[eerie music]
[80's synthesizer music plays]
[21 Jump Street Theme]
♪ We never thought we'd find a place where we belong
♪ Don't have to stand alone, we'll never let you fall
♪ Don't need permission to decide what you believe, whoa
♪ I said jump, down on Jump Street
♪ Your friends will be there when your back is to the wall
♪ You'll find you'll need us
♪ cause there's no one else to call
♪ When it was hopeless a decision's what you need
♪ You better be ready to, be ready to
♪ Jump, 21 Jump Street
[phone rings]
- Hello.
- [Tom] Can you talk?
- Yeah, sure. [whispering]
How you been, man?
- [Tom] I can't come in.
- Well, you gotta come in.
You gotta talk to the captain.
- [Tom] I can't.
- Penhall, we're up.
- Yeah, I'll be right there.
Listen man, you've gotta come in.
Hello?
- The witness made a positive ID.
- How can they be sure, it was dark?
- They also found Hanson's Mustang parked on the street.
- Well, that doesn't prove anything captain,
He was on an investigation.
- Besides, we're talking about Hanson here.
- So?
- So Hanson wouldn't even cheat on his time clock.
- He broke into my apartment.
- Oh, right.
You must be loving this huh?
- What is that supposed to mean, huh?
It means you have been dying for the chance
to run this guy up a rail.
- Look, I don't like this any more than you guys,
but he ran himself up a rail.
- You're judging him without the facts fella.
- Hey.
The facts are, we have a murdered police officer.
Hanson in Tower's house with out a warrant.
And we have an eyewitness
who saw him running from the crime scene.
- This is nuts.
Hanson would not shoot anybody unless he had no choice.
Especially, not a police officer.
- Then why isn't he here.
- He must have a good reason.
- Then he should be here telling us about it.
- Have you heard from him?
- No.
You were just defending him two seconds ago.
- Well how am I gonna defend him?
He shot a cop and ran.
- You don't know that.
- I know that if he didn't kill Tower,
he'd be here right now.
- Hanson was trying to put together evidence
against Tower for setting up Harry.
- Penhall, we don't know that Tower
gave the order to get Harry.
- Hanson knew Tower was dealing guns.
He had an eyewitness telling him that Tower ordered the hit.
- If he had that information, why didn't he come to me?
I would have given him everything
he needed to get a search warrant.
- What are you trying to say Captain?
What, Hanson went over there to kill the guy?
Is that it?
- I don't know.
Hanson's a cop, he knows the law.
If he's innocent, he should be here.
- You okay?
- I don't know.
I lost a friend in the department,
it's gonna take some time, but I'll be okay.
- Yeah, the shrink think so too.
- You talked to him about me?
[sighs]
- Okay, you gotta problem with me,
or you think I'm slipping up on the job or something,
you talk to me about it.
- Look Frank, I talked to him 'cause I want you on the case.
I just wanted to make sure
you are strong enough to handle it, alright?
- I'm sorry.
- You were the first officer on the scene,
you know the case.
If it was my partner --
- I'm telling ya, it's killing me sitting at that desk.
- You gonna have to cooperate with Homicide.
- No problem.
- You got any leads on this guy?
- Yeah, I've got some ideas where to look.
- Alright, you check on anybody this Hanson
might have contacted.
Trace back to the case he was working on.
- Alright.
- And your partner's in the bullpen.
- Terrific.
Dennis Booker?
- You Ferrell?
- Frank.
- How's it going Frank.
- So, so.
- Listen, I'm really sorry about your partner,
my condolences.
- Yeah? Thanks.
- So, what do you say we do something about it, huh?
- Where are you from?
- I was working homicide over in Sedgewick.
- No, no, no, no, I mean where are you really from?
- New York.
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
- Me too.
- Yeah, what street?
- Why didn't you put me in with Farrell?
- You tell me.
- Because, I'm Hanson's partner and best friend.
- Bingo.
- Well that's a load of crap, Captain.
