1 00:00:24,050 --> 00:00:25,050 Sir. 2 00:00:28,850 --> 00:00:29,808 Hold it. 3 00:00:29,810 --> 00:00:31,010 Huh? Cut. 4 00:00:33,170 --> 00:00:34,190 Just a minute, Leon. 5 00:00:35,830 --> 00:00:38,750 I think you're crossing to the sofa a little too late. 6 00:00:38,990 --> 00:00:42,610 But, Nigel, if I haven't seen the hand yet, why would I go over there? 7 00:00:43,210 --> 00:00:44,210 To sit down. 8 00:00:45,050 --> 00:00:46,170 Oh, you want me to sit? 9 00:00:47,650 --> 00:00:48,910 Sam, do you want to take five? 10 00:00:49,130 --> 00:00:50,130 Thank you, Nigel. 11 00:00:50,950 --> 00:00:51,990 Leon, my dear fellow. 12 00:00:52,410 --> 00:00:55,830 If you go over to sit, it will be much easier for you to spot the hat. 13 00:00:57,030 --> 00:00:59,210 More discussion. 14 00:01:00,010 --> 00:01:01,010 More discussion. 15 00:01:35,150 --> 00:01:38,210 I assure you that my brother is very prompt, Miss Aldridge. 16 00:01:39,010 --> 00:01:40,090 Call me Tawny. 17 00:01:41,250 --> 00:01:43,090 That should be easy enough to remember. 18 00:01:43,610 --> 00:01:46,410 You won't mind spending the next month in the Bahamas? 19 00:01:47,430 --> 00:01:48,430 I'm up for that. 20 00:01:49,390 --> 00:01:52,950 I'm afraid during that time I'm going to have to insist you stay very close to 21 00:01:52,950 --> 00:01:53,950 me. 22 00:01:54,150 --> 00:01:55,150 White paper. 23 00:01:56,130 --> 00:01:57,130 Hey, Rick. 24 00:01:57,670 --> 00:01:58,730 Oh, A .J. 25 00:01:59,470 --> 00:02:01,670 This is Tawny Aldridge. 26 00:02:02,170 --> 00:02:04,650 Hi. How do you do? She, she. 27 00:02:05,100 --> 00:02:09,660 funds treasure dives, and she wants to hire us to locate a shipwreck off the 28 00:02:09,660 --> 00:02:10,979 coast of the Bahamas. 29 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:14,920 Would you excuse us just a moment? One second. We'll be right back. Let's just 30 00:02:14,920 --> 00:02:17,200 eat that hell out of divorce work or what. 31 00:02:17,860 --> 00:02:21,080 Rick, I've got to take a three -week leave of absence. 32 00:02:21,420 --> 00:02:24,680 You mean like right after we get back from the Bahamas? No, I mean right after 33 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:27,680 we get back from lunch today. This is very important to me, Rick. 34 00:02:27,920 --> 00:02:28,879 What? 35 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:33,220 Do you have any idea how much he's going to pay us to do this? You'll just have 36 00:02:33,220 --> 00:02:34,220 to go without me. 37 00:02:34,510 --> 00:02:39,010 In that case... No, wait, no. No, I'm sorry. Oh, don't be sorry. I'm ready to 38 00:02:39,010 --> 00:02:42,870 devote full time to this, really. This is a job for two operatives. I can talk 39 00:02:42,870 --> 00:02:46,050 him into this. The Parnell agency guaranteed me to. 40 00:02:46,550 --> 00:02:50,010 I know all of his weaknesses. You give me one hour and I... I 41 00:02:50,010 --> 00:02:55,810 appreciate your making the sacrifice, Rick. 42 00:02:56,110 --> 00:02:57,110 Oh, no. 43 00:02:57,670 --> 00:03:00,030 It's a human sacrifice I'm going to be making. 44 00:03:00,570 --> 00:03:01,770 I want to show you something. 45 00:03:03,020 --> 00:03:04,020 I want to tell you something. 46 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:11,120 And remember... It's important to me. 47 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:19,000 Lose weight and gain friends. 48 00:03:19,460 --> 00:03:21,180 No. No, right there. 49 00:03:23,520 --> 00:03:28,080 Andrew Jackson Simon's new play, Cloak of Danger, will be presented... You 50 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:29,320 a play? Yeah, you want to read it? 51 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:34,880 I want to go to the Bahamas with Pawnee and you're telling me I can't do it 52 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:35,880 because of danger? 53 00:03:38,060 --> 00:03:39,980 Jackson rises and crosses left. 54 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:46,300 He smiles with renewed vigor and yet darkly. 55 00:03:47,500 --> 00:03:49,920 He knows he can never forget what has happened here. 56 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:55,840 He takes a deep breath and walks his prisoner to the door. 57 00:03:58,380 --> 00:03:59,380 Curtains. 58 00:04:00,590 --> 00:04:01,590 The end. 59 00:04:08,310 --> 00:04:09,470 That's it. 60 00:04:10,330 --> 00:04:13,290 Oh, thank you, A .J. It was wonderful. 61 00:04:14,350 --> 00:04:21,329 It was really, really... It must have... 62 00:04:21,329 --> 00:04:25,770 I mean, it's a lot of work there. How long did it take you to write all that 63 00:04:25,770 --> 00:04:27,590 stuff? Well, I've... 64 00:04:28,840 --> 00:04:33,380 I've been working on it off and on for a couple of years, and I read about the 65 00:04:33,380 --> 00:04:36,480 play contest, and I decided to take a chance. 66 00:04:36,780 --> 00:04:43,060 Well, it certainly... I mean, it's so full of... I like that scene 67 00:04:43,060 --> 00:04:44,520 where... Which? 68 00:04:44,780 --> 00:04:46,220 I don't remember the exact. 69 00:04:46,540 --> 00:04:49,140 Honey, one thing occurs to me. 70 00:04:49,500 --> 00:04:51,140 Don't you think it's a little long? 71 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:52,400 A little long? 72 00:04:55,840 --> 00:04:56,840 Okay. 73 00:04:58,160 --> 00:04:59,180 Let's get this over with. 74 00:04:59,620 --> 00:05:00,780 What did you think of it? 75 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:07,760 Well, A .J., it's the Snyder case. 76 00:05:08,140 --> 00:05:11,560 Obviously. But you got the ending all wrong. We didn't solve that one. 77 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:16,440 Rick. There was no nude painting, and the brother was never a suspect. 78 00:05:17,420 --> 00:05:19,160 Rick. We never even questioned the brother. 79 00:05:20,120 --> 00:05:24,380 Rick, it's not a documentary. It's a piece of imaginative literature. 80 00:05:24,620 --> 00:05:26,000 It's a piece of... Rick. 81 00:05:28,360 --> 00:05:32,600 The Snyder case bothered me for eight years. I decided to do something 82 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:33,600 with that frustration. 83 00:05:34,420 --> 00:05:36,060 What? I wrote a play. 84 00:05:37,080 --> 00:05:39,620 And I think that's a damn good way of dealing with it. 85 00:05:39,900 --> 00:05:41,540 Of course it is, honey. 86 00:05:41,880 --> 00:05:44,040 If it's too long and it bored you, I'm sorry. 87 00:05:44,440 --> 00:05:45,660 I didn't say that. 88 00:05:47,100 --> 00:05:50,640 At least somebody down at the theater thinks I can write. And that drives you 89 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:55,000 crazy because it's something I did without you. Oh, come on, AJ. AJ, wait a 90 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:55,759 minute now. 91 00:05:55,760 --> 00:05:56,760 Hey. 92 00:06:02,670 --> 00:06:03,670 mean it that way. 93 00:06:03,910 --> 00:06:07,250 All right, why don't we read through this whatever. 