08x24 - Hardball

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♪♪

Get me police headquarters.

Art? This is Joe.

Are you still interested
in the Kane g*ng?

Am I?

We hear they're pulling off
the deal of the year

and then splitting for a while,
but we can't locate them.

Why?

I'm at Fifth and Bradley.

I just saw Billy Lee and Ginger

go into an apartment
across the street.

Wait a minute.

Nothing, Art.
Just a van went by.

Now you get over here
as fast as you can.

I'll go upstairs
and try and hold 'em.

Right.

Fingerman's not here yet?

No.

He better get here soon.

He'll be here.

He knows what'll happen
if he don't.

Hey, Ginger.

Where you heading
when that bag's full?

South Side.

South Side of what?

Chicago, man.

There's only one South Side.

And when I'm there...

right to the Parrot Club.

Just at showtime.

And there she'll be,
under a blue spot.

Who?

Hannah Williams.
The singer?

And she'll be wearing
a silver dress.

Well, I ain't got nobody waiting
under no blue spot for me.

Hamburg, Germany.
That's where I'm heading.

Wide-open.

Girlie bars.

Mud wrestling.

Trapezes.

Real kinky stuff.

Where'd you learn so much
about Hamburg, Germany?

Sailor told me.

Hey, Cliff, you picked out
where you're heading yet?

No, not yet.

Yeah... there'll be
enough in that bag

to keep going around
the world forever.

Cliff isn't going anywhere.

He wants to stay
right here in town.

You know why?

My daughter's going to be
home from school

and Cliff figures he's going
to make a little time with her.

Isn't that right, Cliff?

Mr. Kane, I promised you ...

And I'll promise you something.

You go anywhere near Susan
and I'll tear your heart out.

What's that?

It's Fingerman.

There's a warning buzzer
on the first step.

This old place used
to be a fancy house.

Fingerman was
a regular customer.

Those steps are going to be
the death of me yet.

To think I used
to dance up them.

Ah, well...

Did you get any static
from Denver?

They tested the stuff...

and then they asked me
when they could get some more.

I told them to contact you.

You handle the contacts.

I'm retiring, George.

I'm going to sit in the sun
out in Arizona

and play shuffleboard.

This old ticker of mine

may not go on ticking
for very long, you know.

Come on, let's see what
we've got in the suitcase.

Who is this?

That's the young kid
I was telling you about.

He made our Denver contact.

We're cutting him in
for a share.

There's enough for everybody.

Well, there it is, gentlemen.

A cool $ million.

Put this in the bedroom,
will you, please?

Wait! Wait!

We have no reason to be alarmed.

Help him put it back
in the suitcase.

That's only one man;
I'll handle it.

Everybody just relax.

Hello, Fingerman.

You can keep feeding the kitty.

Hold it.

Take it, Billy Lee.

You know him?

I believe the gentleman

is a private detective
by the name of Joe Mannix.

Oh, that's quite a bundle.

How much heroin
does it represent?

I'm in the real estate business.

Really?
What did you sell, San Diego?

I have to deal
in large amounts of currency.

You can ask my lawyer,
Mr. Fingerman.

Sure, Billy Lee
and Ginger, here,

they're your bankers.

Come off it, Kane.

There was a shipment
of heroin h*jacked

at the border last month,
a syndicate shipment.

What did you do,

front for the sale, Fingerman?

Well, that's a very
serious charge to make

without any evidence,
Mr. Mannix.

Is it?

I know a man whose daughter d*ed
from an overdose.

Legally, the charge
should be m*rder.

She was only years old.

Then I don't suppose
she'll get any older, will she?

And neither will you,
Mr. Mannix.

Now you just relax, Mannix.

He got my hand!

All right,
you'll live through it.

It's bad!

We'll fix it later, Billy Lee.

Come on, let's get out of here.
Maybe he tipped the cops.

All right, my office.

Close up that suitcase
and let's go.

Wait a minute,
don't everybody leave at once.

It's gonna look bad.

Look, George, you leave
with Ginger and Billy Lee,

and I'll follow with the kid.

I'll bring the money.

All right, Kane, hold it!

What's the matter?

