Starsky & Hutch

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Ten. The number is 10.

Uh, Grable, Grable, Grable. George Brent.

Barbara Stanwyck...

Uh, uh, uh. No good. I already used Barbara Stanwyck, remember?

When did you use Barbara Stanwyck? I don't remember you using Barbara Stanwyck.

Yes, I did. I said Helen Twelvetrees. You said Tom Brown,

and I said Barbara Stanwyck.

Get it? All right, all right, all right.

All right, an S to me.

Not an S, dummy, a B. George Brent.

Dummy? B.

D, D. Dummy. All right. Give me a B. B, B, B. Brent.

Barry Fitzgerald! Hurray.

Hurray! Hurray!

Listen, darling, how about a ride home? Just my feet, not my body.

I wish I could, really, but I can't. My sister's got my car.

I'm walking myself.

Another day, another dime.

All right. Okay. I'll see you tomorrow night.

All right, then. Take care.

Barbara Stanwyck.

Who's there?

Is anybody there?

I said, is somebody there?

That's a fantastic idea.

Aw, come on. I'm into poetry.

Behold the desert prince.

Hey, that's good. No, dummy.

Starsky. Hutchinson.

Yeah, lieutenant, what are you doing down here from Vegas, huh?

Believe it or not, I came down here to see you two.

Starsky, Hutch, in my office.

Let's go. I smell a rat.

How many times have I told you about that?

Sorry, cap. I'm working on it. What's this all about, cap?

Lieutenant Cameron here will answer all your questions.

Well, I suppose you're all wondering why I asked you to gather here.

Okay, I'll come straight to the point.

It seems we have a maniac roaming our streets in Las Vegas.

One who believes that strangling showgirls is a worthwhile hobby.

Here. Take a look.

He's already killed four.

All four girls worked in different shows.

All four were found in different locations.

Doesn't leave them very pretty. Killing's only part of it.

You should see what he does to them after they're dead.

Why are you telling us all this?

I see two thirsty souls trudging through the desert toward a neon city.

Well, in the past, you've always been helpful to our department

when our cases brought us here.

So I thought it was only right that we give you a chance to see our fair city.

I filed a request with your chief yesterday afternoon.

And it's been approved. All we need is for you to agree.

Wait a second. Just wait... Wait a minute, cap.

Putting aside personalities and the fact that Hutch and I

and the lieutenant here don't exactly sing in harmony,

something doesn't make sense.

I mean, the Las Vegas Police Department is supposed to be one of the best in the country.

Yes, but we're a small department in a small town

where almost everybody knows everybody else.

Now, right now, we've got a psycho on our hands.

And that could be anybody in the city.

Fellas, I believe this is the time to put our personalities aside.

Look, I need two good men who can go undercover.

Two good men that I can be sure won't be recognized as cops.

Well, what do you say?

Are you in?

Hug, are you sure these are the kind of clothes they wear in Vegas?

Am I sure? Starsky, you two guys are gonna look like the flash with the cash.

That's right, that's right.

You sure this tie isn't a little too bright?

Bright? Bright? Everything in Las Vegas is bright.

Bright is their national colours, Hutch. That's right, that's right.

I don't know, Hug. These shoes are kind of dubious.

Oh, man. Starsky, you talking about the George Raft look.

That's right, that's right.

In fact, if I didn't know better, I'd guess you two guys were a couple of high rollers

who just stepped off the plane from Las Vegas this minute.

That's right, that's right.

Yeah, well, that I can believe.

Dressed like this, they probably would've run us right out of town.

I don't know, Hutch. Cameron said he wanted us to look like a couple of tinhorn turkeys on a gambling spree.

Yeah, well, all I'm saying... Oh, man.

All I'm saying, Starsky, is, do we have to dress quite this loud?

Well, ask Duke here.

He's spent a lot of time in Vegas. That's right, that's right.

Is that right? That's right, that's right.

Besides, I'm kind of getting to like it.

Mm-hm.

You look ridiculous.

What do you know?

Hey, Duke, just between friends,

when was the last time you was in Las Vegas?

