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I'm ready to go.

Now, what did you get invited to here, Crocker? An OD victim, no

What's with the glasses?

Hi, Stray.

Hey, look.

Why does the TV camera crew show up with an unidentified OD victim?

I already asked the funny little man with the camera, and the funny little

with the camera says that nobody told him anything.

But if we want to know, then we should tune in tonight to see Daniel Pope. Hey,

I don't mind the whole city getting their police information from a TV

commentator, but I thought we had the inside track.

Wally, I want all the footage I can get on the scene where she was found.

But I also want a blow -up and a freeze frame on her face. Good identifying

picture.

And have the art department do up a card on her name.

That's right, Wally. We can't protect her anymore.

The name is Trudy Stein.

Get it?

S -T -E -I -N.

We'll use it tonight on 10 o 'clock.

Dan, if somebody...

Scientific breakthrough.

I discovered how to get ice -cold tomato juice from a very warm tomato.

All right, Dan.

Very unscientific worry.

Now, what if somebody knows that Trudy Stein talked to you and that somebody is

uptight enough to...

Now, look, I can't tell you who this is, but I can tell you a lot about Trudy

Stein. She's dead. Do you know that? Look, I'm not going to talk on the phone

about anything. You just meet me. It's going to be worth it. Who is this?

And what's it going to cost?

Look, I lived with her. I mean, is that good enough? And this is for her for

free.

All right.

Where do you want to meet?

Really?

Of course I know it.

Okay? Yeah, okay.

Right on the money.

Yeah, LaFert, he's trouble.

I mean, you ever say that I called him, I'm going to call you a lie.

Hey, Audrey, listen.

You ever say you called him, you're never going to get in this stuff again.

know what I mean?

Those compliments of the house.

Thanks. Enjoy it, okay?

Yeah. Okay.

Hey, we're not fighting, are we?

How come you don't come around anymore?

Oh, I like to already, you know, but I have a time, you know what I mean?

But I'll see you around.

Just stay loose.

I'll, uh...

I'll see you in church.

I hope you've all enjoyed your tour today. And for those of you who haven't

the Statue of Liberty, you're in for a real treat.

Hey, mister.

Yeah.

You can't go in there. Two or less.

Unless you found something that looks like a badge in your breakfast cereal

morning. Bug off.

Hey, wait a minute. Will you do me a favor?

Say hello to Trudy Stein when you run into her.

Daniel Pope's fearless investigation has come to a deadly end.

In the mood.

Beside the unfortunate Trudy Stein, who only a few short hours ago died a victim

of murder or a mistake of an overdose of drugs.

All right, get those people back. Get them all downstairs.

We're going to need them for questioning.

Saperstein. Lieutenant.

No comment. No comment. It's usually meant...

No progress so far in this whole sordid affair.

Is that still the status, Lieutenant? If you TV vigilantes wouldn't run off

thinking you're Batman and Robin, this wouldn't have happened. Tootie Stein has

indicated that she was afraid to discuss this ring of addiction and prostitution

with the police. Do you know of any reason why she should fear the police?

What's your name?

Wally Brodsky. Look, I don't see a girl with needle marks on one arm and an

appointment book on the other pouring her heart and soul out to the police, do

you? You're no closer to cracking this narcotics call girl ring than you were

six months ago when Daniel pooped.

First brought it to the public eye.

So you won't think I'm stealing my pension, okay?

If your friend Danny Pope was out doing my job, then I promise you I'll finish

it for him, okay? And you can take book on that.

Thank you, Lieutenant.

That was Lieutenant Kojak.

Now, what is this? The typing glass?

All right, I'll give you a weather report. The temperatures are rising.

I hear you're dying, Fatso.

Forget it. We're even.

Crack up.

Nobody saw anything.

I see.

People go to a museum to observe.

And what do they observe?

Nobody saw anything.

One of the guards said he had a heart attack and wasted five minutes trying to

locate the oxygen. Then they saw the blood.

Hey, uh, this is the way you like it, Grouchy. You'll hate that.

