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It's not often we can be as proud of one of our inmates as we are of you, Mr.

Quint.

You've compiled quite a record in your time here.

Your arrest record says that you put up quite a struggle. Two private

investigators from San Diego were involved in your apprehension, along

large number of San Diego police.

We had feared from the violence on that occasion that you would be trouble on

the inside, but nothing could have been further from the truth.

It says here that you've gotten a graduate -level degree in social

that you were instrumental in forming the Prison Library Society.

It is with rare pleasure that we grant you your petition for parole, noting

you have served honorably six years of your 10 -year sentence.

Thank you, sir.

What are your plans once you're out?

Well, I don't have any plans. I just...

I want to be a good citizen and maybe go say hello to some old friends. So,

thank you.

Yeah, I just picked her up. Boy, you ought to see her, the full package. I'm

telling you, metallic gray.

Hey, I've got the deluxe interior.

I've got the big FM stereo with the speakers in the back, huh? And a price.

I talked to the guy out at the dealership. I got him down to a nickel

sticker price. Do you believe that?

Listen, you guys buy me a round of drinks, I'm going to take you for a

okay? Come on, get excited about this. This is a big deal for me. Are you

kidding? I've been thinking about this car since I was 14 years old.

I can't believe you're going to stay inside on a day like this. I can't

you're going to the desert on a day like this.

It's an absolutely perfect day.

There isn't a cloud in this whole state.

Besides, deserts can bloom.

Got a date?

No. Then why do you want to waste the whole blooming desert with no date?

Because there are some things, Rick, that a man does for the good of his

My point exactly.

Channel 3's running Zulu and Zulu's Dawn back to back.

How often do you think a thing like that's going to happen?

Desert blooms every year.

I love that scene where they throw Jack Hawkins into the church cellar, and

there's this young recruit down there, and he's really getting scared. He's

listening to the Zulus pounding on their shields with their spears, and he says

to Nigel Green, Why us?

And Nigel Green says, Because we're here, lad.

Because we're here.

Those pretty dresses for me.

I dress like Zulu's dog. You dress for me.

Look.

If you've already memorized the movie, why are you going to stay and watch it

again?

You've seen the desert?

Hello?

Oh, hi, town.

What?

Are you sure?

Yeah, I see.

Okay.

Yeah, thanks for calling, town.

Bye.

Oh, I think you could say that, yeah.

Town was just going over the prisoner release forms for the week, and it seems

that Quint is out.

Jeremiah Quint is at large?

No, Jeremiah Quint is at extra large.

That was Ralph Taylor and his Thousand Strings with Sunrise in My Heart. Right

now on 99KATR, it's 2 .17 and another ridiculously perfect day in San Diego.

I'm Susan Knight, and I'll be with you till 3 on your easy listening station.

Okay, what's next?

Did you call the lawyer in Del Mar about the peeping Tom case?

What? I said, did you call the lawyer? Oh, no, no, I was going to call him this

afternoon. Just been sitting here going over the Quint file.

Hell of a case.

Yeah, well, I think the thing to do here is not dredge up a lot of unpleasant

old memories.

This has got to be the toughest bust in the history of the San Diego Police

Department. I'm sure they've had their share of hard cases. Not this hard.

It's the first time I ever saw a man with an assault gun in private hands.

Will you quit worrying about this guy?

He's served his time. He's out. So what?

He'd be crazy to come back to San Diego.

Side switch.

We got him once.

We can get him again.

AJ, the only reason we got him the first time is because he ran out of

ammunition. He had his back against the docks, facing 110 guys from a SWAT team,

and a refrigerator fell on him.

Hello there.

Uh, you're... No, wait, don't tell me. Uh, Quint.

Jeremiah Quint.

That's right, that's right. So, gee, what brings you to San Diego?

I'm just passing through.

That's good to hear.

Gee, I don't like to come into a town and not say hello to old friends, you

what I mean?

Yeah, yeah.

So you're just passing through, huh?

Yeah, unless something comes up.

Things are looking real slow around here right now.

I did a lot of thinking on the joint.

Yeah.

You know what I did?

I thought about life, and I thought about the future.

And I thought about you, too.

