Hill Street Blues

Sector B patrols up profile at

the Clark redevelopment construction site.

Pop whoever's been stealing the bricks.

Seven, ongoings and undercovers.

Two units are alerted for Muller and Crane,

clerks at the ML King

And Bragan and Zachary, junkies in the stop and cop blocks.

And Detective Belker's at the Woof and Gardens.

He's after that cat burglar who's been mauling

the residences there.

Item Eight, memo from Division Commander Svenson

re personnel experiencing illness the day

prior to starting their vacations.

- Lieutenant, noise complaint on the S.O.I.L. house.

- Get O'Brien and Philips when they come up, okay?

- Yeah. - Or hang on!

I think there's a notify officer on this address.

Schwartzman.

Belker!

He ain't here.

Excuse me?

No, ma'am, he ain't here.

This is Hill Street.

Well, I'm sorry if my voice doesn't sound familiar.

Well, if that's who you are, then you ought to know he...

Look, is this urgent?

All right.

If I see him, I will let him know.

Yes, I'm leaving a message.

You were dizzy, but you're feeling better now.

You love him and it's gonna cool off tonight

so he doesn't need to leave the air conditioner on.

That's it? That's the message?

Mrs. Belker, he ain't here. This is night shift.

Yeah? Lieutenant Goldblume?

You got a please notify on 1416 Clarendon?

These S.O.I.L. house people?

- Hi. - Hi. We off?

- You're being awfully good about this dinner, Furillo.

I could say you got the plague.

- Thought we already used that one.

Can we make an early exit, though?

I'm bushed.

- You have my solemn vow, darlin'.

Me and Robert will be finished no later than 11:15.

Yes, ma'am. I love you, too.

You're my alibi, Bobby.

- Serious overtime on Magruder trial deposition, Daryl Ann.

- All that paperwork? - Right.

He didn't go spending no $100 to meet some country western

singer backstage, no, sir.

Wait a minute, Bobby.

Angel ain't just some country and western singer.

He... - Hey, Renko?

This guy's got a delivery.

Yes, sir.

- WGZZ, Meet the Man contest, Number 14?

- Yes, sir, Andrew J. Renko. - Benjamin Franklin.

- Well, you must be the real country fan, Mr., uh...

Knowing all them facts about Bobby's life like that.

- I wouldn't know Bobby Angel from Charlie's Angels, pal.

I'm a ticket broker.

We bought this from the guy who won.

Get backstage. You ask for Bear.

Bear.

Well, I know as a responsible human husband,

I should be suffering deep budgetary remorse.

But right now, you're looking at one happy cowboy.

- Burger before the show, cowboy?

Uh-huh.

- I'm getting off the night watch,

going on days tomorrow morning. I think 0800.

- This creep's scaring these old people so bad.

I'm afraid someone's gonna die.

Other night, he came into a lady's living room

right through the ceiling.

Oh, garage.

- Uh, not in this old place. Old garbage chute.

Now he either goes through there or up the fire escape.

Nasty stakeout.

- Oh, I done a lot of dumpsters before.

This ain't so bad.

I'm on a two-hour circuit.

- I'll see you in a couple of hours.

- Holler if you need me. - Will do.

- J. D.? - Hmm?

- You still staying at your brother-in-law's?

- 'Til tomorrow, yeah. - Yeah.

Renko says the fastest way to get to work from there

is Clifford Avenue.

- Uh-uh. Portland. - You see?

- That's right, Andy. Portland's got no left 69.

- Guys talk pretty big for people who ain't lived

in the same neighborhood like I have for eight years.

- Takes me 20 minutes to get to work.

- But you only live on 87th. - Hey, it takes me 20.

I leave at 6:25. - You lie.

- I lie, Renko? I lie about a lot of stuff.

Not about when I leave for work.

Wait a minute.

Now you mean Portland from Height Circle Street?

Shot up there to Maplewood? - Right, 6:25.

- Robert, I think I'm gonna be able to finance

my backstage visit.

Okay, $100, you and me says Renko's route is faster.

- Portland to Hudson to Deckert? - Renko...

That's right, that's right.

Portland to Hudson to Deckert, okay?

We got a wager, 6:25 tomorrow morning.

You take your route, I'll take mine.

A yard? Well, you got it.

You got it.

Okay, seconds on the car verifying route and speed.

- Right. - Bobby, you be my second?

- I'm not gonna get up at 6:00 in go all the way across town...

- Hey, Tony, get one for the series.

Victory margin total time?

- Don't go south on me now, brother.

Now, lieutenant, would you please be the referee?

Referee? You've got a contest?

What's the...

- No, it's not a contest. It's not a bet.

It's somebody making a charitable contribution

to the Andrew J. Renko budget-balancing campaign.

Time for the campaign, okay? Time for the concert.

I'll talk to you later.

- Where you gonna get the money, Rockefeller?

- Full faith in the credit of Parnelli J. Renko.

Don't start with me, Blackie.

Blackie, don't start with me!

All right, okay.

But you know how you are with weisswurst.

Ah-ah-ah, where's your mask?

What's that supposed to mean?

Oh, sorry.

Thought you were one of my students.

We've been mixing vanadium stains.

It's very toxic.

- Well, I heard that you sometimes let people...

I mean, hobbyists who aren't students use the school kiln.

Sure. What you got?

Well, it's rough stuff.

The pots I made on the kitchen table.

- Well, a coil pot, slab pot with weaving.

That's very ambitious. And?

- Uh, I bought the unfinished horse, you know.

Painted it with this china glaze.

It's for a kid I know.

Very nice work.

Well, this will fire about three hours.

Of course, the pots will take a lot longer.

- Well, if it doesn't matter to you, I would like

to wait for that horse. Is that possible?

I mean, tomorrow's the kid's birthday.

So it's...

Did you bring a book?

- What kind of book was I supposed to bring?

- No, just something so you could kill time.

Oh, I'm not gonna get bored.

And I'm not gonna drive you crazy either

with a bunch of questions.

- What's your name? - Lucy Bates.

- Tom Hopper. - Hi. How are you?

Ooh.

You from the police?

- How you allow something like this to happen.

- Ain't no way we can live with this noise!

They got to go!

Living in there like kids.

I live way down far, and I can smell the bottle.

- What happened to our agreement?

No volume over 60 decibels!

No speeches after 5:00!

Calvin, I didn't come here to shout!

I came to talk!

- Might come in there and scream for more sounds.

I used to be so laid back.

But now I have to take every minute of security, you know.

Not really. Why is that?

- Well, there's been betrayals from several directions.

And I'm trying now to determine whether or not

they know anything about it.

- The only thing I know about is the noise complaints.

- Well, when you have information

about tomorrow's housing coalition meeting,

the S.O.I.L. received no apartment allotment

from Clark redevelopment.

- Thought that came out last month.

Oh, it's impossible.

This conspiracy...

Leaves me with nothin', man.

Whoa, whoa. What conspiracy?

You know. You were out there.

- No, I don't know. - You carry a gun.

- I'm a cop. - I know you are.

And I know why you're here. - Calvin?

- I have to have your weapon, Henry.

- Well, I won't give it to you, Calvin.

- Guards! I need my guards in here!

- This is not smart. - I don't have any choices.