POLICE WOMAN - Series 2 - Episode 11 - "The Purge"
POLICE WOMAN - Series 2 - Episode 11 - "The Purge"
Originally broadcast 25th November 1975
(MOPPY-KUN TV was previously MOPPY-KUN PRODUCTIONS on you tube before it was removed)
POLICE WOMAN was the first American Police drama to feature a woman in the title role starring Angie Dickinson. POLICE WOMAN ran on NBCTV for four seasons from 13th September 1974 to 29th March 1978 consisting of 91 episodes.
Story synopsis - A special team of undercover Police Officers work for the Criminal Conspiracy Unit at the Los Angeles Police Department.
Starring Angie Dickinson as Sgt. "Pepper" Anderson
Earl Holliman as Sergeant William "Bill" Crowley
Charles Dierkop as Pete Royster
Ed Bernard as Joe Styles
Guest stars: - David Huddleston, Tige Andrews, Bert Remsen, Don "Red" Barry, Stephen Pearlman, Rick Jason, Hayden Rorke, Lee Paul, Al Stellone and Dave Carlile.
Created by Robert L. Collins
Music and Music Theme by Morton Stevens
Written by Burton Armus
Director of Photography - Robert Moreno,.A.S.C.
Directed by Alvin Ganzer
Produced by Douglas Benton
Originally broadcast 25th November 1975
(MOPPY-KUN TV was previously MOPPY-KUN PRODUCTIONS on you tube before it was removed)
POLICE WOMAN was the first American Police drama to feature a woman in the title role starring Angie Dickinson. POLICE WOMAN ran on NBCTV for four seasons from 13th September 1974 to 29th March 1978 consisting of 91 episodes.
Story synopsis - A special team of undercover Police Officers work for the Criminal Conspiracy Unit at the Los Angeles Police Department.
Starring Angie Dickinson as Sgt. "Pepper" Anderson
Earl Holliman as Sergeant William "Bill" Crowley
Charles Dierkop as Pete Royster
Ed Bernard as Joe Styles
Guest stars: - David Huddleston, Tige Andrews, Bert Remsen, Don "Red" Barry, Stephen Pearlman, Rick Jason, Hayden Rorke, Lee Paul, Al Stellone and Dave Carlile.
Created by Robert L. Collins
Music and Music Theme by Morton Stevens
Written by Burton Armus
Director of Photography - Robert Moreno,.A.S.C.
Directed by Alvin Ganzer
Produced by Douglas Benton
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00:00Where is your six-foot, three-inch assailant?
00:09You tell me where he is.
00:10You're conducting an investigation.
00:11Where is he?
00:12You were set up the other day.
00:13He bashed you.
00:14He suckered you out.
00:15The last thing you need is to get in a hassle.
00:16How much?
00:17A grand.
00:18Why don't you start counting it out?
00:19Police officers.
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02:17Let's go!
02:18Let's go!
02:48I'll get that, everybody set?
02:54He's in.
02:55All right.
02:56Let's go.
02:58Let's go.
03:04Let's go.
03:13Let's go.
03:19Let's go.
03:25Let's go.
03:32Police!
03:34Hold it!
03:36Don't move!
03:39All right, hands on top of your heads.
03:45Get him up there!
03:48Try to face the truck.
03:52Let's go!
03:54All right, let's check him out.
03:59Joe, give me a hand.
04:17It's a dry run.
04:20Yep.
04:24Don't look around, Mr. Chung, you're in charge.
04:35Hey, you got no right here without a warrant.
04:39Oh, read but don't touch, all right?
04:43Search him again.
04:53Let's go.
05:24Come on!
05:28He's only a kid.
05:59Fifteen years old.
06:04How could you know Bastry had a nephew living with him?
06:08You didn't know the boy was going to be in the warehouse, right?
06:12Fifteen years old, Pam.
06:17You didn't have a fight with a boy, isn't that right?
06:22That's what you told me.
06:24That's what you've got to tell them.
06:28Is that, is that right?
06:32Hello?
06:33Yeah, Pep, it's Joe.
06:36How's he doing?
06:37Oh, okay.
06:39You take care of him, yeah?
06:42And look, let me talk to him for a minute.
