03x13 - Understanding

[bunniefuu]

So how'd it go?

Oh, pretty good once we got
the mother calmed down.

The kid was just locked
in the bathroom,

so we had to take the door
off the hinges.

We had to help the mom
clean the place up.

Good.

[GUITAR PLAYING]

You know, that's six times now
he's played that same miserable tune.

How can you tell?

Do me a favor. Take it away
from him before I lose my mind.

Looks like you've got
yourself a customer.

I hope so.

Hey, Chet. You got
a real feeling for that.

Yeah, well,
I'm a little rusty, but...

Yeah, well, I practiced till
my fingers almost dropped off

and couldn't get the hang of it.

Well, it does take a knack.

Yeah. Well, I suppose so.
Well, what do you think?

Well, I think I'll take it
off your hands.

What do you want for it?

Well, I don't know, exactly.

I mean, I paid $65 for it.

I'll give you $20 for it.

$20. Are you kidding me?

The store I bought it from
would give me more than that.

I'll give you $25.

$25.

I can't let it go for $25.

John, what do you think you
have there? A Stradivarius?

All's it is,
is a little fancy varnish.

If this guitar is so crummy,
what do you want to buy it for?

Well, it'll look
good on my wall.

No.

No way I can let it go for $25.

[PLAYING GUITAR]

Good tone.

Yeah. Too bad you can't play it.

[sums]

Here.

What? I thought you said
$25 wasn't enough.

I know what I said.

So I'm giving it to you.

CHET: Roy, you're a witness.
He's giving it to me.

Oh, get out of here.

I bet you don't understand
why I did that, do you?

Well, the way I figure it,

a bad deal is one thing...

You happy?

Huh? You're happy?

Happy... Sure.

Yeah, well,
then don't explain it to me.

You see, I might start to understand
you and that would scare me.

[ALARM SOUNDING]

DISPATCHER: Station 51,
Engine 40, Engine 65, Truck 18.

Structure fire
at 11812 Clearspring Road.

11812 Clearspring Road.
Cross street, Highview.

Time out, 2137.

Station 51, KMG 365.

The hydrant's south of
Highview about 150 feet, Roy.

[HORN BLARING]

What the heck
have they got in there?

Okay. Two inch and a halves.

You'll have to stand
clear now, please.

My stableman sleeps in there!

Boys, we may have
a man trapped inside!

ROY: Okay, Cap.

No way, Cap-

Okay, Chet.

Look, I'm sorry, but nobody
could still be alive in there.

Probably never knew
what hit him.

Just as well, I guess. Yeah.

Is that barn empty?

The horses!

Roy, John! The man needs help
with the horses over there.

All right, shut it off.

Can you handle that one?

Yeah.

Engine 40, Engine 51. Lay a two and
a half on the east side adjacent to ours.

Engine 65, take a line to the west side,
hook up and pump.

L.A., return Truck 18.

The key's in the house.

Wait a minute. Wait a minute.
We'll use a spanner. Wait a minute.

[NEIGHING]

Let's get that line over there
on the other side of the barn.

Come on now. Come on.

Come on. Come on. Let's go.

Come on.

Ginger!

Get that blanket over his head.

Come on.

Whoa, boy. Whoa.

Whoa. Come on.

Mr. Willetts,
did Ginger get out?

Janet. I don't know.

Oh, but...

Now, stand clear, young lady...

Hey, look,
my horse might be in there.

We're gonna bring all the horses
out of there. What about my...

Firemen have to have room
to work. Now, please!

Go on.

Come on.

Come on. Come on. Come on.

Come on. Come on.

We got to get these horses
away from here.

Can we have a hand over here?

We got to get these horses
away so we can work.

Come on, boy. Whoa.
Come here, boy.

Rm!» ca“ you get a rope'?

Right.

[WILLETTS GRUNTS]

Okay, let's get him out.

[GROANING]

Easy does it.

Where'd she get you?

I'm gonna get the
trauma box. Okay.

All right.

Mr. Willetts,
is she still in there?

Okay.

I'm so sorry.

Yo, Tom, let's get
that line in the barn.

