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Now, you find out
who killed Lilah McGee
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and you and me are square.
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He killed her. There's
no question about that.
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Why are you
working for him, anyway?
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Oh, I lost $1500
to him in a crap game.
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That means there's a killer
walking around.
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He can see us coming,
but we can't see him.
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I'm a PI, Gandy.
I'm not an artillery spotter.
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I'm getting strong
in my old age.
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They just nailed Fitch
for loitering
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and attempted assault
of an officer.
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I never did like you,
Rockfish.
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And get off
that Rockfish thing!
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The name is Rockford.
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This is Jim Rockford.
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At the tone, leave your name
and message.
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I'll get back to you.
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It's Jack. The check is in the
mail. Sorry it's two years late.
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Sorry I misfigured my checking
account and I'm overdrawn.
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Sorry I stopped
payment on it.
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So when it comes, tear it up.
Sorry.
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Remember me, Rockfish?
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Yeah, yeah, the nightmares are getting
down to only one or two a month.
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And the name is
not "Rockfish."
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I came to collect.
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Well, I figured that.
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It happens to be
a bona fide debt,
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and you're five years
past due.
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Now what happened to that
bread you were supposed
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to deposit in my account
at Inmate's Trust Fund?
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Well, I kept meaning
to send it.
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$1500 is what you owe,
and $1500 I'm gonna collect.
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Come on, Gandy, do I look
like I got $1500, huh?
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I just lost a finder's fee
up in Lone Pine,
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and I drove
900 miles in 12 hours,
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so I'm a little tired.
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All right, Gandy.
All right, pal.
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Look, will you
give me till noon?
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Maybe I can...
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I can turn $250
on my TV set.
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I might get $300
out of the stereo.
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I've got some equity
in my car.
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Forget the bread.
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I'm gonna take it out
in hide and services.
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Now, you call it.
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Services?
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Look, Rockfish.
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I just did 20 years
for a murder that I didn't do.
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Now, you find out
who killed Lilah McGee,
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and you and me are square.
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Deal?
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Hey, when are you
getting started?
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I've been trying
to explain, Gandy.
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A 20-year-old trail
is just a little cold.
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Man, I could work on
this thing for months.
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Chances are I'd still
come up with nothing.
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That wouldn't be
too smart of you.
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You know,
$1500 doesn't go too far.
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I mean, my fee is $200 a day,
plus expenses.
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What are you talking about?
Nobody costs $200 a day.
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I do. It's not
1955 anymore, Gandy.
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Thing's are just
a little different now.
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Oh, yeah?
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Then how's pain feel
these days?
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Same as always, Gandy.
It still hurts.
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But even fists won't buy you
as much as they used to.
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And I'll tell you
something else.
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They're not gonna
buy anything with me, either.
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So don't go Neanderthal.
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You want to bust me up,
or you want my help?
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Okay. Okay.
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I'll buy you
for seven and a half days.
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$200 a day.
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Plus expenses.
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I'll forget the interest, you
forget the expenses. How's that?
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It stinks.
Good.
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Now, you find Lilah's killer
and I'll take it from there.
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Well, what if I can't?
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Then you ain't
paying what you owe.
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Now, I know the real killer's out
there, 'cause I know I didn't do it.
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Yeah, sure.
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Nobody believed me then.
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Nobody believe me now.
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But it don't matter.
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I know.
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Lilah was my lady,
and I loved her.
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I've loved her
all these 20 years.
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Yeah, well, I'll make a few phone
calls, I'll ask a few questions,
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and I'll see if I can't
put it together.
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Where you staying?
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Here.
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Here? You can't stay here.
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You got a couch.
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Well, it's not for rent.
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All right, you stick me with
the expenses. I can handle that.
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But not room and board.
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It took me a year
to pay Rocky back
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for what I ate my first month
out of the slammer.
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He still says
I haven't paid him.
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I can't afford you, Gandy.
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I'm getting strong
in my old age.
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Oh, yeah?
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Well, they went to
aluminum cans back in 1962.
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Now everybody can be a hero.
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I never did like you,
Rockfish.
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Well, you were never too high on my
list, either. When did you get out?
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Yesterday.
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And I already wasted 17 and a
half hours here waiting for you.
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So punch in
and do your job.
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You were gonna
make some phone calls.
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He says he didn't do it.
What's the official version?
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Case was out of my jurisdiction.
Happened in Pasadena.
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But I got a buddy in Detectives
out there. He checked it out for me.
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And I'll tell you
something, Jimbo.
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My buddy wasn't
too happy to hear
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that Fitch is back
out on the street again.
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I know how he feels.
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Gandolph Fitch put eight cops in
the hospital when he was arrested.
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Three of them
after he was cuffed.
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You know, I used to pray every
week for him to make parole?
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Most killers are back on
the street in seven years.
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But not Fitch. No, no.
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He was too valuable
to let out.
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He held the joint together
for them.
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Every new con
that came in that place
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had to spend his first week
in C block,
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Gandolph Fitch's cell.
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It was called
"indoctrination."
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It worked, too, huh?
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Well, nobody ever wanted
to be his cellmate twice.
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Okay, official version.
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Fitch knifed his old lady and
left her to bleed to death.
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The coroner said
it took a while, too.
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Fitch was the last person
to see her alive.
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The blade
was identified as his,
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and his prints
were all over it.
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Why are you
working for him, anyway?
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Oh, I lost $1500
to him in a crap game.
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The man's a maniac
with a pair of dice.
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He's also guilty,
so why hire you?
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Well, maybe he's looking
for someone else.
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It wouldn't be the first time
I've been used as a bird dog.
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Yeah, like someone
who fingered him.
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Or he could hold someone else
responsible, even if he did do it.
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You know where that puts you if you
finger someone and he snuffs them?
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Right back in C block.
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What are you gonna do?
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I don't know.
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I can either hang tough and
be out from under in a week,
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or I can run out the back door
and spend the winter
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with my Aunt Nancy
in Minnesota.
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Well, just keep him
out of my district.
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How? I can't even keep him
out of my refrigerator.
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The smog's worse
than I remember.
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You say your attorney's
name is Oliver Prey?
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Yeah. His office
is right around here.
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I still think we should've
looked in the phone book.
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Hi.
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Say, I'm looking for a guy
who used to rent this place.
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His name is Oliver Prey.
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Never heard of him.
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Before me,
this was a massage parlor.
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Before that, it was
a Republican headquarters.
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Before that,
it was a stationery store.
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Gandy! That you?
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Sure if it ain't.
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I heard you was
getting out.
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It's me, Gandy, me.
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Yeah. Doran Hotel.
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Rosie?
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Who else?
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Hey, man,
you got old.
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So did you.
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20 years!
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Hey, what you got on
your mind to be doing now?
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I'm looking
for Lilah's killer.
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And I want you to put it
in the streets for me.
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Sure.
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Thank you.
Thank you very much, sir.
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Yes, sir.
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Well, that's great, Gandy.
That's just great.
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What's your problem?
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You say you didn't kill Lilah. I didn't.
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Okay, let's say
you're telling me the truth.
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That means there's a killer
walking around.
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He can see us coming,
but we can't see him.
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I'm a PI, Gandy.
I'm not an artillery spotter.
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And you're a slow pay, too.
You ain't worked off one dime.
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Now, I wanna find
that shyster.
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I told you all we had to do
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was look in the phone book.
But no, no.
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You knew right where it was.
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Just shut up
and find him.
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I'll tell you what you do. You
go find him yourself. I quit!
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Oh, no, you don't.
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Let's find an alley.
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I think I'd rather spend
a month in the hospital,
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than take another minute
of you and your mouth.
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I don't need no alley.
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Come on, pal. Come on.
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Hey, you know, you're right.
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We should've looked
in the phone book.
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Okay, Rockfish?
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No, it's not okay, Gandy.
