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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:40,209 --> 00:00:42,628 ♪ I've got a west side baby ♪ 2 00:00:44,422 --> 00:00:48,384 ♪ She lives way across town ♪ 3 00:00:55,683 --> 00:00:58,102 ♪ I've got a west side baby ♪ 4 00:00:59,937 --> 00:01:03,858 ♪ She lives way across town ♪ 5 00:01:11,282 --> 00:01:13,909 ♪ And when I'm with my baby ♪ 6 00:01:15,244 --> 00:01:19,582 ♪ I don't want a soul around ♪ 7 00:01:26,547 --> 00:01:29,091 ♪ Now, she's kind of tall and lanky ♪ 8 00:01:30,885 --> 00:01:33,137 ♪ She's always dressing swell ♪ 9 00:01:35,139 --> 00:01:37,683 ♪ She sets my soul on fire ♪ 10 00:01:38,517 --> 00:01:40,686 ♪ When she rings my front door bell ♪ 11 00:01:40,770 --> 00:01:44,607 ♪ Yes, I've got a west side baby ♪ 12 00:01:47,276 --> 00:01:51,405 ♪ She lives way across town ♪ 13 00:01:58,245 --> 00:02:00,373 ♪ And when I'm with my baby ♪ 14 00:02:02,208 --> 00:02:06,420 ♪ I don't want a soul around 15 00:02:13,636 --> 00:02:15,721 ♪ Now, Monday morning early ♪ 16 00:02:17,598 --> 00:02:19,850 ♪ Someone banged upon my door ♪ 17 00:02:21,686 --> 00:02:23,896 ♪ I knew it wasn't my baby ♪ 18 00:02:25,564 --> 00:02:28,192 ♪ ‘Cause she's never knocked before ♪ 19 00:02:29,610 --> 00:02:32,029 ♪ So I laid in bed and wondered ♪ 20 00:02:33,739 --> 00:02:35,825 ♪ Who could the caller be ♪ 21 00:02:37,702 --> 00:02:40,413 ♪ I thought it was the insurance man ♪ 22 00:02:40,496 --> 00:02:44,125 ♪ ‘Cause he's been hecklin' for me ♪ 23 00:02:46,419 --> 00:02:49,046 ♪ Crazy about my west side baby ♪ 24 00:02:50,381 --> 00:02:54,135 ♪ She lives way across town ♪ 25 00:03:01,642 --> 00:03:04,061 ♪ And when I'm with my baby ♪ 26 00:03:05,604 --> 00:03:09,984 ♪ I don't want a soul around ♪ 27 00:03:16,907 --> 00:03:19,285 ♪ Now, she's kind of tall and lanky ♪ 28 00:03:21,245 --> 00:03:23,581 ♪ She's always dressing swell... ♪ 29 00:03:29,754 --> 00:03:33,591 It was summer, 1948, and I needed money. 30 00:03:34,383 --> 00:03:36,886 After going door-to-door all day long, 31 00:03:36,969 --> 00:03:39,513 I was back again at Joppy's Bar, trying to figure out 32 00:03:39,597 --> 00:03:42,016 where I was gonna go looking for work the next day. 33 00:03:42,683 --> 00:03:46,061 The newspapers was going on and on about the city elections, 34 00:03:46,145 --> 00:03:49,190 like they was really gonna change somebody's life. 35 00:03:49,273 --> 00:03:53,152 Well, my life had already changed when I lost my job three weeks before. 36 00:03:53,819 --> 00:03:58,532 For example, if one of the white guys pulls a double shift, 37 00:03:58,616 --> 00:04:02,119 says he's too tired to work overtime, you don't fire them. 38 00:04:02,912 --> 00:04:04,330 That's all you have to say? 39 00:04:14,298 --> 00:04:16,759 No, no, that's not all. I-I need... 40 00:04:19,512 --> 00:04:22,139 I need to pay my mortgage, and eat. 41 00:04:23,682 --> 00:04:24,934 I need a house to live in. 42 00:04:25,017 --> 00:04:28,521 I need to put clothes on my back, Mr. Giacomo. I need the job. 43 00:04:28,604 --> 00:04:31,190 I'm sorry, fella. I gotta get back to work. 44 00:04:35,152 --> 00:04:37,029 My name's not "fella." 45 00:04:37,112 --> 00:04:38,113 Huh? 46 00:04:39,073 --> 00:04:43,202 My name's not "fella." My name is Ezekiel Rawlins. 47 00:04:43,953 --> 00:04:45,204 Catch you later, Joppy. 48 00:04:45,287 --> 00:04:48,916 Hey, watch the marble! Damn it! What'd I tell you? 49 00:04:54,797 --> 00:04:58,008 Joppy, how much you think they're paying out there at Douglas Aircraft? 50 00:04:58,092 --> 00:05:01,345 I don't know. Don't it say on the — 51 00:05:05,641 --> 00:05:08,310 ♪ Ain't nobody's business ♪ 52 00:05:10,104 --> 00:05:12,106 ♪ If I do ♪ 53 00:05:20,781 --> 00:05:25,035 Talk to him? Yes, sir. You can talk to him if you want to talk to him. 54 00:05:25,703 --> 00:05:28,747 All right. Easy, come on over here. 55 00:05:29,373 --> 00:05:31,208 I got somebody I want you to meet. 56 00:05:35,880 --> 00:05:37,673 Come on. This here's a friend of mine. 57 00:05:39,383 --> 00:05:42,011 Yeah, Easy, this is Mr. Albright. 58 00:05:42,094 --> 00:05:43,888 -You can call me Dewitt, Easy. -How you doing? 59 00:05:43,971 --> 00:05:46,015 -I'm all right. -Take a seat, Easy. 60 00:05:50,060 --> 00:05:54,899 Mr. Albright and me go way back to before the war. 61 00:05:54,982 --> 00:05:57,192 Matter of fact, when I was still in the fight game. 62 00:05:57,276 --> 00:05:59,111 Mm-hmm. Ever seen this guy fight? 63 00:05:59,194 --> 00:06:00,696 -No. -No? 64 00:06:01,405 --> 00:06:05,117 Well, shoot. Every time Joppy Shag step in the ring, 65 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:08,454 you knew you was gonna see some real knock-down, drag-out fisticuffs. 66 00:06:09,622 --> 00:06:11,749 -Where you from, Easy? -Houston. 67 00:06:11,832 --> 00:06:15,669 Mmm, Houston. That's Joppy's hometown. 68 00:06:19,798 --> 00:06:21,342 So, I hear you need a job. 69 00:06:21,425 --> 00:06:25,346 Oh, yeah, uh, Easy's always trying to do better. 70 00:06:25,429 --> 00:06:29,266 He's one of the few colored men around here who owns his own house. 71 00:06:29,350 --> 00:06:32,645 Shoot, he's paying the mortgage every month, just like y'all folks. 72 00:06:33,479 --> 00:06:34,897 Property owner, huh? 73 00:06:35,648 --> 00:06:38,025 These big companies don't give a damn, do they, Easy? 74 00:06:38,108 --> 00:06:39,985 Got out of that racket a long time ago. 75 00:06:40,069 --> 00:06:43,030 Look, if you do need a job, you drop by this address, 76 00:06:43,113 --> 00:06:46,241 7:00 tonight. 77 00:06:46,325 --> 00:06:47,451 What kind of work you do? 78 00:06:50,913 --> 00:06:52,498 I do favors. 79 00:06:52,581 --> 00:06:54,333 I do favors for friends. 80 00:06:55,793 --> 00:06:56,961 Drop by. 81 00:07:01,632 --> 00:07:03,384 Who was that, Joppy? 82 00:07:03,467 --> 00:07:05,844 Just somebody I know. Businessman. 83 00:07:05,928 --> 00:07:08,222 -Mmm. Businessman, huh? -Yeah, he is. 84 00:07:10,140 --> 00:07:12,226 Ain't nothing to worry about. 85 00:07:12,309 --> 00:07:15,688 Now, when somebody tell me ain't nothing to worry about, 86 00:07:15,771 --> 00:07:18,273 I usually look down to see if my fly is open. 87 00:07:19,942 --> 00:07:21,819 But all the way home all I could think about 88 00:07:21,902 --> 00:07:23,904 was a chance to make some money. 89 00:07:24,822 --> 00:07:28,993 I first came out to Los Angeles when I got home from the war in Europe 90 00:07:29,076 --> 00:07:32,246 with $300 in my pocket and the GI Bill. 91 00:07:33,080 --> 00:07:35,624 Like me, a lot of colored folk from Texas and Louisiana 92 00:07:35,708 --> 00:07:37,918 had moved out to California to get them good jobs 93 00:07:38,002 --> 00:07:40,671 in the shipyards and in the aircraft companies. 94 00:07:40,754 --> 00:07:42,756 -Hey, Willy! -Hey, now! 95 00:07:42,840 --> 00:07:45,592 Now, me myself, I was a machinist. 96 00:07:46,427 --> 00:07:48,679 And the first thing I did when I saved enough money 97 00:07:48,762 --> 00:07:50,597 was to buy me a house. 98 00:07:52,808 --> 00:07:55,519 Man, I loved coming home to my house. 99 00:07:55,602 --> 00:07:58,897 I don't know. I guess maybe I just loved owning something. 100 00:08:02,317 --> 00:08:03,736 How y'all doing? 101 00:08:08,907 --> 00:08:11,618 Ezekiel, I'm gonna knock down some of them trees in the back. 102 00:08:11,702 --> 00:08:12,911 No, leave my trees alone. 103 00:08:12,995 --> 00:08:15,622 -I ain't gonna take but five — -Leave my tr — Get on! 104 00:08:38,896 --> 00:08:41,190 I was feeling pretty desperate that evening. 105 00:08:42,858 --> 00:08:45,110 In a week, I'd be two months behind on my mortgage, 106 00:08:45,194 --> 00:08:47,446 and, no, sir, I wasn't about to lose my house. 107 00:08:48,030 --> 00:08:50,532 But a chill running up the back of my neck was talking to me, 108 00:08:50,616 --> 00:08:52,910 telling me I was about to make a bad decision. 109 00:08:54,161 --> 00:08:56,747 Yeah, Albright made me nervous. 110 00:08:56,830 --> 00:08:59,833 He reminded me of a fella I knew back in Texas named Mouse. 111 00:08:59,917 --> 00:09:02,169 Drive to the train yard, Easy. Let's dump this damn thing — 112 00:09:02,252 --> 00:09:04,254 I thought this was your friend's car. What did you do, Mouse? 113 00:09:04,338 --> 00:09:06,590 -Just drive this son of a bitch. -What did you do? 114 00:09:31,532 --> 00:09:32,658 So... 115 00:09:35,911 --> 00:09:37,621 want the job? 116 00:09:38,205 --> 00:09:42,668 It depends on what kind of job it is. I don't wanna get mixed up in nothing. 117 00:09:43,418 --> 00:09:45,921 Hmm. Walk out the door in the morning, Easy, 118 00:09:47,506 --> 00:09:49,049 you're mixed up in something. 119 00:09:50,676 --> 00:09:53,512 Only thing that matters is if you're mixed up to the top or not. 120 00:09:53,595 --> 00:09:56,598 I'm just looking for somebody. For a friend. 121 00:09:57,558 --> 00:09:58,976 Daphne Monet. 122 00:09:59,059 --> 00:10:03,272 Fiancée of Todd Carter. She been gone two weeks. 123 00:10:04,064 --> 00:10:07,192 It upset the poor man so much, he stopped running for mayor. 124 00:10:08,527 --> 00:10:11,613 -Ain't never laid eyes on her. -That's a shame. 125 00:10:12,948 --> 00:10:16,618 See, Daphne has a predilection for the company of Negroes. 126 00:10:16,702 --> 00:10:19,746 She likes jazz and pigs' feet and dark meat. Know what I mean? 127 00:10:22,249 --> 00:10:23,750 Predilection, yeah. 128 00:10:24,835 --> 00:10:26,044 Yeah. 129 00:10:27,754 --> 00:10:29,756 I'd go looking for her myself, but... 130 00:10:30,465 --> 00:10:32,676 I'm not of the right persuasion, so to speak. 131 00:10:33,927 --> 00:10:37,055 -What you want from me? -What do you mean? 132 00:10:38,432 --> 00:10:41,310 -What you want me to do? -Just get a location on her. 133 00:10:43,020 --> 00:10:44,688 Mr. Carter wants to make up with her. 134 00:10:46,106 --> 00:10:49,443 Hundred dollars. I pay in advance. 135 00:10:56,074 --> 00:10:57,326 Hundred dollars. 136 00:10:59,161 --> 00:11:00,996 And all I got to do is tell you where she's at? 137 00:11:01,079 --> 00:11:02,831 -That's right. -And that's all? 138 00:11:03,498 --> 00:11:04,499 That's all. 139 00:11:05,584 --> 00:11:09,046 Joppy tells me you used to frequent an illegal club down on 89th and Central. 140 00:11:09,129 --> 00:11:10,130 Yeah, John's. 141 00:11:10,214 --> 00:11:12,424 Somebody saw Daphne there a few nights ago. 142 00:11:13,967 --> 00:11:15,260 You could start tonight. 143 00:11:22,142 --> 00:11:23,352 Hmm. 144 00:11:29,775 --> 00:11:32,736 Whoa, that's enough. Thank you. 145 00:11:33,570 --> 00:11:35,989 -See you later, man. -All right. Yeah. 146 00:11:38,325 --> 00:11:41,745 ♪ I dreamed of heaven, saw my baby there ♪ 147 00:11:43,956 --> 00:11:47,084 ♪ I dreamed of heaven, saw my baby there ♪ 148 00:11:47,167 --> 00:11:49,503 Taxi! 149 00:11:49,586 --> 00:11:52,422 ♪ She had pearly white teeth And coal-black wavy hair ♪ 150 00:11:52,506 --> 00:11:54,174 Oh, I see him! 151 00:11:55,592 --> 00:11:57,678 ♪ Hoy, hoy, hop ♪ 152 00:11:58,387 --> 00:12:00,722 ♪ Hoy, hoy, skip ♪ 153 00:12:00,806 --> 00:12:02,099 ♪ Now jump ♪ 154 00:12:05,310 --> 00:12:07,187 Hey, hey, man. 155 00:12:12,067 --> 00:12:14,069 ♪ Hoy, hoy, hop ♪ 156 00:12:14,778 --> 00:12:16,905 ♪ Hoy, hoy, skip ♪ 157 00:12:16,989 --> 00:12:18,282 ♪ Now jump ♪ 158 00:12:19,157 --> 00:12:22,160 What's your name? 159 00:12:22,244 --> 00:12:24,371 I done told you. This is a grocery store, period. 160 00:12:24,454 --> 00:12:27,082 -Hattie Mae. -Hey, Easy, how ya doing, baby? 161 00:12:27,165 --> 00:12:28,834 Colored brother, I need you to — 162 00:12:28,917 --> 00:12:31,586 Mister, I done told you. You can't be in here harassing folks. 163 00:12:31,670 --> 00:12:33,922 -I'm not harassing him. I'm asking — -What's going on out there? 164 00:12:34,006 --> 00:12:37,592 I just paid these damn cops off and they out there rousting my customers. 165 00:12:37,676 --> 00:12:39,094 I definitely hear music coming from up there. 