06:46Hold on.
06:50It's Joe.
06:55It's Joe.
07:01Yeah, Joe.
07:03Hey, Billy.
07:04Look, the guys in Internal Affairs want to talk with you.
07:08When?
07:10Now. And they're surprised you're not down here.
07:12Oh, Joe, you got to help me. I can't do it tonight.
07:16Listen, tell them, uh, tell them I've been drinking.
07:21I'm loaded. I'm not in any condition to talk, okay?
07:25Yeah, okay.
07:27Tomorrow morning?
07:29Yeah, tomorrow. Okay.
07:33And look, Bill, don't lose your cool with the guys, okay?
07:37Because they can be pretty tough.
07:39Come in.
07:42Crowley.
07:46Sit down.
07:48I'm Lieutenant Boyceen. This is Lieutenant Sullivan.
07:51There are a number of questions we want to ask you about this homicide, but first I want to advise you of your constitutional rights.
07:56Why isn't Homicide handling this thing?
07:59I mean, they're not headhunters. They're street cops.
08:01They know how these things can happen.
08:04We also know how these things happen.
08:07We're going to get the facts before we submit our report to the chief and our grand jury.
08:18Why would you submit it to the grand jury?
08:20We may have a manslaughter.
08:22Look, Sergeant, our investigation takes precedence over any other departmental investigation, so you will cooperate to the fullest.
08:32Yeah.
08:35Well, what if I don't feel like answering any of your questions?
08:38Then we'll suspend you. You give us no choice.
08:41So why be foolish? Why make a tough job tougher?
08:44Listen, Crowley, I don't think there's going to be any problem, really, regarding a criminal prosecution.
08:49But you have to satisfy the department.
08:51I don't believe that.
08:54Isn't that one of those off-the-record remarks to get me to loosen up?
08:59I mean, what do I do now? Do I bare my soul? Pour my heart out?
09:04This is on, isn't it?
09:05Yes, it's on. You know the rules. Now, may we continue?
09:09You know the story. I laid it all out to the homicide officers.
09:13There are gaps in it. Too many.
09:15As an example, where is your six-foot, three-inch assailant?
09:19You tell me where he is. You're conducting the investigation. Where is he?
09:22The victim was 5'5 and 132 pounds and 15 years old.
09:27None of the other police personnel reported any assault, and the civilians present tell a completely different story.
09:32Civilians? What civilians?
09:33There was no six-foot, three-man in that warehouse.
09:35Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Are you talking about Bastry and the rest of that garbage?
09:38They're not civilians. They're hoods. They're criminals.
09:41This was a fence operation we busted into. It wasn't a convent.
09:44Maybe so, Crowley, but you certainly didn't prove it.
09:47Maybe you had a legal right to bust in there, but no contraband was recovered.
09:50No crime was committed. Therefore, no arrests were made, right?
09:54So these people have to be considered as witnesses.
09:56Witnesses?
09:57Plain, ordinary, legitimate witnesses.
09:59You've got to be kidding me. It was after midnight.
10:02What do you think they were doing there if they were waiting for a hot load?
10:04Bastry has a lease on a place. The others say they're friends of his.
10:07I know. It's all bull.
10:10But he comes off clean on this one.
10:14And I'm the heavy, right?
10:17We're not here to judge you, Sergeant. We only investigate.
10:22You're off this week. What's the matter? Haven't you got a home?
10:25Sometimes I wonder.
10:27You know, Joe just phoned me and told me what happened.
10:29I thought maybe there was something I could do to help.
10:31You know, like what?
10:32I don't know. Maybe, uh, maybe we could just talk a little bit.
10:35Something I would say would make you feel a little better.
10:41Thanks, Pete. You just said it.
10:52Here we are, folks. These are Anna Clark and Lynn. They said good luck.
11:03It's pretty interesting, isn't it?
11:06I don't even get along with those two guys, and they're wishing me luck.
11:10They're cops. Pretty good ones, too.
11:13They know that something like this could happen to any one of us.
11:16It's sure happening to me.
11:20By the time those six thieves get through testifying against me,
11:23I'll be lucky if I don't come off looking like some kind of an animal.
11:25You reacted like anyone would.
