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Tonight on "hunter".

-Put the money in the bag.

-That's the boy.

Looks like he's graduated to murder.

-Something happened at the warehouse yesterday.

I want to know what's going on.

-We almost shot each other.

-I don't see there's any harm in you talking

to the departmental psychologist.

-What do you mean, me bring it up?

Why didn't you bring it up?

-Because I didn't think you wanted to bring it up.

-You still haven't told me what you're talking about.

-Got any winners today?

-Not here.

-You want to bet.

Put the money in the bag.

Come on, hurry.

Hurry up, come on!

-What do you want?

-I want a cheeseburger and a large soda.

-Any fries?

-No, pass.

-I'm buying.

-I'll take a large order.

-You know, you're the Jack Benny of fast food.

All units in the vicinity

of 1 Adam 29, possible 211 there now.

Mao lin market, 10th and Alameda, code 2 high.

-That's four blocks from here.

-Let's take it.

-Hurry up!

-Take it and go.

-That looked like our boy.

Backup's behind us.

Let's take him.

-Go around to the back and try to flush him toward us.

-Sure.

-Check the Van.

Can't see anything down here.

Why don't you go left.

I'll go right.

Watch your step.

What are you doing?

I thought you were going to go left?

-I heard a noise behind you.

-You heard a noise?

That was me.

You heard me.

-Well this place is like an echo chamber.

-What's up?

Did you see him?

-What do you mean, what's up, did I see him?

Didn't you see him?

-No, not a trace.

-What's that?

You go out the back way.

Come on.

What a day it's been, huh?

-Followed him into a warehouse, and I heard this noise,

and I doubled back and... He must have gotten by me.

-Well did you get the license of the car he was driving?

-Yeah, it'll be in the report, captain.

-Excuse me, sergeant hunter?

They just found your car.

It was left abandoned a couple miles from the warehouse.

-Abandoned?

-That'll be in the report as well, captain.

-Captain devane?

-Lieutenant Malone, nice to see you.

Your captain said you were on your way down.

Lieutenant Malone, this is sergeants hunter and McCall.

-Lieutenant, how are you?

Good to see you.

-Rick, it's been a long time.

McCall.

-Lieutenant.

-Hunter and I worked a case together three years ago.

-Yeah, but she wasn't a lieutenant then.

-Well I had a few lucky breaks.

-Oh well, I think it was a little bit more than luck.

-Lieutenant Malone's been working

at hollenbeck in the robbery division.

Her captain called this morning said

they may be looking for this guy.

-His name's Mick stryber.

He hits lotto places wednesdays and Saturdays

when there's been a big score.

Up until now that's as bad as it's been.

-Well McCall and I got a pretty good look at our guy.

-Is this him?

-That's the boy.

Looks like your boy's graduated to murder.

I want to take this opportunity to apologize to you for what

happened in the warehouse yesterday.

It was uh... it was a big misunderstanding.

Very sorry.

-No problem.

-Oh Megan sent over all of her information on stryber.

-How considerate of her.

-Is uh something bothering you?

-Just making a statement.

-You know, I think we're going to need

some help on this stryber case.

I was thinking about asking lieutenant Malone to join us.

-She's been working on this stryber case for, what,

two months now, and she hasn't gotten the guy.

So I think we can just read her reports.

-What do you think?

-Well I disagree.

I think that uh lieutenant Malone's a very good police

officer, and we do need all the help we can get on this case.

-That's right, that's right.

I'm going to talk to her captain.

-Good, Charles.

Thanks.

Wha... what's going on with you?

-There's nothing going on with me.

Can't I have a different opinion other than yours

without it becoming a big deal here?

-I just asked a question.

-Well it sounded more like an inquisition to me.

-Well maybe you're not listening to me clearly.

-I suppose like yesterday.

-Look, I didn't say that.

-It's exactly what you're thinking.

-Well you know what, come to think of it,

it was a very standard tactical procedure

that you blew yesterday.

-What are you talking about, standard tactical procedure?

Right, I'll go in this way, you go

in that way, that's textbook strategy right there.

-Look, let's not discuss it, ok?

-Fine.

Drop it.

-Good.

