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Hold the elevator!

Previous to an early edition.

Here, you dropped your paper.

Hey, you got tomorrow's paper. Tomorrow's New York Daily News.

Tomorrow's Sun -Times. Wow.

Hey, kid, you go solo? Don't you? No, I delegate.

Delegate? I got my crew running around the entire tri -state area 24 -7.

Joey claims.

This guy.

This guy made 50 ,000 bucks off me last year alone.

Hello, uh, Mr.

Clams? Joe Clams?

Sam wanted to know if you could possibly go down to Times Square and if there's

a gravel truck that's going to turn over.

I'll tell you what. I'll give you 200 bucks. That way... Hello?

Mr. Clam?

I see trees of green, red roses too.

I see them bloom for me and you.

And I think to myself, what a wonderful

world.

I see skies of blue.

And clouds of white.

The bright blessed day.

The dark sacred night.

And I think to myself.

I get tomorrow's newspaper.

Today, I'm out there saving people's lives.

That's what I do.

What kind of marketing survey?

What do you mean a marketing survey? It's got my name on it. Well, computers

it all the time. Marissa Clark, you may have just one million dollars. Special

subscriber. What's that supposed to mean?

Oh, resample copy?

Of tomorrow's paper?

Well, I don't know, Gary. Maybe it's a mistake.

Maybe it's from whoever sends the paper.

What? I don't know. I mean, I've been getting it for so long.

I sort of stopped wondering where it comes from.

Somebody's got to be sending it. Yeah, but who?

Well, I don't know. Somebody.

Something.

What do you think?

I don't know, Gary. I just always assumed it came from someplace good.

Well, it says the appointment is at 9 a .m. sharp.

An appointment for what? Why would they want to see me, and why now?

Don't jump to conclusions, Gary. It could be nothing.

You're right. That's probably what it is. It's probably absolutely nothing.

Maybe you should wear a tie.

Yes. Be right with you.

Mr. Hobson, yes?

Please come in.

Why am I here?

We like to, uh, touch base with our subscribers, Mr. Hobson. Tell me, are

happy with the newspaper? No complaints?

I'm, uh... I'm all right with it, yes.

It does come a bit early.

You'd say to rise promptly then, would you?

Look, is this a survey?

What about your use of the paper? My use?

Do you think it fills your needs?

Has the paper had an impact on your daily life?

Oh, well, it's had an impact, all right. And would you describe that impact as

negative or positive?

It's positive.

Excellent.

Mostly.

Then could we say that you are satisfied with the paper and wish to continue

receiving it?

Well, can I ask you something?

Are we talking about the same thing?

See, my card here says special subscriber.

All our subscribers are special, Mr. Hobson. Yeah, well, that's great.

Yes. Yes.

Yes, I'm with him right now.

Hmm?

Absolutely.

Under the circumstances, I think that would be best.

Of course.

I will.

Cheers.

Who are all these people?

Subscribers.

Subscribers?

Subscribers like me.

Like you in what way?

Like me in that they get the paper.

That's why we call them subscribers.

What I mean is, do they get the paper that comes with the special delivery

schedule?

Look, all I'm asking is, who are they?

Yes, I'm afraid that's confidential.

For the protection of our readers, I'm sure you understand.

No, I don't understand. Thank you for your time.

Look, you just can't have me come in here...

Just who are you, anyhow?

I think the important question, Mr. Hobson, is who are you?

Well, I've enjoyed our little chat, but I wouldn't dream of taking up any more

of your time.

I'm sure you have somewhere to go, don't you?

Huh?

Oh.

Oh, yes, I do.

I do.

Be seeing you.

Is that radiator safe?

Ignore it.

Skills? Excuse me?

What skills do you have? I have a master's degree in mathematics.

My undergrad major was chemistry.

Look, I just need a job.

Well, the Capital Cab Company has a high turnover.

Let me check on something, okay?

Thomas James Cox?

Yeah? Yeah. Would you come with me, please? Is this about the taxi job?

Exactly. Wow, you work fast. Would you come with me now?

I thought you said ignore

it. It's never done that before.

The cab company doesn't have any jobs right now.

But what about...

I could swear someone was watching me. You know that feeling you get when the

hair raises on the back of your neck?

Well, it wasn't just like I was being watched. It was creepy sore, like I was

being observed.

Observed by whom?

I don't know, but I think it had something to do with the interview.

Well, I think maybe the interview just made you paranoid, that's all.