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I've just about had it with
you. You want me to help you?
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Okay, then get out of my way
and let me do my job.
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That's all I want anyway.
Okay, Rockfish?
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And get off
that Rockfish thing!
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The name is Rockford.
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Okay, Rockfish.
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I don't know.
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There's been so many.
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Fitch?
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Who can remember a face
from 20 years ago?
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He remembers you.
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Maybe a quick check
of the files?
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I don't do anything
for free, Mr. Rockford.
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In fact, I don't do anything
for under $100.
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He used to work as a collector
for the local rackets.
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He's a big man,
hard to forget.
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He said that, uh,
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he once tried to strangle you
in the visiting room.
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Oh! Gandolph Fitch! Sure.
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Right through
the wire mesh, too.
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The cops were glad
to get him off the street,
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and I can't say
that I blame them.
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Glad enough to frame him?
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No, he killed her. There's
no question about that.
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The jury recommended
the death penalty.
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I started an appeal,
but business is business.
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The appeal died
when he ran out of money
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and he went
into the B-and-B file.
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What?
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Black and broke.
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You're a real crusader,
aren't you?
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No. There's no money in it.
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Speaking of which, you're
starting to get into my pocket.
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Well, I'm gonna need
a transcript of the trial.
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I'll pay for
the copying charges.
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Sorry.
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I don't even know
if I kept it.
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Well, I'll help you look.
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Or don't you think
you owe the man that much?
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I don't owe anybody
anything.
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Besides, the B-and-B files are in
cardboard boxes in the basement.
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It would take days
to sort through them.
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Now, the time is running,
and I'm a very busy man.
248
00:13:22,101 --> 00:13:23,898
Yeah, of course, of course.
249
00:13:23,969 --> 00:13:26,028
Well, I don't know
how to thank you.
250
00:13:26,105 --> 00:13:28,266
But I'm sure
my client will.
251
00:13:30,810 --> 00:13:32,175
What do you mean?
252
00:13:32,745 --> 00:13:35,179
Say, when is he getting out?
253
00:13:35,714 --> 00:13:38,706
Yesterday, Mr. Prey.
Yesterday.
254
00:13:48,894 --> 00:13:53,092
No, no, no! It's 1955
we're looking for, not '45.
255
00:13:53,332 --> 00:13:54,959
You're not
helping me, Betty.
256
00:13:55,100 --> 00:13:56,761
Mr. Fitch is waiting.
257
00:14:01,006 --> 00:14:02,633
Here it is, Mr. Prey.
258
00:14:03,576 --> 00:14:05,134
Oh, yes, yes, yes.
Thank you.
259
00:14:05,211 --> 00:14:06,701
That's very good, Betty.
260
00:14:09,148 --> 00:14:11,446
Here we are. Let's see.
261
00:14:11,517 --> 00:14:13,747
Hill, King,
262
00:14:13,886 --> 00:14:16,548
Revere, Sanchez.
263
00:14:17,823 --> 00:14:19,347
Gandolph Fitch.
264
00:14:19,425 --> 00:14:20,892
It was misfiled.
265
00:14:21,293 --> 00:14:24,160
There now, see?
No trouble at all.
266
00:14:24,930 --> 00:14:26,192
This is it?
267
00:14:26,265 --> 00:14:28,825
What do you expect?
It was all over by noon.
268
00:14:28,901 --> 00:14:30,027
I know.
269
00:14:30,102 --> 00:14:32,627
It was a crime the way
they pushed it through.
270
00:14:32,705 --> 00:14:34,104
I did all I could, but...
271
00:14:34,173 --> 00:14:35,504
You did nothing, shyster.
272
00:14:35,574 --> 00:14:36,632
Hey, come on, Gandy.
273
00:14:36,709 --> 00:14:37,733
I did all I could.
274
00:14:37,810 --> 00:14:40,142
Gandy, you're just buying yourself
a trip back to the slammer.
275
00:14:40,212 --> 00:14:42,976
What did you want me to do? He
took my money and kissed me off.
276
00:14:43,048 --> 00:14:46,575
If you didn't kill Lilah, you're not
gonna find out who did back in C block.
277
00:14:46,652 --> 00:14:48,279
I thought we settled that.
I didn't kill her!
278
00:14:48,354 --> 00:14:49,582
Well, neither did he!
279
00:14:49,655 --> 00:14:50,815
I didn't even know her!
280
00:14:50,890 --> 00:14:52,118
Now, come on, Gandy.
281
00:14:52,191 --> 00:14:55,126
Stop acting like a killer, and
then maybe I'll believe you.
282
00:14:55,194 --> 00:14:56,684
Just maybe.
283
00:14:56,829 --> 00:14:58,023
Hey...
284
00:14:58,931 --> 00:15:00,694
he isn't worth it, Gandy.
285
00:15:22,888 --> 00:15:24,116
That's him.
286
00:15:25,357 --> 00:15:28,815
20 years older, but he looks
exactly like the picture.
287
00:15:28,894 --> 00:15:31,192
No, you don't have to follow
them. I got the license number.
288
00:15:31,263 --> 00:15:32,730
I wanna see who he's with.
289
00:15:32,798 --> 00:15:34,197
I'll find that out.
290
00:15:34,733 --> 00:15:36,792
Arthur,
I am tired of waiting.
291
00:15:38,203 --> 00:15:39,329
Yeah.
292
00:15:42,875 --> 00:15:44,308
You're not sure, are you?
293
00:15:45,077 --> 00:15:46,237
Are you?
Yes.
294
00:15:46,612 --> 00:15:49,775
I've never been so sure
about anything in all my life.
295
00:15:52,017 --> 00:15:53,814
All right. You back
out of it if you want to.
296
00:15:53,886 --> 00:15:55,444
I'll take care of him myself. No, no, no.
297
00:15:55,521 --> 00:15:57,250
You don't do
anything by yourself.
298
00:15:57,323 --> 00:15:59,917
I just... I just
wanna do it right.
299
00:15:59,992 --> 00:16:02,187
Did we ever plan
to do it wrong?
300
00:16:03,629 --> 00:16:04,653
No.
301
00:16:04,997 --> 00:16:05,986
No.
302
00:16:06,699 --> 00:16:07,825
All right.
303
00:16:10,636 --> 00:16:11,728
His time is up.
304
00:16:13,605 --> 00:16:14,765
His time is up.
305
00:16:20,279 --> 00:16:22,941
You had lousy representation,
I'll give you that.
306
00:16:23,015 --> 00:16:25,210
Gandy,
did you ever beat Lilah?
307
00:16:26,952 --> 00:16:29,250
Nobody's playing music
anymore?
308
00:16:29,355 --> 00:16:32,518
Where is Huggy Boy
or Hunter Hancock?
309
00:16:35,361 --> 00:16:37,522
You used to beat her
all the time.
310
00:16:37,830 --> 00:16:40,822
At least, that was the
testimony of one Eunice Charles.
311
00:16:40,899 --> 00:16:43,925
Eunice is a lying hooker,
and that's all she ever was.
312
00:16:44,003 --> 00:16:46,437
It says here that
she was Lilah's best friend.
313
00:16:46,505 --> 00:16:48,530
And it says there
I killed Lilah, too.
314
00:16:48,674 --> 00:16:51,734
Yeah, well, whoever did
beat her first.
315
00:16:52,745 --> 00:16:57,182
It says that Eunice found the body
the next day, called the police...
316
00:16:58,817 --> 00:17:00,614
It doesn't say
how she got in, though.
317
00:17:00,853 --> 00:17:02,616
Lilah gave her a key.
318
00:17:03,522 --> 00:17:05,422
Oh, did Lilah give
anyone else a key?
319
00:17:05,491 --> 00:17:06,890
No! Nobody!
320
00:17:07,059 --> 00:17:09,050
She was dead
all night, Gandy.
321
00:17:09,128 --> 00:17:10,186
Where were you?
