"* Amazing grace *" "* How sweet the sound *" "* That saved a wretch like me * * l once was lost but now am found *" "* Was blind, but now I see *" "* The Lord has promised good to me *" "* His Word my hope secures *" "* He will my shield and portion be *" "* As long as life endures **" "Alexis." "Where you going?" "Excuse me, excuse me." "Alex!" "Alex!" "Hey lady." "Wait, I want to show you something." "Wait a minute." "Wait, mister." "Wait a minute." "I have to show" "Get out of the way!" "Aha!" "There you are." "Magnum, I'm speaking to you." "Huh?" "Oh!" "I'm sorry, Higgins." "I was concentrating." "I wonder if you've ever been exposed to the adage..." ""A place for everything and everything in it's place"?" "Of course I have." "You're standing in my light." "This one, here." "There." "I know exactly where everything is." "I have a system." "Good." "Then it shouldn't take long... to gather up all the items you've borrowed... from Mr. Masters over the year, and return them to me... so I can conduct inventory on schedule tomorrow." "Inventory?" "Already?" "Quit stalling, Magnum." "If you don't know where the items are...." "l do know where they are." "The 40mm F2.0 lens?" "Behind the boat, on the mantle." "The 560mm C-70 telescope." "In the cupboard next to the refrigerator." "Oh, would you get me a beer while you're there, please?" "Mr. Master's portable 4 band receiver component system... with cassette deck, micro speakers, music scan and Dolby sound." "The component system." "You've lost it." "I haven't lost it." "I know exactly where it is." "Where?" "Hi, guy." "Out kind of early, aren't you?" "Yeah, I'm trying something new." "The honeymoon sunrise tour." "This is my third this week." "Oh, yeah!" "That's great." "Yeah." "You'd be surprised how much business has picked up... since I started using these tapes." "That tape recorder you sent away for?" "Yeah." "Four to six weeks they said." "Hey, listen to this." "So you didn't get it yet?" "This is what I've been playing on the honeymoon sunrise tour." "The glory of the day was in her face." "The beauty of the night was in her eyes." "And over all her loveliness, the grace of morning... blushing in the early sky." "Well, anyway, it goes on from there." "That's really nice." "Man, I am telling you... there is something about flying over the Koolaus... when the sun comes up, listening to this music... with two people in love sitting in the chopper with you." "It just makes you feel great." "I have to take the component system back." "Yeah, I know." "As soon as mine comes in." "That's our deal." "I have to take it back today." "Today?" "No, you don't." "Not today." "Eight weeks." "You said you would loan it to me for eight weeks to pay me back... for all the gas money that you owe me." "That's what you said." "Yeah." "That's before I found out I had to have it back today." "No!" "T.C." "I'm sorry, I got a tour tomorrow morning and I need that tape system." "But Robin promised it to someone else." "It's his, T.C. What can I do?" "What can you do?" "I guess there's nothing you can do." "The trouble is, it's bolted into the chopper... and it will take me a while to get it out." "I can wait." "And plus, I got all of this paperwork to do." "Maybe I could get it to you tonight." "Great." "When I pick you up to take you to Chez Jimmy's." "Fine." "Chez Jimmy's?" "Oh, I didn't tell you I got a call from Alexis?" "She's here, in town." "She's singing at Chez Jimmy's." "She opens tonight." "I believe this is where l came in." "No, wait." "Wait a minute." "Now aren't you being a little hard-nosed about this?" "No." "Not at all." "And what's Alex doing singing in a place like Chez...." "Never mind." "Just tell her I said hello and wish her my best." "Come on, man. I know she's a pain in the neck sometimes." "Sometimes?" "But we did have some fun together." "Fun?" "You call being shot at in a Saigon bar fun?" "You call being thrown in the stockade for fighting fun?" "Look, Thomas, what happened between me and Alexis was a long time ago." "And I think she's scared about her opening... and she could use some friends there tonight." "Now, I'll pick you up at 8:00, with the tape." "6:00?" "...Miss Alexis Carter." "* Nowhere to run to, baby *" "* Nowhere to hide *" "* Got nowhere to run