1 00:00:00,967 --> 00:00:02,457 This is Lieutenant Diehl speaking, Sergeant. 2 00:00:02,535 --> 00:00:04,901 I got a body out here in the junkyard. He's been shot twice. 3 00:00:04,971 --> 00:00:07,496 We're looking for a James Rockford. 4 00:00:07,841 --> 00:00:11,242 You know, Rockford, for a guy who's such a stickler for details, 5 00:00:11,778 --> 00:00:13,746 you play very sloppy ball. 6 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:15,472 Alice Sandstrom? 7 00:00:15,682 --> 00:00:18,048 I don't think she committed suicide, Mr. Rockford. 8 00:00:18,218 --> 00:00:21,585 We're calling it suicide, because it was a suicide. 9 00:00:21,888 --> 00:00:23,321 See how neat that works out? 10 00:00:23,656 --> 00:00:25,089 I'm gonna jerk your ticket, Rockford. 11 00:00:25,158 --> 00:00:26,750 You're gonna be doing laundry for the County. 12 00:00:36,436 --> 00:00:37,994 This is Jim Rockford. 13 00:00:38,071 --> 00:00:39,504 At the tone, leave your name and message. 14 00:00:39,572 --> 00:00:40,561 I'll get back to you. 15 00:00:41,708 --> 00:00:43,539 Jim, it's Shirley at the cleaners. 16 00:00:43,610 --> 00:00:44,907 You know that brown jacket? 17 00:00:44,978 --> 00:00:46,878 The one I said looked so great on you? 18 00:00:46,946 --> 00:00:48,208 Your favorite? 19 00:00:48,481 --> 00:00:49,607 We lost it. 20 00:01:44,637 --> 00:01:47,731 The teams are heading back on the field for the second half. 21 00:01:52,479 --> 00:01:56,415 The Rams have been particularly effective during the first two quarters. 22 00:01:56,483 --> 00:01:58,644 Their pass defense has been spectacular. 23 00:01:58,718 --> 00:02:00,015 Hey, Solly. 24 00:02:00,086 --> 00:02:02,953 Solly, what do you got for odds in the second half? 25 00:02:03,323 --> 00:02:05,518 I didn't say I wanted to press, 26 00:02:05,592 --> 00:02:07,253 I just want to know what the odds are. 27 00:02:08,528 --> 00:02:09,517 Come in. 28 00:02:13,500 --> 00:02:14,762 And the linebackers have been... 29 00:02:14,834 --> 00:02:15,892 Hi. 30 00:02:15,969 --> 00:02:17,436 I'll be right with you. 31 00:02:17,504 --> 00:02:19,563 Fourteen and a half points! 32 00:02:19,639 --> 00:02:23,439 Solly, they came into the game an underdog. They're only six points up. 33 00:02:24,244 --> 00:02:27,543 Well, what are you running, a book or a bucket shop? 34 00:02:27,780 --> 00:02:28,974 No bet. 35 00:02:30,583 --> 00:02:33,381 Fourteen and a half points, he thinks somebody's gonna take it. 36 00:02:34,821 --> 00:02:36,152 I'm sorry. 37 00:02:36,556 --> 00:02:37,784 My name is Jim Rockford. 38 00:02:37,857 --> 00:02:39,586 Jennifer Sandstrom. 39 00:02:39,692 --> 00:02:41,353 I hope you're available for employment. 40 00:02:41,427 --> 00:02:43,395 I'm in need of a private investigator. 41 00:02:43,463 --> 00:02:45,021 Hey, that's gonna work out real great. 42 00:02:45,098 --> 00:02:47,157 That's what I do for a living. 43 00:02:47,667 --> 00:02:50,500 I'm sorry. That's just a little joke. Sit down. 44 00:02:51,237 --> 00:02:53,728 I don't know if there's anything you can do. 45 00:02:54,407 --> 00:02:56,068 She may have killed herself. 46 00:02:56,142 --> 00:02:58,838 It certainly is possible. It just doesn't seem like her. 47 00:02:58,912 --> 00:03:00,777 She was always such a happy person. 48 00:03:00,847 --> 00:03:03,475 Even when we were children, she was always the most... 49 00:03:03,550 --> 00:03:05,347 Miss Sandstrom. 50 00:03:08,021 --> 00:03:10,421 Could you just start at the beginning, please? 51 00:03:10,490 --> 00:03:12,481 Oh, I'm sorry, of course. 52 00:03:12,725 --> 00:03:15,216 You don't know what on earth I'm talking about. 53 00:03:15,295 --> 00:03:16,387 Here. 54 00:03:22,001 --> 00:03:23,593 Alice Sandstrom? 55 00:03:23,803 --> 00:03:25,134 My sister. 56 00:03:26,105 --> 00:03:29,233 Well, it says the body was discovered 57 00:03:29,309 --> 00:03:32,142 on the beach near the Santa Monica Pier two days ago. 58 00:03:32,212 --> 00:03:34,703 Her car was found two blocks away, 59 00:03:35,181 --> 00:03:37,775 with a suicide note written in her hand. 60 00:03:37,917 --> 00:03:40,545 I don't think she committed suicide, Mr. Rockford. 61 00:03:40,620 --> 00:03:43,453 Look, Miss Sandstrom, if the police have it down as a suicide, 62 00:03:43,523 --> 00:03:44,717 that's probably just what it was. 63 00:03:44,791 --> 00:03:47,954 No. You see, she was afraid of the water. 64 00:03:48,461 --> 00:03:51,294 Ever since we were children, she was always afraid of the water. 65 00:03:51,364 --> 00:03:54,629 She would never have chosen drowning as a way to commit suicide. 66 00:03:54,701 --> 00:03:56,032 I have a friend 67 00:03:56,102 --> 00:03:58,002 who is a psychiatrist and he said 68 00:03:58,071 --> 00:03:59,663 it would be most unlikely. 69 00:03:59,739 --> 00:04:01,798 Yeah, unlikely, but possible. 70 00:04:02,041 --> 00:04:04,635 Oh no, she was not a suicidal person. 71 00:04:05,278 --> 00:04:07,303 I don't care what the police say. 72 00:04:07,413 --> 00:04:09,608 She was a happy person. 73 00:04:09,849 --> 00:04:11,373 She loved life. 74 00:04:11,951 --> 00:04:13,851 I think she was killed, 75 00:04:14,053 --> 00:04:15,577 and I want you to look into it. 76 00:04:15,655 --> 00:04:19,921 Miss Sandstrom, it says here that you are the sole survivor? 77 00:04:20,426 --> 00:04:22,656 How much do you charge, Mr. Rockford? 78 00:04:22,729 --> 00:04:26,096 Look, I think you ought to let the police handle this. 79 00:04:26,165 --> 00:04:27,996 I really do. I mean, they're good. 80 00:04:28,067 --> 00:04:30,467 Maybe they're not telling you everything they know. 81 00:04:32,038 --> 00:04:34,063 It's $200 a day plus expenses. 82 00:04:34,140 --> 00:04:37,234 But I'm trying to tell you to let the police handle it. 83 00:04:37,543 --> 00:04:39,306 Look, maybe the police 84 00:04:39,379 --> 00:04:41,745 found out she had a psychiatrist that you didn't know about. 85 00:04:41,814 --> 00:04:44,305 Maybe that psychiatrist knows something you don't know. 86 00:04:44,817 --> 00:04:46,307 Are you listening to me or not? 87 00:04:48,154 --> 00:04:50,622 Miss Sandstrom, I don't take cases 88 00:04:50,690 --> 00:04:51,884 that don't seem real to me. 89 00:04:51,958 --> 00:04:53,687 Now, you could triple that stack of money, 90 00:04:53,760 --> 00:04:55,318 it wouldn't change anything. 91 00:04:55,695 --> 00:04:57,788 Well, it probably wouldn't. 92 00:05:00,500 --> 00:05:01,797 Please. 93 00:05:02,435 --> 00:05:04,062 I need your help. 94 00:05:04,370 --> 00:05:06,634 Even if it turns out she killed herself. 95 00:05:07,140 --> 00:05:08,903 I need to know for sure. 96 00:05:11,044 --> 00:05:12,238 Please. 97 00:05:14,314 --> 00:05:15,645 All right. 98 00:05:15,715 --> 00:05:18,240 All right. All right. Look, I'll... 99 00:05:18,484 --> 00:05:20,509 I'll look around for one day, huh? 100 00:05:20,586 --> 00:05:22,383 I'll go up there. I'll look around. 101 00:05:22,455 --> 00:05:24,320 I'll see if I can turn up something. 102 00:05:24,390 --> 00:05:26,915 You'll find her address in that newspaper article. 