Paranoid? Well, I should be paranoid. Three years I've been running around the

city doing this, and for what? A guy in a bowler hat and a bunch of people

spying on me? I'll tell you what, you'd be paranoid, too. I mean, every time I

turn around, I got something else going on. Joey Clams, how you doing?

We spoke on the phone some time ago. I'm a friend of Sam Cooper's. I'm from the

city.

Oh, Sam Cooper.

Clams Crews of New York. How do you do? That's right. How you doing? Uh -huh.

Uh, this is my partner, Marissa Clark.

Charmed, I'm sure.

So, what brings you to Chicago, Mr.

Clams? Joey.

And it's, uh, it's funny you should ask.

Uh, you know the paper Sam got, the Daily News?

Hey, hey.

We're all friends there.

Uh -huh.

Fact is, I get the paper now.

What? Yeah.

Sam's retired. He wanted to spend more time with his daughter, so he decided to

hang it up, turn things over to me.

Wait a second.

You can do that? You can turn the paper over to somebody? Well, we didn't know,

frankly, but Sam thought it was worth the shot, so I moved into his apartment

for a while. We shared the paper. Then, like, September, Sam just moved out.

Paper kept coming. What can I say? The city's mine.

The city's his.

That's unbelievable.

Yeah.

So, kid, how's things in Chicago?

Oh, uh... How do you mean?

Everything okay?

Paper still coming every day like always?

Situation normal?

Yeah, everything's... Yeah.

Everything normal in New York?

No, everything's okay. We've just been experiencing...

What you might call technical difficulties.

Technical difficulties?

Yeah. It's like this. I haven't gotten the paper for three weeks.

You have?

Yeah. What happened?

Hell if I know. For six months, everything was going great. Then one

this invitation in the paper. An invitation to an appointment?

Yeah. The next thing I know, I'm having a talk with this guy. A guy in a bowler

hat. Oh. Yeah, and he's in this office, and it's in a funny little room, an

office kind of.

See, this is what I was afraid of. What?

You're in trouble, kid. Huh?

There's limey with the lid. He was fine with me, real polite, you know. Then two

days later, the paper just stops coming. I mean, it just stops.

But you think that that had something to do with this guy?

Of course I think it had something to do with this guy.

Well, whoever he is, he was checking up on me, and now he's checking up on you.

Me? Oh, no, no.

All he did was ask me a few questions this morning. That was it. This morning?

Yeah. You saw him today? Yeah. Where?

At the office building. Come on. Huh? Come on.

Look, there's clams in the office.

What if it's not the same guy?

If it isn't, five will get you ten. They both work for the same outfit.

You're not going to do anything violent, are you? No, of course not. I'm just

going to have a civilized conversation with the pinhead about getting my damn

paper back. Now, wait a second, kid.

Relax. I'm not the kind of guy who takes things personally.

See?

Sierra Travel, how can I help you?

I knew it.

Where's the guy that was here this morning?

Morning? Yeah, a guy with a bowler hat, dark suit, head and accent. He had an

office.

Back there.

Our office has been here for five years, sir. I don't know who had it before us,

but... Look, there was a guy here this morning. I'm telling you, he was here

this morning. This wasn't here. I was here this morning. I know, I know. Come

on. But, no, you don't understand. I mean, there was a guy. He was there.

thing happened to me in New York, Oli. I came back three days later. Damn, these

guys work fast.

You better watch out, Hobson. It's like this is exam period or something. You

could lose the paper, same as me.

Well, I did feel like I was being watched this morning.

So you're saying this is some kind of performance review?

Yeah, he knows when you're sleeping. He knows when you're awake.

Well, I didn't do anything wrong.

A guy's got to make choices, right?

What was it that you did to lose the paper anyhow?

Me? Nothing.

That's why you've got to be extra careful. It's like this guy ain't

curve. It's pass -fail, my friend, and mostly I think it's fail.

Well, that's not fair. Tell me about it.

Listen, I gotta go. I gotta stop a woman from choking on a corn chip. I'm coming

with you.

I understand, Mr. Stasel, that you may not want to commit to a two -year

subscription.

Yes, Mr. Stasel.

I read every issue of American Hygiene myself and find it far more intriguing

than Timer Newsweek.

What I'm wearing is not important.

You

okay?

Yeah. Yeah?

Sit down. Take it easy.

Let's calm up.

I was just talking on the phone. If you hadn't come along... I'll be right back.

Thank you.

Hey,

Miss Clark.

Where's Hobson?

Out. He said you ran out on him. Yeah, I thought I saw someone I knew.

Blind Allie.

