1 00:00:11,477 --> 00:00:16,039 Sometimes when I'm quantum leaping, I have really good days. 2 00:00:16,115 --> 00:00:18,583 Days when I win the race, 3 00:00:18,650 --> 00:00:20,584 stop the bad guy... 4 00:00:20,652 --> 00:00:22,677 and kiss the girl. 5 00:00:33,632 --> 00:00:36,499 And then there are the bad days. 6 00:00:44,309 --> 00:00:46,334 Oh, boy. 7 00:00:46,412 --> 00:00:48,346 Uh, this... this is not what it looks like. 8 00:00:48,414 --> 00:00:50,348 Uh, he was dead when I got here? 9 00:00:50,416 --> 00:00:53,180 Mm-hmm. Anybody besides you and him to corroborate that? 10 00:00:53,252 --> 00:00:56,881 I don't know. Then you're gonna miss the Dodger opener, Nick. 11 00:00:56,955 --> 00:00:58,980 I'm still in L.A. 12 00:00:59,057 --> 00:01:04,495 "L.A." Yeah, sure. And, uh, Ebbets Field is in Hollywood. Call the coroner. 13 00:01:04,563 --> 00:01:07,396 What are you gonna do, try the insanity plea? 14 00:02:40,592 --> 00:02:43,993 Tales can come true 15 00:02:44,062 --> 00:02:46,530 It could happen to you 16 00:02:46,598 --> 00:02:49,829 It was 1953. 17 00:02:49,902 --> 00:02:55,499 The Dodgers were still in Brooklyn, and I was a private detective named Nick Allen. 18 00:02:55,574 --> 00:02:59,408 The dead man on the floor was my partner, Phil Grimsley. 19 00:02:59,478 --> 00:03:02,208 And if that wasn't enough to cause chills, 20 00:03:02,281 --> 00:03:04,374 there was the image in the mirror. 21 00:03:06,652 --> 00:03:09,212 Play it again, Sam. 22 00:03:12,291 --> 00:03:14,885 Uh, am I Bogie? 23 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:19,522 No. No, he's on Long Island with Audrey Hepburn making "Sabrina". 24 00:03:19,598 --> 00:03:21,759 But the resemblance is amazing. 25 00:03:21,833 --> 00:03:24,700 That might be why Nick became a gumshoe. 26 00:03:24,770 --> 00:03:26,704 Gumshoe? 27 00:03:26,772 --> 00:03:29,570 Shamus, tec, dick. 28 00:03:29,641 --> 00:03:32,405 You don't know the lingo. 29 00:03:32,477 --> 00:03:34,411 I don't remember. 30 00:03:34,479 --> 00:03:37,141 What kind of peep are you gonna make? 31 00:03:37,215 --> 00:03:39,740 At least I remember him. 32 00:03:39,818 --> 00:03:43,276 Here's lookin' at you, kid. 33 00:03:43,355 --> 00:03:46,791 If you're through playing, can we get down to business? 34 00:03:46,858 --> 00:03:49,986 Yeah. I'm sorry. Um, what am I here to do? 35 00:03:50,062 --> 00:03:52,496 Find the killer probably. 36 00:03:52,564 --> 00:03:54,691 Then I didn't do it! Uh, Nick didn't do it. 37 00:03:54,766 --> 00:03:58,099 Uh, Ziggy says it's 4-to-1 against. 38 00:03:58,170 --> 00:04:00,434 Your partner Phil was into seedy divorce cases, 39 00:04:00,505 --> 00:04:02,564 so he was probably of fed by someone... 40 00:04:02,641 --> 00:04:06,168 he snapshot in a compromising position or two. 41 00:04:06,244 --> 00:04:08,735 Who? Well, there's no data on that. 42 00:04:08,814 --> 00:04:10,748 You're the shamus. You figure it out. 43 00:04:10,816 --> 00:04:12,909 I'm not the shamus. 44 00:04:12,985 --> 00:04:15,180 Oh, you know. 45 00:04:19,458 --> 00:04:21,392 You dirty rat. 46 00:04:21,460 --> 00:04:23,928 You dirty, rotten rat. No, Sam. 47 00:04:23,996 --> 00:04:26,396 You killed my brother... S-Sam! 48 00:04:26,465 --> 00:04:29,491 That's Cagney, not Bogart. 49 00:04:29,568 --> 00:04:32,298 Yeah. Uh, right. 50 00:04:32,371 --> 00:04:36,273 Yeah, well, I gotta go. Tina's got this friend. 51 00:04:36,341 --> 00:04:40,243 Al, don't tell me you're cheating on Tina with her friend. 52 00:04:40,312 --> 00:04:44,646 A friend that knows a guy who's got a kid that works for a trainer, 53 00:04:44,716 --> 00:04:47,981 who happens to have a sure thing in the fourth race at Santa Anita. 54 00:04:48,053 --> 00:04:50,385 Now don't you feel bad about jumping to conclusions? 55 00:04:50,455 --> 00:04:52,389 No, I don't feel bad. 56 00:04:52,457 --> 00:04:55,984 Al, I'm in jail for a murder I didn't commit in the decade that I was born. 57 00:04:56,061 --> 00:04:58,757 All you care about is getting to... 58 00:05:01,066 --> 00:05:03,796 What? What? 59 00:05:03,869 --> 00:05:06,736 - I'm gonna be set free. - By whom? 60 00:05:06,805 --> 00:05:09,672 You! 61 00:05:09,741 --> 00:05:13,177 You, you I'm in love with you Al, don't ask me how I know this, 62 00:05:13,245 --> 00:05:18,615 but any second, a bald detective with a cigar is gonna come walking through... 63 00:05:18,684 --> 00:05:22,677 That door and tell me that the bullet that Grimsley took... 64 00:05:22,754 --> 00:05:24,688 didn't come from my gun. 65 00:05:24,756 --> 00:05:28,556 You're outta here, Nick. Ballistics said the slugs Grimsley stopped... 66 00:05:28,627 --> 00:05:30,652 didn't match your gun. 67 00:05:30,729 --> 00:05:33,061 - D�j� vu. - I don't think so. 68 00:05:33,131 --> 00:05:35,395 Fine, stay here for all I care. 69 00:05:35,467 --> 00:05:39,369 Uh, no. That's not what I meant. I wanna get out. Really. 70 00:05:43,175 --> 00:05:46,906 Well, if you're outta here, I'll see you later. 71 00:05:46,978 --> 00:05:50,880 Al, I... 72 00:05:50,949 --> 00:05:54,112 You've been hit in the head too many times with a sap, Nick. 73 00:06:15,974 --> 00:06:19,102 In a funny way, that detective might have been right. 74 00:06:19,177 --> 00:06:23,443 Maybe leaping from one year to another had done more than Swiss cheese my brain, 75 00:06:23,515 --> 00:06:26,916 because the feeling of d�j� vu had just struck again. 76 00:06:26,985 --> 00:06:30,944 Someone in publishing named Seymour was about to speak to me. 77 00:06:31,022 --> 00:06:33,320 - Seymour? - Bogie. 