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Aw, I had ten out of that song.

Partners?

Four y'all three, see money ain't ya?

Oh, not long, aren't you?

I ain't miss this, Simmons.

Yeah, we're stiffer than it, huh?

Oh, we got to be in shopping, don't know.

Looks like we'll be doing this for a long time.

Hey, you get FM on that thing?

You see?

I like to keep up.

So this is what you do when you're off duty.

Listen to police messages.

A good comp is never off duty.

We've just passed, then.

Hold out as long as you can.

Prides are always late anyway.

Move it, Sis.

There.

There it is.

On the left.

Pull over there.

Stop, Sis!

You take him!

Take these, come on!

Follow that board, Sis, and step on it.

You damn lousy British cars!

Maybe you're just gonna throw us tight.

What do you think you're going?

Interview with a guy named Simmons.

And who might you be?

Lieutenant Dempsey, S.I.

Tank.

If that's not said it was okay, did he not?

Well, I'm the one who says it's okay.

Lieutenant, what I say is it isn't okay.

Okay?

Well, let me guess.

You must be ahead, aren't you, around here?

I'm Detective Chief Inspector Lacey, Divisional CID, and you address me, sir.

Look, I don't want to hide time, sir.

I would have been cleared by division.

You know, I mean, I got kind of interest in this case.

I might be a resting officer.

You are a cowboy.

Yeah, I've heard about you, Dempsey.

You know the advice they give cowboys?

Stay away from Lulu at the long range.

What's he doing here?

He meant to be on honeymoon.

She didn't turn up.

Where's Dempsey?

Where's Dempsey?

He's riding the loan trail over at age division.

Says he has clearance.

It was our corner.

Well, it's not.

Shut up!

It's not SI10 business, and you both know it.

Anyway, I've straightened it out.

He won't get past the door.

Besides, Simmons is about to be bailed.

It was all right for you, isn't it?

I...

That's still shit, aren't it?

Well, do show it up, buddy!

What's the point of this?

Make a menu.

If I get out on bail...

...clams up, I want to know why.

Must be big.

He's a real little Napoleon of crime.

Two illegal parkings.

One drunken charge.

One disorderly conduct.

Christmas, 1965.

You left.

I had to say.

Dempsey, the man is a citizen.

He drinks at Christmas.

So he went off the rails.

He did one little bank.

I got a feeling in my guts.

That's the mustard.

You're getting obsessive again.

I recognise the signs.

Control to Charlie Five.

Charlie Five, H.S., listen.

Sorry about the wedding and all that.

That's okay.

Probably for the best.

Poor charge.

Lucky charge.

I have a message for you.

You are through turning immediately.

Repeat.

And report to spikings.

Over.

Great.

Over now.

What's going on?

Sound improving.

It ain't working.

Never mind the saw casting.

Just...

What?

Try and keep it down to a dull roar.

You call?

Leave Simmons to H Division.

How did you know he was telling Simmons?

I was informed.

He was informed.

What the hell is going on here?

I tried to interrogate Simmons this morning.

He's just about to spill the beans on something real juicy.

When this guy, Lacey... Detective Chief Inspector Lacey.

Right.

Comes crashing through the door with his high-powered attorney.

And that's it for Simmons.

He's like a clam.

I smell something.

You smell something?

Paint.

I'm talking about influence, power, money, clout.

Just stay away from it.

That's an order.

If it's here, we'll find it, Simmons.

What better for you if you save us the trouble?

You found any cash round here.

You can come

to bribe a police officer.

Dempsey.

Lacey.

Well, I would say that you two don't like each other, am I right?

No, he's a fun guy.

He's a detective, Chief Inspector.

That's his problem.

Now listen, Dempsey.

One of these days you'll be breezing back to

the concrete canyons and goodbye Piccadilly.

I live in this funny little country.

I have to work here.

I don't need enemies in high places.

Fine, wait in the car.

Don't tell me what to do.

Don't wait in the car.

You are now in trouble.

Don't waste your motives, sir.

You and I are here on the jimmy business.

You better be.

Hey, Simmons.

What do you say?

What do you know?

Sorry, eh?

Nothing to say.

I'll tell you why I'm here.

I, uh...

I need two four by eight, big quarter inch pine, and

two four by four redwood posts with maple veneer.

Right.

That's it.

Out.

I'm building a dog house.

My dog.

Out.

Now.

A good cop.

I would have checked, Dempsey.

Your Mr. Simmons is ceased trading.

Went to the wall.

