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Thank you.

You remember people's birthdays, too? Depends on what you want for a present.

I am rehabilitated.

I have paid my debt to society in full, and now I'm retired.

Roy, there's no statute of limitations on murder.

I was nowhere near that cop. Oh, your alibi was good.

Liquor store holdup, that's an easy fall. Cost me five years.

Five years?

For a million -dollar payroll robbery, that's not a bad pension.

You know, I'm surprised at Ironside.

He knows I don't have that money. Yeah, he knows you don't. Good man. Yet.

He's waiting for you to dig it up.

He never gives up.

No.

He's going to wait till I go for the money.

For a cop killer, we'll wait forever.

Well, I can't.

Beautiful.

Thanks. Thank you.

It's Fran's birthday. How come you get the present?

You just pay attention to the road.

One gift deserves another. You get a gift on your birthday.

Yeah, me, I get an empty wallet.

With your initials. In gold.

She gets a massage, a present, and a dinner in Sausalito.

Ironside.

Yes, Sergeant.

When? All right, maintain around the clock. If you need any extra men, let me

know.

Well, Lewis finally holed up in a rooming house on Tehama Street.

Commissioner know about this takeout? Oh, come on, both of you.

You promised.

No shop talk.

Hey, what's the rush?

Yeah, that blue car.

One from Ghirardelli Square?

Yeah, pretty sure.

We intruding on anything?

Um, car's been with us all the way. You know another road to Marin County?

He's been staying right there, same position.

I thought we were taking the day off. Hold on to your illusions for another

moment.

Do you, uh, gentlemen plan to do anything about it?

Won't do any harm to make sure.

I'm gonna swing left and take the hill road.

Good thinking.

You still with it?

Right.

Why don't we just slow down and let it pass?

Good idea.

Off the line.

Too much police work.

Where'd he come from? That's some kind of wild game.

That's no game.

St. Porter's 505 Ironside on Marin County Road 18.

I don't know.

They call an ambulance.

Come on, let's get out of the car. I'll help you.

I'll be here.

Let us know as soon as you've heard from the DMV. I'd like a full report on that

car as soon as possible. We'll do our best, sir.

Tomorrow morning at the latest. Thank you. I bet it was.

Any time, sir. All right, Abe. Keep in touch.

Chief.

Ah, I see, doctor. Fine.

She was shaking up pretty well, but nothing serious.

Can we see her?

Of course.

She can be there any time she likes.

Thank you.

What did Ed have to say?

The brown car was found in a supermarket parking lot in Mill Valley.

Abandoned, of course.

No trace of the driver?

One of the box boys at the market thinks he saw him.

Ed and the local authorities are circling his description.

Miss Hampton?

We'd like to talk to you for a moment. I'm Robert Ironside. It's Fran Belding.

Mark Sandler.

I'm glad you're all right.

Thank you for helping me.

Can you tell us about it now?

Tell you what? Well, who would want to take a shot at you?

Or why?

I don't know. Did you recognize the driver?

Just a face. No one I ever saw before.

Things like this don't just happen, Miss Hampton. There must be a reason.

There's no one you can think of.

No one who would want to hurt you.

It was all so quick.

Face and then the gun.

Could it have been someone from back home?

Why? Well, we're police officers, Miss Hampton. We know you're living at the Y

that you've checked in a week ago.

Now, did something happen back home? Something that made you come to San

Francisco?

No, nothing at all.

All right.

Doctor said you can leave whenever you're ready.

Your car's been towed in for repairs.

We'll be glad to take you home.

Home? The Y.

Yes, thank you.

What if he's waiting for me there? He won't be.

If it was a mistake.

I don't know.

We'll be outside.

Bad vibes. The chick's got trouble.

She looks like it.

Why should she be any different from the rest of us?

You gonna leave it at that? Well, I'll listen.

They might come after again.

Unless it was mistaken identity.

Even so, people are known to make the same mistake twice.

Thinking of police protection?

Pardon? No, I'm thinking of something a little more personal.

It's beautiful, Mark.

Sorry it's not French pastry.

Happy birthday, Fran.

Thank you.

I guess I ruined your birthday.

I'm sorry.

