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Itheme]
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[gunshot]
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l think you hit him.
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l'm not sure.
He moved just as l fired.
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lt'll be dark in an hour.
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l wouldn't want to tangle with a wounded
mountain lion after dark.
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lt's rugged country up there.
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Not much chance of finding him anyway.
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Well, we better back to town.
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Hello, Mike.
What are you doing out here?
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l've been watching you.
Where do you think you're going now?
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- Back to town.
- What about that cat?
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l missed him, l think.
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And you let it go at that, huh?
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lf you were a man,
you'd get up there and make sure.
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Mike, what's all the fuss?
It's only an animal?
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He's gone.
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lf l did hit him, it was only in the leg.
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Let the poor thing live.
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Live?
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Dragging a leg for the rest of its life?
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And you call letting it live?
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Keith, you joined the right clan when you
married Hugh Jamison's daughter.
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You and he are the same brand.
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Selfish and yellow, both of you.
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You leave him out of this.
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[Mike]
Why? It's right up his alley.
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The mighty hunter cripples a mountain lion.
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He'll be proud of you, Keith.
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Crippling is Jamison's specialty.
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[gunshot]
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They're all in the black.
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Silly little gun.
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l could do more damage throwing rocks.
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What's on the calendar, Lydia?
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Your accountant,
Elliott Dunbar, is due at 10:OO
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to go over ne_ months' drilling costs.
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- [phone rings]
- Yes?
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Sure, Harlow, he's right here.
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lt's Phipps over at the well.
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Yeah?
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l hired you to manage this house
and take a few notes for me.
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When l want something to lean on,
l'll buy crutches.
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We're right on top of it, Mike.
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Take a look at that color.
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Not here.
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Let's go inside.
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This is the electric log l took this morning.
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Take a look at those oscillations.
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Now, take a look at this core sample
under the microscope.
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Who needs a microscope?
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l could squeeze the oil out of this
with my bare hands.
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lt's down there, Mike, just waiting for us.
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l was never more sure of oil
in my whole life.
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Does any of the crew suspect?
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Not a chance.
l've kept it too close.
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You know your ne_ move.
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Know it?
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Mike, this is what we've both been sweating
out for seven years.
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How could l forget it?
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Okay, get rid of the crew.
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You and l can cap this well.
We'll plug her tight.
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Must be something special going on
at the well to get Mike out there.
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All l know is that he said
for you to wait, Elliot.
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A man gets tired waiting.
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Then sit down.
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You've known for three years
how l feel about you.
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ls that supposed to make a dimerence?
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Lydia, he's a cripple in more ways than one.
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Why do you stay here?
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That's none of your business.
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[vehicle approaching]
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Mike, by golly you're looking great.
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Any calls?
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What's the good word at the drilling?
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Since when is a dry hole a good word?
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Dry?
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We're shutting it down.
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Dunbar, l want the payroll checks
out to the men by tonight
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and pay om Harlow Phipps in cash.
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- In cash?
- That's right.
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l fired him.
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Mike, you fired Harlow?
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He's had it.
He's through.
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Well, can you do it?
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Yes, your books are in pretty good shape.
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Of course we'll have to make
some sort of an adjustment
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on your royalty deal with ABC Products
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for the tool rental.
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l suppose if l have to, l--
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Then what are you standing here for?
Get on with the job.
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Put in a call to Perry Mason in Los Angeles.
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l want to talk to him about some leases.
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When you were up at my ranch,
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you wouldn't believe me
when l told you how big the gophers got,
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so l brought one back to prove it.
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[Della]
Gopher, indeed.
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lt's a mountain lion,
a cougar, and beautiful.
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ls it for me?
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lf you've got a place to put it.
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Don't you worry.
l'll find one.
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Well, Perry, what about the leases?
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You say you want to sell om
a thousand acres.
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That's almost half
of what you hold, isn't it?
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l want _50 an acre.
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That's pretty cheap for leases
with proven oil-bearing land on two sides.
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Maybe there's oil there,
and maybe there isn't.
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By selling half my leases,
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l'm putting aside my bet,
taking only half the risk.
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Hedging a bet doesn't sound like you, Mike.
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So l changed.
That's my business.
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How's Hugh Jamison these days?
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[groans]
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Yes, of course, you've changed.
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But l did think that maybe in seven years
you might have forgotten.
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Oh, sure,
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forget five tons of traveling block
that knocks out half my knee.
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lt was Jamison's rig.
The cable was rotten.
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l told him so.
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l suppose you still think
that he set that fire at the well.
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Look, Mike, you really believe he set
that fire to cripple you
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and to steal that money?
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Perry, there was _100,OOO
dollars in the shack that night.
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l saw it--
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50,OOO in securities and
and 50,OOO in cash.
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What happened to it?
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Mike, stop and think.
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lf that money had been stolen,
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you might not be able to trace the cash,
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but the securities were registered,
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and in seven years not one dollar's worth
of that 50,OOO in securities--
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50,OOO...
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and you want to lease out
a thousand acres at _50 an acre.
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Perry, l've made up my mind,
and l don't want to argue.
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Will you prepare those lease transfers,
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or do l have to walk out of here
and hire myself a real lawyer?
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Any other lawyer would throw you
right out of his omice.
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All right, Mike,
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how do you want the transfers prepared?
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One block, 1 ,OOO acres.
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You know, you may have to wait
a long while
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for the right man to come along.
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The right man will come along.
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_5o,ooo?
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Harlow Phipps came to you at the bank
to borrow _50,OOO?
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l told him bank vice-presidents
have fancy titles
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but not very much authority.
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For a loan like that,
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he'd have to speak to the president,
Mr. Wilkerson.
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Of course, Wilkerson turned him down cold.
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Harlow Phipps has been
Mike Preston's right-hand man
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for better than 10 years.
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Two weeks ago,
Preston shuts down his well
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lays om the crew, and fires Phipps.
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Without a job
and without a nickel in security,
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Phipps tries to borrow _50,OOO.
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Now, l'd call that interesting.
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As a dutiful son-in-law,
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l just thought you'd like to know
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even though what happens
at the bank is confidential.
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There's nothing confidential about the fact
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that l'm so tied up
l couldn't raise 50 cents,
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let alone _50,OOO...
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or weren't you suggesting
that l might be interested in Phipp's deal,
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whatever it is?
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He's not kind who would put up a front
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without having something
pretty solid behind him.
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l thought you might have some idea
of what it was.
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- Did--
- You thought.
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lf you did, it's the first time.
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Maybe there's some hope for you.
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But if there was something,
something big,
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and if l could--
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l know things are a little rough
for you right now,
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and there might be a way of finding out
about Phipps' deal,
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that is, if you're really interested.
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l'm interested.
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Well, he's been keeping company
with a girl at the bank,
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named Paula Hamilton.
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Honolulu-- that's all l can think about.
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lt won't be long now.
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Soon as l finish my business.
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What business?
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You don't even have a job.
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Well, you have to admit, honey,
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you haven't been acting
exactly like a big spender, lately.
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Just give me a little time.
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You could get a job with Mr. Jamison,
a good job.
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Look, Paula, l don't need or want a job.
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Even if l did,
Jamison would be the last man l'd go to.
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All l need is to get
the right money lined up.
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Money, money everywhere,
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not a cent to spend
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on Paula.
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lf Paula will just keep her little shirt on,
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she'll be able to start her own bank
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and spend it all on Paula.
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l must be slipping.
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Maybe you'd rather be out
with Harlow Phipps.
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He never takes me out.
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All l get from him is promises,
Iots of promises,
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just like you.
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ls your wife back in town yet?
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She'll be in San Francisco another week.
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Paula, about Phipps' promises...
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Arnie, what's he trying to get backing for?
Do you know?
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He hasn't confided in you?
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He just said he needed to get
the right money lined up.
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What else did he say--
about the deal, l mean?
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Nothing.
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The way he acts,
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you'd think
he's afraid someone might move in on it.
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Even you?
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Don't be silly.
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l'm the kind that gets invited.
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You know, Dave, nobody kids me
about the oil business.
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l'm telling you,
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there's been more dough thrown away
on it than has ever been taken out.
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The only way to make it in this racket
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is to know something,
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something nobody else knows.
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All right, l'll take it from here.
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You run along home.
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Harlow.
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Well, if it isn't Mr. Jamison,
the big friend of the little investor.
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You and your boss pack a grudge
a long time, don't you, Phipps?
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Remember, l took a beating
in that oil well deal seven years ago, too.
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_5,OOO of those securities were mine,
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every cent l had in the world.
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Jamison, l'm going to say it
right to your face.
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You're a midget.
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You think you're a big man
in the oil business?
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You ain't seen nothing yet.
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And you're going to show me,
huh, Harlow?
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You bet l am.
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l'm going to be bigger
than you and Mike put together.
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You're going to try your wings
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now that Mike has pushed you
out of the nest.
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- Is that it?
- l've got news for you.
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Mike didn't push.
l did.
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l think you're talking through your whiskey.
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Yeah?
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That ain't whiskey,
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and l was cold sober when l pulled it out,
right under his nose.
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Anybody can carry
around a bottle full of sand and solvent.
