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Hey, Hunter man, I've got here as soon as I was

able, man, Where is the fire?

Three, maybe four cops might have gotten

away with four million bucks.

And if we want to uncover the fourth man.

If there is a fourth man.

That man's name may have been Hunter.

I can't believe you lied to me.

You want crooked?

You look in the mirror.

You know, I was 14 years old when all that happened,

old enough to see how they killed him with their rumors.

Next driveway.

Right.

Eight William three.

We're in play.

Subject vehicle's inside.

This is eight William four.

We've got a two minute ETA.

Give me a growl when you're in place.

Roger.

Don't start without us.

We'll see you at the finish line.

Roger that.

Eight William four clear.

Eight William four, we're in position.

We're rolling.

Why don't you take the small door on the right.

I'll take the big sliding one.

See you inside.

Hey!

Where are you going?

I'm not through count the money yet!

Uh!

Hold your hands outside the window.

Eight William four.

This is eight William four.

Go ahead.

How's Akerman?

He's going to make it.

Great.

I got the dope.

Good job.

We got the bucks.

I've made up my mind.

I'm going to put Hunter on the Akerman case.

There's no possible way that we can allow Sergeant Hunter

to take this case, Captain.

IA won't stand for it.

Charlie, it doesn't make much sense,

does it not, to have me on the case.

Stupid, as a matter of fact.

See, I know the circumstances.

I know the people involved

Well, that's exactly my point.

You know this case far too well.

What's the problem, Commander?

Hunter was completely cleared.

All right, let me show you the world according to IA.

Five years ago, four cops make a drug

bust, three suitcases with $2 million in each, plus the dope.

Now Ellis Riley, the only surviving dealer,

now he claims that there are five suitcases, $10 million.

Did Akerman Chandler, and Tolson, and maybe a fourth man,

take $1 million apiece?

Internal Affairs starts an investigation.

And ruins the careers of three damn good cops.

Amen.

Thanks for calling me, Charlie.

Ellis Riley lied to cut a deal with the DA,

but it didn't work.

Akerman, Chandler, Tolson, and Hunter

were all completely cleared.

But Internal Affairs has a way of letting

its unofficial opinions be known.

And unofficially, IA decided the three cops on the scene

took that money and agreed to sit on it until the statute

of limitations ran out.

Well, you couldn't prove that.

So you did the next best thing.

You froze them out.

Akerman took an early retirement.

Chandler quit because of a bad ticker and Tolson,

probably because of a bad conscience.

Now, if you want my opinion, Captain, they got off easy.

It's too late to rehash all that stuff now.

But I'll be damned if I'm going to keep

quiet while you do the same thing to Hunter

five years later.

August 10.

Tolson and Chandler can start living like the millionaires

they are right now.

Now, if I left out a name, it's because there may or may

not have been a fourth man.

And that man's name may or may not have been Hunter.

Charlie, just give me the case.

You'll find out I'm not the fourth man.

It's you people at IA who seem to think

that since there were $4 million stolen,

there have to be four men involved.

And there is no evidence.

Even if you're right that your fourth man is Hunter,

I'm putting him on Akerman, because the killing may

be connected to that drug bust.

And he knows the case and the people involved.

I just found out some information

that I feel is going to throw a wrench into everything you

gentlemen have been discussing.

Ellis Riley got out on parole two weeks ago.

I'd say that nails it down for IA.

Ellis Riley told the truth and now he's out on parole

and he's looking for $4 million.

And he knows right where to find it.

Take Chandler, you may have to go up north to find him.

I'll find Tolson and check on Riley's PO.

What's the matter with you?

Why are you so uptight?

What to know why I'm uptight?

Because there's people in this department, believe it or not,

you think I'm sitting on $1 million.

This is my opportunity to prove them wrong.

Come in.

Well, well, Sergeant Hunter.

Hi, Russ.

Good god, don't tell me they put you on this case.

What case is that?

Oh, come off it.

When I read Akerman got killed, I knew they'd send somebody.

But I sure as hell didn't think it'd be you.

You know whoever killed Akerman ransacked his house.

So what?

So maybe he caught a prowler in the act and got bumped.

Happens all the time.

Or maybe one of the guys he punched out on the street

decided to get even.

Akerman was a jerk on the job.

He made enemies right and left.

You know that.

