"CHUCKIE:" "I like your dress." "[BOYS LAUGHING]" " The robe can be cleaned." "CHUCKIE:" "Go back to your monastery." "We're supposed to learn from this because that's what we do, learn." "Yes." "Don't we also teach?" "CAINE:" "One cannot do one without doing the other." "That's what I was hoping you'd say." "CAINE:" "Peter." "Peter, wait." "Ooh." "You'd better run, Chuckie, he's after you." "I'm so scared." "BOY 1:" "Get him, Chuck." "BOY 2:" "Nail him." "You should not be rude to a priest or pick on someone smaller." "Is that right?" "Well, you ain't smaller." "BOY 1:" "Go get him, Chuckie." "BOY 2:" "Come on." "Come on, Chuckie." "Get him, get him." "[CHUCKIE GROANS]" "Get off me, you goof." "[SCREAMING]" "[LAUGHING]" "You hurt my nose." " He hurt my nose." " Let's get out of here." "Come on." "They taught us patience." "I thought it was only fair to teach them tolerance." "Father, someone must protect those who cannot protect themselves." "The thought is correct." "The method I will discuss with you later." "NARRATOR:" "The grandson of Kwai Chang Caine  walks out of the past." "But I want to fight." "Yes." "So did your great-grandfather when he was your age." "NARRATOR:" "He teaches his son wisdom at a Shaolin temple." "An evil force destroyed that temple." "Father and son each believed the other had perished." "Fifteen years later, they were reunited." "Now Caine faced new challenges and his son grew up." "Look, I'm not my father." "I don't do kung fu." "I'm a cop." "That's who I am, that's what I do." "I am Caine." "I will help you." "OFFICER 1:" "I need it today, Frank." " Yeah." "Get back to me." "Okay." "OFFICER 2:" "I'll see what I can find out." "OFFICER 1:" "Can you take care of this?" " Hey, Tomato Can." "Jesus." "Hide the dogs, it's Epstein." "EPSTEIN:" "Hi." "Come on, sit, sit, sit." " Hey, what brings you here?" " Briefing the night shift." " On what?" "The supermarket robbers, Stella and the Hornet." "I should've known that was your case." "Very kinky broad." "The best of it hasn't been released." "That's the sickest broad I've run across." "Worse than that hooker with battery acid?" "It's a push, but this one's more creative." " So where's Blaisdell and the chief?" " Conference, Cleveland." "Comatose." "SKALANY:" "Hi." " Hi there, sweet pea." "Those legs go all the way up." "Coffee, two creams." " Just kidding, officer." " Oh, yeah." "Maybe I should write you up for, uh, let's see sexual harassment in the workplace." "And make me listen to a serious woman with straight hair and sensible shoes?" "Anything but that." "I'll get you coffee." "How do you take it?" "Black." "Skalany, this is Patrick Michael Epstein." " Epstein?" " Irish mother, Jewish father." "I was the only guy who prayed to the Virgin Mary for a mitzvah." " A mitzvah?" " A mitzvah." "It's like...." "Forget it." "You explain them, you lose them." "Eppy was my first partner." "Four years I had to listen to his rules." "The epistle by Epstein." "Guy's got more new theories than Caltech." " More advice too." " Yeah, nobody listens less than you, kid." "Four years I rode with him." "What did he learn?" "BOTH:" "Nothing." "So..." " ...you ride in the same car..." " Mm-hm." "...alone, at night?" "I bet you got theories about lady cops." "Absolutely." "You like to start on sitting and standing?" "What do you call these guys you're chasing?" " Eppy's got nicknames for everybody." " Stella and the Green Hornet." "Works for me." "What makes you think Stella and the Green Hornet are coming our way?" "It's their pattern." "Gotta go." "Okay, very nice meeting you, Skalany." "This is for that cold and lonely night." " Keep it covered, Tomato Can." "PETER:" "You too." "Skalany, you're very lucky." "You're riding with one of the good ones." "So am I." "PETER:" "What's life got in store for us today, Skalany?" "SKALANY:" "Nothing good." "Must have left my gloves at my