322
00:17:10,262 --> 00:17:11,559
Nowhere I can prove.
323
00:17:11,764 --> 00:17:12,958
Where were you?
324
00:17:13,365 --> 00:17:15,833
Back room of George's Liquor
up on Lincoln
325
00:17:16,301 --> 00:17:17,768
trying to sleep one off.
326
00:17:19,538 --> 00:17:20,937
If I'd have been home...
327
00:17:21,073 --> 00:17:23,166
Did you used to
beat her, Gandy?
328
00:17:24,977 --> 00:17:26,501
I told you the first time.
329
00:17:27,012 --> 00:17:29,071
Now, don't start
with me again, Gandy.
330
00:17:29,148 --> 00:17:31,309
I'm just about that far
from waffling on you.
331
00:17:34,520 --> 00:17:35,987
It used to be that far.
332
00:17:36,955 --> 00:17:38,889
Things are looking up,
huh, Rockfish?
333
00:17:45,898 --> 00:17:46,990
I love Lilah.
334
00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:50,033
I never meant to hurt her.
335
00:17:50,836 --> 00:17:53,031
Okay, Gandy.
I'll go for that.
336
00:17:54,540 --> 00:17:56,132
Maybe things are looking up.
337
00:17:57,743 --> 00:18:00,769
You know, I'd like to talk
to this Eunice Charles.
338
00:18:00,846 --> 00:18:03,474
Do you got any idea where
we'd get a line on her?
339
00:18:03,615 --> 00:18:05,048
Now you're cooking.
340
00:18:05,651 --> 00:18:07,585
I been wanting to
talk to her myself.
341
00:18:08,020 --> 00:18:09,988
She used to hook for my
old boss, Pebbles Runkin.
342
00:18:10,055 --> 00:18:11,215
Pebbles Runkin?
343
00:18:11,423 --> 00:18:14,358
Yeah. Numbers,
loans, bookmaking, and broads.
344
00:18:14,827 --> 00:18:17,227
From the Arroyo Seco
to Rosemead Boulevard,
345
00:18:17,296 --> 00:18:19,764
and from California Street
to the Altadena line.
346
00:18:19,965 --> 00:18:21,296
Mr. Runkin's all right.
347
00:18:21,366 --> 00:18:23,391
And he was the only man
I was ever afraid of.
348
00:18:24,837 --> 00:18:26,134
Great. Great.
349
00:18:26,271 --> 00:18:28,102
I'm looking forward
to meeting him.
350
00:18:34,379 --> 00:18:35,710
I'm not sure.
351
00:18:36,081 --> 00:18:38,106
Everyone called him Pebbles?
352
00:18:38,350 --> 00:18:41,319
Yeah, except the people who worked
for him. They called him Mr. Runkin.
353
00:18:41,520 --> 00:18:44,250
He ran his whole operation from
an office over a dime store.
354
00:18:44,323 --> 00:18:47,087
Well, he's the only Charles
Runkin in the Pasadena phone book.
355
00:18:47,159 --> 00:18:48,456
Must be the same guy.
356
00:18:48,527 --> 00:18:51,257
Yeah. Looks like he done
pretty good for himself, too.
357
00:18:52,764 --> 00:18:54,959
What a collector this kid was.
358
00:18:55,234 --> 00:18:56,826
I found him
359
00:18:56,902 --> 00:18:59,462
wasting his time
in a motorcycle gang.
360
00:18:59,538 --> 00:19:02,200
The biggest thing this kid
could ever dream about
361
00:19:02,274 --> 00:19:04,242
was getting his head
chromed someday.
362
00:19:04,309 --> 00:19:06,800
You know how old he was
when I turned him out?
363
00:19:06,879 --> 00:19:08,870
15. Come on, fellas.
Sit down.
364
00:19:11,984 --> 00:19:13,212
You know
what his collection rate was?
365
00:19:13,285 --> 00:19:14,912
Oh, about a 105%.
366
00:19:14,987 --> 00:19:16,011
You're close.
367
00:19:16,121 --> 00:19:18,055
Well,
I've had personal experience.
368
00:19:18,390 --> 00:19:21,848
I've been trying to get a line on
another former employee of yours.
369
00:19:22,094 --> 00:19:23,254
Eunice Charles.
370
00:19:24,863 --> 00:19:27,297
Sure, you remember her,
Mr. Runkin.
371
00:19:27,366 --> 00:19:30,631
Mouthy broad, thought she was
always better than everybody else.
372
00:19:30,936 --> 00:19:32,733
Worked the Doran Hotel
for you.
373
00:19:34,072 --> 00:19:35,403
I'm trying to remember.
374
00:19:35,574 --> 00:19:36,563
Of course.
375
00:19:37,843 --> 00:19:39,242
Lilah's friend, right?
376
00:19:40,012 --> 00:19:41,741
Eunice was
always riding Gandy.
377
00:19:41,813 --> 00:19:43,713
Thought he was
a bad influence,
378
00:19:43,782 --> 00:19:45,977
even though he made
Lilah stop working.
379
00:19:46,051 --> 00:19:47,678
I'm surprised you
let that happen.
380
00:19:47,753 --> 00:19:50,688
Most men in your line of work like
to nip that kind of thing in the bud,
381
00:19:50,756 --> 00:19:52,018
so it doesn't set a trend.
382
00:19:53,292 --> 00:19:56,887
The next clown that tried it
had every other tooth ripped out
383
00:19:56,962 --> 00:19:59,089
of his head
with a pair of rusty pliers.
384
00:19:59,164 --> 00:20:02,065
Of course, I'm not in
that line of work anymore.
385
00:20:02,267 --> 00:20:04,201
I don't suppose
Eunice is, either.
386
00:20:05,003 --> 00:20:06,334
No, Eunice quit me.
387
00:20:07,472 --> 00:20:10,669
I heard she died in an automobile
accident somewhere in the Midwest.
388
00:20:10,742 --> 00:20:12,767
Kansas?
I don't remember.
389
00:20:13,312 --> 00:20:14,370
What?
390
00:20:15,781 --> 00:20:16,805
No.
391
00:20:18,050 --> 00:20:19,039
No!
392
00:20:20,118 --> 00:20:22,348
I been waiting 20 years
to settle up with her.
393
00:20:22,421 --> 00:20:23,479
She can't be dead!
394
00:20:23,555 --> 00:20:25,022
We can all be dead, Gandy.
395
00:20:25,424 --> 00:20:27,790
She bought it about a year
after you killed Lilah.
396
00:20:27,859 --> 00:20:29,793
I didn't kill Lilah,
Mr. Runkin.
397
00:20:29,861 --> 00:20:31,453
I did 20 years for nothing.
398
00:20:32,164 --> 00:20:34,029
It's all academic
at this point.
399
00:20:34,299 --> 00:20:35,789
I said I didn't kill her.
400
00:20:37,436 --> 00:20:38,960
But you're the man,
401
00:20:39,304 --> 00:20:41,534
so I guess you can call them
anyway you like.
402
00:20:44,243 --> 00:20:46,040
I need a couple
of days to think...
403
00:20:47,112 --> 00:20:49,945
then I'd like to come back to
work, if it's okay with you.
404
00:20:50,782 --> 00:20:52,977
I don't keep muscle
on salary anymore.
405
00:20:53,218 --> 00:20:55,083
I'm into lawyers these days.
406
00:20:55,787 --> 00:20:57,516
I wish I could help you,
Gandy, but...
407
00:20:57,623 --> 00:20:59,818
I grew old in the joint,
not softer.
408
00:21:00,092 --> 00:21:01,753
Ask Rockfish. Tell him.
409
00:21:02,961 --> 00:21:04,053
He kept in shape.
410
00:21:04,529 --> 00:21:05,826
Gandy, let me explain.
