1 00:00:35,500 --> 00:00:38,800 I wondered when you'd knock on my door again, Officer white. 2 00:00:39,500 --> 00:00:40,700 It�s Bud. 3 00:00:42,300 --> 00:00:43,500 Bud. 4 00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:13,900 Why me? 5 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:17,300 I don't know. 6 00:01:53,900 --> 00:01:55,100 This election... 7 00:01:55,300 --> 00:01:58,600 ...is about the future of law enforcement in Los Angeles. 8 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:01,900 City Councilman Rogers represents that future. 9 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:03,900 So let's dig deep... 10 00:02:04,100 --> 00:02:07,900 ...and get a moral man re-elected. Ellis Loew wants to say a few words. 11 00:02:11,900 --> 00:02:15,100 Thank you, Brett Chase. The talented star of Badge of Honor. 12 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:20,100 Let me tell you, I am so thrilled to be here. 13 00:02:21,700 --> 00:02:22,900 Big V. 14 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:26,900 Good to see you back. 15 00:02:27,100 --> 00:02:29,900 -How they hanging, Sid? -Down around my ankles. 16 00:02:30,100 --> 00:02:32,000 You tight with the D.A., Jackie? 17 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:33,100 Yeah. 18 00:02:33,300 --> 00:02:35,800 He tried to throw me off the force last Christmas. 19 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:37,600 How about some payback, big-time? 20 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:42,500 Plus the usual 50 dollar donation to the Jack Vincennes retirement fund. 21 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:46,100 -Did you know the D.A. was a swish? -No kidding? 22 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:51,900 Remember Matt Reynolds? Christmas Eve? "The Movie Premiere Pot Bust"? 23 00:02:52,100 --> 00:02:54,800 -He just got off the honor farm. -what's he doing here? 24 00:02:55,600 --> 00:02:58,100 Reynolds is acey-deucey, not to mention broke. 25 00:02:58,300 --> 00:03:00,700 I�m getting him to fuck the D.A. for $100. 26 00:03:00,900 --> 00:03:03,800 That's twice the $50 you got for wrecking his career. 27 00:03:05,500 --> 00:03:08,100 -Come here, come here. -Jesus, don't bring him-- 28 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:14,700 That's D.A. Loew right there. 29 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:21,300 You need a drink? 30 00:03:22,100 --> 00:03:23,200 Yeah. 31 00:03:24,300 --> 00:03:25,500 Look after him. 32 00:03:25,700 --> 00:03:29,500 Matt, this is Jack. No secrets between me and him. 33 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:37,200 -How you doing? -I�m okay. How're you? 34 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:38,600 I�m good. 35 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:43,500 Have we met before? 36 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:47,000 Yeah. 37 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:49,400 Was it at a party? 38 00:03:49,700 --> 00:03:51,500 It was something like that. 39 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:54,700 Fleur-de-Lis party, right? 40 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:57,200 Right. 41 00:03:57,900 --> 00:03:59,400 Fleur-de-Lis. 42 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:02,000 "whatever you desire." 43 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:04,900 Dope, hookers that look like movie stars.... 44 00:04:05,300 --> 00:04:07,200 Pierce Patchett has it all. 45 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:10,000 You could say that again. 46 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:12,800 Pierce, he's not like regular guys. 47 00:04:14,500 --> 00:04:15,800 I dig him, but... 48 00:04:17,300 --> 00:04:18,300 ...you know... 49 00:04:19,400 --> 00:04:20,900 ...he scares me too. 50 00:04:21,700 --> 00:04:22,700 Really? 51 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:24,300 How? 52 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:30,200 When I came out to L.A. this isn't exactly where I saw myself ending up. 53 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:32,800 Yeah, well... 54 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:34,300 ...get in line. 55 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:36,900 Your courage, kid. Drink up. 56 00:04:42,100 --> 00:04:43,800 I don't think I should do this. 57 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:46,400 It�s not like you don't know how. 58 00:04:46,700 --> 00:04:51,400 Jack's connected to Badge of Honor. Pull this off, you'll get a part. 59 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:54,500 I smell a comeback, don't you, Jack? 60 00:04:57,100 --> 00:04:58,400 The D.A.'s free. 61 00:04:58,600 --> 00:05:01,200 Go introduce yourself. Go on. 62 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:04,200 Tell him about the opening on the show. 63 00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:07,700 I�m pretty sure I can get you a part on this show. 64 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:09,200 But... 65 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:10,800 ...that's later on. 66 00:05:10,900 --> 00:05:14,600 Tonight, go on over there and pretend it's an acting job. 67 00:05:14,900 --> 00:05:16,400 Like show biz. 68 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:17,800 Acting, that's it. 69 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:18,900 Right. 70 00:05:19,100 --> 00:05:20,800 No one's going to know about this? 71 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:21,900 No. 72 00:05:24,100 --> 00:05:25,700 It�ll be our secret. 73 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:32,900 -Show biz. -That's it. Go on. 74 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:38,100 Show biz. 75 00:05:40,100 --> 00:05:42,400 If Reynolds works his charms, which I know he will... 76 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:45,500 ...they'll be at the Hollywood Center Motel, room 203. 77 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:47,800 Meet me there at midnight for a photo shoot. 78 00:05:48,900 --> 00:05:52,100 And maybe we can work in the Hollywood sign this time. 79 00:05:53,300 --> 00:05:55,000 What do you know about Pierce Patchett? 80 00:05:56,800 --> 00:05:58,500 I know what you know. 81 00:05:58,700 --> 00:06:03,000 He's rich. Invested in the freeways, which'll make him richer. why? 82 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:06,500 I just keep hearing rumors, you know. 83 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:10,000 High-class porn, drugs, hookers that look like movie stars. 84 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:14,400 Patchett's what I call twilight. He ain't queer or Red. 85 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:18,600 He cannot help me in my quest for prime sinnuendo. 86 00:06:24,200 --> 00:06:28,400 As though Badge of Honor would touch that guy with a 10-foot pole... 87 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:31,700 ...after he's been Hush-Hush cover boy twice in one year. 88 00:06:31,900 --> 00:06:33,100 See you soon. 89 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:37,400 Midnight. I guarantee all kinds of illegal activity. 