Forget it.

Coffee?

Who's for coffee?

I'll give you a hand.

It's all in the line of duty, officer. No holidays, busted parties, et cetera,

et cetera, et cetera.

That doesn't bother me. Well, something does.

She does.

I've looked out on a lot of cities.

San Francisco's still the most beautiful.

When the fog comes in, it can seem like you've dreamed it all.

Well, the pigeons are real.

So free.

Some people keep them in coops, and then eat looking after.

What's bothering you?

I feel strange about being here.

You think you need looking after?

Am I a prisoner?

No, no, you're a guest. You can go anywhere you like.

Fran will go with you. Oh, my clothes are at the Y.

Then that's your first stop, isn't it?

I'm sorry.

I know you're only trying to help. Trust us.

What do you do then?

I'm very tired.

Would you excuse me, please?

Shelly.

You're with Fran.

No matter what it's from, you don't have to run.

Fine. I'll go back and meet you in the lobby, okay?

All right.

Just drive on. I'll show you where.

How was the birthday party?

Not very successful, but we got to try a different way tonight.

Neither are you, I gather, very successful.

Me? If you'd had a lead on that car, the driver, I presume you'd be following it

up.

Traced a man we think might have been the driver to the bus station, where the

ticket agent guesses he could have boarded a San Francisco bus a couple of

before we found the car.

Maybe. Nothing like solid facts.

What about the car?

Stolen. Marin County Department's checking it for prints, but I'm not

breath. Oh, one of their men dropped this off for you a few minutes ago.

It's a report on the girl's car.

That's what I call efficiency.

What's so important about a car? She's the victim.

Have you read this?

Doesn't say much.

Read it again.

For what?

For the much it doesn't say.

I lost her, all right.

She's no dummy. She smells something wrong already.

This could blow it wide open.

Well, don't sweat it, baby.

Everything's working out just fine.

You're too much, honey.

You know, I gotta hand it to you. The most I figured you for was contacts for

couple of setups at best.

But moving in on him... Well, don't count your money yet.

He's like nobody I've ever seen.

I mean, he looks at you and you can just see his head working.

Well, it's not working so good now because when he gets hit, they're going

swear it was meant for you.

Like pushing buttons, right? Nothing can go wrong.

Not unless you get stupid.

What's the matter? You scared?

What more can anybody do to me?

Don't you forget Dallas, okay? He's worried about me. Can you believe it?

he won't be when he breaks that phony name you gave him.

And then he'll break you.

So stop dreaming he's something special.

He's like everybody else you ever met. He's using you.

Only with me, the pay is better.

$5 ,000 when he goes. When is that?

Sooner than you think.

Bender's ready whenever you set him up.

In front of that lady cop's place.

In front of a window or a balcony or whatever.

I should be getting back.

Shelley.

Just remember one thing.

Ironside is in your way.

So you'll do whatever you have to do.

Won't you?

Just covering all the bases.

Sergeant, how many units do you have in the area?

Yes, where?

Where? Chief.

Forget it, Sergeant.

Miss Hampton is back with us.

What happened to you?

Yes.

Tell us what happened to you.

Obviously, you did bring your clothes.

Of course.

But when I came back down, I couldn't find you. I was waiting in the lobby.

Then I went to the desk to ring your room.

Well, I guess we miss each other.

I went outside and there was a man standing there staring at me. Did you

recognize him?

No. But I got scared, so I just got in a cab to get away. You did that all

right.

Well, if you'll excuse me, I'll just put this away.

I'll give you a hand.

Thank you.

Well, Fran, why don't we finish this up?

Come on.

She ducked out on me. I know she did. We sort of got that.

We're supposed to be protecting her. It doesn't make it easy, does it?

Well, how do you know she wasn't just confused?

Because I know she gave me the slip.

And it wasn't because she didn't know what she was doing.

You just don't like her. It's plain and simple. Another woman in the family just

doesn't sound too good to you.

What?

I think you're jealous.

Oh. Oh, yes, you are. Would you two please cut it out?

I'm just doing a job here, and she happens to be part of it.

That's all it is. And your reaction is strictly professional?

