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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.
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- So I had to make it look like an accident.
- [Air Hissing]
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And it would've worked, too,if that busybody Fletcher damehadn't stuck her nose in it.
224
00:16:57,886 --> 00:17:01,583
That lard-bottomed lawmanwould've bought the whole scheme.
225
00:17:01,656 --> 00:17:06,457
Sheriff, doesn't it seem odd
that Pete was working under the car with no tools?
226
00:17:06,528 --> 00:17:08,553
[Tugman]Well, could be he wasjust checkin'things out.
227
00:17:08,630 --> 00:17:13,124
Well, the portable work light is
all the way over there on that bench.
228
00:17:13,201 --> 00:17:16,136
[Walter Narrating]Uh, so as not to overexert his gray cells,
229
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Tugman jumped tothe most obvious conclusion.
230
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Grange.
231
00:17:22,244 --> 00:17:25,372
I wasn't able to hang that
liquor store homicide on him.
232
00:17:25,447 --> 00:17:27,938
This time I'll get that lowlife.
233
00:17:30,385 --> 00:17:33,013
[Walter Narrating]Ah, that plan suited me fine.
234
00:17:33,088 --> 00:17:37,787
As a matter of fact, I figuredI could punch up the scenario.
235
00:17:38,860 --> 00:17:41,294
[Dog Barking]
236
00:17:41,363 --> 00:17:44,992
I, uh, waited till Grange hadpassed through to pick up Flora...
237
00:17:45,066 --> 00:17:49,366
for his daily terrorization ofthis sorry excuse for a town.
238
00:18:01,583 --> 00:18:06,714
Ah, it was perfect.Just what I needed for the setup.
239
00:18:06,788 --> 00:18:11,350
It wasn't difficult to get thathick sheriff to go back to the garage.
240
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[Clicks Tape Off]
I don't have to listen to some dead jerk call me names.
241
00:18:15,263 --> 00:18:18,699
[Jessica] Sheriff-
Look, I've got Murray's confession that he killed Pete.
242
00:18:18,767 --> 00:18:23,397
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-
243
00:18:23,471 --> 00:18:25,905
if he lived long enough
to finish his story, that is.
244
00:18:25,974 --> 00:18:28,738
All right.
245
00:18:28,810 --> 00:18:31,870
Well, he better finish it soon.
246
00:18:35,784 --> 00:18:40,221
[Walter Narrating]Sure enough, Tugman fell for it.[Chuckles]
247
00:18:40,288 --> 00:18:42,916
I couldn't have written himany dumber.
248
00:18:45,226 --> 00:18:48,252
Let him go! Come on!
249
00:18:48,330 --> 00:18:51,265
Let him go! Stop it!
250
00:18:51,333 --> 00:18:55,099
Let him-
Let him go, you pig!
251
00:18:55,170 --> 00:18:58,139
You'd better lay offhim, Flora.That copper likes being beaten up.
252
00:18:58,206 --> 00:19:00,834
It's the only way a woman
ever touches him.
253
00:19:00,909 --> 00:19:02,877
Watch your head.
[Flora]Yeah, right.
254
00:19:02,944 --> 00:19:07,438
A woman touching you is something
you're a recent expert on.
255
00:19:07,515 --> 00:19:10,575
Grange! Grange!
256
00:19:10,652 --> 00:19:12,586
[Tires Squealing]
257
00:19:12,654 --> 00:19:15,919
[Walter Narrating]I hadn't really consideredhow this would affect Flora.
258
00:19:15,990 --> 00:19:21,257
I should've realizedFlora's a girl who knowshow to take care ofherself.
259
00:19:21,329 --> 00:19:23,320
[Knocking]
260
00:19:25,800 --> 00:19:28,735
- Hi.
- Hi, kid.
261
00:19:30,105 --> 00:19:32,437
Can I come in,
just for a minute?
262
00:19:32,507 --> 00:19:35,237
Yeah, sure. I'd like that.
263
00:19:38,046 --> 00:19:42,574
I guess I sort of want to apologize
about what I said earlier.
264
00:19:42,650 --> 00:19:45,983
I didn't mean that you and Vera, that-
265
00:19:46,054 --> 00:19:50,115
Well, that you had, you know,
this thing going.
266
00:19:50,191 --> 00:19:52,819
It's okay.
267
00:19:52,894 --> 00:19:56,057
Ah, you're a pretty good kid
after all, huh?
268
00:19:57,132 --> 00:19:59,259
But I was just thinking.
269
00:19:59,334 --> 00:20:01,700
I mean, now that my-
270
00:20:01,770 --> 00:20:05,831
Well, now that Pete's dead
and the sheriff arrested Grange,
271
00:20:05,907 --> 00:20:10,503
I can't really count on Pete's money
or Grange's bike to get me out of this one-diner town.
272
00:20:10,578 --> 00:20:12,910
But you're just
passing through, right?
273
00:20:12,981 --> 00:20:17,418
I mean, maybe you want
some company back in L.A.
274
00:20:19,254 --> 00:20:22,155
Uh, sit down, kid.
275
00:20:22,223 --> 00:20:27,786
You know, Flora, the big city
isn't all it's cracked up to be, uh-
276
00:20:27,862 --> 00:20:29,921
Eat kids like you alive.
277
00:20:29,998 --> 00:20:34,526
[Chuckles]
I ought to know. I've been on both sides of that fence.
278
00:20:36,504 --> 00:20:39,473
Maybe you'd be better off
just, uh, stickin' around here with your mother.
279
00:20:39,541 --> 00:20:43,204
I wouldn't hang around this cow town
even if my mother wasn't here.
280
00:20:43,278 --> 00:20:47,942
Wait a minute. I was thinking
about sticking around here myself for a while.
