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Aren't you my camera?

Yeah, here's my card.

Oh, allow me.

Sure, big guy.

Perhaps we can work together?

Not a chance.

Someone once said your past is never left behind.

It lies asleep inside you.

Well, every once in a while, somebody comes along and wakes it up.

Hey, Jimmy.

Hey, doll.

Oh, long time no singing.

When you come into Washington, I can use a girl Friday.

Yeah, what about the other days in a week?

How you doing, Jim?

Long time no see.

But bring Jeff here.

Well, I'm a legislative analyst.

Yeah?

Yeah.

I'm a congressman Landsberg's flashlight in a smoke-filled room.

Well, he won't hold it against you.

Come on in.

That was important.

Well, it's important.

It's what I brought in special delivery.

Really?

The Honorable Charles R.

Landsberg and the Ben Franklin High School Alumni Association cordially invites you

and a guest to the retirement party for Mrs. Viola Green.

RSVP Taylor Wilson.

Jimmy, this is very nice of you, but first of all, I never graduated.

Secondly, I can't stand reunions.

Hey, it's not a reunion.

It's Mrs. Green's retirement.

With all due respect to you, I have never cared too much for this guy Landsberg.

As far as I'm concerned, he's always been a glad hanger.

I think he hit politics before he hit puberty.

Mike, she's a special lady for all of us.

You know that.

You talk me into it.

I'll be there.

I would have called you.

If I'd have called you, you just would have said no.

You're right.

Besides, there's something else.

What's that?

Well, I need you to back me up.

It's political.

You got it.

As long as I don't have to vote for the guy.

Sorry.

Hello, Taylor Wilson speaking.

Taylor, darling.

I just got your lovely invitation.

Hey, Virginia.

Hi, how are you?

Oh, I'm still plugging away the old column.

I noticed the byline by Warburton still rattles the cages.

I'll take that as a compliment.

Tell me something.

Is our famous Congressman Lansford going to

come back to school for this festive occasion?

Our featured speaker.

All the Charles may not show up if he knows you're going to be there.

Well, then, don't tell him, darling, because I will be there poison pen in hand.

I'll see you then, OK?

Bye-bye, Virginia.

Taylor, I've got to know something.

Along with the invitation list, you rent for my lowest party.

Do you have that Omega group affiliations list in that program of yours?

Sure, I have it right here on my computer.

School organizations, personal data, everything.

I ran it like a government project.

Why?

Something very big.

It's taken me months to run it down.

What is it?

Quite some time ago, I accidentally came across... Hi.

We're just getting ready to call you.

I'll be ready to go in there.

We want to bring Mike into it.

We'll talk more at the party.

OK, Jimmy.

Yeah, see you then.

I

had a lot of mixed feelings about going back to my old school.

But I went anyway.

And I brought Beldalang for moral support.

You sure you gave me the invitation?

Yeah, you had a job.

Do you have a name, please?

And Mike.

My camera.

Charity Landsberg.

Ah, Congressman.

No, no, I'm still Charlie.

My assistant, Steve Dempsey.

Rick Osgood.

So I understand Jimmy Fuller's working for you.

The idea where he is, I was supposed to meet him here.

I keep him pretty busy, but he'll be along.

Listen, you're going to have to excuse me.

I've got to get up to the dais and run him a little late.

I was running for something.

Yes, yes.

Come on, Hammer.

It's just funny.

You always were a sucker for a blind side.

You haven't changed a bit, Osgood.

You're still stealing lunch money?

I've got on to bigger and better things.

Too bad you haven't.

I'm so glad I came.

Yeah.

Yes.

Here it is.

Mike, Hammer.

Oh, yes.

I remember you from your class picture.

You hold the record in cutting class your sophomore year.

And I've always wanted to be the best at something.

I'm Sylvia Wood.

Hello.

This is my secretary of elder.

I'll be taking over classes from Viola when she reads.

Oh, Chief, you like?

This green has been taken special care of you, Mike.

Great.

Let's go.

It's

here for the Ben Franklin gymnastics team.

Moving

the apparatus here so we can get around to some dancing in a few minutes.

