Lianne, you all right?
What were you doing in my trailer?
Boy, you're the one that's in trouble, Rockford.
Listen, I'm not fooling around with you anymore.
I have some very important information about M.K.
You know, Rockford, you didn't do what I told you to do,
you failed.
Did he bring the girl over to Kelly's? Answer me.
Where are they?
The way I read Michael, and the situation,
if he gets you back, he plans to kill you.
(PHONE RINGING)
ROCKFORD ON ANSWERING MACHINE.. This is Jim Rockford.
At the tone, leave your name and message.
I'll get back to you.
(BEEPS)
WOMAN ON PHONE.. This is incredible.
Do you know, last night, I had one of my dreams?
I dreamed that if I called you, you wouldn't be home.
And you're not.
(PHONE RINGING)
Yeah?
Michael Kelly, Mr. Rockford.
Where do we stand?
I think we should talk. Just you and me.
Dorsey, Mr. Rockford here works for me and he wants to quit.
Oh, well, what's another 24 hours in a whole lifetime, huh?
All right, now don't lie to me, doll.
You know where Patsy is? No.
Okay, okay. Your policewoman friend.
She popped up at my trailer at the crack of dawn.
Lianne? She's not a policewoman.
She's a buff.
Just what is a buff?
Buff?
Well, it's a citizen who is fascinated by police work.
They like to spend time around the station house,
get to know the fellas, sort of hang out.
Dennis, that's not a buff. That's a groupie.
Hey, who's that that just walked into the shooting review?
Oh, Lieutenant Chapman, ma'am.
Lieutenant, huh?
Anyone ever mention he looks a little bit like Kirk Douglas?
What do you know about this Michael Kelly thing?
Well, I know, for instance,
that Kelly's supposed to be here
on some kind of missing persons problem.
Allegedly.
Who is this missing person supposed to be?
Doug, I don't know.
But I could pursue it on my end.
Miss Sweeney, thank you for the information.
But I have to caution you against actively inserting yourself
in department business.
I understand, Doug.
I just want to help you in any way I can. That's all.
Well, you did get one call. A Mr. Kelly.
I told him two hours ago I'm not making much progress.
He said it was about a Miss Patsy Fossler.
Is that the missing person?
Yeah.
I'm sorry, but I don't know what I can do to help you.
Well, we can start by you telling me
all you know about Michael Kelly.
Come on.
(DOGS BARKING)
Patsy, just who are those two?
Well, I don't know the driver of the car,
but I've seen the other man before.
His name is Anthony Boy.
He works for Joseph Minette.
Of the Minette Family? The boss of bosses?
Yeah.
Well, Michael is Mr. Minette's attorney. Didn't you know that?
Michael pulled a real gaffe
by telling you family business.
Now that you've left Michael,
Minette can't have you running around the world loose
knowing what you know.
Hey, Syl. I'm gonna have my day with Rockford.
Now, that's not a smart hit.
That's not what we're getting paid for.
(HORSES WHINNYING)
Yeah, that's it.
Your home for the next few days.
God, I don't have a dime to my name, I don't even have any shoes.
I'm half-nude. How am I gonna survive?
ROCKFORD: Wes? Hey, Wes.
Oh, hey, Wes.
Wes Wesley, this is Patsy Fossler.
Well, come on aboard, honey.
Give her a hand, Wes.
Got a bunk all made up for you below.
You go right past the first-class pool
and hang a left when you see the chemin de fer table.
(LAUGHING)
Well, I certainly want to thank you for what you're doing, Mr. Wesley.
No trouble at all, honey.
I owe Jimmy here some real big ones
from when we was in stir together.
Hey, Jim, did you ever tell your girlfriend here
about the time you made all the toilets overflow
so the guards wouldn't notice I was missing from laundry detail.
Wes, Wes, she's not my girlfriend, and no, I haven't.
Mighty skinny, twice as snooty.
Still... Wes, I'm warning you,
any funny business and I get Rocky down here to baby-sit.
Yeah, yeah.
