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6-A-11. Ambulance just reached. Code 2.

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I need a dime.

3
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Fill her up, you might have some change coming.

4
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Give me a dime, or I'm gonna crack you open like a piggy bank.

5
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You're angry.

6
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Why would I be angry?

7
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You hired me to do a job, and I nearly got killed in the process.

8
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Oh, no.

9
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Now, if you think that's going to stop me, you've got a short memory.

10
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This is Jim Rockford.

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At the tone, leave your name and message, I'll get back to you.

12
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This is Louis, down at the fish market. You gonna pick up these halibut or what?

13
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No!

14
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No.

15
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Jim, you don't mean that.

16
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The last time we worked together, I not only didn't make any money...

17
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I had to refinance my car.

18
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But I need you. My client needs you.

19
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She's a pauper. She doesn't have a cent.

20
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That gives us something in common.

21
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All she's got is this little piece of property in Arizona.

22
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That puts her one up on me.

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It would take her months to sell it.

24
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And even then, I don't know what she'd get for it.

25
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But because she owns land, she can't use a public defender.

26
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That's why I donated my services.

27
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I knew that once I explained it to you that you'd want to donate yours, too.

28
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Don't you even care if she's innocent?

29
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Beth, I spent five years in prison.

30
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While I was there, I never met anybody who wasn't innocent.

31
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Jim.

32
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No!

33
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Do we have to talk out here?

34
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We don't have to talk at all. Beth, I don't take charity cases.

35
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They're not part of my survival kit.

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I take them.

37
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You can afford to.

38
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You picked the right grandfather.

39
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Please, Jim. For me?

40
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I guess I've never been able to quite pull that off, have I?

41
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All right, I won't ask for any commitments. Just meet Ann Calhoun.

42
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Listen to her side of the story.

43
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No.

44
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Ann.

45
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Hi.

46
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This is the man I told you about.

47
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Jim Rockford.

48
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The best private investigator money can buy.

49
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Mr. Rockford. Oh, thank God.

50
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Beth said she'd talk to you, but I didn't allow myself...

51
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There doesn't seem to be anything, anybody.

52
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He's going to help you, Ann.

53
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Now, wait a minute, Beth. No commitments, remember?

54
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I said I'd listen. I didn't say anything about helping.

55
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Boy, you want to see a workload? Now, that's a workload.

56
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And you got some nerve to come sniffing around here about something...

57
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which is off my desk, which is closed.

58
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Becker, sometimes you sound just like a cop.

59
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I am a cop.

60
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That must be it.

61
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And how many times I gotta tell you about coming around this office?

62
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Now, the Calhoun case is closed.

63
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You wanna waste your time on it, fine.

64
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Don't waste mine.

65
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How can you close this case on what you got?

66
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On what we got? Witnesses.

67
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Half the people in the motel...

68
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heard Ann and Kevin Calhoun having it out, tearing up the joint.

69
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Motive: He told her to go back to Arizona, he was staying in LA.

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There ain't no better motive than that. Woman scorned.

71
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I think that's what they call it.

72
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Not lately.

73
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And opportunity.

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After the fight, Calhoun slams into the bedroom...

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and it's quiet for 15 minutes.

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Fifteen minutes later, Ann Calhoun leaves the motel...

77
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and then the fire breaks out.

78
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And you figure she spent that 15 minutes killing her husband.

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He was smothered and that's official.

80
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Direct to you from the coroner. He was dead before the fire.

81
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No blisters. No smoke inhalation.

82
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It was supposed to look like an accident.

83
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She planted a cigarette in his right hand. It was burned.

84
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The fire spreads across his torso and burns the other hand.

85
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Then you don't have a positive identification.

86
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His wife identified him.

87
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There wasn't a mark on his face.

88
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And she admitted that the two of them didn't know a soul in town.

89
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Who else had a motive?

90
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Somebody at that big party they went to in Bel Air?

91
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He crashed that party. We checked it out.

92
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Nobody knew him.

93
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Nobody admitted they knew him.

94
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Becker, you're just gonna have to get this case back from the DA.

95
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I mean, it won't hold.

96
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You take opportunity. You're wide open on that one.

97
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Calhoun was in his bed, asleep.

98
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Anybody could've walked in on him.

99
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Well, hold it. Hold it a minute.

100
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You know, it just hits me what this is all about.

101
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It's that flaky attorney, the one who collects lost causes...

102
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like they were rare coins.

103
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Beth Davenport.

104
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That's the one.

105
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She's trying to con you into working for nothing again, right?

106
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And you figure, we reopen the case, you're off the hook, right?

107
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That's what I had in mind, I can see it's not going to work.

108
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Damn right.

109
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Hot sauce, please.

110
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With your stomach?

111
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Yeah.

112
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We may have a deal.

113
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I knew it.

114
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I knew the minute you met Ann Calhoun you'd know she's not capable of murder.

115
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That isn't why I'm doing...

116
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She's a sweet, gentle woman.

117
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Look, Beth.

118
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The case the police have against her is laughable.

119
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There's not one shred of hard evidence.

120
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She's had the opportunity, and they say she had the motive.

121
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I said we may have a deal.

122
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You pay my expenses.

123
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I'm donating my services.

124
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I'm not going to make a dime.

125
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You pay my expenses, and if I prove that Ann Calhoun is innocent...

126
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you pay my expenses plus $200 a day.

127
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And no arguments, no bargains, no nothing. That's it.

128
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All right?

129
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All right. We have a deal.

130
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Good.

131
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I want you to find out everything Ann knows about her husband.

132
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Where he was born, where he went to school, where he worked. Everything.

133
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I'll come by your place and pick it up later. All right?

134
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It's an emergency. I need a dime.

135
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Mister, I don't even give directions.

136
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Somebody just tried to kill me, I need a dime.