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That's right, Mr. Jamison.
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Let's have a drink, Harlow.
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Another drink for Mr. Phipps,
and l'll have a scotch and water.
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Are you trying to tell me
that you fooled Mike Preston
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into plugging a well,
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just feet short of blowing in a gusher?
252
00:14:06,166 --> 00:14:08,337
Sure, sure, why not?
253
00:14:08,402 --> 00:14:09,504
Switch your reports,
254
00:14:09,570 --> 00:14:11,407
the electric log-- the real one--
255
00:14:11,472 --> 00:14:12,774
and the sand.
256
00:14:12,841 --> 00:14:15,713
Got 'em all back in my room.
257
00:14:15,777 --> 00:14:17,312
How did you keep it from the crew?
258
00:14:17,379 --> 00:14:20,585
Those roughnecks are easy to hire and fire.
259
00:14:20,649 --> 00:14:22,219
A thousand acres,
260
00:14:22,284 --> 00:14:24,856
half of it ne_ to proven ground.
261
00:14:24,920 --> 00:14:27,759
l can get it for 50 an acre.
262
00:14:29,525 --> 00:14:31,128
You're bluming, Phipps.
263
00:14:31,194 --> 00:14:32,797
l've checked on you.
264
00:14:32,863 --> 00:14:35,602
You've been up and down that coast
for weeks trying to raise money.
265
00:14:35,666 --> 00:14:38,438
You're afraid to show your hand
for fear Mike will find out.
266
00:14:38,502 --> 00:14:42,243
You don't stand a chance
at raising that kind of money,
267
00:14:42,306 --> 00:14:45,680
but maybe l can.
268
00:14:45,744 --> 00:14:47,046
Now, what do you say?
269
00:14:49,347 --> 00:14:52,954
Give me _5,OOO cash for expenses,
270
00:14:53,018 --> 00:14:54,320
and it's a deal.
271
00:14:54,386 --> 00:14:56,591
Not quite.
272
00:14:56,656 --> 00:14:59,094
lt's still a pig in a poke.
273
00:14:59,158 --> 00:15:00,961
l want to see the hole.
274
00:15:02,763 --> 00:15:05,167
You're taking a big chance going out there.
275
00:15:05,231 --> 00:15:08,137
What do you call laying 50,OOO on the line?
276
00:15:09,938 --> 00:15:11,975
Every time Mike takes a step...
277
00:15:12,973 --> 00:15:15,611
it reminds him of what you did to his leg.
278
00:15:17,412 --> 00:15:19,716
He catches you up there, he'll kill you.
279
00:15:21,215 --> 00:15:24,455
Then you'd better see that he doesn't.
280
00:15:24,520 --> 00:15:26,089
l'll see you there at 9:30.
281
00:15:32,762 --> 00:15:34,799
- [phone rings]
- Yeah?
282
00:15:34,864 --> 00:15:36,400
Will you get out here right away?
283
00:15:36,466 --> 00:15:38,937
l was sure we had Jamison hooked,
but something has come up.
284
00:15:39,002 --> 00:15:40,337
Can't you tell me over the phone?
285
00:15:40,403 --> 00:15:42,039
Look, please, Mike, l--
286
00:15:42,105 --> 00:15:43,641
l don't have the time.
287
00:15:43,708 --> 00:15:45,277
Now, will you get out here, and fast?
288
00:15:45,343 --> 00:15:47,313
This whole thing is blowing up in our faces.
289
00:15:47,378 --> 00:15:49,715
Phipps, are you trying
to pull something on me,
290
00:15:49,780 --> 00:15:51,183
so help me, l'll kill you.
291
00:15:51,248 --> 00:15:52,951
- [click]
- Phipps?
292
00:15:53,017 --> 00:15:54,954
Don't hang up on me.
293
00:15:55,019 --> 00:15:56,054
Phipps.
294
00:16:03,663 --> 00:16:06,100
How long have you been standing there?
295
00:16:06,165 --> 00:16:09,070
Long enough to know
it was Harlow who called.
296
00:16:09,135 --> 00:16:11,740
- Mike, what's wrong?
- [phone rings]
297
00:16:11,805 --> 00:16:13,207
Now, you listen to me, you--
298
00:16:13,272 --> 00:16:14,842
This is Sopac Airlines.
299
00:16:14,908 --> 00:16:17,813
Your operator said that we might reach
Mr. Phipps at this number.
300
00:16:17,878 --> 00:16:18,914
Yes, sir.
301
00:16:18,980 --> 00:16:21,685
lt's regarding his reservation
to Honolulu tomorrow.
302
00:16:21,750 --> 00:16:23,753
There were no cancellations on the flight.
303
00:16:23,818 --> 00:16:25,053
Honolulu?
304
00:16:25,119 --> 00:16:26,889
Yes, sir, that's right, Honolulu.
305
00:16:30,191 --> 00:16:32,563
Well, the same to you, fellow.
306
00:16:32,628 --> 00:16:34,298
Mike?
307
00:16:45,375 --> 00:16:48,782
Mike! Hey, Mike!
308
00:17:45,508 --> 00:17:47,813
[dials]
309
00:18:01,291 --> 00:18:03,829
l was just passing through
on my way to Sacramento.
310
00:18:03,895 --> 00:18:07,402
l got here about
minutes before Mike-- Mr. Preston-- did.
311
00:18:07,465 --> 00:18:09,101
All right, Mr. Dunbar,
thank you.
312
00:18:09,167 --> 00:18:10,401
lf you think of anything else,
313
00:18:10,402 --> 00:18:12,973
you can reach me through
the Los Angeles County Sherims omice.
314
00:18:13,038 --> 00:18:15,176
Landro, Sergeant Ben Landro.
315
00:18:15,241 --> 00:18:16,343
l'll do that, Sergeant.
316
00:18:16,408 --> 00:18:17,911
That'll be all, thank you.
317
00:18:21,615 --> 00:18:24,087
All right, Mr. Preston,
you might as well tell me about it.
318
00:18:24,152 --> 00:18:26,556
You were there.
The watchman saw you.
319
00:18:28,089 --> 00:18:30,326
l went out to the well.
It was dark.
320
00:18:30,391 --> 00:18:32,495
l didn't even get out of the car.
321
00:18:32,560 --> 00:18:34,297
And l went to town to his apartment,
322
00:18:34,362 --> 00:18:37,333
but Phipps wasn't there,so l came
back here. That's all l know.
323
00:18:37,398 --> 00:18:39,001
Was he out at the well when he called you?
324
00:18:39,067 --> 00:18:41,171
How do l know where he was?
325
00:18:41,236 --> 00:18:43,673
You must've figured he was there.
You went to the well first.
326
00:18:44,706 --> 00:18:46,944
Don't push me, Landro.
327
00:18:47,010 --> 00:18:49,882
l'll push as hard as l have to.
l'm investigating a murder.
328
00:18:51,347 --> 00:18:52,982
l'll ask you once more.
329
00:18:53,050 --> 00:18:54,987
What did Phipps want to see you about?
330
00:18:57,487 --> 00:19:00,327
Mr. Preston,
where's that little 25-caliber automatic
331
00:19:00,391 --> 00:19:03,163
l understand you own and, uh, use?
332
00:19:04,261 --> 00:19:06,933
ln the glove compartment of my jeep.
333
00:19:06,998 --> 00:19:08,266
Bring it in, Wilson.
334
00:19:11,102 --> 00:19:13,240
Let's go back to the phone call from Phipps.
335
00:19:13,305 --> 00:19:14,841
There's nothing more to tell.
336
00:19:17,275 --> 00:19:19,145
Miss Reynolds, were you here
when Phipps called Mr. Preston--
337
00:19:19,212 --> 00:19:20,715
[Preston]
You leave her out of this.
338
00:19:20,780 --> 00:19:23,452
My driller's been killed, and you walk--
Your driller?
339
00:19:23,516 --> 00:19:26,188
You threw Phipps out.
Everybody knows that.
340
00:19:29,556 --> 00:19:31,559
lt's not there.
There's no gun in the car.
341
00:19:32,559 --> 00:19:33,828
[Landro]
Get your hat.
342
00:19:36,263 --> 00:19:39,068
l don't know what happened
to that stupid little gun.
343
00:19:41,536 --> 00:19:43,606
Perry, l didn't Phipps.
344
00:19:43,671 --> 00:19:44,940
Do you believe me or don't you?
345
00:19:45,007 --> 00:19:46,142
That's not the problem.
346
00:19:46,208 --> 00:19:48,446
- Hugh Jamison killed him.
- Can you prove that?
347
00:19:48,510 --> 00:19:50,413
Jamison was out at my well last night.
348
00:19:50,479 --> 00:19:52,282
He went out there
to keep an appointment with Phipps.
349
00:19:52,348 --> 00:19:53,416
Phipps told me.
350
00:19:53,482 --> 00:19:55,118
Phipps is dead.
351
00:19:56,820 --> 00:19:59,892
Now, what about this trip to Honolulu
you discovered he was going to make?
352
00:20:00,890 --> 00:20:03,228
Who knows?
Phipps is dead.
