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Do you need a permit
to carry a thing like this?
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I paint what I feel.
You must not feel well.
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You can tell Dick Stockton
for me he's wasting his time.
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I don't know the girl.
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When it comes to
political sabotage, I can duck
and throw mud with the best.
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Look out!
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[Tires screeching]
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(Sara)
They're looking
for his body now.
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If he's dead,
somebody murdered him.
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[Telephone ringing]
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(Rockford on
answering machine)
This is Jim Rockford.
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At the tone, leave your name
and message.
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I'll get back to you.
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[Beeps]
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(man)
Mr. Rockford,
you don't know me.
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But I'd like to hire you.
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Could you call me at...
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My name is...
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Never mind. Forget it.
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[Dial tone buzzing]
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Where you headed?
Los Angeles.
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Good. So am I. Tired of
talking to myself. Hop in.
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[Waves crashing]
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I'm Aura Lee Benton.
Aura Lee.
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It was many
and many a year ago
In a kingdom by the sea
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Where a maiden there lived
whom you may know
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By the name of Aura Lee
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My apologies
to Edgar Allan Poe.
29
00:03:06,286 --> 00:03:07,878
Are you a lover of poetry?
30
00:03:07,954 --> 00:03:11,720
Sometimes, between
where I came from
and where I'm going.
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Listen, I was thinking of
stopping up near Santa Barbara
for a bite.
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Would you care to join me?
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I'd like that.
Good.
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You're overdue somewhere.
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No.
An anxious wife.
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It's okay. I understand.
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Look out!
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[Tires screeching]
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[Crickets chirping]
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Is he dead?
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No, thank God. But we'd
better go for an ambulance.
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00:05:02,035 --> 00:05:05,027
Shouldn't I stay with him?
Get back in the car,
will you?
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00:05:05,238 --> 00:05:07,263
Please, will you
get in the car?
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And get out of sight.
Get your head down.
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[Car door closes]
46
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There's been an accident.
A man's badly hurt.
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I'm gonna drive
for an ambulance.
Would you watch him, please?
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I don't understand.
Why didn't you
want me to stay?
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All right. Look, please,
it's... You're right,
I am married.
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Please understand
in my line of work...
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I can't afford to have
anybody know...
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that you and I were together.
Please understand that.
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I'll have to let you off
up here alone.
I know you'll be all right.
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You need money?
Do you need anything?
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No. Don't worry. I'll be okay.
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[Coin rattling]
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[Phone rings]
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Operator. Now listen to me
very carefully.
This is an emergency.
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00:06:34,394 --> 00:06:36,385
I have just accidentally
run over a man...
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about a mile south
of the Ventura County line.
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00:06:38,932 --> 00:06:42,561
Now, he needs a doctor
and an ambulance immediately.
I'll be waiting there.
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This is State Senator
Evan Murdock.
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(Sara)
But wait till you
taste these sandwiches.
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Got this recipe from a little
Scandinavian cookbook.
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They're sardine sandwiches.
Wait a minute.
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When you said lunch, I thought
you meant a restaurant,
with you paying the bill.
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I did sort of make it
sound like that, I confess.
But this is less expensive.
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00:07:02,522 --> 00:07:05,821
And it gets us even
for the time you asked me
to go out to dinner...
69
00:07:05,892 --> 00:07:09,726
and then stuck a fishing pole
in my hand. Remember that
little disaster?
70
00:07:09,829 --> 00:07:14,095
So you had bass
and I caught a...
A flounder.
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00:07:14,167 --> 00:07:16,226
Yes.
They inhabit the very bottom.
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00:07:16,303 --> 00:07:19,363
They cruise around
the kelp beds
like nomadic scavengers.
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I usually throw them back...
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but since it was getting late
and I didn't have to
eat it...
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00:07:26,780 --> 00:07:30,011
Bet you really qualify
as an enlightened man.
I gotta give you that.
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(Rockford)
What's this?
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That's the remainder
of what I owe you
for last year.
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The first check
you ever wrote me
came back six times.
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By the time that dog
cleared it, it could
get to the bank all by itself.
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This one's okay.
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00:07:51,037 --> 00:07:52,129
Okay.
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Why?
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You mean, why pay it
all off right now?
Yeah.
84
00:07:56,443 --> 00:07:59,503
The reason for that is
because I want to
hire you again.
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I figured if I didn't
clear up my old account,
that you wouldn't go for it.
86
00:08:03,483 --> 00:08:05,747
You know,
I still won't go for it.
87
00:08:05,819 --> 00:08:07,980
But, Jim, I can
afford you this time.
Sure you can.
88
00:08:08,054 --> 00:08:11,490
That's why we're having
a picnic instead of
a real expensive lunch.
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00:08:11,558 --> 00:08:14,186
Don't you even want to
listen to what it is
I want you to do?
90
00:08:14,260 --> 00:08:16,490
No. Now, where are we
gonna eat this thing?
91
00:08:16,563 --> 00:08:19,361
I'm supposed to go
to a fashion show.
It's a mile from here.
92
00:08:19,432 --> 00:08:21,297
We could sit in the back...
Nothing doing.
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00:08:21,368 --> 00:08:23,632
(Rockford)
I know a place.
It's the only place in town...
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00:08:23,703 --> 00:08:25,728
where I can stand eating
picnic lunches.
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00:08:25,805 --> 00:08:28,239
In fact, I kind of
enjoy it there.
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[Waves crashing]
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[Whirring]
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00:08:36,216 --> 00:08:37,547
[Whirring]
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00:08:37,617 --> 00:08:40,313
Come on, you guys.
Hit one of these things,
will you?
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00:08:48,294 --> 00:08:49,989
You know,
I made lunch, Jim.
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00:08:50,630 --> 00:08:53,622
All right. I'll have
a super sardine sandwich.
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[Paper rustling]
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00:09:03,109 --> 00:09:04,542
You cut the crust off?
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00:09:04,611 --> 00:09:07,375
Right. That's what
the recipe book told me
I should do.
105
00:09:07,447 --> 00:09:09,210
But I like the crust.
106
00:09:11,618 --> 00:09:14,018
Jim, will you please
listen to what it is
I have to say?
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00:09:14,087 --> 00:09:15,987
I think I've been
very patient.
108
00:09:16,056 --> 00:09:18,422
I guess I put it off
as long as I can.
109
00:09:18,491 --> 00:09:21,722
But just because
I'm listening, that's no sign
I'm gonna take it.
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00:09:22,028 --> 00:09:25,088
Do you remember
Aura Lee Benton?
Aura Lee?
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00:09:25,298 --> 00:09:28,096
She worked in my boutique.
She's young, pretty.
112
00:09:28,301 --> 00:09:32,135
She was there two weeks ago,
when you picked me up
for my dream date, remember?
113
00:09:32,305 --> 00:09:35,866
Come on, Sara. That was
a good fight. It was
a knockout in the fifth round.
114
00:09:36,843 --> 00:09:39,243
Do you remember her?
Yeah.
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00:09:39,512 --> 00:09:42,106
What about her?
She's dead.
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00:09:43,283 --> 00:09:46,719
The police found her dead
in her apartment in Venice
two days ago.
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00:09:46,786 --> 00:09:49,016
They said it was
an overdose of heroin...
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00:09:49,089 --> 00:09:52,149
but I know
she never used narcotics.
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00:09:54,694 --> 00:09:55,991
What are you thinking?
120
00:09:57,363 --> 00:10:00,958
If the cops are calling it
an OD, it was probably
just that.
121
00:10:03,737 --> 00:10:06,433
As I recall,
that's pretty much
the position you took...
122
00:10:06,506 --> 00:10:07,803
when my father was murdered...
123
00:10:07,874 --> 00:10:09,899
but we ended up proving
who killed him.
124
00:10:10,677 --> 00:10:12,941
If you think I'm gonna fall
for one of the...
