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Don't go to bed with no price on your head.

No, no.

Don't do it. Don't do it.

Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.

Yeah.

I'm a police officer, ma'am. May I speak to you for a moment?

There's no reason to be alarmed, but we think there might be a rapist in the

building.

So just as a precaution, we're evacuating it.

Would you please come with me?

Oh, just be right there. I've heard all about him.

I've been scared to death.

I sure hope they catch him. I've just been here a few weeks, and I... Don't

worry. We'll get him.

Get out of the way. Watch out, please.

She's dead. Right under our nose.

Anybody see anything?

Anybody call the cops? Anything?

Yeah.

You, lady, what'd you see? I didn't see nothing.

I didn't see nothing. I know.

It's that time when nobody wants to get involved or get their toes wet, but

please tell me what you saw.

I was sitting on my fire escape.

Where's that?

Up there. It's hot. I couldn't sleep.

Up there where the rug is.

From up there down to here, you could see.

Now tell me what you saw or I'm going to run you in.

You're going to take me to jail?

Rose Pomegranate's going to take you to jail? I'm tired of telling people I'm

going to arrest him. I'm sorry, lady. Just please tell me whatever you saw,

will you?

Tell me.

I heard a scream.

I heard people walking around down here by the garbage bin.

I didn't see anything. I heard a scream.

You didn't see nothing.

You didn't see nothing. Nobody saw nothing.

One scream, a lady strangled.

You kids, what'd you see?

We didn't see nothing.

Hey, you know, it's after curfew. I could run you in. What'd you see?

I live half a block down the street. You a tough guy?

No. What'd you see?

Yeah, we were kind of busy. Well, your ears weren't busy. What'd you hear? We

didn't hear nothing, just the scream.

Honest.

Nobody sees nothing, nobody hears nothing.

Okay, tell me what you got here.

Ah, Fats and Foley checked her out. Yeah. She's a nobody. Blew in town a

couple of weeks ago. She's got a room about a block away, just a little mouse

looking for a hole.

Just like the one this joker got last week. The world's full of them.

What makes you think it's the same guy?

Same M.O. Beat her up, raped her, strangled her with a leather thong.

There's a lady right up there on the fire escape.

She didn't see nothing. Nobody saw nothing, no place. Oh, yeah, nobody

wants to get involved. All wonderful people.

Remember those frenzy killings, 32nd Precinct, last year?

Yeah. You know the crazy? He got four girls in seven days before we got him

off the streets.

This one's still loose someplace.

Sometimes I hate this job.

Hmm.

Shoes, my good man, I'm glad you're here.

You're one of the few people that listen.

I will explain to you my dilemma.

And betwixt you and me and the pool balls, we'll come up with some answers.

He rapes women.

I know, that ain't unusual.

But the thing is that he gets them to go with him.

I mean, they unlock the chain or they walk out the door.

How's that happen? Is he telling him something or what?

You're right.

The last one was only in town for four days, so she couldn't have known him,

and that blows that whole theory out of the window.

Still talking to the dummy, huh?

You're gonna wind up in the cuckoo's nest someday.

Yeah, if I don't get some answers, I'm gonna put myself in a nut house.

Or maybe I'm in a nut house already.

Where was I, shoes?

Concentrate.

Yeah. We're talking about clues.

Leather thong.

He uses a leather thong.

He ties their hands, and he rapes them, and then he strangles them with it.

And that's a pretty clue.

But them ladies ain't so pretty with their eyes.

Looking at you.

What's a leather thong? That's, uh, moccasins?

An Indian? A... A cowboy?

That's a million things. That's a million things, Shoes.

You're right, Shoes.

I ain't got nothing.

So far.

Here you are.

What do you say, brother rat?

Man, you look like a partner of mine got hit by a truck.

Say, you find that jive rapist yet, man?

I ain't even got a lead.

You ain't got... Man, look here, I ain't got no money, man. My chicks is all in

my back things. It's looking pretty bad, you hear? I'm gonna sue the city for

restraint of trade, you hear me?