to, baby *" "* Nowhere to hide *" "* It's not love I'm running from *" "* It's the heartache I know will come *" "* 'Cause I know you're no good for me *" "* You're no good *" "* But you've become a part of me *" "* Every where I go your face I see *" "* Every step I take you take with me, yeah *" "* Nowhere to run to, baby *" "* Nowhere to hide *" "* Got nowhere to run to, baby *" "* Nowhere to hide *" "* I know you're no good for me *" "* But free of you I'll never be *" "* Nowhere to run *" "* Nowhere to hide From you, baby *" "* Got nowhere to run to, baby *" "* Nowhere to hide *" "* Got nowhere to run to, baby *" "* Nowhere to hide **" "It's not that far." "We can be there and back by Monday." "That's not the point." "Nobody'll ever know." "I'll know, Alexis." "I'll help you forget." "We'd better go." "I love you, T.C." "Miss Wagner, my 1 1th grade English teacher... created a scandal in my hometown... when she put All the King's Men on our mandatory reading list." "She said she wanted us to understand the fatal attraction... some men have for the very thing that will destroy them." "Her love for the book got her fired." "And I never quite understood the attraction she was talking about." "Until the day I first saw Alex Carter... and the way T.C. was looking at her." "* Where is that worn-out wish *" "* That I threw aside *" "* After it brought my lover *" "* Near *" "* Funny how love becomes *" "* A cool rainy day *" "* Funny *" "* That rainy day is here *" "* Funny *" "* That rainy day * * ls here *" "* Here **" "Hey!" "Thank you." "Thank you very much." "We'll just say, "Hi, how are you..." ""great to see you", then we leave." "I can't believe you're both here." "Why?" "It's your opening night." "I mean, we wouldn't miss that for anything." "Right, T.M.?" "Yeah." "You know, I was so scared you wouldn't show up... and then I was scared that you would show up." "I mean, look at me, singing in a place like this." "You were terrific." "Yeah." "So, hey, lookie here." "How long you gonna be here?" "I'm not sure." "Now that's something I wanted to talk to you guys about." "I've left Denny for good." "And I'm never going back." "But I'm kind of scrapping to make ends meet." "Oh, hey, you need some money, I...." "Oh, no, no." "Well, I do." "But the thing is, there's a guy here in Hawaii who owes me a lot of money... and he keeps avoiding me." "So I thought maybe you could help me figure out how to find him." "Oh." "How much does he owe you?" "I can give you a little bit to tide you over." "$18,000." "$18,000?" "You loaned someone $18,000?" "Sounds like a lot, huh?" "Yeah." "Didn't seem so much back then." "The girls and I...." "God." "Oh, those days...." "We thought...." "Seemed like we were magic." "Nothing would ever change." "But then little by little everything just kind of got different." "Do you have an iou for this $18,000?" "Oh, yeah." "Sure." "Hey, see?" "We can find him and give him the lou." "You'll find him?" "Hey, that's great!" "His name is David Mitchell." "You know, when I heard you'd become a private investigator... I just knew that I could count on you to help me." "I don't know, Alex, it's... not always that easy to find someone who doesn't want to be found." "Unless, you happen to be very good at that." "I'll tell you what, to show you how much it means to me... I'm gonna take you two... to a night out on the town." "My treat." "Hey." "We're running down the street and you're yelling..." ""Hey, we're going the wrong way."" "It wasn't that funny." "And T.C. yells back, "Yeah, but we're making great time."" "Well, it wasn't that funny at the time." "Oh, gosh." "Nothing is, you know, nothing is." "I tell you my sides are hurting from all this laughing." "You know, being with you guys makes me feel... that everything is just possible again, you know." "What?" "Oh, my God!" "I love you, T.C." "But I can't help it." "That's the way I feel and I'm not gonna lie to you about it." "Alexis, l" "We can sneak out tomorrow night." "I know this great place where we can stay." "We won't tell anyone we're going." "Look, I am not flying you to Hong Kong." "All right." "Where?" "You name the place." "I have never met anyone like you before, ever." "I know." "And I just wish I had met you a few years ago." "So you met me