[siren]
SPORTS: Well, got to get up and go get dressed.
Got me some job prospects today.
Knock 'em dead.
If you see anything good, leave my name.
[crash]
[music playing]
Hey!
What-- oh, oh!
[grunting]
6, 6, 6.
Come on, Cat.
Let's go find us some breakfast.
No, no.
[music playing]
They're hurting him!
They're killing Sports!
MAN: Hey!
[music playing]
[THEME - LIAM STEMBERG - "21 JUMP STREET"]
[SINGING] We never thought of finding
the 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.
Ooh.
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 looks hopeless, a decision's what you need.
You better be ready to, be ready to jump.
21 Jump Street.
The victim was another mission regular.
Uses it for telephone calls, showers, food.
He's got a day job?
Yeah, well, on and off, till last week.
You know, he had just set up his digs by the dumpster.
He slept with everybody else on the sidewalk up until then.
And all these gang members, they all wears masks?
According to the victims, yeah,
they just come out of nowhere.
They don't say a word, and then they just disappear.
Into thin air, huh? [SINGING] Oooh, wee, ooh, ooh.
Is that your professional opinion, Officer McCann?
Ah, sorry, Captain.
I just-- I can't take it seriously.
Hey, listen, I don't care if they dress up in black robes
and run around reciting incantations.
They're attacking people, all right?
Perfect victims, too--
I mean, nobody cares, nobody will miss them.
It's all pretty cold.
Where do you want me?
Douglas High School-- number one, it's close by.
Number two, they've got a program
there called Project Outreach.
It provides teenaged people to help run Hope Mission.
Which is right in the alley next to where the gang
members disappeared, right?
Yeah, so maybe they've got a key,
or maybe they just use the place to scout out victims.
In any case, I want you to get over there,
see if you can't scout up me some Satanists.
I thought maybe I'd wear black and carry a candle.
No, no, see, I was hoping you'd
be just a wee bit more subtle.
I know.
OK, when the school has its first assembly, I'll just--
I'll fall to my knees and proclaim I'm Satan's child.
Excellent.
I knew I could count on you.
Did you see the new guy?
What new guy?
You'll know when you see him.
Just how will I know?
He'll be the best-looking guy in this entire school.
What, Alan, what?
I'll catch you later.
Thanks a lot.
I found this downtown.
I thought you might like it.
Priscilla James, she was a witch in Boston
during the 17th century.
Yes, I know.
Can I come to the meeting tonight?
Not yet, Alan.
You promised.
I said I'd think about it.
I got you the key to the mission, just like you said.
Yes, yes, you did.
Anything you want, you just have to ask.
I know.
So will you let me?
OK, we'll give you a try.
In many ways, the themes in "Paradise Lost"
parallel the ones used by George Lucas
in the "Star Wars" trilogy.
Except in "Star Wars," we had a world
in which the devil incarnate had won and was in charge.
In "Paradise Lost," Milton tells us how the devil was cast out
and will spend an eternity trying to get
back to heaven, just like us.
It's a bunch of bull.
It's complete bull.
Ah, our new classmate does not suffer from shyness.
Tell me, Mr., um, Malone, just why
do you feel that my analysis of "Paradise Lost"
is, uh, as you so succinctly put it, bull?
No, Milton, man, Milton's full of it.
The devil doesn't want to get back into heaven.
He's got the whole damn world in his hands.
He's got it all right there in is power.
And you based this opinion on--
MAC MCCANN: Take a look around you, man.
You got your drive-by shootings, you
got your babies with AIDS, you got, uh, crack,
dying trees, crooked politics.
You got divorced parents who think you're their best friend.
And worse, you got fat chicks in tank tops.
[laughter]
Look, man, I don't know what the devil's supposed to look like.
Maybe-- maybe he doesn't have horns.
Maybe he's a she.
Maybe it's just the dark side of our minds, whatever.
But it's in charge, man.
Life just keeps getting worse and more of a bitch,
and I don't know why anybody is planning for tomorrow
when they can party today.
