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If the weather does not break, we could wind up losing everything.

You're not serious.

Chipper today, are we?

You finally get a solid lead and you want to go home?

No, Christine, I do not want to go home.

But I am. Now this is crazy!

Crazy is the way that you have been acting! You got someplace to be, Victor?

What's with you, Lacey?

You know what the problem is?

Lacey's not let anything interfere with her job, Lieutenant.

I'm sure you're scared. Who wouldn't be, huh?

This job, this Saratoga, this is supposed to be the one that made the

difference. But to say the truth, Christine, I don't think it will.

Come on, baby.

Sweetheart, come to bed.

Honey, it's late. You gotta get some sleep.

It's cold.

At least put on your robe. Hey, I got one mother ready. I don't need two,

Here. Here.

You know a phone booth anywhere?

One inside didn't work.

Relax. It's all Harvey from the priest.

Lousy raisin Danish for lunch again.

You'd think one hour could go by in this city without a homicide.

Supposed to be springtime.

It's the weather. It drives same people crazy.

Chipper today, aren't we?

I had a long night.

Now they're keeping up again.

Now the baby's fine.

Want to talk about it?

Good job that Harvard's on it.

Some delays is all.

They'll work it out.

Pleading to Khmer Rouge, Mr. Hung came to this country, established a legal

practice, and rose to become... Any suspects?

It's a break, okay? We just got here.

Can't I speculate on a motive?

Can you get that thing out of my face?

It's animals.

Charles was so delighted when he got this.

Like a kid.

Miss Morgan, please take another look around. You sure there's nothing else

missing?

No, not a hand.

I'm sorry. It's all so damn senseless. And for what? A few pieces of

jewelry and a typewriter?

Ma 'am, how long have you been in this office?

Six years.

Ever since we went in practice together.

I helped him with his English and he saved me from a life of corporate law.

Did he have any known enemies?

Not Charles.

Take a look in our files and see for yourself what he did for his people.

He was more than just an immigration lawyer.

Set them up in businesses. He got them housing, car loans.

Everybody loved him.

Yeah, most mornings he'd be in his office by 7, banging away at the

and I'd drop by, and we'd have coffee and bagels and talk baseball.

Baseball. Can you believe it? Five years ago, this guy didn't know a batting

average from the Brooklyn Bridge. And last week, he's quoting Dwight Gooden's

ERA. You say when you went to Mr. Hong's office that the door was unlocked?

Wide open.

And there he was, the poor guy.

I think there'd be a little justice in this world.

That's what we're working on here, Mr. Pulaski.

Can you tell us anything about Mr. Hong's character?

Yeah, a real gentleman, polite and refined.

Really upgraded the neighborhood, if you know what I mean.

No, sir, we don't know what you mean. You know, the Rican element that was

before. You know, Hong bringing his own people, and they take over the stores

and the markets.

Best thing that ever happened to this place.

The people had to know Holmes had money. It's probably exactly what it looks

like, a burglary.

Tomorrow morning we'll start with the fences and the pawnbrokers.

Did Mr. Pond give you anything over the phone?

No, he's still in shock. I don't think he's going to be in the club for a

Losing a man that worked that hard for his family can't be easy.

Did you hear anything about your car ride yet?

Tonight's the night. I can feel it in my bones, Mary Beth. The woman who's

coming to see it is very interested.

A fire already? That's great.

So you had the transmission fixed and it's running okay now, huh?

Chris.

Chris!

Meredith, what you don't understand is what people are looking for in a car is

style. Classic lines. Fame.

A lot of car buyers like to do their own overhauling. Is that so?

You know how much this thing is costing me to keep going with the insurance

payments and the tune -ups and the...

Toe charges on training this damn poor vet is eating me alive.

Yeah, things are tough all over, Chris.

Oh, how's that for pickup, huh?

And so low to the ground, it's a wonderful feeling, isn't it?

Not to me, and I speak from experience. I used to be two inches taller.

Could you let me take a little peek inside?

Sure.

You better remember now, this car is considered a classic.