I thought you was gonna get your women off the street. I'm taking them to the

barn now, man, and they squawking like chickens, too.

Well, when you get them to the barn, get out in the street and find me something.

But the city ain't paying me to find the rapist. Well, then you ain't gonna get

no money made.

Well, we'll find the rapist.

Madam.

Ah, Mimi, my dove of the Yukon.

Have you ever been groped by a wino?

No, but it sounds like it may be fun.

Now tell me, ain't this the life?

This is really terrific.

Tony, that rapist isn't gonna show. He might be three feet away from you. Whip

on out there and wiggle your bananas around. You got your radio?

Yeah. Good. Don't bother me unless it's a dire emergency.

a sharp lookout, Beretta.

Atta boy.

Maybe we'll get lucky and he'll attack you, huh?

pass amongst you. We ask that you give what you will and what you can.

Bringing in the sheaves.

Bringing in the sheaves.

Come on, brother. Get up on your feet. Come on. There you go. We're serving hot

soup at the mission. Come on. Get on up. You can listen to the words of the Lord

and get off the street before the police get you. Go on.

Bringing in the sheaves.

We shall come rejoicing.

Another lost lamb. Good evening, brother.

Get on up. Come on. We're serving hot soup at the mission. You can listen to

the words of the Lord. Praise the Lord, sister. Now listen to me. Your job is

saving souls and mine is saving lives.

Now we have a rapist in the area. I would appreciate it and so would the

city if you would stay off these little side streets and stay out there among

your people. Go among them, sister.

Praise the Lord.

Yes, indeed.

Bringing in the sheaves.

Bringing in the sheaves. We shall come rejoicing.

Bringing in the sheaves.

Bringing in the sheaves.

Bringing in the sheaves.

Fast, Foley. Something's coming down.

Where'd he go? You see that, huh? I think we ought to put out an APB on this

guy. We have a prime suspect. Shut up, Foley, will ya?

What would you do if somebody chased you down the street?

I'd confront him.

You would, huh? Well, I'd run.

Just like that guy did.

What else are you gonna do with three turkeys like us chasing him?

I think we're all getting a little nervous for a suspect.

I'm going to go back to the pool room and clean up.

These clothes are developing a life of their own.

I think when you run around, the lice get nervous and they start running back.

Watch the store.

Fats, keep your eye on Madame Lozanga here. You hear?

Where you been? I've been looking all over for you.

You know I'm losing money out here? I know what you're saying. We haven't made

any money in three days.

Okay, baby, just shut your mouth up. You ain't working four days, you'll be in

the hospital for the night. I got a freak out here in the street. Y'all want

to get messed up?

Shut your mouth up, mama.

I'll put you back where you belong.

Now, what you got for me?

I ain't got nothing. Now, I like to earn my money like everybody else does.

Ditto. Where do we go from here?

Where we go from here is to wicked wonders.

Say what? Wicked wonder, bruh.

She got a freak palace over on Broad Street.

So what you do is you put on this magic ring, some of them freaky rags you got,

and you slip on in there. Wear the ring, bro. She can check the fuzz a mile away.

She do not like y'all.

All right.

Yeah. Maybe I'll find something. Maybe I won't find nothing.

You might find love.

Whatever you do, bro, party hardy. The city ain't taking care of this one.

Oh, just shut up, baby. I don't want to hear no more out your mouth, mama.

Oh, man, cut out all that racket. I'm trying to make money out of these dudes

playing their instruments, man.

You see, my good woman, my thesis is not so much concerned with the general

psychology of prostitution. The psychology of what? I beg your pardon.

The psychology of art photography.

My thesis concerns itself most specifically with the area of voyeurism.

All in the interest of science, huh? Yes, just so.

I'm sorry. You see, the interests of the community come first. Will you come with

me, please? Why, certainly. You see, my girls and I regard our work here as

therapeutic. I'm certain it is, ma'am. We like to think of ourselves as the

safety valve of society.

