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hey dice some hustle huh we want this

downtown in the barn before she wakes up

I think she's awake I'll take care of

this horshack you knocked out my karate

instructor you idiot don't get sore at

me Sam I thought you're in trouble with

you here I'm in trouble

Coenen speak to me what the hell was

that

that's my car horse bet don't call me

that

hey boys put the wheels back on the

pavement will ya told you before that

cars hot I'll stop those guys great two

guys down and a head and you've had

breakfast yeah good look out what look

out with you Vic chasing us all oh I

can't believe you knocked out my friend

Conan

well excuse me for doing my job thanks

for rescuing me and that car was given

to me a little payment by a client a

client I tried cheap hoodlums trial

comes up Detective horshack wants you to

unhook my car no he doesn't know hey

shag where we went buddies at the police

academy for about ten minutes whatever

happened to that warm sense of

camaraderie

you called me horse spit well you guys

were calling me stormy what's wrong with

stormy only strippers are called stormy

look Ernie okay Ernie can I call you

Ernie

I just need a little time go by my

clients house and pick up the pink slip

he's obviously mislaid the pink slip one

our deal my friends call me horse okay

horse you're on one hour keep your nose

clean till you get there yes sir

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somewhere down in that stagnant stream

of humanity is me and my new red muscle

car none of this urban clod gets to me

anymore not since I've learned the art

of Zen driving nothing matters I don't

see traffic I don't see cars I live in

the internal prison

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hey Sam

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the door wasn't locked that's half the

story who are you yeah who are you I'm

the owner Samantha weathers

investigations and your computer madness

right

you ordered a computer right along with

the brain so I can run it you don't need

a brain if I qualify think for it

I don't want to seem racist sexist or

what's that other thing a gist yeah but

did your mother know you're out of the

house I guess so you can call her we

live out in Las Tunas Canyon you live

with your mother

well why not she keeps her music low and

your computer company they don't mind

that you look about 15 no it's just me

and Jimmy just the two of you yeah we

just put this ad in the LA Weekly last

week and you're our first customer scusi

so you know that if you're looking for

the immigration lawyer he's just next

door I hate to disappoint you but I

don't speak Spanish either I'm from

Italy

well come on yeah we already got a guy

here from La Tuna canyons I'm looking

for mr. Jake weathers do I say it

correctly yeah you got it

mr. weathers he's here mr. weathers is

dead has been for 10 years he was my

father

oh I'm sorry it's my mistake no mistake

we started the agency together Jake I

mean yes yes you meet me I'm Lorenzo

Giovanni the second Eenie I wish I could

match that Sam for Samantha Samantha

weathers and they call me Geo one of us

is going to have to sit down better meet

me no um I just ran out of the house

could you excuse me from it should I go

make it no no don't leave stay

you can talk to what's your name zero

Cyril what's wrong I like Cyril that may

be okay out of tuna Canyon but how about

squirrel that's close enough

squirrel

are you in college to study USC last

semester you're studying computers no a

film I'd like to direct you know like

Fellini hmm Fellini ah

Fellini I'm dressed for work nice work

won't you come in see

do you mind what are those guys those

are Italian French no thanks I take more

ecological approach to my lungs how may

I help you I am looking for my brother

he's missing he went missing in 1976

I suppose it is how do you say it in

your profession a cold trail let's start

with his name luigi Basilio des Arcanine

e impressive since the recent death of

my father he is now count ceccolini

even more impressive the way GD za zc

AG and I in I that's an attractive store

it's a crystal actually G and it's

supposed to cleanse my aura I don't

understand me either but somehow I feel

better just knowing my auras being

cleansed what was the last known address

of your brother the Belvedere Hotel

Venice Italy California that's why you

came to me I'm in Venice

I gave looking for your father he sent

us a wire on October 6 1976 inquiring

the whereabouts of Luigi how did you

reply my father replied he had no son

Luigi he'd written him off we were

forbidden to speak his name 1976 my dad

was still working homicide at the LAPD I

was hoping he would have information I'm

anxious to find Luigi let's take it to

the LAPD I have a friendly source there

Helen this is Sam I need to speak to

Frank in a hurry please

question why did you wait 15 years to

come snooping my father died last year

and now the executives need to know the

truth of Luigi if he's alive he will

inherit my father's title and a certain

fortune and if he's dead who gets to

play count the younger brother Sam where

the hell are you Frank I'm sitting here

with a client a foreign gentleman tell

your client that closes he is for a

moment and listen we'd very much

appreciate it if you could open up an

old file for us when my dad was working

I'd appreciate a fee but down here I'd

like him to go back to Italy with a

favorable impression of the LAPD and

tell me what the hell this is about you

scooting around town in a stolen car

Frank I'm sincerely sorry to have

disturbed you on a busy day

Frank was my dad's rookie you know we're

sort of like brother and sisters a lot

of jokes are you taking my case you tell

me

I'm $300 a day that's American dollars

plus expenses and don't get your hopes

up this is how'd you say hey Coltrane

exactly we buy eight thousand five

thousand

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crack through to the Pentagon yeah I

