Lippard.Multics 1985-04-11 22:10:35 mst Thu
Subject:  Hill Street Blues:  A New Beginning
Date: Thursday, 11 April 1985  08:22-EST
From: Allyn Hardyck on ttyd0 <allynh%ucbarpa@Berkeley>
Subject:   Wednesday's SF Chron

Jon Carroll's article:

Hill Street Blues:  A New Beginning

          "The producers of 'Hill Street Blues' announced that they will
attempt to cut costs by trimming the size of its cast." - News item

Scene:  A police car cruising the Hill Street precinct.

Renko:  I dunno, Bobby Hill, I had some of that soul food last night and my
        unmentionables are on fire.  Can you pull over again?

Hill:   Renko, your European intestines just ain't equipped to handle the
        pure beauty of barbecue.  You should stick to those funny white
        sausages your mama used to --

Renko:  We got trouble over there.

The car pulls to the sidewalk and jumps the curb.  A thug turns and fires
a bullet through the windshield.  Hill slumps in his seat.

Renko:  Holy mother of --

Cut to:  The station house.  Fay Furillo bursts into Frank's office.

Fay:    Little Frank just knocked over a liquor store.

Frank:  Fay, I'm very busy right now.

Fay:    I just took a large dose of poison.

Frank (yelling out the door):  Ray, could you get Fay a glass of water?

Ray:    Sure thing, Frank.

Fay:    This is serious, Frank.

Frank:  I understand that, Fay.  This is just a very bad time for me.

Cut to:  A hostage situation in progress.  Henry Goldblume is speaking on
the telephone.

Henry:  I understand that you're upset, William.  Why don't you release the
        little girl and then we can talk about it?

William:  Off my back, pig.

Goldblume starts across the street.  Three shots ring out.  Goldblume falls
to the pavement.

Cut to:  The back room of a bar.  LaRue and Washington are working a
stakeout.

Washington:  Come on baby, say the magic words.

LaRue:  I think they're on to us.

The door flies open.  Close-up of a revolver firing many shots.  LaRue and
Washington crumple.

Cut to:  The inside of a ghetto apartment.  Lucy Bates approaches a woman
armed with a knife.

Lucy:   Why don't you put that down and we can talk it over?

Woman:  No more talk.

Woman lunges with the knife at Lucy.  She falls to the floor.  Joe Coffey
enters the room.  The woman attacks him.  He falls to the floor.

Cut to:  The station house.  Fay is dead.

Frank:  Ray, she was serious.  Get the poison out of her purse.

Joyce (entering):  What's wrong, pizza man?

Frank:  Joyce, Fay just took her own life.  I have no choice but to do the
        same thing.  (He drinks Fay's poison.)

Joyce:  My life is not worth living.  (She also drinks the poison.)

Ray:    You two have been the reason for my existence.  (He drinks poison.)

Renko (bursting in):  Captain, Bobby Hill and Lucy and Joe and Henry and
                      Washington and LaRue are dead as goddamn door knockers.

Frank (gasping):  You'll have to carry on.

Howard (entering):  Judas Priest, Frank, we've got an epidemic on our hands.

------

Next week:  "Andy and Howard":  Two zany cops investigate murder at a
            beauty pageant in Monte Carlo.

[From Info-Cobol. -jjl]