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Name of Joyce Lakeland.

Lives about four or five miles
out on Derrick Road

past the ol' Branch place.

Oh, I know the ol' Branch place.

She a hustlin' lady, Bob?

Well, I guess so,

but she's been pretty decent about it.

She ain't taken on no roustabouts
or nothin' like that.

In fact...

if these preachers around town
weren't rompin' down on me,

I wouldn't bother her at all.

Well how shall I handle it?

Tell her to lay off for awhile or...

Oh, I don't know...

Just go out and size her up

and make your own decision.

I know you'll be gentle,

as gentle and pleasant as you can be.

So go on out there,
see how she looks to ya.

Alright. Thanks, Bob.

Mornin' Miss Parker.

- Oh, hello, Lou. Good morning.
- Mornin', ma'am.

The trouble with growing up
in a small town

is everybody thinks
they know who you are.

I was born here 29 years ago.

And Central City was small enough

that my father was
the only doctor in town.

Then the oil boom came

and the town grew into its name.

The Sheriff's Office handles the policing
for both the City and the County.

We do a pretty good job of it,
to our own way of thinkin'.

We're kind of old-fashioned.

Out here you say, yes ma'am,
and no ma'am

to anything with a skirt on.

Out here, if you catch a man
with his pants down,

you apologize.

Even if you have to
arrest him afterwards.

Out here you're a man
and a gentleman

or you aren't anything at all.

And God help you if you're not.

Yes?

I'm sorry, ma'am.

Come on in.

You go on back. I just need to wash up.

What do you think
you're doing with that?

Sheriff's Office, ma'am.

What are you doing with it?

I have a permit.

Are you satisfied, Copper?

Well I reckon it's all right.

And my name's Ford,
ma'am, not Copper.

Jesus.

The only decent looking guy I've seen
in this stink hole

and he's a boy scout with a badge.

How much?

I don't jazz cops.

That's not very polite, ma'am.

I just came out here for a little talk.

And I asked you what you wanted.

Well I guess I want you
out of Central City by sundown.

And if I see you here after that...

I'm gonna run you in for prostitution.

You lousy son-of-a-bitch.

Don't you call me that, ma'am.

You lousy son-of-a-bitch!

You son-of-a-bitch, bastard, pimp!

Get off me!

Get off me!

Let go of me, you bastard!

Get off me!

You bastard son-of-a-bitch!

I'm sorry.

- I'm sorry.
- No.

Don't say you're sorry.

Give me one hand loose
and I'll be satisfied.

I went back the next day
and the day after that.

I couldn't help it.

It was like the wind had been turned
on a dying fire.

Let's pull out of this crummy
old town together,

just you and me.

What, are you crazy?

Go on, let me hear you say it.

Oh no.

Go on.

Tell me what a fine ol' family
y'all Fords is.

We all Fords, ma'am.

We wouldn't even think of

living with one of you
miserable ol' whores, ma'am.

Don't...

You think you're too good for me.

Don't start that.

You do.

I'll never give you up. Never.

And if you think you're too good
for me now,

I'll make it so you won't be.

Oh baby, you got your bowels
in an uproar all over nothin'.

I was just thinkin' about the money.

I can get money.

Oh yeah?

He's crazy about me
and he's dumb as hell.

I'm sorry?

Who's crazy about you
and dumb as hell?

Elmer Conway.

You know who he is, don't ya?

I knew Elmer Conway well enough.

We'd been in the same class
together at school.

He wasn't a bad man.

He'd just been spoiled.

Spoiled by his father, Chester Conway.

Chester had built half of Central City...

and he acted like he owned the town

and nobody had the guts
to tell him any different.

Joyce was a fool to think

she could put one over
on Old Man Conway.

But her plan started me thinking about

how I could settle some old scores
of my own.

You want a refill, hon?

- No, I've gotta go.
- Alright.

So you're a deputy sheriff?

You don't even carry a gun.

No I don't.

What if some crook
should try to shoot ya?

Well, I'll tell you a secret.

We don't have too many crooks
in Central City.

That's good to know.

I started needling people.

I couldn't help it.

I guess it was a substitute
for somethin' else.

Thank you, Max.

You don't have to pay.

I wanna thank you for
what you done for my Johnnie.

No one else would've done what ya did.

Thank you very much, Max.
I appreciate that.

It's made a big difference.

You know, I figure that you don't get
any more out of life

than what you put into it.

You're right there, Lou.

Yeah. Well I'm gonna push off.

I got a whole lot of gettin' around to do

and I don't wanna rush.

Haste makes waste.

- Evenin'.
- Evenin'.

Hey, how 'bout it, bud? How 'bout it?

Look I've been
on a hell of a binge and...

by God, if I don't get some food
in me pretty soon,

I'm just gonna keel over here,
you know?

- Is that right?
- Yeah.

Need somethin' to warm you up, huh?

On anything. Just anything at all.

Yeah.

Jesus, bud what the hell are you
tryin' to do with that, huh?

Cigar.

See that? That's a real-live
sheriff's badge.

Sure.

- Beat it.
- Sure bud. Sure... I...

Goin'. I'm goin'.

But you better watch it
with that stuff, bud.

You think so?

You just better watch it.

Hello, Lou.

- Joe.
- Welcome.

Come on in.

Sorry to ask you to come around
so late.

Figure it's better to be discreet...

you being a public official and all.
Have a seat.

It is hot out there, huh?

What can I do for you?

Well look Lou,

there's something
I wanna talk to you about.

And I know that it's something
that you're very sensitive about, so...

How did you feel about Mike Dean?

Well I don't know what you mean.

He was my brother.

Right, he was your foster brother, right?

Your father adopted him.

Well Dad and the Deans
were old friends

and when Mike's parents passed on

in that big flu epidemic
we had a while ago...

Dad adopted him and...

See, my mother died
when I was a baby and...

Dad thought that Mike would be
good company for me.