94 00:06:08,070 --> 00:06:09,170 Harriet, off you go, darling. 95 00:06:10,910 --> 00:06:14,310 Here comes my husband's Uncle Andrew. 96 00:06:14,610 --> 00:06:15,990 He'll want something hot. 97 00:06:16,550 --> 00:06:17,810 He's Scottish, you know. 98 00:06:18,770 --> 00:06:20,410 Right. Bye, doll. 99 00:06:21,270 --> 00:06:23,350 Perfect, darling. Then there's a knock at the door. 100 00:06:24,250 --> 00:06:25,209 Excuse me. 101 00:06:25,210 --> 00:06:27,730 Leave your picture and your resume at the front office. 102 00:06:27,970 --> 00:06:29,190 This play is already cast. 103 00:06:29,450 --> 00:06:30,950 No, I wanted to watch. 104 00:06:32,120 --> 00:06:33,460 I'm afraid I can't allow that. 105 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:38,420 I remember I did a production of Ghosts at the Theatre Warehouse in New York, 106 00:06:38,460 --> 00:06:40,440 and I allowed everybody to come to the rehearsal. 107 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:42,820 Well, the results were absolutely ghastly. 108 00:06:44,700 --> 00:06:45,760 I'm A .J. Simon. 109 00:06:47,620 --> 00:06:50,460 I... I'm the playwright. 110 00:06:51,740 --> 00:06:55,200 Oh, I see. I'm sorry. I'm Nigel Casey, the director. 111 00:06:55,990 --> 00:07:01,770 You have written a glorious romp through every bad theatrical cliché known to 112 00:07:01,770 --> 00:07:08,370 man. Romp? And I want you to know that I adore absolutely every obvious word of 113 00:07:08,370 --> 00:07:10,390 it. Why don't you meet the strolling players? 114 00:07:10,630 --> 00:07:14,910 This is our leading lady, Harriet Poolebrook. Hi. How do you do? How do 115 00:07:15,470 --> 00:07:18,930 The character you've written is very, um, interesting. 116 00:07:19,430 --> 00:07:23,010 Uh, I excel at playing one -dimensional people. 117 00:07:24,760 --> 00:07:27,220 This is Leon Schwartz. He will play McTavish. 118 00:07:27,460 --> 00:07:28,460 Of course. 119 00:07:28,760 --> 00:07:29,619 Don't worry. 120 00:07:29,620 --> 00:07:30,620 I'll make it work. 121 00:07:32,520 --> 00:07:33,520 Thorne Hudson. 122 00:07:34,840 --> 00:07:38,240 Thorne will essay the role of the wily detective Jackson. You wrote this? 123 00:07:38,540 --> 00:07:41,880 Yes. You must be very... tired. 124 00:07:45,880 --> 00:07:47,620 I'm Cal. I play the dead guy. 125 00:07:48,520 --> 00:07:52,660 Yes, right. Hi. Yes, Cal is filling in for an actor who walked out without so 126 00:07:52,660 --> 00:07:53,680 much as a buy or leave. 127 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:57,400 Nigel. And I personally will make sure that he never works in this hemisphere 128 00:07:57,400 --> 00:07:59,040 again. Nigel, your blood pressure. 129 00:07:59,340 --> 00:08:00,340 Thank you, darling. 130 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:02,380 And this is, um... I'm so sorry. 131 00:08:03,260 --> 00:08:04,260 Bean. 132 00:08:04,740 --> 00:08:05,740 Cindy Bean. 133 00:08:07,380 --> 00:08:08,380 I done it. 134 00:08:12,580 --> 00:08:17,660 Now, if you'll be kind enough to sit down, and please do not interrupt us 135 00:08:23,880 --> 00:08:25,660 Okay, from your entrance, Leon. 136 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:26,960 Right, right. 137 00:08:27,240 --> 00:08:29,880 Do you want me to start coughing before I go through the door? 138 00:08:30,200 --> 00:08:34,600 Yes. Oh, and Leon, really ham it up. Give us about 30 seconds of coughing and 139 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:36,940 spluttering. I think it'll be very funny. Ah, okay, fine. 140 00:08:37,360 --> 00:08:38,520 Uh, excuse me. 141 00:08:40,440 --> 00:08:42,740 Is this a good time for questions? 142 00:08:43,980 --> 00:08:48,540 The coughing isn't supposed to be funny. See, the character that... 143 00:08:48,810 --> 00:08:52,690 Tavish, it's based on actually died of a very severe bronchial infection not 144 00:08:52,690 --> 00:08:53,690 long after this. 145 00:08:54,030 --> 00:08:55,030 Fascinating. 146 00:08:55,730 --> 00:08:57,750 Would you mind if we talked about this later? 147 00:08:58,130 --> 00:08:59,370 Yeah, sure. 148 00:08:59,850 --> 00:09:00,850 Sorry. 149 00:09:03,670 --> 00:09:04,670 Continue, Leo. 150 00:09:05,550 --> 00:09:10,770 Oh, um... Um... Where's my nephew, woman? 151 00:09:11,130 --> 00:09:15,310 I come to you with a purpose in mind, and that is to visit with my nephew. 152 00:09:16,210 --> 00:09:17,210 Produce him at once. 153 00:09:19,280 --> 00:09:24,280 I'll see if I can find him. I think he's in the garage polishing his knives. 154 00:09:24,500 --> 00:09:25,500 Garage, darling. 155 00:09:27,540 --> 00:09:28,540 Garage? 156 00:09:28,860 --> 00:09:29,860 Garage. 157 00:09:30,180 --> 00:09:34,740 I think he's in the garage polishing his knives. 158 00:09:35,100 --> 00:09:36,160 She exits. 159 00:09:36,640 --> 00:09:39,640 McTavish stumbles over the body of his dead nephew. 160 00:09:40,380 --> 00:09:42,040 That's you, Cal. Okay. 161 00:09:42,620 --> 00:09:45,380 Congratulations, Cal. You're the first one off the book. 162 00:09:46,140 --> 00:09:47,580 Show business is my life. 163 00:09:49,100 --> 00:09:55,080 Uh, Leon, uh, when you find the body, trip over it in a really big pratfall. 164 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:56,880 good. Oh, that'll be funny. 165 00:09:57,280 --> 00:09:58,940 Uh, excuse me. 166 00:10:00,560 --> 00:10:07,540 Uh, Baxter was McTavish's nearest relative, and the shock of 167 00:10:07,540 --> 00:10:10,000 finding him dead very nearly killed this man. I mean, there's nothing funny 168 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:11,000 about this scene. 169 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:15,980 Kevin, will you save this poor playwright's life? 170 00:10:16,300 --> 00:10:17,980 Remove him from my rehearsal. 171 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:28,080 Thank you, Liam. 172 00:10:28,140 --> 00:10:29,140 There you go. 173 00:10:29,640 --> 00:10:31,240 Okay. Thank you. 174 00:10:34,040 --> 00:10:37,120 I've got nothing to worry about. Your play is hilarious. 175 00:10:37,760 --> 00:10:39,340 It's not supposed to be. 176 00:10:39,620 --> 00:10:40,680 Who are you kidding? 177 00:10:41,020 --> 00:10:44,240 You've made use of every hoary cliché since Beaumont and Fletcher. 