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-We found a flash light with Kay's blood on it.

-I didn't kill that lady.

And you know it.

-Well, is this the man or not?

-You know that I eventually want to hang all this up.

-Well, yes.

Exactly.

-Joe's partner's gonna curse my case.

-This is insane.

-Point is hunter's got reasonable doubts supported

by some interesting developments.

-Freeze!

Nobody move!

-Want some of this?

-What is it?

-Atomic California style vegetarian deluxe ranch pizza.

You've got cheese, you've got, uh, carrots, mushrooms,

peppers, and, oh, pineapple, and, uh, I

believe we've got a little bit of kiwi in here.

-That's the grossest pizza I've ever seen.

-Thank you.

-Thank you.

I gonna say no.

Big pass here.

I've got my own dinner date anyway.

-Again?

Then why'd you ask?

-In case you had something better,

but it's obvious you don't.

-Get outta here.

-Bye.

-I'll save some.

It'll be in your drawer.

-So, uh, what do you think?

Well, I had the braised duck one time and it was really great.

-Really?

-Yeah, really.

Really great.

-That's great.

-So how's your dinner?

Is it great?

-Great.

Great.

-Is it really great?

-Oh, really great.

-Oh, that's great.

What, what do you think?

Do you think maybe, uh, that might be their first date?

-Might?

Be their first date?

I think it's definitely their first date.

You know what?

That guy sounds exactly the way you sounded on our first date.

-Wait a minute.

I wasn't quite that bad, was I?

And I thought you were cute.

-Well, since this is not our first date.

-Jason, I would love to.

Just that I promised to go back to the office

and give hunter a hand tonight.

-Well, you see, that's when I get when I proposition a cop.

-I guess that's what I get for going out with a deputy

da who's not willing to plea bargain.

-Meaning?

-Meaning maybe we can compromise.

Unit seven, we've got a 59

at 805 east setra.

The pd is already going.

-Hold it!

-Dammit!

Dammit, dammit, dammit!

-Um, I'm deputy da leffler.

Is there an incredibly good reason for this?

-Sargent hunter's been trying to reach you.

-Don't you have your beeper?

-Beeper?

Um,

yeah.

Oh, it's off.

Must have been off.

Thanks, Bennett.

I'm never gonna live this down.

-How was dessert?

I meant dinner.

-What'd they do?

Put it out on the wires?

-Yep, it's all over town.

-Great.

What do you got, Barney?

-That's Kay Dawson, woman of the house.

Blunt force trauma to the head.

Lots of contusions and abrasions.

She fell down the stairs.

-She probably surprised the burglar

once she turned on the automatic alarm.

He clubbed in the head and that's

when she fell down the stairs.

It looks to me as though he might have entered

through the side patio door here.

Any sign of the murder weapon?

No, not yet.

We've got an eye witness though.

Security guard almost caught him when

he came out the front door.

He also got a partial on the license plate.

-Sargent hunter?

-Mr. Dawson?

Yeah, this is sergeant McCall.

-Hi.

-Sargent.

Uh, thank you for calling.

I, I'm sorry it took so, so long to get here.

Been busy with work, and... And I ran into a lot of traffic

on... you wouldn't have thought there'd been traffic.

-Mr. Dawson, we need you to...

-10 years ago, you know, there, there was...

-Mr. Dawson, we need you to identify your wife.

I'm sorry.

I'll try to, uh, pin down that license.

-Ah, McCall, hunter, what's the progress on the Dawson murder?

-Thomas orlowski, prime suspect out of nine possibles.

-We also found his fingerprints on the flashlight

that killed Mrs. Dawson.

-Orlowski?

We've had him in here before.

-Right.

-Unfortunately, he squirmed away.

-Hi, Rick.

-Jason, how you been?

-Looks like we nail Tommy good this time.

-Well, let's not get ahead of ourselves.

- Got any addresses? - Got three of them.

-Take off, huh?

-Ok, we're outta here.

-You take silver lake.

I'll take marvis and venice.

-All right.

-See you.

-All right.

-You know, I know this fantastic little Ecuadorian

restaurant down in silver lake.

What do you say?

Bust a punk, eat some food?

What?

I think you're crazy.