137
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Fill her up, you might have some change coming.

138
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Give me a dime, or I'm gonna crack you open like a piggy bank.

139
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All right, you got it.

140
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Here.

141
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You owe me 90 cents. Just put it in the tank.

142
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Hello, highway patrol?

143
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My name is Jim Rockford and I'm at...

144
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6224699.

145
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You know where... Nine.

146
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You know where...

147
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What's the name of this place?

148
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Farber's Garage.

149
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You know where Farber's Garage is?

150
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Somebody in a truck just tried to kill me.

151
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Did you find anything?

152
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Like I told you, Mr. Rockford, we found "it."

153
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You can't arrest a tractor.

154
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You also can't arrest somebody who ain't there.

155
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The rig was stolen from the Junction Cafe about...

156
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three hours ago, then it was dumped two miles north of the highway.

157
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Did you dust it for prints?

158
00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:34,704
No, we didn't.

159
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Me and none of the boys is licensed to drive nothing that big.

160
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There's this guy, Bert, he helps us out from time to time.

161
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He brought it back to the station.

162
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Nobody thought to tell Bert not to wipe any fingerprints off the steering wheel?

163
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Do you know how many cars we got?

164
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How many men? How many miles we gotta cover?

165
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Okay, there was a slip-up. You got the Department's apology.

166
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Maybe somebody tried to kill you. Maybe not.

167
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But I'll tell you how this thing's probably gonna turn out.

168
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Probably turn out some kid out to have hisself a little fun.

169
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People move here for their health?

170
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Hold it right where you are. Now don't make a move.

171
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Put your hands up.

172
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Up!

173
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Rocky.

174
00:22:03,202 --> 00:22:05,670
Jim. What are you doing here?

175
00:22:05,738 --> 00:22:07,603
I live here. What are you doing here?

176
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I'm just keeping an eye on the joint. You know it's always getting...

177
00:22:10,977 --> 00:22:13,411
all tore up every time you ain't around.

178
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Why don't you put that thing away?

179
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Among other things, you don't have a permit for it.

180
00:22:18,918 --> 00:22:20,613
I don't need one. It's yours.

181
00:22:20,687 --> 00:22:24,054
I don't have a permit for it, either. So, give it here.

182
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Two people try to kill me in one day...

183
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and one of them turns out to be my own father.

184
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Somebody tried to kill you? Are you all right?

185
00:22:30,697 --> 00:22:31,721
Yeah, fine.

186
00:22:31,798 --> 00:22:33,993
Somebody tries to kill you, you're not fine.

187
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What happened?

188
00:22:35,268 --> 00:22:37,702
Let's just try to forget it, Rocky.

189
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I know.

190
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You think I can't swallow it straight. You think I'll worry, don't you?

191
00:22:42,375 --> 00:22:43,865
Well, won't you?

192
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I'm not the kind of fella that says he knows all the answers. I never was.

193
00:22:48,648 --> 00:22:51,139
But for a man who doesn't like to get stomped on...

194
00:22:51,217 --> 00:22:53,310
you are in the wrong line of work.

195
00:22:53,853 --> 00:22:55,218
Not now, Rocky.

196
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You never gave trucking a chance.

197
00:22:56,923 --> 00:23:00,290
You know, I still got connections. I can help get your A-1 myself.

198
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It's good pay, steady work.

199
00:23:02,362 --> 00:23:04,330
And it is safe.

200
00:23:04,397 --> 00:23:07,025
Not when you're on the wrong end of the truck.

201
00:23:07,500 --> 00:23:09,127
I just got my tail chased...

202
00:23:09,202 --> 00:23:12,137
halfway across the state of Arizona by the front end of a semi.

203
00:23:12,205 --> 00:23:13,502
Tried to run me off a mountain.

204
00:23:13,573 --> 00:23:14,938
A tractor, was it? What kind?

205
00:23:15,007 --> 00:23:17,771
A Kenworth? A Mack? What was it? Peterbilt?

206
00:23:17,844 --> 00:23:19,334
What difference does it make?

207
00:23:19,412 --> 00:23:20,470
What?

208
00:23:20,747 --> 00:23:23,716
I tried to show you the differences before you could walk.

209
00:23:23,783 --> 00:23:25,273
Was it a cab-over?

210
00:23:25,351 --> 00:23:28,184
Yeah, it was flat nosed, high. It was a cab-over.

211
00:23:28,254 --> 00:23:32,315
Nice paint job, blue and white. But what are we talking about tractors for?

212
00:23:32,392 --> 00:23:34,360
That point is, it tried to kill me.

213
00:23:34,427 --> 00:23:35,325
No.

214
00:23:35,395 --> 00:23:36,419
What do you mean no?

215
00:23:36,496 --> 00:23:39,693
Suppose we're talking about something small, like 14-6.

216
00:23:39,766 --> 00:23:42,667
All right. Now, you got 14,600 pounds...

217
00:23:42,735 --> 00:23:46,398
barreling down the highway at you at 70 or 80, and they can do it.

218
00:23:46,472 --> 00:23:47,598
They got the gears.

219
00:23:47,673 --> 00:23:50,369
No sir, if they wanted to kill you, you'd be dead.

220
00:23:50,443 --> 00:23:52,502
Maybe he wasn't a union driver.

221
00:23:52,578 --> 00:23:53,704
Maybe.

222
00:23:53,780 --> 00:23:55,941
But I don't think he wanted to kill you.

223
00:23:56,015 --> 00:23:58,916
I think they wanted to just scare you to death.

224
00:24:12,298 --> 00:24:13,629
Toothpaste?

225
00:24:13,699 --> 00:24:14,723
Toothpaste.

226
00:24:14,801 --> 00:24:17,895
That's a legitimate out-of-town, overnight expense.

227
00:24:18,404 --> 00:24:20,895
I didn't charge you for my new jammies.