78 00:06:33,391 --> 00:06:35,325 Oh, uh, no, ma'am. 79 00:06:35,393 --> 00:06:38,157 He's in Long Island with Audrey Hepburn and William Holden. 80 00:06:46,538 --> 00:06:46,985 Nick! 81 00:06:46,986 --> 00:06:48,573 I knew them all. 82 00:06:48,574 --> 00:06:51,433 The older guy was Lionel, the building superintendent. 83 00:06:51,510 --> 00:06:55,606 The elevator operator was Chuck, and Seymour was the boy behind the news stand. 84 00:06:55,680 --> 00:06:58,012 I guess you could consider that being in publishing. 85 00:06:58,083 --> 00:07:00,711 Sorry about Phil, Nick. You okay? 86 00:07:00,786 --> 00:07:04,552 I can't believe Phil's gone. Seems like yesterday that I was taking him up and down. 87 00:07:04,623 --> 00:07:06,614 It was yesterday. 88 00:07:08,794 --> 00:07:10,762 How'd Allison take it? 89 00:07:10,829 --> 00:07:14,697 How bad could she take it? A body like that doesn't marry a guy like Phil for love. 90 00:07:14,766 --> 00:07:16,961 Any idea who killed him? 91 00:07:17,035 --> 00:07:20,027 Word on the street is he was fogged by a dropper called Klapper. 92 00:07:20,105 --> 00:07:23,040 A dropper called Klapper? 93 00:07:23,108 --> 00:07:25,042 Why would a dropper be after Phil? Are you kidding? 94 00:07:25,110 --> 00:07:27,806 I bet Phil and Nick put a dozen Hard Harry's in the slammer. 95 00:07:27,879 --> 00:07:30,871 Any one of them could have paid a dropper to fog him. Right, Nick? 96 00:07:31,950 --> 00:07:33,884 Well, I-I hope not. 97 00:07:33,952 --> 00:07:37,581 - I don't like tenants with hit men after them. - No, no, neither do I. 98 00:07:37,656 --> 00:07:39,681 What are you gonna do, let the cops handle it? 99 00:07:39,758 --> 00:07:43,626 Are you kidding? The man's partner buys it, he doesn't stop until he nails the dropper. 100 00:07:43,695 --> 00:07:48,132 Like Tommy Trueblood. Tommy's partner was found in the Pacific, sucking kelp. 101 00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:50,225 Tommy had to take on the cops, the mob, 102 00:07:50,302 --> 00:07:53,203 and bad criminal elements, but he got the dropper. 103 00:07:53,271 --> 00:07:55,205 And that's what you're gonna do, right, Nick? 104 00:07:57,275 --> 00:07:59,937 Well, I-I don't know. But not here. 105 00:08:00,011 --> 00:08:02,172 I don't want any shooting around here. 106 00:08:02,247 --> 00:08:04,340 It frightens the tenants. 107 00:08:04,416 --> 00:08:07,579 Well, I'll, uh, I'll try not to get shot... 108 00:08:07,652 --> 00:08:09,586 here. 109 00:08:16,394 --> 00:08:18,328 Something wrong? 110 00:08:18,396 --> 00:08:20,990 You never paid me for a paper before. 111 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:25,499 Well, it's about time I started. 112 00:08:32,143 --> 00:08:34,577 What's the record? Twelve minutes and eight seconds. 113 00:08:34,646 --> 00:08:36,580 It didn't take that long. 114 00:08:36,648 --> 00:08:38,878 I got a buck says he can't fix it quicker. 115 00:08:38,950 --> 00:08:42,078 Make that two. You want a piece of this, Nick? 116 00:08:51,463 --> 00:08:53,556 Gee, thanks, Nick. 117 00:08:53,632 --> 00:08:55,566 You're welcome. 118 00:09:13,685 --> 00:09:15,676 Thanks. 119 00:09:20,492 --> 00:09:26,453 Uh, Nick. I, uh, I got these tickets to the Dodger game tomorrow, and, um... 120 00:09:26,531 --> 00:09:31,264 Oh, uh, thanks, Chuck, but I don't think I'll be able to make it. 121 00:09:31,336 --> 00:09:33,270 Oh, I didn't mean you. 122 00:09:33,338 --> 00:09:36,796 I was wondering if maybe you could ask Allison if she wanted to go. 123 00:09:36,875 --> 00:09:39,469 You know, to take her mind off Phil's dying. 124 00:09:40,578 --> 00:09:44,070 Yeah, right. It's too soon. 125 00:09:44,149 --> 00:09:46,083 It's a bad idea. 126 00:09:54,793 --> 00:09:58,820 I was still trying to figure out how anyone could be as tasteless as Chuck... 127 00:10:00,098 --> 00:10:03,465 when the d�j� vu feeling hit me again. 128 00:10:09,941 --> 00:10:12,307 Someone was in my office. 129 00:10:13,578 --> 00:10:16,570 Someone... dangerous. 130 00:10:20,352 --> 00:10:23,253 Boy, was I right. 131 00:10:23,321 --> 00:10:26,256 Oh, Nick, it's so horrible. 132 00:10:26,324 --> 00:10:28,258 When I found out the police thought you killed Phil... 133 00:10:28,326 --> 00:10:30,658 Allison. I was so afraid they'd find out about us. 134 00:10:31,963 --> 00:10:34,363 Oh, boy. I mean, it would be motive... 135 00:10:34,432 --> 00:10:36,366 for you to kill Phil. 136 00:10:36,434 --> 00:10:38,368 Wouldn't it? 137 00:10:38,436 --> 00:10:40,768 Uh, yeah. 138 00:10:40,839 --> 00:10:42,966 But you didn't. 139 00:10:43,041 --> 00:10:45,009 No. 140 00:10:45,076 --> 00:10:47,874 Oh, Nick, I'm so glad. 141 00:10:47,946 --> 00:10:51,746 I don't know if I could love a man who killed my husband. 142 00:10:53,785 --> 00:10:56,219 But if you didn't do it, who did? 143 00:10:56,287 --> 00:10:59,256 Phil ever mention someone called Klapper? 144 00:10:59,324 --> 00:11:01,258 The dropper? 145 00:11:01,326 --> 00:11:03,817 You know him? No. 146 00:11:03,895 --> 00:11:09,197 One night in bed... Uh, you know we slept in twin beds. 147 00:11:09,267 --> 00:11:11,462 Uh-huh. Yeah. 148 00:11:11,536 --> 00:11:14,505 Well, one night Phil was having this nightmare, 149 00:11:14,572 --> 00:11:18,440 mumbling something about a dropper named Klapper. 150 00:11:18,510 --> 00:11:20,569 Is he the murderer? 151 00:11:21,579 --> 00:11:25,777 Could be. Oh, Nick, I'm so scared. 