03x08 - The Plague: Part 1

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MAN [OVER PA]: The white zone

is for immediate loading and
unloading of passengers only.

No parking.

The white zone

is for immediate loading and
unloading of passengers only.

No parking.

STARSKY: Crazy.

I'm telling you, I read it in
the National Geographic.

A hundred and forty-eight
years old? Come on.

It's this whole
village in Azerbaijan.

Az... What?

It's in Russia.

Well, that's not for me.

STARSKY: Give me good
old city pollution. Live to , .

Well, I'll take the myself.

You're putting me on.
What kind of life is that, huh?

Without teeth,
no booze, no, uh...

You know what I mean.

You know something,
Starsky? You're really gross.

There's a hell of
a lot more to life

than "You know what I mean."

Yeah, well, if there
is, I don't know about it.

You know what I mean?

[BEEP]

Empty your pockets, please.

What?

You heard the lady.

[BEEP]

MAN: Hold it, now.

Just empty your pockets.

Him or me?

The machine indicates

that you have a large object or
objects of metal on your person.

Oh! Oh! Really?

Want to peruse my person, ma'am?

Watch out for him, if
you know what I mean.

MAN: Okay, okay.

That's enough of
the fun and games.

Just empty your pockets,
gentlemen, please.

STARSKY: This is all the
metal you're gonna need.

Okay. We were
just doing our job.

Oh, very well too. Very well.

Keep up the good work.

Especially you, ma'am.

Um, what time did you
say Jake's plane was due?

Um, . Why? What time is it?

We got plenty
of time. It's :.

Yeah. Hmm!

WOMAN [OVER PA]:
leaving in five minutes.

Lieutenant!

JAKE: Hiya, fellas.

Nice to have you
back. Welcome home.

Thank you. Welcome.

JAKE: Hey, wait a
minute, wait a minute.

Now, it seems to
me, before I left,

you used to call me Jake.

Well, we weren't too sure

how much your European
tour had affected you, Jake.

Well, you know, it was good
seeing those Interpol people.

But let me tell you something,

nobody over there knows
how to make a good hamburger.

MAN: Thief! Stop! Thief!

Come back here!

MAN: Hey!

Hey! Thief!

Thief!

Hey!

[YELLING]

[WOMAN SCREAMS]

STARSKY: Get out of the way!

Get out of the way!

Look out!

Let go of me!

Stay away from me, man.
I'm a third-degree black belt.

Oh, you gotta be kidding.

Lieutenant Anderson.
Airport security.

Take him away. He's yours.

Come on. Move!

MAN [OVER PA]: The white zone

is for immediate
loading and unloading...

Hey! Hey! What are you doing?

No parking.

Hey, hey, that's my car.

You're making a mistake.

Wait a second.

What happened
to your hand, Jake?

Ran into some guy

with long fingernails.

STARSKY: Okay, I did...

All right, I did
park illegally...

Well, I hope they tow this
red tomato away for good.

Can't you give a guy a break?

You want me to play favorites
just because you're a cop?

Yes, he does.

Look, one of your
cables is loose here.

Do you mind? This is
my car. I'll take care of it.

HUTCH: I just wanted to...

STARSKY: Maybe we can
arrange something. I mean, we're...

[ARGUMENT CONTINUES
INDISTINCTLY]

DRIVER: Sorry, mister.
What was that address again?

Uh...

Whitmore.

Could have sworn
you said, uh, "Witson."

Witson.

Whitmore. Whitmore.

That's way, uh...

Other side of town,
out in the boondocks.

You're... You're sure?

Hey!

You all right?

Just drive.

[KNOCKS]

Hi. I'm Steele. You
have a room for me.

Oh! Yes. Come in, please.

I'm Helen Yeager.

I'm sorry, I didn't expect
you until this evening.

Uh, would you
like a cup of coffee?

Thank you, no.

Mom?

Oh. Hi!

This is my son, Richie.

Are you really from Canada?

Why do you ask?

