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This is the city.
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Los Angeles, California.
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It ranks first in the country
in a number of things.
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Among them, land
area and automobiles.
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One of the biggest
areas here is occupied by
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the University of
California at Los Angeles.
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It's situated on 411
acres in West Los Angeles.
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UCLA is a student
body of 29,000,
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a faculty of 2,000 distributed
among 71 departments
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and 14 schools and colleges.
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Since 1945, a $160 million
building program has been underway,
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the largest on any campus
in the United States.
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One of those expansions
concerns the library.
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With over two million books, the
university has the largest collection
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of any college in the world.
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UCLA is a place where young
people prepare for a successful future.
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A goal is worthwhile but
the path is long and hard.
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Some try to find an easier way.
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When it's illegal, I go to work.
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I carry a badge.
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The story you are
about to see is true.
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The names have been
changed to protect the innocent.
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It was Tuesday, April 11th.
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We were working the day, watch
out of Frauds Division Forgery Section.
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The boss is Captain Frankel.
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My partner is Bill Gannon.
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My name is Friday.
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We checked in for
work at 9:00 a.m.
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For the past two
and a half minutes,
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Bill appeared to be
testing the construction
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qualities of the
squadron furniture.
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What's the matter? Something
wrong with the furniture?
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No, Joe, there's nothing
wrong with the furniture.
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Isometrics, they're called.
Good old dynamic tension.
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You can do it anywhere anytime.
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Do your isometrics three minutes a
day, you don't have to do anything else.
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- Is that so?
- Yes, Joe, it's so. It's the
tension.
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One muscle working dynamically
against the other that does the trick.
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You don't get much
exercise, do you, Joe?
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Oh, I get out and bowl
when I have a chance.
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Well, that's nice. I don't
suppose you do any jogging.
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Well no, I don't have
much time for that.
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But you've got time to
sit around and get flabby.
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That's why you ought
to try isometrics, Joe.
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It doesn't take any of your
valuable time. Now, watch this.
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See. That didn't take any time.
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A few seconds here, a few seconds there,
that's all it takes, Joe. No time at all.
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You've got muscles
like bands of solid steel.
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That's amazing. You've been
doing this isometrics have you?
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Just starting.
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What's the matter, Gannon?
Something wrong with that chair?
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No, sir Captain,
just exercising.
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This might give you a little
more. Theft and forgery.
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Woman calling herself Sarah Phillips passed
over $3,000 with a bad paper last week.
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- Stolen payroll checks.
- Yes, sir.
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The checks were stolen in
the Monument Movie Studios.
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- The Phillips woman works there.
- All right. We'll go have a talk
with her.
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Yeah, do that and maybe
you can help find whoever
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- it was that stole her driver's
license and her credit cards.
- Yes, sir.
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And who's been forging
her signature to these checks.
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9:45 a.m.
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We drove over to Sarah
Phillip" apartment on
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Harper Avenue just
below Sunset Boulevard.
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- Yes?
- You're Ms. Phillips, Sarah
Phillips?
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- Yes, that's right.
- Police officers, Ms. Phillips.
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This is Bill Gannon.
My name is Friday.
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- It's about those checks.
- That's right.
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Please, come in.
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Can I get you anything?
Coffee? Orange juice?
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No, thank you.
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Please sit down.
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This thing has made me a
complete wreck. I'm so nervous.
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Yes, ma'am, we understand.
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I just can't get over this. It's
never happened to me before.
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I mean having my name used
makes me feel so responsible, so guilty.
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Someone stole my
identification cards, my
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driver's license, my
credit cards, everything.
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Yes, ma'am. Now, when did
you first notice they were missing?
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Just the last couple of days.
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Stores all over town
have been calling me.
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Every time that phone rings I
want to dig a hole in the ceiling.
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I know it's going to be some
place of business calling that's
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been swindled by
somebody using my name.
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And you're employed by
Monument Studios, is that right?
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I've been doing
commercials mostly on TV but
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I've just signed a seven-year
contract with Monument.
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Do you have any idea where
or when your identification
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and credit cards might
have been stolen?
