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A gambling empire, whether it's in Las Vegas, Nevada, where it's legal,

or in Chicago, Miami, New Orleans, or Middletown, USA, where it's illegal,

it's big business in America today.

More than $10 billion is bet every year in this country,

the protean on which the modern underworld is fed.

Giving the racketeers riches the Al Capones never dreamed of in their day.

What happens to all this money? Only a part is recorded on an income tax return.

The cream is siphoned off to form the treasury of modern crime.

This hidden wealthy underworld then invests in legitimate enterprise,

and under the guise of respectability, invades politics

itself on a city, state, and even national level.

This is the story of such a front, of such a conspiracy, which tonight, right now,

is closing in on the governor's mansion of one of our western states.

In this particular state, you can always be sure of a time.

Judd Grantham, the insurance king, the trust king, the financier, he sees to that.

He likes everyone to know the time.

The time was 9.22 on that hot August night.

Judd Grantham also likes everyone to look at his picture.

I, Paul Marino, checked desperately on a rumor that this man,

who might well be the next governor,

was really a front for big-time mobsters and corruptors.

I was far from sure what the real face of Judd Grantham was like.

Friends, we have a special treat for you now between innings.

The wonderful sportsman and civic leader whose company

sponsors these telecasts is here in the booth.

And it is my great pleasure to be able to introduce him to you now.

Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Judd Grantham. Good evening, Johnny.

Mr. Grantham, you certainly surprised us by dropping in tonight.

We had no idea you were coming. Well, to tell

you the truth, Johnny, I didn't know myself.

We had a meeting tonight of the State Board of Regents,

of which I have the great honor of being chairman.

Well, the meeting ended a little earlier than usual, so... Well, Mr. Grantham,

I guess we all know about your interest in our state educational system.

And, uh...

I don't know whether I should say this to the boss,

but I keep seeing things in the newspaper columns

about how you might just be running for governor.

Johnny, you kind of tricked me there, Johnny.

I thought you wanted me to talk about baseball.

I'd better get back to my box.

Good night, ladies and gentlemen.

I sincerely hope you enjoy the game.

Good night, Johnny.

Now, friends, let's get back to the ballgame.

Where's your phone?

Back there.

Saw a photo in there a minute ago.

Thanks. What'd you say?

Nothing.

Mr. Marino. Paul Marino, please.

I don't see him. I think he's gone.

He's not gone, miss.

He's expecting my call. Oh, hold on, sir.

Yes, sir. Who was it you wanted?

Marino. Paul Marino.

Look, miss, I'm one of the people working on a project for him.

The Grantham Investigation.

Judd Grantham Investigation.

Well, I'll try research. Maybe he's there. Yes?

Mr. Marino there?

Yes, this is Mr. Marino.

I have a call for you.

All right.

Hello?

Hello?

Miss, where's that call?

Didn't you get it? Sir, here's your call.

Sir, here's your ball. Sir.

What is now with the big fresh words?

What?

Observe, Papa. The great man has arrived.

Philip, let me tell you one thing. You've got a very big mouth.

Oh, well, that's a good thing, isn't it, Papa?

When you're groping, Papa, my dear, inarticulate Papa,

when you're searching for the right word, I come up with it, don't I?

With my big mouth, I come up with it.

Morning, Frank.

Now, take him, Papa.

You know the word that psychology book gives for him?

Megalomaniac, Papa.

Mr. Megalomaniac.

The name is Grantham.

Okay, Grantham.

The Mr. part was correct. You fresh pup.

You will call me Mr. Grantham.

Frank, I want to talk to you.

So talk.

In there, not in front of this insolent boy. You got to worry about my boy.

He works for me just like you do. I told you before, I do not work for you.

You work for me.

Big bag of wind.

And I don't want no more big mouth from you, Grantham.

Only from this, my smart Alexander, I take big mouth.

Why did you come down here for?

Because I had one of my boys take care of that guy

who wanted to spill things to that Paul Marino. That's right.

Frank, it was stupid.

He knew some things, that guy, about your connection

with me. Don't you understand, you fool?

Now Marino really will suspect something.

Got a piece of advice for you, Grantham. You don't ever call me fool again.

I'm sorry, Frank. We shouldn't act like this.

We're old friends. I don't have any friends, Grantham.

I got some more advice for you, too.

Don't think Moreno is any fool, because he's on to you.

One of those guys takes it very serious who is governor of this state.

He don't want me, Frank Manzac, to have a piece of no governor.