-Hunter, McCall.

Come in here.

All right.

You two have been fighting like a couple of alley cats.

What's going on?

-Oh there's nothing going on.

-Oh crap!

I want you both to sit down.

All right, I read your report, and whatever this is,

it has nothing to do with losing that car.

Something happened at the warehouse yesterday.

I want to know what it is.

-Look, all we had is a little miscommunication

at the warehouse, that's all.

-We almost shot each other.

-I see.

All right, now I want you to listen to me.

Consider this, if you had actually fired shots yesterday,

you'd be required by departmental policy

to see the psychiatrist.

-Yeah but see, we didn't do that.

-Obviously you didn't do it, thank god.

But I don't see there's any harm in you talking

to the departmental psychiatrist.

-We're fine.

-It doesn't look that way to me.

Now I need you two to be focused.

-Look, I cannot speak for you, but I am just

as focused as I have ever been.

So with all due respect, captain,

this is something that i'm just not interested in, ok?

-Well me either.

-I think you are both making a big mistake.

-Well we have a lot of work to do on this stryber case, so...

-Something is wrong with her.

-Yeah.

Don't worry, we'll figure it out.

-I hope so.

-How long have you two been partners?

-Almost six years now.

-That's a long time to be together.

Things must be pretty good between you two.

-Yeah, for the most part they are.

This isn't exactly a nine to five job

so occasionally you do get on each other's nerves.

-That could be happening now.

Maybe that's all it is.

-You think so?

-Do you think so?

-You don't make this very easy, do you?

-Sometimes it isn't.

At the warehouse, when you came around that corner,

tell me how you felt when you saw hunter with his gun

pointed at you.

Describe the moment.

-Well it's just like everything goes into slow motion.

My heart was really pounding, and... and my finger was just

starting to pull down on the trigger,

and we just came around the corner.

We... we saw each other.

We... we froze.

You know you just...

-And in that instant, one of you could have died.

-Yeah, but sometimes things like that do happen.

That is part of the job.

It's what happened afterwards that's... we had gone back

to the crime scene, and we were doing our job just like we

always do, and up steps this lieutenant Malone from robbery

who just completely takes over.

-And that bothered you.

-Well yes, it bothered me.

I'm just standing there and all of a sudden she and hunter are

just talking up a storm and, oh remember

this, and then all about these old times.

And I felt like I was... I... I felt like I wasn't even there.

-Oh the lieutenant's a woman.

-Right, yeah, she's a woman.

That's not really the issue here.

It's... see, this is the second time this has happened.

-Tell me about the first time.

-Well I don't... it's... I don't think it's that important.

-It may be.

It won't hurt to tell me.

-Well it was three years ago.

I'd just gotten back from this six week training course

that the FBI gives over at Quantico.

I walk in and there's

hunter with Megan sitting at my desk.

And they're both very wrapped up in the Deangelo

case, which by the way was mine...

-Mm hmm

before I left.

-I talked to a friend in the da's office,

the warrants are no problem.

-You do such good work.

Oh hi, McCall.

Welcome back.

-Hi.

I was just on my way back from the airport,

and I figured I'd stop by.

-Yeah, uh Megan Malone, Dee Dee McCall.

-Hi.

-Hello.

Rick, we don't want to be late for the da's.

-Oh you're right.

Our case is the uh Deangelo case.

-Deangelo case?

I thought that was thrown out in arraignment.

- We reopened it. - Yeah, we got some new leads.

Listen, we'll take care of this.

Um, why don't you go home and relax.

Change your clothes.

-How did you feel about that?

-I felt left out.

It was like I wasn't even there.

He wasn't glad to see me, or... I just... I felt very left out.

-It seems to me that you and sergeant hunter

have some unfinished business.

This is a pretty safe place to talk about it.

Would you be willing to talk with him here?

-Uh well me... well yeah but he would never come in here.

-People change.

Keep it in mind.

Anyway, our time is up.

I'd like us to keep talking.

You game for another appointment?

-Yeah, I guess so.

-Good.

Same time tomorrow?

-Yes.

Thanks.

-Hello, I'm Norman Tate.

-Doctor Tate, how are you?

-Have you ever been to a therapist before?