[applause]
TEACHER: Yes, that's-- well, that's very interesting.
But it's not what Milton was writing about.
[bell ringing]
That was interesting, what you said in there.
Yeah?
You mean it?
Of course I mean it.
Why else would I say it?
To impress people.
Impressing people is not something I'm interested in.
I'm Stephanie Plummer--
Stevie.
Nice to meet you.
You have a first name?
Tony.
Tony, you, uh, interested in meeting new people, Tony?
Well, that all depends on who they are.
People who share the same interests as you do.
MAC MCCANN: That kind of sounds like an ad from the personals.
There's an abandoned warehouse on Fifth
Street, around 9:00 o'clock. - What do you do there?
Time of your life, guaranteed.
Guaranteed?
Wow, well, I didn't think anything
was guaranteed anymore.
Oh.
There's a lot you don't know, Tony.
See you around 9:00.
You too, Alan.
You got a thing for her?
Not my type, man.
I like them a little less maneater,
if you know what I mean.
I think she's perfect.
Well, you're a braver man than I.
Did she invite you to the meeting?
Yeah, what goes on there, anyway?
I don't know, exactly.
It's my first time, too.
I'm Alan Michaels.
Well, it looks like we'll find out together, Alan Michaels.
Come on. [bell ringing]
- Take the milk. - Don't use it.
- Take the milk. - I don't want it.
Not for you, for Cat.
Oh.
I'll take the milk.
Thank you.
This here is cat.
Yeah, I figured.
Paulie.
Adam.
MRS. MICHAELS: Hello, sweetheart.
Hi, Mom.
This isn't your regular night.
Adelle called in sick, so they asked me to come down.
What brings you here?
I need an advance.
You got your allowance two days ago.
I know, I know.
I had some surprise expenses.
All right, how much?
$20 would be great.
I should be home around 9:30.
Uh, I'm going out late tonight.
With whom?
Some friends.
Not those awful people I saw you at school with.
A new friend, Tony Malone.
I want you to bring him by the house.
What for?
So that I can meet him.
You mean so you can pass judgment on him.
I'm interested in meeting your friends.
Why do you always make me feel like I'm
getting a security clearance?
All right, I'll bring him home later.
Good.
And don't be home late.
Alan!
The circle is closed.
Begin.
Half of Uganda is infected with AIDS.
A crazy mother put her baby in front of her car.
Then she ran it over three times.
STEVIE PLUMMER: Great, great.
Saddam Hussein has poison gas.
I told my father about my mother's affair.
Letitia Barnes was killed at her
fourth birthday party in a drive-by shooting over crack.
Happy birthday, Letitia.
In the last five minutes, there's been a rape, murder,
and a drunk driving violation.
More personal.
In the last five minutes, I committed a rape, a murder,
and a drunk driving violation.
That's not funny, Malone.
Do you want to be here?
If not, there's the door.
[siren]
No, I want to be here.
Good.
OK, old business.
The last spell we tried was interrupted.
The Stanford admissions committee
meets this week, which means our next mission has to be soon,
or else I won't get into Stanford early.
Be ready for my call.
You gonna call me?
Such an eager little beaver.
Well, I like the sound of a mission.
You haven't even been initiated.
So initiate me.
You don't even know what that means.
I'm ready.
So am I.
OK.
[music playing]
We all make our mark.
[ALL CHANTING] 6, 6, 6.
6, 6, 6.
6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6.
6, 6, 6.
No.
This is my mark.
STEVIE PLUMMER: [gasps]
Good, Alan.
That's very, very good.
That's enough, Alan.
Hey, I decide when it's enough.
Not this time.
[music playing]
Satan's not so funny now, huh, Mac?
No, it's sick, and it's stupid.
The kid burned himself, Captain.
And he would've held onto that bulb
forever if I didn't pull his hand away.
Are you gonna be OK on this, Mac?
Yeah, I just don't know what makes
people do stuff like that.
