"Hey." " Think he came out of Beal's?" " I don't know." "Did you see him?" "Mr. Beal?" "Three down and four to go." "Yeah, that's enough for a Sunday." "We're already on overtime." "Attention all units." "Possible 459 at 224 Bay Street." " Subject seen running from shop" " Around the corner." "by two juveniles." "Subject described as white male Caucasian." "Age: 40 to 50." "Height: 5'1 1"." " You fellas call in about a burglary?" " He came out of Mr. Beal's place" " and ran down that way." " I got it." "What are you doing here?" "Now, that's what I was gonna ask you." "I belong here." "This is my shop." "I'm Lieutenant Stone." "What are you doing here?" "You got a search warrant?" "Someone called in about a burglary at this address." "Oh, you got a false alarm." "What happened to your head?" "I fell down and hit it on the edge of the table." "Wanna arrest that table for assault and battery, go ahead." "I'll come down tomorrow and prefer charges." "Nothing." "The front door was jimmied." "The cash register is open and empty." "The safe is open and empty, and the man there with a bump on his head said nothing happened." "It's my front door." "It's my cash register." "My safe and my head." "If I say nothing happened, nothing happened." "Haven't you people got enough to do without going around making trouble?" "Come on, let's get out of here." "And close the front door on your way out." "Wait a minute." "Wait." "He's lying?" "Well, he's got his rights, hasn't he?" "False alarm." "When does Homicide respond to burglary?" "Well, we were just a couple of blocks away." "Hey, mister, what about that guy we saw running away?" "Well, maybe he was just trying to catch a bus." "He came out of that door carrying some sacks." "Two or three of them." "Full of something." "The man says he saw nothing." "What can you do?" "Just keep your eyes open, fellas." "We need all the help we can get." "It's Beal." "We've been robbed." "Will you look at this?" "Look at it." "I finally did something right." "Well, how much?" "About a hundred thousand dollars." "I'd just finished the tally and entered it in the book." "Where is the book?" "With the money." "Who did it?" "Well, I passed around this description what the guy looked like, so on and so on." "But all I could come up with was a name, Eddie." "No address." "Well, we'll take care of it." "I don't know how the guy knew about the money." "I never said a word to nobody." "Nobody." "Ever." "I said we'll take care of it and we will." "Well, you don't understand." "The police were there." "Well, somebody called them." "I told them nothing happened but they've got my name now." "And I don't like it." "If it's all right with you, Mr. McClain," "I want out." "Okay, Beal." "You're out." "Thanks." "Where's Keech?" "Cleveland." "Get him on a redeye." "Beal." "First thing in the morning." "Then the guy that got that book." "You're late." "Well, I've been thinking." "Before coffee, you're thinking?" "Dangerous." "Remember the guy yesterday?" "You mean, the guy who said he didn't get robbed?" "He was probably afraid." "The guy that robbed him threatened him." "He was scared to tell us the truth for fear that the guy would come back and kill him." "Eight-fifteen, that's very good." "Very good." " Let's go and have a talk with him." " Why?" "Well, just to convince him that if he tells us the truth, we can protect him." "Why doesn't Robbery go talk to him?" "There was no robbery reported, remember?" "Little too early for you too, huh, buddy boy?" " Mr. Beal?" " Yes?" "What can I do for you?" "Mr. Beal?" "Beal." "Mike." "He's still warm." "At the moment, tow trucks are working to clear the wreckage from both lanes, but the bridge is not expected to reopen until 1:00." "So far the trucks have been backed up for three miles..." "Hi, doll." "Eddie." "strongly encourages motorists to avoid the area." " How did you find me?" " I just kept looking." "Everybody's gotta be someplace." "Are you planning to move in?" "Oh, no." "I figured you could use some money." "So I brought you some." "Eddie, please, I" "Where's the boy?" "My sister's." "Hey, Donna." "How would you like to live in Hawaii?" "Just you and the boy and me?" "Eddie, he doesn't even remember you anymore." "And I'd like to keep it that way." "It's not right, Donna." "A boy should know something about his father." "How about it, Donna?" "We could be a family again." "A real family." "Yeah, right." "Until the prison caught you and sent you back." "What for?" "I don't know what for, Eddie." "For something." "It's always for something and they