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Tonight on Spencer for Higher. You're Spencer.

terrible trouble. Ready?

Come on.

I must have on a mighty Nicola. Why? There is no justice in this country.

National justice is over there. Somebody is dead enough.

I want the truth and I want it now. Spence has got trouble. Big trouble.

Did you think you knew everything about me?

Excuse me. I didn't mean to stile you. I must have the wrong room. Who are you?

What are you doing here?

Your Anna Marina coma. How do you know me?

I recognize your voice from my answering machine.

You're Spencer.

Thank you for coming. Your message said stolen property.

Papers were stolen from my apartment.

They were my research notes. Potentially very valuable.

Do you live here? No. I live

in Washington, D.C.

I'm an exchange student attending graduate school.

Why'd you come to Boston?

I came to Boston because I saw a car with Massachusetts

license plate driving away from my apartment.

Just before I discovered the burglary, I saw part of the license plate.

And I could be down as much of the licence down as I could see.

We must have remarkable eyesight. The men getting into it were carrying folders.

I'm sure were my notes.

See you, minus.

I think your progress? Am I great for your story?

A lot of clients don't tell the truth at least not at first there.

Afraid and embarrassed, or they've been lying so long they can't tell

the difference anymore. Well, can you not believe me?

Why say I got this list on my refrigerator?

Sort of what it tastes to be a good detective? Gotta be brave, strong, smart,

modestly self-effacing, lucky? Is this a lie?

Is this an example of the fabled American sense of humor?

But you know what the most important thing is. You've got to have good instincts.

Because if you don't, eventually you're

going to wind up an outing with a bullet in your head.

Does that mean that you won't help me? No, I didn't say that. Not yet.

What I am saying is there are professionals who can't say no. We call them police.

No. No police.

I called the police in Washington after the burglary.

They took a report and advised me to get a better lock. Why not a better story?

I should have realized that there is no justice in this country

that no one would have helped me. OK, hold it, hold on.

I didn't say I didn t believe that you had a problem.

But you see, I've got a problem, too.

I've gotten this other list on my refrigerator. Sort of a list of rules to live by.

Spence is really...

No. 1 is you never take on a client, you know,

for sure is lying to you, which disqualifies

you right away. You see? Then there is rule 26b.

I don't want to listen to your craze in this anymore. Why don't you leave?

26b is about damsels in distress and dragons

and maidens and well things to embarrassing

even to talk about. So why don't we compromise?

I'll start looking for your valuable papers if

you start thinking about telling me the truth.

So where can I reach it?

You may call on a couple of days.

Okay, she lost my number.

It's great.

As I left it, I heard a lot of things in my head.

She smiles like Troubles at Dashlam.

Stay away from the Dame Council Raymond Chandler.

Believe me, I tried to listen. But I guess I got this character flaw.

Above all else, I'm curious. So it was that in the sound of Debussy I listened to.

But even that wasn't so loud that I didn't notice something.

The men who tailed me to Anna hadn't moved.

It was possible they belonged to a polar bear club and enjoyed the cold.

It was possibly they were over-aged college kids

out the set of record for sitting in a parked car

in winter after a faming glory maybe. After all, just because they were thugs

did not automatically make them stupid, which was more than I could say for myself.

All I was likely to get for my trouble

was second degree frostbite and a charge of window-leaving.

Oh, no!

I don't want to!

Bye bye!

That's a wrap.

There he is!

I give you the word and once you run to that green car over there and get it.

Go!

Bye-bye!

Man, what?

All right. You're safe. We're alone. Nobody's shooting out of sight anymore.

Come on, you know what the hell is going on.

Well?

to you.

There's a revelation. Those papers are my life.

God, cook it.

If I don't.

All right.

with American private investigators.

Does this mean you will still help me?

You guys trying to kill me? You might say that professional integrity

urges me to find out why.

because of me.

But they followed me to you. That means somebody knew I asked you to come to see me.

I didn't tell anybody, did you?

And either these guys got great instincts or another source.

How'd you get my number anyway?

A business associate of a friend, Jason Tyler.

is in time.

work for a couple of years ago.

Your friend runs in fast company.

What were you calling? Not the police.

I think anybody's gonna stay cocked for the police. Hock?

I had muscle and gun the best there is.