178 00:10:44,700 --> 00:10:47,960 You must have done 15 years of summer stock to come up with that many 179 00:10:47,960 --> 00:10:48,599 hackneyed... No, wait. 180 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:49,600 It's time. 181 00:10:52,460 --> 00:10:53,480 This play... 182 00:10:54,140 --> 00:10:57,900 is based on an actual murder case, a brutal murder case. 183 00:10:58,140 --> 00:10:59,860 The end of a man's life. 184 00:11:00,500 --> 00:11:04,900 Oh, and you'll love this. Since the play is so Agatha Christie, you could gag on 185 00:11:04,900 --> 00:11:10,480 it. The costume designer's doing the whole play in the 1920s. Could you die? 186 00:11:11,060 --> 00:11:13,960 No. Yes, I mean, I could. That's awful. No, it's wrong. 187 00:11:14,900 --> 00:11:20,660 Look, the... The play is set in 1982. 188 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:23,340 San Diego, 1982. 189 00:11:25,880 --> 00:11:27,900 Your play is very good. 190 00:11:28,180 --> 00:11:29,880 We wouldn't be doing it otherwise. 191 00:11:31,620 --> 00:11:34,300 Nigel always puts his own spin on a play. 192 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:39,860 When he directed Oklahoma, he reset it in 10th century Persia. 193 00:11:40,760 --> 00:11:42,280 10th century Persia? 194 00:11:42,660 --> 00:11:43,660 Yeah. 195 00:11:44,700 --> 00:11:48,280 They were jiving you over the rehearsal. You took it very well. 196 00:11:49,930 --> 00:11:51,190 I was about to have a heart attack. 197 00:11:52,270 --> 00:11:55,010 You can't take yourself too seriously in this business. 198 00:11:55,810 --> 00:11:58,170 You've got to develop a thick skin if you're going to survive. 199 00:11:58,750 --> 00:11:59,750 Try. 200 00:12:00,730 --> 00:12:02,930 I've worked with a lot of first -time playwrights. 201 00:12:03,830 --> 00:12:05,870 You mean I'm not the first one to feel this way? 202 00:12:07,130 --> 00:12:08,450 Maybe Sophocles was. 203 00:12:09,490 --> 00:12:10,990 Wait till it gets on its feet. 204 00:12:11,830 --> 00:12:15,550 When you can see your words, your ideas walking around on that stage. 205 00:12:16,350 --> 00:12:18,230 It's like a window into another world. 206 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:24,880 A world full of sights and smells, people, feelings. 207 00:12:26,220 --> 00:12:27,960 A world you created, A .J. 208 00:12:32,440 --> 00:12:36,800 Here comes my husband's Uncle Andrew. 209 00:12:37,160 --> 00:12:38,460 He'll want something hot. 210 00:12:38,700 --> 00:12:39,820 He's got it, you know. 211 00:12:40,900 --> 00:12:41,900 Right. 212 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:43,320 Bye, doll. 213 00:12:57,770 --> 00:12:59,810 and mine is to visit with my nephew. 214 00:13:00,690 --> 00:13:01,690 Produce him at once. 215 00:13:02,070 --> 00:13:05,930 I think he's in the garage polishing his knives. 216 00:13:06,190 --> 00:13:07,830 I'll see if I can find him. 217 00:13:08,130 --> 00:13:12,050 Okay, let's take it from the top. Everybody but Harriet, take five. 218 00:13:12,690 --> 00:13:13,690 Leon, 219 00:13:13,990 --> 00:13:15,050 that was good. That was good. 220 00:13:15,850 --> 00:13:16,850 Harriet, 221 00:13:18,110 --> 00:13:20,690 darling, you're not being anywhere near nasty. 222 00:13:21,050 --> 00:13:23,950 I'm trying, Nigel, but I can't find him. What are you doing here? 223 00:13:25,810 --> 00:13:29,070 We came to watch rehearsal. This is so exciting. 224 00:13:31,730 --> 00:13:34,130 I've heard of humble beginnings, but this is ridiculous. 225 00:13:34,490 --> 00:13:36,830 Both of them have to sit down and be quiet. 226 00:13:37,110 --> 00:13:38,710 Whose turn is it to pass out the animals? 227 00:13:39,910 --> 00:13:42,210 What the hell is going on in my rehearsal? 228 00:13:43,350 --> 00:13:45,810 Nothing. It's just my mother and brother. 229 00:13:47,090 --> 00:13:49,190 Well, shut them up or get them the hell out. 230 00:13:51,880 --> 00:13:55,260 Now, if you end it if you've just heard a good joke, the audience will assume 231 00:13:55,260 --> 00:13:56,260 that you killed him. 232 00:13:56,500 --> 00:13:57,540 They'll hate you. 233 00:13:57,780 --> 00:13:58,780 Is that good? 234 00:13:59,220 --> 00:14:01,760 It's very marvelous. Excuse me, Mr. Casey? 235 00:14:02,120 --> 00:14:03,120 Oh, my God. 236 00:14:03,780 --> 00:14:06,020 I'm Cecilia Simon, the playwright's mother. 237 00:14:06,280 --> 00:14:11,760 Fortunately, madam, that is not my problem. I saw your production of 238 00:14:11,760 --> 00:14:13,420 Night's Dream four times. 239 00:14:13,700 --> 00:14:18,300 Bless your heart. Now, if you'll... I've appeared in many community theater 240 00:14:18,300 --> 00:14:20,620 productions. I even played Titania once. 241 00:14:21,180 --> 00:14:22,280 What shattering news. 242 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:26,880 Now, madam, if you insist on walking down memory lane, I wish you'd do it 243 00:14:26,880 --> 00:14:28,840 outside, because we're very busy. 244 00:14:30,920 --> 00:14:34,020 Let's take it from Leon's entrance. Take it back a couple of lines. 245 00:14:41,100 --> 00:14:42,720 He's a real S .O .B. 246 00:14:44,800 --> 00:14:47,840 Here comes my husband, Uncle Andrew. 247 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:50,080 He'll want something hot. He... 248 00:14:50,330 --> 00:14:51,330 Scottish, you know. 249 00:14:51,790 --> 00:14:53,110 All right. 250 00:14:53,770 --> 00:14:54,770 Well, bye -bye, doll. 251 00:15:00,930 --> 00:15:02,330 It's your entrance, Leon. 252 00:15:43,150 --> 00:15:47,970 opened the door, and the next thing I knew, he was lying there, dead. 253 00:15:48,230 --> 00:15:49,350 And you didn't see anything? 254 00:15:50,430 --> 00:15:51,430 Nothing. 255 00:15:51,910 --> 00:15:53,250 How well did you know him? 256 00:15:54,970 --> 00:15:57,950 Well, Leon and I had been in many shows together. 257 00:15:58,470 --> 00:15:59,790 He was like family. 258 00:16:00,250 --> 00:16:01,250 Any enemies? 259 00:16:01,990 --> 00:16:03,910 No. Everybody loved Leon. 260 00:16:05,430 --> 00:16:08,670 Except, um, I don't know if I should mention this. 261 00:16:08,890 --> 00:16:09,890 No, go on. 262 00:16:10,590 --> 00:16:11,590 Sidney Bean. 263 00:16:12,460 --> 00:16:17,020 He and Leon had a falling out over a woman two years ago. 264 00:16:17,420 --> 00:16:20,400 Well, Sidney can be kind of crazy. 265 00:16:21,180 --> 00:16:26,400 I'm not saying he'd kill Leon or anything like that. It's just, well, I 266 00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:27,319 thought I'd mention it. 267 00:16:27,320 --> 00:16:28,320 Okay. 268 00:16:28,600 --> 00:16:29,660 Thanks for your help. 269 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:33,000 Be careful around here, especially at night. 270 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:35,480 Thanks. I'll try. 271 00:16:38,700 --> 00:16:39,720 Is that everybody? 272 00:16:40,060 --> 00:16:41,600 Um, not quite. 