281
00:20:48,016 --> 00:20:50,678
Look, I'm packed up
and ready to roll.
282
00:20:50,752 --> 00:20:53,482
If you're not gonna help me,
I'm just gonna find another way out.
283
00:20:53,555 --> 00:20:56,956
Flora, honey, don't go!
Please. Baby, look. Honey.
284
00:20:57,025 --> 00:21:01,485
Please, my whole life,
everything I've done, was for you, baby.
285
00:21:01,563 --> 00:21:04,691
Baby, but this isn'twhat it looks like.
286
00:21:04,766 --> 00:21:06,996
Really, it isn't.
287
00:21:07,068 --> 00:21:10,265
I always knew that you were
a cheap waitress.
288
00:21:10,338 --> 00:21:14,240
I just should've figured you
for a cheap tramp too. I mean, I had to get it somewhere.
289
00:21:14,309 --> 00:21:18,837
You're not a tramp.
Sure I am. Seems it's the only way I can get free of you.
290
00:21:18,913 --> 00:21:20,847
Free of me-
291
00:21:20,915 --> 00:21:23,475
You don't get it, do you?
292
00:21:23,551 --> 00:21:26,418
I hate you.
No.
293
00:21:26,488 --> 00:21:29,946
I hate the greasy smell of you.
294
00:21:30,024 --> 00:21:35,360
I hate the way that you got yourself
stuck in this-this truck stop!
295
00:21:35,430 --> 00:21:37,660
It's not gonna happen to me!
296
00:21:40,668 --> 00:21:42,693
[Vera]Floral
297
00:21:42,770 --> 00:21:46,706
[Walter Narrating]Just when everythingwas going so well too.
298
00:21:46,774 --> 00:21:49,675
That, uh, Fletcher damekept leaning on me...
299
00:21:49,744 --> 00:21:54,078
about when we were gonnablow this fruitsicle stand.
300
00:21:54,148 --> 00:21:56,810
Anyway, l-I figuredI ought to have a chat...
301
00:21:56,885 --> 00:22:01,379
with that missing linkwho was working on my car.[Coughs]
302
00:22:01,456 --> 00:22:06,985
Little did I know thatthat ape was about to dropa coconut on my head.
303
00:22:07,061 --> 00:22:10,462
Still don't have that
water pump licked?
304
00:22:10,532 --> 00:22:14,059
Water pump's fine-
always has been.
305
00:22:14,135 --> 00:22:17,434
Well, I guess my ears need cleaning.
I thought Pete said-
306
00:22:17,505 --> 00:22:21,305
Pete said too much.
Maybe that's what got him killed.
307
00:22:21,376 --> 00:22:23,310
He drank too much too.
308
00:22:23,378 --> 00:22:28,782
The reason I kept his Chevy up on the lift,
so he couldn't drive it when he was drunk.
309
00:22:28,850 --> 00:22:31,614
You thought it might get him killed?
310
00:22:32,687 --> 00:22:36,088
- Guess it did.
- Lucky guy to have a friend like you.
311
00:22:36,157 --> 00:22:39,524
I don't know thatyou'd call us friends.
312
00:22:39,594 --> 00:22:42,722
He thought I liked
his wife too much.
313
00:22:42,797 --> 00:22:46,392
Gerakaris and I were
in the service together before he met her.
314
00:22:46,467 --> 00:22:49,368
I always knew she was no good.
315
00:22:49,437 --> 00:22:51,428
I guess that's why I liked her.
316
00:22:52,507 --> 00:22:54,498
The service- Is that
where you got the limp?
317
00:22:55,643 --> 00:22:59,079
- I got it dancing.
- Sorry.
318
00:22:59,147 --> 00:23:02,014
- Don't be.
- If that's the way you want it.
319
00:23:03,952 --> 00:23:05,943
That's the way it is.
320
00:23:08,890 --> 00:23:13,384
[Walter Narrating]Roscoe knew something.That was clear.
321
00:23:13,461 --> 00:23:15,861
But what? How much?
322
00:23:15,930 --> 00:23:21,766
About this car of yours-
Somebody disconnected the fuel line.
323
00:23:21,836 --> 00:23:24,168
Maybe somebody
who wanted an excuse...
324
00:23:24,238 --> 00:23:27,765
to stick around here
and do something.
325
00:23:27,842 --> 00:23:30,504
- Do something?
- Something got done.
326
00:23:30,578 --> 00:23:33,274
Not by that biker neither.
327
00:23:33,348 --> 00:23:37,478
I happen to know that his glove
didn't just walk in here.
328
00:23:37,552 --> 00:23:41,454
- Gloves don't walk.
- They need a hand. [Chuckles]
329
00:23:44,459 --> 00:23:46,450
So do I.
330
00:23:48,796 --> 00:23:52,732
He wanted money
and for me to clear out.
331
00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:55,667
Ah, he was a problem
with only one solution.
332
00:23:55,737 --> 00:23:59,605
I told him I had to go into townto cash a check,
333
00:23:59,674 --> 00:24:03,474
but-[Coughs]That I'd bring him the moneylater that night.
334
00:24:03,544 --> 00:24:05,569
He told me howto get out to his place.
335
00:24:05,647 --> 00:24:08,775
I figured he wasn'tso smart after all.
336
00:24:08,850 --> 00:24:12,547
Nobody had foundthe murder weapon, remember?
337
00:24:12,620 --> 00:24:16,386
I figured if I planted itin Roscoe's car,
338
00:24:16,457 --> 00:24:19,858
I could make it looklike Roscoe killed Pete.
339
00:24:19,927 --> 00:24:23,829
Everybody knew he hada thing for Vera.
340
00:24:23,898 --> 00:24:27,664
And if I played it right,it'd look like Roscoe tried to kill me...
341
00:24:27,735 --> 00:24:30,602
because I was onto him.
