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Tonight on "Hunter."

Well, these guys know you're a police dispatcher

and that you work the swing shift.

They're gonna kill me if you don't help.

Whoever stole that burning bar has

got a big job planned ahead.

$5 million in gold bullion was unaccounted for.

Now, that's about 1,000 pounds.

If the police find me or the gold, he dies.

Hold it right there!

Police!

- 1 - Adam 15..

Possible 4 15 gang.

They are now 1 5 4 6th Street 1 2 4 9.

1 William 1 56.

Roger, code 6.

5 1 5 2 2 West 7th Street.

Adam 6, go to tag 2 for Adam 24.

Adam 6, go to tag 2 for Adam 24.

DET.

I know that it's difficult, Mr. Gilman,

but please keep on going.

What else did they take?

Well, I made a check,

and they've taken a few things.

Uh, two welding tanks...

Uh, just a second.

They smashed down the front door and they hit the nightwatchman.

They didn't kill the guy, but he's elderly.

The ME says he had a stroke.

Hi, I'm Sergeant Hunter.

- I'm the manager. - How are you doing?

What'd they get?

Two oxygen tanks, a metal burning bar.

A burning bar, huh?

Yeah, we use it to cut elevator or air conditioning

shafts in old buildings.

Uh-huh.

What else they got?

Box of goggles and masks, half a dozen

ear protectors, and a sweet old guy who never hurt anybody.

Thanks, that'll be enough for now.

Thank you very much.

We have a witness who saw the license

plates on a large rental truck that was leaving this, uh,

building.

Uh-huh.

Well, whoever stole that burning bar has

got a big job planned ahead.

Yeah.

What about Eddie?

Fine, no problem.

He's gonna wave us through the gate.

Uh-huh.

You talked to our other friend?

Just now.

It's all set.

We don't have to worry about the alarm.

All that leaves is our loose end: the guard inside.

Just like you said.

Take care of the guard's telephone,

take care of the guard.

Phone cable is buried.

We can't cut it.

So I did just like you said.

How did the kid react?

Scared to death.

Yeah, I bet.

He'll do anything.

Tomorrow night.

OK?

Tomorrow night.

Hey, Cates.

What's going on over there?

It's Rockland's second day without his training officer.

Pulled a car over, the guy got out with a gun.

It's a standoff.

Really?

1 Adam 43.

A responding code 3 to assist 1 Lincoln 19.

They're one block south turning the corner onto 5th Street.

How far away is he?

About 30 feet.

Are you properly deployed behind the door of your car?

Yes.

Can he hear the sound of my voice?

Can he hear the sound of my voice?

Yes.

All right, I want you to put the mic down, aim at his heart,

and shoot him.

OK!

OK!

Suspect in custody.

Code 4.

All right, Carol.

Roger.

All units code 4. - Shoot him?

Hey, it seemed like a good idea at the time.

You know, Carol, I think you...

You do these little things here just so you'll have

some stories to tell later on.

You mean like the time I sent backup to a domestic dispute

even though a hotheaded rookie named Rick Hunter

told me he didn't need it?

That's right.

You know, there'd be one less Rick Hunter around here

if it hadn't been for that. - Yeah, right.

Look, I had it all under control, believe me.

Sure.

Husband with a shotgun, wife with a .45,

brother-in-law with a butcher knife?

Hey, you could've handled it Rick, no problem.

You left out the baby with the Uzi.

All right, gang, let's go back to work, come on.

What you got?

Well, we've got a dead night watchman

and enough equipment that's been stolen to pull off

another very large burglary.

We also have the license plate number off a truck that

was seen leaving the building.

Listen, Carol, give me an hourly broadcast on this

as a possible vehicle involved in a burglary.

And if located, stake and notify one of us, OK?

You got it, Dee Dee.

Good job, Carol.

Thanks.

You know, with that burning bar, Charles,

we can expect some sort of a bank job.

Yeah?

We tried to follow up the truck rental agency.

The place is locked up tight.

We couldn't locate the manager.

We'll hit it again in the morning, though.

All right, let's start with the obvious.

Call the parole index.

Get a printout of all recent parolees with a burn job MO.

Then see if we can match any of them

to the rented truck that was used tonight.

We already did it.

Oh.

I guess that's why you guys get those big fat paychecks.

Fat?

Mine's practically anorexic.

Mine died of starvation in the spring of '85.

Hi, Bobby.

Boy, what a day I had.

I wish you could have been there.

Mom, we need to talk.

What is it, honey?

I'm in really big trouble.

Bobby, what is it this time?

