1 00:00:02,897 --> 00:00:04,023 (GUN FlRES) 2 00:00:06,534 --> 00:00:08,764 That was one of the guys that killed your dad. 3 00:00:09,403 --> 00:00:12,770 A friend of mine is dead and his son is missing. 4 00:00:12,840 --> 00:00:14,501 Please find my son, T.C. 5 00:00:14,575 --> 00:00:15,633 I'm working! 6 00:00:15,709 --> 00:00:17,904 Today was his funeral and you weren't there. 7 00:00:20,014 --> 00:00:22,949 The both of them took off and I think it was to go after those boys. 8 00:00:23,017 --> 00:00:24,177 That would be a real mistake. 9 00:00:24,251 --> 00:00:26,185 My friend was killed 10 00:00:26,253 --> 00:00:28,619 because you robbed a store. 11 00:00:28,822 --> 00:00:29,948 (GRUNTlNG) 12 00:01:33,621 --> 00:01:34,280 (SHOES SQUEAKlNG) 13 00:01:38,359 --> 00:01:40,259 MAGNUM: Basketball is a simple game. 14 00:01:40,394 --> 00:01:42,862 And it really hasn't changed much since Dr. Naismith 15 00:01:42,930 --> 00:01:45,865 nailed up that peach basket some 90 years ago. 16 00:01:45,966 --> 00:01:48,093 The object of the game is still to throw the ball 17 00:01:48,168 --> 00:01:50,363 through the hole more times than the other guys. 18 00:01:50,437 --> 00:01:51,631 (WHOOPlNG) 19 00:01:52,973 --> 00:01:54,201 RON: We got them on the run! 20 00:01:54,275 --> 00:01:55,765 MAGNUM: But as you get older, 21 00:01:55,843 --> 00:01:58,038 you also find yourself playing some tough D 22 00:01:58,112 --> 00:02:02,048 against that fast-breaking combo of mortality and Dr. Time himself. 23 00:02:02,549 --> 00:02:04,744 That's why my occasional Saturday mornings 24 00:02:04,818 --> 00:02:08,310 of a little three-on-three with T. C. and our buddy Ron, against these kids 25 00:02:08,389 --> 00:02:10,949 have become a little more than just recreation. 26 00:02:11,225 --> 00:02:13,489 Recreation's fine, but winning 27 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:15,323 has somehow become sweeter. 28 00:02:15,396 --> 00:02:16,863 (ALL CHEERlNG) 29 00:02:17,197 --> 00:02:20,030 Chalk another one up to experience, 30 00:02:20,167 --> 00:02:22,635 teamwork, and six deadly eyes! 31 00:02:22,703 --> 00:02:24,193 And six dead legs. 32 00:02:24,905 --> 00:02:26,805 Speak for yourself, Thomas. 33 00:02:27,741 --> 00:02:30,471 You boys want to give us old men one more taste of victory? 34 00:02:30,544 --> 00:02:33,911 You sure about that, Ronnie? I mean, maybe we ought to call the paramedics 35 00:02:33,981 --> 00:02:35,608 and have them standing by just in case. 36 00:02:35,683 --> 00:02:36,877 (EXCLAlMlNG) 37 00:02:37,251 --> 00:02:38,980 Look here, we are just getting warm. 38 00:02:39,053 --> 00:02:40,452 Hey, man I thought you had to get home? 39 00:02:40,521 --> 00:02:43,490 I do. But I got enough for one more game for the road. 40 00:02:43,557 --> 00:02:45,650 I guess one more game won't kill anybody. 41 00:02:46,527 --> 00:02:47,721 (CHUCKLES) 42 00:03:31,405 --> 00:03:32,497 (GRUNTS) 43 00:03:34,074 --> 00:03:35,302 (GROANlNG) 44 00:03:35,976 --> 00:03:39,275 Man, I don't care if l never play another basketball game in my life. 45 00:03:39,346 --> 00:03:41,075 At least not for six or seven years. 46 00:03:41,582 --> 00:03:43,049 How about watching one instead? 47 00:03:43,117 --> 00:03:45,449 76ers and Lakers. I got it on cable. 48 00:03:45,819 --> 00:03:47,150 Sheila won't mind? 49 00:03:47,221 --> 00:03:48,813 Mind? Come on, T.C., you're family. 50 00:03:48,889 --> 00:03:50,618 And she hasn't seen you in months. 51 00:03:50,691 --> 00:03:51,749 Hey, that's great. 52 00:03:51,825 --> 00:03:52,814 (EXCLAlMS) 53 00:03:54,628 --> 00:03:57,961 I promised Higgins I'd help him catalog Robin Masters' 54 00:03:58,031 --> 00:03:59,931 collection of detective fiction. 55 00:04:00,300 --> 00:04:02,860 Detective fiction? How much could he have? 56 00:04:03,971 --> 00:04:06,838 All of it. A personal favor to Mr. Masters. 57 00:04:07,274 --> 00:04:10,437 Listen, if I hurry maybe I can get there for the second half. 58 00:04:10,511 --> 00:04:11,842 RON: You're on. T.C.: Good luck. 59 00:04:12,179 --> 00:04:15,205 With Higgie baby, though, you might make it by halftime next season. 60 00:04:15,282 --> 00:04:16,613 I'll be there. 61 00:04:18,385 --> 00:04:19,852 (CAR ENGlNE STARTlNG) 62 00:04:23,690 --> 00:04:26,318 Sheila said she'd keep the fire going. Burgers okay? 63 00:04:26,527 --> 00:04:27,789 How many? 64 00:04:27,861 --> 00:04:28,987 (BOTH LAUGHlNG) 65 00:04:30,964 --> 00:04:34,365 RON: Well, you think Dr. J is gonna hang it up at the end of this season? 66 00:04:34,435 --> 00:04:35,800 I hope not. 67 00:04:36,236 --> 00:04:38,363 Man, he's an inspiration to all us... 68 00:04:38,439 --> 00:04:40,373 All you old guys. 69 00:04:42,443 --> 00:04:45,435 You know, I think old age really starts hitting you 70 00:04:45,512 --> 00:04:49,141 when you realize that all of your heroes are younger than you are 71 00:04:49,349 --> 00:04:51,078 and even they're considered old. 72 00:04:51,151 --> 00:04:52,618 (BOTH LAUGHlNG) 73 00:04:53,654 --> 00:04:55,588 Especially if you've got a 17-year-old son 74 00:04:55,656 --> 00:04:57,385 that almost outjumps you... 75 00:04:57,458 --> 00:04:59,153 (TOGETHER) And outshoots you! 76 00:05:02,896 --> 00:05:04,955 How's Ronnie Jr. doing, anyway? 77 00:05:07,835 --> 00:05:09,302 I don't know, man. 78 00:05:11,038 --> 00:05:13,336 He's not talking to me too much these days. 79 00:05:14,842 --> 00:05:16,400 Maybe you better ask him. 80 00:05:16,777 --> 00:05:18,540 Oh, what is it this time? 81 00:05:21,748 --> 00:05:24,410 I think the psychologists call it alienation. 82 00:05:24,485 --> 00:05:25,474 Oh... 83 00:05:28,021 --> 00:05:29,682 Hey, that's nothing, huh? 84 00:05:30,023 --> 00:05:31,957 I mean, it's all part of growing old. 85 00:05:32,826 --> 00:05:35,090 First they need you, then you need them. 86 00:05:36,797 --> 00:05:39,288 Except right now, I don't think he needs anybody. 87 00:05:40,801 --> 00:05:42,234 Hey, Sheila asked me to stop by 88 00:05:42,302 --> 00:05:44,770 and pick up some hamburger buns on the way back. You mind? 89 00:05:45,072 --> 00:05:46,403 Oh, no. No. 90 00:05:55,916 --> 00:05:57,577 T.C.: And don't forget my Gatorade. 91 00:05:57,651 --> 00:05:59,380 Man, I'm dying of thirst here. 92 00:05:59,520 --> 00:06:01,420 You got it. Be right back. 93 00:06:06,760 --> 00:06:09,752 Oh, hey, the orange kind. 94 00:06:23,377 --> 00:06:27,404 WOMAN ON RADIO : Doctor, I just don't know, except lately when my husband 95 00:06:27,481 --> 00:06:29,972 comes home from work, he doesn't want to do a thing. 