Striking Distance Page #3

- He wants me to find these girls.

- You're crazy, that's it.

- He called me.

- He called you?

- That's right.

- What did he say?

- He didn't say anything.

- You dreamed it.

Get in your little boat

and get the f*** out of here!

You're an alcoholic. You need help.

- Get your head examined.

- Maybe you need a drink.

- It'd ease the pain of being wrong.

- Get out of my sight.

Keep those people out of here!

Am I talking to myself?

Put Grandpa back on.

Just a second.

She sounds good.

Yes.

Okay, bye-bye.

- Hi.

- Hi. Are you all right?

Yeah, I'm fine.

Okay.

This is it. 16 months ago.

I didn't murder anybody.

This witness is lying.

One memeber of the police department

agrees with him.

Thomas Hardy

made this statement to the press.

I do not think

Kesser is the killer.

Important information was withheld.

Can you tell us

what that information is?

Two of the women

were called from police call boxes.

Why didn't you say that?.

A Pittsburgh cop did it!

An offical police report

denied Hardy's accusations.

The controversy has not

changed Kesser's death sentence.

Airtight case.

Kesser had no alibi at all.

He confessed to the murder

of his accomplice as self-defense.

He denied the Polish Hill murders.

We found evidence from the murders

in his hotel room, -

- and the gun

that killed Vince Hardy.

Then why does Hardy

think that Kesser was framed?

Kesser's fingerprints weren't

on the gun. It was a police special.

The serial numbers were erased.

Hardy starts barking conspiracy.

- He thinks the killer's a cop.

- No one thought he was innnocent?

Yeah, Kesser.

Well, Bob, he's putting them in

the Allegheny or the Monongahela.

That narrows it down.

This is Hardy here. Go.

Hi, it's Jo. Are you going

to the policeman's ball tonight?.

I'm going to go.

I don't really know anyone.

Maybe I'll see you there. Bye.

- Don't leave me out here.

- One drink, real quick.

What the hell is he doing here?

Captain, he's here.

- Hi.

- Hi.

You look ... different.

I'll take that as a compliment.

- I didn't think I'd see you here.

- Nobody did.

Tommy, you made it.

Good to see you, man.

Come on, the whole family's

right over here.

- Dad, look who's here.

- He's got Tommy with him.

Let him go.

Don't keep them waiting.

- Tommy, good to see you, son.

- Hi, Uncle Fred.

- Introduce your date.

- She's not my date.

This is my new partner,

Jo Christman.

Unfortunately, these are the Hardys.

My Uncle Fred.

- My cousin Gary.

- Don't f*** her.

Tommy, you're too skinny.

Come to our house to eat.

She's right. You ought

to quit being such a stranger.

Now, I'd like to propose a toast.

- To Vince Hardy.

- The best Captain of Homicide ever.

Vince Hardy.

How about we drink to my mother?

She was a Hardy, too.

And Jimmy, let's drink to him.

It'd be fitting here by the river.

Uncle Vince is dead.

They're dead, too. Drink to Jimmy!

- That's enough!

- No, It's not enough, damn it!

- Let go of me. I'm all right.

- You don't belong here.

- Me and you, Eddie.

- Anytime.

The best day of the year.

Better than Christmas!

- Are these policemen all relatives?

- No, they're just criminals.

How did they end up on the force?

Part of some nationwide

negative gene pool, I guess.

- Don't do that, okay?

- What?

That thing where you're

not really talking to me.

- That's not the answer.

- It'll do till the answer turns up.

Hey! What the f***

is the matter with you?

Get out.

Get out now!

You want to sit around drinking

and feeling sorry for yourself.

What is this? You won't respect

yourself until someone else does?

I respect you.

You've got a lot of courage.

The whole department is waiting

to see you fall on your ass.

- You're giving them what they want.

- They want to keep me silent.

Stupid is almost as good.

Will you go now, please?

Just go home.

No, I don't want to.

I don't want to go home.

What are you doing?

What made you decide

to become a cop?

All the sh*t you've

got to go through ...

... being a woman and all.

When I was in college,

my roommate was raped.

The campus police were

only interested in keeping it quiet.

I knew that the guy was white

and very tall.

I started checking out

basketball courts near the campus.

From the pictures I took of the

white players she identified him.

- You caught the guy?

- Yeah.

This is the police. Pull over

and stop the engine.

Stop the car ..!

Take the wheel.

This is 9221

in pursuit of a murder suspect, -

- heading west on the railroad

service road at mile 16.

Suspect is armed and dangerous.

- Send backup.

- All units respond.

Hold it steady.

My God!

Yep, it's definitely a rug!

Way to go, Hardy,

you a**hole!

Tommy, congratulations.

We're all very proud of you.

You blew up a litter bug's car

and found a carpet.

- It looked like a body.

- Then you're in the wrong job.

Let's just say that it was

the killer and it was a cop.

It'd be very easy for him

to figure out our patrol patterns.

He'd just be waiting for us

to come along.

He dumps the rug

to make us look like morons.

- Hardy ...

- Yes.

- You should know something ...

- Are you really a man?

- No.

- Good.

But I was married to one.

- A cop?

- Worse. A lawyer.

That is worse.

We have a daughter. She's four.

- What's her name?

- Sarah.

Nice name.

Thanks.

Is that it?

We shouldn't be doing this

as partners.

- We should be taken out and shot.

- We should shoot each other.

- Too much paperwork.

- I'm serious, Tommy.

Well, maybe you're in the wrong job.

Tommy?

STEWARDESS CHERYL PUTNAM

VICTIM:

LOTS OF LOVE:

CHERYL:

Tommy, what's wrong?

What's the matter?

THIRD VICTIM:

IN 3 RIVERS MURDER CASE

Her name was Constance Cabrizzi.

I used to call her Connie.

- You knew this girl too?

- I took her to the prom.

Amazing coincidence ...

me knowing all these girls.

You knew about the nurse.

Now you know about Cheryl.

And now Connie.

- You've got to tell someone.

- Who?

Who can I trust? I don't know

how high up this goes.

- What do you mean?

- Say I told the wrong person.

- You didn't do this.

- Why? ls it an obvious frame?

It's just like Polish Hill.

That's right, Jo.

It's the same killer!

He killed those girls in '91,

and my father.

Now he's killing women I knew

and leaving them for me to find.

- You're scaring me.

- It's scaring me, too.

All the women in my life

keep turning up dead.

There is absolutely no connection

between Polish Hill and this.

There is absolutely no connection

between Polish Hill and this.

If you print that in your paper,

I'm knocking you off this beat.

The tip checked out. Hardy went

to high school with Cabrizzi.

That's two out of three. I bet

we can tie him to Cheryl Putnam.

- You want me to bring him in?

- No, we couldn't hold him on that.

We can put him under review.

I'll call internal affairs.

- He'll be put under surveillance.

- He is under surveillance.

- Close surveillance?

- It doesn't get any closer.

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