I'm certain you are. We take pride in the number of marriages we've saved. And

just as with psychiatrists, we never give out information about those we

treat.

That is a nice smile you've got. Now hold it.

Oh.

Why, how quaint. What is that?

Just a little custom we have here, college boy.

See, Wanda learned a long time ago to keep a record of everybody who comes in

and out of that door.

Why, I think that's peachy. You mean to tell me that you have a photographic

catalog of all of your customers?

None of your business, college boy.

Oh.

I'm afraid that it is, sugar.

I'm the heat.

Now, don't get tense, because all that means is that one way or the other, you

and me are going to get to your photographic catalog.

Now, I can shut your joint down and send you to the poorhouse, which I don't

particularly want to do because I don't care about your business one way or the

other. I mean that.

Or...

You and me can become old friends and do each other a lot of good until we're old

and gray.

Now, if you think I'm bluffing, go ahead and mess up.

What do you want?

Anna, girl, I'm not interested in your happy customers. I'm interested in the

ones that, uh, that you're afraid of, that you threw out of here, the strange

ones that didn't find...

Whatever they were looking for, you know what I mean?

Shall we gather at the river

and pray for a sign from...

Another lost lamb out in the night.

Shall we gather at the river?

The beautiful, beautiful river.

Good evening, ma'am. I'm a police officer.

We believe that there's a rapist in the neighborhood.

Are you here alone?

Yes, and I'm fine, thank you. There's no need for police.

Well, maybe I better just check the place out.

There is no need for police in the house of the Lord.

I told you I'm fine.

Please go down to Broad Street. The animal shelter will help. Please, would

you help my wife? This is an emergency.

Everything's an emergency. Would you please sit down and take your turn?

Yeah, what do we hear?

Do you want to... Come on over here. Come on.

Throw this out, and I'll be right back.

Well, you haven't finished filling it out.

Who did this to you? Your husband.

Nurse, I know you told us to wait. Will you please go sit down? I'm sorry.

Hey, come back here.

Hello.

Fred, will you wake that dumb owner of yours up?

Get on this phone.

What do you want, man?

What's the matter with you?

What?

Moretta, will you pick up that dumb phone?

Moretta, get to the phone!

Moretta?

At least he's awake.

Listen, I got one more for you. You ready? You got a pencil?

Mm-hmm.

Don't you think you can remember it?

It's Roland Heights Memorial Hospital. Last night, possible rape victim. She

checked in, started to fill out the card, then she left. That's it for last

night. I said, what'd you get with the other three I gave you?

Oh, names. Oh, yeah. No, nothing, boss.

Nothing, nothing.

They didn't check out their uncle.

Yeah. Anyway, right. Memorial Hospital.

I'll see you.

Make sure you wake me up, and I'm going to cook you.

Look, I just finished three back-to-back shifts. When I get off this one, I'm

checking in as a patient. I know what you mean. My job is kind of crazy, too.

But if I could just have one more minute, baby. Excuse me. There's a

circus in here. I'm a police officer. I'll be right with you. I'll be right

with you. Just take your time now. Just close your eyes. Get all this stuff out

of your head.

Now, tell me, what did she look like? Was she tall, fat, skinny, what?

Mm, a little.

A wisp of a girl wouldn't say budo goose, you know what I mean?

Oh, I better open them. I'm gonna be asleep on you.

What makes you think she was a rape victim?

Well, I don't know that she was. I just handed in the report. Your lieutenant

says he thinks she was.

Oh. All right. Well, uh, okay, back to what she looked like. What was she

wearing?

You know, I think it was a uniform.

Uniform? What kind of uniform would a... It was one of those mission workers, you

know. Yeah, standing on the corner, save the people, that kind of... That's very

important. Thank you very much.

Was she alone?

I don't know. There were a lot of people down at the end of the hall. I don't

really remember.

She could have been or couldn't have been with somebody. You don't know. I

don't really know. Thank you very much. You get a little rest.

Right.

