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Thank you.

You got this, Cole?

Yes, my name.

Clerk's name is Al. The guard is Charlie.

He missed his marks.

He was told where to stop.

Exactly where to stop.

Make a note.

Pick up Eldridge and Sons.

Eldridge and Son, one crate.

Consignment number 80625.

Where's your truck? Right outside.

Pull it around the front, Harry.

Sign at the exit, please.

I haven't seen you fellas around here before, have I?

Been a while, I guess.

Try to remember.

Charles, sure.

Charlie, isn't it?

Yeah. Thought I remembered.

Good to see you again, Charlie boy.

You got one of those Eldridge releases on file?

Yeah, sure.

Let me have a look on it.

Where does that car go?

Hold it, boys.

Might be nothing. We're checking Eldridge.

For what?

Come on. Inside, in the office. I'm just doing my job.

Look, bud, you got my papers. What do you want, my library card?

It's just a truck. I got what I wanted.

That's what shakedown runs are for, Steve.

To find out where the holes are.

Now, next time there won't be any holes.

Wife?

What wife?

Come on, Charlie, you're not married.

I mean, I'd know, wouldn't I?

You'd send me an invitation, and I'd send you maybe an olive fork or

I swear.

Somebody comes up here in the middle of the night and turns this thing up to

number eight.

We were married about a year and a half ago, Joe.

What's her name?

Rose. Her name is Rose.

Rose in Captain Haller's office?

Rose Bellini, secretary, brunette, about so tall?

No, you wouldn't know her, Joe. Not my Rose.

Okay, so you were telling me.

She didn't come home last night.

Look, it's been less than 24 hours. I know it's not long, Joe. I know.

I'm scared, Joe.

Very close, Rosa Mae. She wouldn't just go off like this. She just wouldn't.

We need each other more than other people do.

Charlie, you were a cop. A terrific cop.

Now, why don't you go to Haller or... Tom or Mike.

The police force has the equipment, the manpower.

Price is right.

Here.

Take this.

It's from the company they're very grateful for when I stopped the Eldridge

hijack.

They're medium grateful.

No, Joe, come on now. It's a wedding present.

Joe, I want you to find Rose for me.

All right.

You don't want the police involved.

I can't tell you, Joe.

I've got to have more to go on.

Oh, I have a picture here.

What kind of work would she look for, assuming she left under her own will?

Uh, I don't know, Joe.

Well, what kind of training has she had?

Secretarial?

Bank teller?

Store clerk?

Housewife. She's a housewife.

Was she married before?

No, of course not.

Now, Charlie, she's not 18.

What's she been doing to support herself?

Sales girl.

Receptionist.

Airplane mechanic.

Charlie, she had to work at something.

Just forget it, Joe. I don't know.

Good

morning.

Morning.

And don't make any smart remarks about smelling something burning.

I just assumed it was the carpet smoker behind Charlie Anderson.

He went through here like the XP1.

Problems? Yeah.

His wife's missing.

First he asked me to find her, and then he plays it like I was the Internal

Revenue Service.

Hey, Peggy, you were at the police lab about a year ago when he got married.

What gives? What kind of marriage was it?

Oh, yeah.

Peggy.

Just an ordinary wedding.

What's the mystery?

Sit down, Charlie.

Rose was in the game, Joe.

It was about a year and a half ago.

I was working the vice detail.

I booked her.

Anyway, she got probation for first offense, and afterwards she came up and

said she was quitting.

And she was real nice.

It's the only word I can think of.

And I asked if I could help her find...

Regular work.

So I did, and... And I know we started seeing each other.

She's everything in the world to me, Joe.

Is that about the time you quit the force?

They all knew. The whole precinct knew.

I knew what they were thinking.

Well, they're only human, Charlie.

Maybe some were thinking it, some weren't.

You can't let that change your life.

That's what I keep telling myself.

Well, keep telling yourself that.

Now, what can you tell me so we can get your lady back?

Well, let's see.

A few days ago, just after the hijack thing at work, she started acting

Phone would ring, doorbell.

She'd jump up like something was going to happen.

I asked her about it. She said she was worried about...

Me and the job.

I said, that's ridiculous.

It's ten times safer than working on the force.

And she wasn't scared then.

She actually tried to get me to quit.

Could she have been getting heat from any of the old crowd?

No.

