doug penhall? this is sort of... surprised? shocked. what are you doing here? waiting to be invited in. i see you're still a slob. so, this is the place. yes, i am and it is. come on, don't play games with me. you know. i just want to hear you say it... quickly. how have you been? better. have you turned into a flit? what's going on? wow, you look great. two years, three months and 12 days. two years, three months and 11 days-- living with todd rubach. seven days. i left him last wednesday. but what do you think you're doing here? why are you so hostile? last time you called the cops on me. my pop called the cops. ( buzzer ) you got somewhere to go? this is bizarre. doug, do you have a date? no, i... yes, i do. that's great. for two years you've been living with a guy yes, dorothy, i do. okay, fine. i can deal with that tonight but what about us? us? you promised that if i ever wanted to come back... ever... even in a million years... you promised to take me back and love me forever. dorothy: a lot. i want back. am i interrupting? yes. no. this is dorothy pen..

hanson: hi, i'm doug penhall. i'm so depressed. went home early. went to sleep. i didn't hear the phone. you got a sick mind. morning, hanson. hello. penhall. hey, jude. you getting anywhere? i got to meet addabbo in 15 minutes. watch him. i know he did it. i hope you're right. i hope he didn't, but... that's what i meant. yeah. just cream? i have work to do. i think we should talk. there's nothing to talk about. we got to talk. look, last night... yeah, last night. i just wanted you to know i didn't plan for anything to happen. i just came over to drink those beers. come on, penhall! mr. white knight arrives to console me. and then i... look, i feel like i got taken advantage of here. whoa, wait a minute. i came over to be consoled. my friend's driving around with a murderer. everybody thinks i'm crazy. i thought you'd be sympathetic. you didn't plan on getting me in the sack? no. i always have condoms in my wallet. yeah? yeah. like when you drive you bring a a are in case you get a flat. that's just great. judy hoffs, roro hazard. kind of. this is silly. will yo

you don't care about anybody but doug penhall. i had a chance to help someone who was hurting you listened to tapes. you don't even know what's going on. i know more about suicide than you ever will. you know more about making stupid jokes-- that's it. what is wrong with you? my mother killed herself when i was six. i've known about suicide every moment of every day since then. rible had happened to my mother. police were there. i was six. i thought they were taking her to jail. kept walking around the day of the funeral with my shoes untied. i wouldn't let nobody tie them. even as i was growing up, i used to not want to come home. i used to stay on the playground till it got dark because i didn't want to come home and see that she wasn't there. and, uh... my father used to have to come and get me. my father. he had been a priest so he couldn't kill himself. hey, anyhow i tie my own shoes now every morning. sometimes in the day, too. i never really brought this up before. i wanted to tell you. i'm sorry. hanson. hey, coach. things

"love always, i'll never forget-- doug penhall" doug penhall." catchy, huh? susan atkinson. how many are you sending out? about 200. two hundred? every woman i've ever dated. why? never fails. one of them who hasn't thought of my name in four years has just broken up with her boyfriend. she'll be charmed, she'll call me. and then? we'll both go out. we'll both be disappointed. pened to dorothy? this thing with dorothy has been going on since we were 14. never lasts more than six months. i got to plan for the future. but you're going to get together for valentine's, right? she's with her parents this week. how about you? going out with amy? we had a little bit of a disagreement. i hate valentine's day. valentine's day? that's not a disagreement. that's a meltdown. or is it that you're too cheap and you break up before the holiday so you won't have to buy no present? no, i hate valentine's day. iok, got a date? there's this girl i just met but it seems too serious to leap into a valentine's day date. she blew you off, huh? basically. hey. don't make a big deal of it. i'm just

well you're a true romantic, doug penhall. my aunt told me when i was a little girl that this place was only big enough for an angel like me... shouldn't we pull a shade or something? there aren't any. i love you. i love you. forever. you see the way they kissed? yeah, how could i miss it? people don't even kiss like that in the movies. ( sigh ) i wish i could feel that. shh. hey, the kid was right. look at that star. all right, let's go do this. maybe they're, uh... you know... right. why don't we hang ouou on the porch and gaze at the stars? doug, it's 4:00. we've been driving all night. i drove. whatever. let's do this. oh, oh... you been here all night? you got a publisisr for this piece of fiction? it's a work in progress, sir. i got to tell you, i'm really surprised. i can see penhall pulling a stunt like this but i'd never expect it from you. neither would i. so what happened? i don't know. i... they just didn't seem like criminals anymore, captain. is the d.a. looking into the self-defense case? it's a good possibility

