All language subtitles for Rockford Files S06E07 The Hawaiian Headache.DVDRip.NonHI.en.UNVSL

Aloha!

This isn't some sleazy
divorce case in L.A.

This is top flight
international spy work.

Be tricky, be tough
and be a tiger.

Guess where I am now?

At the bar?

Close. The jail.

Now, when I say move,
I want you to come in,

and when you come, I
want to see lead in the air.

Move, move, move, move!

Terrific.

Book him. Murder one.

I'm not with him.

ROCKFORD ON ANSWERING
MACHINE: This is Jim Rockford.

At the tone, leave your
name and message.

I'll get back to you.

Billings, LAPD.

You know, Thursday
is Chapman's 20th year

and we're giving a little
surprise party at the captain's.

I think you should come.

By the way, we need
five bucks for the present.

Dad, you can let go of
my hand now. We're here.

Oh, sonny, we're here.

Look, they have palm
trees out there. See?

Over on the right. Palm trees.

Yeah, well, Dad we
have those in L.A.

You know our palm trees is
choking to death in the bad air.

Look at these
here. Look at them.

I just don't believe
we're here, sonny.

And we wouldn't be either if I
hadn't gone through that there trash

and pulled out that letter
you threw away and...

Please don't go
through that again, okay?

Yeah, of course, you
don't want to hear about it.

All these years I
been telling you,

"Sonny, don't throw
away your mail unopened."

And you say to me, "Dad, I
don't have to open my mail

"to tell whether it's
real or junk mail."

Well, what are you doing?

I'm giving you
my full attention.

Three times in the last hour,
you brought this up, Dad.

I made the mistake
of not looking at you,

so obviously you don't think
I was paying attention, huh?

Look, you just go ahead, huh?

Once and for all, put it to bed.

Well, I was just telling you,

here we won this
wonderful free vacation

and you threw away
the letter unopened.

I'm sorry. It's just
that I'm excited.

In all my whole life, I ain't
never been to Hawaii before.

Now I'm here and to
think that we got here

just because we were shopping
at Mason's Department Store.

Oh, boy! I can't help it.

I gotta keep telling myself
that we're really here.

All right. You got
it off your chest?

Well...

Thank you, ladies, thank you.

Well, I'm still
excited, of course.

Yeah, well, so am I, Dad,
so am I. Come on, let's go.

You might as well
face it though, sonny,

you did throw away that
letter unopened. Excuse me.

Uh, uh, uh, uh.

No, I'm only kidding you.

We're going to the Royal Surf?

Yeah, the Royal Surf Hotel.

Can you imagine? All my life,

I've never been in a
hotel yet with the name

"royal" in the name.

Don't you forget the Royal Coach
Inn. Best pancakes in Fresno.

And when I think you almost
gave your ticket away to Becker...

Yeah, well, I do owe him
a lot of favors, you know.

And it's his vacation and I figured
with all the favors he's done for me,

I owe it to him.

Well, that is all true, but when you
got good fortune you want to keep it.

You don't want to
pass it on. Keep it.

Well, he and Peg, they
wanted to go to Canada,

so it worked out
for the best anyway.

Next car, please. This
one's reserved. Thank you.

Oh, next car, huh?

Yeah. Hey.

Relax, Mr. Rockford,
okay? Take it easy.

What...

Please watch your
fingers as the doors close.

And grab the hand holds
while the tram is in motion.

Jimmy? Jim?

Rockford?

Colonel Smith? Is that you?

You got it, soldier. You got it.

All right, Colonel.
What is this?

Hey, no, "How
you doing, Smitty?"

No infantry backslapping?

Hey, it's me, kid. Howling
Mad. I saved your bacon.

All right, all right.
How you doing, Smitty?

Let's hear it for the Fifth
Regimental Combat Team.

Now, what the hell is this?

This is P six. Whipple,
get up front with the others.

Come on, get moving.
I got to catch a plane

to Hong Kong in an
hour. Come on, Jimmy.

Okay, Jimmy, here's the scoop.

I'm out of military intelligence

and working for
national intelligence.

Now, I need a guy
for a piece-of-cake job.

Somebody who's
not in the agency.

Some new face that I can S.C.
in 10 seconds on my signature.

S.C.?

Security Clearance.

The old meet market
stamp, government approved.

Yeah, well, I want you to get
something straight, Colonel.

I don't know what
you're figuring on.

Why don't you just figure
I'm not any way a part of it?

Well, let's just figure
that you are part of it.

I'm telling you,
it's my vacation.