You said, a place where no one would find me.
But this is overkill.
Yeah, well, If everything goes all right,
it'll only be for a couple of days.
What's your brother's phone number in London?
Well, it was Bayswater 458. But he moves around a lot.
Yeah, well, I'll try to get hold of him.
And once he sends the plane fare,
we'll get you a replacement passport and that's that.
What about you?
How are you going to move around back in Los Angeles
without those men finding you?
I want them to find me.
What?
Well, yeah, at the right time, when I'm properly prepared.
Look, I'm in this thing up to my chin.
They're never gonna stop looking for you,
so they're gonna keep dogging me
till they get what they want.
If I plan to lead any kind of normal life,
I'm gonna have to have to blown 'em off.
Well, how are you gonna do that?
Well, the last time they saw us,
I was driving you off in my car.
Now, they know I was hired to deliver you to Michael.
So, I just have to convince them
that that's exactly what I did.
From then on, they're Michael's problem.
And you're sure it's going to work out that way?
No.
Look, here's some money.
Get yourself some shoes and a toothbrush.
But don't you go. You let Wes go. You stay here.
Swell, now I've even got to borrow money.
I used to have an eight dollar toothbrush.
Genuine boar bristle, made in France.
That's the way it goes.
Hey, wait a minute.
Look, maybe I should just go back.
Why? Because the boat smells too much like fish?
No.
Because this whole thing is just impossible.
I mean, what am I gonna do?
Spend the rest of my life looking over my shoulder,
waiting for someone to jump out at me?
If I go back, maybe Michael can convince Minette
that he has nothing to fear from me.
Yeah, well, I've been giving it some thought, Patsy,
and I'm not altogether sure that Michael wants you back.
After all the trouble he's gone to find me?
Yeah, well, Michael strikes me as a guy
with a few bigger problems than just a rocky love life.
I mean, he made a big mistake with you.
If he plans to set it right,
he's going to have to re-prove himself to Minette.
Clean up the mess he made.
The way I read Michael, and the situation,
if he gets you back, he plans to kill you.
So I wouldn't worry too much about an eight dollar toothbrush.
I'd just be happy I've still got my teeth.
(POLICE RADIO CHATTERING)
853 Ocean King George.
Oh, it's that P.I., Rockford.
Mr. Rockford, come in.
Oh, Lena, I'll take a slice of melon
and one egg scrambled firm, please.
All right, what did these two men look like?
I explained all that the last time I was here.
They're the same ones who creamed me at my trailer.
You know what they look like, and you know who they are.
So stop spinning your wheels on that score, huh?
KELLY: Did you hear their names?
ROCKFORD: There was gunfire, Mr. Kelly. I wasn't taking notes.
One of them was thin, dark hair,
kind of burned out behind the eyes.
His partner was fat and balding.
Did they hurt her?
As if you care.
I do. I care very much. Now just answer the question.
I didn't see them hurt her, no.
They shoved her in the car and took off.
There wasn't anything I could do about it.
Now, who are those men, Mr. Kelly?
KELLY: I can't believe this has happened.
If you hadn't been dragging your feet these last couple of days,
it might not have.
You know, Rockford, you didn't do what I told you to do.
You failed.
Hey, do you think I wanted to come back here and report this to you?
You explained very well what was going to happen to me
if I didn't find your girlfriend.
You had me very well motivated.
But, I got there a few minutes too late.
I don't know how they found her.
You never had much taste for this job.
Could it be that this whole scenario
was something that you cooked up to get out of it?
If I wanted to get out of it, I wouldn't cook up any scenarios,
I'd just leave town.
I can travel pretty light when I have to.
I think we're gonna have to have
a little fact-finding session. Oh.
(GRUNTING)
You know something, pal,
I've just about had it with you and Quasimodo over here.
I just about got my head taken off, you know,
doing your lousy job for you.
Patsy has been kidnapped.
There's nothing you or I can do about it.
It's in the hands of the police, now.
You reported it to them?