Absolutely no. She broke clean. She never saw them. She never talked about

Do you have anything I can go on?

Some neighbor saw her getting into a cab. She doesn't know what cab company.

I'll help.

You're underestimating that demon I got in the outer office.

All I do is press this button and I say, Peggy, cab companies.

Man, you're the second cat wanting to know about that pickup on Avalon Street.

gotta tell you the same thing. I didn't make the call.

Well, now, man, your dispatcher told my secretary you made the pickup.

First cat pay off.

Lies. The tissue lies. The whole thing. The truth is I had ignition trouble,

okay?

Oh, ignition trouble, huh?

Hmm.

Hey, that's my driver's log. That's confidential.

You hope.

I see here you made a pickup at Western at 6 -11 -01.

So? And then you made a stop at Avalon, a no -show.

Oh, but that's been erased, hasn't it, Cat?

And then five minutes later, you made another pickup a block away, it says

Now, that doesn't sound like your ignition failed.

More like your eraser.

Ignition trouble comes, ignition trouble goes.

And old cabbies who've only upped their logs just fade away.

All it takes is one call to the Hack Bureau and your license is taken away.

Right, Captain?

Now, where did you take her?

3028 Fairfax.

This is a private club. Do you remember?

Well, what's it take?

Ten bucks.

You remember.

Got film in it?

Ten bucks more.

Skip it.

Observe the skin tones, the contrasting shadows.

Hold your cameras firmly, gents, and remember to focus correctly.

I would suggest one -thirtieth of a second at F2 .8.

I thought Rose would be modeling.

No Rose here, just these two.

A friend of mine said she was here last night.

Your friend was mistaken.

Here, gents, we have a fascinating view of the body beautiful.

The face is now in shadow, the figure prominent.

An opportunity to create true art.

My name is Anderson, Rose Anderson. It was about 11 o 'clock last night.

Look, sir, my customers come here to...

practice their f stops and shutter speeds no question you want information

dial 411 angle shots may be used here shooting up or from the sides

possibly a view from the back

What about Rose?

Was she here last night?

It's possible.

Why? Well, little friendly chat. I'd like to talk to her.

Forget it. She's straight.

Married.

Charlie's worried about her. She didn't come home last night.

Mr. Mannix, I can't help you much.

She came by for a few minutes to see me.

Where she went from here, I couldn't say.

I also couldn't say who gave the orders to clam up about her.

What did she talk about?

Money. She needed a couple hundred.

I told her to call back later.

I'd scrounge around.

Did she say anything else?

I didn't ask anything else.

Fair enough.

Well, look, if you happen to hear from her, I'd appreciate knowing.

Mannix, when you find her... Tell them not to louse it up, huh?

She and Charlie have got a good thing going.

Most guys these days think love is the tenth word in a telegram.

Hello, Puffy.

What'd you get for it?

Manix. It's been years.

Twenty thousand. It's the Trudeau.

You looking for a painting?

No. I'm looking for a rose.

Anderson. Home.

Home.

So it's home and $300 suits now, huh, Puffy? And now it's Lawrence Carson.

All right, Lawrence.

Who's behind the cabbie payoff and how does Rose Anderson tie into it? Oh,

Maddox, Maddox. You're assuming that I still maintain contacts that I severed a

long time ago. How long ago? Ten minutes?

According to the Hall of Records, you're still the king of the seamy side of the

street and a sultan of smut. I'll read you a chapter and verse.

You're holding leases on Lavender's Kitty Cat, Topless Joint 1 3rd, the

Models Club, and, well, the list goes on and on.

But it doesn't tie me to any Rose Anderson.

So unless you want to buy a pretty picture, don't come back.

All righty.

But if you're covering and I find out you're covering, Puffy, you're going to

wearing a straddle as a lavalier.

Who?

I didn't think Mannix would get this far.

Maybe we ought to postpone or forget it.

He's looking for her too, isn't he?

Let him find her for us.

Hello, I'd like to speak to Mr. Mannix, please.

Billy. Just tell him it's Billy from the Artist and Model Club.

Look, Philly, I'd better get you to a doctor. We can talk later.

No, I've been hit before.

Thanks anyway.

Who did it?

A big creep with 32 fists.

I don't know who.

Wanted to know about Rose.

I told him nothing.

The big jerk followed me in after I talked to you.

You said Rose phoned.

Yeah, she's in San Pedro.

