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There's one in the water. I'm telling you, he's trapped on the boat.

Which is it? I checked the boat before it went down. He wasn't on it. Let's

a look. He's on the forward cabin. Please, I'm in the wrong place.

Please, for God's sake, just check the boat.

Damn, Eddie, we've looked everywhere else.

All right, we're going to check it again, but I'm telling you, it's a waste

time. Let me just spare air.

In the city of angels, under cover of night, people are drowning in

a sea of light.

The devil holding your life on the line.

Angels are calling, praying for time.

Something's gotta give.

I'm telling you, Newby, something's wrong here. He wasn't on that boat.

You're the lifeguard.

You're supposed to save him, and you let him die.

Pardon me.

Paul waits his law firm to keep us busy for a year.

First of all, it may be small, but at this point, I don't care.

Well, I'll tell you what we'll do.

We'll get our feet in the door and just let the money roll in.

What's going on?

I'm making some changes.

Well, you just did a whole makeover. Oh, that was the big stuff. But we both

know, if you want it to fly, you've got to accessorize.

Swap what you've got for what's on that wall.

Oh,

put those on the bar.

I love a man who puts presents inside presents.

Oh, Ryan.

Mitch called. Said to tell you he'd be a little late. No, not today. He didn't.

Did he say where he is?

At sunset.

At sunset. What is sunset?

What is it? Like some code? What is that?

It's a surfer beach.

So, I hear you got a problem, Eddie.

What's up?

You know, have you ever been in a situation where you know you're

right? And everyone else thinks you're absolutely wrong.

Yeah. Gotta stick to what you know is the truth.

I'm just gonna get my ten days in, pass my recheck, keep my nose clean, and I

get suspended.

Eddie, you weren't suspended.

Maybe not officially, but when the man says take some time off, that amounts to

the same thing.

What are they saying, Mitch?

Kramer blew a rescue?

Buddy, it could have happened to any one of us. It didn't happen to any one of

us. It happened to me.

Mitch, I'm telling you, there's something wrong here.

I don't know what to tell you.

Look, I need your help.

I'll hire you, all right?

You're not going to hire me. If you want my help, I'll give you my help, but

you're not going to hire me.

Well, thanks, because I'm not going down without a fight. I want to know what

really happened.

I do, but I'm on suspension.

That's why I need you to check things out. You're a lifeguard, Mitch. You know

what goes on out here.

All right.

All right, let's go get someplace warm and start from the beginning, huh?

Thanks.

Just so there's no confusion here, this is not firm business. This is personal.

What is the case?

Well, I find myself in a very difficult situation.

Basically, my life is falling apart.

My wife has left me.

Separated, won't divorce me.

Has to do with children. I want some, she doesn't.

We're so different, really.

I wonder, Paul, could you kind of get to the point?

The point, yes.

Well, I have a mistress.

I suppose that's what you would call her.

When I say the word mistress, it seems wrong. It sounds seedy and vile.

Joy, that's her name, Joy, is none of that. She's really quite wonderful.

I love her more than I thought I could love anyone.

In this turmoil, she's been my haven.

I still don't understand. What's the problem?

I think she's going to kill me.

No, not herself.

Gonna get someone.

What makes you think that?

Before me, Joy had another boyfriend.

A well -connected man.

Well -connected?

With a business interest in Las Vegas.

A boxer.

I cannot believe that I'm in the middle of something like this.

My wife is gone, which isn't a bad thing. And now the woman that I love is

have me killed.

tell me everything from the top it's just after lunch i'm in the scarab

back to headquarters now i spot a 30 -foot sport fisher dead in the water and

smoking now i'm just about i don't know three clicks from the marina entrance i

call for backup i head for the boat this is scarab one stand back up now there's

a woman Okay, I see you're struggling to launch a dinghy, right? There's smoke

everywhere. There's a guy in the cabin who's tossing out life jackets.

Engine fire?

No. How can you tell? Smoke's lighter.

So anyway, the guy in the cabin comes out.

Hurry up!

Climbs into the dinghy.

Now, by the time I get to the people in the dinghy, they've moved away.