You were the only son and heir

and your father brings in another son.

Didn't that rub you
a little the wrong way?

Well I was only six years old
and Mike was eight,

so I don't...

So you liked Mike, then?

Oh, I couldn't 've loved
a real brother any more.

Even after he did What he did?

Just what would that be?

C'mon.

The girl identified him.

That girl was five years old.

She would've identified anybody
they put in front of her.

So you didn't feel the slightest bit
embarrassed

when he came back to Central City?

Not at all.

I wanted him back. So did Dad.

Dad pulled a lot of strings

to get him that job.

You know Lou, I mean, that all squares.

So now let me tell you what I know
about Mike's death.

Alright?

Now he was killed six years ago.

He was working on a girder

on a Conway Construction job.

Apparently he slipped on a rivet.

So when he fell,
he threw himself backwards...

so he'd land inside the building
and onto the decking.

But the floors, they hadn't been
decked in properly.

So, he fell all the way to the basement.

So what about it?

Well, listen,
I will tell you what about it, Lou.

Conway, Chester Conway,

he didn't install the decking.

Oh now Joe,

you just haven't thought this deal
through properly.

See, I know you were getting along
all right with Chester Conway...

and then he got a notion
to go non-union and well...

that upset you, didn't it?

I understand that. That's only natural.

But if you thought that
there had been a murder...

now Joe, you would've said
somethin' six years ago.

Am I right?

Well listen, I am sorry I troubled you
for nothing, Lou.

I mean I certainly enjoyed our talk.

May I make a suggestion, though?

Certainly.

Save the bullshit for the birds.

Alright?

Bye, Joe.

Lou.

Lou?

What're you doing?

Lou.

Amy, what're you doin'?

Waitin' for you, upstairs.

Somebody might've seen ya.

No one did.

I snuck out after my folks went to sleep.

Aren't ya glad?

Well I wasn't expectin' you.

Well, my, such enthusiasm.

I'm sorry.

I shed my clothes for you
and my decency

and you just say you're sorry.

Will I see you Sunday for dinner?

Well I can't, babe.

I told a fella I'd do a favor for him,

I can't get out of it.

Shouldn't be too late.

Why don'tcha come on by around ten
and wait for me.

We're gonna have a talk...

talk about why you've acted the way
you have these past few weeks.

Understand?

Yes, Miss Stanton.

- So now, sleep well.
- Alright.

I loved Joyce.

There were times when her voice
seemed to whisper to me.

Forget it, Lou.

It's not too late if you stop now.

But then I'd remember Chester Conway

and I knew I had to go through
with the plan.

Come on in.

Close the door behind ya.

Have a seat.

Well, you got things all fixed up
for tonight, have ya?

Gonna wind this thing up
so it'll stay wound?

Well, I'm not gonna do anything.

I mean, I've done all I'm gonna do, so...

I don't think we better
leave it that way, Lou.

If that damn crazy Elmer sees her again

there's no tellin' what'll happen.

I want you to take the money yourself.

- $10,000 in small bills...
- Oh, I won't do that.

Now you take it, and you pay her off...

and you bust her around a little bit

and you run her out of the county.

- Mr. Conway...
- That's the way you do it,

you pay her, you bust her
and you run her out.

Did you say somethin'?

Now look here,

Miss Lakeland insisted that Elmer bring
that money out all by himself.

Now those are her terms and I...

I don't see what she's got to do with it.

Well what you don't see is that
you have a whole lot of gall.

What'd you say?

Well how do you think it would look

if it got around that an officer of the law
had made a blackmail payoff?

Now Elmer came to me with his trouble

and I came to you...

and you asked me to see
what I could do

about gettin' this done quietly...

and I've done all that I can think to do.

And I don't see how you can ask me
to do one thing more.

Maybe you're right, boy.

But you will see that she leaves
after she gets that money.

If she isn't gone after an hour,

I'll move her on myself.

Well, I'm gonna send Elmer
over to your place

as soon as I can locate him.

And you make sure
he's got everything straight.

Understand?

What if the ol' man never cools off, hm?

Well, hold on.

You told me you were sure
he was gonna come around.

If that isn't the case,

- I better tell Miss Lakeland...
- No.

Don't you do that, Lou.

Why don'tcha do this.

Why don'tcha buy a business.

Then you and Joyce can run it together.

And when it gets goin' good,

then you get in touch
with your old man and...

he'll see you
made a darned smart move.

Yeah, I don't know about that.

Well I'm not gonna twist your arm.

I already stuck my neck out about
a mile and a half

to give you all a fresh start.

I know you did, but why? Why?

Why'd you do all this
for me and her, Lou?

I might've thought that
you'd do something for me.

Well hey, I can give you a little
out of that 10,000, I guess.

Oh, don't bother.

If you don't have any money
of your own,

I don't wanna take your old man's.

I got plenty of my own money. Come on.

Oh hell, here.

You sure?

I appreciate it. Thank you, Elmer.

I appreciate it.

So you're gonna be there tonight, right?

- 10:00
-10:00

Have you heard this stuff?

Black.

Yellow.

And red.

Oh, that's good.

Well... I woke up this mornin'.

And I saw my honey Ia yin' there.

I said honey...

Go in the kitchen
and make me some eggs.

Lou.

- Hi darlin'.
- Hi.

What're you doin' here?

Chester wanted me to come by
and hold Elmer's hand.

Well he won't be here
for another hour, so.

You will join me in two weeks,
won't you Lou?

Won't you?

Well that's the understandin'.

You promise?

Lou, do you suppose
Elmer will, you know...

make any trouble?

I don't see how he can.

What's he gonna do,
squawk to his dad?

I'll just tell him you changed your mind.

I don't know.

It just... it all seems so complicated.

Well...

I'll tell ya honey, it is kinda complicated.

You remember my stepbrother,
the one who died?

Well Chester Conway organized it
for him to be killed.

