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[Gunshots]
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[Woman]Tonight on Murder, She Wrote.
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- It's been a long time, Vera.
- Nineteen years. But who's countin'?
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You're just passing through, right?
I mean, maybe you want some company
back in L.A.
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Now look, I'm not sure how
I got tied in to this sudden reunion.
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Anything happens to her,
I'll rip you apart!
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Pete said too much.
Maybe that's what got him killed.
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I've already got my favorite
kind of killer- a dead one.
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I'm not here to sell you life insurance.
I'm here to pay some off.
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[Train Horn Blowing In Distance]
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[Gunshots]
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[Train Horn Blowing In Distance]
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[Groans]
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[Clicks]
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Walter Murray here.
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I got this feeling
I'm not gonna make it-
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[Chuckles]
A feeling in my chest.
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Anyway, uh,
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I'm not sure who's... gonna last longer,
me or this tape, so, uh,
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I'd better quit with the wisecracks
and, uh, get to the point.
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Police!
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I know you're in there, Murray!
Now you better open up
before I rearrange the architecture.
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SheriffTugman. What on earth?
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Now don't bother me, Mrs. Fletcher.I got a dangerous man in here.
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Walter, dangerous? He's a writer.
You can reason with writers.
You don't have to shoot your way in.
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Well, somebody heard gunfire
out past the old mine...
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and saw a car go by
like that rental that you
and Murray been driving.
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The treads match too.
Now you better stand back.
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But I heard Walter come in
about an hour ago. I heard his door.
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Well, that fits like a penny loafer,
'cause that's when the shots were heard.
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Well, there must be some other way.
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Wish that door was as thin
as the walls in this dump.
Walter? Oh, my God.
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The minute you two walked in here,
I pegged Murray for trouble.
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Oh, Sheriff, isn't it evident
that Walter was the one in trouble,
not the one causing it?
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Just 'cause he's got a slug in him
don't make him the guy in the white hat.
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Yeah, but why did he come back
to his room instead of going for help?
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I mean, obviously saving his own lifewas less important than somethinghe wanted to put on that tape.
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[Tugman]Like who plugged him, maybe?
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[Train Horn Blowing On Tape]
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[Walter On Tape]
I should've known the minute
I saw her mug after all these years.
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But I'm getting ahead of myself.
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This isn't the way I planned it,
but since my ticket's punched,
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lfigure I ought to finish the script.
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Probably wondering
who shot me, huh?
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Well, it's a long story.
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When the studio signed me to dothe screenplay of a J.B. Fletcher book,
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we met in Vegas.
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But Vegas had a lot of memories for me-
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some bad, some worse.
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So I suggested we head back to L.A.
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The Fletcher dame wanted to fly.
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I had another idea.
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[Jessica]
Walter, uh, wouldn't it be quicker
to stay on the interstate?
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Picture this for the opening
of the movie.
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The guy plants a smacker on the girl.
She slaps him.
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He kisses her again.
She likes it.
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But as their lips are suctioned together,
she pulls a gun out of her purse.
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He grabs her hand.
The gun goes off.
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Uh, Walter, that sounds like
a very interesting scene,
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but, uh, I don't quite remember it
being in my book.
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Yeah, well, uh, we're not
making a movie of your book.
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We're making a movie about
the essence of your book.
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Hungry?
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Not really.
So am I.
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[Walter Narrating]There she was.
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A little the worse for wear,but still a hot cup of coffeeto a thirsty guy like me.
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Walter.
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What's a nice kid like you
doing in a dump like this?
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She's working for
and married to me.
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Somewhat like the Soviets
in that regard, aren't you, sir?
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Are you callin' me a commie?
[Rings]
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Hello.
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- It's been a long time, Vera.
- Nineteen years. But who's countin'?
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I can't believe I found you out here
in the middle of nowhere.
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Honey, if I'd known you were comin',
I'd have hit this joint with
a fresh batch of cleanser.
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[Chuckles]
Still got a mouth on you, huh?
I wish I looked a little better.
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You look okay.
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Uh, excuse my manners,
Jessica,
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but, uh, it's quite a jolt
seeing your youth suddenly
pop up in front of you.
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I knew this gal when she was
just a kid in tie-dye jeans.
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- Oh.
- Jessica Fletcher, Vera-
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Gerakaris.Doesn't that beat all?
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I can't believe you and Walter
just stumbled in here.
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Neither can I.
It's very nice to meet you,
Mrs. Gerakaris.
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Hiya.
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I knew a Gerakaris once.
Somewhere in the southern climes.
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Have you spent much time
in the South, Mrs. Gerakaris?
Hey, come on.
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Mm-mmm. Not lately.
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Extraordinary.You look so familiar somehow.
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What do you want to eat?
Make sure he pays first.
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He probably doesn't have
enough money for the coffee-
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- [Sighs]
- probably not even the cream.
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[Motorcycle Approaching]
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See you, babe.
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[Bell Dings]
Hey. What do you think
you're doing?
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- I need some money.
- What's the matter?
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Your boyfriend didn't hold upany liquor stores this morning?
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Pete, please. You really should
give her an allowance.
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[Pete]I'll give her what she needs-a swift kick in-
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You lay one finger on me
and I will blow this burg for good.
I swear it.
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[Walter Narrating]She looked just likeher mother did at her age-
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hard and soft, spicy and sweet,
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all mixed togetherlike a Cantonese dish.[Motorcycle Revving]
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- Pete, please.
- Make your sandwiches!
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Get out of my way.
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No daughter of mine is gonna waste her life
on a bike with a punk!
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Anything happens to her,
I'll rip you apart!
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And you, eat up,
pay up and get out.
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I don't want you herewhen I come back.Understand?
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[Walter Narrating]Pete's gracious invitation made me realizeI'd forgotten my wallet in the car.
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I went out to get it, and when I came back,that corpulent copper Tugman had arrived.
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He was turning onwhat he thought was charm,
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but everybody saw right through him.
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You sure know how
to make a man happy, babe.
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From the appearance of your girth,
one can only surmise
that you must be ecstatic.
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You got a problem?
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No, I was merely observing.
L-I hope you won't take offense,
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but you seem to have put on
a little weight since last we met.
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Look, I've never seen you before,
and I don't much ever
want to see you again.
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- But surely you must remember-
- Don't you have someplace to go, sir?
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Yes, of course. Indeed. Yes.
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I shall make for the open road
and my search for truth.
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[Laughs]
For I, evidently, shan't find it here.
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Take it easy, fella. Okay, come on.
Take it easy. Here we go.
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- Ooh. Poor guy must be hungry.
- Take it easy.
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[Walter Narrating]I was hungry too.A different kind ofhungry.
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[Vera]Listen, I don't carehow little money you have.
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Tonight, you're gonna have a free meal,
and you're gonna sleep here, okay?
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That's very kind, but surely
your husband wouldn't approve.
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Let me worry about my husband.
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Uh, Walter, could I speak
to you for a moment?
Uh, sure, Jessica.
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Here we go. Come on.
Up on your feet.
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Got him?
Got him. Okay.
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Thank you very much, really.
Just lean on me.
It's all right. That's right.
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Now look, I'm not sure how
I got tied in to this sudden reunion,
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but I want to be untied right now.
