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Pickman. Oh, yes, sir.

That stuff came in last night.

I think so.

I'll check it right away.

Yes, sir. I'll check it right away. Right away.

Sergeant Ives will want to see this.

Looks like the stuff from the Jorgen heist.

Nearly a hundred of these, Sergeant. They're trademarked industrial machinery

and weighted down with lead.

Fenomenal furs.

Quality stuff.

Other labels, too. All the best stores in town.

It's a regular clearinghouse.

Sergeant, look at this.

In your division, aren't they?

Yeah.

Officers Warren Hoxie and Vic Heinemann.

Looks like they've been on the take a long time.

$2 .50 a week goes back nearly two years.

Maybe almost as long as this series of unsolved burglaries.

Dan? Yeah?

Marcus Fair was an old pal of yours, huh?

Yeah.

Yeah, he was killed in the Jorgen heist.

He had a wife and a kid.

She works for Joe Mannix.

All he left behind was the Medal of Valor.

Looks like they gave it to the wrong man.

What's that supposed to mean?

He was on the tape.

Sorry, Sergeant.

His name's in the book, too.

Okay, Billy, no one's keeping you.

Anyway, I just said what I heard on the radio.

What's the matter, Toby?

Did he say that O .J. Stinson was a better player than Mike Garrett?

Toby, honey.

He said Daddy was a crooked cop.

Peggy, just because his name was on a list doesn't prove anything.

Toby.

You know your father was a good cop, don't you?

Oh, yes, sir. I know.

Or they wouldn't have given him this, would they?

Medal of Valor.

That's really something, isn't it?

You only get it for a ga... gall... Gallantry.

Above and beyond the call of duty.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Toby, you wash up for dinner now.

Okay, Mommy.

Hi, Dad.

Hi, Peg.

Peggy, this is Lieutenant Burdette.

Hello. May we come in?

Of course.

Joe. Oh, this is my boss, Mr. Mannix, Lieutenant Burdette.

Hello, Lieutenant.

I'm sorry, Peg.

A search warrant?

What are you looking for?

Just what it says there.

Stolen furs and jewelry.

I'll take this room.

But my son's in there.

You better call him in here, then.

Well, there's no stolen property in the boys' room, Lieutenant.

You can take my word for it.

I'm not interested in your word.

And I'd advise you just to keep out of this, Mr. Mannix, huh?

Cool it, will you, Larry?

Now, we got a job to do.

You don't have to throw your weight around to do it.

Well, the officers on the payoff list got a little bonus.

Stolen furs and jewelry for their girlfriends.

And you think Mark...

I haven't any furs.

And this is the only jewelry that I own.

May I see them? That's out, Larry. They were married for over eight years.

Have you had those rings for eight years, Mrs. Fair?

You don't have to say a word unless you want to, Peggy.

Marcus couldn't afford to buy me an engagement ring before we were married.

He gave this to me on our seventh anniversary.

And when was that?

Two months before he was killed.

Well, you know where he bought it, don't you, Peggy?

It was a surprise.

Now, if none of the merchants identify this as stolen property, it'll be

returned to you.

Is this your room, Mrs. Farrow?

If you don't mind, I know where everything is.

Well, yeah.

Might as well get this over with.

Now, Dan, there's nothing in this room but the boys' clothes and toys. Look,

Joe, I don't like this any better than you do.

Marcus was my friend, too.

We started on the force at the same time. Yeah, I know, I know.

That buddy of yours, Burdette, he's got all the charm of a tiger snake.

Yeah, well, Larry takes this thing very personally.

He won't be satisfied until he pulls this thing apart and spits the peepers

the garbage can.

Why take it out on Peggy?

Well, I suppose because the other two guys weren't really locals. They were

transfers from Coronado Park.

Dan, what have they got against Marcus besides his name being on that list?

One, all the robberies occurred in his area.

His and Warren Hoxie's.

They were both assigned a patrol car, A67.

Two, we've dug up witnesses who spotted the car at the scene of two of the

robberies.

Apparently, Joe, they were standing lookout for the burglars.

Wait a minute. Marcus was killed trying to prevent that jewelry store burglary.

