1 00:00:02,250 --> 00:00:06,346 (woman on radio) 6-A-11. Ambulance just reached. Code 2. 2 00:00:14,396 --> 00:00:15,761 I need a dime. 3 00:00:15,831 --> 00:00:18,265 Fill her up, you might have some change coming. 4 00:00:18,333 --> 00:00:21,200 Give me a dime, or I'm gonna crack you open like a piggy bank. 5 00:00:21,269 --> 00:00:22,361 You're angry. 6 00:00:22,437 --> 00:00:23,529 Why would I be angry? 7 00:00:23,605 --> 00:00:26,506 You hired me to do a job, and I nearly got killed in the process. 8 00:00:29,578 --> 00:00:31,136 Oh, no. 9 00:00:32,848 --> 00:00:36,477 Now, if you think that's going to stop me, you've got a short memory. 10 00:00:48,964 --> 00:00:50,659 [Telephone ringing] 11 00:00:52,601 --> 00:00:54,592 (Rockford on answering machine) This is Jim Rockford. 12 00:00:54,669 --> 00:00:57,229 At the tone, leave your name and message, I'll get back to you. 13 00:00:57,305 --> 00:00:58,203 [Beeps] 14 00:00:58,273 --> 00:01:01,765 This is Louis, down at the fish market. You gonna pick up these halibut or what? 15 00:01:56,431 --> 00:01:57,989 [Siren wailing] 16 00:02:12,180 --> 00:02:14,614 [People chattering on walkie-talkie] 17 00:02:15,283 --> 00:02:16,978 [Helicopter hovering] 18 00:03:23,618 --> 00:03:24,676 [Ann sobbing] 19 00:03:24,753 --> 00:03:26,152 (Ann) No! 20 00:03:26,721 --> 00:03:27,653 No. 21 00:03:27,722 --> 00:03:29,451 Jim, you don't mean that. 22 00:03:29,524 --> 00:03:33,290 The last time we worked together, I not only didn't make any money... 23 00:03:33,361 --> 00:03:34,851 I had to refinance my car. 24 00:03:34,930 --> 00:03:36,761 But I need you. My client needs you. 25 00:03:36,831 --> 00:03:38,958 She's a pauper. She doesn't have a cent. 26 00:03:39,034 --> 00:03:40,661 That gives us something in common. 27 00:03:40,735 --> 00:03:43,863 All she's got is this little piece of property in Arizona. 28 00:03:43,939 --> 00:03:45,736 That puts her one up on me. 29 00:03:46,074 --> 00:03:47,803 It would take her months to sell it. 30 00:03:47,876 --> 00:03:50,208 And even then, I don't know what she'd get for it. 31 00:03:50,278 --> 00:03:53,270 But because she owns land, she can't use a public defender. 32 00:03:53,348 --> 00:03:55,441 That's why I donated my services. 33 00:03:55,517 --> 00:03:59,920 I knew that once I explained it to you that you'd want to donate yours, too. 34 00:04:03,291 --> 00:04:05,384 Don't you even care if she's innocent? 35 00:04:05,460 --> 00:04:07,360 Beth, I spent five years in prison. 36 00:04:07,429 --> 00:04:10,694 While I was there, I never met anybody who wasn't innocent. 37 00:04:14,269 --> 00:04:15,531 (Beth) Jim. 38 00:04:15,604 --> 00:04:16,628 No! 39 00:04:36,758 --> 00:04:38,692 Do we have to talk out here? 40 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:42,218 We don't have to talk at all. Beth, I don't take charity cases. 41 00:04:42,297 --> 00:04:43,958 They're not part of my survival kit. 42 00:04:44,032 --> 00:04:44,964 I take them. 43 00:04:45,033 --> 00:04:46,193 You can afford to. 44 00:04:46,268 --> 00:04:48,532 You picked the right grandfather. 45 00:04:50,639 --> 00:04:52,607 Please, Jim. For me? 46 00:04:54,342 --> 00:04:56,970 I guess I've never been able to quite pull that off, have I? 47 00:04:57,045 --> 00:05:00,845 All right, I won't ask for any commitments. Just meet Ann Calhoun. 48 00:05:01,049 --> 00:05:03,279 Listen to her side of the story. 49 00:05:03,885 --> 00:05:04,817 No. 50 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:20,160 Ann. 51 00:05:20,235 --> 00:05:21,224 Hi. 52 00:05:21,303 --> 00:05:23,168 This is the man I told you about. 53 00:05:23,238 --> 00:05:24,569 Jim Rockford. 54 00:05:24,639 --> 00:05:26,869 The best private investigator money can buy. 55 00:05:26,941 --> 00:05:29,535 (Ann) Mr. Rockford. Oh, thank God. 56 00:05:29,611 --> 00:05:33,012 Beth said she'd talk to you, but I didn't allow myself... 57 00:05:33,615 --> 00:05:36,106 There doesn't seem to be anything, anybody. 58 00:05:36,518 --> 00:05:38,349 He's going to help you, Ann. 59 00:05:38,420 --> 00:05:41,355 Now, wait a minute, Beth. No commitments, remember? 60 00:05:41,423 --> 00:05:44,586 I said I'd listen. I didn't say anything about helping. 61 00:05:58,306 --> 00:05:59,568 [Ann crying] 62 00:06:00,275 --> 00:06:03,369 Boy, you want to see a workload? Now, that's a workload. 63 00:06:03,445 --> 00:06:06,380 And you got some nerve to come sniffing around here about something... 64 00:06:06,448 --> 00:06:08,609 which is off my desk, which is closed. 65 00:06:08,683 --> 00:06:10,708 Becker, sometimes you sound just like a cop. 66 00:06:10,785 --> 00:06:11,809 I am a cop. 67 00:06:11,886 --> 00:06:13,478 That must be it. 68 00:06:14,055 --> 00:06:17,422 And how many times I gotta tell you about coming around this office? 69 00:06:17,492 --> 00:06:20,052 Now, the Calhoun case is closed. 70 00:06:20,128 --> 00:06:22,562 You wanna waste your time on it, fine. 71 00:06:22,630 --> 00:06:24,222 Don't waste mine. 72 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:28,530 How can you close this case on what you got? 73 00:06:29,104 --> 00:06:31,095 On what we got? Witnesses. 74 00:06:31,172 --> 00:06:32,571 Half the people in the motel... 75 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:35,939 heard Ann and Kevin Calhoun having it out, tearing up the joint. 76 00:06:36,010 --> 00:06:39,776 Motive: He told her to go back to Arizona, he was staying in LA. 77 00:06:39,848 --> 00:06:42,316 There ain't no better motive than that. Woman scorned. 78 00:06:42,384 --> 00:06:43,874 I think that's what they call it. 79 00:06:43,952 --> 00:06:45,078 Not lately. 80 00:06:45,153 --> 00:06:46,677 And opportunity. 81 00:06:46,755 --> 00:06:49,349 After the fight, Calhoun slams into the bedroom... 82 00:06:49,424 --> 00:06:51,289 and it's quiet for 15 minutes. 