Rush Hour 3 & ½
Carter and Lee finally got out of their work in LA with the kidnapping of a diplomat's 11-year-old daughter, their case in Hong Kong when they dealt with Ricky Tan and the money laundering, then they managed to get out of Africa, now they were in New York. And as for Carter, he couldn't wait to kick back and relax,
However, it would be crammed, the apartment they rented was made for only one person, now he had to fit Lee in too. Well, somehow they managed to fix it up for three people.
"Where're you going?" Lee asked, one day after they finished remodeling.
"I'm going to go talk to one of my cousins in town, I'll be back before you notice I'm gone," Carter replied.
"Carter!" Lee yelled.
"What? What? What is it Lee?" Carter rushed back.
"Nothing, what took you so long?" Lee asked.
"Very funny man, very funny, now look, it's 2:00 now, I'll be back by 3:50," Carter checked his watch.
"Why be gone so long?" Lee asked.
"Because it's supposed to rain by 4:00 O' clock, that's how come, I wanna get as much enjoyment out of this sorry day as I can, now I'll see you later," Carter walked out.
"CARTER!" Lee yelled.
"What? What is it?" Carter rushed back again.
"Just testing, what kept you?" Lee asked.
"Look, from now on, don't call me unless it's an emergency," Carter walked away again.
"CARTER!"
"What now?"
"You forgot your cell phone," Lee replied.
After that, Carter left, which was okay for Lee because he got tired of having him around. Shortly after having another 14-year-long feud with his cousin, Carter slowly headed through the middle of town. However, within a few minutes, he began to hear what sounded like a cat screeching, the further he went into the town, the louder it got. In no time, Carter realized that several gang boys were beating on another kid.
"Hey!"
Carter started to pull out his badge and police I.D, but the kids ran away, leaving the victim standing alone. She looked like a normal kid, she stood about five feet something tall, black, and she had blue streaks up and down her body. The girl didn't say anything, she just turned and ran down the streets, while Carter stood at the scene yelling up at her.
"Yeah, run away! Just don't forget, it was James Carter L.A.P.D who saved your life!" Carter yelled.
However, the girl didn't say anything, she just turned her head back for a glance at him one more time before she disappeared into the streets. Carter started to yell to thin air as he walked back to the building, he decided not to tell Lee about what happened earlier; especially since he didn't think it was any of his business in the first place.
"Carter, where have you been?" Lee asked.
"I ain't been nowhere, why?" Carter asked.
"Because we've got something to do," Lee explained.
"Hold it just a hot diggity dang second, this ain't like last time when we was in Hong Kong, and you didn't have the guts to tell me we were tracking down Ricky Tan is it?" Carter asked.
"Of course not, this time I'm telling you head on," Lee replied.
"Well that's good, I'd hate to be getting my groove on one second then fall fifteen stories on my butt the next. So what be happening this time?" Carter asked.
"This time, we meet Hojun Daneto down by fifteen miles, he has an underground hideout," Lee explained.
"Oh joy, does this mean we've gotta be burrowing for fifteen miles?" Carter asked.
"No, just follow me, and let me take care of the driving," Lee said.
"Now hold on, the last time I let you take care of the driving here, we found a new home in the junk yard," Carter reminded him.
"That was your fault," Lee said.
"My fault?" Carter asked.
"Yes, you too busy being a back-seat driver to tell me, we were heading for garbage truck," Lee explained.
"It don't matter no more," Carter said.
"Exactly, so stop screaming at me," Lee brought up.
"I'm not screaming."
"You' screaming."
"I am not."
"You are."
"No I ain't man."
That continued all the way out to the car, onto the road, down the stairs, and into the hideout.
"Will you stop? You acting like two-year-old potato," Lee said.
"Oh, fine, you wanna pick up where we would have been if we had known each other as kids? Fine, I'm telling your mommy," Carter shouted.
"I'm telling your mommy that you bit the neighbor's dog," Lee replied.
"Hey, that wasn't the dog, that was the mother-in-law and she was bugging me anyway," Carter said.
"Silence!" Hojun Daneto stated.
"Sorry Hojun," Lee said.
"This is the guy? I've seen better in those crappy horror movies," Carter started.
