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[THEME MUSIC PLAYING]

[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYS ON THE RADIO]

[UPBEAT MUSIC CONTINUES]

You were about to say something, right?

Perhaps if you...

[PHONE RINGS]

Cardiology!

Uh, Jill Danko, please.

Oh, just a minute.

Oh, phone call, Jill.

[SOFTLY] Excuse me.

Is it Mike? I don't know.

Thank you. [CLEARS THROAT]

Hello.

CLEVE: Jill? This is Cleve.

Umm, I'm sorry, I can't hear you.

Cleve Andrews.

Cleve?

Uh... Where... Where are you?

At the edge of town.

Couldn't wait to talk to you.

What? Cleve, uh...

What are you doing here?

My gosh, it's been four years.

Don't I know.

But, I'm here now and I'm thinking of staying.

CLEVE: I would like to see you.

Well, I would love to see you!

And, um, I'd like for you to meet Mike and...

Yeah, yeah sure. I, uh...

I meant, uh, I'd like to see you.

CLEVE: Alone.

Hey, you have to watch that alone business, I'm a married

lady now.

Hey, I just wanted to let you know that I'm here

and I'll see you real soon.

Okay?

Wait...

[CHUCKLES] [PHONE CLICKS]

[CARS HONKING]

[TIRES SCREECHING]

Got it. I'll send it over as soon as the boy gets back.

Thank you.

[PHONE CLICKS]

[WHISTLING]

SHOPKEEPER: Yes, sir.

Uh...

What's your house brand bourbon like?

Like a buck cheaper than most of them,

but just as good.

Hmm. I'll take a quart.

Okay.

And your money.

[CASH REGISTER DINGS]

Yeah, No, I...

Yeah, I'll hold.

Mmm.

Who thought you to make tacos anyway?

I was a short order cook my last year of school.

[LAUGHS]

Tastes like you flunked out.

You finished? Yeah.

Yeah. No, I can't give you

an answer 'till I've talked to her, Lieutenant.

[DOOR CLOSES] Wait a minute,

she's here now.

Hey, what's going on here?

TERRY: Hey, this is all very legal, very legal.

We're on our lunch break.

Uh-huh. Okay,

I'll see you in about half an hour.

Right.

Hi, babe. Hi.

I gotta talk to you. Yeah?

I gotta have an answer for Ryker before he goes

off-duty in an hour.

They are having a seminar on tactical alert procedure.

Ryker wants me to represent our department.

I'll be gone for two weeks.

Oh, my.

Look, I... I know. That's why

I told him I couldn't give him an answer until I talk to you.

Two weeks?

I will tell him no, if you want me to.

Well, do you want to go?

[SIGHS]

Yeah, guess I should.

[SIGHS] When would you have to leave?

Tomorrow morning.

Oh, that's soon.

Look, it's simple, I'll just tell him no.

No.

Don't tell him no, tell him yes.

WILLIE: What's the verdict?

Not going. JILL: No, no.

Now, wait a minute.

It could be important.

And it's just it was so sudden

and was my second big surprise today.

What was the first?

Cleve Andrews.

Look, we'll talk about it later, okay?

Now, about this seminar,

I think you ought to go. It's a good opportunity.

You sure? Sure I'm sure.

[SIGHS]

You wouldn't, uh, just be trying to get rid of me,

would ya?

[LAUGHS]

I think we better get started.

Okay.

[SOFTLY] Bye. [SOFTLY] Bye.

Bye. Bye.

[DOOR CLOSES] [SIGHS]

MIKE: I dunno what to do about it.

WILLIE: What, seminar?

Oh, that and leaving Jill alone for two weeks.

Hey, who is this Cleve Andrews?

[LAUGHS]

That seems to be an old boyfriend of Jill's.

Oh, you're not happy about leaving town 'cause, uh,

an old boyfriend

of your lady's come to town, hmm?

I dig it. I got the perfect

solution.

Yeah? Tell Ryker, "No".

Oh, I don't know, Willie.

I don't know whether to tell him no or to tell him yeah.

[SNIGGERS]

Big trouble. Uh-huh.

