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There's a shooter from Hawaii

running around this town with a machine pistol.

That's all I know,

and if you want any further information,

make an appointment, huh?

How long are you gonna let this massacre continue?

I never saw nothing!

Looks like our surfer's a moving slaughterhouse.

The guy is a habitual.

He loves to put holes in people.

They got me right where they want me.

Get outta L.A.

Don't harass me, cop.

Look, you haven't been harassed

till you've been harassed by me, pal.

Freeze! Police!

You see that? I put 2 slugs in that guy.

He barely flinched.

It works for me.

♪ Smoke is settling deep within ♪

♪ from that distant fighting zone ♪

♪ one lies clear above the din ♪

♪ tenderly to let you go-o-o-o ♪

♪ I got to get away ♪

♪ have to turn around ♪

♪ got to break away, yeah ♪

♪ have to look around ♪

♪ chill ♪

♪ Something's happening in your mind ♪

♪ simple things become hard ♪

♪ many feelings deep inside ♪

♪ peace of mind so far gone ♪

♪ I gotta get away ♪

♪ time to turn around ♪

♪ got to run away, yeah ♪

♪ get up off the ground ♪

♪ dreaming never could be ♪

♪ pacifying all your anger ♪

♪ searching for the real thing ♪

♪ got to start with all the sinners ♪

♪ look into my eyes ♪

♪ can't you see I'm not a beggar? ♪

♪ Honey, you just gotta try it ♪

♪ chill ♪

Woman: Eddie?

Eddie, come here. It's great.

Eddie: Yeah, I'll be right in just after the game, dear.

Got a message from trader man, Mr. Marx.

No, no, please.

Marlene, if you saw this guy in the Hawaiian shirt again,

say in a lineup,

how hard do you think it would be

for you to pick him out?

Well, think about it.

Did he remind you of somebody maybe?

Everybody reminds you of somebody, right?

Not when you're from elkhart, Indiana.

We don't get a lot of beach boys out there.

He ever do any business with Eddie?

Any business that Eddie did, he did it on the phone.

Marlene, he wasn't exactly an insurance salesman.

He was into some bad business.

Look, I'm not gonna stand here

and tell you that he didn't sell some grass

to make some extra money,

but that was just to finance

a film company that he had.

He was gonna direct his next project,

and I was gonna star in it.

It was gonna be one of those slasher flicks

but with a classier script.

Anyway, he kept the drug business

completely out of our thing together.

It was never a big deal.

Is that why he's headed downtown

in the back of a wagon right now?

So he sold some coke, too, but who doesn't?

And for that he's supposed to die?

Marlene, he was one of the biggest heroin dealers

in Los Angeles, and if you ask me,

he made a very bad business mistake.

Marlene, is there anything else you can think of

that would help us?

Well...

The other day, I... I remember he...

He was talking about Hawaii,

about some guy in Hawaii.

He was talking to a buddy of his on the phone.

I think maybe that his name was quatro.

Quatro. His real name is Thomas chen.

He's one of the biggest heroin dealers

down in Chinatown.

Owns a real ugly bar down there.

Got his name when he lost a finger when he was a kid.

I see.

Is this all you know?

That's it.

You ok?

Yeah.

Listen, why don't you give these people a call?

It's a counseling center,

and they'll help you talk through everything, ok?

Look, it's not like...

It's not like I loved him or anything, you know?

Yeah.

You give them a call.

What we got here, McCall, is a classic example

of somebody sending somebody a message.

This syringe business was meant to attract

someone's attention other than ours.

Quatro.

Yeah, possibly.

It still doesn't make any sense.

Sick never makes sense.

Let me run something by you, see what you think.

Ed Marx makes a supplier mad.

That suppler, maybe he lives in Hawaii.

Suppose quatro has the same supplier.

Now, Marx would expect quatro to play the middleman

to get the heat turned off,

which would explain the telephone call.

What do you think?

We're not gonna know unless we go check it out.

Yeah. Let's start with quatro's.

Let's go.

McCall: Maybe we should have made a reservation.

Man: You cops never quit, do you, huh?

We serve one minor one time, and you keep coming back.

Why don't you take your business somewhere else?

2 colas, draft. Gracias.

Has quatro been in here tonight?

He hasn't been in yet, and when he does come in,

you're gonna have to wait your turn.

Surf's up.

He works fast, doesn't he?

He didn't even bother to change his shirt.

Hey, which one of you people

is looking for quatro?

You guys don't wanna do this, do you?

