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Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers present Suspense.

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Tonight, Auto Light brings you Blood on the Trumpet, a suspense play starring Mr. William Holden,

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with special trumpet effects by the famous Ziggy Elman.

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I don't get to this part of New Orleans much, Sergeant Juno.

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I used to come and listen to jazz once in a while.

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Who's been on the case?

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Me and Lieutenant Angelini. We've been on it steady for 48 hours.

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This the place, Juno?

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Well, yes, is it?

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It's not exactly a respectable looking hotel.

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When a man runs from murder, Casdu, he can't stop to live in style.

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Who found the body?

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Landlady, she called him.

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Messy, huh?

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When you beat somebody's head in with a thing like a trumpet, it's real messy.

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All right, Casdu, this is it.

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You want me to kick it in?

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No, uh-uh.

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Put your horn down, Vic. This is Sergeant Juno of the New Orleans Police.

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Put the horn down.

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Come out, kid. Come out with no monkey business.

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Let me break it down.

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No way.

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The police. Oh, I'm glad it's the police.

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I'm so glad it's the police and not him.

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Vic, in the presence of police officer Casdu, I arrest you for the murder of your wife.

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In just a moment, Mr. William Holden in the first act of Blood on the Trumpet.

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And now, with Blood on the Trumpet and the performance of Mr. William Holden,

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auto light hopes once again to keep you in...

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...spend.

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You feel okay now, V?

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How's a guy supposed to feel when he's arrested for murder?

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Want a cigarette?

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No.

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You've done a good job on her, boy.

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Thanks.

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Oh, here's my report, Casio. Get the Steno to type up three carbons and give one to Lieutenant Angelini.

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Angelini?

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Yeah, Vic, Lieutenant Angelini. He's the big boy in charge of the case. Very famous New Orleans.

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Yeah, I've heard of him. Eichstad told me about him.

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All right, Vic. Let's start from the reason why you killed Sarah, your wife.

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Why? I didn't have a reason. It just happened. We had a fight.

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I don't know. I'm all mixed up.

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Come on, Vic, boy. Try hard for Sergeant Juno.

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Go back to when it started.

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When it started? Who can say when it started?

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Maybe it started the first day I married Sarah. My own mind, I don't know.

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Or maybe it started when I started playing trumpet at Lou Eichstad's club down in the French Quarter.

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They call me great. Real great. The best trumpet since Beiderbecker Armstrong.

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Everybody thought so. Everybody. Everybody but Sarah, my wife.

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She didn't. She had different ideas about it.

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She couldn't understand a man loving music.

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Has-been. You're a has-been. Only you never went anywhere to be a has-been.

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You were always a second-rate hornblower and you'll never be anything else. Do you hear me? Never anything else.

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Oh, Sarah, these walls are like paper. So let them hear. I don't care.

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Let them know what a bum I've got for a husband.

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I'm sick of your talk. I'm sick of you.

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Turn that lousy record off. Leave it on.

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Sarah, you've got cotton in your ears. I said leave it on.

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All day long the same record around and around. I said put it back on.

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It makes me sick. Sarah!

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Always the same song and dance. A little time, Sarah. A little time.

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Sarah, please. You're a dreamer. You blow pipe dreams through that horn you play.

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Shut up! Wait, Sarah, wait. My ship will come in.

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Sure, I'll wait. While I'm waiting you beat your brains out blowing a horn in a cheap dive.

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Your ship sunk and you don't know it.

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You know something? I wish I was dead.

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To hear that trumpet man, I wish I was dead.

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Sarah, when you talk like that, I wish I could kill you myself and make your wish come true.

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For five years the same argument over and over and the same words, they never changed.

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I was late getting to the club, but I didn't care.

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Sarah talking to me like that.

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The first set I was so sore I didn't need anything to make me hop, I blew that horn by the beat of my blood.

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We got our first break after the second set and Lou, the owner of the club, came over and took my arm.

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Said he had somebody he wanted me to meet.

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Oh, over here, Vic, my great trumpet man.

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What's up, Lou?

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Oh, a girl's up, Vic. A music lover who'd like to meet you.