So why are you trying to get rid of it?

I'm not.

I'm just trying to sell it, and I want to get rid of it.

Not to me. I'm not going to let you give me some answers.

I've had it for a while, and I'm just ready for a change.

Like a little less time at the shop.

Beautiful color, isn't it?

Canary yellow.

How would the break?

May need some minor adjustments, but really, nothing major.

Sweetheart. The transmission is shot. The steering is loose.

The hood doesn't open. The engine has less get -up -and -go than my dear

Bessie, who got up and went last winter.

Are you saying that the car isn't right for you?

I'm saying this car's not fit to be driven, and if you're smart, you'll take

to a mechanic and get it fixed before you get yourself killed.

Or even worse, sued.

Hi, everybody.

Hi, Mom.

No, no.

Don't rush me all at once.

Hey.

Hey. Yeah.

Hey, Tommy. This is the best. Come on, Dad. I need a nice warm kiss. I want to

watch the weather.

You've been watching the weather all day.

More freezing rain and snow. Your alcohol ready?

Half an hour ago.

Dinner's in the oven.

Well, you should have told her to wait till after rush hour.

She wanted to leave. My mother's old enough to make her own decisions.

Mom, I'm late for Tiffany's. Hey.

Dad won't let me go.

What do you want to go out in this weather for? I have a makeup test

Tiffany was going to help me study.

I'll bet.

Harvey, you just had a cold. You'll wind up getting pneumonia. Come on, Mom. I

won't get pneumonia.

I see what you started.

You're staying home.

End of discussion.

Hey, hey, hey, what's the matter? What's the matter, you? What's the matter,

you?

That's okay.

He's all right.

He's all right.

Did you talk to Garibaldi?

Half an hour ago.

Still five below in Saratoga, 15 with the windshield, and at this time of

What is this?

What's going on here?

What are we doing?

Helping support the dairy farmers of America or what, huh? Harvey, listen to

We're carting some milk open?

I know that things... I mean, you know how fast this stuff spoils? I know that

things look pretty bad right now, Harvey. What do you guys think? We're

of money or what?

As soon as the weather warms up... What do they care? We're losing 500 bucks a

day, huh? Paying a whole crew for sitting around doing nothing. You're

days behind is all.

Yeah? And the weatherman says more snow on the way.

Since when do you believe everything in here?

Honey, we have to look on the positive side.

You think they learned by now?

Michael, Harvey, get in here!

Go Rolex,

go money clip.

Lady, look around.

The only gold I got in this place is in the back of my mouth.

How about this electric typewriter, serial number 1673427?

Do I look like I have traffic in business machines?

Any of these items are brought in to be poured. Please notify us at once.

That's the stuff they got from that Cambodian guy, the guy they shot?

Did you know Charles Hall? Ugh, them people. They come in here, they take

everything.

Liquor stores, groceries, you name it.

That Hong?

He was the one that gave him the money to swallow us up.

Sounds like you were very fond of your new neighbors.

Twelve years I have this store.

They got no respect for the people who was here first.

Let them go back to where they come from.

Not one of Hong's biggest fans.

People love to hate each other, don't they?

And they can always find somebody new to hate.

These Puerto Ricans see these Cambodians making it ahead of them.

They resent it.

Same old, same old.

What are we supposed to do, bring in every Puerto Rican from the

The only solid weed we have is stolen goods.

These are pawnbrokers.

Six more in this district alone.

Lord, I do hate this.

Sir,

sir, I did not say relax. I said Rolex.

R -O -L -E -X.

X as in expensive.

It's a watch.

No, I don't want to buy one.

This just looks like the man with x -ray eyes.

You know, Coleman, you light up a room just by leaving it. Sir, if anyone tries

to pawn any of these items, please let us know at once.

Especially the relaxed watch, sir.

Thank you.

Relax. Sound advice, Mary Beth.

What have you got?

Translations from Hong's client file.

Contracts.

Contracts.

Contracts. Now, that was the 12th and last pawn shop on the east side.

I say we're up against a dead end here.

