Rush Hour 3 & 1/2, pt 3
"Shoot, I just remembered that we gotta keep this kid in our apartment and we don't even know her name," Carter grunted.
Lee turned around to face the girl, she pulled out a pad of paper and a pen, she scribbled something down and handed it to Lee.
"She says her name is Thorn," Lee said.
"Thorn? What kind of Chinese name is that?" Carter asked, "What's your last name? Bush?"
Thorn scribbled something else down and handed it to Lee.
"She says her last name is Strong," Lee said.
"Strong? Man, I ain't never gonna understand you, her, or anybody else on this damn planet," Carter said.
Thorn reached into her pocket and pulled out a card, she handed it to Carter and said something short in Chinese.
"What's this?" Carter asked, taking the card.
The card read 'Captain Turmoil Chief N.Y.B.I, New York, New York, P.D Building 3rd floor'.
"This guy someone you know?" Carter asked.
Thorn replied in Chinese '5th door to the right.'
"I'll take that as a yes," Carter said.
"Carter, if this girl knows the N.Y.B.I, then how come the F.B.I are looking for her?" Lee asked.
"What you getting at?" Carter asked.
"All I'm saying is, why would the Chief of the police and New York Bureau Investigation, know a fourteen-year-old, if something was not up?" Lee asked.
"You got a point, allright, we'll dump the girl off at the apartment, then we'll check with Hojun," Carter answered.
"Hojun." Thorn spoke up.
"Yes, you know him?" Lee asked.
Thorn started speaking in Chinese again about Hojun, and the whole time, she was spitting.
"Translation please?" Carter asked.
"She said that she knows Hojun, and that she thinks she can point out Leo Abo," Lee answered.
Thorn looked at him confused, "Leo Abo?"
"Yes, L-E-O-A-B-O," Lee responded.
Thorn wrote down the letters to the fool's name, and mixed them around.
"L-e-a-b, ohhhhhhhhhh," she whispered.
"Wait a minute," Carter said.
He crazily made a U-Turn, drove over the curb and parked right on top of it.
"Carter, what're you doing?" Lee asked as they hopped out of the car.
"What does it look like I'm doing? I think I just found our crook," Carter said, "come on."
"Uh Carter, I think we better bring her along too. In the time we're gone she could blow up your car," Lee suggested.
"With what?"
"C4."
"Allright, we'll bring her along, but you better stay back, this is police work," Carter told Thorn.
Thorn put the pad of paper into her shirt and hopped out of the car as well, tailing behind the police.
"Carter, you don't even know what we're looking for," Lee said.
"I do," Thorn said in Chinese.
"I know, but how many guys look like Juntao's right hand Sang?" Carter asked.
"You're right, let's go," Lee said.
All three fools followed each other closely behind the other, Carter with the lead of course. He pulled his head out around the corner of a brick building and saw the man. He was talking with a man resembling Ricky Tan, and two other thugs, (no past character resemblance in either one though). What appeared to be the guy they were looking for handed the leader of the gang something that resembled explosives.
"Looks like dynamite," Carter said.
Thorn bit her lower lip, she had something to say but she wasn't about to.
Carter reached for his badge, but instead he grabbed one of his guns, Lee grabbed the gun, and Thorn grabbed his. Carter grabbed another one, Lee grabbed it, so Carter pulled out a third gun, and Lee pulled out his own.
"Allright freeze! FBI!" Carter yelled.
The four people turned at him with mean eyes, Lee jumped out to help Carter.
"Freeze, I'm with him," Lee said.
The goons pulled out four guns of their own, they tripped, flipped, and threw Carter and Lee down onto the asphalt. Thorn triggered the gun and stepped out from behind the building.
"It's allright guys, they're with me," Thorn said in English, "it's L.A.P.D. That's Carter and this is Lee."
Carter and Lee looked at each other and exchanged confused faces.
"So now all of a sudden you're speaking English on us huh?" Carter asked as they walked back to the car.
"I'm American you embassy-imbecile, I was born to speak English," Thorn explained.
"Then how come you were talking Chinese on us earlier?" Lee asked.
