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Whatever Ralph is up to, he's in way over his head

and you're a part of it.

He's not going to talk to you.

He won't even talk to me.

Sheena had a little affair for about a year or so.

Very sweet girl.

Don't move.

Where's the money?

Where is it?

Let's see the stuff that dreams are made of.

I'm on it.

Shadwell Enterprises.

Hello, this is Ralph Ormond.

Let me speak to Mr. Shadwell please.

Hold please.

Mr. Ormond. on line two.

You're late, Ralph.

I think a man about to nail down a $2 million

deal would try to be on time.

Yeah, well look, I decided to change our meeting place, OK?

I want to see you in half an hour at Chez Martine.

Yeah, but I need some more time.

At least another hour, maybe two.

Oh, oh, so if I showed up at your office on time,

you wouldn't have had the money, right?

Hey, I've got most of it.

All right, that's it my friend, that's it.

My next call's to the cops.

Chill out.

I need two more hours.

Then we'll meet at Chez Martine or wherever you say.

Look, you're stalling me, man, and I don't like this.

You're worth $400 million and you can't raise $200 million.

We're talking cash.

I'll have all of it by 8 o'clock.

All right, OK.

8 o'clock Chez Martine.

Your man in place?

Ready and waiting.

Good, tell him to do it.

Hello.

Laura, honey, it's me.

Look, something came up.

I'm going to be a little later than I thought.

Are you OK?

Yeah, I'm fine, I'm fine.

I'm just, I'm just going to be a little late, sweetheart.

What is it, honey?

Something's been bothering you for days.

Honey, look, honey, it's nothing.

We'll talk about it later, OK?

I should be home around 9:30.

All right.

Honey, I love you.

I love you too.

Bye.

Yeah.

You still on him?

Yeah, he's in his office.

He got here just a few minutes ago.

I think we got him situated

there for the next two hours. That enough time?

I only need 30 minutes.

Get on it.

Case closed.

Excuse me, folks.

They didn't leave you very much, did they?

Whoever did it, didn't want any clues left.

It's obvious the incendiary device was attached to go off

and starter was touched.

We'll know more when we get it to the lab.

Get what to the lab?

Tell me about it.

Hunter?

This lady's a secretary in the office next door to Ormond's.

She said someone ransacked this place

right after the bomb went off.

Oh, you saw somebody?

I heard them.

They were opening and slamming drawers, glass was breaking,

things were falling, it's obvious.

Where's McCall?

McCall, to what do I owe the pleasure

of this unexpected invitation?

What do you have to do?

Announce yourself to the whole restaurant?

Sit down.

Want a beer?

Maybe.

I'd like to hear what you want to talk about first.

A reporter named Ralph Ormond was blown up in his car

tonight.

Mm-hmm.

And

Then they tossed his office.

It was practically torn apart.

Mm-hmm.

And then we found your phone number in his desk calendar.

Mm-hmm.

Would you like to talk about that?

I expect I will have that drink now, McCall,

but no beer please.

Miss, Scotch, red on the rocks please.

Thank you. ma'am.

Hi, Rick.

Long time no see, huh?

Yeah.

You in the neighborhood or is this a social call?

Hey, you mind if I come in?

No, not at all.

Come on.

Thank you.

And then two weeks ago a man comes to me.

Ormond?

Who are we talking about, McCall?

He says that he's heard about this guy, this gentleman

by the name of Shadwell.

Alan Shadwell?

McCall, who's telling this story?

I am just trying to get the facts straight

and maybe a little faster.

Look, you won't get any facts if you keep interrupting me.

Now all I'm saying is that he heard

that he heard Shadwell was involved

with the King Arena and.

Wait a minute, wait a minute, slow down.

I thought that the King Arena project was

an affirmative action thing.

I mean, it was for blacks, funded by blacks,

even built by black construction firms.

Exactly.

And Shadwell is about as black as my teeth.

So I agreed to do a little snooping and pooping around,

and I might add that Ormond is much

more generous than either you or your cheap old friend, Hunter.

Will you give it a rest.

What did you find?

It seems that Shadwell has an under

the table contract with one of the black construction

firms, McCall.

What else?

That's it.