You bet it is. Okay, then I will take your word for it. We better wind this

up fast. A few more days, we'll all be at each other's throats.

It has a different effect tonight, don't you think?

What do you mean?

Well, for many of us, darkness is full of terror and fear.

I've often thought that the darkness frees the mind to go wherever it wants.

Go where?

Let's say, go where it wants emotionally.

You wouldn't kid a girl, would you?

I don't think I'd try to kid you. What do you want from me?

What are you after?

I'm not sure.

Cards on the table?

You came into our lives a little dramatically, a little violently, and

an impression.

So we're together, for better or for worse.

Why don't we just see where that takes us?

I wish I knew who said that.

The cop or the good Samaritan? How about the friend?

What's that?

It's flexible.

Take from it whatever you need.

What'll it cost me?

Nothing.

Nobody changes the rules.

Nobody.

You must want something.

Admit it.

What I want is simple.

Let's go inside.

Here, try this.

Ed, check the roofs. Those pigeons are making too much noise.

I think I'm going to change the game plan.

Do you mind?

That depends.

I'd like you to stay at my place.

Just a minute.

Shelly?

It's for you.

Said it's a friend.

Hello? I don't know whether you did that on purpose or not, but you loused

things up.

And we can't get at him there.

So now it's up to you, Shelly.

The gun.

Use it.

Who was it?

Tell me, Shelly, who was it?

I don't know.

But he said this time he wouldn't miss.

Ironside.

Yes, Ed.

I just checked the stakeout on Roy Lewis.

I see.

Well, tell the boys not to fall asleep.

There will have to be a move soon.

Bye.

Good morning.

I'm afraid this is a work day. We won't have much time to entertain you.

You just try to feel at home.

Morning, sir.

I'm afraid I had to leave you out, Pete, but I've got to watch the cholesterol.

Here, it's the best in San Francisco.

Nobody makes a better Danish.

It might be a little colder.

Wow.

If a cheese Danish shakes her up like that.

Right now, Mark, the last thing in the world she wants is affection.

For me, it's number one.

Then for you,

Tomorrow could always be beautiful.

I don't bet on it. But for you, there's always a chance.

She's turned off.

It's probably the only way she feels safe.

Well, you're up and at them early this morning. The early bird doesn't get the

wool pulled over its eyes.

You mean a bird in the hand gathers no moss?

What? Hmm?

Where is Kelly?

Uh, she's in a room.

Why? Well, she lied.

Everything she told us about herself from beginning to end.

Her name isn't Hampton, and there's no record of her at the address she gave.

Here.

You can read it for yourself.

I don't have to.

I've got an update on Shelly right here.

I lifted a set of prints from a drinking glass last night. FBI report came in

about an hour ago.

The whole long story.

B -girl in Dallas strip joints, jailed for theft, arrested for soliciting. You

mean you've known about her all this time? Not all the details, but it was

obvious that her story wouldn't hold up.

I don't understand. I just don't.

You knew she was lying.

And yet you let her move in here. I insisted that she move in here.

I see. Fran, if she lied about who she is, how do we believe the rest of her

story? You mean about someone trying to kill her? We really don't know about

that, do we? But the car, we saw them shooting at her.

Have you read the report from the Marin County Police about her car?

They didn't find anything significant.

That's the point. Several shots were fired. She wasn't hit. The window on the

other side wasn't shattered. And no slugs were found in the car.

Uh -huh.

Uh -huh.

Uh -huh.

Likes. Obviously.

But why?

So that we worry about her.

As we did.

As we are.

I'd say that she was being introduced to us.

elaborately introduced.

Thanks for the visit.

Make yourself comfortable.

Always nice to see you.

Always a pleasure.

I know when you come here, it's always a matter of the utmost importance.

What did I do wrong now?

How are your connections with the Dallas police?

Oh.

They think of me as San Francisco's top detective.

How do you suppose they got that idea?

Well, let's see if your lofty position is good enough for a favor.

I knew I should have kept my big mouth shut.

What's the problem? I want to know everything they have on Shelly Kingman,

she worked for, who she went with, was she involved in anything they can't

prove, the kind of information you can't put down on paper.