My heart.
What?

Take the money.

Go.

Get the room, Charlie.

You all right, Joe?

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Well, we got Kane, Ginger,
and Billy Lee.

How about Fingerman?

We found him
at the top of the stairs,

dead.

A heart att*ck, I guess.

Oh.

What about the young guy?

What guy?

A, uh, a young guy, about ;
he's new.

Didn't see him.

The money?

Didn't they split that up?

No, it was all
in Fingerman's suitcase.

Well, we can book Kane
and charge him,

but the DA's
gonna have a problem

making that stick
without the money.

Yeah.

You've got no line
on the kid at all?

No.

Kane's daughter
just got back from college.

Let's go over to his place.

She may know something.

Susan?

Cliff, what are you doing here?

Look, honey,
your dad's in trouble.

Trouble?

The police have arrested him.

What are you talking about?

Why would they arrest
my father? Listen, listen.

Susan, I don't have much time.

The cops will be here soon.

You've got to lie.

About what?
Me.

Cliff, what are you mixed up in?

What's my father mixed up in?

Al right.

You have to know.

When I came here
from Denver to study law,

you told me
to look up your father.

I-I was broke.

You said he had
a big real estate brokerage.

He'd help me.

Well, he...
he helped me, all right,

but what he was selling
wasn't houses or vacant lots.

What was he selling?

dr*gs.

I don't believe it.
Believe it.

My father wouldn't. Susan,
you've got to believe it.

Cliff, you know my father.
Listen. Listen to me, Susan!

Tonight the roof fell in.

What will happen
to my father now?

years,

if he's convicted.

A-And you?

No, I'm clean.

No record.
The police don't know me.

Susan,

Susan, all you have to do
is steer them away.

You can't help your dad now.

You can't go back to school.

Come away with me.

Where?

Mexico.

Mexico?

Your father won't want you
to see him stand trial.

He loves you too much.

Cliff,

he's my father.

Susan,

remember, you don't know me.

Okay.

My robe.

And, Susan, I love you.

Miss Kane?
Yes.

I'm Lieutenant Malcolm,
Los Angeles Police Department.

May we come in?

Of course.

I don't know anyone who looks

like the man you described,
Mr. Mannix.

You'll have to forgive me,
but |, I just can't believe

my father is what you say he is.

I'm sorry,
but I just can't think.

Well, it's too bad
you had to find out

about it this way, Miss Kane.

Good night, Miss Kane.

Good night.

Your father doesn't have

to serve years in prison.

It could only be one day.

I've got the money
the police were talking about,

a lot of money.

Money can fix anything.

What can it fix?

An escape.

There'd never be a trial.

He'd just vanish.

Where?

He said something about Brazil.

Your father's not that old.

He's got a lot of years left.

We owe him a chance to let him
live those out, don't we?

Yes.

Go on, I'm listening.

The proposition's very simple,
Mr. Sartino.

Whatever George Kane used
to pay you for the merchandise,

I'll up it %, plus...

Plus what?

Half the cash
out of the Denver deal.

Kane h*jacked my shipment.

All that money is mine.

Half, or the money stays buried,
Mr. Sartino.

Buddy.

Kid's ambitious, huh?

Yeah.

This generation--
they can't wait to take over.

And that's what you're after,
right, kid, to take over?

Only with your protection,
Mr. Sartino.

Suppose I were to say yes.

I could b*at it out of you,
but suppose I said yes.

What happens
if Kane beats the rap?

He won't b*at the rap.

You seem pretty certain.

Kane's got a smart lawyer.

I can fix it so it doesn't
matter how smart his lawyer is.

How?

You can't get to him, not
with the cops sitting on him.

Tomorrow he'll be
in courtroom number six--

Preliminary hearing.

Go on, I'm still listening.

Anything might happen
if you set it up right.

George Kane's finished anyway.

I mean, businesswise he's dead.

He can't operate.

I can, Mr. Sartino.

I'm a law student, I'm clean,

there's nothing
in the computer about me,

and I'll pay you %
over the going price.

Okay.

If what you say might happen
happens, phone me.

I'll listen even better then.

Fine.

Thank you, sir.

