All language subtitles for Gang War (1958)

Heat. Heat.

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>> Heat. Heat.

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>> That's the house.

Supposing Slick don't choose to come.

>> Kitten, how generous do you think Marsha

is?

>> That makes you feel good?

>> It don't make me feel nothing.

>> Well, if you think I'm getting a charge

out of it, you're wrong, Slick.

>> You asked for it.

>> And what are you asking for? Singing to

the DA. Nobody likes a pigeon. Not even

cops.

>> The syndicate's moving in. Then it's

goodbye to Reno and all the rest of

those bums. Then meet Mr. Big.

>> Glad to know you while you're still

alive.

>> Mr. Big.

>> That kind of remark is bad luck.

>> Do we have to do this job personally?

>> Personally? That answer your question,

X?

>> Well, why can't Max's mouthpiece put the

fix in?

>> Is a lush. That's why.

>> But Joe,

>> shut up. Nobody puts a finger on Jorino

and gets away with it. And don't you

ever forget it.

Duncan

Reno, ain't it a coincidence? I was just

talking to Marsha about you guys.

>> You must be getting lots of experience

talking about us.

>> Oh, look, Reno. Marsha's a hemp game.

Why? She's got a mouth like a steel

trap.

>> We know. Slick.

JOB. LET ME GO. I'LL GIVE YOU ANYTHING.

HELLO.

That's it.

Heat. Heat.

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Hello, operator. Give me the police

quick.

Huh? Oh, it's uh Hollywood 76311.

Hello. Listen, I'm in a parking lot at

the corner of uh Buena. It's back of the

Empire Theater. I just saw a man killed.

>> Yes, sir. We get a patrol car down there

immediately. Your name, please.

>> Your name, please.

>> [music]

>> Heat. Heat.

But A minute there, I was all set to

scream. Waking up and finding a man in

my bedroom.

Then I remembered it's my husband.

Two years.

I still think it's pretty wonderful.

>> You've just set an alltime record.

>> Came out here to get into pictures and

wound up marrying a high school teacher.

>> You sorry?

>> Sure. If id held out, I might have

nabbed a college professor.

>> Oh, sometimes I wish I'd been born with

two heads and then I could get rid of

the one that gets the migraines all the

time.

>> I'm a big help sitting around here with

a medicine in my pocket. I'll get some

water.

Well, that isn't helping our water bill

any.

Where are the pills?

Oh, in the jacket.

>> I guess I left them in the drugstore.

Get up in the middle of the night, rush

down to the drugstore to get medicine

for my wife, and then forget it.

That shows you the advantages of a high

IQ.

>> Never mind my headache, dear. What's

yours? Oh,

>> I never had a headache in my life. Not

enough brain.

>> Alan,

>> I'd better get down to that hot water

bag and pour them and pick up your

pills.

Edie,

I saw something coming home tonight.

There was something that kind of upset

me.

Oh, it wasn't very important.

>> Well, the way you're acting, I'd say it

was very important.

>> Edy, it's too late for psychoanalysis.

I'll pick up the pills. Be back in 10

minutes.

>> All right.

>> You well on Avery?

>> Yes. Here are your pills.

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>> [music]

>> They ain't cops at all.

I spotted them right off the bonus

balonus.

Oh, that's that St. Valentine's massacre

back in Chicago. You see, baby, I got a

photographic memories like a hawk.

>> Uh-huh.

>> Do I have to keep on reading, Maxi?

Honey,

>> how many pages you finished?

>> I'll keep on reading.

[bell]

Oh, what creeps.

>> They talk about the good old days. Ha

ha.

>> What are you getting all steamed up

about? It's all practically happened

before we were born.

>> It's a professional interest I got,

baby. I don't like to see bad

workmanship. Besides which, knocking off

seven guys at once is lousy public

relations.

Well, why ain't you reading?

>> You and me have been together for almost

two years.

You've asked me to do a lot of things,

but you never asked me to read before.