411
00:21:06,331 --> 00:21:08,765
Every now and then,
three, four times a year,
412
00:21:08,834 --> 00:21:10,233
I have occasion
to use muscle.
413
00:21:10,302 --> 00:21:11,360
Then I'm your man.
414
00:21:11,436 --> 00:21:13,097
I bring it in
from out of town.
415
00:21:13,438 --> 00:21:15,463
They're here two,
three hours at a time.
416
00:21:15,540 --> 00:21:17,098
Then, poof, back on the jet.
417
00:21:17,175 --> 00:21:19,166
And they all look
just like my lawyers.
418
00:21:19,311 --> 00:21:20,835
I'm sorry, Gandy.
419
00:21:21,480 --> 00:21:23,505
Your kind of muscle is just...
420
00:21:24,182 --> 00:21:25,171
obsolete.
421
00:21:27,919 --> 00:21:29,784
It was good
seeing you again, Gandy.
422
00:21:29,855 --> 00:21:30,913
Yeah.
423
00:21:31,623 --> 00:21:33,022
If that's the way it is.
424
00:21:33,325 --> 00:21:34,314
Thanks anyway.
425
00:21:35,160 --> 00:21:36,286
Any time, Gandy.
426
00:21:38,196 --> 00:21:40,562
Can I see you for a minute,
Mr. Rockford?
427
00:21:40,899 --> 00:21:42,924
Yeah. Gandy,
I'll see you at the car?
428
00:21:43,302 --> 00:21:44,291
Yeah.
429
00:21:46,672 --> 00:21:47,696
He looks bad.
430
00:21:48,573 --> 00:21:50,473
I feel awful,
but what can I do?
431
00:21:50,676 --> 00:21:51,734
Here.
432
00:21:56,114 --> 00:21:58,947
Get him into some new threads.
That ought to pick him up.
433
00:22:01,553 --> 00:22:02,679
What's this?
434
00:22:04,756 --> 00:22:06,018
Conscience money?
435
00:22:06,591 --> 00:22:10,254
Why did you let that shyster send
Gandy up the river to be barbecued?
436
00:22:10,329 --> 00:22:13,560
Hey, I don't even
owe you a goodbye.
437
00:22:23,408 --> 00:22:24,397
Look...
438
00:22:25,510 --> 00:22:27,205
I believe he killed Lilah.
439
00:22:27,379 --> 00:22:29,210
Well, I don't buy it,
Mr. Runkin.
440
00:22:29,314 --> 00:22:30,372
No?
441
00:22:30,949 --> 00:22:32,041
All right.
442
00:22:32,984 --> 00:22:34,918
They wanted him
off the streets so bad,
443
00:22:34,986 --> 00:22:38,114
they began to chip away at my
operation just to get at him.
444
00:22:38,357 --> 00:22:39,517
I had it handled
445
00:22:39,891 --> 00:22:42,121
until he went ape
and killed the girl.
446
00:22:42,194 --> 00:22:44,094
So you agreed
to stay out of his defense,
447
00:22:44,162 --> 00:22:46,027
and they agreed
to stop chipping.
448
00:22:46,198 --> 00:22:47,256
Come on.
449
00:22:47,599 --> 00:22:50,932
They had him dead-bang on
a murder one, and that's it.
450
00:22:51,770 --> 00:22:53,328
Let me ask you, Mr. Runkin.
451
00:22:54,072 --> 00:22:55,471
Is it possible
452
00:22:56,208 --> 00:22:58,233
that Eunice killed Lilah?
453
00:23:00,178 --> 00:23:01,702
I'm gonna call Omaha.
454
00:23:02,314 --> 00:23:03,838
See what the special is.
455
00:23:04,683 --> 00:23:06,583
I think
it's kneecaps this month.
456
00:23:06,651 --> 00:23:08,414
Oh, well,
since you put it that way.
457
00:23:08,487 --> 00:23:11,320
I'll just have to tell Gandy
how you framed him, dealt him,
458
00:23:11,390 --> 00:23:13,290
fed him to the jury,
and walked away.
459
00:23:13,358 --> 00:23:15,792
Wait a minute.
I didn't frame him.
460
00:23:16,027 --> 00:23:17,722
You explain that to him, huh?
461
00:23:17,796 --> 00:23:20,390
I think I got a pair of rusty
pliers in the back of my car.
462
00:23:20,465 --> 00:23:22,899
Wait a minute.
Hey, Mr. Rockford.
463
00:23:22,968 --> 00:23:24,230
Come on. Sit down.
464
00:23:24,736 --> 00:23:26,567
Go ahead. Sit down.
465
00:23:33,678 --> 00:23:36,511
Hey, I've been
looking all over for you.
466
00:23:36,748 --> 00:23:38,306
You were supposed to
meet me at the car.
467
00:23:38,383 --> 00:23:40,112
What for? Eunice is dead.
468
00:23:41,219 --> 00:23:42,811
She's the one
who killed Lilah.
469
00:23:43,455 --> 00:23:45,446
So we got nothing else
to talk about.
470
00:23:46,458 --> 00:23:48,688
Well, I guess that lets you
off the hook, Rockfish.
471
00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:50,421
Well, why didn't you
just go after her?
472
00:23:50,495 --> 00:23:52,087
Why did you bother with me?
473
00:23:52,164 --> 00:23:53,825
I never killed
anyone in my life,
474
00:23:53,899 --> 00:23:56,766
so I had one coming, and I
planned to collect it, too.
475
00:23:57,502 --> 00:24:00,164
I know I wanted it to be
Eunice, but I had to be sure.
476
00:24:00,238 --> 00:24:02,263
That's why I didn't tell
you nothing about her.
477
00:24:02,340 --> 00:24:04,171
But you pointed
right at her anyway.
478
00:24:04,242 --> 00:24:06,210
Now I'm sure, and so what?
479
00:24:06,478 --> 00:24:07,467
It's too late.
480
00:24:07,546 --> 00:24:08,570
Hey, Gandy,
481
00:24:08,947 --> 00:24:12,007
Mr. Runkin wasn't too taken
with your wardrobe.
482
00:24:12,083 --> 00:24:15,416
He thought maybe you'd like to buy
some new clothes. There's a $1000 here.
483
00:24:15,487 --> 00:24:16,818
$1000.
484
00:24:17,422 --> 00:24:20,016
I could buy out a whole
department store with $1000.
485
00:24:20,091 --> 00:24:22,719
Oh, yeah? When was the
last time you went shopping?
486
00:24:22,928 --> 00:24:24,020
Take it, Gandy.
487
00:24:24,396 --> 00:24:25,920
There's no more
where that came from,
488
00:24:25,997 --> 00:24:28,022
and it's not gonna last
too long.
489
00:24:29,434 --> 00:24:32,631
Hey, can I give you
a lift anywhere?
490
00:24:34,372 --> 00:24:35,862
I'm already here.
491
00:24:36,541 --> 00:24:37,906
This is my town.
492
00:24:40,178 --> 00:24:41,975
Get your icebox
back in shape.
493
00:24:42,314 --> 00:24:45,647
And don't ever say I tried to stiff
you out of a finder's fee, either.
494
00:24:47,786 --> 00:24:48,980
So long, Rockfish.
495
00:24:50,889 --> 00:24:52,049
So long, Gandy.
496
00:25:12,310 --> 00:25:13,971
Mrs. Bingham?
Yes?
497
00:25:14,279 --> 00:25:15,610
I'm James Rockford.
498
00:25:16,515 --> 00:25:18,039
You're Eunice Charles?
499
00:25:21,286 --> 00:25:22,981
I don't really think
you wanna have
500
00:25:23,054 --> 00:25:24,885
this conversation
out here, do you?
501
00:25:25,891 --> 00:25:27,119
Why, no.
502
00:25:27,192 --> 00:25:28,454
No, come inside.
503
00:25:51,149 --> 00:25:53,947
Mr. Runkin couldn't have
told you how to find me.