342
00:24:30,672 --> 00:24:35,803
And everybody'd understand that,well, I had to kill him in self-defense.
343
00:24:35,877 --> 00:24:38,141
It seemed likea good script to me,
344
00:24:38,212 --> 00:24:41,841
but Roscoe wasn't crazy aboutthe role I'd written for him.
345
00:24:41,916 --> 00:24:43,907
Have you got the money?
346
00:24:45,353 --> 00:24:47,287
Sure.
347
00:24:50,124 --> 00:24:52,115
[Gagging]
348
00:25:05,707 --> 00:25:07,800
[Walter Narrating]Well, so-
349
00:25:07,875 --> 00:25:11,936
so now you know the whole story.
350
00:25:12,013 --> 00:25:15,540
[Sighs]I killed Pete to get Vera.
351
00:25:15,616 --> 00:25:19,416
I killed Roscoe to keep her.
352
00:25:19,487 --> 00:25:23,389
And now she's gonna be all alone.
353
00:25:23,458 --> 00:25:25,824
[Chuckles, Coughs]
354
00:25:25,893 --> 00:25:28,327
Well, they always said...
355
00:25:28,396 --> 00:25:32,332
Walter Murray was good at irony.
356
00:25:33,334 --> 00:25:35,325
[Coughing]
357
00:25:42,977 --> 00:25:46,504
Well, we'd better go to Roscoe's.
358
00:25:49,684 --> 00:25:53,347
[Train Horn Blowing In Distance]
359
00:25:58,159 --> 00:26:01,356
Well, it all wraps up
like Murray described.
360
00:26:01,429 --> 00:26:04,159
I guess I'll have to release
Grange. Damn.
361
00:26:04,232 --> 00:26:08,726
SheriffTugman, doesn't it
seem strange to you that- Now, don't you start with me.
362
00:26:08,803 --> 00:26:13,934
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.
363
00:26:14,008 --> 00:26:17,535
But that's what bothers me, Sheriff:
His confession.
364
00:26:17,612 --> 00:26:20,877
Why didn't he come and talk to meinstead of putting it on tape?
365
00:26:20,948 --> 00:26:23,075
Maybe he was afraid
you'd disagree with him.
366
00:26:23,151 --> 00:26:27,144
But is that any reason not to seek help
for a gunshot wound?
367
00:26:27,221 --> 00:26:30,088
He knew he was dead meat, okay?
368
00:26:30,158 --> 00:26:32,820
I mean, uh,
369
00:26:32,894 --> 00:26:35,795
maybe that was his way
of makin' his peace, ma'am.
370
00:26:35,863 --> 00:26:41,495
I'm sorry, Sheriff,
but there's something peculiar about Walter's whole story.
371
00:26:41,569 --> 00:26:46,029
I mean, if he and Vera
wanted to get together again, why not run away or divorce Pete?
372
00:26:46,107 --> 00:26:49,235
But why was it necessary
for him to kill Pete?
373
00:26:49,310 --> 00:26:51,904
Why are you making
such a big deal out of this?
374
00:26:51,979 --> 00:26:55,471
Even supposin'that he told a lieon his deathbed-
375
00:26:55,550 --> 00:26:58,485
which I've never heard of in my life-
what's it matter?
376
00:26:58,553 --> 00:27:02,785
What's it matter?
Aren't you interested in bringing the killer to justice?
377
00:27:02,857 --> 00:27:05,451
Well, sure. That's my job.
But look.
378
00:27:05,526 --> 00:27:10,463
If it makes you happy,
I'll have the state cops run, uh, caliber and fingerprint tests.
379
00:27:10,531 --> 00:27:12,522
They ought to be here
pretty soon, okay?
380
00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:16,297
Well, thank you, Sheriff.
That certainly will be a good start.
381
00:27:16,370 --> 00:27:22,036
Start? Listen, as far as I'm concerned,
I've already got my favorite kind of killer-
382
00:27:22,109 --> 00:27:24,100
a dead one.
383
00:27:36,290 --> 00:27:40,283
Oh. I thought
I'd straighten up the room.
384
00:27:41,596 --> 00:27:43,723
Maybe I'll feel better
if I put things right.
385
00:27:43,798 --> 00:27:47,598
Yeah. Let me help you.
No. No, don't bother. It's all right.
386
00:27:49,103 --> 00:27:51,833
Well, Tugman took Walter's things?
387
00:27:51,906 --> 00:27:55,808
It was the state police, actually.I imagine they'll return themwhen they're done.
388
00:27:55,877 --> 00:28:00,075
Sure. They'll return it
to the next of kin.
389
00:28:00,147 --> 00:28:04,243
I mean, I just...
hoped I could find...
390
00:28:04,318 --> 00:28:07,879
something to remember him by.
391
00:28:09,056 --> 00:28:11,581
I guess I'll remember him anyway.
392
00:28:14,929 --> 00:28:17,159
It's just a room, right?
393
00:28:18,699 --> 00:28:21,793
It's a room in a dingy motel
in the middle of nowhere,
394
00:28:21,869 --> 00:28:27,330
and it's the only place I've been
anything close to happy in 20 years.
395
00:28:30,244 --> 00:28:34,180
So, you drivin' back to L.A. Soon?
396
00:28:34,248 --> 00:28:36,239
Well, I'm afraid
that I don't drive.
397
00:28:36,317 --> 00:28:39,411
In fact, I was, uh, meaning
to ask you about the bus.
398
00:28:39,487 --> 00:28:42,786
Oh. The interstate already
came through today.
399
00:28:42,857 --> 00:28:46,293
- It's not due again till tomorrow mornin'.
- My Lord.
400
00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:50,194
If you did get stuck here,I'd sure be glad of the company.
