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We talked here about his business, about a book.

A book?

Harry Hood in town is gonna be looking for Arthur Jay's book.

We're sitting on a time bomb here, you know that?

We can't kill you.

So we're gonna deal with you.

Name your price, Tony.

There's two stiffs on the streets.

The city's starting to become bullet city and

I'm trying to stop it before it becomes epidemic. Understand?

For once, we agree there, little prince.

Loretta will deliver the original from his hand to your hand.

In exchange for $500,000.

Agreed?

Agreed.

You wanted a mediator, right?

Well, you got one. Me.

No, Nicholas had the same choice you got.

I told you before I'm Artie's girl and that's it.

I told you he's old enough to be a father.

Come on, Hall, you belong with me.

Dave, stop it.

Listen, we've been through all this.

I like you, but I love him.

Do you understand?

I want you guys to behave.

Leave me alone.

No, Big Daddy, I'm telling you.

You wanted to be here, right?

Be a cowboy.

Me.

Okay.

East of 58th Street.

It's home to Big Daddy.

I want you guys to behave.

Do you hear me?

I want no surprises.

All right.

Hi.

How you doing baby?

Fine.

Did you take the show?

Yes.

Hey Dave, I want to thank you for filling in for me.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

What's the matter with you?

He's pouting.

Okay, go ahead.

Get it out.

What's eating you?

It's you Artie,

you're too old.

Yeah, I was old yesterday.

I was old three years ago when I hired you.

So?

I'll tell you when to leave pal.

I still give the orders.

If you didn't know where the bodies are buried

and have it all written down, you'd be nothing.

I'd still be able to handle a punk like you.

Put your coat on, you're coming with me.

Stay where you are Holly.

Dave, stop it.

Okay, I'll make it easy for you.

Rob me of five or ten years, but you're trading your life away.

Because there won't be a whole small

or dark or far enough away for you to hide in.

(Gunshot)

Artie, no.

Listen kid, I got something for you.

It's kind of an insurance policy.

It's all I got to give you.

Use it right, and you'll never need anything else.

You can get a bundle for it.

This...

...this key.

Artie...

No!

It's the key to your future.

No.

You're the chairman of the ward now.

Artie.

Top of the world, Holly.

I loved you, kid.

I love you.

I really did.

No, Artie, no.

Please, don't go.

Artie, I need you.

Excuse me, please.

Miss, we've got to go downtown.

That's okay, Mac, I'll take her down.

Okay, Baretta.

Me and Holly have been around this block a few times before, ain't we, kid?

We sure have, haven't we?

Too many times for a kid your age.

Tony, you must be so tired of me and my troubles.

Nah, we're partners.

I'd just hate to see you in this kind of jam after all the good you've been doing.

Tony, I really thought I had it made this time.

I loved him.

We were gonna get married.

Well, kid, I guess the Grim Reaper, he don't

know nothing about love or hate either one.

Guess I blew my probation, huh?

Wait a minute, wait a minute, you could have run away now.

Let's don't be fitting you up here for the electric chair just yet.

You know, he was the only guy in the home world.

that ever gave me anything without wanting anything in return.

Yeah, I know.

Just a kind of a strange time, but did he ever talk to you about his business,

about a book or a ledger that he had that was real important to him, special?

A book?

Yeah.

What kind of book?

Nothing, kid, nothing.

Come on, tighten up.

We're gonna go among them.

Glad people covered Arthur Jay's place.

They didn't find a thing there they didn't expect to find.

Certainly didn't find any book.

Every hood in town is gonna be looking for Arthur Jay's book.

We're sitting on a time bomb here, you know that?

Well, how's this thing gonna affect Holly? What's gonna happen to her?

OTA's gonna want her protected.

She's the only witness we got in the murder case, right?

So it means a guy in a blue suit in front of a hotel room,

or else it means she goes back inside here for the probation violation.

Well, we don't want to put her back in jail.

Loretta, will you get out of this?

If this Greens jurisdiction, will you get out of it?

I personally think that she's in danger.

As long as that guy's out there in the street, she's a sitting duck.

So I'm going right now to the district attorney to recommend protective custody.

In the meantime, she's your problem for the next 24 hours.

I personally hope that they put her right back in the slam right now,

and I hope you tell them to do that.

Thanks a lot, Ollie. Don't let him give you any trouble.

Make your point, Tony.

She never had a break.

She was 14 years old, she left home,

nobody to support her, nothing to sell but herself.