504
00:25:54,185 --> 00:25:56,449
He has no idea
who I am or where I am.
505
00:25:56,955 --> 00:25:59,185
I haven't talked to him
in 19 years.
506
00:25:59,257 --> 00:26:01,350
No, but a year
after you quit,
507
00:26:01,593 --> 00:26:04,255
you called him and asked
him for one last favor.
508
00:26:04,663 --> 00:26:07,826
You said you'd found your
doctor, you wanted to get married,
509
00:26:07,933 --> 00:26:10,868
and you asked him to
put it out on the street
510
00:26:11,169 --> 00:26:13,000
that Eunice Charles was dead.
511
00:26:13,538 --> 00:26:14,664
He did.
512
00:26:17,542 --> 00:26:19,100
What do you want from me?
513
00:26:19,477 --> 00:26:20,466
Money?
514
00:26:20,845 --> 00:26:23,313
I pay you off
and you don't tell my husband.
515
00:26:24,316 --> 00:26:25,681
Isn't that how it goes?
516
00:26:27,419 --> 00:26:30,547
Well, Mr. Rockford, I'm afraid
you went to a great deal of trouble
517
00:26:30,622 --> 00:26:31,680
for nothing.
518
00:26:32,324 --> 00:26:34,087
My husband knows
all about my past.
519
00:26:34,492 --> 00:26:36,153
I don't want your money,
Mrs. Bingham.
520
00:26:36,227 --> 00:26:38,957
I want to know
if you killed Lilah McGee.
521
00:26:39,598 --> 00:26:40,792
Who are you?
522
00:26:41,099 --> 00:26:42,566
I'm a private investigator.
523
00:26:42,867 --> 00:26:45,597
My client seems to think
that you killed Lilah.
524
00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:49,771
And your client?
525
00:26:51,543 --> 00:26:52,976
Is it Gandolph Fitch?
526
00:26:53,244 --> 00:26:54,370
That's right.
527
00:26:56,948 --> 00:26:58,210
He's out of prison.
528
00:26:59,451 --> 00:27:00,509
He, uh,
529
00:27:00,619 --> 00:27:02,246
thinks you're dead, for now.
530
00:27:02,887 --> 00:27:04,047
Thank God.
531
00:27:04,556 --> 00:27:06,114
You can't tell him
about me.
532
00:27:06,257 --> 00:27:07,781
Promise you won't tell him.
533
00:27:07,993 --> 00:27:11,053
If you convince me you didn't
kill Lilah, maybe I will.
534
00:27:11,329 --> 00:27:14,594
Otherwise, I'm gonna plant him
on your doorstep at dinnertime.
535
00:27:16,368 --> 00:27:18,893
When you're born in the sewer,
you either drown
536
00:27:18,970 --> 00:27:21,336
or you spend your life
trying to get out of it.
537
00:27:22,974 --> 00:27:24,942
I got out
the only way I could.
538
00:27:26,778 --> 00:27:28,609
It was a way out
for Lilah, too.
539
00:27:30,548 --> 00:27:32,140
And along came Gandy.
540
00:27:32,417 --> 00:27:34,214
Oh, he begged her
to marry him.
541
00:27:35,020 --> 00:27:37,648
As though that would make
everything all right.
542
00:27:39,190 --> 00:27:41,818
Every time he asked,
she said no.
543
00:27:43,194 --> 00:27:45,424
And every time she said no...
544
00:27:46,464 --> 00:27:47,726
he beat her.
545
00:27:48,733 --> 00:27:50,758
It got so
I hated to go over there.
546
00:27:52,070 --> 00:27:54,163
I got her hooked on
crossword puzzles.
547
00:27:55,273 --> 00:27:57,366
She got to be
pretty good at them, too.
548
00:27:57,542 --> 00:27:59,806
I was her only friend,
Mr. Rockford.
549
00:28:00,578 --> 00:28:02,102
How could I kill her?
550
00:28:09,020 --> 00:28:10,681
I don't know, Mrs. Bingham.
551
00:28:14,225 --> 00:28:15,624
I guess you couldn't.
552
00:28:19,864 --> 00:28:20,956
Then...
553
00:28:23,601 --> 00:28:25,728
Then you won't tell him
I'm alive?
554
00:28:26,805 --> 00:28:27,829
No.
555
00:28:30,041 --> 00:28:31,099
Thank you.
556
00:28:31,743 --> 00:28:32,971
Could he find me?
557
00:28:33,144 --> 00:28:34,270
You did.
558
00:28:34,646 --> 00:28:36,238
Well, it'd be a long shot.
559
00:28:37,882 --> 00:28:40,851
But if he does, nothing will
stop him from killing you.
560
00:28:47,025 --> 00:28:48,583
How did you find me?
561
00:28:48,793 --> 00:28:52,229
I wired vital statistics
to the 1956 white pages.
562
00:28:52,430 --> 00:28:55,627
Out of 315
marriage licenses issued
563
00:28:55,700 --> 00:28:57,861
between the months
of September and October,
564
00:28:58,203 --> 00:29:00,865
17 of the men
were listed as M.D.s.
565
00:29:02,674 --> 00:29:04,198
13 are still listed.
566
00:29:04,676 --> 00:29:06,644
So I started
ringing doorbells
567
00:29:06,711 --> 00:29:08,975
and Eunice opened
the eighth door.
568
00:29:10,248 --> 00:29:11,681
Why did you even bother?
569
00:29:11,883 --> 00:29:13,510
Well, it bugged me,
not knowing.
570
00:29:13,585 --> 00:29:16,452
It wasn't Pebbles Runkin.
it wasn't the cops.
571
00:29:17,489 --> 00:29:18,820
It could've been.
572
00:29:19,057 --> 00:29:20,718
Now I know
it wasn't Eunice.
573
00:29:23,361 --> 00:29:27,764
Which only leaves Gandy, which is
what I told you in the first place.
574
00:29:29,434 --> 00:29:31,561
Lovers are very big
on homicide.
575
00:29:34,672 --> 00:29:36,071
Happens all the time.
576
00:29:36,508 --> 00:29:39,409
Yeah, well, they're usually
more humane about it.
577
00:29:39,511 --> 00:29:40,671
Since when?
578
00:29:41,913 --> 00:29:45,849
Look, he's gotta think Eunice did
it to get himself off the hook.
579
00:29:45,984 --> 00:29:47,042
So let him.
580
00:29:47,252 --> 00:29:49,777
Well, that's fine as long
as he thinks she's dead.
581
00:29:50,255 --> 00:29:51,950
But long shots do come in.
582
00:29:52,023 --> 00:29:54,753
Are you willing to bet her
life that this one won't?
583
00:29:54,926 --> 00:29:56,052
Uh-uh.
584
00:29:56,261 --> 00:29:57,956
Don't pin that on me.
It's your bet.
585
00:29:58,029 --> 00:29:59,053
Thanks a lot.
586
00:29:59,130 --> 00:30:02,395
What are you worried about?
Skate it. You're out from under.
587
00:30:02,767 --> 00:30:04,530
Yeah, maybe you're right.
588
00:30:06,571 --> 00:30:08,004
You want more chili?
589
00:30:08,173 --> 00:30:09,640
No, I've had enough, thanks.
590
00:30:12,944 --> 00:30:14,536
You know, if he does
start looking for her,
591
00:30:14,612 --> 00:30:16,136
he'll never look in
that neighborhood.
592
00:30:16,214 --> 00:30:17,613
Sergeant Becker.
593
00:30:18,449 --> 00:30:19,677
No kidding?
594
00:30:19,884 --> 00:30:21,818
They just got
your boy, Jimbo.
595
00:30:22,887 --> 00:30:24,377
Yeah. That much?
596
00:30:25,857 --> 00:30:28,883
I don't blame you. I would've
done the same thing myself.
