03x20 - Tow Truck Lady

[bunniefuu]

Get ready.
We're turning on jump run.

Hey, Ponch, you okay?

Yeah, I was just
thinking about the custom

of yelling "Geronimo"
when you jump.

Started in "World w*r II"
with American paratroopers.

Yeah, he was a famous
Apache Indian warrior.

Great fighting image.

Yeah, I know
that but I still can't see

why they yell "Geronimo."

Geronimo's real name
was Goyathlay.

How'd you like to jump out of
a plane and yell, "Goyathlay?"

Okay, jump!

You know, I got
a better word.

Help!

Looks like top dollar, huh?

Oh, yeah, yeah,
that's it. Yep.

Listen, my man,
now, why don't you hand me

the master key, huh?

Heh.

Uh, next time,
I'm gonna see

how close I can come
to landing on the target.

Diane won two
target competitions last year.

- Yeah.

Well, I guess I'll just,
uh, rope me a little teacher.

Just for that, you have
to put my chute away.

Hey, listen,
why don't you get your horse

and bring him out here
and I'll hold him.

And you can drop
right into the saddle, huh?

I don't think
he'd like that.

Hey!

'Guys, look,
there's my Mercedes!'

All smokies in the vicinity
of Skyway Park.

Off-duty CHP Officer
Poncherello, badge B-600

in pursuit of a red,
stolen Mercedes.

Mercedes accompanied
by a man on a motorcycle.

Request assistance.

Whoo-hoo!

Come on, baby!

'15 David, 11-85 responding.'

'15-5, David,
11-82, northbound..'

I heard Bonnie's call,
but she didn't say

there was an accident.

Hey, Grossie,
how'd you get here?

- On my motorcycle.

Boathouse Road.

Are those the guys
you were chasing?

Nope.

'Listen, I'll call you'

if there's any
further questions, okay?

Got an ambulance rolling.
What happened?

Fugitive car was passing
across the double line

and then that guy
came around the curve.

Lucky nobody's
badly hurt.

Look, did you see
Diane's Mercedes?

- Yeah.

Oh, no. Is that
the stolen you were after?

Must've turned off
into the city.

Or into these hills.

You could fight
the battle of Gettysburg

out here, and nobody
would know it.

If you don't need me,
I'm gonna look around.

I'll stay with Bonnie.

You guys better
go tell Diane.

Yeah, she's gonna
be thrilled.

- There you go.
- Yeah.

♪ The filter bone's connected
to the carburetor bone ♪

♪ The carburetor bone's
connected to the car bone ♪

♪ The car bone's connected
to the motor bone ♪

♪ Motor bone's connected
to the shaft bone ♪

♪ The shaft bone's connected
to the frame bone ♪

♪ Them cars them cars
we're gonna strip ♪

♪ Them cars them cars
we're gonna strip ♪

♪ Them cars them cars
we're gonna strip ♪

♪ Now hear
the word of Detroit ♪

♪ I said now hear.. ♪

'Hey, hey, hey,
look at this.'

Looks like we
got ourselves a bonus, huh?

Wow, yeah..

...that's nice.

Uh!

Oh, look at that,
look at that, man.

A piece of that plane
just fell off.

Mike, I think
we should be like, you know

good citizens
and report that.

- Sure.

Well, how are we gonna
explain how come we saw

what I don't think you
saw in the first place, huh?

Come on, come on.
Come on.

Let's get back to work.

Ooh, boy.

♪ Them cars them cars
we're gonna strip ♪

♪ Them cars them cars
we're gonna strip ♪

♪ Them cars them cars
we're gonna strip ♪

♪ Now hear the word
of Detroit ♪

♪ Now hear the word
of Detroit ♪♪

Next time, Juan, you come up
with a new approach route.

There's too many
gawkers here.

Sky divers have big eyes
and long noses.

Uh, now the underwriters would
have to be assured

Miss Wayborne,
that this actually

is the remains
of your vehicle.

Well, you're assured.

Our sergeant
found this Mercedes

on Motor Avenue
this morning.

We already checked
out the numbers.

Well, then my company
will probably have to pay off.

The blue book value,
of course.