Freeze! Police.

All right, now.

Where's quatro right now?

I guess you didn't hear me very good.

He's having dinner at madam Kim's,

on Beverly, like he always does.

Like he always does? Hey, hunter.

Maybe our beach boy knows his regular hangouts.

Get over there.

You better not be lying to me.

I ain't a liar.

Well, that's good. You know why?

I hate liars.

Hunter: Looks like our surfer's a moving slaughterhouse.

He fired point-blank.

I just wish we knew when and his fun-gun

were gonna have their next tantrum.

When the crazies start doing the work for us,

that's when I become interested, folks.

How about you?

Forget us, Max. What do you got?

Well, if it was a robbery,

I'd say it faded toward the end.

Take a look at old quatro's body.

The wallet, the jewelry...

Even his mazerati's out front.

That is one beautiful car.

Anything else we need to know here?

Yeah, they make a real good

sweet and sour you-name-it,

if nobody's waving a Cannon around.

Look, Max, I want everything that's usable out of this place

on my desk as soon as possible, you got it?

Done. Listen, the lady that runs the place,

she might be able to give you a description.

She's in the back with the cook.

I eat here a lot.

She's always at that register.

I'm sergeant hunter, this is sergeant McCall.

Mrs. Kim? We really need you

to help us with this case...

The man who did this.

You saw a man, didn't you?

I saw nothing. I wasn't in the room.

I was in back getting an order.

Do you understand?

Look, we know you saw his face.

I never saw nothing!

I was in back.

No face! I didn't see no face!

I did have a little problem.

Oh, just a little welcome, but it's under control.

Yeah, everything's working real good.

Yeah, the car and the apartment are just like I like it.

We're gonna be right on time tonight, Mr. Trader man.

I'll call you tomorrow.

I will never understand

the garbage that goes on in this department.

Don't tell me. No matter how much you batted your eyes,

vice didn't wanna tell you their deep dark secrets, right?

We're on the same lousy side,

and they treat us like we're Russian spies or something.

Well, you think it's funny?

You try talking to them.

Departmental sniping, McCall?

Captain, we got a trigger head out there,

and our investigators down in vice have decided

to get selfish with clues

that we need to solve this case.

Now you tell me who's running the asylum.

What'd they tell you?

"Sorry, sergeant McCall. It's jurisdictional"?

They like words like that down there, you know.

It is jurisdictional.

Look, McCall, you have to weigh

the importance of your case against the importance

of the case that they got in the works.

You know, if you flush all the Johns at one time,

you run out of water.

In other words, since it was only a dealer that was shot,

it's no big deal.

In other words, don't step on departmental toes

when they're making a major drug bust.

You know what really gets me here, hunter?

The fact that you think this is so funny.

Hey, I'm just trying to keep some perspective here.

You wanna spin out, be my guest.

Me? If I can't laugh at these nuts' rules,

they got me right where they want me.

I know where I can still dig up

everything we need to know for sure.

Watch what you step in.

If you wear the right shoes, you can step in anything.

I've been under cover for 6 months,

I've put up with these dime bag salesmen,

and what they think passes for life out there,

and now I'm this close to making a bust,

and here you come.

If I thought anybody was gonna recognize me,

I wouldn't have made a move, Lynn.

Look, we have had 2 major pushers

get blown out of their socks in the last 12 days out there.

So I hear. You're homicide. Take care of it.

Fine. You ready? 'Cause i'm starting even if you're not.

They think the killer is this big Hawaiian guy.

That's a big surprise. The beach boy...

Trader man's revenge on the association.

A real garbage disposal.

What association?

6 of L.A.'s biggest dealers

got ticked off with their Hawaiian source,

a guy named trader man,

and now he's ticked off back.

The 6 include Eddie Marx and some guy named quatro?

Yeah, I haven't been able to figure out

what they've done yet.

It must have been bad, though,

'cause trader man decided to airdrop king Kong

in the L.A. area with orders to party.

Ok. What are the names of the other 4 guys?

The word I hear is that it's snazzy Louis green,

Parker lemay ii, easy-open otero,

and Greg Jones.

Greg Jones? What, he make that up himself?

McCall: Hunter, are you sure snazzy Louis green

is gonna talk to us?

He'll not only talk, he'll sing.

Looks like you wiped out, kahuna.

Hands away from the body.

Would you look at that?

Pretty lady, and she's got a gun, too.

This is a bad town, huh, cop?

A little bit too bad for you.