166 00:12:39,177 --> 00:12:41,138 That's what he get for messing with that white woman. 167 00:12:41,221 --> 00:12:43,765 -Come on, brother. -Don't pay him no attention, Easy. 168 00:12:43,849 --> 00:12:47,144 -I rung for Junior to take care of that. -I come from Detroit. 169 00:12:47,227 --> 00:12:49,980 -Ain't got nobody but Deucy tonight. -It's on me. Tell 'em I'm your cousin. 170 00:12:50,063 --> 00:12:52,107 -I had Holiday on Thursday. -Yeah? 171 00:12:52,190 --> 00:12:53,650 Oh, yeah. You missed it. 172 00:12:53,734 --> 00:12:55,402 -Uh-uh-uh! -Hey, hey, hey! 173 00:12:55,485 --> 00:12:58,864 Junior! Wait for the cops to leave. Take Easy on upstairs. 174 00:12:58,947 --> 00:13:03,076 And if he's still down here, come on back and throw his ass out. 175 00:13:03,160 --> 00:13:07,205 -Get on out of here. You better be gone. -I'll be here. I'll be waiting for you. 176 00:13:07,289 --> 00:13:10,542 Yeah, you just wait, mister. You just keep waiting. 177 00:13:10,625 --> 00:13:13,545 Mr. McGee, there is no upstairs. 178 00:13:13,628 --> 00:13:16,048 -Got another one of 'em cigarettes? -Sure. 179 00:13:16,131 --> 00:13:18,300 Zapattas. How you smoke these damn things? 180 00:13:18,383 --> 00:13:20,719 You're the only Negro in America smoke Mexican cigarettes. 181 00:13:20,802 --> 00:13:23,889 Last time I heard, these fellas playing tonight was back in Houston. 182 00:13:23,972 --> 00:13:26,391 That night your old buddy Mouse had to pull me off your ass. 183 00:13:26,475 --> 00:13:29,478 -That's the way you remember it, huh? -Hell, that's the way it was. 184 00:13:29,561 --> 00:13:33,940 Look here. When you gonna admit that you helped Mouse kill old man Navrochet? 185 00:13:34,024 --> 00:13:35,776 Man, come on, get off that. 186 00:13:35,859 --> 00:13:37,694 You know I didn't have nothing to do with that. 187 00:13:41,698 --> 00:13:43,241 Where all the white women at? 188 00:13:43,325 --> 00:13:45,535 -I don't pay them white girls no mind. -I bet you don't. 189 00:13:45,619 --> 00:13:48,663 That's right. Just like you didn't help Mouse Kill his stepfather. 190 00:13:48,747 --> 00:13:51,666 Hey, Easy, did you help him Kill his stepbrother too? 191 00:13:57,881 --> 00:14:02,052 ♪ Hey, hey, hey There's good rockin' tonight ♪ 192 00:14:04,262 --> 00:14:08,683 ♪ I said hoy, hoy, hoy There's good rockin' tonight ♪ 193 00:14:11,353 --> 00:14:13,897 ♪ Mmm, there's good rockin' tonight... ♪ 194 00:14:13,980 --> 00:14:15,899 Alphonso James! 195 00:14:15,982 --> 00:14:17,401 Hey, Easy. 196 00:14:18,151 --> 00:14:20,153 Give me a setup and a Coke back. 197 00:14:21,154 --> 00:14:25,409 You seen a girl named, uh, Dahlia, Delilah, something like that? 198 00:14:25,492 --> 00:14:27,536 White girl. Supposed to be something to see. 199 00:14:27,619 --> 00:14:29,871 No. But if I do see her, 200 00:14:29,955 --> 00:14:31,706 -I'm gonna keep her to myself. 201 00:14:47,639 --> 00:14:52,936 ♪ Well, everybody, Deacon Jones They even gonna be in there ♪ 202 00:14:53,019 --> 00:14:54,312 Keep the change. 203 00:14:56,940 --> 00:14:58,733 Deacon Odell. 204 00:14:58,817 --> 00:15:01,445 -Easy. -How you doing tonight? 205 00:15:01,528 --> 00:15:04,698 Well, it's going all right. It sure is going. 206 00:15:04,781 --> 00:15:07,451 -Easy Rawlins, is that you? -Hey, boy. 207 00:15:07,534 --> 00:15:11,371 -Boy, you ain't jumped out no windows yet? -Not yet, Dupree. 208 00:15:11,455 --> 00:15:13,290 You know Coretta here, don't you? 209 00:15:13,373 --> 00:15:15,709 -Sure. How you doing, Coretta? -I'm all right, Easy. 210 00:15:15,792 --> 00:15:17,627 -This is Odell. -Hey, how you doing? 211 00:15:17,711 --> 00:15:20,088 -Odell! -Oh, my goodness. 212 00:15:20,172 --> 00:15:22,215 Can we sit down with y'all, Easy? 213 00:15:23,133 --> 00:15:24,593 Yeah, sure, sit down. 214 00:15:24,676 --> 00:15:27,846 Man, we miss you down there at the plant. 215 00:15:27,929 --> 00:15:31,057 And look here, Benny would've gave you your job back, right? 216 00:15:31,141 --> 00:15:34,060 All you had to do was go down there and say that you was sorry. 217 00:15:34,144 --> 00:15:36,688 Yeah, I'm sorry, all right. Give me a pint of that bourbon. 218 00:15:36,771 --> 00:15:39,357 Any man without his paycheck is sure enough sorry. 219 00:15:42,444 --> 00:15:44,905 Look here, man. I got it. Your money here ain't no good. 220 00:15:44,988 --> 00:15:46,823 -No, this one's mine. -You sure? 221 00:15:46,907 --> 00:15:48,158 You the one ain't got no job. 222 00:15:48,241 --> 00:15:51,536 -And you the one ain't got no money. -Ah, baby. 223 00:15:52,412 --> 00:15:56,041 Any of y'all seen a white girl by the name of Dahlia, Delilah, something like that? 224 00:15:56,124 --> 00:15:58,126 First name start with a D? 225 00:15:59,794 --> 00:16:00,795 No. 226 00:16:02,547 --> 00:16:04,966 Coretta got herself a job at the phone company. 227 00:16:05,050 --> 00:16:07,219 -That right? -Yeah. 228 00:16:07,302 --> 00:16:08,637 Well, congratulations. 229 00:16:08,720 --> 00:16:10,555 They ain't hiring no mans down there, is they? 230 00:16:39,834 --> 00:16:41,294 You all right, Odell? 231 00:16:45,674 --> 00:16:48,176 MmM-mmm. Mm-mmm. 232 00:16:52,347 --> 00:16:54,975 He used to play till the cock crowed. 233 00:16:56,726 --> 00:16:59,896 That old cock, it don't crow nearly so much now. 234 00:17:08,113 --> 00:17:10,532 I better get on home. 235 00:17:14,369 --> 00:17:16,121 You'd be sorry if you go. 236 00:17:16,204 --> 00:17:17,998 I'd be sorry if I stay too. 237 00:17:19,207 --> 00:17:20,625 Good night, Coretta. 238 00:17:23,753 --> 00:17:26,590 Daphne asleep by now, so... 239 00:17:29,009 --> 00:17:31,469 you can't get none of that tonight. 240 00:17:32,887 --> 00:17:35,724 You go around here telling everybody "Dahlia." 241 00:17:44,524 --> 00:17:45,942 Her name is Daphne. 242 00:17:50,363 --> 00:17:51,531 Do you know her? 243 00:18:08,089 --> 00:18:09,674 Where you want me to put him at, baby? 244 00:18:09,758 --> 00:18:11,718 This ain't my house! What? 245 00:18:11,801 --> 00:18:13,928 Th-This ain't even my house. 246 00:18:14,012 --> 00:18:17,641 -Just throw him in there on the bed. -Shut up, Negro. 247 00:18:17,724 --> 00:18:19,309 Where my keys? 248 00:18:20,935 --> 00:18:22,270 Be careful of the door. 249 00:18:22,812 --> 00:18:26,107 Throwed him out of his place last week ‘cause he couldn't pay the rent. 250 00:18:26,191 --> 00:18:28,193 I shouldn't even let him sleep here tonight. 251 00:18:28,276 --> 00:18:30,070 Damn, that Negro's heavy. 252 00:18:30,153 --> 00:18:33,365 I know. I know. 253 00:18:33,448 --> 00:18:37,118 I need a cigarette. 254 00:18:38,036 --> 00:18:39,454 That all you need? 255 00:18:42,957 --> 00:18:45,418 Girl, that sun catch me tiptoeing outside your door, 256 00:18:45,502 --> 00:18:47,587 ain't no telling what your neighbors might say. 257 00:18:47,671 --> 00:18:50,090 All right, Easy. All right. 258 00:18:51,424 --> 00:18:53,134 Dupree done fell asleep on me, 259 00:18:53,218 --> 00:18:56,680 and you just gonna walk out on me like I was dog food, huh? 260 00:18:57,514 --> 00:19:00,809 What? Girl, what you talking about? 261 00:19:01,726 --> 00:19:03,228 Now, come on. 262 00:19:04,312 --> 00:19:06,606 Coretta, your man is in the next room. 263 00:19:11,152 --> 00:19:13,405 Why don't you tell me about your friend Daphne? 264 00:19:13,988 --> 00:19:16,991 Why do you keep asking about her? Hmm? 265 00:19:20,161 --> 00:19:22,664 Colored woman ain't good enough for you no more, huh, Easy? 266 00:19:22,747 --> 00:19:24,165 No, that ain't it. 267 00:19:25,667 --> 00:19:27,085 Look, I mean... 268 00:19:28,962 --> 00:19:30,505 Shoot. 269 00:19:34,592 --> 00:19:36,344 Well, what if he was to hear something? 270 00:19:37,846 --> 00:19:39,055 He asleep. 271 00:19:44,811 --> 00:19:47,480 Baby, that's it! Oh, yes! 272 00:19:47,564 --> 00:19:50,567 Oh, baby! Oh, baby, that's it. 273 00:19:50,650 --> 00:19:52,610 -Oh, that's it. 274 00:19:52,694 --> 00:19:55,864 Oh! Oh! You're hitting my spot! 275 00:19:55,947 --> 00:19:58,324 -Yeah, baby! Oh! -You're hitting my spot! 276 00:20:02,328 --> 00:20:04,914 -Easy, Easy, Easy. 277 00:20:04,998 --> 00:20:08,918 I can't give up that much loving, Daddy. Not the way things is. 278 00:20:09,002 --> 00:20:10,462 -What things? -Shh. Come on now. 279 00:20:10,545 --> 00:20:12,172 Dupree right in the next room. Don't do that. 280 00:20:12,255 --> 00:20:14,799 Forget about Dupree, baby. You done got me going, Coretta. 281 00:20:14,883 --> 00:20:18,511 It ain't right, Easy. Here I am doing this right in the next room. 282 00:20:18,595 --> 00:20:21,264 All you doing is nosing after my friend Daphne. 283 00:20:21,347 --> 00:20:23,516 Daph — Oh, oh, oh. 284 00:20:24,142 --> 00:20:26,561 Oh, yeah. No, baby. That's just a job. 285 00:20:26,644 --> 00:20:28,438 -What job? -Some man want me to find her. 286 00:20:28,521 --> 00:20:30,690 -What man? -I don't know what man, baby. 287 00:20:30,774 --> 00:20:34,861 I just, you know — I don't want nobody but you... baby. 288 00:20:35,862 --> 00:20:36,988 Yeah. 289 00:20:43,203 --> 00:20:46,539 -Oh! -Daphne's my friend. I can't do it. 290 00:20:51,169 --> 00:20:53,713 -Mm-mmm. -Shit. 291 00:20:59,928 --> 00:21:03,014 Just a little bit more, okay? Just a little bit. 292 00:21:03,097 --> 00:21:06,476 Just a little bit. Just a little bit, baby. 293 00:21:06,559 --> 00:21:09,187 Oh, just a little bit. 294 00:21:12,023 --> 00:21:14,984 Oh, that's it, that's it, that's it. 295 00:21:15,068 --> 00:21:17,570 -Oh, you're hitting my spot. -Yeah, baby. 296 00:21:17,654 --> 00:21:20,198 Oh, you're hitting my spot. 297 00:21:20,281 --> 00:21:24,661 -Oh! Oh, that's it. That's it, Daddy. -Yeah, that's it. 298 00:21:25,328 --> 00:21:28,540 And I went on hitting her spot until just before sunup. 299 00:21:30,667 --> 00:21:32,877 I realized later on that Coretta had found out 300 00:21:32,961 --> 00:21:34,629 as much about what I was up to 301 00:21:34,712 --> 00:21:37,215 as I had found out about Daphne Monet. 302 00:21:37,298 --> 00:21:41,678 As it turned out, Todd Carter wasn't the only man in Daphne's life. 303 00:21:41,761 --> 00:21:44,597 She was also shacking up with some small-time colored gangster 304 00:21:44,681 --> 00:21:46,349 named Frank Green, 305 00:21:46,432 --> 00:21:49,519 and Coretta had the nerve to charge me $10 for that information. 306 00:21:49,602 --> 00:21:52,021 See, everybody was in business in Los Angeles. 307 00:21:54,482 --> 00:21:56,776 I spent that morning waiting for Albright to call 308 00:21:56,860 --> 00:21:59,946 and trying to feel good about being able to pay a few bills. 309 00:22:00,029 --> 00:22:01,823 And I mean just a few. 310 00:22:01,906 --> 00:22:04,742 Shoot a loaf of bread was damn near 15 cents. 311 00:22:05,493 --> 00:22:08,246 It was easy money. Too easy. 312 00:22:09,706 --> 00:22:13,126 -Bye, Easy. -Hey, where you going, Sophie? 313 00:22:13,209 --> 00:22:16,337 Back to Texas. Too fast for me out here. 314 00:22:16,421 --> 00:22:18,464 -Bye, Mr. Rawlins! -All right, then. 315 00:22:22,927 --> 00:22:26,431 Hey, get on away from them people's house! Go on! Get away from that tree! 316 00:22:30,018 --> 00:22:31,561 Get on away from that tree now! 317 00:22:32,979 --> 00:22:34,814 Go on. Get away from that tree. 318 00:23:10,892 --> 00:23:14,270 Ricky! Come on. Wash your hands. It's time for supper. 319 00:23:20,568 --> 00:23:21,653 Ricky! 320 00:23:38,670 --> 00:23:41,089 -Hello? - Easy, how you doing, buddy? 321 00:23:41,172 --> 00:23:43,800 -Who is this? -I hope you have good news for me. 322 00:23:44,634 --> 00:23:46,302 Oh, Mr. Albright, is that you? 323 00:23:46,386 --> 00:23:49,514 -Sure is, Easy. What's shakin'? -I got what you want. 324 00:23:49,597 --> 00:23:53,017 Why don't you hold on to that, Easy? I only do business in person. 325 00:23:53,101 --> 00:23:55,895 Tell you what, real quick. You come on out here to Malibu. 326 00:23:55,979 --> 00:23:59,732 Meet me at the Fishermans Pier at the hamburger stand in an hour. Okay? 327 00:23:59,816 --> 00:24:02,318 Malibu? Look, Mr. Albright — 328 00:24:03,653 --> 00:24:06,072 Mr. Albright? 