152 00:11:25,850 --> 00:11:30,219 I can't go back to my apartment. I just can't. 153 00:11:30,288 --> 00:11:32,950 Don't you have somewhere else to stay? 154 00:11:34,392 --> 00:11:36,724 Well, what about your place? 155 00:11:39,130 --> 00:11:41,098 My place? 156 00:11:41,166 --> 00:11:45,193 Well, I-I know it's a little sudden, 157 00:11:45,270 --> 00:11:48,728 maybe in bad taste, 158 00:11:48,807 --> 00:11:50,968 but Phillip's dead. 159 00:11:51,042 --> 00:11:54,273 And we've been waiting so long. 160 00:11:56,181 --> 00:11:58,945 Waiting? You mean, we never... 161 00:12:00,251 --> 00:12:05,917 No, of course we never. Phil... Phillip was your husband. 162 00:12:05,990 --> 00:12:07,924 And your partner. Yeah. 163 00:12:07,992 --> 00:12:10,392 And a man can't... 164 00:12:10,462 --> 00:12:13,829 With his partner's wife. 165 00:12:13,898 --> 00:12:17,163 Until his partner... is gone. 166 00:12:38,857 --> 00:12:42,190 Thank you. 167 00:13:24,569 --> 00:13:26,503 "I found Phil emptying a bottle... 168 00:13:26,571 --> 00:13:30,905 "with a hand shakier than a grass skirt on Waikiki. 169 00:13:30,975 --> 00:13:35,207 "He looked like a cat working on his ninth life... 170 00:13:35,280 --> 00:13:39,182 ever since he heard a dropper named Klapper was looking for him." 171 00:13:40,818 --> 00:13:42,911 It's not d�j� vu. 172 00:13:45,523 --> 00:13:47,650 I read this book. 173 00:13:51,797 --> 00:13:53,890 "She was a flamer. 174 00:13:53,965 --> 00:13:57,696 A redhead who could make Father Flanagan forget Boys Town." 175 00:13:57,769 --> 00:14:00,101 My first wife was just like that. 176 00:14:00,172 --> 00:14:03,198 Al. Look, I read this book, Nick's writing. 177 00:14:03,275 --> 00:14:06,506 That's why I know everything. It's not d�j� vu. 178 00:14:06,578 --> 00:14:10,070 Another illusion shattered forever. 179 00:14:10,148 --> 00:14:12,275 Nick and Allison loved each other, 180 00:14:12,350 --> 00:14:14,944 but they were too loyal to Phil to do anything about it. 181 00:14:15,020 --> 00:14:16,954 Listen to this. 182 00:14:17,022 --> 00:14:20,219 "The heat between us was like a six-day jaunt in the Sahara, 183 00:14:20,292 --> 00:14:24,353 but our ties to Phil were as tight as the drunk on the corner stool." 184 00:14:24,429 --> 00:14:28,331 - Not exactly Faulkner. - Yeah, you can say that again. 185 00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:32,234 I think I'm here to find Phil's killer, so that Allison and I can live happily ever after. 186 00:14:32,304 --> 00:14:35,000 Sam, don't you mean Allison and Nick? 187 00:14:36,608 --> 00:14:39,168 Well, yeah, sure. 188 00:14:40,612 --> 00:14:44,514 Sam, you know, Allison could be the killer. 189 00:14:45,584 --> 00:14:47,211 No. No? 190 00:14:47,285 --> 00:14:50,584 - No. - No? Why do you say no? 191 00:14:50,655 --> 00:14:53,988 Because "her body could part the Red Army"? 192 00:14:54,059 --> 00:14:58,587 No, because... we've got Klapper. 193 00:14:58,663 --> 00:15:01,996 Careful, Sam. There was no cure for that in 1953. 194 00:15:02,067 --> 00:15:06,265 Al, Klapper is the dropper who shot Phil. At least that's the rumor. 195 00:15:06,338 --> 00:15:09,739 Yeah, but people hire droppers. It wasn't Allison. 196 00:15:09,808 --> 00:15:13,574 But whoever it was is probably here in Nick's book. 197 00:15:13,645 --> 00:15:18,605 So, if you could just find me... "Dead Men Don't Die". 198 00:15:18,683 --> 00:15:22,175 Uh, I doubt that it was published under that title. 199 00:15:22,254 --> 00:15:24,188 Check under Nick Allen. 200 00:15:24,656 --> 00:15:27,648 Maybe he used a nom de plume. I would. 201 00:15:27,725 --> 00:15:30,421 Just have Ziggy do it, okay? That's what computers are for. 202 00:15:30,495 --> 00:15:34,192 Just find me the rest of this book, because for the life of me, I can't remember how it ended. 203 00:15:34,265 --> 00:15:36,631 Well, it wasn't with Allison and Nick living happily ever after. 204 00:15:36,701 --> 00:15:39,898 You read it? No. But if it ended like that, 205 00:15:39,971 --> 00:15:43,930 why would you be here... so they could live unhappily ever after? 206 00:15:53,518 --> 00:15:55,679 Maybe Al's right. 207 00:15:55,753 --> 00:15:59,382 Maybe Nick and Allison didn't end up together. 208 00:16:00,458 --> 00:16:02,585 But that was then, 209 00:16:02,660 --> 00:16:04,651 and this is now. 210 00:16:04,729 --> 00:16:07,254 And I'm here to see that they do. 211 00:16:07,332 --> 00:16:11,894 And to do that, I've gotta find Phil's killer. 212 00:16:17,675 --> 00:16:19,643 Must be Phil's... 213 00:16:30,855 --> 00:16:33,153 Hey, Nick, I got a lead on the Klapper. 214 00:16:33,224 --> 00:16:35,385 He's gonna be at the Blue Island tonight. 215 00:16:35,460 --> 00:16:38,827 I read about the Blue... Phil told me about the Blue Island. 216 00:16:38,896 --> 00:16:41,694 I got tipped by a kid I was in the orphanage with who works there, 217 00:16:41,766 --> 00:16:44,428 but he couldn't or wouldn't give me a face. 218 00:16:44,502 --> 00:16:46,595 How are we gonna know what he looks like? 219 00:16:46,671 --> 00:16:50,004 Same way Tommy Trueblood did in The Lipstick Murders. 220 00:16:50,074 --> 00:16:53,339 Pose as a couple of mafioso who want to offer him a contract. You got your roscoe? 221 00:16:53,411 --> 00:16:55,402 - Roscoe? - Your piece, gat, shooter. 222 00:16:55,480 --> 00:16:58,210 My gun? Uh, no, the police have it. 223 00:16:58,282 --> 00:17:01,308 That's okay. We always got our dukes. Ain't that right, Nick? 224 00:17:01,386 --> 00:17:04,549 Yeah, that we got. Seymour! 