See ya. Okay.

Bye. Yeah.

[DOORBELL RINGS]

Who is it?

CLEVE: Cleve.

Cleve?

CLEVE: Don't tell me you're not gonna let me in.

[SIGHS] Well, I never would have recognized you

with a beard.

Well, come on in.

I'll shave it off if it doesn't please you.

No!

It's uh... It's very becoming.

This used to be your favorite.

Well, I wished you called.

CLEVE: I did. At the hospital, remember?

[SIGHS]

It's good to see you.

Hey.

And don't ever do that again.

I'm married now, Cleve.

I have a husband and I'm...

It's just something that happened. I didn't plan it.

[SOFTLY] Okay.

[SIGHS]

Well, um...

What are you doing here, Cleve?

What do you want?

Your friendship,

you caring about me.

There isn't anybody else, Jill.

[LAUGHS] What are you talking about?

We might have been married a long time now.

Maybe with a couple of kids.

I don't think so, Cleve.

That was a long time ago.

I've gone over that stupid argument

we had 100 times.

I never thought you'd just pack up

and leave town like that.

Well, I didn't leave because of an argument with you.

I didn't leave because of you or anybody else.

I left because I had to find myself

and my life.

And I found it.

In nursing school and here with Mike.

Everything between us,

is it gone, Jill?

That way it is, yes.

I needed to know.

Well, now you do.

[SIGHS] I'm dying, Jill.

What are you talking about, Cleve?

I got the medical reports three days ago.

See for yourself. No, wait.

You don't have to show me...

But, I want you to.

Somebody's got to show interest in my life.

Or death, the way it turns out.

Lymphoma?

They tell me I have got maybe four, maybe five months.

Every police force in the state, large and small is

gonna be represented there.

Now, it's my understanding that these new tactical

alert procedures

might become a permanent part of the curriculum at the

police academy.

Which means, that someday, you might end up teaching

what you learn up there.

Any questions?

Yeah.

Um, I got one.

Yes?

Why me?

I mean, there's a lot of guys far more experienced on the

force than I am.

I'm just a rookie.

Being a rookie has got a lot to do with it.

The older officers might be too set in their ways

to react objectively to these new techniques.

Also, being a married man you're supposed to be more

motivated to get things right.

Now, just what are you grinning at?

Nothing, I just thought maybe you discovered my superior

intellect, that's all.

I see. All right. Get out of here, Danko, I'm busy.

Thanks, Lieutenant.

Do a good job.

Yeah, I'll try.

[DOOR CLOSES]

[RADIO PLAYING]

REPORTER: Police report a robbery at the Marina

Del Rey Liquor store

on the corner of Del Ray and Sea view.

Arnold Jasper, the store owner...

[CAR HONKING]

Said the robber, a young, soft-spoken man...

MAN: Hey!

MAN: Hey, move it, come on!

[CAR HONKING]

[CAR HONKING] REPORTER: He wore a beard

and carrie d a gun...

MAN: The light's green! [CAR HONKING]

REPORTER: The police have little to go on...

[CAR HONKING]

REPORTER: With Jasper's statement.

But efforts are being made to trace the gun.

Now, the 2:30 weather report...

[MAN GROANING] WOMAN: God, what are

you doing?

GIRL: Daddy! WOMAN: Get away from him!

[SOFT JAZZ MUSIC PLAYS]

Well, now you know as much about it as I do.

That's settled. I'm not

gonna go out of town and leave you alone.

Sweetheart, you can't back out now.

No?

You just watch.

Now, look, I'm flattered. I really am.

But, you haven't got a reason in the world to be jealous.

[SIGHS] I'm not jealous.

It's just, I'm not going to leave town with that creep

lurking around.

He isn't lurking around.

Oh, no?

Then what about when we left and he just popped in on you?

What do you call that, coincidence?

Now, look, I didn't dream up the seminar

and I surely didn't invite Cleve back into my life.

[SIGHS] I know. It's just the whole situation...

Timing could not be worst. [LAUGHS] I know.

I'm not gonna go.

I mean, Terry, or Willie, or somebody else can go.

