Kill Huggy Bear (transcribed by Sarah Spearey)

The streets: Day

A car comes to a stop outside a candy store. A black man sits behind the wheel, he picks up a pair of tights from the seat beside him and outs them on over his head. He sees inside the man behind the till take some envelopes out and put them in a bag. The black man in the car, Dewey, takes a gun from his glove compartment. He checks if it’s loaded, he takes a deep breath)

(Cut to, inside the candy store the Candy man is putting more money into the brown paper bag. Dewey comes up to him pointing the gun)

Dewey: I’ll take that.

Candy Man: Oh, beat it punk.

Dewey: I’ll take that sack. (A woman walks past the window and sees the hold up) Give me that sack. You heard me right. This is a gun, it’s gonna kill you. Give me that sack. Give it to me.

(The lady goes to the phone, puts money in it and dials)

Lady: I want the police.

(Cut back to inside the store)

Dewey: Give me that sack.

Candy Man: Yeah, sure man. (He hits the gun with the sack, but Dewey panics and fires, shooting the man in the shoulder.)

Dewey: Oh, oh, oh man. (He panics, picks up the sack and runs out)

(The lady watches him run out and get into the car. As the car pulls out it bumps into the car in front, but drives away)

Starsky’s car: Day

(Hutch sits behind the wheel while Starsky eats)

Hutch: What’s this?

Starsky: An electric antenna, hey, start the engine.

Hutch: It’s not gonna do any good.

Starsky: Will you start the engine? (Hutch starts the engine) Hear that?

Hutch: Yeah, it’s an engine.

Starsky: Well, rev it up. Get the feel of it. (Hutch revs the engine. A call comes through on the phone)

Dispatch: Zebra three.

Starsky: (To Hutch) Hey, I can’t hear, hey.

Dispatch: Two eleven in progress at fourth and Hayes. Units Baker Six and Zebra Three respond code three.

Starsky: Zebra Three roger out. (Puts phone down) Slide over, I’ll drive.

Hutch: No, no, wait a second. (Puts on a pair of sunglasses) I’ll give it a whirl. (The chair lurches forwards. Starsky picks up the cherry and puts it on the roof, as the speed off)

Starsky: With your fingers man, not your feet.

(Cut to, Dewey’s car comes to a stop by the road. He sits and watches the Torino fly by him. Once they’re gone, he opens the sack and finds a whole pile of 50 and 100 dollar notes. He picks up a handful)

Dewey: (Disbelief) Oh man, oh man.

(Cut to the candy store, the candy man holds a hankie to his bloody shoulder)

Candy Man: So this punk, he came in and stole a few candy bars, that’s all. (Starsky takes a closer look at the wound) Oh man it’s no real problem. Forget it.

Starsky: A bullet hole in the shoulder may be no trouble to you, but if we ignore it can you imagine the trouble the NAACP’s gonna give us. Get an ambulance. (The policeman walks off)

Candy Man: How about a description? Well, he was wearing a stocking mask, I couldn’t really tell.

Starsky: What about his hands? Were they black, white, wearing gloves?

Candy Man: Everything happened so fast I don’t know.

(Cut to, outside the shop, Hutch speaks to the lady you called the police)

Lady: So when I saw what was happening I went to that phone booth there and called the police.

Hutch: If more citizens did that there would be left crime, wouldn’t there?

Lady: I know. Then he ran out and got into a car, a ’73 ford.

Hutch: (Taking notes) ’73 Ford.

Lady: My son’s got one just like it. A brown ’73.

Hutch: He got into a brown ’73 Ford?

Lady: No, my son’s car is brown. He got into a light green ’73.

Hutch: Okay, light green.

Lady: And then…and then he got that car, you know, busted up the fender and then went around the corner.

Hutch: Did you get the license number?

Lady: No, I didn’t.

Hutch: Well, thank you very much, you’ve been very helpful. (Walks past her into the store)

Lady: Uh…hey…uh, wait a minute. What about my dime?

Hutch: Your dime?

Lady: Yeah, I don’t mind being a good citizen as long as it don’t cost me nothing. Now, I put a dime in that pay phone.

(Hutch checks around in his pocket, takes out a few things, but no money)

Hutch: You see what you gotta do is put in a requisition. (They stare at each other) Just a second. Starsk. (Goes to meet his partner near the counter)

Starsky: All right, while you figure that out I’ll be outside. (They go back outside to the lady) Now, what do you want?

Hutch: Do you have a dime?

Starsky: What for?

Hutch: Well, this lady called the police…

Lady: And I want my dime back.

Starsky: Well, you gotta put in a requisition, you see, it’s a pink little form…

Hutch: Starsky, just give her a dime.

Starsky: (Digs in his pocket with a smile and pulls out a dime) One dime.

Lady: Thank you.

Hutch: Thank you. (She goes) Anything?

Starsky: Oh, the guys been shot in the shoulder and he’s been ripped off, but he wants to forget it maybe you can figure him out.

The Pits: Night

Dewey: That candy store’s a front for a numbers drop. (Dewey sits at the bar, facing Huggy)

Huggy: I don’t know what kinda trouble you in.

Dewey: Well, you’ve got to get me out of it.

