All language subtitles for The Human Jungle, 1954

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7A1, 7A1, 5A and Union

Streets. Reporting probable homicide.

Female, unidentified, 5A and Union.

Contact the officers.

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Smart. Nice way to go. Busy night, huh?

Normal. Anything to go on?

The cab driver.

Did he do it or say it?

Yeah, you heard it. Where is he?

Right over there.

Hey Pete, give me a big hat.

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It's maybe 12 10, 12 15. I'm just coming

out of a hamburger, joined up the street.

Next block, you know,

what's the name of that--

Never mind the name.

I ain't outside five seconds when

suddenly I hear a scream. I'm petrified.

In all my life, I never heard a woman

scream like that. I hope I never hear--

Then what?

Then what? Then suddenly I see a guy come

tearing out of the alley. He hops in a

car and goes high balling like he's on

fire. Must have burned

a good inch of rubber.

What kind of guy? What did he look like?

I'm a block away. It's pitch black. All I

know could have been you.

Why didn't you follow him?

Officer. I was petrified. I didn't know

what to do. I just

couldn't think quick enough.

Did you get anything?

Just what it looked like. She was slugged

one good hit on the head to the trick.

Identification?

Yeah, right. Receipt from the tower

apartments. No names, no number.

One of these floozy's gonna learn.

She feels worse about it than you do.

Come on, let's take a

look at those skid marks.

[Music] Nice, quiet family

neighborhood we live in.

When's it gonna stop?

What do you think the police

would do something about it?

Police. Nice to bring their kids up here.

The Heights is no place to be.

The Heights is not a right.

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Hi, Steve. Hi.

Here's a dupe on that

homicide, 58th and Union.

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The Heights again?

How'd you figure that out?

Pretty safe guess these

days. What's the squeal?

Homicide.

Great. That thing out there is out of all

proportion, that detail's fouled up.

Talk, talk, talk. Talk is cheap,

especially when you're

on the outside looking in.

Who's on the outside?

You are three piddling munch. You're

practically walking through the door.

While crumbs in your bed, counselor, you

are a lousy smart alley cop.

Let's hope you make a better lawyer.

What are you doing down here? You're

supposed to be uptown at

the Margie Street station.

The shop's closed. I'm off duty.

Who are you kidding, Danny?

Shop's never closed in this business.

What do you want?

It's about those three months, Abe.

What three months?

What you were just saying?

The practice, the law,

am I leaving the force?

Oh, that.

I told Pat I'd have a talk with you

before I came home tonight.

What it is, Abe, I've been having some

talks at the big legal outfit.

Millard Finch and Pierce.

Look at that. They've got a spot for me,

Abe, and they don't want to wait.

This keeps up much longer

or I'll run out of pins.

Abe, I'm asking you.

My heart goes out to you.

Look, I've got troubles of my own layoff,

you and your Miller Finch and Bean.

I've got the whole bloody Fort City Hall,

the Commissioner, and a million hot and

cold running citizens.

Abe, it's a wonderful opportunity for me.

You're just like all the

rest. Everybody wants the police.

They want the work done.

They crucify us when we miss.

But when there's a bond issue for more

officers and more

equipment, they're not around.

When you get a better job and more dough,

you're up to the races.

Well, is he a job? He's going to turn me

into a coffee rummy yet.

I didn't mean that, Danny.

Yeah, sure, Abe.

All right, I know. Maybe

I'm sore. Maybe I'm jealous.

Maybe I should have taken those

correspondence courses myself.

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Yes, Commissioner.

Yes, it was the

Jefferson Heights Precinct again.

I know, Commissioner.

I'll get right on it, Commissioner, on my

way down there right now.

Abe, I told Pat, ride down with me if you

want. We'll talk about it in the car.

I promised Pat I'd be home hours ago.

Call Bunko on the face of the city.

People ain't safe on

the street after dark.

Well, you ought to get spider and pass

your stuff in there.

Look at those reporters. Sometimes I

think they can smell it

like ants on a sugar cube.

Hi, Chief. Hi, Greeny. How's it going?

Hi, Dan. What are you doing up here?

What's up, Chief? What's the deal?

Look, you boys know as much as me. A dam

was murdered, that's all.

Harrison in there won't

talk. He just won't see us.

Well, you can't blame him for ducking.

You boys lately have

been giving him a bad time.

Department got a new policy?

What kind of a stall is it?

Nobody's giving you a

stall. Take it easy.

The public's entitled.

We're servants of the public.

Listen loud, Mark.

Now, let's keep our hat.

He can't intimidate me.

Look, if everybody will calm down, we'll

give you everything soon as we get it.

After all, we think of you people like

members of the family.

You mean play it down?

No, look, Greeny. There's no point in

making a whole hurrah about something

that can't be helped.

Look, everything in due course.

Yours for the call,

boys. Anytime you know that.

All those guys care about

is what will sell papers.

Here's a court turned

down at fifty-thirty.

Oh, hello, hey.

What's up, Chief?

Danny.

Hey, Chief.

Just getting a report on the homicide.

You know that case over on Union Street?

I know about the case on

Union Street. Go ahead.

Well, then the apartment

house manager identified her.

- Billy and Dean. - Billy and Dean.

Nobody. And Dean.

Used to be a come-on

on a dike called a hut.

Sang a little. Probably worked the bar

trade on the site. A lot of them do.

Oh, any prints? Any clues?

What about the getaway car?

The lab's checking on

the time markings now.

Yeah, like Billy mixes off a lot of

friends, you know. All bad.

Could be anyone and

several hundred different guys.

Some stray she picked up

maybe ten minutes before.

Go find him.

Well, you know how

those kind of girls are.

Well, I guess you fellas better to start

checking with the lab.

Yeah, sure, Marty. Only

this murders S.O.P. No mystery.

Tramps, muggers, rapists. The old story.

There was none of that.

These cases are a dime a dozen around

here, like mosquitoes.

All it proves is dames like Billy, Dean

should walk down dark streets.

This was a hit.

- Deposited? - Muggars and

psychos don't use hot cars.

How do you know it's hot?

Check on it. You'll find out.

- Anybody who knew the first thing... -

I'm sure you're it, Danny.

We've covered every

angle. We're right on it.

Whatever it was, we'll

handle it. Don't worry.

I was just suggesting. You understand?

I understand.

I'll wait outside in the squad room.

- Occupation? - Commission agent.

What did that just say, Rudy?

What I said?

You're a bookie, Rudy. For two years,

you've been making a book.

Well, a bookie only makes a commission.

Put down commission

agent. Sounds better. Nicely.

Now I've heard everything. Even the

bookies are getting fancers.

- All right, come on, I'm up here. - Can

I change your luck around here?

I need to change your

luck. You're myself.

Would you learn to play this game,

Bledsoe? In the dark?

Very funny, O'Neill.

Very funny. Come on, Dean.

What do we got here?

- I'll bet you. - Are they 10-bet?

- Deuces still wild? -

Yeah, deuces still wild.

Come on, Rudy. We're going down the hall.

All right, I'll see you.

- You just up a little good, on Danford?

- What's on your mind?

You know what's on my mind.

In there, talking it up real sharp.

- So what? - Keep

standing by on the hall.

- Getting an earful. -

Hey, Lanny, get me that.

- No, wait. - What are you getting at?

- Apple balls. - Cut it out.

You didn't care how bad

you made Harrison look

as long as you got in a

nice, fat plug for yourself.

Listen, I didn't come down

here looking for trouble.

Now you just keep it up.

You'll get your promotion.

I'm a deputy chief out of you.

Danny's quitting the force.

He's going into law practice.

- On the level. - He passed the bar.

Everybody knows that.