"Carter, do not get started with me, we are here on serious matters, not for some 'wooshu'," Lee said.
"You're right, you're right, I apologize, now can we get this over with?" Carter asked.
"Follow me gentlemen," Hojun walked away.
Lee made a movement on the left side of his mouth.
"What's that supposed to mean? Oh I get it, it means you go this way and I got that way, right?" Carter asked.
"No that means follow me before I choke you with bad looking coat," Lee explained.
"Hey! What's the matter with this coat?" Carter asked.
"Be quiet and start walking," Lee said.
"During the last six years, we have been on the lookout for a serial killer, his name's Leo Abo, he's slaughtered forty-eight people so far, while looking for something very valuable," Hojun explained.
"Valuable? Like what?" Carter asked.
"That's the problem, nobody ever found out, but we have reason to believe it's a rare 15 oz. emerald with 24ct. gold lining, it carries a 14ct. ruby within the 27 oz. diamond hidden within the emerald. The thing of the matter is, nobody knows what happened to the emerald, it disappeared just recently this year," Hojun said.
"So what've we gotta do? Look for the gem?" Carter asked.
"Not exactly, you're to look after this person," Hojun loaded a data disk into a super computer system. The holographic figure of a girl came on the screen.
"Are you kidding?" Carter asked, "I'm an L.A.P.D, what do I want to do with a kid?"
"We have reason to believe she might be partly responsible for the disappearance of the emerald. She's fourteen years old, who has something in with the L.A.P.D as well, it appears that she just dropped into town," Hojun said.
"So what've we gotta do?" Carter asked.
"Watch her until we find Leo Abo, don't let her out of your sight at any cost, if Abo finds her, he might kill her and we'll never find out where the emerald disappeared to," Hojun explained.
"So what you're saying is that we've gotta hijack this kid and keep her with us for who knows how long?" Carter asked.
"It appears so," Lee replied.
"I'm L.A.P.D, not a baby-sitter," Carter said.
"It's either you baby-sit her, or you baby-sit each other while on unemployment. If you don't take this case Carter, I'll see to it that you're no longer a P.D in the L.A or N.Y or anywhere else in the U.S.A, do you understand, F.W.I?" Hojun asked.
"You can't do that, I'm L.A.P.D, not N.Y.P.D," Carter replied.
"Me either, I'm from Hong Kong," Lee added.
"You think that I don't know your employers? All I have to do is give them a bad report on each of you and you're out of a job. Now either you watch this kid or else, do you understand?" Hojun asked.
"Yes sir," Carter said.
"Mr. Daneto, we might need a regular picture of her to recognize her," Lee brought up.
"Here's her picture out of uniform, I suggest you don't let your guard down when you find her, she's dangerous," Hojun replied.
"Allright, what's she look like?" Carter asked.
"It says, 5'4", 115 lbs, 14 years old, black, blue sunburn," Lee read.
"Blue sun----? Oh hell no, hell no, not that, not that," Carter slapped himself.
"What?" Lee asked.
"Shoot Lee, I saw that kid earlier today, I rescued her from a whole pack of gang members today!" Carter screamed.
"Well don't scream at me for your carelessness," Lee poked him.
"I'm not screaming," Carter said.
"Oh yes you are!" Lee shouted.
As the two walked out of Hojun's hideout, they kept arguing about the girl.
"Carter, we won't be able to find this girl," Lee said.
"Of course we will. She's got a blue sunburn, out of all the people in New York, how hard can that be to find on one person?" Carter asked.
"You would be surprised," Lee replied.
"Allright, I've seen this kid, she doesn't like coming out in the daytime so we'll go look for her at night," Carter thought.
"Lee, what the hell do you think you're doing?" Carter asked, when they got back to the apartment.
"You said she was fourteen years old, right?" Lee asked.
"So?" Carter said.
"So I figure, we might as well make it look like somebody lives here," Lee said.
"Somebody does live here, me!" Carter yelled.
"I know that, but it doesn't look like there'll be a teenager living here," Lee explained.
"How do you figure?" Carter asked.
"Carter, if you were a fourteen-year-old troublemaker, would you want to live here?" Lee asked.
Carter kept his mouth shut and looked around the apartment and reached a conclusion.
"Man, let's trash the place!" Carter said.