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No idea. They were all in my purse
but I have dozens of credit cards
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so I didn't notice
that a few were gone,
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and unless I'm getting a ticket I
never look at my driver's license.
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What a mess this is.
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My roommate has been calling me "Public
Enemy No. 1" ever since this thing started.
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Is your roommate here?
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I don't want to get her involved. She
doesn't have anything to do with this.
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We didn't say she did.
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Mary has a regular job. She
works in a bank. That's her picture.
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- What's her full name?
- Mary Hargrave.
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How long have you known her?
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You act like you
really suspect her.
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- How long have you known her?
- About six months.
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Oh, she's a nut but she's
a real good roommate.
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Is it possible she could have
taken the things from your purse?
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That's what I mean.
You suspect her.
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Absolutely not.
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Mary just kids about
being money crazy.
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Actually, she's a
very religious person.
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Is that so?
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Why just last week she joined
the Ming Dynasty Crusaders.
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- The Ming Dynasty Crusaders?
- Yes, the MDC.
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She's very devout.
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It's the third religion she's
had since I've known her.
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The third in six months?
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She's extremely devout but she has
trouble deciding what to be devout about.
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She'll stick with
Ming Dynasty though.
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- What makes you so sure?
- She's made a commitment.
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She went out and
bought herself a gong.
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10:25 a.m.
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Sarah Phillips gave us a list
of the various stores which had
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reported receiving the
forged payroll checks.
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We drove out to
talk to the victims.
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The first one on the list was the Beautyfix
Boutique on Santa Monica Boulevard.
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May I help you?
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Yes, we'd like to talk to
the manager if we could.
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Oh, Ms. Tigley. She's
in back. I'll get her.
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Thank you very much.
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- That certainly is short.
- A little.
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I've got more material on my handkerchief
than she has in her entire dress.
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I mean you know me, Joe.
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I'm no prude but really, can you imagine
your mother wearing something like that?
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No, but then my
mother is in her 70s.
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Yes, gentlemen? You
wanted to see me?
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Angela Tigley, I'm
the manager here.
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Yes, ma'am. We're police officers. We'd
like to talk to you about a forged check.
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$240. I should
have known better.
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I should have smelled
something funny about a $240 sale.
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I should have known it was too
good to be true from a size 10.
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Yes, ma'am. Can you describe
the person who passed the check?
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A perfect size 10. I
waited on her myself.
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Could you be a
little more specific?
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What was her age, height,
weight, the color of her hair?
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Oh, brunette, shoulder
length, pageboy no fall.
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- Pageboy no fall?
- It was her own hair. She wasn't
wearing a wig.
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She was about my
height and weight.
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- I'm also a 10. I'd say she was
25, maybe 26.
- How was she dressed?
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Pale blue blouse with gold piping,
navy blue miniskirt, and thong sandals.
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I wouldn't bother
writing all that down.
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How's that?
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- That's what she wore when she
came in.
- Yes, ma'am.
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When she walked out she was
wearing a brand new $240 outfit.
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11:15 a.m.
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we arrived at
Platt's Jewelry Store.
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Sydney Platt like Angela
Tigley had accepted a bad check.
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He had been cheated out of
a lady's diamond wristwatch,
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two gold bracelets, and a
pair of diamond earrings,
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total $538 plus tax.
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His description the woman tallied
with the one given us by Angela Tigley.
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11:35 a.m.
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We checked back with Sarah Phillips to find
out if she knew anyone who would fit the
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description we had been given by
the two victimized store managers.
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Yes, I know somebody who fits
that description, but it's impossible.
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Size 10, brunette, shoulder
length hair, 25, 26 years old.
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Twenty-five, my roommate, Mary.
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That picture is about two years
old but her hair is longer now.
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But Mary wouldn't
do something like this.
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Why because she plays the gong?
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We'll have to take this photograph
along with us, Ms. Phillips.
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It will be returned after
we finish our investigation.
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- All right.
- Do you have any samples of her
handwriting?
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Yes, the book by the phone.
That's her address book.
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We'll have to take this along
with us too. I'll be returned.
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What do I tell Mary if she notices her
picture and her address book are gone?
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What time do you
expect her today?
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As soon as she gets off work.
She'll be home by five o'clock.