Thanks a lot, Curly.

Me grouchy.

Well, they must have used the silence, sir.

Slugs came from a .38 and there was no sign of the gun. I spoke with Pope's

widow on the phone. Her name's Cheryl.

She said her husband went out to meet some woman who called with information

Trudy Stein's death.

What's the ME report on her?

She did all right, but not at that hotel.

The examination shows that she died at six in the morning. The room was empty

until some guy checked in a little after eight.

He must have dragged her up there, maybe pretending that she passed out. What

guy? Well, half the business in that hotel, Lieutenant, comes from

They stay clean by making the guys check in.

The clerk gets all the faces mixed up, except that he did recognize the corpse

from previous visits.

She had no identification at all.

Well, she must have died somewhere else, maybe her apartment.

Well, somebody doesn't want us to know too much about Trudy Stein.

But we're going to disappoint them, aren't we, Crocker? You know, I'm a

man.

I have a television set in my office, or I wouldn't know what's going on in this

district at all.

You're all over the tube.

Am I cute?

Very cute.

You made the corpse look like a hero.

Wally Brodsky, filling in for his dead buddy, says Pope was using the Steingirl

as an informant for weeks.

But the report on my desk has her listed as a simple O .D. only 30 hours ago.

Now, why were you always so many points behind, Theo?

Come on, Frank. I didn't know we were in a ballgame. No, you come on.

The chief wants an answer. Well, Daniel Pope couldn't have known more about

Trudy Stein than we do. Otherwise, he wouldn't have got himself totaled trying

to find out.

What did he know?

That somebody's been supplying a whole sorority of prostitutes with discount H.

It's an easy business.

No sales force necessary, right? You hook a girl, and then you make her a

concubine. That's a nice word, huh? That's high class for working girl.

Eliminates the middle man.

You know, we've been trying months to put a handle on this.

Look, I hear the TV prints on Trudy Stein are better than our morgue shots.

See if you can't get a couple of copies.

Right.

Hey, what shape is Pope's life in?

Emotional, but rational and angry.

All these years, it never gets any easier.

I don't want you to think that I'm stealing my pension, okay?

So if your friend Daniel Pope was out doing my job, I promise you this.

I'll finish it for him, okay? And you can make book on it.

Thank you, Lieutenant.

Birch! That was Lieutenant Kojak, ladies and gentlemen, who has advised us...

Did you hear that?

What?

Somebody shot Daniel Pope.

Crazy fool!

Yeah, I heard earlier. I'm celebrating.

Does somebody mind telling a girl what's going on?

Yeah.

Go take a bath.

I already had one.

So take another one. Keep America beautiful.

Do it.

The police are going to dig in now.

It's starting to get rough.

Hey, Daniel Pope was the only one who was getting rough, you know, offering

awards and blasting it all the time over the TV.

He was like a sports reporter.

The girls laughed at it. Yeah, well, Prudy Stein wasn't laughing. She was

talking.

You know, nothing quiets down a bunch of antsy broads like having a stiff cart

off to the morgue every once in a while.

Believe me, I know what it's like on the streets.

That's why I'm at 50%. I don't know, Bert.

Listen, whoever chopped him down, they did us a favor.

I mean, it could have been anybody in the rackets, you know. I mean, Pope had

lot of enemies.

She is starting to get on my nerve.

Uh -huh.

kidding? Like a mackerel.

Brunette would be nice for a change.

No gum chewers, please.

Sure.

You're capital of my contacts.

Everything comes true.

Cheryl Poe?

Yes. I'm Lieutenant Kojak, New York Police Department.

May I come in?

Thanks.

I'm sincerely sorry about your husband.

Everybody calls.

Everybody says they're sorry.

They try.

Doesn't seem to help much, though.

Well, you have a family. Can't you call someone?

Oh, well, they gave up on their little girl a long time ago.

I guess I could... Oh, I just don't know.

Look, I, uh... I could come back another time.

But every day we let pass is an advantage to the men who killed your

No.

No, go ahead.

Talk to me.