-Yep.

About you, baby.

I'll see you.

-Bye.

Wait up!

-Positively beaming today, aren't we?

Is it that obvious?

-Uh huh.

Well?

-Well, what?

-Well, is this the man or not?

I don't know.

-Well, maybe.

I'm about 60% sure.

-60%?

-Yeah.

I don't know.

I just have to wait and see.

You know, time will tell.

You know that I eventually wanna hang all this up here,

you know?

-Yeah.

-I'm serious.

I wanna be able to have a home that I can share with somebody

and, you know, those barbecues...

-Barbecues?

-On the... yeah, on the weekends.

Stuff like that.

You know.

-Tiny little mccalls hopping around.

-Well, yes.

Exactly.

And maybe Jason is the man that, um, I could share that with.

I don't know.

I have to wait and see.

-Oh.

-Of course you know that that means that you will be losing

the very best partner that you ever had.

Do you think you can handle that?

-Well, I think so only I'm the bridesmaid.

I see.

Some nice little lavender chiffon

number, something like that.

-No, actually I was thinking of something in lime green,

you know, with a helmet.

Maybe a rhinoceros horn coming out here.

-Open up, police.

Uh, Tommy orlowski doesn't live here anymore, does he?

-No.

-Didn't think so.

-Just a minute.

Who is it?

-Police, open up.

-You've got nothing on me.

-Really?

You don't say.

You're under arrest.

Get up.

16 burglary arrests.

-Two convictions.

-Yeah, I saw that, yeah.

Thanks.

Got quite a career going here, Tommy.

-Yeah, well, it's nothing to proud of,

but at least I'm not on welfare.

-I really want you to reconsider.

I'm totally against this interview.

-Man's talking of murder beef and I'm clean.

I wanna hear what he has to say.

You settle down, Sydney.

I can deal with this.

Ok, Tommy, where were you

when Kay came out of her bedroom.

Upstairs?

-I was downstairs.

I didn't know the lady was home.

I heard a noise upstairs.

Will you look at my rap sheet?

I'm not a hot prowl man.

I didn't know anybody was home.

I heard a noise, so I split.

End of story.

-Oh?

I don't think so.

You see, someone came and pushed her down the stairs.

-Well, it was somebody else because it wasn't me.

-Really?

We found a flashlight in the neighbor's backyard

with Kay's blood on it.

-So?

-Also your fingerprints.

-Man, that's impossible!

-Come on.

Watch that?

-Sit down.

-Interview over.

-No it's not, Syd.

-Tommy, you're not going any place until you talk to me.

-All right.

I'll cop to those other jobs.

-Shut up.

-But I didn't kill anybody and that's the truth.

-I'm wasting my time.

Boys.

- Will you look at my record? - Damn it.

-I have looked at your record.

-I don't have any assault beefs.

I'm strictly non-violence.

That's my policy.

-Should have stuck to it.

-All right, I want you to go through this whole thing again.

From the top, and this time tell me everything.

-I'd say it's time I hang Tommy orlowski's

scalp on my refrigerator door.

-I love it when you talk dirty to me.

Go get them, tough guy.

-Is the man you saw coming out of the house in this room?

-Yes.

-Would you please identify him?

-That's him next to defense counsel.

In a plaid shirt and gray pants.

-Let the records show that the witness

identified Thomas orlowski.

You lifted a thumb print and three fingerprints.

Did you match them to any particular individual?

-The prints match those of Thomas orlowski.

-The evidence is entirely circumstantial.

Will you entertain a bail motion?

-Your honor, I'd hardly call a murder weapon covered

with the defendant's fingerprints

circumstantial evidence.

This is a capital offense and I strenuously

oppose any form of bail.

-Your honor,

-the court agrees.

You're bail motion is denied.

Don't worry about it.

We'll cop to second degree.

You'll be up for parol in 10.

-Hey.

-Freeze!

Nobody move!

Nobody's gonna get hurt.

I just gotta get out of here!

Help me.

-I'll seek the strongest penalty the law provides.

-The death penalty?

The members of this community

must feel safe in their own homes, women especially.

-There you go.

-You know, I tried him three years ago on a residence burg,

but he walked because of a search and seizure problem.

