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War continues in Europe.

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Hitler has suggested
that any questions

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over the future of Poland
will be settled entirely

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between Germany and Russia.

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He also stated that he regards

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the Czechoslovak Question
as closed.

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Speaking at Washington,

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President Roosevelt made
no comment as to...

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The name's Cavendish.

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A Miss Cavendish.

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Perhaps it's a first name,
Cavendish?

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Um, cigarette?

13
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The cigarettes you keep
for your clients,

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are they better or worse than
what you smoke?

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They're the same.

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Perhaps it is a first name,
Cavendish.

17
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It's... a good first name.

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Mm.

19
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Please.

20
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How private exactly are your
investigations, Mr. Marlowe?

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What can I do for you,
Mrs. Cavendish?

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Mm, you are a detective.

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I'd like you
to find someone for me.

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Mm-hmm.

25
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Nico Peterson.

26
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He was my lover, he disappeared
without saying goodbye.

27
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When you say disappeared,
do you mean out of your life

28
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or out of the world?

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I don't know,
that's why I'm here.

30
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Where was your husband,
Mrs. Cavendish,

31
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when your lover Nico Peterson
disappeared?

32
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In retrospect...

33
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do call me Cavendish
without the Missus.

34
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I like it.

35
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Was your lover the sort of man
to disappear

36
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with you as a lover?

37
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Normally,
they don't disappear easily.

38
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No, I bet they don't.

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They stay around,

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climb trellises,
scenes in restaurants,

41
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lie down in the road,
promise you anything.

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Oh, I know how it goes.

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Do you lie down
in the road, Mr. Marlowe?

44
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- Drink?
- Please.

45
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Well, he's tall, like you.

46
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Bit of a weaker man.

47
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He dresses nice, meticulously.

48
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What does that say about a man?

49
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Does Mr. Peterson get money
from his profession

50
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or does he just
profess his profession?

51
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You seem to assume
that I was involved

52
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with someone unsuitable.

53
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Yes, unless you were
unsuitable for him.

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Go to hell,
you pathetic little...

55
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<i>Would it be accurate</i>
<i>to say that Mr. Peterson</i>

56
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<i>would be a marginal person</i>
<i>in motion pictures?</i>

57
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- Apologies, sir.
- Yes. Alright.

58
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<i>It would be accurate,</i>

59
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<i>it would be</i>
<i>very accurate indeed.</i>

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Go to hell,
you pathetic...

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<i>We would meet</i>
<i>at the Corbata Club.</i>

62
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<i>Do you know it?</i>

63
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How did Mr. Peterson
know the Corbata Club?

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Was he your guest

65
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or the kind of guy
who was anybody's guest?

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My husband and I
have an arrangement.

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May I ask,
is your husband homosexual?

68
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No. He isn't remotely
that interesting.

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He likes polo,
alcohol, waitresses

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and my money.

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Your money,
Mrs. Cavendish?

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I beg your pardon, Mr. Marlowe.

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I'm asking if the
money is yours.

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My father was in oil,
he's dead.

75
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You'd know my mother,
but we won't discuss her now.

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Did you conduct your affair
with Mr. Peterson at the club?

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We weren't meeting
in the horse sheds, Mr. Marlowe.

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What did he not show up for?

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An assignation.

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<i>I telephoned him</i>
<i>a few times, no answer,</i>

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<i>and then I went to his house</i>
<i>the following week.</i>

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<i>The milk hadn't been canceled</i>

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<i>and the newspapers</i>
<i>were piled up on his porch.</i>

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<i>Did he have</i>
<i>things to hide?</i>

85
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<i>Haven't we all?</i>

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What do you think
has become of Mr. Peterson?

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Told you,
I want a set of fresh eyes

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and yours come
highly recommended.

89
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Maybe you'll find out
what I can't.

90
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My name's really Clare,
like the county.

91
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You know the county?

92
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Yeah, in Ireland.
I know it well.

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My mother was in pictures,
you'd know her.

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It's rather embarrassing
with the upper class.

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You're very perceptive
and sensitive, Mr. Marlowe.

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I imagine it gives you trouble.

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He ain't home, bo.

98
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What? He owe you dough
or make time with your wife?

99
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That's the way it is, huh?

100
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Yeah, I'd say so,
and good for him.

101
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He's not a bad guy, if you don't
trust people anyway. I don't.

102
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I think he's from Cleveland.

103
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That's my place
across the street,

104
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he used to come over sometimes,

105
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pass the time of day.

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Give me a smoke.

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How, uh, how long
has he been gone?

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Oh, I guess I last seen him
seven weeks ago.

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You, uh, you see him leave?

110
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No, I just noticed he was gone.

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How did you know?

112
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Well, he wasn't there anymore.

113
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That means there weren't any
women banging on his front door,

114
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or throwing a shoe at the house.

115
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I mean, I did pretty good
in my day, but not like him.

116
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Are you a cop?

117
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Sort of.

118
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A private dick ain't no cop.

119
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Yeah, you're not the first one
to come around asking about him.

120
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A pair of wetbacks
showed up last week,

121
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and they was all gussied up,
but a beaner in a suit

122
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and fancy necktie,
it's still a beaner, right?

123
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No, sometimes
he's the King of Spain.

124
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King of Spain don't ride
around in no Lincoln,

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with a Mexican re-spray.

126
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Yeah, I used to work in the low
end of the motor trade myself,

127
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it was two beaners in a hot car

128
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that had been across
the border and back.

129
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<i>Oh, let's start</i>
<i>at the beginning.</i>

130
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This guy's been looked at, sure.

131
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Grifts, alienations
of affection,

132
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parking tickets,
drunk at a social gathering.

133
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And in the early days,
public solicitation.

134
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Now nobody knew
he ever had a house,

135
00:10:10,811 --> 00:10:13,013
he's down as domicile unknown.

136
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He does have a house,
I was there.

137
00:10:14,748 --> 00:10:16,083
Yeah, well,
there's having a house

138
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and being the person paying
for it, I suppose.

139
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Who was paying for it?

140
00:10:19,753 --> 00:10:21,689
Well, I think you'll find
he was paying cash

141
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from his no visible
means of support.

142
00:10:30,764 --> 00:10:33,968
Hope the lady friend looking
for him looks good in black.

143
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He was killed.
October 22nd, hit and run.

144
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Outside the Corbata Club.

145
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You owe me lunch.

146
00:10:42,343 --> 00:10:44,245
Liquid or regular?

147
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"Deceased was struck
by a vehicle, make unknown,

148
00:10:51,752 --> 00:10:53,420
driver unknown,
on Bay Canyon Drive

149
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just outside the Corbata Club.

150
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Deceased has numerous
injuries including

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gross comminuted fracture
right side of his skull.

152
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Death be not proud."

153
00:11:40,968 --> 00:11:43,204
I guess there's no point
in asking for an invite.

154
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Oh, none at all, sir.

155
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Uh-huh.

156
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Oh, hey!

157
00:12:03,991 --> 00:12:05,359
You looking for a gardening job?

158
00:12:05,392 --> 00:12:07,861
Actually, no,
a membership form.

159
00:12:09,029 --> 00:12:11,799
Albert. We've got
a hedge hopper here.

160
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He needs trimming.

161
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<i>A ver.</i>

162
00:12:16,470 --> 00:12:18,005
- Hey, buddy.
- <i>A ver.</i>

163
00:12:28,315 --> 00:12:32,386
Maybe there's a reason
you're unpopular with policemen.

164
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Keep getting, I don't know...

165
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punched, locked up,

166
00:12:38,526 --> 00:12:40,528
and almost,
but not quite, charged

167
00:12:40,562 --> 00:12:44,064
with accessory,
obstruction, etcetera.

168
00:12:44,098 --> 00:12:47,134
- And at your age.
- It's my manner, Joe.

169
00:12:47,167 --> 00:12:50,170
Yup, starting to wish
you still had your pension?

170
00:12:50,204 --> 00:12:52,006
Sure you are.

171
00:12:52,039 --> 00:12:55,309
Look, Marlowe, listen...

172
00:12:55,342 --> 00:12:58,145
This guy got killed after
getting sauced in there.

173
00:12:59,581 --> 00:13:01,115
The remains smelled
like a brewery,

174
00:13:01,148 --> 00:13:03,317
and he had marks
up and down his arms,

175
00:13:03,350 --> 00:13:05,052
his head popped like a pumpkin.

176
00:13:05,085 --> 00:13:06,854
The Corbata Club
likes to make it nice,

177
00:13:06,887 --> 00:13:08,155
it does not like trouble.

178
00:13:08,188 --> 00:13:10,190
Hit and run
is two crimes at least.

179
00:13:10,224 --> 00:13:11,892
Don't fuck with me,
this is LA.

180
00:13:11,925 --> 00:13:13,160
These guys like Peterson

181
00:13:13,193 --> 00:13:14,895
are a dime a dozen,
they come out here,

182
00:13:14,928 --> 00:13:16,196
they fail a screen test
and they do what they've to do.

183
00:13:16,230 --> 00:13:18,065
Could any member
of the Corbata Club

184
00:13:18,098 --> 00:13:20,034
not know that he was dead?

185
00:13:20,067 --> 00:13:21,835
From our own Chief of Detectives

186
00:13:21,869 --> 00:13:23,904
to the new
Ambassador to England,

187
00:13:23,937 --> 00:13:26,240
I find it highly unlikely
it didn't come up over cream tea

188
00:13:26,273 --> 00:13:29,577
that a scumbag had caught
a Buick at the front entrance.

189
00:13:29,611 --> 00:13:32,046
Did they ask you
to broom the case?

190
00:13:32,079 --> 00:13:34,448
No one has to ask, my brother.

191
00:13:34,481 --> 00:13:36,183
Can I see the police file?

192
00:13:37,318 --> 00:13:39,019
We don't need it.

193
00:13:43,924 --> 00:13:45,426
Why you looking for this guy?

194
00:13:47,094 --> 00:13:49,196
A lady wanted to find him.

195
00:13:49,229 --> 00:13:51,231
Well, he'll wait
until she comes by.

196
00:14:07,381 --> 00:14:11,553
Go back to Boston, to
that miserable goddamn family.

197
00:14:11,586 --> 00:14:17,958
And then onto England, the court
of Saint fucking James.

198
00:14:17,991 --> 00:14:20,961
You're not the only one
who's done with this.

199
00:14:20,994 --> 00:14:22,096
Just remember one thing.

200
00:14:22,129 --> 00:14:24,599
Oh, please, darling,
not another.

201
00:14:24,632 --> 00:14:26,900
I paid for that horse.

202
00:14:26,934 --> 00:14:28,469
I get to keep him too.

203
00:14:32,406 --> 00:14:34,241
Could you, uh, do mine after?

204
00:14:38,445 --> 00:14:39,980
Are you the new mechanic?

205
00:14:40,013 --> 00:14:41,982
Maybe, what's it paying?

206
00:14:42,015 --> 00:14:44,451
- You've a name?
- Marlowe.

207
00:14:44,485 --> 00:14:46,588
This is hell nor am I out of it.

208
00:14:46,621 --> 00:14:48,255
That was his one good line.

209
00:14:48,288 --> 00:14:50,625
You don't think
he was Shakespeare.

210
00:14:50,658 --> 00:14:52,126
Neither did he.

211
00:14:52,159 --> 00:14:54,094
Maybe I am out of it.

212
00:14:56,296 --> 00:14:57,998
Well out of it.

213
00:15:19,052 --> 00:15:21,221
You startled me, Marlowe.

214
00:15:21,255 --> 00:15:24,324
Apologies, seems to be my day
for startling.

215
00:15:28,495 --> 00:15:30,264
Who else did you startle?

216
00:15:30,297 --> 00:15:33,934
Some elegant Mick outside,
who quoted Marlowe.

217
00:15:35,102 --> 00:15:36,437
Are you quotable, Mr. Marlowe?

218
00:15:36,470 --> 00:15:38,038
Christopher Marlowe.

219
00:15:38,071 --> 00:15:42,075
Ah, he played in Doctor Faustus
at the Harvard Rep.

220
00:15:42,109 --> 00:15:43,611
Never lets anyone forget that.

221
00:15:43,645 --> 00:15:45,713
- He?
- Hm.

222
00:15:45,747 --> 00:15:49,450
Joseph O'Reilly,
my mother's financial adviser,

223
00:15:49,483 --> 00:15:52,453
oh, and soon to be
Ambassador to England,

224
00:15:52,486 --> 00:15:55,289
he never lets anyone forget
about that either.

225
00:15:55,322 --> 00:15:58,058
What did he play,
one of the seven deadly sins?

226
00:15:58,091 --> 00:16:00,027
Please.

227
00:16:01,428 --> 00:16:04,031
Iced tea?

228
00:16:04,064 --> 00:16:05,466
You could have some of mine
if you like.

229
00:16:05,499 --> 00:16:07,535
No, thank you.

230
00:16:07,569 --> 00:16:09,470
I can offer you anything really,

231
00:16:09,504 --> 00:16:11,438
it's like the Arabian Nights
around here.

232
00:16:11,472 --> 00:16:13,006
Clare!

233
00:16:13,641 --> 00:16:15,175
Clare!

234
00:16:19,413 --> 00:16:21,081
Who the hell is this?

235
00:16:22,249 --> 00:16:25,118
Sorry, I'm, I'm Philip Marlowe.

236
00:16:25,152 --> 00:16:29,122
Hello, Marlowe.
Cavendish.

237
00:16:29,156 --> 00:16:33,093
Mr. Marlowe calls me
Cavendish, Richard. I like it.

238
00:16:33,126 --> 00:16:34,596
It's your name, darling.

239
00:16:34,629 --> 00:16:36,296
I like it as a first name.

240
00:16:36,330 --> 00:16:38,533
Glad I'm good
for something, dear.

241
00:16:38,566 --> 00:16:40,200
Have you, um, offered

242
00:16:40,234 --> 00:16:43,270
your very large friend
a proper drink, darling?

243
00:16:43,303 --> 00:16:46,641
She did, and I declined,
thank you.

244
00:16:46,674 --> 00:16:51,679
So, Mr. Marlowe, what kind of
business are you in?

245
00:16:51,713 --> 00:16:53,548
Mr. Marlowe detects things.

246
00:16:53,581 --> 00:16:56,784
Ah, and what are you
detecting here, Marlowe?

247
00:16:56,818 --> 00:17:00,387
My necklace.
I lost it, he found it.

248
00:17:00,420 --> 00:17:03,525
Of course he did.
I wonder where.

249
00:17:03,558 --> 00:17:06,360
Well, it was a matter of
retracing your wife's steps.

250
00:17:07,461 --> 00:17:10,130
- Marlowe.
- Yes, Mr. Cavendish.

251
00:17:10,163 --> 00:17:11,498
Fuck yourself.

252
00:17:12,834 --> 00:17:15,335
It's a pleasure to meet you too,
Mr. Cavendish.

253
00:17:16,838 --> 00:17:19,239
Didn't go for it,
that's odd.

254
00:17:20,508 --> 00:17:23,143
He must think there's
something between us...

255
00:17:24,211 --> 00:17:28,181
probably something... sexual.

256
00:17:29,817 --> 00:17:32,386
So tell me about you
and Mr. Peterson

257
00:17:32,419 --> 00:17:34,856
with no embellishments,
please.

258
00:17:38,760 --> 00:17:42,564
<i>I met him at the Corbata</i>
<i>Club for the first time.</i>

259
00:17:42,597 --> 00:17:44,498
Thought he was handsome.

260
00:17:44,532 --> 00:17:49,837
We made love, and then I saw
him again, a few weeks later,

261
00:17:49,871 --> 00:17:52,607
not an assignation,
an accident.

262
00:17:52,640 --> 00:17:56,844
In Tijuana at my favorite bar,
La Quinteria.

263
00:17:56,878 --> 00:17:59,179
<i>I was there with my husband.</i>

264
00:17:59,212 --> 00:18:02,249
<i>We were watching the</i>
<i>procession, Dia de los Muertos.</i>

265
00:18:18,332 --> 00:18:20,334
<i>What was</i>
<i>he hustling in Mexico?</i>

266
00:18:20,367 --> 00:18:24,204
<i>I don't know.</i>
<i>Nico has many schemes.</i>

267
00:18:26,206 --> 00:18:27,842
<i>He's in the grave.</i>

268
00:18:27,875 --> 00:18:30,477
Nico Peterson is dead.