That's what the man
told Mom when he called.

RICHIE: He said
you're from Montreal.

My dad went to Canada
but he never came back.

Richie!

I'm sorry.

Richie doesn't meet many people.

We're somewhat
isolated here, as you see.

The gentleman who called
said you were a writer,

that you prefer privacy.

Yes.

Would you like to see your room?

Sure. I would...

[GASPS]

Uh, are you all
right, Mr. Steele?

Yeah, I'm...

fine.

It's, uh... It's nothing.

Just, uh, jet lag. I'll be fine.

Your room's right down the hall.

I'll make sure that
you're not disturbed.

Thank you.

HUTCH: Now, look, I'm serious.

If you knew you could
live another years...

STARSKY: With
vitamin E or without?

Oh, there's no hope for you.

Yeah? Well, you live
forever, philosopher.

Me? Just give me another
or swinging years.

Hey! There's Jake, the inter...

What's the matter, Jake?

I don't know.

I don't know what's going on.

I just... I feel dizzy.

I'm hot,

I'm... I'm cold.

The last couple of days,

ever since I got home,

I feel like my lungs
are going to burst.

Maybe you picked
something up over there.

Yeah, maybe.

Hey, why don't you take
a couple of days off, huh?

Have a doc check you out.

Yeah, maybe.
Maybe I will, later on.

I got a ton of paperwork
I got to catch up on.

Take it easy, huh?

STARSKY: You take it
easy, Jake. Take it real easy.

[GROANS]

[PANTING]

[AMBULANCE SIREN WAILING]

You know what the worst
thing about being a cop's wife is?

Mmm?

It's waiting.

Yeah.

It's even the little things.

It's waiting until he
comes home for supper.

Maybe some junkie stabbed him.

It's waiting

till he comes back from Europe.

It's waiting until
the doctor comes

and tells me

that... my husband's
going to be all right.

I assume you're Mrs. Donner.

Yes, doctor. What's
with Jake? How is he?

Are you friends of the family?

Yeah. Yeah.

Mr. Donner d*ed minutes ago.

[GASPS]

No! No!

I'm sorry.

Of what?

[SOBBING]

I suggest you take
Mrs. Donner to my office.

Room , down the hall.
The nurse will have something...

I don't want a nurse. I
just want my husband.

Let's go down to the nurse.
Then we'll take you home.

Oh, Hutch.

I want my husband, Hutch.

[SOBBING, SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]

Of what?

We're not sure.

A man dies just like
that and you're not sure.

We could say he
d*ed of pneumonia,

critical dehydration,
kidney malfunction.

You could. But you're not.

We don't know what brought
on these ailments so severely

as to k*ll the man
in so short a time.

Well, maybe he picked
up some disease in Europe.

Well, we won't know that until
after an autopsy is performed.

If we're lucky.

And if you're not?

Mrs. Donner, you and your friend

will all submit to
a series of tests.

What are you talking
about? I'm fine.

Now, my nurse and an
attendant are waiting in my office.

All three of you will be
placed under quarantine

until after the autopsy.

Oh, wait a second, doc.
We're officers of the law.

It's not necess...

Hey, don't pull
your badge on me.

I'm the law in this hospital.

And until we find out what
k*lled Lieutenant Donner,

my responsibility is to keep
you away from other people.

Quarantine?

Tighter than your jails.

HUTCH: Why don't you
take one of these, huh?

STARSKY: What's the score?

Well, I got games
and you got .

Come on.

More.

When you're hot, you're hot.

And when you're not, you're not.

More!

Guess who's here.

Don't tell me.

[SIGHS HEAVILY]

Oh, boy.

[KNOCKS ON GLASS]

Come on.

Maybe we'll get lucky this time.

Some more food.

Is that what they call it?

Well, we got to eat.

Why?

There must be
some reason for it.

Oh! Look at this.

Human beings without masks.

Either you got it
too or we're cured.

I'm Dr. Kaufman.
This is Dr. Meredith.