-Uh no.

You see, there's nothing that a shrink could do for me

that a good game of golf can't.

-You're pretty emphatic about that.

Does being here bother you?

-No.

Now look uh, doctor Tate, i'm sure you're a very good doctor,

help many, many people.

I'm here because my partner has a problem with us,

therefore I have a problem with us.

Now I'm here to try to make some sense of it.

Try to solve the problem.

Now normally she's quite reasonable about these things,

but lately it's become, well...

-You're afraid it's going to get in the way of your work.

-You're right.

-You've been partners for six years.

Maybe you two are on burnout.

-No, I don't think so.

-Has she ever been like this before?

-No.

-No?

-Except for the Deangelo case.

-What happened on the Deangelo case?

-That was the year that McCall took the FBI's

forensic course at Quantico, Virginia.

Another detective was temporarily

assigned as my partner.

-And who was that?

-Megan Malone.

-How did that work out?

-Sergeant Malone had a knack for making things happen.

Which explains

one of the reasons she's a lieutenant today.

I think McCall felt guilty about being away.

I mean especially after we opened up the Deangelo case.

That was her case.

As a matter of fact, I had to talk

her into taking some time off.

-McCall, it's good to see you!

You're finally back.

-Well no one knows the Deangelo case better than I do.

-Well you know uh Megan has some interesting points

on that case.

Why don't you fill her in?

-Oh... oh no, you go ahead.

I mean, I think Dee Dee should know where the case has got.

-Well all right.

Now your theory was that Deangelo killed his partner

Clay because Clay found out that Angelo was

embezzling from their company, right?

-Right.

-Well that... I mean, excuse me, wasn't the case at all.

You see Clay found out that Deangelo had a mistress.

Now Deangelo's wife was the one in the family with the money,

and he couldn't afford a divorce,

so Clay was blackmailing him.

-Well that's a very interesting angle.

Do you have any proof?

-She's working on that right now.

-Great.

-What is it?

-Doctor Tate, do you think sergeant McCall could be

behaving this way out of professional jealousy?

-How so?

-Well I mean, Megan did solve a case she couldn't.

-It's possible.

It does strike me as more than just coincidental

that Megan was around both times you

noticed your partner acting strangely.

Would you and McCall consider talking about this together?

You could do it here.

-You're not going to get her to come in here, doc.

Not in a million years.

-Where you been?

-The hospital, seeing a sick friend.

-Well come on, we've got a lead on a guy who

might take us to where stryber is.

How's your friend doing?

-He's doing just fine.

-What's wrong with him?

-He's got a bad liver, had to take it out.

-What do you mean they had to take it out?

-Just what I said.

He has a bad liver, and they had to take it out.

-You can't remove somebody's liver.

-What do you mean you can't remove...

They do it all the time.

Medicine can do incredible things now.

-What are you crazy?

Medical science has proven that you

cannot live without your liver.

-Yeah, so what are you now, a surgeon general?

Ok, they didn't take his liver out at all.

They took everything out except a little piece of it

about that big.

He now has a liver the size of a hamster, ok?

-There's our guy.

Earl bingham?

-Who wants to know?

-I do.

-How much longer is this going to go on?

-Until I get some answers.

-I don't know how many different ways I can tell you,

I ain't seen stryber in months.

-That's not good enough, Earl.

-Hey, I want to see a lawyer.

I got my rights.

-All right, I'll get you an attorney,

but I'm not through with you yet.

-Any luck?

-No, not yet.

-You heard?

-Yeah, I did.

-I found out something that might help.

You mind if I have a crack at him?

-Go ahead.

-Sure.

-Funny, you don't look like my lawyer.

-You're not going to need one.

We're cutting you loose.

-Good.

-On your way out, say hi to an old acquaintance of yours

out there, a fence named Rivera.

We picked him up, told him someone had snitched him off.

-He'll think it's me.

-Especially after I tell him it was.

-You're bluffing.

-Then call it.

Go ahead, walk.

-Stryber... stryber's got a girl named susie

at the malabar arms in montebello.

I've been there, and that's all I know.

-You're a regular encyclopedia, Earl.

-Very nice.