273 00:16:43,850 --> 00:16:44,850 Remember us? 274 00:16:46,010 --> 00:16:48,790 I'm not going to even ask what you're doing here. 275 00:16:49,790 --> 00:16:54,210 Because I know you will tell me some outlandish lie, and then I'll have to 276 00:16:54,330 --> 00:16:56,450 come on, guys, this is a murder investigation. 277 00:16:56,810 --> 00:16:59,090 And then you'll say... I wrote the play. 278 00:16:59,570 --> 00:17:00,590 You're going to make me do this. 279 00:17:01,270 --> 00:17:03,890 I wrote the play. 280 00:17:04,250 --> 00:17:06,190 Okay, you wrote the play. 281 00:17:06,430 --> 00:17:08,730 Darla made the curtains. Spanky sold the tickets. 282 00:17:09,650 --> 00:17:10,650 Not funny. 283 00:17:10,750 --> 00:17:11,810 You bet it isn't. 284 00:17:12,140 --> 00:17:15,640 Because everybody was so busy rehearsing, they didn't notice a man get 285 00:17:15,640 --> 00:17:16,319 to death. 286 00:17:16,319 --> 00:17:19,420 The back door of the theater was open. No one could tell me who came or went. 287 00:17:19,680 --> 00:17:22,980 And on top of it, I get the two of you at the scene of the crime. 288 00:17:23,319 --> 00:17:26,180 Oh, come on, Abby. Don't you think he feels bad enough? He wrote the play. 289 00:17:28,580 --> 00:17:32,660 Look, I'm sorry, A .J. I didn't mean to... All right. 290 00:17:34,300 --> 00:17:35,520 I know what I have to do. 291 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:43,800 I don't want it produced. 292 00:17:46,900 --> 00:17:47,900 The play? 293 00:17:48,960 --> 00:17:50,120 You don't want it produced? 294 00:17:50,840 --> 00:17:52,240 Are you out of your mind? 295 00:17:52,860 --> 00:17:54,260 I am Nigel Casey. 296 00:17:55,820 --> 00:17:56,820 We've met. 297 00:17:56,940 --> 00:17:59,960 Your play is about to become a Nigel Casey play. 298 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:04,160 My play will become nothing. It will become a manuscript gathering dust on my 299 00:18:04,160 --> 00:18:05,960 bookshelf. My dear boy. 300 00:18:06,180 --> 00:18:08,160 No, a man has been killed. 301 00:18:08,700 --> 00:18:10,160 Nigel knows that, A .J. 302 00:18:10,540 --> 00:18:11,960 We all knew Leon. 303 00:18:12,670 --> 00:18:16,450 He was with us for six seasons, and believe me, we are heartbroken. 304 00:18:16,970 --> 00:18:21,210 This is how you show it? You've got to remember the window, the world you 305 00:18:21,210 --> 00:18:23,650 created. Killing that world is not going to bring back Leon. 306 00:18:23,890 --> 00:18:27,650 But I can't help feeling that a man was killed because he was in my play. 307 00:18:27,970 --> 00:18:30,910 He was killed because the theater is in a bad part of town. 308 00:18:31,630 --> 00:18:33,250 Leon wouldn't have wanted the play stopped. 309 00:18:33,910 --> 00:18:35,810 The show must go on, that's what he'd say. 310 00:18:36,390 --> 00:18:39,270 He was a trooper in the finest sense of the word. 311 00:18:39,510 --> 00:18:41,890 He died the way any actor would want to die. 312 00:18:43,180 --> 00:18:44,360 With a knife in his back? 313 00:18:45,860 --> 00:18:47,960 Writing the play was a wonderful idea. 314 00:18:48,340 --> 00:18:50,920 Oh, get real. I saw your face when I read it. 315 00:18:51,660 --> 00:18:52,700 I liked it. 316 00:18:52,900 --> 00:18:53,900 You were bored. 317 00:18:54,320 --> 00:18:56,760 Now, who am I kidding? I wrote a play. I wrote a bad play. 318 00:18:57,520 --> 00:19:01,060 People are tripping over each other, vying for the chance to tell me just how 319 00:19:01,060 --> 00:19:02,060 bad it is. 320 00:19:02,160 --> 00:19:03,160 Oh, A .J. 321 00:19:03,300 --> 00:19:06,100 Now a man is dead simply because he was in my play. 322 00:19:06,620 --> 00:19:08,680 Well, you have to finish what you started, A .J. 323 00:19:09,610 --> 00:19:12,610 You sound like the people at the theater. They sang me a chorus of 324 00:19:12,610 --> 00:19:14,930 Business Like Show Business and sent me on my way. 325 00:19:15,930 --> 00:19:19,890 I know you didn't like the way I reacted when you read us the play, but that 326 00:19:19,890 --> 00:19:21,810 doesn't mean I don't like what you're doing. 327 00:19:22,130 --> 00:19:23,130 I do. 328 00:19:24,130 --> 00:19:28,250 It takes one kind of courage to risk getting shot every day. 329 00:19:29,430 --> 00:19:34,870 It takes another kind to expose your creation to the public. 330 00:19:44,110 --> 00:19:45,970 I knew there was a reason I came over here. 331 00:19:47,010 --> 00:19:48,470 Get your brother to help you. 332 00:19:48,710 --> 00:19:49,710 What could he do? 333 00:19:49,850 --> 00:19:52,170 He could do what he's been doing all his adult life. 334 00:19:53,370 --> 00:19:54,370 Screwing things up? 335 00:19:54,410 --> 00:19:56,530 He could handle the security problems. 336 00:19:57,050 --> 00:19:58,110 He hates the play. 337 00:19:59,290 --> 00:20:01,990 Maybe he wouldn't hate it so much if he were included. 338 00:20:05,210 --> 00:20:06,210 Well? 339 00:20:08,490 --> 00:20:11,910 Forget it, I shouldn't have asked. 340 00:20:12,919 --> 00:20:16,980 Face it, A .J., Cloak of Danger blew in on a bad win. First of all, it came 341 00:20:16,980 --> 00:20:19,660 between me and a woman I could have liked a lot. I said forget it. 342 00:20:19,880 --> 00:20:22,020 Parents could punish their children with that play. 343 00:20:22,840 --> 00:20:25,520 Why hold back? Why don't you just tell me what you really think? 344 00:20:25,780 --> 00:20:28,260 I think you've come up with a permanent cure for insomnia. 345 00:20:28,660 --> 00:20:29,660 Oh, fine. 346 00:20:31,100 --> 00:20:34,620 All I wanted was a little extra security during rehearsals. I could handle that 347 00:20:34,620 --> 00:20:37,600 myself, but not and be involved with the play at the same time. 348 00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:40,160 Kevin said they didn't want you to be involved. 349 00:20:45,340 --> 00:20:48,440 When did you... I wouldn't mind being involved with her. 350 00:20:49,020 --> 00:20:51,380 Beginning to understand your interest in the theater. 351 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:53,040 I saw her first. 352 00:20:53,300 --> 00:20:54,300 I am? 353 00:20:55,820 --> 00:20:59,460 Well, it appears that we might be able to strike a deal here. 354 00:21:01,980 --> 00:21:02,980 All right. 355 00:21:04,420 --> 00:21:11,300 I got a little royalty money for the play. I could... I 356 00:21:11,300 --> 00:21:13,020 could pay off some of your parking tickets. 357 00:21:16,190 --> 00:21:21,030 Well, that coupled with Kevin might be an enticement. But while you're at the 358 00:21:21,030 --> 00:21:24,510 theater, I have to ask you to be invisible. 359 00:21:25,190 --> 00:21:26,510 Soul of discretion. 360 00:21:30,410 --> 00:21:33,170 Is this one of those funny breakaway things that you guys build? 361 00:21:34,630 --> 00:21:35,630 I'm sorry. 362 00:21:37,090 --> 00:21:41,430 If that man ever speaks on my stage again... Drop him into the pit. 363 00:21:42,370 --> 00:21:43,370 Quietly. 