"Because, there is a huge difference in not speaking and not being able to speak, in your case, you two look like you like to talk. I like to let people talk who like to talk, it helps make it easier to find out how full of crap they are," Thorn explained.
"Great, another you," Carter said.
"What's wrong with that?" Lee asked.
"Nothing, but I'll tell you what's wrong with trying to arrest the city goons, I know them all by stupidity, they're so dumb cuz they went to a public school. They can't even count to see how old they are," Thorn said.
Carter sighed and hopped into the car again, Lee hopped in the passenger seat, and Thorn hopped in the back.
"So Thorn, how do you know Hojun?" Lee asked.
"My mother's brother's cousin's second step half uncle's mother's daughter's niece's sister's daughter used to work with him," Thorn answered.
"That clears things up," Lee said sarcastically.
"So why in the hell do we gotta watch you anyway Thorn?" Carter asked.
"Because the F.B.I is out to get me, but it isn't the F.B.I," Thorn replied.
"Yeah, we know, Hojun told us about that, but don't worry, we'll make sure Leo Abo doesn't find you," Carter assured her.
"He will if that's the case," Thorn argued.
"How can you be sure?" Lee asked.
"Because, that's the way he's gotten away with this for six years, Leo Abo as you know him, isn't even his name. His name is Leaboo!" Thorn explained.
"Well how the hell do you know that?" Carter asked.
"Because, I know who he is, he scrambled his name up so it would spell Leo Abo, that way the police could look far and wide, and they still wouldn't find him," Thorn explained
"So he knows that you' going to blow his cover and that's why he's out to get you?" Carter asked.
"No, he doesn't know, he's out to get me for the emerald," Thorn said.
"Do you know where it is?" Lee asked.
"Yes, but I can't tell until he's caught," Thorn replied.
Thorn took out a compact mirror and looked behind her, cold shivers suddenly went down her back.
"Guys, that's Leaboo back there in the black convertible!" Thorn shrieked.
"What? Moby Dick, that's Leaboo?" Carter asked.
Thorn nodded, Carter shifted the car into hyper speed, he made a crooked U-Turn, and went crookedly up and down. It threw Lee into the back seat with Thorn, only his feet were sticking up, and kicking very heavily.
"Carter! You're the worst driver I've ever seen!" Lee shouted.
"Lee this is no time to be a backseat driver!" Carter said, making a wrong turn in a one way lane.
Leaboo sure knew how to catch the people he was looking for, he had a passenger in the car right next to him. The passenger in Leaboo's car took out a bazooka and shot at them.
"Dammit!" Carter yelled.
"What's going on up there?" Lee asked.
Thorn stuck her head up, the passenger must've been a hit man Leaboo hired to take them out. Then, suddenly, Thorn got an idea.
"Lee, take my backpack and duck down, I'm not taking any prisoners," Thorn said.
"What do you mean?" Lee asked.
Thorn shot up with a gun in her hand, she aimed for the hit man and hit him, he rolled out of the car lying on the ground. Then she aimed again and blew out Leaboo's tires.
"Nice aim, all four of them," Lee said, "Thorn, where on earth did you get the idea to do something that stupid?"
"I watch a lot of Mafia movies," Thorn answered.
"You know that gun looks very familiar, where did you get it?" Lee asked.
"I stole it from Carter's pocket."
"WHAT!" Carter exploded.
"Wait a minute, I stole that gun from Carter, I put it in my shoe," Lee said.
"Then that would explain why you're looking shorter," Thorn returned.
"Man, now I know why Hojun set us up to watch you," Carter exhaled.
Thorn sighed as they headed back to Lee and Carter's apartment.
"I can't believe this, an apartment that's only big enough for one person, we have to make enough room for two, and now there's gotta be enough room for three people, it's impossible!" Carter complained.
Thorn looked around, "I agree Carter, one of us will have to sleep outside on the windowsill."
"Glad to know that you see it that way too," Carter grinned.
"Yeah, pack a pillow Carter, you're sleeping out there tonight," Thorn laughed.
"Shutup you two, we told Hojun we were going to keep you here and we're going to make this apartment big enough for the three of us," Lee said, "whether we like it or not."