Ellis Riley got put out on parole

as of about two weeks ago.

That's supposed to mean that I got $1 million

sewed into my mattress?

Haven't you ever heard of coincidence.

Oh, I've heard of coincidence, Russ, but this is evidence.

Yeah, but not proof, not now, not five years ago.

Not that the department needed any.

They hung us anyway.

Trial by rumor.

Look, I've worked my butt off these last five years,

just to make ends meet.

I lost my house, my savings.

I almost went bankrupt twice.

You think I'd live like that if I had $1 million salted away?

I think all three of you decided

not to touch the money, Russ, until the statute

of limitations ran out.

And I think you're way the hell out of line.

Well, if I am, then you have nothing to worry about,

isn't that right?

However, on the other hand, you and Chandler

could be on Riley's hit list.

That is, assuming that you didn't kill Akerman

for his million dollars.

By the way, where were you last night between 11:00 and 12:00?

If you want to ask questions, you call my lawyer.

Now I've been saying that for five years

and I'm still saying that.

Call my lawyer.

Just leave me the hell alone.

Take it easy, if you can.

A trip to Mexico would be considered

a violation of your parole.

Uh, huh, that's right, Canada too.

All international borders, state lines, large bodies of water.

Mr. Jacobs, Rick Hunter, Metro PD.

Sergeant.

Large bodies water, huh?

How can I help you?

Ellis Riley.

I figured somebody would be around.

Ellis Riley was a model prisoner he's a model parolee.

On the other hand, any idiot can keep

himself clean for two weeks, especially if he's got plans.

What do you mean?

Ellis is living with his lovely wife, Vanessa.

She helps manage the Sinagrill, that jazz club.

She met and married Ellis Riley while he was still in prison.

Now think about it.

Why would a woman with her act completely together marry

a con with zero prospects?

I don't know.

You tell me.

Because three, maybe four, cops might have

gotten away with $4 million.

If they did, Ellis Riley is the only man in the world

that knows for sure.

And Ellis is going to get some of it back.

Maybe prison rehabilitated him, huh?

That's a fat chance, my friend.

Well now if one of these guys dies

and comes back as Mother Teresa, then I might

believe in rehabilitation.

Until that happens...

Jacobs would you accept a collect call

from Mr. Scarloski?

Collect?

Yes, sir, Mr. Scarloski is calling collect from Las Vegas.

Take the call, man, I'm in deep trouble.

How you doing?

I'm looking for Ellis Riley.

Hello, Sergeant Hunter.

I'm Vanessa Riley.

My husband is waiting for you.

How you doing, Riley?

Long memory.

What's it been, four years, three months, 22 days?

Where were you last night about 11:00?

Last night, last night, when Akerman got

what was coming to him, huh?

I went home about 11:00.

Anybody there with you?

Your wife maybe?

No, she was here.

Akerman was killed between 11:00 and 12:00 last night.

Doesn't give you much of an alibi, does it?

Alibi?

Yeah, you know alibi.

You get out of jail and Akerman winds up dead.

Kind of a coincidence, don't you think?

- So what? - So what?

Let me tell you something.

This all points to you.

Unless you want to change your story you told us five years.

No, no, no.

It was $10 million.

You understand?

Your buddies only turned in six.

Oh, I get it.

I bet everybody's been wondering about you the whole time.

Sure, you were out on the street busting me at the time.

But that doesn't mean they didn't cut you in.

See how many cops know how to divide four into three?

You want to rescue now, you go ahead.

But I didn't kill Akerman.

I've got a good woman and I'm going to find a good job.

I'll admit that I was this stupid kid.

But I'm not a kid anymore and I'm not a crook.

You want crooked, you look in the mirror.

I think they cut you in.

Don't leave town.

I haven't seen him around last couple of days.

You a friend of Walt's?

Yeah, I'm from the police department

where he used to work.

Don't tell me you're a cop?

Yes.

Detective Sergeant Deedee McCall.

Are you a neighbor of his or a friend?

I'm the manager here.

Oh.

Well, we've been trying to find him.

Well like I said, I haven't seen him for a couple of days.

Do you think we might be able to take a look inside?

We're kind of worried about him.

Let's take a look.

Thanks.

Who's the girl in the picture?

That's his daughter.

She's married.

She lives in town.

