"No, i don't think so." "No, i'm certain." "Look at that rock." " The one shaped like a wolverine?" " That's not a wolverine, it's an otter." "Oh, so it is." "But nevertheless, it is here that we saw the three legged cougar." "No, it's here we saw the cougar." "Here is where lipless mulcahy got his mouth frozen to the side of the portable toilet." "So it is." "It's been a while." "Yeah, good times." "And that's..." " that's where my father's body was found he was killed for a dam, ben." "They killed so they could drown our homes, flood our forests... and keep the lights burning all night in the empty buildings of the cities." "But not this time." "Hey, gentlemen!" "Jack goody." "Everything okay?" "We looking after you all right?" "We're fine, thank you." " Great, has someone offered you a coffee?" "No, i... cappuccino?" "Espresso?" "Latte." "Regular and decaf." "Don't say no." "Hey, honey, uh, two lattes." "A half cap decaf for me and, oh, bring some of those biscotti." "Thanks, sweetheart." "Thank you, sir." "I'm tom quinn." "I've come to see mr." "Carruthers." " Well, i'm mr." "Carruthers' personal assistant." "Now, i'm not quite up to speed." "Do you know mr." "Carruthers?" " I spoke to him when he came to our town." "He said if i was ever in chicago to stop and see him..." "i'm in chicago." "I see." "The thing is, uh, mr." "Carruthers is extremely busy right now, so if you could leave me your number, i might be able to get you five minutes in about three weeks." " Three weeks?" "My home will be under 100 feet of water." "Oh, that town." "It's always difficult." "I know." "But you should find some consolation in knowing you'll be providing power for millions of people." "Now, my advice to you, sir, you should go home and move... you can't stop this, it's been approved." "We put it to bed." "It creased the sheets." "We've spent millions." "The people have been talked to." "What about the caribou, the elk, the beaver?" "Did you talk to them?" "'Cause they too can talk." " You know, when i was a kid, i used to think cows talked." "But when i grew up, i realized all they said is moo." "Hey, there she is..." "listen, fellas, uh, i got to fly." "Thanks for dropping by and, um, leave me that number, okay?" "Ciao." "Quinn." "The caribou, the elk, the beaver..." "they too can talk?" " I've been getting into this native roots thing and it seems to work." "Besides, i thought the tonto act might impress that little jackass." "Get down!" "I said get down!" "Five seconds." "Move, move, move, move!" "Go, go, go, go, go, go!" "10 seconds." "Pearls, get the pearls!" "15 seconds!" "Go, go, go!" "20 seconds!" "Move, move, move, move!" "25, let's go, come on!" "Go, come on, let's go!" "Enough, let's go!" "Come on, let's go, come on!" "Hey, hey, hey, hey!" "Go, go, go, go, go, go!" "Damn." "Damn!" "Oh!" "My neck!" "Ah!" "Hey!" "How you doing, huh?" "Hi." "Dilemma!" "Hey!" "Get away from him!" "Ben!" "Get your foothold." " I can't get it." " Yes, you can." "There's no... there's no way... easy, find your legs." "Take my hand, boy." "I, i can't... i got you." "There you go." "That's a long way down." " True enough." "Thank you, mister... who are you?" "Benton fraser." "Benton?" "That's kind of long, isn't it?" "Why don't we just go with ben?" "You're a long ways from town." "Young to be hunting alone." " My friend innusiq killed a caribou last year all by himself." "Your grandparents are worried." "Everyone knows martha and george fraser." "And everyone knows that their grandson ran away from home two days ago." "I told you, i'm hunting caribou." "Sure you don't need help?" "Thank you kindly for your help." "It's the second time you saved my life." "We all have our bad habits." "Still waiting?" " Sorry for the way things worked out today." "It doesn't matter." "I will succeed." " It's going to be very difficult to even see this man, let alone convince him to give up something that's already creased the sheets." " I can talk anybody out of anything, you know that." " Quinn, the rest of the town has already moved." "They've given up." "Sure, because it's easy." "It's just rocks and trees and dirt." "I know that." "Places i stood with my father." "Trails he showed me." "Rocks we sheltered under." "My whole life will be under water." " You may not stand much of a chance against these people." "You're an honest man, like my father." "He wasn't equipped." " I'll get equipped." "You okay?" "Yeah, i'm fine." " You want someone to take a look at that?" " No, no, uh, quinn