I mean, I really owe you.

I'm not sure I'm going to be able to pay you back.

I wouldn't worry about it if I were you.

No, no, me either. I mean, you know, we're just doing our jobs.

So, you look...

Fit.

Really, man?

Oh, yeah. Doesn't he look fit?

He looks fit.

Yeah.

Hey, thank you.

I won't see you around.

Don't count on it.

You said he'd be crazy to come back here.

Well, we know he's crazy. What are we going to do?

Well, what's to do?

I mean, no, I mean, you know, he's... He's done his time. He's just passing

through. He's... He said he owed us a lot. What do you

think he meant by that?

You know, I think probably, I think what he meant was, you know, that he's

thought about his life of crime while he was in the

pen. And, you know, he's now got a second chance and decided it

was all a waste and wants to be a law -abiding citizen and go straight and

out of trouble.

Yeah, that's probably what it meant.

We could take out a peace bond, a restraining order.

What would that do?

Well, if he kept coming around you, we could bust him for it, for violating the

order to stay away from you.

Is there anything outstanding on this guy?

Nothing. We checked everything.

It's clean as a whistle.

He checked in with the parole board here first thing, told me he was going to

look for a job, then he got an apartment.

So we have an address on him?

Yeah.

You want me to have somebody to keep an eye on him?

No, we don't want to be any trouble.

I mean, your people have got their hands full dealing with guys doing real

crime.

Anyway, it seems like he really is going straight.

Yeah, yeah. He said he learned a lot in prison.

They always do.

You gonna change before we go over to Mom's? I go on to Mom's.

Monthly coffee clutch at a San Diego literary society is not my idea of a

on the town.

Rick, you promised.

Side switch.

Mom called this morning. There's a woman she wants you to meet.

Another reason not to go.

Oh, give me a break. She's not that bad a matchmaker. She introduced me to Liz.

I rest in my cave.

Rick, you promised.

All right, all right. I'll change my socks.

What'd you cut my cantaloupe up for?

What cantaloupe?

The only cantaloupe I had in the refrigerator. That cantaloupe. What'd

it up for?

I didn't cut up any cantaloupe.

Rick, look.

You didn't cut it up?

Oh, Mr. Quint, I'm so glad you could make it.

Come in.

C .S. Lewis.

Yes, I discovered him several years ago when I was on sabbatical.

But I must admit that I enjoy the science fiction novels and the trilogy

more than I do the theological works.

Oh, I love the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe.

Do you really?

More coffee, Mr. Quint?

Please, Grimm and Sugar.

Why haven't you been to our other meetings, Mr. Quint?

Well, I've just recently moved to San Diego. I was doing research for the last

several years in the North.

Research? How interesting. On what?

Criminology. Oh, criminology.

Excuse me.

You know, of course, Mr. Quint, Truman Capote was into that.

Let me introduce you to... What's he doing here? What the hell are you doing

here? We're studying books.

This is the literary symposium, isn't it?

Mr. Quinn is our new member.

Get out of here.

You stay away from here. This is my mother's house.

Well, yes, it is, but it would seem like she should be the one to tell me to

leave if she would like me to do so.

I'm the one you've got to deal with now, pal.

You're pushing your luck, Quint.

You've got an argument with us, that's one thing, but you stay away from our

mother. I don't have an argument with anyone.

Wrong.

Grace, what are you doing?

How's Temple doing?

Who? Uh, fine.

So, what'll it be?

Uh, two with everything.

For him.

Ah, the new sergeant -at -arms of the San Diego Literary Society.

They'd have done the same thing. Town.

The guy is clearly here to make trouble.

He's carrying drugs besides the USS Enterprise.

Well, tell him about the cantaloupe.

Oh, yes.

Somebody broke into my house yesterday and spliced up a cantaloupe that I had

my refrigerator.

This is serious.

Relish? Sweet or kosher? Sweet. Pass.

Tom, we can take care of ourselves, but when it comes to threatening our mother,

yes, it is serious.

Okay, look, let's go over the evidence here.

Now, your mother invited this man into her house for a party, and Rick jumped

him, right? That's right. Uh -huh.

And you found some cut -up fruit in your refrigerator.