I'm not gonna go.

Now, I think that's wrong.

There is nothing sinister about Cleve.

A guy under that kind of pressure, who feels

the way he does about you,

It amounts to the same thing.

Look, Jill, I'm not unsympathetic about

what he's facing.

But, there are other things I have to consider

and most of them are you.

I love you, Mike.

What's that got to do with anything?

It's got everything to do with it.

Now, look, you consider that

and then consider that Cleve is somebody

that I used to know.

And he's reaching out to me because he hasn't got anybody

else to reach out to.

Now, what am I gonna do? Tell him that nobody

cares about him?

Nobody at all?

How am I gonna do that, Mike.

You don't have to.

I'll go. I'll hate it, but I'll go.

[LAUGHS] You're so cute.

Well, that's it.

Um, take care of her while I'm gone okay?

See if she needs anything.

Just be there for her.

We'll be there.

You don't have to ask, man.

I know that.

Okay! Well, I'll see you.

Hey.

Don't forget to eat up all that knowledge, huh.

Take care of her for me, okay?

Don't worry.

I know. Just would have been

easier if that guy hadn't shown up right when he did.

We'll take care of her.

I know. Okay, See ya. See ya.

[PHONE RINGING]

[PHONE RINGING]

Hello.

Hi, Jill.

Hi, I got your message. Is, uh, is this your

regular number?

CLEVE: Yeah. Fast service, huh? They put it an hour ago.

Oh, you're all settled then?

Yeah, I guess so. It's got a bed and a chair.

Cleve, are you free tonight?

CLEVE: Sure.

Well, I was thinking of have a couple

of friends for dinner.

JILL: And I wondered if you would like to join us?

Uh...

No, I... I don't think so, uh...

What's the matter?

I'd like to meet your friends.

But, uh...

What?

[SIGHS]

I just don't feel like talking to a lot of people.

That's all.

Except you.

CLEVE: Jill, I hope I'm not being too pushy,

but, uh...

I was going to ask you to dinner tonight.

That is if Mike doesn't object.

No, well, I'm sure he wouldn't object.

If that's what you want.

I just want to talk to somebody.

Yeah, I understand.

CLEVE: Seven o' clock?

Sure, seven.

CLEVE: See you then.

Okay.

Thanks, Jill.

Thanks for being you. You make it so easy.

And Orville, Thank you for the use of your

medical records.

You're lymphoma is doing me a lot more good than

it did you.

[LAUGHS]

[LAUGHING]

That was really nice.

It was for me.

But, it was expensive.

Well, I can't afford it every night.

[LAUGHS]

Well, I still don't know what you've been doing.

[CHUCKLES] I'm much more interested in hearing

about you.

Cleve, you don't have to tell me anything you don't want to.

Just hasn't been good, Jill.

[SIGHS]

It was right after you wrote about getting married, I just

hit the skids, that's all.

And I was the guy who was going to do so much.

Let's change the subject.

Okay.

Hey,

you do feel better about my being around, don't you?

I do.

Jill,

I just want to tell you that

being this closed to someone who knows and understands me,

somebody I can talk to like this,

means a lot.

It means everything.

Come on, I'll take you home.

[DOORBELL RINGING]

Yeah?

TERRY: Terry.

JILL: Hi. Hi.

JILL: Come on in.

How you doing? Okay.

Do you want some tea?

No.

Just, uh, came around to see how you're doing.

Don't mind if we worry about, do you?

No.

I'm finding out how important that can be.

I guess you are.

Hope we get to meet him.

Well, you will when he's ready.

He's had a pretty rough time.

So long as you're okay.

I'm okay.

Okay.

Bye. See ya.

[CASH REGISTER DINGS]

[CASH REGISTER DINGS] CUSTOMER: Thank you.

Will that be it?

You got a good house bourbon?

You bet.

Good as any other named brands I can sell ya.

Open the cash drawer and lay out all you have.

Oh, sure.

I...

Look, I just work here you know.

Not my money. So, I'm not

about to stop you. You can have all of it...

Argh!

First place he hit was at the edge of the city.