Yeah, well, the first thing a cult wants to do is mark you,
make you do something you can't take back.
Yeah, but all they were doing was making these little paper
cuts in their fingers.
But this Alan Michaels kid had to go everybody one better.
Say who?
Michaels, Alan Michaels.
I saw him yesterday.
His mom is a volunteer at the mission.
MAC MCCANN: So she has a key.
Has he been a part of this group long?
I think last night was his first night.
He invited me back to his house.
Good, good, get to know him, and this Stevie girl, too.
I don't think I want to know her that well, captain.
Kind of spooky, huh?
You have no idea.
Yeah, well, um, I'd like to get this case wrapped up, Mac.
These clothes are getting a little
too funky for me, all right?
Yeah, well, I didn't want to say anything but--
You didn't have to.
[music playing]
[shouting]
MRS. MICHAELS: Don't you walk away from me!
I don't think I'm asking too much to know where you are
and when you're coming home!
ALAN MICHAELS: Get off my back!
Why don't you just take the door off.
Then you could watch me sleep.
MRS. MICHAELS: I am responsible for you.
ALAN MICHAELS: I can be responsible for myself!
MRS. MICHAELS: Not when you come home at all hours of the night
with burns on your hands.
ALAN MICHAELS: That doesn't give you the right--
I don't need your permission.
I'm your mother.
I wish Dad had better taste.
[doorbell]
Hi, uh, Mrs. Michaels.
I'm Anthony Malone.
Oh, yes, Alan's new friend.
Please, come in.
Hey.
You want to open his mouth and check his teeth?
Alan doesn't think it's appropriate that I
want to meet his friends.
Oh, it's OK.
That's great.
I mean, I wish my parents were more like that.
Oh, well, you finally hit paydirt.
It's very nice to meet you.
I have to run.
I hope I see you again sometime, and soon.
You heard us before?
No, man, I just got here.
I just rang the doorbell.
You heard.
Look, Alan, it's none of my business, OK?
You want something to eat, drink?
Yeah, that sounds good.
She dusted my room.
What?
Some kit you get from the Tough Love people.
You dust a kid's room.
If he's had drugs there, it shows up and you got proof.
You can have a meaningful confrontation.
She wanted to do a urine test on me last month.
And before that, she went through my tapes.
Did she throw any out?
No.
We sat down and listened to Metallica together.
That was a moving experience.
I think she read some pamphlet somewhere
on how to reach your teenager.
Well, at least she's trying, Alan.
No, she's not.
She wants me under her thumb.
She can't see that I've changed.
My mom still tries to pick out my clothes for me.
Why don't you let her in on some stuff,
let her feel like a parent.
Like last night?
No, definitely not like last night.
You got pretty heavy there.
It held Stevie's attention.
Was it worth it?
Of course it was.
Yeah.
Listen, we better go.
We're going to be late for school.
ALAN MICHAELS: My freshman year, I had this great friend,
Clay Reading. - Yeah?
Man, we did everything together--
malls, arcades, ball games.
Anyway, my mother decides he's not good enough for me.
Well, what could she do?
I mean, you guys were friends, right?
Call his parents up is was what
she could do, tell them how their son
is a bad influence on me.
Got them so aggravated they told Clay to drop
me, which he did, and told the whole school
while he was doing it, which catapulted
me into instant dweeb status.
Thanks, Mom.
You know, I just keep telling myself I'm out of here
in another year, you know? Then it doesn't get to me.
I have this reoccurring nightmare that the woman is
gonna follow me to the ends of the earth
until there's nobody left in the whole world who will
have anything to do with me.
MAC MCCANN: [scoffs]
Is she at it again?
She dusted my room.
Why?
Because she loves him.
Nobody loves anyone anymore, Alan.
It's a question of keeping power over you, dominating you.
Ah, that's a little simplistic, isn't it?
I don't know.
What do you think, Alan?
Sounds right to me.
OK.
How do you change it?
You take control.
How.
