1 00:00:03,273 --> 00:00:06,495 There's five lost songs worth about a million dollars apiece. 2 00:00:06,703 --> 00:00:08,580 And Thomas and his assistants are going to split 10%. 3 00:00:08,831 --> 00:00:11,333 Believe me, if any of my nurses had been the object 4 00:00:11,375 --> 00:00:13,502 of five beautiful love songs, I'd have known about it. 5 00:00:13,710 --> 00:00:15,170 Whatever I have to do, 6 00:00:15,337 --> 00:00:17,840 Billy Cockrell is not getting those songs. 7 00:00:18,966 --> 00:00:20,843 She's got them and we must've led him right to her. 8 00:00:21,510 --> 00:00:23,137 ♪ You tell me... ♪ 9 00:00:23,303 --> 00:00:24,388 T.C.? 10 00:00:24,638 --> 00:00:26,223 You better throw wide and duck. 11 00:00:26,515 --> 00:00:27,558 Come on, you guys. 12 00:01:43,307 --> 00:01:47,721 ♪ Last word woman, don't say please ♪ 13 00:01:47,888 --> 00:01:51,725 ♪ Last word woman I'm down on my knees ♪ 14 00:01:51,934 --> 00:01:56,647 ♪ And I'm not the first man that told you goodbye ♪ 15 00:01:56,939 --> 00:02:01,109 ♪ Let me be the first to ask for one last try ♪ 16 00:02:01,318 --> 00:02:05,405 ♪ I'll give you the last word about my money ♪ 17 00:02:05,739 --> 00:02:09,952 ♪ I'll give you the last word about my time ♪ 18 00:02:10,536 --> 00:02:15,082 ♪ I'll give you the last word until the day I die ♪ 19 00:02:15,290 --> 00:02:19,169 ♪ If your last word in my life is goodbye ♪ 20 00:02:20,128 --> 00:02:24,132 ♪ Yes, your last word in my life ♪ 21 00:02:24,258 --> 00:02:26,677 ♪ Is goodbye ♪ 22 00:02:28,220 --> 00:02:30,931 Thank you all. Thank you, folks. 23 00:02:31,848 --> 00:02:33,267 Thank you. 24 00:02:35,018 --> 00:02:36,979 Thank you all. Thank you. 25 00:02:41,108 --> 00:02:42,484 Thank you. 26 00:02:43,902 --> 00:02:45,821 Georgie, hey, come on. Get up. 27 00:02:45,904 --> 00:02:47,656 - Are you okay? - I'm okay. 28 00:02:50,284 --> 00:02:52,744 You get him back out there. Contract says encore. 29 00:02:52,833 --> 00:02:54,371 That was an encore. 30 00:02:56,248 --> 00:02:58,250 Hey, get her on the phone for me, Lacy, will you? 31 00:02:58,375 --> 00:02:59,793 I wanna give her the good news. 32 00:02:59,918 --> 00:03:01,211 George Lee Jessup! 33 00:03:01,420 --> 00:03:04,548 Yes, now, folks, are we gonna let him get away without one more song? 34 00:03:04,631 --> 00:03:05,882 No! No! 35 00:03:06,133 --> 00:03:09,428 Operator? Get me Honolulu, Hawaii. 36 00:03:09,511 --> 00:03:11,638 5-3-5-7-2. 37 00:03:11,847 --> 00:03:13,640 Georgie, hey, you know, listen. 38 00:03:13,765 --> 00:03:15,309 We'll call her from Richmond. 39 00:03:15,434 --> 00:03:16,893 I can have us there in an hour. 40 00:03:17,019 --> 00:03:19,187 Billy, leave him alone! 41 00:03:19,438 --> 00:03:21,982 One more song! One more song! 42 00:03:22,107 --> 00:03:23,917 George Lee Jessup! 43 00:03:24,067 --> 00:03:25,819 He's drunker than hell. 44 00:03:25,902 --> 00:03:28,322 His fans have seen him tanked up before. It don't bother them. 45 00:03:28,447 --> 00:03:31,033 Why, because you say it don't? 46 00:03:31,158 --> 00:03:32,492 Drop it, Billy. 47 00:03:32,576 --> 00:03:34,953 Get the rest of the boys and head for the car. 48 00:03:36,913 --> 00:03:40,208 One more song! One more song! 49 00:03:40,292 --> 00:03:42,002 George Lee Jessup! 50 00:03:42,210 --> 00:03:46,965 One more song! One more song! George Lee Jessup! 51 00:03:47,149 --> 00:03:49,134 Here you go, Georgie. She's on. 52 00:03:50,302 --> 00:03:51,762 Thanks, Lacy. 53 00:03:56,266 --> 00:03:57,601 Laurie? 54 00:03:59,269 --> 00:04:02,064 Hey, baby. Are you sitting down? 55 00:04:02,939 --> 00:04:04,733 Yeah, we're finally gonna do it, honey. 56 00:04:04,816 --> 00:04:06,735 Pack up your uniforms. 57 00:04:09,446 --> 00:04:12,616 Well, I mean, I found me a general who loves my music, 58 00:04:12,741 --> 00:04:15,369 and he's gonna get you a transfer to one of them bases in Texas 59 00:04:15,452 --> 00:04:17,788 till your discharge papers come through. 60 00:04:17,996 --> 00:04:20,999 And I play Dallas next week. Now what do you think of that? 61 00:04:22,626 --> 00:04:25,962 I'm asking you politely now. Please step on back. 62 00:04:26,296 --> 00:04:28,423 Hey, we're gonna get married there. 63 00:04:35,305 --> 00:04:37,933 Hey, Laurie, come on now, baby. Now quit kidding around, now. 64 00:04:38,058 --> 00:04:39,851 You! You! Stop shoving, now. 65 00:04:40,894 --> 00:04:43,522 Now, Laurie, I said, now quit kidding around, baby. 66 00:04:45,440 --> 00:04:46,608 Laurie? 67 00:05:13,468 --> 00:05:15,721 Hey, let's get this thing in the air fast. 68 00:05:15,846 --> 00:05:17,431 Talk to Georgie. 69 00:05:18,557 --> 00:05:20,100 I ain't the pilot. 70 00:05:20,225 --> 00:05:23,019 Hey! What do you mean? 71 00:05:23,145 --> 00:05:24,479 Of course you're the pilot. 72 00:05:24,604 --> 00:05:28,066 No, Lacy, that's what I wound up being. 73 00:05:28,358 --> 00:05:31,486 I'm a good picker and I'm a good writer 74 00:05:31,611 --> 00:05:35,090 and I'm sick of flying and playing bass 75 00:05:35,282 --> 00:05:38,118 and getting pushed around by the big star's flunky. 76 00:05:38,326 --> 00:05:39,661 Will you get serious, Billy? 77 00:05:39,786 --> 00:05:42,581 You mean to tell me you'd let Georgie take us up tonight? 78 00:05:42,664 --> 00:05:44,583 You know he's had too much. 79 00:05:44,666 --> 00:05:46,293 And he and Laurie just had a big spat. 80 00:05:46,376 --> 00:05:50,088 Lacy, those are his problems and yours. 81 00:05:50,464 --> 00:05:52,758 I'm on the next bus back to Nashville. 82 00:05:52,883 --> 00:05:54,468 Damn right! 83 00:05:56,470 --> 00:05:59,055 Hey, Georgie, I'll get us a hotel here tonight. 84 00:05:59,181 --> 00:06:01,099 George... Billy, please. 85 00:06:06,813 --> 00:06:07,898 Georgie! 86 00:06:47,312 --> 00:06:50,690 No, no, no, no. Pianissimo, ladies and gentlemen, please. 87 00:06:50,774 --> 00:06:53,068 All I'm hearing is one harsh, constant... 88 00:07:03,427 --> 00:07:05,872 Thomas, can't you turn that thing down? 89 00:07:05,997 --> 00:07:09,876 Magnum, stop playing that record immediately! 90 00:07:10,085 --> 00:07:13,296 Higgins, now, listen, I'm sorry I disturbed your rehearsal, 91 00:07:13,380 --> 00:07:16,633 but I had to listen to it that loud in order to hear the lyrics for clues! 92 00:07:16,716 --> 00:07:19,469 No, it's all in the line of work. Higgins, don't break it! 93 00:07:19,594 --> 00:07:21,471 Now, it belongs to the library and it's... 94 00:07:21,721 --> 00:07:23,473 One of George Lee Jessup's rarest recordings 95 00:07:23,557 --> 00:07:26,643 and you may very well have damaged the grooves with this modern stylus! 96 00:07:26,893 --> 00:07:28,478 You're into this hillbilly yuck? 97 00:07:28,603 --> 00:07:30,397 This hillbilly yuck happens to trace its roots 98 00:07:30,522 --> 00:07:32,148 back to the Saxon folk ballads. 99 00:07:32,274 --> 00:07:34,943 Yeah, well, fortunately, Higgins, we don't have to go back that far. 100 00:07:35,193 --> 00:07:38,029 No, your research, I'm sure, begins and ends with 1954. 