That's terrible, Lou.

Yeah.

You can't do anything to Elmer.

You mustn't, honey.

Please? I won't let you.

They won't catch me, baby.

They won't even
suspect me for it, really.

They'll just think he got tanked,
like he usually is.

And then you two got to fighting.

And you both got killed.

Well that doesn't make any sense.

How am I supposed to be dead?

Don't. I have to travel.

Baby, you aren't goin' anywhere.

Understand?

Lou.

Hold on. It's almost over.

Why?

Why?

I'm sorry, baby.

I'm sorry.

I love you.

Hold on.

I love you.

Do you hear me?

Honey can you hear me?

I'm sorry.

I'm real sorry.

I love you. Goodbye.

You're gonna be alright. Alright.

Hey Lou, ol' boy.

You got here before me, huh?

You bring the money?

What's it look like?

Where's Joyce?

Oh, she's in the bedroom.

Why don'tcha go on back.

Bet she's all stretched out
and waitin' for ya.

Oh, now you shouldn't talk like that.

You know I'm about to be married.

Christ!

Honey!

Honey!

Oh, God.

Who did it, Lou?

It was suicide.

That doesn't make any sense.

Oh, sure it does.

You're just too stupid to see it.

I'm real sorry, sweetheart.

But I feel anguish and I'm sorry.

I know you were scared.

You seemed awful surprised
and I'm sorry.

Oh, shoot.

God damn it, Lou.

Oh, shoot.

You tryin' to get killed
for Christ's sakes?

Well I'm real sorry, sir.

I had to pull in there with a flat tire

- and then I didn't see you when I...
- Come on, let's go.

We don't have time
to stand around gabbin'.

Well it's still pretty early.

The hell it is.

It's quarter past eleven
and Elmer ain't home yet.

He said he was gonna come back
right away

and he ain't done it.

Come on, you follow me.

Yeah but don't tell me that again.

I know how bad it is.

He's dead, and that is that.

What I'm interested in now is her.

Well do it, get on out here
as quick as you can.

I don't wanna see her die, not this way.

I wanna see her burn.

Just get that ambulance out here now.

80 Lou, that's it?

That's all you got to say?

Well I told it five times.

I guess the only thing I left out of it all...

I feel awful sorry.

Well it's a bit late for that...

Tried to handle this blackmail deal
all by myself.

You know, I sure wish
I'd come to you Bob, with it.

- I really do.
- It's okay, Lou.

I would have,

had it been anybody other than
Chester asking for help.

You know that.

It's all right.
Don't fret yourself about that.

Well I appreciate your understanding.

- Well, get some sleep, partner.
- Alright.

- Good night.
- Good night, Bob.

Here's your food.

Thank you, Max.

Hey, Lou, I need to ask you something.

It's about Johnnie.

He's taken a job
at Slim Murphy's and, well...

I hear bad things about Slim Murphy.

So, was wonderin'...

Would you like me to check up on him?

Yeah, could you?

I'd be happy to.

Thank you. Appreciate it.

I was glad to do Max a good turn.

I knew Amy'd be waiting for me

and I knew she'd be mad as hell.

Fathers are funny.

They got ideas of their own.

And the good ones
get in your hair the most.

Dad thinks he knows best
about everything.

Slim Murphy hasn't got
a very good reputation.

Now nobody's proved that
he's been mixed up

in any of these car stripping jobs

but if I were you...

Yeah, I know...

I won't get in any trouble, Lou.

That sounds like a promise.

I know you won't break a promise.

Where have you been?

- I'm sorry, baby.
- Where have you been?

I'm sorry.

I had a whole lot of trouble tonight.

I'll bet.

Well you wanna hear about it
or don't ya?

I've heard so many
of your lies and excuses,

I may as well hear one more.

Alright.

Well, it started about three months ago.

Bob asked me
to check up on a prostitute.

Yes?

How could you be so stupid?

Why did you do that?

Well I was doing a favor
for Chester Conway.

He wanted me to help Elmer
get out of a fix.

Why are you always having
to do people favors?

You never do any for me.

Alright I shouldn't 've done it.

You shouldn't have let that woman
in this town in the first place.

No I shouldn't 've.

I don't understand.

Lou. Stop that.

Lou, stop that.

What's the matter, huh?

All this trouble's
just thrown me for a loop.

Forget everything but me.

I want to.

Let me pet you.

- You son-of-a-bitch!
- Hey, what...

You dirty, filthy bastard!

You're dirty.

I can tell, I can smell it on you.

I can smell you've been screwing her.

What are you saying?

You screwed her.

You've been doing it all along.

Hey. Come here.

- You don't touch me!
- Listen to me.

- Amy, listen.
- No.

- Lou, stop it.
- Amy, look at me...

It's Lou, honey.

The same Lou you've known
all your life.

Come on, open up.

Are you crazy? Why would I do that?

You did do it. I know you did.

Amy, why?

Stop.

Why would I run the risk
of losing a girl like you

by running around with some Chippy?

No use arguing about it.

Just thank my lucky stars I didn't catch
some terrible disease.

Damn it, hey, come here.

Come here.

Now you can say
what you want about me...

but don't say that the girl
I'm gonna marry...

is sleeping with a guy who would
run around with whores.

You don't wanna marry me.

Yes I do.

I just didn't wanna be told when.

I wanted to propose myself.

Which is what I'm doing right now.

Yeah, hello.

Hey Lou. Bob.

Bob, what's on your mind?

Hiya, Lou.

Sorry to bother you.

I hope we didn't interrupt anything.

You had a date for last night?

That's right.

For what time?

Well, supposed to be a little after ten...

the time I figured I'd be finished with
the Conway business.

Who's the girl?

Now damn it,

now that I don't think
is any of your business.

Howard, you know,

you're kind of a newcomer out this way.

But you oughtta know better
than to ask a man a question like that.

It's my job.