11:28It happened, Bill. You can't change it. You can't do it over.
11:31Of course it happened, Pap. Of course I can't change it.
11:35It's hard enough to live with something like this without having the whole department come down on my head.
11:40Why the hell would they use a kid like that?
11:46I don't know.
11:53We have to find that man you saw.
11:58There's an awful lot of people willing to go to bat for you, Bill.
12:00Oh, will you knock it off?
12:02I'm not going to knock it off.
12:05There's an awful lot of people willing to go to bat for you, Bill.
12:07Oh, will you knock it off?
12:11Pap, my life was involved in this thing, and you sit there giving me platitudes.
12:15It just wasn't worth it, kid.
12:17Will you stop feeling sorry for yourself?
12:19What did you expect when you took that badge? An egg in your beer?
12:22Come on. Show them, Bill. Use your head, you big dumb cop.
12:27Show them you had a right to hit that warehouse.
12:30And where it was a terrible tragedy, it was an accident.
12:35You're starting to sound like me.
12:37I've been called worse.
12:40I'm going to start behaving like you and thinking like you.
12:42Now, we're going to have to get that guy, and there's only one way to do it.
12:45He has to be one of Bastery's people, so we move in on Bastery.
12:57Now, my information was good.
12:59You screwed it up, not me.
13:02Now I've got to sit here for another three years.
13:05Fine time to think about that.
13:09Berigan, you help us get Bastery.
13:13You help us make a case, show that he really is a large-scale receiver,
13:17and you got the same deal you had before.
13:20Same deal.
13:24Look, I got my information from a friend.
13:28He's like a brother. I can't trust him.
13:31He's like a brother. I can't involve him.
13:34Look, I promised him.
13:37I can't go back on my word.
13:40Eddie, we have to deal with your friend directly this time.
13:44You got to trust us.
13:46We've always been fair with you in the past. We won't be any different now.
13:50You have to give us a chance to talk to your friend.
13:55No way.
13:57Eddie, we won't press him, I promise you.
14:01If he helps us, you stand a very good chance of getting out of here.
14:07And there's so much more now involved than just one good arrest.
14:16Okay.
14:19But I sure hope that your word is better than mine.
14:23Let's walk outside.
14:28It's a lot quieter out here.
14:31Let's go.
14:37Betty sent you. He must think you're all right. I'll go along with it.
14:40You two must have had quite a relationship.
14:45Relationship.
14:49I guess you could call it that.
14:52We were partners. We still are.
14:56A lot of years behind us.
14:58We're close.
15:00Miss Conrad?
15:02That's right.
15:04If you want to talk to a saint, go to church.
15:07Are you...
15:09Are you willing to try again?
15:14When I spotted the meat and the switch,
15:18it was purely by accident.
15:20I followed it up because I had nothing better to do. It was like a hobby.
15:24Then we figured out how we could make it work for Eddie.
15:29But I got no beef with these guys. It's their hustle. It's none of my business.
15:35So you've paid your debt to Eddie and now you want out, is that it?
15:39Maybe.
15:43Just...
15:45Just how far would you expect me to go?
15:48You'd be helping us, too.
15:50Not just Eddie.
15:52I only owe Eddie.
15:57But I'll make a deal with you.
16:00If I go along with this move,
16:02will you people put your weight behind Eddie's parole, win or lose?
16:06You got it.
16:14I pulled a hustle once in Nevada.
16:17Worked out really good.
16:20It'd be a hell of a move if I could make it work again.
16:25Even if it was for the heat.
16:39I'm sorry about your nephew.
16:41But when that cop busted in, I panicked, hit him and ran.
16:45I've never been at the spot during a delivery before.
16:49I can't afford to get busted.
16:51I'll lose my license.
16:53And if you had been at the spot before, you'd know that the first truck is always a dummy.
16:57Just in case the cops have planted on us.
17:00Lou, I'm sorry about your nephew.
17:02Oh, cut the garbage.
17:04I hardly knew him and you didn't know him at all.
17:08You know, if I didn't need you for the leases on that warehouse,
17:11I'd lose you so fast for running scared.
17:20What are we stopping for?
17:22I'll put the TV and the radio. Let's see what the newspapers have to say.