Want me to tail him?

What?

Do you want me to tail him?

Uh, not yet.

A polite kid.

A Kn*fe at your back,
but very polite.

Well, uh, there was a suitcase
full of money and five men.

Three of them are sitting
over there at that...

I'm gonna get him for this.

Will you please take it easy?

I told you, Cliff has it all set
up for us to get out of here.

Now just sit tight.

All arranged?

It's going to be
slaughter in there.

For $ , it'd better be.

And the court will now rise.

One of these days
I'm gonna k*ll you, Mannix.

♪♪

There you go, put that away now.

All right, gentlemen, neaten up.

Let's go to lunch.

Hey, that's Kane.

And the other guy.
Billy Lee, go.

Hit the alarm.
Come here.

Ring the alarm.
Come on, move, move!

Move, move!

In there!

Move!

Hold it, Mannix.

Hold it right there.

Billy Lee.

All right, Billy Lee,

give me that g*n
on the floor, please.

Mannix, why don't you just step
over there with the Lieutenant?

Ginger, would you believe that?

There's no f*ring pin in
this g*n, no f*ring pin at all.

Yeah, it looks
as if Cliff got your daughter

and the money, too.

Take it easy, Art.

Ginger,
keep an eye on that door.

Billy Lee,
why don't you make sure

Mr. Mannix is completely clean?

Madam, would you care to sit
over there, please?

Young man, over there
right beside her.

Up.

Didn't I say something
about k*lling you?

Don't waste him, Billy Lee.

No,

no, we're not going
to waste anybody yet,

not a single one of them.

Yes.

If the police are looking
for George Kane,

you might put them through
on this extension.

Understand?

Now, ladies and gentlemen,
we can do this the right way

or we can do it the wrong way.

The right way is for everybody
to stay calm

and the wrong way
is for somebody to get...

heroic, eh, slim?

And end up
like the Lieutenant over here.

Any questions?

Excuse me.

Kane here.
Who's this?

This is Captain Donegan.

There's no way
you can win, Kane.

You know it and I know it.

Now, you come out and lie
face down on the sidewalk.

We'll take it from there.

Oh, the hell you say, Donegan.

I've got five hostages up here,
and two of them

are police people.

We will k*ll them all

if we don't get what we want,

and what we want
is what we missed

last night--
$ million, an airplane,

and a safe way to get to it.

Maybe I'd better talk to him.

Well, that's very thoughtful
of you, Mr. Mannix.

Hello, Donegan, this is Mannix.

Look, Lieutenant Malcolm
has been sh*t.

I think you'd better get
a doctor

up here as fast...
Hold it.

Scratch that, Donegan.

Malcolm gets his doctor
when we get our airplane.

Well, what do you say?

Is it yes or no?

Mm-hmm.

All right, Donegan,
you go and find someone

who can make the decision.

I'll give you three minutes,

and after that three minutes,

we start tossing bodies out
of here, right into your laps.

I know just the body
to start with.

Now, just a minute,
just a minute.

Ease off there.

Mannix, I'm gonna let you go.

I want you to do me a favor.

I want you to go out,

find a young man
by the name of Cliff Elgin,

and when you do,
walk right up to him and say,

"I've got a present
for you, sir,

from Mr. George Kane,
and here it is.”

Then I want you to pump
six sh*ts right into his gut.

Then come back into this room
and tell me all about it.

Then we'll take it from there.

I'm not a hired k*ller, Kane.

Well, do you really want to see
these innocent bystanders

and the wounded Lieutenant there
just end up dead?

Is that it?

Uh, look,

suppose I find Elgin
and bring him back here alive.

Suit yourself.

You've got just as much time

as it takes Donegan
to call me back.

Easy, Art.

There we go.

Would he do it--
just k*ll all of us?

I have no intention of being
k*lled in this horrible room.

Mr. Mannix, I'm Edyth Loring.

Perhaps you know my husband--
Loring Electronics?

I am afraid not, ma'am.

Are you with the police?

I'm a private investigator.

This man you've been asked
to track down--

Is he a criminal?

Yes.

Then I see no reason
you should refuse

what Mr. Kane
has asked you to do.