228
00:24:20,973 --> 00:24:21,940
You're angry.

229
00:24:22,008 --> 00:24:23,168
Why would I be angry?

230
00:24:23,242 --> 00:24:26,143
You hired me to do a job, and I nearly got killed in the process.

231
00:24:26,212 --> 00:24:28,976
The highway patrol are looking for some fun-loving kid.

232
00:24:29,048 --> 00:24:31,209
My father wants an autographed picture of the truck...

233
00:24:31,284 --> 00:24:34,776
and you're so torn up, you're arguing over a tube of toothpaste.

234
00:25:17,296 --> 00:25:18,558
Watch out!

235
00:25:25,705 --> 00:25:27,138
You all right?

236
00:25:27,206 --> 00:25:28,400
All right?

237
00:25:28,474 --> 00:25:29,736
Good.

238
00:25:33,079 --> 00:25:34,103
Anybody hurt over there?

239
00:25:34,180 --> 00:25:35,306
No, we're all right.

240
00:25:35,381 --> 00:25:36,473
What's wrong with you?

241
00:25:36,549 --> 00:25:37,675
Sorry it happened.

242
00:25:37,750 --> 00:25:40,275
Okay, guys, let's get back to work.

243
00:25:41,254 --> 00:25:42,846
What happened?

244
00:25:42,922 --> 00:25:44,480
No brake fluid.

245
00:25:45,157 --> 00:25:47,625
Somebody loosened the fitting on the master cylinder.

246
00:25:47,693 --> 00:25:48,751
You mean it was deliberate?

247
00:25:48,828 --> 00:25:50,386
Yeah, and that's twice.

248
00:25:50,463 --> 00:25:53,227
Then somebody did try to kill you in Arizona.

249
00:25:53,299 --> 00:25:54,630
That doesn't make sense.

250
00:25:54,700 --> 00:25:57,225
Nobody knows you're working for Ann Calhoun.

251
00:25:57,303 --> 00:26:00,067
And nobody knew you were going to Arizona, except me.

252
00:26:00,139 --> 00:26:02,505
And whoever killed Kevin Calhoun.

253
00:26:02,808 --> 00:26:06,073
Evidently, they're not too happy with what I dug up on them.

254
00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:09,939
He wasn't born in Arizona at all.

255
00:26:10,016 --> 00:26:12,007
He never worked for the Central Valley Press.

256
00:26:12,084 --> 00:26:13,847
There's no record of a driver's license,

257
00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:16,445
no social security number, no nothing.

258
00:26:16,522 --> 00:26:18,547
Kevin Calhoun never existed.

259
00:26:19,125 --> 00:26:23,289
There's no record of him prior to your marriage in Flagstaff two years ago.

260
00:26:23,362 --> 00:26:27,059
That's impossible. I knew him. We were married for two years.

261
00:26:28,334 --> 00:26:31,997
Ann, the person he was, is the reason he was killed.

262
00:26:33,039 --> 00:26:34,666
How did you meet him?

263
00:26:34,740 --> 00:26:37,368
It was an accident. Chance.

264
00:26:38,611 --> 00:26:40,772
He was in Flagstaff. He'd been traveling.

265
00:26:40,846 --> 00:26:43,542
"Listening to the country" is what he called it.

266
00:26:44,850 --> 00:26:46,215
He was a poet.

267
00:26:47,787 --> 00:26:48,913
Did I mention that?

268
00:26:48,988 --> 00:26:49,920
No.

269
00:26:49,989 --> 00:26:51,217
He was.

270
00:26:51,757 --> 00:26:53,850
Kind, sensitive.

271
00:26:53,926 --> 00:26:55,621
We were very happy.

272
00:26:55,995 --> 00:26:59,123
On the day your husband was murdered, he threatened to leave you.

273
00:26:59,198 --> 00:27:02,065
He'd had too much to drink. He didn't mean it.

274
00:27:02,134 --> 00:27:05,535
But you argued, he slammed the door, went into the bedroom.

275
00:27:05,972 --> 00:27:09,100
What happened during that 15 minutes before you left the motel?

276
00:27:09,208 --> 00:27:10,197
Jim.

277
00:27:10,576 --> 00:27:12,237
Nothing. Nothing happened.

278
00:27:12,311 --> 00:27:14,438
I was angry, hurt.

279
00:27:14,513 --> 00:27:17,880
So I went out for a walk. Why doesn't anyone believe me?

280
00:27:17,950 --> 00:27:19,315
All right.

281
00:27:20,653 --> 00:27:23,850
About that party you went to, in Bel Air?

282
00:27:24,857 --> 00:27:28,384
Was it in character for him to crash a thing like that?

283
00:27:28,461 --> 00:27:30,656
He didn't crash, he was invited.

284
00:27:30,730 --> 00:27:33,164
You told the police you didn't know anybody in town.

285
00:27:33,232 --> 00:27:34,324
We didn't.

286
00:27:34,734 --> 00:27:39,068
At least I didn't. Kevin must have known someone, because he was invited.

287
00:27:39,538 --> 00:27:41,267
You sound pretty sure about that.

288
00:27:41,340 --> 00:27:42,272
Why?

289
00:27:42,341 --> 00:27:43,638
The way he behaved.

290
00:27:43,709 --> 00:27:47,645
He wasn't hiding from anyone. He was there. Very openly.

291
00:27:47,913 --> 00:27:51,212
He even called me from the party to ask me to join him.

292
00:27:51,550 --> 00:27:53,211
Did you have any trouble getting in?

293
00:27:53,285 --> 00:27:54,343
No.

294
00:27:54,854 --> 00:27:58,346
Didn't you ask him how he got there, who invited him?

295
00:27:58,424 --> 00:27:59,413
No.

296
00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:03,190
I saw he'd had too much to drink.

