"you can leave her in the hallway for now." "Stabilizing here." "Where's the portable x-ray?" "charge or cash?" "uh..." "Tucson." "Seven eighty-eight thirty." "Okay." "Hey." "Taking me to breakfast?" "I'm meeting Bosko." "Vincent." "sweetie." "l saw them on the kitchen table." "They're not there. I already checked." "Want me to make coffee?" "No school today?" "My dad's taking me to the new building and then to lunch." "Try under the cushions on the sofa." "He's already a half an hour late." "He gonna show?" "Or that son of a bitch gonna stand her up like last time?" "babe." "where are my barrettes?" "They're not in the couch." "Wear the blue ones." "I don't wanna wear the blue ones." "They don't match." "Did you check in your bathroom?" "l checked everywhere." "what do you want me to do?" "Find them." "all right." "What?" "he's gonna-- l'm not gonna be ready. I can't be late." "I will be late." "we can find them if we look together." "baby. lt's all right." "[sobbing] No." "It's all right. lt's all right." "you and me." "We'll find them together." "Just relax." "He won't come before we find them. I promise you." "Hey." "Give me another refill." "Now he wants a refill." "What's your name?" "Waingro." "huh?" "You guys always work together?" "All the time." "huh?" "Real tight." "you know." "Slick?" "How's he doing?" "A hundred percent." "Right on schedule." "Made a right on Venice Boulevard." "We're a mile and a half from you." "Okay." "300 yards from you now." "Get set." "l am." "Put that on." "Here we go." "Two eleven!" "Two eleven!" "We're being held up!" "Two-eleven alarm." "Armored car." "There's the call." "Three minutes." "Clear!" "Eighty seconds left!" "Get back." "Get back." "Get back!" "you see that shit coming out of their ears?" "They can't fucking hear you." "Cool it." "I got it." "Got it." "You had to fuck with me." "You wanna fuck with me?" "Come on!" "What the fuck are you doing?" "man." "Guy was making a move." "Let's go." "Dumb motherfucker." "sir." "l heard them." "A million six." "000 to you." "Here's a 150 front money." "three days." "Know who owned these?" "Malibu Equity and investments." "Roger Van Zant." "Owns banks in the Caymans." "Runs investment portfolios for offshore drug money." "Stuff like that." "So?" "So you ripped off his bearer bonds." "He's got insurance." "That's the point." "He collects 100 percent from the insurance." "He's a player." "Maybe he buys his bonds back from us for 60 percent of their value." "And make 40 percent on top of the 100 percent." "000 to you." "Try it on him." "Kelso called." "About what?" "A score he's putting out and wants you to look at." "What do I need his score for?" "I got my own." "Says it's clean and low eight figures." "Nine a.m. tomorrow." "What happened out there?" "Don't ask." "Find the ambulance?" "Dumped it four blocks from here." "22nd Street between Figueroa and Flower." "everything." "Investigators are still working the scene...." "They were airborne." "Taped the last few seconds of the black-and-whites doing demolition derby." "Stolen out of Fresno two weeks ago." "Yellow pickup truck out of Whittier day before yesterday." "or does it stay in Division?" "This look like gangbangers working the local 7-Eleven to you?" "Robbery-Homicide's taking it." "Yeah." "officer:" "All yours." "We got three motorists." "All they saw were men with masks." "They were distant." "he was closer." "He id anybody?" "he was hiding." "He heard it mostly." "Okay." "What about them?" "this guy started mouthing off." "somebody called a guard "Slick." "Slick?" "Yeah." "right?" "From here." "bang." "To his side." "This guy here has got what appears to be a double-tap entry wound to the sternum." "close range." "Probably executed." "and they ignored the loose cash." "because they were on a clock." "Which means they knew our response time to a 211... entered escaped in under three minutes." "It's a good spot here." "We got good escape routes." "Two freeways within a quarter of a mile." "Traffic video camera?" "Probably disabled." "Check it anyway." "You recognize the M.O.?" "M.O. is that they're good." "Once it escalated into a murder-one beef for all of them... they didn't hesitate popped guard number three because what difference does it make?" "Why leave a living witness?" "these guys will rock 'n' roll." "The shape charge." "The shape charge indicates that they are technically proficient." "Proficient enough to go in on the prowl." "So let's start looking for recent high-line burglaries that have mystified us." "Run "Slick" as an alias to the fbi." "You're gonna get the phone book." "Do it anyway." "Who's moving the bearer bonds?" "Check the usual fences." "You and I will check Cusamano and Torena." "I want you to take Goldstein and Alfaro." "Hang in with Forensics." "I want the explosive." "it's exotic." "We can trace the sale." "Rachel." "Vince." "Want some pie?" "Gotta go to the john." "man." "He was making a move. I had to get it on." "Split's in the car." "I took out of ours evenly to make up for his full end." "Because I wanna pay off and get rid of this motherfucker right now." "Okay." "Hold it!" "Hey." "Where's the rest?" "We're late." "you look too good to go out." "I could just jump you right here." "baby." "so don't sweat it." "We really are late." "you gotta be kidding me." "it ain't worth the risks you take for 8000." "baby." "Let's go." "Get your coat." "There is no point talking to you." "All you are is a child growing older." "What's that supposed to mean?" "living our lives." "I'm married to a gambling junkie who won't listen." "get in the fucking car." "What am I doing in this rat-bastard situation?" "You're not!" "What do you want from me?" "Leave the bankbook and car keys... or am I going alone?" "You could keep that other