Oh.

That'll be Donegan.

Yes?

Aw.

Well, Donegan, it turns out
to be your lucky day.

I'm gonna give you
a little bit more time.

You see, I'm sending Mannix out

to run a little errand for me.

Treat him right, will you?

All right, I'll do that.

Well, Mannix, what's it to be?

Elgin or...
these good people here?

Oh, Donegan wants
to see you on your way out.

Where does Elgin live?

You're the private detective.

Suppose you find that out.

I'll be back, Art,

no later than : .

Hang in there.

Mr. Mannix.

How long can
the Lieutenant hold on?

In here?

Till morning, maybe.

How about saying...
Stay back.

What do they want?
Sorry. Later.

How many people up there?

Sorry.

Turn around.

Give us a word.

Hey, come on, later, huh?

What's going on up there?

Kane wants me
to find a kid named Elgin,

then k*ll him.

k*ll him?

Well, where is he?

Kane doesn't know.

I've got to find him.

Okay, find him.
But that's it, Mannix--

You k*ll him, and you're up
for a m*rder one charge.

Now, you deliver Elgin to me,
and I'll deal for him with Kane.

Is that understood?

Yeah.

Mr. Mannix,
would you make a statement?

How many people are up there?

People want
to know what's going on.

Dundy, tail him.

Here, take my car.
It's over there.

How many hostages?

Um, you need any fresh towels?

Yes, please.
Okay.

I got a hurt hand.

Maybe you can do
something for me.

He should really be
in the hospital.

That will mean
men with a stretcher,

only they won't just be men...

they will be policemen.

Sorry.

No way.

Where's Billy Lee?

Ginger.

Don't.

Billy Lee, don't.

You wouldn't stop me
if she was white.

Thanks.

Look...

being black don't make
no difference to me.

Now, you just behave yourself...

just like the rest.

Dig?

But it's horrible!
I know, honey.

Those poor people
and their families!

Nobody's gonna get k*lled.
Listen to me.

Oh, this was crazy!
I shouldn't have let you try it.

Something went wrong!
I don't know what.

I had the van waiting
in the parking lot.

I was sure it was gonna work.

Suddenly, the whole place
filled with police.

Well, what are we gonna do?
Look, look,

I know a man, a Frank Sartino.

He's got influence.

All your father wants
is a chance to get away.

He's trading--

life for a life.

I spoke to Sartino.

I offered him
half the money I have--

That's close
to a million dollars, Susan--

To get them to give your father
the car and plane he wants.

Well, will they do it?

Honey, who wants a m*ssacre?

When will you know?

Sartino said
to give him an hour.

Now, we can't stay here;
it's too dangerous.

I'll have to call Sartino
from a place I know.

Cliff, what if
this doesn't work?

We'll have done
everything we could.

But... if he says it's fixed,

and they'll trade
for the hostages,

will you go to Mexico with me?

Yes.

We're gonna be happy, Susan.

We're gonna be happy and rich.

You trust me, just trust me.

Are you expecting anyone?

No. Well, whoever
it is, get rid of them!

Miss Kane?

But on TV they said you...
I was a hostage, yeah.

Your father
let me out on parole.

What do you want from me?
Cliff Elgin.

I don't understand.

That's what your father
put me out on the street for--

To find him.
Why would my father

send you out to find Cliff?

Today, at the courthouse your
father got caught in a switch.

He thought Cliff Elgin
was setting up a break for him.

Cliff also arranged
to get him a g*n,

but the f*ring pin
was taken out of it.

Your father was supposed
to get sh*t

trying to escape
from the county courthouse

with a g*n that couldn't fire.

You mean... my father
thinks Cliff tried to...

That's right.

Your father thinks
Cliff deliberately set up

a trap to get him k*lled.

But Cliff wouldn't do that!

He has no reason
to hate my father...

I'd say $ million
is a pretty fair reason.

Is this a trick?!

Now, look, Miss Kane,

my head's on the line;
this is execution day.

There's a roomful of innocent
people up in that courthouse.

You want to see them get sh*t?

Well, that's what's gonna happen
unless I can deliver Cliff Elgin

to your father by : tonight!