297
00:28:04,530 --> 00:28:06,555
We left almost immediately.

298
00:28:06,632 --> 00:28:08,862
You weren't even curious?

299
00:28:08,934 --> 00:28:10,959
On the way home in the car, you didn't ask him?

300
00:28:11,037 --> 00:28:12,299
On the way home? No.

301
00:28:12,371 --> 00:28:15,772
I didn't. We started to argue the minute we got in the cab.

302
00:28:15,941 --> 00:28:19,342
Because he said that he didn't want to go back to Arizona again. Ever.

303
00:28:25,918 --> 00:28:27,715
Ever seen them before?

304
00:28:28,554 --> 00:28:31,148
Yes, at the party. Who are they?

305
00:28:31,223 --> 00:28:33,851
That's Elizabeth Gorman and Clyde Russell.

306
00:28:33,926 --> 00:28:36,656
Those were your hosts. You weren't introduced?

307
00:28:37,029 --> 00:28:38,018
No.

308
00:28:38,497 --> 00:28:41,330
There must have been over 200 people there.

309
00:28:41,867 --> 00:28:44,267
Did you ever see your husband talking to them?

310
00:28:44,336 --> 00:28:46,896
He didn't. Not while I was there. Why?

311
00:28:48,107 --> 00:28:50,598
You say you were invited.

312
00:28:50,810 --> 00:28:52,971
They say you crashed.

313
00:28:55,881 --> 00:28:58,611
I hired you to investigate, not to prosecute.

314
00:28:58,684 --> 00:29:02,313
What were you doing in there? You were acting as though Ann killed Kevin.

315
00:29:02,388 --> 00:29:03,719
As far as I know, she did.

316
00:29:03,789 --> 00:29:04,778
Jim.

317
00:29:05,224 --> 00:29:06,213
Beth.

318
00:29:07,226 --> 00:29:09,660
There are only two people who are above suspicion.

319
00:29:09,729 --> 00:29:11,390
That's you and me.

320
00:29:11,464 --> 00:29:14,797
If you lose sight of that, you're not the attorney I think you are.

321
00:29:14,867 --> 00:29:17,563
What are you poking around in there for? The car is fixed.

322
00:29:17,636 --> 00:29:20,332
I just want to make sure it didn't get unfixed.

323
00:29:39,492 --> 00:29:41,426
Well, at least you came up with something.

324
00:29:41,494 --> 00:29:44,793
Although I've never heard of Elizabeth Gorman and Clyde Russell.

325
00:29:44,864 --> 00:29:47,389
From the size of this, you'd think they were the royal family.

326
00:29:47,466 --> 00:29:48,763
Who are they?

327
00:29:48,968 --> 00:29:51,232
I couldn't find out too much on them.

328
00:29:51,303 --> 00:29:53,464
They're new in town. Lots of money.

329
00:29:53,539 --> 00:29:57,498
There's some kind of connection with The Dark and Bloody Ground.

330
00:29:57,576 --> 00:30:00,204
The movie? They do have money.

331
00:30:00,279 --> 00:30:03,248
That's the biggest thing since Birth of a Nation.

332
00:30:08,053 --> 00:30:09,042
Gorman.

333
00:30:10,055 --> 00:30:12,819
Gorman. Somebody named Gorman wrote the book.

334
00:30:13,859 --> 00:30:15,019
Where are we going?

335
00:30:15,094 --> 00:30:16,584
To the police station.

336
00:30:16,662 --> 00:30:17,720
Why?

337
00:30:18,531 --> 00:30:21,432
I've gotta tell them what I found out about Kevin Calhoun.

338
00:30:21,500 --> 00:30:23,559
We're sitting on evidence, Beth.

339
00:30:23,636 --> 00:30:24,796
Oh, no.

340
00:30:26,839 --> 00:30:30,775
Now, if you think that's going to stop me, you've got a short memory.

341
00:30:32,411 --> 00:30:33,605
Wait!

342
00:30:33,679 --> 00:30:35,647
Don't tell me, tell them.

343
00:30:38,450 --> 00:30:41,749
Just give me one good reason why we should go to the police.

344
00:30:41,821 --> 00:30:44,790
I've already given it to you. Evidence in a capital crime.

345
00:30:45,224 --> 00:30:48,990
I'm counsel for the defense. You're acting as my agent.

346
00:30:49,061 --> 00:30:51,029
There's no question of withholding evidence.

347
00:30:51,096 --> 00:30:53,394
You're on firm and legal ground.

348
00:30:53,465 --> 00:30:54,727
How firm?

349
00:30:55,034 --> 00:30:57,662
Information that you uncover as an investigator...

350
00:30:57,736 --> 00:31:01,467
because you're in my employ, is privileged information.

351
00:31:01,540 --> 00:31:05,476
You are not required by law to divulge said information to the police.

352
00:31:05,544 --> 00:31:09,981
There's nothing about it in the penal code, but it's common knowledge and practice.

353
00:31:10,049 --> 00:31:11,880
It's an unwritten law.

354
00:31:11,951 --> 00:31:14,351
There are no unwritten laws, Beth.

355
00:31:14,820 --> 00:31:16,344
Trust me.

356
00:31:16,422 --> 00:31:19,152
Kevin Calhoun assumed a false identity.

357
00:31:19,225 --> 00:31:20,988
We don't have any reason.

358
00:31:21,060 --> 00:31:22,652
That's what I want you to find out...

359
00:31:22,728 --> 00:31:25,697
when you confront Elizabeth Gorman and Clyde Russell.

360
00:31:27,132 --> 00:31:28,997
What do you want me to confront them with?

361
00:31:29,068 --> 00:31:31,002
How do I know? Whatever works.

362
00:31:31,503 --> 00:31:33,232
You're making $200 a day.

363
00:31:33,305 --> 00:31:34,897
Plus expenses.

