man's insane i'm scared steve

i want to be there with you but i can't

take a chance i'll be followed

by

room service room service this is 328.

i'd like a couple of burgers one with

cheese raff and a beer so

yes sir that'll be about 15 minutes

uh

what a silly thing to do but not to

worry i have everything under control

what are you talking about you know

you can't spend the rest of your life

protecting ellie

it'll put a terrible strain

on your marriage

steve i'm so scared alex

steve you gotta learn to relax learn to

conserve your energy you're gonna need

it

if you hurt her i'll kill you

a magnum is a savage weapon you said

alex just point it and shoot

alex it'll stop a horse you said

captain where's she at two doors

downstairs

hi mike what's the situation sir it's

very quiet in there that's all we know

he knew he heard you call me here oh

it's all right it's all right it's all

right why did he kill him

he's just playing with us it's me he

wants it's just me

it's just me

uh

hey

thanks mike

i just want to go home steve take me

home

oh

so

we'll never be safe here he'll be back

he'll always be

out there tomorrow a year from now

watching listening i want to get out of

the city

you can't protect me forever i'll get it

steve this isn't alex

this this isn't alice

okay

so

are you all right you promise

steven where are you going he's watching

he's out there somewhere watching

steven you don't even know anyone

police officer put your hands on the

table what

i said put your hands on this people all

right you don't try anything just keep

your hands on the table

you sit down get off me shut up all

right hands up to the side

get off me shut up

what's your name i said what's your name

all right give me some id steve he's not

the one

speak how about a kiss love

um

me

me

you