125
00:10:13,012 --> 00:10:15,242
Jim, I can pay you
this time. I have money.
126
00:10:21,254 --> 00:10:24,223
How much is there?
$2,600.
127
00:10:24,324 --> 00:10:25,518
Where did you get it?
128
00:10:25,592 --> 00:10:28,891
That's the funny part
about it. I found it
after she was murdered.
129
00:10:28,962 --> 00:10:32,659
No. You mean, OD'd.
Let's not jump to conclusions.
130
00:10:33,399 --> 00:10:35,264
I was cleaning out
the desk drawer...
131
00:10:35,335 --> 00:10:38,361
where she keeps some
of her personal things,
and I found this.
132
00:10:39,973 --> 00:10:42,737
This reminds me
of a magic act I saw once.
133
00:10:43,076 --> 00:10:45,567
Only instead of
cash and cigars...
134
00:10:45,645 --> 00:10:48,273
this guy had
little white rabbits
in his basket.
135
00:10:51,184 --> 00:10:53,379
Sara, a lot of these guys
are dopers.
136
00:10:53,453 --> 00:10:55,944
Now, at least most of them
have been busted.
137
00:10:56,055 --> 00:10:57,955
They're part
of the drug culture.
138
00:10:58,024 --> 00:10:59,821
She didn't use drugs, Jim.
139
00:11:01,327 --> 00:11:04,819
Her parents are dead.
She had no family. Just me.
140
00:11:05,665 --> 00:11:07,963
I want you to prove
she was murdered.
141
00:11:08,835 --> 00:11:11,269
You must have
some employee's benefit plan.
142
00:11:11,805 --> 00:11:14,069
It includes catching killers
and everything.
143
00:11:15,975 --> 00:11:17,499
She was good for me.
144
00:11:20,980 --> 00:11:22,311
And to me.
145
00:11:25,151 --> 00:11:26,311
So you owe her.
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00:11:42,969 --> 00:11:44,436
(Becker)
You're chasing your tail, Jim.
147
00:11:45,171 --> 00:11:49,699
This girl was new in town.
No family, no friends.
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00:11:49,776 --> 00:11:53,906
She gets Ionely,
pulls out the needle.
Goes for the long sleep.
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00:11:53,980 --> 00:11:55,743
You talk like
she had a steady habit.
150
00:11:55,815 --> 00:11:58,113
According to this,
there were no needle marks.
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00:11:58,852 --> 00:12:01,821
If the kids kick the habit,
the needle marks clear up.
152
00:12:01,921 --> 00:12:04,890
A few months later,
they get on a downer,
start fixing again.
153
00:12:05,592 --> 00:12:09,323
But the equipment we found
in her apartment had seen
plenty of service.
154
00:12:09,829 --> 00:12:12,093
And hers were
the only fingerprints on it.
155
00:12:12,432 --> 00:12:15,924
Anaphylactic shock.
Too rich a dose?
156
00:12:16,269 --> 00:12:19,136
Especially,
if the girl's system
had never been drugged.
157
00:12:20,273 --> 00:12:21,706
You're reaching.
158
00:12:22,775 --> 00:12:27,405
Whose money are you
wasting on this?
Probably my own.
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00:12:32,752 --> 00:12:34,242
[Inaudible]
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00:13:23,369 --> 00:13:24,358
[Dog snarling]
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00:13:24,637 --> 00:13:29,267
Stop. Stop it.
Get away from me.
Get away, puppy.
162
00:13:29,342 --> 00:13:30,604
[Dog continues snarling]
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00:13:36,683 --> 00:13:38,878
Abstract expressionism, right?
164
00:13:39,319 --> 00:13:41,913
(Trask)
I don't label it.
I just...
165
00:13:42,422 --> 00:13:44,356
I feel it, you know.
Yeah.
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00:13:45,858 --> 00:13:47,155
You ever see her?
167
00:13:48,428 --> 00:13:51,056
Yeah. Sure. She lived
in my apartment building.
168
00:13:51,130 --> 00:13:52,495
You ever talk with her?
169
00:13:53,333 --> 00:13:55,733
I hit on her
a couple times. Zero.
170
00:13:56,436 --> 00:13:58,404
You ever see her with anybody?
171
00:14:00,006 --> 00:14:03,100
Yeah, there was one dude
with the car.
The car?
172
00:14:05,812 --> 00:14:08,542
You a cop?
Would it make a difference?
173
00:14:09,315 --> 00:14:12,648
Look, the chick's dead,
you know. I got no eyes
to get involved.
174
00:14:15,355 --> 00:14:16,379
How much?
175
00:14:18,925 --> 00:14:20,153
$200.
176
00:14:20,960 --> 00:14:25,021
I'll give you $10.
Deal.
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00:14:28,167 --> 00:14:29,532
The dude with the car?
178
00:14:30,169 --> 00:14:33,900
Look, I don't know his name,
okay? He floats through here
once in a while.
179
00:14:33,973 --> 00:14:36,533
Maybe he's got a scam going
or something. I don't know.
180
00:14:36,609 --> 00:14:38,907
He's a big guy.
Flashy dresser.
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00:14:39,645 --> 00:14:42,170
Drives one of those
foreign jobs, baby blue.
182
00:14:42,515 --> 00:14:45,575
The model?
No, I'm not into cars,
you know.
183
00:14:45,651 --> 00:14:47,846
Materialistic trap.
Right.
184
00:14:47,920 --> 00:14:50,480
If you ever see him again,
would you get his
license number?
185
00:14:50,556 --> 00:14:53,286
I'd appreciate it if you'd
give me a call.
Yeah, okay.
186
00:14:54,360 --> 00:14:55,952
Hey, you forgot your painting.
187
00:14:56,629 --> 00:14:59,496
Not yet, but I'm trying.
188
00:15:09,175 --> 00:15:10,699
[Bell tinkling]
189
00:15:11,544 --> 00:15:13,011
[Door closes]
190
00:15:13,279 --> 00:15:14,906
Hi.
Hi.
191
00:15:16,282 --> 00:15:17,681
You owe me $100.
192
00:15:17,750 --> 00:15:21,948
That's for half a day
of my time, and the gas
and shoe leather are for free.
193
00:15:22,155 --> 00:15:23,986
You're trying to
tell me something?
194
00:15:24,557 --> 00:15:28,425
Yeah. I agree
with the police.
You're quitting.
195
00:15:31,097 --> 00:15:33,156
Look, I've put out
some feelers.
196
00:15:33,733 --> 00:15:36,463
If they don't start
to pay off, I can't
take your money.
197
00:15:38,438 --> 00:15:41,032
Hey, did you hear me? Honey?
198
00:15:42,375 --> 00:15:43,842
I think you'd
better read this.
199
00:15:43,910 --> 00:15:45,935
It came for Aura Lee
in the afternoon mail.
200
00:15:46,012 --> 00:15:49,106
Don't you know
it's against the law to open
other people's mail?
201
00:15:50,750 --> 00:15:51,842
"Dear Aura Lee.
202
00:15:51,918 --> 00:15:55,649
"It was a pleasant surprise
to hear from you
and receive all that money.
203
00:15:56,122 --> 00:16:00,149
If you ever pass here again,
I would like very much
to see you. Oscar."
204
00:16:00,560 --> 00:16:03,859
Oscar's, a little restaurant
about 50 miles up
the Coast Highway.
205
00:16:04,063 --> 00:16:07,396
I looked it up
in the phone book.
Did Aura Lee own a car?
206
00:16:07,667 --> 00:16:10,898
She told me she was saving up
for one and suddenly
lost interest...
207
00:16:10,970 --> 00:16:12,870
and said she hadn't
saved any money.
208
00:16:13,773 --> 00:16:16,071
With $2,600 in her desk?
209
00:16:18,344 --> 00:16:22,144
Do you like sand dabs
Véronique?