597
00:30:29,427 --> 00:30:31,122
Okay, thank you.
598
00:30:32,163 --> 00:30:33,755
Well, your troubles are over.
599
00:30:33,832 --> 00:30:35,732
They just nailed Fitch
for loitering
600
00:30:35,867 --> 00:30:37,767
and attempted assault
of an officer.
601
00:30:37,836 --> 00:30:39,633
Attempted assault?
602
00:30:39,938 --> 00:30:42,099
The mace got him
before he got them.
603
00:30:42,540 --> 00:30:44,667
And they're so happy
to get him off the street,
604
00:30:44,742 --> 00:30:49,441
that they set bail for $10,000
to make sure he stays put.
605
00:30:49,681 --> 00:30:51,945
Well, he's gonna be about a $100 shy
606
00:30:52,083 --> 00:30:54,381
of the $1000 he'll
need for the bond.
607
00:30:56,754 --> 00:30:58,381
You're not gonna
give it to him?
608
00:30:58,456 --> 00:31:00,048
It's his $100.
609
00:31:00,859 --> 00:31:03,123
You're not gonna have
one friend in Pasadena.
610
00:31:03,194 --> 00:31:04,320
Oh, yeah?
611
00:31:04,495 --> 00:31:06,656
What about
the one I got there now?
612
00:31:13,004 --> 00:31:14,869
You didn't tell
me they carry mace.
613
00:31:14,939 --> 00:31:16,770
What am I?
Your mother?
614
00:31:17,242 --> 00:31:19,107
Thanks for getting
me out, Rockfish.
615
00:31:19,177 --> 00:31:20,701
Well, you're gonna
be right back in there
616
00:31:20,778 --> 00:31:22,712
unless you get
out of this town.
617
00:31:25,083 --> 00:31:26,448
Come on, Gandy.
Keep walking.
618
00:31:26,517 --> 00:31:27,848
Just keep walking.
619
00:31:38,263 --> 00:31:39,855
Yeah, walk away.
620
00:31:39,998 --> 00:31:41,863
I just got to
learn to do that.
621
00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:44,090
Where am I gonna go?
622
00:31:44,602 --> 00:31:47,833
Pasadena and the joint's the
only two places I know about.
623
00:31:48,039 --> 00:31:51,805
And, besides, Mr. Runkin could've
been wrong about Eunice being dead.
624
00:31:52,644 --> 00:31:54,009
There's something
I want to check out.
625
00:31:54,078 --> 00:31:55,409
Yeah? What?
626
00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:56,606
Remember Rosie?
627
00:31:56,681 --> 00:31:57,739
Yeah.
628
00:31:58,249 --> 00:32:00,945
He told me Eunice changed her
name and moved to New York.
629
00:32:01,019 --> 00:32:02,008
Hey, New York.
630
00:32:02,086 --> 00:32:03,815
That's a good place
to start looking, pal.
631
00:32:03,888 --> 00:32:05,412
Yeah,
and that ain't all.
632
00:32:05,490 --> 00:32:07,515
Another dude I know
heard she got into a crash
633
00:32:07,592 --> 00:32:10,220
and got herself crippled
somewhere in Alabama.
634
00:32:10,428 --> 00:32:13,090
Of course, that was a long
time ago, and they don't know
635
00:32:13,164 --> 00:32:14,631
just like Mr. Runkin
don't know.
636
00:32:14,699 --> 00:32:16,360
Dig?
No.
637
00:32:16,434 --> 00:32:19,232
Eunice is sharp enough to
split and cover her tracks.
638
00:32:19,304 --> 00:32:20,931
Now, she killed Lilah.
639
00:32:21,372 --> 00:32:23,738
And she figured I'd get out
someday and come looking for her.
640
00:32:23,808 --> 00:32:26,868
Gandy, you were sentenced
to the electric chair.
641
00:32:26,945 --> 00:32:29,880
Yeah, but it was commuted to life
a year after I was in the joint.
642
00:32:29,948 --> 00:32:32,940
And that's just when Clarence
said she split on Mr. Runkin.
643
00:32:33,017 --> 00:32:34,575
Clarence?
644
00:32:34,719 --> 00:32:36,346
He used to be
real tight with Eunice.
645
00:32:36,421 --> 00:32:40,050
Said she changed her name and started
hustling on the other side of the hill.
646
00:32:40,458 --> 00:32:43,018
He figures she suckered some
rich dude into marrying her.
647
00:32:43,094 --> 00:32:44,925
That's what
she always wanted.
648
00:32:44,996 --> 00:32:46,429
You're barking at the moon.
649
00:32:46,497 --> 00:32:47,862
Maybe.
650
00:32:47,932 --> 00:32:50,492
But if she's still alive,
I'm gonna find her.
651
00:32:50,868 --> 00:32:52,130
You want in?
652
00:32:52,270 --> 00:32:53,532
In what?
653
00:32:53,604 --> 00:32:56,095
Accessory to murder?
No way, pal.
654
00:32:56,307 --> 00:32:59,572
Okay.
Oh, thanks for the bail money.
655
00:32:59,644 --> 00:33:01,737
I'll see you gets it back.
656
00:33:02,814 --> 00:33:04,543
Hey, hey, Gandy.
657
00:33:05,149 --> 00:33:07,743
Gandy, why don't we go
and play some pool?
658
00:33:08,586 --> 00:33:10,315
I got business, Rockfish.
659
00:33:10,521 --> 00:33:13,115
Yeah, well, that's what
I wanna talk to you about.
660
00:33:13,191 --> 00:33:16,183
I wanna talk to you
about who killed Lilah.
661
00:33:17,962 --> 00:33:19,725
Come on. Get in.
662
00:33:38,649 --> 00:33:40,241
That's $300, Gandy.
663
00:33:40,385 --> 00:33:42,012
Double or nothing again?
664
00:33:42,086 --> 00:33:43,849
I thought you said
we were gonna talk.
665
00:33:43,921 --> 00:33:46,412
I also said we were
gonna shoot a little pool.
666
00:33:46,924 --> 00:33:48,289
Double or nothing.
667
00:33:49,027 --> 00:33:50,289
Hey, Gandy.
668
00:33:51,095 --> 00:33:52,995
Why wouldn't Lilah marry you?
669
00:33:55,366 --> 00:33:56,594
What?
670
00:33:56,667 --> 00:33:58,828
I don't know.
I asked her a million times.
671
00:33:59,704 --> 00:34:02,571
Did you try not beating her
every time she said no?
672
00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:04,631
Maybe that's
why she ran away.
673
00:34:04,909 --> 00:34:06,706
How long was she gone?
674
00:34:07,578 --> 00:34:12,277
Around six months the first
time, seven months the last.
675
00:34:13,985 --> 00:34:15,850
Hey,
how'd you know about that?
676
00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:20,186
Oh, Mr. Runkin said that was when
you were at your lip-splitting best.
677
00:34:21,459 --> 00:34:23,359
When she left,
where'd she go?
678
00:34:23,761 --> 00:34:25,388
She wouldn't tell me.
679
00:34:25,930 --> 00:34:27,795
So I hurt a lot
of people back then,
680
00:34:27,865 --> 00:34:29,924
but I never hurt her
like she hurt me.
681
00:34:30,401 --> 00:34:31,868
Well, of course
she hurt you
682
00:34:31,936 --> 00:34:33,733
by begging you
to let her go.
683
00:34:34,906 --> 00:34:38,364
She could be bought,
but you couldn't own her.
684
00:34:43,247 --> 00:34:45,613
I don't think Mr. Runkin
told you that.
685
00:34:46,084 --> 00:34:48,052
Oh, no, he didn't.
686
00:34:48,119 --> 00:34:51,282
I stopped by and talked to Rosie
on my way over to bail you out.
687
00:34:51,422 --> 00:34:52,787
Uh-huh.