Tell me something that'll make some sense out of all this because... So help

if you don't. I don't know what I'm going to do. What do you know about

Stein?

Trudy Stein?

I know all about Trudy Stein.

She was a fun girl once, I'll bet.

And then somebody said to her one day, just for kicks, come fly with me.

Fun city.

So she took a trip.

And she took a second trip.

And all of a sudden, the whole world was just one long, gray tunnel.

And you keep running.

And you keep tripping.

And there's no way out.

Mm -hmm.

Well, that arm looks pretty clean to me.

Yeah.

But you've always got those little freckles to show that you had the fight

the monkey.

What happened?

Dan happened.

He fell in love with me.

Somewhere.

Can't even remember where it was now.

I didn't even know who he was for a long time.

He sat beside me on that bed.

And he held my arms down so I couldn't tear my hair out.

I had a man.

God, I need him.

Is that why you went after this with such a vengeance?

Yeah, I guess so.

Who am I trying to kid? Yeah, that's why he did it.

And if it hadn't been for me, he'd still be alive.

Hey.

You know, you went to an awful lot of trouble. I'm sure he wouldn't want to

you talk this way.

What did he find out from Trudy Stein?

Well...

Somebody out there has a beautiful merry -go -round going for themselves.

You get a couple of hundred girls hooked on horse, and then all the ticket taker

has to do is walk around and pick up the money.

Well, what did Trudy Stein find out they got to throw off the merry -go -round,

do you know?

She told Dan that the price had gone up.

You don't know how much I need him.

I didn't even know how I needed him.

It's like being on withdrawal without him.

Like cold turkey.

Well, it's a lot better than that long, gray tunnel you were talking about. And

if you don't think so, I think you ought to bite your tongue.

Lieutenant, what have you got that my husband didn't have last week?

Or last month?

Because we're going to finish this job for him.

All we've got is two bullets.

That shows us at least he was going in the right direction.

But I don't want you playing around in Needle Park all by yourself.

I've got a lot of ground to cover fast.

And I don't want to be slowed down by somebody I... Somebody I like very much.

Okay?

Trudy Stein didn't live in limbo.

Somebody knew she was talking.

Somebody knew she was trouble.

and somebody killed her.

Now, I want every prostitute, every call girl, every streetwalker in the borough

shown that photograph, okay?

You're gonna be cozy, you're gonna be tough, but I want you to get a make -up,

Trudy Stein.

All right, get cracking.

Crocker?

Right.

I want you to take a look at the worksheet.

See who's available to tell Cheryl Pope.

Around the clock for a couple of days anyway.

You afraid somebody's after her, too? Well, unless she goes out to finish her

husband's job.

You ought to see her arm.

It's like an old dartboard. She's been off it for 18 months, and I'd hate to

her slip up.

You think we can use her?

Are you kidding?

There are 7 million people out there. Think we're the ones who knocked off

favorite TV crime buster.

That's all we need. We're at the widow's funeral the same week.

You'll forgive me if I thought you were dead.

Hey, man, I was.

Boo.

The pretty lady's drinks are on me.

Remember me?

Danny boy?

Come on.

Shall, right?

Hey.

Coastal. Sure.

Her drinks are on me, though.

You got that?

If she says.

Not if you say.

I won't be far, Cheryl.

Yes, you will.

Love me.

Love my friends.

You'll like Jake.

He's kind and generous.

Clean her up.

You're all right. Come on, come on, come on.

Don't make me do it. What does he think I am?

Please. This is temporary, you know. It's like a... It's like a faithful

Come on now.

You took it all away.

I need to fix Madberg.

No, but hey, it ain't that easy, you know. Stuff costs money.

You see, now it's like Spence said.

I mean, Jake's very generous, you know.

So you're nice to him, and he's nice to you, and everybody's nice to everybody,

huh? Come on, come on, get upstairs, get yourself together.

How kind of a gross is this for a week?

Well, I lowered the price to the girls a little bit. Just for a couple of weeks,

you know? I mean, you gotta keep them satisfied, you know? I thought you said

heroin was in short supply this month.