269
00:18:30,511 --> 00:18:32,112
He's pretending.

270
00:18:32,947 --> 00:18:34,816
He's pretending very well.

271
00:18:34,849 --> 00:18:37,484
Oh, I know,
he's dead and buried.

272
00:18:37,518 --> 00:18:42,122
That he got killed in front of
the Corbata Club, supposedly.

273
00:18:43,891 --> 00:18:46,628
Everybody says he was.

274
00:18:46,661 --> 00:18:49,897
But you see, the significant
thing is that

275
00:18:49,931 --> 00:18:53,367
I saw him the other day,
from the street,

276
00:18:53,400 --> 00:18:55,302
not in my mind's eye,

277
00:18:55,335 --> 00:18:57,905
on the street,
not dead at all.

278
00:18:57,939 --> 00:19:00,508
I think we're finished,
Mrs. Cavendish.

279
00:19:00,541 --> 00:19:01,609
No.

280
00:19:03,210 --> 00:19:05,278
I just wanted you to start
at the beginning.

281
00:19:06,614 --> 00:19:07,548
Begin at the beginning,

282
00:19:07,582 --> 00:19:10,317
that's what you're supposed
to do, right?

283
00:19:10,350 --> 00:19:13,253
- Where did you see him?
- Back in Tijuana.

284
00:19:13,286 --> 00:19:16,758
My mother wanted me to view
some Azteca horses,

285
00:19:16,791 --> 00:19:18,458
you know the prancing kind.

286
00:19:19,927 --> 00:19:24,231
I did that,
I do what she says.

287
00:19:24,264 --> 00:19:26,366
<i>So I was in La Quinteria again,</i>

288
00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:28,936
<i>having one of their</i>
<i>divine mojitos</i>

289
00:19:28,970 --> 00:19:31,338
<i>when I saw Nico</i>
<i>driving down the street.</i>

290
00:19:41,983 --> 00:19:44,317
<i>He called himself</i>
<i>a collector.</i>

291
00:19:44,351 --> 00:19:48,455
<i>Most of all collected junk,</i>
<i>pretend antiques.</i>

292
00:19:52,259 --> 00:19:55,563
I suppose
they're for the movies...

293
00:19:55,596 --> 00:19:59,332
things that don't exist,
fairy tales.

294
00:20:00,367 --> 00:20:01,569
There's a man in Baja,

295
00:20:01,602 --> 00:20:03,971
who thinks Nico's
actually a producer.

296
00:20:05,606 --> 00:20:07,240
He's been fleeced.

297
00:20:09,043 --> 00:20:11,378
What? What's wrong?

298
00:20:11,411 --> 00:20:13,480
You lied to me, Mrs. Cavendish.

299
00:20:13,514 --> 00:20:16,316
And I sat there and watched you
lie to your husband.

300
00:20:16,349 --> 00:20:17,752
Good afternoon.

301
00:20:30,064 --> 00:20:32,499
Hello, Mr...

302
00:20:32,533 --> 00:20:33,467
Marlowe.

303
00:20:33,501 --> 00:20:35,002
Oh, of course, I knew that.

304
00:20:35,036 --> 00:20:37,572
Richard made a call
when you first came in.

305
00:20:37,605 --> 00:20:39,941
You know what they say
about the old boys' club?

306
00:20:39,974 --> 00:20:41,743
What's that?

307
00:20:41,776 --> 00:20:43,544
There really is one.

308
00:20:43,578 --> 00:20:46,547
And what did he find,
Madame, uh...

309
00:20:46,581 --> 00:20:51,318
Dorothy Quincannon, and
don't pretend you don't know.

310
00:20:53,521 --> 00:20:57,390
Well, let's see,
you had a bad war,

311
00:20:57,424 --> 00:20:59,426
and then in the twenties,
you drank yourself

312
00:20:59,459 --> 00:21:01,062
out of a good job
in the oil business.

313
00:21:01,095 --> 00:21:02,295
Did I?

314
00:21:02,329 --> 00:21:04,431
Got on with the Los Angeles DA

315
00:21:04,464 --> 00:21:07,702
as an investigator, but that
didn't work out too well either,

316
00:21:07,735 --> 00:21:09,537
did it, Mr. Marlowe?

317
00:21:09,570 --> 00:21:12,507
You see, he found all that out
in five minutes.

318
00:21:13,708 --> 00:21:17,410
You're not the only one
who can make enquiries.

319
00:21:17,444 --> 00:21:20,380
You weren't looking for pearls.

320
00:21:20,413 --> 00:21:24,619
No, I throw them before swine,
it's a habit of mine.

321
00:21:24,652 --> 00:21:28,488
Tell me, Mr. Marlowe,
what does my daughter want?

322
00:21:28,523 --> 00:21:31,859
A divorce?
I might even approve.

323
00:21:31,893 --> 00:21:34,996
I'm sorry, I only discuss
business with my employer,

324
00:21:35,029 --> 00:21:37,932
so if you'll excuse me.

325
00:21:37,965 --> 00:21:39,901
<i>- Slan.</i>
<i>- Slan.</i>

326
00:22:40,194 --> 00:22:41,963
Excuse me?

327
00:23:02,049 --> 00:23:04,118
- Hey, Fergus.
- Oh, hello.

328
00:23:04,151 --> 00:23:06,486
Ah, Jesus, here it is.

329
00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:08,823
Not a single lead
on who ran Peterson down.

330
00:23:08,856 --> 00:23:11,759
- We pursued inquiries.
- But how far?

331
00:23:11,792 --> 00:23:14,829
Marlowe, if one wanted
to find an absolute nest

332
00:23:14,862 --> 00:23:17,164
of entitled
and connected tosspots

333
00:23:17,198 --> 00:23:18,900
who feel they can
just drive away

334
00:23:18,933 --> 00:23:20,635
after running over
another drunk's head,

335
00:23:20,668 --> 00:23:22,937
you go to the Corbata Club.

336
00:23:22,970 --> 00:23:26,040
There were no witnesses,
a suspect wasn't possible.

337
00:23:26,073 --> 00:23:28,441
Saturday night, they come and go
at that club like rats

338
00:23:28,475 --> 00:23:30,177
through a hole in a garbage can.

339
00:23:30,211 --> 00:23:31,779
It could have been
any one of a hundred cars

340
00:23:31,812 --> 00:23:34,515
that flattened him, and probably
none of them contained

341
00:23:34,548 --> 00:23:36,651
anybody it'd be wise to arrest.

342
00:23:36,684 --> 00:23:40,521
We're in the real world here.
You understand a real world.

343
00:23:40,554 --> 00:23:41,956
Sometimes justice is blind,

344
00:23:41,989 --> 00:23:44,759
sometimes justice doesn't give
a shit and might be right.

345
00:23:44,792 --> 00:23:47,962
So who's the mystery broad
you're working for? His sister?

346
00:23:47,995 --> 00:23:49,530
Tell me about his sister.

347
00:23:49,563 --> 00:23:51,599
Maybe she identified him,
maybe she didn't.

348
00:23:51,632 --> 00:23:53,100
You tell me about his sister.

349
00:23:53,134 --> 00:23:57,071
I got my own sister, you can
stick his sister up your ass.

350
00:23:57,104 --> 00:23:58,673
I'm working for a person
who thinks

351
00:23:58,706 --> 00:24:01,876
that Nico Peterson
is still alive.

352
00:24:01,909 --> 00:24:06,113
Yeah, that's complicated.
I'm not a complicated man.

353
00:24:06,147 --> 00:24:08,549
My client claims
to have seen him,

354
00:24:08,582 --> 00:24:10,952
which gives you
a murder, my friend.

355
00:24:10,985 --> 00:24:12,853
Yeah, I got plenty, thanks.

356
00:24:14,889 --> 00:24:16,456
Here's your file.

357
00:24:18,626 --> 00:24:21,195
My employer thinks
he didn't die,

358
00:24:21,228 --> 00:24:22,697
that it wasn't him
that got smashed

359
00:24:22,730 --> 00:24:25,833
outside the Corbata Club,
to repeat myself.

360
00:24:25,866 --> 00:24:30,538
It gives me a murder, yeah,
theoretically, maybe.

361
00:24:30,571 --> 00:24:33,741
What's your trouble gents?
Money or women?

362
00:24:33,774 --> 00:24:35,843
Both, with the
complication of thirst.

363
00:24:35,876 --> 00:24:39,146
He's like the rest of us, Pat,
except he can't take a hint.

364
00:24:39,180 --> 00:24:40,982
- What'll you have?
- Whiskey.

365
00:24:41,015 --> 00:24:43,217
Usual.

366
00:24:43,250 --> 00:24:44,685
What's going on these days
Patrick,

367
00:24:44,719 --> 00:24:46,587
you, you married, or happy?

368
00:24:46,620 --> 00:24:48,222
At least my laundry's done.

369
00:24:48,255 --> 00:24:49,657
Pat had a rough
two weeks finding

370
00:24:49,690 --> 00:24:52,893
clean drawers after
he lost his mother.

371
00:24:52,927 --> 00:24:53,794
Fuck yourself.

372
00:24:53,828 --> 00:24:55,863
If I could, I wouldn't
have to listen.

373
00:24:55,896 --> 00:24:58,632
If it was an operation,
I'd sign up.

374
00:24:59,834 --> 00:25:02,737
If he's alive, Joe,
you have a homicide.

375
00:25:04,271 --> 00:25:06,040
Gonna keep saying that?

376
00:25:06,073 --> 00:25:08,142
That's the last thing
you want in homicide,

377
00:25:08,175 --> 00:25:09,744
I realize, homicide.

378
00:25:09,777 --> 00:25:12,279
What, you think
it was a homicide?

379
00:25:12,313 --> 00:25:14,882
I went to the graveyard.
Guess what?

380
00:25:14,915 --> 00:25:16,884
- He was cremated.
- Good guess.

381
00:25:16,917 --> 00:25:20,121
Yeah, even the teeth
were destroyed

382
00:25:20,154 --> 00:25:21,622
and they'd be everywhere.

383
00:25:21,655 --> 00:25:24,091
You ever run over a rat
or a cat, look at it?

384
00:25:24,125 --> 00:25:27,161
If Peterson didn't die, who did?

385
00:25:27,194 --> 00:25:31,632
Look, Marlowe, I know you got
this Sir Lancelot bullshit,

386
00:25:31,665 --> 00:25:33,000
and you live like some monk,

387
00:25:33,034 --> 00:25:36,103
you got no regular self-interest
anyone can count on,

388
00:25:36,137 --> 00:25:39,640
you like getting sapped and
locked up for just not stopping,

389
00:25:39,673 --> 00:25:43,778
and this is an interesting story
you have, if true.

390
00:25:43,811 --> 00:25:46,914
But that stiff, Peterson,
for all intents and purposes,

391
00:25:46,947 --> 00:25:49,250
had Peterson's wallet
in his pocket.

392
00:25:49,283 --> 00:25:51,118
Plus, he was identified
at the scene,

393
00:25:51,152 --> 00:25:52,953
for all intents and purposes.

394
00:25:52,987 --> 00:25:53,854
By who?

395
00:25:53,888 --> 00:25:55,756
The manager of the club,
Floyd Hanson,

396
00:25:55,790 --> 00:25:58,793
and by the Los Angeles
County Coroner, who's a member.

397
00:25:58,826 --> 00:26:01,862
So, it's nobody's business now
but county.

398
00:26:02,830 --> 00:26:04,265
County line runs where?

399
00:26:04,298 --> 00:26:06,067
Bay Canyon Drive.

400
00:26:11,072 --> 00:26:13,140
Right along here?

401
00:26:13,174 --> 00:26:14,975
Oh, Jesus.

402
00:26:18,112 --> 00:26:19,713
Make the call, Joe.

403
00:26:20,848 --> 00:26:22,783
I'll keep you out of it.

404
00:26:33,127 --> 00:26:37,198
Mr. Hanson says it's most
irregular, Mr. Marlowe,

405
00:26:37,231 --> 00:26:38,866
but he'll see you.

406
00:26:38,899 --> 00:26:41,902
Keep to the left, follow
the signs that say reception.

407
00:26:41,936 --> 00:26:43,204
Oh, thank you.

408
00:27:13,834 --> 00:27:15,803
I'm Floyd Hanson
the manager.

409
00:27:16,971 --> 00:27:18,706
What can I do for you,
Mr. Marlowe?

410
00:27:18,739 --> 00:27:21,208
Don't bother turning off
the car.

411
00:27:21,242 --> 00:27:23,410
The gateman tells me
you're a private investigator,

412
00:27:23,444 --> 00:27:24,945
could that be so?

413
00:27:24,979 --> 00:27:27,781
Yes, I used to work
for the DA's office.

414
00:27:27,815 --> 00:27:30,751
- I've heard that.
- I've heard that you've heard.

415
00:27:33,053 --> 00:27:35,890
I'm here about an
accident that occurred.

416
00:27:37,758 --> 00:27:40,161
- A serious one?
- Nico Peterson.

417
00:27:40,194 --> 00:27:41,762
Well, that actually
wasn't on the property,

418
00:27:41,795 --> 00:27:43,030
that was more
in the public road.

419
00:27:43,063 --> 00:27:45,766
Oh, I fully appreciate
the distinction,

420
00:27:45,799 --> 00:27:48,102
but sometimes people
get moved off the property

421
00:27:48,135 --> 00:27:51,705
even though their leg is lying
on it a little bit.

422
00:27:51,739 --> 00:27:54,175
There was an interesting case
in Cincinnati.

423
00:27:54,208 --> 00:27:55,843
What was that?

424
00:27:55,876 --> 00:27:59,079
A man was beaten to death,
and then he was put in the road,

425
00:27:59,113 --> 00:28:01,815
and his head was run over
by a tire,

426
00:28:01,849 --> 00:28:04,318
to obliterate the cause of death

427
00:28:04,351 --> 00:28:06,754
and to get him off the property.

428
00:28:06,787 --> 00:28:08,322
Mr. Peterson was run down
on the road,

429
00:28:08,355 --> 00:28:10,257
and the road is not
on the property.

430
00:28:10,291 --> 00:28:11,992
I appreciate that.

431
00:28:12,026 --> 00:28:14,328
Was Peterson a member
of this club?

432
00:28:14,361 --> 00:28:16,997
No, Mr. Peterson
wasn't a member. No.

433
00:28:17,031 --> 00:28:19,066
That's because
you're exclusive I imagine.

434
00:28:19,099 --> 00:28:21,503
We are,
but your meaning, sir?

435
00:28:23,871 --> 00:28:25,472
What would we do without Mexico?

436
00:28:25,507 --> 00:28:29,210
Mexico's the future, we have a
sister club in Baja, California.

437
00:28:29,243 --> 00:28:32,246
- Looks like the past.
- It must be brought along.

438
00:28:32,279 --> 00:28:34,348
Mexico or its inhabitants?

439
00:28:34,381 --> 00:28:36,016
Stick to the point, Mr. Marlowe.

440
00:28:37,117 --> 00:28:38,786
It must have been
a shock for you,

441
00:28:38,819 --> 00:28:41,121
seeing Mr. Peterson
on the road like that.

442
00:28:41,155 --> 00:28:44,458
I was at Chateau Thierry,
old man, Belleau Wood.

443
00:28:44,491 --> 00:28:45,960
I have seen men in more disarray

444
00:28:45,993 --> 00:28:48,062
than that in which
Mr. Peterson was discovered.

445
00:28:49,496 --> 00:28:51,098
Once, after an artillery strike,

446
00:28:51,131 --> 00:28:54,134
I found a friend's tooth
in my whiskey glass.

447
00:28:54,168 --> 00:28:55,836
I drank the whiskey.

448
00:28:56,538 --> 00:28:58,439
You're a terrible man.

449
00:28:58,472 --> 00:29:01,242
He was dead,
and I needed the whiskey.

450
00:29:01,275 --> 00:29:03,844
You're my age,
perhaps you were there,

451
00:29:03,877 --> 00:29:06,847
perhaps you know how it was,
and therefore is.

452
00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:10,017
Royal Irish Rifles.
The Somme.

453
00:29:10,050 --> 00:29:12,753
For the rest of time,
we see the dead.

454
00:29:14,522 --> 00:29:16,390
Let's take a stroll,
Mr. Marlowe.

455
00:29:16,423 --> 00:29:18,526
We're alive,
when others are not,

456
00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:20,294
and it's a pleasant morning.