How do you do?

It's a pleasure. My
name's Ken Hutchinson.

And this is... Starsky.

Look, I'm about to go
through that window

unless you get me
out of here real soon.

DR. KAUFMAN: How soon?

How about now?

Okay.

Really?

Are you really a doctor,
or are you just beautiful?

I'm just beautiful.

Well, I think I'm in love.

Can the small talk.

Doctor, what's going on?

Well, we're from the
D.C. headquarters.

Washington?

No. Disease Control, in Alabama.

All the way from
'Bama to spring us?

Well, epidemics don't
respect geography.

We understand that you were
with Officer Donner at the airport.

Yeah.

Did Jake die from the
plague or something?

STARSKY: Excuse me.

I'm having a severe
case of claustrophobia.

Can we go someplace else
and talk about this, hmm?

Okay, let's get to it.

What did Jake die from?

Well, it's something
that we don't understand.

Yet.

We do know it's
highly contagious.

How do you know
we don't have it?

We've observed you for hours.

We've taken blood. We've
done everything we know.

There are no symptoms.

Now, we can only conclude
that you may not be infected.

"May not"?

But you're not positive? No.

We can't be, until we
isolate the source of infection.

Oh.

In other words, that little
sucker might be hanging around

inside any one of us, huh?

Just great. Just great.

Okay, doctor, what's
our next move?

We can sit and wait.

Or we can go out looking.

For what?

For everyone Jake Donner
came into contact with

since he stepped off that plane.

That's next to impossible.

Well, we can do that.

We?

Sure.

I've always wanted
to play doctor.

Especially with a doctor.

Well.

Where's Starsky?

Uh, he had to make
a stop down the hall.

Here's where Jake's work
took him his last hours.

Thank you, captain.

Now, may I have these
gentlemen to work with me?

That's the first time I've heard
anybody call them gentlemen.

Ha-ha.

We're assuming that
someone or something

may have transmitted the
disease to Officer Donner

after he landed.

Our task is going to
be to retrace his steps.

That's like finding a
needle in a haystack.

You know that, don't you?

Yes, I do.

But if we don't find the source,

we could be faced
with an epidemic

that could k*ll thousands.

There he is.

[HORN BEEPS]

Hey, what's the deal, man?

It's bad enough I talk
to you guys sotto voce

but you gotta hail me
like I'm some kind of taxi?

Huggy, this is Dr. Kaufman.

And according to
Jake Donner's sheet,

he rousted Big Benny yesterday.

Where is he?

You want me to blow the whistle

on Big Benny, just like that?

It's no joke, Huggy.

What Jake d*ed of
might be contagious.

I guess that's worse
than a bad cold, huh?

Big Benny was last seen

taking numbers on
the shoeshine stand.

Got it.

Hey, Benny.

Why don't you guys
give a man a break?

I ain't doing nothing.

Roll up your sleeve, Benny.
We may be saving your life.

For what?

I ain't been sh**ting up.

I'm no junkie.

Take it easy, Benny.
This is Dr. Kaufman.

In case you're interested,

she's a doctor who
wants to save your life.

What are you talking about?

You had contact with
Lieutenant Donner?

Yeah. So?

He d*ed from a
contagious disease.

Just a sample of your blood

will tell us whether
you're positive or negative.

Just leave enough
for a heartbeat.

Okay.

We've seen people

and six of them are already
on the way to the hospital.

How could one policeman
have been so busy?

He was one hell of a cop.

Well, there's .

Sister Magda?

How are you doing?

I ain't no sister
of yours, Mr. Man.

So bust me or trust me,

but don't waste my time.

Because time is money and
my rent was due, like, yesterday.

Magda certainly didn't
appreciate that ambulance.

Well, she can't make her
rent money in a hospital.

Don't bet on it.

Well, this brings us almost
to the end of Jake's DRs.

So far, we've
interviewed subjects.

Twenty-five had
definite contact with Jake.

Eight possibles
are in isolation.