I thought you said we could clean up with what we had on hand.

Hey, come on, Spence. We're doing fine.

I got my eyes open for you, you know? Something sweet to replace last week's

playmate out there. I mean, man does not live by bread alone, right?

I know what you're in this for, Spence. You want a new broad every week.

It'll come through for you. Never fear.

Everything's beautiful. Don't worry about a thing.

Who loves you, Grace?

Hey.

You still play good.

Your ears are bad.

And this piano came over on the ark. And my arthritis is killing me.

You always go to Florida. What happened?

What's Florida need with another retired madam?

Dreams, Kojak.

Just dreams.

Trudy Stein.

She won't have those anymore.

Is that why you called me over, because of Trudy Stein?

She came here to sing a year or two ago.

Terrible voice.

I wouldn't have turned her out, but people laughed.

And that wasn't no fun, not for her.

Well, nobody's laughing now, and nobody's talking. Hey, can you help me,

Well, she'd been here, but she's trying to break out.

And I never stop a girl from trying to break out.

Was she a user when she was coming in here?

Not at first.

But then she started hanging around with some strung -out little chick with long

sleeves and dilated pupils.

Any idea who her spaced -out friend was?

Audrey Norris.

Audrey Norris.

Uh, 6318 Maywood, apartment 1210.

That's the last one we have on her.

Lieutenant, uh, Charles Pope's report card looked good for the past two days.

Until tonight.

Looks like she's getting ready to take a dive.

Let's go.

There's one ship that got through us.

So, uh, you missed this, right?

I don't know.

I guess I just came in here to find out.

How did you find me?

Well, you see, I was on my way to the coast, and I just happened in.

Hey, look, Connie, the cops could bust the joint like this any minute.

You shouldn't be unprepared for a shakedown.

Would you like to search me?

Oh, yes, I would.

I think you'd better search yourself.

Trust me.

Mm -hmm.

Did your husband ever mention an Audrey Norris?

No. Why?

Did Trudy Stein ever mention that name, as far as you know?

Not that I remember.

Who is she?

I don't know.

But I'm going to find out.

Hey, look.

Can I give you a ride home?

I couldn't stand those four walls.

Mm -hmm.

You shouldn't lose your seat at the bar.

So long, kid.

Any boy.

Hey, you know where I could find Audrey North?

Little Lord, I know where she's at. I dropped some stuff off at a pad once.

How about yourself?

Why not?

Five bags, Danny boy.

And, uh, Audrey's address. I need a place to crash.

Twenty -five more.

The price is up.

And, uh, cooler.

Somebody's tailing you. Did you know that?

Just be cool.

Now, uh...

You follow me out back in five, and I'll show you how to shake them, just like a

malt.

Don't get too over this stuff.

Audrey, it's me.

Yeah, sure.

It's the first, aren't you?

I don't know.

South Manhattan.

Well, thanks for asking me in.

Where's Trudy?

Hey, you can't come in here.

Well, you just asked me.

Huh? You forgot.

What do you want?

Well, Audrey, I could tell you.

You know, you forget.

Who loves you?

You'd forget it all by the time you came down.

Come on, stay out of there.

I came to pick up Trudy's things.

Ain't part of these hers?

I don't know any Trudy. Now, come on, get out of here.

Um, I was told that, uh, Trudy Stein lived here.

You're told wrong. I don't have to split rent.

You don't like me?

Trust me.

Of course I like you.

But we're all full up.

Well, let's see, Audrey. I estimate you're flying about 42 ,000 feet.

Could you come down for a quick landing and talk to me?

Don't know what you're talking about.

You get lost, huh?

I sit and watch.

I mean, who cares?

No, I don't want her picked up or touched.

She'll come down, walk around, make a call.

We lost Cheryl Pope.

No, somebody must have helped her.

Yeah, I'm coming right down.

Wait a minute

What do you want?

Sally Prescott.

Trudy said if I ever blew into town, I could flop over here.

It's cool. It's cool.