know do you want me to maybe we might

need a ballistic missile sometime for

now just order me a tuna on rye with

mayonnaise you can do that yes men how

about something more practical like the

address the Belvedere Hotel in Venice B

e V del vedere hotel nine one eight

Brooks Avenue closed in 1980 what's

there now a burger boy let me know order

you want

I gotta go computer madness you're

working for me now double whatever

you're making

well Jimmy thinks that we can get

bookings if $800,000 our first year so

we figured that's over 50 bucks and

that's ridiculous you and Jimmy better

feed back to earth we'll talk later miss

Withers how about Sam try Sam alright

Sam are you a dick where on earth did

you learn that The Maltese Falcon the

Big Sleep

I meant the crime you know detective

movies at film school don't tell me

about the Big Sleep I grew up on it I

used to be Humphrey Bogart oh yeah me

too

only I didn't have to go to any film

school I was raised by a real detective

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do you remember a local hotel it's all

the Belvedere it closed in 1980

something you need for me well I could

call 9-1-1 and ask them to impound your

overcoat oh you always make me laugh Sam

I'm looking for someone who lived at the

Belvedere in Italian you know Rosa money

I don't know Rosamund she was the death

bug in the Belvedere throat hey yeah got

company morning it's 4:00 in the

afternoon I never know when they're

gonna get up and go back down a Rosie I

do me a favor and tell the Navy about

the Belvedere no I'm trying to locate an

Italian who lived there in 1976 take a

look I is the Sahara

I paid for that one good for you I do

remember an Italian hanging around the

guy I remember ran with and bomb

throwers he threw bombs

you know then black revolution fellas

with a berets you remember any names

Alfa Romeo that was the Italian no it

was the card the Italian drove if

anything else floats to the surface let

me know buddy

hello do other times yes extension 407

face no I can't press - I'm driving

thank you not a chance you bitch I'm

saving myself for my second marriage

okay okay dinner's on me next time

listen I don't have time to argue can

you dig up something in the black

freedom movement late 60s early 70s I

need someone to talk to me someone who

knows a personnel from back then can I

help you with something

Samantha weathers we talked on the phone

Bobby said you to go back to the

free-speech moment that was a long time

ago if it makes any difference to you I

really appreciate what you're doing here

nothing personal Ms weathers but without

bogeys call I wouldn't have the time of

day for you now as it is you've got

about five minutes starting when you

walked in the door I'm looking for an

Italian who disappeared in the mid-70s

Luigi's as a Kamini rumor has it he was

on your side he may be Luigi to you but

that was Louie bassy to us and the only

side he was ever on was his own you

remember him lowlife dog isn't what he

and his slummin friends had a funky

little calm you know verb ihollywood

when he was on the scene so with the

drugs

that's when Leon got hooked who's Leon

Leon Wilkes that's another sad story of

the 60s gone sour he had it all he was

an artist with the mind match studied in

Rome in Rome he could have really been

something special for our people

instead Louie and drugs and whoever that

other chick was what other chick some

white chick I didn't get the name

dilettante you mentioned a commune do

you have any names

photographs time to clean it out anyway

this is Leon and me in front of Louie's

Alfa Romeo quite a pair of

revolutionaries huh

keep the photograph burning when you're

done this Louie and your friend Leon do

you have any idea as to their current

whereabouts I have no idea but you want

my guess

try the county morgue way back detective

horshack I bet anything you would expect

no bet anything I started walking fired

you think I was gonna come up here and

clear up that little misunderstanding

about the furniture

I ran a make on that duty and the pink

slips about his red heart does new paint

job it's nice to see you two is still

getting along so well you got nothing

better to do

where did you get that card from a

client and movement where's the client

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which I can get a reprimand

are we still friendly look don't blame

me if I don't want to be around when you

pry open a 15 year old can of worms it's

not like you to avoid a can of worms

Frank or a pot of snakes for that matter

you're a good cop Jake always said so

oh is that right you know maybe it's

because yeah dad I'm not getting

involved in this you ever think of that

my dad always said you were the best

partner he ever had

you have to sit that way

kiss my pension goodbye if anybody finds

out you've been in these files so keep

it quiet I always do all right October

76 there was some accidental deaths out

in Hancock Park three dopeheads od'd in

a living room everything from a horse to

magic mushrooms now we had positive ID

on the young lady miss penny calmed it

my father was the next ambassador to

Italy the family was in Rome at the time

Rome again the black guy is a radical by

the name I he looks yeah I know him no

one I know of him

and the third guy's Italian Louis bossy

names a fake yeah

never could trace him down though before

the case was closed coroner rotoma John

Doe death certificate I guess that's my

guy it's hard to tell the bunnies are