17:50Thank you.
18:08Well, I've seen better pictures of you.
18:11They're just not going to let up, are they?
18:15All I've got going for me is a retired con man.
18:19I'm sorry.
18:43Mr. Bastry, my name is Milton Brooks.
18:45Oh, come in.
18:46Thank you.
18:47Thank you for granting me this interview at such a trying time.
18:50Pleasure. Sit down.
18:52I'm more than anxious to get the truth out before the police try to cover it up.
19:01Such a nice looking boy.
19:05What was he doing there?
19:07He was with me.
19:08I read that.
19:10But what was he doing there?
19:14What are you getting at?
19:16I told you he was with me, visiting.
19:20Mr. Bastry, I know your offense.
19:23A very good one on a fairly large scale.
19:26I commend your business abilities.
19:28I commend you also for having the ability not only to stay out of jail,
19:32but to turn the tables on the cops.
19:36What are you, some kind of plant?
19:39You, out!
19:42What is this?
19:44It's a business proposition, Mr. Bastry.
19:47The gun is only a pacifier while we talk business.
19:51Now, would you please sit down?
20:01Thank you.
20:08I had an operation going in San Diego.
20:10Pretty good one.
20:11Then my partner got busted and I had to pull out.
20:13But I have a huge outlet for some hot cigarettes.
20:17I understand you handle them by the truckload.
20:21So what do you want from me?
20:24Your street contacts.
20:26Truckers that want to make a few bucks. Hijackers.
20:29I don't know what you're talking about.
20:31Why don't you have me checked out, Mr. Bastry?
20:35Surely a man of your stature has people that can do that.
20:38Sure, I can do it.
20:40But why should I?
20:41Because we're going to make a lot of money.
20:44Together.
20:46I need those cigarettes.
20:48I would be willing to finance the first load.
20:54Why don't you have me checked out?
21:01You'd put up ten grand?
21:02Ten grand?
21:10You made your point.
21:15My business card, where you can reach me.
21:18Drop it on the table.
21:20On your way out.
21:30Take this number down.
21:31555-1483.
21:33Name, Milton Brooks.
21:35Yeah, well, what do you want me to do with it?
21:37I want him checked out. As an investor.
21:40A working investor?
21:41Could be.
21:43Could be a setup.
21:44Or do something for your money for a change.
21:47I'll have him processed for a bondsman's license.
21:50Prince and all.
21:51If he has a record, it'll show him.
21:54Let the cops do our work for us.
21:56Clever.
22:01Thanks.
23:01My Sergeant Crowley.
23:03Now you're trying to kill me.
23:06And when one of you people call a policeman,
23:08I want to file a report.
23:15That was a dumb stunt, Crowley.
23:17You know, I thought you were getting a rough deal before this.
23:19And I could even understand your attitude to a point.
23:21I'm sorry.
23:23I'm sorry.
23:25I'm sorry.
23:27I'm sorry.
23:29I'm sorry.
23:31But as of this moment,
23:33you are officially suspended as a police officer
23:35pending a Board of Rights hearing by the department.
23:41It's just beautiful, huh?
23:45It's really beautiful.
23:50I'll tell you what I should have done.
23:52I should have driven that creep Bastri right into the ground.
23:54That's exactly why we're suspending you.
23:56So you'll stay away from him.
23:58Lieutenant, I'm a civilian now,
23:59and I'll do as I damn please.
24:01No, you won't.
24:03You're a suspended cop,
24:05and you'll do as you're ordered.
24:07There's been an injunction filed
24:09that prohibits you from any contact with Bastri
24:11or to present yourself in the vicinity of his residence.
24:13Now you violate this order, Crowley,
24:15and you'll be arrested.
24:17Now wait a minute.
24:19You've just tried him,
24:21found him guilty,
24:23and now you're sentencing him.
24:25He's not being suspended because of the incident with the boy,
24:27but because he won't let up on Bastri
24:29for the harassment caused by Sergeant Crowley.
24:31But the department.
24:33Doesn't he have any rights?
24:35Nobody's let up on him the whole time
24:37since this thing happened.
24:39Criminals get tried in courts.
24:41Cops get tried in newspapers.
