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Now, you gonna do what I tell you. Sign this right here.

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Do you mind my asking

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how you got mixed up in a flaky scheme like this?

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You disposed of them? You mean a whole drilling crew? 20 guys?

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How could the D.A. go for a first-degree murder charge

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when he doesn't even have the weapon?

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There's a good chance I maybe able to help you. Really?

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Hold it. Don't move.

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ROCKFORD ON ANSWERING MACHINE.. 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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SHIRLEY.. It's Shirley at the Planted Pot.

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There's just no easy way to tell you this, Jim.

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We did everything we could. Your friend died.

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ROCKFORD: Come on, Dad. You can get your mail later.

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ROCKY: Boy, I sure can. Look at this stuff.

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Social security check, Medicare forms.

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Ah, look at this one.

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Glen Oaks Retirement World.

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''Spend your prime years in security-patrolled comfort.''

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Oh, man, I can remember when I used to get real mail.

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Business offerings, job opportunities,

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letters from my buddies down in South America working the big rigs.

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Jim, you go on. I...

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I don't think I feel like going fishing today. You go ahead.

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Oh, come on. What are you talking about?

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Not five minutes ago you were trying to figure out the best spot to drop a line.

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Well, maybe that's part of what the problem is. All this fishing, fishing, fishing.

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There must be a better way for a man to spend his time

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than sitting around all day with a string in the water.

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Well, all right. Here.

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All right, I'll see you around 5:30 at the restaurant then, okay?

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Yeah.

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Hey, what do you think you're doing?

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Now, you gonna do what I tell you. Sign this right here.

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What's this? I ain't gonna sign this.

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Sign it, old man. Now!

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HOWARD: I don't believe it, man.

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Hey!

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Hey, why don't you do yourself a favor, old man, and just go on back in the house?

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Hey, hey, you guys.

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Hey!

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Get out of there. Somebody call the police.

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Hey, you guys!

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ROCKY: Hey!

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Get the old geek out of sight.

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Get the tire changed and get out of here.

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ROCKFORD: Dennis called me, Dad.

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You know, you could've gotten killed this morning.

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What makes you think you have the right not to tell me something like that?

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I'm your son, remember?

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Well, I wasn't doing too bad. I can handle myself all right.

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What were they after?

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You know, I really don't know.

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The only thing I can figure is that,

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well, they were after the oil leases.

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I've been filing on some Federal Government oil leases.

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As an investment. An investment?

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Yeah. It costs you 10 bucks a month to file and they put together a list

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of all the available parcels and then they have a drawing.

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If you pull your name out of it, you win.

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That's not an investment, that's a lottery.

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You're living on Social Security. You can't stand $10 a month.

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If you want to gamble, why don't you go play bingo or something?

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You know, a quarter a card.

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Look, if I'm so dumb, how come I'm 1,960 bucks ahead, huh?

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You've made money? Parcel 334. I won it.

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My share was $2000.

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What do you mean your share?

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Well, I had to split with Claude Orzeck.

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He's the broker fellow up there in Coulter City.

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He's the one that's so good at filing for me

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'cause he knows where all the good parcels are, see?

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Then if you happen to win one, you split with him fifty-fifty.

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Where'd you meet this Orzeck character?

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Oh, I never met him. I just send him the money.

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Here you go. Thanks.

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Dad, do you mind my asking

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how you got mixed up in a crazy, flaky scheme like this?

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There ain't nothing flaky about the United States government.

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And that's what this is.

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This is what's called a simultaneous drawing.

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And the reason for these simultaneous drawings

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is to put the little guy on the same level with the big oil companies.

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And this guy, Orzeck, he chooses the numbers for you? That's right.

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Well, I think I'm going to take on a little salad, huh?

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Dad, how does this invisible Mr. Orzeck get his information?

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Well, they get it from the oil companies.

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You see, the oil company will call him up and say,

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''Look, we'll give you $10,000 for parcel number such-and-such''

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and then he has his client's file on it.

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If one of them wins, they just turn it back to the oil company. It's simple.

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Doesn't that defeat the purpose?

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These two goons made you sign a blank form assigning away all oil and mineral rights

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so that means there is someone who can just sign their name now

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and they own all the rights.

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Yeah, but for what, sonny?

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I ain't won no parcel for two weeks. I sold 334 for $2000

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to that man up in Coulter City. A Mr. Gerald O'Malley.

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Yeah, but, Dad, you signed the paper today.

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That means whatever it is, they've got it.

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Well, I signed it and I didn't sign it. What do you mean?

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Well, I ain't the dumb old duffer some of you fellows think I am.

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I've got a trick or two up my sleeve. Okay, Rocky, what'd you do?

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I signed it left-handed.

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Can you imagine how mad those guys are gonna be

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when they find out that that signature ain't no good?

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Yeah, Dad, I think you could safely say that.

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Oh, watch them, they're stale.

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No, these are croutons, Dad. They're not stale.

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You've already gotten yourself into a lot of trouble, Rocky.

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Those guys are going to come back.

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Well, the answer to that's easy.

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I'll go on up to Coulter City myself then.

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You? Well, Claude Orzeck might know something about all of this.

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Dad, I do this kind of thing professionally, why don't you just let me handle it, huh?

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Look, if you're trying to say I'm too old to take care of my own business, I ain't.

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Oh, come on, Rocky. I've got clients that are...

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That are 15 and clients 90. I'm a professionaI investigator.

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Now, what has age got to do with it?

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All right then, I'll hire you myself. 200 bucks a day and expenses.

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Just like anybody else. You can't afford it.

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I can. I got my oil lease winnings.

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Okay, I'll make a business proposition with you.

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Now, I figure that whatever is going on

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is worth at least $2000 or these goons wouldn't be messing with it.

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So I'll take a percentage of anything we can manage to get over the $2000. All right?

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Fifty-fifty? That's way too much.

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That way we're partners.

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Dad... No, no, no. Fifty-fifty, or no deal.

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Deal.

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ROCKFORD: Dad, who turned you on to this scheme?

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ROCKY: Harry Sharu, down at the Gearjammer Tavern.

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He's the one aIways buying drinks for the house.