Not according to the man who killed him.

Donnelly? He was convicted and set up for life.

Well, he's appealing.

He's claiming self -defense.

He claims Marcus wasn't acting as a police officer.

Well, as what, then?

As an accomplice.

Sure, Marcus was my accomplice.

He was in on it all the way.

Why didn't you plead self -defense at the first trial?

You're putting me on, man.

Who'd have taken my word against a dead hero?

His unsupported word at that.

But it isn't unsupported now, Mr. Mannix. There's corroboration at the

list. Exactly.

Clayton, tell Mr. Mannix precisely what happened that night.

It was a real smooth operation.

Or at least we thought it was going to be.

Man, you scared me half to death.

What are you doing in here anyway?

You're supposed to be outside keeping an eye out.

Well, you guys lap up the real gravy, huh?

He was half drunk.

Maybe he wouldn't have done what he did.

What have you got in your hand?

Unset diamonds.

But look, Marcus, you... And hard to trace, huh?

I'll take them as my cut.

Look, you get yours and pay off.

Now get outside where you belong.

Okay, hand them over, Clay.

I was lucky, believe me.

He was too smashed to shoot the side of a barn.

But you weren't, and you killed him.

Self -defense.

Your word against the dead man's right?

Right.

And some names and figures you call a payoff list.

Well, that isn't all we've got against Fair, Mr. Mannix. There's more.

What? A witness who actually saw him accept a bribe.

From whom?

I'd rather not go into that just now.

Who's the witness?

My girl, Hattie Wills.

Please, Clay.

That's in confidence, Mr. Mannix.

There are other matters I want you to concentrate on if you're going to work

us.

Sorry, but Sergeant Ives implied you were available.

Ives was wrong.

I've already got a client.

Who?

Well, I don't think you'd know Mr.

Ogilvie.

He's only eight years old.

Thanks, Dick.

Hey, what are you doing here?

Thought I told you to take a couple days off.

I had to come in, Joe.

Look, why don't you go home and relax and let me handle this, huh?

I'm not a porcelain doll.

Okay?

Okay.

Donnelly says his girl actually saw Marcus accept a bribe.

I don't believe it.

No. But if she's going to testify, she's going to have to identify the man who

paid him the bribe. He must be the one who put Marcus's name on a payoff list.

I'd like to know why.

Avery Pickman?

The manager of the warehouse?

Maybe.

The police think so.

Donnelly's girlfriend's name is Hattie Wills. See if you can locate her.

Okay. Would you for me go see Warren Hoxie, Marcus's old partner? I think

help us if he could.

Is he in custody?

No, just suspended.

He's at 614 Fifth, apartment 309.

Can't you let the dead rest in peace?

How about Marcus Fair, Hoxie?

Can he rest in peace?

I'm the living dead, friend.

He's the dead dead. They can't hurt him anymore.

They can hurt his wife and kid.

I'm Joe Maddox.

Peggy Fair works for me.

What do you want?

You can help me.

Me? How?

I'd like to know how Marcus Fair's name got on that list. It's all they've got

against him.

Well, that's all they've got against any of them.

Is it?

I heard you and Heinemann wrapped some furs around your girlfriends.

So we bought them off a street peddler.

Can you prove it?

Can they prove I didn't?

Is that the story you told Internal Investigation?

I didn't give them any story.

On the advice of counsel, I took the fifth.

I see.

You see what?

They can bust me off the force, but why should I talk myself into prison?

You can't clear Marcus Fair without incriminating yourself, is that it?

Maybe. Maybe not.

But what's a dead man's reputation worth compared to seven years in the pen?

If Marcus is clean, I'm clean, and so is Heinemann. Don't forget, we were all in

the same boat together.

What boat?

Patrol car A67.

I thought the letter A stood for a two -man car.

It does.

Heinemann filled in on Thursday's off.

What are you doing here, Mannix?

Well, that's between me and my client, Lieutenant.

You gonna get out of my way or do I walk right through you?

You were here to see Warren Hoxie, weren't you?

I'm trying to clear Marcus Fair. Any objections?

The police can wash their own dirty linen without your help.

Maybe I can furnish the soap.