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Yeah, well, uh, Jessica,
it's going to, uh-
it's going to be dark soon.
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Now, Walter. I don't care
if it's midnight when we get to L.A.
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But I've had all I want of this place.
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Yeah, sure. No problem.
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[Engine Cranks]
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[Sighs]
Just my luck.
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Well, it looks like you two are gonna
have to stick around for a while.
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Let me take a look
at that engine.
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Maybe I can get this carstarted before night.
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[Walter Narrating]Night. That's when the trouble began.
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Yeah, right-one night 19 years ago.
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Anyway, the grit really hit the pan...
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when Flora came back with
her biker beau later that night.
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Yes. I thought it was quite a coincidence
that the car just happened to fail to start.
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I suppose Walter tinkered with it
when he said he went to get his wallet.
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Well, if he's so smart,
then how come he's so dead?
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Sheriff, something
that may be important...
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happened before
Flora returned that night.
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I decided I needed to talk to Walter.I was having second thoughts about the movie.
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And Roscoe the mechanicwas lurking outside Walter's room.
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[Clears Throat]
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Nice night out.
I was just going for a walk.
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Oh, yes.It must be very confiningworking in the garage.
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Oh, how's the car coming along,
by the way?
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- Car?
- Yes. Mr. Murray's car.
You said you thought you could fix it.
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I was really hopingwe'd be able to leave tomorrow.
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Me too.
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- Vera was in the room with him.
- And Murray was forcing himself on her?
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Oh, no. No, not at all.
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[Knocking]
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[Jessica Narrating]It looked as if they'd been talking.
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Vera was sitting on a chair.She'd been crying.
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And Walter looked distracted,
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as ifhe'd been toldsomething surprising.
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Surprised, huh?
Then how come it's not on the tape?
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Uh. I'm not sure.
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[Walter on Tape]
I heard Grange's bike pull up.
I guess we all did.
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Then I heard Pete shouting.
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Hey, what are you doin'?
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How can you disgrace me
like that?
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Disgrace?
Now that's a good one.
Like you could sink any lower.
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Stayin' out till all hours of the night
with that no-good punk.
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Hey. Hey, Pete, come on.
Come on. You're drunk. Come on.
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And you? What good are you?
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How long you had my Chevy?
You can't even fix a water pump?
Get out of here!
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What's the matter with you?
He's the only friend
in the world you've got.
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Don't talk back to me.
You're a tramp like your mother!
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Don't you touch her!
At least he's right
about you being a tramp.
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Hey, old man, why don't you try
pickin' on someone your own size?
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Old man?
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Yeah. Try pickin' on me
like you did your girl.
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Come on.
Come on. Try pickin' on a man.
Come on.
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Yeah, sure.
Take a swing. Come on.
Come on. Get up. Get up.
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Damn. I didn't mean to.
Grange!
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Damn kid!
[Engine Starts]
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- Grange, I'm going with youl
- No.
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Manana.
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Leave me alone!
[Walter Narrating]Well, that was the last straw.
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I'd just found Veraafter all these years. L-
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I wasn't about to leave herwith a two-fisted jerk like Pete.
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And I had to do something.
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And the opportunitypresented itselflater that night.
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I took a walk to clear my head.It was banging pretty bad.[Banging]
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But not as loud as the bangingcoming from that garage.[Man Grunting]
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I thought maybe somebodywas messing with my car. L-
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And a weird time of nightfor Roscoe to be working.
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[Banging Continues][Grunting Continues]
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It was Pete. He was banging my carwith a tire iron like it was a pinata.
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Hey! Hey! What do you
think you're doing?
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[Walter Narrating]He came after me with that tire iron.
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You think you can just
take her away from me?
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[Walter Narrating]I managed to get it away from him,but when he came after me with a wrench-
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You want her,
you're gonna have to kill me.
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[Walter Narrating]I figured I'd take his advice.
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I guess I didn't have to hit him-not so hard anyway.
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So now you know.
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I'm the one who killed
Pete Gerakaris.
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I can't believe it.
Believe it.
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The first time I saw that guy,
I just got a feeling in my gut, you know.
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But even if it's true, I mean,
there's still the question:
Who killed Walter?
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Well, we still got half a tape to go.
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[Walter Coughs]
So there I was with a stiff on my hands-
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[Chuckles]And a damn heavy one too.
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I figured nobody would believe...
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I needed to kill a sloppy drunklike Pete to defend myself.
223
00:16:41,801 --> 00:16:44,964
- So I had to make it look like an accident.
- [Air Hissing]
224
00:16:51,177 --> 00:16:56,638
And it would've worked, too,if that busybody Fletcher damehadn't stuck her nose in it.
225
00:16:56,716 --> 00:17:00,413
That lard-bottomed lawmanwould've bought the whole scheme.
226
00:17:00,486 --> 00:17:05,287
Sheriff, doesn't it seem odd
that Pete was working
under the car with no tools?
227
00:17:05,358 --> 00:17:07,383
[Tugman]Well, could be he wasjust checkin'things out.
228
00:17:07,460 --> 00:17:11,954
Well, the portable work light is
all the way over there on that bench.
229
00:17:12,031 --> 00:17:14,966
[Walter Narrating]Uh, so as not to overexert his gray cells,
230
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Tugman jumped tothe most obvious conclusion.
231
00:17:19,072 --> 00:17:21,006
Grange.
232
00:17:21,074 --> 00:17:24,202
I wasn't able to hang that
liquor store homicide on him.
233
00:17:24,277 --> 00:17:26,768
This time I'll get that lowlife.
234
00:17:29,215 --> 00:17:31,843
[Walter Narrating]Ah, that plan suited me fine.
235
00:17:31,918 --> 00:17:36,617
As a matter of fact, I figuredI could punch up the scenario.
236
00:17:37,690 --> 00:17:40,124
[Dog Barking]
237
00:17:40,193 --> 00:17:43,822
I, uh, waited till Grange hadpassed through to pick up Flora...
238
00:17:43,896 --> 00:17:48,196
for his daily terrorization ofthis sorry excuse for a town.
239
00:18:00,413 --> 00:18:05,544
Ah, it was perfect.Just what I needed for the setup.
240
00:18:05,618 --> 00:18:10,180
It wasn't difficult to get thathick sheriff to go back to the garage.
241
00:18:10,256 --> 00:18:14,022
[Clicks Tape Off]
I don't have to listen to
some dead jerk call me names.
242
00:18:14,093 --> 00:18:17,529
[Jessica] Sheriff-
Look, I've got Murray's confession
that he killed Pete.
243
00:18:17,597 --> 00:18:22,227
That's all I need.
But we still don't know who shot Walter,
and I'm sure he's going to get to it-
244
00:18:22,301 --> 00:18:24,735
if he lived long enough
to finish his story, that is.
245
00:18:24,804 --> 00:18:27,568
All right.
246
00:18:27,640 --> 00:18:30,700
Well, he better finish it soon.
247
00:18:34,614 --> 00:18:39,051
[Walter Narrating]Sure enough, Tugman fell for it.[Chuckles]
248
00:18:39,118 --> 00:18:41,746
I couldn't have written himany dumber.
249
00:18:44,056 --> 00:18:47,082
Let him go! Come on!