>> Look, I got a lawyer. I pay him 100

grand a year. He says we got to get real

cultured. Otherwise, our neighbors ain't

never going to speak to us, let alone

darken our doors.

>> Yeah. How are you going to get any of

the culture if I do all the reading?

>> Oh, cookie. We're a team. You read the

book. Fill me in on in a score.

Huh? What phonies?

>> What's so special about culture?

>> You got to learn things, Marie. That

goes for everybody, male and female.

>> I learned a lot of things without

notebooks.

>> Yeah. And if you use any one of them

with anybody but me, I'll break both

your legs.

The stuff I'm talking about is strictly

social.

>> What I'm talking about is strictly

social, too.

What?

I'm reading.

>> Get rid of the book.

>> Pardon me. I'm in the middle of a

paragraph.

Yeah.

>> I can't make up my mind.

>> Very Joe, we just suffered a sad loss.

>> What would you like?

>> Your canary died.

>> Oh,

>> yeah. We're out in a water field or

someplace.

>> I told you the last time. It was

absolutely the last time. Sure, boss. A

very healthy climate. Dry.

>> But are you guys living it up?

>> No, boss. It ain't that kind of a place.

>> Okay. He was with me up until an hour

from now.

Excuse a slight interruption.

>> I finished the paragraph.

>> Do you know what that book's all about?

>> No. [snorts]

>> The Greeks.

>> You mean somebody wrote a whole book

about Nick and his cousins?

>> Somebody wrote a whole book about the

Greeks in Greece.

>> Oh, them. The Greek Greeks.

>> Yeah. And these ones are all dead.

>> Well, that's life. That's culture.

>> Look, baby, you can tell me all about it

in the morning.

>> I'm liable to forget.

>> So you forget.

>> So who made me read the book?

>> All right.

Tell me about them Greeks.

Blood.

>> Nobody bleeds that much and lives.

Well, now say somebody did see a murder

committed.

>> Say it was you.

>> Well, why me?

>> We found your pills in that phone booth.

>> You've seen my wife. She doesn't belong

on a firing line anywhere. And me? Well,

teachers just don't make very convincing

heroes.

>> They make good witnesses.

>> Ernie, Lieutenant Johnson wants to see

Avery at the station.

>> All right, here we go.

>> I read the papers. I go to the movies

and I watch television.

I've seen the innocent bystander who

finds himself in the middle. He's the

key witness who becomes the bright and

shiny target unless he keeps his mouth

shut. You know, Lieutenant, that

description could fit me. And why should

I open my mouth? That was a gang

killing. What have I got to do with

gangsters?

>> You ever get your suit clean, Mr. Avery?

>> Sure. For whatever you paid, about 20 or

30% wound up in Maxi Meadow's pocket.

Buy milk, vegetables, drugs.

>> Isn't that a police job?

>> We pulled Meadows in a dozen times,

maybe more. We put cuffs on his

lieutenant, roused his men. We've never

been able to make a charge stick.

>> Why not, Lieutenant?

>> Isn't that a question you ought to be

asking yourself, Mr. Avery?

>> You teach kids. How much do you know

about juvenile delinquency?

a little.

>> It's increasing.

>> You mentioned your wife that she's going

to have a kid. Don't you care about the

kind of world it grows up in?

>> I think your wife would, Mr. Ab.

All right.

The car they used was a black sedan. The

license number was uh

the JPF 393.

The pig bled all over the truck.

>> I read some place once how much blood a

guy's got in. You won't believe it.

>> No. How much?

>> I don't remember.

>> Go get a pale of water and some rags and

clean this mess up thorough. Right away,

Joe pal.

H

the plates on the car.

Thought I told you to change them.

They're registered to me.

>> Well, don't don't worry, Joe. I I mean,

Slick ain't going to press charges.

Slick ain't all you've got to worry

about.

>> Yeah, I'll I'll get the water and stuff.

Huh?

>> John,

hold it right where it is, Aino.

Now, let's see your hands. Come over

here.

Bring the axe up across.