father's place yesterday." " Let's just swing by there." " We're rolling here." "Just take 1st at Jones." "It won't take long." "Chinatown?" "You do this a lot?" "Lose your things at your father's?" " I didn't lose them, I forgot them." " Right." "When I get lucky, which hasn't happened in a while I forget things at a guy's place too, you know, uh, earrings, underwear." "What does your underwear got to do with my gloves?" "Nothing." "It just reminded me." "It's a chick thing." "You leave something there so you go back the next day and the guy comes to the door, you look him in the eye and you hope it says:" ""I'm as crazy about you as I was last night."" "Instead of, "The nightmare is back." "Go away or I'll step on your throat."" "[BOTH LAUGHING]" "Love life of a lady in the '90s." "So why do you need an excuse to go visit your father?" "What?" "Excuse?" "I don't need an excuse." "Our relationship has gaps." "It's a little awkward sometimes." "This is my father." "Priest by day, bricklayer by night." "That's a pretty good team, Pop." "You could build your own house and then pray it stands the storms." "This is my new partner." "I am Caine." "Um, Skalany, Mary Margaret." "PETER:" "I left my gloves here yesterday." "Oh, no, here, I got them." "SKALANY:" "I saw this at the carnival." "CAINE:" "The carnival?" "Well, yeah, I mean, you're gonna break them, right?" "Well, I mean, except the guy at the carnival, he didn't have bricks." " It was big blocks of ice." " Ah." "And he didn't use his hand, he used his head." "Hell of a trick." "The purpose of the exercise is not merely to break the bricks." "PETER:" "Yeah." "That could be tough even for my father." "CAINE:" "To crush all of these bricks would require only brute force." "[SKALANY CHUCKLES]" "So, what are you gonna do?" "You gonna break the bottom brick?" "No." "The technique is called chigong." "The purpose is control." "Something my father believes I could use a little more of." "CAINE:" "I intend to break only one brick." "Which one?" "Whichever I choose." " Fifth from the top." " What?" "Break the fifth from the top." "PETER:" "Come on, Dad." "I mean, don't embarrass your son in front of others." "Show Mary Margaret here some of your kung fu magic." "Whoa." "Get out of here." " Do you do this kind of stuff too?" " Hell, no." "Just my pop." "Sorry, never call you "Pop."" "Okay, come on, we gotta go." "We'll catch you later." "Skalany, he's a priest." "Give him a break." "Let's go." "SKALANY:" "Nice to meet you." "Your father's different." "You don't know the half of it." "So how does a priest's son become a cop?" "It's a long story." "It's a long day." "Listen, if I wasn't really interested, you know, I wouldn't ask." "Whip a U-ie." " Why, we miss a pedestrian?" " No, the market back there." "What did you see?" "A customer wasn't where she should be." " So?" " I think we should check it out." " Throw a U-ie." " Okay." "[TIRES SQUEALING]" "Should we call this in or what?" "Let's just make sure we got a reason to first." "That's what my father would say." "A little patience." "Review the situation." " Something is definitely going down." "SKALANY:" "Maybe, but I'm not sure." "STELLA:" "You just stay real calm and no one gets hurt." "You don't wanna hurt me, do you?" "You like me." "I know you do." "I saw the way you looked at me." "You like me." "You wanna do things to me." "You like this?" "The guns, the violence?" "I think it turns you on." "It does, doesn't it?" "It turns you on." "She is one sick puppy." "Okay, we gotta move on her or she's gonna ice him." "You stay with me." "Go ahead." "What do you wanna do?" "You wanna live?" "How much do you wanna live?" "Talk to me." "Talk to your sweet baby." "Every time your mother comes, we go through the same thing." " Make what you want." "SKALANY:" "I don't know what." "PETER:" "It doesn't matter." "SKALANY:" "It would if it was your