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[THEME MUSIC PLAYING]

[♪♪♪]

Hey.

Want? Twenty bucks.

Look at 'em.
Kids selling themselves.

What kind of magnet pulls them
here to the boulevard?

Dreams that never got
a dose of reality.

Homes that don't care.

Parents and kids alike
that don't listen.

All of it keeps a steady stream
flowing into the boulevard.

Hi.

Ha ha ha.

Hey.

Twenty bucks?

Twenty bucks a day.

Later.
You sure?

Twenty bucks.

Is that the new face
I should be talking to, Irene?

Right.

Then I'll meet you
back at the shelter?

Hit her hard, Star. The longer
she stays out on that boulevard,

the harder it's gonna be for us
to pull her off of it.

All right.
All right.

Hi. How you doing?
Heh.

Look, I've heard all about
Irene's shelter.

I don't need saving... Star.

My exact words
less than a month ago.

Ach. You were into this?

Yeah.

[♪♪♪]

Burnham, I pay you
to keep pressure on the cops

to leave
the boulevard alone.

Lately, I don't think
I'm getting my money's worth.

If Councilman Gear's
little speech tomorrow

doesn't please me,

Phil here is gonna come
looking for you.

Oh, it will, Mr. Pearl.

Councilman acts on
everything I feed him.

That thing was great
that you gave to us.

No. It's not really
that great. I mean...

They saw me.

Those two little tramps
saw me take the money.

And one of them knows me.

Shut up, Burnham.

I made 'em both, Eddie.
One's Star Taylor.

She used to be
one of our ladies

till Irene Gordon
turned her around.

The other kid's a new face
I've been checkin' out.

Star. That's the one
that can finger me.

You set me up with her
yourself, Pearl.

Pick up your money
and split, Burnham.

What about those girls?
That Star chick

is probably telling her friend
about me right now.

You just saw both of 'em
for the last time.

[ENGINE STARTS]

I can't go back home.

Besides, it wasn't a minute ago

you were trying to get me
to go to Irene's shelter.

Look, Eddie Pearl
runs all the boulevard action,

from prostitution to drugs.

And we saw one of the reasons
he gets away with it.

That guy
that he was paying off--

he's an aide
to a city councilman.

We've gotta get away from Pearl,

or we'll just turn up
like numbers in a morgue.

And Irene's Shelter
isn't nearly far enough away.

Now call.

Please.

Hello, operator?

I'd like to make a collect call

to Fresno, California.

[♪♪♪]

There they are.

Lucky for me,
it was my brother Gordie

who answered the phone.

My parents would've started
yelling at me

like they always do.

Is your brother coming?

But he can't make it to my place
until tomorrow.

Then we'll just keep hiding
till then.

What about you, Star?

What?

Are you gonna go home?

No.

I can't ever.

Get in, ladies.

We could talk about
the phone calls

you're been making.

Don't do it, Kelly. Run.

I say the best way
to keep the parasites

from clamping on
in the first place

is to expose our kids to
a good value system straight on.

Like my Chrissie, for instance.

She's a-a Ranger Girl,
you know.

Ach, that's
a terrific organization.

She's selling these
Ranger Girl cookies.

Yeah?
Yeah. To support them.

Wanna buy some?

Ha ha ha.
I think I've just been had.

Hooker, I-- In the first place,
I don't like cookies.

Okay, okay.

I tried.

Tried? That was trying?

This is for Chrissie,

not to mention
a worthwhile cause.

What a father.

You give me some of
those cookies. I'll sell 'em.

You sure?

Hooker, what the Colonel
did for chicken,

Romano will do for cookies.

[HORN HONKS]

Let's find out
what's going down.

[SIREN WAILING]

Let me go.
I didn't do anything.

Lose those cops, will you?
I can hardly hold on to her.

[HORN BLARES]

Oh, God.

Broadcast their direction
and description.

Request an ambulance.

Four-Adam-30.

My face.

Is my face...

[♪♪♪]

[SIREN WAILING]

[GIRL MOANS]

Say it again.

Ernie.

What?

Money.

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

Hold it. Just a minute.

Louder.

Ernie.

Say that louder.

Speak up.

Were you able to make out
what she was saying?

Not clearly. Something about
a money envelope.

What about her ID?

Found this motel key,
high-school student ID,

and a driver's license.