The new Simmons.

We heard he went through it.

Five minutes.

Five.

Count them.

Make the most of it, Dempsey, because this is the last time.

I just want five minutes with the guy.

Then we're off the case.

I mean it.

So do I.

All right.

Love your timing.

Harry, be a pal.

Follow the guy.

And, uh, what will you be doing?

If I tell you how I'm making a compass.

I'm so predictable.

It was a naughty boy, then, eh?

MP to all Nobiles, vicinity, Fox Hill.

Go to twenty-five, two-five, Fox Hill.

Intruder, reported on premises.

Damn you, Dempsey.

Smug.

Dempsey.

Dempsey, I know it's you.

It's your wet nurse here.

I'm sick of your dirty drinks.

Your violation of the rules.

Your breach of civilised codes of conduct.

You have the morality of...

A waste disposal unit.

Oh.

Let's withdraw Corrin's way.

I

could, I could have made a break for it, but I didn't.

I thought we, we can get these things sorted out.

I mean, no reason for a problem, Ron.

But I mean, they must be wise.

I need to let me get out of hand.

I paid you off.

A big son.

And you had to knock off that bloody bank.

Who's desperate?

Who's desperate, my son, and there is desperate.

Did you really think your life was worth forty thousand grand?

Is that something to tell me?

I already have.

Yeah?

When did you do that?

Where'd Simmons go?

I wouldn't know.

I was on the phone.

You lost him.

Is that what you're telling me?

You broke your tail to make a lousy phone call?

It seemed important.

Who'd you call?

That's a matter.

He wasn't in.

You shouldn't have given up your tail.

She called me.

It's on again.

Can you make it next Saturday?

Sure.

Great.

By the way, blood called Simmons rang.

Asked for the yank.

I want you to meet him seven o'clock round at his yard.

So go in the back way.

Thanks, jazz.

I'll handle this one.

Alone.

Simmons!

It's Dempsey.

I'm alone.

Simmons!

Hi there, fella.

How are you doing?

Not so good, huh?

I can't hear you, baby.

You need to get back.

Up on you up.

We do.

James Dempsey, I'm a police officer.

And I have a warrant to search these premises.

Hey, what is this?

Hey, you want to tell me what's going on?

I'm sorry.

Just trying to cooperate, sir.

All right, hold right there.

Going to be sensible, are we?

I'll tell you what we're going to be.

In about one second.

I'm going to be mad as hell and you're going to be flat on your high-ranking butt.

Go on.

Obstruct me in the execution of my duty.

Please.

Uh-uh.

You are scum, Dempsey.

Sure.

I took the money.

I found it in Simmons' kitchen in a cookie jar.

Smart bank loop.

I don't know how you guys missed it.

You're not helping yourself, Lieutenant?

You want a confession or not?

So I figured the guy was going to yell cops, so I asked him.

Call it cementing Anglo-American relations.

Trying to be clever.

I think I mean hung out the dry, that's what I think.

If I was going to knock the guy off.

Would I be at the scene?

Would I leave the abs all over his house?

Would I put the money in my own damn sofa?

Would I?

What kind of an amateur do you take me for?

I'd like five minutes with him alone.

That's all right with you.

Me too.

No, you wouldn't, pal.

You want to find out who killed Simmons?

Find his driver.

We already did.

His name's Phelps.

What did he say?

Not a lot.

No brains.

Back of his hurt was missing.

Dempsey, you're a clown.

Yeah, but under the grease paint, my heart is breaking.

Shut up.

You're in trouble.

Big trouble.

Big like Texas is big.

I know.

And stop acting like Roger Bloody Marx.

D.C.I.

Lacy is out there now, ringing his divisional

commander for authorization to charge you.

With murder.

Homicide in your parlance.

He can make that stick.

Even with the circumstantial evidence he's got, he can charge you.

Well, I'm going to get myself a cup of tea.

I expect to find you here when I get back.

Because if you take it on your toes...

I won't be able to help you.

You understand what I'm saying to you?

I wouldn't be clear.

Leave your gun here.

Hi, honey.

How did the office?

You made a lot of assumptions coming here.

Why?

You're expecting someone?

Don't be obtuse.

You know what I mean.

Are we talking about the warrant?

The warrant.

The fact that you're a fugitive.

And I'm a police officer.

We're talking about duty.

My duty to arrest you.

What about loyalty?

Have you hear loyalty like between partners?

In sickness and in health?

Damn right.

Until death's sentence do us part.

I do.

Damn it, Dempsey.