mother." " You said all the customers were out." " They were." "Look, can we just drop it?" " I don't wanna go to this party anyway." " We'll order out." "Oh, excuse me, can you tell me where Elm Street is, please?" "Huh?" "Excuse me, can you tell me where Elm Street is, please?" " Aah!" "PETER:" "Get down!" "KATHERINE:" "Johnny, for goodness' sake." "JOHNNY:" "Stay down, Katherine." "KATHERINE:" "I can't, I can't." "JOHNNY:" "Stay down." "[GUNFIRE]" "JOHNNY:" "Oh, Lord." "Stay down, folks, stay down." "JOHNNY:" "Katherine." "[KATHERINE SCREAMS]" "No." "[YELLING]" "SKALANY:" "They're gone." "JOHNNY:" "Katherine." "My God." "Let me see, let me see, let me see." "I'm so sorry." "You stay away from her." " You shot her." " I know." "I didn't mean it." "Please believe me." "She jumped as I turned." "I was being fired on." "Please, I am so sorry." "Paramedics are coming." "They're on their way." " You're the police?" " Yes, yes, I am." "My wife was shot by a cop?" "By the police?" "What were you thinking of?" "What the hell were you thinking of?" "Oh, God, what the hell was I thinking of?" "DIRKS:" "Let me see if I got this right." "You pass by this market, you see a 211 in progress." "SKALANY:" "We didn't know that for sure." " You were sure enough to turn around." "DIRKS:" "You don't call it in." "You enter the market with no backup." "Then, with civilians in the line of fire, you attempt an arrest." "Outnumbered, out-gunned, out of position" "Those are the words, but that's not how it happened." " We're reading it right off the page." " Put your own spin on it." "You're a real Dirty Harry, aren't you?" " There was no other choice." " Ah, there never is with hotshot here." "I'm only surprised that we didn't need any body bags." "BAAKE:" "You shot a civilian." "Now, she's gonna be fine, but we're not." "When they get around to suing the police department you wanna explain it to the commissioner?" "SKALANY:" "She jumped in the way." "Oh, well, that makes it all right, then." " You weren't there." " Back off, Skalany." "You should've backed off, Peter." "You should've backed off and thought about it." " But you don't back off, do you?" " You're wrong." "That's exactly what I did." "I backed off." "I hesitated, and I shouldn't have." "That's why the woman was shot." "Me." "It's never happened before." "You guys are right." "I'm a liability." "That woman was shot." "She could've been killed." "It could've been my partner." "Okay, Peter, don't overreact." "I thought you said that's what I'm good at." "What is this?" "You want this badge?" "You got it." "SKALANY:" "Wait a minute." "Wait." " It's okay." "I gotta do this." "MAN:" "A real bad case." "PETER:" "So long, captain." "SKALANY:" "Peter, we have to talk." "PETER:" "I got nothing to say." "SKALANY:" "Peter." "PETER:" "Pop." "Are you here?" "You told me rain's only friend is a tough skin to roll off." "I can't take the rain any longer, father." "Everything you do is so specific and so precise." "You know, don't you?" "No doubts." "No uncertainty." "You've always known who you are." "But not me." "You are not going to class?" " No." " Why?" "I don't know." ""I do not know" is not an acceptable answer." "It's nothing." "Hmm." "Come." "Far away it looks like a toy." "A friend." "But at closer distance it rises up." "Terrible in form." "Ruthless, implacable." "Impossible to defeat or please." "Distance changes everything." "It's just a statue." "You do not choose to see beyond the obvious." "I don't want to do anything anymore." "I can't." "It's dumb." "Everything, all of it." "I just wanna be by myself." "I'll be in my secret place." "MAN 1:" "Hey, how you doing?" "MAN 2:" "Good, good, good." "Where's Caine?" " He quit." " Yeah, right." " You serious?" " As a heart attack." " Where'd he go?" " I don't know." "Yeah, okay." "Yeah, just a second." "Yeah." "Peter?" "Yoo-hoo." "[KNOCKING ON DOOR]" "It's