90 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:11,500 Another? 91 00:07:11,700 --> 00:07:12,600 Yeah. 92 00:07:57,100 --> 00:07:58,200 Kid? 93 00:08:06,200 --> 00:08:08,700 Come on, you don't have to do this-- 94 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:42,600 Thank you for what you did for me... 95 00:08:43,100 --> 00:08:45,700 ...for killing those animals who raped me. 96 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:48,800 Will you thank Officer white for me, please? 97 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:50,100 Sure. 98 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:55,600 Seeing him come through the door is about the only thing I remember. 99 00:08:55,800 --> 00:08:57,000 Thank God. 100 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:00,700 You remember what time the Negroes left you, right? 101 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:04,300 In your statement, you said they left you at midnight. 102 00:09:04,500 --> 00:09:05,600 They might have. 103 00:09:11,100 --> 00:09:12,400 They "might" have? 104 00:09:12,700 --> 00:09:16,400 I don't know what time they left me. I wanted them dead. 105 00:09:16,700 --> 00:09:20,200 Would anyone care that they raped a Mexican girl... 106 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:23,500 ...if they hadn't killed those white people at the Nite Owl? 107 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:26,700 I did what I had to do for justice. 108 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:28,900 Exley, over here. 109 00:09:29,100 --> 00:09:30,200 Smile, Inez. 110 00:09:31,900 --> 00:09:33,700 Is he your hero? 111 00:09:34,300 --> 00:09:38,700 Fellas, how about this? "Rape Victim wheeled Out by Nite Owl Hero." 112 00:09:44,400 --> 00:09:46,700 All they get is Veronica Lake. 113 00:09:48,800 --> 00:09:51,200 I get Lynn Margaret Bracken. 114 00:10:02,300 --> 00:10:03,300 "Bisbee?" 115 00:10:05,600 --> 00:10:07,200 I grew up there. 116 00:10:09,300 --> 00:10:13,800 I�m going back in a couple of years, open up a dress shop. 117 00:10:15,800 --> 00:10:19,000 The girls in Bisbee need a little glamour. 118 00:10:24,500 --> 00:10:26,200 Where'd this come from? 119 00:10:27,900 --> 00:10:31,900 I was 12. My dad went after my mother with a bottle. I got in the way. 120 00:10:33,900 --> 00:10:35,500 So you saved her. 121 00:10:36,900 --> 00:10:38,200 Not for long. 122 00:10:41,300 --> 00:10:44,600 -I�m sorry. It�s none of my business. -He tied me to the radiator. 123 00:10:45,400 --> 00:10:48,600 I watched him beat my mother to death with a tire iron... 124 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:52,500 ...and he left me there. 125 00:10:55,100 --> 00:10:58,100 Three days before a truant officer found us. 126 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:03,100 They never found the old man. 127 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:14,400 Is that why you became a cop? 128 00:11:15,200 --> 00:11:16,600 To get even? 129 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:19,300 Maybe. 130 00:11:21,300 --> 00:11:22,700 Do you like it? 131 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:27,400 I used to. 132 00:11:29,400 --> 00:11:32,300 Now it's all strong-arm, sitting duck stuff. 133 00:11:33,300 --> 00:11:34,600 If I could... 134 00:11:35,900 --> 00:11:38,400 ...get a chance to work Homicide... 135 00:11:38,800 --> 00:11:39,900 ...like a real detective.... 136 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:44,600 That prick, Exley, he shot the wrong guys. 137 00:11:45,500 --> 00:11:50,100 Whoever killed Stensland's still around. I know it in here. I know it. 138 00:11:50,700 --> 00:11:52,500 Something's wrong with the Nite Owl. 139 00:11:52,900 --> 00:11:55,100 I just can't prove it, that's all. 140 00:11:56,300 --> 00:11:58,200 I�m not smart enough. 141 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:03,400 I�m just the guy they bring in to scare the other guy shitless. 142 00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:08,200 You're wrong. 143 00:12:09,100 --> 00:12:11,700 You found Patchett. You found me. 144 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:13,800 You're smart enough. 145 00:12:25,500 --> 00:12:28,500 Bud white! what brings you down to the basement? 146 00:12:32,300 --> 00:12:34,300 I got a couple of Nite Owl questions. 147 00:12:34,500 --> 00:12:37,600 Don't know if you read the papers, but that case is closed. 148 00:12:39,600 --> 00:12:41,400 Anything bother you about it? 149 00:12:42,200 --> 00:12:45,900 The fact that the pack-up boys haven't hauled this shit out of here yet. 150 00:12:50,500 --> 00:12:54,500 The suspects' 3 shotguns match the strike marks on the shell casings. 151 00:12:55,600 --> 00:12:57,400 What more do you want? 152 00:13:09,200 --> 00:13:11,000 There's blood on the wall here. 153 00:13:11,700 --> 00:13:14,200 I thought everyone got shot in the men's room. 154 00:13:14,400 --> 00:13:16,800 That is Stensland's blood. 155 00:13:18,900 --> 00:13:22,700 Blow to the head. Probably unconscious when they dragged him in the john. 156 00:13:24,400 --> 00:13:25,700 Did they hit anyone else? 157 00:13:25,900 --> 00:13:29,300 No, but he was a cop. Probably tried to do something. 158 00:13:33,100 --> 00:13:36,700 Grilled cheese, black coffee. Someone was sitting next to him. 159 00:13:40,700 --> 00:13:42,500 2 victims were women? 160 00:13:42,700 --> 00:13:46,700 Yeah, Patti DeLuca, the night shift waitress, and a Susan Lefferts. 161 00:13:51,400 --> 00:13:53,200 Susan Lefferts. 162 00:13:54,800 --> 00:13:56,300 Yeah, what about her? 163 00:13:59,400 --> 00:14:00,800 You're welcome! 164 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:08,200 Mrs. Lefferts? 165 00:14:08,400 --> 00:14:10,400 I�m Officer white, LAPD. 166 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:16,600 Tell me about the boyfriend you mentioned at the coroner's office. 167 00:14:16,800 --> 00:14:19,100 I told you I didn't approve of that boyfriend. 168 00:14:19,700 --> 00:14:24,100 He was too old for you. And you let him be fresh with me. 169 00:14:25,900 --> 00:14:28,300 They came here one day when I wasn't home. 170 00:14:28,700 --> 00:14:30,600 Mrs. Jensen next door said... 171 00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:34,400 ...she saw Susie's boyfriend and another man and... 172 00:14:34,500 --> 00:14:36,400 ...she heard a ruckus. 173 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:38,100 What was his name? 174 00:14:38,500 --> 00:14:41,100 We weren't properly introduced. 175 00:14:41,700 --> 00:14:44,000 Susie gave him a nickname, Muns or Luns. 176 00:14:44,200 --> 00:14:45,500 Stens? 177 00:14:45,800 --> 00:14:46,800 Was it Stens? 178 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:48,300 Maybe. 179 00:14:48,500 --> 00:14:49,400 I don't know. 180 00:14:49,600 --> 00:14:50,500 Look. 181 00:14:54,300 --> 00:14:55,500 That's him. 182 00:14:55,800 --> 00:14:56,900 That's him. 183 00:15:02,200 --> 00:15:04,500 You said a neighbor heard a ruckus. 