crap but Dominick would go with me." "Don't you even think about" "Yeah." "Tell me Albert Torena called back." "Albert Torena call Vincent?" "No." "No." "Report came in." "linear-shaped charge used in demolition." "New Mexico." "that's wonderful." "Are you all right?" "What happened?" "Where you been?" "Work." "Lauren's dad show up?" "didn't show." "We waited for you till 10:30." "does this guy have any idea what's going on with his kid?" "I don't know." "Fucking jerk." "is she okay?" "She's been in her room all day." "she's not okay." "Neither am I." "four hours ago." "Um-- you withdraw." "Justine." "I'm sorry if the goddamn chicken got overcooked." "to a key defendant here." "Did you find it?" "Not yet." "There it is." "somewhere." "Interior design?" "It's on the back wall." "sir?" "Please." "Will you pass the cream?" "Thanks." "What did you get?" "What?" "What are you reading?" "Book about metals." ""Stress Fractures in Titanium."" "What kind of work you do?" "why are you so interested in what I read or what I do?" "I've seen you in the store from time to time." "What store?" "Hennessey + lngalls. I work there." "Uh.... it's okay." "I'm sorry I bothered you." "I didn't mean to be rude." "I didn't recognize you." "I work in metals. I'm a salesman." "My name's Neil." "I'm Eady." "You like working there?" "Sure." "I get a discount and there's a whole section of books in my area." "What area's that?" "Graphic design." "letterheads and logotypes at night and the store's a day job till I get enough going." "Who do you do that for?" "a restaurant." "um... record label." "CDs. I've done two so far." "You go to school for that?" "yeah." "I went to Parsons." "Where's that?" "New York City." "How long you been out here?" "About a year." "ha." "Not really. I'm mostly here for the work." "no... kind of above Sunset Plaza." "It's actually kind of-- lt's a little house that I rent." "beautiful view." "What about you?" "l live up here." "That's very funny." "So where's your family from originally?" "Um...." "l'm Scotch-lrish." "emigrated to Appalachia in the late 1700s." "Where are you from?" "The Bay Area." "Are your folks there?" "I don't know where he is." "Got a brother somewhere." "You have a tight family. I can tell." "Yep." "Right?" "You're right." "Yeah...." "City of lights." "they have these iridescent algae." "They come out once a year in the water." "That's what it looks like out there." "You been there?" "I'm going there someday." "yeah?" "You travel a lot?" "Yeah." "Traveling makes you lonely?" "l-- l'm alone. I am not lonely." "You?" "I get lonely." "Albert!" "Shit." "Albert." "man?" "You crazy?" "This ain't Disneyland." "Albert." "Where the fuck you been?" "Vincent." "You know." "Let's violate his ass right now." "is that it?" "man." "I'm hitting like one of them flamingo-matador guys." "Flamingo?" "That's got nothing to do with me." "I was cutting it real smooth." "I'm generating leads and shit for you." "man." "You know." "Bullshit." "I paged your ass all day." "I can't stand paging." "jacking methamphetamine again." "brother?" "It's a substance-abuse problem." "Empathy was yesterday." "Today you're wasting my motherfucking time." "look" "Did you fall in love?" "Come on." "Did you fall in love last night and you went off somewhere?" "Vincent" "Just tell me that. I'll settle for it." "l'll buy that." "Vincent." "Give me all you got!" "Vincent" "Give me all you got!" "man-- My brother Richard's gonna talk to you." "I heard "Richard"?" "He's gonna talk to you." "Richard?" "Richard." "Richard." "is he?" "he's gonna meet you tonight." "Tonight?" "What happened to now?" "l-- l-- l implored him because I knew you was coming this a.m." "I swear." "He said no because he in Phoenix." "Ahh." "man" "man." "You know?" "He'll meet you at BJ's on Alvarado at 2 a.m. Be there." "You be there too." "Vincent." "hey." "Be there." "Don't waste my motherfucking time!" "What is it?" "It's a bank." "It depos cash on Thursday for distribution to all the other branches to cover Friday payroll checks." "the command branch has got a full whack." "On the prowl or strong?" "Strong." "Through the front door." "How many guys?" "Eh-- walk out." "000 advance..." "...against a 10-percent cut for that?" "Uh-huh." "Sounds like an address to a cowboy score." "They hit the holdup alarms I gotta get out before the cops show." "What is that?" "They hit three holdup alarm systems." "Two telco and a cellular." "but the signals aren't going anywhere because.... you cut in and trick out the alarm-system computer to turn itself and the video recorders off 20 minutes before you walk in the door." "electrical-engineering plans?" "got the boards already built." "They go straight into the CPU." "What's the estimate?" "12.2 million." "You're on." "Congratulations." "this is a printout...." "Nobody knew the merch was yours." "my way you get 100 percent from the insurance company and take the bonds from us at 60 cents on the dollar and make yourself another 40 percent." "Your operation doesn't skip a beat." "Everybody makes out." "you got a deal." "because there's no percentage if everyone gets their underwear in a twist." "so you have your man call me and we'll set the meet." "okay." "Nice talking to you." "You gonna deal with these guys?" "So word's out on the street it's okay to steal my stuff." "I'm gonna kill the sons of bitches." "Have Harry bring me the spreadsheets for Canary Islands' offshore." "That's not really an estimate." "Those are exact figures." "cash flow of the bank for the past two months." "How'd you get this information?" "Just comes to you." "This stuff just flies through the air." "They send information out and it's beamed out all over the place." "I know how to grab it." "here we go." "Thirteen-point-nine million." "l