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So, Mr. Beloit, you would like this court to believe that your brother, the

defendant, Tom Beloit, could not have killed his wife's lover because he was

with you that night.

That's right.

Uh -huh.

Who drove to the bar you allegedly went to that night? You or your brother?

What do you mean allegedly?

Huh?

We were there. Just answer the question, please, Mr. Beloit.

I drove.

And whose car did you drive, yours or your brother's?

Mine. Look, I already told the cops.

Tom and I drove to the Cedar Bar to check out Singer for our club. We got

around 10.

We left around 11 after she finished her set.

And then you drove home in your car, is that correct?

Yes.

But you can't identify one single person who saw you there that night, can you?

It was Friday night.

Place was jammed.

But we were there.

And your car was there too, right?

How many times do I have to say?

Mr. Beloit, are you aware that perjury is a crime for which there are severe

penalties?

I'm telling the truth.

You own a bar, Mr. Beloit.

Is it true what they say, that customers come in and tell you their troubles?

Yeah. Yeah, that's true.

And sometimes you tell them your troubles, too, don't you?

I talked to some of the customers at your bar, and according to them, you

complain that your car is always in the shop. Is that true?

I got a lemon.

And that's where your car was on the night of the murder.

In the shop.

I have a copy of the work order right here.

Don't do it, Mr. Beloit.

Don't get yourself in deeper.

You didn't go anywhere with your brother that night. You weren't even with your

brother that night, were you?

Yes. You love your brother and you want to help him.

And we can understand that, but you must not lie for him.

He wasn't with you that night.

because that night he was, in fact, murdering his wife's lover.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, have you reached a verdict?

Yes, we have, Your Honor.

The defendant will please rise.

May we have your verdict, please?

We, the jury, find the defendant, Thomas Beloit, guilty of murder in the first

degree.

Tommy. Tommy.

Tommy, don't work.

Thank you. Excuse us.

Not right now. Sorry.

Sorry. Hey, hey.

Julie.

Mike Eisman.

What brings you to Atlanta?

Just passing through.

Well, I'm on vacation, sort of. My mother's down in Florida visiting her

so she wants me to drive down and bring her back. So I thought I would stop on

the way to see you.

Well, Atlanta isn't exactly on your way.

Oh, Mike, this is Eli Boward, an attorney in my office. Mike Eisman, an

friend of mine. Hi.

Listen, you wouldn't, by any chance, be free for, you know, lunch?

Well?

Gee, Mike, I'm sorry.

Julie and I are having a working lunch.

We've just been assigned to the Bronca case.

Oh, Mike, I'm sorry.

No, oh, you know, I mean, I should have called. But let's talk before you go,

okay? Where are you staying?

The Grand Hotel.

The Grand.

Bye. Bye.

Bronco King.

You just convicted an innocent man, lady.

You just convicted an innocent man.

You did it. You did it. The jury believes you're alive.

Nobody railroads my brother and gets away with it. I know you're up to

that.

What's going on?

I'm going to get you.

What's he talking about? Get here.

Oh, he's just... Are you all right? I'm fine.

You don't look all right. It's all right. I'm okay.

Did that guy threaten you? His brother was just convicted of murder, so he's

kind of upset.

Oh, that's right. Your case.

Congratulations.

Thank you.

If that guy threatened you, don't you think you should file a report? No, no.

was just blowing off steam.

Hello? Who is this?

Hello.

It's white tablet paper, black permanent marker. You can buy them in any grocery

store.

I'll send it over to the lab, but I doubt that they'll find prints.

There's not much we can do in a situation like this.

Bob, the man was in my garage, and he called me so many times last night I had

to disconnect the phone.

Oh, Julie, I need proof that it's Nick Beloit.

He threatened me in front of witnesses.

Threats aren't proof of a crime. You of all people know that.

Look, let me work on a note.

If there's anything there, I'll be all over him.

Julie, I'm sorry.

Yes, yes, we all know the law.

But the man has my phone number.

And he knows where I live.

I don't know what to do.

Put Conrad on it.

If this Nick Beloit harasses you again, we'll get him. Okay?

Meantime, what would you think?

Stay with me.

Okay with me.

All right.

I'll take care of the mysterious phone calls and the anomalous notes.

Did you sleep with me? Not a wink.

Let's go pack a bag.

No.

What? No.

I can't do it.

I'm not going to give him the satisfaction of driving me out of my own

At least not yet.