364 00:21:44,860 --> 00:21:45,860 Uh -oh, Kevin. 365 00:21:46,040 --> 00:21:48,220 I think it's time for playwright patrol. 366 00:21:48,520 --> 00:21:49,520 Quickly, quickly. 367 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:53,560 All right, let's pick it up from the top of the scene again. 368 00:21:53,900 --> 00:21:54,900 Your brother's nice. 369 00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:56,760 A little forward, though. 370 00:21:56,960 --> 00:21:57,960 What do you do? 371 00:21:58,060 --> 00:21:59,720 Offered to take me for a ride in his Camaro. 372 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:02,400 His Camaro? You saw me first. 373 00:22:02,740 --> 00:22:03,740 That's what I told him. 374 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:05,840 You want to go next door and get some lunch? 375 00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:07,419 Yeah, sure. 376 00:22:07,420 --> 00:22:09,020 I never know what to get at that place. 377 00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:12,120 Rigatoni fajitas or tofu marinara. 378 00:22:12,340 --> 00:22:16,090 Oh! I also want to get your advice on some costume sketches. You mean somebody 379 00:22:16,090 --> 00:22:18,050 actually wants to get my opinion on something? 380 00:22:18,370 --> 00:22:19,810 Of course. You're the playwright. 381 00:22:20,370 --> 00:22:22,370 I see. You just want to get me out of the way. 382 00:22:22,610 --> 00:22:23,630 I want to get you alone. 383 00:22:24,350 --> 00:22:25,350 Oh. 384 00:22:25,470 --> 00:22:26,670 You put it that way. 385 00:22:26,930 --> 00:22:30,450 All right. Let's pick it up from you and your so -called brother. 386 00:22:31,370 --> 00:22:35,310 You and your so -called brother? 387 00:22:35,570 --> 00:22:37,370 Are you talking about me, man? 388 00:22:38,140 --> 00:22:42,880 Well, I have nothing to say to you. You are a symbol of capitalistic tyranny. 389 00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:44,740 I am an artist. 390 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:48,620 I create the very breath of life. 391 00:22:50,720 --> 00:22:54,780 There, you see? You've hurt my brother's feelings. He's very sensitive. 392 00:22:55,820 --> 00:22:59,700 I am exempt from the mores of this pathetic culture. 393 00:23:00,520 --> 00:23:03,520 Murder One's going to hang just as hard on you as anyone else. 394 00:23:03,740 --> 00:23:04,920 Oh, my brother won't. 395 00:23:05,500 --> 00:23:08,120 He is no more your brother than I am. 396 00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:15,480 Would a man paint this picture of his sister? Where did you 397 00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:17,780 get... Do you deny painting this picture? Of course not! 398 00:23:17,980 --> 00:23:19,180 It's my style! 399 00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:25,540 As anyone in civilized art circles could tell you, impossible to imitate. 400 00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:29,580 Then, by your own admission, you are not her brother. 401 00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:33,200 You are her first husband. 402 00:23:33,620 --> 00:23:34,620 No! 403 00:23:37,570 --> 00:23:44,290 Together, you plotted, pretending to be related for four years until you could 404 00:23:44,290 --> 00:23:47,750 murder your new husband and live together on the insurance money. 405 00:23:48,110 --> 00:23:49,190 I can't take this. 406 00:23:49,950 --> 00:23:53,030 What are you doing? My brother thinks he's Harold Pinner or something, but 407 00:23:53,030 --> 00:23:56,090 is just, it's ridiculous. Your character, for instance, what's his 408 00:23:56,090 --> 00:23:57,090 two stage managers. 409 00:23:57,530 --> 00:23:58,570 Richard Jackson. 410 00:23:58,770 --> 00:24:03,370 There. Richard is my first name. Jackson is my brother's middle name. You see 411 00:24:03,370 --> 00:24:04,369 how that works? 412 00:24:04,370 --> 00:24:05,450 Get off my stage. 413 00:24:06,020 --> 00:24:07,980 Hold your water. I was there. And your character? 414 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:12,340 What about her? Well, in real life, her name was Snyder. Not Baxter Snyder and 415 00:24:12,340 --> 00:24:15,160 the real Mrs. Snyder. Yeah, she had men coming out of the woodwork, all right, 416 00:24:15,180 --> 00:24:18,400 but she was subtle about it. You're playing it like some sort of a carnival 417 00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:20,000 bimbo. Who is this man? 418 00:24:20,220 --> 00:24:21,260 The playwright's brother. 419 00:24:21,580 --> 00:24:24,680 Well, I can't work with him here. He's got no right to talk to me that way. 420 00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:25,439 is the straw. 421 00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:26,440 This is the straw! 422 00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:29,860 Hey, look, if you don't want my advice, just say so. We don't want your advice. 423 00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:35,800 Just thought a little authenticity might help. 424 00:24:37,700 --> 00:24:38,700 All right. 425 00:24:38,780 --> 00:24:40,540 Let's take it from where we left off. 426 00:24:41,700 --> 00:24:42,700 Clear the house. 427 00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:45,880 Will you get off my... Clear the house. 428 00:24:46,140 --> 00:24:47,680 I said to you, get off my... 429 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:18,000 What the hell was that? 430 00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:21,960 Your play. 431 00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:34,119 No, wait. 432 00:25:34,120 --> 00:25:37,640 You're telling me there's no way that I can stop the performance of my own play? 433 00:25:37,820 --> 00:25:41,660 Will you calm down? Just try and relax. It was clearly homemade. It was three 434 00:25:41,660 --> 00:25:43,980 sticks and black tape, mag time, a couple of nine volts. 435 00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:45,480 Who do you think did it? A critic. 436 00:25:46,500 --> 00:25:49,560 Hey, they bought the rights to your play fair and square, and you spent the 437 00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:53,340 money. Excuse me, my brother spent the money. AJ, sit down. Don't get your 438 00:25:53,340 --> 00:25:55,500 shorts in his waist. I'm working on a theory here. Wonderful. 439 00:25:55,700 --> 00:25:59,000 Just what I needed, another one of your theories. What if somebody is trying to 440 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:01,000 scuttle Cloak of Danger because of the content? 441 00:26:01,360 --> 00:26:02,360 Why? What's it about? 