Blue book?

This car is worth more
now than when I paid for it.

I'll be out
at least $4000.

If you'll read
your policy, Miss Wayborne

page two, clause thirty eight--

Mr. Heller, excuse me.

Most companies make
reasonable adjustments.

Uh, that's a decision
for my supervisor.

But just remember,
whatever you've lost

we've lost much more.

I personally
have paid off

three claims like this
in the last 20 days.

There's no way
you can lose.

I mean, as auto theft goes up,
so does insurance rates.

So, I mean the public pays,
not you.

Well, that's the American way,
Officer Baker.

Hey, we got kinda
of a negative lead

on your
girlfriend's Mercedes.

Well, that's better
than no lead at all.

Yeah, same MOS
in four other cases

one car at a time.

So I think it's probably
not a big operation

maybe just the two baddies
you guys eyeballed.

If nothing else, they must be
selling the parts they strip.

Well, nothing's been turning up,
black market or otherwise.

Auto theft has
been trying, but, um..

Maybe they're shipping
them out of state.

'Maybe.'

But cameras and other incidental
stuff from the cars

have been turning up
in local pawn shops and such.

Come on, sarge, they're not
stripping cars for exercise.

They got to be selling
those parts somewhere.

Well, that's a very
astute observation.

Why don't you stick it
in the suggestion box, hmm.

Do we have
a suggestion box?

Well, maybe we should.

That's the American way.

Listen, why don't we take
a spin out toward Hobrin Road?

We might spot
the clouters.

It's a long sh*t.

It's way off our b*at.

We'll use our lunch break.

They're on a different course
than last time.

We're in the wrong
place again.

Come on, let's get back
to the airport.

You wanna get your hands
on all that good stuff?

- Well, yeah.
- Well, come on, let's go.

You just brought yourself
a police escort.

They're still coming on.
They must have tail rockets.

What are you doing?

Well, they're asking for it.

Alright, as you are.

Okay, speedy, I got
a loaded 38 under my left arm

and my badge in
my right-hand coat pocket.

Alright, the badge,
very carefully.

Drug enforcement.

Well, well, he can read.

Yeah, but his lips moved.

Hey, partner,
we got ourselves

a couple of super cops here.

That's why they
refused to yield.

You wheelie-boppers
know the penalty

for obstructing
federal officers?

No, but we do know
you feds are

above all the laws
since Moses, right?

Alright, smart mouth,
it isn't funny.

We were trying
to intercept a shipment

a million dollars
worth of dr*gs.

You two dummies
queered it.

Would you forgive us, please,
the stop was unintentional.

Unintentional?

Our sergeant promised
us an ice-cream cone

if we'd come out here
and ride fast, flash our lights

toot our sirens,
and chew gum at the same time.

'So we're out here
practicing.'

'So if you want to crank
this t*nk up over 55'

we'll try to catch you
one more time.

Jon, what flavor
ice

Tutti-frutti.

It go down ,alright?

'Just like always, sir.'

Good, good.

Any reason
why it wouldn't?

No, no, it's, uh..

...it's just that, uh..

...Miller and Juan
saw a couple of guys

snooping around the plane
out at Van Nuys.

- 'Could be.'

You know,
I think we better beef up

our patrol around the ranch.

Alright, item 1785-B.

Chassis of a Mercedes 450 SL,
with 4 brand-new radials.

Do I hear $1000?

Do I hear a $1000?
I got $1000.

'Do I hear 1100?
Do I hear 1100?'

'I got a 1000
do I hear a 1100?'

'$1100. Do I hear 12?'

I got $1100,
let me hear 12.

I got $1100,
let me hear 12.

I got $1200.
Do I hear 13?

I got $1200,
do I hear 13?

Fourteen hundred dollars.

'$1400! Do I hear 15?'

Fourteen, I got 14.
Do I hear 15?

Fifteen hundred dollars?

$1400 going once..

$1400 going twice..

'Alright, sir.'

You can pick up your pink slip
and registration at the office.

Hey, what does
everybody feel like doing?

There's a new disco on
Montgomery if you like to dance.

Hey, look, if Ponch could
sky-dive as well as he danced

he wouldn't need
a parachute.