225 00:17:28,579 --> 00:17:31,946 Seymour, what... 226 00:17:38,189 --> 00:17:42,148 This can't happen. The doors won't open unless the elevator's there. 227 00:17:42,226 --> 00:17:44,524 They can if the safety latch is broken. 228 00:17:44,595 --> 00:17:47,496 Broken? It happens. 229 00:17:47,565 --> 00:17:49,760 This is your fault. Mine? 230 00:17:49,834 --> 00:17:52,769 I told you this elevator was old and needed replacing. 231 00:17:52,837 --> 00:17:54,930 Klapper did it. 232 00:17:55,006 --> 00:17:59,033 I don't think so, Seymour. Klapper's a pro, and pros rarely miss. 233 00:17:59,110 --> 00:18:02,568 Anyway, how could he be sure I'd use the elevator next, or walk blindly into it? 234 00:18:02,647 --> 00:18:06,811 That was my fault. I distracted you. I'm always getting in the way. 235 00:18:06,884 --> 00:18:10,980 Look, Seymour, it's not your fault. I should have looked first. 236 00:18:11,055 --> 00:18:14,616 I've caused accidents since I was born, probably before. 237 00:18:14,692 --> 00:18:16,990 Maybe that's why my folks dumped me. 238 00:18:17,061 --> 00:18:21,259 Seymour, you were abandoned? 239 00:18:21,332 --> 00:18:23,266 Left on a stoop in the Village. 240 00:18:23,334 --> 00:18:26,929 I grew up in the East End Orphanage, mostly in the library. 241 00:18:27,004 --> 00:18:29,302 Hey, there's nothing wrong with liking to read. 242 00:18:29,373 --> 00:18:31,307 I slept there. 243 00:18:31,375 --> 00:18:33,775 Only place nobody would bother me. 244 00:18:35,012 --> 00:18:36,980 If I could just be like you. 245 00:18:37,048 --> 00:18:39,778 What, a two-bit detective who deals in divorce cases? 246 00:18:39,851 --> 00:18:43,548 Don't say that. You're Nick Allen. You're the best. 247 00:18:43,621 --> 00:18:46,385 That's what I always said. 248 00:18:46,457 --> 00:18:48,391 Oh, boy. 249 00:18:49,460 --> 00:18:51,690 Something wrong? 250 00:18:51,762 --> 00:18:56,961 Sorry, I just never saw a widow look like you. 251 00:18:57,034 --> 00:18:59,366 Can I help it if I look good in black? 252 00:18:59,437 --> 00:19:01,462 Besides, I hadn't planned on dressing tonight. 253 00:19:01,539 --> 00:19:04,736 - Nick, we gotta go. - Go? 254 00:19:04,809 --> 00:19:07,642 We got a lead at the Blue Island. 255 00:19:07,712 --> 00:19:09,646 Nick, you can't go there. Why not? 256 00:19:09,714 --> 00:19:11,841 God, Nick, that's where Phillip went the night he was killed. 257 00:19:11,916 --> 00:19:14,851 Why didn't you tell me? 258 00:19:14,919 --> 00:19:17,114 You went with him. 259 00:19:18,923 --> 00:19:21,391 Of course I did. 260 00:19:21,459 --> 00:19:23,825 - Nick, what's wrong? - He's a little shook. 261 00:19:23,895 --> 00:19:25,829 He nearly fell down the elevator shaft. 262 00:19:25,897 --> 00:19:27,728 - What? - It was my fault. 263 00:19:27,798 --> 00:19:29,857 It was not your fault. It was an accident. 264 00:19:29,934 --> 00:19:32,869 Whoever killed Phillip is after you, isn't he? 265 00:19:32,937 --> 00:19:35,098 - Well... - Klapper's a pro. 266 00:19:35,172 --> 00:19:39,939 He knows the code, and Nick won't stop tracking his crushers till they're pushing daisies. 267 00:19:40,011 --> 00:19:43,174 Nick, please don't go to the Blue Island. 268 00:19:43,247 --> 00:19:47,206 Well, I have to, Allison. You want me to find Phillip's killer, don't you? 269 00:20:12,310 --> 00:20:16,406 I had two theories as to why Allison insisted on coming to the Blue Island. 270 00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:19,540 One, she had hired Klapper to kill Phil... 271 00:20:19,617 --> 00:20:21,551 and wanted to be sure that I didn't find him. 272 00:20:21,619 --> 00:20:24,645 Two, she really loved me... uh, Nick... 273 00:20:24,722 --> 00:20:26,656 and was frightened for his safety. 274 00:20:26,724 --> 00:20:30,490 I really should be frightened, but I feel so safe in your arms. 275 00:20:30,561 --> 00:20:32,961 Guess which one I believed? 276 00:20:47,511 --> 00:20:49,445 You spotted him? Who? 277 00:20:49,513 --> 00:20:51,447 Klapper. No, no. 278 00:20:51,515 --> 00:20:55,042 Just thought I recognized an old client. You know, messy divorce case. 279 00:20:55,119 --> 00:20:58,646 Thank God I didn't have to go through that. 280 00:20:58,723 --> 00:21:01,920 Oh, I didn't mean that the way it sounded, Nick. I swear. 281 00:21:01,993 --> 00:21:03,927 I'm... 282 00:21:14,105 --> 00:21:16,164 You do see him! 283 00:21:25,049 --> 00:21:27,517 Klapper's in the band, isn't he? 284 00:21:27,585 --> 00:21:30,213 How can I spot someone if I don't even know what he looks like? 285 00:21:30,287 --> 00:21:34,053 - He may look like a she. - What? 286 00:21:34,125 --> 00:21:37,788 My buddy just told me the word on the street is that Klapper's a woman. 287 00:21:39,730 --> 00:21:42,198 I think I'll go get us some fresh drinks. 288 00:21:42,266 --> 00:21:44,496 - Oh, I'll get 'em, Nick. - That's all right. 289 00:21:44,568 --> 00:21:48,004 - You stay here and keep Allison company. - Sure! 290 00:21:50,508 --> 00:21:52,942 You ever read Tommy Trueblood? 291 00:22:02,453 --> 00:22:04,512 Oh, Sam, wow. 292 00:22:04,588 --> 00:22:07,523 Allison is a killer. 293 00:22:07,591 --> 00:22:10,958 Nick wrote that? Nick? Oh, the book. 294 00:22:11,028 --> 00:22:14,486 No, no, I'm talking about her body... deadly. 295 00:22:14,565 --> 00:22:17,693 Oh, Al. She reminds me of this redhead in billing. 296 00:22:17,768 --> 00:22:20,760 Al, so help me, if you start with one of your sleazy sex stories, 297 00:22:20,838 --> 00:22:23,272 hologram or no hologram, I'll slug ya. 298 00:22:23,340 --> 00:22:25,274 - Sleazy? - Sleazy. 