250
00:18:47,160 --> 00:18:50,095
Let him go! Stop it!
251
00:18:50,163 --> 00:18:53,929
Let him-
Let him go, you pig!
252
00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:56,969
You'd better lay offhim, Flora.That copper likes being beaten up.
253
00:18:57,036 --> 00:18:59,664
It's the only way a woman
ever touches him.
254
00:18:59,739 --> 00:19:01,707
Watch your head.
[Flora]Yeah, right.
255
00:19:01,774 --> 00:19:06,268
A woman touching you is something
you're a recent expert on.
256
00:19:06,345 --> 00:19:09,405
Grange! Grange!
257
00:19:09,482 --> 00:19:11,416
[Tires Squealing]
258
00:19:11,484 --> 00:19:14,749
[Walter Narrating]I hadn't really consideredhow this would affect Flora.
259
00:19:14,820 --> 00:19:20,087
I should've realizedFlora's a girl who knowshow to take care ofherself.
260
00:19:20,159 --> 00:19:22,150
[Knocking]
261
00:19:24,630 --> 00:19:27,565
- Hi.
- Hi, kid.
262
00:19:28,935 --> 00:19:31,267
Can I come in,
just for a minute?
263
00:19:31,337 --> 00:19:34,067
Yeah, sure. I'd like that.
264
00:19:36,876 --> 00:19:41,404
I guess I sort of want to apologize
about what I said earlier.
265
00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:44,813
I didn't mean that you and Vera, that-
266
00:19:44,884 --> 00:19:48,945
Well, that you had, you know,
this thing going.
267
00:19:49,021 --> 00:19:51,649
It's okay.
268
00:19:51,724 --> 00:19:54,887
Ah, you're a pretty good kid
after all, huh?
269
00:19:55,962 --> 00:19:58,089
But I was just thinking.
270
00:19:58,164 --> 00:20:00,530
I mean, now that my-
271
00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:04,661
Well, now that Pete's dead
and the sheriff arrested Grange,
272
00:20:04,737 --> 00:20:09,333
I can't really count on Pete's money
or Grange's bike to get me out
of this one-diner town.
273
00:20:09,408 --> 00:20:11,740
But you're just
passing through, right?
274
00:20:11,811 --> 00:20:16,248
I mean, maybe you want
some company back in L.A.
275
00:20:18,084 --> 00:20:20,985
Uh, sit down, kid.
276
00:20:21,053 --> 00:20:26,616
You know, Flora, the big city
isn't all it's cracked up to be, uh-
277
00:20:26,692 --> 00:20:28,751
Eat kids like you alive.
278
00:20:28,828 --> 00:20:33,356
[Chuckles]
I ought to know. I've been
on both sides of that fence.
279
00:20:35,334 --> 00:20:38,303
Maybe you'd be better off
just, uh, stickin' around here
with your mother.
280
00:20:38,371 --> 00:20:42,034
I wouldn't hang around this cow town
even if my mother wasn't here.
281
00:20:42,108 --> 00:20:46,772
Wait a minute. I was thinking
about sticking around here myself
for a while.
282
00:20:46,846 --> 00:20:49,508
Look, I'm packed up
and ready to roll.
283
00:20:49,582 --> 00:20:52,312
If you're not gonna help me,
I'm just gonna find another way out.
284
00:20:52,385 --> 00:20:55,786
Flora, honey, don't go!
Please. Baby, look. Honey.
285
00:20:55,855 --> 00:21:00,315
Please, my whole life,
everything I've done,
was for you, baby.
286
00:21:00,393 --> 00:21:03,521
Baby, but this isn'twhat it looks like.
287
00:21:03,596 --> 00:21:05,826
Really, it isn't.
288
00:21:05,898 --> 00:21:09,095
I always knew that you were
a cheap waitress.
289
00:21:09,168 --> 00:21:13,070
I just should've figured you
for a cheap tramp too.
I mean, I had to get it somewhere.
290
00:21:13,139 --> 00:21:17,667
You're not a tramp.
Sure I am. Seems it's the only way
I can get free of you.
291
00:21:17,743 --> 00:21:19,677
Free of me-
292
00:21:19,745 --> 00:21:22,305
You don't get it, do you?
293
00:21:22,381 --> 00:21:25,248
I hate you.
No.
294
00:21:25,318 --> 00:21:28,776
I hate the greasy smell of you.
295
00:21:28,854 --> 00:21:34,190
I hate the way that you got yourself
stuck in this-this truck stop!
296
00:21:34,260 --> 00:21:36,490
It's not gonna happen to me!
297
00:21:39,498 --> 00:21:41,523
[Vera]Floral
298
00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:45,536
[Walter Narrating]Just when everythingwas going so well too.
299
00:21:45,604 --> 00:21:48,505
That, uh, Fletcher damekept leaning on me...
300
00:21:48,574 --> 00:21:52,908
about when we were gonnablow this fruitsicle stand.
301
00:21:52,978 --> 00:21:55,640
Anyway, l-I figuredI ought to have a chat...
302
00:21:55,715 --> 00:22:00,209
with that missing linkwho was working on my car.[Coughs]
303
00:22:00,286 --> 00:22:05,815
Little did I know thatthat ape was about to dropa coconut on my head.
304
00:22:05,891 --> 00:22:09,292
Still don't have that
water pump licked?
305
00:22:09,362 --> 00:22:12,889
Water pump's fine-
always has been.
306
00:22:12,965 --> 00:22:16,264
Well, I guess my ears need cleaning.
I thought Pete said-
307
00:22:16,335 --> 00:22:20,135
Pete said too much.
Maybe that's what got him killed.
308
00:22:20,206 --> 00:22:22,140
He drank too much too.
309
00:22:22,208 --> 00:22:27,612
The reason I kept his Chevy up on the lift,
so he couldn't drive it when he was drunk.
310
00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:30,444
You thought it might get him killed?
311
00:22:31,517 --> 00:22:34,918
- Guess it did.
- Lucky guy to have a friend like you.
312
00:22:34,987 --> 00:22:38,354
I don't know thatyou'd call us friends.
313
00:22:38,424 --> 00:22:41,552
He thought I liked
his wife too much.
314
00:22:41,627 --> 00:22:45,222
Gerakaris and I were
in the service together
before he met her.
315
00:22:45,297 --> 00:22:48,198
I always knew she was no good.
316
00:22:48,267 --> 00:22:50,258
I guess that's why I liked her.
317
00:22:51,337 --> 00:22:53,328
The service- Is that
where you got the limp?
318
00:22:54,473 --> 00:22:57,909
- I got it dancing.
- Sorry.
319
00:22:57,977 --> 00:23:00,844
- Don't be.
- If that's the way you want it.
320
00:23:02,782 --> 00:23:04,773
That's the way it is.
321
00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:12,214
[Walter Narrating]Roscoe knew something.That was clear.
322
00:23:12,291 --> 00:23:14,691
But what? How much?
323
00:23:14,760 --> 00:23:20,596
About this car of yours-
Somebody disconnected the fuel line.
324
00:23:20,666 --> 00:23:22,998
Maybe somebody
who wanted an excuse...
325
00:23:23,068 --> 00:23:26,595
to stick around here
and do something.