457
00:29:27,201 --> 00:29:28,570
I see
you've made inequity

458
00:29:28,603 --> 00:29:30,070
pretty much your profession.

459
00:29:30,104 --> 00:29:33,274
The Club is exclusive.
The rich like to play.

460
00:29:33,307 --> 00:29:35,976
The polo grounds are over there.

461
00:29:36,010 --> 00:29:40,515
So whose guest was Mr. Peterson
the night he was killed?

462
00:29:40,548 --> 00:29:42,950
Who's your employer Mr. Marlowe?

463
00:29:42,983 --> 00:29:45,953
We're at an impasse,
Mr. Hanson. Who's yours?

464
00:29:45,986 --> 00:29:47,321
I don't know
what you want me to tell you,

465
00:29:47,354 --> 00:29:49,923
the police were thorough,
aren't they always,

466
00:29:49,957 --> 00:29:52,826
isn't that what they do,
be thorough?

467
00:29:52,860 --> 00:29:56,230
I rarely blame a policeman
unless he's really bad.

468
00:29:56,263 --> 00:29:59,033
There's generally someone
he's afraid of.

469
00:29:59,066 --> 00:30:02,836
And who in this instance would
any policeman be afraid of?

470
00:30:02,870 --> 00:30:04,606
Well, if the hit and run driver

471
00:30:04,639 --> 00:30:08,442
were a very substantial
or a connected person,

472
00:30:08,475 --> 00:30:11,178
a policeman might be afraid
of the Club in general.

473
00:30:11,211 --> 00:30:12,379
I mean, I am.

474
00:30:12,413 --> 00:30:15,849
What would it take for you
not to be afraid? What can I do?

475
00:30:15,883 --> 00:30:19,320
Now, listen, Mr. Hanson,
I intend to ask questions.

476
00:30:19,353 --> 00:30:20,921
Then ask your damn questions.

477
00:30:20,954 --> 00:30:22,923
Now this was a hit and run,

478
00:30:22,956 --> 00:30:24,559
and given the road,
it was probably a member,

479
00:30:24,592 --> 00:30:28,462
and perhaps the driver didn't
even know he'd struck anything.

480
00:30:28,495 --> 00:30:31,265
Everybody in this country has
been drunk since its inception.

481
00:30:31,298 --> 00:30:34,268
I don't think I've ever even
seen a sober driver.

482
00:30:35,969 --> 00:30:37,371
Shall we have some tea?

483
00:30:39,973 --> 00:30:41,875
<i>Is there much</i>
<i>gambling here, Mr. Hanson?</i>

484
00:30:41,909 --> 00:30:43,578
You're on very dangerous ground.

485
00:30:43,611 --> 00:30:45,212
There are cards that are played.

486
00:30:45,245 --> 00:30:46,614
Debts accumulated.

487
00:30:46,648 --> 00:30:49,283
There are card rooms,
they're private.

488
00:30:49,316 --> 00:30:50,484
Bedrooms?

489
00:30:50,518 --> 00:30:52,419
We have guest accommodations.

490
00:30:52,453 --> 00:30:55,356
Do studio men and the producers
have meetings here?

491
00:30:56,323 --> 00:30:58,192
Why am I talking to you?

492
00:30:58,225 --> 00:31:00,628
Because you don't know
who hired me.

493
00:31:00,662 --> 00:31:02,196
Well, name the thing
that most intrigues you,

494
00:31:02,229 --> 00:31:05,199
perhaps we could
conclude our chat.

495
00:31:05,232 --> 00:31:07,468
There is the possibility
that the dead man

496
00:31:07,502 --> 00:31:10,204
was not Nico Peterson.

497
00:31:10,237 --> 00:31:13,575
His sister was shown his corpse
the next day at the morgue

498
00:31:13,608 --> 00:31:15,109
and expressed no doubts.

499
00:31:15,142 --> 00:31:16,944
Where could I find his sister?

500
00:31:19,313 --> 00:31:20,682
Ask the police.

501
00:31:33,227 --> 00:31:37,097
Why do you raise the possibility
that Peterson is alive,

502
00:31:37,131 --> 00:31:39,133
when I so clearly saw him dead?

503
00:31:39,166 --> 00:31:42,269
Someone may have seen him
recently in the street.

504
00:31:42,302 --> 00:31:45,540
And where was this,
uh, supposedly?

505
00:31:45,573 --> 00:31:47,040
I can't tell you.

506
00:31:48,075 --> 00:31:49,544
Goodbye, Mr. Marlowe.

507
00:31:49,577 --> 00:31:53,247
I'm sorry that it was ultimately
uninteresting to talk to you.

508
00:31:55,382 --> 00:31:57,184
Ah, but I do like this thing
that you have

509
00:31:57,217 --> 00:32:00,154
about not being afraid,
when you should be.

510
00:32:03,323 --> 00:32:05,125
I'll see myself out.

511
00:32:20,575 --> 00:32:23,477
♪ Sometimes it seems ♪

512
00:32:23,511 --> 00:32:26,180
♪ A part of the sin... ♪

513
00:32:26,213 --> 00:32:28,516
You're the most beautiful
woman in town.

514
00:32:28,550 --> 00:32:30,050
A star.

515
00:32:34,021 --> 00:32:37,157
♪ Sometimes it seems ♪

516
00:32:38,192 --> 00:32:41,729
My, my!
You're not a regular.

517
00:32:41,763 --> 00:32:44,164
Well, not yet anyway.

518
00:32:44,198 --> 00:32:46,200
They do like to keep it
exclusive.

519
00:32:46,233 --> 00:32:48,202
Yeah, it seems that way.

520
00:32:49,637 --> 00:32:52,507
Try me at the Cabana,
Venice Beach.

521
00:32:53,675 --> 00:32:55,209
Excuse me?

522
00:32:55,242 --> 00:32:57,077
Try me at the Cabana,
Venice Beach.

523
00:32:57,110 --> 00:32:58,713
Ask for Lynn, Lynn Peterson.

524
00:32:58,746 --> 00:33:01,783
- You're Nico's sister.
- Sir?

525
00:33:01,816 --> 00:33:03,518
Gentlemen.

526
00:33:35,817 --> 00:33:39,119
♪ Learn to play ♪

527
00:33:39,152 --> 00:33:42,189
<i>Lynn, I'm not sure</i>
<i>if it's an N, or an E.</i>

528
00:33:42,222 --> 00:33:44,626
With an X
if she works here.

529
00:33:44,659 --> 00:33:46,326
There you go.

530
00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:48,530
Robe's in the cabinet,
and no monkey business.

531
00:33:48,563 --> 00:33:50,130
I'll try not to.

532
00:33:50,163 --> 00:33:53,267
♪ Kindly fade away ♪

533
00:34:07,815 --> 00:34:09,584
- Thank you.
- You're welcome.

534
00:34:10,885 --> 00:34:13,220
Here he is.

535
00:34:16,724 --> 00:34:19,561
Mr. Hanson sends his apologies,

536
00:34:19,594 --> 00:34:21,361
Lynn Peterson's been detained.

537
00:34:21,395 --> 00:34:26,099
Oh, I'm, uh,
I'm sorry to hear that.

538
00:34:26,133 --> 00:34:28,335
Is that, uh, Lynn with an X?

539
00:34:38,913 --> 00:34:40,515
Ah, fuck it.

540
00:34:44,151 --> 00:34:46,153
I'm getting too old for this.

541
00:34:59,366 --> 00:35:01,836
<i>Are you keeping</i>
<i>evil company?</i>

542
00:35:01,869 --> 00:35:03,470
<i>More often than not.</i>

543
00:35:03,504 --> 00:35:05,205
<i>Well, then,</i>
<i>you'd better be a good boy,</i>

544
00:35:05,238 --> 00:35:07,407
because you're going to meet
Dorothy Quincannon

545
00:35:07,441 --> 00:35:09,510
at The Garden of Allah Hotel
at 3:00.

546
00:35:09,544 --> 00:35:13,213
That's in 20 minutes.
Dorothy Quincannon.

547
00:35:17,317 --> 00:35:19,754
Did you come
for the film stars, Hilda?

548
00:35:19,787 --> 00:35:21,889
I came to bloody be one.

549
00:35:21,923 --> 00:35:23,156
Huh.

550
00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:35,369
First of all,
you have to boil the water,

551
00:35:35,402 --> 00:35:37,170
now is that water boiled?

552
00:35:37,204 --> 00:35:38,940
- Yes, ma'am.
- And then scald the teapot.

553
00:35:38,973 --> 00:35:41,241
- Give it a good scalding.
- Alright.

554
00:35:41,274 --> 00:35:44,946
Put in one teaspoon per cup,
then one for the pot

555
00:35:44,979 --> 00:35:48,215
and then leave it to draw
for three minutes.

556
00:35:49,550 --> 00:35:51,886
Think of a soft boiled egg,
darling,

557
00:35:51,919 --> 00:35:54,522
three minutes,
no more, no less

558
00:35:54,555 --> 00:35:56,958
and then you're ready to pour,
have you got that?

559
00:35:56,991 --> 00:35:58,960
Y-- yes, ma'am.

560
00:35:58,993 --> 00:36:00,828
When you make tea, make tea.

561
00:36:00,862 --> 00:36:03,665
When you make water, make water.

562
00:36:03,698 --> 00:36:05,265
Water.

563
00:36:05,298 --> 00:36:06,801
I-- I don't think he got it.

564
00:36:06,834 --> 00:36:09,403
Did you?

565
00:36:09,436 --> 00:36:11,539
You lifted it from Joyce, ma'am.

566
00:36:11,572 --> 00:36:14,676
Uh-ho, and he lifted it
from somewhere else,

567
00:36:14,709 --> 00:36:16,209
shitty little man that he is.

568
00:36:16,243 --> 00:36:17,812
Never a day's work in his life.

569
00:36:17,845 --> 00:36:19,881
Yeah, apart from the books.

570
00:36:19,914 --> 00:36:22,282
Terrible little syphilitic.

571
00:36:22,315 --> 00:36:23,951
Tricked an American,

572
00:36:23,985 --> 00:36:26,253
sometimes that's all
you have to do.

573
00:36:26,286 --> 00:36:27,487
Is that what you did?

574
00:36:27,522 --> 00:36:30,290
I've tricked any number
of Americans,

575
00:36:30,323 --> 00:36:34,361
including playing
pagan princesses,

576
00:36:34,394 --> 00:36:37,565
Elizabeth of England,
ruined widows

577
00:36:37,598 --> 00:36:41,903
and any number of flash-eyed
barefoot peasant girls.

578
00:36:41,936 --> 00:36:43,671
There's nothing to it,
all you need

579
00:36:43,705 --> 00:36:46,440
are regular features
and the ability to read.

580
00:36:46,473 --> 00:36:49,010
Oh, I very much doubt that.

581
00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:54,549
I spoke with my daughter.

582
00:36:54,582 --> 00:36:57,785
Surprisingly, she's not at all
interested in getting a divorce.

583
00:36:57,819 --> 00:36:59,987
- She loves her husband.
- No.

584
00:37:00,021 --> 00:37:03,423
But the arrangement suits her.

585
00:37:03,457 --> 00:37:06,694
Alcohol, waitresses
and her money.

586
00:37:06,728 --> 00:37:08,295
My money.

587
00:37:09,564 --> 00:37:13,634
She hired you to find
another swine, didn't she?

588
00:37:13,668 --> 00:37:17,304
Nico Peterson,
who doesn't want to be found.

589
00:37:17,337 --> 00:37:20,340
You learned
all of this from her, yeah?

590
00:37:20,373 --> 00:37:24,645
Ah! I want that tea strong
enough to trot a mouse on.

591
00:37:26,748 --> 00:37:31,418
Fine, done, you can go now,
I will be mother.

592
00:37:31,451 --> 00:37:32,920
Thank you, ma'am.

593
00:37:35,957 --> 00:37:40,360
I have also had the pleasure
of Mr. Peterson's company,

594
00:37:40,393 --> 00:37:42,697
he was proposing
certain investments.

595
00:37:42,730 --> 00:37:45,032
In the equitation
business, I presume.

596
00:37:45,066 --> 00:37:48,301
Whatever business,
I wasn't interested.

597
00:37:48,335 --> 00:37:51,038
But my daughter cannot help

598
00:37:51,072 --> 00:37:54,041
but want what
she presumes I have.

599
00:37:54,075 --> 00:37:56,611
And you had Mr. Peterson?

600
00:37:57,945 --> 00:38:00,515
That was a presumption,
Mr. Marlowe.

601
00:38:00,548 --> 00:38:02,382
An understandable one.

602
00:38:02,415 --> 00:38:04,585
I'm sure my daughter's
paying you handsomely.

603
00:38:04,619 --> 00:38:07,454
I can't talk to you
about your daughter's business.

604
00:38:07,487 --> 00:38:12,527
What business do you think there
is in my family that isn't mine?

605
00:38:12,560 --> 00:38:16,798
If she thought I wanted you,
she'd have you too.

606
00:38:16,831 --> 00:38:20,735
Mm. Perhaps she already has.

607
00:38:20,768 --> 00:38:23,403
I can only say it again,
I'm not in a position

608
00:38:23,436 --> 00:38:25,640
to discuss your daughter's
business with you.

609
00:38:25,673 --> 00:38:30,477
You're a proud stubborn man,
Mr. Marlowe.

610
00:38:30,511 --> 00:38:32,713
I'm just an ordinary Joe

611
00:38:32,747 --> 00:38:35,750
trying to earn a buck
and stay out of jail.

612
00:38:39,954 --> 00:38:43,758
Clare's father drove his car
off a cliff in La Jolla

613
00:38:43,791 --> 00:38:46,426
before she was even born.

614
00:38:46,459 --> 00:38:50,832
He was in the oil business,
very successful,

615
00:38:50,865 --> 00:38:55,368
but he couldn't hide
from the black dog.

616
00:38:55,402 --> 00:38:59,140
It's the one thing that
frightens me, Mr. Marlowe.

617
00:38:59,173 --> 00:39:02,577
That hound,
it runs in families.

618
00:39:02,610 --> 00:39:04,712
You're afraid she's unstable?

619
00:39:04,745 --> 00:39:06,514
Oh, I know she is.

620
00:39:07,982 --> 00:39:10,383
So be careful, Mr. Marlowe,

621
00:39:10,417 --> 00:39:14,421
she has this burning need
for a father figure.

622
00:39:14,454 --> 00:39:16,757
You see, I had to pretend

623
00:39:16,791 --> 00:39:19,794
that she was my niece
all those years.

624
00:39:19,827 --> 00:39:23,631
My advisers thought that,
uh, a daughter...

625
00:39:24,899 --> 00:39:26,133
would age me.

626
00:39:26,167 --> 00:39:27,735
What advisers?

627
00:39:27,768 --> 00:39:32,106
You've met the soon to be
Ambassador to England.

628
00:39:32,139 --> 00:39:33,708
Mr. O'Reilly.

629
00:39:33,741 --> 00:39:36,476
And maybe
he advised me wrongly,

630
00:39:36,510 --> 00:39:40,114
but I had to listen
all those years.

631
00:39:40,147 --> 00:39:41,782
He even bought a studio,

632
00:39:41,816 --> 00:39:43,718
said it was to
advance my career,

633
00:39:43,751 --> 00:39:47,688
but it did no harm
to his bank balance.

634
00:39:47,722 --> 00:39:51,158
So, my daughter
had to be my niece...

635
00:39:51,192 --> 00:39:54,762
until at last even
I had to face the fact.

636
00:39:54,795 --> 00:39:56,697
The fact?

637
00:39:56,731 --> 00:40:01,702
That my game was up,
it had been for some time.

638
00:40:01,736 --> 00:40:06,473
No more barefoot colleens,
no more Ruritanian queens.

639
00:40:08,209 --> 00:40:11,812
I have more money
than the Queen of Sheba,

640
00:40:11,846 --> 00:40:15,049
and I'm a very, very,
very happy has-been.

641
00:40:15,082 --> 00:40:17,718
You mean a celluloid legend,
surely.

642
00:40:17,752 --> 00:40:20,453
The key to Hollywood,
Mr. Marlowe,

643
00:40:20,487 --> 00:40:22,957
is knowing
when your game is up.

644
00:40:22,990 --> 00:40:27,628
Take the money and run,
or stay, if you want.

645
00:40:27,662 --> 00:40:29,697
But at least take the money.

