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Just ahead of us here is our checkout

Point supervisor's looking over one of

the pigs right now pigs that's uh that's

short for piggyback huh right that's

because they can be separated and loaded

directly on the flatbed railroad cars

sub indans call them

trailers

that clanking noise you hear that's one

of our driers hooking up a tractor to a

reefer Pig a reefer Pig refrigerator

trailers the others we call dry

pigs

Anderson your wife and the fall for you

all right Long Street just stay glute

here for a

minute

hey you

move you you all right yeah yeah thanks

to someone this dude must be blind or

something Mr so I've been p with these

things for 22 years and never had an

accident D he is

blind you're afraid to look in your ear

mirror Mr Thorp so that you see your own

ugly face now just a minute jackowitz we

in the office

Thorp I've got some okay booze inside

goes for you too jackowitz no no thanks

Mr jackowitz was it still is which a

minute ago I I wasn't so sure it would

be yeah well I want to thank you for

making me a hero for that I I should

thank

you we haven't had an accident in a year

hate to see you break our record live

Street

n

Lemonade okay Miss K that's fine good

for a toast I see a toast and a gift

it's a birthday on this day in 1861

Jefferson Davis was elected president of

the Confederacy and I forgot a card oh

- if it's not too much trouble I would - like to talk about the case

Mike one man's gift is a housekeeper's

mess Anderson uh showed you around the

yard himself MH I'm practically

Authority on the trucking business how

big a claim do

500,000 that's that's a lot of lemonade

what are we after 32 pigs at 15,000 each

pigs that's uh Trey jargon for

piggybacks oh you can always tell a

friend oh you know Nicki it was a big

track of trailer Rings the trucking

outfit is minus 32 of its trailers those

huge monsters stolen sure why not I can

name you a railroad that had what 300

free cars swiped at least Mike are you

going to take the case now here's the

gimmick see if I can yeah there it is

see I press this little buzzer here and

it sounds right in back of the bullseye

so I aim the dart right at the sound huh

okay Nikki yeah where

uh let's

see ah

here hold on let me get pot down

okay there we go okay

Mike do you go out of your way to

irritate me or is it just something that

comes

naturally let's see Duke 2% plus 10,000

bonus

2% that's

uh how'd I

do Anderson spends a lot of time at the

house doctor's

orders must be serious heart attack last

month but he showed you around the yard

well he doesn't strike me as an easy man

to tie

down you like him don't you yes I

do yeah IR IR you're a marvelous

business manager you're faithful to your

wife you show up a church on Sundays

will you please shut up Mr executive

with seven lawyers telling me I'm almost

bankrupt you're a luxury excess baggage

dead

weight hey young

up Mr Leopold from the union called Miss

Sunshine maybe you can also give last

rights I'm supposed to inform Mr you

afford a warmer stethoscope that your

blood's running cold oh well Long Street

you should feel right at home in this

investigation considering how blind we

must all be to allow thievery on such a

grand scale you uh recuperate in style

Mr Anderson tradition Miss Bell Anderson

and his ilk won't stop until they're

about as productive as a no return

bottle Dr Kenbrook is our resident

Grouch he'll der rail whatever cures you

sit down Miss Bell thank you tell me

something does my age poor health and

poverty detract from my

sexuality ignore me I have to keep

pretending I'm just as alive as the next

guy you won't be if you keep running out

- to check on that business of yours I'm - I'm sorry I didn't realize nonsense who

