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Open this door, Cap.

Why did you sneak in? Why did you lock the door?

Mom, stop bugging me.

Where did you get this?

What have you been doing?

I bought it from a guy. We use it for target practice.

What's the matter with me?

Why can't I believe you?

Because you're getting like pop, that's why. You gotta believe the worst.

Your father is a detective.

Haven't you got any sense?

No, I haven't got any sense.

And I haven't got any character either, just like he's always told you.

Cap, he wants to be your friend.

You won't let him.

You dropped out of school.

You're never home. You never talk to him.

Mom.

Please.

Don't tell him about the gun.

I can hear you all the way down the hall. What's going on?

Nothing, honey.

Nothing.

Come on, honey.

Dinner's ready.

Here he is.

I'm so nervous, Peggy.

Maybe I shouldn't have come.

Oh, Eve, you did the right thing.

Mrs. Chancellor?

Please, come in.

Oh, please, sit down.

Peggy tells me this is about your son.

Yes.

Cap, I didn't know who else to turn to.

Peggy's husband and mine started work on the force at the same time.

Well, maybe we can help you.

But if my husband knew I'd come to see a private investigator, he'd go through

the roof.

Most police detectives would.

Jim more so.

He has to prove something.

Well, that's up to you, Mr. Chancellor.

It can't hurt to talk about it, Eve.

Cap came home with a gun last night.

I took it away from him.

When I woke up this morning, he was gone.

He'd taken the gun with him.

Do you have any idea where he might be?

No. But I found this list of addresses in his room, hidden in the back of a

drawer.

And, um...

Here's a snapshot of Cap.

Peggy.

See if you can make any sense out of this, huh?

All right.

Mrs. Chancellor, does your husband know about the gun?

No. Is he out looking for your son?

No.

He's too angry at him.

Besides, Jim's working on a big case.

The Guardian armored car robbery.

Yeah, I read about that.

Two guards killed, $350 ,000 still missing.

Besides that list of addresses, is there anything else you can tell me?

We have the generation gap, too, Mr. Maddox.

You're that far apart, you and Cap, huh?

Well, the building on top of the ground is bad.

But the foundation is still all right, I think.

Good. Now, I may try and phone you. If he does, stall him.

and then find a way to get in touch with us to tell us he's on the line.

I'll do my best.

Thank you, Mr. Maddox. Try not to worry.

All warehouses.

All? All.

Do you think Cat's playing the best one of them?

I don't know.

I just hope he calls her.

Hello?

Oh, Cap, honey.

Hold on. The water's boiling over.

Get Mr. Mannix's office.

I know how much we've missed you.

If you've done anything wrong, we can straighten it out. I know we can.

Look, Mom, please don't cry.

I know it's been three days, but everything's all right. I'm just fine.

I got a few things I got to work out, that's all.

Yes, Stan, I've got Maddox on the car phone. Hurry, please.

Hang on, we're getting it.

Right, right. Thanks a million.

Pay phone at 5th and Columbia.

Right.

Mom, stop worrying about me.

No, I don't want you to know where I'm living.

I gotta be on my own for a while.

Cap, please.

Mom, I can't just stand here talking to you all day. I gotta go.

I'll call you again.

Hey, that's mine.

Cut it. Cut it.

Cut it out. Cut it. Cut it out. Cut it out. You stole my money.

Hey, hey, hey.

Cut it out.

You stole my money.

What are you, some kind of a hothead?

Maybe I ought to call the cops.

Cops? Listen, my old man's a cop. He'll make it real rough on me. Yeah, well,

you should have thought of that before.

Come on, mister. Please let me go. Come on, he'll kill me.

I'll beat it.

Thanks.

Wasn't that manic?

Yeah, and that looked like Jim Johnson's kid.

I want to see Mannix.

Lieutenant Chancellor to see you.

Hello, Chancellor.

Sit down.

An hour ago, you were seen chasing my kid.

I was?

Where was he headed?

I don't know. I lost him. Why were you following him, Mannix?

Your wife's a friend of Peggy's. She told her Cap had left home.

Oh, and that just made you hot bleeds that you had to go after him.

They're really uptight, aren't you, Chancellor?

You just stay out of my family affairs, manage. If my kid's missing, I'll be the

one to find him.

Pardon me.

Five o 'clock, pal. We're closing.