184 00:15:05,100 --> 00:15:05,900 Was it outside? 185 00:15:06,200 --> 00:15:07,300 Inside? 186 00:15:08,500 --> 00:15:09,700 Outside. 187 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:14,000 And then Mrs. Jensen said they kept going under the house. 188 00:15:18,800 --> 00:15:20,400 You have to leave now, officer. 189 00:15:21,700 --> 00:15:25,100 -what's through here? -Just a room full of old things. 190 00:15:25,300 --> 00:15:27,300 Don't move that! 191 00:15:29,700 --> 00:15:33,400 Don't mind the smell. I think a rat died behind the wall. 192 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:36,000 My Susie was a good girl. 193 00:15:36,800 --> 00:15:39,900 She was never in any kind of trouble at all! 194 00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:53,600 "Leland Meeks." Never heard of you. 195 00:16:53,800 --> 00:16:55,400 They call me Buzz. 196 00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:03,700 Was it a rat? 197 00:17:04,500 --> 00:17:06,400 Yeah, a great big one. 198 00:17:08,700 --> 00:17:09,700 Here. 199 00:17:10,700 --> 00:17:12,600 Compliments of the Police Department. 200 00:17:29,700 --> 00:17:32,800 Stomach of the week from a motel homicide. 201 00:17:33,100 --> 00:17:36,400 Unemployed actor had frankfurter, French fries, alcohol and sperm. 202 00:17:36,600 --> 00:17:38,900 Hell of a last supper, don't you think? 203 00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:42,200 Anything bothering you about the Nite Owl case? 204 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:44,700 That you guys won't let it get filed away. 205 00:17:45,900 --> 00:17:49,600 -what do you mean? -Bud white grilled me on it today. 206 00:17:50,700 --> 00:17:51,900 Bud white? 207 00:17:52,500 --> 00:17:54,600 He's not as dumb as I thought. 208 00:17:56,800 --> 00:17:59,600 Did he say where he was going after he talked to you? 209 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:13,800 Let my daughter rest in peace! 210 00:18:14,100 --> 00:18:16,200 Mrs. Lefferts, I want to ask a few questions. 211 00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:18,800 Officer white already checked under the house. 212 00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:20,500 Under the house? 213 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:23,600 -where? -Out back. 214 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:26,600 All he found was rodents. 215 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:33,900 I need an I.D. on this as soon as possible. Talk only to me on this one. 216 00:18:37,900 --> 00:18:38,900 I need your help. 217 00:18:39,100 --> 00:18:42,500 I�m busy right now. why don't you ask your boys in Homicide? 218 00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:48,100 I can't. I need someone outside of Homicide. 219 00:18:48,800 --> 00:18:51,600 Tail Bud white until he goes on duty this evening. 220 00:18:53,100 --> 00:18:55,300 Do me a real favor and leave me alone. 221 00:18:56,400 --> 00:18:58,800 You make the Negroes for the Nite Owl killings? 222 00:19:02,100 --> 00:19:02,900 What? 223 00:19:03,300 --> 00:19:04,600 It�s a simple question. 224 00:19:06,800 --> 00:19:09,600 Why in the world do you want to dig deeper... 225 00:19:09,900 --> 00:19:11,800 ...into the Nite Owl killings... 226 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:13,300 ...Lieutenant? 227 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:18,500 Rollo Tomasi. 228 00:19:20,600 --> 00:19:22,600 Is there more or do I have to guess? 229 00:19:25,800 --> 00:19:28,000 Rollo was a purse snatcher. 230 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:34,500 My father ran into him off-duty. 231 00:19:36,500 --> 00:19:39,600 He shot my father 6 times and got away clean. 232 00:19:41,100 --> 00:19:42,800 No one knew who he was. 233 00:19:43,600 --> 00:19:45,700 I made the name up to give him personality. 234 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:48,600 What's your point? 235 00:19:49,300 --> 00:19:52,100 Rollo Tomasi's the reason I became a cop. 236 00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:56,300 I wanted to catch the guys who thought they could get away with it. 237 00:19:57,800 --> 00:19:59,600 It was supposed to be about justice. 238 00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:03,600 Then somewhere along the way I lost sight of that. 239 00:20:07,700 --> 00:20:09,000 Why'd you become a cop? 240 00:20:19,600 --> 00:20:21,300 I don't remember. 241 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:29,400 What do you want, Exley? 242 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:31,700 I want to solve this thing. 243 00:20:32,300 --> 00:20:34,000 Nite Owl was solved. 244 00:20:34,500 --> 00:20:35,600 No. 245 00:20:36,900 --> 00:20:38,200 I want to do it right. 246 00:20:38,900 --> 00:20:41,200 Even if it means paying the consequences? 247 00:20:44,700 --> 00:20:46,500 All right, college boy, I�ll help. 248 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:49,700 But there's a case your boys in Homicide don't care about. 249 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:53,900 They think it's just another Hollywood "homo"-cide. But I don't. 250 00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:58,000 You help me with mine, I�ll help you with yours. 251 00:20:58,500 --> 00:20:59,300 Deal? 252 00:21:00,500 --> 00:21:01,300 Deal. 253 00:21:33,800 --> 00:21:35,900 Johnny Stompanato. 254 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:39,900 Officer Wendell white. How's tricks, paesano? 255 00:21:40,100 --> 00:21:41,800 I ain't your paesano. 256 00:21:42,600 --> 00:21:44,600 I ain't in the snitch business anymore. 257 00:21:44,900 --> 00:21:47,100 You know a guy named Buzz Meeks? 258 00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:50,100 Works for Pierce Patchett. 259 00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:51,800 Should I? 260 00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:56,100 You're muscle for hire. Meeks is muscle for hire. 261 00:21:56,300 --> 00:21:57,600 You tell me. 262 00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:01,500 Yeah, I remember now. 263 00:22:01,700 --> 00:22:05,400 Meeks is a run-down ex-cop. Same as you're going to be some day. 264 00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:07,000 That's all you'll get. 265 00:22:07,900 --> 00:22:09,700 Keep your 20 bucks. 266 00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:18,600 What do I get if I give you your balls back, you wop cocksucker? 267 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:25,400 There was a rumor going around... 268 00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:28,700 ...that Meeks had a line on a large supply of H. 269 00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:31,600 And? 270 00:22:32,300 --> 00:22:33,900 And nothing! 271 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:35,700 He skipped out. 272 00:22:48,100 --> 00:22:49,300 Bullshit. 273 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:53,400 How would Meeks get his hands on a large supply of heroin? 274 00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:55,400 You're right. 