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Wow, we're in New York.

We have to find a cab.

Need a cab?

Oh, sure.

Wait,

where's the cab?

I'm probably in Lyon.

Same thing, only cheaper.

Caverns in the city cost you $45.

I take you in for $20.

That's a really good price.

Not bad. Another $5.

That's the best you're going to do around here. Come on, Daddy. Let's just

We're here.

Hey, you.

You.

Out of my pocket, thief.

I paid for a license. I got a battalion. You got buckets.

This guy is a bandit. No, he's my relative from Ohio.

You know this guy?

No. Hey, I'm going to kick your butt.

You better get out of here.

I did it.

My portfolio has had my entire presentation.

Do you have to drive so fast?

I can't believe it. I can't believe it. I lost it all. I charged my Rolodex,

everything. Just try to relax.

How can I relax?

Can you slow down, please?

You can't be serious.

My secretary made this reservation over a month ago.

It's right here.

Double room, three days, $85 a day.

We don't have it.

We've got one suite left, and it goes for $210 a night.

Let's go find another hotel.

Knock yourself out.

The town's full.

Come on, Daddy. Let's not spend half our vacation looking for a room.

Edie's right, Sam.

Let's take the room.

This better be some suite for $210 a night.

Best in the house.

Daddy's ordered room service.

Room service? Aren't we going out?

No, we're not going out.

I've got about as much of New York City as I can handle for one day.

Well, I'm going to get a magazine.

See the line?

Sure.

Hey, my pretty little girl. You want to go on a date with me, huh? Get away from

me!

You don't want to go out with me, huh?

Pretty little thing, you.

I'm going to love this.

Okay, okay, okay.

Are you all right?

The city's falling apart.

Let's get back to my hotel.

I'll let me drive you. My car's right down the street.

Please. It's okay. You don't have to.

Fine, sis.

I see.

Are you from New York?

No, I'm here on vacation.

So am I.

Vacation that turned into a very long stay.

You're English?

Yes.

You must miss England.

Every day that I'm away, a piece of my soul goes.

Funny.

Car. After you, my dad.

Well, okay.

Hey, my pretty, pretty baby.

You go on date with me?

What do you want me to bring these guys?

How many more are there?

What are they doing? Starting a riot?

They're stealing a car.

13 guys trying to steal a car.

They picked it up and we're carrying it down Lenox Avenue.

All right, look, hold them back here and then get Eddie to call the 9th. Have

them taken over there.

Gotcha. Let's go.

Go on.

She has no money, no change of clothes. She would have called.

Well, most of the time they don't, I'm sorry to say.

Just have a seat and the lieutenant will be with you shortly.

Come on, let's go.

Come on, Nicole.

Let's make love with the shades open and give a few of your yuppie neighbors a

thrill.

Angelica, do you say these sort of things purely out of shock value?

Or are you truly and really perverted?

Let me be the first to disappoint you. You are as bad as everybody else.

Oh, could it be the great stone face of smiles?

You know something? I may be badder than you think.

And a joke.

This is the red -letter day.

I love you.

Don't disappear.

It took me too long to find you this time.

No, I won't do that.

Maybe we could go and see the bird one day this week.

That'd be nice.

Mind you, I'll have to look in my book.

You look in yours, and I'll look in mine.

And maybe we can look at each other's.

The, uh... The thing that I'm trying to explain to you...

Consider the circumstances.

What? I don't understand.

What are the circumstances?

There is a good chance that your daughter left of her own accord.

And if that is the case, she's not missing, so there's no one to find. Oh,

that's not what happened.

This city attracts young girls from all over the world. Mrs. Griffith, they come

here and get swept away.

My Edie did not get swept away.

It happens 200 times a week.

Don't tell me that you don't know Edie. She didn't just get up on her first day

in New York and run away. That's ludicrous. Tell him. Go back to Duluth

wait.

She'll call when she's ready to come home. What are you saying?

Wait, are you trying to tell me that I come to New York on a vacation with my

daughter, she disappears, and I'm supposed to go home empty -handed?

As if I left my umbrella in the hotel room, give it an old damn and go on?

What kind of man are you?

Say something, damn it!

The man is trying to tell you to forget about your child and you just stand

there?

Well, what do you want me to do?

Tell him he's wrong.

Please.

Please, you have to give me something more. You can't just leave it like this.

I'm sorry, lady. That's all I have.

That's all you have.

We've been everywhere.