bloated with drugs and took a couple of

days to discover them but the thing is

your dad thought there was foul play

especially since there was a fourth

person at the fight a fourth person well

according to your dad he came up with a

set of partial prints smeared on a glass

the fourth party Jake was working pretty

hard he was putting pressure all over

town he even wired back to Italy for

whereabouts in every recent immigrant so

that's how Gio got his wire Jake was

close to bringing it home when all of a

sudden BAM lights out

someone clamped the lid on it he got a

call from upstairs he wouldn't talk

about it I mean all I know is he was put

down hard told to lay off and the file

was sealed I know the rest

dad get royally steamed you go royally

stood to be morons only for a couple of

months well a couple of months is a long

time to stay stood not for dad and he

threw away his career and dropped out he

didn't drop out he quit so we could set

up weathers and weathers oh right

you dropped out too outside of the

police account and quit the police

academy to help dad set up the agency

all right how about your own wood it was

safe from a life of station house

politics I'm talking a cop code which my

dad was eternally grateful oh that's it

that's it thrilled I thought your dad

was grateful there's only daughter stop

chasing after his rookie partner chase

you I had to fight you off with a stick

as I recall it was practically a virgin

tactically

you know there was a time we talk like

people we talk like people silly ones

how's for you

fine and the kids

why is this always so difficult

because you broke my heart Frank

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so maybe I'm not happy Bernhard he

always seemed to roll with the punches I

get punched and stay down I kind of

stopped seeing Franco Roscoe even if it

means burning a bridge down at the LAPD

I keep raking through those ashes and

damn I'm the one who gets burnt

but like horsebit said this muscle car

was hot and jumped towards the beach

like a walrus and loved what a relief

leaving the smog behind and heading out

for this romantic restaurant by the sea

and a Starbuck Italian you get the

picture who knows

maybe my prince had come I'm sorry

I was tied up on a phone call to Rome

you haven't ordered anything to drink

waiter please

you seem sad I don't have happy news for

you Senor geo please what do you have

what do you think it's a tequila with

the worm still wiggling skocy

mineral water make that a double Oh

mineral water

will meet me please waiter a little

touch injures but not too little I have

reason to believe your brother used the

name Louie Bessie if so he was found

dead along with two others in Hancock

Park October 1976 apparent drug overdose

I'm sorry you're certain three people

died my guess is Louie bassy was your

brother I will need proof the coroner

took some photographs but they're

inconclusive I don't think you want to

see him

we could try to match the prints the

coroner took with your brothers that I'm

afraid is not easy fingerprinting is a

uniquely American obsession there's not

any document or anything with his

fingerprints on it to satisfy the

Italian courts you must find me a death

certificate well there is one but it

says John Doe it must say Luigi the

sucker Nene or you don't become count

there's a little more at stake

the family inheritance he served in

degree of money yes a certain large

degree of money which goes to you I seem

to be the next in line yes

Wow I always have to keep down that road

until I can prove that corpse was your

brother good

I refuse to believe you have come to the

end of the road

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don't you cut her what is this Halloween

well I'm working for this tomato who's a

gumshoe I thought I should look the part

cute but don't go out the door that way

Hey look Santa the Alfa Romeo in the

picture that you left me belong to a

gentleman who had the name Louie bassy

you registered it with the DMV and I got

into the fire the DMV is that a public

file last known owner was the Los

Angeles homicide department that kept

the car for evidence

my little baguette if you're hacking

into an LAPD mainframe I have to tell

you that's an illegal act I could lose

my license and you could be on your way

to prison farm with half of Wall Street

what you don't like my clues they're

great

I just knew them already now now don't

pout I'm just saying no illegal hacking

if anybody's gonna do anything illegal

around here it's gonna be me so what do

you want me here for

I like your alley used to have an

avocado plant but you're more fun truth

is with that electronic weasel of yours

you can get a lot of background on

someone before I meet them all legal for

instance can you discover the

whereabouts of a guy who used to be

ambassador to Italy all I have is a name

Comden work your magic

Condon Jacob see calls himself doctor

coming now living in LaVista where the

help of a Mista four and a half miles

south of San Clemente what a beauty you

are

excuse me I could not leave without

wishing you every good luck you're

leaving

oh yes to Rome business always a bother

but I was hoping you would permit us a

little dinner and I have a little

memento for you oh I couldn't your

prints

I mean account whatever it always seemed

to be a help to Sherlock Holmes I've

never seen one is nice Thanks and dealer

actually I'm on my way to LaVista I've

got a lead on the case a certain dr.

