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Monday morning in Manhattan.

The city was picking up where it left off on Friday.

I was trying to remember back that far.

Another day in the promised land and the pot

of gold was still at the end of the rainbow.

Now all I had to do was find the rainbow.

But happily, this was America.

A land of opportunity.

Strawing?

Is there anything else I can get for you, Mr. Hammer?

Maybe later.

Bela?

You want a bistromi?

Any idea where I'd put it?

You got a point.

Sorry.

No sale.

That's okay.

I usually do better with the man anyway.

Bye.

Bye-bye.

Smart girl.

Yeah.

You got to admire her business acumen too.

I thought you were going to quit smoking.

It's dying, aren't?

Well, look who's here.

Hey, Michael.

Hey, welcome.

How are you doing, buddy?

Bela, Malcolm Dobbs.

Country in Wester's answer to Legionnaire's disease.

I'm a darling, baby.

How are you?

Brand-new outfit for you.

Come here.

Excuse me.

What can I do for you?

I've got myself in the biggest poker game in New York.

Yeah.

Sprague building?

Mm-hmm.

It's a 50k buy-in.

I might be the favorite.

A little backup.

What do you mean protection?

Mm-hmm.

Malcolm, come on.

The science is a private investigator.

You know that I'm not in that racket.

What do you mean?

For 5C, you don't want a baby sitting me sitting around watching a good poker game?

Don't miss lunch, Malcolm.

It starts in three hours.

I have a feeling the down payment for the computer I want to just walk out the door.

Well, I don't like computers.

Mike, a computer can bring some order to this office.

Into your life?

I can't think of a better reason for not having one.

Buy yourself a co-op to that partner.

Hey, sir.

You've done all you can.

Max.

I'll talk to you later.

Right.

How you doing?

Good evening, Malcolm, Dallas.

Okay, you're on the list.

Good evening, sir.

How you doing tonight?

It's Captain Pat Chambers.

Who's the field supervisor?

Tom Phillips.

Tell him that the drug deal is going down in the penthouse at the spray committee.

Martin Sprague, Malcolm.

Glad you could come.

How you doing?

It's quite a spreadsheet out here, Martin.

You can run a herd of cows through here, couldn't you?

Security, tighter, and a pair of press shorts.

Biddrick Burdonti, and Callahassie Smith.

What's your name?

Smith.

Smith.

May I offer you a drink?

Well, if anybody knew how to make it gin-ricky, you could.

I do.

Eve Warwick, Malcolm Dobbs.

When gin-ricky.

What's your name, man?

Well, I guess you certainly do have everything.

Keys, L-B's, and Z's wholesale.

Everything else.

Keystone.

Mmm.

They're 90.

Quite pure.

I'm going to take a 175 melt point and go pure through a benzene burn.

I'll take the key.

Good fella.

I'll take a nosey off of that.

And key play.

How's that?

You're just fine.

How's that?

It's even better.

Best great ether.

A little goes a long way.

We'll be done with your yard sale, Mr. Smith.

We'd like to play some cards.

Table stakes.

Hot limit.

25,000 buy-in.

Anytime there's less than five in front of you.

You can buy more chips.

Draw for deal.

No.

Called over an hour ago.

Where is he?

I know you said Phillips is in root, but he's not here.

Couple of dimes.

20,000 blind.

I'm exuding confidence, pardon?

20.

I think I'll exude some confidence in my own.

You're 20?

Up 20 more put you all in.

I'm exuding acute depression.

I'm glad I'm out of this mess.

Everybody's exuding something.

Aces.

Kings over trays full.

Good evening.

You are being robbed.

Put your hands on the table and remain very, very still.

There is no need to fear for your safety if you follow instructions.

I will repeat what I just said.

There is no need to fear for your safety if you follow instructions.

Keep your hands on the table and remain very, very still.

Hey, that ring's important to me.

It's a good luck charm for an old friend.

Give me that ring!

You said there'd be no killing.

The guards downstairs will not be killed if

you stay exactly where you are for 30 minutes.

I will repeat what I just said.

The guards downstairs will not...

It's not what it is!

That pet chambers?

Yep.

Who are you?

I'm Phillip, a drug enforcement agency.

My neighbor's calling.

He wanted to meet me here.

Who are you?

It's just a D.A.

Barrington.

A little lake.

My neighbor's just heard bad.

I'm going with it.

Stick around.

We've got a lot of questions.

I'd like to ask.

Yeah.

Linda?

Yeah.

What do I mean?

I just told Don't calm down.

Where are you?

I'll be right there.

Bullet is dangerously close to the spinal cord.

We have to operate immediately.

He was shot in the back.

Yeah.

Without complications he could be out of here in a couple of days.

But if it hit the spinal cord, there could be total paralysis.

Heralises?

Mike!

Oh God!

How are you doing, buddy?

I'm going to watch my back.

Just like a rookie.

Mike, take it easy now.

Don't talk.

Don't feel high stakes poker game.

Don't feel sprig building.

I stopped by the sprig building.

I was crawling with cops, DA types and feds, all getting in each other's way.

So I moved on.

And somebody as big as Martin Sprague gets wiped out.

The city doesn't sleep until it finds the reason why.

I thought a certain country singer and I should have a polite chat.

How was the poker game, Malcolm?

Oh, Michael!

Oh, yeah.

I got some other ideas under the go.

Never the go, huh?

You're a hillbilly liar.

Malcolm!

I'm scared to dip behind.

You must have been confused with somebody who cares, Malcolm, because I don't.

Now watch this.

See this?

Try not to hit the ground.

You better start talking.

You better be right behind it.

How much do you lose?

I'll go over 50.

What about Tallahassee?

Try to stop him.

He got kicked off with a thick, thick, thick diamond ring off his fingers.