Hospitals, traveler's aid, halfway houses, the morgue.

We have no illusions.

Is your relationship at home working?

I don't know what working means.

We had our problems like any other parents, but there's always love in the

house. If there was a problem, we would always talk it out.

You've had no call for ransom, anything like that? No.

Please understand this, Mr. McCall. My daughter did not run away.

I know this in my heart.

She's out there somewhere in this city.

She's in terrible trouble and she needs our help.

She'll get it.

So assuming Edie is not dead and was not abducted to be killed,

question, why was she taken?

Answer, to be used in some manner, to be forced to do something against her

will.

Question, what would a 17 -year -old...

Midwestern girl have to offer.

Can't you see, Bob? That's the beauty of the whole thing.

Now, let's say they need someone in their pocket. Now, it's a pain to have

call up and say, all right, we need so many legislators. Go out and start

setting them up.

I spend my time setting them up beforehand.

You see, I keep them on ice.

And that way, when they're needed, I just turn to the old stockpile.

There they are.

Now, some of these guys, we may never even use.

That's okay.

Let them sweat.

Just last week, I got a certain foreign ambassador in a midtown hotel with teen

twins. Real Amazon types.

And the best part is, in this guy's home country, that particular crime is

punishable by death.

Death.

I gotta tell you, Bob, I look forward to work when it's so much fun.

And you know what else?

It's educational.

I learn what makes men click.

I'm looking for a girl.

Aren't we all?

Cauldron.

I need a tour of the fest pool, so naturally I thought of you.

Go ahead.

Am I supposed to be talking to you, McCall?

No, no.

Apparently I am a threat to the security of this country.

Yeah, I thought I heard something about that.

Come on.

You see that club over there?

You know who I set up in there?

That ambassador.

You know him.

Cobberwall. I just put him in the pile, grabbed some snapshots.

He got real cooperative, according to my amigos at the State Department.

I love this place.

Well, here we are.

After you.

That's Indian Sadie. Nice gal. Runs a clean house. Great food.

The young ones call me.

How do the young ones get into this?

It doesn't happen that way, McCall.

Bottom line, they get into it because it's the best entry -level job in town.

Look, McCall, if your girl is in the game, she's a volunteer.

I mean, nobody snatches them off the streets anymore. They don't have to.

There's a lot of good houses in this area. High rollers. I'm talking 10 Gs a

night for the right combination.

Is it worth my while checking them out?

Nah.

Sounds like your girl doesn't have the kind of experience to work in this area.

And you did say dilute, didn't you?

Although, there is a lot of low -end kiddie stuff happening these days, too.

Spooky stuff and profit like you wouldn't believe.

I'll tell you, I really feel guilty sometimes.

I wonder why.

Well, sure. You must know the feeling, too.

Sometimes I regret wasting my life as a vendor for the agency. If I went out on

my own, I could make a fortune.

Of course, if I leave now, I'm not sure I'd ever be able to get my IRA and KEO

plans filled up.

It's better to be steady and safe than to get too adventurous in these unsafe

times. Right, Bob?

Oh, that's who you should talk to.

Randy.

Good kids. They'll tell you all about the gravy train. Where you get on, where

it takes you, when you get off.

You never do get off.

Thanks. No problem.

Hey, McCall.

Don't be a stranger.

Let's brunch sometime.

Do you want some company?

Uh, yeah.

Who is this anyway? Your daughter? She's been missing for four days.

She has no money, no familiarity with the city.

Four days.

She hasn't been turned out yet.

Unless... Unless?

Unless she's getting a crash course.

Explain. A closed house.

Come on, you know, a lockbox.

No, no, I... I don't know.

Enlighten me.

All right.

I don't really know about it firsthand.

But about six months ago, a guy comes into town.

Hookers start disappearing from the streets.

Young, old, boys, girls.

The guy really didn't seem to care.

And he didn't stop at hookers either.

See, the way I get it, which is like third -hand, is that John with the

Jones passes heavy at the door and does whatever he wants.

I'm talking whatever he wants.

And where would I find one of these places?

You don't find one of these places.

Invitation only.

From whom?

Well, you might want to try a guy named Scobosa.

Scobosa.

Who is he?

And where will I find him?

You know, McCall, the greatest thing you can do for your health, for your

psyche, and the human race in general is to have just a little bit of humor. Not

too much, Marlon.

Scobosa.

Ramon Scobosa's a nobody. He's a two -bit ball -racker. But whom?