open." "I didn't wanna wait in the hall, and you and I gotta talk, partner." "Who the hell are you?" "What are you doing here?" " I am Caine." " Caine what?" "Caine." " You related to Petey?" " I am his father." "Aha." "Oh." "So you're the guy, huh?" "The one who walked out on him." "We were separated." "I had thought he was dead." "Yeah, well, Eppy's law number three:" "Excuses are like butts." "Everybody's got one, and they all stink." "Some kids you leave." "I should know." "I got three of them in Baltimore, and they're all scum." "Peter's a good kid." "Him, you shouldn't have left." "Where you been?" "I been looking for you." "You got what I need." "You saw Stella and the Green Hornet, so come on." "You and me, back out on the street." "Let's go, come on." "Peter, we must talk." "There's nothing to talk about here." "It is what it is." "I'm going away for a while." "I need some time." "I'll be back." " Am I the reason for this decision?" " No." "You had nothing to do with it, not exactly." "All right, yes." "I guess you got a little bit to do with it." " I see it in your eyes." "CAINE:" "What?" "Judgment." " From me?" " Yes." "About what I am, what I do." "I know you don't like it." "I have never given you any such indication." "Well, you haven't had to." "I'm a cop." "I carry a gun." "I'm surrounded by violence." "I live with it." "I'm a part of it." "I thought I knew who I was." "Shoot from the hip, react, go for broke." "Then you come back into my life." "Make me think." "I start asking questions about what I've learned." "Street stuff." "I think, "Okay, no, this is fine, I can handle this."" "Then in the supermarket, I hesitate." "I can never let that happen again." "And then that does a whole other thing." "If I'm not a cop, who am I?" "I'm your son." "That is someone I haven't thought about in 15 years, not really." "I'm not the same person that you taught." "I'm a mess." "EPSTEIN:" "How about some cheese with all this "whine"?" " Come on, kid, we gotta roll." " I quit, or didn't you hear?" "I hear what I wanna hear." "You saw Stella and the Green Hornet." " Yes." " Yes." "So let's go, you're the one I need." " We must talk." " So have him for dinner." " No." " Forget "no."" "There are people out there who are gonna get hurt, innocent people." " Like the woman I shot." " Yeah, just like her." "We can stop that." "Yeah, maybe I'll kill somebody this time." "Maybe you will." "It's part of the deal." "It happens, so let's go." "Hey, partner, I need you." "Here, let's take it from the other side, all right?" "You're me, I'm you." "You come to me, you say, "Partner, come with me." "I need you."" "What do I say?" "No matter what's happening in my life." "Whether my father showed up, whether my father died what am I gonna say?" "You think I'd let you down?" "CAINE:" "Peter" " Hey." "You let him talk, all right?" "No." " You'd be with me." " How far?" "Wouldn't matter." "So, what's the house number?" "PETER:" "All right, let's go." " All right." "Don't worry, your old man will be here when you get back." "Listen to me, the kid, he took a pretty bad fall recently and, uh, you know, the shooting, it shook him up really good." "It happens." "So I gotta get him back on the horse." "I'm sorry if, uh-- If I was tough on you." "STELLA:" "How do you like my new outfit?" "I think it's nice." "I said, I think it's nice." "It's nice." "Look at me." "Am I so hard to look at?" "Look at me all over." " It's okay, I don't mind." " What the hell are you doing?" "I need distraction." "I need something!" "We'll get what you need." "We'll get it done." "I'm bored." "So, what's the plan?" " Eppy's theory on cop work: 99" " Ninety-nine percent perspiration 1 percent inspiration." "So we'll drive around and sweat until we get inspired." "Slow down here, slow down." "Hey, can you spare a little change for a vet?" "[CAR HORN HONKING THEN TIRES