Last night it was Fifth and Central.

He's picking bigger places with each move.

Eight liquor stores in five days.

WILLIE: Lieutenant.

Why just liquor stores?

I mean there are a lot of other places that carry

quick cash.

Some could bring in a lot more.

Yeah, well, I heard about

a major league pitcher that never changed his socks

as long as he was on a winning streak.

Yeah, well, um...

Too bad that isn't the case here 'cause then we would

nose him out for sure.

[OFFICERS LAUGHING]

All right, let's get back to it.

Comedy notwithstanding, Webster might be right.

'Cause in my experience, a hold-up man will follow out

his luck as far as it will carry him.

That's not to say that he won't branch out

sooner or later.

The trouble is, I want him sooner.

So far, he's only given us two things to go on.

He's a house bourbon man and he carries a foreign gun.

However, last night, we got a little more.

The clerk helped us put together on paper

an artist composite.

Each one of you take one. Pass these out.

Will you please?

All right, that it. Check your pin maps.

Dismissed.

[OFFICERS CHATTERING]

[OFFICERS CHATTERING]

WOMAN: Okay. that's 50, 70, 90, thank you.

Good morning. Hello.

I'd like this cashed, please.

Okay.

It's a pretty big amount.

My working capital for the day.

Um, do you have an account with us?

No, but I plan to though.

The, uh, endorsement should explain everything.

[LAUGHING NERVOUSLY]

I guess they'll all fit in the bag.

It might seem like a lot of money,

but in my business... [SNIGGERS]

OFFICER [OVER RADIO]: All alert units, vicinity

124 South Central Drive.

Possible 211 in progress.

Present position, handle Code 3. Over and out.

[POLICE SIREN BLARING]

Have a nice day.

[POLICE SIREN BLARING FAINTLY]

Just a minute sir... [GROANS]

[POLICE SIREN BLARING]

[CROWD EXCLAIMING]

[TIRES SCREECHING]

[CROWD EXCLAIMING]

[WOMAN SCREAMING]

[GUNS FIRING]

CLEVE: Get out of here, fast!

[GUNS FIRING]

[TIRES SCREECHING]

[POLICE SIREN BLARING]

Can we get up this hill?

Yeah.

We can turn here.

[POLICE SIREN BLARING]

[TIRES SCREECHING]

[POLICE SIREN BLARING]

[TIRES SCREECHING]

[POLICE SIREN BLARING]

Come on, move this thing.

[POLICE SIREN BLARING]

[TIRES SCREECHING]

[POLICE SIREN BLARING]

Suspect moving north on Summit.

Look, look.

Step on it!

I'm trying.

[POLICE SIREN BLARING]

[TIRES SCREECHING]

Damn it! Move this thing!

[POLICE RADIO CHATTERING]

All right. Get out

of the car. Don't shoot.

I didn't do anything.

I'll call it in.

[POLICE RADIO CHATTERING]

Ah, okay.

Hold it. That's our man.

Don't wanna get his picture messed up 'til

after we've nailed him.

That's the one who's been holding up all

the liquor stores?

Yeah, he was. But now

he's gone off to bigger and better things, banks.

Hey, let me take a look at it.

[PHONE RINGING]

It's probably Mike. You go ahead and start.

JILL: Hello?

Cleve! How are ya?

I haven't heard from you in days.

I know, I've been out of town.

Hey, you won't believe this.

But I came into some money.

A trust fund, the bank's been trying

to reach me for years.

Well, that's wonderful. Will it, uh, change

your plans?

A little, I've been thinking of buying

some property.

I know that sounds strange,

but it's what I want.

Well, it doesn't sound at all strange, Cleve.

CLEVE: Hey, Jill?

Do you think you can get some time off

the next few days?

It'd mean a lot to me if you could drive out,

and take a look at the place.

To get your opinion.

Well, I'm not working on Thursday.

I'll have you back in less than two hours.

Will you come?

Okay.

Why don't you pick me up around 2:00 p.m.

Perfect. See you then.

Okay.

[LAUGHING]

We almost there?

It's just ahead.

