01x10 - Godchild

[bunniefuu]

{\r}Blue thunder to blue thunder control.

Go ahead, blue thunder.

J.J., the laser box
is delivered, and the general is happy.

We're setting down
on ferro beach, taking on fuel.

{\an1\pos[144,144]}Roger. You guys sure pick

some classy spots to
run out of "k" juice.

That's because we
only do the classy jobs, sweetheart.

That's what I like
about you, chaney, your modesty.

-Tell us what you like about me.

- There's just not enough
time for that, jafo.

I'm logging you down at 1900 hours.

Bubba, ski, you copy?

Solid copy. You want us?

No, you two grab a bite.

Careful how you say that,
Frank. Remember who you're talkin' to.

As advertised, in
the back. Left side, in the corner.

Sure.

-
okay.

♪ Give me some mustard, okay?

you guys know what

you want? Well, what
do you think, bubba?

Shall we start
with the escargots or the caviar?

\-
hwell...

All we got is burgers, subs and fries.

In that case, make it
two cheeseburgers with everything on it,

two hoagies and four orders of fries.

Excuse me, ma'am. I'll have the same.

{\an1\pos[234,384]}♪

Non, mademoiselle. Absolument pas.

But, francois... now,
the waiter says you won't accept my money.

Now, really, you are in business.

I would not have
been, except for your grandfather.

Mmm. I was
deeply grieved at his passing.

So, mademoiselle, je
vous en prie, accept my hospitality.

Thank you, francois.

Madame.

Can I help you, gentlemen?

Those dudes ain't
cops. I did time with that guy.

Come on!



the two gunmen,
wearing uniforms of highway patrolmen,

have been identified as

professional K*llers with
ties to organized crime.

There is as yet no information

about the person or persons...

Inside the restaurant at the time.

Thanks for the offer,
but I can't think of anything...

We can't handle
in our simple earthbound way.

Roger, captain. Just
in the neighborhood. Thought we'd ask.

Jafo, let's get
home where we're appreciated.

You wanna take a look
at the action? I got kdila here. Hey.

In fact, a spokesperson for

the highway patrol had
this to say: Quote,

"there will be no further comment

pending completion of a
statewide investigation."

Unquote. This is Laura Mendez

for kdil news on the
pacific coast highway.

Look at that maniac go.

Ski, bubba, come in.
Rolling thunder, come in.

- Yeah, Frank. Over.

- We've picked up on
a silver corvette,

inbound on


There's probably no connection, but

there was a sh**ting at a
restaurant a few miles south.

It won't hurt to see where the

corvette's going in such a
hurry, but do not overtake.

Don't overtake, the man said!

He's doin' close to a hundred. You

know what we gotta do
just to stay in the game?

Just to stay in the
game, old buddy, we gotta stay alive.

Relax, bubba. I
drive better fast than careful.

And I never had a lesson in my life.

That may be the problem.

Hit the veri-Mikes.
[

[ wonderlove ]

without
a warrant?

We're in hot pursuit.
Crime in progress. Speeding.

No, damn it! Tell
him it's Carl, and it's urgent!

No, sir. no, sir, nothing went right.

We gotta take a meeting. Yes, sir.

As soon as I get there.

I don't know.
About 20 miles north of ferro beach.

Jafo, let's
have a look at his license plate.

Bubba, ski.


thunder van.

The corvette's
license number is 282-tad.

Hang on to him while we check him out.

Hang on to him? He's
doin' an indy 500. I can't even stay close.

We'll contact the highway
patrol. He'll have to slow down a bit.

- I thought
you didn't want him stopped.

- I don't.

I'll have c.H.P.
Fall in just ahead of him.

If that doesn't slow him
down, then they'll have to stomp on him.

282-tad. It's registered
to edna merchant, sherman oaks.

Well, well, well.

She's on a two-year
suspended sentence for extortion.

Let's find out who her friends are.

{\an1\pos[144,144]}- Carl suhonen shows up three times.
- Is that you, Carl?

Damn!

Five arrests...
All of 'em suspicion of homicide.