I tell Ormond, he pay me my bread, what he does

after that is his business.

You have any idea at all what Ralph was working on?

No, Ralph made it a point not to let

me know what he was working on.

Really?

That seems kind of unusual, doesn't it?

I mean, considering the fact that you were a reporter

before you married him.

Sometimes Ralph stepped on sensitive toes.

And he felt that I'd be safer not knowing the details.

Any idea whose toes he may have stepped on?

I told you, Rick, I don't know.

I'm sorry.

Look, Laura, I know it's a tough time for you.

And I hate to push, but right after Ralph's death,

his office was ransacked.

I don't think they got what they were looking for.

And you think that they might come here.

Yes.

I'd like to take you maybe to a friend's house for the night.

No, no, I'd rather stay here.

I still have double locks and I still have your number.

Try 9-1-1, it'll be quicker.

I'll leave a couple squad cars down the street just in case.

Thanks.

Thanks for coming, Rick.

I know it wasn't easy for you to tell me.

I'll bring a search team by tomorrow

I won't need a search warrant, will I?

Rick, why Ralph?

Why Ralph?

I don't know, Laura, but we're going to find out.

Don't move.

My god.

Ralph, they told me you were dead.

I should be, baby.

That bomb was meant for me.

Someone died in your car.

Who was it?

The unluckiest car thief that ever lived.

What do you mean?

Well, see when I got to the office,

I was in such a big hurry, I left the car doors unlocked.

I thought I was just going to be in there for a few minutes.

Why didn't you just call me?

Do you know what I've been going through?

I've been lying here crying.

You want to know what I've been

doing for the last eight hours?

Riding buses.

Been all over this damn city.

Scared.

Honey.

Trying to figure out what to do.

What is there to figure?

You just call the police. What are you doing, Ralph?

No, I don't, Laura.

Here, come here.

What is this?

Here, open it up.

Let me show you.

This, this is going to buy us the American dream.

This is a ticket for that lottery we never won.

What is this?

You're not making any sense.

Laura, Laura, when I heard that bomb go off

and I looked out the window and I saw, I saw my car on fire

with a man dying inside of it, well, well, let's just

say that you're not looking at the same man

that you looked at yesterday.

At his living ghost maybe.

Anyway, from now on, it's a different story, Laura,

with just the two of us at the happy center of it.

What are you saying here?

That you're going to try to extort money from someone?

There's still a couple of cop cars down the street,

so I'm going to leave the same way I came in,

across the Jennings' backyard.

Where are you going?

Would you tell me what you're thinking?

I am thinking of time and comfort for both of us, Laura.

Of time to think, time to live and the money to do it with,

sweetheart.

We're talking $2 million, $3, maybe $4 million, honey.

Oh, my god, what's happening to you?

Hey, baby, baby I'd died, remember?

In that burning car.

Honey, look, a chance like this comes along once in a lifetime.

We're going for it, sweetheart.

I don't care if I have to drag you

with me kicking and screaming.

Would you listen to me, Ralph, now listen to me.

Listen, you're in shock.

Someone tried to kill you tonight

and you just, you just need to settle down

and then you'll just, you're not thinking straight.

I'm thinking.

I never thought straighter in my whole life, Laura.

But listen, I'm going to need your help, OK?

Oh, no.

I'm not going to help you.

You will if you love me.

I'll call you in the morning.

Ernie, what's so important you couldn't

tell us over the telephone?

Nothing.

I just like your company.

Drumstick?

No.

So, here we are.

You know that corpse that came in yesterday char-broiled?

That's not Ralph Ormond.

What do you mean, it's not Ralph Ormond?

Ormond's dental records came in.

The teeth on that corpse are not Ralph Ormond's.

Well, well, who is it?

What do you want?

Details?

Impacted wisdom teeth, gold crowns, caps.

Spare us. Just tell us what you've got.

Not a clue.

And all we got to go on are the teeth.

Iced tea?

No, Ernie, not for me.

You thinking what I'm thinking?

I'm thinking about breakfast.

What are you thinking about?

Well, I'm certainly not thinking about food.

I'm thinking about insurance fraud.

Nah, no way.

I know Laura too well.

Yeah?

How well's too well?