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Dad, isn't Harry also the one who lost 500 bucks

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on that astrology chain letter?

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ROCKY: Just think, sonny, one of them there beauties may be ours before long.

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ROCKFORD: I hope so, Dad. I hope so.

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Why don't you just go ahead and check in?

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The first step is to see if I can find out

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just exactly how much that lease is worth.

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Well, I'll go with you. No, no.

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Now, I've got a way to handle this. It's not a two-man job.

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You just handle the logistics for now, okay?

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I mean, they're important too, Rocky. Where are you going?

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I am gonna go meet your partner.

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Claude Orzeck. ROCKFORD: Lyle Sawyer, Bartlesville, Oklahoma.

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And you say you're looking for oil leases? Yes, sure am, Mr. Orzeck.

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I'm gonna buy me some land, punch out a well.

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I've got 60 crickets pumping back in Bartlesville.

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I don't like to brag, but that is a lot of good production.

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Sort of keeps my mother-in-law out of my tent. You know what I mean?

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I sure do, Mr. Sawyer.

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Well, I've got a honey over here.

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Number 297. Right here.

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Two hundred and twenty acres, but it sure does look promising.

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Mighty fine shale formation.

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A thousand-barrel-a-day well come in last month, two miles away.

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Now for a colleague I could let that thing go for, oh, $50 an acre.

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Yeah, well that's a possibility, but seems a little small, doesn't it?

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How about this parcel right over here. This 334?

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I'm afraid that one's already been sold.

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Matter of fact, I didn't get but $20 an acre for it.

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And I doubt if it was worth that.

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Now this 328 up here, that is a sleeper.

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Yeah, I hate to interrupt you, Mr. Orzeck,

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but I tell you what I'd like for you to do.

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I wish you'd make a list of all the available leases

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and how much you want for them.

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And I'm gonna get in my car and I'm gonna drive right out there and stand on them.

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That's how I buy all my leases, Mr. Orzeck.

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If there's oil under there, I can feel it.

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ROCKY: That ain't a bad-looking orange grove, anyway.

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There's your property line. That's it, right there?

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That's it. You know, Rocky,

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maybe you ought to start thinking about taking your $2000

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and counting your blessings.

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Well, as long as we're here we might as well take a look at it anyway, huh?

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There's a gate right here.

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Hey, sonny, lookie here, look. Look at all them big tread marks there.

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There's been something big in here like maybe a Cabover Pete or something.

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You sure it's not farm equipment?

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Oh, no. Not a chance, sonny. This is bigger than that.

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This could even be a 1 2-gear forward rig. Something like that.

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Yeah, well, all right, let's take a look.

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Oh, it's posted there.

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That's all right. There's nobody around.

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Unhook me, Rocky.

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Y'all going somewhere?

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Well, I guess we can't fool you.

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My dad and I, we just dearly love oranges and we were passing by.

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We thought we'd pick a few for breakfast. You caught us right in the act.

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I'll be glad to pay you for them. Clear out.

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This land's posted and y'all are trespassing. Posted?

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Oh, hey, it's posted. Oh, I didn't realize it was posted.

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You know, we saw all the tracks in here,

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it looked like there had been a lot of traffic. Been hauling logs.

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Yeah, well then this is your land then, huh?

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I farm it. Sure has been nice talking to you.

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I guess you've been doing a little out-of-season hunting.

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No season on varmint.

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Number one, this is number three.

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MAN ON RADIO.. This is number one. Go ahead, Willie.

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Been a couple of fellows down here poking around, asking questions.

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Thought you ought to know about it. Over.

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That's a roger. Follow them and stay with them. Out.

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Al did, too? Well, that's exactly what Gary did.

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He just up and says he's off to another job,

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he didn't know how long he'd be gone, he didn't even know where he was going.

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Well, he claims the pay's real good, but... Help you?

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Yeah. Would you give us a wake-up call, please? 6:00, Room 42.

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Hello, Phyliss? Oh, the story's so ridiculous. Thank you.

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I'll bet you anything, Al and him wound up together and ran off to Fresno

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with a couple of teenyboppers.

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I couldn't care less what it was, to tell you the truth.

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We gotta go rent a car.

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Let's go.

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Hey. Hey, look at the well. Look at the well there.

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I bet you that's why them monkeys was after this piece.

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'Cause there's a well on it, Jim.

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It's capped. Dry hole.

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Yeah, it looks like it's been here for a long time.

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Hey, look at that. 7,000 psi. Thing must be stuck.

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Hey, listen.

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Supposing that ain't stuck?

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Set-screw on the ground.

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ROCKY: I can't find it, sonny.

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I don't see it nowhere.

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Rocky, let's get out of here.

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Listen to that. You listen to it.

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You're the one that lost them.

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All right, maybe they're still around here somewhere.

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They've got to have a car here somewhere.

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All right, Ed, go out... Go out to the property line.

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Tommy and Gene, you all fan out through the grove there.

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And somebody turn that thing off before half the county knows about it.

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00:18:35,156 --> 00:18:38,091
Come on, Rocky. We've got to get to the car. Come on.

238
00:19:03,017 --> 00:19:06,180
Well, we can forget about that. Rocky, let's get out of here.

239
00:19:28,342 --> 00:19:30,936
I'm going to have to hotwire this thing.

240
00:19:31,012 --> 00:19:34,607
Let's get it shut off. Set-screw. Get the set-screw.

241
00:19:35,416 --> 00:19:38,874
I've got a pipe wrench in the trunk. Well, get it, dummy.

242
00:19:46,827 --> 00:19:47,816
Duck.

243
00:19:51,832 --> 00:19:52,821
Come on.

244
00:20:16,557 --> 00:20:17,888
They saw too much.

245
00:20:20,995 --> 00:20:22,792
HOWARD: Try aiming at the gas tank.

246
00:20:53,527 --> 00:20:55,290
ROCKFORD: Keep down, Rocky.

247
00:21:53,554 --> 00:21:55,545
ROCKY: We did it. We lost them.

248
00:21:55,623 --> 00:21:59,821
I sure wish I'd known whether or not I signed away my rights to that property.