She all right?

Yeah, she's fine.

She's got a job in the Rialto bar.

She told me not to tell, even Charlie.

Thanks, Billy.

Now, you'd better stay out of sight, get some rest, and don't open any doors.

Mannix, it's more than just family static between Rose and Charlie, isn't

Well, don't let anything happen to her or him.

Yes, ma 'am.

Hi, what do you have?

Hello, Rose.

I'm a friend of Charlie's.

Well, that's fine. Are you buying a drink or just leaving?

He's worried about you.

Well, tell Charlie to trot down to the Starview Lanes and bowl a couple of

lines. He thinks something's bothering you. He'd like you to come back and at

least talk it over with him.

Talk it over?

What? Our $90 a month walk -up?

Our two rooms with a view of the gas station?

Talk about something bothering me? Well, that bothers me, buddy.

It's a drag.

Charlie was happy. He thought you were, too.

Yeah, sure, Charlie was happy.

Charlie with his shirt to wash every day.

Charlie with his beer and his bowling.

Look, I tried it square and it flopped. I can do a lot better with my life.

And this dump on tips?

You'll end up on one of those bar stools hustling drinks.

Well, that's not something I'm new at, is it?

Come on, Rose, you don't want to go back to that.

Look, tell Charlie he's an okay guy.

Tell him I tried it, but I couldn't make it.

Tell him to find somebody else.

Now, are you having a drink before you leave?

Yeah, champagne.

It just came from Billy's.

Yeah, that figures. Nobody else knew where I was.

Forty cents.

You should have seen her apartment.

Looked like they had had four nights of tag team wrestling there. And her face

looked like she had lost. Not very pretty.

Billy?

Somebody got to Billy?

Somebody who's very interested in you, Rose.

Enough to bribe a cabbie and pay hush money to the gang over at the Artist and

Models Club and give Billy a pretty thorough working over.

Look, Rose, whatever the problem is, why don't you come back with me? Maybe I

can help.

Poor Billy. I didn't mean for her to get mixed up.

Doctor says so.

It's a possibility of a concussion.

Yeah, I'll take that responsibility. It's my concussion.

How'd you get here?

Got a phone call.

Come on now, just relax.

I haven't got time. I gotta get out of here.

Rose Anderson's been kidnapped.

Oh, Rose Anderson.

Rose Anderson is here.

Outside. She's been waiting all night.

You can come in now, Rose.

Are you all right?

How are you feeling, Joe?

I don't know.

How'd you get away, Rose?

What are you doing here?

Rose. Called last night after you fell.

Everything's fine.

She's coming home now.

I'll have to send my shirts to a laundry after this, right, Rose?

Right, Charlie.

We owe you a lot.

Thanks, Joe.

Thanks for what?

For talking Rose into coming home.

That's the only thing that is important.

Now, hold it.

Just hold it.

What do you mean I fell?

What about Billy?

What's going on, Charlie?

Could we go home now, Charlie? I'm awfully tired.

Sure, honey.

Yeah, wait a minute.

Thank you, Joe.

Everything's been taken care of downstairs, and we can't thank you

Goodbye, Joe. Hey, Charlie.

Charlie!

Tell me you can't convince me that there's no... Welcome home.

Well, it's good to have you back, Mrs. Anderson.

Charlie,

you really should have color.

I'll send you a set tomorrow.

What style cabinet do you prefer?

Keep your TV sets, Templeton.

Is everything all right?

Everything is definitely not all right. The deal is on.

Marvelous.

If you change your mind, please call.

They've got something new called Spanish Mediterranean.

You'll love it.

It has a 27 -inch picture.

Charlie, keep our O's happy and safe.

It comes in either walnut or mahogany.

TV sets. What's he think I am?

He knows what you are.

You're scared.

For me.

Because of what they say they'll do to me.

It's not what they say, Rose.

With five million dollars riding, they're not going to let you or me get

way. They mean it. Then let's run.

You tried that, remember?

No, Charlie. We. Both of us. I don't want to go without you. Both of us. Not

chance.

And you still won't go to the police?

They can't guarantee you won't get hurt. Can Templeton guarantee that you won't?

Keep Rose happy and safe, he said.

You have, Charlie.

I've never been happier, and I've never felt safer than with you.

And it has cost you your job.

And your friends?

Pride? No, Rose.

That's not true at all.