329 00:24:54,579 --> 00:24:55,621 Hi. 330 00:25:08,009 --> 00:25:09,635 It's pretty out here, huh? 331 00:25:11,095 --> 00:25:12,305 Yeah, it's all right. 332 00:25:17,435 --> 00:25:21,898 I'm from Des Moines, lowa. Where are you from? 333 00:25:24,233 --> 00:25:25,359 Texas. 334 00:25:28,404 --> 00:25:30,448 Do they have an ocean in Texas? 335 00:25:32,241 --> 00:25:34,577 -Hey, Barbara! -Gulf. A gulf in Texas. 336 00:25:34,660 --> 00:25:36,329 Barbara, where are you? 337 00:25:36,412 --> 00:25:38,998 -I think your friends are looking for you. -I don't care. 338 00:25:40,333 --> 00:25:43,628 My sister brought me here because my parents made her. 339 00:25:43,711 --> 00:25:45,171 Where is that girl? 340 00:25:45,254 --> 00:25:48,508 All she wants to do is make out with Herman and smoke cigarettes. 341 00:25:48,591 --> 00:25:52,470 Hey, man. What are you doing out here? 342 00:25:52,553 --> 00:25:53,763 Hey, what's going on? 343 00:25:53,846 --> 00:25:56,474 Leave us alone, Herman. We're just talking. 344 00:25:56,557 --> 00:25:59,352 -We don't need you talking to her, okay? -I said, leave us alone. 345 00:25:59,435 --> 00:26:01,145 -We're just talking about the ocean. -What's wrong? 346 00:26:01,229 --> 00:26:03,231 This nigger's trying to pick up on Barbara. That's what's wrong. 347 00:26:03,314 --> 00:26:04,315 What's wrong with you? 348 00:26:04,398 --> 00:26:05,942 -I don't want trouble. -You already got trouble. 349 00:26:06,025 --> 00:26:07,026 Just trying to be polite. 350 00:26:07,110 --> 00:26:09,445 No, you're not. You're talking about the ocean. 351 00:26:09,529 --> 00:26:12,740 -Hey, there! -What do you want? 352 00:26:12,824 --> 00:26:15,118 -What's going on? -What do you want? 353 00:26:15,910 --> 00:26:17,411 What do I want? 354 00:26:18,788 --> 00:26:20,832 -I wanna see your brains. -Shit! 355 00:26:20,915 --> 00:26:23,334 -Run, man, run! -Sorry, sir. I didn't mean it. 356 00:26:23,417 --> 00:26:25,128 -Yeah? -Yes, sir. I'm sorry. I didn't mean it. 357 00:26:25,211 --> 00:26:27,755 -You sorry enough? You sorry enough? -Yes, sir, I am. Yes, sir. 358 00:26:27,839 --> 00:26:30,341 Yeah? Then prove it. 359 00:26:30,424 --> 00:26:33,261 Come on, prove it. Show him. 360 00:26:33,344 --> 00:26:36,389 -Get on your knees. Suck his peter! -Please. I'm sorry. 361 00:26:36,472 --> 00:26:37,598 You son of a bitch! 362 00:26:37,682 --> 00:26:39,934 -I think he's got the point. -You heard me. 363 00:26:40,017 --> 00:26:41,769 -Go on. -He's got the point! 364 00:26:41,853 --> 00:26:45,189 Do it! I'll kill you. I'll blow your brains out. 365 00:26:45,273 --> 00:26:48,401 Okay, okay, okay. Don't shoot me, please. 366 00:26:48,484 --> 00:26:50,820 Now go on. Go on. 367 00:26:51,529 --> 00:26:53,823 All right. 368 00:26:53,906 --> 00:26:55,116 God. 369 00:26:57,410 --> 00:26:59,620 Son of a gun. You're gonna do it, aren't you? 370 00:26:59,704 --> 00:27:01,289 Sick bastard! 371 00:27:01,372 --> 00:27:04,625 Oh, God, my eye! 372 00:27:04,709 --> 00:27:07,295 My eye. 373 00:27:07,378 --> 00:27:08,880 Get the hell outta here. 374 00:27:09,547 --> 00:27:11,883 You call the cops, I'll kill ya! 375 00:27:11,966 --> 00:27:14,719 Hurry up, man! Come on! 376 00:27:14,802 --> 00:27:17,597 I don't think they'd dare call the cops, 377 00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:20,725 but we better get the hell outta here in case they do. 378 00:27:20,808 --> 00:27:22,059 What do ya got, Easy? 379 00:27:22,143 --> 00:27:24,979 Ain't no harm gonna come to that girl or anybody else 'cause of me? 380 00:27:25,062 --> 00:27:26,063 How should I know? 381 00:27:26,147 --> 00:27:29,066 Mr. Carter tells me he wants to buy her a gold ring and live happily ever after. 382 00:27:29,150 --> 00:27:30,276 What do ya got? 383 00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:32,486 Woman told me she was with a man named Frank Green. 384 00:27:32,570 --> 00:27:33,905 Hang on. Where? 385 00:27:35,531 --> 00:27:38,075 Over to the Skyler Apartments. Skyler and 83rd. 386 00:27:38,159 --> 00:27:39,619 Skyler and 83rd. 387 00:27:39,702 --> 00:27:41,287 Frank Green. What do you know about this guy? 388 00:27:41,370 --> 00:27:43,706 He's a gangster, hijacker. Liquor and cigarettes. 389 00:27:43,789 --> 00:27:45,625 Supposed to be pretty good with a knife. 390 00:27:45,708 --> 00:27:48,419 -Ever seen him in action? -No, I just heard about him. 391 00:27:50,671 --> 00:27:52,715 Easy. 392 00:27:55,968 --> 00:27:58,679 Here's another hundred. I'll be calling you again. 393 00:27:59,639 --> 00:28:00,723 Okay. 394 00:28:15,863 --> 00:28:17,949 -Mr. Rawlins, I'm Detective Miller. -Mason. 395 00:28:18,032 --> 00:28:19,909 -What? -Turn around, put your hands on the car. 396 00:28:19,992 --> 00:28:21,535 -We'd like you to come with us. -Where? 397 00:28:21,619 --> 00:28:23,120 -You'll see. -Why are you arresting me? 398 00:28:23,204 --> 00:28:24,247 You'll see. 399 00:28:24,330 --> 00:28:26,123 I got a right to know why you're arresting me, now. 400 00:28:26,207 --> 00:28:28,084 You got a right to fall down, break your face. 401 00:28:28,167 --> 00:28:29,919 You got a right to come with me. Come on. 402 00:28:35,549 --> 00:28:37,218 That guy over there? 403 00:28:37,301 --> 00:28:39,553 -You got him, huh? -Yeah, we got him coming home. 404 00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:53,901 Ezekiel Rawlins. 405 00:28:54,735 --> 00:28:56,904 We can take those cuffs off if you want to cooperate. 406 00:28:56,988 --> 00:28:59,282 -Yes, sir. I'm cooperating. -Turn around. 407 00:29:03,828 --> 00:29:05,705 Sit over there. Sit down. 408 00:29:09,333 --> 00:29:13,379 Now, where were you this morning, about 5:00 a.m.? 409 00:29:13,462 --> 00:29:16,299 -What you mean? -He means this morning. 410 00:29:17,425 --> 00:29:21,345 I-I was — I was out drinking. 411 00:29:21,429 --> 00:29:23,764 I carried a friend into his house. 412 00:29:23,848 --> 00:29:26,851 I don't know. I could've been on my way home. I ain't look at no clock. 413 00:29:26,934 --> 00:29:29,103 You didn't look at the clock? 414 00:29:29,186 --> 00:29:32,064 You were drinking at 89th and Central, illegal club called John's. 415 00:29:32,148 --> 00:29:34,191 -What is going on? -You may as well answer. 416 00:29:34,275 --> 00:29:36,944 You got a lot bigger troubles than busting some lady in a bar. 417 00:29:37,028 --> 00:29:38,446 I don't know what you talkin' about. 418 00:29:38,529 --> 00:29:41,240 What we're talking about is taking your Black ass out behind the station 419 00:29:41,324 --> 00:29:44,035 and putting a bullet in your head, that's what we're talking about. 420 00:29:44,118 --> 00:29:45,661 Sit down. 421 00:29:51,834 --> 00:29:54,378 Now, what time did you leave Coretta James' house this morning? 422 00:29:54,462 --> 00:29:56,339 Around 5:00, 5:30, I guess. 423 00:29:56,422 --> 00:29:58,758 -You go back later in the day? -No, sir, I did not. 424 00:29:58,841 --> 00:30:01,594 You and Dupree Brouchard, did you have words over Miss James? 425 00:30:01,677 --> 00:30:02,928 -Words? -You heard him. 426 00:30:03,012 --> 00:30:04,889 -Did you two argue over Coretta James? -No, we — 427 00:30:04,972 --> 00:30:07,558 -Did you argue over Coretta James? -No, we didn't argue about nothing! 428 00:30:07,641 --> 00:30:10,227 -l — He was asleep. -Yeah, she went to sleep too. 429 00:30:10,311 --> 00:30:12,772 But she's not gonna be waking up, Ezekiel. 430 00:30:13,564 --> 00:30:14,565 What? 431 00:30:14,648 --> 00:30:16,233 Where did you go when you left Miss James's house? 432 00:30:16,317 --> 00:30:18,319 Wait, wait. What you talkin' about, she ain't gonna be waking up? 433 00:30:18,402 --> 00:30:21,530 -Where did you go? -I don't know! I was — I had a hangover. 434 00:30:21,614 --> 00:30:23,449 -Oh, you had a hangover? -Yeah. I went home. 435 00:30:23,532 --> 00:30:26,786 Oh, that explains everything. He went home. He had a hangover. 436 00:30:26,869 --> 00:30:29,163 -You — -Hey! Get off me! 437 00:30:29,246 --> 00:30:31,999 Back off! Back off! Back off! 438 00:30:32,083 --> 00:30:33,751 -Here, here. -No, no! Get outta here! 439 00:30:33,834 --> 00:30:37,254 -Let me at him. -Go on, get out! Get outta here! 440 00:30:37,338 --> 00:30:40,049 -Come on, you son of a bitch! -Jack, get out, goddamn — 441 00:30:40,132 --> 00:30:42,551 -All right. All right. -Calm down. Calm down. 442 00:30:42,635 --> 00:30:44,428 -You son of a bitch. -Jesus! 443 00:30:57,858 --> 00:31:00,861 They left me alone in that musty little room another three hours, 444 00:31:00,945 --> 00:31:03,948 till some guy in a suit about two sizes too big for him 445 00:31:04,031 --> 00:31:05,825 -came in and said I could go. -Hey, buddy. 446 00:31:06,659 --> 00:31:09,245 The game of cops and niggers kept up outside the station, 447 00:31:09,328 --> 00:31:10,871 but I hardly even noticed. 448 00:31:12,331 --> 00:31:14,792 I had seen dead bodies before — 449 00:31:14,875 --> 00:31:18,629 cold, hard, still as concrete, 450 00:31:18,712 --> 00:31:20,756 their eyes wide open, staring up at nothing. 451 00:31:22,466 --> 00:31:23,968 But not Coretta. 452 00:31:24,844 --> 00:31:26,929 I could still feel her heartbeat. 453 00:31:42,111 --> 00:31:44,572 Hey, Ezekiel Rawlins. 454 00:31:45,239 --> 00:31:46,657 Hold on, Ezekiel. 455 00:31:46,740 --> 00:31:48,951 Somebody in the back would like to talk to you. 456 00:31:49,034 --> 00:31:50,619 I ain't got time right now. 457 00:31:50,703 --> 00:31:52,705 Get in. We'll take you. 458 00:32:00,588 --> 00:32:03,424 My boss wants to talk to you about Coretta James. 459 00:32:08,512 --> 00:32:11,765 Listen, if he wanted to hurt you, it would've happened already. 460 00:32:11,849 --> 00:32:13,058 Come on. 461 00:32:14,894 --> 00:32:15,895 Get in. 462 00:32:43,464 --> 00:32:46,091 You want to go up front and sit with Norman? 463 00:32:46,175 --> 00:32:47,635 Okay, give me a Kiss. 464 00:32:55,142 --> 00:32:57,478 That's my adopted son, Jesus. 465 00:32:59,730 --> 00:33:01,941 I can see the police roughed you up a bit. 466 00:33:03,859 --> 00:33:07,446 That's a practice of theirs that has to change, Mr. Rawlins. 467 00:33:07,530 --> 00:33:09,448 -That has to change. -Thank you. 468 00:33:10,449 --> 00:33:11,951 She was beaten... 469 00:33:12,743 --> 00:33:15,829 and died of a heavy blow to the back of the head. 470 00:33:19,291 --> 00:33:20,709 I suppose you already know that. 471 00:33:20,793 --> 00:33:22,920 Uh, no, I didn't, Mr. Terell. 472 00:33:23,003 --> 00:33:24,463 Oh, you know who I am? 473 00:33:24,547 --> 00:33:26,215 Well, I read the newspapers. 474 00:33:26,298 --> 00:33:28,509 I know you're running for mayor against Todd Carter. 475 00:33:28,592 --> 00:33:31,303 I am the next mayor, Mr. Rawlins. 476 00:33:31,387 --> 00:33:33,681 And, luckily for you, a friend of the Negro. 477 00:33:35,516 --> 00:33:38,102 Coretta worked for a while for me. 478 00:33:38,185 --> 00:33:41,939 She answered phones at my campaign office on 103rd and Western. 479 00:33:42,690 --> 00:33:45,943 So when I heard that the police had a suspect, 480 00:33:46,026 --> 00:33:49,655 I got out of bed immediately, personally, because of my concern. 481 00:33:52,366 --> 00:33:54,660 Was there anyone with you, Mr. Rawlins? 482 00:33:55,536 --> 00:33:58,372 Anyone besides Mr. Dupree Brouchard? 483 00:33:58,455 --> 00:33:59,623 No, sir. 484 00:34:00,541 --> 00:34:03,168 A young lady named Daphne Monet, perhaps? 485 00:34:07,506 --> 00:34:08,841 Nobody. 486 00:34:09,758 --> 00:34:12,177 Of course not. I mean, wh-why would — 487 00:34:12,261 --> 00:34:16,015 Why would you — Why would you tell someone whom you've only just met? 488 00:34:16,098 --> 00:34:17,308 I mean... 489 00:34:19,685 --> 00:34:22,479 You can trust me, Mr. Rawlins. 490 00:34:22,563 --> 00:34:24,023 There was nobody else there. 