364
00:31:35,274 --> 00:31:38,766
All that stops the minute you walk into Becker's office.

365
00:31:39,345 --> 00:31:41,609
Are you implying that I could be bought?

366
00:31:42,281 --> 00:31:43,305
Yes.

367
00:31:46,518 --> 00:31:48,076
What are you doing now?

368
00:31:48,153 --> 00:31:50,178
I'm gonna go find a telephone.

369
00:31:50,256 --> 00:31:53,054
And I'm going to call an attorney. I need some legal advice.

370
00:31:53,125 --> 00:31:54,558
I'm an attorney.

371
00:31:54,627 --> 00:31:55,594
Yeah.

372
00:32:52,684 --> 00:32:55,016
You know, I walked right by you.

373
00:32:55,086 --> 00:32:56,246
I beg your pardon?

374
00:32:56,321 --> 00:32:57,618
Right by.

375
00:32:57,689 --> 00:32:59,919
Did you get the time on Currypoise?

376
00:32:59,991 --> 00:33:03,358
I had a shot at her in a claiming race two years ago, but I let her go.

377
00:33:03,428 --> 00:33:05,896
Could've had her for $5,000. Yeah.

378
00:33:05,964 --> 00:33:07,659
She looks awfully good.

379
00:33:07,732 --> 00:33:10,826
I'm afraid you have the advantage on us, Mr...

380
00:33:10,902 --> 00:33:14,565
Jim. I thought we settled all that "Mr. Rockford" business at your party.

381
00:33:14,639 --> 00:33:19,008
I've been meaning to call you and say thanks again and I'm sorry.

382
00:33:19,711 --> 00:33:20,939
For what?

383
00:33:21,012 --> 00:33:22,445
About your guest.

384
00:33:23,114 --> 00:33:26,641
What was his name? Mr. Kevin Calhoun.

385
00:33:26,718 --> 00:33:28,083
I read about it in the paper.

386
00:33:28,152 --> 00:33:29,585
I read about it, too.

387
00:33:29,654 --> 00:33:31,053
Sad business. Sad.

388
00:33:31,122 --> 00:33:34,421
Not all that sad, Mr. Rockford. We didn't even know the man.

389
00:33:35,026 --> 00:33:36,391
You didn't?

390
00:33:37,095 --> 00:33:40,587
You mean he crashed the party? It doesn't seem possible.

391
00:33:41,165 --> 00:33:43,099
It shouldn't have happened.

392
00:33:43,167 --> 00:33:45,431
Elliot is very good at opening the right doors...

393
00:33:45,503 --> 00:33:47,869
and closing them on the wrong people.

394
00:33:47,939 --> 00:33:51,466
You've met my fiancé, haven't you, Mr. Rockford?

395
00:33:51,542 --> 00:33:52,873
Elliot Malcolm. Yes.

396
00:33:52,944 --> 00:33:53,933
No.

397
00:33:54,512 --> 00:33:55,979
Elliot, he was at the party.

398
00:33:56,047 --> 00:33:58,311
Mr. Rockford was not at the party.

399
00:33:59,550 --> 00:34:01,780
I guess I just have one of those faces.

400
00:34:01,853 --> 00:34:04,151
You're face was not at the party.

401
00:34:04,489 --> 00:34:07,754
And your name wasn't on the guest list. I made it out myself.

402
00:34:07,825 --> 00:34:08,951
You crashed the party, too.

403
00:34:09,027 --> 00:34:10,085
I'm afraid so.

404
00:34:10,161 --> 00:34:11,219
Not a chance.

405
00:34:11,295 --> 00:34:13,263
There were over 200 people there, Elliot.

406
00:34:13,331 --> 00:34:15,799
I said not a chance. I had a guard on every gate.

407
00:34:15,867 --> 00:34:19,132
I had a guard on every door. Nobody got into that party I didn't want there.

408
00:34:19,203 --> 00:34:20,465
You make it sound impossible.

409
00:34:20,538 --> 00:34:21,527
It was impossible.

410
00:34:21,606 --> 00:34:24,370
I'm not going to argue with you, you're the expert on doors.

411
00:34:24,475 --> 00:34:27,000
Nobody crashed the party. Not me...

412
00:34:27,945 --> 00:34:29,310
not Kevin Calhoun.

413
00:34:29,380 --> 00:34:30,870
I didn't say that.

414
00:34:30,948 --> 00:34:32,506
Yes, you did.

415
00:34:41,559 --> 00:34:43,720
What was that all about?

416
00:34:43,795 --> 00:34:45,660
Probably a lawyer checking out the party.

417
00:34:45,730 --> 00:34:47,664
Somebody was just indicted for that murder.

418
00:34:47,732 --> 00:34:51,498
You just told him that Kevin Calhoun was invited to the party.

419
00:34:52,403 --> 00:34:56,806
And our statements to the police say that he crashed.

420
00:34:57,041 --> 00:34:59,942
It's one of the things he does. Elliot puts parties together.

421
00:35:00,011 --> 00:35:03,139
Makes introductions. Elliot went to all the right schools.

422
00:35:03,214 --> 00:35:06,308
Knows the right people, and knows how to make them pay off.

423
00:35:06,384 --> 00:35:09,114
Evidently, he's going to marry Elizabeth Gorman.

424
00:35:09,487 --> 00:35:10,511
New money.

425
00:35:10,588 --> 00:35:11,612
What does that mean?

426
00:35:11,689 --> 00:35:13,850
Old money would never marry Elliot.

427
00:35:14,292 --> 00:35:16,283
Tell me something, Beth.

428
00:35:16,894 --> 00:35:19,624
Does it embarrass you to be seen in public with me?

429
00:35:19,697 --> 00:35:20,686
Of course not.

430
00:35:20,765 --> 00:35:22,426
Why would you ask a thing like that?