I don't know where he is.

Miss Kane...
are you in love with him?

That's not your business.
But the hostages are.

I want Cliff Elgin.
Now, where is he?

Right here, Mannix.
Cliff!

Susan, get your coat.

Wait for me in the van.
Go on.

You go with him, Miss Kane,
and you're gonna m*rder

a roomful of innocent people.

He says you never meant
to have Dad escape.

You meant to have him sh*t
by the police.

He's lying.
Am I?

He's a private eye, honey,
out to make an easy buck.

You go wait in the van.

I'll take care of Mannix.

You won't hurt him-- promise me.

Of course not.

Go how.

Turn around.

Come on.

I ought to put a b*llet in you

for my own protection.

But since it's getaway day...

♪♪

A shamus.
Name's Mannix.

Ain't he supposed to be
in the courthouse with Kane?

Yeah. Frank
better have a talk with him.

Let's take him out to the car.

The kid skipped...

with Kane's daughter...

and the money.

Well, I don't know if he had
the money with him or not.

Buddy?
Not in the house.

Took it apart.

Two... million... dollars.

What was it, confetti?

He celebrate New Year's with it?

He probably iced it somewhere
until he's ready to move.

Move?

Out of the country.

That must've been
some college that kid went to.

Listen, Mannix...

I got people to account to
for that money.

They'll say:
"Where is it, Frank?"

What do I answer?

A college kid snatched it?

Afraid I can't help you.

Now, uh, if you don't mind,
I'll go.

Go where?

The courtroom, empty-handed?

We both need Elgin.

Work with me.

How?

Give me the kid
before you deliver him to Kane.

Hello.

This is Cliff Elgin,
Mr. Sartino.

What can I do for you?

Are you still interested in
that deal, the one we discussed?

Yeah, I may be.

We have to firm it up.

Where can you be reached?

I'm at Fingerman's.
Fine. I'll be in touch.

Mr. Mannix has had
a very hard day.

Take him to his car.

We were talking
about my working with you.

Take him to his car.

Lou.

Take him to his car.

The kid is at Fingerman's.

Get the money, all of it.

I don't care how.

Work on the girl if you have to,
but I want it, today.

Yes, sir.

Well, it's still quiet up there.
The DA's in conference.

I don't know what his decision's
gonna be, trade or move in.

What about the call to Sartino--
did the phone company trace it?

Yeah, they did. The listing
is under E.P. Fingerman.

Can you stall?
Can you buy me an hour?

I'm try.

Mannix is on his way
to Fingerman's.

Now, this time
don't lose him, huh?

What are you doing?

Buying insurance.

Against what?

Mr. Sartino.

Cliff...

I'll be finished in a minute.

Just a minute.

Cliff, I'm not going
with you to Mexico.

There.

What did you say?

What Mr. Mannix said is true.

I tried not to believe it,
but it is true, isn't it?

What's true?

You did want my father k*lled.

Sartino isn't
going to call anybody.

It's some sort of a private deal

you've made with him...

about the money.

Why?

Not why. How.

How the game is played
by all the big sh*ts.

You deal yourself in,
deal the other guy out.

And it doesn't matter

that some of the people
in that courthouse may die?

Hey, it's not going to be me
that's going to sh**t them.

It's your old man
who put you through college

by making junkies
out of teenagers.

Let's face it, Susan.

There's dirt on every dollar.

You wait in here.

Go on.

Come on in.

Where's Sartino?

He couldn't come.

You got the money, kid?

Oh, not here.

Mr. Sartino's in kind of
a big hurry for it.

Is the deal set?

Don't worry about the deal.

Excuse the a*tillery.

We just want
to make sure you're clean.

Lou?

Two tickets to Mexico City.

Where's the girl?

I'm going
to meet her at the airport.

Sit down.

Okay, now, listen.

Frank has changed his mind.

He wants all of it.

Oh. Well, that wasn't the deal.

It's the deal now.

Where's Frank's money?

We could put you
in the hospital.

Where's Frank's money?

Cliff!

Oh.
Lou.

Oh!

Shut up!

Hold it! Don't!