Well, I'm... My name is Mannix. I'm a private investigator.

Have you had any robberies or trespasses lately?

Not that I know of, but I just came back from my vacation.

I'll ask the night watchman. He just came on.

Hey, everyone.

We have any trespassers while I was gone?

Nope.

The name of this warehouse, along with ten others, was on a list belonging to

the kid that was in that fight you broke up today.

You saw that?

Yeah, coincidence, huh?

Can you tell me anything about it?

Mr. Mannix is a private investigator.

Beats me.

How long have you worked for this company?

Six years.

And you've never seen that boy before?

No, never.

Thanks.

Anytime.

Right, Dan.

Okay, but keep on trying, huh?

His father's turning the whole town upside down.

I sure hope you get the cat first.

Yeah, look, Peggy, call his school. Maybe they could tell us something.

Coffee hot?

Yeah, but he's a dropout. He's been out of school for over a year.

I know, but kids don't always drop their friends.

It's a chance.

How come some private eye named Manic shows up where I work with a list he

belongs to you?

A list of warehouses.

How come you keep showing up all the time?

What list?

What are you talking about?

Come on, you know what list. Stop playing games.

Oh, that list.

Well, I told you, my old man's a detective.

I mean, that was his list.

He's on the armored car robbery.

Maybe he was checking those places out for the loot.

How come a private eye?

How would I know?

Maybe he works for some warehouse association or something.

You must have read about the case.

350 grand missing and not a cent's ever showed up.

Hey, you work in a warehouse?

That's wild.

That's really way out.

Maybe he's looking for you.

For me?

I'm a night watchman, kid.

I'm aiming for Social Security, that's all.

Well, that's okay with me.

I mean, you did me a favor yesterday. I just wanted to say thanks.

Okay. You said it.

I think your hunch paid off.

Kath had one special friend at school.

A kid named Rich Gaines, also a dropout.

Where does he live?

112 Berkeley Street.

Oh.

One minute.

We'll do right there, Manik.

All right, Manik, I want to know who you're working for and what you're doing

there.

Don't push me, Lieutenant. I'm on a case.

Yeah?

Who's your client?

Now you know better than that.

Someone saw you climbing the roof of the warehouse and called us.

The act of a responsible citizen.

What were you doing up there?

My job.

That's all you have to say?

That's it.

All right, I can book you on illegal entry.

But you won't.

I want to know what's going on.

Now, what were you doing in that warehouse?

Sorry, Lieutenant.

I can't tell you that.

Now, if you're not going to book me, I'll be on my way.

Thought to be an inside job.

The police got anything that wasn't in the papers?

Only that the explosive was placed under the hood shortly beforehand.

And it was detonated by a radio.

Radio?

Something strike you?

Yeah.

I happen to know someone who's just great with radios.

Everhart tells me a detective pulled you in last night.

What were you doing here?

following someone who didn't make a move.

Say, I'd like to look at Eberhardt's employment records.

Eberhardt, why?

Any objection?

No, no, not really. Just not surprised.

He's the best man we ever had here on this job.

He could use a little air conditioning.

Everhart was loaned to the Guardian Armored Car Company?

It was over a year ago.

You trying to tie him in with that?

Coincidences are piling up a little.

He was on duty here the night of the robbery.

How do you know that?

I was here when he checked in and when he checked out.

Besides... Here is punch

tapes. You can look for yourself.

The robbery took place at 2 .10 in the morning and it was across town.

Eberhardt punched in at 2 a .m. and then again at 2 .12.

He couldn't possibly.

That'd make a perfect alibi, wouldn't it?

How about his punch clock?

Don't you ever give up.

That's how I earn my living.

Being stubborn.

Thanks. What's that you're copying?

Eberhardt's former addresses.

You're barking up the wrong tree, Mannix.

Well, maybe.

But if you bark up the wrong tree long enough, sometimes someone from the right

tree might come down.

Mr. Maddox.

Mrs. Chancellor. Come in, come in.

Please.

Thank you.

What have you found out? Is Cap all right?

Mrs. Chancellor, I think Cap and his friend Rich Gaines are mixed up in

something big.

What?

The Guardian armored car case.

I don't believe it.

Cap a killer?

Well, now, I don't think it's as bad as that, Mrs. Chancellor, not from what

little I know.

