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Mr. Wells?
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- Yes, Mrs. Schmidt?
- You've got company, Mr. Wells.
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That's some bender you've been on, pal.
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They're gonna have to put a night shift
on Jack Daniel's just to keep up with you.
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Mrs. Schmidt, call the police. 485-2581.
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Tell them to get an ambulance here fast.
Tell them we got a dying man.
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Police emergency?
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Can you send an ambulance?
We've got a man here. I think he's dying.
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The address is 1405 Beechwood.
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It's not as bad as the time in San Diego.
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Ira, I got a deal for us.
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Harry, who did it?
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It's a chance for us to make a lot of dough.
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Harry, you're dying. Tell me who did it.
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How did it happen?
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Don't worry, Ira, I'm cutting you in.
Fair deal.
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Just don't try to throw a scare into me.
It won't work.
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I'll lay it all out for you.
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Just get me to a hospital.
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God damn you, Harry!
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Letting somebody walk up
and drill you like that...
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point-blank.
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Nobody can palm a.45.
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Jesus Christ.
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You never had the brains
God gave a common dog.
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Sorry you're going off, pal.
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You were real good company.
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The best.
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The very best.
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Margo, that's him.
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Jeez, Charles,
he doesn't look so hot to me.
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Let me tell you, kiddo,
Ira Wells used to be one of the greats.
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Whatever it is, Charlie, the answer is no.
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What do you mean no?
Did I say a word? Did I?
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- No.
- Yeah.
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Ira, Margo. Margo, Ira.
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- Mr. Wells...
- Margo here's a pal of mine.
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How do you feel about cats?
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- I beg your pardon?
- Cats. How do you feel about them?
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I'm not sure.
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What I mean is that
somebody stole Winston.
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- Somebody stole who?
- Winston, my cat.
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Somebody stole him.
I have a picture of him.
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- What the hell is she talking about?
- I wanna show it to you.
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See, Brian stole Winston.
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And he said he would strangle him
if I don't pay him the money.
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Margo owes this guy $500 for a long time.
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Come on, Charles,
six months is hardly a long time.
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He gets PO'd at her...
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and steals the cat and threatens to kill it
if she doesn't give the dough.
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- So pay him.
- I can't pay him.
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I don't have the money to pay him.
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I see. You want me to find the guy
that stole your cat and bring it back, right?
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- Thanks, pal.
- He's easy to identify.
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I can't help you out.
Try the fire department.
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- I'm out of the business.
- His collar is...
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Come on, this is the kind of play
you can handle easy.
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Mr. Wells, if it's money...
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I had planned to offer you $25.
I have it right here.
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- Charlie, how long have I known you?
- I don't know, 16, 17 years.
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In all that time, did you
ever hear of Ira Wells taking a two-bit job?
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I heard what you said.
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This is not a two-bit job.
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I mean, if I offended you,
I'm very sorry, and I apologize...
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because I didn't mean to offend
the great Ira Wells.
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Charlie, I want you to know
I appreciate you coming to Harry's funeral.
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I enjoy talking to you.
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Maybe I don't act like it, but I do.
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There aren't many guys left
from the old days.
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I think you ought to teach your pal here
some respect for her elders.
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Yeah, well,
maybe you should learn a little respect...
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for other little creatures
that are walking under your...
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- Where are you headed?
- I'm going to the track, Hollywood Park.
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This little kitty is just a little honey bun!
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Give this little cat a break!
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It's Bank Vault going away
by a length-and-a-half.
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Wild Chase is second by four lengths.
Easy Victor, on the inside, is third.
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Kewpie Doll and Top Target are tied.
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The rest of the field is well back. Down
the course Bank Vault pulls away.
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Wild Chase is leading.
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Easy Victor and Kewpie Doll
unable to close any ground.
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... and Kewpie Doll is the fourth horse.
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Timing the race for six furlongs,
covering three-quarters of a mile...
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one minute, ten seconds flat.
In the winner's circle is Bank Vault...
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with Hollywood Park's leading apprentice
jockey, Benny de Angelino...
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getting his fifth in the current leading.
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And for those looking for a hot bet
on Friday the 13th...
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this might have been the horse
they were looking for luck on the 13th.
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All right, Charlie, give out with it.
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I thought you was going to the track.
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How long has it been
since I've seen you, Charlie?
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Close to a year, isn't it?
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Somebody puts the freeze
on Harry Regan...
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next thing I know, you show up
at Harry's funeral with some dolly...
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and a song and dance about a stolen cat,
and all that hot comedy.
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What's it all got to do with Harry?
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Harry was working for the dolly.
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Are you telling me that Harry
got himself killed on account of some cat?
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Listen.
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I know Margo maybe six or seven years.
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Used to be a client of mine.
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One night, a couple of weeks ago, she
comes into this bar where I'm working...
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Just sort of temporary.
The talent business is slow.
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Anyway, it turns out that she's mad as hell
about this guy stealing her cat.
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I'm listening...
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and all of a sudden
I remember Harry Regan.
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And I think to myself,
"He's still in the business...
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"if there's any business left for him to do."
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He took the job.
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So he finds this guy that stole the cat
and starts to follow him.
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- Yeah.
- Who is this guy Harry was tailing?
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I wouldn't know him
from a hole in my sock.
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The dolly?
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- The dolly? What about her?
- Where does she live, Charlie?
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Some place called La Paloma...
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over on Franklin, near Vermont.
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That's where you live, isn't it, Charlie?
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Yeah.
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As we begin to meditate...
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take a deep breath.
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Charlotte, listen to me.
Tonight is important.
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I don't want you to get uptight about it.
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Because this guy books
a lot of Holiday Inns all over the country.
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I think it's a good place to start.
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I mean, it's a good place to work out
a lot of problems.
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You're gonna be absolutely terrific tonight.
Who's taking you?
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- What's he gonna wear?
- Imagine the joy...
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Wait. I'll tell you what.
I think he should wait outside.
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No, because that's very important.
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I'm telling you, the entire picture,
the entire impression, is important.
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Charlotte, this is another
self-destructive act, in my opinion.
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Listen, if I am gonna handle your career...
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and if I am going to be...
Wait a second, Charlotte.
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Charlotte, listen, I got to go.
No. Somebody just walked in.
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I'll see you at 10:30.
You're gonna be terrific.
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Think positive. Okay, bye-bye.
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Why don't you just come in
and make yourself comfortable?
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... descending into the boundless water...
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as it rises over...
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your tired, weary body.
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You begin to relax.
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Harry Regan was a pal of mine
close to 24 years.
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Whoever it was that killed him
is gonna be goddamn sorry.
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Mr. Wells, I can understand
your feeling that way.
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I mean, as an actress,
I understand it as a motivation.
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- What about this guy who took your cat?
- Brian Hemphill.
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He's this guy, he's really sort of a tuna.
He just hangs around, you know.
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And we used to have this thing going,
kind of a sexual interlude.
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It never really came to anything.
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Now Brian and his friend
sometimes give me money...
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to schlep things to this guy in Bakersfield.
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- Things? What things?
- You know, things.
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Material things.
I mean, worldly possessions:
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Washing machines, TV sets,
clock radios. Things.
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Did it ever cross your mind
these things might be hot?
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Who's to know? I mean,
I'm not by nature a curious person.
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I'll bet.
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- I mean, go with the flow.
- That's what I always say.
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This guy in Bakersfield,
he paid you off in cash, right?
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Yes.
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Then you'd bring the dough to this punk,
Brian, then you'd get your cut?
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Yes.
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Only on this last trip, you decided you
wanna keep the money yourself, right?
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So Brian gets mad because
he wants his dough. So he steals your cat.
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- And you go crying to Harry Regan.
- It was just a loan.
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I did not take the money, it was a loan,
just till I get my dress business going.
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- Your dress business?
- I design all the clothes I make.
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- I thought you were an actress.
- Are you kidding? I did the whole star trip.
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I just never could learn
how to push myself, you know.
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I don't like to go begging.
I don't want anybody to do me any favors.
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I just never could learn
how to play the Hollywood game.
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My shrink says
that I'm a very conflicted personality.
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- Jesus Christ.
- But my astrologist...
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What is that supposed to mean?
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Back in the '40s, this town was crawling
with dollies like you.
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Good-looking cokeheads trying
their damnedest to act tough as hell.
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I got news for you:
They did it better back then.
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This town doesn't change.
They just push the names around.
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Same dames,
screwing up their lives just the same way.
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All right. What about this guy Brian?
Where can I find him?
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Who's to know. He just hangs around.
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- Where is around?
- Around is around.
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I mean, around is no particular place.
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The only time I hear from him is when he
calls me up to torment me about my cat.
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The next time he calls you up,
I want you to set up a meet.
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All right.
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Mr. Wells, listen,
I don't want you to get the wrong idea...
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- about me schlepping those things...
- Doll, I'm not interested in your life story.
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Just set up a meet with your friend Brian.
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Yes? I'm coming.
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Just a minute.
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I don't care what you say, you understand?
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- Yes?
- Hi, I'm Margo Sperling.
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We'd like to talk to your husband.
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No, my husband passed on
seven years ago.
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What's going on in here?
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We were playing canasta
right there in the living room.
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Kid, the you-know-what has hit the fan.
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Look, I wouldn't make a federal case
out of everything, Charlie.
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Mrs. Schmidt, would you leave us alone
for a couple of minutes?
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I have some personal business
to talk over with these people.
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Of course, Mr. Wells.
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- It was very nice to meet you.
- Nice to meet you.
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Anytime, Mr. Wells,
your friends are more than welcome.
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- Thank you.
- I like the color of your sweater.
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- Thank you.
- Very much.
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- The man's a killer, you ding-a-ling!
- Don't call me a ding-a-ling!
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Hold it!
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This happens to be where I live, okay?
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It may not look like a hell of a lot to you,
but it suits me.
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Now, Mrs. Schmidt, that's my landlady,
we get along just fine.
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At least we did until a few days ago.
If you two would simmer down...
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tell me what's going on, I'd appreciate it.
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Okay. You wanted to take
a meeting with Brian, right?
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So he called me.
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I'm listening to him carefully
because I've known him a long time.
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And Brian's not very evolved.
In fact, he's rather de-evolved.
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I was talking to him, and I'm very sensitive
to the vibrations he gives out.
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Because I know what karma he has...
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- What is she talking about?
- She said you was looking for this guy...
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- because of what happened to Harry.
- That's what I said.
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She said if he didn't come here
you'd come gunning for him.
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- That's right.
- The punk that nailed Harry's coming here?
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Wait a second. You are so paranoid.
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You don't know for sure.
You don't know that that's true at all!
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- Maybe Brian didn't even do it.
- I got a pretty good idea.
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Charlie may be a chiseler and a crook,
but he's the best information man in town.
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Wait a second. What is that for?
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It's for if Charlie's right.
230
00:17:18,551 --> 00:17:20,599
Please. Come on. No, don't do this.
231
00:17:22,228 --> 00:17:25,237
Do you know people who play with guns
are generally impotent?
232
00:17:25,279 --> 00:17:27,326
What's ever settled with a gun?
233
00:17:29,708 --> 00:17:32,340
Come on, hold on a second.
Now, just a second.
234
00:17:32,424 --> 00:17:35,056
How many people you're gonna shoot?
Hold on a second.
235
00:17:35,140 --> 00:17:37,897
I think it's him. It's him.
236
00:17:39,485 --> 00:17:41,031
Mrs. Schmidt...
237
00:17:41,115 --> 00:17:44,040
I'll use the living room
for a few minutes, if you don't mind.
238
00:17:44,123 --> 00:17:46,630
That's fine, Mr. Wells.
Just don't make a mess.
239
00:17:46,714 --> 00:17:49,806
Come on, lighten up
on this cops and robbers stuff.
240
00:17:52,856 --> 00:17:54,444
I can handle this.
241
00:17:56,240 --> 00:17:57,369
Christ!
242
00:17:58,246 --> 00:17:59,374
Watch it!
243
00:18:56,159 --> 00:18:58,206
He's getting away. Don't let him!
244
00:18:58,290 --> 00:18:59,710
- Take it easy.
- Go, get him.
245
00:18:59,794 --> 00:19:01,006
- Are you crazy?
