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Suspense!

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Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers present Mr. Danny Kay in I Never Met the Dead Man,

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a suspense play produced and edited by William Spear.

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Hello?

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Wake up Mr. Wilcox, it's a brand new year. Happy New Year!

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Okay. Oh, what a sleep. Hey, did she say a new year? Boy, let me at it.

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At that Auto Light stay full battery I promised myself. That wonderful water

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wagon, that thirstless, thrilling three-timer.

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Yes sir, it needs water only three times a year in normal car use.

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Hello again. Are you up Mr. Wilcox?

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Am I up? I'm as up as an Auto Light stay full battery is up and away at a single

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starter shove on a winter's morning that's as cold as Blitzen

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and alive. Alive as an Auto Light stay full battery, built with fiberglass

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retaining mats

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to give seventy percent longer average life according to tests based on SAE

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life cycle standards

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compared to batteries without those stay full features. Mr. Wilcox,

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it's time for... Oh yes, yes, suspense.

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And now with I never met the dead man

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and the performance of Mr. Danny Kay, Auto Light hopes once again to keep you in

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suspense.

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I never even met the guy. I was just walking along humming

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on an empty side street on New Year's Day.

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Humming

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Gunshots

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Hey there! Hey you! Stop!

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I didn't do anything officer. Oh, nobody ever does anything.

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Why they pay us cups of salary I don't understand.

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You know me Mr. Callan, Joe Wickhoff. I was on my way home from the plant.

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Running home boy? No, I wasn't. Bullets were flying around here. Somebody killed

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that man in the car.

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Sure, somebody. Are you crazy or something? I had nothing to do with it.

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Ask anybody. Ask who for instance boy?

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There wasn't anybody else on the street when I turned the corner.

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Well how about these buildings around here? He could have been shot from one of them.

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That's right, he could have. But you better stick around anyway boy.

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That's how it started. Just walking along humming.

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All of a sudden bang, bang and a half hour later the cops have me in the yes room at headquarters.

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No rubber hose, none of that kind of stuff. Just where did I hide the gun?

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Where did I hide the gun? Where did I hide the gun?

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And I keep telling them I don't even own a gun. All the time I know they got nothing on me

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that they're playing a long shot but just the same I'm scared. Murder rap, who wouldn't

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be scared? Finally after a couple of hours they let me go.

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Callan, the cop that nabbed me was standing on the sidewalk outside.

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Well, well. Look Mr. Callan, I wanted to tell you I know

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you were just doing your duty and there's no hard feelings.

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Well, that's real generous of you boy. I was only trying to be nice about it.

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I'm wondering why you're trying. You're worried aren't you Wyckoff?

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You're holding something back. You're worried.

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Ah, you guys. You're lying, I can tell.

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You know so much why don't you sound off inside headquarters?

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I'm just a neighborhood cop, a beat man. But even a beat man gets a good idea once in a while.

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What are you holding back boy? Nothing Mr. Callan, nothing I tell you.

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Bad business lying to the police. I'm not lying.

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Go on homeboy, talk it over with your wife. Maybe she's got some sense.

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Bella, my wife with some sense. That was funny only Callan didn't know.

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Bella's like a friendly kitten. Pretty and lovable and full of fun.

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Oh Bella could think was gee, her husband's name was in the evening paper.

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Look Joey, right here on page 27. The only witness to the murder was Joseph R. Wyckoff.

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They misspelled it. Only one F. Wouldn't you think they'd know better?

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Joseph R. Wyckoff, a truck driver on his way home from work.

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The victim has not yet been identified.

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The guy that got killed, the cops don't know who he was.

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No papers on the body and his face was full of bullet holes.

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Terrible. The police expect to make an arrest within 24 hours.

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It says so right here.

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A professional job like that is going to take the cops more than 24 hours to pin down.

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I don't understand, professional?

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A hired gunman steps off a train from Detroit or someplace.

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He fires a couple of shots and takes the next train back. No clues, nothing.

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Oh, well then how come the police...

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Oh, let's forget it a while, will you honey? I don't feel like talking about it.

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All right, Joey. Okay.

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You sick or something, Joey? You're all jumpy. You didn't eat hardly any supper.

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Well, I've got no appetite. Lots of times I'm like that. No, no appetite.

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It's a shame. All that good spaghetti gone to waste.

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Joey.

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What?

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We ought to celebrate your name in the paper. Let's go out dancing some way.