Oh, yeah, on a kidnapping? You bet I did.
I got my license to worry about.
I'm surprised they haven't contacted you.
But then, that's their little problem, isn't it?
Did you mention my name?
Oh, yeah, and now it's payday.
You owe me for three days work, that's $600.
Plus $400 for expenses and aggravation.
Will you take a personal check?
I'm gonna give you the benefit of the doubt
and assume that you're making a little joke just to ease the tension.
Okay, okay, I'll get the cash.
I knew you would.
If anyone should call or come to the house, I don't care who,
tell them I've moved, you don't know where.
Pack my things immediately, I'm flying the hell out of here.
Yes, operator,
yeah, this is James Rockford on my call to London.
To Bayswater 458, Mr. John Fossler.
Yeah, I'll wait, yes.
You figure her boyfriend really believed you?
Do you think he's really gonna leave town?
Kelly seemed like his pants were on fire.
As far as he knows, he's got the cops to worry about on the one hand,
and a very angry Joe Minette on the other.
Supposing he finds out you've been spinning him a tale?
Supposing he finds out Minette's goons never really did get Patsy?
I don't think he'll find out, Dad.
At least, not for a while, anyway.
The guy has made some colossal blunders.
One being that he flubbed his attempt to cover up his own mess.
He'll go under
until he figures the ll Capo's anger has died down.
Yes, operator.
Mmm-hmm. Yes.
Thank you, thank you. I'd appreciate that.
Still no answer, huh? No.
I'll go back over to Kelly's place later,
and see if he really did leave town.
Then I gotta do my little act for Anthony Boy and his friend.
What for? I mean, the whole thing is timing.
When one thing isn't in motion,
the other doesn't work.
Well, I'd go to the police, that's what I'd do.
We got the finest police force in the United States of America.
I tell you something else too, they ain't afraid of no Joe Minette.
(PHONE RINGS)
Hello? Yes. Yeah, he's here, hold on.
Hey, Jim, Jim, it's your London call.
I think they got the guy.
Hello, this is Jim Rockford.
WOMAN OPERATOR.. Yes, sir, we have your party on the line.
MAN.. Hello?
John Fossler?
Yes.
My name's Jim Rockford.
I'm a private investigator in Los Angeles,
I'm calling on behalf of your sister, Patsy.
Private investigator?
Is something wrong? Is Patsy in trouble?
No, she's all right at the moment,
but, yes, she is in trouble.
How much do you know about your sister's personal life
the past few years?
I'm referring to Michael Kelly.
Yes, she, she wrote me all about him.
I know that they've been living together, if that's what you mean.
I think he's an attorney for the ACLU, right?
Mr. Fossler, if your liquor cabinet is handy,
I suggest that you pour yourself a drink.
ROCKFORD: I'll stay in touch, Dad.
Jimmy. You scared me too there for a minute.
When I heard the car, I thought it might be them Brooklynites
you told me about.
How're things going, Wes?
You mean with the Queen of Sheba?
I guess I got my answer.
She sat around all day.
When she wasn't sleeping, she was moping.
When she wasn't moping, she was on my back.
Tells me I'm a sadist because I hit Flo when she was bugging me.
Imagine, a total stranger coming into your home and telling you
how you ought to handle things between you and your cat.
I'm sorry, Wes.
I didn't know I was saddling you with a baby.
I finally had to come out on the deck and get some fresh air.
I've had about all I can stand.
Now, don't you start on me too.
This is a fishing boat.
She wanted me to go out and get a spritz can
of pine stuff for her blankets.
(MUMBLING)
I told her, use a clothespin.
It's not the fish, Wes, it's something else.
It smells like rotting lilacs.
Wes? Are you wearing cologne?
It ain't cologne, it's after-shave.
You've combed your hair.
Hey, you're wearing a clean shirt.
Get off my back.
ROCKFORD: Patsy, I contacted your brother.
He'll be expecting you as soon as we firm up our plans here.
Well, when will that be?
Well, he said he'd cable the plane fare.