275 00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:57,500 It�s probably bullshit. 276 00:22:57,800 --> 00:23:00,300 Even if he did, he could never unload it. 277 00:23:00,500 --> 00:23:03,000 Not without drawing all kinds of attention. 278 00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:07,600 Maybe that's why he's under a house in Elysian Park not smelling too good... 279 00:23:09,100 --> 00:23:10,500 ...paesano. 280 00:24:02,900 --> 00:24:05,400 Maybe white's not so dumb after all. 281 00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:22,600 We got Rita Hayworth at the morgue, and now Veronica Lake with white. 282 00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:27,500 I think your case and my case are connected. It�s Fleur-de-Lis again. 283 00:24:27,700 --> 00:24:28,900 Fleur-de-Lis? 284 00:24:29,900 --> 00:24:31,500 "whatever you desire." 285 00:24:31,700 --> 00:24:32,800 Porno. 286 00:24:33,100 --> 00:24:36,000 High-class whores cut to look like movie stars. 287 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:39,900 Who knows what else. Reynolds, the kid that got killed, was involved. 288 00:24:40,100 --> 00:24:41,700 So is Pierce Patchett. 289 00:24:41,900 --> 00:24:43,100 The millionaire? 290 00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:45,600 I think we should go talk to him. 291 00:24:46,500 --> 00:24:48,500 First I want to brace Stompanato. 292 00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:07,300 Want an autograph? write to MGM. 293 00:25:08,100 --> 00:25:11,300 Since when do two-bit hoods and hookers give out autographs? 294 00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:12,800 What? 295 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:14,300 LAPD. Sit down. 296 00:25:14,500 --> 00:25:16,700 Who in the hell do you think you are? 297 00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:18,400 Take a walk, honey. 298 00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:22,000 -You are making a large mistake. -Get away from our table. 299 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:23,200 Shut up. 300 00:25:24,700 --> 00:25:26,900 A hooker cut to look like Lana Turner is still a hooker. 301 00:25:28,100 --> 00:25:30,600 -She just looks like Lana Turner. -She is Lana Turner. 302 00:25:32,100 --> 00:25:33,900 She is Lana Turner. 303 00:25:43,100 --> 00:25:45,000 How was I supposed to know? 304 00:26:01,100 --> 00:26:04,900 I believe the Nite Owl's your area of expertise, Mr. Exley. 305 00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:07,800 I saw you on television getting your medal. 306 00:26:09,300 --> 00:26:10,600 And you're... 307 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:14,800 ...that other Hollywood celebrity policeman, aren't you? 308 00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:19,700 The Veronica Lake look-alike works for you. She's one of your whores. 309 00:26:21,100 --> 00:26:22,700 A vulgar term. 310 00:26:22,900 --> 00:26:24,200 Why's she seeing Bud white? 311 00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:28,300 Why do men and women usually see each other? 312 00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:33,800 Let's try this on for size: Fleur-de-Lis. 313 00:26:34,300 --> 00:26:36,100 "whatever you desire." 314 00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:38,300 An actor named... 315 00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:39,700 ...Matt Reynolds. 316 00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:42,400 No? Nothing? 317 00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:47,400 We want some answers. 318 00:26:50,100 --> 00:26:52,000 We all want something. 319 00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:56,300 The guy's as cool as they come. 320 00:26:58,900 --> 00:27:01,700 Lieutenant Exley, come in, please. Over. 321 00:27:02,900 --> 00:27:03,700 Exley. 322 00:27:03,900 --> 00:27:06,800 The coroner wants to talk to you. He says he has your I.D. 323 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:10,300 Tell him Sergeant Vincennes is coming in to talk to him. 324 00:27:10,500 --> 00:27:12,800 -I�ll drop you at your car. -where are you going? 325 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:14,400 Lynn Bracken's. 326 00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:19,300 To find out why Patchett has her seeing Bud white. See you at the Frolic Room. 327 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:23,300 Oh, great. You get the girl. I get the coroner. 328 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:36,400 Hush-Hush, off the record and on the q.t. 329 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:42,600 I was just coming up to see you. You get that I.D.? 330 00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:47,300 Thank God for dental records. Stiff used to be a cop. Leland Meeks. 331 00:27:47,500 --> 00:27:48,500 Buzz Meeks? 332 00:27:48,700 --> 00:27:50,000 -You knew him? -Of him. 333 00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:54,100 He was around when I joined the force. Bad rep. Thanks. 334 00:27:54,500 --> 00:27:55,900 "Just the facts," Jack. 335 00:27:56,100 --> 00:27:57,800 "Just the facts." 336 00:28:01,300 --> 00:28:02,300 Anything else? 337 00:28:02,500 --> 00:28:06,500 Leland Meeks worked Vice '39-'41. I need to see his arrest records. 338 00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:14,700 Miss Bracken... 339 00:28:14,900 --> 00:28:16,200 ...I�m Lieutenant Exley. 340 00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:17,500 I know. 341 00:28:17,900 --> 00:28:20,100 Bud told me all about you. 342 00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:21,600 Is that so? 343 00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:24,600 And what did white have to say? 344 00:28:26,100 --> 00:28:28,000 He said you were smart. 345 00:28:28,700 --> 00:28:32,500 He also said you were a coward, and that you'd screw yourself to get ahead. 346 00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:35,500 Let's concentrate on my smarts. 347 00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:40,700 Pierce Patchett made you, didn't he? Taught you how to dress, talk and think. 348 00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:43,700 I am very impressed with the results. 349 00:28:45,100 --> 00:28:46,400 But I need answers. 350 00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:49,700 And if I don't get them, I�ll take you and Patchett down. 351 00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:53,100 Pierce Patchett can take care of himself. 352 00:28:54,100 --> 00:28:56,100 And I�m not afraid of you. 353 00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:59,700 And you forget one thing, Lieutenant... 354 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:02,600 ...Pierce also taught me how to fuck. 355 00:29:06,300 --> 00:29:08,100 And he tells you who to fuck. 356 00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:10,600 Why does he have you fucking Bud white? 