Okay, so when I pull up, the guy in the dinghy's yelling.

We're flying! There's a man on board!

Harvey!

That means there's someone still in the boat. My husband! Save my husband! Save

my cabin!

I swim out, right?

Try to make it to the cabin.

I do make it to the cabin. I get there, there's smoke everywhere. It's fanning

forward. The water's rising.

and the cabin is empty.

You checked the head?

Yes, I did.

I saw that there was nobody there. I even checked the engine compartment.

was nobody there. It was empty.

All right, how long did that take?

I don't know, a minute, give or take.

So now when I come out, I yell to him, I say, and she's still screaming, no,

he's still on the boat.

And in all this excitement, she's certain.

Yeah, yeah.

Then the boat goes down.

Backup then arrives.

Backup? Other lifeguards? Yeah.

Mitch.

I'm telling you.

We checked it.

Okay?

Everywhere. Nothing.

So I dive the boat.

I go right to the cabin.

And you found him? He was on the boat?

So who's the dead guy?

Marty Channing.

He's the woman's husband.

The other guy's her brother.

All right.

As crazy as it sounds, you tell me what you think happened.

This was no accidental drowning, Mitch.

What did the cops say?

Well, they said there was no evidence of foul play, so they didn't want to put

the investigation.

You tell them you think the guy was murdered.

Why would they do that? I don't mean kill someone. I mean kill him this way.

Don't know. What caused the boat to sink?

I don't know. What caused the fire? I don't know that either, Mitch.

Man, this is a real mystery.

Can you help me, Mitch?

I can sure try.

Well, is it possible that your lifeguard friend just blew it?

Absolutely. I don't think so. He's a very good lifeguard.

Anyway, that's what I want you to find out. Would you check with the coroner's

office and, uh... No, talk to the guys downtown.

Thank you. Okay, well, then we need you to watch Paul's mistress.

No problem.

Look, the mistress is stashed away on Paul Whitsitt's yacht. It was a

in the yacht club.

It's our bird's nest. It's got a perfect view of Whitsitt's boat, which, by the

way, has already been bought.

How did that happen? Well, the lawyer did it himself.

In fact, this is his stuff.

Five -channel crystal receiver.

Two extra bugs, long lens video camera, the car has a homing device, and this is

a tracker.

What part of this is legal?

It's all legal.

He owns the car, he owns the boat, and he pays for the car.

Beautiful thing.

Yeah, it's Mitch.

Hey, Mitch, it's Eddie.

Eddie, you calling to make me crazy or you got something to talk about?

Come on, I was just calling to find out what's going on. How you doing?

You're calling to drive me crazy. Now, look, relax, okay? Go work out or

something and don't call me again.

Hey, Mitch, it's not easy being left behind, you know?

All right, all right. Look, I'll meet you at night. It's around 10 o 'clock.

I'll tell you everything I know. All right.

Remember how I was telling you I was having this problem when chicks find out

that I cut up people for a living? Well, I've got a new approach.

Yeah?

What was in his stomach?

Lunch, hot dog, chili fry.

How long between the time when he ate and when he died?

Oh, about an hour, give or take. You know, I have this whole new method now.

tell him what I do, but I make it sound like tales from the crypt.

Very mysterious, very macabre.

What, and this works?

Hey, it has done wonders for my social life.

You know, McBride, you have a very sophisticated technique. Where'd you

that up?

At Brooklyn General and then at Northwestern.

Was there anything unusual about the blood workup? Blood workup hasn't come

yet.

Did you treat this like an accident or a murder?

Accident. Most drownings are.

Would you have treated anything differently if they had said it was a

Come on, McBride.

Twenty -seven bodies come in here every day. Sometimes 40 bodies a day. It could

be as many as 180, 200 bodies a week.

So, you're probably not going to find anything if you're not looking for it.

Looking for what?

Footprints.

Footprint? Where?

Come on, you know where.

Soft tissue, body fluids.

The way you're talking, you make it sound like it's a murder.

Yeah, that's exactly what I think it is, a murder.

Based on what?

Based on the fact that the man was already unconscious when he drowned.