Let's give it another 24 hours and maybe he'll go away.

Do you think that's wise?

I don't know.

Hello? You look lovely in blue.

If you think you're frightening me, Mr. Beloit, you're wrong.

And if you keep this up, sooner or later you're going to make a mistake.

And that's when I'm going to nail you. And then you are going to join your

brother in prison. And now the show is over.

You all right? I'm all right. I didn't panic.

I'm sorry. Oh, don't be sorry.

I'm not peeping in your window.

Must be in that high -rise across the street.

Yeah. Conrad will be there. You packed?

Almost.

Ben, I've given this a great deal of thought.

I'm going to stay at your house, but I'm going to go to work in the morning.

Julie. I am going to do my job.

I am not going to let this disrupt my life. Well, couldn't you take a few days

off? No.

Look, what if you leave your work clothes here?

Let's go.

I'll take the bag.

Good morning.

Oh, good morning.

Did you sleep?

Yes. Good. First I didn't think I would, and then all of a sudden it was

morning.

Phone didn't ring once.

Maybe he got tired and it's over.

This will be ready in a minute. Oh, I don't eat breakfast.

You have to eat breakfast.

Most important meal of the day.

You sound like my mother.

Well, you can bet your sweet patootie I'm not your mother.

I'm glad you got to eat breakfast.

Oh, Ben, Eli and I have the bronca case.

Yeah? Yeah, yeah, and we blocked out the whole day to work on it together. Yeah,

yeah.

So I guess I better go.

Well, well... Here.

Here.

Examine you.

If you starve to death, it won't be my fault.

Thank you.

Hello?

Anybody there?

Hello?

This is the only apartment on this side of the building.

It's been right in the last month.

Yeah, the last six months.

Guess she hasn't moved in yet.

She? Yeah.

Rented it to a woman. Name's Lisa Johnson.

Match kind of thing. Tall.

Dark hair about down to her shoulders.

Plain dress.

Below the knee.

Didn't talk much. Had kind of a low voice. You know what I mean?

Yeah.

Anyway, the name is Lisa Johnson. At least that's the name she gave me.

Paid me in cash, so I didn't ask any questions. Never look a gift horse in

mouth, I always say. You know what I mean?

Yeah.

When did she rent it?

Last Tuesday.

Phone works.

You have her former address, her work number, anything?

She paid cash.

If you hear from Lisa Johnson, you give me a call.

I'm out of principle.

Yeah.

Come in.

Oh, hi, Eli.

Are you all right?

Fine.

Is something wrong?

Well, um... You were due in court at 10 .30. Motions, the Branca case.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Oh, no, no, it's all right. I took care of it. How could I have done that?

It's right here in my calendar. How could I just forget?

Julie, look.

Why don't you take some time off? Get away for a while. Now, Paula and I have

place in the country up near Jasper, and you are welcome to it.

Oh, thanks, Eli, but I need to stay here. At work, I feel like I have some

of control.

I mean, I did.

I won't forget anything again, I promise.

Okay. But you remember, anytime you want to use the place, it's all right.

And Paula says so, too.

Oh.

Hello. Who is this?

Well, yes, it is. Who is this?

Oh, um... Well, just a minute.

Michael Eisman.

Are you still in town?

Oh, no, tonight's not very good.

Ah, tomorrow.

Uh, Mike, to be honest with you, I'm going through a rough time at work right

now, and... Well,

if I change my mind, I'll call you, okay? Are you still at the Grand Hotel?

Room 817.

Okay. Okay.

Bye.

Call it a day.

Got a beer?

175. You know a woman named Lisa Johnson?

Nope.

Lives in an apartment on Ashton and 3rd.

What are you asking me for? That's halfway across town.

She come in here?

I heard.

Nope. Don't know.

Yeah.

Got a match?

That's interesting.

Not many people like matches that way.

Found this in an apartment on Ashton and Thurton.

I don't know what your story is, but you got something to say. Why don't you

just say it?

Bye.

Oh, Ben, I did something today I've never done before in my life.

What? Well, I was supposed to be at court at 10 .30, and I forgot all about

Oh, I heard about that.

You did?

Yeah. You know how fast word travels around the courthouse.

Who told you?

Charlie.

The hot dog vendor?

Yeah. Hey, speaking of food...

It's the least I can do. I'll stop by the market on my way home. What market?

I'll meet you there.

