- 5/28/2025
- In the Custody of a Clown
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00:00Come on! Ben, what are you packing in here? This thing weighs a ton.
00:18Give it back, McFarlane. I forgot to do my homework last night. Do you
00:23mind if I have it? Next time.
00:53Don't get yourself so worked up, Sheffield. We're just playing with you, man.
01:00How'd you ever make it to the ninth grade anyways?
01:05Way to go, boy.
01:11Homeroom in five, Sheffield. I got the clock on you.
01:33Hey!
01:43Hey, man, that guy jumped for it.
01:50Hey!
01:56Hey!
02:11We never thought we'd find the place where we belong.
02:16Don't ask to stand alone, we'll never let you fall.
02:21Don't need permission to decide what you believe.
02:28Sit down, down on Jump Street. Sit down, down on Jump Street.
02:39Your friends will be there when your back is to the wall.
02:44You'll find you need us, cause there's no one else to call.
02:49And if you're hopeless, a decision's what you need.
02:54You better be ready to, be ready to jump!
02:58Sit down, down on Jump Street.
03:15You guys remember Spencer Phillips? FBI, right? Never forget a haircut.
03:22A kid was grabbed from Lafayette High this morning, Brian Sheffield. Possibly a kidnapping.
03:29Although parental abduction is not out of the question.
03:32His parents are divorced and there's a history of custody violations.
03:36We want to establish the extent and nature of the crime before the Bureau gets involved.
03:42So you just want us to keep this warm for you?
03:44You have a problem with my handling of this situation?
03:47We don't have any problems here, Phillips.
03:49Good. These things usually clear themselves up in 24 hours.
03:56Captain.
04:03I hate these emotional types.
04:06Attitude aside, Phillips might be right.
04:08Parents don't get what they want in court, they take it to the street.
04:11Let's hope that's all it is.
04:19Has Brian ever run away before?
04:21Of course not. This is his home. He has everything he needs.
04:25Oh, sure. Sure, his father's a lot of laughs and I'm the bad guy, right? The disciplinarian.
04:31Why do you think your husband has abducted your son?
04:33Because he's tried it before and I've caught him.
04:36Big deal.
04:38I'll tell you something. I take my son to Dallas on a business trip and she hires a private detective to follow me.
04:43Under your custody, Mr. Sheffield, taking Brian across the 8th line is a violation of the law.
04:47Come on, man. He's my son. You're making it sound like I'm some kind of criminal.
04:51I didn't say that.
04:52I did. And okay, maybe it wasn't blue, but it was definitely dark.
04:57So we're talking a dark, 72 Lincoln something.
05:0177. The guy was 72.
05:04He wasn't that old. He moved too fast.
05:07And he was wearing a clown mask.
05:09A clown mask?
05:11Just like that sneak.
05:13Well, let's see how he likes visiting Brian from behind bars.
05:17Well, we can't arrest your husband just off of these photographs.
05:20They're photographs of him and my son in Dallas.
05:23Obviously, he's been planning this for months.
05:25Look, I've hardly seen the kid in months.
05:28Those pictures were from a birthday party.
05:30I don't even have a say in how he's raised.
05:32I mean, come on. Let the kid out a little.
05:34Let him make some mistakes. Let him have some fun.
05:36Totally irresponsible. He lets Brian drive the car.
05:39Has Brian seemed anxious lately?
05:41Very.
05:42Not at all.
05:43Kinda.
05:44Well, what was Brian kinda doing right before it happened?
05:47Ah, we're knocking him around a little.
05:49Teasing him, you know. It was no big deal.
05:56Hey, it's my fault some perv robbed him?
05:58I shouldn't be surprised that he'd stoop this low.
06:01He's a little lucky in business and all of a sudden he's invincible.
06:04He wants the house. He wants Brian.
06:06She wants everything.
06:08We're in the middle of a property settlement and there is nothing, nothing she wouldn't do.
06:12She won't even let me come to the house and pick up my stuff.
06:15What kind of stuff?
06:16You know, stuff.
06:18Tapes, a couple pairs of jeans.
06:20Right there in his knapsack.
