Farewell My Lovely


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1st MAN: All of a sudden you get quiet!

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2nd MAN: Lost your book of answers?

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3rd MAN: Mustn't like being a murderer!

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-Maybe I didn't do it.

-Look, Marlowe...

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-We don't like you, but it ain't personal. We got a routine to follow.

-Where's Randall ?

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-He asked us to talk to you.

-Is he holding the kid?

-I don't know.

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-Is she all right?

-I don't know! When did you see her last?

-I forget!

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-DOOR OPENS

-Randall?

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Uh-huh.

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-How d'you feel?

-Like a duck in a shooting gallery.

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-Cigarette?

-Yeah, thanks.

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Wanna make a statement?

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The boys tell me I did a couple of murders.

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You got a rope under my ears, huh?

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I'll have to hold it on you but you'd better let me have it.

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OK, darling. Bring in your notebook.

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OK.

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-The works?

-Yeah.

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-Some of it you know. If I miss...

-From the beginning.

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With Malloy, then.

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It was about 7 o'clock. It was dark.

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-You were at the office that late?

-I always come back no matter how late it is.

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'I'd been out peeking under old Sunday sections for a barber whose wife wanted him back.

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'I only took the job because of my bank account.

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'And I never found him. I just found out once again how big this city is.

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'My feet hurt. My mind felt like a plumber's handkerchief.

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'The office bottle hadn't helped so I decided to go grouse-hunting.

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'Nothing like soft shoulders to improve my morale.

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'The soft shoulders had a date but she thought she could fix something and would check back.

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'There's something unreal about the dead silence of an office-building at night...

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'The traffic down below had nothing to do with me.'

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I seen your name on a blackboard downstairs.

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Yeah?

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I...come up to see ya.

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-You're a private eye, huh?

-That's right.

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I like you to look for somebody.

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I'm closed, pal. Come back tomorrow.

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I look for her where she worked but I been out of touch.

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OK. Tomorrow.

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PHONE RINGS

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I like to show you where she worked.

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PHONE CONTINUES RINGING

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OK.

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Tell me where she worked. This way.

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PHONE STILL RINGS

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'The joint looked like trouble but that didn't bother me.

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'The two 20s felt good against my appendix.

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'I tried to picture him in love but it didn't work.'

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They changed it a lot. There was a stage where she worked and booths.

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Pink flowers was in the slatwork.

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She was cute as lace pants.

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A redhead.

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Eight years since I seen her, six she didn't write.

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-She'll have a reason.

-Is she a singer?

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Yeah. Let's go up an' nibble a couple.

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LIVELY PIANO MUSIC

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MUSIC STOPS

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Boss.

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-Whisky. Call yours.

-Whisky.

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Never heard of Velma? I'm sorry about your girl.

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But no girl's been here since I took this place over. No show, no noise. I got a reputation for no trouble.

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She used to work here.

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YOU ask him about Velma.

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We been over all that.

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YOU remember Velma? Don't bother the customers.

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You rate me polite? I don't bother you none.

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Some guys has no idea when to get fancy.

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-Whisky.

-C'mon, pal. They don't know Velma.

-Who asked you to stick your face in?

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YOU did! Remember me? I'm the guy who came in with you!

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-The name is Moose. On account of I'm large. Moose Malloy. You heard of me maybe?

-Maybe.

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They changed it a lot. There was a stage where she worked and booths.

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-You SAID that!

-I begin not to like it here.

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-Maybe I told you too much.

-No.

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-We was to be married.

-What happened?

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-Where you figure I been them 8 years I said about?

-Catching butterflies?!

-I put away a few grand first.

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-You been in the caboose ever?

-Just a few overnight stops.

-OK, you find Velma, huh?

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-Has she got a last name?

-Velma Valento.

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-How do I contact you?

-I

-get in touch with YOU.

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'I spent a buck in another bar for some history.

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'Mike Florian died in 1940 drinking a glass of beer. His wife, Jessie, finished it for him.

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'Tracing her was easy. Anyone could have done that, but not Malloy. He needed a private detective.

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'She was a charming middle-aged lady with a face like mud.

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'I gave her a drink. She was a gal who'd take a drink.'

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That liquor's been in good company!

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Hold it careful, Mister! This is no time to drop anything.

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-What was we talkin' about?

-A redhead. Velma Valento. Worked in your husband's place.

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Who was it you said you was, Mister?

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Here.

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Ohhh, a private cop! You didn't say that, Mister.

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But I knew you wasn't a regular cop. No regular ever bought THAT stuff!

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-Do you remember Velma?

-WHO was it, copper?

-Velma.

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No...I don't seem to, right off.

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-What did you say you wanted her for?

-I'm tracing her for a client.

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I shouldn't oughta barber with you. But when a guy buys me a drink, the ceiling's the limit.

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Hold on to your chair an' don't step on no snakes. I got an idea.

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No peeking.

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Them's all Mike left me. Them an' his clothes.

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Publicity, that is. But them dolls never got in the papers. At least, not in connection with the place.

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-Why did you hide Velma's picture? Why did you HIDE it?

-Gimme!

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She's dead.

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She was a nice kid... but...she's dead.

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-Moose will be sorry to hear that.

-Yeah, sure will.

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Yeah, he's out. And looking for his girl.

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I don't know anybody with the name of Moose, copper! Beat it! Beat it! BEAT IT !

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I...don't...know anybody... with the name of Moose.

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Don't...know...anybody...

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..with the name...of Moose.

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'Suddenly she wasn't drunk. Her hand was steady.

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'And she was cool, like somebody making funeral arrangements... for a murder not yet committed.'

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Hello, sweetheart.

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I let in a guy a couple of hours ago. He said it was important. OK ?

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He's in love and in a big hurry.

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-He'll get over it. Cute, isn't he(?)

-Yeah.

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-Sober?

-Yeah!

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He smelled REAL nice.

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-Er...Mr Marlowe?

-Hm'mm.

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I...er... I took the liberty of waiting here.

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-The elevator attendant said you'd soon...

-Mr Marriott? How did you get my name?

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Oh, actually, I decided to employ a private investigator only today.

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This being Saturday, I failed to reach anyone by phone and was at a loss...

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-Er...the directory listed several in this neighbourhood so...

-I'm in a clutch right now.

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I'm busy. I couldn't take on anything big.

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Er...

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I...require your services just for this evening.

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I'm meeting some men after midnight. I'm paying them some money...

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-Get your flaps down or you'll take off! What's the deal? Blackmail?

-Most certainly not!

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I simply agreed to bear the money.

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-How much and what for?

-Really, I can't say.

-So I hold your hand?!

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-I don't like your manner!

-I've had complaints, but it just gets worse.

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-How much do I get for doing nothing?

-I hadn't thought about it.

-Well, think now.

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How about a punch on the nose!

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I tremble at the thought of such violence(!)

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I'm offering 100 for a few hours of your time. Is that enough? There's no risk.

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-A friend of mine had jewels stolen. I'm buying them back.

-Where? When?

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-I have to drive to a secluded canyon above the beach...

-Wait a minute.

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-We drive to a nice dark spot to buy back a lady friend's jewels.

-I...

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You'll get a package you won't be allowed to open. They could double-cross you.

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-I

-couldn't do anything to stop it! By now, every move is planned.

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They wouldn't like you being twins. One of us might get hurt. I can't do anything for you.

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But I'll take your 100 bucks and go for the ride.

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I'll carry the shopping money, too. AND do the driving.