442 00:26:02,540 --> 00:26:05,100 It's a fictionalized version of a case we couldn't solve. 443 00:26:06,100 --> 00:26:07,980 Our insurance company hired us. 444 00:26:08,700 --> 00:26:10,520 The man was murdered, bludgeoned to death. 445 00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:14,500 His wife was the beneficiary of a gigantic life insurance policy. 446 00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:17,680 Yeah, and she looked guilty as hell, but we never could prove anything. Yeah, a 447 00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:18,459 tight alibi. 448 00:26:18,460 --> 00:26:22,360 Oh, he dug up a few men she'd had affairs with. 449 00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:23,680 Yeah. 450 00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:28,020 The mailman, the meter reader, the stockbroker, the paperboy, they all had 451 00:26:28,020 --> 00:26:30,660 alibis. You know, that sounds like the Snyder case. 452 00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:33,040 It is a Snyder case. 453 00:26:34,460 --> 00:26:35,940 You guys worked on that? 454 00:26:37,020 --> 00:26:38,940 They're still talking about it over at Homicide. 455 00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:40,800 Textbook example of an unsolved murder. 456 00:26:41,140 --> 00:26:44,220 Yeah. Now, here's where the craft of the playwright comes in. 457 00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:45,440 Oh, shut up. 458 00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:50,900 A .J. turns Mrs. Snyder's brother into an artist. But what was he in real life? 459 00:26:51,100 --> 00:26:52,100 Plumber. 460 00:26:52,540 --> 00:26:54,340 Right, in Brooklyn. 461 00:26:54,860 --> 00:27:01,600 But in the play, the brother is actually an ex -husband who is exposed by a 462 00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:02,740 canvas that he paints. 463 00:27:02,980 --> 00:27:06,240 Now, maybe old Eugene O 'Neill here has solved the case without knowing it. 464 00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:09,060 Run a check on Mrs. Snyder and the brother. 465 00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:11,420 Sit down, Hanrahan. 466 00:27:11,740 --> 00:27:15,500 They're dead, both of them. Killed in the same skiing accident two years ago. 467 00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:17,460 The same skiing accident? 468 00:27:17,980 --> 00:27:20,500 Yeah. What about Mrs. Snyder's ex -husband? 469 00:27:20,780 --> 00:27:21,900 I made that part up. 470 00:27:22,580 --> 00:27:24,640 There is no ex -husband. Are you sure? 471 00:27:28,360 --> 00:27:29,360 No. 472 00:27:31,940 --> 00:27:33,820 Lester, this is Nigel. 473 00:27:34,740 --> 00:27:35,740 Nigel Casey. 474 00:27:36,610 --> 00:27:40,410 Lester, you've got to get me out of here. This play is absolute drivel. 475 00:27:40,770 --> 00:27:41,770 Drivel? 476 00:27:42,030 --> 00:27:45,470 Yeah, I know I read it, Lester, but you're my agent. You're supposed to 477 00:27:45,470 --> 00:27:46,470 me from drivel. 478 00:27:46,550 --> 00:27:48,510 Also from a playwright who carries a gun. 479 00:27:49,230 --> 00:27:51,950 And a leading lady who is a licensed snake charmer. 480 00:27:53,330 --> 00:27:56,390 To say nothing of actors who are being murdered one by one. 481 00:27:57,170 --> 00:27:58,730 No, I didn't do it, Lester. 482 00:27:59,090 --> 00:28:02,430 I haven't murdered an actor since my last wife tried to play Hamlet. 483 00:28:03,070 --> 00:28:04,970 Listen, I'll take anything. 484 00:28:05,450 --> 00:28:06,730 How about that job in Tampa? 485 00:28:07,630 --> 00:28:08,630 We lost it? 486 00:28:08,730 --> 00:28:11,090 The restoration comedy in the bowling alley? 487 00:28:11,810 --> 00:28:14,050 Yeah, oh, damn. How about Shakespeare in the park? 488 00:28:15,210 --> 00:28:16,210 Which park? 489 00:28:16,890 --> 00:28:18,710 The park is immaterial, Lester. 490 00:28:19,290 --> 00:28:22,710 No, don't put me on hold. Lester, don't. Lester, don't put me on hold! 491 00:28:24,610 --> 00:28:25,610 Bloody agents. 492 00:28:27,170 --> 00:28:29,090 No, I suppose not. 493 00:28:30,090 --> 00:28:32,910 Even murderers make mistakes. 494 00:28:34,030 --> 00:28:36,110 That must be oddly comforting. 495 00:28:37,430 --> 00:28:40,750 That's it, Harriet. Make us feel as if we want to throttle you. That's very 496 00:28:40,750 --> 00:28:42,610 good, darling. We're dying down here. 497 00:28:42,930 --> 00:28:43,930 Nigel Casey. 498 00:28:44,110 --> 00:28:45,450 Kevin! Kevin! 499 00:28:47,610 --> 00:28:51,470 Has anybody ever told you you have the cheekbones for Ibsen? 500 00:28:51,910 --> 00:28:52,910 Save it. 501 00:28:53,050 --> 00:28:54,930 I am here to tell you so you don't forget. 502 00:28:55,590 --> 00:28:59,570 You're risking people's lives. Now, I can't stop you, but one call to the fire 503 00:28:59,570 --> 00:29:01,010 marshal and... Oh, you wouldn't do that. 504 00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:05,220 So, if you have any complaints about me or my officers or the Simons looking 505 00:29:05,220 --> 00:29:09,560 around anywhere, any place, just forget it. How thrilling. 506 00:29:09,900 --> 00:29:12,640 The Keystone cops all over my little rehearsal. 507 00:29:15,180 --> 00:29:22,160 I ran a check on Mrs. Snyder. As it turns out, she had 508 00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:26,400 been married once before to a man named Sonny Bartell. And? And they were 509 00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:27,400 divorced in 1979. 510 00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:31,240 Mr. Bartell seems to vanish from the face of the earth. 511 00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:32,640 Ah, thank you. 512 00:29:36,780 --> 00:29:38,140 We got a problem. 513 00:29:38,820 --> 00:29:39,900 Stop the presses. 514 00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:41,159 He's gone. 515 00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:41,859 Who's gone? 516 00:29:41,860 --> 00:29:43,680 Abe, the actor we hired to replace Leon. 517 00:29:44,100 --> 00:29:46,080 Don't tell me somebody killed him as well. 518 00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:49,520 No, he's on a bus back to Glendale. That bomb scare really shook him up. 519 00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:53,280 Charming. First Sam leaves in the middle of a five -minute break, dropping us a 520 00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:57,200 note about a dinner theater job in Peoria, and then Leon gets himself 521 00:29:57,240 --> 00:29:58,240 and now this. 522 00:29:58,260 --> 00:30:01,360 Nigel. Wonderful, bloody wonderful. Where am I going to find a character 523 00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:03,740 who can do Scottish in this quaint little village? 