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All right. These
will be back by 4:00.
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Now, we'd appreciate it
if you didn't say anything
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to her about this until we've
completed our investigation.
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Oh, don't worry about that.
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I don't want to make things
any worse than they are.
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I just know Mary isn't guilty.
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She's just too nice.
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Well, if she's that
nice, she isn't guilty.
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Yes.
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And if she's guilty,
she's not that nice.
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11:55 a.m.
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We showed Mary Hargrave's
photograph to Angela Tigley.
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We asked her if she
recognized her as the forger.
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Ms. Tigley said there was a
resemblance but she couldn't be
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certain without seeing
the girl in person.
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12:15 p.m.
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We showed the photograph to
the victimized jeweler, Sydney Platt.
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He was also in doubt.
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He said that the woman in the
two-year-old photograph might
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have been the same
person who passed the check
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in his store but he
couldn't be positive.
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1:05 p.m.
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We took Mary Hargrave's address
book to Question Documents Section.
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Roy Kiser compared the
handwriting in the book to the
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signatures on the
forged payroll checks.
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- Well, how does
it look to you, Roy?
- You got no make here.
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- You're sure?
- That's what they pay me to be
sure. No chance, Joe.
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Whoever filled out this address
book didn't sign these checks, all right?
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- Well, thanks, Roy.
- Anytime, boy. One thing I can
tell you.
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- What's that?
- The girl who signed this
checks.
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- Yeah?
- She's a southpaw.
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- Are you sure of that?
- They just don't listen.
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Yes, Bill, I'm sure.
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The girl who filled out the
address book is right-handed.
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The one who signed
the checks is a leftie.
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- Well, that's a help.
- We also serve, we only sit and
wait.
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Oh, we never doubted that for a
second. Roy, give us an educated guess.
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How many left-handed women do
you think there are in Los Angeles?
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At least 100,000.
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You know it's simply amazing how this
man cracks our cases wide open for us.
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- Fantastic and that really
doesn't seem fair.
- No.
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He does all the work,
we get all the glory.
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Get out of here.
I got work to do.
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So do we. We've got
100,000 suspects to round up.
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My money is on you, Hawkshaw.
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You will accomplish
that by tea time.
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Frauds Division, Friday.
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Yes, that's right.
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What's your name?
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I see.
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Where?
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Well, when?
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Okay. How do we know you?
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Uh-huh, yeah, yeah.
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- Okay. We'll be there.
- What's that?
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Somebody wants to tell us who's
been passing those stolen payroll checks.
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00:11:25,451 --> 00:11:26,829
Who's someone?
232
00:11:26,853 --> 00:11:30,700
Five-foot-ten, brown hair, blue
eyes, brown beard, no name.
233
00:11:30,724 --> 00:11:32,401
- Oh, him.
- Where is the meet?
234
00:11:32,425 --> 00:11:35,493
Edendale Cemetery,
the mausoleum.
235
00:11:42,702 --> 00:11:44,947
2:10 p.m.
236
00:11:44,971 --> 00:11:49,218
We returned Mary Hargrave's photograph
and address book to Sarah Phillips,
237
00:11:49,242 --> 00:11:51,787
then we drove to the
Edendale Cemetery in West
238
00:11:51,811 --> 00:11:54,156
Hollywood to meet the
anonymous informant.
239
00:11:54,180 --> 00:11:56,492
- You must be the men.
- We're the men.
240
00:11:56,516 --> 00:11:59,362
Give me a sign.
241
00:11:59,386 --> 00:12:01,864
- Are you Friday?
- That's right and this is Bill
Gannon.
242
00:12:01,888 --> 00:12:03,299
Now, what's your name?
243
00:12:03,323 --> 00:12:05,668
Thompson, Thompson of Valhalla.
244
00:12:05,692 --> 00:12:08,871
I come here to commune with
the dead. We're all dead, you know.
245
00:12:08,895 --> 00:12:13,075
You said on the phone you know
who's been passing stolen payroll checks.
246
00:12:13,099 --> 00:12:16,679
The best coffee in
town. I make it myself.
247
00:12:16,703 --> 00:12:20,583
Yeah, I know who's
been passing the checks.