And if we move around money tomorrow,
we could make the flight reservations tonight,
and when the cable arrives, we can hit the State Department
for a passport replacement
right to the airport.
PATSY: And the guys that were chasing us around the barnyard?
I'll try my scam on them in the morning.
We'll see if that floats.
Did you see Michael?
Yeah, I tried my little con on him.
I dropped by his place on the way over here.
He was gone.
Well,
doesn't necessarily mean he was just out here
to track me down and kill me.
Yeah, then why'd he do a fast fade
when he thought you were already dead?
Maybe he didn't. Maybe he just moved.
He does have his own circle of friends out here.
Yeah, I know. I saw one of them.
Was Michael staying in Bel-Air?
Yeah, Stone Canyon Road.
Jennifer Gillespie. So he's rekindled that.
Back in New York, he used to laugh about her.
Why don't you taste one of these? See if it's any good.
Yeah.
What a mess.
Hey.
Hey, come on now.
I mean, you left him. I didn't know you still cared.
Oh, I don't.
I don't know.
Maybe it was just my fantasy.
Maybe I just thought Michael would come after me and beg me to come back.
Now, well, he came after me.
To kill me.
I don't believe it.
Thanks for the lift, chief. Watch out for Smokey.
WOMAN ON RADIO.. One-Adam-eleven,
Have you made visual contact with the suspect?
MAN ON RADIO.. Roger, we have them in sight.
They're moving on foot southbound on Devonshire toward Morrison.
One-Adam-eleven, roger, back up units are enroute.
(PHONE RINGS)
RobberyIHomicide, Officer Mazursky speaking.
I asked for Lieutenant Chapman's office.
He's not here, ma'am. They switched you over. Can I help you?
I hope so. I wonder, could you let me have Doug's home number?
No, I couldn't do that, ma'am. I'm sorry.
There's nothing to worry about.
Doug and I are very good friends.
Then I gotta assume you already have his number.
My address book was stolen from my car.
Doug and I are very close.
He's not going to be happy when he hears about your attitude.
Mazursky, was it?
That's right, ma'am. Mazursky. With a Z.
Ma'am, even if I gave you his number,
it wouldn't do you any good.
Now, he's in San Francisco till tomorrow night on an extradite.
He'll be calling in later. I'll be glad to take a message.
Get a pencil.
I have one, ma'am. In my hand.
All right, now take this down very carefully.
Tell him that Lianne Sweeney called.
I have some very important information about M.K.
Doug'll know who I'm referring to.
I know why he's in L.A. It looks like there's gonna be a hit.
I don't have all the pieces
but I'm gonna continue to investigate on my own.
There may be quite a lot more.
I'll contact him as soon as possible
or he can reach me at home anytime. I have a service.
Look, ma'am, is this something
you might want to talk to somebody else in the department about?
Oh, no, no, no.
This is a semi-personal thing Doug and I have been following.
Now have you got it straight?
Yup.
Read it back to me.
''Lianne Sweeney called. Very important information about M.K. ''
Patsy? Oh.
Oh, it's you. Hi.
Hi.
Was just giving Wes's cat a little air.
Honestly, she's as bad as her owner.
Wonder when the last time she was brushed.
Well, Wes and that cat been together a long time.
I like cats.
But back in Manhattan, I had a dog.
That was more important to have back there.
Oh, yeah, walking the dog. What you wore when you walked the dog.
How you walked the dog.
How you walked the dog?
Oh, sure. You just didn't walk a dog.
You read when you were walking.
Oh, sure, that made it look like you were busy and oblivious
to everything that was going on.
Yeah, I used to read Pauline Kael's film reviews
when I was walking Psyche.
That was the dog's name, Psyche.
Yeah, it is a pretty dreadful name, isn't it?
Probably the worst name I've ever heard for a dog, yeah.
Now that you mention it, it was all pretty dreadful.
It was all so phony. Such a sham.
Everybody strikes a pose now and then.
There's always reasons to be a phony.
That's a strange thing to say.