She's through with that now. She's cleaned up.

She's doing great.

Shocking up with Arthur J. is not my idea of doing great.

Now, wait. Hold on to that, because I checked it.

They were going to get married.

There's a marriage license, my right hand on that.

She's not hooking anymore. She goes to school at night.

She's getting As and Bs.

Terrific.

I put her in my honor book, except she lied to me for two whole years.

Once every week, she sat in my office and lied to me,

smiled, but never mentioned Arthur J.

I'm not bragging, lady. You don't want... Don't call me that.

You want me to wash your mouth out with soap?

I'll get Billy to help me.

You know yourself, there ain't nobody in the world

that knows people better than Billy does.

When I was just a kid in trouble, who did you send me to?

You sent me to Billy because you knew that

he could help me better than anybody could.

Him and me, we'll take her on together.

We can help her, I promise you.

If anything goes wrong, I'll take the fall.

What good will that do anybody?

You took a chance on me,

and I was bent out of shape a lot worse than her.

You're swinging from the floor, Tony.

Just because I was once conned by a ragged brat doesn't mean I'm an all-time sucker.

I want this one.

I really want to help her.

She needs a break.

Maybe it's time for me to give back a little bit

of what some nice people gave me a lot of.

You're still a class A con man, Tony.

I'll think about it.

Fair enough.

Come on, pal, let's get out of here.

I got you a consortium with known felons again, and the dragon lady will skin me.

You know them guys?

No, Artie kept me away from most of his friends.

Yeah, well, maybe they're his friends.

While they're planting Artie, I bet they got a

lot of shoes on the streets looking for that book.

It's that important, huh?

Put half of them back in the joint again for the rest of their lives.

Who says I'm not interested?

That's better.

You want to Bury the competition, it'll cost you 20 grand.

Say, how do I know you have the book?

Ain't it worth 20 to find out?

Of course it's worth the 20.

If you have what you say, it's worth much more.

I'm having a one-time-only sale, and you're the lucky buyer.

Let's hope this transaction will bring luck to us both.

Four o'clock, then.

Right.

Old man always said that when you got the

blues, when you head down to your shoes,

and you feel like going to hell in a rain barrel, go to the park instead.

You got the cotton candy, you got the trees, you got the birds and the bees.

Yeah, I like watching the kids play. They make me feel good.

You'll have some yourself someday, sugar.

But the best thing about the park is the merry-go-round.

There's the old philosopher himself.

There's the great conductor of the great merry-go-round of life.

Oh, wondrous wizard of the universe,

impart unto this poor, sad soul some words of wisdom and magic.

That'll make her happy and content the rest of her days.

Now, listen to him, darlin'. He's gonna lay it on you.

Wanna take a ride?

Peanut?

He was dead before he hit the ground.

You're just right, Charlie. That's one of Tucker's runners.

Now, who'd want to plug him? Boy, this thing don't look good.

Baretta, Lieutenant Brubaker wants you on the box.

Call the exhibit.

Yeah, boss. This is Tony.

Baretta, we got another homicide.

It's one of Nicholas' people. It's been shot in the back.

If it is one of Nicholas' men, these two

gangs are gonna be blowing each other apart.

Where is it?

We're at the fountain. Get there.

I'm on my way.

Help Charlie till the lab guys get here.

Hey, man, get out in the street and get you a subway job.

Hey, there's some jive. The dude's just taking my money.

Hey, man, I want to tell you something.

I just had two of my ladies ripped off my suit.

Now, hold it. Hold it. Hold it.

There's two stiffs on the streets.

This city's starting to become Bullitt City, and

I'm trying to stop it before it becomes an epidemic.

Well, for once, we agree there, little prince.

You know, I'm speculating there's some new gang moving into town.

No, I don't think so.

I think somebody's trying to get Nicholas and Tucker to

spread the letter to each other, and they ain't doing bad.

Well, I'm gonna head on back to the ghetto myself.

No, no ghetto for you.

I need you on this one. With them broads of yours, you're

sliding in that of big daddy Tucker's outfit like the shadow.

Now, what I want you to do is work your way in there.

I want you to get your ear up against his backside,

because I want to know every time that that man...

Yeah, yeah, I hear you. I hear you.

Say, man, you know, I don't think money is an

adequate compensation for that type of gear.

You don't, huh? Listen, when you're in there, watch your tootsies, pal.

Them folks will kill you quick.

These streets wouldn't be half as much fun if I couldn't

get upside your head once in a while, you understand me?

