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Chapter 2 Bosco and Sully
Bosco and Sully are riding together on patrol. Sully is driving and Bosco is bored.
"Man, this is the longest shift I have ever worked. Why don't we drive over to a hundred and fifth and rouse some dealers?"
Sully gives him a disgusted look. "No. Just relax and enjoy a quiet shift."
"I'm bored to death. I wanna do something."
"Ok. We can pull over and write some parking tickets."
"Oh give me a break. There's more important things we should be doing for the community, like bringing in drug dealers."
"And I'm not gonna go looking for trouble."
The radio comes to life and calls for a unit to go to Comp-u-bank at twenty five hundred Arthur. They are reporting a suspicious person in the bank, and a possible robbery in progress.
"There we go." Bosco says excitedly as he calls in that they are responding.
They pull up at the bank and hurry in. The bank manager meets them inside and points to a dark haired man leaning on the counter where customers would fill out their deposit and withdrawal slips.
"He came in about a half an hour ago. He sat in the chair for a while as if he was waiting to speak to a financial advisor, but when they offered to see him next he declined. He said he didn't need help, he was just looken around."
"Just looking at what?" Sully asks.
"We don't know. That's why we called you. He got up and went over to the counter and is just waiting there. He started to fill out a slip, but never came to a teller's window. Frankly, he's making us a bit nervous. We'd like you to get him to leave."
Bosco and Sully share a glance and then walk up to the man. "Excuse me, sir...can I see some ID?" Sully asks.
The man smiles and says, "You're wondering where you've seen me before, right?"
"No, have you been arrested before?"
"No, but I was a mugger once, and recently I was a doctor."
The officers give each other a confused look and Sully says, "Ok doc, why don't you show us some identification, something preferably with a picture, and then we can give you a lift to the hospital."
"Yah, Bellevue." Bosco adds.
"I don't have a photo on me but I can give you an autograph." He takes a deposit slip from his pocket and writes 'To my biggest fans, Joey Tribbiani'.
Sully takes it from him and reads it. Bosco looks over and suddenly he pulls out his gun and yells excitedly, "All right get your hands in the air!"
Joey quickly puts his hands up and says, "Whoa...hold on now. I'll give you one too."
"What are you doing?" Sully asks confused.
"Turn the paper over Sul." Bosco responds.
Sully does and written on the back of the paper is 'this is a hold up, put all your cash in the bag' then the words 'the bag' are crossed off and replaced with 'my hand'.
Sully turns the paper around and shows it to the frightened man and says, "Can you explain this?"
"Yah...I can explain. See I wrote that but then I realized I didn't have a bag so I had to change it."
"That's all I need to hear. Turn around." Bosco pulls his cuffs out and attempts to place them on Joey.
"Hey wait...wait. I get it, you think I'm really here to rob the bank, right?"
"And this is where you're gonna try and convince us you were not, right?" Sully says annoyed.
Joey smiles and says, "This is great. Damn, I'm a better actor than I thought."
"You're an actor." Bosco says dryly.
"There ya go. Now it's comen to ya, right? You've seen me on TV. I've got my own show called 'Joey'"
"Umm...no. Turn around and put your hands behind your back."
"Wait let me show you my screen actors guild card." He reaches back for his wallet and it's not there. "Oh nooo." He says embarrassed. "I guess I forgot my wallet, but I was in a movie once, as an extra."
"Let me guess, 'Dumb and Dumber'. And you played the second guy."
"Hell no. I'm better looking than that guy."
"Turn around and put your hands behind your back." Bosco growls. "I'm not gonna tell ya again."
Joey steps away from Bosco and waves his hands frantically. "No wait. I swear to God, I'm an actor and I'm just trying to research my character."
"You don't look like Winona Ryder." Sully quips.
"No, I'm Joey Tribbiani. My show is called Joey and I play an actor."
"So you're not really an actor, you just play one?" Bosco says.
"Yes...I mean no."
"I thought you said you were researching a character? What does playing an actor have to do with casing a bank?" Sully asks.
"Ok, I'm playing an actor, who gets a part as a bank robber, so I'm practicing being an actor who is trying to research the part he has to play...as a robber...as the guy that I play in the show...uh...that I act in."
"What the hell does that mean? Never mind, put your hands behind your back, you can explain it at the house." Bosco says impatiently.
"No, no, no, wait...let me call my agent Bobbie, she can verify who I am."
"No problem, you get one phone call when we get there. You can call Bobbie, or Matlock or Perry Mason for all I care."
Joey pulls away from Bosco again and says desperately, "Wait...I know how I can prove it to you. Please...Let me show you this. This will prove I'm just acting."
Sully sighs heavily. "Alright...show it to us."
Joey reaches into his coat, pulls out a gun, points it at Sully and pulls the trigger.
Sully only has time to twist to his right in an attempt to dive out of the line of fire. He lets out a loud yell as he falls to the ground, and while pulling his pistol, it fires a round that smashes the large plate glass window in the front of the bank.
Bosco hollers "GUN!" as he steps back and draws his weapon. Everything happens too fast for Bosco to even yell freeze, yet it all plays out in slow motion in Bosco's eyes. He sees the barrel of the gun being drawn from Joey's coat, and as he raises his own gun, he sees Joey squeeze the trigger. Bosco fires twice in an attempt to stop the man from killing his partner, striking him with both rounds, one to the arm and the other in the shoulder.
Joey seems to spin slowly in Bosco's direction. His eyes open wide in shock as something pops out of the gun and unrolls into a flag with the word 'bang' written on it in big letters. Joey stands there for a second, says "Dude...gag gun." then he swoons and falls to the floor.