353
00:20:06,530 --> 00:20:08,400
Come in, Mr. Mason.
Sit down.
354
00:20:08,466 --> 00:20:09,501
Thank you.
355
00:20:09,567 --> 00:20:11,404
l'm sorry to hear about all this,
356
00:20:11,469 --> 00:20:13,072
but l'm not surprised.
357
00:20:13,138 --> 00:20:14,507
Mike Preston's a brawler.
358
00:20:14,572 --> 00:20:16,443
He always has been.
359
00:20:16,508 --> 00:20:19,847
When did you last see Harlow Phipps,
Mr. Jamison?
360
00:20:19,911 --> 00:20:22,016
Yesterday, early in the evening.
361
00:20:22,081 --> 00:20:23,717
We met in a restaurant, talked for a while.
362
00:20:23,783 --> 00:20:26,087
Mind telling me what you talked about?
363
00:20:27,086 --> 00:20:28,422
No.
364
00:20:28,488 --> 00:20:29,688
He wanted to borrow money
365
00:20:29,689 --> 00:20:31,994
to finance some new oil exploration.
366
00:20:32,059 --> 00:20:33,094
What l don't understand
367
00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:35,932
is why Phipps went out
to Mike's well last night.
368
00:20:36,930 --> 00:20:38,967
Yes, that is strange.
369
00:20:39,033 --> 00:20:41,772
lt's even stranger that Mike went out there.
370
00:20:41,836 --> 00:20:43,873
Not at all.
You see, Phipps called him.
371
00:20:43,938 --> 00:20:45,439
Oh, incidentally...
372
00:20:46,374 --> 00:20:48,009
do you like guns, Mr. Jamison?
373
00:20:49,245 --> 00:20:50,547
No, Mr. Mason, l don't.
374
00:20:50,612 --> 00:20:53,517
Well, thank you.
375
00:20:53,581 --> 00:20:57,121
Oh, by the way,
376
00:20:57,186 --> 00:21:00,226
did you give Phipps the money he needed
for his oil exploration?
377
00:21:01,457 --> 00:21:03,762
We didn't get that far.
378
00:21:03,827 --> 00:21:05,430
l'm afraid l haven't been much help.
379
00:21:05,495 --> 00:21:07,365
On the contrary.
380
00:21:16,808 --> 00:21:18,878
Specifically, l'd like to know
381
00:21:18,943 --> 00:21:22,050
of anyone who's tried to raise
a large amount of money recently.
382
00:21:22,114 --> 00:21:24,819
Derrick City is a small town, Mr. Mason.
383
00:21:24,883 --> 00:21:26,620
What do you mean by large?
384
00:21:26,685 --> 00:21:28,255
_50,OOO.
385
00:21:28,321 --> 00:21:32,228
l'd like to help, Mr. Mason,
but that is bank business, and--
386
00:21:32,292 --> 00:21:34,997
Can you tell me
if Harlow Phipps came in for a loan?
387
00:21:35,995 --> 00:21:37,431
Why, yes-- yes, he did,
388
00:21:37,497 --> 00:21:38,565
over a week ago.
389
00:21:38,631 --> 00:21:40,434
Did you make the loan?
390
00:21:40,500 --> 00:21:41,870
l referred him to our president
391
00:21:41,936 --> 00:21:44,173
since it involved so large a sum.
392
00:21:44,238 --> 00:21:47,478
Mr. Wilkerson turned the loan down,
insumicient security.
393
00:21:47,541 --> 00:21:51,215
l gather Mr. Jamison
wasn't as concerned about security?
394
00:21:51,279 --> 00:21:52,749
No, he was--
395
00:21:55,183 --> 00:21:56,886
You're very clever, Mr. Mason.
396
00:21:56,952 --> 00:22:00,159
You're married
to Mr. Jamison's daughter, aren't you?
397
00:22:00,223 --> 00:22:03,162
l assumed you were less secretive
398
00:22:03,226 --> 00:22:06,266
about bank business with him
than you're being now, with me.
399
00:22:06,330 --> 00:22:10,137
Mr. Mason, l don't want you to think
l was being secretive,
400
00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:12,638
but if you'll tell me how a _50,OOO loan
401
00:22:12,703 --> 00:22:14,072
ties in with this murder
402
00:22:14,138 --> 00:22:15,674
perhaps l can be more helpful.
403
00:22:16,840 --> 00:22:19,212
Mr. Keith,
404
00:22:19,277 --> 00:22:24,921
l really don't think we should ask you
to violate the confidence of your customers
405
00:22:24,983 --> 00:22:26,953
until you're under oath.
406
00:22:27,019 --> 00:22:28,889
Yes, that might be best.
407
00:22:29,922 --> 00:22:31,291
Miss Hamilton,
408
00:22:31,357 --> 00:22:33,662
l realize what a shock this must've been,
409
00:22:33,726 --> 00:22:37,366
but, if you don't mind,
there are some questions l'd like to ask you.
410
00:22:37,431 --> 00:22:39,501
When was the last time
you saw Harlow Phipps?
411
00:22:39,565 --> 00:22:41,770
When l drove him out to the well last night.
412
00:22:41,835 --> 00:22:42,937
You drove him out?
413
00:22:43,003 --> 00:22:44,238
Yes.
414
00:22:44,305 --> 00:22:45,540
l needed his car to run an errand.
415
00:22:45,605 --> 00:22:47,642
Did you go back for him later?
416
00:22:47,707 --> 00:22:48,943
No.
417
00:22:51,612 --> 00:22:53,782
He told me not to come until he called...
418
00:22:54,816 --> 00:22:56,486
but he never called.
419
00:22:59,121 --> 00:23:02,761
You know, you're a very attractive girl.
420
00:23:02,825 --> 00:23:06,766
Living here alone, l imagine you have
some means of protecting yourself.
421
00:23:06,829 --> 00:23:08,365
You mean a gun?
422
00:23:08,431 --> 00:23:10,101
Honestly, you men are all alike.
423
00:23:10,166 --> 00:23:11,736
Just because a girl is pretty and alone,
424
00:23:11,801 --> 00:23:13,437
you think she needs a gun.
425
00:23:13,503 --> 00:23:15,440
How well do you know Hugh Jamison?
426
00:23:15,505 --> 00:23:18,544
Why, only as a customer at the bank.
427
00:23:19,910 --> 00:23:23,550
Has he borrowed, or tried to borrow,
a lot of money lately?
428
00:23:23,614 --> 00:23:26,419
l don't know anything
about Mr. Jamison's business.
429
00:23:26,485 --> 00:23:29,290
Has Jamison ever had occasion
to come here to see you?
430
00:23:29,354 --> 00:23:30,590
Certainly not.
431
00:23:30,655 --> 00:23:32,992
What kind of a girl do you think l am anyway?
432
00:23:34,025 --> 00:23:35,996
You tell me, Miss Hamilton.
433
00:23:36,062 --> 00:23:39,468
l saw Jamison leave
this place just as l was arriving.
434
00:23:39,531 --> 00:23:40,867
Aside from your tendency
435
00:23:40,933 --> 00:23:43,705
to avoid telling the truth,
436
00:23:43,769 --> 00:23:47,009
l'll be anxious to find out
just what kind of a girl you are.
437
00:23:47,074 --> 00:23:48,409
So long.
438
00:24:10,566 --> 00:24:13,705
lsn't it a little late for electric logs,
Sergeant Landro?
439
00:24:13,769 --> 00:24:15,539
That's what somebody wanted us to think.
440
00:24:15,604 --> 00:24:17,140
You mean this well isn't dry?
441
00:24:17,207 --> 00:24:19,210
What did you come out here for,
Mr. Mason?
442
00:24:20,977 --> 00:24:22,914
To look in the shack over there.
443
00:24:22,979 --> 00:24:25,718
We have a court order permitting it.
444
00:24:25,782 --> 00:24:26,985
Help yourself.
445
00:24:40,533 --> 00:24:42,970
''Darling, l told you you needed this.
446
00:24:43,035 --> 00:24:44,772
''Keep it near you when l can't be.
447
00:24:44,836 --> 00:24:46,239
Love, Harlow.''
448
00:24:49,642 --> 00:24:51,779
l wonder what that was
that went with this card.
449
00:24:55,950 --> 00:24:58,154
Perry, if there is oil here,
450
00:24:58,218 --> 00:25:00,856
then Phipps
must have been trying to swindle Mike.
451
00:25:00,921 --> 00:25:03,293
That's what Sergeant Landro will believe.
452
00:25:06,227 --> 00:25:08,364
Looks like two bulls hit this China shop.
453
00:25:09,664 --> 00:25:12,870
The watchman saw
a .25 automatic beside the body.
454
00:25:12,934 --> 00:25:14,437
When he came back, it was gone,
455
00:25:14,503 --> 00:25:17,041
and Mike's gun is still missing.
456
00:25:17,106 --> 00:25:19,811
And no ejected shell case, either.
457
00:25:19,875 --> 00:25:21,378
Nope. Either they can't find it,
458
00:25:21,445 --> 00:25:24,417
or the killer was smart enough
to pick it up and get rid of it.
459
00:25:24,481 --> 00:25:26,184
lt's a tough one.