And we still haven't
found the carrier.

Starsk.

Mmm?

Crosswalk.

DR. KAUFMAN: Who is he?

STARSKY: We collared him

at the airport with Jake.

We heard he'd jumped bail.

We've been looking for him.

HUTCH: Well, he's not
looking too good, is he?

DR. KAUFMAN: Mm-mm.

HUTCH: Hold it, slick!
We want to talk to you.

DR. KAUFMAN: Don't touch him!

Call an ambulance, and tell
them to get isolation equipment.

[OXYGEN PUMP HISSING]

Would you people
excuse us, please.

Would you excuse us, please.

Well, we found fluid
in the lungs of Jake

and the man who just d*ed.

Also severe liver
and kidney damage,

with evidence of massive
internal hemorrhaging.

The virus literally destroyed
him from the inside.

Then our k*ller's a virus?

Well, I suspected as much

when the antibiotics didn't
work on the new cases.

Um, what about the
people we brought in?

Well, we kept some of
them for further observation.

Now, the ambulance attendant
who brought in Lieutenant Donner

and the nurse who attended him

have both developed
early but definite symptoms.

What about their blood samples?

Definite signs of leukopenia.

What's leukopenia?

It's a low white cell count.

Doctor, am I wrong, or is
this thing gaining on us?

Alarmingly fast, both outside
and right here in the hospital.

He means that every hospital
worker's a potential carrier.

Now, we think it's a virus.

But what sort of virus?

How does it k*ll,

where does it start,
and how do we stop it?

DR. KAUFMAN: Operations?

This is Dr. Judith Kaufman, D.C.

I want this entire
floor quarantined.

And this lab is off-limits

to all but authorized personnel.

Yes.

This is Dr. Meredith.

Have Dr. Phillips meet
me in my office immediately.

It's an emergency.

MAN [OVER SPEAKER]: Yes, sir.

RICHIE: I heard
him moan, Ma, a lot.

And then something fell.

HELEN: Mr. Steele?

[HELEN KNOCKS]

Mr. Steele! Is...?

Is anything wrong?

[BREATHING SHALLOWLY]

HELEN: Oh, my God.

Richie, call the doctor.

[COUGHING]

[WHISPERING] No! No doctor.

No...

He's burning up.

Call the doctor, Richie.

But he said no, Ma.

[WEAKLY] Oh, good boy.

No doctor, please! No!

He'll be all right,
won't he, Ma?

MAN [OVER PA]: The white zone

is for immediate loading and
unloading of passengers only.

No parking.

ANDERSON: We meet again.

I'm Lieutenant
Anderson, airport security.

Yes, I took him down to the
local precinct, they booked him,

then I heard he jumped bail.

I've been looking for him.

This is prime
territory for dippers.

You won't be seeing
him. He's dead.

What happened?

HUTCH: You were there
when we made the collar, right?

I was there as soon
as the guy yelled "thief."

It's just that you guys
move a lot quicker than me.

Ah, good. Look. I want to
ask you a couple of questions.

But I want you
to think about it.

What did you see?

When, exactly?

From the moment the
man yelled "thief" to, um...

Did you see Jake?

Yeah.

What did you see?

Well, I remember

seeing Jake running
across the lobby.

Then he bumped into this
guy with an attaché case.

He rubbed his hand
and then ran on.

Wait a second. Go back.

You said he... He ran into
a guy with an attaché case

and then rubbed his hand?

That's right. That's
when he got cut!

HUTCH: Not the collar.

It couldn't have been
serious. Don't bet on it.

Could this attaché
case have cut him,

or maybe the guy's fingernail,

something like that?

Yeah, I guess he could have.

But, I mean, look,
it was nothing.

Was this guy a passenger?

It looked like maybe
he was a passenger.

What's the big deal, anyway?

How are you feeling?

Well, it's funny you
should mention that.

Why's that?

Well, I, you know,
feel a little weak. Dizzy.

I guess I'm just coming
down with the flu.