83 00:06:51,359 --> 00:06:54,726 Fifteen minutes later, Ann Calhoun leaves the motel... 84 00:06:54,796 --> 00:06:56,525 and then the fire breaks out. 85 00:06:56,598 --> 00:06:59,624 And you figure she spent that 15 minutes killing her husband. 86 00:06:59,701 --> 00:07:01,328 He was smothered and that's official. 87 00:07:01,403 --> 00:07:04,895 Direct to you from the coroner. He was dead before the fire. 88 00:07:04,973 --> 00:07:07,237 No blisters. No smoke inhalation. 89 00:07:07,308 --> 00:07:09,538 It was supposed to look like an accident. 90 00:07:09,611 --> 00:07:12,603 She planted a cigarette in his right hand. It was burned. 91 00:07:12,680 --> 00:07:16,411 The fire spreads across his torso and burns the other hand. 92 00:07:17,552 --> 00:07:19,918 Then you don't have a positive identification. 93 00:07:19,988 --> 00:07:21,979 His wife identified him. 94 00:07:22,056 --> 00:07:24,149 There wasn't a mark on his face. 95 00:07:24,225 --> 00:07:27,353 And she admitted that the two of them didn't know a soul in town. 96 00:07:27,429 --> 00:07:29,021 Who else had a motive? 97 00:07:29,964 --> 00:07:32,364 Somebody at that big party they went to in Bel Air? 98 00:07:32,434 --> 00:07:34,197 He crashed that party. We checked it out. 99 00:07:34,269 --> 00:07:35,327 Nobody knew him. 100 00:07:35,403 --> 00:07:37,871 Nobody admitted they knew him. 101 00:07:38,506 --> 00:07:41,600 Becker, you're just gonna have to get this case back from the DA. 102 00:07:41,676 --> 00:07:43,041 I mean, it won't hold. 103 00:07:43,111 --> 00:07:46,672 You take opportunity. You're wide open on that one. 104 00:07:46,748 --> 00:07:49,376 Calhoun was in his bed, asleep. 105 00:07:49,818 --> 00:07:51,945 Anybody could've walked in on him. 106 00:07:52,687 --> 00:07:54,655 Well, hold it. Hold it a minute. 107 00:07:54,722 --> 00:07:58,055 You know, it just hits me what this is all about. 108 00:07:58,393 --> 00:08:01,385 It's that flaky attorney, the one who collects lost causes... 109 00:08:01,463 --> 00:08:02,953 like they were rare coins. 110 00:08:03,031 --> 00:08:04,020 Beth Davenport. 111 00:08:04,098 --> 00:08:05,122 That's the one. 112 00:08:05,967 --> 00:08:09,095 She's trying to con you into working for nothing again, right? 113 00:08:09,170 --> 00:08:12,901 And you figure, we reopen the case, you're off the hook, right? 114 00:08:12,974 --> 00:08:15,465 That's what I had in mind, I can see it's not going to work. 115 00:08:15,543 --> 00:08:16,669 Damn right. 116 00:08:28,056 --> 00:08:29,523 Hot sauce, please. 117 00:08:30,592 --> 00:08:31,616 With your stomach? 118 00:08:31,693 --> 00:08:32,682 Yeah. 119 00:08:35,263 --> 00:08:36,730 We may have a deal. 120 00:08:36,798 --> 00:08:37,856 I knew it. 121 00:08:37,932 --> 00:08:41,299 I knew the minute you met Ann Calhoun you'd know she's not capable of murder. 122 00:08:41,369 --> 00:08:42,461 That isn't why I'm doing... 123 00:08:42,537 --> 00:08:44,027 She's a sweet, gentle woman. 124 00:08:44,105 --> 00:08:45,197 Look, Beth. 125 00:08:45,273 --> 00:08:47,264 The case the police have against her is laughable. 126 00:08:47,342 --> 00:08:49,401 There's not one shred of hard evidence. 127 00:08:49,477 --> 00:08:52,173 She's had the opportunity, and they say she had the motive. 128 00:08:52,247 --> 00:08:53,942 I said we may have a deal. 129 00:08:54,182 --> 00:08:55,547 You pay my expenses. 130 00:08:55,617 --> 00:08:57,278 I'm donating my services. 131 00:08:57,352 --> 00:08:59,547 I'm not going to make a dime. 132 00:09:00,021 --> 00:09:04,048 You pay my expenses, and if I prove that Ann Calhoun is innocent... 133 00:09:04,125 --> 00:09:06,650 you pay my expenses plus $200 a day. 134 00:09:06,728 --> 00:09:09,595 And no arguments, no bargains, no nothing. That's it. 135 00:09:09,664 --> 00:09:10,722 All right? 136 00:09:11,566 --> 00:09:12,658 All right. We have a deal. 137 00:09:12,734 --> 00:09:13,666 Good. 138 00:09:13,735 --> 00:09:16,863 I want you to find out everything Ann knows about her husband. 139 00:09:16,938 --> 00:09:20,066 Where he was born, where he went to school, where he worked. Everything. 140 00:09:20,141 --> 00:09:23,338 I'll come by your place and pick it up later. All right? 141 00:10:16,698 --> 00:10:18,165 [Horn blowing] 142 00:10:20,902 --> 00:10:23,063 [Grade crossing bell ringing] 143 00:13:41,869 --> 00:13:43,302 [Car honking] 144 00:13:45,239 --> 00:13:46,968 [Tires screeching] 145 00:14:49,403 --> 00:14:51,064 [Tires screeching] 146 00:15:15,496 --> 00:15:16,963 [Tire skidding] 147 00:15:50,164 --> 00:15:51,722 [Wheel clanking] 148 00:16:36,410 --> 00:16:37,877 [Rockford honking] 149 00:16:59,934 --> 00:17:01,162 [Honking] 150 00:17:04,238 --> 00:17:05,762 [Truck honking] 151 00:17:43,310 --> 00:17:44,902 [Tires skidding] 152 00:17:44,979 --> 00:17:46,241 [Truck banging] 153 00:18:08,803 --> 00:18:10,464 [Tires screeching] 154 00:19:14,667 --> 00:19:16,658 It's an emergency. I need a dime. 155 00:19:16,736 --> 00:19:19,068 Mister, I don't even give directions. 156 00:19:19,139 --> 00:19:21,733 Somebody just tried to kill me, I need a dime. 157 00:19:21,808 --> 00:19:23,969 Fill her up, you might have some change coming. 158 00:19:24,043 --> 00:19:27,069 Give me a dime, or I'm gonna crack you open like a piggy bank. 159 00:19:27,147 --> 00:19:29,115 All right, you got it. 160 00:19:31,684 --> 00:19:32,946 Here. 161 00:19:33,019 --> 00:19:35,817 You owe me 90 cents. Just put it in the tank. 162 00:19:42,595 --> 00:19:44,256 [Car driving by] 163 00:19:47,667 --> 00:19:49,464 Hello, highway patrol? 164 00:19:49,536 --> 00:19:51,595 My name is Jim Rockford and I'm at... 165 00:19:51,671 --> 00:19:54,970 6224699. 166 00:19:55,041 --> 00:19:57,475 You know where... Nine. 167 00:19:58,144 --> 00:19:59,543 You know where... 168 00:20:00,180 --> 00:20:01,442 What's the name of this place? 