Condon you intend to rouse these people

from their beds I'll check into a motel

and get an early start in the morning

I have a very demanding client booth I

demand we have dinner

Mario change of plans I thought you said

you had business I told you it's a

bother okay you're the boss I've gotta

let mr. tomorrow where you want to go

for dinner someplace that is Los Angeles

how about burger boy no we have those in

the room someplace we do not have in the

room it's Mario good Mario we can walk

I'll get my things

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here I was a tourist in my own town and

all the corny sites of Olvera Street

look new and funny and ok I'll cop to it

romantic I wish I had a tourist book to

help me say no when my heart was saying

something stupid like si si si

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I don't kiss the clients would it help

if I fired you

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after a short night of some rather long

dreams none of which will ever make it

into the case report I woke up the next

morning it found that Italian puppy dog

back on my doorstep I told him I had to

get down to La Vista to do his business

but he wouldn't take no for an answer

he wanted to tag along I guess he wanted

to see what his dollar was getting him

into about the time the road ribbon down

by the beach with all that romantic

crash of surf I tried to remind the guy

I don't mix business with pleasure

at least I try not to I'll wait right

here

me I'm like a tourist

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hello I'm Samantha weathers I called

earlier about seeing dr. Condon I'm very

sorry but dr. condom is receiving no

guests today first of all you are

forgiven second of all I'm sorry to hear

about your hearing problem but if you

had heard you would know I didn't come

here to sell subscriptions I came all

this way to talk to dr. Condon is there

someone behind that door my sippy I need

to talk to dr. Condon I have a distinct

lack of interest in your knee we're not

talking about a couple of bad check

Sahib I'm investigating the death of his

daughter I was raised to respect a fair

sex but I should warn you madam

I respect keeping my job even more if

necessary I'm prepared to lift your body

and toss you out the door you want to

talk to somebody about that MS weathers

you may come in briefly later

I'm afraid you have touched on a deep

family sadness miss Withers my daughter

we were estranged at the time she died

in it I'm sorry to hear that it is not

an easy burden to bear I'm sensitive to

what you've been through really the way

you barged in here didn't reveal much

sensitivity do you mind if I sit this is

a priceless or anything yes it is

priceless and yes you may say dr. Condon

I'd like to ask you about someone your

daughter may have met in Rome one of her

friends or the memory of my daughter

should be is merely pain her mother and

I have sealed off her room it's just as

it was would it be possible for me to

take a look at it a brief look everyone

who's picked over the Renaissance stood

at his bones this is where the real

energy comes from where's that the

avant-garde the German boys this for

instance is made of straw and animal fat

attractive mm-hmm I like it my days to

run more to the local boys you wouldn't

happen to know the work of a Leon Wilkes

would you an LA artist a good one you

might have met him when he was studying

in Rome our interview is over

he knew your daughter mahmu heads off

I'm used to this okay

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please do not turn on the lights in you

hello

I often stay in this room without light

if I had to make an uneducated guess I'd

say you were penny Condon's mother

mm-hmm and your miss Withers and a

private investigator

close enough my husband prefers not to

think of penny I can think of little

lips maybe you can help me find out more

about your daughter

do you have any information about her

friends either here or in Rome was the

crux of our problem Oh friends you and

the doctor didn't approve of her friends

rebels Communists honor kissed do you

remember the red brigade sure terrorists

back in the 70s was she a member I

cannot believe that she believed in

those people was only to hurt her father

that would do it and me do you remember

any names I'm especially interested in

an Italian she knew here and in Rome

if you promise to return these you may

read them there are many names

these are pennies who die least they

return them to us when was that and they

returned penny they came through you

know they killed my baby take that set

go from the girl

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I can't read if you're looking at me

I'll go for a walk yeah if you are

curious I will be at la Sebata you

remember order a strict that's a pata

sure lhasa pata cha-cha-cha

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child

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marked by a nun heavens the Americans