249
00:21:59,894 --> 00:22:03,022
It doesn't look like you did. What about O'Malley?

250
00:22:03,097 --> 00:22:05,156
I don't know. We're back to square one.

251
00:22:05,232 --> 00:22:07,894
If you did sell it, why would they still be after your signature?

252
00:22:07,968 --> 00:22:09,663
Oh, I don't know.

253
00:22:09,737 --> 00:22:12,535
We're going to have to get rid of this truck and get a car.

254
00:22:13,207 --> 00:22:15,198
ROCKY: $23 a day for a car like this

255
00:22:15,276 --> 00:22:17,073
and they didn't even clean the ashtrays.

256
00:22:17,144 --> 00:22:20,341
Well Dad, when you're in the oil business, people think you're a high-roller.

257
00:22:28,089 --> 00:22:30,421
Ah, Rocky... Jim, I...

258
00:22:31,192 --> 00:22:33,353
I think I'll stay here, if you don't mind.

259
00:22:33,894 --> 00:22:36,761
No, I don't mind. See, I been thinking, well,

260
00:22:36,831 --> 00:22:39,891
the more I'm walking around on the streets, the easier it's going to be

261
00:22:39,967 --> 00:22:42,333
for those guys to grab me.

262
00:22:42,403 --> 00:22:46,362
And if they ever get a signature out of me, that's, that's all she wrote tonight.

263
00:22:46,941 --> 00:22:50,604
I was thinking maybe you ought to do all the prowling around here, you know,

264
00:22:50,678 --> 00:22:55,672
and see if you can find out who really owns those leases, huh?

265
00:22:56,550 --> 00:22:58,711
Fine, fine. Yeah, all right,

266
00:22:58,786 --> 00:23:00,754
I'll see you later. Yeah.

267
00:23:11,398 --> 00:23:13,593
Hi. With you in just a second.

268
00:23:17,872 --> 00:23:19,362
What can I do for you?

269
00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:24,036
My name's Jim Rockford and I'm looking for the U.S. Geological Survey officer.

270
00:23:24,111 --> 00:23:27,547
That's me, Wally Link. Wait a minute. Jim Rockford.

271
00:23:27,615 --> 00:23:29,412
That name sounds familiar.

272
00:23:30,184 --> 00:23:32,584
It's Joseph Rockford.

273
00:23:32,820 --> 00:23:35,653
Sent out a lease to him this morning. Any relation?

274
00:23:35,723 --> 00:23:38,556
Yeah, he's my dad. Yeah, was that Parcel 334?

275
00:23:38,626 --> 00:23:41,959
Yeah, that's the one. I'm sorry it was late.

276
00:23:42,029 --> 00:23:44,497
I've been on vacation and, uh,

277
00:23:44,565 --> 00:23:46,760
things were sure stacked up when I got back.

278
00:23:47,468 --> 00:23:49,402
This procedure kind of throws me.

279
00:23:49,470 --> 00:23:53,372
Doesn't the Bureau of Land Management issue those leases?

280
00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:55,203
The Bureau decides who gets it.

281
00:23:55,276 --> 00:23:59,372
But it isn't officially issued until I put my stamp on it and sign it.

282
00:23:59,446 --> 00:24:00,572
Where'd you mail it?

283
00:24:02,283 --> 00:24:04,774
Your dad's post office box, right here in town.

284
00:24:04,852 --> 00:24:06,877
I didn't know he had one.

285
00:24:06,954 --> 00:24:11,391
Anyway, right now, my dad holds title to that lease, right?

286
00:24:11,458 --> 00:24:15,326
Sure does. Unless he's assigned it to someone else, of course.

287
00:24:15,396 --> 00:24:18,991
In which case the assignment becomes valid as soon as the lease is issued,

288
00:24:19,066 --> 00:24:20,328
which was this morning.

289
00:24:22,002 --> 00:24:24,334
You wouldn't happen to know anything

290
00:24:24,405 --> 00:24:26,339
about a Gerald A. O'Malley, would you?

291
00:24:26,407 --> 00:24:28,204
I think he does some oil dealing around here.

292
00:24:28,275 --> 00:24:29,537
O'Malley.

293
00:24:31,111 --> 00:24:33,272
No. Doesn't ring any bells.

294
00:24:37,651 --> 00:24:38,879
Thanks.

295
00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:02,539
Excuse me. Are you Mr. O'Malley?

296
00:25:03,544 --> 00:25:05,978
Mr. Gerald A. O'Malley?

297
00:25:06,046 --> 00:25:07,343
Sure am.

298
00:25:07,414 --> 00:25:12,113
Well, I'm George Wheeler. I'm with the NationaI Credit Institute.

299
00:25:16,357 --> 00:25:20,919
I can never find my glasses. Well, as long as you can read it, that's all that counts.

300
00:25:23,030 --> 00:25:24,497
Well, yes, yes.

301
00:25:24,932 --> 00:25:29,266
Now, we're running a credit check on a Mr. Claude Orzeck.

302
00:25:29,336 --> 00:25:32,396
We understand that you've done some business with him. Is that right?

303
00:25:32,473 --> 00:25:34,270
Sold him a ham once.

304
00:25:34,375 --> 00:25:37,401
That's the extent of your dealings with him? Oh, hell, no.

305
00:25:37,478 --> 00:25:41,710
He's my mother's sister's boy by her third husband. I see.

306
00:25:41,782 --> 00:25:45,411
Well now, we understand that Mr. Orzeck is in the oil business.

307
00:25:45,486 --> 00:25:46,714
And that you are, too.

308
00:25:46,787 --> 00:25:48,584
We won't have nothing to do with oil.

309
00:25:49,290 --> 00:25:52,748
Claude, he goes around and gets people to sign anti-oil petitions.

310
00:25:52,826 --> 00:25:54,054
I signed some myself.

311
00:25:54,128 --> 00:25:59,156
Then I am correct in assuming that you have never bought an oil lease from Mr. Orzeck?

312
00:25:59,233 --> 00:26:03,761
Mister, I don't even use oil products, if I can help it.

313
00:26:03,837 --> 00:26:05,168
I won't be a party to it.

314
00:26:05,239 --> 00:26:09,642
A party to what? War. The destruction of the world.