The group can help you, if you help the group.
Tell me what to do.
Um, are you gonna finish that sandwich?
Help yourself.
We need a sacrifice.
Like what?
Like a living thing.
Mm, like a goldfish, right?
Something that bleeds.
Alan?
Let me think about it.
Tonight at the warehouse, we need it then.
I said let me think about it.
Did you mean everything you said in class yesterday
or what?
Yeah, I meant it all.
It's just that it's a long way from that to a blood sacrifice.
Not as far as you think.
Let me take you there.
Not ready, K?
Get ready, K, or get out.
Those are your choices.
Don't keep Alan from attaining what he wants.
Alan can make up his own mind.
Good, let him do that.
[music playing]
What I'm asking you to do is scary.
I know.
ALAN MICHAELS: I want to.
You know I want to.
Yes, but it's hard, at first.
It gets easier, promise.
ALAN MICHAELS: Whatever I get, you're going to--
Kill it, yes.
That's what a sacrifice is.
I've never done anything like that before.
Sure you have.
You swatted a mosquito when it was biting you.
That's different.
No, it's not.
That's what you have to understand.
I'll help you.
I'll make it easier.
Isn't that what you want, for me to make it easier?
No, it's more than that.
You can have anything you want.
You can have it all.
Hey, Adam, have you seen Cat?
- No. - I've been looking all over.
I can't find her.
Yeah well, she'll turn up.
Probably found herself some old tom to make whoopee with.
Not around dinnertime, she knows better.
Can find an old time anytime.
Look, why don't you grab yourself a tray, get some chow.
As soon as we're done, I'll go out
and look for her with you, OK?
OK.
[train horn]
[meowing]
Here it is.
Good, Alan, very good.
Are you in?
Yeah, I'm in.
[meowing]
[music playing]
[cat hissing]
Remove it.
[music playing]
[cat screeching]
Ah, damn, it scratched me.
STEVIE PLUMMER: Get it!
Get the cat!
It's gone.
Damn you, Malone!
Damn you to Hell!
[bell ringing]
ALAN MICHAELS: Stevie, it wasn't my fault.
You let the cat get away.
So did everybody else.
OK then, fine, I'll treat you like everyone else.
That make you happy?
You know better than that.
No.
I know that I got waitlisted by Stanford.
That's what I know.
And if things had gone properly last night,
this would have been a letter of acceptance.
There's still a chance you might get in.
I don't plan to leave anything up to chance, Alan.
I know what needs to be done.
All I need is someone I can count on.
You can count on me.
Yeah, we'll see.
Hey, how's it going?
Oh, great, just great.
Listen, man, about last night--
Just forget about it, OK?
Hey, I didn't think you wanted to go through with it.
Yeah, well, you were wrong.
That's a bunch of bull, man.
You were scared to death.
Are you a shrink all of a sudden?
No, but I--
What makes everybody think they know me so well,
you and my mother?
I just didn't want you to get pushed
into anything, all right?
Yeah, Stevie asked me to make the sacrifice.
Yeah, but you didn't want to do it.
I want to do what she wants.
And I want you to stay the hell out of my way.
MAC MCCANN: I don't get it, Captain.
Don't get what?
Why are you changing your rags?
Because these are filthy.
These, believe it or not, are clean.
Yeah, but it seems like the old ones
will keep you in character.
Yeah well, being in character doesn't
help when I can't stand being in the same room with me,
all right?
Well, maybe Hoffs will fill in for you when
she gets back from vacation.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, I don't plan on being
on the streets that long.
Why did you bust up the festivities last night?
Because I didn't want this Alan Michaels kid to get
sucked into that group.
Mac, Mac, let me explain something to you.
OK, see, you are a cop, not a social worker,
not a psychiatrist. Now, this kid needs help.
Juvie will see to it that he gets help as soon as he
and his nasty little buddies get busted.
Yeah, but Captain, he doesn't fit in with them.
Fine, then pull him out of there.
I can't.