Could have given you a more colorful and

informative

tour Mr Anderson uh somebody out to Slit

your commercial throat any businessman

who doesn't have an enemy is retired a

failure or deceased two out of three

ain't bad personal enemies put the list

in alphabetical order Jordan Miss

Sunshine will you see the doctor out and

lock the door after him from now on

you'll nap from 2 to 5 every day who's

handling my

formula I insult him he overcharges me

well what have you got nothing thing I'm

trying to figure out how it was done and

work on who not to mention where 32

piggybacks can be hiding out well those

trailers could be standing in an open

field at High Noon with the entire State

militia looking right at them and nobody

would know the difference that's right

fresh paint license plates registration

numbers some of the company's tractor

hauling them I got it you see that scale

model of a pig and a tractor Rob by

there uh about 5 ft Mike 3:00 P's right

for tell me everybody does that

everybody those tractors are really hard

to tell apart to begin with and they're

not accounted for like jewels in a safe

you might say they exist only on paper

- how about security at the railroad - piggyback ramps well we doubled security

When Ward discovered that we were being

robbed but double zero still nothing

Ward Ward Blankman our

controller seem to like that model

that's what we call a yard goat Halls

trailers around the yard it's

yours oh Kim sorry I took so long oh

it's all right Mrs Anderson your

husband's been keeping us busy you like

Jordan's toys do you Mr Long Street Kim

is that bottle what I think it is yes

Yugoslavian Peach Brandy was a gift to

my husband and myself on our honeymoon 3

years ago for Marshall Tito himself are

you impressed even more so by your

paintings thank you I noticed the

signature yeah Nikki says you're very

talented that qualifies as a

hand-me-down compliment Mr Long

Street uh Kim maybe we I would like to

see some more of your

work fine I'm afraid as an artist I

qualify in the uh full movie

category Mike I won't try to ignore the

Kim's been taking all the setbacks and

stride these last few days here taste

this oh thank you oh I guess it's

getting to a business bed this H thing

now those pigs being stolen at first I

thought it was me had a te

off now she"s been cutting away Jew all

evening about the pigs Mr Anderson I'm

looking for a for a handle something

personal strange Behavior patterns uh

quack phone calls a nervous secretary

who suddenly quits I've got a secretary

who won't quit and

what forget it's nothing important

something to do with Ward

blakeman how'd you pick up on that well

dinner this evening your wife uh she

wanted why you hadn't invited him your

answer was pass the

but okay Mike couple of days ago I had a

call from Ward said he wanted to take

the day off under the circumstances his

timing was lousy I told him so hung up

on him and he handles your inventory

right

it was Ward who discovered the first

missing

pigs you like Jordan's toys do you Mr

Long

Street she seems to be cutting away at

you this evening Mr Long Street we have

milk and cookies and grapes and hot

chocolate Mrs K why would a why would an

attractive sophisticated woman marry man

30 years older than herself

money is it really that simple maybe she

never knew her dad and she's a looking

for a father image sugar daddy you mean

still money no I'll I'll have the

strawberry you know Miss K I found out

something about

myself I don't like not being

liked or talking to

myself yes we have 40 units Mr Long

Street I can't rightly tell you much who

comes and goes my associatees barking

the car should be along any minute and

we'll lock off Mr Blackman's part yeah

certainly and I I'll keep an eyee out as

you if you mind give me an idea of the

layout of spurm certainly uh there are

two steps here into a small foyer living

room is to the left and the bedroom to

the right all right thank you thank

you all right P here we go

forward

his mailbox is

overflowing ah

Nikki listen uh Nikki see if you can uh

see if there's a bar in the living room

there uh yeah about uh 12 Paces Straight

Ahead see if there's a white bottle of

cream to men out

way

ha showing off again oh I can't smell it

I ran a fast check on Ward blakeman

found out his favorite drink was white

cream to mitt and soda i' one the cap

stock no

bet okay come on in here let's see if we

can find some

luggage ah there's a Shelf

full

oh how about uh two suor shaving kit

they're both here

a day off Anderson said well blakeman

hasn't been here that much is true

enough but for several days at least why

would a man leave town without taking

his toothbrush electric shaver shaving

kit and his luggage his car is

- gone you change your perfume Nikki no - I'm not wearing

Any heavy now pervasive it's whole

wardrobe there's no Mrs blakeman but

there's a Mrs Anderson it's her brand

our rators may not be the fastest in the

world but they are the best let's face a

Duke owning 3600 of those trailers must

be a bookkeeping problem even so Mike

blakeman should have spotted those steps

weeks before he reported them to

Anderson

yeah yeah you know when I retire it's

going to be one of those little English

Villages I spend my days drinking ale

and throwing darts in the local

pub at nights I think I'll uh think I'll

Chase AGA

Christie the r you're moving on this

case my friend you'll never catch her

doke uh blakeman's gone he's uh

disappeared his passports expired he

hasn't taken any flights originating

from New Orleans hasn't used one of his

dozen different credit cards I've uh got

the police out looking for him now

suppose um he was on to something or

somebody and he killed him or maybe saw

the handwriting on the wall and uh

decided to cushion himself against the

inevitable crash you mean he may have

had something to do with the missing

trailers that could

be all right let's

um let's embellish that a bit

suppose suppose Anderson is lying about

what well suppose he and blakean work

this whole thing out together Anderson

tries to throw us off the track by

saying blakeman held back telling him

about the

thefts you seem skeptical hey you know

what nii said about great

minds how was that when he called he

said great minds are always

skeptical okay can Ichi explain how

those trailers or pigs or whatever are

being stolen sure Duke I mean any driver

- can hook up a trailer to a tractor in 5 - minutes and just drive off with it no no

