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Tonight on hunter.

-These guys know that you're a police dispatcher

and that you work the swing shift.

They're going to kill me if you don't help

-whoever stole that burning bar has a big job planned ahead.

-Five million dollars in gold bullion was unaccounted for.

Now, that's about a thousand pounds.

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

-Hold it right there!

Police!

One Adam 15.

We see the woman.

Possible 415 gang.

They are now 15 4 6th street... gitzman 1249.

One William one 56.

Roger code six... 515 22 west 7th street.

Adam six... go to tac-2 for Adam 24.

Adam six... go to tac-2 for Adam 24.

I know 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 night watchman.

They didn't kill the guy.

But he's elderly.

The me says he had a stroke.

-Hi, I'm sargent hunter.

-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?

-A box of goggles and masks, half a dozen ear protectors,

and a sweet, old collie that'd 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.

Well, that leaves our loose end... the guard inside.

-Just like you said... take care of the guard's telephone.

Take care of the guard.

The phone cable is buried.

Can't cut it.

So I did just like you said.

-How did the kid react?

-Scared to death.

When we doing it?

-Tomorrow night, ok?

Tomorrow night.

-Kayes.

What's going on over there?

-It's Rockland's second day without his training

officer... pulled the car over.

The guy got out with a gun.

It's a standoff.

-Really?

One Adam 43.

We're responding code 3 to assist one Lincoln 19.

We'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 you hear the sound of my voice?

Can you hear the sound of my voice?

-Yes.

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

and shoot him.

-Ok!

Ok!

Suspect in custody.

Code four.

-All right, Carol.

-Roger, all units... code four.

-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 hot-headed rookie named

Rick hunter told me he didn't need it?

-That's right.

You know, there'd be one less rk 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 have handled it, Rick.

No problem.

-Yeah, but you left out the baby with the uzi.

-A... a... all right, gang, let's go back to work.

Come on.

What you got?

-Well, we've got a, uh, 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 the truck that was seen leaving the building.

Listen, Carol, give 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, Charlie,

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've already did it.

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

-Fat?

Mines 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 a really big trouble.

-Bobby, what is it this time?

-These friends of mine... I owed them 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?

-$40,000.00.

-$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 $40,000.00.

-Where are we going to 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 got to know I don't take that much.

What do they really want?

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

and that you work the swing shift.

And at 11 o'clock tomorrow night you're

going to 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 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 we're going to 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 going to get hurt.

And they'll forget about the money.

And they won't kill me.

I'm sorry, mom.

One William 157.

Advise one William 156 on code six

at western truck rental on the suspect 459 vehicle.

-Are you sargent McCall?

-Sure am.

-Great.

I rented the truck in question to a John Grady.

He rented it for two weeks, paid cash,

and 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, and no engine.

-Yeah, well, you know.

Take a look at these.

Recognize any of them?

-Um, I think, yeah, that's him.

-Paul rosario, huh?

Yeah.

Paroled eight weeks ago out of chino.

-Yeah, rosario 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.

-One Adam 47, ok, code seven.

Julia, would you go down to the cafeteria

and get me a sandwich?

-It is my turn isn't it?

-The usual?

-Yes, thank you.

Radio sports announcer:

They are in first and goal to go territory.

That's down at the seven yard line.

Let's see if they measure.

Third down and inches to go for a first down just

shy of the Pittsburgh seven yard line.

Now set up.

Strong right. Goodman is the fullback.

And the tailback is Charles white.

They give it to Goodman.

He 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 seven

as they Mark it down there... maybe, maybe not.

We'll have to see.

Goal to go.

Paul just shy of the six yard line.

First and goal to go just shy of the Pittsburgh six.

Inside... one minute to play 45 seconds to go.

Goodman in motion on the right turn on a mission.

Charles white cuts it back.

Inside... hurtles a man inside the five...

Loses the ball in the endzone.

And it's recovered by Pittsburgh.

They blew it down and dead at about three yard line of...

-Police department... Operator 47.

What are you reporting?

-Do you have a missing person's department?

-I'll transfer you.

Sports announcer 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 eight minutes

and 50 seconds of time.

That's John Robinson getting the football.

They come out top.

-Police department... Operator...

-This is a security guard at lax... building 121 south.

Look, the alarm is 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 into the city and one Adam 47... 459... suspect's

there now... building 121 lax south.

One Adam 47... Your call is code three.

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

Possible vehicle involved is an 87 gmc

u-rent... license one ocean nine.

-Little bitch.

Sharr... sharr 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 kiddin'.

Bought them some time though... got away

going in the other direction the 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 wheel barrow.

-Half a ton of gold?

What are 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.

-Ah, we ought to send up a chopper...

Get some aerial photos... a general overview of the area.

So much for high security, eh?

-Yeah.

-Communications say they received about, uh,

half a dozen or so of false alarms

at the facility over the last few weeks.

-It might be an interesting coincidence.

But check it out.

-When the cops leave, it's all ours.

-Why'd you have to kill rosario?

-Wouldn't have gotten away if I hadn't.

The guy was a snitch.

I can't afford that kind of loose end.

They are moving it.

Let's go.

-Go where?

What do you want to do?

Cut a whole in the fence?

The place is crawling with cops.

-We'll catch him on the way out.

-Ah, there's too many exits that truck could take.