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I'm tired, Bella. Bushed.

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Gee, we never go out anymore.

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Some other time, Bella.

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That's what I mean. We're all jumpy.

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I'm sorry, Bella. I shouldn't have yelled off like that.

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Those cops this afternoon, they got me upset.

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Oh, honey. I don't blame you being upset.

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They got their nerve practically saying you killed a fella.

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You can't blame the cops, Bella. They know they got their work cut out and they ain't missing any bets.

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They're trying to advance themselves too.

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But you never been in trouble before. You'd think that'd be enough for them.

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Well, the only thing is I...

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I have been in trouble.

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Huh?

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Back in New York before I met you, I did a stretch in prison.

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You?

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Yeah, it was nothing very much. Robbing a grocery store. The kind of crazy things young guys do.

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Joey.

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You never told me.

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Well, you spend a year with the bad boys, you certainly don't hire a sky rider to tell people about it, Bella.

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But I'm your wife, Joey.

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I wanted to tell you and I would have.

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Well, I'd understood.

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Sure. Sure, Bella.

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But lots of times you talk without thinking, honey.

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I was scared you might let it slip and...

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Oh, I never would have blabbermouthed about a thing like that, Joey.

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You know that.

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Did you tell the police, Joey?

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No. No.

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They asked me did I have a record and I said no.

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Oh, golly.

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Maybe I shouldn't have lied, I don't know, but I was rattled. I'm still rattled.

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Well, will they find out anyway?

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I don't see how.

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They didn't book me this afternoon, so...

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Well, there's no fingerprints to check with.

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Oh, well then.

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Well, the Calon, the comp I told you about, he worries me. He's the one.

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He knows I got something on my mind and he keeps needling and needling.

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So let him needle.

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You know how it would look.

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Guy with a record spotted near the murder and Calon that...

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Mr. Calon's got plenty other things on his mind.

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In a couple of days, he'll forget all about you.

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You think so, Bella?

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Why, sure.

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And I'm supposed to be the dopey one around here.

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Ha ha ha.

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I got to thinking maybe Bella was right.

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Maybe it was just another side street killer and it wouldn't amount to a hill of beans.

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I might even have had a good night's sleep if we hadn't stayed up for the late news broadcast.

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An obscure murder lost in the back pages of tonight's papers will be headlined on page one tomorrow morning.

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The victim has been identified as Willoughby Roberts, feature reporter of the News Gazette.

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And that newspaper has already posted a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the killer.

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Willoughby Roberts, it was revealed tonight, had been engaged in an undercover investigation

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of the county's illegal gambling palaces.

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Today, President Truman made an address to...

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My luck.

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My luck.

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Now, Joey.

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$10,000, every cop in town will be out for that reward.

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If they find out about my record, they'll...

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Oh, Joey, don't.

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Bella, what am I going to do?

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There was nothing I could do but wait and pray that the cops would let me alone.

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Next morning, I went to work same as usual.

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All day long, I sat behind the wheel of my truck, trying to act like nothing was wrong.

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Finally, I went back to the plant.

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Hugo, he was the boss of us truckers. He had left word for me to see him in his office.

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Come in. Sit down, Joe.

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Now, I'm not supposed to tell you, Joe, but you're in trouble.

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Bad trouble.

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Yeah?

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A cop in here all afternoon pumping me.

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Was his name Callan?

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Why, he didn't mention no name.

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Thick neck, hard eyes.

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All the time, looks like he's smiling at something he don't think is funny.

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That's Callan, all right.

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His wick off a friend of Pigeon Watts, he asks me. And I tell him...

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Pigeon Watts?

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The gambler, the big gambler. He owns that place outside of town.

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The Pigeon Coop.

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The reporter, the guy that was killed, he was working on Pigeon Watts.

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The cops figure the Pigeon paid someone to do the job.

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Maybe you.

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I don't know any Pigeon Watts.

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That's what I told this cop, this Callan. Joe Wickoff mixed up with gamblers.

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I said, don't make me laugh. He can't even beat his wife, Gin Rummy.

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And anybody that can't beat Bella, Gin Rummy.

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Thanks, thanks. Thanks, you.

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I slowed him down a little, Joe.

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Now, now comes the bad part.

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Go ahead.

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This cop, he went nosing around the trucker's locker room.

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He found a gun, Joe.

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Where?

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In the box for dirty towels.

