watch now! detail...
good afternoon, sergeants! just a little misunderstanding between me and l.a.'s finest. i'll have it cleared up in a second! man: died sometime last night. gunshot to the heart. she fell in love with a police officer-- a fellow police officer by the name of riley coslin. [gunshot] it's our bridal suite.
hunter: come on, love muffin. hop on. want me to tuck you in? good morning to you, too. what makes you and these idiots think you can put that on me? this better be good. [engine starts] [knocking] [sighs]
[faint knocking] yeah, yeah. geez. [knocking continues] coslin. hunter, i'm in trouble. yeah, you sure are. it's 2:00 in the morning. what are you doing? look, man, you gotta help me.
watch out with the curtains, will you? you got to let me stay here tonight, ok? what do you mean? [slams door] [latches lock] will you relax? don't turn the light-- coslin! sit down. get in there!
sit down right there. it's too early to be crazy like this, coslin. now, look, it's 2:00 in the morning. what's the problem? i can't tell you yet. oh, come on. don't tell me that. look, i'll tell you first thing tomorrow. i promise. ok.
over there on the window seat is a blanket. you'll find the pillows there on the couch. good night. i'm going to come down here first thing tomorrow morning, and this better be good. hey, rick. thanks. what? i don't have time to explain.
just take it. i love you. hey! get him. [ringing] ok, coslin. rise and shine. riley! charlie... what case was coslin working on?
he wasn't working on anything. he's on vacation. due back today. before he was on vacation, what case was he working on? nothing very important. that's why he took the time off. why the sudden interest in coslin? uh, that's ok, charlie. thanks. mccall: have a nice weekend? yeah.
could have fooled me. i had a strange thing happen to me last night, mccall. mccall: what? just a second. hi, riley. hey, hunter. how you doing? cut the crap, riley. what are you talking about? i'm talking about last night.
look, i just got back from vacation, and-- look, don't jack me around here. look, i don't know what you're talking about! hey, coslin! deputy chief wyler wants to see you on the double. what was that all about? are you all right? fine. don't we have some unfinished business on the defatta case?
yeah. we have to do the final paperwork, get it from the m.e., and a deposition on defatta's brother. good. you take the m.e. i'll take his brother. you sure you're ok? hi, riley. let's chat. what the hell are you doing, man?
shut up. sit down. why the sudden loss of memory this morning, huh? i can't tell you. i-i-i can't tell you that. yes, you can. let's have it, riley. i'm not leaving until you-- look, i wish i could tell you, but i can't. you have to accept that. i don't accept that!
you think i'm nuts? you show up at my house last night like a wild man. you beg me to let you sleep on my couch. in the morning, you disappear. you show up at the precinct this morning, and you act as if nothing ever happened. now, what's the big secret, riley? maybe i can help you. you can't help me, man. nobody can.
i'm not leaving till i get some answers. look, i gotta do this on my own. you gotta give me some time. i'll tell you the whole story in a couple of days. all right? but for now, it's just between you and me. come on, rick. please? look, riley, you better know what you're doing.
mccall: glad you could make it. hunter: oh, i'm sorry. i had to take care of some personal business. barney, what have we got? barney: well, we've got a female, caucasian, mid-twenties. uh, cause of death? i don't know yet. let's take a look.
hunter: excuse me. i'll need copies of these prints as soon as you can get them to me. any i.d.? barney: nothing. you don't know what killed her, barney? not a clue. autopsy will tell us, i hope. mccall: any indication of drugs?
didn't find anything. why don't you guys come by first thing in the morning? yeah. thanks, barn. [tuba music playing] mccall: carlos. carlos, wake up! come on, carlos. wake up. mccall, my little fox.
i was just having the most wonderful dream about you. listen to this. i was dead, lying on this gurney. you guys were standing over me, talking about me. hunter, you said the nicest things. you wanted to make sure they buried me with my tuba. no, not with it. in it.
i should have known it was beyond him. where's barney? he went home to get some sleep. he was here half the night. listen, we're looking for a d.b. that was brought in here late last night. blonde. name's lavonne schofield. you got a name on her?
yeah. we ran her prints last night. now where's your report? it's right here, little fox. it'll be transcribed as soon as mabel gets in. you should have it by 10 a.m. but i got to tell you something. i was looking over barney's shoulder all night long.
come on. you're gonna love this. yeah. hunter: so, what's so interesting here, carlos? well, at first glance, she's your average, all-american girl. well-nourished, good teeth. so barney takes a little blood sample, and guess what he found? root beer.