What about the guy that bought the cocaine?

Or Dante?

I don't know.

He's some kind of an art dealer.

It's all over.

You better not be lying, Malcolm.

Because if you are, you have to nail that window shut.

Here, buy yourself a new hat.

I hope you're looking for me.

Unfortunately, I'm not.

That's too bad.

We make an interesting trio.

Oh, really?

I'll make it out.

Pat made the doctors earn their fees.

Six hours on the table, but they got the slug.

The next three hours would make the difference.

It was payback time and a .45 caliber was the only currency I had.

Angela,

what are you doing here?

I heard on the radio.

I tried to get in and see Pat and they will let me in.

Yeah, I know.

He had a pretty rough night.

I think I felt so bad.

Don't worry about a thing.

He's pretty thick skin.

He's going to be okay.

It's just going to be a matter of time.

That's all.

1-1-1-8.

You came upon 1-1-1-8.

Assistant District Attorney Barrington.

There were times you reminded me of a weasel.

Every time I saw him.

What's going on here?

Whatever's going on is going on to be business.

Oh, tough talk.

Don't press your luck, Cameron.

Tom Phillips, Drug Enforcement Agency.

My camera.

What's a DEA got to do with this?

An important citizen was murdered.

Pat Chambers violated departmental procedures.

And there were some unanswered questions.

What procedure?

What questions?

Think it up with internal affairs.

See how far you can get with them.

Why did you call the DEA?

Well, you remember the teller we had as a witness?

The Lancy Street Bank Robbie.

Yeah, Angela Serenos.

She was here just now.

I was doing her a favor.

A favor?

Yeah, her boyfriend's a dock worker.

He was ducked up in a federal raid along with four or five others.

Unloading a tub full of Columbian.

Her boyfriend Frank Dolceit overheard a jailhouse rumor that the feds missed a

load of cocaine, stash, and a secret place on the boat.

A big piece of that cocaine was supposed to be sold off at the poker game.

So Dolceit has Angela go to you to make a deal with the DEA, right?

Yeah.

Well, what did you do that was so wrong?

Nothing except the NYPD lost a bust.

But now the DEA has escaped gold.

Pat's career is on the line.

Angela Sereno was working as a guide at the Statue of Liberty.

Like most New Yorkers, I'd never been to visit the lady with the torch.

To help her boyfriend, Frank Dolce, who was in jail, Angela had tipped Pat to

a certain classy dope deal poker game, which almost finished off Pat,

the way it finished off Martin's Spring.

Angela was a sweet kid.

She'd made a few left turns when she should have turned right.

But Pat and I tried to give her a hand whenever we could.

Now she could repay the favor.

Angela was the key to clearing Pat.

The DA's office would be slow in working up much interest about Angela's murder.

There would be no headlines, no forensics, no leads.

The good lady took the tire, poor and huddled masses.

But in this case, she didn't give them back.

Angela's boyfriend was a federal prisoner at the

tombs, which meant I wasn't on his visiting list.

I'd been flung back into the deep cold well called Square One.

Square Two was the Sprague Penhouse.

Poker!

And cocaine.

Well, Pat was right on both counts.

Blow and dough.

If only I'd gotten here ten minutes earlier.

Bering didn't deliver any witnesses.

I'm only looking at the drug end, but I don't think so.

You?

Uh, Pat's only alibi turned up dead.

And I still haven't been able to get to a boyfriend.

That's because he's none of your business, hammer.

I talked to him.

He's a punk.

First time, way too far down the ladder to know anything about penthouse dope deals.

And you can tell Captain Chambers that Frank

Dolce denied using his girlfriend for anything.

He also denied any knowledge of a robbery plan for the Sprague building.

And of course you believe it.

I think the possibility existed.

Captain Chambers called DEA too late on purpose.

Yeah.

Stupid, Berington.

Anybody ever tell you dumbness forever?

Is that right?

My people found this in a city car parked across the street.

Captain Chambers car as a matter of fact.

All right, Berington.

We all know you're never wrong.

It's just that this time you're a little weak on being right.

Frames like this when I'm with horn rim glasses.

I was enough to boil in that room to father or herd.

I really didn't expect any answers on the roof.

Just some fresh air.

How's it going?

I already talked to the police.

Said nothing then.

Nothing now.

Hey, I'm not the man.

Oh, what?

Look, tell me that.

Smoke?

I'm trying to quip it today, not today.

You think this World War II and I'm being liberated?

Take a hike.

I'm my camera.

Be Roy Applebaum, the third.

You know, I can't figure it out.

I can't figure out how they got up here.

I mean, there's alarms on every floor, motion

detectors, infrared, security elevators.

No place for a helicopter to set down.

You can't play that on you?

Ain't too smart, is they?

I bet you're smarter.

Them tracks there, see them?

Yeah, for your platform, right?

If a body with the right kind of know-how, head two of these.

You can slip them inside them tracks and climb

right up the side of this building like a spider.

I think that's how it was done.

I know that's how it was done.

Found about the roof door this morning.

It's got no other idea where it might have come from.

Do you?

Sometimes it's better to be lucky than smart.

Leroy Applebaum the third had given me a hot lead.

But that particular climber's cam was one of 10,000

manufactured by an outfit in Hackensack, New Jersey.

With that much leg work, there's no better legs than my secretary, Belda.

Yeah, hello, Belda.

How much?

Let's go.

I got the climber's cam traced to a retailer

on the corner of Fifth Avenue in 16th Street.

They bought 2,000 of the 10,000 cams that were produced.

Yours was wonderful.

That's why you get the big bucks.

Sorry, sweetie.

No, pastrami today.

Sometimes you get pretty carried away when you find a parking place in New York.

Pat was gonna make it out of the hospital.

Now I had to see to it that he stayed out of prison.