248
00:12:20,607 --> 00:12:23,486
- I wish I didn't.
- Why is that?
249
00:12:23,510 --> 00:12:25,321
Well, she's not
in it by herself.
250
00:12:25,345 --> 00:12:27,122
I mean she'd never
do it by herself.
251
00:12:27,146 --> 00:12:29,057
It's those flake-outs
she's been running with.
252
00:12:29,081 --> 00:12:31,165
I mean then they put
her up to swipe in the
253
00:12:31,189 --> 00:12:33,296
payroll checks and
those IDs in the studio.
254
00:12:33,320 --> 00:12:35,364
She used to work out there as a
secretary. I used to work out there myself.
255
00:12:35,388 --> 00:12:37,199
- I was a hack.
- What's that?
256
00:12:37,223 --> 00:12:41,504
I was a hack. You know, I wrote bad
movie scripts, bad TV scripts and it's
257
00:12:41,528 --> 00:12:45,574
strictly for the loot and didn't make much
of that. But I'm out of that is scene now.
258
00:12:45,598 --> 00:12:47,276
Knock wood... knock cement.
259
00:12:47,300 --> 00:12:48,644
What do you do now for a living?
260
00:12:48,668 --> 00:12:53,248
Well, for a living,
man, I... I live period.
261
00:12:53,272 --> 00:12:56,585
I meditate, ponder the universe.
I commune with the dead.
262
00:12:56,609 --> 00:12:57,886
What do you do for money?
263
00:12:57,910 --> 00:12:59,288
Well, I'm still on unemployment.
264
00:12:59,312 --> 00:13:02,057
Now and then I collect the
residual on an old TV script.
265
00:13:02,081 --> 00:13:04,660
- You're writing now?
- I told you, Gannon.
266
00:13:04,684 --> 00:13:07,530
I'm spending most
of my time thinking.
267
00:13:07,554 --> 00:13:10,566
You know, most people don't
realize the writing is the easiest part.
268
00:13:10,590 --> 00:13:12,067
It's the thinking
that takes time.
269
00:13:12,091 --> 00:13:14,704
It's that period of creative
gestation that separates the
270
00:13:14,728 --> 00:13:17,473
artist from the hack,
the living from the dead.
271
00:13:17,497 --> 00:13:21,043
Tell us about the ex-secretary
who's been passing the stolen checks.
272
00:13:21,067 --> 00:13:22,545
Sondra.
273
00:13:22,569 --> 00:13:24,146
She's a beautiful person.
274
00:13:24,170 --> 00:13:26,148
Just beautiful.
275
00:13:26,172 --> 00:13:28,952
When I left the studio to
devote myself to serious
276
00:13:28,976 --> 00:13:31,387
work, she kept on out
there as a secretary.
277
00:13:31,411 --> 00:13:33,288
We moved to a cabin
up in Oakleaf Canyon.
278
00:13:33,312 --> 00:13:35,558
It was great for a while.
279
00:13:35,582 --> 00:13:40,062
But she became friends with a bunch of the
Canyon creeps, especially Ralph and Dixie.
280
00:13:40,086 --> 00:13:42,698
They're a total waste.
281
00:13:42,722 --> 00:13:45,267
And a couple of
weeks ago, she left me.
282
00:13:45,291 --> 00:13:48,036
She said I was destroying
her ability to paint.
283
00:13:48,060 --> 00:13:49,438
She paints.
284
00:13:49,462 --> 00:13:50,773
She's very good.
285
00:13:50,797 --> 00:13:53,308
She said I was
stifling her inspiration.
286
00:13:53,332 --> 00:13:56,144
So now she lives with Dixie
and Ralph in that communal pigsty
287
00:13:56,168 --> 00:14:00,282
they share with the other bad news
characters up and down the Canyon.
288
00:14:00,306 --> 00:14:03,067
And it's that fat dumb
Dixie who talked her in
289
00:14:03,091 --> 00:14:05,755
clocking those payroll
checks and those IDs.
290
00:14:05,779 --> 00:14:10,393
You know, even if Sondra were
starving, she'd never steal for herself.