688
00:34:52,857 --> 00:34:54,586
Rosie couldn't
have known it, either.
689
00:34:54,659 --> 00:34:56,354
Sure he did. Sure.
690
00:34:56,427 --> 00:34:59,726
He worked over at the Doran
Hotel and so did Eunice.
691
00:34:59,797 --> 00:35:02,288
He said Eunice was always
sending him out to buy
692
00:35:02,366 --> 00:35:04,857
those crossword puzzle books.
693
00:35:04,936 --> 00:35:08,565
You know, the ones that Eunice
was always bringing to Lilah.
694
00:35:09,807 --> 00:35:11,001
Remember?
695
00:35:11,609 --> 00:35:14,806
Yeah. She got good at it.
696
00:35:14,912 --> 00:35:16,880
Knew all kinds of words.
697
00:35:19,383 --> 00:35:21,146
Let me tell you something,
Gandy.
698
00:35:21,219 --> 00:35:23,210
I'm a pretty fair
amateur psychiatrist.
699
00:35:23,287 --> 00:35:24,845
I'll tell you what I think.
700
00:35:24,922 --> 00:35:28,688
I think Lilah was someone you
couldn't bend by slapping her around.
701
00:35:28,759 --> 00:35:30,784
You know?
She wouldn't marry you,
702
00:35:30,862 --> 00:35:33,888
she wouldn't tell you where
she went. She just wanted out.
703
00:35:34,165 --> 00:35:37,566
And that was more than the little
boy in the big body could handle.
704
00:35:37,635 --> 00:35:39,830
I slapped her around, I walked
out the door and got drunk.
705
00:35:39,904 --> 00:35:41,804
Just like I did every
time it came out "no."
706
00:35:41,873 --> 00:35:45,468
And I'd have kept on doing it until
it came out "yes." I loved Lilah.
707
00:35:46,010 --> 00:35:49,173
And I could've made her happy if it
wasn't for Eunice messing with her mind.
708
00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:50,406
Don't you see?
709
00:35:50,515 --> 00:35:53,075
If I was gonna waste somebody,
it would have been Eunice!
710
00:35:57,655 --> 00:36:01,455
Well, I didn't say I was a
great amateur psychiatrist.
711
00:36:05,062 --> 00:36:08,259
You mean, you believe me now?
712
00:36:09,901 --> 00:36:11,163
Yeah, Gandy.
713
00:36:11,969 --> 00:36:13,937
Yeah, I think I do.
714
00:36:15,306 --> 00:36:16,295
Hey.
715
00:36:17,341 --> 00:36:18,365
Hey.
716
00:36:18,442 --> 00:36:19,841
Rockfish.
717
00:36:21,112 --> 00:36:24,411
You're the first one, man.
The first one.
718
00:36:24,715 --> 00:36:29,175
Yeah, well, even if we subtract the $300,
I still owe you for a couple of days.
719
00:36:29,253 --> 00:36:31,380
So we'll keep
working on it.
720
00:36:31,589 --> 00:36:32,578
We can do it.
721
00:36:32,990 --> 00:36:36,619
Oh, thanks, Fish.
Man, you're all right.
722
00:36:39,130 --> 00:36:40,654
Hey, Fish,
723
00:36:41,666 --> 00:36:45,966
don't take this personal if I happen
to ask about Eunice along the way, huh?
724
00:36:47,205 --> 00:36:49,002
But if she's still alive...
725
00:36:50,107 --> 00:36:51,768
I'm gonna waste her.
726
00:37:38,723 --> 00:37:40,850
Sure, I remember her, boys.
727
00:37:41,392 --> 00:37:43,189
I heard she croaked.
728
00:37:44,095 --> 00:37:46,495
Gandy, that just
about makes it unanimous.
729
00:37:46,564 --> 00:37:49,260
Perhaps your friend
could use a little drink.
730
00:37:54,372 --> 00:37:57,808
Buddy, I sure could use
a little knock, buddy.
731
00:37:58,676 --> 00:38:00,371
You boys looking
for a Eunice Charles?
732
00:38:00,444 --> 00:38:01,570
Yeah.
733
00:38:01,646 --> 00:38:03,944
Well, someone's
looking for you.
734
00:38:07,351 --> 00:38:08,716
Yeah? Who is this?
735
00:38:08,786 --> 00:38:12,085
Are you the man who's been
looking for Eunice Charles?
736
00:38:12,156 --> 00:38:13,316
Yeah. Who is it?
737
00:38:13,858 --> 00:38:17,555
Lose your friend and be standing on the
corner by the gas station in 10 minutes
738
00:38:17,628 --> 00:38:19,653
and I'll take you to her.
739
00:38:20,331 --> 00:38:22,299
Nothing's wrong with
my friend. Who is this?
740
00:38:22,366 --> 00:38:23,993
Look, just get rid of him.
741
00:38:24,302 --> 00:38:27,100
Now, I'm the only way
you're gonna ever find her.
742
00:38:31,776 --> 00:38:33,801
It's a setup.
What if it isn't?
743
00:38:34,278 --> 00:38:35,905
It's gotta be. She's dead.
744
00:38:35,980 --> 00:38:37,106
What if she isn't?
745
00:38:37,181 --> 00:38:38,273
Well, everybody says she is.
746
00:38:38,349 --> 00:38:40,112
And everybody says
I killed Lilah.
747
00:38:44,288 --> 00:38:46,688
I gotta take this ride
alone, Rockfish.
748
00:38:47,124 --> 00:38:49,422
Nobody ever said
you didn't, Gandy.
749
00:38:49,493 --> 00:38:50,983
Let me get my change.
750
00:38:51,062 --> 00:38:54,554
Unless draft's gone
up to $2.50 a pop, huh?
751
00:39:04,208 --> 00:39:06,676
Well, somebody's
gotta watch your back.
752
00:39:07,645 --> 00:39:09,135
Trust me.
753
00:39:59,730 --> 00:40:01,664
Why are you taking me to her?
754
00:40:04,068 --> 00:40:05,831
She wants to
talk to you, too.
755
00:40:08,939 --> 00:40:10,907
She told your friend
that yesterday,
756
00:40:11,842 --> 00:40:13,742
but he wouldn't
set it up for her,
757
00:40:14,011 --> 00:40:15,672
so she asked me to do it.
758
00:40:16,647 --> 00:40:18,012
You mean,
759
00:40:18,215 --> 00:40:21,810
Rockfish talked to Eunice?
760
00:40:22,486 --> 00:40:24,511
Yeah. Yesterday.
761
00:40:25,623 --> 00:40:27,887
He spent a couple of
hours at her house.
762
00:41:46,170 --> 00:41:47,330
Get ready, Debbie.
763
00:41:52,376 --> 00:41:55,277
I heard her screams,
investigated,
764
00:41:55,479 --> 00:41:58,277
I found you trying to rape
her and had to kill you.
765
00:41:58,349 --> 00:42:01,648
Why? I don't even know you.
766
00:42:01,785 --> 00:42:03,047
But we know you.
767
00:42:03,687 --> 00:42:06,850
And we've been waiting for
this for a long, long time.
768
00:42:18,369 --> 00:42:19,893
Drop it or he's dead!
769
00:42:20,938 --> 00:42:21,996
Now!
770
00:42:30,581 --> 00:42:31,946
Who the hell are they?
771
00:42:32,216 --> 00:42:33,240
I don't know,
772
00:42:33,884 --> 00:42:36,079
but she said you talked
to Eunice yesterday.
773
00:42:36,153 --> 00:42:40,089
I wouldn't know Eunice Charles if I
met her in my soup. She wouldn't either.
774
00:42:40,157 --> 00:42:42,057
I ought to know her.
She's my mother.
775
00:42:50,401 --> 00:42:52,426
All right, now.
Don't do anything dumb.
776
00:42:56,040 --> 00:42:57,234
But why kill Gandy?
