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[theme - "hot summer night"]

THEME SONG: I feel thebeat on the street tonight.

The light's so bright andit feels so right tonight.

It's a hot summer night.

And I'm ready tonight.

It's a hot summer night and it feels so right.

It's a hot summer night and I'm ready tonight.

It's hot summer night and it feels so right.

It's hot summer night and I'm ready tonight.

It's a hot summer night and it feels so right.

Hot.

[music playing]

WOMAN: You took my brother's money.

Can't you at least leave me his memory?

I was his wife.

I like to remember him on his birthday.

Then go to the bank.

[music playing]

[thunder crashing]

[music playing]

I hate the rain.

Why is everyone else so dry?

Is there some corporate mudroom I don't know about?

Yes, Booker.

It's right next to the roomwhere we hand out the hot cocoa

and warm blankets on cold days.

You know, why don't youand I act like we're married?

You know, basically ignore each other.

Carissa McKay.

Her fiancee is insured by Teshima Life.

And he just made her solebeneficiary on a $5 million

life insurance policy.

So we're rooting he doesn't die, right?

That's where you come in.

She's been married twice before.

Both husbands were considerably older.

Both husbands were very wealthy.

And they both had large life insurance policies.

With Teshima?

Fortunately not.

That's what I love aboutinsurance companies--

real respect for the dead.

We're talking about $5 million here, Booker.

We've taken a lot of hits lately.

And we don't want to take another one.

Fine.

What makes you think we're going to?

Well, both men listed CarissaMcKay as sole beneficiary.

And both men were very deadwithin a year of marrying her.

Cause of death?

Natural causes.

Well, she's already scored twice,

why doesn't she just retire?

That's for you to find out.

[thunder crashes]

Well, then, getting thereshould be half the fun.

[music playing]

[SINGING] So we could kiss from the mission.

Roll them out into the lake.

Another night, another mission.

I saw me in your bed.

I saw the big mistake.

Stare in the dark.

Can you see the living?

Reach for the spark.

Can you see the light?

It was like it was in the beginning.

Down and down, world without air.

Don't ever see the devil grinning.

But you can tell he's there.

Love is everywhere.

Stand in the dark.

Can you see the living?

Stare at the spark, reach into the light.

Lie to yourself.

How much are you giving?

One step away.

One turn of the knife.

[knocking]

The more I look at her, the more

I get to feeling something's going on.

I got to get closer.

You can't just walk into their lives.

I can if I'm invited.

[music playing]

[grunts]

[horns honk]

My purse.

[grunts]

[trash cans clank]

Here you go, man.

It's OK.

Teshima dollars.

He mails us expense money.

Just call it a favor.

OK, go ahead, do it.

Do I have to?

Yeah, yeah, do it.

OK.

Oh, my God.

It was nice.

It was good.

Oh, I really didn't want to do that.

- Well, I was-- it's OK, really.- OK.

Give me the money because I feel terrible.

Here.

I'll see you.

Are you all right?

Yeah, I'm taking inventory.

Did you call the cops?

I don't think that's going to be necessary

because neither one of us reallygot a very good look at him.

Here's your purse.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

I'll see you later.

Hold on.

There must be something we can do to repay you.

[music playing]

Who are you?

The day shift.

Nice place.

Watch it for me.

This place is incredible.

Try to find craftsmen whocould do this today, hey?

Well, it's a bit overwhelming.

But it's home.

What?

Did you hit the lottery or something?

Warehousing.

All I do is buy low everything that doesn't

sell for pennies on the dollar.

Then I just keep it in my warehouse.

Sooner or later, whatgoes around comes around.

You sell high?

Oh, skateboards, hula hoops, earth shoes,

watches with hands.

My motto is everything comes back.

Even Nehru jackets.

Uh.

Where's the rest of the staff.

We haven't had time to hire them yet.

What with moving into the house,you know, planning the wedding.

Well, I'm pretty good on my hands.

I know you are.

That's why I hired you.

This kind of house attractsa great deal of attention.

If there were a break in, I discovered I'm not

quite as young as I used to be.

Oh, well, I understand.

I would be absolutely devastated if anything

happened to Carissa.

[music playing]

Right over there is where you're

going to live if you'd like to.- Right there

- Uh, huh. - Wow.

Look at that.

Now, roses are my hobby.

BOOKER: I wonder how you learnabout something like that.

I still can't believe that a woman AS

young and beautiful as that could

fall for an old geezer like me.

Come on, you're not that old.

Dennis, believe me, if thedistance between here and Japan

were as great is that betweenage 36 and 63, none of us

would be driving imports.

How did you meet her, Mr Wingate?

Oh, Jack, call me Jack, will you?

OK, Jack.

It was an absolute fluke.

I was having a luncheon meetingwith an associate of mine

and he didn't show up.