are so innovative giving you're

criminals what's that a whiskey I pray

that you not be hurt while in my employ

well because none was too much into

prayer I'm used to having my prayers

answered maybe they were sister Mary

stiletto got away with all up any

condoms Diaries except one it's reading

this one and it reads like Patty Hearst

confessions wealthy young girl getting

off on radicals cell groups code names

there's some kind of mysterious Ella

here she seems to been some kind of

ringleader SI ella ella and ella and

here unfortunately is your brother up to

his elbows a revolution no you know why

my father cut him off this may be our

answer our little rich girl penny was in

love with your brother they got married

no not at City Hall but under an

Aquarian moon on Eclipse to Santa Monica

they had some guy named moon dance

Channing the ceremony where were the

sixties the couple's cut their thumbs

and mix their blood may be crazy to do

that today but of course this was back

in the 60s then they vowed to love one

another until the new age rose oh here

are the thumb prints and blood

that is my brothers thumb well according

to penny and if Franco Roscoe's in a

good mood I'll get him to match those

prints with the prints the coroner took

of Louie bass did you learn anything

more I mean from the Diaries isn't that

enough

guy you'll have your death certificate

with your brother's name on it and and

okay so be closed isn't that what you

want

he's not what you want you're clicking

pardon you're clicking on your keyboard

well that's how I talk to Richard who

detective Richard the computer yeah well

can you guys talk without the clicks way

I figured everyone's happy about this

case except for one guy who's that my

dad maybe they didn't OD maybe one of

them gave everybody some truly bad dope

trouble is we can't talk to the girl we

can't talk to Glee on we can't talk to

Luigi they're all slightly dead that

only leaves a mysterious Ella Leon's

lover

how do we get to her well I'm no Sam

Spade you know you come in close maybe

if you talk to the parents of Leon

Wilkes do you know them Crenshaw

Boulevard do you know it Sam just say it

no question about it

it was a tragedy plain and simple it

certainly was a powerful painter Leon

could have been a great one all of his

teachers say itself you say the trouble

started when he got back from Rome yeah

he was different all right talking about

dropping out and black freedom and such

fool kid burned his draft card just

forgot about his art started hanging out

with Rashi Rashid his cousin there's no

good cousin my grandma my grandma

be home by 6:00 you have to excuse him

miss Withers he's normally very polite

your grandson

that's right Leone son ma'am he raised

him from a baby

what about his mother never met her but

she's been generous with the boy always

has been generous sending money just

arrives in our bank account 15 years now

I want you in your friend detective

Richard to see what you can get from

1976 on an LA resident name of Gloria

Neal that's all I have a name Neal any

al according to Leon's parents that's

who their son was dating if Danny's a

word for it they had a baby

that means the Gloria's Ella yeah yeah a

bright boy l equals Gloria Neal you keep

this up we're gonna have to get you a

dad to go with your brown shoes what to

get

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blue eyes looking for some action

real friendly place you fellas have here

but like I said before I'm not looking

for trouble did I say that I meant to

say that what are you looking for a

gentleman by the name of Rashid Wilkes

I'd like to ask him about his cousin man

never heard of him either I guess

so if you gentlemen will let me out of

here if we don't come on let's show you

some action

lady says she looking for Raschi wolves

with the 38 caliber intro sounds like

one serious lady to me

I'm Rasheed Wilkes and I will see if I'm

pleased to make your acquaintance nice

group of friends you've got here mr.

Wilkes

they've been entertaining me in your

absence let's take a walk

October 6 1976 Hancock Park

your cousin Leon was snuffed out along

with two dilettante they had enough

drugs in their system to open a pharmacy

will you help me what do I know I'm just

a humble brother minding my own business

a long way from Hancock Park way I hear

it nothing happens south of 25th Street

without you knowing about it or wanting

your - oh so you're not only tough he's

smart too you know when we was kids me

Utley I used to come out here all the

time mr. Wilkes I know there were four

people in the ants group not three I'm

looking for number four I think it's a

woman named Gloria Neil now you see this

stuff here it just looked like then wild

paintings Italy I used to do did you

ever hear of Gloria Neil I always

thought this is where Leon got all his

ideas and you tell that to them art

critics who they ask now about that

scholarship all right Leon gets

scholarship goes off to Rome to study

painting he's a bright boy I'm gonna

become one of the Masters so what

happens he falls in love with this

little rich white girl Ella oh how is

her code name Laurie Neil used it would

you gathered around the candle at night

yeah well this little rich white girl

she goes in has her baby I'm at him he's

no longer a baby

you saw the problem there baby come out

the wrong color she must care something

for the child she sends a check every

month

that's hush money she can't afford had

that baby's picture showing up on some

poster somewhere that's laundry that

can't be done in public what do you mean

what this Ella aka Gloria Neil she

married a very powerful man

is that true she got to be pretty

powerful herself tell myself you were

feminist yeah what's it to you did you

vote of course I voted there's the name

Gloria chase ring a bell private our

lady

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hey boss I have news that makes my hair