"How?" Thorn and Carter asked.
"We force ourselves if we have to," Lee answered.
"So now you're going to start repeating me?" Carter asked.
"I wasn't repeating you Carter, we both spoke at the same time, almost as if we were psychic as is done with twins," Thorn said.
"Or people who think alike," Carter added.
"And they also finish each other's sentences," Thorn finished.
"This is too freaky, I'm going to go take a cold bath, maybe I can wake up from this nightmare," Carter mumbled, slamming the bathroom door.
"So," Lee started, "wazzup?"
Later, after Carter got out of the tub, he walked back into the living room to find Thorn chewing on a couch pillow.
"THORN! I thought I told you NOT to eat the furniture!" Carter shirked.
"You did, but you didn't say, not to eat the furniture pillows," Thorn replied.
"Don't you eat normal food like some chicken wings, baby back ribs, pig's feet and ears?" Carter asked.
"I don't eat soul food Carter," Thorn said.
"I didn't say soul food, I said normal food, the next thing you know you'll be telling me you ate Lee's left shoe," Carter said.
"No, she ate my right one," Lee argued.
Carter screamed out of frustration, then------he got an idea.
"Come with me, I've got an idea," he grabbed Thorn by the arm and took her into the kitchen. He figured that she must eat anything piece by piece, so he tripped her into a chair and grabbed a bunch of food out of the icebox and put it on a tray. "Let's see you screw up eating this," he said, handing her the tray.
"Carter, we've got news, I just heard Hojun say that Leo Abo-------I mean Leaboo was on the lookout for Thorn. He'll be able to recognize her by her sunburn. Which means, if we go out in public, she's dead meat," Lee explained.
"Shit! Does anybody else know about her?" Carter asked.
"A couple of people, but Hojun said that he hired them to keep him informed incase we suddenly became indisposed, or was it decomposed?" Lee responded.
"Allright look, it don't even matter anymore, I'll go get Thorn and we'll take her down to see Hojun and see what we have to do next," Carter suggested, "Just get up, and let's go, we've gotta go meet with Hojun."
End of chapter 3
"Shoot, I just remembered that we gotta keep this kid in our apartment and we don't even know her name," Carter grunted.
Lee turned around to face the girl, she pulled out a pad of paper and a pen, she scribbled something down and handed it to Lee.
"She says her name is Thorn," Lee said.
"Thorn? What kind of Chinese name is that?" Carter asked, "What's your last name? Bush?"
Thorn scribbled something else down and handed it to Lee.
"She says her last name is Strong," Lee said.
"Strong? Man, I ain't never gonna understand you, her, or anybody else on this damn planet," Carter said.
Thorn reached into her pocket and pulled out a card, she handed it to Carter and said something short in Chinese.
"What's this?" Carter asked, taking the card.
The card read 'Captain Turmoil Chief N.Y.B.I, New York, New York, P.D Building 3rd floor'.
"This guy someone you know?" Carter asked.
Thorn replied in Chinese '5th door to the right.'
"I'll take that as a yes," Carter said.
"Carter, if this girl knows the N.Y.B.I, then how come the F.B.I are looking for her?" Lee asked.
"What you getting at?" Carter asked.
"All I'm saying is, why would the Chief of the police and New York Bureau Investigation, know a fourteen-year-old, if something was not up?" Lee asked.
"You got a point, allright, we'll dump the girl off at the apartment, then we'll check with Hojun," Carter answered.
"Hojun." Thorn spoke up.
"Yes, you know him?" Lee asked.
Thorn started speaking in Chinese again about Hojun, and the whole time, she was spitting.
"Translation please?" Carter asked.
"She said that she knows Hojun, and that she thinks she can point out Leo Abo," Lee answered.
Thorn looked at him confused, "Leo Abo?"
"Yes, L-E-O-A-B-O," Lee responded.
Thorn wrote down the letters to the fool's name, and mixed them around.
"L-e-a-b, ohhhhhhhhhh," she whispered.
"Wait a minute," Carter said.
He crazily made a U-Turn, drove over the curb and parked right on top of it.
"Carter, what're you doing?" Lee asked as they hopped out of the car.