Do me a favor, will you?

Go and call a sheriff.

I don't want to put my prints on the phone in here.

I'm terribly sorry to have to bring you news like this.

I still have some more questions that I uh, need to ask you.

But I can certainly come back later.

No, it's OK.

Well, maybe we should try to locate your husband.

We can't.

He's out looking for work right now.

I don't know where he is.

Mike got laid off last Christmas.

Well, about your father.

Yes?

When was the last time he was in Los Angeles?

Years, probably four years ago.

That's when he moved up here.

He ever make any short visits, you know, like on the weekends?

No.

He would have told me.

What did you know about his financial situation?

He had a disability pension from the police department

because of his heart.

Was anything else, like a savings account?

Or maybe $1 million he was chipping away at?

You know, I was 14 years old when all that

happened, old enough to see how they

killed him with their rumors.

My father and his partners were innocent.

My father was a good man.

When are you people going to believe that?

Place was really torn up.

Coroner said the Chandler had been

dead for more than two days.

Cause of death was a massive coronary.

He had bruises all on his face and shoulders.

The coroner said that apparently he died of cardiac arrest

while he was being slapped around.

For his million bucks.

Which means that Chandler and Akerman, may they rest

in peace, were both crooked.

And so's Tolson.

I hate to say I told you so, but.

2020 hindsight, George.

Let's stick to the situation at hand.

All right, what about Tolson?

Do we pick him up on a five-year-old theft

and conspiracy warrant.

The DA would throw us out on our butts.

If we want a case against Tolson,

and if we want to uncover the fourth man...

If there is a fourth man.

If there is a fourth man, then you better hold off.

All right, look, check and see if Ellis

Riley could have been in San Luis Obispo

when Chandler was killed.

Matchbook found in Chandler's apartment

has Riley's fingerprints all over it.

Pick him up now.

Riley dropping that matchbook made it kind of convenient

for us, don't you think?

What are you getting at?

Well, the only fingerprints that

were found in Chandler's apartment

were on that matchbook.

Riley's fingerprints on the matchbook

make it a pretty tight frame, don't you think?

Yeah, let's find Ellis.

Who the hell are you?

Five years in the slam made you

a tough little man, huh Ellis?

Sit down.

Sit down!

So you're one of those crooked cops, huh?

We're going to play 20 questions.

Six questions, actually.

Cause that's all the chances you got.

Did you kill Akerman?

No.

What did you do with Akerman's $1 million?

I don't have it.

I didn't kill Akerman and I don't have his money.

I didn't kill him.

Oh, God.

You got four left.

Now, where's the money?

Man, if I had it, I would give it to you.

Your odds are running real thin, Ellis.

Now, all I want is the money and then I'll go.

Please, man, I didn't kill him.

And I don't have his money.

I haven't got the money, man?

Please, man.

You got it.

I don't have his money, I swear to God!

You're running out of time, Ellis.

Talk to me.

I count five.

You're a real lucky man.

Tell me where the money is and stay lucky.

Ah!

I got what I came for.

It was either you or one of those cops that killed Akerman.

Now I know it wasn't you.

Either that or you're the toughest guy that I ever met.

And I know that's not the case.

Behind the bar at the far end down by the mirror,

away from the door.

Thanks.

May help you?

Yes, I'm Sergeant Dee Dee McCall, Metro Homicide.

I need to speak with your husband.

It's rather important.

Well, he was supposed to be here half an hour ago.

He was going to help me with this.

You can wait, if you'd like.

Where's Sergeant Hunter?

He's probably at your apartment right now.

Look, man, when he pulled the trigger for the fifth time

and I couldn't come up with any answers for him,

he decided to believe me.

Now, if he believed me, why the hell can't you?

I believe you, Ellis.

Now, you being out on parole gave

the killer his opportunity.

If I take you in, there's no way we can catch him.

Then I'm in the clear.

Looks that way.

But if you really want to be in the clear,

you got to cooperate with me.

How?

I want to get you out of town where no one can find you.

That way, if Tolson or someone winds up with the bullet

in their head, you don't become our number one suspect.

Look, I'm going to have to call Vanessa.

I'm already late.

She's going to be worried.

And what about my parole officer?

Don't worry about that.

I'll take care of that.

Hey, Hunter man, I got here as soon as I was able, man.