460
00:25:26,249 --> 00:25:27,250
Seems to me, though,
461
00:25:27,317 --> 00:25:29,321
that if we could find that gun,
we'll find the killer.
462
00:25:30,721 --> 00:25:33,961
Well, do l get it from you, Mike,
463
00:25:34,025 --> 00:25:37,766
or do l get it as a surprise
from the District Attorney in court?
464
00:25:39,431 --> 00:25:40,466
You remember, Perry,
465
00:25:40,532 --> 00:25:46,443
when Jamison and l were partners
in that wildcat well seven years ago?
466
00:25:46,505 --> 00:25:50,347
We were real close to oil
when the option came due-- _100,OOO.
467
00:25:50,410 --> 00:25:54,651
Jamison and l agreed
that we'd sell shares to raise the cash.
468
00:25:54,714 --> 00:25:56,851
Half of Derrick City was in on the deal.
469
00:25:56,916 --> 00:25:59,921
Perry, besides me,
Jamison was the only other person
470
00:25:59,986 --> 00:26:01,823
who knew that money
was at the well that night,
471
00:26:01,888 --> 00:26:04,560
waiting to be deposited
in the bank the ne_ morning.
472
00:26:04,625 --> 00:26:07,631
And half of that 100,OOO was in securities,
473
00:26:07,695 --> 00:26:10,233
and not one of them has shown up
in seven years.
474
00:26:10,298 --> 00:26:11,733
That's it right there.
475
00:26:11,799 --> 00:26:13,669
They've never shown up.
476
00:26:13,735 --> 00:26:15,839
lf they weren't stolen,
they'd have burned in the fire,
477
00:26:15,904 --> 00:26:17,941
and if l stole them,
they'd have burned in the fire,
478
00:26:18,006 --> 00:26:19,442
but suppose Jamison stole them.
479
00:26:19,509 --> 00:26:20,577
What then?
480
00:26:20,643 --> 00:26:22,680
He'd still have them...
481
00:26:22,744 --> 00:26:24,214
hidden.
482
00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:25,415
He'd be afraid to use them
483
00:26:25,481 --> 00:26:26,550
because they were registered.
484
00:26:26,617 --> 00:26:29,088
Jamison's in bad financial trouble.
485
00:26:29,153 --> 00:26:31,557
A thousand acres of guaranteed oil,
486
00:26:31,622 --> 00:26:33,860
rich land for peanuts, _50 an acre,
487
00:26:33,924 --> 00:26:36,396
exactly what Jamison needs to save his neck.
488
00:26:36,461 --> 00:26:39,867
Only he has no money and no credit.
489
00:26:39,930 --> 00:26:42,870
Only _50,OOO in stolen securities
490
00:26:42,934 --> 00:26:44,937
that he hasn't touched for seven years.
491
00:26:46,539 --> 00:26:47,807
You thought he'd be desperate enough
492
00:26:47,872 --> 00:26:49,609
to use those securities to buy the leases.
493
00:26:49,675 --> 00:26:52,480
All right, what then?
494
00:26:52,545 --> 00:26:55,217
l blow the whistle, have him tossed in jail.
495
00:26:55,281 --> 00:26:57,619
Then l'd give everyone who invested
their money seven years ago
496
00:26:57,684 --> 00:26:59,821
a chance to get
at least half their money back.
497
00:26:59,885 --> 00:27:02,624
lt was foolproof, Perry,
absolutely foolproof.
498
00:27:02,690 --> 00:27:04,225
Was it?
499
00:27:04,291 --> 00:27:06,429
Harlow Phipps is dead.
500
00:27:06,494 --> 00:27:08,029
Where are the securities, Mike?
501
00:27:10,164 --> 00:27:11,699
l don't know.
502
00:27:11,766 --> 00:27:12,968
Doesn't make sense.
503
00:27:13,034 --> 00:27:16,574
That's what the District Attorney
will say about your story,
504
00:27:16,638 --> 00:27:19,143
but his story will make sense.
505
00:27:19,208 --> 00:27:20,945
Phipps fooled you into capping your well.
506
00:27:21,009 --> 00:27:22,979
He planned to make
a quick killing on the leases,
507
00:27:23,045 --> 00:27:24,447
then get out of the country.
508
00:27:24,514 --> 00:27:27,720
I
You found out, confronted him at the well and you killed him.
509
00:27:28,718 --> 00:27:29,853
Do you believe that?
510
00:27:31,121 --> 00:27:35,497
Mike, where is your .25 automatic?
511
00:27:45,102 --> 00:27:46,538
Oh, thank you, Elliot.
512
00:27:46,605 --> 00:27:49,744
l don't think l could've managed without you.
513
00:27:49,807 --> 00:27:51,243
Lydia...
514
00:27:51,309 --> 00:27:52,511
[door opens]
515
00:27:52,578 --> 00:27:55,750
Evening, Miss Reynolds, Mr. Dunbar.
516
00:27:55,814 --> 00:27:57,450
Good evening, Mr. Mason.
517
00:27:57,517 --> 00:27:59,454
l'll see you tomorrow, Lydia.
518
00:27:59,519 --> 00:28:00,955
Good night.
519
00:28:02,355 --> 00:28:05,261
l thought you'd already gone
back to Los Angeles, Mr. Mason.
520
00:28:05,325 --> 00:28:09,099
No. May l talk to you for a moment?
521
00:28:09,163 --> 00:28:11,935
Sure, soon as l put these groceries away.
522
00:28:11,999 --> 00:28:14,002
That can wait.
523
00:28:14,067 --> 00:28:15,637
Would you come inside, please?
524
00:28:21,910 --> 00:28:23,112
Where did you--
525
00:28:24,179 --> 00:28:25,949
What is this, Mr. Mason?
526
00:28:26,014 --> 00:28:28,686
Perhaps Mr. Drake can help explain it.
527
00:28:28,751 --> 00:28:31,123
One of the top ballistics experts
in Los Angeles
528
00:28:31,187 --> 00:28:33,124
is a man named Harvey Beasely.
529
00:28:33,189 --> 00:28:36,396
This morning Beasely received
a phone call from a ''Mrs. Hathaway.''
530
00:28:36,459 --> 00:28:37,794
She claimed to be a writer
531
00:28:37,860 --> 00:28:39,663
and wanted to know,
for a story she was doing,
532
00:28:39,730 --> 00:28:40,832
how to run a ballistics test.
533
00:28:40,897 --> 00:28:43,669
Beasely told her
that in order to get test bullets
534
00:28:43,734 --> 00:28:45,370
to compare with the death bullets,
535
00:28:45,436 --> 00:28:48,008
sometimes the gun in question
is fired into a pillow.
536
00:28:48,072 --> 00:28:51,411
Mrs. Hathaway called Beasely again,
537
00:28:51,475 --> 00:28:52,845
asked if it would be possible
538
00:28:52,910 --> 00:28:54,513
to compare two bullets she had
539
00:28:54,580 --> 00:28:57,118
with photos of the murder bullet
540
00:28:57,182 --> 00:28:58,751
from a certain recent killing.
541
00:28:58,818 --> 00:29:00,086
Beasely said he could manage it,
542
00:29:00,152 --> 00:29:03,826
but if by some strange coincidence
the bullet should match,
543
00:29:03,889 --> 00:29:05,492
there would be a lot of explaining to do,
544
00:29:05,558 --> 00:29:07,094
and, besides, which killing was it?
545
00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:12,136
At that point, obviously frightened,
Mrs. Hathaway hung up.
546
00:29:12,198 --> 00:29:14,236
l traced both calls.
547
00:29:14,301 --> 00:29:17,073
They were toll calls
from Derrick City to Los Angeles,
548
00:29:17,137 --> 00:29:20,209
both of them from the phone in this house.
549
00:29:20,274 --> 00:29:21,409
Della?
550
00:29:27,983 --> 00:29:29,552
Now, where did you find the gun,
551
00:29:29,619 --> 00:29:31,589
in the shack beside the body?
552
00:29:31,654 --> 00:29:33,290
No, l swear l didn't.
553
00:29:33,356 --> 00:29:35,359
lt was in the glove compartment
of Mike's jeep.
554
00:29:35,424 --> 00:29:37,227
You've got to believe me, Mr. Mason.
555
00:29:37,293 --> 00:29:38,395
May l have the gun, please,
556
00:29:38,461 --> 00:29:40,131
and the two bullets you fired?
557
00:29:42,265 --> 00:29:45,405
Concealing evidence, possibly even
a charge to accessory to murder.
558
00:29:45,469 --> 00:29:47,039
You took quite a chance.
559
00:29:47,104 --> 00:29:48,272
Why?
560
00:29:49,273 --> 00:29:51,010
l love Mike Preston.
561
00:29:57,783 --> 00:29:59,252
Paul...
562
00:30:00,753 --> 00:30:04,060
do you still have that contact
inside the Sherims ballistics section?
563
00:30:04,123 --> 00:30:05,658
You want a comparison test run
on these bullets
564
00:30:05,724 --> 00:30:06,793
without Landro finding out?
565
00:30:06,860 --> 00:30:07,861
ls that possible?