Huggy: Oh, not me, Dewey. I don’t want no part of it. The gangsters are mean. You gonna have to figure your own way out of it.

Dewey: You owe me, Huggy. You owe me. I saved your life in that eastside rumble. Them cats would have cut you to pieces.

Huggy: Dewey I’ve been taking your falls ever since that rumble. Now, I’m getting tired of it.

Dewey: Hey, just this one last time, Huggy. Just get me out of this.

Huggy: Last time and you off my back forever?

Dewey: Forever man, forever. Just get this dough back to the mob.

(Huggy goes over to the phone and dials)

(Cut to the inside of a room, a man sat behind a desk, other men sitting around in blue tight tops. Lou picks up the phone)

Lou: Yeah.

A Mr. Huggy Bear. He says it’s important. Something about a grocery store.

Lou: Go ahead Huggy.

Huggy: Lou. I’ve just been contacted by the heist cat who knocked off your numbers bank. Yeah well he didn’t know who’s toes he was stepping on.

Lou: Have you got the merchandise?

Huggy: Yeah, it’s 100 percent intact. He wants to give it all back if all is forgiven. Can you send somebody over for it?

Lou: Not a chance. The money goes back to the candy store and you deliver it.

Huggy: Hey, Lou, I can’t do that. My place is just starting to jump.

Lou: You want the deal, you do it our way.

Huggy: Okay, okay, But it’ll have to be after I close. Yeah, 2:00 in the morning.

Lou: Okay, someone will be waiting. And Huggy?

Huggy: Yeah?

Lou: Now that you have it, it’s your responsibility.

Huggy: Right Lou. Later. (They hang up)

(Cut to the alley behind The Pits, Dewey spots a police woman checking out is car. He runs back inside. He walks to the bar, signaling to Huggy)

Dewey: Hey, Huggy, Huggy. (Huggy comes over) Hey man, the cops are crawling all over my car.

Huggy: Dewey, you don’t have a car.

Dewey: It’s the one I used in the robbery.

Huggy: So they got a make on the car. What’s the sweat? It’s stolen isn’t it? It’s the car you stole to do the job right?

Dewey: No, it’s my girlfriend’s car. She’s gonna kill me for getting her mixed up in this.

Huggy: Well congratulations, you got a girlfriend.

Dewey: This ain’t no time to be jiving, Huggy. What am I gonna do?

Huggy: Look, get to your girl and tell her when the Man asks to say that her car was stolen. The fuzz will buy it. It’s done all the time.

Dewey: Solid. (Walks out)

The alley behind The Pits: Night

(The Torino stops in the alley, Hutch is still driving)

Starsky: Well? What do you think? Ah?

Hutch: It’s all right.

Starsky: All right? Hey this is one quick car. (They both get out)

Hutch: Yeah, it’s fast. There are a lot of fast cars.

Starsky: No, not fast, quick. There’s a difference (They walk around the front to the Torino) with that tuned suspension, that quick motor and the four-fives in the rear end.

Hutch: Starsky, it’s red.

Starsky: (Grabs his keys from Hutch’s hand) Give me those. (Hutch turns around) It’s candy-apple red. (Hutch goes up to a policeman waiting by another car parked in the alley)

Hutch: What you got? (Starsky joins Hutch) This is it. (Starsky goes back to the Torino and reaches in through the window to get the mic)

Starsky: Hello, this is 9W21. Can I have Captain Dobey on a tactical one?

Dobey: (Over the radio) yeah, Starsky.

Starsky: Captain, we found the car. It’s deserted,

Dobey: (In his office) Well it’s a start anyway. And I can clear up the mystery as to why the candy man was anxious to keep us out of it. That store’s a numbers drop for the mob. The gambling squads had it under surveillance for some time.

Starsky: The score was a little more than a couple of candy bars.

Dobey: Right on. Ah, Starsky, I’d sure like to beat the gambling squad out for this one. But don’t get into anything you can’t handle. If you need help, holler.

Starsky: Sure, Cap. (Hangs up the mic)

(Cut to, inside The Pits, Huggy’s playing on the pinball machine. In the back Starsky and Hutch enter and approach him. Starsky comes up behind him and pats his sides down as if he was searching him)

Starsky: How’s it happening, Hug. (He stands beside the machine. Hutch sits on the stairs)

Hutch: Hey, Huggy, there’s a car parked out in your alley.

Huggy: Man, you guys are always breaking my rhythm.

Hutch: A ’73 Ford. You know where the driver is.

Huggy: How should I know?

Starsky: Anybody parks in your alley you know.

Huggy: Any cat can pull a car into my alley and it would stay there until I became aware and I am not aware of a ’73 Ford parked there.

Starsky: Huggy, it was used in a robbery.

Huggy: Not now. (Pause) Oh come on you guys. You know that’s not my bag.

Starsky: Come on Huggy, level with us.

Hutch: You accusing me of a heist?

Hutch: No, nobody’s accusing you of anything. You’re just being a little foolish.

Huggy: I don’t know what you’re talking about.

Starsky: (Starsky kicks the machine) Tilt. Hey, Hug. You want to keep your balance when you play with the guys that own the marbles.

Huggy: Starsky, you know me, both feel planted solidly on the ground.

Hutch: Well Huggy, why don’t you pass the word on that if anybody wants that car, they can find it at the police garage.