No indictments.
Take a look at this, Frank.

Blue thunder, we're
on him at a nice, safe distance.

Ski's grindin' his
teeth 'cause we're goin' too slow.

Frank, this man is consumed with envy.

And for what? Just
'cause I drive better than he does.

{\an1\pos[162,384]}Pretty ridiculous, right?

You control
the wheel, I control the radio.

He's changing lanes.
Getting off at 7th.

Looks like he's heading downtown.

He's going
underground. Basement parking.

Which building, jafo?
western pacific building.

You copy, bubba?
got it.

Tenant list just comin' in, Frank.

Law offices,
stockbrokers, import-export.

How's about this
one... international carriers union?

Now, that's a real possibility.

Check out a Jake cusak.

President of the
carriers union? That's right.

Okay. Jake cusak, then executive

vice president, international
carriers union,

appeared before senate
committee on organized crime, 1981.

Indicted, 1982. Jury tampering.

Tried, acquitted,
elected president of the union.

as
a reward? Frank,

on that sh**ting at ferro
beach, the latest information has it...

That the target was Lisa Ritchie.

You must be kidding. A woman?

Not just any woman, granddaughter

of organized crime's top
man, Joseph Ritchie.

That's the late Joseph Ritchie, bubba.

He died last week.

Okay, call the U.S.

attorney's office and
tick off these facts.

Attempted k*lling in
ferro beach, organized crime connected.

A man tries to set
speed records on highway 101...

About the same
time and place as the sh**ting.

He could be Carl
suhonen, also organized crime connected.

He made an appointment in

the Western pacific
building with a Jake cusak,

also organized crime
connected, who has his office there.

Jackpot!

add one more item.
Suhonen is a member of cusak's union.

I'm gonna punch up
the location of Mr. cusak's offices.

Frank, your old
friend judge roselli came through.

he said it's
okay to listen. Thank you, bubba.

Remind me to thank him.

Thermograph search, Frank.

\-
h

Mr. cusak, I'm askin'
you, please don't close the book on me.

Next time it's gonna get done right.

I promise. No more screwups.

- Did you hear that?
- Means nothing.

Could be talking about plumbing.

I don't know, Carl.

You hand a man something

very important, he drops
it down the toilet.

They are talking about plumbing.

Please listen to me.

I personally... personally...

Guarantee you that I'm
gonna get the job done just as ordered.

Now, please, one more shot.

I think it's too late.

After what happened
today, I think we've blown it.

After what happened
today, I think we've blown it.

Well, it's all
there, but it's a lot of bull.

Never hold up in a court of law.

They didn't want
her dead, they wanted her alive.

Otherwise, why the phony police

car, phony uniforms to
set up a phony bust?

-They wanted something from her.
- Like what?

Like what her
grandfather left her just before he died.

- Like money?
- no.

Like everything you ever wanted to

know about organized crime
and were afraid to ask.

Joseph Ritchie kept
records about everything he ever did,

and before he
died, he told her where they were.

Captain, that's pretty heavy-duty.

- Where'd you get that information?
- From the f.B.I.

They wanted
blue thunder assigned to them...

To help protect her so
they could talk her into cooperating.

and you
turned them down? Who was to know...

The big boys in organized crime

even knew about those
records until tonight.

Now that we know that they know,

well, I can't very well

turn the f.B.I. Down
again, can I, Frank?

Why not? She's got a

battalion of bodyguards,
a bulletproof house.

We want the assignment, jafo.

We do?

yes,
we do.

Why? we

don't like

organized
crime.

I know that, and you know
that, but let's not let them know that.

- We want it, sir.
- You got it, Frank.

Let's go, buddy. All right.

By my calculations,
we should be right on top of it.

Suppose old Joe Ritchie camouflaged it?

We're going on whisper mode.

Let's have some audio.

we
okay on that?

The f.B.I. Says we are,

and we never argue with
the bureau, do we?

- Right.

Lisa! Lisa!
kathy, what happened?

Frankie's bothering me.

Well, he just likes you, Kathy.

I want you to spank him.