Car 5-6, meet W7-3 on tac two.

Lincoln 5-6, go ahead, 7-3.

We just finished searching the Ormond residence.

We got zilch.

We found them hollowed out books,

but whatever was in them is long gone.

Laura Ormond still there?

That's affirmative.

Tell her to wait there for us, we're going to be on our way.

Lincoln 5-6 out.

So as I was saying, how well's too well?

Oh, yeah, Laura.

Well, I first met Laura when she and Ralph were reporters.

Laura worked the press room of police headquarters.

We had little thing going for about a year or so.

Anyway, she met Ralph and married him.

And after she married him, I told her that I thought

the wrong reporter had retired.

She's about as straight and as nice a person as they got, so.

Well, you know, people can change.

No, not Laura.

Now Ralph is a different matter.

Someone you know?

Looked like Laura.

I guess she decided not to wait for me.

Hmm, maybe it's back to insurance fraud.

Lincoln 5-6.

Lincoln 5-6.

Request plain unit to assist on surveillance

of a vehicle traveling southbound

on Princeton from Stovall.

Vehicle is a 1987 gold Volvo.

Mrs. Ormond.

Come in, come in please.

What a pleasure to meet you.

Alan Shadwell.

Have a seat, please.

I heard about your husband's death on the morning news.

I'm sorry.

But I confess to being a bit confused.

What brings you here?

I wish I knew, Mr. Shadwell, but I

think you're going to be receiving

a phone call while I'm here.

Yes.

There's someone on line two

and he won't give his name.

Put him through.

Who is this?

I'll give you a clue.

You're not talking to a ghost.

Ralph?

You killed the wrong man.

Now put my wife on.

You're on the speaker.

Yes?

Tell Mr. Shadwell what the sentence

is for conspiracy to commit murder

with special circumstances added.

- I - know what it is.

What do you want?

I want four million in denominations

that will fit into two medium sized suitcases.

Suppose I don't allow your wife to leave the building.

Have you considered that, Ralph?

Well, as a matter of fact, I did.

You'd have some explaining to do to the two

cops that followed here there.

Listen to me, Shadwell, I'm calling the shots on this one.

If my wife does not show up at specific places

at specific times, then I turn you

and everything I've got on you over the police,

you understand that?

There won't be any need for that, Ralph.

I'm as anxious as you are to get our business settled.

Then you better follow directions very carefully.

Laura.

Yes.

I want you to go home.

I want you to wait until I call.

You're not going to see me again till this is all over.

Honey, please, I just want to talk

to you alone just for a minute.

Later, Laura, we'll talk about it later.

Shadwell, you got two days to get the money together.

- I - may need more time.

You haven't got more time.

Well, I wouldn't worry Mrs. Ormond.

In good business deals, both sides come out ahead.

I'll take care of my end.

You just make sure your husband takes care of his

and we'll both come out unscathed.

I think we should chat.

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

Laura, we both know Ralph isn't dead.

Don't we?

I didn't lie to you last night, Rick.

I just didn't know he was alive till after you left.

What were you doing in Shadwell's office?

I can't tell you that.

Is that because Ralph's blackmailing Shadwell?

Whatever Ralph is up to, he's in way over his head

and you're a part of it.

No, I am not, but he is my husband, Rick.

I have to stand by him until I have a chance to help him.

Oh, a chance to help him.

Well, great, they'll give you adjoining cells.

He was almost killed last night.

He's in some sort of emotional state.

Look, if we could just give him a couple of days,

I know he's going to come to his senses.

A couple of days, huh?

I got to talk Ralph.

No, he's not going to talk to you.

He won't even talk to me.

I'm sorry.

Hello.

Laura, listen, our line may be tapped.

Do you remember where we went on our first date?

Damn it, Ralph, listen to me.

I'll call you there in 10 minutes.

McCall, she's leaving.

Stay on and it'll be on 17.

Roger.

Thanks.

Hunter?

Yeah.

She's either not too good at losing tails

or she just doesn't give a damn.

Where are you?

I am at Hillsborough and Breckenridge heading south.

I'll pick her up at Hillsborough and Westport.

OK.

French fries.

Hi.

What can I do for you?

Ice tea please.