326
00:23:26,672 --> 00:23:29,334
- Do something?
- Something got done.
327
00:23:29,408 --> 00:23:32,104
Not by that biker neither.
328
00:23:32,178 --> 00:23:36,308
I happen to know that his glove
didn't just walk in here.
329
00:23:36,382 --> 00:23:40,284
- Gloves don't walk.
- They need a hand.
[Chuckles]
330
00:23:43,289 --> 00:23:45,280
So do I.
331
00:23:47,626 --> 00:23:51,562
He wanted money
and for me to clear out.
332
00:23:51,630 --> 00:23:54,497
Ah, he was a problem
with only one solution.
333
00:23:54,567 --> 00:23:58,435
I told him I had to go into townto cash a check,
334
00:23:58,504 --> 00:24:02,304
but-[Coughs]That I'd bring him the moneylater that night.
335
00:24:02,374 --> 00:24:04,399
He told me howto get out to his place.
336
00:24:04,477 --> 00:24:07,605
I figured he wasn'tso smart after all.
337
00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:11,377
Nobody had foundthe murder weapon, remember?
338
00:24:11,450 --> 00:24:15,216
I figured if I planted itin Roscoe's car,
339
00:24:15,287 --> 00:24:18,688
I could make it looklike Roscoe killed Pete.
340
00:24:18,757 --> 00:24:22,659
Everybody knew he hada thing for Vera.
341
00:24:22,728 --> 00:24:26,494
And if I played it right,it'd look like Roscoe tried to kill me...
342
00:24:26,565 --> 00:24:29,432
because I was onto him.
343
00:24:29,502 --> 00:24:34,633
And everybody'd understand that,well, I had to kill him in self-defense.
344
00:24:34,707 --> 00:24:36,971
It seemed likea good script to me,
345
00:24:37,042 --> 00:24:40,671
but Roscoe wasn't crazy aboutthe role I'd written for him.
346
00:24:40,746 --> 00:24:42,737
Have you got the money?
347
00:24:44,183 --> 00:24:46,117
Sure.
348
00:24:48,954 --> 00:24:50,945
[Gagging]
349
00:25:04,537 --> 00:25:06,630
[Walter Narrating]Well, so-
350
00:25:06,705 --> 00:25:10,766
so now you know the whole story.
351
00:25:10,843 --> 00:25:14,370
[Sighs]I killed Pete to get Vera.
352
00:25:14,446 --> 00:25:18,246
I killed Roscoe to keep her.
353
00:25:18,317 --> 00:25:22,219
And now she's gonna be all alone.
354
00:25:22,288 --> 00:25:24,654
[Chuckles, Coughs]
355
00:25:24,723 --> 00:25:27,157
Well, they always said...
356
00:25:27,226 --> 00:25:31,162
Walter Murray was good at irony.
357
00:25:32,164 --> 00:25:34,155
[Coughing]
358
00:25:41,807 --> 00:25:45,334
Well, we'd better go to Roscoe's.
359
00:25:48,514 --> 00:25:52,177
[Train Horn Blowing In Distance]
360
00:25:56,989 --> 00:26:00,186
Well, it all wraps up
like Murray described.
361
00:26:00,259 --> 00:26:02,989
I guess I'll have to release
Grange. Damn.
362
00:26:03,062 --> 00:26:07,556
SheriffTugman, doesn't it
seem strange to you that-
Now, don't you start with me.
363
00:26:07,633 --> 00:26:12,764
I've got me a confession on tape,
and I wasn't even there, so nobody
can accuse me of beatin' it out of him.
364
00:26:12,838 --> 00:26:16,365
But that's what bothers me, Sheriff:
His confession.
365
00:26:16,442 --> 00:26:19,707
Why didn't he come and talk to meinstead of putting it on tape?
366
00:26:19,778 --> 00:26:21,905
Maybe he was afraid
you'd disagree with him.
367
00:26:21,981 --> 00:26:25,974
But is that any reason not to seek help
for a gunshot wound?
368
00:26:26,051 --> 00:26:28,918
He knew he was dead meat, okay?
369
00:26:28,988 --> 00:26:31,650
I mean, uh,
370
00:26:31,724 --> 00:26:34,625
maybe that was his way
of makin' his peace, ma'am.
371
00:26:34,693 --> 00:26:40,325
I'm sorry, Sheriff,
but there's something peculiar
about Walter's whole story.
372
00:26:40,399 --> 00:26:44,859
I mean, if he and Vera
wanted to get together again,
why not run away or divorce Pete?
373
00:26:44,937 --> 00:26:48,065
But why was it necessary
for him to kill Pete?
374
00:26:48,140 --> 00:26:50,734
Why are you making
such a big deal out of this?
375
00:26:50,809 --> 00:26:54,301
Even supposin'that he told a lieon his deathbed-
376
00:26:54,380 --> 00:26:57,315
which I've never heard of in my life-
what's it matter?
377
00:26:57,383 --> 00:27:01,615
What's it matter?
Aren't you interested in
bringing the killer to justice?
378
00:27:01,687 --> 00:27:04,281
Well, sure. That's my job.
But look.
379
00:27:04,356 --> 00:27:09,293
If it makes you happy,
I'll have the state cops run, uh,
caliber and fingerprint tests.
380
00:27:09,361 --> 00:27:11,352
They ought to be here
pretty soon, okay?
381
00:27:11,430 --> 00:27:15,127
Well, thank you, Sheriff.
That certainly will be a good start.
382
00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:20,866
Start? Listen, as far as I'm concerned,
I've already got my favorite kind of killer-
383
00:27:20,939 --> 00:27:22,930
a dead one.
384
00:27:35,120 --> 00:27:39,113
Oh. I thought
I'd straighten up the room.
385
00:27:40,426 --> 00:27:42,553
Maybe I'll feel better
if I put things right.
386
00:27:42,628 --> 00:27:46,428
Yeah. Let me help you.
No. No, don't bother.
It's all right.
387
00:27:47,933 --> 00:27:50,663
Well, Tugman took Walter's things?
388
00:27:50,736 --> 00:27:54,638
It was the state police, actually.I imagine they'll return themwhen they're done.
389
00:27:54,707 --> 00:27:58,905
Sure. They'll return it
to the next of kin.
390
00:27:58,977 --> 00:28:03,073
I mean, I just...
hoped I could find...
391
00:28:03,148 --> 00:28:06,709
something to remember him by.
392
00:28:07,886 --> 00:28:10,411
I guess I'll remember him anyway.
393
00:28:13,759 --> 00:28:15,989
It's just a room, right?
394
00:28:17,529 --> 00:28:20,623
It's a room in a dingy motel
in the middle of nowhere,
395
00:28:20,699 --> 00:28:26,160
and it's the only place I've been
anything close to happy in 20 years.
396
00:28:29,074 --> 00:28:33,010
So, you drivin' back to L.A. Soon?
397
00:28:33,078 --> 00:28:35,069
Well, I'm afraid
that I don't drive.
398
00:28:35,147 --> 00:28:38,241
In fact, I was, uh, meaning
to ask you about the bus.
399
00:28:38,317 --> 00:28:41,616
Oh. The interstate already
came through today.
400
00:28:41,687 --> 00:28:45,123
- It's not due again till tomorrow mornin'.