So I ordered.

I was hungry, and I was used to eating alone.

So I looked up from my menu for a minute.

And there in front of me wasthis absolute apparition,

this angel.

She said incredibly enough,I had been stood up too.

May I join you?

I was a lonely man, Dennis.

I'd been married once, had a bad divorce.

Carissa was a gift from God to me.

It was my lucky day.

What happened to the otherguy you were supposed to meet?

Total mix-up.

He thought that he had had a call canceling.

My secretary doesn't remember canceling.

Whatever it was a bad day forhim but a good day for me.

La forza del destino, the force of destiny.

Yeah, destiny.

[music playing]

WOMAN: I told you not to come out here.

WOMAN 2: I just want to meet him.

WOMAN: I said no.

WOMAN 2: What is your my problem?

WOMAN: You're my problem.

WOMAN 2: That's backwards.

WOMAN: It's for your own good, Taryn.

Now just go back inside.

Why can't you just leave me alone.

[music playing]

[knocking]

Hey.

CARISSA: I just came by to see if you

were settled in all right.

Well, I couldn't ask for more than this.

I'm sorry you had to see me argue with Taryn.

That seems to be our solemeans of communication lately.

I thought it was just a cliche that you

only hurt the one you love.

Well, I hear it happens all the time.

Taryn wanted to come down and meet you.

Well, that would have been all right.

No.

I don't think so.

I thought you'd want tounpack and get comfortable.

Well, it doesn't take me much to unpack.

You see, I just take my clothes out.

I'll Put it on top ofthe dresser or over here.

We have to be more orderly than that.

I saw you and Jack from the garden today.

That's where we're going to be married.

You can see the water from there.

Is that important?

The water?

Yeah, it is to me.

Water signifies new beginnings.

Is that something you have a lot of?

New beginnings?

I've had my share.

Jack's a nice guy. I like him.

So do I. I don't know what I'd do without him.

You shouldn't have to worry about that now.

[music playing]

[boat engine stalling]

Gassed up?

Yeah, I filled it this afternoon.

Carissa asked me to warm it upand maybe go for a ride later.

Let me try it?

Sounds like it's not getting gas.

Sure.

Why don't you give it a try?

Engines are kind of my specialty.

OK.

Let me know if you get it started, will you?

OK.

[engine starts]

Jack, I got it started.

You can use it i you want.

[engine stalls]

[fire roaring]

[explosion]

The float was plugged.

Can't tell by what.

Must've made a hell of a bang.

Could have been worse.

Charlie, this sort of thingdoesn't happen very often,

does it?

No, sir, no.

Maybe we're not paying you enough.

Wait till you get my bill.

[music playing]

REVEREND: Jack, would you repeat after me.

I, Jack-- JACK WINGATE: I, Jack--

REVEREND: Take you, Carissa--

JACK WINGATE: Take you, Carissa--

REVEREND: To be my lawful wedded wife.

JACK WINGATE: To be my lawful wedded wife.

REVEREND: To have and to hold.

JACK WINGATE: To have and to hold.

REVEREND: To love and to cherish.

JACK WINGATE: To love and to cherish.

REVEREND: In sickness and in health.

JACK WINGATE: In sickness and in health.

REVEREND: Till death do us part.

JACK WINGATE: Till death do us part.

[music playing]

TARYN: Find anythinginteresting, let me know.

Hi.

I'm Dennis Cook.

Your parents--

I know.

I heard all about you.

I'm Taryn.

Not part of the rehearsal, huh?

Nah, I like be spontaneous.

You know, save myself for the main event.

And when's that?

Next week.

Unless you want to push it up.

I suppose I should thank you for saving my mom

and stepfather the other night.

I just did what I had to, you know.

No big deal.

Protecting the weak anddefenseless, that's very noble.

That will come in handy around here.

Uh-- no.

No.

Your mother know you smokethat stuff in the house, Taryn?

If my mom knew half of what I did,

she'd never leave me alone here next week.

Next week?

Honeymoon.

Long walks along the lonelyocean at my mom's beach house.

Hm, she arranged the whole thing, of course,

picked every detail.

Probably even arranged forthe color of the ocean.

Anyway, it's going to be party central.

You going to be around?

You're a real bag of tricks, Taryn.

I have a good teacher.

Best money can buy.

What about your father?

He's dead-- when I was young.

Never knew him.

He loves my mom a lot.

[music playing]

ELAINE: Real estate, stocks,bonds, Carissa is way too rich

to need want Wingate's got.

I don't know, Elaine, Iguess when the food's free,

some people can't stop eating.

Yeah.

Weird part is I can't find anything

from more than 10 years ago.

BOOKER: Well, listen, we gotto go back further than that.

See what you can get on her first marriage.

ELAINE: Wait a minute. What first marriage?