Hey, baby, who do you
think sent that envelope

with those tickets to Hawaii?

You think that three-for-a-dollar
department store

is giving away
free trips out here?

Now, I'm in kind of a hole.

And I'm thinking back over
old intelligence operations

and I remember Sergeant
"Hound Dog" Rockford.

I remember
Operation Kettle Drum.

A duffle bag with a
half a million dollars

and you ran the course, baby.

And I remember lugging
your bleeding carcass

over 15 miles of frozen
Korean real estate.

Well, I'm not the same guy.

I'm not calling in old markers.

I'm just betting that you're the
kind of guy who pays his debts.

And that you're the
kind of guy that...

Okay, doggone it, I'll say it.

The kind of guy who
still loves his country.

Come...

Oh, Colonel.

Let's hear it.

That's my Hound Dog.

Okay, it's a covert operation.

Now, it's top security,

but it's not judged dangerous.

It's in the political section,

and we're calling it
Operation Net Serve.

Now the government
may, and I repeat,

may want to send the U.S.
ping-pong team to Vietnam.

Now we sent those guys
to China two years ago

and it opened up the whole
country, okay? Same deal in 'Nam.

Now Operation Net Serve
is just you taking a suitcase

with 100 grand American

to swap with the
middleman in a public place

for 100 grand worth
of slope money.

Now, that's the caper.

You're on the firing
line, five minutes max.

Why me, Colonel? Why
not one of these guys?

We don't want to use any agent
with current field experience.

If the word gets out that, say,
Whipple there is making the switch

all these foreign
bureaus will realize

that we're trying to establish
relations with the 'Nam government.

Now, we don't want them
to know about it till it's over.

So, we use a stowaway.

Some guy that
doesn't belong. You.

And if anybody finds out,

it's just a head scratch and nobody
connects it with Uncle Sammy.

I really don't wanna
do this, Colonel.

Well, you're handing
me a big problem.

But, like I said, I'm not the kind
of guy to try to rope in an old debt.

I'm just a guy
trying to do a job.

Okay, fellas. Meeting's over.
We got a wet one. Let's go.

Colonel...

In?

In.

Okay. Now, Whipple,
there, goes with you.

He handles the payload
until you make the switch.

You're only gonna be
carrying the ball for five minutes.

Whipple, let's sign it over.

Pull it over.

Okay, everybody off.

Smoke them if you got them

and give them hell,
baby. Give them hell.

Hound Dog, huh? That's
your handle? That's...

Boy, I'll tell you,
Mr. Rockford,

this is all really
exciting to me.

See, I've only been
in the field two weeks.

I was in the research
division in Washington

and then I kept
applying for field duty,

but all I've done so far is drive
an embassy car for two weeks.

I don't know, it's just...

All you've done is what?

Well, that's why I'm
the control on this one.

See, I'm an agent but
not that well-known.

So there's a good chance,
even if they spot me,

they won't be able to make me.

And from everything
Howling Mad told us about you,

well, you can sort of
help me through this one.

I'm supposed to help
you? I love it. That's terrific.

I'm supposed to help you.
That's the arrangement?

Well, like they said,
this is a low risk venture.

That's another
reason I was picked.

Hey, don't worry.

Don't worry? Hey, what
have I got to worry about?

Why should I worry, huh?

I mean, all this is just
a little advance work

for a ping-pong
tournament, right?

Right, sir. That's all it is.

Oh, wow, postcards.

Wait a minute. I wanna
send one to my wife.

She's back in D.C. I promised
I'd write her every day.

We're four months
pregnant with our first.

You don't even show yet.

I'll be right back,
Hound Dog. Hold on.

There you are.

Say, what is this? First I was
with you, then I'm without you,

and then I see you on another
tram and I miss the tram.

Where you been?

Yeah, I went to pick
you up a cigar, Dad.

I don't smoke.

Okay, I got them.

This must be your father
you were telling me about.

I was?

Hi. I'm Dwight Whipple. I
met your son, Jim, on the tram.

I suggested we share my
car on the way to the hotel.

It's parked right below here.

It turns out we're all
staying at the Royal Surf.

Well, now, that's a
real coincidence, huh?

Not really.

Well, let's go get your bags
and head to the hotel, okay?

He's headed toward baggage.

Yeah, we got them, brah.

First time in Hawaii,
Mr. Rockford?

First time. How about
you, Mr. Whipple?

Oh, please. Dwight. All
my friends call me Dwight.

What do your enemies call you?