- My Lord.
401
00:28:45,190 --> 00:28:49,024
If you did get stuck here,I'd sure be glad of the company.
402
00:28:49,094 --> 00:28:51,824
And I mean, I've been thinkin'.
403
00:28:51,897 --> 00:28:56,527
Fact is, I should be movin' on myself.
404
00:28:56,602 --> 00:28:58,695
But where would I go?
405
00:29:00,105 --> 00:29:02,938
I just don't understand.
406
00:29:04,476 --> 00:29:09,072
After all those years,
lfind him again, and-
407
00:29:10,649 --> 00:29:13,550
It doesn't seem fair, does it?
408
00:29:15,687 --> 00:29:18,588
[Sighs]
409
00:29:18,657 --> 00:29:20,955
When I looked up and I saw his face-
410
00:29:22,694 --> 00:29:25,185
Jessica, I don't get it.
411
00:29:25,264 --> 00:29:31,225
Why would God go to all that trouble
to create this incredible coincidence,
412
00:29:31,303 --> 00:29:33,362
then just snatch him away like that?
413
00:29:33,438 --> 00:29:36,498
Vera, I'm not so sure...
414
00:29:36,575 --> 00:29:39,840
that Walter and I turning up here
was a coincidence.
415
00:29:39,912 --> 00:29:45,646
He insisted on renting the car and driving
from Las Vegas to Los Angeles.
416
00:29:45,717 --> 00:29:48,481
Now, it would've been
far quicker for us to fly.
417
00:29:48,554 --> 00:29:51,182
Now, do you have any idea...
418
00:29:51,256 --> 00:29:53,656
how he could have known
where you were?
419
00:29:53,725 --> 00:29:57,684
No. I didn't-
He didn't even know
my married name.
420
00:29:57,763 --> 00:30:00,357
[Stammers]
I don't figure-
421
00:30:02,367 --> 00:30:05,700
I just saw Tugman outside
with the state cops. What gives?
422
00:30:05,771 --> 00:30:08,205
Honey, something terrible's happened.
423
00:30:08,273 --> 00:30:10,400
They finally sent out the health inspector?
424
00:30:11,677 --> 00:30:13,702
No. Walter's dead.
425
00:30:13,779 --> 00:30:16,339
What?
426
00:30:17,816 --> 00:30:21,877
Mom, my God.
427
00:30:23,622 --> 00:30:25,613
Well, it's gonna be all right. It's-
428
00:30:25,691 --> 00:30:31,323
Walter was very likable, wasn't he,
despite his tough-guy shell?
429
00:30:31,396 --> 00:30:35,890
Well, Flora hardly knew him.
I mean, how could she?
430
00:30:37,135 --> 00:30:40,332
He-He just seemed like
a real nice man. That's all.
431
00:30:40,405 --> 00:30:43,340
Wasn't he, Mom?
Nice.
432
00:30:43,408 --> 00:30:46,673
That's why I can't believe
his confession.
433
00:30:46,745 --> 00:30:51,114
- Confession?
- He admitted killing both Pete and Roscoe.
434
00:30:51,183 --> 00:30:54,311
He couldn't have.
435
00:30:54,386 --> 00:30:57,116
That means the sheriff
has to release Grange.
436
00:30:57,189 --> 00:30:59,180
Oh!
437
00:31:01,927 --> 00:31:06,762
Hey, Tugman. Guess you're not gonna
get Grange on this one after all, huh?
438
00:31:06,832 --> 00:31:10,928
Guess not.
You probably think
that's what a smile looks like.
439
00:31:11,003 --> 00:31:14,200
So you released him.
Where is he?
440
00:31:14,273 --> 00:31:16,434
My gosh, miss.
I just don't know where he is.
441
00:31:16,508 --> 00:31:18,442
What do you mean?
442
00:31:18,510 --> 00:31:21,968
As soon as I released him,he skipped town faster than a felon in heat.
443
00:31:22,047 --> 00:31:25,642
You're lying. Grange wouldn'tleave here without me.
444
00:31:26,919 --> 00:31:29,649
Guess you're gonna be
stuck here for a while, huh?
445
00:31:31,657 --> 00:31:34,558
- Flora.
- I can help you look for him.
446
00:31:34,626 --> 00:31:36,787
Oh, Sheriff.
447
00:31:36,862 --> 00:31:39,422
Just tryin' to be helpful, ma'am.
That's my job.
448
00:31:39,498 --> 00:31:42,467
Skipping town faster
than a felon in heat?
449
00:31:42,534 --> 00:31:47,665
Well, that's something that you
have personal experience with.
Isn't that so, Sheriff?
450
00:31:49,641 --> 00:31:51,836
I don't know who you are, mister,
451
00:31:51,910 --> 00:31:55,573
but if you know what's good for you,
I wouldn't plan on making this a relationship.
452
00:31:55,647 --> 00:31:57,911
Ah.
453
00:32:04,323 --> 00:32:09,920
Sheriff, did you happen to find
an envelope in Walter's clothes
or maybe among his possessions?
454
00:32:09,995 --> 00:32:12,793
No envelope, no stamps,
no love letters.
455
00:32:12,864 --> 00:32:16,766
I saw him consulting
an envelope as we drove here,
and it isn't in his room.
456
00:32:16,835 --> 00:32:20,965
I just know you can't wait to tell me
how special this envelope is.
457
00:32:21,039 --> 00:32:22,973
Well, I'm not sure, actually,
458
00:32:23,041 --> 00:32:26,807
but I do feel certain that Walter and I
didn't arrive here accidentally.
459
00:32:26,878 --> 00:32:31,941
Now look, ma'am.
I got a nice, tight little case here,
and the state police agree with me.
460
00:32:32,017 --> 00:32:35,544
You're both wrong.
I'm sorry, but Walter's story
doesn't make any sense.
461
00:32:35,620 --> 00:32:39,112
I mean, why would Pete
attack his car with a tire iron?
462
00:32:39,191 --> 00:32:41,853
He was anxious for Walter
to leave town.
463
00:32:41,927 --> 00:32:44,191
Wrecking his car would've only
prolonged our staying here.
464
00:32:44,262 --> 00:32:46,526
Pete was drunk, remember?
465
00:32:46,598 --> 00:32:49,999
Well, where are the dents
on Walter's car?
466
00:32:50,068 --> 00:32:53,196
So Murray missed a few details.
He was dyin' when he made that tape.
467
00:32:53,271 --> 00:32:56,206
That doesn't seem like
a detail to me, Sheriff.
468
00:32:56,274 --> 00:33:00,370
Now whoever killed Roscoe
killed Pete, right?
Yes, it would seem so.
469
00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:04,108
Now, I've got something
that even you can't argue with.
470
00:33:04,182 --> 00:33:06,844
Now, this is a state police report.
471
00:33:06,918 --> 00:33:11,355
Now, the bullet from
Murray's gun killed Roscoe.
472
00:33:11,423 --> 00:33:13,357
Murray had powder burns on his hand.
473
00:33:13,425 --> 00:33:16,394
Now, it's all here in black and white,
including a report of Pete's murder.
474
00:33:16,461 --> 00:33:18,861
Uh, might I see those reports, Sheriff?