All he wants is Stevie Plummer, and I'm afraid she can
offer him something I can't.
All right, I'll tell you what.
You get her to offer it to you, OK?
Captain, she's a high school kid.
I'm not saying you have to take it.
I'm just saying, if you can't get in tight with Michaels,
then try her.
Try somebody, OK?
Fine.
You've got nothing to say that I want to hear.
Just give me a chance, OK?
The other day in class you said all the right things,
but you don't do any of them.
No, this is different.
Look, I told you, I don't want to hear it.
Look, it's one thing to think these things
through in your mind to yourself,
but it's another thing to find somebody
who really wants to do it.
Yeah, well that's the difference
between leaders and sheep.
I do what the others talk about.
How did you make the jump?
I mean, you didn't just wake up one morning
and say, what a swell day for a human sacrifice.
No.
I spent years watching my parents be model citizens,
and for nothing.
They work hard, and they go to church,
and they say all the right things,
and they do all the right things, and for what?
My dad isn't rich or powerful, and my mom isn't anything.
I don't want to end up like that.
Come on, their lives aren't that bad.
It's boring.
It's like being with the living dead.
And if you ask them why they've spent
their existence that way--
I'm not going to dignify it by calling it a life--
they said they'll get their reward in heaven.
Well, I can't wait.
I want it now.
And doing what I do is how I get it.
You really believe that?
Yeah, I do.
And so can you, if you'd let yourself.
You're most of the way there.
You have to decide what you want.
I know what I want.
I want you.
All right.
Tonight at the warehouse, just you and me.
[music playing]
We'll see how sure you are.
[music playing]
Oh, hello.
Hi.
Tony wasn't it?
Yes, ma'am, Tony Malone.
Is Alan around?
No, he hasn't been here all day.
Has he called or anything?
No.
Why, is something wrong?
I don't know.
It's just that, uh, he gets real tense sometimes.
He's keeping very strange hours.
When he is here, he's so distracted.
Well, he's that way with me, too.
I try to talk to him.
Heaven knows I try, but he refuses to be accessible.
Well, you know, you got to keep trying.
I'm sure sooner or later, you'll get through to him.
I hope you're right.
I'm certainly glad he has you for a friend.
So am I. Thanks.
I'll see you later.
[music playing]
Are you sure?
Yeah.
Take off your shirt.
Control, that's what it's all about.
Control.
Now your pants.
What happened to being sure?
Good, very good.
I'm in control.
Are you?
Yeah.
We'll see.
Are you still in control?
No.
At least you're honest.
What's with the clothes, Captain?
You taking us off this case?
I wish.
I just wanted to remember what normal clothes
felt like, you know?
For a couple hours anyway.
Yeah, well, I'd like to remember what normal anything
feels like, but I think it would take more than a couple
of hours.
Get a little strange last night?
Captain, you wouldn't believe it.
Try me.
Well, Stevie meets me at this old abandoned warehouse,
right, where she got all these candles lit.
Oh, real romantic, huh?
Oh, yeah, like a Valentine from Dracula.
Yeah, wine, music, like that?
Well, she's not real big on foreplay, Captain.
First thing she has us do is take off our clothes.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, you're not gonna make me blush,
are you, Mac?
Next, she gives me this kiss that I'll keep
my tonsils clean for a year.
And then she goes on about this evil stuff, the power of evil
and how it's everything we ever needed to get anything
we wanted in life, any pleasure, including each other.
Well, does this mean I'm not going to have to arrest
you for statutory rape, McCann?
Turns out she didn't even need me, Captain.
This is way too weird for me.
Yeah, well, it's not so funny anymore, is it?
No, it's not funny at all.
Listen, just stay with her, huh?
I mean, she's the key to wrapping this whole thing up.
Sooner or later, she's gonna try something we can bust her for.
Can't be too soon for me.
Didn't need him, huh?
So, dream about me last night?
Oh, yeah.
Pleasant dreams?
Well, it all depends on how you define pleasant.