Attack. Yeah. Handcuff them. 30 years on

the force and that's all you got to be a

sergeant. 100 bucks a week.

This isn't the money that keeps me

working. It's the people I meet. You're

going to meet lots more when you're out

pounding the beat.

Wonder how your flat feet are like that.

Get going.

Okay, now turn and face front.

I said face front.

Get your hands down. You're not looking

for anybody. You're here to be looked

at.

Now, first man in the line.

That's right. You. What's your name,

address, and occupation?

>> My name is Jones.

>> Can't hear you. Speak up.

>> Willie Jones. I got no address right

this minute. I'm a construction worker.

>> All right, Avery. Take plenty of time.

Look these men over carefully.

>> I don't need any more time. I'll not be

able to forget either of those men as

long as I live.

>> Identify.

>> It's the third man and the fifth man.

The fifth man did the actual killing.

>> Are you sure, Mr. Avery?

>> I'm sure.

>> Sure enough to testify in court, Mr.

Avery.

>> Yes.

>> This is Captain Finch.

>> Yes, Captain Finch. How long you been in

town?

>> Tell it Murphy.

>> That's all, man. Get moving.

>> You're a brave man, Mr. Avery.

That statement correct, Mr. Aling?

>> Would you sign it, please?

>> Did you witness that?

Mr. Avery Reno and Duncan along with a

man named Slick Connor had been indicted

on a narcotics charge. Connor had agreed

to turn states evidence. Your

description of the murdered man fits,

but we want to be sure.

Any one of these a photograph of the

murdered man.

He's the one.

>> That's Conor. See if Mr. Avery gets

home.

>> Okay, Lieutenant.

>> There's one point I want to make clear,

Mr. Avery. The statement you just signed

isn't going to be enough. You're going

to have to testify in court when the

time comes.

>> I'll be there.

>> One other thing, Mr. Avery. Up to this

point, no one but the police knows you

are an eyewitness to the murder. Better

keep it that way for your own safety.

I'm perfectly willing to admit it's for

our case, too. Good night, Mr. Avery.

Let's get going.

There's been a leak. The hall's full of

reporters.

>> Get them out the other way.

>> [bell]

>> It's been ringing quite a while.

>> Watch. Answer it.

>> It's 2:00 in the morning. Bryce,

[bell]

>> that makes it a business call.

You don't want any part of my business,

do you?

>> No, I don't.

$100,000 a year and you're proud.

>> No, ashamed.

>> Yeah. Yeah. This is Bryce Barker,

counselor at Lawn Honor student.

>> Who I going to have?

>> Maxim Meadows boy Friday. What's your

problem?

>> All right. Go through your

Yeah.

Another

errand for Max's boy.

>> Gentlemen,

I understand you're holding a couple of

my clients, Joseph Reno and Bernard

Duncan. You must mean the eggs.

>> Thank you.

>> They were booked here.

>> May I see them?

>> They're not here.

>> But you said they

>> I said that I booked them. I didn't say

they were being held here.

>> Then where are they being held?

>> You know, nobody bothered to tell me.

Would you happen to know?

>> Same. Nobody didn't tell me either.

>> If you force me, I could awaken Judge

Mlean and get a writ.

>> I bet you could have that. Was ready to

serve it.

That's not the way to the front door.

Good night.

>> You got here pretty fast.

>> Hello, Finch. Where are Duncan?

>> But not fast enough.

They're making the grand tour

>> in and out of every precinct station in

town.

You want to get to them for at least 2

days.

>> Maxi wants them out right away.

>> On a murder charge,

>> the charge can be changed.

Not when you have an eyewitness ready,

willing, and able to testify. Eyewitness

who?

School teacher named Avery.

I've tipped the papers.

His picture will be on the front page of

every paper in town in the morning.

Alan

You should have wake me sooner, honey.

Now I won't have time to fix you a

decent breakfast.

>> Oh, I already fixed it.

>> Is that what you call breakfast?

>> Well, I wasn't very hungry.

>> Where's the paper?

>> I guess it didn't come this morning.

I'll bring one home with me.