had some powdered horn, thank you." " That's good, i left my powdered horn in my other jacket." "So how did it go today?" "Not well." "I could have told you that." "These big companies only believe in one thing, money." "Money." " Yeah, it buys lawyers, politicians, access... that's the way it works." "Thank you." " This guy will take your statement." "Vecchio." " Anything on the other guy?" " He went out back." "He ran through a crowded restaurant wearing a mask and carrying a machine gun." " Surprise, surprise, nobody saw him." "Perfect." "Sure you're all right?" "Yeah, i'm fine." "Let's go, buddy." " Wa, wa, wa, wa, wa, wa!" "I'm hurt." "I'm sorry." "You, i'm going to sue you!" "Get me a lawyer." " All right, all right." " Hey, i'm a cop." "Would you rather i threw you against a wall?" " Let's move this circus downtown." " Well, i have to go back to the consulate." " I could wait with you or you can come home with me." "Or i could walk with you." "I didn't run away." "Well, technically, i didn't." "All right, i ran away." "They wouldn't let me hunt." "I'm a 12-year-old boy, and every other boy my age gets to hunt." " Won't find caribou walking that way." "...they've pulled off five high-profile jewellery robberies in the last three weeks." "Now the media's getting all excited." "They want to give them cute names." "They want to make them famous." "Got to nail it, fast." "What have we got?" " His name's jeff storey." "Got a short sheet." "Nothing too serious." "He was not the shooter." " All right, find out what he's got." "Sir!" " Lieutenant, do you believe the man you're holding is one of the laughing bandits who have been terrorizing the downtown area for the last month?" " We're attempting to establish that now." "The one thing i can say is that they're not laughing anymore, neither are the victims." "There's nothing funny about this whole situation." " Do you have any leads on the robbery?" " Oh, the lab boys are working on that report... right now." "Why don't you field this one, harding?" " We'll be issuing a statement at the appropriate time." "Did you recover the jewels?" " Oh, god, no." "The other guy left with the jewels." "Thank you, miss vecchio." "As i've already said, we'll be issuing a statement later." "That's it for now." " Look, you're no doing yourself any favours here." "We've got you cold." "A felony, two priors." "This could be strike three." " Oh, come on, man." "Those other beefs?" "They ain't nothing, man, they're jokes." " Well, i don't think the judge is going to be laughing, because, uh, what i see here is a pattern of escalation." "They're going to want to put you away for a..." "long time, for the, uh, good of society, that kind of thing." "Look, come on." "Cough up some of that dirty cheese." "Look, you're doing 18 to life, and your buddy's whooping it up in monte carlo or something?" "You want to be the fall guy?" "You want to be the fall guy?" "Come on, give us a name." "You give us a name, you'll get six months, tops." "His lawyer is here." " Hey, think about what i just said." "Talk it over with your lawyer." "Six months." " Tim, what..." " shut up!" "Where's the stuff?" " What do you mean?" "Shh." "They said on the news you didn't have it on you, huh?" "Did they offer you a deal, right?" "You for me, right, huh?" " Oh, come on, man." "I didn't say nothing." "You can't trust cops." "You give them the jewels or you give them to me, they'll crucify both of us anyway." "Now, you tell me where the stuff is, and then we'll get you the best defence in the country, right?" " Yeah." " Yeah." "What if i don't?" "Ow." "Then i'll kill you." "Whether you're in jail or i'm in jail, or we both are, i will find you, i'll reach you and i will kill you." "You understand?" " Hi, ray." " Where's quinn?" " He's at the power company." " Oh, i don't get him." "He's like talking to a tree." " Well, you know, this is the first time quinn has been south, and i imagine he's feeling a little humbled." "You see, in the north he's, well, he's a living legend." "He's a brilliant man, he's very articulate, he's forceful." "Not to mention positively a genius in the identification of scat." "Ah." "Let's get a coffee." "Scat, you mean like, uh, jazz, singing, that..." " no, no, no, no." "Scat as in droppings." "Oh." " Well, it's a very useful attribute, ray, particularly if it's 40 degrees below zero and you need to find the nearest beaver lodge." " That doesn't come up that much in chicago, fraser." " Well, no, and i fear that's a part of