Hutch and I got
some things to do.

We want you to go over
to City Hospital right away.

Look up a Dr. Judith Kaufman.

When you get there,
tell her we sent you.

Tell her everything you
know about Jake and this man.

And don't waste
any time doing it.

Well, I'd still like to
know what's going on.

If Doc Kaufman
gives you clearance,

you meet us at
police headquarters.

Meantime, try to get a
picture of this guy in your head.

We'll try to put
together a sketch of him.

Wait. I can do better.
What do you mean?

Well, whenever
any incident starts,

my crew is instructed to
switch on the security cameras.

Now, those babies snap a
picture every three seconds.

If we're lucky...

we've got it.

[KNOCK AT DOOR]

Mama says you should
drink a lot of fluids.

And what do you say, kid?

You should drink it.

Because Mommy says?

Because then
you'll get all better.

Ah. Okay.

Hey.

Yeah?

Your sneakers are torn.

I know.

Come here.

Go out and get a
new pair of sneakers.

And get a flower
for your mother.

Thanks!

[UNLATCHES ATTACHÉ CASE]

[DIALS NUMBER]

This is me.

Don't talk to me about late.

Where's the f*ring pin?

How much more?

No, I'm not in a
position to bargain.

Mm-hm.

Where and when?

Yeah. Be there.

STARSKY: He's
not just a hit man.

He's the prince of hit men.

He's an international soldier.

You mean like a mercenary?

Mm-hm.

This man doesn't need
a w*r to k*ll anybody.

He's called a pro.

I thought he was retired.

Yeah.

His name is Thomas Callendar.

And according to Interpol,

he travels in Europe a lot
with the beautiful people.

And I'm stuck with you.

Right.

Do people like
this really exist?

Yeah. He's a millionaire.

Tied in with the
international syndicate.

sh*t his way up
through the ranks.

Literally.

Well, he's the key
to our epidemic.

Have you checked out the morgue?

Doctor, we have
checked out the morgue,

hospitals, clinics, jails.

Zero.

What strikes me as strange
is that he came back at all.

Hmm? He's gotta know
that we got a make on him.

Let's go.

[ELEVATOR WHIRRS]

[ELEVATOR RUMBLES]

MAN: How you doing?

You look like hell.
What happened?

I'll write you a letter.

Your room all right?

Yeah.

I found it in the want ads.

The missing f*ring pin.

Okay.

But first a small
precaution, if you don't mind.

It's right here.

And let's not get
funny, all right?

Five thousand.

I'm not greedy, it's... just
when I saw who the target was...

I think I'm entitled
to more, that's all.

Aren't you going to count it?

I trust you.

In this business,

we all have to trust each other.

Sure.

Give my best to Roper.

[GROANS]

DOBEY: How's a
syndicate boss like Roper

connected with the plague?

Word on the street is that
Roper's trying to spread out.

Take over Stern's territory.

Ah, you're stretching it.

If we hear it, don't you
think Stern wrote the book?

Thomas Callendar flies
in directly from Naples.

And Stern. Where do you think
he's been for the last month?

Naples.

Give the captain a cigar.

STARSKY: We have further
information through Interpol.

It seems that Callendar
dropped out of sight

a couple of months ago.

He's believed to have secluded
himself in a villa in Marrakesh.

Morocco, North Africa.

Dr. Tejean.

HUTCH: What?

DR. KAUFMAN: Dr. Jonas Tejean.

There was an outbreak
of something like this

in Morocco several years ago.

Before he could document it,
he was k*lled in an airplane crash.

Let's see.

Ah, here we are.

Tejean's notes make mention
of at least three outbreaks

since .

Well, there are still more
questions than answers,

but at least it's
beginning to make sense.

Doc.

DR. MEREDITH: Oh, time.

Time is what we need.
Time and this man Callendar.

He's probably dead already,
judging from our other cases.

DR. MEREDITH: Well,
you're probably right.

But if by some
miracle he is still alive...