491 00:34:27,985 --> 00:34:29,820 I believe you. 492 00:34:29,903 --> 00:34:31,989 Uh, can we drop you off at your — 493 00:34:32,072 --> 00:34:34,783 No. I mean, I can get out here. 494 00:34:34,867 --> 00:34:37,494 Are you sure? This must be quite out of your way. 495 00:34:37,578 --> 00:34:39,288 No, it's okay. It's okay. 496 00:34:45,294 --> 00:34:48,130 May I offer you cab fare? 497 00:34:48,964 --> 00:34:51,383 -No, thank you. -Are you sure? 498 00:34:51,467 --> 00:34:53,719 -It's okay. -Norman. 499 00:35:21,163 --> 00:35:22,873 Oh, baby. That's it. 500 00:35:22,956 --> 00:35:25,334 Oh, you're hitting my spot. 501 00:35:25,417 --> 00:35:27,544 Oh, yes. 502 00:35:27,628 --> 00:35:31,006 Daphne asleep by now, so... 503 00:35:31,090 --> 00:35:35,052 Go around here telling everybody "Dahlia." 504 00:35:35,135 --> 00:35:38,347 Colored woman ain't good enough for you no more, huh, Easy? 505 00:35:40,307 --> 00:35:43,227 All you doing is nosing after my friend Daphne. 506 00:35:43,310 --> 00:35:46,188 Colored woman ain't good enough for you no more, huh, Easy? 507 00:35:49,692 --> 00:35:52,319 Man! 508 00:35:58,742 --> 00:35:59,785 Uh-huh. 509 00:35:59,868 --> 00:36:02,746 Hello. Is this Mr. Rawlins? 510 00:36:02,830 --> 00:36:03,997 Yeah. Who's this? 511 00:36:04,665 --> 00:36:06,291 This is Daphne Monet. 512 00:36:08,752 --> 00:36:10,170 You're looking for me. 513 00:36:10,838 --> 00:36:11,964 Who told you that? 514 00:36:12,631 --> 00:36:14,341 You know who told me. 515 00:36:15,217 --> 00:36:16,760 Coretta. 516 00:36:17,886 --> 00:36:19,888 She was found murdered this morning. 517 00:36:21,014 --> 00:36:24,309 I don't know what I should do. 518 00:36:25,227 --> 00:36:26,854 Would you care to talk to me alone, 519 00:36:26,937 --> 00:36:28,981 or is this something I should call the police about? 520 00:36:29,064 --> 00:36:31,316 No, no. Ain't no reason to call the police. 521 00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:33,986 Then why don't you come over and explain yourself to me? 522 00:36:34,069 --> 00:36:36,905 I'm at the Ambassador Hotel. 523 00:36:38,115 --> 00:36:39,825 This part of the hotel is white only, 524 00:36:39,908 --> 00:36:44,496 so go to the side entrance in half an hour and Louis the bellboy will sneak you up. 525 00:37:15,611 --> 00:37:17,070 Hello, Mr. Rawlins. 526 00:37:18,155 --> 00:37:19,573 Hello, Miss Monet. 527 00:37:23,285 --> 00:37:24,787 I don't know if I should think of you 528 00:37:24,870 --> 00:37:27,456 as a friend of Coretta's or as a private dick. 529 00:37:28,123 --> 00:37:31,001 Well, I ain't no detective. 530 00:37:32,377 --> 00:37:35,881 No, I was just hired by a fella that, uh, works for Todd Carter. 531 00:37:39,009 --> 00:37:41,678 You know, I had to pay Coretta not to tell you where I was. 532 00:37:41,762 --> 00:37:43,764 Oh, she got you too. 533 00:37:46,433 --> 00:37:50,938 Yeah. Yeah, well, she definitely gave me the wrong address. 534 00:37:51,814 --> 00:37:53,774 Where did she say I was? 535 00:37:53,857 --> 00:37:57,027 Said you was out in Watts, over to the Skyler Arms Apartments 536 00:37:57,110 --> 00:37:58,487 with a fella named Frank Green. 537 00:37:58,570 --> 00:38:02,407 Mm-hmm. What else did she tell you about me? 538 00:38:03,283 --> 00:38:05,160 I don't know. What else is there to tell? 539 00:38:05,244 --> 00:38:07,079 Nothing. 540 00:38:07,162 --> 00:38:09,498 I make no apology for my feelings for Frank. 541 00:38:09,581 --> 00:38:11,750 He's very dear to me, and that's that. 542 00:38:11,834 --> 00:38:14,503 -Bourbon? -Please. Straight up. 543 00:38:16,713 --> 00:38:18,507 So how well did you know Coretta? 544 00:38:19,550 --> 00:38:21,260 She was a very close friend. 545 00:38:22,177 --> 00:38:24,012 So maybe you know why she got killed? 546 00:38:27,933 --> 00:38:29,226 Why would I know that? 547 00:38:30,435 --> 00:38:33,230 You said she was a very close friend. She knew about you and Frank. 548 00:38:33,313 --> 00:38:35,148 Maybe somebody wanted to keep that secret. 549 00:38:37,234 --> 00:38:40,112 -Mr. Rawlins, if you're thinking — -Easy. You can call me Easy. 550 00:38:41,113 --> 00:38:43,907 Easy, if you're thinking that Frank had anything to do with Coretta's death, 551 00:38:43,991 --> 00:38:46,535 then obviously you don't know very much about him. 552 00:38:47,744 --> 00:38:51,707 Frank doesn't go around beating people up. He prefers to use a knife as his weapon. 553 00:38:52,916 --> 00:38:55,294 And what do you prefer to use as your weapon? 554 00:38:59,798 --> 00:39:02,009 Why don't you search me and find out? 555 00:39:26,700 --> 00:39:28,327 Mind if I have another drink? 556 00:39:29,870 --> 00:39:31,455 Help yourself. 557 00:39:36,501 --> 00:39:38,670 -Listen, Mr. Rawlins — -Easy. 558 00:39:38,754 --> 00:39:41,423 Easy, the real reason I called you is because 559 00:39:41,506 --> 00:39:43,342 I'd like you to drive me to Todd's house. 560 00:39:45,594 --> 00:39:46,595 Beg your pardon? 561 00:39:47,554 --> 00:39:51,224 Well, you've found me, and now I want you to take me to Todd Carter's. 562 00:39:52,142 --> 00:39:54,311 Why didn't you call Todd Carter, have him send for you? 563 00:39:55,646 --> 00:39:59,191 Well, I have to go someplace else on the way. 564 00:39:59,274 --> 00:40:02,277 Someplace that I don't want Todd to know about. 565 00:40:07,449 --> 00:40:11,662 There's a man named Richard McGee, and he lives up in Laurel Canyon. 566 00:40:11,745 --> 00:40:14,039 And he delivered a letter of mine to the wrong place, 567 00:40:14,122 --> 00:40:16,416 and now I need to make arrangements to get it back. 568 00:40:16,500 --> 00:40:20,921 At four o'clock in the morning? Must be a pretty important letter. 569 00:40:21,004 --> 00:40:22,547 Yes, it is. 570 00:40:23,715 --> 00:40:26,134 But I need to go there before I go to Todd's. 571 00:40:27,636 --> 00:40:28,845 I'll pay you. 572 00:40:31,556 --> 00:40:33,225 What time you talk to Coretta this morning? 573 00:40:36,103 --> 00:40:38,563 I don't know. 7:30, 8:00, I guess. 574 00:40:38,647 --> 00:40:40,315 Uh, listen, Easy, I don't — 575 00:40:42,317 --> 00:40:44,236 I don't really want to talk about Coretta just now. 576 00:40:44,319 --> 00:40:45,904 Did you go up to her house? 577 00:40:55,122 --> 00:40:56,206 No. 578 00:40:58,000 --> 00:40:59,209 She called me. 579 00:41:02,879 --> 00:41:04,256 She was in a good mood. 580 00:41:05,966 --> 00:41:07,759 She always, uh... 581 00:41:08,552 --> 00:41:11,013 Look, I-I didn't mean to upset you, Daphne. I'm... 582 00:41:11,847 --> 00:41:13,682 You understand. I... 583 00:41:13,765 --> 00:41:17,185 As far as I know, you was the last one to talk to her before she got killed. 584 00:41:17,936 --> 00:41:20,230 And I don't mean to upset you, 585 00:41:20,313 --> 00:41:23,316 but as far as I know, you were the last one with her before she got killed. 586 00:41:25,360 --> 00:41:26,987 Now where does that leave us? 587 00:41:32,075 --> 00:41:33,285 All right. 588 00:41:34,953 --> 00:41:37,205 Why don't you go and change out of that housecoat? 589 00:41:37,289 --> 00:41:39,291 I'll carry you on over there. 590 00:41:53,930 --> 00:41:55,265 Are you nervous? 591 00:41:55,348 --> 00:41:58,060 Nervous? Here I was in the middle of the night 592 00:41:58,143 --> 00:42:00,771 in a white neighborhood with a white woman in my car. 593 00:42:00,854 --> 00:42:03,523 No, I wasn't nervous. I was stupid. 594 00:42:04,816 --> 00:42:06,526 You make a left up here. 595 00:42:06,610 --> 00:42:10,447 Getting Daphne back to Todd Carter all of a sudden didn't seem so easy. 596 00:42:11,323 --> 00:42:13,408 Who was this guy Richard McGee? 597 00:42:13,492 --> 00:42:15,494 Just park behind that car. 598 00:42:22,584 --> 00:42:24,461 I see ya later, Pop. 599 00:42:24,544 --> 00:42:27,672 Sidney! Sidney! That's all I've been hearing for a week! 600 00:42:27,756 --> 00:42:31,176 Everybody's doing things for Sidney! Peg, where are ya? 601 00:42:31,259 --> 00:42:35,263 I'm in here, with Sidney. In the living room, dear. 602 00:42:35,347 --> 00:42:37,641 I've gotta get rid of that guy. 603 00:42:37,724 --> 00:42:39,476 Oh, hello, dear. 604 00:42:39,559 --> 00:42:42,604 Sit down, Riley. Sit down. Make yourself at home. 605 00:42:46,066 --> 00:42:47,651 Thanks, Moynihan. 606 00:42:47,734 --> 00:42:50,695 Oh, my, you look awful tired, dear. 607 00:42:50,779 --> 00:42:53,782 Yeah, Riley. Pick out a comfortable chair and flop. 608 00:42:54,699 --> 00:42:57,119 I already picked one out, but you're sitting in It. 609 00:43:35,615 --> 00:43:37,826 Mmm! 610 00:43:39,828 --> 00:43:42,998 Oh, my God! 611 00:43:43,081 --> 00:43:44,791 Oh, my God! 612 00:45:14,673 --> 00:45:21,179 ♪ All by myself, alone ♪ 613 00:45:23,556 --> 00:45:26,142 -Hey, who's that at the door? -It's him. 614 00:45:26,226 --> 00:45:28,979 -Oh, yeah? -You fought in Europe? 615 00:45:30,146 --> 00:45:31,481 Easy. 616 00:45:31,564 --> 00:45:33,191 What you doing in my house, man? 617 00:45:34,985 --> 00:45:36,444 What happened to your head, huh? 618 00:45:37,529 --> 00:45:39,155 What the hell are y'all doing in my house? 619 00:45:39,239 --> 00:45:41,116 Y'all ain't got no right to break into my house. 620 00:45:42,909 --> 00:45:44,911 Where you been this time of morning, Easy? 621 00:45:44,995 --> 00:45:48,373 Wh-- Hey, I went to see a girl. Why? You don't get none, Albright? 622 00:45:48,456 --> 00:45:50,208 I didn't come here to play, nigger. 623 00:45:51,584 --> 00:45:52,585 Okay? 624 00:45:54,671 --> 00:45:56,298 That's my money you got in your pocket. 625 00:45:56,965 --> 00:45:59,676 We've been by that address you gave me on Frank Green. 626 00:45:59,759 --> 00:46:03,096 Turns out he moved from there a year ago. 627 00:46:03,763 --> 00:46:06,599 So what do you want me to do? You don't like the way I'm doing my job? 628 00:46:06,683 --> 00:46:08,268 I'll give your money — 629 00:46:08,351 --> 00:46:10,437 Believe in God, Easy, huh? 630 00:46:10,520 --> 00:46:13,815 I'm curious to see if pain is any different for a religious man, huh? 631 00:46:13,898 --> 00:46:17,068 I'm gonna show you what I do to people that say they seen things they ain't seen. 632 00:46:17,152 --> 00:46:18,570 -I seen her. -Where? 633 00:46:20,238 --> 00:46:21,906 -She — -Come on. 634 00:46:23,491 --> 00:46:26,536 She called me. She had me carry her up to the Hollywood Hills. 635 00:46:27,370 --> 00:46:29,372 -Where is she now? -She — She took off. 636 00:46:29,456 --> 00:46:30,957 Bullshit. Where is she now? 637 00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:33,209 She took off. 638 00:46:34,127 --> 00:46:36,963 There was a dead man up there. While I was looking at it, she took off. 639 00:46:45,347 --> 00:46:46,556 Come on in. 640 00:46:52,687 --> 00:46:53,813 Sit down. 641 00:46:56,566 --> 00:46:59,444 Okay. 642 00:46:59,527 --> 00:47:03,073 What'd she do, take his car? 643 00:47:03,156 --> 00:47:05,867 -Huh? -McGee. 644 00:47:05,950 --> 00:47:06,951 Yeah. 645 00:47:07,035 --> 00:47:10,080 If you can write, write down where you picked her up at. 646 00:47:12,207 --> 00:47:13,500 Write it down. 647 00:47:28,348 --> 00:47:33,019 This baloney gets stuck in my — my molar. 648 00:47:33,103 --> 00:47:34,729 I get that with popcorn. 649 00:47:38,024 --> 00:47:39,526 Grab me some whiskey, Easy. 650 00:47:41,027 --> 00:47:43,238 Liquor's in the cabinet. You get it your damn self. 651 00:47:48,868 --> 00:47:51,329 He's got balls. You gotta give him that. 652 00:47:52,622 --> 00:47:55,291 Shoot him. No, I'm just kidding. 653 00:48:02,715 --> 00:48:05,510 Oh. 654 00:48:05,593 --> 00:48:07,554 Easy, you're a brave man. 655 00:48:07,637 --> 00:48:09,764 I need a brave man working for me. 656 00:48:09,848 --> 00:48:13,768 You're doing a nice job too, but — Get me a whiskey, Manny. 657 00:48:15,228 --> 00:48:17,647 You gotta find Frank Green so he can lead us to her. 658 00:48:17,730 --> 00:48:19,149 No, thank you. 659 00:48:20,900 --> 00:48:23,653 Too many people getting killed around me already. 660 00:48:25,155 --> 00:48:27,699 Thanks. 661 00:48:28,450 --> 00:48:32,203 Easy, you're connectable to two murders. 