No coming or going you have to go

through a

checkpoint security oh faith

the supervisor let's say he someone like

Jacko so if he recognizes the driver

then just waves him on through so any uh

familiar driver can just hook on to a

$155,000 trailer drive off with it and

pedal it to the highest bidder Mike I

found it the one you described oh good

good hello Nikki you didn't want it

delivered did you hello Nikki no no no

I'll take it myself hello Nikki is the

- cab okay because I've got to get my hair - oh sure sure go

Okay one of them is blind the other

one's

deaf it's a thing of rare

Beauty I thank you Mr Long

Street congratulate you on your taste no

on my memory Mr jackowitz when I first

saw that set I couldn't afford it I am

not worthy and you must not call me Mr

jawitz Max short for Maximillion after

emperor is my good parents name me so

what am I called Jack Jack who inspects

pigs but a man of my ancestry it's a

strange business only the family calls

him Max and very special friends here

eat Mr Long Street uh thank you it

smells wonderful ah and that Ida comes

- from the smartest nose in town here have - one oh

Thanks how did you how did you know I

was a chestnut train secret then I'm not

supposed to tell him that you called and

asked

me stripped of my

mystery please excuse me Mr Long Street

and and eat some more thank you very

much Mr Long Street you're a generous

gift I will enjoy all my life but please

tell me why and tell me uh how could I

help

you you don't

answer how could I help

you uh Mr Jack

Max a rig can't get out of Anderson's

yard without passing through the

checkpoint you're the

supervisor and my walls Mr Long Street

hang genuine rembrance take my word for

it you walk on Persian carpets in my

home you you're D on cavar I'm not

accusing you of anything it's just that

I thought maybe you could give me some

help twice I asked

how Mr Long

Street those stolen pigs they must be

getting must be getting cleaned fresh

paint new license plates where's that

kind of thing

done all over the country hundreds of

places I could make you a

list uh yes please

I know that sound Nikki it was a a

rhythmic sound bite

Machinery what about a potter's wheel

maybe Mrs jackowitz has some kind of

hobby it'll come to me Nikki what' you

think of Kim Anderson something about

you sure bugged her pure

hostility toward me personally or what I

might

uncover well blakeman and she are

messing around don't count on a

Christmas card from her Anderson said

she' turned Moody very suddenly just

about the time word blakeman got

lost Mike this whole case is weird I

- mean who buys hot pigs well the world is - full of bargain

Honors

it's not polite to stare Mrs Anderson

now I'm supposed to ask you how you knew

- I was here much less staring no Nikki - spotted you about the steering the uh

The sound of your pallet knife scraping

against the canvas it stopped the minute

I approached and you haven't moved a

muscle your voice is coming from about 4

feet above the ground I'm also available

for weddings bar mitzvas children's

birthday parties and the color of my

eyes

brown that's very good no no that's uh

playing the odds

I was talking to W blakeman

today I was a lie Kim I had to be sure I

didn't know any other

way when's the last time you saw

blakean it's after 5 I I believe Jordan

will be up by

now

these afternoon naps always leave me

feeling like I gave too much of the

blood

bank now Nikki oh she's out stealing

some of your flowers Mr Anderson you uh

you said word blakeman told you he was

- taking the day off I think you - lied you probably even know my driver's

License

expired okay I'll confess I have no idea