bought it." "Good." "What did I tell you?" "Here." "collect the money." "How is he?" "He's a businessman." "Okay." "Avocado." ""Avocado." "hello." "Chris is at my place." "What's wrong?" "Husband-and-wife stuff." "I'll let him sleep it off here." "What happened to you?" "When you gonna get some furniture?" "When I get around to it." "Charlene's gonna leave me." "Why?" "Not enough steaks in the freezer." "With everything we've been doing?" "Vegas and the Super Bowl cleaned me out." "When you gonna get an old lady?" "When I get around to it." "You got something else on the side?" "Nothing regular." "She got something else on the side?" "No." "You sure?" "I'm sure." "I don't know what you're doing." "Remember Jimmy MacAwain on the yard used to say:" "You wanna be making moves on the street?" "Have no attachments." "Allow nothing to be in your life that you cannot walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you spot the heat around the corner." "Remember that?" "man." "Yeah?" "Yeah." "Okay." "Today we take delivery of cash from Van Zant then I drop our deposit on Kelso for this bank." "Bank?" "What bank?" "What about the platinum thing?" "It's ready to fall." "then the bank." "You want some breakfast?" "Yeah." "Are you okay?" "sugar." "Yeah." "For real." "Okay." "Gonna do good. I'll see you later." "You Solenko?" "I'm Don Breedan." "told me to come by here and see if you had a job for me." "man. I'm a great grill man." "hit the dishwasher bus tables and empty the garbage too." "drunk or stealing." "And I will violate you back so fast your head will spin." "Twenty-five percent of your take-home kicks back to me." "check it out." "Change in the back." "what are you waiting for?" "Malibu Equity and investments." "Roger Van Zant." "Please hold." "this is Roger Van Zant." "I'm supposed to collect something." "and somebody will call you right back from a different line." "818-133-6089." "Yep." "I got a package for you." "There's a drive-in on Centinela." "Two-thirty tomorrow." "alone." "Who was that guy?" "Nobody." "Who the--?" "Who--?" "Who was that guy?" "He's nobody." "l gotta know who he is." "Who is he?" "you" "He's a legit liquor wholesaler from Las Vegas." "Alan Marciano." "Chris is gonna straighten it up with you." "lt's too late. I'm sick of it. I'm sick of it!" "Shut up!" "Here's the deal." "You'll give Chris one last shot." "then I will finance setting you up myself... anywhere you want." "Dominick will go with you." "And my word counts." "you will give him the chance." "Clean up." "Go home." "Clean up." "Go home." "Give me all your money." "One day you gonna get smoked with that shit." "fool." "got it." "man." "Vincent." "it's all right." "What have you got for me?" "Before we even get into that... all right?" "the back of a trim shop on Irvine if somebody was to pay a little visit this weekend they might find two Turbos and a 911 Slope." "You're looking to rid yourself of your competition." "I'm a good citizen." "I'm Donald Duck." "So you got something to tell me or what?" "coz." "How do I know if I tell you what you need to know you're gonna do what the fuck i need to get done?" "man." "We do business all the time." "you rat motherfucker." "And you know because I say so after I hear what the fuck you gotta tell me." "man." "You understand what I'm saying?" "I can get killed for telling you this shit." "Or you're gonna get killed walking your doggie." "All right." "There's this cat l was locked up with in Folsom." "three years." "He got out and I ran into him." "And so?" "He's a big fiend for action." "I'd have thought nothing... running down to me how he ain't been doing nothing... and all this bullshit." "So right then and there I know this cat's got something going down." "Pretty fucking great." "what's wrong with you?" "waste my time like this." "You saw a guy on the street who's an ex-con?" "I am over-fucking-whelmed." "a Junior G-man badge?" "You gonna make the call on them Porsches or what?" "is he kidding me?" "this Slick is no joke." "You know what I'm saying?" "Say what?" "Say what?" "What?" "Slick." "And tell me about him." "lot of jailhouse tats." "Got a big-ass peacock right here." "What's his name?" "Cheritto." "Michael Cheritto." "Thirty-three busts since 1976." "three convictions." "Two out of a three-to-five-year beef in Attica." "Three years in Marion." "Five years in Folsom off a knock-back to involuntary manslaughter." "Jacket's 2 inches thick." "Okay." "boss." "And Schwartz." "Tell sis l want full surveillance." "day and night." "the work." "like in a restaurant I want pictures of who he moves and sits with." "I wanna see who they move and sit with." "I want it up and running by tomorrow night." "Put your hands where l can see them." "What?" "Put your hands where l can see them." "All right." "I tell you how to do it." "your right hand only take the package and throw it in here." "Fuck." "Behind you." "On the right." "Roger Van Zant?" "who's this?" "You know who this is." "I do." "I sent a guy to deliver the package." "He didn't call. ls everything right?" "forget the money." "What?" "Forget the money." "Wh" "Forget the money"?" "What am I doing?" "I'm talking to an empty telephone-- l don't understand." "because there is a dead man on the other end of this fucking line." "my." "Do you like it?" "Look at my ring." "Wow." "Ha-ha-ha." "Did you know about this?" "It's so beautiful." "You are insane." "Do you like it?" "it's pretty good." "that's right." "Ha-ha-ha." "honey?" "I don't know." "She doesn't know." "Just like me. I don't know either." "Hello?" "it's me." "Hey. I was wondering if you'd call." "I've been busy." "Can I see you?" "you know?" "it wasn't." "me neither." "Can I fall by?" "I'll see you in a little bit." "Thank you." "Good