Don't get smart with me, Mannix.

Technically, Lieutenant, that's assault.

You like to try for battery?

Hetty will.

Oh, look, Vic, are you giving me the runaround by any chance?

Because of Marcus.

All right, all right, I take it back.

Thanks anyway, Vic.

Hmm.

What was that all about?

I was trying to find someone down at headquarters to give us the lead on

locating Hetty Wills.

But all of a sudden, I'm an outsider.

It's not you, Peggy.

It's me.

Why you?

Well, forget it. Hey, what about that license number?

Oh, I'm getting that.

At least Katie down in DMV still likes me.

Oh, Dan.

Hi. Hey, Dan, what's up?

Not just a certain Lieutenant Standick.

Word of the wise, Joe.

Stay away from him.

You came all the way down here to tell me that?

Well, I was in the neighborhood.

Let me have a cup of coffee.

Thanks, Joe.

I gotta go.

Dan, who was assigned to Car A -67 that dates to the burglaries?

Marcus and Hoxie, I guess.

Not Heinemann and Hoxie?

I should have thought of it.

I just didn't think about Heinemann being Hoxie's partner. He only filled in

occasionally.

Joe, you mean on the night of the burglaries, if they occurred on Marcus's

off...

Which I suspect is what we'll find out.

Thanks, Dad.

Don't mind me. I choke up watching commercials.

I'll check those dates, Joe.

Thanks, Dad.

Now, take it easy.

Good night, Mrs. Hackett, and thank you.

Hello, Mommy.

Hi, darling.

I didn't mean to wake you up. I like to be waked up like that.

Did Mrs. Hackett give you dinner?

Then off to bed.

they take this back now? Of course not, Toby.

Peggy, does this book mean anything to you?

It's Marcus's day book.

I couldn't bring myself to look at it after he was killed.

Look at this. Routine reports.

Investigations under progress.

Complaints answered.

And in the last four days, nothing but numbers. Why?

I don't know.

Tell me, those last few days of his life, what was Marcus's attitude?

Attitude? His state of mind.

Troubled. More troubled than I'd ever seen him.

Honey, what's bothering you?

Nothing, Peg.

Come on, now. I know better than that.

You've been worried sick these past few days.

Isn't it bad enough to be a policeman's wife without having to put up with his

problems?

You concentrate on the loving. Leave the worrying to me.

And he went back to his daybook.

Then later...

What's

wrong, honey?

Nothing. I have to go out for a while.

But you're off duty tonight.

Cops never off duty, honey.

Thank you.

One more for the road?

And that was the last night.

And earlier in the evening, he was brooding over this book.

Yes.

Then, even though he was off duty,

He went out.

There's a connection.

He wasn't patrolling. I don't think he just blundered onto that robbery. I

he knew it was going to happen.

Then he would have reported it.

What if he wasn't sure? What if he just had a hunch? What if he suspected his

partner of being involved?

And Hoxie was, you know.

That would have torn Marcus up pretty badly to inform on a fellow officer.

Yeah, particularly on a hunch.

Peggy Marcus was too good a cop not to keep up his day book, and he did keep it

up, but in such a way that he wouldn't hurt his friend if his hunch happened to

be wrong.

I think this is a code.

Elementary. Can he decode it?

Sure. How long did it take? A day, maybe.

You know, I gotta admit, Bobby, I never really believed those stories about you

being with G2.

You really were an intelligence officer.

If you saw my old uniform, you'd believe it.

Shiny only in the seat of the pants.

Another case of the army putting a round peg in a square hole, huh?

No, not so.

Musicians make great cryptologists.

They have a natural ear for it.

Say nothing of the eye.

What's this bit of code with its bars and clefts, sharps and flats, majors and

minors? There's a call for you, Mr. Mannix.

Thank you.

I'll get back to you.

Hello. Joe, I finally got it.

Eddie Wills lives at 5693 Peck Place.

How'd you manage it?

Markets had a lot of friends beside policemen.

I spread the word and one of them just got back to me.

Joe, when you see her, I want to go with you.

Sure.

Eddie Wills?

My name is Joe Mannix. This is Peggy Fair.

