"Will you stop pulling on yourself?" "You look fine." "Well, I don't feel fine." "Some people were not meant to wear ties." "You're a police officer talking to high school kids." "You should look respectable." "Maybe if you could find a tie in a different colour." "Something a little more subdued." "I like this colour." "I was afraid of that." "I'm sorry it's come to this." "Police on campus." "A Woodbury student died of a drug overdose, Mr. Eastwood." "Rhonda Blake's death has been the most painful experience in my 11 years at Woodbury." "However, it has been my contention all along that Rhonda's death was an aberration." "She never really fit in here." "She didn't get the cocaine that killed her from the tooth fairy, you know." "No, you can't be certain that it was anyone from Woodbury." "That's why Officer Kelly is here." "I don't suppose you know how long you'll be staying here?" "As long as it takes." "Well, I guess you'll wanna meet the faculty." "I would like to introduce Officers Smith and Gordon." "They're police drug counsellors." "They'll be talking to the students, on a group and individual basis, about the dangers of drug abuse." "Are they going to be just counselling or are they going to be making arrests?" "That all depends on what we find out." "Well, the students at Woodbury aren't stupid." "You have to earn their trust to be effective." "Well, with help from you and the other teachers, I hope we can." "The school board is behind Officers Smith and Gordon 100 percent, Miss Swann." "Well, I have no intention of using my classroom as a line-up for the sake of a jittery school board." "We're not here to help the school board, Miss Swann." " We're here to help the students." " So are we, Mr. Smith." "That's an interesting invitation." "It's from Ray." "His parties are outrageous." "I can believe it." "Hey, why don't you go with me?" "All the in-crowd will be there." "Sure, why not?" "I could use a break." "Do we need to bring anything?" "No, Ray takes care of all the entertainment and the refreshments." "What kind of refreshments?" "Well, you name it and Ray can score it." "At least he could until Rhonda" "Look, we better be quiet." "I hear there are narcs everywhere." "You're busted." "Class?" "Class." "I'd like to introduce you to Officers Smith and Gordon from the police department." "They're here to talk to you about drugs, on campus and off." "We're gonna be setting up an office at the end of the hall." "And if any of you would like to talk to us privately about a drug problem or about someone you know who has a drug problem, our doors will be open." "We don't like snitches." "Drugs are a disease, not a schoolyard game." "I think what Miles meant was that history's heroes don't name names." "History's heroes don't deal drugs either." "How's business?" "Oh, it's terrific." "I've been here three hours." "One kid has come through that door, wanted to see the school nurse." "How about you?" "I've been all over campus." "About the same with me." "What in the hell is the matter with them?" "After everything they've heard:" "Entertainers dying, athletes dying, lives ruined." "But why won't they listen?" "Because when you're a teenager you think you're indestructible." "Come on, you've seen them, flying down the freeway on a motorcycle, cutting in and out of cars, no helmet, no nothing." "And ten years later, they look back and say, "I can't believe I did that."" "Oh, yeah, they look back, all right." "If they're still alive." " Here you go." " Thanks." " Don't I get a reward?" " Like what?" "How about lunch?" "Oh, I don't know, my friends, you know." "You can eat with them any time." "But not with you?" "I've got a busy schedule." "Oh, that's right." "I saw you on television the other day." "Woodbury all-American signs letter of intent." "I don't know why you wanna hang out with those creeps anyway." " They're fun." " Yeah, the in-crowd." "The in-love-with-themselves crowd." "So you gonna have lunch with me or not?" "Yeah, okay." "Yeah." "What a day." "I can't believe I ever actually took algebra." "Well, I've been invited to a party tomorrow night." "It's at Ray Russo's." "He's the leader of the so-called in-crowd." "He's also the one that I think sold Rhonda Blake the garbage that killed her." "Look, you've gotta be careful, Denise." "We need proof before we start making arrests." "This is my third high school in the past seven months." "I know what I'm doing." "Besides, Russo and his gang think they're too smart to get caught." "Just the same, I think you ought to wear a wire tomorrow night." "You get in trouble, we're protected." "Yeah, I've got no problem with that." "I think I've found the perfect cover." "I met a boy in the student cafeteria today, Mike Parker." "He's a football player." "Do you think he's involved in dealing drugs?" "No, Mike's too busy chasing trophies and girls to waste time with drugs." "You think you ought to involve him?" "Like I said, he's the perfect cover." "You worry about your job and I'll worry about mine." "I gotta run, I've got homework." "Boy, when I was on the force, we would at least graduate