5 ethyl, 5-1 methyl butyl, 2 thio, 10 barbiturate. carlos, what is that? sodium pentothal. and not just traces. megadoses. like over 100 c.c.s. we're talking more than enough to make her tongue a little loose.
yeah, but i don't think she did much talking. let me show you this. barney noticed these two bands of slightly discolored skin across her index and middle fingers, which, in and of itself, did not seem significant. until... conductive jelly.
like to conduct electricity. not the kind of stuff we find on every corpse they wheel in here. barney estimated time of death between 1 and 2 a.m., night before last. as to the cause of death: traumatic, massive coronary arrest. when they turned on the juice,
well, you see, she had this little valve deformity. probably didn't even know she had it. so barney doesn't think they meant to kill her. that's right. ok, i'll check out her apartment. you go back to the precinct. no, no. i'm not gonna go back to the station
and do paperwork all morning. no way. we'll flip for it. i don't want to flip for it. why not? because i always lose! so what? it's good for you to lose sometimes. besides, i feel as though your luck could change. come on. i'm gonna choose. i can-- wait, let me see. call it. heads.
[snickers] i hate that. nobody is safe in this country anymore. how has long has lavonne lived here, miss post? she moved here from texas 2 years ago. if you want my opinion, she should have stayed there. maybe she'd be alive today. i mean, she was a sweet, young thing.
she couldn't hurt a fly. i just can't believe this. did lavonne have any friends? course she had friends. she had a lot of friends. oh, my god. oh, god. sybil. sybil?
it's her best friend. she lives here across the hall. now, i don't know-- i really don't know how i'm supposed to tell her this. do you think sybil would be home right now? no, she wouldn't be home. she'd be working 'cause the two of them worked together. pacific industries down on fourth street.
ok. thanks, miss post, for your time. i'm very sorry about lavonne. bye. woman: i can't believe she's dead. i mean, who would want to do such a thing? everyone loved her. you were pretty close, huh? oh, we were like sisters.
we were! both from texas, so we had a lot in common. when did you first meet? couple years ago, i guess. right after she moved to l.a. do you think it's possible for me to look through her desk, her personal belongings here at work?
perhaps it might help me. yeah. yeah, sure. i'll show you where it is. so, is there anything else? anything unusual? oh, gosh. uh... well, a man called a couple of weeks ago. i don't know if this means anything. but, um, well,
he thought i was lavonne 'cause of my accent. he started talking to me until i told him i wasn't her, you know, she wasn't in. do you recall his name? yeah, i wrote it down. it was dr. shapiro. i remember 'cause she and i had the same doctor. and it wasn't him.
man: sergeant, i want to help you find this person who killed her. i cared for her very deeply. it's because of my feelings for her that i ask you to use discretion with any information i give you. i understand that. lavonne was a very sweet and innocent girl.
unfortunately, these endearing qualities of hers caused her a certain amount of pain. what do you mean? she was born in a little town in texas. pruitville. doctor: yes, that's right. pruitville. her parents died when she was very young,
and so she was raised by her grandparents whom she loved very much, but those advanced years stunted the development of certain social skills usually acquired during puberty. the point is, sergeant, that she had difficulty relating to men, which is why she came to me. lavonne, at the age of 26,
was still a virgin. [sighs] yes, i'll hold. damn it. having fun? loads. you know, this-- man: that's ok, officers, really! i have been walking since i was 2! well, i don't really remember that far,
but my mama says i was a pretty precocious child. just a little misunderstanding between me and l. a.'s finest. i'll have it cleared up in a second. don't even bother to get up. ouch! hello. yeah. that's all you have? all right. thank you. what have you got?
not much at all. they found her car in westwood. she's got a clean record, and there were 2 sets of prints in the car-- her and somebody named sybil taylor. yeah, i just talked to her. what is this? it's a birth certificate, tax return,
and personal i.d. you've got a blood donor card, too. where'd you get this stuff? from her desk at pacific industries. what do they do there? they make precision fasteners. nuts, bolts, things like that. sounds exciting. says here she was born in pruitville, texas.