299 00:22:25,342 --> 00:22:29,176 Well, Sam, you know there's sleaze and there's sleaze, please. 300 00:22:29,246 --> 00:22:31,373 Who killed Phil? I don't know. 301 00:22:31,449 --> 00:22:33,440 What do you mean? You got the book. I saw you. 302 00:22:33,517 --> 00:22:35,610 Yeah, but, you know, it's an unfinished mystery. 303 00:22:35,686 --> 00:22:38,382 It's one of those contest books they had in the '50s. 304 00:22:38,456 --> 00:22:44,326 You figure out who did the murder and if the cops can prove it, then you win 10 grand. 305 00:22:44,395 --> 00:22:49,355 Al, it says, "Who Killed Grimsley and Allen?" 306 00:22:49,433 --> 00:22:53,301 Yeah, I-I thought you'd notice that last part. 307 00:23:06,317 --> 00:23:08,649 This pin jabber tried to fog him with a stick of nitro, 308 00:23:08,719 --> 00:23:12,621 but Tommy smelled the blow, and creased the horse rider with an ounce of lead. 309 00:23:12,690 --> 00:23:15,090 Really. That was nothing compared to the time... 310 00:23:15,159 --> 00:23:17,093 Tommy ran afoul on Hound Dog Harry. 311 00:23:17,161 --> 00:23:20,062 He was tracking this dropper who creased a wheelchair rider from Queens. 312 00:23:24,068 --> 00:23:28,266 Two martinis, extra dry and a Shirley Temple... three dollars. 313 00:23:28,339 --> 00:23:30,864 Three dollars? What a rip-off. 314 00:23:30,941 --> 00:23:35,640 It's 1953. Any downtown bar would charge you a buck and a quarter, tops. 315 00:23:35,713 --> 00:23:39,444 - How did I, uh, die? - Back-stopped an ounce of lead. 316 00:23:39,517 --> 00:23:42,975 - Klapper? - Probably. But nobody ever collected on it. 317 00:23:43,053 --> 00:23:45,112 Who did the readers suspect? 318 00:23:45,189 --> 00:23:47,851 Everybody, from Joseph Stalin to Colonel Mustard. 319 00:23:47,925 --> 00:23:52,953 But most of the folks voted for your paramour, the Red Widow. 320 00:23:53,030 --> 00:23:55,191 - But they didn't prove it. - Well, they couldn't... 321 00:23:55,266 --> 00:23:58,326 because Allison and Seymour disappeared on the night of Nick's murder, 322 00:23:58,402 --> 00:24:00,495 which, by the way, is tonight. 323 00:24:01,906 --> 00:24:03,840 Allison and Seymour? 324 00:24:03,908 --> 00:24:07,537 Rumor has it that they flew off to Rio together. 325 00:24:07,611 --> 00:24:10,644 - Cigars. Cigarettes. - I can't believe that. 326 00:24:10,645 --> 00:24:11,448 Hi, Nick. 327 00:24:11,449 --> 00:24:13,950 It does kind of stretch the imagination, doesn't it? 328 00:24:14,018 --> 00:24:19,547 But, you know, some women have kinky taste in men. Thank you. 329 00:24:19,623 --> 00:24:22,490 Thank God. Al. 330 00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:24,721 Maybe Klapper killed them and then hid the bodies. 331 00:24:24,795 --> 00:24:28,162 No, your partner Phil, his body was found in the office. 332 00:24:28,232 --> 00:24:32,692 And your... uh, Nick's body... was found at La Guardia. 333 00:24:32,770 --> 00:24:36,137 So, if they were left where they were dropped, why hide Allison and Seymour? 334 00:24:36,207 --> 00:24:38,869 I don't know, Al. It just seems like... 335 00:24:38,943 --> 00:24:41,912 the most logical explanation. 336 00:24:41,979 --> 00:24:45,881 Well, the more logical one is that Allison is Klapper. 337 00:24:45,950 --> 00:24:48,976 If you wanna have safe sex with her, you'd better wear a bulletproof vest. 338 00:24:49,053 --> 00:24:52,386 - Al, come on. - Oh, well, maybe I'm wrong. 339 00:24:52,456 --> 00:24:56,722 But with a body like that, how could she be interested in Seymour, 340 00:24:56,794 --> 00:24:58,989 no matter how kinky she is? 341 00:24:59,063 --> 00:25:04,091 She must have used him, and then when she got tired of him, she blew him away in Rio. 342 00:25:04,168 --> 00:25:08,571 - Allison didn't blow anyone away. - How do you know? 343 00:25:08,639 --> 00:25:11,403 - How do you know? - Instinct. 344 00:25:11,475 --> 00:25:15,673 Well, my instinct tells me that that broad has got you tied in knots this way, that way... 345 00:25:15,746 --> 00:25:18,408 Your instincts got you married five times, right? 346 00:25:18,482 --> 00:25:21,246 That your Swiss cheese brain remembers. 347 00:25:21,318 --> 00:25:24,014 Well, I wanna tell you something, pal. 348 00:25:24,088 --> 00:25:26,454 You haven't been getting any lately. 349 00:25:26,523 --> 00:25:28,457 Don't compare me to yourself. 350 00:25:28,525 --> 00:25:31,016 I think with my brain, and I don't cloud my judgment with a bottle. 351 00:25:39,136 --> 00:25:43,800 Well, yeah, well, uh, Tina's waiting for me. 352 00:25:43,874 --> 00:25:46,035 Uh, got a hot tip in the eighth. 353 00:25:48,312 --> 00:25:50,542 A "Nostalgia Kills." 354 00:25:50,614 --> 00:25:55,642 That's a funny name, huh, for a filly? 355 00:25:55,719 --> 00:25:58,119 You take my advice, pal. 356 00:25:58,188 --> 00:26:02,784 Don't go near La Guardia. Anyplace but La Guardia. 357 00:26:08,499 --> 00:26:12,128 Why do we hurt people for telling us the truth? 358 00:26:14,805 --> 00:26:16,864 Al was right. 359 00:26:16,941 --> 00:26:19,876 When it came to Allison, I was as blind as a dead bat... 360 00:26:19,944 --> 00:26:23,311 and tighter than a granny knot at a Cub Scout picnic. 361 00:26:23,380 --> 00:26:26,144 My God, I'm thinking like Seymour. 362 00:26:38,095 --> 00:26:40,063 This is for you, Bogie. 363 00:26:56,680 --> 00:26:59,205 Everybody must think Bogie looks like you. 364 00:26:59,283 --> 00:27:01,251 I think that's the other way around, Seymour. 