Driver's license looks like

it's a standard phony she'd use
in case of a bust.

Says she's 21.
Student ID looks for real.

It was in her shoes.

Says her name
is Kelly Hobbs from Fresno.

Kelly Hobbs
from Fresno, California.

Today's her birthday.
Sixteen.

Did DMV come up with a return
on the suspect license yet?

Not in file.
Says to call after 0800.

0800.

A teenager's
manhandled by an animal,

and the bureaucrats
make us wait till 0800.

Kids do have a way of
getting to you, don't they?

It's the worst part
of the job, junior.

[♪♪♪]

Boulevard Amusements.

Now, that's one of
Eddie Pearl's dumps.

Starts to make sense.

You put Pearl together
with that young prostitute Kelly

saying something about
a money envelope.

That other young girl that
we saw running from Pearl's car

like she was scared
out of her mind.

And it sounds like
both of them

saw one of
Pearl's deals go down.

Sure. A drug deal, payoff.

Now, that fits
Eddie Pearl's profile to a "T."

I'd give a month's pay
to make a case on Pearl.

And I'd put my paycheck
right down next to it, Hooker.

And another one to see if
that rumor about Pearl

having a very incriminating
ledger book is really true.

Why don't we start with
why that girl

was in the car
in the first place?

Go from there.

Romano, what did you buy now?

I'm not buying, sweetheart.
I'm selling.

At a minimum cost
of a mere two dollars,

you can enjoy
the delightful flavor

of the richest of chocolates

combined with
a tantalizing taste.

Where did you get those?

Detective Warner
is selling them.

He is?

Yeah.

I dumped the car
in the county territory

three hours ago,
then reported it stolen.

Good. That means
we should have it back

before the day's end.

That card game alibi
you put together for us--

it ain't gonna hold water

if either one of those tramps
talk.

Well, we can worry about that

if and when the beginner
is sprung from the hospital.

Just make damned sure
the cops don't find Star, huh?

She's dead meat
on the boulevard.

You understand?

You got it, Eddie.

[BEEP BEEP BEEP]

FEMALE DISPATCHER:
Four-Adam-30. Four-Adam-30.

Vehicle reported stolen
at 8:10 a.m. this date

recovered by LASO

in county territory
an hour ago.

Four-Adam-30, roger.

Did I tell you Pearl
would set up an alibi?

Do we visit him to hear the rest
of the alibi first-hand?

I want all the ammo I can get

to breakdown his alibi
before we visit him.

So first, we'll toss
Kelly Hobb's motel room

for any possible
connect up to Pearl.

Never would've guessed
it would look like this.

Kids aren't into
red flock and satin.

No matter what her problems are
or way of surviving,

she's still a teenager.

My daughter's dresser
looks something like this one.

Rent receipt.
Checked in a week ago.

[KNOCKS]

What's going on?
Where's Kelly?

Why do you ask?

I'm her brother Gordie.

I come to pick her up.
Where is she?

When was the last time
you talked to her?

She called me last night

to ask me to come down
and pick her up...

take her back home to Fresno.

Did she say why?

Only that some girl named Star

from some kind of shelter

told her that she saw something

that made it dangerous
for her to stay down here.

Come on. Wh-What is it?
Where's my sister?

Gordie...

Kelly was injured
in an accident last night.

She's in intensive care.

Oh, man.

We'll take you to the hospital
as soon as we're finished here.

This, uh, this Star--

did Kelly say anything
about a last name?

Just-Just Star. That's all.

She, uh, sounded real scared.

What about the shelter?

Did she say which one?

Yeah, but I don't remember
which one it was she said.

Mother Harry?
Teen Drop? Irene?

Irene's. That's it. Irene.

You said that
this was an accident.

Now, if this is an accident,

how come the police
are involved?

Because it was
a man-made accident,

and I wanna nail that man.

[♪♪♪]

[STARTS ENGINE]

[WHIMPERS]

[♪♪♪]

[♪♪♪]

Well, that's her all right.

Star was trying to help her
get off the street.

I haven't seen
either one of them since.

Not much question why,
is there?

You mean none of your girls

saw anyone enter
or leave this house?

They're all at school.

Their straight jobs
during the day.

But so what?
You said Pearl and Decker

most likely had an alibi,
anyway.

I remember
when I was on the street,

and you'd bust me
regular as clockwork, Hooker.