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'We were watched. I didn't see anything, I felt it in my stomach.

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'I was a toad on a wet rock...

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'with a snake looking at my neck.'

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-At the white posts.

-Get down.

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A path there goes down into the hollow where we're to wait.

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Check. White posts.

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You sit tight. I'll go have a look-see.

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< RUSTLING

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Looks like a try-out to see if you obey orders.

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RUSTLING

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'I caught the blackjack behind my ear.

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'A black pool opened up at my feet. I dived in. It had no bottom.

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'I felt pretty good...

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'..like an amputated leg.'

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WOMAN'S VOICE: Are you all right? What happened?

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Oh!

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'He was doubled up on his face in that bag-of-old-clothes position

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'that always means the same thing.

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'An amateur had killed him, or somebody who wanted it to look like an amateur job.

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'Nobody else would hit a man so many times with a sap.'

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The oftener you go over it, the sillier it sounds.

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You don't know who Marriott was, or how much money you had, or what it was for...

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Oh, sorry I don't have it! Before I hit myself on the head, I hid the money under a bush(!)

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Supposing a jewel outfit was using a detective for contacts and pay-offs.

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-Supposing they ran out of uses for him. They might try to hang a murder round his neck.

-Great!

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Now I'm a finger for a heist mob AND Jack the Ripper! Look...

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I get up off the nice cold ground and walk 5 miles to a phone.

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I lead you to the body...

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I tell you all I know FOUR times! Sounds screwy? It IS! I'm not always smart but it's all I know!

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I'm tired of looking at you. Either book me or let me go home to bed.

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I don't like looking at you, either!

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I'd much rather be home in bed, too!

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-I'd rather dig eggshells outta garbage than pry information outta you!

-You don't like me ?!

-I don't!

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You're a slot machine. You'd slit your own throat for six dimes!

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You keep silent or you'll be locked up as a material witness!

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-And what about the papers?

-They'll get their story. And I'll get the murderer.

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-Oh, yeah(!) By the time you get your third set of teeth!

-Go on home to bed!

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Stick to your story if you want, but stay outta my way!

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And keep away from Marriott's pals. I've been after them for a long time and I'm getting close.

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So watch your step or I may pick you up along with Jules Amthor.

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Yeah?

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-Is Amthor mixed up in this?

-So... you know him?

-I know lots of people.

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But I never heard of Jules Amthor. Bad guess!

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Business is getting better... AND prettier!

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-Mr Marlowe? Miss Allison - The Post.

-Yeah?

-The police aren't forthcoming on the Marriott case. I...

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-How did you know about me?

-I have friends at the City Hall, naturally.

-I'd just get you trouble.

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Did Marriott say who owned the jade he was buying back?

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-They'll never know where I got my information from and it would give me bargaining power.

-Come in.

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Have a seat.

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-HE LOCKS THE DOOR

-No...

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-I wasn't told who owned the jade.

-Have you known Marriott long?

-A couple of weeks. Why?

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-Have you any theories about what happened?

-One or two.

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-Do your own typing, Miss Allison?

-Yes...

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I'm not always this brilliant, Miss...

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..Miss Grayle, but I'm improving.

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What do you do... besides playing reporter?

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I should toss you to the cops.

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All I knew was that Marriott was buying back some jewellery.

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They'd love YOU! You know Velma Valento, a singer?

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Oh, well. I was just hoping.

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Did your friends at the City Hall tell you about the jade, too?

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-Who DOES own it?

-What's YOUR interest?

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We'll get nowhere answering questions with more questions!

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-MY answer first.

-OK... I'm interested in the jade because I'd like to know

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who, besides me, might have killed Marriott.

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He gave me 100 bucks to take care of him and I didn't. I like to follow through on a sale.

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-The jade is my father's.

-I gathered it belonged to a LADY.

-My father happens to be married!

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Oh... Oh, yes, of course, he would be!

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-So...it was your mother who was wearing it...

-She's not my mother!

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-Which one sent you to feel me out?

-It was MY brilliant idea.

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Before I see the police, I'd like a talk with your father AND his wife.

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Open the door.

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'It was a nice little front yard, cosy. Only you'd need a compass to go to the mail-box(!)

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'The house was all right, not as big as Buckingham Palace.

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'I waited while she sold me to her folks. It was like waiting to buy a crypt in a mausoleum.'

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This is Mr Marlowe, Father.

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Hello. It's good of you to come. This is Mrs Grayle.

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Are you familiar with jade, Mr Marlowe? >

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H'mmm?

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What do you know about jade?

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It's...er...green, isn't it?

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H'mm. No, thanks.

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Jade is not sufficiently known or appreciated in this country.

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The great rulers of the East... Oh, do sit down. >

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..treated it with a reverence accorded to no other stone.

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They have spent years searching for a single piece.

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Feitsui jade in which I, as a collector, am particularly interested, is extremely valuable.

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-I'm afraid that like most old men with a hobby, I tend to be a bit boring.

-Keep going.

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But since my daughter has brought you into this matter...

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I was already in it, up to my eyebrows.

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-So, the whadyacallit you lost was this...Feit Suey?

-A necklace, Mr Marlowe.

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-A necklace. 60 beads of about 6 carats each.

-Worth how much?

-That's difficult to say.

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The Chinese government had a somewhat larger necklace which once brought 125,000.

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You are about to ask why I should be so reckless as to wear an irreplaceable necklace?

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Mmmmm... Something like that.

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Well, it's unanswerable. I shouldn't have. I should never have worn it out.

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-Where was the stick-up?

-Er...if you'll excuse me, I'm feeling rather tired.

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Mrs Grayle will tell you anything else you want to know. Goodnight.

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Naturally we're anxious to locate it, Mr Marlowe. I only hope it can be managed without any publicity.

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Yes, so do I.

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I've had enough polite drinking.

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-Would you mind...?

-Not at all.

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I hadn't supposed there were enough murders these days to make detecting attractive to...a young man.

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-I stir up trouble on the side. How much did you give Marriott?

-8,000.

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-Cheap.

-We guessed they didn't know its real value.

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Hmm. Who could have known you were going to wear it that night?

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-My maid. But she's had a hundred chances. Besides, I trust her.

-Why?

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I don't know. I trust some people... I trust you.

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-Did you trust Marriott?

-Not in some things. In others, yes.

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-Aren't detectives heavy drinkers?!

-Some are...

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Some just encourage other people to drink.

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-Shall I tell you about the hold-up?

-Yes.

-Lin was bringing me home. We'd been dancing.

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-Where were you stopped?

-Near here. Does it matter?

-Not at the moment.

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-How many other pretty guys take you dancing?

-I am fond of my husband...

-Only his two-step's getting stiff.

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-Do you know a Jules Amthor?

-I've heard Lin speak of him. Why?

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The cops told me to leave him alone so I'm interested. Is he a bad boy?

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A lot of Lin's friends are, I'm afraid.

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Lin was rather a heel himself.

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But he was a nice heel.

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The papers said he wasn't shot. They didn't say how...

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With a sap. Only good. Like an elephant had stepped on his head.

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(How awful...) I feel so responsible but it seemed quite simple to buy it back.

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I've tried to put it together with the hold-up but I can't...

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You know, there was something peculiar about the hold-up. They gave me back one of my rings.

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-What's Amthor's racket?

-Some sort of psychic consultant. A quack, probably.

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Lin fancied himself a sculptor. He was mixed up about it. That's why he went to him.