Well, Phil, you know I don't like no mess, so please clean that up, will you? Sure,

Papa D. Resident psychologist, resident janitor.

Now, so far, Marino has got no proof.

I got guys working for me, so I know that.

That's why I had that punk taken care of the other night.

That punk who wanted to tell Marino things about you and me.

But maybe there's more like him.

I want the word to get out the same thing gonna

happen to any other slob who tries to give

Marino a chance to prove that you're just a phony front for me and the other boys.

Frank.

A front.

A stooge.

Hype is an empire.

An enormous empire. A stooge.

What empire, Grantham? With our money?

Me and Marty from the casino and Willie from the numbers?

You didn't build nothing, Grantham.

We had some dirty money we had to make legitimate,

so we got an excuse to pay Uncle Sam a few tax dollars and get him off our neck.

You take our $30 and you play with them. Don't call it play.

To build a major insurance company?

To build business subsidiaries? What subsidiaries, you blowhard?

The liquor business, maybe, huh?

The road construction business, the coin machine business?

All those things, those juicy things we got for you. They make money.

They're brilliantly managed.

How would you know?

They roll over and play dead when I say the word. The competition.

They roll over and play dead.

Well, that stinks, that water.

It's his papa, dear.

One of his brilliant subsidiaries.

Complain to him, papa.

The president. The financial genius.

Shirt got wet.

I see that, Papa.

Let me speak to you again.

I'll die first.

You don't want to die.

Not yet.

A hundred silk shirts and four houses, who wants to die?

You go back now to that big building that's

got your big picture plastered all over it.

And you play that you're a financial genius.

And just don't fool around with this governor thing.

I'll make you governor, Grantham, like I made you everything else.

Observe, Papa dear, the recovery syndrome.

Mr. Megalov already puffing himself up again,

becoming the magnificent Judd Grantham again. Who cares?

You.

You should care, Papa dear.

The book says why.

Megalomaniacs, Papa dear.

Very, very dangerous.

You like this shirt? It was going to be a present.

That's fine, sweetheart.

You're feeling better now. I can see that.

Of course. What do you think? An animal like Manzak could lay me low?

Now, don't get excited.

Why, do you think I've gotten where I am by getting

excited every time something went wrong? First time I met Manzik.

That very first time when I was a nervous little nobody and they

were looking for somebody to set up a business for them.

That first time, he was abusive.

I knew we'd use each other.

Sooner or later, one of us would destroy the other.

Why the look?

Oh, Judd.

Don't talk about destroying.

You're all I've got.

Don't worry, Laurie. It won't be me. I've grown strong, Laurie.

Using him.

Building.

He knows it. He knows how strong I've become.

He's afraid. That's why I act the way I did today.

He's afraid.

He knows that I know that I can become governor with or without Mr. Frank Manzak.

Hurry, sweetheart.

I'll do it.

I'll make my move without him. I've got money.

I can buy the governor's chair and dump Mr. Manzak

into the ash can. Let's drink to that.

Dumping Mr. Frank Manzak into the ash can.

Oh, Judd, be careful.

Don't worry, honey.

I'm always careful.

Where you're concerned, I'm always careful.

Those animals. How they'd like to find out about you.

The monument, built by Judd Grantham to himself.

No pharaoh in Egypt had treated himself better.

Imported marble, authentic art by the carload.

Thousands of strictly legitimate money transactions

each day in discrete panel surroundings.

Yes?

A Mr. Paul Marino calling.

Oh.

Tell him I have a conference set up in a couple of minutes.

I'd be delighted to see him.

But we'll call him and set up a luncheon engagement at a very early date.

Yes?

This is me, private me, on the private line.

I'm busy.

I don't want any more calls from you people.

Well, there's quite an impressive list of us people here.

For instance, we have Mr. Peterson, the eminent judge, and Mr. Flanders,

the distinguished lieutenant governor,

who unfortunately will not ascend to the governor's

chair because that's being kept warm for you, Mr. Grantham.

And of course, what would a discreet meeting in Papa's back room be without Mr.

Bobby Jonas, who so beautifully coordinates all the power lobbies for the boys?

I don't care who's there.

I couldn't care less.

Well, there's something that Papa dear cares about.

One of his stooges over at the place where Marino works sent word

this morning that Marino was on his way to try and see you.

Now.

Papa Deer wants to know if Marino has been there yet. I'm sick of this snooping.

I'm sick of this insolent spying.

Tell him it's none of his business who calls on me.