662 00:48:33,788 --> 00:48:37,417 You're gonna do whatever I tell you to do. 663 00:48:39,919 --> 00:48:42,422 You find him. I will be checking in. 664 00:48:49,345 --> 00:48:52,056 That's some cheap shit. Let's go. 665 00:48:52,140 --> 00:48:53,349 Come on. 666 00:49:09,824 --> 00:49:12,118 Since Albright liked surprise parties, 667 00:49:12,202 --> 00:49:15,371 I had a friend of my own I wanted to invite. 668 00:49:15,455 --> 00:49:18,124 I placed a call to Etta Mae Alexander in Houston. 669 00:49:18,791 --> 00:49:21,920 Told her to get a message to her husband... Mouse. 670 00:49:31,804 --> 00:49:35,058 Cast your vote for Matthew Terell. 671 00:49:36,893 --> 00:49:39,354 On June 11th, 672 00:49:39,437 --> 00:49:42,148 vote for Matthew Terell! 673 00:49:43,942 --> 00:49:48,821 Cast your vote on June 11th for Matthew Terell! 674 00:50:07,173 --> 00:50:09,092 Hey. Easy. 675 00:50:10,260 --> 00:50:12,470 That girl called me last night, Joppy. 676 00:50:12,554 --> 00:50:13,972 What girl is that? 677 00:50:14,055 --> 00:50:16,182 The one your friend Albright is looking for. 678 00:50:16,266 --> 00:50:19,519 Uh-huh. That's pretty lucky. 679 00:50:19,602 --> 00:50:22,105 No, it wasn't no luck at all, Joppy. It was you. 680 00:50:22,897 --> 00:50:25,400 You and Coretta was the onliest ones that had my phone number 681 00:50:25,483 --> 00:50:27,485 and knew I was looking for the girl. 682 00:50:27,569 --> 00:50:30,280 And Coretta was too busy scamming Daphne, so it couldn't have been her. 683 00:50:30,363 --> 00:50:33,157 -No, it was you, Joppy. -Maybe she looked it in the phone book. 684 00:50:33,241 --> 00:50:35,535 I ain't in the phone book. You supposed to be my friend! 685 00:50:35,618 --> 00:50:38,371 Why in the hell didn't you tell the man where the girl was your damn self? 686 00:50:38,454 --> 00:50:40,456 What the hell you mean coming up here looking all ugly 687 00:50:40,540 --> 00:50:42,250 like you think you gonna do something? 688 00:50:42,333 --> 00:50:44,752 I think I'm gonna do something. 689 00:50:44,836 --> 00:50:48,423 Hey! Hey! Stop that shit! You — 690 00:50:48,506 --> 00:50:52,010 Boy! That's my marble! My uncle left me that after he died! 691 00:50:52,093 --> 00:50:54,679 Goddamn it, he's about to get it back too! 692 00:50:54,762 --> 00:50:56,681 -All right! Let's talk! -Let's talk! 693 00:50:56,764 --> 00:50:58,433 What you done got me into? 694 00:50:58,516 --> 00:51:01,102 She asked me to help her, ‘cause I told her Albright was looking for her. 695 00:51:01,185 --> 00:51:04,272 And I figured I could help you make a few dollars and throw Albright off the track! 696 00:51:04,355 --> 00:51:07,400 She wanted to know something about you, so I told her, give her your phone number. 697 00:51:07,483 --> 00:51:09,193 -Where's she at, Joppy? -I don't know! 698 00:51:09,277 --> 00:51:12,196 -Don't lie to me! -I am not lying to you! 699 00:51:12,280 --> 00:51:14,907 -What's she running from then? -She didn't tell me. 700 00:51:16,826 --> 00:51:20,413 Easy, look at me. I am your friend. 701 00:51:20,496 --> 00:51:24,208 Now... I didn't mean to get you in no trouble. 702 00:51:24,292 --> 00:51:28,004 I just, I mean, she — Look, y-you seen her. 703 00:51:28,087 --> 00:51:30,089 I mean, she is something else, man! 704 00:51:32,884 --> 00:51:34,594 You know what I'm saying. 705 00:51:37,263 --> 00:51:39,223 Oh, Joppy. 706 00:51:44,854 --> 00:51:45,980 What? 707 00:51:52,820 --> 00:51:56,532 Like Albright said, when you're mixed up in something, 708 00:51:56,616 --> 00:51:58,826 you better be mixed up to the top. 709 00:51:59,410 --> 00:52:03,122 So that's where I was going — all the way to the top. 710 00:52:04,540 --> 00:52:08,002 Everybody was peein' on my head and telling me it was rain. 711 00:52:08,795 --> 00:52:12,590 Guess they figured I was some new kind of fool, and maybe I was, 712 00:52:12,674 --> 00:52:15,051 cause I was ready to start fighting back. 713 00:52:15,134 --> 00:52:19,222 And I believed somehow that I could live through this bad dream I was having 714 00:52:19,305 --> 00:52:21,182 about pretty girls and gangsters 715 00:52:21,265 --> 00:52:25,353 and standing face-to-face with the richest man in town. 716 00:52:41,327 --> 00:52:42,870 May I help you? 717 00:52:42,954 --> 00:52:44,831 Uh, yes, ma'am. I'm looking for Mr. Carter. 718 00:52:44,914 --> 00:52:46,916 I'm sorry. Mr. Carter's a very busy man. 719 00:52:46,999 --> 00:52:50,002 Too busy to hear something about that little chippie of his that dumped him? 720 00:52:51,003 --> 00:52:53,965 Excuse me. Mr.... 721 00:52:54,048 --> 00:52:55,258 Rawlins. 722 00:52:56,592 --> 00:52:58,302 Why don't you come with me, sir? 723 00:53:02,849 --> 00:53:06,144 Not very smart talking about Mr. Carter's business to a secretary. 724 00:53:06,227 --> 00:53:07,562 I don't wanna hear it, man. 725 00:53:07,645 --> 00:53:10,648 Too much going on for me to give a damn about what you think is smart. 726 00:53:24,871 --> 00:53:26,581 Wait here, Mr. Rawlins. 727 00:53:32,044 --> 00:53:34,505 Mr. Carter... 728 00:53:39,343 --> 00:53:40,762 Mr. Carter will see you. 729 00:53:43,514 --> 00:53:46,142 -Mr., uh, Rawlins. -Mr. Carter. 730 00:53:47,643 --> 00:53:50,688 -You've heard from Daphne. -Yeah, last night. 731 00:53:51,689 --> 00:53:55,109 -Uh, is she still in town? -She was last night. 732 00:53:56,277 --> 00:53:58,946 And... what did she say? 733 00:53:59,030 --> 00:54:04,118 -Wh-What was she wearing? -Uh... blue dress, high heels. 734 00:54:04,202 --> 00:54:05,703 Mmm. That's her. 735 00:54:05,787 --> 00:54:07,747 I-I'm sorry. Would you like to come in? 736 00:54:07,830 --> 00:54:08,956 Please. 737 00:54:11,667 --> 00:54:13,419 -Mr. Carter — -Have a seat. 738 00:54:13,503 --> 00:54:16,005 Thank you. I just want some answers. 739 00:54:16,088 --> 00:54:18,382 -Would you like a brandy? -Thank you. 740 00:54:18,466 --> 00:54:22,637 -I wanna know what I got myself into. -Beg pardon? 741 00:54:23,721 --> 00:54:26,724 Well, I wanna know the real reason Mr. Albright hired me. 742 00:54:28,643 --> 00:54:29,894 Mr. Albright. 743 00:54:30,728 --> 00:54:32,939 Yeah, the man you hired to find Daphne. 744 00:54:34,690 --> 00:54:36,484 I think there's been a mistake here. 745 00:54:36,567 --> 00:54:39,570 l, uh... 746 00:54:39,654 --> 00:54:41,823 Who are you talking about? 747 00:54:41,906 --> 00:54:43,115 Wait a minute, you — 748 00:54:43,866 --> 00:54:46,410 You didn't — You didn't hire somebody to find your girlfriend? 749 00:54:46,494 --> 00:54:48,329 Of course not. 750 00:54:48,412 --> 00:54:49,956 As a matter of fact, until just now, 751 00:54:50,039 --> 00:54:52,250 I thought she was hundreds of miles away from here. 752 00:54:54,335 --> 00:54:56,796 -You say someone's looking for her. -Yeah. 753 00:54:58,756 --> 00:55:01,300 -Someone's looking for her. 754 00:55:01,384 --> 00:55:05,263 Look, Mr. Carter, nothing personal, but what's going on between y'all? 755 00:55:05,847 --> 00:55:06,848 Nothing. 756 00:55:08,266 --> 00:55:11,686 We were going to get married and we had a fight, 757 00:55:11,769 --> 00:55:15,398 and it is really none of your concern, Mr., uh, Rawlins. 758 00:55:15,481 --> 00:55:19,068 So someone's after her. Mr. Albright. 759 00:55:19,151 --> 00:55:22,572 And he says I'm — I'm his employer. 760 00:55:22,655 --> 00:55:25,116 You ever heard of a fellow named Richard McGee? 761 00:55:25,199 --> 00:55:26,200 Who? 762 00:55:28,870 --> 00:55:32,498 Look, I — Why would somebody be after her? 763 00:55:32,582 --> 00:55:34,917 Mr. Rawlins, do you think you can find her again? 764 00:55:35,668 --> 00:55:38,546 It's important. For her sake. 765 00:55:39,714 --> 00:55:41,591 I'm willing to pay you. 766 00:55:41,674 --> 00:55:43,593 Why'd she leave in the first place? 767 00:55:44,594 --> 00:55:46,512 It's really none of your concern, Mr. Rawlins, 768 00:55:46,596 --> 00:55:48,806 but I am willing to pay you to find her. 769 00:55:50,224 --> 00:55:51,309 Okay. 770 00:55:52,518 --> 00:55:53,686 Okay. 771 00:55:56,022 --> 00:55:59,567 -One thousand dollars. -A thousand dollars. 772 00:56:00,276 --> 00:56:02,653 Yeah. Yeah. I'll take 200 right now. 773 00:56:02,737 --> 00:56:05,489 You know what? I think you're trying to take advantage of me. 774 00:56:05,573 --> 00:56:07,074 Let me inform you of something. 775 00:56:07,158 --> 00:56:11,037 The incumbent mayor, the chief of police — close personal friends of mine. 776 00:56:11,120 --> 00:56:13,539 They eat at my house regularly, and my father's house. 777 00:56:13,623 --> 00:56:16,042 That's good, Mr. Carter. Then they can help us find her. 778 00:56:19,754 --> 00:56:20,963 No, they can't. 779 00:56:23,466 --> 00:56:25,968 I'll have Baxter write you out a check. 780 00:56:26,052 --> 00:56:29,430 -Why'd you stop running for mayor? -I'll have Baxter write you a check. 781 00:56:29,513 --> 00:56:31,557 Why is Matthew Terell looking for Daphne too? 782 00:56:31,641 --> 00:56:33,559 Baxter will write you a check. 783 00:56:34,185 --> 00:56:35,686 I'll take cash. 784 00:56:42,735 --> 00:56:44,946 Here, take it all. Just take it all. 785 00:56:50,076 --> 00:56:51,577 I'll be in touch, Mr. Carter. 786 00:57:08,094 --> 00:57:10,304 So Albright had lied to me. 787 00:57:10,388 --> 00:57:13,307 Instead of working for Carter, he was working for Matthew Terell, 788 00:57:13,391 --> 00:57:15,851 the man running for mayor against Carter. 789 00:57:15,935 --> 00:57:18,479 And, for whatever reason, they was all throwing money my way 790 00:57:18,562 --> 00:57:20,481 to find the girl in the blue dress. 791 00:57:21,273 --> 00:57:23,526 Anyway, I knew that her boyfriend, Frank Green, 792 00:57:23,609 --> 00:57:25,528 hijacked trucks hauling liquor 793 00:57:25,611 --> 00:57:29,365 and sold it at half the price to places down on Central Avenue. 794 00:57:29,448 --> 00:57:33,035 So I decided to kick up some dust right in Frank's backyard. 795 00:57:38,916 --> 00:57:41,752 -Good evening, Smokey. -Good evening, Miss Ramona. Please. 796 00:57:41,836 --> 00:57:43,462 -Your seat. -Thanks. 797 00:57:45,131 --> 00:57:48,467 -Now, Mr. Rawlins. What were you saying? -Frank Green. 798 00:57:48,551 --> 00:57:50,219 -Who? -I'm looking for Frank Green. 799 00:57:50,302 --> 00:57:53,097 -I don't know any Frank Green. -Come on. Why you treating me like this? 800 00:57:53,180 --> 00:57:55,683 -I don't know any Frank Green! -You don't know Frank. 801 00:57:55,766 --> 00:57:57,601 You know me, though, don't you? 802 00:58:06,110 --> 00:58:10,364 You know, I'm talking to my man. He told me to talk to you. Frank Green. 803 00:58:10,448 --> 00:58:13,284 -Who is that? -What do you mean, who is that? 804 00:58:13,367 --> 00:58:16,495 He told me to talk to you! Now, come on. 805 00:58:16,579 --> 00:58:19,749 -I don't wanna talk about that — -Well, gimme a beer. 806 00:58:19,832 --> 00:58:22,918 Can I get a beer? Can I get a beer? Can I get a beer? 807 00:58:23,002 --> 00:58:24,837 -Give him a beer. -Thank you. 808 00:58:24,920 --> 00:58:26,464 -Here you are. -Oh, no. Wait a minute. 809 00:58:26,547 --> 00:58:28,799 Frank Green told me that you'd have pints for me. 810 00:58:28,883 --> 00:58:32,053 -Who's Frank Green? I have no idea who — -You know who Frank Green is. 811 00:58:32,136 --> 00:58:34,013 -All Talk to this man. -Aw, you guys. 812 00:58:34,096 --> 00:58:36,515 Come on. Don't treat me like this. Y'all know who Frank Green is. 813 00:58:36,599 --> 00:58:39,643 -I don't know what you're talking about. -You don't know from Frank Green. 814 00:58:39,727 --> 00:58:41,729 Well, let's get him on the phone. Frank told me... 815 00:58:51,989 --> 00:58:53,240 Hey, Ezekiel. 816 00:58:53,324 --> 00:58:55,326 -No. Don't need my trees cut. -Ezekiel. They — 817 00:58:56,744 --> 00:58:57,745 Ezekiel. 818 00:58:58,412 --> 00:59:00,081 Ezekiel! Ezekiel! 819 00:59:01,373 --> 00:59:02,374 Ezekiel! 820 00:59:03,876 --> 00:59:05,711 -What? -There's a man! 821 00:59:15,221 --> 00:59:17,473 Ow! 822 00:59:18,224 --> 00:59:21,894 Damn! Frank, wait a minute! Wait! Hold it! Let's talk! 823 00:59:25,022 --> 00:59:26,232 Let's talk, Frank. 824 00:59:30,194 --> 00:59:33,322 Frank, wait a minute! Wait a minute! I got $500 for you, Frank! 