96 00:06:30,717 --> 00:06:31,945 Nothing. 97 00:06:32,019 --> 00:06:34,487 It doesn't matter what kind of sexy clothes I'm wearing, 98 00:06:34,555 --> 00:06:36,750 or what kind of perfume I've got on, 99 00:06:36,823 --> 00:06:39,348 or even the Johnny Mathis records on the stereo. 100 00:06:39,426 --> 00:06:41,451 It just doesn't matter. 101 00:06:41,828 --> 00:06:44,763 All he wants to do is watch a damn basketball game. 102 00:06:44,831 --> 00:06:46,230 What should I do? 103 00:06:46,300 --> 00:06:48,495 If I was you, I'd leave the poor sucker alone. 104 00:06:52,906 --> 00:06:55,170 Not only are you getting old you're getting senile. 105 00:06:55,242 --> 00:06:56,903 This is green. 106 00:06:56,977 --> 00:06:59,104 Oh, that's right. You wanted orange. 107 00:06:59,179 --> 00:07:01,010 It's all right, I'll take it back and exchange it. 108 00:07:01,081 --> 00:07:03,140 Hey, look, I'll take it back. Look, I'm the youngest. 109 00:07:03,216 --> 00:07:04,478 After all, I'm the one that messed up. 110 00:07:04,551 --> 00:07:06,109 That's okay, I'll drink it green. 111 00:07:06,186 --> 00:07:08,347 Come on, T.C., I'll be right back. 112 00:07:19,099 --> 00:07:21,761 FEMALE DOCTOR: So watch one of those silly ballgames with him, 113 00:07:21,835 --> 00:07:24,099 Iearn a little bit about them 114 00:07:24,171 --> 00:07:27,265 so you can communicate in his own language. 115 00:07:27,407 --> 00:07:30,740 But at the same time, do it totally nude, 116 00:07:30,844 --> 00:07:32,243 side by side. 117 00:07:32,312 --> 00:07:34,678 Then I guarantee you, by halftime, 118 00:07:34,748 --> 00:07:37,182 he'll be watching you instead of Larry Bird. 119 00:07:37,250 --> 00:07:40,310 WOMAN: Thank you, doctor. I hope I don't catch cold. 120 00:07:40,420 --> 00:07:41,648 (GUN FlRES) 121 00:07:50,163 --> 00:07:51,790 (HORN HONKlNG) 122 00:07:52,766 --> 00:07:54,233 Yo, Ron! 123 00:07:55,702 --> 00:07:56,930 (CAR DOOR CLOSES) 124 00:07:59,373 --> 00:08:00,567 Ron! 125 00:08:01,308 --> 00:08:03,037 Father, are you all right? 126 00:08:04,878 --> 00:08:05,970 You okay? 127 00:08:06,346 --> 00:08:07,540 Ron. 128 00:08:11,318 --> 00:08:12,444 Ronnie! 129 00:08:58,298 --> 00:08:59,697 ANDY: They hit my father. 130 00:09:01,601 --> 00:09:03,660 He doesn't speak very good English 131 00:09:03,770 --> 00:09:05,795 and I think at first he didn't know what was going on 132 00:09:05,872 --> 00:09:07,499 until they pulled a gun. 133 00:09:09,776 --> 00:09:11,141 He tried to fight them, 134 00:09:11,211 --> 00:09:12,644 that's when one of them hurt him. 135 00:09:12,713 --> 00:09:14,510 Hit him with the gun? Yes. 136 00:09:14,681 --> 00:09:15,773 T.C.: Where were you? 137 00:09:15,849 --> 00:09:18,215 I was in the cooler, stocking the soft drinks. 138 00:09:18,785 --> 00:09:21,515 I heard the commotion, that's when I ran outside. 139 00:09:21,588 --> 00:09:23,146 And saw what, precisely? 140 00:09:23,423 --> 00:09:25,914 I saw them turn and shoot this man's friend. 141 00:09:26,293 --> 00:09:27,954 He was in the juice aisle. 142 00:09:28,528 --> 00:09:31,053 He was going to help my father and they shot him. 143 00:09:31,798 --> 00:09:34,096 We'll be in touch. Thank you, Andy. 144 00:09:38,839 --> 00:09:40,466 Did you get a good look at them? 145 00:09:41,608 --> 00:09:43,803 One haole, one local, 146 00:09:44,411 --> 00:09:46,140 one local guy driving a car. 147 00:09:46,947 --> 00:09:48,312 No license? 148 00:09:50,383 --> 00:09:52,715 Just a brand new black Continental. 149 00:09:53,186 --> 00:09:54,676 Guess they stole it. 150 00:09:56,123 --> 00:09:58,990 I'm gonna find out. Put it in the computer right away. 151 00:09:59,059 --> 00:10:01,357 If it turns up, we've got a good shot at them. 152 00:10:14,608 --> 00:10:16,576 When you find them, I want to be there. 153 00:10:16,643 --> 00:10:17,940 (VAN DOOR CLOSES) 154 00:10:18,011 --> 00:10:19,239 I'll call you later. 155 00:10:19,312 --> 00:10:22,179 Right now, I've got to see Mr. Pennington's family. 156 00:10:22,682 --> 00:10:24,172 No, you don't. I do. 157 00:10:25,152 --> 00:10:26,414 It's my duty. 158 00:10:27,454 --> 00:10:30,218 No, it isn't. It's mine. 159 00:11:10,664 --> 00:11:12,256 (DOORBELL RlNGlNG) 160 00:11:14,968 --> 00:11:16,799 SHElLA: Forget your key again, Ron? 161 00:11:16,870 --> 00:11:19,771 Or did you just have trouble remembering where you live? 162 00:11:20,073 --> 00:11:23,531 T.C. I hope you guys like your hamburgers well done. 163 00:11:23,743 --> 00:11:24,937 Where's Ron? 164 00:11:31,484 --> 00:11:32,712 Where's Ron? 165 00:11:46,132 --> 00:11:48,123 MAGNUM: I guess when I think of funerals, 166 00:11:48,201 --> 00:11:50,169 I think of dark, drizzly days 167 00:11:50,237 --> 00:11:53,001 and everybody dressed up in long gray overcoats. 168 00:11:53,139 --> 00:11:55,505 Kind of like a black and white movie. 169 00:11:55,609 --> 00:11:58,703 I mean, it's real hard to reconcile death and rainbows. 170 00:11:59,112 --> 00:12:00,977 Especially when you're at a funeral of a friend 171 00:12:01,047 --> 00:12:02,776 who spent a lifetime collecting them. 172 00:12:06,486 --> 00:12:07,976 T.C.: He'll show up. 173 00:12:08,288 --> 00:12:09,482 SHElLA: When? 174 00:12:09,623 --> 00:12:11,853 You only bury your father once. 175 00:12:13,126 --> 00:12:16,687 One day when he's older, he's going to be real sorry he wasn't here. 176 00:12:17,264 --> 00:12:18,891 Maybe he's real sorry now. 177 00:12:19,666 --> 00:12:21,258 Then where is he, Thomas? 178 00:12:24,271 --> 00:12:25,761 I'll go find him. 179 00:12:26,873 --> 00:12:28,898 Will you take care of Sheila and Jan? 180 00:12:29,376 --> 00:12:31,207 What if you do find him, T.C.? 181 00:12:31,811 --> 00:12:33,005 What are you gonna say to him? 182 00:12:33,079 --> 00:12:34,944 What makes you think it'll be any different with you 183 00:12:35,015 --> 00:12:36,346 than it was with his father? 184 00:12:37,350 --> 00:12:39,580 Well, I don't know whether it will or not. 185 00:12:40,253 --> 00:12:42,448 I'm gonna give it a try. Tom. 186 00:12:42,822 --> 00:12:44,050 ANDY: Mrs. Pennington? 187 00:12:44,124 --> 00:12:46,285 Come on, Sheila, I'll help you get ready. 188 00:12:46,359 --> 00:12:48,589 Thomas, I really don't feel like seeing anybody now. 189 00:12:48,662 --> 00:12:49,959 Mrs. Pennington? 190 00:12:51,231 --> 00:12:53,358 Excuse me, my name is Andy Nguyen. 