24:43You might as well save your breath, Pep.
24:45I sure wouldn't want to embarrass the department.
24:48I'll take your gun, your badge, and your I.D. card.
25:00As far as I'm concerned,
25:02you're the only real cop in this room right now.
25:04You're the only one.
25:06I'll get these, too.
25:15Relax, pretty lady.
25:18I made the contact with Bastri.
25:20Yeah.
25:22You know what?
25:24I don't know what you're talking about.
25:26I don't know what you're talking about.
25:27Yeah.
25:29He even had me checked out by a bail bond office.
25:32Stanley Lawrence Associates.
25:34Who is he? What's his thing?
25:36I don't know yet.
25:38I haven't met him face to face.
25:41He really went into my past, though.
25:45You know my record.
25:47Bastri loves me.
25:49You think if we lean on him
25:51we can try and get him to do something for us now?
25:53No.
25:55If we lean on him too hard, he could back out.
25:57Yeah, I realize that.
25:59But Crowley's on the outside looking in.
26:01And it's wiping him out.
26:03Let me tell you something.
26:06It's not too healthy for my partner, either.
26:09He's on the inside looking out.
26:15You made your point.
26:17Look.
26:19I'm a selfish guy.
26:21I'm not in this to be charitable to Crowley.
26:24If anything I do for Eddie helps him, good.
26:27Why not?
26:29You're an unusual crook.
26:31You're very honest.
26:33I just wanted to set it straight.
26:36I'll tell you what.
26:38A couple years from now, I'll really make you happy.
26:41I'll lie to you.
26:45You're a good cop, pretty lady,
26:47but I'm a good con man, and right now
26:49you're in my ballpark.
26:51Yeah?
26:53So?
26:55We wait.
26:57Meanwhile, you've got your work cut out for you.
27:02You've got to raise me a bankroll.
27:04Oh, you were saving the goodies for the last.
27:07You are a crook.
27:09That bastard's got no money.
27:11He put in all he had to buy this new location.
27:15He lives pretty high on the hog.
27:17He's almost broke.
27:19That's good. He has to go back to work.
27:21That's right.
27:22I got in because I promised to finance this new deal.
27:27Ten thousand minimum.
27:29You're sticking it to me.
27:31Listen, you don't think I'd tap dance
27:33and smile my way in, do you?
27:35I'll keep it as low as I can,
27:37but ten thousand is the minimum.
27:39You've got to have it ready.
27:41This is the police department you're dealing with.
27:43You know what I've got to go through
27:45to get that kind of money?
27:47That's your problem.
27:49And by the way, tell your people
27:50not to come out.
27:52There's no one from our office sitting on Bastry.
27:54There was when I was there two hours ago.
28:18Turn on the air conditioning.
28:20What are you doing here?
28:25It's my steam bath, okay?
28:27You weren't invited.
28:31What do you expect to accomplish
28:33hanging around here?
28:37What am I going to accomplish
28:39hanging around my apartment?
28:41You stick around here,
28:43you're going to do something dumb.
28:45You were set up the other day.
28:47Bastry suckered you out.
28:48And I can't.
28:50The last thing I need
28:52is big sister advice from you.
28:54I'm on my own now, Pep.
28:56I'm a plain, private, ordinary citizen.
28:59Not quite, Bill.
29:01You are a suspended cop
29:03with a set of double standards
29:05hanging over your head.
29:07I don't care about the rules anymore.
29:09I mean that.
29:11I can't defend what they did to you.
29:13Even if I agreed with them,
29:15I'm too close to it.
29:16What you're talking about here
29:18is just adding to your grief.
29:20There are people who care a great deal
29:22about what happens to you,
29:24even if you don't.
29:27Well, what I've got
29:29just might be contagious,
29:31so you better tell him not to get involved.
29:33No, you go tell him.
29:35You go tell Joe not to walk around
29:37and throw his files across his desk.
29:39And tell Pete not to tell the lieutenant
29:41he doesn't give a damn.
29:43He's picked a fight with every superior
29:45in the country.
29:47Yeah.
29:54For a rooster.
29:56We gotta change his name to a rooster.
29:58They care, Bill.