315
00:26:09,710 --> 00:26:12,201
That's exactly what it's gonna be about. Oil.

316
00:26:12,279 --> 00:26:14,509
Them that has it against them that wants it.

317
00:26:15,349 --> 00:26:19,251
Do you know that 23 critical masses of fissionable plutonium

318
00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:23,723
disappeared from United States nuclear facilities last year alone?

319
00:26:23,791 --> 00:26:24,985
No, I didn't know that.

320
00:26:25,059 --> 00:26:27,323
Well, the United States government claims

321
00:26:27,394 --> 00:26:30,921
it was all inevitable manufacturing losses, so forth and so on.

322
00:26:30,998 --> 00:26:33,626
But I know it was the terrorists that got them.

323
00:26:33,701 --> 00:26:35,191
Turning them into bombs.

324
00:26:35,269 --> 00:26:37,635
I'd like to talk about Mr. Orzeck. I'm a little confused...

325
00:26:37,705 --> 00:26:40,037
Any graduate physics student can rig one.

326
00:26:40,107 --> 00:26:44,203
It may not be the most efficient bomb in the world, but it don't really matter.

327
00:26:45,012 --> 00:26:48,641
Even if it's a low-yield, say, well, 10 kilotons,

328
00:26:48,716 --> 00:26:51,344
all it takes is a few of them, strategically placed.

329
00:26:51,418 --> 00:26:53,750
Do you think that our government is going to admit

330
00:26:53,821 --> 00:26:55,982
that its own carelessness is responsible

331
00:26:56,056 --> 00:26:58,786
for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of its own citizens?

332
00:27:00,060 --> 00:27:03,120
Yeah, that's not a very pleasant thought, Mr. O'Malley.

333
00:27:03,630 --> 00:27:06,258
Want to see my shelter? Beg your pardon?

334
00:27:06,934 --> 00:27:08,629
The bomb shelter.

335
00:27:13,774 --> 00:27:18,575
Yes, I really would, I'd like to see that but I'm running a little late.

336
00:27:18,645 --> 00:27:22,308
So maybe some other time. It's right over there by the edge of the trees.

337
00:27:22,383 --> 00:27:25,011
Two feet of concrete, reinforced.

338
00:27:25,085 --> 00:27:27,610
Air, water and food to last two months.

339
00:27:27,688 --> 00:27:29,849
That's what it's going to be all about, see. Food.

340
00:27:29,923 --> 00:27:32,619
Food. Yeah, it would be. Oh, Yeah.

341
00:27:33,026 --> 00:27:35,756
Build your shelter now, mister.

342
00:27:35,829 --> 00:27:39,629
Remember, charity ends where survival begins.

343
00:27:47,408 --> 00:27:51,242
ROCKY: If O'Malley says he doesn't know nothing about me signing that lease over to him

344
00:27:51,311 --> 00:27:53,711
then it's got to still be mine, doesn't it?

345
00:27:53,781 --> 00:27:57,547
Dad, you did sign it over to him. And the paper you signed is still valid.

346
00:27:57,618 --> 00:27:59,745
So it's floating around out there somewhere.

347
00:27:59,820 --> 00:28:02,050
Well, who's got it then? I don't know.

348
00:28:02,122 --> 00:28:04,056
Probably whoever sunk the well.

349
00:28:04,124 --> 00:28:06,592
They wouldn't drill a well unless they owned the rights.

350
00:28:06,660 --> 00:28:08,150
You think it could be Orzeck?

351
00:28:08,562 --> 00:28:12,498
Orzeck couldn't drill his way through a cloud.

352
00:28:12,566 --> 00:28:16,696
And the two guys with the guns, they're just country beef.

353
00:28:16,770 --> 00:28:19,170
Somebody else is running this show.

354
00:28:19,807 --> 00:28:23,538
I'll look around and see if I can find out who sunk the well.

355
00:28:24,311 --> 00:28:26,279
You going to be all right here? Yeah.

356
00:29:43,123 --> 00:29:45,091
Hi. All right if I sit right over there?

357
00:29:45,158 --> 00:29:47,023
Sure, I'll be with you in a minute.

358
00:30:20,527 --> 00:30:21,721
The old man saw us.

359
00:30:29,102 --> 00:30:30,694
Where'd he go? He went out back.

360
00:30:51,024 --> 00:30:54,289
Excuse me, I'm looking for a gray-haired man wearing a straw hat and suspenders.

361
00:30:54,361 --> 00:30:55,453
Out back.

362
00:30:55,529 --> 00:30:56,518
ROCKY: Hey, hey!

363
00:30:56,597 --> 00:30:59,464
GIRL: No! It's all right. It's all right, honey.

364
00:30:59,533 --> 00:31:02,297
This is my boy, Jimmy, here. We fooled them, Jim.

365
00:31:02,369 --> 00:31:04,269
Phyliss sent them out the back door.

366
00:31:04,338 --> 00:31:05,896
I thought you were going to wait at the motel.

367
00:31:05,973 --> 00:31:08,908
I keep telling you I can take care of myself, ain't that right?

368
00:31:08,976 --> 00:31:11,410
Hey, Rocky, you gonna tell him? Huh? Oh, oh, yeah.

369
00:31:11,478 --> 00:31:14,777
Jim, I've been telling her all about you on account of she needs a private detective.

370
00:31:14,848 --> 00:31:16,577
I told her you're about the best there is.

371
00:31:16,650 --> 00:31:19,312
All right, well, let's talk about it someplace else, huh? Yeah.

372
00:31:19,386 --> 00:31:22,822
I don't want that Goodyear blimp to come back and land on us.

373
00:31:24,257 --> 00:31:26,885
And now, I haven't seen my boyfriend in three weeks, I mean,

374
00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:28,985
he was out of a job and then he called a couple of days ago...

375
00:31:29,062 --> 00:31:32,031
Your boyfriend's name is Al, and he's a roustabout, right?

376
00:31:32,099 --> 00:31:35,466
How'd you know that? What did I tell you? Isn't he terrific?

377
00:31:35,569 --> 00:31:39,437
I tell you, Phyliss, I think there's a good chance I may be able to help you.