Huggy: You got it. (Starsky friendly slaps Huggy’s hand before they both leave)

(Cut to, outside in the alley, Starsky and Hutch walking towards the Torino)

Hutch: Huggy’s holding out.

Starsky: First time.

Hutch: The question is, why?

Starsky: Well, the take was maybe 100,000. For that kind of money, a guy’s brains could go out for lunch.

Hutch: Oh, come on, Starsky, we’re talking about Huggy.

An Apartment: Night

(Drinks on a clear table, soft music playing on a stereo, a black man and woman sit on the couch kissing. The door bell rings. They break the kiss)

Harry: Expecting somebody?

Sarah: Dewey. I told you about Dewey.

Harry: You mind getting rid of him? (He gets up and goes into another room. Sarah straightens out her hair and top before opening the door slightly)

Dewey: I called but your phone was out.

Sarah: I thought you were going to leave the keys to the car in the mailbox. (Dewey forces himself inside and closes the door)

Dewey: The cops got your keys.

Sarah: Oh, you have got to be jiving me.

Dewey: That ain’t half my troubles. (Walks over to the sofa and sits down) That candy store (nervous laugh) it’s a numbers drop for Lou Melinda. When I looked in that paper sack there were no 3, $400, like I expected. (A shot of Harry listening) There was close to $50,000, go it?

Sarah: You call that trouble? (Laughs) I call that a stair way to the stars.

Dewey: (Getting up) I ain’t got it.

Sarah: (Angry) you ain’t got it?

Dewey: Huggy Bear got it. He gonna give it back after he close up tonight.

Sarah: Give it back? Why?

Dewey: Why? So I won’t get snuffed out. Now, what you got to do is, you got to tell the cops the car was stolen. You didn’t know anything about that candy store thing.

Sarah: You had $50,000 in your hands, and you gave it away? (Dewey nods) Dewey, you are the all time loser. How could you be so dumb?

Dewey: Listen it ain’t dumb to wanna stay alive.

(He walks off to the bed room, but Harry comes out, blocking his way. Dewey steps back and looks at Sarah)

Sarah: My cousin, Harry Martin.

Dewey: Woman, you think I’m dumb enough to believe that?

Harry: Sarah, do you think he’s dumb enough to believe that?

Sarah: Yeah, I think he’s dumb enough.

(Harry walks around the room, while Dewey watches and draws the curtains)

Dewey: Wait a minute. Wait a minute.

Sarah: Yeah, a minute, Dewey. That’s all you were good for, a minute. (She clicks her fingers and goes over to the stereo)

Dewey: S-Sarah, you act…you acting crazy.

Harry: S-S-Sarah, you acting crazy.

Sarah: Sarah is crazy. (She turns up the music, which Harry picks up a glass vase and walks towards Dewey)

Harry: And Sarah got herself a new man. A new man.

Sarah: A smart man, Dewey. A smart man. (They come at him from separate angles, forcing him towards the door)

Harry: Not a dumb man. Now, you too dumb to stay alive. (Dewey makes a run for the door, but Harry grabs him and smashes the vase over his head. He drops to the ground, not moving. Harry crouches down to check him, but stands back up when Sarah approaches) Baby, let’s get rid of him, permanently and then we can pick $50,000 of the apple tree nobody even know we’ve been in the orchard.

Sarah: No, and when they come looking who will they go looking for.

Harry: Huggy Bear.

(Cut to Huggy showing some people out of his place)

Huggy: Good night man.

Man: Later

(He closes and locks the door. Walks over to the cash register and unlocks a cupboard underneath it, taking out the brown sack of money. He looks in the sack for a moment, before turning off the last light)

(Cut to the back alley, Huggy emerges, looking left and right before closing the door. As he’s locking it a hand appears and hits him round the head with a hard object. Harry and Sarah take the sack from the unconscious Huggy and casually stroll away)

The alley: night.

(Huggy regains consciousness. He slowly gets up, noticing that the sack is gone. Inside he hears the phone ring. He gets up and unlocks the door. He gets in and answers the phone)

Huggy: Yeah?

Lou: (On the phone) Hey, you’re late?

Huggy: Late?

Lou: Yeah, your joint closes at 2, it’s after 3.

Huggy: Hey, Lou, you’re not gonna believe this, but I was ripped off. (He picks up a cloth and holds it over the back of his neck)

Lou: You’re right, Huggy, I don’t believe it. Now, deliver the money.

Huggy: Whoever mugged me got the money, Lou.

Lou: If that money isn’t in our hands in a half an hour, you’re a dead man. (The phone goes dead. Huggy hangs up)

Sarah’s apartment: Day

(The Torino pulls up outside the building. Starsky and Hutch get out and enter the building)

(Cut to, Sarah lying in bed counting the money. She hears the door bell. She looks over at the clock, it’s 8:30. She puts the money away and hides it under the bed)

Sarah: (Reaching over the bed where Harry lies) Harry. Harry.

Harry: What?

Sarah: There’s somebody at the door. Should I answer it.

Harry: (Grabs a gun and gets out of bed) yeah, answer it.

(Sarah puts on her dress gown and leaves the room, while Harry hides behind the door with the gun and a towel. Sarah opens the door just a crack, it’s Starsky and Hutch)

Starsky: (Showing her his badge through the gap) police, may we come in?