169 00:20:01,514 --> 00:20:02,913 Farber's Garage. 170 00:20:03,283 --> 00:20:05,581 You know where Farber's Garage is? 171 00:20:07,053 --> 00:20:09,988 Somebody in a truck just tried to kill me. 172 00:20:10,924 --> 00:20:12,892 [Police radio chattering] 173 00:20:13,159 --> 00:20:14,922 [Typewriter clacking] 174 00:20:15,628 --> 00:20:17,118 (Rockford) Did you find anything? 175 00:20:17,263 --> 00:20:20,164 Like I told you, Mr. Rockford, we found "it." 176 00:20:20,867 --> 00:20:22,300 You can't arrest a tractor. 177 00:20:22,368 --> 00:20:25,201 You also can't arrest somebody who ain't there. 178 00:20:25,271 --> 00:20:28,763 The rig was stolen from the Junction Cafe about... 179 00:20:28,841 --> 00:20:32,333 three hours ago, then it was dumped two miles north of the highway. 180 00:20:32,412 --> 00:20:33,606 Did you dust it for prints? 181 00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:34,704 No, we didn't. 182 00:20:34,781 --> 00:20:38,649 Me and none of the boys is licensed to drive nothing that big. 183 00:20:38,718 --> 00:20:42,119 There's this guy, Bert, he helps us out from time to time. 184 00:20:42,188 --> 00:20:43,815 He brought it back to the station. 185 00:20:43,890 --> 00:20:48,156 Nobody thought to tell Bert not to wipe any fingerprints off the steering wheel? 186 00:20:48,228 --> 00:20:50,253 Do you know how many cars we got? 187 00:20:50,330 --> 00:20:52,958 How many men? How many miles we gotta cover? 188 00:20:53,933 --> 00:20:57,562 Okay, there was a slip-up. You got the Department's apology. 189 00:20:58,238 --> 00:21:00,706 Maybe somebody tried to kill you. Maybe not. 190 00:21:00,773 --> 00:21:03,503 But I'll tell you how this thing's probably gonna turn out. 191 00:21:03,576 --> 00:21:07,034 Probably turn out some kid out to have hisself a little fun. 192 00:21:08,681 --> 00:21:11,047 People move here for their health? 193 00:21:52,158 --> 00:21:55,025 (Rocky) Hold it right where you are. Now don't make a move. 194 00:21:55,094 --> 00:21:56,493 Put your hands up. 195 00:21:56,896 --> 00:21:57,885 Up! 196 00:22:01,267 --> 00:22:02,529 Rocky. 197 00:22:03,202 --> 00:22:05,670 Jim. What are you doing here? 198 00:22:05,738 --> 00:22:07,603 I live here. What are you doing here? 199 00:22:07,674 --> 00:22:10,905 I'm just keeping an eye on the joint. You know it's always getting... 200 00:22:10,977 --> 00:22:13,411 all tore up every time you ain't around. 201 00:22:14,781 --> 00:22:16,408 Why don't you put that thing away? 202 00:22:16,482 --> 00:22:18,848 Among other things, you don't have a permit for it. 203 00:22:18,918 --> 00:22:20,613 I don't need one. It's yours. 204 00:22:20,687 --> 00:22:24,054 I don't have a permit for it, either. So, give it here. 205 00:22:24,257 --> 00:22:26,191 Two people try to kill me in one day... 206 00:22:26,259 --> 00:22:28,318 and one of them turns out to be my own father. 207 00:22:28,394 --> 00:22:30,624 Somebody tried to kill you? Are you all right? 208 00:22:30,697 --> 00:22:31,721 Yeah, fine. 209 00:22:31,798 --> 00:22:33,993 Somebody tries to kill you, you're not fine. 210 00:22:34,067 --> 00:22:35,193 What happened? 211 00:22:35,268 --> 00:22:37,702 Let's just try to forget it, Rocky. 212 00:22:37,770 --> 00:22:38,759 I know. 213 00:22:38,838 --> 00:22:42,296 You think I can't swallow it straight. You think I'll worry, don't you? 214 00:22:42,375 --> 00:22:43,865 Well, won't you? 215 00:22:44,677 --> 00:22:48,579 I'm not the kind of fella that says he knows all the answers. I never was. 216 00:22:48,648 --> 00:22:51,139 But for a man who doesn't like to get stomped on... 217 00:22:51,217 --> 00:22:53,310 you are in the wrong line of work. 218 00:22:53,853 --> 00:22:55,218 Not now, Rocky. 219 00:22:55,288 --> 00:22:56,846 You never gave trucking a chance. 220 00:22:56,923 --> 00:23:00,290 You know, I still got connections. I can help get your A-1 myself. 221 00:23:00,360 --> 00:23:02,294 It's good pay, steady work. 222 00:23:02,362 --> 00:23:04,330 And it is safe. 223 00:23:04,397 --> 00:23:07,025 Not when you're on the wrong end of the truck. 224 00:23:07,500 --> 00:23:09,127 I just got my tail chased... 225 00:23:09,202 --> 00:23:12,137 halfway across the state of Arizona by the front end of a semi. 226 00:23:12,205 --> 00:23:13,502 Tried to run me off a mountain. 227 00:23:13,573 --> 00:23:14,938 A tractor, was it? What kind? 228 00:23:15,007 --> 00:23:17,771 A Kenworth? A Mack? What was it? Peterbilt? 229 00:23:17,844 --> 00:23:19,334 What difference does it make? 230 00:23:19,412 --> 00:23:20,470 What? 231 00:23:20,747 --> 00:23:23,716 I tried to show you the differences before you could walk. 232 00:23:23,783 --> 00:23:25,273 Was it a cab-over? 233 00:23:25,351 --> 00:23:28,184 Yeah, it was flat nosed, high. It was a cab-over. 234 00:23:28,254 --> 00:23:32,315 Nice paint job, blue and white. But what are we talking about tractors for? 235 00:23:32,392 --> 00:23:34,360 That point is, it tried to kill me. 236 00:23:34,427 --> 00:23:35,325 No. 237 00:23:35,395 --> 00:23:36,419 What do you mean no? 238 00:23:36,496 --> 00:23:39,693 Suppose we're talking about something small, like 14-6. 239 00:23:39,766 --> 00:23:42,667 All right. Now, you got 14,600 pounds... 240 00:23:42,735 --> 00:23:46,398 barreling down the highway at you at 70 or 80, and they can do it. 241 00:23:46,472 --> 00:23:47,598 They got the gears. 242 00:23:47,673 --> 00:23:50,369 No sir, if they wanted to kill you, you'd be dead. 243 00:23:50,443 --> 00:23:52,502 Maybe he wasn't a union driver. 244 00:23:52,578 --> 00:23:53,704 Maybe. 245 00:23:53,780 --> 00:23:55,941 But I don't think he wanted to kill you. 246 00:23:56,015 --> 00:23:58,916 I think they wanted to just scare you to death. 247 00:24:12,298 --> 00:24:13,629 Toothpaste? 248 00:24:13,699 --> 00:24:14,723 Toothpaste. 