So while we're taking care of that, why don't you look around to the other

tables and go say hello to some old friends?

You probably haven't seen in a long time.

Hey, Georgie.

Mike, Mike, is that you?

I sure hope so.

Well, I'd like you to meet the best quarterback that ever sang the blues.

Georgie Langdon, I worn out every record you ever made.

Our Lady of Good Taste, obviously.

Were you and Mike in class together?

Actually, I was a lot younger than Mike.

He was my mentor.

Don't listen to this guy.

I was a freshman when he was an old man.

Yeah, but Mike, you were a freshman for a lot of years.

In fact, I got witnesses.

Taylor?

Excuse me.

Hey, Mike, you old dog.

Hey, Taylor, you're looking good.

Your vision's fading, huh?

Georgie, can I steal him for a minute?

Yeah, I got a fan.

You can have him.

How you man?

Good.

Good.

It's not bad.

It's Jimmy Ford here.

No, as a matter of fact, I was going to ask you the same thing.

You should have been here by now.

You can't understand why he isn't.

He said he made me need your help.

Yeah, you have any idea what that was about?

Taylor?

No.

I'm in charge of the gift presentation.

I got to go get it ready.

Listen, I need to talk to you.

Can we meet after the party?

Sure.

Good.

Good.

Hey, aren't you, Mike Hammer?

Yeah.

Here's my card.

Gee, thanks.

Thanks.

I hate to cut in, but Viola would like to see you in room two or four.

Oh, glad it's at the principal's office.

Thanks.

You want to introduce to me?

Okay.

You can call me Viola now.

I think we've both earned that.

It's been a long time.

Yes.

Sure has.

You know, I'm glad to see that I can still fit in one of these things.

I was walking around the campus a little earlier.

I couldn't help but think how lucky I was.

You... you talked me out of that crowd I was running around with.

I was very sorry when you left school.

I didn't want to leave.

I really didn't.

I just... I had to.

Dad died.

I had to go off and support the family.

And then before I knew it, I was drafted.

I just never got back.

But I wanted to graduate.

I really did.

Well, why have something for you?

Yeah?

What?

Viola, how did you manage this?

Your military tests fulfill every requirement to receive this.

You see, I keep up with my students' progress.

You sure do?

I really appreciate it.

Alice, this is your night, remember?

Come on, let's go back to the park.

Where, where, where, why now?

Now it's with me.

What did you do?

Put my hands at his twenty-twenty vision.

If I do better, what a long time, long time, long

time, long time, long time, long time, long time.

You know, know, know, know, know, know, know, know, know.

Attention when I was in school.

And now, Viola, because you've meant so much to us, we have something for you.

We have

something else for you, something very special from all of us.

It are here on A&E.

Taylor Wilson had said he wanted to talk to me later,

and I was pretty sure it wasn't a just catch-up.

Now I'd never know.

But I did know that I still hated being kept after school.

What is going on, Pat?

Why is Barrington keeping me here with these other

witnesses I gave him a statement four hours ago?

Mike Barrington is not keeping you here.

I am.

Now we got to keep this code we find out more information.

There's not the dead Ben Franklin alumnus.

You know what Jimmy Fuller?

Jimmy Fuller.

You're kidding?

I've been looking everywhere for him.

What happened?

They found him in his wheelchair at the bottom of an elevator shaft, saying

building his landsburg's office, calling it an accident for now.

No way, Pat.

He knew there was going to be trouble.

Listen, he came to me the day before the reunion.

He wanted me to be here to back him up.

He knew something was going to happen.

What do you think?

Better talk to that slime baller, but he's got some answers.

Ray God's good.

I thought he was a paleo.

He's an alumnus.

No way.

Just because I'm with the school with him doesn't mean he's a pal.

He's greased, then he's greased now.

You get that right.

Small rackets to big rackets.

It's a powerful man these days.

Transportation, salvage, construction.

Get this, Mike.

Class A political contributor.

Yeah, for landsburg, no doubt.

It could be five minutes alone with him.

I'll find out why Taylor Wilson and Jimmy Fuller were killed.