431
00:35:22,500 --> 00:35:23,762
I don't even have new money.

432
00:35:41,352 --> 00:35:42,614
Rocky?

433
00:35:43,154 --> 00:35:44,416
No, it's Beth.

434
00:35:49,627 --> 00:35:51,561
I found out who killed Kevin Calhoun.

435
00:35:51,629 --> 00:35:52,527
Who?

436
00:35:52,597 --> 00:35:53,621
Clyde Russell.

437
00:35:53,698 --> 00:35:54,790
Why?

438
00:35:54,866 --> 00:35:58,427
That's the most fascinating part about this whole thing. I start...

439
00:35:58,503 --> 00:35:59,595
Why aren't you dressed?

440
00:35:59,670 --> 00:36:01,661
I am dressed. For bed.

441
00:36:01,739 --> 00:36:03,468
Put your clothes on.

442
00:36:03,741 --> 00:36:05,971
I started looking into Clyde Russell's background.

443
00:36:06,043 --> 00:36:07,874
And I found out he's into copyrights.

444
00:36:07,945 --> 00:36:09,776
Now, that's a very specialized field.

445
00:36:09,847 --> 00:36:13,248
So I asked a friend of mine, an expert, to help me, and he...

446
00:36:13,317 --> 00:36:15,877
For $200, you could put your clothes on.

447
00:36:17,555 --> 00:36:19,716
Anyway, there's the most peculiar thing

448
00:36:19,790 --> 00:36:22,190
about the copyright law in this country.

449
00:36:22,260 --> 00:36:26,321
I mean, it's insane. It sounds as if the whole thing were written by a madman.

450
00:36:27,098 --> 00:36:28,258
Listen.

451
00:36:28,332 --> 00:36:32,200
Wouldn't you think that when a company buys a book, that they own it?

452
00:36:32,737 --> 00:36:35,103
Especially if the contract says so.

453
00:36:35,173 --> 00:36:36,162
Yeah.

454
00:36:36,240 --> 00:36:38,174
Well, they do. Except...

455
00:36:39,477 --> 00:36:43,038
It would be a lot easier if I could look at you when I'm talking to you.

456
00:36:43,114 --> 00:36:44,513
Not for me.

457
00:36:45,349 --> 00:36:46,714
Except what?

458
00:36:47,018 --> 00:36:48,815
Except for this kinky law.

459
00:36:48,886 --> 00:36:51,548
A company can buy a book for $1 million.

460
00:36:51,622 --> 00:36:54,056
But, when the copyright renewal time comes up...

461
00:36:54,125 --> 00:36:57,253
if the author has died, they don't own it.

462
00:36:57,328 --> 00:37:00,126
It's not theirs anymore. Can you believe that?

463
00:37:00,198 --> 00:37:02,257
No. Are you sure?

464
00:37:03,734 --> 00:37:04,860
Positive.

465
00:37:04,969 --> 00:37:08,132
17 U.S.C. 24. It's all there.

466
00:37:08,206 --> 00:37:09,696
What's all that?

467
00:37:09,774 --> 00:37:12,402
Title 17, United States Code, Section 24.

468
00:37:12,476 --> 00:37:15,172
You mean to say somebody can spend $1 million for a book...

469
00:37:15,246 --> 00:37:17,544
and just because the author happens to die...

470
00:37:17,615 --> 00:37:20,550
before the renewal time, they don't own it?

471
00:37:20,818 --> 00:37:22,080
That's it.

472
00:37:22,153 --> 00:37:25,520
The rights go to his widow, our friend Elizabeth Gorman.

473
00:37:27,191 --> 00:37:30,752
And that's exactly what happened with The Dark and Bloody Ground.

474
00:37:30,828 --> 00:37:33,922
They were half way through the picture when her husband died.

475
00:37:33,998 --> 00:37:36,296
That's when Clyde Russell moved in.

476
00:37:36,667 --> 00:37:39,898
Elizabeth didn't know she suddenly owned the rights to the book.

477
00:37:39,971 --> 00:37:41,461
So, Clyde made a deal with her...

478
00:37:41,539 --> 00:37:44,269
and then he hit the motion picture company for 25%.

479
00:37:44,342 --> 00:37:46,833
The biggest thing since Birth of a Nation, yeah.

480
00:37:47,578 --> 00:37:51,412
Which makes Clyde Russell an opportunist, not a murderer.

481
00:37:51,482 --> 00:37:53,347
Jim, Clyde Russell...

482
00:37:54,552 --> 00:37:56,452
Would you excuse me a minute?

483
00:37:59,323 --> 00:38:00,255
Hello?

484
00:38:00,658 --> 00:38:01,852
Mr. Rockford?

485
00:38:02,293 --> 00:38:03,760
It's Clyde Russell.

486
00:38:04,095 --> 00:38:07,030
Now, tell me, you are a private investigator, aren't you?

487
00:38:07,898 --> 00:38:08,887
That's right.

488
00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:12,601
Well, I've been thinking over what happened at the track today...

489
00:38:12,670 --> 00:38:15,935
and I think we gotta talk about Kevin Calhoun.

490
00:38:17,942 --> 00:38:20,536
I bought the old Blackford place at...

491
00:38:20,611 --> 00:38:24,980
3972, Ambazac Road in Bel Air. Do you know the house?

492
00:38:25,449 --> 00:38:27,280
Yeah, I think I know where it is.

493
00:38:27,351 --> 00:38:30,081
Just let yourself in the back way. The gate will be open...

494
00:38:30,154 --> 00:38:31,746
and come straight to the pool house.

495
00:38:31,822 --> 00:38:33,312
The pool house.

496
00:38:35,993 --> 00:38:38,393
If you're finished, I'd like to finish.

497
00:38:39,930 --> 00:38:42,865
Clyde Russell resigned from the Bar.