You don't think I'm a good enough cop,
I can put my emotions aside?
- And you don't think anyone cares about Hanson except you.
- I don't see anybody else backing him.
- Hey, I had to pull a hell of a lot of strings
just to get one of our guys onto this case.
- Well a lot of good that does Hanson.
- Dirty cop's partner probably dirty himself.
Teamed with the one guy
here at Jump Street who hates Hanson.
- Booker is there so Hanson won't be railroaded
or maybe even shot by an overzealous partner.
- Booker is the wrong guy for this case.
He's not going to try to prove Hanson's innocence.
- Exactly.
[somber music plays]
Look, Doug.
I wanna believe that Hanson is innocent as badly as you do.
But because, I'm a good cop, as you are Pehnall,
I look at the facts, and truthfully I have my doubts,
as I know you do.
Only I admit mine.
To send you out there looking for Hanson's innocence
instead of the truth,
it's not what we do.
- What am I supposed to do?
Just stand around doing nothing?
- That's right.
And if he tries to contact you and you don't tell me,
your badge is gonna be in the trash along side his.
- So you haven't spoken to him at all?
- No, I haven't.
- [Dennis] When did you see him last?
- Two days before the incident.
Officer.
- Does he have any place he might go
that nobody else knows about?
- If he did, then I wouldn't know about it, would I?
Officer.
- Hey, smart-ass, cut the "officer" crap.
You toss the word around like it doesn't mean too much.
- Not to your buddy anyway.
- Or to a cop killer.
Huh?
- Get off of me.
- Argh.
- I find out you've been hiding him,
I'll be on you so fast your head will spin.
- Whatever you say big man.
[door slams]
- Great technique.
Where'd you go to, Morton Downey interrogation school.
[slams desk]
Would you take it easy.
Penhall is a cop too.
- Look, guys like that, they come on the force,
they don't know what it means.
Partner means life.
You don't take a stand
when your brother gets killed,
you're nothing.
- Frank, I'm after this guy too.
- Right, you're a good partner Dennis.
[life support beeping]
- Hey.
- How is he?
- He still hasn't regained consciousness.
- Hey.
- Doug, you haven't heard from him have you?
- Nope.
- Doug.
- I don't know where he is.
[crickets chirping]
[papers rustling]
- Hanson, you were here.
You were here.
Come on buddy. [whispering]
[subdued synthesizer music]
- Oh, God.
There's a lot of guys looking for you.
- Yeah, I know.
I shot him Doug.
I was trying to fire a warning shot and
somehow I hit him.
- I can't believe it.
- The guy was filthy.
He's selling automatic weapons,
and God knows what else to half the barrio.
- Don't take this the wrong way,
but do you think that after what happened to Harry --
- What that I went too far, that I was out for revenge?
How is Harry?
- Doctor says he might not make it.
Do you need anything?
You need money?
Here, take it.
You'd do the same for me.
- Listen, I couldn't find
any guns in this guys house.
But, I found this list that was in a lock box
inside his desk.
I don't know what the hell it means.
- Well, I'll check it out.
- I'm gonna take this copy to Psycho,
see if he knows anything about it.
- Just be careful.
- Listen, you gotta check out everything on this guy.
Bank accounts, personal files.
- I'll do whatever it takes.
- Thanks.
Thanks.
- [Psycho] Hey, Calavaro.
- ¿Qué pasa?
- War's on, homes, we're going after those fools.
I heard things about you.
- What'd you hear?
- Someone wasted my connection, the bud man.
- I'm your connection now.
- Yeah?
You the kind of connection
that gives a discount to his home boys?
- Es mi barrio ese.
Look, I got this list.
We can make some money with these people.
- Homes.
We ain't gonna do no business with these people.
This family moved out about a month ago.
And this vato just had his home repossessed.
This ain't nothin' man.
[upbeat synthesizer music]
[keyboard clacking]
- I have a delivery next door for the Brooks's.
- They don't live there no more.
- Are you sure?
