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Yeah.

Bitch!

Joe Mannix?

Drive right in, sir.

Thank you.

Roll the camera please.

Cut, print.

Cut. Roll the camera.

Background.

Action, Mitch.

Okay, Luke, kill it.

Hiya, Joe.

Long time.

Hello, Rudy.

Yeah, not since the last time we
promised to have lunch. What was that,

year ago?

I remember the days we both hit this
town together. We used to skip lunch,

not because either of us was on a diet.
Yeah, well, look, let's get out of here

and talk about it over a salad, huh?

You think I called you here for lunch?

Well, all these years we've been
threatening. Hey, let's have lunch soon,

sure.

Yeah, you bet, Joe, soon, for sure.

But first, I need your professional
help.

You got trouble?

You see this morning's papers?

You mean that motorcycle accident? Mitch
Cantrell's stunt double?

Why I sent for you, Joe.

It was no accident.

The cops figure a blowout.

No blowout, though.

Then what?

Somebody stretched a wire right across
the road.

What'd you tell the police?

I didn't want that kind of publicity,
Joe. We've got enough problems with this

picture as it is.

Rudy, someone tried to kill him.

Not him.

Mitch Cantrell.

You see, we're about the same size in
coloring, Mitch and me, and you put a

helmet and a face shield on us, it's
hard to tell us apart.

That still doesn't nail it down.

Pete was with Mitch last night, and
someone phoned. The caller told Mitch he

wouldn't miss the next time.

What'd Cantrell do?

He just hung up.

He's a funny guy, that Mitch. I've been
with him for years and I don't really

know him. He just hung up and he kind of
laughed.

All right, Pete, thanks.

Yeah.

Well, Rudy, any ideas who might want to
kill Mitch Cantrell?

Anybody, including me.

Once he knows you need him, you're
finished.

There's no satisfying him.

And he doesn't come out and put you away
like a man. He gnaws at you like acid.

Come here, Joe.

That's his house. Those characters
hanging around out there aren't extras,

they're on my payroll.

His staff.

The whole studio has become his
playground.

One thing, Joe.

Don't let that famous Cantrell smile
fool you.

Cool it.

I said cool it!

You know what they say, bud?

Protect yourself at all times, huh?

Mitch, Mr. Mannix has been waiting to
see you.

How you doing, Mannix?

Hey, I'm sorry about the gloves.

Sorry for keeping you waiting, too.

Pete, this is Pete Johnson, my buddy.

And that's Bud Nicholson. He has a
tendency to drop his left hand in the

Of course, you know my secretary, Mona.

Everything clears through Mona.

Even scripts.

What can I do for you, Maddox?

Mona, get the shoulder, will you? Don't
bug me again.

Well, they call from Western Street,
Mitch. Same spot.

But they're waiting.

Go.

Said the same spot.

Maddox, you really think someone's
trying to do me in?

Your double seems to think so.

Pete? No, he's been worried about me for
years.

We bummed out to the coast together.

Pete loves me.

Somebody hates you.

What's one crank with all the friends
I've got?

I saw some of them outside.

How much they cost you?

Nobody needs you, Maddox.

Nobody has to worry about me.

I live on this lot.

Eye walls, guarded gates.

No unauthorized people get on this lot.

What about those who are authorized?

You trying to scare me?

Well, I don't scare.

Everybody does.

Sometimes.

Not me.

I do not scare.

You say so.

I'm going to tell Western Street I'm on
my way down.

Hey, wait. Wait a minute.

I'll give you a lift.

Be back shortly.

I have to play movie star.

Going out west, men.

Hey, Cange.

Call that guy in Cheyenne and tell him I
accept the rodeo.

Take care of the store.

Thank you.

It's a shootout, man.

How

you

doing, Maddox?

I think your engine's running.

Have a little mercy, won't you, Mitch?
The whole morning's almost lost.

What's everybody sitting around for?

Let's go, Fred.

Hey, man.

I'll see you around.

Oh, I'm not leaving, man.

You may not be worth it, Cantrell, but
I'm going to try and save your neck.

I want you to walk along the railing
there.

And remember, when you make the jump, be
sure and keep your face turned away

from the camera because we're going to
apparently jump with you.