>> Well, I heard the paper boy's car.

>> Must have been some other jilapy.

Was there something about you in the

paper this morning? [snorts] The murder?

>> How should I know?

>> Where is the paper, Alan?

Alan, what you saw wasn't just hoodlams.

It was something more important.

>> Oh, don't let it upset you. Might be

something else in the headlines.

It says here that one of the men you

identified was Joe Reno, second in

command to Maxi Meadows, head of

organized crime in the city.

Why have the police involved you in all

this?

>> I saw two thugs kill a man. I identified

them in a police lineup and I'll testify

against them when the time comes.

>> But now they know who you are and what

you look like.

Alan, in cases like this, sometimes

witnesses have been killed.

>> Oh, Edie, for two years in Korea, there

was a whole army on the other side

trying to kill me. They didn't even come

close.

>> Maybe you could take a leave of absence

from school. We can go away someplace

>> and hide. Edie, I'm the wrong type for

that. I'm just a mule-headed math

teacher.

And besides,

if I quit my job, who's going to keep

you and it out, hawk?

>> Well, we have some money put aside.

Alan, I'm so afraid for you.

>> Oh, there's Ralph.

Now, please don't be upset. Don't worry

too much.

I'll see you tonight.

Listen,

counselor, I don't need to learn the

facts of life out of a newspaper.

>> When I phoned you last night, Maxi, I

told you then that Joe and the axe were

being held on a murder charge.

>> And I told you then to get him out.

There's no bail on a murder charge.

>> A hundred grand a year I pay you for

information like that.

>> Well, any punk just out of law school is

that smart.

>> That's what I was when you hired me. A

punk out of law school.

>> Huh? I don't need a course in ancient

history.

>> Maxi, stop screaming. It ain't good for

your vocal cords.

>> Look, honey, you lay off my vocal cords.

>> Besides, it ain't culture.

>> I'll teach you something about culture.

Shut up. Put the drink down.

If I want brains pickled in alcohol,

I'll buy them in a medical lab. [snorts]

You understand?

Chester, better shut off that overgrown

sewing machine, huh?

Chester.

>> Sure, boss. Anything you say.

Listen,

counselor, you weren't the one who found

out about Joe and the axe last night.

While they was being booked, you was

home in bed with your herinade turned

off, right?

>> So, it was Captain Finch, that sterling

member of the police force who got the

information to you.

>> How many G's does he cost you, Maxi?

>> It's worth everything I pay him.

>> I told you before they're being booked

on a murder charge. The police have an

eyewitness.

>> All right, counselor.

Then buy me his eyes.

>> He's a school teacher, Maxi.

>> So he's a school teacher. Gets paid

peanuts. That should be an easy buy.

>> What I meant was a man like that might

not sell at all. Could be somebody with

principles. Could be honest.

>> Yeah.

Everybody's got principles.

Everybody's honest

till the price is right.

I want Reno out of jail. The syndicate

is moving into town. They're trying to

set up their own wire services. If they

do, that'll be the end of Maxi Meadows,

but I'm not going to let them get away

with it. That's why I need Reno.

>> All right, counselor. I'll go make your

pitch.

>> Do the best I can, Maxi.

>> No, you'll do better than that.

You've been swimming in scotch all year

and I don't like it.

You louse this up and maybe you'll

drown.

Hey, Chester, come here.

Yeah, boss.

>> I feel lousy.

>> Whatever you say, boss.

>> Hey, Chester, you remember your title

fight?

Poor punch drunk pug.

Maybe it's a good thing you don't

remember. You never get close to him.

Hell, it's just like he had knives for

boxing loves.

>> Yeah.

Yeah, I can remember that.

>> Well, look, Chester, I want you to do me

a favor.

We got to buy some insurance.

This guy, Avery, he's married. He's a

school teacher. The address, everything,

the whole bit. It's right there.

He's on the job now, so his wife's home

alone.

I want you to go over there and slap her

around a bit.

>> Slap her around a bit. Uh, Chester,

don't hurt her too much. I just want

that school teacher to get the right

idea.