He will help you to find my papers.

He'll keep you safe while I check into a few things.

How well do you know Tyler anyway? He claims to support the arts.

I find him simply obsessed with money. It goes beyond obsession.

Jason Tyler owns the fifth largest importing company in the world. Ock. Spence.

And, uh, Anna Hoover? Marina Covea. She claims she got my name from you.

Sorry, have you ever heard of her, Michael? No, sir.

You might check with my secretary, maybe she would. I already tried that.

Teresa says you never talked to her. Well, I wish I could help you out.

It seems to be a mystery. But then that's your business, isn't it?

Well, that's right.

Well, good luck on it. I'm sorry, couldn't help you.

Two years ago, Jason Tyler had been a client. He had been honest with me then.

I wanted to believe he was telling me the truth now.

I mean, just because a man owns his own skyscraper

and the limo with a TV in a bar doesn't necessarily make him a liar, doesn't?

Cambridge is the repository for some of the brightest minds in America.

Dr. Carl Planets, Professor Emeritus Slavic Languages, was one of them.

Anna's partial license plate had turned up six possibilities,

but only one was attached to a car that matched her description.

Come in, come in. The television is right through there. I'll make it for you. What?

You'll have to speak up. I awaken this morning and the battery starts going out

on my hearing aid. Oh, I see. Yeah. I said I'm not here about your tele...

I'm NOT here about you television. I'm here about YOUR CAR. My car? Yes.

My car is for you? What's going on? What's the point?

Is the television that won't work? Well, I'm from the insurance company.

We've had a report that your car was in an accident. What? An accident?

Oh, I never drive this time of year much to danger. I don't plan it.

No broken tail light, no debt to the left rear fender.

Nobody ran into you at a red light in Washington DC.

I have not been in Washington in 1978. I see.

We must have a problem with our computer. Sorry to trouble you.

Well, you sure you couldn't come in and just look at the television?

Not bonded for home repair. I say I'm not bonded for Home repair.

It was almost noon and I was over three in the information department.

Spence's law says when you don't have a clue, watch the suspects.

It's not a bad law. And it gets a whole lot more attractive when you

don't ever choice.

It was possible that the prospect of life without

television had driven planets from its home.

It was possible that this same desperation

had compelled him to take to the open road,

despite a phobia of driving at this time of year.

It was possible that planets had bad luck with appliances in general.

That is phone as well as television and his hearing aid was broken.

was also possible that Planet had gotten a busy signal,

or maybe he was just a shy person. And trouble reaching out.

All these things were possible. But somehow I didn't think so.

As Alice said, and through the looking glass, it's all curiouser and curiouser.

Do you ever speak?

Spencer hired me to guard you not to make idle chatter. Where is he?

Spencer says he'll meet us, he'll be there. I suppose he doesn't come.

And he's dead.

Folks been screwing knives in my lifestyle, even

following us ever since we left Spencer's place.

Tourist boys should have warned you.

This is a dangerous neighborhood.

That's bad.

So to give me about half hour in the meter, he tries to move.

You're going the overtime.

Let's go.

Cool? Right

What you want me to say? I told you, there's many times I can tell you.

I can't tell you anymore, never already told you. Don't go away, heart.

It's like you've got a problem. We got a corpsome beautiful quincey market.

You got to fix it with a good lieutenant. I don't have a friend showed up.

But deceased made two mistakes. He fired out of this and he missed. All right.

What's going on? I don' even think about lying. Somebody's dead now.

Things are different. Look at me.

not to graduate student.

The Soviet Union. Not good enough. What else?

I was with the Soviet Embassy. Those men were KGB. KGB?

Why do they want you? Because why my husband was sent here.

What was I got to do with you? They want to kill me.

I think I want to defect.

Austin takes pride in its impressionist collection.

One of the most magnificent in the world. I thought maybe Annamite feels comfortable

amid its artistic splendor.

She might even relax enough to finally tell me the truth.

One thing I didn't know for sure, a French benefit

of standing among priceless paintings is that you get absolute protection for free.

Yesterday the Washington police found the dead body of Alexi Kernsky.

I said I read about it. It was one of the first cosmonauts.

He was also minister with output for you at the Russian Embassy.

Many people thought he was being groomed to become premieres. Yes, he was shot.