Hit it and spread 'em!

Don't move. Don't blink.

I'll get a doctor.

No.

The key... around my neck.

The... key... take it.

There's a bus station
down... downtown.

Bus station.

Money is in the locker...

for s... for Susan.

How long has Joe been gone?

Oh, you just lie still.

He'll be back in a minute.

He's still bleeding
very heavily.

I'll get some more towels.

Excuse me.

What is it?

W-Would you mind
if I went over to the window?

What for?

I-I'd like to look for my wife
to show her I'm okay.

Your wife?

Well, if you go over
to that window,

she'll be a widow.

You ever wrestle in mud?

Not since I left the swamp.

Stuck-up broad.

What time is it?

: .

We'll give Mannix
another half an hour.

Yeah?

Kane, this is Captain Donegan.

Now listen carefully.

I spoke to the DA
There's no deal.

There isn't going to be a plane
or a getaway car or anything.

You surrender, or we move in.

Is that their final decision?

Kane, there's nothing
to be gained

by slaughtering those people
you're holding up there.

Now, I'll give you ten minutes.

All right, Donegan,
now you listen to me,

because I'm only going
to say it once.

You get on the phone,
and you call the mayor,

and you tell him, either we get
that car and that airplane,

or he'll get a corpse
in exactly one minute.

-Mary . Repeat.

All right, Billy Lee.

You've been kind of itchy.

Pick somebody out.

Anybody?

Anybody.

You.

No!

Any objections, Ginger?

It's all the same to me.

Come on now.
Don't make me carry you.

Come on up to the window
where they can see you.

No.
Come on.

No. Please!
Come on.

Open up that blind.

Come on.

Unlock the window.

That's it. Now raise it up.

No.
Come on.

Nice and high.

That's it.

Hold it!

Who is it?

Mannix.

That's it.

Where's Elgin?

He's dead.
How are you feeling, Art?

Never mind the cop!

What about Elgin?
How did you k*ll him?

I didn't.

What's that supposed to mean?

When I got to Fingerman's,
he was dying.

Sartino had him sh*t.

Sartino?

Yeah, Elgin had the money.

Sartino sent his muscle in
to get it.

Was there a girl with him?

Your daughter wasn't there.

How do I know
Elgin is really dead?

What's this?

Elgin gave it to me
just before he d*ed.

The money's in a locker
in a bus station downtown.

And this is supposed
to prove that?

Would I have a key
to that locker

if Elgin was still alive?

We'll find out together then,
won't we, Mannix?

Yeah.
Oh, he's cute.

He's real cute,
isn't he, Ginger?

He tells us money's downtown,
but he don't tell us

how we gonna get downtown
to get it.

Maybe if I blow his head off,
he won't be so cute.

Eh.

Kane, your daughter's here.

She wants to talk to you.

My kid?

Get her out of here, Donegan!

She's coming up
to see you, Kane!

Susan! No!

Go on home!

It's too late, Kane.

She's already involved.

She's not going to let you
k*ll those people, Kane!

You keep her down there,
Donegan!

All right, get out!

Are you letting us go?

I assume
that's what "get out” means.

You.

Just hold it right there.

Nobody's going nowhere.

Let 'em go, Ginger!

Key, George.

Oh.

Now the g*n.

No, Ginger.
Just... let 'em go!

It's finished.

I've done all the time
I'm ever gonna do. The g*n!

No.

Looks like
we're gonna have to take it

away from him, Billy Lee.

Sure looks that way, don't it?

Don't be a fool, Billy Lee.

I don't want to k*ll you.

I'm thinking of Chicago,
Billy Lee.

That girl in the silver dress.

My girl don't have on
no dress at all.

You ready, Billy Lee?

Ready as I'll ever be.

All right, I want a circle

with me and Billy Lee
in the middle.

That's how
we're going out of here.

Cop's first.

Come on.

Okay, well, you two.

Come on.

Oh, don't, please! Don't! Don't.

You're k*lling me. Please...
Oh, no, lady.

Oh... no, lady.

Please don't k*ll me.
No! No! No!

It isn't necessary.

You hurt my hand.

He's dead, isn't he?

Yes.