If Ford had himself
a date last night then...

well you know what I mean, Ford.

Well no offense Howard,

but I figured you did all the jawing
you had to do

when I talked to you
a couple hours ago.

You're wrong, brother.

Okay, easy Howard.

For or yin' out loud...

I know the girl, know her folks.

She's one of the nicest little ladies
in the town.

I ain't got the slightest doubt
that Lou had a date with her.

The more I'm around you people
the less I understand you.

Come on.

Let's go.

Don't be shy. Come on.

See that track there, Ford?

You know what caused that?

I reckon so.

A flat tire.

So you admit that.

That's the sort of track
you get from a flat tire.

What's this all about, Bob?

You know, I really don't know...

but this is Howard's Show

so you might as well just answer him.

Well I already said it once.

You get that track from a flat tire,
yes sir.

Come see the track your tire made.

Here we are.

The tire that made this track wasn't flat.

Well I never said I had a flat tire

when I pulled off the highway.

Now wait a minute.

No, I had a puncture, sure.

Felt the car sway a little

but I pulled off the lane before the tire
could really go down.

I hope you boys didn't chew up
a perfectly good tire for nothin'.

Doggone it Howard,

if this ain't the strangest damn deal.

Getting away with a stupid mistake

can be a blessing twice over.

When a man's rope slides off you once,

he's mighty cautious about
making a second throw.

Feeling twitchy, Lou?

Oh, it's just a passing hunger.

Yeah, I wouldn't mind
grabbing a bite, myself.

Joyce was bound to die
if she wasn't dead already.

As soon as things quieted down,
I'd quit my job,

I'd sell the house...

I'd leave Central City once and for all.

Ooh, those look good.

She still unconscious?

Yeah.

- Thank you.
- And, anything else for you?

No, I'm good, thank you.

Enjoy your food.

Conway wants to fly her to Fort Worth.

Says she can't get the right kind of
medical attention here.

Yeah, well, maybe I'll go myself.

What do you think, Lou?

Wanna take a little flight
into Fort Worth?

I've never been on an airplane.

Wait a minute.

She hasn't even been booked yet,

let alone arraigned.

Well Conway wasn't asking you
if he could take her to Fort Worth,

he was telling ya.

Did he say what time?

12:30

Oh, well, that'll give Lou and me
time to scrub up a little and pack a bag.

Right, Lou?

Yeah.

What's the matter
with those eggs, boy?

Better eat 'em before they get cold.

Don't. I have to travel.

Baby, you aren't goin' anywhere.

I want to see her burn.

Your first time on a plane

and you waste
the whole damn trip sleepin'.

Take it easy.

- Sheriff.
- Yes sir?

You go with the ambulance.

Lou, come on.
You ride in the car with me.

All right.

You didn't like that, did ya?

The way I spoke to ol' Bob Maples.

But I have a reputation

and I'm not about to let anybody's
tender feelings

get in my way.

If she pulls through this operation

she's gonna be able to talk tonight.

I want you to be there when she
comes out of that anesthetic.

What about Bob?

Bob Maples is too old to be on his toes.

You can use my hotel suite.

You just come over
when I give you a call.

Let's go to the hospital.

Conway thought he was a big shot.

But his son had just been killed
by a whore he'd fallen in love with.

And he'd never be able to live it down,

not if he lived to be 100.

And I damned well hoped he would.

It was the first time
I'd been out of West Texas

and I wanted to see the sights.

Instead I had to stay cooped up
in the hotel.

It was almost like
there was a plot against me.

I had done something wrong
when I was a kid...

and I'd had my nose
rubbed in it day after day...

until like an overtrained dog,

I started crapping out of pure fright.

Hey Lou.

Hey Bob.

Quite a palace.

You know Bob,

I want you to know that I'm awful sorry

about what happened out there
at the airport.

I didn't like it one bit

and I told Conway that, too.

Did you have some kind of trouble
out at the hospital?

She's dead, Lou.

She never came out of the ether.

Well that's that.

Hey Lou, where are ya, buddy?

Lou. What you doin'?

What you doin' sittin' here?

Oh, I'm just having a smoke.

Well you can smoke out here.
Come on.

Great booze.

I know what you are, Lou.

I know what you are.

I know.

I know you backwards and forwards.

I knowed you since you was knee-high
to a grasshopper...

and you ain't never done
anything wrong.

Maybe I'm behind the times.

Maybe I'm too old for this game.

Why don't you lay down a while, Bob?

Ain't gonna skip out on me, are ya?

Just pull up...

have yourself a drink on
Mr. Conway and enjoy it.

When's the next train to Central City?

Well sir, we got another one
leavin' tonight at 7:00.

- Well that'd be alright.
- Alright.

Two passengers.

Bob.

You're gonna spill your drink.

Boy I'm as frazzled as a cow's hide
under a branding iron.

Oh, why you always do that
swank-grin, spilled-milk stuff?

Well I bet I know somethin'
you never thought of.

What's that?

It's always lightest just before the dark.

You got it wrong, Bob.

No Lou, you got it wrong.

Always lightest before the dark.

You mind if I come in, Lou?

- Not at all, Mr. Rothman.
- Alright.

This is very nice.

It's very nice.

- Want some coffee?
- No thank you.

Would you like an egg?

Oh, no thank you.

So very discreet newspaper stories

are correct in their hints?

That Elmer tried to dish it out
and had it thrown back at him?

Well it looks that way, doesn't it?

I can't help but wondering

how a girl with her face caved in
and her neck broke...

can land four bull's-eyes on a guy.

I mean even one
as large as Elmer Conway.

Well she was shooting him
while he was punching her.

Well from what I hear
she was still alive after he died.

And any one or, well two of the bullets
that she put into him...

were enough to lay him low.

You know?

The genuine article, Lou.

No substitutes accepted.

I don't know where you get off
in questioning me.