But you could.

That's very interesting, Mr. Hammer.

Virginia Warburton, class of, uh, never mind, I'm with International Newsday.

I was hoping to meet you last night.

Really?

I didn't know that Miss Green's retirement was scandal sheet material.

I'm sorry that big new interviews and childhood prosecutors finished.

Well, I can mention Mr. Barrington Kindly, or I can do two columns on a police state.

I mean, the choice is yours, Captain.

Well, why don't you mention Mr. Barrington Kindly, thank you.

That's a good idea.

Could we talk privately?

Uh, if you talk kindly.

I won't pretend I'm not on assignment.

Congressman Landsburg's appointment as ambassador to

Burma is a favored subject of internationals right now.

But it seems I've lucked into something much bigger.

Taylor Wilson wasn't so lucky.

Sorry?

You don't believe that, uh, it was suicide, do you?

Not a chance.

I don't believe it either.

Perhaps we can work together?

Perhaps.

Hammer, you're on again.

Councillor, you have my card, private numbers on the

back, so feel free to call if I can be of any assistance.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Oh, allow me.

Sure, big guy.

You're all wet.

Councillor?

Ms. Warburton?

I thought Captain Chambers took his statement.

Have you been inconvenienced at all?

Oh, no, not at all.

I'm just getting some background material for an article.

Give me a few minutes and I'll have a statement for you.

And if you'd like a photo opportunity, we'll be happy to cooperate.

Thank you very much.

Pleasure.

It's come to my attention that Taylor Wilson had

something important to discuss specifically with you.

What was it?

Steve Dempsey.

We met earlier.

Congressman Lansburg's assistant.

I graduated a few years after you.

I never graduated.

Well, it's nice to know that you don't have to keep

the politicians up all night, just us working steps.

Mr. Dempsey is here on Representative Lansburg's behalf, and he's assured me

that Mr. Lansburg will be totally available and

is deeply concerned about what happened here.

Mr. Dempsey, would you excuse us, please?

Certainly.

Look, I am deeply concerned about Rick Osgood.

I know he can tell us something about these murders.

Look, let's not use words like murder.

That tends only to inflame the situation.

For now, Taylor Wilson's death was a suicide.

Yeah, Jimmy Fuller was an accident.

That's right.

Listen, why are you protecting this guy, Lansburg?

Are you running for mayor again?

What did Taylor Wilson want to talk to you about?

I don't know.

Wait a minute.

Maybe he just wanted to tell me that Jimmy Fuller

has a bad habit of falling down elevator shafts.

Mike, come here.

Thanks.

How's Viola doing?

She was resting.

Last night was horrible for her.

Yeah, I know.

Listen, I don't want to disturb her.

This can wait.

I was just putting together some breakfast.

You look like you could use something.

No, thanks.

Sylvia, Viola said something about Taylor Wilson being responsible for putting

together the invitation list for the party.

Yes.

We worked together.

You did?

Closely?

Well, not that closely.

Taylor did the computer work at Vidak.

The pronouns were endless.

Any chance of my getting a hold of that information?

Well, I'm sure the data is still in the computer.

Why?

The name of the killer could be on that list.

You really believe Taylor was murdered?

Yes, Viola.

I do.

Especially in light of what I just found out.

Well, what is it, Mike?

This is confidential.

Jimmy Fuller was found dead early this morning.

Jimmy?

It was made to look like an accident, but I'm sure somebody killed him.

Jimmy Fuller and Taylor Wilson were two of the

most promising students this school has ever had.

Taylor organized a special group with a gifted student.

Why would anyone want to destroy such fine men?

I don't know.

Taylor Wilson had already been replaced at Vidak by a Dr. Harold Ford.

What was Taylor working on?

Sorry, classified.

But I can tell you something about it.

Sure.

Vaccimally digital analysis.

You take an object.

Make a three-dimensional photograph of it and feed it into a computer.

The computer places a grid over the photograph and interfaces that with a

quadrant tracking system with a 6502 RAM CPU presentation.

This is then converted from digital to analog database,

then processed into a facsimile configuration.