Oh, now, now you know that everything is Papa Deer's business,

because he has a piece of everything, and especially you.

Anyway...

Papa and the boys want me to warn you not to try and see Marino,

much as your quivering little ego is thrilled at the thought of

a really big-time reporter like that paying attention to you.

And Papa, dear, and the boys also want me to remind

you that you might mess up all the nice

little plans they have to make you governor if

you forget that Marino is too smart for you.

Papa dear?

What is it?

Well, as I predicted, you goaded him.

You goaded Mr. Miglo once too often.

Yes, of course, I've heard these rumors how mob money was allegedly behind me.

That's why I was so anxious to stop you up front when my conference was called off,

so we could talk this all over. You sure you won't have something?

No, thanks.

We'd have talked anyway, Mr. Grantham.

That's my job.

Oh, because some people say I'd like to be governor? Yes, that,

and because some other people seem to think that you're a...

Well, a strange combination of financial genius and fraud.

A synthetic titan created by the mob.

Well, I must say, Mr. Marino, you're certainly blunt.

I guess so.

Frankly, that's a quality I admire. I look forward to all the people I hire.

I didn't come here for a job. Oh, I know that, but you don't mind if,

while we're talking, I size you up as a possible

vice president in charge of public relations?

You see, that's how I get my people, my wonderful people.

We meet in a situation, and each one of us wants something from the other.

That's the way of the world.

But all the time, I'm thinking, I'm saying to myself, should he be on my team?

You could.

Could Manzak?

Who? Manzac, Frank Manzac.

One of the roamers says he's on your team, or vice versa.

Mr. Marino, that's absurd. I could be very angry with you,

but I didn't get this building and everything

goes with it by giving away to angry impulses.

I got it because I knew what I wanted.

I wanted to be governor.

I'll be a good one.

I want that privilege. I want that honor.

Therefore, I need you, Mr. Merino. You command respect.

People believe what you write. Now, you came here to ask me questions.

I shall answer them.

Anything.

My family, my hobbies.

However, today I have a most important luncheon date.

So, any other time, you say it. How does that set with you?

Okay.

Peace and series. May the chips fall where they may.

They will.

I dare say, Mr. Muriel, if a man had something to hide,

he wouldn't want to expose himself this way? No, not usually.

Oh, under what circumstances would he expose himself?

Not he, Mr. Crandon.

Let's be more specific. You.

Me?

Why should I expose myself? Well,

you'd act this way if one other theory I've heard about you is correct.

If all the show and pomp and braggadocio of your life really have turned you,

as some people seem to think, Miss Grantham, into a megalomania.

Mr. Marino, I just like bargain basement psychologists.

Oh, that's something really important.

My most important date.

Come in.

Hello, sweetheart.

Mr. Marino.

May I present my wife, Joyce. Hello.

Hello.

I'd ask you to join us, but years ago,

Joyce and I made a deal to have lunch together every Wednesday.

Not even the President of the United States can join us. That's very nice.

Shall we start working in a day or so, Gretchen?

I'm at your disposal.

Very glad to have met you.

Perhaps you'll have dinner.

We always have a lot of people to dinner.

I'll be looking forward to it.

I was about to sit down to lunch with my sister.

I couldn't be helped.

Mr. Marino is a very important columnist.

But why always this farce, this phony lunch date?

Writing a series of articles.

I need him if I want to be governor.

Well, you took me away from lunch.

How about lunch?

Okay.

Must say you're not very excited about this governor thing.

Why should I be?

It's no small thing.

After all, you'd be the first lady.

Really, Judd?

Since when did you start liking ladies?

Joyce.

Joyce, there's nobody.

There's somebody, Judd.

Will you please try to smile a little?

After all, they all look at me when I walk through.

There is somebody.

And I could die.

Will you smile, please?

So you made your move.

Yep, I made my move.

Now you make me a drink.

This Mr. Marino is going to find out what I want him to find out.

He's going to know what I want him to know.

And he, Mr. Marino, is going to help make me governor.

And what about Manzac?

You let me worry about Manzac.

Judd, Judd, I can't help worrying. I can't help being scared.

There's no need, sweetheart.

I assure you, there's no need.

Judd, people like that, people in the gangs, I know what it was like.

People I knew when I was married to Harry.

Laurie, I told you a long time ago, this ex-husband

of yours is a tin horn gambler. He doesn't exist.

Oh, Judd.

He took money, didn't he?