>> Yeah, boss.

>> All right, get going.

Marie,

Marie.

I don't feel so good, honey.

Bastard.

Hurry up, baby.

Fast.

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Beautiful city, beautiful setting,

beautiful scenery. Johnny,

>> beautiful. Mr. Tommpkins.

>> What a shame so lovely a city had to be

run for so long by a slob like Maxi

Meadows.

>> Well, that's why we're here, ain't it? I

mean, isn't it, Mr. Tomkins?

>> Precisely. Once we install our wire

service, Maxi will, I think, gracefully

retired to obscurity.

>> Suppose he don't want to retire. He's

got troops.

>> Not as many as he once had, it would

appear.

Beside, the syndicates got troops, too,

ain't they? I mean, hasn't they?

>> What a pity Joe Reno can't enjoy the

scenery.

>> Reno?

He's Max's right-hand man.

>> I've always been very fond of Joe. He

worked for me on the East Coast some

years ago.

>> Murder Incorporated.

I have told you never to use that

expression. I find it both sensational

and vulgar.

>> I'm sorry, Mr. Tomkins.

>> Johnny,

make some weak excuse and leave.

Alan.

>> [music]

>> You haven't touched your drink. Mr.

Avery,

>> I'm not going to touch any part of your

proposition either.

>> You're a young man, married. You're

starting on a family. It's no secret

school teachers don't [music] get paid a

lot.

>> It's no secret.

>> Why think of my suggestion as a shady

proposition?

My principal authorized me to see that

you are financially rewarded. I think he

might even finance a trip abroad.

>> Oh, I've been abroad. Korea. I didn't

especially enjoy the experience.

Just who is your principal?

>> I can't see that that matters.

>> Well, maybe not. But I know it's dirty

money I'm being offered. I was just

wondering how dirty.

>> That doesn't sound like you're going to

be reasonable, Mr. Avery.

>> Well, if you mean that it doesn't sound

as though I'm going to change my

testimony, you're right.

>> You mentioned Korea.

You know, that sounds like a much better

place to be a hero in.

>> Oh, I'm not trying to be [music] a hero,

and I could use the money,

>> but I'm afraid I'd keep seeing the blood

on it,

Edy.

Hey, Edie.

[music]

>> [music]

>> You know something? Some of the best

ideas I got I got sitting in a barber's

chair. Moving in on in the dry cleaning

rackets. Oh, that's been years ago now.

I decided on that sitting in a barber's

chair left place downtown. A real brain

that lefty couldn't keep his hands off

the other guy's dolls.

You remember his funeral? Everybody was

there. Even a black handed.

There was so many dolls leaking at the

eyes the footing got muddy.

>> Yeah.

>> Oh, be my guest.

>> Whatever you say, boss.

>> Take care of that school teachers when

>> I slapped her around a bit.

>> Didn't overdo it, did you?

>> Nah, she passed out almost right away.

Dames ain't very strong.

>> Don't give long odds on that.

I ain't heard from Barker yet.

Maybe that school teacher's playing hard

to get.

>> Hey, Marie, get off the dime. Huh?

>> All right. All right.

420.

Keep it chill.

R16.

I just dropped a fair. The 600

blockaney. He had a rod. Looks like he

plans to use it.

Hey, Marie. Hurry up, will you? I'm

starving to death.

>> I'm coming. I'm coming. Boy, you've been

starving to death ever since I met you.

>> Can I help it, baby? If I got big

appetites,

>> you know, Maxi, you look real disting.

>> You too, baby. The only thing I can't

figure out is why you get all dressed up

just to eat dinner in your own backyard.

>> Garden. Under 150 grand, it's a

backyard. Over 50 grand. It's a

>> Yeah, I know. The garden.

>> You know, it's like them Englishmen in

the jungle.

>> You know, they always get dressed up for

dinner to set a good example for the

natives.

Where did the natives get dinner

clothes?

>> You know, baby, sometimes I think you

ain't absolutely stupid,

>> Maxi.