Oh, I'm sorry. It's my error.

I said you figured that all wrong.

Here we go.

- Seven shots. - Oh.

Abe's going over the

reports he told me he sent in.

Hey, Danny, what are you

doing down here anyway?

Slimming?

Abe just asked me to keep him company.

Oh?

I was talking with him

about some personal things.

You know, the law. I'm trying

to get away a little earlier.

Oh, sure. See, I think it's great.

You've passed in the bar. Pat must be

real proud of you, huh?

She's kind of happy.

- Guess you know how I feel. - Sure.

I'll tell you, Danny.

Honest, tell me the truth now.

You think I'm sort of

falling down on a job here?

No.

Come on, the truth. You can

tell me. No hard feelings.

Well, I didn't mean it

that way in there before.

This is a tough precinct.

The toughest in the city.

It's true. It is.

Most people don't realize it.

I don't know. Sometimes I

think maybe it's my fault.

Maybe if I could just

put a little more into it.

Abe's not satisfied as that.

I never heard him say a

word against you, Marty.

- You mean that? - Sure.

Thanks. Thanks, Danny.

All right, fellas. What about it?

What about what, sir?

We were just driving

around when these cops...

These officers pulled us over and started

giving us to business.

Any logins driving around?

- There is when you carry an ace. - How

all the guys carry him.

In a rugged neighborhood like ours, you

gotta protect yourself.

Brass nooks? Bottle of whiskey?

The hooch belongs to my brother. He must

have left it in the car.

So help me. You want to smell my breath?

Think I'm being too soft with him, huh?

No.

Think maybe I got more important things

to worry about at this

time, huh? Is that it?

Somebody's gotta worry about him.

Crummy homes.

Crummy lives.

Starting out on the wrong foot.

It's your show, Marty.

Here. Some show.

- Any got records? - Not yet.

All right, I'm giving

you a break. Just once.

But keep your noses clean.

Get the telephone numbers.

I want to have a talk with their folks.

Oh, and here.

They haven't eaten yet.

- Find them some hamburgers

or something. - Okay, sir.

All right, boys. Let's go.

Caught them.

Assault. Robbery.

Assault with a deadly weapon.

Promised. Attempted holdup.

Not bad for a day's work.

What do they think I'm expected to do?

Leave me out of it, Abe.

Nobody asked you, counselor. You bright

boys give me a pain.

What do you want? You promised us a story

on that, Dame Chief.

I got my rewrite man on

the telephone waiting.

All right. Civilian Dean, DEAN.

I'm going to go off. I

dressed at our apartments.

Used to do an act at

the hub. Now get out.

Thanks.

Spritz, you still there?

There's your headline on that murder.

Beautiful actress, slain in love mess.

Yeah, that's right.

I'll make a Roman holiday out of it.

Got them all on me.

Practice, commissioner.

The ever-loving citizens.

I'm a desk man and I'm

scattered over 19 precincts.

Listen, if you can't see what's wrong,

nobody can tell you.

Oh, nothing.

Come on, wise guy, tell me.

Forget it. I've shot my mouth up and off

around here as it is.

You get all the

answers. You know everything.

You're not thinking

about anybody but yourself.

This place is dead in its

feet, can't you see that?

It needs a cathartic. A

shake up from top to bottom.

Come on. What are you getting at?

Harrison, he didn't make this filthy

slum. He's just trying to police it.

He needs good men. More of him. Money.

Sure, I know it. Harrison's a great guy.

And he's got a great heart.

But that doesn't win any wars. Dirty pool

wins wars. That's all there is to it.

You're gonna toss away the manual aid.

You gotta get a street

fighter, not a boxer.

A guy that can breathe some life into

this place and survive.

Where do I find this

superman? What do I do?

Reach in a hat and pull out a name. And

that's your problem.

Oh, now it's my problem. You had the guts

to shoot off your mouth.

What are you trying to do? Needle me?

Why don't you take over the precinct?

Why not? Hey, it'd be a smart move.

Clean up the district. It

would be in all the papers.

Publicity. You'd be a big man.

You wouldn't start your law career with

some punk law clique.

You'd be a full-fledged celebrity.

Lay off, Abe.

You're too smart. You're scared.

You know perfectly well

you just break your hat here.

And that's what you think.

All right, then. The job's yours.

Did you bring me down here

just to put me on the spot?

You put yourself on the spot.

You real mad?

What do you think?

4.30. We had a date for 10.

I know, but something

came up on story, sweetheart.

Hey, you like that?

Real fancy.

Well, I don't feel real fancy.

I feel like a gift-wrapped package

somebody forgot to pick up.

Give me time. I'll get there.

Come on, sit down. You know, I like this

modern gift-wrapping.

You don't have to, uh...

You don't have to guess

what the merchandise is.

So help me, Dan Ford,

if I didn't think you were going to be

the biggest, most

successful attorney in town,

I'd leave you flat.

I'll murder him.

You better...

This negligee set you back $50.

$50? On a cop salary? A lawyer's salary. I'll give you $50. $50? On a cop salary?

On a lawyer's salary.

Besides, you won't get

the bill till next month.

Reminds me, Mr. Finchcourt.

We're invited for cocktails on the 12th.

Let's cab and class out.

Yeah, that sounds great.

Only, uh...

I'm afraid we're going to be

in steerage a little longer.

What does that mean?

Didn't you see Abe?

Yeah, yeah, I saw him.

Well, didn't you

explain to him about the job?

Wouldn't they let you go?

Well, not exactly.

What happened?

Well, you know all that trouble they've

been having at the heights.

Well, Abe asked me to take over the

precinct for a while,

and, well, the long and

short of it is, I said I would.

You let them talk you into it?

Well, he didn't talk me into it exactly.

Look, Danny, I never interfere.

Do I ever interfere?

Only, I just don't understand.

It'll only be a couple of months, Pat.

And then another

couple, and another couple.

Danny, you did it the hard way.

You were no pink-faced

kid going to Harvard.

Correspondence courses, night school,

cramming pages between murders.

Well, you finally made it.

Now why do you want to throw it all away?

Well, they're in a

jam, and I've got to help.

What do you want, Danny?

I married to you for ten years, and I

still don't think I know who you are.

Isn't it enough to be a lawyer?

Wouldn't it be nice for me to have a

husband who came home on time,

who worked regular

hours, a regular, normal life?

What are you looking for?

All right. Let's talk it over.

I'll tell you what I'm looking for.

You'll never win a

case in court this way.

Don't forget there is insignia.

What's that? A knife.

Well, I'm surprised.

Here it is the

captain's first day in the job,

but not a single posy from the boys.

Deal me in.

Sergeant Strauss, Hanks Precinct.

We fixed up your car.

No abandon.

He swiped it and left it on the street.

But we don't know who.

Bring your keys.

We had to tow it in, and you'll have to

notify the Motor Vehicle Bureau.

You hear me denying I know Lily Dean? Of

course I know Lily Dean.

Granted, no contest, but why should I be

involved in a city--

They say you or her boyfriend.

Boyfriend. Right away I'm a one and only.

Guy goes steady with

a girl, one and two--

Who was it? Her boyfriend.

Swattos. Earl Swattos.

Picked him up this morning.

He works at the hot tube.

Legitimate work

captain. Perfectly legitimate.

Got a record on him as long as your arm.

I never got no breaks. Environment.

Was you ever a juvenile delinquent?

Shut up.

When did you last see her?

Oh, Lily, yes.

When did I last see her? How do I know?

I saw her the other night last week.

I seen him all around the hut.

Were you with her last night?

I was with her last

night. I never saw her.

I never heard her ask anybody.

I didn't even go to work last night.

It so happened,

fortunately for me, ain't it?