Well, I got you too, little prince.

Jive, Tanky, he gonna head on back to the camp, and

I gotta stay out here and mess with big daddy Tucker.

Ain't this a trip?

Ah, there's my dragon lady.

I'm glad I caught you.

Yes, but am I going to be glad you caught me?

Now, don't get grumpy. This is a nice one.

Ah, Holly wants to ask a favor of you.

Well, I want to borrow your electric typewriter.

You see, I have a term paper to do for school.

I didn't want to bother you, but Tony said I should ask you.

Well, Holly, you seem to have made a believer out of some of us.

[music]

I'll be glad to help.

That's my girl.

Thanks.

I'll take you out for a beer.

Then I've got to go over to the office.

You stay here, do your work, lock that door, don't open it for nobody.

- Understand? - Right.

Good night, Holly.

Good night, and thank you.

The door.

[music]

[music]

So what you're saying is Martin killed both of them runners too, huh?

All I know is those three bullets match.

The same gun that killed Arthur J.

killed those last two men.

Okay, partner. Thank you.

And we'll go from here.

Eating again, huh, Fats?

It'll be a night out.

Right on, man. Put you in the fishing unit.

Wait a minute. Wait a minute.

You know Big Daddy, uh, Tucker, right?

All right. I'm gonna get in touch with Nicholas.

You get in touch with Big Daddy.

Tell him, both of those runners were killed by the same gun.

The gangs are not shooting at each other. We don't need no gang war.

You understand me?

Yeah, Big Daddy is acting all sleek at times.

I don't want you to kiss him on the mouth, pal.

All I want you to do is get the information across to him, all right?

Thank you.

I love you, Mimi.

Don't go out on me.

For records that are on me, I'll go to work whenever I want.

You and me are gonna make sweet, sweet.

Hey, you dummy.

What are you doing, man?

Two minutes ago, you was Mimi.

And we was making beautiful music.

Hello.

You want your munchies, huh?

Okay, kid.

Are you Mimi?

Oh, hi, Banjo.

Oh, yeah?

I'm on my way, pal.

Beat yourself, man. I gotta go.

Get out of here.

Banjo, what do you got?

He's inside. Third floor.

302.

Are you sure now this ain't Phil Duffy's train?

Not possible.

Okay. Get on your squawker there and call in the troops.

Martin, it's the heat.

(Gunshots)

(Gunshots)

(Gunshot)

(Gunshots)

Hold it there!

Slide that piece out and don't get killed now.

You shot those runners, didn't you?

Huh?

You never had the book? Never had it?

You're sure he's gonna like this?

I tell you, fruitcake is his favorite dessert.

He'll go bananas when he finds it in the refrigerator.

Good. But don't you tell him.

I want him to find it, so it'll be a surprise.

Now, let's see.

We were up to the point where you had just left home, right?

Yeah.

You know, Billy, it's really nice to be able to talk about myself

without having some guy's hands all over me.

Usually, I'm the one listening to somebody else's hard

luck story for 20 bucks an hour, or 50 if I'm lucky.

All that's changed now, you got two good friends, Tony and me.

Your life's gonna be different.

Yeah.

I guess I was a loser.

You're right.

Was is right.

Let's drink to that.

All right.

Now finish, finish, take it back to the property office.

- Leave me that and give me the inventory. - All right.

You know, boss... Yeah?

I don't know who killed this guy,

but he didn't have that book.

You sure?

If he had the book, they would have dealt with him.

That's what everybody wants is the book.

I don't know.

I don't know.

Besides, he had to back himself up with it anyway.

If he had it.

You know what we got here?

We got four guys dead in rival gangs.

These people are shooting at each other.

We got gang warfare, unless we can manage to get a lid on the thing.

Well, the lid on it is the book.

That's what everybody wants, what they're all scared of.

Yeah, yeah, the book.

Okay, what's the line on the book?

You got the girl, is that it?

Nah. What does the girl know?

Holly? Yeah.

She don't know nothing.

She was just a piece of cellophane that Artie had on his arm.

An old guy with a young chick.

He was too smart to let her in on anything. Why would he do it anyway?

What, she's not very bright? Is that what you're trying to tell me?

No, she's a smart girl. I know her. I like her.

She was just his girlfriend, that's all.

She wasn't involved in his business.

She used to hook, but she wasn't even doing that no more.

All right then, what do we got, huh?

We got the whole city out there.

Mr. Baretta.

Mr. Nicholas.