I'll talk to Frankie. How's that?

Okay. Talk to him.

-
okay.

I cannot believe this.

That beautiful,
young... beautiful girl.

- Is that the ogre's granddaughter?
- We'll find out soon enough.

Check out their security.

The old man called it
his private fort knox. I can see why.

Yeah, um, can
we get back to the pool now?

No, we can get back to bubba
and ski. We've got a lot of work to do.

I understand.
I'll be there in 15 minutes.

Sorry, jafo.
They want me to come alone.

Ski, would you get junior out?

-
right.

Thanks, ski.

It's been pulling
to the right lately, so watch for it.

All right. If I'm not

back in an hour, you
guys get in the van,

you come and get me.

Be careful, Frank!

- You Frank chaney?
- That's right.

Step out of the car, please,
and walk over here. Uh, leave your keys.

Let's see your I.D.

No offense.

I like your style.

I'll take you up
to the house to meet Mr. laroche.

You can get this on the way back out.

Hello. I'm Lisa Ritchie.

Frank chaney.

Yes. I
understand you're with the f.B.I.

No, I'm in a federal experimental unit.

Right now we're assigned to the f.B.I.

What kind of experiments
do you do? We're the experiment.

You ever heard of blue thunder?

\
h\-hi

think so.

It's either a
tropical drink or a football team.

It's a helicopter.

Please sit down.

You do know why I'm
here? yes.

And I'm afraid
it's hopeless.

That is, if
you're here to try to persuade me.

You see, my grandfather did not

want me to give or show
those papers to anyone.

Or are you here to offer me

something the f.B.I.
Hasn't offered already?

Yes, your life.
We want you to stay alive.

We don't believe your
grandfather's soldiers and friends,

as loyal as they
may be to the family, can do it.

Miss Ritchie, didn't you

realize the risk you
were taking yesterday?

No. Nobody knew those papers existed...

Till my grandfather told me about them.

Now it seems the whole world knows.

So, I won't leave this house again.

Not till whoever tried to

k*ll me understands that
it wasn't necessary.

- I'm not a threat to anyone.
- Don't you understand?

They think you are,
as long as you have those records.

And you'll keep me alive
till I decide to do the right thing?

That's right.

And the sooner you
decide, the sooner you'll be safe again.

If I do nothing now,

after what happened last night,

they've got to know
that I won't turn over those records.

They'll realize
that I'm my grandfather's grandchild.

Miss Ritchie,
they trusted your grandfather.

Or they feared him.

When they realize that I haven't

given the f.B.I. His
records, they'll trust me.

But if you insist on

protecting me, even though
I'm not a criminal,

there isn't
much I can do about it, is there?

mr. Chaney's
ready to leave. I'm really not.

You really are.

I really am.

-
good

day. Good day.

Miss Ritchie, sleep on it.

If you wake up tomorrow, let me know.

Kathy.

All right, get ready.

He just passed me, and
he's comin' at ya.

hey,
you okay? Yeah.

i saw the whole
thing. got his number too. Good.

Guy's some kind of maniac.

What the hell? He's comin' back!

- You take chances, Sonny.

- I had faith in the
guy's better judgment.

Come on.

All right!

Now, we know who you are.

We know where
you been, who you been to see.

You're gonna answer some questions.

You tell a lie, I'm gonna know it.

You tell the truth,
you got nothin' to worry about.

you
got that?

you
got that? I got it.

Good.

Hey, Frank's in trouble! Let's go!

Seal the chopper. Let's run.



okay, here's the setup. You're

hooked up to a polygraph.
It's a lie detector.

So all that "Clint Eastwood

nerves of steel" stuff
is just a waste of time.

you
ready, frosty? All set.

Okay. I want
straight answers to three questions.

What kind of deal
did you make with Lisa Ritchie?

Where are Joe Ritchie's records?

Does she plan to give them to the

f.B.I., or has she already
given them to the f.B.I.?

that's four questions.

Don't do that! It screws
up the results and slows down the test!

Not to mention that it hurts.

Now, let's start
with that first question again.