401
00:28:50,264 --> 00:28:52,994
And I mean, I've been thinkin'.
402
00:28:53,067 --> 00:28:57,697
Fact is, I should be movin' on myself.
403
00:28:57,772 --> 00:28:59,865
But where would I go?
404
00:29:01,275 --> 00:29:04,108
I just don't understand.
405
00:29:05,646 --> 00:29:10,242
After all those years,
lfind him again, and-
406
00:29:11,819 --> 00:29:14,720
It doesn't seem fair, does it?
407
00:29:16,857 --> 00:29:19,758
[Sighs]
408
00:29:19,827 --> 00:29:22,125
When I looked up and I saw his face-
409
00:29:23,864 --> 00:29:26,355
Jessica, I don't get it.
410
00:29:26,434 --> 00:29:32,395
Why would God go to all that trouble
to create this incredible coincidence,
411
00:29:32,473 --> 00:29:34,532
then just snatch him away like that?
412
00:29:34,608 --> 00:29:37,668
Vera, I'm not so sure...
413
00:29:37,745 --> 00:29:41,010
that Walter and I turning up here
was a coincidence.
414
00:29:41,082 --> 00:29:46,816
He insisted on renting the car and driving
from Las Vegas to Los Angeles.
415
00:29:46,887 --> 00:29:49,651
Now, it would've been
far quicker for us to fly.
416
00:29:49,724 --> 00:29:52,352
Now, do you have any idea...
417
00:29:52,426 --> 00:29:54,826
how he could have known
where you were?
418
00:29:54,895 --> 00:29:58,854
No. I didn't-
He didn't even know my married name.
419
00:29:58,933 --> 00:30:01,527
[Stammers]
I don't figure-
420
00:30:03,537 --> 00:30:06,870
I just saw Tugman outside
with the state cops. What gives?
421
00:30:06,941 --> 00:30:09,375
Honey, something terrible's happened.
422
00:30:09,443 --> 00:30:11,570
They finally sent out the health inspector?
423
00:30:12,847 --> 00:30:14,872
No. Walter's dead.
424
00:30:14,949 --> 00:30:17,509
What?
425
00:30:18,986 --> 00:30:23,047
Mom, my God.
426
00:30:24,792 --> 00:30:26,783
Well, it's gonna be all right. It's-
427
00:30:26,861 --> 00:30:32,493
Walter was very likable, wasn't he,
despite his tough-guy shell?
428
00:30:32,566 --> 00:30:37,060
Well, Flora hardly knew him.
I mean, how could she?
429
00:30:38,305 --> 00:30:41,502
He-He just seemed like
a real nice man. That's all.
430
00:30:41,575 --> 00:30:44,510
Wasn't he, Mom?
Nice.
431
00:30:44,578 --> 00:30:47,843
That's why I can't believe
his confession.
432
00:30:47,915 --> 00:30:52,284
- Confession?
- He admitted killing both Pete and Roscoe.
433
00:30:52,353 --> 00:30:55,481
He couldn't have.
434
00:30:55,556 --> 00:30:58,286
That means the sheriff
has to release Grange.
435
00:30:58,359 --> 00:31:00,350
Oh!
436
00:31:03,097 --> 00:31:07,932
Hey, Tugman. Guess you're not gonna
get Grange on this one after all, huh?
437
00:31:08,002 --> 00:31:12,098
Guess not.
You probably think that's what a smile looks like.
438
00:31:12,173 --> 00:31:15,370
So you released him.
Where is he?
439
00:31:15,443 --> 00:31:17,604
My gosh, miss.
I just don't know where he is.
440
00:31:17,678 --> 00:31:19,612
What do you mean?
441
00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:23,138
As soon as I released him,he skipped town faster than a felon in heat.
442
00:31:23,217 --> 00:31:26,812
You're lying. Grange wouldn'tleave here without me.
443
00:31:28,089 --> 00:31:30,819
Guess you're gonna be
stuck here for a while, huh?
444
00:31:32,827 --> 00:31:35,728
- Flora.
- I can help you look for him.
445
00:31:35,796 --> 00:31:37,957
Oh, Sheriff.
446
00:31:38,032 --> 00:31:40,592
Just tryin' to be helpful, ma'am.
That's my job.
447
00:31:40,668 --> 00:31:43,637
Skipping town faster
than a felon in heat?
448
00:31:43,704 --> 00:31:48,835
Well, that's something that you
have personal experience with. Isn't that so, Sheriff?
449
00:31:50,811 --> 00:31:53,006
I don't know who you are, mister,
450
00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:56,743
but if you know what's good for you,
I wouldn't plan on making this a relationship.
451
00:31:56,817 --> 00:31:59,081
Ah.
452
00:32:05,493 --> 00:32:11,090
Sheriff, did you happen to find
an envelope in Walter's clothes or maybe among his possessions?
453
00:32:11,165 --> 00:32:13,963
No envelope, no stamps,
no love letters.
454
00:32:14,034 --> 00:32:17,936
I saw him consulting
an envelope as we drove here, and it isn't in his room.
455
00:32:18,005 --> 00:32:22,135
I just know you can't wait to tell me
how special this envelope is.
456
00:32:22,209 --> 00:32:24,143
Well, I'm not sure, actually,
457
00:32:24,211 --> 00:32:27,977
but I do feel certain that Walter and I
didn't arrive here accidentally.
458
00:32:28,048 --> 00:32:33,111
Now look, ma'am.
I got a nice, tight little case here, and the state police agree with me.
459
00:32:33,187 --> 00:32:36,714
You're both wrong.
I'm sorry, but Walter's story doesn't make any sense.
460
00:32:36,790 --> 00:32:40,282
I mean, why would Pete
attack his car with a tire iron?
461
00:32:40,361 --> 00:32:43,023
He was anxious for Walter
to leave town.