Sarah: Ah…I guess this is about my car? (Starsky nods) Well, I’m kinda late for work, so if you just hand over the keys.

Hutch: We’d love to Miss Kingston, but you’re gonna have to go down to the police garage and fill out a few forms. We’d like to ask you a few questions. Do you mind?

(She sighs and lets them in)

Starsky: We wouldn’t bother you, except your car was used in a robbery. Detective Hutchinson.

Hutch: This is Detective Starsky here.

Sarah: (Closes the door) if we could make it fast.

Hutch: Oh sure. Ah, when did you report your car stolen?

Sarah: About give thirty (Starsky notices a pair of shoes by the couch) after I’d come from work. I bought this book to read in bed, I left it in the car, so I went down to get it and no car. (Pause, a shot of Harry waiting behind the door) Say my car wasn’t smashed or shot up in the robbery was it.

Hutch: Oh, no, no, no, just a dented fender.

Sarah: Oh.

Hutch: When you went downstairs to look for that book did you see anyone suspicious?

Sarah: No. Look, if you don’t mind I got a lot of things to do.

Starsky: Sure. Sorry we had to bother you.

Sarah: Yeah. (She opens the door)

Hutch: Ah, listen, ah (Searches himself for a pen and a piece of paper) if you come up with anything that you want to talk to use about why don’t you give us a call at this number. (Write the number down and hands it to her) Okay?

Sarah: Okay.

Hutch: Thank you. (Hutch leaves first)

Starsky: Nice place. (Leaves)

(Closing the door. She smiles at Harry who just entered the room. She goes up to him)

Sarah: We just got ourselves $50,000. (Kisses him on the neck) Now I say we get ourselves out of town.

Harry: The way we’re gonna make this thing stick baby is to not blow our cool. Especially with those two cats sniffing around here. (He walks over to the window)

Sarah: I don’t know. To me going to New Orleans would be real cool. (Joins him at the window)

Harry: (Watches Starsky and Hutch go back to the Torino) Baby, if you’re gone and the money’s gone it wouldn’t be too hard for the police or Lou Melinda to figure it out. Especially if they find out Dewey had a girlfriend. (Looking at her) Now, you will go back to your job, I’ll go back to my job at that lousy garage and we just stay rooted.

Sarah: (Sighs) for how long?

Harry: Long enough for that Lou Melinda to find that Huggy Bear.

The Pits: Day

(Huggy enters through the back door)

Huggy: Angie? Angie? (Walks into the main bar area and goes behind the bar. He picks up the phone and starts dialing. The back door opens and two heavy set men enter. Huggy hears them and hangs up the phone) Hey fellas, what it is?

Huggy: (Tries running round the bar, but they trap him either side) Lou’s got to give me more time. (He climbs over the bar, but they corner him and cit him on the bar) Hey, Lou’s got to give me some time, Lou’s got to give me some time.

Goon: Lou says your time has run out Huggy Bear. Yeah, man you’re about to have an accident. (Picks up a table) Like…) Throws it over the bar, smashing some bottles and a mirror)

Huggy: Take it easy, Hey, come on you guys, now I got to get insurance.

Goon: (Goes over to the pinball machine) Why’s a dead man need insurance. Hey Sam? (They both grab the machine and throw it on the ground, breaking it)

Huggy: Hey, that’s a concession. Take it easy. (Jumps over the bar and runs through a back door. Jumps on some boxes and jumps out the window. The goons follow, one looks out the window)

Goon: We’ll never catch him now.

(Cut to the Torino coming up the street and stopping outside The Pits. They jump out and head into the bar)

Starsky: Come on, let’s move it. Come on. (They enter and stop dead, taking in the mess. They slowly work over to the bar, Hutch picks up a chair and sits down) Anything, Bill?

Bill: Just a lot of broken furniture. (Coming through the mess) Oh, there’s a window busted out back. (Hutch sits down, Bill leaves)

Starsky: What’s Huggy got himself into?

Hutch: I don’t know. But we better get to him before they do.

Starsky: If he’s got, maybe, over a 100 grand on him then what?

Hutch: We arrest him for robbery.

Bill: Captain Dobey’s on the radio. Wants to talk to one of you guys.

Starsky: I’ll get it (Get up and leaves)

(Outside, Starsky goes through the crowd and takes the microphone)

Starsky: Thanks. (Into the mic) Starsky.

Dobey: (On the mic) You come up with anything?

Starsky: Zero

Dobey: Maybe I got something for you. We got a call anonymous. Party claims to have some information on that numbers drop heist. But he’s only gonna supply it to you or Hutch. There’s a storage drain under the 10^th Street Bridge. If you’re there he says he’ll find you.

Starsky: Got it.

Dobey: Starsky, don’t be cute. If you need help, call for it. (Hutch comes up behind Starsky)

Starsky: Hutch is cute, I’m careful.

Hutch: What does he want? A date?

Starsky: He wants us to check out a snitch in a storm drain.

The 10^th Street Bridge: Day

(The Torino drives under the bridge and comes to a stop by a drain. Hutch gets out his gun and checks the clip. They both get out the car. Hutch walks around to the entrance of the drain, while Starsky walks up the slope and takes position)

Huggy: Starsky! Hutch!