646
00:40:31,699 --> 00:40:35,870
I had another investigator
on Mr. Peterson's case,

647
00:40:35,903 --> 00:40:38,205
a shamus, called Seamus,
if you can believe.

648
00:40:38,239 --> 00:40:40,007
What did he find?

649
00:40:40,041 --> 00:40:43,044
That besides being prop
master at Pacific Pictures,

650
00:40:43,077 --> 00:40:46,948
Nico was also a wannabe agent
with the client of one,

651
00:40:46,981 --> 00:40:49,817
Miss Amanda Toxteth.

652
00:40:49,850 --> 00:40:54,121
So you see, Mr. Marlowe,
my daughter wasn't the only one

653
00:40:54,155 --> 00:40:56,924
spreading her legs for him.

654
00:40:56,958 --> 00:41:00,493
So, if you find Mr. Peterson,
come to me before--

655
00:41:00,528 --> 00:41:03,864
Where would I find
Miss Toxteth?

656
00:41:03,898 --> 00:41:08,102
Don't know, some god-awful
B picture I suppose.

657
00:41:08,135 --> 00:41:11,772
- Ma'am.
- Wait. How dare you?

658
00:41:11,806 --> 00:41:15,743
I'm a little confused,
I've already been paid.

659
00:41:30,925 --> 00:41:33,594
Cut! Cut! Cut!

660
00:41:33,627 --> 00:41:35,529
I need to see the face,
the face,

661
00:41:35,563 --> 00:41:36,764
I need to see the face.

662
00:41:36,797 --> 00:41:40,134
Ama-- Amanda, uh,
camera's over there,

663
00:41:40,167 --> 00:41:41,669
I need you to look
at the camera.

664
00:41:41,702 --> 00:41:44,271
Car rolls up,
you look at the cameras, okay?

665
00:41:44,305 --> 00:41:46,207
Thank you. Lunch.

666
00:41:46,240 --> 00:41:48,009
I can take this off, right?

667
00:41:48,042 --> 00:41:50,811
Yes. After lunch.

668
00:41:50,845 --> 00:41:53,047
Believe me, I look better
without the war paint.

669
00:41:53,080 --> 00:41:56,150
Thanks for seeing me,
Miss Toxteth.

670
00:41:56,183 --> 00:41:59,020
Call me Mandy.
You're a detective?

671
00:41:59,053 --> 00:42:00,921
I'm more harmless than I look.

672
00:42:00,955 --> 00:42:04,025
That must be exciting,
being a detective.

673
00:42:04,058 --> 00:42:05,593
I can hardly contain myself.

674
00:42:05,626 --> 00:42:08,295
Oh, well, don't contain yourself
on my account.

675
00:42:08,329 --> 00:42:11,632
Nico Peterson
was your agent, yes?

676
00:42:11,665 --> 00:42:15,770
Well, he got me some work...

677
00:42:15,803 --> 00:42:18,305
"Riders of the Red Dawn,"
did you see it?

678
00:42:18,339 --> 00:42:23,711
- Mm, not yet, no.
- Well, it's gone now.

679
00:42:23,744 --> 00:42:27,748
Joel McCrea was supposed to be
in it, but something happened.

680
00:42:27,782 --> 00:42:30,251
I play the rancher's wife,
who makes eyes at an Indian,

681
00:42:30,284 --> 00:42:31,919
and the Indian gets hanged.

682
00:42:31,952 --> 00:42:33,888
I'll catch it
when it comes round again.

683
00:42:35,122 --> 00:42:38,959
Acting seems to be going well,
Miss Toxteth.

684
00:42:38,993 --> 00:42:40,661
You're sweet.

685
00:42:40,694 --> 00:42:44,331
Actually, my mother says
I should fuck more producers.

686
00:42:44,365 --> 00:42:45,800
What do you think?

687
00:42:45,833 --> 00:42:49,703
I think your mother
is gravely mistaken.

688
00:42:51,305 --> 00:42:54,642
What can you tell me
about Nico Peterson?

689
00:42:54,675 --> 00:42:56,677
How deeply should my account
be detailed?

690
00:42:56,710 --> 00:42:58,846
Well, when did you
last see him?

691
00:43:00,114 --> 00:43:02,783
I guess a week before he died.

692
00:43:02,817 --> 00:43:05,052
He was trying to get back
into my good graces.

693
00:43:05,086 --> 00:43:09,356
- He was a womanizer, yes?
- That's a tricky question.

694
00:43:09,390 --> 00:43:12,126
Nico liked the conquest,
not the women.

695
00:43:12,159 --> 00:43:15,229
He'd hardly touch you
after he'd had you.

696
00:43:15,262 --> 00:43:16,964
That's a particular kind of man.

697
00:43:16,997 --> 00:43:19,700
Some girls say
handsome men are cold,

698
00:43:19,733 --> 00:43:21,168
that's normally just what
you say to ugly men

699
00:43:21,202 --> 00:43:25,806
to make them feel better,
but... Nico was cold.

700
00:43:27,341 --> 00:43:29,410
Nico had girlfriends,
but he didn't have

701
00:43:29,443 --> 00:43:31,712
girls who were friends.

702
00:43:31,745 --> 00:43:34,181
Do you know any of his
other girlfriends?

703
00:43:34,215 --> 00:43:37,051
Clare Quincannon
supposedly fell for him.

704
00:43:37,084 --> 00:43:40,087
The blonde with
the terrible mother.

705
00:43:40,121 --> 00:43:44,692
And the mother's story,
kept by the Ambassador.

706
00:43:44,725 --> 00:43:47,228
He even bought this
studio for her.

707
00:43:47,261 --> 00:43:50,397
I hear it's pure slavery.

708
00:43:50,431 --> 00:43:53,434
Did Nico have anything
to do with Mexico,

709
00:43:53,467 --> 00:43:55,903
business out of Mexico?

710
00:43:55,936 --> 00:43:58,772
There's only one
business out of Mexico,

711
00:43:58,806 --> 00:44:00,808
don't be a sweet chump.

712
00:44:00,841 --> 00:44:03,978
When he had money that was why,
and probably the only reason

713
00:44:04,011 --> 00:44:08,015
anybody would look for him,
owed money or a fix.

714
00:44:17,791 --> 00:44:19,894
What did he drive, Mister?

715
00:44:19,927 --> 00:44:22,062
- Who?
- Nico Peterson.

716
00:44:22,096 --> 00:44:24,865
Well, whatever he drove,
he ain't parking it here.

717
00:45:50,351 --> 00:45:51,519
You again?

718
00:45:51,553 --> 00:45:53,320
It's alright,
I'm a friend of Nico's.

719
00:45:53,354 --> 00:45:56,457
- Philip Marlowe.
- You're much too persistent.

720
00:45:56,490 --> 00:45:59,026
- I'm trying to find Nico.
- He's dead.

721
00:45:59,059 --> 00:46:03,130
Wait a minute.
Are you so sure of that?

722
00:46:03,163 --> 00:46:06,066
I've been hired to look into
your brother's disappearance.

723
00:46:06,100 --> 00:46:08,902
He hasn't disappeared,
he's in a jar on a marble shelf.

724
00:46:08,936 --> 00:46:10,572
I had to buy it myself.

725
00:46:10,605 --> 00:46:13,007
You saw it, too,
should have known.

726
00:46:13,040 --> 00:46:15,876
What if I told you
he might be alive?

727
00:46:15,909 --> 00:46:18,846
I don't believe in
fairy tales, mister.

728
00:46:18,879 --> 00:46:22,983
I saw his body on
the gurney at the place.

729
00:46:23,017 --> 00:46:25,419
So it wasn't at
the club on the roadway.

730
00:46:25,452 --> 00:46:28,088
I did everything I had to.

731
00:46:28,122 --> 00:46:29,890
It couldn't have been
easy seeing him.

732
00:46:29,923 --> 00:46:33,127
Wasn't much fun. And what's
Floyd got against you?

733
00:46:33,160 --> 00:46:35,929
Why I wanted to meet,
and if you're afraid of him

734
00:46:35,963 --> 00:46:37,364
or anything, we have to talk.

735
00:46:37,398 --> 00:46:39,233
I'm not afraid of anything.

736
00:46:41,468 --> 00:46:43,605
- What's in the book?
- Words.

737
00:46:43,638 --> 00:46:45,105
No dope?

738
00:46:45,139 --> 00:46:48,142
Just words,
it's a book about words.

739
00:46:48,175 --> 00:46:52,046
- Nico was good with words.
- You say you saw his body?

740
00:46:52,079 --> 00:46:56,083
Yeah. And then the cop tried
to make me in the hallway.

741
00:46:57,585 --> 00:47:00,487
Probably has a daughter my age.

742
00:47:00,522 --> 00:47:03,190
It's funny, whatever you do,

743
00:47:03,223 --> 00:47:05,326
there is always someone
trying to make ya.

744
00:47:05,359 --> 00:47:06,860
Mm-hmm.

745
00:47:06,894 --> 00:47:11,198
You know what, fuck Floyd,
fuck cops and fuck you.

746
00:47:11,231 --> 00:47:14,868
I know the lady,
she's the punk's sister,

747
00:47:14,902 --> 00:47:17,404
but who are you?

748
00:47:17,438 --> 00:47:19,273
You are a big one.

749
00:47:19,306 --> 00:47:21,509
I'm thinking of
renting the place.

750
00:47:27,047 --> 00:47:28,449
<i>Donde esta</i> Serena?

751
00:47:28,482 --> 00:47:29,950
Who's Serena?

752
00:47:29,983 --> 00:47:33,153
If you know my brother,
he probably dumped her.

753
00:48:02,550 --> 00:48:04,918
Where's Serena?

754
00:48:04,952 --> 00:48:06,387
- Who's Serena?
- My brother is dead...

755
00:48:06,420 --> 00:48:07,454
Who's Serena?

756
00:48:07,488 --> 00:48:08,590
You take us to her

757
00:48:08,623 --> 00:48:10,224
or you'll see what happens.

758
00:48:25,439 --> 00:48:26,940
Please.

759
00:48:32,346 --> 00:48:35,315
Well, well,
what have we got here?

760
00:48:42,590 --> 00:48:46,393
Boss wants a word.

761
00:48:46,427 --> 00:48:51,165
- And who might you be big guy?
- Cedric, big guy.

762
00:48:52,166 --> 00:48:54,334
Your boss's name?

763
00:48:54,368 --> 00:48:58,740
Oh, he's a little guy,
Lou Hendricks.

764
00:48:58,773 --> 00:49:00,240
Well, well...

765
00:49:01,475 --> 00:49:02,510
Get up.

766
00:49:07,715 --> 00:49:11,251
♪ Down the ol' big sea wave ♪

767
00:49:12,754 --> 00:49:17,191
♪ I found a new baby ♪

768
00:49:17,224 --> 00:49:19,460
♪ A little baby ♪♪

769
00:49:31,706 --> 00:49:34,274
The Lou Hendricks.

770
00:49:34,308 --> 00:49:37,211
Finally, I need
no introduction.

771
00:49:37,244 --> 00:49:41,348
I'm a generic name, Cedric,
an eponymous trademark.

772
00:49:41,381 --> 00:49:43,350
You're a criminal.

773
00:49:43,383 --> 00:49:46,019
Businessman and philanthropist.

774
00:49:46,053 --> 00:49:49,022
I could use a few bucks,
take me away from all this.

775
00:49:49,056 --> 00:49:51,058
I was hoping you could use
a few bucks, Mr. Marlowe,

776
00:49:51,091 --> 00:49:53,761
but alas,
it will be transactional,

777
00:49:53,795 --> 00:49:56,263
not philanthropic.

778
00:49:56,296 --> 00:49:58,365
Well, what was
the words you wanted?

779
00:49:58,398 --> 00:50:01,201
I can only hope
it is not a past participle.

780
00:50:02,670 --> 00:50:05,172
Where's home, Mr. Marlowe?

781
00:50:05,205 --> 00:50:07,509
Where the heart is,
but you know that.

782
00:50:07,542 --> 00:50:12,112
No, I mean your actual,
quotidian home.

783
00:50:12,145 --> 00:50:16,083
26, Maple Boulevard.

784
00:50:16,116 --> 00:50:19,286
Let's take Mr. Marlowe to
his quotidian home, Cedric.

785
00:50:20,622 --> 00:50:25,459
<i>The Elements of Style</i>
<i>by William Strunk Jr.</i>

786
00:50:25,492 --> 00:50:29,196
A participle phrase at
the beginning of a sentence

787
00:50:29,229 --> 00:50:33,367
must refer to
the grammatical subject.

788
00:50:33,400 --> 00:50:37,539
Walking slowly down the road,
he saw a woman

789
00:50:37,572 --> 00:50:39,641
accompanied by two children.

790
00:50:41,676 --> 00:50:44,278
If you give any trouble...

791
00:50:44,311 --> 00:50:47,515
he will drop you
like a bad grammatical habit.

792
00:51:03,297 --> 00:51:07,569
Do you need to dress that?
Cedric, your do-rag.

793
00:51:07,602 --> 00:51:10,404
You mean my pocket square,
Mr. Hendricks?

794
00:51:10,437 --> 00:51:13,307
Some days, Cedric, I wish
I'd left you where I found you.

795
00:51:13,340 --> 00:51:16,476
- Give me the goddam thing.
- Thank you.

796
00:51:19,479 --> 00:51:23,116
I hear, Mr. Marlowe,
and from various connections,

797
00:51:23,150 --> 00:51:25,485
that you are
looking for someone.

798
00:51:25,520 --> 00:51:30,058
- We're all looking for someone.
- Oh, that's very sad.

799
00:51:31,358 --> 00:51:34,161
Tell me who I'm looking for.

800
00:51:34,194 --> 00:51:36,798
Let me guess,
two Mexes who are looking

801
00:51:36,831 --> 00:51:38,465
for a broad named Serena.

802
00:51:38,498 --> 00:51:44,271
Serena, a femme of the most
delicate shape imaginable,

803
00:51:44,304 --> 00:51:48,375
last seen in the arms of
one Nico Peterson.

804
00:51:48,408 --> 00:51:51,846
- Does that name ring a bell?
- A tinkle.

805
00:51:51,879 --> 00:51:53,748
I don't need you
to hear a tinkle,

806
00:51:53,781 --> 00:51:56,149
I need you to hear
a sonorous bell

807
00:51:56,183 --> 00:51:58,318
with a hunchback
swinging from it,

808
00:51:58,352 --> 00:52:04,257
gong-a-dong-a-dong,
not a tinkle, Mr. Marlowe.

809
00:52:04,291 --> 00:52:06,527
Who was chasing
Peterson's sister?

810
00:52:08,529 --> 00:52:10,263
Two beaners, I hear.

811
00:52:10,297 --> 00:52:14,468
Maladroits from sunnier climes,
the land of banana

812
00:52:14,502 --> 00:52:17,237
and tarantula, who were also,
quite separately,

813
00:52:17,270 --> 00:52:19,641
and I should like you
to notice that,

814
00:52:19,674 --> 00:52:21,375
looking for her brother.

815
00:52:21,408 --> 00:52:25,913
I would very much appreciate
a word with our friend Nico,

816
00:52:25,947 --> 00:52:29,751
if you find him
and I will pay you.

817
00:52:29,784 --> 00:52:31,519
Tell me what Nico
was involved in

818
00:52:31,552 --> 00:52:35,355
and why he faked
his death and ran.

819
00:52:35,389 --> 00:52:39,761
Nico, in the end,
had to avoid everybody, I think.

820
00:52:41,495 --> 00:52:44,532
But I will tell you that
he used to run errands for me,

821
00:52:44,565 --> 00:52:46,968
down in the land
of the sombrero,

822
00:52:47,001 --> 00:52:49,504
the serape and the mule.

823
00:52:49,537 --> 00:52:52,406
His Spanish was good,
he was dark

824
00:52:52,439 --> 00:52:55,308
in a Latin lover kind of way.

825
00:52:55,342 --> 00:52:56,844
He was useful in Mexico.

826
00:52:56,878 --> 00:53:02,215
Is it bananas or tarantulas
you import, Mr. Hendricks?

827
00:53:02,249 --> 00:53:03,985
Tarantulas.

828
00:53:04,018 --> 00:53:07,421
I'm entirely
composed of tarantulas.

829
00:53:07,454 --> 00:53:11,759
- And me afraid of spiders.
- Nico worked for me.