Well I know you had it in for Conway...

and perhaps I share some
of that responsibility,

for setting you against him.

I just don't want anything to come out

that might put the union in a bad light.

Oh my, well, it hadn't occurred to me,

but now that you say it, sure looks bad.

Incidentally,
what's the score as of today?

A one or a two?

She's dead.

Well, they can't prove anything.

But then again,
if they knew what I know...

about you having a motive.

A motive?

For killing Joyce Lakeland?

Why would I wanna do that?

Say she's just a piece of stage setting.

I can't tell you what happened

'cause I wasn't there.

But I know that there are flukes
in murder

just as there are in anything else.

A woman gets her brains blown out

and she crawls five miles.

Some fella gets hanged and poisoned
and chopped up...

and he goes right on living.

I don't know why those things happen.

But I know they do and so do you.

Yeah, I guess so, Lou. I guess so.

You know, as screwy as things are...

you just don't fit the bill as a killer.

Well what do I say to that?

What were you trying to pull off?

The money was supposed
to be a payoff.

Conway was paying Joyce
to leave Elmer alone.

So Elmer was trying to
leave with the whore.

That's right.

Almost wish I thought of it myself, Lou.

Just a matter of a will finding a way.

Better watch that stuff, Lou.

You save that for the birds.

Now you're a real boxer.

Just like a man.

Hit harder.

You wanna be a big boy?

Look what your daddy did.

Do you wanna do it too?

It's okay. I like it when you hurt me.

Lou Ford speaking.

Howard, Lou.

Got some news on the Conway murder.

Yeah?

We got him.

What?

We got him, Lou.

Think you know him.

- Who?
- Johnnie Pappas.

Johnnie Pappas?

Yup. Come on down to the courthouse.

He's been asking for you.

Sweet talk him, Lou.

Well, who am I to be telling you
what to do, huh?

Well you haven't told me anything yet.

Not anything that makes any sense.

Now I know Johnnie's been bucking
the saddle a little bit

but I don't see him as a murderer.

Elmer Conway took $10,000 around
to that chippy's house.

When we counted it up,
$500 was missing.

- Yeah.
- The bills were all marked, see?

The old man had already
tipped off the local banks.

If she tried to hang around town
after the payoff,

he was gonna squeeze her
for blackmail.

That Conway,

they don't put many past him.

Well seems like they put a few past me.

Oh come on Lou,

you got no reason to feel like that.

Alright, let it go.

So Johnnie spent
some of the money, then?

Twenty. Broke it at the drugstore
last night.

Traced it back to him
a couple hours ago.

And he could've taken that 20 in

and paid himself with it.

But he couldn't admit to it.

And here's the kick.

From about 9:00 Sunday night
until 11:00

his time can't be accounted for.

We can't account for it.
And he just won't.

I know how you feel, Lou.

He's just a kid and you know him.

But you gotta think about how that
poor woman must've felt

when he was beating her face in.

You saw what her face looked like.

Stewed meat. Hamburger.

Oh, for Christ's sake.

And I'm sorry Lou,
but that's the truth of it.

Alright.

Sweet talk him, Lou.

I know this one.

Hey Warden, get me outta here!

He's in the back.

Want me to wait?

No, I'll be alright. Thank you.

- Hey Lou.
- How ya doin', Johnnie?

Oh, I knew you'd come. I sent for you.

Everything's gonna be alright.

You sure? You got a cigarette, Lou?

Those bastards took all my cigarettes.

Ah, they're just doing their duty, kid.

Have a cigar.

I'll have one with ya.

I don't know how you can
stand it in here.

Sure driving me crazy.

Well it'd drive anyone crazy.

I think that's the idea.

How soon can I leave?

It won't be long now.

Say you didn't tell those fellas

about that $20 bill I gave you, did you?

No. What do you think I am, anyway?

Gosh, I know you don't
make a lot of money.

You know, if someone should
slip you a little tip,

I'm not gonna say anything.

I don't take bribes, Johnnie.

Well, who said anything
about bribes? I...

You just said something about a bribe.

Well I just wasn't gonna let 'em
hit ya cold with it

until you figured out or remembered
where you found it.

I wish you hadn't done that.

You understand?

You understand,
that was the wrong thing to do.

I don't care about those guys.

You're my friend.

I've got a foot on both sides
of the fence.

They were put there early
and they stayed put.

I can't move, I can't jump.

All I can do is wait

until I split

right down the middle.

You get it?

Yeah.

I killed them.

I killed both of them.

Bet you had a real good reason, Lou.

There's a reason.

I bet they had it comin'.

No.

Nobody has it comin' to them.

That's why nobody can see it comin'.

Hi.

Give ya any trouble, Lou?

Not at all.

Hi honey.

I'm sorry.

It's all right. Where have you been?

Yeah, hello.

Lou. Hendricks.

What is it Howard? It's late.

Johnnie Pappas.

You really put the fear
of God into the boy.

Sign a confession, did he?

Well more than that, Lou.

He hanged himself.

Thank you for calling, Howard.

I appreciate it.

What was that all about?

Johnnie Pappas hanged himself.

Oh no, Lou.

Baby, I'm so sorry.

After Johnnie's death,
somethin' changed.

It wasn't anything
I could put my finger on...

but I got the feeling that

people were looking at me
in a different way.

Bob Maples kept on drinkin'.

And he seemed to age about ten years.

And nobody talked about Johnnie.

But that didn't stop me
from thinking about him.

And I realized a week had gone by

and I hadn't paid my respects
to Max Pappas.

And here's a look
at the weather picture.

It's gonna be the same.

Clear today. Clear and cooler
this afternoon.

Clear and colder tonight and tomorrow.

I'm sorry Officer Ford,
we're not open for business.

Well that's all right.

That's all right Max, I just wanted to...

Yeah.

Well I just wanted to come by and...