Okay, come on in.

Have you got a kit?

I didn't dare bring mine on the plane.

I need to fix Pat.

Hey, don't worry. I got my own stuff.

Go help yourself on the dresser.

Where on the dresser?

Right there on that glass dish.

You got everything?

Yeah.

Everything a girl could want.

Oh, Dan.

Where are you?

So this is Audrey Norris.

The Odyssey announced zero glamour. This still she made from a movie five years

ago.

You know, if you made films like this five years ago, you could get locked up.

Some people did, briefly.

Performers. The people behind true art films got off with fines.

Bert POTUS, production associate.

Frank Pulliam, cameraman.

Seth Williams, editor.

Spencer Gallin.

Lillian Asher, who are they?

Lillian Asher did casting. She's a madam now in Vegas.

Gallin was the odd one of the batch.

Ivy League, you know.

His mother's Lorraine Gallin aired us some manufacturing fortune. They say he

put up all the money.

Uptown kid looking for laughs, huh? That sort of thing, I suppose.

Stavros is Audrey Norris' apartment staked out.

But on this Cheryl Pope, we got nothing yet.

She didn't show up at her pad last night. All right, try the hotels around

bar, okay? Maybe she's poking holes in her arms again.

All right. But if we pick her up on drugs, we won't book her till you talk

her.

Oh.

Spencer Gallen has financed the blue movies, right?

Think you'd like to look at my legs?

With the black stockings and the mask? Man, you're too young for that.

Bird, I'm worried.

That Kojak, he knew that you lived with me.

Yeah, well, so what?

You know, I can't bust you for that. You know, she's dead and gone.

I mean, two weeks, nobody even knows you ever existed.

Now, listen, when does this new chick show up?

You're on the bridge now?

Yeah. Yeah, well, she should be there any minute.

Well, did she, uh, she got, what, tall with a dark hair, a short little fur

coat? Yeah, yeah, yeah, that there. Listen, you don't forget my 200 bucks

referral fee.

Hi. Hi. I'm Audrey's friend.

You're, uh... Sally.

Sally, yeah.

You must be Bert.

Yeah.

Hi, Bert.

Hi, Sally.

Find this thing here from Miami, huh?

Well, how'd we get so lucky?

I got tied to the geriatrics ward.

You know, the shuffleboard beat.

Huh?

Want a hot dog?

Uh -uh.

Huh.

You, uh, you shouldn't have to, uh, look for work, you know.

Oh, I don't.

I, uh, also got tired of running around town looking for a nickel bag when I

needed one.

I hear you deliver.

24 -hour service.

Hey, you know, I got a friend I think you should meet.

Some real, uh, real kind of uptown type.

Who?

Any friend of yours to defend them up?

You can imagine my embarrassment, Lieutenant.

You know, it's refreshing.

I don't meet too many people nowadays who embarrass that easily.

Well, I certainly do, I can assure you.

Of course, I can't keep track of all my investments.

In fact, I'd forgotten that I'd agreed to finance a film. Oh, I see. Two dry

martinis and someone talks you into making these French postcards that move,

hmm?

Something like that, I'm afraid.

Naturally, when I found out what kind of film it was, I was horrified.

And arrested.

Naughty, naughty.

Mother still doesn't know.

I hope you're not going to stir this whole thing up again.

Mother. The Grand Dame.

Very starchy about things like that.

Well, I can assure you that Mother will never hear it from my lips.

Word of honor, Lieutenant.

I had no idea those people were involved in that lewd, lascivious type of

endeavor.

Splendid.

A lot.

About Pope's widow.

Yeah, well, worry about the chief, too.

Gonna have to tell him something pretty soon, even if it's a lie.

Yeah, well, tell him I just booked him into an X -rated movie.

Hey, I'm serious.

You know, I got a job, too.

The newspapers, the TV boys, they all say we're dragging our heels on Pope's

death because he was one up on us. Well, they wouldn't print my answer to that

anyway, so why bother?

Here it is, Lieutenant.