[CHUCKLES]

I still can't get over it.

New car, no beard.

Do I really look the same as I used to?

Exactly.

Four years haven't gone by at all.

It's perfect.

It's mine, Jill.

You've already bought it?

I thought I'd surprise you.

You don't mind? No! No. I...

I just thought you said it was a small

inheritance, and uh...

[LAUGHS] It looks pretty expensive to me.

Well, combined with what little I had

it was enough to make a down payment, and uh,

I guess I can make the payments for five to

six months. Huh?

Hey. Before we go inside, I want to show you

something. Come here.

This is what really sold me.

Do you recognize it?

Recognize it?

The whole thing.

No. Am I supposed to?

It's the place you described once

when we were still going together.

That's why you bought it?

It always stayed in my mind.

Finally, I knew it was my own dream.

Something that had to be.

What's the matter?

Well...

It makes me feel,

I don't know, strange.

It'll pass.

WILLIE: Or it could be the phone's just

out of order.

Well, she was supposed to be home two hours

ago for my call.

Just a minute. [DOOR CLOSING]

Hey, Mike. MIKE: Yeah?

She's not there.

Do you have any idea where she could have

gone with Cleve?

I don't know. Something about

looking at some property he was thinking of buying.

[SIGHS]

Look, there's a bus out of here in an hour.

I can be on it.

I can get back in the morning

without any problem.

Do me a favor, will you, Willie?

Take the spare key, go through the apartment,

and see if there's anything you can find.

Now, Cleve's phone and address have got to be

in our personal directory.

MIKE: Willie, in the top drawer

of the secretary,

there's an old photo album of Jill's.

Now, go through that.

There's bound to be some pictures of Cleve

in there somewhere.

Okay.

It has complete sense of privacy.

Behind this is all woods,

and on the other side there's houses.

But you can't see them.

Feels like nobody's around for 100 miles.

I haven't even got started in here yet, but the place

is liveable, otherwise.

What do you think?

It's really nice.

Fortunately, the stove and the refrigerator

came with the house, so we don't have

that worry.

But the, uh, only drawback is the heating system.

It's out of order.

But, for the time being, I guess the fireplace

can substitute. Huh?

Is it what you wanted?

What I wanted?

Yes, is it close to what you had in mind when

you were describing it?

Yeah, I guess so.

Well, as is fitting, I've saved the

best for last.

Come on.

Well?

Cleve.

I told you I've been working day and night.

Jill, do you remember how I used to like

buying things for you?

Hmm? Even clothes, I got to be pretty good

at the that, right?

Always the right style, and the right sizes.

Well.

Take a look.

You don't even have to go back to packing again.

Jill.

I'm sick of spending over four years

not being able to get you out of my head.

Sick of remembering what might have been.

And finally I had to know.

Know what, Cleve?

If you still wanted me.

And you think I do?

From the first minute I saw you,

and when I kissed you I was sure.

I have a husband who loves me.

And I love him.

Then what are you doing with me?

I don't care how humanitarian you

pretended to be.

No woman, who loved her husband, would

want to spend time

with her former lover while he's out of town.

Do you see yourself a little better now. Huh?

Is that really the way you see it?

Yes.

No.

Jill.

Let's have together what we should've had.

I love you.

I'm not letting you go again.

And you'd better believe it,

because otherwise

I'm ending it right here.

Maybe for both of us.

Here it is.

[DIAL TONE HUMMING]

Hi, this is Officer Terrance Webster

of the SCPD.

Serial number 84934.

I'd like a matching address to 5552211.

It'd be a new listing.

Uh-huh.

Got it. Thank you.

Hey, Terry.

Come here, take a look at this.

Something very familiar about this guy.

Hey, that's weird, ain't it?

Seeing Jill so much in love with a guy

who isn't Mike.

Yeah.

Phone it in on the way over.

Let's check out this address.

This'll keep the place warm.

I have a real sense of peace now.

I must have known for over four years.

I wanna wipe away all those years.

We'll have all we ever hoped for.

Just as if they never happened.

You'll see how beautiful it's going to be.

You'll see.