191 00:12:54,267 --> 00:12:56,963 My father's very sorry he couldn't be here this morning. 192 00:12:57,470 --> 00:12:59,233 The concussion's very painful. 193 00:13:00,273 --> 00:13:02,969 But he wanted me to express our family's sorrow 194 00:13:03,209 --> 00:13:05,905 and our gratitude for what your husband tried to do. 195 00:13:06,980 --> 00:13:08,447 We're truly sorry. 196 00:13:09,416 --> 00:13:10,610 Thank you. 197 00:13:15,488 --> 00:13:17,422 That must have been real hard for him. 198 00:13:18,491 --> 00:13:20,254 Please find my son, T.C. 199 00:13:24,564 --> 00:13:26,657 MAN: Let's just slow down a little bit, huh? 200 00:13:27,367 --> 00:13:29,130 Hey, slow down a little bit, huh? 201 00:13:31,071 --> 00:13:32,197 Watch out. DRlVER: Hey! 202 00:13:32,272 --> 00:13:33,432 Hey, watch out! 203 00:13:36,476 --> 00:13:38,239 MAN: Hey, pull over, huh? Pull over! 204 00:13:38,578 --> 00:13:39,806 Pull over! 205 00:13:44,851 --> 00:13:46,944 20 bucks. No, you're kidding me. 206 00:13:47,020 --> 00:13:49,386 You almost got us killed. 20 bucks. 207 00:13:49,456 --> 00:13:51,549 You're lucky we're not calling the cops. 208 00:13:51,758 --> 00:13:53,123 Come on, honey. 209 00:14:06,806 --> 00:14:08,205 (BELL RlNGlNG) 210 00:14:09,843 --> 00:14:11,037 T.C.: Drive. 211 00:14:12,479 --> 00:14:15,539 Forget it, T.C., I don't need any more grief. Leave me alone. 212 00:14:15,615 --> 00:14:16,980 Just drive. 213 00:14:17,350 --> 00:14:18,908 Leave me alone. I'm working. 214 00:14:20,453 --> 00:14:21,545 Here. 215 00:14:22,655 --> 00:14:24,589 I'm paying for my time. Now drive! 216 00:14:40,073 --> 00:14:43,600 You're wasting your time, T.C. Save your speeches for your Little League Team. 217 00:14:43,676 --> 00:14:46,110 Ain't gonna be no speeches, but we are going to talk. 218 00:14:46,413 --> 00:14:47,607 About what? 219 00:14:48,648 --> 00:14:50,013 About your mom, man. 220 00:14:50,083 --> 00:14:52,017 Oh, come on, now, T.C., that's not fair. 221 00:14:52,085 --> 00:14:53,552 Who's trying to be fair? 222 00:14:53,853 --> 00:14:55,821 You are hurting your mother, Ronnie. 223 00:14:57,190 --> 00:14:59,385 I guess that just runs in the family, right? 224 00:14:59,459 --> 00:15:01,654 I mean, same name and everything, too. 225 00:15:02,796 --> 00:15:04,787 He couldn't even give me my own name. 226 00:15:04,864 --> 00:15:06,161 He gave you... 227 00:15:07,500 --> 00:15:10,469 He and she gave you that name because they were proud of you. 228 00:15:10,537 --> 00:15:12,562 They were proud of that name. 229 00:15:12,639 --> 00:15:14,971 Well, they sure had a funny way of showing it. 230 00:15:15,041 --> 00:15:17,566 What's that supposed to mean? What's that supposed to... 231 00:15:17,644 --> 00:15:20,408 Are you serious, T.C.? Where you been? 232 00:15:21,781 --> 00:15:23,373 I mean, I haven't even... 233 00:15:24,951 --> 00:15:29,217 My mom hasn't had a real good look at my dad since we settled here. 234 00:15:29,589 --> 00:15:32,319 He's either at that lame bureaucrat job, 235 00:15:32,392 --> 00:15:34,326 or at the playground with you. 236 00:15:34,394 --> 00:15:37,727 Shooting baskets with you and the other guys like a bunch of kids. 237 00:15:38,798 --> 00:15:41,562 Hell, you probably knew him better than I did. 238 00:15:45,772 --> 00:15:48,297 My dad abandoned his family a long time ago. 239 00:15:51,111 --> 00:15:53,204 Except he did it without leaving. 240 00:15:54,814 --> 00:15:56,145 Pretty neat trick, huh? 241 00:15:56,216 --> 00:15:57,843 But it don't matter. 242 00:15:57,917 --> 00:16:00,442 Today was his funeral and you weren't there. 243 00:16:00,653 --> 00:16:02,678 What are you running from? 244 00:16:02,755 --> 00:16:03,983 I'm working! 245 00:16:04,124 --> 00:16:06,957 Stop! Stop this thing. Stop it right now. 246 00:16:09,896 --> 00:16:12,490 I think you're running away because you care! 247 00:16:12,565 --> 00:16:14,863 You're wrong. Wrong! I'm past that. 248 00:16:15,068 --> 00:16:16,558 Well, I'm not. 249 00:16:16,803 --> 00:16:19,135 Your father was a good man and he was my friend. 250 00:16:19,205 --> 00:16:21,799 And that lame bureaucratic job 251 00:16:21,875 --> 00:16:25,971 probably did more for people than any 100 laws or shouters or do-gooders... 252 00:16:26,045 --> 00:16:29,105 Oh, come on, T.C. He worked for the City Planning Commission. 253 00:16:29,649 --> 00:16:32,584 He wore a dumb tie and disappeared for 16 hours a day. 254 00:16:33,119 --> 00:16:36,111 Then he spent the rest of his time with you guys, at the park. 255 00:16:36,256 --> 00:16:39,555 Ron Pennington is the reason there is a park. 256 00:16:39,659 --> 00:16:43,322 He's also the reason that clubs and discos that discriminate 257 00:16:43,396 --> 00:16:46,058 get closed down if they don't get their act together. 258 00:16:47,100 --> 00:16:50,433 And don't think that fighting for other folk 16 hours a day 259 00:16:50,503 --> 00:16:51,765 don't take its toll. 260 00:16:51,838 --> 00:16:54,602 He probably had to run up and down that basketball court 261 00:16:54,674 --> 00:16:56,471 just to get it out of his system. 262 00:16:56,809 --> 00:16:58,037 You know what, Ronnie, 263 00:16:58,111 --> 00:17:00,545 you find it easy to find fault with your dad, 264 00:17:00,613 --> 00:17:02,581 but you know what's hard for you? What's hard for you 265 00:17:02,649 --> 00:17:04,742 is seeing that there's a lot in him to be proud of. 266 00:17:06,252 --> 00:17:08,345 Man, he really dug you and your mom. 267 00:17:10,557 --> 00:17:12,320 Now, maybe that wasn't enough for you, 268 00:17:12,926 --> 00:17:14,985 but I think he did the best he could. 269 00:17:21,301 --> 00:17:23,166 Then why'd he have to go and die on me? 270 00:17:24,938 --> 00:17:27,065 Die on you? Die on you? 271 00:17:27,207 --> 00:17:28,799 Man, he lived for you. 272 00:17:29,709 --> 00:17:31,074 In fact he'd still be living for you 273 00:17:31,144 --> 00:17:33,339 if I had gone into that store like I started. 274 00:17:33,413 --> 00:17:34,778 So I only want two things. 275 00:17:34,847 --> 00:17:38,977 Number one, I want your family to have peace, 276 00:17:39,686 --> 00:17:41,654 and number two, I want to find the people 277 00:17:41,721 --> 00:17:43,484 responsible for what happened. 278 00:17:43,556 --> 00:17:45,023 Now you can help me on the first one 279 00:17:45,091 --> 00:17:47,616 if you're not too busy feeling sorry for yourself. 