I'll get the men to empty their heads. I want crumbs, rumors, ideas, anything

and everything.

What are you after? I wish I knew, and I wish you would expedite it. Done.

Thank you.

Before you go, this girl.

What about her?

Well, naturally, the FBI report was supposed to be confidential.

But it's gotten around the building. You understand.

I yield to no man in my admiration for the grapevine.

So?

I don't want you to take this the wrong way.

But you are a friend of mine, and I think you ought to know. Got ten

Everyone knows what the girl is. And staying at your place, Chief?

What am I saying? This makes me feel stupid. Five.

So some of the big mouths around here have been yakking.

I just thought I'd pass it along.

Time's up.

As soon as you get the answer from Dallas, you call me.

Can't sleep?

Neither could you, huh?

I find this time of night good for straightening out problems.

Any problem in particular?

Tonight?

One.

How would you like to buy the little lady a drink?

What'll it be?

You name it.

Whatever you like.

Because I like you.

Don't you like me?

I like you very much.

What then?

Must be something.

Something you haven't given me.

Truth.

Oh, get off my back.

Now you listen to me.

We don't have time for lies.

I'm not buying any ginger ale and colored glasses.

Dallas champagne, isn't that what they call it?

Dallas? You really think I wouldn't find out?

So what?

You don't know anything.

Nothing at all. Shelly Kingman, that's what I know.

That's all I know.

The rest you have to tell me. What's wrong? Why you're doing this?

Who's threatening you?

They're very tough.

They'll get you, I know.

Shelley, your only chance to live, really live, is to fight them.

So as long as you're alive, you fight them.

Now look at me.

Right now, there's only one thing in this world I want.

I don't want anything from you.

I didn't ask you for anything.

Just stay away from me. They won't stay away from you.

Don't run!

That bottle ought to keep her in deep freeze until tomorrow.

But keep watching her. She'll still be useful.

At least there's no way for Ironside to tie her up to me.

Nothing from Dallas yet.

Sorry, Chief.

Did you put an urgent on it? Like you said.

Who's your contact?

Frank Valeri.

You met him a couple years ago on a convention, remember?

Get him on the phone. Well, the telex ought to be through soon. I can't wait.

Now call him and let me talk to him.

Okay.

Okay.

Nothing on the APB on Shelly yet.

Get me Frank Valeri, Dallas, Texas.

No word from Fran?

Just that she's checking out the small hotels and rooming houses south of

Market. I've got to eat my words about that car. One driven by the man who

at Shelly. So, digested and arranged in a simple declarative sense.

Fingerprints on the door handle.

Frank Bender. Bender? He traveled with Roy Lewis.

How'd you find me here?

Oh, please come in. We thought you'd never ask.

You're, uh, clean, I suppose.

Look, I'm not on parole, so what's the difference?

Oh, just checking your reflexes. I thought maybe prison had slowed you up a

little. You're not the man you were.

Well, I'm a little older.

A little mellower, a little grayer. But just as hungry.

Well, anxious to make up for lost time.

Have to squeeze all the grapes.

Life is shorter and all that.

We having an earthquake, Roy?

What are you doing for shirts these days? Renting them one at a time?

What are you using for a search warrant?

Mark, why don't you give Mr. Lewis a hand with his Murphy bed? Looks like

getting ready to move out.

Yeah, it could be.

You gonna have your shadows come along? Find out for yourself.

Taking Shelly with you?

You know, I could say Shelly who because I don't know what you're talking about.

But you're going to say that I do.

So that exhausts that conversation.

What else have we got to discuss?

Well, let's try two other people.

Frank Bender, for instance.

You lit up the board on that one. How about Dutchie Moore, Dallas?

Five more points.

Dutchie Moore, huh?

Sounds like a kind of a crook name on the Late Late Show.

That brook shared a cell with you in the Colorado State Prison ten years ago.

That's where I heard the name. After he got out, Dutchie wound up with some

strip bars in Dallas, a fencing operation, and an after -hours gambling

I always wonder what happened to him. There's a certain cop in Dallas I just

spoke to. He knows Dutchie.

Knows him the way I know you.

Everything.

He said Dutchie...

Had a girl working for him.