quinn's problem." "You see, very few of his considerable skills are of any use to him here." " Well, why is he your responsibility?" " Well, because he's..." "my mentor, he's a guide." "I've known him all my life." "You want a coffee?" "Oh, i've known a lot of people all my life, fraser." "That doesn't mean i..." "got to look out for them." "What about your family?" "Um, there's my mom." "I guess..." "she's a responsibility." "And your father?" "My dad was a great guy." "He did all the, you know, great dad things." "Took me to ball games." "You know, showed me around a card table." "You know, taught me how to, you know, build an engine." "You know, we'd tear down engines, um, build them back up again." "The last car we worked on was this gto." "Worked on it day, night... um, painted it black, jet black, six coats." "Loved that car." "You don't feel he was a mentor?" " Um, my dad slaved away at this..." "meat packing plant." "And he wanted me to go to college." "He said, uh, he didn't want me to have the stink of dead animals all over me." "And i dropped out." "I, uh, went after the academy." "The day i graduated almost killed him." "You know, he said, uh, "you're going to have a stink on you." "All the same, bad people." "What kind of life is that?"" "Then he moved off to arizona." "And, uh... i haven't..." "well, talked to him... no, i... ahem!" "Storey's done with his lawyer." "Okay, good, round two." "So we going to talk or tell a story, storey?" "Ray." "Dief!" "Idiot!" "Fraser, what's with you?" " That lawyer was no lawyer." "It was storey's partner." "He shows up here." "He's got..." " what he doesn't have is the jewels." "If he had the jewels, he'd be long gone." " Fraser, car." "So he must think they're in the power building." "The question is, did he tell his partner?" "So what's with dief?" " Well, as you know, he's very sensitive." "The other say i suggested he was getting soft, so i think he's trying to prove himself." " How did he beat us?" " Must have taken a short cut." " He knows short cuts?" " Well, he does study maps." "What kind of maps?" " Road maps, street maps, topographic maps." " Anything?" " Nothing." " They must have got here before us." "Somebody did." "Put somebody in the lobby." "If he shows his face, we'll nail him." "No, i do not have a picture." "Well, get a composite." "These people, they think i'm a magician." "Fraser." "Hey, fraser." "Oh, sorry." "You know, this makes no sense." " You're telling me." "You okay?" "Yeah, i'm fine." " Look, i got to go back to the station." "Okay, i think i'll, uh..." " known felon walks into my police station, walks into my interrogation room and starts talking shop with one of my prisoners." "What the hell is this, a drop-in centre?" "No, sir." " Get the desk sergeant here right now!" "Hello." "What the hell is going on here?" "Let me see some id." "Id, right now." "Hey, you think this is funny?" "You're sitting in a hole for 20 years and your partner is in vegas with 2 million bucks?" " This is my client..." " keep your pants on, counsel." "Move them to room two, okay?" "Get our friend a coffee." "Come on." "And i want prints in here." "I want the whole thing dusted." "Francesca!" "Oh, okay, i'm right here." "Look, find me a judge." "I want a warrant for this guy storey's apartment, his car, his locker at the "y"." "And i want to know as soon as perry mason's finished with him." "Okay." "Oh god, i'm buying earplugs for this place." "Caribou tracks." "They're headed that way." "Why are you helping me?" " That's what i do." "I'm a tracker, i'm a guide." "Came through yesterday." "We'll have to move fast." " How can you do that?" " It's part of the story." "What story?" " Everything here has a story to tell." "What's passed by, when, how." "But you have to be open to hear it." " Yeah, but tasting things off the ground, isn't that kind of disgusting?" "Not for a good tracker." " What's it supposed to taste like?" " I don't know, i wouldn't put that in my mouth." "Ha!" "Ha!" "Ha!" "The tracks are going this way." " When you're tracking, it's more important to know where the game is going than where it's been." "Oh, don't be so silly." "I'm not embarrassed or bored when you sniff things." "Tim kelly." "Oh, ho, ho." " Just save the dramatic scene." " Okay, relax." "May i register my disgust?" "Timothy nicholas kelly, three convictions for..." " aggravated assault, three arrests for... extortion, no convictions." "Assault with a vehicle, suspected in three, possibly four homicides, currently