Burt Potter's possession five years ago. They couldn't make any mistake.

Yes, the feds were in on it.

Big knock busted, turned sour.

Tell Crocker to get in here.

Yes, sir.

Hey, if you're on to something, Theo, I want to know about it.

Look, Mac, I'm playing with string.

You know, this is the first time I've been able to tie anything together with

girls and narcotics all in one package.

If you're going to blast it now, you know what's going to happen? You're

to break the string.

Bert Pota, five years old, updated.

Give me a clue.

Animal, vegetable, mineral?

Animal.

What are you cooking here, Sally?

Man, I haven't been behind a bar in about two years.

And I'm just going a little crazy.

Now, my one magic ingredient, and we both turn into

Frankenstein.

What are we going to do about it? that my dear excuse me

this

could have been a beautiful evening bird now i've got this kojak

churning up my stomach why is he asking about that old beef after all this time

i question half new york every six months afraid they're missing something

worry about it That maniac who shot Pope, that's what stirred all this up

Well, it's good for morale, Spence. I mean, the girls are afraid to talk to a

gumball machine.

And believe me, it doesn't hurt every once in a while to have a funeral just

make people glad to be alive. You know what I mean?

I disagree.

Completely.

Hey, listen.

Why don't you worry about the bookkeeping? Let me worry about the

Hey, speaking of troops, what do you think? The old bird too right by you?

Very interesting.

Rather a challenge. I like that.

What do you know about her? Good goods.

Good goods.

And when you get tired of her, she's still got two habits.

Both profitable.

Only one of which I'm interested in right now.

I think you're going to like it here, Sally.

Mm -hmm.

I knew I should have brought my toothbrush.

It's two pounds. It's 85 % cut. It's still 15 a bag.

Bird that's the price is high somebody's gonna squawk also tell him we'll come

down after the next shipment. What do you got for me?

7 ,500 that's three days we ever have yeah, you told me I don't know my

Not

bad

I'm worried about this new girl. Well, don't worry. My friend isn't trans.

I'll leave you $200 here at the bar at the line.

Listen, Bert, I mean, if you were hooked for real, would you leave five packets

of stuff with a head like me?

Maybe she had more.

I don't think so. She said she got it from Danny Boy. Now, listen, you better

get a hold of him real quick.

Yeah, yeah, he's right here. I got him with me now.

Now, look, you just sit there and enjoy yourself, all right?

Now, check this out.

All right.

R723, verification off 54th Street. I want Cheryl Pope. That's a negative.

There's a lot of women in my life that I wish would disappear.

Cheryl Pope is not one of them. Well, we're still trying. We got two men

looking. On Bert POTUS, his car registration shows an address listed at

23rd Street, which is about 400 yards out into the river. Dead end on him for

while. Yeah, where we get to the good news?

Well, there's no news on Audrey Norris. Saperstein was on stakeout. He just got

here. Says that the other girl left, but Audrey hasn't budged.

What other girl?

I don't know. I guess somebody dropped in before he got on duty.

Gomez relieved him a couple hours ago.

Saperstein?

Yes, Lieutenant.

About five of nine. Jeanette, good looking. Maybe wearing a little coat.

Yeah, that was the girl, Lieutenant.

She went out yesterday afternoon.

Cheryl Pope.

What the hell is she doing?

Are you going someplace, Audrey?

What are you doing here?

The door was open. Well, you just can't come into someone's place.

Well, looky here.

I don't know how that got there. You put it there.

Well, I don't care how it got there. Look at that. The sweet packing of

Manhattan satin.

Look. Look close enough.

Where's your roommate?

I don't have any roommate.

You looking?

Ain't that sweet?

Ain't that nice? Pretty soon it's going to be dancing around in your head.

Get your hands off me. Yeah?

They'll wrap you around with a blanket to keep you from ripping your eyes.

You're hurting me.

Hey, kid, you don't know what hurt is yet.

When your stomach starts playing a number on your belly button. Shut up.

and you'll be looking for this.

Where is it? You know, little white lies full of broken promises.