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He couldn't get started for fear of failure.

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I wonder if he'd take MY case.

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DOOR OPENS >

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-Who was that?

-Ann.

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Strange child.

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-You will help me, won't you?

-For love? Or are you paying me?

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-I never hired a detective before. How much?

-As much as you can bear.

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-When can you start?

-I HAVE.

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-How can I find Amthor?

-He can be quite inaccessible.

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Yes? Mr Amthor is here. Show him in.

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Don't look so...judicial ! He really IS inaccessible.

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I hadn't the faintest idea he was coming. I haven't seen him in months!

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-How do you spend your evenings?

-Recently with the cops.

-Then what?

-I'm in the book.

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Let's see what's on his mind.

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Oh, I'm sorry.

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Mr Amthor. Mr Marlowe - a private detective. He was with Lin when...

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I was hired as a bodyguard but I bungled.

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Forgive me for not coming sooner. Such a shock.

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These things are so difficult to believe. A close friend... What COULD have happened?

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-I have my notions. Like to help me work them out?

-I fear I wouldn't make a good detective and I'm...

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..Inaccessible?

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How do you think I could help you?

0:30:550:30:57

I spent last night with the police. They assumed that if I knew Marriott, I knew you.

0:30:570:31:04

They said you bite. You look harmless to me.

0:31:040:31:08

-I'll gladly arrange an interview if you...

-Leave the number with Mrs Grayle.

0:31:080:31:14

By the way, I'll bring my own crystal ball.

0:31:150:31:18

Hey!

0:31:210:31:23

-How do I get outta this fun-house?

-This way, sir.

0:31:280:31:32

KNOCK ON DOOR

0:31:360:31:38

Come in! It's on the bed.

0:31:380:31:41

Hey, it's 6 weeks since you sent your laundry out. You in love?

0:31:430:31:48

Bring it back tomorrow.

0:31:490:31:51

H'mmm, you've got a nice build for a private detective.

0:32:010:32:06

-It gets me around.

-How does one get to BE a private detective?

0:32:060:32:11

-Don't mind me sizing you up.

-Most are ex-cops. I worked for the D.A. I got fired.

0:32:110:32:17

-Not for incompetence ?!

-For talking back. But you didn't drop in to get my biography.

0:32:170:32:24

I thought you'd like to know what Amthor said. And I wanted to give you your retainer.

0:32:240:32:30

It'll do.

0:32:350:32:37

If the cops get to you, you sent for me.

0:32:370:32:40

-I didn't want to, but you hired me.

-Do they have to know about ME?

-Would that bother you?

0:32:400:32:47

We live by ourselves. My husband has a morbid fear of any kind of publicity. He's not strong.

0:32:470:32:55

I'll manage it. What about Amthor?

0:32:550:32:57

-I don't like being rushed.

-I figured you were on the town and just stopped by...

-Ohhh...

0:32:570:33:05

-I was hoping you'd buy me a drink somewhere. Or don't you ever relax?

-Not in public. It's too crowded.

0:33:050:33:12

-Do you like the Cocoanut Beach Club?

-I prefer drive-ins.

0:33:120:33:17

The lights would flatter you, maybe even mellow you.

0:33:170:33:21

-It's the sort of place where you have to wear a shirt.

-Be right with you.

0:33:210:33:27

EASTERN MUSIC PLAYS

0:33:290:33:32

-I'll go powder my nose.

-You GOT powder on it!

0:33:560:34:00

Mr Marlowe...

0:34:130:34:15

Look, I like you but I don't like games. Jealous of your step-mother? We'll talk about it tomorrow.

0:34:150:34:23

I don't want you two tangling in public.

0:34:230:34:25

We won't. You're being side-tracked. Helen's gone.

0:34:250:34:29

-What do you mean, side-tracked?

-You'll find out. Now let me speak my piece.

-Tell me...

0:34:290:34:36

-Do you get ALL your information just by eavesdropping?

-What did she ask you to do?

0:34:360:34:42

She wanted me to kiss her and find her jade necklace, not necessarily in that order.

0:34:420:34:49

You're a businessman. Whatever she's paying you, I'll up it.

0:34:490:34:54

Just stay away from her. Forget the whole thing.

0:34:540:34:58

Why are you looking at me like that?

0:34:580:35:01

-I don't know...

-Surely I'm not corrupting you(!) You've been bought off before!

0:35:010:35:07

-I seem to remember you from one of my dreams.

-How about 1,000?

0:35:070:35:13

Well?

0:35:180:35:19

Stick around. I'll be right back.

0:35:220:35:24

-It's the babe.

-Don't you want me to have any love-life at all?!

-It's the babe.

0:35:320:35:39

-Look, you hired me, so stop following me or I'll get mad.

-It's the babe. I like you to meet a guy.

0:35:390:35:46

-Take it easy or I'll get gangrene!

-I like you to meet a guy.

-OK... OK!

0:35:460:35:52

You DO go for the showgirl type.

0:36:200:36:24

Cute, huh?

0:36:240:36:26

C'mon. I like you to meet a guy.

0:36:260:36:29

Why don't we go up the front way? Your friend behind in his rent?

0:37:090:37:14

-Come on.

-Hmmh?

0:37:180:37:20

Oh, that! I hardly every shoot anybody with it.

0:37:220:37:26

On clear days, Mr Marlowe...

0:38:050:38:07

you can see the ships in San Pedro harbour.

0:38:070:38:10

I trust you brought your crystal ball.

0:38:100:38:14

-I don't get it.

-You mean there ARE some things you do not understand?!

0:38:190:38:24

Aren't private detectives omniscient? Or is that only true in fiction?

0:38:240:38:30

OK, ask him now. Patience.

0:38:300:38:33

Ask him what? Do your own asking!

0:38:330:38:36

Easy, big boy. The Boss wants a talk with him.

0:38:360:38:39

Now...

0:38:400:38:42

I believe you wanted to discuss my relationship with the police.

0:38:440:38:49

-I usually come in through the FRONT door.

-I wanted to take you on the wing. An old psychological trick.

0:38:490:38:57

-Gets closer to the real man.

-Where'd you pick up Molloy?

-Hmm... My dear Mr Marlowe,

0:38:570:39:04

I notice in you an unpleasant tendency toward abrupt transitions.

0:39:040:39:09

But I must insist on some sort of logical progression. Now, the police.

0:39:090:39:15

Either they've got something on you or they're trying to get it.

0:39:150:39:20

I was just baiting you. An old psychological trick, Gran'pa.

0:39:200:39:25

What's your racket?

0:39:250:39:27

I am in a very sensitive profession.

0:39:290:39:32

I am a quack, which is to say I'm ahead of my time in psychic treatment.

0:39:320:39:38

Some people would like to show me in a bad light. Maybe THEY went to the police.

0:39:380:39:44

That is it.

0:39:440:39:46

Sorry if I have upset your doubtless more elaborate theories about me.

0:39:460:39:52

My theory is pretty simple. This is it - Marriott blackmailed women.

0:39:520:39:57

He was good. Women liked him. His interest in clothes and jewellery came easy. But he didn't work alone.

0:39:570:40:05

Someone told him which women to cultivate. And he tipped him about where to operate.

0:40:050:40:12

And that is your picture of Marriott and me?!

0:40:140:40:18

I am slightly disgusted and very disappointed.

0:40:190:40:24

Don't look now... but Gussie the Gun Collecor's back.