wanted in 34 states." " And unwanted in 16." " You got something?" " Uh, yes, sir, we got an id on that fingerprint from the interrogation room." " May i look at that, miss vecchio?" "Why, of course, lieutenant." "Here you go." "Thank you, miss vecchio." " I want this guy." "I don't care if he's on the beach in mexico or a deli in queens." "Ray, check the airports, travel agents, bus stations..." "huey!" " Yes, sir." " All known acquaintances, check 'em... he might be holed up someplace here in town." "Everybody gets his picture." "Hey, ray." "It's your mom and dad." " What about 'em?" " On the phone." "What do you mean on the phone?" " They're at a truck stop on the I-90." "They're heading into town." "You're a funny guy." "Real funny guy." "That's rich, that." "It's more important to know where the game is going than where it's been." "Hunting me, ben?" "You want my help?" " Yes." "To track the man who took the jewels." "Can't track a man in the city." " You told me it was possible to track anything." " I told you it was possible to track anything you understood." " I understand this man." " How?" "I know that he's a criminal." "I know he tried to kill me." "I've seen him." "Assuming, of course, that the other thief is the one who took the jewels." " Assuming." "Someone's been up here." "You could've seen that yourself, ben." "Someone tall, about my height." " How do you know?" " Couldn't have reached far enough up unless he was." "Didn't stand on anything." "I'd have seen it if he did." "Now, which way did he go?" " I don't have time for this, ben." "I came here to do a job." " They won't see you." "What more can you do?" " I can get help, hire lawyers, maybe, i don't know." " Lawyers require money." "You have money?" "I can get it." "I have to do this, ben." " That's exactly the way i felt about the caribou, you remember?" " This is more important than a boy killing a caribou." "Yes, but maybe not to that boy." "At the time i think the boy very important to me." "It's about growing up." "You don't think i should be doing this, do you?" " To kill something without need is wrong." " But you're a guide." "You guide people from the city when they hunt." "They don't need what they kill." " You live here, ben." "You're part of it, all of it." " So you won't help me?" " No, i'll help you." " If you don't think i should do it, then why are you helping me?" "It doesn't seem logical." " I'll help you so you can decide for yourself." "If you can't find the caribou, you can't know if you'll kill them." "I could find them." "Not before they die of old age." " He came this way?" " Yes." " Is there a sign?" " I know he did." " Is he the thief?" " No." " Why did he take the jewels?" " Why did stinky masterson steal jim longbow's snowmobile?" " That's not the same thing at all." "Stinky's sled dogs ate poison tallow." "He needed transport." " Because he needed it." " No, no, no, no... no." "Because he wanted it." "There's a difference." " The men i'm fighting are just like the men who killed your father:" "Greedy, corrupt, evil men." " Nothing good can come from a bad act, quinn." "You taught me that." " Who said i was always right?" " Maybe we are going about this the wrong way." "The man has the jewels, he'll need to sell them to use the money." "Now, that means he'll have to go to a dealer in stolen goods, otherwise known as a fence." "Now, my friend ray has on occasion pointed some out to me." "Perhaps we should visit a couple." " You'll be my guide?" " I will be your guide." "Ahem!" "Yes?" " Yeah, um, diane bowen from wotx tv called." "And, uh, she wants to interview me." "Kind of a human interest story, you know, tough women on crime... i- i-i wouldn't talk about the specific cases, sir." " Miss vecchio, the words "over my dead body"" "have any meaning to you?" "I don't want the press within 10 miles of this place till we get kelly." "All right?" "After that, you can do as you please." "Really?" "Okay, thanks." "Tickets to acapulco?" "Shouldn't i be going with you?" "I'm your brother." " Oh, ray... you know that i would much rather spend the weekend alone with you in a hotel room." "Squad room." "Really?" "It's your parents." "They're calling from a pay phone on the interstate." "So you're in on it too." "That's, uh, that's very amusing." "That's an amusing little prank, and i'm laughing... on the inside." "But how about we get back to police work?" "We got nothing on kelly." "No address, no friends." " He's got a friend." "He's in the interrogation