SQUEALING]" " Donny!" "Donny!" "MAN:" "Sorry, man, I can't help you." "Donny, don't you run." " Don't you run." " Run?" "I don't think he can." "PETER:" "Donny!" "Hey, hey!" "Hey, hey, hey." "[TIRES SQUEALING]" "Donny, Donny." "Hey, where do you go?" " Why do you run?" " Oh, Pete." "Pete, how was I to know?" "Just check it out:" "Someone yells someone's name in a public place well, it's, uh, only prudent for me to run." "Am I wrong or what?" "Uh-oh." " Oh, you two know each other?" " Oh, yeah, from in front." "Sergeant, what it is?" "Long and loose is what my hope." "I didn't recognize you." "Your hair grew back." "And no dress." "Hey, you know why I did that." "Donny, there's new players in town." "Hey, Pete, every day brings new arrives." "Such is the kind of town we have." "There are many, many opportunities which is not to say you coppers aren't all lax or ineffective." "But these visitors play the naked turtle." "The naked turtle?" "You, uh, heard anything?" "Uh, in this particular area, nothing's been brought to my attention." "EPSTEIN:" "And if it is?" " You'll be the first to know." " Thanks." " Yeah." "Oh, Pete, Pete, Pete." "Could you perhaps, uh...?" "Thanks." "Hey, Pete." " They are here." " Where?" "They may be working Five Corners." "They're here for the fast score, and then they're gone." "The lady, along with her other attributes has a short fuse and a sweet tooth." "Naked turtle?" " I say we move on." " But with what?" "We're broke." "We have to do this now." "The timing is right." "I checked my chart." " Too chancy." " Why?" "Look at what happened." "Some lucky cop interrupts a stickup." "Good for him, bad for us." "That's all that it was." "It worked before." "It'll work again." "EPSTEIN:" "Donny D. said she had a sweet tooth." "This is the only bakery in the area." "This is a possible." "Look at this." "PETER:" "What?" "EPSTEIN:" "The tinted job just turned the corner." "They're casing the joint." "They're probably looking for a parking spot." "No, no, no." "They just passed two empty ones." " This is it." "It's gotta be." " Eppy, even for you, this is thin." "You got something better?" "Remember, Eppy's rule number four:" "It's better to be inside than outside, where it's cold." "What about rule number 11?" "The one where it's better to be with a broad than chasing a felon?" "Broads are rare." "Felons are everywhere." "Get in there." "This is the best of both." "It's a broad who's a felon." "Ah." "Aha." "Yes, indeed, there they are again." " It's going down." " Eppy, Eppy, hold on." "We better call for backup." "Oh, what do you wanna do, have a parade?" "We gotta get in there, make it nice, set it up, get it ready." "Catch them with their pants down." "We need a solid case on this." " I think it would be safer." " That's a strange word coming from you." "Where do I get this madman reputation?" "Maybe I should carry an extra gun and a knife." "I thought you did." "That's a joke." "I'm out of here." "Where are you going?" " I can't do this." " No, no, no." "You're gonna walk on me?" "No, kid, not on me." "You don't quit on me." " All right." "Come on, let's go." " Hey." "My spare's in the glove compartment." "Okay, come on, let's go, let's go." "Everybody out of the back?" " Yes, but" " Give me this, give me this." "Are you sure nothing's gonna go wrong?" "I don't even know if they're gonna hit this place." "But if they do, we'll be ready." "I heard a woman got shot at the supermarket." " Are these the same guys?" " But we weren't ready." "This time we'll be ready." "Go, go, go." "Oh, great, great." "Look at this." "Oh, perfect." "Very good." "Skalany, just what we need." " Thank you." " What are you doing here?" "Look, he came to the precinct looking for you." "You do understand we have a stakeout here?" " Yeah." " We must talk." "I can't right now." "Bad guys are coming." "We must." "In the back." "Let's go, come