You know, Syd dombrauer, he's a damn sharp defender.

He, um, he and orlowski go way back,

but this time around they're not going anywhere.

-Jason, are you talking of revenge here?

And I thought you were trying to make

the community safer for women.

I think I'm gonna have to reconsider about you.

Is that what you think?

-Yeah.

-Think maybe I should do something to,

uh, possibly redeem my good name.

Don't you?

-Yes, I think you should.

Ow!

Oh.

-Oh, gosh.

-I'm sorry.

Hurts, huh?

-Oh, boy.

Could you be careful?

You're dealing with a very delicate instrument there.

-I know.

Here, I'll make it feel better.

-Oh, oh, that feels better.

-Does it feel better?

-Mhmm, do that again.

-Make it feel a little bit better?

-That's feeling a lot better.

Do it again.

-I know how to make it feel a whole lot better.

-You do?

-Yes.

-I do, too.

Feels great now.

-Get him outta here.

I'm not talking to him.

Not talking to you.

-Me?

-Not you, him.

-Tommy.

-Don't Tommy me you Judas bastard.

Get him out of here.

I don't wanna talk to him.

I don't wanna look at him.

-You sure inspire your clients, don't you?

-I oughtta object to this.

-You can object all you want, ok.

I'm talking to him and I'm talking to him alone!

-If you need me I'll be right outside.

-Yeah, right.

He thinks I did it.

That seems to be the general consensus, doesn't it?

-Look, I'll admit to every job I've

done since junior high school.

I'll admit to every job I've done since junior high school.

I'll take you on the grand tour.

There must be 2,000 of them, but I

never laid a finger on anybody.

-You proved that in court, didn't you?

-Look, I freaked out in there.

Ok, man, they're only trying to Bury me in there.

I'll take a polygraph.

I'll take it right now.

I didn't murder that woman.

I didn't even know she was home.

-Well, even if I did give you a polygraph, Tommy,

it's not admissible in court.

-I'm doing it for you.

I didn't kill that lady.

You know it.

In your gut.

-Boy, I thought I was early.

Watcha got?

-Oh, nothing.

I'm gonna go talk to, uh, James Dawson.

-Oh, why?

We've got a lot of work to do on this drive by.

-Oh, I know. We'll get it done.

I just wanna go see him.

He's called and said something about some property

missing from his house or something.

I'll see you later.

-Oh, I'm sorry.

Mr. Dawson took the day off to make the funeral arrangements

for his wife.

I thought I told you when you called.

-Oh, you did, Caroline.

It's just that I thought I might come by and see if I could

talk to somebody about Mrs. Dawson.

Couple questions.

-Well, there's Susan Stevens, our manager.

She worked a lot with Mrs. Dawson.

I think she's in Mr. Dawson's office right now.

-Great.

She'll do.

Thanks.

Miss Stevens?

Sargent hunter. - Sergeant.

-Hi.

-Susan.

I'm the manager here.

-Uh, I was kind of expecting to talk to James Dawson

today if I could.

-I'm afraid he's not in today, but i'm

sure he'll be here tomorrow.

-Ok.

Uh, just out of curiosity, what is

it you people do here anyway?

-Well, we develop software for industrial robotics.

About five years ago we opened up the entire Asian market.

We now sell systems to both China's, Korea, even Japan.

Pacific rim is the future, you know?

-Really?

-And we'll be there.

-Good.

-I sound like a bad corporate film, don't I?

-No, not at all.

I, uh, I assume James Dawson owns the company.

-He does now.

Kay was always the heart of the operation.

She created the company about 15 years ago.

James came on shortly after they were

married about five years ago.

I came on board a few months after that.

-Kay Dawson a nice woman?

-A strong woman.

If you haven't already heard, Kay and James

did have their differences about running the company.

I think that it's just awful what happened.

I miss her already.

-I can understand that.

Well, I'll, uh, come back another time.

Thanks.

-Thank you.

-See you, Susan.

Good luck.

-How's it going?

-Great.

Hunter.

-Yeah, it's Barney.

Finished with the Dawson murder.

Got some interesting news.

-Great.

Be right over.

-I could use a little bit of help here, you know.

-Can it wait?