Now, stay low and out of sight when you
hit the wagon, and Mitch will take it

from there.

Okay?

Okay, Mitch.

Now, I want you to hop down from the
wagon just a feet after Pete lands in

there. Now, the gunman is behind the
wagon over there, and he spots you, and

fires his first shot.

And misses.

So you head for the alley.

Now a second shot.

He misses again, but it's a little too
close for comfort.

Now a third shot.

You're hit in the shoulder.

So you roll over into the alley and out
of camera range.

Okay?

I got all the names of Mitch Cantrell's
gang.

The staff.

Whatever you call them. Check them out.

Do you really think one of them wants to
kill Mitch Cantrell? I'm going to keep

an open mind.

Oh, I had all of your clothes sent up to
the dressing room suite.

Yeah, thanks, Peg.

You know something?

I was born and raised in L .A., and it's
the first time I've ever set foot on a

movie lot.

Better stick around. You may get
discovered.

We set here?

Yes, sir.

Okay, let's make it.

All right, settle down, please.

Quiet.

It's just a gun from the prop department
loaded with blanks.

I told you.

Blanks.

This is make -believe.

I loaded it myself.

Three blanks. Two blanks, one live ammo.

There's the box that got the cartridges
from. There's nothing live in there.

Never was.

I've been on this lot in the prop
department for 20 years.

Never handled anything live.

Only blanks.

Okay.

You loaded the gun, then what?

I handed it straight to that actor who
shoots Mitch Cantrell in the picture.

No stops in between?

No, sir.

Wait.

I put it down near the lunch truck just
to get a cup of coffee.

But it was only for three or four
minutes.

Oh, you see, I happen to be sitting in
this drugstore. Do you happen to have a

drink? So happens.

Scott? No, nothing, thanks.

I gave up drinking.

I just wanted to remind myself that I'm
a girl of tremendous willpower.

Mitch knows you're watching him.

He doesn't like it. It figures.

Excuse me. Oh, relax.

They're just going over to wardrobe.

It's Friday night. Mardi Gras.

They'll be back.

That Mitch is an independent cat.

He looks after himself.

Resents you.

Do anything to get you off his back.

He's already had a go at it.

Well, you didn't yell, check it.

If I didn't have got out, it'd be bad
for business.

What do you hear from the prop
department?

I drew a blank.

That's very funny.

Wasn't intended to be.

Well, somebody switched that blank with
a live cartridge.

Question.

Who is he?

Or she.

There's something you should know.

There's something you've been aching to
tell me ever since you breezed in here.

You know, Carol Rudley, that girl who
was on the motorcycle with Pete Joplin

yesterday?

She thought Mitch was picking her up.

That's a game they play. When Mitch has
had it with a girl, she gets passed on

to his double.

Of course, it comes as a complete
surprise to her.

There's been a long line of those hand
-me -downs. Any one of those girls would

have good reason to kill him.

How do you like that, Mitch?

How do you?

Well, he's just a boss to me.

Strictly business.

I don't fall for that famous Cantrell
smile.

A girl with tremendous willpower.

You bet.

Even this morning when you were
massaging him?

The way you wore him to the job wasn't
what I'd call strictly business.

You were seeing things.

Yeah.

A lot of willpower going down the drain.

I pick a bad time to call?

I'd say you won't get a medal.

I checked out Mitch Cantrell first.

Since he hit town five years ago, he's
been busy as a bee with girls.

So what else is new?

What happened before he hit town.

A girl killed herself over him, and she
was married.

Did you get a line on the husband?

He's there on the lot.

Who is he?

Pete Joplin.

That's it. The show is over.

How you doing, Maddox?

Well, there's nobody up there now.

There never was.

You'd like to believe that was an
accident too, wouldn't you?

They say that a bathtub in your own home
can be dangerous.

Hey, Max, I'm sorry if that dueling bit
shook you up.

You'll have to do a lot better.

I'll try.

It's a pretty cute act you two have.

I'll take credit for that. Pete, you
know that was my idea. You're right,

I mean the other act.

What other act? The buddy bit.

Considering it was your wife who killed
herself over him.

Well, if it hadn't been Mitch, it would
have been some other guy.

That's the way she was.

You heard the man, Maddox.