- Plug him!
246
00:19:01,089 --> 00:19:03,137
God damn it! Kill him! You could get him!
247
00:19:03,178 --> 00:19:06,563
I could get a heart attack,
that's what I could get...
248
00:19:07,148 --> 00:19:08,652
running all that way.
249
00:19:08,736 --> 00:19:12,204
How far do you think I'd get
with this leg of mine? That's one.
250
00:19:13,290 --> 00:19:17,343
Two: Whoever that guy is,
he's no snob about how he kills people.
251
00:19:18,053 --> 00:19:20,268
It's a goddamn.45 he's using.
252
00:19:24,154 --> 00:19:28,834
There are a lot of ways to play any game.
I play mine on the house percentages.
253
00:19:37,483 --> 00:19:41,285
485-2581, Mr. Wells. I remembered.
254
00:19:41,745 --> 00:19:44,168
Thank you very much, Mrs. Schmidt.
255
00:19:44,712 --> 00:19:47,511
- I'm sorry about all this.
- It's no bother.
256
00:19:52,358 --> 00:19:54,364
Where's my cat, you creep?
257
00:19:57,539 --> 00:20:00,882
Come on in, doll, before you catch a cold.
258
00:20:20,646 --> 00:20:23,069
All right, Charlie, hand it over.
259
00:20:26,036 --> 00:20:27,707
What do you mean?
260
00:20:29,253 --> 00:20:31,593
Whatever you took off the stiff.
261
00:20:33,473 --> 00:20:34,936
Hand it over.
262
00:20:36,440 --> 00:20:39,323
Jesus, kid,
I always said you were the best.
263
00:20:40,284 --> 00:20:42,666
Didn't I tell you he was the best?
264
00:20:49,310 --> 00:20:50,688
What's that?
265
00:20:54,909 --> 00:20:56,079
Stamps?
266
00:21:04,770 --> 00:21:07,360
- The Whiting job.
- Who? Whiting?
267
00:21:07,444 --> 00:21:09,575
About 10 days ago,
some place out in the Valley.
268
00:21:09,658 --> 00:21:10,745
Whiting? Who's that?
269
00:21:10,828 --> 00:21:13,294
Whiting had a stamp collection
worth almost $50,000.
270
00:21:13,377 --> 00:21:16,344
- Who's Whiting?
- There's a murder one tied to it, right?
271
00:21:16,386 --> 00:21:18,976
Okay, don't tell me. What do I care?
272
00:21:19,937 --> 00:21:22,611
Two guys broke into a house
out in the Valley.
273
00:21:22,695 --> 00:21:26,038
They tied up Whiting and his wife,
and started to lift the stamps.
274
00:21:26,079 --> 00:21:28,085
Then something must have gone wrong...
275
00:21:28,127 --> 00:21:30,383
because they beat up Whiting
and killed his wife.
276
00:21:30,425 --> 00:21:32,180
Disgusting. I don't wanna hear any more.
277
00:21:32,263 --> 00:21:34,896
- That's what Harry was onto, right?
- I don't know.
278
00:21:34,938 --> 00:21:36,108
I don't wanna hear any more.
279
00:21:36,191 --> 00:21:38,406
Harry knew about the stamps
and he also told you.
280
00:21:38,489 --> 00:21:40,704
That's why you knew
what to look for on the punk.
281
00:21:40,787 --> 00:21:43,503
Kid, I swear he didn't tell me anything.
282
00:21:43,587 --> 00:21:47,556
Hear that? That's the cops.
They'll be here in a couple minutes.
283
00:21:48,183 --> 00:21:52,779
Either you start to play it on the square
with me, or I'll feed you to them.
284
00:21:52,988 --> 00:21:56,623
- Which, considering your record...
- You wouldn't do that.
285
00:21:59,716 --> 00:22:01,972
Okay, here's the house number.
286
00:22:06,526 --> 00:22:10,746
Harry is tailing this guy, Brian,
looking for Margo's cat...
287
00:22:11,833 --> 00:22:15,468
when Brian and this pal of his
pull off the Whiting heist.
288
00:22:16,220 --> 00:22:18,978
The next day, Harry met me
and laid out the whole thing.
289
00:22:19,061 --> 00:22:22,488
Wants me to check out the reward angle.
I nose around.
290
00:22:22,947 --> 00:22:27,711
Sure enough, Continental Insurance is
offering $15,000 for the goddamn stamps.
291
00:22:28,755 --> 00:22:30,928
You guys were gonna split it.
292
00:22:33,226 --> 00:22:36,318
Just the kind of cheap grift
Harry would go for.
293
00:23:05,483 --> 00:23:08,367
Listen, Charlotte,
I'm having a lot of trouble.
294
00:23:08,450 --> 00:23:12,420
- I had a lot of big trouble...
- Kid, you know who just kicked off?
295
00:23:13,005 --> 00:23:17,183
That dame,
the one that almost nailed you back in '53.
296
00:23:18,980 --> 00:23:20,985
Jesus, what was her name?
297
00:23:21,737 --> 00:23:24,871
- Madeline? No. Marilyn Thornton.
- That's her.
298
00:23:26,375 --> 00:23:29,843
- I'm still carrying some of that lead.
- I'll talk to you later.
299
00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:35,610
Pit city. I mean, pit city!
300
00:23:36,195 --> 00:23:40,164
Not only did I still not get my cat back,
thanks to you...
301
00:23:40,415 --> 00:23:43,841
not only did I
almost get mowed down here tonight...
302
00:23:43,925 --> 00:23:46,432
not only did I sit here with yellow socks...
303
00:23:46,515 --> 00:23:50,485
and perjure myself in front of the entire
Los Angeles Police Department...
304
00:23:50,527 --> 00:23:53,117
on top of that,
I promised a singer that I manage...
305
00:23:53,201 --> 00:23:55,541
I would be there
for a very important audition.
306
00:23:55,624 --> 00:23:58,257
And of course, you can probably tell,
I'm not there.
307
00:23:58,340 --> 00:24:00,847
And on top of that, I got my period.
308
00:24:02,853 --> 00:24:05,987
Listen, doll, let's get something straight.
309
00:24:06,572 --> 00:24:08,828
As long as we're gonna be
working together...
310
00:24:08,911 --> 00:24:11,335
try to act like a lady, will you?
311
00:24:12,212 --> 00:24:14,510
Who says we're working together?
312
00:24:16,098 --> 00:24:19,274
Do you have any ideas
about who might have wanted to kill him?
313
00:24:19,357 --> 00:24:20,778
No, I don't.
314
00:24:20,862 --> 00:24:24,330
What about the guy that helped
your boyfriend pull off the Whiting heist?
315
00:24:24,413 --> 00:24:25,541
Ray Escobar.
316
00:24:25,583 --> 00:24:27,505
Mr. Wells, a truly evolved person...
317
00:24:27,589 --> 00:24:31,558
doesn't go around ratting on her friends,
if you catch my drift.
318
00:24:32,269 --> 00:24:33,564
This guy, Escobar, who is he?
319
00:24:33,648 --> 00:24:35,779
There is no point in this discussion.
320
00:24:35,862 --> 00:24:38,703
If you only knew how far behind
I've gotten in everything...
321
00:24:38,787 --> 00:24:42,673
just because of all this ridiculous...
And I don't even have my cat yet!
322
00:24:42,756 --> 00:24:45,222
I don't wanna even talk about it,
because I'm finished.
323
00:24:45,305 --> 00:24:47,771
I mean, I am finished. Finalissimo!
324
00:24:50,194 --> 00:24:51,280
Kid.
325
00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:55,709
Let me talk to Margo alone.
326
00:24:55,793 --> 00:24:58,801
I don't wanna be talked to alone,
or talked to in a crowd.
327
00:24:58,885 --> 00:25:01,810
I don't wanna be talked to by you, Charles.
328
00:25:04,818 --> 00:25:07,618
- Just hear me out, okay?
- Please!
329
00:25:07,952 --> 00:25:09,749
- Look, sugar.
- I'm not listening.
330
00:25:09,832 --> 00:25:12,089
You're two payments
behind on the car, right?
331
00:25:12,172 --> 00:25:15,306
I know, because you already tried
to hit me up for loan.
332
00:25:15,390 --> 00:25:18,273
What do you think you owe the dentist
for your caps?
333
00:25:19,610 --> 00:25:20,989
- Om.
- Okay.
334
00:25:24,248 --> 00:25:28,677
What about that trip to Vegas? How much
do you think you're in hock for that?
335
00:25:29,513 --> 00:25:31,936
And what about the Japanese lessons?
336
00:25:33,273 --> 00:25:36,825
Let's see. How much do you figure
that's all totaled up to...
337
00:25:37,661 --> 00:25:40,042
at least $4,000?
338
00:25:40,126 --> 00:25:43,176
Now can you think about $15,000
in reward money...
339
00:25:43,761 --> 00:25:46,602
strictly on the up and up, split two ways.
340
00:25:49,820 --> 00:25:50,906
Well?
341
00:25:54,123 --> 00:25:58,970
Boy, it's really lucky for you that I just
happen to be a self-destructive person.
342
00:25:59,764 --> 00:26:00,892
Okay.
343
00:26:03,274 --> 00:26:05,990
Start talking from the top.
344
00:26:07,829 --> 00:26:11,088
Okay, as long as
we're gonna be working together.
345
00:26:14,723 --> 00:26:16,729
Brian had this creepy friend.
346
00:26:16,770 --> 00:26:19,821
Far be it for me to go around
passing judgments on people...
347
00:26:19,904 --> 00:26:22,453
but Ray Escobar is truly Pittsville.
348
00:26:22,578 --> 00:26:26,506
They had some kind of arrangement,
a deal going with this guy named Birdwell.
349
00:26:26,590 --> 00:26:28,470
- Ronny Birdwell?
- Yeah.
350
00:26:28,595 --> 00:26:32,732
He's a fence. New since your day.
Got a setup over on Sunset place.
351
00:26:32,774 --> 00:26:37,077
Check around the street, Charlie.
See what you can pick up on Escobar.
352
00:26:37,161 --> 00:26:39,751
- Can do.
- That's it?
353
00:26:42,050 --> 00:26:44,682
Charles, wait!
Give me a lift out to the airport.
354
00:26:44,766 --> 00:26:47,440
Jesus, Margo! It's 2:00 in the morning!
355
00:26:47,690 --> 00:26:51,785
- Okay, so I'll buy gas.
- One more thing, doll, about my fee.
356
00:26:53,916 --> 00:26:55,128
My fee.
357
00:26:55,755 --> 00:26:59,891
- I get $25 a day plus expenses.
- What's he talking about?
358
00:27:00,602 --> 00:27:04,320
Listen, sweetheart, you're talking
to Ira Wells, not some low-rent gumshoe.
359
00:27:04,362 --> 00:27:08,248
- I'm the best, and I get paid like the best.
- All right.
360
00:27:11,006 --> 00:27:11,967
Okay.
361
00:28:22,749 --> 00:28:23,710
Birdwell?
362
00:28:23,793 --> 00:28:27,053
No. I work for Mr. Birdwell.
My name is Jeff Lamar.
363
00:28:27,262 --> 00:28:30,061
- Won't you come in, Mr. Wells?
- Thank you.
364
00:29:01,190 --> 00:29:03,196
- Are you all right?
- Yeah.
365
00:29:06,246 --> 00:29:08,126
No hard feelings, sir.
366
00:29:10,215 --> 00:29:11,511
I know that.
367
00:29:25,926 --> 00:29:27,180
Come on.
368
00:29:49,785 --> 00:29:51,456
This is Mr. Wells.
369
00:30:09,632 --> 00:30:13,685
You said on the phone you had something
I might be interested in.
370
00:30:14,396 --> 00:30:17,905
Before we do any talking,
better warn this cheesehead.
371
00:30:18,908 --> 00:30:22,084
Next time he tries anything with me,
I'll kill him.
372
00:30:22,585 --> 00:30:25,427
I won't give him a chance. I'll kill him.
373
00:30:26,429 --> 00:30:27,683
Okay, pop.
374
00:30:28,017 --> 00:30:31,861
Now that you've got that off your chest,
what's your business?
375
00:30:32,070 --> 00:30:33,700
The Whiting job.