She's good, isn't she?

-Yeah, well it does pay to have inside information, doesn't it?

-Very nice.

-Thanks.

Let's go find this susie.

We might get something, like stryber.

-Good idea.

-You know what, I just remembered I've got a dentist

appointment, so let me just cancel it,

and I'll be right with you.

-That's ok.

Hunter and I can handle it.

-No, ah it's a loose filling.

It's...

-That's a good idea.

While... why don't you go to the dentist,

get your stuff taken care of, and we'll

fill you in a little bit later on.

Come on.

-Police, open up.

-Hey, I didn't do anything.

-No, but you know somebody who has.

-I don't know him.

-Look, stryber's a killer.

You don't want to be hooked up with him, susie.

-Now I don't need some cop coming in here

and telling me who my friends are.

-You said you didn't know him.

-Get out of here.

-You help him, you'll go down with him as an accessory.

You think about that, hm?

-If you see stryber, give me a call.

-I feel like I should have gone with them

instead of coming here.

I just don't know that this is really

doing an awful lot of good.

-I see some progress already.

-Really?

It's just seeing Megan uh again, it felt like three years ago.

-The uh Deangelo case, wasn't it?

-Yeah, right.

And you know, even then she was on the fast track.

See we knew that Deangelo had killed his partner,

so she wanted to set a trap for him.

So she picked up Deangelo's accountant, a man

by the name of glaser.

Now I didn't think that this man was of any value to us at all.

-We've got him cooling his heals in interrogation room one.

-I questioned glaser months ago.

I don't really think he's of any use to us.

-Well the information Megan has proves that glaser's helping

Deangelo funnel money to his mistress.

-What really happened was that glaser

told Clay about Deangelo's bad habits.

-Yeah, and he used that information

to make about a couple hundred thousand dollars.

-Which means we can put the squeeze on glaser.

He's going to look like an accomplice to murder.

-Well glaser knows who I am, so why

don't I take the first shot at him.

-You've been away for six weeks, why don't you just

rest, relax, come along for the ride.

I think Megan and I have this thing handled.

Come on.

-And now it's happening all over again.

-Yeah.

You know, I'm sitting here listening to myself babbling

on and on, and this is terrible.

I sound like somebody who's so jealous.

-Are you jealous of Megan?

-I don't think so.

I don't know.

I mean, it's not like me to be envious of somebody

just because they get ahead.

-That's an interesting phrase, "just because."

Do you think there could be another reason

why you feel jealous?

-No, I... uh no.

-Anything I can help you with?

-Ok, pops, fill it up.

And don't forget the lottery money.

Come on!

Hurry!

-Ok, ok!

You're sure?

Yeah, that's him all right.

-How is he?

-Well he's tough.

He's going to be ok.

He did identify the man as stryber.

-The owner wounded the suspect just like he said.

There's a trail of blood going out the door.

-He was able to drag himself away.

We should notify all the emergency

rooms and clinics in the area.

-Well I don't think this guy's going

to just stroll into a hospital.

-Yeah, I agree.

We're looking for a street medic who makes house calls.

-Yeah, you're probably right. Follow up on it.

-Yeah.

-Hello?

-It's me.

-Where are you?

-The usual place.

You know that doc you told me about?

Get him.

Get him fast.

-Who is it?

-Rydall.

Susie sent me.

-Let yourself in.

-I get paid in advance.

-Ugh.

-You want an anesthetic?

-Uh-uh.

-Well if you change your mind, you just yell.

-Dee Dee, you just got a call from a doctor Tate.

He wants you to call him.

-Doctor Tate?

Jee would... would that be the department's psychiatrist?

-I just made an inquiry.

-Uh an inquiry.

That... that inquiry wouldn't be yesterday's dental appointment,

now would it?

-How do you know that doctor Tate

is the department's psychiatrist?

-It's common knowledge.

-Really?

-Yeah.

-Even though he's filling in for the regular psychiatrist

who's on vacation.

-I'm very well informed.

-Uh huh.

-Mm hmm.

-How's your friend's liver?

-I'm sorry my phone message let the cat out of the bag.

But I'm very glad you decided to come

here and work this out together.