now." "Yeah." "But I am not running away with you for the weekend." "I'll respect you afterwards, I promise." "How was your sunrise tour?" "T.C.?" "Oh." "Spectacular as usual." "Hey, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to wake you up." "I don't even remember falling asleep." "Hey, you were pretty tired last night." "T.C.?" "Thanks." "For getting me through all the stuff with the police... and not asking me if I wanted to talk about it, and I guess... for not sweeping me off my feet." "Well, the way I figure... we've got plenty of time to get to know each other... without a war to worry about or other people to account for." "And I'm not going anywhere." "And it looks like you're gonna be here for a while." "I hope so." "T.C., there's something you should know." "Denny said if I ever tried to leave him, he'd kill me." "And I thought...." "Well, I didn't see how he was gonna track me down here." "You think he was the one that ransacked your room?" "I don't know." "Well, if Dennis is around, that means trouble." "I can take care of myself." "But I can't if I'm worried about what's gonna happen to you." "So I'm gonna look up Dave Mitchell... and in the meantime... I thought I'd take you to stay at the one place... that I know you'll be safe." "Go on, get your clothes on." "She's trouble, T.C." "You've never understood her." "I understand her, I like her." "She's an exciting, talented, clever woman... who attracts trouble like a magnet." "Sounds like a Gemini." "And that's her fault?" "I'm not saying it's her fault." "Yes, you are." "Somebody breaks into her hotel room... looking for money and you say she brought it all on herself." "That break-in was no tourist rip-off." "It was a pro job and you know it, T.C." "Now, someone's looking for Alex." "Like who?" "I don't know!" "You said she ran away from her husband." "Maybe he wants her back." "All right, it's possible that Dennis is after her." "I mean, she told me this morning... that he said he would kill her if she ever left him." "But that is all the more reason why we should help her." "I'm not gonna drop her off on Kalakaua Avenue somewhere and wish her luck." "I'm not saying you should." "But she's at the estate, you know she's safe." "I'm just saying that you should keep your eyes open... and be careful, that's all." "Hey, you want I should call Ice Pick... and he'll give him a two-inch neck?" "No. I don't wanna owe lce Pick any favors." "And I will take care of Dennis when he shows up... if he shows up." "But at least Rick can find out if he's in town." "His name is Dennis Johnson." "And while you're at it, see if you can find out about a guy named David Mitchell." "Dave Mitchell deals mostly in black market goods and tourist rip-offs." "In fact, he's the kind of guy you see if you want to sell in quantity." "Well, if he deals in merchandise... he must have a warehouse somewhere." "And salesmen." "Wow, do you believe this?" "Here's a guy that they find dead in a rental car in a sugarcane field... a hose attached to his exhaust pipe... and they're calling it a suicide." "Rick, do you have any idea where he lives?" "Or hangs out?" "He harbors a boat at Leiko Marina." "Good." "Good. I'm gonna go check that out." "While you're at the marina, I'm gonna go talk to a friend... traveling salesman." "Hey!" "Who's paying this check?" "Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops." "Check." "Alberta Hunter." "You have the London Session?" "I wonder what that's doing in Mr. Master's collection." "That particular recording is mine." "You like Alberta Hunter?" "I've always followed her career quite closely... ever since I saw her perform at the Dorchester Hotel in London." "Oh, Miss Otis Regrets." "Two Cigarettes In The Dark." "Oh." "In our neighborhood, when I was growing up... there was this record store right on the way home from school." "I'd stop in there every afternoon... pretend I was gonna buy something... and I'd take Alberta Hunter albums into their listening room." "I memorized every album, every song." "I really thought I was putting one over on them." "Can you see this skinny little 10-year-old?" ""l can't decide between Downhearted Blues and Bring Back the Joys." ""l'll just have to come back."" "Strutting out that store like I had two