No, no doctor what I'm looking for is a girl that might be working at your

mission Yeah, I do you know her so skinny girl what with

thick glasses about five foot tall No,

she ain't with me I'm looking for have you seen her

No, I don't know nothing.

But listen, Dr. Sawyer, if you hear anything, if you see anything, please

don't hesitate to call me. My name's Beretta. I'm with the 53rd, okay?

Yes, of course. We know you're concerned, officer, and she's in our

prayers. I hope she don't need him, pal.

So long.

Boss! I want an APB out on her. I want the army after her. Don't you

understand? He took that thing. I know he took it. He's a bigger thief than you

are, Beretta. I'm sorry about your pen, but we got a hot one here, boss.

I know you got a problem, Beretta, but I got a problem myself. If I can't find

the pen and get those requisition signs and take them upstairs, they're gonna be

typing with typewriter ribbons that we bring from home.

Where is it?

I'm sorry, Tommy.

I know we got a tough one. Listen, boss, the thing is...

We gotta find her.

Because the rapist, if he raped her, he knows she can identify him. That means

he's out to kill her if he ain't killed her already.

You see how important it is? Tony, did it ever occur to you that this might not

be an attempted rape case?

What do you mean? Look, look, in this city, how many people get beat up every

night? 90, 95, something like that? They never got a chance to examine her. She

never finished filling out the card. Now, you've done everything you can.

You've got nothing. I got a hunch. She works on the same street. She lives in

the same area.

We got a good shot. Let's find her.

Please, boss.

What do you want? I gave you the APB. What more do you want? I can't spend a

taxpayer's money that way. You want to take these people out of here? Yes, I

do, because you know what you'd find?

What would I find? You'd find an eyewitness to a rape, and then we'd...

Foley, what do you want?

After a careful and thorough, and I might add, surreptitious investigation,

I've come to the unalterable conclusion, through brilliant and... Foley!

Tell us what you got in two words.

Well, those... Wicked Wanda, those five perverts.

This is the only one that checks out. The other four, well, uh, uh... Holler

right there!

Give me my pen.

But you'll find, sir, that the other one is... There's two of them out of state.

Get out of here!

Boss,

look at this. What?

This guy, Mueller.

Huh? Lives by himself, works in a laundry. He's got an arrest record here.

All sexual things. Last 10 years, 11 years.

And he... Wait a minute.

Yeah?

The pen is a laundry pen.

What? You see this thing?

That's why the ink won't come off. That pen, where did that pen come from? I

found this in the alley. Then why don't you tell us about the evidence? We can

help you. We're cooking now, man. It's going good.

Hey, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Hold it.

Shoes. What are you doing here in the police station? What's going on with

you? What happened to him? We found this pickpocket going through the lockers.

Going through your lockers? He ain't a pickpocket. I've known the guy 15 years.

He wouldn't steal a gumball. Hey, hey, hey, what are you doing now? Yeah, boss,

I just want to talk to you for one second. Yeah.

This guy's a deaf mute. I've known him for 15 years. He was just wandering

around the lockers, man. You'll find him wandering anyplace. Hold it, hold it,

hold it. Is this another one of your charity cases?

Let me have him, okay?

Did he get anything?

Did he hurt anybody?

No. Get him out of here, will you? Go on, get him. Come on, you.

You quit trying to be a one-man police force!

What are you doing around a police station?

Now you're taking the stealing?

Not a deaf mute that's stealing.

What was you gonna do with those shoes?

Did it have something to do with Olive?

The girl that sings in the band, Olive? Can you tell me where she is? I'd like

to know where she is. That would help me.

Listen, you.

Don't come here no more.

You understand?

You see this place?

Stay away from this place.

Get out of here. Go on.

Come on. Get out of here. Go on.

Don't come here no more. Go on. Hurry up.

What do you care about what happens to the fine art of starching, huh?

You know what keeps us going? Yeah, the massage parlors.

God bless them.

Yeah, Charlie, they all use these things here?

Yeah, sure.

Cheaper than tags.

But, you know, you gotta keep remarking those things because the mark washes

away, no matter what it says on those pens.