Well, I suppose if I had any,
they'd call me Dwight, too.

All my friends call me Rocky.

You see, Jim here and me, we
got the same name, Rockford,

so my friends call me Rocky.

You know, I was trying to get my
real close friends to call me Whip.

But, I don't know, it
doesn't seem to stick.

I guess I'm not the sort of
guy who gets a nickname.

Oh, nonsense. Whip is a...

Well, it's a perfect name
for you. Just perfect.

You really think so?

Dwight Whipple is
such a straight name.

I like Whip better.

Well, of course anybody can
have a nickname, you know.

I wanted to ask you something.

Is this your first
visit to Hawaii, Whip?

Yes, sir, first time.
How about you, Rocky?

First time for me, too.

Another thing I wanted
to ask you Dwight was...

I called you Dwight. He's
got a new name, Whip,

and I called him Dwight.

Well, it's just because I'm so
excited still from winning this...

You know, we won
this trip in the mail.

I'll bet you won't believe that.

Oh, sure he will, Dad. I think old
Whip'll understand that just fine.

Aloha.

Aloha. I'm Dwight Whipple.

These are the Rockfords.
We're checking in.

Mr. Whipple, you have
a message here, sir.

Oh, thank you.

I have to use a phone. Is
there a pay phone I can use?

Sure, right around the
corner, by the parking lot.

All the pay phones
are out there.

All the house phones
are here. Thank you.

This is my first
trip to Hawaii...

I gotta make a phone call.

You lock this in the
trunk till I get back.

Oh, no, no, nothing doing.

I'm not supposed to have
anything to do with that

until the switch is made.

Look, it's just a precaution. I don't want
to walk through the parking lot with it.

Just lock it in the
trunk and wait.

What's the problem?

All right, but
hurry it up, Dwight.

See? See? It never sticks.

People always end
up calling me Dwight.

All right, move
it, will you, huh?

It's been 10 minutes.
You gotta move the car, sir.

Oh, all right. Look...

Where'd you say
those phones were?

Right around the corner, sir.

Okay, I'll be right back,
okay? Just a minute.

Hey, sonny, you sure have
taken to disappearing a lot lately.

Where you been?

Did you find one of them
little wahines or Leilanis?

Whatever they call them.

That's Dwight's suitcase.

You mean old Whip, don't you?

You know, he's right about
that, old Whip. It just don't fit him.

He's no Whip. He's
more of a... More of a...

Dwight?

Yeah, well, isn't he liable
to be needing his luggage?

Oh, no, Dad. I got a feeling

he's not gonna be needing
much of anything anymore.

You're just sore because
you throwed away that invite

and I found it.

And now you're
trying to wreck our trip.

Dad, why don't you go downstairs

and get one of those
nice rum drinks?

You know, they put
flowers on the top.

They float them on there.
The whole thing. You'll love it.

What are you gonna be doing?

I'll just stay here in the room
and kick the walls, okay?

Now, look, I got
something I gotta work out.

Would you just give
me a minute, please?

You know, I just don't
understand you no more.

That's cause I'm deeply
complicated and moody.

Bullheaded.

In trouble.

This is Mr. Rockford
in Room 613.

Could you tell me what
room Mr. Whipple is in?

Room 612. But he
hasn't checked in yet, sir.

Room 612. Thank you.

What's wrong with you?
What are you doing?

Look, this is a
respectable hotel.

Ain't no son of mine gonna
be Peeping Toming around.

Hush, Dad, hush.

Well, I ain't going downstairs
and drink alone neither.

No.

Dad, will you please
be quiet, just please?

I want to know what in
tarnation is going on here.

Dad, just shut up or get out.

Shut up?

You ain't never said that to
me since you was a little boy

and I put you over my knee
and banged some sense into you.

Dad, I'm not fooling, now.
Either shut up or get out. Go on.

Hey, of all the...

Well, ladies, go
ahead. I'm sorry I'm late.

Back to work, girls.

Excuse me, my
name is Jim Rockford.

I placed a call to the federal
building a few minutes ago.

I'm expecting a return
call from a Mr. Gordon Lyle.

It's extremely important that I
be paged when the call comes in.

It's official
government business.

Yes, sir. I'll have you
paged. Where will you be?

In the lanai area.

Well, they call us the
Rockfords, Rocky and Jim.

Everybody calls you
Rocky 'cause they like you.

Especially me.

How long you been
growing this, huh?

You been screaming at me

like I was some old duffer
that don't have no rights at all.

And then you told me to shut up.

Your own Pa.
"Shut up," you said.