No. You took the night off.

It so happened I had a

very important appointment.

What appointment?

Captain, it's kind of a personal matter.

Ticklish, you understand.

Why should we drag a

perfectly innocent party into a--

What appointment?

Mary Abbott, Marcy Apartments.

Ask her anything you want.

She'll account for my whereabouts.

She has to.

Is it true?

It just so happened, fortunately.

Want us to hold him?

Captain, I'll only for you out.

Why go to trouble?

Oh, throw him out of here.

All right, I'll--

You there.

Strauss.

That stolen car you were talking about on

the phone just a minute ago.

Just check it with the lab.

The lab?

For prints and tire markings.

Well, the lab made a

record of it, I suppose.

You suppose?

Did you check it?

Well, it was just a stolen car. Some guys

picked it up and dumped it.

Forget that. Get on it right away.

Get down to the lab and don't release

that card we've had to report.

Where's Lanigan?

He's around here someplace.

I just saw Lanigan in the coffee room.

Doesn't he know he's on a homicide case?

All right, Strauss, get going.

We didn't meet the other

night. My name's Dan further.

Oh, Neil.

I thought maybe it was Culbertson.

I've never seen you without a deck of

cards in your hands.

Well, it's been a little slack.

You know what these are? Unsolved cases.

They were here the other night. I don't

know how long before that.

Unslack yourself, O'Neil.

You might pass the word along as a

meeting in the line-up room at 3.

Call detectives, watch

commanders, and squad sergeants.

3 o'clock. And I don't

want anyone showing up late.

There's a policeman who's gonna make a

name for himself or bust.

Danny.

For a lawyer, you're going about this

pretty crudely, aren't you?

Yes.

Considering the

situation in the building.

What situation?

Well, I just thought I'd mention it for

what it might be worth to you.

Yeah, this I read your file. You're the

one man I want with me.

Thanks. You've got

something to say to me, say it.

Well, you know, you've got a little

problem on your hands down here.

You can imagine how they all feel.

What do you mean, Harrison?

Working with a man for four years makes

for a certain amount of loyalty.

You can put that kind of

loyalty right in your eye.

Nobody's grateful for

it and nobody wants it.

If anybody knifed Harrison, his men did

it. The ones who loved him so much.

Nobody down here would dream

of going in and hurt Harrison.

Bunk.

They took advantage of a

soft touch and a soft heart.

They went soft

themselves. Got rotten fat and lazy.

Danny, man for man, I'll match this bunch

against any precinct in the city.

You'd lose your shirt.

Don't forget this is an uptown. We've got

the crud detail down here just because

we've had a little hard luck.

Don't tell me hard luck. I happen to

think people make their

own luck. Cops are people.

As long as I'm around, I don't want to

hear any more about

crud details or hard luck.

From now on, we'll make our own luck.

All right, Danny,

just the way you want it.

Just the way I want it.

That stolen car you wanted me to check.

What about it?

It ties in with the Dean case. The tire

markings are the same as the marks they

found at the scene of the crime.

The car that got away.

Theo is a great hunch, Captain.

- Any fingerprints? -

They're running everything through.

- All right, let me know if

they turn up anything. - Right.

Oh, by the way, Strauss,

that wasn't a great hunch.

I was just following a routine procedure.

You might try doing

the same for a change.

Ah, counselor.

Where do you get off dogging it?

Take it easy, Danny boy. I'm

just having a cup of coffee.

When you're on a homicide, you don't sit

drinking coffee. You don't sleep.

Take it easy. There's

nothing in this murder for you.

- No? - No, Danny boy.

No glory, nothing.

Knock yourself out. There's just a plain

ordinary little murder.

William Dean was a human being. Good,

bad, or indifferent.

In the second place, the name's Danford.

- Captain Danford. - Aye, aye, sir.

You out of your head drinking on duty?

- I make it legal. - You quitting?

You bet. It's not the Army, you know.

You won't get a job guarding grape

crossings. I'll give you a

black eye from one end of the...

Enough! Take Si, you will.

Get this straight, Danford.

It's not the force I'm

quitting. It's you. I like my job.

I especially like it here on the heights.

And I'll tell you why I'm quitting.

There's only one reason.

It's because I pecked you for a phony for

the first time I saw you.

I'm not working for any no-good,

backstabbing, glory...

- Don't rep. - Press it, Flanagan.

Press it. Oh, counselor. I'd be

delighted. For a tin nickel.

You come real cheap.

(Grunts)

Wait a minute. Get that shield back.

You staying on?

Second thought I decided I'd

stick around a couple of weeks.

As long as you'll last at this rate.

- You don't know what a louse I can be. -

No, I know, but I'm curious, Captain.

Two weeks.

Two weeks. I'll sweat it out.

All right. Starting tonight, you put on a

uniform and begin pounding a beat.

- Oh, Danny, hello. - Hello, Marty.

Just clearing out a few

things to just take a minute.

I always buy the groceries from Mads.

I like to buy them early in the morning

when the markets ain't so crowded.

She doesn't get around so good lately.

Trouble with the legs.

Poor girl sometimes when I see her trying

to hobble around like

that, it makes me feel so...

We've been married 28 years.

Always in love.

Makes you kind of attached.

Oh, good luck, Danny.

I mean, thanks, Marty.

All right. Here's the prescription.

First, the radio cars.

I'm putting one-third

of them in mothballs.

And the men who wrote them back on the

streets walking beats.

Where they can see at close range and be

seen at close range.

Second, the detective division.

And the officer who's not working on a

case or is just sitting

around stewing over one

will get special duty.

I don't want to see any men just hanging around the squadron on this. Plenty of scrounging will be done. Third, a new policy in

dealing with criminals.

Get tough. Muss them up.

Two-bit hoods in this area have forgotten

what it means to respect an officer,

and we're going to remind them.

Any time a punk steps

out of line, slap him back.

Now, that doesn't mean that I'm

green-lighting any rubber hose treatment.

Get that straight.

But I'll back up any

officer who has to use force.

Pass that along.

Finally, don't wait for trouble.

Go out and look for it.

I'm going to be the one who's going to be the one who's going to be the one who's going to be the one who's going to be the one who's going to be the one who's going to be the one to talk to

the police.

- Yeah, we'll make it long and pluck.

Hee hee, hee, hee, hee, hee.

He reminds me of the old man.

- Stand for it once, arrest.

Let's give him arrests.

Come on.

Okay, fellas, let's go.

- Go where?

What's the route?

- Vandalism.

Come on, boys.

What's forth?

What'd we do?

Vagrancy.

Suddenly!

- Thanks.

- Hey, what's going on?

- Calm before the storm, Greenie.

- Where is everybody?

- On the streets working.

He wants arrest.

- Track him down.

The boy's a little mad.

- They'll be earthquakes.

- So he finally put a

fire under you, huh?

- Hey, Greenie, tell me something.

You newspaper boys are gonna go laying

for the whiz kid wonder?

- We print the news.

- What do you want?

- Oh, don't get me wrong.

Don't spare the horses for my search.

I'll give you my promise.

I won't bust out crying.

- Vise, vise, vise!

Cut my heart out!

Persecute me!

Stop crying, torture.

- Sit down.

- There's enough evidence on

you to send me up for 20 years.

- I never force a driver's license in my life.

I wouldn't know how to

do it even if I wanted.

- Where'd you get these, Forger?

- I should drop this

this minute if I ever did.

- What were they doing in your house?

- I got personal enemies,

people working against me.

- You're gonna make it easier all around

by giving us a statement.

- Statement?

I'll give you a suit for false arrest.

Shall we take him in

the interrogating room?

- Give me your therapy.

Go ahead.

Get your rubber hoses.