>> Eddie.

[music]

Champ spotted the gun. You had an idea

you'd be up here.

>> Guess it was over.

>> Hey, what's going on here?

>> Oh, wait a minute. I recognize him. This

picture was in the paper. That's a

school teach Avery, ain't he?

>> He's Avery. What do you meant holding

them for?

>> Cuz if they didn't hold him, he'd kill

you.

>> For what?

>> His wife is dead.

>> Oh, wait a minute. Uh, I didn't have

nothing to do with that.

>> Whose gun is that?

>> Mine?

>> Since when the cops carry automatics?

Hey, what gives here? A guy comes

gunning for me and a police sergeant

covers for him. Look, I'm going to

prefer charges.

>> Charges of what?

>> He's He's a trespasser. Okay, that's

good enough for me. Get him out of here.

>> I'm going to kill you. You

>> hear that?

>> Threats against a private citizen's

life. Who does he think he is?

>> He's a man whose wife was murdered a

couple of hours ago. She's been carrying

a kid for 8 months. He thinks one of

your hoods did it. I think so, too.

>> Sergeant, you ain't got no proofs, sir.

>> Not yet, Maxi. But I will have.

All I told you to do was slap around a

bit. But

[snorts]

>> we're booking Alan Avery on a

trespassing charge.

>> Who's preferring charges?

>> Maxi Meadows.

Maxi Meadows.

>> Okay, Ernie, he's booked. You want me to

put him in a cell? Not yet.

>> Mr. Ary, please come with me.

Sit down, son.

He was out there. All right. He almost

killed Maxi. I kind of hated to stop

him.

>> Uhhuh. Maxi get into the act.

>> Oh, sure. He preferred charges against

him. I just booked him.

>> Assault with intent to kill. Huh?

>> No. Trespassing. The assault evidence

got lost.

>> Anything on the murder?

>> So far, nothing

cigarette.

>> I hate to seem critical of the police,

but aren't you arresting the wrong man?

>> We don't have any evidence against

Meadows. We're booking you on his charge

because it simplifies matters. I was

going to pull you in anyway.

>> Why? Because I was stupid enough to let

my wife be murdered. Because you're the

only weapon we have against Meadows.

Your evidence is going to put Joe Reno

in the axe in the gas chamber. We're

hoping they panic and implicate Meadows.

>> We'll get him, Alan. I promise you.

>> You hope. Now, where's that cell you got

all picked out for me?

>> Come on, son.

Morning, darling.

>> Do I detect a chill in the air this

morning?

>> I don't like the news this morning.

That law school you went to, did they

give classes in murder to

>> Diane?

I didn't know anything about this. All I

did was meet Avery and make him an

offer.

>> All right. So I So I tried to bribe him,

but Maxi didn't tell me anything about

>> Is there anything you know that Maxi

didn't tell you? Maybe he told you to

marry me, too.

I married you because I loved you.

>> I did too.

But not anymore.

>> Save it for Maxi.

Boss wants to see you upstairs.

Good morning, counselor.

>> Why didn't you tell me you were going to

have Avery's wife murdered?

>> It was an accident.

Dame was in lousy shape, that's all.

Don't forget it. We got more important

things to worry about.

How important can the life of a woman

be?

Don't get high tone with me, pal.

I might take away that 100 G's a year I

give you. Without it, you wouldn't be

able to buy batteries for that herinade.

Let's keep you up here.

Joe Reno and the axe are in jail on a

matter charge, right? The eyewitness

wouldn't buy. Uhhuh. Cops got him in a

clink, too. Looks bad, don't it?

>> Good luck, mops

never did find Slick Connor's body, did

they?

No, but they can get a murder conviction

without it.

>> Not if the body shows up alive.

>> It's a real pleasure to be invited over

to your house. Maxi,

>> this is Mike Skipio. It's one of my

bookies. Been holding out on me

recently. He figures I don't know it.

>> Maxi, I wouldn't do a thing like that to

you.

>> Shut up.