378
00:31:39,506 --> 00:31:41,736
Really? How?

379
00:31:41,808 --> 00:31:45,175
Well, I don't know yet. But, I'll give you a call, okay?

380
00:31:45,245 --> 00:31:47,008
Oh, thanks so much, Mr. Rockford.

381
00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:49,640
Now, look, I'm going to give you my home number

382
00:31:49,716 --> 00:31:54,380
and if you can't reach me there, you can reach me at Pete's Cafe.

383
00:31:54,454 --> 00:31:55,614
All right.

384
00:31:56,390 --> 00:31:58,415
Thanks so much. You're welcome.

385
00:32:02,996 --> 00:32:05,226
That was a neat trick. Just like one of those mind-readers.

386
00:32:05,298 --> 00:32:06,890
That wasn't a trick, Dad.

387
00:32:06,967 --> 00:32:09,094
What I found out this afternoon was

388
00:32:09,169 --> 00:32:11,069
as far as anyone around here is concerned,

389
00:32:11,138 --> 00:32:13,766
nobody ever drilled on Parcel 334.

390
00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:17,173
And they went to a lot of trouble to cover their tracks.

391
00:32:17,244 --> 00:32:20,338
I think they might even have disposed of the drilling crew.

392
00:32:20,681 --> 00:32:23,172
Well, you figure Phyliss' boyfriend was one of them?

393
00:32:23,250 --> 00:32:26,310
Yeah, and the girI at the other motel, the one with the hairdo,

394
00:32:26,386 --> 00:32:27,478
her boyfriend, too.

395
00:32:27,554 --> 00:32:31,513
You disposed of them? You mean a whole drilling crew? 20 guys?

396
00:32:31,591 --> 00:32:32,819
What did they do with them?

397
00:32:32,893 --> 00:32:35,327
I don't know. But let's try Orzeck again.

398
00:32:35,395 --> 00:32:36,794
He's all we've got left.

399
00:32:51,411 --> 00:32:52,708
ROCKFORD: It's open.

400
00:32:53,647 --> 00:32:55,376
Hey, there may be somebody in there.

401
00:32:55,449 --> 00:32:57,713
Let's come back later. It'll be light in about an hour.

402
00:32:58,852 --> 00:33:00,479
You just wait here.

403
00:33:18,472 --> 00:33:20,463
Jim, are you okay?

404
00:33:23,643 --> 00:33:24,837
Orzeck.

405
00:33:30,217 --> 00:33:33,152
Hey, you all right?

406
00:33:33,220 --> 00:33:37,782
Well, I'm feeling fine. But I've seen Orzeck looking better, though.

407
00:33:37,858 --> 00:33:39,189
He's dead.

408
00:33:52,071 --> 00:33:56,508
ROCKFORD: Parcel 332, 333, 335.

409
00:33:56,575 --> 00:33:58,668
No 334. I bet they got it.

410
00:33:58,744 --> 00:34:00,109
Come on, let's get out of here, Jim.

411
00:34:00,179 --> 00:34:03,671
The first paper that you signed turning over the lease to O'Malley,

412
00:34:03,749 --> 00:34:05,774
who was the broker? Orzeck.

413
00:34:07,620 --> 00:34:10,453
Orzeck and some silent partner must have been running a con

414
00:34:10,523 --> 00:34:13,253
to rip off valuable oil leases.

415
00:34:13,325 --> 00:34:15,020
Dad, that had to be what was going on.

416
00:34:15,194 --> 00:34:18,254
POLICE DISPATCHER ON RADIO.. Two-X-ray-Zebra and any unit in the vicinity,

417
00:34:18,330 --> 00:34:20,298
identify and handle a 21 1,

418
00:34:20,366 --> 00:34:24,132
4654 Lake Avenue, Claude Orzeck's office,

419
00:34:24,203 --> 00:34:26,194
first floor. Handle Code 3.

420
00:34:26,472 --> 00:34:30,135
O'Malley told me that Orzeck was aIways trying to get him to sign

421
00:34:30,209 --> 00:34:34,339
these anti-oil petitions. But the old man never wore his glasses.

422
00:34:35,014 --> 00:34:39,041
Now I'm betting that what he signed were blank lease assignment forms.

423
00:34:39,118 --> 00:34:43,077
With O'Malley's signature already on them, all cousin Orzeck would have to do

424
00:34:43,155 --> 00:34:46,784
is fill in his own name and the valuable parcels would revert to him.

425
00:34:46,859 --> 00:34:48,793
Let's look in the ''O's''.

426
00:34:57,036 --> 00:35:00,335
POLICE DISPATCHER ON RADIO.. Two-X-ray-Zebra Pickup on 187 DC.

427
00:35:00,406 --> 00:35:04,900
Handle a 21 1, 4654 Lake Avenue, Claude Orzeck's office,

428
00:35:04,977 --> 00:35:07,207
first level. Your call is Code 3.

429
00:35:13,352 --> 00:35:15,320
Well, now. There you go.

430
00:35:16,288 --> 00:35:22,193
All you have to do is fill in one for Parcel 334 and it's back in your Easter basket.

431
00:35:22,628 --> 00:35:27,224
Listen, those guys that killed Orzeck, they don't know about these pre-signed forms.

432
00:35:27,299 --> 00:35:29,324
They're liable to get after old man O'Malley

433
00:35:29,401 --> 00:35:31,596
to try and make him sign them over to them again.

434
00:35:31,670 --> 00:35:33,638
That old man wouldn't stand a chance.

435
00:35:33,706 --> 00:35:35,230
Maybe we ought to call the cops, huh?

436
00:35:35,307 --> 00:35:37,867
I don't know. His place is about 20 minutes from here.

437
00:35:37,943 --> 00:35:41,208
Maybe the goon squad is already on their way.

438
00:35:43,916 --> 00:35:45,850
Sonny, somebody might have called the cops.

439
00:36:06,639 --> 00:36:09,938
Hello. ROCKFORD.. Mr. Gerald A. O'Malley?

440
00:36:10,042 --> 00:36:14,274
Yeah. Yes. This is Roger Martel sir, Kern County Civil Defense.