475
00:33:18,930 --> 00:33:24,163
Oh, ma'am, you can have this copy
as a little souvenir of your stay here,
476
00:33:24,236 --> 00:33:26,864
which I assume is coming to a close.
477
00:33:31,676 --> 00:33:35,373
Oh, Mr. Desmond, you wouldn't happento have an extra cup, would you?
478
00:33:35,447 --> 00:33:37,540
Oh, yes, absolutely.
479
00:33:37,616 --> 00:33:40,210
It seems our hostess has madesome excellent coffee this morning.
480
00:33:40,285 --> 00:33:44,585
I'm sure she won't mind us
availing ourselves of some.
481
00:33:44,656 --> 00:33:47,557
There you are.
Thank you.
482
00:33:47,626 --> 00:33:51,153
Uh, Mr. Desmond, I hope
you don't mind me asking you,
483
00:33:51,229 --> 00:33:54,027
but, uh, you seem to
have had some sort of...
484
00:33:54,099 --> 00:33:57,626
previous acquaintanceship
with SheriffTugman.
485
00:33:57,702 --> 00:34:03,470
Lfind it rather amusing that he's been able
to secure gainful employment,
especially as a sheriff.
486
00:34:03,542 --> 00:34:06,978
It restores my lack of faith
in the American justice system.
487
00:34:07,045 --> 00:34:09,070
Uh-
[Chuckles]
488
00:34:09,147 --> 00:34:11,741
I'm sorry, I, uh-
I don't follow you.
489
00:34:11,817 --> 00:34:17,756
In the old West, many a lawman
started as a desperado-
490
00:34:17,823 --> 00:34:19,814
a man on the wrong side of the law.
491
00:34:19,891 --> 00:34:23,383
Oh, I see.
And how, Mr. Desmond,
492
00:34:23,462 --> 00:34:26,158
did you find all this outabout Sheriff Tugman?
493
00:34:26,231 --> 00:34:30,292
Excuse me. Uh, I'm looking
for a Ms. Gerakaris.
494
00:34:30,368 --> 00:34:32,427
I'm Mrs. Gerakaris.
495
00:34:33,638 --> 00:34:35,629
Oh. Terence Locke.
496
00:34:37,409 --> 00:34:39,900
Wide West life insurance company?
497
00:34:40,979 --> 00:34:44,642
Look, this really isn't the very best time
for you to try to sell me life insurance.
498
00:34:44,716 --> 00:34:48,846
I'm not here to sell life insurance.
I'm here to pay some off.
499
00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:50,945
Specifically, to resolve the matter...
500
00:34:51,022 --> 00:34:55,618
of one Mr. Peter Gerakaris's
$250,000 life insurance policy.
501
00:34:56,895 --> 00:35:00,092
Two... hundred and 50?
502
00:35:01,133 --> 00:35:04,534
Two- He never told me.
503
00:35:05,604 --> 00:35:08,767
Well, didn't you call
our company yesterday...
504
00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:12,936
about two hours afteryour husband passed away?
505
00:35:13,011 --> 00:35:14,945
No.
506
00:35:17,215 --> 00:35:19,206
Oh.
507
00:35:22,154 --> 00:35:23,849
And there's no way
it could've been an accident?
508
00:35:23,922 --> 00:35:26,948
Oh, no, I'm afraid not.
Not with the blows to the head.
509
00:35:27,025 --> 00:35:30,222
That couldn't have
been caused by the car?
Well, not according to this report.
510
00:35:30,295 --> 00:35:33,389
Well, then I'm gonna need
to speak to the local authorities.
511
00:35:33,465 --> 00:35:36,491
Perhaps you could, uh, show me
the way to the sheriff's office.
512
00:35:36,568 --> 00:35:40,664
Well, I'd be happy to,
but I don't know how much good
SheriffTugman is going to be.
513
00:35:40,739 --> 00:35:42,673
Mmm.
Uh, Mr. Locke,
514
00:35:42,741 --> 00:35:46,871
you mentioned that you'd had
a phone call from a Ms. Gerakaris.
515
00:35:46,945 --> 00:35:50,381
Is that how the caller
identified herself?
516
00:35:50,448 --> 00:35:53,212
Well, actually, I'm not sure.
517
00:35:53,285 --> 00:35:56,880
My secretary gave me a message
that a woman had called.
She hadn't identified herself.
518
00:35:56,955 --> 00:35:59,617
I just assumed that
it was the beneficiary.
Mm-hmm.
519
00:35:59,691 --> 00:36:03,149
Now, why did you have
to get him all stirred up?
520
00:36:03,228 --> 00:36:08,165
Sheriff, Mr. Locke came here
with his own agenda.
521
00:36:08,233 --> 00:36:12,602
Not unlike Mr. Desmond, who just
happened to arrive at the truck stop
when all this started.
522
00:36:12,671 --> 00:36:15,401
That snot-nosed pip-squeak.
523
00:36:15,473 --> 00:36:19,000
Sheriff, goodness knows you're a master
at masking your feelings,
524
00:36:19,077 --> 00:36:23,275
but I sense that you've had some problems
with Desmond before?
525
00:36:23,348 --> 00:36:27,011
Yeah. Years ago down in Texas,
526
00:36:27,085 --> 00:36:30,987
that slimy piece of uppity pond crap
tried to obtain...
527
00:36:31,056 --> 00:36:34,958
an article of merchandise
that I was protectin'.
528
00:36:35,026 --> 00:36:37,551
Oh, you were a sheriff in Texas?
529
00:36:37,629 --> 00:36:39,961
Well, you might say
I had private accounts.
530
00:36:40,031 --> 00:36:45,663
I have informed the company that,
uh, I agree with your theory of
Mr. Gerakaris's death, Mrs. Fletcher.
531
00:36:45,737 --> 00:36:47,864
And just, uh,
what might that be?
532
00:36:47,939 --> 00:36:51,670
Well, you remember the state police report
that you were kind enough to give me?
533
00:36:51,743 --> 00:36:54,177
I knew I'd regret that.
534
00:36:54,246 --> 00:36:59,411
Well, the description of Pete's head wounds
indicates that he was clubbed from behind.
535
00:36:59,484 --> 00:37:02,248
Oh, of course. So what?
536
00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:06,689
Well, on the tape, Walter said
Pete was coming straight at him...
537
00:37:06,758 --> 00:37:08,749
when he hit him with the tire iron,
538
00:37:08,827 --> 00:37:11,990
which would seem to mean that
he clubbed Pete from the front.
539
00:37:12,063 --> 00:37:15,032
So he wanted us to think
he killed Pete in self-defense.
540
00:37:15,100 --> 00:37:20,367
Oh, now forgive me, Sheriff, but if Walter
wanted whoever heard that tape
to believe that he killed Pete,
541
00:37:20,438 --> 00:37:24,204
and he knew he was dying,
why make it seem like self-defense?
542
00:37:24,276 --> 00:37:27,541
You believe that Mr. Murray was lying
to protect somebody else, isn't that so?
543
00:37:27,612 --> 00:37:30,137
Who?
Well, I'm not sure.
544
00:37:30,215 --> 00:37:34,083
But the medical examiner indicated
that the wounds from the tire iron...