566
00:30:07,928 --> 00:30:10,299
Yeah, if the bullets don't match.
567
00:30:10,362 --> 00:30:11,798
And if they do?
568
00:30:11,865 --> 00:30:15,138
You're handing Mike Preston
a one-way ticket to the gas chamber.
569
00:30:17,738 --> 00:30:19,875
[phone rings]
570
00:30:20,875 --> 00:30:22,445
Yes.
571
00:30:22,510 --> 00:30:24,480
Just a minute.
It's Paul.
572
00:30:27,615 --> 00:30:28,818
Go ahead, Paul.
573
00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:32,688
l see.
574
00:30:32,754 --> 00:30:36,695
Paul, l'll have Della wrap the gun.
575
00:30:36,759 --> 00:30:38,596
Then send it by messenger to Burger
576
00:30:38,661 --> 00:30:40,130
at the District Attorney's omice.
577
00:30:41,997 --> 00:30:43,734
Thanks. We'll see you later.
578
00:30:47,270 --> 00:30:48,771
The ballistic test--
579
00:30:48,772 --> 00:30:50,742
what did Mr. Drake say?
580
00:30:50,808 --> 00:30:52,411
The bullet that killed Harlow Phipps
581
00:30:52,476 --> 00:30:54,079
and the bullets fired from Mike's gun...
582
00:30:55,079 --> 00:30:56,414
do not match.
583
00:31:05,156 --> 00:31:06,258
He was dead.
584
00:31:06,324 --> 00:31:09,564
That .25 automatic was
on the floor beside him.
585
00:31:09,628 --> 00:31:11,398
The phone had been pulled from the wall,
586
00:31:11,464 --> 00:31:14,603
and l had to drive better than 10 miles
to call the Sherim.
587
00:31:14,667 --> 00:31:16,738
[Burger]
Now, when you returned to the shack
588
00:31:16,803 --> 00:31:18,071
to wait for the Sherim,
589
00:31:18,137 --> 00:31:20,074
was anything dimerent
than when you left the shack?
590
00:31:20,139 --> 00:31:21,475
[Watchman]
Yes, sir.
591
00:31:21,541 --> 00:31:24,280
That .25 automatic--
it was gone.
592
00:31:24,344 --> 00:31:25,446
l see.
593
00:31:25,512 --> 00:31:28,685
Now, when you drove to the well
the first time,
594
00:31:28,750 --> 00:31:30,653
before you discovered the body,
595
00:31:30,718 --> 00:31:32,788
did you see anybody leaving the area?
596
00:31:32,854 --> 00:31:36,127
Yes, sir,
l saw somebody driving om real fast.
597
00:31:36,190 --> 00:31:39,597
lt's him, sir, Mr. Preston, the defendant.
598
00:31:40,996 --> 00:31:44,303
l took the gun out of the
glove compartment of Mr. Preston's jeep
599
00:31:44,366 --> 00:31:47,205
while Sergeant Landro was questioning him.
600
00:31:47,269 --> 00:31:49,072
[Burger]
You took it? Why?
601
00:31:50,373 --> 00:31:52,176
l don't know why.
l--
602
00:31:52,242 --> 00:31:54,012
You don't know why?
603
00:31:54,077 --> 00:31:55,312
Didn't you take that gun
604
00:31:55,378 --> 00:31:58,551
because you were sure that Mr. Preston
had committed a murder with it?
605
00:31:58,616 --> 00:32:00,319
Objection.
606
00:32:00,384 --> 00:32:02,488
Not only is the State asking this witness
607
00:32:02,553 --> 00:32:04,556
to judge whether the defendant
is guilty or innocent,
608
00:32:04,622 --> 00:32:06,660
but the prosecutor
is cross-examining his own witness.
609
00:32:06,725 --> 00:32:08,060
No, your honor.
610
00:32:08,125 --> 00:32:09,661
The State is asking this witness
611
00:32:09,728 --> 00:32:12,667
only to explain her removal
of a vital piece of evidence.
612
00:32:12,731 --> 00:32:14,301
Then does the State contend
613
00:32:14,366 --> 00:32:16,971
that the gun owned by Mr. Preston
is the murder weapon?
614
00:32:17,036 --> 00:32:22,013
Gentlemen,
l'm going to sustain the objection.
615
00:32:22,076 --> 00:32:24,079
Now, do you wish to rephrase the question?
616
00:32:24,143 --> 00:32:26,080
No, Your Honor, l'll withdraw it.
617
00:32:27,448 --> 00:32:29,185
Now, Miss Reynolds,
618
00:32:29,249 --> 00:32:32,188
according to the autopsy surgeon,
619
00:32:32,252 --> 00:32:34,089
the decedent was shot through the heart
620
00:32:34,154 --> 00:32:35,857
between the hours of 10:OO and 1 1 :OO.
621
00:32:35,924 --> 00:32:39,531
Mike Preston had received the phone call
from the decedent
622
00:32:39,594 --> 00:32:41,865
in your presence at approximately 10:OO.
623
00:32:41,931 --> 00:32:44,001
During the course of this phone call,
624
00:32:44,066 --> 00:32:46,905
you testified that he accused Mr. Phipps
625
00:32:46,969 --> 00:32:48,539
of pulling something
626
00:32:48,604 --> 00:32:50,641
and also that he threatened to kill him,
627
00:32:50,706 --> 00:32:54,046
and then you testified Phipps
apparently hung up on him.
628
00:32:54,111 --> 00:32:57,384
At this point, did Mr. Preston
put down the phone
629
00:32:57,447 --> 00:32:58,549
and leave the house?
630
00:32:59,816 --> 00:33:01,553
A short time later, yes.
631
00:33:01,618 --> 00:33:03,088
Was he delayed further?
632
00:33:03,153 --> 00:33:05,357
Was there another phone call?
633
00:33:05,423 --> 00:33:07,192
Yes-- Yes, there was.
634
00:33:07,258 --> 00:33:10,932
An airline called
trying to locate Mr. Phipps.
635
00:33:10,996 --> 00:33:13,467
When l told him there had been
no cancellation on the flight
636
00:33:13,531 --> 00:33:17,373
that Mr. Phipps had requested to Honolulu,
637
00:33:17,436 --> 00:33:20,308
Mr. Preston, he became rather abusive.
638
00:33:20,372 --> 00:33:22,576
He said he'd see that Mr. Phipps
got the message,
639
00:33:22,641 --> 00:33:25,681
but then-- then he used
some stronger language,
640
00:33:25,745 --> 00:33:27,582
and he hung up on me.
641
00:33:27,647 --> 00:33:31,688
Miss Hamilton, you were close
to the decedent Harlow Phipps,
642
00:33:31,752 --> 00:33:33,989
perhaps closer than any other single person
643
00:33:34,054 --> 00:33:36,492
during the days before his passing.
644
00:33:36,557 --> 00:33:38,160
Did he ever confide in you?
645
00:33:38,225 --> 00:33:39,360
Yes, he did.
646
00:33:39,426 --> 00:33:41,263
And in these moments of confidence,
647
00:33:41,328 --> 00:33:43,298
did he ever mention
the name of the defendant?
648
00:33:44,766 --> 00:33:46,369
Objection.
649
00:33:46,434 --> 00:33:47,903
Question calls for hearsay
650
00:33:47,969 --> 00:33:50,708
and declarations made
outside the hearing of the defendant.
651
00:33:50,773 --> 00:33:52,643
Your Honor, we ask this particular question
652
00:33:52,708 --> 00:33:54,945
only to show the state of mind
of the defendant.
653
00:33:55,011 --> 00:33:59,387
l believe the question is proper
for that purpose, Mr. Mason.
654
00:34:01,084 --> 00:34:02,821
The witness will answer the question.
655
00:34:02,886 --> 00:34:07,895
Once he said,
''For 10 years l broke my back for Mike,
656
00:34:07,958 --> 00:34:09,428
and he threw me out.''
657
00:34:09,493 --> 00:34:10,494
Another time he said,
658
00:34:10,561 --> 00:34:12,699
''Just wait till my deal goes through.
659
00:34:12,764 --> 00:34:14,066
l'll fix Mike Preston.''
660
00:34:14,132 --> 00:34:15,234
Thank you, Miss Hamilton.
661
00:34:15,300 --> 00:34:16,435
That'll be all.
662
00:34:16,501 --> 00:34:17,971
Your witness.
663
00:34:20,906 --> 00:34:23,010
Miss Hamilton,
664
00:34:23,075 --> 00:34:25,814
did anyone ever try to find out from you
665
00:34:25,878 --> 00:34:27,548
what Mr. Phipps' deal was?
666
00:34:27,613 --> 00:34:30,452
Did anyone ever ask you
what Mr. Phipps was doing
667
00:34:30,516 --> 00:34:32,219
after he was fired by Mike Preston?
668
00:34:32,284 --> 00:34:33,654
Well, one night Arnie--
669
00:34:34,654 --> 00:34:35,822
[Mason]
By Arnie,
670
00:34:35,889 --> 00:34:38,494
you mean Arnold Keith,
Mr. Jamison's son-in-law?