what happened to Ward and I'm worried

man who's been with you from the very

beginning suddenly disappears and all

you do is worry that's right when he's

an officer of of a company fighting for

its life I let it leaked at my control

or pulled a Vanishing act on me I'd be

just kindling the Flames could he be my

target but you're covering for him

negative he's in a position to juggle

the

inventories Mike aren't you running the

wrong way with me tied down by Ken

Brook's salt-free

routine Ward might have pieced something

together rattled a few Sabers on his own

to keep from burdening you it's not so

farfetched no out of character for an

accountant Look Who's

Talking there are over 300 men who work

as regular drivers in Anderson's yard 11

of them have records mostly for being

drunk and

disorderly like Marty Thorp huh Thorp

yeah he's the one who almost backed me

into obliv I'm still waiting to be

dazzled let see if this helps it always

- does thanks have the police got anything - yet on blakeman or his car not a thing

They

meanwhile you know I think we've all

been koi long

enough a show of hands please how many

think Ward blakeman is

dead you've got one medium rare

please who why D who Anderson or someone

he paid why Anderson and blakeman

realize their company is in big

financial trouble one or both suggest

selling off the trailers pocketing the

receipts and collecting the insurance

paranoia Duke there have to be some

people who aren't out to take the

insurance companies what are you trying

to do put us all out of work phase two

Anderson discovers his pretty young wife

is having an affair with Ward blakeman

solution he eliminates the conjugal

competition and Pockets the plunder

himself and one Fell Swoop

right

Mike it's a paragon of logic Duke except

Anderson's a

fighter I can't see him giving up by

selling out and he has a heart condition

that keeps him from his office in the

- tennis courts and his wife's bad he is - not a well man what's your point because

Of that I deliberately look the other

way

I'm going to stick it right to you Mike

you are

empathizing all right I'm empathizing

and I'm trapped because I can't come out

of this feeling right without proving my

hunches are all wrong well that's my gut

hangup it's going to affect absolutely

nothing how did that get there Mrs

Kingston vitamin deficiency Maybe

I figure vitamin A for Anderson you've

taken an overdose

Mike all right all right I dig the guy

and uh I dig your

sir you bellowed Mr Long

Street well no matter while you were

playing male chauvinist I answer the

phone it's a Mrs

Anderson you were right about warding me

I've been out of my mind with worry he

never would have stayed away this long

without contacting me now why call me

because I think Jordan knew about us

found out

somehow I think Jordan had Ward

killed I did it again huh mhm wide open

I don't understand it a properly

balanced diet which I provide should

keep you from getting hungry so soon I

just an old Hab I picked up after I left

the

hospital you ever been hospitalized Mrs

K and uh try to get a bed time snack

know if I were a doctor first thing I do

is make sure everybody

had that's where I heard

it in the hospital

yeah yeah listen Duke that uh that sound

I heard at jackowitz was one of those

dialysis units listen uh Mike I'm trying

to clear my desk so I can get a full

weekend

and wait a minute dialysis you mean Mrs

jackit is on one of those kidney

machines that's right without that unit

she'd be dead any idea how much they

cost and a man in Jacko wit's position

could never afford one so he's being

- paid off to let our Pig rustler clear - his checkpoint H and what can I do about