101 00:07:38,113 --> 00:07:39,406 - Higgins... - You got it! 102 00:07:39,489 --> 00:07:41,783 Five million bucks of this guy's old records laying around. 103 00:07:42,158 --> 00:07:45,662 And Thomas and his assistants are gonna split 10% just for finding the stuff. 104 00:07:45,704 --> 00:07:48,623 Yes, the lost Jessup songs could easily be that valuable 105 00:07:48,707 --> 00:07:50,250 if they existed. They do not. 106 00:07:50,333 --> 00:07:52,085 Higgins, this doesn't concern you. 107 00:07:52,294 --> 00:07:55,922 What concerns me is that you could so easily be duped by such a ridiculous myth. 108 00:07:56,006 --> 00:07:58,842 Every moment of Jessup's hospitalization here has been researched. 109 00:07:58,967 --> 00:08:01,636 There was no nurse, no love affair and therefore, no songs. 110 00:08:01,761 --> 00:08:04,139 Well, yes, the client does admit 111 00:08:04,264 --> 00:08:07,017 that no one else has any faith in the songs but him. 112 00:08:07,142 --> 00:08:10,478 But you saw no reason to bring this up 113 00:08:10,562 --> 00:08:12,397 before you conned us into this? 114 00:08:12,606 --> 00:08:14,733 I didn't con you! This guy has proof! 115 00:08:14,816 --> 00:08:17,777 There's five lost songs worth about a million dollars apiece. 116 00:08:17,903 --> 00:08:21,197 That's absurd. How could he possibly know the exact number? 117 00:08:21,948 --> 00:08:23,283 Because he's an expert! 118 00:08:23,366 --> 00:08:25,201 Well, no true expert would dare to attempt 119 00:08:25,285 --> 00:08:27,913 to determine the value of works by a legend like Jessup. 120 00:08:28,038 --> 00:08:30,373 Hold it! Just hold it! 121 00:08:30,457 --> 00:08:32,876 You two guys are arguing about songs that don't even exist? 122 00:08:33,001 --> 00:08:34,502 - Yes! - No! 123 00:08:34,961 --> 00:08:37,255 You can count me out. 124 00:08:37,339 --> 00:08:39,799 No! Wait, T.C., Higgins is wrong! 125 00:08:56,858 --> 00:08:58,902 Well, that's a pretty good fiddle. 126 00:08:59,235 --> 00:09:01,196 The A string's just a hair sharp. 127 00:09:01,738 --> 00:09:03,573 What's the meaning of this? 128 00:09:03,782 --> 00:09:07,202 Oh, it just means that his A's not a perfect fifth from his D. 129 00:09:07,285 --> 00:09:09,287 Who are you? How did you get on the estate? 130 00:09:09,454 --> 00:09:12,332 And what manner of man simply picks up a $20,000 violin 131 00:09:12,415 --> 00:09:14,042 and plays it without asking permission? 132 00:09:14,209 --> 00:09:17,003 Well, Lacy Fletcher's the name. I come by taxi. 133 00:09:17,087 --> 00:09:20,382 And what manner of man asks a fiddle if it wants to be played? 134 00:09:20,465 --> 00:09:21,841 Something wrong, Higgins? 135 00:09:22,050 --> 00:09:23,510 Thomas Magnum, Lacy. 136 00:09:23,593 --> 00:09:25,428 I'm sorry I didn't pick you up at the airport. 137 00:09:25,512 --> 00:09:26,638 That's all right. 138 00:09:26,846 --> 00:09:29,015 You didn't have to hire a band to welcome me. 139 00:09:30,809 --> 00:09:34,229 The band is the Oahu String Quartet, Mr. Fletcher. 140 00:09:34,312 --> 00:09:37,023 We're rehearsing for our maiden recital. 141 00:09:37,065 --> 00:09:41,444 I'm Jonathan Higgins, the conductor, and it's a great honor to meet you. 142 00:09:41,528 --> 00:09:43,279 Likewise. 143 00:09:43,488 --> 00:09:45,407 That's Theodore Calvin. Rick Wright. 144 00:09:45,657 --> 00:09:47,492 They're helping me out on the case. 145 00:09:47,701 --> 00:09:49,911 Wrong, wrong. No offense, Lacy, 146 00:09:49,995 --> 00:09:52,747 but from what I understand, no one else believes these songs exist. 147 00:09:52,831 --> 00:09:55,917 Including George Lee Jessup's closest friend. 148 00:09:56,001 --> 00:09:58,086 At least that's what he's always told the press. 149 00:09:58,336 --> 00:09:59,838 Correct, Mr. Fletcher? 150 00:10:00,672 --> 00:10:04,843 I thought you told me on the phone that you were a private investigator? 151 00:10:05,176 --> 00:10:06,761 Now, wait a minute, Lacy. 152 00:10:06,845 --> 00:10:09,848 Wait, nothing! I've been waiting for 30 years. 153 00:10:09,931 --> 00:10:14,686 Lying to the press, everybody, 'cause if those songs had been found before now, 154 00:10:14,811 --> 00:10:16,813 Georgie's estate would've got them. 155 00:10:17,147 --> 00:10:22,193 Well, the time finally comes when whoever finds them, gets them. 156 00:10:22,485 --> 00:10:24,863 And the one person that I tell my secret to 157 00:10:24,946 --> 00:10:26,906 has got to blab it all over the island. 158 00:10:27,073 --> 00:10:30,035 Hey, hey, nobody's trying to steal your songs. 159 00:10:30,118 --> 00:10:31,911 In fact, as far as I'm concerned, 160 00:10:31,995 --> 00:10:33,580 you're the only one that believes in them. 161 00:10:33,663 --> 00:10:35,540 Mr. Fletcher, do you have proof that the songs exist? 162 00:10:35,749 --> 00:10:37,959 Yeah. My word. 163 00:10:39,461 --> 00:10:40,628 And this. 164 00:10:43,006 --> 00:10:45,216 Probably all you'll need to find Laurie. 165 00:10:52,807 --> 00:10:55,268 But how could he have called her at the same pay phone 166 00:10:55,351 --> 00:10:57,312 every Saturday night, for over a year? 167 00:10:59,981 --> 00:11:01,357 Lacy? 168 00:11:02,525 --> 00:11:03,943 Lacy! 169 00:11:04,444 --> 00:11:07,614 Well, maybe, she lived in the WAC barracks. 170 00:11:07,822 --> 00:11:11,493 Well, fine. Then all four of the Lauries there in '54 could've used it. 171 00:11:11,659 --> 00:11:13,369 Well, then you just got to look up the pay phones 172 00:11:13,453 --> 00:11:15,246 in the different barrack hallways. 173 00:11:15,330 --> 00:11:16,581 Lacy, it's not that simple. 174 00:11:16,790 --> 00:11:18,750 The phones aren't listed numerically. 175 00:11:18,833 --> 00:11:20,418 We could be here all night. 176 00:11:20,460 --> 00:11:22,587 Well, I could've hired anybody to complain. 177 00:11:22,670 --> 00:11:25,799 You gotta expect to put out a little effort for your $500,000. 178 00:11:25,882 --> 00:11:27,342 Put out a little... 179 00:11:27,550 --> 00:11:30,845 A half day at the Army archives, another half day here. 180 00:11:30,929 --> 00:11:33,765 A whole day with Ms. Jones at the hall of records. 181 00:11:33,848 --> 00:11:35,016 Put out a little... 182 00:11:35,100 --> 00:11:36,768 ♪ Mr. And Mrs. Jones, if you please ♪ 183 00:11:36,851 --> 00:11:38,645 ♪ And the desk clerk smirks on hands and knees ♪ 184 00:11:38,728 --> 00:11:40,063 Lacy. 185 00:11:40,772 --> 00:11:44,567 Lacy. Lacy. Please. 186 00:11:44,901 --> 00:11:46,277 I'm sorry, 187 00:11:46,361 --> 00:11:50,698 but two straight days of non-stop country gold is a lot. 188 00:11:51,616 --> 00:11:53,409 Could we just take a break? 189 00:11:53,576 --> 00:11:55,787 Hey, break ball don't have to fall on me. 190 00:11:55,995 --> 00:11:57,413 Fine. Thank you. 191 00:11:57,580 --> 00:11:59,833 You know what? I've been meaning to ask you. 192 00:11:59,916 --> 00:12:03,044 Why didn't you call her at that pay phone after the plane crash? 193 00:12:03,211 --> 00:12:05,880 Well, I did. Soon as I got out of the hospital. 