My favorite parking ticket had had it.

It's alright, I'm in full control.

Can I help you?

Maybe.

I see you're into climbing.

All kinds.

Yeah.

My name is Mike Hammer.

I'm a climbing investigator.

This was sold right here in your store.

I'm interested in finding out who bought it.

Oh, well, that's kind of difficult.

Unless you have a good reason for me to dig through 10,000 sales or seats?

Yeah, I got two.

A friend of mine took a bullet in the back.

A nice young girl about a year age has taken up space in the morgue.

That's plenty good.

I'll check it out.

Thanks.

Sandy, huh?

Yeah.

You're okay.

Not a lot better than just okay.

Yeah, you are.

Next on my list was Beatrick Baudante, the guy who bought drugs and sold art.

He had an address uptown where even the garbage men wore designer jeans.

I guess the pictures in that gallery were pretty good.

I wouldn't know.

The only thing I did know about those paintings, they'd

be good for covering up bullet holes in your wall.

Are you interested in imported art, good canvas, or frames?

Up to now, my idea of imported art was German beer.

I'm Eborg.

Mike Hammer.

You certainly have style.

I'll say that for you.

But then again, what kind of style checks up with a guy

who skips out on her and then leaves her holding the bag?

You probably haven't been mistaken for Dale Carnegie all day.

Doesn't it bother you just a little bit to be running this kind of scam on people?

Oh, yes.

But I take something for it.

What's that?

Money.

Listen, how about answering a couple of questions

and maybe saving a life of an honest cop?

I have no answers.

Those heisters knew their way around that

penthouse as if they lived their all their lives.

Like one of the players could have tipped him off.

Could have been you.

Okay.

If that's how you feel about it, don't expect any more cooperation from me.

I never expect anything and I still get disappointed.

It's a shame.

We were just beginning to warm up to each other.

Hammer.

You know where Tallahassee is staying?

Why?

Boydonti was playing with 40,000 of my money.

I'd like to tag along.

Sorry.

Passengers don't help my gas mileage.

Or my disposition for that matter.

I understand.

On the other hand, I have the address.

You don't.

You okay?

Yes.

I don't know.

Friends of yours?

I'm just the effect you have on people.

Makes me so sure they were shooting at me.

They're aimed.

Can I help you?

No thanks, honey.

I think I'll just tell myself.

That's too bad.

I think you're my chromosome type.

I'll make a note.

You could bring new meaning to the term type of investigator.

Well, it's a tough job, somebody.

I'm clamming that, please.

Nitro Stark, 250 pounds of blood clotting scar tissue.

He had a 72 inch chest and an IQ to match.

What are you coming in here like the man for blood for, Hammer?

Eve, meet Nitro Stark.

Living proof that man hasn't been out of the trees too long.

I didn't have my workout today, Hammer.

Gold clog a dream.

I'm not so sure you had to get quite so physical.

If he had a brain, I'd have thought of him to death.

Tell the happy.

Hey, it's my camera.

I've got a couple questions for you.

Why not?

We've got through the qualifying round.

How are you, Eve?

Fine.

You carry half very well, Tell the happy.

Very well and dear.

Like they say, don't take care of your body.

What are you gonna live?

Somebody said that Captain Chambers is a friend of yours, Hammer.

Right.

Too bad.

I haven't liked him from the last movie.

You sound like a man who doesn't mind losing a lot of cash and drugs.

I didn't say that.

Some of those items were near and dear to me.

Particularly a ring I lost.

My one good luck charm.

Anyone like to join me for lunch?

We've got the important yogurt.

Peanut Pilata?

Cinnamon nuts?

You got any 2D fruity?

No.

You know, if you were to tell me a little bit more about

that robbery, I just might get your ring back for you.

The little bunk was strong.

It had a grip like a wrench.

What kind of weapon?

Well, that automatics.

Any idea on how they knew where the game was?

Someone fingered it.

Well, Donnie was just here talking about that.

He wants us to pull our resources and hire a PI we can trust.

If you weren't so close to Chambers, we'd take your application on consideration.

You think you can trust Borante?

No.

And he can't trust me, can he?

By the way, let's all this to you.

Nothing.

Hey, Hammer.

You don't mind if I have you followed, do you?

Yes.

Goodbye, Hammer.

Well, thanks a lot.

You got anything on Borante?

For one, he doesn't smoke.

I'm cutting down.

What else?

He has no driver's license, no employment record, and no credit cards.

But according to the tax assessor's office, he sold

$5 million worth of art in New York City last year.

Not bad for a guy that doesn't exist.

Well, that checks out with what Eve Warrick said.

Oh, how nice.

I spent all day on this.

What else does she have to say?

Well, according to her, he's not an American.

He lives in the West Indies.

Probably where he met Tallahassee.

Okay, now we both know what Eve said.

What does Mike Hammer say?

Mike Hammer says that these belong to Borante.

Take a look at them.

The prescription, expensive, very unusual design.

I want you to check them out.

Okay.

I'll get the gumball machine fixed.

No, forget it.

All these guys don't have to fix today's electronic video games.

I don't want them to ruin my gumball machine.

What else is happening?

Oh, your source of the court clerk's office call.

The DA just came out of criminal court with an arrest warrant for Pat.

An arrest warrant for Pat?

Why didn't you tell me?

I'll see you later.

What the hell is going on here?

Mike, the DA asked my office to do the lab.

What kind of test?

On the cocaine found in Angelos Torento, the park.

Hey, please, do you mind?

One pound, 90% pure.

An exact chemical match that cocaine found in Captain Chambers' car.

And the residue at the poker game.

Now you tell me.

What is Captain Chambers' contract doing with cocaine from the heist?

It's a paint job, and you know it.

Criminal conduct involving a public official.

Right now the charge is a legal possession.