830
00:53:11,793 --> 00:53:14,327
He would bring me items
so hard to come by up here

831
00:53:14,361 --> 00:53:16,329
where the laws are so strict.

832
00:53:16,363 --> 00:53:18,365
At the time of
his supposed death,

833
00:53:18,398 --> 00:53:22,603
he was in possession
of some of those items.

834
00:53:22,637 --> 00:53:24,806
And these items are?

835
00:53:24,839 --> 00:53:26,507
There are items and items

836
00:53:26,541 --> 00:53:30,343
and one item that
related to the said items.

837
00:53:30,377 --> 00:53:32,345
Why don't we take a ride
to the Corbata Club?

838
00:53:32,379 --> 00:53:34,281
Maybe he stashed
the items there.

839
00:53:34,314 --> 00:53:37,985
Mr. Marlowe, people will talk.

840
00:53:38,019 --> 00:53:41,354
When I go,
I go into the back entrance.

841
00:53:41,388 --> 00:53:42,990
Please leave that remark alone.

842
00:53:43,024 --> 00:53:47,427
- Wouldn't touch it.
- I grease the Corbata.

843
00:53:47,461 --> 00:53:49,731
Beneath this
fine Charvet shirt

844
00:53:49,764 --> 00:53:52,399
there is nothing but grease.

845
00:53:52,432 --> 00:53:55,636
Peterson would've needed help,
he would've needed a body.

846
00:53:55,670 --> 00:53:57,638
It has conspiracy
written all over it,

847
00:53:57,672 --> 00:54:00,808
I don't think Nico went
to a graveyard with a shovel

848
00:54:00,842 --> 00:54:05,345
and a lamp looking for a stiff
to fit his tuxedo, do you?

849
00:54:05,378 --> 00:54:07,615
The club was in
on the conspiracy,

850
00:54:07,648 --> 00:54:09,984
but what's the club's interest?

851
00:54:10,017 --> 00:54:11,686
Ask your client.

852
00:54:13,054 --> 00:54:15,489
I think you'll keep
looking for Peterson,

853
00:54:15,523 --> 00:54:19,326
client or not,
because you can't stop.

854
00:54:21,929 --> 00:54:24,565
But I'll pay you a thousand
just to sweeten the pot.

855
00:54:25,733 --> 00:54:28,970
No. Cedric, uh,
next street on the right.

856
00:54:29,003 --> 00:54:30,738
Pull over, please.

857
00:54:33,074 --> 00:54:36,644
It would be wise to
reconsider, Mr. Marlowe.

858
00:54:41,414 --> 00:54:43,718
Stop anywhere here, Cedric.

859
00:54:49,824 --> 00:54:52,660
26, Maple Boulevard,

860
00:54:52,693 --> 00:54:54,962
and I am not so smart
as they think I am.

861
00:54:54,996 --> 00:54:58,666
- You're welcome to come inside.
- They give you back your badge?

862
00:54:58,699 --> 00:55:01,869
No, I'm here to report
a kidnapping.

863
00:55:01,903 --> 00:55:06,406
If you find him, I will know,
and then I'll come get him.

864
00:55:06,439 --> 00:55:10,545
And when that happens,
don't try to stand in the way.

865
00:55:14,115 --> 00:55:15,783
Thanks, Cedric.

866
00:55:15,817 --> 00:55:18,085
<i>So two Mexes came out</i>
<i>of nowhere and kidnapped</i>

867
00:55:18,119 --> 00:55:19,554
<i>this broad, is that what</i>
<i>you're telling me?</i>

868
00:55:19,587 --> 00:55:21,956
That's what I'm telling
you, that and that

869
00:55:21,989 --> 00:55:24,692
she turns tricks
at the Corbata Club

870
00:55:24,725 --> 00:55:28,830
and identified as her brother a
stiff who wasn't Nico Peterson.

871
00:55:28,863 --> 00:55:32,399
Yeah, there are certain things
I'm just not gonna hear.

872
00:55:32,432 --> 00:55:33,835
They were looking
for another broad,

873
00:55:33,868 --> 00:55:36,704
someone they called Serena.

874
00:55:36,737 --> 00:55:38,039
I'm not here.

875
00:55:38,072 --> 00:55:40,007
His sister was kidnapped.

876
00:55:40,041 --> 00:55:42,777
You don't put it in the system,
I'll go and make a report.

877
00:55:42,810 --> 00:55:45,680
I'll go on the record,
I'll spill that Peterson

878
00:55:45,713 --> 00:55:48,481
wasn't Peterson, and that's
not news, that's a feature.

879
00:55:48,516 --> 00:55:51,752
I can never remember which
newspaper hates the mayor most.

880
00:55:51,786 --> 00:55:54,655
This will all go okay if you
don't manipulate me, okay?

881
00:55:54,689 --> 00:55:56,724
What we do,
we get you out of here,

882
00:55:56,757 --> 00:55:58,960
I take a call from
an anonymous citizen

883
00:55:58,993 --> 00:56:00,862
who saw her put in the car.

884
00:56:00,895 --> 00:56:04,464
And you, play nice, or I'll put
you at the scene as a suspect.

885
00:56:04,497 --> 00:56:05,766
It ain't what happened,
it's what I type.

886
00:56:05,800 --> 00:56:06,934
Deal.

887
00:56:06,968 --> 00:56:09,637
I'll give your pal Bernie
Ohls the dope off the record.

888
00:56:09,670 --> 00:56:11,873
Sheriff's detectives,
I can start everybody looking

889
00:56:11,906 --> 00:56:13,608
for her and they'll look hard.

890
00:56:13,641 --> 00:56:15,475
Is this good enough for you?

891
00:56:15,509 --> 00:56:18,613
- They took my .38.
- Yeah.

892
00:56:21,916 --> 00:56:24,785
There's your .38, if someone
gets killed with your .38,

893
00:56:24,819 --> 00:56:27,521
you still have a .38.

894
00:56:27,555 --> 00:56:29,991
If they ever make us record
serial numbers, it'll be fucked.

895
00:56:35,796 --> 00:56:36,931
Marlowe?

896
00:56:39,000 --> 00:56:42,737
- Detective Bernie Ohls.
- Wait in the car, Arthur.

897
00:56:42,770 --> 00:56:45,940
- Get us a drink, Marlowe.
- Scotch on the rocks.

898
00:56:49,543 --> 00:56:52,613
- She's being looked for?
- City, Sheriffs, everybody.

899
00:56:53,547 --> 00:56:54,949
Not a peep out of the brass.

900
00:56:57,218 --> 00:57:00,054
Once a bulletin goes out
nobody can kill her,

901
00:57:00,087 --> 00:57:02,957
all car alert
for Lynn Peterson.

902
00:57:02,990 --> 00:57:07,460
Mexicans driving some
sort of Tijuana spray job.

903
00:57:07,494 --> 00:57:09,697
She'll get no different
than anybody else.

904
00:57:09,730 --> 00:57:12,600
Just really look for her,
I lost her.

905
00:57:14,735 --> 00:57:17,939
When you're getting to be
an old timer,

906
00:57:17,972 --> 00:57:19,840
it's okay to get out alive.

907
00:57:19,874 --> 00:57:22,843
I rely on you to give me
good example, Marlowe.

908
00:57:28,249 --> 00:57:30,651
Who's the frail across the way?

909
00:57:30,685 --> 00:57:32,720
Nothing frail about her, Bernie.

910
00:57:41,062 --> 00:57:46,767
Well, lay low and, uh,
consider another profession.

911
00:57:58,679 --> 00:58:00,982
- Goodnight, miss.
- Goodnight, detective.

912
00:58:08,155 --> 00:58:09,690
Hey.

913
00:58:11,926 --> 00:58:15,262
- Who hurt you?
- Mexicans looking for Peterson.

914
00:58:15,296 --> 00:58:19,800
- What were they looking for?
- For God's sakes, you tell me.

915
00:58:25,673 --> 00:58:28,109
- Coat?
- Thank you.

916
00:58:40,654 --> 00:58:42,189
One could live in
a house like this

917
00:58:42,223 --> 00:58:44,759
and so much would fall away.

918
00:58:44,792 --> 00:58:48,729
That's how the other half lives
and we do pretty good.

919
00:58:52,833 --> 00:58:59,707
Clare, you haven't once told me
why you really want Nico.

920
00:58:59,740 --> 00:59:02,643
Amanda Toxteth claims
that he wasn't

921
00:59:02,676 --> 00:59:05,679
especially thoughtful
in the bedroom.

922
00:59:07,214 --> 00:59:11,118
Poor Amanda,
she played a tough game.

923
00:59:12,186 --> 00:59:15,022
Tell me about it.

924
00:59:15,056 --> 00:59:17,925
There's not one studio in
this town that's run by men

925
00:59:17,958 --> 00:59:21,662
who were looked at twice before
they had their first million.

926
00:59:24,065 --> 00:59:26,801
If women never liked you
when you were poor,

927
00:59:26,834 --> 00:59:29,136
that must twist you all up.

928
00:59:29,170 --> 00:59:33,040
So they call you forth for
refreshing acts of humiliation.

929
00:59:33,074 --> 00:59:36,077
Who did you learn
this from? The Ambassador?

930
00:59:36,110 --> 00:59:39,814
Mm, the Ambassador got to
town already loaded...

931
00:59:39,847 --> 00:59:44,118
and he'll be even richer when he
leaves, just without my mother.

932
00:59:44,151 --> 00:59:45,986
Your mother also wanted Nico.

933
00:59:47,721 --> 00:59:49,190
She tried to hire you too?

934
00:59:51,392 --> 00:59:56,097
She always wants
what I want or have.

935
00:59:56,130 --> 00:59:58,132
You mean Nico?

936
00:59:58,165 --> 01:00:02,837
Maybe, or maybe she's just
afraid that you'll make love

937
01:00:02,870 --> 01:00:06,774
to me before you find out
just how terrible I am.

938
01:00:06,807 --> 01:00:08,642
That's a terrible idea.

939
01:00:10,111 --> 01:00:12,313
- Why?
- Why?

940
01:00:12,346 --> 01:00:16,784
Because I'm in your employ,
because you're half my age.

941
01:00:18,853 --> 01:00:22,790
Because you're so beautiful
I'd lose my bearings.

942
01:00:27,828 --> 01:00:31,165
What can we do then,
if we can't do that?

943
01:00:36,403 --> 01:00:38,205
We can dance.

944
01:00:44,044 --> 01:00:46,180
I spent six years
with the nuns,

945
01:00:46,213 --> 01:00:49,250
just so my mother could
be a flash-eyed colleen

946
01:00:49,283 --> 01:00:51,752
with her hands on her hips.

947
01:00:51,785 --> 01:00:56,123
She had to play the virgin
for 15 years, gosh.

948
01:00:56,157 --> 01:01:00,060
Although you surrender
in each picture, naturally.

949
01:01:00,094 --> 01:01:02,396
Then all the while,
the ambassador

950
01:01:02,429 --> 01:01:06,066
was advising her financially.

951
01:01:07,835 --> 01:01:11,805
Has he ever advised
you financially?

952
01:01:11,839 --> 01:01:13,707
You mean has he ever touched me?

953
01:01:15,075 --> 01:01:16,744
Suppose I do.

954
01:01:18,746 --> 01:01:20,247
Maybe that's the wrong question.

955
01:01:21,849 --> 01:01:23,350
- Oh!
- Pardon me.

956
01:01:23,384 --> 01:01:26,353
You're a terrible dancer.

957
01:01:26,387 --> 01:01:28,322
I'm a worse lover.

958
01:01:28,355 --> 01:01:30,291
You expect me to believe that?

959
01:01:37,031 --> 01:01:40,301
- The dance is good.
- For now.

960
01:01:45,139 --> 01:01:48,909
I have to be somewhere.

961
01:01:53,147 --> 01:01:58,819
Should I come back here after?
Stay over as friends?

962
01:01:58,852 --> 01:02:01,355
That never works, Clare.

963
01:02:01,388 --> 01:02:03,224
I don't intend it to.

964
01:02:07,928 --> 01:02:08,929
No.

965
01:02:11,298 --> 01:02:13,167
A puzzle has many pieces.

966
01:02:15,069 --> 01:02:17,871
I don't know exactly
what you're gonna find...

967
01:02:19,907 --> 01:02:22,142
you might find a dragon
and have to kill it.

968
01:02:23,578 --> 01:02:25,279
- Fair enough.
- Mm.

969
01:02:33,454 --> 01:02:37,191
- Goodnight, Philip Marlowe.
- 'Night.

970
01:02:37,224 --> 01:02:39,460
♪ At the moon ♪

971
01:02:39,493 --> 01:02:45,799
♪ But I'll be seeing you ♪

972
01:02:51,506 --> 01:02:58,279
♪ I'll be seeing you ♪♪

973
01:04:50,124 --> 01:04:52,426
- Is the ambassador here?
- Yes, ma'am.

974
01:04:56,330 --> 01:04:58,399
So do we call you
ambassador now?

975
01:04:58,432 --> 01:05:01,068
Clare, how are you?
It's good to see you.

976
01:05:02,737 --> 01:05:05,272
- Your mother just left.
- What did she want?

977
01:05:05,305 --> 01:05:07,509
- Don't ask.
- So it didn't go well?

978
01:05:13,213 --> 01:05:16,016
Where's your camera,
Mr. Marlowe?

979
01:05:16,049 --> 01:05:17,050
I don't have one.

980
01:05:17,084 --> 01:05:18,720
Mm, do you have any idea

981
01:05:18,753 --> 01:05:20,622
how much that photo
would've been worth?

982
01:05:20,655 --> 01:05:25,192
- Are they breaking any laws?
- Only the laws of attraction.

983
01:05:26,493 --> 01:05:30,330
I, for one, would pay
big money for an account

984
01:05:30,364 --> 01:05:33,066
of all of their
terms of endearment.

985
01:05:35,202 --> 01:05:37,572
He's old enough
to be her father.

986
01:05:37,605 --> 01:05:39,006
Yeah.

987
01:05:41,208 --> 01:05:44,445
But then, so are you.

988
01:05:54,589 --> 01:05:56,290
There goes Bernie Ohls.

989
01:05:59,159 --> 01:06:01,663
Arthur ran the number plate
of your visitor last night.

990
01:06:01,696 --> 01:06:03,598
Yeah.

991
01:06:03,631 --> 01:06:07,434
That car belongs
to Dorothy Quincannon.

992
01:06:07,468 --> 01:06:09,470
- So?
- So?

993
01:06:09,504 --> 01:06:12,473
Of all the people in Los Angeles
who you do not fuck with,

994
01:06:12,507 --> 01:06:15,342
the new ambassador who opened
the Pacific Studios

995
01:06:15,375 --> 01:06:19,146
with bootleg money and his
mistress are top of the list!

996
01:06:22,149 --> 01:06:24,351
Everybody's better
connected than us.

997
01:06:25,753 --> 01:06:28,055
Ever wonder what
the attraction was?

998
01:06:29,289 --> 01:06:31,693
What, the mother
or the daughter?

999
01:06:31,726 --> 01:06:33,126
Maybe both.

1000
01:06:36,230 --> 01:06:38,232
You are a very sick man,
Marlowe.

1001
01:06:45,540 --> 01:06:48,041
LAPD found Lynn Peterson.

1002
01:06:52,112 --> 01:06:54,348
- Where is she?
- Encino.

1003
01:06:56,083 --> 01:06:58,018
She'll wait till we get there.

1004
01:07:02,824 --> 01:07:05,425
Was she, um, was she shot
with my gun?

1005
01:07:06,728 --> 01:07:08,295
No.

1006
01:07:09,864 --> 01:07:11,633
No, she wasn't shot.

1007
01:07:29,584 --> 01:07:32,119
<i>Deep continuous</i>
<i>transverse wound</i>

1008
01:07:32,152 --> 01:07:34,556
<i>to the anterior</i>
<i>triangles of the neck,</i>

1009
01:07:34,589 --> 01:07:37,559
<i>cutting both venous</i>
<i>and arterial structures.</i>

1010
01:07:37,592 --> 01:07:40,327
<i>Injuries not</i>
<i>compatible with life.</i>

1011
01:07:40,360 --> 01:07:41,863
That means her throat was cut.

1012
01:07:41,896 --> 01:07:43,831
That was after
the lit cigarettes,

1013
01:07:43,865 --> 01:07:46,568
the knuckle dusters,
the knife, the rape.