room." "Why don't you swat his cubes until he talks?" " Swat his cubes?" "You mean break his..." " okay, you know, i mean swat his cubes." "I'm saying swat his cubes." "That's what i mean, okay?" " Okay, why the sudden interest in kelly?" " I care about law enforcement." "It's my life." "They're just over that hill." "You know how to use that thing?" " Yes, sir." " Kill anything big before?" " Lots of times." "Well, almost once." "No, sir, but i understand muzzle velocity and windage, and i'm quite clear on rifling." "I'm sure i'll know what to do." "It's not too late to turn back." "Yes, it is." "Okay." "This is the fence." "You gonna come in with me?" "I can't do that." " I suppose they'll want them back." " I think that would be a good idea." "I don't have them with me." "I thought not." "Where are they?" "Took them back to the consulate." "Gave them to turnbull for safekeeping." "I've failed." "No, quinn, you haven't." " Oh, for the love of pete, i'm coming." "Sorry i locked the door." "I've been cooking." "Oh, one onion diced, celery, carrots, oh, mushroom..." " turnbull, what are you blithering on about?" " The ingredients for the dish i'm preparing." "Blend them all together and voilà." " Voilà what?" " Ratatouille." "Everything i hate in one bowl." " Mr. Quinn, with all due respect, sir, let me nip off to the kitchen and get you a sample i'm pretty darn confident will change your mind." "Oh, would you be a peach and get that for me?" " Don't move or i'll kill him." "Don't move!" "Where are they?" "Where are they?" " Think i'd be stupid enough to carry them?" " Tell me where they are or i'll kill you." "You kill him, he can't tell." " Doesn't stop me from killing you." " You shoot a mountie, they'll hunt you forever." " All right, all right, let's go, both of you." "Come on." "Go." "Quite frankly, i find it rude." "Oh, company." "Gun!" "Vecchio." "Detective vecchio, there's been a kidnapping." "What?" " An abduction, absconding, a seizure, a capture." " I know what it means." "Who, when and where?" "Uh, the who is constable fraser and mr." "Quinn." "Uh, the when is just recently." "A- and the where's at the consulate." "What'd he look like?" " Oh, let's see now." "Constable fraser... not fraser, the kidnapper." " Oh, uh, okay, i managed to make a quick sketch, a little something in charcoal." "You see, i left my pastels at home." "Heh, heh." "Maybe i'll work it up for you later." "I'm doing lovely work in oils." " Turnbull!" " Yes, sir?" "Fax it." "Who's that, keith carradine?" "It's kelly." "He's got fraser." "Oh, great." " Know what i got here?" " What?" "This is a ticket." "Airline ticket..." "kelly booked it yesterday." "Acapulco." "He's going to be lying out in the sun while you sweat it out, while you get kicked around, screwed around joliet." "He's covering his ass." "Man to man, i suggest you start covering yours." "He'll... he'll kill me." "Wrong." "He'll be in jail." "It won't matter." " Look, who's he going to call?" "Hits-r-us?" "He's small-time muscle." "Once he's in the joint he's nothing." "All you got to do is tell me where he is." "Look, i was trying to help you." "Kelly's laughing at you." "He's laughing his head right off his skinny little neck." "Well, wait, wait, wait, wait." "Wait." "He's in a closed-up shop on cardero." "Closed-up shop on cardero." " Yeah, 136." "I get a deal, right?" "Hey, i get a deal!" "Put him back in the cage." " Hey, ray, your parents are on the phone." "Look, put it to rest, jack." " I'm serious, they're just outside the city limits." " Look, it's not funny." "It's not funny." " Okay." " Shut up." " Okay, we're going to make this real simple." "You tell me where the jewels are and i won't kill your mountie friend." " Don't listen to him, quinn." " Shut up!" " He'll kill us as soon as he has the jewels." " Maybe one in the kneecap to get the ball rolling." "I'll take you to them." " Quinn." " It's okay, ben." "All right, good boy... bad boy!" "Good boy... bad boy." "Good boy." "Bad boy." " Nothing opens onto the alley." " Back entrance?" " Nothing." " The front's the only way out." " All right, could be nobody's home, could be a fruitcake with hostages." "We'll take it real slow." "I can get to that window." "Kelly!" "I got two hostages!" " Come on, we've all seen the movie." "Forget about it." " I swear i'll do it." "Now, move back!" " Put the gun down, everybody goes home." "Nobody has to die here." "One of them's a cop." " Right, which just buys you trouble." " Buys me a way out." "Got