291
00:14:10,417 --> 00:14:12,261
But they brainwashed her.
292
00:14:12,285 --> 00:14:16,399
You know, they convinced her that she owed
it to her friends to steal for their sake.
293
00:14:16,423 --> 00:14:18,133
Why are you telling us all this?
294
00:14:18,157 --> 00:14:22,337
Because I love her
and I want her back.
295
00:14:22,361 --> 00:14:27,009
I know that sooner or later, with or
without my help, you'll catch up with them.
296
00:14:27,033 --> 00:14:31,079
I guess I was hoping if I helped
you, maybe you could help her.
297
00:14:31,103 --> 00:14:33,549
Maybe you could put her on
probation and return her to me.
298
00:14:33,573 --> 00:14:35,818
That will be up to
the court to decide.
299
00:14:35,842 --> 00:14:37,553
I dig.
300
00:14:37,577 --> 00:14:40,022
But you could put in a
word if you wanted to.
301
00:14:40,046 --> 00:14:42,825
You could tell the judge that
she's not a felonious person,
302
00:14:42,849 --> 00:14:45,728
that she only did what she
did for her friends, the leeches.
303
00:14:45,752 --> 00:14:48,564
You could him that she has a man
who loves her and wants her back.
304
00:14:48,588 --> 00:14:50,132
Where is this Sondra now?
305
00:14:50,156 --> 00:14:52,535
Well, they all went up the coast
somewhere the day before yesterday.
306
00:14:52,559 --> 00:14:54,904
I think they're living
alfresco near Big Sur.
307
00:14:54,928 --> 00:14:57,072
They're supposed to be
back the end of the week.
308
00:14:57,096 --> 00:14:58,674
I'm keeping her cat for
her till she gets back.
309
00:14:58,698 --> 00:15:01,610
Anybody else involved in the
operation besides this Sondra?
310
00:15:01,634 --> 00:15:04,447
Well, Sondra is the
number one patsy.
311
00:15:04,471 --> 00:15:08,584
She swipes the checks, she passes them
but they got a three-way go in the take,
312
00:15:08,608 --> 00:15:13,021
Sondra and the two leeches, you know, Dixie
and Ralph, a couple of real parasites.
313
00:15:13,045 --> 00:15:14,957
They can't even
steal for themselves.
314
00:15:14,981 --> 00:15:17,626
- Do you have a picture of this
Sondra?
- No, not on me.
315
00:15:17,650 --> 00:15:21,096
There's one back at the pad.
316
00:15:21,120 --> 00:15:25,167
Now, I pray to God she
understands my motive in doing this.
317
00:15:25,191 --> 00:15:28,971
I hope she sees that it
was love and not spite.
318
00:15:28,995 --> 00:15:31,841
- She will see that, won't she?
- I wouldn't know.
319
00:15:31,865 --> 00:15:34,977
Now, tell me, this Sondra, you two
are living together, is that the idea?
320
00:15:35,001 --> 00:15:39,303
Don't you think we should
man? She's my wife.
321
00:15:40,807 --> 00:15:43,741
Legal, with a
license to back it up.
322
00:15:45,011 --> 00:15:46,789
3:25 p.m.
323
00:15:46,813 --> 00:15:50,258
We accompanied Blake Thompson
to a cabin up in Oakleaf Canyon.
324
00:15:50,282 --> 00:15:53,195
Powerful, isn't it? It
really turns you on.
325
00:15:53,219 --> 00:15:56,331
- It blows your mind, doesn't it?
- Sure does mine. What is it?
326
00:15:56,355 --> 00:15:58,000
Well, what are you seeing?
327
00:15:58,024 --> 00:16:01,336
- Well, that's a real nice frame.
- No, don't be self-conscious.
328
00:16:01,360 --> 00:16:03,438
Let yourself out.
Hold nothing back.
329
00:16:03,462 --> 00:16:05,908
Don't be uptight about
it. Just simply respond.
330
00:16:05,932 --> 00:16:08,443
Well, there's a big yellow thing
down the corner and there's a
331
00:16:08,467 --> 00:16:12,882
purple swirl in the middle and
a lot of brown drops all over it.