They'll get me out.

Oh, yeah?

Mm -hmm.

You want to take that chance?

You're garbage to them. They're going to let you rot before they even admit they

know you.

All right, take a chance. Come on.

No.

Hey, Audrey.

Don't you understand?

It's not you I want.

It's her.

Where is she?

Seth Williams.

Gavin.

Bert POTUS.

He's going to kill me. They're killing you now. Can't you feel it?

Hey, honey.

I know you don't believe it, but that's why I'm here.

Where is she?

I don't know.

Bert fixed her up right off.

His partner, I think.

Some guy uptown.

Because Bert was always going uptown, you know.

On the east side somewhere.

You think, baby?

Bert called me once and...

He was looking out a window.

And there was a bridge and a lot of costs.

Spencer Gallen.

That name mean anything to you?

Is he very rich or something?

He was.

Until just now.

Mrs. Cheryl Pope. Mrs.

Daniel Pope. It's in the papers.

Are you crazy?

You brought her here. Yeah, well, now I'm going to take her out of here

horizontal. Oh, little men make the biggest mistakes.

What, are you going to use the same gun you used to kill my husband?

What?

You shot Daniel Pope?

Oh, come on, Spence. I told you I didn't. Now, there's no time to stop

me. Oh, really, POTUS?

Is that why you've been jacking up the prices on nickel bags and he doesn't

anything about it?

Because that's what you've been doing, isn't it?

What's he tell you he's been charging now, Galen? I don't know what you're

talking about.

Well, Danny boy charged me 15 bucks, and he apologized.

He said the price had just gone up.

Since when?

So Danny boy's trying to rip her off. What are you looking at me for?

Rudy Stein said the price went up last month, and she was really bugged.

She wanted to get even, so she called up my husband, and she told him all about

the whole filthy racket.

You killed her because you've been greedy, Bert.

And because if she started to talk, I'd find out. Okay, okay!

I mean, somebody had to do it, you know?

Look, all you do is pay the bills around here. You know, you're in it for the

girls. Because every time you put one of them on the street, you rub your

mother's nose in the dirt.

But I have to face the heat down there. I mean, I have to run the stuff around

and I have to take all the risks. And all I get out is money. I know you.

You'll be broke in six months.

You'll be looking for financing again. Well, don't come to me.

Well, you're the one who likes the dirty work, Bert. Go ahead.

Do it to her.

Because you're the one who's going up for murder if she talks.

Oh, do what he says.

Do what Mama's boy says.

Because Mama's boy calls the shots, doesn't he?

Yeah.

I don't trust Mama's boy when the going gets tough.

I mean, they throw you in that interrogation room and you're going to

album out at best. I'm going to buy death row.

Take care of this problem easy on the street.

At least he spends.

You know, I gotta make a deal with him.

Let her go, Porter's police.

Hey,

look, I'll make a deal.

I'll give you a chance to get away on your own, okay? And I'll give you a head

start.

Don't forget to leave your insurance company's name on a windshield, right?

You damaged the guy's fender.

Cheryl!

How would you like to put him on personally?

Well, Gallen will pull through.

He'll just have to change his way of living.

Lieutenant, excuse me. Look at the shoes he wears. Six more boxes just like them

upstairs. With these shoes, you can walk six feet off the ground. All right,

pack them up.

I think Galen was the front man with the money.

POTUS was robbing him blind. He handled all the dope.

The ladies were Galen's specialty.

Here.

What's this?

Well, you didn't leave anything for me to do.

It's all over, isn't it, Lieutenant?

It's never over.

Maybe we slow down the merry -go -round a little bit.

Then some creep comes along and starts it all up again.

Then why bother?

I don't know.

Maybe some good kid gets a chance to jump off that slow merry -go -round. I

mean, look at you. I mean, two weeks, leaning on nobody, they are standing

and straight.

You know something?

I asked you one time to search this stuff, and I think you did.

And I also think you like what you saw.

And kiddo, there's no high better than that.

It's my last one.

Come on, I'll take you home.