194 00:12:05,964 --> 00:12:07,382 It was disconnected. 195 00:12:07,590 --> 00:12:08,967 What? 196 00:12:11,386 --> 00:12:13,596 The five-digit number wasn't converted? 197 00:12:13,805 --> 00:12:15,306 Why didn't you tell me? 198 00:12:15,390 --> 00:12:17,559 Well, what difference does it make? 199 00:12:17,642 --> 00:12:20,603 The difference is, I would've been looking in the right place. 200 00:12:20,728 --> 00:12:22,188 Now, when did you call her? 201 00:12:22,438 --> 00:12:26,568 Well, it was early November, 1954. 202 00:12:26,651 --> 00:12:27,527 Why? 203 00:12:28,361 --> 00:12:33,116 Lacy, those old phone numbers are listed by their cut-off date. 204 00:12:39,706 --> 00:12:42,959 Right. Here it is. 5-3-5-7-2. 205 00:12:43,668 --> 00:12:48,256 "Removed 11-2-54 from Pearl Harbor Hospital nurses' lounge." 206 00:12:48,506 --> 00:12:49,799 Nurses... 207 00:12:49,883 --> 00:12:52,510 Hey, you're cooking. I can tell. Right, huh? 208 00:12:53,845 --> 00:12:58,266 Prince, Prince. "Sergeant Laura Johnson Prince, 209 00:12:58,391 --> 00:13:01,644 discharged May 1955, married to Desmond." 210 00:13:02,353 --> 00:13:04,230 Lacy, she's still living here on the island. 211 00:13:04,314 --> 00:13:05,607 Hey, that's great. 212 00:13:05,732 --> 00:13:07,483 Maybe the other three are, too, then, huh? 213 00:13:07,567 --> 00:13:11,779 Yeah, but the other three weren't working next to that pay phone all of 1954. 214 00:13:11,988 --> 00:13:15,617 Hey, I think you got it. 215 00:13:16,826 --> 00:13:20,413 But I'm afraid I've never even heard of your Mr. Jessup. 216 00:13:20,622 --> 00:13:22,457 Well, at least I've heard the name. 217 00:13:22,540 --> 00:13:25,585 He was a cowboy singer in the '50s, wasn't he? 218 00:13:25,668 --> 00:13:28,922 Country music artist. There's a difference. 219 00:13:29,005 --> 00:13:30,423 I see. I'm sorry. 220 00:13:30,506 --> 00:13:34,510 Mrs. Crane, are you sure that none of the other Lauries on that list 221 00:13:34,592 --> 00:13:36,387 could have worked near that telephone? 222 00:13:36,679 --> 00:13:38,932 Well, not in '54. 223 00:13:39,057 --> 00:13:42,185 I was the ward nurses' supervisor. 224 00:13:42,435 --> 00:13:45,146 You positive this woman was enlisted? 225 00:13:45,355 --> 00:13:48,524 Yes, ma'am. She was a WAC. There's no doubt about it. 226 00:13:48,608 --> 00:13:51,110 Georgie couldn't talk about anything else 227 00:13:51,152 --> 00:13:53,488 except when she was gonna get her discharge papers. 228 00:13:53,738 --> 00:13:56,699 Wait a minute. This was a long time ago. 229 00:13:56,824 --> 00:13:58,660 Honey, you don't recall a girl saying 230 00:13:58,826 --> 00:14:01,829 that she had a boyfriend who wrote country tunes? 231 00:14:01,913 --> 00:14:03,957 I'm afraid not. 232 00:14:04,749 --> 00:14:07,335 Believe me, if any of my nurses had been the object 233 00:14:07,418 --> 00:14:10,129 of five beautiful love songs, I'd have known about it. 234 00:14:10,255 --> 00:14:14,384 Young ladies have a tendency to brag about that sort of thing. 235 00:14:19,472 --> 00:14:22,392 - That woman is lying. - Now, wait a minute. 236 00:14:22,517 --> 00:14:24,602 She didn't deserve Georgie. 237 00:14:55,008 --> 00:14:56,301 Lacy. 238 00:14:56,634 --> 00:14:58,886 Hey, Magnum. 239 00:14:59,429 --> 00:15:01,055 Well, I found it. 240 00:15:01,639 --> 00:15:05,018 Right here's the place. This is where he wrote the song. 241 00:15:05,310 --> 00:15:09,731 See, he had this real bad shrapnel wound that he got over there in Korea... 242 00:15:09,814 --> 00:15:11,316 I know, Lacy. 243 00:15:11,733 --> 00:15:13,568 Yeah, they sent him over here... 244 00:15:13,651 --> 00:15:16,195 - I know, you told me. - Yeah. To the hospital. 245 00:15:17,655 --> 00:15:19,657 That's the retainer you gave me. 246 00:15:22,910 --> 00:15:25,246 You don't think that there is a case. 247 00:15:26,706 --> 00:15:28,166 Oh... 248 00:15:29,292 --> 00:15:32,170 It doesn't really matter what I believe, Lacy. 249 00:15:33,796 --> 00:15:36,132 I know it's not in you to doubt Jessup. 250 00:15:36,215 --> 00:15:39,719 That's right. One thing about Georgie, he never lied. 251 00:15:39,802 --> 00:15:42,180 Well, fine. Fine. 252 00:15:42,305 --> 00:15:45,475 But George Lee Jessup's word is not a lead. 253 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:47,643 And the only tangible one you gave me is gone. 254 00:15:47,894 --> 00:15:49,896 You're wrong. You're dead wrong. 255 00:15:49,979 --> 00:15:52,774 That phone number did its job. It led us to Laurie. 256 00:15:53,608 --> 00:15:56,861 So you keep telling me, but you've got absolutely no proof. 257 00:15:56,986 --> 00:15:58,071 Don't I? 258 00:16:01,157 --> 00:16:03,451 Let me ask you something, Magnum. 259 00:16:04,827 --> 00:16:07,330 How did she know that there were just five songs? 260 00:16:07,955 --> 00:16:09,415 - Five? - Yeah. 261 00:16:09,540 --> 00:16:12,710 That's what she said yesterday, "Five beautiful songs." 262 00:16:13,044 --> 00:16:15,421 Now, nobody knew the exact number, 263 00:16:15,505 --> 00:16:18,758 except me and her and Georgie. 264 00:16:19,050 --> 00:16:21,677 And you're the first person that I've ever told. 265 00:16:22,887 --> 00:16:25,181 Maybe she made a wild guess. 266 00:16:25,348 --> 00:16:27,517 I'm sorry, Lacy, it's not enough. 267 00:16:29,435 --> 00:16:32,480 Well, okay, all right. You get me a copy of her handwriting, 268 00:16:32,563 --> 00:16:35,066 and I'll give you all the proof that you want. 269 00:16:37,568 --> 00:16:41,823 Well, I guess I got no choice but to trust you all the way. Here, hold this. 270 00:16:43,366 --> 00:16:48,996 There was this private box where I used to pick up Georgie's letters from her. 271 00:16:49,330 --> 00:16:51,457 It was a kind of a secret thing. 272 00:16:51,666 --> 00:16:53,126 Now, this letter here... 273 00:16:53,209 --> 00:16:57,213 Well, she evidently hadn't heard about the accident when she wrote it. 274 00:16:57,463 --> 00:17:00,675 It was in the box when I got out of the hospital. 275 00:17:00,883 --> 00:17:02,051 It's never been opened. 276 00:17:03,219 --> 00:17:05,388 I know. That's Georgie's private mail. 277 00:17:06,013 --> 00:17:07,098 Private? 278 00:17:07,890 --> 00:17:10,601 Lacy, he's been dead for 30 years. You never opened this, knowing... 279 00:17:10,810 --> 00:17:15,273 Hey, listen, I looked after Georgie's privacy when he was alive. 280 00:17:15,398 --> 00:17:18,484 Well, I'm sure not gonna start peeking in his keyholes now. 281 00:17:18,651 --> 00:17:22,321 Well, you're asking me to peek into Laurie Crane's, without good reason. 282 00:17:25,783 --> 00:17:29,704 I've played a darn good poker hand, waiting out that copyright. 283 00:17:31,706 --> 00:17:35,209 You know, when I told everybody that there wasn't any more songs, 284 00:17:35,418 --> 00:17:37,044 and they believed me. 285 00:17:38,129 --> 00:17:41,799 Now it comes time to pick up the pot and... 286 00:17:45,470 --> 00:17:47,597 Well, I need some help. 287 00:18:01,027 --> 00:18:04,113 I hocked everything that I got to make this trip. 288 00:18:05,406 --> 00:18:07,992 If I go back empty-handed... 