365 00:27:01,318 --> 00:27:03,718 Looks like it's gonna pour. You wait here. 366 00:27:03,787 --> 00:27:06,312 I'll catch us a cab on Madison. 367 00:27:13,597 --> 00:27:15,531 What's wrong? 368 00:27:17,001 --> 00:27:19,265 Look, Allison, um... 369 00:27:20,838 --> 00:27:23,739 Did you love Phil? 370 00:27:23,807 --> 00:27:25,741 What kind of a question is that? 371 00:27:25,809 --> 00:27:27,902 The kind that has to be asked. 372 00:27:27,978 --> 00:27:32,244 I was 16 when I met Phil. 373 00:27:33,584 --> 00:27:36,018 He was in Pittsburgh for a divorce case. 374 00:27:37,788 --> 00:27:40,586 I guess you could say he swept me off my feet. 375 00:27:40,657 --> 00:27:42,625 So you loved him. 376 00:27:42,693 --> 00:27:45,025 I loved the idea of him. 377 00:27:45,095 --> 00:27:49,327 He was older. He was from New York. 378 00:27:51,702 --> 00:27:55,103 To the daughter of a steelworker, 379 00:27:55,172 --> 00:27:57,367 he was very sophisticated. 380 00:27:58,742 --> 00:28:00,767 Guess I was as naive as Seymour, huh? 381 00:28:04,181 --> 00:28:06,115 No, I didn't love him. 382 00:28:11,688 --> 00:28:14,248 I think the only man I ever loved is you. 383 00:28:40,617 --> 00:28:42,915 Where's that cab? 384 00:28:48,492 --> 00:28:51,586 I'll go get one. Hurry. 385 00:28:54,763 --> 00:28:56,291 Nick! 386 00:28:56,366 --> 00:28:59,096 Get back! 387 00:29:05,809 --> 00:29:08,937 Where is he? In the alley. 388 00:29:14,017 --> 00:29:16,349 He's gone. 389 00:29:18,255 --> 00:29:21,588 You're bleeding. 390 00:29:21,658 --> 00:29:24,286 Just a scratch. 391 00:29:24,361 --> 00:29:26,295 Angel. 392 00:29:37,207 --> 00:29:40,768 Sorry it took so long! 393 00:29:42,579 --> 00:29:44,979 Nick, you're creased. Somebody shot at us. 394 00:29:45,048 --> 00:29:48,984 - Klapper? - Gotham Towers. 395 00:29:49,052 --> 00:29:51,043 What took you so long, Seymour? 396 00:29:51,121 --> 00:29:53,817 The canaries were harder to find than a hooker on Sunday morning. 397 00:29:53,891 --> 00:29:55,825 Plenty of canaries... 398 00:29:55,893 --> 00:29:58,487 - Plenty of cabs from what I could see. - When I finally got one, 399 00:29:58,562 --> 00:30:01,759 this Hard Harry with a kisser that could break a mirror in the next apartment... 400 00:30:01,832 --> 00:30:03,857 stepped on my daisy crushers... Stop it! 401 00:30:03,934 --> 00:30:06,994 No one can be as nerdy as you're acting. 402 00:30:07,070 --> 00:30:09,004 Nerdy? 403 00:30:09,072 --> 00:30:12,166 Wimpy, wussy, dopey, goofy. 404 00:30:12,242 --> 00:30:14,642 You don't mean that, Nick. Every word of it. 405 00:30:14,711 --> 00:30:17,179 Look, you've been on me, closer than my underwear, 406 00:30:17,247 --> 00:30:19,181 and it's getting boring. Take it easy, Nick. 407 00:30:19,249 --> 00:30:23,185 He's gotta find out sometime that he's not gonna be Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe or Thomas Magnum. 408 00:30:23,253 --> 00:30:25,585 Magnum? I don't wanna be like those guys. 409 00:30:25,656 --> 00:30:27,715 I just wanna be like you. Me? 410 00:30:27,791 --> 00:30:30,089 Kid. 411 00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:33,687 If I'm lucky, I'm gonna spend the rest of my life leaping around from one place to another... 412 00:30:33,764 --> 00:30:36,164 instead of face down in a pool of blood. 413 00:30:36,233 --> 00:30:38,929 - Don't do this, Nick! - It's done. 414 00:30:39,002 --> 00:30:42,494 From now on, you find some other shamus to pester. 415 00:30:50,781 --> 00:30:53,579 Be right back. 416 00:30:55,285 --> 00:30:58,982 Nick's just tired and hurt. He didn't mean it, Seymour. 417 00:30:59,056 --> 00:31:01,388 I think he did. 418 00:32:20,304 --> 00:32:22,238 Thank you. 419 00:32:25,042 --> 00:32:28,569 I already hurt one friend tonight. I can't hurt two. 420 00:32:30,814 --> 00:32:34,750 Look, Seymour, you... 421 00:32:34,818 --> 00:32:39,152 you're not a nerd or a wuss or a wimp... 422 00:32:39,222 --> 00:32:41,690 or any of the other names that I called you. 423 00:32:41,758 --> 00:32:45,125 You're a neat kid and a good friend. 424 00:32:45,195 --> 00:32:47,129 Thank you. 425 00:32:47,197 --> 00:32:52,294 The kind a guy can count on, which is why I said what I did. 426 00:32:52,369 --> 00:32:54,303 I don't get it. 427 00:32:55,372 --> 00:32:57,704 I'm going after Klapper tonight. 428 00:32:58,809 --> 00:33:01,334 I didn't want you tagging along. 429 00:33:03,413 --> 00:33:05,347 You were afraid I'd get hurt. 430 00:33:05,415 --> 00:33:07,349 Or in the way. 431 00:33:07,417 --> 00:33:10,113 Who is he, Nick? I don't know. 432 00:33:10,187 --> 00:33:12,314 For a while, I thought it was you. 433 00:33:12,389 --> 00:33:14,323 Me? Yeah. 434 00:33:14,391 --> 00:33:16,325 You practically shoved me into the elevator. 435 00:33:16,393 --> 00:33:20,386 And tonight when he tried to fog me, you were flagging a canary. 436 00:33:20,464 --> 00:33:22,898 It could have been me, but it wasn't. Yeah. 437 00:33:22,966 --> 00:33:25,491 No, I realized that in the cab. 438 00:33:25,569 --> 00:33:28,436 It was raining when Klapper shot at me from the alley. 439 00:33:28,505 --> 00:33:30,632 If you were Klapper, you would have been soaked. 440 00:33:30,707 --> 00:33:33,005 But you don't know who he is. I know where he is. 441 00:33:33,076 --> 00:33:36,239 And we're going after him. No. 442 00:33:36,313 --> 00:33:38,372 I'm going after him. 443 00:33:38,448 --> 00:33:42,646 I could be an extra pair of peepers, cover your seat. 444 00:33:42,719 --> 00:33:47,679 Nick, after what you said, you owe it to me. 445 00:33:49,559 --> 00:33:51,925 Okay, kid, 446 00:33:51,995 --> 00:33:54,759 on two conditions. Name 'em. 447 00:33:54,831 --> 00:33:57,026 One: You follow my orders to the letter. 