Oh, yeah, there some reasons.
Some good, some not so good.
Oh, I suppose you would inflict a name like Psyche on a dog
and study French just so you could use it at cocktail parties, huh?
No. I never had any reason to do that.
But I can give you a good example.
Wes told you I was in prison, right?
Mmm-mmm.
When I went into prison, I was scared to death.
So, I decided I was gonna be the baddest guy in that whole place.
So I practiced my bad walk and my bad talk.
No sentence was ever more than one syllable.
Runnin'.
I'm bad, I'm real bad.
You?
Yeah, yeah.
I figured if I was gonna survive,
I'd have to impress everybody.
So, what happened?
I turned into a jerk.
(LAUGHING)
And then that other thing happened. You see, they...
They put a badder guy in C Block with me
and he had me for breakfast.
The point being that everybody's gotta be somewhere.
Get in over our heads, we have a tendency to act.
Oh.
Well, my act was being paid for by mob money.
And that's a sham.
Well, it's almost over now. So you can forget it.
No, it's not that easy.
It was a crummy thing to do.
And what's even crummier is I just stuck with it.
Well, you're taking your lumps for it.
Aren't you in enough of a mess
without creating one in your own mind?
You know, I've never even said thank you for what you're doing.
Might get a little crazy tomorrow,
I might not have time.
Thank you. Forget it.
Like I said, it's a matter of my own survival too.
How did a guy like you end up to be a private investigator?
Patsy, you're a snob.
Hey, come on now, I'm just teasing.
I know what you meant by that.
If something don't pop soon,
we're gonna be in a lot of trouble with back home.
Listen to him.
We're already in a lot of trouble back home, Syl.
It should've been a one day job. In, out, bim, boom.
Hey, Tony.
Probably the cleaning lady, huh?
Hello.
Yes?
We're looking for Mr. Rockford. Could you tell us where we can find him?
May I ask the nature of your inquiry?
Yeah, we're friends of his.
Yeah, business associates.
Clients.
Well, he's out on a case right now.
What case is he on? I mean, he could be working on our case.
Maybe if you told me what your case is.
Well, that's kind of difficult to explain,
but, look, while you were cleaning up,
did you come across any information
pertaining to Michael Kelly?
He's a business associate of ours.
Yeah, our friend.
You're associates of Mr. Kelly?
Sure. From New York.
And his lady friend, Miss Fossler.
Well, as a matter of fact, I am not Jim's cleaning lady.
I am his executive assistant.
I'd been out of town on another matter
and Jim was going to fill me in on this Kelly thing
when I got back.
Maybe you could bring me up to date?
On what?
Michael Kelly, the girl, anything.
Why don't you just start from the beginning?
Because what I have is very sketchy.
Jimbo and I just talked very briefly on the phone.
What did he say on the phone?
Well, as I...
(STAMMERING)
Did he bring the girl over to Kelly's? Answer me.
Where are they? Where's she?
Hey, hey, hey, you better be careful with me.
You just get your hands off of me.
'Cause I work very closely with the Los Angeles Police Department.
See, I have a special arrangement.
I got a special arrangement for your brains.
They'll be coming out your ears.
Now where's the broad?
Oxnard, Oxnard.
What's an Oxnard? Huh?
It's a town, it's a town, north of here.
Rockford's got the girl on the boat.
But I don't know where Kelly is.
But he's got her got her on a boat.
And they're making arrangements to fly her out of the country.
What's the name of the boat, baby?
The... What's the name of the boat?
The San Antonio, the San Antonio.
But it's not actually in Oxnard. But it's somewhere very, very close to there.
I don't know exactly where, because it was dark when I was there
and I got lost. But you will find it.
It's one of those sports fishing piers.
If you just take the Coast Highway.
Yeah?
Hey, I don't know anymore. I swear I'm telling you all that I know.
See, I'm not really his executive assistant.
I lied about that, see. I have the shoe concession at the Lee-Sure Lanes.
I swear, I swear, I've told you everything that I possibly could tell you.