Mary Beth, wait a minute.

Looks like Hong does have some enemies.

And they're in all Puerto Rican. Look at them.

Dear sir, you are one month behind in your cab payment.

Who isn't?

If we do not receive your payment within three days.

Hong's law partner claimed that he was a selfless do -gooder, loved by the

Cambodians, financed all of their businesses.

In the interim, he'd been sending these nasty collection notes to people who

fell behind on their payments.

The secretary says there's a cab driver named Tumac Lampo. He tried to buy time.

When Hong avoided his phone calls, his cab driver started making threats.

Might be a deadbeat.

What makes you think he's a killer?

They had commissions in over Lample's trip card the night of the homicide.

Between 8 and 10 p .m., he drove empty. Right around the time the Emmy figures

hung was shot.

Then at 10 .15 p .m., sir, he picked up his next fare at Avenue C and 6, same

area as Long's office.

The Emmy's report also shows he was shot with a .22 caliber pistol at close

range. Close enough, Lieutenant, to produce powder burns under the skin.

Close enough to suggest it was someone who knew him. All right, so what are you

waiting for? Bring him in.

Yes, sir.

Okay. When you get a chance, Cagney, I want to talk to you about your car.

My car?

Yeah. What about my car?

Well, I don't know.

After 30 years of station wagons and sedans, I'm thinking maybe it's time for

to make a change.

Oh, Lieutenant, I really don't think that my car would be right for you. Why

not?

The truth is, I've always pictured you in a Jaguar.

Excuse me, Lieutenant.

Mr.

Lample. Yes, yes, I am Lample. We're investigating the death of Charles Hall.

We'd like you to come with us, sir.

To the station house to answer a few questions.

Yes, I understand.

My father didn't do anything wrong.

All he did was believe Hung's lies.

Like everybody else here.

Hong is a criminal. You have no right to treat him. No right at all.

These people are only doing their job.

Please. Show them respect.

In Cambodia,

I was doctor.

Here, I'm not allowed to practice.

I work 20 -hour day driving taxi.

I have to work to take care of my family.

And Hong gave you the money for that taxi? I borrow money from him. I promise

pay him back.

But you didn't keep up the payments.

One month ago, I had accident in taxi.

I not work, not make money for one full week.

And Mr. Hong wasn't happy about that?

He talked to me in letters. He say, pay me money.

Or I take back your taxi.

Mr. Hong, he want more, more.

In Cambodia, I know who my enemies are.

Here in America, not too easy to tell.

Then you did consider Charles Hong to be one of your enemies.

I tried to make him understand.

I went to talk to him last Friday night.

He was alone and you had a gun.

No.

I went to talk.

Just talk.

But you argued.

No, when I arrived, he was sitting at desk, his head on typewriter, his

eyes looking at me.

He already dead.

He doesn't look like a killer, but maybe he was pushed to the wall. I don't

know. I think he was wrong.

There's a call for you, waiting on three. Thanks. I'll make it fast.

Coleman told me to give you these messages.

Harvey?

Harvey?

Harvey?

Hello, Gran.

Better than your bad jokes.

Hormones.

Yes, Mr. Blake.

It's exactly as advertised.

Uh -huh. A 72 Corvette convertible.

I'm the owner.

Custom paint job.

Yeah, always garage. With six mechanics looking at it.

Running conditions?

Well, it's, as the ad says, must see to believe. One way to keep a clear

conscience.

Sure. Late afternoon is perfect for me.

Mercer Street Garage.

Great. Okay, I'll see you then.

Bye.

Go ahead and laugh.

By Friday, I'm going to be minus one headache and $5 ,000 richer.

As the ad says, must see to believe.

Harvey, I know you hate your mother.

Harvey, ask your mother to turn it down.

Oh, but then go in our bedroom and close the door, Harvey.

Alice is in there.

No.

No, I don't want you to wake up the baby, Harvey. No.

I know.

Uh -huh.

Uh -huh.

Harf, I know.

Bye, Harf.

That was Harf.

Harf who?

That was a joke.