Starsky: Huggy?

Huggy: Yeah (Huggy comes out of the drain, dirty)

Starsky: What are you doing?

Huggy: You guys don’t help me and I’m a dead man.

Hutch’s house: Day

Starsky: Okay, Hug, let’s start at the beginning. (Starsky sits on the table, while Huggy sits on a stool in front, Hutch fiddles around in the back) Who, besides, Dewey knew you had the money.

Huggy: Lou Melinda, Roy Jones who runs the candy store and Dewey’s girl (Hutch hands him a drink) She owns he car Dewey used in the heist.

Starsky: The car parked in your alley? (Huggy nods) Sarah Kingston’s.

Hutch: I didn’t know Dewey had a girl. Maybe we oughta pay Sarah another visit.

Huggy: Man, you overestimate the power of the police. Now Dewey was in on the heist. She’s not gonna talk to you. Maybe she’ll talk to me. Why don’t you let me phone her up?

(Cut to Farnstreet Automotives, Sarah sits in her office and answers the phone)

Sarah: Farnstreet Automotives, Sarah Kingston speaking.

Huggy: Oh, Miss. Kingston, this is Huggy Bear. I’m a friend of Dewey’s.

Sarah: Oh, I’m so glad you called. (Harry comes up to the office, looking through the window) I’m so worried about Dewey.

Huggy: I was hoping you’d tell me where I could find him.

Sarah: I made supper for him at my apartment two nights ago and he left about 9:00 and I haven’t heard from him since.

Huggy: Well, he was with me last night up until about midnight. When he left he said he was going to call you.

Sarah: No, and I’m worried sick about him. He was supposed to have lunch with me today and he never showed up. If you hear from him would you tell him to get in touch with me right away?

Huggy: Right (She hangs up the phone and shares a look with Harry)

Huggy: (Hanging up the phone) She hasn’t heard from in two days. I’ve got to find him man. My time is running out.

Starsky: Yeah, well uh, maybe we can buy you some more time.

Hutch: (Hold up a towel and shirt) Huggy. Towel, clothes, shower. (Dumps the stuff on the table, picks up some stuff and leaves)

Starsky: Lock the door. (Leaves, Huggy locks the door)

The streets: Day

The Torino drives down the street, turning into a car park)

(Cut to Starsky and Hutch enter a room, fancy furniture everywhere and woman stands, write something down in a book. They approach her, Starsky gets out his badge)

Starsky: Excuse me ma’am can you tell me where I can find Mr. Melinda’s office… (Show’s his badge)

Secretary: Through the gym, May I announce you?

Starsky: Ah, we’ll announce ourselves.

Secretary: (She pats Starsky’s chest) Stick it out and suck it in. (Pats his stomach)

Starsky: Same to you, sister. (Leaves)

Hutch: Why don’t you pick on someone your own size?

Secretary: What’s your size?

Hutch: Not when I’m on duty. (Leaves, she turns to pick up the phone)

(Starsky and Hutch walk through a room filled with exercise equipment and men working out on them)

(Cut to Lou Melinda’s office, there’s a knock on the door. One of the goons opens it. A shot of Lou sitting behind his desk. Hutch enters first)

Starsky: Hi Lou.

Lou: Sergeant Starsky, Sergeant Hutchinson.

Hutch: Lou. (They walk over to his desk, the men around pull chairs up to the desk)

Lou: These are my associates, all strong believers in healthy bodies and clean minds.

Starsky: How are there teeth?

Lou: Ha, ha. Would you care for something to drink?

Hutch: Yeah, sure. As long as his is an unofficial visit, why not? (They sit down. They are both handed a glass of orange liquid. Hutch nods and smells it, appearing satisfied he takes a sip)

Lou: Now, what can I do for you gentlemen?

Starsky: (Taking a sniff of his drink) Well let’s not waste any time pretending we don’t know what we’re talking about.

Lou: You’re not drinking your carrot juice.

Starsky: I noticed. What we wanna talk to you about is Huggy Bear.

Lou: Well I don’t know what you have reference to but if I did I’d say that Huggy Bear has run out of time.

Hutch: Well, Lou, let me put it to you this way. (Hold up a loaf of bread) If Huggy Bear stole a loaf of bread, would he be dumb enough to tell the baker?

Lou: Of course this is only hypothetical, but I’d say that the bread has become of secondary importance. What is important from the point of view of the original baker is to make sure that nobody ever gets the idea to knock over a bakery again.

Starsky: Well, you might suggest to the big baker in the sky that one of his own stooges found the size of the loaf to big to resist temptation.

Hutch: Like Roy Jones.

Lou: I don’t know him.

Hutch: What about one of your clean minds here?

Lou: Everybody in this end of town is too smart to go that route.

Starsky: (Getting up to lean over the desk) Okay Lou. What we suggest is that you forget about the bread. Concentrate on the carrot juice. (Offering Hutch the glass) You want this?

Hutch: Yeah. (Drinks)

Lou: This has been a very stimulating conversation, gentlemen, but if you’ll excuse us we have to get back to the business of making beautiful bodies out of blubber.

Hutch: (Finishes the juice) are you ready to walk the gauntlet of beautiful bodies again, Starsk?