on." "Go, please, please." "All right, what is it?" "Peter, I know you are confused and uncertain." "You anticipate disaster, and you blame it on me." " No." " Yes." "No." "Then what?" "All right, maybe I do blame it on you." "You put thoughts in my head." " And that is bad?" " That is fatal." "I can't afford that." "I'm a cop." "Maybe what they say is true." "Maybe I do make preemptive moves." "But it's always worked for me." "It's the way I am." "And I have changed that?" "No, you have not changed that, I've changed that." "Do you remember the Persian flaw?" "Yes." "The Persian flaw is the flaw that Persian carpet makers put in their carpets so they won't be perfect because they believe that only God can aspire to perfection." "What has that got to do with me?" "Each of us has within us our own Persian flaw." "And mine is being slightly insane, a loose cannon." "CAINE:" "No." "Yours is being too concerned about the opinions of those who love you." "Oh, and that's a flaw?" "It can be if you think that their opinion of you is the reason for their love." "Peter, it is you that I love, with all your flaws." "You do not have to change for me." "And anyway, you can't." "You are the same person you were when you were a little boy." "The man is no different from the boy, only more so." "Really?" "When you were a child you would protect the smaller, weaker ones from those who would prey on them." "Peter you are the same as you have always been." "It's right up here." "STELLA:" "I'm ready." "HORNET:" "Let's do it." "[SIGHS]" "So you're not disappointed in me because I'm a cop?" "Because I carry a gun?" "No." "But that does not mean that I will not continue to teach...and counsel you." "Does that mean that you'll stop slapping me?" "It pushes the lesson in." "Well, well, well, look who's coming for their daily bread." "SKALANY:" "It's them." "EPSTEIN:" "Company's arrived." " Go out the back." " No time." "Did they see you?" " Yeah, me." "I don't know about Skalany." " I don't think so." " Go in the back." "And you, grab this mop." "Make it look like you've done it before." "I have." " Skalany, cover him." "SKALANY:" "Yeah." " Oh." "Sorry, folks." "Closed for the day." " Oh, no." "My boss dropped an office party in our laps and I need cakes and cookies for a hundred people, yesterday." " Please." " A hundred?" "Well, I guess we could fire up the ovens." "We got a 211 in progress." "Code 2, but come quick." "Please, I have a list." "It'll make it easier." "I'd really appreciate it." "Police, you're under arrest." "They're cops!" "Drop it." "[GUN COCKS]" " Get in the back." " Yep, yep, yep." "Let's go." "Move it." "You gotta help me, I'm freezing in here, man." "Get him out of here." "It's cold in here." "Oops." "Jammed." "EPSTEIN:" "That's a new look for you." "PETER:" "Yeah, perfect for those intimate shootouts." "[GUN COCKS]" "[STELLA GROANS]" "Yeah, you eat this bread, baby." "I'll call an ambulance." "Perhaps the Persian flaw in your character has something to do with exhibitionism." "It worked, didn't it?" "Put your apron on." "You'll scare the horses." "I have brought a friend." "Oh, darn, you've got your clothes on." "Nice train set." "One day I'll come over with my coloring books." "Party, party, party." "You two just bump into each other?" "Thought you'd drop by, make fun of me?" "SKALANY:" "Actually, um when you cleaned out your desk you forgot this." "And, um, this." "It's a badge." "I know that." "Thanks." " So where are you going?" " Uh, to dinner." "Oh." "All right, well, I'll get my coat." "You are not invited." "Wait a second." "You two are having a date or something?" "SKALANY:" "Well, it's, you know...." "Yeah." "[CHUCKLES]" "So, what would you have done if I hadn't have taken my badge back?" "CAINE:" "As you might say it could have become ugly." "[CHUCKLES]" "How do you do that, Pop?" "CAINE:" "Do not wait up for me." "[ENGLISH SDH]"