And you were all over Pearl
and Decker then, too.

Too bad the courts
never got 'em put away.

I'm not gonna walk
on this one. I promise you.

Irene, we need an address
on Star's parents.

I can't do that.

Hooker, the girls would see it
as a violation of their trust.

Irene, Kelly's condition
is worse. She can't talk.

That makes Star my only source
for nailing Pearl.

This tells me
that Pearl knows that, too.

She's in danger, Irene.

Come on. It's in my office.

[♪♪♪]

Star's been in and out of
trouble over three years.

After what happened
last night, Mrs. Taylor,

it's important that we find her.

We have reason to believe
she's in danger.

I haven't seen
or heard from my daughter

since she came back home
over a month ago.

She came back.

She said she was through
with that life,

but it wasn't true.

Some terrible man kept calling
all times of the day and night.

He even threatened me.

He told me to send Star
back back...

back to the boulevard.

Star, Miss Taylor?

Dorothy she was then.

She came back
calling herself Star

after the second time
she ran away.

When we find her--

Look. Sergeant,
I've been through it all--

the juvenile people,
the courts, the school.

I have three other children
to protect.

My Dorothy's gone,

and I don't want
this other person, this Star,

in my life anymore.

No matter what she's done,

she can never make it back
unless she has someone... here

waiting to help her.

What's the next-best place
she might go

other than the boulevard?

First time Dorothy ran away,
I searched everywhere.

You might try St. Mark's.

She was alone
in the confessional

when I found her.

[SOBS]

I'm sorry. I thought
you were someone else.

Could that someone else
be Star Taylor, Sergeant?

Yes, it is, Father.

Sorry to disturb you.

Don't be, Sergeant.

It's often that
your work and mine

involves the same customers.

Do you know Star Taylor,
Father?

She hasn't been here in a while.

But I know what kind of trouble
she's in.

I hear a lot
from the-the other girls.

Then you know how important
it is that we find her.

Without any compromise
of the cloth, Sergeant,

I can say that, uh, I've heard
that Pearl's man Decker

picked her up
early this afternoon.

But, Star, being street-wise,
got away from 'em.

Do you know where
we might find her now

without any
compromise of the cloth?

I hear, uh, she's trying to
raise bus fare to leave town,

but it's been difficult.

They say Star
is resisting going back

to... to what she was before.

I hope we find her
before she does go back, Father.

Or worse--
before Eddie Pearl finds her.

[♪♪♪]

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

Girls.

Hi, Officer.

Girls, we're looking for
this young lady here.

Have you seen her?

Not me.

Eddie Pearl.

I see you've got
your stolen car back.

Yes. Yes, yes.

Efficient law enforcement
in the sheriff's territory,

Hooker.

Let me guess.

You two are just off
the bus,

and this gentleman here

has offered you a ride
to the boulevard.

And, uh, free play
at some terrific arcade.

Right so far?

Nothing illegal about that, huh?

Let me show you something.

See those two over there?

You accept free anything
from a squid like that,

and that's where you're headed.

And pictures. Lots of pictures
after you're good and high.

Pictures you'd rather die

than have seen
by anyone you know.

Then the fun is over.

That guy puts you
out on the street,

and you work for the habit

or whatever else
he has you obligated to.

Pretty soon, you're 18
going on 80.

Take these hotline numbers.

They'll put you in touch with
any kind of help you need.

No strings attached.

So, girls, what'll it be?

Sorry.
Yeah.

Officer?

Come on, April.

That girl in the picture...

we were hanging around inside

trying to decide
whether to go back home or not

before they came along.

I saw her at the ticket window
trying to buy a ticket.

Trying?

She didn't have enough money.

She left here
about an hour ago.

Thank you.

They're going home.

You lose.

Ha ha.

Hooker, you ever
been to a grunion run?

Millions of those little fish.

You know, they're just
flopping all over the sand

waiting to be scooped up.

Some of them get away, huh?

Some don't.

Then one day,
along comes the red tide,

and there are
no little fish at all.

I'm gonna break down
whatever alibi you come up with.

In the meantime,
if you or your muscle here

so much as touches Star Taylor,

you'll run into the blue tide.

Capisce?

I'll kill you!

Break it up.

That man's crazy.
I want him arrested.

Are you nuts?