Well, nice to see you again. How's the cheese and olive oil business?

Why, why?

You're a hard man to find.

Well, uh, difficult to find yourself, sir.

I've been looking for you for a couple of days.

We found you.

Yeah.

Do you know Mr. Tucker?

Mr. Tucker, very nice to meet you.

How are you?

Fine.

Do you care to take a ride with us?

Oh, well, uh, certainly. Be my pleasure.

Thank you.

I, uh, never thought I'd see the day

when you two gentlemen would be in the same car together.

Unless one of us was bedded down in the trunk.

Mr. Baretta, we would like to talk to you about a book.

It seems to be of importance to a lot of people.

Well, I think that conversation would probably

be easier to have when one of us finds the book.

Okay, Tommy.

I don't know, boss.

All I know is they offered me a half a million dollars.

For it, it must be worth it to somebody.

The way I got it figured,

for some folks, it's worth killing for.

Yeah, no.

I'm gonna get right back out there in the trenches.

I just had to make a little sidetrack here to get my melon put back together.

All right. Working on it. Working on it.

It worked.

How's that feel?

All right, kid. I'm okay.

Holly, I gotta ask you something.

Did RDJ ever say anything about.

people maybe that he would give the book to,

like relatives nobody knew about,

maybe some kids that were a secret, something like that?

I wish I could help you out, Tony.

But he never let me know anything about his business.

He said it was safer that way.

Yeah. Thought he was no fool.

I'm sorry, Tony.

And after all you've done for me, and now I have my chance to help you,

this feels so useless.

Forget it, kid.

We just keep stroking, that's all.

I'll still get to the goal line.

I'll just have to go a few low yards to the right or to the left.

You see the clock?

Yeah.

You gotta go to school.

Come on. I gotta...

I gotta get you to school. Get out of here.

You're gonna be okay.

I'm terrific.

You sure?

Yeah.

Come on, we're going.

Stop by your room and get the books.

I'm sure you're all right.

I'm fine.

All right, sugar.

Have a terrific day and learn a lot.

I will.

See you later.

Bye-bye.

Hello?

Mr. Nicholas?

Yes?

I'm calling for Tony Baretta.

Why doesn't Tony call for himself?

I always deal only with the principles.

Well, he's afraid he's being watched by internal affairs,

so he wants to play it very carefully for now.

So, what does he propose?

He's ready to accept your offer.

And to prove his good faith and to show you that he really has the goods,

he's left a miniature copy of the book in his refrigerator wrapped in aluminum foil.

And when you're totally satisfied it's the real thing, we'll set up a drop.

Baretta will deliver the original

from his hand to your hand in exchange for $500,000.

Agreed?

Agreed.

I don't know, maybe there's something wrong with the counter.

And you know I don't want to get anyone into trouble

and I sure don't want to get into trouble myself.

But somebody ran off almost 500 copies and they didn't

sign the law and I don't know who to charge it to.

And look, they used the reducer too.

What would we do this group?

Charge it to me.

But I know it wasn't you this group.

No.

And I think I know who it was.

Would you fellas like a drink?

If that old guy says one more thing, Mario,

belt him.

Baretta's ripped us off.

Can't be the book, it's too small.

It's fruitcake.

Hey, this is Artie's book.

Made small.

It's cool.

Book, book, book.

Unfortunately it's genuine.

Yes, but what worries me is how many of these little copies

are we going to have to buy before we can sleep well again.

Go pick up Tucker's share.

We'll make the drop.

Go ahead, Rooster, I'm listening.

Yeah?

Okay.

All right, the address is 652 West 5th Street.

652 West 5th Street. Yeah, I got it.

Well, don't talk to him.

Just do your job and shut up.

I'm on my way.

Oh, Tony, I'm glad I caught you.

It's not in the refrigerator.

What ain't in the refrigerator?

The fruitcake.

What fruitcake?

The fruitcake that was a book.

The fruitcake that was in there that she put in there.

Wait a minute, wait a minute.

Hold it, hold it.

Sit down, sit down, sit down.

Start over again, all the way from the top.

Well, if they came and took it.

You see, Holly.

What are you talking about?

Two guys, I don't know who they were.

You see, Holly had put the fruitcake in the refrigerator as a surprise for you.

I got that, okay.

I was surprised when these two guys came

and when they took the fruitcake and unwrapped it, it was a book, a small book.

A small book?

Yes, yes.

A little, what do you mean?

Well, look, that's not the worst of it.