Oh, you don't have to do that.

Well, I'd just like to look at the produce and push the cart.

The food mart on Carson.

Okay, I'll meet you there. And I'll get us a cart that all the wheels work.

Julie, it's okay. It's me. It's Nick Beloyed. He's right behind me.

He got away.

Julie,

are you sure it was Nick Beloyed? Yes.

Well, I didn't get a look at his face, but...

I just came from the bar he and his brother owned. He was working. There's

way that he could have beaten me here.

No way.

But if it wasn't Nick Beloyed, who was it?

This is good.

Yeah, I've had that a long time.

All right, let's say it wasn't Nick Beloit in that apartment.

Could have been a friend of his.

Maybe. Well, like a woman that rented that apartment. Could have been a

Maybe. Or maybe it has nothing to do with Nick Beloit. You found the

with the matches folded down. Nick Beloit was in that apartment.

Or somebody who wanted us to think it was Nick Beloit.

Who else was around when he threatened you?

Who wasn't around? The corridor was packed.

Well, think back. Does anybody in particular come to mind?

You were there.

Eli.

Harvey Goodman.

That's Tom Blewett's lawyer.

And, oh, there was this friend of mine from Baltimore, Michael Eisman.

He just showed up out of the blue, and he said he was on his way down to

Florida.

He called me yesterday. He's still in town. But that's just a coincidence.

He's a legal secretary. We work together in Baltimore.

Oh, just a friend.

I think he did ask me out once.

Did you know?

No, no, no. I remember I was very surprised because I never thought of

as somebody I'd ever date, but I didn't go, and he never asked me again.

Yeah. I wonder if we should... It can't be him.

It just can't be.

Julie?

This is such a nice surprise.

I thought you might have gone back to Florida.

Not yet.

Something's bothering you.

Why do you say that?

I can tell. I used to watch you a lot in the office, and I know when you're

upset.

Why did you watch me, Mike?

You're pretty.

Did I do something wrong? Are you mad at me?

No, no, I'm not mad at you.

But, uh... I do have a problem.

Somebody, a man, has been calling me and following me.

Oh, you think it's me?

I don't know.

Julie, I would never, ever do anything to upset you. Mike, I'm not accusing

It's just that all of this started the day you came to Atlanta.

So you can understand why I have to ask you.

Why did you come to see me?

I wanted to take you to dinner and... Thank you. You

helped me years ago.

Oh, Mike.

I only treated you like I treat everybody else.

No, you were always so nice.

I'm different. I'm...

I'm shy. It's not easy for me to make friends with women, and you were so

It meant a great deal to me.

I don't know what to say.

I've made friends with a lady.

She's shy, too.

I don't know what to say.

I don't know what to say anything.

You do believe me, though, don't you?

Ben? Yeah, in here.

Hey. Yeah, should we go see? Yeah. I figured.

Everything okay? Did you stay close?

Didn't have to. They never left the lobby of the hotel.

No? No.

No, they talked a while, and she left, and he went to the hotel restaurant.

Ate this big bowl of cereal with sliced bananas, and then went up to his room.

In the middle of the afternoon? Yeah, watched him eat the whole bowl, and then

watched him go up to his room. Even listened for him to snap that little

security chain.

What kind of bird is he? I don't know. He's a little weird. He's average.

He should be the one.

The me? Yeah.

Well, this place is plain to listen.

Well, what do you think?

Whoever we're looking for, right, he'd come in here, he'd sit there waiting for

Julie to come home, use the phone to harass her, and then he'd leave. Yep.

One other thing he might have done while he was waiting.

What's that?

When you drop a phone book like that, it'll open up to the page that you use

most.

I bet it'll open up to the restaurant section.

Yeah, any man who waits for hours has food delivered.

You like pizza?

Boy, somebody washed the curtains, the windows, and everything.

I did.

Why? Because everything was dirty.

I just can't sit around and do nothing. I'll go nuts.

Oh.

What if I took you to lunch?

I fixed them to my salad. It's in the fridge.

Um, Julie, you've got to stop cleaning that oven.

I gotta keep busy.

It's self -cleaning.

I knew that.

Well, here, Sam, I'll fix you some lemonade.

Hello?

Who?

You got the wrong number.

Who are you?

Well, listen, pizza man, let me tell you something.

You... Damn.

The pizza man.

That night he was looking through your window.

While he was waiting for you to come home, he ordered a pizza.