289 00:18:09,619 --> 00:18:12,538 Well, I guess you'd say that I'm finished. 290 00:18:16,334 --> 00:18:19,378 That seems like reason enough to me 291 00:18:19,879 --> 00:18:22,798 to get one little old handwriting sample. 292 00:18:23,299 --> 00:18:25,009 I'll talk to her again. 293 00:18:26,219 --> 00:18:27,553 Alone. 294 00:18:27,678 --> 00:18:28,930 Yeah. 295 00:18:31,224 --> 00:18:33,142 Talk to me about what, Mr. Magnum? 296 00:18:33,280 --> 00:18:36,033 Well, I was wondering if you could just give me a short written statement 297 00:18:36,145 --> 00:18:37,897 verifying what you told me yesterday. 298 00:18:37,980 --> 00:18:39,148 Just for my records. 299 00:18:39,398 --> 00:18:42,485 I fail to see why I should have to verify anything. 300 00:18:42,693 --> 00:18:45,655 Well, no, no, but this'll just take a few minutes. 301 00:18:46,697 --> 00:18:49,158 A few minutes, a day. 302 00:18:49,283 --> 00:18:51,827 I don't have the time or the inclination. 303 00:18:52,012 --> 00:18:53,996 - All right? - Well, that's fine. Fine. 304 00:18:54,080 --> 00:18:55,957 Why don't I just jot down what you told me 305 00:18:56,082 --> 00:18:57,500 and I'll bring it by for you to sign? 306 00:18:57,583 --> 00:18:59,043 It would just say that you never knew Jessup. 307 00:18:59,335 --> 00:19:01,629 No! I'm sorry. 308 00:19:01,837 --> 00:19:04,173 I don't know where everybody got the idea 309 00:19:04,257 --> 00:19:06,092 that I was George's lover in the first place. 310 00:19:06,342 --> 00:19:08,594 Yes, where indeed? 311 00:19:09,220 --> 00:19:10,596 Mr. Magnum, 312 00:19:11,138 --> 00:19:13,766 you've worn out your welcome. Now, would you please leave? 313 00:19:14,392 --> 00:19:16,060 I'm just trying to... 314 00:19:16,269 --> 00:19:19,397 You're trying to talk my wife out of something she's handwritten. Why? 315 00:19:19,480 --> 00:19:21,774 And don't tell me it has anything to do with your records. 316 00:19:22,024 --> 00:19:26,529 Look, Lacy has a letter written by this Laurie to Jessup. 317 00:19:26,654 --> 00:19:30,324 Now, this whole thing could be cleared up by a simple handwriting comparison. 318 00:19:30,533 --> 00:19:31,742 Look, 319 00:19:32,034 --> 00:19:33,911 we've tried being very nice about this, 320 00:19:33,995 --> 00:19:36,831 but if you and those country music people don't stop bothering us, 321 00:19:36,914 --> 00:19:38,457 I'm gonna call the police. 322 00:19:38,624 --> 00:19:40,918 Excuse me a second. "Those country music people"? 323 00:19:41,127 --> 00:19:45,256 A Nashville publisher, yesterday after you left and early today. 324 00:19:45,756 --> 00:19:50,052 Believe me, we would gladly take their million if we had the songs, but we don't. 325 00:19:50,177 --> 00:19:54,640 Now you listen to me very carefully. My wife is not your Laurie. 326 00:19:59,437 --> 00:20:01,897 ♪ Sweet, sad and wild ♪ 327 00:20:02,189 --> 00:20:04,900 ♪ We're like a flaming rocket ♪ 328 00:20:05,026 --> 00:20:07,987 ♪ That bursts and then it dies ♪ 329 00:20:08,070 --> 00:20:11,407 ♪ 'Cause after cheating kisses, Honey ♪ 330 00:20:11,490 --> 00:20:13,868 ♪ Comes the hurting time ♪ 331 00:20:13,993 --> 00:20:15,536 Yeah, you got it. 332 00:20:15,828 --> 00:20:18,956 ♪ After cheating kisses, honey ♪ 333 00:20:19,040 --> 00:20:21,917 ♪ Comes the hurting time ♪ 334 00:20:25,713 --> 00:20:28,591 First recorded on March 4, 1953. 335 00:20:28,716 --> 00:20:32,011 Well, I couldn't say for sure. We cut a lot of songs. 336 00:20:33,596 --> 00:20:35,931 Well, I'd best get back to work. 337 00:20:36,015 --> 00:20:38,059 Higgins, you know, I'd feel a lot better 338 00:20:38,142 --> 00:20:43,314 about taking your offer of a room if I could help out around here. 339 00:20:43,981 --> 00:20:47,151 Well, now you could tune Mr. Lahani's third. 340 00:20:47,234 --> 00:20:49,070 It's a hair out again. 341 00:21:20,685 --> 00:21:22,103 Extraordinary. 342 00:21:22,895 --> 00:21:25,064 I'm not familiar with that music. 343 00:21:25,272 --> 00:21:26,691 Late French? 344 00:21:26,899 --> 00:21:29,360 No, it's early Lacy Fletcher. 345 00:21:29,443 --> 00:21:31,654 I really used to be into classical stuff. 346 00:21:34,740 --> 00:21:37,243 Has it ever been performed publicly? 347 00:21:37,493 --> 00:21:39,370 No, I'm afraid not. 348 00:21:39,453 --> 00:21:42,289 Never could come up with a decent set of lyrics for it. 349 00:21:43,374 --> 00:21:45,167 I'm quite serious, Lacy. 350 00:21:45,292 --> 00:21:49,088 The Oahu String Quartet would be most honored to premier it. 351 00:21:49,380 --> 00:21:51,799 Well, that's very flattering, Higgins, but... 352 00:21:52,591 --> 00:21:55,136 Hey, there's no way I could score that in two days. 353 00:21:55,344 --> 00:21:56,387 Lacy? 354 00:21:56,595 --> 00:21:58,848 Hey, any luck? Did you get it? 355 00:21:59,473 --> 00:22:01,475 Lacy, who's Billy Cockrell? 356 00:22:03,519 --> 00:22:05,104 How much did he offer them? 357 00:22:05,312 --> 00:22:06,939 A million, and still bidding. 358 00:22:07,690 --> 00:22:10,109 That sneaking... Damn! 359 00:22:10,484 --> 00:22:11,861 I knew it! 360 00:22:11,944 --> 00:22:14,613 The only other person that knows that she's got them 361 00:22:14,822 --> 00:22:16,449 and we must've led him right to her! 362 00:22:16,523 --> 00:22:19,285 Oh, well, never mind. I gotta stop him from getting Georgie's stuff. 363 00:22:19,368 --> 00:22:21,328 Calm down, Lacy. The Cranes didn't accept it. 364 00:22:21,412 --> 00:22:22,872 They're not admitting... 365 00:22:22,955 --> 00:22:24,749 Oh, sure! Why not wait till he goes to two million? 366 00:22:24,832 --> 00:22:26,167 Robin Masters' estate. 367 00:22:26,250 --> 00:22:28,586 - Lacy, wait a minute. - No! Whatever I have to do, 368 00:22:28,669 --> 00:22:31,380 Billy Cockrell is not getting those songs. 369 00:22:31,589 --> 00:22:34,216 Yes, one moment. A woman. Why does she have this number? 370 00:22:35,468 --> 00:22:37,595 Because I wanted to be sure she could reach me. 371 00:22:37,678 --> 00:22:39,597 - Hello? - Mr. Magnum? 372 00:22:40,431 --> 00:22:42,433 I'm here, Mrs. Crane. 373 00:22:45,561 --> 00:22:46,937 Well? 374 00:22:48,189 --> 00:22:51,108 I don't understand. You asked for the meeting. 375 00:22:51,442 --> 00:22:54,612 Yes. And you asked for a sample of my handwriting. 376 00:22:54,737 --> 00:22:56,655 But what you were really interested in 377 00:22:56,781 --> 00:22:59,617 is seeing if I'd react to the mention of a letter. 378 00:22:59,742 --> 00:23:01,452 May I see it, please? 379 00:23:01,577 --> 00:23:04,705 I don't have it. Lacy never lets it out of his sight. 380 00:23:04,955 --> 00:23:08,083 I'm sure he would, for the right arrangement. 381 00:23:08,292 --> 00:23:10,294 Mrs. Crane, that letter's never been opened. 382 00:23:13,798 --> 00:23:16,717 I think that it would mean a lot to Lacy 383 00:23:16,801 --> 00:23:19,053 just to give it back to the real Laurie. 384 00:23:19,887 --> 00:23:21,472 Songs or no songs. 