06:22Even his toothbrush is missing.
06:25All right, Miss Sheffield. I guess that ought to do it.
06:28We appreciate your time.
06:30If you think of anything else, you can contact me through your principal's office.
06:33You've gotta get him back, officer.
06:35His father is bad for him. He hates his father.
06:38It's his mother he hates.
06:40You can ask him that yourself.
06:42No, we, um...
06:43Can't.
06:44He's missing.
06:51Guys?
06:56Mom!
06:57Hi, sweetie pie.
06:59I'm sorry. I must have lost a wig somewhere.
07:01I could have sworn it was next week you guys were coming.
07:03Where's Daddy? Lying down?
07:05No, honey, I'm sorry. He couldn't make it.
07:07You're kidding.
07:08No, well, he's disappointed, too.
07:10But if we aren't more careful, we are liable to have more fun without him.
07:15You haven't eaten yet, have you?
07:16No.
07:17Good, because I have been waiting for you so I could take you out to dinner.
07:20Ta-da!
07:21After all these years, I finally got my own card.
07:25They tried to give me your father's line of credit,
07:27but I didn't want his. I wanted my own.
07:29$400.
07:31It's psychological, I'm sure,
07:32but every meal I buy with this just seems to taste better.
07:35Well, that's great. Just give me one sec, okay?
07:37Okay.
07:38You know, Mom, I've been meaning to talk to you about that.
07:40It's very important that women establish their own line of credit, you know?
07:43Exactly.
07:44There's nothing against Daddy. It's just a responsible thing to do.
07:48Well, I guess a lot of it's my own fault.
07:50I let things get way out of hand.
07:52I was suffocating in the shadows of Dr. Anthony Hoffs.
07:56Suffocating?
07:58The slightest deviation and your father can't accept it.
08:01The man's intolerant.
08:03Judgmental.
08:09Mom, is everything all right with you and Dad?
08:13Now, Judy, you know your father and I would never do anything
08:16without first giving it a lot of thought.
08:18So there's no reason for you to be upset.
08:20We've decided to separate.
08:25The dark blue, possibly brown Lincoln,
08:28built sometime in the 70s, driven by somebody from this planet.
08:31Hmm.
08:32How long has Sheffield had his apartment in Dallas?
08:34Just a couple of months, Captain.
08:36Dallas police got in for a look.
08:37No Brian, but an awful lot of his clothes.
08:39Send off Captain's people.
08:42Yeah, Fuller.
08:46Yeah, give me $15,000.
08:49Yeah, give me 15 minutes. I'll meet you at the house.
08:53School janitor just turned up a ransom tape.
08:55They won't let me sleep.
08:57I stand for hours at a time with almost nothing to eat.
09:02You have to get $75,000 in cash.
09:06They must have grabbed the wrong kid.
09:07You have 24 hours...
09:08Would you shut up?
09:09...at which time you'll receive delivery instructions.
09:11Do not involve the police or they'll kill me.
09:15You work hard, you pay outrageous taxes
09:17so we can go to a decent school where he's grabbed by some nut.
09:23All right.
09:25All right.
09:27All right.
09:30$75,000, huh?
09:32Where are we going to get that kind of money?
09:36We're going to have to mortgage the house, dear.
09:38My house?
09:39Who's going to make the payments?
09:40According to your attorney, you're broke.
09:42Have you got a better idea?
09:43I know that you two are upset about your son.
09:49But we'll handle the money into this.
09:52All right.
09:54Just let the man do his job, okay?
09:56Look, I think we make a big mistake meeting any demands
09:59until we're sure Brian's okay.
10:01That's not your decision.
10:04Look, folks, your son has a much better chance
10:07if we buy some time while we try and locate him.
10:09But the tape said no police.
10:11Well, what are you going to do, huh?
10:12What, are you going to fight this thing alone?
10:19So what do you think?
10:20I think someone grabbed the kid from a nice neighborhood.
10:23You?
10:24I think I want to know a bit more first.
10:26I'll have one of my guys trace this tape's lot number,
10:28find out when and where it was bought.
10:30That won't be necessary.