357 00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:14,000 What makes you think I�m not seeing Bud because I want to? 358 00:29:15,700 --> 00:29:19,000 It would be easier for you if there was an angle, wouldn't it? 359 00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:22,800 You're afraid of Bud because you can't figure out how to play him. 360 00:29:23,900 --> 00:29:27,200 He doesn't follow the same rules of politics as you do. 361 00:29:27,900 --> 00:29:29,700 It makes him dangerous. 362 00:29:29,900 --> 00:29:31,200 I can handle Bud white. 363 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:32,600 Can you? 364 00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:38,900 I see Bud because I want to. 365 00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:45,700 I see Bud because he can't hide the good inside of him. 366 00:29:47,500 --> 00:29:50,200 I see Bud because he makes me feel like Lynn Bracken... 367 00:29:50,500 --> 00:29:53,900 ...and not some Veronica Lake look-alike who fucks for money. 368 00:29:56,000 --> 00:30:00,300 I see Bud because he doesn't know how to disguise who he is. 369 00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:06,000 I see Bud for all the ways he's different from you. 370 00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:10,500 Don't underestimate me. 371 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:14,000 The way you've underestimated Bud white? 372 00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:23,100 Fucking me and fucking Bud aren't the same thing. 373 00:30:23,700 --> 00:30:25,700 Stop talking about Bud white. 374 00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:52,500 Come on. 375 00:30:55,300 --> 00:30:56,500 Shit. 376 00:31:09,900 --> 00:31:11,600 Jack Vincennes. 377 00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:14,300 It�s going on midnight. 378 00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:16,500 I need 2 minutes, Dudley. 379 00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:18,000 It�s important. 380 00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:22,900 Good thing for you my wife and daughters are at the beach in Santa Barbara. 381 00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:28,800 Do you remember Buzz Meeks, Dudley? 382 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:31,200 A disgrace as a police officer. 383 00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:35,600 Straight D fitness reports from every C.O. he ever served under. why? 384 00:31:36,300 --> 00:31:39,200 12 years ago, he was on a Vice roust with Dick Stensland. 385 00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:42,700 They questioned Pierce Patchett about a blackmail scam. 386 00:31:42,900 --> 00:31:47,100 Patchett had Sid Hudgens photographing prominent businessmen with hookers. 387 00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:50,800 Anyway, charges were dropped. Insufficient evidence. 388 00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:55,500 You were the supervising officer on that case. Remember anything about it? 389 00:31:56,700 --> 00:31:58,200 What's this about, boyo? 390 00:31:59,100 --> 00:32:02,700 It has to do with a murder I�ve been working with Ed Exley on. 391 00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:05,800 You're Narco, Jack, not Homicide. 392 00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:08,200 Since when do you work with Edmund Exley? 393 00:32:09,300 --> 00:32:11,700 It�s a private investigation. 394 00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:16,200 I messed something up. I�m trying to make amends. 395 00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:18,800 Don't start trying to do the right thing, boyo. 396 00:32:19,300 --> 00:32:20,500 You haven't had the practice. 397 00:32:27,900 --> 00:32:30,800 Buzz Meeks and Dick Stensland. 398 00:32:33,900 --> 00:32:36,600 So, what does Exley make of this? 399 00:32:37,100 --> 00:32:40,400 I haven't told him yet. I just came from the records room. 400 00:33:06,100 --> 00:33:08,400 Have you a valediction, boyo? 401 00:33:14,700 --> 00:33:16,300 Rollo... 402 00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:19,100 ...Tomasi. 403 00:33:39,900 --> 00:33:43,500 Sergeant Vincennes was killed by a .32 slug to the heart. 404 00:33:43,700 --> 00:33:46,100 Time of death, approximately 1 a.m. 405 00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:51,300 Although he was found in Echo Park, forensics indicates the body was moved. 406 00:33:52,900 --> 00:33:56,300 I want 2-man teams to scour that entire neighborhood. 407 00:33:57,200 --> 00:33:59,700 Our justice must be swift... 408 00:33:59,900 --> 00:34:01,400 ...and merciless. 409 00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:04,600 That is all. 410 00:34:14,500 --> 00:34:16,000 Might I have a word with you? 411 00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:22,600 We're trying to run down a lead on an associate of Vincennes. 412 00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:25,600 The records check has led to a dead end. 413 00:34:25,900 --> 00:34:27,100 What's the name? 414 00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:29,000 Rollo Tomasi? 415 00:34:30,900 --> 00:34:32,900 You ever heard Vincennes mention him? 416 00:34:35,700 --> 00:34:37,500 No. No, I haven't. 417 00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:44,200 It�s probably nothing. Still... 418 00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:47,300 ...keep your eyes open, boyo. 419 00:34:57,500 --> 00:35:00,300 I know it's unlikely, but suppose, just for a moment... 420 00:35:00,500 --> 00:35:03,800 ...somebody had a lot of heroin, who would they go to to move it? 421 00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:06,600 White, in my office. 422 00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:09,400 Captain. Look, just give me a name. 423 00:35:10,100 --> 00:35:11,500 Mickey Cohen. 424 00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:18,400 Captain? 425 00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:21,300 I could use your fearsome habits at the Victory Motel. 426 00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:23,800 When? 427 00:35:25,100 --> 00:35:26,200 Now. 428 00:35:28,500 --> 00:35:30,200 Close the door, lad. 429 00:35:37,700 --> 00:35:40,500 You're a bit of a puzzlement to me these days. 430 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:43,100 You don't seem your old cruel self. 431 00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:46,800 And I had such grand plans for your future. 432 00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:48,200 What plans? 433 00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:53,600 You have your extracurricular activities and I have mine. 434 00:35:56,700 --> 00:35:59,700 We must have a clarification session one of these days. 435 00:36:00,900 --> 00:36:01,800 However... 436 00:36:02,700 --> 00:36:04,000 ...right now... 437 00:36:04,500 --> 00:36:07,700 ...we'll brace a man who may know who killed Jack Vincennes. 438 00:36:08,100 --> 00:36:09,800 So the question is... 439 00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:11,700 ...can I count on you, lad? 440 00:36:11,900 --> 00:36:13,700 -Yes or no? -Yes, sir. 441 00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:22,600 I want to know everything you and Jack Vincennes talked about last night. 