385 00:23:21,555 --> 00:23:25,059 The only arrangement he wants 386 00:23:25,518 --> 00:23:28,646 is for her to say that she loved George Lee Jessup. 387 00:23:29,897 --> 00:23:31,816 That's not possible. 388 00:23:33,150 --> 00:23:37,738 Maybe even sometime when Desmond isn't around? 389 00:23:39,698 --> 00:23:41,992 You were married to him then, weren't you? 390 00:23:42,910 --> 00:23:45,079 I checked your marriage license. 391 00:23:46,747 --> 00:23:48,499 Is that what was in the letter? 392 00:23:48,916 --> 00:23:51,418 I wrote it the night George was killed. 393 00:23:51,669 --> 00:23:55,756 When he called that night and told me that he'd gotten me a transfer, 394 00:23:55,923 --> 00:24:01,095 I'm afraid... I'm sure I was very abrupt. 395 00:24:04,161 --> 00:24:06,684 I just said, "No." 396 00:24:07,017 --> 00:24:10,521 After saying, "How soon?" for three years. 397 00:24:12,314 --> 00:24:14,337 But you kept on saying, 398 00:24:14,905 --> 00:24:17,903 "How soon?" even after you were married to someone else? 399 00:24:19,780 --> 00:24:23,784 Well, after George was famous, 400 00:24:23,993 --> 00:24:26,537 I started reading about somebody I didn't know. 401 00:24:26,620 --> 00:24:29,790 Cancelled performances, bar fights, 402 00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:31,500 and the phone calls. 403 00:24:31,625 --> 00:24:33,794 He sounded so different. 404 00:24:34,670 --> 00:24:36,547 So important, I guess. 405 00:24:37,047 --> 00:24:41,635 I really thought that he'd just meet somebody else and forget me. 406 00:24:41,927 --> 00:24:43,387 But he didn't. 407 00:24:44,680 --> 00:24:45,806 Okay. 408 00:24:51,562 --> 00:24:54,523 But after you were married to Desmond. 409 00:24:54,565 --> 00:24:56,025 Why the charade? 410 00:24:56,483 --> 00:25:00,613 Apparently you convinced Jessup that he could only reach you 411 00:25:00,696 --> 00:25:03,073 at this one phone and only on Saturday nights? 412 00:25:04,158 --> 00:25:06,702 He trusted me. I... 413 00:25:07,286 --> 00:25:09,371 He believed if whatever I told him. 414 00:25:09,455 --> 00:25:11,624 I didn't know how to destroy that trust. 415 00:25:12,207 --> 00:25:13,876 Or maybe you didn't want to. 416 00:25:16,045 --> 00:25:18,005 I did love him. 417 00:25:34,521 --> 00:25:36,273 They're really beautiful. 418 00:25:41,362 --> 00:25:42,613 I'll miss them. 419 00:25:48,827 --> 00:25:50,412 What about the letter? 420 00:25:53,958 --> 00:25:56,835 I just didn't want Des to ever see it. 421 00:26:02,508 --> 00:26:04,593 He probably wouldn't have... 422 00:26:04,802 --> 00:26:06,553 Wouldn't have minded. 423 00:26:55,853 --> 00:26:57,396 Here they are, Billy. 424 00:27:03,193 --> 00:27:06,030 You know the chances of ever retrieving them are minimal. 425 00:27:06,739 --> 00:27:08,782 I have a very short list of suspects. 426 00:27:09,033 --> 00:27:10,451 Billy Cockrell. 427 00:27:10,534 --> 00:27:12,286 Rick's checking out the license. 428 00:27:12,369 --> 00:27:15,330 If I'm lucky, it'll be a rental in Billy's name. 429 00:27:15,414 --> 00:27:18,709 Look, are you sure that Lacy said he was going back to Pearl? 430 00:27:18,834 --> 00:27:21,545 Because I'm gonna call the security gate and see if they'll go find him. 431 00:27:21,628 --> 00:27:23,839 Lacy will know what's happened soon enough. 432 00:27:23,922 --> 00:27:26,884 Isn't there someone else who should be notified first? 433 00:27:27,426 --> 00:27:30,596 She now runs a great danger of being exposed. 434 00:27:30,763 --> 00:27:34,308 She should have the opportunity to explain to her husband. 435 00:27:46,904 --> 00:27:48,739 Crane residence. Tanaka. 436 00:27:49,239 --> 00:27:50,657 Lieutenant? 437 00:27:50,908 --> 00:27:52,326 Magnum? 438 00:27:53,285 --> 00:27:56,371 I was calling for Mrs. Crane. Why are you answering the phone? 439 00:27:56,455 --> 00:27:57,664 Because she can't. 440 00:27:58,290 --> 00:28:00,000 Get over here, Magnum. 441 00:28:00,459 --> 00:28:05,297 I want to know the details of your business with the late Laurie Crane. 442 00:28:15,182 --> 00:28:17,309 A neighbor heard a shot and called us. 443 00:28:17,392 --> 00:28:19,603 We notified him at the office. 444 00:28:19,770 --> 00:28:21,939 Why were you calling her, Magnum? 445 00:28:23,357 --> 00:28:25,234 I'm sorry, Mr. Crane. 446 00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:26,693 Yes. 447 00:28:26,777 --> 00:28:28,654 I imagine you would be. 448 00:28:29,196 --> 00:28:34,409 Tell me, were those songs really worth Laurie's life? 449 00:28:34,660 --> 00:28:37,037 There is no reason to think there's any connection 450 00:28:37,079 --> 00:28:40,040 between what happened and the search for these songs. 451 00:28:40,165 --> 00:28:42,835 Well, why don't we let the police decide that. 452 00:28:43,252 --> 00:28:45,921 Now where's Lacy Fletcher and that publisher? 453 00:28:46,088 --> 00:28:49,091 Are we by any chance discussing clients of yours? 454 00:28:50,509 --> 00:28:52,219 A client, lieutenant. 455 00:28:52,302 --> 00:28:55,472 Yes, and Lacy did hire me to find Laurie Crane, but... 456 00:28:55,556 --> 00:28:57,933 He hired you to harass her 457 00:28:58,016 --> 00:29:01,562 into admitting that she was having an affair with a singer. 458 00:29:02,062 --> 00:29:04,606 - He had her so upset. - No! 459 00:29:04,815 --> 00:29:06,733 I did not harass her. 460 00:29:09,695 --> 00:29:12,739 Look, Mr. Crane, 461 00:29:12,865 --> 00:29:14,992 you don't know the whole story about Lacy. 462 00:29:15,075 --> 00:29:18,162 If you did, you'd know the last thing he'd want is something to happen to Laurie. 463 00:29:18,845 --> 00:29:22,499 It's not that I question your judgment of character, Magnum, 464 00:29:22,624 --> 00:29:23,959 but where do I find him? 465 00:29:25,419 --> 00:29:28,839 He'll be at the estate after you've finished your questioning here. 466 00:29:30,382 --> 00:29:31,633 What? 467 00:29:32,134 --> 00:29:36,013 I mean, do you always work until after 8 p.m. at your office, Mr. Crane? 468 00:29:37,222 --> 00:29:39,641 Yes, as a matter of fact, I do. 469 00:29:39,975 --> 00:29:41,518 When it's necessary. 470 00:29:41,727 --> 00:29:43,770 And was it necessary tonight? 471 00:29:43,896 --> 00:29:46,732 I mean, if she was as upset as you say she was, 472 00:29:46,815 --> 00:29:48,275 shouldn't you have been here with her? 473 00:29:48,358 --> 00:29:51,486 That's enough! I can do my job without help. 474 00:29:51,820 --> 00:29:54,823 And you and Fletcher be around when I call. 475 00:30:03,457 --> 00:30:05,417 It's done, Higgins. 476 00:30:07,169 --> 00:30:10,172 Actually, it was a lot easier than I expected. 477 00:30:10,672 --> 00:30:13,884 You did this entire score this evening? 478 00:30:14,092 --> 00:30:15,761 Yeah, well, I... 479 00:30:17,179 --> 00:30:21,516 I needed something to get my mind off of things. She was such a... 480 00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:25,604 Such a sweet person. 481 00:30:26,980 --> 00:30:29,358 He got away with murdering Georgie. 