462
00:32:43,097 --> 00:32:45,361
Wrecking his car would've only
prolonged our staying here.
463
00:32:45,432 --> 00:32:47,696
Pete was drunk, remember?
464
00:32:47,768 --> 00:32:51,169
Well, where are the dents
on Walter's car?
465
00:32:51,238 --> 00:32:54,366
So Murray missed a few details.
He was dyin' when he made that tape.
466
00:32:54,441 --> 00:32:57,376
That doesn't seem like
a detail to me, Sheriff.
467
00:32:57,444 --> 00:33:01,540
Now whoever killed Roscoe
killed Pete, right? Yes, it would seem so.
468
00:33:02,650 --> 00:33:05,278
Now, I've got something
that even you can't argue with.
469
00:33:05,352 --> 00:33:08,014
Now, this is a state police report.
470
00:33:08,088 --> 00:33:12,525
Now, the bullet from
Murray's gun killed Roscoe.
471
00:33:12,593 --> 00:33:14,527
Murray had powder burns on his hand.
472
00:33:14,595 --> 00:33:17,564
Now, it's all here in black and white,
including a report of Pete's murder.
473
00:33:17,631 --> 00:33:20,031
Uh, might I see those reports, Sheriff?
474
00:33:20,100 --> 00:33:25,333
Oh, ma'am, you can have this copy
as a little souvenir of your stay here,
475
00:33:25,406 --> 00:33:28,034
which I assume is coming to a close.
476
00:33:32,846 --> 00:33:36,543
Oh, Mr. Desmond, you wouldn't happento have an extra cup, would you?
477
00:33:36,617 --> 00:33:38,710
Oh, yes, absolutely.
478
00:33:38,786 --> 00:33:41,380
It seems our hostess has madesome excellent coffee this morning.
479
00:33:41,455 --> 00:33:45,755
I'm sure she won't mind us
availing ourselves of some.
480
00:33:45,826 --> 00:33:48,727
There you are.
Thank you.
481
00:33:48,796 --> 00:33:52,323
Uh, Mr. Desmond, I hope
you don't mind me asking you,
482
00:33:52,399 --> 00:33:55,197
but, uh, you seem to
have had some sort of...
483
00:33:55,269 --> 00:33:58,796
previous acquaintanceship
with SheriffTugman.
484
00:33:58,872 --> 00:34:04,640
Lfind it rather amusing that he's been able
to secure gainful employment, especially as a sheriff.
485
00:34:04,712 --> 00:34:08,148
It restores my lack of faith
in the American justice system.
486
00:34:08,215 --> 00:34:10,240
Uh-
[Chuckles]
487
00:34:10,317 --> 00:34:12,911
I'm sorry, I, uh-
I don't follow you.
488
00:34:12,987 --> 00:34:18,926
In the old West, many a lawman
started as a desperado-
489
00:34:18,993 --> 00:34:20,984
a man on the wrong side of the law.
490
00:34:21,061 --> 00:34:24,553
Oh, I see.
And how, Mr. Desmond,
491
00:34:24,632 --> 00:34:27,328
did you find all this outabout Sheriff Tugman?
492
00:34:27,401 --> 00:34:31,462
Excuse me. Uh, I'm looking
for a Ms. Gerakaris.
493
00:34:31,538 --> 00:34:33,597
I'm Mrs. Gerakaris.
494
00:34:34,808 --> 00:34:36,799
Oh. Terence Locke.
495
00:34:38,579 --> 00:34:41,070
Wide West life insurance company?
496
00:34:42,149 --> 00:34:45,812
Look, this really isn't the very best time
for you to try to sell me life insurance.
497
00:34:45,886 --> 00:34:50,016
I'm not here to sell life insurance.
I'm here to pay some off.
498
00:34:50,090 --> 00:34:52,115
Specifically, to resolve the matter...
499
00:34:52,192 --> 00:34:56,788
of one Mr. Peter Gerakaris's
$250,000 life insurance policy.
500
00:34:58,065 --> 00:35:01,262
Two... hundred and 50?
501
00:35:02,303 --> 00:35:05,704
Two- He never told me.
502
00:35:06,774 --> 00:35:09,937
Well, didn't you call
our company yesterday...
503
00:35:10,010 --> 00:35:14,106
about two hours afteryour husband passed away?
504
00:35:14,181 --> 00:35:16,115
No.
505
00:35:18,385 --> 00:35:20,376
Oh.
506
00:35:23,324 --> 00:35:25,019
And there's no way
it could've been an accident?
507
00:35:25,092 --> 00:35:28,118
Oh, no, I'm afraid not.
Not with the blows to the head.
508
00:35:28,195 --> 00:35:31,392
That couldn't have
been caused by the car? Well, not according to this report.
509
00:35:31,465 --> 00:35:34,559
Well, then I'm gonna need
to speak to the local authorities.
510
00:35:34,635 --> 00:35:37,661
Perhaps you could, uh, show me
the way to the sheriff's office.
511
00:35:37,738 --> 00:35:41,834
Well, I'd be happy to,
but I don't know how much good SheriffTugman is going to be.
512
00:35:41,909 --> 00:35:43,843
Mmm.
Uh, Mr. Locke,
513
00:35:43,911 --> 00:35:48,041
you mentioned that you'd had
a phone call from a Ms. Gerakaris.
514
00:35:48,115 --> 00:35:51,551
Is that how the caller
identified herself?
515
00:35:51,618 --> 00:35:54,382
Well, actually, I'm not sure.
516
00:35:54,455 --> 00:35:58,050
My secretary gave me a message
that a woman had called. She hadn't identified herself.
517
00:35:58,125 --> 00:36:00,787
I just assumed that
it was the beneficiary. Mm-hmm.