- Who uses hoses nowadays?

It's old-fashioned.

Towels, towels soaked in ammonia.

You think you're suffocating.

You're not, but you think so.

And no marks, no bruises.

- Cut it, Strauss.

I told you I didn't want

that business around here.

- Just a gag, Captain.

- Well, it's not funny.

Not that I blame him if

you did work your over.

It feels like you doesn't

deserve decent treatment.

If I had my wife--

- That's so terrible.

All right, so see, I printed a couple of

funny driver's licenses.

So all right, it's just

licenses that I killed somebody.

- You probably did.

Don't you know that?

All right, you've got his confession.

Book him.

Look, watch your step.

We've got enough on our hands as it is.

We don't want any squawks.

- Okay.

Hello, Captain.

- Oh, the servant of the public.

- That was a fine piece of

advice you gave the youngster.

You're right.

Watch your step.

Because it'd be a pity.

I'd have to spread it all

over the front page, wouldn't I?

- They told me they

brought in that Abbott girl.

The alibi, Swattice alibi.

- Yeah, she's in there waiting for you.

Danny, better go back and

make your peace with them.

Cozy a mother.

These guys can make trouble for you.

We need them.

- But we need a result.

Let's get them.

Miss Abbott?

- Everything Mr.

Swattice told you was true.

I was with him until

the very early hours.

Can I go now?

- Just a minute.

- I can corroborate Mr.

Swattice in every single detail.

You were with him till the early hours.

Where?

- My apartment.

Can I go?

- No.

No, sit down.

I thought Lillian

Deem was his girlfriend.

- They had a falling out.

- When?

- I don't know.

- How long have you known Swattice?

- Long.

- How long?

- Ever since I went to

work at the hut where we met.

- When was that?

- A week ago last Tuesday.

- A week ago last Tuesday?

- We're engaged.

- How much do they pay you there?

- A hut.

Fifty a week.

- That dress costs more.

- Tips.

- Tips from home?

- People like the way I sing.

- Oh, you can sing.

- Hey.

- What do you work

dives like the hut for?

- I'm just waiting for

my rich uncle to die.

- You think it's right

to do that kind of work?

- Which is a cashier

and a restaurant, a diner.

Only made thirty a week and I was always resting on the boss anyway.

So?

Now I make more.

- What do you go

around with Swattice for?

- What's the matter?

He's a perfect gentleman.

- He's a hood.

- Earl?

You don't even carry a gun.

- He was Lillian Dean's boyfriend and

they found her dead

in an alley, murdered.

- Is that part of the questions or are

you just taking a personal interest?

- Okay.

- That it?

- Yes, you can go.

- Thanks.

Here's sweet.

Have you ever been questioned by the FBI?

- Boy.

Pardon me, doll.

- It's all right.

I think you've been took.

- The whole thing is a fishy smell.

- I don't know what.

- What are you talking about, Swattice?

- Yeah, the way he jumped

right out with an alibi.

The way he had it all worked out.

Why did he go to all that trouble if he

didn't have something to be guilty about?

- Maybe he's getting a little nervous

trying to take care of himself.

They do that sometimes.

- We can only bust this Dean case.

At least that board

would look a little cleaner.

We'll get it.

But all those rats and boys are beginning

to bring in somebody who's bound to sing.

- Sharp suitcase you got there.

Let's take a look.

- I'm just home to a friend.

It ain't mine, you see what I mean?

This is your friend of mine.

- Hey, this is your friend.

- He's a crook.

- Nice.

- Nice guy.

He's just like a steal, you know.

[music]

[crowd chattering]

- Hi, young hallway girl.

Hurry up.

I've never sourced a money

policeman in all my life.

- Man's entitled to a phone call.

- What are they trying to do?

Ruin my reputation?

- All right, keep walking.

- Come on.

Hurry it up.

- All right, all right.

What's the charge?

- Vagrancy.

- He's not gonna be

drunk in this orderly.

Oh, Neil, look at this.

Mashing, robbery, and

all this and more to come.

- All you gotta do is

hang out at no vacancy sign.

- Hey, short!

Get me a lawyer with this!

[crowd chattering]

- I'll say one thing for Danny.

He didn't waste any time.

- Just be sure you spell his name right.

- Okay, he's got a full house.

Now what happened?

- What always happens?

What's he gonna do?

Feed him and throw him out.

Arrest.

[door opens]

- Well, what about it?

- Are you crazy?

Expect me to file on a bunch of

half-baked complaints?

- That's just what I expect.

- Danny, my stab is

over-vergous as it is on important stuff.

- What's important stuff?

Murder, bank robbery, grand

larceny, syndicated crime?

Look, this'll all be important stuff

someday unless you play ball now.

- Look, you're a lawyer.

You know that half those charges won't

hold up in night court.

- I don't care.

Let the court toss

them out, but you file.

At least I can hold them in the tank.

- But, look, I'm supposed to clean up assessments.

- I didn't want this job.

I didn't ask for it.

But somebody's gotta do this filthy

rotten work, and this time it's me.

Now I'm gonna clean up that precinct and

you or nobody else is gonna stop me.

- All right.

You and we'll file.

- Throw away the keys.

The DA's filing.

The level?

No kickouts?

- No kickouts.

Just got the word.

- We'll show them now, boy.

- All of a sudden, we got nothing but

enthusiasts on the force.

- What do you know?

What am I supposed to do?

Shoot off Roman candles or something?

Nobody's writing stories about me.

- Well, for Pete's

sake, give the guy a break.

He's gonna do a great job. Anytime, just like he gave Harrison.

Right smack in the neck.

- Hey, Captain.

- Hello, Pottos.

- What's the beak?

- It's a gambling offense, Captain.

- A mistaken judgment.

- I don't mean to knock your offices, but

they picked me up again.

- Throw them in the cooler.

- Hey, Captain.

- Look at me and fingerprint him and

don't let him out

without seeing me first.

- Yes, Captain.

- Get a break down on the

places we tabbed last night.

- That's about it.

You'll find the owners and

employees listed alongside.

- Liquor stores, bars, clip joints,

questionable residences.

Leonard Eustick.

There's a man with a big finger in the

pie, four bars and a pool hall.

You know anything about him?

- Nothing on a book.

He owns a lot of property, has nice loan

business, sticks pretty close to it.

Seems to be pretty clean.

- Don't kid yourself.

A man can't count dirty money without

soiling his fingers.

We'll shake him up and

see how much dust comes out.

- What are you gonna do?

- Reduce some of Mr. Eustick's holdings.

This is Captain Danforth.

Get me Pete Kelly,

the state liquor board.

- I've seen you, John.

Come on, Mary Ann!

- Cute idea, the jerseys.

I give them free.

That's the way I am.

Anybody who works for me,

I want them to be happy.

- Calm nerves, Incorporated.

- Can I help it if I

have a cheerful disposition?

- The world's coming down around his

ears, and he sits there signing checks.

- The world is good for

200 million years, Mandy.

It's a scientific fact.

Right, Mr. Lynch?

- What on earth, Mr. Eustick?

- Danforth adopts get tough policy.

Police cracking down

at Jefferson Heights.

Offensive, gaining momentum.

- Tickles, Mandy, just tickles.

The man is buying himself a reputation

with a few headlines.

A few more nights and

things will be back normal.

- I suppose he gave

you a written guarantee.

- I know human nature.

- Oh, you have to smoke

those stinking things.

- A man lives with his infirmities.

- So give up smoking

if you've got asthma.

- The willpower.

Human nature again.

Everyone has a weakness.

Find it, and you're rich.

- Yeah?

Only some of your bars and

pool halls are gonna close down.

You realize how much I take has dropped?