249 00:24:14,801 --> 00:24:17,895 That's a legitimate out-of-town, overnight expense. 250 00:24:18,404 --> 00:24:20,895 I didn't charge you for my new jammies. 251 00:24:20,973 --> 00:24:21,940 You're angry. 252 00:24:22,008 --> 00:24:23,168 Why would I be angry? 253 00:24:23,242 --> 00:24:26,143 You hired me to do a job, and I nearly got killed in the process. 254 00:24:26,212 --> 00:24:28,976 The highway patrol are looking for some fun-loving kid. 255 00:24:29,048 --> 00:24:31,209 My father wants an autographed picture of the truck... 256 00:24:31,284 --> 00:24:34,776 and you're so torn up, you're arguing over a tube of toothpaste. 257 00:24:58,277 --> 00:24:59,539 [Tires skidding] 258 00:25:07,453 --> 00:25:08,715 [Tires skidding] 259 00:25:15,461 --> 00:25:16,758 [Honking] 260 00:25:17,296 --> 00:25:18,558 Watch out! 261 00:25:25,705 --> 00:25:27,138 You all right? 262 00:25:27,206 --> 00:25:28,400 All right? 263 00:25:28,474 --> 00:25:29,736 Good. 264 00:25:33,079 --> 00:25:34,103 Anybody hurt over there? 265 00:25:34,180 --> 00:25:35,306 No, we're all right. 266 00:25:35,381 --> 00:25:36,473 (man) What's wrong with you? 267 00:25:36,549 --> 00:25:37,675 Sorry it happened. 268 00:25:37,750 --> 00:25:40,275 Okay, guys, let's get back to work. 269 00:25:41,254 --> 00:25:42,846 What happened? 270 00:25:42,922 --> 00:25:44,480 No brake fluid. 271 00:25:45,157 --> 00:25:47,625 Somebody loosened the fitting on the master cylinder. 272 00:25:47,693 --> 00:25:48,751 You mean it was deliberate? 273 00:25:48,828 --> 00:25:50,386 Yeah, and that's twice. 274 00:25:50,463 --> 00:25:53,227 Then somebody did try to kill you in Arizona. 275 00:25:53,299 --> 00:25:54,630 That doesn't make sense. 276 00:25:54,700 --> 00:25:57,225 Nobody knows you're working for Ann Calhoun. 277 00:25:57,303 --> 00:26:00,067 And nobody knew you were going to Arizona, except me. 278 00:26:00,139 --> 00:26:02,505 And whoever killed Kevin Calhoun. 279 00:26:02,808 --> 00:26:06,073 Evidently, they're not too happy with what I dug up on them. 280 00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:09,939 (Rockford) He wasn't born in Arizona at all. 281 00:26:10,016 --> 00:26:12,007 He never worked for the Central Valley Press. 282 00:26:12,084 --> 00:26:13,847 There's no record of a driver's license, 283 00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:16,445 no social security number, no nothing. 284 00:26:16,522 --> 00:26:18,547 Kevin Calhoun never existed. 285 00:26:19,125 --> 00:26:23,289 There's no record of him prior to your marriage in Flagstaff two years ago. 286 00:26:23,362 --> 00:26:27,059 That's impossible. I knew him. We were married for two years. 287 00:26:28,334 --> 00:26:31,997 Ann, the person he was, is the reason he was killed. 288 00:26:33,039 --> 00:26:34,666 How did you meet him? 289 00:26:34,740 --> 00:26:37,368 It was an accident. Chance. 290 00:26:38,611 --> 00:26:40,772 He was in Flagstaff. He'd been traveling. 291 00:26:40,846 --> 00:26:43,542 "Listening to the country" is what he called it. 292 00:26:44,850 --> 00:26:46,215 He was a poet. 293 00:26:47,787 --> 00:26:48,913 Did I mention that? 294 00:26:48,988 --> 00:26:49,920 No. 295 00:26:49,989 --> 00:26:51,217 He was. 296 00:26:51,757 --> 00:26:53,850 Kind, sensitive. 297 00:26:53,926 --> 00:26:55,621 We were very happy. 298 00:26:55,995 --> 00:26:59,123 On the day your husband was murdered, he threatened to leave you. 299 00:26:59,198 --> 00:27:02,065 He'd had too much to drink. He didn't mean it. 300 00:27:02,134 --> 00:27:05,535 But you argued, he slammed the door, went into the bedroom. 301 00:27:05,972 --> 00:27:09,100 What happened during that 15 minutes before you left the motel? 302 00:27:09,208 --> 00:27:10,197 Jim. 303 00:27:10,576 --> 00:27:12,237 Nothing. Nothing happened. 304 00:27:12,311 --> 00:27:14,438 I was angry, hurt. 305 00:27:14,513 --> 00:27:17,880 So I went out for a walk. Why doesn't anyone believe me? 306 00:27:17,950 --> 00:27:19,315 All right. 307 00:27:20,653 --> 00:27:23,850 About that party you went to, in Bel Air? 308 00:27:24,857 --> 00:27:28,384 Was it in character for him to crash a thing like that? 309 00:27:28,461 --> 00:27:30,656 He didn't crash, he was invited. 310 00:27:30,730 --> 00:27:33,164 You told the police you didn't know anybody in town. 311 00:27:33,232 --> 00:27:34,324 (Ann) We didn't. 312 00:27:34,734 --> 00:27:39,068 At least I didn't. Kevin must have known someone, because he was invited. 313 00:27:39,538 --> 00:27:41,267 You sound pretty sure about that. 314 00:27:41,340 --> 00:27:42,272 Why? 315 00:27:42,341 --> 00:27:43,638 The way he behaved. 316 00:27:43,709 --> 00:27:47,645 He wasn't hiding from anyone. He was there. Very openly. 317 00:27:47,913 --> 00:27:51,212 He even called me from the party to ask me to join him. 318 00:27:51,550 --> 00:27:53,211 Did you have any trouble getting in? 319 00:27:53,285 --> 00:27:54,343 No. 320 00:27:54,854 --> 00:27:58,346 Didn't you ask him how he got there, who invited him? 321 00:27:58,424 --> 00:27:59,413 No. 322 00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:03,190 I saw he'd had too much to drink. 323 00:28:04,530 --> 00:28:06,555 We left almost immediately. 324 00:28:06,632 --> 00:28:08,862 You weren't even curious? 325 00:28:08,934 --> 00:28:10,959 On the way home in the car, you didn't ask him? 326 00:28:11,037 --> 00:28:12,299 On the way home? No. 327 00:28:12,371 --> 00:28:15,772 I didn't. We started to argue the minute we got in the cab. 328 00:28:15,941 --> 00:28:19,342 Because he said that he didn't want to go back to Arizona again. Ever. 329 00:28:25,918 --> 00:28:27,715 (Rockford) Ever seen them before? 330 00:28:28,554 --> 00:28:31,148 (Ann) Yes, at the party. Who are they? 331 00:28:31,223 --> 00:28:33,851 That's Elizabeth Gorman and Clyde Russell. 