[NEIGHING]

ROY-

My horse is still in there.

We'll take care of it.

No, please let me
go get my horse.

Listen to me.
We're doing everything we can.

Now, you're not going to help us if
you get in our way and slow us down.

Okay?

[SNIFFLING]

Sure you're going to be okay?

You boys go ahead.
I'll be all right.

How about it, Cap?

Pretty risky.

One more time, Cap.

Right in and right out?

Right in, right out.

Okay.

JOHNNY: We won't hurt
you. We won't hurt you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Come on. Come on, we'll go away.

Hey, Cap, no sign of a victim,
but I found this in there.

And there's a lot more of it.

DISPATCHER: Battalions 1 and 7,

call the mechanical engineer,
L.A. office.

[MAN GROANS]

Terrible.

Terr...

[HORSE NEIGHING]

Oh, Mr. Willetts.

Hey, Joe.

Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Willetts.

Well, you all right?

Don't seem to hear you.

We thought you were dead.

Hey, let me take a look at you.

Hey, why don't you sit down?
Let me take a look at you.

You got a bruise here
on the head.

[SLURRING] Yeah, well,
I run away and hid. I was scared.

That's all right, Joe.
Don't worry about it.

You've been tipping a few?

Well, this is what was causing
all those little explosions.

There must be a couple
of dozen of them in there.

What is it?

White lightning. Moonshine.

And this was a piece of a still.

A still? Mmm-hmm.

You know anything about this?

Hosmer?

I no more than turned my back
and up it went.

Blooey.

You stupid fool.

Why don't you pass
the jug around?

It's good stuff,
even if I do say so myself.

I bet you boys could
use a drink right now.

Hmm?

Ringer's.

I wonder if that moonshine
was any good.

Well, I imagine it would get you

about 25 miles to the gallon.

Well, that's just fine, Amy.

Thank you very much.

All righty.

Let's go.

Just one second.

Her name is Amy Carew.
She works in Orthopedics.

She's not married, she's not engaged,
she's not going steady.

Nothing.

Nothing except incredible.

I'm going to ask her out.

I'll wait here for you.

No.

No, not now.

I mean, my timing's
got to be just right.

No kidding.

And when's that going to be?

I don't know. I'll sense it.

Well, I sense it's time to go.

Yes.

Oh, man.

Sam, when are you
ever going to remember

that you can't forget
your insulin sh*ts?

This is the third time
in as many months

the ambulance was asked
to bring you in.

Doc, please,
I already got my lecture.

Well, when is it
ever going to do any good?

Oh, I'm going to try.
Honest, Doc.

I'm really going to try.

Oh, no, no, Doc.
Don't tell her, please.

Just say like I'm here on a routine exam,
okay?

Now, Sam, you know
that wouldn't be very honest.

Besides,
Dixie'd never forgive me

if she didn't
get her shot at you.

Yes, trouble, I know.

Oh, Kel, Kathy Williams is
waiting for you upstairs.

She'd like to talk to you
when you have a minute.

Okay, finish up
with my patient, will you?

Yeah, just tell me
what needs to be done.

One very strong
Dixie-McCall-type lecture.

Oh, brother.

Good morning, Miss McCall.

Now, don't you try that greasy
charm of yours on me, Sam Jeffers.

This is an emergency room
we're running,

not a children's nursery.

I've got more
important things to do

than baby-sit an over-aged
juvenile delinquent

who hasn't got the common
sense of a baby squirrel.

Now, the next time I see you in here,
Sam Jeffers,

you're going to wish
that you'd never been born.

[CLEARS THROAT]

[PHONE RINGING]

Rampart Emergency,
may I help you?

Hold on a minute.

I'll connect you with somebody.

Okay, don't hang up, please.

I've got a meeting
upstairs at 11:00,

so let's try to wrap this up.

[PHONE BUZZES]

Yes?

Dr. Brackett, this is Reception.

I've got a girl on the line
who says she's k*lling herself.

What do I do?

Well, did you try anybody
in psychiatry?

All right, I'll talk to her.

Good morning.

My name's Brackett.
What's yours?