441
00:36:14,346 --> 00:36:17,179
Yes, sir. What can I do for you?

442
00:36:17,249 --> 00:36:20,047
Government agencies have informed us

443
00:36:20,119 --> 00:36:22,917
that the Che Guevara unit of the ALF

444
00:36:22,988 --> 00:36:28,085
is planning to detonate a jerry-rigged nuclear device in Bakersfield

445
00:36:28,160 --> 00:36:31,823
unless some Federal prisoners are released by daybreak this morning.

446
00:36:31,897 --> 00:36:33,524
Now wait a minute.

447
00:36:33,599 --> 00:36:37,763
What's the yield, man? What's the yield? Am I in the kill radius?

448
00:36:37,836 --> 00:36:42,000
We're not sure what the yield is, but you are correct in your assumption.

449
00:36:42,074 --> 00:36:43,871
You are in the kill radius.

450
00:36:43,943 --> 00:36:45,911
Well, you're very calm about it.

451
00:36:45,978 --> 00:36:48,674
I've written you people letter after letter about this kind of thing

452
00:36:48,747 --> 00:36:49,771
and you've ignored it.

453
00:36:49,848 --> 00:36:52,681
Now, now, you're, you're certain that she's going to blow?

454
00:36:52,751 --> 00:36:54,309
Just in case, sir,

455
00:36:54,386 --> 00:36:57,787
my advice would be to proceed immediately, and I repeat, immediately,

456
00:36:57,856 --> 00:37:01,815
to your bomb shelter. We've already had some leaks on this

457
00:37:01,894 --> 00:37:05,352
and as your neighbors may come seeking protection from you,

458
00:37:05,431 --> 00:37:07,831
and no doubt they would be armed and desperate...

459
00:37:07,900 --> 00:37:10,869
Oh, shut up. I've got a million things to do here.

460
00:37:13,572 --> 00:37:16,166
That's the dirtiest trick I ever heard you pull.

461
00:37:16,241 --> 00:37:19,369
Look, the man built that bomb shelter to save his life

462
00:37:19,445 --> 00:37:20,935
and that's what we're using it for.

463
00:37:21,013 --> 00:37:23,106
Now, come on. We'll call the police from somewhere else.

464
00:37:27,987 --> 00:37:29,579
Let's go the other way.

465
00:37:31,457 --> 00:37:33,925
Hold it. Don't move.

466
00:37:37,129 --> 00:37:38,426
Spread eagle on the floor.

467
00:37:40,466 --> 00:37:41,455
Come on.

468
00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:09,318
RUSS: Hey, there he goes. Come on.

469
00:38:10,029 --> 00:38:12,327
Hey, here he is over here. Hey, you!

470
00:38:12,398 --> 00:38:14,332
There he goes, come on.

471
00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:16,459
How can he sign if you blow him in half?

472
00:38:33,018 --> 00:38:36,249
How could the D.A. go for a first-degree murder charge

473
00:38:36,321 --> 00:38:37,618
when he doesn't even have the weapon?

474
00:38:37,689 --> 00:38:39,418
He's figuring on an accomplice,

475
00:38:39,491 --> 00:38:41,550
a third person who got away with the gun.

476
00:38:41,627 --> 00:38:44,494
Well, then it'd be him that killed Orzeck, not us.

477
00:38:44,563 --> 00:38:47,031
Well, the law says an accomplice is just as guilty

478
00:38:47,099 --> 00:38:49,192
as the person who pulls the trigger.

479
00:38:49,268 --> 00:38:51,862
Look Jim, let's just let this thing settle for a few days

480
00:38:51,937 --> 00:38:56,169
and if nothing else turns up, he'll probably let you cop a plea of breaking and entering.

481
00:38:56,241 --> 00:38:59,870
And spend a year in this county? No. Are you kidding?

482
00:39:00,579 --> 00:39:06,609
No. The D.A. cannot go for a murder one charge

483
00:39:06,685 --> 00:39:08,846
unless you've got a gun or an accomplice, right?

484
00:39:10,889 --> 00:39:13,153
Right. Okay, tell him we'll deal.

485
00:39:14,093 --> 00:39:16,721
He can set a reasonable baiI on the B and E.

486
00:39:16,795 --> 00:39:19,730
We get out of here, nab the murderer within 24 hours,

487
00:39:19,798 --> 00:39:21,857
and then he dismisses all charges against us.

488
00:39:21,934 --> 00:39:23,526
He'll never even listen to that.

489
00:39:23,602 --> 00:39:25,729
Well, why not? If we don't deliver the murderers

490
00:39:25,804 --> 00:39:27,829
he's still got us on the B and E charge.

491
00:39:27,906 --> 00:39:29,771
He's got us, period.

492
00:39:29,842 --> 00:39:32,402
Would you like to hear my idea or not, Dad?

493
00:39:34,279 --> 00:39:38,306
When I was nosing around town, I heard that it's common practice

494
00:39:38,383 --> 00:39:42,012
for the owner of the leaseholds to auction them off for a profit.

495
00:39:42,087 --> 00:39:44,214
The oil companies and the independent dealers,

496
00:39:44,289 --> 00:39:47,656
they come in, bid on whatever they think the parcel is worth.

497
00:39:47,726 --> 00:39:49,990
So we're going to auction off parcel 334.

498
00:39:50,462 --> 00:39:51,724
Hey, now, wait just a minute.

499
00:39:51,797 --> 00:39:54,789
I ain't so sure I want to auction that off. It's mine now.

500
00:39:54,867 --> 00:39:57,563
Besides, there's oil on it. Exactly.

501
00:39:57,636 --> 00:40:00,537
And there's only one other party who knows that besides us.

502
00:40:00,606 --> 00:40:03,837
And that's Orzeck's killer, and he's going to make sure he's the winning bidder.

503
00:40:04,643 --> 00:40:05,905
I don't get it.

504
00:40:08,147 --> 00:40:13,380
Dad, if you bid $5,000, what do I bid?

505
00:40:13,652 --> 00:40:14,846
Six thousand.

506
00:40:14,920 --> 00:40:19,050
Uh-huh. And if you bid $10,000, what do I bid? Eleven...