Shelly Kingman. Shelly who?

I already said that, didn't I?

Shelly rolled a drunk one night or so this cop thinks.

Knockout drops in his drink. Too many. He died.

Body found outside the city limits.

Got the picture.

Shelly who's in a lot of trouble. If someone points a finger at her, yes.

But no one has.

She was seen with him in the bar.

And that's all anyone saw.

Ironside, do me a favor.

Go away.

Nothing personal, fella, but you go too.

Now, someone has something on Shelly.

Must hold the blackmailer into a job.

You needed someone, Roy.

Someone who was a stranger here.

Someone I wouldn't know.

Scratch a few points, Einstein. You're going the wrong way. You've got a

dollars hidden away somewhere.

So much money, even I enjoy the sound of it.

One million bucks waiting to be dug up when I'm not around to stop you. Nobody

else believes it. I do.

And I'm opinionated.

So it doesn't make any difference about anyone else, does it, Roy? You know

that?

That's why you imported Shelley.

Someone to get close enough to set me up. Million bucks.

Shelly who?

Dutchie Moore.

You know, Einstein, you're getting wilder and wilder. You and Dutchie

wrong girl. She didn't go through with it. All right, so she split. So she ran.

She's stupid.

She's... And now you're running after her. Hey, Einstein.

What, is she pretty?

Is that why you want her back?

Why?

What good are you?

Come on, Einstein. What does she do to you?

Did she turn you on with that smell of hers? That rich, heavy, nice perfume she

wears? Is that it? Huh?

Oh, she's beautiful because all of Dutchie Moore's girls are beautiful.

Is that it, Ironside? That way you want her back?

We'll get her back, all right.

More important, we'll get you back. The minute you pass one of those hidden

banknotes, we'll have you on murder one.

Murder one!

Louis is getting ready to move out. See if you can pick up Bender and tell the

men on stakeout to let Louis go.

Just lose him.

But you stay with him.

Right? Keep me informed.

What makes you so sure he'll go for the Bundle 9?

He'll go for Shelly first to shut her up. And he may get there before we do.

Perhaps you'd better wait outside.

San Francisco.

Hotel Doreen.

Dallas champagne was never like this.

How'd you find me?

I had a police force at my disposal.

I'm not going back with you.

I'm leaving.

Where to now?

The great big world.

Not big enough to lose yourself.

I've got to get away.

From me?

Or from Roy Lewis?

out and killed me.

You told me that when you ran.

I told you nothing.

The plan almost worked.

It was imaginative.

Ingenious. You could have killed me. Who's there? I could have killed you.

didn't you? It would have been easy. What stopped you?

Will you just leave me alone? Would you just please go away?

You had a dozen chances.

But you always turned aside. Now why?

You proved Roy and Dutchie Moore were wrong.

You've beaten them.

You don't have to be afraid anymore.

What do you know about it, huh?

What do you know about any of it?

You can't help it, can you? You keep giving yourself away.

Look what you just did. Please leave me alone.

You could help kill me and it wouldn't bother you.

Now, what stopped you, Shelly? What?

Something happened.

Something unexpected. The last thing in the world I wanted.

Yeah, I know.

You found someone standing beside you.

Another human being.

Me.

That's right.

If you'd been killed, I would have cried.

And I would have brought it all back, all the tears, all the thousands of

I couldn't bear it, do you understand that?

I thought no one could ever touch me again, and then you changed it all.

Is this part of the plan too, Roy?

No, no. Oh, no, but it fits just fine.

Somebody was after her, right? Huh?

And you get it trying to protect her. Oh, this is beautiful. Which means she

gets it, too.

Sorry, Shelly.

Sorry, Roy.

You set me

up for this, didn't you?

You set yourself up, Roy.

Look, I'll never tell you where that money is! What money?

You believe me now, Shelly?

No reason to run anymore.

Tell me one thing.

It's my birthday, and still she gets a corsage and a dinner party in Sausalito.

Partial. He's partial.

You've got a present.

A wallet with my initials.

In goes.

Was there anything in it? A speck of dust.

Speaking of specks, Fran, that blue car, isn't it

the same one that's been tailing us all the way from Ghirardelli Square?