BOOKER: Well, Taryn McKay saidshe never knew her father.

She's about 17.

So there's got to be anotherman we don't know about.

Well, why wouldn't he show up in the records?

Maybe she changed her identity.

Um-- like she had to.

You think she's guilty, don't you?

Or worse.

What could be worse than that?

Maybe instead of killing men for money,

she kills them because she likes it.

[music playing]

[SINGING] So we could kiss from the mission.

Roll them out into the lake.

Another night, another mission.

I saw in your bed.

I saw the big mistake.

Stand in the dark.

Can you see the living?

Reach for the spark.

Can you see the light.

It was like there was another beginning.

Down and down, world without air.

Don't ever see the devil grinning.

You can tell he's there.

Love is everywhere.

Stand in the dark.

Can you see the mirror?

Stand at the spark.

Reach into the light.

Lie to yourself.

How much are you giving?

[gun shots]

Do you shoot skeet?

Not unless they deserve it.

[laughs]

Oh, hey.

Jack wanted me to check this thing out.

You're good at that, aren't you?

Checking things out.

That's why I came to work here.

Well, now that you're here,are you enjoying yourself?

Other than the boat ride, yeah.

I-- I could get used to it.

Getting used to it is easy.

The hard part is not taking it for granted.

[electrical zap] Taryn takes it for granted.

That's why I fear that someone will

take all this away from her.

Like who?

Oh, there's always someonewho wants what you've got,

someone who's watching you, following you.

I fought people like that my whole life,

and I've beaten them at their own game.

That's great.

Is that something you canstudy up on the library?

There's no need to study.I wrote the book.

I don't read much.

Well, the story always ends the same.

I find out what the people will settle for,

and then I give it to them.

Sometimes it's money.

And sometimes it's sex.

Well-- uh-- maybe I can getthe Cliff's Notes on that.

[music playing]

Hey!

I meant to tell you to be careful.

[music playing]

[crickets chirping]

I've been watching you, Dennis.

Yeah.

You know what I've seen?

You watching us.

Well, you can't blame me.

No.

It's a pretty interesting place.

Full of secrets.

Yeah, like what?

Did you know that Jackhired a private investigator

to check out my mombefore they were married?

Yeah.

So?

So maybe-- maybe he's lookingfor the same thing we are.

Are we looking for the same thing?

You tell me.

[music playing]

[door closes]

[music playing]

CARISSA: How dare you like to me like that.

TARYN: I don't about--

CARISSA: I created this whole world for you.

Oh, come on, don't--

Why don't you tell your daughter

where you've been this morning?

She was with me.

We were up all night talking.

Friendship.

Friendship, that's the name of the rose.

My favorite rose.

It's nice.

Beautiful.

Jack, my name's not Dennis Cook.

It's Dennis Booker.

I'm an investigator for the company that holds

your life insurance policy.

How much do you know about your wife?

Ah, this is about my wife'sformer husbands, isn't it?

You know?

I'm not a fool.

I had a man check into her past.

Yeah, and the guy's dead.

Look-- uh-- I think you better leave until I

get things straightened out.

What the devil are you talking about?

I think Carissa killed her first two husbands.

And I think she wants to kill you.

The investigator was killed with a 22.

Carissa owns at 22.

I saw it.

I gave it to her for her protection.

JACK WINGATE: I had received some threats.

I reported it to the police.

And they said there wasn't anything

they could do about it.

Jack, she was outside theoffice when I found the body.

Then where are the police?

I don't have enough evidence yet.

But I know what I saw.

And I know Carissa.

Jack, you're making a big mistake.

Thank God it is my mistake to make, Dennis,

or whatever your name is.

Now, I don't want you tomention this to me again.

And I don't want you talking about it to my family.

It's time for you to leave.

[music playing]

BOOKER: Come on, Doug, just give it to me.

How do I know you're going tobe responsible with this stuff?

What do you mean?I called 9-1-1, didn't I?

Oh, yeah, I heard the tape.

You disguised your voice really well.

This is the evidence fromthe office of a dead man.

I'll give it back.

I want to know what you going to do with it.

Carissa's first husband,I figured she aced him.

I can prove it. Case closed.

Oh, I got some bad news for you, buddy.

He's alive.

Name's Frank Patterson.

By the way, have this back by tomorrow

or I'll hit you for free.

He's lying.

FRANK: Sandy, that's her real name.

We used to live right up there.

Yeah.

$100 a month.

And that was really stretching it back then.

But when you're in love.

What happened, Frank?

I took a job summer beforecollege, working construction,

fell off some steel beamsand broke my leg, real bad.

The doctor said I'd never walk again.

Well, I'm proven him wrongon that count, didn't I?

Oh, yeah.

Football, no way.

State let me keep my scholarship.