You know, it's interesting, you both

chose to discuss the same events.

In particular, the first time you worked with Megan Malone.

Why is that, do you think?

-You talked about Megan Malone?

-Yeah, what's the big deal?

-Ah it's not a big deal, I just didn't

think she was that important to you.

-She's not that important to me.

-Wait, wait.

We might get further if we pick up

where you left off last time, Dee Dee.

-Oh yeah, where was that?

-You said Deangelo's accountant glaser rolled over on his boss.

-Yeah, I remember that.

See...

-Please, I'd like Dee Dee to finish the story.

-Well uh Megan had this idea to put a wire on glaser,

try to squeeze some money out of Deangelo

the same way that Clay did.

We were going to be sitting in the surveillance Van.

And we'd be listening to everything.

I personally did not think it was a very good idea,

but nobody seemed very interesting in what

I had to say on the matter.

It's your call.

I can tell the police the whole story,

or you can make it worth my while not to.

I don't believe

you're doing this, Mitch.

Yeah, well times are tough.

You're the last person

I ever figured would sell me out.

-This from a man who killed his partner.

He didn't care about anything but money.

I bankrolled our operation, and he turned on me.

-Now we're getting somewhere.

So you killed him?

Because he was scum!

-That's it.

Let's go in.

-No, no, no, wait.

I thought that you were my friend...

-Let's just see where this goes.

You're just like him.

Hey, what are you doing?

Let go.

What is this?

A wire?

I ought to kill you!

-It's going sour.

We're moving in.

Hunter, get in there now.

-Well what happened?

Did you save glaser?

-Oh I jumped in just as Deangelo was wrapping

a white cord around glaser's neck.

-Glaser threatened to sue the department.

-Yeah, right, but uh the da cut him a deal

so he forgot about it.

I must say, we handled that case pretty well.

-Why don't you tell him what happened afterwards?

-Oh yeah, the press found out about it somehow.

-Somehow?

-They made a big deal of it as the press will do.

-The situation is that Megan got all the credit for the bust.

-And today she's a lieutenant.

How do you feel about that, Dee Dee?

-Well you know, we did a lot of work

on this case together... I'm not saying

that she didn't deserve her promotion.

What does that mean?

-You see, it's all clear to me now.

This whole thing is about you being jealous of Megan Malone.

-What?

I am not jealous of her.

-Yeah, you are.

-What is it with you?

What?

Are you asleep or what?

-What are you talking about?

-You know exactly what I'm talking about.

Think back for just a minute.

Think back to what happened three years ago.

-Ok, I'm thinking.

-Oh now he gets it.

-I... nothing ever happened between Megan Malone and me.

-I don't care if it... this is not about Megan.

This is about after what happened,

I leave for six weeks, I come back,

and I needed to talk to you.

I couldn't.

There you were with Megan everywhere you went.

You both were together.

I needed to talk to you.

I needed to connect with you after what happened.

-After what happened?

-Oh just a second, please.

Look I called you twice a week.

All you ever talked about was Quantico

this, Quantico that, your work.

You never once brought it up.

-Bring what up?

-Well you know, on the phone you didn't exactly

sound like you... wait a minute.

What do you mean, me bring it up?

Why didn't you bring it up?

-Because I didn't think you wanted to bring it up.

-Why wouldn't I want to talk about it?

-I have no idea.

-Oh.

You see, you see.

Why is it that a woman always has

to carry the ball in an emotional involvement.

-You still haven't told me what you're talking about.

-Right, I'll tell him.

After... before I left for Quantico...

We slept together.

-Do either of you want to talk about it?

-It just sort of happened.

-Dee Dee?

-Yeah, it just happened.

-We had been... well we were both working

kind of hard, especially McCall.

She was getting ready for her trip and all.

It was her wedding anniversary, and she seemed a little down,

so I thought I might take her out to dinner.

We started the evening off talking

about Steve, that was her late husband.

He was killed in the line of duty some years ago.

It seemed to help.

By the end of the evening, she was talking about her trip

to Quantico, and her mood was really up.

We were having a lot of fun that night.

We didn't want it to stop.

So when uh... so I took her home, dropped her off.

She invited me in for a cup of coffee.