Oh, I'll think of something.

Routine. We have a search warrant.

This is Agent Randall. We're all officers. I'm sure you've met before.

He'll explain what's going on.

As Mr.

Quinn's attorney, I say you have no right to roust my client.

That's why I got this restraining order from Judge Tate.

It orders that this man is to keep his distance from these two men, their

and from Mrs. Simon.

Now I'll have a uniformed patrol car out there to enforce this.

If your client shows, he'll be arrested.

We'll see about that.

Mr. Sneed, have you asked your client why he chose to come back to San Diego?

Because we believe that the only possible reason is so that he can take

on us for our part in his arrest.

Mr. Quint came to San Diego for the same reasons that many other people do.

For the sun and the opportunity.

Now,

Let me spell it out to you quasi -Simeon thugs. If anybody else

causes any problem for my client, a phone call, a knock on the door, a nasty

look in the street, I will have your badge and your licenses.

Let's get out of here.

do now, Tom?

I guess we owe you a big one.

You're unbelievable.

I risk an internal hearing.

The guy comes up clean. His Wolverine lawyer almost chews my arm off, and you

figure you owe me a big one?

This is the last time I'm gonna let you two guys drag me into something like

this. Well, what do we do if he keeps coming around?

Call your mother.

Vestinian thugs.

Tell you one thing, A .J., the gloves are off now.

No need to parole office or to police.

Next time I see that girl, I'm going to waste him.

Pam was right.

We're letting our imaginations run away with us here.

The man is in town legally.

Until he does something, there's nothing we can do. Now, if you're a pro, you

can live with that.

Yeah? Method for either Richard or A .J. Simon.

I'm Richard.

I was asked to get identification.

Hmm, I think that will do.

Hello.

What is it?

It's from Quint.

I completely understand your misapprehension concerning my being here

Diego. I had no idea that you would react this way.

And I assure you that my intentions are... Peaceable. Peaceable.

But I realize there's probably no way to convince you of this.

Since I don't need any more enemies or trouble in my life, I thought I'd let

know that I'm leaving town.

I've begun proceedings to secure out -of -state parole.

I have relatives in New Mexico and plan to try my luck there.

You don't have to worry about Jeremiah Quint anymore.

He asked you of my regards to your lovely mother.

What that jackal's up to now.

Come on, Rick. You're pushing it.

Look, he says there that he doesn't want any trouble.

That means he knows he'll get it. That means he's afraid.

What?

Well, but he's running.

Come on.

Time to forget about Quint and go on with our lives.

Hi. Hi. I'd like to see the manager, please. I'm the manager.

Oh, I wanted to take a look at the apartment you got for rent.

Help yourself.

It's over there. Thank you.

Hey, where have you been?

We're supposed to be staking out at Mr. Hopkins' store tonight.

I was just checking out Quinn's place.

And?

He's gone.

Are you Mr. Simon?

Uh, yeah. Rick, AJ.

I need your help.

It's my brother.

Um, sure. Come on in.

It's been three days.

And I've been worried sick. He always tells me when he's going out.

But this time...

I woke up on Thursday morning, and he was gone.

See, Ben's been living with me ever since his divorce last summer, and I

really think that he's quite gotten over that.

And lately, he's been so distant, and that's not like him. I know he made some

investments, and I don't think they were working out. He never gave me any

details on them, but I just know that something was wrong.

What kind of investments?

Real estate mostly. I don't really know about everything, but there's a

portfolio at the house.

Okay, we'll take a look at it. Are there any relatives in the area?

Yeah, we have an aunt in Santa Barbara, but I called her right away, and she

hasn't heard from him or seen him. Any friends you might be staying with? I've

called everybody I could think of.

Nobody's heard from him.

Well, could you make us a list anyway, and we can check it out?

Okay, I'll make a list.

Okay.

I think you've given us enough to start with.

What you ought to do now is go home and get some rest, and if you need anything

or if you can think of anything, don't hesitate to call us.

What will you do?

We'll find him.

Hang on.

Thank you. Thank you very much. You're welcome.

It works for me.

They bought it.

They're on the case.

Well, my

brother is rather eccentric.