pennies to rub together." "When we had our first Gold album... I went back there to see if they carried it." "But the store wasn't there." "They had turned it into a parking lot." "Ah." "Well, that's the last of them." "Well, I can't remember when an inventory has gone by so fast." "We're done?" "Yes. I just have a little packing and storing to do." "Oh, I'll help." "Would you like some tea?" "I'd love some tea." "I must say, you're not at all like Magnum's other friends." "Well, if you talk to Thomas he'll probably tell you... I'm not one of his friends." "That explains it." "They seem continually to look for ways to shirk duty." "Here you are helping out and it's not even your responsibility." "Well, it's kind of fun." "Besides, you're doing me a big favor by letting me stay here." "T.C. seemed to think it was very important." "He thinks there's some big, bad people out there." "Something wrong?" "No." "Thanks." "Oh, come on, Magnum, you know I'm strictly legit." "You know that and I know that... but does the irs know that?" "So maybe I don't account for every penny." "A guy's got to make a living." "You gonna turn me in?" "Oh, come on, who said anything about turning anybody in?" "It's just a friendly conversation." "I don't have anything to do with Dave Mitchell." "Honest." "Yeah." "But you hear things." "Okay." "Last I heard he was operating out of a storefront on Piikoi." "A gift store, like." "Called something like King or Majesty or something." "Great." "Thanks, Kika." "Hey, here." "It's two tickets to the Rainbow game Saturday night." "Gee, thanks, bro." "That was a couple of weeks ago." "He might not still be there, even." "How much to Chez Jimmy's?" "I don't know, it's a long way." "$20 cover it?" "Hey, you turn it over to us and we'll let you walk home." "I think you've got the wrong guy... if you're looking for Mitchell." "You wanna tell us you're not working for that girl singer?" "Don't you mean your boss' wife?" "You'd have done better staying out of her business." "You got some talking to do, pal." "Hold it, Magnum!" "Hey, just let the kid go." "Just let the kid go." "Those friends of yours?" "They were looking for Alex." "Alex Carter had a way of making you think... walking through fire for her was your idea." "I believe the technical name for it is..." ""Knight In Shining Armor Syndrome."" "Whatever it was, I hoped there was an antidote for it." "Hey, Keoki, seen Rick?" "He said he was gonna go take a steam but he's been gone three hours." "Hi, Thomas." "Hey." "Where's T.C.?" "Oh, he went to the estate to check on Alex." "Thanks." "A couple of guys jumped us." "See if you can find out who this is registered to." "No. I can't." "Hey, Thomas, that's what the police are for." "Yeah, but you can make some phone calls." "To who?" "I don't know." "You've probably got connections in Washington." "So do the police." "They have procedure, forms." "They have everything." "I can't go to the police until I find out... if these guys who jumped us are connected with Johnson." "I don't want them slipping out of Hawaii... while we're tied up with procedures." "He won't. I just found out that he never left Detroit." "Dennis Johnson is dead." "Magnum, T.C. said to tell you something's wrong." "Alex isn't at the estate." "He's on his way over to Chez Jimmy's." "Thanks, Keoki." "See what you can find about that gun." "It's all right." "I'm a private eye." "Do you believe this?" "What's going on, Alex?" "Police called me, told me to come over." "Who could be doing this?" "You tell me." "Well, I'm not sure." "Why don't you start with what you know?" "I have told you what I know." "Want me to tell you what I guess?" "I guess maybe it's Dennis." "It.... lt isn't Dennis." "But I guess a lot of things." "I guess you don't like me too much." "I guess you want me to stay away from T.C." "I like you just fine, Alex." "I just don't wanna see him getting hurt." "Or killed." "Because he's with me?" "Well, look around you." "Look around you, Alex!" "Trouble follows you everywhere you go." "So what if it does?" "If you don't like it, go away." "What T.C. does is up to him." "He's my friend!" "I'm not gonna see you put him in the middle of something." "That's my business, man." "I don't need you to take care of me." "And I can handle