You ain't never told me
to shut up in all your life.

Dad, I know, I know.

Hey, you're right.

But, Dad, there is
something going on

and believe me when I tell you

I can't tell you what it is.

I wish I could, but I can't.

Well now, that's just dandy.

That is just hunky-dory.

Dad...

All right, all right.
I'll tell you this much.

I'm working for the government.

I've been asked to do
something for the government.

Oh, no. No, no, no. I
ain't falling for that one.

I'm telling you
something, sonny,

you better straighten
out and start acting right.

Yeah. Okay, Dad, all right.
Hey, I will. I promise, okay?

Tell me you're sorry you
told me to shut my mouth.

Come on, you know I'm sorry.

Hey, it was a terrible thing
to say. I know that, Dad.

Okay. Why don't we go down to
the beach? There's lots going on.

We could rent us one of
those little fishing boats.

Oh, well, Dad, I want to hang around
the lanai area. I'm expecting a call.

But what the hey. Come on,
let's go on down to the beach, huh?

You gonna lug that thing?

Yeah, well, who knows? Find
old Whip down there maybe.

And it's perfect height to sit
on, huh? Come on, let's go.

Mr. Rockford, Mr. James Rockford.
Please pick up the house phone.

Dad, that's the call
I've been waiting on.

Why don't you go on down? I'll
be down there in a minute. Okay?

All right.

You ate the pill, Rockford.
Really left me hanging.

You were supposed to be
at the meet 20 minutes ago.

I got a call from my people. The
Vietnamese middleman is going herky-jerky.

You wanna slow down? What
happened to all the P six security, huh?

You're belching this out to a half
a dozen switchboard operators.

And I've got one hell of a
reason why I didn't make the meet.

Hey, baby, there's
a time for security

and there's a time
for running like hell.

As for excuses,
I ain't interested.

And you tell Whipple
to get his butt in gear.

He's already dropped two
grades for screwing this up.

Oh, he's dropped a lot
more than two grades.

Try six feet.

Give it to me fast and
don't leave out anything.

He went out to answer a
phone and he never came back.

So, I went looking for him.

I found some postcards he bought
on the ground next to the telephone.

I went up to his
room looking for him.

I found a couple of Hawaiians
tossing his room around.

I ended up
dodging a little lead,

and here I am, in
the lobby of the hotel

with this suitcase in my hand.

And I don't mind
telling you, Smitty baby,

I'm starting to sweat.

Okay.

The play we called in
the huddle is a loser.

From here on, we audiblize.

You take the suitcase.

You wait where you are for exactly
five minutes, then head straight out.

Gordon Lyle will pick you up in
front. He'll have the new meet.

I'll get back to my
Vietnamese middleman

and we'll set up a new location.

Okay, let's line them
up. What've you got?

3:15.

You're fast. Make it 3:10.

You carrying?

No. I came here to play
in the sand. Remember?

I'll have Lyle check a heater
out for you. What do you like?

Just forget it, huh? Let's get on
with this thing and get it over with.

Make it a .38
with hollow points.

And, baby,

be tricky, be tough
and be a tiger.

Oh! Yeah, I was
just trying to throw it

and, see, make it stick.

It's a... It's a little game.

I saw a guy do this once. It's
really a little trick, you know, it's...

It's harder than I thought.

I been sitting down on the sand
waiting for you. When are you coming?

Yeah, well, Dad, I've got a
couple of things I want to do.

It'll take me 10, 15 minutes,
half hour at the most, huh?

Look, Dad, it's 3:10.

Why don't you go down and
rent a fishing boat for us, huh?

We'll... We'll go out and
do a little sunset fishing.

I got money. Besides,
we can bill it to the room

and let Mason's
Department Store pay for it.

All expenses.

Right, right. I'm glad
you thought of that, yeah.

Okay, Dad, I'll see you
in 45 minutes to an hour.

Dad, I'm sorry.

I know what you're
thinking. Yeah.

No, you see, I'm with the Royal
Hawaiian Repertory Company.

Yes, we're doing a play
here in the main room tonight.

It's called the Money Machine
and, oh, this is just props.

Yeah.

It's a good, good,
good, show. Good show.

Enjoy.

Oh, boy! Hope
you'll like the show.

That's for you.

I don't want that.

Sign the receipt.

We're going to a place called
the Banyon Garden Restaurant.

I don't want the gun, okay?

Colonel Smith said
you were good people.

Don't give me problems.
Okay, Mr. Rockford?

Give you problems? Is
that some kind of joke?