We went to a lot of places, but we never found anybody who saw him. He's like

the shadow. He knows I'm here.

How did he find out? I don't know. How? I didn't tell anybody I was staying

here. Not a single soul. How did he find out? I don't know. Now he's following

both of us.

Here, sit down. I don't want to sit down. I want to get that gun.

I just want my life back.

I know.

I know. I know.

Everything's going to be all right.

We've got to find you another place where you'll be safe.

Doesn't Eli have a place somewhere?

Look, I don't know what you're talking about.

Trespassing?

Harassment? Maybe even assault.

Hey, if somebody is harassing that broad, I say, great.

More power to him.

It isn't me.

Well, if it isn't you, somebody's doing his best to make it look like you.

How many people know you've been to your matches over this way?

Everybody who's ever seen me smoke.

After you threatened Julie March at the courthouse, where'd you go?

Went home, changed clothes, came straight here.

Most of your customers regular?

Yeah. Yeah, except on weekends.

The day your brother was convicted, you remember seeing anybody come in here you

didn't know?

Not right off.

I want you to come downtown and look over some pictures. Here's the address.

What kind of pictures?

Ex -cons, parolees, people who don't like Julie March much.

I could be there all day.

You'd be in prison a lot longer.

9 a .m.

This is so nice.

Yeah.

Yeah, it is, isn't it?

You know, we better head back in. It looks like we're in for a storm. Come

Are you sure you don't need me back in town?

I'm positive.

Oh, I wish I could work.

But all my files are in the off. Well, I can go back into town tonight, pick up

what you need, and then bring it to you tomorrow. That would be great.

Oh, thank you.

And thank Paula, too, for lending me your place. Okay, come on. We're in for

Let's go.

Check

the

addresser in the bedroom upstairs.

Paula may have left some sweaters here.

I... I found this in the drawer.

Everything in here is about me.

Yeah.

I think a lot of...

Where is Paula?

Gone.

I'm glad you're here.

Eli, you're very upset.

No.

No, I'm not. I don't get upset, Julie.

And besides, you're here now.

You know, it took me quite a while, but you are here.

Isn't there somebody you could talk to?

Like a doctor or a close friend. Somebody you could call. I'll talk to

No. This isn't right.

Yes.

Oh, yes, it is.

Julie, you saw my scrapbook.

You don't know how often I have dreamed of having you here. It is going to be so

wonderful now, Julie.

It's just...

The two of us together.

You and me.

So close.

Touching.

You and me, Julie.

Just you and me.

I have to go.

Don't you understand? I think about you all the time. Eli, we can talk about

this another time. No!

You're going to stay you want to I have to go

You stay

You are not going to leave me.

You're here. You are here. Do you understand me? Yes.

Don't make me angry.

Don't do that.

No, don't.

What about this guy?

You recognize this guy?

Paul?

This guy.

Here you go.

Nope. Fresh from the photo. Oh, good, good, good, good.

Take a look at this guy. You recognize him?

Nope.

You sure?

Yep.

Have you spoken to Dewey? I tried to call, but the phone was busy.

This guy looks familiar.

That's Eli Boyd.

He worked with you.

She was with him outside the courtroom.

She was?

Well, so was I.

I'm so mad all I remember seeing is her.

Yeah, well, come over here.

Come over here.

Try this guy.

How about this guy?

I'm telling you, I've seen that guy before.

And it wasn't in that courtroom either.

Napoleon Brandy.

This guy came in my place three nights in a row, sat down at the end of the bar

drinking Napoleon Brandy.

Are you sure?

I finally remember. Now you don't believe me?

You've got a huge amount of gas in your car.

Enough to get us there.

Don't try to run away again.

Don't do that.

You see, I don't understand. I thought if I brought you up here, you would want

to be here, you would want to be with me all the way.

Well, you will, you will.

Right, you will, you will. It just takes some people longer than others, that's

all. I mean, I can wait.

I can be patient.

But of course you already knew that, huh?

You're going?

To want to be with me.

It'll be good.

It'll be good.

Don't.

Get back in your car.

Oh, come on, Eli. Just let me talk with you for a minute.

No, get back in your car, Ben.

Eli, you don't want to hurt anybody.

Get out of here.

There'll be other people coming. You can't run them all off.

Oh, damn.

Eli.

You never know, do you?

I'll call the police.

You look good anyway.

Let's go home.

Let's do that.