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Near where you keep your stuff.

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Was it the gun that...

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No, no, it wasn't the one he was looking for. Not the one that did the killing.

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But it makes things look bad for you.

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Now look, you go...

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All I'm telling you is what he said, Joe. What Callan said.

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He said at headquarters, you swore up and down you didn't own a gun.

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And when he found this one in the locker room, he...

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He said it makes things look bad for you.

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Bad, Joe.

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All the truckers use that room, but right away it's my gun.

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Why didn't he ask the other guys who...

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He did, he did ask, Joe. They all say no.

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Well, so do I say no.

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Why does Callan believe the other guys and not me?

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I asked him that. He said...

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Oh, well...

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He said the other guys didn't do a stretch in the jail house.

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Oh.

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So he found out already, huh?

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It's...

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It's true, then, huh, Joe?

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Yeah.

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Yeah, it's true.

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What am I gonna do, Joe?

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I don't know what you mean. I don't get it. What are you gonna do?

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Well, these trucks, sometimes the cargo is valuable.

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What am I gonna do, Joe?

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Yesterday I'm your best friend.

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Today I'm an ex-con who might steal a monkey wrench.

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Well, I got the owners to answer to, Joe.

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Suppose you were me. Suppose you had a driver you liked,

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but it turned out he had a wrecking.

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What would you do?

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Same thing you're gonna do.

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There are other jobs.

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Sure, sure. All kinds of jobs for an ex-con, a murder suspect.

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Babysitting, maybe.

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Don't do anything crazy. Please, Joe.

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Well, suppose you were me. What would you do?

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I'd go out and get drunk.

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But I ain't a married man. Bella will need you, Joe.

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She's not having any picnic.

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Does she know what's been going on?

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Well, the cop was heading for your apartment when he left here,

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so I called Bella to...

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Well, just to call her.

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In case there's any evidence to hide. Was that it?

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Oh, Joe.

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My buddy. My trusting buddy.

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Ah, don't feel that way, Joe.

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Well, what way do you expect me to feel?

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Who's there? Who is it?

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It's me, hon. You all right?

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Oh, Joey. I've been so scared, Joey.

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A policeman, that Mr. Callan. He only just said that it was awful.

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Oh, now take it easy, honey. Take it easy.

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Everything will be all right if you'll just take it easy.

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He kept asking me, did you know Pigeon Watts?

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And I kept saying no, and all the time I had these things in my pocket.

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Things?

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I was afraid they'd fall out and he'd see them.

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It was awful, Joey.

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What things?

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Look, these chips or whatever you call them.

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But these are gambling chips.

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I found them in your bureau drawer just before Mr. Callan came.

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They all got a pigeon marked on them,

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and I figured you wouldn't want nobody to see them.

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So I hid them in my pocket.

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Wait a minute. Wait a minute. I don't get this. It doesn't make sense.

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On account of the bird on them, the pigeon.

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I knew right away you must have got them at Pigeon Watts gambling house.

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So I hid them.

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I never saw them before. Never.

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Oh, we better drop them down a sewer or a cell place where nobody will find them.

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Bella, look, listen to me.

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I never saw them before.

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Oh.

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You believe me, Bella, don't you?

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Sure.

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Sure, I believe you.

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Bella, why were you looking at my bureau?

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I...

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Oh, don't ask me that, Joey.

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Why, Bella? Why were you looking?

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Please, Joey, don't.

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Oh, listen, it's raining.

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Why?

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All right, Joey.

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It was on account of all the crazy things that have been happening.

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Like about you having been in jail.

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And then Hugo, your best friend,

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he found it so funny over the phone when he said they found a gun in your locker.

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Near my locker.

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Not in, near.

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Near, then.

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I was scared Mr. Callum might find something else when he got here.

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So I searched all through the apartment.

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And you found these chips from Pigeon Watts' joint?

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Yeah.

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Oh, Joe.

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You think I'm mixed up in this murder, don't you, Bella?

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No, Joey, no.

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It's just that I don't know what to think.

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What does that mean?

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Oh, I guess I'm kind of dumb, like you're always kidding me.

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And all these crazy things happening.

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I don't know what to think.

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First Callum, then you go and now you.

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You're sore, Joey.

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I can tell just by looking at you.

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You're sore clean through.

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Yeah, I'm...

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No, no, Bella.

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Maybe it's better you're honest, then I know where I stand.