These friends of mine, I owed 'em some money.

Oh, honey.

I thought we took care of your friends last month?

Honey, I asked you not to get back into those card games.

How much is it this time?

$40,000.

$40,000...

Just listen, Mom.

These friends of mine...

All of a sudden I don't owe it to them anymore,

I owe it to these other guys.

What are you talking about?

These other guys.

I guess they bought the IOU, and I owe them the $40,000.

Well, where are we gonna come up with that kind of money?

I don't know, Mom.

But if we don't, they said they would kill me.

Well, they've gotta know I...

I don't make that much.

What do they really want?

Well, these guys know what you're a police dispatcher

and that you work the swing shift.

And at 11 o'clock tomorrow night,

you're gonna receive a call from the west side of town.

They want you to delay reporting it for 30 minutes.

I can't do that, Bobby.

That's my job.

It's just 30 minutes, Mom.

I mean, it's no big deal.

The call comes in at 11 o'clock, you

don't report it until 11:30.

Bobby, I can't do that to the people that I work with,

the people that I work for.

They depend on me for their lives.

Well, what about my life, Mom?

These guys said they were gonna kill me.

Tell them that my calls are monitored,

that I can't get away with it.

They know you're only being taped

and that nobody listens to the tape

unless there's a problem later on.

They just need to buy some time.

They said nobody's gonna get hurt,

and they'll forget about the money, and they won't kill me.

I'm sorry, Mom.

DET.

1 William 1 1 57, advise 1 William 1 56.

I'm code 6 at Western Truck Rental

on the suspect 459 vehicle.

Are you Sergeant McCall?

Sure am.

Great.

I rented the truck in question to a John Grady.

He rented it for two weeks, paid cash,

but he left a credit card number for collateral.

Now, what are the chances, uh, we'll see this truck again?

Oh, pretty good if they're going

to use it in another burglary.

They'll probably dump it in some out of the way neighborhood

and we'll find it a week later, you know.

With no tires, no radio, no engine, hmm?

Yeah, well, you know.

Take a look at these.

Recognise any of them?

Uh... I think...

Yeah, that's him.

Paul Rosario, huh?

Yeah.

Paroled eight weeks ago out of Chino.

Yeah, Rosario.

He was using a fake license and a stolen credit card

under the name of John Grady.

I've got an old address here on Rosario.

I'll run it down. It's probably no good though.

OK.

I'm going to go check with his parole officer

and see if he's been reporting. - Yeah, good.

See you later.

Thanks.

1 Adam 47.

OK, code 7.

Julia, would go down to the cafeteria

and get me a sandwich?

It is my turn, isn't it?

Hmm.

The usual?

Yes, thank you.

They are in first

and goal field territory.

That's down to the 7-yard line.

Let's see if they make it.

Third down and inches to go for a first down.

A bit shy of the Pittsburgh 7-yard line.

Now.

Strong right the fullback.

And the tailback to Charles White.

Will he give to Goodman?

Bangs to the right.

And may have gotten it, may not.

Let's see where they mark it down on his forward progress.

It looks like it's inside the 7, as they mark it down there.

Maybe, maybe not.

We'll have to see.

First and goal to go.

The ball just shy of the 6-yard line.

First and goal to go.

Just shy of the Pittsburgh 6.

Inside. One minute to play.

45 seconds to go.

Goodman in motion for the right turn, and a patient Charles

White cuts it back.

Inside, hurtles the man inside the 5.

Loses the ball in the end zone, and it's

recovered by Pittsburgh.

They blew it down, and dead at about the 3-yard line...

Police department.

Operator 47.

What are you reporting?

Do you have a missing persons department?

I'll transfer you.

SPORTSCASTER: Pittsburgh.

And the Rams get a break with 30 seconds to go.

The clock continues to run.

26 seconds to play in this first half for the Rams.

16 plays for the Rams, consuming 8

minutes and 50 seconds of time.

That's John Robins' kind of football.

They come out, pop.

Police department. Operator...

This is a security guard at LAX,

building 121 South.

Look, the alarm's not going off.

Someone is burning through the front door right now.

We're rolling.

Do not confront the suspects.

Repeat, do not confront the suspects.

Yeah.

All units in the vicinity and 1 Adam 47.

4 5 9, suspects there now.

Building 121 LAX South.

1 Adam 47, your call is code 3.

Be advised, there's an armed guard inside the building.

Possible vehicle involved is an '87 GMC U-Rent,

license 1 ocean...

You bitch.

Sharr.

Sharr.

Uh, she double-crossed us, man.