The paper said it was muggers. What's that got to do with you?

Two weeks ago in Moscow, Karen's getting married.

He was my husband.

What do you want me to do?

I hope you did.

What I want, what you must help me to do, is to go home.

My whole family is there. My work as a ballerina. All my friends at the company.

How

can I help you do that?

The government thinks I was Alexis accomplice. I'm

innocent.

You must help me prove that I'm loyal, that I can go.

Alex, he had this secret tape.

He told

me it proved that he was loyal to our government.

that he had refused to defect.

But...

tape has disappeared.

If I could find it.

Go home.

You have to tell me a thing, babe. I know exactly what this wall says.

I believe her. I'm raising my raised with you, Spencer,

only way I got a chance of discouraging your impetuousity.

What followed was a civics lesson in American life.

Anna and I visited police headquarters

so I could explain to Marty Quirk and homicide

about the debris Hawk had left in Quincy Market.

It was a textbook example of how police in this country serve the people.

I was impressed by democracy in action. Anna, unfortunately, was not.

The police in our country are not the same as the police in New York.

The police have records on everybody, especially in this country.

They have more crime, more violence, more killing in the streets.

We also have more freedom. Look at that. You see that? That's freedom.

People are saying what they want without censorship.

I worked for the Bulls short two years. We traveled all over the world.

I always surrounded my KGB's secret agents.

Sometimes they would complain about the Soviet Union.

I always suspected they were the KGB trying to trap innocents.

That's not the way it works. It's not, the way our political process works.

don't understand.

I'm the Russian.

Not a Soviet. I'm a dancer and not a politician. I don't care about stupid ideology.

Did you marry to a top Soviet chief? It was arranged. All an arrangement for show.

Alex, it was supposed to come here as this

smiling, brilliant charming man, this new Soviet.

But you needed a wife. Somebody that

you Americans would find bland.

You were chosen.

They picked me up one night after the performance. They took me out for dinner.

That was my courtship. Two days later, I got married.

Washington was my honeymoon.

We didn't love him.

is an American age too.

I didn't even know her. The only intimate thing he ever did with me

was to give me a gun and show me how to use it.

I didn't love your husband.

You don't care about ideology.

What does it matter to you?

I'll see you later.

I'm not hungry.

Susan.

What are you doing? It's

expensive, isn't it? Spence is fine.

He's worried about you. Me? Why? So people started to play rough.

I thought you might go to the firehouse, get caught and something.

So it made me here to make sure you didn't. It's serious, isn' it? That's right.

I'll never really believe that anyone at all can stay in a place like this.

It's probably only going to be party officials.

I'll hear it's anybody who can afford it. And some

who can't.

The bathroom has a shower.

The bathroom is bigger than my entire part, but it must go. Uh-huh. There you go.

Thanks. Thank you.

Who are you calling? I'm Ion number. I'm talking for messages on my answer machine.

Mr. Spencer, you have something I want. I'm prepared to pay you $50,000 for it.

We at the Harvard Stadium tonight at 11 p.m. Bring the goods with you.

I know you won't believe this, but I have no intention

of harming you for the merchandise.

Not back in 15 minutes. You finally attend a court.

You tell them everything has happened. Anybody comes to do the car you get out of.

Thank you for coming, Miss Dispenser.

I don't do business with people I can't see.

I'm glad you decided to be reasonable, Mr. Spencer. Who are you?

It's not important, but if you're being more comfortable, you may call me Robertson.

That's what I mean. Look behind that column.

Has it ever occurred to you, Mr. Spencer,

that I abhor the tactics you've been dealing with all day?

That I'm with another team entirely? The home team, as it were?

How do I know you're not with the other team? You don't.

But I assure you, national securities, it's stake here.

National Security.

I can see you're a dedicated freedom platter. There don't be a patriot.

Do it for the fifty thousand. But believe me, I must have animating the covert.

Why?

Come on, you're my man.

I'm a curious guy. Simple. Imagine the propaganda crew if she defects.

She's half of their super couple, the

perfect Kremlin golden girl.

What if she renounced all that? Is that what you were doing?

You were trying to get her husband to defect, weren't you?

The finance was a double agent, wasn't it?

Why isn't he?

Get him! Get him.

Get the money and get out.

Thank you.

Oh!