always send you back." "Oh, no, no." "Not this time." "Never again." "I'm a changed man." "You've said that before." "That's right, Donna." "You're right." "Only I wasn't 46 years old then." "Will you look at me, please?" "Forty-six years and a good 15 of them in one prison or another." "Most of them dead, empty." "And all of them wasted." "I don't know how much time I've got left but I do know I can't afford to waste any of it." "All I'm asking for is one more chance." "Go to Hawaii with me today." " I can't, Eddie, I just can't." " But why?" "I'm afraid the money will get short and things will get tight" "But you don't have to worry about that." "No, right, right." "Because Eddie will take care of everything." "Okay, shut up, will you?" "Just shut up, huh?" "And look, huh?" "Look." "That's for us, Donna." "That's for you and me and Marty." "Just us." "No more worrying about money or things getting uptight." "I have taken care of things, you see?" "I'm gonna put it in the bank in your name so I won't be able to draw a check on it." "Eddie, where did you get it?" "It'll last us for years." "It'll give us a new start." " Eddie?" " And look." "There's more." "You stole that." "For us, baby." "For us." "Oh, no, you don't." "You don't blame that on me this time." "You needed money, didn't you?" "Eddie, I didn't ask you to do that." "What is it?" "No." "What is it?" "Numbers." " Policy slips." " Eddie, what are you talking about?" "I hit a drop." "A numbers drop." "The mob." "I knocked over the mob." "Even when I do something right, it's wrong." "Eddie, take it back." "Take it back." "No." "No, no, Donna." "Look, it could still be all right." " They don't know who I am." " No, they will find out." "And with your track record, the next thing they'll find is you and then me, and then Martin." "Take it back, Eddie." "Here's why nobody heard anything." "Thirty-two calibre." "Seven-point-six-five Luger." "With a good silencer, it won't make any more noise than an air gun." "Why's that?" "Barrel pressure's zero by the time the breech is open." "Had to be a pro, buddy boy." "A pro?" "I'll bet he was afraid." "At least we've got a couple of witnesses." "What two witnesses?" "Those two kids that called us yesterday." "They got a good look at him." "Timothy Shell and Leonard Ross." "Dead?" "What do you mean, dead?" "I mean dead." "How many kinds of dead are there?" "But how?" "Somebody wasted him." "You mean, somebody hit him with something?" "No, I mean, somebody shot him with something." "Oh, that's too bad." "Yeah, it's tough." "Look." " There." " Think so?" " No." " No." "Eddie?" "Eddie, we want to talk to you." "All the light bulbs were unscrewed, so the hallway was dark." "Nobody heard anything." "They've only got one witness and all he saw was two guys chasing Coughlin down this hallway." "He couldn't give us a description, though." "It was dark and he was too scared." "Sixty-some-odd years old." "Well, thanks for the call, Dave." "Well, the calibre of this bullet," "I knew it had to tie in somehow with that guy who was killed today." "It's the same, all right." "Got to be pros." "Pros?" "I don't know any pros use a.32 calibre." "It's a Luger, 7.65." "Well, you see, the barrel pressure's zero by the time the breech is open." "So when it goes off, sounds like an air gun." "Now I see why you work with this kid." "He's a real walking crime lab." "Oh, yeah." "I learn something new every day." "Who were they after, you know?" "Oh, man named Eddie Coughlin." "Here." "Here's his description." " Did he get hit?" " I don't think so." "There was no blood and our witness said he went out that front door like a scalded cat." " Hey, Mike." " Yeah." "This description fits the guy our kids saw coming out of the store last night." "Call Files." "See what they've got on Eddie Coughlin." "And if they have a mug shot, give it to the two boys, will you?" "And the name of the guy in the tobacco shop?" "Beal." "Eugene Beal." " Beal." "Run a make on him." " Right." "What do you want?" "Pully, it's me, Eddie." "I know it's you." "But what do you want?" "I want a place to stay." "Sorry, baby, but there's no room at the inn." "Pully, I'm in trouble." "I gotta get off the street." "I know you're in trouble." "But I don't want no part of it." "What do you know?" "How do you know?" "The word is around Eddie." "You're a sick man." "You got a disease." "A killing disease." "You're gonna die of it, baby." "I can pay you." "I got enough money to support your habit for a year." "For two years." "I can live with my habit." "But I wouldn't live a week