Just take it.

Now, I don't like this
Banyon Garden meet.

It's kind of a hangout for
wrongos and commies.

Our middleman is spooked.
He wants to transfer on his turf.

That's why you take the heater.

That's great.

The guy you're meeting
is named Lance Soo.

Lance Soo?

You walk in the Banyon Garden
Restaurant you ask for his table.

You sit down. He'll be there.

You open his bag
and check the goods.

You know what 'Nam
money looks like?

How would I know that?

That's 100 dong note.

That's what you'll be looking
at. Bundled in packs of 100.

You pick one at random off the
bottom and you count the notes.

He'll do the same with yours.
You close up, you get out.

You said it was gonna
take five minutes.

It's gonna take longer
than five minutes.

Yeah, but who's counting, right?

Oh, yeah, and, Rockford,
when you sit down,

try and get the
gunfighter's seat.

Oh, boy. Low profile, no
risk, a piece-of-cake operation.

Not the slightest
hint of danger.

Now you want me to sit with my
back to the wall and pack a gun.

Well, somebody's in the
game who doesn't belong.

Things change.

One little question, huh?

Go.

If all we're doing is just
picking up some funny money

for a bunch of
ping-pong players,

why don't we just regroup and
reorganize, huh? What's the rush?

I don't know.

All I know is the secretary of
state wants this dough now.

I'll be damned if I'm
gonna disappoint him.

I don't want that kind
of smell in my package.

Just stay frosty
and don't panic.

Colonel Smith said we
can count on Hound Dog.

Hound Dog. You wanna know
where I got that nickname?

I was wounded in Korea.
Colonel Smith picked me up,

threw me over his shoulder and
carried me 15 miles in the snow.

And every step he took, I
howled like a hound dog.

That's right.

Just don't screw up, 'cause
this time it's my braided hat.

Excuse me.

Could you show me to
Mr. Lance Soo's table, please?

I'll talk to you later, baby.

Is he here yet?

Came in about
five, six minutes ago.

What you got in your suitcase?

Laundry.

He came in with
his laundry, too.

He's got a suitcase
just like yours.

Where's the table?

Right this way.

This the table? Where is he?

Maybe he's out
doing his laundry.

Who you work for?

I never seen you
around here before.

Are you with the
company or what?

I'm just a guy on vacation.

Just a guy on vacation.

Well, Mr. Guy on vacation, let
me get you a waitress, okay?

Hi.

Hi. Was there a man
here a minute ago?

Oh, yeah. He went to the lua.

You know, the men's room.

What'll you have?

I think I'll have a glass of
water. My mouth is getting dry.

Okay.

There you go.

Thank you. Where is the lua?

Straight down there.

No! No!

Welcome to bleeding
paradise, mate.

Well, you at the
helm yet, spunky?

Or shall we be waiting for
your noggin to clear a bit more?

Who are you?

Me? I'm Dutch Ingram.

I'm the bloody king
of this stretch of beach.

And you, you're the bloke

that's gonna tell me
why you got the money

that was supposed to
be delivered to Lance Soo.

And while you're at it, you can
tell me who packed Lance in,

'cause I don't take kindly
to my blokes being dirked.

Me tell you?

I walked into the toilet and
the man was already dead.

Few hours ago I was
just a guy on an airplane,

a tourist and now...

Oh, hey, come on.

My head is killing me.

Got a bit of a throbber
there, have you, mate?

Probably the worst headache
I've ever had. What'd you give me?

Well, I didn't give
you the mickey.

But I'll split your
bloody melon in half

if you don't tell me
what I want to know.

Well, just let me get
something straight here, now.

Lance Soo worked for you,

you're the Vietnamese middleman,

but your name is Dutch Ingram.

I love that.

Right. And these three laughing blokes
are from the Vietnamese government.

Now they were to
supply the 'Nam money

and you were supposed
to supply the bundle of U.S.

The Vietnamese government? I mean,
they know about the money switch?

I thought it was
some kind of surprise.

No, this kind of deal
works on lots of levels.

There's all kinds of
deals going, mate.

These three gifts are probably
splitting up a piece of the change.

But it don't pay to look
too close to that, it don't.

Hey, look, you got what you
came after. You got the money.

I mean, why don't you let me
go, huh? I don't know anything.

I see.

Well, now what was you planning
to do with this bit of machinery, huh?

Was you planning to
shoot up the bleeding hotel?

Come on. Would you untie me?

I mean, my head
is really splitting.

Untie him.