103 00:05:26,993 --> 00:05:28,790 And here is mine. 104 00:05:29,095 --> 00:05:30,926 I'm there most of the time. 105 00:05:31,731 --> 00:05:34,097 Mandeville Canyon. That's a nice area. 106 00:05:34,567 --> 00:05:36,899 Daddy left us some money, Mr. Rockford. 107 00:05:36,969 --> 00:05:38,869 Jim. Just call me Jim. 108 00:05:39,939 --> 00:05:42,908 Oh, I almost forgot this. 109 00:05:45,078 --> 00:05:49,014 I got into her bedroom and I found some things that weren't there before. 110 00:05:49,148 --> 00:05:52,242 Look. It's in here somewhere. 111 00:05:53,820 --> 00:05:55,515 I don't know who J.M. is. 112 00:05:56,022 --> 00:06:00,516 We used to trade off jewelry quite a bit, and I know she didn't have that last month. 113 00:06:00,660 --> 00:06:02,651 Also, there are these. 114 00:06:03,763 --> 00:06:07,062 They're love letters, but the bottom's been cut off. 115 00:06:07,900 --> 00:06:09,197 That's pretty strange, isn't it? 116 00:06:09,268 --> 00:06:10,599 Yeah, yeah... Almost as if she 117 00:06:10,670 --> 00:06:12,160 didn't want anyone to know who it was. 118 00:06:12,238 --> 00:06:13,865 Okay. Yeah, thank you. 119 00:06:14,741 --> 00:06:16,641 I wonder if you'd do me a favor. 120 00:06:16,709 --> 00:06:18,870 Would you keep those on you? I'd hate to lose them. 121 00:06:19,312 --> 00:06:20,745 Can you go up to the house now? 122 00:06:20,813 --> 00:06:22,280 I mean, can you start right now? 123 00:06:23,516 --> 00:06:24,881 Oh, well... 124 00:06:26,552 --> 00:06:29,578 Yeah. Sure. Sure. Just let me get my coat. 125 00:07:40,993 --> 00:07:43,018 What do you mean, it's Lieutenant Diehl's case? 126 00:07:43,095 --> 00:07:44,562 Can't you check on it? 127 00:07:44,630 --> 00:07:47,190 Sure I can check on it. I just don't want to. 128 00:07:47,500 --> 00:07:50,435 Come on, Dennis. She was a floater on the beach in Santa Monica. 129 00:07:50,503 --> 00:07:53,404 There's gotta be some reason you guys are calling it suicide. 130 00:07:53,473 --> 00:07:54,599 There is. 131 00:07:54,674 --> 00:07:55,902 Okay, what is it? 132 00:07:55,975 --> 00:07:59,240 We're calling it suicide, because it was a suicide. 133 00:07:59,745 --> 00:08:01,007 See how neat that works out? 134 00:08:02,815 --> 00:08:04,407 What about an autopsy? 135 00:08:04,484 --> 00:08:06,975 I don't know. Look, Jimbo, it's not my case. 136 00:08:07,053 --> 00:08:08,350 It's Lieutenant Diehl's. 137 00:08:08,421 --> 00:08:11,447 Call Diehl up and ask him to read you the R.O. report. 138 00:08:11,524 --> 00:08:12,548 Okay. 139 00:08:12,625 --> 00:08:16,026 Okay, I'm officially notifying you that I'm working on the case. 140 00:08:16,095 --> 00:08:17,960 Why tell me? Tell Diehl. 141 00:08:18,030 --> 00:08:20,863 I'm telling you because I'm talking to you. 142 00:08:20,933 --> 00:08:22,423 You see how neat that works out? 143 00:09:10,116 --> 00:09:11,208 Oh, hi. 144 00:09:11,284 --> 00:09:12,342 Say, is there anybody in the house? 145 00:09:12,418 --> 00:09:15,717 That filter, I'm gonna have to take it down to the shop and get some parts for it. 146 00:09:15,788 --> 00:09:16,914 I said, is anybody in the house? 147 00:09:16,989 --> 00:09:18,616 Oh, yeah. I think so. I think there's a guy in there. 148 00:09:18,691 --> 00:09:20,158 Why don't you try the front door? 149 00:09:20,226 --> 00:09:21,284 Thanks. 150 00:09:42,582 --> 00:09:44,550 What is going on here? 151 00:09:44,684 --> 00:09:47,152 I don't know. Let's wait and see. 152 00:10:24,724 --> 00:10:26,715 May I ask what you think you're doing? 153 00:10:27,159 --> 00:10:29,093 Oh. It's all right. 154 00:10:31,297 --> 00:10:33,265 Oh, my name is... Yes, I know your name. 155 00:10:33,332 --> 00:10:35,823 You're Tom Brice. I called Friedler, Pike and Morris. 156 00:10:35,901 --> 00:10:37,232 They said you'd be here. 157 00:10:37,303 --> 00:10:39,430 You know we haven't done the inventory. 158 00:10:39,505 --> 00:10:41,234 You... Who are you? 159 00:10:42,174 --> 00:10:44,404 Jay Volaro, County Assessors Office. 160 00:10:44,810 --> 00:10:45,902 You know, Mr. Brice, 161 00:10:45,978 --> 00:10:49,277 that removing an item, like that jewelry box, is a tax crime. 162 00:10:49,782 --> 00:10:52,080 You start messing around with the County Assessors Office, 163 00:10:52,151 --> 00:10:53,550 you won't get into heaven, son. 164 00:10:53,619 --> 00:10:54,950 Well, we were told 165 00:10:55,021 --> 00:10:56,750 the tax people had already done the audit. 166 00:10:56,822 --> 00:10:58,187 We were authorized to remove the items 167 00:10:58,257 --> 00:10:59,747 that were special bequests in the will. 168 00:10:59,825 --> 00:11:01,224 Who told you that? 169 00:11:02,495 --> 00:11:03,723 I think... Well, come on. 170 00:11:03,796 --> 00:11:05,229 I'd like to know. Who told you that? 171 00:11:05,297 --> 00:11:07,060 It was Mr. Talbot. 172 00:11:07,166 --> 00:11:08,360 He's in your office. Yeah. 173 00:11:08,434 --> 00:11:10,026 Mr. Friedler spoke to him, I think. 174 00:11:10,102 --> 00:11:11,569 Talbot told you that? 175 00:11:12,371 --> 00:11:14,168 All right, I've had it with him. 176 00:11:14,340 --> 00:11:15,637 He makes too many mistakes. 177 00:11:15,708 --> 00:11:17,642 He's too old. He told you that? 178 00:11:18,411 --> 00:11:20,811 When did he tell you that? I'd really like to know. 179 00:11:20,880 --> 00:11:22,609 Was it before 10:30 this morning, huh? 180 00:11:22,682 --> 00:11:24,411 Look, I don't want to get anyone into any trouble. 181 00:11:24,483 --> 00:11:25,916 I'm gonna find out, anyway. 182 00:11:25,985 --> 00:11:28,317 Look, I don't know. You see, you'd have to ask Mr. Friedler. 183 00:11:28,387 --> 00:11:30,412 He spoke to him. Okay, I will. 184 00:11:30,489 --> 00:11:31,888 You just might as well clear out, son. 185 00:11:31,957 --> 00:11:34,448 I'll forget that you were in here illegally. 186 00:11:35,227 --> 00:11:36,251 Oh, you... 187 00:11:36,328 --> 00:11:38,626 You found the keys to the safe-deposit box, I suppose. 188 00:11:38,698 --> 00:11:40,757 Safe-deposit box? Didn't know she had a safe-deposit box. 189 00:11:40,833 --> 00:11:43,427 But I did find some keys. Here. 190 00:11:44,036 --> 00:11:45,162 Which bank? 191 00:11:45,237 --> 00:11:47,501 Bank. I don't know. But her checking account, 192 00:11:47,573 --> 00:11:50,167 that's at City Savings and Trust on Sunset. 193 00:11:50,242 --> 00:11:51,573 Okay, I'll return these to you 194 00:11:51,644 --> 00:11:53,737 after the inventory and the audit. 195 00:11:56,449 --> 00:11:58,314 Okay. You can go, son. 196 00:11:58,818 --> 00:12:00,046 Yes, sir. 197 00:13:44,089 --> 00:13:45,351 Sergeant Becker, please. 198 00:13:45,424 --> 00:13:46,982 I'm sorry. He's not in. 199 00:13:47,059 --> 00:13:48,822 Yeah. Give me Lieutenant Diehl then. 200 00:13:50,596 --> 00:13:52,291 This is Lieutenant Diehl speaking. 201 00:13:52,364 --> 00:13:55,197 Hello, Lieutenant. This is Jim Rockford. 202 00:13:56,735 --> 00:13:57,724 Hello. 