Ice tea.

Alpha 2-6, this is Alpha 2-7, come in.

This is Lincoln 56.

You want her?

Yeah, you get anything?

She got a phone call, but I couldn't hear anything.

It was too noisy in that place.

Did she listen or did she do the talking?

No, she did the listening, Hunter.

OK, I'm going to stay with her.

OK.

Captain, we got to go to Tucson.

OK, sure, go ahead.

Want to know why?

I assume it has something to do with the Ormond case.

Yes, it does.

You see, we got permission to tap her phone.

She just made reservations to go to Tucson this afternoon.

Now we feel she's going to meet her husband.

If we can get to him, we can get to Shadwell.

I take it you checked with the Tucson PD.

- Yeah. - Well, good luck.

Call me.

Why was this so easy?

I'm in a good mood today.

Take advantage of me.

Captain.

Would you just yell at me a little bit?

Get out of here.

Thanks.

Arriving passenger from Houston, Mr. Brian Lynch,

please contact airport security on the white courtesy phone.

Arriving passenger from Houston, Mr. Brian Lynch,

please contact airport security on the white courtesy phone.

The shuttle for the downtown area

will be leaving from in front of baggage claim area

three in 15 minutes.

Follow that cab.

I've been waiting 20 years to hear someone actually say that.

Yeah, well you just heard it, so let's go.

Yes, ma'am.

Tucson Police Department please.

Thanks very much, I appreciate it.

Yes.

Go down to the row ow pay phones in the lobby

and answer the first one that rings.

Do it now.

Ralph, this has gone too far.

I'll talk to you downstairs.

Well, she checked in about five minutes ago.

Haven't seen her.

I think, hello.

She's just coming down right now.

Hold on a second, just stay on the line.

You hang up on me one more time, I swear.

Laura, there's no time for this.

I am serious.

Either you meet me and we talk in person

or you are on your own.

Now you listen to me.

No, I am tired of listening to you.

Shut up and listen.

Look, it's too late for me to turn back now, Laura,

we got to play this thing out.

We can decide later whether we keep the money or give

it back and turn Shadwell in, but you

cannot back out on me now.

All right, Ralph.

What would you like me to do?

Go to the cafe across the street,

get yourself something to eat.

In exactly one hour, go upstairs,

get the two suitcases you got from Shadwell.

A gray rental car will be waiting for you

in the hotel parking lot.

And I want you to drive out Highway 12.

Exactly 7.6 miles, take the left at the old dirt road,

go about 3/4 of a mile.

You'll see an abandoned store, I will be there.

If you are followed, then turn right around go

back to the hotel, all right?

Anything thing you say.

I love you.

She did most of the listening again.

She just walked out the front door.

I'll get in touch with you later.

Ralph?

Ralph?

Ralph?

Ralph?

Mrs. Ormond?

Nice to see you again, Mrs. Ormond.

Where's Ralph?

He's not here.

Check it out.

I'm telling you, he's not here.

No one inside, Mr. Shadwell.

Check the suitcases.

Give me the keys.

What is this?

I don't know, Mr. Shadwell.

Ralph told me that he'd meet me here.

What are you trying to hand me?

Where is he?

I told you, I don't know.

Where is he?

I'm telling you the truth.

Lay them down.

Well, open it!

Try the other one.

What's going on here?

I swear to you, I don't know, Mr. Shadwell.

Where is he?

All I know is that Ralph told me that he'd meet me here.

Where's the money?

I swear, all I know is that Ralph

told me he'd meet me here.

Mr. Shadwell.

Where is he?

Mr. Shadwell.

This is the police.

Stay where you are.

Don't move.

You all right?

I think so.

Where's Ralph?

He's not here.

I think he knew they'd follow me here.

You didn't expect him to be here, did you?

I was still hoping, Rick.

I want to get you to the hospital and check you out.

Officer.

Take her to the hospital, huh?

McCall, let's go.

Flight 212 for Atlanta

is now boarding at gate 12.

Flight 212 for Atlanta is now boarding at gate 12.

Get the bags.

Welcome back from the dead, Ralph.

Are these the bags?

These are the bags.

Well, let's see the stuff that dreams are made of, huh, Ralph?