376
00:30:34,285 --> 00:30:36,834
- Postage stamps, right?
- That's right.
377
00:30:36,917 --> 00:30:40,887
- What's that got to do with me?
- The word is, it could be tied in to you.
378
00:30:41,472 --> 00:30:44,981
I'm gonna tell you I don't know
dick about the Whiting job, right?
379
00:30:45,065 --> 00:30:47,488
You'll tell me
you'll take this hotshit information...
380
00:30:47,572 --> 00:30:49,578
of yours to somebody else.
381
00:30:49,870 --> 00:30:52,962
Then I'll tell you I'd be interested
if the price is right.
382
00:30:53,004 --> 00:30:57,308
Then we'll dance for a couple of hours.
So let's just cut to the chase.
383
00:30:57,600 --> 00:30:59,104
You like music?
384
00:30:59,439 --> 00:31:03,450
I got a Panasonic hi-fi over there
that is a sensation to the ears.
385
00:31:03,533 --> 00:31:07,002
Automatic record changer, air suspension,
plus an eight-track tape.
386
00:31:07,085 --> 00:31:11,347
Last week a pal of mine was tailing one
of the guys that pulled the Whiting job.
387
00:31:11,431 --> 00:31:13,144
He turned up dead.
388
00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:17,030
I'll throw in a couple of suits.
Manufacturers' name brands.
389
00:31:17,113 --> 00:31:19,996
Hart Shafner and Marx,
Botany 500, Petrocelli. What do you say?
390
00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:21,375
Bullshit!
391
00:31:21,918 --> 00:31:26,055
His name was Harry Regan.
I mean to have the louse that nailed him.
392
00:31:26,180 --> 00:31:28,061
I never heard of any guy named Regan.
393
00:31:28,144 --> 00:31:30,484
I'll tell you, pop,
I'm in a kind of line of work...
394
00:31:30,568 --> 00:31:33,409
- that you pick up things, you know?
- I can see that.
395
00:31:33,493 --> 00:31:36,835
It could be I have some information
about your buddy.
396
00:31:36,919 --> 00:31:40,220
Come on, Ronny.
How do you know he really has anything...
397
00:31:40,303 --> 00:31:43,939
- and isn't just jerking you around?
- You know something, punk?
398
00:31:44,022 --> 00:31:47,574
If he was to finger you,
I'd give him a Petrocelli suit.
399
00:31:47,950 --> 00:31:51,669
Stamps are a specialty item.
Not just anybody can move them.
400
00:31:52,003 --> 00:31:56,474
When a guy pulls a heist like that,
he's got the fence lined up in front.
401
00:31:56,724 --> 00:31:59,816
- So far, I couldn't give less of a shit.
- Maybe.
402
00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:03,995
But one of the punks
that pulled the Whiting job works for you.
403
00:32:04,078 --> 00:32:05,624
Brian Hemphill.
404
00:32:06,335 --> 00:32:08,967
You are peddling Brian Hemphill.
405
00:32:13,563 --> 00:32:16,655
I know the son of a bitch
pulled the Whiting robbery.
406
00:32:16,739 --> 00:32:18,995
You know who told me? The cops.
407
00:32:19,330 --> 00:32:23,007
Yeah. I was down
at the station house already.
408
00:32:23,550 --> 00:32:27,060
Two hours, they kept me there.
They ran my ass ragged.
409
00:32:28,104 --> 00:32:32,575
I told them the same thing I'll tell you.
I fired Hemphill two months ago.
410
00:32:33,787 --> 00:32:37,923
He was a thief, he was robbing me blind.
I haven't seen the little turd since.
411
00:32:38,007 --> 00:32:41,057
I'll tell you something else.
They know he was shot last night.
412
00:32:41,141 --> 00:32:43,522
They're looking for a pal of his.
413
00:32:45,988 --> 00:32:49,330
You're a little late, pop. About 40 years.
414
00:32:54,679 --> 00:32:55,974
Come here.
415
00:33:01,531 --> 00:33:02,868
I like you.
416
00:33:09,972 --> 00:33:14,401
I admire a guy your age that's got the balls
to try a hustle like that.
417
00:33:14,443 --> 00:33:16,782
Right, Lamar? What's your size?
418
00:33:17,660 --> 00:33:20,042
- What?
- In the collar and sleeve?
419
00:33:20,125 --> 00:33:24,304
I got a shipment of Van Heusen shirts
yesterday that will knock your eyes out.
420
00:33:24,387 --> 00:33:26,518
On account of what Lamar did to you.
421
00:33:26,602 --> 00:33:30,404
You're a 17-34. Something else.
422
00:33:32,201 --> 00:33:35,669
The police know
that Brian Hemphill is an alias.
423
00:33:35,752 --> 00:33:38,468
His real name is Earl Hampton.
424
00:33:38,635 --> 00:33:41,811
He did time in Illinois
for robbing a jewelry store.
425
00:33:42,814 --> 00:33:45,572
This is you. It's perfect.
426
00:33:45,864 --> 00:33:48,789
You wear that, you'll drive the girls crazy.
427
00:33:50,210 --> 00:33:51,547
Okay, pop?
428
00:33:55,892 --> 00:33:57,480
No hard feelings.
429
00:34:04,667 --> 00:34:07,592
Must be around here somewhere.
There he is. Ira.
430
00:34:09,054 --> 00:34:10,475
Where are you headed?
431
00:34:10,558 --> 00:34:13,985
I'm on my way to the Brown Derby
to meet Louis B. Mayer.
432
00:34:14,068 --> 00:34:15,781
Where does it look like I'm headed?
433
00:34:15,865 --> 00:34:18,873
Where were you all morning?
I must have called you 20 times.
434
00:34:18,957 --> 00:34:22,425
- I went to see Birdwell.
- What did you wanna do that for?
435
00:34:22,509 --> 00:34:25,726
Trying to figure out why two guys
who heist $50,000 in stamps...
436
00:34:25,810 --> 00:34:28,860
are still hanging around town,
waiting for the cops to wise up...
437
00:34:28,943 --> 00:34:30,239
and grab them on murder rap.
438
00:34:30,322 --> 00:34:34,542
I could have told you that.
Because they are dumb. They're D-U-M-B.
439
00:34:34,626 --> 00:34:37,718
- I'll remember you said that.
- How'd it go?
440
00:34:38,846 --> 00:34:41,061
With Birdwell? Piece of cake.
441
00:34:42,481 --> 00:34:46,660
Didn't I say he was the greatest?
Didn't I say that before? Damn.
442
00:34:46,785 --> 00:34:49,167
Wait a minute!
443
00:34:50,086 --> 00:34:52,677
Come on, start this thing. Mr. Wells!
444
00:34:55,978 --> 00:34:57,440
Wait a second!
445
00:34:59,028 --> 00:35:03,039
For crying out loud, don't tell me
how to drive when I'm driving!
446
00:35:03,708 --> 00:35:07,343
This car is not only a toilet,
but you are the attendant.
447
00:35:13,151 --> 00:35:14,571
There he is.
448
00:35:26,731 --> 00:35:29,655
Did you dig up anything
on this guy Escobar?
449
00:35:31,912 --> 00:35:33,708
But it's gonna cost.
450
00:35:34,711 --> 00:35:35,839
Yeah?
451
00:35:36,383 --> 00:35:38,305
I found a guy who knows another guy...
452
00:35:38,388 --> 00:35:41,606
that saw Escobar holed up
someplace over in Santa Monica.
453
00:35:41,647 --> 00:35:45,617
- That's the part that costs.
- He wants a C-note for the address.
454
00:35:46,244 --> 00:35:48,333
You got that kind of dough?
455
00:35:49,043 --> 00:35:51,926
- What about you?
- $46. That's all I've got.
456
00:35:53,305 --> 00:35:58,194
It might interest you to know that I dug up
a few items about your pal Brian today.
457
00:35:59,030 --> 00:36:01,160
Such as, his real name is Earl Hampton.
458
00:36:01,202 --> 00:36:04,503
Did a stretch in the pen
a couple of years back for armed robbery.
459
00:36:04,545 --> 00:36:06,592
His name was Earl Hampton.
460
00:36:07,721 --> 00:36:11,983
$68, but that's every penny.
I'm not kidding. I mean, every penny.
461
00:36:12,191 --> 00:36:16,453
Birdwell tried to put some muscle on me
and I had to get tough with him.
462
00:36:16,537 --> 00:36:20,423
He's starting to crack,
but it's not Christmas yet, understand?
463
00:36:23,390 --> 00:36:26,858
- You shouldn't put that in first.
- I beg your pardon.
464
00:36:27,317 --> 00:36:30,409
If you still wanna cash in
on the reward money, I got to move.
465
00:36:30,493 --> 00:36:32,248
I got to move fast.
466
00:36:32,749 --> 00:36:35,758
How come I'm the one
that has to raise the money?
467
00:36:35,841 --> 00:36:39,100
How come nobody else here
in this group has any cash?
468
00:36:39,476 --> 00:36:41,231
What's wrong with you, Charles?
469
00:36:41,315 --> 00:36:45,451
Why don't you try to come up
with a little scratch once in a while?
470
00:36:45,577 --> 00:36:47,833
You two have a real class act.
471
00:36:49,672 --> 00:36:54,101
Charlie, take a couple of hours
and dig up anything you can on Birdwell.
472
00:36:55,020 --> 00:36:57,485
- There's something screwy going on there.
- Got you.
473
00:36:57,527 --> 00:37:00,452
I'll tell you what you do.
Call up Tom Wyman.
474
00:37:00,870 --> 00:37:03,168
He works out of
the Bureau of Detectives, downtown.
475
00:37:03,251 --> 00:37:06,719
Tell him I told you to call.
He owes me a favor anyway.
476
00:37:07,764 --> 00:37:10,564
Kid, Tom's dead.
477
00:37:12,402 --> 00:37:14,784
He's been dead almost six months.
478
00:37:16,121 --> 00:37:20,425
Then find somebody else.
Jesus Christ, Charlie, use your brains!
479
00:37:23,558 --> 00:37:26,985
All right. I'll try to raise $100.
480
00:37:43,113 --> 00:37:45,955
Birdwell showed up out here
about six years ago.
481
00:37:45,996 --> 00:37:50,133
Went to work for a guy who had
a fence operation out in the Valley.
482
00:37:51,971 --> 00:37:54,855
A couple of years ago, the guy retires...
483
00:37:54,938 --> 00:37:57,696
buys himself a condominium in Florida.
484
00:37:58,030 --> 00:38:00,663
- Birdwell buys him out.
- That's it?
485
00:38:02,292 --> 00:38:04,590
What did you expect, Gone with the Wind?
486
00:38:04,674 --> 00:38:08,769
If three people get killed, I expect
more than a condominium in Florida.
487
00:38:08,852 --> 00:38:11,317
Nothing's ever good enough for you.
488
00:38:14,911 --> 00:38:16,373
That's three.
489
00:38:18,755 --> 00:38:22,850
- The word is he's got dolly trouble.
- Any dolly in particular?
490
00:38:24,103 --> 00:38:25,399
His wife.
491
00:38:26,401 --> 00:38:29,243
- She was chippying around on him.
- With?
492
00:38:30,287 --> 00:38:33,254
Jesus, kid. All I had was a couple of hours.
493
00:38:39,313 --> 00:38:40,608
Want one?
494
00:38:43,575 --> 00:38:45,204
Are you kidding?
495
00:38:45,371 --> 00:38:47,628
You know what one of those
would do to my gut?
496
00:38:47,669 --> 00:38:49,299
Must be tough.
497
00:38:49,968 --> 00:38:52,851
Does Birdwell know his wife
was cheating on him?
498
00:38:52,934 --> 00:38:55,984
If he does, he's playing it close to the vest.
499
00:38:56,778 --> 00:38:58,533
I gotta have a Coke.
500
00:39:00,038 --> 00:39:03,171
- Did you bring the dough?
- Please use the scoop.
501
00:39:04,508 --> 00:39:08,227
Yes, I brought the dough,
and I want it all back, you guys.
502
00:39:08,311 --> 00:39:11,445
I mean it. From the top.
I'm keeping track, too.