10:31I'll swing by in the morning, you can turn the file over.
10:34Okay, let me put it this way.
10:36A kid is grabbed from one of my schools.
10:37I make it my business to find him.
10:39Legally, after 24 hours,
10:41transportation across state lines can be assumed.
10:44Then it's my business.
10:4624 hours ago, this thing was going to clear itself up.
10:55Evening.
10:56How long you plan on staying?
10:57Oh, a couple of days.
10:59Depends on the fishing.
11:00Can I see your fishing permit and driver's license?
11:02Oh, sure.
11:04Here you are.
11:08A lot of equipment for just a couple of days.
11:10You should see what I have in the trunk.
11:25Where's your plate?
11:26I don't have a plate.
11:27You don't have a plate?
11:28I don't have a plate.
11:29You don't have a plate?
11:30I don't have a plate.
11:31You don't have a plate?
11:32Where's your plate?
11:33Oh, I have it here somewhere.
11:37Here it is.
11:39It keeps falling off.
11:40I'm going to wire it on with a coat hanger.
11:42First chance I get.
11:44$7 a day.
11:45Pay when you leave.
11:46You're in space, G.
12:03Come on, get up there.
12:11You've got good luck, Joan.
12:18We did it, Grandpa.
12:19We sure did.
12:21Now, let's drop a line in the water,
12:23because the sun is falling and I'm getting very hungry.
12:33They'll kill me.
12:34I swear they will.
12:36If you don't follow these instructions exactly,
12:38you'll never see me alive again.
12:42You don't think you sound too frightened?
12:44Grandpa, I've been kidnapped, okay?
12:46Heavy-handed stuff works.
12:48This is no time to wean out.
12:51Edison Coulter does not wean out.
12:58We're going to be fine here.
13:00Hey, and once we get settled up there,
13:03why, we can eat dinner out under the stars every night if we want.
13:07Oh, you see these ferns?
13:09We have those all over our property.
13:12And you see that right there, that clearing?
13:14That's where the dock and boat landing will go.
13:17And right behind it, up there,
13:19is where you and I are going to build that tackle and bait shop.
13:22How long do you figure it'll take?
13:24Oh, working after school and weekends?
13:27We ought to be in business by this time next year.
13:30Next year? Forget it. We're hiring help.
13:32With what, son? We're budgeted right to the penny.
13:35So up the ransom.
13:37No, no, no. We figured exactly what we needed.
13:40No more, no less.
13:42You get greedy on me, son, I'm going to have to whop you.
13:45All right, all right.
13:58We don't have to do this, you know.
14:00I mean, we can stop whenever you want.
14:03I don't want to stop.
14:05I'm in their way.
14:07I'm not going to live with people that hate me.
14:10Oh, oh, Brian, you're wrong.
14:16They don't hate you.
14:18They don't hate me.
14:20They don't hate you.
14:22They don't hate me.
14:25They don't hate you.
14:28They hate themselves.
14:34Hi. Guess who.
14:36It's Robert.
14:38I'm just calling to say I hope you're having a nice visit with your daughter
14:41because I missed the sound of your voice.
14:43I'll talk to you soon. Bye.
14:50Who's Robert?
14:52A friend.
14:56My friends don't miss the sound of my voice after just a few days.
15:00He's someone I met at the bookstore.
15:02When?
15:04Dolores Hawks, don't walk away from me when I'm talking to you.
15:07I asked when, before or after this decision of yours.
15:11Judy, don't you have any male friends?
15:13Well, if he's just a friend, then why has Daddy left you?
15:16Because 26 years into a perfectly good marriage,
15:19my father suddenly decides he doesn't trust me anymore.
15:22Are you sleeping with this man?
15:29Just across the footbridge, you'll see a statue.
15:35You are to be standing at the base of this statue
15:38at exactly 6 p.m.
15:42My parents are not to make this drop themselves.
15:46Hello?
15:48Hello?
15:50All right, I hope he's in place.
15:52You ready with that?
15:54Yeah.
15:56Pick up the walkie-talkie at the base of the statue.
16:05All right, we're up.