Hey, Geronimo.

Hey!

'That's my Mercedes.'

What are you doing
with my car?

Hold it a minute,
hold it a minute

how do you know
this is your Mercedes?

Does a mother know
her own child?

I know that's my car.

Lady, you're cute,
but you're very much mistaken.

- Now, if you don't mind--
- Now, wait just a minute.

My name's Jon Baker.
This is Frank Poncherello.

This is Shari Johns
and this is Miss Diane Wayborne.

We're California
highway patrolmen.

Miss Wayborne had her
Mercedes stolen recently.

Stolen!

Well, if you think I stole
this car you're very much--

I don't think anything.
I'm sorry to bother you.

I'd like to see your
registration, please.

Well, alright.

Uh, there's the temporary
registration

and here's
my driver's license.

- It's her car.
- Aw, come on.

Now, I bought this car.

Yes, that's obvious.

Guess who he bought it from.

John Smith.

Wait a minute.
What does all this mean?

Well, I would
guess that John Smith

parked this car somewhere
with a "for sale" sign on it

and you bought it.

So what?

If the car
wasn't his to sell

they'd stop
the change of registration.

Now, I don't understand this.

Yeah. I'm just beginning to.

Wait, wha..
You're letting him go?

It's his car.

My car is his car?

Jon will explain it.

I don't understand.

The car was legally registered
to a John Smith.

Whoever he may be.

The only way they can do it
is at the auction.

They buy the chassis, then
they get the pink slip legally

'and put back the parts
that they stripped.'

But the registration number
proves thiscar is Diane's.

Was Diane's.

She waived all rights
when the insurance company

paid her off and sold
the chassis for junk.

And the clouters
for, like, peanuts

have themselves
an almost new 450 SL.

That's quite
a business they're in.

Hey, buy low, sell high.
It's the American way.

You gonna eat that
hamburger or just sit there

and poke it to death?

Um, I'm not hungry, Ponch.

Well, why'd you order it?

I don't know. The picture
looked good on the menu.

Well, next time, order
the picture. It's cheaper.

Hey, look, why are we
sitting here at our lunch break

chomping away, when
we could be outside starving

looking for those clouters?

We're sitting here
at our lunch break chomping away

when we could be
out there starving

looking for the clouters
because our sergeant told us

to leave said clouters
to auto theft.

That's why we're sitting
here chompin' away.

- Hey, guys.
- Hi.

- Pretty good.

- Oh, I'm hungry.

Excuse me.

Uh, hey, listen, uh..
Do you want this hamburger?

Oh, no, thanks.

Well, it's still hot.
Go ahead.

No, I don't think so.

Half

Okay. Why not?

Make that a buck.

Should've held out.

♪ Yeah yeah yeah
yeah yeah yeah ♪

♪ Yeah yeah yeah
yeah yeah yeah ♪♪

Go for it, baby.
Yeah!

Hit it.

- Yeah!
- Yeah.

What are you doin'?

Trouble is, Jon,
there are dozens

of these wagon
tracks around here.

We could be out here the rest of
our lives and not get anywhere.

'Units in the vicinity
of Edgewood and Pine'

'citizen's report
of a white Camaro'

'license 714,
Roger Sam Adam.'

'Stolen 15 ago from the parking
lot at that address.'

'Last seen northbound on Pine.'

Bingo, baby.

Uh-oh,
bad guys running.

Not ours, are they?

No.

Hey, it's our
wheelie-boppers.

What
What happened

The bad guys turned off,
the wheelie-boppers

went right by them.

Well, it's our duty as fellow
law enforcement officers

to inform the wheelie-boppers
that they're on the wrong track.

- True.

Hey, wheelie-boppers!

They won't listen.

You did your duty,
I'll vouch for that.

There's nothing
down there.

Yeah, they must've
turned off.

Spot somethin'?

I think somethin'
spotted me.

I don't believe it.

These guys are more trouble
than a guilty conscience.

Hey!

Hey, b*at it, you guys!

You're blowing
a surveillance here.

Yeah, nice view
from up here.

Yeah, you think they saw
anything unusual on the road?