503
00:39:11,737 --> 00:39:15,163
There's been $50 for Mr. Wells,
$20 for expenses...
504
00:39:15,247 --> 00:39:19,927
plus 75, 85, 95, 100...
505
00:39:20,010 --> 00:39:22,601
10, 25. You count it.
506
00:39:23,437 --> 00:39:25,442
And I want a receipt, too.
507
00:39:26,654 --> 00:39:30,038
Come on, hurry up.
I've got this guy waiting outside.
508
00:39:36,306 --> 00:39:39,732
- This is Pepsi.
- Hurry up. Come on.
509
00:39:46,292 --> 00:39:49,928
You know what I had to go through
to hassle up this dough?
510
00:39:50,011 --> 00:39:53,479
I laid off four ounces
of pure red Columbian...
511
00:39:53,563 --> 00:39:55,527
for $15 an ounce.
512
00:39:56,488 --> 00:39:58,451
I mean, it's disgusting.
513
00:39:58,995 --> 00:40:03,758
Some freak over on Pico
thinks I'm Santa Claus, I swear to God.
514
00:40:04,636 --> 00:40:06,140
$15 an ounce.
515
00:40:06,725 --> 00:40:11,363
- You have a lot of faith in me, don't you?
- Come on. This is just business.
516
00:40:14,288 --> 00:40:17,338
$15 an ounce.
This grass was so great, I can't tell you.
517
00:40:17,421 --> 00:40:21,391
There was so much resins in it,
it made your lips stick together.
518
00:40:23,731 --> 00:40:26,071
How long have you been pushing?
519
00:40:26,405 --> 00:40:29,581
Who says I'm pushing?
You've got a lot of nerve.
520
00:40:31,127 --> 00:40:32,756
I'm not pushing.
521
00:40:33,007 --> 00:40:36,726
You think if I was a pusher,
I'd have a little empty purse like this?
522
00:40:36,809 --> 00:40:39,065
You make it sound
like I hang around schoolyards...
523
00:40:39,149 --> 00:40:41,489
trying to prey on 12-year-old kids.
524
00:40:42,701 --> 00:40:46,085
Anyways, I'm only doing it
till I get my shrink paid.
525
00:40:46,754 --> 00:40:48,425
That makes sense.
526
00:40:50,264 --> 00:40:52,938
I had a session with her today...
527
00:40:55,111 --> 00:40:57,325
and I told her all about you.
528
00:41:06,726 --> 00:41:10,696
- Don't you wanna know what I told her?
- Not particularly.
529
00:41:17,047 --> 00:41:19,262
I told her that you were cute.
530
00:41:21,351 --> 00:41:23,231
You told her I was cute?
531
00:41:27,242 --> 00:41:28,454
Got it.
532
00:41:29,457 --> 00:41:31,964
Okay, that's all for me, right?
533
00:41:32,215 --> 00:41:35,348
Everything's cool?
Because I am out of here.
534
00:41:35,432 --> 00:41:37,647
Wait a minute. Just stay put.
535
00:41:39,109 --> 00:41:41,574
- Stay put? Why?
- Stay put.
536
00:41:42,661 --> 00:41:44,039
I've got a job for you.
537
00:41:44,792 --> 00:41:46,964
Look, I don't wanna go in there.
538
00:41:47,006 --> 00:41:49,513
Let me just sit in the van here.
I can keep watch.
539
00:41:49,597 --> 00:41:53,775
According to Charlie,
this is where Escobar is hiding out, right?
540
00:41:54,026 --> 00:41:55,029
Yeah.
541
00:41:55,112 --> 00:41:57,076
- You know him, right?
- I know him.
542
00:41:57,160 --> 00:41:58,998
He's gonna be nervous. He'll have a gun.
543
00:41:59,040 --> 00:42:01,798
- He'll have a what?
- He'll have a gun.
544
00:42:02,717 --> 00:42:05,099
You can look at me and say,
"He'll have a gun"?
545
00:42:05,182 --> 00:42:08,065
- You bought into this, toots.
- Look, just back off. I mean...
546
00:42:08,149 --> 00:42:11,283
- Come on.
- Let me explain something to you...
547
00:42:13,915 --> 00:42:17,132
I'm not good at this stuff.
Maybe I could just...
548
00:42:18,887 --> 00:42:20,559
- Okay.
- Get the key.
549
00:43:31,633 --> 00:43:32,594
Ira?
550
00:43:38,653 --> 00:43:41,787
Okay, you've seen enough.
Let's get out of here.
551
00:43:42,831 --> 00:43:45,255
Ira, don't make any noise.
552
00:43:52,274 --> 00:43:54,531
Winston. Ira, it's Winston.
553
00:43:56,495 --> 00:44:00,631
Winstie, is that you? It's Winston, my cat.
554
00:44:00,715 --> 00:44:03,556
Look, he's okay. Hello, Winstie.
555
00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:06,565
Come on, let's get out of here.
I got my cat back.
556
00:44:06,648 --> 00:44:09,113
I take back everything
I ever thought about you.
557
00:44:09,197 --> 00:44:11,620
I swear to God. Thank you.
Let's get out of here.
558
00:44:11,704 --> 00:44:13,710
Everything's copasetic.
559
00:44:13,793 --> 00:44:16,049
I am not gonna tell you again.
I swear to God...
560
00:44:16,091 --> 00:44:18,557
if we don't get out of here,
I'm gonna start to panic.
561
00:44:18,598 --> 00:44:21,147
- You're an actress, aren't you?
- I'm begging you.
562
00:44:21,231 --> 00:44:22,484
Act calm.
563
00:44:24,114 --> 00:44:27,039
- Ira, don't go in there.
- Stay put.
564
00:44:28,292 --> 00:44:30,005
Ira, wait a second.
565
00:44:34,978 --> 00:44:37,109
It's all right.
Don't leave me out here. Come on.
566
00:44:37,192 --> 00:44:39,365
Please let me in.
567
00:45:36,692 --> 00:45:41,080
Come on. It's not me, it's Winston.
He needs to stretch his little legs.
568
00:45:41,163 --> 00:45:43,420
I think he's been brainwashed.
569
00:45:50,690 --> 00:45:54,576
- Holy moly, where did she come from?
- I found her in the bathtub.
570
00:45:54,660 --> 00:45:57,919
- Aren't you gonna do something?
- You got any ideas?
571
00:45:58,169 --> 00:46:00,718
- Listen, both of you.
- I'm the one who hired you.
572
00:46:00,802 --> 00:46:04,646
- I'm warning you.
- Lady, do me a favor. Put that thing down.
573
00:46:05,273 --> 00:46:08,239
- Margo here is not too stable.
- Yeah.
574
00:46:08,323 --> 00:46:10,537
She's liable to try something dumb.
575
00:46:10,621 --> 00:46:13,086
- Just a minute.
- Just hold your water.
576
00:46:14,591 --> 00:46:18,560
Maybe I'm wrong, but you don't look like
you've had a lot of experience...
577
00:46:18,644 --> 00:46:20,607
handling a.357 magnum.
578
00:46:21,109 --> 00:46:24,368
Even so, at this close distance,
you couldn't miss.
579
00:46:24,535 --> 00:46:28,129
If something happened,
it wouldn't be a great loss to the world...
580
00:46:29,800 --> 00:46:33,936
but you'd go over on a manslaughter.
That's minimum eight to twelve.
581
00:46:34,814 --> 00:46:36,276
That's right.
582
00:46:49,146 --> 00:46:50,608
That's better.
583
00:47:01,389 --> 00:47:04,397
- Mister...
- Wells. Ira Wells.
584
00:47:05,525 --> 00:47:08,575
I'm a detective, private detective.
585
00:47:10,539 --> 00:47:15,219
I'm sorry about before, about the part
with the gun, but I was so afraid.
586
00:47:16,598 --> 00:47:18,019
Mr. Wells...
587
00:47:18,562 --> 00:47:21,863
I am going to be totally open
and honest with you.
588
00:47:22,573 --> 00:47:25,916
I'm going to lay myself naked before you.
I hope you appreciate that.
589
00:47:25,999 --> 00:47:29,426
- He'll try.
- Get me a glass of water, will you, doll?
590
00:47:29,467 --> 00:47:33,437
Why don't you ask her
what she's doing here in the first place?
591
00:47:34,147 --> 00:47:37,657
- What did I ever do without you?
- Very little, I'm sure.
592
00:47:39,412 --> 00:47:43,757
- Now, then, Mrs...
- Birdwell. Laura Birdwell.
593
00:47:46,264 --> 00:47:50,150
- You seem like a very intelligent man.
- I've had my moments.
594
00:47:50,526 --> 00:47:53,075
I really cannot relate on this level.
595
00:47:54,663 --> 00:47:57,045
I'm in a great deal of trouble.
596
00:47:58,340 --> 00:48:02,142
I don't know how much
I can open up to you.
597
00:48:03,229 --> 00:48:06,739
Why don't you just tell it to me
in your own way, Mrs. Birdwell?
598
00:48:06,822 --> 00:48:08,034
Laura.
599
00:48:11,836 --> 00:48:16,098
I got a call this afternoon from a man
who said his name was Escobar.
600
00:48:16,391 --> 00:48:19,566
- He said he had certain items.
- Here you go, ace.
601
00:48:19,901 --> 00:48:22,951
You drink too much of that,
you're gonna start seeing red rats.
602
00:48:23,034 --> 00:48:25,876
Could I please have a glass of water,
a Coke or something?
603
00:48:25,959 --> 00:48:29,218
Sure. Any friend of the hunk's
is a friend of mine.
604
00:48:29,678 --> 00:48:32,436
I'm very nervous.
You can understand that, can't you?
605
00:48:32,478 --> 00:48:33,898
I can understand that.
606
00:48:36,572 --> 00:48:39,581
What could I do?
I tried to reason with him...
607
00:48:40,124 --> 00:48:43,216
but he sounded like
a truly desperate character.
608
00:48:43,634 --> 00:48:45,222
I had no choice.
609
00:48:45,932 --> 00:48:48,439
When I got here, the door was open.
610
00:48:49,316 --> 00:48:52,241
I was about to leave,
and I heard you coming.
611
00:48:53,035 --> 00:48:56,921
And I thought...
You can imagine what I thought.
612
00:48:58,634 --> 00:49:00,723
- Thank you.
- You're welcome.
613
00:49:05,027 --> 00:49:07,785
Why was this Escobar blackmailing you?
614
00:49:08,077 --> 00:49:12,214
I was seeing this man.
We were having an affair.
615
00:49:13,259 --> 00:49:17,395
- Your husband didn't know about it?
- Does the Pope shit in the woods?
616
00:49:18,273 --> 00:49:20,780
Just fix the goddamn Coke, will you?
617
00:49:21,783 --> 00:49:22,994
Mr. Wells...
618
00:49:25,125 --> 00:49:26,128
Ira.
619
00:49:37,034 --> 00:49:39,583
I'm sorry, doll. What I never told you...
620
00:49:39,666 --> 00:49:43,176
is this is the hardest goddamn way
in the world to make a buck.
621
00:49:43,260 --> 00:49:44,597
Ira, look.
622
00:49:47,187 --> 00:49:48,315
Damn.
623
00:49:49,360 --> 00:49:50,739
Be careful.
624
00:49:53,037 --> 00:49:54,249
Come on.
625
00:50:27,467 --> 00:50:28,762
Watch it!
626
00:50:34,319 --> 00:50:36,200
Okay. Start the motor.
627
00:50:50,991 --> 00:50:53,916
All right. Now you can turn on your lights.
628
00:50:59,891 --> 00:51:02,357
- Don't miss the light.
- I'm not gonna miss the light.
629
00:51:02,398 --> 00:51:05,072
Just watch what you're doing, that's all.
630
00:51:05,156 --> 00:51:08,666
Let's go to the cops.
We really should just go to the cops.
631
00:51:08,749 --> 00:51:10,045
Let's do it, please.
632
00:51:10,128 --> 00:51:13,011
Not until I find the guy
that nailed Harry Regan.
633
00:51:13,095 --> 00:51:14,933
That is such bullshit.
634
00:51:15,435 --> 00:51:19,906
- I mean, that is such total bullshit!
- Yeah. Sure thing, doll.