It what can you do about it I'll tell

you what you can do about it you can

- demand that he start naming names or - what expose him nail him because he put

His head on the Block to keep his wife

Alive come on Duke all right all right

let's um let's both sleep on it he's uh

he's only a cog at best and I'm after

- the whole machine all right right I'll - talk to you

You

mostly I'm

afraid I thought about

you I said to myself

Max for a man who's

blind who has so difficult a job he has

to be one very smart man too smart Max

for him not to know you're involved in

this terrible thing Mr

jackowitz why are you here you ask that

I ask that who will answer I don't know

you feel

guilty but you'd feel even more guilty

if you confess to one crime only to

commit another the murder of my

wife how clearly Mr Long Street you you

see things you're blind to all

distractions and so the truth reveals

itself that list I gave you with the

names of all the places where the

trailers could be refurbished yes yes I

know the uh insurance company they're

already checking that out I left one

out where Mr Long Street you have your

job to

do we can't trust each other with just

men what I did I I did for my wife not

myself the work is done in

Marquette Mar

KS yes I think we've done some business

there any special reason well I'm going

to need the dispatcher's record of every

driver that's made that run in the last

few months all

right how

soon 10 to one you can't do that again

forget it you can't afford to lose I'll

have those records by 5: this afternoon

if you can repeat that stunt if I do it

with a cub and I have the list by four

for that 3:00 plus a night on the town

as soon as

youve cball has more

chalk and the aim sound of your voice

let do it better r car to get to the

market yard Nikki you'll be looking for

a lot of piggybacks with nice fresh

paint sneak up to some of them find the

emblem and see if it isn't covering a

different emblem Mike Anderson's for

instance Mike this is your man in

Marquette I found some darling trailers

new registration numbers fresh paint oh

what's see what's the signature of the

uh the emblem a lot of different ones

but on some I could feel the old emblem

underneath a new paint the outline was

raised plain as Braille

Anderson's so someone hauls the stolen

trailer to Marquette where it gets

facelift drives the tractor back to

Anderson's yard hooks on another trailer

and repeats the whole

routine okay we'll plant someone in the

yard at Marquette then all you nail is

the driver right now he looks like a

trophy worth mounting Duke whoever's

guiding this operation has access to

information it would take years to

acquire inside has to be I'd say we're

back to Anderson but that seems to bug

you oh maybe I'm wrong about him but

it's well it's just that he's got too

much life in him to be cut down now

empathy or not if he's our boy we hang

him

yo who is

it um Mr Long Street cam you're all

right can we

talk sure come on in I've got some uh

got some talking Brandy

inside and uh I got to thinking I

haven't really stopped thinking suppose

all my intuitions are wrong and Jordan

doesn't know about Warden

me what I mean is I said some very

foolish things to you and I don't want

- you repeating them to Jordan I haven't I - won't

Um ready for some

more what is it I don't know I don't

know what it is you've done to me I've

been less than half alive since since

Ward disappeared and I've been angry

ever since the first day I saw you

you're angry with me Kim yes but why we

have a lot in common how you're a man

and you're blind I lost something very

precious you're losing the man you love

that that's our common Bond Kim the

enormity of our losses you mean Ward no

- I don't mean Ward I mean your husband - you married him I think you loved

Him most people think I married him for

his money lots of younger men with money

I was alone I had nothing Jordan gave me

everything now and now he may die

because he won't stop living you'll be

alone

again how do you get off being so so

well adjusted so resigned dear God in

heaven you're blind and you're almost

joyous about it you're an

exhibitionist you seem to shout look at

me world they tore out my vision and I

can laugh as loud as any of you and

that's what you

resent you're jealous of what of me cuz

I'm learning to

accept or at least I'm learning the

illusion of

acceptance

Kim even time betrays you it it doesn't

heal as promised you never fully accept

you never really forget

you simply learn to put up one hell of a

front hello uh you remember that 20 you

mentioned to keep an eye out yeah I

remember that fellow blakeman well he's

back trying to keep a daily tab sheet on

all 3600 of our rigs is like uh Counting

ants on a couple of sugar

tubes

but it looked like we've been losing

several month for quite a while so you

tried following it up

yourself well I got the idea that Jordan

himself was engineering the thefts he

was sick the company was sick I didn't

want to believe it but I had to find out

the trailers are over Hall and Marquette

I followed one and

got got knocked into a gully by some

roadhog that left me for dead I was I

was out of it for about 3 days in a

little Texas town I considered staying

- out of it indefinitely because of Kim - how do you know she told me well I I

Thought about her

and I thought about Jordan

and what the two of us would inevitably

do to him now she thinks Jordan already

knows about you no no that would kill

- Jordan she doesn't realize yet how much - he loves her I was just a stop Gap it