825 00:59:33,405 --> 00:59:35,032 Listen. A rich white man wants to — 826 00:59:46,836 --> 00:59:49,088 Ah! 827 00:59:58,472 --> 01:00:00,015 Hey. 828 01:00:01,517 --> 01:00:03,269 Want me to shoot this son of a bitch, Easy? 829 01:00:03,352 --> 01:00:05,187 -Mouse! -Huh? Want me to shoot him? 830 01:00:05,271 --> 01:00:06,897 No. No. 831 01:00:08,858 --> 01:00:12,194 It's all right. 832 01:00:12,987 --> 01:00:14,613 What the hell is happening, man? 833 01:00:16,031 --> 01:00:18,826 -Goddamn it, I'm gonna blow your nose off! -No, wait! No, don't shoot him! 834 01:00:21,412 --> 01:00:23,038 Where's Daphne Monet, Frank? 835 01:00:24,081 --> 01:00:26,083 All right, maybe you don't know where she is, 836 01:00:26,167 --> 01:00:28,878 but, hey, we can help each other find her, man. 837 01:00:29,712 --> 01:00:31,839 -You heard him. -Mouse, no! 838 01:00:38,762 --> 01:00:40,431 -Rawlins residence. -Sit down. 839 01:00:40,514 --> 01:00:43,350 No, he's busy right now. You're gonna have to call back. 840 01:00:47,229 --> 01:00:48,731 Look. 841 01:00:49,398 --> 01:00:53,152 A rich man is willing to pay $1,000 just to talk to this girl. 842 01:00:55,154 --> 01:00:57,865 A thousand dollars! That's a hell of a lot of money, man! 843 01:00:59,992 --> 01:01:03,120 -Frank. -W-Wait a minute. Wait a minute. 844 01:01:03,204 --> 01:01:04,872 Let me try. 845 01:01:08,500 --> 01:01:11,212 -Now, look here, Fra — It's Frank, right? -Yeah. 846 01:01:11,962 --> 01:01:13,005 Frank. 847 01:01:17,384 --> 01:01:20,763 -What the hell are you — -Let go of me, man! Let go! 848 01:01:20,846 --> 01:01:22,306 -Hey, Frank! -Damn it! 849 01:01:23,891 --> 01:01:26,852 Don't you ever grab me when I got a gun in my hand! 850 01:01:28,437 --> 01:01:29,772 Shit. 851 01:01:32,274 --> 01:01:35,694 You got blood on my coat, Easy. It's a damn expensive coat! 852 01:01:39,490 --> 01:01:41,450 Where's your bathroom at, man? In there? 853 01:01:48,582 --> 01:01:49,708 Whew! 854 01:01:50,417 --> 01:01:52,920 Now we got to go find that girl so we can get that money, huh? 855 01:01:53,003 --> 01:01:55,214 Hell no! We don't have to go find nobody. 856 01:01:55,297 --> 01:01:58,592 I done changed my mind. I don't need your kind of help, Mouse. 857 01:01:58,676 --> 01:02:00,886 Boy, look at you. 858 01:02:00,970 --> 01:02:03,889 Man cut a damn smile in your neck. You don't need my kind of help? 859 01:02:03,973 --> 01:02:07,393 This the same shit you pulled five years ago when you killed old man Navrochet. 860 01:02:07,476 --> 01:02:10,479 You ain't been in my house five minutes and you done shot somebody already! 861 01:02:10,562 --> 01:02:12,064 Come on, Easy! 862 01:02:12,147 --> 01:02:14,483 -Cut me in on this thing, man. -Nah. 863 01:02:15,401 --> 01:02:17,236 Easy, I'm trying to do right. 864 01:02:17,319 --> 01:02:19,613 I'm — I mean, you know, now. 865 01:02:21,949 --> 01:02:25,369 Come on, man, I can help you. You gonna need somebody at your back. 866 01:02:27,246 --> 01:02:30,291 -I swear I'm gonna let you run the show. -Oh, you gonna let me run the show! 867 01:02:30,374 --> 01:02:32,459 I ain't gonna do nothing you don't tell me to do! 868 01:02:32,543 --> 01:02:35,170 You gonna let me run the show? 869 01:02:38,382 --> 01:02:41,802 -You gonna do everything I say? -I'm gonna do everything you say. 870 01:02:42,886 --> 01:02:45,097 -That's the wrong hand, Mouse. -Oh. 871 01:02:48,100 --> 01:02:51,562 -Boy, how you been? -Easy. 872 01:02:51,645 --> 01:02:54,857 -Who was that on the phone? -Oh, uh, I don't know, man. 873 01:02:54,940 --> 01:02:56,734 Sounded like some white girl. 874 01:03:18,922 --> 01:03:21,675 Ezekiel. Came to ask you a few more questions. 875 01:03:22,760 --> 01:03:25,429 -So why don't you invite us in? -I'll come out. 876 01:03:28,057 --> 01:03:31,810 What happened to your neck? Did I do that? I don't remember doing that. 877 01:03:32,811 --> 01:03:35,230 What do you know about a man named Richard McGee? 878 01:03:35,314 --> 01:03:37,691 A dead white man in a cabin over in Laurel Canyon. 879 01:03:38,400 --> 01:03:40,194 He just happens to have a note in his pocket 880 01:03:40,277 --> 01:03:42,321 with "Coretta James" written on it. 881 01:03:42,404 --> 01:03:44,114 You feel a little more talkative? 882 01:03:44,198 --> 01:03:47,618 ‘Cause I'll bet you six bits to a bottle of piss we're looking at a double here. 883 01:03:48,327 --> 01:03:50,537 All we gotta do is place you in the dead man's house. 884 01:03:50,621 --> 01:03:52,456 I wasn't in no dead man's house. 885 01:03:52,539 --> 01:03:55,417 We could go down to the station, send a team over here. 886 01:03:55,501 --> 01:03:59,129 Believe me, they'll find something that will place you at that dead man's house. 887 01:03:59,213 --> 01:04:01,715 Evidence has a funny way of showing up. You know? 888 01:04:01,799 --> 01:04:03,300 Nah, y'all ain't got nothing on me, 889 01:04:03,384 --> 01:04:05,219 ‘cause I ain't done nothing, and you know I ain't. 890 01:04:05,302 --> 01:04:07,221 We know you know a lot more than you're letting on. 891 01:04:07,304 --> 01:04:09,598 Tell us everything you know, or you're going down 892 01:04:09,681 --> 01:04:11,392 for the murder of Richard McGee and Coretta James. 893 01:04:11,475 --> 01:04:13,185 There's nothing to tell you. I don't know nothing. 894 01:04:13,268 --> 01:04:14,478 -Sure you do. -Come on. Let's go. 895 01:04:14,561 --> 01:04:17,314 All right, look. Just give me a little more time. 896 01:04:17,398 --> 01:04:18,982 -Forget it. -Maybe till tomorrow morning. 897 01:04:19,066 --> 01:04:21,610 Give me till tomorrow morning. Maybe I can dig something up. 898 01:04:24,029 --> 01:04:26,031 What do you think, Jack? We could do that. 899 01:04:26,115 --> 01:04:28,117 -Okay. -Take the cuffs off. 900 01:04:29,201 --> 01:04:30,828 You got till tomorrow morning. 901 01:04:34,873 --> 01:04:37,292 Have a nice evening, Ezekiel. 902 01:04:37,376 --> 01:04:40,212 I played along, Just like the cops wanted me fo. 903 01:04:41,088 --> 01:04:42,965 It was all a game to them. 904 01:04:43,048 --> 01:04:44,883 But in the morning they'd be playing for keeps, 905 01:04:44,967 --> 01:04:47,052 cause a white man was dead now. 906 01:04:47,136 --> 01:04:50,139 And guilty or not, somebody was gonna have to pay for this one. 907 01:04:55,144 --> 01:04:59,148 Hey, man. Is Dupree's sister's house off of Compton Boulevard or Compton Avenue? 908 01:04:59,231 --> 01:05:01,150 -I can't find it. -Don't worry about it. 909 01:05:01,233 --> 01:05:03,569 -We're going somewhere else first. -Oh, did that girl call? 910 01:05:04,361 --> 01:05:05,904 Easy, we fixin' to go see that girl? 911 01:05:07,197 --> 01:05:08,365 No. 912 01:05:08,449 --> 01:05:10,159 Hey. Ezekiel? 913 01:05:10,242 --> 01:05:12,411 I been watching your house and seeing all them people — 914 01:05:12,494 --> 01:05:13,620 I ain't got time right now. 915 01:05:13,704 --> 01:05:16,165 -Just leave my trees alone! All right? -You got too many trees, man. 916 01:05:16,248 --> 01:05:18,834 I'm gonna go back and knock down a couple of them for you — 917 01:05:18,917 --> 01:05:20,502 Leave my trees alone! 918 01:05:20,586 --> 01:05:23,505 You can tell me what you think when you get back. All right? 919 01:05:57,039 --> 01:05:58,999 -Who's that? -Easy. 920 01:06:03,879 --> 01:06:05,839 -What you want? -Let me in, Junior. It's private. 921 01:06:05,923 --> 01:06:08,926 I ain't got time to be fooling with you. I'm trying to get some sleep. 922 01:06:09,009 --> 01:06:12,304 You better go on open this door, Junior. Act like you got some sense. 923 01:06:12,387 --> 01:06:13,597 Mouse. 924 01:06:13,680 --> 01:06:16,099 Go on, fool. Get out the way. We ain't got all day. 925 01:06:17,184 --> 01:06:19,061 Have a seat. 926 01:06:19,144 --> 01:06:21,522 -Y'all want a beer? -Yeah, sure. Thank you. 927 01:06:22,314 --> 01:06:25,067 -What you smoking there, Junior? Zapattas? -Uh-huh. 928 01:06:31,573 --> 01:06:34,117 -This one's yours too, isn't it? -I dunno. 929 01:06:34,201 --> 01:06:37,412 -So why you kill Richard McGee? -Huh? What you talking about? 930 01:06:37,496 --> 01:06:39,623 Ain't no time to play, Junior. I know you the one killed him. 931 01:06:39,706 --> 01:06:42,167 -You crazy, man! -Sit down, Junior. 932 01:06:48,507 --> 01:06:51,051 -Tell me what happened. -I don't know what you talking about. 933 01:06:51,134 --> 01:06:53,095 The police will, when they find out the fingerprints 934 01:06:53,178 --> 01:06:55,806 -in that man's house belong to you. -What fingerprints? What house? 935 01:06:55,889 --> 01:06:59,017 Hattie had you to pull that man outta John's bar the night I was there, 936 01:06:59,101 --> 01:07:01,645 and he was laying up in his house dead with the same suit on 937 01:07:01,728 --> 01:07:03,063 and a bullet hole in his head! 938 01:07:03,146 --> 01:07:04,398 I ain't killed nobody. 939 01:07:04,481 --> 01:07:07,776 Quit lying, you big old, sweaty, thickheaded, corn bread-eatin' — 940 01:07:07,859 --> 01:07:10,237 -Thickheaded your damn self! -Sit down, Junior. 941 01:07:11,238 --> 01:07:13,824 Go on, sit down now. 942 01:07:22,583 --> 01:07:25,669 You better tell me what happened. Maybe II'll forget what I know. 943 01:07:25,752 --> 01:07:27,421 Otherwise, I'm gonna tell Mouse to shoot you. 944 01:07:27,504 --> 01:07:30,632 I don't like your ass and he don't either. You killed that man. You took his money. 945 01:07:30,716 --> 01:07:33,927 -I don't even know who you talking about. -You just had to rob him! Didn't you? 946 01:07:34,011 --> 01:07:35,846 I didn't touch nothing in that man's house! 947 01:07:35,929 --> 01:07:38,348 Goddamn, Junior. 948 01:07:40,475 --> 01:07:42,894 Mm-hmm. Sit down. 949 01:07:46,982 --> 01:07:49,109 Hattie had me take him out to his car. 950 01:07:49,192 --> 01:07:51,987 The man was so drunk he give me $10 just to drive him home. 951 01:07:52,946 --> 01:07:54,865 -I know you took that. -Hell yeah. 952 01:07:55,574 --> 01:07:58,869 Then he was asking about that white girl you was asking everybody about. 953 01:07:58,952 --> 01:08:02,289 I told him I seen her with Coretta. What the hell I care if he knows? 954 01:08:02,372 --> 01:08:04,249 So you going tell him, but you won't tell me. 955 01:08:04,333 --> 01:08:07,002 I don't like your ass, Easy. And he give me $50. 956 01:08:07,085 --> 01:08:09,671 Fifty dol — Just to tell him that you saw her with Coretta? 957 01:08:09,755 --> 01:08:11,298 No. To deliver a letter. 958 01:08:12,257 --> 01:08:14,926 I give it to Coretta to give to her the next morning. 959 01:08:17,721 --> 01:08:19,765 You better be telling the truth. 960 01:08:19,848 --> 01:08:21,683 Come on, let's go, Raymond. 961 01:08:21,767 --> 01:08:23,560 I'm telling the truth. I ain't killed nobody. 962 01:08:23,644 --> 01:08:24,811 All right, Junior. 963 01:08:24,895 --> 01:08:27,773 That man was alive when I left. I ain't kill nobody. 964 01:08:29,399 --> 01:08:31,526 The letter that was so important to Daphne 965 01:08:31,610 --> 01:08:33,862 had worked its way over to the other side of town, 966 01:08:33,945 --> 01:08:36,990 to Dupree's sisters house in Compton, I hoped. 967 01:08:37,741 --> 01:08:40,202 And Junior was innocent like I knew all along, 968 01:08:40,911 --> 01:08:44,790 but I couldn't see no harm in letting the big water-head sucker sweat a bit. 969 01:08:56,551 --> 01:08:58,095 -Hey, now. -Hey. 970 01:08:58,178 --> 01:09:01,390 -Tried to call you. -Yeah, cops just let me out today. 971 01:09:01,473 --> 01:09:04,559 Sister's gone to work, and I ain't feeling much like talking. 972 01:09:04,643 --> 01:09:06,353 -Raymond! -Yeah, big man. 973 01:09:06,436 --> 01:09:08,230 -Hey. -All right, now. 974 01:09:08,313 --> 01:09:10,607 -Them pigs' tails I smell up in there? -Oh, yeah. 975 01:09:10,691 --> 01:09:12,693 Lula Mae made some before she went to work. 976 01:09:12,776 --> 01:09:15,779 -Y'all gonna have to excuse me then. -Come on. 977 01:09:17,239 --> 01:09:18,949 -Dupree? -Yeah? 978 01:09:20,617 --> 01:09:21,910 Look, uh... 979 01:09:24,705 --> 01:09:25,914 I'm sorry. 