635
00:51:20,783 --> 00:51:22,831
Speed up.
He's getting a little too far ahead.
636
00:51:22,914 --> 00:51:26,090
It's disgusting.
You don't care about Harry Regan.
637
00:51:26,173 --> 00:51:29,558
I'll tell you what this is.
This is one last chance for you...
638
00:51:29,641 --> 00:51:32,817
to go around shooting off guns at people.
Playing cops and robbers.
639
00:51:32,901 --> 00:51:35,742
You're getting off behind
all this blood and guts. It's true.
640
00:51:35,825 --> 00:51:38,249
It's very immature. You need help.
641
00:51:39,962 --> 00:51:43,138
- Now, wait a minute. Watch it.
- I can see. I'm watching.
642
00:51:43,221 --> 00:51:44,516
Tail him.
643
00:51:52,999 --> 00:51:54,336
Slow down.
644
00:51:55,464 --> 00:51:57,470
Where the hell did he go?
645
00:52:43,014 --> 00:52:44,268
Hold on!
646
00:52:49,491 --> 00:52:51,956
Holy moly, wait a second. Hold on.
647
00:53:24,756 --> 00:53:26,219
Jesus Christ!
648
00:53:29,478 --> 00:53:31,442
Hush, baby. It's okay!
649
00:54:05,579 --> 00:54:10,217
Ira, I feel so incredibly high,
I can't even tell you.
650
00:54:10,259 --> 00:54:13,309
I feel like I've dropped acid.
Have you ever dropped acid?
651
00:54:13,393 --> 00:54:16,067
- Not in the last 10 minutes.
- Do you get this feeling...
652
00:54:16,150 --> 00:54:18,950
Can you see anything
about me that's different?
653
00:54:19,034 --> 00:54:22,627
- Do I have a different kind of expression?
- You look higher.
654
00:54:22,710 --> 00:54:27,140
I look high right now? I am high.
Did I give you sugar?
655
00:54:27,432 --> 00:54:30,900
- I haven't had the tea yet.
- I'm sorry. I don't know what I'm thinking.
656
00:54:30,984 --> 00:54:34,410
Look at these little things in here.
Don't worry, they just float around.
657
00:54:34,494 --> 00:54:36,833
They're herbs. They won't hurt you.
658
00:54:36,917 --> 00:54:40,803
Everything's incredibly okay,
because I feel so high. I'm not kidding.
659
00:54:40,887 --> 00:54:42,683
I feel wonderfully high!
660
00:54:42,767 --> 00:54:47,279
I saw that space, I had some possibilities
which I considered, and I made choices.
661
00:54:47,363 --> 00:54:51,040
That's all, I went right through it.
Didn't I? It was incredible.
662
00:54:51,124 --> 00:54:53,840
I had my hands on the wheel.
Didn't I take care of business?
663
00:54:53,923 --> 00:54:55,971
- You did.
- I did it. I went right through it.
664
00:54:56,054 --> 00:54:58,310
I couldn't believe it.
I thought I did a great job.
665
00:54:58,394 --> 00:54:59,731
I know you think I'm trouble.
666
00:54:59,815 --> 00:55:02,405
You probably think I'm talking
like I'm a crazy person...
667
00:55:02,489 --> 00:55:05,163
- but I feel just like Nick and Nora.
- Who?
668
00:55:05,247 --> 00:55:08,673
You know, The Thin Man.
Phyllis Kirk and Peter Lawford.
669
00:55:08,840 --> 00:55:12,308
Wait a second. I just got a flash.
This is incredible.
670
00:55:12,601 --> 00:55:15,567
Escobar and Brian
robbed this man Whiting, right?
671
00:55:15,651 --> 00:55:18,158
Yeah. They killed his wife
while they were at it.
672
00:55:18,241 --> 00:55:22,044
How come they didn't take it on the lam?
How come they stuck around town?
673
00:55:22,127 --> 00:55:24,425
- Ask yourself why.
- I have asked myself.
674
00:55:24,509 --> 00:55:27,183
Ask yourself again,
'cause I'm gonna tell you the answer.
675
00:55:27,267 --> 00:55:31,069
Because they found something
besides the stamps at Whiting's.
676
00:55:31,529 --> 00:55:35,540
They found something that they could
blackmail Laura Birdwell with.
677
00:55:35,623 --> 00:55:37,629
- Are you following me?
- I'm following you.
678
00:55:37,713 --> 00:55:41,975
She said she was having
a sexual relationship with another man...
679
00:55:42,142 --> 00:55:43,980
other than her husband.
680
00:55:44,858 --> 00:55:47,532
What if the guy she's making it with...
681
00:55:47,741 --> 00:55:50,499
turned out to be Whiting?
682
00:55:52,671 --> 00:55:56,307
You didn't think of that one, did you?
What about it?
683
00:55:59,273 --> 00:56:02,783
- That's pretty good.
- Pretty good? That is fabulous.
684
00:56:03,201 --> 00:56:05,457
I mean, if I do say so myself.
685
00:56:06,376 --> 00:56:09,468
I'm gonna go down to the police station...
686
00:56:09,552 --> 00:56:11,725
and get a private detective's license.
687
00:56:11,808 --> 00:56:14,274
If we teamed up, we'd be great together.
688
00:56:14,357 --> 00:56:16,781
That's just what this town
has been waiting for.
689
00:56:16,864 --> 00:56:19,914
A broken-down old private eye
with a bum leg and a hearing aid...
690
00:56:19,998 --> 00:56:22,004
and a fruitcake like you.
691
00:56:23,884 --> 00:56:26,224
I don't know. You're not so old.
692
00:56:27,812 --> 00:56:29,901
If you lost a few pounds...
693
00:56:31,154 --> 00:56:35,291
and stopped wearing those baggy suits,
you'd look 10 years younger.
694
00:56:36,670 --> 00:56:39,887
Anyway, we'd be a team.
We'd be working together.
695
00:56:40,347 --> 00:56:42,018
Don't you get it?
696
00:56:42,937 --> 00:56:46,029
You've got the experience,
and I'm this very on-top-of-it person.
697
00:56:46,113 --> 00:56:47,826
This could be big bucks for us.
698
00:56:47,910 --> 00:56:51,796
The more I think about this,
the better an idea I think it is.
699
00:56:52,381 --> 00:56:54,386
This is the most fantastic thing.
700
00:56:54,470 --> 00:56:57,186
The apartment next door is vacant,
I just remembered.
701
00:56:57,228 --> 00:57:01,322
You could move right in there.
This could be perfect. We could...
702
00:57:01,866 --> 00:57:05,919
It would be like a duplex,
a kind of suite of offices.
703
00:57:06,587 --> 00:57:09,470
I think that would be perfect.
We could have cards printed up.
704
00:57:09,554 --> 00:57:12,228
I feel it. I have that intuitive kind of thing.
705
00:57:12,312 --> 00:57:14,819
I wouldn't mind having you next door.
It'd be okay.
706
00:57:14,902 --> 00:57:17,075
- I got to go.
- I could stand the company.
707
00:57:17,117 --> 00:57:20,209
I wouldn't mind it. I know
what you're going to say. Don't start.
708
00:57:20,292 --> 00:57:22,298
You're gonna say,
"There's gonna be problems."
709
00:57:22,381 --> 00:57:26,100
Of course there's gonna be problems,
because that's what life is.
710
00:57:26,184 --> 00:57:29,652
If I were really truthful with you,
and I'm gonna be truthful...
711
00:57:29,735 --> 00:57:34,165
in my mind,
you're a pretty old-school kind of person...
712
00:57:34,248 --> 00:57:36,463
kind of old-fashioned and everything.
713
00:57:36,546 --> 00:57:40,808
And I don't have to tell you
that I'm kind of weird around the edges.
714
00:57:41,853 --> 00:57:45,154
I mean, you're a slob, too, to be truthful...
715
00:57:45,864 --> 00:57:48,914
and I'm a Virgo.
That makes me a little crazy.
716
00:57:48,998 --> 00:57:52,884
But don't you see? The combination
is what makes something interesting.
717
00:57:52,967 --> 00:57:55,850
Listen, doll, let's get one thing straight.
718
00:57:56,728 --> 00:57:59,820
I'm a loner. I always have been a loner.
719
00:58:00,864 --> 00:58:03,163
I was a loner when I was a kid.
720
00:58:04,416 --> 00:58:06,798
I was a loner when I was married.
721
00:58:07,383 --> 00:58:09,388
Probably why we broke up.
722
00:58:10,224 --> 00:58:13,191
I'm by myself now
because I like it that way.
723
00:58:13,232 --> 00:58:16,408
Nothing personal,
but I don't like to talk a lot.
724
00:58:16,909 --> 00:58:20,085
There's too damn much talk
in the world as it is.
725
00:58:21,547 --> 00:58:24,431
Listen, I know
what you're saying, because...
726
00:58:25,266 --> 00:58:27,690
I know what you mean about being alone.
727
00:58:27,773 --> 00:58:30,071
We're not very different
in that department.
728
00:58:30,113 --> 00:58:33,748
I'm a loner, too. I prefer to be alone.
729
00:58:33,832 --> 00:58:35,963
I am alone most of the time.
730
00:58:36,088 --> 00:58:38,595
Thanks a lot,
but I don't think it would work out.
731
00:58:38,679 --> 00:58:41,980
I don't want you to over-interpret
what I'm saying.
732
00:58:42,439 --> 00:58:46,910
It was something to do.
It was an exciting kind of thing tonight...
733
00:58:46,994 --> 00:58:49,208
and I got carried away with it.
734
00:58:49,292 --> 00:58:52,468
Don't worry about me
because everything's okay.
735
00:58:52,718 --> 00:58:56,521
I'm not really upset,
and I don't know why I'm doing this.
736
00:58:56,646 --> 00:59:01,159
It's just because I was excited tonight,
and it seemed like a good idea...
737
00:59:01,200 --> 00:59:03,331
and I thought of making
these little cards and...
738
00:59:03,373 --> 00:59:06,215
Doll, I'll call you tomorrow.
739
00:59:34,878 --> 00:59:37,720
- You looking for Mr. Whiting?
- Yeah.
740
00:59:38,639 --> 00:59:42,023
- He's not here.
- Do you have any idea when he'll be back?
741
00:59:43,152 --> 00:59:44,823
He hasn't been home for a few days.
742
00:59:44,865 --> 00:59:48,207
If he doesn't get back by Friday,
his azaleas are gonna look like shit.
743
00:59:48,291 --> 00:59:51,801
- Really? That's tough.
- You with the police?
744
00:59:52,595 --> 00:59:55,770
- That's right.
- You look kind of old to be a cop.
745
00:59:55,854 --> 00:59:58,486
Don't worry, this is just a disguise.
746
01:00:00,784 --> 01:00:05,046
Listen, when you see Mr. Whiting,
tell him to call me at this number.
747
01:00:06,383 --> 01:00:09,350
What do I look like,
some kind of social secretary?
748
01:00:09,392 --> 01:00:11,397
No, you certainly do not.
749
01:00:18,919 --> 01:00:20,130
Hi, pop.
750
01:00:29,908 --> 01:00:31,496
Think fast, kid.
751
01:00:36,551 --> 01:00:38,808
Where's the rest of your iron?
752
01:00:41,231 --> 01:00:43,195
Knife. Front pocket.
753
01:00:47,206 --> 01:00:49,003
No hard feelings, pal.
754
01:00:59,867 --> 01:01:02,249
I'm not as young as I used to be.
755
01:01:07,555 --> 01:01:09,018
Okay, pal...
756
01:01:12,277 --> 01:01:14,408
let's go see what we can find.
757
01:01:45,537 --> 01:01:46,832
Jump in.
758
01:01:47,292 --> 01:01:49,506
- What?
- This nose-picker here...
759
01:01:49,590 --> 01:01:53,476
is crazy enough to try some kind
of a dumb play and get himself drilled.
760
01:01:53,559 --> 01:01:56,568
Stay in the middle and tread water.
Show your hands all the time.
761
01:01:56,651 --> 01:01:59,869
- Screw you. This is a cashmere jacket!
- I said, "Jump in."
762
01:01:59,952 --> 01:02:02,376
- This old fart's crazy.
- Jump!