518
00:36:00,861 --> 00:36:04,319
Now, why did you have
to get him all stirred up?
519
00:36:04,398 --> 00:36:09,335
Sheriff, Mr. Locke came here
with his own agenda.
520
00:36:09,403 --> 00:36:13,772
Not unlike Mr. Desmond, who just
happened to arrive at the truck stop when all this started.
521
00:36:13,841 --> 00:36:16,571
That snot-nosed pip-squeak.
522
00:36:16,643 --> 00:36:20,170
Sheriff, goodness knows you're a master
at masking your feelings,
523
00:36:20,247 --> 00:36:24,445
but I sense that you've had some problems
with Desmond before?
524
00:36:24,518 --> 00:36:28,181
Yeah. Years ago down in Texas,
525
00:36:28,255 --> 00:36:32,157
that slimy piece of uppity pond crap
tried to obtain...
526
00:36:32,226 --> 00:36:36,128
an article of merchandise
that I was protectin'.
527
00:36:36,196 --> 00:36:38,721
Oh, you were a sheriff in Texas?
528
00:36:38,799 --> 00:36:41,131
Well, you might say
I had private accounts.
529
00:36:41,201 --> 00:36:46,833
I have informed the company that,
uh, I agree with your theory of Mr. Gerakaris's death, Mrs. Fletcher.
530
00:36:46,907 --> 00:36:49,034
And just, uh,
what might that be?
531
00:36:49,109 --> 00:36:52,840
Well, you remember the state police report
that you were kind enough to give me?
532
00:36:52,913 --> 00:36:55,347
I knew I'd regret that.
533
00:36:55,416 --> 00:37:00,581
Well, the description of Pete's head wounds
indicates that he was clubbed from behind.
534
00:37:00,654 --> 00:37:03,418
Oh, of course. So what?
535
00:37:03,490 --> 00:37:07,859
Well, on the tape, Walter said
Pete was coming straight at him...
536
00:37:07,928 --> 00:37:09,919
when he hit him with the tire iron,
537
00:37:09,997 --> 00:37:13,160
which would seem to mean that
he clubbed Pete from the front.
538
00:37:13,233 --> 00:37:16,202
So he wanted us to think
he killed Pete in self-defense.
539
00:37:16,270 --> 00:37:21,537
Oh, now forgive me, Sheriff, but if Walter
wanted whoever heard that tape to believe that he killed Pete,
540
00:37:21,608 --> 00:37:25,374
and he knew he was dying,
why make it seem like self-defense?
541
00:37:25,446 --> 00:37:28,711
You believe that Mr. Murray was lying
to protect somebody else, isn't that so?
542
00:37:28,782 --> 00:37:31,307
Who?
Well, I'm not sure.
543
00:37:31,385 --> 00:37:35,253
But the medical examiner indicated
that the wounds from the tire iron...
544
00:37:35,322 --> 00:37:37,984
weren't deep enough to kill Pete.
545
00:37:38,058 --> 00:37:41,858
Which has to make me wonder,who would've clubbed Pete from behind,
546
00:37:41,929 --> 00:37:45,023
but not hard enough to kill him?
547
00:37:45,098 --> 00:37:48,693
A woman, perhaps?
Perhaps.
548
00:37:48,769 --> 00:37:50,737
Perhaps the same woman
who phoned you.
549
00:37:50,804 --> 00:37:53,068
The same woman
who is the beneficiary.
550
00:37:53,140 --> 00:37:57,236
Oh, that'd work out great for you,wouldn't it, Locke?
551
00:37:57,311 --> 00:38:00,678
You wouldn't have to pay the policy
if the beneficiary was the murderer.
552
00:38:00,747 --> 00:38:03,875
Well, I know Vera,
and she can be nice and nasty,
553
00:38:03,951 --> 00:38:07,182
but she's not the kind of woman
that'd club her husband.
554
00:38:07,254 --> 00:38:12,851
Sheriff, Mrs. Fletcher,
there is something I haven't told you.
555
00:38:12,926 --> 00:38:16,657
Until I was sure of the lay of the land,
I felt I had to keep it confidential.
556
00:38:16,730 --> 00:38:18,664
Yeah, I can hardly wait.
557
00:38:19,733 --> 00:38:22,327
Mrs. Gerakaris is not the beneficiary.
558
00:38:23,637 --> 00:38:25,764
Her daughter, Flora, is.
559
00:38:29,510 --> 00:38:33,412
You've met her. What do you think?
Could Flora have killed her father?
560
00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:39,043
Mr. Locke, there's every reason to believethat Pete wasn't Flora's father.
561
00:38:40,554 --> 00:38:43,216
What?
I believe that Walter Murray was.
562
00:38:43,290 --> 00:38:47,317
And if I could figure that out,
then Flora could too.
563
00:38:47,394 --> 00:38:49,954
The first night we were there,
there was a very ugly scene.
564
00:38:50,030 --> 00:38:52,294
I was watching from my room.
565
00:38:52,366 --> 00:38:54,391
Don't talk back.
You're a tramp like your mother!
566
00:38:54,468 --> 00:38:58,404
At the time, I thought that Pete was
referring to Flora's behavior with Grange.
567
00:38:58,472 --> 00:39:01,441
But it could be that he just figured out
that Flora was Walter's daughter.
568
00:39:01,508 --> 00:39:05,444
- How?
- Uh, Roscoe could have told him.
569
00:39:05,512 --> 00:39:09,972
A little while earlier,I'd seen Roscoe snooping aroundoutside Walter's motel room.
570
00:39:10,050 --> 00:39:14,885
And I'm fairly certain
that's when Vera told Walter that Flora was his daughter.
571
00:39:14,955 --> 00:39:17,753
[Locke]What makes you think that?