I'm sure we'll be adding conspiracy, murder,

and obstruction of justice as time goes on.

So what are you going to do?

You're going to arrest him right in front of

his whole family, in front of all the prey?

Hammer, I don't like it.

I've got a job to do, and I don't need your interference.

Now I know why you're so thin, Barrington.

You got no heart.

Pat, I want you to think.

Now listen.

Thank you.

I got to know everything.

Is there anything more that Angel said that Mike shed light on the situation?

You got it all, Mike.

Everything I know.

Listen, nobody busted any heads.

You don't want to get barrington in the hives.

Thanks, Mike.

Bobby.

Listen.

Whatever you see, whatever you hear out there, it isn't true.

Your dad is the best.

Right?

Right.

Go get him, Tiger.

The wheels of the system were grinding up my best friend.

I wasn't about to let my best friend get ground up.

I called Velda.

She said she had a female mountain climber in the office wanting to join the firm.

If Sandy could hook a name on the guy who ordered the

climbing device, I'd let her nail the bozo who was tailing me.

But on the other hand, why should she have all the fun?

Anything?

Mike!

Look, I was only took the order.

His name is Davie Agut.

He bought four cams, rope, backpacks, the whole enchilada.

Was he alone?

Well, Davie placed the order, but some other guy I'd never seen before picked it up.

Where do we find this, Davie Agut?

In Hackensack.

He works for the township teaching climbing and rescue.

Right.

Well, get him ordered on the phone.

Tell her Santa to be buying 20 minutes to pick her up.

I wanted her to make a voice ID.

Come on, kid.

You're on your first case.

With you?

You don't see anybody else, do you?

Okay, her name's Eve Warri.

Pick her up to be back here in five minutes, okay?

You have to make a secret contact first.

Something like that, yeah.

Dad, I must be loose.

Thanks, lad.

Your hands are strictly for balance.

That's him.

Davie Agut, expert climber.

The stairs are inside.

I'll warm him up.

I'm coming up, Davie.

Okay.

Climb when ready.

Coming up.

You're looking good.

Real smooth.

Oh, this is terrific.

Not too bad.

That's good.

You're almost there.

A little farther.

Oh, thanks.

It was show-off, by the way.

Oh, I just thought it'd see if I could beat the private investigator up here.

Who?

Me, Davie.

Got a couple questions for you.

About this.

It was picked up at the Sprank Robbery, and traced to you.

Well, they were going to have me deported.

Oh, shoot.

That was too easy.

I was really ready to grill him.

See you at the bottom.

Deported.

Just cotton?

I'm confused.

I should talk to a liar.

You should talk to a brain surgeon about a transplant.

Deported to Scotland.

Do you remember your voice, Laddie?

Well, they promised no killing.

I told them I wanted no part of killing.

Who's there?

Davie.

With evidence this deep, you're in for a minimum of 30 years.

Unless you plea bargain.

I might hit that.

I didn't hurt anybody.

I'll be telling you the whole story when I get down.

I'll meet you at the bottom.

I just want to get my class off the side of the building.

Watch out below.

I'm coming down.

Look out.

Daddy, no.

I

got a good look at him.

What about the license number?

It was raining dead bodies with no lineup in sight.

But I didn't need an umbrella, I needed answers.

No, I'm talking to the moment you have to get out of here.

You all are going to move.

Mommy, just move on.

I like the same tune.

It's pretty good.

You wanna make the other one better?

Whatcha Socialik coming out of here?

How is it?

If you want to sign the sign call for help

which one something you think dropped there?

Let's cannot do it.

What about a bids wait right here for you?

That's Alright number one.

You can do it.

Look, Sada Harro has 803 lifetime home runs to lead the world.

Sorry, this gentleman is correct.

Answer.

Question.

Who holds the record for the most games won as a relief pitcher?

Hmm?

You got me?

Elroy Fakes, a record of 18 and won for the Pittsburgh Pirates 1959.

Answer you amaze even me.

Even myself?

Question.

Answer.

Any news about hot eyes from the spray ground we're building around town?

Well, the word has it that the big fella from the south lost something that you

might pick up at the diamond exchange down a canal street.

Canal street?

Hmm?

You got all the answers answered.

I followed my nose and Aussie the answers tipped down the canal street.

Some days it smelled just like his name.

A rather talkative fellow I knew helped me get it narrowed down.

It didn't take me long to find what I was looking for.

Now that I had Tallahassee's ring, his lucky ring, maybe it could bring me some luck.

Maybe I could find out why Angela was so unlucky and why Pat's luck was running out.

A check back with Belden.

Somebody had sprung Angela's ring.

Angela's boyfriend, Frank Dolci, from the slam.

So much for the help he might have been.

I told Belden to run down everything she could on the people

arrested with Dolci when the boatload of dope was seized.

I had an idea where to find Dolci, but I didn't want company.

Better watch out for the alligators' nitro.

New York drivers could be dangerous.

It was a good thing nitro had a seatbelt on.

Some are young.

Angela Soreno had lived on the Lower East Side

in a neighborhood where every day was D-Day.

It didn't have a daycare center, so the local kids played on the street.

Don't even think about it.

See?

You thought about it.

This was a security building until the dog food ran out, then all bets were off.

You're a detective, ain't ya?

Bet you're working with Captain Chambers on that Angela murder case, huh?

Well, it wouldn't have happened if she had dogs like Spike.

Ain't that right, baby?

Yeah, you wouldn't let nothing happen to me, would you?

No, I know that.

Caught his first burglar last year.

Shoot him a good.

Word got out fast.

Now, I bet you I got the safest building on the block.

I believe it.

Yeah, well, you ought to tell that to Captain Chambers.

Then he wouldn't have to be giving away his money.

Buy him a dog instead, that's what I say.