332 00:28:33,926 --> 00:28:36,656 Those were your hosts. You weren't introduced? 333 00:28:37,029 --> 00:28:38,018 No. 334 00:28:38,497 --> 00:28:41,330 There must have been over 200 people there. 335 00:28:41,867 --> 00:28:44,267 Did you ever see your husband talking to them? 336 00:28:44,336 --> 00:28:46,896 He didn't. Not while I was there. Why? 337 00:28:48,107 --> 00:28:50,598 You say you were invited. 338 00:28:50,810 --> 00:28:52,971 They say you crashed. 339 00:28:55,881 --> 00:28:58,611 I hired you to investigate, not to prosecute. 340 00:28:58,684 --> 00:29:02,313 What were you doing in there? You were acting as though Ann killed Kevin. 341 00:29:02,388 --> 00:29:03,719 As far as I know, she did. 342 00:29:03,789 --> 00:29:04,778 Jim. 343 00:29:05,224 --> 00:29:06,213 Beth. 344 00:29:07,226 --> 00:29:09,660 There are only two people who are above suspicion. 345 00:29:09,729 --> 00:29:11,390 That's you and me. 346 00:29:11,464 --> 00:29:14,797 If you lose sight of that, you're not the attorney I think you are. 347 00:29:14,867 --> 00:29:17,563 What are you poking around in there for? The car is fixed. 348 00:29:17,636 --> 00:29:20,332 I just want to make sure it didn't get unfixed. 349 00:29:39,492 --> 00:29:41,426 Well, at least you came up with something. 350 00:29:41,494 --> 00:29:44,793 Although I've never heard of Elizabeth Gorman and Clyde Russell. 351 00:29:44,864 --> 00:29:47,389 From the size of this, you'd think they were the royal family. 352 00:29:47,466 --> 00:29:48,763 Who are they? 353 00:29:48,968 --> 00:29:51,232 I couldn't find out too much on them. 354 00:29:51,303 --> 00:29:53,464 They're new in town. Lots of money. 355 00:29:53,539 --> 00:29:57,498 There's some kind of connection with The Dark and Bloody Ground. 356 00:29:57,576 --> 00:30:00,204 The movie? They do have money. 357 00:30:00,279 --> 00:30:03,248 That's the biggest thing since Birth of a Nation. 358 00:30:08,053 --> 00:30:09,042 Gorman. 359 00:30:10,055 --> 00:30:12,819 Gorman. Somebody named Gorman wrote the book. 360 00:30:13,859 --> 00:30:15,019 Where are we going? 361 00:30:15,094 --> 00:30:16,584 To the police station. 362 00:30:16,662 --> 00:30:17,720 Why? 363 00:30:18,531 --> 00:30:21,432 I've gotta tell them what I found out about Kevin Calhoun. 364 00:30:21,500 --> 00:30:23,559 We're sitting on evidence, Beth. 365 00:30:23,636 --> 00:30:24,796 Oh, no. 366 00:30:26,839 --> 00:30:30,775 Now, if you think that's going to stop me, you've got a short memory. 367 00:30:31,343 --> 00:30:32,332 [Car honking] 368 00:30:32,411 --> 00:30:33,605 Wait! 369 00:30:33,679 --> 00:30:35,647 Don't tell me, tell them. 370 00:30:36,148 --> 00:30:37,706 [Car continues honking] 371 00:30:38,450 --> 00:30:41,749 Just give me one good reason why we should go to the police. 372 00:30:41,821 --> 00:30:44,790 I've already given it to you. Evidence in a capital crime. 373 00:30:45,224 --> 00:30:48,990 I'm counsel for the defense. You're acting as my agent. 374 00:30:49,061 --> 00:30:51,029 There's no question of withholding evidence. 375 00:30:51,096 --> 00:30:53,394 You're on firm and legal ground. 376 00:30:53,465 --> 00:30:54,727 How firm? 377 00:30:55,034 --> 00:30:57,662 Information that you uncover as an investigator... 378 00:30:57,736 --> 00:31:01,467 because you're in my employ, is privileged information. 379 00:31:01,540 --> 00:31:05,476 You are not required by law to divulge said information to the police. 380 00:31:05,544 --> 00:31:09,981 There's nothing about it in the penal code, but it's common knowledge and practice. 381 00:31:10,049 --> 00:31:11,880 It's an unwritten law. 382 00:31:11,951 --> 00:31:14,351 There are no unwritten laws, Beth. 383 00:31:14,820 --> 00:31:16,344 Trust me. 384 00:31:16,422 --> 00:31:19,152 Kevin Calhoun assumed a false identity. 385 00:31:19,225 --> 00:31:20,988 We don't have any reason. 386 00:31:21,060 --> 00:31:22,652 That's what I want you to find out... 387 00:31:22,728 --> 00:31:25,697 when you confront Elizabeth Gorman and Clyde Russell. 388 00:31:27,132 --> 00:31:28,997 What do you want me to confront them with? 389 00:31:29,068 --> 00:31:31,002 How do I know? Whatever works. 390 00:31:31,503 --> 00:31:33,232 You're making $200 a day. 391 00:31:33,305 --> 00:31:34,897 Plus expenses. 392 00:31:35,274 --> 00:31:38,766 All that stops the minute you walk into Becker's office. 393 00:31:39,345 --> 00:31:41,609 Are you implying that I could be bought? 394 00:31:42,281 --> 00:31:43,305 Yes. 395 00:31:46,518 --> 00:31:48,076 What are you doing now? 396 00:31:48,153 --> 00:31:50,178 I'm gonna go find a telephone. 397 00:31:50,256 --> 00:31:53,054 And I'm going to call an attorney. I need some legal advice. 398 00:31:53,125 --> 00:31:54,558 I'm an attorney. 399 00:31:54,627 --> 00:31:55,594 Yeah. 400 00:32:52,684 --> 00:32:55,016 You know, I walked right by you. 401 00:32:55,086 --> 00:32:56,246 I beg your pardon? 402 00:32:56,321 --> 00:32:57,618 Right by. 403 00:32:57,689 --> 00:32:59,919 Did you get the time on Currypoise? 404 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. 405 00:33:03,428 --> 00:33:05,896 Could've had her for $5,000. Yeah. 406 00:33:05,964 --> 00:33:07,659 She looks awfully good. 407 00:33:07,732 --> 00:33:10,826 I'm afraid you have the advantage on us, Mr... 408 00:33:10,902 --> 00:33:14,565 Jim. I thought we settled all that "Mr. Rockford" business at your party. 409 00:33:14,639 --> 00:33:19,008 I've been meaning to call you and say thanks again and I'm sorry. 410 00:33:19,711 --> 00:33:20,939 For what? 411 00:33:21,012 --> 00:33:22,445 About your guest. 412 00:33:23,114 --> 00:33:26,641 What was his name? Mr. Kevin Calhoun. 413 00:33:26,718 --> 00:33:28,083 I read about it in the paper. 