Right I asked.

Marilyn.

You're luck.

Thirty-five years of names, addresses, and affiliations

of everyone that went to have been Franklin High School.

This is it?

It's a brave new world we live in, Mr. Hammer.

Technology is racing faster than we are.

We try and keep up.

Looks like it's a pleasure boom.

Thanks a lot.

I left the John Computer Center of Vodec

with 35 years of students on one little disc.

I hope you could tell me if any of them had an unusual hobby, like murder.

Mike, who do you like to film on in the fifth?

Who cares?

I do, I got to play the best of you.

No, that's the name of the horse.

Who cares in the fifth?

Twenty to win.

Oh, yeah.

I'll take care of it.

Listen, Aussie, I need something.

Anything that might have killed a guy who programmed his computer disc.

Taylor Wilson, why?

How'd you know that?

I read the papers too.

Listen, as your friend and police still play with their computers?

Hmm, does she?

Mike, when she gets her B450 booted up and haunting, she is magic.

Really?

For a fee, of course.

For you or for her?

Look, I'm a Raja Panoa.

I didn't know you were French.

But I'm a... Huh?

No thanks.

And Mr. Barnes would like to speak to you.

Well, all right.

Thank you.

Pleasure?

Nutella.

Michael.

What are you drinking?

Apple juice.

You should try it.

Stop smoking and get yourself in shape like me.

Hey, what is this?

The girl's threatening you?

No.

I was holding a marker for a client who died.

He left me a health spot in his will.

At least he died, healthy.

Michael, as far as this Landsburg business

is concerned, you don't want any part of it.

He's too lucky.

Listen, I could use some luck right now.

We some of it would rub off on me.

Now here's kind.

He runs for all the men.

His opponent withdraws.

He announces for the Congress the incumbent retires.

And the opposing candidate is arrested for driving under the influence.

What are you trying to say?

The word is Rick Osgood makes the luck for him.

Yeah?

Now this, Virginia Warburton lady.

Now she's got some real guts.

Now you can say that again.

I'll tell you something as long as she's around.

Landsburg will never make it to the Oval Office.

Now you're talking.

And this money that says that Landsburg is aiming for just that down the line.

You think so?

Watch your step, Michael.

Or Osgood will.

There's a Mr. Dempsey here to see you.

And here's your message.

Mr. Barrington, I'm at Budapest.

Actually, they're from my boss.

I'll be very direct.

This matter of Taylor Wilson's death can be very damaging to him.

This sort of publicity has ended more than one politician's career.

What does that have to do with me?

Congressman wants to hire you, Mr. Hammer.

I want you to get to the bottom of this matter as soon as possible.

You and I could work together.

I naturally would remain confidential.

What about Jimmy Fuller's death?

How's he going to keep that confidential?

Jimmy Fuller?

Yeah.

Somebody found him at the bottom of an elevator shaft a little while ago.

He showed him the quick way down.

Oh.

Fuller.

I just had lunch with him yesterday.

He hired me out of college.

He taught me.

He should have taught you to stay away from creeps like Rick Osgood.

Oh, and I don't tell me you believe that sort of drill.

Can you convince me otherwise?

That's why you need you on his side, Mr. Hammer.

Especially when someone from our office, like Jimmy Fuller can wind up dead.

He needs you to survive the hyenas, like Virginia Warburton.

If he's clean, he'll survive.

Mike, that was Virginia Warburton.

She said she's headed for Ben Franklin High, if you're interested.

Yeah, I have.

Thanks.

We should reconsider, Mr. Hammer.

Congressman's in a position, do you favor?

Sorry, Mr. Dempsey.

I don't do business that way.

Not only that, I already have a client.

Jimmy Fuller.

I wish you felt differently.

No hard feelings, okay?

Sure.

I promise not to run for office.

I couldn't help wondering why Steve Dempsey would

want to devote his life to a guy like Lansper.

I hurried back to B.F.

High, eager to see what Virginia Warburton had dug up.

What's up here?

Virginia Warburton has me keep my help for you.

I had to wait until Jim.

Do you think she would fall over here?

Really?