Who was giving out money?

Captain Chambers?

He gave $500.

How do you know?

Because I saw his personal checkmate out to her.

She signed it over to me to pay the rent.

Nice, nice.

Nice, baby.

Well, I can tell you something.

We're getting nowhere fast.

Come on, man.

I didn't just get off the boat.

I'm sick and tired of you lying to me.

Spike, I don't know how much longer I can keep it together.

Well, you might start by leveling with me.

Oh, sorry, Dad.

Angela was destitute.

Her job was only three weeks old and her jerk boyfriend was in the slam.

So you just helped her pay the rent, huh?

Something you routinely do on your civil servant's salary?

Not what you think, Mike.

Just letting all about this?

Oh, God.

Why do you think I was such a clam in the hospital?

Linda would never understand.

Were you sleeping with her?

Giving it to you straight, Mike.

The 500 was to help Angela through a tough period.

Those strings, no favors, nothing.

All right, all right.

I believe that we can't afford any more surprises, Pat.

I mean, Barrington has got that check.

He's gonna use it in court.

I never slept with her.

God, I want to do it.

But I never did.

Listen, if I were you, I would tell Linda about that check.

Listen, tell her what you did.

Not what you thought.

By the time I got to the hearing, Barrington had already worked over Eve.

She thought she was gonna help Pat by telling what happened at the climbing class.

But Barrington had built a pyramid of circumstantial

evidence that her testimony couldn't dent.

He was on a roll.

The only thing Barrington loved more than talking was listening to himself.

But he sure didn't love listening to Pat's lawyer.

And in the 15 years that you've known them, have you ever seen or heard Captain

Chambers doing anything that could be considered unlawful?

No.

And that's 18 years.

Pat Chambers and I would Vietnam together.

He received the Distinguished Service Cross.

Your witness?

It was very effective, Mr. Hammer.

Now, you don't remember that Captain Chambers was

offered a bribe by one Patrick Donat, August 31, 1975.

Well-known syndicate figure?

Yeah, I remember.

As I recall, Pat Chambers was Mr. Donat's face had a plate of noodles Roman off.

Captain Chambers had other offers, including

one from Tallahassee Smith shortly after that.

Six months later, he submitted papers for an early retirement.

Were you aware of that?

I was aware of that.

Pat Chambers was going to, will be commonly called, a ten-year burnout.

Want to explain that?

I'd be happy to.

See, the more effective you are in police work, the more arrests you make.

After about a ten-year period, you begin to look at the hundreds of

hardcore felons you put behind bars, and you suddenly see them loose in society

because of some judicial technicality, whether it

be in a miserable evidence or temporary insanity.

You see crimes, vicious crimes, punishable by

death, reduced to six weeks for good behavior.

You begin to wonder if it isn't the American

justice system that has temporary insanity.

We were talking about Captain Chambers, Mr. Hammer.

You want to get off the salt box?

I remember Captain Chambers asking me, why should we risk our lives?

If the DAs don't care, the judge doesn't care, why should we go out and get shot at?

Is this a direct quote, Mr. Hammer?

That's exactly what I said.

Go on, Mr. Barrington.

In any event, Captain Chambers chose not to retire.

Why?

Because retirement wouldn't be as lucrative?

No.

He said somebody has to do the job.

Somebody has to care.

Look what it's got.

No more questions.

Yeah, well, I've got one for you, Barrington.

You just love prosecuting, don't you?

You don't care that Pat Chambers is one of the best cops you ever had on the force?

You're prosecuting an evil scout.

Out of order.

I can hold you in contempt.

Sorry, your Honor, I plead temporary sanity.

Pat was dealt from the bottom of the deck.

The mistakes of the game were the highest he'd ever played.

After careful deliberation, I've decided that there is sufficient prima-fiche

evidence on the cocaine possession charge to bind the

defendant over for trial in the general Supreme Court sessions.

Bill will remain as posted.

Trial data is set for October 3rd.

Yes.

Well, there's been a cancellation on the docket.

Your new trial date is therefore moved to September 2nd.

Objection, that's only three weeks.

Objection overruled.

With three weeks and no new evidence, Pat Chambers

was looking at a long stretch behind bars.

Something had to be done, and I knew I had to do it.

But what?

Well, they bound him over for trial.

Three weeks.

I just can't believe it.

They're even doing everything they can to send him away.

Mike, I tracked down those galleries.

Bed report, Dante.

What about those mug photos on Frank Dolce and the other two?

The rest reports are federal.

I couldn't even get close.

All right, I'll get them from the NYPD.

What about those prescription glasses?

75 gold inlay frames remain that design.

I have a list of optometrists who sold them in New York.

We'll get on it.

We've got to get to report Dante.

Or Dante is expected of one of the art galleries you told me to call.

Well, why did you tell me what we're playing?

20 questions?

No, we're measuring your hostility index.

Where's the gallery?

Don't park at me.

I'll drive.

Well, what in the world would I do without you?

This is it.

Try and park around back.

Oh, don't!

Don't!

Get back!

Get down!

Get down!

Don't!

Don't!

Don't!

Don't!

Don't!

Don't!

Don't!

Don't!

Don't!

Don't!

Don't!

Thanks, mister.

Yours?

Save my job.

I'd like to find a way to thank you.

I'm sure if we put our minds together, we can come up with something.

I'd like to put our minds together.

What's your name?

Mine.

Mine's Bonnie.

Bonnie, huh?

I'll make a note.

Angela was dead.

Pat was coming to trial in three weeks.

All I could do was look for someone called Bourdante.

I didn't know what he looked like, and in these

surroundings, you couldn't tell a crook by his cover.

Mr. Bourdante, telephone, telephone, Mr. Bourdante.

Bella,

how can I ever tell you?