But I had done my best thinking onto the field.

About then Sandy got pregnant.

It was a bad time, man.

I was back in construction.

But it seemed like I didmore drinking than working.

Uh-- the girl, it was Taryn?

Only we named her Margaret.

Yeah

Man, was she beautiful.

I don't know.

I guess it wasn't ready for it.

Drinking got worse.

I hardly ever came home.

And when I did--

What, Frank?

Sometimes I hit Sandy, a lot.

So she left?

Said she wanted what was best for Margaret.

And I wasn't it.

I don't blame her.

Hell, I'm just surprised she didn't leave sooner.

Have you seen her since?

That's the funny thing.

I didn't expect to, not after what I'd done.

But once or twice a year, Iget a money order in the mail.

No return address.

But I know it's from her.

Sandy-- Carissa-- dideverything she could to make

sure our daughter had the best.

Sometimes when you work sohard to leave something behind,

you're afraid to go backto it, even for a minute.

BOOKER: Are you sure?

Jack said he filed the threats with the police.

Yeah, well, he's definitely lying.

Kind of makes you wonder, doesn't it?

Is this Wingate Enterprises?

Wingate Enterprises?

Yeah.

It's upstairs.

What?

Upstairs.

BOOKER: Where is everything?

This is everything.

I thought Jack Wingate ranhis business from out of here.

Only time anyone's ever come around here

is paint them signs onthe door and pay the rent.

And the rent's run out.

Oops, sorry.

You were right, Dennis.

Jack's been running everything he's got.

Most of its past due.

This guy is busted.

And wait till you hear this, there's

an insurance policy out onCarissa with another carrier,

$6 million.

WOMAN: Jack?

Yeah, Jack's the beneficiary.

Carissa!

Carissa!

Where are they?

They're gone-- on their honeymoon.

Honeymoon?

The wedding isn't until next week.

They pushed it up. Jack insisted.

What's the matter?

I think I just helpedarrange your mother's murder.

You didn't help me.

You didn't tell me what I want to know.

Why should I help you?

Your mother's life is in danger.

And I'm supposed to just believe you?

You've been lying to me since I got here.

You're just like my mom.

I don't care about you.

And I don't care about her.

Look at me. Look at me.

You lied to me, too. - No!

Yeah, you did.

You told me you and your mother spent the whole

night together and you didn't.

Do you remember that?

We didn't know who you were.

For all we knew you killed that man and--

And?

I was afraid you were going to hurt my mom.

I'm sorry.

But I'm not saying all this lying is right,

but sometimes there's reasons behind it.

Your mother lied to you to protect you.

Yeah, from what?

Something she thought could hurt you.

How do you know?

I talked to someone today that convinced me.

What about you, Dennis?

Why did you lie?

And how do I know that you'restill not going to hurt her?

I lied to save someone's life, Taryn.

My mom I was going to tell me something

today about my father, but she just couldn't.

Well, if you want to giveher another chance, you've got

gotta help me.

Look, you got to help me.

Hey?

All right?

It's a couple miles up.

The turnoff's by a bunch of mailboxes, I think.

I haven't been here in a long time.

When we find an address,we'll call the cops.

Don't be scared.

My mom was scared themoment you came to the house.

I think Jack was counting on that.

He wanted me to think thatshe was planning to kill him.

What was she afraid of, Dennis?

Why don't you ask her when we find her?

Turn here.

Come on.

Stay outside.

They're on the beach.

Call the cops.

[music playing]

I figured it out, Jack.

A little late, isn't it?

A shotgun pellet to clog the fuel

line, a lie about the threats,and you killed the PI.

You're the black widow, man.

You were going to say youshot her in self-defense.

Yeah, and you're my alibi.

Let her go, Jack.

Don't do it.

[tense music]

[gun shots]

[moans]

[music playing]

[police radio chatter]

I loved him, you know.

I really loved him.

I guess you did.

The others were different.

They were old and alone.

They needed somebody and I needed money.

It was an exchange.

I never hurt anyone.

I know.

Why didn't you tell me about my father?

My real father?

What are you afraid of?

How much did you tell her?

He didn't tell me anything.

I want you to tell me.

I just want to know.

I think the more you tell her about her past,

the more she'll appreciate the present.

I guess I just didn'twant to lose what we had.

[music playing]

Thank you.

Booker, I've got to check hereI have to sign for $5 million,

the insurance payoff on one of our clients.

And they tell me you killed him.

Now, you want to explain this to me?

I don't think I could if I tried.

[music playing]

Hey, sun's back out.

[music playing]

[theme - "hot summer night"]

THEME SONG: I feel thebeat on the street tonight.

The light's so bright andit feels all right tonight.

It's a hot summer night and I'm ready tonight.

It's a hot summer night and it feels so right.

It's a hot summer night.