Which one do we pick?

-Dammit.

-I've got the license plate.

-So what?

-We can trace it.

You seem to forget.

We 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.

Why?

-An intermittent bug of 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

on what turned out to be false alarms

on 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 repairmen now?

-Home.

He works the swing shift.

-I'd like to get his home address and his work schedule

for last month.

-Sure.

One Adam eight...

Code 6... 5th and Columbus.

-Adam eight... Roger.

Police department.

Mom.

-Oh, Bobby.

Honey, where are you?

I've been worried sick.

Are you all right?

Mom, they are going to 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 want to see your kid again,

you better listen real close.

-If you hurt him...

-Hey, hey, I got a flash for you.

I am the on 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.

Now, 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 are you doing?

-Oh, not bad, Rick.

I had a break.

I thought I'd stop by and see how you were doing.

-Yeah, well, the 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?

-Nothin' to write home about.

Speaking of home.

How is Bobby doing?

-Bobby is fine.

-Good.

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

I'll se ya.

-Ok, hun, see ya later.

Hey, how you doin'?

-Good.

What'd you find out?

-Paul rosario's cousin, Eddie miataco,

worked at the, uh, loading docks at the airport.

He may be involved in all this.

-You think that Eddie got the burglar's clearance

to drive through the airport gate?

-Yeah, we'll know soon enough.

-Did you find him?

-Not yet.

What do 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?

-Right, what?

-They match.

-They do?

-They do.

-Great.

I'll get right on this.

I'll run this down for ya.

-You want to run it down?

-Yeah, why not?

Smoggy day... just 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...

Is just absolutely amazing.

-I'm an amazing guy.

Hi, Eric Lovell?

-Hi, could I help you?

-Yeah, I'm sargent hunter... L.A. homicide.

-I'm sorry.

Go play with your sister in the back there.

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 faked 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 place.

Now, have you talked to sharr since last night?

-No, I haven't.

Now 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 gonna 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 are we going?

-Shut up and walk.

-Come on, man.

-Get in.

-Don't do this to me.

-In.

Come on.

Come on.

Oh, 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?

You're a little subdued today.

-I ought to be considering I've been riskin' life and limb

for this chump change you're offering me.

-How's that?

-Look, you told me to find out where Eddie miataco was...

The guy who worked at the airport.

-Yeah.

-But you neglected to inform me that Eddie miataco 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

because 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 sayin'?

-You shut up.

Nothing's gonna happen to you.

-Oh, you guarantee that?

-Yeah, I guarantee it.

Now, where the hell is Eddie miataco?

-Try the, uh, red circle bar in culver city.

-Red circle bar... cc.

All right, nice sporty.

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

sporty James snitch file here.

-Uh, let's just do it off the post this time ok, hunter?

I don't even want to, uh, risk it.

-You don't want your money?

-Yeah, I want my money.

I got to 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 kiddin'?

This clown is the original Mr. Mouse.

-Give everybody another drink... whatever you want.

I'm a rich son of a gun.

Hey, thanks, Eddie.

All right, miataco.

-Hey, my partner.

Belly up to the bar.

So where's my cut?

-Shh.

Shutup.

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

So where is it?

-Why don't you come out back?

-Sounds good to me.

The bathroom in here stinks anyway.

-Excuse me.

-Ohh!

-Man, you got a big mouth.

Hey!

Come on.

I didn't say anything to anybody.

What about the bar?

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.

One Adam nine...

Quant only Robert, Robert, queen... 239.

-Just one minute please.

One Adam nine... 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.

Corner of western and 29th.

It's in a garage there for maintenance.

But they're not gonna work on it until tomorrow.

Please, let me talk to Bobby.

-I'll call you back at six 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 'til now, we've been, uh, working on 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 is still there.

Maybe they 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 a 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.

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.

-That wouldn't have taken him more than three minutes.

-Right.

-Give me airport security.

I don't see a water truck.

And I don't see a 1,000 pounds of gold.

And I don't see a 1,000 pounds of gold.

-Now 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 sharr'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.

And 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.

So when we got the phone call here... it's just...

Uh, come with me.

Adam six... go to tac-2 for Adam 24.

-Where are we going.

-The tape room.

Adam six... go to tac-2 for Adam 24.

Police department.

This is a security

guard at lax building 121 south.

Look, the alarm is 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 one Adam 47... 459...

Suspects there now.

121 lax.

-Shut this off for 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.

-Uh, 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 pay phone.

-Good girl.

-How are you doin'?

-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.

-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.

All right

wonder how long he's been down here.

-Come on.

Grab the other end.

Get him out of here.

Come on.

Come on.

You all right?

You all right?

Get a paramedic.

Ok, now let's get him out of here.

-Hi.

- Hey. - Look at this.

-We've got dinner.

-It's for you guys.

-Great, well...

-Aww.

-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, uh, some white chocolate all over it.

-Hey, thanks a lot for everything.

-You're welcome, Bobby.

You know the district attorney will take

into consideration your, uh, 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 is 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 wanted 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.

I should have trusted that.

Well, listen, enjoy your fruit.

We'll see you later.

- Ok. - Thanks a lot.

-Take care.

-Bye.

-Bye.

What is that?

-This is a horned melon.

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

-I see.

I wouldn't eat that if were you.

-Why?

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