I've been meaning to come by
since that night

and I wanted to just tell you
how sorry I am

and had there been anything
I could've done,

I would've done it. You know that.

I'm sorry that you're closing down.

I'm not closing.

Why should I close?

Just remodeling it.

Adding some new booths, a new floor.

Just like Johnnie would've liked it.

Well, that's right.

Hurry up, Reggie.

But remember the Flick
rear window sticker

can be the only contest sticker
of its kind on your car.

Did I do this?

Mind if I join ya?

Thanks. I knew you wouldn't.

So you're visiting
the scene of the crime.

That's what they call it, isn't it?

What do you want?

Just saw you headin' out this way
and I wanted to have a little talk.

How many times you come here, Lou?

How many times you lay her?

I'm not so hard up for it that
I have to lay whores.

Sure. Tail like that man can live without,
I suppose.

But what could be substitute
for bullshit?

Where would we be without it?

Well, I wouldn't be listening to you now.

Okay, let's cut the bullshit.

Now we both know that...

Conway's looking to
pin Elmer's murder on someone...

and I'm just trying to make sure that
he doesn't pin it on me.

Why'd he do that?

Well Conway hates the union,

almost as much as I hate him.

Johnnie Pappas killed Elmer.

That's why he hanged himself.

You been talking to Max Pappas?

I was.

Now where do you suppose
he got the money

for that kind of remodeling?

Not my place to consider it.

No.

Chester Conway's jobbing
all the material.

He's paying off all the men.

I mean, no one's seen
a nickel coming from Pappas.

I mean, doesn't that strike you
as rather odd...

that he'd be doing a job for a man

whose son killed his boy?

Conway takes all the turnkey stuff
he can get.

Cuts half a dozen profits instead of one.

Well, I suppose so.

So you been out to Johnnie's grave?

No, I'm ashamed to say
I haven't done that yet.

Yeah, I bet.

You know he's buried
on sacred ground.

You know what that means, Lou?

I reckon the church
didn't call it a suicide.

Yeah...

And the answer, Lou?

Do you have an answer?

Well he was so awfully young,

I figure they cut him a break.

Yeah. Maybe.

Maybe...

You know, there's just one more thing.

It's the big thing.

Now, on the Sunday night

that Elmer and the late occupant
of this cottage got it...

one of my carpenters went to
the picture Show at the Palace.

Parked his car around back
and around 9:30.

When he came back,
all four of his tires were gone.

Well that's funny.

I didn't hear anything about it.

It'd been funny if you had Lou,

'cause he didn't report it.

But he did mention it to one of the boys

at the Tuesday joiners' meeting.

And one of them,

it turned out bought two of the tires
from Johnnie Pappas.

You feelin' like shit, Lou?

Jeez, I guess I don't get you.

The birds, Lou.

Remember?

Starlets, sparrows.

If Johnnie Pappas had an alibi

for the night of the murders,

then he would've told me...

and he wouldn't 've hanged himself.

He trusted you.

He liked you. You were his friend.

I was his friend.

Okay. That's fine.

That's fine.

But you think you're so clever, don't ya?

But Conway, he ain't no fool.

So if I were you,
I wouldn't hang around.

You know, I thought about leaving town.

Yeah?

Sounds like a good idea, Lou.

That's a good idea.

What?

What?

Lou, why don't we...

Amy, why...

- Bread 'n butter.
- Bread 'n butter.

Bad luck stay away from my darlin'.

You do want to still, right?

Honest and truly?

Didn't I just start to ask you?

How? When? I mean what were you...

Well I was thinking in a couple weeks.

I was thinking the same.

Darlin', I was just gonna say that.

What?

Well I was gonna...

What were you thinking?

I was thinking that we should elope.

You want to elope?

This Doc Ford's place?

Well I'm sorry stranger,

the doctor doesn't practice anymore.

Oh that's okay, bud. It's just a little burn.

Doesn't make any difference.

Yeah, a cigar burn.

See you and me,
we got some talkin' to do and...

I'm thirsty. You got any whisky around?

No, but I got a phone.

The jail's about six blocks away.

Well why don't you go right ahead
with that, bud.

Go right ahead.

But it'll cost ya.

And it won't be just the price
of one burned hand.

Alright, let's have it.

I did a year stretch
at the Houston pea farm

and I seen a couple of guys like you.

Is that right?

So I figured it might pay
to watch you a little.

I followed you that night...

and I heard some of that talk
you was havin' with that labor fella.

Well I reckon that meant
a whole lot to ya, did it?

No... it hardly meant
anything to me at all.

Matter of fact, it didn't mean
much to me a couple of nights later...

when you come up to that little shack
I was camping in.

And then you cut cross prairie
to that little yellow house.

Did you say you
had some whisky, bud?

Yeah, you see, I caught up on the news.

And then the things that you done
and you said...

well, they suddenly meant plenty.

I don't have much money.

Yeah.

Well you got this place.

Must be worth a tidy little sum, too.

Maybe I could get a loan.

How long do you think
it would take to get this loan?

Two weeks.

5000.

$5,000 in two weeks.

5:00, two weeks from tonight,

and we'll call that a deal.

And don't worry, I ain't a hog
about money or nothin'.

I get the 5,000,

that's the last
we'll ever see of each other.

Well...

all right.

Oh, and don't you go gettin' no notions
about running out on me.

Do you think I'm crazy?

You ask an unpleasant question bud,

you might get an unpleasant answer.

I went to work every working day
of those two weeks.

Mornin' Jeff.

Howdy Lou.

Chester Conway came to talk to
Hendricks

and I made it my job to see him.

- Mr. Conway.
- Lou.

I'd like to talk to you for a second.

What about?

I should've gone out
with Elmer just like you said.

And if cussin' me out
will make you feel any better

or if you want my job,

Lord knows you can have it.

I sure won't hold a grudge.

Elmer trusted you.

I trusted you.

Appreciate that.

Hey Lou...

I think you're gonna like this one.