stand on end

I have news it'll make him stand and

salute that lady is that woman Gloria

chase who told you well sometimes the

old shoe leather could still beat that

hunk of silicone I can only be sure that

the money going into Clara and Cecil

Wilkes account actually originates with

the congresswoman who you dial now your

business Richard's handling all the

calls now

well there are a few numbers that are

not a Richards business foggy baby

it's Sam I need you hot and heavy

sweetheart I'd even go so far as to

spring for lunch yes an underlying if

you can get me some bill on

congresswoman Gloria chase sure I've

heard of cafe but aren't I seen the

pictures in the magazines and the people

that go there are a hell of a lot better

dress than I am right now yes your party

is over there would you like to join

them what are my choices

would you be staying for lunch if I can

get a burger rare this way please

Sam do I look good enough to be sitting

here you look good enough to be served

here don't start if you say have I ever

told you I find your tastes a little

outrageous

what's outrageous I like tall blonds I

am tall relax I gave up on you years ago

I decided you just weren't done what

outrageous jeez can I get any of this

without the gold plating there's a

reason we're here to jumpstart the

economy

Gloria chase named Neal prominent

conservative family a very

well-connected studied overseas don't

tell me in Rome as a matter of fact yes

you knew that go on a couple of years of

the ACLU then joined the best law firm

in the city and married one of the

clients none other than Andrew James

chase runs a stay from the cockpits of

his private planes he likes to fly

people rarely see him I'm impressed with

your work I did win a Pulitzer for my

coverage on this state his young bride

entered state politics she has

consistently gone against the old family

line she's pro-choice Pro we are a a

champion of the underdog that's why I

voted for I even sent our money Gloria

Chase is a squeaky clean as the nuns we

had at st. Ursula that's it no dirty

laundry you have reason to believe she

isn't that clean I have reason to

believe she killed a couple of people oh

that's rough she doesn't look like the

sort of wouldn't murder you can't judge

people by their pictures I'm not I'm

looking at the original huh

congresswoman chase not just here weekly

with her staff

that's why you brought me here you pay

for lunch I handle dessert the lady

yourself well they look at your very

table as feedback your Gloria chaise

aren't you why yes

pleased to meet you I'm Samantha

weathers and the pleasure's all mine I

voted for you why thank you shake your

hand

mine's wet I see you're lunching with

the press are you a journalist well I'm

always digging for stories let's put it

that way I'm a private investigator

hi detective you must lead a fascinating

life that's like the humdrum existence

of a public servant oh I don't know I

never hung out in Rome with with it guys

like the ferret Pablo and Mata Hari I'm

sure I haven't the faintest idea what

you're talking about if you'll excuse

I'm sure you do

Ella I'm investigating the murder of

Luigi - Zeca nini aka Louie bassy my

husband and I retain a staff to protect

us against any violation to our persons

or slander to our reputations if you

would like to call them and repeat any

of this miss weathers please do so

congresswoman very nice to see you again

who's the Daddy Warbucks with her that's

Andrew chase I'm one of those rare

occasions he comes up to look at his

shadow where does mr. chase hang out

when he's not flying

he might try the Golden West Italy well

his wife wouldn't speak to me maybe he

will only thing about this make it fit I

like what stormy as ever

don't you start that again I didn't

start anything the nuns of Saint Ursula

gave you that name and I've never been

back you will forget it there's a 2004

Union coming I'm too young for 20th

anything's why the money you know the

money that's going into the Cecil and

Tyrell Wilkes account comes from an

account in the Bahamas I hope you

haven't been doing anything illegal

before that it comes from a really big

bank in Italy bro yeah

listen before that

Foundation please let me guess for the

re-election of Gloria Chase you didn't

let me guess

hold on I hate tailgaters the money it

goes la Rome but Mama's left back to LA

that's laundering one of those guys look

familiar

what I said you're brilliant you're

getting a raise you haven't given me

anything yet see you killing it better

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I was beginning to feel the two goons in

the car behind me were pros and their

daily work was to crowd me

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maybe I was wrong

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then again maybe I wasn't I've been

offered a pretty good look I figured

their combined IQ sits somewhere below

my bust size but they weren't back there

to launch the spaceship

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those two goons had some destiny to