448 00:33:57,100 --> 00:33:59,034 And? 449 00:33:59,102 --> 00:34:01,127 Go get a raincoat so you don't catch pneumonia. 450 00:34:01,204 --> 00:34:03,468 Gotcha! 451 00:34:07,477 --> 00:34:09,502 So long, Seymour. 452 00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:25,887 I thought you'd never get here. 453 00:34:42,345 --> 00:34:45,007 Just missed the cab, huh? 454 00:34:51,955 --> 00:34:55,823 I got it. You laid a Ben Franklin on the cocktail shaker at the Blue Island, 455 00:34:55,892 --> 00:34:59,828 and he opened up like a pencil pusher from Toledo on his third martini. 456 00:34:59,896 --> 00:35:02,922 I gave the bartender at the club $100, 457 00:35:02,999 --> 00:35:06,400 and he started talking like an accountant from Toledo who'd had one too many? 458 00:35:06,469 --> 00:35:08,960 - That's what I said. - Oh, God, I understood you. 459 00:35:09,038 --> 00:35:11,438 - Am I right? - No. 460 00:35:11,507 --> 00:35:14,305 Then how do you know Klapper's taking Allison to La Guardia? 461 00:35:14,377 --> 00:35:17,175 - And not vice versa. - Al. 462 00:35:17,247 --> 00:35:19,442 Al? Who's Al? 463 00:35:19,515 --> 00:35:22,211 A... A friend. A real good friend. 464 00:35:22,285 --> 00:35:24,412 Well, let's not get mushy about it. 465 00:35:24,487 --> 00:35:26,546 The one who tipped you to the Klapper. 466 00:35:26,623 --> 00:35:28,887 Well, he tipped me about a lot of things, and I wouldn't listen. 467 00:35:28,958 --> 00:35:32,189 Well, maybe I went a little too far. 468 00:35:32,262 --> 00:35:35,857 I got angry and I said some things that I regret. 469 00:35:35,932 --> 00:35:39,129 He's the other friend you hurt tonight? 470 00:35:39,202 --> 00:35:41,295 What, you jumped on the kid too? 471 00:35:42,505 --> 00:35:45,065 - I'm afraid so. - Aw, Sam. 472 00:35:45,141 --> 00:35:47,609 I'll bet you didn't want him to get hurt either. 473 00:35:47,677 --> 00:35:50,202 Hurt? 474 00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:53,078 Where are we going, Sam? 475 00:35:53,149 --> 00:35:56,050 - La Guardia. - Yeah. 476 00:36:10,733 --> 00:36:15,227 Sam, uh, this is very dangerous. 477 00:36:17,707 --> 00:36:21,643 - Allison's in there somewhere. - That's why it's dangerous. 478 00:36:25,315 --> 00:36:27,408 It's a big bird roost, Nick. 479 00:36:27,483 --> 00:36:32,147 Yeah. All right, you take that end, I'll take this one, and I'll meet you in the middle. 480 00:36:32,221 --> 00:36:35,190 - Gotcha! - Seymour. 481 00:36:35,258 --> 00:36:40,924 Allison may have hired Klapper to kill Phil. 482 00:36:40,997 --> 00:36:44,125 - Thanks. - Nick, you can't think that. 483 00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:47,499 - Well, no, but, - Oh, Sam. 484 00:36:47,570 --> 00:36:49,800 As long as there's a possibility, 485 00:36:49,872 --> 00:36:52,466 if you eyeball my main squeeze, 486 00:36:52,542 --> 00:36:55,602 Peeping Tom her until you can semaphore me. 487 00:36:55,678 --> 00:36:59,045 "Main squeeze"? 488 00:36:59,115 --> 00:37:01,709 Allison. 489 00:37:01,784 --> 00:37:05,515 "Main squeeze." I gotta remember that one. 490 00:37:12,362 --> 00:37:16,662 What's wrong, Al? I thought you were up on all this private eye lingo. 491 00:37:16,733 --> 00:37:20,464 I understood you. I'm just wondering how in 20 years... 492 00:37:20,536 --> 00:37:24,939 "main squeeze" gets from Seymour to black slang. 493 00:37:26,776 --> 00:37:29,711 I assume you're packing a roscoe. 494 00:37:29,779 --> 00:37:31,906 Yep. 495 00:37:31,981 --> 00:37:35,974 Would you use it on Allison if you had to? 496 00:37:36,052 --> 00:37:38,247 Probably not. 497 00:37:38,321 --> 00:37:40,915 Great. 498 00:37:40,990 --> 00:37:44,482 Where you going? I'm going to check the ladies' room. 499 00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:47,461 - Al! - Somebody's gotta do it. 500 00:37:55,638 --> 00:37:58,368 Bogie! Don't point, Allen. It's not polite. 501 00:37:58,441 --> 00:38:01,569 But it's Humphrey Bogart. Mr. Bogart. Mr. Bogart! 502 00:38:01,644 --> 00:38:04,477 - This can't be. - Oh, it is you. I knew it! 503 00:38:04,547 --> 00:38:07,846 - Allen, leave the poor man alone. - I've seen all your movies. 504 00:38:07,917 --> 00:38:12,377 Ever since I could curl my lip, I wanted to be like you. I even dream you talk to me. 505 00:38:12,455 --> 00:38:15,356 You know, give me advice, like how to get Annie up to my bedroom. 506 00:38:16,793 --> 00:38:19,785 Lionel, gee, what are you doing here? 507 00:38:22,298 --> 00:38:24,232 Move. 508 00:38:24,300 --> 00:38:27,633 My analyst calls it neurotic. Of course it's neurotic. 509 00:38:27,703 --> 00:38:29,796 If he lived with my mother, he'd be neurotic too. 510 00:38:29,872 --> 00:38:32,705 She drives me bananas. 511 00:38:32,775 --> 00:38:34,709 Excuse me. 512 00:38:39,048 --> 00:38:40,982 - See what you did? - I just wanted his autograph. 513 00:38:41,050 --> 00:38:43,450 You want an autograph? Here's an autograph. 514 00:39:29,966 --> 00:39:32,093 Lionel, let him go. 515 00:39:34,237 --> 00:39:36,762 We don't wanna hurt him, Nick. 516 00:39:36,839 --> 00:39:40,104 All Allison and I want is out of New York. 517 00:39:40,176 --> 00:39:44,272 Nick won't let... Nick, you have to face reality. 