He hates cars.

After he had that accident, I guess he just never renewed his license.

I see. I've gone through everything.

There's some bills, receipts, little notes he left.

Anything I could find. Did you make a list of friends and relatives?

Yeah. Here.

Excuse me.

Did your brother have any favorite bars or hangouts, restaurants, anything like

that?

Not really. He stayed at home mostly.

Okay.

By the way, here is the portfolio of real estate investments. Oh, great.

There's the name of the broker.

Terrific. You're very organized. You've done a very good job, Miss Crane.

I hope we'll make our job easier and we'll be able to find your brother as

quickly as possible.

I certainly hope so. Yeah.

Thank you.

What are you thinking?

I'm just thinking it's been six years since I've seen the ocean.

I used to hear it, though.

I used to hear them boats out on San Francisco Bay.

I'd hear the people on them.

They were having fun and they were all going somewhere.

Jeremiah, we can go anywhere you want now.

Not yet, we can't.

Did you give them them notes?

Yes. They said they'd follow it up.

Yeah, bet.

See, they're real good at following up, aren't they?

Jeremiah, do you have to kill them?

Got a lot of leads here. You want to split them up?

Too many leads.

This is too easy.

Well, maybe she's just one of those organized women.

She said her brother didn't have any favorite hangouts.

I found this on the floor of the closet.

That doesn't mean it's his favorite hangout. He could have gotten those

someplace else. Somebody could have given him those.

You remember at Ollie's place when he got that freight car deal on a bunch of

matches and for a year he was handing out books from Hoga Boom's all -night

truck farm we plowed deep while others sleep?

Yeah.

Just that all the clothes in that closet were new.

Well, most of them, anyway.

There was nothing in any of the pockets.

Only thing out of the ordinary.

A book of matches on the floor in between the shoes.

I've got a bunch of notes here where he's reminding himself to meet some guy

named Marty at the Loma View Trailer Park, lot 15.

My antennae are picking up some cross signals here.

Go check out this trailer park.

Here, we'll get your antennae rewired. Why don't you check out the bar?

All right.

If you find anything, call and leave a message on the machine.

See, they've got different numbers on them, so we can tell them apart.

And different colors for them that can't count.

Actually,

I have played a few games in my time.

Yeah? Well, you look kind of new. I thought I'd explain things.

You're some kind of hustler. No, not at all. You sure you don't have one of

those fancy pool sticks that comes apart in the middle and you put into an

alligator case?

Actually, my name is Simon, and I'm looking for someone I think you may

I knew he was a cop.

Private investigator, and it's a family matter.

Man's name is Ben Crane. Do you know him? Sure.

Everybody around here knows Ben.

You do? Yeah.

Well, he hasn't been writing as much lately. I hope he's okay. Do you know

he is?

He's in Mexico. He's got a bait shop down in Ensenada.

A bait shop?

Yeah. He said he was going to stay in Mexico till the Republicans were out of

office.

Thank you.

At the beat, please leave your name and number and any message that you wish.

Thank you.

Hi, Rick. Are you there?

Rick?

Okay, look.

I've got a lead on Crane.

I'm going to head downtown Ensenada and see if we can't wrap this thing up.

I still say it's all been too easy.

Anybody home?

Excuse me.

Yeah. Your name Ben Crane?

What's my name in the state?

I'm A .J. Simon. I'm a private investigator from San Diego.

Well, I hope you want to go fishing.

But it's not bad news, right?

No, not at all.

Your sister sent me. She's very worried about you.

Joanna? Worried about me?

Why on earth?

Well, you said that you were despondent after your divorce.

You had some investments that had gone sour and...

You disappeared.

She didn't know where you were or what you were doing.

It's some kind of joke.

No, not at all.

Look, Joanna hasn't so much as spoken to me in five years.

She knows where I am and what I'm doing.

If she cared a stinking penny's worth, she could pick up the phone and call.

Something doesn't make sense here. Your sister's paying me a lot of money to

locate you and make sure you're not in any danger.

Baloney on, right? Look, she hasn't cared about me since she took up with

convict. What convict?

She fell in love with some jamoke I sent to San Quentin. Used to drive up on

weekends to give him cakes and candy.