Man: Hey, hunter, hunter!

This is the guy that broke down my door.

Now, you gotta make him pay for that.

He's gotta pay, or the city... Maybe you ought to pay for it!

Shut up, snazzy!

Hey, hunter, I'm a businessman.

Make an arrest on this.

Now, what are you on, his side or mine?

Definitely not his. Have lunch, will ya?

Have lunch? Hey, hunter! What about my door?

That door cost money! Now, come on!

Hey!

It's a questionable bust, McCall.

Department's not gonna play ball

if all we've got to go on is your hunch.

No matter how convinced you 2 are

that this guy's the shooter

of this Eddie Marx and this quatro guy.

It's gonna take something firm, and you don't have it.

What do you mean we don't have it?

Just what I said.

The pistol he was carrying doesn't match

and the ballistics are way off.

Airport detail says this guy came in

from the islands yesterday.

Now, Honolulu P.D. has got a record on Wes copano

that's longer than most countries.

The guy is a habitual.

He loves to put holes in people.

Yeah, but Honolulu hasn't

pinned any homicides on him, have they?

And unless this woman points her finger,

we can't hold this guy long enough

to even find out what he had for breakfast.

Hunter's down there trying to talk her

into coming here right now.

Trying to talk her into it?

You mean on top of everything else,

we've got an uncooperative witness?

Look, she'll I.D. him, captain.

Yeah, but the court's

not gonna hold him on just a lineup I.D.

Well, we can hold Wes copano till we get more evidence.

Marlene: Look, the answer's no.

I'm scared. Don't you understand?

Look, Marlene, the last time I talked to you,

you said you'd help us.

Yeah, well, things change.

Look. I appreciate everything you guys

are trying to do,

but there's no point in talking,

'cause I've got a cab coming any minute.

Well, that's funny.

I always heard you could never go home again.

Let me worry about elkhart.

All I know is I wanna be somewhere

that hula boy and his machine gun can't find me.

I just wish you guys would find him

and stick him on a rocket...

Look, Marlene, I know you're not gonna

like hearing this, and I don't blame you,

but just because you're scared

doesn't mean you shouldn't help us.

You should have seen what he did.

Oh, I wish I had. I'd be right down there

at that lineup this very minute.

No, you wouldn't.

Marlene, don't you understand?

Eddie is not the only one that's been murdered here.

He's killed several other people.

Now, how long are you gonna let this massacre continue?

All right, let's do it.

Man: Face the front.

Turn to your left.

Face forward.

Which one?

That one.

You're free to go now, copano.

So get your stuff and get outta L.A.

Don't harass me, cop.

You haven't been harassed

till you've been harassed by me, pal.

Hey, I'm on vacation in L.A., man.

What's your problem?

My problem is

your vacation's turned into a hunting trip.

So I'm gonna hover right over our shoulder,

and when you get

that special little itch you get,

and you reach up to scratch it,

the air is gonna be full of beach boy parts.

Aloha.

Sergeant McCall?

Thought you had a plane to catch?

I do. I just wanted to tell you

I am really sorry that I picked the wrong guy.

That's all right. You did your best.

It's ok.

This is McCall. Patch me in to hunter.

I got a bad one here.

Snazzy: Hey. Hey, remember me?

Yeah. You're the guy who ate my door.

Hey! I'm talking to you!

Look at me when I'm talking to you.

You silly, dumb-looking pansy.

Go.

We're at the last call bar.

Snazzy just went in,

and I think this thing's about to split wide open.

Listen to me now. Stay outta there. Got it?

Snazzy: Turn around!

I'm not gonna ask you again.

Hey!

Better come now. Something's going down.

And send some units.

Freeze! Police!

McCall?

She didn't know what hit her.

You know, when he ran out,

he didn't care if I was a cop.

We could have had the whole department out there,

he wouldn't have cared.

Where do you get people like this?

How are you gonna stop 'em from killing the next guy?

Take away their targets.

