Taxi Page #3
You can't hold me.
Now, I want my cab.
- Says here you did a year in juvenile hall
- That's supposed to be sealed
Joyriding Graduated to reckless driving,
fleeing the scene of an accident...
Iook at this... moving violation,
moving violation, moving violation
- Come on Everybody got a few tickets
- Not 75
And not on a bicycle,
Miss Williams
Officers at the front desk will give you
the forms you need to fill out.
As far as your car's concerned, you'll get that back
when we're done Two weeks, maybe longer
Two weeks? Come on, man
This is bullshit
That's notjust my car.
That is myjob.
Wh-What am I supposed to do?
Give people piggyback rides to Newark Airport?
One more question
Did you ever get close enough
to see the guy driving the car?
No, sir
All I saw was their taillights
Can I go now?
- Here we go again.
Didn't I say 5.00? Where are you?
- Jesse.
I feel like a damn fool, B,
thinking you'd actually be here on time
- I tried
- No, no, no No I'm tired of hearing excuses, okay?
I'm sittin' in my cab, right?
All of a sudden out of nowhere, this guy jumps...
Hello? Baby?
Jesse?
What the hell
could be so damn important?
- Freakin' day I had
- Hey Miss Williams
- You again
- Hey, hey, hey
- Go ahead Talk
- I just wanna talk
- Talk then
- I can get you your cab back
Come on
Come on
You gotta help me first
Okay? Just hear me out
They got five detectives on this case.
We gotta catch these guys first.
All I got to go on is
the MO, modus operandi
- I know what it means
- It's not police jargon It's Latin
They were in and out in, like, under a minute
That's real pros Witnesses
said they're either Spanish or Italian
Nah, I think they're Brazilian
They were speaking Portuguese
- You sure?
- Confia em mim.
My first job was delivering food at...
Brazilian
This is huge
Hey, why are we not
doing this at the station?
Sometimes a good cop's got to bend the rules
so that laws don't get broken
You know what I'm saying?
I'm not afraid to live outside the law.
You living outside of your mind
That's where you live
Well, the reports here say
that the man driving was about 5'10"
No No, no, no, no
If that was a man, so am I
She looked like a model
Tan, blondish hair
All right As I was saying
It was a woman driving
- and she was driving a Mercedes... an Au...
- No
- Mm-mmm No, no, no
- She was driving... Definitely you saw her driving
- a BMW?
- Right
- Yeah, but not just a BMW It was a 760
- Mm-hmm
- But the engine sounded lighter
- Light, yeah
Now, with that much torque, she had to have
an inboard torsion damper system
with a push rod bell crank
and double wishbone arrangement.
Wait a minute
You shot her tire out, didn't you?
Yeah Standard OP
- But she kept on going
'cause she had run flats
Yeah, that's what I thought
She had "runs" flats on
Armored tires They seal themselves
with a gel when they're punctured
Now, they're good,
but they only go for about 50 miles
So, if she wants to drive that car again,
she's gonna have to get a new tire
And there's only one place to get that tire
around here Lou's Garage in Secaucus
- What are we waiting for? Let's hit it Take my ride
- All right
There's my baby, right there
- This is your unmarked car?
- We found her
A Daewoo? Man, I know people
I can't be seen in this thing
Tsk Open the door
I don't wanna get Daewoo on my hands
Buckle up for safety, everybody
Hard to do it with my holster on
Okay, we're good
Good, wipers work
Mirrors work
And here we go
Oh, damn
- Whoa! Sheesh, man
- That's why you got bumpers
- Can't you... What the hell?
- You trying to kill me?
- I'm not a perfect driving robot
- I know Oh! What are you doing?
- Here comes Junior
- Here comes Junior
- You can't... Oh, sh*t! Wait! Stop Stop Stop
What the hell are you trying to do,
a 78-point turn?
- Can you get us out of this spot?
- Yes
Everyone just chill out
Be real cool about it
Everyone just chill out
Be real cool about it
God... damn!
Now, I'm turning the wheel
Turning the wheel
- Oh, my God! Wait Wait
- Shh Everyone be cool
No Stop
What? What? What do you...
What do you want?
- What's the problem here?
- Get over there
- I got... I got shotgun
- Get your ass over there
You got insurance?
'Cause that's what I'm gonna need
Daggone whiplash
You got a driver's license?
Let me get my belt on
Who the hell gave you a driver's license?
That's what I wanna know
Okay, after I show you this place,
I'm gonna get my cab back?
- Deal.
- 'Cause I don't really trust you.
Soon as I know this is the place,
we'll go back to the station, I'll get your cab back.
- This is it?
- Yep
If they gettin' that car fixed,
they-they gotta come here
- So, what now?
- We wait
You can open your eyes now
I'm done
You didn't see my nads, did you?
Man
So, you got guy problems, huh?
Overheard you and your man on the phone
Want a little bit
of wisdom from the man side?
I'll give it to you
Men are like cats, you know?
Sure, we'll play with
the ball of yarn
unless you want us
to play with the ball of yarn
Trick is,
hide the ball of yarn
Don't hide it where you can't find it,
you know?
"Hey, what's the ball of yarn
doin' in the fridge?"
Whatever
You know what I'm saying?
You know, cops are supposed
to talk to each other on stakeouts
It helps the mission
go by faster
- Okay That's cool
You wanna be quiet? That's cool
No room for chitchat That's fine
I don't care I don't need...
I don't need to talk
We'll just sit here
in silence
So, are you into cars, or...
I mean, what got you into cars?
I mean, were you always into them?
Did you just, like, stumble upon them?
Damn My grandpa
- Okay?
- Yeah
W-What?
He loved driving, or...
Yeah He was a mechanic
Taught me everything I know
We used to live
next to a track
You used to go to the track all day?
That's fun
No We didn't really go that much
I mean, we went to a couple races
But mostly, we would just listen
to the races together
Hear those engines.
I got good
l-I got to the point where
I could tell who won the race
without even seeing it
- Yeah. Driving NASCAR. That's my dream.
- Wow
Wait. Let me ask you something.
Why would you take a taxi to a bank robbery?
I mean,
I've never seen that
I got in a wreck in my last gig
Bad guys got away
My lieutenant flipped out
Put me back on the beat
No vehicle
Aw, man
What makes it worse,
me and my lieutenant used to date
- Yeah We went to Academy together
- Okay
She got promoted
I didn't
You can cut the sexual tension
with a knife
Shh! Look
There they are.
Oh, man Yep
That's her
That's her.
- Party time
- Hey So-So, what we gonna do now?
- I mean, we gonna call it in, right?
- Call it in?
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