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Why don't you go away and take your hatred somewhere else?

We've got a right to march wherever we want.

March your KKK butts out of here.

Go to hell.

I've got a permit says we can demonstrate right here.

I don't believe this.

Skinheads, and they're actually going

to let them have a parade.

It's a free country.

Going right through downtown, August?

I mean, that's just asking for trouble.

Are you listening to what I'm saying?

Damn!

Cubbies lost again.

POLICE RADIO: All cars in the area of Pico and Westwood,

please respond.

Public disturbance in progress at the First

Congregational Church.

I knew it.

Knew what?

This is One William 13 responding.

[CROWD YELLING, SOUNDS OF FIGHTING]

Break it up! Break it up!

Come on.

Come on.

Stop it!

Get these people outta here!

Move them out!

Come on.

Move out, people.

Everybody back inside.

Come on.

Come on.

Back inside.

Now all of you, back in the church.

Please go back inside!

You guys ain't got nothing on him.

[chanting] You ain't right.

You ain't white.

You ain't right.

You ain't white.

You ain't right.

You ain't white.

You ain't right.

You ain't white.

You ain't right.

Skin heads on parade.

And to think I used to like parades.

[theme music]

[splashing sounds]

August.

Hi, Jackie.

Hi, Jackie.

Nice to see they sent a couple of pros to handle this one.

This uh, is your church, isn't it?

It used to be.

So, I can't officially be involved.

But you know if you need any help.

What's the story on the body?

Burned to a crisp.

Forensics is going to have to ID this one.

Well, let's hope he had a good dentist.

Fire marshal's already been here.

- Well, yes. - Arson?

Yeah.

Place was doused with gasoline.

So this could be the bones of a victim or the perp, huh?

This man's no victim.

Died by the flames of hell that he created.

Minister Green.

I'm sure the Aryan Nation is responsible for this.

Why do you say that, Minister?

Were there any witnesses?

Was there anyone in this church last night?

No.

The church is usually empty on Thursday nights.

Oh, there was someone here last night.

Detective, the devil was here.

And what happened here was witnessed by the eyes of God.

Witnessed by the eyes of God.

God.

Jeez, think we can get him to testify?

Who?

God.

We'll um, we'll keep you posted, Jackie.

Thanks a lot for your help.

No problem.

Listen, say hello to Kendra for me.

Yeah, I'll do that.

See ya, Jackie.

Let' go talk to the fire marshal.

Yeah.

Howie?

Howie.

Howie.

[sobbing]

It's all right.

It's all right.

We all have to be strong.

The fire, the fire.

Yes, yes.

I don't know what to do.

The Father knows, Howie.

Remember what I told you.

Yes.

We'll rebuild the church with your help.

- Yes. - All right?

Yes, sir.

August?

Hot dogs?

What happened to your diet?

I love hot dogs, Mac.

Hot dogs call to me in my sleep, Mac.

Hot dogs are irresistible.

We got an ID on your church corpse.

And?

Dental records show that the crispy strip of bacon

was indeed the former Duke Minks,

Aryan Nation member and nephew to LA chapter president,

Ed Minks.

We arrested him at the protest.

Looks like the judge didn't set high enough bail.

So Minks got caught in his own fire.

Maybe.

You gonna eat that?

- Yes, I am. - All right.

I can get my own.

You do that.

Oh, uh, one more thing.

Uncle Eddie turned up to claim the body.

Thought you might like to know.

Uncle Eddie.

This ought to be fun.

Enjoy the dog.

Hey! Hey!

What the hell do you think you're doing?

That's my dog you are--

He's choking.

He's choking.

No, no, no, no, no. Not this way.

No!

You OK?

[coughing]

You all right?

You saved my life.

You know you saved my life, man.

You saved my life, man.

Better call the medics and make sure he's OK.

He saved.

Saved me.

August.

You're not going to finish your hot dog?

Mr. Minks.

Are you going to find the niggers that killed my nephew?

I told you this would be fun.

So you think your nephew was murdered, Mr. Minks?

I'm not talking with the hired help.

And I don't want no affirmative action justice neither.

I want proper, .

White justice

You want a lynching perhaps?

Well, keeps the streets clean.

Mr. Minks, your nephew died inside an African

American church, the same church he was protesting at last week.