They don't say nothing on it.

Companies ain't got no more pride in their work. They don't write nothing

down on them.

Look, Tony, I'm sorry if I couldn't help you more on Mueller.

But, you know, he's never been sick before, so he probably will be back

tomorrow. Hey, but look, if he does come back here, do you want me to tell him

that you're looking for him? No, no, no, no, no. I don't want you to tell him

nothing. You ain't seen me. You don't know nothing.

I don't know nothing. I don't even know what he did.

But I think I figured out how he did it. That sounds weird.

Uh, anyway, thanks, Charlie.

De nada.

Hey, Tony, next time you're around here, why don't you come over and bring some

clothes? You know, we'll starch them up for you.

Certainly. Yeah, we'll begin with that shirt, okay?

This is it, Billy, my boy. We're stroking now.

Right, Sherlock.

Hell's good to me.

Take me back to the hotel. I'm thirsty.

You come with me. We got business with Mueller.

Mueller? I hope he works in a liquor store. Just get in the car.

Come on, dummy.

It had to be you.

It had to be you.

All right.

All right.

If Tony finds out that you've fallen off the wagon, Jake will be up for both of

us. You see, I take a drink now and then so I understand your need.

Don't let Tony smell your breath.

You old croaker sack.

No wonder that bird flew into the wall.

He's been juiced for the last week. No, no. We don't say anything about your

cousin's explosion.

And I'm not so sure they're kissing cousins either. Fair enough.

You've been doing your job at least?

Yeah.

It's the right window.

I'm not sure it's the right building. It's the right window.

You, Rummy.

You couldn't even see Ninth Street. The light's out already.

Ninth Street. I wasn't looking for Ninth Street.

What's your name?

Oh, Phyllis.

Where did you get these?

Oh, I'll tell you about that later, Professor Reiner. I was able to read a

little bit there about the Allied occupation in 1945.

Am I right?

This man was at Dachau.

Oh. There are some words here I don't understand.

Oh, well, the words that you do understand, does it tell you that the

guy is a nut of any kind and that he's got a screw loose or something?

Poor man. Poor, poor man.

Where did you get these papers?

Oh, I'll tell you about that. Why is he a poor man?

They experimented on him.

What kind of experiments?

The kind that make a man less than a man.

This man is not your rapist.

How do you know that?

They made him sexually incapable.

Maybe you didn't read it right, because, see, I know for a fact that this guy, he

hangs around cat houses all the time spending money. What's he doing there?

Maybe he likes to look.

After all, a few minutes in one of those places could, uh, coat the pain, hmm?

Well, but, see, we know for a fact, we got proof that we're dealing with a

rapist. I mean, there is rape involved.

But not him.

No, it's not, Tony.

Are you sure, sir? I am sure, Tony.

I, uh... I'm sorry.

Yeah.

Thanks.

Yeah, no wonder. See, all I want to know is, when the guy goes there, what does

he, uh... What does he want? What's his game? You know what I mean?

Oh, yeah?

You sure of that? Nothing else, ever?

All right, pal.

Thanks. Keep your mouth shut about this, you hear?

Well,

Fred, my man, we are back to square one again.

Look, that is two weeks late now. You get it for me right now. Not another

word. Get out of here. Get rid of that cigar.

What can I do with a Wasserman file?

Wouldn't it have been nice if this guy Mueller would have worked out?

All the chips were right there in place. We could have cashed in.

Well, that would be much too easy, Beretta. We'd go crazy in this thing if

we had a clue here.

If we knew where we were going next, we'd make some kind of a bust here

without a whole lot of sweat.

This one will be terrific. It was easy. I would like it very much. Oh, it's

gonna be easy. It's gonna be easy. He's an invisible man.

That's very interesting.

What's interesting?

You know, most of the time, boss, I don't pay a lot of attention to what you

say. Yeah, I noticed that, Beretta.

But I think you just hit on it. The invisible man.

What are you talking about?