Johnson." "Dennis Johnson is dead." "Oh, no." "No!" "I'm sorry." "Magnum?" "What are you doing sitting here in the dark?" "If you're here about Robin's component system, Higgins..." "As a matter of fact, I am." "...I don't have it." "And I don't know when I will." "What exotic case could possibly be worth ruining your eyesight?" "It's not even a case." "It's a.... lt's a long story." "Boy meets girl?" "Something like that." "Classical in its origins." "How does this one begin?" "In a war zone." "When I was in 'Nam, I had a friend." "He was away from home really for the first time." "His whole world was turned upside down." "He tried to hold on to all the things that he really believed in." "Enter the girl." "Oh, she...." "She was more than just a girl." "She was a whole new way of life that he'd never even considered." "She was excitement, she was danger." "She was the big brass ring." "But he was married, see." "So he had to make a choice." "I didn't know." "What choice did he make?" "Which one would you make?" "The honorable one, I hope." "To remain true to my vows no matter how great the temptation." "Yeah." "That's the one he made, too." "But the... the girl, she couldn't accept it." "She went into this self-destruct mode." "By the time she finished acting out the woman scorned... she'd hurt everybody." "Especially my friend." "And some years later, you're afraid... this young man is about to make the same mistake." "Yeah." "Of course, he doesn't see it that way." "Tell me something, Higgins." "If you have a friend and you think he's in trouble... and he tells you to walk away from it, how do you do it?" "You don't." "T.C., where are we going?" "To see the sun come up over Paradise." "And usually this is where the music and the poem begin." "What poem?" "It's just something I read, and put it to music." "Yeah." "Come on, I wanna hear the poem." "Oh, come on, I don't have a voice like James Earl Jones or nothing." "I can't." "Come on." "I wanna hear the poem." "Okay." "The glory of the day was in her face." "The beauty of the night was in her eyes." "And over all her loveliness, the grace of morning... blushing in the early sky." "T.C., that was beautiful." "Alex?" "Charts." "Those are the charts I left for Alex." "She know you're snooping around her dressing room?" "No." "Look, Mr. Norlan. I...." "l don't know what the two of you were fighting about yesterday." "It's really none of my business." "But I think that lady's had more than her share of trouble." "As long as I'm around, I'm gonna make sure nobody bothers her." "Great." "Well, maybe you'd better explain that to the guys who did this." "That is if you see them before they get to her." "She tell you about the guy she was seeing?" "No." "Well, maybe seeing isn't right." "I don't know." "It's really none of my business... but when she first got here there was this kid Henry... hanging around her dressing room." "Who is he?" "Kind of a hustler, pedi-cab driver." "Then a couple of days before she opened... he quit coming around." "I didn't think any more of it till yesterday." "Then I hear he's dead." "She never mentioned him to you?" "No." "You have a last name?" "How did he die?" "Suicide, they said." "They found him in a sugarcane field?" "Yeah." "You heard about it." "Yeah." "Thanks." "I got my fares posted, Magnum." "Every penny's accounted for." "I don't wanna talk about fares, Kika." "You sent me down a blind alley, didn't you?" "Oh, man, if Mitchell even sees me talking to you...." "You think I want to happen to me what happened to Henry?" "I don't want anything to happen to you." "I just want to know what's going on." "I don't know." "I think you do." "All I know is you're in the middle of something... everybody's nervous about." "Last time I talked to you, some man gets into my cab... wants to know all about you." "One of Mitchell's guys?" "No." "Black dude." "Mainlander, I think." "You better just close your eyes and walk away." "I can't do that." "I've got a friend who could be in trouble unless you help me out." "I don't want him to end up like Henry, either." "Come on, Kika." "A name, a place, anything." "His company's called Empress lmports." "Nobody's there!" "You knew that when you sent me there." "There's a warehouse... on South Street." "Hold it