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But...

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Maybe it's good I'm sore.

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Maybe now I'll get off the dime.

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Off the dime, Joey?

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Bella, I want you to listen to me now.

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Did you go out today, Bella?

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Did you go out at all for shopping or anything?

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Well, it was just a few minutes at noon.

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I went in to talk with Mrs. Minnelli and 4G, just gabbing.

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Well, try to remember now.

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Did you leave the door open, the apartment door?

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Yeah, I think so.

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Then somebody could have sneaked in here and planted these gambling chips while you were gone.

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I guess so.

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Sure.

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But who'd do a thing like that?

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Somebody who wants the $10,000 reward.

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Somebody who wants it bad enough to frame an innocent guy.

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Joey.

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I'm a natural.

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I'm an ex-con.

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I happened to be right there when the shots were fired.

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I would be the...

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But, Joey, who?

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Who's framing you?

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I don't know who.

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But whoever it is, he got these chips from Pigeon Watts' joint.

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Where are you going, Joey?

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To have a talk with Mr. Pigeon Watts.

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Maybe I can get some information out of Mr. Pigeon Watts.

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Just a minute, Joey.

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I'm going with you.

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I thought I was so smart.

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If I only hadn't gone on with it.

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just so it wouldn't have ended up like it did.

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Met the Dead Man, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense.

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I was a lot more scared than I let Bella know when we drove through the rain at Pigeon

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Watts' place.

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I didn't know what to expect, so I told Bella to stay in the car with the lights out and

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the motor running.

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Then I started toward the door of the gambling place.

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What are you doing?

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It looked more like a warehouse, an old, dirty warehouse.

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Yeah.

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One of Watts' bouncers finally opened out.

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He told me to beat it.

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On account of all the stuff in the papers, they were only letting in regulars, people

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they were sure of.

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He said Pigeon Watts wasn't seeing anybody, and he began to get mean mad when I wouldn't

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go away.

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I saw the flicker of brass knuckles coming at me, but I didn't duck.

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I had to talk to Watts, even if it meant getting my lumps first.

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All right?

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Still feel like a hard guy?

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No.

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No, sir, I'm not a hard guy.

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I just wanted to see Mr. Watts a few minutes.

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You're seeing him.

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My name is Wyckoff, Mr. Watts.

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Wyckoff.

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You're the one that saw the reporter get it?

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Yes, sir.

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Just a second.

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Nobody bother me a while.

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All right, hard guy, what's on your mind?

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Well, it's like this, Mr. Watts.

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And I told him the whole story.

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Everything that had happened, and he just sat there and looked at me.

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No expression at all, just sat there and looked at me.

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It was like talking to a chair or something.

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Even when I showed him the gambling chips Bella found in my bureau drawer,

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it didn't seem to mean anything to him.

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Two-bit chips for the piker trade.

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Anybody could have walked out of here with a handful.

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Sorry, I can't help you.

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I gotta have help.

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The cop I told you about, he really thinks I killed that reporter.

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I don't blame him.

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It's a good frame, nothing obvious about it.

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Just little things pointing to you.

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Good frame, all right, a very good frame.

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But I didn't do it, honest I didn't.

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I know you didn't, but there's nothing I can do to help.

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Sorry.

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What makes you so sure I didn't kill the guy?

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Nothing I can do.

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I just asked why you're so sure I didn't kill him.

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Because I know who did.

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Because I paid an out of town torpedo 1500 rockers for the job.

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Well, well then.

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You expect to tell that to the police?

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You've gone to Mr. Watts, I could get the chair for this.

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So could I, you or me.

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Then you won't do nothing?

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No, it's a tough break for you, like I said.

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I'm sorry, but that's the way the ball bounces.

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If you think I'm going to take this lying down, you're crazy.

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Maybe you're not so tough as you think.

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I've got a couple...

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Our friend's getting hard again, outside with him, Roy.

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I'm not going anywhere.

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You heard the man, outside.

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No.

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Hey look, I don't get no pleasure slapping people around.

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Outside before...

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Hey, a raid.

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Yeah.

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Should open up.

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Let them pound their way in this time.

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Maybe you'll talk for the cops, Mr. Pigeon Watts.

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What'll I do with this monkey pigeon?

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Why a raid? I mean why right now, this minute?

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Who cares why? They're here and that's a...

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I'll tell you why, Wyckoff.

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If so, you and I get pulled in together.