Oh, sure it is, Charlie. Sure it is.

And if you do what he wants you to, you won't have anything.

You won't be any of the good things you were when you married me.

And it'll be my fault, Charlie.

I will have dragged you down to where I am.

So if you love me, please... Of course I love you.

Don't ever wonder about that.

I mean it.

But I'm going to do what he says.

It's the only chance we've got.

Fell down.

I fell down because I was clobbered with it.

What are you doing?

Aspirin. Drink up.

You didn't recognize him?

A guy with 32 fifths. What?

An old Armenian proverb.

The only obvious threat to Rose and Charlie's got to be something out of her

past. Maybe it was Charlie.

What's Charlie got?

Yeah, what's Charlie got?

$127 a week job as airport security officer.

Charge of cargo worth millions.

Charlie's got plenty.

You remember Nick Jason?

Who could forget him? I want to talk to him. Set it up. Hey, the doctor said

you're not supposed... The doctor wants... Don't get hit on the head.

Bank job?

National airport cargo.

Lots of problems.

This for a client?

Friend. I was trying to help him, but I ran into a stone wall.

That's why I came to the old pro.

You're always a smart boy, Joe. Too smart.

The kind of job you're talking about needs planning.

You'd have to know when this stuff is being shipped, who it's being shipped

Then you'd have to counterfeit consignment papers, identification.

How big is the hit?

As big as there is.

Narcotics. That's good. Plenty of takers.

Furs, precious metals, diamonds, jewelry.

Precious metals?

Like what?

Osmium, palladium, platinum, space age stuff.

Is it worth much?

Well, you tell me, Joe.

Is three, four hundred dollars an ounce much?

It'll do.

Naturally, before I'd pull a caper like that, I'd be sure that the security fuzz

is on my payroll.

Naturally. Well, thanks, Nick.

For nothing?

Ten minutes to lock up, Nick.

See you in three to five years, Max.

Oh, and Nick, I do appreciate it.

Burmese silk, $3 ,200.

Not much to get killed for, Wes.

$3 ,000, $3 ,000, $3 million.

They all get the same security.

You handle all airline freight? All the carriers in this area.

Let's say a valuable cargo arrives right now. What happens?

As soon as it clears customs, we store it in our security warehouse.

Then we notify the consignee when the cargo is cleared.

Isn't there any way they would know it's here?

No. Air freight would route it on the first carrier with available space.

That could take a day, an hour, a week.

What about the actual delivery?

Just a minute.

Charlie? Yeah, George?

Can I see you a minute?

Charlie Anderson, Mr. Mannix.

Mr. Mannix here is checking out our security for Great Pacific Insurance

Company.

Charlie's tops, Mr. Mannix. He'll tell you everything you want to know.

Tell him about the Eldridge Castle, Charlie.

Thanks, Mr. Cole.

Can we go someplace and talk?

Great Pacific Insurance.

Well, it got me in.

How's Rose?

Okay.

Charlie, that Eldridge hassle.

Silk. $3 ,000 worth of silk.

I heard.

Somebody went through a lot of trouble for peanuts. A lot of trouble.

Then maybe next time they'll be a little luckier. What do you think? Meaning

just exactly what?

I'd hate to think that they've got you in their back pocket. I get a shipment

check. Now listen to me, Charlie.

I finally got this thing figured out.

Rose was running because she was trying to take the heat off of you.

Somebody got to her because they needed you for the hit.

When they picked Rose up in San Pedro, they held her until you made the deal.

You're in the wrong ballpark, Joe.

Couldn't have been a money payoff, Charlie, not you.

It had to be Rose.

Her life for this job.

You're dreaming.

What is it this time?

Drugs, diamonds, precious metals?

Charlie, I'm your friend.

Now, I can help you.

Who's behind it? When's the hit?

It's not my friend. Get out of here.

Joe Mannix.

I remember a rainy night on East Broadway once when a very green private

himself caught up a blind alley by four guys with pinstripe suits and shoulder

holsters.

And except for a slightly balding cop, we both know, he'd had his head

ventilated.

Now, if you remember that, Joe, get out of here.

I'll never forget it, Charlie.

No dice.

What are you doing?

That was my tailor. Too bad, Lawrence. You covered. I found out you covered.

know Rose Anderson. You knew her husband was secured at the airport.

I told you I don't know any Rose Anderson.