night." "Ha-ha-ha." "Goddamn convention." "Which one's Slick?" "The wide one." "Got two transmitters." "backup's in the firewall." "get ready." "Did you say good night to Neil?" "Good night." "One with the blond hair is Chris Shiherlis." "sis has got a revolving tail and hung a wire on the house phone." "Cheritto's cruised the precious-metals depository three times." "and some bullion." "Sammy and I think that's gonna be their next score." "Who's the loner?" "First time we're seeing him." "We're not on him yet." "get on it." "Okay." "When these guys walk out the door of whatever score they're gonna take next they're gonna have the surprise of a lifetime." "baby." "Time to go." "didn't I?" "yeah." "You fly." "You cool." "You're lying to me." "I can always tell when people lie to me." "I ain't lying." "You a hot dog." "A regular rodeo rider." "And this was the monster fuck of my young life." "sugar." "You don't have a truth-telling style." "What are you talking about?" "You don't know what this is." "The Grim Reaper's visiting with you." "Where you been?" "SHU at Pelican Bay." "B-wing." "I am a cowboy looking for anything heavy." "Billy Ricketts said come see you." "That is why I am here." "Why don't you--?" "Why don't you call this guy?" "This guy's always putting guys on." "brother." "I'll buy you a drink?" "Buy me a drink." "What's so funny?" "Nothing." "lt's really dumb." "Something smells negligent." "You two are perfect for each other." "How did you meet?" "grade school." "Uh-oh." "uh...." "Whatever." "one over the other." "Then he'd turn his eyelids inside out.... and that's the truth." "in that bestial sort of way." "Woman." "This better be earth-shattering." "That's what she tells us." "To Raoul." "Raoul." "To Raoul." "Vincent Hanna." "Here's how we found her." "seventeen." "Been here about six hours." "Rachel?" "same as the others." "Cerebral hematoma." "Who's that?" "I guess." "What the hell they doing here?" "Because it's fucked up." "Somebody inside knew the girl and called the family." "let's go." "That's nice." "my intuition says it's coming up the same guy." "and ending up in your court." "Sheriff's Homicide getting anywhere?" "Not yet." "Get her." "Get off me." "Get off me." "whoa!" "hold it." "easy." "come on." "lt's okay. lt's okay." "Who did this?" "Where's my baby?" "Where is she?" "I need to know what happened." "I guess the Earth shattered." "So why didn't you let Bosko take you home?" "I didn't wanna ruin their night too." "What was it?" "You don't wanna know." "I'd like to know what's behind that grim look." "I don't do that." "You know it." "Let's go." "Come on." "You never told me I'd be excluded." "that you were gonna have to share me with all the bad people and all the ugly events on this planet." "And I bought into that sharing because I love you." "driving a bus. I don't care." "But you have got to be present like a normal guy some of the time." "this is leftovers." "come home and say:" "guess what?" "I walked into this house today where this junkie asshole just fried his baby in a microwave... so let me share that with you." "and in sharing it... cathartically dispel all that heinous shit." Right?" "Wrong." "You know why?" "Because you prefer the normal routine:" "then you lose the power of speech." "Because I gotta hold on to my angst." "on the edge." "Where I gotta be." "You don't live with me." "You live among the remains of dead people." "You read the terrain." "You search for signs of passing for the scent of your prey and then you hunt them down." "That's the only thing you're committed to." "The rest is the mess you leave as you pass through." "What I don't understand is why I can't cut loose of you." "Hey." "Miss Lillian." "baby." "I met the manager. ls that the boss?" "I did time for what that motherfucker does every day." "can you just handle it till we find you something new?" "Can you do that?" "Ain't a hard time been invented that I cannot handle." "Lillian?" "Because I'm proud of you." "You're proud of me?" "Mm-hm." "What the hell you proud of me for?" "Come on home." "What were you doing there?" "l was skiing." "I was trying to ski." "um you meet people." "You try to have a good time." "Did you have a good time?" "No." "Why not?" "I'm not good at meeting people." "You met me." "that happened without my thinking about it." "probably." "it's because you were fine." "Eady." "Take off with me for a while." "Where?" "New Zealand." "When?" "but you could meet me there." "my-- do work there." "l don't know." "What's there to know?" "Are you married?" "What?" "You come and go" "The last thing I am is married." "a double blank." "all of a sudden someone like you comes along." "Neil." "l know enough." "Come with me." "baby?" "Nothing's wrong." "Everything's right." "Will you go?" "Yeah." "Good." "sweetie." "Hi." "What happened?" "You forget your mom was picking you up?" "No." "what's going on?" "I felt like being alone." "I'll drive you home." "Lauren." "What's happening?" "Lieutenant." "Sir." "Captain Jackson wants to know what's going on." "Nothing's going on." "Stay off the air." "Technique." "Open sesame." "Right there." "There he goes." "We walk." "l'm right there." "We walk!" "Now!" "Come on." "He's heard it." "He's heard it." "Heads up." "captain." "I see." "Here we go." "Not till my boss says so." "both of them are not carrying anything." "let them go." "What?" "What are you gonna take them on?" "Breaking and entry?" "They didn't steal anything." "Don't you get it?" "It gets knocked back to some misdemeanor they do six months and they're out." "No fucking way." "I'm not taking the heat from my boss." "They're not walking." "That's exactly what they're gonna do." "They're gonna walk." "This is my operation." "I have tactical command that supersedes your rank." "They