16:07Let's go. Go around to the left and keep your eyes open.
16:10Now look behind this statue.
16:12See that life preserver?
16:14Put it on.
16:16And I mean on.
16:25Clip it up tight.
16:29Now head towards the waterfall.
16:43What would your parents do?
16:47Would they pay 75 grand to get Doug back?
16:50Doug who?
16:54Just to the right of the waterfall, there's a small pine.
16:57See it?
16:59You put the money on the ground,
17:02and cover it with the needles from that pine tree.
17:11All right, now set the walkie-talkie down.
17:15Turn around.
17:18Now carefully, very carefully,
17:20feel a line with that life preserver.
17:25What you're feeling is enough explosives
17:28to blow you into the next county.
17:30You understand?
17:32Call the bomb squad.
17:34I hope he's in trouble. Come on.
17:39All right, now slowly, very slowly,
17:42walk back to the statue.
17:44And don't, repeat, don't turn around.
18:01Howdy!
18:03I'm police officer. You're gonna be fucked right away.
18:05Get him out of here fast. Go through the whole park.
18:07Big, just stand real still. Don't...
18:09Brian.
18:11Brian!
18:15Just do exactly what they say, Brian.
18:19Take it real easy,
18:21and move real slow.
18:40Come on.
18:53I hope...
18:55Bomb squad's on his way.
18:57Stay real still.
19:00Six hundred bucks?
19:08We need more time.
19:12What's the matter? You couldn't sell us golf clubs?
19:15Six hundred dollars will still go a long way.
19:18Grandpa, we've been jacked.
19:22Some bomb.
19:24Four road flares and some telephone wire.
19:28You get a feeling there's something
19:30vaguely amateurish about this?
19:32Captain, we got someone on those ransom tapes.
19:34Both lot numbers traced back to a drugstore in Michigan.
19:36According to Hoffs, Mrs. Sheffield's father
19:38and son-in-law.
19:40What?
19:42Sheffield's father and son-in-law.
19:44What?
19:46Sheffield's father and son-in-law.
19:49According to Hoffs, Mrs. Sheffield's father
19:51runs a cabin up there every summer.
19:53The boy's grandfather?
19:55That's right. Mom, I'm really sorry,
19:57but things are just crazy today.
19:59It's okay, honey. I like it.
20:01And I like what you're doing.
20:03Hoffs?
20:05Great. Put him through.
20:09Dad!
20:11What a surprise.
20:13We don't have time to waste on hundred-to-one shots, Captain.
20:15Time my unit bought, Phillip.
20:17Hoffs!
20:19Dad, hold on. Mom, I gotta go.
20:21Take down the flight information.
20:25Go ahead, Anthony.
20:27If you think you can trust me to get it right...
20:29When was the last time
20:31Mrs. Sheffield talked to her father?
20:33About a year ago.
20:35They had a big falling out when Mr. Sheffield
20:37wouldn't let Brian go to his grandmother's funeral.
20:39All right, give me everything you can on the father.
20:41Pics, prints, the works.
20:43I haven't given you the go-ahead to proceed, Captain.
20:45Brian hasn't crossed any state lines yet, Phillip.
20:47All you've got to show for 36 hours' work
20:49is a recovered walkie-talkie
20:51with your unit's fingerprints on it.
20:53Why don't you take that walkie-talkie and...
20:55Judith Marie Hoffs! How dare you put me in that position?
21:01Everyone, I'd like you to meet my mom.
21:03Ma'am.
21:05Hello.
21:07Nice to meet you all.
21:09You've raised a fine young lady there, Mrs. Hoffs.
21:11Oh, thank you.
21:15Oh, excuse me, officer.
21:17Who, me? I'm a maintenance engineer.
21:23Why don't you take that walkie-talkie,
21:25have your lab dust the batteries.
21:27My money says the prints will match the grandfather's.
21:39Where have you been all day?
21:41I've been looking for you.
21:43Where have you been all day?
21:45I thought they nailed you for sure.
21:47I was doing a little research, son.
21:49We need a game plan
21:51before this thing unravels any more on us.
21:55All this stuff's about other kidnappings.