Starsky: I don’t know if I can stand it. See ya, Lou.

Lou: Yeah, (They walk round to the door and leave)

The Torino: Day

(The Torino drives down the road, Hutch is making notes on his pad)

Starsky: Did you see the size of those muscles?

Hutch: Yeah

Starsky: Boy I’d hate to tangle with one of those guys.

Hutch: You know, Starsky, you just said the magic word.

Starsky: What’s that?

Hutch: “Muscle” Too much muscle. Bulk. Those guys are probably on the Big D anyway.

Starsky: The Big D?

Hutch: Yeah, it’s a drug that promotes the rapid growth of muscle tissue.

Starsky: Oh.

Hutch: Me, I take a lot of vitamin E and wheat germ. Endurance, agility, that’s what’s important.

Starsky: You mean, “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee”

Hutch: Yeah, exactly.

Starsky: You kidding? One of those guys connects with you just once… (Phrft noise)

Hutch: Let me tell you something, these guys are so muscle-bound they can’t even clap their hands let alone take a swing at you. If you ever get in a scrap with one of them, what you gotta do it lay back. Jab, shadowbox, until they tire, then bap.

Starsky: Bap?

Hutch: Yep. These guys are like statues in a park. They stand around and collect pigeons.

(A shot of the Torino driving down the street, another car straight behind them. A shot of the two goons from The Pits driving)

(Cut back to the Torino)

Hutch: You know what I mean?

Starsky: Yeah, pigeons. (A shot of the mirror of the car behind) How about that?

Hutch: What?

Starsky: We got us a tail.

Hutch: What do you think?

Starsky: I think we better pray for pigeons.

(The Torino carries on down the street, then takes a hard left down a street and then another hard left down another street. The second car follows, turning left, but doesn’t take the second left. A shot of the goons behind the wheel)

Sam: Where did they go?

Goon: How should I know?

(A shot of the Torino coming out of a side street behind the goon’s car)

Sam: Hey, they’re tailing us.

Goon: Let’s get out of here.

(The goons car takes a right up a slope that leads to a public car park, only they go in the exit only way and the Torino stays on their tail. Both cars stop in the car park. The goons get out as does Starsky and Hutch. Sam takes a swing at Starsky, he ducks and punches in the side. Sam swings again, but Starsky ducks and punches him. Sam claps his hands, but Starsky ducks and kicks him in the ankle, the right, and then left.

Hutch still tangles with his goon, who throws him against a metal fence, holding up off the ground)

Starsky: Hey, throw some agility on him, Hutch. (Hutch hits the goon either side of his neck and he lets him down) Thattaboy. (Hutch throws the goon against the fence and hits him) Boom, you got him.

(Hutch hits him a few more times and then throws him onto the hood of the goon’s car)

Starsky: All right you. (Starsky picks up Sam and throws him against the car)

Hutch: (Angry) all right, now, you want to tell us why you were tailing us?

Goon: (Hutch pulls his head up by his hair) Lou…Lou wanted to know where Huggy Bear is and he thought you could lead us to him.

Sam: We were only going to bring him to Lou. Nobody’s going to lean on him.

Starsky: Well, you tell Lou, that if Huggy Bear is in an accident, like slipping on a banana peel or falling from a roof, or getting hit by a car, he’s gonna think it’s so hot, he’s been fried.

Hutch: And that’s nothing official. (They let the goon’s up and push them towards their car)

Starsky: On you go. (They wait and watch the car until it pulls away, they turn to each other)

Hutch: You enjoy the fight?

Starsky: Well, you said they were muscle bound, nothing to worry about.

Hutch: Yeah, well it was getting pretty hairy in there.

Starsky: Well, if he’d knocked you down one more time, I would’ve come in.

Hutch: One more time? What have I got a quota?

Starsky: Pride, I know that pride of yours.

Hutch: Next time a guy three inches bigger than me and 30 pounds heavier comes at me, you can forget my pride.

Starsky: “Makeesmo” means nothing to you?

Hutch: It’s Machismo.

Starsky: “Machismo” means nothing to you anymore?

Hutch: You can stuff it.

Hutch’s house: Day.

(The Torino stops outside the house)

(Cut to inside, Huggy’s on the phone wear a white, unbuttoned shirt, pacing the floor)

Huggy: I been calling you all day, man and now I need help and you can’t help me. Thanks man. (Stops by the table and hangs up. He hears the door moving and runs to it, opening it for Starsky and Hutch)

Hutch: Huggy.

Huggy: Did you get me off the hook wit Lou Melinda?

Starsky: Not exactly. (Huggy follows Starsky to the bathroom door where Hutch has just popped into)

Huggy: All you had to do was buy me some time and I’ll get the money back to him.

Hutch: Huggy the money isn’t the issue anymore. (Comes out with the towel, rubbing it along his next) Lou Melinda wants the community to know that knocking off a numbers drop is not healthy.

Huggy: Which means “Kill Huggy Bear” (He walks over to the sofa)

Hutch: Not if we can prove that you were mugged and collar the guy who did it. (Huggy sits on the sofa, Hutch sits on the table, and Starsky sits on a box)

Starsky: Which brings us to Dewey; you got to give us a line into Dewey.