will walk away and you will let them." "Fuck." "Back to work." "what?" "Where the fuck did this heat come from?" "Maybe it's the score they were onto." "you know." "assume they got our houses... right now as we sit." "Everything." "Assume it all." "How we gonna buy the bank package from Kelso?" "l'll front that." "That's not a problem." "What happens to Van Zant?" "do you wanna play World War ll in the streets with Van Zant?" "I want my 750." "And he gets a pass?" "I got more motivation to whack Van Zant than either of you." "He is a fucking luxury." "take the bank or split right now?" "nothing." "we are gone on our separate ways." "That's it." "Chris." "The bank is worth the risk." "brother." "We should stay and take it down." "That's where l come out." "Neil." "Whatever." "Whatever." "you're on your own." "You figure this is the best thing to do?" "This is the best thing to do?" "I got plans. I'm going away after." "So for me the reward is maybe worth the stretch." "But Elaine takes good care of you." "You got plenty put away." "real estate." "I would be smart." "I would cut loose of this." "the action is the juice." "I'm in." "sure." "Ha-ha-ha." "Let's go." "let's do it." "let's go." "We got a lot of work to do." "You can't go in there." "Watch this." "I gotta call you back." "You have to have an appointment." "Can I help you?" "Are you Alan Marciano?" "and who the fuck are you?" "Who am I?" "L.A.P.D." "L.A.?" "This is Las Vegas." "You don't even have jurisdiction here." "I don't know who the fuck you guys think you're pushing around... okay?" "Las Vegas P.D. takes you into custody." "You are extradited to Newark on a New Jersey warrant for smuggling cigarettes up from North Carolina three years ago or you go to work for us." "Cut and dried." "shit." "Charlene Shiherlis." "Who?" "Who?" "a fucking owl?" "The lady you been talking dirty to on the telephone every day last week." "you know what?" "You can't tie me to her." "jack off." "I just-- Why did I get mixed up with that bitch?" "Because she got a great ass!" "And you got your head all the way up it." "Jesus." "a woman's ass something comes out of me." "So?" "So no big thing." "All I want is her husband and his whole fucking crew." "you're gonna work with Sergeant Drucker here." "San Clemente Road and Hermosa." "Uh-huh." "That's where we cut through the fence." "That's the access." "Right." "The security systems around here are a joke." "that's Escape Route Number 1." "Anaheim to the 110." "Good." "Okay?" "Yeah." "That's fine." "Got it?" "Good." "Let's go." "They were looking back in this direction." "A container facility?" "For a cartage theft?" "Too visible." "Too lowball for them." "over there's a scrap yard." "Refinery only pays by check." "No cash around." "Same for the scrap yard." "Maybe they're stealing hubcaps." "A refinery and a scrap yard." "What the hell is going on?" "That's what we're trying to figure out." "We thought we had it." "Thought we had it." "I got an idea of what they were looking at." "You wanna know what they're looking at?" "What?" "or is he something?" "This crew is good." "You know what they were looking at?" "What?" "Us." "The L.A.P.D." "The police department." "We just got made." "Yeah." "Okay." "motherfucker!" "Kelso come through?" "you can build a bank with these." "Name is Hanna." "First name Vincent." "I smeared this sergeant in Vice five yards." "Hanna's all over you." "Shiherlis'." "they've been losing you at night." "Hanna's a hot dog." "Graduate school." "Marine Corps." "Major Crime Unit." "He's taken down some heavy crews." "Blew away Frankie Yonder in Chicago." "And he was a fucking maniac." "divorced twice." "Current wife's Justine." "He's why the extra heat." "The Vice sergeant says Hanna likes you." "you do that sharp." "Look how sharp this guy is to figure that." "man." "Three marriages." "What the fuck do you think that means?" "He likes staying home?" "Means the man is one of those guys out there... dedicated." "you should pass." "It's worth the stretch." "This guy can hit and miss." "You can't miss once." "You sure?" "I'm sure." "Let's go to the garage." "Justine." "Justine?" "Where we going?" "where are you going?" "Out." "What are you on?" "TAC 9." "This is Vincent Hanna in Air 18." "Who have I got?" "it's JJ." "I'm in Air 40." "Richard Glover's with me." "It's on the 105 eastbound approaching the 110 interchange." "You running a revolving tail?" "three behind." "have one of them pick me up at the Vermont on-ramp." "Let's go." "or what?" "center lane." "How you doing?" "What do you say I buy you a cup of coffee?" "sure." "Let's go." "Follow me." "Seven years in Folsom." "In the hole for three." "McNeil before that." "McNeil as tough as they say?" "You looking to become a penologist?" "I chase down some crews... get busted back." "That you?" "You must've worked some dipshit crews." "I worked all kinds." "You see me doing thrill-seeking liquor-store holdups with a "Born to Lose" tattoo on my chest?" "I do not." "Right." "I am never going back." "Then don't take down scores." "I take scores." "trying to stop guys like me." "So you never wanted a regular-type life?" "What the fuck is that?" "Barbecues and ball games?" "Yeah." "my life.... my life's a disaster zone." "I got a stepdaughter so fucked up because her real father is this large-type asshole." "I got a wife." "We're passing each other on the down slope of a marriage my third because I spend all my time chasing guys like you around the block." "That's my life." "A guy told me one time:" "Don't let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner." "and you gotta move when I move how do you expect to keep a-- A marriage?" "that's an interesting point." "a monk?" "I have a woman." "What do you tell her?" "I tell her I'm a