may 2, 1960. the people i talked to say she's your typical, ordinary girl next door. well, who would want to torture and murder the typical, ordinary girl next door? pruitville? where the hell is pruitville? texas. 140 miles south of longview. are you telling me you can't get any information on this girl
without going to pruitville, texas? charlie, this is a real strange case we have here. this girl was the ultimate, all-american girl next door profile, and she winds up being tortured to death. now, we have tried everything in l.a. we've come up empty. why don't you try calling the law in pruitville? oh, charlie, we don't want to check out our only lead
on a long distance phone call to somebody we don't know. how much is it going to cost? it's not going to cost hardly anything at all. longview round trip airfare is nothing, a couple motel rooms, a rental car-- 500 bucks at most. i'm going to hold you to that, mccall. have a nice trip. [tires squealing]
you know, i think that guy at the rental car agency is right. i mean, he grew up 30 miles out of pruitville. if we go in there and start flashing our badges, we're not going to get any information from those guys. when in rome... yeah.
i think we ought to just pretend we're married. be a lot easier. ok, love muffin. heh. love muffin? you call all your wives love muffin? pick you up a ring when we get into town. oh, well. thank you for that consideration, but it really isn't necessary.
love muffin! well, you're in luck, mr. and mrs. hunter. this is our last room, and it's our best one. [southern accent] well, that'll be fine. what? i said that will be fine. fine! now, what are you up here for?
county agricultural meeting? no. uh, we're up here lookin' for my cousin. her name's schofield. schofield. i heard the name. never met any of them though. see, my wife and i, we've only been here a few years. we had a farm south of topeka. thought texas would be a good place to retire.
folks are real nice here! yes, they are. you know, i've been telling my husband that for years. this is his first visit to this part of texas. where y'all from, anyhow? i'm originally from dallas. oh. yes, dal-- but my husband's from l.a. yeah?
well.. yeah, well, i--i think you'll like the room. it's--it's real nice. course, it's a little expensive: $24 a night. does this room have a phone? certainly it's got a phone! it's got everything! it's got air conditioning,
vibra-matic bed...king-size! you know, it's our-- we'll take it. oh, yeah! oh, yeah! oh-oh-oh yeah! well, now-- this is terrible! look at this decor! i know where i'm going to be... right now.
oh. oh. ho ho ho. don't get too comfortable. we do have work to do, you know. oh! the vibrating bed. i can't sleep on a bed if it vibrates! sure you can. [coins clink]
look. it's great. come on. what side of the bed do you sleep on, anyway? right here in the middle, honey. uh, no. you do have to move to one side or the other. i do have to have my own space, you know. we'll fit you in the open areas here. come on. oh, give it a rest.
hunter: ohh. guess what? there are no schofields listed in the phone book, and this one's current. that's because these types of rooms made the schofields leave the city. come on, love muffin. hop on. let's go talk to the sheriff. come on. you think the sheriff will have some quarters?
come on! great. what is it, 6:15? the place is closed up just like orange county. let's go get some beer. want me to tuck you in? i'm fine. just do me a favor. don't snore. what makes you think i snore?
who told you i snored? why do you think i snore? well, remember that, um... that blonde you dated last year with the, uh... yeah? yeah, well... i talked to her a little bit, you know. really? she said you snore like a freight train.
w-w-what else did she say about me? good night. [coins clink] [bed whirring] [laughing wearily] oh, no. turn off the bed! [whispering] love muffin. turn off the bed, you idiot! ha ha ha ha ha!
why ain't you laughin'? 'cause you told me that joke last week. twice. [door opens] excuse me. we're lookin' for the sheriff. well, you found him, ma'am. what can i do for you? my husband and i are trying to find my cousin lavonne schofield.
the family's from around these parts. we just lost track of each other a long time ago. i thought maybe you might be able to give us some help to find her now. yeah, schofield. that's an old pruitville name. in fact, there's an old building next to the depot over there that's called schofield building. have you tried looking her up in the county phone book?
we sure did. the name schofield ain't even in there no more. sheriff: no schofields? mm-mm. i don't have anything on schofield at all. i guess they either all died or moved. bud, do you know anything about them schofields? they always kept a big old place out there on route 28. as far as i know, it's still in the family. yeah, that old, broken-down house
out there near mansfield road. how do we get to mansfield road? you take this main road, take it on out of town. you can't miss it. thanks. appreciate it. hey, if you find any of them schofields in that old house, i'd sure like to know what they have to say since ain't nobody seen 'em for 20 years.
we'll let you know. thanks. well, nothing like a hot tip on a cold day. so, you think we should knock? [mccall scoffs] yeah, avon calling. [door creaks loudly] nobody's lived here in 25 years. lavonne couldn't have been raised here.