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Miss Luana Doran, meet my trumpet man, Victor Roberts.

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How do you do?

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Hi.

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Sit down, Victor, sit down. Talk some music. Talk some old time jazz.

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Entertain Miss Doran, Victor. Talk about the jazz we play.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Sit down, Vic.

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Thanks.

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Buy your drink.

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Is water strong enough?

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You're good on that trumpet, Vic.

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Think so?

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Mm-hmm.

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Pin a metal on me.

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Hey, look, horn boy, you don't have to sit here and talk to me.

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Oh, I'm sorry. I tell you what I'll do, Miss Doran.

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I'll let you buy me that drink and you can tell me the story of your life.

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That sounds like a bargain.

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She ordered up and we sat and talked.

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She told me the story. It was a brutal one.

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A sick father and a rotten mother.

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So to get away from it all, she married young.

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A musician that had had a sickness beside music.

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He drank himself to death.

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But from him, she'd learned something.

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She'd learned to love music, which was why she canvassed jazz joints.

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She said she'd been in every night for almost two weeks now listening to our combo.

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She thought we were good.

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Particularly the bright boy on the trumpet, me.

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The guys were moving up to the next set, so I made my excuses and left her.

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Blue Eichstadt stopped me by the platform.

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Lay off, Vic. It's no good.

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

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I'm talking about trouble as another guy.

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A rough guy. A guy that's a mean cop.

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A guy that doesn't deserve the name cop and he wants her bad.

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He comes in every night, sits over in that corner and watches her.

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I don't see him tonight.

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Rico Angelini is a bad name for you to mix with.

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Look, Lou, take it easy. I just met her.

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Lay off, Vic. Go home to sary your wife.

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We finished the last set about one.

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The table where Lou Ann had been sitting was empty.

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Then one of the waiters came up and handed me a napkin.

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I looked at it.

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It had an address written on it in lipstick.

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Blood red lipstick.

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Capitular Hotel, Canal Street.

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I started to fold it up and toss it away, but then suddenly I thought about Sarah.

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And I didn't toss it away.

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I shoved it in my pocket and walked out.

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It took me 15 minutes to get back to the boarding house.

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The light up in our room was still on and Sarah was still up.

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And just like that, against the pull down shade, I saw two shadows.

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One was the shadow of Sarah.

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And the other, the shadow of a man.

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I choked and my breath came hard.

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My Sarah, my own Sarah with some other guy.

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I waited five minutes. Ten minutes.

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Then the light snapped out.

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I went up the stairs, onto the porch, and ducked behind a swing.

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The front door opened and the outline of a big guy came out and went down the steps.

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I couldn't see his face, but as he passed under the street lamp, I could see he was wearing a green checkered shirt collar.

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Sarah, my own sweet little nagging wife, two-timing me, playing me for a sap.

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I took the napkin out of my pocket.

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Thanks, Sarah, for helping me to decide.

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Then I went where the lipstick told me.

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Hi, trumpet man.

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Hi.

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Did the lipstick smudge?

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I'm here. It didn't smudge.

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Want to come in?

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Lou Eichstadt says to lay off.

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He's your father, maybe?

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What do you want?

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A ride. How about a ride in my fast car, Vic?

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A ride this time of morning?

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I know a little place where they serve good black coffee.

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I've had kind of a rough time tonight. I'm tired.

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Too tired for some good black coffee?

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This is all crazy. I...

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A cup of black coffee and small talk?

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I like your looks. That's all.

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That's all? You think that's all?

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Down by the wharf?

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That's my last offer, trumpet man.

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I asked for it, didn't I?

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We went down and got into her car, and she headed straight for the wharf.

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At Cirello's, the lights were low, the music was soft, and the coffee was good.

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We sat and talked, and pretty soon we got back into her car and drove close to the river.

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She stopped the car and looked up at me.

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Her eyes were real black.

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She moved her lips close to mine.

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Those blood red lips.

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What's Angelini?

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How did you know? Oh, Lou Eichstad, I get it.

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Who is he? What is he?

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A cop. I met him somewhere one night. He's called me a couple of times, but that's all.

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That's all?

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That's all, trumpet man. Nothing ever like this.