Where is the fire?

So this is the fire.

Sporty James.

Ellis Riley.

I heard you were recently out from under.

Sporty, want you do do me a favor.

Take Ellis and get him out of the city.

And I mean, out of the city.

Out of the city.

Hey, I can do you one better than that.

I can take him off the continent.

Good, he'll like that.

Let's go.

Go ahead.

Let me tell you about Gordon, OK, Ellis?

Now, Gordon is a quiet sort of a guy,

but he is absolutely, positively reliable, man.

I called ahead and I told him what he needs

to know, no more, no less.

There is no safer place that you can be right now.

I mean I can guarantee that without qualification.

Great, yeah.

This is wonderful.

Good thing you called me when you did.

I was about to leave.

Is that the job?

It is indeed.

Now, Gordon, listen.

You are going to have to stay out there.

Don't land unless it's Mexico or British Columbia.

Don't have to land.

Got enough supplies for a month.

Hey, fabulous.

I'll radio you when Hunter gives me the all clear.

Now Ellis, you're going to have a lot of free time

on your hands.

I hope you can put it to some good use.

I am a very big fan of barbecued salmon or marlin or shark

or squid.

Hey, I can't swim.

Great, we'll get along just fine.

Ellis Riley wasn't at his wife's club,

wasn't at her apartment either.

She was expecting him and he never did show up.

What did he do?

Take the money and run?

, Yeah I think it's possible.

First he goes to see Chandler and then

Chandler dies before he gets a chance

to find out where the money is.

Then he hits Akerman and he scores.

$1 million.

Why doesn't he leave town immediately?

Why wait? - Maybe he panicked.

What do you think about this, McCall?

Sounds reasonable.

Hunter's in the process of running down everybody

that Ellis came into close contact

with while he was in prison, especially parolees

for the last five years.

It's possible he could be with one of them.

All right, good.

Keep it up.

I can't believe you lied to me.

I can't believe that.

You told me you had not found Ellis.

You let me go into Devane's office

and pass it on everybody.

Look, I couldn't tell you I found Ellis over the radio

because there's dirty cops involved.

We now know there's a fourth man.

Yeah, you're right.

And Tolson and the fourth man are all that's left.

The odds are that Tolson and this fourth man

are going to go after each other.

Absolutely right.

But first we go get a scrambler for our cars.

Come on.

Good idea.

Hunter. - Yeah?

I know.

You're sorry you got upset with me, right?

Right. How'd you guess?

We're partners, aren't we?

- Where is Ellis? - I don't know.

Have you've seen this man in here

in the last couple of weeks?

No.

I have a really good eye for faces.

It's part of my job to remember people who come in here,

everybody who comes in here.

If this guy had been in here in the last couple of years,

I would recognize him.

Wait.

Wait a minute, Doctor.

I'm confused.

Is Sheila's condition terminal or is it not?

All right.

All right then.

Is it operable?

Doc, Doctor Doctor.

Look, look, I've got to have an appointment with you.

I want to be able to stand there in your office face

to face with you and get some straight answers.

Yeah, 8:00 will be fine.

Yeah, I'll see you tomorrow morning.

Sure.

Thanks.

Lieutenant Finn.

Jim McBride, Lieutenant. How's it going?

You know, rounding up the usual suspects.

We haven't found Ellis Riley yet, if that's

what you're wondering about.

How did you guess?

I know you, Jim.

I know how important it is to you for your men to be cleared.

Yeah, it sure is, Ambrose.

It sure is.

Boys any closer to it yet?

Hunter thinks that someone tried to frame Ellis

by stealing a matchbook from the Senagrill with Ellis's

fingerprints on it.

Hunter knows it's not your boy Tolson if that's

worth anything to you.

That's worth plenty.

That's a big step in the right direction.

Anything else?

No.

Not much else.

Say, I was just on my way over to Rex's for a pot of coffee.

How about joining me.

We can both talk about our troubles.

You haven't got any troubles.

That's what you think.

Five minutes?

You got it, Ambrose.

Five minutes.

Lincoln five seven, come in, please.

This is Lincoln five seven.

How you doing?

What's the deal on Tolson?

He has not budged.

Hello.

Wait a minute.

Correct that.

He's moving.

He's moving in a gray Dodge sedan.

OK keep reporting your location, McCall.