763
01:02:04,214 --> 01:02:05,342
Crap.
764
01:02:09,479 --> 01:02:10,565
Shit!
765
01:02:10,816 --> 01:02:14,535
If you've got something to say,
say it and get the hell out.
766
01:02:16,749 --> 01:02:19,925
- Ever hear of a man named Escobar?
- Could be.
767
01:02:21,972 --> 01:02:24,730
- He's dead.
- I'm sorry to hear that.
768
01:02:26,109 --> 01:02:29,702
I'm always sorry to hear
any of God's creatures stepping off.
769
01:02:29,786 --> 01:02:31,959
You got any idea who did it?
770
01:02:32,042 --> 01:02:34,466
If I was the cops,
I'd come looking for your wife.
771
01:02:34,507 --> 01:02:36,346
Laura? You're crazy.
772
01:02:36,638 --> 01:02:40,608
Maybe, but she was at Escobar's place
last night.
773
01:02:41,694 --> 01:02:44,243
- How do you know?
- I was there.
774
01:02:46,082 --> 01:02:47,669
Had a nice talk with her.
775
01:02:47,753 --> 01:02:50,302
If you were there,
you could have killed him.
776
01:02:50,720 --> 01:02:53,519
I wasn't the one
Escobar was blackmailing.
777
01:02:55,608 --> 01:02:58,074
I've got a Vitamaster
portable steam bath inside.
778
01:02:58,157 --> 01:03:00,246
Plugs into any 110-volt outlet.
779
01:03:00,330 --> 01:03:04,007
Got a pilot light, automatic timer.
It's an effective, fun way to relax.
780
01:03:04,049 --> 01:03:06,681
Where's your wife? I'd like to talk with her.
781
01:03:09,188 --> 01:03:11,695
She went out,
about an hour-and-a-half ago.
782
01:03:12,614 --> 01:03:16,250
Never saw a woman yet who could stand
the sight of something like this.
783
01:03:16,709 --> 01:03:21,097
- Must be a couple of days old.
- Jesus Christ, Ronny! Tell him, will you?
784
01:03:22,935 --> 01:03:25,066
I don't know where Laura is.
785
01:03:26,111 --> 01:03:28,576
She disappeared a couple days ago.
786
01:03:28,952 --> 01:03:32,921
Did you know your wife was
chippying around with Walter Whiting?
787
01:03:33,297 --> 01:03:36,557
Laura and I have been
married three, almost four years.
788
01:03:36,640 --> 01:03:38,604
She's not a happy woman.
789
01:03:38,938 --> 01:03:43,033
Reason I know she's not happy is
because she's always talking about it.
790
01:03:43,493 --> 01:03:46,000
I say screw her. What does she know?
791
01:03:46,752 --> 01:03:50,805
A couple of months ago,
I get this call from a lady, Mrs. Whiting.
792
01:03:52,309 --> 01:03:53,855
She's a real fruitcake.
793
01:03:53,939 --> 01:03:57,532
Starts screaming about her putz husband
fooling around with Laura...
794
01:03:57,616 --> 01:04:00,624
- and if I don't stop it, she will.
- Come on, I'm sinking.
795
01:04:00,708 --> 01:04:04,134
So I have this encounter with Laura.
Confrontation, know what I mean?
796
01:04:04,218 --> 01:04:05,638
I'm following you.
797
01:04:05,722 --> 01:04:08,688
Laura says she's not only boffing
this guy Whiting...
798
01:04:08,772 --> 01:04:12,073
she can't stand the sight of me
and wants a divorce.
799
01:04:12,240 --> 01:04:15,332
I realize I'm at the moment critique
in my marriage.
800
01:04:15,457 --> 01:04:18,508
- Immediately, I get very calm.
- Ronny, please!
801
01:04:18,591 --> 01:04:22,477
I figure this direct confrontation shit
is getting me nowhere...
802
01:04:22,561 --> 01:04:25,486
except maybe six more months
of unhappy crap.
803
01:04:25,820 --> 01:04:30,291
Plus, if in a fit of rage, I should happen
to lay one finger upon her...
804
01:04:30,374 --> 01:04:32,923
I'll pay for it the rest of my life.
805
01:04:33,174 --> 01:04:35,723
That's the kind of woman my wife is.
806
01:04:36,224 --> 01:04:39,776
I figure there's got to be an easier way
to deal with it.
807
01:04:40,110 --> 01:04:42,492
That's when you decided
to have Whiting hit.
808
01:04:42,533 --> 01:04:46,085
Nudged, not hit. Just nudged a little.
809
01:04:47,506 --> 01:04:51,433
Listen, Wells, you find Laura,
you bring her back here...
810
01:04:52,060 --> 01:04:54,902
and I promise to deliver you
a brand-new Coupe DeVille...
811
01:04:54,985 --> 01:04:56,782
your choice of color.
812
01:04:56,949 --> 01:05:00,459
I told you before, I'm looking for the louse
that nailed Harry Regan.
813
01:05:00,542 --> 01:05:02,423
All new tires. Radials.
814
01:05:03,300 --> 01:05:06,852
Leather seats, headrest, stereo radio,
plus a tape deck.
815
01:05:07,562 --> 01:05:09,986
When you want to talk business,
give me a call.
816
01:05:10,069 --> 01:05:12,910
I'll throw in 27 tapes. All guaranteed hits!
817
01:05:12,994 --> 01:05:15,585
Popular stars of today, yesterday...
818
01:05:45,669 --> 01:05:48,218
Charles Hatter,
my name is Ronald Birdwell.
819
01:05:48,301 --> 01:05:49,889
You got the wrong guy.
820
01:05:54,485 --> 01:05:56,992
You work with a man named Ira Wells.
821
01:05:58,706 --> 01:05:59,876
Right?
822
01:06:03,845 --> 01:06:06,227
I believe this putzola Wells...
823
01:06:06,268 --> 01:06:09,026
is behaving in a cheap, immoral fashion.
824
01:06:09,653 --> 01:06:11,993
That's why I've come to ask you for help.
825
01:06:12,076 --> 01:06:14,458
If you choose to take my position...
826
01:06:14,542 --> 01:06:18,804
we're talking about a financial package
in the five-figure department.
827
01:06:19,013 --> 01:06:21,937
If you don't, it's toilet time.
828
01:06:32,383 --> 01:06:34,807
What I'm looking for is a handgun.
829
01:06:34,932 --> 01:06:37,941
Automatic Colt, .32 caliber, nickel-plated...
830
01:06:38,818 --> 01:06:42,913
serial number 473320.
831
01:06:43,540 --> 01:06:45,545
That's simple, isn't it?
832
01:06:46,882 --> 01:06:49,306
A gumball named Ray Escobar
used to have it.
833
01:06:49,389 --> 01:06:51,604
He's dead. The gun's disappeared.
834
01:06:51,688 --> 01:06:54,362
I'm depending on you to find it for me.
835
01:06:55,699 --> 01:06:57,036
Comprendo?
836
01:06:59,125 --> 01:07:00,671
Here's my card.
837
01:07:01,423 --> 01:07:04,724
Not to worry, pal. I have confidence in you.
838
01:07:09,362 --> 01:07:10,574
Lamar.
839
01:07:18,304 --> 01:07:20,895
Then I started choking him
with his necklace.
840
01:07:20,978 --> 01:07:23,402
I said, "Let's go see your boss."
841
01:07:23,903 --> 01:07:26,494
- This guy is like his bodyguard?
- Yeah.
842
01:07:26,577 --> 01:07:27,664
He's a flunky.
843
01:07:27,747 --> 01:07:29,586
- Check?
- Yeah, thanks.
844
01:07:30,421 --> 01:07:31,466
He's walking ahead of me.
845
01:07:31,549 --> 01:07:35,561
Birdwell's just coming out of the pool.
Looked like a pregnant porpoise.
846
01:07:35,644 --> 01:07:39,948
So I got this joker at this end of the pool,
and I stick my rod in his ribs.
847
01:07:39,990 --> 01:07:43,834
I said, "Jump in."
He says to his boss, "This old guy's crazy."
848
01:07:43,918 --> 01:07:45,965
I said, "I'm not crazy, I'm just deaf."
849
01:07:46,007 --> 01:07:49,349
- "Jump in"...
- Wait. He said you were crazy to you?
850
01:07:49,391 --> 01:07:51,188
- Well, sure...
- That makes me mad.
851
01:07:51,272 --> 01:07:54,823
You know what he said? He said,
"I've got a 100% cashmere jacket on.
852
01:07:54,865 --> 01:07:57,706
"I'm not jumping in."
I said, "You're going to jump in."
853
01:07:57,790 --> 01:08:00,840
Get a load of how he jumps in.
Just like this.
854
01:08:03,180 --> 01:08:05,227
He has his shoes on and everything?
855
01:08:05,311 --> 01:08:07,358
- What is it?
- I don't know.
856
01:08:08,863 --> 01:08:11,620
I don't feel so good. My gut.
857
01:08:13,501 --> 01:08:15,464
Maybe I better sit down.
858
01:08:20,186 --> 01:08:22,609
- What is it?
- Jesus. God help me.
859
01:08:22,651 --> 01:08:24,281
What is it, Ira?
860
01:08:26,119 --> 01:08:28,334
Somebody call a doctor.
861
01:08:35,688 --> 01:08:37,610
Ira, are you all right?
862
01:08:39,407 --> 01:08:41,955
I'm fine. I feel fine.
863
01:08:44,003 --> 01:08:45,674
Everything's going to be all right.
864
01:08:45,716 --> 01:08:48,975
I called the ambulance.
They'll be here any minute.
865
01:08:54,532 --> 01:08:57,708
- Help me up, will you, doll?
- Take it easy, okay?
866
01:08:58,460 --> 01:09:01,009
Ira, wait a second.
We'll get you to the hospital.
867
01:09:01,051 --> 01:09:03,767
I'm not going to any goddamn hospital.
868
01:09:03,850 --> 01:09:06,441
You gotta go, so they can
find out what's wrong with you.
869
01:09:06,524 --> 01:09:09,533
I know what's wrong with me.
I got a perforated ulcer.
870
01:09:10,912 --> 01:09:14,505
It's starting to bleed again.
In the hospital, they'll want to operate.
871
01:09:14,589 --> 01:09:17,472
Let them. That's better
than walking around like this.
872
01:09:17,555 --> 01:09:20,647
I will not go through
another goddamn operation.
873
01:09:21,316 --> 01:09:23,781
Lay back down.
There's nothing to be afraid of.
874
01:09:23,823 --> 01:09:26,121
It's my gut. It's my life.
875
01:09:27,207 --> 01:09:30,132
I won't let anybody call me
a goddamn coward.
876
01:09:30,968 --> 01:09:35,063
I went through two operations last year
on my gut. Two operations.
877
01:09:35,982 --> 01:09:38,740
Do you realize
what it's like in a veterans' hospital...
878
01:09:38,823 --> 01:09:43,002
lying on your back for six months,
with tubes going every which way?
879
01:09:43,044 --> 01:09:46,344
Maybe I don't have much of a life
right now, but it's better than that.
880
01:09:46,428 --> 01:09:50,690
But I'll be goddamned if I let
those butchers open me up again. Never!
881
01:09:51,024 --> 01:09:54,576
- I'll blow my brains out first...
- Stop it. Just stop it.
882
01:10:02,222 --> 01:10:03,351
Okay.
883
01:10:08,072 --> 01:10:09,952
Let's get out of here.
884
01:10:35,566 --> 01:10:36,987
Here we are.
885
01:10:44,048 --> 01:10:46,096
Thanks for the lift, doll.
886
01:10:47,182 --> 01:10:50,023
- Want me to go in the house with you?
- No.
887
01:10:53,533 --> 01:10:56,959
- Are you going to be all right?
- I'm fine.
888
01:11:22,030 --> 01:11:23,367
Mr. Wells.
889
01:11:24,495 --> 01:11:26,166
Yes, Mrs. Schmidt?
890
01:11:26,960 --> 01:11:29,634
- May I speak to you for a minute?
- Sure.
891
01:11:31,682 --> 01:11:34,440
I don't know how to say this, Mr. Wells.
892
01:11:34,607 --> 01:11:37,239
You've always been such a good tenant.