Give up, Smokey.

Who's Smokey?

Is Eve in that car?

Sure is.

She's working for the people who robbed the poker game.

Now's somebody else.

Not sure how to go.

Sandy.

I was afraid you'd already cut into sleep.

I thought I'd fix your real California-style mountain meal.

Oh, yeah?

Eat while gasping for breath, huh?

Oh, I came by window because I saw that same car parked out in front.

Oh, yeah?

Am I being followed?

Are you being watched?

Both.

Well, I brought my sleeping bed just in case you wanted the whole bed.

Oh, yeah?

I've got dehydrated potatoes, dehydrated peaches, and my favorite raw oysters.

Dehydrated?

No.

It adds a little weight, but they're worth it when you're not camping solo.

Oh.

Got any milk?

Yeah, I think so.

Wow!

Half of this food is crawling, and the other half is teaching it's young.

Well, I'm not home very much.

Lee is water.

Now, you just sit right down.

It's going to be a gourmet's delight.

Oh, I know, wait a minute now.

Let's put our appetite aside just for the second and do some business.

All right?

Now, you sit down.

I want you to take a look at these five guys.

Now, these gentlemen were picked up offloading a boatload of Columbian Red.

Mm-hmm.

You recognize any of them?

Uh...

Yeah, this one.

Yeah, Garth.

Who's the guy that picked up the equipment from Davy, right?

No.

No.

It was the third guy?

Yeah.

What's it look like?

Is he here?

No, ugly here is the only one I recognize.

Well, you think you can remember that third guy

well enough to sit down with a composite artist?

Sure.

Good.

Oysters are also good for the memory.

Oh, yeah?

Mm-hmm.

Um, you know what?

Mm-hmm.

I didn't really bring my sleeping bag.

You didn't.

No.

Hi.

Hi.

You haven't eaten yet, I thought.

Too late.

We were just starting with the hors d 'oeuvres.

Oysters.

Well, I'll come back.

Any oysters were all... No, no, no, wait, wait.

I got a few questions for you.

Come right in.

Eve is a Sandy.

Sandy, I like you to meet Eve.

Oh, I forgot.

You two already met.

Got any glasses?

I hate to pour champagne into tin cups.

We don't care to alter our state of awareness.

Especially when we are just about to enjoy ourselves.

Go right ahead.

Any questions can wait.

No, no, no, no, no, they cannot wait.

And this is not the right place to ask.

Now, just...

Hey, listen.

You can eat your oysters and go to bed.

And you can sleep in my room.

And I want to know exactly where you are, because tomorrow morning, you've got to

get together with that sketch artist, okay?

I've got a key, so you can lock up behind.

Sleep tight.

By myself?

And that's right, you did have some questions.

You know, I'm not sure whether you're on the offense of the defense.

You undercover types don't wear jerseys.

You are slick.

It all started with your confidence builder.

First of all, bearded guys with oozies don't miss when they get that close.

I think there was that last minute phone call that bordante got at the gallery.

You were the only one that knew that I was coming.

So what haven't you nailed down?

All I know is you're a fed, which agency I'm not sure.

Department of Justice, racketeering task force.

That's the DOJ got to do with bordante.

I can't tell you.

Thanks a lot.

Look, Mike.

What he's doing is important to us.

Report?

Meanwhile, he's allowed to play poker with laundered cash, moved with dope deals,

and look on as people get murdered.

Well, sometimes that's what it takes to work a sting.

I see.

Is that what you're doing with me?

Working a sting?

I'm trying to help you.

Without endangering Bordani's cover.

He had nothing to do with the robbery.

I'm sure of it.

I'd like to believe you.

I'd like you to believe me, Mike.

I want that very much.

You still think mountain climbers and oysters at the market corner?

You know, I could get used to this secret ancient thing.

Very special, Mike.

You could become happy for me.

I need a favor from you.

Hey, man.

You think you could get together with Sandy and arrange

for your sketch artist to work up a composite with her?

I thought you said she ID'd the man in the gray car.

She did.

But there was a third guy.

A guy who picked up the climbing tools and paid for him.

And he just might be the employer.

What do you say?

Done.

Oh, you're easy.

Hey, Mike.

Mike, you missed Tuesday night poker.

Yeah, I know.

I had a lot of my mind.

Oh, I see.

What'll it be?

Nothing for me.

What's the lady want?

What the lady would like to trip to Hawaii with you?

Really?

What are two trips to Hawaii?

Sounds good to me.

So how long do you think that'll last?

Till the next murder?

It would last as long as we wanted it to.

As long as we keep creating wonderful memories.

Should I quit my job for memories?

Fantasy.

Like last night?

Like every night.

You got an answer for everything.

Question.

Answer.

The man he wanted to have more pinch hits of Rusty's style.

A pleasure, young lady.

Yes, he did.

Right again, Hammer.

It makes me feel very smart.

This is Aussie the answer.

He makes it up to the world for the record.

Among other things.

And now Aussie.

Going, going gone.

Young lady?

My pleasure.

Alright, Hammer.

Excuse me.

Walked over here from there, wouldn't you?

Tell Aussie.

I found out y'all were getting close to his big ring.

And, you know, his precious ring.

He been laying a little low.

And I got some heat on it because he sent me to get it.

And I don't know.

I mean, what, you know, it's not gone.

I have to ring.

You found it?

Oh, hell of you.

Alright.

I'm saved, aren't I?

I wouldn't go on that.

I mean,

what am I supposed to do?

Sweat.

I knew Malcolm would let Tallahassee know I had his ring.

So it was time to pay the big guy a visit.

None of the poker players were putting their cards in the table, except maybe

Sprague, who dropped out of the game early.

Dead.

This case was beginning to have more twists than a Rubik's queue.

I even had a funny feeling I wasn't being followed.