442 00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:24,900 Start with the I.D. on the corpse. 443 00:36:25,100 --> 00:36:26,200 An ex-cop. 444 00:36:26,500 --> 00:36:28,400 Leland "Buzz" Meeks. 445 00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:29,900 An ex-cop? 446 00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:31,900 Did Jack know him? 447 00:36:32,500 --> 00:36:34,600 Only by reputation. 448 00:36:41,900 --> 00:36:43,000 This is Sid Hudgens. 449 00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:45,800 I�m willing to cooperate. No need to tie me down. 450 00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:47,800 It�s for your own safety. 451 00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:51,000 What can you tell us about Jack Vincennes? 452 00:36:52,300 --> 00:36:54,500 Hollywood Jack? The Big V? 453 00:36:54,700 --> 00:36:57,600 I can tell you he's on the night train to the Big Adios. 454 00:37:01,900 --> 00:37:05,500 I had nothing to do with him getting killed, if that's what you mean. 455 00:37:05,700 --> 00:37:09,600 -But you were business associates. -what's that got to do with anything? 456 00:37:11,500 --> 00:37:13,700 Okay, so we worked together. 457 00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:16,300 It was an information exchange. 458 00:37:16,500 --> 00:37:20,900 I got him first-class collars, he got me good stories. we were friends. 459 00:37:21,100 --> 00:37:22,600 We'll drop that for the moment. 460 00:37:23,100 --> 00:37:24,900 Care to comment on Pierce Patchett? 461 00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:29,300 You think he had something to do with Vincennes getting iced? 462 00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:33,300 Wendell, I�d like full and docile cooperation on every topic. 463 00:37:33,900 --> 00:37:36,400 Okay, okay, okay. All right. 464 00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:40,800 Everyone knows Patchett's worth a boatload of greenbacks. 465 00:37:41,300 --> 00:37:43,200 But the man has hobbies too. 466 00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:46,000 He bankrolls B movies under the table. 467 00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:48,000 And try this one on. 468 00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:50,400 He's rumored to be a heroin sniffer. 469 00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:53,600 All in all, a powerful behind-the-scenes strange-o. 470 00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:54,500 And? 471 00:37:54,700 --> 00:37:55,900 And what? 472 00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:03,700 Reciprocity, Mr. Hudgens, is the key to every relationship. 473 00:38:06,900 --> 00:38:08,400 He runs call girls. 474 00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:13,500 Primo tail fixed up to look like movie stars. 475 00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:17,100 And? 476 00:38:17,700 --> 00:38:19,300 Blackmail shit. 477 00:38:20,100 --> 00:38:22,400 In my car, in the trunk, under the rug.... 478 00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:27,400 Patchett got me to photograph this cop screwing this gorgeous slut named Lynn. 479 00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:28,900 She looks like Veronica Lake. 480 00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:32,100 Leave him! 481 00:38:32,300 --> 00:38:34,000 I said leave him be! 482 00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:35,600 Get him away from me! 483 00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:36,600 Back off! 484 00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:37,800 Back off! 485 00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:26,900 I wouldn't trade places with Exley right now for all the whiskey in Ireland. 486 00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:34,700 Dudley, I thought you were going to let the dumb bastard kill me! 487 00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:37,800 Learn to pull your punches a little better. 488 00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:40,100 You can uncuff me now, fellas. 489 00:39:45,700 --> 00:39:47,100 Fellas... 490 00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:49,800 ...we had a deal. 491 00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:51,700 You, me, Patchett, we're a team. 492 00:39:56,800 --> 00:39:58,100 Hush-hush. 493 00:39:59,300 --> 00:40:01,200 -Anything? -Nothing. 494 00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:04,200 Meeks never made an arrest the entire time he worked Vice? 495 00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:06,400 Someone must've pulled the files. 496 00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:10,900 What about the daily report books? 497 00:40:11,100 --> 00:40:12,900 They'd be buried in the basement. 498 00:40:13,100 --> 00:40:14,400 Find them. 499 00:40:45,300 --> 00:40:46,900 Did you talk to Exley? 500 00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:49,200 Come in out of the rain. 501 00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:53,200 I want to know what happened with Exley. 502 00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:56,400 Just come in. 503 00:40:57,700 --> 00:41:00,300 Are you going to tell me what happened with Exley? 504 00:41:00,900 --> 00:41:02,200 We talked. 505 00:41:02,900 --> 00:41:04,000 Tell me about him. 506 00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:05,400 Later. 507 00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:07,400 Now! 508 00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:12,300 You fucked him. 509 00:41:15,900 --> 00:41:17,300 You fucked him. 510 00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:20,100 I thought I was helping you. 511 00:42:11,100 --> 00:42:13,300 I�m glad you're here. I need you to see this. 512 00:42:22,900 --> 00:42:23,900 Wait.... 513 00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:52,300 Dudley killed Jack. 514 00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:54,800 He wants you to kill me. 515 00:42:57,900 --> 00:42:59,900 He showed you the photo, didn't he? 516 00:43:00,700 --> 00:43:01,700 Didn't he? 517 00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:06,400 Think! ! Goddamn you, think! ! 518 00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:10,200 Get out! 519 00:43:26,700 --> 00:43:28,800 I checked the daily report books. 520 00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:33,400 Dudley, Buzz Meeks and Stensland go way back. 521 00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:38,900 I knew Stensland lied to me. 522 00:43:41,900 --> 00:43:45,000 Lefferts' mother I.D.�d Stensland as Lefferts' boyfriend. 523 00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:51,400 Stensland pretended he didn't know Meeks or her the night that I met... 524 00:43:52,700 --> 00:43:53,900 ...Lynn. 525 00:43:54,700 --> 00:43:56,400 Stensland and Meeks... 526 00:43:56,900 --> 00:43:58,500 ...what the hell were they up to? 527 00:43:59,300 --> 00:44:02,700 I don't know. But I think Stens killed Meeks over heroin. 