" I still don't like this." " Nobody asked for your opinion, Barney." "Brockett was serious when he told you to stay out of the way." "What if you get caught?" "He could have you arrested." "Barney, if I'm gonna dive on that wreck, I've gotta do it when Brockett's ashore." "He's coming in this morning." "Look, Lee and his friend will be here any minute." "Lee's a good man." "He can help you." "I don't need any help." "I can find all the evidence I want by myself." "You're not a spring chicken anymore, Gus." "Barney, go on." "Go find your friends, landlubber." "I told my friends to meet me down at the docks." "I figured I could watch out for you from there." "Let's get going." "We're not getting any younger." "AMANDA:" "California was a great idea for a honeymoon." "LEE:" "Getting married was a better one." "You know what?" "Barney's gonna love you." "He's like family." "While my uncle was traipsing around the world Barney sat in as sort of a backup dad." "I spent more time in his mess hall than I did in school." "BARNEY:" "I was starting to worry." "You were down there an awful long time." "I'm telling you, Barney, that little piece of gold is gonna nail Brockett." "Yeah, let's see it." "Get your paws off." "You didn't think I'd find anything, did you?" "I don't even know what you got." "Well, that, Barney, is a gold doubloon." "Now I got something to work with." "Okay." " Come on." " The coin." "Forget the coin." "Let's get out of here." "Come on!" "AMANDA:" "You wanna tell him we're married." "LEE:" "Amanda, he doesn't know anybody we know except my uncle and he won't say a word if we tell him not to." "Get down!" "Get out of here!" "LEE:" "Amanda, in the car." " Barney, what the hell is going on here?" " It's the gold." "Looks like it's clear, but just to be careful, let me go first." "Oh, my God." "NURSE:" "Mr. Stetson?" "Dr. Neely wants to see you." "How is she?" "Is she all right?" "Follow me, please." "I'll be right here if you need me." "WOMAN [OVER PA]:" "Dr. Kinney to Radiology." "Uh, Mr. Stetson, I'm Dr. Neely." "She's out of surgery, but I'm not going to kid you." "We still have a long way to go." "But she is gonna be all right, isn't she?" "The next 48 hours will be crucial." "It's a miracle she's alive." "The bullet went through her chest." "Fraction of an inch either way and she wouldn't have had a chance." " When can I see her?" " It's going to take a while." "And there's nothing here for you to do." "Get some rest, but leave your number." "I'll phone you." "Please, Mr. Stetson." "All right." "[WOMAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY OVER PA]" "Lee?" "[LEE SIGHS]" "She's alive but it's touch and go." "The next 48 hours are going to tell." " This is Sheriff Waterhouse, Lee." " Pleasure." "How are you?" "I've told him what I could." "He's gonna need your statement." "It's not urgent, Mr. Stetson." "Barney says you'll be staying with him, so I know where to find you." "Hey, I'm damned sorry about all this." "We'll get to the bottom of it." "That I guarantee." "Thank you, sheriff." "Uh, Barney, I have to make a phone call." "Hello, Mrs. West." "Heh." "Yeah, it's Lee, uh...." "Well, I'm afraid I'm not doing so well right now." "It's Amanda." "There's been an accident." "The eternal metal." "You can't tell if this gold doubloon was minted 200 years or two weeks ago." "Chemically impossible." "Forget about the gold." "You shot a woman, Scott." "A tourist." "Some poor damned unlucky tourist." "Why?" "So I could still give you 20 percent of 38 million." "I wanna know what you got me into." " What if she dies?" " She won't be the first." "I didn't think I was gonna let you know." "The Federal Gold Reserve, three guards dead." "My partner's doing life." "He's got a million on my head." "It's the Harpers Ferry heist." "June." "Biggest in U.S. history, I think." "You came to me in April with some cute plan to raise some phony treasure." "You knew about it then." "You just can't fence 38 million." "Not in federal gold." "It makes you hotter than a match head." "So you're counting on this treasure hunt to wash it clean, hmm?" "It already has." "You see, doubloons are irregular shapes hand struck, easy to