203 00:13:57,803 --> 00:13:59,634 I said this is... What do you want? 204 00:13:59,705 --> 00:14:01,696 Lieutenant, I understand that you're handling 205 00:14:01,774 --> 00:14:03,708 the Alice Sandstrom drowning case. 206 00:14:03,776 --> 00:14:05,175 What do you want, Rockford? 207 00:14:05,244 --> 00:14:08,236 I think maybe you ought to go up to her house and check the pool filter. 208 00:14:08,314 --> 00:14:09,611 Why would I want to do that? 209 00:14:09,682 --> 00:14:12,310 And then I think you ought to get the autopsy report back 210 00:14:12,384 --> 00:14:14,318 and check and see if anybody bothered to look, 211 00:14:14,386 --> 00:14:16,183 see what kind of water was in her lungs. 212 00:14:16,255 --> 00:14:18,314 I think maybe she was drowned in her own pool 213 00:14:18,390 --> 00:14:20,153 then taken out and pushed in the ocean. 214 00:14:20,226 --> 00:14:21,716 This is not a murder, Rockford. 215 00:14:21,794 --> 00:14:22,920 I closed this case. 216 00:14:22,995 --> 00:14:25,623 And I damn well don't appreciate you digging around in it. 217 00:14:26,165 --> 00:14:27,189 I just said... 218 00:14:27,266 --> 00:14:28,324 I know what you said. 219 00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:31,062 Get off my back, get off my case. You understand? 220 00:14:31,136 --> 00:14:33,969 Diehl, you get off your butt and come up here and look at this pool filter, 221 00:14:34,039 --> 00:14:35,631 or I'm gonna go to the City Attorney! 222 00:14:35,708 --> 00:14:37,232 I'm gonna jerk your ticket, Rockford. 223 00:14:37,309 --> 00:14:39,174 You're gonna be doing laundry for the County. 224 00:14:39,245 --> 00:14:41,145 You do yourself a favor, Lieutenant. 225 00:14:41,213 --> 00:14:42,771 You loosen up just long enough 226 00:14:42,848 --> 00:14:45,874 to check that autopsy report and get up here and look at this pool filter. 227 00:14:51,290 --> 00:14:53,724 I'm here to see Jennifer Sandstrom. 228 00:14:54,793 --> 00:14:56,852 Is she expecting you, Mr. Rockford? 229 00:14:56,929 --> 00:14:58,021 Yes. 230 00:14:58,230 --> 00:15:00,255 One moment, while I check. 231 00:15:11,410 --> 00:15:13,742 I'm sorry. There must be some mistake. 232 00:15:13,812 --> 00:15:15,541 I was looking for Jennifer Sandstrom. 233 00:15:15,848 --> 00:15:17,042 You found her. 234 00:15:19,818 --> 00:15:21,718 If you're here investigating Alice's death 235 00:15:21,787 --> 00:15:23,448 for the insurance company, 236 00:15:23,522 --> 00:15:26,514 I've already told Mr. Dreikurs we're not filing a claim. 237 00:15:26,592 --> 00:15:27,820 It was a suicide. 238 00:15:27,893 --> 00:15:30,361 I don't understand what it is you people want to investigate. 239 00:15:30,429 --> 00:15:32,488 Oh, I'm working for Friedler, Pike and Morris. 240 00:15:32,564 --> 00:15:34,555 Tom Brice hired me this afternoon. 241 00:15:34,633 --> 00:15:37,193 There's some legal matters that need to be concluded. 242 00:15:37,269 --> 00:15:38,497 Such as? 243 00:15:39,338 --> 00:15:40,600 Well... 244 00:15:42,107 --> 00:15:45,042 There was the whole matter about your sister's investment 245 00:15:45,110 --> 00:15:47,977 in the Lake Oswego Real Estate Corporation. 246 00:15:48,447 --> 00:15:50,108 She was a general partner on that 247 00:15:50,182 --> 00:15:53,083 and had some general partnership liabilities. 248 00:15:53,352 --> 00:15:55,445 Then there was, of course, the matter about 249 00:15:55,521 --> 00:15:58,820 the civil misconduct case we were handling for her. 250 00:15:58,924 --> 00:16:01,119 What the devil are you talking about? 251 00:16:02,127 --> 00:16:05,096 Well, I guess I shouldn't have said anything at all. 252 00:16:05,731 --> 00:16:08,291 I just assumed that you knew about your sister's affairs. 253 00:16:08,367 --> 00:16:09,891 I mean, Mr. Brice didn't say anything 254 00:16:09,969 --> 00:16:12,199 about maintaining any confidentiality. 255 00:16:12,271 --> 00:16:13,363 I do. 256 00:16:13,439 --> 00:16:15,634 And I've never heard of any of those things. 257 00:16:16,108 --> 00:16:18,736 Well, it does seem strange, doesn't it? 258 00:16:19,645 --> 00:16:21,135 Well, to begin with, 259 00:16:21,213 --> 00:16:24,341 my sister was in no mental condition to be a general partner 260 00:16:24,416 --> 00:16:26,407 or to assume any liabilities. 261 00:16:26,485 --> 00:16:29,579 After all, she'd been in and out of Lynhaven for the last two years. 262 00:16:30,422 --> 00:16:33,289 Well, Lynhaven was some sort of hospital? 263 00:16:33,692 --> 00:16:35,717 It's a mental institution. 264 00:16:36,562 --> 00:16:39,861 Surely Mr. Brice told you that my sister had been deeply suicidal 265 00:16:39,932 --> 00:16:41,490 for the last two or three years. 266 00:16:41,567 --> 00:16:44,434 Oh, yes, yes. We went into that very thoroughly. Yes. 267 00:16:45,337 --> 00:16:47,532 What is all this malarkey about my sister 268 00:16:47,606 --> 00:16:50,734 being a general partner in some sort of investment? 269 00:16:50,809 --> 00:16:52,333 Well, it's just that. 270 00:16:52,411 --> 00:16:53,571 What? 271 00:16:53,645 --> 00:16:55,772 Malarkey. It's all malarkey. 272 00:16:56,849 --> 00:16:59,317 I guess I'll just be on my way. Thank you. 273 00:17:01,620 --> 00:17:03,247 What took you so long? 274 00:17:03,856 --> 00:17:05,881 Hey, I had to go all the way back to the gas station. 275 00:17:05,958 --> 00:17:08,051 Okay. We shouldn't have to use our own cars. 276 00:17:08,127 --> 00:17:09,151 Well, what did Sherman say? 277 00:17:09,228 --> 00:17:10,889 He said go ahead and stick on this guy. 278 00:17:10,963 --> 00:17:13,761 His name turns out to be Rockford and he's a P.I. 279 00:17:13,932 --> 00:17:16,332 That's great. What about the girl? 280 00:17:16,802 --> 00:17:18,531 He's got two other guys on her now, 281 00:17:18,604 --> 00:17:21,095 but he says it may have already gone down. 282 00:17:21,774 --> 00:17:24,368 Hello. Let me speak with Mr. Friedler, please. 283 00:17:26,445 --> 00:17:28,879 Well, when he gets in, tell him to call Jennifer Sandstrom. 284 00:17:28,947 --> 00:17:30,005 It's urgent. 285 00:18:56,235 --> 00:18:57,463 Cops. 286 00:19:06,111 --> 00:19:08,807 Yes, this is Mr. Smith in Room 24. 287 00:19:08,881 --> 00:19:10,007 I'm gonna take a little nap. 288 00:19:10,082 --> 00:19:12,915 Could you wake me at 7:30, please? 289 00:19:13,218 --> 00:19:14,947 Yes, sir. Thank you. 290 00:19:32,437 --> 00:19:33,495 Well? 291 00:19:33,572 --> 00:19:34,834 He's taking a nap. 292 00:19:34,907 --> 00:19:36,932 He left a wake-up call for 7:30 tonight. 293 00:19:37,009 --> 00:19:39,102 Let's go. We can check back here at 7:30 294 00:19:39,178 --> 00:19:40,645 if that's what Sherman wants. 295 00:21:48,707 --> 00:21:50,299 Oh, hi. 296 00:21:50,976 --> 00:21:52,876 You ought to be able to do better than that. 297 00:21:52,944 --> 00:21:54,172 You're upset. 298 00:21:54,279 --> 00:21:55,871 I can appreciate that. 299 00:21:56,281 --> 00:21:58,476 Why don't you let me put a little extra in the pot? 300 00:21:58,550 --> 00:21:59,812 Would you stay for lunch? 