salesman." "if you spot me coming around that corner you're just gonna walk out on this woman?" "Not say goodbye?" "That's the discipline." "no?" "it is what it is." "pal." "I don't know how to do anything else." "Neither do I." "l don't much want to either." "Neither do I." "recurring dream." "I'm sitting at this big banquet table and all the victims of all the murders I ever worked are sitting at this table and they're staring at me with these black eyeballs because they got eight-ball hemorrhages from the head wounds." "these big balloon people because I found them two weeks after they'd been under the bed." "The neighbors reported the smell... all of them just sitting there." "What do they say?" "Nothing." "No talk?" "None." "Just...." "They don't have anything to say." "we just look at each other." "that's the dream." "I have one where l'm drowning." "or I'll die in my sleep." "You know what that's about?" "Yeah." "Having enough time." "Enough time to do what you wanna do?" "That's right." "not yet." "we're sitting here... like a couple of regular fellows." "and I do what I gotta do." "And now that we've been face to face... I won't like it." "But I'll tell you if it's between you and some poor bastard whose wife you're gonna turn into a widow... you are going down." "There's a flip side to that coin." "What if you do got me boxed in and I gotta put you down?" "you will not get in my way." "yeah but I will not hesitate." "Not for a second." "Maybe that's the way it'll be." "Or who knows?" "Or maybe we'll never see each other again." "They dumped us." "What?" "they dumped us?" "Chris slipped his tail." "He doesn't talk about scores with Charlene so there's nothing for me to get from Marciano. I tried." "What about Cheritto?" "Same." "Transponders got put on a bus to San Clemente." "at the same time." "Nine p.m." "I had coffee with McCauley half an hour ago!" "We were on you." "Then McCauley drives into LAX where surveillance can't fly over because of flight paths." "His car's still there." "He's gone." "Does anybody have any idea where the fuck these people are?" "You hear from him yet?" "Not a thing." "And not hearing bothers me more." "Where's this guy?" "This guy here." "We put him on." "Says he knows McCauley." "Who are you?" "Waingro." "My name's Waingro." "I've been living in this office day and night." "How well do you know him?" "we took some major scores together." "How come I haven't heard from him?" "but he's real thorough." "that's reassuring." "I got some moves I could make here." "Probably be a big help to you." "You recognize the grill man?" "No." "Folsom." "D-block." "Housed with Dobie Rush." "man." "Cisco and Pancho didn't show." "Haul out the garbage." "Mop up the back." "Take your break later." "Piece of shit." "Pick up." "Where the hell is he?" "l wanted to check the slot for a work car." "So did I." "Yeah?" "Hang on." "Yeah." "Hey." "Use a landline." "Call me at 103-7206." "All right." "man." "They're on me like a cheap suit." "I can't dump them." "no." "They're doing parallels." "I can try to dump them again." "you'll draw them to us." "Head for Ventura." "Pull them out of here." "man." "Last thing I wanna do is let you down." "man." "Pick up." "brother?" "what you doing here?" "What I am doing is I'm looking for a driver who can handle scanners and a radio." "today." "You remember the drill?" "sure." "You cool?" "you know I'm cool." "yes or no." "Right now." "yeah." "You're on." "Out back in five." "What's burning?" "What's burning?" "CHEF:" "Nothing I'm doing." "What is this?" "Where do you think you're going?" "Just came across a first edition of Kandinsky's Theory of Color." "it's in good condition." "And it will not stop or answer radio communication." "The 180-foot vessel is called Jin Yin Number 1 and is suspected of smuggling Chinese illegal aliens." "It was spotted Saturday by patrol aircraft." "Stay down." "Don't move!" "Don't fucking move!" "Put your hands in the air!" "Put your hands in the air!" "Put them up!" "down!" "Get on your knees." "Give me the keys." "Get on your knees." "Get on your knees!" "Hey." "Hey!" "Get over there." "Get the fuck" " Get down." "Turn around!" "Put your hands behind you." "Behind you!" "Get down!" "Stay down!" "you stupid son of a-- now!" "Keys!" "Keys!" "Keys!" "All of you stay down." "not your money." "Your money's insured." "You're not gonna lose a dime." "Think of your families." "Don't risk your life." "Don't try and be a hero." "Right now I want you to sit on the floor and put your hands on your head." "go ahead and lean against the wall." "Give me the key." "What key?" "Get down and stay down!" "Sit there." "Sit there." "Don't move." "Let it bleed." "Get down!" "Hey." "Hey!" "Put your head down." "I'll kill you." "Stay down." "Down." "Put your head down!" "Get down." "Get down." "Casals." "Yeah." "You guys working a case on a Neil McCauley?" "called in about a bank they're looking at or something." "Vincent." "11:30!" "I want a block at Figueroa and 5th and I want a block northbound Flower at 6th." "They're already coming out." "we're gonna have to take them in the car." "Wait till they are all in." "Get clean shots." "Watch your background." "Police!" "Move!" "What's going on?" "Move." "Move." "Get down." "Look out." "come on." "L.A.P.D. Get down." "down." "Neil?" "Huh?" "Move!" "Aah!" "Get down." "Fuck." "Fuck!" "Start the car!" "Go!" "Go!" "Go!" "go!" "Go!" "Go!" "Go!" "Come on." "Come on." "Ugh!" "Get him out of here." "Get down!" "Now!" "Shit." "Shit." "now!" "out of the way." "Out of the way." "Mommy?" "Mommy!" "honey." "honey." "I got you. lt's okay now." "Tragedy in a Southland neighborhood today." "A bank robbery spilled out into the street." "live on the scene." "She has the latest." "Claudia?" "this neighborhood