Amy came to see me every day.

She always brought some cake
or pie or somethin'.

And she had to take it kind of easy
when she sat down.

We'd sit outside and have a drink.

And I'd think how much
she looked like her.

And afterwards she'd lie in my arms...

and I could almost fool myself
into thinking it was her.

But it wasn't her.

And for that matter,

it wouldn't have made any difference
if it had been.

I'd just be right back where I started.

I took her everywhere she wanted to go.

Did everything she wanted to do.

It wasn't any trouble.

She didn't wanna go much or do much.

For the first time
in I don't remember when,

my mind was really free.

I knew I had to kill Amy.

I could put the reason into words.

But every time I thought about it,

I had to stop and think why again.

I'd be doing something,

reading a book or somethin'...

and all of a sudden
it would come over me

that I was gonna kill her.

Then the idea seemed so crazy

that I'd almost laugh out loud.

Then I'd start thinking and I'd see it,

see that it had to be done.

Bob, Amy and me got somethin'
mighty important to do tonight

and I'm gonna be out
Monday and Tuesday.

Oh, well now.

Well now you don't think maybe you...

That's good news, Lou.

That's real good news.

I know you're gonna be happy together.

I feel pretty lucky.

Feel like my life's a picture Show.

They don't come any better 'n little Amy.

Yes sir. Gonna be good.

Gave my heart as a token.

When returned, it was broken.

- Shame, shame on you.
- Shame, shame on me... you.

Hide your face.

Shame on you.

Shame, shame on you.

Shame, shame on you.

Gave my heart as a token.

When returned it was broken.

Hide your face.

Shame on you.

Lou.

Honey?

Darlin'?

Well you're not even ready yet.

Here you are on our day of elopement,

you're not even ready.

Don't say anything, Amy.

Don't say anything.

- Don't?
- Don't say any...

All I wanna say
is how much I love you...

You're late.

You got the money?

Put that in your pocket.

I have the rest back in the kitchen.

Oh Shit!

What...

You stupid son-of-a-bitch.

I was gonna marry that poor little girl.

I was gonna marry that poor little...

No!

No...

No!

Help!

Help...

Where's your mom and dad?

What's goin' on?

Help...

Help...

Murderer!

He killed Amy Stanton!

Murderer!

Help me! Anybody!

He killed Amy Stanton!

Somebody!

Halt!

He's a murderer!
He killed Amy Stanton!

Help...

Halt!

Murder!

Halt!

He killed Amy Stanton!

Stay back! Back up.

Stay back...

Get an ambulance, now.

You can't come here.

- No, go home.
- Somebody's gotta do something.

Go home.

Go on home. We're all done here.

Gosh Jeff, how long you been out here?

Reckon I been here quite a spell.

Well come on in.

I was just fixin' some...

Kind of like it where I am.

Air smells real good.

It's been smelling real good, anyways.

Where is everybody?

I figured they'd come by.

Told 'em you wasn't up to it.

Told 'em you was all broke up
about Bob Maples.

About Bob?

Shot himself last night around midnight.

Yes sir.

Poor ol' Bob killed himself.

And I reckon I know just how he felt.

Sure you don't want a cup of coffee?

No thank you.

Last night's events,
these recent events...

I don't like 'em one bit.

Well it's only natural, Howard.

I don't see how you could.

I don't like 'em one bit, either.

Well now, take this drifter...

this alleged robber rapist
that you'd have us believe...

robbed and raped Miss Stanton.

We know he didn't do it.

He's a pipeline worker.

He had a pocket full of wages.

You're not gonna get away with
planting that money on him.

What money?

The money you stole
from Elmer Conway.

The money you stole the night you
killed him and that whore Lakeland...

Why would I kill Joyce Lakeland?

'Cause you killed Elmer Conway.

You had to shut her up.

Why would I kill Elmer Conway?

I known him all my life.

You killed him,
you killed Joyce Lakeland,

you hanged Johnnie Pappas.

Howard, you're not making any sense.

You killed Johnnie Pappas
to protect yourself.

You'd given him that marked $20 bill.

How much money went missing?
$500?

You're saying that
I killed Elmer Conway for $500?

I'm saying Johnnie Pappas

wasn't anywhere near the scene
of those murders.

I never believed that.

He was stealing tires at the time.

Johnnie Pappas was my friend.

That was your theory.

You think you got it all figured out,
don't ya?

Four, five murders.

Six if you count poor Bob Maples,

staked everything he had on ya.

And you just sit there
explainin' and smilin'.

You ain't bothered one bit.

How can you do it, Ford?

How can you just sit there and do that?

Well somebody's gotta
keep their head around here.

Any more questions?

Yeah I got one.

Shoot

How did Miss Stanton
get those bruises on her body?

Old bruises, not made last night.

Same kind of bruises we found
on the Lakeland woman's body.

How do you think she got them, Lou?

Oh gosh Howard, you got me there.

How would I know?

You'd been beatin' on her
just like you beat on that whore.

So I was beatin' on Amy
and she kept right on seeing me?

I was bruisin' her up

and she was fixin' to marry me?

Boy you didn't know Amy Stanton.

Maybe you didn't know Amy Stanton
as well as you thought you did.

Is that right?

This was in her purse.

Apparently she intended to have you

stop at some restaurant down the road
and have you read it.

Now it begins, Lou Darling.

- Let me have it.
- I'll read it.

It's his letter. Let him have it.

Very well.

"Lou Darling..."

"Now you know why
I had you stop here"

"and why I've excused myself
from the table."

"It was to allow you to read this,"

"the things I couldn't somehow
otherwise say to you."

"Lou, I beg you please, please,"

"please not to take it the wrong way."

"But I'm afraid, are you in trouble?"

"Now I don't want to
ask you more than that,"

"but I do want you to believe
that whatever it is..."

"Even if it's what I..."

"whatever it is, Lou, I'm on your side."