You see, a man named Eberhard lived in an apartment at 112 Berkeley Street, and

now Rich Gaines lives there.

I don't understand.

I got a feeling that they ran into something tying Eberhard into the

case. Now, my guess is that he is the one involved and that Cap and Rich are

planning to take the money he's hidden.

Then they haven't done anything yet.

As far as I know, all they've done is break into a warehouse.

Then stop them before it gets any worse.

Mrs. Chancellor, I think your husband ought to know.

No, he'll arrest Cap.

I know he will.

He might arrest Cap, but isn't that better than gunplay or having Cap run

and never come back?

I don't want Jim to know.

I told you to stay out of my affairs, Mannix.

He's just paid his boss.

You hired him.

You hired him. He's helping us, Jim. All right, out with it. All of it. Say it.

All right.

Yes, I hired him.

To find Cap.

So that's why you were following him.

Your wife was worried.

You didn't even try to find him.

Try to find him? I spent 17 years trying to find him.

Maybe it was time for him to do a little finding.

And maybe being off on his own would do it for him. You're blind.

You don't see what's going on. Well, I might if it weren't going on behind my

back. Oh, you're a tough cop.

You only see what you want to see. Yes, I'm a tough cop. I have to be.

You don't have to be hard and cruel and cut your son out of your life.

All right, Mannix, where's the boy?

Well, I can't tell you that, unless your wife... He was the one who broke into

the warehouse, wasn't he?

Now, where is he? I can't tell you, Jim, unless I get permission from my client.

Your client? Well, you're not on this case anymore. You're fired.

Don't tell him, Mr. Mannix.

I said he's fired.

Now, fire him.

Fire him!

Mr. Mannix, go to camp.

I'll follow you.

I'll follow you. When you contact him, I'll pick him up. You'll destroy us all.

Who are you calling? My secretary. I'm going to tell her to let Cap know you're

after him. He broke the law.

He broke the law. You're aiding and abetting a criminal.

Tell him he's through.

Tell him he's through.

Tell him!

I'm sorry, Mr. Mannix.

have to do what my husband tells me to.

Okay, Jim.

I'm off the case.

All right.

It's police business now.

Where is he?

112 Berkeley Street.

Who's in it with him?

Rich Gaines.

Caucasian.

Take it easy, Mrs. Chancellor.

He always wins.

There's nothing I can ever do.

There's something you can do this time.

What?

Hire me back.

Who's there? Who is it?

Stop worrying. It's me.

Hi. Everything go okay with Eberhardt?

Perfect. I tailed him home just for kicks.

You are too much.

Hey, tonight is the night.

I went by the diner yesterday.

Said thanks.

Eberhardt was a little shook up, but he bought it.

You went and talked to him?

Are you out of your woolly -headed mind?

You see, Rich, cool it. We know he's running scared. He already bought a

for Switzerland.

Yeah, but I wanted to nail it in.

And what if he panics and changes his mind?

He won't.

The day you found that sketch here, things changed.

You used to be cool, real cool.

But you got a family.

That's your hang -up.

Since your old man is involved, you're like in a sweat all the time.

Shut up, Rich.

Just shut up! We do it my way or I'm out.

Okay.

Okay.

We take the gun and we stay with Eberhard all day.

As long as he doesn't change his plans, we got him back.

Yeah.

All right, that's better.

there just fine.

Now, what are you punks up to, huh?

Why the gun?

You must be flipping out. We're not up to anything.

No, I want an answer.

Your mother put a private detective on you.

I fired him.

Papa, you're trying to say you did that as a favor?

Now, what were you doing in that warehouse? He followed you there, didn't

We were just scouting around.

What for?

Why, was anything missing?

Now you keep your mouth buttoned up.

What makes you think everything I do is no good?

Why are you always jumping to conclusions?

Maybe it's not what you think it is. Then you explain it. Real simple so I

understand.

I... Cap cool it. I told you, buttoned. What for? I'm not under arrest.

I got a right to talk.

Buttoned.

Why did you leave home?

What are you doing with a gun and what were you doing in that warehouse?

Nothing.

Now, Cap, you lay it out or so help me, you're going to jail.

moment.

He gets to book his own son.

I'm going to tell him.

No, you're not.

What did you put in that water?

He needs a few hours rest.

He'll float.

You shouldn't have done it.

You should have asked me. We had to do it. We?

You mean you.