Hey, you heard
what the man said, b*at it!

Those guys we were
chasing weren't speeders.

They were car thieves.

Hey, listen,
we're looking

to bust up
a dope ring here.

You're cramping our act with
a couple of two

Go on, b*at it, before I call
your truant officer!

Jon, there's only
a couple of places

down there
they could hide.

Yeah, maybe we
should go search.

We don't wanna get
these nice, narcs mad at us.

Yeah.

Hold it! Hold it!

Did I hear you say
you wanna cooperate?

Alright. Let's talk.

But not here.

According to
our contact in Mexico

the heroin's being flown
across the border

regularly in a Beechcraft.

But when we case
the Beech at Van Nuys

it's always squeaky clean.

Well, there must be
a drop-off en route somewhere.

Right, now, if you
two guys will butt out

we can determine if it's in
the area that we're assigned to.

Yeah, you go busting in
there with sirens and g*ns

you could spook
the whole operation.

Look, we aren't
going to butt out.

I mean, we have something
at stake here, too.

But I'll tell you
what we will do

if you tell us where
those guys turned off

we'll just
go in there quietly.

Out of uniform,
like back packers.

A couple of hikers
shouldn't spook your dopers.

And if we don't
tell you?

Well, then we go in like
our sergeant taught us

riding fast, flashing lights

tootin' our sirens,
and, uh, chewing gum.

Chewing gum, yeah.

Alright.
It was Badger Canyon.

Well, I guess we're gonna
have to report this to Getraer.

Oh, absolutely,
that's for sure.

Then he's gonna
turn it over to auto theft

and tell us to stay clear.

Unless we insist
it's our case

so we say we're gonna
follow it through.

Hey, right, that's
the right approach.

Why don't
you tell him?

- Yeah. It was your idea.

Yeah, but I hate
to see him turn purple.

Well, maybe you ought to come up
with a different angle, then.

How does, uh,
sneaky, sound to you?

Sneaky? Yeah,
that has a nice ring to it.

Good. Then we'll
take tomorrow off.

Yeah. He'll never suspect that.

Bonnie wasn't exaggerating
about this area.

It just goes on
and on and, on..

Badger Canyon's about
a quarter mile ahead.

Yah!

We better give that baby
a wide birth.

Nah. Looks harmless to me.

Yeah, that's what Adam
said about the apple.

Are we safe?

Well, I don't think
he's gonna charge.

Yeah, well, I know why.

We don't have
anything red on.

Well, uh..
Ponch, bulls are color-blind.

They go for anything
that moves, as a rule.

Yeah? Well, then,
why were we moving?

In case he didn't
know the rule.

Hey, my pack.

Too late.

Hi.

I caught these two
prowlin' around

the creek bed, Mr. Dexter.

You had to know
you were trespassing.

Don't tell me you
didn't see the signs.

Oh, yeah,
we saw the signs.

See...we're police officers.

Highway patrol.

Yeah, we got a tip
that there's some car thieves

holed up in Badger Canyon.

Yeah?

You know anything
about that, Stark?

No. None of us
has spotted anyone, Mr. Dexter.

Well, we, uh, certainly
wanna cooperate with the law.

Stark, why don't you put
some of the boys together

and give these
gentlemen a hand.

Oh, that's alright.
This is police business.

We'll take care of it,
thank you.

Oh, well, suit yourself.

Uh, sorry about my foreman
leaning on you a little bit.

But the stock gets a little
spooky around strangers.

Yeah, no sweat.
No trouble at all.

Now, I know
what a lynching party

must've looked like
in the good old days, eh?

Follow 'em.
But stay out of sight.

We need
two-bit crooks here

attracting the fuzz
like a toad needs warts.

If they don't
find those two

you find 'em,
you understand?

'You're an
old ranch hand, Jon.'

'Does your modern,
up-to-date, 1980's cowboy'

'go around armed
like an old'

No, not even
the old-time gunslingers

went around armed
like gunslingers.

Of course, that fellow
Dexter was nice enough--

You're wrong?

- Right.

Aha! Just what I thought.

So I got his
fingerprints on my badge.

- Hey, what--
- Hold it--

What?