doug penhall, councilman davis. oh, the... councilman davis. your assignment's over. i've talked to the chief and the d.a. i'm ending this farce. you can't do that. i can't? rickman is a hero in this community. i went to augustana. i'm proud of this man. if i knew you would do this i'd have ended this... he sent a hurt player... you're involved recklessly. massive liability could hit the school district. you won't do a thing to stop him? what i'm going to do is give him an award. may i have your attention. he turned us into winners, into soldiers, into warriors. coach rickman encouraged me... no, he made me play at 110%. if you play at 110%, you won't get hurt. i didn't play at 110%. coach rickman taught me to punish the other guy. but i didn't realize i was actually punishing myself. ( chatter ) the human body is not meant to be a battering ram. yesterday, i played and i was hurt ( crowd boos ) teddy's in a wheelchair for the rest of his life. ( crowd boos ) who are you? i'm your wake-up call, pal. coach rickman does not care about your kids. he cares about winning.

doug penhall. i'm wolf. welcome to the forty-third the city's dumping ground for washouts and rejectsts hey, how you doing? hey, penhall, that hat fit you? it looks big. it is, a little. hey, try this one. it should fit you perfect. thanks, anyway. ( laughghg ) the oldest f fst day on watch gag there is. so welcome to the e lf pack. ( howls ) it's all drugs here. that's how the crimes go down. officer, you got the time? what am i-- a wristwatch? where does it say "officer timex?" we lost the war on drugs ten years before they coined the phrase. the guys i icharge turned their heads. gave it up. left us here to try totoake it look good. put the average cop up against the average junkie-- nine times out of ten the junkie wins in a blowout. but it ain't up to us. it's the guys in charge. it's the courts. because once we take these hopheads down there's no place to put them. nope, it ain't up to us, dougie. let's roll. daul jeh. what's the damage? ayno pay for police. dougie, come on, we run a tab here. come on.

penhall: look out! doug. he's getting away. i'm hit. i think i'm hit. tonight, you become pai-gow. now, you get the dragon and the angel. no tattoo. we're keeping this boy clean. now you're pai-gow. look i know how you fefeing, doug but this is as close as anyone's gotten to loc. harry doesn't agree. these guys don't give each h her up. so harry's gonna stand with it, huh? he's gonna do whatever i decide. hanson: somebody want to hand me that juice over there? hey, tom, man i think you're a real class act. is this an exceptional cop, or what? juice. man, i'm sorry. i mean, a guy who takes a bullet in his right butt cheek... we're going to get him. it's that simple. a guy who shoots a cop is the lowest scum on earth. i want to take this guy down now. blowfish: excuse me captain, we got this from ballistics there was no one down at the chapel, so i came down. they said you needed it right away. you're gonna love this, dead eye. well, yes i read it. i was concerned about hanson's health. how are you, hanson? oh, fine. thanks. look what they did to him. doug. yeah? the bullet they dug

doug, it's 3:00 m the morning. are you okay? yeah, i'm all right. i need to be alone. ( knocking ) penhall. can i talk to you, captain? sure, come on in. umm... you need anything? some coffee? something to drink? no. i need answers. yeah, i know you do. i just don't know if i've got the right ones. some cop. i want to protect the public. turns out they need protection from me. you were trying to protect the child, penhall. that's a good thing. you just made a mistake. you know... my father... kind of... abusive. and... i loved him but sometimes i wish somebody would have stopped him. all, it took years to pass effective child protection laws. i don't understand how this whole thing is supposed to operate. i mean... one lie and your whole life-- it ain't even worth h dime. our lives aren't measured in money. in some ways, we'd be better off if they were. @the currency we trade in is reputation. everything we do depends on it. unfortunately, in our world a lie holds too much power. what will happen to logan? i don't know. it will be tough. he's in n d shape. bad shape? his life is over. i'm sure he's not ready for party

penhall. cory: hi. nice to meet you. a car will take you to the bus terminal. i'll sign her r er to you right now. thanks for the sweater. no problem. doug, why did you pack so much? i didn't. thanks. cycle world? closest thing thanks. they had to vogue. that or farmer's almanac. you just bought that? with my per diem. what will you eat with? my hands. i'm a big boy. i can handle my money. i've never seen this part of the country before. want some gum? how much money do you have left? relax. i'm fine. excuse me, but isn't that our bus pulling g t?