671
00:34:39,659 --> 00:34:41,964
Was Mr. Jamison
at your apartment yesterday?
672
00:34:42,997 --> 00:34:44,333
[Paula]
Yes.
673
00:34:44,398 --> 00:34:46,401
What did you talk about?
674
00:34:46,467 --> 00:34:50,341
Well, it didn't have anything
to do with Harlow's deal.
675
00:34:50,404 --> 00:34:53,344
Mr. Jamison just asked me
not to mention his son-in-law's name.
676
00:34:53,408 --> 00:34:57,115
He didn't want his daughter
to find out about us, Arnie and me,
677
00:34:57,180 --> 00:34:58,917
but that was before l met Harlow,
678
00:34:58,982 --> 00:34:59,983
Arnie and me, l mean.
679
00:35:00,049 --> 00:35:03,656
You and Harlow Phipps
planned to be married.
680
00:35:03,720 --> 00:35:05,690
Had he ever given you any gifts?
681
00:35:05,755 --> 00:35:06,923
Well, a few little things.
682
00:35:06,991 --> 00:35:08,126
He didn't have much money.
683
00:35:08,192 --> 00:35:09,929
Was...
684
00:35:09,994 --> 00:35:12,264
one of those little things a gun?
685
00:35:12,328 --> 00:35:14,499
[Paula]
A gun? No.
686
00:35:15,933 --> 00:35:18,071
Did he ever talk about giving you a gun?
687
00:35:19,070 --> 00:35:21,542
Well, he did say
he thought l should have one.
688
00:35:21,606 --> 00:35:24,178
Did he actually buy a gun to give to you?
689
00:35:24,243 --> 00:35:25,980
He might have.
l don't know.
690
00:35:26,045 --> 00:35:29,551
Miss Hamilton, your plans with Mr. Phipps--
691
00:35:29,615 --> 00:35:31,184
did they include a trip to Honolulu?
692
00:35:31,250 --> 00:35:32,486
Yes.
693
00:35:32,551 --> 00:35:35,991
When did you find out
that he'd only made one plane reservation?
694
00:35:36,056 --> 00:35:37,691
Well, when l heard it here in court.
695
00:35:37,757 --> 00:35:40,730
Are you sure you didn't find out
the same way Miss Reynolds did?
696
00:35:40,794 --> 00:35:43,666
Are you sure the airlines
didn't call your apartment,
697
00:35:43,730 --> 00:35:45,100
asking for Mr. Phipps?
698
00:35:46,234 --> 00:35:47,536
No, they didn't.
699
00:35:47,601 --> 00:35:50,674
Are you sure you
then didn't get into Phipp's car,
700
00:35:50,738 --> 00:35:52,107
drive back out to the well
701
00:35:52,173 --> 00:35:53,809
accuse him of running out on you,
702
00:35:53,875 --> 00:35:55,946
and then shoot him with the gun
he'd gotten for you as a gift?
703
00:35:56,011 --> 00:35:57,513
No, that's not true.
704
00:35:57,578 --> 00:35:59,048
No further questions.
705
00:35:59,114 --> 00:36:00,282
You may step down.
706
00:36:06,189 --> 00:36:07,591
[Judge]
Mr. Burger?
707
00:36:12,062 --> 00:36:13,999
Your Honor, since defense counsel,
708
00:36:14,065 --> 00:36:16,569
in cross-examining many of these witnesses,
709
00:36:16,633 --> 00:36:19,105
seems to be engaging
in some sort of treasure hunt
710
00:36:19,170 --> 00:36:22,175
for a seemingly missing murder weapon,
711
00:36:22,240 --> 00:36:24,143
l thought perhaps he would like it
712
00:36:24,209 --> 00:36:27,683
if l clarified this particular question
for him once and for all.
713
00:36:30,248 --> 00:36:32,386
When the defense delivered to Mr. Burger
714
00:36:32,451 --> 00:36:34,087
the gun belonging to Mike Preston,
715
00:36:34,153 --> 00:36:36,056
we did indeed anticipate a treasure hunt...
716
00:36:37,056 --> 00:36:39,293
a hunt for a defendant
other than Mike Preston.
717
00:36:39,359 --> 00:36:41,297
However, at this point,
718
00:36:41,362 --> 00:36:44,234
it would be a pleasure to have
Mr. Burger resolve anything,
719
00:36:44,298 --> 00:36:46,201
and, in particular, the question
720
00:36:46,266 --> 00:36:49,606
of the not seemingly missing
but actually missing murder weapon.
721
00:36:49,670 --> 00:36:51,005
[Burger]
Anything to accommodate
722
00:36:51,071 --> 00:36:53,376
the distinguished defense counsel.
723
00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:55,778
l call Sergeant Ben Landro, please.
724
00:36:59,848 --> 00:37:02,587
Can you identify this bullet for us,
Sergeant?
725
00:37:02,650 --> 00:37:03,718
Yes, sir.
726
00:37:03,785 --> 00:37:06,658
lt has my mark as well
as the autopsy surgeon's.
727
00:37:06,722 --> 00:37:10,095
This is the 25-caliber automatic bullet
that killed Harlow Phipps.
728
00:37:10,159 --> 00:37:12,130
And what about this second bullet,
Sergeant?
729
00:37:14,264 --> 00:37:16,101
lt also has my mark.
730
00:37:16,166 --> 00:37:19,005
This is a 25-caliber bullet, a test bullet,
731
00:37:19,069 --> 00:37:22,476
fired form a weapon suspected
of being the murder gun.
732
00:37:22,539 --> 00:37:24,509
Did you examine both of these bullets?
733
00:37:24,574 --> 00:37:25,677
[Landro]
Yes, sir.
734
00:37:25,743 --> 00:37:27,312
The bullet that killed Harlow Phipps
735
00:37:27,378 --> 00:37:29,683
was unquestionably fired
from the gun l tested.
736
00:37:29,747 --> 00:37:31,484
And who owned this gun?
737
00:37:31,549 --> 00:37:32,851
To whom was it registered?
738
00:37:32,917 --> 00:37:35,155
lt was the gun given to us by Mr. Mason,
739
00:37:35,220 --> 00:37:37,090
the one belonging to the defendant,
740
00:37:37,156 --> 00:37:38,792
Mike Preston.
741
00:37:38,857 --> 00:37:40,159
[Burger]
Your witness, Mr. Mason.
742
00:37:44,463 --> 00:37:46,634
- [knock on door]
- Come in, Paul.
743
00:37:49,469 --> 00:37:51,472
Hi.
744
00:37:51,538 --> 00:37:52,740
Perry, we double checked,
745
00:37:52,806 --> 00:37:53,909
and there's no question about it.
746
00:37:53,974 --> 00:37:56,946
The test bullets Lydia Reynolds
supposedly fired from Mike's gun
747
00:37:57,011 --> 00:37:58,714
do not match the murder bullet.
748
00:37:58,779 --> 00:38:01,784
But the murder bullet
was fired from Mike's gun.
749
00:38:01,849 --> 00:38:03,185
Well, Lydia loves Mike.
750
00:38:03,251 --> 00:38:05,355
She could have deliberately juggled bullets.
751
00:38:06,354 --> 00:38:08,358
l wonder.
752
00:38:08,424 --> 00:38:09,626
What else did you get?
753
00:38:09,691 --> 00:38:11,461
Well, l came up with a lot of answers
754
00:38:11,526 --> 00:38:13,396
but not the foggiest idea
what they add up to.
755
00:38:13,463 --> 00:38:15,200
[chuckles]
Let's hear them.
756
00:38:15,264 --> 00:38:17,369
One-- l checked the airline.
757
00:38:17,434 --> 00:38:19,003
Phipps did buy that ticket to Honolulu,
758
00:38:19,068 --> 00:38:21,941
but with the provision
it could be rewritten for someone else.
759
00:38:22,005 --> 00:38:23,140
Good.
760
00:38:23,207 --> 00:38:27,716
Two-- on the day he was killed,
Phipps did buy a gun-- .25 automatic.
761
00:38:29,613 --> 00:38:30,848
You checked on Dunbar?
762
00:38:30,914 --> 00:38:32,684
That's number three.
763
00:38:32,749 --> 00:38:34,887
Elliot Dunbar does own
a dummy company,
764
00:38:34,953 --> 00:38:36,423
calls it ABC Products.
765
00:38:36,489 --> 00:38:38,893
However, it's nothing but a bank account.
And that's it.
766
00:38:39,891 --> 00:38:41,794
Perry, l called the phone company.
767
00:38:41,861 --> 00:38:43,664
When you pull a phone out by the wire,
768
00:38:43,729 --> 00:38:44,997
it sounds, at least on the other end,
769
00:38:45,064 --> 00:38:47,201
exactly as if someone were hanging up.
770
00:38:47,266 --> 00:38:48,502
You were right.
771
00:38:48,567 --> 00:38:51,439
That's one of his few bad habits--
always being right.
772
00:38:51,505 --> 00:38:55,947
Paul, put some men
on Dunbar's ABC Company.
773
00:38:56,009 --> 00:38:57,879
l want all the information l can get on it.
774
00:38:57,944 --> 00:39:01,117
- Will do.