fulfill and I was just as happy not to

step between them

I don't know what you're selling honey

but you're depressing values and this

nice spot you picked Frank nice spot

you're in kiddo

oh yeah where's that in a large pot with

the carrots bubbling up around your ears

I'm gonna look for you you agree mmm you

mean this thugs yeah for openers if

those guys want to smoke each other they

could have done the job at home and I

put you in the middle I take care of

myself

your father's door what listen I don't

like what's going on it's a rerun of 15

years ago

what are you telling me there is

pressure telling me to tell you to get

off this thing well where is it coming

from I know it's hard to say somewhere

up maybe here in the department maybe

the DA's office

same as before I don't like it could any

of this be coming from Andrew chase my

hand what do you got mrs. chase huh I

think she was responsible for those

murders out in Hancock Park 15 years ago

Sam you a over your head on this you're

powerful husband Andrew chase pull the

rug out from under the case and guess

who was standing on it Jay my dad yes

are you gonna have a chance to prove

that if her prints matched the partial

you don't start on you said you didn't

like what was going on I don't that

doesn't mean I'm gonna turn it to pop it

on its ear just the why not I mean it

why not to eat miss stow me you promised

a never

how's Maria

she's out of town yeah visiting a mother

it's been a couple of months

I'm sorry to hear that Frank

now listen

you promise me you're gonna call me

before you do anything stupid and if I

call you after you will be able

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by the time I crawled home Eliot lit up

like a spilled jewel box who was it

some wise men said la is the most

beautiful city in the world from a

distance you and me different

circumstances can do some serious

dancing but tonight I'm just here to

chat Rashid you could have not problem

is a big ol ugly white boy found a block

of just waiting for you to turn on your

house lights why don't we just do this

doc so now we're comfortable let's chat

I've been listening to the drums since

our last meeting

yeah in the drum say that the glue that

holds this whole scam together is made

with opium paste they were using my fool

cousin for a cover how you figure

when Lee I was over in Rome making all

that crazy art and I'm talking years ago

they was shipping it back see lots of

art lovers here well what about dr.

Condon he's still collecting art it

ain't about art baby it's the wrappings

- shredded stuff that the art came in

heroine you got that right Private Eye

lady I hear they got a whole fleet of

airplanes delivering this stuff up and

down the coast whole lotta art lovers

yeah real masterpieces

well mr. Rashid thanks it's the least I

could do for my cousin I'll see you

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again slower this time somebody took

over this little group of spoiled brat

revolutionaries and started running

drugs through it I don't like the sound

of any of this

people running off roads people staked

out at your house do you think I like it

attempted to blow it open what do you

mean front page with your byline hell no

I'm going to the DA and get him to clip

your wings you're out of your territory

stop in 24 hours you will have your

exclusive all I need is to get a clean

set of prints from Gloria chaise and

match them up with the partial from the

scene of the crime why are you pressing

it we made some Romeo and Rome no I'm

finished with him you are it's for Jake

Oh

he wants you to get killed sorry over

the department they think my dad was a

quitter but he wasn't he was shoved out

and I want to prove that and you will

but I'd like to have you around for a

while I only have one best friend

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but I just need a day you'll have your

exclusive I'll buy you lunch I got a

better idea

you'll go to the reunion forget it to

Saint Ursula the patron saint of

martyred virgins no you've done all

those girls together again after 20

years of freedom know one more thing

what you'll dance one dance with me in

front of sister and maculata or you're

off this case tonight anything else yes

I get to lead

mr. chase sorry to germanity like this

but your secretary since the big you're

out of town oh you're the pesky little

lady from the restaurant a little bit

pesky I had the impression my wife said

she had nothing to say to you did I must

ask you please leave us alone you ask

anything you want you can ask me to lay

down a bed of spiders about your wife's

revolutionary past and the baby she gave

up my wife has no secrets she's

explained everything to me where will

you take a deposition on that don't let

this get ugly I'd hate to involve your

state licensing Bureau or the Chief of

Police but I will see that my wife is

not harassed and yes the spiders could

be quite amusing let me know

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we got 3,000 points lifetime record