Well, I just thought it would
be a lot easier talking to you

if I knew who you were.

All right, have it your way.

Where are you calling from?

No, no, no. Don't hang up.

I'll talk to you
as long as you want.

I just have to make sure
it's not some kind of a prank.

How many pills did you take?

Mike, see if you can
get this call traced.

What kind of pills were they?

WOMAN: Downers.

Like I said before,

I don't think
I took enough of them,

so [closed up everything,

the windows and doors
and everything,

and turned on the gas.

Now, that call you've got
on Dr. Brackett's extension,



Yes, now, that's
an attempted su1c1de.

Get the phone company
to trace it

and call me back
on extension 2574.

That's right.

Carol, keep this line clear.

Now, wait a minute.
Don't hang up.

Look, I just don't want to talk to
you anymore. You don't understand.

Well, maybe there's someone
else you'd like to talk to.

Another woman maybe.

I'll get Dixie. Well...

Now, someone's
coming to the phone

that I think
you'll like very much.

She'll be here in a minute.

You said you blew out
the pilot light on the stove?

Sure. Otherwise the gas
just burns up. I'm no dummy.

[Slows]

Okay. Do you have
a gas hot water heater?

You are an awful drag.

Please, stay with me. Just
this one thing. It's very important.

Yes, I have a gas
hot water heater. So?

It has a pilot light, too.

Did you blow that out?

Of course not.

All right, now,
listen to me carefully.

When enough gas builds up,

that pilot light is
liable to set it off.

There'
be
an expl*si*n and a fire.

That's all right.

Somebody else might get hurt.
Did you think of that?

No.

Listen, this isn't
an apartment or anything.

I'm all alone In this house.

So let it blow up. I don't care.

Listen, are you going to put
somebody else on or aren't you?

Hi. My name's Dixie.

Yeah, well, don't give me any of this,
"I want to help you."

[SLURRING] I just want to talk.

Friendly, you know.

Okay.

She still sounds pretty groggy.

Hey, why did you call us?

Because I didn't want to talk

[PHONE RINGING]
to anybody I know real well.

They just go on
about Paul and me

and the problem.

And everybody was so
nice to me there at Rampart.

You were a patient here,
then, huh?

Uh-huh.

Joe,
see if medical records can help us.

Yeah.

Hey, you weren't in Emergency,
by any chance, were you?

[SIGHS] Uh-huh.

Hey, when were you here?

The phone company's
traced the call

to the general area
around Carson.

Now they're trying
to run it down.

How long is it going to take?

Well, a while, apparently.

And her place could
blow up any minute.

Better notify
the fire department.

Can you hear me?

I think she dropped the phone.

Try and get as much information
as you can on her admission here.

Her age, whatever. Anything.

Hello?

Are you still there?

Dr. Brackett,
this is Walter Bailey.

Mr. Bailey. Doctor.

Mr. Bailey is the senior
data analyst at the hospital.

WOMAN: I dropped the phone.

Boys, we got a non-Code R.

It's a possible
attempted su1c1de. Gas.

Phone company thinks
it's in our area some place.

They're checking out
the address right now.

So let's go. We'll head
up toward Ridgley Street.

[HORN BLARING]

Look, if she's been
a patient here,

we've got a number for her
in the computer.

The problem is getting it out.
DIXIE: Hello?

You see, we're only programmed for
retrieval by patient number or name.

Which she's certainly
not about to give us.

Well, nothing like this
has ever come up before.

Well, do you keep other records?

Yes.

Punch cards
and certain manual records.

By service, you know,
for accounting and so forth.

But it takes time
to get them out.

Do you and Paul
have any children?

Did we have.

Did.

Because he's gone.

He just got up and left.

And I woke up this morning

and I said to myself,

"What's the use?"

'What's the big point?”

Look,
we could sit down and talk.

Suppose I come over
and fix you a cup of coffee?

Uh-uh. I'm not going
to tell you where I live.

No cute tricks.

All right.
I'll meet you somewhere.

No, I don't think so.

When you were here at Rampart,
what was the trouble?

Oh, I was just there.

Did you have an operation?