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Vic, let's go away, just you and I.

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That's not possible.

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Why? Tell me why it isn't possible.

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I have a wife.

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Now it makes a difference, doesn't it?

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No, Vic. No, it doesn't.

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Why should it make a difference?

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I don't know. I just thought maybe it would.

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Vic, this can be for keeps.

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You really mean it, don't you?

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Let's go away, and you'll see how much I mean it.

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Let's go away together.

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Leave her. We'll go away and start something new.

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I'm all mixed up in my mind.

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I meet you one night. You don't even know me. We hardly know each other.

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I like the way you look.

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Vic, let's go away. Let's go away in a little while.

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I don't know.

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I'll wait for you, Vic. I'll wait for you at the hotel.

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I... All right.

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All right, baby, you wait for me at the hotel.

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I'll wait for you.

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Press hard on my lips, Vic.

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Real hard, just like you do when you're trumpet.

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Something that had been hard for me to settle was easy now.

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I was through with Sarah, my great big headache.

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I was finished, and she wouldn't yell at me anymore, or cheat anymore.

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I could go away now.

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Go away from her.

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I could go away now.

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Go away from her and her nagging voice.

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Away from Sarah, and away from hate.

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You, Vic?

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Yeah, me, Vic.

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Where have you been all night?

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It's four o'clock in the morning.

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Your voice makes me sick.

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What should I think?

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What should you think?

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I'm no good bum husband who stays out all night.

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Now, be quiet for one minute, and I'll tell you a secret, my sinful wife.

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I'm leaving you. I'm going away.

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You're going away?

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You're insane. What do you think?

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Oh, it's time, Sarah.

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I finally woke up from that crazy sleep I was in.

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I'm leaving you.

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So, you're leaving me.

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Yes, I'm leaving you.

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We don't make the right kind of music anymore.

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Music. Is that what you call it?

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No, it's not music.

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It's a hell. That's all it's ever been.

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Do you hear me?

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Everything I've ever done, every sacrifice I've ever made

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in just a simple sentence, you make, it's all over.

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Just as simple as that.

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Maybe it just isn't music.

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Maybe it's something else.

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Like maybe another woman.

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Sarah.

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I knew it. I smelled it.

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Someone else. That's it, isn't it, Vick?

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Sarah, stop it. Don't say another word.

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Who is she?

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Some music lover you picked up?

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Who is she? Answer me.

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Be quiet.

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Who is she? Who is she, you dirty chick?

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I said be quiet.

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You make me sick.

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You hit me.

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You hit me.

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I'll show you, you dirty lass.

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I'll show you.

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Stop it, sir. Stop your ruff.

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I'll switch you.

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You...

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Sarah.

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Get up, Sarah. I didn't mean to...

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Sarah.

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I said to get up.

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I didn't...

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Sarah, what's the matter?

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Why don't you...

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Sarah, you're bleeding.

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I didn't mean to, Sarah.

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No. No, Sarah. No.

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No. No.

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Lewis's production of Blood on the Trumpet.

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A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense.

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Something banged against my head.

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I turned over on my back and opened my eyes.

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And then I sat up.

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I was in bed and the banging noise became a shade flapping against the window of a cheap

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hotel where I was hiding out.

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I got up off the bed and moved over to the window.

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The clock down across the street said 2.30.

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The sun was high and hot.

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I remember running from a boarding house last night, running until I found this cheap hotel.

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What does a killer do?

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He runs.

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He runs from everything.

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I found a nickel in my pants pocket.

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And on this nickel I pinned my hopes for survival.

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I call Luana.

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Hello?

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Luana Vic.

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What happened, Trumpet boy?

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Is she talking you out of it?

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Luana, wait.

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Please listen to me.

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Now listen to me, folks, and try not to get excited.

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Hey, you sound as if...

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Luana, Luana, look.

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After I left you, I was in the bathroom.

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I was in the bathroom.

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I was in the bathroom.

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I was in the bathroom.

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I was in the bathroom.

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After I left you, I went home to tell Sarah I was leaving her.

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She got mad.

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She got real mad.

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So, well, I got a little rough.

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And what I did, I didn't mean to do.