1014
01:07:47,769 --> 01:07:49,336
Oh, my God.

1015
01:08:02,416 --> 01:08:05,218
Guys, you're not
gonna like this.

1016
01:08:15,630 --> 01:08:17,331
- Hey, you!
- Yeah?

1017
01:08:17,364 --> 01:08:20,200
That's the sister of the man
you identified two weeks ago

1018
01:08:20,233 --> 01:08:22,469
who was killed outside
the Corbata Club.

1019
01:08:22,503 --> 01:08:24,839
His head was squashed
like a pumpkin.

1020
01:08:24,872 --> 01:08:26,340
Were you aware of that?

1021
01:08:26,373 --> 01:08:27,675
Make a note of it
in your report, doc.

1022
01:08:27,709 --> 01:08:30,878
- I just do the bodies.
- Just make a note of it.

1023
01:08:30,912 --> 01:08:34,716
- Thank you, Bernie.
- Nobody lives forever.

1024
01:08:37,518 --> 01:08:40,888
When things get down and dirty,
rank and file don't like it.

1025
01:08:40,922 --> 01:08:44,525
- Not even in county.
- At last, Bernie.

1026
01:08:46,728 --> 01:08:49,496
Joe? Come with us.

1027
01:08:53,400 --> 01:08:55,503
The blue car
came in an hour ago,

1028
01:08:55,536 --> 01:08:59,306
the two suspects
from Tijuana got out.

1029
01:08:59,339 --> 01:09:03,511
- That's the re-spray.
- Yep. Who's that?

1030
01:09:03,544 --> 01:09:06,380
That's the Bentley of
Mr. Lou Hendricks.

1031
01:09:06,413 --> 01:09:08,415
- <i>The</i> Lou Hendricks.
- The same.

1032
01:09:08,448 --> 01:09:11,519
So he's a member,
like the Mexicans.

1033
01:09:11,552 --> 01:09:13,253
I want you to go
after these fucks

1034
01:09:13,286 --> 01:09:15,222
like a rat terrier in a closet.

1035
01:09:15,255 --> 01:09:16,557
I don't wanna know
anything about it.

1036
01:09:16,591 --> 01:09:18,258
Ah, come on, Bernie,
do it yourself.

1037
01:09:18,291 --> 01:09:21,529
I still have a pension,
you don't.

1038
01:09:21,562 --> 01:09:22,664
Fair enough.

1039
01:09:22,697 --> 01:09:25,566
We own Bay Canyon, we'll block
the roads in and out.

1040
01:09:25,600 --> 01:09:27,467
Give me the glasses.

1041
01:09:27,502 --> 01:09:29,937
- Get down that rat hole.
- How?

1042
01:09:29,971 --> 01:09:33,407
- Doesn't matter how.
- Fair enough.

1043
01:09:33,440 --> 01:09:36,243
Come on, Joe, let's do this.

1044
01:09:44,986 --> 01:09:48,388
- You look like shit.
- Fair enough.

1045
01:09:48,422 --> 01:09:50,858
Just so you know, the real shit
doesn't go down in there until

1046
01:09:50,892 --> 01:09:55,997
the early hours, so once you're
in, you gotta wait and wait.

1047
01:09:56,030 --> 01:09:58,666
Fair enough.

1048
01:09:58,700 --> 01:10:01,836
And remember, you're the guy
who can ID the Mexicans,

1049
01:10:01,869 --> 01:10:03,905
so watch your corners.

1050
01:10:03,938 --> 01:10:05,439
Fair enough.

1051
01:10:05,472 --> 01:10:08,241
Hey, will this
get my badge back?

1052
01:10:09,276 --> 01:10:10,678
Is that what you want?

1053
01:10:12,914 --> 01:10:14,314
You mind?

1054
01:10:58,059 --> 01:11:00,427
- Otis!
- Yes, ma'am?

1055
01:11:00,460 --> 01:11:02,830
- I'll be right down.
- Yes, ma'am.

1056
01:11:06,768 --> 01:11:10,538
You're a long, long way
from Tipperary, Dorothy.

1057
01:11:43,838 --> 01:11:45,006
What is this called?

1058
01:11:45,039 --> 01:11:48,643
It's called a Miguel Finn,
a Mickey Finn.

1059
01:12:54,675 --> 01:12:59,614
Girls, boys, heroin, coke.

1060
01:12:59,647 --> 01:13:01,448
I've given it some thought,

1061
01:13:01,481 --> 01:13:03,483
and I'd like to fill out
an application.

1062
01:13:04,785 --> 01:13:05,853
Not polite.

1063
01:13:05,887 --> 01:13:08,488
Maybe because I don't feel
polite this fine evening.

1064
01:13:08,522 --> 01:13:10,625
Well, let's have a drink,
talk about it.

1065
01:13:10,658 --> 01:13:13,794
- You heard about Lynn Peterson?
- Tragic thing.

1066
01:13:13,828 --> 01:13:15,663
What if I told you that
the police won't touch you,

1067
01:13:15,696 --> 01:13:17,865
but they're expecting
that I will.

1068
01:13:19,567 --> 01:13:22,803
I have nothing to do with
Lynn Peterson or Nico Peterson.

1069
01:13:24,805 --> 01:13:28,509
This is Los Angeles,
people are on the make.

1070
01:13:28,542 --> 01:13:30,443
Why were they here on the make?

1071
01:13:30,477 --> 01:13:33,446
His sister was a Cabana whore
with a junk habit,

1072
01:13:33,480 --> 01:13:35,016
she worked for you,
you're a pimp.

1073
01:13:35,049 --> 01:13:37,985
No, I'm not, I don't control
the place, I'm not the boss.

1074
01:13:38,019 --> 01:13:40,054
So who is?

1075
01:13:40,087 --> 01:13:43,057
Dorothy Quincannon?
The Ambassador?

1076
01:13:43,090 --> 01:13:44,792
How little you know,
Mr. Marlowe.

1077
01:13:44,825 --> 01:13:47,795
I do know a guy
named Lou Hendricks.

1078
01:13:47,828 --> 01:13:51,532
- You might know him too.
- His people call my people.

1079
01:13:51,565 --> 01:13:53,167
I'm going down
the rabbit hole, Floyd,

1080
01:13:53,200 --> 01:13:54,869
I might even take you with me.

1081
01:13:56,070 --> 01:13:58,706
We'll need that drink then.

1082
01:13:58,739 --> 01:14:00,875
We can join
Lou Hendricks down below.

1083
01:14:00,908 --> 01:14:04,078
Beating you round the walls
doesn't get me much does it?

1084
01:14:04,111 --> 01:14:06,948
- Must be the military training.
- Huh?

1085
01:14:06,981 --> 01:14:11,919
- Okay, I'll have that drink.
- It's, uh, very difficult.

1086
01:14:11,953 --> 01:14:15,056
To balance your many obligations
to the various interests

1087
01:14:15,089 --> 01:14:17,224
of all the people,
powerful people.

1088
01:14:17,258 --> 01:14:20,528
Discretion is a thing
that we provide.

1089
01:14:20,561 --> 01:14:22,663
And you take protection
in return.

1090
01:14:22,697 --> 01:14:27,601
Very, very serious protection,
Mr. Marlowe.

1091
01:14:30,871 --> 01:14:33,541
Now you will know
the full extent of it.

1092
01:14:33,574 --> 01:14:36,711
I appreciate your
difficulties, Mr. Hanson.

1093
01:14:36,744 --> 01:14:39,246
It's difficult to run a whore
house and not have anyone know

1094
01:14:39,280 --> 01:14:42,583
it is one... especially
when you're also

1095
01:14:42,616 --> 01:14:45,519
in the narcotics business.

1096
01:14:45,553 --> 01:14:47,722
There's an awful lot
you don't understand.

1097
01:14:47,755 --> 01:14:50,858
- About narcotics?
- About management.

1098
01:14:54,095 --> 01:14:56,864
The Corbata Club investors
leave me alone to,

1099
01:14:56,897 --> 01:14:58,699
to manage the place.

1100
01:14:58,733 --> 01:15:02,003
Now, I don't trouble them
when difficulties arise,

1101
01:15:02,036 --> 01:15:06,741
unless the difficulties are,
how shall we say,

1102
01:15:06,774 --> 01:15:08,642
hard for me to deal with alone.

1103
01:15:15,683 --> 01:15:19,620
Like the whore
who won't play ball,

1104
01:15:19,653 --> 01:15:23,858
the girl or a boy who aren't
as interested as you'd like.

1105
01:15:27,194 --> 01:15:30,598
Or the snoop
who's far too interested.

1106
01:15:32,233 --> 01:15:34,335
You give them
a little something?

1107
01:15:38,205 --> 01:15:40,541
Are you alright, Mr. Marlowe?

1108
01:15:44,845 --> 01:15:48,049
I would've thought you'd be a
man who could hold his liquor.

1109
01:15:49,316 --> 01:15:50,951
Seems I was wrong.

1110
01:15:57,358 --> 01:16:00,795
As you go to sleep,
I want you to consider...

1111
01:16:03,130 --> 01:16:08,269
the whereabouts of Nico Peterson
were never the issue,

1112
01:16:08,302 --> 01:16:12,807
it was the whereabouts of what
Nico had in his possession.

1113
01:16:12,840 --> 01:16:16,877
We'll get to the bottom of
those issues without your help.

1114
01:16:16,911 --> 01:16:20,815
From everything I hear,
you were never a team player,

1115
01:16:20,848 --> 01:16:25,119
never went along to get along
and see where it gets you?

1116
01:16:27,121 --> 01:16:29,657
You're dying, alone.

1117
01:17:00,754 --> 01:17:05,259
♪ I'll be seeing you ♪

1118
01:17:05,292 --> 01:17:09,897
♪ In all the
ol' familiar places ♪

1119
01:17:09,930 --> 01:17:14,135
♪ That this heart of mine
embraces ♪

1120
01:17:14,168 --> 01:17:18,272
♪ All day through ♪

1121
01:17:18,305 --> 01:17:22,009
♪ In that small cafe ♪

1122
01:17:24,411 --> 01:17:26,780
♪ Across the way ♪

1123
01:17:26,814 --> 01:17:31,252
♪ The children's carousel ♪

1124
01:17:31,285 --> 01:17:33,087
♪ The chestnut tress ♪

1125
01:17:33,120 --> 01:17:35,456
♪ The wishing well ♪

1126
01:17:35,489 --> 01:17:39,426
♪ I'll be seeing you ♪

1127
01:17:39,460 --> 01:17:43,731
♪ In every lovely summer's day ♪

1128
01:17:43,764 --> 01:17:47,902
♪ In everything
that's light and gay ♪

1129
01:17:47,935 --> 01:17:51,906
♪ I'll always think of you
that way ♪

1130
01:17:51,939 --> 01:17:56,210
♪ I'll find you
in the morning sun ♪

1131
01:17:56,243 --> 01:17:59,847
♪ And when the night is new ♪

1132
01:17:59,880 --> 01:18:02,883
♪ I'll be looking
at the moon ♪

1133
01:18:02,917 --> 01:18:06,253
♪ But I'll be seeing you ♪

1134
01:18:31,111 --> 01:18:32,980
- You alright?
- Yeah, I'll be here.

1135
01:18:37,985 --> 01:18:38,986
Damn.

1136
01:18:44,992 --> 01:18:46,695
You're awake?

1137
01:18:53,133 --> 01:18:56,770
- This must be yours.
- You didn't drink it?

1138
01:18:56,804 --> 01:18:59,240
I remembered what happened
to Alice in Wonderland

1139
01:18:59,273 --> 01:19:01,275
when she bit the mushroom.

1140
01:19:01,308 --> 01:19:03,377
- You pretended.
- And you?

1141
01:19:03,410 --> 01:19:07,448
Should've known, who offers
the wheels a cocktail?

1142
01:19:07,481 --> 01:19:09,416
Lou Hendricks?

1143
01:19:09,450 --> 01:19:11,118
They're working him
over real bad.

1144
01:19:11,151 --> 01:19:14,121
That's him shackled up
inside I guess?

1145
01:19:14,154 --> 01:19:16,290
They'll have him
speaking Greek soon.

1146
01:19:38,846 --> 01:19:40,948
Promise you never
do that to me.

1147
01:19:43,317 --> 01:19:45,786
If I help you out of here...

1148
01:19:47,187 --> 01:19:48,889
will you help me?

1149
01:19:51,191 --> 01:19:52,793
Fuck yeah.

1150
01:19:57,532 --> 01:19:59,266
Crank up the volume.

1151
01:20:01,335 --> 01:20:03,605
Two dead boys from Tijuana.

1152
01:20:03,638 --> 01:20:06,173
See where this gets ya?

1153
01:20:06,206 --> 01:20:07,908
You're making this hard
for me, Lou.

1154
01:20:15,349 --> 01:20:17,918
Much too hard.

1155
01:20:17,951 --> 01:20:20,054
What else do you do
for Lou Hendricks?

1156
01:20:20,087 --> 01:20:22,222
Too damn much if you ask me.

1157
01:20:31,498 --> 01:20:33,233
Sweet.

1158
01:20:33,267 --> 01:20:35,135
Oh, righteous.

1159
01:20:36,403 --> 01:20:39,473
Hey, we both go in there...

1160
01:20:39,507 --> 01:20:42,343
we're both coming
out alive, yeah?

1161
01:20:42,376 --> 01:20:44,512
Agreed, Mr. Marlowe.

1162
01:20:52,986 --> 01:20:56,423
I'm getting
awfully sick of this tune.

1163
01:21:00,628 --> 01:21:02,630
Where is she?

1164
01:21:02,664 --> 01:21:04,898
Where is who?

1165
01:21:04,932 --> 01:21:06,501
The Chiquita bitch!

1166
01:21:06,534 --> 01:21:08,001
The one that you call Serena!

1167
01:21:08,035 --> 01:21:11,071
I already told you,
Nico had his way with her.

1168
01:21:11,105 --> 01:21:12,906
Well, what do you
do with this?

1169
01:21:14,041 --> 01:21:16,511
It's just for shaving.

1170
01:21:16,544 --> 01:21:18,613
Ear, nose and throat jobs, huh?

1171
01:21:18,646 --> 01:21:20,981
I have people
who do that for me.

1172
01:21:21,014 --> 01:21:22,684
Oh, do you?
Oh, so do I!

1173
01:21:22,717 --> 01:21:24,619
So do I!

1174
01:21:24,652 --> 01:21:27,187
- Frederick!
- Yeah!

1175
01:21:27,221 --> 01:21:30,124
Give him an ear and nose
and throat job, in that order.

1176
01:21:32,025 --> 01:21:34,995
Make him tell us
where Serena is.

1177
01:21:35,028 --> 01:21:36,363
Not Serena!

1178
01:21:38,031 --> 01:21:39,567
<i>The</i> Serena!

1179
01:21:39,601 --> 01:21:41,268
<i>The</i> Serena?

1180
01:21:41,301 --> 01:21:44,138
<i>The</i> Serena Ornamental
over there!

1181
01:21:53,046 --> 01:21:54,448
A plaster mermaid?

1182
01:21:55,983 --> 01:21:57,585
Serena's a fucking mermaid?

1183
01:21:57,619 --> 01:21:59,453
You gotta work on your Spanish!

1184
01:21:59,486 --> 01:22:00,688
Hanson!

1185
01:22:03,558 --> 01:22:05,259
Say this in Spanish!

1186
01:22:11,533 --> 01:22:12,667
Cedric!

1187
01:22:14,669 --> 01:22:16,671
Cedric, catch it!

1188
01:22:19,440 --> 01:22:21,041
Cedric!

1189
01:22:22,544 --> 01:22:23,778
Yes, boss.

1190
01:22:23,812 --> 01:22:29,584
Was it beyond your capabilities
to save the fucking mermaid?

1191
01:22:29,617 --> 01:22:31,251
Sorry, boss.

1192
01:22:31,285 --> 01:22:35,255
You just broke the
Hendricks bank!

1193
01:22:35,289 --> 01:22:36,591
Sorry, boss.

1194
01:22:36,624 --> 01:22:39,694
It'll take you years
to pay me back!

1195
01:22:39,727 --> 01:22:41,596
Mr. Hendricks...

1196
01:22:41,629 --> 01:22:43,130
that's not fair.

1197
01:22:43,163 --> 01:22:46,266
As the progeny
of sharecroppers, Cedric,

1198
01:22:46,300 --> 01:22:50,304
you should know life isn't fair!