- Yeah, they moved out about a month ago man.
- They pulled the rest the slugs
from the walls outside buddy's house.
- Get anything interesting?
- Yeah.
Three guns.
- Three?
- Uh huh.
Hanson's, Buddy's, and someone else.
- There's a Gangster's Lord's fire-fight
going down right now.
- How many dead?
- I don't know, but happening at the Fifth Street underpass.
Get going, let's go.
[subdued synthesizer music]
- [Frank] Looks like a damn battlefield.
Hey, Booker.
- Yeah.
- dammit.
[siren wails]
- Ahh man, what a waste.
- Hey Frank, I just got the report from ballistics.
You're not gonna believe this.
- Psycho was there.
- His gun matches the bullets they found in the wall.
- What about the bullets that killed buddy?
- They came from a different gun.
Hanson's gun?
- [Doug] Psycho's dead.
- I know.
- Ballistics ID'd the bullets from Psycho's gun.
They matched the bullet that they
found in the exterior wall of Bud Tower's house.
- Psycho was there?
- Yeah.
But listen, the bullet in the wall does not match
the bullet that killed Bud Tower.
It just points the finger harder at you.
- No, no wait a minute.
That means Psycho killed him.
Picked up my gun where I dropped it.
All we gotta do is find the other gun.
- If you find the gun,
they'll just think you planted it.
- Did forensics test the other gang member's weapons?
- Only Psycho's was matched.
Look, I'll search for the other gun.
Where you you think he might have stashed it?
[somber music]
- Give me a pack of Marlb...
A pack of gum.
What're you doing out here man?
It's freezing.
- Old habit.
- What you mean?
- Never wait alone in a parked car at night,
you're a sittin' duck.
- Yeah, right.
- No, I'll drive.
- [Dennis] That's pornographic.
- What?
- I've never seen anyone enjoy a cigarette so much.
[laughs]
[scoffs]
- I don't know.
I mean, I know it's gonna kill me, but what the hell.
One of those gang-bangers is probably gonna kill me first.
- You're right to quit.
You want one?
- Come on man, what're you trying to do?
- [laughs] You're right, you're right, I'm sorry.
Sorry.
So what was your partner like?
- Who Buddy?
- [Dennis] Yeah.
- He was a character.
You know, liked to play the big shot,
order everybody a round of drinks.
- He was a good partner huh?
- Yeah, he was alright.
A lot of fun to be around.
- You're a better cop.
- Yeah.
Buddy was lazy.
I don't know, I guess his heart wasn't in it anymore.
We just had different styles of doing police work.
There he is.
- Did Psycho ever talk about Buddy?
You ever see him with Buddy?
- Spend a lot of time in the neighborhood with Buddy,
you've seen me, I've seen you.
So come on, let's talk.
- Tsk
- Did Psycho and Calavero ever talk about
going over to Buddy's place?
- I bet you know a little trick we pull.
When a home-boy jerks us around.
When we take a Gangster and mistakenly
put him in a cell full of Lords.
You know that trick?
- What do you want me to say?
- I want to know about Psycho and Calavaro.
They plan a hit on Buddy?
- Hey man, I don't know nothin' 'bout no hit.
Psycho and Calavero were always talkin'.
Hell, man, they was just jawin' it up
just a couple days ago.
- You saw Calavero?
- Yeah, he's Psycho's dog.
- Hey, Penhall, I'm gonna go see Harry at the hospital,
you wanna come?
What is it?
- You tell me.
- Look, you think I wanna be doing this?
- I don't care if you "want" to be doing this or not.
You turned on one of your own.
What you want me to do?
Pat you on the back?
Hanson is my best friend.
- And your best friend killed a cop.
- That cop was dirty.
You know it.
- Dammit, it doesn't matter if he was dirty or clean.
Hanson was out for revenge and he killed the guy.
- If he wanted to kill that guy,
he would have dropped him in the house.
- Not fire a warning shot then dive out the window.
- If Hanson fired a shot in the house,
how come forensics didn't find a bullet?