518 00:39:44,347 --> 00:39:47,805 She doesn't love you any more than she loved Phil. 519 00:39:47,884 --> 00:39:51,251 - Is that why you killed him? - He wouldn't face the truth. 520 00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:55,051 We had no choice. But you're smarter, Nick. 521 00:39:55,124 --> 00:39:57,149 Always were! 522 00:39:57,226 --> 00:39:59,956 Where's Allison? 523 00:40:00,029 --> 00:40:03,089 Seymour's dying, Nick! 524 00:40:03,166 --> 00:40:05,293 What's it gonna be? 525 00:40:21,250 --> 00:40:24,981 How many shots was that now that he fired so far? 526 00:40:25,054 --> 00:40:27,079 - Get down, Al! - Why? 527 00:40:27,156 --> 00:40:29,647 He can't see me or hear me. 528 00:40:29,725 --> 00:40:33,354 You stay down. I'll go find him for you. 529 00:40:33,429 --> 00:40:36,023 Al. 530 00:40:39,202 --> 00:40:41,568 There you are, you sneaky devil. 531 00:40:43,906 --> 00:40:45,840 He's right over here, Sam. 532 00:40:50,279 --> 00:40:52,770 You couldn't hit an elephant in a tunnel. 533 00:40:52,848 --> 00:40:54,839 Boy, are you in for a big surprise. 534 00:40:54,917 --> 00:40:56,885 Sam, he doesn't know where you are. 535 00:40:56,953 --> 00:40:59,046 He's gonna shoot, now duck! 536 00:41:00,456 --> 00:41:06,258 Sam, go to the back of the hangar, and then make your way toward me. 537 00:41:06,329 --> 00:41:09,765 Don't you ever clean your mustache? You got gunk in there. It's yucky. 538 00:41:09,832 --> 00:41:11,891 Gonna shoot again! 539 00:41:11,968 --> 00:41:14,766 Ah! Now, Sam! 540 00:41:14,837 --> 00:41:19,297 He's out of bullets. He's loading up. Get over here. Hurry Up! 541 00:41:19,375 --> 00:41:22,640 Sam, hurry! Where the hell are you, Sam? 542 00:41:26,215 --> 00:41:29,082 Don't even think about it, you mug. 543 00:41:29,151 --> 00:41:33,110 Oh, no, Sam. Sam, that's Edward G. Robinson. 544 00:41:51,874 --> 00:41:55,071 How could I have turned Lionel on and not realized it? 545 00:41:58,014 --> 00:42:01,780 You know, the funny part is I kind of feel sorry for him. 546 00:42:03,919 --> 00:42:05,853 Yeah, me too. 547 00:42:07,390 --> 00:42:09,756 Nick, take me away from this. 548 00:42:11,961 --> 00:42:15,089 My apartment? 549 00:42:15,164 --> 00:42:19,760 Actually, I was thinking of someplace a little farther. 550 00:42:27,076 --> 00:42:29,340 Where'd you get those? 551 00:42:29,412 --> 00:42:33,815 Well, I know some people might think it's a little bizarre, 552 00:42:33,883 --> 00:42:36,511 but the poor soul did pay for them. 553 00:42:37,720 --> 00:42:39,654 Where are they to? 554 00:42:41,157 --> 00:42:43,182 Does it matter? 555 00:43:14,357 --> 00:43:18,123 You, uh, you wanna board, Angel? 556 00:43:18,194 --> 00:43:20,719 I'll join you in a minute. 557 00:43:23,332 --> 00:43:26,165 Don't make me wait too long. 558 00:43:27,236 --> 00:43:29,363 It's a sleeper flight. 559 00:43:43,586 --> 00:43:47,317 I don't think you can take that plane. 560 00:43:47,390 --> 00:43:51,258 Oh, Al. I'm gonna get on that plane, 561 00:43:51,327 --> 00:43:53,659 'cause if I don't, I'm gonna regret it for the rest of my life. 562 00:43:53,729 --> 00:43:55,663 Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but... 563 00:43:55,731 --> 00:43:59,030 No, no, I've seen the picture, Sam. 564 00:43:59,101 --> 00:44:03,037 Oh, well, good. Then you know how it ends. 565 00:44:25,628 --> 00:44:28,597 - Sam. - What? 566 00:44:28,664 --> 00:44:32,896 I didn't say you didn't want to go with her. I said I didn't think you could. 567 00:44:32,968 --> 00:44:35,664 - Who's gonna stop me? - Nick! 568 00:44:36,739 --> 00:44:40,539 He tried to kill me, to choke me to death. 569 00:44:40,609 --> 00:44:44,409 Don't you mean the loony tune tried to fog me with a chicken throttle? 570 00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:46,675 Nick, this was for real. 571 00:44:46,749 --> 00:44:49,411 Isn't that what you're looking for, Seymour? 572 00:44:49,485 --> 00:44:52,045 A chance to duke it out with the Hard Harry's... 573 00:44:52,121 --> 00:44:56,023 on a night as quiet as the city morgue on a slow day. 574 00:44:56,091 --> 00:44:58,992 Maybe it would be more fun to just read about it. 575 00:44:59,061 --> 00:45:02,997 Yeah, or write about it. 576 00:45:03,065 --> 00:45:06,626 Me? Become a writer? 577 00:45:06,702 --> 00:45:09,068 Yeah, why not? With your imagination... 578 00:45:09,138 --> 00:45:13,404 and flair for similes, how could you miss? 579 00:45:13,476 --> 00:45:16,343 Nick? 580 00:45:16,412 --> 00:45:18,846 Hurry. 581 00:45:18,914 --> 00:45:20,848 Oh, boy. 582 00:45:24,820 --> 00:45:28,187 The fog was as thick as hash house oatmeal... 583 00:45:28,257 --> 00:45:32,353 and twice as cold, as her hips said good-bye. 584 00:45:32,428 --> 00:45:35,522 Maybe she was too much moonlight and orchids for me, 585 00:45:35,598 --> 00:45:39,261 but I couldn't help wishing that my daisy crunchers and hers... 586 00:45:39,335 --> 00:45:42,065 could be outside the same hotel room door. 587 00:45:42,137 --> 00:45:45,664 You were here to launch a new pulp novelist. 588 00:45:45,741 --> 00:45:48,642 No. No, no, no. 589 00:45:48,711 --> 00:45:51,441 Sam, I think... Don't say it, Al. 590 00:45:51,514 --> 00:45:54,847 This is the start of a wonderful friendship. 591 00:45:54,917 --> 00:45:56,851 You couldn't resist, could you? 592 00:46:11,834 --> 00:46:14,769 You'd better hurry. You'll be late for your new job, 593 00:46:14,837 --> 00:46:18,329 Miss Youngest Executive Secretary at the company. 594 00:46:21,810 --> 00:46:23,903 "Miss"?