Well, you're a real winner.

And I'd like to know what you are. I'd
like to know what makes you tick. What

you got in here, sawdust?

Your friend's wife takes her life
because of you, and you come up with

smart remark.

Life means nothing to you, huh?

Oh, you bet life means something to me,
Mannix.

My life.

Because that's all I've got.

You make it dependent on someone else,
and it's a bummer.

Man, it's throwing it away, quitting.
You're already dead.

What happens after that?

Even suicide.

That's only technical.

You better believe life means something
to me.

Come on, let's get out of here, Pete.

Hey, man, do me a favor.

Huh? I'll join you later.

I'll go back and talk to him. Okay.

Do you really think Pete's trying to
kill me?

I mean, man, look, it's been five years
since all of that.

He's had plenty of opportunities since.

Maddox, he's, um, he's my best friend.

And besides, it was my bike he was on
when he was almost killed.

You didn't come back here to discuss
Pete.

All right, Max.

What about Mona?

What about her?

She was up at your place talking about
me.

Was she telling the truth?

Man, that's her thing. She likes to put
me down.

Why do you let her hang on?

I don't let her hang on. She just hangs
in.

And you just allow it because of some
sentimental reason.

Do you call being shot at some
sentimental reason?

Oh, yeah, Mannix. Uh -huh.

Mona.

It was a year ago she went out and she
bought herself a Derringer and she

it. And she pointed at me and she pulled
the trigger.

But she missed by a mile.

I did a number and made sure there were
any charges pressed.

She didn't tell you that, did she?

Somebody's idea of a hotfoot, huh?

Oh, that's a bad joke. I'm sorry.

I'm glad you're all right.

Where's Ken Trapp?

You don't think Mitch had anything to do
with this, do you?

You're the one who said he'd do anything
to get me off his back.

Well, I meant anything to scare you or
to embarrass you into quitting, but

nothing like what happened this morning.

Well, Mitch wouldn't do something like
that. Please believe me. Oh, now, what's

this mother hen bit? Last night you had
him on the pan. This morning you're the

defender of the faith.

You're a great quick -change artist.

Well, life is very complicated.

People play all different parts.

And you play more than your share.

Well, you don't think I'd try to kill
you?

No, I'd say explosives are way out of
your line, considering how lousy you are

with derringers.

Oh.

Mitch told you about that little
incident.

I can understand why you didn't.

Well, I never intended to kill him. I
was just trying to frighten him. But,

well, you know he doesn't scare.

What was it between you two?

What's the best thing between a man and
a woman?

Everything all wrapped up into one long
weekend.

Trouble is, on Monday morning, he
doesn't remember your name.

But I wasn't like the rest of that.

Army that trooped through here with
their mini skirts and peanut brains.

I wasn't about to be passed off to any
double.

But, uh, you did stick around.

Oh, sure.

You get to be practical, too.

I've got a great job.

You get used to the sweet life.

Where else could I make the kind of
money he pays me? What could I do?

You think he really cares what I think
about scripts or...

Anything really clears through me.

I'm just window dressing like the rest
of the staff, but... I have a big habit

to support.

Extravagance.

You don't believe that, huh?

You're a pushy one, you know that?

Yep.

Pack my bags.

I headed for the gate. I can't even
count how many times.

But I always turn back.

Because somehow you figure it'll happen
again.

It's an outside chance, but there's
still magic in this world.

I believe that.

Do you?

Oh, look, you don't know what it's like
once you've been number one with Mitch.

And there have been all kinds of
comebacks.

So you wait.

What else is there to do?

You keep walking, Mona.

Right through the gate.

You don't understand.

There's always a chance.

It's set on the back lot.

They call it the Chicago Street.

He calls it home.

Thanks.

How you doing, Max?

Man, you really hang in there.

Good job.

And someone's trying to blow your sky
high.

Only because I'm standing between you
and them.

Hey, Max, what do you think?

Huh? I think you're trying to change the
subject.

You know, I used to know a speech just
like this, except it was real.

No phony threats.

Real things happening inside these
windows, inside the walls.

Come back here and remember how it used
to be.

It's all different now, huh?

Everything's changed.

No, not me.

Maddox, if I had to do all over again,
go back there, I wouldn't change a

I know you think I'm a louse.