I told her she was no good.

Just another damn crook. And then he'd end up treating her bad, too.

But... What was his name?

Uh... Quince.

Quince. Jeremiah Quince.

Hey, see?

That's why I left the States.

The place is jam -packed with empty suits in a hurry, just like that one.

Hi, Rick. Are you there? Rick?

Okay, look.

I've got a lead on Crane.

I'm going to head down to Ensenada and see if we can't wrap this thing up.

I still say it's all been too easy.

What do you want?

Well, I have what I want, but I do appreciate you asking.

Then why don't you just go ahead and get it over with?

Well, you see, it's not over till I say it's over.

It isn't over till I pay for the pain.

You did six years, man. What's the big deal?

That's my life.

Wait, wait.

Well, you know what I did?

You see, I went and talked to that prison psychiatrist a whole bunch about

and your brother.

About the way you tracked me down and never gave me a moment's rest.

The way you hunted me until I was almost dead.

I guess that's all you needed to hear.

You know what else he said?

He said it was a simple case of transference.

He said, I subconsciously blame you for my arrest.

You were arrested by the police.

Tried in the court of law.

And you were convicted by a jury.

You see, I don't have them, do I?

but you know what i have who have you i didn't do

this to you shut up see you don't get to talk all you get to do is

I knew it.

I smelled it with a set -up from the beginning.

It looked like a cave, AJ. It looked like a trap.

A beautiful trap.

It couldn't come to us, it made us come to him.

You found the matchbook, you found the brother.

Too late!

It's easy after it's all over to say, oh, I knew it was going to end like

Hello? Do you recognize my voice?

Yes, where's my brother?

Well, I was just getting to that.

Why don't you come and join us?

Is he all right?

Of course not.

What did he take me for?

Is he all right?

He's alive.

And he wishes very much to see you.

What do you want, ransom?

Well, you might call it that.

Do you know where they met Al?

shipyards are.

Yes? When I come home.

Because if I see a cop, your brother dies. If I hear a chopper, your brother

dies.

Where are you going to be? It's a big place.

dressed as winos or longshoremen. He'll never spot us.

No. Well, let me put a wire on you.

No.

You can't go in there alone, man.

I mean, you need some help. You can't go in there, not even with that.

Jeremiah Quint wants the Simon brothers.

Oh, by God, he's going to get them.

Nobody move until I say so.

I forgot to mention not to bring a gun.

I waited a long time for this moment, and I'm going to enjoy it.

Now you put that thing down.

Do you hear me? I said put that thing down.

Put it down.

Clint?

never lets you out of here. Do you think that I would go to all this trouble

without a way out?

You meant my way out.

She's waiting for me.

Okay, it's all over.

Oh, my God, Reg.

I can't feel my face.

Just as well. You don't want to.

KJ, you okay?

Everything's under control, Tom.

I thought you weren't coming.

By 8 o 'clock, canceled.

To the memory of Jeremiah Quint, may he rest in peace.

May he rest a long, long time.

Gotta give it to you guys.

You really know how to pick an enemy.

Cute. This guy was definitely not funny. No, this guy was definitely deeply

weird.

The whole time I was with him, he kept talking to me, playing this twisted

philosophy of his on me.

How do guys like that happen?

Things are getting just a little too complicated in this life.

People crack up, snap like sticks under pressure.

Used to be we could work up a profile.

Abused child grows up to be a strange loner. The Manson, the Thunder Sam, the

Hillside Strangler.

They all had patterns.

But now there are no more patterns.

When they first came out with penicillin, they called it the new

right? Then the germs got tougher.

We've got psychiatrists stacked one atop another.

And the nuts keep getting nuttier.

Oh, by the way, we caught up with Joanna Crane. Her car ran off the road in

Oceanside.

Well, you've got her for aiding and abetting anyway.

Oh, we've got more than that.

She knew about the plan all along.

Means cold conspiracy for kidnapping, assault with a deadly weapon, and

attempted murder.

How much time is she looking at?

Fifteen, maybe twenty years. How much she serves, well, that's another thing.

Yeah.

I wonder what she'll do when she gets out.