We get along.
210
00:16:22,281 --> 00:16:25,944
Good. I know where you can
take me for lunch
after we go to Oscar's.
211
00:16:32,558 --> 00:16:35,026
I might be able to help you.
It all depends.
212
00:16:35,561 --> 00:16:36,721
Yeah? On what?
213
00:16:36,796 --> 00:16:38,696
You got a portrait
of Andrew Jackson?
214
00:16:39,365 --> 00:16:41,162
Maybe I could come across
with something.
215
00:16:41,234 --> 00:16:42,633
Who knows?
216
00:16:43,169 --> 00:16:44,659
How about Lincoln?
217
00:16:44,737 --> 00:16:46,762
I'll tell you what.
Make it a Hamilton.
218
00:16:47,607 --> 00:16:50,007
What are you two
talking about?
Money.
219
00:16:50,810 --> 00:16:54,769
If you could make soup
like you negotiate,
this place would be packed.
220
00:16:55,148 --> 00:16:59,084
Thank you. Hold it.
Go back and get another one.
221
00:16:59,952 --> 00:17:01,180
Come on, take a seat.
222
00:17:02,622 --> 00:17:03,782
Go ahead, sit down.
223
00:17:04,657 --> 00:17:06,420
Here.
(Rockford)
Look, what I meant was...
224
00:17:06,492 --> 00:17:08,892
Try it. You ain't never gonna
taste any better.
225
00:17:09,562 --> 00:17:10,551
[Clinking]
226
00:17:11,564 --> 00:17:13,498
You know the reason
this place stays empty?
227
00:17:13,566 --> 00:17:15,193
It's in the middle of nowhere.
228
00:17:15,501 --> 00:17:17,435
Listen, what about
this note?
229
00:17:17,503 --> 00:17:19,300
You said she sent you
all that money.
230
00:17:19,372 --> 00:17:20,805
How much money
are we talking about?
231
00:17:20,873 --> 00:17:24,400
All that money? I said that
'cause all I gave her
was soup and a sandwich...
232
00:17:24,477 --> 00:17:27,241
and she sent me a Jackson.
That's $20.
233
00:17:27,313 --> 00:17:29,474
Thanks. I was about to
fall behind there.
234
00:17:29,549 --> 00:17:32,313
You happen to remember
the exact day
she wandered in here?
235
00:17:32,418 --> 00:17:34,613
It was about maybe
a month and a half ago,
236
00:17:34,687 --> 00:17:36,120
and it wasn't day,
it was night.
237
00:17:36,189 --> 00:17:39,488
And the reason I remember
is 'cause I thought
it was strange.
238
00:17:39,559 --> 00:17:40,753
[Cash register rings]
Yeah? Why?
239
00:17:40,826 --> 00:17:43,454
Well, she couldn't have been
dropped off by somebody...
240
00:17:43,529 --> 00:17:46,259
who was turning off
on the main highway.
Thank you.
241
00:17:46,465 --> 00:17:49,696
'Cause there's no turnoff
from that road
within 10 miles.
242
00:17:52,638 --> 00:17:54,003
Damn, that's good!
243
00:17:54,640 --> 00:17:57,200
Anyway, she seemed like
a sweet kid, so I fed her.
244
00:17:57,276 --> 00:18:00,575
And pretty soon I got busy,
and she left with the...
245
00:18:02,281 --> 00:18:05,341
The lobster bisque.
How's that?
246
00:18:05,418 --> 00:18:09,047
A fellow sitting
in the corner booth,
he was having lobster bisque.
247
00:18:09,121 --> 00:18:10,281
The guy she left with...
248
00:18:10,356 --> 00:18:13,223
you remember what he
looked like, what kind of car
he was driving?
249
00:18:13,292 --> 00:18:16,659
No, I don't. I was too busy.
Midweek I only got
one girl on the job.
250
00:18:16,729 --> 00:18:18,754
It was midweek?
Yeah, I guess it was.
251
00:18:18,831 --> 00:18:21,425
Which night?
Who can remember?
252
00:18:21,500 --> 00:18:24,094
Could have been any night,
except Saturday or Sunday.
253
00:18:24,971 --> 00:18:27,303
Thanks for the help.
Thanks for the Hamilton.
254
00:18:39,218 --> 00:18:42,119
Been waiting for you, man.
I called you
over two hours ago.
255
00:18:42,188 --> 00:18:44,656
Don't you ever
check your service?
Now and then.
256
00:18:46,025 --> 00:18:48,550
Do you need a permit
to carry a thing like this?
257
00:18:48,628 --> 00:18:52,724
I told you,
I paint what I feel.
You must not feel well.
258
00:18:53,065 --> 00:18:56,034
Yeah, well, it's yours
for $50.
259
00:18:57,436 --> 00:19:00,269
Why would I want to buy
a piece of junk like this?
260
00:19:00,339 --> 00:19:04,742
Gratitude. See, I got
the license number of the dude
you're looking for.
261
00:19:07,947 --> 00:19:10,745
You know, it does have
a certain gross charm.
262
00:19:11,517 --> 00:19:12,916
I thought you'd like it.
263
00:19:15,288 --> 00:19:19,748
License is 811 QJK.
264
00:19:20,059 --> 00:19:22,459
You realize, of course,
if you're scamming me...
265
00:19:22,528 --> 00:19:24,996
I'll climb your easel
and break all your brushes.
266
00:19:25,364 --> 00:19:27,059
I'm just trying to
hang in, man.
267
00:19:29,101 --> 00:19:30,796
[Telephone rings]
268
00:19:31,470 --> 00:19:32,903
(Becker on phone)
Becker, here.
269
00:19:32,972 --> 00:19:35,338
(Rockford)
Hey, Becker. Jim Rockford.
I need a favor.
270
00:19:35,408 --> 00:19:38,468
License number 811 QJK.
271
00:19:38,544 --> 00:19:41,172
Name, address and rundown
on the guy who owns it.
272
00:19:41,580 --> 00:19:45,346
Why should I give you
that information? I mean,
it is against policy.
273
00:19:45,685 --> 00:19:48,119
Because if I find out
who killed Aura Lee Benton...
274
00:19:48,187 --> 00:19:49,950
and I don't let you
in on it...
275
00:19:50,323 --> 00:19:53,258
you're gonna feel awful silly
reading about it
in the papers.
276
00:19:53,326 --> 00:19:55,317
811 QJK.
277
00:19:55,394 --> 00:19:56,827
I'll wait for your call.
278
00:20:01,300 --> 00:20:02,927
[Knocking on door]
279
00:20:03,002 --> 00:20:04,128
(Dirk)
Who is it?
280
00:20:04,203 --> 00:20:06,034
(Rockford)
LAPD, Lt. Rockford.
281
00:20:09,175 --> 00:20:11,609
You Dirk Schaffer?
Yeah.
282
00:20:13,846 --> 00:20:15,609
[Metallic clinking]
283
00:20:17,116 --> 00:20:18,515
Look, I gave
at the office, pal.
284
00:20:18,584 --> 00:20:20,313
That's great.
A real funny man.
285
00:20:20,386 --> 00:20:23,549
I got my degree
in musical comedy wise guys.
286
00:20:23,656 --> 00:20:25,180
Have you
got a warrant, pal?
287
00:20:25,257 --> 00:20:27,020
I was hoping
I wouldn't need one.
288
00:20:37,870 --> 00:20:40,338
Look, make it fast, will you?
I was just going out.
289
00:20:40,406 --> 00:20:43,534
Lieutenant...
Rockford. Lt. Rockford.
290
00:20:43,776 --> 00:20:45,175
So, what is it? What?
291
00:20:46,212 --> 00:20:47,975
Let's talk about
Aura Lee Benton.
292
00:20:48,047 --> 00:20:49,480
[Sighing]
(Dirk)
I don't know the lady.