the kids from the academy before we put them on assignment." "Denise graduated." "She's 21 years old." "She looks 17." "Why do you think she's working high school Narcotics?" "Girl cops." " Where you going?" " Firing range." "You know, with the job you're doing, they shouldn't make you take firing practise." "It's all you can do to fill out your reports and do your homework." "To tell you the truth, Dad, I like going down to the range." "Being with people my own age, even if they are cops." "Oh, how are things going at Woodbury?" "Pretty good." "I've been invited to a party tomorrow night." "And I'm pretty sure it's the same kids we're after." "By the way, I might have to give out the phone number again." "So the kids could be calling." "The department ought to put me on overtime." "Well, I'll tell Lieutenant Hayward you asked." "You know better than to get me started on Bill Hayward." "How are your new backups, Smith and Gordon?" "They're fine.There's no problems." "You know they're transfers." "I couldn't find out much about them." "Dad, they're fine." "Really." "You'd like Gordon." "He's like you, he's so old-fashioned." "He thinks a woman's place is in the kitchen baking, instead of out on the streets fighting crime." "Well, you know, your mother wanted you to be a ballet dancer." "Now, Daddy, everybody knows the Irish only do the jig." " Bye." " Bye." "I'll see you later." " Hey, Denise." " Hi." "What time am I picking you up tonight?" "I didn't know we had a date." "Oh, didn't I tell you yesterday at lunch?" "I guess you were too busy eating all those sandwiches." "Well, I am a growing boy." "I'll pick you up at 8:30." "There's a good movie at the Globe." "Well, you can come by my house but I won't be there, I'm going to a party." "Oh, a party?" "Whose party?" "Ray Russo's." "What's wrong?" "I told you that yesterday." "Yeah, well, I pick my own friends." "So you wanna go or not?" "Well, if you're inviting me." "I am." "It starts at 8." "Okay, I'll pick you up at 10 till 8." " Where do you live?" " Why don't I meet you there, okay?" "Here's my phone number just in case you can't make it." "Don't worry, I'll be there." "I'll see you there." "Hey, why don't you just watch where you're going, Parker, huh?" "Sorry, Russo." "You should get some meat on those bones." "Testing, one, two, three." "She's coming in loud and clear." "All right, boys and girls, showtime." "Well, she talks a good game." "I hope she can play one." "You know, it hasn't been easy for her." "Why, because her father's a cop?" "No, because her brother was a cop." "I didn't know she had a brother." "He was killed in the line of duty five years ago." "Hi, it's about time." " What took you?" " I couldn't find the right lipstick." "Oh, yeah." "My mom's always stealing mine." " Yeah?" " Yeah, come on in." "They're talking about lipstick." "Well, I guess there's no law against that." "Oh, cute, Jonathan, cute." " Glad you could make it." " Well, thanks." "Do your parents always let you have parties in their house?" "Oh, you know, only when they're out of town." "It sure does seem like a long way from school." "Well, that's the way it's suppose to seem." "Isn't this Northrup album fantastic?" "See Northrup knows where it's at." "It's because they, like, allow the human mind to expand to its fullest." "Oh, with a little help from their friends." "You know, many artists throughout history believed in drugs." "Aldous Huxley," "Conan Doyle." "I mean, it is a noble tradition." "Not every person can handle drugs." "I mean, it does take a certain sophistication, a certain emotional stability." "They're not for everyone." "They weren't for Rhonda Blake." "How does somebody know when they're ready for drugs?" "You know, somebody like me?" "Well, we'll let you know." "What if I can't wait?" "You'll wait." "Hey, Denise." "Who invited Mr. All-American?" "Oh, I did." "He's my date." "I'm sorry, I didn't know that you weren't friends." "Oh, well, now you do." "Hey, you want trouble?" "I'm your man." "You better go, hero." "I'm not going anywhere without you." "Why don't you let me talk to him for just a minute outside, okay?" "You're not getting rid of me that easily." "Hey, I'm getting rid of both of you." "So next time, just ask me first, before you invite your friend here." "Jonathan." "She's leaving." " Where are you going?" " Home." "I thought we had a date?" "Why did you come if you knew that was gonna happen?" "I came to protect you." "Those guys are the sleaze patrol." " I guess you ended up protecting me." " Good night, Mike." "Wait, it's early." "We could still catch a movie or go up to Perspiration Point and watch the flying-saucer races." "Take it easy, Romeo." "What's the matter?" "You afraid something might happen?" "I've been known to have that effect on girls." "Mike, you're a very good-looking guy, but" "Brother, this is a waste of tape." "I mean, this guy isn't interested in drugs." "So come on." "You like my looks and I really like yours, so come on." "Look, you're not my type, all right?" "So why don't you just give it up?" "You didn't have to break my arm." "Good