893
01:11:37,323 --> 01:11:41,961
Paid your rent on time, you were quiet,
until these past few days.
894
01:11:43,005 --> 01:11:46,975
But if you're going to keep young women
in your room at night...
895
01:11:47,017 --> 01:11:49,649
I'm going to have to ask you to leave.
896
01:12:00,554 --> 01:12:03,396
$42.50 a month, and it's all yours.
897
01:12:06,571 --> 01:12:11,418
Mr. Wells, I'm really terribly sorry
about what happened last night...
898
01:12:11,585 --> 01:12:13,549
running away like I did.
899
01:12:15,764 --> 01:12:19,733
- Had a nice talk with your husband today.
- You talked with Ronny?
900
01:12:20,235 --> 01:12:21,238
Yup.
901
01:12:22,073 --> 01:12:25,583
He told me if I found you,
brought you back to him...
902
01:12:27,046 --> 01:12:30,555
- it would be worth a brand-new Cadillac.
- You wouldn't do that, would you?
903
01:12:30,639 --> 01:12:33,689
Don't be too sure. I could use a car.
904
01:12:36,113 --> 01:12:38,996
Mr. Wells. Ira.
905
01:12:40,166 --> 01:12:43,801
Last night, I felt a very deep compassion
coming from you.
906
01:12:45,013 --> 01:12:47,436
I felt a really deep sense of...
907
01:12:49,483 --> 01:12:53,704
Mr. Wells, if you won't help me,
there's no one else I can turn to.
908
01:12:56,587 --> 01:13:00,765
I'd offer you a drink, but I don't think
there's enough to go around.
909
01:13:01,350 --> 01:13:04,359
Right now,
I think I need it more than you do.
910
01:13:06,740 --> 01:13:08,955
- You kill Whiting's wife?
- No.
911
01:13:10,334 --> 01:13:13,718
Ronny, my husband,
is a very violent human being.
912
01:13:15,097 --> 01:13:18,398
When he found out about
Walter Whiting and myself...
913
01:13:19,986 --> 01:13:22,493
I was terrified of what he might do.
914
01:13:24,122 --> 01:13:25,919
And I had this gun...
915
01:13:26,504 --> 01:13:29,220
and I gave it to Walter for protection.
916
01:13:29,680 --> 01:13:32,981
That's what Escobar was using
to blackmail you with.
917
01:13:33,106 --> 01:13:36,282
He said it was my gun
that killed Mrs. Whiting.
918
01:13:36,908 --> 01:13:38,120
And he said...
919
01:13:39,457 --> 01:13:42,842
if I didn't pay him
that he would hand it over to the police.
920
01:13:48,273 --> 01:13:50,613
All right. Let's go see Whiting.
921
01:13:51,240 --> 01:13:53,664
I don't know where he is.
I swear I don't know.
922
01:13:53,705 --> 01:13:57,967
Listen, lady, any day now
some hotshot detective at Homicide...
923
01:13:58,051 --> 01:14:01,770
is going to tumble on the fact
that this is more than a simple robbery.
924
01:14:01,853 --> 01:14:04,820
When they do,
they're going to come looking for Whiting.
925
01:14:04,904 --> 01:14:07,202
If the cops tag him for killing his wife...
926
01:14:07,243 --> 01:14:11,296
they'll nail you as an accessory
just as sure as I'm sitting here.
927
01:14:15,141 --> 01:14:18,692
There's this place over at Fountain
and La Cienega where we used to meet.
928
01:14:18,776 --> 01:14:21,408
All right. Let's go.
929
01:14:23,121 --> 01:14:26,380
Things haven't
really been going so great lately.
930
01:14:26,464 --> 01:14:28,804
Not as well as they might have gone...
931
01:14:28,846 --> 01:14:33,818
but I don't think that's reason enough
for you to give up everything.
932
01:14:35,322 --> 01:14:37,955
Charlotte, there's one thing I want to say.
933
01:14:38,038 --> 01:14:42,133
You know this town doesn't change.
They just push the names around.
934
01:14:42,175 --> 01:14:46,019
If you want to change managers,
far be it for me to stand in your way.
935
01:14:46,604 --> 01:14:49,153
I'm just not that type, so go ahead.
936
01:14:52,830 --> 01:14:56,716
I'm telling you, Mr. Wells,
Walter wouldn't be here without me.
937
01:14:57,426 --> 01:14:58,763
We'll see.
938
01:15:02,607 --> 01:15:04,822
No. Walter.
939
01:15:06,827 --> 01:15:08,039
Walter?
940
01:15:17,858 --> 01:15:20,532
God. Oh, my God!
941
01:15:27,677 --> 01:15:30,561
Ronny did this. Ronny killed him.
942
01:15:32,232 --> 01:15:35,157
Hi, this is Margo Sperling. Is Ira Wells in?
943
01:15:35,951 --> 01:15:37,915
Oh, God. No.
944
01:15:38,834 --> 01:15:43,054
If he calls, would you tell him, please,
to call me? It's very important.
945
01:15:43,138 --> 01:15:45,854
Margo. Okay, thanks a lot.
946
01:16:03,862 --> 01:16:06,913
- C.S. Hatter Productions.
- Charles, it's Margo.
947
01:16:08,041 --> 01:16:10,422
Do you know where Ira is?
I've got to talk to him.
948
01:16:10,506 --> 01:16:13,138
How the hell would I know?
What's the matter?
949
01:16:13,222 --> 01:16:15,144
Something funny has happened.
950
01:16:15,228 --> 01:16:17,902
I was going to feed Winston tonight.
951
01:16:17,944 --> 01:16:22,707
I've had a lot of trouble getting him back
on schedule since the kidnapping...
952
01:16:22,791 --> 01:16:26,467
and I looked down
and I found this gun laying on the floor.
953
01:16:26,635 --> 01:16:28,515
- No shit.
- I'm pretty sure it's real...
954
01:16:28,598 --> 01:16:32,902
- and I want to find Ira...
- Margo, don't worry. I'll handle it.
955
01:16:40,423 --> 01:16:44,184
I was here this afternoon.
My husband must have followed me.
956
01:16:50,243 --> 01:16:52,624
Mr. Wells, I'm scared.
957
01:16:53,460 --> 01:16:55,883
If my husband can do something like this
to Walter...
958
01:16:55,925 --> 01:16:59,477
he'll do the same thing to me. He'll kill me.
959
01:17:01,065 --> 01:17:02,945
You've got to help me.
960
01:17:04,616 --> 01:17:07,416
It's raining everywhere these days, lady.
961
01:17:07,917 --> 01:17:10,884
That gun of yours,
the one you gave Whiting...
962
01:17:11,260 --> 01:17:14,937
- it was a.32, right?
- I think we should call the police.
963
01:17:21,455 --> 01:17:23,294
Why don't you do that?
964
01:17:23,962 --> 01:17:26,803
I'd like to be around
when you try and explain to the cops...
965
01:17:26,887 --> 01:17:29,896
that Whiting's wife
was murdered in this dump.
966
01:17:30,021 --> 01:17:33,113
Mrs. Whiting caught you
and her husband here one night.
967
01:17:33,155 --> 01:17:36,790
There was a fight.
When it was all over, she ends up dead.
968
01:17:38,963 --> 01:17:43,434
Mr. Wells, some of the things
I told you before were untruths.
969
01:17:46,233 --> 01:17:47,821
Still not there?
970
01:17:48,239 --> 01:17:52,542
Tell him that I called again...
Wait, I think this is him. Thanks a lot.
971
01:17:56,387 --> 01:17:58,267
- Ira...
- Hiya, doll.
972
01:17:58,810 --> 01:18:01,651
Margo Sperling. Ron Birdwell, Jeff Lamar.
973
01:18:01,944 --> 01:18:04,785
I'm tied up right now.
I'm working on something.
974
01:18:04,869 --> 01:18:07,459
Would you mind waiting in...
Don't you push me.
975
01:18:07,543 --> 01:18:08,796
Okay.
976
01:18:08,880 --> 01:18:12,473
I'd like to invite you in,
but I've got work that I have to finish...
977
01:18:12,557 --> 01:18:15,774
so please don't sit down.
What do they think they're doing?
978
01:18:15,816 --> 01:18:19,201
Listen, remember that gun
that we were talking about?
979
01:18:19,577 --> 01:18:22,418
This guy Birdwell, he's willing to buy it.
980
01:18:24,758 --> 01:18:27,641
- What about Ira?
- Let me tell you something.
981
01:18:28,644 --> 01:18:32,906
Ira Wells was a broken-down old bum
who was never any good to start with.
982
01:18:32,989 --> 01:18:35,538
That schmuck blew every chance he had.
983
01:18:35,622 --> 01:18:37,836
And he'll blow this one, too, if I let him.
984
01:18:37,878 --> 01:18:39,591
We'll give him a couple of thou...
985
01:18:39,675 --> 01:18:43,519
let him go to the track
and act like a big shot. You know.
986
01:18:44,856 --> 01:18:46,193
Get them out of here.
987
01:18:46,235 --> 01:18:48,616
How the hell long
are you gonna stay in there?
988
01:18:48,700 --> 01:18:52,085
- Just a minute, pal.
- I mean it, get them out of here...
989
01:18:52,168 --> 01:18:54,383
- and you get out, too.
- Easy, now.
990
01:18:54,759 --> 01:18:57,642
Hold on. Listen. I'm running into a little...
991
01:18:57,725 --> 01:18:59,982
I'm through shitting around with you,
you putzola.
992
01:19:00,065 --> 01:19:02,781
I want you to give me the gun.
993
01:19:02,948 --> 01:19:07,545
Mr. Birdwell, I'm the one that has the gun.
I mean, it's in my possession.
994
01:19:08,255 --> 01:19:11,598
Charles told me
what you are offering and I'm...
995
01:19:12,183 --> 01:19:13,269
Wait!
996
01:19:17,155 --> 01:19:20,539
Hit her, for God's sake.
She's got the goddamn gun.
997
01:19:20,957 --> 01:19:23,590
- He has a point, Lamar.
- Wait a second.
998
01:19:25,470 --> 01:19:29,648
If you lay a hand on me,
you're gonna pay for it in your next life.
999
01:19:30,526 --> 01:19:33,033
Violence has never solved anything.
1000
01:19:33,660 --> 01:19:37,462
If you come one step closer,
I'm gonna break this right in your face.
1001
01:19:39,593 --> 01:19:40,930
Answer it.
1002
01:20:19,329 --> 01:20:21,126
Hello, doll. Ira.
1003
01:20:22,254 --> 01:20:24,135
I'm at Whiting's place.
1004
01:20:24,511 --> 01:20:27,686
He's dead.
I've got this whole thing figured out.
1005
01:20:28,062 --> 01:20:29,566
- Ira...
- Doll...
1006
01:20:30,068 --> 01:20:33,619
in case you're interested,
I know who killed Harry Regan.
1007
01:20:34,915 --> 01:20:35,959
It was Birdwell.
1008
01:20:36,294 --> 01:20:38,968
Stay put, okay?
I'm on my way over to your place.
1009
01:20:39,010 --> 01:20:40,556
Don't hang up...
1010
01:20:47,366 --> 01:20:48,327
Lamar...
1011
01:20:49,539 --> 01:20:53,509
how would you like a new Coupe DeVille,
color of your choice?
1012
01:20:58,565 --> 01:21:01,782
Mr. Wells, I cannot tell you
how good it feels...
1013
01:21:02,325 --> 01:21:05,083
to have finally opened up
and told the truth...
1014
01:21:05,125 --> 01:21:07,966
to have opened up
the dark side of my soul.
1015
01:21:08,175 --> 01:21:10,556
It's like stepping into the sunlight.
1016
01:21:21,420 --> 01:21:22,925
I'm all right.
1017
01:21:31,323 --> 01:21:33,663
Listen, he's an old guy. He's not even well.
1018
01:21:33,747 --> 01:21:36,128
He needs an operation,
one on his stomach.
1019
01:21:36,170 --> 01:21:38,844
I know we could talk this over
and work something out.
1020
01:21:39,513 --> 01:21:41,686
There's no reason to get him.
1021
01:21:42,521 --> 01:21:45,154
Mr. Birdwell, let me give you the gun.