414 00:33:28,152 --> 00:33:29,585 I read about it, too. 415 00:33:29,654 --> 00:33:31,053 Sad business. Sad. 416 00:33:31,122 --> 00:33:34,421 Not all that sad, Mr. Rockford. We didn't even know the man. 417 00:33:35,026 --> 00:33:36,391 You didn't? 418 00:33:37,095 --> 00:33:40,587 You mean he crashed the party? It doesn't seem possible. 419 00:33:41,165 --> 00:33:43,099 It shouldn't have happened. 420 00:33:43,167 --> 00:33:45,431 Elliot is very good at opening the right doors... 421 00:33:45,503 --> 00:33:47,869 and closing them on the wrong people. 422 00:33:47,939 --> 00:33:51,466 You've met my fiancé, haven't you, Mr. Rockford? 423 00:33:51,542 --> 00:33:52,873 Elliot Malcolm. Yes. 424 00:33:52,944 --> 00:33:53,933 No. 425 00:33:54,512 --> 00:33:55,979 Elliot, he was at the party. 426 00:33:56,047 --> 00:33:58,311 Mr. Rockford was not at the party. 427 00:33:59,550 --> 00:34:01,780 I guess I just have one of those faces. 428 00:34:01,853 --> 00:34:04,151 You're face was not at the party. 429 00:34:04,489 --> 00:34:07,754 And your name wasn't on the guest list. I made it out myself. 430 00:34:07,825 --> 00:34:08,951 You crashed the party, too. 431 00:34:09,027 --> 00:34:10,085 I'm afraid so. 432 00:34:10,161 --> 00:34:11,219 (Elliot) Not a chance. 433 00:34:11,295 --> 00:34:13,263 There were over 200 people there, Elliot. 434 00:34:13,331 --> 00:34:15,799 I said not a chance. I had a guard on every gate. 435 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. 436 00:34:19,203 --> 00:34:20,465 You make it sound impossible. 437 00:34:20,538 --> 00:34:21,527 It was impossible. 438 00:34:21,606 --> 00:34:24,370 I'm not going to argue with you, you're the expert on doors. 439 00:34:24,475 --> 00:34:27,000 Nobody crashed the party. Not me... 440 00:34:27,945 --> 00:34:29,310 not Kevin Calhoun. 441 00:34:29,380 --> 00:34:30,870 I didn't say that. 442 00:34:30,948 --> 00:34:32,506 Yes, you did. 443 00:34:41,559 --> 00:34:43,720 What was that all about? 444 00:34:43,795 --> 00:34:45,660 Probably a lawyer checking out the party. 445 00:34:45,730 --> 00:34:47,664 Somebody was just indicted for that murder. 446 00:34:47,732 --> 00:34:51,498 You just told him that Kevin Calhoun was invited to the party. 447 00:34:52,403 --> 00:34:56,806 And our statements to the police say that he crashed. 448 00:34:57,041 --> 00:34:59,942 It's one of the things he does. Elliot puts parties together. 449 00:35:00,011 --> 00:35:03,139 Makes introductions. Elliot went to all the right schools. 450 00:35:03,214 --> 00:35:06,308 Knows the right people, and knows how to make them pay off. 451 00:35:06,384 --> 00:35:09,114 Evidently, he's going to marry Elizabeth Gorman. 452 00:35:09,487 --> 00:35:10,511 New money. 453 00:35:10,588 --> 00:35:11,612 What does that mean? 454 00:35:11,689 --> 00:35:13,850 Old money would never marry Elliot. 455 00:35:14,292 --> 00:35:16,283 Tell me something, Beth. 456 00:35:16,894 --> 00:35:19,624 Does it embarrass you to be seen in public with me? 457 00:35:19,697 --> 00:35:20,686 Of course not. 458 00:35:20,765 --> 00:35:22,426 Why would you ask a thing like that? 459 00:35:22,500 --> 00:35:23,762 I don't even have new money. 460 00:35:32,810 --> 00:35:34,368 [Knocking on door] 461 00:35:41,352 --> 00:35:42,614 Rocky? 462 00:35:43,154 --> 00:35:44,416 No, it's Beth. 463 00:35:49,627 --> 00:35:51,561 I found out who killed Kevin Calhoun. 464 00:35:51,629 --> 00:35:52,527 Who? 465 00:35:52,597 --> 00:35:53,621 Clyde Russell. 466 00:35:53,698 --> 00:35:54,790 Why? 467 00:35:54,866 --> 00:35:58,427 That's the most fascinating part about this whole thing. I start... 468 00:35:58,503 --> 00:35:59,595 Why aren't you dressed? 469 00:35:59,670 --> 00:36:01,661 I am dressed. For bed. 470 00:36:01,739 --> 00:36:03,468 Put your clothes on. 471 00:36:03,741 --> 00:36:05,971 I started looking into Clyde Russell's background. 472 00:36:06,043 --> 00:36:07,874 And I found out he's into copyrights. 473 00:36:07,945 --> 00:36:09,776 Now, that's a very specialized field. 474 00:36:09,847 --> 00:36:13,248 So I asked a friend of mine, an expert, to help me, and he... 475 00:36:13,317 --> 00:36:15,877 For $200, you could put your clothes on. 476 00:36:17,555 --> 00:36:19,716 Anyway, there's the most peculiar thing 477 00:36:19,790 --> 00:36:22,190 about the copyright law in this country. 478 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. 479 00:36:27,098 --> 00:36:28,258 Listen. 480 00:36:28,332 --> 00:36:32,200 Wouldn't you think that when a company buys a book, that they own it? 481 00:36:32,737 --> 00:36:35,103 Especially if the contract says so. 482 00:36:35,173 --> 00:36:36,162 Yeah. 483 00:36:36,240 --> 00:36:38,174 Well, they do. Except... 484 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. 485 00:36:43,114 --> 00:36:44,513 Not for me. 486 00:36:45,349 --> 00:36:46,714 Except what? 487 00:36:47,018 --> 00:36:48,815 Except for this kinky law. 488 00:36:48,886 --> 00:36:51,548 A company can buy a book for $1 million. 489 00:36:51,622 --> 00:36:54,056 But, when the copyright renewal time comes up... 490 00:36:54,125 --> 00:36:57,253 if the author has died, they don't own it. 491 00:36:57,328 --> 00:37:00,126 It's not theirs anymore. Can you believe that? 492 00:37:00,198 --> 00:37:02,257 No. Are you sure? 493 00:37:03,734 --> 00:37:04,860 Positive. 494 00:37:04,969 --> 00:37:08,132 17 U.S.C. 24. It's all there. 495 00:37:08,206 --> 00:37:09,696 What's all that? 496 00:37:09,774 --> 00:37:12,402 Title 17, United States Code, Section 24. 497 00:37:12,476 --> 00:37:15,172 You mean to say somebody can spend $1 million for a book... 498 00:37:15,246 --> 00:37:17,544 and just because the author happens to die... 499 00:37:17,615 --> 00:37:20,550 before the renewal time, they don't own it? 500 00:37:20,818 --> 00:37:22,080 That's it. 501 00:37:22,153 --> 00:37:25,520 The rights go to his widow, our friend Elizabeth Gorman. 