a cell phone?" "Use it." "555-0165." " 555-0..." "you get the rest of that?" "All right, i want a s. w.a. t." "Team, hostage negotiators, the whole mcgill." " Look, you get the s. w.a. t." "Team, we're not in charge." " It's procedure, detective." " Yeah, but that's fraser in there." "I don't want some hotshot come in and screw up... it's what they're trained for." " I know that's what they're trained for." "Come on, let me talk to him." "At least until they get here." "How are your ropes?" " Tight." "Losing circulation in my fingers." " Can you move your hands?" " I think so." "There, untie mine." "Come on, come on, use the phone, come on." "Yeah, yeah." "We gonna deal?" "What do you want?" " I thought you saw this movie." " Refresh my memory." "Okay, listen carefully." "You got one minute to put a car outside the door and clear out." " Wait a minute, that wasn't in the script." " In the script?" "Forget the script!" "I'm not waiting for the s. w.a. t." "Team and the hostage guy." "Now, you do it right now or i shoot the indian." " Look, you shoot anybody, it's all over." "You shoot anybody, i'll kill you myself." "One minute, and don't forget." "I got two in here and one's expendable." "All right?" " Look, we got to do something." "He's going to shoot somebody." " Do something maybe we make him shoot somebody." "You ever think of that?" "What do you want to do?" " Pull back, bring my car up here, leave it, maybe i can get close enough to make something happen." " No, i don't like it." " I don't care if you like it." "He's gonna pull the trigger." "He's crazy." "Trust me on this." "One knot at a time, ben." "One knot at a time." "Concentrate." "Try and feel it." "Feel where it's moving." "Feel him when he turns towards you." "Feel it, ben." " Where's that car?" "I need that car." "Can't believe this." "Stalling." "The bastards are stalling." "Gunshot!" "Don't you move!" "Now you've lost a hostage." "If i know quinn, you'll probably never find him." "What do you propose to do?" " I'll kill you!" " Keeping me alive would improve your bargaining position." " Screw it." " Hey!" "Don't move!" "Don't move!" "Hand away from the gun." "Away from the gun!" "Hands behind your back." "Behind your back!" " Getting the property back into the hands of the rightful owner is what it's all about." "Thank you, miss vecchio." "For women tough on crime, i'm diane bowen." " And cut." "Good, we got it." " I got to admit it was a creative use of a motorcycle." "But what would've happened if you'd fell on quinn and fraser?" " I never thought of that." "But i got great cop, um..." " instincts?" " Yeah." " Cop instincts!" " Yeah." "Hey, ray, they're here." " Who?" " Your parents." " All right." "Quit kidding." "First time it's funny..." " no, no, it's not a joke." "They're set up outside." " Set up?" "Where?" " In the parking lot." "Here comes your son." "Stanley!" "Oh, stanley, look at you." "You haven't changed a stick." "Your father and i fought from the moment we left the trailer park in arizona." "Fought right across the country." ""He'll have changed," your father said. "changed utterly. "" ""Damien," i said, "that's impossible." "He's our son. "" "Look at you." "You're exactly the same as the moment you came into this world." "You're hungry, aren't you?" " No, ma..." " i knew it." " Son." " Uh, dad." "I brought along a... a little something of yours." "Wow." "She still runs?" "I've kept her going." "Regular work." "Tell you something, son." "There's nothing like a long arizona highway to keep an engine running clean." "Thanks, dad." "Hair looks good." "I failed." "How do you see that?" " It's hard to think of my land being under 100 feet of water and not see it as a failure." " You know, there's a short entry in one of my father's journals." "It reads: "my adversaries appear ready to listen." "I am nearing victory. "" "That entry was written the day before he was shot." "Your father acted heroically." "Yes." "But he's not here." "At least, uh... doesn't appear to be." "I want to thank you, ben." "For the jewels?" "You would've returned them anyway." " How do you know that?" " I know you." "You do, don't you?" "Yes, i do." "You let me make one of the biggest mistakes of my life." "High winds northern sky will carry you away you know you have to leave here you wish that you could stay there's four directions on this map but you're only going one way due south that's the way i'm going" "due south saddle up my travelling shoes i'm bound to walk away these blues"