280 00:17:48,127 --> 00:17:52,223 Now, I'd appreciate it and your mom would, too, Ronald Pennington Jr. 281 00:17:57,270 --> 00:17:58,430 HlGGlNS: Death. 282 00:18:01,474 --> 00:18:02,566 Death. 283 00:18:06,145 --> 00:18:07,305 Death. 284 00:18:09,549 --> 00:18:11,312 Ah, here they are. 285 00:18:12,252 --> 00:18:15,380 Death Among Friends, Death At Lords. 286 00:18:15,521 --> 00:18:18,217 Death Before Bedtime, Death by Dreaming. 287 00:18:18,324 --> 00:18:20,087 Death At the BBC. 288 00:18:21,661 --> 00:18:23,185 How extraordinary. 289 00:18:23,496 --> 00:18:24,793 Yes, it is, Higgins. 290 00:18:27,233 --> 00:18:28,530 Real extraordinary. 291 00:18:28,601 --> 00:18:32,435 Extraordinary is a superlative, real extraordinary is a redundancy. 292 00:18:32,805 --> 00:18:36,969 However, I was referring to your rather unorthodox method of filing books. 293 00:18:37,143 --> 00:18:38,269 By title. 294 00:18:39,012 --> 00:18:41,674 Don't you care about the Dewey Decimal system? 295 00:18:42,582 --> 00:18:45,210 At this moment, not particularly. 296 00:18:48,254 --> 00:18:50,586 You know what's real extraordinary, Higgins, 297 00:18:51,724 --> 00:18:54,852 is how many people trivialize the word death 298 00:18:56,129 --> 00:18:59,462 in their book titles and their movie titles just to make a buck. 299 00:19:00,833 --> 00:19:02,926 That will be all for now, Maile. Thank you. 300 00:19:07,073 --> 00:19:09,337 Magnum, I believe there's a difference 301 00:19:09,409 --> 00:19:13,402 between trivializing such a profound event and mere entertainment. 302 00:19:13,746 --> 00:19:17,238 Unfortunately, sometimes, the line often gets blurred. 303 00:19:18,217 --> 00:19:20,742 Did you find out anything illuminating at the store? 304 00:19:21,421 --> 00:19:22,945 No. Nothing illuminating. 305 00:19:23,022 --> 00:19:25,422 Unless you count a lot of flat neon lights 306 00:19:25,491 --> 00:19:27,322 that don't illuminate a damn thing. 307 00:19:28,394 --> 00:19:30,021 Now that the glass is cleaned up, 308 00:19:30,363 --> 00:19:33,127 Andy is behind the counter instead of his dad. 309 00:19:33,199 --> 00:19:34,894 And it's business as usual. 310 00:19:34,967 --> 00:19:36,832 Well, of course it is. They're poor immigrants. 311 00:19:36,903 --> 00:19:38,393 That store is their livelihood. 312 00:19:38,471 --> 00:19:39,995 I know that, Higgins. 313 00:19:42,342 --> 00:19:43,900 He's a good kid. 314 00:19:43,976 --> 00:19:45,170 You know something, 315 00:19:45,244 --> 00:19:48,213 they've been robbed over a dozen times in the last year. 316 00:19:48,915 --> 00:19:50,473 Yet they persevere. 317 00:19:51,351 --> 00:19:52,477 I suppose... 318 00:19:52,552 --> 00:19:53,814 (PHONE RlNGS) 319 00:19:54,287 --> 00:19:55,549 Robin Masters' Estate. RICK: Higgins? 320 00:19:55,621 --> 00:19:57,418 Yes, one moment, Rick. 321 00:19:59,158 --> 00:20:00,182 Yeah? 322 00:20:00,259 --> 00:20:02,625 Thomas, I think I got what you're looking for. 323 00:20:02,795 --> 00:20:03,853 Great. 324 00:20:03,930 --> 00:20:06,398 But I had to pull in every favor that I had. 325 00:20:06,666 --> 00:20:08,327 Plus, the big one. 326 00:20:09,836 --> 00:20:11,428 Ice Pick's daughter, Hilda? 327 00:20:11,504 --> 00:20:12,698 You got it. 328 00:20:12,939 --> 00:20:14,463 MAGNUM: How many dates? 329 00:20:14,941 --> 00:20:16,306 It's more than that. 330 00:20:17,877 --> 00:20:19,640 More than... You... 331 00:20:19,946 --> 00:20:20,935 (STAMMERlNG) 332 00:20:21,013 --> 00:20:22,105 (CHUCKLES) No, he's not... 333 00:20:22,181 --> 00:20:23,443 He's making you... 334 00:20:23,516 --> 00:20:24,983 Look, can we talk about this later? 335 00:20:25,051 --> 00:20:27,178 Do you want the information on the black Continental or not? 336 00:20:27,253 --> 00:20:28,481 Sure, go ahead. 337 00:20:29,122 --> 00:20:30,146 (SlGHS) 338 00:20:30,223 --> 00:20:32,282 Well, I found at least parts of it 339 00:20:32,358 --> 00:20:34,258 in a chop-shop over in Waimanalo. 340 00:20:34,360 --> 00:20:35,850 Any registration? 341 00:20:35,928 --> 00:20:37,691 To No-Lemons Rent-A-Car. 342 00:20:38,631 --> 00:20:40,155 Well, that's a dead-end. 343 00:20:40,233 --> 00:20:42,167 Not necessarily. The car was stolen 344 00:20:42,235 --> 00:20:45,136 from a couple of rich tourists the other night down in Waikiki. 345 00:20:45,204 --> 00:20:46,796 Great. That is a dead-end. 346 00:20:47,106 --> 00:20:50,098 Not necessarily. Wait till I tell you where it was stolen from. 347 00:20:54,046 --> 00:20:55,308 Hi, Kika. 348 00:20:55,381 --> 00:20:57,815 Hey, Magnum, T.C. How's it? 349 00:20:59,752 --> 00:21:01,617 Listen, congratulations on your promotion. 350 00:21:02,989 --> 00:21:04,286 You don't drive anymore? 351 00:21:04,357 --> 00:21:08,225 Hey, you get old, your legs start to go, and they kick you upstairs. 352 00:21:08,294 --> 00:21:10,285 I'm management now, brah. 353 00:21:10,363 --> 00:21:12,126 You guys looking for a job? 354 00:21:12,198 --> 00:21:14,189 Oh, no. Just some information. 355 00:21:14,567 --> 00:21:16,558 Hey, Magnum, you getting old, too? 356 00:21:16,636 --> 00:21:18,160 Taking on trainees, huh? 357 00:21:19,138 --> 00:21:20,162 What about me? 358 00:21:20,239 --> 00:21:22,639 It's personal, Kika. We need your help. 359 00:21:23,142 --> 00:21:25,007 What can I do for you? 360 00:21:25,545 --> 00:21:27,103 Uh, a buddy of mine... 361 00:21:27,647 --> 00:21:30,741 Of ours was killed in a market holdup. 362 00:21:31,017 --> 00:21:34,077 And the guys who did it stole a black Continental 363 00:21:34,587 --> 00:21:37,283 that was parked right across the street a couple of nights ago, 364 00:21:37,356 --> 00:21:38,823 by a couple of tourists 365 00:21:39,158 --> 00:21:41,251 who rented some time on one of your cabs 366 00:21:41,327 --> 00:21:43,693 and we were just wondering if maybe you saw something, you know. 367 00:21:44,831 --> 00:21:48,460 You know, anybody who was hanging around who struck you as out of the ordinary? 368 00:21:48,968 --> 00:21:51,368 (CHUCKLES) Everybody down here is out of the ordinary. 369 00:21:52,171 --> 00:21:54,799 Man, I wish I could help you, but, you know, so many cabs 370 00:21:54,874 --> 00:21:58,105 and drivers go in and out of this place, tourists everywhere. 371 00:21:58,711 --> 00:22:02,306 I don't think I could remember unless they were really weird or something. 372 00:22:03,783 --> 00:22:05,148 Sorry, but l... 373 00:22:05,418 --> 00:22:06,544 Hey! 374 00:22:32,879 --> 00:22:34,210 I need your cab, man! 375 00:22:35,581 --> 00:22:36,775 Ronnie! 