0:40:240:40:29

I am VERY disappointed in you. Your thinking is untidy, like most so-called thinking today.

0:40:290:40:36

Depressing.

0:40:360:40:38

Suppose your theory were correct. I would have Mrs Grayle's jade now.

0:40:380:40:43

-Unless something went wrong.

-Like?

0:40:430:40:46

Marriott could have lost his nerve, found a private dick that would risk his neck for 100 bucks.

0:40:460:40:54

He might get ambitious and want his own jade necklace in the bank.

0:40:540:40:59

Would this hypothetical detective... part with the necklace for a payment?

0:40:590:41:05

Could be. If he had it. How big a payment?

0:41:050:41:08

He'd have to produce the necklace. He might be bluffing, hoping to gain information.

0:41:080:41:16

-In which case a great thinker might get the idea of trying to shake it out of him.

-Would you suggest that?

0:41:160:41:22

Only if you wanted to wear your face backwards.

0:41:240:41:28

No need for us to be at each other's throats. Nor for subterfuge.

0:41:290:41:34

I want that jade. I'm prepared to buy it from you, if you have it. Or if you can get it.

0:41:340:41:41

Supposing I haven't got it? Or don't want to sell?

0:41:410:41:45

< DOOR OPENS

0:41:450:41:47

You get him to tell you yet?

0:41:490:41:51

He refuses to tell me where she is.

0:41:510:41:54

-I gave you dough. Where you got her?

-Who says I got her?

0:41:540:42:00

Don't kid with me. He's lying. He knows.

0:42:010:42:05

Easy...

0:42:050:42:07

-How'd you get mixed up with these cookies?

-He tells me about you.

0:42:100:42:15

He's nuts! He just picked you to do his dirty work. He's after some jewellery. Ask HIM about Velma!

0:42:150:42:22

-I gave you dough. WHERE you GOT her?

-I haven't got her!

0:42:220:42:27

Where's the necklace? You shouldn't 'ave hit me.

0:42:280:42:33

Let him breathe a little.

0:42:390:42:42

-Where's the necklace?

-I...haven't...got it.

0:42:420:42:46

More.

0:42:460:42:47

Let him go. He's tame.

0:42:500:42:53

I COULD teach you, but to what purpose? A dirty stupid little man in a dirty stupid world.

0:42:580:43:05

Shine a light on you, you'd still be the same.

0:43:050:43:09

I'm glad you hit me.

0:43:130:43:16

It helps... Helps me a great deal!

0:43:160:43:20

'The black pool opened up again and I dived in.

0:43:270:43:31

'Next thing I remember, I was going somewhere. It was NOT my idea.

0:43:320:43:37

'The rest of it...

0:43:370:43:39

'was a crazy cold-cut dream.

0:43:390:43:42

'I had never been there before.'

0:43:430:43:45

AMTHOR'S VOICE: Where's the necklace?

0:43:490:43:53

You shouldn't 'ave hit me.

0:44:100:44:12

'The window was open, but the smoke didn't move.

0:44:570:45:02

'It was a grey web woven by a thousand spiders.

0:45:020:45:06

'I wondered how they got them to work together.'

0:45:060:45:10

HELP!

0:45:150:45:17

HALF-SOBBING/HALF-LAUGHING

0:45:190:45:22

What's so funny, pally?

0:45:220:45:25

Ohh...the smoke.

0:45:260:45:28

Yeah?

0:45:280:45:30

-Wh-where am I?

-You wanna know where you're at? Anything else, pally?

0:45:340:45:40

-SNIVELLING:

-The...doors...are too SMALL.

0:45:400:45:43

The stairs are...made of dough.

0:45:440:45:46

I think this guy's nuts. Do YOU think he's nuts?

0:45:460:45:50

Aw, skip it...

0:45:520:45:54

-I think I'll take a nap again.

-Better make it just that, pally.

0:45:540:45:59

MARLOWE GROANS

0:46:020:46:06

'My throat felt sore...but my fingers didn't feel anything.

0:46:180:46:23

'They were just a bunch of bananas that looked like fingers.

0:46:230:46:28

'I wondered what I was shot full of.

0:46:340:46:37

'Something to keep me quiet? Or make me talk? ..Maybe both.

0:46:370:46:43

'"OK, Marlowe," I said to myself, "you're a tough guy.

0:46:480:46:53

'"You've been sapped twice, choked, beaten silly with a gun, shot in the arm till you're crazy.

0:46:530:47:00

'"Now do something REALLY tough - like putting your pants on.

0:47:000:47:06

'"OK, you cuckoo... Walk.

0:47:340:47:36

'"And talk! What about? Anything. Everything!

0:47:360:47:41

'"Just talk... And keep walking! You're getting out of here.

0:47:410:47:45

'"That's a beautiful bed...

0:47:450:47:48

'"Stay OFF it!

0:47:480:47:50

'"WALK !"

0:47:510:47:53

'I walked.

0:48:010:48:03

'I don't know how long, I didn't have a watch.

0:48:030:48:07

'They don't make that kind of time in watches, anyway.

0:48:070:48:11

'Hey, I was ready to talk to somebody!'

0:48:170:48:21

Help! HELP!

0:48:580:49:00

That'll quiet your nerves...pally!

0:49:070:49:10

The buzzer won't buy anything, Doc. Nursey's sleeping(!)

0:50:260:50:30

For three days you've been a sick man, a VERY sick man.

0:50:360:50:41

I cannot recommend your being up...

0:50:410:50:44

I had a nightmare... Crazy things! I slept... I woke up and the room was full of smoke!

0:50:480:50:55

I WAS a sick man! Instead of pink snakes, I got smoke!

0:50:550:50:59

Well, here I am...all cured. What were you saying?

0:51:000:51:06

-I made no remark.

-Remarks WANT you to make 'em! Their tongues are hangin' out waitin'!

0:51:060:51:13

-I am Dr Sonderborg. You have been suffering from narcotic poisoning.

-Yeah, that YOU pumped me full of!

0:51:130:51:20

Speak up! I'm in a wild mood tonight!

0:51:200:51:23

I wanna go dance in the foam. I hear the banshees calling.

0:51:240:51:29

-I haven't shot a man...in a week!

-You very nearly died, sir. I had to give you Digitalis.

0:51:290:51:36

Also a little something to make me talk? Talk about what?

0:51:360:51:41

Maybe about a jade necklace? Was I good telling you about what I don't have?

0:51:410:51:47

Did the customers like me? Or will Amthor be disappointed in you?

0:51:470:51:52

Never...disappoint Mr Amthor.

0:51:530:51:56

It...depresses him.

0:51:560:51:59

You are not well, Mr Marlowe. You could collapse at any time. I insist upon you going back to bed.

0:52:020:52:10

Please...

0:52:100:52:11

Now, the gun, please.

0:52:150:52:17

The GUN, please.

0:52:190:52:22

I strongly advise...

0:52:220:52:24

When you got a gun, people are supposed to do what you tell 'em!

0:52:250:52:31

I am afraid you are going to faint, Mr Marlowe.

0:52:310:52:34

Tie a ribbon on it! The one to the front door, Doc!

0:52:340:52:39

The girls must have a great time with you(!)

0:52:470:52:50

-I'm booked, captain.

-Look, pal, I...

-I'm BOOKED, captain!

0:53:110:53:15

You ain't in good shape. Don't fight with me. I don't like fighting with nobody.

0:53:350:53:40

-So you were making love to me?!

-I like you to keep looking for Velma.