21:57You've got a problem.
21:59You turned to the experts.
22:01Yeah.
22:03I thought you'd get a kick out of this.
22:05Brian Edison Sheffield,
22:07born to Mrs. and Mrs. John Sheffield
22:09of Huntington Park.
22:11Eight pounds, six ounces.
22:13See?
22:15You didn't start off small.
22:17What were they like back then?
22:19Like ants in the pan, son.
22:23Worst case of youth I ever saw.
22:25Selfish,
22:27self-centered.
22:29Even tried to elope once.
22:31Could have made it too,
22:33except that idiot father of yours
22:35forgot to bring a ladder.
22:37So that night
22:39I sat down in the kitchen over cocoa
22:41and planned us a wedding.
22:47You doing all right here?
22:49Yeah.
22:51I'm doing fine.
22:55So, who used any of this stuff?
22:59One of the most successful crimes in history.
23:01What?
23:03Spaghetti kidnapping.
23:05Paid
23:07almost two and a half million dollars
23:09for the return of his grandson.
23:11Let's do it. They did it.
23:13They lopped off his ear.
23:17Let's find something else.
23:19Relax.
23:21I like your ear where it is.
23:23You know,
23:25I think I found a way
23:27of letting him know
23:29how serious we are about this.
23:31$600 we gave him.
23:33A note saying it's not enough.
23:35And Bozo's ear?
23:37Ha, ha, ha, ha!
23:39I told you your father was nuts.
23:41Ever since her mother died,
23:43he's been totally out of control.
23:45I can't believe my dad would do anything to hurt him.
23:47Yeah, well, he's in control enough
23:49to steal from the best.
23:51The instructions, the ear,
23:53right out of the getty, kidnapping.
23:55Isn't there something that we can do to stop him?
23:57Are you up to following these instructions?
23:59Because he wants you to deliver the ransom this time.
24:01Whoa, whoa, whoa.
24:03I'm not having her drive backroads,
24:05tossing money out of windows.
24:07We may not have to.
24:09How good is your father's eyesight?
24:23They don't pay me enough for this.
24:25Yeah.
24:27Pantyhose are so expensive.
24:33All right, keep your heads down, guys.
24:35Got someone coming up behind us.
24:41I'm doing 30, and he's still not passing.
24:46All right, there's the lights.
24:48Grand plot, 6 o'clock.
24:58All right, this is full up.
25:00Give them a half a mile, and then close it up.
25:02Get ready, guys.
25:23Let's go, Harry!
25:27Let's go!
25:58Get in.
26:08All right, come on out of the car, grandpa.
26:10Come on out.
26:12All right, all right.
26:14Put those things down before you hurt someone.
26:18That's better. All right, okay.
26:20Would you mind if I sat down, huh?
26:23Are you finished?
26:25Yeah. You okay?
26:27Yeah, I'm fine.
26:30Well, at least I've got something to tell him back in Washington.
26:34You think you can handle a conviction?
26:36Or you want to turn Bozo's ear over to me?
26:41It could have been worse, Phillips.
26:43Yeah.
26:45They could have sent his nose.
26:48They could have sent his nose.
26:52Now, my friend is holding me up on top of the shoulder seat,
26:55and I'm hanging out way out over Waveland Avenue,
26:58outside of, uh, Wrigley Field.
27:00Now, bases are loaded,
27:02and upcoming is big Bill Nicholson, right to the plate.
27:06Oh, what a hitter. I mean, they used to call him Swish.
27:09Anyway, Leo DeRocha is managing the Dodgers.
27:13Leo the Lip.
27:15All right, Leo the Lip.
27:17Now, the Lip lives in mortal fear of Nicholson.
27:20So get the picture.
27:22I'm in top of the ninth, 3-2 Dodgers.
27:24Bases loaded.
27:26And DeRocha orders the pitcher to walk in the tying run
27:30because he's afraid to pitch to the Swish.
27:33True story. I was there myself.
27:38That still doesn't excuse what you've done, Mr. Coulter.
27:41Kidnapping is a very serious offense.