376 00:22:38,284 --> 00:22:39,444 What? 377 00:22:43,623 --> 00:22:45,215 T.C., what's going on? 378 00:22:47,059 --> 00:22:49,459 That was one of the guys that killed your dad. 379 00:23:10,716 --> 00:23:14,049 Like I said, it's your leg that goes first, huh? 380 00:23:14,287 --> 00:23:15,276 (LAUGHS) 381 00:23:15,354 --> 00:23:16,685 Thanks, Kika. 382 00:23:17,156 --> 00:23:19,954 Hey, um, I'm sorry it was one of my guys, huh? 383 00:23:20,693 --> 00:23:22,524 You got an address on him? 384 00:23:22,595 --> 00:23:23,892 Yeah, but... 385 00:23:23,963 --> 00:23:26,523 But he's not gonna be anywhere near there now. 386 00:23:26,999 --> 00:23:28,261 Hey, try the cops. 387 00:23:30,570 --> 00:23:31,935 He got a record? 388 00:23:32,204 --> 00:23:33,728 Yeah, in a way. 389 00:23:33,839 --> 00:23:36,467 You see, all my drivers are registered with the police. 390 00:23:36,609 --> 00:23:39,271 City rule, you know, regulate the industry 391 00:23:39,345 --> 00:23:41,074 so the tourists don't get ripped off. 392 00:23:41,147 --> 00:23:43,377 Maybe you can find out something down there. 393 00:23:44,317 --> 00:23:45,477 Appreciate it. 394 00:23:45,551 --> 00:23:48,042 Go for it. I hope you get the slime, huh? 395 00:23:54,393 --> 00:23:55,951 Ronnie knew him. 396 00:23:56,095 --> 00:23:57,960 Yeah. Looked that way. 397 00:23:58,931 --> 00:24:00,990 What do you mean, looked that way? He knew him! 398 00:24:02,868 --> 00:24:04,028 We'll find him. 399 00:24:04,103 --> 00:24:05,593 And then what? 400 00:24:05,671 --> 00:24:08,834 It's as though everything I said didn't even get through to him. 401 00:24:10,209 --> 00:24:12,234 Probably the same problem that Ron had with him. 402 00:24:12,311 --> 00:24:15,109 I want to find the other guy, Sammy Garns. 403 00:24:15,281 --> 00:24:18,114 Well, let's go see Tanaka, we'll check him out. 404 00:24:18,284 --> 00:24:19,581 No, no, no, no, no. 405 00:24:20,219 --> 00:24:21,447 You go. 406 00:24:23,022 --> 00:24:25,047 I got something else I gotta do first. 407 00:24:32,832 --> 00:24:33,992 (SlGHlNG) 408 00:24:37,570 --> 00:24:39,697 No, I don't know where he go. 409 00:24:39,772 --> 00:24:41,603 And I don't know why he go. 410 00:24:47,613 --> 00:24:48,602 (SlGHS) 411 00:24:51,283 --> 00:24:53,274 Yesterday, I had a family. 412 00:24:56,422 --> 00:24:58,617 Yesterday, I had a little baby. 413 00:24:58,891 --> 00:25:01,416 Why's it all been taken from me, T.C.? 414 00:25:03,429 --> 00:25:05,260 Maybe not all. Maybe... 415 00:25:05,331 --> 00:25:07,959 That's that same misguided optimism Ron had. 416 00:25:08,434 --> 00:25:12,029 It may be bleak, but there's still some light out there. No matter what. 417 00:25:12,371 --> 00:25:14,236 Where'd anybody be 418 00:25:14,373 --> 00:25:17,831 without some kind of optimism, misguided or not? 419 00:25:18,344 --> 00:25:20,312 Maybe back in Philly. That's where. 420 00:25:21,113 --> 00:25:23,604 Maybe back with our family, our friends. 421 00:25:23,749 --> 00:25:24,841 Home. 422 00:25:24,917 --> 00:25:27,442 You and Ron have lived here for 10 years. 423 00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:29,511 This still isn't home. 424 00:25:30,489 --> 00:25:31,820 I tried. 425 00:25:32,625 --> 00:25:35,856 But, somehow, things just never turned out like we planned. 426 00:25:40,066 --> 00:25:42,500 I remember when Ron was discharged. 427 00:25:42,702 --> 00:25:44,226 It was in the middle of February, 428 00:25:44,303 --> 00:25:46,965 we were under three feet of snow back on Vine Street. 429 00:25:47,773 --> 00:25:50,674 And he called me from a phone booth at Wheeler Air Force Base 430 00:25:50,743 --> 00:25:52,301 telling me we had a new home. 431 00:25:52,878 --> 00:25:54,539 He, Ron Jr. and l. 432 00:25:55,247 --> 00:25:56,874 "Paradise," he said. 433 00:25:57,850 --> 00:25:59,374 We took the next plane. 434 00:26:00,386 --> 00:26:02,616 I worked at a souvenir stand 435 00:26:02,688 --> 00:26:05,384 in Waikiki while Ron finished his degree. 436 00:26:06,358 --> 00:26:09,054 Then when I'd come home Ron would leave for his night job 437 00:26:09,128 --> 00:26:11,494 down at that club in the marina, mixing drinks. 438 00:26:11,564 --> 00:26:12,758 (LAUGHS) 439 00:26:13,032 --> 00:26:14,158 Yeah. 440 00:26:15,735 --> 00:26:19,193 Ron Jr. didn't know either one of us very much back in those days. 441 00:26:24,777 --> 00:26:27,541 I guess he doesn't know us 442 00:26:28,547 --> 00:26:29,980 very much better now. 443 00:26:32,952 --> 00:26:35,045 We should have never come here. 444 00:26:36,188 --> 00:26:37,314 Wrong. 445 00:26:38,023 --> 00:26:40,821 Ron working like that and you working, 446 00:26:41,193 --> 00:26:42,717 why, it's paid off. I mean, look at... 447 00:26:42,795 --> 00:26:44,228 Look at his job with the city? 448 00:26:44,930 --> 00:26:46,192 But what about Ron Jr. 449 00:26:46,265 --> 00:26:48,460 hanging out with bums doing that rickshaw thing 450 00:26:48,534 --> 00:26:50,297 in Waikiki instead of going to college? 451 00:26:51,437 --> 00:26:52,802 Tell me, T.C., 452 00:26:53,172 --> 00:26:55,868 what good is any job without a life? 453 00:26:56,776 --> 00:26:58,437 Without a family? 454 00:27:01,580 --> 00:27:03,104 You have a family. 455 00:27:03,382 --> 00:27:04,576 Where? 456 00:27:05,918 --> 00:27:07,044 Where? 457 00:27:33,712 --> 00:27:35,077 Where were you? 458 00:27:36,749 --> 00:27:38,410 I'm... I'm sorry. 459 00:27:41,420 --> 00:27:42,819 I had to think. 460 00:27:44,924 --> 00:27:46,289 But I'm back. 461 00:27:46,559 --> 00:27:48,049 I'm back now, Mom. 462 00:27:55,401 --> 00:27:56,891 (CHlLDREN CHATTERlNG) 463 00:28:02,541 --> 00:28:04,805 MAGNUM: I guess there could be a case made for the theory 464 00:28:04,877 --> 00:28:07,402 that not every kid has an equal shot at making it. 465 00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:10,205 Handicaps like being poor and not being exposed 466 00:28:10,282 --> 00:28:13,308 to some of the better things in life can make it tough on kids. 467 00:28:13,552 --> 00:28:15,417 Like the kids from this block. 468 00:28:15,487 --> 00:28:16,852 Sammy Garns' block. 469 00:28:17,656 --> 00:28:19,146 But on the other hand, 470 00:28:19,225 --> 00:28:21,625 what about a kid like Ron Pennington Jr.? 471 00:28:22,194 --> 00:28:24,059 A kid who grew up with loving parents, 472 00:28:24,129 --> 00:28:26,689 grew up not wondering where his next meal was coming from, 473 00:28:26,765 --> 00:28:29,131 and above all, grew up in Paradise? 