293
00:20:49,548 --> 00:20:51,573
According to our witness,
you do.
294
00:20:51,650 --> 00:20:55,017
You were seen picking her up
at her apartment
in Venice several times.
295
00:20:55,087 --> 00:20:58,022
In Venice? Come on, buddy,
I don't move
in that part of town.
296
00:20:58,157 --> 00:21:00,352
There's no part of town
you don't move in.
297
00:21:00,426 --> 00:21:04,226
It may make you happy to know
you're the best bunko artist
in the city limits.
298
00:21:04,296 --> 00:21:05,524
Bribery, extortion...
299
00:21:06,365 --> 00:21:08,629
What kind of scam
were you working
with Aura Lee?
300
00:21:08,701 --> 00:21:11,169
Look, you got a point to make,
make it or get out.
301
00:21:13,906 --> 00:21:15,703
[Sighing]
Aura Lee Benton was murdered.
302
00:21:16,242 --> 00:21:19,700
It was meant to look like
an OD, but it was murder.
303
00:21:20,279 --> 00:21:22,440
You're the only one
we can connect her with.
304
00:21:22,681 --> 00:21:24,171
[Ice clinking]
305
00:21:26,152 --> 00:21:29,610
Look, you got no warrant,
right? So get out of here.
306
00:21:32,391 --> 00:21:34,825
I got an attorney
who wrote the book
on police harassment.
307
00:21:34,894 --> 00:21:35,883
[Dial tone buzzing]
308
00:21:35,961 --> 00:21:37,087
[Dials telephone]
309
00:21:37,163 --> 00:21:40,030
That's great.
That's really great.
310
00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:43,564
You tell him to bone up
on a murder one charge, huh?
311
00:21:44,003 --> 00:21:45,937
You're gonna choke on one.
312
00:21:47,873 --> 00:21:48,862
[Telephone rings]
313
00:21:49,041 --> 00:21:50,030
[Door closes]
314
00:21:54,313 --> 00:21:55,302
[Clicks]
315
00:21:55,381 --> 00:21:56,746
[Whirring]
316
00:21:59,118 --> 00:22:01,586
(Dirk)
Look, make it fast, will you?
I was just going out.
317
00:22:01,654 --> 00:22:04,817
Lieutenant.
(Rockford)
Rockford. Lt. Rockford.
318
00:22:04,890 --> 00:22:06,187
So, what is it? What?
319
00:22:09,562 --> 00:22:10,995
(Sara)
What did he say?
Nothing.
320
00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:17,927
He must have said something.
You were up there
for at least five minutes.
321
00:22:18,938 --> 00:22:22,704
He's your average,
clean-cut bunko creep.
322
00:22:23,375 --> 00:22:25,843
Probably goes to
a lot of Humphrey Bogart
movies.
323
00:22:25,911 --> 00:22:27,640
He talks out of the side
of his mouth a lot...
324
00:22:27,713 --> 00:22:29,408
calls you "buddy" and "pal."
325
00:22:29,482 --> 00:22:31,143
A real brass cupcake.
326
00:22:32,685 --> 00:22:34,585
But he knew Aura Lee Benton.
327
00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:37,314
He said that?
No, I said that.
328
00:22:37,389 --> 00:22:39,050
[Engine starting]
329
00:22:47,099 --> 00:22:48,088
[Door closes]
330
00:22:48,801 --> 00:22:50,462
[Keys clinking]
331
00:22:59,712 --> 00:23:02,875
Could I get you a beer, Dirk,
or some salted peanuts
or something?
332
00:23:05,351 --> 00:23:07,785
(Dirk)
Look, make it fast, will you?
I was just going out.
333
00:23:07,853 --> 00:23:11,084
Lieutenant.
(Rockford)
Rockford. Lt. Rockford.
334
00:23:11,190 --> 00:23:12,179
[Clicks]
335
00:23:12,758 --> 00:23:14,487
So I lied a little.
336
00:23:14,627 --> 00:23:18,427
Okay, now I'm gonna tell you
how it was with Aura Lee,
Lieutenant, right?
337
00:23:19,665 --> 00:23:22,429
I picked her up hitchhiking
on Sunset Boulevard one day.
338
00:23:22,535 --> 00:23:24,332
Said she worked
in some kind of dress shop.
339
00:23:24,403 --> 00:23:27,270
She was living
in a one-room hole in Venice.
I liked her.
340
00:23:27,806 --> 00:23:32,334
I took her to dinner
a couple times, but she
turned out to be a squirrel.
341
00:23:32,711 --> 00:23:34,110
That's not the way I heard it.
342
00:23:34,179 --> 00:23:35,874
Yeah? Well, you heard wrong.
343
00:23:36,215 --> 00:23:39,412
Said she had something going,
it was gonna make her
a lot of bread.
344
00:23:41,220 --> 00:23:42,812
Did she say what it was?
345
00:23:42,888 --> 00:23:45,652
Then she asked me
if I could get her
a couple of dime bags.
346
00:23:45,758 --> 00:23:48,488
Said she was getting
strung out on the caper.
347
00:23:49,028 --> 00:23:50,256
You didn't sell her any.
348
00:23:50,329 --> 00:23:52,354
Hey, pal, she asked me for it.
349
00:23:52,464 --> 00:23:53,931
There's a guy I know,
owed me a favor,
350
00:23:53,999 --> 00:23:55,796
he slipped me
a couple of dime bags.
351
00:23:55,868 --> 00:23:56,857
I gave them to her.
352
00:23:57,570 --> 00:23:59,128
And she killed herself?
353
00:24:00,105 --> 00:24:03,404
Those are the risks when you
start jamming a needle
in your arm, pal.
354
00:24:05,110 --> 00:24:06,543
So why tell me now?
355
00:24:06,612 --> 00:24:10,070
Hey, look. I got a lot
of good things going
in this town.
356
00:24:10,149 --> 00:24:12,344
You keep walking around
pretending to be a cop...
357
00:24:12,418 --> 00:24:15,285
talking to the people
I deal with, they get nervous.
358
00:24:15,921 --> 00:24:18,651
They think maybe
I'm a bad risk.
359
00:24:19,458 --> 00:24:23,053
Hurts my business,
so it's time for you
to dummy up quick.
360
00:24:23,195 --> 00:24:24,787
And if I don't dummy up?
361
00:24:25,531 --> 00:24:26,998
[Whirring]
362
00:24:27,066 --> 00:24:28,124
(Dirk)
...going out.
363
00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:31,328
Lieutenant.
(Rockford)
Rockford. Lt. Rockford.
364
00:24:31,403 --> 00:24:32,392
[Clicks]
365
00:24:33,072 --> 00:24:34,266
You made your point.
366
00:24:37,376 --> 00:24:39,401
So, you think he was
telling the truth?
367
00:24:39,778 --> 00:24:42,110
I said his story
had the ring of truth.
368
00:24:42,615 --> 00:24:46,176
He admitted just enough
to convince me that
all his moves made sense.
369
00:24:46,318 --> 00:24:50,152
But then, he's a con artist.
So I'm not buying it, not yet.
370
00:24:50,522 --> 00:24:53,685
I'll keep trying.
Wonderful. Where do we look?
371
00:24:54,326 --> 00:24:57,022
We start back at square one.
Square one?
372
00:24:57,329 --> 00:25:00,992
Yes. Square one is that stuff
you kept taking out
of the picnic basket.
373
00:25:01,066 --> 00:25:02,727
Let's go through it again.
374
00:25:02,801 --> 00:25:05,565
I have been through that
at least 10 times.
375
00:25:06,171 --> 00:25:09,800
Yes, but not with a brilliant,
qualified $200-a-day expert.
376
00:25:12,244 --> 00:25:13,336
Will you get it?
377
00:25:23,789 --> 00:25:26,314
Dominick's.
You ever been there?
Is it important?