Like, um, the ice cream guy on the corner, the kid that sells the

newspapers, they're there all the time, pretty soon you don't see them, like the

forest and the trees thing.

That's very, uh, very perceptive.

Good stuff, boss, good stuff. Hey, hey, where are you going?

I'm going to the pool room.

Smitty, you can't think without a pool cue in your hand?

You don't understand, pool's a very sophisticated game like chess.

It deals with geometric oppositions when you have to watch the balls and examine

all the lines in one direction.

Yes, sir.

I'm sorry I asked.

Yeah, me too.

I'm back to talking to you again, huh?

Where's Olive?

That's all there is, is where's Olive?

She's in trouble.

You don't know nothing.

If you knew, you'd tell me, wouldn't you?

You're a good kid, partner.

What's the matter, pal?

Easy now. See there?

That's all.

Don't touch your head.

You got bumps on your head.

Easy now.

Wow.

Those are brand new.

Who hit you?

Who did that to you?

Who hurt you like that? The policeman that hit you with a stick when they

caught you?

The cops did that?

Those guys wouldn't do that.

Why didn't you tell me about this?

Bumps, bumps.

Bumps on your head.

And you were at the hospital with Olive.

She got hurt.

You got hurt when Olive did, didn't you?

You know who this guy is.

You know who this guy is.

And you were at the police station.

You're looking for a cop.

Looking for a cop. I'm a dummy. You're looking for a cop. That's the guy who

did it. A cop did it.

That's how come he gets in.

He goes up, he shows him a badge, and he gets in. It's a cop.

Shoes. You got to tell me.

Honey boy, it's a policeman.

A policeman did it to you.

You're hiding Olive.

It's not going to work.

It's not going to work. He can find her. Look.

See the badge?

The badge.

Tony's got a badge.

He can go any place.

He can go any place.

That's who hit you. The man, he hit you on the head. He had a badge. You can't

hide, Olive, because I can go any place with this badge, and so can he.

She's in trouble.

Olive, the only thing you love, you're going to lose her. The lady that you

love is going to be all gone.

She's going to die.

Shoes. Atta boy.

Atta boy.

Add up, boy.

Come on, man.

I'm going to take a break now.

Cicero. We're looking for Cicero. Do you know where she is?

Wait, wait.

You stay here. It's okay. Okay.

Joey, I'm telling you for the last time, you take that slot machine back to the

property department of the 53rd where it belongs.

Billy, this here is police property, and I'm a cop, and I don't care if the case

is three years old. This thing ain't going back till I get my five bucks out

of it. Well, take it out and sell it for five bucks, but take it out before we

all get arrested. You can't sell police property. That's illegal.

I don't think you have a point. Oh.

Let go of that dummy. Give me that nickel.

Oh, hi, gang.

Sister Olive.

Hi, my man Shoes. Hey, today is a big day, huh? You going to the school?

You know, Tony, he has a name.

Oh, yeah? His name is Harold Hergesheim.

Oh. Well, that's very nice, Sister Olive.

Harold Hergesheim. That's very nice.

You going to the school today, huh, Shoes? Harold?

And I'm going with him.

We are going to learn to talk to each other at the same time. Oh, yeah?

Listen, sister, I just want to tell you something.

You are a very rare poison.

You ask for nothing except to do for others, and that's special.

I want to do something for you, Tony.

What can I do for you?

No, sister.

I'm done up pretty well. I'm doing okay. I just wanted to say that you're a big

person, and if I hung around you a little bit more, maybe I'd get a little

bit big myself.

There is great goodness in giving.

Amen, sister.

There is great goodness in giving.

Wait! Hold! Wait a minute, man! Hold! Hold!

I don't care what your name is. That money is mine. I've been fighting with

the money.

What? Tony!

Remember.

Aw, come on, sister.

Here, kid.

Have a little goodness.

Doesn't that make you feel good?

You want to know the truth, sister?

The truth is... That,

yeah, that makes me feel good. It makes me feel good, pal.

You're all right.

So keep your eyes...

on the sparrows.