301 00:22:00,886 --> 00:22:02,046 Yeah. 302 00:22:04,056 --> 00:22:05,284 Where you going? 303 00:22:07,426 --> 00:22:08,757 Now, wait a minute. 304 00:22:08,827 --> 00:22:10,624 What the hell do you think you're doing? 305 00:22:12,898 --> 00:22:14,798 I am going to call the police. 306 00:22:15,067 --> 00:22:17,467 Just open the front door and call out in a loud voice. 307 00:22:17,536 --> 00:22:18,696 What are you talking about? 308 00:22:19,404 --> 00:22:21,395 Oh, come on, Tina, don't tell me you don't know 309 00:22:21,473 --> 00:22:24,772 there's four of L. A.'s finest sitting outside, drinking cold coffee. 310 00:22:28,313 --> 00:22:30,679 Well, well. What have we here? 311 00:22:33,285 --> 00:22:35,810 You got paid. What more do you want? 312 00:22:36,121 --> 00:22:38,180 That's just about priceless. 313 00:22:42,427 --> 00:22:43,485 Wait a minute. 314 00:22:46,798 --> 00:22:49,426 Oh, so you think I won't call the police, huh? 315 00:22:49,668 --> 00:22:50,862 Well... 316 00:22:54,506 --> 00:22:56,303 All right, so I won't call the police. 317 00:22:56,375 --> 00:22:57,808 But that doesn't give you any right 318 00:22:57,876 --> 00:22:59,867 to go prowling through someone's personal effects. 319 00:23:01,913 --> 00:23:03,380 What are you doing? 320 00:23:03,982 --> 00:23:05,847 Just earning my money. 321 00:23:15,894 --> 00:23:17,225 Well, well. 322 00:23:17,896 --> 00:23:19,625 Here we have the solution 323 00:23:19,698 --> 00:23:22,030 to the mystery of the letters and the bracelet. 324 00:23:22,100 --> 00:23:23,397 Fascinating. I'm enthralled. 325 00:23:23,468 --> 00:23:24,901 Now would you please get out of here? 326 00:23:24,970 --> 00:23:26,835 Oh, I could be persuaded to leave. 327 00:23:26,905 --> 00:23:28,167 Of course, I have a few conditions. 328 00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:30,037 I was sure you would. 329 00:23:30,342 --> 00:23:32,503 Don't get too salty, Miss Dusseau. 330 00:23:32,944 --> 00:23:34,809 Remember, I'm the guy that got red-dogged. 331 00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:36,677 Red-dogged? Yeah. It's a football term. 332 00:23:36,748 --> 00:23:38,181 That's where the line opens up a hole 333 00:23:38,250 --> 00:23:41,310 and they shoot a linebacker through to sack the unsuspecting quarterback. 334 00:23:44,456 --> 00:23:46,890 Oh, my stew. It's burning. 335 00:23:48,894 --> 00:23:50,225 Aren't you coming? 336 00:23:50,295 --> 00:23:52,024 You didn't put it on the stove. 337 00:23:52,798 --> 00:23:54,197 I notice little things like that. 338 00:23:54,266 --> 00:23:55,358 I'm a detective, remember? 339 00:23:55,434 --> 00:23:57,527 If you want to get rid of me, you'll have to do better than that. 340 00:23:57,836 --> 00:24:01,203 It's just that everything around here is so messy. You know... 341 00:24:03,575 --> 00:24:05,543 Well, now, don't feel too bad. 342 00:24:05,610 --> 00:24:06,599 What were you gonna do? 343 00:24:06,678 --> 00:24:08,339 Get a chill, come in to get a sweater, 344 00:24:08,413 --> 00:24:11,610 and then pick up your cute little chrome-plated cannon, 345 00:24:11,683 --> 00:24:13,173 chase me out into the street? 346 00:24:13,418 --> 00:24:15,318 I saved you a lot of trouble. 347 00:24:16,021 --> 00:24:18,546 You know, I could get very tired of all this clever chatter. 348 00:24:18,623 --> 00:24:21,183 You know, that makes my palms just all sweaty. 349 00:24:22,561 --> 00:24:23,789 Where we going? 350 00:24:23,862 --> 00:24:26,422 First we're gonna get out of here and then... 351 00:24:26,498 --> 00:24:28,159 Then you're gonna tell me why you sent me 352 00:24:28,233 --> 00:24:30,531 to the Sandstrom house. Although I have a pretty fair idea, 353 00:24:30,602 --> 00:24:32,092 I'd like to hear all the gory little details. 354 00:24:32,170 --> 00:24:34,798 Now, wait a minute. Just... Wait, wait a minute. 355 00:24:35,207 --> 00:24:40,076 Okay, so you just selected the Alice Sandstrom drowning out of the paper at random, 356 00:24:40,445 --> 00:24:41,912 sent me up there. 357 00:24:42,113 --> 00:24:45,412 Then you gave me the envelope so that when I left my trailer 358 00:24:45,617 --> 00:24:47,517 I'd take the two cops off you. 359 00:24:48,386 --> 00:24:50,445 Now, I want to know why they're interested in you 360 00:24:50,522 --> 00:24:53,252 and I want to know what I got myself involved in. 361 00:24:54,359 --> 00:24:55,348 Hello. 362 00:24:56,928 --> 00:24:59,328 Okay, you're on. Make it good honey, huh? 363 00:24:59,764 --> 00:25:01,789 Aunt Elizabeth always said you could dance. 364 00:25:01,867 --> 00:25:03,164 Funny. 365 00:25:04,269 --> 00:25:06,362 Well, I guess it won't hurt to tell you. 366 00:25:06,438 --> 00:25:09,339 Pacific Trust insures the Delany jewelry collection. 367 00:25:10,308 --> 00:25:12,105 It's worth maybe $3,000,000. 368 00:25:12,277 --> 00:25:13,266 Anyway, 369 00:25:13,345 --> 00:25:15,472 the whole collection was stolen from the Delany house 370 00:25:15,547 --> 00:25:16,605 about two weeks ago. 371 00:25:16,681 --> 00:25:18,546 Pacific Trust was contacted by the thieves 372 00:25:18,617 --> 00:25:20,881 and offered a chance to buy back the collection 373 00:25:20,952 --> 00:25:22,249 at half the price, 374 00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:25,915 which was a lot cheaper than paying off the insurance claim. 375 00:25:26,358 --> 00:25:28,883 No. But they wanted the cops kept on the outside of the deal. 376 00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:31,326 And they wanted me to be the go-between. 377 00:25:31,763 --> 00:25:34,755 'Cause they figured I was a girl and I wouldn't be much of a threat to them. 378 00:25:34,833 --> 00:25:37,825 Oh, but they didn't know that you keep a chrome-plated.38 379 00:25:37,903 --> 00:25:40,428 right next to your pearl drop earrings. 380 00:25:40,505 --> 00:25:42,496 You're determined to be flip, aren't you? 381 00:25:42,574 --> 00:25:44,439 Hey, come on now. Give me a break, huh? 382 00:25:44,509 --> 00:25:47,478 I'm trying to walk off a big emotional disappointment. 383 00:25:47,646 --> 00:25:50,513 Anyway, somehow the cops must have gotten wind of the exchange 384 00:25:50,582 --> 00:25:52,482 that took place at 2:00 this afternoon. 385 00:25:52,551 --> 00:25:55,145 I was on my way to the insurance company to pick up the money 386 00:25:55,220 --> 00:25:56,448 that came in a manila envelope. 387 00:25:56,521 --> 00:25:59,149 I looked out the front of my house and I saw two cops. 388 00:25:59,224 --> 00:26:01,658 So I decided to make a duplicate envelope. 389 00:26:02,260 --> 00:26:03,727 $3 worth, please. 390 00:26:03,862 --> 00:26:05,124 So you... 391 00:26:05,196 --> 00:26:06,663 You smuggled it out to your car, 392 00:26:06,731 --> 00:26:08,028 you went to the insurance company, 393 00:26:08,099 --> 00:26:10,624 you picked up the money and then on your way to make the switch, 394 00:26:10,702 --> 00:26:13,227 you dropped by my place with the phony envelope. 