378
00:25:26,392 --> 00:25:28,826
No, but they cook a chicken
that will knock you dead.
379
00:25:32,798 --> 00:25:35,096
Come on, Jim. She
didn't know any of them.
380
00:25:35,534 --> 00:25:38,196
Did she ever mention
their records?
Anything like that?
381
00:25:38,337 --> 00:25:39,326
No.
382
00:25:40,739 --> 00:25:42,707
If she thought enough of them
to save this,
383
00:25:42,775 --> 00:25:44,743
you'd think she'd
at least talk about them.
384
00:25:44,810 --> 00:25:45,902
What does it mean?
385
00:25:46,612 --> 00:25:50,207
Sara, would you stop saying,
"What does it mean"
and "Is it important"?
386
00:25:50,282 --> 00:25:51,806
I'm just thinking out loud.
387
00:25:52,284 --> 00:25:55,082
Why don't you just admit
you don't know what it means?
388
00:25:55,554 --> 00:25:57,613
Because when you charge
$200 a day...
389
00:25:57,690 --> 00:25:59,817
you don't go around
admitting things like that.
390
00:26:04,463 --> 00:26:07,159
Boris Stanik.
Did she ever mention him?
391
00:26:07,499 --> 00:26:10,195
Is it important?
It's not important.
392
00:26:11,737 --> 00:26:13,932
I don't know.
I'm just fishing.
393
00:26:15,074 --> 00:26:17,565
I hope you don't get stuck
with a flounder.
394
00:26:17,643 --> 00:26:18,905
Me, too.
395
00:26:21,213 --> 00:26:22,202
[Telephone rings]
396
00:26:24,450 --> 00:26:26,213
Becker.
(Rockford)
Becker, Rockford.
397
00:26:26,885 --> 00:26:28,216
What do you want to know, Jim?
398
00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:30,283
Who is Boris Stanik?
399
00:26:30,823 --> 00:26:31,812
Wino.
400
00:26:32,758 --> 00:26:33,747
So?
401
00:26:34,326 --> 00:26:37,295
Listen, Jim, I shouldn't be
giving this stuff out to you.
402
00:26:37,930 --> 00:26:39,261
Come on, Dennis, who is he?
403
00:26:39,331 --> 00:26:42,767
He's nobody, but he was
run down on the Coast Highway
by a state senator.
404
00:26:42,835 --> 00:26:44,302
The paper threw
a blanket on it.
405
00:26:44,369 --> 00:26:47,805
'Cause our investigation
showed that Senator Murdock
wasn't at fault.
406
00:26:47,873 --> 00:26:48,965
Where was he hit?
407
00:26:49,041 --> 00:26:51,805
About a mile south
of Ventura County line.
408
00:26:51,877 --> 00:26:53,504
(Rockford)
When?
June 5.
409
00:26:53,579 --> 00:26:54,671
Thanks, Dennis.
410
00:26:54,747 --> 00:26:57,648
Listen, you've used up
this year's supply
of favors...
411
00:26:57,716 --> 00:26:59,308
and don't call
for another one.
412
00:27:02,287 --> 00:27:05,916
When did Aura Lee
start working for you?
Sometime in June.
413
00:27:06,859 --> 00:27:08,087
It was the seventh.
414
00:27:09,428 --> 00:27:13,159
This guy got run over one mile
from Oscar's restaurant...
415
00:27:13,532 --> 00:27:16,057
two days before
she started working for you.
416
00:27:16,769 --> 00:27:17,861
What do you think?
417
00:27:19,705 --> 00:27:22,469
It sure ain't no flounder.
418
00:27:24,843 --> 00:27:25,969
It sure ain't.
419
00:27:51,403 --> 00:27:52,461
[People chattering]
420
00:27:52,538 --> 00:27:54,438
(woman)
Mrs. Murdock, how do you
like campaigning...
421
00:27:54,506 --> 00:27:55,564
with your husband?
422
00:27:55,641 --> 00:27:57,336
(Ellen)
It's a little hectic,
of course...
423
00:27:57,409 --> 00:27:59,240
but we're trying to settle
into a routine...
424
00:27:59,311 --> 00:28:01,871
that I can get used to.
What are you doing
here today?
425
00:28:01,947 --> 00:28:03,972
We're here to
help launch support...
426
00:28:04,049 --> 00:28:07,177
for several charities
the Senator and I
are involved with.
427
00:28:07,252 --> 00:28:09,516
Sen. Murdock,
I gotta see you
in private.
428
00:28:09,588 --> 00:28:12,921
I'm sorry. You have to see
my campaign secretary.
429
00:28:12,991 --> 00:28:15,357
Yeah, I did that.
I can't wait two weeks.
430
00:28:15,427 --> 00:28:16,689
I'm sorry.
I'm extremely busy.
431
00:28:16,762 --> 00:28:18,161
You understand how it is.
432
00:28:18,297 --> 00:28:22,028
Senator, would you like me
to step out in front
of the TV cameras...
433
00:28:22,134 --> 00:28:26,070
and ask you to explain
your relationship with
a Miss Aura Lee Benton?
434
00:28:29,007 --> 00:28:30,406
My office is
on the 15th floor.
435
00:28:30,475 --> 00:28:31,999
I'll see you
in a few minutes.
436
00:28:32,311 --> 00:28:33,835
Both, really.
437
00:28:33,979 --> 00:28:35,378
[Inaudible]
438
00:28:36,215 --> 00:28:38,410
(Murdock)
I'm sorry, I can't give you
any more of my time.
439
00:28:38,483 --> 00:28:39,745
I've got a meeting.
440
00:28:39,818 --> 00:28:41,615
Don't flex up on me,
Senator.
441
00:28:41,687 --> 00:28:44,178
If I get insulted,
I might feed you
to the newspapers.
442
00:28:44,256 --> 00:28:47,453
If you people think
this Laura Lee is
supposed to shake me up...
443
00:28:47,526 --> 00:28:49,084
you got another think coming.
444
00:28:49,161 --> 00:28:51,459
You can tell Dick Stockton
for me he's wasting his time.
445
00:28:51,530 --> 00:28:52,588
I don't know the girl.
446
00:28:52,664 --> 00:28:56,191
When it comes to
political sabotage, I can duck
and throw mud with the best.
447
00:28:56,268 --> 00:28:58,600
I suppose Dick Stockton's
the guy you're
running against.
448
00:28:58,670 --> 00:29:01,230
You're well informed.
All right, look.
449
00:29:02,241 --> 00:29:05,733
You said that the girl
was on the highway
when I hit the old man.
450
00:29:05,811 --> 00:29:09,804
No. I said she was in the car
with you and now she's dead.
451
00:29:09,882 --> 00:29:12,544
I don't know Dick Stockton
from a box of Post Toasties.
452
00:29:12,618 --> 00:29:14,085
So if you want to
jerk me around, fine,
453
00:29:14,152 --> 00:29:16,017
I'll give my theories
to the police.
454
00:29:16,088 --> 00:29:17,316
Let me say this.
455
00:29:19,424 --> 00:29:21,984
Senator, I was just on my way
to the office to see you.
456
00:29:22,060 --> 00:29:23,527
Yeah, you go ahead.
I'll join you.
457
00:29:23,595 --> 00:29:24,584
Okay.
458
00:29:26,265 --> 00:29:27,732
What kind of
a shakedown is this?
459
00:29:27,799 --> 00:29:29,733
I'm just looking
for a straight answer.
460
00:29:29,801 --> 00:29:30,825
All right, I'll give you one.
461
00:29:30,903 --> 00:29:33,770
A: I don't know the girl.
B: I was driving down
from Santa Barbara.
462
00:29:33,839 --> 00:29:35,204
I hit an old man,
it was an accident.
463
00:29:35,274 --> 00:29:37,367
You can check that
with the highway patrol.