night, Mike." " Hello." " This is Ken Stewart." "I'm a friend of Denise's from the academy." "Denise isn't here." "Who is this?" "Ken Stewart." "Oh, listen, I'll tell her you" "Hold on, wait a minute." "Hold on a minute, buddy, I think she just came in." "Denise." " Yeah, Dad?" " Pick up the phone." "Hello?" "Hello?" "Hi, honey, how did it go?" "Not too well, Dad." "Who was that on the phone?" "Oh, some friend of yours from the academy." "Ken something." "Ken Stewart." "Didn't you talk to him?" "Dad, I didn't know any Ken Stewart at the academy." "You didn't?" "Well, you get some sleep, okay?" "Denise." "You don't think it was one of those kids?" "No, Dad, they wouldn't be that smart." "Good night." "So how'd you make out with Denise the other night?" " That's my business." " Oh, sorry." "I just wondered what it was like making out with a narc." "What?" "You heard me." "You've been used by a narc." "What are you smoking, man?" "You know, your girlfriend," "Denise." "She's a cop." "And that makes you a prize chump." "Maybe you're a cop too, huh, Parker?" "Officer Denise Kelly." "Let's see, graduated the police academy last year." "Now, if you don't believe me, why don't you just ask her for yourself." "Hey, she's worse than a cop, she's a narc." "You've been had, lover boy." "Unless you've been working with her?" "She came on to me." "I didn't know she was a cop." "She came on to me." "Sure she did." "Sucker." "All right, what's going on?" "I'm afraid that certain students have discovered Miss Kelly's identity." "And under the circumstances, the faculty and I think that it's better Denise leave school." "And how'd they find out?" "It was my students who uncovered Kelly." "Toni Brandt, Ray Russo and Billy Bates came to me this morning." "They said that she had been asking about drugs, wanting to know where she could score some coke." "The good stuff." "They said she sounded like a narc." "That's when I went to Eastwood." "When I told him that she had been seen with Mike Parker, kissing him, touching him, pretending to be his girlfriend" "That's a lie." "I had no choice but to clear the air." "And Mike Parker's mother is on her way down right now." "Don't you think it would have been better to talk to Denise before starting to call faculty-parent meetings?" "There were plenty of witnesses." "Toni, Miles, Ray." "I saw Denise and Mike passing notes in the hall myself." "Mr. Eastwood." "Oh, Mrs. Parker." "I'm glad you could come down on such short notice." "Is this the policewoman who was touching my son?" "The only time she touched your son was to push him away, Mrs. Parker." " Who are you?" " My name's Jonathan Smith." "I've been Officer Kelly's backup here at Woodbury." "So you're a cop too." "And you expect me to believe you?" "I expect you to believe your son." "Right, where is my son?" "Where is Michael?" "I'll get him." "He's across the hall." "Would you mind my asking you your age?" "Not at all." "I'm 21." "My son is still a minor." "And there are laws to protect him against people like you." "I won't dignify that remark with a reply." "Well, maybe you will when I get you in court." "I know your type, young lady." "You were the kind of girl that could never get a boy like Michael when you were in school." "But now that you're a little older and you have more experience" "All right, wait a minute, Mrs. Parker." "I think you've said enough." "Why don't we wait until we hear all the facts?" " Mom." " It's all right, son." "You've done nothing to be ashamed of." "It's all right." "Look, you didn't have to come down here." "I have no intention of letting this woman get away." "Now, Mike, as you know, some very serious allegations have been made concerning Officer Kelly's conduct here at Woodbury." "Now, Mike, you know the truth." "So just tell them." "I thought she liked me, but she was just using me." "Yes, but did she make a pass at you?" "Did she kiss you or let you kiss her?" "Yeah." "Plenty of times." "She couldn't keep her hands off me." "He's lying." "Mark, did you bring the tape?" " Listen, Denise." " What tape?" "I was wired the night I went to Ray Russo's party." "And that tape will prove that I told your son to buzz off." "Well, Officer Gordon," "I guess we have no choice but to hear the tape." "Wait, it's early." "We could still catch a movie or go up to Perspiration Point and watch the flying-saucer races." "Take is easy, Romeo." "What's the matter, you afraid something might happen?" "I've been known to have that effect on girls." "Mike, you're a very good-looking guy, but" "What happened?" "What happened to the tape?" "I..." "I killed it." "I thought the stakeout was off." "Of course you killed it." "He's a cop." "He's protecting another cop." "I am gonna go to the press with this outrage." "And I intend to see that you lose your badge over this." "Now wait a minute, lady," "Denise was on campus to try to bust the drug pushers who killed one of your son's classmates." "I mean, we are the good guys." "Well, suppose we let the public be the judge of that." "Denise." "Denise." "Denise." "Look, I'm sorry." "I don't" "It's bad enough to have