Not much, just a few thousand dollars to pay

his stinking gambling debts and to go away.

Do you want me to talk about a man like that?

I know what he was like, but it's not that, Judd. It's the world he knew.

People in the gangs, and I know how they think. Killing other people's nothing.

Oh, Judd.

Judd, Manzak's really big.

I don't want you killed.

Do you know what makes Manzak big?

I don't care.

Telephone number.

That's all, Mark.

A telephone number and a few hundred dollars.

You call it and you tell the animal on the other

end of the line you want somebody taken care of.

That's all Manzak has? No brains, no style.

Just telephone numbers.

What are you thinking?

I can dial two.

Judd, what are you getting into?

Not into, Laurie.

This is a case of what I'm finally getting out of.

Oh, no!

So you found us then, did you, mister?

In this big old city, you found our number.

I found it. I made it my business to find it.

Speaking of business, uh... One thousand dollars.

When?

I don't know, mister. It takes time. This Frank Manzack,

he ain't exactly no sitting duck.

He's got people looking out for him.

Sure.

That's why I'm paying you a thousand.

When? Uh, maybe tomorrow.

Maybe next week.

Whenever we can walk in at a little wine shop at, uh, just the right time,

do a little job and get out.

And one more thing.

When that right time comes, When you're in the wine

shop, when the gunner's out, tell him who sent you.

Why, surely, mister.

We can oblige you there, can't we, Jojo?

We'll give him that message. We'll say, Mr. Grantham sent us.

He wanted us to make sure that you know who sent us.

Ain't that right, JoJo?

Then this man is Mr. Judd Grantham with his thousand dollars.

He left the rest of it up to us.

I guess he knows I don't need no instructions

when it comes to my old buddy boy here.

I observe with fascination, Papa, you,

the great leader handling an organizational crisis. Shut up your mouth.

Well, I must watch, Papa. How else does a boy learn?

You and all your friends in there, haven't you made me what I am?

Now, Papa, won't you give me a tender, uplifting lesson in the fine,

fine poetic art of handling the double-cross?

I'll give you a lesson, you fresh kid!

You wanna see?

Watch!

Watch!

You stall around a couple of days.

Grantham don't know about things like this.

You tell him it takes time to line up a hit on somebody like me.

That's all. Just stall around a few days.

Papa, you're not going to take care of him? There's ways to take care. There's ways.

He's smart, Grantham.

He knows I'm not gonna send no torpedo out to hit him.

But don't you see?

If Grantham is killed, don't you see,

then people like Marino that suspect he's tied

up somehow with me, then they know for sure?

And he figured that out?

Besides...

I want Grantham alive.

I don't want him hit.

I'm gonna hurt Grantham like no man ever been hurt before.

Who knows?

Maybe all them stupid newspaper stories have

been given to Marino with his big mouth.

Maybe that stirs up something.

And we put taps on all the telephones that count. Maybe we find something.

But the right thing, the right way.

I'm going to find it!

Then I use you!

I really use you.

So when I decided that the national economy and the dollar were about

to embrace each other and to go hand in hand toward expansion,

I expanded, too, into my many other enterprises.

Yes, your road construction company, the liquor distributing operation,

the real estate, coin machines, and as you say, many others.

I did some checking into these subsidiaries of yours, Mr. Grantham. Good, good.

There's a very interesting thing.

In each case, you bought out an existing company at a very low price.

Oh?

Isn't that the sign of a man who should make money his business?

To stock a company like a jungle animal?

Stalks fresh meat.

To look for weakness, to be patient, and at the right moment, to pounce.

There are those who say that Frank Manzac and

his boys really did the pouncing for you.

Oh, my goodness. Are we back to that tiresome old rumor?

I went to see each of the men who had sold out to you, Mr. Cranston.

Again, I noticed something very interesting.

None of these gentlemen wanted to talk to me.

Oh, really?

Didn't it ever occur to you, Mr. Marino,

that a businessman might not like to discuss the fact that he'd been taken?

That someone had outsmarted him?

Yes, that occurred to me.

But also, one more possibility.

That they might be afraid.

That someone, well, let's say, for example,

a fine citizen of the Frank Manzak stripe might have made it

abundantly clear that they shouldn't discuss things with me.

More coffee?

Thanks.

Do you know something, Mr. Marino?

I think you exaggerate the power of a man like this.

Manzac?

You know?

Yes.

Not me, Mr. Grantham.

I don't romanticize gangsters like Manzac.