I don't know anything more. I swear. I swear!
Sweeney. Lianne, you all right?
My jaw, I think it's broken.
Here, let me see, move it.
No, no, no, it's not broken. What happened?
What were you doing in my trailer?
Boy, you're the one that's in trouble, Rockford.
Consorting with known felons.
Misprision of a felony. CCW.
What are you babbling about?
I want to know what happened here.
What is it with you, lady? You some kind of banana?
All right, did two guys come around here?
New York accent? One of them built like a bathtub?
They the ones that fell on you?
This is important, somebody's life's at stake.
What did they say? Where'd they go?
How do I know? They beat me up and they and took off.
Why'd they beat you up?
Lianne, I'm not messing with you.
These two guys are professional killers.
They want to kill a young lady who never did a thing to them.
I want to know exactly what they said while they were here
and where they went.
The boat. They went to your friend's boat.
How'd they know about that?
I had no choice.
One of them said they were gonna rape me.
They were gonna hold me down and rape me and then kill me.
You really mucked it up, lady, you really did.
How long ago was that?
I don't know, 20 minutes, maybe.
What kind of car were they driving?
Come on, come on, maybe we can stop them.
I didn't see the car.
Hopefully, it's the same one they were using the other day.
(EXCLAIMING)
Tore the damn phone out. Come on.
You see that restaurant over there?
I want you to go in there, I want you to call the cops,
and you tell them exactly what happened.
Tell them I believe the car is a '75 LTD blue four-door.
I don't think I can do it. I think I have a concussion.
Oh, you got something wrong with your head, all right, but it's not a concussion.
Why don't you just pretend it's a 415 or an 888
and phone it in, all right?
Why don't you do it yourself, you're such a big hero type.
Because I'm gonna go out and see if I can catch them and stop them.
Now, you call the cops, tell them the boat is the San Antonio
and it's at Moss Landing.
Also call the county sheriff's department up there and notify them.
Come on, move. It's a matter of seconds.
(LOUNGE MUSIC PLAYING)
(PEOPLE CHATTERING)
RobberyIHomicide, Officer Mazursky speaking.
Oh, this is Lianne Sweeney.
I asked for Doug Chapman again and got you.
I take it he's not in?
That's right, ma'am,
but we are expecting him back within the next half hour or so.
If his flight was on time.
Did you give him my message?
He never called in, ma'am.
Are you all right, lady? Is there something I can help you with?
No, no, no, I'm all right, of course.
I'll call back in a few minutes.
Vodka marti, rocks.
WOMAN: Joey.
Do it again.
(PEOPLE CHATTERING)
Place is called Moss Landing. He gave me a map.
(PHONE RINGS)
RobberyIHomicide, Officer Mazursky speaking.
Hello, it's Lianne Sweeney again.
He's still not in?
No ma'am. Could you wait a minute, please?
Hey, Serge, what am I supposed to do?
It's that wiggy Lianne Sweeney that hangs around down at Ralph and Maura's.
Hello, Lianne, this is Dennis Becker.
Oh, hi, Den.
There must be some screw up. I asked to speak to Doug.
Anything I can help you with?
Well, I think I better wait for Doug.
He'll be back any minute, won't he?
Maybe. I want you to tell me
what this business of M.K. is all about.
Well, to be honest, Den,
I really don't think it's any of your business.
Lianne, if it's department business, it's my business.
Well, I don't know, Den. There's really not much sense in discussing it.
Let's just say I put my faith in a guy
I thought was gonna be an all-day police officer
and an all-night man.
I was wrong on both counts.
Will you just stop it right there?
Now, I want you to tell me what M.K. is.
I want you to tell me now. Is that Michael Kelly?
By all rights, this should be Doug's collar.
What collar?
Listen, I'm not fooling around with you anymore.
If you are withholding information on a felony,
you're in big trouble, and we'll push it, I mean that.
There's going to be a mob execution.
What? Where?
Listen, she sounds flaky enough.
I want you to put a tap on this line right away.