maybe this isn't the schofield house. let's get out of here. this place gives me the creeps. hold on a second. hunter: old bud was right. this is definitely the schofield place. looks like it has been for a long time. look at the dates on these things. listen to this.
elizabeth clay schofield. born 1837. died 1883. hunter: daniel clay schofield. son of mary elizabeth. born 1843. he gave his life for the noble cause of the confederacy, 1862.
hey, come here. our beloved baby lavonne schofield. born may 2, 1960. died july 18, 1960. isn't that the date that was on her birth certificate? yeah. that's her. look at my desk. every time i leave and i come back,
someone's always monkeying with my desk. look at this! doris? hunter. is coslin back at his desk yet? ok, uh, do me a favor. tell him as soon as he gets in that i'm waiting to talk to him. ok? well, you might say i have some things to talk to him about. yeah.
thank you, hon. bye. charlie: so, lavonne schofield turns out to be a fraud, huh? hunter: quite professional at that, charlie. lavonne schofield died when she was 2 months old. her mother died in childbirth, and the baby went to go live with the grandparents. after the baby's death, the grandparents lived a short time more, and then, after that, that ended the family line.
so a couple years ago, somebody gets a copy of lavonne's birth certificate from the pruit county seat, and bingo! lavonne schofield lives again. very neat. hey, hunter. sybil taylor returned your call. says she wants you to call her at her office or go see her. that's where she is. thanks, budge. listen, i think you're onto something big.
have you checked with the fbi? yeah, we gave them the information. they're going to get back to us as soon as they find anything. i don't know what this is, but it's definitely weird. keep me posted, hmm? got it. what do you mean she wasn't who she said she was? the birth certificate i found in that desk the other day
belonged to a lavonne schofield of pruitville, texas. now, she was born may 2, 1960. she also died 2 months after that birthday. the girl who occupied that desk-- we don't know who she is or where she came from. i find this very hard to believe.
mccall: what we're trying to tell you is that girl is a fraud. now, is there anything, anything at all that you can tell us that would help us to determine who she really was? well, there is one thing i didn't tell y'all about. but she made me promise never to tell anybody. she had this boyfriend. um, i saw them together once.
and when i mentioned it to her later, she told me to forget i ever saw him. when was this? a month ago. did she tell you his name? no. she didn't want to talk about it. i figured he was married or something. hunter: well, what did he look like? he was good looking.
he was tall, dark hair. listen, would you do us a favor and come down to the station right now? man: ok, now how about this? that looks just like him. just like him. are you sure about that? well, it looks just like i remember him. hold this.
hold--bear with me. that the guy? that's him! that's him. you folks know him or something? yeah. ok. well, let me know if you find him. no one's seen him today. they called his home. there's no answer.
are you sure coslin came to your house the same night this schofield woman or whatever the hell her name is was murdered? charlie, coslin showed up at my house 2:00 in the morning, monday night. now, barney puts the death of the girl at about the same time. go to his house. if he isn't there, wait for him.
you got it. [glass shatters] [gunshots] [car engine starts] phone in the plate. coslin! riley! the property's clear. let's get out of here.
let's get a print team down here, too. and then let's get back to the station. i got a real good look at that guy, and i don't want to forget him. mccall: yeah, that was a little fuller. umm... eyes were a little closer together. here's the report on those prints. great, budge. thanks. what have you got?
absolutely nothing. what are you talking about? 4 guys without gloves ripped that place apart, and they don't have a record on the prints? that's crazy! hunter. mccall. [sirens] died some time last night. gunshot to the heart.
come on. get out of there. you have 5 seconds to tell me why you're tailing me. i'm not at liberty to discuss this matter with you. all right. who do you work for? may i? sure. i'm not at liberty to discuss this matter. that figures. [sighs]
pardon me, signor. do you have a reservation? no, i don't. i'll only be a moment. hiya, brad. surprised to see me? not really. what's it been now, a year since i gave you the zukoff case? why don't we talk about this tomorrow at my office?
i have a friend of yours out in the back of my car-- a special agent brelsford. excuse me, gentlemen. you're having me followed, brad. i want to know why. because you're involved with a case we're involved in, and i don't want you involved. lavonne schofield? that's a murder case! i get paid to solve those.
what we're working on is a hell of a lot more important than your homicide case. i want you out of it. that's not going to happen. you better come with me. what's this look like to you, sergeant? oh, i don't know. greenwich, connecticut? amherst, massachusetts? you tell me. nevesgraad. ukraine. soviet union.