Too bad.

So where's the kid?

He had to go take care of the paper.

Well, you went without me? Well, it wasn't much. I mean, it was something in

dry cleaner's. I'm sure Gary can handle it. What's the address?

Why? Why?

I could help him out, that's why.

This is a critical time for him. It's like he's on probation or something.

Listen, no offense, Joey, but how much help could you be?

You've already lost your own paper. That was a fluke. Uh -huh.

What?

Something must have gone wrong.

Confession is good for the soul, Joey. Besides, if you don't come clean, I'm

going to tell you where Gary is.

I'm telling you, nothing went wrong.

Except for maybe that little dip the

market took in high -tech stocks last month.

You might have heard about that. That was you? The market lost 300 points.

Mostly in one sector.

Everybody was fine the next day, except for this one little startup company that

went under, Fastlane Technology.

And what did you do, Joey?

I knew tech stocks were going to take a loss, so I sold off my portfolio. I had

a major position in Fastlane.

I guess I should have spread it out throughout the week instead of dumping

all at once.

And you wiped them out.

Their stock went from $33 a share to 33 cents.

Oh, Joey.

What? One company? And I wasn't the only investor.

They couldn't possibly hold that against me. That company went under.

There were people working there.

It was an accident.

Nothing that couldn't have been avoided. You know, Gary would never use the

paper for the market.

Yeah, well, he don't have my overhead.

Maybe not, but the paper... There's a lot of power there.

What? You don't think I know that?

Why do you think I want to help your friend? I wonder.

So where's the dry cleaners?

Come on.

We had a deal.

Look, I made a mistake. I admit it.

But I learned my lesson. Now I just want to help out any way I can.

Come on.

Ron Haskell, 32, was taken to Chicago General in acute shock after his arms

accidentally crushed a steam press by an irate dry cleaner.

Look at these buttons.

They're crushed, every single one.

Can't you read?

What, is that your license to pulverize?

Your little sign doesn't make it legal. You're responsible.

You know what? I think it's just an accident.

Oh, really?

Well, let me tell you something, King Solomon. This isn't the first time

something like this happened. And ten broken buttons isn't an accident. It's

more like aggravated assault.

You're a moron. I don't have to listen to this.

They're just buttons. You can have more sewn back on, can't you, huh?

Whoa, whoa, whoa. You don't want to do that, pal. Joey!

What? Hey, come on. You're upset.

Cool down.

Let's take this outside.

You're both crazy.

Joey,

quick, grab him.

There's got to be something. A lever.

I got it.

I got it. I got it. Even to me. Well, I said push the button.

Hang on. We got it.

Well, bring him down.

He'll be okay. Almost there.

There you go, pal. No charge.

You're nuts.

Look over here.

What was that all about?

What was that about? What?

Unbelievable. What's unbelievable?

Unbelievable. You're not trying to help me. I ain't trying to help yourself. I

try to make yourself look good, aren't you? Get the paper back.

That's crazy.

Crazier? That's cra... Crazy.

Okay, okay.

Truth is, I miss it. And I miss the action.

And what do you care if I step on your turf a little? You gripe about the

Sam told me you never have any fun with it. Why not let me share it for a while?

Share it? What would you do with it? Look, I've already talked to Marissa

you in New York and everything.

Oh, it's a one -time thing.

Look, giving you the paper would be like letting a juvenile delinquent have a

hot rod. Yeah, well, someone thought I should get it. Yeah, and someone thought

you should stop getting it, too.

One mistake.

One tiny mistake.

that's more than balanced out by all the good I've done. Five boroughs, my

friend. Five in the city that never sleeps, huh? Plenty of guys would have

folded after the first week. And before you get all high and mighty, kid, you

might want to remember they're making their minds up about you right now.

Anything can happen.

Which is exactly why I don't need your help.

Okay, kid. I warned you.

Don't blame me.

But... Hey, what do you mean, don't blame you?

Ha!

Ha! Hey, what is... Send me!

Hey!

Hey, where's the paper?

You have to find him, Gary.

I should have seen this coming. He wants his paper back.

So why is he still yours?

To prove that he can still do a good job, that's why.

Well, maybe he can.

I mean, he handled New York for a couple of months. Maybe he can handle Chicago

for a day.

Well, I doubt it. He's so busy trying to impress Mr. Bowler hat.

There's no telling what he's going to do.

You're winning, sir.

Thanks, pal.

Here you go. For your trouble. Oh, thank you.

You are incredible.

You know, I didn't think that nag had another four yards in it.