Uh, she just put us out over the radio.

Come on, let's go.

Let's move!

All right, all right, take it easy.

They'll probably be here within five minutes.

He's been shot.

The driver was our parolee Paul Rosario.

Shot in the back of the head with a .38.

His buddies propped him up in the truck,

jammed down the accelerator.

Needed a decoy.

Fun guys.

You're not kidding.

Bought them some time, though.

They got away going in the other direction in a second truck.

How do you know there was a second truck?

Airport completed their inventory.

$5 million in gold bullion was unaccounted for.

Now, that's about 1,000 pounds.

You can't cart that away in a wheelbarrow.

Half a ton of gold?

What were they doing with that?

It was in the process of being transferred to Japan.

It was only supposed to be held in high security

storage for six hours.

We ought to send up a chopper, get some aerial photos.

A general overview of the area.

So much for high security, huh?

Yeah.

Communications say they received about a half a dozen

or so false alarms at this facility

over the last few weeks.

That might be an interesting coincidence, but check it out.

When the cops leave, it's all ours.

Why'd you have to kill Rosario?

We wouldn't have gotten away if I hadn't.

The guy was a snitch.

We can't afford that kind of loose end.

They're moving it.

Let's go.

Go where?

What do want to do, cut a hole in the fence?

The place is crawling with cops.

We'll catch him on the way out.

No, there's too many exits that truck could take.

Which one do we pick?

Dammit.

I got the license plate.

So what?

We can trace it.

You seem to forget we've got somebody on the inside.

Yeah, a lot of good it did us.

Rosario's dead and we still don't have the gold.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Well, this time it's different.

This time we got leverage.

Let's go use it.

That sector of the airport was shut down last night.

DET.

Why?

An intermittent bug.

The worst kind.

What do you mean?

It's a foul-up in the system that you really can't trace

because it's not regular.

It happens randomly.

We've notified the police seven times in the last 25 days

of what turned out to be false alarms

from that part of the airport.

I'm sure you people were as tired of it as we were.

So you shut it down last night to put a trace on it?

For a half hour.

Our resident wizard thought he had a handle on the problem,

so we accommodated him.

And he was right.

He found a bad chip.

Well, unfortunately, the airport got hit and two people

were killed.

Where's the repairman now? - Home.

He works the swing shift.

I'd like to get his home address

and his work schedule for last month.

Sure.

1 Adam 8, code 6.

5th and Columbus.

Adam 8, Roger.

Police Department.

Mom.

Oh, Bobby.

Honey, where are you?

I've been worried sick.

Are you all right?

Mom, they're gonna kill me

if you don't help.

Go across the street to the phone booth and wait.

Bobby.

Lady, you screwed up real bad last night.

Now, if you ever want to see your kid again,

you better listen real close.

If you hurt him...

Hey, hey.

I got a flash for you.

I'm the one holding the cards here.

Now, are we absolutely clear on that?

I'm listening.

I want you to keep me up to date on the investigation.

I'll call you back in six hours at this number.

You tell me everything they've got.

Ah, I also have a license I want you to run.

You got a pencil?

I'll remember it.

1 Q 9 7 7 6.

I also want you to find out where it is.

Listen, it could take me at least two days to do that.

Your kid doesn't have two days.

Carol, how you doing?

Oh, not bad, Rick.

I had a break.

Thought I'd stop by, see how you were doing.

Ah, well, usual Wednesday.

Two dead bodies and a half a ton of missing gold.

Half a ton?

Yeah. $5 million worth of gold and no suspects.

Any leads?

Nothing to write home about.

Speaking of home, how's Bobby doing?

Bobby's fine.

Good.

Listen, Rick, I've gotta get back to the pit.

I'll see you. - OK, hon.

See you later.

Hey, how you doing?

Good.

What'd you find out?

Paul Rosario's cousin, Eddie Maiyatico, worked at the, uh,

loading docks at the airport.

He may be involved in all this.

You think that Eddie got the burglars clearance to drive

through the airport gate?

Well, we'll know soon enough.

- Did you find him? - Not yet.

What you got?

I have the days and the hours that our alarm repairman

was on duty last month.

And I also have a list of all the false alarms

that came in from the airport. And guess what?

Great. What?

They match.

They do?

They do.

Oh, great.

I'll get right on this.

I'll run this down for you.

You want to run it down?

Yeah, why not?

Smoggy day.

I'd just as soon have you stay in here

with the air conditioning.

You know, sometimes your compassion

as a human being towards me as a fellow human being is just...

It's just absolutely amazing.

I'm an amazing guy.