Hammer.

Come back later, Hammer.

I got something you really been looking for.

Jump it under the door.

Your gratitude is overwhelming.

You're a bit shy on matters, Hammer.

I'll make a note.

Wow!

You thought this would go a few rounds, huh?

Whatever it takes.

Don't have the time, Hammer.

Come on, come on, come on.

I mean, she died around noon yesterday.

She died for a reason, Barrington, and Pat Chambers is not it.

Then what is the reason?

I'm not sure.

But Ms. Warrick here at the Department of Justice Tech

may should make a copy of the identical composite.

We may learn something when we pick it up at her office.

And if you were to let up on Pat Chambers, maybe you'd

have a little more time to find out who the real killer is.

Look, Hammer, I don't like going after Chambers.

It's not fun for me.

He was a fine cop for a long time, but like I keep telling you, read my lips.

I've got a job to do, and I don't need your advice on how to do it.

Right, Barrington, we all know you don't need anybody.

As long as you keep the ball on the ground.

As you drop back for a pass, we might have

to scrape you off the other team's gold post.

Right, wait.

Look, I'm limited by agency jurisdiction, but I'll do what I can to help.

How come the Drug Enforcement Agency's so benevolent officer?

Not the agency, me.

I retire myself next month after 20 years.

I got a real good idea what's going on in Pat's gut.

Really?

Maybe you're not on very good steam.

But what can limited jurisdiction do for Pat?

Garth was, as you said, a federal prisoner in that boat case.

Dope was involved in the robbery.

Because of that, I can justify sending my people out to look for it.

That's a step.

What about those reports on the boat case?

Can I see them?

I'd like to tie all those suspects together.

That's going to be rough.

Federal reports are confidential, but I'll do my best.

Cocaine is a business dealing in hundreds of millions.

A hundred million here?

A hundred million there pretty soon.

We're talking about real money.

Anything else?

Yeah.

Put a muzzle on Barrington.

I couldn't get the picture of Sandy Freeman dead out of my mind.

If I hadn't gone to her for help, she'd still be alive.

And Sandy did help.

She left one copy of an identical composite behind in Eve's office.

And I was convinced it was the face that would get Pat off the hook.

Is there another copy?

No, I only had a guy make one.

All right, that's it.

I got to see Portante.

I told you, he has nothing that can help.

I know, he's been under constant surveillance.

Surveillance, yeah, while he plays poker and deals with dope.

We know what we're doing, Mike.

Now, so does Portante.

The guy's getting rich and he's got federal protection.

Is there a better way to get to the top to stop the ones who pull all the strings?

Just me.

I have got to talk to Portante.

He's the only thing I got left.

Now, where is he?

You're asking me to make a tough choice.

You were my job.

Well, that's not a choice at all.

I'm sorry.

So am I.

Little hostility in that shot.

I always think about burying him when I break.

You know that.

Mike, should be on the streets looking for Portante.

What, are you kidding me?

Listen, Pat, you cannot go anywhere near that thing and you know it.

Come on, it's your shot.

Not bad.

I hate to interrupt.

I have a surprise.

Oh, yeah?

Mm-hmm.

First, I'd like to talk about my forthcoming race.

Must be some surprise.

A breakthrough discovery is all.

Yeah, but we'll talk about the race once we find out about the breakthrough.

Come on.

Okay.

Portante's reading glasses.

The ones that she picked up at the gallery.

They were prescribed two years ago, but not under the name of Bedric Portante.

That particular frame of prescription were sold to Arturo Velasquez.

Velasquez, we busted them two years ago for insurance fraud and racketeering.

It isn't okay if you like for Dante.

Are you sure?

If the feds gave Velasquez a new identity, they may have given him a new face.

Look at this, the facial structure is similar.

Mm-hmm.

She couldn't be right.

Yeah, but the last time I heard Velasquez was in the

Bahamas, what's he doing wandering around Manhattan?

Wait a minute.

Wait a minute Pat.

Who was Velasquez's main connection a couple of years ago?

Well, it was never proven, but we all knew it.

He was the feds' number one price.

Uh-huh.

Walter Danelli.

The only thing Danelli and I had in common was things were going bad for both of us.

Velasquez, or Portante as he was now known, was singing like a bird,

giving the Danelli grand jury information right or wrong.

I needed information too, but I knew I couldn't handle five guys at once.

I also knew who could.

Hey!

Hey!

Doctor, going up.

I can't believe Danelli would have ordered this in the courthouse.

It's Doctor Nellie.

Now, Velasquez, it's just you and me.

Take it easy.

Take it easy.

Who figured the spray game?

What are you crazy?

Hey!

What are you talking about?

I'm a stand-up citizen.

I ain't no rat.

You can answer the question.

You can twist all you want, tough guy.

You can twist all you want and break it, but I want to tell you something.

When it's almost over, we're talking about the big deed for you.

Get away from my face!

Do something!

Hammer!

Let him up.

This man's a federal witness.

Yeah, he's a federal fraud.

Our twirl Velasquez.

He's still working for the syndicate.

You think he's going to help you convict Danelli?

You tipped the poker game in the penthouse, didn't you?

No!

Get in!

Oh, that's holy!

No!

Hammer!

You don't need arms to talk.

I didn't freak in the game!

I swear!

I swear!

I swear!

I swear!

I swear!

Tell us, he... No, no, no, no!

Was this cocaine?

Who was it?

Who was it?

All right, all right, all right, all right.

Talk to Malcolm Dobbs.

Malcolm Dobbs.

He badgered me to get into the game.

He didn't know where it was until I got him the invite.

Go break his arms!

I'll do just that.

We've got a real winner here.

Go to the rest of it.

Yeah, tempering with a federal witness.

Assault kidnap.

Obstruction of justice.