What kind of deal
did you make with Lisa Ritchie?

This has gotta be it.

You tell me what she said,

or it's gonna take more
guts than you've got.

Lisa didn't confide in me.

I've heard enough. Let's
get 'em. the body count first.

What kind of deal did
you make with Lisa Ritchie, or I'll...

Take a good look,
guys. Frank's in the west corner,

and he's sittin' down, so aim high.

Cover the back.
sure.

Tear it up.

All right, you suckers! Give

it some thought on how
you wanna come out!

Listen, all five of you!

Walk out now, or stay in there and die!

Five? How the hell did they know that?

Come on! Come on!

Frank. Frank.

You should've had a doctor

look at your face. I wanted
you to see it first.

You've made your point.

\-
hhave

I?

I'm just sorry that you
had to go to so much trouble to make it.

no
trouble at all. Hold that.

Okay. Don't you
even wanna know who they were?

I thought you didn't see them.

well, I knew at
least one of them.

How? last night,

after they tried
to k*ll you,

a man named Carl suhonen

had a talk with Jake
cusak, the union boss.

I've never heard of cusak, nor suhonen.

How do you know they talked?

I taped their conversation
while all of this was happening.

I recognized suhonen's voice.

What did you think you'd hear?

That Jake cusak
put a contract out on your life,

that Carl suhonen was the hit man.

This suhonen...

And Jake cusak.

These are two men
I never knew, I never even met.

but they want me dead? No.

The people who
want you dead are much bigger.

Cusak, suhonen just work for them.

They're old friends of your
grandfather's, and you know their names.

My mother and father were k*lled.

Their car was
rigged with a b*mb when I was 11.

My grandfather cut himself

off from organized crime
and brought me here.

He loved me,

protected me...

Till the day he died.

Family. That was his religion.

Family.

Here, in this place,

he kept the Ritchie name
so clean that it was finally forgotten.

But those children who were

here today, most of them
are named Ritchie too.

But it doesn't mean to

them what it meant to
me when I was young,

when I was shamed and hurt by it.

If I turn
over those records, it's gonna

start all over again for
them, and I can't do that.

Not to those
children and not to the family.

I won't do it.

Have you ever
thought of anybody else's family?

Yesterday, after you left, I

called one of my
grandfather's old friends.

I asked for a meeting with

him and the heads of
four other families.

Why?
because that's how it's done.

If I can convince them
that I won't give up those records,

they'll spread the
word, and that'll be the end of it.

Only for you.

They'll just
keep on doin' business as usual.

Well, it's
an ugly, disgusting business.

Are you asking me to
be responsible for the whole world?

No one can do that.

But I am responsible for my family.

Did you get your meeting?

\-
hyes.

wednesday.

it takes time to

bring men like
that together. Ah.

They coming here?

\-
hno.

I know I said I wouldn't
leave this house, but this is different.

They wanna talk to me. I'll be safe.

Where?

twenty
miles north.

Charlie folsom
has a house overlooking point dume.

Okay, I'll... I'll
take you there in blue thunder.

My bodyguards will
take me. This is a family affair.

So is a funeral.

could
we speak

to Mr.
Laroche? You're lookin' at him.

Lieutenant chaney
would like for us to escort you.

Why not?

What are you looking for?

just
looking.

For Frank chaney?

Since you asked, yes.

You can relax now.

How is it lookin', jafo?

Well, I don't see any apaches.

But like John Wayne used to say,

"well, if you can
see 'em, they ain't apaches."

Ski, make bubba happy.

- Keep it nice and slow.
- You heard the man.

They got an escort. Ground and air.

Who cares? Where are they?

I don't know. Fifteen
miles from home base. I'm worried!

Carl, just do your
job. what about the copter?

Hey, you let us
worry about the guy in the sky, okay?

We're ready. We take
care of him, you take care of the rest.

Don't screw it
up this time, or you've had it.

You want us
to use the thermograph, Frank?

No, we've got 'em.
Just bring in the sound.

Shall we scare up a warrant?

- Already covered.

Don't call us.
We'll call you. They're talkin'.