Hey, what's your next pick?

Give me a minute here. This is a delicate procedure.

Don't you think it's more prudent to hedge your bets rather than maximizing

risk by putting everything on one horse?

Not at all, my friend. You have to have the courage of your conviction.

See, I got this system. You do? Yeah.

It's called no guts, no glory. You should try it sometime.

Excuse me.

10 ,000 to win on while away in the fourth.

10 ,000 to win on while away. I will.

8 ,000 to win on black velvet in the fourth.

Of course, you've got to know what you're doing, too. Oh, I do.

That's a lot of money to put on a horse that isn't going to win. It's a little

early for you to be stating that as a fact, isn't it?

Trust me.

While away.

This jockey's got more experience.

Hurt jockey is an apprentice.

Black velvet's going to win. I have the courage of my conviction.

Look, I also have a system.

It's mathematical.

Whatever good luck to you pal. Thank you

ain't signed yet. What do you mean? It's over.

One minute, please, ladies and gentlemen. There's been a protest.

No, no, no, no.

Black Velvet has been disqualified. The winner is a while away. It's a while

away in the board. Top luck, pal.

That was every penny I had.

Maybe this could ease the pain here a little bit.

We're cleaning out our desks.

Why? Face it, Leonard. It's over. We failed.

We didn't fail.

We have a prototype. It's twice as fast as any other chip on the market.

What are we going to manufacture them with, Leonard? We're bankrupt.

Didn't you see the notice from the landlord we're being evicted?

Sarah, this is our dream.

To work together, to create our own company.

Leonard, we have $8 ,000.

Our creditors want 96 ,000.

We all have math degrees, right?

Leonard?

We don't have $8 ,000. What?

I was trying to increase our capital.

What did you do, Leonard?

I wagered the money. Wager?

And now, Leonard, is this your horse racing system?

That's it. I am out of here. Wait, but it would have worked, you see, but the

horse was disqualified. Good luck, Sarah.

Sarah. Sarah, wait.

We still have the chip.

I have rent to pay, and so do you.

I was kind of hoping that we paid, you know, together.

It was a fine dream, Leonard.

Who killed that intersection?

Broken traffic light at Fulton and Clinton. Fulton and Clinton.

Fulton and Clinton.

Talk to me.

Drive straight to Chestnut.

Chestnut is the first street on the left.

worry, Einstein. Just keep doing what you're doing. I got everything under

control.

All right, people, all eyes on me.

Hold it, buddy.

Come on, come on, come on, come on.

Keep it moving.

Let's go.

Keep up the good work. I gotta go get some tools.

Go right ahead, my man. I'll take care of things.

Ladies, be my guest.

Let's go Chief.

see you. Come on, hand it over.

Kid, listen, now.

Kid, you ain't looking at this right. I took your paper true, but you forced me

to do it. Me?

Yeah, you practically threw me out of town. You practically strangled a guy in

dry cleaner's. I saved that guy's life. You saved?

Give it to me. It's my own.

Wait a minute, that's new.

That headline, it wasn't there before.

Explosion kills researcher.

What have you done?

Why is Joey Clams always to blame?

Give this to me. Now I gotta fix it.

I'll fix it.

He did a moment, people say things, and there was some truth to it.

What? Yeah, if you hadn't interfered, I would have found the paper and done

something about it. Done something about it? Yeah, like you did something with

that traffic light. Oh, everybody's a critic.

Yeah, well, if you hadn't have stolen the paper, none of this would have

happened, would it? And just because you can't show a colleague a little

professional courtesy. Oh, please. Some poor schmo somewhere in Chicago is going

to get blown up. How are we supposed to find them now?

Man, I was this close. This close to what, destroying the entire city? Get my

paper back.

and your paper back. Now they're going to take the paper from me, and I'll

deserve it.

Look, Hobson, I thought I could do this without hurting anybody.

Don't play the sincerity card now. You've been in this for yourself since

beginning. Okay, maybe that's true.

Maybe I came here to get the paper again.

But you don't know how much I miss it.

And it ain't just the action.

I miss helping people.

I do. Oh, yeah, sure, that and driving your Porsche and eating at your fancy

restaurant. Okay, maybe that's true. That's a lot of fun.

I'll admit it, but I don't need that stuff.

I miss the look on people's faces. I miss them being glad that I was there.

Before I got involved with the paper, I went through life like a spare part.

You could cut me out of the picture, wouldn't make much difference to

The paper changed all that.

And it wasn't just being a big guy.