30%.

- Mandy, when you're in business, you

must expect a few ups and downs.

Uh, right, Mr. Lynch?

- All was assault and a lot of

calculated risk, Mr. Eustick.

- I got dealers and

collectors in the tank.

Tell them about the risks.

- Oh, maybe it's a good thing.

Some of those yokels

put standard cooling.

- Well, don't let

them get too cold in it.

They might try talking their way out.

- Well, let them talk.

What are they going to say?

That they work for gamblers?

Do I run the gambling

joints or the books?

- So you bankroll them.

- Prove it, Mandy.

I'm no syndicate.

I'm just a simple little

man who makes a nice living.

Fame I don't need.

No wire service, no

fancy dens, no big overhead.

I cater to the drags, but I'm happy.

So who can hang me?

- They got Swatas.

He's sitting in jail right this minute.

- So?

- So he slugged Lily.

- Oh, that was a long time ago.

Two or three days already.

And how does that concern me?

- He'll talk.

When it comes to

murder, they lose their nerve.

He'll talk so fast it'll take three

stenographers to take it down.

- Please.

I can stand arguments.

After all, we had a good

year and we should be grateful.

As far as this captain

is concerned, forget it.

Time will take care of him.

And if it'll make you feel any better,

I will take care of

this Swatas, this hothead.

- Oh, what, Miss?

Would you please bring me a phone?

- Yes, leave it to my lawyer.

So I just made the

government $20,000 richer.

My gift to Uncle Sam.

- None of you frighture me.

You're pocket 50 grand a

year anyway, so why pay 20?

Why not keep it all?

- Nandy, when you live in

such a wonderful country,

it's a privilege to pay taxes.

Well, thank you, dear.

- Anything on that

getaway car in the Dean case?

- I just passed the lab.

Nothing yet.

- We've had that car almost two days.

- They've dusted it

inch by inch, no prints.

Everything's smudged.

- We're getting nowhere.

Running through to form.

That's the way it always is.

You start off with a big

noise, all in headlines,

and then everything peters out, and

you're back to normal.

- You're getting action.

- Punks, drunks, bags.

- Nandy, we're not magicians.

- We can only crack

that Dean case, at least.

Aren't the boys moving around?

Can't they get any news?

- Nobody's got anything to say.

- What about Swatas

down there in the tank?

- I talk to him every hour on the hour.

All he wants to talk is "Merry Abbot."

I can't budge him.

- I'll outbudge him.

- You've got to make a complaint.

- I'm confused.

I'm sick.

I want to go home.

- We can't do anything

unless you sign a complaint.

- What's the matter with him?

- Mucked by a dam.

A trial car fished him out

of an abandoned building.

Now we don't want to

even sign a complaint.

- Where did you meet the girl?

- Look, I'm only a little barber.

I mind my own business.

I don't bother anybody.

I work hard--

- You can't get it out of him, Captain,

but he was found in the

neighborhood of that hut.

- The hut?

So all I seem to hear

around here is the hut.

- Say, isn't that

another one of Eustic's places?

That fellow Leonard Eustic?

- He owes the property.

A guy named Mandy runs it.

- Mandy?

- George Mandy leaves the city.

- Why don't you want to

make out the complaint?

What are you afraid of?

- What am I afraid of?

Plenty.

- Go ahead, talk.

We'll give you all

the protection you need.

I promise you, they

won't lay a finger on you.

- What they?

There ain't no they.

It's just my wife.

Are you a married man?

- What's he doing here?

I told you I wanted him locked up.

- He's got a writ.

- What writ?

- Habeus Corpus.

You said you wanted to be informed.

- All right, let him go.

- You see, Captain,

everything comes to an end.

- Who sprung him?

- Some lawyer.

The place where it works the hut.

They sent him down.

- Seems Swatos has

some influential friends.

- Let's take a ride.

- Officer, I'm living a nightmare.

If my wife finds out...

♪ Gonna hold me in

love with someone ♪

♪ But it ain't gonna be you ♪

♪ It ain't gonna be you ♪

♪ No, it ain't gonna be you ♪

♪ Gonna make you sorry

that you broke each ♪

♪ Promise you won't ♪

♪ And you'll lie awake ♪

♪ Cause your heart will break from ♪

♪ Crying out loud ♪

♪ Come and get my affection ♪

♪ But it ain't gonna be you ♪

♪ Cause you couldn't be true ♪

♪ No, I'll dream I've

got a million dollars ♪

♪ And I've got a cherry too ♪

♪ With the one that I find ♪

♪ That you can make up your mind ♪

♪ That it ain't gonna be you ♪

♪ So you double-cross me again ♪

♪ Well, you know

you've lost me again ♪

♪ It took a long

time for me to get one ♪

♪ But it lasts a long time ♪

♪ I'm gonna roll in

love with someone ♪

♪ But it ain't gonna be you ♪

♪ It ain't gonna be you ♪

♪ No, it ain't gonna be you ♪

♪ Gonna make you sorry

that you broke each ♪

♪ Promise you won't ♪

♪ And you'll lie awake ♪

♪ Cause your heart will break from ♪

♪ Crying out loud ♪

♪ Come and get my affection ♪

♪ But it ain't gonna be you ♪

♪ Cause you put me through no harm ♪

♪ I write a lot of

sweet love letters ♪

♪ And I'm gonna mail them to you ♪

♪ But you'll never be missed ♪

♪ Cause man I check

with my lizards there ♪

♪ And it's gonna be you ♪

(audience applauding)

- Yeah, yeah, I know.

- Why don't you watch where you're going?

- They'll wait, twinsies, they'll wait.

- Drop dead.

(audience chattering)

- Start up with the

cops and goodnight church.

Your goose is cooked.

They never leave you alone.

- Best little visit, Mary.

- It's supposed to be private.

A dressing room.

Can't you read?

- We just wanted to see

the place where you worked.

- You'd take an interest.

- Yeah.

- Well, look around.

It's the best place in the street.

- The best?

- Four pieces and one orchestra.

- The man was ruled here this evening.

- Mugs.

- Here?

In the hut?

- Well, this is where it started anyway.

This is where he picked up the girl.

- Raph's stuff in this cup?

That I never heard of.

No.

Little clipping maybe,

but Raph's stuff, no.

- He's beaten up and robbed.

Man, his agent could have

been enough to kill him.

- Well, tell her to the management.

What are you pestering me for?

Don't go breaking my

heart about those old guys.

Did you ever see one of them in action?

I'm trying to argue with a diesel engine.

- Got it all down pat.

- Look, what do you want with me?

I've got a number to do.

I've got to get changed.

Anyway, I've told you everything I know.

- Well, lonely.

- It's the truth.

- Well, I just told you

to say it so you said it.

I've written up wrong stories in my time.

- I like that.

Coming around here,

treating me like a criminal.

- Oh, take it easy.

Nobody's treating you like a criminal.

I just want to have a little talk.

- Is me?

On the level?

- Yeah, I wanted to

ask you to do something.

Kind of a proposition.

- Well, it's all recording naturally.

It, uh, depends what--

- I just, uh, just wanted

you to answer some questions.

- What questions?

- We'd make it worth

your while, I guarantee.

We're never thing to

worry about, I promise.

[music]

- You, uh, mean you

want me to tell you things?

- Yours Wanda's girlfriend.

- Things I pick up?

- You know the set up,

what goes on around here.

You know Lillian Dean.

One of the girls worked

the line just like you

or any of the others.

Something's got to be done.

- You want me to cooperate?

- Yes.

Don't you see with a

girl like you, I could--

I could move hard and fast.

Will you do it, Mary?

- I have a big sigh I'll do it.

What kind of a dummy do you

think you got around here anyway?