332
00:16:12,906 --> 00:16:15,050
Okay and I add it up
and tell me what it says?
333
00:16:15,074 --> 00:16:16,719
Yellow and purple and brown.
334
00:16:16,743 --> 00:16:18,186
That's her.
335
00:16:18,210 --> 00:16:19,955
It's a self-portrait.
336
00:16:19,979 --> 00:16:21,456
It's Sondra.
337
00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:23,158
Sondra. Pretty girl.
338
00:16:23,182 --> 00:16:25,460
This isn't the only picture
you have of her, is it?
339
00:16:25,484 --> 00:16:27,696
I mean this is good but
we could use a photograph.
340
00:16:27,720 --> 00:16:30,655
Got one. Hang
tough and I'll get it.
341
00:16:36,295 --> 00:16:39,875
I don't think it's as good of her
myself. It's in black and white.
342
00:16:39,899 --> 00:16:42,244
Sleeps right on
top of her picture.
343
00:16:42,268 --> 00:16:45,681
This is Sondra's cat,
Toby, and this is Sondra.
344
00:16:45,705 --> 00:16:48,383
You seem like a bright guy,
Thompson, well-educated.
345
00:16:48,407 --> 00:16:51,053
Tell me something.
You like living like this?
346
00:16:51,077 --> 00:16:52,555
Well, it's the only way to go.
347
00:16:52,579 --> 00:16:54,590
All an artist needs
is pen and paper.
348
00:16:54,614 --> 00:16:55,958
Everything else is just trivia.
349
00:16:55,982 --> 00:16:57,392
Doesn't this mess
depress you a little?
350
00:16:57,416 --> 00:17:00,629
Does it matter whether Tolstoy
or Dickens slept in a clean bed
351
00:17:00,653 --> 00:17:03,032
when they wrote War
and Peace or Oliver Twist?
352
00:17:03,056 --> 00:17:05,935
Maybe not to everybody, Thompson, but
I'll lay your odds, it mattered to someone.
353
00:17:05,959 --> 00:17:06,969
Who?
354
00:17:06,993 --> 00:17:10,561
Mrs. Tolstoy and Mrs. Dickens.
355
00:17:27,413 --> 00:17:30,292
Thursday, April 13th, 1:15 p.m.
356
00:17:30,316 --> 00:17:31,660
We had just returned from lunch.
357
00:17:34,053 --> 00:17:36,331
Frauds Division, Friday.
358
00:17:36,355 --> 00:17:38,634
Yeah.
359
00:17:38,658 --> 00:17:41,336
What's that address? Uh-huh.
360
00:17:41,360 --> 00:17:43,438
Is that up near your place?
361
00:17:43,462 --> 00:17:46,642
Yeah, I got it. Okay.
We'll be right out.
362
00:17:46,666 --> 00:17:49,700
It was Thompson.
His wife just got back.
363
00:17:51,804 --> 00:17:53,215
1:35 p.m.
364
00:17:53,239 --> 00:17:55,818
We drove to the address
Thompson had given us.
365
00:17:55,842 --> 00:18:01,356
It was another rundown house a
little farther up in Oakleaf Canyon.
366
00:18:04,884 --> 00:18:07,785
Don't inhale or you'll be
higher than a pond of weed.
367
00:18:12,125 --> 00:18:17,072
Hey there. Hey
there. I know you?
368
00:18:17,096 --> 00:18:19,207
Police officers.
369
00:18:19,231 --> 00:18:21,844
Oh, you know him.
370
00:18:21,868 --> 00:18:23,846
Oh, am I floating?
371
00:18:23,870 --> 00:18:29,184
You're not going to believe this, Dixie,
but the heat just waltz into my dream.
372
00:18:29,208 --> 00:18:31,620
Mine too.
373
00:18:31,644 --> 00:18:37,092
Joe.
374
00:18:37,116 --> 00:18:41,263
Monument Studios, Sarah
Phillips, payroll checks.
375
00:18:41,287 --> 00:18:44,021
Driver's license, credit cards,
all belong to the Phillips girl.
376
00:18:48,427 --> 00:18:50,338
Ralphie.
377
00:18:50,362 --> 00:18:52,675
Yeah, Dixie.