"What does it look like I'm doing? I think I just found our crook," Carter said, "come on."
"Uh Carter, I think we better bring her along too. In the time we're gone she could blow up your car," Lee suggested.
"With what?"
"C4."
"Allright, we'll bring her along, but you better stay back, this is police work," Carter told Thorn.
Thorn put the pad of paper into her shirt and hopped out of the car as well, tailing behind the police.
"Carter, you don't even know what we're looking for," Lee said.
"I do," Thorn said in Chinese.
"I know, but how many guys look like Juntao's right hand Sang?" Carter asked.
"You're right, let's go," Lee said.
All three fools followed each other closely behind the other, Carter with the lead of course. He pulled his head out around the corner of a brick building and saw the man. He was talking with a man resembling Ricky Tan, and two other thugs, (no past character resemblance in either one though). What appeared to be the guy they were looking for handed the leader of the gang something that resembled explosives.
"Looks like dynamite," Carter said.
Thorn bit her lower lip, she had something to say but she wasn't about to.
Carter reached for his badge, but instead he grabbed one of his guns, Lee grabbed the gun, and Thorn grabbed his. Carter grabbed another one, Lee grabbed it, so Carter pulled out a third gun, and Lee pulled out his own.
"Allright freeze! FBI!" Carter yelled.
The four people turned at him with mean eyes, Lee jumped out to help Carter.
"Freeze, I'm with him," Lee said.
The goons pulled out four guns of their own, they tripped, flipped, and threw Carter and Lee down onto the asphalt. Thorn triggered the gun and stepped out from behind the building.
"It's allright guys, they're with me," Thorn said in English, "it's L.A.P.D. That's Carter and this is Lee."
Carter and Lee looked at each other and exchanged confused faces.
"So now all of a sudden you're speaking English on us huh?" Carter asked as they walked back to the car.
"I'm American you embassy-imbecile, I was born to speak English," Thorn explained.
"Then how come you were talking Chinese on us earlier?" Lee asked.
"Because, there is a huge difference in not speaking and not being able to speak, in your case, you two look like you like to talk. I like to let people talk who like to talk, it helps make it easier to find out how full of crap they are," Thorn explained.
"Great, another you," Carter said.
"What's wrong with that?" Lee asked.
"Nothing, but I'll tell you what's wrong with trying to arrest the city goons, I know them all by stupidity, they're so dumb cuz they went to a public school. They can't even count to see how old they are," Thorn said.
Carter sighed and hopped into the car again, Lee hopped in the passenger seat, and Thorn hopped in the back.
"So Thorn, how do you know Hojun?" Lee asked.
"My mother's brother's cousin's second step half uncle's mother's daughter's niece's sister's daughter used to work with him," Thorn answered.
"That clears things up," Lee said sarcastically.
"So why in the hell do we gotta watch you anyway Thorn?" Carter asked.
"Because the F.B.I is out to get me, but it isn't the F.B.I," Thorn replied.
"Yeah, we know, Hojun told us about that, but don't worry, we'll make sure Leo Abo doesn't find you," Carter assured her.
"He will if that's the case," Thorn argued.
"How can you be sure?" Lee asked.
"Because, that's the way he's gotten away with this for six years, Leo Abo as you know him, isn't even his name. His name is Leaboo!" Thorn explained.
"Well how the hell do you know that?" Carter asked.
"Because, I know who he is, he scrambled his name up so it would spell Leo Abo, that way the police could look far and wide, and they still wouldn't find him," Thorn explained
"So he knows that you' going to blow his cover and that's why he's out to get you?" Carter asked.
"No, he doesn't know, he's out to get me for the emerald," Thorn said.
"Do you know where it is?" Lee asked.
"Yes, but I can't tell until he's caught," Thorn replied.
Thorn took out a compact mirror and looked behind her, cold shivers suddenly went down her back.
"Guys, that's Leaboo back there in the black convertible!" Thorn shrieked.
"What? Moby Dick, that's Leaboo?" Carter asked.
Thorn nodded, Carter shifted the car into hyper speed, he made a crooked U-Turn, and went crookedly up and down. It threw Lee into the back seat with Thorn, only his feet were sticking up, and kicking very heavily.