I'll tell you what
we'll do, spunky.

You and me, we'll go and call
your friends in the federal building

and they will give us the
poop or you will get the pipe.

Come on, love, come on, now.

Angel.

Aloha!

Hey, Jimmy, what's happening?

It's great of you to let
me use your crib, man.

You wouldn't believe the
problems I went through

to try and bum a ride over here.

All right, Angel. Please.
I got a terrible headache.

The old rumba del grande's
got you in the pineapple, Jimmy?

What are you doing here?

When I heard my partner was coming
over to Hawaii, all expenses paid,

I said to myself, "Now
what is the one thing

"that they ain't got
in paradise yet?"

And it come to
me out of the blue.

They ain't got an
angel in paradise.

So, I grudge grind an airline and
got myself a hot ticket and here I am.

Now I'll tell you, Jimmy,
what we gotta do is

we gotta go downstairs
and we got to...

We gotta go downstairs and
we gotta tell that comedian

in the French general's
uniform to let me sign your name.

Then we can stick those cheapos at
Mason's Department Store with my tab.

Out.

Huh? Out. Out. Out. Out!

Well, did I hear you
correct? Did you say, "Out"?

Out!

Yeah.

Are you James Rockford?

Yeah, I...

We have a search warrant
for your room and your car.

Thank you, Mr. Rockford. And if
you decide to use our floral service

for your luau, just call me
at the Bouquet Boutique

and we'll provide
full service for you.

We'll also handle the bar and
the barbeque. I'll send you a price.

Excuse me, gentlemen.

Jimmy? What's going on, Jimmy?

Shut up, Angel. The
less you say, the better.

What is this?

This is your rental car.

No, I didn't rent this car.

No, it was rented by a
man named Dwight Whipple.

That's not what it says here.

It says this car was rented
by you this afternoon at 12:45.

Well, I don't care what it
says. I didn't rent the car

and that's all there is to it.

Look, I'd like to
call my lawyer.

Fine.

You call him. First, we're
gonna open the trunk.

I'm not with him.

Why?

Terrific. It just keeps
getting better and better.

Book him. Murder one.

McENROE: Look, Rockford, I
can't give out that information.

How do I know
you're really Rockford,

not just some guy just
pretending to be Rockford?

Look, who's gonna be
pretending to be me?

Come on, Captain
McEnroe, be a buddy, huh?

Easy for you to say, be a buddy.

You're just a private detective.

Your pension's not on the line.

Well, could you just tell me the
hotel they're staying at in Canada?

If you were really
who you say you are,

you would know
they're not in Canada.

Of course they're in Canada.
He and Peg took the 4:30 flight

to Vancouver last Wednesday.
I took them to the airport.

Rockford, Becker tells me you
have season tickets to the Lakers.

All right. You can have first pick
of any game you want, Captain.

Well, when I go, I like
to go to more than one,

sort of, like, have a
basketball weekend, as it were.

Any three games you
want, Captain, okay?

Okay. But if I tell you, Rockford,
I want it clearly understood that

this is our secret and
that you and I never spoke.

Yeah, all right, all right. Come on.
Come on. Where are they staying?

Okay, they're not in
Canada. They're at the...

Hawaiian Garden Hotel.

Dennis Becker's room, please.

Dennis, you know, I think we ought
to go fishing to those reefs out there.

Good idea.

Yeah?

Aloha, Dennis. How's Vancouver?

Jim. Is that you?

That's right. It's
your old buddy, Jim.

Same one who took
you and Peg to the airport

so you wouldn't have
to leave your car there

while you were
vacationing in Canada.

Jim, this is not what
you think. It's really not.

You know, it's sort of
a policeman's holiday

and I'm down here with a couple
of guys from the department

and it just wouldn't have looked right
if I had taken those tickets from you.

And so what I did is, I had
to tell you a little white lie

because I didn't wanna hurt...

Jim, how you doing?

How's the Royal Surf?

Well, I really wouldn't know. I've only
been there for a matter of moments.

Guess where I am now?

At the bar?

Close. They got a
lot of bars in here.

You wanna try again?

The jail.

Yeah, that's right.

And as usual, I...

I'm gonna need you to
run a license plate for me.

The way they're
treating me in here,

I don't think they plan
on helping me out.

Kay and Peg aren't
gonna want to go fishing.

They're gonna want to go
on that catamaran cruise.

Listen, you work it out.

I got my stock broker on
the line over here, okay?

Oh, okay.

Jim, give me the plate
and I'll call it in for you.