counterfeit." "The state's already authenticated the entire lot is 18th century." " You can't spend doubloons." " Collectors will pay a premium." "Even with the big bite California state's gonna be taking I'll still be doing better than if I fenced it." "It goes through my dummy corporation." "I disappear and I'll never have to worry again." "So when's the auction?" "Third-party private sales." "But you don't have to worry about that end." "The state certifies the audit on the gold day after tomorrow." "You go your way and never see me again." "Until then just close your eyes or something." "LEE [OVER PHONE]:" "I flew out here the minute I heard, Billy." "I'm glad her mother was able to locate you." "Yeah, she was very upset." "I can have a truckload of agents to back you up before dark." "No, no." "Thanks for the offer, Billy, but, uh...." "Listen, Las Palmas is a very small town." "It might be easier if we open this up quietly." " Okay." "You're there." "You call the shots." "LEE:" "Thanks." "Lee, she's strong, she'll be fine." "LEE:" "You bet she is." "Keep your fingers crossed, huh?" " You all right, son?" " Yeah." "[CLEARS THROAT]" "I'm sorry you had to walk into this." "Just what the hell did we walk into, Barney?" "Well, ever since Jeremy Brockett found all this gold a couple of months ago the town has gone crazy." " Was the shooting part of it?" " You'll have to ask Gus Weinstein that one." "They were shooting at him." "Gus is a retired mailman who's lived around here a long time." "He got the treasure bug by reading the National Geographic." "Yeah, well, people don't shoot at you because you've got a bug." "Well, Gus has it in his head that no two-bit treasure hunter like Brockett could possibly find La Bodega." "Well, he's been causing Brockett lots of problems." " Let's go." " Where?" "I can either sit here and go crazy, Barney, or I can do something." "Come on." "Let's go." "[TYPING ON KEYBOARD]" "Gus!" "It's open." "Mr. Stetson." "Call me Lee, huh?" "All right, Lee." "I was really sorry to hear about your wife." "Yeah, well, I'm just about past being sorry and starting to get mad." "Lee can help, Gus." "Tell him everything." "Sure, but not here." "I think we could all use a drink." " Good." " You" "LEE:" "Well...." " Oh, yeah." " Hello, there." "Would you please, uh, put this on my father's tab?" "So you mean to tell me that all that stuff in your cabin is material on the Bodega?" "I know more about the Bodega than any man alive." "So you think Brockett hasn't found the Bodega?" "So far, Brockett's brought up doubloons and ballast stones." "Where's the Bodega's cannons?" "Where's the bell she was carrying for the mission at San Carlos Borromeo?" "Besides, Bodega was a supply ship, she wasn't a treasure galleon." "Trust me, the gold that Brockett found did not come from the Bodega." "Hey, I had a piece of it right in my hand today." "Somebody didn't like that." "Believe me that coin could have told me a lot." "LEE:" "Why don't you just ask Brockett to show you one of his doubloons, huh?" "I did." "They're locked up in the bank until he squares with the state." "Oh, I saw pictures in the papers but you couldn't tell the depth of the die marks or the details or nothing." "BARNEY:" "If Gus could get another one that he could really examine he might accept it for real and come down off his high horse." "Of course, how he might go about that, I don't know, Lee." "I might think of something." "I might." "He said he could prove the gold is phony if he could find the right papers in his cabin." "What about this, Scott?" "You told me you had everything figured out to the very last detail." "What if the old man does have something that could expose us?" "Well, if he does, he won't have it for long." "That rat's nest he lives in is a regular firetrap." "Everybody knows that, right?" "Tommy?" "Ms. Nunzio, I hope our little spot-check here isn't too inconvenient for you." "Not at all." "We're always eager..." " ...to cooperate with the IRS." " Ah." "The new tax laws can be so confusing." "Yes, heh, they can." "Besides, I'm here full-time until I finish the cataloging." "So can I show you our authentications?" "Uh, look, I'll leave the