- I knew Lillian Dean and I

know what happened to her.

- Who do you think you're

talking to, a ten-year-old kid?

- Shh.

Something, guys.

Just because a girl

doesn't look like a haggard

I think that means she got in her brains

and can't make any conversation.

- What do you want me

to do, fall on my face

just because you're a cop?

- What's a cop?

A guy who steals apples

from the corner stand.

- Okay, go on.

Go on, get out, both of you.

I gotta do a number and

I gotta make a change.

Go on, coppers, get out of here.

- Some of these names

scare the life out of me.

I feel sorry for her

if our words are sore.

I still think she can be worked.

- And you're always messing things up.

- I told you to take it off on

the third note, you dumb boy.

- Oh, shut up.

- I smelled a rat the minute they told me

you wanted to see me in here.

- Never spent any time

at that joint, Lannigan?

- But I?

You mean that clip joint

where they have all the muggings?

- No.

- Yeah, this'll fill you in and it'll

give you two men to work with.

- Why pick on me?

- I thought you might be anxious to get

back in the street clothes for a change.

- It's your smart way

of riding me, Captain.

- It's a job.

Somebody's gotta do the dirty jobs.

- No.

- Never worked vice

squad before in my life.

- That's why I picked on you.

This assignment just

happens to call for a fresh face.

- That's your only reason?

- You're the freshest I've got.

Of course, you can

pass it up if you want.

It's too much for you.

- Listen, anything you

can dish out, I can take.

- And you'll do it?

- Why not?

It'll get me out of

this monkey suit, sure.

- Good. Check with Geddes.

Oh, Lannigan, don't

throw away that monkey suit.

You'll need it when this is over.

(crowd cheering)

- Wanna pay now?

Small as you got.

- I thought you'd let me work on that.

If I can't kill it,

I'll bruise it real good.

- Sonny, he's nice.

He's a good guy. - He is real nice.

Who's the fish?

- Some guy whose father gave

him too much spending money.

- Been here long?

- Doubles.

- Pardon me, Doug.

- Hey, where do you get off?

- I thought I'd make

you pardon, didn't I?

- Mine?

- Help yourself, honey.

There's a whole

plantation where those come from.

- Tobacco man, hmm?

Somebody think you were

in the jewelry business.

- Are you very observant?

Hey, won't you let me buy you a drink?

- No, thank you.

You're very careless.

- I'm careless?

- Flashing that kind of

money in a place like this.

- What, what do you mean?

- You'd be surprised some

of the people work here.

- What's the matter?

- Be surprised.

Say, don't I know you?

- Well, what do you know?

I just about to ask you the same thing.

- Well, you really?

- Is this bad?

Listen, how about that drink?

- Well, I guess I better.

I mean, how are you going

to know who to steer clear of

unless I point out the bad ones?

- Hey, Matty!

(crowd chattering)

- Come on, doll.

Old plantation is calling.

(crowd chattering)

- Now this way, honey.

- I'm with you, doll.

- You sure are.

(somber music)

- Give him a couple of minutes.

(somber music)

(footsteps)

- Over here, Mary.

- Thanks, honey.

Well, let me give you some advice.

Never let a stranger

buy you a free drink.

- Give me your hand.

- What I want to know is

why is it always a calendar

advertising a warehouse, huh?

- Hello?

- You.

- Is that why I'm here?

Did you send that

skunk down there tonight

on purpose to get me?

- That's right, Mary.

We watch everyone.

- I thought it was just routine.

An ordinary, routine pinch.

Why, I don't understand it.

What did I ever do in my life?

- I asked you once in a nice way.

- You asked me what?

- To help me cooperate.

- Well, what could I tell you?

What do I know?

- Where's what as was the other night?

- I told you the truth.

- Why, they got him out of

the tank in such a hurry?

Why, it's so important to them anyway.

Who he works for, Mandy, Eustic.

What the whole setup is

down there, everything.

- Listen, copper,

let's get this straight.

I'm a tramp, okay, but that

doesn't give you any license

to kick me around.

- Take it easy.

- What are you trying to do, bulldoze me?

Look, I'm not scared.

I've been in here before.

I'll get out of here before--

- Shut up.

You listen to me,

Abbott, and you listen good.

You come up with the

stuff I want to hear,

or I'll get enough evidence to

put you in a cell for a year.

- Huh?

- I'll get a makeshift

sheet on you a mile long,

and I'll get the DA to throw every page

in the book catcher.

You ever been in jail in a real rap?

They'll cut your hair.

You'll wear gray cotton.

No lipstick, no perfume, no boyfriends.

Just walls.

Now think it over. She'll cave in.

By morning, she'll be

hollering her head off.

Here, you don't like

your fingers on this.

Come on with me, Mary.

Now, sit in there.

Now, sit back.

Hello, Captain.

Wait, I'll walk out with you.

You still around?

You went off duty an hour ago.

It's just I hear you have a hot lead.

Oh, we'll see.

Don't get yourself worked up.

You never know.

Sometimes it goes good, sometimes bad.

We'll see how it is in the morning.

Well, nice night.

Yeah, the air feels fresh and clean.

You better get home and get some sleep.

Young fella like you won't get that desk

duty for another 20 years, you know.

I know.

Good night, Captain.

Good night.

Stop!

Police!

Stand by fire!

All right, come on.

Come with your hands up and keep them up.

All right, don't shoot.

Come on, let's go.

Over here.

Oh!

You killed my husband!

You killed him!

He did it!

He killed him!

I'm not the son of a bad fire.

Young man in a prime of life.

I'm a police officer.

I fired high.

I thought it was a warning shot.

Yeah, you give them a gun

and they do whatever they want.

Hi.

Hi.

I'm late again.

I know.

It's perfectly all right with me, but

don't you sleep anymore?

How are you, sweetheart?

I had a big day today.

I think I finally got things going.

This thing works right.

I can make some real headway.

Wait.

I got kippers, the kind you like.

Oh, great.

Shall I open them?

Sure.

See what it is, Pat, down there, is it?

There are one or two or three fellas that

are running the bulk of the grip.

That means with one good, hard shot, I

could clean out a good

part of that trouble.

Come on.

What's the matter?

Nothing.

I picked up a girl, one

of those dimes down there,

and before I'm through with her, she's

going to tell me a good lot of the stuff

that I want to hear.

I got to see her, Pat.

Hard, boiled, and so young.

What are you looking at?

Nothing.

Only sometimes I see you

so excited, so wrapped up.

I don't know. I get afraid.

What do you mean, afraid?

I don't know.

Well, you think I

shouldn't be so rough on this kid?

How can I tell? What do I know about her?

Oh, Pat, what a sap I am coming home and

talking about my work.

What did you do all day?

Nothing. What do I do?

I clean up the house. I went shopping. I

talked to my mother on the phone.

Really?

I've been talking to Mother

every day for the last ten years.

Oh, yeah.

Well, you see, this kid, this nightclub

girl, is being used as

an alibi in a murder case.

I've been helping a man today.

A bike can crack that alibi.

There's no telling where I...

Rich old guy, orders of

money. Eight-five years old.

What?

Pat.

Just forgive me, will you, have I?

I've got it in my hand. I

think I'm really ready to go.

(SIREN WAILING)

Hey, Brown, call up.

No, I thought you were just with him.

I left him at one at the commissioner's.

He said he'd call me as

soon as he got definite word.

Did they bring in Swaddus?

Forget Swaddus and all that for a minute.

She got yourself to take care of.

You talked to Mary Abbott this morning.

I went down to City

Hall. Are they nervous?

Sure, they're nervous.

Did you see the papers?

Those fellows have to worry about

elections, votes, the facts of life.