-Yeah.

-See you later.

Thanks.

Bruises under both arms, huh, Barney.

-Yeah, kinda hard to do falling down stairs.

-Yeah.

How would somebody get bruises like that?

-Well, it is consistent with somebody

dragging her a short distance.

-Like from her bedroom to the top of the stairs?

-That would do it.

She also had an awful lot of tranquilizers in her blood.

Enough to sleep through an earthquake.

-Or a burglary.

Look, there's no secret the Dawsons

fought like cats and dogs, Charlie.

James Dawson was having an affair

with Susan Stevens, the manager of his company.

-That's completely irrelevant.

Yeah, and Kay Dawson's body had bruises all over indicating

that she could have been dragged from her room.

She was also loaded with tranquilizes.

-Orlowski killed Kay Dawson.

It's as clear as a bell to me.

-I gave Tommy a polygraph.

The examiner feels that Tommy is innocent.

-A polygraph?

That's 20th century witchcraft.

I've got a murder weapon with orlowski's fingerprints

all over it.

-Maybe it was a frame.

Who knows?

-Wait a minute.

Now this is crazy.

You realize this will ruin us in court?

If dombrauer tells the jury about your damn polygraph,

it doesn't matter what the judge will say.

They'll never forget it.

Who the hell you working for?

The public defender?

-You think Dawson killed his wife?

-It's a strong possibility, John.

-Look individually, what hunter has isn't much,

but, uh, collectively I think it makes

for a kind of weird wrinkle.

Let's continue this investigation.

-Captain, this is insane.

Look, we finally got this guy.

What, what is the point?

-The point is hunter's got reasonable doubts supported

by some interesting developments.

I think that's good enough for me.

-Charlie, I can't count the times

that I have built probable cause to keep

those creeps you send me off your streets.

-Jason, I don't owe you anything for doing

the job your paid for.

We're gonna follow this one out.

-What's going on here?

Why did you keep me in the dark?

-Because it's Jason's case and I felt

as though you were too close to it.

-We have worked on other cases before.

It's never been a problem.

-No, I know.

But I think Jason's making a personal vendetta out

of this thing.

-He just doesn't wanna compromise.

He's seen enough killers get off with just a slap on the wrist

and then go out and murder somebody else.

And you've seen it too.

-I know that.

And both of us have seen innocent people suffer

because of an over-aggressive da.

Now I think we should follow the leads

and see where it takes us.

-Yeah, you have a point.

Ok, you said that the Dawsons fought a lot, right?

-Right.

-Well, I'll go talk with their attorneys

and see if I can find out the states were.

-Ok.

I'll reexamine the murder scene and go

by Tommy's and see if I missed anything.

-Ok.

Listen, just one thing.

If all we come up are dead ends, let's just be real careful

along the way, just for Jason's sake, ok?

-Sure.

Absolutely.

See you later, partner.

-Dee Dee, devane didn't budge.

Your jealous partner is gonna curse my case.

-Jason, that's not it at all.

It's just that we have to follow through on the leads, you know.

I'm... we have to.

We're talking about a man's life here.

-Jason?

-Hey, I gotta go.

-I couldn't believe it either.

It's really starting to look like Dawson have

a strong motive for killing his wife.

It'll be real interesting to see what hunter comes up with.

Jason, are you listening to me?

-Yeah, I'm listening, Dee Dee.

It's just that every time I see you, it's gets a little worse.

-Well, yeah, works from your point of view in the case,

but, you know the bottom line here

is I'm just trying to get at the truth.

-And I'm trying to maintain it.

Maintain the fact that orlowski is

the one that killed Kay Dawson.

That is my job.

-But I'm just trying to do my job.

Jason, can't you just at least be

open to the possibility here of an alternative?

-It's getting late, and, um, I'm really swamped.

We'll get together tomorrow.

-Trouble on the home front?

-I'd rather not talk about it.

-You know, if you call one of those nine, seven,

six party lines, they'll help you.

-I'd expect that from you.

-What'd you find?

-Well, I talked to Kay's attorney.

He said that Kay and James Dawson

were at each other's throats continuously.

So they had a prenuptial agreement that, uh,

cut Dawson out of everything in case of divorce.