"I love you."

"Are you tired on my saying that?"

"I know you'd never knowingly
do anything wrong."

"So even if it should involve
being separated for a while,"

"a long while, let's..."

"Well, we'll make it all right,"

"you and I together."

"If you'll only tell me,"

"if you'll just let me help you."

"I hope that when I come back
to the table you'll still be there."

"But if you feel that you can't,"

"then just leave my bags
inside the door."

"I have money with me"

"and I can get a job
in some other town."

"I've always loved you and I always will,"

"whatever happens."

"Always darling, forever and forever."

"Always and forever, Amy."

She was so damn talkie, wasn't she?

I mean just the sweetest thing

but just talk a fencepost
right out of a field...

You dirty son-of-a-bitch.

- Don't say that to me.
- No don't say that.

Don't never say anything
about a man's mother.

To hell with that crap.

You killed that little girl.

She as good as says so.

She wrote it down after I killed her?

That's quite a trick, Howard.

You killed her, Ford.

You killed them all.

Know what that thing is right there?

Over by Jeff?

It's called a door.

Now I can't think of a thing

to keep you and Mr. Plummer
from walkin' through it.

I sure liked Bob Maples.

I sure liked that little Miss Amy.

Why don'tcha close that door
behind you real careful.

I'm still suffering from shock.

Jeff.

You right sure you ain't comin' with us?

You don't reckon you could
change your mind?

They put me down in the cooler where
Johnnie Pappas had killed himself.

And they kept me there for a week.

I guess they thought that'd break me.

But it didn't.

Just gave me time to think.

On the 8th day they transferred me
to the insane asylum.

I didn't see that comin'.

No one tried to push me around

or even question me there.

I tried to tell myself
that was a good Sign.

But in my heart I knew.

I knew they must have some evidence.

Morning Mr. Ford.

Will they be playing the pictures
again tonight?

Excuse me?

Would you tell 'em not to do it so fast?

I hardly get a chance to see her.

Where is he!

What have you done
with that poor man?

Have you torn out his tongue?

Have you roasted his poor broken body
over slow fires?

- He has come!
- I've come, sir!

Have they punctured
your eardrums, huh?

You fiends!

Are you too weak to cry out?

Be brave, my poor fellow! Be brave!

It's a dirty habit.

Got it young, though
and reckon I'll keep it.

Thank you.

You know something Mr. Ford...

there wasn't a damn bit of sense
to what I did back there.

No, I couldn't see it.

I didn't get you free, Mr. Ford.

They let me have this writ.

That's why you can be here with me.

Oh, I know. I figured it'd be that way.

You know who sent for me?

Joe Rothman.

That's right. You know why?

Well I reckon he's scared.

He figures they're gonna pin
the Elmer Conway murder on me...

and he thinks I'm gonna drag him into it.

You're pretty smart, Mr. Ford.

They got somethin' on you?

Somethin' you can't beat?

They have got it.

Maybe you better tell me what it is.

Oh I don't think there's anything
you can do, Mr. Walker.

Just be wasting your time

and I wouldn't wanna get Joe into a fix.

I reckon I might be a better judge
about some things than you,

Mr. Ford.

I just don't want anyone else to get hurt.

Mr. Ford...

I wonder if you might tell me your story.

You don't have to, you understand

but might be useful to me

and I might be
able to help somebody else.

I don't think so.

I never had any legal schoolin',
Mr. Ford.

I pick up my law
by reading in a attorney's office.

All the higher education
I ever had was...

two years at a agricultural college.

That was pretty much
a plain waste of time.

I just learned two things at that college,
Mr. Ford,

that was ever any use to me.

One was I couldn't do any worse
than the people in the saddle...

so maybe I better try pulling 'em down
and riding myself.

And the other was a definition
in an agronomy book.

A weed is a plant out of place.

I find a hollyhock in my cornfield,

that's a weed.

I find her in my yard, and that's a flower.

You're in my yard, Mr. Ford.

Well it's a long story.

I don't rightly know where to begin.

I could start with my mother dying
when I was young.

I could start with when I first met Joyce.

Come on in.

She'd hit me or I would hit her.

I'm sorry.

There's Amy to tell about.

So I told him how it went.

The whens and whys and whos of it all.

What are you doing?

I bet they had it comin'.

5:00, two weeks from tonight

and we'll call that a deal.

It's always lightest just before the dark.

They had it, right from the beginning.

I let it go because I had to.

I reckon they knew the truth all along.

That's the whole thing, huh?

That's it.

Would you care to have me come
inside with you for a while, Mr. Ford?

Well I don't think it'd be smart.

I got an idea that it won't be long now.

Alright, then.

I am sorry, Mr. Ford.

I had hoped if I couldn't do any better,

at least I'd be taking you
away from here.

You said that you didn't want
anyone else to get hurt.

You meant it?

I meant it.

Can't hurt somebody
who's already dead.

Oh, man.

Well that looks terrible.

Pants don't even fit.

It's ridiculous I'm not wearing a tie.

Look at your... I look...

I oughtta wear a tie.

You oughtta wear a tie. You look better.

Hi.

Long time, no see.

Long time, no see.

Howdy Lou.

Howdy Jeff.

Hello Lou.

Hi sweetheart.

Howard.

The whole gang's here.

Look at you boys.

Howard Hendricks, the D.A.

Mr. Conway, the villain.

Hank Butterby.

Don't say anything, Hank.

They haven't given you any lines.

I didn't tell 'em anything.

I just wanted you to know that.

And I wanted to see you.

I wanted to see you, too.

So I could tell you.

Don't say anything.

I love you, too.

Shame, shame on you.

Shame, shame on you.

Gave my heart as a token.

When returned it was broken.

Hide your face, shame on you.

Shame, shame on you.

Shame, shame on you.

Ran around with other guys...

Tried to lie when I got wise.

Foolish girl, shame on you.