980 01:09:28,375 --> 01:09:30,419 Thank you, Easy. 981 01:09:30,502 --> 01:09:32,379 Why somebody want to kill her like that, man? 982 01:09:32,462 --> 01:09:34,214 It don't make sense to me. 983 01:09:41,847 --> 01:09:43,056 Did Coretta... 984 01:09:44,141 --> 01:09:46,476 say anything to you about a letter she was keeping? 985 01:09:47,519 --> 01:09:50,480 A letter? What kind of letter? 986 01:09:51,356 --> 01:09:52,774 From that white girl. 987 01:09:53,442 --> 01:09:57,904 Nah. But I know it was on account of her that Coretta got killed. 988 01:09:58,530 --> 01:10:00,115 -Yeah? -Yeah. 989 01:10:01,158 --> 01:10:04,661 Everything between Daphne and Coretta was always such a damn secret. 990 01:10:05,954 --> 01:10:10,041 That old girl, she didn't think nothing about two-timing on Frank. 991 01:10:11,293 --> 01:10:14,588 -You want some more tails, Raymond? -Oh, yeah. Thanks, Dupree. 992 01:10:15,422 --> 01:10:18,300 You know she messing around with that guy running for mayor, don't you? 993 01:10:18,383 --> 01:10:20,844 -Todd Carter? -Yeah, Carter. That's his name. 994 01:10:22,137 --> 01:10:25,140 She probably introduced Coretta to one of them guys she knew. 995 01:10:25,891 --> 01:10:27,476 He probably came over to the house, 996 01:10:27,559 --> 01:10:29,644 saw that Coretta wasn't that type of woman. 997 01:10:31,938 --> 01:10:36,651 Cops say she fought him. Can you imagine that? 998 01:10:37,944 --> 01:10:39,404 My baby fought him. 999 01:10:41,907 --> 01:10:44,367 Fought him ‘cause she wouldn't have nobody but me. 1000 01:10:48,121 --> 01:10:50,540 God. I can't sleep. 1001 01:10:52,626 --> 01:10:56,963 Um, I still keep seeing her face that morning before I went to work. 1002 01:10:59,549 --> 01:11:01,134 Junior had just came by the house, 1003 01:11:01,218 --> 01:11:04,304 and she come running out, carrying her Bible. 1004 01:11:06,389 --> 01:11:10,268 She say, um, "Keep this for me, baby." 1005 01:11:13,146 --> 01:11:15,357 -Her Bible? -Yeah. 1006 01:11:16,691 --> 01:11:19,694 And the police won't even let me go near the house. 1007 01:11:22,239 --> 01:11:25,075 That's the only thing I got left that belonged to her. 1008 01:11:25,158 --> 01:11:26,201 Her Bible. 1009 01:11:28,787 --> 01:11:31,665 I know it was a sign, ‘cause she's so religious. 1010 01:11:32,916 --> 01:11:35,293 Oh, God. 1011 01:11:36,878 --> 01:11:38,713 It's all right, big man. 1012 01:11:38,797 --> 01:11:41,758 -I'm sorry. -No, no, that's all right. 1013 01:11:41,842 --> 01:11:44,135 Get you a drink, now. Go on, now, drink this. 1014 01:11:44,219 --> 01:11:47,013 -All right. All right. -That's enough, Raymond. 1015 01:11:47,764 --> 01:11:50,141 Go on. Drink that. I mean it. 1016 01:11:59,693 --> 01:12:01,570 Let us all say amen. 1017 01:12:02,529 --> 01:12:03,947 -Say it again. -Amen! 1018 01:12:04,030 --> 01:12:06,908 Say it one more time. 1019 01:12:43,570 --> 01:12:47,282 I was scared now and sick from what I saw. 1020 01:12:48,033 --> 01:12:51,244 Pictures of a much younger Matthew Terell and children. 1021 01:12:52,078 --> 01:12:56,082 Innocent, helpless, naked children. 1022 01:12:56,166 --> 01:12:58,585 -Mouse. 1023 01:12:59,210 --> 01:13:02,297 -I got it. Come on, let's go. 1024 01:13:02,380 --> 01:13:04,257 Is you crazy or is you drunk? 1025 01:13:05,967 --> 01:13:08,386 -Come on. -Am I drunk? 1026 01:13:08,470 --> 01:13:11,890 You saw me draw that gun. Ain't no man in Texas can outdraw me. 1027 01:13:11,973 --> 01:13:14,559 -Mouse, put the gun down. -No, I'm drunk. 1028 01:13:14,643 --> 01:13:16,436 I-I'm drunk. You right. 1029 01:13:18,438 --> 01:13:20,732 Gonna put that gun right there. 1030 01:13:20,815 --> 01:13:22,859 We gonna see who's drunk. 1031 01:13:24,778 --> 01:13:27,781 Now, watch it. Watch it! Goddamn it. 1032 01:13:28,823 --> 01:13:31,284 Right there now. Oh, yeah. 1033 01:13:31,368 --> 01:13:34,955 This fool gonna call me out, he ain't even got no gun. 1034 01:13:35,038 --> 01:13:39,626 -I'll kill that motherfucker. -No, uh... let him go. 1035 01:13:40,293 --> 01:13:42,921 -Hmm? -Let him live, 1036 01:13:43,004 --> 01:13:45,382 and he'll be scared of you every time you walk into a room. 1037 01:13:45,465 --> 01:13:47,467 Shit, he better be scared. Goddamn it, I'll kill him. 1038 01:13:47,550 --> 01:13:50,428 -He will. If he ain't, I'll — -You better tell him. 1039 01:13:50,512 --> 01:13:53,306 I — I will. Trust me. 1040 01:13:53,390 --> 01:13:55,308 I'll tell him. 1041 01:13:59,729 --> 01:14:02,190 -Right there, goddamn it. -No. Keep an eye on him. 1042 01:14:02,899 --> 01:14:04,985 Where you going? 1043 01:14:05,068 --> 01:14:06,569 That's right. 1044 01:14:24,879 --> 01:14:28,383 The pictures was eating at my pocket like a cigarette burn. 1045 01:14:28,466 --> 01:14:32,262 Albright had killed for those pictures, to get 'em back for Matthew Terell. 1046 01:14:32,345 --> 01:14:35,348 He had killed Richard McGee, who had sold the pictures to Daphne. 1047 01:14:36,307 --> 01:14:37,809 Time was running out. 1048 01:14:38,476 --> 01:14:40,895 But I had some unfinished business with the girl. 1049 01:14:41,646 --> 01:14:43,023 She had called that afternoon, 1050 01:14:43,106 --> 01:14:45,316 and all I needed was for her to call again. 1051 01:15:01,082 --> 01:15:02,584 Hello. Hello. 1052 01:15:03,585 --> 01:15:05,670 Hello. 1053 01:15:23,188 --> 01:15:25,273 I'm sorry. I broke into your house, and — 1054 01:15:27,776 --> 01:15:29,611 Please don't be angry with me. 1055 01:15:30,236 --> 01:15:32,113 Now, why should I be angry at you? 1056 01:15:38,411 --> 01:15:40,497 M-May I have a c-cigarette? 1057 01:15:45,668 --> 01:15:48,505 You know, Coretta's boyfriend Dupree got out of jail today. 1058 01:15:49,297 --> 01:15:51,007 And you need me to help you find him. 1059 01:15:53,802 --> 01:15:55,553 I already got the pictures, Daphne. 1060 01:16:30,839 --> 01:16:33,925 You know, I-I paid $7,000 for those pictures. They belong to me. 1061 01:16:34,008 --> 01:16:36,719 Matthew Terell might have something to say about that. 1062 01:16:38,263 --> 01:16:40,974 All right, then, I'll pay you for them. I'll give you $1,000. 1063 01:16:41,057 --> 01:16:43,601 -You gave Richard McGee seven. -Then I'll give you seven. 1064 01:16:43,685 --> 01:16:45,937 Damn, what does Terell have on you, girl? 1065 01:16:46,020 --> 01:16:48,064 Nothing. 1066 01:16:48,148 --> 01:16:49,941 -You want the money or not? -No. 1067 01:16:50,775 --> 01:16:52,527 No. I got two murders hanging over my head. 1068 01:16:52,610 --> 01:16:55,780 Unless I give the cops a killer by tomorrow morning, I'm going to jail. 1069 01:16:55,864 --> 01:16:58,074 -Now, who Killed Coretta? -I don't know. 1070 01:16:58,158 --> 01:16:59,659 It was ‘cause of them pictures she was Killed. 1071 01:16:59,742 --> 01:17:00,827 -Wasn't it? -I don't know. 1072 01:17:00,910 --> 01:17:03,788 Your boyfriend Frank Green killed her to bring you them pictures, didn't he? 1073 01:17:03,872 --> 01:17:05,957 -Of course not. -Well, you can tell it to the police. 1074 01:17:06,040 --> 01:17:07,709 ‘Cause I ain't takin' the rap. 1075 01:17:10,253 --> 01:17:12,672 Easy, put the phone down! Put the phone down! 1076 01:17:12,755 --> 01:17:16,259 -Put the phone down. Easy! -So it was Frank, wasn't it? 1077 01:17:16,342 --> 01:17:18,386 -He had nothing to do with it. -Yeah, sure he did. 1078 01:17:18,469 --> 01:17:20,513 There was more between y'all than some back-door romance. 1079 01:17:20,597 --> 01:17:22,307 He probably pimped you out to Carter in the first place! 1080 01:17:22,390 --> 01:17:23,641 We going to the police! 1081 01:17:23,725 --> 01:17:25,101 -No! No! -Come on! 1082 01:17:25,185 --> 01:17:26,519 Yeah, why don't you scream, huh? 1083 01:17:26,603 --> 01:17:28,897 So I can tell the police about your boyfriend Frank Green! 1084 01:17:28,980 --> 01:17:31,482 -Frank is my brother! -What? 1085 01:17:34,402 --> 01:17:36,738 Our mother is Creole. We have different fathers. 1086 01:17:38,531 --> 01:17:39,824 Mine is white. 1087 01:17:41,367 --> 01:17:43,369 And that's what Terell has on me. 1088 01:17:44,954 --> 01:17:47,165 And so far, I've been able to keep Frank out of this. 1089 01:17:48,082 --> 01:17:49,417 Who killed Coretta? 1090 01:17:50,710 --> 01:17:52,378 -It was an accident. -Who killed her? 1091 01:17:52,462 --> 01:17:54,464 She threatened to sell the pictures to Terell. 1092 01:17:54,547 --> 01:17:56,549 Who killed her, goddamn it? 1093 01:17:57,759 --> 01:18:00,678 I just asked Joppy to go over and put a scare into her. 1094 01:18:00,762 --> 01:18:01,804 Joppy? 1095 01:18:02,764 --> 01:18:04,390 I didn't mean to hurt anybody. 1096 01:18:04,474 --> 01:18:07,435 I didn't mean to hurt anybody. 1097 01:18:07,518 --> 01:18:09,020 But Todd and his family, you know, 1098 01:18:09,103 --> 01:18:11,147 they had to pull out of the election because of me. 1099 01:18:11,231 --> 01:18:12,815 They really wanted us to get married. 1100 01:18:12,899 --> 01:18:14,525 It was just because of the election that we — 1101 01:18:17,779 --> 01:18:19,781 I'll be a son of a bitch. 1102 01:18:19,864 --> 01:18:20,865 Get her, Shariff. 1103 01:18:25,078 --> 01:18:27,038 No! 1104 01:18:27,121 --> 01:18:28,456 Come on, get up. 1105 01:18:30,291 --> 01:18:32,627 -Where are the pictures? -I don't know what you're talking about. 1106 01:18:32,710 --> 01:18:34,629 Yeah? Take her to the car. 1107 01:18:34,712 --> 01:18:36,631 Get up! 1108 01:18:36,714 --> 01:18:40,093 Come on! Who we gonna give up to cover this shit, huh? 1109 01:19:08,454 --> 01:19:10,790 I woke up Mouse and told him to drive Dupree's car 1110 01:19:10,873 --> 01:19:12,583 to 34th and Central, 1111 01:19:12,667 --> 01:19:15,962 cause it had come to me in less time than it takes to think. 1112 01:19:16,045 --> 01:19:18,131 They were taking Daphne someplace more deserted 1113 01:19:18,214 --> 01:19:20,425 than Albright's office up in Hollywood. 1114 01:19:20,508 --> 01:19:22,927 Someplace where there would be no witnesses. 1115 01:19:23,011 --> 01:19:25,471 And I was being left alive to take the fall. 1116 01:19:42,030 --> 01:19:44,615 -Mouse, give me one of them guns you got. -What? 1117 01:19:44,699 --> 01:19:46,868 Give me one of them guns. Start up my car, keep it hot. 1118 01:19:46,951 --> 01:19:48,578 I'm coming out fast. 1119 01:20:10,975 --> 01:20:14,103 I sold that cow! 1120 01:20:17,273 --> 01:20:20,860 Come on, let's go. Let's go. Let's go! 1121 01:20:20,943 --> 01:20:22,945 -All right, all right. -Blow your face off. Let's go. 1122 01:20:23,029 --> 01:20:24,197 -Hey, man! -Sit down! 1123 01:20:24,280 --> 01:20:25,490 All right, all right. 1124 01:20:28,785 --> 01:20:30,536 -What the hell you doing? -Shut up. 1125 01:20:32,121 --> 01:20:33,539 What is this, Easy? 1126 01:20:35,625 --> 01:20:37,126 Just drive, Mouse. 1127 01:20:48,221 --> 01:20:50,932 All right, Joppy, Albright's got the girl, and he's gonna kill her. 1128 01:20:51,015 --> 01:20:53,184 Tell me where it is, and you better get it right. 1129 01:20:53,267 --> 01:20:56,729 -Easy, I don't — -Get it right, Joppy. Get it right! 1130 01:20:56,813 --> 01:20:58,940 There's a-a cabin. 1131 01:20:59,023 --> 01:21:00,900 Th-That's all I know. Th-There's a cabin. 1132 01:21:00,983 --> 01:21:03,778 -Where is it? -It's in Malibu, on Route 9. 1133 01:21:03,861 --> 01:21:07,115 -Make a right turn at the alley. -Oh, yeah. 1134 01:21:10,118 --> 01:21:12,453 You sure this where Albright's gonna be, right? 1135 01:21:12,537 --> 01:21:14,372 -l guess so. -Don't be guessing, Joppy. 1136 01:21:14,455 --> 01:21:18,126 He done done this kind of thing out there before, so I guess so. 1137 01:21:18,209 --> 01:21:21,462 Hey, Easy. What's done got into you? I thought y'all supposed to be friends. 1138 01:21:21,546 --> 01:21:23,339 He killed Dupree's girlfriend Coretta. 1139 01:21:23,423 --> 01:21:25,466 -You lying. -No. 1140 01:21:25,550 --> 01:21:27,635 -Son of a bitch! -I ain't done nothing like that! 1141 01:21:27,718 --> 01:21:30,888 -No! No! Wait a minute! 1142 01:21:31,764 --> 01:21:34,350 -Let go of my goddamn arm, Easy! -Hold on! We need him, Mouse! 