Listen, give me a call when the test results come back.

Have them check the pleural cavity for traces of carbon. Tell you what, I can

deliver those test results in person, maybe over lunch.

What do you think? Just call me.

You're still my dream, McBride.

Keep dreaming.

Hey, Felder, I need this stuff like yesterday.

Hey, Joy. It's Paul.

I'm going to be hung up tonight, so dinner's off. I'll call you tomorrow.

Joy, I've given the man we talked about this number.

He's very good. Told him you'd be home.

Yeah. Hey, how's it going?

Well, Joy's waiting on the hitman to call.

How you doing?

Well, your drowning is very suspicious.

There's no trauma to his hands, his legs, or his feet.

Ryan, people don't drown without a struggle. They kick and fight.

Yeah, that's right.

But from the contents of his lungs, he did drown, and he did drown in the

There's no alcohol, there's no drugs, except for insulin, but that's because

was a diabetic.

Now, the complete blood workup won't be ready until tomorrow, so I'm having them

run tests on the liquid from his lungs.

Looking for?

Carbon residue. If there's no carbon residue from the smoke, then that would

mean that he was dead before the fire started.

Which explains why Eddie didn't see him. Eddie wasn't looking for a dead guy.

Look, good work, huh?

Call me back if you get any more info.

Okay. All right, I'll call you later.

Hey. Hey, how's it going?

Lady's waiting on a call.

I didn't get much from the cops about the drowning.

No evidence of foul play, no real motive.

Wife's loaded, family company, lots of money.

Marty had no enemies.

Pretty likable guy.

Give me a favor. Will you handle it here? I want to pay a little visit to a

grieving widow.

Looks like you're not ready to commit.

There you go, sir. Thank you.

Mm -hmm.

Very nice.

Mrs. Jennings, please.

Yes, sir. Right this way.

Thank you.

I'll get it.

Mrs. Jennings.

First, let me offer you my condolences.

I thank you, Mr.

Buchanan. Mitch Buchanan.

Ah, you're a friend of Marty?

No, actually, I'm a private detective.

If this is about the insurance, just go talk to my attorney.

No, it's not.

I represent Eddie Kramer.

Who? The lifeguard who found your husband.

I'm sorry, is there a problem here?

I'm Doris' brother, Pierce, and this is... Mitch something or other. He

represents the lifeguard who let Marty die.

He wants to talk about the accident.

You know, that idiot lifeguard, if he'd had his eyes open, he could have gotten

Marty off of that boat.

According to Eddie, he says he looked everywhere.

Well, that's bull.

Marty was in the cabin. I saw him there, Doris saw him there, and your client

didn't. Now, maybe he got scared, and that's okay, except it's his job not to

get scared. Am I right or what?

Marty stayed behind to put out the five.

He loved that boat.

He was just trying to save it. It's all right, Doris.

Now, why don't you go inside and lie down?

My sister is taking this badly.

I'm sorry if this lifeguard is getting all the blame for this. It may be wrong,

but that's the way it is.

Look, I'll see if I can get everyone to ease off.

None of this is going to bring Marty back.

Do you have a card?

Yeah.

Well, thank you for your time.

Oh, thank you.

I thought you said this would be easy.

Oh, don't let a few questions rattle you, Doris. You got what you wanted.

Marty's dead.

I'm scared.

What if we get caught?

We won't.

What are you going to do?

First, I'm going to get this PI to back off.

And then we'll get closure on what we were doing before the lifeguard

interrupted us.

Whatever you think I look like, I don't. I'll find you.

That's a strange reaction.

Maybe I can go home.

You know, Lou, Eddie is a damn good lifeguard.

There's no way he'd miss a rescue.

I'm just trying to make some sense of what happened on the boat.

Hey, we'll check it out.

At the time of the murder, the killer is completely whacked out.

Nothing he does makes sense or is rational.

And then you come along a couple of days later, you're trying to make sense out

of somebody else's craziness.

See what I'm talking about?

Yeah, yeah, but I'm looking for a motive.

A motive?

You know, I worked for a dude in Jersey at a club.

One night, his old lady picked up by his pick and put it in his brain because he

wouldn't pass the peas.