It'll work out, Bob. What about Swaddus?

He'd done all waiting for

you. They just brought him in.

- Did you talk to Abbott? - You don't

have a chance, Nanny.

- You're wasting your time with her. -

How can you be so sure?

Last night, all right, you had her go on

this morning with that baloney

and the papers. She got her nerve back.

You know how they are.

This thing had her come along just now.

Why do they do it, Bob? Why are they

always so anxious to knock the police?

Just to have it, I guess.

Yes, Stanford. All

right, put him through.

Yes, Abe.

Now, wait a minute.

Didn't you show them the reports?

They're absolutely true.

This is strictly a clean kit.

It was an accident, a fluke.

Yeah, yeah, I know about the

commissioner's side of it.

But don't you see, Abe, how can I get

these crooks down here on the run

if they know I'm

being investigated myself?

You're tying my hands.

All right.

That eager beaver, Strauss,

would have to throw a wrench.

I did a job for you, huh? A beaut.

You would have to walk in

just when I was sounding off.

It's all right, Captain.

Believe me, that's the least.

Well, don't eat your heart out.

You know how your mind works.

You'd think if you'd only turn up the

other street instead of that one,

if you'd gone to a movie.

If? It happens. You didn't mean to do it.

It's one of those things.

He was a young guy. Not even 30.

Three little kids. Little girls.

When you're fighting a

war, people get hurt.

Sometimes nice, innocent people.

And don't kid yourself that's what you're

doing here, fighting a war.

Soldiering and being a cop are both

dirty, dangerous jobs.

There's just one difference.

People love soldiers.

They don't love cops.

All right, I got a job to

do, and I'm gonna do it.

Hearings are no hearings.

The newspapers, the

commissioner, I don't give a hang.

I'm beginning to resent

this for a third time.

It's getting a little monotonous.

- Hey, Captain, what's

up? - What's up, Swaddus?

I got blood spread. I'll have a stroke.

- News. - That wonderful alibi.

The Dame, the girlfriend, Mary Abbott,

the old cock-eyed story.

It all blew up right in your face.

The truth. The truth.

What are you talking about?

I was with her all the

time. Who says different?

- She says. - Who says?

The Dame, the

girlfriend, Mary Abbott. Mary.

She came clean this morning.

Oh, I am laughing. What a game.

Use your head, Swaddus. I'm

talking for your own good.

Boo! Don't I know. It's a trick.

It's the oldest trick in the

books. Cops always come clean.

No, Swaddus. She's coming clean.

Everything there is to

tell. Save your breath.

The heat's on you and

you're taking out on me.

You need a goat. Well, it

just won't happen to work.

I don't scare, see.

You're gonna be left high and dry,

Swaddus, all by yourself.

I talk. Talk your head off.

You know when I believe you?

I believe you when that

ceiling up there turns platinum.

Figure that out for

yourself? You don't have to go by me.

Who is she?

What kind of a dame did

you pick to stand up for you?

How long have you known her?

What, does she come from a fine family?

What are you two,

head over heels in love?

Look, Swaddus, wouldn't she throw you to

the dogs for a pair of nylons?

Don't you see, Swaddus? To you, Lily Dean

was a dame, a troublemaker,

to Mary Abbije's an oil well.

Don't mix me and Lily Dean.

You realize what you're saying?

You realize what

you're trying to pin on me?

That's right. Murder. The chair.

It's a frame.

No, no, Swaddus. It's no frame. You did

it. You made a bad move.

You put your life in the hands of a

cheap, ordinary tramp.

Bluff, I ain't listening.

It doesn't have to be the chair, Swaddus.

I don't hear you.

Why should you burn? Do

what the smart ones do.

Talk. Turn states' evidence.

Tell us who was in it with you.

Now, think it over.

Bluff, you've got nothing on me.

If you had, then why

don't you lock me up?

We'll get it all we need.

Well, here, put him

on. Throw me the cell.

I don't want you to sell. I

want you to think it over.

For your own good. For the

good of everyone concerned.

I can't get that just on

you, Swaddus. I want the rest.

The people you work

for, the whole arrangement.

And I want you to come walking in here

when you're ready and willing.

All right, take him down to the process

room, look him over,

and see if he's got

anything on him, and let him go.

Put a man on him. I want

to know every move he makes.

Where he goes, what he does, who he sees.

All right, but don't you

think you ought to prepare?

Prepare for what?

You have these hearings coming up. You

got to get a case ready, you know.

You're a lawyer.

I'm not a lawyer now. I'm a policeman.

I've got to get results.

That's the only answer I can make.

Well, isn't that right,

Bob? Doesn't that make sense?

Yeah.

Watch, Swaddus. Get word

out that Mary's talking.

Get it out on the

grapevine. Steam him up.

We've got to make him crack up. Got to

force a break somewhere.

I'll get it on the

grapevine. Don't you worry.

I'll steam him so high you'll fizzle.

I'm sweating blood. You guys

sit there drinking cocktails.

Please, Swaddus.

I'm the one in a hot spot. Listen, if you

think I'm going to burn...

- Be calm. - She can't do you any damage.

Yeah. Why are you so

positive she's going to talk?

What's the matter with him? What are you

arguing with me for?

Don't you understand?

He's got a locked up damper.

He's in bad trouble.

He needs a conviction.

Don't you read the papers?

Don't you know what's going on?

Be calm. It's a blessing in disguise.

What's a blessing?

The opportunity of a lifetime.

Nothing bad happens without something

good being attached to it.

Mandy, take him for a walk.

Wait a minute.

Nobody's giving me a brush.

No brush off. Now,

listen, everything's arranged.

- Don't get excited. - What's arranged?

We got you out, didn't we? And we get

your lady friend out, too.

That's what you want, isn't it?

Rotten dame.

Now, go with Mandy.

Everything will be all right.

Very nervous person. High strung.

So let me get it straight.

You guys were hauled in when this

crackdown started, right?

- Yeah. - Right.

- That's right. - What were you?

Nothing. Uh...

- You can see. - The car's tripping.

Nothing at all. Just a

little after-hour boozing.

- You shared the same cell? - Yeah.

- What'd they do to you?

- Nothing. They let us go.

Okay. Is 50 now?

50 more when it's over.

But don't any of you guys cross me up.

Okay, Matty. Give them a sample.

Don't get carried away with your work.

(Grunting)

Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole

truth, and nothing but

the truth to help you guys?

- I do. - Be seated.

You may proceed with

the witnesses as well.

Now, sir, will you

please state your name?

- Dr. John Ayers. - And your address?

1251 South Smithwood Drive.

Now, what is your

profession or occupation?

Doctor of Medicine.

Are you licensed to

practice medicine in this state?

I am.

And how long have you

been practicing medicine?

What do they got on now?

I've got some doctor

testifying for three punks.

What's that all got to do with Struts?

Search me.

Did Swatter see him? Mandy and Eustach?

Yeah. Clearly said they

were together for an hour.

Danny.

And of course you gave them a thorough

physical examination.

Yes, sir.

X-rays too?

Yes, sir.

Then on the basis of your physical

examination, laboratory tests and X-rays,

it is your opinion, doctor, that these

three boys did suffer severe

internal and external injuries,

caused by beatings, at the approximate

time of their incarceration.

It is.

Wait a minute. We never laid

a finger on these three punks.

Everything in order.

Please be seated, Captain.

Can't you see this as a rigged up thing?

Captain Danforth, I can assure you that

this Board of Inquiry is interested in

getting at the complete truth,

and you'll be heard.

You may proceed, Mr. Wallace.

Now, if you'll look

closely at these two photographs,

would you say in your opinion that these

bruises could have been caused

by beating with a rubber hose?