Look, about the cabbie.

Before we jump the gun, I want to talk to Holmes Whittle.

Jump the gun?

Christine, we have enough to book the man. We could talk to the widow after.

Mary Beth, but she's got a motive. She's going to hear it all at Hong's money. I

just want to look at her face to face before we just dismiss her as a suspect.

Whatever you say, Sergeant.

Good.

I'm afraid Charles and I didn't talk very much about his business.

I'm sorry. I can't be more help.

When you and your husband brought in public together, did you ever sense that

feared for his life?

To be honest, I can't remember the last time we were out together.

Mrs. Hong, sometimes we have to ask questions that are personal. Were you

your husband having marital problems?

I love Charles.

But we grew apart.

His law practice became everything to him.

And the things that mattered once began to matter less and less until... Until

what?

We lost our only son to the Camaroosh.

We're going to start a new family here.

Instead, he started business.

Success was all he had left to believe in.

Money was everything.

Family, nothing.

That's the American way, isn't it?

Mrs. Hong, what can you tell us about a man named Tumac Lampo?

We met him and his sons when they first came to this country.

A good man.

I believe he'd been a doctor in Phnom Penh.

He drives a taxi here.

He owed your husband a lot of money.

You think Lampo may have killed Charles?

We think it's a possibility.

I'm not surprised.

In America, people change.

I told you the guy had money, Mary Beth. He's that Chinese armoire, huh? Had the

car for $5 ,000.

And how about that panel screen with the L .A. J?

Not too bad.

What I saw, Christine, was a very unhappy woman.

Here we go, pal.

I don't want to book Lampole yet. Christine, Lampole says he wants more

pay back his loans.

Hong won't give it to him.

Lampole, desperate, goes over the edge and shoots him.

What about the typewriter?

What about it?

Well, you said it, Mary Beth. The man is desperate.

So he steals Hong's wallet and his watch.

Maybe even his money clip. But to stop and take a huge office typewriter?

He couldn't be choosy. It was the only one they had.

Come on, Mary Beth.

It doesn't make any sense.

I've seen a man committing murder. He's not interested in making sense.

That's another thing. I don't buy lampposts and murderers.

In America, people change.

You were in the room with him. He looked us right in the eyes. And what I saw

was a man willing to do anything to protect his family.

He went too far is all.

He works 20 -hour shifts. The man plays by the rules.

A lot of people play by the rules.

They borrow from the bank. They work like dogs. They get behind the eight

So what do they do? They break the rules.

For what, $1 ,500?

Peanuts. To the Rockefellers, maybe. And other people with trust funds.

Just because I have a trust fund does not mean I don't understand money

problems. Then think about it, Christine.

Lample comes here, works from morning till night, grabbing for the brass ring

like the rest of us. This is America.

All you have to do is pay your dues, keep your nose clean, and you too can

become a millionaire, right? Just like in the movies. This is a man working his

heart out, Christine.

And the thing he wants keeps moving further and further away from him so he

could never touch it.

Under that kind of pressure, even a decent man could lose himself.

Still doesn't explain the typewriter.

Good night, Chris.

You happen to be looking at a bona fide muscle machine

here. I mean, you put your pedal to metal in this baby, and you can kiss

friends goodbye. You know what I'm saying?

Oh, God.

I've been waiting my whole life for something like this. Yeah? What do you

now? I don't.

This would be my first car.

Your parents give you two as a graduation present?

Graduation present? Get serious.

I've been working double shifts at Tasty Burger ever since junior high.

A lot of fries and shakes earned me that.

How's it start in cold weather?

Cold weather?

Consistent? Always consistent, sir.

That's good to hear.

Especially since I'd be getting up pretty early in the morning to get my

grandmother out of Mineola.

Long Island?

Yeah.

She hates to be late for morning mass.

How's it on repairs?

Well, any car you buy, you know you're going to have repairs, old or new.

The little ones, I hope.

And I'd be putting my last dime into this baby.

If the tail light went out, I'd probably have to take out a loan.

You know, Kevin, this is a very expensive car.