464
00:29:37,442 --> 00:29:39,910
Needless to say,
I have a lot
of political connections.
465
00:29:39,978 --> 00:29:41,639
If you're trying to smear me
with something...
466
00:29:41,713 --> 00:29:44,614
I'll come down on you
with half the civil servants
in this town.
467
00:29:44,683 --> 00:29:47,516
By the time you dig out
from all the lawsuits,
the court orders...
468
00:29:47,586 --> 00:29:49,144
we'll all be too old to care.
469
00:29:49,221 --> 00:29:52,213
Yeah, that might work,
except for one thing.
470
00:29:53,358 --> 00:29:54,757
You don't know who I am.
471
00:29:57,129 --> 00:30:00,621
What'd you get?
I don't know.
Hand me the cigar box.
472
00:30:04,136 --> 00:30:05,125
Here.
473
00:30:05,437 --> 00:30:06,870
What are we looking for?
474
00:30:06,939 --> 00:30:09,339
We're looking
for a Santa Barbara address.
475
00:30:09,875 --> 00:30:12,275
He was in Santa Barbara
the night it happened.
476
00:30:12,878 --> 00:30:14,402
Is this it?
477
00:30:27,192 --> 00:30:29,160
Fraud, tax, burglary?
478
00:30:29,227 --> 00:30:31,559
Which are we gonna be?
You really cover
all the bases.
479
00:30:31,630 --> 00:30:34,599
I don't know.
Depends on the guy.
Probably taxes.
480
00:30:34,666 --> 00:30:37,134
People really get shook up
when you mention taxes.
481
00:30:37,235 --> 00:30:39,430
They can't give you
the information fast enough.
482
00:30:39,504 --> 00:30:41,301
I don't know.
I think I'd clam up...
483
00:30:41,373 --> 00:30:42,965
or have my accountant
talk for me.
484
00:30:43,041 --> 00:30:46,067
I know what I'm doing.
Here, this one's yours.
485
00:30:46,378 --> 00:30:50,212
Assistant Investigator?
Yeah. I'm gonna be the boss.
486
00:30:52,351 --> 00:30:55,047
I don't talk to tax men.
I did that once.
487
00:30:55,120 --> 00:30:57,350
Ended up getting audited
all the way back to 1970.
488
00:30:57,422 --> 00:30:59,322
I think you'd better
talk with my accountant.
489
00:30:59,391 --> 00:31:01,325
Currently
we're assigned to burglary.
490
00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:04,190
You ever have
your car stolen,
Mr. Salisbury?
491
00:31:04,296 --> 00:31:06,025
No.
That's a real downer.
492
00:31:06,098 --> 00:31:07,861
We're working on
a bunch of car thieves.
493
00:31:07,933 --> 00:31:09,958
They've been stealing cars
in San Francisco...
494
00:31:10,035 --> 00:31:11,832
and then bringing them
down the coast.
495
00:31:11,903 --> 00:31:14,064
And we figured they're
probably staying over here...
496
00:31:14,139 --> 00:31:16,198
for some sleep
in Santa Barbara.
497
00:31:16,608 --> 00:31:19,304
People are creatures
of habit, Mr. Salisbury.
498
00:31:19,411 --> 00:31:21,879
We figured if they
stayed over here
before at this motel...
499
00:31:21,947 --> 00:31:23,847
next time through,
they'll stay here again.
500
00:31:23,915 --> 00:31:25,746
How're you gonna tell
whether they were here?
501
00:31:25,817 --> 00:31:27,148
We got a break.
502
00:31:27,853 --> 00:31:31,482
We found out that
one of the cars
was a dark red Buick...
503
00:31:31,590 --> 00:31:34,718
license number 385 OJF.
F.
504
00:31:35,060 --> 00:31:37,858
We're trying to find out
if the guy stayed over here.
505
00:31:37,996 --> 00:31:40,464
If you just show us
your motel
registration cards...
506
00:31:40,532 --> 00:31:43,092
for June 5 and 6,
we'll know for sure.
507
00:31:46,171 --> 00:31:47,763
Okay, I'll show you the file.
508
00:31:49,608 --> 00:31:51,303
[Sara laughing]
Okay. Yes.
Thank you very much.
509
00:31:51,376 --> 00:31:53,901
I'm sorry to have
bothered you. Bye.
510
00:31:54,780 --> 00:31:55,769
Anything?
511
00:31:55,847 --> 00:31:59,180
All three of the people
who registered driving Buicks
are for real.
512
00:31:59,918 --> 00:32:00,907
Terrific.
513
00:32:01,820 --> 00:32:04,311
You didn't expect Murdock
to leave anything behind...
514
00:32:04,389 --> 00:32:05,947
that could be
used against him.
515
00:32:06,158 --> 00:32:11,027
I've been through this
motel routine before.
People are creatures of habit.
516
00:32:11,496 --> 00:32:15,933
They'll use a portion
of their car registration
or their name.
517
00:32:16,034 --> 00:32:19,128
They'll transpose a letter
or number
in their license plate...
518
00:32:19,237 --> 00:32:22,832
just in case anybody checks,
it looks like
an honest mistake.
519
00:32:23,341 --> 00:32:25,434
Meaning the Senator
never stopped here?
520
00:32:25,744 --> 00:32:27,371
Either he never
stopped here...
521
00:32:27,446 --> 00:32:29,914
or somebody pulled the card
we're looking for.
522
00:32:30,816 --> 00:32:31,805
What now?
523
00:32:33,185 --> 00:32:34,516
I'll have to run a bluff.
524
00:32:34,586 --> 00:32:36,144
Isn't that what we
just did?
525
00:33:13,391 --> 00:33:14,619
[Sighs]
526
00:33:16,027 --> 00:33:18,427
Obviously I didn't make
myself clear this afternoon.
527
00:33:18,497 --> 00:33:20,362
But I did find out
who you are, Mr. Rockford.
528
00:33:20,432 --> 00:33:23,424
One of my campaign workers
downstairs got your
license number.
529
00:33:23,835 --> 00:33:25,735
Now, that was
a real clever move.
530
00:33:25,937 --> 00:33:27,928
You said on the phone
you had some evidence.
531
00:33:28,006 --> 00:33:30,566
I'm interested in
what kind of fabrication
you've come up with.
532
00:33:30,642 --> 00:33:31,802
It's not fabrication.
533
00:33:31,877 --> 00:33:35,335
You and Aura Lee Benton
visited at the Seacrest Motel
in Santa Barbara.
534
00:33:35,413 --> 00:33:37,381
I have the motel
registration card.
535
00:33:37,449 --> 00:33:38,381
Go on.
536
00:33:38,450 --> 00:33:40,213
I want you to come with me
to the police...
537
00:33:40,285 --> 00:33:42,583
and admit that you were
with her that night.
538
00:33:42,654 --> 00:33:45,714
And you can tell them
anything you know
about her or her murder.
539
00:33:45,790 --> 00:33:47,587
If I didn't know
an Aura Lee Benton...
540
00:33:47,659 --> 00:33:49,718
how could I know anything
about her murder?
541
00:33:49,794 --> 00:33:53,753
You're going to deny that
you were with her
in that motel on June 5?
542
00:33:54,933 --> 00:33:58,630
Look, I was at that motel
with a woman, but not
Aura Lee Benton.
543
00:34:04,943 --> 00:34:07,537
I see what kind of
a shakedown this is.
544
00:34:07,646 --> 00:34:09,773
How much do you want
for the registration card?
545
00:34:09,848 --> 00:34:11,213
Depends.
On what?
546
00:34:11,950 --> 00:34:13,110
What do you think, Senator?
547
00:34:13,185 --> 00:34:15,676
I wouldn't consider selling it
for less than $100,000.
548
00:34:15,754 --> 00:34:18,279
$100,000?
You must be joking.
549
00:34:18,356 --> 00:34:20,290
I only joke
with my friends.