Lianne. Listen, we've been good friends, you know.
So I want you to level with me. Come on, get it off, tell me.
WOMAN ON RADIO.. 1-Y-40, your call is Code 2.
4-King-24, give your present location.
1-X-ray-19, see the woman at 454 Barrington,
possible prowler.
1-X-ray-28 and 1-X-ray-7, a possible 187 at Dawson's Liquors.
10-0-4, Armacost.
Wes, Patsy, Get off the boat. Dive in the water. Go.
WES: Come on.
In there, and lock it.
Where is she, Pop?
She went up the hatch.
SyI! You see anybody hit the water?
I don't know. I don't think so.
Hey, If I were you two, I'd call off the war,
get in my car and go home.
ROCKFORD: The cops are on the way right now.
You sure it's not the Marines?
No, it's the cops. I know 'cause I called 'em.
You kill her now, you're in for a murder fall.
All right, Pop, where is she?
I told you, she dove.
I would've done the same thing, but my old legs wouldn't make it.
You wanna try for two? Now where is she?
Hey, you can't get off the boat and pass me.
I'll deal with you.
You take off now, I won't interfere.
You'll be on the main road before the cops get here.
Tony Boy, do you hear what he said? He's right.
He's got a cannon, he can pick us off.
Good for him.
Pop, I'm gonna turn you into something
people aren't even gonna want to visit.
(DOOR RATTLING) PATSY: Don't!
Leave him alone!
SYL: He's got us trapped.
Will you answer me?
(GUN FIRES)
Come on. Up the stairs.
Patsy? Wes?
Move.
Hey, Anthony! You set one foot off that boat
I'm gonna take you off, one by one.
What are we gonna do, Tony? Tony!
We're gonna take her with us. We'll hit her someplace else.
Hey, beach boy, listen up! Hey!
What?
Me and my friend and the girl are gonna walk to the end of the wharf
and get in our car.
And you're gonna let us do it,
because if you don't, I'm gonna blow her face away.
And it'll all be because you made a stupid mistake.
I don't hear any answer!
Yeah, I heard you.
You kill her, you got no shield.
How do you plan to get me, then?
I'll get you, don't you worry about it.
I'll open you up, creep!
All right, we're walking, Rockford. It's your choice!
Move.
(POLICE SIREN WAILING)
Hold it, Dennis. Hold it.
(GUN FIRING)
Okay, got your attention?
Look what I got here!
Now, here's the thing.
We're gonna walk to the end of the wharf with the broad.
Anything happens, she gets popped.
You can't make it, fella!
I can't make it, huh?
All right, then shoot me.
Come on, shoot me, sleaze!
Nobody fire, nobody move.
All right, everybody off the dock. Back out of the way.
Bring me a police car. We want to drive it out of here.
Dennis, don't do it. Our position is as good as theirs.
It is, huh?
How about I go downstairs and bring Poppa up here, huh?
Then he comes with us with the girl.
How about that?
All right, Rockford, off the dock
Get back with the cops. Move it. Now!
You better listen to him, Jimbo.
Hey, Dennis, the last thing I want to do is get that girl hurt.
We've got them here, and now. So let's leave them here, huh?
Excuse me, Jimbo, but we do have a method
of dealing with barricaded suspects.
Is that the one where the hostage gets their brains blown out
like I saw on television last week in the news, huh?
Most of the times it works.
We give these people what we want,
and then we work out a plan of action.
Dennis, you're gonna give those cretins a police car.
Yes, Jimbo, I am.
How far do you think they're gonna get in it?
We set up sharpshooters, we take them off somewhere along the road
when they think they're safe.
Radio in and tell them to take positions along the Coast Highway intersection.
These guys will have to slow down
before they drive their car out into the traffic.
Yeah, but what if the sharpshooters miss?
They don't. Never?
Den, and if I may point out... Get out of here!
No, paragraph 88 of the manual says,
''If you have a contained situation,
''you could keep it contained as much as possible.''
Den, you know how I feel about you,
but maybe this P.I. here was right. Just get out of here.