He was executed.

He burned to death surrounded by gasoline cans.

My nephew was too smart to set foot inside no nigger church.

And he weren't no arsonist neither.

Those niggers dragged him in there and they executed him.

It appears that he was alone in the church after hours.

Do you have any information that might contradict that?

My nephew is innocent until proven guilty or have you've

forgotten the Constitution of America,

a document written and signed by white men for a white country.

Your nephew had a rap sheet a mile long.

Rape, vandalism, assault and battery, all

directed against minorities.

Then the niggers had a motive, revenge.

And I suppose you helped them.

This investigation will follow all possible leads.

I'm sure it will.

Let me tell you this, justice will

be served, one way or another.

I think we'd better warn Green and the congregation.

Yeah.

Nice church.

Yeah, they're going to housing Minister Green's congregation

until St. Christopher's can be rebuilt.

We have not lost our church, brothers and sisters.

Our faith has not been consumed by the flames.

Our faith burns even brighter as the Lord

gives us strength to endure.

From glorious heaven I can feel it.

I can feel the power of our unity here.

We must work together to eradicate evil.

The justice system cannot help us.

Duke Minks burned our perish on the every day

he was released from prison.

That information hasn't even been released yet.

Friends in high places?

I see that we have guests here today.

Detectives, why don't you come on down

and explain to us why the system has failed us.

CROWD MEMBER: Yes, tell us.

Reverend Green.

Yes.

I'm Detective August Brooks.

This is my partner, Detective Chase McDonald.

We're the investigating officers assigned to probe

the burning of your church.

With 15 church burning across the country last year,

and not one arrest, how do you explain that?

[crowd rumblings]

I understand your feelings of anger, people.

And your feelings of frustration.

CROWD MEMBER: You don't know.

But I have to tell you that the skinheads campaign of

terror is likely to continue.

But.

CROWD MEMBER: What's going to continue?

We can provide your church with the full protection

of the law.

CROWD MEMBER: The law that favors the white majority.

CROWD MEMBER: Come on.

I know that the system is not perfect,

but we have to give it the time it needs to work.

CROWD MEMBER: We don't have any time.

CROWD MEMBER: We're out of time.

Is there anyone you can tell us anything

about what happened last night?

Did anyone hear anything or see anything that might help us?

, Church please join me in hymn 14, page 87.

(SINGING) Wade in the waters.

Wade in the waters.

Wade in the waters, children, wade in the waters.

Let me get this straight.

Mr. Hot dog, the slash throw up artist is at your house.

Uh, huh. cleaning out my workshop.

Kind of took him in, you know, like a lost puppy.

Yes, a lost, homeless puppy recently

arrested for vagrancy, Mac.

Are you out of your mind?

Come on, August, he's harmless.

And who knows?

Maybe I can help the poor guy out?

Huh?

And maybe you will come home and your work shop

will be cleaned out.

You see that?

That's one more difference between you and me.

I'm willing to take a chance on an odd person.

Well, I deal with you every day.

That's odd enough for me.

I'm not odd.

I'm unique.

No, you're odd.

What you got for us Cragmire?

Well, this stuff was stacked on the pews

near the front of the church, dustpan, wood polish, old rags.

So maybe he only liked to burn clean churches.

Yeah.

The interesting news is that the coroner

confirms that Duke Minks was dead before he burned.

Before?

Cranium and spine bear evidence of severe trauma

and bleeding that occurred before the body

was exposed to extreme heat.

Now, the blood settled in the lower part of the body, which

indicates that the heart stopped sometime

before this guy got roasted.

Could he have had an accident?

I mean, maybe he fell.

Well, if he fell 20 times.

Well, he could have been real clumsy.

All right.

Homicide.

Just keep that fact under wraps for a while, huh?

I love a secret.

- Thanks, Cragmire. - See you.

[sniffs]

Jim, your maintenance company does repair work at St.

Christopher's Church, correct?

Oh, yeah.

Can't believe they burned the place.

Aryan Nation.

Bastards.

Just how often do you work there?

All the time.

The church is always getting hit, broken windows, break ins,

you name it.

What about the cleaning?

Howie Dane does that.

Who's Howie Dane?

He's the janitor.

He comes in every Tuesday and Thursday night

and cleans the place.