528 00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:04,300 What heroin? 529 00:44:10,300 --> 00:44:13,900 Johnny Stompanato told me that Meeks had heroin for sale. 530 00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:15,900 Meeks ends up dead. 531 00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:18,500 Stensland dies at the Nite Owl. 532 00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:21,200 It wasn't the Negroes. 533 00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:24,100 The rape victim lied in her statement. 534 00:44:24,700 --> 00:44:28,400 The first guys to the Mercury coupe were Breuning and Carlisle. 535 00:44:28,600 --> 00:44:30,100 Dudley's guys. 536 00:44:30,500 --> 00:44:32,300 They planted the shotguns. 537 00:44:32,400 --> 00:44:35,800 They'd have killed the Negroes too if Jack and I hadn't shown up. 538 00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:40,000 Dudley framed them because they were Negroes and had records. 539 00:44:40,300 --> 00:44:42,900 He knew there'd be no questions asked... 540 00:44:44,300 --> 00:44:46,700 ...if they were killed resisting arrest. 541 00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:50,100 Somehow this is all connected to Jack's angle. 542 00:44:50,800 --> 00:44:52,100 Sid Hudgens... 543 00:44:52,600 --> 00:44:54,900 ...the pictures to blackmail Ellis Loew.... 544 00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:57,100 A kid got murdered. 545 00:44:58,300 --> 00:45:00,600 To figure this out, we need to work together. 546 00:45:06,300 --> 00:45:07,900 Why are you doing this? 547 00:45:09,900 --> 00:45:11,800 The Nite Owl made you. 548 00:45:13,600 --> 00:45:15,200 You want to tear all that down? 549 00:45:16,900 --> 00:45:18,600 With a wrecking ball. 550 00:45:19,100 --> 00:45:21,000 Want to help me swing it? 551 00:45:33,200 --> 00:45:35,200 Let's go see Ellis Loew. 552 00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:38,500 Find out what the District Attorney knows. 553 00:45:46,500 --> 00:45:48,200 You can't go in there. 554 00:45:50,500 --> 00:45:53,700 -want me to call the police, Mr. Loew? -Ask for Capt. Dudley Smith. 555 00:45:53,900 --> 00:45:57,700 Tell him we're discussing an unemployed actor's death at a Sunset Strip motel. 556 00:45:57,900 --> 00:45:59,000 These are the police. 557 00:46:05,700 --> 00:46:07,000 What do you want? 558 00:46:07,200 --> 00:46:11,400 I want D.A. bureau men to tail Dudley Smith and Patchett 24 hours a day. 559 00:46:11,700 --> 00:46:15,100 I want you to get a judge to authorize wiretaps on their home phones. 560 00:46:15,300 --> 00:46:17,600 I want authorization to check their bank records. 561 00:46:18,200 --> 00:46:19,600 On what evidence? 562 00:46:20,200 --> 00:46:21,800 Call it a hunch. 563 00:46:23,100 --> 00:46:24,800 Absolutely not. 564 00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:28,000 Dudley Smith is a highly decorated member of the department. 565 00:46:28,200 --> 00:46:30,200 I won't smear his and Patchett's name without-- 566 00:46:30,400 --> 00:46:31,800 Without what? 567 00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:33,900 Them smearing yours first? 568 00:46:34,300 --> 00:46:38,000 What do they have? Pictures of you and Matt Reynolds with your pants down? 569 00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:41,400 You have any proof? 570 00:46:42,100 --> 00:46:43,800 The proof had his throat slit. 571 00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:47,400 So far, you're not denying it. 572 00:46:48,700 --> 00:46:50,700 I won't dignify this with answers. 573 00:46:50,900 --> 00:46:53,300 Now if you gentlemen will excuse me... 574 00:46:53,500 --> 00:46:57,400 ...I have a press conference for Jack Vincennes that I have to prepare for. 575 00:47:07,700 --> 00:47:11,600 Unless you came to wipe my ass, I believe we're through. 576 00:47:16,300 --> 00:47:20,700 Don't pull that good cop-bad cop crap. I practically invented it. 577 00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:23,600 So what if some homo actor is dead. 578 00:47:23,800 --> 00:47:26,900 Boys, girls, ten of them get off the bus to L.A. everyday. 579 00:47:34,800 --> 00:47:36,100 Pull him off me! ! 580 00:47:36,300 --> 00:47:37,300 I don't know how. 581 00:47:41,200 --> 00:47:45,100 I know you think you're the A-number-one hotshot, but here's the juice. 582 00:47:45,300 --> 00:47:47,700 If I kill you, 10 lawyers will take your place tomorrow. 583 00:47:47,900 --> 00:47:49,800 They just won't come on a bus. 584 00:48:03,700 --> 00:48:04,800 Okay! 585 00:48:06,100 --> 00:48:08,300 Dudley and Patchett, they.... 586 00:48:09,400 --> 00:48:10,600 Oh, my God! 587 00:48:10,800 --> 00:48:12,800 I wouldn't play ball so they set me up! 588 00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:15,100 I gave in! But the kid heard everything... 589 00:48:16,600 --> 00:48:17,600 ...so they killed him. 590 00:48:17,800 --> 00:48:18,800 Why? 591 00:48:19,200 --> 00:48:22,600 -what are Dudley and Patchett up to? -Taking over Mickey Cohen's rackets. 592 00:48:22,800 --> 00:48:26,700 Because of those pictures I couldn't prosecute them! 593 00:48:27,100 --> 00:48:28,500 Oh, Jesus! 594 00:48:28,700 --> 00:48:29,600 Help me up! 595 00:48:38,800 --> 00:48:40,900 Is that how you ran the good cop-bad cop? 596 00:48:43,500 --> 00:48:44,700 Patchett? 597 00:49:20,100 --> 00:49:22,700 Looks like his bodyguard had a conflict of interest. 598 00:49:29,200 --> 00:49:30,600 Suicide note. 599 00:49:30,800 --> 00:49:35,200 Says he killed Jack because Jack had figured out his pornography scam. 600 00:49:35,400 --> 00:49:37,600 Slicing himself open wasn't his idea. 601 00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:40,500 2 of his fingers are broken. 602 00:49:40,700 --> 00:49:41,600 They held him there. 603 00:49:43,800 --> 00:49:44,800 Or drugged him. 604 00:49:48,200 --> 00:49:50,000 Dudley's tying up his loose ends. 605 00:49:50,900 --> 00:49:52,200 Patchett's dead. 606 00:49:52,400 --> 00:49:54,100 He sent you after me. 607 00:49:55,700 --> 00:49:56,900 Lynn. 608 00:49:58,100 --> 00:49:59,300 West Hollywood Sheriff. 609 00:49:59,400 --> 00:50:02,300 -They're closer than we are. -I�ll get the car. Keys! 610 00:50:09,800 --> 00:50:12,400 We took her to the station for safekeeping. 611 00:50:13,400 --> 00:50:17,000 Hold her as Joan Smith. And no one sees her unless I okay it. 612 00:50:17,800 --> 00:50:19,500 Someone worked her over. 613 00:50:19,600 --> 00:50:21,300 She wouldn't say who. 614 00:50:26,500 --> 00:50:28,100 See you, Exley. 615 00:50:31,300 --> 00:50:32,800 We should talk to Lynn. 616 00:50:33,800 --> 00:50:35,000 You do it. 617 00:50:35,600 --> 00:50:36,800 What will you do? 618 00:50:40,100 --> 00:50:42,000 I�m going to talk to Sid Hudgens. 619 00:50:42,700 --> 00:50:45,400 Compliment him on his performance at the Victory Motel. 620 00:50:45,600 --> 00:50:47,800 Remember, Bud, we need evidence. 621 00:50:49,000 --> 00:50:50,500 I�ll get the evidence. 622 00:51:03,000 --> 00:51:04,000 Are you okay? 623 00:51:06,800 --> 00:51:07,800 You okay? 624 00:51:18,500 --> 00:51:20,500 Bud hates himself for what he did. 625 00:51:21,700 --> 00:51:23,700 I know how he feels. 