Came inside and we talked.

Talked more than most married people do.

Just this once it all seemed to hit me.

It hit her too.

-The next morning, you left for Quantico.

-Yeah.

-How did you feel?

-Great.

I felt great.

Didn't even bother me that I was leaving town the next morning.

It was really nice having him... Having you there in the morning

and, you know, waking up together.

I knew that this wasn't going to be a pattern or anything.

That was probably the only time that that would happen

but still it was... it was very special.

-So then what happened?

-Well then he made me breakfast.

-It was a fabulous breakfast.

-Oh yeah, except for the eggs, it was.

-Did you two talk about it?

-No.

-What about later?

You never talked about it?

-No, and I wish we had.

At... at the time, I guess I felt that nothing needed to be said.

Maybe we were both just too afraid to say anything.

And I was busy packing for the airport.

Probably conveniently busy, you know what I mean?

And he helped me pack, and we drove to the airport,

and we kissed goodbye, and I left.

And six weeks later, I walk in, and I see you

with Megan, who's sitting at my desk.

I mean I felt like I was looking at my replacement.

And you didn't even seem to care that I was back

or that I was even there.

-Well that's not true.

-Well but that's the way I felt.

-But you know I never meant that.

-And after Megan left?

-Well after she left it was just like,

you know, we turned the clock back.

It was as if it never happened at all.

-Except it did happen.

What about you, Rick?

How did you feel?

-I thought about it a lot.

-No, no.

I asked you how you felt.

-I felt great.

I thought it was terrific.

I'm glad it happened.

But as time went on, I just pushed it aside.

Look, what happened between us evolved.

I just didn't think it needed to be explained at the time.

And then the more time that went by, the more I pushed it away,

the more... more I got afraid of looking at it.

I didn't want to risk losing my friendship with her.

I didn't want to lose my partner.

-Excuse me.

That's the emergency line.

Yes?

Ok, I'll tell them.

That was for you.

Lieutenant Malone wants to see you right away.

-The surveillance paid off.

Susie's on the move.

She's on foot carrying a suitcase.

She's going to stryber.

-Fantastic.

-Here's the phone list you wanted.

-Thank you.

What's that?

-I was right.

Susie called this sleazebag ex-paramedic named rydall.

-Well we can follow that up later.

She's leading us now to stryber.

-You know, I don't think so.

I think this suitcase deal's one of the oldest

tricks in the book.

-So what do you suggest?

-I think we got to sweat rydall, and we got to do it now.

-Yeah, I think she's right.

We should go for rydall.

-You know, after all this work you could miss the bust.

-Oh I don't think so.

-Ok, I'll keep my people on susie.

-Thanks, lieutenant.

Come on.

-Ok, what's going on here?

-How bad do you want to stay out of jail, rydall?

Hey, why don't you go check it out.

I'll call in.

-I'll be in the manager's office.

-1 William 156, we are at olympic and crenshaw, code 6.

Roger that, 56.

-1 William 156, we are in foot pursuit of suspect,

send backup immediately.

Hunter!

-Now there's backup.

Look, I got an idea.

Ok, got it?

-Got it.

-Go.

Aah!

-Drop it!

-Aah!

-Megan.

-Dee Dee.

You won't have me on your back anymore.

-I didn't think of you as on my back.

Thank you.

I learned a lot.

I learned a lot about myself by working with you.

Thanks.

-Thank you.

-Thanks, lieutenant.

-Good luck, guys.

-Well where would you like to go to get something

to eat to figure out what we're going to put in this report?

-I'm not really hungry.

Why don't we just do the report and drop me off at my house.

-Ok.

-Been quite a week.

-Glad this case is over with.

-Ha, me too.

-Look, I... I want to apologize to you again.

I... this should've never have happened.

I uh... this was a monumental blunder on my part,

and I should've confronted the issue from the onset.

-I had my part in it too though, you know.

I apologize.

I'm sorry.

-Look, we have to make a pact, if anything like this

ever happens again, we speak up immediately.

-Absolutely.

No matter what it is, no matter what comes up,

confront it and talk about it right then.

-Absolutely, that's a deal.

-Want to come in for coffee?