That's a $300 suit. Talk fast, Puffy. I know it's hijacked, and I know you're in

it up to your double chin. No, no, Mannix. No, no, not me. Girls may be

hijacked. Never. No, that's pure silk.

When are they grabbing it? What's the timetable? You got me all wrong. I

wouldn't touch a thing like that.

Don't!

When, Carson?

I don't know anything.

I swear.

This is your last chance, Buffy.

Because I'm going to the police and blow the whole thing, including the working

over you gave Billy.

And that is attempted murder.

absolutely, totally ruined.

Seymour worried about the soup and the police. He hit you where you live,

Lawrence. $300. Don't say anything more on the telephone.

Mannix is bluffing. He wouldn't turn in Charlie Anderson.

I'll have Mr. Mannix seen to.

You'd better do it quick.

I'll be at the house. Goodbye. Because I won't put up with that kind of...

Goodbye, Lawrence. ...of assault on my person.

Templeton!

Templeton!

Templeton.

Hardy.

Sicken, Peggy.

Rose?

Hello, Joe.

Charlie called and he told me that you were at the terminal and what you said.

You're 100 % right, Joe. We have to stop him.

If he does what they want, they'll own him.

I don't want that for Charlie, or if we have kids.

Well, I'm gaining on him, Rose. I just got a line to the top man. Now, if I

could find out about when... Tomorrow.

I heard Charlie talking on the phone, and it seems to me that I could be

Joe.

Tomorrow. If it's tomorrow, that'll be fine. That'll give me time to... Harvey

Templeton, importer of precious metals.

If he did go home, that address would be 183 Sierra Drive.

Hello. I'm Mrs. Templeton. Come in, neighbor. Thank you.

The meeting has already started.

I'm so glad you could come.

These new property taxes are simply scandalous. But if we pull together, we

do something about it. Well, I'm afraid you'll have to pull without me, Mrs.

Templeton. I'm here to see your husband about a metal shipment.

Oh. Just tell him Mannix is here, if you don't mind.

Would you please wait in the study at the top of the stairs?

Thank you.

What can I do for you?

This outfit must come in pretty handy in your business.

Possibly. Yeah, like, for instance, letting you know when there's a shipment

leaving the airport, by what route, by what carry, if there are any delays,

transshipment, bad weather.

Like in an eighth.

No hang -ups.

Call it off, Templin. By tomorrow, that airport will be swarming with cops.

But tomorrow doesn't concern me.

Today.

Actually, about 17 minutes from now.

If there aren't too many red lights.

Approaching point five.

Armored car on the way to the airport.

Stop there, Mr. Mannix.

Your gun.

It's all over, Templeton.

At least know about you, Carson, and Charlie.

Incredible. How?

I made a phone call to the police.

Then where are they?

Or aren't they due until tomorrow?

No, Mr. Mannix.

Perhaps you can stampede Carson with your threats, but not me.

Traffic's still light.

Checkpoint six.

Right on schedule.

If you can call him back, you'd better.

Don't underestimate Charlie.

I don't. I own him.

And don't underestimate me, sir.

I don't think that you appreciate the uniqueness or the magnitude of my

enterprise.

How does $5 million grab you?

Impressive. It'd grab me even more if you said you were going to hijack your

shipment. That way you'd have the goods and the insurance.

$10 million.

That's very good.

Very good, Mr. Mannix. Excellent.

Steve, kill Mr. Mannix.

In the hills.

And don't make it too close. It would scandalize my already overtaxed

Pick up Templeton Incorporated.

Charlie?

Precious metals.

Boss wants them all checked out.

Identification?

Looks okay.

Templin Incorporated. Two crates.

Consignment number 84646.

Hook outside.

Armored car. Armored car front.

Get right out.

Templin Incorporated.

Boys. You initial, you have to sign in full.

Charlie, Rose is safe. I got the devil's in.

I'll take it.

Don't be a fool. That thing's like a...

Joe busted the robbery. Oops, hold it. Charlie busted it. He couldn't go

with it. Charlie, are you all right? Sure.

Cop with your shirt collar like a coal mine.

Charlie, I'm so glad you're back.

Joe, I don't know what to say. Will you go home? Go on, get out of here.

Would you have gone through with it if you hadn't have showed up?

What kind of a question is that, Peggy?

Charlie's too good a cop.

Always was.