Now look. Look, friend...
Will you stay out of the way?
This is none of your business.
Deputy, get this woman out of here.
I want her back. I want her way the hell back.
I don't want to even see her face!
What's taking so long over there?
If I don't get what I want in three seconds,
I'm telling my friend down and he's gonna waste the old sailor boy.
That's just to let you know we're serious over here.
Give them that black and white.
Make sure the riot gun is out of it.
(POLICE RADIO CHATTERING)
Sergeant, the shooting team's in position.
All right.
Where's Rockford?
All right, the rest of you pigs,
get out from under those cars, from behind those cars.
Get back where we can see you.
(POLICE RADIO CHATTERING)
Hey, no! Don't shoot! Hey, don't kill me!
I give up!
Hey, Wes, the medic says you're gonna be just fine, just fine.
I'm so sorry I got you into it, pal.
Well, I knew what the gig was when I signed up.
But I don't owe you no more stir favors. We're all anteed up now.
Wes?
It's okay, Queenie. Be seeing you later.
Hi, Doug. Hey, Doug, Doug.
I just want to say that I think Dennis Becker handled this situation
very, very well.
Even if that civilian hadn't done what he did,
I think that Dennis would have
nailed those turkeys with no harm to the victim.
I think it was quite a collar, a feather in everyone's cap.
The way I look at it, there's sure as hell
enough glory to go around from this baby.
Mrs. Sweeney, why don't you go home? What?
I said, go home, go back to your family,
go back to your job, whatever it is,
and for God's sake, let us do ours.
The police don't have many friends these days,
so we have a tendency to take whatever comes our way.
And that's our mistake.
Doug, I don't know what you're talking about.
I just love what you guys do, that's all.
(STAMMERING) I hate crime, and criminals.
Hey, I just want to be a part of it.
Den? What's happening?
You're asking me what's happening? You don't know?
God, you're a liar.
Somebody got killed because you didn't call the station fast enough.
As it was, another man got shot in the leg.
And it might not have happened if we had gotten here sooner.
Doug had been on that case.
See, I just wanted to do what was best for everyone.
Lianne, you're lying again, to me and to yourself.
You don't hate crime, you don't hate criminals.
You hate people. You hate life.
(EXHALES)
(PATSY LAUGHING)
What time are you supposed to be at the airport?
Oh, they said an hour before flight.
I guess the airport's pretty crowded.
Hey, I got to tell you something.
Remember back at the hospital, when you left the room?
Wes told me that the minute he got that cast off
he's going to come gimping after you all the way to London.
He claims once he tries the right seduction, you'll fall.
The man is a total sexist and a dinosaur.
He's also beautiful.
How about you?
Think you'd ever get over to London
on business or something?
I hope so.
You know, I don't have to spend the rest of my life in London.
I mean, they're bound to forget about me back in New York.
I'm no threat to them. They'll see that.
If not London, well, I may even come back to LA.
It's far enough away, isn't it?
Hasn't been so far.
Then I'll find someplace else.
Like, I don't know, Oregon.
I hear that's nice.
Get a farm somewhere back in the woods,
they'd never find me there.
I hear property goes for next to nothing.
It sounds beautiful.
It could be.
Jim, I don't care about money.
I don't care about having a career, finishing graduate school.
The whole thing has been a whirlwind for you.
It's too soon for you to know what you care about and what you don't.
Remember what I told you on the boat?
Everybody has to find their own place.
You'll find your place.
It may be London, Oregon.
Who knows, it might even be back here in Los Angeles.
But you'll find it. It just takes time.
Come on, we'll walk down to the point
and I'll drive you to the airport.
Don't do that. I'll take a cab.
I know a shortcut.
WOMAN ON RADIO.. All units 4-King-40,
show a code 4 at the Mighty Burger.
One out of 60, a possible 187 at the Newport Apartments.
1 1 10 Newport.
All units in the vicinity of 103 and Avalon a 4 15 with knives and chains,
respond to Code 2.