Took me all this time to make the

decision Kim and

I we've got to end it right now I owe

too much to her husband to do this to

him this 8 proof booze isn't getting to

me oh maybe you're expecting too much

from it blakean you sure what happened

to you was an accident you know

something I don't describe the

car yellow car with a white vinyl top

possibly a four-door model is that all

he had on it blakeman was praying at the

time hi Duke morning hi it was thorp's

car Martin Thorp mhm Thorp who backed

into Mike at the yard must be a sideline

with him vehicular

homicide whatever turns you on what

turned you on to

it well I don't always take your advice

baby my man and Marquette has been doing

a little snooping Marty Thorp and a

couple of his Pals have been hauling the

piggybacks there you didn't nail them

did you of course not they're just

delivery boys we want their boss right

yeah

wonder what Anderson knows about Marty

Thorp hello Mike Hey where's your drink

where is Nikki well it's uh it's too

early for the drink too late for Nikki

every time you show up my patients's

blood pressure goes up a lie detector's

work on that principal doctor you know

Long Street I had a buddy went through a

med school with me 5 years after he hung

out his shingle he went blind as a bat

took his wife and settle on an ice float

or something up in Alaska took up wood

carving and fishing lecturing

teaching he delivered three babies and

cut out some eskimo's

gallbladder thought you'd like to know

just in case you get the feeling cocky

sometimes oh well that's a that's good

advice Dr Kenbrook if I uh if I ever

need a doctor I guess in order to find a

good one retiring soon not taking on any

- more patients no I met your friend in - Alaska H beautiful some of your own

Medicine doctor

I hear you're going under Jordan what do

I do now send my bill to Medicare touche

Long Street since you don't upset him I

hate

funerals

P driver named Marty Thorp you know

anything about him yeah I'm familiar

with your meeting with him aside from

- that he's just another employee well - hello Dy

Hi hello Mr long

Mrs Anderson everything well with you

I'm learning the illusion of

acceptance darling guess who called

while you were taking your nap W

blakeman he's back and he'll be over in

a little

while

mhm

I'll get it oh no you don't sck me for

all that overtime you're going

home hello Mr Long Street this is your

friend

jackowitz Jack something wrong Mr

jackowitz what should be wrong so many

vitamins I

take and your wife well just wonderful I

was wondering uh maybe you and me could

get

together I I think there's something you

should

know where are

you thanks keep the

change

packs

forward

P go on go

on go

s that's right what else you

got everybody but the boss oh man is

right give you another week and you'd

get us all

hung

r

Oh

Is

Who that's the one

Jim

right Mike what happened to

you hey you should see the other guy

Mike can I get you anything from the

looks of him maybe we ought to start

with the blood transfusion Mr Anderson

the police have the men who've been

stealing at trailers that's great Mike

that's marvelous fill us in if you'll

excuse me I've got to see a man about an

appendix Thorp talk

Doctor Who Marty Thorp driver you

treated in the yard 8 months ago for

minor accident became friendly

with you mean the doctor's responsible

for the thefts your idea thorp's muscle

now Jordan how was I to figure the

sightless Wonder here would see right

through me but why something more

original than money I hope will you get

off the case if I disappoint

you yes money 40 years worth lost in a

down Market Sure Fire deals have kept

coming up ashes well I was ahead Jordan

way ahead all at once it seemed like no

chance of ever retiring you follow me

Long Street I had everything in the

- world and lost it you know what I mean - can you understand stand

That

beautiful Fant fantastic thank you you

drop by here just to use the equipment

yep and to mention that all our little

piggies are back in their

Barnyard I also put in a good word for

your friend jackowitz with my friend

Lieutenant

Harmon

and I'll swap you something cool for

what's inside this fat

envelope a drinks around the house Duke

but I tell you you hold on to that check

see there's this dialysis unit that

Anderson lined up we're going hav going

to split the cost um the Jacko is not

officially deductible but well I figure

if you diminish that check by half the

cost of the unit well then uh everybody

- will come out even uh taxwise that - is

Uh I'll drink to

that well did you understand that tax I

understand

if you understand that speak understand

that

good