And I don't romanticize so-called respectable people who do business with him.

It's for Mr. Marino. Oh, fine.

I hope you don't mind.

I always leave a word where I'll be. I know.

Yes?

This is Mr. Marino.

Mr. Paul Marino, the reporter, the one writing about Grantham?

Yes, that's right.

Listen, I've got some information to give you

about that phony Grantham and his girlfriend,

a lady named Laurie Romaine.

Who is this?

By coincidence, my name happens to be Romaine, too.

This lady, she used to be my wife.

Now, I'll be more specific, but not on the phone.

What I got, I think, is worth something, and I could use the money.

Do you know Chubby's book he joined on Van Heusen? Well, I know where it is.

I'll be out front in half an hour.

I'll be there.

Sorry, Mr. Grantham, I have to run along.

Something important?

Maybe.

Maybe, Mr. Grantham.

What is this?

Why don't you ask him?

He's sort of in charge of this thing.

A friend of a certain party heard you talking on a tap to Marino.

Now he wants to see you.

Yeah, well, I don't want to see him.

Tell me, when was all this?

Two years ago.

Come the 17th of this month.

Two years.

Well, Papa dear, I see our friend is telling you things.

Sure is telling me things. Why not?

She just ran out on you, huh?

She's seen something better right away. She's tied a can to him.

Look, Mr. Manzac, I'm not in your league.

Honest, I don't even know why I'm here.

Just answer my question, just to be a good fellow.

Sure, why not?

Harry, Grantham really wanted her, huh?

What did you say he paid you, $10,000? Oh, come on.

Mr. Manson, you know I just took a horse to labor.

I was broken.

She walked out on me.

I was never going to get her back.

Never, no matter what I did. That was it.

That $10,000, Mr. Manzak, I was crying that just like I'm crying now.

And I knew that grandson was rubbing my nose in it.

But I was in trouble, Mr. Manzak.

I owed the books almost half that.

They were after me, Mr. Manzacco.

Oh, God, the books were after me. Probably your books, Papa.

Hey, nothing personal, friend, because business is business. Philip.

Tell me, Harry, you see her once in a while, huh?

Mr. Grantham forbid it.

The horseplay gets broke again quick.

So you see her?

What do you do? You sneak around till you see

her, and then you put a touch on her, huh?

Tell me, Harry, it's a big thing, huh, with her and Grantham?

I don't know.

How would I know?

It's a big thing with Grantham?

She told me a couple months ago that...

She loves him.

So what now, Papa dear? I don't know.

I don't know. I'm thinking.

Do you mind if I think along with you?

Well, I mean, if Papa's going to try and break Junior into the business,

let's see if Junior has Papa's touch.

Sure.

Let's hear it.

Perfect way to get at Grantham.

To punish him.

To punish him like you never could by putting a bullet in him.

That way.

That way you put him out of his misery. But this way, Papa dear,

this way you keep him in his misery, right? Maybe. Which way?

What?

The dear lady, Harry's ex.

That's perfect, Papa dear. What are you saying?

You keep him alive, but you scare him.

You scare him like he's never been scared before.

And you get somebody like Leroy, somebody artistic like that,

to do a real fine job on the dear, dear Laurie.

Oh, no.

Oh, no, dear God, no.

He'll never be able to open his mouth.

You'll hit him where it hurts the most.

He was so clever, he hit her from everybody. Now, how can he say anything? Please,

please, you don't have to do that. But you'll have Grantham alive,

and he'll still be fronting for you.

He'll still be making money for you.

But more than that, you'll have the marvelous,

exquisite pleasure of knowing how much he's suffering, night and day, day and night.

Right?

Right.

Right.

I made it, Papa.

I'm a true man, Zack.

If you don't like that, you can get out.

Where? Oh, where, Papa dear, where?

Mr. Manzik.

Mr. Manzik, it's not her fault.

But who said it was her fault or your fault?

Mr. Manzik, I'm no part of it.

You're here, no?

You're part of it.

Please.

What do you expect me to do?

Leave you to hang around so maybe you'll tell somebody all about this someday?

So that was Harry Romaine.

Where was it you were supposed to meet him?

Outside a boogie joint.

He was a horse player.

He ran out of the money, Mr. Marino.

You got any idea what it's all about?

Yeah, I think so.

That last statue is credited to the Italian sculptor Bernini,

who actually predated the great Michelangelo.

Mr. Grantham is reputed to have paid a half a

million dollars for that remarkable statue.