No, they just looked at me.

Psychiatric admission, maybe.

You know, I wonder
if we ever met each other.

Maybe.

What floor were you on?

Uh...

[don't know.

How long ago was it?

Let me see.

It was hot.

Oh, I don't know. I can't
remember. It doesn't matter.

L.A., Engine 51.

We're standing by
at 223rd Street in Ridgley.

DISPATCHER: Engine 51.

DISPATCHER: Station 45.
Possible su1c1de with Station 51.

Stand by in the vicinity
of 236th Street and Main.

236th Street and Main.

WOMAN: So you're a nurse, huh?

Yes, that's right.

I could get you a list
of all female patients

that were discharged from Psychiatry from,
say, July and August.

But it'll be long.

Well, that's something.

MAN ON RADIO: L.A., Engine 45.

Standing by
at 236th Street and Main.

DISPATCHER: Engine 45.

L.A., Squad 51.

We're standing by at


DISPATCHER: Squad 51.

MAN: L.A., Squad 45.

We're at 275th Street
and Central.

DISPATCHER: Squad 45.

Well, she's dropped
the phone again.

WOMAN: Don't go away.

She's going to pass out
pretty soon.

I'll just sit here on the floor.

Dixie,
what were we talking about?

[PHONE RINGING]

Dr. Morton.

No, no, no.
Please clear the line.

[DIALING]

Operator, this is Dr. Morton.

Please don't put
any calls on this extension,

except from the phone company.

The phone company. That's right.

[sums]

Hey, I have a birthday
coming up pretty soon.

Oh, yeah.

That's nice.

Dixie...

Dixie, do you ever go camping?

No, no, not much.

It's on the 23rd.

What is?

My birthday.

When's yours?

February.

Must be a couple hundred
of them here.

That's too many.

We can probably narrow it down.

Let's take just the Anglo names.

Well, we're gonna have
to do that by hand.

Dixie, did you ever
go to Yosemite?

Uh-huh.

Paul took me there once.

I was just out of the hospital,

and I was feeling okay,
you know.

I mean, I was...

Well, when was this?
On your vacation?

No. It was the week...
The long weekend.

The Fourth of July?

Uh-uh. The other one.

Labor Day.

Uh-huh.

It was so lovely...

Joe, she was discharged
just before Labor Day.

Right.

Let's make that August the


I'm tired.

I've been tired
for days and days.

I can hardly hear you.

Dixie...

Yes?

Hello, can you hear me?

I think that's all
we're going to get.

Hello?

I hope she's in here.

I hope so, too.

Kel, we've got
eight possibilities.

All right, let's split them up.

Is everything all right,
Mrs. Truscott?

No, no, no, we were
just checking on something.

Okay, bye-bye-

All right, sir. Thank you very
much. Sorry we bothered you.

Kel, I've got a busy signal!

Belongs to a Mrs. Ann Alsted.

Fire department. Stat.
What's the address?



[RADIO BEEPING]

DISPATCHER.' Station 51,

Rampart reports address
as 12127 West 217th.

West 217. Cross street, Ridgley.

Squad 51, 10-4.

Engine 51.

DISPATCHER ON RADIO: Engine 51.

All units
from Station 51 gather...

[SIREN WAILING]

[MUSIC PLAYING ON RADIO]

[KNOCKING ON DOOR]

ROY: Fire department!

Fire department!

ROY: Let's get her out of here.

MAN ON RADIO: We have interrupted
regularly scheduled programming...

[BOTH COUGHING]

From our position here
in the shopping center,

it looks like
one of the hold-up men

is standing
in the door of the bank,

having some sort of conversation

with one of the police officers.

There have been
several different estimates

on the number of hostages
still inside the bank,

and no one seems to have a
clear idea what the gunmen want.

JOHNNY: Rampart,
this is Squad 51. How do you read me?



Rampart, we have her.

She's semi-conscious
and breathing unassisted.

Stand by for Vitals.

Well, I better be getting back.

We're setting up a
computerized inventory system.

Well, thank you for your help.

Oh, I was happy to do it,
believe me.

It's a break in the routine.