Do you think she would fall over here?

What's your name?

The

dude's currently in the space.

Here we

go.

It doesn't make any sense, Mike.

Why would George Langdon want to attack Virginia Warburg?

I don't know.

Maybe she gave him some bad press.

What do you think?

I'm making this up.

It's my imagination.

I'm telling you the guy was George Langdon.

What do you want me to say, Mike?

No!

Hey, Buck, nobody's allowed back stage.

That's okay, we're nobodies.

Hey, Mike, my man.

Glad you can make it to the show.

Ain't gonna be no show tonight, Georgie.

What?

Pat Chambers, I'm a sad.

I'm gonna read you your rights.

I know my rights.

What's this about?

50 about murder one.

Virginia Warburg is an intensive care.

She may not make it.

And if she doesn't, you're gonna be playing

some mighty cold licks on Death Road, Georgie.

What is this?

A gag?

I'm knowing you to pull some gold.

No gag, George.

Charge is a salt and a tempted murder.

Hope you have a good lawyer.

Lighten up.

I haven't done anything.

You know what this is, Georgie?

Omega.

A Greek letter.

I've done enough fraternity gigs to recognize that.

Who the hell do you think you're talking to, man?

I was there.

I saw you.

Are you gonna tell me that you didn't try to kill

Virginia Warburg and that you didn't try to kill me?

Easy, old buddy.

You're serious, aren't you?

You better have a good lawyer.

That's right, we're serious.

Let's take a walk down town, George.

Could George have murdered Jimmy Fuller and Ted or Wilson?

My head reeled as I went back to my office only to find it

decorated with 35 years of Benjamin Franklin High School.

Hold it.

Hard day, huh?

I heard about George.

Yeah, it stinks.

He claims he was in his apartment all day long.

His phone was off the hook and he's got no alibi.

And I thought this computer was housebroken.

Mike, there are over 7,000 names.

I figured that a dollar were a name.

That would be a fair price.

But considering your circumstance, I'm willing to make a deal.

That's very funny, Aussie.

Come on, I'm not in the mood.

Now look, what did you find out about by that?

Well, we're working on that.

But your friend Taylor Wilson, he really knew his stuff, Mike.

And running down the data on the disks, we discovered

that he had program categories for everything.

Categories?

Yeah, like where people were located and what they did for a living.

You're the only private investigator.

Well, that's a distinction.

Yeah, I'm flattered.

Well, you shouldn't be.

You're listed as underachiever and over sex.

That's our boy.

All right, did you happen to find out anything about the Omega group?

Oh, Stack 4 Omega group.

Yeah, here it is.

This is a list of the brightest students that ever went to Benjamin Franklin High.

You had to have over 160 IQ even to get in.

I noticed you didn't make it, did you?

I was too busy underachieving.

Arrow Ford, Virginia Warburton, Charles Landsberg, Taylor Wilson,

James Fuller, Steve Dempsey, Sylvia Wood, Rick Osgood.

Why isn't King Kong on this list?

Come on, 160 IQ?

Please.

I spent three years at BF.

It doesn't take a giant IQ to know what's going on.

I never even heard of this group.

Well, it was the most exclusive club in the school.

Why, some years, nobody could even qualify to get in.

Maybe it was a secret.

Yeah, it was a secret, all right.

There were two embarrassed to let anybody know that Rick Osgood was a member.

And the murders.

I needed a talk to him and the only language I knew he understood.

Light's on!

Light's on!

When you're finished, Rick, let's talk.

We'll die for this hammer.

But at least I won't have to commit suicide like Taylor.

Or Fuller, or you, or your omega group pal.

You're gonna have to deal with me.

Don't worry, sweetheart.

I'm just as chiropractic.

I think it is one more adjustment.

What about me?

Sorry, I don't have time.

See you next week.

Dr. Ford, Mr. Hammer is here to see you.

I'm glad to see you.

I was about to call you.

I was cross-indexing our financial information.

And I discovered that Charles Landsberg doesn't own Vidak anymore.

In fact, according to the program, the person who does own it now is...

Hey, Annie.