-You're crazy as a rabbit!

0:53:400:53:47

-He sent after me.

-Who? The smart thinker, Amthor?

-He was kidding with me.

0:53:470:53:54

He was kidding the pants off you... so you wouldn't find your gal. Nobody's SUPPOSED to find her!

0:53:540:54:02

I think he's got other plans for her.

0:54:020:54:05

-You ain't in good shape. I better help you.

-Then get me a cab!

0:54:060:54:11

Hey...!

0:54:140:54:15

You take my friend! I GOT a fare. The flag's down!

0:54:160:54:20

You take my friend! Oh...sure!

0:54:250:54:28

'I said something wrong there, I knew it. He was too anxious to get rid of me.

0:54:320:54:38

'His brain was working. I don't know how, but it was working - at the wrong time.

0:54:380:54:44

'I wanted to sleep a couple of hundred years but I couldn't. Nulty was watching my apartment.

0:54:440:54:51

'So I decided to call on Ann to find out why she was living alone and if she really liked it.'

0:54:510:54:59

-What do YOU want?

-Black coffee, eggs and a Scotch and soda.

-Go away!

-Excuse me...

0:55:160:55:22

Oh, yes...a nice place.

0:55:280:55:30

But why? No room in the palace?! No old ballroom you could sleep in?! Or don't you like it there?

0:55:350:55:43

I'm broke out with cops. They're all over my place and the office.

0:55:480:55:53

They may just want a chat but I'm not ready yet.

0:55:530:55:57

-I might have to live here a few days.

-Get out!

0:55:570:56:01

I'm a man who's just back from the brink of the grave. Helen fixed me a blind date with Amthor.

0:56:010:56:08

What happened? Are you all right?

0:56:090:56:12

They gave me a cute time for three days. I'm not supposed to be alive.

0:56:120:56:17

-Say that again.

-What?

-The last thing you said.

-I said, "What happened? Are YOU all right?"

0:56:180:56:25

What's the matter? Why do you keep looking at me as if I had a hole in my head?

0:56:290:56:36

Why were you in the canyon the night Marriott was killed? I've just remembered...

0:56:360:56:43

Somebody...with a flashlight... asked me if I was all right. And then SHE said 'What happened?'

0:56:430:56:51

A girl with red hair, a crooked nose and a nice figure.

0:56:510:56:55

-I didn't kill Marriott.

-You weren't just taking a hike! You knew something was up.

0:56:550:57:01

You probably overheard Marriott and Helen making arrangements about the jade.

0:57:010:57:07

-You knew they were 'good friends'!

-I didn't kill him.

-You don't like anyone or anything to do with Helen!

0:57:070:57:15

-I HATE her!

-That doesn't make sense.

-But she's married to my father and means a lot to him.

0:57:150:57:22

I'm fond of my father but you wouldn't understand that. It has nothing to do with money.

0:57:220:57:29

I just don't want anything to hurt him.

0:57:290:57:33

Marriott playing around with his wife would hurt him.

0:57:330:57:37

-If he decided to kill Marriott, you'd protect him.

-No, not Father!

0:57:370:57:43

No, I don't buy it, either...yet. I was just trying it on for size. A lot of things still don't fit.

0:57:430:57:50

Like how you could show up in my office the next day, acting a reporter.

0:57:500:57:56

I found this on Marriott.

0:58:010:58:05

-You went through his pockets? That took a strong stomach. Like to work for me?

-I'm flattered(!)

0:58:050:58:12

-Look, I've got a date. Go home.

-I can't.

0:58:120:58:15

A bundle is sitting on my doorstep playing at not-looking-like-a-cop, but he's terrible at it.

0:58:150:58:22

DOOR BUZZER SOUNDS

0:58:220:58:24

Get rid of him. Tell him we're having a quiet supper.

0:58:240:58:28

Yes? A word with your boyfriend.

0:58:330:58:36

-I really don't...

-Come in, Lieutenant.

0:58:360:58:39

-You're ruining my love-life.

-Come on. Let's go.

0:58:390:58:43

We were just sitting down to some supper. Join us?

0:58:430:58:47

I gave you good advice. I guess it didn't take.

0:58:470:58:51

I didn't get around to bothering Amthor. He got to ME.

0:58:510:58:56

-He gave me quite a party.

-..How'd it go?

0:58:560:59:00

What'll it buy me? Look, you want to get Amthor. I want to help you. He annoyed me.

0:59:010:59:08

You can have it cheap. Just let me finish my dinner.

0:59:080:59:12

< OK.

0:59:120:59:14

Come in, Nulty. Make yourself at home.

0:59:140:59:18

Amthor works some kind of jewellery routine on gals who come to him with broken-down libidos.

0:59:180:59:25

-Marriott was his contact man.

-Get to the new part.

0:59:250:59:30

Marriott was supposedly buying back a 100,000 jade necklace belonging to one of Amthor's patients.

0:59:300:59:37

-Maybe Marriott was crossing Amthor. Anyway, he fumbled the ball.

-Just theory!

0:59:380:59:44

Amthor figured I picked it up. But I didn't. And I didn't talk.

0:59:440:59:49

But he has a little rest home where you learn to talk, run by a Dr Sonderborg.

0:59:490:59:56

He's a whizz with a hypo. It's at 23rd and Descanso.

0:59:561:00:00

-Who owns this jade?

-I told you. One of Amthor's patients.

-Name?

1:00:041:00:09

..Dunno.

1:00:111:00:12

Goodbye, Miss Grayle. Oh...

1:00:121:00:15

When did you last visit your father? Some days ago. Is something wrong?

1:00:151:00:21

By the way, don't make a habit of helping me. I might get grateful and lock you up!

1:00:211:00:28

-How could he know about me?

-I don't know. Cops that go to college get too smart! Fix your face.

1:00:321:00:39

We're off to Buckingham Palace. Ohhh....

1:00:391:00:42

-What is it?

-Funny, but every 3rd day I get hungry and need to eat something(!)

1:00:431:00:49

Got a razor? Aw, never mind. I'll have to stop at my place. This suit's beginning to crawl.

1:00:571:01:05

I've got another one under the mattress...

1:01:051:01:08

I'm a little beat for this kind of work(!)

1:01:081:01:12

I think you're nuts. You barge around without a clear idea of what you're doing.

1:01:121:01:18

Everybody bats you down, smacks you over the head, fills you full of stuff, and you keep on hitting!

1:01:181:01:25

Do you know which side you're on?

1:01:251:01:28

I don't even know who's playing today!

1:01:281:01:32

Whatever, you must believe in Father. He's no match for anybody.

1:01:321:01:37

Randall probably knows about Helen and Marriott - maybe not about your father. We'll know soon.

1:01:371:01:44

Make the coffee with Scotch. It'll save time.

1:01:441:01:48

He must be in his workshop.

1:02:031:02:06

Father! >

1:02:161:02:17

What are you going to do?

1:02:191:02:21

I don't know. I was frightened. ..I AM frightened.

1:02:211:02:25

-Police been here?

-Yes. What's it about?

-Don't know. Did they see your wife?

1:02:251:02:31

No, she went away yesterday morning.

1:02:311:02:34

-Has she been with YOU?

-What did they say?

1:02:341:02:39

Their main interest was in our beach house.

1:02:391:02:42

Mr Marriott rented it, indirectly, through my bank.

1:02:421:02:46

-That'll keep Randall busy! OK, let's go see it!

-No, Mr Marlowe!

-Why not?