474 00:28:30,536 --> 00:28:33,004 But then, of course, so did Sammy Garns. 475 00:28:40,746 --> 00:28:41,804 DORA: Yes? 476 00:28:41,881 --> 00:28:43,473 Hi, Mrs. Garns? 477 00:28:43,816 --> 00:28:45,613 BOY 1 : What kind do you think it is? 478 00:28:45,684 --> 00:28:46,878 BOY 2: I don't know. I want one. 479 00:28:48,621 --> 00:28:51,021 I'm looking for Sammy, Mrs. Garns. 480 00:28:51,523 --> 00:28:53,115 You from his job? 481 00:28:53,192 --> 00:28:55,251 No. You police then? 482 00:28:55,961 --> 00:28:58,452 No. Then why you want him for? 483 00:29:00,399 --> 00:29:01,627 Could we talk inside? 484 00:29:01,700 --> 00:29:03,668 No, mister. We can talk right here. 485 00:29:03,802 --> 00:29:05,667 Why do you want Sammy? 486 00:29:06,472 --> 00:29:08,269 He's in some trouble. 487 00:29:08,340 --> 00:29:10,171 Sammy's always in trouble. 488 00:29:10,242 --> 00:29:12,540 Look, a friend of mine is dead 489 00:29:12,611 --> 00:29:15,341 and his son is missing because of this trouble. 490 00:29:15,814 --> 00:29:17,907 Sammy may know where he is. 491 00:29:28,594 --> 00:29:31,188 Sammy's been gone for three weeks now. 492 00:29:33,232 --> 00:29:35,996 He shares this room with his two little brothers. 493 00:29:37,269 --> 00:29:39,669 Maybe it just got too crowded for him. 494 00:29:41,507 --> 00:29:42,974 Any idea where he'd go? 495 00:29:43,042 --> 00:29:45,010 No, I don't. 496 00:29:45,577 --> 00:29:46,942 Not anymore. 497 00:29:47,746 --> 00:29:49,043 I tried. 498 00:29:49,515 --> 00:29:51,346 I try with all my kids. 499 00:29:52,785 --> 00:29:55,879 Maybe, the two little ones, they be okay. 500 00:29:57,723 --> 00:29:59,054 Anything else? 501 00:30:00,492 --> 00:30:01,618 No. 502 00:30:02,428 --> 00:30:03,986 Thank you for talking to me. 503 00:30:05,998 --> 00:30:07,829 Mister. Wait. 504 00:30:09,301 --> 00:30:12,930 If you find Sammy, you do what you have to do. 505 00:30:16,442 --> 00:30:17,966 I understand. 506 00:30:27,987 --> 00:30:30,217 MAGNUM: Sometimes being a private investigator 507 00:30:30,289 --> 00:30:32,450 can be extremely frustrating. 508 00:30:33,025 --> 00:30:35,050 Especially when you do everything by the book 509 00:30:35,127 --> 00:30:36,788 and still nothing makes sense. 510 00:30:36,862 --> 00:30:39,626 No black, no white. Just gray. 511 00:30:40,199 --> 00:30:41,689 No happy ending. 512 00:30:42,601 --> 00:30:44,159 And the best you can do 513 00:30:44,236 --> 00:30:46,898 is try and keep the situation from getting any worse. 514 00:30:46,972 --> 00:30:48,462 Like Sammy's mother. 515 00:30:51,343 --> 00:30:53,641 So, Sammy Garns was now a dead-end, 516 00:30:53,779 --> 00:30:55,212 joining the black Lincoln, 517 00:30:55,280 --> 00:30:56,577 interviews with the witnesses 518 00:30:56,648 --> 00:30:58,206 and Ron Pennington Jr. himself 519 00:30:58,283 --> 00:31:00,012 as leads that didn't pan out. 520 00:31:01,353 --> 00:31:06,017 Like I said, being a private investigator can be extremely frustrating. 521 00:31:06,592 --> 00:31:08,219 But never more frustrating than 522 00:31:08,293 --> 00:31:11,091 when even though you know you've done everything by the book, 523 00:31:11,163 --> 00:31:12,630 you also know that the answer 524 00:31:12,698 --> 00:31:14,598 Iies somewhere between the lines. 525 00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:18,226 The only thing is you just can't quite see them. 526 00:31:18,303 --> 00:31:19,531 Hi, Higgins. 527 00:31:20,973 --> 00:31:22,600 Anything from Rick or T.C.? 528 00:31:22,674 --> 00:31:24,335 Unfortunately, no. 529 00:31:24,676 --> 00:31:26,906 At least not in any positive sense. 530 00:31:27,413 --> 00:31:29,278 Rick did call an hour ago 531 00:31:29,348 --> 00:31:31,782 to say the chaps at the chop-shop 532 00:31:31,950 --> 00:31:34,919 had no idea how to reach the house boys 533 00:31:34,987 --> 00:31:36,545 who ditched the Continental. 534 00:31:36,622 --> 00:31:37,987 It's homeboys. 535 00:31:38,590 --> 00:31:41,354 Well, at least it looks like you're making some headway. 536 00:31:42,027 --> 00:31:43,392 Yes, quite. 537 00:31:44,029 --> 00:31:47,988 Although, insignificant as it may be considering what has occurred, 538 00:31:48,700 --> 00:31:51,601 however, it does provide some mental relief 539 00:31:51,670 --> 00:31:55,003 in a way, if not stimulation, actually. 540 00:31:55,374 --> 00:31:57,035 For instance, 541 00:31:57,276 --> 00:32:01,235 this book I'm perusing is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study In Scarlet. 542 00:32:02,081 --> 00:32:04,379 As you know, Holmes was the archetypical 543 00:32:04,450 --> 00:32:06,645 deductive private detective... 544 00:32:06,718 --> 00:32:08,015 Investigator. 545 00:32:08,554 --> 00:32:11,387 ...who solved the seemingly unsolvable plots 546 00:32:11,857 --> 00:32:14,758 by his comprehensive genius 547 00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:18,254 at discerning clues that apparently did not exist. 548 00:32:18,597 --> 00:32:22,089 His was the consummate deductive mind. 549 00:32:22,568 --> 00:32:23,899 He also talked funny. 550 00:32:24,436 --> 00:32:27,200 If you're referring to those silly movies of the '40s that merely... 551 00:32:27,272 --> 00:32:29,206 Oh, come on, Higgins, I liked those movies. 552 00:32:29,274 --> 00:32:31,037 I thought Basil Rathbone was great. 553 00:32:31,110 --> 00:32:33,908 I just meant that he kind of talked... Never mind. 554 00:32:33,979 --> 00:32:36,072 What's your point, if you have one? 555 00:32:37,282 --> 00:32:40,740 On the other hand, you have a detective 556 00:32:42,588 --> 00:32:45,284 Iike Chandler's Phillip Marlowe, who plodded along, 557 00:32:45,357 --> 00:32:48,019 muddled in the most incomprehensible plots. 558 00:32:48,393 --> 00:32:50,486 Chandler himself admitted in his later years, 559 00:32:50,562 --> 00:32:53,258 that even he did not understand The Long Goodbye. 560 00:32:54,099 --> 00:32:56,795 But nevertheless, due to his acute sense of human nature, 561 00:32:56,869 --> 00:33:00,430 not only the "how" but the "why" people do what they do, 562 00:33:01,573 --> 00:33:04,474 Marlowe was able to, in the last chapter, 563 00:33:04,543 --> 00:33:06,408 finally confront the villain, 564 00:33:06,512 --> 00:33:09,640 even though we did not know exactly how he got there. 565 00:33:11,016 --> 00:33:12,779 The point is he did. 566 00:33:14,486 --> 00:33:15,885 Where are you going? 