Francis and Ramon.

I know that name.

He's a vendor. We use him to provide specific services when required.

Occasionally, we have an important visitor in New York who needs specific

entertainment. He must be very specific, but you haven't mentioned him to me.

He's for a cult taste, I'll admit that. Hey, Cauldron, I'll see you later.

I'd like to meet him.

You don't just meet the grandma. What do you think? You just show up at the

door? What planet are you living on?

This is a very serious individual, McCall.

I first met DeGromand in Bombay in the late 70s. That's where he started the

lockboxes. They're like nothing I've ever seen in my life.

Bombay, yeah.

Cool. Wicked reputation.

Girl, you looking for her?

If she's with DeGromand, you don't want to find her.

Pick up the meeting.

All right, that's no problem, but let me tell you something, McCall. You play

this out, you play it out all the way.

If you tell DeGromont that you want X, you better be prepared to do X, because

if you back down even a little bit, he'll kill you.

Or worse, he'll turn you out.

You still want me to drop the quarter?

Yes.

Sam, what's wrong?

Nothing.

It's too rare and it's ice cold.

It's all right.

It's too rare. Send it back.

Please, it's fine. Just let me eat it.

Can't anything be wrong?

Ever?

You always have to accept everything. Send the damn thing back.

This is the way I want to eat it. Please have some respect for me.

I would if you could be a man for once.

Whatever I am is exactly what you made me.

How convenient it is to have me to blame.

I haven't cried since I was a child.

My baby's gone.

My sweet little girl's gone.

I tried talking to people in the city, but nobody has seen Edie.

I mean, some were rude, but you can expect that.

But some even talked to me, and I really appreciated that.

But I couldn't find any.

But I don't think anything or anybody will ever find her. To tell you the

honest truth, I think she's dead.

At least I can say I tried.

From 6 .30 at night until 5 .30 in the morning, I tried.

And I didn't find her.

But nobody can say that.

I can't face my wife.

So I suppose heroes are men who face the most trying

situations and continue straight on.

But the real hero is the man who looks inside himself and

confronts the ugliest demon that his mind can create.

I knew a man once.

Some people called him a hero.

And he fought.

And he faced dangers.

He had ideals.

Those ideals led me into anything.

See, I didn't care about dying.

I only cared about cause. The cause was everything.

And I fooled everybody.

Everybody.

They all thought that I was fearless, which was false.

I was so frightened of showing the slightest bit of myself, the smallest

of affection.

So you see, Sam, I was as frightened then...

To the same degree that you are now.

Only in a different way.

I was no hero.

No hero.

But then I suppose being a hero is not really the most important thing.

I will be alone with her.

There will be no interference.

I'm not coming to help you if that's what you mean.

She's giving us a problem. She's bouncing off the walls.

Chill her out.

No, no.

Don't jog her.

Yeah.

Hold your money.

I've got a little something I want to show you.

Untouched by anyone.

Edie, she's a very good friend of mine.

And I want you to... treat him right.

Please, don't! I want to go home!

Please!

Nice.

Just look at her.

But we had a deal.

We did.

The price was set.

You can still have something for that price, but not Edie.

No, not her.

How much?

Times three.

That's a lot of money. Yeah, it's a lot of money, but quality's remembered long

after the price is forgotten.

And remember, no bruises on the face.

No. No, of course not.

Because if you do, I'm going to have to take it out on your head.

And I don't want to exert myself.

So, what's your pleasure?

No, you check out. I'll give you a call later.

If you don't, you don't.

Oh, I'll check out.

Telephone.

I hope so.

Fine. I can accept that you don't call me.

I understand you've got this thing every two or three weeks where you disappear.

It's a weird thing, but if you're the world, you make it what you want to make

it. But this was our anniversary.

Anniversary? I know some people don't think that two months is a big deal, but

I'm sentimental.

You could have called.

Or a letter. Nothing long, just, Dear Angelica, happy anniversary, thinking of

you. But nothing...

I thought you English were supposed to be classy.

Nothing ain't classy.

Angelica, I'm sorry. I really don't have time to talk to you now.

You know, if you've got another thing, I don't care.

A thing?

You know, two girls, one guy, somebody ends up crying.

All right, all right. Who ends up crying? What are you talking about? Oh,

it.

Just please give me a hug.

I will give you a hug.

Please don't leave me.

Excuse me.

Hello.

Mr. Macklin, you know who this is?