482 00:30:30,025 --> 00:30:32,319 I'm not gonna let him get away with this. 483 00:30:32,527 --> 00:30:34,279 Do you really believe that? 484 00:30:36,114 --> 00:30:39,451 All that reading that you've done on Georgie and you don't know about Billy? 485 00:30:39,910 --> 00:30:43,580 Well, I've read most everything written about the accident, yes. 486 00:30:43,830 --> 00:30:45,582 Accident, hell! 487 00:30:45,832 --> 00:30:48,001 Lacy, I'm sorry, but by your own accounts, 488 00:30:48,126 --> 00:30:51,546 Billy Cockrell was guilty of nothing more than an irresponsible act. 489 00:30:51,630 --> 00:30:53,632 Hey, listen, he knew that there was no way 490 00:30:53,715 --> 00:30:55,884 that we could get to Richmond with Georgie flying us. 491 00:30:55,926 --> 00:30:58,178 He knew that. He wanted it to happen. 492 00:30:59,638 --> 00:31:03,183 To my way of thinking, that's just as much a murder as what he done tonight. 493 00:31:03,267 --> 00:31:05,310 Why would he kill her, Lacy? 494 00:31:06,228 --> 00:31:08,230 He already had the songs. 495 00:31:08,522 --> 00:31:09,940 Yeah. 496 00:31:10,399 --> 00:31:12,234 So Higgins told me. 497 00:31:12,734 --> 00:31:15,862 Thanks to you, he's probably halfway to Nashville by now. 498 00:31:16,071 --> 00:31:19,783 And thanks a lot for sneaking off and seeing Laurie without letting me know. 499 00:31:20,617 --> 00:31:22,202 What time did you see her? 500 00:31:22,494 --> 00:31:26,748 Magnum, Lacy was here scoring his composition since soon after you left. 501 00:31:26,957 --> 00:31:28,959 Except he didn't go to Pearl today. 502 00:31:29,084 --> 00:31:31,336 They have no record of him coming through the security gate. 503 00:31:31,378 --> 00:31:32,671 Now, where were you, Lacy? 504 00:31:34,631 --> 00:31:36,425 Oh, come on, Lacy. 505 00:31:36,550 --> 00:31:38,802 Tanaka's talking to Crane right now, then you're next. 506 00:31:38,885 --> 00:31:41,388 Now, I need some answers before he gets here! 507 00:31:41,513 --> 00:31:43,473 Now what time did you see Laurie Crane? 508 00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:45,642 It's a fact that I was there, is it? 509 00:31:45,809 --> 00:31:47,102 Yes! 510 00:31:47,227 --> 00:31:49,980 Unless you can produce that letter. Unopened. 511 00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:53,108 Well, come on, Lacy. You never let it out of your sight! 512 00:31:57,195 --> 00:32:00,157 You really believe that I could hurt her? 513 00:32:00,282 --> 00:32:02,117 She meant everything to Georgie. 514 00:32:02,784 --> 00:32:06,830 I'll know more about what I believe when you tell me what happened. 515 00:32:08,123 --> 00:32:10,375 Well, you're gonna have a long wait. 516 00:32:11,376 --> 00:32:13,837 Because the only proof I got is still my word. 517 00:32:13,962 --> 00:32:15,464 You can take it or leave it. 518 00:32:18,383 --> 00:32:20,052 Sorry, Thomas. 519 00:32:20,385 --> 00:32:23,513 That limo's registered to a Lem Tomkins up the north shore. 520 00:32:23,847 --> 00:32:26,058 Exit your Billy Cockrell theory. 521 00:32:26,350 --> 00:32:27,809 What's the address? 522 00:32:27,893 --> 00:32:29,853 - You don't wanna go there. - Come on, Rick. 523 00:32:29,936 --> 00:32:31,855 Okay. Fine. But count me out. 524 00:32:32,064 --> 00:32:35,192 That's no place for a nice kid from Chicago to be seen after dark. 525 00:32:35,275 --> 00:32:39,780 ♪ When I die, I may not go to heaven ♪ 526 00:32:41,239 --> 00:32:45,494 ♪ I don't know if they let cowboys in ♪ 527 00:32:46,286 --> 00:32:47,704 ♪ If they don't ♪ 528 00:32:47,788 --> 00:32:51,541 ♪ Just let me go to Texas, boys ♪ 529 00:32:51,792 --> 00:32:56,129 ♪ 'Cause Texas is as close as I've been ♪ 530 00:32:57,422 --> 00:33:01,385 ♪ New York couldn't hold my attention ♪ 531 00:33:02,511 --> 00:33:06,390 ♪ And Detroit city couldn't sing the song ♪ 532 00:33:07,265 --> 00:33:09,226 Where is he? Do you see him? 533 00:33:09,309 --> 00:33:10,727 Wait a minute, T.C. 534 00:33:10,811 --> 00:33:13,105 It's only just a hunch that he's here. 535 00:33:13,313 --> 00:33:14,648 ♪ ...I won't care ♪ 536 00:33:14,731 --> 00:33:17,442 ♪ 'Cause at least I'll know I'm home ♪ 537 00:33:18,276 --> 00:33:22,406 ♪ When I die, I may not go to heaven ♪ 538 00:33:22,489 --> 00:33:25,158 Well, maybe it's more than a hunch. 539 00:33:25,242 --> 00:33:28,787 Look, Lacy described him as big and mean-looking with red hair. 540 00:33:28,870 --> 00:33:31,790 Well, there are about six guys and three women that fit that description. 541 00:33:31,832 --> 00:33:34,418 Over 50, and he's almost always in a suit. 542 00:33:34,793 --> 00:33:38,171 Listen, oh, there's one more thing I should explain... 543 00:33:40,465 --> 00:33:42,467 - Where's Rick? - Rick? Rick who? 544 00:33:42,551 --> 00:33:45,011 - T.C., come on! Come on, T.C.! - Come on, Cockrell, where is he? 545 00:33:45,095 --> 00:33:46,805 - What have you done with him? - No, no, no, no. 546 00:33:46,888 --> 00:33:48,181 Wait a minute now! Come on! 547 00:33:49,724 --> 00:33:53,103 They don't have Rick. I lied. I made it up. I'm sorry. 548 00:33:53,311 --> 00:33:55,272 - Now give me the songs, Billy! - The songs? 549 00:33:55,313 --> 00:33:56,940 You told me they kidnapped Rick 550 00:33:57,023 --> 00:33:59,443 just so you could send me on a wild goose chase over those stupid... 551 00:33:59,693 --> 00:34:02,028 - No, T.C., they're real! - Real? 552 00:34:02,821 --> 00:34:04,531 Then you conned me here as backup. 553 00:34:04,739 --> 00:34:06,575 No, I don't need a backup. 554 00:34:06,658 --> 00:34:08,577 Because Billy's gonna give me those songs. 555 00:34:08,660 --> 00:34:10,078 Right, Billy? 556 00:34:10,154 --> 00:34:12,281 Hey, come on, I didn't mean for those guys to rough you up. 557 00:34:12,414 --> 00:34:14,791 - In fact, I told them not to! - Just give me the songs! 558 00:34:14,916 --> 00:34:16,793 Yes, and they had better be real! 559 00:34:16,877 --> 00:34:18,628 'Cause if you pulled this backup con for nothing... 560 00:34:18,712 --> 00:34:20,464 I don't need a backup, T.C. 561 00:34:20,547 --> 00:34:21,965 And there's not gonna be any trouble. 562 00:34:22,007 --> 00:34:23,717 Now, just give me the songs, Billy. 563 00:34:23,925 --> 00:34:25,969 ♪ Been mistreated ♪ 564 00:34:26,052 --> 00:34:30,432 ♪ When will I be loved? ♪ 565 00:34:30,640 --> 00:34:31,766 Right. 566 00:34:32,058 --> 00:34:33,185 No trouble. 567 00:34:33,268 --> 00:34:34,519 No backup. 568 00:34:34,728 --> 00:34:36,563 ♪ I've been lied to ♪ 569 00:34:36,771 --> 00:34:38,315 I'll handle this. 570 00:34:41,193 --> 00:34:46,031 ♪ When will I be loved? ♪ 571 00:34:47,699 --> 00:34:49,784 Hey, come on, you guys. They weren't doing anything! 572 00:34:49,868 --> 00:34:51,536 - Cool it! Cool it! - No, no, no, no! 573 00:34:51,620 --> 00:34:53,163 Let them go on. He's doing fine. 574 00:34:54,831 --> 00:34:58,376 ♪ Always breaks my heart in two ♪ 575 00:34:58,627 --> 00:35:00,754 You better throw wide and duck. 576 00:35:01,004 --> 00:35:03,006 ♪ It happens every time ♪ 577 00:35:05,008 --> 00:35:07,928 ♪ I've been cheated ♪ 578 00:35:08,803 --> 00:35:11,014 If all this is over these, take them. 579 00:35:11,097 --> 00:35:12,641 They're not worth a dime. 580 00:35:12,724 --> 00:35:14,017 What are you talking about? 