And now, ladies and gentlemen, if you'll follow me,

we'll go into the Grantham Leadership Museum.

Just what are you trying to say, Mr. Marino?

This phone.

The one they brought to me when we were having lunch.

Somebody had it tapped. Not me, Mr. Marino.

Not me.

I must say I resent the way you're acting. And I resent what happened, Grantham.

Somebody listened in on a phone call to me.

Because they did, the man who made it is dead.

I had nothing to do with it. Who else, then?

If not you, who else?

The man had information about you, Mr. Grantham. About you and a woman.

A woman?

I don't believe that.

I do.

I forgot to tell you my telephone buddy's name.

My dead telephone buddy.

I'm quite sure it wouldn't mean anything to me.

First name Harry.

Ever know anybody named Harry?

Hundreds of them. Yeah?

Well, this Harry, the dead Harry, the one in the morgue, he was a horse player,

Grantham, a broken-down horse player named Harry Romaine,

ex-husband of a lady named Laurie Romaine.

Grantham, did you ever hear of a lady named Laurie Romaine?

Never.

Never in my life. He said otherwise.

Right here on this phone.

Somebody listened in on a tap, went out and grabbed him,

got what they wanted out of him, and then killed him.

Now the question is, Mr. Crantham, what did they then have to do?

What do they now plan to do with this lady in question?

I wouldn't know.

Hired killers, phone taps, snatching a man off a street.

What do you smell, Grantham?

I smell Frank Manzac.

The ubiquitous Mr. Manzak.

I smell those flowers. They were cut in my greenhouse this morning. Oh,

he's got a temper, that Manzak.

That lovable Mr. Manzak.

You didn't get him mad, did you, Granton?

You're making me a bit angry right now. It's his way.

He's done this sort of thing before.

Gets mad at a man, but, well, for one reason or another,

he doesn't want to put away the man himself.

So he knocks off a relative or a girlfriend.

A girlfriend, Grantham.

I have no girlfriend.

Just a wife.

Do you have any real evidence to the contrary? You don't understand, Gretem.

I don't care about your girlfriend. That's your business, one way or another.

But the thing I smell now, a mob connection.

This is my business.

You're committing yourself, Mr. Marino.

You're committing yourself.

You're about to take an irretrievable position.

Without any facts, with no evidence, and no real strength.

Why, if I were to make a single blunder like that, it would cost me everything.

Where do you get the nerve, the gall, the effrontery?

Talk about underworld connections.

Obscene thing like that.

Do you have the slightest proof to back up these ridiculous allegations?

What did you see? A car.

Dropped her out. It went off. Did you get the license number?

Do you know her?

Mr. Marino, why would I know her? There's an identification bracelet on her ankle.

Is there a name?

It says, Laurie.

I see.

Call the police. Make the necessary arrangements.

Yes, Mr. Grantham.

Ladies and gentlemen, I apologize for this disturbing incident.

I don't understand why they'd pick this courtyard.

Well, Mr. Marino, shall we continue with today's interview? No more interviews.

I'm canceling the series.

But I'll be watching you like a hawk from here on in.

You're always welcome here, Mr. Marino.

I'm betting in the end you'll be on my side for governor.

You remind me of Mr. Romaine.

The unfortunate Harry Romaine.

You seem prone to make bad bets.

This is just what Manzak wanted, to make you suffer this way.

It's one of his tricks, to keep you alive,

to keep you in place, but still to suffer.

He's all set.

You have no girl now.

But he still has you.

Get out of here!

Who do you think you are?

Just someone interested in the truth.

That's all, Gretchen.

Hello?

Yes?

Yes, put Mrs. Grantham on, please.

Hello, dear.

What's that?

No.

No, Mr. Marino will not be dining with us tonight, after all.

Tomorrow, my series on Judge Grantham begins.

I hope it alarms enough people to stop him from being

dumped into the governor's chair by Manzak.

A man once said, give the people the truth, and the truth shall set them free.

I'm counting on that here.

I'll dish out the truth.

The rest will be up to the people of this state.

The police will do their share. They'll pick up Harry Romaine's killers,

and an indictment will be brought against Frank Manzak.

Perhaps we can stop the takeover of an entire state right there. In any case,

the web of corruption continues.

They fight their private wars, these lice. They have their victories and defeats.

But in the end, they form a common front against you and me,

because they are the corruptors.

And unless we open our eyes and fight corruption wherever we see it,

we in a million ways, every minute of the night and day, are the corrupted.