You would have staked out the warehouse.

This is going to work out just the way you want it.

He's so tough when he's on his feet.

He's just like everybody else.

Yeah, well, we got work to do. Let's get out of here.

Okay.

Let's do it.

Don't touch the tape.

Now, Peggy, send an ambulance to the Rich Gaines apartment.

Then get the police to keep an eye on France Globe's flight 137 to

Yeah, Everhart's booked to leave on that flight at midnight.

The kids? No, but I'm going to try and find them.

What's that you found?

A man named Eberhardt once lived in this room.

Yeah, that's right.

Do you remember if Rich Gaines ever went through the trash?

As a matter of fact, the second day he was here, he asked my wife if he could

through the trash and look for a sock.

That buddy of his went down with him.

It's all beginning to add up.

What's that paper?

Oh, this is what Gaines found in the trash.

It'd be worth $350 ,000.

I don't call it and see if he's okay.

Suppose the place caught fire or something. Forget it. But tomorrow

he'll be a new man.

So will you.

All we have to do is keep tabs on everyone.

What's he doing?

My old man said he was off the case.

Your old man was lying.

You were sensational buddy boy sensational that gives us a clear field

Someone else can stop them.

Mannix? Jim, I need you.

I need Cap, too.

Please don't go.

Get my clothes.

Where'd you get this?

It used to belong to Eberhard, the night watchman.

But he was on duty here at the warehouse the night of the robbery.

Yeah, but he jimmied the punch clock so the tapes would tell a different story.

He had plenty of time to go over and blow up that armored car, kill two

and get back here with the money.

Money's in the warehouse?

Yeah, I think so.

The boys made contact with Eberhardt by staging a phony fight.

Then they scared him by saying you were on his tail.

They're up there waiting for him to make his move, which is going to be tonight.

Uh -huh.

Chancellor, don't try this alone.

Eberhardt's a killer and the boys are in there. It was my case, Maddox, and it's

my son.

You know, I was always told when a cop got personally involved in a case, he

either withdrew or came with a partner.

Maybe this axe is a little too big for you to grind.

Yeah, well, they tried to kill me. One of them.

The other one put a pillow under your head.

Mannix, I want to handle my own problems.

So much so you'd risk destroying your son and your wife while I'm locked to

car.

Alone is one thing I learned not to do first day on the force.

Honey, I'll take the hardware.

You almost had me fooled.

You punks, and you blew it.

You know why?

Because you don't know your own father.

If Chancellor was suspicious of me, he'd have had me down to Station House ten

times a day.

When he didn't, I figured something was wrong.

I don't know how you got on to me.

But it doesn't matter because all I got to do is kill the both of you.

And it looked like I was doing my job.

You kill us and you're finished. You know that.

What have I got to lose?

All right, come on.

Move over there.

compressor.

You never heard you're a smart guy.

You met us only a couple of times. You figured this out perfectly.

Me, I'm smart too.

I know when someone's got the upper hand.

Listen.

I got an idea.

You shot him.

I didn't shoot him.

You did.

Now get to work, pal.

I'm going to take that loot and then I'm going to have to kill you.

You and Eberhard just had a shootout.

That's the way it lays out.

Some joke.

Rich, you can't mean it.

Rich, you can't.

We were in this just to show my pop.

We were going to bring him the dough.

Spit the reward.

Get going.

Come on, Rich.

Put the gun down. Get to work, boy.

There's a gun on you.

Pop, are you all right?

You stepped right in front of him, Pop.

You walked right in front of his gun.

Should I call an ambulance or should I stay with you?

I'd rather stay with you.

We need an ambulance.

We need an ambulance.

Rich?

You don't want to pull that trigger, Rich.

You don't want to shoot someone else, especially since it's not going to do

any good.

Besides, you still haven't got the money. It's back there wherever Hart

I don't care.

I'm alone in the world, and either I'll kill you and get out, or you'll kill me.

And either way, it's okay with me.

I gave him to the police.

Pop?

Please be all right.

Please don't die.

Whatever you do, don't die.

I'll change.

I'll listen.

I need you, Pop. I really need you.

Don't give up.

Don't give up.

Listen, I'm sorry about what I did to you and Mom.

I just wanted you to see.

I just wanted you to see that I was worth something.

The ambulance is on its way.

Hang on.

Come down.

In?