This is Marcus Fair.

Clay Donnelly says you saw Marcus Fair paid off.

Who was the payoff man, Miss Welch?

Was it Avery Pickman?

Why don't you ask him?

Clay Donnelly said to ask you.

Look, I'm trying to spare this girl's feelings.

I know what it's like to lose your man.

Now, Clay's got one foot in the gas chamber. If you think I'm going to help

dragging his other foot, you're crazy.

Miss Wills, we're not here to hurt Clay Donnelly.

But I don't want my son to grow up thinking that his father was crooked.

What are you worried about?

The hunkies will whitewash your man along with their own.

That's not true.

Charges are pending against them.

They'll pend for a long time.

Little cops don't get rich unless some big wheel gets richer.

What big wheel never you mind But they won't dig up any dirt They'll just sweep

it under the rug

His gun was empty.

How was I supposed to know that? I yelled at you not to shoot.

You closed his mouth, Lieutenant.

And you closed it permanently.

And who's to blame, huh?

Now, we had that house under surveillance.

We would have taken him alive if it hadn't been for you. Mannix, I'm going

have your license for this.

License number ZRR380 is registered to a man named Albert Jensen.

Two addresses and phone numbers. Residence and business.

Try the business.

Right.

Martin Ogilvie, attorney at law.

It's Donnelly's lawyer.

Is this Mr. Ogilvie?

No, this is Albert Jensen, Mr. Ogilvie's private secretary. Can I help you?

No, thank you. I'll call back later.

Now, why would Ogilvie's private secretary be calling on Warren Hoxie?

Peggy, find out from Dan if the handwriting in the payoff list is Avery

Pickman's.

And if it isn't?

Then the head of the burglary ring is still alive and breathing.

Who? The man behind Ogilvy.

The man who gave him the money to defend Donnelly.

I happen to know Donnelly's tapped out, and Ogilvy isn't defending him out of

the goodness of his heart.

Bobby. Bobby. Joe, I'm sorry.

I tried to stall him, but he dragged me over here.

Hand it over, Mannix.

Hand what over? You know what I'm talking about.

Give it to him, Bobby.

I'm withholding evidence.

There'll be one more charge against you at the hearing.

What hearing?

You're to appear before the Department of Professional Licenses tomorrow at 5 o

'clock to show cause why yours shouldn't be revoked.

I'll see you there.

How'd you find out?

I called the police academy to find out if it was some kind of a stock police

code.

It isn't.

Well, I guess word got back to Burdette.

Well, that day book was our only lead.

Still is, pal.

I photographed every page.

That's the word that occurs most often.

And Marcus was investigating the burglaries.

That's right.

You see how the code works?

Not quite.

I learned a long time ago that A is the first letter in the alphabet and B is

the second.

But how can the same digit represent A and U?

You've got to distinguish the sharps from the flats, old boy.

Go on.

Well, you see, the digit 1 under the letter A is a straight line.

The digit 1 under the letter U is a straight line with a bar across the

making it represent 21, or the 21st letter of the alphabet.

I see.

And the second digit 2 has a little curlicue on top, and the number 2 under

letter B has none.

That's the idea.

Here's the first page to code it.

That's it. When can you get the rest of it? Sometime this afternoon.

Hurry it up, will you, genius?

Joe, what if Hoxie suspected Marcus was on his trail?

What if he had him set up for Clay Donnelly?

Are you out of your mind, Mannix?

I wouldn't connive with a... Punk like Donnelly. You're conniving with him

now. What are you talking about? How? By letting him get away with a charge that

Marcus was his accomplice.

All right.

Donnelly was lying.

Have you let go of me?

So Marcus wasn't his accomplice.

No.

Can you prove it?

Sure I can. Then why haven't you?

Because I want to forget that night.

Forget that you were bought by the gang.

Everybody's going to know that anyway.

Look, haven't I told you enough already? You can clear Marcus.

I've got to know it all.

I can't tell you anymore.

Why?

Because you killed Marcus?

Get off of that.

That's what you want to forget, isn't it?

Isn't it?

No!

And I didn't.

That's what I want to forget.

Taken so long.

You're under arrest. On your feet with your hands up.