Are you alright?

Okay. I'm fine.

It's your terrific.

haha

Why don't you learn to drive like that?

Alex, he sent me to drivers' education in Washington.

Compared to the beltway, this is nothing.

You are so cool.

You think you knew everything about me? Just because you're detective?

Did you think that there were no secrets left?

better drive.

Sports they say teach you about life. Well, maybe about certain lives,

but I'm not so sure about life as a detective.

After all, where were the guys in funny stripes suits

with red flags when a second team of bad guys took the field at the stadium tonight?

And that was only one of the questions I had no answers for.

American intelligence is chasing it because they want you to defect.

Russian intelligence are trying to kill you because they're afraid you will defect.

International Justice Award.

You know who all the players are.

I always would do this fine to tape.

I'm alone.

you're not alone.

I'm never going home.

Where are we going?

take a little walk.

My favorite movie star of all time? I'm talking real hero stuff now. Gary Grant.

Not the Duke. Not even Bogie, though. That has a tough call. No, Mr. Spoodle.

And then was an actor about it. You never got embarrassed?

Something else you should know about him. He was one of these games.

You asked me out here to talk about a movie star? No, I know. You're crazy.

Old Kerry was always faithful to his women.

Except once with Irene Dunn, but he didn't know she

was stranded on a desert island when he got married again.

So I guess it doesn't count. Crazy. Or they didn't hit you at the stadium.

I'm going home to the hotel where it's warm. I don't know.

very beautiful.

What happened just now at the hotel wasn't rejection.

You're very kind, but I don't need your pity.

Someone I care about very much. And your brothers are to be faithful?

I promise myself.

But then why?

Why did you push me away? But nobody would know. Nobody would find out about it.

I wouldn't know.

I don't have to decide.

whether or not to tell Susan the truth and her or not.

by myself and hated assumption. Did you learn that from Carrie Grant?

and do something about timing.

I always felt that romance was.

being in the right place at the right time.

not just finding somebody wonderful to follow up with.

I hope one thing is that a secret from Susan.

Lucky woman she is.

You're lucky too.

because I have to know this great restaurant. Well, actually, it's a bistro.

It's a diner, but they've got the best French toast in Boston.

You've been here all night? The night has a thousand eyes.

Marty Quirk called me. There was a shootout at the Harvard Stating,

and we think it might be sponsored. That's not an unreasonable assumption.

But nobody knows for sure the description of the car could be anybody. It is not.

How can you be so sure? How can you know? I'm evil instinct.

Trump says Princess got trouble. Big trouble.

And you know what you have to do.

and help them. Spencer, how'd me to protect you? I'm safe now.

Hello, whoever they are, they're after Spencer. Doesn't make any difference.

You've got to find him if you won't leave me. Will you at least tell me with you?

Anything happens to you. I think all the spends have been mighty provoked.

Anything happens to Spencer, that will make much difference, no will it?

The last time I saw Spencer was yesterday morning

when he came to see me about this young woman.

I couldn't help even hear it, and I can't help you now.

Spencer did a big favor for you a couple of years ago.

Some people might think you owe him.

All my debts are measured in cash balances. And I've counted Spencer as clear.

anything happened to Spencer and I find out that you could have helped to stop it.

You got a brand new account with me.

I'm sorry.

Be good thought I want to be sensible.

interviewer.

that somebody else planned the past afternoon.

Gentlemen should always consider a lady's time.

You will mind it by your feet or regress, will you?

Miss, Miss, I have a message for Spencer.

The governor's a Spencer. I've got your message. What do you want?

On the contrary, it's what I have that you want we're discussing now.

Your message is said in negotiation. If you don't have anything I'm interested in.

You may want to reconsider that position, Mr. Spencer.

The table stakes have gone up as it were.

This is not cool.

begun with a lie in a ballet studio had become mandacity and murder in a limousine.

I was fighting a war on every front.

My only hope was a temporary truth with the least pressing of my enemies.

But only I could be certain who that was.

Suspense of our compliment you are being a worthy opponent. So far.

Somehow I rather than...

I'll break.

American.

Now.

Michael tells me that you have a business proposal for me. Business proposal.

We're talking about a young girl's future, maybe,

or a life, and you call it a business proposal. It's very cold, isn't it?