27:46Mr. Coulter, you'd make things a lot easier on yourself
27:49if you'd give up the boy.
27:51Not until I have my say in court.
27:55Do you understand that these are felony charges
27:57being brought up against you?
27:59All right, I broke the law.
28:01I desecrated a clown mask.
28:03What do I get for that?
28:05Three to five?
28:07This isn't a joke.
28:09You're telling me, son?
28:11All right.
28:13All right, I may be facing life,
28:16but if I didn't do something,
28:18my grandson would be facing life
28:20with two people who don't care a thing about him.
28:23And to me, that's worth it.
28:29Please, tell us where he is.
28:32I told you, he's fine.
28:35What he is is alone
28:37and probably scared half to death.
28:41Hey! Who are you guys?
28:43Let me out of here!
28:49Got anything to eat?
28:52We'll get you something downtown.
28:55Is my grandfather all right?
28:58Yeah, he's fine.
29:00Is he going to jail?
29:04But we planned it together.
29:06I'm sorry, Brian.
29:08Minors can't give legal consent.
29:10Am I going to jail?
29:12No, you're going to go home
29:14because we saved your life.
29:16No more star-filled nights.
29:18No more rainbow trout over the open plains.
29:21The nightmare's over, Brian.
29:23Come on, you guys.
29:25Don't you understand?
29:27My grandfather and I need you.
29:29We need you.
29:31My grandfather and I need each other.
29:34We're the only family we got,
29:36and you're ruining it.
29:38Don't make me go back to my parents.
29:41Your parents deserve to know you're okay.
29:43I don't care what they know.
29:45And I'm not going back to them either.
29:47If Grandpa's doing time,
29:49I'm doing time.
29:51Look, Beeve, ease up on us, will you?
29:54We're just doing our jobs.
29:56Do your job, okay?
29:58Go home where I'm not wanted and don't belong.
30:04And don't shoot me in the back either.
30:06I'm not armed.
30:08I'm not even tall.
30:10Brian.
30:17I feel like hell. How about you?
30:19I don't get paid to feel like hell.
30:21It just works out that way.
30:25Daddy, you're not listening.
30:27You don't approve of your mother's boyfriend.
30:29Tony, he is just a friend.
30:31He's a boy, and he's a friend.
30:33Yes, Dolores, I know how that goes.
30:35And you spend an incredible amount of late hours with your friend.
30:38We go to the theater.
30:40We have a drink afterwards, and we talk about the play.
30:42There isn't a play in the world
30:44that can't be thoroughly thrashed and analyzed by midnight.
30:47Aren't you guys being a little unreasonable?
30:49Unreasonable?
30:51Your credit card bill, Thursday the 18th,
30:54$5,000 at the Palmer House Hotel.
30:56The cost of a suite?
30:58Is that reasonable enough for you?
31:03Dolores, it's him or me. You can't have it both ways.
31:06Which means I have to have a children.
31:08Call me old-fashioned,
31:10but I still believe in fidelity.
31:14Tony.
31:17Those charges were for lunch at the restaurant.
31:20There were four of us.
31:22I didn't have enough cash, so we put it on my card.
31:25You expect me to believe that?
31:27Believe whatever you want.
31:29But it felt great.
31:31Will you guys grow up?
31:33That is not the point. Then what is?
31:35If your father just trusts me this much after 26 years,
31:38then this marriage isn't even worth saving.
31:40Terrific. Then go marry that new best friend of yours.
31:43I thought you were my best friend.
31:48Nothing happened.
31:50Then what's with the aerobics,
31:52and then going to plays, and your credit card?
31:55Tony, I have to have something that is mine.
31:58There's ours,
32:00and there's yours, but there's no mine.
32:03And I don't need any ultimatums.
32:06What I need is room.
32:14You think that card of yours
32:17will handle dinner for three tonight?
32:20Come on.
32:29Excuse me. Excuse me.
32:31Excuse me. Excuse me.
32:33I'm sorry. Excuse me.
32:37Mr. Brabeck, who are the arresting officers in this case?
32:40Hey, not to worry. Conviction's in the bag.
32:43You sound pretty sure of yourself.