1199
01:22:55,677 --> 01:22:57,177
You're right.

1200
01:23:00,648 --> 01:23:02,517
Life isn't fair.

1201
01:23:06,420 --> 01:23:10,424
I expected to
see grease, didn't you?

1202
01:23:10,457 --> 01:23:12,159
Grease and tarantulas.

1203
01:23:16,129 --> 01:23:19,534
But instead, he's entirely
made of soft tissue.

1204
01:23:20,802 --> 01:23:22,169
Go figure.

1205
01:23:24,371 --> 01:23:25,272
Shall we?

1206
01:23:25,305 --> 01:23:30,043
♪ I've found a new baby ♪

1207
01:23:30,077 --> 01:23:33,146
♪ Down the ol' big sea wave ♪

1208
01:23:35,115 --> 01:23:39,521
♪ I've found a new baby ♪

1209
01:23:39,554 --> 01:23:42,590
♪ A new baby ♪

1210
01:23:45,560 --> 01:23:47,394
♪ Oh ♪

1211
01:23:52,299 --> 01:23:54,569
What will I find inside?

1212
01:23:54,602 --> 01:23:56,538
Some dead bodies.

1213
01:23:56,571 --> 01:23:58,272
How many?

1214
01:23:58,305 --> 01:24:00,407
I forgot to count.

1215
01:24:00,440 --> 01:24:02,409
Uh, Lou Hendricks.

1216
01:24:02,442 --> 01:24:06,113
Floyd Hanson,
two gentlemen from Tijuana.

1217
01:24:06,146 --> 01:24:08,716
And one busted mermaid.

1218
01:24:08,750 --> 01:24:09,784
A mermaid?

1219
01:24:09,817 --> 01:24:11,753
The Serena Ornamental.

1220
01:24:11,786 --> 01:24:13,588
Packed with Mexican powder.

1221
01:24:14,488 --> 01:24:16,558
Now, very wet.

1222
01:24:16,591 --> 01:24:18,258
And you are?

1223
01:24:19,527 --> 01:24:20,862
I'm his wheels.

1224
01:24:28,703 --> 01:24:30,070
Huh.

1225
01:24:31,305 --> 01:24:33,473
<i>So what now, Cedric?</i>

1226
01:24:33,508 --> 01:24:36,310
We both spilled
some significant blood.

1227
01:24:36,343 --> 01:24:38,345
So we should stick together.

1228
01:24:38,378 --> 01:24:41,181
I'll be your driver
for the moment.

1229
01:24:41,214 --> 01:24:44,852
Cedric,
I have my own wheels.

1230
01:24:44,886 --> 01:24:46,788
Of course you do...

1231
01:24:46,821 --> 01:24:48,523
but consider the parking.

1232
01:25:06,641 --> 01:25:08,208
Well, well...

1233
01:25:08,241 --> 01:25:10,377
if it isn't Mr. Nico Peterson.

1234
01:25:12,880 --> 01:25:15,215
So...

1235
01:25:15,248 --> 01:25:16,818
you're not dead.

1236
01:25:16,851 --> 01:25:19,186
You're quite the detective.

1237
01:25:19,219 --> 01:25:21,488
What do you want?

1238
01:25:21,522 --> 01:25:26,193
You've been looking into the
circumstances of my demise.

1239
01:25:26,226 --> 01:25:28,529
My determination for
some time has been that

1240
01:25:28,563 --> 01:25:32,232
reports of your death
were greatly exaggerated.

1241
01:25:33,400 --> 01:25:34,636
I'll say.

1242
01:25:34,669 --> 01:25:36,336
But not your sisters.

1243
01:25:36,370 --> 01:25:41,909
My half-sister's, from my
fathers wild days in Acapulco.

1244
01:25:41,943 --> 01:25:44,879
So you won't
be spilling any tears?

1245
01:25:44,912 --> 01:25:47,447
She is dead, I know.

1246
01:25:47,481 --> 01:25:49,584
She did not die
pleasantly.

1247
01:25:50,952 --> 01:25:52,452
I couldn't help that.

1248
01:25:52,486 --> 01:25:54,254
You could help yourself though.

1249
01:25:54,287 --> 01:25:58,793
Well, I happen to have
something everybody wants.

1250
01:25:58,826 --> 01:26:00,662
More dope?

1251
01:26:00,695 --> 01:26:02,530
Much better than dope.

1252
01:26:05,298 --> 01:26:07,200
You are all too much for me.

1253
01:26:08,002 --> 01:26:10,303
All I am is a working stiff.

1254
01:26:11,338 --> 01:26:13,473
I need to get to Clare.

1255
01:26:13,508 --> 01:26:16,544
I will do everything in
my power to put you both

1256
01:26:16,577 --> 01:26:19,246
together and never see
any of you again.

1257
01:26:19,279 --> 01:26:21,281
Then give her a message
from me, will you?

1258
01:26:21,314 --> 01:26:23,985
Tell her, I'll meet her in the
studio prop house, tonight

1259
01:26:24,018 --> 01:26:25,887
and I'll have the goods
on the ambassador.

1260
01:26:25,920 --> 01:26:27,287
What have you got on him?

1261
01:26:27,320 --> 01:26:29,957
Just give her the
message, Marlowe.

1262
01:26:29,991 --> 01:26:31,826
There's a few things
I want cleared up

1263
01:26:31,859 --> 01:26:33,226
before we decide anything.

1264
01:26:33,260 --> 01:26:34,394
What do you wanna know?

1265
01:26:34,428 --> 01:26:36,430
The body outside
the Corbata Club.

1266
01:26:36,463 --> 01:26:38,833
A musician who worked the club.

1267
01:26:38,866 --> 01:26:40,835
- Did you kill him?
- No.

1268
01:26:40,868 --> 01:26:42,737
- Did you kill him?
- No.

1269
01:26:46,007 --> 01:26:47,608
Opportune?

1270
01:26:47,642 --> 01:26:50,477
He looked like me,
I like people who look like me.

1271
01:26:50,511 --> 01:26:52,714
What does Dorothy Quincannon
want from you?

1272
01:26:52,747 --> 01:26:54,582
Well, maybe she wants to
fuck with the ambassador

1273
01:26:54,615 --> 01:26:57,752
who's maybe trying to fuck
her daughter, I don't know.

1274
01:26:57,785 --> 01:27:00,253
Put it together, Marlowe,
you're the detective.

1275
01:27:01,789 --> 01:27:05,760
Everyone wants something on
somebody else, it's all just...

1276
01:27:05,793 --> 01:27:07,628
blackmail in the end.

1277
01:27:09,964 --> 01:27:11,933
I'll be in the prop house...

1278
01:27:11,966 --> 01:27:14,401
7:30.

1279
01:27:14,434 --> 01:27:16,436
Tell her I've got
what she wants.

1280
01:27:22,610 --> 01:27:26,881
<i>I've just realized, this</i>
<i>is my mother's favorite table.</i>

1281
01:27:26,914 --> 01:27:29,851
This is where the ambassador
advises us financially.

1282
01:27:31,085 --> 01:27:32,385
You've asked her along?

1283
01:27:32,419 --> 01:27:34,488
Yes, I felt I needed
some advice.

1284
01:27:34,522 --> 01:27:37,959
- Financial?
- More like professional.

1285
01:27:37,992 --> 01:27:39,359
Mm...

1286
01:27:39,392 --> 01:27:41,328
My, my, my, it's Clare.

1287
01:27:42,663 --> 01:27:45,666
What a wonderful surprise,
Mr. Marlowe.

1288
01:27:45,700 --> 01:27:46,901
Tea, mother?

1289
01:27:46,934 --> 01:27:48,770
Scalded.

1290
01:27:48,803 --> 01:27:50,705
Let's hope he brewed it right.

1291
01:27:50,738 --> 01:27:54,374
- So a mouse can trot on it.
- So a mouse can trot on it.

1292
01:27:54,407 --> 01:27:56,077
You know I've so
enjoyed our separate meetings

1293
01:27:56,110 --> 01:27:58,846
that I felt the need for us
all to sit together.

1294
01:27:58,880 --> 01:28:02,349
What Mr. Marlowe means,
my dear, is that he thinks

1295
01:28:02,382 --> 01:28:04,652
he's too clever
for the both of us.

1296
01:28:04,685 --> 01:28:07,522
One of you hired me,
the other tried to,

1297
01:28:07,555 --> 01:28:09,724
so you both seem
to want the same thing.

1298
01:28:09,757 --> 01:28:12,059
Nico left you
for a girl, alright.

1299
01:28:12,093 --> 01:28:14,962
A plaster mermaid
full of Mexican powder.

1300
01:28:14,996 --> 01:28:16,597
That's disgusting.

1301
01:28:16,631 --> 01:28:20,601
A subject about which you
claim to know nothing, yes?

1302
01:28:20,635 --> 01:28:23,336
Why don't you cut to the chase?

1303
01:28:23,370 --> 01:28:26,741
And ask her why she hired you.

1304
01:28:26,774 --> 01:28:28,810
To find Nico Peterson.

1305
01:28:28,843 --> 01:28:34,447
Hiring a detective might just
be the best way to suggest...

1306
01:28:34,481 --> 01:28:36,918
she doesn't know where he is.

1307
01:28:36,951 --> 01:28:38,418
What do you think,
mother?

1308
01:28:38,451 --> 01:28:41,421
I'm keeping him in
a shack in Rosarito?

1309
01:28:41,454 --> 01:28:42,957
Maybe closer.

1310
01:28:42,990 --> 01:28:46,459
Why don't you tell Mr. Marlowe
what you want with him?

1311
01:28:47,528 --> 01:28:51,331
Perhaps I am trying my best...

1312
01:28:52,166 --> 01:28:54,135
to save your reputation.

1313
01:28:55,736 --> 01:28:59,774
Well, maybe, it's the
other way around, mother.

1314
01:28:59,807 --> 01:29:01,976
You see, Mr. Marlowe...

1315
01:29:02,009 --> 01:29:04,579
her lover dumped her.

1316
01:29:04,612 --> 01:29:09,016
The Ambassador to England
wants done with tinsel town.

1317
01:29:09,050 --> 01:29:13,721
So she's playing the only role
left for her to play.

1318
01:29:13,754 --> 01:29:15,455
The femme fatale.

1319
01:29:15,488 --> 01:29:17,925
Her very own Medea.

1320
01:29:19,994 --> 01:29:22,462
Oh, well!

1321
01:29:22,495 --> 01:29:25,398
It's a role that awaits
us all, my dear.

1322
01:29:33,007 --> 01:29:34,609
Huh!

1323
01:29:34,642 --> 01:29:35,877
Well...

1324
01:29:35,910 --> 01:29:39,580
You suspected one of us
would do this, but...

1325
01:29:39,614 --> 01:29:41,549
you just didn't know
which one, did you?

1326
01:29:41,582 --> 01:29:44,652
- Would've laid a dollar on you.
- Mm.

1327
01:29:44,685 --> 01:29:47,487
You've quite
mastered the technique

1328
01:29:47,521 --> 01:29:50,024
haven't you, Mr. Marlowe...

1329
01:29:50,057 --> 01:29:51,893
of upsetting the women
in your life?

1330
01:29:51,926 --> 01:29:53,794
There are no women in my life.

1331
01:29:55,229 --> 01:29:57,430
Well, then follow her.

1332
01:29:57,464 --> 01:29:59,667
She likes older men.

1333
01:30:02,203 --> 01:30:04,038
Don't worry...

1334
01:30:04,071 --> 01:30:06,641
I'll pay for the mess,
I always do.

1335
01:30:13,547 --> 01:30:15,816
Are you okay?

1336
01:30:15,850 --> 01:30:19,486
I don't care that I'm
less than you think I am.

1337
01:30:19,520 --> 01:30:21,656
I'm always less than
people think I am.

1338
01:30:23,090 --> 01:30:24,859
You're one of those
people who's just

1339
01:30:24,892 --> 01:30:27,561
lucky to be more
than we think you are.

1340
01:30:28,896 --> 01:30:31,666
I'll send you the balance
of what I owe you.

1341
01:30:31,699 --> 01:30:33,601
Maybe I can charge your mother?

1342
01:30:33,634 --> 01:30:36,170
- Together with a finder's fee.
- A what?

1343
01:30:36,203 --> 01:30:38,606
I found him, this afternoon.

1344
01:30:38,639 --> 01:30:40,207
Or rather, he found me.

1345
01:30:40,241 --> 01:30:42,710
I walked into my little house
and there he was.

1346
01:30:42,743 --> 01:30:46,147
- Mr. Nico Peterson.
- Where's he now?

1347
01:30:46,180 --> 01:30:49,850
He'll be waiting for you at the
prop house at Pacific Studios.

1348
01:30:49,884 --> 01:30:53,020
- 7:30 p.m.
- Why the prop house?

1349
01:30:53,054 --> 01:30:54,789
I was hoping you would tell me.

1350
01:30:56,857 --> 01:30:57,959
Taxi!

1351
01:31:00,861 --> 01:31:01,929
Go!

1352
01:31:11,272 --> 01:31:13,207
A car is more
than a vehicle

1353
01:31:13,240 --> 01:31:15,977
Mr. Hendricks used to tell me.

1354
01:31:16,010 --> 01:31:18,179
It's a sealed confessional.

1355
01:31:18,212 --> 01:31:20,648
A repository of secrets.

1356
01:31:20,681 --> 01:31:23,284
And this city,
devoted as it is

1357
01:31:23,317 --> 01:31:25,720
to the internal
combustion engine

1358
01:31:25,753 --> 01:31:28,255
is a city of motorized secrets.

1359
01:31:28,289 --> 01:31:31,559
You're waxing
philosophical, Cedric.

1360
01:31:31,592 --> 01:31:32,793
You have to forgive me,
Mr. Marlowe.

1361
01:31:32,827 --> 01:31:35,830
It's a habit I inherited
from my late employer.

1362
01:31:35,863 --> 01:31:40,267
He had a tendency to digress,
but you did say the prop house?

1363
01:31:40,301 --> 01:31:41,602
I did.

1364
01:31:43,037 --> 01:31:45,606
And I have to ask myself...

1365
01:31:45,639 --> 01:31:47,041
why the prop house?

1366
01:31:47,074 --> 01:31:50,611
And now you have to tell me,
Cedric, why the prop house?

1367
01:31:53,047 --> 01:31:56,283
<i>Nico Peterson was</i>
<i>moving Lou Hendricks' product</i>

1368
01:31:56,317 --> 01:31:58,652
<i>through the prop</i>
<i>house for years.</i>

1369
01:31:58,686 --> 01:32:01,922
<i>And the product</i>
<i>is from Tijuana, hmm?</i>

1370
01:32:01,956 --> 01:32:05,893
<i>Hidden in a plaster</i>
<i>raven, the bust of Nefertiti.</i>

1371
01:32:05,926 --> 01:32:08,629
<i>A Virgin of Guadeloupe or a...</i>

1372
01:32:08,662 --> 01:32:11,632
<i>Serena Ornamental.</i>

1373
01:32:11,665 --> 01:32:14,635
You see Mr. Hitchcock,
who could've worked wonders

1374
01:32:14,668 --> 01:32:18,739
for Pacific Pictures,
but is sadly on his way to MGM.

1375
01:32:18,773 --> 01:32:21,042
Mr. Hitchcock,
like Mr. Hendricks,

1376
01:32:21,075 --> 01:32:24,078
always liked to keep
the script to himself.

1377
01:32:25,746 --> 01:32:28,115
But many conversations,

1378
01:32:28,149 --> 01:32:31,685
overheard from this here
front seat, enabled me to do

1379
01:32:31,719 --> 01:32:35,089
what Mr. Hitchcock
always managed so adroitly...

1380
01:32:36,223 --> 01:32:37,892
to work out the plot.

1381
01:32:40,394 --> 01:32:43,664
<i>It was never really</i>
<i>about a mermaid.</i>

1382
01:32:43,697 --> 01:32:44,799
<i>It was always</i>
<i>about the contents</i>

1383
01:32:44,832 --> 01:32:46,801
<i>of a certain briefcase,</i>

1384
01:32:46,834 --> 01:32:49,904
<i>which could bring</i>
<i>a whole studio down.</i>

1385
01:32:57,978 --> 01:32:59,213
Clare.

1386
01:32:59,246 --> 01:33:00,581
Nico.