[PHONE RINGS]

Dr. Meredith.

What?

Yes.

Yes, thank you. Thank you.

What is it?

Fifteen new cases
have been recorded.

The disease is no
longer contained.

It's all over the city.

Now, unless we can
come up with a serum,

we have an out-of-control
epidemic on our hands.

Well, old country saying:

Can't find the hit
man, go for the target.

Is there more coffee
in that Thermos?

It's in the trunk.

This does happen to be my car.

You ought to clean out
the back. It's a mess.

It got that way

because of you throwing
your coffee cups in there.

[ENGINE STARTS]

I'm getting tired of this.

If Roper is the target,
where's Callendar?

Maybe he's looking
for an opening.

Or at the bottom of a
lake in a concrete overcoat.

If we were able to
get a make on him,

then Roper's gorillas would too.

Maybe that's what
checked his fever this long.

HUTCH: Well, it's all we've got.

You know, if Callendar is
alive, Judith says he's b*at it.

Judith says

his blood is manufacturing
antibodies right now.

"Judith says."

Yeah.

You two are
getting pretty tight.

It's Judith and Meredith.

Oh.

They think that there's
an outside chance

that maybe his body has
developed a degree of immunity,

maybe enough resistance
to give him an edge.

Grabbing at straws.

That's all he's got.

Wait, wait, wait.

I thought I finished
that routine in the Army.

You see there,
that's what I mean.

What?

Well, if you knew you were
going to live for years,

you'd probably
develop some patience.

That's the dumbest
thing I ever heard.

Oh, come on!

Well, who wants to
have years to wait?

You don't just wait, clown.

You got time to
think, to meditate,

to explore new
areas of your mind.

You know?

I'm going to have to get you

away from that
National Geographic.

Starsk.

Mmm?

Check that out.

[DRUNKENLY] How ya doing, baby?

Ha-ha! Look, you
got a... Got a buck?

That gorilla's
going to eat him up.

b*at it before you can't walk.

Okay. Okay.

[MUTTERING]

Starsk. Look at that bum's feet.

STARSKY: They're
expensive-looking.

Callendar.

[TIRES SQUEALING]

I got him.

Callendar! Hold it!

[TIRES SQUEAL]

[POLICE SIREN WAILING]

[HORN BEEPS]

[TRUCK HORN BEEPING]

[POLICE SIREN SHUTS OFF]

[SIGHS]

We had him.

Well, at least we
know he's alive.

Are you just tired, or
is it something else?

[SIGHS]

I just confirmed the correlation

of the contagion to
the incubation period.

Well...

that's something.

How long?

Either it shows up in our
blood samples within hours

or it's passed.

That's good.

There is something
else. What is it?

Yeah.

I just rechecked the blood
samples we've been holding.

Who's infected?

Officer Hutchinson.

Hutch? Are you sure?

Well, either we come
up with an antitoxin...

or he has only a few days
left on this planet Earth.

This is Dr. Meredith
from the lab.

Would you set up an iso room
for Officer Ken Hutchinson?

We'll deliver him.

What? Yes, he's here.

All right, you can pick him up.

"All right, you
can pick him up."

Sounds like a piece of meat.

You doctors are
no better than cops.

Are you sure?

Afraid so.

What's that old line
from the movies?

"Tell me straight, doc.
How much time have I got?"

About hours.

Oh, that's...

DR. MEREDITH: Before
the symptoms appear.

Mm-hm. What then?

Well, the incubation
period will be over.

You'll be highly contagious.

Your white blood
cell count will...

Hey, save the
medical talk, will you?

You know what I'm saying.

It means we have to find
an antitoxin within two days.

And if you don't?

We've been trying
to synthesize a serum

with everything we know.

So far, we haven't
come up with anything.

Callendar's the key, right?

Yes.

His blood is producing
antibodies right now.

A serum from it

would cut through all of our
experiments and lab work.

If I get Callendar,
you can save Hutch?

That's what I'm asking.

Straight out. Yes or no?