545
00:37:34,152 --> 00:37:36,814
weren't deep enough to kill Pete.
546
00:37:36,888 --> 00:37:40,688
Which has to make me wonder,who would've clubbed Pete from behind,
547
00:37:40,759 --> 00:37:43,853
but not hard enough to kill him?
548
00:37:43,928 --> 00:37:47,523
A woman, perhaps?
Perhaps.
549
00:37:47,599 --> 00:37:49,567
Perhaps the same woman
who phoned you.
550
00:37:49,634 --> 00:37:51,898
The same woman
who is the beneficiary.
551
00:37:51,970 --> 00:37:56,066
Oh, that'd work out great for you,wouldn't it, Locke?
552
00:37:56,141 --> 00:37:59,508
You wouldn't have to pay the policy
if the beneficiary was the murderer.
553
00:37:59,577 --> 00:38:02,705
Well, I know Vera,
and she can be nice and nasty,
554
00:38:02,781 --> 00:38:06,012
but she's not the kind of woman
that'd club her husband.
555
00:38:06,084 --> 00:38:11,681
Sheriff, Mrs. Fletcher,
there is something I haven't told you.
556
00:38:11,756 --> 00:38:15,487
Until I was sure of the lay of the land,
I felt I had to keep it confidential.
557
00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:17,494
Yeah, I can hardly wait.
558
00:38:18,563 --> 00:38:21,157
Mrs. Gerakaris is not the beneficiary.
559
00:38:22,467 --> 00:38:24,594
Her daughter, Flora, is.
560
00:38:28,340 --> 00:38:32,242
You've met her. What do you think?
Could Flora have killed her father?
561
00:38:32,310 --> 00:38:37,873
Mr. Locke, there's every reason to believethat Pete wasn't Flora's father.
562
00:38:39,384 --> 00:38:42,046
What?
I believe that Walter Murray was.
563
00:38:42,120 --> 00:38:46,147
And if I could figure that out,
then Flora could too.
564
00:38:46,224 --> 00:38:48,784
The first night we were there,
there was a very ugly scene.
565
00:38:48,860 --> 00:38:51,124
I was watching from my room.
566
00:38:51,196 --> 00:38:53,221
Don't talk back.
You're a tramp like your mother!
567
00:38:53,298 --> 00:38:57,234
At the time, I thought that Pete was
referring to Flora's behavior with Grange.
568
00:38:57,302 --> 00:39:00,271
But it could be that he just figured out
that Flora was Walter's daughter.
569
00:39:00,338 --> 00:39:04,274
- How?
- Uh, Roscoe could have told him.
570
00:39:04,342 --> 00:39:08,802
A little while earlier,I'd seen Roscoe snooping aroundoutside Walter's motel room.
571
00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:13,715
And I'm fairly certain
that's when Vera told Walter
that Flora was his daughter.
572
00:39:13,785 --> 00:39:16,583
[Locke]What makes you think that?
573
00:39:16,654 --> 00:39:18,713
[Jessica]Uh, their reactions,how they looked...
574
00:39:18,790 --> 00:39:24,057
and the difference in the way that-
that Walter related to Flora after that.
575
00:39:24,129 --> 00:39:27,189
I mean, when he first met her, he-
he almost came on to her.
576
00:39:27,265 --> 00:39:31,065
But after that he became,
well, fatherly.
577
00:39:31,136 --> 00:39:35,368
So Flora could have killed Pete
to prevent him from changing
the beneficiary...
578
00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:37,840
now that he knew
that she wasn't his daughter.
579
00:39:37,909 --> 00:39:41,811
Mr. Locke, there may be a way to prove
whether Flora killed Pete.
580
00:39:43,047 --> 00:39:45,277
If you don't mind helping me out.
581
00:39:45,350 --> 00:39:47,341
[Knocking]
582
00:39:53,391 --> 00:39:57,760
Mrs. Fletcher.
I'm kind of busy right now.
583
00:39:57,829 --> 00:39:59,820
Of course, Flora.
And I'm sorry to bother you.
584
00:39:59,898 --> 00:40:05,632
But before I left, I just wanted to say
how sorry I am about your father's death.
585
00:40:05,703 --> 00:40:11,505
Pete was a pig.
I was also sorry to hear
about Pete's death.
586
00:40:16,648 --> 00:40:22,450
Guess everyone figured
that one out, huh? Except me.
587
00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:26,081
Mom just told me
about half hour ago.
588
00:40:26,157 --> 00:40:31,857
Pretty stupid, losing your real father
before you've even been properly introduced.
589
00:40:32,864 --> 00:40:34,855
I see you're packing.
590
00:40:34,933 --> 00:40:37,925
Hey, how are yougettin'out ofhere?
591
00:40:38,002 --> 00:40:42,666
Oh. Well, Mr. Locke is gonna
give me a lift back to Los Angeles...
592
00:40:42,740 --> 00:40:45,106
as soon as he finishes his business.
593
00:40:45,176 --> 00:40:47,110
Locke? Who's that?
594
00:40:47,178 --> 00:40:50,375
Oh, he's here to pay offPete's life insurance policyto your mother.
595
00:40:50,448 --> 00:40:54,009
How long is that gonna take?Think he can fit one more?
596
00:40:56,120 --> 00:40:58,611
I'll see what I can do.
597
00:40:58,690 --> 00:41:01,523
And if you'll just sign these forms,
Mrs. Gerakaris,
598
00:41:01,593 --> 00:41:05,962
our headquarters in L.A.
Will send the check
out to you in a couple of days.
599
00:41:06,030 --> 00:41:10,899
Sure, but what are they for?
Oh, it's just a technicality
because the beneficiary is a minor.
600
00:41:12,537 --> 00:41:15,199
- A minor?
- Your daughter.
601
00:41:16,508 --> 00:41:20,604
Flora? No, that's-
Not exactly what
you had planned?
602
00:41:22,180 --> 00:41:25,013
I don't know what
you're talking about.
603
00:41:25,083 --> 00:41:28,610
I mean, naturally, I'm surprised
'cause, you know, you figure that-
604
00:41:28,686 --> 00:41:32,918
Oh. You know what?
605
00:41:32,991 --> 00:41:38,122
It makes me really happy that Pete
remembered to leave somethin' for Flora.
606
00:41:39,564 --> 00:41:43,500
Well, I must say you, uh,
have handled this very well-
better than most.
607
00:41:43,568 --> 00:41:47,004
But you did make
one little mistake.
608
00:41:47,071 --> 00:41:49,699
Mr. Locke,
609
00:41:49,774 --> 00:41:53,835
if I understand you correctly,
I think you better watch your step.
610
00:41:53,912 --> 00:41:56,642
Now, that is where
I was supposed to sign, right?
611
00:41:56,714 --> 00:41:58,113
Hmm.
612
00:42:01,853 --> 00:42:04,720
You forgot to destroy the letter.
613
00:42:07,325 --> 00:42:09,316
I don't know what you're talkin' about.
614
00:42:09,394 --> 00:42:13,592
The letter...that you mailed Mr. Murray.
615
00:42:18,803 --> 00:42:20,794
Oh.
616
00:42:27,445 --> 00:42:30,312
Now listen, Mr. Locke,
and listen very carefully.