30:00They may not know how to show it,
30:02and neither one of them is very talkative,
30:04so they don't know what to say,
30:06but they care, and you know it.
30:15I just gotta do something, Pep.
30:19Just wait.
30:21That's what we're doing.
30:23We're just waiting.
30:27Listen,
30:29I got a little mad money stashed away.
30:32You need any extra cash?
30:40You been out working the streets again?
30:44Not for a couple of real good dinners.
30:56Look, I know I can swing a few hundred,
30:59maybe get everyone around here
31:01to come up with the same amount,
31:03but that'd only be a couple of thousand,
31:05the whole thing.
31:07I'd have to go all the way to the top
31:09to get $10,000.
31:11Then go to the top, lieutenant.
31:12Looks like we're plotting to frame Bastory,
31:14or at least get even with him.
31:16Well, if we don't get the money,
31:18we won't have to answer to anybody
31:20about what we want to do.
31:22We won't even have a chance to try.
31:25You know that'd be leaving the department
31:27open to a lot of criticism.
31:29I don't care.
31:31Do you really care?
31:33I'm tired of worrying about the department.
31:35It's not a human.
31:37It's a big, clumsy, insensitive thing,
31:40and Bill Crowley is a human.
31:44And doesn't the department owe him something, too?
31:48Like about 18 years
31:50of breaking his back
31:52and 24 hours a day
31:54of giving when nobody else would.
31:59You know,
32:01it's not supposed to be a one-way street.
32:06He needs some support now,
32:08and he has a reason.
32:10He has a right to expect it.
32:15You know who's neck is on the line
32:17if it doesn't work, don't you?
32:22But I'll try, Pepper.
32:24You've got to do more than that.
32:27You have to get it.
32:29Even if it doesn't work,
32:31we owe Bill the chance.
32:35You want a guarantee?
32:37Are you giving me one?
32:41Okay, you got it.
33:02The money is waiting.
33:04I'm waiting.
33:06Crowley is waiting.
33:07There should be some action
33:09within the next week.
33:11You sure?
33:13I don't have a written guarantee,
33:15but that's the way it adds up.
33:17Bastard is out of cash.
33:19He needs the action.
33:21You know how important this is.
33:23You have to be sure.
33:25Add it up.
33:27The funeral was expensive.
33:29He wanted to make a big show.
33:31He's got that Chrome Palace
33:33he calls an apartment.
33:35He's got two people on his payroll.
33:38How much?
33:41A grand.
33:44Why don't you start counting it out?
33:49It's worth it to know the exact location.
34:03It's berth 154,
34:04empty terminal at the harbor.
34:08When will you find out the time?
34:12He has to come to me
34:14for the rest of the money.
34:16Get your people set.
34:18Be careful this time.
34:21The first truck doesn't mean anything.
34:23Let it pass.
34:25Watch out for a spotter.
34:27He's got one.
34:30While you're here,
34:32why don't you confess your sins?
34:35In this application,
34:37you say that the premises in question
34:39were controlled by one James Bastory
34:42and are being used as a
34:44storehouse for stolen property.
34:48On what do you base this?
34:51Well, Your Honor,
34:53we have information from an informant
34:55who's been,
34:57who has proved to be reliable in the past.
35:00Did you people really think
35:02that I would sign this warrant?
35:05Why,
35:07yes, Your Honor, I can see no reason why not.
35:09It's been prepared correctly
35:11and it plus the facts that we presented
35:13should more than show a legal right
35:15to obtain a warrant.
35:17Is that your legal opinion, Lieutenant?
35:20It's my opinion, sir,
35:22based on 24 years experience.
35:24Well, it's not my opinion
35:26and I'm refusing this application.
35:28On what basis?
35:30Another warrant for this James Bastory
35:32at this time,
35:34in light of the publicity,
35:36would constitute poor judgment on my part
35:38and possibly harassment.
35:40I'm not about to enter
35:42into any conspiracy with the police department
35:44so that you can attempt
35:46to save the reputation
35:48of a suspended police officer.
35:50No judge will sign this warrant
35:52and probably no other warrant
35:54for some time.
35:57And now,
35:59if you'll excuse me.
36:02Oh, cut him loose.