Yes.

All right. Now, just one more question.

Were these injuries administered

supposedly as a

punishment, something you had done?

No. They slapped us

around for the heck of it.

It was just having some

fun. It was kind of a party.

Now, when Captain Danforth took over the

precinct, he announced a new policy.

What was that?

Remember you're under oath.

Well, he said to be firm and that too.

Wasn't the exact wording

"get tough and mess him up"?

Oh, well, yes, but he

didn't go through it.

You've answered the question, thank you.

And he tells me they'll shove a towel

over my face and douse it with ammonia

till I can't breathe no more.

And the good thing is

they don't leave no marks.

Say, serving time's a

pleasure compared to that.

He said he wanted to crack down hard.

Arrests, he says. The

Captain wants arrests.

Get tough.

From this pattern, there emerges the

picture of an ambitious man, perhaps an

overly ambitious man,

who was determined to make

his mark at almost any cost.

A man who was quite

sensitive to the value of publicity.

He drove his officers.

Where there were no criminals, he

manufactured a whole supply of criminals.

Where there was no evidence, he knew how

to get evidence or confessions.

And from this pattern, surely,

inevitably, what was bound to happen,

what in fact did happen,

the wanton, the totally unnecessary, the

totally inexcusable

slaying of an innocent man,

a citizen, husband,

father of three small children.

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It didn't be end of the world.

No.

I'm not going to stand around washing

your beach yourself over the head.

All right, just for licking its finch.

Sure.

You passed the bar. You

wanted to be a lawyer.

Why don't you call up Mr. Finch?

That job must still be open.

Why couldn't even get my

foot in the front door?

Don't you see, Pat,

I'm spoiled merchandise.

There are lots of law firms.

What a laugh.

Everybody thought I was

out to make a reputation.

There'll be a big shot.

We could move.

What?

Leave town. This isn't the

only city in the country.

No.

Why not? We could make

a fresh start some day.

I said no, Pat.

No, not my husband.

He was born a cop and he'll die a cop.

I can see where I'm going to have a

lovely time with you

the next couple of weeks.

Hello, Pat. Danny busy?

Yes, he's busy stewing,

eating himself up alive.

Hello, Pop.

Sit down. Join the wake.

How's the kid taking?

Strauss? Not bad.

Sure was a big help to him.

Who was that guy anyway, that lawyer?

Oh, you mean a guy

that did all the spouting?

Yeah, where'd he come

from all of a sudden?

Houston's man used to commande their all

in us together just as you thought.

I had him right in my hands, ready to go.

Another week, another day or two.

Look at him.

Pat.

Why didn't you stop

fighting? It's over. You lost.

There's no way you can do it. Leave me alone, Pat.

I'm sorry, sweetheart. Forgive me.

Bob?

Yeah, what is it?

What about the girl now? Mary Abbott?

They got a court order.

We've got to let her go tonight.

You realize the fix she's in.

Swattice?

Yeah, he's been hanging around her house

all afternoon, watching for her, waiting.

Clearly he told me on the phone.

You laid it out for him, all right.

That screwball maniac's got a set and he's mine now that she ratted on him.

That his life's not with a nickel as long

as she's still around.

What do you want me to do about it?

What can I do?

I don't know.

Talk to Rowan, give her protection, get

her out of the state, anything to keep

Swattice away from her.

No.

No.

Let him get together.

Don't say anything to

Rowan or anyone else.

Don't say anything to the

girl. Just let her out tonight.

She'll go walking right

into her grave, Danny.

Yeah, but we'll watch it. We'll be on top of it all the time. We'll do everything humanly possible.

Don't you see, Bob, when they get

together and they start scrapping it,

it'll all come out, the whole deal,

everything we have to have.

What do you think you're going to do?

This girl is a human

being. She might be killed.

It's our only chance,

Pat. We've got to do it.

You don't really care.

You want what you want and it doesn't

make any difference.

Who gets hurt or how

many people get killed?

You've got to show the

world what a big man you are.

All right, go ahead, show them.

Danny, I feel sorry for you.

I feel sorry for myself.

Come on, Bob, let's go.

It's in him, Pat. He can't help it.

But always remember this. If anything

goes wrong, if anything happens with that

girl that's slapped in jail

for 20 years and he knows it,

he knows it, Pat, that he's going to head

anyhow and take his chances.

He's got to.

You didn't have to get

into this thing, Strauss.

Try and keep me out.

We need him. All the men we can get. I

wish we had one or two more.

I know. How about the girl?

They're holding her at the station on

1030. That ought to give us time enough.

You get a squad car to drive her home?

Just as you said to the door. You get the

apartment next to hers?

Yeah, I married a couple. I sent them to

a show and got them a room and a hotel.

Where's Swaddus?

Over at the hut.

The hut?

Yeah, there's some kind of

a celebration over there.

You ought to be holding a block party.

All right, Strauss, go

down there. Take over.

Stay on him. Don't let

him out of your sight.

Don't worry.

What are you doing here?

Nothing.

He's passing by.

Smile. Is there some kind of a private

fight or can an Irishman join in?

You know what you're

letting himself in for?

All right, let's go.

[music]

The spiked microphone sure come in handy.

Yeah.

Yes?

Hello, Strauss.

Well, Swaddus is here.

Now, he isn't making a move.

It looks like he might

be set for the night.

Yeah, the place is jammed. Big crowd.

Hold it a minute, Strauss.

He says Swaddus hasn't made

a move. What do you think?

Maybe I got the wrong idea. Maybe he's

not worried about her at all.

I don't know. We may be beating our brains out for nothing.

But Swaddus was hanging

around here all afternoon.

Maybe he's just taking his time.

You don't think he got

wires, do you, Danny?

Strauss, listen.

What? No, no, I'm

positive. He didn't spot anything.

Yeah, yeah, I told

you. The place is jammed.

Everybody tanked up.

Yeah, yeah, I'll stay right with him.

Yeah, sure. I'll call you back.

[grunts]

[grunts]

Danny.

Thanks for the ride,

boys. See you around.

She's coming up.

Oh, oh, hello, Mary.

Hi, Martha.

Say, Mary, I got a message here for you.

Oh.

Party. Right now I can use a party.

Yeah, okay.

No sign yet.

Party!

Danny, quick.

Come on.

42 Drig Street.

Have you seen Mary Abbott?

Yeah. She just went out that way.

I gave her a phone message.

They said it was very important.

I should tell her as soon as she come in.

It was a party.

Oh, where? What was the address?

Well, I don't know. I wrote

it down on a piece of paper.

Let me see if she threw it

somewhere. There, there it is.

These girls always go into parties.

42 Drig Street. Okay, Bob, listen.

Call the station.

We've got no choice. Code 3 all units.

Gotta flood that place with men.

Let's go, Annika.

What kind of party?

Hey, wait a minute. This ain't no party.

Hey, me and her dress and I drove.

It's crazy.

You're racking, Dave!

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(TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWING)

Help! Help!

Okay! Okay, brothers!

Take care of the girls.

(TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWING)

(TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWING)

(TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWING)

All right. All right, don't shoot.

Don't tell me anything.

Anything you want to know.

I'll tell you all about

Eustace. Don't kill me, please!

Okay, that's it. You

should send the cars back.

You should check on

Strauss. He'll be all right.

Good. Get Swatas down to the station

house and the girl, too.

Okay.

Russell-Upson, this is an agro-person.

Get it all down while it's hot.

And don't let him forget about Eustace.

I understand. You

coming back to the station?

Not tonight. I want to let Pat know

everything's all right.

How about tomorrow

morning? I'll be there tomorrow.

Matter of fact, Bob,

I'll be there from now on.

Good night, Captain.

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