567 00:33:15,954 --> 00:33:18,286 To test how acute my sense of human nature is. 568 00:33:45,450 --> 00:33:48,715 MAGNUM: I'm not really sure which kind of private investigator I am. 569 00:33:48,787 --> 00:33:52,188 The Holmesian type with the consummate deductive mind, 570 00:33:53,091 --> 00:33:55,582 or one with a Marlowe-type intuitive sense 571 00:33:55,661 --> 00:33:57,390 of the darker side of human nature. 572 00:33:57,462 --> 00:33:59,487 Hopefully, a combination of both. 573 00:33:59,665 --> 00:34:01,394 At any rate, it doesn't matter. 574 00:34:01,533 --> 00:34:03,398 Not when you have a little voice. 575 00:34:03,468 --> 00:34:06,528 I don't know, maybe a gently nagging little voice 576 00:34:06,605 --> 00:34:10,371 is really just another way of adding what you know to what you feel. 577 00:34:11,143 --> 00:34:13,703 But right now, mine wasn't gently nagging, 578 00:34:13,946 --> 00:34:15,345 it was screaming. 579 00:34:18,050 --> 00:34:19,278 Hello, Andy. 580 00:34:20,652 --> 00:34:21,880 Mr. Nguyen. 581 00:34:22,087 --> 00:34:23,145 Hello. 582 00:34:23,222 --> 00:34:24,519 Hello, Magnum. 583 00:34:24,590 --> 00:34:26,285 You've come to visit your friend? 584 00:34:27,059 --> 00:34:29,152 No, actually, I came here to see you. 585 00:34:29,228 --> 00:34:31,753 They told me down at the store I'd find you here. 586 00:34:32,231 --> 00:34:34,597 Me? Why do you want to see me? 587 00:34:36,969 --> 00:34:38,436 Oh, I think you know why. 588 00:34:40,706 --> 00:34:42,401 It was an accident, wasn't it? 589 00:34:44,276 --> 00:34:46,005 Why didn't you tell anybody? 590 00:34:47,279 --> 00:34:48,837 TRAN: Because it was me. 591 00:34:50,749 --> 00:34:52,683 I shot your friend. 592 00:34:59,157 --> 00:35:00,454 RON JR.: They're surfers. 593 00:35:01,059 --> 00:35:02,788 Most of the drivers are. 594 00:35:05,464 --> 00:35:06,829 You ever try that? 595 00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:11,902 Once. Being inside a washing machine is not my idea of sport. 596 00:35:11,970 --> 00:35:13,494 (LAUGHlNG) 597 00:35:14,406 --> 00:35:18,240 Anyway, Sammy goes up to Sunset on the weekends when he's not working 598 00:35:18,310 --> 00:35:20,278 'cause Stu and Lee have a shack up there. 599 00:35:20,545 --> 00:35:22,877 They surf, they get blitzed. 600 00:35:24,216 --> 00:35:25,581 You try that, too? 601 00:35:26,718 --> 00:35:28,117 Come on, T.C. 602 00:35:28,287 --> 00:35:30,551 Oh, yeah, I forgot. 603 00:35:30,789 --> 00:35:32,188 You're a man now. 604 00:35:32,257 --> 00:35:35,454 Don't ask you anything about something you want to hide. 605 00:35:39,097 --> 00:35:41,258 I did that once or twice with them, too. 606 00:35:42,367 --> 00:35:44,358 And, no, I don't do it anymore. 607 00:35:45,437 --> 00:35:47,200 I mean they kind of graduated. 608 00:35:47,906 --> 00:35:49,168 To what? 609 00:35:49,408 --> 00:35:50,636 Dust. 610 00:35:52,244 --> 00:35:54,610 Anyway, I gotta tell you, T.C., I don't know. 611 00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:58,138 I find it real hard to believe it was them. I mean, real hard. 612 00:35:58,216 --> 00:35:59,410 (LAUGHS) Why? 613 00:36:00,385 --> 00:36:02,046 I mean, from what you said they sound 614 00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:04,953 exactly like the two guys that I saw running from the store. 615 00:36:05,757 --> 00:36:07,691 At least, I intend to find out. 616 00:36:09,328 --> 00:36:10,761 And then what? 617 00:36:13,832 --> 00:36:16,630 I didn't know where else to turn, Mr. Higgins. I'm sorry. 618 00:36:16,702 --> 00:36:18,897 Oh, please, don't be, Mrs. Pennington. 619 00:36:18,970 --> 00:36:20,870 I'm very glad you came here. 620 00:36:21,106 --> 00:36:24,940 I'm sure Magnum is doing everything he can to help right now as will l, 621 00:36:25,043 --> 00:36:28,103 even if it's only offering a meager cup of tea. 622 00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:29,474 Thank you. 623 00:36:29,581 --> 00:36:32,641 It's just that Ron and T.C. took off and haven't come back yet. 624 00:36:32,818 --> 00:36:35,912 And here was the only other place I could think of to look for them. 625 00:36:35,987 --> 00:36:38,353 I've been looking for T.C., too, and you. 626 00:36:38,690 --> 00:36:40,317 He's with Ron Jr. 627 00:36:40,625 --> 00:36:42,115 Yeah, I guess T.C. did reach him. 628 00:36:42,594 --> 00:36:45,995 But then the both of them took off and I think it was to go after those boys. 629 00:36:46,164 --> 00:36:47,722 That would be a real mistake. 630 00:36:47,833 --> 00:36:49,266 Of course it would. 631 00:36:49,368 --> 00:36:52,667 As much as we may sympathize with their motives, vigilantism is... 632 00:36:52,738 --> 00:36:54,399 Absolutely irrelevant. 633 00:36:55,540 --> 00:36:57,201 I beg your pardon? 634 00:36:57,342 --> 00:36:59,242 Those three kids didn't kill Ron. 635 00:37:02,147 --> 00:37:04,479 The store owner did. The boy's father. 636 00:37:04,750 --> 00:37:06,217 How do you know that? 637 00:37:06,785 --> 00:37:08,844 I've just been wondering why this old man 638 00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:12,014 who'd been robbed so many times would try to fight off 639 00:37:12,090 --> 00:37:13,853 three armed robbers with his bare hands. 640 00:37:13,925 --> 00:37:18,487 I mean, it didn't figure. Why wouldn't he keep the gun in the cash register drawer? 641 00:37:18,697 --> 00:37:21,495 And then they were so solicitous after the incident. 642 00:37:21,767 --> 00:37:23,735 What you are saying, Magnum, is that Mr. Pennington 643 00:37:23,802 --> 00:37:25,827 was the unfortunate victim of circumstance. 644 00:37:26,071 --> 00:37:29,097 Why then did they not go to the police and tell them this? 645 00:37:29,174 --> 00:37:32,905 Maybe they're not familiar with delicate legal phrases like accidental shooting. 646 00:37:32,978 --> 00:37:36,004 The boy was probably afraid they'd send his father back to Vietnam. 647 00:37:36,081 --> 00:37:39,107 So he just threw the gun away and blamed it on the robbers. 648 00:37:39,718 --> 00:37:42,414 So then Ron and T.C. are going after innocent boys. 649 00:37:42,487 --> 00:37:44,978 Not entirely innocent. They're still armed robbers. 650 00:37:45,824 --> 00:37:48,315 The question is, what can we do to stop them? 651 00:37:48,427 --> 00:37:50,361 Do you have any idea where they're heading? 