Everybody does.

But I'm not changing.

I know what's best for me.

You give in.

You compromise.

You get through, Maddox.

That's where it's at.

Not me.

I'm right out here in the open.

No deep, dark secrets.

Is that maybe from yourself?

Like what?

Like something you're so afraid of you
won't even admit it?

Such as?

Fear.

Life's being threatened, and you won't
take one step to protect it.

It does, Max. No one's gonna kill me.

Remind me of the guy that keeps walking
around the edge of a volcano and

pretends it isn't there.

Well, tell me about fear.

I know all about it. It just isn't my
bag.

Once you have it like I did as a kid, it
never comes back.

I, uh... I hid in an alley once, just
like that.

Gang was after me.

I waited until dark.

Maddox, I was scared to death.

I figured if they came in that alley, if
they found me, I'd be finished.

But they didn't find me.

I hid behind a barrel, and they walked
right past me.

Maddox, I've never been scared of
anything in my life again.

I'm losing a job, a friend, the biggest
deal in the movies.

It's like one of those kids' diseases.

Never comes back again, yeah.

You grow up.

During the war, I saw scared kids grow
up.

They became heroes.

But I'm not in a war.

Aren't you?

I tried to phone, but you were out, so I
hurried over.

This just came in from the San Francisco
police.

What, Nicholson?

One conviction, a first offense, so he
got off light.

Safe cracking.

Explosives. And there's more.

Army service record, a specialist in
demolition.

Slide over.

Control, you stay here until I get back.

Where's Bud Nicholson?

He's around.

What's the idea? Where is he? Now.

How do I know? He took off in his dune
buggy.

no sir like you said anybody tries to
leave the studio you get called first

thing right

He's dead.

That wraps it up.

That's what we're supposed to think.

He's got a bullet hole in him.

He was dead before someone aimed that
dune bug at us.

Come on, this way.

No. You've got to get out of here.

I'm not leaving.

Don't be a fool.

I know this place.

I'm okay.

I know it's right for me.

Hiding like a scared kid isn't.

The way to Marty's going to go away.

Look, Mitch, he's using a high -powered
rifle there. He's only toying with you

now. When he's ready, he's going to zero
in.

I'm not leaving.

Sorry, Mitch, but you are.

And now you know who's going to do it to
you.

Good old Pete.

Well, I had Bud help me along.

He strung the wire across the road. He
dropped the lamp from the catwalk.

The idea was to make you squirm first.

But you didn't squirm.

Well, are you squirming now, pal, huh?

I got you all to myself.

You hear me?

Smiling boy.

You think I really forgot about Adele?

The one thing I ever had? The one thing
I ever got all by myself?

The one thing you didn't pass on to me?

But you didn't have enough, did you?

No, you had to add her to your
collection.

You had to have everybody.

Everything.

Well, that's what I waited for.

That's what I've been planning for
years.

When you were king of the mountain.

When you had everything to lose.

That's when I was going to snatch it all
away from you.

Well, that's now, isn't it, Mitch?

Huh?

I waited five years.

I can wait another second or two.

With a smile like that, who can be all
bad?

Now, listen, Rudy, I'll be seeing you,
huh? I owe you, Joe.

No, you'll get my bill.

Hey, Joe, you know what we're going to
have to do someday soon?

Yeah, have lunch.

Old friends like us all these years, you
bet. Sure, Rudy.

Lunch.

Hi. Hi.

Traveling?

Mm -hmm.

I'm on my way.

Give you a lift?

No, I, uh, I figure I should walk out of
here all on my own.

Good luck, Mona.

I'll need it.

Well, you got something else going for
you.

What's that?

You're a girl with tremendous willpower.

How you doing, Maddox?

Not bad.

I guess you expect me to thank you.

It's just another job.

She's tried it before.

She'll never make it.

You're losing friends, Mitch.

I'll buy a bushel more, Maddox.

Sure.

You still think I'm a louse, huh,
Maddox?

You're not starting to worry about what
people think of you.

I told you how it is with me.

I don't change. I know what's right for
me.

Especially in alleys.

Hey, Maddox, I'm an actor. I was just
playing a part, that's all.

Yeah.

A part.

See you in the movies.