395 00:26:13,305 --> 00:26:15,899 And I walked out of my trailer waving it like a flag, 396 00:26:15,974 --> 00:26:18,465 and I've had those two cops following me ever since. 397 00:26:18,543 --> 00:26:20,067 I don't see what harm it did. 398 00:26:20,145 --> 00:26:22,306 I made the switch. The insurance company has the jewelry. 399 00:26:22,380 --> 00:26:23,847 And you have $200. 400 00:26:24,049 --> 00:26:26,574 Well, the only thing wrong with all that is 401 00:26:26,918 --> 00:26:29,716 I think that Alice Sandstrom was really murdered. 402 00:26:30,188 --> 00:26:31,212 You're kidding. 403 00:26:31,289 --> 00:26:33,382 I told you I was a good detective. 404 00:26:33,525 --> 00:26:35,823 I think that she was drowned in her own swimming pool, 405 00:26:35,894 --> 00:26:37,623 taken out and thrown in the ocean. 406 00:26:37,696 --> 00:26:39,755 Hmm. I called Lieutenant Diehl down at the police station... 407 00:26:39,831 --> 00:26:41,298 Lieutenant Thomas Diehl? ...and climbed his tree. 408 00:26:41,366 --> 00:26:42,731 Yeah. You know him? 409 00:26:42,801 --> 00:26:43,825 Do I! 410 00:26:43,902 --> 00:26:45,062 He hates me. 411 00:26:45,236 --> 00:26:46,464 Yeah, me, too. 412 00:26:47,138 --> 00:26:50,005 Well, anyway, we're going down there, and you're gonna clear me with Diehl. 413 00:26:50,075 --> 00:26:52,373 You're gonna tell him you sent me off on a wild goose chase 414 00:26:52,444 --> 00:26:55,106 to get those two cops off of me that were following you. 415 00:26:55,180 --> 00:26:57,614 Oh, no. I'm not going to the police station 416 00:26:57,682 --> 00:27:00,173 to scrub you clean with Diehl. Not on your life. 417 00:27:00,986 --> 00:27:03,181 You got a permit to carry this thing? 418 00:27:03,955 --> 00:27:05,582 Oh, come on. 419 00:27:05,657 --> 00:27:07,147 Lieutenant Diehl will pull your ticket 420 00:27:07,225 --> 00:27:09,056 for carrying an unauthorized weapon. 421 00:27:10,495 --> 00:27:13,055 Why, I never saw that gun before in my life. 422 00:27:13,665 --> 00:27:16,691 Well, you're gonna be wearing it when we see Diehl just the same. 423 00:27:17,135 --> 00:27:18,432 You wouldn't. 424 00:27:19,070 --> 00:27:20,435 We're colleagues. 425 00:27:20,639 --> 00:27:22,197 I'm just thinning out the field. 426 00:27:22,273 --> 00:27:23,467 It's good for business. 427 00:27:25,944 --> 00:27:27,070 All right. 428 00:27:27,879 --> 00:27:30,677 But if I go in there and I get you straight with Diehl, that's it, right? 429 00:27:30,749 --> 00:27:31,738 Right. 430 00:27:32,484 --> 00:27:33,576 That's $3. 431 00:27:33,652 --> 00:27:34,778 Right. 432 00:27:35,353 --> 00:27:36,752 Thank you. You bet. 433 00:27:36,855 --> 00:27:39,551 The thing is that Diehl is such a cluck. 434 00:27:40,225 --> 00:27:41,317 Yeah. 435 00:27:53,438 --> 00:27:55,372 You got any idea what this cost the County? 436 00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:57,738 You got the faintest idea? I just thought it'd be a good idea 437 00:27:57,809 --> 00:27:59,276 if you looked... Okay, we checked. 438 00:27:59,344 --> 00:28:01,244 This lady got no pool water in her lungs. 439 00:28:01,312 --> 00:28:03,246 She jumped off the Santa Monica Pier. 440 00:28:03,314 --> 00:28:04,804 She left a suicide note. 441 00:28:04,883 --> 00:28:07,044 She's been in deep analysis for over two years. 442 00:28:07,118 --> 00:28:09,416 Her psychiatrist says she was suicidal. 443 00:28:09,521 --> 00:28:11,182 What does it take to satisfy you, Rockford? 444 00:28:11,256 --> 00:28:13,747 Oh, I'd say that right about now I'm satisfied. 445 00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:15,553 What do you got to do with this? 446 00:28:15,627 --> 00:28:19,154 She's the one that hired me to investigate the drowning. She's my client. 447 00:28:19,230 --> 00:28:22,529 I have been dreading the day when you two would get together on anything. 448 00:28:23,768 --> 00:28:25,531 Miss Dusseau, if it wouldn't be too much trouble, 449 00:28:25,603 --> 00:28:27,901 would you mind explaining to me why you hired Rockford? 450 00:28:29,874 --> 00:28:33,571 I was trying to get the two detectives who work for Sergeant Vince Sherman 451 00:28:34,045 --> 00:28:36,070 to follow Rockford instead of me. 452 00:28:36,247 --> 00:28:37,305 I see. 453 00:28:37,816 --> 00:28:39,784 I see, and why would you want to do that? 454 00:28:39,851 --> 00:28:42,376 That is privileged client information. 455 00:28:42,620 --> 00:28:44,554 Come on. It is police business. 456 00:28:44,656 --> 00:28:46,487 Lieutenant, I'm not gonna tell you. 457 00:28:47,058 --> 00:28:49,618 If you're that curious, you can ask Sergeant Sherman. He knows. 458 00:28:49,694 --> 00:28:53,289 Look, Lieutenant, why stand around yammering with us, huh? 459 00:28:53,364 --> 00:28:55,855 What do you expect to get out of a couple of jerk private eyes? 460 00:28:55,934 --> 00:28:57,629 Why don't we just say we made a big mistake 461 00:28:57,702 --> 00:28:59,670 and Tina and I'll get out of your life, huh? 462 00:28:59,738 --> 00:29:01,171 In the two and a half years I've known you, 463 00:29:01,239 --> 00:29:02,934 that's the first thing you've ever said I can get behind. 464 00:29:08,313 --> 00:29:09,405 Hey. What? 465 00:29:09,547 --> 00:29:10,912 On the way back, 466 00:29:11,750 --> 00:29:14,082 I want to drop by the Sandstrom house for a minute. Do you mind? 467 00:29:14,152 --> 00:29:17,713 Of course I mind. I don't want to get in trouble with Lieutenant Diehl. 468 00:29:17,789 --> 00:29:20,189 If we go there, we're just asking for it. 469 00:29:20,525 --> 00:29:22,686 Yeah. Yeah, well, it'll only take a minute. 470 00:29:29,167 --> 00:29:31,692 Oh, come on, Jim. I'm not impressed with this sort of thing. 471 00:29:31,770 --> 00:29:33,829 Either you know something or you don't. 472 00:29:33,905 --> 00:29:35,600 There was no pool truck. 473 00:29:35,740 --> 00:29:37,640 The door in the back of the house was jimmied, 474 00:29:37,709 --> 00:29:39,973 but there was no pool truck out front. 475 00:29:40,078 --> 00:29:42,444 Oh, that sheds a lot of light on everything. 476 00:29:42,847 --> 00:29:45,543 You know, you have a tendency for flip remarks yourself. 477 00:29:51,289 --> 00:29:52,916 You know that pool man. 478 00:29:53,258 --> 00:29:56,523 He said he didn't have parts to fix the filter. 479 00:29:56,861 --> 00:30:00,194 You'd just think they'd always carry parts to fix a filter. 480 00:30:00,465 --> 00:30:02,057 Yeah, you'd think they would. 481 00:30:04,602 --> 00:30:06,934 All right, I give up. What are we looking for? 482 00:30:07,138 --> 00:30:09,038 The guy was carrying a pool skimmer. 483 00:30:09,107 --> 00:30:12,941 You know the little thing you fish the leaves and bugs out of the pool. 484 00:30:13,011 --> 00:30:14,308 See if you can find it. 485 00:30:18,416 --> 00:30:21,544 Seems strange you wouldn't notice that truck was missing before. 486 00:30:21,619 --> 00:30:25,077 Well, I just assumed that there was a back exit to this place 487 00:30:25,156 --> 00:30:26,783 and he was parked in the back. 488 00:30:29,394 --> 00:30:32,192 There's no back road here, and there's no pool skimmer. 