archeology and so forth to you." "All I have to do is eyeball the valuables for a spot estimate, heh." "As you can see, we have an armed guard..." " ...outside at all times." "LEE:" "Mm-hm." "Both the vault and the safe are kept locked and it takes two people to open the safe." "LEE:" "Hmm." "Thanks, Mr. Bishop." "Great." "NUNZIO:" "These are our samples." "LEE:" "Oh, wow." "Oh!" " Impressive, isn't it?" " Oh, yes, very." "A fortune in new doubloons." " New?" " Well, in 1673." " Oh, yes, heh." " From the Royal Mint in Mexico City." "See, the Bodega was dispatched from La Paz in the spring of 1769 with a load of supplies for the settlement in San Diego then it was gonna continue on up the coast to Monterey." "So the gold was probably meant for the purchase of furs from the Russians who were trapping up near San Francisco." "I see." "I see." "Uh, Ms. Nunzio, um, I wonder-- I know this is going to sound silly but I wonder if I might..." " ...hold that tray of gold doubloons." " Heh." " You know, something to tell the children." " Sure." "Of course." "Oh." "Oh, yeah, feel the weight." " Here you" " Oh!" "Oh, don't worry about it." "I'll get them." " No." "Just" " I'll get them all." " I can't believe I just did this." " It's okay." "I can get them." " I" " How could I be so clumsy?" "I mean, I can't believe I did this." "I really can't." "I mean, gold doubloons." "Oh, what a clumsy." "This" " I'm sorry." "NUNZIO:" "It's okay." "I think I got them all." " Oh, have you got them all?" " Yeah." " Okay." " There's a few more" " Here are some right here." " There's a few more." " Okay." " Here we go." "NUNZIO:" "Yeah." " You're sure?" "We've got them all?" " We got them all." " Marks on them or anything?" " We got them all." " We gotta get out of here." " Okay." "[BIRD SQUAWKING]" "Beautiful." "I can cast a wax duplicate out of this." "And then I'll really have something to go on, heh." "What kind of a scam did you have to pull to get those imprints, Lee?" "Barney, I'll tell you sometime, okay?" "Is that smoke?" "GUS:" "That's my cabin." " No, Gus." "It's not worth it." " Gus." "Come on, Barney." "Stay back." " How's it look?" " Like I'm on the right track." "Sure you are." "That's why Brockett tried to plug you." "Now, look, guys, this looks like a pattern, I know that." "The fireman seemed to think the fire started here on the desk with that old lamp." "That's peculiar, seeing as how I only light that lamp when the electricity's out." "And that hasn't happened for months." "We're flushing those birds from their roost, Lee." "Yeah, maybe, Barney." "Maybe." "What's the damage to your research?" "They burned me out pretty good but most of what I had on paper, I still got up here." "Also, now I got this." "Yeah." "You know, Gus, I wanna take a look at Brockett's salvage boat." " Can I use your tanks?" " Sure." "You wanna go now?" "No, it's too late." "Security will be heaviest at night." "I wanna take a look tomorrow when they're away." "Right." "[BEEPING]" "NURSE:" "Mrs. King needs her rest." "Five more minutes, Mr. Stetson." "Oh, my God." "She's stable, but still in critical condition." "All we can do is wait." "[DOTTY SIGHS]" "She's gonna be fine." "She's gonna be absolutely fine." "Lee, I have never seen her give up on anything that was important." "And she's not gonna give up now." "My God, what happened?" "Who did this?" "Why?" "I mean, it doesn't make any sense." "LEE:" "Come on." "I'll tell you everything I know, all right?" "Come on." "The guard's still on the bow, Lee." "LEE [OVER RADIO]:" "All right, I'm going into the cabin." "Right." "Give me the camera." "Let's go." "Barney?" "Barney?" "[BOTH GRUNTING]" "[MAN GRUNTS AND LEE GROANS]" "I've seen this old bench rat before." "He and his buddies have been hounding my operation for weeks." "And I've seen you somewhere too." "Maybe in this morning's paper." "Yeah." "I got caught in your crossfire yesterday." " I thought I'd check you out myself." " My crossfire?" "That's what people think." "If they wanna make a racket, they can meet with my lawyers." "I got strict security." "I might have thrown a guy off a dock, but, uh, I never shot anybody." "Yeah, well, Gus says you're lying about the