507
00:40:19,858 --> 00:40:22,019
Hey, I get it. I get it.

508
00:40:22,094 --> 00:40:24,289
The guy that knows there's oiI on the property

509
00:40:24,363 --> 00:40:27,355
will aIways bid more for it than the fellow that doesn't know it.

510
00:40:27,432 --> 00:40:29,866
Oh, that's wonderful, Jim. That's great.

511
00:40:29,935 --> 00:40:31,459
Rocky's the rightful owner.

512
00:40:31,537 --> 00:40:35,029
The other man lost out. His only hope of getting it now is to pay for it.

513
00:40:36,108 --> 00:40:39,407
Well, I'm willing to try to sell that to the D.A. Good.

514
00:40:39,645 --> 00:40:43,479
Anything's better than sitting around here staring at the gallows.

515
00:40:46,318 --> 00:40:48,809
ROCKFORD: In addition to the cash price,

516
00:40:48,887 --> 00:40:51,048
the seller, Mr. Joseph Rockford,

517
00:40:51,123 --> 00:40:53,990
will retain a five-percent overriding royalty.

518
00:40:54,059 --> 00:40:56,289
Now, are there any questions?

519
00:40:57,629 --> 00:40:59,995
Very well. Shall we start the bidding?

520
00:41:00,065 --> 00:41:02,525
$50,000.

521
00:41:02,601 --> 00:41:04,228
$50,000?

522
00:41:04,303 --> 00:41:05,964
$75,000

523
00:41:06,038 --> 00:41:07,505
Do I hear $80,000?

524
00:41:07,573 --> 00:41:09,507
$85,000. $85,000.

525
00:41:09,575 --> 00:41:12,271
$90,000. $90,000 to the gentleman in the back.

526
00:41:12,344 --> 00:41:14,335
$95,000. $95,000.

527
00:41:14,413 --> 00:41:16,244
$96,000. $96,000.

528
00:41:16,315 --> 00:41:19,216
$98,000. $98,000 in the back row.

529
00:41:19,284 --> 00:41:20,774
Do I hear a $100,000? MAN: $100,000.

530
00:41:20,852 --> 00:41:22,877
ROCKFORD: $100,000. $101,000.

531
00:41:23,555 --> 00:41:26,251
$101,000? ROCKFORD: $101,000.

532
00:41:26,325 --> 00:41:28,054
$102,000.

533
00:41:28,126 --> 00:41:31,584
MAN: $105,000. ROCKFORD: $105,000.

534
00:41:32,231 --> 00:41:34,631
$108,000. ROCKFORD: $108,000.

535
00:41:36,101 --> 00:41:39,559
$1 10,000. $1 10,000. $1 10,000.

536
00:41:39,638 --> 00:41:42,869
$1 1 1,000. That's got to be the guy.

537
00:41:45,577 --> 00:41:48,740
$1 1 2,000. That's got to be the guy.

538
00:41:49,281 --> 00:41:50,612
Do I hear $1 15,000?

539
00:42:00,892 --> 00:42:04,350
$1 15,000? $1 15,000? We have $1 1 2,000.

540
00:42:05,030 --> 00:42:07,362
We have $1 1 2,000. Let's hear $1 13,000.

541
00:42:07,432 --> 00:42:08,490
$1 20,000.

542
00:42:08,567 --> 00:42:11,434
$1 20,000 from the gentleman in the back.

543
00:42:11,503 --> 00:42:13,494
Do I hear $1 25,000?

544
00:42:13,572 --> 00:42:17,372
$1 25000? $1 25,000? We have 1 20,000.

545
00:42:17,442 --> 00:42:20,934
Let's hear $1 23,000. $1 23,000. $1 21,000.

546
00:42:21,847 --> 00:42:23,872
It's gonna go for $1 20,000.

547
00:42:27,352 --> 00:42:30,344
Very well, $1 20,000 going once,

548
00:42:31,256 --> 00:42:33,520
$1 20,000 going twice,

549
00:42:34,092 --> 00:42:36,117
$1 20... One minute, please.

550
00:42:36,461 --> 00:42:38,929
Police officer. Sir, please remain in your seat.

551
00:42:44,536 --> 00:42:47,061
Come on, let's go. Get out of here.

552
00:43:09,328 --> 00:43:12,354
How do you like this? His name is Thomas Snowcroft.

553
00:43:12,431 --> 00:43:15,628
He's in charge of development in this area for Westco.

554
00:43:15,701 --> 00:43:17,066
The Westco?

555
00:43:17,736 --> 00:43:20,796
They got gas stations every two, every two blocks.

556
00:43:20,872 --> 00:43:22,840
I've had a credit card with them for years.

557
00:43:22,908 --> 00:43:24,808
Murder isn't their corporate policy.

558
00:43:24,876 --> 00:43:28,539
Snowcroft is in development, so he has a quota to fill.

559
00:43:28,613 --> 00:43:31,707
I'm sure the strong-arm methods were his own brainstorm.

560
00:43:32,017 --> 00:43:35,976
Westco. The only ones that still do your windshield.

561
00:43:39,991 --> 00:43:42,619
ROCKFORD: Ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to thank you

562
00:43:42,694 --> 00:43:45,094
for driving all the way out here.

563
00:43:45,163 --> 00:43:50,032
Before we reopen the bidding, I'd like to point out that this little gauge right here

564
00:43:50,369 --> 00:43:53,600
says 7,000 pounds per square inch.

565
00:43:53,672 --> 00:43:56,106
So I'll have to ask you not to smoke.

566
00:44:08,253 --> 00:44:11,279
Ladies and gentlemen, the bidding is now reopened.

567
00:44:11,356 --> 00:44:13,847
$500,000!

568
00:44:28,840 --> 00:44:31,604
All right. Cheers.

569
00:44:36,381 --> 00:44:39,475
Oh, Mr. Rockford. Mr. Rockford. You were right. This is Al.

570
00:44:39,551 --> 00:44:40,745
You were right. He came back.

571
00:44:42,988 --> 00:44:44,319
Have a drink, Al.

572
00:44:46,458 --> 00:44:49,586
Well, Mr. O'Malley? No hard feelings, huh?