And remember, don't get too close to him.

He's an ex-undercover cop.

Yes, I know.

He's heading east on Clauson, just past Olympic.

OK, pull off.

He just turned left onto Crescent.

OK, I'll take him.

I got him.

He's still heading north on Crescent just past Vista.

OK, I'm with you.

Hunter, he's heading south on Euclid.

You want to stay with him?

No, go one block and then parallel him.

Lincoln five seven, come in.

This is Lincoln five seven.

Go ahead.

McCall, I'm parked on the 4700 block of Rockport Place.

He's going into a house on the south side of the street.

Bear with me a minute here.

Think we've found our man.

Who is it?

I can't tell you now.

I'm going to wait till I see your face.

You won't believe it.

Lincoln five six out.

I don't know what you're talking about.

Don't move.

A million wasn't enough for you, was it?

What did you do, Captain?

Gamble it away?

You're out of your mind.

You're a compulsive gambler.

We all knew that.

That's why you talked us into grabbing

the money in the first place.

All right.

I bet a little. So what?

Everybody does.

Not like you they don't.

We kept our end of the bargain.

Five years, and we didn't spend a dime.

You probably blew yours in Vegas the first weekend.

You killed Arman and Chandler.

You took their money and I'm next.

Ellis Riley killed Akerman and Chandler.

Isn't that obvious?

He was waiting all those years to get out and get even.

I had a little chat with Ellis.

And I know he didn't kill anybody.

You're the one that's been waiting all these years.

Ellis Riley out on parole gave you the perfect opportunity.

You can't kill me.

You've got five months till that statute of limitations

runs out.

You kill me now and this whole investigation

centers right on you.

Don't worry, Captain.

I figured all this out.

And you're right.

I'm not going to kill you.

But you're not going to kill me either.

Because I've written it all down and put it

in a nice, safe place.

How we radioed you from the bust.

How you told us to wait until you got there.

How you suggested that we just turn in six million,

keep four for ourselves.

You make it sound like it was all my idea.

It was your idea.

You just had to have that money.

You're not getting mine.

Because if anything happens to me now,

the DA gets the whole rap.

Don't move.

All right, now throw the gun on the bed.

Now turn around.

I knew you didn't believe me when I told you

I'd written everything down.

I could see it in your face.

So I came home, and I did.

I wrote it all down.

And decided to wait on you to show up.

And here you are.

Go ahead.

Take a look.

It's all there.

And it's going to go to that nice safe place I've mentioned.

I said take a look.

Drop the gun, Russ.

Very gently.

Easy.

Get up.

We almost made it.

Almost.

Move.

How was your vacation, Riley?

I can tell you, I've seen worse.

I missed you.

Oh, baby, I missed you too.

Hey, that's for Sporty.

Caught that off the coast of San Luis Obispo.

Thanks a lot, Gordon.

Bet you guys have a lot to talk about, huh?

Are you kidding?

That man said eight words to me the whole time.

Throw up on my dick, you're shark bait.

So am I in the clear? - You're in the clear.

What about you?

I'm in the clear too.

Tolson has pleaded guilty to theft and conspiracy.

He's cooperating fully with the DA

because he sure doesn't want to risk

being charged with the murder of Akerman and Chandler.

Yeah, Tolson's million is in and we found Akerman's million

over at McBride's house.

All right, that still leaves Chandler's million unaccounted

for, doesn't it?

Yeah, we're looking for that.

Well, I don't like loose ends.

Especially a million bucks worth of loose ends, so keep looking.

Yeah.

McCall, someone here to see you.

Hi.

Hello, Sergeant McCall, this is my husband, Mike.

Hi, Mike.

Sergeant Hunter.

Hi, folks.

We found a safe deposit key in her dad's things,

and, uh, well.

I never believed the rumors that my father took that money.

He was a good man though.

He really was.

Yeah, well even, even a good man can make mistakes.

You know, you, uh, you guys will get a reward

for turning this money in.

Yeah, you will, 10%.

$100,000.

You can collect it back at the desk sergeant.

He can take care of the paperwork.

He's got the money on him.

Thank you.

Thank you.

You know it sure is good to know that some good came out

of all this.

Yeah.

Million bucks.

So what do you say, we take a little quick hop

to the island of Bali?

I have this...

What do you mean we, Tonto?