- Oh, one other thing.
775
00:39:01,182 --> 00:39:03,019
l want you to get a gun for me,
776
00:39:03,084 --> 00:39:06,023
a .25 automatic exactly like Mike Preston's.
777
00:39:06,087 --> 00:39:07,490
After today's testimony,
778
00:39:07,555 --> 00:39:10,861
l should think you'd never want to set
eyes on another .25 automatic.
779
00:39:10,926 --> 00:39:14,065
Mr. Burger did so well
with one murder weapon.
780
00:39:14,129 --> 00:39:15,765
Let's see how he makes out with two.
781
00:39:16,999 --> 00:39:19,404
Phipps and l had discussed a proposition.
782
00:39:19,469 --> 00:39:21,907
He had an oil lease deal
that looked very promising,
783
00:39:21,971 --> 00:39:24,710
and if he could back it up,
l intended to go in with him.
784
00:39:24,774 --> 00:39:27,846
Did he indicate to you
that lease was held by the defendant?
785
00:39:31,148 --> 00:39:32,316
No.
786
00:39:32,383 --> 00:39:37,627
Earlier that evening you called Arnold Keith
about a possible _50,OOO loan.
787
00:39:37,688 --> 00:39:41,595
Was that loan
in connection with those particular leases?
788
00:39:41,659 --> 00:39:43,864
Those or any others.
789
00:39:43,929 --> 00:39:46,199
You have to move fast in the oil business.
790
00:39:46,265 --> 00:39:48,569
l wanted that much available just in case.
791
00:39:48,633 --> 00:39:51,940
You're a liar.
You went out to my well.
792
00:39:53,039 --> 00:39:54,609
You killed Phipps.
793
00:39:54,674 --> 00:39:56,677
You killed him because
you didn't want to share with him.
794
00:39:56,742 --> 00:39:58,445
- Mike.
- [Judge tapping pencil]
795
00:39:58,512 --> 00:40:02,186
Mr. Preston, this court
will not tolerate that sort of behavior.
796
00:40:05,686 --> 00:40:07,790
Your Honor, l insist the record show
797
00:40:07,854 --> 00:40:11,027
that the defendant made a shocking outburst
against this witness.
798
00:40:11,092 --> 00:40:13,831
l submit that this is prima facie evidence
799
00:40:13,895 --> 00:40:16,132
of the violent character of the defendant.
800
00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:23,243
Your Honor, l apologize
on behalf of my client.
801
00:40:23,305 --> 00:40:25,175
l can only omer, in e_enuation,
802
00:40:25,241 --> 00:40:28,881
the long-standing ill feeling
between these two men
803
00:40:28,945 --> 00:40:31,316
and the reason behind that ill feeling.
804
00:40:31,381 --> 00:40:33,586
l'm sure the court is aware of it.
805
00:40:33,650 --> 00:40:36,822
Mr. Mason, l am aware of that.
806
00:40:36,886 --> 00:40:38,656
lf the defendant clearly understands
807
00:40:38,722 --> 00:40:40,158
that regardless of the background,
808
00:40:40,224 --> 00:40:42,762
he keeps his emotions
under control in this court,
809
00:40:42,827 --> 00:40:43,929
we will continue.
810
00:40:43,995 --> 00:40:45,198
[Burger]
l have no further questions
811
00:40:45,263 --> 00:40:46,798
of this witness, Your Honor.
812
00:40:54,906 --> 00:40:57,311
Mr. Jamison,
813
00:40:57,377 --> 00:41:00,416
you said that the deal omered you
by Mr. Phipps looked good.
814
00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:01,850
Now, what did you mean?
815
00:41:01,914 --> 00:41:03,917
Well, he showed me a core sample.
816
00:41:03,983 --> 00:41:06,722
An electric log and geologist's reports
were also available.
817
00:41:06,786 --> 00:41:09,057
Those are common items
in the oil business,
818
00:41:09,123 --> 00:41:12,095
are they not,
easily almost picked up anywhere?
819
00:41:12,159 --> 00:41:13,829
Surely a man of your experience
820
00:41:13,894 --> 00:41:17,635
wouldn't put up _50,OOO
unless he knew the ground, now, would he?
821
00:41:17,698 --> 00:41:19,101
l knew the man.
822
00:41:19,167 --> 00:41:20,904
l knew l could trust Harlow Phipps.
823
00:41:20,969 --> 00:41:23,941
Mr. Jamison,
l must remind you that you are under oath.
824
00:41:24,005 --> 00:41:25,708
Now, did you not, in fact,
825
00:41:25,774 --> 00:41:27,377
have an appointment with Mr. Phipps
826
00:41:27,443 --> 00:41:29,748
to be shown that ground
the very night he was murdered?
827
00:41:32,948 --> 00:41:34,885
Answer the question, Mr. Jamison.
828
00:41:37,421 --> 00:41:39,124
All right, yes, l did.
829
00:41:40,824 --> 00:41:43,061
l met Phipps at Preston's well at 9:30.
830
00:41:43,126 --> 00:41:45,598
We took about 20 minutes
to look over the layout.
831
00:41:45,663 --> 00:41:49,370
lt was good, so l told him l'd put up
the money for the leases
832
00:41:49,434 --> 00:41:52,273
and advance him _5,OOO cash in the morning.
833
00:41:52,337 --> 00:41:54,107
We shook hands on it.
834
00:41:54,173 --> 00:41:57,078
l left him at 10 minutes of 10:OO
and drove back to my omice.
835
00:41:57,142 --> 00:41:59,246
Did you go back to the well that night?
836
00:41:59,311 --> 00:42:02,718
No, absolutely, positively no.
837
00:42:04,016 --> 00:42:05,452
[Mason]
Mr. Keith,
838
00:42:05,518 --> 00:42:08,457
it is my understanding
that the Jamison Tool and Supply Company
839
00:42:08,521 --> 00:42:11,861
has been in severe financial dimiculties
the past few months.
840
00:42:11,925 --> 00:42:15,232
May l ask,
in requesting this loan from the bank,
841
00:42:15,296 --> 00:42:18,301
what security did Hugh Jamison omer
842
00:42:18,365 --> 00:42:20,937
as a basis for borrowing _50,OOO?
843
00:42:21,001 --> 00:42:23,873
Security? There was no problem about that.
844
00:42:23,938 --> 00:42:26,643
He omered the bank
a first mortgage on my wife's home.
845
00:42:29,545 --> 00:42:30,713
My father gave me the house,
846
00:42:30,779 --> 00:42:33,049
free and clear
847
00:42:33,116 --> 00:42:36,121
as a wedding gift
when Arnold and l were married.
848
00:42:36,185 --> 00:42:39,190
lt's been appraised at over _100,OOO,
849
00:42:39,255 --> 00:42:41,192
and when Dad called me
and asked me if he could use the house
850
00:42:41,258 --> 00:42:43,161
as security for a loan,
851
00:42:43,227 --> 00:42:45,197
l told him of course he could.
852
00:42:46,230 --> 00:42:50,505
Mr. Dunbar, was the turnover
in crewmen on this particular well
853
00:42:50,568 --> 00:42:52,171
unusually large?
854
00:42:52,237 --> 00:42:54,774
Oh, definitely, several times over.
855
00:42:54,838 --> 00:42:58,846
ln your considerable experience
in the oil business, Mr. Dunbar
856
00:42:58,910 --> 00:43:00,813
why, would you think, Harlow Phipps,
857
00:43:00,879 --> 00:43:02,916
without the knowledge of the defendant,
858
00:43:02,981 --> 00:43:05,887
hired and fired crewmen so frequently?
859
00:43:05,951 --> 00:43:07,754
lt's quite obvious--
860
00:43:07,820 --> 00:43:09,423
to keep the real progress of the well
861
00:43:09,489 --> 00:43:11,192
a secret from Mike Preston.
862
00:43:12,492 --> 00:43:13,694
Objection.
863
00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:15,663
[Burger]
l'll withdraw the question, Your Honor.. .
864
00:43:16,830 --> 00:43:18,466
and that'll be all, Mr. Dunbar.
865
00:43:18,533 --> 00:43:19,902
Your witness.
866
00:43:22,035 --> 00:43:23,638
Mr. Dunbar
867
00:43:23,704 --> 00:43:25,775
you are the sole stockholder and owner
868
00:43:25,840 --> 00:43:28,845
of a business
called ABC Products Company?
869
00:43:30,111 --> 00:43:33,551
Why-- Why, yes.
870
00:43:33,615 --> 00:43:37,790
But isn't ABC Products
simply a dummy company set up by you
871
00:43:37,853 --> 00:43:40,391
to lease equipment to Mike Preston?
872
00:43:40,456 --> 00:43:43,996
And didn't you occasionally write checks
to ABC from Mike's account
873
00:43:44,060 --> 00:43:47,767
for equipment
that never really was purchased?
874
00:43:47,832 --> 00:43:50,069
Well, no-- no, l can explain that.
875
00:43:50,133 --> 00:43:52,906
You see, every time l went out to the well,
876
00:43:52,970 --> 00:43:54,539
l'd write any checks that were necessary.