♪ She was some kind of wonderful ♪

♪ treated me like a king ♪

♪ but she gave me just a little too much freedom ♪

♪ thought I could get away with anything ♪

♪ from her eyes came bullets ♪

♪ she shot me through the heart ♪

♪ when my back was turned ♪

♪ bullets ♪

♪ well, I lost a girl ♪

♪ but that's the lesson that I learned ♪

♪ bullets ♪

♪ if looks could kill ♪

♪ oh-oh-oh-oh ♪

♪ her eyes were blazing fire ♪

♪ woman jealous, burning heart ♪

♪ then she took one look at me ♪

♪ and then my lover ♪

♪ she turned around and... shot ♪

♪ I was mortally wounded ♪

♪ ah, what a fool I've been ♪

♪ don't take this dare before your lover ♪

♪ you could be next, my friend ♪

♪ from her eyes came bullets ♪

♪ she shot me through the heart ♪

♪ when my back was turned ♪

♪ bullets ♪

♪ mm, I've lost her love ♪

♪ I've got nothin' in return ♪

♪ bullets ♪

♪ if looks could kill ♪

♪ in hell I'm gonna burn ♪

Hey, baby. Hey, yo?

Hey, yo, yo, yo, baby!

Here, take these off.

What are you doing?

I'm stickin' the stickers on, honey.

Uh-huh.something the matter with them?

Oh, nothing wrong with that, baby,

except this is not sale merchandise.

Get these stickers off of these cassettes, baby.

You are ruining my business.

I'm sorry. Ok, I'm sorry for it.

I'm sorry.

Just use your brain, all right?

I'm not asking you to go to medical school, ok?

Just think about what you're doing.

Ok? Ok.

You're trying to ruin me, baby, right?

The sale merchandise is in the back, all right?

Go on, move it, move it, move it!

Go on, man, what is wrong with you, huh?

I cannot take you no place. I don't know what's wrong.

What is it, what is it? What? What?

Customers. We're got customers.

Get in back. Come on.

Good afternoon, officer.

Well, how are you doing, officer? Can I help you?

You, uh, cassette people or, uh, album people?

Uh, we're taking you into custody people, Parker.

Hey, yo, yo, what's going on here, man?

I... I didn't pay a parking ticket or what, huh?

I mean, this ain't Nazi Germany here, you know.

Relax. It's not a bust.

Just like you ain't no cop.

Ok, ok.

I watch 20/20, man, you know that?

That's great. Yeah.

They bust people like you.

Come in here, bust me, tell me this ain't no bust.

You makin' a real sad mistake, man.

Yeah, yeah. Give me... Give me Irving shapiro.

Yeah, tell him it's Parker lemay, the second. Mm-hmm.

What? Then get him off of long distance, damn it.

He's my lawyer.

Whoa. Whoa.

Baby, will you take it easy?

What? Are you trying to ruin me or what?

You want to do me a favor, huh?

Get her the death penalty.

I will pick up the tab, all right?

Huh? Look at this.

Get out of here. Go on. Go on. Leave. Just leave!

Ok.

Hold it right there, Jones.

Hey, gimme a break, hunter, I didn't do nothing.

What is this all about?

You pull us in off the streets.

You don't tell us why.

You read us no rights.

You're looking for a lawsuit,

sergeant Joe Friday.

Look, you idiots,

I'm going to explain this you one more time.

We didn't bring you people in off the streets

on charges that would stick.

Lemay: Then you're talking harassment.

You know, if my lawyer has to actually come down here,

he's gonna eat your nose.

It's not harassment, lemay.

Then it's bull, lady cop.

You know it, and we all know it.

Hey, lemay, I don't need you to talk for me.

Got it?

I don't need trash on my side.

Who you callin' trash, punk, huh?

Hey!

Hey, we brought you in here to save your tails.

You want to settle, you do it on your own time.

Now get over there and sit down.

Sit down!

"Save our tails," huh?

Well, I make you a promise, lady cop.

I will always wear my safety belt.

Now can we go?

So Mr. Otero and I can have a little talk.

I'd love it.

Now, look, there's a shooter from Hawaii

running around this town with a machine pistol.

He's already killed Eddie Marx, quatro,

and snazzy Louis green.

Your peers, I believe.

I got no peers.

Sit down.

Here's the deal, boys.

Listen to this and listen to it good.

You tell us what you know about this guy

so we can catch him,

or nobody here is going to lift a finger to protect you

when this maniac comes looking for you,

to turn you into a red stain.

And I mean, nobody.

Now get out of here, all of you.

Close the door, hunter.

Is this, uh...

Hawaiian source, trader man?

Whatever we get, we get from him.

About a month ago,

he decides he's going to drive up the price.

He decides he's going to drive it way up.

So you guys form an association,

take your business somewhere else

and buck him, right?

No. Bucking wasn't good enough.

We wanted to punish him.

Where'd you go?

We heard about this, uh, Miami connection.

A guy named ocean Jimmy.