36:04Bruce has done it again.
36:06Yeah, well, that's the last thing
36:08in the world I would have expected to happen.
36:10There's no legal reason
36:12why you shouldn't sign this warrant.
36:14We could try another judge.
36:16Oh, come on, Pepper, you know,
36:18no other judge is going to sign that thing now.
36:20Bruce has put the hex on it.
36:22Look, you know these judges,
36:24they never override each other.
36:26Talk about conspiracy.
36:28Now, conspiracy is the least of my problems.
36:30You know, I signed out for $10,000
36:32and it's never going to take place.
36:34I already spent $1,000 of it.
36:36How do I account for it?
36:38What do I tell them,
36:40I backed Bastory because he was broke?
36:43Punch that thing again, will you?
36:46Judges.
36:48Pete, I haven't helped Crowley one bit.
36:51I haven't helped anyone except Bastory.
36:55I have botched it.
36:57I've blown it, Pete, I know that.
37:00I got the lieutenant involved.
37:02Bruce is right in the middle of it.
37:04He could get himself killed.
37:07I even gave Berrigan the false hope
37:10he might get out of jail.
37:12Why do I always think
37:14I know more than everybody else?
37:18I know what you mean.
37:21Listen, why don't you go home
37:23and get some rest, Pepper.
37:25Forget about all this for a while.
37:27I'll give Bill a call and tell him what's happening.
37:29I mean, he's pretty involved in this too, you know.
37:33Yeah.
37:41And since, William, you are the most devious
37:43in our select group,
37:45I decided to bring the problem here.
37:48I bet you should have brought that judge here.
37:50I'd like to get my hands on him right now.
37:52A lot of good data, do you?
37:54You just slither through your fingers.
37:56It's obvious.
37:58The only way to do it
38:00is to duke somebody into the operation,
38:02an inside, an undercover cop.
38:04Then we'll work on finding out
38:06who our six-foot-three mystery man is.
38:08Well, make it Pepper.
38:10He knows Pepper.
38:14He knows Joe too.
38:17Pete.
38:20No, he doesn't know Pete.
38:22Pete was on suspension that week.
38:24Well, there's one decision made.
38:26Absolutely.
38:28Yeah, that's easy.
38:29Now, who's going to try to sell this new deal to Brooks?
38:33The only way we're going to pull it off now
38:36is for you to introduce an undercover man into it.
38:41No way.
38:44What do you think, Eddie?
38:46I think you're a real cute broad.
38:49What am I supposed to say to him?
38:51Go do it?
38:53And maybe he gets blown away
38:55while I sit here nice and safe.
38:56Or do I say no good
38:58and I sit here for the next three years?
39:01My milt has to carry that around on his back, you know,
39:04figuring that he might have been able to help me get out.
39:08Who's cunning, home?
39:11I'm not sure I can pull it off,
39:13even if I wanted to.
39:15Why?
39:17Do you think you can get away with it?
39:19I don't know.
39:21I've been pulling the string in real slow.
39:23Maybe I could just give it a yank.
39:27When do we get him greeting?
39:29Up the ante.
39:31There's a 10-G limit on the bank.
39:34Then get hard with him.
39:36If he's ready to bite, pull the string.
39:39Give him rules.
39:41What if he don't bite?
39:43Then what do we lose?
39:45We're no better off than we were before.
39:47Except for your three years and my one body?
39:50You could pressure him from both sides of his head.
39:53More money and a new deal.
39:56Charmer, Miltie.
39:58You're the best in the business.
40:01The charm I got.
40:03But there's still a 10-G limit on the bank.
40:06You're still holding my money from the last score?
40:09About eight grand.
40:11Then throw that in the pot, too.
40:13That's all the stash you've got.
40:15I've got the money.
40:17I've got the money.
40:19That's all the stash you've got.
40:23Might just make the deal.
40:26Okay.
40:28Say it's in.
40:30But that's still not enough for a top-grade truckload of goods.
40:33Gentlemen.
40:37I have a couple thousand dollars in the bank.
40:40I'll throw it in.
40:44How can we miss?
40:46It's just like the old days.
40:48We just made a 2-G score.
40:53It's all set for tomorrow night.