1387
01:33:01,348 --> 01:33:02,883
You're on your own?

1388
01:33:02,917 --> 01:33:06,087
Did you want the full
auction house, Nico?

1389
01:33:06,120 --> 01:33:07,855
Me, my mother...

1390
01:33:07,888 --> 01:33:10,758
Floyd Hanson, Lou Hendricks?

1391
01:33:10,791 --> 01:33:13,194
That would be difficult,
two of them are dead.

1392
01:33:13,227 --> 01:33:16,363
Well, you're gonna have
to start the bidding with me.

1393
01:33:16,397 --> 01:33:20,067
What I've got here
is worth a fortune.

1394
01:33:20,101 --> 01:33:22,103
Really?

1395
01:33:22,136 --> 01:33:23,804
You better show me then.

1396
01:33:26,674 --> 01:33:28,976
All of the records...

1397
01:33:29,009 --> 01:33:32,012
of the heroin which was
flowing through his studio.

1398
01:33:35,182 --> 01:33:37,852
It's more than enough to ruin
the ambassador's reputation,

1399
01:33:37,885 --> 01:33:40,788
and the reputation
of Pacific Pictures.

1400
01:33:40,821 --> 01:33:42,256
<i>Nico Peterson</i>
<i>went missing</i>

1401
01:33:42,289 --> 01:33:46,727
<i>with one Serena Ornamental</i>
<i>and one handmade briefcase</i>

1402
01:33:46,760 --> 01:33:49,063
<i>packed with records</i>
<i>of every dope transaction</i>

1403
01:33:49,096 --> 01:33:52,867
<i>since he and Lou Hendricks</i>
<i>started business.</i>

1404
01:33:52,900 --> 01:33:55,169
<i>He was trying to</i>
<i>sell this information</i>

1405
01:33:55,202 --> 01:33:57,071
<i>to anyone he could find.</i>

1406
01:34:00,841 --> 01:34:03,878
I'm a book-keeper,
darling, a good one.

1407
01:34:03,911 --> 01:34:07,248
Import, export,
I kept every transaction.

1408
01:34:13,888 --> 01:34:16,957
You're more than
a book-keeper, Nico.

1409
01:34:16,991 --> 01:34:19,193
You'd sell tickets
to the gates of hell.

1410
01:34:20,427 --> 01:34:23,297
Maybe that's why
you like me.

1411
01:34:23,330 --> 01:34:26,767
I never liked you, Nico.

1412
01:34:29,803 --> 01:34:31,305
Do you trust me
that little, Clare?

1413
01:34:32,873 --> 01:34:35,409
You know how
it is these days, Nico.

1414
01:34:35,442 --> 01:34:37,077
Nobody trusts anyone.

1415
01:34:38,445 --> 01:34:40,314
What-- what was
that sound, Clare?

1416
01:34:40,347 --> 01:34:42,149
My mother's gun.

1417
01:34:42,183 --> 01:34:43,918
I found it in her boudoir.

1418
01:34:44,985 --> 01:34:46,720
Ah, fuck!

1419
01:34:46,754 --> 01:34:48,923
I'm so bad with these.

1420
01:34:48,956 --> 01:34:50,124
Why are you doing this?

1421
01:34:50,157 --> 01:34:52,259
You've always played
too low, Nico.

1422
01:34:52,293 --> 01:34:55,329
Take a lesson from me
and go straight to the top.

1423
01:34:56,531 --> 01:34:58,165
That's better.

1424
01:34:59,433 --> 01:35:00,768
Ah!

1425
01:35:18,485 --> 01:35:21,822
I'm burning your books, Nico.

1426
01:35:33,901 --> 01:35:36,070
Is he dead, Mr. Marlowe?

1427
01:35:37,137 --> 01:35:38,138
At last.

1428
01:35:39,406 --> 01:35:41,475
And that's why you hired me?

1429
01:35:41,509 --> 01:35:43,143
So you could finally kill him?

1430
01:35:44,812 --> 01:35:46,880
It's one of the reasons.

1431
01:35:46,914 --> 01:35:49,049
Has the ambassador paid you off?

1432
01:35:49,083 --> 01:35:50,951
I imagine he'll have
to after this

1433
01:35:50,985 --> 01:35:52,786
little piece of spring cleaning.

1434
01:35:56,890 --> 01:35:59,860
Tell me why
I shouldn't shop you.

1435
01:36:03,063 --> 01:36:06,000
Because he was
far too young for me?

1436
01:36:06,033 --> 01:36:08,002
Because he was evil incarnate?

1437
01:36:09,436 --> 01:36:11,005
Because he was already dead.

1438
01:36:13,040 --> 01:36:14,908
Let me deep six this.

1439
01:36:19,179 --> 01:36:20,848
Use the side door.

1440
01:36:29,524 --> 01:36:31,258
Goodbye, Clare Cavendish.

1441
01:36:34,061 --> 01:36:36,598
Good evening, Mr. Marlowe.

1442
01:37:21,108 --> 01:37:23,645
Tell me you didn't
set that fire, Marlowe.

1443
01:37:23,678 --> 01:37:26,313
No, Bernie, you know
I only put 'em out.

1444
01:37:28,148 --> 01:37:30,652
What do you think
I'll find inside?

1445
01:37:30,685 --> 01:37:32,886
The bust of Nefertiti.

1446
01:37:32,920 --> 01:37:35,456
The Ark of the Covenant.

1447
01:37:35,489 --> 01:37:37,091
Maltese Falcon.

1448
01:37:37,124 --> 01:37:38,292
Oh...

1449
01:37:38,325 --> 01:37:39,927
Nothing more significant?

1450
01:37:40,961 --> 01:37:42,296
What more could you want?

1451
01:37:48,402 --> 01:37:50,605
<i>So you got caught</i>
<i>in the crossfire</i>

1452
01:37:50,638 --> 01:37:52,306
<i>between a mother</i>
<i>and a daughter?</i>

1453
01:37:52,339 --> 01:37:54,542
Yep,
I never seem to learn.

1454
01:37:54,576 --> 01:37:56,544
And who wins,
Mr. Marlowe?

1455
01:37:56,578 --> 01:37:58,212
The mother or the daughter?

1456
01:37:58,245 --> 01:38:00,247
Who would you
put your money on?

1457
01:38:00,280 --> 01:38:02,049
Well, the ambassador loses.

1458
01:38:02,082 --> 01:38:05,986
Those guys never lose,
Cedric, they just move on.

1459
01:38:10,592 --> 01:38:12,326
Mr. Marlowe?

1460
01:38:12,359 --> 01:38:13,528
Yeah.

1461
01:38:13,561 --> 01:38:15,663
She will see you now.

1462
01:38:15,697 --> 01:38:17,264
Thank you.

1463
01:38:22,102 --> 01:38:24,471
- Mr. Marlowe.
- Mrs. Cavendish.

1464
01:38:27,575 --> 01:38:31,044
So, this was the transaction?

1465
01:38:34,014 --> 01:38:37,284
- What exactly do you mean?
- Thank you.

1466
01:38:37,317 --> 01:38:41,021
You saved the ambassador's ass,
he lets you run things.

1467
01:38:41,054 --> 01:38:44,224
It's better than the bootlegging
trade, don't you think?

1468
01:38:44,258 --> 01:38:47,294
The ambassadors
moved beyond all that.

1469
01:38:47,327 --> 01:38:49,564
Your mother's acting
again I see.

1470
01:38:49,597 --> 01:38:51,465
Uh, she never stopped.

1471
01:38:53,066 --> 01:38:54,536
What's the story?

1472
01:38:54,569 --> 01:38:57,171
Oh, you know, like any.

1473
01:38:57,204 --> 01:39:00,340
Love, murder, reconciliation.

1474
01:39:00,374 --> 01:39:02,142
Happy ending?

1475
01:39:02,176 --> 01:39:03,444
Mm...

1476
01:39:03,477 --> 01:39:06,213
We're working on that.

1477
01:39:06,246 --> 01:39:11,185
So, are you, uh, going to tell
me why I'm here, Mrs. Cavendish?

1478
01:39:11,218 --> 01:39:14,522
The studio needs someone to
play knight in shining armor.

1479
01:39:16,123 --> 01:39:18,526
I saw ten of those guys outside.

1480
01:39:18,560 --> 01:39:20,327
They can only act the part.

1481
01:39:20,360 --> 01:39:22,296
So I should say
my goodbyes then.

1482
01:39:23,363 --> 01:39:26,099
The studios all
cleaned up, Mr. Marlowe.

1483
01:39:28,402 --> 01:39:31,271
Roosevelt's an inch
from joining the war effort.

1484
01:39:33,307 --> 01:39:36,611
The ambassador would like to...

1485
01:39:36,644 --> 01:39:39,614
reward you for your discretion.

1486
01:39:39,647 --> 01:39:42,784
The studio will always need
its private detective.

1487
01:39:42,817 --> 01:39:44,985
You're offering me a job?

1488
01:39:49,323 --> 01:39:51,492
More than a job.

1489
01:39:51,526 --> 01:39:53,060
A pension.

1490
01:39:54,161 --> 01:39:56,531
Executive in charge of security.

1491
01:39:59,333 --> 01:40:02,002
We all have our secrets,
Mr. Marlowe.

1492
01:40:03,805 --> 01:40:06,373
Leading men with their
little peccadilloes.

1493
01:40:06,406 --> 01:40:08,242
Leading ladies
who can't function

1494
01:40:08,275 --> 01:40:10,310
without their Mexican tinctures.

1495
01:40:11,546 --> 01:40:14,214
We all need someone
to keep us in line.

1496
01:40:15,415 --> 01:40:18,520
And your secrets,
Mrs. Cavendish?

1497
01:40:20,354 --> 01:40:22,322
You'll have to keep those too.

1498
01:40:23,625 --> 01:40:26,026
Not for me, Mrs. Cavendish.

1499
01:40:28,796 --> 01:40:31,599
However, I can
recommend someone.

1500
01:40:34,201 --> 01:40:36,169
I'll need references of course.

1501
01:40:36,203 --> 01:40:39,306
He's a friend of mine,
he's very capable.

1502
01:40:39,339 --> 01:40:42,510
He's dealt with many
situations in the past.

1503
01:40:42,544 --> 01:40:44,679
Very well spoken.

1504
01:40:44,712 --> 01:40:47,114
And a great keeper of secrets.

1505
01:40:48,448 --> 01:40:51,819
Are you blackmailing me,
Mr. Marlowe?

1506
01:40:51,853 --> 01:40:54,522
Blackmail?

1507
01:40:54,556 --> 01:40:56,256
I would never.

1508
01:40:57,625 --> 01:40:59,459
I leave that to others.

1509
01:41:00,862 --> 01:41:02,229
Good day.

1510
01:41:15,777 --> 01:41:20,247
They don't like books, do they,
Mr. Marlowe, those Nazis.

1511
01:41:20,280 --> 01:41:22,717
They don't like
many things, Cedric.

1512
01:41:22,750 --> 01:41:27,387
Still, that Leni Riefenstahl
makes some good movies though.

1513
01:41:27,421 --> 01:41:29,591
You really like them,
don't you, motion pictures?

1514
01:41:30,692 --> 01:41:32,660
I certainly do, Mr. Marlowe.

1515
01:41:32,694 --> 01:41:37,197
Mrs. Cavendish of Pacific
might have a position for you.

1516
01:41:37,230 --> 01:41:40,267
As chief of security,
that's if you're interested.

1517
01:41:40,300 --> 01:41:43,136
Oh, I'd be very interested,
Mr. Marlowe.

1518
01:41:43,170 --> 01:41:44,706
I would happily recommend you.

1519
01:41:45,840 --> 01:41:48,141
I'd need references, huh?

1520
01:41:48,175 --> 01:41:50,578
Only one, me.

1521
01:41:51,311 --> 01:41:53,413
And if you do take the job...

1522
01:41:55,315 --> 01:41:57,317
♪ Like a friend of a friend... ♪

1523
01:41:57,351 --> 01:41:59,286
This might
come in useful.

1524
01:41:59,319 --> 01:42:00,655
♪ Talkin' that stuff... ♪

1525
01:42:02,590 --> 01:42:05,459
We've all done
bad things, Mr. Marlowe.

1526
01:42:05,492 --> 01:42:10,230
And that gun is a
memento of one very bad thing.

1527
01:42:10,263 --> 01:42:12,499
So you mean
I can't shoot anyone with it?

1528
01:42:12,533 --> 01:42:13,801
Uh-uh...

1529
01:42:13,835 --> 01:42:15,770
use your Tommy gun for that.

1530
01:42:15,803 --> 01:42:17,471
That's always an option.

1531
01:42:17,505 --> 01:42:19,339
♪ Yeah ♪

1532
01:42:19,373 --> 01:42:21,341
♪ And the black of the street ♪

1533
01:42:21,375 --> 01:42:25,145
♪ Blends up into
the stark night sky ♪

1534
01:42:27,214 --> 01:42:29,784
♪ But the light ♪

1535
01:42:29,817 --> 01:42:31,786
♪ Shines brightest in the dark ♪

1536
01:42:31,819 --> 01:42:35,188
♪ Shine brightest in the dark ♪

1537
01:42:35,222 --> 01:42:37,892
♪ All you need is a match ♪

1538
01:42:37,925 --> 01:42:39,927
♪ To start a little spark ♪

1539
01:42:39,961 --> 01:42:42,362
♪ Yeah ♪

1540
01:42:42,396 --> 01:42:47,434
♪ 'Cause the light shines
brightest in the dark ♪

1541
01:42:47,467 --> 01:42:50,270
♪ Shine brightest in the dark ♪

1542
01:42:50,303 --> 01:42:55,308
♪ 'Cause the light shines
brightest in the dark ♪

1543
01:42:55,342 --> 01:42:58,412
♪ Hey hey hey hey ♪

1544
01:42:58,445 --> 01:43:00,280
♪ Yeah ♪

1545
01:43:01,983 --> 01:43:04,384
♪ Yeah ♪

1546
01:43:06,353 --> 01:43:08,288
♪ Like a seed that you lost ♪

1547
01:43:08,321 --> 01:43:11,559
♪ In the garden of
your own desire ♪

1548
01:43:13,995 --> 01:43:16,263
♪ And you must've
been counting ♪

1549
01:43:16,296 --> 01:43:19,433
♪ All the things that
you hadn't acquired ♪

1550
01:43:20,768 --> 01:43:23,504
♪ Oh ignite your torch ♪

1551
01:43:23,538 --> 01:43:27,374
♪ And fill your
heart up with fire ♪

1552
01:43:30,645 --> 01:43:32,379
♪ 'Cause the light ♪

1553
01:43:32,412 --> 01:43:34,448
♪ It shines brightest
in the dark ♪

1554
01:43:34,481 --> 01:43:37,852
♪ Shine brightest in the dark ♪

1555
01:43:37,885 --> 01:43:40,788
♪ All you need is a flint ♪

1556
01:43:40,822 --> 01:43:42,757
♪ To start a little spark ♪

1557
01:43:45,292 --> 01:43:50,330
♪ 'Cause the light shines
brightest in the dark ♪

1558
01:43:50,363 --> 01:43:51,999
♪ Shine brightest in the dark ♪

1559
01:43:52,033 --> 01:43:53,568
♪ Hey ♪

1560
01:43:53,601 --> 01:43:58,005
♪ The light shines
brightest in the dark ♪

1561
01:43:58,039 --> 01:44:01,308
♪ Hey hey hey hey ♪

1562
01:44:01,341 --> 01:44:06,781
♪ Oh you're a point of
light in the sky of stars ♪

1563
01:44:09,316 --> 01:44:15,288
♪ Even when this world
is feeling so bizarre ♪

1564
01:44:16,657 --> 01:44:22,864
♪ 'Cause the light shines
brightest in the dark now ♪

1565
01:44:24,599 --> 01:44:30,037
♪ 'Cause the light shines
brightest in the dark ♪

1566
01:44:30,071 --> 01:44:32,640
♪ Now yay ♪

1567
01:44:32,673 --> 01:44:34,274
♪ Whoa ♪

1568
01:44:35,543 --> 01:44:37,712
♪ Hey ♪

1569
01:44:37,745 --> 01:44:39,781
♪ Hey hey hey hey ♪

1570
01:44:39,814 --> 01:44:41,516
♪ Hey ♪

1571
01:44:41,549 --> 01:44:43,818
♪ Hey hey hey hey ♪♪