to deal with people like Swann and Parker, but when a fellow cop lets you down, it's just" "Sergeant, have Denise come into my office after she finishes her report." "Bill, it's my fault." "I blew her cover." "There's enough blame to go around." "It's hit the fan, all right." "That's what matters now." "I've read your report, Denise, and those of Smith and Gordon." "Unfortunately, Mike Parker's mother plans to press charges." "There might even be a case for statutory rape." "Statutory rape?" "What are you talking about?" "She never touched him." "If I hadn't screwed up" "The reports will be taken into consideration when the review board meets next week." "Ray and his friends set me up about this, they're lying." "And what about Parker?" "You said yourself he has nothing to do with the druggies." "Why is he lying?" "I don't know." "Wait, you're gonna take the word of those drug pushers instead of my daughter's?" "Don't be ridiculous, sergeant." "We're following departmental policy." "Denise is on suspension until the review board meets next week." "Hayward, I always said that you didn't have enough guts" "All right, Jack, Jack, take it easy." "If you're mad at anybody here, it should be me." "Jonathan and I will go and see if we can talk to the kid." "No rough stuff, Gordon." "I've got enough problems." "Oh, is that what I am, lieutenant?" "A problem?" "Denise, let's get out of here." "I made a mess out of this assignment." "I was supposed to protect Denise, I end up getting her suspended." "Come on, it's not your fault." "There's no way you could've known" " that tape was important." " That is not the point, Jonathan." "The point is I'm a cop." "I was a cop." "Cops do their job." "You do not turn off backup surveillance, because you don't think it's important." "Would you drop me off at the motel?" "Hayward was right." "I shouldn't be interviewing students today." "Come down to pump some iron, Mr. Smith?" "Why'd you lie about Denise, Mike?" "I didn't lie." "I told you, she came on to me." "She couldn't keep her hands off me." "Yeah, like the night she almost broke your wrist?" "What's the matter, you so insecure you can't handle it when a girl rejects you?" "I can handle anything." "She used me." "She used you to try to build her cover." "She was trying to break a drug ring." "She was doing her job." "Yeah, I'm trying to do my job." "And that's play football and keep my scholarship." "Some jobs in life are more important than others." "You mean being a cop?" "I mean telling the truth." "You calling me a liar?" "Oh, you bet I am." "Lucky for you, you're wearing that badge." "No, son." "Lucky for you." "I disagree completely with the tactics used by the police." "Having officers pose as students is offensive and creates a very bad environment on campus." "But what about the drug problem at Woodbury?" "I mean, one of your students died last month as a result of a drug overdose." "Yes, well, no one is more concerned about the drug problem in our school than I am." "But one isolated case is hardly cause to put everyone under suspicion." "The answer to drug abuse is education, not entrapment." "I'd love to see the look on that narc's face when they pulled her badge." "Good old Swannie." "You know I don't know how we could stay in business without her." "She thinks we're the perfect students." "And not to mention that dumb cop Gordon turning off the wire." "What do you want?" "What are you doing here?" "Just came to talk a little business." "I don't do business with cops." "Hey, you do with me, bub." "I saved your butt today." "How's that?" "Rose Mary Woods is not the only one who knows how to erase tapes." "You erased that tape?" " Why?" " I told you, business." "What kind of business?" "This kind." "I brought you a little sample." "Taste it." "Not bad." "Better than anything you've ever played with, and there's plenty more where that came from." "And it's priced to move." "Yeah, well, I don't know." "Hey, look, kid, I went to a lot of trouble to set this up." "In this business you either move up or you move out." "So make up your mind." "Well, this stuff is mighty fine." "It should be." "It's from the police property room." "Now listen, if you wanna see more of this stuff, meet me in the Woodbury parking lot in an hour." "Bring a lot of money." "Dude, you're not gonna meet him." "This stuff is awful good." "Yeah, but he's a cop." "A cop who is breaking every law in the books." "He's pushing stolen property." "How can we lose?" "All right, you little creep, show up." "Bring the cash?" "You got the stuff?" "Let's go over to the bleachers." "That way, I know your partner isn't around." "Not very trusting, are you?" "Not when it comes to cops." "Hey, come on, what is this?" "All right, pal, you don't wanna deal, forget it." "Ray." "Are you nuts?" "He's a cop." "What do we have here?" "He's wearing a wire." "Looks like Officer Gordon here was playing Lone Ranger." "Now, what are you gonna do with him?" "We're gonna give him some of his own merchandise." "The next 24 hours are gonna be critical." "They shot him up with enough pure coke to kill a