777
00:42:57,308 --> 00:42:58,935
'Cause he killed
our real mother.
778
00:42:59,009 --> 00:43:00,772
Then that's your father.
779
00:43:02,646 --> 00:43:04,841
All right. Break it up,
you two. Break it up!
780
00:43:06,417 --> 00:43:07,975
Gandy! Back off!
781
00:43:08,619 --> 00:43:11,144
Gandy! Gandy! Break it up!
782
00:43:13,490 --> 00:43:15,651
What are you gonna do?
Shoot me, too?
783
00:43:17,394 --> 00:43:21,023
No, no. I'm gonna
introduce you to your kids.
784
00:43:21,999 --> 00:43:24,092
What are you talking about?
I ain't got no kids.
785
00:43:24,168 --> 00:43:26,534
Yes, you have.
You're looking at them.
786
00:43:26,604 --> 00:43:29,801
He's not our father. Lilah left
us with her folks when Dad died
787
00:43:29,873 --> 00:43:32,000
and then she came to
California looking for work.
788
00:43:32,076 --> 00:43:33,907
And she was gonna
send for us, too.
789
00:43:33,978 --> 00:43:36,469
But Granddaddy said you
made her into a prostitute.
790
00:43:36,547 --> 00:43:38,742
And when she tried to quit,
you killed her!
791
00:43:38,816 --> 00:43:40,215
I never killed Lilah!
792
00:43:40,351 --> 00:43:41,875
I never made
her no prostitute!
793
00:43:41,952 --> 00:43:43,283
I took her out of that!
794
00:43:49,893 --> 00:43:51,793
She's got Lilah's eyes.
795
00:43:54,164 --> 00:43:57,156
Well, now I guess we know where
Lilah went when she ran away.
796
00:43:57,701 --> 00:43:59,225
We don't know for sure.
797
00:43:59,870 --> 00:44:02,236
Well, we will be
when we ask Eunice.
798
00:44:04,441 --> 00:44:06,534
I did
what I thought was right.
799
00:44:08,979 --> 00:44:11,311
I wanted
the children to be safe.
800
00:44:13,017 --> 00:44:15,417
I wanted them
to have a good life.
801
00:44:17,688 --> 00:44:21,454
And I wanted them to hate
Gandolph Fitch as much as I did.
802
00:44:22,092 --> 00:44:23,650
Why didn't Lilah tell me?
803
00:44:24,128 --> 00:44:25,959
Why do you think, Gandy?
804
00:44:26,930 --> 00:44:31,390
She was afraid you'd force her to
marry you if you knew she was pregnant.
805
00:44:32,002 --> 00:44:33,731
So she ran for home.
806
00:44:33,804 --> 00:44:37,797
Her family let her stay until Arthur
was born. Then they kicked her out.
807
00:44:38,909 --> 00:44:41,173
She had no place else
to go but back to you.
808
00:44:41,512 --> 00:44:44,037
And the same thing happened
when Debbie was born?
809
00:44:46,350 --> 00:44:49,080
Only that time, they told her
never to come back.
810
00:44:50,521 --> 00:44:53,957
When she died, I just sent them
the article from the Star News.
811
00:44:54,024 --> 00:44:55,685
The one with my picture?
812
00:44:57,628 --> 00:45:00,461
Is that the one you had
on the wall of your cell?
813
00:45:01,498 --> 00:45:02,760
Yeah.
814
00:45:02,900 --> 00:45:04,265
Yeah. I remember.
You...
815
00:45:04,334 --> 00:45:08,930
You had a cop under one arm and
one in each hand by the hair.
816
00:45:09,006 --> 00:45:10,667
They showed you
that picture?
817
00:45:11,108 --> 00:45:12,939
We used to look
at it all the time.
818
00:45:15,612 --> 00:45:17,011
Mrs. Bingham?
819
00:45:26,924 --> 00:45:29,620
I guess I knew it would
come down to this someday...
820
00:45:31,161 --> 00:45:33,686
or else I never would
have kept the letter.
821
00:45:40,204 --> 00:45:42,434
Lilah mailed this
the day she died.
822
00:45:43,407 --> 00:45:45,272
I stopped reading
it a long time ago...
823
00:45:46,810 --> 00:45:48,038
but it's something
you all should hear.
824
00:45:48,112 --> 00:45:49,272
Mr. Rockford?
825
00:45:49,346 --> 00:45:50,745
I'll read it.
826
00:46:09,099 --> 00:46:10,589
"Dear Eunie,
827
00:46:13,871 --> 00:46:16,533
"I can't take it
with Gandy anymore.
828
00:46:16,874 --> 00:46:19,502
"I begged him,
but he won't let me go.
829
00:46:19,943 --> 00:46:22,878
"He's so crazy with jealousy.
830
00:46:22,946 --> 00:46:24,971
"I never know what's
going to set him off
831
00:46:25,048 --> 00:46:27,039
"and start him
beating on me again.
832
00:46:27,851 --> 00:46:30,376
"I open my eyes
in the morning
833
00:46:30,454 --> 00:46:33,787
"and look over and see
that ugly, mean face,
834
00:46:33,991 --> 00:46:37,518
"and I want to kill him
or kill myself.
835
00:46:37,661 --> 00:46:39,492
"And that's what
I'm going to do.
836
00:46:39,563 --> 00:46:43,158
"And I'm going to try and make
it look like Gandy done it.
837
00:46:43,233 --> 00:46:46,134
"Please don't
tell nobody else, ever,
838
00:46:46,470 --> 00:46:48,461
"especially
not the cops.
839
00:46:48,672 --> 00:46:50,731
"He didn't know
how to love me,
840
00:46:51,809 --> 00:46:53,743
"and I hope he fries for it.
841
00:46:53,944 --> 00:46:55,434
"But if he don't,
842
00:46:56,113 --> 00:46:59,310
"don't ever let him find out
about Debbie and Arthur.
843
00:46:59,883 --> 00:47:01,646
"He'd destroy them, too.
844
00:47:04,388 --> 00:47:07,186
"You're the only
friend I ever had, Eunie.
845
00:47:07,257 --> 00:47:09,350
"I never could've
made it this long
846
00:47:09,493 --> 00:47:11,586
"without your
shoulder for crying on.
847
00:47:12,229 --> 00:47:14,629
"Gandy caused every tear.
848
00:47:14,965 --> 00:47:16,956
"He never kissed one away.
849
00:47:17,668 --> 00:47:19,568
"I'm all cried out now.
850
00:47:20,237 --> 00:47:22,330
"Love, Lilah."
851
00:48:14,324 --> 00:48:15,621
I killed her.
852
00:48:17,027 --> 00:48:18,756
She killed herself, Gandy.
853
00:48:20,230 --> 00:48:22,528
Because I didn't
give her no way out.
854
00:48:24,334 --> 00:48:27,701
Falling on a knife was her
choice, Gandy, not yours.
855
00:48:29,239 --> 00:48:33,699
Sure, you were mean, but she
kept coming back for more.
856
00:48:34,378 --> 00:48:36,972
She was gone six months
one time,
857
00:48:37,481 --> 00:48:40,348
seven months another,
but she kept coming back.
858
00:48:41,018 --> 00:48:43,077
That's the truth,
Gandy, and you know it.
859
00:48:47,357 --> 00:48:48,756
I always said...
860
00:48:50,394 --> 00:48:55,161
the only thing I learned in this rotten
life is how to collect what's due.
861
00:48:58,936 --> 00:49:01,871
So you went out
and collected a rotten life.
862
00:49:04,074 --> 00:49:06,508
You just ate
the balloon payments.
863
00:49:07,511 --> 00:49:10,969
Walk away, Gandy.
You're free and clear.
864
00:49:12,082 --> 00:49:13,674
If you wanna be.
865
00:49:19,823 --> 00:49:21,256
If I wanna be.
63871
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