Manager said the rent was paid up

until the end of the month.

Hey, look at these.

Real estate brokers.

About half a dozen checked.

Let's run him down.

Lieutenant.

Lieutenant.

We found the realtor.

Cleve Andrews bought a house a couple of days ago.

It's just north of the city.

Paid cash, Lieutenant.

No down payment, no mortgage payments.

Paid in full.

Eight liquor stores, and a bank heist

would just about take care of that.

His record came through.

He was in an institution for the criminally insane,

he was released a month and a half ago.

Whoa, Jill's got a real nut on her hands.

We better get to her fast.

All right, you two roll on that house

he just bought.

I'll meet Danko's bus right now.

This the address.

[SIREN WAILING]

[POLICE RADIO CHATTERING]

We've got nothing for sure.

We think we know where she is.

Webster and Gillis are on their way.

It's not far from here. I'll give you everything

we know while we're driving.

Anyway, we ran a make on this Andrews guy.

Turned out to be a convicted felon.

Spent the last three years in a hospital for

the criminally insane.

Is that where he found out he had

blood cancer?

That was a fake.

His medical record shows him to be

in perfect health.

He went to work as an orderly,

and he must have gotten all access to

all the hospital forms.

It was just a trick to make Jill feel

sorry for him.

That's the way it looks.

How'd he get out?

He was released.

Certified as sane.

Damn.

I knew I shouldn't have gone.

Ah, Danko.

We're all of us wise man when it

comes to hindsight.

Let's just wait and see what

we find, okay.

Come on, honey, eat something.

Can't go on without food.

I know you're still mad about that argument we

had the other day.

[CHUCKLES] You leaving town like that.

Knew I'd come after you, didn't you?

Cleve.

This isn't four and a half years ago.

It's now.

Now what kind of nonsense is that?

It was just a stupid argument, that's all.

This is no way to act on your

wedding night.

Jill, don't do this.

You're my wife.

I'm not your wife. Please.

[STAMMERING] Come on, Jill.

Let's go back in the house.

Huh?

Don't you understand, Cleve. I'm not your wife.

You... You're my Jill.

You've always been my Jill.

Cleve, I'm Mrs. Michael Danko.

[SCREAMING] No!

Jill!

Come back here!

You hear me?

Come back here!

[SHOUTING] You'll never go

back to him. I swear it!

You won't get away, Jill!

[SIREN WAILING]

Start slowing down.

Turn off should be about another mile ahead.

CLEVE: I didn't want it to be this way, Jill.

Anybody home?

Hey, look at this.

Everything's new. Tags are still on.

I don't like it.

Door open, car out front.

[GUN FIRING]

[SCREAMING]

[SCREAMING]

[SIREN WAILING]

[SCREAMING]

CLEVE: That's far enough!

CLEVE: Throw down your guns.

Now!

Should've put a bullet in her head...

You do that...

You won't be able to get both of us.

You'll be dead.

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

Please, just do what he says.

Okay.

[SHIVERING]

Okay.

Now we're all going back together.

You two, first.

Stay right behind them, Jill.

I didn't have any idea.

It's okay, it's over.

He's dead.

All right, get on the horn, and make

the notifications.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, where's the party?

Whoa, whoa, hey!

WILLIE: It's about time, it's about time.

Did you see my man running interference

stops there?

Really excellent technique, you see.

Thanks. Thank you.

Uh-huh. Hey.

Did you notice that? You made me look

good, didn't you.

Hey, wait a minute. We're talking about me.

Let's not change the subject.

PHIL: Jill! Phil!

What in the world are you doing here?

I'm in town overnight on business.

It's bit great running into you like this.

Well, it's good to see you.

Hi, I'm Jill's husband, Mike Danko.

Will you join us?

Uh, no, I'm with a client. I can't.

It's good to see you again.

Please say hello to everybody

for me, will you?

Will do. Take care.

[SIGHS]

Married a girl I went to nursing

school with.

Mmm. Got three children.

Expecting another one next month.

Well, um, I'll buy that.

[ALL LAUGHING]

Should've got us a table.

[LAUGHS]