I should have broken in right then and sighted Marcus, but I couldn't move. I

froze.

I want you to tell Sergeant Ives what you just told me. No!

No? No, I talk to my lawyer first.

If you interfere, Maddox, I'll clam up.

I want him with me when I surrender.

All right.

When? In an hour. He's coming here.

You'll call me afterwards?

I'll call you.

Let's give him a chance, Peggy.

He said an hour.

I still think you should have reported that little incident outside the

building.

Hi, Dan. Hey, Joe.

Peg, I got some good news.

On the dates of all the burglaries, Marcus was off duty.

Heinemann and Hoxley were assigned to Car 67.

Thanks, Dan.

Who was responsible for the assignments?

They're watch officers, Lieutenant Burdette. Why?

And another thing. The handwriting on that payoff list was not Pickman's.

Maybe it was some guy whose initials are L .B. Why?

I decoded the rest of the daybook.

What daybook?

Lieutenant Burdette took... Didn't he tell you?

No.

What about L .B.?

Marcus suspected the payoff money was given to just one cop who divided with

others. Who?

Not certain.

But Marcus also wrote that he overheard Hoxie mention the name of the payoff

man. To him, it sounded like the initials L .B.

That could be any one of a thousand people.

I'll talk to the captain. I'm sure Larry turned that book over to him.

And if he didn't?

Shouldn't we be hearing from Hoxie by now?

If it'll make you feel better.

20 ,000 is all we could raise on such short notice. Take it or leave it.

Okay, where?

You've been drinking?

I wanted to.

You forget you wanted to make it to the lake?

Just double -check.

Machina Lake?

Look, Joe, you don't know what kind of trouble you're going to run into up

there. Let me call Dan and...

Okay, but call me as soon as you can.

Howdy. You know this man?

It's Mr. Hoxie.

A real nice fella.

You know where I might find him?

It's important.

The place he usually counts is straight across the lake.

The quickest way to get there is right in one of my boats.

Thank you.

You bet.

Thank you.

Waiting for somebody, Hoxie?

Hoxie, you're a liar and a blackmailer.

And for once, you're going to start talking straight.

Now, where do you think you're running to?

To anywhere where they couldn't extradite me.

Do you think I was going to stand still for a jail sentence?

An ex -cop in a can with thieves and killers? Have you any idea what that

be like?

And you figure your ex -employers would finance this little jot or you'd blow

the whistle on them, huh? They got me into this mess.

They owe me.

You got yourself in this mess, Hoxie.

You're a fool.

They tried to kill me and I only know half of what you know.

Now let's go.

You're going to take me back?

What do you think?

I leveled with you, Mannix. I helped you with fair. You owe me.

Everybody owes you, don't they, Hoxie?

Now let's go.

All right, this way.

You just can't keep your nose out of things, can you, Mannix? How did you

Peggy told me.

Now, who's out there trying to blow your head off, Mannix?

Not that I don't think it's a pretty good idea.

Well, I'd say one of the men's name is Elby.

Isn't that what you call him, Hoxie?

Albert Jensen.

Warren Ogilvie's secretary.

Well, we thought the man behind Ogilvie was the one who organized all of these

burglaries.

But there was nobody behind him, just Ogilvie.

Elby was the payoff man. He gave Hoxie the money to divide with Heinemann and

Marcus. Hoxie knew he couldn't corrupt Marcus, so he pocketed his share of the

money.

Ogilvy didn't know that, so he put Marcus's name on the payoff list.

Hey, come walk to the right.

Are you in the infantry, Lieutenant?

Sure.

What else would a flatfoot be, huh?

Why don't you say we try a little double -flanking maneuver?

Why not?

All right, I'll be turning around slowly and drop the gun.

You okay?

Yeah.

Albie's dead.

Well, it wasn't too bad a double -flanking attack, Joe.

Save your kind words for the hearing.

About my license.

Oh, there won't be a hearing.

The chief witness just decided not to show up.

All right, let's go.

Toby up? Not yet.

Mommy, is someone at the door?

Hello, Toby.

I, uh, thought you might like to see this.

Lieutenant Burdette gave me something to give you.