I was at the hospital.

Irene came in
to look on at Kelly.

She told me
everything about him.

I was gonna take my sister home,
but he killed her.

I've been sitting
there at the hospital

talking to her.

Praying...
praying she could hear me.

Then-Then that alarm
in that machine went off.

There was nothing they could do.

Nothing.

[♪♪♪]

[♪♪♪]

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

Move it. Move it.

The judge tells me you took
personal responsibility

with Gordie
for his O.R. release.

Gordie's an innocent kid

who got caught in
the boulevard quagmire.

Don't you worry about him.

He promised me he'd go back
to Fresno and stay there

until after the trial,
if there is one.

You got Gordie's release papers?

Yes.

Where did where did you
get that, Captain?

Oh, it's a Ranger Girl cookie.

Good cause,
and they're delicious.

Look, why don't you see
Sergeant Alexander?

He's selling them.

Thanks.

Hooker, help me.

Oh, like you say, junior,
I'm no salesman.

That punk kid,
he's outta jail now.

But I don't think
he's going home so quick.

I think he's gonna
keep coming at me

until we put him away

for good.

Show time, Eddie.

[TIRES SQUEAL]

I, uh, still haven't
called my folks

to tell them about Kelly.

That's another reason
to go home.

That's the kind of news
they should hear in person.

I just hate leaving Eddie Pearl
here alive.

Hey, Gordie,
give in to that feeling,

and the boulevard poison
that took Kelly

will make a victim
out of you, too,

if you don't end up
back in jail first.

Now you get in there,
get her stuff together,

and go home.

I'll take care of Eddie Pearl.
That's a promise.

I will go home, then.

That's a promise.

Hooker. Star called me
from a pay telephone

20 minutes ago.

One of Eddie's pimps found her
hiding in a movie over on Selma.

What happened?

Well, she got away.

But she's scared.
She's really scared.

Where is she now?

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

She was frantic, saying
she'd run out of places to hide.

And then I guess she saw
one of Eddie's people,

and she ran out of the booth,
leaving the phone hanging.

Oh, what are we gonna do,
Hooker?

Star hasn't run out of places
to hide. There's one left.

You.

[DOOR CLOSES]

She's here,
isn't she, Father?

She came over an hour ago.

Sergeant, Star
is a very frightened child.

Father, I've never met Star,
but I know her.

I've seen the places
she's been

and the kind of human being
she's trying to become.

And believe me, there's nothing
I want more than to protect her.

But she's gotta help me do that.

It's Star's decision,
Sergeant.

Star?

I'm not here to chase you

or to make you
tell me what you know.

That's going to
have to come freely,

'cause you're gonna
have to repeat that in court.

Kelly died, Star.

And with her gone,

you're the only chance
any of us have left

to put Pearl and Decker away.

But I've got to know
what you know.

Then I can put him in jail
and see that you're protected.

What do you say, Star?

I'm afraid.

Of course you are.

You've been out there
on the streets.

In court,

it'll be ugly.

My friends and my relatives,

they'll all know
what I've been.

They'll know
you made some mistakes,

but they'll also see
how much courage you have.

In the end, that's all
that they'll remember.

Star, remember all those girls
we're trying to help.

Their real chance will come
when men like Pearl are gone.

I know Star.

I'd like very much
to meet Dorothy.

So my guess is

is that we walked in on
some kind of payoff.

The guy got so scared,
he even dropped the money.

This guy--
did you recognize him?

He works for a councilman,

the one who's always
talking about

what a terrific place
the boulevard is.

That'd be
Councilman Gear's aide.

Pearl gives him freebie dates
with the girls sometimes.

He always uses a phony name,
but we know him.

Art Burnham.

Star, have you ever
heard anything

about a book or a ledger

that Pearl is rumored to have?

I've seen him and Decker

talking with his pimps
and runners.

He'd make little notes,
but I never saw an actual book.

Did he ever mention one to you?

No, but-but everybody talks
like there is one.

A lot of the girls
would even try and guess

where Pearl kept it hidden.

What about you? Do you have
any idea about one?

Well, with all
the businesses that he owns,

it could be anywhere.

Hooker, look.

That's Gordy Hobb's jeep.

He should've been
gone from there by now.

He should be halfway to Fresno
by now.

Gordie?

Gordie.

Call the paramedics.