489 00:30:33,097 --> 00:30:35,361 Guy just picked it up and carried it off. 490 00:30:35,934 --> 00:30:40,234 Guy in his shirtsleeves, carrying a pool skimmer just looks like a pool man. 491 00:30:40,438 --> 00:30:41,996 It's an instant disguise. 492 00:30:46,144 --> 00:30:47,839 I wouldn't break in there if I were you. 493 00:30:47,912 --> 00:30:49,402 I'm not breaking in. 494 00:30:49,514 --> 00:30:51,607 It's been jimmied. I told you that. 495 00:31:22,380 --> 00:31:23,779 "Police, fire, 496 00:31:24,649 --> 00:31:25,638 "pool service." 497 00:31:29,220 --> 00:31:30,517 This is Mr. Brice. 498 00:31:30,588 --> 00:31:34,046 And we're handling the estate of Alice Sandstrom 499 00:31:34,459 --> 00:31:38,452 and I'm sorry, but I'm afraid we're going to have to terminate the pool service. 500 00:31:39,497 --> 00:31:41,931 Yes. Yes, it was a terrible shame. 501 00:31:42,433 --> 00:31:43,695 Look, for our records, 502 00:31:43,768 --> 00:31:45,963 could you tell me when the last time 503 00:31:46,037 --> 00:31:48,096 that the pool was serviced? 504 00:31:49,741 --> 00:31:51,971 Uh-huh, and that was the last time? 505 00:31:52,877 --> 00:31:54,242 No. No. No problem, 506 00:31:54,312 --> 00:31:56,041 just send us a final statement, please. 507 00:31:56,114 --> 00:31:57,411 Yes. Thank you. 508 00:31:58,449 --> 00:31:59,882 Come and take a look at this. 509 00:32:08,059 --> 00:32:10,789 Now, who would paint a room and put on new curtains, 510 00:32:10,862 --> 00:32:12,989 if they intended to commit suicide? 511 00:32:13,331 --> 00:32:15,856 Hmm. Taking a little busman's holiday, I see. 512 00:32:15,934 --> 00:32:17,561 It is pretty strange, don't you think? 513 00:32:18,369 --> 00:32:20,428 Yeah. Yeah. 514 00:32:20,939 --> 00:32:23,203 It turns out the pool man was a phony. 515 00:32:23,274 --> 00:32:25,834 The last time they had anybody up here was Tuesday. 516 00:32:26,577 --> 00:32:28,670 Do you think it really was him that jimmied the door? 517 00:32:28,746 --> 00:32:30,611 I suppose he has to be considered. 518 00:32:30,682 --> 00:32:32,445 What would he want inside the house? 519 00:32:33,351 --> 00:32:36,252 Well, maybe it was these. 520 00:32:38,990 --> 00:32:40,514 Safe-deposit box? 521 00:32:41,125 --> 00:32:42,114 Yup. 522 00:32:44,562 --> 00:32:46,052 Where did you get these? 523 00:32:46,464 --> 00:32:48,056 Well, I'd rather not say. 524 00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:51,696 Do you want to call Lieutenant Diehl and let him in on this? 525 00:32:51,903 --> 00:32:53,131 Do you? No. 526 00:32:58,376 --> 00:33:00,469 We could send him an anonymous letter. 527 00:33:01,212 --> 00:33:02,543 Hmm. He'd know. 528 00:33:03,147 --> 00:33:04,136 Yeah. 529 00:33:05,183 --> 00:33:06,548 We could forget the whole thing. 530 00:33:06,617 --> 00:33:08,642 After all, we don't owe any of these people anything. 531 00:33:08,753 --> 00:33:11,278 Now, don't go heroic on me. 532 00:33:13,825 --> 00:33:15,622 You're right. Let's get out of here. 533 00:33:49,927 --> 00:33:51,394 Look at it this way. 534 00:33:51,462 --> 00:33:52,895 It probably was a suicide. 535 00:33:52,964 --> 00:33:56,161 I mean, Diehl wouldn't lie about her psychiatrist saying she was suicidal. 536 00:33:56,234 --> 00:33:57,258 Yeah. I know. 537 00:33:57,335 --> 00:33:59,769 Her sister Jennifer said she was in and out of a mental institute 538 00:33:59,837 --> 00:34:00,963 for two years. 539 00:34:01,039 --> 00:34:02,506 You see, that corroborates it. 540 00:34:02,573 --> 00:34:05,133 So she painted a room and went out and jumped off a pier. 541 00:34:05,209 --> 00:34:07,040 What about the pool man? What about him? 542 00:34:07,111 --> 00:34:10,547 A friendly neighbor who didn't want to see the filter get clogged. 543 00:34:10,615 --> 00:34:12,242 I know, it's a little strange. 544 00:34:12,583 --> 00:34:14,278 But I'm sure if we thought about it long enough, 545 00:34:14,352 --> 00:34:17,287 we could come up with at least a dozen reasons for the pool man. 546 00:34:17,355 --> 00:34:18,617 Yeah, I suppose. 547 00:34:42,346 --> 00:34:43,938 Where do you want me to drop you off? 548 00:34:44,015 --> 00:34:45,039 At home. 549 00:34:45,583 --> 00:34:47,141 Oh, say, I've got some of that stew left. 550 00:34:47,218 --> 00:34:48,515 Do you want to stay for dinner? 551 00:34:50,555 --> 00:34:51,579 Hmm. 552 00:35:10,208 --> 00:35:11,675 Get your head down. Quick! 553 00:35:20,952 --> 00:35:24,012 If you hadn't taken the bullets out of my gun, we could have shot back. 554 00:35:24,088 --> 00:35:26,113 Well, you can't shoot what you can't see. 555 00:35:27,191 --> 00:35:29,125 So much for the suicide theory. 556 00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:30,852 All right. 557 00:35:31,796 --> 00:35:33,525 Come on, let's go up there 558 00:35:33,831 --> 00:35:36,026 and get the spare on and get out of here. 559 00:35:36,634 --> 00:35:38,295 I can do it. All right. 560 00:35:39,437 --> 00:35:41,462 Stay where you are. I'll check and see if it's clear. 561 00:35:45,109 --> 00:35:46,872 "Brice. Thomas A." 562 00:35:50,548 --> 00:35:51,572 Brice? 563 00:35:56,554 --> 00:35:57,782 Sandstrom. 564 00:35:58,489 --> 00:35:59,581 Lieutenant, 565 00:35:59,824 --> 00:36:02,088 Sergeant Sherman's on the patch-through on your car right now. 566 00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:03,149 Thanks. 567 00:36:07,598 --> 00:36:09,190 This is Lieutenant Diehl speaking, Sergeant. 568 00:36:09,267 --> 00:36:11,792 I got a body out here in the junkyard. He's been shot twice. 569 00:36:11,869 --> 00:36:13,700 The guy's name is Tom Brice. 570 00:36:13,871 --> 00:36:16,237 He's an attorney for Alice Sandstrom. 571 00:36:16,307 --> 00:36:19,105 You got anything that ties Rockford or Tina Dusseau into this? 572 00:36:19,343 --> 00:36:20,469 Yeah. 573 00:36:20,545 --> 00:36:22,240 I've just been reading through Deek's report. 574 00:36:22,513 --> 00:36:23,707 We got a match-up. 575 00:36:23,781 --> 00:36:26,249 Rockford was up at that house about the time Brice was there. 576 00:36:26,317 --> 00:36:28,376 Maybe he followed him out and dropped the hammer on him. 577 00:36:29,287 --> 00:36:31,653 Okay. If we can put Rockford with Brice this morning, 578 00:36:31,722 --> 00:36:34,156 I want a warrant put out on him. Suspicion of murder. 579 00:36:34,625 --> 00:36:36,525 We better get a time of death from the M.E. 580 00:36:36,594 --> 00:36:38,357 We need a match-up on the time. 581 00:36:38,429 --> 00:36:39,555 We need motive. 582 00:36:39,630 --> 00:36:40,995 It's a little thin. 583 00:36:41,566 --> 00:36:43,500 Suspicion is just what it says. 584 00:36:43,634 --> 00:36:45,659 Suspicion, Sergeant. Pick him up. 585 00:36:47,772 --> 00:36:51,071 Well, this is Sunday, so we can't get into that safe-deposit box 586 00:36:51,142 --> 00:36:52,166 until tomorrow. 