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Baby, Vic, what is it?

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What happened?

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I hit her a couple of times.

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I hit her and she fell.

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And I...

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Vic.

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It was an accident.

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A mistake, Luana.

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I didn't mean it.

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I don't know how it happened.

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It was so fast.

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I just got mad.

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Vic, Vic, baby.

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Luana, listen.

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I've got to get out of town.

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I've got to run.

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I can't go back to the house.

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Where are you?

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Some cheap hotel, the Piedmont, just off Decatur.

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I need money.

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You've got to help me.

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What can I do?

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Get me enough money to get us out of town.

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But, Vic.

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You said it.

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Last night you said we'd go away together.

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Vic.

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Meet me.

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When?

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Half an hour.

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No, no.

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You better stay right there.

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No one will spot you.

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Stay where you are till it's dark.

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Then meet me.

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Where and at what time?

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Tonight at seven o'clock when it gets dark.

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Down near the end of the coffee stand in the Cafe du Monde.

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All right.

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Tonight at seven.

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I'll come near the end of the stand where it's dark.

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I hung up.

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I couldn't stay in the hotel.

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My picture was probably spread over every paper in town.

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Maybe the clerk remembered me coming in.

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I'd better get out and move around.

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I went down to Decatur Street.

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It was starting to fill with late afternoon shoppers.

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I walked up and down the streets until four o'clock.

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And then I found an almost empty cafe and went in and ordered a cup of coffee.

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I was sitting there staring ahead trying to clear my mind when suddenly I felt a big fabby

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hand grip my shoulder.

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I turned and looked up into the beady gray eyes of the Batman with the green checkered

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shirt collar.

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Why did you do it, Vic?

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I jumped up and with all my strength I shoved both arms straight out and hit him in the

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stomach.

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I could feel both of my fists sink into the pounds and pounds of flesh.

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And then he was reeling backward knocking over chairs and people.

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And I was running out the door and down the street.

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I slowed down mixing in with the people pushing along.

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How was it possible?

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The guy that had been up in that room with my wife.

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Was it just a coincidence that he found me or was he really looking for me?

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Time.

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Time.

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Before I had no time.

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Now I had too much of it.

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I passed a movie theater.

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I stopped.

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Keep off the streets until dark.

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That was it.

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I went in.

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I don't even remember the name of the picture.

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I couldn't even concentrate on it.

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Because all the time I kept thinking about the fat man.

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What did he want with me?

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Was it really just a coincidence that he'd spotted me?

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The picture ended and the lights went up.

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I crouched down low in my seat staring straight ahead.

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And then out of the corner of my eye I saw him.

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He was walking up the aisle looking up each row of seats.

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He was looking for me.

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I turned my head and held my hand up to the side of my face.

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He was coming closer now.

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He was at the next row.

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The lights went out and the news wheel started.

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I moved quick.

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I stumbled into the aisle and out in the lobby and got lost in the crowd of people leaving

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the show.

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It was no use.

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I couldn't shake him.

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Everywhere I turned he was there.

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What did he want?

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Did he want to kill me?

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Kill me for murdering Sarah?

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Was that it?

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But that was my own business.

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If I wanted to kill my wife, that was my business.

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Oh no, no.

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Bad reasoning.

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I hadn't wanted to kill her.

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I just...

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I ran until I thought my legs would drop.

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And then it was seven o'clock and I was down by the pier.

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There were a few people drinking coffee at the stand.

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I walked down to the far end and then I saw her coming.

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Luana.

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Vic.

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Over here.

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Oh Vic, you're crazy.

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The cops are looking all over for you.

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I don't care about the cops.

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It's him.

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What are you talking about?

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The guy that was with Sarah, the big fat guy.

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He's after me.

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All day long he's been after me.

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Luana, we gotta get out of here.

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Vic, you're crazy.

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You're all mixed up.

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You don't know what you're talking about.

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I'm not mixed up, Luana.

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I tell you, he's looking for me right now.

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Any minute he might show up.

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Vic, maybe you better give yourself up.

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Maybe it would...

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For you.

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Don't you understand?

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I did this for you.

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I didn't ask you to kill her.