Even for a man on your line of work. What kind of work do I do? KGB.

Ha, ha.

What happens now? I'm my own man in Tally. Oh, yes, I hire out.

Sometimes here? Sometimes there. No permanent allegiance.

I offer my service for hire. Very much like yourself. No, not like me.

Maybe like Tyler, who's playing all sides, wasn't he?

Tyler called himself a citizen of the world. He didn't have a side.

Maybe that works when you're talking about grain deals

for Russia, oil from China, but not intelligence.

And it called Tyler, said she was in trouble. He gave her my number.

Any picked up the phone and called the secret police?

Said you want to find this girl? Just follow this guy named Spencer.

I was there when he denied all of that. Categorically. Very convincingly.

I believed him too. Because at the moment I didn't trust my client.

Perhaps that's an opinion you should think too.

Tyler also tipped you about the meetings at the stadium too, didn't he?

Oh, that was a big mistake. A terminal blunder.

Because he and Roberson were in constant touch.

Unfortunately, Robertson thought his deal was exclusive.

When he figured out the only way you could have found us, well, you know the rest.

So we come to today and to our little meeting here.

I don't suppose a man with your propensity for morality is here to sell me the girl.

Actually, I want you to give me something.

24 hours. I want you to back off and not try to take any. Okay.

Now that is normal.

and

How will you return my generosity? At the end of the 24 hour period.

I'll turn the girl over to you.

or prove she's not a traitor. And how will I know you'll deliver?

Oh, no, no. Mr. Spencer, I don't shake hands on a deal. It's an anachronism today.

Circumstances fluctuate far too quickly. And the truth has so many meanings.

I agree.

but it suits my purpose.

day.

It's about about Tyler.

You two are a wonderful team.

He had dictated the time, the place, and the procedure.

He had firepower and tactics on his side. I counted goodness and mercy on mine.

And I hoped Bismarck was wrong when he said,

God is on the side with the heavy battalions.

Anna, Marie Nicoleva. I am pleased to meet you.

We will do everything to make you comfortable,

and I hope even happy in this country.

I thought this was going to be a little more civilized. For professionals.

Which isn't to say we aren't meticulous.

You told me the KGB killed Alexa because he was a traitor,

because he's going to defect.

She tells me your husband was a patriot. No one was more loyal than Alexey.

What really happened in Washington? I made a run for glory.

I tried to turn Alexey, he was the next superstar.

I was prepared to do anything to get him to defect. So you framed him?

You made him look like a traitor?

I gave him a choice.

Unfortunately, his superiors were more efficient

and much more ruthless than we thought.

Before we could get him to realize just how desperate his situation really was.

They did.

Why would the KGB want to kill Alexey?

He had a tape that proved he wouldn't defect.

No matter what you offered.

Planets stole it. It's quite destroyed, I'm afraid.

Now, we three will walk to the other side.

When we get there, my man will really talk. That's not the deal we made.

You have no choice.

I do wish you'd taken the 50,000.

In my profession, a man who won't be bought is a bad precedent. Come, come, come.

She is gonna defect. There is no way she could hold.

I'm not going to tell you boss how to handle it. That is not the way things go.

You're not authorized to operate in this country, are you?

That's why you won't after Anna. After the fiasco with her husband,

you had to do something to save your career. I was dealing with national security.

You're trying to save you own tail,

and you try to kidnap a young innocent woman to do it.

You think the Russians will ever believe she's innocent?

They will when I prove to your people that everything I said is true.

There is always room for negotiation.

Talk to my negotiator.

You're not going to like my terms at all.

Well, Robertson's going to be indicted for murder one.

His own agency is going to press charges against him

for operating this country against federal laws.

Talk to Max today.

says that your country is more than satisfied.

There's so many things I want to say to you.

But I think perhaps it's better that I write when I get back home.

Let me know everything worked out. That's

just safe.

I'm right to tell you I'm happy I'm not being trapped in this America.

Thank you.

Spence it.

This woman you love.

If it would have been another time, if it would...

Take this lady to the airport.

One question. Who is Carrie Grant?

They are important.

I'm going to go to the next day.

Love is a smoke raised with the fumes of size.

Being vexed, a sea nourished with lover's tears. What is it else?

A madness most discreet.

A choking gall and persevering sweet.