581 00:35:16,019 --> 00:35:17,270 T.C.? 582 00:35:17,646 --> 00:35:19,648 Wait a minute. Aren't these the lost songs? 583 00:35:19,773 --> 00:35:23,068 Yeah, yeah. There's Jessup's name on the top of all of them. 584 00:35:26,696 --> 00:35:29,991 Georgie couldn't write that high-class eighth and quarter note stuff. 585 00:35:30,242 --> 00:35:32,452 He used the Nashville Number System. 586 00:35:32,577 --> 00:35:34,412 Any expert would laugh you out of the room 587 00:35:34,621 --> 00:35:36,164 if you tried to pass that off as his work. 588 00:35:44,339 --> 00:35:48,969 ♪ It happens every time ♪ 589 00:35:49,094 --> 00:35:51,304 See, no backup. 590 00:35:51,388 --> 00:35:53,098 ♪ I've been cheated ♪ 591 00:35:53,974 --> 00:35:56,935 ♪ Been mistreated ♪ 592 00:35:57,060 --> 00:35:58,270 Junk. 593 00:35:58,353 --> 00:36:04,442 ♪ When will I be loved? ♪ 594 00:36:10,448 --> 00:36:12,784 Higgins, where's Lacy? 595 00:36:15,161 --> 00:36:16,538 I... 596 00:36:17,372 --> 00:36:19,374 I suppose he went on to bed. 597 00:36:19,457 --> 00:36:23,044 I just checked his room. He's not there, and all his stuff's gone. 598 00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:25,547 Well, I don't understand. 599 00:36:25,630 --> 00:36:28,550 We were listening to yesterday's quartet rehearsal. 600 00:36:29,926 --> 00:36:31,595 Jessup's songs? 601 00:36:32,846 --> 00:36:34,264 I don't know. 602 00:36:34,472 --> 00:36:36,891 Did you ever hear of the Nashville Number System? 603 00:36:38,518 --> 00:36:40,562 Well, yes, of course. 604 00:36:40,645 --> 00:36:44,065 It's a very simple method of musical notation 605 00:36:44,149 --> 00:36:45,692 created by... 606 00:36:47,068 --> 00:36:50,071 By country writers who couldn't read music? 607 00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:52,324 Like George Lee Jessup. 608 00:36:58,955 --> 00:37:01,833 But the chord patterns are vintage Jessup. 609 00:37:01,958 --> 00:37:03,585 They're unmistakable. 610 00:37:03,793 --> 00:37:05,378 Or vintage Fletcher? 611 00:37:10,942 --> 00:37:14,095 You looked for him on the hospital grounds, of course? 612 00:37:14,220 --> 00:37:17,849 He hasn't been there. I've checked hotels, all-night bars. 613 00:37:17,932 --> 00:37:20,852 I don't know. Maybe he took a red-eye back to Nashville. 614 00:37:21,311 --> 00:37:25,523 Lieutenant Tanaka was quite upset to find both you and Lacy gone. 615 00:37:25,607 --> 00:37:29,277 He cryptically assured me that you should not feel alone in your search. 616 00:37:29,402 --> 00:37:32,030 Come on, he put out an APB on Lacy? 617 00:37:32,113 --> 00:37:34,282 Magnum, Lacy's fingerprints were all over the room 618 00:37:34,407 --> 00:37:35,992 where Laurie Crane was murdered. 619 00:37:36,076 --> 00:37:38,203 Okay, fine, Higgins, he was there! 620 00:37:38,286 --> 00:37:40,205 He wanted to give her the letter. 621 00:37:40,288 --> 00:37:44,167 But he certainly wouldn't hurt the one person that Jessup really cared for. 622 00:37:51,049 --> 00:37:52,342 No. 623 00:37:53,218 --> 00:37:56,638 A very complete and complex devotion. 624 00:37:56,971 --> 00:38:01,601 Odd that the fifth song should be missing from so cherished a collection. 625 00:38:01,851 --> 00:38:04,229 I'm more interested in why that letter is missing. 626 00:38:05,897 --> 00:38:08,942 Well, its disposition hardly seems important under the circumstances. 627 00:38:09,192 --> 00:38:10,610 Higgins, 628 00:38:10,735 --> 00:38:13,113 whoever killed her thought it was very important 629 00:38:13,196 --> 00:38:15,115 or it wouldn't have disappeared. 630 00:38:15,240 --> 00:38:17,200 She told you the letter was nothing more 631 00:38:17,242 --> 00:38:20,161 than a rambling confession to Jessup about her marriage. 632 00:38:20,370 --> 00:38:21,705 Right. 633 00:38:22,997 --> 00:38:26,793 But did she ever confess the whole thing to the guy she was married to? 634 00:38:27,043 --> 00:38:29,379 It doesn't matter what she confessed, Magnum. 635 00:38:29,587 --> 00:38:32,549 Crane did all the confessing I can handle this morning. 636 00:38:34,551 --> 00:38:36,052 So you got him downtown? 637 00:38:36,261 --> 00:38:38,304 No. His story didn't add up. 638 00:38:38,388 --> 00:38:40,181 Details he couldn't cover. 639 00:38:40,265 --> 00:38:43,601 And the lamps and the tables, they were overturned too neatly. 640 00:38:43,768 --> 00:38:45,562 I know a staged job when I see one. 641 00:38:47,689 --> 00:38:50,525 And he finally broke and told me the truth. 642 00:38:54,279 --> 00:38:57,365 Her letter to Jessup must've been more brutal than she remembered. 643 00:38:57,449 --> 00:38:59,492 She had a prior history. 644 00:38:59,701 --> 00:39:03,329 It was thoughtful of your client to drop it on her. 645 00:39:03,538 --> 00:39:04,748 But what can you expect? 646 00:39:04,789 --> 00:39:06,416 The guy's a real basket case. 647 00:39:06,499 --> 00:39:08,209 Nashville police report? 648 00:39:08,293 --> 00:39:10,086 Twelve counts of assault. 649 00:39:10,670 --> 00:39:12,922 And he even sings on street corners. 650 00:39:13,122 --> 00:39:16,301 Lieutenant, he sings everywhere. I mean, come on, he's harmless. 651 00:39:16,384 --> 00:39:18,052 Look, all these counts are related. 652 00:39:18,136 --> 00:39:21,431 He only goes after people who are insulting to George Lee. 653 00:39:25,351 --> 00:39:26,936 Where's Crane? 654 00:39:32,066 --> 00:39:33,359 Lacy? 655 00:39:33,443 --> 00:39:35,904 I'm over here, Crane! 656 00:39:43,036 --> 00:39:44,662 Believe me, 657 00:39:44,954 --> 00:39:49,209 you needed no cheap, second letter blackmail lie to meet with me. 658 00:39:49,292 --> 00:39:51,461 Well, I needed something to get you out here. 659 00:39:51,586 --> 00:39:54,672 Where a good man really loved the woman that you murdered. 660 00:39:55,173 --> 00:39:56,841 You're accusing me? 661 00:39:57,008 --> 00:39:59,385 You and that letter, that's why Laurie's dead. 662 00:39:59,636 --> 00:40:03,431 She finally stopped blaming herself until you came along. 663 00:40:03,681 --> 00:40:05,225 And then she had to... 664 00:40:05,308 --> 00:40:09,103 Then she had to remember what she had written to that drunken, trashy... 665 00:40:13,233 --> 00:40:14,567 Here. 666 00:40:15,652 --> 00:40:17,779 She couldn't part with that one. 667 00:40:18,404 --> 00:40:22,242 Why the hell did you have to come looking for those childish, maudlin songs? 668 00:40:24,035 --> 00:40:29,040 You read Georgie's letter... Private letter? 669 00:40:36,798 --> 00:40:38,591 I didn't have to read it. 670 00:40:38,675 --> 00:40:41,678 I knew about the affair from the night she wrote that letter to Jessup. 671 00:40:41,886 --> 00:40:43,930 You didn't know till last night, 672 00:40:44,055 --> 00:40:47,183 and you couldn't stand to find out that she loved Georgie more than you. 673 00:40:49,018 --> 00:40:51,563 We were married a whole year before that plane crash. 