Mac, you want to finish this up?

I'm going to make a phone call.

Thank you, Jim.

How many times would you say the church has been

hit in the last six months?

Well, how did it go in there?

Um, Jackie, you told me no one was in that church

at the time of the burning.

Are you sure about that?

That's what Green told me.

Why?

Do you know something different?

Well, I think the janitor might have been there.

Howie?

You know him?

Yeah, he's part of the congregation.

Well, I'm going to need to talk to him.

August, Howie is a very simple man.

I mean, he's not reliable.

It would be a waste of your time.

Yeah, but he's still a potential witness.

Well, if Green says that he wasn't there,

I'm inclined to believe him.

Well, he was supposed to be there,

and we found his cleaning supplies in the ashes.

I need his address.

I don't know it.

Does he have a family?

The congregation is his only family.

August, don't you think you're pushing a little too hard?

What's that supposed to mean, Jackie?

Nothing.

It's just that um, Howie Dane is very fragile.

Try talking to Green first.

Yeah, all right.

Are you certain no one was in church the night

Duke Minks died, Reverend Green?

Yes.

Why?

Well, we found some cleaning supplies in the debris.

We thought they might have belonged

to your janitor, Howie Dane.

Howie wasn't even there that night.

But he usually stores his supplies under a pew.

I thought he was there every Thursday night.

No, he was home sick.

What's this all about?

We just may want to talk to him, that's all.

Shouldn't you guys be out chasing

Minks and his associates?

I mean, I cannot see how harassing

an innocent man is going to help you solve this case.

Well it may not be as open and shut as it seems,

Reverend Green.

Please, do not forget who the victims are here, Detective.

Reverend Green, Duke Minks was killed before the fire.

So we are not really certain who the victims are here.

[automatic gunfire]

There are your victims, now, Detective.

Reverend?

I'm all right!

Let's go.

Go, go, go.

I got these two jerks.

I got Minks.

[siren]

Dispatch, this is one William 13.

I'm in pursuit of a white New Yorker

headed south on Glendale.

I need a barricade at Glendale and Brand.

Dispatch, this is one William 13, where is my backup?

Pull it over, Minks.

You're under arrest.

I cannot leave him alone.

This is where you get off.

Chase!

Mac.

Mac.

You OK, partner?

Whoa!

Turn around.

- Uh, can you stand, Mac? - Uh, huh.

Well, now would be a real good time.

Get the Molotov cocktail.

These guys kidding?

[gunfire]

[screaming]

[sirens]

Back here.

Come here.

Officer, take him.

cuff him, read him his rights.

Stay still.

I'm the only justice my son is every going to get.

Those niggers killed him and you ain't

going to do nothing about it.

Because you're a nigger, a dirty, filthy nigger.

All right. All right.

Hands behind your back.

Get him outa here.

Get him in the car. Come on!

Get in!

Get him outa here.

You all right, partner?

Yeah.

Let's go.

That was great!

Well, why are you so surprised?

Oh, I don't know.

Because you're a homeless guy?

Well, no offense, my friend, but you've

got to start looking at life from all angles, not just one.

Life is varying shades of gray.

Nothing is as it seems on the surface.

Take your art work for example.

It's missing that element of mystery.

I see, so you're not just a musician,

you're also an art critic.

Your art work is very literal.

Literal.

You need to infuse it with more life,

more mystery, more vibrato.

Well, you know what, Carmine, I just got

bounced off the hood of a car tonight.

That's enough vibrato for me.

I'll see you in the morning, all right?

So sculpt that.

Sculpt what?

Energy, the vibrato.

You might have something, Carmine.

Thanks, I'll see you in the morning.

OK.

You still can't sleep?

No.

You want to talk about it?

Yep.

Kendra, sometimes being a cop is not so cut and dried, so

black and white, yin and yang.

Good and evil get blurred sometimes.

It becomes very hard to tell them apart.

Is it the church burning?

Yeah.

Minks and his skinheads are some of the worse

things on the planet.

But I think Green is hiding something from me

about the death of Duke Minks.

What would make you think that?

I don't know, honey.

I don't even know if I should care.

Maybe the world's a whole lot better off now that he's dead.

But the law demands that his death

be investigated completely.