gold." "My friend, if you're lying about this, I'll come after you myself." "Hey, I'm sorry about the woman." "I'm sorry about the trouble." "I'm just protecting what's mine." "That's all." "Get them off the boat." "I'll take my camera." "That old Gus seems to be the root of all our troubles." "I better take care of him once and for all." "Why not send Tommy?" "He messed up once already." "This time, it will be done right." "That guy was on top of me before I heard him." "Forget about it, Barney, huh?" "The point is Brockett knows we're digging around." "We're gonna have to be a lot more careful." "I'll drop you off at your place then pick up Gus." "All right." "Now I got you, Jeremy Brockett." "[CAR APPROACHING]" "Well, well, you're here." "Good, you spare me the wait." "I recognize you." "You're one of Brockett's men." "You can tell your boss he couldn't stop me, even though he tried to burn me out." "Tell him he's a fraud and I can prove that." "The gold you brought up couldn't have come from the Bodega." "Is that a fact?" "Well, it's too bad you won't be able to share your discovery with anyone else." "All right, drop it." "Now, sit down." "Sleep tight, Gus." "[MACHINE WHIRRING]" "WOMAN [OVER RADIO]:" "Unit 3, transport CO victim to helipad." "Navy chopper standing by." "GUS:" "Bodega...." " Wait." "Hold it." "Hold it." "Gus, what?" "GUS:" "Bodega de Barco." "Bodega." "Right, Gus." "Bodega de Barco." "Okay, let's go." "Lift up." "Gus, you're gonna be all right, huh?" "They're taking you to a Naval hospital in Coronado on a chopper." "They'll fix you up, okay?" "It's locked." "When I got the call, I figured you'd be here." " Yeah." " So, what did he say?" "Nothing much." "He's in a fog." " How bad?" " Stabilized." "[SIREN WAILING]" "Carbon monoxide poisoning is unpredictable." "Seizures, delusions." "Oh, are you a doctor?" "No, I'm not a doctor, but I've seen a few accidents like this." "Well, how did you happen to be around this one?" "[LEE CHUCKLES]" "I paid a visit to Brockett's boat." ""Paid a visit" isn't the way Brockett tells me." "Oh, yeah?" "Well, he's getting pretty damn edgy." "I went to check on Gus, right?" "Now, his scuba gear was gone so I go down to his boat, only to find him rolling in with the surf, barely conscious." "Check this out." " Bad air?" " Bad air?" "It's full of CO." "Now, Gus wouldn't be that careless." " Meaning what?" " Isn't it obvious by now, even to you?" "Brockett takes a shot at him because he discovered a doubloon." "Then he burns his papers, Gus doesn't give up, so he tries again." "No, it is not obvious to me." "And watch who you start accusing in public." "That is my job." "Well maybe you better start doing your job or I'm gonna start doing it for you." "Look, if somebody I loved was in the hospital close to death I'd want simple answers too." "But the facts just don't add up to anything yet." "When the shooting occurred Brockett was with ten witnesses at the Half Tanked bar." "When this happened, he was with you." "He's got plenty of boys aboard that boat that will do any kind of dirty work..." " ...to get an extra piece of that gold." " We're checking them out." "But if I were you, I'd let the law take care of justice and I'd take care of the woman I loved." "WOMAN [OVER PA]:" "Code blue, 346C." "Code blue, room 346C." "Lee, it's Amanda." "[EKG FLATLINING]" " Where's that bicarb?" " Right here." "We need 100 milligrams of lidocaine, stat." " You better wait out here." " No, no." "DOCTOR 1:" "And charge the paddles." "Better get a vial of...." "Mr. Stetson, you can't help us save her life." "But if you get in the way, you will help us lose it." " Now, get out of here, please." "Now." "DOCTOR 2:" "Recharged it." "DOCTOR 1:" "All right, clear." "[FLATLINING]" "WOMAN [OVER PA]:" "Mrs. Burdette, please call Admitting." "Mrs. Burdette, please call Admitting." "Almost lost her, but she didn't give up." "Not for a second." "[DOTTY SIGHS]" "She's holding on, so we're back where we started with a long ways to go." "Young woman's a fighter." "That's good." "Thank you." "Oh, boy." "[LEE SIGHS]" "Well, that's it." "All the files have to do with navigation." "Degrees of leeway when the wind is over