378
00:18:52,699 --> 00:18:57,345
What's it mean when I
see the same thing you see?
379
00:18:57,369 --> 00:19:01,050
I think it means
we're in big trouble.
380
00:19:01,074 --> 00:19:03,852
- Where is the Thompson woman?
- Who? Oh, Sondra.
381
00:19:03,876 --> 00:19:05,253
Well, isn't she here?
382
00:19:05,277 --> 00:19:08,657
She went off with
what's his name?
383
00:19:08,681 --> 00:19:12,127
You know, the lump
that she's married to.
384
00:19:12,151 --> 00:19:15,263
- Hey, man, just don't stop us
from floating now, huh?
- No chance.
385
00:19:15,287 --> 00:19:19,868
Because all I want to do
is just float, float, and float.
386
00:19:19,892 --> 00:19:21,904
Me too.
387
00:19:21,928 --> 00:19:25,629
You will right down
the Central Jail.
388
00:19:27,767 --> 00:19:29,611
2:45 p.m.
389
00:19:29,635 --> 00:19:33,882
We booked the suspects for
violation of Section 470 PC, forgery.
390
00:19:33,906 --> 00:19:38,486
Bill filled out a request for an all points
bulletin for Blake and Sondra Thompson.
391
00:19:38,510 --> 00:19:41,056
Frauds Division, Gannon.
392
00:19:41,080 --> 00:19:43,491
Oh, how you've been?
393
00:19:43,515 --> 00:19:45,360
Yeah, we've been
looking for you.
394
00:19:45,384 --> 00:19:50,032
Sure we went there. We went by
your place about half an hour ago too.
395
00:19:50,056 --> 00:19:52,201
Okay, I understand.
396
00:19:52,225 --> 00:19:53,268
Right.
397
00:19:53,292 --> 00:19:54,903
Ten minutes.
398
00:19:54,927 --> 00:19:56,504
That was Thompson.
His wife is with him.
399
00:19:56,528 --> 00:19:58,073
- They're at the cabin waiting
for us.
- Yeah.
400
00:19:58,097 --> 00:20:00,042
Having the last cup of coffee.
401
00:20:00,066 --> 00:20:01,443
The best in town.
402
00:20:01,467 --> 00:20:02,778
No, not this time.
403
00:20:02,802 --> 00:20:04,213
He's been watering it down.
404
00:20:04,237 --> 00:20:06,837
He was crying.
405
00:20:09,275 --> 00:20:10,585
It was 3:05 p.m.
406
00:20:10,609 --> 00:20:12,643
when we arrived at
Thompson's cabin.
407
00:20:16,382 --> 00:20:17,993
Hi.
408
00:20:18,017 --> 00:20:21,230
- You want a cup of coffee? It's
the best in town.
- No, thanks.
409
00:20:21,254 --> 00:20:25,533
Sergeant Friday, Officer
Gannon, this is my wife, Sondra.
410
00:20:25,557 --> 00:20:28,137
I couldn't let you bust her
with the rest of those creeps.
411
00:20:28,161 --> 00:20:31,273
I had to talk to
her one last time.
412
00:20:31,297 --> 00:20:32,975
I had to tell her why I did it.
413
00:20:32,999 --> 00:20:35,244
We better get going.
414
00:20:35,268 --> 00:20:38,535
Wish me luck, sweetheart.
415
00:20:46,179 --> 00:20:47,678
Bye.
416
00:21:08,134 --> 00:21:11,280
Wednesday, May
10th A month went by.
417
00:21:11,304 --> 00:21:15,818
Bill and I had to appear in court later
that day to testify at the Thompson trial.
418
00:21:15,842 --> 00:21:17,619
We were reviewing the case.
419
00:21:17,643 --> 00:21:20,488
- Sergeant.
- Yeah, can I help you?
420
00:21:20,512 --> 00:21:25,527
No, sir. Not anymore.
421
00:21:25,551 --> 00:21:27,963
You don't recognize me?
422
00:21:27,987 --> 00:21:29,064
- Blake Thompson.
- Well, what happened to you?
423
00:21:29,088 --> 00:21:31,266
I woke up.