We had a little house in the suburb, a couple
of kids, a station wagon.
Sounds like a nightmare to me.
Well, you were president of the PTA.
Ugh, worse and worse.
You made great brownies.
You're really with me now, aren't you?
Yeah.
We're gonna do great things together.
I can't wait.
Starting tonight.
I'm gonna fill you in later when I
know everyone else can make it.
Hey, listen, man, I've been looking for you all morning.
I wanted to explain.
There's nothing to explain. I understand.
I know how you feel about her.
Some things aren't meant to be.
And if it couldn't be me, I'm glad it's you.
Wow.
So I guess I'll be seeing you around then.
Maybe at the meeting tonight.
Wait a minute, you're still into that?
Sure.
Stevie isn't the only reason why I'm a part of it.
Maybe I can find a way to get what I want, too.
It'd be enough for you to just come with us tonight.
ALAN MICHAELS: I don't want to be part of the group.
I want to do something different,
something none of you have ever done before,
something you'll never forget.
Maybe I underestimated you.
You sure have.
[music playing]
See you later, then.
Count on it.
Ah, see, man, I told you she'd come back.
Right you were.
She in good shape?
Seems to be, except she's hungrier than hell.
Yeah, well, she probably worked up an appetite messing
around with that old tom.
I'd like to see how hungry that old tom is.
Now you'll know what it's like to rule, to take control,
to take power.
Where's Alan?
Why do you care?
I thought we all had to be here.
He has his own mission tonight, very special.
[music playing]
Police, back off, bucko.
You people are under arrest.
MAC MCCANN: All right, hold it right there.
All right, hold it, police.
What are you doing?
Looks like you're not going to Stanford, Stevie.
Looks like you're going to jail.
You betrayed me.
I sure did.
Now where's Alan.
Where is Alan?
Where do you think, Tony?
Who does he hate?
Who does he want to harm?
Oh god, it's his mother.
[music playing]
Alan! Alan?
Open up the door, Alan.
Alan!
What are you doing, Alan?
Thinking, about the greater evil, taking someone
else's life and taking my own.
Which do you think is worse, Tony?
I couldn't say.
Neither can I. I kind of lean towards killing myself.
I mean, if you murder somebody, you get sent
to prison or off to a shrink.
You get rehabilitated or you get cured.
If you kill yourself, they can't rehabilitate you.
They sure the hell can't cure you.
There's no need to do that.
I wanted to do something to show
Stevie how much I loved her!
So I thought, who should I kill?
I thought about killing you.
I thought about that a lot.
Then I thought about Mommy dearest,
but all she ever did wrong was act like a mom.
That's not enough to die for.
And then I realized that no matter what I did,
I just wasn't going to have Stevie.
But she's just like all the organized religions.
She makes promises, but never delivers.
Why do you have a gun?
Because I'm a cop, Alan.
What we were doing wasn't against the law.
Beating up people is.
Did you arrest Stevie?
Yeah.
[music playing]
[sighs]
You don't have to prove anything to her.
You never did.
All I wanted to do was make her happy.
MAC MCCANN: She used that, Alan.
The way you felt, she made it all wrong.
She won't be doing that anymore.
But what happens to me?
You get better.
Rehabilitated?
Cured.
Well, Captain, here's the last of the paperwork.
If I never see this case again, I'll be a happy camper.
Ditto.
It is nice to be clean and dry.
MAC MCCANN: Yeah, I'm just glad to be done with all these kids
and this Satan stuff.
Want to go grab a beer, some pizza?
No, thanks.
I think I'm gonna go see a movie, you know?
Escape from reality for a couple of hours
and get rid of all this demented stuff I've just been through.
You up for it?
What movie?
Uh, it's a triple feature--
"Nightmare on Elm Street," parts 1 through 3.
You got to be kidding, right?
No.
Part 1's the best in the series, but 3 isn't that bad.
Come on, you up for it?
- Why not? - Cool.
[thunder clap] [music playing]