was terrorized by a bank holdup gone wrong." "police and armed robbers.... lady." "death." "A Los Angeles neighborhood is shaken by a bank robbery that ended in homicide and terror." "is one of four men involved in the foiled robbery." "miss?" "suspect Donald Breedan...." "Miss?" "during the extensive gunfire between police and suspects." "hold him." "Hold him." "All right." "All right." "lt's all right." "he's got blood loss and shock." "I'm gonna give you quarter-grain morphine for the pain." "Subcutaneous injection." "Bottom line." "clavicle's fractured." "seven hours." "That's it?" "That's it." "Take off your shirt." "What?" "Take off your shirt." "my daughter gave it to me for Father's Day." "I don't give a shit who gave it to you." "Take it off." "Chris." "Hey." "listen to me." "Mm." "Nate's gonna pick you up." "He's gonna take you to his place." "Where's Charlene?" "We gotta get out of here." "We're all over the 6:00 news." "We gotta get out of here." "l'm not going without her." "Think about that." "I will meet you at Nate's." "Where are you going?" "I gotta find out if our out got spilled along with every other damn thing." "Who did it?" "Who wasn't there?" "Trejo." "I'll see you at Nate's." "Yeah." "Yeah." "You still want me?" "You come down here right now and you get me." "Dominick and me." "Okay?" "all right?" "Okay?" "All right." "Chris." "Goddamn you." "You're on a plane for Los Angeles." "Great." "Why'd you do it?" "What happened?" "They made me." "Who?" "Where's Anna?" "She's dead." "the guy who stood in for you." "man." "Who had her?" "Waingro." "Waingro." "On his own?" "For someone." "Who?" "The other he worked for." "Zant." "Van Zant?" "Yeah." "Van Zant." "Are you sure?" "Van Zant." "Did you say anything about how we're getting out?" "Neil." "Come on." "Neil." "l'll call a medic." "l'm not gonna make it." "I can't feel nothing." "My Anna's gone." "She's gone." "holmes." "Don't leave me like this." "Yeah?" "Nate." "You on a cellular?" "Use a hard line." "It's a new one." "Encino." "okay." "at my place." "okay?" "You got the time?" "and I need a new out laid on." "How do you know it's blown?" "How can I trust it?" "you got it." "Stay healthy." "Charlene Shiherlis." "Drucker's got a safe house in Venice to stash her in." "get on the phone." "someone's trying to put it together for him." "You don't believe McCauley already had a getaway?" "Sure he did." "Now he needs another one." "Would you trust yours after this afternoon?" "where did we get him?" "He's a Cl for a burglary cop." "Called in the tip on the bank." "how much time we got?" "he's gone." "Bye-bye." "Bam." "You ratted McCauley to us." "How'd you know?" "Who told you?" "you rat motherfucker?" "Who?" "Connelly back in for Murphy." "Murphy with Leggat right there with him." "Murphy tees it up behind the net...." "Miller out front." "Now here's Murphy with the referee.... where is he?" "Where is he?" "How the hell would I know?" "hmm?" "Isn't this pretty?" "It's pretty." "Aah!" "You slimy piece of shit." "You told me you wanted out from under." "Charlene." "what's your end?" "l-- You stupid broad." "hey." "Easy." "Huh?" "You heard me." "She had a rough ride." "Why don't you fix her a drink or something?" "Look in the cabinet above the sink." "Fuck her." "all right." "lookie here." "L.A.P.D. Homicide." "You wanna put Dominick in the bedroom?" "He stays with me." "There we go." "what now?" "this is out." "You believe you have to betray Chris." "No shit." "That's right." "You would have to." "you victimize Dominick." "Because he becomes an orphan when you go to prison as an accessory because you got no living parents to take him." "juvenile facilities." "Then he steals a car." "Then he winds up in gladiator academies like Chino and Tracy." "Fucked for life." "because you've been there." "but Chris did." "you get off clean." "so you can raise him." "What else are you selling?" "All kinds of shit." "because this kind of shit here sells itself." "here's an update." "hold on for a second." "I have Drucker on the other line." "conference him in." "it's me." "I want an answer." "What's it gonna be?" "We're set here." "She'll make the call." "that's good." "Here's the deal here." "Hugh Benny has reformed his wayward life and become a born-again good citizen." "Neil got sold out to us by this cowboy named Waingro." "Waingro used to be a part of Neil's crew then he went to work for a money launderer named Van Zant." "Units are at Van Zant's house as we speak because he got shot dead earlier tonight." "it's gonna be Waingro." "Waingro just got himself a suite at the airport Marquis under the name "Jameson." He's there now." "bookies assignment officers and snitches in County." "Anyone you can think of who'll put it on the street." "Deploy a team at the hotel and personally check their coms every 30 minutes." "Because maybe Neil will go for him." "Okay?" "How you feeling?" "but I'll live." "Okay." "He's here." "Neil is still here." "I can feel it." "But for how long?" "Uh.... max." "What did you do?" "I don't sell metal." "you fly out after." "Now it's jammed." "Now we gotta go together." "Those other people were with you?" "Michael he knew the risks." "He didn't have to be there." "you get wet." "Get packed and let's go." "Eady." "Eady." "Why did you do this to me?" "Who are you?" "It's gonna be all right." "You understand?" "It'll be all right." "It's gonna be all right." "Right." "Slot 18." "Here's some cash." "When's it over?" "Twenty-two hours from now." "Then we get out of here clean." "When will you let me leave?" "Go now." "You want out?" "There's the door." "Will you let me leave later?" "It will be different." "Do you understand?" "It's ready." "Vincent." "This is my friend Ralph." "You didn't tell me you were.... my