587 00:36:52,243 --> 00:36:53,301 What are we gonna do? 588 00:36:53,377 --> 00:36:55,140 Well, ordinarily, I'd go to the police, 589 00:36:55,213 --> 00:36:58,011 but we just can't prove anybody tried to kill us. 590 00:36:58,182 --> 00:37:00,343 And I get the feeling Lieutenant Diehl would have 591 00:37:00,418 --> 00:37:03,046 a rooting interest in the killer. So that doesn't make much sense. 592 00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:05,680 How are we gonna get in that safe-deposit box? 593 00:37:06,290 --> 00:37:07,951 Well, first we go back to Alice's house, 594 00:37:08,025 --> 00:37:09,822 get something with her signature on it, 595 00:37:09,894 --> 00:37:13,159 and then we'll do what we can tomorrow to make you look like Alice. 596 00:37:13,764 --> 00:37:16,995 Oh, no. The lady who lets the people in the safe-deposit box area 597 00:37:17,068 --> 00:37:20,037 is not gonna be fooled. She probably knows what Alice Sandstrom looks like. 598 00:37:20,104 --> 00:37:22,197 Well, that's why we wait until she goes to lunch. 599 00:37:22,273 --> 00:37:24,639 Then we hit on the substitute during the lunch hour. 600 00:37:24,709 --> 00:37:26,904 It's a gamble, but it's the best chance we got. 601 00:37:28,045 --> 00:37:30,138 Oh, by the way, we don't have to go back to the house. 602 00:37:30,214 --> 00:37:32,307 Well, we gotta get something with her signature on it, 603 00:37:32,383 --> 00:37:34,248 so you can learn how to sign her name. 604 00:37:34,318 --> 00:37:37,185 I stole these canceled checks from off her desk. 605 00:37:37,555 --> 00:37:38,920 I figured if we look through them 606 00:37:38,990 --> 00:37:40,719 we might find something that was interesting. 607 00:37:40,791 --> 00:37:42,190 "We don't know these people. 608 00:37:42,260 --> 00:37:44,023 "We don't need to get involved." 609 00:37:45,396 --> 00:37:46,488 Forget it. 610 00:37:48,132 --> 00:37:50,532 Oh, you're a bigger sucker than I am. 611 00:37:53,571 --> 00:37:56,404 I just don't see anything in here that's gonna help us. 612 00:37:56,641 --> 00:37:58,233 How you doing? Not bad. 613 00:37:58,776 --> 00:37:59,765 Look. 614 00:38:01,746 --> 00:38:03,145 Yeah. Yeah. That's not too bad. 615 00:38:03,214 --> 00:38:05,648 Only I'd broaden the "A" in Sandstrom. 616 00:38:05,983 --> 00:38:07,746 Really? I think it's all right. 617 00:38:07,818 --> 00:38:10,082 She did have a sort of a cramped hand. 618 00:38:10,254 --> 00:38:11,721 Typical of the paranoid. 619 00:38:12,556 --> 00:38:15,047 You know, Jim, maybe she did commit suicide. 620 00:38:15,593 --> 00:38:18,824 Maybe the man that shot at us this afternoon was really after something else. 621 00:38:19,363 --> 00:38:20,694 Well, I think she was murdered. 622 00:38:20,765 --> 00:38:22,790 There's just too much that can't be explained. 623 00:38:34,512 --> 00:38:35,501 Yes? 624 00:38:35,579 --> 00:38:38,070 We're looking for a James Rockford. 625 00:38:38,582 --> 00:38:41,346 We thought you might have some idea of his whereabouts. 626 00:38:41,419 --> 00:38:42,716 No. Why? 627 00:38:42,787 --> 00:38:44,755 We have a warrant for his arrest. 628 00:38:44,822 --> 00:38:46,119 Suspicion of murder. 629 00:38:47,191 --> 00:38:48,453 Who was killed? 630 00:38:48,526 --> 00:38:50,551 An attorney named Tom Brice. 631 00:38:51,696 --> 00:38:53,561 Is he here, or do you know where he is? 632 00:38:53,631 --> 00:38:56,259 No, I don't. But you're welcome to come in and have a look. 633 00:38:56,334 --> 00:38:58,632 You understand we don't have a search warrant. 634 00:38:58,703 --> 00:39:01,433 Well, that's all right. If you want to have a look, you have my permission. 635 00:39:01,839 --> 00:39:03,238 Well, that won't be necessary. 636 00:39:03,307 --> 00:39:05,070 Have you tried his trailer at the beach? 637 00:39:05,643 --> 00:39:06,871 Yes, we have. 638 00:39:07,578 --> 00:39:08,738 Well, thank you. 639 00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:24,593 It was a nice job. 640 00:39:24,829 --> 00:39:26,490 You heard? Yeah. 641 00:39:26,564 --> 00:39:28,395 Now, who would want to kill Tom Brice? 642 00:39:28,966 --> 00:39:30,661 Well, look, let's just put this together 643 00:39:30,868 --> 00:39:32,995 with some structure that fits, huh? 644 00:39:34,271 --> 00:39:36,762 There is a safe-deposit box with something in it. 645 00:39:36,841 --> 00:39:39,469 Something that somebody's willing to kill for, huh? 646 00:39:39,910 --> 00:39:42,071 Now, Tom Brice went up to that house 647 00:39:42,279 --> 00:39:44,213 to look for some jewelry, but he found a key, 648 00:39:44,281 --> 00:39:46,545 which he didn't know was there. But somebody else did. 649 00:39:46,617 --> 00:39:49,085 They went up there, they jimmied the door. 650 00:39:49,387 --> 00:39:51,184 Tom Brice interrupted them. 651 00:39:51,355 --> 00:39:53,585 So the guy went out by the pool and just puttered around. 652 00:39:53,657 --> 00:39:54,988 And that's when I arrived. 653 00:39:55,059 --> 00:39:56,617 So he decided to get the hell out of there. 654 00:39:56,694 --> 00:39:59,094 Now, I bluffed Tom Brice out of the key, 655 00:39:59,296 --> 00:40:00,854 but the killer didn't know that. 656 00:40:00,931 --> 00:40:02,125 He followed Tom Brice 657 00:40:02,199 --> 00:40:04,531 to a spot where they could have a little conversation. 658 00:40:04,602 --> 00:40:05,728 Things got rough. 659 00:40:05,803 --> 00:40:08,829 He wound up killing Brice and he looked for the key, but it wasn't there. 660 00:40:08,906 --> 00:40:10,339 He still hasn't found it. 661 00:40:10,408 --> 00:40:12,467 And he made a try for us this afternoon. 662 00:40:12,543 --> 00:40:14,340 It's a theory. It's a good one. 663 00:40:14,912 --> 00:40:17,210 Hey, I better get out of here. They're liable to come back. 664 00:40:17,281 --> 00:40:18,646 Wait a minute. I'm going with you. 665 00:40:21,685 --> 00:40:23,983 We're gonna have to get rid of this car and get a rental. 666 00:40:24,789 --> 00:40:26,086 I'd better rent it. 667 00:40:26,157 --> 00:40:29,024 Okay. Then we'll check into a motel. 668 00:40:29,794 --> 00:40:31,523 We'll wait until 12:00 noon. 669 00:40:32,029 --> 00:40:33,724 Are you trying to corrupt me? 670 00:40:35,132 --> 00:40:37,464 Yeah. Yeah. I think maybe I am. 671 00:40:41,038 --> 00:40:42,733 You know, this is funny. 672 00:40:43,140 --> 00:40:45,665 Here we are, hotter than Bonnie and Clyde and it's... 673 00:40:46,277 --> 00:40:47,403 It's funny. 674 00:41:23,914 --> 00:41:25,108 Hello. May I help you? 675 00:41:25,182 --> 00:41:26,376 Yes. My name is Alice Sandstrom. 676 00:41:26,450 --> 00:41:28,441 I'd like to get into my safe-deposit box. 677 00:41:40,364 --> 00:41:41,422 Thank you. 678 00:41:45,269 --> 00:41:46,964 Right this way, Miss Sandstrom. 679 00:41:59,149 --> 00:42:00,912 Friedler, Pike and Morris. 680 00:42:01,585 --> 00:42:03,314 Let me speak to Mr. Friedler, please. 681 00:42:05,322 --> 00:42:06,311 Yes? 682 00:42:15,399 --> 00:42:17,424 You can use this booth if you like. 683 00:42:17,501 --> 00:42:18,593 Thank you. 684 00:42:28,412 --> 00:42:29,970 It's getting out of control, Pete. 685 00:42:30,047 --> 00:42:32,311 There's somebody at the bank trying to get at that box. 686 00:42:33,417 --> 00:42:35,544 If the authorities get that box, we're cooked. 