the helmsman's left shoulder current set and drift." "Gus was trying to plot the exact course of the Bodega." "LEE:" "Currents, storm track." "Barney, I don't know how this is gonna help us." "Now, "model." What's that?" "LEE:" "It's the Bodega." "Gus created a computer model of his ship." "Just like his wooden model." "It's perfect, down to the last detail." "Yeah." "Hold on." "Hold on." "Look at this." "It's labeled "bodega de barco."" "That's what he said over and over this morning." "It's the cargo hold." "Barney, if Gus wanted to hide some information about his ship what better place...." "Than in the hold of the ship itself." "You got it." "The model ought to be on a table by the window." " There it is." " Ah." "Let's see." " I got it." " Good." " I guess he wrapped the doubloon I made." " Ah." "Spanish." "It must be one of those documents he copied in Seville." "Yeah, 17th-century Spanish." "We're gonna need help in translating it." "WATERHOUSE:" "All right, suppose you two hold it right there." " Uh, look, sheriff" " You know, when I saw light on inside I had a feeling I'd find you two snooping around in here." "Yeah." "Look, can I, uh, show you something in my pocket?" "Very slowly." "Uh-huh." "[CHUCKLES]" "There seems to be a minor misunderstanding here but I'm not sure by who." "Yeah, never mind that." "Do you have a facsimile machine?" " Sure, back at the office." " All right, then let's go." "Well, that's the last of it, Mr. Brockett." " If you'll just sign this receipt...." " Oh." " There you go." " Great." "On behalf of the State of California, let me congratulate you and thank you for adding to our store of treasures." "Uh, thank you for helping me get this out of town without any fanfare." "It's safer that way, for everybody." "Absolutely." "Maybe next year, we can bring up the mission bell." "You never know." " Now what?" " We need to make a stop at the boat." " What for?" "I thought we'd right head out." " Eh, nothing major." "We just need to tie up a few loose ends." "WATERHOUSE:" "Transmission's coming in now." "This model is Gus' pride and joy, he built it himself." "He wouldn't stick just any piece of paper in it." "That has to be the proof he was looking for." "Here." "It's from a logbook kept by the harbormaster at La Paz, dated 1769." ""There was an error in the manifest of the supply ship, La Bodega." "Manifest states cargo of gold doubloons was minted in Mexico City."" "Impossible." ""A disastrous fire befell the mint three months ago."" "Brockett's gold had Mexico City mint marks on it." "So Gus was right." "Brockett didn't find the Bodega's treasure." "He didn't find any treasure." "It's counterfeit." "There weren't any gold coins minted in Mexico City in 1769." "The harbormaster found the error nobody except Gus knew about it." "Not even the state archeologist." "Let me get her on the phone and speed things up." "But where did Brockett get all that gold?" "That's what I'd like to know." "Let's go ask him." " No." "Not you, Barney." " Oh, come on." "Why?" " Things could get too dangerous." "WATERHOUSE:" "Let me speak to" "D.C. is going to wire us the current status of any missing gold in this quantity, okay?" "It can't be a very long list." "Wait for it, then stay put or you go home." " Do you hear me, Barney?" " I hear, I hear." "I ain't deaf yet." "Yeah." "Of course hearing and listening are two different things." " All right, what's this all about?" " Like I said, tying up loose ends." "Don't look so surprised." "Did you think I was gonna share my profits with a loser like you?" "Come on, move it." "Get in." "All right." "Open up the hatch." "Go on." "Get in." "Brockett?" "I wanna talk to you." "Hold it." "No, don't try it." "Tommy?" "Get his gun." "Another passenger for our little excursion to nowhere." "[LEE GRUNTING]" "Set it for 10 minutes." "TOMMY:" "Got it." " Ready?" " All set." "Let's go." "BROCKETT:" "Hey, no, no." "You-- You're wasting your time." "It's locked from the outside." "[LEE PANTING]" "You got any better ideas?" "He's gonna get rid of us in one clean sweep." "Who is?" "It's Scott." "Norton Scott." "The Harpers Ferry heist?" "Half the agencies in the country are looking for him." "I'm