674 00:40:51,646 --> 00:40:54,232 That's a lie! She was coming to marry Georgie. 675 00:40:54,315 --> 00:40:56,985 Me! She was married to me! 676 00:40:57,110 --> 00:40:58,695 But she blamed herself. 677 00:40:58,736 --> 00:41:00,196 Because she thought 678 00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:03,283 that he was drunk that night because she said no to him. 679 00:41:03,408 --> 00:41:04,701 That's a lie! 680 00:41:04,784 --> 00:41:06,661 You read the letter and couldn't take it! 681 00:41:06,744 --> 00:41:08,162 She didn't even remember his name. 682 00:41:08,788 --> 00:41:10,623 I actually convinced her 683 00:41:10,832 --> 00:41:12,208 that she never met him. 684 00:41:12,333 --> 00:41:13,668 She loved Georgie. 685 00:41:13,751 --> 00:41:15,086 She was Georgie's. 686 00:41:15,169 --> 00:41:16,462 She was mine! 687 00:41:23,094 --> 00:41:24,637 Lacy, stop! 688 00:41:25,054 --> 00:41:27,223 Leave us alone! He killed her. 689 00:41:27,307 --> 00:41:28,182 No! 690 00:41:28,808 --> 00:41:30,435 It was suicide. 691 00:41:34,814 --> 00:41:37,066 This time I wasn't there to stop her. 692 00:41:38,735 --> 00:41:41,446 So you destroyed the letter 693 00:41:41,529 --> 00:41:44,324 and made it look like she was murdered, Desmond. Why? 694 00:41:47,452 --> 00:41:50,455 Laurie didn't deserve the scandal of suicide. 695 00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:52,874 It wasn't her fault. 696 00:41:54,417 --> 00:41:56,294 It wasn't her fault? 697 00:41:58,838 --> 00:42:01,215 Will the two of you just stop? 698 00:42:02,508 --> 00:42:04,177 Look what you're doing to yourselves. 699 00:42:04,260 --> 00:42:05,803 You'd stand here and kill each other 700 00:42:05,929 --> 00:42:08,306 before you'd admit that those two weren't saints! 701 00:42:10,224 --> 00:42:11,601 Desmond, 702 00:42:13,686 --> 00:42:15,772 Laurie had real emotional problems. 703 00:42:15,855 --> 00:42:17,440 You're just gonna have to accept that. 704 00:42:18,191 --> 00:42:19,567 And live with it. 705 00:42:21,152 --> 00:42:22,654 And, Lacy... 706 00:42:23,988 --> 00:42:25,698 I mean, can you even remember 707 00:42:26,199 --> 00:42:28,785 that you're the real talent behind Jessup? 708 00:42:28,910 --> 00:42:30,578 You wrote all those hits. 709 00:42:30,954 --> 00:42:33,373 No, no, they was Georgie's. 710 00:42:33,581 --> 00:42:36,084 Fine, fine. So you don't want the truth known. 711 00:42:36,334 --> 00:42:38,962 But at least admit it to yourself. 712 00:42:39,462 --> 00:42:42,298 I got the other four from Billy. They're all the same. 713 00:43:00,775 --> 00:43:02,860 Five million shot to hell. 714 00:43:06,406 --> 00:43:10,159 Well, there goes the museum, Georgie. 715 00:43:10,451 --> 00:43:12,036 A museum? 716 00:43:13,621 --> 00:43:16,082 Don't you think you've done enough for Georgie? 717 00:43:18,918 --> 00:43:20,920 No, you can't do enough. 718 00:43:23,089 --> 00:43:24,674 He was special. 719 00:43:25,591 --> 00:43:27,051 Special. 720 00:43:29,762 --> 00:43:33,808 That's why that he needed special songs. 721 00:43:34,100 --> 00:43:36,686 Songs that he wrote himself, so... 722 00:43:42,483 --> 00:43:45,445 So people would know that he was singing from the heart. 723 00:43:47,655 --> 00:43:49,365 Oh, well. 724 00:43:51,451 --> 00:43:53,077 If he'd just 725 00:43:55,121 --> 00:43:59,459 copied the first ones like I thought he did, like we'd done all the rest, 726 00:44:01,502 --> 00:44:03,755 they'd all be monsters. 727 00:44:05,840 --> 00:44:09,343 Instead of my useless tunes. 728 00:44:10,053 --> 00:44:11,804 Doesn't that kind of 729 00:44:12,388 --> 00:44:15,516 say something about how special he was? 730 00:44:15,850 --> 00:44:17,351 Hmm? 731 00:44:22,940 --> 00:44:25,193 They were both special. 732 00:44:59,310 --> 00:45:02,355 Lacy, they could all be chartbusters if you'd just listen to reason. 733 00:45:02,480 --> 00:45:04,440 You mind holding it down? I'm trying to listen to my piece. 734 00:45:04,524 --> 00:45:06,317 - Do you mind? - Lacy, come on now. 735 00:45:06,484 --> 00:45:08,486 Billy's trying to end the war. What do you want? 736 00:45:08,653 --> 00:45:10,071 Nothing, not from him. 737 00:45:10,154 --> 00:45:11,489 Yeah, well, you're gonna get it. 738 00:45:11,572 --> 00:45:13,866 I wanna record those songs and give you all the royalties. 739 00:45:13,950 --> 00:45:15,576 But you gotta do them as Lacy Fletcher tunes. 740 00:45:15,660 --> 00:45:17,078 Over my dead body. 741 00:45:17,286 --> 00:45:19,080 You're trying to make a fool out of Georgie. 742 00:45:19,163 --> 00:45:22,750 No, damn it, I'm just trying to make things up to him and you! 743 00:45:22,959 --> 00:45:24,919 Guys, come on. Everyone can hear you. Please. 744 00:45:27,421 --> 00:45:30,424 The money from those songs could build that museum you want. 745 00:45:32,468 --> 00:45:34,846 And if it don't, I'll put in the rest of the money. 746 00:45:34,971 --> 00:45:36,889 But I want to do them as your songs, Lacy. 747 00:45:36,973 --> 00:45:39,350 I won't see you lie for Georgie anymore. 748 00:45:49,235 --> 00:45:50,987 Ladies and gentlemen, 749 00:45:51,112 --> 00:45:52,697 it is a great honor 750 00:45:52,780 --> 00:45:56,909 to present the composer of the beautiful piece we have just premiered. 751 00:45:57,243 --> 00:45:59,453 Mr. Lacy Fletcher. 752 00:46:10,715 --> 00:46:12,884 Thank you. I appreciate it. 753 00:46:13,176 --> 00:46:17,221 I know this isn't exactly the place for country, but... 754 00:46:19,307 --> 00:46:23,519 I got another little premiere here for you, if you don't mind. 755 00:46:23,728 --> 00:46:27,106 This is one of five songs that... 756 00:46:28,107 --> 00:46:30,735 Well, they're all gonna be classics because 757 00:46:31,986 --> 00:46:36,490 they were all written by the great George Lee Jessup. 758 00:46:37,700 --> 00:46:42,163 And I had the wonderful privilege of writing down the notes for him. 759 00:46:51,055 --> 00:46:54,342 ♪ I'm a thousand miles from nowhere ♪ 760 00:46:54,425 --> 00:46:57,637 ♪ Near the flashing neon lights ♪ 761 00:46:57,845 --> 00:47:00,348 ♪ And I'll try to get through ♪ 762 00:47:00,431 --> 00:47:02,975 ♪ One more lonely night ♪ 763 00:47:03,851 --> 00:47:06,062 ♪ People keep on moving ♪ 764 00:47:06,145 --> 00:47:09,023 ♪ Just filling up the space ♪ 765 00:47:09,232 --> 00:47:11,567 ♪ All I keep on seeing ♪ 766 00:47:11,651 --> 00:47:14,654 ♪ Is the memory of your face ♪ 767 00:47:15,029 --> 00:47:17,531 ♪ I just want to hold you ♪ 768 00:47:17,657 --> 00:47:20,910 ♪ And listen deep within ♪ 769 00:47:21,118 --> 00:47:23,204 ♪ Listen to the music ♪ 770 00:47:23,287 --> 00:47:26,707 ♪ That let me live again ♪ 771 00:47:26,958 --> 00:47:29,210 ♪ Let me hear the music ♪ 772 00:47:29,293 --> 00:47:32,296 ♪ That keeps my world in time ♪ 773 00:47:32,421 --> 00:47:34,924 ♪ Let me hear the music ♪ 774 00:47:35,049 --> 00:47:37,885 ♪ And let me hear the rhyme ♪