687 00:42:35,986 --> 00:42:37,476 Look, I had to do it. 688 00:42:37,555 --> 00:42:39,989 You didn't need to kill her. You didn't need to kill Brice. 689 00:42:41,525 --> 00:42:42,787 Now, look here. 690 00:42:44,428 --> 00:42:46,157 This is a tough business. 691 00:42:46,664 --> 00:42:48,495 There's a lot of bread in it. 692 00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:52,597 You don't like the risk, you don't get involved. 693 00:42:55,906 --> 00:42:57,339 You'd better take care of it. 694 00:43:03,447 --> 00:43:05,142 She had a baby. 695 00:43:05,716 --> 00:43:07,547 Yeah. This is the birth certificate. 696 00:43:10,321 --> 00:43:13,347 That explains the baby blue room with the new curtains. 697 00:43:13,557 --> 00:43:16,720 It also says she was afraid she might be murdered. 698 00:43:17,661 --> 00:43:20,186 She certainly was psychotic. Look how it rambles. 699 00:43:20,531 --> 00:43:24,991 It looks like she had a baby and gave it over to some guy named Pete Finch. 700 00:43:25,069 --> 00:43:27,401 Then she had a change of mind, tried to get it back 701 00:43:28,339 --> 00:43:32,002 and threatened to expose the whole baby racket, and they killed her. 702 00:43:32,710 --> 00:43:33,734 The pool man? 703 00:43:34,411 --> 00:43:38,142 Well, we won't know that until we can get a look at this guy Pete Finch. 704 00:43:38,215 --> 00:43:43,152 It says here Attorney Aaron Friedler set up the whole deal. 705 00:43:43,387 --> 00:43:45,548 And her sister Jennifer was in on it, huh? 706 00:43:45,956 --> 00:43:47,389 Yeah, probably. 707 00:43:47,458 --> 00:43:51,224 Probably Jennifer didn't want her sister to have an heir. 708 00:43:51,528 --> 00:43:53,655 You said it best. What do you mean? 709 00:43:53,797 --> 00:43:56,095 "Daddy left us a lot of money." 710 00:44:34,972 --> 00:44:36,735 My house is only a couple of blocks from here. 711 00:44:36,807 --> 00:44:38,502 Why don't we go there and call Lieutenant Diehl? 712 00:44:39,009 --> 00:44:41,569 The cops are probably staking out your place. 713 00:44:56,126 --> 00:44:58,924 Where are you going? You going toward my house? There are cops there. 714 00:44:58,996 --> 00:45:00,691 I know. That's the whole idea. 715 00:46:16,507 --> 00:46:18,065 Get out of the car. All right. 716 00:46:18,142 --> 00:46:19,939 All right. I'm getting out. Feet apart. 717 00:46:20,010 --> 00:46:21,307 Hands on top of the car. 718 00:46:25,649 --> 00:46:27,640 Put your hands behind your back. 719 00:46:28,852 --> 00:46:29,841 Hey! 720 00:46:30,120 --> 00:46:32,384 My briefcase, get my briefcase, will you? 721 00:46:32,456 --> 00:46:33,616 Move it! 722 00:46:51,942 --> 00:46:53,671 You must be Pete Finch. 723 00:46:53,744 --> 00:46:56,611 Well, I'm not talking to anyone until I see my lawyer. 724 00:46:56,680 --> 00:46:57,704 Hey, Pete. 725 00:46:57,781 --> 00:46:59,112 You're a lousy shot. 726 00:47:02,786 --> 00:47:04,913 Book Finch and pick up Friedler. 727 00:47:05,322 --> 00:47:08,155 Yeah, the charge is the murder of Alice Sandstrom and Tom Brice. 728 00:47:08,225 --> 00:47:10,420 And get somebody to check way back on Finch. 729 00:47:10,494 --> 00:47:13,463 I think we just might have the tip of a big baby racket going here. 730 00:47:14,231 --> 00:47:16,062 And tell the D.A. I want to see him at 4:00. 731 00:47:16,133 --> 00:47:17,930 And get his whole staff involved in this. 732 00:47:18,001 --> 00:47:19,559 Yup. Could be a biggie. 733 00:47:19,636 --> 00:47:20,796 Right. 734 00:47:20,871 --> 00:47:24,034 Hey, Lieutenant, I hate to be a stickler for details, 735 00:47:24,107 --> 00:47:27,873 but you forgot to add two counts of attempted murder to those charges. 736 00:47:28,011 --> 00:47:30,639 I mean, he did try to kill Miss Dusseau and myself. 737 00:47:31,315 --> 00:47:32,441 No kidding? 738 00:47:33,083 --> 00:47:34,812 Hmm. Sorry I missed that. 739 00:47:40,390 --> 00:47:41,880 Can we go now? 740 00:47:49,099 --> 00:47:51,659 Why didn't you come right to us when you turned up the key? 741 00:47:52,436 --> 00:47:54,427 Well... And why didn't you call us when you found out 742 00:47:54,504 --> 00:47:55,835 she had a safe-deposit box? 743 00:47:55,906 --> 00:47:58,067 Well, now, on that one... How come you broke into the house? 744 00:47:58,141 --> 00:47:59,403 Well, I didn't really break in... 745 00:47:59,476 --> 00:48:02,468 You know, Rockford, for a guy who's such a stickler for details, 746 00:48:03,146 --> 00:48:05,205 you play very sloppy ball. 747 00:48:05,549 --> 00:48:06,538 Yeah. 748 00:48:06,650 --> 00:48:09,448 Yeah, I guess if you want to overlook the fact 749 00:48:09,519 --> 00:48:14,218 that I took a suicide out of your wastebasket and put it on the D. A.'s murder docket. 750 00:48:16,126 --> 00:48:18,686 I can't figure out what Becker likes about you. 751 00:48:18,762 --> 00:48:21,959 Well, I think he likes me because he can beat me at handball. 752 00:48:24,801 --> 00:48:25,961 Sign the statement, 753 00:48:26,036 --> 00:48:29,233 keep yourselves handy. We'll need you for the preliminary hearing. 754 00:48:29,306 --> 00:48:32,207 You were in there playing a great game of catch-up with Diehl. 755 00:48:32,276 --> 00:48:33,436 I appreciate all your help. 756 00:48:33,510 --> 00:48:35,102 What do you mean? You were doing fine. 757 00:48:35,178 --> 00:48:36,873 You did say to tell him what he wanted to hear, 758 00:48:36,947 --> 00:48:38,642 and I figured he didn't want to hear from me. 759 00:48:38,715 --> 00:48:39,739 Oh, I see. 760 00:48:39,816 --> 00:48:40,840 You're a real princess. 761 00:48:40,918 --> 00:48:42,408 You know, I feel great. 762 00:48:42,486 --> 00:48:45,421 We stuck to this thing because our instincts told us we were right. 763 00:48:45,489 --> 00:48:47,013 And we ended up catching a murderer, 764 00:48:47,090 --> 00:48:49,024 exposing a multimillion dollar baby plot, 765 00:48:49,092 --> 00:48:50,992 and we may have gotten a little boy his heritage. 766 00:48:51,061 --> 00:48:52,460 Real heroic stuff. 767 00:48:55,098 --> 00:48:57,089 You rented it. It's your ticket. 768 00:49:01,772 --> 00:49:02,761 Look, 769 00:49:03,407 --> 00:49:04,499 you don't quite understand. 770 00:49:04,574 --> 00:49:06,235 You see, the police impounded this car. 771 00:49:06,310 --> 00:49:08,471 Then they drove it around here and they parked it here. 772 00:49:08,545 --> 00:49:10,445 We don't deserve a ticket. I'm sorry. 773 00:49:11,081 --> 00:49:12,981 But... Wait a minute. 774 00:49:13,050 --> 00:49:14,984 I just said that I didn't park it. 775 00:49:15,052 --> 00:49:16,485 The police did. You can ask them. 776 00:49:16,553 --> 00:49:18,487 Go right in there and ask them. I'm sorry. 777 00:49:23,260 --> 00:49:24,318 You know, I try. 778 00:49:24,394 --> 00:49:25,861 I really try, Jim. 779 00:49:26,363 --> 00:49:28,092 But, damn it, I hate cops.