About 1946.

That's right, that's right.

That's right.

It says here this whole town is open 24 hours a day.

You know what that means? That means that nothing ever closes.

Supermarkets, barbershops, hardware stores.

Well, you know, Starsk, they're probably all waiting

for the air-conditioning repairman to show up.

Is that a joke?

Give me a sip of that, will you? You don't take sips.

Besides, it's all I got left. Stick to your coconut.

You know, the more I read about Las Vegas, the more it seems like my kind of town.

Now, listen to this.

It says here that dice were the first things invented...

Starsk.

Would you mind not reading any more passages from that book?

I'm just trying to broaden your horizons.

Well, you've been broadening my horizons for the last 300 miles, and I'm getting sick of it.

Yeah, well, this is interesting. Listen to this.

It says here that " Dice were the oldest thing invented by man

for the purpose of gambling.

They were invented by a man by the name of Palamedes."

That's Palamedes. Oh.

What's going on? Did you know that of every 100 cars

crossing the desert, 23.6 of them have engine trouble?

Did you get that out of a book too? No, that one I made up.

Welcome to Las Vegas, high roller.

You can have it for me later today, huh?

Cabbie, we'll be there in a minute.

Come on, baby, come on. Let's go, Starsk.

Just give me a minute. Cab's waiting.

Just give me one minute. I got a feeling. This baby is about to pay off.

You really got a feeling? Yep.

That's the sucker's cry from here to Timbuktu. It's a machine, Starsk.

Wheels and gears. How can you have a feeling for a machine?

Well, what do you know? Come on, we're due

down at Caesar's Palace. Cameron's probably got his desert legionnaires waiting for us.

Let them wait.

Starsky. What would your mother say if she saw you now, huh?

Her little sonny boy, caught in the throes of a gambler's mania.

Starsky, it's pitiful. You, a grown man.

Come on. Starsk, come on.

Just give it a minute, will you? Come on.

What are you...? Come on. Let's go.

Spoilsport.

Will you look at this place?

Huh, Hutch?

I mean, will you look at this place?

Yeah, I might as well. I got a feeling everyone else in this place is going to be looking at us.

Don't be so sensitive. No one's gonna pay any attention to us.

I mean, will you just look at this place?

Coming out again. Shoot the dice.

Look at it.

Hutch. Yeah, I'm looking, I'm looking.

It's freezing.

Yeah, well, nothing, nothing's bothering me.

I mean, did you ever feel like you'd just died and gone to heaven?

This place have that kind of effect on you?

Yeah.

I got it, Hutch. I got that fever.

That Vegas fever.

Look.

Hey, hey, come on. Come here.

What's wrong?

I think you better give me the money. Huh?

The $200. I think you better give me the money.

I just told you. I got a feeling. I mean, I'm gonna go... I'm gonna make a mint.

Starsky, remember why we're here? Yeah.

We're on an assignment. I know that.

Lieutenant Cameron has probably already got us spotted.

Now, we're supposed to take that $200, lose it,

get in a fight and thrown into jail. Yeah, but that doesn't mean

we can't have some fun. Look, Cameron never said why we were gonna get thrown in jail.

Don't argue with me.

In your... In your feverish state, l... I think you better give me the money.

I mean, I can be cool and calm and get this thing done easily and quickly.

Give me the money.

Come on. Okay.

You ready? No.

You can take care of yourself.

All right.

Good luck.

No more bets. All bets are down.

Chips, please.

Chips.

Chips for George Raft.

Come on, come on, come on.

Seventeen black. All bets down.

Come on, roll that ball, roll that ball. Okay.

Seventeen. Seventeen. Come home clean, 17.

You just can't control yourself, can you?

Well, we had to lose it and I had this... Yeah, I know, this feeling, right?

You know the mathematical probability of winning on the bet you just placed is 35-to-1?

I know that. Come on over here. Let me...

What are you talking about? Wait a second. Will you just wait one second?

Come on. Wait a second.

Seventeen black, and we have the winner.

Whoa, whoa! We got a winner! We got a winner!

We got a winner! Right here, put it right here.