- Look here--
- Listen--

Somebody behind us, right?

Right, and someone
up ahead. Come on.

♪ Them cars them cars
we're gonna strip ♪

♪ Them cars them cars
we're gonna strip ♪

♪ Them cars them cars
we're gonna strip ♪

♪ Now hear
the word of Detroit ♪♪

Well, if that
guy had a guitar

he could probably
make an honest living.

Yeah, yeah. Well, I'm saving up
for one, man.

Uh, who is you dudes?

We dudes is the heat.

Oh, no!

What are you talking about?

Hey, trust me, man.

Okay, man,
we're ready to make a deal.

Yeah.

Well, this isn't
where deals are made.

Why don't you talk
to your lawyer?

Yeah, well, you see,
uh, what we got

it ain't that solid.

It's just sort of a..

It's kind of a clue, like.

And, uh, see, what we're
figuring is, like, you two dudes

like, can, uh, maybe develop it
into something more solid.

- Yeah.

Well, uh, you promise
to put a good word in for us

if this turns out
to be a biggie.

We'll do what we can.

Oh.

Okay. Well, it's, like,
last week, right?

While we're
in the canyon, huh?

We see this airplane
flying overhead.

So, this airplane..
A piece of it fell off.

- You know, or--
'

Well, I think, here, look,
what he's trying to say..

...is that something
fell off the airplane

kinda like it was..
What? Like it was dropped.

Yeah.

- Well..

That's somethin', uh, you guys
are gonna have to develop.

What did this
plane look like?

It looked
like a big bird!

That's what
it looked like.

Bonnie.

Okay, you two follow me.

- Ooh! Right on!
- Wow!

I can't tell you..
Hey, we got a deal, right, boys?

I'll be back.

What deal?

They said they saw a plane
drop something out there.

That's it. Zoyak's gotta
be the guy taking delivery.

Zoyak?

Ponch, we made that print
of Dexter's from your badge case

but Dexter isn't his name.

His name is Harry Zoyak.

He was the chief suspect
in a bust we made last year.

We put a lot of dopers
in the can, but not Zoyak.

He b*at the possession rap.

Why don't you
stake out the ranch

and bust these guys
the next time around?

Stake it out

There's 10-square
miles of area out there.

They change
the drop zone each time.

And even if we
spot him in the air

by the time we get
any ground troops in there

the junk'll be long gone.

What about choppers?

No, their airplane gets
one whiff of a chopper

it's scoots right back
across the border.

We already tried it twice.

Alright, alright, look, since
this is our case, I suggest--

Wait a minute,
what do you mean "your case?"

Sure, our case.

While you were
playing drag race

who made Zoyak for you, huh?

The wheelie-boppers.

Alright, we'll give you that.

Oh, hey, Jon,
they give us that.

Hey, hey, knock it off.

Jon, you had an idea.
What is it?

Sky divers.

We got any sky divers, Mike?

Well, you don't need
any sky divers, Mike.

You got sky divers.

We're sky divers..

...and it's our case.

We're not high enough to have
much canopy time, Jon.

Did you ever jump
this low before?

Sky-diving, no.

Parachuted a couple times
in 'Nam.

What we have to do
is wait until

the needle's well into
the red before we open.

Otherwise, we'll
be hanging there

and they'll be getting away.

Now, don't cut it
too thin.

There's nothing soft
to land on.

I think he's
making his run.

Alright, he made his drop.

Let's go!

Alright, hold it,
both of you.

Police officers.

Ho! Ho, boy!

Okay, stand up.

Stay right there.

Okay, get walking.

Well, it's an unbroken
chain of evidence.

Now, if you two guys are
as good on a witness stand

as you are at flashing your
lights and tooting your sirens

we'll lock up
this whole sha-bang.

Listen, Jed,
we gotta get going.

Just want you two guys
to know the check is paid.

We bought your lunch.

Stay well, gentlemen.

Alright, see you in court.

Nice guys once
you get to know them.

Well, they popped for lunch,
they ain't all that bad.

Better call
Diane and Shari

and thank them
for the sky-diving les..

What's the matter,
don't you like strawberry?

I was expecting
tutti-frutti.