550
00:34:20,492 --> 00:34:23,689
I can't come up
with any $100,000.
I'll give you $10,000.
551
00:34:23,795 --> 00:34:26,195
For that price,
I don't think I'm interested.
552
00:34:26,264 --> 00:34:28,494
I better turn it over
to the cops.
553
00:34:28,567 --> 00:34:32,094
For the last time,
I didn't know
an Aura Lee Benton.
554
00:34:32,170 --> 00:34:35,503
Then why are we
standing here dickering over
a motel registration card?
555
00:34:35,574 --> 00:34:39,203
Because I was in that motel
with a woman, but not
Aura Lee Benton.
556
00:34:39,277 --> 00:34:40,744
She was one of my
campaign workers.
557
00:34:40,812 --> 00:34:43,679
We spent a couple of hours
at the motel and drove south
in my car.
558
00:34:43,748 --> 00:34:45,773
She was with me
when I hit Mr. Stanik...
559
00:34:45,850 --> 00:34:47,943
but I don't think
my marriage or my campaign...
560
00:34:48,019 --> 00:34:50,453
would benefit
by that kind of information
getting out.
561
00:34:50,522 --> 00:34:53,355
Now, since I know that
I didn't murder
Aura Lee Benton...
562
00:34:53,458 --> 00:34:55,619
I will not pay you $100,000.
563
00:34:56,561 --> 00:35:00,395
I'll give you $10,000 now
and $10,000
after the election, all right?
564
00:35:03,301 --> 00:35:04,290
I'll call you.
565
00:35:27,259 --> 00:35:28,886
[Tires squealing]
566
00:35:30,462 --> 00:35:32,396
[Telephone ringing]
567
00:35:42,274 --> 00:35:43,263
Hello.
568
00:35:43,708 --> 00:35:45,699
Jim, have you seen
the morning newspapers?
569
00:35:45,810 --> 00:35:47,141
I can barely see the phone.
570
00:35:47,212 --> 00:35:49,578
Senator Murdock
killed himself last night.
571
00:35:51,049 --> 00:35:54,712
They found his clothes
lying on the beach,
his wallet, his car.
572
00:35:54,786 --> 00:35:56,253
They're looking
for his body now.
573
00:35:57,389 --> 00:36:00,552
(Rockford)
I saw him last night.
He was in that motel.
574
00:36:01,092 --> 00:36:03,026
He claims he was
with a campaign worker.
575
00:36:03,094 --> 00:36:05,961
He offered to buy
our registration card
for $20,000.
576
00:36:06,865 --> 00:36:09,629
It's one thing to
have your wife find out
about an affair...
577
00:36:09,701 --> 00:36:10,895
that's pretty bad...
578
00:36:11,002 --> 00:36:12,196
but to kill yourself...
579
00:36:13,605 --> 00:36:16,335
I gotta tell you, Sara,
I was pressing him
pretty hard.
580
00:36:17,208 --> 00:36:19,574
But, damn it, he just
didn't seem that worried.
581
00:36:20,078 --> 00:36:23,707
I told him I'd call him.
So why would he kill himself
before I called back?
582
00:36:24,182 --> 00:36:26,878
Then he was murdered
like Aura Lee?
583
00:36:26,951 --> 00:36:28,145
I didn't say that.
584
00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:29,817
Yes, you did.
585
00:36:30,689 --> 00:36:31,678
Okay.
586
00:36:32,857 --> 00:36:33,846
Okay, I did.
587
00:36:35,460 --> 00:36:38,691
I don't want to look
too interested. The cops
will want to know why.
588
00:36:39,798 --> 00:36:42,528
You think somebody
killed Aura Lee...
589
00:36:42,667 --> 00:36:46,000
just to keep that
one-day affair a secret?
590
00:36:46,204 --> 00:36:48,798
I don't know,
but I don't believe
that's suicide.
591
00:36:49,374 --> 00:36:53,071
A guy like Murdock is
too tough and ambitious
to put his clothes...
592
00:36:53,144 --> 00:36:57,444
on the beach
and swim out to sea
like a lovesick schoolgirl.
593
00:36:57,615 --> 00:36:58,980
It just doesn't figure.
594
00:36:59,718 --> 00:37:02,278
If he's dead,
somebody murdered him.
595
00:37:02,954 --> 00:37:04,751
Come on. Let's go.
Where are we going?
596
00:37:04,823 --> 00:37:06,688
Dirk Schaffer's.
To do what?
597
00:37:07,125 --> 00:37:11,084
Something I really hate to do.
Break and enter.
598
00:37:13,098 --> 00:37:14,725
[Engine humming]
599
00:37:18,002 --> 00:37:19,333
[Ringing]
600
00:37:42,460 --> 00:37:43,449
No answer.
601
00:37:45,430 --> 00:37:46,795
You wait right here.
602
00:37:56,708 --> 00:37:57,697
[Clicks]
603
00:38:07,685 --> 00:38:09,084
[Metallic clinking]
604
00:39:51,422 --> 00:39:52,582
(Sara)
Got anything?
605
00:39:52,657 --> 00:39:55,251
I was looking for a picture.
I got a bonus.
606
00:39:56,094 --> 00:40:00,394
Mr. And Mrs. Evan Murphy,
a Buick, June 5.
607
00:40:03,101 --> 00:40:04,659
[Engine starts]
608
00:40:19,484 --> 00:40:21,543
(Rockford)
Lay your odds,
a handwriting expert...
609
00:40:21,619 --> 00:40:24,087
will tell you that's
Evan Murdock's handwriting.
610
00:40:24,155 --> 00:40:26,419
The question now is,
how did Schaffer get it?
611
00:40:26,491 --> 00:40:27,981
(Sara)
Aura Lee didn't
give it to him.
612
00:40:28,059 --> 00:40:29,651
I'd stake everything I own
on that.
613
00:40:29,761 --> 00:40:32,662
The police can get that
out of Schaffer
after they arrest him.
614
00:40:32,730 --> 00:40:34,891
Are we going
to the police now?
Not yet.
615
00:40:43,908 --> 00:40:47,571
[Sighing]
All right. Which one
is the lobster bisque?
616
00:40:48,580 --> 00:40:50,445
Jackson.
Lincoln.
617
00:40:50,715 --> 00:40:52,205
Jackson.
Lincoln.
618
00:40:52,350 --> 00:40:55,217
Come on, Jim, give him
a Hamilton at least.
It's my money.
619
00:40:56,354 --> 00:40:58,185
Settle for a Hamilton?
Deal.
620
00:41:00,258 --> 00:41:04,592
All right. The guy that
Aura Lee left with,
is he there?
621
00:41:04,862 --> 00:41:05,851
Yeah.
622
00:41:07,765 --> 00:41:08,754
Right there.
623
00:41:11,302 --> 00:41:14,465
Now to the police?
Now to the police.
624
00:41:25,149 --> 00:41:26,810
[Engine revving]
625
00:41:31,155 --> 00:41:32,747
What are you gonna tell them?
626
00:41:33,825 --> 00:41:36,817
Well, let's say
you're right about her.
627
00:41:37,895 --> 00:41:40,728
If you are, it might
run down something like this.
628
00:41:40,898 --> 00:41:43,366
Schaffer picked up
Aura Lee at Oscar's...
629
00:41:43,801 --> 00:41:47,032
and she innocently told him
what she'd been through
that night...
630
00:41:48,172 --> 00:41:51,141
and he reads about
the accident in the papers...
631
00:41:51,442 --> 00:41:53,273
realizes who
she had been with.
632
00:41:54,779 --> 00:41:57,543
So he goes to Murdock
and starts shaking him down.
633
00:41:57,949 --> 00:42:00,008
Aura Lee didn't have anything
to do with that.
634
00:42:00,084 --> 00:42:03,212
Probably not.
No, he was just trying
to keep her around.