Code blue, 2 West.

Code blue, 2 West.

Excuse me.

I'm Sergeant Hunter, LA metropolitan homicide.

I'm looking for a patient that was

admitted here a little while ago by the name of Laura Ormond.

I'll check for you.

Thank you.

She was sent to X-ray.

She might be back in her room by now.

Security to doctors' lounge.

Security to doctors' lounge.

I need to see Laura Ormond.

Inside.

LAURA ORMOND Dear Ralph,

even while I was driving out to the abandoned store,

I was still hoping you'd be there.

But I knew, of course, you wouldn't,

because I was your decoy, drawing everyone away from you.

And when I got there, that was the final moment of truth.

The moment when after all my naive and gullible years,

I finally grew up.

I've asked Rick Hunter to do what he can for you.

Laura.

So where did she go?

Ralph, I was hoping you could tell me that.

If I knew, I'd sure as hell tell you.

Hello.

Hello.

May I ask the purpose of your visit to Mexico?

Vacation.

And how long will you be staying?

Oh, I don't know.

One, two months, maybe longer.

Depends on whether I like it.

You know, maybe you should put those suitcases in the trunk.

It would be a big temptation to thieves, especially

from a woman traveling alone.

Thanks, I'll do that first chance I get.

Well, have a good stay.

Oh, I will.

I'm sure of that.

Hey, Ralph.

How'd you do?

Plea bargain down to jaywalking?

Lighten up, Hunter.

It's the man's first offense.

Plus, he's putting Alan Shadwell away for the rest

of his natural life.

Yeah, I'll bet he is.

Hey, Sarge, is there any word on Laura?

Yeah, she's gone with the wind, Ralph.

What about the money?

The money is with Laura, who is gone with the wind.

$4 million untraceable dollars.

I thought I knew her.

Yeah, me too, Ralph.

But you see, over a period of time, people do change.

And in Laura's case, you changed her.

I still can't figure out how she made the switch.

Well, he should have a lot of time to think about that,

right, Charlie?

See ya, Ralph.

You know, now that you brought that up,

how did she make that switch?

Come on, you know how she did it.

Well, if I'd figured it out, I wouldn't, I wouldn't ask you.

I don't know.

Come on, grab your shoes.

I'll buy you a drink.

You see, when Ralph told Laura to go get some lunch,

she didn't go get lunch.

She went and got herself some suitcases.

I know.

And magazines and newspapers. - Right, there you go.

Now you got it.

Well, yeah, I get it, but the point

is, is what is she guilty of if she ever got caught?

Robbery.

She didn't steal anything.

The money was given to her as a gift.

Well, if you consider extortion a gift, yeah.

But she wasn't extorting, Ralph was.

She was just a messenger.

Yeah, that's true.

But she is an accessory to concealing

evidence, namely $4 million.

Hmm, think she'll ever give herself up?

That's a good question.

The old Laura certainly would, but I

don't know about the new Laura.

I think, I think she's long gone.

$4 million untraceable dollars.

- Yeah. - I'll tell you what.

I was really hoping when I opened that suitcase

to see $4 million bucks sitting there looking at me, you know?

Yeah, me too.

You know, I gotta hand it to you.

You really impressed me by fitting

all these pieces together.

Yeah?

Yeah, I mean Laura was gone, you hardly

had time to talk to Ralph.

You put it together really well.

How did you do this?

Well, actually, I had a little help on this one.

Hitch.

Hitch helped me.

Hitch who?

Hitch.

Hitchcock, Alfred Hitchcock.

Wait a minute.

I have seen every Alfred Hitchcock movie.

I'm a fan of this guy.

So what movie was like this?

You remember the scene, the bus

pulls up out of the middle of nowhere,

and off the bus pops Cary Grant.

The bus drives away and Cary Grant's looking around,

doesn't know where he is or why he's out there.

And off in the distance he sees this little biplane

coming in, floating in.

They cut to the airplane, they cut back to him.

And he realizes the airplane now is chasing him, it's after him.

Sure enough, he starts running along the road,

the airplane starts shooting at him.

He runs along the road for a little,

jumps off the road into the cornfield.

The airplane comes by and drops two suitcases on him.