Hi.

Eric Level?

Hi, can I help you?

Yeah, I'm Sergeant Hunter, LA homicide.

Uh, son, go back and play with you sister in the back now.

What can I do for you?

You're a systems engineer for CSS, are you?

Yes, I'm a troubleshooter.

Oh, you're in trouble all right, Eric.

Look, I'm no crook, OK?

This cousin of mine is in prison,

and he told this guy in there about my job, a guy

by the name of Alan Sharr.

And when Sharr got out, he came over here

and he said to me that I was going to be $100,000 richer

or my family was going to be dead.

So you fake the alarms at the airport as an excuse

to shut the entire system down.

Yes.

You should have called the police.

He said he was going to kill my family!

I understand that.

All the more, you should have called the police.

Now, have you talked to Sharr since last night?

No, I haven't.

Look, we'll see what we can do about getting your family

some police protection.

What have you got?

Where's Bobby?

Do the police have

any suspects identified yet? - No.

Do they know what was taken?

A shipment of gold, $5 million dollars worth.

- Do they know where it is? - No.

I'm not going to answer any more of your questions

until you let me speak to my son.

Lady, we have got 24 hours to solve this little problem,

or your son is dead.

You understand that?

Yes.

Now what about that plate?

The vehicle belongs to a construction company that was

subcontracted to the airport.

They've got six maintenance yards in the area.

I'm not going to be able to find out until tomorrow

which one it's at.

Where's Bobby?

Hidden.

If the police find me or the gold, he dies.

Now, somebody should be at that construction company

by 7:00 AM.

I'll call you at 7:30.

Where we going?

Shut up and walk.

Come on, man.

Get in.

Don't do this to me.

In.

Come on, come on.

Now, uh, cover up.

I don't want you to get cold.

Do it.

Hurry up, hurry up.

You know, you're lucky you're still alive.

If you weren't my insurance policy...

But you are.

What's up, Sporty?

Shh.

A little subdued today, aren't we?

I ought to be, considering I've

been risking life and limb for this chump

change you offered me. - Oh yeah?

What's up?

Look, you told me to find out where Eddie Maiyatico was,

the guy who works at the airport.

Yeah.

But you neglected to inform me that Eddie

Maiyatico was himself involved in that airport burglary.

The Alan Sharr airport burglary.

So what?

So what?

Alan "Don't Leave Any Loose Ends Behind" Sharr?

That man bumps off any and all potential witnesses, man.

He'd bump off his mama if she was a witness 'cause

that's his modus operandi.

Now, if he finds out that I'm helping you...

Sporty James will be sleeping with the caterpillars.

You dig what I'm saying?

Will you shut up?

Nothing's gonna happen to you.

Oh, you guarantee that?

Yeah, I guarantee it.

Now, where the hell is Eddie Maiyatico?

Try the, uh, Red Circle bar in Culver City.

Yeah.

Red Circle bar.

CC. All right.

All right, Sporty.

Look, uh, I just happen to have the old, uh,

Sporty James snitch file here.

Uh... let's do it off the books this time, OK, Hunter?

I don't even want to risk it.

You don't want your money?

Yeah, I want my money.

I gotta pay my rent, man.

My god.

What was I thinking?

Want me to burn that for you?

No, I'll take care of this myself, OK?

What were you thinking about?

I don't like this, man.

The guy did his job.

Are you kidding?

This clown is the original Mr. Mouth.

Give everybody another drink.

Whatever you want.

I'm a rich son of a gun.

Hey, thanks, Eddie.

All right, Maiyatico!

There you are.

Hey, my partner going up to the bar.

So where's my cut?

Shut up, man.

Hey, they don't know what I'm talking about.

So where is it?

Just come on out back.

Sounds good to me.

The bathroom in here stinks anyway.

Excuse me.

- Eddie, you got a big mouth! - Hey, come on!

I didn't say anything to anybody!

And what about the bar, huh, man?

Come on, man, I didn't say anything!

Hold it right there!

Police!

Oh!

Good morning.

This is Sergeant Meyers, homicide.

Are you the manager?

Yes, I am.

1 Adam 9.

Only Robert Robert queen 2 3 9.

Just one minute, please.

1 Adam 9, no wants.

Thanks, Carol.

Thank you for waiting.

We're looking for one of your vehicles.

The license number is 1 Q 9 7 7 6.

Sure, let me check.

Great.

The corner of Western and 29th.

It's in a garage there for maintenance,

but they're not going to work on it until tomorrow.

Please let me talk to Bobby.

I'll call you back at 6 o'clock.