Overdose.

One, two,

three, four, five.

[♪♪♪]

[♪♪♪]

[INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER]

[SIREN WAILING]

Gordie's gonna be okay,

And he only remember
seeing Decker, not Pearl?

Yeah, but Star's given us enough

to get warrants on both of them
behind Kelly's abduction.

Well, warrants are one thing,

but convincing the D.A.
to file charges

isn't gonna be easy,
Hooker.

Now, look, as an ex-prostitute
and a minor,

Star's not an ideal witness
to build a case around.

What if you tried to make
more than a rumor

of this book that Pearl
is supposed to have?

Star thinks there is one.

Well, that spells surveillance,

luck, and more manpower

than I could ever hope
to put together.

I'll get the detectives
working on the warrants.

[STARTS ENGINE]

Doesn't sound like
those warrants

will do much good
in the long run.

Unless we can find a way
to Eddie Pearl's book.

What way?

Ladies...

I have a proposition
for you.

All right. Where you been?

I been looking everywhere
for you.

I was out collecting
the westside receipts.

Why? What's the problem?

He found the kid
before the drugs killed him.

And Star Taylor was with him.

Well, that doesn't mean
she said anything.

You wanna take that chance?

And I also wanna know
if Gordie Hobbs

talked about me before
they took him to the hospital.

[TELEPHONE RINGS]

[RING]

Pearl here.

Mr. Pearl. This is Rhoda.

I got something
you should be real grateful for.

What is it, Rhoda?

Now, I think this'd be worth
money to you, Mr. Pearl.

Now don't play games
with me, Rhoda,

or you'll lose the street corner
and your skin.

Now, I'll let you know
what's worth what.

Look, I'm just trying
to be good to you, Mr. Pearl.

The cops, they found Star,

and they on they way
uptown now

getting warrants
for you and Decker.

And I hear they're pushing for
no-bail murder warrants.

That it, Rhoda?

Well, I be waiting for
my reward, sugar.

[CACKLES]

There you go.

The sting is in.

Question is, does it make Pearl
jump toward his book?

Our special surveillance group
thinks it will.

[STARTS ENGINE]

How does Pearl Enterprises
keep up the cash flow?

Well, I still got
my records, Phil.

We'll collect
the eastside receipts,

pick up the ledger,

and run it all by long distance
from Mexico, huh?

[♪♪♪]

There they go.

Pearl and Decker
just left the Palace Arcade.

[BEEP BEEP BEEP]

DISPATCHER: Four-Adam-30.
Four-Adam-30.

Citizen states
that suspect Pearl

just completed an evasive route
from his fast-food stand

to his record shop.

Four-Adam-30, roger.

This'll be our best shot.

They've been to all of
Pearl's places but this one.

I'll drop you in the alley,

and I'll hit the shop
through the front door.

And if he doesn't have the book?

Then we'll take him
on warrants only.

They made us.

[SIREN WAILING]

Go on. I've got him.

[SECOND UNIT APPROACHES]

Pearl. Throw your gun down,

and come out
with your hands up.

Unh.

You never looked better, Pearl.

And neither did your book.

Chump.

[♪♪♪]

[♪♪♪]

Left, left, left, left.

And the D.A. is confident
that Pearl Decker,

the councilman's aide,
Burnham,

and a long list of names
from Pearl's ledger

are going to jail
for a long, long time.

I'm happy
you're getting both Star

and your picture back,
Mrs. Taylor.

Thank you, Sergeant.

We're gonna try
to get to know each other.

We're gonna try real hard,
huh, Mom?

Mm-hmm.

I'm glad to know Star

and Dorothy.

Don't be a stranger.

Just try not to come around
too often in that uniform, okay?

Still haven't
lost your touch.

I got it, Daddy. I got the award
for selling the most cookies.

That's terrific, honey.

I'm really happy
for you, Chrissie.

You must've had
a lot of competition, though.

Oh, sure, but I sold
a whole bunch.

That alone with what
Daddy sold to you,

Detective Warner
and Sergeant Alexander

won the award for me.

Detective Warner? Alexander?

Wait a minute. Hooker--

Where you gonna hang
your plaque, Chrissie?

With the others.

Others? What others?

When my daddy helps me,
I always win.

Hooker.

Three years in a row.

Three.

[♪♪♪]

[♪♪♪]