Yes.

If Callendar's still
alive, he's past the crisis.

He is the walking cure.

Limousine service.

Well, I bet you ladies have
a wardrobe change for me.

WOMAN [OVER PA]: Dr. Donahue.

I'll be along to see
you when you're settled.

HUTCH: Fine.

Well, why don't you nice ladies
show me to my new quarters, huh?

Marvelous talking to all of you.

Hutch. Yeah?

I'm going to find Callendar.

Well, do it, buddy.

Because I plan to be
around for years.

STARSKY: If we
don't find Callendar

in the next couple of days,

Hutch is a dead man.

He's finished. Gone.

Every man that's not on
assignment's out there.

Including a few
that shouldn't be.

Yeah, well, we both
know that's not enough.

I don't have any
choice, Starsky.

Yeah, well, Hutch doesn't
have any choices either.

Don't talk like I'm some
cold-hearted bastard.

I love Hutch as much as you do.

What makes you think my
guts aren't being ripped apart?

Hutch is dying.

If Hutch dies because I can't

put the whole
precinct on his case,

because there are thousands
of other lives to be protected,

what the ever-living
hell am I supposed to do?

[INTERCOM BUZZES]

Dobey.

When?

All right.

What did he say?

Come on!

All right, now, listen.

You keep him there.
Starsky will be on the way.

What?

They found Callendar's car
you and Hutch were chasing.

Sideswiped a truck.

And Callendar?

The trucker says he
went into the fields.

One mile up the coast,
four miles off the turnoff.

STARSKY: What have you got?

That's the car he was driving.

We're dusting it for prints.

Don't bother. We know
it was Callendar driving.

What else?

That's the truck driver over
there. He has a problem.

DRIVER: You the guy they've
been making me wait for?

You know, I'm a half a
day late, a load short...

What happened?

I already told the
story three times.

How many times do
I have to repeat it?

One more time.

You ought to get
your act together.

Listen, truck driver,
and you listen good.

I'm only going to tell you once.

What happened?
Clean, clear and now!

Well, this scram sideswiped me.

He ran his car into the ditch.

Then he got out...

Man, I was teed off.

Save the editorializing.
What happened? Facts.

So he started running.

And I went after him, faster
than Jesse James on a train.

You know what he did?

Pulled a g*n on ya.

You know what he did.

And what did you do?

You must be kidding.

A man pulls a g*n, that's it.

"You got it! Run! Do what
you want. Leave me alone."

Anything else?

Yeah. When can I
get back on the road?

Now, hero.

Sergeant!

[HELICOPTER ROTOR WHIRRING]

Get the men, will you?

All right, men, fall in!

Yo! Come on! Move it!

Okay.

We got a problem.

We got thousands
of lives in danger,

including a cop's,
in the hospital...

dying.

If we don't find Callendar
in the next couple of days,

it's goodbye, cop,
goodbye, partner.

Good partners are
hard to come by.

That's why every mother's
son is going into that field.

That's where Callendar went.

Now, if you don't find
him in those woods,

I want you to go
up into the next hill.

If you don't find him there,
go to the next pasture.

I want you to look
under every rock,

in every bush, up every tree.

And when you get
tired and wiped out...

put your tails
back in gear again.

Keep looking.

Get moving.

Move out!

These were in the
glove compartment.

Okay, so he rented a car
under the name of Mullins.

I'll check it out.
Probably be a dead end.

All we know is that he
abandoned ship here.

He's probably
sick and half-dead.

They're not going to find
him unless he passed out.

Maybe he got a ride somehow.

How?

How? How? I don't know.

Maybe jumped on the
back of a farmer's truck.

Stuck out his thumb.

He's a pro. They
don't go down easy.

So if he got a ride, to where?

You're full of interesting
questions, sergeant.

Just trying to help.

Look, I'm sorry. I didn't
mean to get on your case.

I'm just...

I got a partner
who's dying a little bit

with every tick of the clock.

I got no answers.

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