right there." "What do you want?" "Dave Mitchell." "He's not here." "It's all right, Frank." "You people, you don't give up, do you?" "Now look, I've got a nice little business going here... and I'm not looking to expand." "Now I tried to explain that to Henry, but he wouldn't listen." "What's your connection to Alex?" "Connection?" "Hey, I never met the girl in my life." "No, see, she came to see Henry then Henry came to see me." "Then some guys show up from Detroit and say that the stuff... that she's trying to sell belongs to them." "Now, I told Henry to look for another buyer." "Now me, I don't like drugs." "And I don't like wars." "People get hurt." "But Henry, he got ambitious." "So these guys from Detroit they took him out to a sugarcane field." "Now between you and me... I think they've got the same trip in mind for the singer." "Did he say where he was going?" "I know you're not his answering service, Higgins, but he's not...." "He's not" " Hey...." "Never mind, Higgins, never mind, he just walked in." "Thank you." "Thomas, I traced the gun." "Made a couple of calls." "It wasn't that hard. I even had to disguise my voice a few times." "Have you seen T.C.?" "Not this morning." "But I got through to Washington... and I got through to the manufacturer." "I called his office, I called his house." "Do you know I actually talked to the legal owner of the gun?" "He told me that the gun was stolen a week ago." "And guess what else I found out?" "How Dennis Johnson died." "Suicide." "Rental car." "In a junk yard" "How did you know that?" "You what I can't figure out is how a small time hood from Detroit... hooked up with a small time dealer from Honolulu." "Alex." "Huh?" "Hey, wait." "Where're you going?" "T.C.'s office." "Well, I'm going with you." "Wow!" "Who you calling?" "Flight Information Center." "Yes, I'm checking on the whereabouts of... an island Hoppers Hughes 500-D Niner-5 Alpha." "Do you have any idea when he's coming back?" "Thank you." "Look, they said he called in at 4:45 this morning." "One passenger." "No specific flight plan." "That means they're still on this island somewhere." "If he took his regular flight... these brochures are gonna lead whoever did this right to him." "No!" "Hey!" "You're all right." "You're all right." "I just had a bad dream." "T.C." "Yeah?" "I've done something terrible." "No." "You're here with me." "If you knew what it was like...." "l thought it was all worth it." "At first, it seemed okay and the money was there... but everything started falling apart and I couldn't sing and I...." "Oh, God." "Denny." "He started getting desperate when the money ran out." "Just calm down." "And now he's dead." "But I tried, T.C. I lost everything." "Come on, now, it's over." "It's all over." "No, it isn't." "If I had stayed there, I would have died." "I couldn't see any way out." "And then, I overheard Denny tell someone about a drop." "And I knew it was my only chance." "I packed a suitcase... went to the drop... found two kilos of cocaine... and I took them." "T.C., please." "Who's Mitchell?" "A buyer." "You used me and Thomas to find you a dope dealer?" "I didn't know what else to do!" "Please try to see!" "You didn't know what they would do to Dennis?" "It was a chance I had to take." "He was killing me!" "Drugs." "The one thing you knew I wouldn't stand for." "I'll give it back!" "It doesn't work that way, Alexis." "I didn't mean for you to get hurt." "What did you think would happen?" "I didn't think!" "I only hoped!" "Yeah." "Well, so did I." "T.C." "Nobody ever drives up here anymore." "Come on." "Get in the chopper." "Come on!" "Get in the chopper!" "Hold it." "All right, shut it off, cowboy." "Come on." "Come on, move it!" "Always in a hurry, huh, Alexis?" "I had a talk with Dennis before I left town." "He tells me you have something that belongs to me." "And I don't plan to leave town without it." "You can have it." "What was that?" "I didn't hear you." "Hey, man, why don't you quit playing" " T.C., no." "Here." "In here there's a key to a locker... and I'll take you there, but alone." "Alexis." "Take care of him." "You do anything to him... and you'll never find that locker." "Yeah." "Let's get out of here!" "You okay?" "Yeah." "Always." "No!" "You'll kill him!" "Alex, don't!"