with that money." "Now, get lost, will you?" " Pully, please." "I got" " Get lost." "Pully." "Pully." "Jackpot." "The boys identified Eddie Coughlin." "Got a record as long as your arm." "Another jackpot." "Eugene Beal, alias Gene Bates, alias J.G. Bascom." "Mostly petty theft, but running a few numbers." "Making a little book." "A little man working for a big company, huh?" " Yep." " What did you get on the gun?" "Ballistics says the gun that killed Beal was the same one that was fired at Eddie Coughlin." "Okay, now we've got the names, let's fill in the blanks." "Eddie robs Beal." "Beal denies a robbery occurred." "But then Beal is murdered the next day." "But Eddie didn't do it." "The guys that murdered Beal are now trying to eliminate Eddie." "Why?" "Pass." "Wait a minute." "Wait a minute." "Whatever Eddie was trying to get was illegal." "Or it was stolen from somebody else." "Does Eddie have any family here?" "Let's see." "His mother and father are dead." "Yeah, he's got a wife, Donna Coughlin, and a son, Martin." "Last address, L.A." " Let's find out where they're living now." " Right." " Hello." " Hello, Donna?" "No, this is her sister." "Donna's not here at the moment." "She took her son to the park." "Who is this?" "Hello?" "Hello?" "But I thought he was retired." "Okay." "Thanks a lot, Charlie." "Vice thinks that Beal might have been a drop for a guy named Grady McClain." "Ran the numbers in that area." "What did you get?" "Donna Coughlin." "Living in San Francisco." "Well, there could be more than one Donna Coughlin, you know." "Not with a son named Martin." "Hi, Martin." "You having fun?" "I can't talk to you." " Why?" " You're a stranger." "Well, I don't know about that." "I knew your name, didn't I?" "Let me see, your name is Martin Coughlin." "And your birthday is March the 18th." "And your mother's name is Donna and your father's name is Eddie, right?" " Right." " Yeah." "Hey, come here, I wanna show you something." "Did you ever see a teddy bear that big?" "That's not a teddy bear." "That's a panda." "Oh, that's right." "It is." "I'll tell you something else it is." "It's yours." "If you want it." "No, boys don't play with dolls." "Well, you don't have to play with it." "You just sort of keep it around for good luck." "Okay." "Well, what do you say?" " Thank you." " You're welcome." "How did you know my daddy's name?" "Well, he was a friend of mine." " We used to work together." " In Alaska?" "Alaska?" "Yeah, that's right." "In Alaska." "Did he ever save your life?" "Well, now that you mention it, during the big snow last year" "You know, we get a lot of snow in Alaska..." "Are you Donna Coughlin?" "No." "I'm her sister." "Sylvia Wagner." "Come in." "Donna?" "And remember, to mind your aunt Sylvia." "Okay, Mom." "Can I take my panda?" "No." "But, Mom, the man at the park said he was mine." "He said I should keep him with me." "I don't care what the man at the park said." "Now, scoot." "And mind your aunt Sylvia." "Excuse me." "See you later." " Bye." " Bye-bye." "Yeah, I know." "Police." "We're looking for your husband, Mrs. Coughlin." "I don't know where he is." "And I don't wanna know where he is." "He's still your husband, Mrs. Coughlin." "No, you're wrong, mister, he is garbage." "Once you've thrown away the garbage, you don't spend much time thinking about where it's gone or what they're gonna do with it." "It's just gone and good riddance." "When was the last time you saw him?" "Nine years ago." "On his way to Chino." "He waved at me through the bars on the bus." "Mrs. Coughlin, we have records." "We know you were living with him six years ago." "He's in a lot of trouble, Mrs. Coughlin." "Somebody is trying to kill him." "And in order to help him, we've got to find him before they do." "Do you understand that?" "He was here this morning." "Well, do you know any reason why someone would wanna kill him?" "The money, yes." "He was here." "He had a great deal of money." "A whole suitcase full of it." "And little pieces of paper and a book." "And when he saw the book, he was terrified." "Do you have any idea where he would go?" "Mrs. Coughlin, your husband is floating." "We're looking for him, they're looking for him and he knows it." "Is there any place he might have gone?" " I don't know." " There must be someplace." "Someplace where he'd feel safe, secure." "I don't know." "I don't know." "Well..." " Maybe." " Maybe what?" "Well, there's" "There's only one place Eddie ever really felt secure, I guess." "Eddie's parents died when he was Martin's age and he grew up on the street." "They