-Yeah, but would that be cause enough for him

to kill his wife?

-Oh, I don't know.

With Kay out of the picture, Dawson

would take control of a company that's worth millions.

-Uh huh.

-Miss anything at the crime scene?

-You know, I think it's highly improbably that, uh, Tommy

could have flown out the front door like the security said

unless he had a key to the front of that house.

-I thought he said he went in and out

through the side windows.

-I think that was just to mask his mo.

Here you go.

-Thanks.

-I think Tommy gets keys to these houses.

I also think he has an accomplice.

-Really?

-Yeah.

When I went to Tommy's house to check to see if he might have

any type of machinery to duplicate keys,

I ran into a blonde woman.

Now she took off before I grab her,

but I got her license plate and I ran it.

Car belonged to Tommy.

-Guy's facing the gas chamber.

It's no time to try to hide an accomplice

-unless he cared a great deal about her.

-Oh, a hell of a lot.

How do you think James Dawson fits into this?

-Well, let's see.

If James Dawson wanted to kill his wife,

he'd have to figure up a way to frame Tommy for it.

-Yeah, but to do that he had to know exactly when

and where Tommy was going to break in.

Basically had to be able to predict it.

-Mhmm.

That's exactly what we have to do.

-Well, we can start by, uh, going to the six burglaries

that Tommy admitted to in the neighborhood.

Begin by interviewing the housewives,

see if there's some way we can connect what they were doing

with Tommy breaking in and having

access to the house keys.

-Ok. I'll round them up.

You talk to them.

-On the day of the break in, can you tell me where you were

and what you were doing?

-I had breakfast at the bel air hotel

and spent the rest of the morning with Sam.

My personal trainer.

-I see.

-Then, um, it was lunch at the Ivy.

And, well, it was Wednesday so I had

a facial at the Beverly west.

Um, then I went to trumps for high tea.

-That's, that's nice.

-You oughtta go there sometime.

-Yeah, maybe I will one day.

-Brunch at the Polo lounge and then I

did some shopping on Cannon.

I bought a new skirt for next season.

Then I went to the salon, Beverly west.

The I'm pretty sure I took Maurice for short.

-Maurice your son?

-No, my dog.

Say hello to the policeman, marice.

Dog in your purse.

-I had lunch at the four seasons.

Uh, and then I took a walk along rodeo.

I might have picked a little something up, I'm not sure.

And then I went to Beverly west for a facial.

-Of course.

All six of the victims had an appointment

at the same facial salon the day that Tommy

broke into their homes.

-That sounds promising.

Grab hunter and get yourselves a mud pack.

-Hi.

Can we please speak with Tommy orlowski's girlfriend?

-Christine?

-Blonde hair, drives a white Nissan?

-Uh huh.

-Yeah.

Is she here?

-Yeah.

She's in the back.

-Yeah, that's her.

Thanks.

Hi, Christine.

We finally meet.

I'm sergeant hunter.

This is sargent McCall.

I saw you yesterday at Tommy's.

You were going out as I was going in.

-Uh, I don't know a Tommy.

-That's funny.

The car you were driving is registered to him.

-Tommy must care for you an awful lot.

He's willing to be put away forever to keep you out of it.

If you feel the same it's time to talk the truth.

-He told me not to say anything.

He doesn't want anything bad to happen to me.

I'm so worried about him,

-things have changed now, Christine.

You might be able to help him with this case.

We think Tommy may have been framed for the murder.

-The ladies always tell me what they're going that night.

If they're going to a party or something.

So Tommy has this idea that, I, I made an impression

of the keys while the, while the ladies were soaking.

And, and Tommy made the keys from that.

Then he went over to their houses at night.

He broke the window so the police

wouldn't know how he got in.

-And that's where you got Kay Dawson's

key when he broke into her house.

-But that's what was so weird.

The picture in the paper of Mrs. Dawson, the lady who got

killed, that wasn't the Mrs. Dawson I took the keys from.

-Hi, Caroline.

It's me again.

Mr. Dawson in?

-Um, in his office with miss Stevens.

I'm just tell him that you're

-oh, this is what you guys were doing the night of the murder.

-What are you talking about?