while you playing games my lunch

me too I'm playing games if I can't get

to the fray I'll get the pranic come to

me you mean you put the bait on the hook

yeah and wait for the fish big fish

weathers and weathers private

investigators squirrel here Oh so lemme

oh I think it's Geo

yes Geo nice to hear from you you're

flying over today you know I was just

about to express the death certificate

to you

no no yeah sure sure I could I could

give it to you over dinner I'll even

give you back your pack of cigarettes

Sam I'll explain later

Sam I don't understand Italian but that

sounded like poetry to me maybe I do

understand Italian Geo yeah talk to you

later

yeah ciao won't you have a seat

congresswoman you look exhausted

the big fish

when you stopped me miss weathers you

scared me if I don't scare very easily I

was forced to examine things I buried

very deeply and I discovered something

very important I'm not ashamed of

anything I've ever done

believe that I'd rather believe the

evidence what evidence you want the

truth miss weathers yes I knew those

people you mentioned the other day I

knew them in an age of hope and

innocence and yes love I was 18 years

old but times have changed and so have

we

then you don't deny any of it what I had

a child out of wedlock and gave him up

to his father called Ellen an

underground cellar

I had college friends who were

politically out relatives murdered out

in Hancock Park there was no murder on

you or someone close to you as powerful

enough to hush it up that is not true

and I do not love oh really you've lied

about a lot of things you've pretended

for years you didn't even have a son

that I'm afraid it's none of your biz

but about the drugs what are you talking

come on you didn't know your underground

group is being used to move drugs never

pipes and up drugs over the border to

supply Beverly Hills on a three-day

weekend and still does I track the bank

records drug money's still pouring into

your foundation the same account that

supports your child

are you insane how could I possibly be

involved in the drug business

I wouldn't think customs pays too much

attention to how artists ship do you and

your highfalutin friend I don't receive

art it's not my pastime but it is

Andrews it is his pastime

I know from a guy in the business that

is the drug business that they use

little planes to fly it up and down the

coast your husband does have little

planes doesn't he

this cannot be true I hope not and fry

me if it were true I've always been one

of your biggest fans

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miss chase you forgot these I don't

smoke

sorry treat these lightly squirrel get

him down to Frank Orosco see if they

match the partial he'll know what I mean

while my man squirrel ankle down to the

LAPD to slip a noose around Gloria

chases pretty neck I headed out to the

airport in Santa Monica maybe I could

slip a similar necktie around her spiffy

husband I dropped in on his aviation

museum not that I needed a plane my

interest was in art Andrew chases art

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I found crates of it and I wanted to

know what was really in those crates

Potter Picasso doper digger

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ah excuse me miss weathers my hand is on

yours for the briefest moment long

enough to remove your pissed

I hope you don't think it was up to the

naughty things you mr. chase naughty

never I'm taking a friend up for a

flight I'm not ready for the shipment

just yet

later all right I think I should warn

you try I get airsick this won't take

long

we're not going far I am I'm going to

Baja and me I think you'll drop in at

Ensenada I hear it's nice

so mr. chase how deeply where's your

wife and/or the drug trade public

Apocrypha I made only one mistake in

life but fell in love idealistic little

girl I was gonna use her group for my

purposes and then I fell in love with it

that's a problem at the light or live a

life of deceit that's a problem

don't make this easy

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another case solved and I felt like the

man who has to sweep up after the

elephants tired and wondering if there

isn't a better way to make a living

andrew chase was in custody and i could

finally go home and clock some Z's

myself but someone was already in my

bedroom and damned if I can remember

sending out invitations

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somehow I didn't picture it like this

really how did you picture it

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how'd you get in here you are not at

your office so you came here who's that

I didn't hear anything

Oh

I tried the door I would have knocked it

down but the door is bigger than you

yeah sorry to wake you I wasn't exactly

asleep yet okay Frank Orosco wants you

to call him but let me tell you first

that the fingerprint on mrs. chase

did not match the partial print squirrel

I already figured that out you mean you

knew it wasn't her Laurie Chase is not

the type to commit murder her husband

he'd knock off his own mother for a

better table at Spago no no no it wasn't

mr. chase yeah it can't be I'm not

asking myself but he's slightly in a

coma

there was another fingerprint on the

cigarette pack not mrs. chase I touched

it well not you this print exactly

matched the partial print from the

Hancock murders it's the same print from

15 years ago

but no one touched the pack but me who

else no one touched it but me and and me

which was fanatic full of Dreams to save

the world he did not understand the

family was without money no money for

generations we could not pass up this

opportunity

a little import and export business but

really wanted to expose us his brother

his own father

so Andrew chase was able to provide me

with some recreational drugs I shared

them with my brother he may have taken

too many maybe they were bad the drugs

hard to say so you opened this up after

all these years because of money call it

family pride everyone has a fatal flaw I

could not bury my poor father without an

heir you needed me to come up with a

death certificate even though you were

the cause of death I never meant to kill

so many

but having killed three one can live

with the terrible ways of killing more

two more I have to tell you Gio I'm very

disappointed in you sorry Ben

why me why'd you think I was so in

competent I wouldn't stumble on the

truth being competent no let's just say

get it just earn or karate instructor

horshack you're my man can I borrow your

cuffs

well you got your exclusive

congresswoman chase Bear is all about

shady pants and bright future voters

reclaimed her son she has a crooked

husband in jail I'd say she has her life

in order I hope so

what I'd like to get is a story from dr.

Condon you and the cops both how about

you

where did Sammy get out of this oh I

don't know I guess I even the score for

Jake I feel right about my day no broken

heart that dime-store Italian huh

forgetting all about him yeah yeah there

are such jerks

well I may not be an expert when it

comes to men I'd say you were a little

inexperienced it's not men that's a

problem that's you you sure know how to

pick ups my training

explained I go out and find all the bad

guys in society good evening girls

don't be wallflowers

mustn't disappoint sister shall we

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