If everything goes smoothly today,

you'll have your son back by tonight.

We have a date with 1,000 pounds of gold.

Can't believe you and me are the only ones left.

Yeah, it's too bad.

Good men are hard to find too.

A lot of dead bodies, a lot of dead ends.

I'll tell you what, this case is keeping me up at nights.

I keep thinking about that gold.

Maybe he never got it out.

What do you mean?

Well, up till now we've been, uh,

working under the assumption there were two trucks.

Nobody saw a truck near the airport or leave the airport.

We haven't been able to find a truck.

Maybe the gold's still there.

Maybe he didn't get it out.

So you think he hid the gold and he used Rosario as a decoy

so that they could escape on foot?

It's as good a scenario as I can think of.

Well, then where would he hide 1,000 pounds of gold?

I don't know.

I think we should take a look at these aerial photographs again.

OK, let's see.

Wait a minute.

That damn water truck.

He knew he couldn't get the gold out in time.

Right.

And the airport cleared the truck

after we released the site.

It wouldn't have taken him more than three minutes.

Give me airport security.

I don't see a water truck, and I don't see 1,000 pounds of gold.

Well, they left us a dead body.

This guy has managed to stay one

jump ahead of us all the way.

How the hell did he know where that truck went?

Did he have it tailed?

No, he had to have found it.

Otherwise, he would have gotten to the gold yesterday.

The time of death for Shara's partner was less than an hour

before we got there.

Well, Sharr is probably halfway to Mexico now.

He had a plan going in, you can bet he had a plan going out.

He's a smart cookie.

Sharr couldn't keep the guard at the airport

from calling the police.

Right.

So when we got the phone call here...

Just a sec... uh, come with me.

Adam 6, go to...

Where are we going?

The tape room.

Adam 6, go to tag 2 for Adam 24.

Police department.

Operator...

This is a security guard at LAX,

building 121 South.

Look, the alarm's not going off and someone

is burning through the front door right now.

We're rolling.

Do not confront the suspects.

Repeat, do not confront the suspects.

All units in the vicinity and 1 Adam 47.

4 5 9, suspects there now.

Uh, shut this off a second.

Carol James does not wait that long to respond

to any type of emergency.

Not unless she's got a real good reason.

Pull up all of her tapes.

You don't have to go to all that trouble.

Sharr kidnapped Bobby.

And he gave me the license number of a truck.

I tracked it for him in-house.

Carol, why didn't you come to us then?

Dee Dee, he said he'd kill my kid if I double-crossed him.

I couldn't take that chance.

But I did put a trap trace on the payphone.

Good girl.

How you doing?

Fine.

You see this guy around here recently?

Yeah.

He used the phone booth.

I seen him drive off to the north.

There's a couple of places up there.

- Right down this road? - Yeah, five miles.

Thanks.

You're welcome.

Get me outta here!

Where's Bobby?

What are you, nuts?

Come on!

I got all the time in the world out here, Sharr.

Where's Bobby?

Next to the water truck, in the ground!

Now, come on! Come on!

Take him.

You come with me.

Hey!

He buried Bobby over here.

Here we are.

Don't know how long he's been down here.

Come over and grab the other end.

Get him out of here.

Come on.

Come on.

You all right?

You all right?

Get a paramedic.

Come on, let's get him out of here.

Hi. DET.

- Hi. - Hey.

Look at this.

What have you got there?

Here, it's for you guys.

Great.

Thanks... well, I don't eat this type of stuff,

but, uh, she might.

Although she doesn't eat this type of stuff unless it has,

uh, red dye 47 and some white chocolate all over it probably.

Hey, thanks a lot for everything.

You're welcome, Bobby.

You know, the district attorney will take into consideration

your testimony.

But, uh, there is a chance you may have

to do about a year in county.

I'll be thinking about that guard that got

killed for the rest of my life.

Well, don't forget, Bobby, you've

got some good support here.

Carol, how's the teaching going?

Oh, pretty good, Dee Dee, thanks.

I'm doing my best with the next generation of dispatchers,

but I miss the excitement of the pit.

You know, I want to apologize to you guys again.

I... I should never have taken matters into my own hands

like that.

The two of you are more like family

than anything we've ever had, and I should have trusted that.

Well, listen, enjoy your fruit.

We'll see you later. - OK.

- Bye bye. - Thanks a lot.

- Take care. - Bye.

What is that?

This is a horned melon.

They use them down in the islands to catch, uh, blowfish.

I see.

I wouldn't eat that if I were you.

Why?

Because we don't know where it's been.