The dragon lady called me and told me Holly had

made 500 copies of something on the reducer machine.

Oh boy, she's supposed to be doing her homework.

I did it again, Billy, I did it again.

I did it again, too.

It's been here all along.

Oh, I hope it's not too late.

I don't think it is.

Sit tight, I'll call you.

Okay.

Oh.

Oh, man, never mind the two big, half-back man.

Just take care of yourself, brother, man.

You're squinnin' some information.

Say, wait a minute, man, I got the information.

I'll tell the dude.

What? Hold on a second, skinny Weaver, what?

Ah, this is gonna be his brother for Nicholas, man.

He's supposed to make the drop sometime.

Ain't this a trip?

I had this information for you.

I prepared it over there, man.

I had this information.

What did you put me out here with this shit for, man?

Hey, listen, man, stop this. All right, shut up.

Hey, will you shut up?

Now, wait a minute.

Shut up.

Now, listen to me.

I got a chick out there.

She's playing with fire and if I don't get to her, she's gonna get fried.

You understand me?

Now, just cool it, all right?

Hey, there's a man.

Don't you like dog trainers, Honnelly?

I'd love to go out with you sometime, Mr. Wilcox,

but, well, for the last few months,

all I can think about is just getting this divorce settled.

Sometimes the best way to handle these situations.

is to get away from them.

Well, hopefully with the help of your dog,

I'll get the papers I need to settle this thing once and for all.

Don't worry, Rex won't let you down.

Neither will I.

Let me see you, brother.

Hurry up, man.

I'm gonna put your bones in a slammer.

Come on.

Man got me out here in the woods running through this place, man.

We got lions out here, you know, brother, crickets and stuff, man.

- Wait a minute, brother, man. - Look at here.

You need to get yourself a boy scout out here

running through this place like this, man.

You know they got wild animals out here.

Hold it right there, partner, I'm the heat.

You can't.

That's going down after.

Luci, cut that guy off.

Hey, come on.

Oh, man.

Oh, he just tripped, man, out here in this dump.

Hey, wait a minute, man.

You... God damn it.

Oh, man.

This thing's got snakes in it, man.

Well, Mr. Wilcox.

Don't call me Whiskey Wilcox.

Call me Ernie.

Here comes your freedom.

You don't know what this means to me.

Here, let me pay you.

No.

Compliments of Ernie and Rex.

Thank you, Ernie.

Bye.

Come on, pal.

Bye, Ernie.

Bye, Rex.

Bye, Tony.

Bye, Ernie.

Bye, probation.

Goodbye, Tricken.

Goodbye, hard times.

It's not gonna take Tucker and Nick five minutes to

take this down apart now that they got that book.

So next time you decide to play God,

you check with me first, okay?

All right, lieutenant.

There's plenty of blame to go around.

Excuse me.

This can't be for a special delivery.

What do you got?

This is one of them miniature copies.

What do you say?

This is the book, boss.

That's Jade's book.

She sent us a copy of it.

That's it.

That's the book.

And a tape recording.

If I ever loved anybody,

you could be it

but, I'm not good.

You have the guts to pull yourself out,

I never could.

The dragon lady was right all the time.

Don't ever stop listening to her.

She's smarter than all of us.

I wish I'd have listened to her.

So I'll play my game out to the end.

I bought myself some good times,

and I'll need them.

Because when the end comes,

it's gonna be tough.

Don't feel bad, Tony.

I've conned a lot smarter people than you,

but none half as sweet.

Like your old man always said,

you can't win them all.

Don't forgive me.

Just save the next one.

Love, Holly.

Boy, what a chump.

You know, Tony, I've always learned the most.

from my mistakes.

Hey, Tony, here's another card from her.

Oh, boy, where's this one from?

Caracas Venezuela.

Ain't that something?

And the last one was from...

Uh, Tahiti.

Tahiti.

No, Java was the last one.

Oh, Java.

Java, Tahiti, Venezuela.

She really whipping around, ain't she?

No grass growing under her feet.

You know what, Tony?

What?

I think you found a new rehabilitation program.

Uh-oh, you do, huh?

I think you could do wonders for every delinquent girl on the street.

Well, I think you're right.

I'll tell you what.

You give me about a year,

I will clear the streets of all the juvie de lynx,

and you and me will wind up on the beach somewhere

with this dumb Turkey and a load of booze.

And you'll have a new broad every day.

A new broad every day.

Every day.

Yeah.

A new broad every day.

You dumb bird.