1:02:461:02:52

-Because this thing has gone too far!

-Or maybe come too close?

1:02:521:02:57

I don't say you killed Marriott but you COULD have.

1:02:581:03:03

Look, pop. The cops are mad. They're gonna tag somebody.

1:03:031:03:08

I'm on the pay-roll here but I don't work by push-buttons! I've got to have reasons!

1:03:081:03:15

Forgive me, Mr Marlowe.

1:03:161:03:19

Forgive me, please.

1:03:191:03:22

I am an old man, you can see that. I only have two interests in life -

1:03:221:03:27

my jade and my wife... Oh, and of course, my daughter here.

1:03:271:03:32

But my wife's the most important.

1:03:341:03:36

-Do you find her beautiful?

-Why not?

-She IS beautiful...and desirable.

1:03:361:03:42

Maybe you think it improper for an old man to have a young, desirable wife.

1:03:421:03:48

I've pretended to myself...

1:03:481:03:51

that she would have become my wife even if I'd been unable to give her wealth.

1:03:511:03:57

I have enjoyed the pretence. It gave me great happiness... and pride, of course.

1:03:571:04:03

But now...I'm losing her.

1:04:051:04:08

I don't know what's happened but I'm losing her.

1:04:081:04:12

Ironic that it's because of my jade...

1:04:121:04:15

Because of that, a man has died -

1:04:151:04:17

a paltry, foppish man of no consequence, who's better dead!

1:04:171:04:22

Nevertheless, he's dead because of my necklace. (I don't know why...)

1:04:221:04:28

But it must stop. It must stop, Mr Marlowe! It must STOP!

1:04:291:04:35

-What do you want me to do about it?

-You must go no further. I'll pay you well.

1:04:391:04:46

Aah! Its makes sense...sort of.

1:04:481:04:50

I get dragged in and get money shoved at me. I get pushed out and get money shoved at me!

1:04:501:04:58

Nobody wants me to DO anything!

1:04:581:05:01

OK... Put a cheque in the mail.

1:05:021:05:05

It costs a lot not to do anything.

1:05:051:05:08

-I get restless. Throw in a trip to Mexico!

-I'll be right back, Father.

1:05:081:05:14

-Got a key to the beach house?

-But...

1:05:241:05:26

Sure, as far as he's concerned, it's over. But that doesn't stop anything.

1:05:261:05:32

-OK, so I hide under the covers. Do the police stop? Does Helen? Do YOU?

-What do you mean?

1:05:321:05:40

I don't always know what I mean!

1:05:401:05:43

-But I DO know a cancer doesn't stop because you ask it to!

-You are vicious!

1:05:431:05:49

-You enjoy seeing people torn apart!

-They're headed for it anyway!

1:05:491:05:54

You're hanging on to something that's gonna smack you!

1:05:541:05:59

If I stick, it smacks you sooner... but cleaner! Maybe that's why I'm sticking.

1:05:591:06:05

Aww, I'd stick anyway because a guy who hired me got killed.

1:06:051:06:09

I don't want my kids to think I had to hit a guy 20 times to kill him.

1:06:091:06:14

I could bust in...

1:06:141:06:17

You drive.

1:06:191:06:21

-Is that you?

-Is what me?

-That nice, expensive smell.

1:06:441:06:48

Quite a lad!

1:06:511:06:54

-Someone's been here.

-Sure.

1:07:201:07:22

That's the first thing Randall does after a man's been murdered - mess up his house.

1:07:231:07:30

Here.

1:07:341:07:35

Does that prove something?

1:07:391:07:42

He said he found my name in the classified ads. Maybe he did. Or maybe somebody told him about me.

1:07:421:07:50

-But you had nothing to do with this until he came to see you. Or did you?

-I don't know.

1:07:501:07:57

There are a lot of things about this I don't know. The only man who DID know is dead.

1:07:571:08:04

-Marriott?

-Yeah.

-I

-can only keep guessing.

-Well, let's go guess someplace else.

1:08:041:08:10

As for YOU, all you've told me is that you went out to the canyon because you like your father.

1:08:101:08:17

-I guess you thought he might kill Marriott but you found ME there, not him.

-Please, let's go.

1:08:171:08:24

OK.

1:08:251:08:27

-That's a cute nose, even if it IS crooked.

-It isn't crooked. It has a bump where a baseball hit me...

1:08:271:08:34

I was playing short-stop for the 7th grade...

1:08:341:08:38

I'm a pretty good guesser, huh?

1:08:421:08:45

Your father loves Helen. Marriott did hurt him. You were afraid I was another Marriott.

1:08:461:08:53

So you tried to buy me off. That didn't work and I began to suspect your father.

1:08:531:08:59

A tough guesser might say that when he couldn't buy me off, either, you decided to be nice to me.

1:08:591:09:07

I don't always guess right...

1:09:081:09:10

I think I'm wrong.

1:09:101:09:12

Sometimes I HATE men! ALL men! Old men, young men...

1:09:121:09:17

beautiful men and almost-heels who are private detectives!

1:09:171:09:23

MOCKING LAUGHTER >

1:09:231:09:26

I couldn't help laughing. You should know by now that men play rough!

1:09:261:09:31

They soften you up and then belt you one!

1:09:311:09:36

Maybe that'll teach you not to overplay a good hand. Now you know. She HATES men!

1:09:361:09:41

That was only the first half of the speech. Here's the rest!

1:09:411:09:46

I hate their women, too - especially big-league

1:09:461:09:50

beautiful blonde babes who know what they've got!

1:09:501:09:54

All bubble-bath, dewy morning and moonlight...but inside,

1:09:541:10:00

blue-steel cold, cold like that, only not that clean.

1:10:001:10:05

..Your slip shows, dear (!)

1:10:051:10:08

Father's worried. I'll tell him you're all right.

1:10:141:10:18

-How long have you been here?

-Since yesterday.

-Smart thinking. It's a good place to hide.

1:10:191:10:26

-You're very good at throwing stray lambs to the wolves!

-Please...

1:10:261:10:31

You hired me to get your necklace. You were gonna help me.

1:10:311:10:36

-So you stand me up...

-I...

-And tell Amthor where to pick me up...

-I thought you might have it.

1:10:361:10:43

-What gave you that idea?

-You COULD have had it.

1:10:431:10:47

-Was it... Was it bad?

-It almost made me mad!

1:10:481:10:52

-How long HAVE you known Amthor?

-I don't lie very well, do I?

-Well ?

1:10:521:10:58

-Well...it's a long story.

-I got lots of time and I'm not squeamish.

1:10:591:11:04

Amthor is blackmailing me.

1:11:131:11:15

I kinda figured that. How?

1:11:181:11:20

My husband is 65 and in love with me. I'm fond of him and I'm grateful.

1:11:201:11:25

He's been understanding but...

1:11:251:11:28

I've gone out with other men.

1:11:291:11:32

I find men VERY attractive.

1:11:341:11:37

I imagine they meet you half-way.

1:11:371:11:39

When I first knew Marriott, I didn't realize how close he was to Amthor.

1:11:391:11:44

It took me a while to discover the real Amthor because he did me a lot of good.

1:11:441:11:50

He treated my centres of speech.

1:11:501:11:53

-No, really! I had a psychological impediment.

-He did a swell job. You talk as good as

-I

-do now(!)

1:11:531:12:01

His system's partly mumbo-jumbo and partly the real thing.

1:12:011:12:06

He flatters you. he gets into your past...and you talk and talk...