He runs straight white octane

in from South America.

So the trader man hurts you and you hurt the trader man.

Hurt ain't the word.

Where's Parker lemay?

He ain't here.

Oh, oh, oh, look. Look, oh!

Hunter: How does the trader man get his goods?

It's tailor-made.

He runs an overnight air freight business.

Typical coast-to-coast rush.

Yeah, I bet he gives you bulk rates, right?

When's Jimmy due in town next?

Lemay: He's in town right now.

Until tomorrow night.

Checkin' out our pipelines.

Wants to make sure nobody's plugged up.

I want you to call the trader man in Hawaii.

Have him tell the beach boy

where to find ocean Jimmy.

But before you do,

tell us first.

And?

McCall and I go surfing.

How you doing?

You don't know me, but let me introduce you to my badge.

It knows everybody.

Oh, come on, man. This ain't legal.

Now this is a bust. But we'll discuss that later.

There's a crazy man. He's an assassin.

Is on his way here to see you right now.

I need you off the street while I can nail him.

Well, it's either that or you can stick around

and talk to him and his machine gun.

Now get out.

Send him in.

Over here.

You're never gonna make this stick, man.

Oh, yeah? We got a warehouse full of dope in there.

I think we'll make that stick.

It's a step in our general direction.

Yeah, if you play along with us,

maybe that spanking you're gonna take

won't hurt so much.

Ok, what do you want?

We want the trader man's name.

The trader man? You kidding?

He's the competition.

We know that. His name.

Is that gonna help me?

Yeah. It sure will.

Ok...

Joe brannigan.

Lives in Hawaii.

Guy deals in condo developments for a cover.

Get him out of here.

Dee Dee: It seems like the whole world's going condo.

Hunter: Yeah.

Yeah, this guy's gotta own property

around here somewhere.

Let me have your walkie-talkie.

Jack?

Jack: Yo.

Yeah, this is hunter.

Give me a make on a Joseph brannigan

and all the real estate he owns downtown

and at the beach.

Jack: Roger.

Yeah, get back to me as soon as you can,

will you? Thanks.

Huh, maybe a vacation home?

Yeah, for the beach boy maybe.

I don't know. I was wondering.

Thought maybe he figured it out,

decided not to show up.

Then maybe again, he did.

Hunter: Ok, copano, give it up.

I'll take the fire escape.

Freeze! Police!

Drop it, copano.

Are you all right?

Yeah, I'm all right.

Did you see that? I put 2 slugs in that guy,

he barely flinched.

He's probably wearing a vest.

Yeah, help me up, will you?

No, no. Just stay down there and rest.

Help me up.

Oh, well, take it easy. It's still connected, you know.

Well, are you all right?

Yeah, I'm fine. It's not bad.

Ocean Jimmy's had police protection, Mr. Trader man.

Yeah, I'm clear in L.A.

I got a flight booked in an hour.

See you when I land.

This is hunter. I'm at

the Joseph brannigan property at the Marina,

and I've also made a positive identification

on the escape vehicle.

Request a backup. Thank you.

Radio: Roger, l-56.

Carry your bags?

Jones: This is the worst wake I have ever been to.

Easy, brother, you don't like it,

keep it to yourself.

Yeah, really.

This is snazzy's wake, not yours.

Hey... hunter, McCall.

Come to toast marshmallows,

or am I still in the red zone again?

Well, we heard you were having a wake for snazzy,

so we thought we'd just pop in.

Yeah. Ha ha. Right.

I thought, uh, wakes were held

in houses or churches.

This seems a little... Disrespectful, you know.

Lemay: Disrespectful?

Disrespectful?

Hey, hunter, is she for real?

This is a very significant alley, McCall.

Not only is this the alley

in which snazzy made his first deal,

it's also the alley in which I first busted him.

Very sentimental stuff.

Otero: That's right, sweetheart.

This is hallowed ground.

Besides, we're all brothers here anyway.

Right, hunter?

Look, the only reason I'm here,

and believe me, the only reason I showed up here,

is because snazzy cooperated with us.

And as you well know, Elton, I don't forget favors.

Now as for the rest of you 8 balls,

we'll clear you right off the sidewalk, sooner or later.

Don't stand so close, Elton. You'll fall in.

You're not really upset about snazzy, are you?

Ah, what's the difference?

He was a dealer.

Yeah, that's what killed him all right.

Hunter, you didn't answer my question.

I think you and I should have some secrets, McCall.

After all, it makes life interesting.