Thanks, Dennis. It's an
Hawaiian plate. 8EO457.

It's a black limo, four door.

Could you tell me
what you're in for?

Murder one. What else?

I just love it here.

I'm having more fun than a
frog in a plate of warm water.

Would you make it
quick, Dennis, please?

Yeah, I'll get right
back to you. Aloha.

I'm telling you, Sergeant,
this man's being picked up

by the federal government
and that's all there is to that.

I'm afraid I don't understand
what's going on here, Colonel.

That's because you're not
supposed to understand.

This is a top security
government mission

and this man
Rockford's on my team.

But we're filing homicide
charges against him.

You think I care. You wanna
book this clown for murder one,

that's fine with me.

All I'm telling you is that I'm
not through with his carcass,

and inside of five minutes, I
want him back in my custody.

Here, here's all the
numbers right here.

Pentagon, state
security building.

The whole box of cookies
is right there in your mitt.

Now, let's go. Hubba, hubba.

Of course, I'll have to
have my captain okay this.

All right, right. Let's go. I gotta be
on a flight to Hong Kong in an hour.

Do you think we could
stop at a drugstore

and get me some
aspirin or something?

Oh, come on, baby.
Be tough, be a tiger.

Peg told me where to find you.

It was nice of you to go all
the way downtown, Dennis.

I come all the way down here

and I find some military
attaché bumped you loose.

Yeah, well, I
got a little juice.

They got the charges dropped.

Yeah, well, don't
you believe it.

The way I get it, this
guy Colonel Smith

just signed and
took custody of you.

You're still up for killing
this Whipple character.

Thanks for the tip, Dennis.
Listen, how about that plate?

Well, the car is registered to a
guy by the name of Dutch Ingram.

They got about a half a
dozen addresses on him,

most of them are NG.

But I did get a piece of
intelligence from Okemoto here.

He tells me that Ingram is
staying out on the beach.

The address is 2346 Lanai,

north of the city. You got it?

Yeah, I got it. Thanks, Dennis.

I'm sorry to put
you through all this.

Hey, no sweat. That's
why I came down here.

If I don't run a plate every couple
of hours, my hands start shaking.

All right. See you soon.

Here's three or four aspirin,
courtesy of your federal government.

Thank you.

Say, I just wanted to tell you
I'm sorry that Whipple got iced.

Hey, he was a soldier
doing a soldier's job

and he ended up with
his dog tags in his boot

like half a billion
other soldiers.

I only hope when I get
mine it's in the line of duty.

Yeah, that's what
I'm hoping for, too.

I mean, who wants to go
out looking at a vase of roses

when you can get your head
blown off in an alley, right, Colonel?

You're really funny, Rockford.
You're in my custody. Come on.

From what I've seen so far,
you need a lot of looking after.

Let's go.

What's the address of the
guy who owns the black limo?

2346 Lanai Avenue.
His name's Dutch Ingram.

Okay. We're parked in front of this
dump. How about some backup, fellas?

We're rolling on it, Colonel.

Okay. This is a pincer action.

Rockford and I go
in the front door.

You guys hold the beach
and the side of the house.

Now, when I say move,
I want you to come in,

and when you come, I
want to see lead in the air.

Colonel, what about
you and Rockford?

You'll both be in the crossfire.

Hey, I can take
care of my buttons.

Just do what I said, okay?

Damn, I love this
kind of an operation.

I haven't been in a good
fire fight in two years.

You know, from what you told me,

I think this guy, Dutch, is playing
both ends against the middle.

He was set to rip this deal
off when I contacted him.

And kill his own man
to do it? It doesn't wash.

Hey, this isn't some sleazy
divorce case in L.A., pal.

This is top flight
international spy work.

You take a guy like Dutch,
he works for everybody.

He's a freelancer.

Why, the last two years, he's
been on the Russian, English payroll

and once, two
months ago in Spain,

he was on the Italian, Swiss and
East German payrolls at the same time.

Why, he wouldn't hesitate to set
up his sister and sell her for fish bait.

I still don't buy it.

Well, we'll find out.
Let's go ring that doorbell.

Now?

You heard me.

Let's confront that, limey,
and find out. Now get moving.

Oh, come on.

You remember what
happened in Korea

when some yellow-belly
didn't wanna climb the hill.

Let's go. I can hardly
wait to get in there.

Is Dutch in?

And who shall I say is calling?

Tell Dutch that John
Smith's here to see him.

Is that a blooming joke?
John Smith, he says.

Hey, honey, get your
bon-bon moving. Do it.