This is serious.

What's serious?

My neck or your pension?

Give me one.

Half decent reason why I shouldn't arrest you.

Try innocent.

Come on, Harry.

I need your help.

You all I got?

Okay.

You can stay one night.

Then you're on your own.

Hi.

I didn't think you were coming.

Neither did I.

This is all I can spare.

Don't ask for more.

Don't worry, I'll pay you back.

Dempsey, since yesterday I've blown my career,

I've conspired to obstruct the cause of justice.

And for the first time, in six years, I moved a drone at the bank.

All right, so what do we know?

Simmons worked for Harris Strang.

He was a foreman, then he was a court manager.

How much kind of court a manager make?

15 grand?

Well, I saw his bank book.

So we made a bit more.

To rip them off, whatever he was doing, but still wasn't enough to kill a guy.

So what is his guess?

Back at the bank.

The bank?

Harris Strang built it.

So let's go pay Harris if there's...

Mr. Harris, please.

I'm sorry, Mr. Harris isn't a meeting.

Mr. Embry Street.

No, we don't want to see Embry, we want to see Harris the boss.

He's with me.

Package here, it's for Mr. Harris.

Thank you.

Mr. Embry, there's a police sergeant here for Mr. Harris.

Certainly.

Will you follow me, please?

Mr. Harris is off his special delivery.

Thanks.

Mr. Harris, he's a signature.

You don't have Dempsey, Mr. Harris.

Got a minute?

I'm already late for an appointment, but you can have one minute.

Fine.

Talk for a minute about John Simmons.

Also late.

I've already told all this to you, Mr. Lacey.

I'll say it again.

I bought the West London Quarris about three years ago.

We put Simmons in as former.

He seemed to be reliable, efficient, well-liked.

Embry and personnel can tell you more.

I don't know much about him.

Well, I'm interested in your impressions,

Mr. Harris, because reliable people don't rob banks.

I've agreed.

It surprised me, but people always do.

Me too.

Let me tell you what I think.

In 30 seconds.

Okay.

I think Simmons was involved in a scam right here.

What?

A scam, a con job.

Maybe they would rip enough construction materials or summon blueprints to high

security installations like banks, diamond houses.

He built a lot of those?

No.

Mostly hotels, office blocks, schools.

The odd bridge.

Whatever it was, whoever was paying him was shut up, wasn't paying him enough.

So he figured he'd cash you know what he knew, a rubber bank.

This is a very big company, Lieutenant.

What made it big?

What keeps it big is me.

I know what goes on.

Every nut and bolt.

Take my word for it.

If there was any scam going on here, I'd know about it.

I believe you, Mr. Harris.

I'd like to report a stolen car.

I'll keep this short, Sergeant.

I'm required to ask you.

If you have any knowledge of the present whereabouts of Lieutenant Dempsey.

I'm not asking if you have seen him or if you're going to see him.

Just whether you know where he is at this moment.

Yes or no?

No, sir.

No.

That's all.

I respect

and understand loyalty, Sergeant.

Even when it's misplaced.

Look, sir.

I'm the first to admit that Dempsey is undisciplined and totally irresponsible.

But he cares about his job.

He cares about it more than anything.

Now, we both know that these charges are ridiculous.

So you cannot expect me to stand by and do nothing.

Just don't let him take you down with him.

Okay, let's go again.

All right, back at the point.

Two, three, four.

No.

Two, three, four.

Sorry to interrupt.

You seem to be having such a good time.

That's cool.

I won't tell him you're a car.

Say we steal cars together.

Let's walk around the corner from your house.

What'd you get from Embry?

Not much.

Except that Simmons didn't work on the bank.

They built it after he started at the quarry.

How's things at the ranch show?

We're surviving.

Maybe I'll be back before you start to miss me.

With your shield or on it?

Very Spartan, like your new life.

Early crud is coming back.

It's very you.

I kind of like it.

Unstructured, uncluttered.

What do you need to do?

Get a job.

You're mally.

I'm Jim Cooper.

New driver.

Guy in the office said you could set me up.

I can't do.

He's called himself Cooper.

Brian took you on.

I sent him out with the load.

Are you kidding?

What do you think I am murder incorporated?

You want me to train this breakthrough like that in the movies?

This one's bloody copper.

They'll be all over us.

No, they won't.

He's out on his own.

And he's dirty.

They cover up dirt.

We all do.

Can we make this fast?

Spiking's things I'm eating the snitch.

Don't you love truck stops?