1022
01:21:46,240 --> 01:21:48,037
Why don't I do that?
1023
01:21:48,287 --> 01:21:50,669
I don't know why
I didn't give it to you before.
1024
01:21:50,711 --> 01:21:54,054
I know how much you want it,
and I don't even care about the gun.
1025
01:21:54,137 --> 01:21:55,850
I'll do that, okay?
1026
01:21:58,859 --> 01:22:00,739
I'm going to stand up.
1027
01:22:03,246 --> 01:22:05,043
See? I'm standing up.
1028
01:22:05,628 --> 01:22:08,344
I'm just going to walk across the room.
1029
01:22:08,678 --> 01:22:11,394
Here I am. I'm walking across the room.
1030
01:22:12,773 --> 01:22:15,907
I'll open this drawer. See me opening it?
1031
01:22:16,826 --> 01:22:18,038
Just take it and go.
1032
01:22:18,121 --> 01:22:21,464
What about me? What about yours truly?
We had a deal.
1033
01:22:21,756 --> 01:22:24,138
"Twelve bills for the gun."
That's a direct quote.
1034
01:22:24,180 --> 01:22:28,191
You know, that old guy isn't so dumb.
He's right about Harry Regan.
1035
01:22:29,319 --> 01:22:30,823
I killed him.
1036
01:23:19,669 --> 01:23:21,758
- Ronny.
- You okay?
1037
01:23:22,427 --> 01:23:25,978
Darling, you must think
I'm such a terrible person.
1038
01:23:28,360 --> 01:23:29,363
Ira!
1039
01:23:34,084 --> 01:23:36,884
Do something. I told you he was sick.
1040
01:23:42,483 --> 01:23:44,614
You don't look so good, pop.
1041
01:23:49,712 --> 01:23:51,968
Ronny, you ever been to Florida?
1042
01:23:52,051 --> 01:23:55,185
They got these old turtles that crawl up
on the beach at night.
1043
01:23:55,227 --> 01:23:59,865
As a kid, I'd sneak up with a two-by-four
and flip them over on their backs.
1044
01:24:00,158 --> 01:24:01,745
They looked just like that.
1045
01:24:05,213 --> 01:24:07,720
A doctor. I want...
1046
01:24:08,431 --> 01:24:11,188
- What did you say, old man?
- I want a...
1047
01:24:14,782 --> 01:24:17,247
You wanna know something, punk?
1048
01:24:17,707 --> 01:24:20,882
You were born dumb,
and you're going to die dumb.
1049
01:24:24,935 --> 01:24:26,314
Now get up.
1050
01:24:27,442 --> 01:24:28,654
Get up!
1051
01:24:30,576 --> 01:24:31,830
Hurry up!
1052
01:24:35,507 --> 01:24:37,638
Park it over in that chair.
1053
01:24:43,487 --> 01:24:48,042
All right, sit down.
Keep your hands nice and quiet.
1054
01:24:49,964 --> 01:24:51,886
And your mouth shut up.
1055
01:24:55,438 --> 01:24:58,697
- Are you all right?
- Never been better.
1056
01:25:01,496 --> 01:25:05,173
Pretty nice. Pretty slick.
1057
01:25:06,552 --> 01:25:10,104
You knew if I fell for it,
they'd fall for it, right?
1058
01:25:10,981 --> 01:25:12,611
Of course I didn't fall for it.
1059
01:25:12,694 --> 01:25:15,954
You son of a bitch,
don't you even do that to me again.
1060
01:25:15,995 --> 01:25:19,798
What if I had fallen for it?
I could have had a heart attack.
1061
01:25:20,633 --> 01:25:23,475
Here's someone I really care about,
drop dead at my feet.
1062
01:25:23,516 --> 01:25:26,149
How am I supposed to feel about that?
1063
01:25:26,274 --> 01:25:29,408
Mentally deranged, that's how.
Probably for the...
1064
01:25:29,492 --> 01:25:31,831
Doll, you're still alive, aren't you?
1065
01:25:31,873 --> 01:25:35,508
That's another thing. Don't call me doll.
I don't like it.
1066
01:25:36,720 --> 01:25:40,188
- Pop, she's a real loony bird.
- You're not?
1067
01:25:42,612 --> 01:25:45,871
You don't mind if I sit down, do you?
I've had a tough day.
1068
01:25:51,553 --> 01:25:55,230
Kid, just hear me out
before you do anything crazy.
1069
01:25:55,732 --> 01:25:58,949
We've got this guy between
a rock and a hard place, see?
1070
01:25:59,033 --> 01:26:02,208
We're in a position
to make an A-number-one deal.
1071
01:26:03,295 --> 01:26:05,635
Nice to see a man who loves his wife.
1072
01:26:05,718 --> 01:26:08,142
Get used to something.
She doesn't love you back.
1073
01:26:08,225 --> 01:26:09,813
- Ronny, do something...
- Be quiet.
1074
01:26:09,897 --> 01:26:13,615
Laura kills Mrs. Whiting
at that love nest over on Fountain Avenue.
1075
01:26:13,699 --> 01:26:16,958
She calls Brian Hemphill
and gets him to clean up her mess.
1076
01:26:17,334 --> 01:26:20,175
Escobar and Brian move the body
back to Whiting's house...
1077
01:26:20,259 --> 01:26:23,936
and fake the stamp caper
to throw the cops off the track.
1078
01:26:24,187 --> 01:26:27,947
That's water over the dam.
Let's cut to the chase.
1079
01:26:28,574 --> 01:26:32,836
Escobar's got the gun Laura used
on Mrs. Whiting and blackmails her.
1080
01:26:33,254 --> 01:26:34,925
Somewhere along the way...
1081
01:26:35,009 --> 01:26:37,808
Birdwell realizes
if he can get a hold of that gun...
1082
01:26:37,850 --> 01:26:41,151
Laura will have to stick to him like glue
for the rest of her life.
1083
01:26:41,193 --> 01:26:44,327
Why are you putting my wife
under this pressure?
1084
01:26:44,494 --> 01:26:47,335
He and this joker go looking for Escobar.
1085
01:26:47,544 --> 01:26:51,263
They catch up with him at that palace
he had in Santa Monica...
1086
01:26:51,346 --> 01:26:53,101
put the arm on him...
1087
01:26:53,185 --> 01:26:55,232
but Lamar gets carried away and kills him.
1088
01:26:55,316 --> 01:26:56,736
I can see...
1089
01:26:58,282 --> 01:27:00,330
this is going to cost me.
1090
01:27:01,249 --> 01:27:05,887
By now Whiting's starting to get nervous.
He's in this mess way over his head.
1091
01:27:06,597 --> 01:27:08,603
He decides to go to the cops.
1092
01:27:08,645 --> 01:27:11,152
Laura couldn't afford that,
so she had to kill him.
1093
01:27:11,235 --> 01:27:12,364
That's a lie.
1094
01:27:12,447 --> 01:27:15,915
That's when you came to me,
hoping I'd play the sap for you.
1095
01:27:15,999 --> 01:27:19,091
- He's lying.
- No, that's exactly what happened.
1096
01:27:19,258 --> 01:27:21,180
You figure I'll want to talk to Whiting.
1097
01:27:21,264 --> 01:27:25,567
You take me there, I'll sniff around,
and think your husband killed him.
1098
01:27:25,651 --> 01:27:29,537
- You don't believe him, do you?
- I'm not saying you're right...
1099
01:27:29,620 --> 01:27:31,417
but what's the price?
1100
01:27:32,002 --> 01:27:36,222
I've been in this business 31 years,
give or take a couple of months.
1101
01:27:36,348 --> 01:27:39,022
I've always played it on the up and up.
1102
01:27:39,440 --> 01:27:42,699
- Call the cops.
- Hold it!
1103
01:27:43,743 --> 01:27:46,919
Put that thing down.
You haven't got the ass to swing it.
1104
01:27:47,922 --> 01:27:50,763
All my life I've been a loser,
from the day I was born.
1105
01:27:50,847 --> 01:27:53,061
What makes you any different now?
1106
01:27:53,187 --> 01:27:55,694
What makes you think
Birdwell's gonna sit still...
1107
01:27:55,735 --> 01:27:58,451
for some chiseler like you
to take that kind of dough off?
1108
01:27:58,535 --> 01:28:02,295
I'll make him, that's why.
Because I've got him by the short hairs.
1109
01:28:02,379 --> 01:28:05,304
Yeah, you'll make him,
just like Harry Regan made him.
1110
01:28:05,387 --> 01:28:08,062
Harry goes to Birdwell,
tries to deal himself in...
1111
01:28:08,103 --> 01:28:09,775
but Birdwell can't gamble on...
1112
01:28:09,858 --> 01:28:12,198
some two-bit chiseler
gumming up the works...
1113
01:28:12,282 --> 01:28:14,789
so they meet someplace for a payoff.
1114
01:28:15,290 --> 01:28:18,591
Birdwell unloads a.45 point-blank
into his stomach.
1115
01:28:30,332 --> 01:28:32,296
You dumb son of a bitch.
1116
01:28:33,675 --> 01:28:36,516
- Didn't I tell you you'd blow it?
- Mr. Wells.
1117
01:28:36,642 --> 01:28:38,439
Sit down and shut up.
1118
01:28:45,249 --> 01:28:46,670
Six figures.
1119
01:28:48,049 --> 01:28:50,514
He was going to pay us six figures.
1120
01:28:50,974 --> 01:28:55,779
Police emergency?
It's 3626 Franklin. Apartment 405.
1121
01:28:56,364 --> 01:28:58,954
We have a dying man here. Step on it.
1122
01:29:06,100 --> 01:29:08,063
Jesus Christ.
1123
01:29:08,774 --> 01:29:12,284
How did I ever get mixed up with you
in the first place?
1124
01:29:12,785 --> 01:29:15,793
You're right, Charlie. I'll never learn.
1125
01:29:20,306 --> 01:29:23,189
- I think maybe I better sit down now.
- Yeah.
1126
01:29:24,025 --> 01:29:25,362
All right.
1127
01:29:26,323 --> 01:29:28,537
- I think I'll sit down.
- Okay.
1128
01:29:37,855 --> 01:29:40,488
- You believe in reincarnation?
- I don't know.
1129
01:29:41,699 --> 01:29:43,872
Never thought much about it.
1130
01:29:44,875 --> 01:29:49,053
I hate to think of Charles
just floating around in the eternal void.
1131
01:29:49,262 --> 01:29:52,814
I like to think
he's gonna drop around again sometime...
1132
01:29:52,939 --> 01:29:55,405
even if he was pretty non-evolved.
1133
01:29:56,407 --> 01:29:57,452
You know what I mean?
1134
01:29:59,499 --> 01:30:03,135
Charlie did the best he knew how.
That's for sure.
1135
01:30:07,814 --> 01:30:09,486
Where you headed?
1136
01:30:09,820 --> 01:30:12,118
I was going to take this
number 10 to Highland...
1137
01:30:12,202 --> 01:30:13,497
then transfer to number four.
1138
01:30:13,581 --> 01:30:16,714
That should let me off a couple of blocks
from my house.
1139
01:30:16,798 --> 01:30:19,347
- What about you?
- I don't know.
1140
01:30:20,976 --> 01:30:23,400
Mrs. Schmidt asked me to move out.
1141
01:30:28,665 --> 01:30:31,840
That place next door to you,
is that still empty?
1142
01:30:33,720 --> 01:30:36,645
I don't know, I don't think I could take it.
1143
01:30:36,854 --> 01:30:39,319
You just never say anything,
for God's sake.
1144
01:30:39,361 --> 01:30:42,286
It's not fair. I've to keep up
my side of the conversation...
1145
01:30:42,370 --> 01:30:44,668
and your side of the conversation.
1146
01:30:45,462 --> 01:30:48,387
Yeah, that's it. You just never
say anything, for God's sake.
1147
01:30:49,013 --> 01:30:50,935
I want some feedback from you.
1148
01:30:51,019 --> 01:30:53,944
I want to know
what you think about things...
1149
01:30:54,947 --> 01:30:57,078
and what you think about me.
1150
01:31:00,880 --> 01:31:04,724
Would it kill you, if, once in a while,
you wore a goddamn dress?
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