498
00:38:44,235 --> 00:38:45,702
Don't you get it?

499
00:38:45,770 --> 00:38:50,139
Nobody resigns from the Bar unless they got something pretty shady to hide.

500
00:38:50,841 --> 00:38:54,140
Clyde Russell is a high-class ambulance chaser.

501
00:38:54,845 --> 00:38:57,211
Only he chases copyrights.

502
00:38:58,182 --> 00:38:59,979
Kevin Calhoun was a writer.

503
00:39:00,051 --> 00:39:02,110
No, Kevin Calhoun was a poet.

504
00:39:02,186 --> 00:39:05,178
He grossed a fat $15, $20 a year for his work.

505
00:39:06,290 --> 00:39:08,087
Well, there's something there.

506
00:39:08,159 --> 00:39:10,093
And don't ask me what, 'cause I don't know.

507
00:39:10,161 --> 00:39:12,686
Why don't we just go up to Russell's place and ask him?

508
00:39:12,763 --> 00:39:14,458
After what happened at the track today?

509
00:39:14,532 --> 00:39:16,500
You couldn't get in the back gate.

510
00:39:17,435 --> 00:39:18,834
$10 says I can.

511
00:39:21,739 --> 00:39:22,831
You're on.

512
00:40:15,726 --> 00:40:17,591
Shall I call an ambulance?

513
00:40:29,540 --> 00:40:31,371
He won't need an ambulance.

514
00:40:35,613 --> 00:40:37,080
I'll be all right.

515
00:40:39,049 --> 00:40:42,109
Let's see if we can find a phone in the house. Come on.

516
00:40:51,962 --> 00:40:53,429
Go call the police.

517
00:43:13,503 --> 00:43:15,698
What happened? Do you know how long I've been waiting?

518
00:43:15,772 --> 00:43:17,103
I got hung up at the hospital.

519
00:43:17,173 --> 00:43:18,105
You're hurt.

520
00:43:18,174 --> 00:43:21,075
No, I'm fine. Elliot Malcolm got messed up pretty good, though.

521
00:43:21,144 --> 00:43:22,634
Elliot killed Clyde?

522
00:43:22,712 --> 00:43:24,805
Yeah, and he tried to kill us.

523
00:43:24,881 --> 00:43:25,973
Me, twice.

524
00:43:26,049 --> 00:43:27,744
I don't believe it. He's not the type.

525
00:43:27,817 --> 00:43:30,615
Because he went to the right schools? He's the type.

526
00:43:30,687 --> 00:43:32,154
He's just not very good at it.

527
00:43:32,221 --> 00:43:33,483
Has he confessed?

528
00:43:33,556 --> 00:43:36,218
He won't even give the cops his unlisted phone number.

529
00:43:36,292 --> 00:43:39,728
But if I figured it out, they're going to be right behind me.

530
00:43:39,796 --> 00:43:43,425
Come on, I want to get to Elizabeth Gorman's before they do.

531
00:44:15,031 --> 00:44:16,623
Elliot, I have been...

532
00:44:17,900 --> 00:44:20,027
When it's bad news, I knock first.

533
00:44:23,773 --> 00:44:26,606
Look, Mr. Rockford, if you persist on coming in here...

534
00:44:26,676 --> 00:44:28,109
I'm gonna have to call the police.

535
00:44:28,177 --> 00:44:29,576
You won't have to.

536
00:44:30,813 --> 00:44:33,077
They should be along any minute.

537
00:44:33,149 --> 00:44:36,710
Elliot Malcolm's in the prison ward at the Santa Monica Hospital.

538
00:44:37,954 --> 00:44:38,852
Is he...

539
00:44:38,921 --> 00:44:41,082
He'll be fine in time for the trial.

540
00:44:41,157 --> 00:44:42,454
What trial?

541
00:44:42,525 --> 00:44:45,392
He's been charged with the murder of Clyde Russell.

542
00:44:45,862 --> 00:44:47,352
I don't believe you.

543
00:44:48,531 --> 00:44:51,557
You don't have to, you can check it out with the cops.

544
00:44:51,701 --> 00:44:54,465
Clyde had nothing to do with Kevin Calhoun's murder.

545
00:44:54,537 --> 00:44:55,936
He didn't even know about it.

546
00:44:56,005 --> 00:44:57,996
But he figured it out.

547
00:44:58,675 --> 00:45:01,974
So he had to go. Elliot was just protecting you.

548
00:45:02,045 --> 00:45:05,208
Or should I say, he was protecting his investment?

549
00:45:06,416 --> 00:45:08,407
He's talking now, Elizabeth.

550
00:45:09,085 --> 00:45:12,953
And he's going to keep right on talking. He's got nothing more to lose.

551
00:45:13,723 --> 00:45:15,816
Don't you want to know what he's talking about?

552
00:45:15,892 --> 00:45:19,123
Might help you with your answers when the police get here.

553
00:45:19,862 --> 00:45:22,922
Well, I certainly don't need any help with any answers.

554
00:45:23,032 --> 00:45:26,092
Not even when they start asking you about your husband?

555
00:45:27,470 --> 00:45:31,065
Mr. Rockford, would you mind leaving?

556
00:45:32,208 --> 00:45:34,472
I mean, I don't believe a word you've said.

557
00:45:34,544 --> 00:45:36,512
I don't believe that Clyde is dead.

558
00:45:36,579 --> 00:45:40,242
And I don't believe that Elliot is in any prison hospital.

559
00:45:40,316 --> 00:45:44,218
I don't know what you're gaining by lying to me like this, but...

560
00:45:46,122 --> 00:45:48,420
I'm warning you. Just leave me alone.

561
00:45:48,725 --> 00:45:50,158
You are alone.

562
00:45:55,932 --> 00:45:58,093
This came off during the accident.