not shutting up for him anymore." "You know, he came to me with this doubloon scam about six months ago." "Before he lifted the gold from the Federal Reserve?" "He planned it all out." "I should've known as soon as he shot that King woman how cold-blooded he was." "He shot Amanda?" "Hey, nothing's gonna stop him from fencing that gold, man." "Don't bet on it." "Go on." "You grab something." "Make some noise." "Go on!" "BROCKETT:" "Hey!" "[GAS HISSING]" "Help!" " Help!" " Hold it." "You smell garlic?" "Something like that." "Acetylene gas." "He's got this thing rigged." "We're inside a bomb." "One spark and you can forget it." "Hey, aluminum won't spark." "Yeah." "BROCKETT:" "Help!" "Help!" "Hey!" "Help!" "Let me out!" "Open up!" " Hello?" "BROCKETT:" "Help!" "Hello?" "LEE:" "Who is it?" "BARNEY:" "Who do you think?" "Barney?" "Come on, man." "Get us out of here." "This place is rigged to blow." "Get as far away from here as you can and keep an eye on him." "Come on, move." "[LEE COUGHING]" "[BEEPS]" "Damn it." "[WOMAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY OVER RADIO]" "It all fits, Billy." "Scott didn't slip out of the country after hitting the Federal Reserve." "Even when his partner started talking exchange for a lighter sentence." "Yeah, Scott played it cool." "He set up shop out here in California using counterfeited doubloons to launder the gold." " What can we do?" " Brockett's spilling everything he knows but Scott was smart enough to leave out some details." "Yes, like the name of his dummy corporations that he's having his profits channeled into." "Exactly." "But he's gotta make contact with precious coin brokers first to turn those doubloons into cash." "It will take time to track down the metal and coin dealers on the west coast." " Our only chance is to find him first." " Maybe we should catch a plane." "No, there's no time for that." "We'll do the best we can from here." " We?" " Yeah, it's funny, isn't it?" "It's always been Amanda and me." "But she's got enough to do right now." "Besides, I've got an old friend to use as backup." "I'll talk to you later, Billy." "Scarecrow out." "It doesn't make any sense for Scott to take off in a truck without some sort of camouflage." "You know, Brockett has his repair work done at Las Palmas Beach Auto Repairs..." " ...just up the road on the left." " Okay, let's take a look." "There he is." "All right, Barney, get out here." "Wait till I get inside, then close the gate so he can't make a getaway." "Get some backup, Lee." " Let Waterhouse put some men around" " No." "No, Barney." "He shot Amanda." "He is mine." "Get to a phone." "Call the sheriff and tell him to come clean up the pieces." "Now, go on." "Get." "Scott, hold it." "Hold it!" "You're not getting out of here, Scott." "Not unless you kill me first." "Sure, Stetson." "If that's the way you want it." "LEE:" "Oh, come on, man." "Don't disappoint me." "At least try a bribe or something, huh?" "You've got 38 million, spread it around a little." "Why should I if I don't have to?" "You're dead." "Lee." "Lee!" "Lee, stop it." "Stop it." "Stop it." "Stop it, you're killing him." "Stop it." "Listen to me." "Waterhouse has heard from the hospital." "You hear me?" "Waterhouse has heard from the hospital." "What?" "How's Amanda?" "He didn't say." "Just they want you there right away." "You watch him, Barney." "You hear me?" "You watch him!" "DOCTOR:" "You made good time." " Get out of my way." "I'm going in." "Of course you are." "Lots of TLC is just what the doctor ordered for a quick recovery." "Oh, she's gonna be all right." "I told you so." " Wanna see her?" "She looks beautiful." " Yeah." "I wanna tell you something." "After a few weeks in bed, I'm gonna have her hopping around the house...." "[EKG BEEPING]" "[AMANDA GROANS]" " Hi." " Mm." "Hi." "What happened?" "I'll tell you all about it when you get better, okay?" "AMANDA:" "Hmm." "Did you get the number of that truck?" "[LEE CHUCKLES]" "You bet I did." "AMANDA:" "Mm." "No honeymoon tonight, apparently." "Aw, shucks." "I'm gonna go to sleep, will you sit with me for a minute?" "[WHISPERS] I love you, Mrs. Stetson." "[AMANDA SIGHS]" "[English" " US" " SDH]"