"Carter! You're the worst driver I've ever seen!" Lee shouted.
"Lee this is no time to be a backseat driver!" Carter said, making a wrong turn in a one way lane.
Leaboo sure knew how to catch the people he was looking for, he had a passenger in the car right next to him. The passenger in Leaboo's car took out a bazooka and shot at them.
"Dammit!" Carter yelled.
"What's going on up there?" Lee asked.
Thorn stuck her head up, the passenger must've been a hit man Leaboo hired to take them out. Then, suddenly, Thorn got an idea.
"Lee, take my backpack and duck down, I'm not taking any prisoners," Thorn said.
"What do you mean?" Lee asked.
Thorn shot up with a gun in her hand, she aimed for the hit man and hit him, he rolled out of the car lying on the ground. Then she aimed again and blew out Leaboo's tires.
"Nice aim, all four of them," Lee said, "Thorn, where on earth did you get the idea to do something that stupid?"
"I watch a lot of Mafia movies," Thorn answered.
"You know that gun looks very familiar, where did you get it?" Lee asked.
"I stole it from Carter's pocket."
"WHAT!" Carter exploded.
"Wait a minute, I stole that gun from Carter, I put it in my shoe," Lee said.
"Then that would explain why you're looking shorter," Thorn returned.
"Man, now I know why Hojun set us up to watch you," Carter exhaled.
Thorn sighed as they headed back to Lee and Carter's apartment.
"I can't believe this, an apartment that's only big enough for one person, we have to make enough room for two, and now there's gotta be enough room for three people, it's impossible!" Carter complained.
Thorn looked around, "I agree Carter, one of us will have to sleep outside on the windowsill."
"Glad to know that you see it that way too," Carter grinned.
"Yeah, pack a pillow Carter, you're sleeping out there tonight," Thorn laughed.
"Shutup you two, we told Hojun we were going to keep you here and we're going to make this apartment big enough for the three of us," Lee said, "whether we like it or not."
"How?" Thorn and Carter asked.
"We force ourselves if we have to," Lee answered.
"So now you're going to start repeating me?" Carter asked.
"I wasn't repeating you Carter, we both spoke at the same time, almost as if we were psychic as is done with twins," Thorn said.
"Or people who think alike," Carter added.
"And they also finish each other's sentences," Thorn finished.
"This is too freaky, I'm going to go take a cold bath, maybe I can wake up from this nightmare," Carter mumbled, slamming the bathroom door.
"So," Lee started, "wazzup?"
Later, after Carter got out of the tub, he walked back into the living room to find Thorn chewing on a couch pillow.
"THORN! I thought I told you NOT to eat the furniture!" Carter shirked.
"You did, but you didn't say, not to eat the furniture pillows," Thorn replied.
"Don't you eat normal food like some chicken wings, baby back ribs, pig's feet and ears?" Carter asked.
"I don't eat soul food Carter," Thorn said.
"I didn't say soul food, I said normal food, the next thing you know you'll be telling me you ate Lee's left shoe," Carter said.
"No, she ate my right one," Lee argued.
Carter screamed out of frustration, then------he got an idea.
"Come with me, I've got an idea," he grabbed Thorn by the arm and took her into the kitchen. He figured that she must eat anything piece by piece, so he tripped her into a chair and grabbed a bunch of food out of the icebox and put it on a tray. "Let's see you screw up eating this," he said, handing her the tray.
"Carter, we've got news, I just heard Hojun say that Leo Abo-------I mean Leaboo was on the lookout for Thorn. He'll be able to recognize her by her sunburn. Which means, if we go out in public, she's dead meat," Lee explained.
"Shit! Does anybody else know about her?" Carter asked.
"A couple of people, but Hojun said that he hired them to keep him informed incase we suddenly became indisposed, or was it decomposed?" Lee responded.
"Allright look, it don't even matter anymore, I'll go get Thorn and we'll take her down to see Hojun and see what we have to do next," Carter suggested, "Just get up, and let's go, we've gotta go meet with Hojun."
End of chapter 3