1143 01:21:34,434 --> 01:21:36,310 The girl got $7,000! 1144 01:21:39,063 --> 01:21:40,940 What? 1145 01:21:41,023 --> 01:21:44,527 The girl offered to pay me $7,000 for them pictures. 1146 01:21:44,610 --> 01:21:45,820 Oh, my God. 1147 01:21:46,737 --> 01:21:49,115 Oh, my goodness. Oh, my God! 1148 01:21:49,198 --> 01:21:52,410 Oh, my God! 1149 01:22:07,675 --> 01:22:09,594 How much further is it? 1150 01:22:09,677 --> 01:22:11,262 We coming up on it. 1151 01:22:31,866 --> 01:22:34,368 Raymond, there's some rope in the trunk. Tie him up. 1152 01:22:34,452 --> 01:22:35,578 Yeah, all right. 1153 01:22:43,503 --> 01:22:45,129 Now, man, come on. 1154 01:22:45,922 --> 01:22:49,342 The girl is lying if she told you I killed that woman. 1155 01:22:50,718 --> 01:22:53,054 -Who says she told me? -I — 1156 01:22:53,137 --> 01:22:55,598 Oh, I mean — I — 1157 01:22:58,226 --> 01:22:59,936 Easy, I was gonna shoot him now, okay? 1158 01:23:00,019 --> 01:23:01,604 No, don't shoot him. 1159 01:23:02,688 --> 01:23:03,981 Don't shoot him. 1160 01:23:45,565 --> 01:23:47,358 Please... 1161 01:23:49,569 --> 01:23:53,406 Please, please, please... 1162 01:23:54,574 --> 01:23:57,577 Help me! Help me! 1163 01:23:57,660 --> 01:23:58,953 Help me! 1164 01:24:02,707 --> 01:24:04,834 Please! 1165 01:24:07,753 --> 01:24:10,047 -Please. -Shut up! 1166 01:24:16,887 --> 01:24:19,432 Now, you're gonna tell me where the pictures are, okay? 1167 01:24:19,515 --> 01:24:22,184 I don't wanna hurt you, but you are gonna tell me. 1168 01:24:22,268 --> 01:24:24,186 Where are the pictures? 1169 01:24:24,270 --> 01:24:26,439 I don't have them. Easy has them. 1170 01:24:26,522 --> 01:24:28,482 I thought you said he had nothing to do with it. 1171 01:24:28,566 --> 01:24:30,109 I was lying. 1172 01:24:32,820 --> 01:24:35,448 -Lying? -I was lying. 1173 01:24:35,531 --> 01:24:36,949 Are you a liar? 1174 01:24:38,451 --> 01:24:42,538 Huh? Huh? I know you're a liar. 1175 01:24:42,622 --> 01:24:44,790 You lyin' about being a nigger? 1176 01:24:44,874 --> 01:24:45,875 Huh? 1177 01:24:46,751 --> 01:24:48,210 So tell me the truth. 1178 01:24:49,754 --> 01:24:52,048 What part of you is nigger? Your leg a nigger? 1179 01:24:52,131 --> 01:24:55,551 Your arm a nigger? Maybe your face is a nigger. 1180 01:24:58,137 --> 01:25:01,807 What part of you is nigger, huh? Huh? 1181 01:25:01,891 --> 01:25:05,478 -You know what I'm gonna do? -I don't know. Please. 1182 01:25:05,561 --> 01:25:07,605 I'm gonna burn it out of you. 1183 01:25:07,688 --> 01:25:11,609 No! No! No! No! 1184 01:26:09,792 --> 01:26:11,752 Hey, Easy, is that you? 1185 01:26:11,836 --> 01:26:13,087 Hey, Easy! 1186 01:26:14,505 --> 01:26:15,631 Easy! 1187 01:27:25,075 --> 01:27:26,494 He gone, man. 1188 01:27:32,082 --> 01:27:33,209 Gone. 1189 01:27:43,260 --> 01:27:44,470 You all right? 1190 01:27:45,095 --> 01:27:46,555 Yeah. 1191 01:27:46,639 --> 01:27:48,224 -Can you walk? -Yeah. 1192 01:27:48,307 --> 01:27:50,059 All right, come on. Let's go. 1193 01:28:09,161 --> 01:28:10,579 Where's Joppy, Mouse? 1194 01:28:11,455 --> 01:28:12,540 Huh? 1195 01:28:13,958 --> 01:28:15,167 Where's Joppy? 1196 01:28:15,835 --> 01:28:17,253 Uh, he — he right there. 1197 01:28:29,223 --> 01:28:30,474 What happened? 1198 01:28:31,183 --> 01:28:33,185 I ain't had no time to be tying him up, Easy. 1199 01:28:34,103 --> 01:28:35,187 What? 1200 01:28:36,105 --> 01:28:37,773 Look, you just said don't shoot him, right? 1201 01:28:37,857 --> 01:28:40,860 -That's right. -Well, I didn't. I just — I-I choked him. 1202 01:28:42,319 --> 01:28:43,612 What? 1203 01:28:43,696 --> 01:28:47,199 Well, how am I gonna help you out if I'm back here fooling around with him? 1204 01:28:51,203 --> 01:28:54,623 Easy, look, if you ain't want him Killed, why'd you leave him with me? 1205 01:29:01,088 --> 01:29:02,923 Come on, we got to go, Easy. 1206 01:29:06,302 --> 01:29:08,304 Easy, come on. Let's go now. 1207 01:29:25,112 --> 01:29:26,447 All right, sweetheart. 1208 01:29:28,240 --> 01:29:31,368 Listen, Easy. If you think you gonna have trouble with that dude Frank, 1209 01:29:31,452 --> 01:29:34,371 I can just run by, kill him and take that evening train to Houston. 1210 01:29:34,455 --> 01:29:37,583 -No, Mouse. -You sure? All right, then. 1211 01:29:39,209 --> 01:29:40,419 -Hey. -All right. 1212 01:29:41,086 --> 01:29:42,379 Oh, look here. 1213 01:29:43,047 --> 01:29:45,466 I cut you in for half, ‘cause I know you was too big a fool 1214 01:29:45,549 --> 01:29:47,885 to take your share from that white girl yourself. 1215 01:29:47,968 --> 01:29:49,637 All right. Hey, man. Look. 1216 01:29:49,720 --> 01:29:52,473 If you need somebody to run them streets with you again, just give me a call. 1217 01:29:52,556 --> 01:29:54,934 ‘Cause you know how to put some money in a nigger's pocket. 1218 01:29:55,017 --> 01:29:57,186 All right. 1219 01:30:15,412 --> 01:30:18,415 No, what upset them the most was that I didn't tell them. 1220 01:30:19,416 --> 01:30:22,586 And then Terell threatened to go public about my mother, 1221 01:30:22,670 --> 01:30:24,797 and that just added insult to injury. 1222 01:30:25,756 --> 01:30:27,383 But when Todd sees the pictures, 1223 01:30:27,466 --> 01:30:30,094 there'll be nothing to stand in the way of us getting married. 1224 01:30:30,177 --> 01:30:31,553 You sure about that? 1225 01:30:31,637 --> 01:30:33,847 Of course. Terell doesn't want to go to jail. 1226 01:30:34,640 --> 01:30:37,351 I'm not talking about Terell. 1227 01:30:38,143 --> 01:30:41,146 Todd and I are very much in love, and in the end... 1228 01:30:42,439 --> 01:30:44,733 his family just wants him to be happy. 1229 01:30:49,488 --> 01:30:53,575 Daphne had gotten the money out of a locker at the YWCA. 1230 01:30:53,659 --> 01:30:56,745 It was money she had gotten from Carters family. 1231 01:30:56,829 --> 01:30:58,455 $30,000... 1232 01:30:59,373 --> 01:31:00,791 to leave town. 1233 01:31:01,709 --> 01:31:04,670 She was still convinced, though, that her Negro blood didn't matter, 1234 01:31:04,753 --> 01:31:07,256 now that Terell couldn't use it to keep the man she wanted to marry 1235 01:31:07,339 --> 01:31:09,008 out of the mayors race. 1236 01:31:10,843 --> 01:31:13,887 She was in love and couldn't see for dreaming — 1237 01:31:13,971 --> 01:31:15,973 any better than the rest of us, I guess. 1238 01:31:16,807 --> 01:31:20,436 Cause even though we had fought a war to keep the world free, 1239 01:31:20,519 --> 01:31:22,563 the color line in America worked both ways, 1240 01:31:22,646 --> 01:31:25,649 and even a rich white man like Todd Carter... 1241 01:31:26,400 --> 01:31:28,110 was afraid to cross it. 1242 01:31:28,193 --> 01:31:30,237 -Don't walk away. Don't — -Damn you! 1243 01:31:30,946 --> 01:31:32,031 Wait. 1244 01:31:34,450 --> 01:31:35,534 Wait. 1245 01:31:39,455 --> 01:31:40,539 Please! 1246 01:31:41,832 --> 01:31:43,125 Please! 1247 01:32:05,647 --> 01:32:07,858 Here's the $800 that I owe you. 1248 01:32:09,109 --> 01:32:11,111 And thank you for protecting her. 1249 01:32:13,614 --> 01:32:15,240 You have some pictures. 1250 01:32:27,669 --> 01:32:29,963 That puts you back in the race. 1251 01:32:32,758 --> 01:32:34,802 I'm gonna need you to do something for me too. 1252 01:32:37,596 --> 01:32:42,184 I know. You'll have no trouble with the police. 1253 01:32:42,267 --> 01:32:43,602 That's a promise. 1254 01:32:50,150 --> 01:32:51,360 Thank you. 1255 01:32:54,029 --> 01:32:55,322 Mr. Rawlins. 1256 01:32:58,075 --> 01:32:59,493 Just so you know... 1257 01:33:01,787 --> 01:33:03,455 I do love her. 1258 01:33:49,001 --> 01:33:51,587 You want me to walk you inside? 1259 01:34:13,442 --> 01:34:15,652 I dropped her off at her brother's apartment, 1260 01:34:15,736 --> 01:34:17,863 a fourplex on Dinker Street. 1261 01:34:18,864 --> 01:34:22,868 She had told me her story on the way home like a sinner who wanted to confess. 1262 01:34:23,619 --> 01:34:27,039 Her name was Ruby Hanks from Lake Charles, Louisiana, 1263 01:34:27,122 --> 01:34:30,417 and I suppose all she really wanted was a place to fit in. 1264 01:34:31,877 --> 01:34:34,713 A few days later my conscience got the best of me, 1265 01:34:34,796 --> 01:34:38,091 and I went by her place to bring back my half of her money. 1266 01:34:38,175 --> 01:34:40,802 I was kind of excited about seeing her again. 1267 01:34:41,845 --> 01:34:43,847 But when I got there, 1268 01:34:43,931 --> 01:34:46,058 she and her brother had picked up and gone. 1269 01:35:27,015 --> 01:35:29,226 Hey, Easy. Find a job yet? 1270 01:35:30,102 --> 01:35:32,062 I ain't startin' no job, Odell. 1271 01:35:32,145 --> 01:35:34,606 Ain't startin' no job? How you gonna live? 1272 01:35:34,690 --> 01:35:37,484 I got a little money saved up. Gonna invest in some real estate. 1273 01:35:38,277 --> 01:35:40,237 Maybe go into business for myself. 1274 01:35:40,320 --> 01:35:43,490 -What kind of business? -Little private investigating. 1275 01:35:44,616 --> 01:35:46,285 You get in trouble doing that. 1276 01:35:46,368 --> 01:35:48,453 Yeah, well, like a man told me once, 1277 01:35:49,579 --> 01:35:52,124 step out your door in the morning, you're already in trouble. 1278 01:35:52,207 --> 01:35:55,419 Just a matter of whether you're mixed up at the top of that trouble or not. 1279 01:35:55,502 --> 01:35:58,505 Yeah. I guess you're right. 1280 01:36:03,969 --> 01:36:06,388 If you got a friend that you know does bad things — 1281 01:36:06,471 --> 01:36:08,098 I mean, real bad things... 1282 01:36:08,974 --> 01:36:12,185 can you still keep him as a friend even though you know what he's like? 1283 01:36:13,979 --> 01:36:15,314 You think that's wrong? 1284 01:36:17,941 --> 01:36:19,901 All you got is your friends. 1285 01:36:20,610 --> 01:36:21,945 I will. Bye! 1286 01:36:22,029 --> 01:36:24,281 Hey! Hey! Hey! What are you doing? 1287 01:36:24,364 --> 01:36:26,116 You better get out my yard. You get on out! 1288 01:36:26,199 --> 01:36:27,909 Hey! Get on away from there! 1289 01:36:27,993 --> 01:36:30,203 You know that fool knocked down two of my trees? 1290 01:36:30,287 --> 01:36:31,872 Get on away from there! 1291 01:36:32,706 --> 01:36:33,999 You better get on! 1292 01:36:37,627 --> 01:36:40,964 -You all right? -What is he, is he crazy? 1293 01:36:42,174 --> 01:36:45,344 Always up and down on our street! 1294 01:36:45,427 --> 01:36:47,471 If he comes back, you let me know, ma'am. 1295 01:36:47,554 --> 01:36:50,182 -All right. You take care. -I'm fine. Thank you. 1296 01:36:56,229 --> 01:36:59,483 -Hey, Lou. -Hey, man, get out the street! 1297 01:36:59,566 --> 01:37:01,318 Watch it. All right. 1298 01:37:10,952 --> 01:37:13,080 Look at the camera now. 1299 01:37:15,290 --> 01:37:16,833 -More? -Yeah, please. 1300 01:37:16,917 --> 01:37:19,211 -Give me some. -Okay. 1301 01:37:27,677 --> 01:37:30,055 I thought about what Odell had said about friends, 1302 01:37:30,138 --> 01:37:31,681 and it made sense to me. 1303 01:37:32,391 --> 01:37:35,018 Odell goes to church every Sunday, so he would know. 1304 01:37:36,186 --> 01:37:38,438 Later on, he challenged me to a game of dominoes. 1305 01:37:38,522 --> 01:37:40,357 Now, what'd he go and do that for? 1306 01:37:41,149 --> 01:37:43,902 We got to talking about Texas and fooled around 1307 01:37:43,985 --> 01:37:46,905 and drunk almost a quart of whiskey. 1308 01:37:46,988 --> 01:37:51,076 And I forgot all about Daphne Monet, Dewitt Albright, Carter and them. 1309 01:37:52,077 --> 01:37:55,455 And I sat with my friend, on my porch, 1310 01:37:56,415 --> 01:37:57,833 at my house, 1311 01:37:58,875 --> 01:38:00,794 and we laughed a long time. 1312 01:40:37,867 --> 01:40:41,496 ♪ I dreamed of heaven, saw my baby there ♪ 1313 01:40:43,665 --> 01:40:47,294 ♪ I dreamed of heaven, saw my baby there ♪ 1314 01:40:49,546 --> 01:40:53,216 ♪ She had pearly white teeth And coal-black wavy hair ♪ 1315 01:40:55,802 --> 01:40:57,846 ♪ Hoy, hoy, hop ♪ 1316 01:40:58,722 --> 01:41:01,057 ♪ Now jump ♪ 1317 01:41:01,141 --> 01:41:02,475 ♪ Now jump ♪ 99461