Take a good look at the bum.

He looks a lot like Slick Connor, don't

he?

>> Sort of. On a dark parking lot at night,

he could easily be mistaken for Slick,

couldn't he?

>> Possibly.

Scapio, how would you like to do me a

favors?

>> Anything Maxy, just name it.

>> That's fine.

You cooperate real good and I'll forget

all about the dough you took out of the

damper.

Matter of fact, I'll throw in a diesel

besides.

>> Oh, you don't have to do that to Maxi.

>> It'll be my pleasure.

All you got to do is go to the cops.

Tell them you was a guy who was having

an argument with Joe Reno when he a

parking lot.

>> I'm out of my way, boss.

>> Not yet.

>> I don't get it, Maxi.

>> You will.

Think it'll work

>> in subornation of perjury?

>> Don't give me the law books, counsel. I

ask you a question. Do you think it'll

work?

>> No. The resemblance isn't close enough

to shake Avery's testimony, especially

in view of the fact that Reno and the

axe must have given Slip a pretty good

going over before they killed him.

Scipio looks too healthy.

>> He won't.

Baka. Baka,

the concert's over. Keep your volume up

and have a look at your witness.

He looks a lot more like Slick now,

don't he?

I'm the fellow that had the argument

with the Joe Reno and the axe of Tuesday

night.

They to throw me into the trunk of the

Lincolner because I was a bleeding so

much. Then they take me home.

I'm a charge of them with assault and a

battery.

My name is Mike Scipio. I live at the

200 South Park.

>> All right, turn it off.

>> Well, Avery,

>> no.

That's all.

You sure you're not mistaken?

>> The man I saw was dead.

>> Parking lot was dark. It was night.

>> The dead man had no accent.

>> Be your word against Scipio.

>> We have nobody to produce and later when

everybody's alive.

>> Wait a minute.

>> Just what kind of a game is this?

>> Uh, the murder charge against Reno and

Duncan was changed to simple assault.

Bail was provided and they were released

from city jail an hour ago.

>> Well, how about me?

>> Meadows never signed a complaint. You're

free and safe with no murder charge

against anyone. You're a witness to

nothing.

Reno tax. I feel good.

Real good.

>> With you guys out of jail. This is kind

of like um class reunions.

>> California state reformatory.

>> Come again.

>> I said, "What is it the Greeks had a

word for?"

Reno,

with you and me and the axe together

again

with a sharp mouthpiece like the

counselors here.

Gentlemen,

this is our finest hours. The syndicate

ain't going to be no problem. I don't

mind admitting for recent while things

has been kind of lousy, but now

>> Hey, boss.

>> What do you want?

>> Them operators you sent for is here.

I want to hit on that school teacher.

He's getting out tonight.

You know where his house is. I don't

want to slip ups.

>> If he's there, we'll take care of him.

>> Why did you send those hoods after

Avery?

>> There's nothing against Reno and the axe

anymore.

>> Huh? Supposing the cops break down

Scipio.

All of a sudden, they're back in the

clink. No, I want him dead. See,

especially now I want him dead. You know

why? Because he's got a gun. You know

who he wants? Use that gun on me. No,

I'm not going to move out of this house

until I got him. That guy's a raving

maniac. You can't protect against enough

like that.

Hey,

where are you going, pal?

>> Out

of this house. Out of the $100,000 a

year and out of all the blood and filth

I've lived with the last 10 years.

>> All on account of that, school.

>> All on account of myself and my wife and

whatever's left for me.

That does it.

I want to hit on him, too.

Tonight's the end, I told him. Right to

his face.

Tomorrow morning, I want to tell my

little wife, baby.

We got all the time in the world, the

whole world. See

You're early. Oh, I thought you were the

porter.

>> I'm not early at all.

Are you satisfied he isn't here, Mr.

Avery?

>> Well, I'll just wait for him.

I think I understand a little of what

you're suffering.

I lost someone I love, too.

But I lost him a long time ago.

Please don't hurt him.

I did love him once. That's all very

touching.