32:45I know Judge Simon.
32:47We give her a clean felony bust, she gives us a conviction.
32:50Yeah, but there's some extenuating circumstances here.
32:52Relax, will you? Simon's the original hanging judge.
32:55She'd send George Burns away for smoking in an elevator.
33:03Excuse me. Excuse me.
33:05Excuse me. Excuse me.
33:07Excuse me. Excuse me.
33:09Sir.
33:15All rise.
33:17The Honorable James Desmond presiding.
33:21All right. All right. All right. All right.
33:23Sit down. Sit down. Sit down. Sit down.
33:25We all know the routine.
33:27Uh, Judge Simon is, um,
33:30having root canal this morning,
33:32and, uh, I'll be sitting in her place.
33:36All right?
33:38Hmm. Let's get this thing started, okay?
33:41I object.
33:43Mr. Coulter, you can object.
33:45The trial hasn't started yet.
33:53Look, I don't care if he's on his lunch hour.
33:55Tell him I gotta talk to him, and it's important.
33:59I object.
34:01Mr. Coulter has the right to refuse counsel,
34:04but not to badger Mr. Sheffield with irrelevant questions.
34:08Mr. Coulter, if you have a point to make,
34:10make it before Brabeck here has a stroke.
34:17We doing all right here, Jack?
34:20Fine, Dad. Just fine.
34:23Jack, do you mind telling all these people
34:26why you wouldn't let your son attend his grandmother's funeral?
34:30Ha, ha, ha.
34:33Well, because that particular weekend was my weekend.
34:37Your weekend?
34:39Yeah, I get Brian two weekends out of the month,
34:42and I had tickets to a ball game.
34:44Oh.
34:46Too bad she couldn't have died during a road trip.
34:49I object.
34:51Don't bother. I'm done with this guy anyway, Judge.
35:00And after Captain Fuller informed you
35:03that the abductor was in fact your own father,
35:06did you feel a sense of, uh, relief?
35:10I felt better, yes.
35:13But not relieved?
35:16No, I was still worried.
35:20That's all, Your Honor.
35:24Hold it. Where's she going?
35:27I got a couple of questions, Your Honor.
35:30Hiya, Captain.
35:32Hi, Dad.
35:34We doing all right here?
35:36Yeah.
35:38I spoke to the lady up at the state custody office yesterday.
35:42She was telling me that Jack requested
35:44a third weekend of visitations.
35:47You turned him down.
35:49Why?
35:51Because he's taking him to these power clinics.
35:57Brainwashing is what it is.
35:59Whoa, whoa. I'm trying to get the boy out of himself.
36:01You've got his nose buried in a book 24 hours a day.
36:04You're out of order.
36:06Did you ever think that he might want to go to those clinics?
36:09Yeah.
36:11And did you ever think he might not want to go?
36:13Yeah.
36:14He never told me he didn't want to go.
36:16He never said a word to me about that.
36:18Look, I don't care what he wants.
36:20That man is not taking my son to those meetings.
36:24No further questions, Your Honor.
36:38Your Honor.
36:40That is my grandson.
36:43And I do care what he wants.
36:45He's not a javelin for these two
36:47to throw back and forth at each other.
36:49So pardon me for stealing him,
36:52but that's the way I feel.
36:58Ever rolled, Your Honor?
37:00I didn't have any breakfast.
37:02Your Honor,
37:04Mr. and Mrs. Sheffield are Brian's biological parents,
37:07yet we're subjecting them to cross-examination
37:10when he's the one that committed the crime.
37:12Counselor, this is a hearing,
37:14and that's what we're doing.
37:15We're hearing.
37:17Thank you, Your Honor.
37:18If there's anything you would like us to hear,
37:20this would be an excellent time.
37:21Yes, Your Honor.
37:22As a matter of fact, there is.
37:24The ransom tapes.
37:26They're being transported by a bonded justice courier
37:28from Jump Street.
37:30Now, if you will allow them into submission,
37:32I believe I can get this hearing back on track.
37:34Good.
37:36Is that evidence here?
37:38Yeah, was somebody waiting for this?
37:44And you are?