I mean, look at this.

You could take a dozen cents off of that.

You wouldn't even have to dust it.

Don't see.

What are we doing here?

I'm a trucker.

Oh, really?

Well, in that case, there you go.

That's a lot more authentic.

I love Kajima.

I got something for you.

What is this?

Well, I stand and that's gravel.

You detected that all by yourself.

It's from the quarry, where Simmons worked.

That's part of the scam, I betcha.

Which mineral deposit?

Get it analyzed.

You brought me here for this.

And lunch.

Just like Ron Cooper.

Took my lunch break.

Oh, yeah.

Well, I don't know if you've got what it takes.

We'll drive long conditions here.

And you boys always do the test circuit.

Test circuit.

Around the site once, but here we go.

That's all I've got to do.

You think you can handle it then?

You can, or can.

All right, baby.

Come on.

Give it what you got.

Yeah.

How do you see this?

Question.

How many hours does it take two men with hand tools

to break through a four-foot reinforced concrete wall?

The bank was open on Saturday morning, so they couldn't have had more than what?

Three hours?

Four hours tops.

I'm sorry.

I'm gonna have to go to work.

I'm sorry about this.

I'm so sorry.

I'm sorry.

Don't worry about it.

If my guess is right, Simmons went through that

wall faster than you'd have time to change.

Sir, why are you only 300 pounds?

A new evening dress.

Expensive meal.

Possibly a new career.

Did I just take you to lunch?

I didn't need anything.

That's not my fault.

Hold it.

This concrete is hard.

Wait a minute.

This is new concrete.

And they were digging?

Oh,

no.

Cream cheese.

Dr. Paul, please.

You are police.

What do mothers look like?

Soft, huh?

It's horrible.

It's what?

It's cumbersome.

Like a cookie.

This sample is from where?

A bank.

A bank?

How old?

Two, three years.

Yes.

The basement, yes.

Yeah.

How do you know?

It's damp.

It accelerates the reaction.

What you have here is an alkylite aggregate reaction.

Give me a break, Doc.

What's that in English?

You got money in this bank?

Move it.

You lose it.

But you said the other day that...

The sample you showed me from your quarry, I assume that was for road beds or ballast.

You sort of gravel you don't use for concrete.

It reacts with cement.

Then after a while...

What's this, forty-five tons of aggregate?

Go and check it.

He's here.

I don't cover.

Thank you.

It's coming.

I'm coming.

We've got to get rid of that bastard before he wrecks everything.

So you see, it's Harris's gravel.

The stuff he uses in his concrete.

It's making his buildings unsafe.

And that's what he's been trying to cover up.

Amazing.

Amazing.

Your lips move and I hear Dempsey's voice.

What about the warrant?

I'll have the warrant withdrawn.

You keep Dempsey off the street before he blows this case apart.

Well, Dempsey thinks that... He doesn't.

Dempsey think that case is solved when he knows who the bad guys are.

He doesn't have to go to court.

He doesn't have to be proved beyond any reason or doubt.

Well, you get me criminal evidence and I'll arrest your Mr. Harris and any other.

..

Harris?

It turns up, Harris.

I got you scared, piggy.

Persistent bastard, aren't you, eh?

You can't quite see it from here.

I got a school going up there for September.

Up for September, down by Christmas.

Doesn't happen that easy.

No guarantee, it'll ever collapse.

I got stung with that quarry, you know.

Some bastard of a land agent fixed the survey.

Puts me an arm and a leg.

It's such useless for concrete.

No one does that to me.

Did he go in and mix it too?

South America.

I've just passed on the loss to the shareholders.

Name of the game.

Well, it's too bad Simmons found out your buildings have made a mush.

I paid him to keep quiet, but he got greedy.

His mistake was doing that bank.

Cut your nose twitching.

You're going to jail, Harris.

I'll find one you didn't build.

I'm not.

I'm in line for a knighthood.

I've got influence.

Put him alone, Mr. Valley.

Harris, stop!

All right.

Make peace!

Make peace!

Make peace!

Charlie five to control.

This is Tennessee.

Charlie five receiving you.

Give me Lacey.

Right away, I want to make a citizen's arrest.

Message received, Charlie five.

You don't belong here, but you're still a matter of time.

You got lucky, that's all.

Some guys get lucky.

Some are born lucky.

Some get luck thrust upon them.

Good thing you haven't lied.

Don't mention it.

Why did you?

To get you to the chat sometime.

This is all so sudden.

Oh,

what do you know?

She showed up.