617
00:42:30,381 --> 00:42:33,043
I'm gonna have
to go out that door,
618
00:42:33,117 --> 00:42:35,244
and I'm gonna call up
your company.
619
00:42:35,320 --> 00:42:40,451
And I'm gonna tell 'em that unless they
wanna be involved in a huge lawsuit,
620
00:42:40,525 --> 00:42:42,493
they're gonna fire you right now.
621
00:43:02,447 --> 00:43:04,438
Oh.
622
00:43:07,685 --> 00:43:09,676
Bad girl!
623
00:43:09,754 --> 00:43:11,779
You shouldn't smoke in bed, honey!
624
00:43:11,856 --> 00:43:13,847
Get your hands off of me!
625
00:43:13,925 --> 00:43:18,555
It's just an envelope. Remember,
I told you I wanted something of Walter's
so I could remember him.
626
00:43:18,630 --> 00:43:21,963
And that's why you're burning it?I imagine it won't be difficult to prove...
627
00:43:22,033 --> 00:43:25,696
that it's addressed to Walter
in your handwriting, Vera.
628
00:43:25,770 --> 00:43:27,931
So?
629
00:43:28,006 --> 00:43:29,997
Okay, I wrote to him. So what?
630
00:43:30,074 --> 00:43:34,340
Quite honestly, what bothered me mostwas the compounding of coincidences.
631
00:43:34,412 --> 00:43:37,575
Walter happening to suggest that
we drive back to Los Angeles,
632
00:43:37,649 --> 00:43:39,776
then happening to detour
off the interstate,
633
00:43:39,851 --> 00:43:43,947
then happening to find the womanhe hadn't seen in 19 years.
634
00:43:44,022 --> 00:43:47,549
You can strap me to a lie detector.
I haven't seen him in any of that time.
635
00:43:47,625 --> 00:43:51,959
No, but you did write to him recentlyand let him know where to find you.
636
00:43:52,030 --> 00:43:56,524
Walter consulted the directions
he'd written on this envelope
when we drove here.
637
00:43:56,601 --> 00:44:00,435
So- [Stammering]
Are you saying that I killed Pete?
I mean, is that it?
638
00:44:00,505 --> 00:44:03,599
For what? A plugged nickel?
639
00:44:03,675 --> 00:44:06,109
For what you believed you'd receive.
640
00:44:06,177 --> 00:44:10,045
Flora didn't know anything
about Pete's insurance policy.
641
00:44:10,114 --> 00:44:13,550
It hardly seems likely that a girl
who expects a quarter of a million dollars...
642
00:44:13,618 --> 00:44:17,714
would jump at every chance
to get out of town
before she's paid off.
643
00:44:17,789 --> 00:44:20,121
You didn't even make it sporting.
644
00:44:22,727 --> 00:44:26,527
You clubbed that poor,drunk slob from behind.
645
00:44:26,597 --> 00:44:30,089
Then you rolled him under that liftto make it look like an accident.
646
00:44:30,168 --> 00:44:33,160
[Air Hissing]
647
00:44:40,812 --> 00:44:42,905
I was too smart for you, girlie.
648
00:44:42,980 --> 00:44:45,676
I knew it wasn't no accident.
649
00:44:45,750 --> 00:44:47,684
You hadn't counted on that, had you?
650
00:44:47,752 --> 00:44:50,016
Not in a million years.
651
00:44:50,088 --> 00:44:52,556
I imagine that's whenyou realized you needed help.
652
00:44:52,623 --> 00:44:54,614
You must have told Walter
what you'd done.
653
00:44:54,692 --> 00:44:57,422
And than he took it from there,
the poor sap.
654
00:44:57,495 --> 00:45:02,432
He planted the glove to incriminateGrange, he killed Roscoe,and he incriminated himself,
655
00:45:02,500 --> 00:45:05,196
all to save the woman he loved...
656
00:45:05,269 --> 00:45:09,603
and believed that he'd wrongedall those years ago.
657
00:45:09,674 --> 00:45:12,234
He never wronged me.
658
00:45:12,310 --> 00:45:14,369
[Sighs]
659
00:45:15,446 --> 00:45:18,506
He was probably the only right thing
that ever happened in my life.
660
00:45:18,583 --> 00:45:21,279
Don't turn on the waterworks.
You set him up.
661
00:45:21,352 --> 00:45:23,513
Why would I set up Walter?
662
00:45:23,588 --> 00:45:26,216
Why did I stay away for 19 years?
663
00:45:26,290 --> 00:45:29,555
Because when Walter left,
you were carrying his child.
664
00:45:34,165 --> 00:45:38,932
Sure. Flora is Walter's daughter.
665
00:45:40,338 --> 00:45:45,571
I didn't even know I was pregnant
when Walter just up and disappeared
one day all those years ago.
666
00:45:46,644 --> 00:45:49,078
I talked to my parents, and-
Whoo.
667
00:45:49,147 --> 00:45:52,480
They washed their hands of me
with 20 Mule Team Borax.
668
00:45:52,550 --> 00:45:54,814
And Pete never knew?
669
00:45:54,886 --> 00:45:58,344
Oh, back then, I was skinny enough
to fool him into marrying me...
670
00:45:58,422 --> 00:46:01,880
and to believin' that Flora was just
a couple of months premature.
671
00:46:02,960 --> 00:46:05,190
You're a real piece of work,
you know that?
672
00:46:05,263 --> 00:46:10,496
- [Chuckles]
- Pete did figure it out at the end, didn't he?
That Flora wasn't his daughter?
673
00:46:10,568 --> 00:46:13,298
That fool? No.
674
00:46:13,371 --> 00:46:15,931
Roscoe told him-
good old Roscoe.
675
00:46:16,007 --> 00:46:18,601
That's why I had to kill Pete.
676
00:46:18,676 --> 00:46:21,076
He would've killed Walter
or me or both of us.
677
00:46:21,145 --> 00:46:24,512
Oh, right. Sure. And the money
didn't have nothin' to do with it.
678
00:46:24,582 --> 00:46:28,074
The money had a lot to do with it.
The money had everything to do with it.
679
00:46:28,152 --> 00:46:32,282
Pete owed me for those 19 years,
and a quarter million dollars
doesn't start to cover it.
680
00:46:35,827 --> 00:46:39,991
What do you know, babe?
Lfinally get to take you for a ride.
681
00:46:40,064 --> 00:46:43,227
Flora, whatever else you do,
don't let...
682
00:46:44,368 --> 00:46:46,359
men mess up your life.
683
00:46:48,306 --> 00:46:50,774
Okay?
684
00:46:55,346 --> 00:46:57,940
[Engine Starts]
685
00:47:02,687 --> 00:47:05,554
Step on it.
686
00:47:07,058 --> 00:47:09,492
So you still want that ride?
687
00:47:15,600 --> 00:47:18,068
What about you,
Mr. Desmond?
688
00:47:18,135 --> 00:47:20,228
We're heading into L.A.
689
00:47:21,339 --> 00:47:25,571
That's very kind of you, but I'm afraid
I've already been to Los Angeles.
690
00:47:26,644 --> 00:47:31,138
And if there's one thing I've learned,it's that one should never look back.
691
00:47:32,305 --> 00:48:32,297
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