572
00:39:17,824 --> 00:39:19,883
[Jessica]Uh, their reactions,how they looked...
573
00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:25,227
and the difference in the way that-
that Walter related to Flora after that.
574
00:39:25,299 --> 00:39:28,359
I mean, when he first met her, he-
he almost came on to her.
575
00:39:28,435 --> 00:39:32,235
But after that he became,
well, fatherly.
576
00:39:32,306 --> 00:39:36,538
So Flora could have killed Pete
to prevent him from changing the beneficiary...
577
00:39:36,610 --> 00:39:39,010
now that he knew
that she wasn't his daughter.
578
00:39:39,079 --> 00:39:42,981
Mr. Locke, there may be a way to prove
whether Flora killed Pete.
579
00:39:44,217 --> 00:39:46,447
If you don't mind helping me out.
580
00:39:46,520 --> 00:39:48,511
[Knocking]
581
00:39:54,561 --> 00:39:58,930
Mrs. Fletcher.
I'm kind of busy right now.
582
00:39:58,999 --> 00:40:00,990
Of course, Flora.
And I'm sorry to bother you.
583
00:40:01,068 --> 00:40:06,802
But before I left, I just wanted to say
how sorry I am about your father's death.
584
00:40:06,873 --> 00:40:12,675
Pete was a pig.
I was also sorry to hear about Pete's death.
585
00:40:17,818 --> 00:40:23,620
Guess everyone figured
that one out, huh? Except me.
586
00:40:23,690 --> 00:40:27,251
Mom just told me
about half hour ago.
587
00:40:27,327 --> 00:40:33,027
Pretty stupid, losing your real father
before you've even been properly introduced.
588
00:40:34,034 --> 00:40:36,025
I see you're packing.
589
00:40:36,103 --> 00:40:39,095
Hey, how are yougettin'out ofhere?
590
00:40:39,172 --> 00:40:43,836
Oh. Well, Mr. Locke is gonna
give me a lift back to Los Angeles...
591
00:40:43,910 --> 00:40:46,276
as soon as he finishes his business.
592
00:40:46,346 --> 00:40:48,280
Locke? Who's that?
593
00:40:48,348 --> 00:40:51,545
Oh, he's here to pay offPete's life insurance policyto your mother.
594
00:40:51,618 --> 00:40:55,179
How long is that gonna take?Think he can fit one more?
595
00:40:57,290 --> 00:40:59,781
I'll see what I can do.
596
00:40:59,860 --> 00:41:02,693
And if you'll just sign these forms,
Mrs. Gerakaris,
597
00:41:02,763 --> 00:41:07,132
our headquarters in L.A.
Will send the check out to you in a couple of days.
598
00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:12,069
Sure, but what are they for?
Oh, it's just a technicality because the beneficiary is a minor.
599
00:41:13,707 --> 00:41:16,369
- A minor?
- Your daughter.
600
00:41:17,678 --> 00:41:21,774
Flora? No, that's-
Not exactly what you had planned?
601
00:41:23,350 --> 00:41:26,183
I don't know what
you're talking about.
602
00:41:26,253 --> 00:41:29,780
I mean, naturally, I'm surprised
'cause, you know, you figure that-
603
00:41:29,856 --> 00:41:34,088
Oh. You know what?
604
00:41:34,161 --> 00:41:39,292
It makes me really happy that Pete
remembered to leave somethin' for Flora.
605
00:41:40,734 --> 00:41:44,670
Well, I must say you, uh,
have handled this very well- better than most.
606
00:41:44,738 --> 00:41:48,174
But you did make
one little mistake.
607
00:41:48,241 --> 00:41:50,869
Mr. Locke,
608
00:41:50,944 --> 00:41:55,005
if I understand you correctly,
I think you better watch your step.
609
00:41:55,082 --> 00:41:57,812
Now, that is where
I was supposed to sign, right?
610
00:41:57,884 --> 00:41:59,283
Hmm.
611
00:42:03,023 --> 00:42:05,890
You forgot to destroy the letter.
612
00:42:08,495 --> 00:42:10,486
I don't know what you're talkin' about.
613
00:42:10,564 --> 00:42:14,762
The letter...that you mailed Mr. Murray.
614
00:42:19,973 --> 00:42:21,964
Oh.
615
00:42:28,615 --> 00:42:31,482
Now listen, Mr. Locke,
and listen very carefully.
616
00:42:31,551 --> 00:42:34,213
I'm gonna have
to go out that door,
617
00:42:34,287 --> 00:42:36,414
and I'm gonna call up
your company.
618
00:42:36,490 --> 00:42:41,621
And I'm gonna tell 'em that unless they
wanna be involved in a huge lawsuit,
619
00:42:41,695 --> 00:42:43,663
they're gonna fire you right now.
620
00:43:03,617 --> 00:43:05,608
Oh.
621
00:43:08,855 --> 00:43:10,846
Bad girl!
622
00:43:10,924 --> 00:43:12,949
You shouldn't smoke in bed, honey!
623
00:43:13,026 --> 00:43:15,017
Get your hands off of me!
624
00:43:15,095 --> 00:43:19,725
It's just an envelope. Remember,
I told you I wanted something of Walter's so I could remember him.
625
00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:23,133
And that's why you're burning it?I imagine it won't be difficult to prove...
626
00:43:23,203 --> 00:43:26,866
that it's addressed to Walter
in your handwriting, Vera.
627
00:43:26,940 --> 00:43:29,101
So?
628
00:43:29,176 --> 00:43:31,167
Okay, I wrote to him. So what?
629
00:43:31,244 --> 00:43:35,510
Quite honestly, what bothered me mostwas the compounding of coincidences.