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You got a car outside?

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I'm staying right here.

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Cops ain't brainless, Wyckoff.

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They're pretty sure I ponied up for that killing.

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The only place they went wrong, they figured I paid you for the job.

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They'd have paced us both before this if they could have found any connection between us.

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So what?

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So this. If they nab us together in this raid, it takes care of the connection.

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You're right, hot guy. Now will you get out of here?

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But how'd the cops know I'd be here?

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Whoever's framing you planted those chips so you'd come here.

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He even knew when you'd come and he tipped off the police a $10,000 phone call.

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Yeah. Yeah.

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Now beat it. Open the window, Roy.

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You're all right, Watts.

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You can think pretty fast. You just told me the answer.

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I think I can find the guy now.

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That's fine. Go on, kid. Out the window.

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It's two stories down.

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All right, it's two stories down.

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I can make it.

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So long, hot guy.

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Oh! Oh, my leg!

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Oh, my back! My leg!

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I'll make it.

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I gotta make it. I gotta know.

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I gotta know who's the guy.

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Nobody's following, Joey.

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You can slow down now.

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What happened in there?

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Your leg hurt, Joey?

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You're looking so funny.

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Who's the guy, Bella?

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These roads are wet, Joey. Not so fast.

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Who's the guy?

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What guy? What are you talking about?

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The guy, Bella. The guy you're framing me with.

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You crazy or something, Joey?

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Slow down.

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Not until you tell me the name of the guy.

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I don't know what you're talking about, even.

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I'm talking about you getting rid of your husband

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and collecting $10,000 at the same time.

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You weren't smart enough to figure it out yourself, Bella.

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Somebody had to tell you what to say, how to act.

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Who was it?

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Joey, please, you'll kill us both.

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Those gambling chips.

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You planted them in my bureau yourself.

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No, no, no.

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Then while I was in the gambling joint,

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you slipped away and telephoned the guy,

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and he tipped off the cops.

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Oh, honest, Joey.

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There ain't no way out of it, Bella.

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You're the only one knew I was with Pidgeon Watts.

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Oh, you gotta believe me, Joey.

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Who's the guy you phoned, Bella?

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Watch out, Joey!

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Who's the guy, Bella?

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All right, Joey.

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I'll tell you.

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Only slow down.

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It was Hugo, Joey.

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Sure.

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The gun in the locker room, sure.

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It had to be Hugo.

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Oh, it wasn't like you think, Joey.

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It was just when you were away on a job,

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Hugo'd take me out dancing once in a while.

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And who gave me those out of town halls?

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Hugo.

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My good friend Hugo.

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When I blabbed to him about you having been in jail,

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he got this idea telling Officer Callan,

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I didn't think what it would mean, Joey.

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I just didn't think.

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And then when it started,

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there didn't seem any way to stop it.

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You know I love you, Joey.

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Crazy kid.

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Can't we start all over, Joey?

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Like it never happened?

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Crazy, crazy kid.

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Please, Joey.

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Please.

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I won't never see Hugo no more.

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Oh, Joey, please forgive me.

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I forgive you, crazy kid.

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Oh, Joey.

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Oh, my God!

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Oh, my God!

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So Bella's dead.

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Killed in an accident, the newspaper said.

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But maybe it wasn't really an accident.

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But what you may call him here at the hospital,

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a psychiatrist, he says lots of automobile accidents happen

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and the drivers want them without knowing they want them.

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Down underneath they want them, that isn't.

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And they get careless.

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He says that any...

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Yeah?

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It's me, boy.

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Officer Callan.

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Oh, you.

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The nurse said I could only stay a minute.

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I'm sorry, Joe.

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I'm sorry what happened.

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Not your fault.

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I wanted you to know, we got the guy that killed the reporter.

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Professional gunman.

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He's still singing down at headquarters.

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Pigeon Watts won't like the tune.

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Good. Yes, well.

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And Joe, that guy, that Hugo,

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he won't be getting any more bright ideas for a while.

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I talked to some people at the plant and, well,

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Hugo's job is waiting for you when you get out of here.

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That's well, Callan.

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Thanks a lot.

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About, you know, your wife.

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The only thing to do is try to forget everything that happened.

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Sure.

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Be seeing you soon, boy.

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And, well, I'm sorry.

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Try to forget it, he says.

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Forget.

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Forget it.

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Suspense presented by Auto Light.

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