Oh, man.

You know, the day you became a cop, you took an oath

and you've always been true to that.

Yeah.

But did I swear to serve and to protect

the rights of such evil men?

You're letting Minks go?

Yep.

Minks insists he was already handcuffed

when I struck him I supposedly violated his civil rights.

So they cut a deal.

If it wasn't for Captain Jensen,

I'd be retired right now.

Oh come on, August.

They'll never retire you.

You'd miss me too much.

Guess again.

Listen, I might have something pretty interesting.

Several neighbors said that they saw

an ambulance pull up in front of the church an hour

before the fire alarm.

Green never said anything about that.

I checked and there's no record

of any local hospitals dispatching

an ambulance to that location.

But I did find a private ambulance service that did.

Where did it go?

Local clinic, normally closed that time of night.

So somebody opened it for them.

Yes, somebody by the name Dr. Paul Jackson, conveniently out

of town.

Get this, a member of Green's congregation.

Yeah, I know him.

What about the ambulance drivers?

They said they picked up a teenage girl

pretty badly beaten.

Any ID?

Well, they give me a description

but I haven't ID'd her yet.

But there was someone with her.

His description matches Howie Dane.

This is your church.

Jackie, you hear anything about an ambulance being--

There he is.

We cannot allow this man to go free.

Whoa, whoa, whoa!

[sounds of a melee]

[inaudible] cop.

We can't stand idly by and let this man go free.

That was a decision of the courts, Reverend.

You stinking Neanderthals can't touch me.

Hey, hey, hey!

[crowd yelling]

You have sown the wind and you shall reap the whirlwind.

This is not the way, people.

Look at yourselves.

You're a damn lynch mob.

This is Minks's level of justice.

You're better than that.

The Lord does not deal in legal technicalities,

Detective.

Edward Minks is pure evil, and the only way to deal with evil

is to cast it out.

Let's go.

I heard you had a tail put on Minks.

24/7.

I want to make damn sure he's going to leave

Green's congregation alone.

August, what happened in the church

that night doesn't really matter, does it?

I mean, that kid obviously went in there

to burn the place down.

It matters, Jackie.

August, you and me, we go way back, right?

Christ, we were even in the Academy together.

Tell me about it, girlfriend.

We go too far back.

We know each other.

You know my kids.

Hell, I even know you like cream and no sugar in your coffee.

What's on your mind, Jackie?

Sometimes it's better to let a dead dog lie.

I know he was an evil person, Jackie.

And I hate his type more than anybody.

But I need to solve this case.

That's my job.

And let's suppose you do solve this case.

Who's the better for it?

Mac, let me talk to him alone for a minute.

You got it.

Are you Howie?

Yes.

Howie, you mind if I ask you a few questions?

I have to finish my prayer.

Are you policemen?

I'm a detective, Howie, yes.

I'm not supposed to talk to you.

Why not?

Because I ain't, because Minister Green said I ain't.

Dang pews get all smudged.

Howie, do you know anything about the fire?

Did you see the fire, Howie?

The church was burning.

I saw a terrible fire.

Was there anyone hurt that night?

The bad man got hurt.

Anyone else?

What are you doing?

Stay away from him.

Reverend Green, I need to ask this man--

You will ask him nothing unless I'm present.

The man is a lamb, a lamb I tell you.

Now, Howie, wait for me in the back room.

Wait a minute.

No, no.

I will not let you upset him.

Reverend Green, what happened in your church that night?

What are you hiding?

Why do you have such a need to investigate this?

There was a young girl there also, wasn't there?

I know nothing about it.

That's funny.

Neither did the doctor who also happens

to be one of your parishioners.

You're a black man.

You of all men know the forces of evil against us.

The hand of God has struck down Satan,

and I do not question God's will.

Neither do I, Reverend, But the State of California

requires that I question Howie Dane.

August.

Yeah.

Excuse me.

Howie's outside.

Lord, have mercy.

Have mercy on all of us.

For a janitor, this guys sure knows how to drive.

Yeah, we may need a little backup.

All units this is one William seven,

in pursuit of a black and tan Buick

Skylark heading east on Yucca.

Requesting backup.

One William seven, this one Adam seven.

I am responding.

Heading eastbound.

I am one block away.

Here's our backup, August.