563
00:45:59,202 --> 00:46:01,796
"To Elliot, with all my love.

564
00:46:03,639 --> 00:46:04,765
Elizabeth."

565
00:46:17,086 --> 00:46:19,953
According to this, your husband was killed in a boating accident...

566
00:46:20,022 --> 00:46:23,287
off the coast of Mexico. Only his body was never recovered.

567
00:46:25,328 --> 00:46:28,161
Kevin Calhoun was Steven Gorman.

568
00:46:30,133 --> 00:46:32,226
When he heard about the movie, he showed up here...

569
00:46:32,301 --> 00:46:34,235
to get his slice of the money.

570
00:46:34,771 --> 00:46:37,296
And you killed him to protect your interest.

571
00:46:50,620 --> 00:46:52,212
I thought he was dead.

572
00:46:52,488 --> 00:46:54,888
For three years I had to live with that.

573
00:46:55,792 --> 00:46:57,384
Believe me, that hurt.

574
00:46:57,493 --> 00:47:00,656
And then one day, the day of the party, he shows up...

575
00:47:00,730 --> 00:47:03,426
with a new name, and a new wife.

576
00:47:04,233 --> 00:47:05,598
No explanations.

577
00:47:06,369 --> 00:47:07,734
And no apologies.

578
00:47:08,905 --> 00:47:10,736
He was there to collect the money.

579
00:47:10,807 --> 00:47:13,571
No thought to me, and what I'd been through.

580
00:47:13,643 --> 00:47:16,305
No more thought than when he faked the boating accident...

581
00:47:16,379 --> 00:47:19,746
because he didn't have the courage to ask me for a divorce.

582
00:47:20,883 --> 00:47:22,475
What he put me through.

583
00:47:23,619 --> 00:47:26,452
Boy, you'll never know the hell he put me through.

584
00:47:27,456 --> 00:47:29,515
That's why I killed him.

585
00:47:35,531 --> 00:47:37,863
Have you heard from Ann Calhoun?

586
00:47:37,934 --> 00:47:40,061
She phoned me from Flagstaff this morning.

587
00:47:40,136 --> 00:47:42,627
It'll take a while, but she'll be all right.

588
00:47:42,705 --> 00:47:45,071
Ten cents a mile? I thought it was seven.

589
00:47:45,141 --> 00:47:47,336
It is, if you're a nostalgia buff.

590
00:47:48,277 --> 00:47:50,268
That toothpaste is still on here.

591
00:47:50,346 --> 00:47:51,574
That's right.

592
00:47:52,315 --> 00:47:53,339
All right, I'll pay it.

593
00:47:53,416 --> 00:47:54,576
Thanks, sport.

594
00:47:55,518 --> 00:47:59,511
But that spark plug lead and this brake job...

595
00:47:59,789 --> 00:48:03,122
parts and labor, I'm afraid that will have to come off.

596
00:48:03,192 --> 00:48:06,218
What are you talking about? Those represent attempts on my life...

597
00:48:06,295 --> 00:48:08,490
and yours, in the line of duty.

598
00:48:08,564 --> 00:48:11,362
Attempts that were only possible because of your negligence.

599
00:48:11,434 --> 00:48:12,924
You should have locked your car.

600
00:48:13,002 --> 00:48:15,436
The hood? There's no lock on the hood.

601
00:48:15,504 --> 00:48:17,233
Then I suggest you have one installed.

602
00:48:17,306 --> 00:48:20,469
This sort of thing must crop up all the time in the line of work you do.

603
00:48:20,543 --> 00:48:21,703
Just give it back to me.

604
00:48:21,777 --> 00:48:25,736
Forget the expenses. I don't want to talk about it anymore. Give us two tacos, please.

605
00:48:25,815 --> 00:48:27,806
Just pay me for my services and we're even.

606
00:48:27,884 --> 00:48:31,217
Don't be ridiculous, Jim. I'm going to pay for your services.

607
00:48:31,287 --> 00:48:34,814
And your expenses. Just as soon as Ann Calhoun pays me.

608
00:48:34,891 --> 00:48:36,051
That wasn't our deal.

609
00:48:36,125 --> 00:48:37,922
Of course it was.

610
00:48:38,060 --> 00:48:39,994
Don't tell me you misunderstood me.

611
00:48:40,062 --> 00:48:42,530
Naturally payment will take some time.

612
00:48:42,598 --> 00:48:45,032
Ann doesn't have much except for that piece of property.

613
00:48:45,101 --> 00:48:49,595
And who knows how long it'll take to sell it how much she'll get for it? Okay, Beth.

614
00:48:50,473 --> 00:48:52,338
How about a compromise?

615
00:48:52,408 --> 00:48:55,866
I'll forget about Ann Calhoun. Just wipe it off the books.

616
00:48:55,945 --> 00:48:58,607
You retain me on the Elizabeth Gorman case.

617
00:48:58,681 --> 00:49:01,343
You owe me that much. I'm the one that recommended you.

618
00:49:01,417 --> 00:49:02,543
And she can afford me.

619
00:49:02,618 --> 00:49:04,210
She can afford you.

620
00:49:04,287 --> 00:49:08,348
But she doesn't need you. I have a brilliant defense planned.

621
00:49:08,424 --> 00:49:10,221
She'll be out in six months.

622
00:49:11,160 --> 00:49:13,924
But, you know, I am working on another case.

623
00:49:13,996 --> 00:49:16,590
We could certainly use your help on that.

624
00:49:17,300 --> 00:49:19,791
Of course, the man is virtually penniless.

625
00:49:19,869 --> 00:49:23,805
But you'll love him, Jim. He's 70 years old, but alert.

626
00:49:24,440 --> 00:49:25,498
Jim?

627
00:49:28,577 --> 00:49:29,566
Jim?