Quite a break.

Thank you again.

What's going on?

They're interviewing a bank
guard who got shot in a robbery.

Oh, yeah?

How'd you make out with
the girl from Orthopedics?

Oh, listen, man,
this chick is incredible.

She's incredible.

She's boggling my mind.

She's intelligent,
she's very pretty,

plus she's very outgoing.

She's incredible.
I couldn't believe her.

When are you going
to take her out?

Oh, I'm not.

Bad timing?

No, the timing was great.

She just doesn't dig me,
that's all.

You mean, she just told you
flat out, "I don't like you"?

Yeah, inside of two minutes.

I thought you were with her
for a half an hour.

Yeah, I know. I wanted to
stick around and find out

what it was that she didn't
like about me.

What are you,
some kind of a masochist?

No, it's the only way
you can learn.

Besides, I liked her.

You're from another planet.

[RADIO BEEPING]

DISPATCHER ON RADIO:
Squad 51. Heart attack.

Meet the officers
at 2057 North Hillcrest.

2057 North Hillcrest.

Cross street, Barker.
Ambulance is responding.

Time out, 1214.

Squad 51.10-4.

That's it.

Has to be.

Cover me.

Two bank robbers
holed up in there.

They claim one
of the hostages is sick.

Probably the manager.

From what they tell me,
it sounded like a heart attack.

If you guys go in there, I can't
guarantee they'll let you back out again.

They wounded one guard this
morning. They're pretty uptight.

Yeah, we'll give it a try.

CAPTAIN ON LOUDSPEAKER:
Attention in the bank.

The paramedics are coming in.

Okay! But alone!

Over there. Move!

Over there. Drop that stuff.

Put your hands
up on the wall there.

All right, spread 'em.

Don't get in front of me.

Hey, man, those are just scissors.
We don't have any weapons.

Shut up!

No weapons, huh?

What's in here?

It's just medical supplies, man.

Hey, come on, man,
don't mess that stuff up.

Wait...

Where's the heart patient?

In there. Hey, you try anything,

we'll k*ll you.

All right. Okay.

How you feeling?

Now, we'll check you out.

Pulse here to begin with.

Any trouble breathing?

What are you doing?

I'm just calling Rampart, okay?

Rampart, this is Squad 51.

Rampart, how do you read me?



Rampart, we have
a possible heart victim.

Approximately 55 years old.
Hold for vital signs.


at your location?



Transport immediately.


Transporting immediately.

ROY: We're gonna have
to take him to the hospital.

What happens if he stays here?

He's in very serious condition.

Yeah, if he dies,
we get m*rder one.

I know, I know.

Okay. He can go.

But you two stay.

One of us has got
to go with him.

No way!

I figure if we lose one and gain two,
we're ahead some way.

So we're keeping both of you.

Rampart, neither one of us
can go with the patient.


moved without a paramedic.

What's your problem?

Rampart,
we're being held hostage.

I suggest that you send another
squad and help us with transportation.


I'll call the fire department.


is 2057 North Hillcrest.

We'll keep the line open.

They're gonna send over a couple of
paramedics to help transport the patient.

I better let the ambulance
attendants know what's going on.

Okay.

But don't try anything.

Yeah.

[sums]

You're in quite a little jam here,
aren't you?

No kidding.

[sums]

How many cops are out there?

A lot.

What are you going to do?

I'll think of something.

[INHALES]

[EXHALES]

What's the matter?

Huh? What are you doing?

Oh, I'm... I'm just...

Man, I'm nervous.

You got the g*ns
and everything and I'm...

I don't know, breathing deep
always helps me to relax,

you know, clears my mind.

Yeah?

It works.

No, no, man, you got
to hold it and then expel.

Yeah, right, right.

Yeah, that works.

Yeah, it works, doesn't it?

You know what else is good?

You know,
I used to get real nervous,

and the back of my neck would
just be k*lling me, you know,

so I used to just let
myself dangle, you know.

Just let your arms dangle,
get the blood flowing in your arms

up into your brain
and everything.

Just relax.

What are you doing?

I'm getting the kinks out, man.