877
00:43:54,605 --> 00:43:57,277
lncluding the ones l just spoke of.
878
00:43:57,341 --> 00:44:01,450
But what happened when you heard
the well was to be closed down?
879
00:44:01,513 --> 00:44:03,116
Were there checks outstanding?
880
00:44:03,181 --> 00:44:05,084
Were you afraid you'd written one too many
881
00:44:05,150 --> 00:44:07,120
and Mike would find out
what you'd been up to?
882
00:44:07,185 --> 00:44:08,888
No, please-- please--
883
00:44:08,954 --> 00:44:11,793
lsn't that why you came to Derrick City
884
00:44:11,858 --> 00:44:13,428
on the night of the murder,
885
00:44:13,492 --> 00:44:15,429
because you wanted to remove
any such checks
886
00:44:15,494 --> 00:44:17,932
from the safe at the oil well omice?
887
00:44:17,997 --> 00:44:20,902
Didn't you drive out and find Phipps there,
888
00:44:20,967 --> 00:44:25,076
fight with him and kill him
with the gun he'd bought for Paula Hamilton?
889
00:44:25,138 --> 00:44:27,710
No. No, l didn't kill him.
890
00:44:27,775 --> 00:44:29,612
l didn't.
891
00:44:29,677 --> 00:44:31,447
[Mason]
Then you took that gun out to the ranch,
892
00:44:31,512 --> 00:44:34,652
waited for your chance
to frame Mike Preston...
893
00:44:35,651 --> 00:44:37,086
but Mike's gun was missing.
894
00:44:37,151 --> 00:44:39,789
Your chance
didn't come until the ne_ night,
895
00:44:39,855 --> 00:44:42,828
when you helped Lydia Reynolds
bring in some groceries...
896
00:44:43,827 --> 00:44:45,797
and found a chance to get at her purse.
897
00:44:45,862 --> 00:44:49,536
Your Honor, l protest this nonsense.
898
00:44:49,599 --> 00:44:51,602
We have the murder weapon.
899
00:44:51,668 --> 00:44:55,175
ls Mr. Mason contending
that there are two murder weapons?
900
00:44:55,238 --> 00:44:57,443
Exactly.
901
00:44:57,508 --> 00:45:00,180
Your Honor
l realize this is highly' irregular,
902
00:45:00,244 --> 00:45:03,016
but since this is
a preliminary hearing without a jury,
903
00:45:03,080 --> 00:45:05,017
l believe l can expedite matters considerably
904
00:45:05,082 --> 00:45:07,186
with the court's indulgence.
905
00:45:07,252 --> 00:45:10,926
Subject to any subsequent ruling
as to the admissibility of what you present,
906
00:45:10,989 --> 00:45:12,591
you may proceed, Mr. Mason.
907
00:45:12,658 --> 00:45:14,996
Thank you, Your Honor.
908
00:45:15,060 --> 00:45:16,830
First, as a matter of record,
909
00:45:16,896 --> 00:45:19,067
Harlow Phipps did purchase
a .25 automatic
910
00:45:19,132 --> 00:45:20,667
on the day he was murdered.
911
00:45:20,733 --> 00:45:22,470
That gun is still missing.
912
00:45:22,535 --> 00:45:23,738
Sergeant Landro?
913
00:45:27,675 --> 00:45:32,317
Sergeant, since there were
no cartridge cases found,
914
00:45:32,379 --> 00:45:34,484
you identified this as the murder weapon
915
00:45:34,549 --> 00:45:38,156
solely because of the marks
Ieft on the bullet by the barrel of this gun.
916
00:45:38,219 --> 00:45:39,487
ls that correct?
917
00:45:39,554 --> 00:45:41,057
That's right.
918
00:45:43,058 --> 00:45:46,097
Now, this is a new gun,
919
00:45:46,161 --> 00:45:50,336
of the same make and model
as the gun Sergeant Landro now holds.
920
00:45:50,399 --> 00:45:52,971
lt was purchased this morning.
921
00:45:53,035 --> 00:45:54,505
Watch carefully, would you, please?
922
00:45:59,242 --> 00:46:01,579
Sergeant, would you please remove
the barrel of that gun?
923
00:46:16,261 --> 00:46:18,465
Now, exchange it with this barrel,
would you, please?
924
00:46:27,107 --> 00:46:31,148
Sergeant Landro holds
the gun registered to Mike Preston,
925
00:46:31,211 --> 00:46:33,014
the murder weapon,
926
00:46:33,079 --> 00:46:37,221
but the gun you hold
has the barrel that marked the fatal bullet.
927
00:46:38,219 --> 00:46:39,789
So you, also, hold the murder weapon.
928
00:46:39,855 --> 00:46:41,625
Yes, Mr. Burger,
929
00:46:41,690 --> 00:46:43,059
two murder weapons.
930
00:46:50,265 --> 00:46:51,868
You, Mr. Dunbar
931
00:46:51,934 --> 00:46:55,908
you picked the real murder weapon up
from beside Harlow Phipps' dead body.
932
00:46:55,972 --> 00:46:57,542
You removed the barrel from it.
933
00:46:57,607 --> 00:47:00,780
Later, when you were helping Lydia Reynolds
bring groceries into the house,
934
00:47:00,844 --> 00:47:04,851
you took Mike Preston's gun
from her purse, and you switched barrels.
935
00:47:06,650 --> 00:47:11,727
lt-- It was a chance to get even
with Mike Preston,
936
00:47:11,790 --> 00:47:13,125
but please believe me.
937
00:47:13,190 --> 00:47:15,595
l didn't kill Harlow Phipps.
l didn't!
938
00:47:15,660 --> 00:47:19,267
No, Mr. Dunbar, you didn't kill him.
939
00:47:19,330 --> 00:47:21,902
The one who killed Phipps
knew every step of the deal.
940
00:47:21,967 --> 00:47:23,235
He followed Jamison out there,
941
00:47:23,302 --> 00:47:24,504
waited until Jamison left,
942
00:47:24,570 --> 00:47:26,807
then moved in like a jackal
at a feast of lions.
943
00:47:26,872 --> 00:47:28,776
He knew the deal was really good
944
00:47:28,842 --> 00:47:31,246
if Jamison was willing to mortgage
his daughter's house.
945
00:47:31,310 --> 00:47:33,248
The killer wanted that land,
946
00:47:33,313 --> 00:47:36,519
wanted it so badly he tried to buy it
with the only funds he had available--
947
00:47:36,583 --> 00:47:40,858
_50,OOO worth of securities
he'd stolen seven years ago.
948
00:47:40,922 --> 00:47:42,022
You, Mr. Keith,
949
00:47:42,023 --> 00:47:44,595
you stole that money,
and you killed Harlow Phipps.
950
00:47:47,830 --> 00:47:49,199
All right.
951
00:47:50,198 --> 00:47:53,204
Sure, l gave Phipps the stolen securities
to buy the lease.
952
00:47:55,038 --> 00:47:58,377
He thought l left, but l heard him call Mike.
953
00:47:58,440 --> 00:48:01,413
l pulled out the phone.
954
00:48:01,478 --> 00:48:04,584
He-- He was like a madman.
955
00:48:04,647 --> 00:48:08,622
l didn't know that part of those securities
were his, that he'd recognize them.
956
00:48:08,686 --> 00:48:09,921
He attacked me.
957
00:48:09,987 --> 00:48:11,757
l grabbed the gun and--
958
00:48:12,923 --> 00:48:15,461
l didn't mean to kill him.
l didn't.
959
00:48:21,165 --> 00:48:25,073
Well, Harlow got that reservation
to Honolulu for Paula as a surprise.
960
00:48:25,138 --> 00:48:28,979
l guess he planned on joining her later,
when he'd finished things up.
961
00:48:29,041 --> 00:48:30,677
And it was Keith, not Jamison,
962
00:48:30,743 --> 00:48:34,383
that started that fire seven years ago
to steal the _1 OO,OOO.
963
00:48:34,447 --> 00:48:36,785
Yes, apparently he had embezzled
money from the bank
964
00:48:36,850 --> 00:48:38,587
and used the cash to make up his shortages.
965
00:48:38,652 --> 00:48:41,457
And held on to the securities,
afraid to use them.
966
00:48:41,522 --> 00:48:44,261
Until he fell into the trap
you baited for his father-in-law.
967
00:48:48,963 --> 00:48:51,635
Well, Mike, l'm glad you're om the hook.
968
00:48:53,135 --> 00:48:55,172
And l'm sorry about Keith, Jamison.
969
00:48:56,839 --> 00:49:00,313
Well, l guess l've really suspected
my son-in-law for several years,
970
00:49:00,376 --> 00:49:04,217
but doing anything about him
would have hurt my daughter so.
971
00:49:05,849 --> 00:49:08,220
l guess it hasn't been easy
for either one of us, Mike.
972
00:49:19,797 --> 00:49:23,404
l once said, ''lf l wanted something
to lean on, l'd buy crutches.''
973
00:49:25,137 --> 00:49:27,542
lt wasn't exactly what l wanted to say.
974
00:49:29,208 --> 00:49:30,744
l know, Mike.
975
00:49:44,490 --> 00:49:47,496
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