Whoa!

Whoa.

Whoa!

There goes our backup.

I hope he's OK.

This guy certainly doesn't drive like a [inaudible]..

Whoa, whoa, whoa. Watch it!

Watch it!

Hang on.

Out of the car!

I'm going to let you handle this one, partner.

I'm going to go check on the backup.

Right.

Jackie, what the hell is going on?

August Brooks, I'd like you to meet

Angela Dane, Howie's daughter.

All right, what the hell is going on, Jackie?

What happened out there?

I was protecting the innocent.

I don't think things are that cut and dried.

Really?

I think they are.

Did Howie Dane killed Duke Minks because he

assaulted his daughter?

August, suppose something happened to you.

You get a call in the middle of the night from a close friend.

You arrive at the scene.

You realize what happened.

A simple church janitor and his daughter are in the church

alone.

And then a sick, evil man broke into church

and brutally raped the daughter.

My god.

The father caught the rapist in the act.

Something snapped inside of him, August.

The gentlest man in the world.

He beat that rapist to death.

And then suppose you get another call from his protector,

the minister.

He calls you for help.

And he asks you to help him protect the innocent.

So you call an ambulance and find some gasoline

and torch the scene.

Make it look like a hate crime gone bad.

No physical evidence.

Not enough to convict at least.

You're a cop, Jackie.

What are you going to do?

I'm going to complete my investigation, Jackie.

You'll never convict.

You'll just ruin me.

Listen, Jackie, I--

[door slams]

August.

We've got a problem, Mac.

Mr. Green just got a judge to declare Howie

Dane mentally incompetent.

That means he's officially off limits.

His daughter is not talking.

So we've got no concrete evidence.

We have no investigation.

August, listen, um, I just heard

that Jackie Titan resigned.

What?

Brooks desk.

What?

Right.

August, Eddie Minks just shook the unit that was tailing him.

He's going to go after Green.

Howie, I've got a story to tell you.

It's a story about good and evil.

It's a story of a lamb who lived in the house of God.

August, I'll bet everything I own this is Minks's car.

Call for backup and take the back, Mac.

And one day, Satan appeared in the house of God

and defiled the sanctuary.

The lamb, being an instrument of God's rage,

folds up and struck Satan down.

Again, he was still the lamb because he

listened to the word of God.

I guess that would make you the black sheep

of God's little family.

You killed my nephew and that was not very Christian of you.

Duke Minks was punished by God for raping

an innocent young girl.

When you see Him, tell Him I think He's a real jerk.

Minks!

He killed one of my own.

Put the weapon down!

You can't let a nigger get away with killing a white man

or there'll be revolution.

Put the weapon down!

[everyone shouting]

[gunshot]

[gunshots]

Gee, I hope I didn't interrupt anything.

Mac, take Howie and the Reverend out of here.

Come on. Let's go.

It's all right.

You got two options here, pal.

[gun cocks]

One of them is to live.

Take him.

You got it.

I can't stand being close to him.

You're going to be all right, Howie.

Isn't he?

You're going to be just fine, Howie.

As far as I'm concerned this investigation is over.

I don't think we're going to have

enough evidence to convict.

Thank you, Detective.

Thank you.

[horn playing]

[inaudible]

A little farewell tune.

Yeah, yeah. What's the name of that song?

I know that song.

It's um, don't tell me.

Don't tell me.

Carmine, listen, if you don't have a place to stay,

come stay with me.

Thanks, but no thanks.

I miss my old dig, man.

Here's my ride now.

Ride?

Yeah, my ride.

This is my ride.

I thought you said you were homeless.

I never said I was homeless.

Life is varying shades of gray.

Nothing is as it seems on the surface.

You caught that in your new sculpture, Chase.

Vibrato, baby.

Hey, we're having a little set tomorrow.

Swing by, man.

It's going to be very.

Swing by, it's going to groove.

Carmine Hancock.

What?

Carmine Hancock.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Carmine.

That's it. That's it.

Carmine's Blues.

I knew I knew that song.

Carmine Hancock.

This guy is one of the greatest jazz

coronet players in the world.

That's Carmine Hancock.

What was he doing hanging around with me?

Obviously, he's crazy.

Hey, what's that supposed to mean?

[theme music]

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