To be continued...
Carter and Lee finally got out of their work in LA with the kidnapping of a diplomat's 11-year-old daughter, their case in Hong Kong when they dealt with Ricky Tan and the money laundering, then they managed to get out of Africa, now they were in New York. And as for Carter, he couldn't wait to kick back and relax,
However, it would be crammed, the apartment they rented was made for only one person, now he had to fit Lee in too. Well, somehow they managed to fix it up for three people.
"Where're you going?" Lee asked, one day after they finished remodeling.
"I'm going to go talk to one of my cousins in town, I'll be back before you notice I'm gone," Carter replied.
"Carter!" Lee yelled.
"What? What? What is it Lee?" Carter rushed back.
"Nothing, what took you so long?" Lee asked.
"Very funny man, very funny, now look, it's 2:00 now, I'll be back by 3:50," Carter checked his watch.
"Why be gone so long?" Lee asked.
"Because it's supposed to rain by 4:00 O' clock, that's how come, I wanna get as much enjoyment out of this sorry day as I can, now I'll see you later," Carter walked out.
"CARTER!" Lee yelled.
"What? What is it?" Carter rushed back again.
"Just testing, what kept you?" Lee asked.
"Look, from now on, don't call me unless it's an emergency," Carter walked away again.
"CARTER!"
"What now?"
"You forgot your cell phone," Lee replied.
After that, Carter left, which was okay for Lee because he got tired of having him around. Shortly after having another 14-year-long feud with his cousin, Carter slowly headed through the middle of town. However, within a few minutes, he began to hear what sounded like a cat screeching, the further he went into the town, the louder it got. In no time, Carter realized that several gang boys were beating on another kid.
"Hey!"
Carter started to pull out his badge and police I.D, but the kids ran away, leaving the victim standing alone. She looked like a normal kid, she stood about five feet something tall, black, and she had blue streaks up and down her body. The girl didn't say anything, she just turned and ran down the streets, while Carter stood at the scene yelling up at her.
"Yeah, run away! Just don't forget, it was James Carter L.A.P.D who saved your life!" Carter yelled.
However, the girl didn't say anything, she just turned her head back for a glance at him one more time before she disappeared into the streets. Carter started to yell to thin air as he walked back to the building, he decided not to tell Lee about what happened earlier; especially since he didn't think it was any of his business in the first place.
"Carter, where have you been?" Lee asked.
"I ain't been nowhere, why?" Carter asked.
"Because we've got something to do," Lee explained.
"Hold it just a hot diggity dang second, this ain't like last time when we was in Hong Kong, and you didn't have the guts to tell me we were tracking down Ricky Tan is it?" Carter asked.
"Of course not, this time I'm telling you head on," Lee replied.
"Well that's good, I'd hate to be getting my groove on one second then fall fifteen stories on my butt the next. So what be happening this time?" Carter asked.
"This time, we meet Hojun Daneto down by fifteen miles, he has an underground hideout," Lee explained.
"Oh joy, does this mean we've gotta be burrowing for fifteen miles?" Carter asked.
"No, just follow me, and let me take care of the driving," Lee said.
"Now hold on, the last time I let you take care of the driving here, we found a new home in the junk yard," Carter reminded him.
"That was your fault," Lee said.
"My fault?" Carter asked.
"Yes, you too busy being a back-seat driver to tell me, we were heading for garbage truck," Lee explained.
"It don't matter no more," Carter said.
"Exactly, so stop screaming at me," Lee brought up.
"I'm not screaming."
"You' screaming."
"I am not."
"You are."
"No I ain't man."
That continued all the way out to the car, onto the road, down the stairs, and into the hideout.
"Will you stop? You acting like two-year-old potato," Lee said.
"Oh, fine, you wanna pick up where we would have been if we had known each other as kids? Fine, I'm telling your mommy," Carter shouted.
"I'm telling your mommy that you bit the neighbor's dog," Lee replied.
"Hey, that wasn't the dog, that was the mother-in-law and she was bugging me anyway," Carter said.
"Silence!" Hojun Daneto stated.
"Sorry Hojun," Lee said.
"This is the guy? I've seen better in those crappy horror movies," Carter started.
"Carter, do not get started with me, we are here on serious matters, not for some 'wooshu'," Lee said.