- They missed it.
- Yeah that's possible.
- It's happened before.
- But forensics works extra hard
when it's one of their own, you know.
- Your partner killed a cop.
And it doesn't matter if the cop was dirty.
'Cause Hanson's dirtier.
- Can't find that gun.
- He probably dumped it.
- Yeah, yeah, he probably dumped it.
- What is it?
- Keep turning up blanks.
That other gun, that list.
- What are you saying?
- When I saw Harry laid up in that bed
with the hoses in his nose, and the machines,
I wanted to kill the guy who did that to him.
- I didn't kill him.
- Couple of days ago, you said you did.
- Couple of days ago I didn't know Psycho was there.
- You fired a warning shot in the house?
- Yes.
- Nobody can find that bullet.
- Well then they missed it.
Because I was in that house alone with him.
- Now if I can find that bullet,
I can prove that Psycho was waitin' outside,
and that he shot Tower.
- You can't go back to that house.
- Well, it's all I got.
- Then I'll go, 'cause if you get caught there ...
- I wanna get caught.
After I find the bullet, I want you to come and bust me.
- What are you talking about?
- I want to make sure you're cleared as my accomplice.
You tell Fuller you talked to me, he'll arrange it.
- No, I'm not doing that, and neither are you.
- Doug, I'm going back there.
Now I'm asking you to be the one to come and arrest me.
[subdued synthesizer music]
- [Frank] Somebody's here.
- Hanson!
Stop!
[gunshot]
- I combed that house from top to bottom.
I can't find that bullet.
- Yeah.
I did everything wrong.
One thing after another, I let my life go down the tubes.
- You didn't murder that guy.
I wouldn't have done anything differently.
- You would have never blown a case like this.
- Have you seen your lawyer yet?
- No. Later.
- Well don't worry about that,
you know the union, they'll get you a good guy.
- Yeah.
- You know, [sighs]
if the prosecution asks me if you admitted to,
shooting Buddy,
I can't perjure myself.
- I would never ask you to. [laughs]
- How're you doing?
I'm Stuart Tenzer.
How're you doing?
- I've been better.
- Let me get to the good stuff.
Hanson, DA's gonna be hard-pressed to show causation.
She doesn't have a murder weapon, alright.
So what we're gonna do is lay back,
let her make her case,
and then I'm gonna move for dismissal
based on the weakness of this evidence.
And her inability to show
that you actually caused that murder.
- What if you don't get a dismissal?
- Then we're gonna get self-defense.
- Look, I don't need fantasies, alright.
I was burglar, I gave up my rights.
- You put yourself in a precarious situation.
That doesn't mean you forfeited your rights.
Everyone had rights, even burglars.
- [Bailiff] All rise.
The honorable Judge Warren Briggs presiding.
Be seated.
- Are you prepared with your opening statement?
- We are, your honor.
- You may proceed.
- Ladies and gentlemen, this is a simple
straight-forward murder case.
I'm not gonna spend a lot of time
trying to make something very simple seem very complex.
I'll leave that to the defense attorney.
In short, the people will prove that this defendant,
Thomas Hansen, intentionally, unlawfully,
without justification, caused the death
of another human being.
What his motives may have been is not our concern.
We're going to prove that he went to the house
of his brother officer, Bud Tower.
That he broke into that house.
That he was surprised in the act by officer Tower,
and that he then shot and killed him.
And that then, despite knowing he was wanted by the police,
he went into hiding,
showing that he was conscience of his guilt.
- The bullet taken from officer Tower's body
does not match up with the bullets
found in the wall of Mr. Tower's home.
- So it is your expert opinion
that there were two guns fired at Mr. Tower?
- Yes, ma'am.
- And in your expert opinion,
could the fatal bullet have come
from the gun found on the body of Ray Sanchez,
also known as Psycho?
- That's correct.
- Thank you Mr. Morris.
- Officer Farrell, you were the first officer on the scene.