630
00:43:35,582 --> 00:43:38,745
Walter happening to suggest that
we drive back to Los Angeles,
631
00:43:38,819 --> 00:43:40,946
then happening to detour
off the interstate,
632
00:43:41,021 --> 00:43:45,117
then happening to find the womanhe hadn't seen in 19 years.
633
00:43:45,192 --> 00:43:48,719
You can strap me to a lie detector.
I haven't seen him in any of that time.
634
00:43:48,795 --> 00:43:53,129
No, but you did write to him recentlyand let him know where to find you.
635
00:43:53,200 --> 00:43:57,694
Walter consulted the directions
he'd written on this envelope when we drove here.
636
00:43:57,771 --> 00:44:01,605
So- [Stammering]
Are you saying that I killed Pete? I mean, is that it?
637
00:44:01,675 --> 00:44:04,769
For what? A plugged nickel?
638
00:44:04,845 --> 00:44:07,279
For what you believed you'd receive.
639
00:44:07,347 --> 00:44:11,215
Flora didn't know anything
about Pete's insurance policy.
640
00:44:11,284 --> 00:44:14,720
It hardly seems likely that a girl
who expects a quarter of a million dollars...
641
00:44:14,788 --> 00:44:18,884
would jump at every chance
to get out of town before she's paid off.
642
00:44:18,959 --> 00:44:21,291
You didn't even make it sporting.
643
00:44:23,897 --> 00:44:27,697
You clubbed that poor,drunk slob from behind.
644
00:44:27,767 --> 00:44:31,259
Then you rolled him under that liftto make it look like an accident.
645
00:44:31,338 --> 00:44:34,330
[Air Hissing]
646
00:44:41,982 --> 00:44:44,075
I was too smart for you, girlie.
647
00:44:44,150 --> 00:44:46,846
I knew it wasn't no accident.
648
00:44:46,920 --> 00:44:48,854
You hadn't counted on that, had you?
649
00:44:48,922 --> 00:44:51,186
Not in a million years.
650
00:44:51,258 --> 00:44:53,726
I imagine that's whenyou realized you needed help.
651
00:44:53,793 --> 00:44:55,784
You must have told Walter
what you'd done.
652
00:44:55,862 --> 00:44:58,592
And than he took it from there,
the poor sap.
653
00:44:58,665 --> 00:45:03,602
He planted the glove to incriminateGrange, he killed Roscoe,and he incriminated himself,
654
00:45:03,670 --> 00:45:06,366
all to save the woman he loved...
655
00:45:06,439 --> 00:45:10,773
and believed that he'd wrongedall those years ago.
656
00:45:10,844 --> 00:45:13,404
He never wronged me.
657
00:45:13,480 --> 00:45:15,539
[Sighs]
658
00:45:16,616 --> 00:45:19,676
He was probably the only right thing
that ever happened in my life.
659
00:45:19,753 --> 00:45:22,449
Don't turn on the waterworks.
You set him up.
660
00:45:22,522 --> 00:45:24,683
Why would I set up Walter?
661
00:45:24,758 --> 00:45:27,386
Why did I stay away for 19 years?
662
00:45:27,460 --> 00:45:30,725
Because when Walter left,
you were carrying his child.
663
00:45:35,335 --> 00:45:40,102
Sure. Flora is Walter's daughter.
664
00:45:41,508 --> 00:45:46,741
I didn't even know I was pregnant
when Walter just up and disappeared one day all those years ago.
665
00:45:47,814 --> 00:45:50,248
I talked to my parents, and-
Whoo.
666
00:45:50,317 --> 00:45:53,650
They washed their hands of me
with 20 Mule Team Borax.
667
00:45:53,720 --> 00:45:55,984
And Pete never knew?
668
00:45:56,056 --> 00:45:59,514
Oh, back then, I was skinny enough
to fool him into marrying me...
669
00:45:59,592 --> 00:46:03,050
and to believin' that Flora was just
a couple of months premature.
670
00:46:04,130 --> 00:46:06,360
You're a real piece of work,
you know that?
671
00:46:06,433 --> 00:46:11,666
- [Chuckles]
- Pete did figure it out at the end, didn't he? That Flora wasn't his daughter?
672
00:46:11,738 --> 00:46:14,468
That fool? No.
673
00:46:14,541 --> 00:46:17,101
Roscoe told him-
good old Roscoe.
674
00:46:17,177 --> 00:46:19,771
That's why I had to kill Pete.
675
00:46:19,846 --> 00:46:22,246
He would've killed Walter
or me or both of us.
676
00:46:22,315 --> 00:46:25,682
Oh, right. Sure. And the money
didn't have nothin' to do with it.
677
00:46:25,752 --> 00:46:29,244
The money had a lot to do with it.
The money had everything to do with it.
678
00:46:29,322 --> 00:46:33,452
Pete owed me for those 19 years,
and a quarter million dollars doesn't start to cover it.
679
00:46:36,997 --> 00:46:41,161
What do you know, babe?
Lfinally get to take you for a ride.
680
00:46:41,234 --> 00:46:44,397
Flora, whatever else you do,
don't let...
681
00:46:45,538 --> 00:46:47,529
men mess up your life.
682
00:46:49,476 --> 00:46:51,944
Okay?
683
00:46:56,516 --> 00:46:59,110
[Engine Starts]
684
00:47:03,857 --> 00:47:06,724
Step on it.
685
00:47:08,228 --> 00:47:10,662
So you still want that ride?
686
00:47:16,770 --> 00:47:19,238
What about you,
Mr. Desmond?
687
00:47:19,305 --> 00:47:21,398
We're heading into L.A.
688
00:47:22,509 --> 00:47:26,741
That's very kind of you, but I'm afraid
I've already been to Los Angeles.
689
00:47:27,814 --> 00:47:32,308
And if there's one thing I've learned,it's that one should never look back.
690
00:47:32,358 --> 00:47:36,908
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