Hey, you know, it works.

Yeah, it does.
It works for me, too.

Where are the other hostages?

They're over there.

You have them tied up?

Gagged? Yeah.

Would it be okay if I go
over and take a look at them?

They're fine.

No, you might have cut off
their circulation.

They might have trouble breathing.
I'm serious, I would like to go and...

All right, come on.

How you doing?

Better.

Hi, I'm from
the fire department.

I want to check you all out.

How's your circulation?
Is it all right?

Okay, can you breathe all right?

Okay.

There's nothing to worry about.

We're taking good care
of the manager in there.

[MAN CHATTERING ON RADIO]

Looks like you didn't
get much sleep last night.

I didn't get any.

I laid there all night,
sweating this thing out.

Man, you picked yourself
a rough business.

Just out of curiosity,
how much money did you get?

Thirty-five,
thirty-seven thousand.

[WHISTLES]

You know, we haven't
really counted it yet.

You want to see it?

Yeah. Can I?

Are you kidding me?

Man.

I've never seen this much
money in my whole life.

Man, it breaks your heart.

A real score like that,
look where we are.

Yeah, I know.
I know what you mean.

Everything's going to be okay.

Can we at least remove the tape?

Uh-uh. Let's go.

Johnny, they're okay.

It's okay, I just took his pulse.
Seems to be pretty strong.

How about the car?

Don't you guys think with
all those policemen out there

you should just lay down your
g*ns and forget this whole thing?

No way.

Hey, Roy, look at this, man.

Have you ever seen that
much money? Look at that.

That's incredible.

We've been thinking we'd
get them to give us a car.

Yeah, and take
the two chicks with us.

Oh, wait a minute. No way, man.

I don't think you should
take the women, man.

They're nothing but trouble.

Didn't I tell you?

I got an idea. Wait a minute,
wait a minute. I got an idea.

Why don't you take
the two of us instead?

Right. We get them
to give us a plane.

Right.

And maybe go to Cuba.

Yeah.

No, no.

No, man, you can't go to Cuba.

That's where they go
when they swipe planes.

JOHNNY: Not anymore
they don't, man.

Cuba's getting heavy
on that sort of thing lately.

Man, they put you
out in the cane fields,

plus they're going to
take your money away.

What are we going to do, then?

I don't know, man.

I don't know.
You got a real problem.

Wait a minute.
Yeah, wait a minute.

Look, the plane idea, right?
That's a good one.

Take it and parachute out.

No, no parachutes.

Let's get the car first
and then decide.

Man, I think you're going to
have a problem with that, too.

Why? Man, I don't think

that they're going
to give you a car.

In fact, I don't think they're
going to give you anything.

In fact, it just dawned on me.

Man, they're gonna sit out there
and they're gonna wait you out.

What do you mean? Man...

They know you don't
want to take a m*rder rap,

because you called us about him.

Man, they know you're
not gonna hurt those hostages.

We might. We might.

Oh, man, come on.

Face it.

Now, you blew it
when you called us.

How'd you do that?

Do what?

Talk them into surrendering.

I didn't talk them
into surrendering. I...

They just had a real bad problem

and I just pointed it
out to them, that's all.

I mean, you don't just walk into
a bank and say, "Stick 'em up."

I mean, that's stuff
you see in the movies.

You know, if you and I were
robbing that bank in there, you know,

there's a couple of things you got to get
done before you do something like that.

You really got to plan
something like that out.

We got to figure out
the alarm system,

the placement of the guards.

We got to figure out
how to get into the vault,

maybe open a couple of
safe-deposit boxes along the way.

We also got to figure out
what to do with the staff.

Also, we got to figure out
the alarm system.

I mean, you don't just walk
into a bank with g*ns anymore.

g*ns are a bad deal, Roy.

You know, you can accidentally
sh**t somebody and k*ll them,

or they could keel over
and have a heart attack

just like this guy almost did.

Then you'd be up for m*rder.

That's a life charge, instead of,
say, 20 or 30 years for...

For attempted robbery.

Come to think of it, Roy,

I don't think robbing a bank
is a good idea at all.