573
00:44:49,661 --> 00:44:51,788
No. I ought to thank you.

574
00:44:51,897 --> 00:44:55,298
Except for the way the police chopped up my shelter with their jackhammer.

575
00:44:55,367 --> 00:44:58,700
Well, I'll have it fixed in a few days. Make it even stronger.

576
00:44:58,770 --> 00:45:00,431
I'll drink to that.

577
00:45:01,339 --> 00:45:04,308
Hey, hey, sonny. Come on down here.

578
00:45:04,376 --> 00:45:06,867
Let's get our picture taken. All right. Mr. O'Malley.

579
00:45:06,945 --> 00:45:09,413
Where, right here? With my lawyer. Yeah.

580
00:45:09,481 --> 00:45:10,971
Where? Here?

581
00:45:11,783 --> 00:45:13,978
All right. Thank you.

582
00:45:14,052 --> 00:45:16,953
Say, how well did we do? Has anybody figured it out?

583
00:45:17,355 --> 00:45:20,324
Well, let's figure on 1,000 barrels a day, okay?

584
00:45:20,392 --> 00:45:21,654
That's reasonable.

585
00:45:21,726 --> 00:45:24,661
All right, at $1 2 a barrel, that's $1 2,000.

586
00:45:24,729 --> 00:45:26,924
You figure maybe 10 wells,

587
00:45:26,998 --> 00:45:28,989
$1 20,000.

588
00:45:29,067 --> 00:45:34,027
Now the operator gets 30o/o and 35o/o goes to each of you.

589
00:45:34,105 --> 00:45:37,165
Which would be $42,000 a piece.

590
00:45:37,242 --> 00:45:39,938
$42,000. That's pretty good.

591
00:45:40,011 --> 00:45:42,844
You know it's funny, someway I had the thought that

592
00:45:42,914 --> 00:45:46,406
it might be more, the way everybody's carrying on and everything.

593
00:45:46,485 --> 00:45:50,080
Dad, that's $42,000 per day.

594
00:45:50,255 --> 00:45:54,624
$42,000... For each of us.

595
00:45:55,494 --> 00:45:58,019
That's before expenses. Oh, naturally. And taxes.

596
00:45:58,096 --> 00:46:00,121
That goes without saying.

597
00:46:00,932 --> 00:46:03,127
I think I need some more champagne.

598
00:46:03,835 --> 00:46:05,029
Oh, boy.

599
00:46:06,738 --> 00:46:09,707
Hey, look, Dad, I want to talk to you about something.

600
00:46:09,774 --> 00:46:12,208
Now when we agreed, you know,

601
00:46:12,277 --> 00:46:15,508
that we were going to be partners, we were talking about a few hundred dollars.

602
00:46:15,580 --> 00:46:19,914
Maybe a few thousand, if we got lucky. But it's an awful lot of money

603
00:46:19,985 --> 00:46:23,751
and it just isn't right. Of course, it's right, sonny.

604
00:46:23,822 --> 00:46:27,724
It couldn't be righter. If it wasn't for you, I wouldn't have anything.

605
00:46:28,226 --> 00:46:32,219
And even if we hadn't been so lucky, the past few days,

606
00:46:32,364 --> 00:46:35,458
well, working together, you and me,

607
00:46:36,368 --> 00:46:39,769
I tell you, it beats fishing. It sure does.

608
00:46:41,306 --> 00:46:44,275
Hey, Wally. Wally Link. Come on over here. Have some champagne.

609
00:46:44,342 --> 00:46:45,775
Champagne for Wally.

610
00:46:45,844 --> 00:46:48,813
Hey, Wally, this is my father, Joseph Rockford. Hi.

611
00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:52,008
And this is my attorney, Beth Davenport. How do you do?

612
00:46:52,083 --> 00:46:55,575
Wally's the USGS officer that issued our lease for us.

613
00:46:55,654 --> 00:46:58,851
Yeah. Parcel 334. When did you sink that well?

614
00:46:58,924 --> 00:47:01,586
We didn't. Somebody else drilled it and then capped it.

615
00:47:01,660 --> 00:47:04,094
But still, it came in before you sold it.

616
00:47:04,162 --> 00:47:06,687
Oh, quite a while ago. We were lucky.

617
00:47:06,765 --> 00:47:09,563
But you see, I didn't issue that lease till yesterday.

618
00:47:09,634 --> 00:47:11,795
Does it matter? Yeah, it does.

619
00:47:11,903 --> 00:47:14,804
The reason the BLM sends me those leases in the first place

620
00:47:14,873 --> 00:47:19,606
is for me to verify that there's no proven geologicaI structure on that land.

621
00:47:19,711 --> 00:47:24,444
I checked it out, but I didn't notice the well, the way it was hidden.

622
00:47:25,216 --> 00:47:26,410
I don't get it.

623
00:47:26,484 --> 00:47:27,746
Well, uh...

624
00:47:28,420 --> 00:47:30,945
The only reason the government gives those leases away

625
00:47:31,022 --> 00:47:33,490
instead of selling them is to encourage people

626
00:47:33,558 --> 00:47:35,958
to drill where nobody knows that there's oil.

627
00:47:36,027 --> 00:47:41,090
I mean, if an area's already producing, that's another matter.

628
00:47:41,166 --> 00:47:44,863
I think what he's saying is the lease wasn't yours to sell.

629
00:47:45,937 --> 00:47:48,963
I'm afraid that is what I'm saying.

630
00:47:49,040 --> 00:47:51,941
MAN: Is there a Mr. Rockford here? I'm sorry.

631
00:47:52,510 --> 00:47:53,636
MAN: Mr. Rockford?

632
00:47:53,712 --> 00:47:56,203
Thanks for the champagne. Mr. Rockford?

633
00:47:56,281 --> 00:47:58,579
Yeah, sure, Wally. You're welcome.

634
00:47:58,650 --> 00:48:01,312
MAN: One of you folks named Mr. Rockford?

635
00:48:01,386 --> 00:48:04,719
I have a bill here for $192 for champagne.

636
00:48:09,160 --> 00:48:10,991
Partners. Yeah.