424
00:21:31,290 --> 00:21:33,768
I realized that Sondra's
leaving me for Ralph
425
00:21:33,792 --> 00:21:36,238
and Dixie wasn't really
a step-down for her.
426
00:21:36,262 --> 00:21:40,909
I used to say they never did anything
constructive, that they lived like pigs.
427
00:21:40,933 --> 00:21:43,578
Then I took a look
at the way I lived.
428
00:21:43,602 --> 00:21:45,580
They were just more
honest than I was.
429
00:21:45,604 --> 00:21:49,318
They'd lay around with their
pot and pills, getting their kicks.
430
00:21:49,342 --> 00:21:53,421
I was no better with my meditation
and my great unwritten books.
431
00:21:53,445 --> 00:21:55,057
I don't blame
Sondra for splitting.
432
00:21:55,081 --> 00:21:58,026
In these past few weeks,
while she's been out on bail
433
00:21:58,050 --> 00:22:02,797
we've had time to talk about things
that count, the things that really matter.
434
00:22:02,821 --> 00:22:05,767
I don't know if I
can write anymore.
435
00:22:05,791 --> 00:22:08,636
I've been Tolstoying my brain
for so long now that I'm not
436
00:22:08,660 --> 00:22:13,408
even sure I can write bad
movies, let alone good books.
437
00:22:13,432 --> 00:22:14,843
It was because of what's
happened to Sondra
438
00:22:14,867 --> 00:22:19,047
that I decided to turn off,
tune up, and drive back in.
439
00:22:19,071 --> 00:22:21,583
Partly, it was really seeing
myself for the first time
440
00:22:21,607 --> 00:22:25,520
through her eyes that
straightened me on.
441
00:22:25,544 --> 00:22:29,057
It's not so hard to look like a
pig and live like a bum and pigs
442
00:22:29,081 --> 00:22:32,027
and bums are the
only ones around.
443
00:22:32,051 --> 00:22:36,798
But taking an honest hard look
at yourself really shakes you up.
444
00:22:36,822 --> 00:22:39,001
I'm working on a movie script.
445
00:22:39,025 --> 00:22:42,404
Nobody ordered it. I'll take
my chances on the open market.
446
00:22:42,428 --> 00:22:45,473
My agent thinks it's pretty good.
The studio might be interested.
447
00:22:45,497 --> 00:22:47,876
Movies don't have
to be bad, you know.
448
00:22:47,900 --> 00:22:49,878
It's not movies that are hack.
449
00:22:49,902 --> 00:22:51,947
It's hacks who were hacks.
450
00:22:51,971 --> 00:22:53,782
I was a hack. Maybe
I'll always be one,
451
00:22:53,806 --> 00:22:58,053
but I'll never be a pig again.
452
00:22:58,077 --> 00:23:01,278
Well, I just wanted to
stop by and say thanks.
453
00:23:04,116 --> 00:23:05,994
Trial starts pretty
soon, doesn't it?
454
00:23:06,018 --> 00:23:07,162
A few minutes now.
455
00:23:07,186 --> 00:23:08,563
Sondra is out in the hall.
456
00:23:08,587 --> 00:23:10,854
- Would you say hello to her?
- Sure.
457
00:23:22,134 --> 00:23:24,546
The courthouse is a
couple of blocks away.
458
00:23:24,570 --> 00:23:26,514
Should we walk over?
459
00:23:26,538 --> 00:23:28,383
Together?
460
00:23:28,407 --> 00:23:31,075
We don't mind if you don't.
461
00:24:05,143 --> 00:24:07,489
The suspect was tried
and convicted of forgery
462
00:24:07,513 --> 00:24:09,558
which is punishable
by imprisonment
463
00:24:09,582 --> 00:24:13,728
in the State Prison for not less
than one year nor more than 14 years
464
00:24:13,752 --> 00:24:17,265
or by imprisonment in the County
Jail for not more than one year.
465
00:24:17,289 --> 00:24:20,702
However, due to the circumstances
surrounding her involvement,
466
00:24:20,726 --> 00:24:22,859
sentence was suspended.
467
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The suspects who were
the instigators of the crime
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were tried and
convicted of forgery.
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