524 00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:08,360 Baxter. 525 00:30:08,620 --> 00:30:11,020 Baxter, man, say something. You do not look well. 526 00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:12,640 Utman, have a care. 527 00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:16,400 Where is my nephew, woman? 528 00:30:17,300 --> 00:30:21,540 I come to your house with a purpose in mind, and that's a visit with my nephew. 529 00:30:22,220 --> 00:30:23,460 Produce him at once. 530 00:30:24,740 --> 00:30:25,740 Produce? 531 00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:30,240 Okay, look, if Snyder was found in the living room behind the couch, whoever it 532 00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:35,080 was had access, had to have had access. I mean, remember, there's no sign of a 533 00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:36,080 break -in at all. 534 00:30:38,340 --> 00:30:39,580 Are you listening to me? 535 00:30:39,980 --> 00:30:40,980 Sure. 536 00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:42,840 Okay. 537 00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:47,400 Mrs. Snyder had been married before to a guy named Sonny Bartell. 538 00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:53,680 Now, maybe he posed as her brother and killed the husband, just like the 539 00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:54,680 character in the play. 540 00:30:55,120 --> 00:30:56,120 What about the mustache? 541 00:30:56,520 --> 00:30:57,520 Mustache? 542 00:30:58,640 --> 00:30:59,640 What mustache? 543 00:30:59,700 --> 00:31:01,020 Mine. You think I ought to shave it off? 544 00:31:01,260 --> 00:31:04,380 Rick, for the play, do you think this MacTavish guy would have a mustache? 545 00:31:04,780 --> 00:31:06,140 Rick, you think we could focus here a little bit? 546 00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:07,600 Okay. 547 00:31:09,220 --> 00:31:10,880 Okay, now there was no sign of a break -in. 548 00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:12,840 No murder weapon was ever found. 549 00:31:13,340 --> 00:31:15,280 So we have to assume... What about a limp? 550 00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:18,040 What? A limp. A limp. 551 00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:20,360 MacTavish is an older guy. You think maybe he'd walk with a limp? 552 00:31:26,700 --> 00:31:29,100 I hope he doesn't step on my lines again. 553 00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:31,220 Looks like he's already stepped in something. 554 00:31:31,620 --> 00:31:34,080 I was in a high school production of The Importance of Being Earnest. 555 00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:37,020 How nice. 556 00:31:37,460 --> 00:31:38,960 Yeah, I played earnest. 557 00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:41,800 I guess that's sort of the main role, huh? 558 00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:43,320 It's great. 559 00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:45,160 Congratulations. 560 00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:48,080 Thank you. 561 00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:02,960 Uncle Andrew. 562 00:32:03,100 --> 00:32:05,940 I want something hot. He's Scottish, you know. 563 00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:11,280 Right. 564 00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:12,840 Bye, doll. 565 00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:26,340 Where's my nephew, woman? 566 00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:30,300 I come to this house with a purpose in mind, and that's to visit with my 567 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:32,180 Produce him at once. 568 00:32:32,380 --> 00:32:36,700 I'll see if I can find him. I think he's in the garage. 569 00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:43,840 I think he's in the 570 00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:46,660 garage polishing his knives. 571 00:33:04,639 --> 00:33:06,160 Boxter. Boxter, man, say something. 572 00:33:08,380 --> 00:33:09,520 You do not look well. 573 00:33:10,540 --> 00:33:11,660 Good man, have a care. 574 00:33:15,100 --> 00:33:16,100 Sorry, sorry. 575 00:33:17,380 --> 00:33:20,780 On the top. 576 00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:51,000 I thought everybody was gone. 577 00:33:51,540 --> 00:33:52,680 No, I couldn't leave. 578 00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:58,460 It seems like it went, well, pretty well, considering. 579 00:33:58,840 --> 00:34:00,580 There were a few glitches, but you know what they say. 580 00:34:01,500 --> 00:34:02,500 No, I don't. 581 00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:04,620 Bad dress rehearsal, good opening night. 582 00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:05,920 Oh. 583 00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:10,239 You know, for a while tonight, I could see through that window that you were 584 00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:11,239 talking about. It's exciting. 585 00:34:12,020 --> 00:34:13,020 Careful. 586 00:34:13,300 --> 00:34:14,880 Don't let the grease paint get in your blood. 587 00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:16,900 Your life will no longer be your own. 588 00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:23,080 I'm not sure whether it was exciting because of the window or because of you. 589 00:34:25,179 --> 00:34:26,179 Maybe both. 590 00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:52,600 You all right? 591 00:34:52,639 --> 00:34:53,639 Yeah, I'm fine. 592 00:34:57,300 --> 00:35:02,080 I thought you said about a bad dress rehearsal, good opening. 593 00:35:07,240 --> 00:35:12,840 So where's the victim? 594 00:35:14,980 --> 00:35:19,120 You're a real swell fella, Pink. Are you always this supportive of your friend? 595 00:35:19,380 --> 00:35:21,000 A .J. Simon, my friend. 596 00:35:21,390 --> 00:35:22,390 Yeah. 597 00:35:23,230 --> 00:35:26,450 Look, here's a critic for the Gazette. 598 00:35:27,430 --> 00:35:29,510 Oh, boy, I can smell burning flesh. 599 00:35:32,010 --> 00:35:37,210 Hi. Oh, hi. Well, author, author, are you being eaten alive by butterflies? 600 00:35:37,750 --> 00:35:39,590 Do you believe pterodactyls? Relax. 601 00:35:39,870 --> 00:35:44,010 I have everything covered. Two unmarked, three plainclothesmen in the audience. 602 00:35:45,090 --> 00:35:47,530 Me, I am just here to be entertained. 