626 00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:28,900 I need to know what you can give me on Dudley Smith. 627 00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:33,400 He's a police captain in business with Patchett. 628 00:51:34,100 --> 00:51:35,500 I�ve never heard of him. 629 00:51:39,800 --> 00:51:41,400 Do you have a place to stay? 630 00:51:43,200 --> 00:51:44,700 I�ll be okay. 631 00:51:51,200 --> 00:51:53,600 Nobody goes in without official I.D.! 632 00:51:58,400 --> 00:52:00,000 He's okay. Let him through. 633 00:52:03,600 --> 00:52:04,900 What happened? 634 00:52:05,500 --> 00:52:08,600 Someone beat him to death, and stole a bunch of files. 635 00:52:08,700 --> 00:52:10,700 Must have dug up garbage on the wrong guy. 636 00:52:11,200 --> 00:52:13,200 We got it narrowed down to 1000 suspects. 637 00:52:14,400 --> 00:52:15,700 Sergeant white... 638 00:52:16,700 --> 00:52:18,300 ...dispatch got a call for you. 639 00:52:18,500 --> 00:52:21,600 Lieutenant Exley wants you to meet him at the Victory Motel. 640 00:52:55,600 --> 00:52:57,100 You wanted to meet here? 641 00:52:59,200 --> 00:53:02,200 -You called it. I thought Hudgens was-- -Hudgens is dead. 642 00:53:13,700 --> 00:53:15,300 Let's get out of here. 643 00:53:22,600 --> 00:53:24,000 It�s too late. 644 00:54:13,500 --> 00:54:15,700 You figured it was a set-up but came anyway? 645 00:54:15,900 --> 00:54:17,900 A lot of bad stuff happened here. 646 00:54:18,400 --> 00:54:20,700 It�s as good a place as any for it to end. 647 00:54:30,900 --> 00:54:32,000 Clip. 648 00:54:37,000 --> 00:54:39,800 All I ever wanted was to measure up to my father. 649 00:54:40,900 --> 00:54:41,800 Now's your chance. 650 00:54:44,600 --> 00:54:46,400 He died in the line of duty, didn't he? 651 00:56:46,100 --> 00:56:47,100 Goddamn it! 652 00:57:47,400 --> 00:57:48,200 You okay? 653 00:57:49,000 --> 00:57:50,300 Yeah. 654 00:58:08,800 --> 00:58:10,800 Come on. Easy. 655 00:58:17,600 --> 00:58:18,400 Move! 656 00:58:41,100 --> 00:58:42,600 Rollo Tomasi. 657 00:58:46,100 --> 00:58:47,400 Who is he? 658 00:58:48,300 --> 00:58:49,400 You are. 659 00:58:51,600 --> 00:58:53,500 You're the guy who gets away with it. 660 00:58:57,600 --> 00:58:58,700 Jack knew it. 661 00:58:58,900 --> 00:59:00,300 And so do I. 662 00:59:26,000 --> 00:59:27,700 Are you going to shoot me... 663 00:59:29,000 --> 00:59:30,000 ...or arrest me? 664 00:59:36,300 --> 00:59:37,700 Good lad. 665 00:59:38,500 --> 00:59:40,400 Always the politician. 666 00:59:41,000 --> 00:59:42,900 Let me do the talking. 667 00:59:43,500 --> 00:59:46,500 After I�m done, they'll make you Chief of Detectives. 668 01:00:14,400 --> 01:00:16,100 Hold up your badge... 669 01:00:16,400 --> 01:00:18,300 ...so they'll know you're a policeman. 670 01:01:08,900 --> 01:01:11,700 You think you can talk your way out of this, Lieutenant? 671 01:01:14,300 --> 01:01:15,500 No... 672 01:01:15,800 --> 01:01:17,400 ...but I can tell the truth. 673 01:01:18,300 --> 01:01:20,200 During our investigation... 674 01:01:21,300 --> 01:01:24,500 ...of events surrounding the Nite Owl case... 675 01:01:25,500 --> 01:01:29,000 ...Jack Vincennes, Bud white and I learned the following: 676 01:01:29,700 --> 01:01:32,100 Your golden boy's throwing his whole life away. 677 01:01:32,300 --> 01:01:33,900 The 3 Nite Owl suspects... 678 01:01:34,800 --> 01:01:37,300 ...while guilty of kidnapping and rape... 679 01:01:38,100 --> 01:01:41,100 ...were innocent of the multiple homicides at the Nite Owl. 680 01:01:42,500 --> 01:01:44,400 The gunmen were most likely... 681 01:01:44,600 --> 01:01:49,400 ...Los Angeles police officers Michael Breuning and William Carlisle... 682 01:01:49,600 --> 01:01:51,100 ...and a third man... 683 01:01:51,800 --> 01:01:55,500 ...who may or may not have been Captain Dudley Smith. 684 01:01:56,500 --> 01:01:58,000 The objective: 685 01:01:59,000 --> 01:02:01,600 The elimination of another police officer... 686 01:02:01,800 --> 01:02:03,700 ...Richard Stensland... 687 01:02:04,500 --> 01:02:09,500 ...who, along with former LAPD officer Leland "Buzz" Meeks... 688 01:02:10,500 --> 01:02:14,300 ...also committed multiple homicides on behalf of Captain Smith... 689 01:02:15,000 --> 01:02:16,500 ...and then betrayed him... 690 01:02:16,800 --> 01:02:19,000 ...over 25 pounds of heroin... 691 01:02:20,200 --> 01:02:22,000 ...the retrieval of which... 692 01:02:22,300 --> 01:02:25,300 ...was the ultimate motivation behind the Nite Owl killings. 693 01:02:28,600 --> 01:02:31,900 Beginning with the incarceration of Mickey Cohen... 694 01:02:32,200 --> 01:02:37,200 ...Capt. Smith has been assuming control of organized crime in Los Angeles. 695 01:02:39,000 --> 01:02:42,700 This includes the assassinations of Mickey Cohen lieutenants... 696 01:02:43,400 --> 01:02:46,500 ...the systematic blackmail of city officials... 697 01:02:48,100 --> 01:02:52,700 ...and the murders of Susan Lefferts, Pierce Patchett, Sid Hudgens... 698 01:02:54,100 --> 01:02:56,200 ...and Sergeant Jack Vincennes. 699 01:02:59,400 --> 01:03:02,300 Captain Smith admitted as much to me... 700 01:03:02,900 --> 01:03:04,800 ...before I shot him... 701 01:03:05,200 --> 01:03:06,900 ...at the Victory Motel. 702 01:03:09,200 --> 01:03:10,300 That's it. 703 01:03:12,600 --> 01:03:13,800 Well... 704 01:03:15,200 --> 01:03:17,300 ...the press will have a field day. 705 01:03:18,900 --> 01:03:20,400 Christ! 706 01:03:20,600 --> 01:03:22,900 It�ll stain the Department for years. 707 01:03:23,100 --> 01:03:23,900 Decades. 708 01:03:25,300 --> 01:03:27,900 If we can get the kid to play ball... 709 01:03:28,900 --> 01:03:30,700 ...who's to say what happened? 710 01:03:31,800 --> 01:03:34,300 Maybe Dudley Smith died a hero. 711 01:03:34,600 --> 01:03:37,100 -Good idea. -If we get the press to play. 712 01:03:45,000 --> 01:03:47,600 Want to tell me what you're smiling about? 713 01:03:53,100 --> 01:03:54,400 A hero. 714 01:03:55,000 --> 01:03:56,700 How'd he know what we said? 715 01:03:56,900 --> 01:03:58,600 He couldn't have heard us. 716 01:04:02,400 --> 01:04:04,300 In this situation... 717 01:04:04,700 --> 01:04:06,600 ...you'll need more than one. 718 01:04:13,500 --> 01:04:18,500 It is my pleasure to present this award to Detective Lieutenant Edmund Exley... 719 01:04:19,000 --> 01:04:21,100 ...two-time Medal of Valor recipient. 720 01:04:31,300 --> 01:04:35,300 Next year the LAPD will move into its new facility. 721 01:04:35,600 --> 01:04:37,300 With leaders like Edmund Exley... 722 01:04:37,500 --> 01:04:40,700 ...the image of fat cops stealing apples will be left behind... 723 01:04:40,900 --> 01:04:44,800 ...and Los Angeles will finally have the police force it deserves. 724 01:04:58,700 --> 01:05:00,800 You just couldn't resist. 725 01:05:01,100 --> 01:05:03,700 They're using me. So for a while, I�m using them. 726 01:05:05,700 --> 01:05:06,700 Come on. 727 01:05:41,700 --> 01:05:43,000 Thanks for the push. 728 01:06:04,700 --> 01:06:06,800 Congratulations, Lieutenant Exley. 729 01:06:10,100 --> 01:06:12,200 Some men get the world... 730 01:06:12,800 --> 01:06:16,400 ...others get ex-hookers and a trip to Arizona.