How many shots did you hear that evening?
- Well, it's hard to remember,
I would guess around seen or eight.
- Officer Farrell, would you describe to the court
how you came upon the scene.
- I was sitting in the car waiting for Buddy
when I heard a barrage of gunfire.
I jumped out, ran to the house,
and then it seemed that the noise
was coming behind the house.
I ran back around and found Buddy
lying on the grass behind his house.
- Did you see officer Hanson fleeing the scene?
- No ma'am.
- Thank you officer Farrell.
Your witness.
- Your honor, the defense waives the right to cross-examine,
however, we would like to make a motion
outside of the presence of the jury.
- What is the basis of your motion?
- Your honor, this case should not go before a jury.
There is no showing beyond a reasonable doubt
what bullet actually killed officer Bud Tower.
We could guess that there was only two guns.
But guessing and the process of elimination,
that's sheer speculation
on the part of the District Attorney.
And speculation is not proof.
- The counsel makes a very good point.
This is not the greatest case
I've ever heard on the issue of causation.
But nevertheless, it is the Court's feeling
that it is not up to the Court to decide
whether the case was proved beyond a reasonable doubt.
But only whether a jury can find
that it was proved beyond a reasonable doubt.
Motion is denied.
- Mr. Morris, your forensics team said that it
discovered bullets from three different guns
at the scene of the crime.
One from Mr. Bud Tower's gun.
One from the gun of Mr. Ray Sanchez, also known as Psycho.
And one bullet form the alleged missing gun.
Is that correct?
- That's correct.
- Okay.
Now officer Hanson here,
claims that he fired a warning shot
when he entered the house.
Were you able to retrieve that bullet?
- No we were not.
- Uh huh.
Did you try?
- Of course.
- Is there a possibility that
you could have missed the bullet?
- There's always a possibility.
A bullet can land anywhere.
- Oh, come on, it's a little bit more
than just a possibility isn't it?
In fact, you've had cases where your bullets
haven't shown up for weeks, sometimes months,
after the forensics team left.
Haven't you?
- It's happened.
- Objection, your honor.
We're getting beyond expertise
into sheer speculation at this point.
- [Judge] Sustained.
- That's all your honor.
Your honor, the defense's next witness,
Officer Doug Penhall, has been called away
in the line of duty.
Therefore, we'd like to call him out of order
after we hear the defendant Tom Hanson's testimony.
- Officer Hanson, would you tell the jury
what you were doing in the house of the deceased?
- I had evidence that the deceased
was engaged in selling guns illegally to minors.
- You saw him engage in this activity?
- Yes, I did.
On a number of occasions.
- What did you think you would find in the house?
- I thought the deceased was storing guns there,
and wanted to be able to show hard evidence.
- [Stuart] Now when officer Tower returned to his house
what did you do?
- [Tom] Identified myself as a police officer.
- [Stuart] And what did he do?
- He started shooting at me.
And when he wouldn't stop, I fired a warning shot.
And then I got out of there as fast as I could.
- Thank you Officer Hanson.
Your witness Miss Sullivan.
- Officer Hanson.
If you saw Officer Tower running guns,
why didn't you just place him under arrest?
- I wanted to collect more evidence.
- If you wanted to collect more evidence,
why didn't you get a search warrant?
- I didn't --
- You didn't think you could get one?
- I didn't have time to get a warrant.
- You were trained at the academy,
you've been on the force for three years,
you knew you could get a telephonic warrant
within 10 minutes.
You were in that house illegally, weren't you?
- [Stuart] Objection your honor,
the term "illegally" calls for --
- I will rephrase the question, counsel.
You knew you were doing something illegal, didn't you?
- Yes.
- And the name for what you were
doing wrong is burglary, isn't it?
- Objection!
- Your honor, the man is an expert,
he knows what a burglary is.
- You may answer the question Officer Hanson.
- Technically, yes.
- Technically.
- You were going to burglarize that house
and when Officer Tower came home
and caught you in an act that could ruin your career,
you aimed your gun --
- That's not true!