-Well after you figured out Tommy's mo

you send Susan here to the salon as your wife

with your keys in her purse.

-Uh, that's just not true.

-Uh huh.

You drugged your wife so she couldn't hear Tommy come in.

Then you smacked her in the head and pushed her down the stairs.

-I was here.

-James.

-No, you turned the alarm on and then you came here.

-Excuse me, what about the flash light.

-James, don't say anything else.

-You could've taken the flashlight

out of Tommy's truck at any time.

-You know something, you're crazy.

-Yeah, I am.

And you both have the right to remain silent.

Anything you say can and will be used

against you in a court of law.

Number five, step back please.

All of you please remain facing forward.

Please remain facing forward.

-I'm sorry.

-What do you mean you're sorry?

-I don't recognize anyone.

-What do you expect?

-Jason.

Christine, just take one more look.

Are you absolutely sure that the woman who made the appointment

as Mrs. Dawson isn't in the room?

-No.

I did look.

3 times.

She isn't in there.

-Release Mr. Dawson and miss Stevens, please.

-Of course it was the real Mrs. Dawson that came to see you.

You just didn't recognize her from the newspaper.

That's all.

Let's just consider this case officially closed, shall we?

And get on to the more important issues like solving crimes.

-Maybe we missed something here.

Maybe Jason's been right the whole time.

-We have missed something.

Would you look at one more thing for us?

-It's her.

That's who got the keys from.

That's who said she was Mrs. Dawson.

-Do you have something to tell me, Caroline?

-About?

-Beverly west facial salon.

-Oh.

I am so sorry.

I did not mean to, miss Stevens told me to, I'll pay them back.

-Susan set up the appointments, didn't she?

-A bunch of them.

They were a present from Mrs. Dawson.

Susan paid for them in advance.

-Right.

And then she told you Kay couldn't go, is that right?

-Uh huh.

-Did she send you instead?

-That's right.

And to tell them that I was Mrs. Dawson

and so they wouldn't go to waste.

And then I was supposed to tell them

that I was going out of town that day.

And I needed a refund on the rest of the appointments.

-Now, did anybody give you any house keys?

Whose car did you take?

-Mr. Dawson's.

She told me to get it washed.

-Is Mr. Dawson or Susan in the building?

They

-were.

They left together.

-Thank you.

-You cannot deny that you wanted to kill her.

That's all you've talked about for the last five years.

-But you actually did it!

-I get things done!

You just whine about them.

-You, don't you understand.

You're gonna get caught.

-No.

No, James.

We are gonna get caught.

You see, it's only a matter of time

before they figure this whole thing out and when they do,

nobody will believe that were not in this up to your neck.

-I'm not gonna let you treat me this way.

-We don't time to go searching for your manhood.

-Why should I give up a fortune?

The company's mine.

-And where will you take it without me or your wife?

-Hey, I didn't need her.

I don't need you.

-Somebody has to yank your chain.

-Don't talk to me that way.

-Let go of me!

-You're not leaving here!

-No!

No!

-No fancy moves, Dawson.

-This, it's not what it looks like.

-Really?

Looks like a dead body to me.

-Susan Stevens saw Mr. Orlowski's girlfriend

lift the keys from a client's purse.

We believe that she and James Dawson

conspired against Dawson's wife.

-What's the charge?

-First degree murder.

-What do you think will happen to Mr. Orlowski?

-Well, as you know, he's gonna be held for burglary.

-Well, the perfect frame.

Enough to fool me.

-Jason, I think that you let a personal grudge

get the best of you.

-Oh.

Oh, I got taken it.

-It was not the perfect frame.

I tried to show you that.

You refused to even look at it.

-Do you understand that my career demands that I have

to prosecute criminals to the, to the full extent of the law?

-You blinded yourself to the truth.

You refused to listen to anyone or anything that threatened

your possibility of moving up the ladder.

You wouldn't even listen to me.

What does that say?

-I was doing my job.

-You know, I think we're talking about choices here.

-Dee Dee, I don't wanna lose you.

But I think we operate from different places.

-Maybe.

Maybe we're just different kinds of people.

-I guess so.

Take care.

-Guess it's good to find these kind of things

out now instead of later.

It's just ouch, you know?