"You're right, you're right, I apologize, now can we get this over with?" Carter asked.
"Follow me gentlemen," Hojun walked away.
Lee made a movement on the left side of his mouth.
"What's that supposed to mean? Oh I get it, it means you go this way and I got that way, right?" Carter asked.
"No that means follow me before I choke you with bad looking coat," Lee explained.
"Hey! What's the matter with this coat?" Carter asked.
"Be quiet and start walking," Lee said.
"During the last six years, we have been on the lookout for a serial killer, his name's Leo Abo, he's slaughtered forty-eight people so far, while looking for something very valuable," Hojun explained.
"Valuable? Like what?" Carter asked.
"That's the problem, nobody ever found out, but we have reason to believe it's a rare 15 oz. emerald with 24ct. gold lining, it carries a 14ct. ruby within the 27 oz. diamond hidden within the emerald. The thing of the matter is, nobody knows what happened to the emerald, it disappeared just recently this year," Hojun said.
"So what've we gotta do? Look for the gem?" Carter asked.
"Not exactly, you're to look after this person," Hojun loaded a data disk into a super computer system. The holographic figure of a girl came on the screen.
"Are you kidding?" Carter asked, "I'm an L.A.P.D, what do I want to do with a kid?"
"We have reason to believe she might be partly responsible for the disappearance of the emerald. She's fourteen years old, who has something in with the L.A.P.D as well, it appears that she just dropped into town," Hojun said.
"So what've we gotta do?" Carter asked.
"Watch her until we find Leo Abo, don't let her out of your sight at any cost, if Abo finds her, he might kill her and we'll never find out where the emerald disappeared to," Hojun explained.
"So what you're saying is that we've gotta hijack this kid and keep her with us for who knows how long?" Carter asked.
"It appears so," Lee replied.
"I'm L.A.P.D, not a baby-sitter," Carter said.
"It's either you baby-sit her, or you baby-sit each other while on unemployment. If you don't take this case Carter, I'll see to it that you're no longer a P.D in the L.A or N.Y or anywhere else in the U.S.A, do you understand, F.W.I?" Hojun asked.
"You can't do that, I'm L.A.P.D, not N.Y.P.D," Carter replied.
"Me either, I'm from Hong Kong," Lee added.
"You think that I don't know your employers? All I have to do is give them a bad report on each of you and you're out of a job. Now either you watch this kid or else, do you understand?" Hojun asked.
"Yes sir," Carter said.
"Mr. Daneto, we might need a regular picture of her to recognize her," Lee brought up.
"Here's her picture out of uniform, I suggest you don't let your guard down when you find her, she's dangerous," Hojun replied.
"Allright, what's she look like?" Carter asked.
"It says, 5'4", 115 lbs, 14 years old, black, blue sunburn," Lee read.
"Blue sun----? Oh hell no, hell no, not that, not that," Carter slapped himself.
"What?" Lee asked.
"Shoot Lee, I saw that kid earlier today, I rescued her from a whole pack of gang members today!" Carter screamed.
"Well don't scream at me for your carelessness," Lee poked him.
"I'm not screaming," Carter said.
"Oh yes you are!" Lee shouted.
As the two walked out of Hojun's hideout, they kept arguing about the girl.
"Carter, we won't be able to find this girl," Lee said.
"Of course we will. She's got a blue sunburn, out of all the people in New York, how hard can that be to find on one person?" Carter asked.
"You would be surprised," Lee replied.
"Allright, I've seen this kid, she doesn't like coming out in the daytime so we'll go look for her at night," Carter thought.
"Lee, what the hell do you think you're doing?" Carter asked, when they got back to the apartment.
"You said she was fourteen years old, right?" Lee asked.
"So?" Carter said.
"So I figure, we might as well make it look like somebody lives here," Lee said.
"Somebody does live here, me!" Carter yelled.
"I know that, but it doesn't look like there'll be a teenager living here," Lee explained.
"How do you figure?" Carter asked.
"Carter, if you were a fourteen-year-old troublemaker, would you want to live here?" Lee asked.
Carter kept his mouth shut and looked around the apartment and reached a conclusion.
"Man, let's trash the place!" Carter said.
To be continued...