40:56I'll get you half a load of cigarettes.
40:59Eleven grand. It's a good deal.
41:01All right.
41:03I'll get my man ready.
41:05What man? You don't need any man.
41:07I've got my own people.
41:09You've got to be kidding.
41:11I've got a right to have my own man.
41:13Somebody to cover my back.
41:15I'll cover your back.
41:16I've got a lookout outside.
41:18Too many people on this thing already.
41:20I don't like working with strange faces I haven't broken bread with.
41:23He's been with me for years.
41:25He's covered my back plenty of times.
41:27I'll vouch for him.
41:29Who's going to vouch for you?
41:31Who's going to vouch for me?
41:34No way, Brooks.
41:36No stranger.
41:38Hold it. Hold it.
41:40The guy is my partner.
41:42He's a money man.
41:43He's a money man.
41:45We need those cigarettes.
41:48How much would it cost us for the whole load?
41:51The whole load?
41:53Oh, well.
41:55Probably bring it in for eighteen.
41:57Eighteen five.
42:01All right.
42:03I'll take the whole load.
42:05I'll raise the money.
42:07But my man stays in.
42:09Well, that's different.
42:11We can use him for the extra unloading.
42:13All right.
42:44Does he want to do a six three to you?
42:47Sure does.
42:54Hello, Bill.
42:56Yeah, Pete.
42:58Pigeons have arrived.
43:00Have you spotted the lookout?
43:02Yeah.
43:04And I think it's that boy.
43:14Any problems?
43:16No problems.
43:18We left the driver tied up on the side of the highway.
43:21A couple of hours before he could call the cops.
43:24How many?
43:26Fifty thousand caught.
43:28Get the offload truck in here. Tell him we're ready.
43:37Open it up.
43:43All right.
44:13Hmm.
44:44All right.
45:04Can I take a look at the merchandise?
45:06It's all here.
45:14Thank you.
45:21Satisfied?
45:24The money.
45:26Hurry up. I've got a date.
45:32You don't have to count it.
45:34It's all there. Every nickel.
45:36Put it in a safe place. I don't want it around here.
45:44I think we'd better start loading up the truck.
45:47Sebastian, a pleasure doing business with you.
45:50Anytime.
45:54Hey, you guys want to give me a little muscle?
45:57Police officers. Nobody move.
45:59Take him.
46:01I sent him to black and white. It's code three.
46:06You set me up.
46:08Why?
46:10Because, Mr. Bastry, you're going to take my partner's place in jail.
46:31Stop him.
46:45Yeah?
46:46Hey, get out of there. There's an army of cops.
46:49We're on our way.
46:51You better split, too.
46:55No, this way. This way.
47:01Come on.
47:14What are you doing here, Crowley?
47:16You just couldn't stay out of it, could you?
47:18Who's this one?
47:21Any good street cop should be able to figure that out.
47:25This was a guy who came at me in the warehouse that night.
47:28Big guy. Six-three.
47:30Is that right?
47:32Look, it was an accident.
47:34I was scared, man.
47:36I was scared.
47:41You got any more questions?
47:43Yeah, I got one.
47:45What's wrong with him?
47:49I think he's got a bellyache.
47:55That punk.
47:56Okay, fellas. Fresh from the delicatessen.
47:59Here you go. Dig in.
48:03I got something for you.
48:05What's this?
48:07That's your two grand.
48:09I gave them a pack roll, but I didn't want to rip you off.
48:13How much did you beat him for?
48:17Tell him about the one that got away.
48:21Hey, who likes turkey?
48:23Hey, who likes turkey?
48:38I'm going to lay a little truth on you, Pep.
48:43A few days ago, I killed a 15-year-old kid, and that seemed pretty tragic to me at the time.
48:49But it wasn't long until I forgot about him.
48:53It seemed even more tragic that my career was sliding down the drain.
48:57I mean, they actually took my little badge away from me.
49:01I got very caught up in survival.
49:07Now, with everybody's help, I got my little badge back.
49:13I got my little badge back.
49:17And everything's okay.
49:21They say everything's the same.
49:27But it's not, Pepper.
49:31And it won't ever be again.
49:42THE END
50:12THE END