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555-01-36.

If you check in, I'm heading for the airport early. Meet me for coffee.

They're gonna mark you tardy.

I've got court today.

You working late?

I can if you are.

Thought I'd take you to The Palm.

I wanna get my dad one of those weather radios.

The nothing-but-weather ones. Now that he's on the water.

Get him a book. Let him dope it out. He'd like that.

You'd like that.

He doesn't think the weatherman will lie to him.

He wants to know if a hurricane's coming.

What's wrong with The Palm?

It's Friday night. It'll be crowded.

You like it crowded.

Okay, let's go to The Palm.

If you're just killing time...

Help!

Did he talk about God?

Ask him if God said anything bad.

If we get him to say God speaks to him, then--

That thing's cordless.

What else did he say?

Oh, baloney.

She's on the phone. She'll be right down.

What's he know about the democratic process?

I gotta go.

Got any cash?

Sure.

I need about a half a million.

Harold Cornelius is gonna run against me as a write-in.

He's a nutcase.

With a chain of drugstores and a lot of money.

- Where are you going? - New York.

New Hampshire won't stand for him buying a seat in Congress.

He's Elmer Fudd.

Yeah, sure.

Jessie's birthday's Wednesday. I said we'd both be home.

Sure.

Attention.

Convective Sigma 3 Echo in effect for Washington-Baltimore area.

A line of thunderstorms approximately 60 miles wide...

...moving from 260 degrees at 15 knots with tops to flight level 350.

Wind gusts to 60 knots and possible cloud-to-cloud lightning.

Visibility occasionally one mile...

I said I wouldn't take PAC money.

- That's when we didn't need it. - What do I say now?

Do you swear to tell the truth?

I do.

Name and occupation for the jury.

William Van Den Broeck. Sergeant in Internal Affairs...

...of the District of Columbia Police Department.

And what's your job, sergeant?

Internal Affairs investigates incidents or allegations of misconduct...

... involving sworn officers and employees of the District of Columbia.

Miami boarding at gate 33.

He thinks we'll let him get away with that?

Depose Henry.

Sure.

I'll see you.

Sergeant...

...Van Den Broeck...

...you had to take a test to make sergeant, didn't you?

It was a written exam.

If I put into evidence records showing...

...56 officers took the test same time as you...

...and you did better than 54 of them, would that be about right?

- We could look it up. - The point is...

...you're a smart guy.

Number two on the written, 11 years a sergeant.

How come you're not a lieutenant?

Where are we going with this?

Is it because you're white?

She cannot do that! Your Honour!

From 11 News, this is a special report.

May I help you?

I'm looking for a gift for my wife.

Is there a radio just for weather? It's for my father-in-law in Florida.

I got a couple back here. I'll show you.

A normal crew is two pilots and three attendants.

The aircraft involved was a 73 7...

... which normally is configured for seats for 96 to 138 passengers.

- Where's this? - Down in the bay.

National Safety Board officials were en route to the site...

--over Chesapeake Bay, 20 miles south...

... of the city limits, where Southern Airlines flight...

...437 to Miami went down about an hour ago...

... with 103 passengers...

Anything happening?

School cops took a nine out of this girl's locker.

Same gun got logged into evidence six weeks ago. Drive-by weapon.

--8000 feet when it veered off-course and began a steep descent--

The only thing he isn't short on is cash.

He'll buy a million dollars worth of TV time...

...and hide behind the best advertising money can buy.

I can beat him if I can get on television myself.

The issue here is whether someone totally unsuited for public office...

...can buy his way into the United States Congress.

I hope your answer's no.

I said "buy" too many times, right?

Let's eat.

You got no lunchroom here?

Here's what we got.

We got a gun that was used in a homicide. Killed someone.

It got stolen out of the property room. Maybe some cop sold it right out.

Then we got you in possession of that gun.

We ain't got no lunchroom.

Some school fool say he found some gun in my locker.

I wouldn't know. I wasn't there. I ain't possessing nothing.

How did it get in your locker, Shyla?

Don't use my Christian name like we'll be friends.

It's my impression you weren't in the market for corporate support.

I hate making these calls.

I thought I wouldn't have to. But now I need the money.

We had good relations with your dad.

He understood the communications business. We appreciated that.

Who was doing your media?

I guess I was.

Never needed much till Cornelius came out of left field.

Make that right field.

What do you think of Carl Broman?

--offshore breeze and clearing. Low tonight in the mid-70s.

Juvenile's got her brother for knocking over gas stations.

I guess she's holding for him...

...but she won't talk to us.

We can get her detention.

Oh, yeah? How?

I'll lose her paperwork.

You'd do that? Hold her without a charge?

For a week. If she wants to go home, maybe we get a name.

Dutch, line three.

Van Den Broeck.

Clayton? And George Beaufort?

Well, Friday's payday, I guess.

Stick with him till we catch up.

I want this son of a bitch. Alcee, we're on the roll.

Janice...

I didn't do anything. We were just talking.

Don't even think that way. Shit like that makes people hate cops.

Grab a radio.

Cassie?

You got a car for me?

Not the pimpmobile. It's surveillance, not narcotics.

This is it.

Your wife called. She said things came up at work.

She can't eat with you and you should call.

You can see the tail is sticking out of the water.

You can hear choppers above me.

News choppers are getting a better look.

Search and rescue operations--

--about an hour ago, with a reported 103 passengers onboard...

That aeroplane, a 12-year-old 737...

There's Clayton.

What the hell's he doing?

- What's this clown doing? - I don't know.

And where's George?

- Wait a minute. - Get Elton and Tommy back here quick.

Tommy, we need you guys back here. Something's going down.

Clayton?

How you doing? What's going on?

Where's George, your partner?

In the basement.

The basement?

What's he doing in there?

A guy named Marvin is pouring booze without a license.

We're getting ready to write him. He comes up with a shotgun.

He says he wants money.

He tells me to get it.

He's got George.

Somebody's holding George Beaufort hostage.

Can he send us an ear?

What's the plan, officer?

We could call police.

Is that what you're getting ready to do?

Call the police? There's a lot here already.

He's got a gun on George. We gotta do something.

See, we're Internal Affairs.

You got a policeman that screws up.

You got a policeman that abuses his position, steals.

That's us.

What do you think is going on?

You think we just happened by?

We've been on you all day. All week.

We've been on you all month.

You know what I think?

Somebody got sick and tired of paying you off.

You wanna corroborate that, gives us a reason...

...to drag George's ass out of the basement.

Or we'll talk to the guy with the gun, hear his version.

You're asking me to turn George in?

Just push me and push me...

Marvin?

I'm Sergeant Van Den Broeck.

Hello, asshole. You're under arrest.

Who is the real Kay Chandler? What's she stand for?

Do you know?

What's she doing in Congress anyway?

Harold Cornelius for Congress.

Shirley Magnuson did it.