Yeah, it looks it.

I mean, parking in the city is not cheap.

You've got insurance that you have to take care of, and the tolls on the

they add up.

Well, maybe Grandma's willing to help, huh?

Can we talk?

Mom, Ricky Bittman's going to sleepaway camp with someone.

That would be exciting.

Way up in Vermont, on a lake in the middle of the woods.

He says it takes six hours by bus.

He says they've got horseback riding, water skiing, archery. Nothing wrong

your daycare?

There's nothing to do there.

At least at Ricky's camp. Yeah, well, maybe I can't afford Ricky's camp. Did

ever think of that?

He just mentioned it, Harv.

Your game's not over.

It is now.

Night, Mom.

Good night.

I'll come in.

Take it out on Michael, it's no fair.

Yeah, I know. I'll tell him I'm sorry.

against the wall.

What are you talking about?

I'm talking about packing this job in altogether, cutting our losses while we

still can.

You're not serious.

If we get out now, we lose about $4 ,000, Marybeth. That's a hefty hunk of

change, but at least it's not everything.

Marty Kaplan, he's been pestering me for weeks to go in with him and his father

-in -law.

Eighteen bucks an hour, three months guaranteed.

And then what?

Then I'd look for another job.

Maybe it'll take a little longer, but at least this way, we know we will be able

to get the house.

Saratoga is the one we've been waiting for, Harvey.

Mary Beth, if the weather does not break, we could wind up losing

We could borrow from the pension fund. I could go to the credit union.

Oh, sure, sure. And we'll fill out every... And go so deep into debt that

never get out from under?

Okay, then, if we have to, we'll take it out of the house savings.

Whatever it takes. Damble away all our years of sweating and saving? Now, this

is crazy! Crazy?

You want crazy?

Crazy is the way that you have been acting. Back off, Mary Beth.

Bouncing off the walls and yelling at the kids. All right, all right. No, it's

not all right. What the hell do you want from me? I want you to quit making

everybody miserable and taking it out on everybody and treating everybody like

the enemy. Where are you going?

Anybody close them up on the roof. Good, go in there.

Don't be freezing your nose off.

We know that Lample doesn't work normal hours, don't we?

I'm sorry, what'd you say?

I said, do you think Angie Dickinson keeps her gun in her bra or in her

stockings?

You split the driving of the cab with your father, right? I did, before you

him away.

I know the two of you worked long hours.

Hong liked to live good.

And between the loan payments...

His lawyer's fee and the rent on this rat shop the man hadn't made. Wait a

minute. You mean Hong owned this building?

And everyone in it.

The other people who borrowed from Hong, they lived here too?

That was part of the agreement he made a sign.

He said that in America, you must work hard to make yourself a success.

But what he didn't tell us is how hard.

Excuse me.

I have to get back to work.

For your information, Sergeant, we charge the legal limit on our loans.

Maybe high, but then so is the risk.

What about the lawyer's fees? For $10 ,000, are you attached to each loan?

Our clients feel it is a small price to pay for the opportunities that we offer

them. For what? Living in tenements packed like sardines?

These people are used to living in close quarters.

Maybe if you knew more about Cambodian families, you would understand they

actually prefer it.

That's funny.

I didn't see any 14 relatives crammed in Mr. Hong's apartment, and he had, what

did he have, their 11 rooms? Back in Cambodia, they would be dodging bullets.

Here they have a chance to survive, to start new lives.

To make you and Charles Hong rich.

You obviously know nothing.

About the kind of man he really was.

Yeah, that's what we're finding out.

Charles really cared about his people.

Really cared.

And I was proud to call myself his friend and his partner.

Good day, ladies.

A lot of good that did. All she did was defend Hall like it was some kind of

saint. to go back to the client file to check out everybody in debt to Hong Am

Malls. And the way she defended him, it's going to make you wonder, isn't it?

Was their relationship that good, or was it better than good? Do I have

anything? No.

You think they were sleeping together?

As long as she lost her husband at the job, maybe it was more than worth it to

get them occupied.