You're kidding.

That's what the cops did, too.

Oh, there had to be more to it than that.

Not to her.

That's what I'm talking about.

You cannot make sense out of somebody else's craziness.

All right, I'll dive the boat tomorrow. I'm sure the answers are there.

I'll go with you.

No, you can't. You're too close to the case.

You can't dive alone.

Well, I'll go with you.

Certified? Yeah, I'm certified. I've done photo shoots for magazines up and

the coast, and I can document everything you find.

All right, you're on.

Thanks. Well...

You obviously don't need me.

So, I'm out of here.

He's having a rough time. Yeah, I know.

Excuse me.

Are you with the PI agency from upstairs?

Here we are. I'm Levi Marsha.

I'm a private detective.

I've been asked by a client to do some work in this part of town, and since

these aren't my streets, I need some people that know the area.

Oh, well, do you come to the right place?

Great.

Let's get some money out of the way first.

I can pay you $500.

An hour.

To a guarantee of 200 hours.

A guarantee of 200 hours. What's the job?

Well, my clients may be involved in some kind of legal action regarding a boat

sinking with loss of life.

Yeah, the Eddie Kramer case.

Right. My clients may need your expertise.

You mean your clients need us to back off.

Let's be real clear about this.

I'm offering you a legitimate job.

Now, you can take it or don't. That's your choice.

Sorry, pal.

We already have a client.

Conflict ventures.

That's all you needed to say.

Do you guys realize we just passed up $100 ,000?

Yeah, well, we sure got somebody's attention.

Oh.

So, back to our other problem.

According to Garner, Paul Dmitry is supposed to meet the hitman tomorrow at

Fisherman's Village, but she has no idea what he looks like.

Neither do we.

Well, no, but if we can spot him, and Garner can scare him off, i .e., I'm

he's afraid of cops, then you become the hitman, we get her on tape, case

closed.

All right, so I'll dive the boat in the morning, then I will meet you and put on

my best dinero.

Now what the hell do you think you're gonna do?

We were paid to whip your ass, which we did.

Be faint with us, chum.

We're just doing a job, and for us it's over.

Unless you want to make it personal.

No, no, go on.

Take the rest of the night off.

The man's a very determined item.

He wouldn't buy off, and I don't think we scared him off.

I overheard him say that he was going to dive on the wreck, and my guess is he's

still going to do it.

Well, then, stop him. This is getting totally out of hand.

Well, whose fault is that?

You know, Marty was your problem from the beginning.

You married him, you make him crazy, you drive him to a divorce, and then you

tick him off so bad he won't settle with you.

I told you that a contested divorce would ruin us, but you didn't listen to

You never listened to me.

The courts open up the company books, and in two seconds they can prove we've

been skimming for the last seven years.

I offered him money.

Too late and too little. You thought Marty was such a pushover. God, you're

one I should have left out on the boat.

What are we going to do? Let's go back down under.

Swim a couple hundred yards.

Circus and swim in.

All right, here's what I figured happened.

Wife and the brother -in -law are in the process of killing Marty.

They rip down the water cooling lines, floods the boat.

They open a fuel line.

They shoot a flare into the engine compartment, which starts a fire burning

all the evidence.

Now.

Everything is working perfectly.

Then Eddie happens to come along.

They should have panicked, but didn't. I know.

Instead, they stuff Marty in the seat locker, and they tie a bobber to the

latch.

The boat sinks.

The water rises.

The latch comes loose. The bobber lifts up the cover on the seat locker and out

floats Marty.

Well, can we prove it?

Ryan?

Well, it'll need more than that, but it's enough to get Eddie off the hook,

that's pretty much all we care about.

We'll let the cops worry about the rest.

All right, let's get these photos to the police.

Well, that's great.

Hey, it's 4 o 'clock. We've got to go.

Yeah, you... Yeah, I'll take care of it.

Okay, look, so we can communicate.

This is the transmitter.

All right. This is the receiver.

All right, look, you stay here. We're going to go get an offer on tape.

That's all I need.

I can't believe this.

I didn't think she really wanted to do this.