sent him to Alcatraz when he was 22." "He spent nine years there." "Are you saying that you think he went back to Alcatraz?" "I don't know." "I just know that Eddie told me that was the first real home he ever had." "Three meals a day and a warm bed to sleep in, friends and somebody who cared whether he was there or not." "Being on the outside confused Eddie and he didn't know what was expected of him or where he stood." "But in there, he knew who he was and he knew what they wanted from him." "I just think if Eddie has no place else to go," "I think he's going home, maybe." "That's him." "Well, let's see." " Come on, over here." " Out." " You're out." " Hey." "Get over here." " Over here." " Over here." "Come on." "All right, now." " Move." " Hey." " Come on." " Hey." "Come on." " Hey." " Hey." "Eddie?" " What about the prison building?" " What about it?" "Oh, come on, Bags." "Would you go there?" "Sure, maybe." "If you could get in." "Are the cell blocks open?" " Which door?" " See if they got a number on him." "What cell was he in?" "I got it." "Thanks a lot." "All right, I'll let you know." "Oh, listen, if you happen to connect with the caretaker, tell him we're on our way." "He's gotta have a lot of bolts loose going back." "Where else could he hide?" "His choice." "Me?" "I could think of a thousand places if I were there." "If the screws turned their heads, which they never did." "Put yourself in his shoes." "You're running scared." "Trying to find a place to crawl into so they can't drag you out." "Come on now, think, Bags." "Think." "There must be some places better than others." "I'd head for one of the towers." "I mean, by that way, I could see who was coming." " Helicopter's ready." " All right." "Right." "Keech?" "Why don't we wait for him here?" "Oh, yeah, and go right back into the middle of Union Square." "He's gotta come out sometime." " I don't like it." " What?" "You know what." "We'll get him." "It won't take long." "It gives me the creeps." "Shut up." "It's like one big gravestone." "Yeah, well, for him, it is." "Okay, fella, on your feet." "I said, on your feet." "You know you're trespassing on government property." "It's all right." "I'm not gonna bite you." "What are you doing out here anyway?" "Oh, I used to be out here." "I just wanted to come out and have a look at it, you know?" "Were you a guard?" "No, I never walked the wall." "I walked the yard." "You were a con?" "When were you here?" "'49 to '57." "I came to work here in '59." "Yeah, well, I left in '57." "When they closed it down, I came back as a caretaker." "You know, it's funny but I like it out here." "Oh, don't you tell anybody that." "They'll think I'm rock-happy." "Probably think I am too." "Yeah." "Well, you better shake it if you're gonna get back to the mainland before dark." "Set it down in the yard." "There's his boat at the landing." "You get Eddie." "I'm gonna get that chopper." "Eddie." "Eddie Coughlin." "This is the police." "We know what happened, we wanna talk to you." "Do you understand?" "Eddie." "We know you're there." "Come and talk to us." "Eddie." "Eddie Coughlin, we know you're here, Eddie." "Come and talk to us." "Eddie Coughlin, do you hear me?" "Eddie, we wanna help you." "Do you un--?" "Doesn't sound like a Luger." "It's more like a.30-06." "Can you get that chopper started?" "Then give us a signal when you've got it up to speed." "Steve, get him out of there." "Go." "Get on that thing and get a doctor out here, quick." "Eddie?" "Ed" "Eddie?" "Eddie?" "Doctor's on the way." "Too late for him." "What is this, the bank?" "Check the name with the biggest numbers." "McClain." "The DA's gonna think Christmas came early this year." " Where's the money?" " Well, my guess is that he found a real safe place for it." "It's here." "You do know you're entitled to 10 percent of that as a reward?" " It isn't my money." " But you did find it, didn't you?" "That's what my report's going to say." "Now, you don't know me but I try very hard not to write more than one report." "Hey." "What are you doing with my panda?" "Well..." "What am I doing with this panda?" "I'll tell you, it got torn." "And I was gonna take it out and get it fixed and then bring it right back to you." " Is that all right?" " Okay." "Were you a friend of my daddy's too?" "Yes, I am." "Did he ever save your life?" "As a matter of fact, he did, son." "He really did." "And someday I'd really like to tell you about it." "Would that be all right with you if I came back and told you about it?" " Okay." " I knew you'd say that." "I'll be seeing you."