Harbor Patrol picked it up dragging the East River for stolen cars.

The serial number matches the one from your homicide investigation.

You think it would have killed him to wash it off?

I bet you they don't do windows either.

You got someplace to be, Victor?

What's with you, Lacey?

You've been stuck in a lemon all week. Come on, Victor.

See what I mean?

Hormones.

Is Hong's typewriter all right?

Why would somebody go to the trouble of stealing a typewriter so they could dump

it in the East River?

Francis Lampole said that he found Hong's body slumped over this very

typewriter.

If he'd been innocent.

And the real killer had to be on the premises when Lampole left.

It had to be somebody who could come back in, steal the typewriter to make it

look like a robbery, and then remove it from the building without being

questioned. Soapy Hong.

Or Helen Malden.

It's late, Christine. I gotta go.

Come on.

We can go over this in 30 minutes. I have to be crossed town by 5 anyway.

First thing in the morning, okay?

Terrific.

Terrific, Mary Beth. We've been busting our buns over this cake all week. You

finally get a solid lead and you want to go home?

No, Christine, I do not want to go home. But I am.

You come very highly recommended.

There's a man in my building, Jordan Martin. I thought he brought a T -bird

you and it was making noises, and now it just purrs like a kitten, and I thought

maybe you could help me out. I'm afraid we have a real sick patient on our hands

here.

Well, how much would it cost to operate?

Well, with the suspension, the brakes, the clutch work, the engine rebuild,

not to mention... Careful. Frame damage.

We're talking...

Major Bacolas.

Would you be a little more specific?

From the looks of it, you got yourself a real lemon.

Just like the color, huh?

It's called Canary Yellow.

And it fits.

This car's for the birds.

I happen to like this car, okay?

Maybe that's why you can't sell it.

You're too sentimental.

I'm not at all sentimental.

Then I have the perfect solution.

I hand... A brother -in -law who, for a modest fee, will see to

it that your auto is professionally appropriated.

I mean, stolen.

So you're covered for theft, of course.

Oh, yes. The Police Endowment Association gives me terrific coverage.

I was only kidding.

You look like a woman who could take a joke. Yeah? Well, what makes you think

that?

You've been driving one.

No, look, look, honestly, I can't take any money for fixing the seat.

Well, what do you suggest then?

Face the facts.

All good things must come to an end.

You don't... They shoot horses, don't they?

Harvey.

Honey. Looks like the end of the world out there.

I don't want to work for Marty Kaplan.

I don't want to go back to that anymore.

But I want us to have that house, Mary Beth.

God, do I want it.

We had 17 years of ups and downs together.

We have to stay in this apartment another 17 years. It wouldn't kill us.

Maybe I bit off more than I could chew here.

Don't say that.

I mean, what do I know about turning old bonds into morals?

I mean, what if I screw up and the developers hate it? Oh, sweetheart,

Maybe God's trying to tell me something with that weather out there.

I don't know anything anymore.

Harvey, what do you want?

What do you really want?

I want to work for myself, be my own boss.

I want to give you and the kids the best.

Know what she told me today?

She told me that she thinks you're going to do a wonderful job in Saratoga.

She said she believes in you.

I believe in you.

Would you guarantee it?

No guarantees in this little city.

You'll make it happen, Harvey. I know you will.

Either Hong's wife shoots him because he's been cheating on her or Malden does

the job because he wants to end the affair.

What about alibis?

Malden says that she was with one of her Cambodian clients who happens to owe

her $100 ,000.

And Sophie Hong said she was at home and her doorman confirms it, which wouldn't

be hard to arrange.

Well, it sounds like you're on to something.

What does Lacey think?

She agrees with me.

That's nice.

I beg your pardon?

Well, I haven't heard your partner agree with anybody all week.

Don't tell me you haven't noticed.

Well, she's been a little out of sorts, Lieutenant.

More than a little out of sorts.

You know what the problem is?

I don't think there is a problem. I'm not asking you to tell me what it is.

Lacey's not let anything interfere with her job, Lieutenant.