502 00:37:27,191 --> 00:37:30,752 And that's exactly what happened with The Dark and Bloody Ground. 503 00:37:30,828 --> 00:37:33,922 They were half way through the picture when her husband died. 504 00:37:33,998 --> 00:37:36,296 That's when Clyde Russell moved in. 505 00:37:36,667 --> 00:37:39,898 Elizabeth didn't know she suddenly owned the rights to the book. 506 00:37:39,971 --> 00:37:41,461 So, Clyde made a deal with her... 507 00:37:41,539 --> 00:37:44,269 and then he hit the motion picture company for 25%. 508 00:37:44,342 --> 00:37:46,833 The biggest thing since Birth of a Nation, yeah. 509 00:37:47,578 --> 00:37:51,412 Which makes Clyde Russell an opportunist, not a murderer. 510 00:37:51,482 --> 00:37:53,347 Jim, Clyde Russell... 511 00:37:53,417 --> 00:37:54,475 [phone ringing] 512 00:37:54,552 --> 00:37:56,452 Would you excuse me a minute? 513 00:37:59,323 --> 00:38:00,255 Hello? 514 00:38:00,658 --> 00:38:01,852 Mr. Rockford? 515 00:38:02,293 --> 00:38:03,760 It's Clyde Russell. 516 00:38:04,095 --> 00:38:07,030 Now, tell me, you are a private investigator, aren't you? 517 00:38:07,898 --> 00:38:08,887 That's right. 518 00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:12,601 Well, I've been thinking over what happened at the track today... 519 00:38:12,670 --> 00:38:15,935 and I think we gotta talk about Kevin Calhoun. 520 00:38:17,942 --> 00:38:20,536 I bought the old Blackford place at... 521 00:38:20,611 --> 00:38:24,980 3972, Ambazac Road in Bel Air. Do you know the house? 522 00:38:25,449 --> 00:38:27,280 Yeah, I think I know where it is. 523 00:38:27,351 --> 00:38:30,081 Just let yourself in the back way. The gate will be open... 524 00:38:30,154 --> 00:38:31,746 and come straight to the pool house. 525 00:38:31,822 --> 00:38:33,312 The pool house. 526 00:38:35,993 --> 00:38:38,393 If you're finished, I'd like to finish. 527 00:38:39,930 --> 00:38:42,865 Clyde Russell resigned from the Bar. 528 00:38:44,235 --> 00:38:45,702 Don't you get it? 529 00:38:45,770 --> 00:38:50,139 Nobody resigns from the Bar unless they got something pretty shady to hide. 530 00:38:50,841 --> 00:38:54,140 Clyde Russell is a high-class ambulance chaser. 531 00:38:54,845 --> 00:38:57,211 Only he chases copyrights. 532 00:38:58,182 --> 00:38:59,979 Kevin Calhoun was a writer. 533 00:39:00,051 --> 00:39:02,110 No, Kevin Calhoun was a poet. 534 00:39:02,186 --> 00:39:05,178 He grossed a fat $15, $20 a year for his work. 535 00:39:06,290 --> 00:39:08,087 Well, there's something there. 536 00:39:08,159 --> 00:39:10,093 And don't ask me what, 'cause I don't know. 537 00:39:10,161 --> 00:39:12,686 Why don't we just go up to Russell's place and ask him? 538 00:39:12,763 --> 00:39:14,458 After what happened at the track today? 539 00:39:14,532 --> 00:39:16,500 You couldn't get in the back gate. 540 00:39:17,435 --> 00:39:18,834 $10 says I can. 541 00:39:21,739 --> 00:39:22,831 You're on. 542 00:40:15,726 --> 00:40:17,591 (Beth) Shall I call an ambulance? 543 00:40:29,540 --> 00:40:31,371 He won't need an ambulance. 544 00:40:35,613 --> 00:40:37,080 I'll be all right. 545 00:40:39,049 --> 00:40:42,109 Let's see if we can find a phone in the house. Come on. 546 00:40:51,962 --> 00:40:53,429 Go call the police. 547 00:41:01,172 --> 00:41:02,696 [Tires screeching] 548 00:42:29,093 --> 00:42:30,526 [Car honking] 549 00:43:03,856 --> 00:43:05,847 [Police radio chattering] 550 00:43:13,503 --> 00:43:15,698 What happened? Do you know how long I've been waiting? 551 00:43:15,772 --> 00:43:17,103 I got hung up at the hospital. 552 00:43:17,173 --> 00:43:18,105 You're hurt. 553 00:43:18,174 --> 00:43:21,075 No, I'm fine. Elliot Malcolm got messed up pretty good, though. 554 00:43:21,144 --> 00:43:22,634 Elliot killed Clyde? 555 00:43:22,712 --> 00:43:24,805 Yeah, and he tried to kill us. 556 00:43:24,881 --> 00:43:25,973 Me, twice. 557 00:43:26,049 --> 00:43:27,744 I don't believe it. He's not the type. 558 00:43:27,817 --> 00:43:30,615 Because he went to the right schools? He's the type. 559 00:43:30,687 --> 00:43:32,154 He's just not very good at it. 560 00:43:32,221 --> 00:43:33,483 Has he confessed? 561 00:43:33,556 --> 00:43:36,218 He won't even give the cops his unlisted phone number. 562 00:43:36,292 --> 00:43:39,728 But if I figured it out, they're going to be right behind me. 563 00:43:39,796 --> 00:43:43,425 Come on, I want to get to Elizabeth Gorman's before they do. 564 00:44:05,955 --> 00:44:07,513 [Knocking on door] 565 00:44:15,031 --> 00:44:16,623 Elliot, I have been... 566 00:44:17,900 --> 00:44:20,027 When it's bad news, I knock first. 567 00:44:23,773 --> 00:44:26,606 Look, Mr. Rockford, if you persist on coming in here... 568 00:44:26,676 --> 00:44:28,109 I'm gonna have to call the police. 569 00:44:28,177 --> 00:44:29,576 You won't have to. 570 00:44:30,813 --> 00:44:33,077 They should be along any minute. 571 00:44:33,149 --> 00:44:36,710 Elliot Malcolm's in the prison ward at the Santa Monica Hospital. 572 00:44:37,954 --> 00:44:38,852 Is he... 573 00:44:38,921 --> 00:44:41,082 He'll be fine in time for the trial. 574 00:44:41,157 --> 00:44:42,454 What trial? 575 00:44:42,525 --> 00:44:45,392 He's been charged with the murder of Clyde Russell. 576 00:44:45,862 --> 00:44:47,352 I don't believe you. 577 00:44:48,531 --> 00:44:51,557 You don't have to, you can check it out with the cops. 578 00:44:51,701 --> 00:44:54,465 Clyde had nothing to do with Kevin Calhoun's murder. 579 00:44:54,537 --> 00:44:55,936 He didn't even know about it. 580 00:44:56,005 --> 00:44:57,996 But he figured it out. 581 00:44:58,675 --> 00:45:01,974 So he had to go. Elliot was just protecting you. 582 00:45:02,045 --> 00:45:05,208 Or should I say, he was protecting his investment? 583 00:45:06,416 --> 00:45:08,407 He's talking now, Elizabeth. 