652 00:37:50,429 --> 00:37:51,589 No. 653 00:37:54,132 --> 00:37:55,497 The police? No. 654 00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:57,568 That would be worse for Ron and T.C. 655 00:37:57,803 --> 00:37:59,065 HlGGlNS: Well, who are you calling? 656 00:38:00,238 --> 00:38:02,331 Come on, Magnum, give me a break, brah. 657 00:38:02,407 --> 00:38:04,807 I got a major disaster on my hands here. 658 00:38:05,710 --> 00:38:07,541 A what? What? 659 00:38:08,146 --> 00:38:11,172 I'll tell you what. In addition to Ron Pennington not showing up, 660 00:38:11,249 --> 00:38:13,308 and that sleaze ball Sammy Garns, 661 00:38:13,385 --> 00:38:16,548 I got two more drivers stiffing me. Flu. 662 00:38:17,956 --> 00:38:19,651 Yeah, yeah, I'll tell you where. 663 00:38:19,724 --> 00:38:20,918 And when you're through with them, 664 00:38:20,992 --> 00:38:23,552 maybe you can come down and pedal a cab for me, huh? 665 00:38:38,310 --> 00:38:39,709 That's it. 666 00:38:58,163 --> 00:39:01,394 Stu and Lee crash here. Sammy comes by sometimes. 667 00:39:02,334 --> 00:39:03,426 Okay. 668 00:39:06,238 --> 00:39:08,570 Okay, I want you to wait here. I'll be right back. 669 00:39:08,640 --> 00:39:10,699 Wait a second. Uh-uh. You wait a second. 670 00:39:10,775 --> 00:39:12,504 I want to go check this place out first. 671 00:39:12,577 --> 00:39:15,205 Look, T.C., these guys are, like, totally dusted. 672 00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:18,511 You know, like, space, the final frontier? Maybe l... 673 00:39:18,583 --> 00:39:20,574 Hold it, hold it, hold it right there. 674 00:39:20,652 --> 00:39:22,711 Now, I know exactly what you're going to say. 675 00:39:22,787 --> 00:39:25,017 But I am not gonna blindly walk in there. 676 00:39:25,090 --> 00:39:27,081 I mean, there're no cars parked around here, 677 00:39:27,158 --> 00:39:29,649 that probably means that there's nobody inside. 678 00:39:30,228 --> 00:39:33,664 Now, I just want to simply sneak up there, check the place out, 679 00:39:34,099 --> 00:39:36,090 and after we're certain that they've been there, 680 00:39:36,167 --> 00:39:39,000 then I'm gonna send you to call the cops and I'll wait for them. 681 00:39:39,070 --> 00:39:40,162 Okay? 682 00:39:40,238 --> 00:39:41,899 That's not what l was going to say. 683 00:39:42,674 --> 00:39:44,164 What were you going to say? 684 00:39:44,910 --> 00:39:46,275 Well, um, 685 00:39:47,412 --> 00:39:50,040 all the way up here I thought you were gonna go off 686 00:39:50,115 --> 00:39:52,709 half-crazy because of some weird sense of guilt. 687 00:39:52,817 --> 00:39:56,218 I mean, because you didn't go in the store and get the Gatorade yourself. 688 00:39:56,988 --> 00:39:59,479 But then I was thinking about how that would be the most 689 00:39:59,558 --> 00:40:01,458 absolutely stupid thing you could do. 690 00:40:02,727 --> 00:40:06,561 After knowing you and especially after talking to you 691 00:40:06,932 --> 00:40:09,526 and hearing you talk to Mom over the last couple of days, 692 00:40:10,902 --> 00:40:13,496 I know you wouldn't do anything emotionally that dumb. 693 00:40:14,839 --> 00:40:17,535 So, um, what I was gonna say was 694 00:40:18,777 --> 00:40:19,903 good luck. 695 00:40:22,948 --> 00:40:24,381 I'll be right back. 696 00:41:10,028 --> 00:41:11,655 T.C.: Sammy sent me. 697 00:41:12,597 --> 00:41:14,121 You looking to score some dust, man? 698 00:41:14,199 --> 00:41:15,894 Yeah, yeah, I want some dust. 699 00:41:17,302 --> 00:41:18,735 Powder or sticks? 700 00:41:19,104 --> 00:41:20,264 Powder. 701 00:41:20,772 --> 00:41:22,069 How much? 702 00:41:23,241 --> 00:41:24,230 Uh... 703 00:41:24,676 --> 00:41:26,007 Couple of ounces. 704 00:41:27,912 --> 00:41:30,244 You're a narc. You're a freaking narc. 705 00:41:30,315 --> 00:41:31,805 No, no, no. Calm down, man. I'm not a narc. 706 00:41:31,883 --> 00:41:33,407 I just want... I am not a narc! 707 00:41:33,485 --> 00:41:36,215 Hey, I am here because you and your buddy 708 00:41:36,321 --> 00:41:38,221 robbed a grocery store last Saturday 709 00:41:38,790 --> 00:41:41,418 and you killed my friend and you are going to the police. 710 00:41:41,493 --> 00:41:42,721 Hey, man. 711 00:41:42,927 --> 00:41:45,725 Now, go wake that punk up. 712 00:41:45,797 --> 00:41:47,924 Hey, look, we didn't kill him. Now, come on, I'll wake him up! 713 00:41:47,999 --> 00:41:49,660 Hey, look, that old dude shot him. 714 00:41:49,734 --> 00:41:51,565 He just picked up the gun and whaled out. 715 00:41:51,636 --> 00:41:53,297 Too hyper, you know what I mean? 716 00:41:53,371 --> 00:41:55,635 Look, let's talk this over or something. 717 00:41:55,707 --> 00:41:56,969 You get high? 718 00:41:57,042 --> 00:41:59,169 Hey, man, my friend was killed 719 00:41:59,344 --> 00:42:01,778 because you robbed a store. 720 00:42:02,514 --> 00:42:05,540 In the eyes of the law and God you are as guilty as hell 721 00:42:05,617 --> 00:42:07,050 and you are going! 722 00:42:08,653 --> 00:42:09,881 (GRUNTlNG) 723 00:42:10,321 --> 00:42:11,310 (GRUNTlNG) 724 00:42:13,058 --> 00:42:14,047 (GRUNTlNG) 725 00:42:45,356 --> 00:42:46,789 (GRUNTlNG) 726 00:42:53,231 --> 00:42:54,220 (GRUNTlNG) 727 00:43:30,268 --> 00:43:31,257 (GRUNTlNG) 728 00:43:46,384 --> 00:43:47,373 (GRUNTlNG) 729 00:44:18,049 --> 00:44:19,448 Hey, cool out, man. 730 00:44:21,019 --> 00:44:22,384 Let them go. 731 00:44:22,453 --> 00:44:23,681 And then what? 732 00:44:23,755 --> 00:44:27,418 Then we hop into these wheels and we drop Ronnie off someplace. 733 00:44:28,059 --> 00:44:30,289 Hey, no worry. He gonna be okay. 734 00:44:31,329 --> 00:44:33,854 Besides, I told him, 735 00:44:33,932 --> 00:44:35,559 we ain't murderers. 736 00:44:36,968 --> 00:44:38,560 Let them go. 737 00:44:46,344 --> 00:44:49,279 And, brah, don't even think about following us. 738 00:44:52,917 --> 00:44:54,179 No problem. 739 00:44:54,252 --> 00:44:57,119 Hey, Ronnie, when they drop you off, you call Magnum. 740 00:44:58,223 --> 00:44:59,588 He'll pick you up. 741 00:45:14,372 --> 00:45:15,805 Hi, guys. 742 00:45:57,282 --> 00:45:58,909 MAGNUM: Nice game, guys, thanks. 743 00:46:00,852 --> 00:46:02,046 BERT: Yeah, thanks, guys. 744 00:46:02,186 --> 00:46:03,619 Go easy on us next time, huh? MAN: Hey, Bert. 745 00:46:04,222 --> 00:46:07,191 MAN: Yo, thanks, Bert. Hey, see you guys next week. 746 00:46:07,392 --> 00:46:08,552 T.C.: Bert, good luck at the club tonight. 747 00:46:13,965 --> 00:46:15,125 (SlGHlNG)