I still love her.

You know what's ironic?

The woman who made me feel so alive now wants to kill me.

I wait here till Ryan gets back.

Hey, Mitch. Mitch. Hey. We got a problem.

Eddie was by, man.

He talked to Griff? Yeah, and saw the pictures.

All right, I gotta go.

What do you mean, go? No, Mitch, we need you here.

Eddie's a hothead. If he talked to Griff and saw those pictures, he's gonna be

going after the widow and her brother.

Did he say that, though?

No, but he got crazy and split.

Uh, Mitch, there's Joy.

All right, you guys are gonna have to handle this without me.

Lou, you're on.

All right, what do I do?

Um, Joy doesn't know what the hitter looks like.

Hang with me on this, Lou.

What do we do?

I'll stay with Paul.

Paul, we need to get at the tape first, eliciting a murder.

All right.

Hey, what's happening?

Don't turn around. Keep looking at the water.

Are you the man who spoke to me?

Yeah.

Now, what exactly is it you want?

I have an envelope in my purse, and there's $5 ,000 in it.

Oh, no.

She's going to do it.

That's exactly what you want us to do for this $5 ,000.

Go away. It's your time.

Proud time.

Yes, I've changed my mind. I don't want to kill her.

Her?

Of course her.

Who did you think?

Him. Him? Who's him?

The lawyer, Paul. What's his name?

Oh, God, no.

I could never. I mean, I love him.

It was his wife.

She's a beast. I mean, she's ruining his life.

I thought if I could get rid of his wife, then it'd be all mine.

But I just couldn't go through with it.

She loves me.

She loves me.

I said to come alone.

Who are you?

The man you talked to on the phone.

No, you're not. He is.

You make a hell of a hit, man.

You're here. I heard it all.

I thought you were going to have me killed.

Oh, baby, no. I just got so tired of seeing you miserable. I'm so sorry.

Oh, I love you. I love you back.

Crazy.

See what I mean?

Crazy.

Let's go really in that low life, huh?

What do you... After losing him at the wreck, I was expecting someone.

But I thought it'd be the cops.

You should have killed that P .I.

Look, I think it's time for us to leave. We'll take an extended holiday. You

tell your friends you're grieving. You need to rest.

Let things cool down. It doesn't matter what they find at the wreck.

They have no real evidence because there is none.

What about him?

Delay him.

Discourage him. Give him some time.

How far can I take it? I don't care.

Come on.

Where

are

they? Where are they?

Relax. They're by the swimming pool.

Follow me.

Where the hell are they going?

Where the hell is Eddie?

Hey, man.

What's up, huh? Where are they?

The good news is they're forcing an indictment based on our evidence.

So, so. Yeah, well, for you, but for Doris and Pierce, it's just getting

started.

So, Mitch, I wanted to say thanks.

Thank all of you, really. You're great. No problem.

Sure you would have done the same for us. Well.

So what? Now we've got this gorgeous day here with no case. What are we going to

do? Me?

I'm headed uptown.

There's a lovely lady there who...

Requires my attention.

Oh, no.

Me? I'm gonna sleep for a month.

See you later.

Well, I got seven beautiful models waiting for me upstairs, and I think

missed me.

Uh, yeah.

Well, that leaves us.

What do you have in mind?

Mitch?

Surfing. Surfing. Your first surfing lesson.

Surfing?

Now? Yeah.

That is, if you're up to it. Is that a challenge?

An invitation.

But I don't have a swim suit. I can get you a swim suit.

I don't have a surfboard.

Plenty of boards around.

Um, okay.

Yeah, all right.

Surfing, that's good. I could be interested in that.

But I have to answer the phone.

Hello, Brian McBride.

Who? Uh, yeah.

private investigating yes that's what we do yeah sure uh we should probably meet

immediately yeah right now no great all right well i'll meet you there then okay

all right bye -bye this could be big this could be huge you know i'll call

okay mcbride i'll call you and tell you

you've got to pay you can't run in the night you

can hear the baron's call as another angel falls

great to the boulevard in the blink of an eye the devil is watching

as we fly into the night

You can hear.