- And you killed him.
- [DA] No more questions.
- Your honor, the man was selling guns --
- Officer Hanson please step down.
- If Penhall testifies
that you confessed to the killing,
we're dead.
- Maybe we shouldn't use him.
- It's all we got.
- You do so solemnly swear,
that the testimony you're about to give
in the case now before this court,
shall be the truth, the whole truth,
and nothing but the truth, so help you God.
- Yes.
- [Judge] Be seated in the witness box.
- Officer Penhall.
You were developing an investigation into gang violence
with Officer Tom Hanson, is that correct?
- [Doug] Yes.
- And did officer Hanson tell you what was on his mind?
Did he discuss the problems of the investigation with you?
- Yes, he suspected Officer Tower,
of illegally --
- Objection your honor.
This calls for conclusion on the part of the witness.
- He's an expert, your honor.
- Yes, but in this case it's rank hearsay your honor.
- That's a good point Miss Sullivan.
Objection sustained.
- Would the DA allow that Officer Penhall
is an expert in police procedure
in the use of deadly physical force.
- Yes, your honor.
Officer Penhall, you just heard of a situation described
in which Officer Hanson had to fire his weapon
on the night of this incident.
Do you believe that he operated
to the confirmations of basic police procedure
in the use of deadly physical force.
- Those regulations are there to protect the public
as well as the officer.
They say that if someone fires at you,
you can fire at them.
That's what I wold do.
- How well did you know officer Tom Hanson?
- Very well.
- When you say very well,
would you describe that relation for us?
- For a period of three years,
I spent the better part of every day with him.
I saw him in situations
where ordinary people would be tempted to lie.
- And would he ever lie in those situations.
- No, he would never lie.
Thank you Officer Penhall.
- Your witness Miss Sullivan.
- Let's take your points one at a time, Officer Penhall.
First I think you said, that Office Hanson's shooting
was in conformance with police department regulations,
and that that's what you would do, is that correct?
- Correct.
- But burglarizing a home without a search warrant
is against all police department regulations isn't it.
- Yes.
- So, you wouldn't have fired your weapon
in those circumstances because you wouldn't
have been there at all, would you?
- Defense attorney did not ask me
if I would be there or not.
He merely asked me if I would fire my weapon,
and the answer is still yes.
- Officer Hanson would never tell a lie, is that right?
- That's right.
- But in order to believe that,
we've got to believe you, don't we?
- Objection.
- Sustained.
- Officer Penhall, would you ever lie?
- No.
Well, then if you wouldn't lie,
would you tell the court,
is it not a fact, that your partner
confessed this murder to you.
- No, he did not.
- No more questions.
- Because the prosecution has failed to show,
beyond a reasonable doubt,
that the bullet fired by Officer Tom Hanson
was, in fact, the one that killed Bud Tower,
and that the defendant has shown that any bullet
that was fired by him was fired in self-defense,
I'm asking you to bring back a verdict of not guilty.
Thank you.
[whispering]
- Your honor, I have a request to be made
outside the presence of the jury.
- Your honor, we would like to request
that the jury be instructed as to the Felony Murder Rule.
- Oh, no, this is completely out of order, your honor.
They submitted the instructions
to the jury a long time ago.
- Your honor, we didn't know what the
defendant was going to testify.
We didn't know what was going to be brought out.
We didn't know why the officer
was at the scene of the crime until he, himself,
told us he was there to commit a burglary.
- Even if Officer Hanson did not intend
to kill Officer Tower,
if this death occurred during the course
and continuance of a felony crime, such as burglary,
you must find him guilty of murder.
Regardless of your sentiment.
[dramatic synthesizer music]
- Ladies and gentlemen of the jury,
have you reached a verdict?
- We have, your honor.
- Will the defendant please rise.
As to count one in the information,
we, the jury, find the defendant
guilty of murder as charged.
[dramatic synthesizer music]
[21 Jump Street theme instrumental]