Her work is up to its normal high standards. I really don't think you have

anything to worry about.

All right, all right. I'll take your word for it. So you can go now.

Thank you, Lieutenant.

Katie, here's one thing, though.

This problem that your partner doesn't have, make sure it doesn't get to be a

problem for the both of you.

Yes, Lieutenant.

He said that we're really on to something with this triangle theory.

So I figured maybe we should start by talking to Mrs. Tong again.

Yeah, give me a minute, will you, Chris?

So, Mary Beth, how's the family?

The boys are fine, thank you.

And Alice is making more and more sounds every day.

Got a great pair of lungs on her, that little girl.

And Harvey, is everything okay with the job now?

Actually, Christine, things aren't looking so good.

You know, every day that it's cold, we have to sit out the weather.

You know, of course, that's an arm and a leg.

Well, that's bound to clear up. It's just a matter of time.

Yeah, that's what I told Harv, that we have to hang in there. But he's thinking

about quitting and walking away, taking our losses.

Hey, you know how men can be when they get upset.

Didn't mean it.

I bet if you talked to him... I did talk to him, Chris.

I told him, don't be afraid.

I told him how much I believe in him.

As long as I've known Harvey, he's been waiting for a big break.

We both have.

All these years I've been making two paychecks, stretched to the end of the

month and...

You're having to think about it when you buy a pair of shoes.

Send a sweater to the cleaners.

This job, this Saratoga, this is supposed to be the one that made the

difference. But to say the truth, Christine, I don't think it will.

I don't know if it ever will.

And I couldn't let Harvey know that.

Hey, Harvey's a terrific guy.

He's going to be fine.

Sure you're scared. Who wouldn't be, huh?

You believe in him.

That's what he needed to hear.

Being up on him, you know?

That's all that really counts.

Mrs. Hong didn't even know what she had here.

It may not be enough.

Then we'll have to make it enough.

Look, I have got a lot of people waiting, if you don't

mind. Poor Mrs. Hong. Her husband's dead a week already, and she's still getting

his mail, like his new stationery, for instance. You know Hong ordered a

thousand of these?

Isn't it strange that his name appears alone on the letterhead? Yeah, well,

there's no business address.

Look, I can imagine how you felt.

Realizing that your partner is moving to an uptown office without you? I don't

know what you're talking about. You taught him more than just English.

You showed him how to make the big bucks.

Hell has no fury like a partner scorned. I am extremely busy.

You know, we just talked to your alibi, that cabbie, Maytack.

He said that he's willing to testify that you persuaded him into making his

statement.

I persuaded him? That's what he says, and he speaks very good English.

Well, that's his word against mine.

You've got nothing to go on, and you know it.

We also have a witness who saw you lugging a certain typewriter out of this

office building. Well, I can explain that.

Please.

For all these.

I would like to call my lawyer.

Be our guest.

What witness?

Nice work today, Detective.

There's more to be done, but I think we'll get a conviction, Sergeant.

Yeah, these lampposts bring... Yeah.

Mary Beth? Oh.

I'm nursing.

You bought dollars I could borrow for a cab.

I guess I could handle that.

The car died again, huh?

In a manner of speaking.

You know, Christine...

Some people might have a problem selling a car that doesn't run.

Actually, I decided not to sell it.

You're going to get it fixed finally?

I already did.

I thought you said your car died.

A true masterpiece never dies, Mary Beth.

No, no.

It lives on forever.

Good night.

Sure.

It's a modern art.

I mean...

Sweetheart, come to bed.

Come on, everything's going to be fine.

Believe me.

I know.

And if I leave now, I can be in Saratoga by seven.

Saratoga.

Saratoga?

I just got off the phone with Garibaldi.

Windshields down, temperatures up ten degrees.

He talked to the carpenters. They're ready to go.

Hell, I know I am.

Here. Let me get that for you.

I regret. Thank you. For what?

Pulling me through this.

I love you, too.

Go.

Get going.

One of you're the best damn old Saratoga's ever seen.

I'll call you soon as I get up there.