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I didn't...

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Vic, stop it.

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You're hurting me.

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All I need now is for you to turn against me.

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Vic, let me go.

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Let me...

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Luana.

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Luana, come back.

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Please come...

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Back.

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For you.

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I did it for you, you dirty filthy...

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Hello, Victor.

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What do you want?

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What do you want from me?

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I wanna give what's coming to you, killer.

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I'll get you now, killer.

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I'll get you now.

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Because you finally cracked.

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It was no good.

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I just couldn't run anymore.

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Everywhere I turned, he was there.

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I was being hunted by a guy with murder in his heart.

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Can you understand that, Juno?

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I made it back to the hotel and I was waiting for him when you guys showed up.

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I never knew I'd be so glad to see the police.

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Never knew I'd be so glad.

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The girl turns you in, Vic.

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Luana.

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She cried, Victor.

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She cried when she told us where he was.

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I guess maybe she did right.

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Yeah, I guess she did.

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All right, sign this confession.

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Caswell, call in Lieutenant Angelini.

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Lieutenant, wanna come in and look at the killer?

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Hello, Vic.

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It's you.

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The fat guy.

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Take it easy, Vic.

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Boy, take it easy.

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Why?

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He made me go out of my mind.

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A cop was chasing me.

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I just wanted to see a killer run, Vic.

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Sign the confession, Vic.

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No.

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No, this confession is all wrong.

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The part about the trumpet.

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This is all wrong.

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I didn't hit her with a trumpet.

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Come on, trumpet boy, sign.

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No, Angelini, I won't sign it.

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I didn't hit her with a trumpet.

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You're crazy.

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I won't.

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Something smells.

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Hey, look, you.

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I'm tired.

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You give me a good chase.

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You make a confession.

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Now you sign it.

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No, I won't do it.

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This isn't what I said.

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I never said anything about hitting her with a trumpet.

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I hit her with my fist and she...

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You're crazy.

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You murdered your wife in cold blood.

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You went up there after you finished at the club.

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You had an argument.

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Then you smashed her head in with a trumpet.

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Then you wiped the blood off the trumpet.

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Hey, wait a second, Angelini.

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Shut up, Juno.

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Can't you see this guy's stalling?

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Now, come on, killer.

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No, I won't shut up, Angelini.

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Hey, now listen.

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My typed report's still on my desk.

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You haven't read it yet.

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Well, so what if I have?

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So I was the guy that went up there and tapped her body.

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When I got back, I briefed you.

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I made the report out.

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You just said you didn't read it.

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Well, there was something in that report I didn't bother to tell you about.

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I didn't think it was that important.

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I didn't tell you that the blood had been wiped off of the trumpet.

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There were only two people who knew that.

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Me, Lieutenant Angelini.

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Me and the killer.

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Why, you...

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Juno, it was Angelini.

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Are you lousy, Juno?

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Oh, it fits.

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What Luana said to me, what Lou Eichstead said, it fits.

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This guy framed me.

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I'll break your neck.

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Take it easy, Angelina.

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He was nuts for her.

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Only she couldn't see him for dust.

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He must have spotted me that first night with her.

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He followed me.

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He was the guy Sarah was with when I got home.

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He was waiting for me.

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I'll kill you.

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Grab him, Captain.

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You grab him.

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Lieutenant, easy.

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Filthy trumpet boy.

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Filthy.

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You framed me, Angelini.

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Why?

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Look at me, trumpet man.

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Look hard at my extra flesh and tell me why I would frame a man like you.

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Luana, your wife wasn't dead when I went up there the second time.

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Her head was cut on the side.

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She was bleeding.

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She wasn't dead.

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You're under arrest, Angelini.

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I can't say I'm sorry you're a disgrace to the family.

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I can't say I'm sorry you're a disgrace to the force.

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All right, Vic, that's all I need from you.

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You can go now.

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Hey, you.

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She's waiting for you outside.

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Luana.

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And she's crying for you.

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Juno.

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Right, Sergeant Juno?

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Hey, you think if maybe I wasn't so fat, she would have cried some tears for me.

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Sure, Angelini, sure.

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She might have cried for you.

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