1:12:061:12:12

It's the awful way he works - uncovering a basis for blackmail. Finally, he asked for the jade.

1:12:131:12:20

-I had no choice. He knew too much about me. He threatened to go to my husband.

-Sounds like some past!

1:12:201:12:28

A younger man than my husband might accept it or get drunk or divorce me.

1:12:301:12:35

But he's not young... I think it would kill him.

1:12:351:12:39

I couldn't risk that. But then the jade was stolen.

1:12:431:12:48

-The man who took it said that if I called the police, my husband would know everything.

-H'mmm...

1:12:481:12:55

That makes it an outfit that knew Amthor's methods or was tipped off

1:12:551:13:01

-by someone who knew that he knew - like Marriott.

-Yes.

1:13:011:13:06

If he thought Amthor suspected him, he maybe wanted you as protection.

1:13:061:13:11

Amthor had decided to kill him. Maybe he knew about you and counted on you taking the blame.

1:13:111:13:18

It's rough... but I'll buy it so far.

1:13:181:13:20

Amthor was blackmailing you. You decide to fork over the jade. It's stolen, with Marriott's help.

1:13:201:13:28

Amthor kills him. What happens now?

1:13:281:13:31

I want you to help me kill Amthor.

1:13:311:13:34

MARLOWE ALMOST DROPS HIS GLASS

1:13:351:13:38

It's the only way I'll ever have peace.

1:13:381:13:41

It'll go on and on. He'll never be satisfied, even if he gets the jade!

1:13:411:13:46

Why me? Because I know how to use a gun?

1:13:461:13:49

-Or just because I wear pants?

-Don't say that.

1:13:491:13:53

Please! I need you so. I'm lost...

1:13:531:13:56

I haven't been good, not half-way good. I haven't even been smart. But...

1:13:561:14:02

I need help...and peace.

1:14:021:14:04

I need YOU...

1:14:051:14:08

-Got anything worked out?

-Yes, if I could find him.

1:14:131:14:17

That's probably my fault. I tossed Sonderborg to the cops. Amthor may have skipped.

1:14:171:14:23

Even if we DO find him, we've gotta be good to sell the butcher a steak.

1:14:231:14:28

-Tell him you're ready to sell, that you've got the jade.

-HaveI ?

-He'll not expect you to have it on you.

1:14:281:14:35

-He'll need time to get the money. Arrange to meet later.

-Where?

-Here.

1:14:351:14:40

-He'll send a stooge.

-No, we don't play that way. We just wait.

-OK, then what?

-That's MY part.

1:14:401:14:47

-All right. I'll dig him up.

-In the morning.

-I have work to do.

1:14:471:14:52

You're wonderful. How would you like NOT having to earn a living?

1:14:541:14:59

Wouldn't bother me. Got any ideas?

1:15:001:15:02

-When will you be back?

-He's slippery. I'd better not come out till tomorrow night.

1:15:031:15:09

'I went in the way I knew about. It was simpler.

1:15:271:15:31

'And I had a psychological trick to try out on foxy Gran'pa.

1:15:311:15:36

'I thought it would give him a bang.

1:15:361:15:40

'I thought it would kill him.

1:15:411:15:44

'He wasn't hurt much, he was just snapped - the way a pretty girl would snap a stalk of celery.

1:16:191:16:26

'Only for this job, you'd have to be a big man, with a big pair of hands.'

1:16:261:16:32

-I gotta find her NOW. I gotta go away.

-Yeah, sounds like a good idea.

1:17:081:17:13

You might get unpopular, breaking guys off at the neck.

1:17:131:17:17

You didn't mean to kill him, you just shook him too hard. Relax, or I won't be able to help you!

1:17:171:17:25

-You find her?

-Is that your girl?

1:17:251:17:27

That's your girl, isn't it?

1:17:281:17:30

It says "Always, Velma", doesn't it?

1:17:301:17:33

-I don't like you to kid with me.

-Nobody's kidding with you. Somebody's kidding with me.

1:17:331:17:39

I THOUGHT it was a phoney. I had to make sure.

1:17:391:17:43

She wasn't like that. I tell you how she was - cute.

1:17:431:17:48

Cute as a cap pistol. She still is. Do you wanna see her or don't you?

1:17:481:17:53

-You mean, you find her now?

-Yeah, I find her. Just now.

-She OK ?

1:17:541:18:00

-Depends.

-She doin' OK ?

-That depends, too.

1:18:001:18:03

You tip the johns off? I wouldn't want her to serve no stretch.

1:18:031:18:08

What stretch? You two mixed up in something together?

1:18:081:18:12

You tip the johns off on her!

1:18:121:18:15

Stop dancin' with me! The johns haven't got her. She's got herself!

1:18:151:18:20

-She wants to talk to you. Of course, things have changed a little in 8 years.

-OK!

1:18:201:18:26

Tomorrow.

1:18:261:18:28

OK. I like to pay you some more for finding her.

1:18:281:18:32

Aw, skip it. Here, grab a hamburger and lay low. Be here tomorrow as soon as it's dark.

1:18:351:18:42

-You got that?

-Yeah.

1:18:551:18:58

-What do you do?

-I wait here. Then I come up.

-WHEN do you come up?

1:18:581:19:03

You open the window.

1:19:031:19:05

I open the CURTAINS ! You'll see the light. Don't jump the gun. I'll leave the door open.

1:19:051:19:12

'That was like lighting a stick of dynamite,

1:19:151:19:18

'and telling it not to go off.

1:19:181:19:20

'But I had to know one more thing. I had to know how the jade figured.'

1:19:201:19:25

< KNOCKS SOFTLY ON DOOR

1:19:351:19:38

-You're trembling.

-I was afraid something had happened.

1:19:531:19:58

-Did you find Amthor?

-He's gone under cover. It'll be around 12.

1:19:581:20:03

-What's the programme?

-Pull the curtains and turn on the lights.

1:20:031:20:09

You told Amthor you'd have it for him, didn't you?

1:20:331:20:37

-Well, don't you like it?

-Dunno. I've never seen a necklace worth a hundred thousand bucks before.

1:20:411:20:48

-Where'd you get it?

-Lower left-hand drawer of my dressing-table.

1:20:481:20:53

It was never stolen?

1:20:531:20:56

There wasn't any hold-up!

1:20:561:20:58

-You faked the whole thing!

-I wasn't going to let him get it. I'm not going to let him get it now.

1:20:581:21:05

-We'll let him see it. He'll quibble.

-He carries a gun. He may know how to shoot it.

-He won't get that far.

1:21:051:21:13

Let's not talk about it now. It's quite simple. Then...this is yours.

1:21:131:21:18

You're too nice to be a grubby detective all your life.

1:21:181:21:23

-You told Marriott it had been stolen. Why?

-I had to make him, and Amthor, believe that.

1:21:231:21:30

-So I pretended to buy it back.

-Marriott fell for that?

-Why not?

1:21:301:21:35

I didn't REALLY like him. He was no good but...

1:21:381:21:42

-Remembering does something to my stomach.

-You still think Amthor killed him?

-Who else?

1:21:421:21:48

You.

1:21:501:21:52

No! No, you CAN'T mean that!

1:21:531:21:56

-Why?

-Because I see the picture different.

1:22:021:22:05

Marriott was scared. He'd agreed to help you kill the nosy detective Mrs Florian phoned him about.

1:22:051:22:12

He had to protect his interest. You belonged to him. And to Amthor.