Huggy: I’ve been trying all day. Nobody wants to talk to me. They’re scared.

(The phone rings, Hutch answers it)

Hutch: Yeah.

(A shot of Dobey at his desk)

Dobey: Got a body on High Bridge near Crestline. Fits the description you circulated of Dewey Hughes. You better get up there.

Hutch: (Back at the house) Yes, sir. They think they found Dewey…dead.

Huggy: If Dewey’s dead then Lou Melinda did it.

Starsky: No, if Lou killed him, why would he be after you.

Huggy: Yeah, which means if Dewey’s dead I got nowhere to go.

Farnstreet Automotives: Day

(A shot of Harry working underneath a car)

(Cut to Sarah talking on the phone in the office)

Sarah: Tenth and Cranston. Yes, I’ll be there. (Hangs up the phone, looks worried. She goes over the window and knocks on it to get Harry’s attention. She points to the right)

Sarah: (Mouths) coffee machine.

(Harry gets up and walks over to the coffee machine and puts money in it. Sarah appears beside him)

Sarah: They want me at the morgue at 6:00. They say they found Dewey. Oh, Harry what are we gonna do?

Harry: What you’re gonna do is be at the morgue at 6:00.

Sarah: But you said they’d never find Dewey.

Harry: Maybe it ain’t Dewey. Maybe it’s some other dude. Maybe the meat wagons’ on the other end of town. Maybe they don’t know where he is yet.

Sarah: But we know where he is. Maybe you should go and see if he’s still there. (Harry pauses before walking past her)

(Cut to High Bridge. A coroner’s wagon sits with a few people around it, down the slope a group of men check out the body)

Coroner: Time of death was sometime between midnight and 2 a.m. Cause of death, severe blows to the head with a blunt instrument. Pockets are turned inside out. Looks like a plain case of mugging. (A shot of h police and coroners places the body in the wagon)

(Harry stand by a post watching surveying the area. A shot back to Starsky and Hutch)

Coroner: You need anything you know where to find me. (Walks off)

(They walk down the slope; Starsky spots something and climbs up into some bushes)

Starsky: You know just because it looks like a mugging doesn’t mean it has to be. He could have had the 50 grand. In that case, whoever killed Dewey’s got the money.

(A shot of two police cars pulling away. Harry’s car is parked behind the Torino. He pretends to start the engine until the police cars are gone. He gets out, goes to the back of his car and takes out a pair of pliers. He goes over to the Torino and cut the break lines)

(Cut to Starsky still digging by the bushes while Hutch just sits)

Starsky: You here for the view?

Hutch: Something just doesn’t add up.

Starsky: Yeah, well, when you get to it, let me know. (He pulls something out and stubbles down next to Hutch)

Hutch: Did you come up with something? (Starsky shows him the divers wet suit he just found. They walk away, Starsky throws the suit away)

(Cut to Harry still cutting the breaks. He finishes and gets back in his car and drives away)

(Cut to Starsky and Hutch coming up the slope and approaching their car)

Starsky: Maybe Lou Melinda knocked off Dewey. Maybe he’s making a big show of going after Huggy to send us up a blind alley. Hey, what do you say we pay Lou another visit? Maybe we can bluff him into a false move.

Hutch: (They stop by the Torino) I doubt it.

Starsky: Okay, you got a better suggestion?

Hutch: Not yet, but I’m working on it. (They get in the car and drive away, leaving a puddle of oil)

(Cut to the Torino driving down a steep hill)

(Cut to them in the car)

Starsky: You come up with something?

Hutch: (Takes off his sunglasses) Maybe it I can just zero in on a … (yells) watch it.

(Starsky swerves to miss the car in front, he tries the break, but it ain’t working)

Hutch: Starsky, we’re picking up speed.

Starsky: You ought to be a detective.

Hutch: Hit the brake.

Starsky: What the Hell do you think I’m trying to do?

Hutch: Well, hit the parking brake.

Starsky: It won’t hold.

Hutch: Well jam it into low, do something. Slow it down.

Starsky: What do want me to do? Drag my feet? Throw out an anchor?

Hutch: Yeah, yeah, do it if it works.

Starsky: Look, I think you better jump.

Hutch: Don’t be funny.

Starsky: Look, jump. You’ll be killed.

Hutch: You jump.

Starsky: I’m driving, you jump.

Hutch: I’ll drive, you jump.

(Shot so the car barreling down the hill, swerving cars as it goes, shot of Starsky inside trying to control it)

Hutch: Watch it.

(The barrel down the hill and turns right up a slight hill, still going to fast. They finally come to a stop when the car slams sideways at the bottom of an deserted intersection. A shot of inside the car, both stunned, Hutch lets out a deep sigh. He takes the cherry off the roof and just stares at until something occurs to him)

Hutch: Sarah Kingston.

Starsky: We were just nearly killed and you’re thinking girls.

Hutch: No, no, no. She said she was in love with Dewey. (Starsky gets out of the car and comes round to the front. Hutch follows) and at 9:00 in the morning there was somebody else in her apartment. Now, if Dewey was dead, that somebody had to be another man. (Starsky opens the bonnet and has a look in side, but slams it shut)

Starsky: Nothing. (He goes round to the side of the car, Hutch follows)

Hutch: Also, Starsk, also if Sarah hadn’t seen Dewey or heard from him how was she to know to have reported her car stolen? (Starsky checks under, behind the front wheel, but looks up) Dewey told her. That’s how she knew. (Follows Starsky to behind the back wheel) Hey, watch it Starsky. This thing doesn’t have any brakes.