Mr. Scavosa.

27th and 10th, 3 p .m. Got it. I'll be there.

Where are you going?

Now, you know I cannot tell you that.

Angelica, will you please go away?

Sorry. Sorry, Angelica. I did not mean it that way.

Maybe you didn't.

I don't need this kind of pain in my life right now.

But you're not there.

I'm not interested. Get him out of here.

Beat it.

We're not off to a very good start, are we?

Hey, I'm sorry.

I didn't know how young you liked them.

If this is the kind of service I am to expect, I shall go straight back to my

hotel. You ain't seen nothing yet.

Mr.

Macklin, Mr. DeGramant.

Welcome to our little nest here.

Nothing personal, but in this business, you know, you can't be too careful.

Did you bring the money?

Yeah.

$3 ,500.

It's all there.

Everything's ready for you.

We prepared them just like you requested.

Would you like to keep the hair?

AHH!

Give me the greatest pleasure to kill you.

It's cool, Chief.

It's all right, Eddie.

I've come to take you home.

The

doctor

said she's going to be fine.

She's back.

That's all that matters.

I didn't have anything to do with it.

And who did?

I don't know. I swear.

Look, DeGroma was holding videotapes and pictures, a lot of very graphic

material, and a lot of people.

Any of them has the juice to keep him out.

Control?

What turns his crank you can't fill.

Are you not surprised that he was sprung?

No, no, I'm not surprised.

You. See, I thought when you found out that de Gromont was on a path with an

ticket to Sri Lanka, they'd be scraping one of us off the overhead.

Probably me.

He's a vendor.

He provides services that certain people feel important.

So as long as he has value, he will be protected, correct?

Yeah. He's a lucky guy.

I'll set him up somewhere else.

Better than here.

They have to.

It's like you said.

The guy is too good at what he does.

The doctor said we could take her home tomorrow.

All right.

It's wonderful.

Mr. McCall, uh...

There might have been others who could have gotten my daughter out of there

alive, but there are very few who would have helped me the way you did,

talking to me that night in the bar.

Your humanity made a difference.

My humanity.

Is there something wrong, Mr. McCall?

They are not going to prosecute DeGremont.

They're not going to let him go.

Apparently, he has some sort of diplomatic immunity.

What kind of a diplomat is he?

He's a valuable conduit.

He's going free?

They're taking the airport this afternoon, putting him on an airplane

sending him out of the country.

I don't care about that man.

I just want to get Edie out of here and home.

To heal and forget, that's all. Heal?

Heal, Eleanor.

Look at her. What's left to heal?

No, no.

Pam, it doesn't matter.

You all right, Sam?

Yeah.

Yeah, I'm fine.

Later.

No, I have to do it now.

Mr. McCall, this is Eleanor Griffith.

I can't find Sam.

I'm scared.

He's going to kill that man. I just know it.

The needle's great.

I'll miss it.

It's on fire.

It's like one of those rivers and you can't hide.

Nah. No complaint.

All personnel in restricted areas must have class A security clearance.

The area is completely secure. That's proof.

I'll tell you a story.

My brother killed a woman.

But she was innocent.

I understood immediately.

He was a mystery.

He was a mystery.

So was I, because I didn't join it.

I have a pistol.

For which I have a permit.

You want me?

Sure. From the shadow where no one looked. That's where I learned.

And I came to this country.

But there's a war here.

So much money.

I was glad to oblige. You see, I sell them a knife for two edges.

Sex and destruction.

Please, I'm in a hurry.

Looks okay, but you can't go to the airport with this.

It's not worth it.

He isn't worth it.

If he gets away, I can't face Edie.

You must be the Quiff's father.

Edie woke up.

She started talking.

She couldn't stop.

It all came out in a rush.

Through the tears, hers and mine.

I hope you got it on tape.

It could be worth some money.

There's a big market in porno audio.

You attacked me?

How can you be sure he's still here?

Oh, he's here.

I'm sure.

There.

There he is, you see?

There.

How did he get here? A bird like that?

A great hawk in the middle of the city.

Oh, I don't know.

Abandoned, I presume.

Somebody brought him to the city, tried to make a pet out of him.

Can you do that to a creature like that?

No, no.

I wonder why he stays.

Well, the hunting's good.

And when it no longer is, he'll leave and fly away.

Oh. Oh.

Oh, he's magnificent.

Isn't he?

How long can he survive?

Well, for as long as he's careful.