horse." "Sure you don't want some coffee?" " Jonathan, come on in." " Thanks." "How is he?" "He's still in a coma." "The next 24 hours will tell." "We" "We've called a special assembly at the school." "See if we can find out anything." "Danny was in a coma for five days before he" "Well, they never did get the junkie that killed him." "If Mark doesn't come out of it, we may never get Ray Russo either." "It had to be Ray and his friends." "Hayward knows that." "But he can't prove it." "That's why I came here this morning to ask you for help." "Help?" "To recruit witnesses." "What witnesses?" "The students at Woodbury High." "What does this have to do with me?" "I want you to go with me to that assembly this morning and talk to them." "Try to convince them to come forward, testify against Russo and others." "Without Mark, they're our only chance." "I can't do that, I can't go back there." "They think I'm the enemy." " I'm a narc." " And what's wrong with that?" "My friend is lying in a hospital right now because he believed in what you were doing." "Because he felt responsible for your suspension." "Yeah, well, maybe cops believe in what we're doing, but nobody else does." "Not the kids and not even some of the teachers." "Oh, then what do we do, Denise?" "We just give up?" "Just give up, say the hell with them, let them OD or die in accidents just because people don't pat us on the head and tell us what a great job we're doing?" "Being a cop is a thankless job." "If you didn't know that from the beginning, you never should've become one." "Well, maybe you're right." "Maybe I shouldn't be a cop." "And my brother shouldn't have been one." "Your brother was a cop because he wanted his kid sister to grow up in a better world." "He wanted her to grow up in a society that was clean, where people had a chance." "Where did that get him?" "Dead." "And who cares?" "Who cares?" "You go find somebody else to fight this war because I'm done with it." "I'll tell you somebody who cares, Denise." "My best friend lying in a coma." "He cares." "And I'll tell you something else." "If he ever comes out of that coma, he's not gonna stop fighting this war." "Three days ago, a police undercover officer," "Denise Kelly, was suspended from the force because of lies told about her by some of the students in this school." "Last night, my partner was beaten and injected with an overdose of drugs." "He's in a hospital in a coma as I speak to you now." "Those responsible for that are in this auditorium right now." "Now, one girl has already died at Woodbury." "How many more students have to die before you stop hiding behind your parents" "and your teachers and your friends?" "You give a lot of lip service about how much you care about each other." "Well, now is the time to prove it." "By stepping forward and naming those who are dealing drugs at Woodbury." "Those who are killing your friends, and maybe mine." "Most of you already know me, or at least you think you did." "I'm a narc." "I became a narc because I hate drugs." "Five years ago my brother was killed in a shootout with a junkie." "The junkie was never charged, because his friends gave him an alibi and he paid them back in drugs." "My brother's name was Danny." "What's the matter, Billy?" "You surprised to see me?" " I thought you were in a" " In a coma?" "Afraid not." "My partner said that to get a few more people to testify against you." "You know how courts are." "You need every witness you can get." "I didn't want Ray to shoot you up." "Hey, you were there." "It's all the same." "Attempted murder, kiddo." "They're gonna put you away for a long time." "Well, I couldn't stop him." "You can now." "Tell them what happened." "You cooperate, you're gonna get off a lot easier." "Think about it, Billy." "Think about it." "When you're a kid, you never think about the consequences of anything." "Nothing can ever happen to you." "You'll never get pregnant, so sex is okay." "You'll never get in an accident, so speeding is okay." "You'll never OD, so drugs are okay." "Those things can only happen to another person." "Well, that's what Rhonda Blake thought." "But we're all that other person." "I lied to some of you." "And I used you and it probably hurt." "But I didn't kill you." "One of your own did that." "I only came here to try to keep it from happening again." "But I can't do that now." "Only you can do that." "It was Ray." "Ray Russo shot up that cop with drugs." "I swear to God I told him not to." "Hi, Ray." "You better slow down, you'll get a ticket." "You remember Rhonda Blake?" "You should, you killed her." "We got them, buddy." "We got the ones that did it to you." "And Denise is fine." "She's fine." "Mike admitted he lied." "I wish you would have been there to see it." "Can't you even watch where you're going?" "Me?" "I mean, what's your hurry?" "Look at the mess." "I'll help you clean it up, all right?" "You--That's fine." "You're going back to the kitchen with me and tell my supervisor just who did this." " Oh, I'll be just" " Argue somewhere else, will you?" "Sorry." "What's that?" "I smell food." "I'm starving."