Starsky: It’s in gear, dummy. (Checks under behind the back wheel) They cut the brake lines.

Hutch: That’s it. (Starsky sits up against the Torino) Starsky, all that Sarah and whoever the guy is who cut these brake lines had to do was to knock off Dewey, get rid of Huggy for a while and they’d be sitting pretty on $50,000 and nobody would know.

Starsky: And they got the perfect guy to take the fall. Huggy.

Hutch: Yeah.

Starsky: Let’s fix these brake lines and go visit Sarah.

Sarah’s Apartment: Day

(Harry lies on the couch smoking while Sarah dances, they both sing to the music)

Sarah: Rio

Harry: Rio

Sarah: That’s the place for us.

Harry: Rio

Sarah: (Walks over to the window) Ah, Rio (Looks out. A shot of Starsky and Hutch getting out of the Torino) Those cops, they’re here. I thought you said you were gonna take care of them. (Harry rushes to the window to look out) I thought you said you got rid of them.

Harry: That’s the way it was supposed to be. (He grabs his coat, while Sarah opens a little cupboard and takes out the sack of money. Harry grabs the bag) Hey, I’ll take that. (He goes over to the window, she follows)

Sarah: Okay, let’s get out of here.

Harry: No, baby you stay here and stall them, (He opens the window) and I’ll tell you where I end up.

Sarah: No (She grabs the bag from him, he grabs it and it rips open, money going everywhere. Harry picks up as much of the money as he can hold. There’s a knock on the door)

Starsky: Miss Kingston?

Hutch: Miss Kingston, open up. Police.

Harry: (Going back to the window, while Sarah sobs) I didn’t mean to shove you around, I’d like to take you with me, but you’d slow me down. (He climbs out the window on to the stairs right when Starsky and Hutch break down the door. They enter weapons drawn, to see Sarah still sobbing)

Sarah: Stop. Get him, get him. (Starsky and Hutch move to the window, Starky looks out and spots Harry climbing to the roof)

Starsky: Hold it. (Harry takes a shot at Starsky and carries on climbing, Starsky and Hutch follow him up to the roof. Harry gets there first, takes cover and fires when Starsky’s head appears. Starsky ducks, then fires back. Harry runs further back and hides behind a little wall. Starsky moves further, taking cover, then Hutch joins him. They exchange fire until Starsky and Hutch move closer, taking cover behind a little building on the roof. More shots are fired until Harry runs off. Starsky sees he’s gone and follows.

Harry climbs up some stairs onto the roof of the little building. Starsky follows him up the stairs while Hutch climbs up to the roof a different way. Harry jumps over a rail and Hutch takes a shot at him, hitting him in the leg, making him fall off the roof. Starsky keeps his gun on him, while Hutch jumps down to arrest him. Starsky throws down his handcuffs. Hutch handcuffs Harry and looks up at Starsky)

Lou’s gym: Day.

(Huggy walks through the gym where men are working out. He walks straight into Lou’s office without knocking. Lou sits behind his desk, his goons scattered around the room)

Huggy: Hey, Lou.

Lou: Hi, Huggy.

Huggy: I hear you’re looking for me.

Lou: As a matter of fact I am. Have you got that 50,000? I need it to balance my books.

(Huggy opens the door to Hutch how’s ear was pressed against the door and Starsky who’s just leaning)

Huggy: Gentlemen. The man behind the desk has a question to ask. Something about $50,000.

Hutch: Yeah, Starsky I guess we did have a conversation about money, didn’t we? (Hutch goes behind the little bar)

Starsky: (Takes a seat at Lou’s desk and puts his feet up) Yeah, I remember. It took place right in this office, over a glass of orange juice.

Hutch: Carrot juice. (Checks out under the bar0

Lou: That conversation was strictly hypothetical. I made no specific claims.

Hutch: (Finds the juice and picks up a glass) Well, if you somebody who wants to make a specific claim you can do so down at police headquarters. (Pours himself a glass)

Lou: I have no interest in that 50,000 and I know of no one who does.

Starsky: I hear you’re planning on relocating your business, Lou.

Lou: I have no such plans.

Hutch: Make plans. (A goon appears beside him) I hear the East Coast is in dire need of beautiful bodies.

Lou: Well, maybe Florida. I hear it’s pretty warm.

Starsky: Yeah, they got temperature down there. Here we got heat. (Throws Lou an apple)

Lou: Thanks for the suggestions.

Hutch: (Drinks al his juice, to the goon) I know how you can cure that.

Goon: How’s that?

Hutch: Less silicone. (Places the cup in the goon’s hand. Heads to the door)

Starsky: (To Sam) Boo. (To Huggy) Come on Hero, we’ll drop you off. (They stand outside the office)

Huggy: No, thanks, Starsky, I want to enjoy that light, airy, walking-on-the-pavement feeling again. (Hutch shoves a loaf of bread in his stomach and they both grab an arm and lift him up)

End

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