I don't suppose you're still
planning on announcing us.

You disappoint me, mate.

You're disappointed in me?

Well, that's one for the flag.

You set up this double-cross,
didn't you, Dutch?

Hey, mate, I set up the deal
with the embassy blokes here.

I also sent Lance
Soo down to the meet.

And you send in this ringer
with no game experience

and I lose my best man
and wind up picking my nose

which I do not like.
That is what happened.

Since I called you in on this, I'm
for sure gonna get to the bottom of it.

Come on, we're leaving.

Where do you think you're going?

We're going into an agency cold
drop where we won't be disturbed

until I get the right answers.

Not bloody likely.

Phil! Shawn!

It doesn't change a thing.
You're still the first to go.

Oh, I see. The old American
favorite, the standoff.

All right, I'll play.

Well, I'd rather not. Is
there some place I could wait

until you guys are finished?

Where'd you find him?

Look, there are times
when everyone is right.

This seems like
one of those times.

Now, if I might
make a suggestion.

Why don't we all just
back away from this thing

and make a time for a new
meet when cooler heads prevail?

Just shut your hole, Rockford.

This guy's dead, either
way. Come on, Dutch.

All right, guys, take him!

Move, move, move, move!

Freeze! Drop it!

Lose that weapon.

No causalities, huh, boys?

We're okay, sir.

Come on.

Rockford.

Rockford, you did good.

You love a good
fire fight, do you?

Corpsman, let's get some
aid for the Hound Dog.

Don't touch me.

This was gonna be our vacation.

We was gonna do
nothing but sit in the sun

and drink rum drinks.

I don't understand
what happened.

All I can say is your
son saved the life

of Colonel "Howling Mad" Smith.

And, sir, that's something
that's never been done before.

Colonel Smith, he
saves other people's lives.

And that's about it, I guess.

Now you know everything I know.

Can I go home now?

Hey, baby, I arranged for a Coast
Guard chopper to take you to the airport

where a Coast Guard plane is
gonna fly you back to the mainland

and Uncle Sam is
gonna pay all the bills.

Goodbye.

You might be glad to know that the
HPD's dropping those murder charges.

They booked Dutch
Ingram for killing Dwight.

They don't need
you for the trial,

so you can just
haul tail for home.

Who killed Lance Soo?
That's the one I can't fit.

Hey, it's a tough game, baby.

Lance got it from
the Kimotto brothers.

Yeah, but they work
for Dutch Ingram.

Well, they also work for
themselves. They're Hawaiian mafia.

Now Dutch, on the other hand,
was working for us and for himself.

Now the Vietnamese guys

were working for their
government and for themselves.

Sounds like the only
ones working for us was us.

Hey, that's the way
it is sometimes, baby.

You gotta have eyes in the
back of your combat helmet.

This is no place for
a grunt with no guts.

But you got guts, Hound Dog.

I'm proud of you.
I recommend you.

This whole thing turned out better
than a grenade in a wedding cake.

We didn't make the exchange,

but we took five no-goods
off the playing field.

I guess you know
we're even. Right, kid?

Can I go home now?

Done.

Dad, I don't really
enjoy arguing with you.

Well, I'm going back with
you and that's all there is to it.

Well, it's ridiculous.

There's no reason
why you shouldn't stay.

No, sir, I gotta make
sure that you're all right.

Come on. Hubba, hubba. Let's go.

Come on, come on, hurry up.

I gotta catch a flight to
Hong Kong in 10 minutes.

Which airline?
We better hurry, sir.

Hey, I'm not going anywhere. I
just wanted to hurry him on his way.

What a disappointment.
Can you believe that guy

just stands there and takes a
slug like a big, dumb buffalo?

A real no-brainer, right, sir?

Yeah, but, you know, I hate to
see any of my guys get tagged.

Why don't you do the
paperwork on this, Lyle?

You might even want to sign it.

I hate to have that
kind of mud in my folder.

After all, he was in
your direct command.

Yes, sir.

I wonder what happened to Jim.

I was expecting him to call.

Yeah, you said the
HPD still wanted him

for questioning on
the Lance Soo murder?

Yeah. But they
couldn't find him, either.

But if he tries to leave the state,
it's really gonna be hard on him.

Well, they'll just drag
him back with a subpoena.

There she goes, sonny, Hawaii.

You think we'll ever come back?

If I ever come back, they'll
have to take me in irons.

You comfortable, sonny?

Yeah, I guess. And
since we're off the ground,

maybe you could let
go of my hand, Dad.