Hello, gorgeous.

How you doing?

Back again, so soon?

Uh-huh.

Listen, is Dr. Ford in?

I'd like to see him.

Again, you were just here.

What are you talking about?

I just took you in to see Dr. Ford 20 minutes ago.

I saw you leave.

Sweetheart, you got the wrong guy.

I think you've been running too many programs.

Hey, look, can I please see Dr. Ford?

Sure.

Dr. Ford.

It's dead.

You did it.

Hey, I just hold on.

I didn't do anything.

I wasn't here.

And if I did do it, do you think I'd be stupid enough to come back here?

I guess you couldn't, could you?

I wonder if...

No, it couldn't be.

What?

I've got something I'm going to show you.

How accurate is this reproduction?

It's exact.

It's three-dimensional.

This is a heart of our facsimile process.

Here it goes.

Just this.

All right.

Turning?

Right.

Now, in the simplest terms, what does this mean?

The simplest terms, this machine can take a photo

of anything and really turn it into a thing.

Even a human form.

Yeah.

Show me.

Just this.

Down to the minutest detail.

Look at this.

Meet our vice president in charge of accounting.

Looks overworked.

So what you're telling me is the guy that came here earlier

tonight and took care of Dr. Ford was wearing one of these.

Must have been.

Very interesting.

Look, Marilyn, that program that Dr. Ford was

working on, do you think we could see that?

It became clear that masks of me and George Lang did were made to hide a killer.

And whoever was behind this Vidak company was also behind the killings.

I was about to find out exactly who that was.

That's it.

Viola to make sure the person I wanted was going to be a Taylor Wilson's funeral.

I could say fine things about Taylor.

My student and my friend, but there are more important things that need to be said.

I've sorted through all my memories of the Omega Group.

Every member, yesterday I was shocked to find out

that one of you killed Taylor Wilson and Jimmy Fuller.

I've asked you here because I'm going to tell you who the person is.

Viola?

Michael.

What is this?

Hey, Amber.

I

like your suit, but not your face.

He's the killer.

I thank God it's over Charles.

It's not over.

Osgood's not the killer.

He's just the muscle.

Someone hired this poor yo-yo to take care

of Wilson, Jimmy Fuller and Virginia Warbird.

What are you saying, Amber?

Do you think you're financially secure at Charles?

I bet you think the buy deck is your company.

But what you don't know, pal, is that you signed the power

of attorney over to the guy that you trusted the most.

You don't know anything.

Not even the caps on your teeth, isn't that right, Dempsey?

Is that true?

And Jimmy Fuller found out about it and he threatened to tell.

And that's when you gave him the shaft.

Listen up, Amber.

Listen.

All right.

All right.

Hey, hey, Steve, come on now.

What made you want today, Charles?

I gave you everything I had.

What am I like to you?

You betrayed me.

You promised me we could go all the way together.

You promised me power!

You know, when you decided to go on bigger things without me.

So I decided that I'd take it all the way.

Yeah, I made you need me.

Even if it meant destroying you politically.

You killed Taylor Wilson to make me need you?

You didn't need me, Charles.

Why Virginia Warbird?

I have to protect you, Charles.

Protect me?

The Omega group must stick together.

I'll be the best.

I'll make it.

You'll see.

You must listen to me.

Listen to him, Charles.

He'll be bigger than Watergate.

Let me have the gun, Steve.

Come on.

Give it to me.

You sure, Charles?

Whatever you say, Charles.

It

looks like Virginia Warbird is coming around.

She's interviewing Viola for a big magazine article.

We're right here.

What happened with that?

What's the matter?

I thought you enjoyed for good friends.

You were good friends.

Hey, what do you think he still holds a grudge?

Why hasn't he called me?

Maybe he's just been busy.

Let me.

I bet you're wondering why I haven't returned your calls.

Yeah, I am.

I just wanted to come down here and meet your face to face.

And to say, I'm glad you still have good taste in music.

And Mike, you're still my man.

You're my man too.

You saved me if you died.

I wanted to invite you to the club.

We're going to try to open again tomorrow.

We'll be there.

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