37:45Sal Banducci, Your Honor.
37:46I don't believe we've met.
37:51You have the evidence, Mr. Banducci?
37:54Yep, and it's all here, too.
37:56I double-checked it on the way over.
37:58But I gotta tell you, this is pretty funny.
38:01Look what I brought to a hearing.
38:11Are you a bonded justice courier, Mr. Banducci?
38:14No, I'm a maintenance engineer.
38:17Counselor, you realize, of course,
38:19that I have to rule this evidence inadmissible.
38:22Your Honor, please.
38:23This man is a janitor.
38:25I object to the term janitor.
38:28You can't object.
38:30Sit down.
38:32Uh, approach, Your Honor.
38:34Approach.
38:40I'm a janitor.
38:43I still think I can bring a judgment against him, Your Honor,
38:46even without the evidence.
38:48I doubt that, son.
38:50You weren't doing a very good job out there.
38:53And, uh, unless you are hell-bent
38:56on putting this gentleman away,
38:59this brings us back to a misdemeanor.
39:03Now step back.
39:05All right, now.
39:07I'll tell you what we've got here,
39:10and it isn't felony.
39:13We've got a mess.
39:19Will the family approach the bench?
39:22A mess.
39:26Will the family approach the bench?
39:45I find the defendant, Edison Coulter,
39:48guilty of illegal restraint, a misdemeanor.
39:53On the charge of abduction with the intent to hold for ransom,
39:57due to a lack of evidence,
39:59the charge will be dropped.
40:06Mr. Coulter,
40:08you unlawfully took your grandson
40:11without legal right or authority.
40:14And even though this is only a misdemeanor,
40:17I'm going to be very hard with you.
40:22I've been giving you two years.
40:25Imposition of sentence is suspended.
40:30The defendant will be placed on six months' probation
40:33under the following terms.
40:35That during that six months,
40:38you will be under a restraining order
40:41and aren't to go within 70 feet of Brian or his home.
40:4570 feet?
40:4840 feet.
40:5060.
40:5350 feet.
40:55You got it.
40:59Brian will remain in the custody of his mother.
41:06I hope you all understand me clearly
41:09and have learned something from this.
41:13I don't want to see any of you in my court again.
41:18And that goes for you, too, Mr. Banducci.
41:21I hear you, Ben.
41:23And that is contempt of court.
41:25That will cost you $25, Mr. Banducci.
41:31Any objections?
41:33How about $10?
41:36It is now $50, Mr. Banducci.
41:41Any further objections?
41:43None, Your Honor.
41:47And, uh, Edison.
41:50Oh, thank you, Your Honor.
41:52Next time, think things through a little better.
41:58I will, Your Honor.
42:03This court is adjourned.
42:13You doing all right?
42:17Come on.
42:25I like to see my guys happy.
42:28Get your smiles in now, fellas.
42:31Because when we get back to the chapel, there will be none.
42:47Sal Banducci.
42:50What do you do for a living, Sal?
42:52I'm a maintenance engineer.
42:56Not a bonded justice courier?
42:58No, sir.
43:00But it does seem like an interesting line of work.
43:02Listen up.
43:04You ever interfere, participate in,
43:06or even get too close to any police activity around here again,
43:08and I will personally see to it
43:10that you are the maintenance engineer at San Quentin.
43:13Is that clear?
43:15Very clear.
43:18How about that 50 bucks?
43:20Get out of my office!
43:33You broke the law, guys.
43:35You obstructed justice.
43:37You tampered with evidence.
43:39Hey, what's good for the president?
43:41Stow it, Penhall. This isn't funny.
43:44You knew what you were doing, and you knew it was illegal.
43:47Sir, I'm not trying to justify what happened,
43:50but could you send that man to jail for what he did?
43:57Hanson, I understand what you're saying,
44:00and I want you to understand that I understand.
44:04But sometimes you have got to play by the rules,
44:07even when they don't sound right.
44:10Am I understood?
44:12Yes, sir.
44:14Good.
44:16Now get out of here.
44:21Oh, and guys...
44:24That's a two-day suspension without pay.
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