1:22:121:22:18

And to Mrs Florian. You supported them.

1:22:181:22:21

You wouldn't have been worth blackmailing if I'd found you for Moose.

1:22:211:22:26

He might even have hurt you.

1:22:261:22:29

If Marriott hadn't been so scared, he might have realized you were pushing us BOTH in a corner.

1:22:291:22:36

One of us would get out of the car. It didn't matter which.

1:22:361:22:41

Then you'd tag us, one at a time. Get Amthor later.

1:22:411:22:45

It might have worked, too, if it hadn't been for Ann. Of course, my head's pretty hard.

1:22:471:22:53

-Killing a man with a sap is quiet, but it's no work for a lady.

-Don't! It's all true...

1:22:531:22:59

I was trapped! Everybody was closing in on me! I didn't know what I was doing!

1:22:591:23:05

-You almost did it! I almost ended up dead!

-I didn't know what to do! But I can't go back now...

1:23:051:23:12

I'm so close to peace. So close...

1:23:121:23:14

Just Amthor.

1:23:141:23:17

But I can't face it alone. Don't desert me now.

1:23:171:23:22

Sorry. It won't work twice.

1:23:221:23:24

But it's a good technique. I don't count the first time, 8 years ago. You were just learning.

1:23:271:23:34

Moose loved you. What did you talk him into? Murder - or something serious (?)

1:23:341:23:40

You almost had me, sister, because you almost told me the truth.

1:23:401:23:45

Sure, Amthor's blackmailing you, but why? It wasn't just men. Pop understood the men.

1:23:451:23:52

That was part of the set-up, an understanding Gran'pa.

1:23:521:23:55

No, it was the clink coming up. It's no good there. You still don't get silk sheets.

1:23:551:24:02

Don't do that!

1:24:021:24:04

I should have told you not to kiss a girl when you're wearing that gun. It leaves a bruise.

1:24:051:24:12

I'll try to remember.

1:24:121:24:15

I could like you... I could like you a lot.

1:24:151:24:19

Too bad it has to be like this...

1:24:191:24:21

C-R-A-S H!

1:24:211:24:24

Don't move!

1:24:261:24:28

Well, come in. Come in!

1:24:281:24:30

Your sense of timing, dear, gets worse.

1:24:341:24:38

-No,

-I

-insisted on coming. I was worried.

1:24:381:24:42

Why didn't you tell me you were in trouble? I wanted to spare you.

1:24:421:24:47

I might have been able to prevent all this. Now, it's too late.

1:24:471:24:53

If Mr Amthor's coming, I think perhaps you'd better do it quickly.

1:24:531:24:59

..Get his gun.

1:25:021:25:05

HELEN: I've never killed someone I knew so little and liked so well !

1:25:061:25:11

-What's your first name?

-Philip...for short.

1:25:111:25:15

Philip.

1:25:151:25:17

Philip Marlowe. A name for a duke - and you're just a nice mug (!)

1:25:171:25:22

I've got a name for a duchess - Mrs Lewin Lockridge Grayle.

1:25:221:25:27

Just a couple of mugs.

1:25:271:25:30

-We could have got along.

-What's stopping us now?

1:25:301:25:34

I'll handle Moose. He loves you. He broke Amthor's neck because he loves...

1:25:341:25:39

Then that leaves only you.

1:25:421:25:45

-There's nothing I want to do about you now.

-You know too much. It's gone too far.

1:25:451:25:51

And I'm so tired...

1:25:521:25:54

B-A-N-G!

1:25:541:25:57

Police.

1:26:151:26:16

He saved your life! Must he suffer for that? Why must he suffer more?

1:26:181:26:23

-The cops like to solve murders done with my gun.

-She's dead. She was evil.

1:26:231:26:29

Does it matter who killed her?

1:26:291:26:32

S-W-I-S-H

1:26:321:26:34

I hear it so I come up.

1:26:361:26:39

-I like to talk to Velma now.

-It... didn't work out the way I planned, Moose. You got a refund coming.

1:26:431:26:51

She ain't hardly changed.

1:27:031:27:06

Just like always...

1:27:061:27:08

..only more fancy.

1:27:091:27:11

Cute as lace pants.

1:27:111:27:14

Always.

1:27:141:27:15

MOOSE: I wasn't gonna bother her none if she done all right.

1:27:151:27:20

It was the only thing I could do. Please understand...

1:27:201:27:24

GRAYLE: I couldn't let her go. I loved her too much...

1:27:241:27:30

-You shouldn't 'ave killed her.

-Moose!

1:27:301:27:33

-You shouldn't 'ave!

-Moose...!

1:27:331:27:36

A SECOND SHOT IS FIRED...AND A THIRD

1:27:431:27:46

ANN SCREAMS

1:27:461:27:49

'That old black pit opened up again, right on schedule, blacker than the others and deeper.

1:27:511:27:58

'I didn't expect to hit bottom.

1:27:581:28:01

'I thought I was full of lead.'

1:28:011:28:03

That's all I know. I don't see so well with my eyeballs scorched.

1:28:051:28:10

I heard the shots. I didn't fire them. I don't know who got hit.

1:28:101:28:15

It wasn't the kid, was it? It wasn't Ann?

1:28:151:28:19

-Randall!

-He'll be back in a minute.

-Oh.

1:28:201:28:23

-How soon do I get these off, Nulty?

-A couple of months, if you live that long.

1:28:231:28:30

-I'm sprung?

-Get outta here. I'll have your statement tomorrow.

1:28:381:28:43

Who backed me up?

1:28:431:28:45

Who got shot? I heard three.

1:28:461:28:49

-Molloy.

-Dead?

-Yeah. And Grayle.

1:28:491:28:52

They fought... Grayle got the third slug himself.

1:28:521:28:56

The kid's OK, then.

1:28:571:28:59

-She thought it over, came around and backed me up?

-I didn't say.

-She here now?

1:29:001:29:06

No. Nulty, see he gets home.

1:29:071:29:10

-Hey, want a going-away present?

-It's yours. She gave it to you.

1:29:101:29:16

-She was going to, if I'd finished the job. Anyway, it doesn't suit my complexion.

-What do

-I

-do with it?

1:29:161:29:24

Give it to your girlfriend. Give it back to China. Strangle yourself with it. I don't care!

1:29:241:29:31

-How about the redhead, pitching for me! How'd she take it about the old man?

-I wouldn't know.

1:29:311:29:38

Cute figure, huh?

1:29:381:29:41

-I didn't notice.

-You must be low on vitamins.

1:29:421:29:46

She had more than a figure, too.

1:29:481:29:51

-Watch your step.

-A good face...

1:29:511:29:54

-Like a Sunday School picnic. Know that kind of face, Nulty?

-No.

1:29:541:29:59

Too bad I had to push her around. I wonder how she figured me?

1:29:591:30:05

Not much, probably. I guess she thought I liked that blonde chewing on my face.

1:30:051:30:11

You know, I'd like to tell her.

1:30:111:30:14

-Would there be much percentage in that?

-I wouldn't know!

1:30:141:30:18

Hey, cab!

1:30:181:30:21

Watch your head. 1800, South Kingsley. Right.

1:30:231:30:28

HE SNIFFS

1:30:391:30:42

Aw, well... She made swell coffee, anyway.

1:30:441:30:47

Nulty...

1:30:481:30:50

I haven't kissed anybody in a long time. How about I kiss YOU, Nulty?

1:30:501:30:55

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