Trouble is, I keep remembering Edie.

>> Oh, Bryce.

[snorts]

Yeah, [snorts] let me help you.

Mr. Barker, I came up here to talk to

you.

>> He can't hear a word you're saying.

Something's happened to his hearing aid.

>> It looks like there's something wrong

with him.

>> Well, he's been shot.

>> Shot?

>> Emergency.

Will you call me an ambulance, please?

>> Avery,

>> don't try to talk.

>> Avery,

every gun in town has got orders to kill

you. Better hide.

Okay,

it's it's Christmas Eve. Max's giving a

big party.

Come, you might have a chance to get

him.

They're sending an ambulance right away.

You'd better go, I think.

>> Oh, Bryce.

>> Diane,

I told I told Maxi tonight,

Bryce Barker, attorney at Laws,

leaving

to find the man he was 10 years ago.

No good anyway, huh?

>> Oh, price

>> took me took me 10 years to to ruin your

love for me.

Certainly managed managed that all

right, didn't I?

>> That's not true. I was going to leave

you.

>> But Bryce, darling, I I love you. It

used to make me so proud when they told

me I was brilliant.

I was brilliant. All right.

Brilliant. A brilliant loser.

Selfrespect

lost.

Lost you. [snorts]

>> [music]

[music]

>> Heat. Heat.

>> [music]

[music]

[music]

>> Yeah. [music]

Look at Maxi.

>> No. No. What's up for

>> decoration?

>> Decoration? Are you nuts a Christmas Eve

party?

>> It's French.

>> French? Huh? How cultural are you

getting anyway?

>> Do you think anybody's going to show up

tonight, M?

>> Sure they're going to show up. When Maxi

Meadows throws a Christmas party, every

bum in town shows up.

>> Yep. But it's after 11. Where are they?

>> They're going to show. When Maxi Meadow

says come over the house, they come.

You see what I tell you? Oh,

I'll tell Chester to stop popping the

[ __ ]

>> All right, you two start on your dough

and don't stop.

You never know. You see,

[music]

you'll never know just how much

I miss you. [singing]

[music]

You'll never know

how much

I care.

And if I try,

>> you make that hit on the school teacher.

>> What are you doing here?

>> When I put a guy on a job, I expect him

to stay on it till he wraps it up.

>> I took them all for that job, Maxi.

>> He's one of my boys.

>> No, Maxi, you don't have any more boys.

>> They're all on the syndicate's payroll

now, except for Reno and the axe, of

course.

What about them?

>> Oh, they're back in the Bastile on a

murder charge. The same murder charge.

>> What happened to Scipio?

>> Oh, we persuaded Mr. Scipio that there's

no future in perjury.

>> Besides, it ain't true, folks.

>> Here it is, boss. Shut up.

>> You expect me to take this laying down?

>> Lying or standing, Maxi? You're through.

Of course, you can always subscribe to

our wire service.

>> No.

>> I miss you.

You'll never know how much

I care.

And if I tried,

I still couldn't hide my love for you.

You ought to know.

I told you

a million or more times.

You went away and my heart [music] went

with you.

I speak your name in my

every prayer.

If there [singing] is some other way to

prove that I love you, I swear. Let's

get out of here.

Oh,

Captain Finch,

listen.

The sending just put the bustel on me.

Where was you when Joe Reno when the axe

was sprung?

>> Captain Finch is no longer with the

police department, Maxi.

>> Get going.

Why did they have to do this to Chester?

He's the only friend I got.

>> You still got me, Maxi.

>> Now you're a Dane.

Dames is time a dozen.

>> Raise yourself another dime.

Wait a minute, baby. You ain't running

out on me. After all them rocks I give

you that mink eater.

>> Minks don't look good with bullet holes.

>> I bought you.

>> The sales been cancelled.

>> Hold on. Maybe I I still got a lot of

dough.

>> Dick man got no dough.

[screaming]

Meadows.

Meadows.

Marie.

[music]

Heat.

Heat.

Heat.

Heat.

[music]