God." "Where's Lauren?" "this has nothing to do with me." "l didn't know. I'm terribly sorry." "What are you sorry about?" "Sit down." "Don't you even get angry?" "yeah." "Oh." "Ralph." "you can ball my wife if she wants you to." "You can lounge around here on her sofa." "In her ex-husband's... if you want to but you do not get to watch my fucking television set!" "For God's sake." "Put the television set down." "bitch." "Maybe you should have." "you're a party to this." "yeah. I made Ralph fuck you because it makes me feel good." "Our situation is absurd." "Ralph." "Sit down!" "Why is it that I have to figure things out and explain them to you?" "What do you do?" "how admirable." "You bet." "Except none of it's about us." "No." "I may be stoned on grass and Prozac but you've been walking through our life dead." "Now I have to demean myself with Ralph just to get closure with you." "plastic." "Hangar 17." "Call letters are 1011 Sierra." "then splits." "the works." "where's Chris?" "He's gone." "What?" "Said he's going on his own." "Went to look for Charlene." "I brought him here." "What happened?" "brother." "Check in with me at 9." "Everything's still cool." "All right." "I don't even know what I'm doing anymore." "I know life is short." "Whatever time you get is luck." "You wanna walk?" "You walk right now." "Or on your own.... you choose to come with me." "All I know is...." "All I know is there's no point in me going anywhere anymore if it's gonna be alone without you." "Eady." "I got a live one." "I'll hold." "sugar." "Show yourself." "do it." "Shut up!" "just one second at the window and it's all over." "man." "uh place to rent around here?" "Yeah." "Alberiz's Grocer on Dell Avenue got cards on the wall." "thanks." "It's not him. lt's not Chris." "this is Command." "Take him at the street and check him out." "10-4." "Sergeant?" "Yeah." "This guy's John Peterson." "Valid Id." "first name Gene." "Ran it to DMV. lt's clean." "Let him go." "Roger." "Thank you very much." "Have a good evening." "Vince." "Mrs. Shiherlis?" "that'd be nice." "what do you got?" "Nothing's happening." "it's Vincent." "What do you got?" "Nothing's going on." "Waingro went for ice." "That's it." "You know what?" "Neil is gone." "Bam!" "how do you know?" "got." "What do we got?" "What do we got?" "motherfucker." "You were good." "I'm going to the hotel." "I'm gonna take a shower." "Gonna sleep for a month." "Over here." "baby." "okay." "Shit." "Let me tighten this." "What a fucking waste." "here." "baby." "Not you." "Lauren Gustafson." "I'm supposed to be here with her." "But the police" "Help me. I need somebody to help-- -lt's okay." "I got you." "baby." "baby." "Let's get a doctor!" "Let's go!" "A doctor here!" "There's your mama." "Let's just calm down." "Your mama's here." "ls she on any drugs?" "No." "I want you to get a trauma surgeon and a vascular surgeon." "I could hardly feel her pulse." "Her pressure's down." "So is her respiration." "You have to intubate her." "It's ready." "Oh" "When's the last time anybody saw her?" "l don't know." "Where did you find her?" "The bathtub." "Call Respiratory stat." "Give her large-bore normal saline." "Wide open." "O-negative." "Let's type and cross her for six." "NURSE:" "Looks like she's in sinus tach." "Where is Respiratory?" "We need more help." "Can you have Respiratory come now?" "Let's have X-ray ready for post-intubation chest x-ray." "okay?" "Her vital signs are stable." "The surgeon will be out to speak to you in a few moments." "She's okay?" "She's doing good." "She's gonna be okay." "She's gonna be okay." "my baby." "She's gonna be okay. lt's all right." "lt's all right." "Why'd she do this to herself?" "Why?" "Look what she did." "Look what she did to herself." "There." "honey." "It's gonna be all right." "I'm here. I ain't going anywhere." "You understand?" "Yeah." "I ain't going anywhere." "Yeah?" "lt's me." "Plane's in the air now." "It'll be right on time." "so that's in the trust." "One other thing." "so I gotta tell you." "The guy you wanted checked into the Marquis under "Jameson"... which I figured you wouldn't." "brother." "You take it easy." "You're home free." "Take it easy." "What is it?" "Nothing." "Home free." "l gotta take care of something." "ls there time?" "There's time." "I'll be right back." "Just leave her running." "this is Room Service." "A Jameson ordered a BLT." "They screwed up his room number." "Could you give it to me?" "I know." "1735." "Thank you." "please." "We are currently experiencing a fire alarm." "Please do not panic." "Please do not take the elevators." "Shit." "Waingro's not moving. I'm staying here." "I'm pulling you out." "What about her dad?" "You want me to call him?" "He's somewhere in the Sierras." "And she chose you." "She picked your place." "what happened to her." "it's not." "okay." "is there any way that it could work out between us?" "you know." "But in the end.... it's like you said:" "is what I'm going after." "Justine." "if you have to." "No." "I'm okay. I can-- l can handle this." "Just be careful." "Call me here." "Let me know you're okay." "Okay?" "Take the stairs." "Yeah?" "Security." "There's a fire on 3." "We have to evacuate all the floors." "I can't leave here." "brother?" "He's here on 17." "Look at me." "Look at me." "Look at me." "now." "Switch me to TAC 5." "Casals?" "JJ?" "JJ?" "I'm at the lobby level by the stairwell." "What have you got?" "Teams are moving up the other elevators to the 17th floor elevators." "All out of commission because of the fire alarm." "lt's a mess." "People everywhere." "Fine. 10-4." "get out of the way." "Stay out of the way." "go." "sir." "come on." "sir." "I got it." "ma'am." "Let's go." "let's go." "ma'am." "get back." "sir." "Told you I'm never going back." "Yeah."