As my grandfather would've done.

Yes, Lisa. And we all

agree your grandfather
was a man of honor.

He respected our
tradition till the day he died.

What none of us can understand
is why he kept incriminating records...

And why he
would tell you where they are.

He was dying.

His mind turned on so many

different things, and
it just spilled out.

He meant no harm. He
may have thought he was protecting me.

Yet it was a harmful
thing... To you, to give you such information.

I have no information.

- I've never seen those records.
- But you know where they are.

I know he hid them
where no one will ever find them.

But you can find them if you wish.

But I don't wish.

Lisa, will you
tell us where they are hidden?

No.

My grandfather didn't want that.

He told me that those

records could turn
friend against friend,

family against family.

Trust me to keep them safe.

Lisa, we do trust you.

We believe you.

And between us, we will
do what can be done to keep you safe.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Lisa, I knew
your grandfather almost 40 years.

I respect his wishes.

He trusted you, so must I.

And you do believe me...
That I will never touch those records?

In our world,
my dear, our word is our bond.

Good. Thank you.

Miss Ritchie.

I was just flying over the

area, and I decided it
would be a shame...

If you missed a chance to take a ride

in a vehicle as amazing,
as unique as blue thunder.

come on.

i'll fly
you home. What are you doing?

Don't argue with me.
Something's happening.

It's all right.

It's all right.

I'll see you back at the

house. Jafo, you follow
with bubba and ski.

Watch your head.

Gentlemen.

I hope you realize
this is going to change their thinking.

Not Mr. folsom's thinking.

Here, put these on. Take a listen.

Instant replay. After
you left the room, I taped this.

Your friend, Mr. folsom.

Hello. No, nothing was accomplished.

They're leaving now.
No, don't tell me about it!

Let me read about it, but get it done!

This is blue thunder over the

L.A. civic center. Who
we got flying along?

This is air 60,
blue thunder. Just ridin' shotgun.

Braddock was worried about you.

Something's wrong. Hang on.

- Can't you fire back?
- Believe me, I wish I could.

- What is the matter with you?
- What's

the matter with me? take
a look down there, Lisa.

- Those are innocent people.
- Well,

if you don't do it to them,
they'll do it to us.

- That's right.
we can't have that either. -

if I can knock out
his engine, that thing'll go down.

- He's getting closer!
- Hang on.

- They're gaining on us.
- Good,

'cause this time we're ready for 'em.

Chaney to rolling thunder. Head

for the construction site
at 6th and garfield.

Copy. Uh, what's going down, Frank?

Take a look up and you'll see.

Would you please pick up that

trash down there before
somebody steps on it?

Our pleasure, thunder.

Frank,

I just picked up something
else on your tail.

We already found him.
Folsom's air force is full of tricks.

How long can
we go on playing cat and mouse?

Until he gets
impatient and makes a mistake.

He made the mistake.
He let me lure him over Griffith park.

Hang on.

You could've shot
them down any time you wanted to.

Not quite.

You risked your
life for people you don't even know.

Well, maybe I just
wanted to broaden your outlook a little.

You did, Frank. you did.

I want you to have this.

A lighter?

\-
h

it doesn't even work.
That's because there's something in it.

The information you've been wanting.

Not the records, but where they are.

Thank you, Lisa.

Welcome to the family.

frank, how

old is Lisa? Very old,
jafo, and very young.

classy
place. Ah. When we gonna eat, Frank?

Ah...

Forgive me for keeping
you waiting. I was in the kitchen.

Lisa, this is bubba.

how
are you?

Ski. how you doin'?

And jafo. charmed.

Well, in about 20 minutes,
we're all going to be sitting down...

To an authentic,
and I hope good, old country dinner.

Sounds like my kinda food.

Ski thinks that "old
country" means that there's lots of it.

Did they find them...
My grandfather's records?

Yes. Oh, and they not
only put this back together, they fixed it.

I'd like you to have that.

What was in the
records? Was it all they expected?

will it do what

you'd hoped it would?
May I show you?

Lisa, thank you for this.