603 00:35:48,130 --> 00:35:49,930 Yeah, me too. How's it go? 604 00:35:50,750 --> 00:35:51,549 Break your neck? 605 00:35:51,550 --> 00:35:53,610 It's a leg, and just a leg. 606 00:35:53,830 --> 00:35:54,830 Break them both. 607 00:35:54,930 --> 00:35:56,590 You're going to need all the luck you can get. 608 00:35:57,910 --> 00:36:00,530 Thank you, and the horse you rode in on. 609 00:36:01,210 --> 00:36:02,210 Knock him dead. 610 00:36:05,130 --> 00:36:06,170 Out of my mind? 611 00:36:06,770 --> 00:36:08,310 I do not think so, Marlene. 612 00:36:08,910 --> 00:36:10,890 I think you murdered him. 613 00:36:12,350 --> 00:36:13,350 Yeah. 614 00:36:14,470 --> 00:36:16,750 I think you murdered him. 615 00:36:18,070 --> 00:36:19,510 Yeah, there's nothing like it. 616 00:36:20,170 --> 00:36:22,090 I think you murdered him. 617 00:36:22,650 --> 00:36:23,950 I think you murdered the line. 618 00:36:24,650 --> 00:36:27,930 Don't you know it's an old theater tradition? The author is not supposed to 619 00:36:27,930 --> 00:36:29,090 the actress before the performance. 620 00:36:29,630 --> 00:36:31,750 I'm sure you're just full of old theater traditions. 621 00:36:32,310 --> 00:36:33,950 Well, Kevin's been very helpful. 622 00:36:34,250 --> 00:36:36,430 Showed me a very neat trick. You want to steal a scene from somebody? 623 00:36:36,750 --> 00:36:38,010 Pull one of these out of your pocket? 624 00:36:38,230 --> 00:36:39,069 Scene's yours. 625 00:36:39,070 --> 00:36:39,968 Oh. 626 00:36:39,970 --> 00:36:44,310 Works for some people. I thought you were such a stickler for authenticity. 627 00:36:44,310 --> 00:36:46,910 real Scott would be caught with a red handkerchief. 628 00:36:47,110 --> 00:36:49,330 Well, Kevin also appreciates the power of illusion. 629 00:36:50,259 --> 00:36:54,700 That's right, I do. And I'd appreciate you getting to your place. One minute to 630 00:36:54,700 --> 00:36:55,700 Curtin. I beg your pardon. 631 00:36:55,960 --> 00:36:58,280 Rick, good luck. 632 00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:00,280 You're not supposed to say good luck. 633 00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:02,200 Break something. 634 00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:35,000 It's as quiet as a church. 635 00:37:35,340 --> 00:37:36,560 Mine, too. It makes me nervous. 636 00:38:04,140 --> 00:38:05,140 Like me. 637 00:38:18,260 --> 00:38:22,860 Here I come with my husband's Uncle Andrew. 638 00:38:23,440 --> 00:38:26,260 He'll want something hot. He's Scottish, you know. 639 00:38:35,180 --> 00:38:36,420 Right. Bye, doll. 640 00:38:55,700 --> 00:38:56,860 Where's my nephew, woman? 641 00:38:57,480 --> 00:39:01,060 I come to this house with a purpose in mind, and that's to visit with my 642 00:39:01,700 --> 00:39:02,700 Produce him at once. 643 00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:06,420 Well, I'll see if I can find him. I think he's in the garage. 644 00:39:07,680 --> 00:39:11,900 I think 645 00:39:11,900 --> 00:39:17,760 he's in the garage polishing his knives. 646 00:39:45,870 --> 00:39:46,870 Once one, do you hear? 647 00:40:50,860 --> 00:40:54,580 A bunch of the boys were whooping up in the Malamute saloon. 648 00:40:55,520 --> 00:40:58,820 The kid who handles the music box was hitting a Jagtime tune. 649 00:40:59,900 --> 00:41:01,840 Back of the bar in a solo game. 650 00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:04,080 Is that dangerous, Dan McGrew? 651 00:41:05,580 --> 00:41:10,340 And watching his luck was his lighter love, the lady that's known as Lou. 652 00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:11,558 Wait, time out. 653 00:41:11,560 --> 00:41:12,580 You're Sonny Bartell. 654 00:41:12,920 --> 00:41:14,120 How did you figure it out? 655 00:41:14,740 --> 00:41:16,440 You were Mrs. Snyder's first husband. 656 00:41:17,320 --> 00:41:21,120 You came back, you posed as her brother, you murdered the second husband, but 657 00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:23,880 then she dumped you. Who told you that? She tell you? No. 658 00:41:24,300 --> 00:41:27,500 She was making it with you too, wasn't she? No. You loved her too, didn't you? 659 00:41:27,600 --> 00:41:31,340 No. Why did you write this play? Is this some sick way of getting back at me? 660 00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:39,420 Where are you ever out in the great alone where 661 00:41:39,420 --> 00:41:45,040 the moon was awful clear and the icy mountains hemmed you in 662 00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:51,740 with the silence you most could hear with only the sound of a timber wolf 663 00:41:51,740 --> 00:41:58,500 and you camped there in the cold a half 664 00:41:58,500 --> 00:41:59,560 -dead thing. 665 00:42:01,029 --> 00:42:03,070 In a stark, dead world. 666 00:42:04,510 --> 00:42:07,610 Ah, mad for the muck called gold. 667 00:42:07,830 --> 00:42:11,630 You did this just to taunt me. I read about your little play in the paper. I 668 00:42:11,630 --> 00:42:14,370 knew you were only using it to flush me out of hiding. No, I didn't. I didn't 669 00:42:14,370 --> 00:42:18,010 even know. Why not just come after me? I mean, why'd you kill Leon? I wanted to 670 00:42:18,010 --> 00:42:19,010 kill you all. 671 00:42:19,090 --> 00:42:21,030 Oh. But he caught me hiding my little bomb. 672 00:42:21,430 --> 00:42:22,930 Wait, wait. Time out. Time out. 673 00:42:24,610 --> 00:42:29,310 The music almost died away. 674 00:42:31,340 --> 00:42:33,960 Then it burst like a pent -up flood. 675 00:42:36,580 --> 00:42:40,240 And it seemed to say, Repay! 676 00:42:41,320 --> 00:42:42,320 Repay! 677 00:42:44,700 --> 00:42:50,580 My eyes were blind with blood. 678 00:42:52,060 --> 00:42:56,340 Pitched on his head and pumped full of lead. 679 00:42:57,700 --> 00:42:58,720 It was dangerous. 680 00:43:01,260 --> 00:43:07,880 Dan McGrew, while the man from the creeks lay clutched to the 681 00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:13,560 breasts of the lady that's known as Lou. 682 00:43:15,500 --> 00:43:16,980 You're blocking my hope. 683 00:43:17,280 --> 00:43:18,820 I thought you were supposed to break it open. 684 00:43:19,260 --> 00:43:23,980 Now, these are the simple facts of the case. 685 00:43:24,420 --> 00:43:25,680 Oh, my God. 686 00:43:26,140 --> 00:43:27,600 I guess you ought to know. 687 00:43:28,420 --> 00:43:34,180 They say... that the stranger was crazed with hooch, and I'm not denying it so. 688 00:43:40,080 --> 00:43:45,100 I'm not so wise as the lawyer guys, but strictly between us two. 689 00:43:54,960 --> 00:43:59,080 The woman, well, I kissed him and pinched his boke. 690 00:43:59,950 --> 00:44:02,930 was the lady that's known as Lou. 691 00:44:06,610 --> 00:44:07,610 Baxter! 692 00:44:07,910 --> 00:44:09,490 Baxter, man, say something. 693 00:44:09,750 --> 00:44:10,990 You do not look well. 694 00:44:11,310 --> 00:44:12,810 Hoot, man, have a care.