It was... Suddenly what I did mattered to somebody.

Look, Joey, say I believe you and I understand you, but you just can't come

here like... You want I should leave?

I'll leave.

But I'd rather stay here and try and help you find this guy before he blows

And that's the truth.

Here, I got this.

Look, it came off of my hand when we were having our little disagreement.

It's a start.

Humber, you are supposed to be out of here.

I wanted to talk to you about an extension. I told you before, no money,

extension.

You got the money? I did. I just kind of misplaced it.

Hey, I'll give you more stock options. Forget it. I have another party

interested in renting this place.

We have a prototype now.

All we have to do is find the capital. Look, for all I know, you are the next

Bill Gates.

But without the rent, you're just Bozo the Clown to me. Look, just let me work

through the rest of the night, okay?

I'll put together a report, try to interest some investors. No renter is

to look this place over tomorrow. You had plenty of notice to clear out.

I'll leave the furniture outside.

Maybe you could get a truck.

The rest of it is going to be dumped.

Dumped? Look, I'm willing to stash it in the basement, okay?

I'll give you a week. But this place has to be cleared out now.

Ten more minutes. Huh?

Hey. Hey, be careful with those, huh?

These are hazardous. You can't just mix chemicals like this. They'll combust.

Don't worry. We'll treat them with kid gloves.

They'll be fine.

Relax.

All right, the paper says Chester, so this has got to be the street.

Maybe Chester's Manchester, Westchester. No, no, no, Dorchester's the best bet.

Why is that?

Well, because it's an industrial neighborhood, the kind of place where a

researcher might get blown up. Okay.

You got a better idea?

No, I'm with you. I'm just exercising my right to comment. It's a New York

thing. You know, you guilted me pretty good when you called. I guilted myself

pretty good.

You think he's still in there?

Come on. We both know Leonard's still in there.

He's writing up a new investor report or a new proposal.

Or he's sitting there working out some design feature that's never going to

matter because no one's ever going to buy from us. He's an obsessive nutcase.

He's our obsessive nutcase.

You got that right.

All right, so maybe we got the wrong neighborhood.

You can't go in, Sarah.

But Leonard's in there. Maybe he got out.

Leonard, is Leonard still there? Wasn't he behind us?

Oh, no, it's that fast. That's the company that went under when I... It's

because of me this is happening.

We have to go in after him. Sarah, those are toxic fumes.

Two.

Disposal kills two.

Hey,

Jill.

Jill!

Don't go in there! What are you doing?

There's somebody else.

There's somebody else in there. All right, stay back now, Sarah. We'll find

Leonard.

Sarah. Oh, Leonard, I was so scared.

Sarah, I didn't get the prototype.

A prototype.

Oh, thank God that you were here.

Listen, kid.

I represent a group of venture capitalists. We're very interested in

doing. And we want to contribute.

Here you go.

$10 ,000.

What?

Leonard, count to zeros.

It's $100 ,000.

Is that enough to get you going?

Get us going?

This is going to launch a date.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Between Willow and Hubbard Woods Road, traffic control in the Winnetka Transit

Department are on the scene.

And in Chicago Heights on the 94 going south. I'm okay.

You don't have anything before 11.

Thanks.

Hey, smile, kid.

Looks like you passed.

Passed? Yeah, you got the paper.

Yeah, the paper.

I did, didn't I? Yeah.

You know, I gave those kids nearly every cent I had. But, you know, I got to

thinking. I've been making too much of this paper thing.

What? Yeah.

See, Joey Clams is not a passive spectator on the stage of history. No,

friend, he's a man of action. And if I want to help people, who's going to stop

me? No one. That's who. I don't need the paper to do that.

Listen, good luck to you, Joey. Yeah, thanks. And give my regards to Miss

I'll do that.

It's another paper.

Dayton Daily News.

Tomorrow's Dayton Daily News.

Dayton, Ohio?

I'm back, kid.

You what?

I'm coming back.

Well, I'll cover Dayton like nobody's business. I'm telling you, I'll be back

the majors yet.

Oh, well, congratulations,

Joey.

Do you think they got bagels in Dayton?

Ah, I'll see you. Yeah.

If I can't make it there, I'll make it anywhere.

Good luck, David.

Hey, Mutt, I hope your health's broken.

These are leather feet.

Hit it.

No dirty dancing for Patrick Swayze today, but he will be trying to find an

African treasure on an expedition no other explorer has survived.

Also starring Alison Doody from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, King

Solomon's Mines begins today at 3.

Next, the concluding part of 10 .5.