635
00:42:03,321 --> 00:42:05,289
He probably gave her
the $2,600.
636
00:42:05,790 --> 00:42:09,248
Maybe a loan, so she'd owe him
and wouldn't leave town.
637
00:42:11,529 --> 00:42:13,190
Schaffer killed her,
didn't he?
638
00:42:13,264 --> 00:42:15,755
Yeah, it had to be.
639
00:42:16,267 --> 00:42:18,861
She found out
that he was shaking down
the senator...
640
00:42:20,071 --> 00:42:23,131
threatened to go to the cops,
so he killed her.
641
00:42:23,474 --> 00:42:25,533
Then I put some pressure
on the senator,
642
00:42:25,610 --> 00:42:27,703
told him that Aura Lee
had been murdered.
643
00:42:28,079 --> 00:42:30,513
He had to figure
that it was Schaffer
who did it.
644
00:42:30,581 --> 00:42:32,139
So, he went to Schaffer...
645
00:42:32,717 --> 00:42:35,948
told him he was
going to the cops
and he got killed.
646
00:42:37,255 --> 00:42:40,691
That seems to be
a very unhealthy thing
to say to Dirk Schaffer.
647
00:42:41,025 --> 00:42:42,356
[Engine faltering]
648
00:42:42,427 --> 00:42:43,587
What's wrong?
649
00:42:45,963 --> 00:42:47,225
I don't know.
650
00:42:47,899 --> 00:42:49,560
[Engine grinding]
651
00:42:54,706 --> 00:42:56,264
[Engine dying]
652
00:43:14,659 --> 00:43:15,648
What is it?
653
00:43:16,294 --> 00:43:19,127
(Rockford)
It's the carburetor. Suddenly,
it's full of junk.
654
00:43:19,530 --> 00:43:20,861
[Motorcycle approaching]
655
00:43:23,735 --> 00:43:25,168
[Gun firing]
656
00:43:26,104 --> 00:43:27,469
Get out. Quick.
657
00:43:27,872 --> 00:43:28,964
[Tires squealing]
658
00:43:30,908 --> 00:43:32,569
[Engine revving]
659
00:43:46,157 --> 00:43:47,146
[Brakes squealing]
660
00:43:48,960 --> 00:43:50,689
[Engine revving]
661
00:43:55,767 --> 00:43:57,132
[Gunshots]
662
00:44:04,942 --> 00:44:07,968
(Sara)
Which way?
In there. Come on.
663
00:44:36,073 --> 00:44:37,199
(Rockford)
Stay right there.
664
00:44:37,642 --> 00:44:39,701
[Motorcycle engines rev]
665
00:44:50,288 --> 00:44:51,277
Come here.
666
00:44:54,659 --> 00:44:57,594
Now listen, I want you
to count to 30...
667
00:44:57,762 --> 00:45:00,629
one, two, three, that speed...
668
00:45:00,698 --> 00:45:03,667
and then start screaming
and keep screaming.
669
00:45:04,702 --> 00:45:06,727
[Motorcycle approaching]
670
00:45:37,902 --> 00:45:39,995
[Sara continues screaming]
671
00:45:42,640 --> 00:45:44,335
[Tires squealing]
672
00:45:44,642 --> 00:45:46,234
[Engine roaring]
673
00:45:48,479 --> 00:45:50,140
[Engine roaring]
674
00:45:58,155 --> 00:45:59,782
[Engine continues roaring]
675
00:46:02,360 --> 00:46:03,588
[Water running]
676
00:46:04,328 --> 00:46:06,159
(Sara)
Dirk Schaffer's
gonna live, huh?
677
00:46:08,266 --> 00:46:10,962
(Rockford)
Yeah, if you call
20 to life living.
678
00:46:12,003 --> 00:46:13,527
[Whirring]
679
00:46:31,722 --> 00:46:34,282
You missed your calling,
you know that, don't you?
680
00:46:34,392 --> 00:46:36,952
You shouldn't be
messing around
with the detective business.
681
00:46:37,028 --> 00:46:38,791
You ought to get a job
on a tuna boat.
682
00:46:38,863 --> 00:46:40,592
Yeah. I like tuna fishing.
683
00:46:40,665 --> 00:46:43,259
You hit a big school...
684
00:46:43,334 --> 00:46:45,495
you can boat a hundred of them
in 10 minutes.
685
00:46:45,569 --> 00:46:46,593
That's a thrill.
686
00:46:47,672 --> 00:46:50,573
Terrific. You want to eat
one of these sandwiches...
687
00:46:50,641 --> 00:46:53,269
or shall we break them up
and use them for bait?
688
00:46:53,611 --> 00:46:54,805
You can get one out.
689
00:46:56,747 --> 00:46:57,736
At last.
690
00:47:01,052 --> 00:47:02,383
[Sighs]
691
00:47:05,056 --> 00:47:07,718
No, that must be
one of yours.
How can you tell?
692
00:47:08,492 --> 00:47:11,893
You cut the crust off.
Remember, I like the crust on.
693
00:47:12,263 --> 00:47:15,198
I'm sorry, Jim.
I cut the crust off
of all of them. I forgot.
694
00:47:15,666 --> 00:47:17,566
I'm sorry.
It's okay.
695
00:47:17,868 --> 00:47:19,563
[Birds chirping]
696
00:47:24,408 --> 00:47:26,569
We did it again.
We caught them.
697
00:47:26,811 --> 00:47:29,644
I'm getting to be
a pretty good...
What do you call it?
698
00:47:29,981 --> 00:47:30,970
Operative.
699
00:47:31,983 --> 00:47:33,177
You're not too bad.
700
00:47:34,819 --> 00:47:36,252
We're two for two.
701
00:47:36,620 --> 00:47:39,088
That must do something good
for your average.
702
00:47:39,557 --> 00:47:43,493
Sara, it might surprise you,
but when I work
all by myself...
703
00:47:44,195 --> 00:47:46,163
I hobble around a lot,
but occasionally...
704
00:47:46,230 --> 00:47:48,562
I get lucky
and solve something.
705
00:47:50,267 --> 00:47:51,632
I'm ready for dessert.
706
00:47:59,877 --> 00:48:02,778
That's not bad.
It's not bad at all.
707
00:48:03,647 --> 00:48:05,342
Not exactly
what I had in mind.
708
00:48:06,217 --> 00:48:08,549
I want to get back to that,
you understand.
709
00:48:09,787 --> 00:48:13,518
It's just that I think
we ought to
square up accounts.
710
00:48:13,824 --> 00:48:16,759
It's not that I don't
trust you, sweetheart.
It's just...
711
00:48:17,028 --> 00:48:19,826
In the past, we have had
our little problem, right?
712
00:48:32,343 --> 00:48:33,401
Cute card.
713
00:48:33,477 --> 00:48:34,501
[Chuckles]
714
00:48:34,578 --> 00:48:37,706
Yeah, I looked
and I looked.
Where is it?
715
00:48:38,049 --> 00:48:39,414
The police have it.
716
00:48:39,650 --> 00:48:42,278
You see, when you find money
that was gained
in an extortion...
717
00:48:42,353 --> 00:48:43,411
you can't keep it.
718
00:48:43,487 --> 00:48:45,921
It's kind of like
finders keepers,
losers weepers...
719
00:48:45,990 --> 00:48:47,685
and we're the losers.
720
00:48:47,758 --> 00:48:49,419
Sara, we've...
721
00:48:51,495 --> 00:48:52,484
Look...
722
00:48:54,832 --> 00:48:56,390
How are you gonna pay me?
723
00:48:57,368 --> 00:48:59,359
On the installment plan
like before.
724
00:48:59,570 --> 00:49:00,559
Oh, yeah?
725
00:49:02,973 --> 00:49:03,962
Yeah.
726
00:49:13,984 --> 00:49:15,975
I want the pink slip
to your car.
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