what the hell are you talking about here? there's a hot dog stand with a chevy out front. mm-hmm. those pictures were taken in 1968 by one of our russian operatives. they're the first and last pictures to ever come out of the soviet union of a potemkin village. a what? potemkin village!
carefully selected russian youths are sent in their teens to villages that look just like small town america. they stay there. they learn to speak english with the right accent. they watch american tv. they read american newspapers. they are committed, indoctrinated communist party cadres who end up looking like the quintessential,
red-blooded american. some of these villages look like new england. some of them look like montana. some of them look like pruitville, texas! lavonne called us last week. she wanted to defect. she fell in love with an american, but she was afraid because her family, her 2 brothers-- they were still in the soviet union.
she asked us if we would set up a meeting for her in a safe place. we arranged it. she never showed. you want to know why she didn't show up? brad: why? because she fell in love with a police officer, a fellow police officer by the name of riley coslin. now he's dead. now, come on. what the hell is going on over at pacific industries
that i don't know anything about? what are the russians doing over there? i'm sorry. i cannot risk having you involved with this operation. but i am involved in this! don't you understand that? i mean, come on. i am involved. i've got a photograph, a sketch of a man-- one of the men that ransacked riley coslin's house. now, you want to see that?
let's go see your sketch. hunter: you know him? yeah, i know him. he's igor welachevski. he was lavonne's immediate superior. we don't want him. you might be able to pin lavonne's murder here on him as well as coslin's, but he's not the man we want. we want his boss! he's middle level.
we're never going to get his boss if you don't listen to me. i want your men off this case. look, i know how you feel about coslin, but he's got a point, not to mention political clout. let me tell you something, charlie. the last time that guy said i interfered in his case, i ended up handing it to him. i'm not worried about the case, hunter.
i'm worried about you. i've already lost one man to this thing. i don't want to lose another one. i want to talk to you about that. man, russian accent: don't move, sergeant hunter. now turn around slowly, your hands at your sides. you're coming with us. terrific.
[man speaks russian] [speaking russian] [man speaking russian] [speaks russian] i have only one question to ask you, sergeant. where's the key? dr. shapiro, it's really good to see you. where is the key? what key?
i hope you're not going to try to be heroic like your friend detective coslin. but then, love makes fools of us all, doesn't it, sergeant? coslin was no fool, dr. shapiro. otherwise, you wouldn't be here. i'm here because he led my associates on a goose chase and paid with his life.
now you have the information i need, and i will get it from you. now tell me where the key is. [speaks russian] you needn't struggle, sergeant. it'll do you no good. hey, look. i don't know anything about your key, ok? you could save yourself a great deal of pain, sergeant.
coslin never said anything about a key. look. this thing didn't work on lavonne. what makes you think it's going to work on me? lavonne was very well trained. trained to withstand pentothal and a great deal of pain. officer: police! freeze! officer: throw down your weapons! officer: freeze! drop your weapons!
come out with your hands above your head! there's dr. shapiro over there. that's the guy that wilkes was after. coslin apparently hid a key at my house. we've got to send someone over there to find it. send a search team over to hunter's on the double! i'll meet you there. and where were you guys? how come you took so long?
that guy could have poached me with that thing. you know, i've been giving this an awful lot of thought, sergeant. and what i think they need is a shorter quarterback. you know, you don't know the first thing about football. when's the last time you even saw a game? man: hunter! mccall! got a visitor.
hi. how are you? just came by because i wanted to thank you for all your help. oh. well, you're welcome. what's happening with shapiro? well, he's the man, all right. he's not talking, but he's the man. that key that we found at your house is to a safety deposit box.
it had all this information about the potemkin village operation as well as shapiro's involvement in it. mmm. i, uh... well, i just know that next time i won't sell you guys so short. well, we appreciate that, don't we? thanks, brad.
i learned something else, too. what's that? well, it's just that both of us, our side and theirs, we put billions of dollars and thousands of lifetimes into these carefully planned operations, and we just see them crashing down because we forget a human being's involved.
you think maybe we could, uh, invite brad to lunch? yeah. what do you say? want to join us? yeah. sure, if you let me pick up the tab. my agency's budget is a hell of a lot bigger than yours. certainly. yeah. now, what is the name of that agency again? i keep forgetting. oh, that's because i keep declining to tell you.
get in the backseat, brad. right. in the back. good. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org--