Yeah, but I got what I came for.

Yeah, you paid a damn heavy price for it.

No, I'll tell you who pays a heavy price.

The people pay a heavy price.

To keep dirtbags like this in style.

When you make your bone-headed trade-offs.

Well, I got another trade for you.

Either I walk, or I go public with everything I know about you and what you

let your witness get away with here under the guise of federal immunity.

You call it, Mr. Prosecutor.

So long.

Again.

How many times will I keep on believing this never will end?

So you say so long.

Good luck and good-bye, again so long.

Get out of my life, again.

Please help me, Jesus.

I'm losing my mind.

Never good.

When you say so long.

Malcolm's on stage, but I just bet you're my kind of entertainment.

You got a key to his dressing.

What's never left, unless someone's already inside first.

I'm contortionist.

Do you ever contort?

Only on Friday.

It's Friday.

Follow me.

Start a new life with a nice little girl with a heart of only.

So you say so long.

Each is home.

I prefer natural life.

Time after time.

Please help me, Jesus.

I'm losing my mind.

When you say so long.

So long, again.

Thank you.

Thank you.

God bless you.

I'm back, Malcolm.

Oh, I'm nervous.

Oh, how do you know I'm not?

If you're planning an encore, you're going to have

to come in, because I'm going to have to trust you.

You set me up.

You heard about the game.

And thank you came over to my office.

You didn't want any protection.

That was just establishing an alibi for you.

I don't know what you're talking about.

Oh, yes.

Somebody wanted another location on board, Dante.

That same somebody took the game down.

I don't want it.

I've been squeezed.

Don't you understand that?

I want a name.

Malcolm.

I'm not going to get that protection.

Oh, it's going to happen to me.

I want a name.

All right.

Malcolm down.

Let me finish this.

It's right, Mike.

It's not much.

But it's all I could think of.

The federal courts on Frank Dolce wanted to look at.

Why?

Why now?

Sometimes the Dixa Storm declared things up.

Your very answer is to me.

And my job.

I'm going to eat, eat.

I'm going to need some help, reading this.

I'm a pushover once you get to know.

I need you, Mike.

You think a secret agent can have a love line for the hard case, won't you?

We wouldn't have to worry about the secret agent part.

I'm going to get fired for taking those reports.

My longevity usually lasts around a pound.

Okay, don't freeze.

Wait a minute.

One month before Angela's boyfriend, Frank Dolce, right?

Right.

Oh, look at this.

The dope boat.

Ooh, would we have a nice romantic vacation on that, or would we?

Mike or she?

No.

According to this, U.S.

Customs has it on the seized vessel block tomorrow.

What did she do again?

Oh, it's just kidding.

Oh, I remember that Pat said that there was a load of dope that was missing.

Missing from a secret compartment.

What?

Here's another report.

All right, ladies and gentlemen, we're going to start the bidding today

with a 50-foot Alden catch surveyed at a wholesale market value of $65,000.

Federal law requires the bidding beginning at wholesale.

Who will start the bidding?

65,000.

I have 65.

Do I hear 70?

70?

Do I hear 70?

Yup.

70?

Do I hear 75?

75?

Do I hear 75?

75?

75, yes ma'am.

I have 75, 80.

Do I hear 80?

I have 75, 80.

Do I hear 80?

Do I hear 80?

Do I hear 80?

Do I hear 85?

90.

90,000 dollars, ladies and gentlemen.

Do I hear more?

95?

95?

95, 95,000 dollars, yes sir.

Do I hear 100?

You got it.

I have you did, sir.

100,000 dollars.

Great retirement, Boday Tom.

Yeah, but you're pushing it off the market, Mike.

Didn't know you were a sailor.

Well, I thought I'd make a good investment.

Not at that price.

What are you doing here?

You'll be at once, $100,000, sir.

I'd take it all the way to a million.

Of course it'd be worth it, wouldn't it, Tom?

It seems as we will have started bidding once again.

I believe the last bid was... Your boy, Miss Tallahassee's cocaine stash.

Then Garth heard he was going to turn it in a high stakes

poker game to try to make a deal with you to stay out of jail.

He even bragged about a dangeless boyfriend who

also tried to make a deal, but he didn't know how.

How am I doing so far, Tom?

I think you're crazy, Hammer.

Yeah.

What you never figured on was Angela Serrano talking to Pat before,

you shot him in the back.

You were going to retire.

I mean, a cool million would be a lot better than a reduced prison sentence.

You squeeze Malcolm Dobbs for holding a little snows so

you can get the exact location in the spray building.

Then you came up with a very fancy way of getting a cool million out of the cut-off.

And here we are.

The

only way for me, Hammer, just stay away.

Left over, Phillips.

I've waited too long.

Not too many punks get rich.

Money always tossed.

Nobody did time.

Nobody cared.

Left over!

Went unclear!

My own.

My own.

Get away with

me.

You make one sound and I'll blow your spine through your belly.

Out

of the way, Hammer.

Look out!

Hey, what's going on?

No!

No!

Get out of the way!

Somebody help me!

Hold it!

Out of the way!

Who?

I said move it!

Oi, look out!

Eve, I can wait.

Hey!

You're moving pretty well.

Feel any pain?

I got my pain.

I'll live with it.

How's your pain?

I'll live with it.

Dinner my house Friday night, mandatory.

You got it.

It was there, all right.

Eve and I had had it.

That magic or chemistry.

Call it what you want when two people click.

It was there, and it could have been something special.

But in a fly as you was gone, and her with it.

The blues had me by the throat, and it was lonely.

Can I get you anything, Mike?

Well, thanks, Darryl.

I'm just fine.

Well, you've always got me.

That ain't all bad.

Thank God for Velduff.

Thank God for the city.

It was time to get back to work.