584 00:45:09,085 --> 00:45:12,953 And he's going to keep right on talking. He's got nothing more to lose. 585 00:45:13,723 --> 00:45:15,816 Don't you want to know what he's talking about? 586 00:45:15,892 --> 00:45:19,123 Might help you with your answers when the police get here. 587 00:45:19,862 --> 00:45:22,922 Well, I certainly don't need any help with any answers. 588 00:45:23,032 --> 00:45:26,092 Not even when they start asking you about your husband? 589 00:45:27,470 --> 00:45:31,065 Mr. Rockford, would you mind leaving? 590 00:45:32,208 --> 00:45:34,472 I mean, I don't believe a word you've said. 591 00:45:34,544 --> 00:45:36,512 I don't believe that Clyde is dead. 592 00:45:36,579 --> 00:45:40,242 And I don't believe that Elliot is in any prison hospital. 593 00:45:40,316 --> 00:45:44,218 I don't know what you're gaining by lying to me like this, but... 594 00:45:46,122 --> 00:45:48,420 I'm warning you. Just leave me alone. 595 00:45:48,725 --> 00:45:50,158 You are alone. 596 00:45:55,932 --> 00:45:58,093 This came off during the accident. 597 00:45:59,202 --> 00:46:01,796 "To Elliot, with all my love. 598 00:46:03,639 --> 00:46:04,765 Elizabeth." 599 00:46:17,086 --> 00:46:19,953 According to this, your husband was killed in a boating accident... 600 00:46:20,022 --> 00:46:23,287 off the coast of Mexico. Only his body was never recovered. 601 00:46:25,328 --> 00:46:28,161 Kevin Calhoun was Steven Gorman. 602 00:46:30,133 --> 00:46:32,226 When he heard about the movie, he showed up here... 603 00:46:32,301 --> 00:46:34,235 to get his slice of the money. 604 00:46:34,771 --> 00:46:37,296 And you killed him to protect your interest. 605 00:46:37,740 --> 00:46:39,230 [Siren wailing] 606 00:46:50,620 --> 00:46:52,212 I thought he was dead. 607 00:46:52,488 --> 00:46:54,888 For three years I had to live with that. 608 00:46:55,792 --> 00:46:57,384 Believe me, that hurt. 609 00:46:57,493 --> 00:47:00,656 And then one day, the day of the party, he shows up... 610 00:47:00,730 --> 00:47:03,426 with a new name, and a new wife. 611 00:47:04,233 --> 00:47:05,598 No explanations. 612 00:47:06,369 --> 00:47:07,734 And no apologies. 613 00:47:08,905 --> 00:47:10,736 He was there to collect the money. 614 00:47:10,807 --> 00:47:13,571 No thought to me, and what I'd been through. 615 00:47:13,643 --> 00:47:16,305 No more thought than when he faked the boating accident... 616 00:47:16,379 --> 00:47:19,746 because he didn't have the courage to ask me for a divorce. 617 00:47:20,883 --> 00:47:22,475 What he put me through. 618 00:47:23,619 --> 00:47:26,452 Boy, you'll never know the hell he put me through. 619 00:47:27,456 --> 00:47:29,515 That's why I killed him. 620 00:47:29,859 --> 00:47:31,622 [Police siren wailing] 621 00:47:32,361 --> 00:47:33,555 [Crying] 622 00:47:35,531 --> 00:47:37,863 Have you heard from Ann Calhoun? 623 00:47:37,934 --> 00:47:40,061 She phoned me from Flagstaff this morning. 624 00:47:40,136 --> 00:47:42,627 It'll take a while, but she'll be all right. 625 00:47:42,705 --> 00:47:45,071 Ten cents a mile? I thought it was seven. 626 00:47:45,141 --> 00:47:47,336 It is, if you're a nostalgia buff. 627 00:47:48,277 --> 00:47:50,268 That toothpaste is still on here. 628 00:47:50,346 --> 00:47:51,574 That's right. 629 00:47:52,315 --> 00:47:53,339 All right, I'll pay it. 630 00:47:53,416 --> 00:47:54,576 Thanks, sport. 631 00:47:55,518 --> 00:47:59,511 But that spark plug lead and this brake job... 632 00:47:59,789 --> 00:48:03,122 parts and labor, I'm afraid that will have to come off. 633 00:48:03,192 --> 00:48:06,218 What are you talking about? Those represent attempts on my life... 634 00:48:06,295 --> 00:48:08,490 and yours, in the line of duty. 635 00:48:08,564 --> 00:48:11,362 Attempts that were only possible because of your negligence. 636 00:48:11,434 --> 00:48:12,924 You should have locked your car. 637 00:48:13,002 --> 00:48:15,436 The hood? There's no lock on the hood. 638 00:48:15,504 --> 00:48:17,233 Then I suggest you have one installed. 639 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. 640 00:48:20,543 --> 00:48:21,703 Just give it back to me. 641 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. 642 00:48:25,815 --> 00:48:27,806 Just pay me for my services and we're even. 643 00:48:27,884 --> 00:48:31,217 Don't be ridiculous, Jim. I'm going to pay for your services. 644 00:48:31,287 --> 00:48:34,814 And your expenses. Just as soon as Ann Calhoun pays me. 645 00:48:34,891 --> 00:48:36,051 That wasn't our deal. 646 00:48:36,125 --> 00:48:37,922 Of course it was. 647 00:48:38,060 --> 00:48:39,994 Don't tell me you misunderstood me. 648 00:48:40,062 --> 00:48:42,530 Naturally payment will take some time. 649 00:48:42,598 --> 00:48:45,032 Ann doesn't have much except for that piece of property. 650 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. 651 00:48:50,473 --> 00:48:52,338 How about a compromise? 652 00:48:52,408 --> 00:48:55,866 I'll forget about Ann Calhoun. Just wipe it off the books. 653 00:48:55,945 --> 00:48:58,607 You retain me on the Elizabeth Gorman case. 654 00:48:58,681 --> 00:49:01,343 You owe me that much. I'm the one that recommended you. 655 00:49:01,417 --> 00:49:02,543 And she can afford me. 656 00:49:02,618 --> 00:49:04,210 She can afford you. 657 00:49:04,287 --> 00:49:08,348 But she doesn't need you. I have a brilliant defense planned. 658 00:49:08,424 --> 00:49:10,221 She'll be out in six months. 659 00:49:11,160 --> 00:49:13,924 But, you know, I am working on another case. 660 00:49:13,996 --> 00:49:16,590 We could certainly use your help on that. 661 00:49:17,300 --> 00:49:19,791 Of course, the man is virtually penniless. 662 00:49:19,869 --> 00:49:23,805 But you'll love him, Jim. He's 70 years old, but alert. 663 00:49:24,440 --> 00:49:25,498 Jim? 664 00:49:28,577 --> 00:49:29,566 Jim?